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TIE WEEKLY Slip DMI0I TIMES. > Dcioted to Agriculture, horticulture, domestic (gconomo. Bol^llittraturt. politics, and the Current ^leur. of the Jtag. * *Sjpr'' .... ><**-; UNION C. IT., ^OUTH "CAR^I.IN A. FEBRUARY ! . ! SSI. NUMBER tT* __ j" a nrnrTDTo n? i??^ ? - - ? 1 - oxvuonli) UI XH?d XLiJVU L&B1 WtSJl. Washington Under Wath. Washington, February 12 ?The Long llridgc connecting Washington with Virginia soi 1 is for the most part a causeway, which has made it a dam for the l'otomac during the last few days. The warm wca'.hcr had Hooded the river, and the ice gorge above and below Lung Bridge has helped to swell the volume until early this morning when the ice began to break up. The swollen waters of the Potomac poured tiguist the wall of masonry forming the bridge across the Potomac, backing the river around the point to where the Washington Monument stands, and thence across the White House lot, lilling up the lower ground between Pennsylvania avenue aud Mouth Washington, for the distance of a mile and a half. t'KNXSYEVANIA, AVENUE ELOODKD. The result has been that all day long the lower portion of the broad avenue from Tenth street west to the Capitol gate has literally been a canal, in which row boats, Hal boats aud all kinds of small water erall have been used to ferry people from their dwellings, places of business, and to and from some of the smaller hotels located on i,j the south side of the avenue. Fully oncV I I O ... 1 - * nan ui tins great business thoroughfare has been submerged and is likely to bo submerged fur several days. AH day long the streets leading to the cvenuo have been thronged with pedestrains and velii cles. A VKNICE IX WASlllXtlTUX. Senators and Representatives crowded the balcony in front of the Congressional library, watching the wonderful seeue witnessed from this favorable position. One part ol Washington bad become a new \ enico. Along the streets where the pave in outs were known to be good horses were driven, and in some localities it required an effort more than fording a stream to get safely across. The broad space covered by the Botanical (tardea at the foot of the Capitol bad become an artificial lake. The site of the Baltimore and Potomac depot | was sourrounded with water, the flood causingall business to be suspended. Street ears that were driven for awhile were abandoned on the track. The great market house was isolated by the flood, and even the few dealers who attempted to open up business on the open sidewalk were finally compelled to abandon theirs temporary quarters. ) ? TIIKATHK t'l.OSKIi It* WATER. | Think of a theatre in the heart of Wash- , iugton closed because it was impossible to ( get to it except in boats. And yet there , were members of (.'oiijrrcss who had the ! ( meanness to say that this yreat damaging j ( overflow of the hanks of the I'otomne was j a job yot up by the advocates of a la rye ap- | prnpriation for the Mississippi lliver, lor while the I'otoiuac was rising the House! was e igaged in discussing the river and liar- j : bor bill. ! KAMAiiK. J' The damage caused by the Hood is at I present pure conjecture. The government , will be a heavy loser. The lisli pond and all the apparatus used by the Smithsonian Institute has hem destroyed and the carp i < se ittered to destruction. The burctttcitt- of! t!? main budding occupied by the census ! bureau Lv iiljed with water, though most of! libe papers- and records stored there were rn ! moved tit anticipation of jus} what hue I happened. The steam lirn engines worked \ all day trying to Itoep down the delude in 1 this building. hut gave it up after hours of ii'i'i '< (! :i li.nl iil._ it l.tiiiiL' disuovored thai * " - -J - ------ - - , It was prafitica! 1^- throwing waterovor a rail ! I Oil CO. liaoKRN lilt I Oil KM. The principal loss to the government will j I) the damage done to the bridges out ol the city. The Ira mo work ol the hong [Bridge :it*the draw h iving been swept away railroad communication and postal eonneeti ois South will be delayed for some liniO on this account* To night the only means of communication with Alexandria is via i \*|ucduct Bridge, above (ieorgetown, by) couriers, who have to take the summit Koad e>n the Virginia side to reach that place, and from thence there is telegraphic and rail ! coiiiinuiiical ion It would seem almost incredible to those ocijiiainted with the top.igraphy id' Wash? j ingtoii that the scenes described are real ' nml the d.Hinge done here ami in (iverge- ! town will aggregate hundreds of tlious- ! anils ol dollars The sight ol (lie until:* ishcd monument on a little island, the waters* almost laving it.