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> GECarroll i-ii . ' \ Wi' ^ j . I" lewis m. grist, proprieto^ ~ j?nbfpfitbflit /m'n ^tfosgagcr: jfor % .gatial, ^yini'lnral aiti> Camrnmial |nttmb of % gcntj;. ~ tebm8---$3.oo a year, is ADYASCE. yjiL. 16. ffe YORKYILLE, S. C.t T^p8PAY;^3CTOBER 6, 187Q. ^ ... ? . IpKrilattrtttg jfoafliagj TAKING THE CENSUST , ? " * I BY T. JOHNSON HOOPKK. The collection of statistical information 1 concerning the resources and industry of the country, by the assistant marshals who were employed to take the last census was very j difficult work. The popular impression that j a tremendous tax would soon follow the minute investigation of the private affairs of the people, caused the census-taker to be viewed in no better a light than thatof a tax-gatherer; 1 and the consequence was, that the information ' sought by him was either withheld entirely, or given with great reluctance. The returns therefore made by the marshals, exhibited a very imperfect view of the wealth and progress of the codntry. In some portions of 1 the country the excitement against the unfbr- 1 who were known as the "chick- / it almost dangerous for them 1 - - - - ? . 1 .V _ I to proceed with thtf business or uunng me census; and bitter were the taunts, threats and abuse which they received on all hands, butinost particularly from the old women of the country. The dear old souls could not } bear to be catechised about the produce of their looms, poultry-yards and dairies; and when they did "come down" upon the unfor- ? jtunate inquisitor, it was with a force and volubility that were sure to leave an impression. * We speak from experience and feeling on 1 this subject; for it so happened that the Mar- ( shal of the southern district of Alabama, in ( the year JMQ, f<repgsing especial confidence" * in our ability, invested ns one day with all ^ the powers of assistant Marshal; and arming us with- the proper quantity of blanks, sent us forth to count the noses of all men, women, children and chickens y resident upon those ( nine hundred miles of rough country which constitute the county of Tallapooea. Glorious ' "Sport 1 thought we phut it did not turn out ' so. True, we escaped without any drubbings, although we came unpleasantly near catching a dozen, and only escaped by a very peculiar c knack have of "sliding outbut then we c were quizzed, laughed at, abused, and nearly * " * ? *-5 ?V J drowned. Children snoaiea, muuuw Kuco the chicken man." Men shouted, "Yes, d-n f him, hell be after the taxes soon; and the old 1 women he came to enquire c about their chickens, "to set the dogs on him," * while the young women observed "they didn't know what a man panted to be so particular. v about gals' ages for, unless he was gwine a v courtiu' " We have some reminiscences of * our official peregrinations that will do-to * laugh at now, although the occurrences with a which they are oonneeted were at the time ^ anything but mirth-inspiring to us. 13 We rode up one day to the residence of a r widow rather past the prime of life?just at ^ that age when nature supplies- most abundantly the oil which lubricates the hinges of the 0 female tongue; and hitching to the fence'] ? ^walled h r?~~-W "Good morning," said we, in our usual * bland and somewhat insinuating manner. * '"Mornin'," said the widow gruffly. Draw&g our blanks from their case, we 81 proceeded?"I am the man, madam, that takes ? the census, and?" - , "The mischief you are," said the old term a- u gant. "Yes, I've hearn of you; Parson W. told me you was coming, and I told him jist what I tell you, that if you said 'cloth,' 'soap,' ur 'chickens', to me, I'd set the dogs on yer. g Here, Bull! here, Pomp!" Two wolfish curs responded to the call for Bull and Pomp, by *? * ? coming to tne aoor, aiuemug au uiu lt^i> TT1VU I ^ a slight growl, and then laid down on the r steps. *Now," continued the old savage, "them's the severest dogs in this country. ^ Last week, Bill Stoneker's two-year old steer j jumped my yard and fence, and Bull and ^ Pomp tuk him by the throat, and they killed him afore my boys could break em loose, to save the world." v "Yes, ma'am,"said we meekly; "Bull and n Pomp seem to be very fine dogs." jj "You may well say thab; ^rhatl tells them j| to do they do?and ifT was. to sick them on a your old hoss yonder, they'd eat him up t] before you could say Jack Robertson. And y it's jist what I shall do, if you try to pry into j, my ccfoaarns. They are none of your busi- s] ness, nor. Van Buren's neither, I reckon. Oh, y old Van Banburen! I wish I had you here, p you old rascal! I'd show you what!?I'd? ^ make Bull and Pomp show you how to be gl sendin' out men to take down what little stuff y people's got, jist to tax it, when it's taxed ^ enough a'ready." ^ ?11 this time we were perspiring through j fear of the fierce guardians of the old wid- e ow's portal. At length, when the widow a paused, we remarked that as she was deter- ? mined not to answer questions about the pro- jj duce of her farm, we wpuld just set down the \ 0 age, sex and complexion of each member of a her family. n ?a "Ma giaU WMhing-r-you'll do no sich a r thing," said she; "I've got five in family, and 8 - ** " -* *? ? ruj U? that's ail you u get irum we. vm * au j_>u- ^ ren must have a heap to do, the drotted old vilyan, to send you to take down hovrold my ^ children is. I've got five in family, and they p are all between five and a hundred years old; j, they are all a plagey sight whiter than you, t and whether they are he or $tip, is none of T your consarns." ? j We told her we would report her to the r Marshal and she would be fined, but it only t augmented her wrath. t "Yes, send your marshal, or your Mr. . Van Buren here, if you are bad off to?let a 'em come?let Mr. Van Buren come"?look- t ing as savage as a Bengal tigress. "Oh, I J wish he vxruld come"?and her nostrils dila- f ted and her eyes gleamed?"I'd cut his head off!" 1 "That might kill him," we ventured to re- s mark by way of a joke. "Kill him ! kill him !?oh?if I had him t by the years I reckon I would kill him. A pretty fellow to be eating his vittils