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'cstorday a .hundred thous -told nign wore beating, the-iopnintaius and valleys, up hill dil NhI "tale' tharoughl pr'airiy'ad iforeit, shootiig' and cousing, lunlting, afoot . andi a-hgyrseback. The so,4iers of the chase do not need coaxing. From the instant the halloo Oouads they are at their vork of destrulotion. L-.L its hope that one day, when Ithe hour for revenga striks, the for cious hutismen will be in the front rank. Meanwhiie overything is in a stato of Clisorganization in the family, the workshop and the relations of the loveis. A hundred and fifty thou sand young mn of the army of the reserve are leaving their homes to attend the rehersals of \var in all our provinces. All Franco has be como the theater of war--the word was never better applied. It is the first time the army' of reserve has ever bean soon at work. Every on goes joyously, with the sole regret that lie must shave off his beard. It is only France, "tie queen of na tions," according to 3orange, which is silly enough to compel liundreds of thousands of young men who are only to be soldiers for a month or so to begin by cutting their boards. It is is an abomination. * How will they come back next month without their hirsu.Lt glories, those liandsmono anld prolld yotug soldiers' of twenty saven yc:ars, who are awaited by loving swoothearts ? There have boon protests all along the line-my beard here ! mny beard there I But the countorsigi is "the art of being 'be:aten," and all must submit to it. My son, Henry Houssayo, officer of the Roserve, whom everybody calls a copey of Lucius Verus, is getting shavOd this moriing for the first time of his life. It isa bitter trial to see the sacrifice of his "erisp, curling bcard," to use the: words of f heodore do Barville. What imbecility to order the disliguremont of 150,000 mom for shamu warfaro, and to permit them to wear tleir beard when the real fighting begins. But France. which lc ds all nations in wit, leads them also in stuplidity-I meani the stupidity of her rulers. Moliere hasi said, "Power is on the side of the board." It is as silly to touch the heard of a soldier as the locks of $aunson. Bu1t thsisis tile secret. The mn who give tho:ordr of the doy have have white boards, and so are willing to slhave ; and why shiouild hantidsomo young~ follows, with black 01' blodo beards, kcop) the~irs ? As for myself, I have been a sol (diMr twiceO and have always kept my board. Thie first time I had no board whlen I enlisted ; tile second timei, thle last warl, there wVas no time to waste iln shaving. My board ran a great risk in 1852, after tihe corp~ hetat. Tihe st'rng heads, if not tile strong boeardsl of France, gave Na pleonCl IIL, to uniderstand that thle board was in open revolt against tihe or'dor of tihe day ; thait as thle mili tary had .no, right to wear boards, tile civyilions should not sot them a bad example. Thero was a ter'rile raid made in all the deparhtots, from Ministe o Garmdo Chmupertre: aL mrillioni 0t boar'ds fell at a b)low. Ast a functionary of State I wais comn l)Lrisedt ill tihe harv'oft. M~y 'frimnd Niounworkerke cameO ta mne one m-' ' mng. He!. wau; enIowned f' ri is 1e r.;i' but11 he had cult it dohwn ',ec-ilp 1, face. lHe was inexpressiI y hudi crous, althiouigh mnelanchm 'dy mean de~red thlrough all the paths ho had fmashio'nedl from check to chin. I swore in his5 prosonfco that I would not cut my beard. But BaiLlocchi, wvho wasm secrotaay of the or'ders of the Emperor foi' the civil . sorvice, enme to wvarn' m'e lhat I wais in rW' hollion--that my boar~d wnd thd solo Ono whlichl remained among all tihe hiabitues of the Tuileries ; that I mnust resign myself to the sacrifie. "Well, .L avill not,! t'ad. "Toll thoe Emperor thait I will give --up" mly place soonier thanlm lIy boeard." Bac cioccliht ired( up. "You are nothing - but a Meorovingian. Napoleon I ivas clean-faced' belore hiR lpe(ple as before history. lHe had no boar'd, nor nufthes,- nmor goatee, nor wilis kors. 