- Very base, v.as one of the at tact ions from the south front of the treasury building, from which position a strong toy could easily have thrown a stone into the water. The stables of the President, just south of the Kxccutivo Mansion, were within u short distance of the encmaehiiig flood, and near there where stands the old Villi Ness mansion, w hit h. in l lie earlier days of WVsh* iugton, was a palatial residence, war. a great habit) of water big enough lor a New York skating link South Washington, generally known as the island, is now in very fact wholly separated Iro.n tlio other part of the city hv a river IVoni lhie? hundred to eight 'hundred feet wide. How long the Hood | will stay no one can tell, hut that it is here an 1 likely to remain lor several days no oue can doubt. Til K Pl.ooll AT OTIIKIl POINTS. St Paul, Minn.. I'el). IT?Sioux City road is open to St. James, but closed at the western end. The other roads in southern Minnesota are reported as still choked with immense drifts. Many towns are isolated and there is souie fear of the exhaustion of the supplies of food. A SCKXK ON TUB PKl.AWA I.K. Hordontowii, N. J., Feb. 1 J.?The railroad tracks between Trenton and Hurling ton City are under water. Canal boats arc lying )ii the tracks oil the Trenton road.? All tUo umli Wir.Winrt" nenr ttrc UTF and llaritan Canal locks are partly under water. The old Camden and Atnboy shops arc inundated. The steam forge ol Messrs. MacPhcrson, Willard it Co., near here, has had its lircs put out by the Hood. As far as the eye can reach the Pennsylvania shore is mandated. There is not much ice, hut a heavy body of water is running. Since niidniirht tint tt'-ih'i- I! < ti.'.oi ?li.? ? ?!! mad bridge on the tn:iin line between here and New York, and 'lie bridge is in a perilous position. Twenty-seven cars, containing eight tons each, have been placed on it to hold it in position. The water is at the axles of the wheels. ltl.OCK A OKI> Tit A I NS?A CO A I. KAMINK. Council Hlufls, Iowa, Feb. Id.?The severe snow storm of Friday and Saturday has completely isolated this city from the outside world, no trains having arrived or departed since Friday night, and all railroad travel has been abandoned. Trains which left here Friday night wore snowhound all day yesterday at a distance of from 1 (MJ to "JKO miles from the city. The Chicago, Burlington and Quiucy road attempted to start a train for Chicago last light with a gang of fifty men to shovel the snow. None of the delayed trains were speeded until this after noon or MondayICK CMiniKS HKKAKINC. ninghampton, N. Y., Fob. Id.?The iceJorge broke here yesterday carrying out ,ndge across the Susquehanna, and datn iging the covered wagon bridge. Anoth ;r gorge i- reported a lew miles above here md more damage is feared when it breaks ip. The water in the Susquehanna is low;r, hut there is much more iee to come. It ,s cold and freezing to night. AN KKKKCTtAI. Itr.oCKAI>K. Milwaukee, Feb. I.'J.?The snow-block ? nle proves to |?e general throughout the Northwest. There were no trains north or west up to tui<lflight. All the roads have large forces of men and snow ploughs at work. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul line, except the Northern Division, will start trains in the morning. This is considered the most effectual blockade ever known in Wisconsin. l'l,OOI> A M> STOHM NOTKS. The flood j? subsiding in New Orleans, but there terrible noffering among the poor. Trains on tho Phioago, St. Louis and .New Orleans railroad cannot proceed further than Magnolia on account of a washout. Thu settlenicuU at Pass N'anehal mid M ilneshurg have been abandoned on account of ilie Hood. A terrible snow storm raged all day Saturday iu the West and Northwest, and did not abate until night. Trains are blocked everywhere, ami railroad travi 1 impeded A mass-meeting is to be held tonight in .New Orleans to devise ways ami moans to avert the thicateued disaster ot tin; breaking ol" the levers by the Hood in the Mississippi. Some of the drifts of snow in Iowa are higher than the telegraph polos. A train al Mountain Lake. Iowa, has boon blookadod in the snow