out'n c golden spoons that pore people's taxed for, i and raisin' an army to get him made king of j Ameriky?the oudacious, nasty, stinkin' old ' i scamp!" She paused a moment, and then re- j i turned?"And now, mister, jist put down what i 1 * I tell you on that paper, and don't be telling ' t 'no lies to send to Washington city. Jist put ? down 'Judy Tompkins, ageable woman and ( four children.'" e We objected to making any such entry, but i the old hag vowed it should be done to pre- e vent auy misrepresentation of her case. We, 1 however, were pretty resolute, until she ap- < pealed to the couchant whelps, Bull and e Pomp. At the first glimpse of th^r^ teeth our cagrage gave way, and we made the entry in a mfid hand across a bdank schedule,? "Judy Tomkins, ageable woman, and four children." We now begged the old lady to dismiss her canine friends that we might go out and depart; and forthwith mounting our old black, we determined to give ihe old soul a parting Sre. Turning half round/in. order to face tier, we shouted? "Old 'oraan!" "Who told you to call me old 'oman, you long-legged, hatchet-faced whelp, you? I'll make the dogs take you off that horse if you give'me any more sarse. What dp you want? "Do you want to get married ?" . "Not to you, if I do." ~ * ?*- ? -xi.- ..?i .Placing our ngni wumu uii'uk mum w i ;reinity of our countenance, we said, "You leedn't be uneagffold 'un, on that scorebought you might suit sore-legged Dick S., ip our way, s^shpuldlikeia kno^wlu^o ell him be mfght count on; if he come doyrn lext Sunday!^/ "Here Bull!" shouted the widow, "sick him Pomp!" But we cantered off, unwounded, iortunately by the fangs of Bull and Pomp, vho kept up the chase as long as they could lear the cheering voice of our mistress? 'S-i-c-k, Pomp?sick, sick, si-c-k him Bull? mboy! suboy! suboy!" Our next adventure was decidedly a dangerous one. Fording the Tallapoosa river vhere its bed is extremely uneven, being formid of masses of rock, full of fissures, and ?vered with slimy green moss, when about wo-tbirds the way across, we were hailed by k>l Todd from the bank we were approaching. We stopped to hear him more distinctly. "Hellow! little 'squire, you a-chickenlunting to-day?"^ Being answered affirmatively, he continued!, 'You'd better mind the holes in them are ocks?if your hone's foot gets hitched in em, you'll never get it out Y6u see that ii-u _A?- j ij..?A?. >ig Oiacii ruok uuntr w juw **guv? u v?, here's good bottom down below that Strike town th&r, outside that little riffle?and now ut right into: the smooth water, and come icross!" We followed Sol's directions to the letter, ind plunging into the smooth water, we found t to be a basin sgnpunded with steep ledges ?f rock, and deepenough to swim the horse ve rode. Round and round the poor old (lack toiled without finding any place at rhich he could effect a landing, so precipitous /ere the sides. Sol occasionally asked us "if he bottom wasn't first-rate," but did nothing o help us. At length we scrambled out, wet nd chilled to the bone?for it was a sharp ieptember morning?and continued our jouriey not a little annoyed by the boisterous, oaring laughter of the said Solomon, at our icturesque appearance. " ?& We had not more than got but of hearing f Sol's cachinatory explosions before we net one of his neighbors, wl? gave ua to unthat the dunkmpr we *r*riv; 3 was but the fulfillment oflT thread of SoPF > make the "chicken man" take a swim- in ae "Buck Hole." He had heard of our topping on the opposite side of the river the ight previous, and learning our intention to >rd just where we did, fixed himself on the ank to insure our finding the way into the Buck Hole^f; ^ This information brought our nap right up, nd requesting Bill Splawn to stay where he ras till we returned we galloped back to ol's and found that worthy, rod on shoulder, eady to leave on a fishing excursion. "Sol, old fellow, said we, "that was a most nfortunate I made into that hole in the iver--I've lost twenty-five dollars in specie ut of my coat pocket, and I'm certain it's in bat hole, for I felt my pocket get light while was scuffling about in there. The money ras tied up tight in a buck-skin poueh, and I lust get you to help me get it out." This, of course, was a regular old-fashioned ie, as we had not seen the amount of cash lentioned as lost in a "coon's age." It took, owever, pretty well; and Sol concluded, as t was a pretty cold spell of weather for the eason, and the water was almost like ice, bat half the contents of the buck-skin pouch rould be just about fair for recovering it. Lfter some chaffering, we agreed that Sol bould dive for the money "on shares," and re went down to the river to point out the recise spot at which our pocket "grew light." Ve did so with anxious exactness, and Sol oon denuded himself and went under the rater in the "Buck Hole," like a shuffler nek with his wing broke. Puff! puff! as ie rose to the surface. "Got it, Sol ?" "No, ang it, here goes again," and Sol disappeard a second time. Puff! puff! and considerble rattle of teeth as Sol once more rose into upper air." "What luck, old horse ?" "By ings, I felt it that time, but somehow it slid >ut of my fingers." Down went old Sol gain, and up he came after the lapse of a ainute, still without the pouch. "Are you ight sure, 'squire, that you lost it in this hole V aid Sol, getting out upon a large rock, while he chattering of his teeth divided his words a to rather more than their legitimate nu niter of syllables. "Oh perfectly certain, Sol, terfectly certain. You know twenty-five dolare in hard money will weigh a pound or wo. I didn't mention the circumstance, irhen I first came out of the river, because was so scared and confused that I didn't emember it?but I know just as well when he pouch broke through my pocket, as can ?!" Thus reassured, Sol took the water again, nd as we were in a hurry, we requested him o bring the pouch and half the money to )adesville, if his diving should prove successul. "To be sure I will," said he, and his blue ips quivered with cold, and his whole frame hook from the same cause. The "river ague" made