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R Mil ?!?.; TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. V VOLUME 8. GOD -A.TSTD CWK COUNTEY. - ALWAYS IN ADVANCE. J SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 13, 18T4. NUMBER, 19,, Life i? St Petersburg. Letter from Minister Marshall i Jewell?His I?tressions of the People and the Climate?A B ill ' /.t the Palace. A letter from Hon. Marshall Jo well, United StntcH Minister to Russia, to n lady relative in Rochester, is published VJy the Democrat of that city. It is dated at St. Petersburg, March 5. and rends as follows : 'I wender whether you don't think T am loet sometimes. I am not, hut am quite firmly anchored up in this so-called < cold climate. It has not been cold nt nil this winter, though 1 umler.-tand it is eye*ptionnl. We huvc had about ten days of zero wrather, not more, and those Tun 5 dcg. to 10 deg. below, only; n few days and, nights down to 10 deg below zero, but most of tho time 20 dcg. to 30 drg, above, cloudy, sour wanthcr ; tut now it is brlpht and sunny?n foot <tr two of snow only. No trouble in rlecping wnrni nt all. Wood is burned mostly, nnd cof ts but $8 per cord ; plenty of coal, but all from England, and costs about S10 per ton?soft coal. ?llcr.FfS are pcifccrly comfortable, all tuth d(olle windows, and Gttcd iu dose ai d tight, so we Fufler most from want of ventilation. Home-keeping is both troublesome and expensive. We huvc a RuFt-ian foolmnn who speaks English, French aiid German ; a vier man butler who ?petiks I*"11p 1 i> 11 nnd French ; Oer matt cork, speaking Russian und Ger man ; Russian < hau bermaid, speaking l (.thing cite, besides the se serfs, or 4Alrpikp,' or ptrvntits of the lower order, who do most of the work in fact. Oh yrs, and a 'himpistc,' or man to atteud the door, look after the (ires, aud trim lamps?a Russian who speaks a little FrglUli/ nnd French. Resides these, "*t Lave ? cue or two coachmen, a man part of the time to bring up wood and c?yl, a man once a week to brush and jolish the W*Xfd floors, and n man every othcr day to come in and water the flowers, of which every fine house must hare a lot. Im't this a crew, besides u French lady's mnid which we always have. Tho houses are heated by stoves and grates. We have fifteen fires all told, in cold wcathtr, and twelve or ten always in winter. For two months before Lent, we did little but attend balls, potties, dinners, routs m d I rifoituticnp, not going to bed till next day, most of the time 1 got up at 10, nnd the balance of the family at 12. In December the sun rose' at 9 nnd set at 2:50?not much of a day at best. At one ball at the palace, there were 2,500 gmsts, 1,900 of whom cat down to supper at 2 o'clock in the morning, and 600 took their lunch ?tsnding. It takes 45,000 candles to light tho palace for such a ball. At this baft there were more royal persons than 1 eVer saw t< gethcr before, tho EtuprcsJ of Russia, Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, Prince and Princes of Wales, Crown Prince,of Deumark? ?the above are all of imperial rank ; ol .royal rank, there were the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, all the Russian ?Grund Dukes and Lucluescs. Prince Arthur of England and fifteen or (twenty Princes from Asia aud Europe 'besides. We had a separate presentation to them all previously. They till dunced and mingled with the rtowd. The new married Duchess of Edinburg, iu whose /honor this bull was given, wore the ?celebrated Russian diamond necklace, worth 920,000,000. The Empress' dress wss trimmed with soltaire diamond buttons, each one of which wus worth 960,000 or 81,00,000?all the imperial ladies wore diamond crowns. It wus thought there were more diamouds worn ?that night thuo ever before at one titno, ?as they came from the three empires of Germany, England and Kussia. It is ? of no use to try to describe the scene. A week alter wards there was a small and select ball given there to 100 guests. At this time the tupjer was laid in the ? Jarge Hall which hi about 100 by 250 feet, and 40 icet high. Forty palm tiecs, 20 to 30 feet high, bad been ?brought from the geen house j round < ach was built a table lot 10 or 20 guests; 8,000 candles lighted this room, to we tat down to tut per in a real pulm grove. It was m?giiificcnt beyond description. Speaking of greenhouses, we visited one the other day for trees and shrubs, fern and cacti, only, not flowers, which hnB 30,000 varieties iu it and 70.000 pots or specimens. All tho corps diplomatique are invited every winter. There nppenrs to be no cud to the money this court spends ou such occasions. This, of course, is seldom done. '1 he Emperor is a splendid m in. very polite, aud for that matter so arc they all to us. There is little or uo middle class in Russia. The few live like prince?. Tbc ninny work and live like s'nvcs. Very fine and handsome people are the nobility ; very low and degraded are the working classes. But it is vastly improved under this Kin per or, who is really a just and a good man. Russia hns its own code of morals, I suppose, which the people live up to. From our point of view there are no morals here. They all cross themselves on going past a church or shrine. There is a shrine in every house, in the pre sence of which no one can wear his hat, not even ttio Einperor. ?So inside a Russian door hats off?a carpenter's shop, saloon or palace?it's all the same. They keep Lcut rigidly. Circuses are full Sundays, except iu Lout. There nro over sixty 'prosswicks' or fete days in the y< ar ou which no one* will woik. Sunday is less cared for, though generally no work is done on that day. Drunkenness is more coin uion than iu any country iu the world. Common people drink nil the 'books' they can get. Their food is a black, sour, r}C bread and cabbage soup most But they arc a good nnturcd, laughing race of beings. There is but little social life here, though in fact not much visiting, as wc do it evenings; So much social intercourse comes from our schools and religious affinities, which arc ouljrc _ly hic.kinir in JJ\t* rniinn-j?. rh it h. tun&iULi the difference very marked to an Atncri cau. The, French' lunguage is almost as much used as tho Russian; more so, iu fact, in the higher circles. Most of tho Govcrument officers speak English also, aud more than one-half the Russians I meet. AH the young ladies read it, and they all have English governess ?9. Ergllsh and American books are iu the first-class libraries, Russia having bu: comparatively'little literature of its own Law aud order here are as much respec ted as with us. "While the limpcror appoints every thing and everybody, and cau do exactly as ho likes, still he governs by aud through law. The knout is long since abolished, and a trial by jury is regular nnd safe. It is no heathen country by a luug ways, but the Greek or orthodox church is strict in its discipline- and thorough iu its organization. Divorce is almost impossible. Prisons arc few. Capital punishment is unknown except for attempts on tho. Emperor's life. All convicts arc sent to Siberia, the worst to work in the mines, and others ou the land. Their families can go with them, if they like, so that country is now full of pretty good people of this Rind. The natiuti is growing* rapidly in all the directions of national greatness. Education is being pushed slowly but steadily. Most of the people I mjo cuu alroady read and write. Rut the rich being so rich and tho poor so very poor, makes progress very slow. Tho police regulations ate perfect though people drive through the streets us fast as ever they can go. Those on foot have no rights which tho carriages arc bouud to respect. Handsome black Tartar horses go pastouc like the wind, with little light harness, no blinders, und low, light sleighs, or sljdges, as they call thorn. Nobody goes out a minute horo without being fully wrapped up in fur, and uo ouo sits a minute in the houso with them on. Iu tho halls are servants to tako off aud caro for these wrappers. In this way they nover ap pear to take cold. Iu uo othor way could they live in this very changeable climato. Not one of us had a cold this winter. So all tho stories ubout this being so bad a climate appears to us to bo u humbug. But great oaro is nccoss ary, aud that everybody takes of him self. So in this way wo get along, aud on the whole lind tho climato not bad. Do I like it? Well, some. Don't be lieve I should want to spend my life ho re, though. It io a jroit thing to 32a for a time, and i find my colleagues pleasant people, and the social lifo of indoors was enjoyed for a time. In all tho elements of Strength and greatness, America is so fur ahead of Europe tliut contrast is painful. So my eyes con stantly turn toward Hartford aftor all. Hut I read a great deal of politics and write many lectors, and hear from homo daily almost. The Shadow of a Great Sin. Timiockmoiiton's Ghost. The trial of Miss Eliza Goodwin, who was recently brought before the courts in Louisville upon a writ i1r> lunuticu ivquirentjo, and discharged, developed a train of circumstances which not only outdo tho creations of the novelist and romancer, but can only Qnd their parali el in the gloomy and grim Nomeses of Grecian mythology. Miss Eliza God will is n member of a respectable family, a well educated and cultivated lady, who, wheu a mcro school girl, tweuty four years ago, made the acquaintance of Major John Throckmorton, an aocnm piished and fascinating man of the world, then twenty years nor senior. His influence upoti her amounted to an infatuation which she could not control She was tpnfiding and inexperienced, like most school girls of idealistic ten denotes, ?!jd she vcpy soot! engaged her solf in marriage to him. When ho had secured this advantage, ho ruined und then abandoned