ton days. Four hundred thousand bushels of grain lor foreign shipment via Now Orleans is detained at St. Louis in consequence ol the Ho >ds ami storms. The freshet in the II ippahaniiook Kiver roaohod the hoighth of lift con feet above the low-water mark. Some cribbing and lumber belonging to the eontraetor for the river impro.oinent were carried oft, and the steamboat warehouse was under water to the second story. There have been neither mails nor through trains since Friday night. r:m.S AMi TOWNS FI.IIIII'KII. At Toledo, (thin, tho middle j^ronnd i; ; under water. Tho water i* three loot deoj in (lui Island House Hotel and Union do pot, eultinjj; oO'eomniunioatioi) with Sijinmi street. At 1'redetiiLsliurf;-, \ a , (ho whart'e. overflowed, and all communication will Alexandria i^ eut nil ' At Ottawa, ill , the lower j??rfi?n? of tin 1 J town is ur.ilcr water. ami Families liavo ! boon taken from llieir hum ts in boats. i Warren, Oliio, and New Philadelphia* Ohio, are under water, and the Tuscarawas Valley i-s overflowed. Rirmitighain, Conn , is flooded, and the people have moved out. M my of the mills at Pittsburg are flooded and work stopped. Mast and South Harrisburg, Pa., were partially flooded by the overflow of Paxtnn creeks yesterday. Many persons were obliged to move out, and their houses could only be reached by boats. The dinger is apparently over. SWKIT AWAY. .<Ar U?ntlre"<l f.'Ct r*? V.o?l?< t. i _ti?V.'illey Railroad track, above (ilettdon, Pa. The Pennsylvania Railroad bridge at Toledo. The Canadian Southern Railroad bridge _ a. m \ ;n .'miimi*. .'lien. Three bridges over the West river, Connecticut ; also one at I'niou City. The flociii of the past lew days has been the most disastrous thai ever visited the Juniata Valley, the loss in bridges to Huntingdon county alone being about Two spans of the bridge at Alexandria, Doihl <A Co.'s boom at the mouth of Raystown Branch, four road bridges over the branch, and the bridge at Newt >wn and Hamilton have been carried away, ami the bridge at MeYeytown partially destroyed. Tiik 15kitiu.icANs ami tiik South.? Mr. Aiken, of .South Carolina, spoke words of soberness and truth when, alter turning < a point neatly upon the Republicans, he ' said the South would never again submit to ] such governments as e.nne near destroying | their interests in 1S7-. Republicans will | find it hard to answer his charge that the i white vote was as much suppressed in 1S72, ' as the negro vote appeared to lie alter that J time. But the must important statement , made was when he said the Northern Re- | publicans might again embroil the South, * but whatever fate befell, however hard the I burden to boar, however long the contest, J however painlul and destructive, the stronger would come out of it in the end sue- t V-VJidMTue1 A tneriean people ' leave their race problem rfhero it i*. to the ^ people it most concerns, to those who best { understand it, the two races will Mowlv ] work it out, and the result will lie right, I and the result just. We are glad Mr. j', Aiken made these remarks, heeause ! , they are strictly the truth, and it is now ! : time that we have no such prudence as re j ' juires suppression of the truth or silence I concerning great interests. We have for j some time argued, as Mr. Aiken argued, , that the South can and will take care of it- I self, and in doing so the Soulh will lie guard- t ' ing the hest interests of the whole country. | 1 It will wage no war, engage in no secession. seek no forcible settlement, hut it will go straight-forward on the path of lawful resistance, growing in wealth, in population, finding daily new allies among the capitalists and business classes of the world, instructing the Northern people in their own ! interests and saving them, from their own j ignorance of this issue?a learned ignorance j more dangerous and destructive than all the j j illiteracy of the South. In this way, cmJ hiuil the South as they will, they will only j clog, while they will not with all their clogj ging retard ill J wheels of material, intelj Icetnal and moral progress in the South.? j iisnrt((t vi lnt'.rirun. j ?. j LkI'HosY IN ('.