Sol shake worse han that, that Fall. But we left him diving for the pouch inlustriously, and no doubt he would have got t, if it had been there! Our next encounter was with an old lady, lotorious in her neighborhood for her garrulty and simple mindedness. Her loquacity cnew no bounds: it was constant, unremitting, interminable, and sometimes laughably illy- She was interested in quite a large :hancery suit which had been "dragging its (low length along" for several years, and furlished her with a conversational fund which the drew upon extensively, under the idea hat its merits could never be sufficiently dismissed. Having been warned of her propenlity, and being somewhat hurried when we I i rn called upon her, we were disposed to get through Business as soon as possible, and without hearing her enumeration of the strong points of her law case. Striding into the house and drawing our papers? "Taking the census, ma'am!" quoth we. Ah! well! yesl bless your soul, honey, ' ^ 1- i 4 a1 1 il. take a seat* n ow ao j Are you me geuueman that Mr. Van Buren sent out to take the seruist I wonder! Well good Lord, look down! How was Mr. Van Buren and' family when you seed him ?" We explained that we had never seen the President; "didn't know him from a side of sole-leather," and we had been written to, to take the census. "Wellj now, thar agin ! Love your soul! Well, T s'pose Mr. Van Buren writ you a letter, did he ? No ? Well, I s'pose some of his officers done it?bless my s^l IWelL God be praised, there's mid^||BhdBH9 take down?times is hard JB but'Jjglooks rights in this country; the rich and n'one for the poor, praiS^J Lord. Did you ever hear- tell of that case ray boys is got agin old Simpson? Looks like they never will git to the eend on it; glory to his name! The children will suffer, I'm mightily afeerd?Lord give us grace. Did you ever s?e Judge B?? Yes ? Well, the Lord preserve us! Did you ever hear him say what he was agwine to do in the boys' case agin Simpson ? No ? Good Lord! Well, 'squire will you ask him the next time you see him, and write me word and tell him what I say; I'm nothin' but a poor widow, and my boys has got no larnin', and old Simpson tuk 'em in. It's a mity hard case on my boys, any how. They ought to a had a mighty good start, all on 'qm: but God bless you, that old man has used 'em up twell they aint able to buy a erector to plow ij ?.j :n witn. lis a migniy n&ru two, tutu ui? nut oughtn't never to a been broken, but?" Here we interposed, and told, the old lady th at our time was precious?that we wished , 75 : r ?' ??> -? V* to take the number of her family and the amount of produce raised by her, and be off After a good deal of trouble, we got through with the descriptions of the members of the family, and the "statistical table" as far as the article "cloth." .'.'How many yards of cotton cloth did you weave in 1840, ma'am-?" "Well, now I The Lord have mercy??less see! You know Sally Higgins that used to live down in the Smith settlement??poor thing, her daddy druv her off on 'count of her having a little 'un, poor creetur I?poor gal, she couldn't heip it, I dare say. Well, Sally she come to stay 'long wi me when the old. man druv her away, and she was a powerful good hand to weave, and I did think she'd . help me a' power* Well, after she had bin | here awhile, her baby, hit tuk sick, and old Miss Stringer she undertuk to help it?she's a [ powerful jgopd hand, .old hftss^tringer itwoft-j roots and yarbs, and rich life.' Well, the to Sally's baby, but it got wuss?the poor cretur?and she gin it tea, and gin it tea, and it looked like the more she gin it tea, the more it?" ??Mtt /taoi- Aia/lam T am in ft hnrrv?nlease A'V uv^* ? ?? ; j r tell me how many yards of cotton cloth you wove in 1840. I want to get through with you and go on." "Well, well, the Lord-a-mercy! who'd a thought you'd a been so snappish! Well, as I was saying, Sal's child, hit kept a gettin' wu88 and old Miss Stringer she kept a giving it yarb tea twell at last the child hit would die any how; and about the time the child was wuss, old Daddy Sykes he come along, and he said if we'd git some night-shed berries, and stew 'em with a little cream and some hog's lard?now old daddy, $ykes is a mighty fine old man, and he gin the boys a heap of mighty good counsel about that case? ' boys, says he, I'll tell you what you do, you go ?" "In God's name, old lady," said we, "tell us about the cloth, and let the sick child, Miss Stringer, Daddy Sykes, the boys, and the lawsuit go to the devil. I'm in a hurry!" "Gracious bless your dear soul! don't git aggrawated. I was jist a tellin' you how it come I didn't weave no cloth last year." "Oh! well you didn't weave any cloth last year. Good! we'll go on to the next article." "Yes! you see the child hit began to swell and turn yallar, and hit kept a toallin' its eyes and a moanin', and I knowed?" "Never mind about the child?just tell me the, value of the poultry you raised last year." "Oh! well?yes?the chickens you mean. Why, the Lord love your poor soul, I reckon you never in your born days seen a poor creetur have the luck that I did?and looks like we never shall have good luck again ; for ever since old Simpson tuk that case up to the chancery court ?" "Never mind the case; let us hear about the chickens if you please." A I "God bless you, honey, in and abend the best half what I-dic^WBPI Every blessed night the Lord sent, they'd come and set on the como or tne nouse, ana hoo-hoo-hoo, and one night particular, I remember, I had jist got up to get the night-shed salve to 'nint the little gal with ?" "Well, well, what was the value of what you did raise ?" "The Lord above look down! They got so bad?the owls did?that they tuk the old hens as well as the chickens. The night I was telling you about, I heard somethin' squall I squall! and says, I'll bet that's old Speck that nasty oudacious owl's got; for I seen her go to roost with her chickens, up in the plum tree fernenst the smoke house. So I went to whar old Miss Stringer was sleepin', and says I, Miss Stringer! Oh! Miss Stringer! sure's you're born, that stinkin owl's got old Speck out'n the plum tree; well, old Miss Stringer she turned over 'pon her side like, and says she, what did you say, Miss Stokes ? and I says?" We began to get very tired, and signified the same to the old lady, and begged she would answer us directly, and without any circumlo- j cution. "The Lord Almighty love your dear heart, I honey, I'm tellin' you as fast as I kin. The ! owls they got worse and worse; after they had swept out old Speck and her gang, they went to work on 'tothers, and Bryant (that's one of ray boys), he 'lowed he'd shoot the pestersome creeturs?and so one night arter that, we hearn one holler, and Bryant, he tuk the old muSket and went out, and sure enough, there was ouiley, as he thought, a settin' on the comb of the house; so he blazed away and down come?what on earth did come down, do reckon, when Bryant fifed V "The owl, I sujipoee." "No Bich thing, no gich ! the owl J than. 