her, but the shadow of the darkness iuto which she fell cnvelo ped him also, and it has never left him or her. and never will, although he is growing gray with years and passiug the years of passion and sho is a faded, weary woman, outof whose life hope has disappeared, and for whom remains only ^the passive obediencp to fate. AYhpn alie found pereel.r?uinouhed' shj utu fiiji, throw herself into the slums. Sho did not bicak under the calamity which wrecks so many lives. Shed id not hur ry herself jut of the world. The disus ter revealed her tohorself, and all tho aimless mid restless elements of her life crystali/.cd into ono settled purpose which, for over twenty yeirs, has abio r bed^evcry other purpose, hope, thought and energy of her ^bcing. Sho calmly and firmly came to her resolve after long meditation. She could not marry any other man, for that would ba an irrepara l?!e injury. She had no desire to injure her betrayer, as she stated during the trial. She left his health and his life in the hands of God.' She did not stop to weigh any effect her purpose might have upon Unij relatives er society at large. In the scopa or her purpose there were bat two persons in tho world ? her betrayer and herself. For tsvo long years she sought by Qyery means in her power to win him back to her; but when she found this was fruitless, when she found tint ho hat forever abandoned her, and that no influence of hers eonld ever reach him, then she determined that, as he had wrec ked her life, she would wreck his; that as he. under promise of marriage, hud cloudad her whole life with uuhappiuess, he should help her bear it, by suffering iu kind, and that the memory of the ruin ho had made should ever bo fresh and constant. Sho has thus far fulfilled hor purpose. For twenty years she has been It's walking aud sleeping thought, aud uo effort of his has been powerful enough, no strategy cunning enough, to shake off the silent, relentless spectre which has followed him with reproach ful eye and iron purpose, as calm, and rigid, and silent, as though she wore the very embodiment of Fate Wherever he wout in tho city of Louisville she was a few pae.-s behind him. Did ho go to cull upon a friend, he know sho would be upou tho opposite side of tho streot when he came out. Ho went to New Orleans, and wheu ho arrived' in that city she was there also. He wont to New York, but in the thousands of strange faces which passed him iu the busy streets, thero was one familiar faco always near him. His own shadow did not follow him moro surely and per sis tcntly than sho followed. It was all the same Summer or Winter, iu Spring or Full, iu storm or shine, by day or by night. Thus the yoars went ou. She ucver molested him. She never person ally interfered with his buciness or bis enjoyments. She never spoke to him ' v iless he spoke to her, and then the 'jut den of her communication was only j t' nt it was her futc to follow him through i l:!e,^ind his fate to bo followed. In all l?ese years Mnj. Throckmorton has gvown gray in the shadow, and Throk tArrton's ghost has grown faded and palo a -d weary with her restless wandering, /?jj^nst ho could onduro her calmness, hb/ofeilencc and her constant presence no lo'vgor, and he brought her before the ej^ets upon the writ to which we have niipwed and sought to establish tho fact t^^bsho was iusaue, her insanity taking LH'.form of a monomania. But this utis.hcv opportunity as well as his. It vfh the opportunity sho had long wished aid for the Grst time she had the ojrtrtioe to tell her story before a public tpfjaunal*. 'riuiro were doctors and experts in a.:i;ndanco, who narrowly watchod her aij&e oatratcd this twenty years' story, lyjfthey fouud uo traces of insanity in if*"-* There was but one expert who >ed her a monomaniac, and he has b^vj-i connected with an insano asylum f?'.r tinrty years, and acknowledged that ho expected a liberal fee for his opinion . lie had concluded, ou general principles t - it Miss Godwin, was insane because sflj.waa' different from other women, and ot.lipr women similarly situated would lr ye /rieved until they died, or reckless ly gone to the bud?a ruliug which wauiiL courugn a great ui.iuy very sane p. ','plc, who happeu to be inflexible in P'irposjfcjijij^b the insane asylum. Ths j rlty did not accept the opinion of the cjfpert, but acquitted her and lelt her 1 ric to do as she pleased. During the trial Bhc did not follow Thookuiortots and there will bo some curiosity as to lw'.r future ooursc t"*8 episode may divert her from her se, since, she has had the opportu > tclr-|ier sttry iu tho most puplic u s..v. i. ^ ~>n7rT<"xtcw her.