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-Gen. Saerman on t?e Sttontion In Europe.
The Washington com?pondenfcof4he Boston
Post sends ia..tbat-paper:? telegraphic .accoan t
bf an'werview with Gen; 'Sherman upon ;the
condition of affairs in Europe. In his opinion,
the greatest battles the world ever saw are to
be fought during the nest year. He gives the
military and naval strength of the allied hosts,
and these valuable statistics alone make the
account worthy of reproduction. ?ay3 the
correspondent:
The threatened European war is the general
topic of conversation and discussion among all
classes, but especially among the officers of the
army and navy, the diplomatic corps, and to
some extent among the politicians, who are al?
ready numerous here. In conversation to-day,
General Sherman was very communicative, and
freely expressed his opinions and views on the
rituation in Europe. He is very much interest?
ed, and has paid close attention to the progress
of affairs here, and the following is in sub?
stance what the General says in regard thereto; j
RUSSIA'S SIGHTS. |
I think Eussia ought to have ingress to and
egress from the Black Sea both with her war
vessels and marine. You cannot hold such a
powerful nation in duress and compel them to
forever restrain themselves to avoid the use of
such a highway as the Straits of Dardanelles
and the Black Sea. The powers who signed
the treaty of 1856 should concede this, and thus
avoid war. Russia has been too fast, however;
ehe should have asked for and insisted upon a
congress of the nations on the subject, and there
is no doubt her demands would have been ac?
ceded to. As it is, there is not yet & casus belli,
and there is still a chance of peace. If, how?
ever, Russia thinks her chance has come and
Prussia is out of the way,
WAE IS INEVITABLE,
end it Trill doubtless be the most terrible and
destructive that has ever yet occurred. There
is one thing which may prevent a collision,
and that is the consideration of the question as
to who is to pay the bills, though even this con?
sideration may be ignored.
WHO WILL FIGHT.
Prussia being the ally of Russia makes little
difference. She is an ally already by being en?
gaged with France, in keeping that powerful
people and national enemy of] iussia in check,
for certainly France would go against Russia if
she were not engaged with Prussia; and as it
is, to get such powerful allies as England, Aus?
tria and Italy, and doubtless Spain, Holland
and Denmark, the French government will also
array itself against Russia, and this will force
Prussia as an ally of Russia. The neutrality
of Belgium will then, of course, be violated,
and that country, with Luxembourg, will take
sides with France and her allies, and the result
will be that the greatest battles of the world
may be fought within the next year on Prus?
sian, Austrian and Belgian territory. The
French, English, Turkish and Holland fleets
will give the Russian fleets much trouble, if
they do not get the best of them.
THE BU8SIJJ.' ABMY.
however, combined witii that of Prussia, will
be hard to overcome. Russia is a concentrated
power; so is Prussia; the others are scattered,
and have the time and expense of concentra?
tion to overcome. It will be a great mistake
for Russia in the event of her success to occupy
Constantinople. If Rusuia insists on disregard?
ing the treaties, and no convention or congress
is called, England must fight. Turkey is her
market; Turkey's trade is hers, and if Russia
conquers European Turkey, Russian merchants
get all the trade, as a mattet of course. If
Russia conquer* Turkey and Prussia conquers
France, which latter proposition looks doubtful
now, the Austrian empire will be in jeopardy.
It is for this that Austria must now fight. Hun?
gary appears to be with Austria in good faith,
and thereby gives her much strength. It is
just the time for Italy to go to war. It is a
good way for Victor Emanuel to settle all dis?
putes at home, and bring the Italian nation to
fether. As for Spain, she is a muddle to me.
think, though, that if Aosta is chosen King,
the government will go with Italy and France,
and thus bring all the Latin nations together
against the descendants of the Saracens, Teu?
tons and Vandals.
MILTTAEY STRENGTH OF THE CONTENDING
HOSTS.
The General then gave some statistics from
the European War Register, issued in Decem?
ber, 1869. This Register showed that Russia
has 77,000,000 people, a standing army of 1,
466.000 men of ail arms, and 44 shipb of war,
with 2,778 guns; Turkey has, in European
Turkey, 16,500,000 people; in Asia, 16,000,000,
and 9,000,000 in Africa. This includes the
Khedive in Egypt, who has a good army of
60,000, mostly officered by Americans. She
has a force in European Turkey of 222,192 reg?
ulars ; 100,000 regulars in the provinces, and
100,000 reg liars m reserve. It is claimed by
reports from Egypt that she has 600,000 men,
but General Sherman does not think so. ? He
says she may have added enough to her ranks
in the past year to give her 450,000. She has
185 ships, with 2,870 guns. Great Britain has
80,800,000 people in England, Scotland and
Ireland. Her army numbers 138,961 regulars,
128,580 regularly organized militia, 34,000 or?
ganised cavalry volunteers, and 168,000 volun?
teer militia held in reserve. She has 466 ships.