'Twas my old house-cat come lin' down, spittin', sputterin' and scrfichbSw and' the fur a flying every time she jumped?] like you'd a busted a feather bed opem Bryr j ant, he said, the way he come to shoot the amy instead of'the owl, he seed Bon^Bthm' wbiM "For Heaven's sake, Mrs. Stokes, giv^jHfB the value of your poultry, or say jjjpa wflljiwB Do one thing or the other." "Oh! well, dear love your heart- IJHhH I had last year nigh about the-same as "Then tell me how many doU^fjWorth ydbj ,have now, and the thing iswtth^" -;. J^^^^^wisee for chiok-ee-ee^^^BBg^^ ' Here they came,"roosters, hens, puUefarpH| littler chicks?crowing, cackling, chifjfMjjfP flying and fluttering over beds, chairr, Xnd tables; alighting on the old woman's head and shoulders, fluttering against her sides,, pecking at her hands and creating a din and confhsion altogether indescribable. The old lady seethed delighted, thus to exhibit her feathered "stock," and "would occasionally exclaim?"a nice passel, ain't they?a nice pafr sell" But she never- would say what they were worth; no persuasion could bring her the point, and our papers at Washington omh j tain no estimate of the value of the widow', pokes' poultry *, though, as she raid herself j 8he'had;a<%^%nwj>a???r zJ. '?; * -. .i i.. ;i | ABOUT FLIES. j We have often seen a fly walking opon the | ceiling or upon an inverted surface, or ran# ning up a smooth pane of gkss, and we mayj have wondered how it managed not only to? hold on, but to ran about so nimbly. An ex^A animation of-that wonderful machine, a fly*s| foot, by a powerful microscope, will explain the whole of the very simple contrivarire-ljrjjj$ which it seems to set the laws of gravitation! at defiance. There have been some very clew# er guesses. Some have feqcied th&t the haim on its foot could take advantage-of the slight^ est irregularity of surface; and others that? the foot was furnished with ar natural ah|| pump, by which the air m its honow was ex-; hausted, and that it thus clung like a cupping* glass when applied to the flesh, byihe prenn ure of the atmosphe& outside. Now, if we examine the foot, we shall And it to be \ posed of a pair*}/ pads, with a pair of hobfir above them, and the pads clothed with a nam-" ber of very fine, short haira. Each pad' is; follow, with a little nipple projecting into iLj jtehind the nipple i^a ^ag conn'ected^^t^^p in Walking, and fills the hollow. The^^^H are also hollow, with trumpet-shaped months;, > and these are also thus filled with gum. This \ gum becomes hard the moment it is exposed t to the air, and will not dissolve in watfeni * Thus, at ev?ry step, the fly glues itself to tire ^ surface; and so tenacious is the gum thfttjpyie foot is quite sufficient to bear the weigfe^if the whole suspended body. If we examine ' the foot-prints of a fly on a window-pane- s a powerful magnifier, we shall find that 6m!| I foot-mark consists of a row of dots conw? ponding to the hairs on the foot pads; in fin the foot-print is merely the traces of the in j that has been left behind. But how is ii^H> the fly is not glued for life to the spot, aflne t very first step it takes ? It might be so,|mE ) tried to lift up its foot directly in a perpendae?s. ular direction ; but it draws up gently ii a > Blanting direction, detaching the hairs in sin- j gle rows, just as we might remove a postagestamp by beginning at one corner and gently ' drawing it back. When, however, the insect. ? is diseased, the gam is wCrjr apt to harden, and. j i*i irm, . m at its deatb it at once Becomes sona. inns w we may often see a dead fly firmly attached to the wall, or to a window-pane, with a doll colored mark on the glass. This is caused bp ? the fluid having glued the sick or weakly in/ \ sect to its last resting place, and having thus ^ hardened, the fly is cemented to the spot till ' it decays away, leaving the legs behind: So ; very small are these trumpet shaped hairs, that there are more than 1,000 on each foot-' pad. We may add that moths, beetles and all ( other insects have the same kind of gum secreted under the foot-pads. Not less wonderful is the brain, or rather that which stands ) for it, in the fly. But it must not be thought j that insects have brains like the-higher ani-: , mals. In all these there is a large -vt)f ! brain protected by the skull, from whifch*#?e? ^ spinal cord or marrow, which is a sort of cott^i $ tinuation of the brain, extends to the eartremhave nothing f B^pH|HHP^anization. ThVl hav^imtiWI^m^anyZwM, or large clus-' , ters of nerves, from which fine threads run-in;: different directions. But instead of their be- , ing collected into one centre, there are many groups of them in different parts of the body; those of the head supply the different organs of sense, the mouth, the eyes, and the actauss ^ by which they smell, those of the thorax or 1 middle sections of the insect supplying the place of the heart, and being the nerve centre of animal life, while another set supply the stomach or abdomen. From this separa-' tion it happens that the life of the insect chiefly depends on the thorax or middle part. If this is crushed the fly is instantly killed, and there is not the slightest motion afterwards. But if the head