-CQurae^ "VYhcthcr she abandons or continues to follow him, matters little now. Iu all these twenty years her amends for tho great wrong which he inlli ctcd upon his victim, and there uro 'very few peopl* who will not 1 >ok upon it as au i istincc of poetical retribution in a case iu which the law affords no adequate remedy and social forms are more liable to f a vor the stronger than the weiker party. Tho Nemesian idea is completely exemplified lie ruined her life. She ruined his. lie destroyed her happiness. She destroyed his. The two are even. From a Florida let'er; '1 have been very much interested in the Indians here, a portion of the last remnant of the Sctuiuclcs. Contr.iry to my expec tations, they arc physically a splendid race of men. I have seen oid Tiger tail, young Tiger (his sun), and big head Tiger, (relatives) Johnny Jumper Billy Harncy, etc. Old Tiger (as tho name is generally abbreviated) is over eighty, h is hair perfectly white, over six feet iu height.but ttraight as an ar row, and still hunts and travels with his tribe. Most of.them speak a few words of English, but they disliko to use it. They live entirely separate from thu whites, and retain their own customs, laws and dress. The. head dress is u turban, formed of a roll of some bright colored cloth, about threo finches in di atnetor, which surrounds the head, leav ing it bare on top, where the hair is cut about an inch long, They generally wear a calico skirt, sometimes a coat ovor it, sometimes deerskin leggings sometimes not. They have a settled aversion to pantaloons, I don't thiuk there is a pair in the tribo. Old Tiger generally wears two coats for show, Young Tiger is a fine looking fellow, with au open pleasant csprossiou, six feet high, and woll made. Ho puts on his full regalia of head work one day, and, with an oaglo feather in his tur bau, ho looked every iuch . an Indian, lie gave us tho Semiuolo warwhoop. which is a clear screooh of Aion aio n aiou poo o ah. Speakiog, of costumes, I saw one evidently a dandy with a gorgeous turban, brilliant calico shirt, to/are Marseille* vest, etpreterea nihill. Divorco lawyers are knowu as 'patent separators. A matter-of-fact old gentleman thinks it must be a very small baee ball that cm be raught on a Sy. The Bonds. iii .";? Iii tt .! ?o ??? ?? ._??[? j ? Things sometimes taken ourjous turn. It has been so with that darling finan cial measure of the administration last, winter. We are advised that tho irtrgo majority of the bond holders of the Stale sc'-Mii to think that there is uo hope for them, except iu tho success of the Conservative party,. The bond-holdera arc of three clusso s ?the holders of the old bonds, of the talid new bonds and of tho repudiated conversion bonds. The holders of thcold bonds are supposed to have paid dollar for dollar or at a very alight margin. They aro, therefore, not very anxious to " fund at fifty cents discount. They are, no doubt, right to suppose'that tho'Demo crats would take care of their own bonds. Some of the holders of the valid new bonds will fund and others will not, be cause they think that can't do worse whatever happens, and they may as well wait. The holders of tho conversion bonds are very much disgruntled. They are just as badly treated as they can be and, like drowning men eatching at a straw, would like to soc the State turn- I ed over to the opposition, believing that they would at least get back tho money paid down. It has been generally sup posed that thesa conversion bondsvwerc hypothecated by Kimpton for a kittle or nothing, aud were principally in? the hands of a heartless ring of speculators. From tlie1 best information we can get. L would appear otherwise?that they were believed to be in New York the very best security the Stato had to offer and were bought by everybody?the shoemaker, the tailor, the savings bank, the banker, the merchant, the widow, "the trustee and others, all over the country, at prices ranging from fifty to seventy two cents' and hard money for them paid to Kimpton. The holders of these bonds, therefore, ? have tho most Jjl^flfl*/^^ credit of the State, and hcIpl?/swuTiJ?u?_^!r.*M* vorhat hue aud cry that hurries ot r good name from Dan to Rershcba. These men think that the State has played the strap game or soiuei other confidence game upon then, and tint the least that could be done would be to appoint a commission to find out lio?V much each holder actually paid to the State, and what became of tho money. If the State got it and used it iu good faith, then they think the original amount ought to be refunded. If it was stolen , or other bonds were re issued by the agents, then they think tho State should punish those agents, bat its creditors? third party without notice?ought uot to be made to stilTer. In the mean time , they arc busy inventing somes phraseolo gy in which to express their disgust for South Carolina and the majority who rule it and have ruined them?Union Until. . A Curiosity. In an old fashioned wooden frame, bearing the inscription, "S. Brand, Car ver and Gilder, No. 27 High Street, Ed i lib ugh," but exhibiting uo other marks by which its age could be decided, was recently found the