\ I.I KOIt nI A .? It 18 Said that Calilornia is becoming alarmed by the I fact that tho loathsome disease of leprosy is spreading from the Chinese to their 1 American neighbors. Chinese lepers have seveial times been sent back to China, but as the disease was thought to be peeuliar to Asiatics, no fear of contagion was felt.? | lint it is no longer a matter of doubt that , th?' shocking scourge has established itself j | among the white population. < hie ph)si1 eian in San Fran dsco reports that sixteen white lepers of both sexes have within a short time, applied to him for treatment, all of them heing incurable. The very presence of a leper is a source of danger owing ; to the invisible emanations from his skin. ' The disease is hereditary, and marriage should bo strictly forbidden to all who have the taint in their blood. II.Mtrit.N Bach ki.ohs and Wiihiwkkh ? It would save a great deal of embarrassment, says Bnrdetle, and perhaps add to their emolument!1, il clergymen generally were to charge a fixed rate for marrying * couples?say ?."> for the first offense, ?10 ? lor the second, ?liO for the third, and so on. - They might even issue tickets as they do in t milk factories, with a reduction to persons j taking a ijuantity. In order to encourage lawful wedlock, the johshould he done very i ! a ply to y o ing couples, hut the clergy j should take it out of widowers and o'd haehelo|-> a Tvimpai. Tkxan Tu\(.khv.?The Lvufi/c Jl<srrr,\,n gives an aecouut of a fatal : | rencounter that reads like some of the bur- ( lesquee Oil life ii? Texas, where neighbors are represented as sho .ting eaeh otlier in 1 the most amiable spirit. The //> sjin iim's \ story is only to.) ti ue : e Jack Kelly, who resides in the vicinity of the Sabinul canon, near Warosville. came into Uvalde and surrendered to. Sherill 1'attcrson, staling that he had killed, in j " self defense, the Kev. J. A. J. Smith, on '? Wednesday, the 1 Ihli ult. .Mr. Kelly made 1 the following statement in regard to the tragedy : Some one must have been speaking to Mr. Smith in regard to bis having grazed sheep on S nith's land, and he knows 11 no oAiur cause would have led to theall.iir. e When Kellv first n.nv tl>., l. j ........... . ...v ....iv. >. ;l in hif?<bu<'Lry loU"*"'"!* I*'?.! ?;u. This ,, vrr.-imV-n. '? <U) 1'. M., nu.l Smith hud boon with them about two Imurs. Kelly thou 11 wont hack to see if the sheep were going l" in the right direction of his home, ami It Smith was still with them. As Kelly was ,? walking -irnuml the sheep Smith called to w him to "hold on." They wore then about one hundred yards apart. Kelly then sat down by a small pecan tree and there waited ,l fur Sini111. who drove up opposite within ti about ton feet of Kelly, stopped his horses, placed the reins over the dash hoard, sayin**: "t Jood evening. Mr. Kelly," and pick ing up his Winchester, which was at his 'll side on the buggy seat. At the same time bi Kelly arose and replied : '"Good morning, ri I'arson Smith." raising his Winch .tor, 1. which had been lying across his lap. Smith then tired, and Kelly answered the lire, *' there being a very brief interval bctwc? n the shots of both parties. Smith lired one ti i-ho' from h s Winchesti r, and jumped out el nf his buggy, oil the opposite side from Kelly, and lired another shot aorosn ilie ^ buguy, which Kelly dodged by dropping an his I; rices. Kelly lired two shots from 1 liis Winchester, which got out of order at at the second shot, and he drew his six-shooter, th smith then lired between the spokes of the tl(i hind wheels ol the buggy at Kelly, who . 3red twice through the spokes of the same wheels at Smith. Both then stepped back ,o the rear of the buggy and met at point br alauk range, when Kelly fired a shot which t|( ook e fleet in Smith's breast or stomach, .. irnl as Smith stepped back several paces Kelly lired his last shot as Smith fell, the hot taking ufleet in Smith's head. Both re artics to the untoward all'air enjoyed the be 1 r -I... - : 1 Vy.-?|r\^vw UIIM V.lkVVUI <M Uli; ll'lJIIII UllllJ , il'.U jv| invc moans. Had not (ho practice of caryinj; weapons boon in vo^uo in (hiss ection his difficulty would have been averted, the 1,1 minsters inc. aim xkiiiu uwiircu .............. lever before had a dilliculty in his lilb ?u rould not have had to take that lifo.? Gttfuston Xcirs. ... .1 Hrri.Kit am? ('<inki.imi.?The recent iddress of(Jen. Hutlcr in (lie I nitel States ir? Senate on the 'Census Frauds," and his i'| nasterly vindication of South Carolina la ijiainst CotikliiiLr. s/inn/' s, >rtifor from New Vork, is only a h.m lsoin p. performance of duty by a valiant an I able |? publieservant tlen. Walker, the Superin- ,|, Icndont of the Census, had already officially ,-xposed the slander that our eeiisiis returns had been fraud ill ntly made for political oi iNids, and had shown that ccrtahi diserep- c\ iMieii s were due to the returns of 1S7<t. ti taken under the Radical regime, rather I than to those of last year. \ et Conkliu^ |) had never modified his iniiendo of the un vi fairness and fraudulciicc of the count.? si \\ hat hail Hutler to do but to show liiiu up ? Or rather, what had he to do but let li die facts of the ease make their own show- h ino ? We would like to ipiote laijiely from sa our noble Senator's able speech. \\ e can s; i < ..