Italy has 24,000,000 people; 876,721 regular
troops, 197,000 reserved regulars, 99 ships of I
War, with 1,022 guns. Austria has 85,500,000
people; 800,000 rejirulars. 53,000 garrison troops, j
and 200,000 militia regularly organized. Also,
61 ships; With 605 guns.
AMERICANS WAE WEAPONS.
We hare sold over 300,000 muskets to Tor-1
key, good barrels, stocks and bayonets- These
have all been changed into breech-loaders, and
make a most perfect gun. The Turks have
done with them exactly what we have done
with the old rammer guns. They have made
perfect breech-loaders of them. All the arms
we have to sell are taken as soon as offered.
Seventy-five field batteries have been asked for
by American merchants. They will be sold by
the Secretary of War to American merchants,
who can make whatever disposition of them
they choose. The field howitzers that we have J
to sell are among the best in the world. They j
are capable of four discharges a minute. A
shell containing fifty shot has barely reached '
its destination before three others are following
in instant succession. The idea of disposing of
so many arms is to have a uniformity of small
arms. It will be a great saving, and add much
to the effectiveness of our army and navy.
IN CONCLUSION,
the General said he thought independent man?
ufacturers of arms in this country would have
their hands full for some time, and ought to
realize great profits from the contracts said to
have been given them for the manufacturers of
&rs]BV
? The silk eolture in California is rapidly
becoming an important interest, and bids fair
in a very few years to rival even the gold pro?
ductions. A large number of silk establish?
ments have recently been organized, the lorgest
of which is known as the California Silk Cul?
ture Company.
The Policy of Formers and Planters.
Died of cotton?born again of corn. So
far as the industrial interests of South Caroli?
na are concerned, we are satisfied that a change
of policy is demanded. Cotton seems now to
be in some respects the bane of the State. We
speak with reluctance upon this subject, for our
doctrine is that farmers, as a general rule, know
best what pertains to their material interests.
To us, however, it does seem obvious that the
Plantation or farm ought to be self-sustaining,
b plant less area?selecting the best?and cul?
tivate it more thoroughly; to plant less of cot?
ton and more of the cereal and root crops?this
seems to us the true policy. It is madness to
plant cotton whea the cost of production is
above the price of the commodity. It is mad?
ness for the planter to put himself in the hands
of the commission merchant, however fair he
may be. The planting interest of the State is
the hono and sinew of the State. The wealth
of the State comes from the soil of the State.
How important it is, then, to place it upon a
secure basis. As to labor, we know that it is,
to a large extent unreliable and inefficient. We
most use the labor we have at least until we
can get better. On this subject our policy is
to reduce therforce as low as possible, and by
good wagek and close supervision, increase its
efficiency. Let white labor be introduced as
fast as possible and be encouraged. Let the
poor white man, wiHther mechanic or laborer,
receive our special consideration, and let every
assistance be given to help him increase his for?
tunes. In this connection, we invite attention
to the agricultural address of Gen. R. Toombs,
delivered in Geergia. The Columbus Inquirer
says:
Gen. Toombs' address opened with an elo
Stent and beautiful tribute to the dignity and
e necessity of labor. It was the law of God,
imposed upon man from the time of his crea?
tion. He announced his purpose to be to en?
deavor to show how the least amount of human
labor could supply rhe greatest amount of hu?
man want. This was all man could do to miti?
gate the stern decree, "by the sweat of thy
brow shalt thou eat bread."
The greater portion of Gen. Toombs' address
was an argument to show the impolicy of plant?
ing all cotton, or large crops of cotton and
small crops of grain. He contended that the
! true economy of the people of the Sooth was to
plant a sufficiency of provision crops for the sup?
port of their own families, their laboters, their
working stock and the fattening of their own
meat, and to give the surplus labor to the pro?
duction of cotton. He showed the fallacy of
the calculation of many planters, by which
they figured out a greater amount of moneyjto
be derived from an acre in cotton than from
r.n acre in corn. The error consisted in the
assumption that it required no more labor to
cultivate an acre in cotton than one in corn ;
whereas the truth is, the labor of the cotton
field is at least four-fold the greatest. The far?