'do not stee why you should be so 6bstinat.' In vain: I replied that Napoleon elided' his dabs at St. e holena for having shaved his beard. H~e went away unconvinced, threat ening *6, with phe thunders of imin istorial; chflire. - Et6 the 3nk1lsh, gardens of Nicuwerkerke had Aaved me. When France laughs she if dis tmed. INot only did I keop m board by my heroic obstinacy, but I g a ~rftteuysolf that I saved hun dr.odsof others by Imrosample. I ask pardon, my dlai Iede d having abused your patience by thif personal ' reminisconeo. I boliove that if the .150,000 who are about to bogin their drill at this hour ha i made a little insurrection against: the oxdar of thb day, they would 'not be oinniin fors their boards, and would 'wo114d not be dreading the contempt, the mnistakes, and the disillusions whicimro awaiting them at their re turn. W. Mimn -dolgatlont. An interesting set of politicians from South Carolina , o .juet..eJt. .here. They' come oitbto eon ter'ith .|Cadigradaols on the political out 'look-for next year. The delegation .wea loed by slippery Dick, yclept R., B. Carpenter, who is fishing for re-election to the Judgeship of the Columbia Circuit. The other mem bers wore Runkle, Northrop, Jim Thompson, of Freedmen's Bank notoriety, a little :fellow named Gaylord, who came along to keep the party sorer, and see that the interests of his friend Moses received no dotriment. After destroying an immense amount of moan whisky, and lavishing their money in ques tidhable ways, the party left for home-Ga:lord having to purchase the return tickets. Thor resolved to renominate 'refornyer Cliamber lain, ' wit Cain, of Edgefiold, for Lioutenadt-Govornor. Whittemore is on their slate for Secretary of State, and Bowen for Treasurer. If this combination, wins the people can best judge of Chamborlains's efficacy as a "reformer" next year. The negroes are still liUre who charge Gov. Camberlhin with cornplici;y in the Crows murder. 'There is no0 dobt in my mind that Crews was killed by Radicals "for .'polihical offect. Wfashington (Jor. Chiron. f Sent. A huring frat. We laRt Sundty witnessed the performance of a daring feat by Mis 3 Mosslold, of Lebanon, one of thne most exquisitely beautiful girls in this region- The false work for the new bridge across the Santiam is just in place, and 'rises some forty feet above the water ; on the top of this false work is placed a single row of boards, reaching across the river, from pier to pier ; and this young lady on a ibanter, actually walked this little track clear across the river and back again. The hight was so great, the water so turbu lent, and the passage so narrow that it actually made our head swim to look at it, and yet the young lady marched across it as firmly and con fidently Rs if she had been wan:lor ing quietly through some shady grove, leaning on her jimson wood's titalwart arm.-Albany (Oregon) )c;nocrat. Ex-Goveruor Horatio Seymour, of Now York, wrote as folloi s in a let ter declining an invitation to attend the Georgia Stato Fair :"In fi- e years from this time the census wvill shiow our numbers to he more than fifty millions. The day, then, is dawnig when the lands of the South will be greatly lifted up in value. I have giyen much time and thought to the agricultural condition of the Unmitoed States. I have traveled ex tensively, andl have examined with eare into the industrm ial interests of all1 sections, and I am confident that hioreaftor the South will get a large and growing share of those wvho are seeking nowv homes oither frgm~ Europe or froml the older States 'of the Union. Thinj flood-tide wvill bear I pay or ho aywhen the South for uintil it iS 5o th; 'oi be nug as. siu'ed per1vading~ weiinu: in other sec tins of our Un ion." Tm oso are the words of anstat;aanp and shiou'd be p-m. lrotl by the peopl1e of the No. th 0:'emo w.ith~ the RIdicails for pir.. y -i aiimhnical to our1 weflfare' anld PAnnY -ro T-rS lnoNv AoAIN'.