( ... olliy COIIIJOIISO a lew ManaiiL iii.- in II ii'.-iiun > ln>\v unnecessary are the gratuitous charges ], of "stagnation" and "steadydecliirj" ii our o material interests : ' Notwithstanding a t loss within the past two decades of 8250,- ( (1011,(10(1 in actual cash values, and notw ith- > standing when, four years ago the State y (loverninent was resetted from the hand of c the spoliator, the credit of the State was a by-word and a reproach, yet t > day her a securities are commanding from (? to 10 per ji cent, prumium on their par value. She o litis increased the pioduct of her principal u staple 1 .'10 per cent, in ten years, namely, t in 1870 she made 220,000 bales of cotton, 1' while the crop of the past year is estimated at 510,000 bales. 11 or manufactories have t within ten years more than doubled in ca- | pacity. Head the following table : c 1S80. 1S70. Per ct. inc. ' Looms 1,770 715 1 UK I Spindles '."J.TNS :M,')|0 100 \ Hales used '$;!,O'.i'.i I 1 '_'|X ( Hands eiuj Inyeil,... U,H'5 l.l-d | What is W'iiiskkv IlitivotNii ? "What is whiskey bringing asked a f dealer, of that article one day. lie meant ! ( to ask, how much is it selling for ? ' A gentleman who hoard the remark took ' . t it in a different sense Ire in that. ' What is whiskey bringing?' do you , ' v fit . n r, i.(o | , JINK : 1 II It'll ^<>11 II l^> linu^Mi. prison and to the gallows, am] it is bringing ' women to poverty and want," Th re never was a truer answer than this. It is estimated that it sends to prison every year one hundred thousand men and womon. Twenty thousand children are sent to the poor house annually l>y drink. Three hundred murders arc caused by ' intemperance every year. Two hundred thousand children are made orphans every year by this dreadful evil, and sixty live thousand arc killed by intemperance every year in this country. Tnk: Ijoiti>*s I'u.w kh. ? When ilio elder liooth \v.;s nsidinu in llaltiuioro, a pious, irh me ??11! Icnrin ill' ili:it citv. hcarinjx 'I liisuiv.il power ii|' clocutioti one d i) initial I)iin in dinner, nlilnnuli .nways depre itiiio the and all thratriril perform Hires. A In rue cor p-in\ sat down at the aide, and on returning to the drawing room no id' I hem asked I?o >th, as a special favor thcui all. in repeat the lord's prayer ? lo signified his willingness tn gratify them, nd all eye.- were filed upon liim lie lowly and reverently arose from his chair, rciiililino with the liurdeu of two "real u"ii:s. tic n ut 1,1 realizi tin' charel or, attributes ami presence of I In* Alliu was iu iitVtaw. llu n.mu ransforni himself into n poor sinning. stumling, benighted, needy .supplicant, offering wnnge, asking bread, pardon, light ami uiJancc. Says one of llic company wlio as present : "It was womlcrlu! to watch ic play ofctnot iouswhich con vulsed liis conn nance. lie became deadly pale, ami his mud trembling upward, were wet with eyes ars. As yet lie had not spoken. The lenee could be lei*.; it had heeotne ahso itely painful, until at last the spell w:es rokc n as if hy an cleutno shock, as his cli toned voice syllabled forth. 'Our atlier, which are in Heaven," etc , with a it lies ami fervid solemnity which thrilled I hearts. Ile finished ; the silence conlined'; not a voice was heard, not a inuse moved in his rapt audience, until, freui finwnc* ot% v\iv? tlC'l hUU as heard, ami the old gentleman, (the x-t) stepped forward with streaming eyes id tottering liaine and seized liootli by o hand. "Sir," said he in broken aents, "you Inve afforded tne a pleasure for liich my whole future life will feel grate1. I am tin old man, and every day from >y hood to the present time, I have repeated e Lord's prayer; hut I never hoard it ho ! ? i - ? < iu, m:\ui . 