mer breaks up his ground for an acre of com,
plants it, ana gives it in all three workings?
the whole consuming no more than four days,
at the cost of about six dollars per acre; ana
then the work is finished?the crop laid by in
July. Bat cotton requires much labor in plant?
ing, thinning out, ploughing and hoeing; and
when July comes, instead of a termination of
work with the crop, it still has to be ploughed
and hoed, and the picking will consume the
balance of the year. It thus appears that the
same force cannot only cultivate a mnch Larger
area in corn than in cotton,bat that only about
one-third of the time is required for the raising
of corn. Gen. Toombs regarded the time con?
sumed in the production of the crops as a very
important consideration in view of the present
unreliability of labor. Should the laborers
"strike," or qnit their work in July, the exclu?
sive cotton planter is ruined; but he may be
sure of a corn crop with only two months work
in the spring. Inadequate as are the remedies
to enforce the observance of labor contracts, it
is of the utmost importance to the agricultural?
ist for the year, in any contingency.
Gen. Toombs regarded the practice of ma?
king Louisville and other western cities the
corn-cribs and smoke-houses of the South as a
most wretched and impoverishing policy. He
declared that it would not do for our people to
follow it, even if they could get corn for noth?
ing in the western States. The freight and
other charges would still amount to more than
the real cost of raising it here, when the proper
Sroportion of cotton and corn is cultivated.?
uch a policy would be the building up of the
prosperity of other sections to the impoverish?
ment of our own.
i Planting Strawberries rar the Fall.?
When plants are well set in the fall, they will
I fruit the next season, as it is the full growth
I of root which supports the plant for the next
year's fruiting. Go into your garden to-day,
and pull up a strawberry plant which has frui?
ted this season, and you will see the old stock
of roots dead and black, and from the crown of
the root beneath a set of new roots putting out;
these must make a good fall growth, or you will
get no considerable crop of fruit next year; and
transplanting now causes a less jar in the natu?
ral condition of the plant than if taken up at
any other period of the year.
Choose for planting young runners that are
well-rooted; then on a cloudy day proceed with
your work. Draw a line where you desire to
plant and mark a place for the row: spread oat
the roots evenly on all sides; set in bo as to
bring the dirt well up to the crown of the plant,
without covering it, and press the soil down
firmly with your hands around the plant. If
the weather should prove dry, water thoroughly,
so as to soak the roots, as orten as the foliage
showB by its drooping appearance that water is
necessary.
Before the setting in of winter cover the en?
tire surface of the ground, over the plants and
all, with a litter of straw or other like material,
to keep the plants from changes of freezing and
thawing, to which they would be exposed if
left on the surface where the sun and winds
Would have full play upon them. This cover?
ing should be removed in tho spring, so as to
let the plants grow up without hindrance.?
The fruit buds are formed in the Fall, and if
these are injured during the exigencies of Win?
ter and* early spring the crop of the fruit will
be lost.
Strawberries,like grapes, need a generous,
strong soil, but not decidedly fat, and especially
not recently staunched with green or raw ma?
nure. If manure is needed let it be fine, old,
well rotted compost, and let it be thoroughly
mixed with the soil, which soil is best to be a
deep loam, though some varieties, as the Early
Scarlet, will flourish in sandy soils. A moist
soil is always best for strawberries.?Ohio Far?
mer?
? A Connecticut farmer, on a visit to a
neighboring town some three months since, saw
a pair of fowls, was so pleased with their gay
appearance that he gave five dollars for them
without asking any questions. A few days after
he discovered they were nothing more than or?
dinary Brahma fowls which had been dipped in
a solution of the popular solferino dye, known
to every housewife. This beats the time-hon?
ored wooden-nutmeg selL
A Splendid Trlbnte to Gen. Robert ?. Lee
from the London Dlustrated News.
The grandest soldier of recent times has been
borne to his rest. The late confederate Gener?
al, Robert E. Lee, whose name, less than ten
years ago, was a tower of defense to the State
in which he drew his breath, whose word
brightened the eyes, filled the heart, and nerved
the arm?, of every man who served under him
?the dauntless, the disinterested, the devoted'
chief of a cause predestined to perish has
quietly glided, from the humble post of duty
which he had accepted after his final defeat,
into the unseen and higher sphere to which
throughout the greater part of his life he had
looked forward with yearning aspirations and
assured faith.