--An Irishman had sold his farm, and moved all is pere~onal ptopcrty to one odjoihinig, which he had pu chased. ,.:He claimed that stable manure was personal property and not real os, tate, and commenced moving the same; A lawsuit onsued, and the court declared against him. His final i-emarks to the .Judge, after the jury had found a vordlict against him were auj ol19ws:e t'Mr. Judge, a horse anf oow are personal property ?" "Yen," ssoyeed the Judge. "Mr. Judgje, corn, ,oats, hay, etc,, aro ,p~rPonal-'irkporty ?" .''Yes," respondedY tho' Judge. "T1hion," sa.id Pat, "ho* 'in the devil can -personial property eat~ per sonal property add prod1uce reales tateT1 Twenty fite 'thousand nnsof ld6# ~ * lfipped froe e Gitfy Florida difiga Settibd. Tlhe Pith of the Ciylohic from Galvestoi. to Archangel. We note with unabated interest progress eastward of the great V'cas cyclone that devastated. India nola and Galvestoni After swooping over the Atlantic in almost a diroet line from its point of departure on our coast the storm struck the British Islannt, whore it repeated the ravages tlt marked its progrops in the United te and carried shipwreck and ruin to the Irish and English coasts and cities. The valley of the Lee was inundated by the 9pprpl us rainfall that accompanied' the furious meteor. Houses wore unroofted, cattle drowned, and, ac cording to the telegrams, many human lives were lost. Indeed, but or' the substantial character . of the. bdildings on the territories swept by the storm, ws would have revl of disasters that would have create I terrible parallel-to- those:- experA enced along the coastrof the Guif of Mexico. The latest rep irts annoino. the arrival of the storm cen.e.r ao Archangel, an inpoidtant seaport of Northern Russik, situated at the the mouth of the Dwina, on the White Sea. At this point the stor.n appears to have lost but little of its original force, for we read of nothing but shipwreck and ruin attending its passage. On consulting a map of the northern lefnisphero it will be observed that the cyclone travwl ad directly northeastward. A str iglit line drawn on the nap touching Fernandina, on the AthLn tic coast of Northern Floiida, and Archangel, on the White Sea, will pass through the British Islands an'l represent the exact track of the storm. During its passage across the Atlantic the cyclone had full scope for a renewal of its energy, which was impaired during the con heot with our Southern States. It struck the British Island then with iniense fury and continued its course over alternating areas of water and low land, which scarcely reduced its force. Southern Sweden and Northern Russia are but slightly elevated over the sea level, and thie course of the cyclone will carry it north to the Ural Mountains into the Artic Ocean. The manner in which these great cyclones become docom posed in the higher latitudes is still one of nature's secrets, awaiting, it would seem, the thorough oxplora tion of the Polar regions before it hocomes known to science. The ox podi tion sent out from England for the discovery of the North Pole will if successful, return to enrich ouir store of information regarding these wonderful meteors, and supply a want long felt by scientific men in the investigation of the laws which unquestionably govern the pho nomena of their development courses and decomposition. Ax UNFORTUNATE COMMENT.---Last night Mr. Joblink had just hung up his hat on the rack, and dressed up his countenance in the amiable and om g what conciliatory smile with which he is wont to greet the part nor of his bosom, when that lady ap peared and pointed sternly to the door. She said : "Leave this house !" "Matilda I" "Don't Matilda me. Go." "Dear me ," whimnpered Joblink, rubbing his bald head with violence "wvhat, in God's name, have I done now '?" "Done now, you brute ?" Look therie ?" Joblink took the newspaper held out and read; "The English language is more .appkpmi than any other of the civilized tonghds." And on the margin opposite this innocent statement of fact appea:red1 in Boblink's handwriting the ;nti mont, "Too true." < With a gro':, the huashb?' >md fa/her (lopakrte~ i was aft er m:i '3:1 Emgoe ~ a e .linn;. room.-~I. WoMEN AND DE~'Ls.--ld Winmston wasI a negro pronober irn Virginin, and1( his ideas of theology and human nature were oftenm very original, A gentleman thus accosted the old1 gentleman on Sunday 1 "Win stoni; I understand you believe every woman has seven devils,~ How can, po rove it 7" "y el sahi, did you never readT in do Bible how seven~ debbles were cast out'or Mary Magalin 7" "Oh, yes I I've read that." "Did you you ebbor~ hear of 'em bein' east out of any* odor women, sah ?" "No, I never did." "Wollh, den, all do oddere got 'em yet.. . CHARlLEsToN's Poj'urA~zoiw.