be dttt off, while this* t ceases to move or show any sensibility, thebody will move for hours. If breathed upon, or touched with a needle, there will be an at tempt to run or fly; if dust er water be drop-" ped either on the legs or ahdpmen, the feet' will at once begin to seems to prove that these movements ofyfche insect are at all times not the result of intelligence, but simply involuntary natural actions. f6T Many a poor horse gets well nigh'used up while he is alive, but when he is dead the process is completed, surely, judging from the account of his end given in the columns of au exchange. To say nothing of edible purpo-1 ses which horses are made to serve in Paris, j all sorts of dispositions are made of the different parts of the carcass in the interest of mechanics, the arts, and the various wants of humanity. His blood goes to the albumen ^nWtUfacturere, th^ sugar refiners, and the j ptthiers of lampbUck; his mane and tail to [P* Weavers of haircloth and makers of sieves fjind brashes; hii skin to the tanners and curpws; his hoo4 to the comb factories; his Pfesh to the rendering vat for its oil; his Btomffcch and intestines to the makers of strings for 1 raansical instruments, and his bones to the but- J ton makers. Even his teeth find their way to W6 ivo?7 shops. In fact, nothing is' left of jhlm but his old iron shoes, and even these me mailed up over our doors for good luck. Alas!' ' Mr^bbin I Much as you were worth in ] M^waces, on the road, sensitive to the lash ] H spur, you are worth no less in the sheds ' ?na shops of manufacture and trade. 4 jTHE tTBST TELEGRAPHIC IKSTRUME5T. } * An interesting relic of the early da^p of ^ $4egraphy has been discovered at Morristown, \ ;T. It is the Drat instrument by which mes-J j BjP^^ye^eived and sent by the aid of thdfe ptectricity as adapted to transmiasiom^words, i jjpf; spent a large portion of his Unse at. Mor* town, where he was assisted by Alfred Vaily i ^5q., a practical machinist and inventor.. At ; the Speedwell Iron Works of that town, then j owned by the father of Mr. Vail, the ex peri- | jpentson the>wires and on the construction of. g suitable instruments took place. On the campjeticn of. the experiments andtfae removal of i Mr. Morse to Washington to bring his inven- i tion before Congress, Mr. Vail accompanied 1 him, and, reoeiving the appointment of assis- 1 tint superintendent of telegraphs, was eta- i tioned at Baltimore, at that edd of the exper- i Unental line. The instrument , now. at Moi> ; ifetown is one ofthe twotaken frqm Morris- I t^wn by Morse and Vail?Morse using one at 1 jgathington and Vail the other at Baltimore. i fbie first ioessagesent was the now well-known '^fhat has God wrought," Which Morse trans* jftjtteet to. Vail:; but the first public message was the news of the nomination of Btdk totbe Presidency by the Baltimore convention of ftp*, sent by Yail to Morse. These instru- < meats were in constant use for six years, when < 5$r. VaiJ, returning to Morristown, brought ] M|) with hinpf* *njd where it still remains in the lyqemion qfhis fhmily. Mr. Vail dyingsoon i tifter, his instrument was specially left by jl 1 clause in his will, to his eldest son as ah heir- 1 Idem, while parts of instrhments made during < the experimental trials were left to Professor < Jdcrse, with.*arflqnest that he would give them i at some future day to the'New Jersey Histor- < ical.Society. The old instrument werks: as. i Well as when first made, and on Saturday a f message was sept to New York and a reply Je^yed M Morristown. An excellent photo- I graph of the instrument was also taken, and- < with this a viak was made to Professor Morse ,1 in New Yorki^The professor was delighted i jbsae the representation of the first instru- ] meDV^yipg destroyed, aahe said, the fellow i afao' expreesed a wish 1 BaStbe photogMphs 'might be generally dis- 1 Uwted, that it might be seen how little in < j^Btial points it differed with those now in < gp With the exception of size and clumsi- J ness, the instruments are almost exactly simi- 4 mr. The dimensions of the instrument are jfo inches in length, 7 inches in height, 6 inches wide, with three magnets of three inches diameter. The paper UBed>waa two and one ( |alf inches in width, three pepi being proposed j to be used. The weight of the instrument is f twenty pounds. ( A TEXAN'S DREAM. ' K?% dreamed," said he, "that the day of 1 judgment had come, and contrary to aU the 1 teachings of my youth, it appeared that man- ! kind were not to be judged individually, but . hv cmvprnments. hv nationalities, and bv 1 States. The first government called to jadg- 1 meat was that of England, and as soon as the * name of England was sounded the immortal Barke rose from his grove, and declared that c he had lived and died in England, that he * knew her people to be loyal alike to God and their country; and on his recommendation England pawed into the celestial city. J The n*;xt government called to account was 1 the United States ol* America, and when the * name of America sounded Mount. Vernon frembled as the immortal Washington arose 8 from his grave and prayed that his Govern- ? (pent should not be tried as England had been 1 as a consolidated despotism, but as free, sov- 8 ereign and independent Statea. The first Statie called to account was old Virginia, and as soon as the name of Virginia was sounded the immortal Henry arose to his feet, and declared that he had lived and k died in Virginia: that he knew her people to * be loyal alike to God and their country, and v on his recommendation Virginia passed into ^ the city. * The next State called to judgment' was 1 South Carolina, and as soon as the name of a froth'C. Calhoui^^ artwe from his grove and declared that witK1^ all her faults he knew her people to be loyal alike to God and the country; and on his re- 1 commendation South Carolina passed into the r celestial city. The third State called to account was the * State of Louisiana; and as soon as the name of Louisiana sounded, Henry "Watkins Allen, * ' J-Li. 1 i-T..! t Dura ling asunuer ma urauuiui uunci-ui%&cu tomb, arose and proclaimed that