1 on uro rij^iu, ivpiu'ii uoth ; to read that prayer as it should bo ad, caused me the severest study and lair for thirty years, and 1 am far from sailed with my rendering of that wonderful eduction." Hardly one person in tin uusand comprehends how much beauty. a- .-o.ii-i. .-><? mtopic. i iiiii prayer 01 iisiut iilieieutly illustrates the truth of the llible, id stamps upon it the seal of divinity.? llidiirr. Kxccpt tlie place and llie "pious, urbane old nlloinan," the above is true. It occurred in liiladelphia, at a dinner party given by the menied A>lain WaMie, I'liblislier of "Waldie's leel Circulating l.ihrany," (Mir dear departed itlicrwas present ami w lien a buy, ive iiaveoften ard liini give a very similar description of >al remarkable scene.--[ Kiutok I si ox Timks.] O Tin: IT'As Tuki:?-It is tine of the cunts facts in the history of delusions that ,-eti scientific men oneo had an umjuesoninir faith in the deadly influence of the pas Tree on living things within its range. in I.v.kin.li on i.tniiifiiH viii'ir.Min in tin* si'l*. ice of the Ivisl India <louipaiiy, fir>t de ribed the tree and its destructive power in I'onuock's Outlines id' the tilobr," pubshod at the close of the last century. As o gave the account from his observation it mined entitled to a greater weight, lie liil 1 saw it myself, the sole individud of pecies, standing alone in a scene of solitary mrror in tin: middle of a naked, blasted lain, surrounded by a cirulu of mountains, lie whole area of which is covered with he skeletons of birds, beasts, and men.? sot a vestige of vegetable life is to be seen ,-ithin the contaminated atmosphere and evil the fishes die in the water. Mr. I)arwin, the distinguished botanist cecpted the theory as seeientilie fact and n his "Uotanie (iaialen" exercised a little toctie license making the mi isma penetrate ver ten leagues Mpiaie. and destr??y he eagle in the air or the lion on the Jain. A more careful investigation of facts has bund the tree to he perfectly harmless, and hat the destructive power is due alone to limes of sulphate nr.d carbonic acid gas otning from volcaiiieopcnings in the region l liere is a famous l*\alley poison" at the out of the volcano I'apaiidaging, in .lava, vIn re scientific travelers have found a great lumber of dead animals of various kinds, is ?l.?gs, eats, timers, rhiimccrosscs, squirrels, >irds, and snakes. I lie soft parts of the iniinals, as the ki11> ami muscles an I hair . i ...i.:i,. . i... i.. mil lealli'Ts lire prcsei \ cu. ?oo< hm mumble ami <li.s:i|>|#:-:ir. Nn living thin" i.? bund in tins vicinity save the I'pas Tree, in 1 it is nut siii|ii i.-n^ 1111 superstitious no ions of its malarious power should have ceil widespread. ISat ttie true cause ol loath in this case is very obvious, as then ire many crevices ami openings in the siih jf tlie mountains from which carbonic acid .ras ami sulphurous funics are emitted in .'reat ijinntitics It was these emissions hi which the elder 1 'liny and his companion were suffocated, at the time of the destruc tion of IIcreulaneuui, though they wen miles from Vesuvius. Tiik Makit.u. Kki,Ationh.--TIio (ieor o'u Siiprctnc Court is moved to say in a re cent decision : '"In taking a wife a ma does not put himself under an overseer.? A hiisbtiliil left free to govern in his owi family is the most useful to all conccrnci A subjugated husband is a less pleasin and less encroet'e lumber of society tlia one who keeps his true place, yet know ho'.v to tdi per authority with a fleet ion." a I Ionium.k Stohy.?<)\%iit^svillo, K v . I'ebruory 8.-^Otio of the mo.-t horrible ! ueeidetits i hat ever happened wist h> h'trniiu' of (leor??e IMeratt, ait aged haehch r, about TO years oh!, who lived ill this County with lii.i sister, Mrs. (ioodpast.r, about live miles from this eity. I'or several months the la dy. .Mrs. t iood|iasier. has been parali/.ed and unable to leave her b"d, or < > ? ti turn over witlu lit assist a nee, while her brother, Mr. Pierratt. w is old. feeble and crippled.? I.ist i huisdav iiiulit Mr I'ieratt had got ten in his wood lor tlie iiijiht and morning and was about t?? retire. lie picked up a hark loo to put it on the lire, an i in so doiiiti I. II witli it. and was unahlo to rise or uel tint of the lire Mrs 1 * * ......v.. ?.?? luti) Jail, hut owing to li< r infirmities wan unable to do anything toward relieving liim in* to uiako s?i??( ?! ?? *)?- ooxU a.. ..