-The census of Charleston, just completed shows 56,540 so4i, againit 4$8,956 in) 1870, anv increase0 of '7S84 in ,4ve yea1% The colored populationm is 84 ad the' whi~ 24,628, the ia6rease of hgjpg~ bee% 66o0i the greats 9ernmany's Noxt r JaP1AiBING FOI A TUSDI Th "rlia dol: dhesney, an eminent. military oditic, has contributed to .Aii d*:&e .fayazine an aitiale in which l discusses the nilitary future of &&#(any. A distinguished officer in the Royal Engineers, Col. Cheeney writes with the authority of a scion tifle soldier, and he ..possesses the acuteness of a keen political obser. ver. His paper tht-owh light on sbine obscure parts of European politics, aud'we ' therefore state its salient points. The time has gone pant when we bould consider the, next,, European war. as a sitple duel of nations for empireoin 'Europe. It will not be Gorinany against. France or per aany against Russia; butt Germany and nose Aan one .power arrayed +:ngdi3 h Her trit nphant. armzs uave raise Prussia to a position far .bove that in which Frederick the Great pla4ed her. She holds the first rank in the world as a military power, but on the .European Conti nont there is not a nation that is friendly to' her. She had harvested a measure of the hatred that Napo leon I. brought on France by his aggressive wars. Gernuuy recog nizes this, and is porfecting her military organization to a degree the world has never before witnessed. Instead of relaxing her efforts, after conquering Austria and France, she hais entered with renewed vigor into Clo task of strengthening the poavpr of the sword. Ag.ainst whom are those great pre parations being made ? Does Gor many contemplate an attack on some great power ? There is' no single continental power she could not with her present strength easily conquer. Germany looks forward to Russia as her great antagonist of the future. The preparations are hurried for ward to enable her to moot Russia, :'ided by another European power. Germany has to consider the possi bility of a direct attack from Russia and a fank one from France. It is to meet such odds that shit has turned her kingdom into a huge camp, where the clank of the sabre is hoard instead of the hum df industry. This explains why she is perfecting a mighty line of fortresses from Coblontz to Strasburg on the side of France-from whom alone she has nothing to fear-and leaving her western boundaries unprotected She prepares for an active encounter in the open field with Russia, and she is building a barrier against France, from whom sho expects a simultaneous attack. Between Russia and Germany are all the elements that lead to war. Both ambitious, they ' have their mutual feelings of envy and dislike, and view each other as obstacles to their respective aggressive designs. The German officers pro claim it as their next duty to their country to humble Russia. The bet ter class of Russia point to the posi. tion she hold under Alexander I, and they say it is only a qnestion of time when a quarrel wvill. be fastened on their Teutonic neighbor. The Czarowitz hates Prussia and Prus sianizing, and represents the war spihit. In numbers the Russian army is slightly stronger than the German, lju~t it every other respect it is in forior. Russia huau resolved to re muove this inferiority. She has en tered on a course of gigantic arm~y organization, and is pushing it vigorously along. When completed (which will take fifteen years-she will be able to summon to arms 2,000,000 effective salins, besides galrrisoning her cmm inry. Sho is fo rmning, too, an immernrsetU L.uisturm). A r 'getheor it will make a t.oial of 5, ,00 iij men. Aier making ren'im ble qddudions it will. be a RussL ia neds nlo sneh p~reparations for cfe''se, situnted as she is, anid hee is no poer but (Ger mny worthAy of ~sneh >repara. lions. The pec co armny of tire latter is 400),000Q, anid c.mf 1)0 treledO at the wor~d of command, The new Ladturm law is to provide her viih 240' additional battalionis. Hier army is the best equipped, the best officored the world ever saw. Against Russia nued she has nothing to fear. Colonel Chesney seems to think that. Russia, with an army or gnzdas she proposes, andi with Frneas an ally,- would have to-sub mit at the hands bf the Germans by virtue of the unity, the superior edu cation, training and experience of the latter. The cordon of fortresses he deems would be well nigh im pas. sable, except to a force cntro led by a mind, of superlative strategic ability. The time when this fight wvill take plree and the nations that will be implicated in it, none can gopfidently forecast.