General Lee's career was just one of those,
occurring only now and then in history, over
which, as one bends in studious contemplation,
some of the most perplexing questions present
themselves unbidden, and cry in vain for a
really sufficing answer. How came it?in con?
formity with what divinely Providential law
did it happen?that a social regime to which he
himself was but loosely, if at all, attached,
which even its most enthusiastic friends would
hesitate to recall from destruction, which
kindled and fed the vilest passions of humani?
ty, and which rankled as a barbed and poisoned
arrow in the side of the great Republic of the
West, obtained from its military champion in
its last year's struggle the calmest, purest, most
unselfish, and most unaffectedly devout man,
as* well as the ablest commander whom the ge?
nius of America could have chosen from among
her citizens? What lessons does the sharp
contrast between a system condemned by con?
science and the character of the hero who up*
held it to the last impress upon the human
heart ? For we must not confound General
Lee with the "peculiar institution" which his
success in the field would have preserved. It
was not with a view to give permanence to sla?
very that he cast in his lot with his native
State; nevertheless, the whole of his profes?
sional service, in the Mexican war, as in the
civil war, chanced to be in support of that hap?
pily extinguished cause.
We shall not attempt any solution of the
mystery. Indeed, we have presumed to call at?
tention to it only because, in our opinion, jus?
tice to the memory of tho great Confederate
captain requires that the motives which pre?
vailed with him to withdraw his allegiance
from the North and tender it to the South fur?
nishes the true key to his character. There
was magnanimity even in the choice which con?
stituted him a rebel. His political judgment,
formed in early days, pronounced loyalty to be
due to the State before it was due to the Union;
Nearly every motive but simple duty which
could have swayed such a mind as Robert E.
Lee's must haVe drawn him towards the North
?or, rather, towards that Federal Republic
which the North represented. His father had
been a soldier in its service, and, through him,
he was connected with the immortal Washing?
ton. Robert, too, had received his military
education from the Union, and had "eaten its
salt."
He had* not to complain of neglect or of mis?
trust. His worth had been recognized?his
promotion promised to be rapid as well as sure.
But, when the secession of Virginia had been
effected, and war was hovering along the bor?
der of the State, in his anxious effort to dis?
cover his own path of duty, he sternly sup?
pressed every personal inclination, and calmly
surrendered his individual views and feelings
at the demand of public duty. Virginia, he
believed, was entitled to claim him as her own,
and Virginia's claim should be satisfied. She
might have acted unadvisedly. She might have
been foolish in throwing her weight into the
scale of a very questionable cause. But her
decision having been made, it was not for him
to challenge it?not for him even to choose.
With true soldierly obedience he held himself
ready to take his State's commands, and, though
they might wring his heart, to execute them.
We just now observed that the key to this
great and good man's character might be found
at this turning point of his career. To do "the
right" when has judgment, duly exercised, had
satisfied him as to what was the right?no mat
ter with what prospects, no matter at what cost
to himself?to merge his will in the will that
had the clearest title to command?this was
the life-germ of General Lee's character. He
had no low ambition. He cared not to please
men, nor was love of approbation any weak
aese of his. Still less aid he seek or value
aase or self-indulgence in any of its forms.
He trampled upon his very pride when it stood
In the way of true service. Strength of will
n him?and in the face of adverse circumstan?
ces it was indomitable?rested not so much on
physical constitution as upon moral considera?
tions.
But that strength was seldom evoked, save at
the bidding of a calm and deliberate judgment,
and showed itself quite as conspicuously in his
kindliness as in his severity. He believed that
:t was right for him to share the hardships of
ais men, and he did so with cheerful and unos?
tentatious pertinacity throughout the war,
maintaining to the end a Spartan simplicity.
The man's whole soul lived, not so much in his
profession as in the responsibilities which it
imposed on him. These he wedded with all a
lover's devotion and watched, and heeded, and
obeyed them with martial steadiness and so?
briety. His impulses were tender as a wo?
man's ; his inflexibility in all things rebating to
his sense of obligation was adamantine.
: It is not surprising that General Lee, thus
self-consecrated to public duty?thus sparing,
where duty would allow it, of everybody but
himself?should have become the idol of his
army. His glance thrilled through them and
dispelled all hesitation and doubt from their
minds, like the bursting of a sunbeam through
overhanging clouds, in the gentle splendor of
which nature suddenly breaks into a laugh.
Ragged, shoelese, haggard, half-starving, they
would brave any risks- and face any odds, at his
command. "Uncle Robert"?the appellation
of familiarity and fondness by whieb bis men
spoke of him?was never suspected of wasting
their lives by strategic blunders. He made
mistakes, of course, as, in so gigantic a strug?
gle it was impossible to avoid making mistakes s
but he never laid the blame of them upon his
officers. He was the "organiser of victory."