he had lived and governed in Louisiana, but died iu exile; ^ that he knew her people to be loyal to God 1 and the Southern Confederacy; and on his re- 6 commendation Louisiana passed into the ce- * lestial city amid the rejoicing songs of the heavenly host fi The next State called to judgment was the c Lope Star State of Texas; and as soon as the e name of Texas was sounded, the immortal e Houston rose from his tomb clothed in the habiliments of the soldier, spoke of the battle of ^ San Jacinto, and declared that he knew her 4 people to be loyal alike to God and the coun- e try; and just as the Lone Star State was about to pass through the gates into the city, . that scalawag Jack Hamilton, sprung to his feet, and swore that he represented the cowpens of the Lone Star State, that he knew her ^ people to be disloyal alike to God and the ^ country, and on his ipse dixit, Texas went to h??Shreveport Bulletin. # ? c The Chinese.?In teaching the Orientals s shoemaking at North Adams, one of the in- \ structors, getting poor nails, broke off three t in succession in driving them. Of course he t put in other nails immediately beside the ^ stumps. Some time after what was his sur- 1 prise to find that his pupil had followed ma example literally, and broken off three nails in the heel of each shoe. This story is vouched for as literally true. About fitly of the jeventy-five Chinese are said to attend meeting regularly on the Sabbath, the number being divided among the Congregational, the Methodist, and the Baptist churches.' BONIPARTE. Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the island rf Corsica, August 15th, 1769. Of his parentage, youth and training, history is both lavish in conjecture and facts. But it is his public sareer that is so interesting and fascinating to averv lover oflustorv. What annals of the past can show us another character at onoe so brave and so cruel? Where his equal in diplomacy and intrigue? Capable of ruling thousands bya glance of the eye and a subtle magnetic influence, we look at him with awe and wonder, not unmixed with regret that Japked that fixedness ofprinE^luC^Saaoy to right, which have made our noble Washington immortal. There was that in the domestic relations oi Napoleon of thrilling and romantic interest His perfidy arouses our indignation, and bis tenderness sets the heart's best oords ty, vibrating. Who can read the recital of Josephine's noes without an added heart-beat? At the age of sixteen, Bonaparte entered French." He had at one ti& under his power, but peeping on Russia, was rained in the retreat from Moscow. Two pears after he was Obliged to radxie, an exile, to the isle of Elba. A year later, he suddenly appeared in France and made a triumphant entrance into Paris. His banners dew from steeple to steeple, until they waved from hepiflnacles of Notre Dame. On tite'l&h )f June was Ibughtthe hist of his remarkable battiee^Hfhe bloody Waterloo. A month later he Was obliged to Bartender himSelf to He was buried on the same island where repoeethe remains of the sainted Mrs. Judsoh. hi 1840 his remains were removed to Paris, irhere they now rest in magnificent splendor >u the banks of the Seine. Two soldiers parved in stone, guard his tomb. A large red granite sarcophagus, which holds his ash* js, rests on a plinth of green marble. At the Soot is a mosaic pavement, on which are in }f him, "He was a man tried in the two exlemptatioiL to which he yielded, or the force if mind which he opposed to those he was ible to resist. Sadly we say of h'm in the 'He sleeps his last sleep, has fought his last battle, NTo soona can awake hun to glory again." .& ''# ? REMARKABLE MASONIC INCIDENT. The first Masonic funeral that ever occursd ia Californla,took place in 1849, and waa lerfavmed over a brother found drowned in he Bay of San Francisco. An aocount of the gremonies states, that on the bqfly of the degased was found a silver mark of a Mason, ipon which were engraved the initials of his lams' A little fiorther investigation, revealed o the beholder the most singular exibition of tfasonic emblems that: was ever.drawn by the ngenuity of man Upon the human skin, There s nothing m the history Jor tradition of Freenasonry. equal to it Beautifully dotted on iia left arm, in red aad blue ink, which time soaid not efface, appeared all the embjema of he entire apprenticeship. There .were the loly Bible, sqnaz* and Compass, the twentyonr inch guage and common gaveL There vere also the Masonic pavement, representing he ground floor of Kingi Solomon's Temple, he indented tessel which surrounds it, and the ? .... A 1 i ilazing star m tne centre, un nis ngni ,rra, and artistically executed in the sfcrne inlellible liquid, were all the emblem* pertain g to the fellow craft's degree, 'vjz'Hthe' qua re, the level, andithe plumb. There was Jso the five columns representing the five orlers of architecture?the Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite. In removing the garments from his body, he trowel presented itself, with all the-other ools of operative masonry. Over- his heart ras the pot of incense. On other parts of tis body was the bee hive, the book of oonstfc utions, guarded by the Tyler's sword pointing to a naked heart ; the All-Seeing eye, the inohor and the ark,ihe hourglass, the scythe, he forty-seventh problem of Euclid, the sun, noon, stars, and comets ; the three steps imblematical of youth, manhood and age. Admirably executed was the weeping virgin, eolining on a broken column, upon which ay the book of constitutions. In her left land she held the pot of incense, the Masonic imblem of a pure heart, and in her right land a sprig of Acacia, the emblem of the imuortality of the soul. Immediately beneath her stood winged rime, with his scythe by his side, which cuts he brittle thread of life, and the hour glass .t his feet, which ever reminds us .that our ives are withering away. The withered and ittenuated fingers of the destroyer were placed unong the long and flowing ringlets of the lisconsolate mourner. Thus were striking imblems of mortality and immortality blendid in one pictorial representation. T* ? OTiA/U.aIa \r? anno nnwAtt oats XI/ TYOO O 0|iCV>MK/IT3 OUUU CM l?JL?OVUO UVTOt D?H >efore, and in all probabilty each as tile fraernity will never witness again. The brothir's name was never known.?Phil Age. How They Manage it Out West.?The ?okomo (Indiana) Tribune says: About three weeks ago, as Mr. R and his rife were eating dinner, a boarder;at one of he hotels made himself very agrperfg& to drs R, and she was rather iavorably ^mf^d with him, and a ripe acquaintance and iloee intimacy sprang up between the fljfflii it once. Last week, after Mr. B. and; his vlfe had come to town, Mrs. R. told ,the johrder that she loved his little fing^-better han her husband's whole person, and that she vould like to marry. She then informed ber msband of those facts, and he told her that i sue mignt marry me man u iw ???