- Chi'go. 7irnei Mr. Rasnes La. IHubbardJ, of Norwich Conn4 has given to the Pagk Cihuret of that 61%ty ani organ btilt, at Wu: S y, e WInes 1hu a . bugp 1awsueIt. It was a peace-warrant;. .ase, tween appuplo,of ..golopd n n on, bqp a, Georgia gus ice d the peace. I ,satntei-ed 'inrt the court-room h just 'in tirno ' to - hoar Uncle sip,' he. grizlo-haded. old darkey wh wal. jpos ting, givp his svidence ;4put. litl 1ti19sa e~lQm0 to ii estib ifom the Co1, .'d Zip gave hit.t'fous ora an extre hits-i and turned, loose. " er see,' *Ad he, "X wgr .a-sottin' wid ilia, an' sho war. a'vottin' )vid me; teLf do troof Mes be 'tok we uns way . Ufp v s settin' -ter edE der." I9 said the .Court, $ns " rele } p. "Well da e . war ilda's hous," I w 'm- -a-se ti'' " h de do'; an' Ti fal d-st in' i do do'; an' , .'a settln', :as I: tole. un ate - eovr Ind about that," said the Justce, impatioitly. "Go on '.with your story.' G on "Yassur. Well, don, yel' see, Tilda, she war a-settin' in do do'; an' I were a-settin' in do do' "What happened next ?" asked His Honor. "Why, nuffin nobor happened nary time," said Zip. "Yer see we iuns war bofo a-pottin' tergedder" "Oh I bother I "interxupted the Court, "Go ahoad and make out your case. Confine yourself to the question." "Yassur. 'Well, of yer mus' hab it, I war s4ttin' between urn" "Between who ?" interrogated the court. "Between who ? Oh I yassar," con tinued the exasperating witness. "I got uma now. Yer wants ter know jes' who I war a-aettiu' witd 7' "Bless your soul, yes I" said the Justice, very emphatically. "Well, Mai so Court, dat sorter mixos up things. Unnerstan' rune now, I'se a-tellin' yor do troof. Deacon ob de Baptist church I is an' I ouddn't toll a lie of I wanted to. Well, den, Tilda war a-settin'" "Hold up !" cried His Honor, *eizing a ponderous law book. "You've got to stop that everlasting 'sottin',' or I'll settle you. Toll me -it once how many of you were at this woman's house." "Dat's jes' what I'm a cumin' at,' said old Zip very calmly. "Yor soo, in de fus' place, dar war Tilda" "Good !" remarked the court. "Au' Tilda, yor see, war a--I mean she war in do do.' An' dar war me next. I war a-I war in de do', an' we war bofo" "Dry up!" said the Court. "Now tell us where the defondint was." "Dunno war ho war," said Zip, scratching his head doubtfully. "Spec'" . "Do you mean to say 7" askec the Court, with a rising inflectiong, "that the defendent wasn't pres ent 1" Sartinly," replied Zip. "Ain' got tor dat pint yit awhile. Isc takin' yer back ter de beginning, more'ni two yeah ago ; an' as I wvar a tellin' yer, we war a settin', an settin." "Mr. Bailiff, adjourn this court !' shouted His Honor, purple witi indignation. "And make these par ties settle their difficulty out in the back yard." The investigation came to an abrupt close, and the last I saw ol old Zip lie was complaining louidly because ho couldn't toll the entiri history of his cas.--WV. 1'5 Ree( in the inldepenfdent. A hack horse roll down on Gratioi aivienuo, and amnong the ' crowd whiell gaLthl're~d we' sovorpal negroes, one( of whom sou~ght to boss the jol: of getting the horso up again. HA was~ doing~ a good deal of talking when a r)iend and( brothe: walked up iand domancdd:. . "See hmenh,~ who is you ? "I is Stephenl Iaker, sah," was th< dignifiea reply, "And was you in do war ? "Xar ? war 1" "Yes, ear, was youc inh de war 7" "No, sah." "Well, den, What b)usiness5 yor got bossing arounde' 'here 'I Yoil jest stand back and lot somnebody~ who w'as in do war (1o (10 talking: Now deni, folks, lif't up on dat hiose aW' kenp elfar of his hind heels.' Thme one who was not in~ the wai mneklf isat. dlown oms thme cifb stone President Grant has been accept ing thme hospitalities of Brigham Yonng, just as though he was not living in open defiance of the laws o1 the Unvited Stiate.. But sincell made that speeh at D~op Moines hec can har'dly be consid 'od roponibk4 for wlaa4 h doe..