%#j flood. At last, by almost superhuman aflorts, .she got out ..I* bod to bor brother, who * was thou dead, and pulled him out ot' this fire and on the hearth, and in some way got back to and into bed ; but upon getting in I e I she was so completely exhausted that she was utterly unable to turn over, and happening to get in so that she faced the corpse lying on the hearth, she was compelled to lie in that position until 1 I o'clock yesterday morning. Nothing was known of the horrible death in this household or th-i terrible night of untold torture the aged sister had been compelled te pass in the bouse perfectly helpless, until her son, Sant tioodpaster, who lives about a mile distant, having done liis chores, walked over, little dreaming ol the sight that would meet his eyes. When he stepped into the door the most horrible and blood curdling seen J met his view ; his mother lying with wide distended and wild looking eves riveted nil her I . 1 ,?!???, m. U . I -j w*. 4i ? v\ 111 I rout of the dying embers, stiff and stark in death, badly burned, and with his eyes torn out, his nose, cheeks, ears, hands and neck horribly mutilated and eaten by the oats. Mrs tioodpaster is some years morn advanced than hvr brother, and being compelled to pass sueli a fearful night has so shocked her system that she now lies in a very critical condition, and even if she recovers her usual infirm health it is hardly thought .-he can wholly recover her mind, wliieli seoms about gone. She remained sensible long enough to trll her sou all about the death of her brother, anil said she thought he was seized with a fit of apoplexy, or something of the kind while picking up tho wood, ami was dead when ho loll over. ? - -? \ Pl.ll V 1^1 I * League in Puliliii to day a letter f.om Mr. Par noil was read in which lie says: "After full consideration and consultation I havt decided it to ho my duty to remain in I Parliament and in Ireland during the prosj cut crisis. II' we are worthy of the occasion here the Amcriciti people and the Irish nation in America will give us proportionate sympathy and practical help, while the slightest flinching or reaction in Ireland will produce disastrous results in America. The expelled Irish members have almost unanimously decided to remain in their places in Parliament and offer every resistance that the forms of the House will permit to the coercion and arms hills, lienco the i-otijt il'rtuf ol the passage of the gagging resolutions is most encouraging. I can also he of some use during the passage of the Laud hill io pointing out in what respect it may fall short of a final settlement. Two courses wore given to the Irish party, either to retire in a body from the House ami announce to their constituent* that nothing remained Imt .sullen acquiescence or an appeal to force in opposition to that force which is ntcd against lis, or else a steadfast attempt to deepen and widen tlio agitation by appealing to the great masses of Knglind and Scotland against tho tcrri* toriuiisui and shopoeraey which d iminatu Parliament. The last alternative has many elements of hope. There is nothing in the Coercion bill to compel the Irish to modify their attitude ol open organization and passive resistance. Tim government doubtless relics much on the intimidation produced by the lirst arrests, which would probably be widely scattered, but not numerous.? The future of I reland probably for generations depends upon the tenant farmers remaining firm in their refusal to pay unjust rents and to t il?e evicted farms. If they waver they will prove that they are only fit Ibr slavery." ' Tviikk Skkn wiibn Koiitv Mii.rs at Ska.?One of our river pilots, who arrived from below last night, reports that yoster. I day while off Tybee, twenty miles from shore, ! from the deck of Ins vessel lie count see 1110 I Ocean House ami all the buildings on llio ( sea front as distinctly as though he was ; only a half mile off the beach He thinks s the houses could ho seen with the saute distinctness forty miles off shore. This ojitiL' eal delusion is very frequent on this coast. Mirage can often be seen by those visiting . Tybee in summer, the lighthouse and other prominent objects on the island looming fur " above the horizon as the steamer rounds the point of 141 ba Island.?Suvminri/i X< /rs. l' ~ Mr? liiverutorc is lecturing on "How ^ Shall We 11 each tin; Hoys?" This qucss tion can never be satisfactorily answered uaiil e\ ry saloon has a telephone.