*? y?w i Him $10 and pay the cost in prp^ripg a divorce. The terms were agreed uparand Mrs. i R. and her new lover took a trip re a neighboring town and rebutted a few days ago. Mr. R. seems to hiwlr that he has made a grealbargain, and Lrglad to gSt his spouse off of his hands on such good terms. AMERICAN WONDERS. The greatest cataract in the world is the falls of Niagara, where the water from the great upper lakes forms a river of threefourths of a mile in width, aad then, being suddenly contracted, plunges over the recks ^-in two columns, to the dep& of 175 feet. The greatest cave in the world is the Mammoth Cav^ in Kentucky, whore any one can make* voyage-on the waterrof k subterranean river, and catoh fish without eyes. > ] The greatest river1 inth&Jcnowh world is the Mfesissippi, four thoustai&les long. i. largest valley in th^ Wld is the ValI pey of the Mississippi fcWtains five hun, ftliedihonsanri aqoare nmjjWftdja one of the > most fertile regions of the ^obe. The greater city, park in the world is in j Philadelphia.' If contains over two thousand acres. ... * L; The greatest grain port in the world is Chicago. The largest lake in the world, is Lake Su> perior, which is truly an inland sea, being four , hundred and thirty miles long, and one thousandfeet deep. TW^ngest railroad in the world is the Pai. cific railroad, over three thousand miles in i length. The greatest natural bridge in the world is the Natural Bridge, oyer Cedar Creek, in Vir1 ginia. It eifendaaaross a chasm eighty foet . in width, and two hmydpd and fifty feet in depth, and at,the Bran of which the creek i The greatest mw n of aojayron in the world i^be^^^toj||lgOTinjp Tt is three hun; Thip best specimen .of Grecian architecture in the worldis the GirardijfipHege for Orp!\ans, The largest aqueduct tne woria is me Croton Aqueduct, in NeppYork. Its length is forty apd one-half mifcp, and its cost $12,500,000. M The largest deMgHp* anthracite coal in the world are iaaJtylvania, the mines of which supply tb$Jmrket with millions of tons annually and anpear to be inexhaustible. 4#*' American Engineer^ Mark Twain.?The St Louis Repubffcfw has this about Mark Twain: "We have recently noticed several paragraphs concerning tjhis gentleman. It is veiy true he was once. qpts, thkaged mother of the humorist, immAgrstanS* still a resident of this city, ^ark "Twain-;iiped the river on the old stepmff . John J. fe, and used to write up Bteamfestf mfiriwiiijro and occasional squibs for Jftepublican. Captain Sellers, one - of the first victims of Mark Twain's humor, was an ex celleht pilot, bat devoid of any literary culture whatever; but, withal, had quite an opufc, ion of his own mental abilities. Mark sketdp ed the captain in good style. After he ha? written the article, !^ inquired of John Morris, now steward of the Belle Memphis, what name he should sign taut One of the deck hands at the time hftflgMted to be heaving the lead -anct hallooed owSBk twain,' meaning the depth of the wateffiyen Clements exclaimed : That's it; Marie Twain is my name.' This sketcfcjI^Tdff new nltta, Mark Twain, at the bottom of it, was subsequently placed in the haftd? cf Mr. T. E. Burrett, who was at that tlme.river editor of this journal, and it founds place in the riverdepartment of time to contribute to the columns of this paper, and his productions fyegan to attract great attention thronghotiy|m West It was now manifest that his destiny was not in the pilot house. He ioon left the river, and his subsequent literary career is well known." The House of Obleans.?NoW that the present complications in France may at any moment revive die Bourbon dynasty, it is interesting to know who and what are the present Representatives of that ancient family. The last King of France was Louis Phillippe, a descendant of the Orleans branch of the Bourbon family. His eldest son, the Duke of Orleans, married Helena of MecklenburgSchwerin, May 30,1837. During the reign of his father he was killed by being thrown from, his carriage. He left two sons, Louis Phillippe Albert, Count of Paris, born August 24,' 1830, and Robert Phillippe Louis Eugene Ferdinand, Duke of Chartres, born November 9,1830. The GrantaiAp^ris, the hfead of the family, is nowtygjwght years thor. 'He served for a timeT^nSwifcanger brother, the Duke of Chartres, on ure staff of Qeneral McGellan, on the PeninihJa. The brothers offered their services to Napoleon at the outbreak of the present war, but there is no evidence thus far that they have been accepted. The surviving sons of Louis Phillippe, uncles to the Count of Paris and Duke of Chartres, are the Duke of Nemours, 56 years old; Prince de Joinville, 52 years old; Duke of Aumal, aged 42, who rose to be Marshal of France, and had the distinction of receiving Abdel-Kaderis surrender; and the Duke of Montpensier. They have been fruitful and have multiplied. There are enough of the family to stock all the thrones of Europe. A NrcnnA mn Vrrp-PRvampvT ? Tho New .Orleans Timet says: "Since the withdrawal. of Mr. Colfax from public life, a strenuous and united effort is being made by the colored wing of the Radicals U^tnpoee Frederick Douglass upon the party as the candidate for Vice-President in 1872. The movement is also harmonized with by the more ultra Radicals at the North- In this matter, the negroes are perfectly right, having so long been put off with a fow insignificant offices and empty promises. Now that they have fought so long and so nobly for Radical success, they deserve some more substantial recognition at the hands of their allies. Fred. Douglass is, at least, the peer of Gen. Grant in intellect, and has certainly done much mow for the cause of emancipation. A general movement throughout the country in his favor would cause the demand to be heeded, and now is the opportunity for its creation. up for their rights, and make Fred- Donglfl?' nomination pn* ultim&tam at the next Balfeil convention. ; ? ' i ? 