-- Porteidru I' GenerM4Jf hms aaie with the prediction that bythe Jai of .Jammy,~ the Mje;iss ppi rive) will have.~ aut a new cIlinnel, udt Viekseburg, leavidg tilat lace tv mile$s inand, At tittle G 'b rswe -t was a pl'as 1 QligA,pgry fJ t i op atal oi roa of 1 a6'r6i e g oor f vp;-.speo in hisl90 and thoylsat on can e-boxes,e . A cndle 4utdinate4, the board, ep-. bliug tho rap;ter" (wbo hair d>op pod in .o g'ta p i ua of sugar) t see tidt'bh' han E a number of 4$lite. boans'in front of hihh. They.wore playing I arde, and i ept , h romr p to the otlher ani, hor'f hutadle, maybs p6r aps." O iilan soem&d to be doing mbst of'the tking is name 'wa g g . .o talked,lileo , pegphe,1 aut the reportor ac t owin o1i a boor keg 'il listened 0o in. "I tell you ther's no use taulkiung The best thiing'a ian 'can tlo is to git iarried. Ginie three and !,bt yon live beans., ,oin' single. has its advantagos. Boo it and raiao y1 six. '13it the confort a rnah tk ha iin' A 'wifeintijc a librao f -hit own-, can't be told. -Raise me ten, eh iI see it and call. Duimlit, you've got the spot again, Jim. Put a bit of ico in mino and a dash o' bitters. Yes, boys, a wife's a good thing, you bet your bottom dollar. Whew l ton 'to coma in I All right, Jim.; stra,ddlo your blind. NQw, when a man gets through his day's work, an' fools tired an' worn out, -.what's nicer'o to go h6me an' "find a gbod little wife waitin' fur you, tend to throw her arms 'round yor neck an' -Oh, Lord I" A hush fell upon the corner' gro cory as -she vwalked in with a shawl over, hor thead and brought hiin o1e on thO side of hor head that sent his Cards flying and upset his ouckta il. Neither of thorn spoke a word, but he lodkJod as if he had lost one foot of his six as lie followed her otit Evcn the sibdded' siicker 'be hind him cduldi't make himr look meanor.-Vr ( e(',n.) O.hrontle A Fair Gane, But Ne4 (qnm!. During the war a Georgian started to 14arietta vith some chickens for sale. He met a squad of soldiers, and they bought all the chickons but one rooster. Ho insisted they should tLko him, but they wero out of money and couldn't buy. The old man said ho hated to go on to town with only one chicken, and was greatly puzzlod about it. At last one of the soldiers said "Old man, I'll play you a ganio of soven up for him." "Agreed,' says the old man. "They played a long and spirited game. At last the soldier won. The old man wrung the rooster's neck and tossed huim at the soldier's feet, and mounfod his swah-tailod pony and started home. After getting about two hundred yards he sidden ly stopped, turned round, and rode back and said : 'You played a fair gamo and won the rooster fairly, but I'd like to know what in the h-1 you put agin that roostor.'-Mer'idian Home Rare' and dainty stockings are ' worn; to correspond to other costly details of thw6 toilet. Black silk stockings are worn which are cov orod with flowers ombrofdered ini tihe brightest of silks. CIreanm-col ored stockings have soles and side pointed gores of crimson ; pale blue wvith rose color black with scarlot. This latter style has small polka spots embroidered with Swers followingthe pattern. Paile I hwsilk, stockings hmave the feet and ext'ehding above the ankle cov cr~ ,with; a deep) bine. Sitnilar styhvs are worn haing a flesh color' anid faint b;lue, pink and whlite, anmbr' and wivtoi, n I exquisiItely cm broideredi with flosn.---New Yor/1c Tr'',ibunc.' A C'onnootient girl baby came into the world the other dgay to find lher rulationn so mfixed1 up thnt shme will never get thom straight as long as I he lives. Hecr greategrandmother it; first cousinl to her gW'eatgrand father ; her step-grandifather is first cousin to. her ;iother;. her uncles and atints are h r second (5)ltRins, and her mother is 'hex' third cousin,~ But of' course the poor littlei thing doesn't know' It yet. HoF.