following doeu ment. Apart from any historic value which may be claimed for it, the descrip lion is porfect in its simplicity, and pro scnts the picture which is painted by our imaginations, ol what might have been the aspect of Jesus of Nazareth to the eyes of the generation that beheld him walking in their midst. The epistle is said to havo been takon by Napoleon I from the public records of the city of Rome. Letter of Pubmus Lf.ntui.ur to the Senate of Rome,Concerning Jesus Christ.?It being tho uuual custom of Roman Governors to advertise tin Seuate and people of such mntoriul thiugs tis happened in their provinces, in tho days of tho Emperor Tiberius Coosar, Publius Lcntulus, President of Judoa, wrote tho following epistle to the Senate, concerning our Saviour : "There npponred in these our days, a Muu of grout virtue, named Jesus Christ, who is yet liviDg amongst us, and of the People is accepted for a Pro phet, but his owu Disciples oall him Tho Sou of God?He raiscth tho dead aud oureB all manner of diseases?A man of stature somewhat tall and cotne ly, Tvith a very reverend countenance, such as the beholders may both love and fear?His hair, of the colour of a cheat nut full ripe, and plain to His ears, hut thence downwards it "is more Orient, curling aud waving about his shoulders ?Iu tho midst of his head is seam, or a partition of his hair, after tho manner of the NazaritCB?His forehead plain and very dclleato?His face without spot or wrinkle, beautifiod with a lovely red?His noso and mouth so formed as nothing can be reprehouded?His beard thickish, iu colour like the hair of his. head, not' very long, but forked?His look innocent and mature-?His eye* gray, clear and quick?In reproving, he is terrible?In admonishing, courteous and fairspokcu?Pleasant in oouvcrsa tion, mixed with gravity?It cannot be remembered that any have seen him laugh?But many have seen him weep ?In proportion of body most excellent' ? His hands and arms delectable to be hold?In speaking, very temperate, mo dost and wise?A Man, for his singular Beauty', surpassing the; Children ot Mcu." Cnrions Calculations. There is something wonderful in fig ures; and numbers, when calculated, startle us by their immensity. We talk of millions and billions with lit lo thought of the vastness of the suras we name. The lips may utter the words glibly, but their" understanding fails to grasp their real significance. Take ' our owu national debt as an illustration. Every boJy knows it is large, but few have ever stopped to consider its appall ing maguitudc. A few calculations will" not, we trust, be uninteresting to our readers: Let us suppose that the national debt is, in round numbers, $2,500,000,000. If an experienced cashier was to com mence counting this, at tho rate of three silver dollarsJSj fcriB^gork dil "VigeuTT)' g'g^wW^BH^BMBHBBj^fc iu the year, it would take him^mou^ one hundred years to complete tho count. If the silver dollars were placed side by side, touching each other, they would reach nearly three times round the world; they would pave a highway tho width of Chicago's street more than 200 miles in length. If each silver piece be estimated an ounce in weight, and the money loaded j into carts containing one ton each, and driven one before the other, eaoh horse and cart occupying two rods, tho pro cessiou would cxteud fivo hundoed miles. Or consider that only about 1,000, 1)00,000 minutes have alasped since tho birth of Christ, and that if ono dollar hud been put away each minute, day aud nignt, since that event, the accumu lation would amount to but little more than one third of the debt this nation, now owes. If this calculation was ap plied to Englaud or France whose national debt is neatly twico as large as ours, the result would bo still more startling. A smart city billiardist picked up a countryman, and induced him to play a game of billiards?oue hundred pointa. The city boy took tho cue and ran the game out without a stop. Tho country man quietly laid down his cue and star ted for tho door. Said tho billiardist, Here, come back and pay for this game." "What game?" said country. "Why, tho game we just played." "We?" said the countryman; "we? I haint played no billiards as I knows of. I gue^s, mister, sco'n as you played the gamo alone, you'd better pay for ifc alouc !" Whereat the countryman walked out and the smart city boy cogi tatcd. A Ludicrous Incident.?A few nights hi ace ho mo one stealthily tied a leg of one of the tables under the shed belonging to a colored man to the rear platform of tho Bleeping coach at Flor ence, on the Northeastern Railroad, and, as a natural consequence, when the train started, the table went off for a trip to Charleston.' Amid the wreck of element*, and the crash of worlds of crockery, tho table went, revolving din its way, truo to its attachment and despite I the wild cries ol tho proprietor to "atop dat train."?Union-Herald.