11' i i ??? . WttL Wojar> Vote?-?T^e reoeot election in Wyoming Territory mi? be taken at a pretty conclusive answer to the question . whether Weetern women will vote In one they are permitted to do so. Two ladies were nominated on the republican ticket; one for coun* ?nd the other for tchool eaperiotoi dent 01 one or tne counties m toe xerriu**y, and although they were not elected thiey. ran ahead of the gentlemen upon the *anje ticket The ladies almost universally voted. The scene at the poll* in Cheyenne k this described by an Iowa papper: 'The ladies, with a few exceptions, ware brought to the polls in carriages and omnibusses, deposited tipeir ballots and immjttely stepped in again and were drivtnw&B^ One incident or the day wn worth ramg.'' The. olde* the polls and voted her first ballot. When she alighted from her baggy the whole crowd surrounding the polls, republicans and democrats, took off their hate while she marched through had deposited her vote. When she turned to go away, three cheers were called, for, and given so rousing) y that they were heard for several squares. She'll be likely to remember her first ballot while she Uvea. The ladies didn't all vote one way by any means. . I But both parties had runners out with buggies, from morning till sundown,<gatbering up allthe'ladiee that could be found. It was a fine illustration of that respect and reverence which the men of America have for females, that not even a drunken rbigh was heard to $ offer an insult This may haw been partly owing to the feci that both parties were courting them." _ The Department of Agwcci.tujus.? The New York Mail speaks thus, truly of a National Department that is much m&rcd at . by those who know little of its work: The Dw> partment of Agriculture is by no means a useless institution, as some imagine. It has now Uiurc mini i,uvy ouucuoj iu a^w? pondence, furnishing an interchange of information on the condition of the cjrog% the^ weather, the experience with the seeds igtro* duced by the Departmattt,etc. The average number of letters received byGommieioner Capron, from more than 6,000 correspondents o/ the approach of cholera reminds us of am old, insidious jyH "nfffflfofrwhle enemy. In Havana it is spreading with frightful rapidity. There were fifty-three deaths in one day ancf eighty on another. TheyietiM lie taken from all classes?from the aristocracy and the chain gang?equally. In the shipping in the harbor its ravages have beenyery great, and letters dread lest the epidemic make such headway as to fill the city with mourning, and to take the population off in- countless numbers. In France we bear of the cholera among the German troops. In South-eastern Russia it is rapidly extending. The Journal de Si Petersburg, of the 11th insi, announces AAflM AM/1 ^AM /IAA^IIA AlAM fllA iwoubj-uuci; wwco ouu wa uwuo uviu wre epidemic at Bartow, and nine cases and four deaths at Kertch. The appearance of the disease is also announced at Odessa, in a communication dated the 4th inst The latest news from Taganrog states that from the 25th of June to the 18th of July, 118 cases of the malady pccured in that town, seventy-five of which ended fatally. . ^ Jolly Elopement.?The wife of a firmer residing near Buflalo', recently became so much enamored of a cow doctor who went to attend to her husband's cattle, that she proposed to elope with him to a distant State. He informed the husband about the matter, and, much to his surprise, the latter told him to gratify her little whim. It was then arranged that he should meet her on the outskirts of the form on Monday last In . the meantime the husband persuaded him to exchange clothes, and when tittUme arrived he (the husband) was promptly on hand. (In the darkness) she mistook him for her loygr^ and the "joke" was nut, jiwuvurvd unfiftneir arrival at one of the Buffalo hotels, Tbo cow doctor was on hand with his own wife and between the fourofthem they managed-to do justice to an excellent supper and make am#"4 11 with several bottles of wine. If elopements were usually of such jpMy termination, the divorce market would soon be obligedto close from lack of business? ; ; y : Gen Early's Opinion op WqHen.? While at Manassas, early in the war, a lady rode up to Gen. Early, who was in oommand, and began to detail some news, of which she was the bearer. Just then a Federal battery appeared on an eminence beyond, and took up position, "Miss," said the General, "you must get out of the way; that Yankee battery is unlimbering, and will open upon us and knock you all to pieces." She looked round at the battery quietly, and then proceeded with her story. "Miss," said the General, again, "don't you see they are aboat shooting their guns? You are ingreat danger here, and must be off" She looked round again, and again resumed her story, in a few moments "bang" came the report of .the first gi'u. "Now," said he, "yon must be off as you are too much exposed," and he forced her to ride away. Then taming to Colonel (afterward General) Gordon, ha said: "Colonel, what splendid heroines women would make if it wasn't for snakes and spiders." I?- The New Albany Ledger says: "There is a man in Terre Haute who pays his wife a regular salary of $3 a week to keep her mouth shut Every time she speaks to him, except when absolutely: neoemary, ha "docks' her one cent a word.' He iro oof * little late one Saturday night, and tadfc'iaasrf * months'wages for bis shortcomings,iattilfe"finally had to agree not to "count it/ > get to deep."