-amuel J. IRandall ad. dressed a Democratic meeting in fng, bei g'ifntrotifeed 'as "the next Spokker of the rfotrte of Kepresen t~tives 'at Washigto1i? Hoesaid tie saW evr'y. indica&ti~O. of a ccess ijrtle city and State, .i hloped that ,the~ Democratio oraion Iwould be af' doinplete ain'Oio tn th~at cao 'thog lIad nothinug to W1 In'n e 14m Ioe a t o(br idlfrado L esok'Msto her spe'chu :' "1- .0tfes y oia-etoff n'on Waw, is her dairnare e"Lhie ega went hatch.'' - renutTopics. Ir d7O10,0 Ooo AS(NALt bt5 debts, debts I Tai ktaoes I The amount of ta" ow grwbn from the American p tleu aling. The Federal, tli taffs~e, a the municipal goe 34en f till United States are o# tcuhidd -'ith mountain lbad 0 debts, (ar railways and incorp fed jstitutions of every kind doy4, with, the same com lain euting upon this, the "In a short article on taxation America, ,which we copy to-da O the IWorWh that paper sho ;the th. pplo pf the United t tted pa annyaly, ii the way of' taxes, th suin of seven hundred and sixty inil 'libns of d61lars--being an amoun vastly in 4*coss of the value of their exportable crops, and ignount hng to. ovg five and one-half pe cent,,on the assessed valuation of all thd thxabld property of the country, Nd*,' as: that per contum- of cl income from property is really a large .ono-probably above the rata in any country in the world ex copt the United States-the proper tyitsolf is virtuall struck out o existence as assets by this showing, and the country as a unit might well be doclured in a condition of bankruptcy. If we are worth any thing at all, it lios only in the degree of undervaluation of this property fortaxes, and iu the unreturnea property. It isa desperate showing, demande ing a tuhivorsal uprising of the peo pl for retrenchment in government reduction of taxes. And besides all that, it egnfounds us to conjecture how these furious contractionists propose to meet this enormous out. lay for yearly taxes with a currency. which nmubt be substantially limited to the amount of specie which cal be found or retained in the country--..if it is to consist of redeemable paper.- It is an alarming scheme and will virtually double the tax on the people by taking away half the funds to pay it. On Wedncsday night last, Odom* Kennedy and Adam Johnston, both colored, confined in the jail at Aiken, made their escape by digging beneath the cell door. They toro up the brick flooring and made a. hole largo enough to force their bodies through, and it is presumed that between the hours of 12 and 1, o'clock they mndo their exit. A Westerly, B. I., cergyinan married a couple the other- night,. received his fees and sent them away, apparently satisfied, but a day or two after, the bridegroom returned and said that he had: come to pay more;- as the woman had turned out much better than h ex. poeted. The Now York World says : "The Ohio election prognosticates no good to any of the Republican Presi dentialcandidates who have been herctofore prlominent in the field. It brings forward at onae into the front rank a now candidate, with p ortontous claims. Governor Hayes hssuddenly asuned the leading position in Ins party." A genitleman from Augueta informe uk of the burning of 'the town ptf yohnston; int Edgeliold .County, on lho C. C. & A. R. I.- The best part of fho towvn is destroyed, there being no loss than severi of the' principal business places' burned.- Tihe fire was '1lat observed late- on Sunday hight but not in' time to -savo the STmtowsi AwAY.-An inebrikate ir. tdividual staggeored into the' Detroit' City Hlli aul yolled oup:. "Rahi f'r Fou'Lh July !" "13ouzth of July, youi donghihead,' repliiefa poli coman-.."'yhy, its~ N[ know i." "The 16 th day of September." "0ourso 'tis, an' zhont Fou'th July# alhts come on shi:dconth day 2 6ep.y tomber ?" "No, you idiot," zhont ?": ebiato, "to go'n frow- wnf' all' shi drimk I! And ho-staggered'nadly'out'. On Sunday night- last,- 'Wo ior's saw ill,- situated-a few mihlJ f6m GrM'itoville; was comple1 dbtroy - ed by fire. The loss an e ted at , about $500, oil which theN6iR tio in surance. The fire is sny)$~bed'ti,'B ~he work of an iioeridiatjf as there wa& nothing about the illl whicht 6oiuld have been the-accid nrtal cause'. of the conflagration. MipON JUxdE n' usdB :ifle.'E Ievlflouit ittates tha 6ion jtriced id$as a pargle, fE ary eflicaciedP eedinec against 4itheria-addhMin14t tirddat trou~oe. ReIohaat ste stfitE ly tRus employed it for over j teen y'oars..-iceaiflo .Amerea