Bat even victory, in the case of the Confed
| erateB, only ushered the way to ultimate ex?
haustion and defeat. The South had many
triumphs, and won world-wide renown?about
which Lee cared nothing: and when at last he
gave up his sword to General Grant at Appomat
tox Court House, his sympathy with those whom
he bad led through so many privations, dan?
gers, and conflicts, and his supreme regard for
what he deemed right, blasedi oat its- lank briU
limit flash. Grandly but sadly he said, turning
to tho remnant of his once powerful army,
"Men, we havo fought through the army to?
gether ; I have done the best for yow that I
could,"
More beautiful, more touching, perhaps,than
any feature of General Leo's career throughout
the war, was hie conduct from the close of the
war to his death. His ancestral estates were
gone, bis sword was surrendered, his high po?
sition was lost, but the man remained just what
he had been. He modestly acquiesced in the
mournful lot which had fallen to him: He
Soured forth no repinings into the world's ear;
e uttered no maledictions against the victors.
He accepted the post of President over the
Military Academy at Lexington?& sortof Vir?
ginia Sandhurst?and he discharged the duties
of that narrow Bphere with the same conscien?
tiousness that had marked all his grander
achievements.
He died of congestion of the brain. In death,
as in life, his Christian character shone forth
with Bteady glow. Much of what Macanlay,
in his review of Milton, Wrote" of the Puritans
of the seventh century, was true Of Lee?a de?
scendant, however, from a Cavalier family?
"The intensity of their feelings on one ?tibject
made them tranquil on every other. One over?
powering sentiment had subjected to itself pity
and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost
is terrors and pleasure its charms. They had
their smiles and their raptures and their sor?
rows ; but not for the things of this world."
Bad Advice.?We notice that a Western ex
I change, speaking of the result of the recent
elections in South Carolina, advises the white
people of the State to abandon it and leave the
negroes there to constitute a separate State?a
living monument of Radical folly. This should
never be do*"? The people of South Carolina
have indeKi been cursed with all the odiutis
and humiliating measures that avaricious and
despotic Radicalism could suggest, and num?
bers of ignorant and brutal negroes could exe?
cute ; but there is life in the old land yet, and
we are pleased to know that the original white
inhabitants of the State stand Up against their
enemies with a stern and unbroken front?true,
positions of honor and trust have been dis?
graced, position has been used to disguise rob?
bery ana law has become a cloak for theft, but
the disgrace will go out with the culprits,
and in the better day that's coming, when hon?
est men get their rights and scoundrels their
deserts, these positions will again be elevated
by the manliness and honor of those who will
one day fill them. In South Carolina the ne?
groes are largely in the majority and in deadly
antagonism to the whites, bnt the statistics
show that the white race increases in a much
greater ratio, and even in a natural course of
things time will overcome this numerical supe?
riority. Let the white people remain?oppose
a bold front to the negroes?encourage immi?
gration, make money if they can, keep it from
their thieving oppressors?and by all means
never give up the ship. This we Know is their
determination, and all will yet be well.?At?
lanta (Oa.) Intelligencer.
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Tjt& Democratic Victory: of Arkansas.
?The Democracy of Arkansas have done well.
They have elected Hanks, a good and true man,
in the Helena Congressional district, over the
notorious Logan H. Rootes, a bitter Radical
5roscripti ve. In the Pine Bluff district, Sny
er has defeated Rogers, "the Democratic nomi?
nee, who ought to have been successful. In
the Fort Smith district, the Democrats elected
Edwards, a Union soldier, over Boles, another
Einscriptive Radical. Thus odr friends in Ark?
ansas have secured two Congressmen out of
three, and only lost the third by the unpopu?
larity of their nominee. The contest for the
United States Senate will be close. At last ac?
counts, the Senate of Arkansas stood seven
Democrats to nine Radicals, and in the lower
branch of the Legislature the Democrats have
secured forty-three members and the Radicals
thirty-nino. Thus the Democracy have the
lower, and the Radicals the higher branch of
the Legislature. On joint ballot, the Democ?
racy will have fifty votes, and the Radicals on?
ly forty-eight This ia doing very well in a
State where the greatest outrages were perpe?
trated as to registration in somo counties, and
in others registration utterly denied the people.
We shall be surprised if the great victory in
Arkansas has not only defeated the Senatorial
aspirations of Gov. Clayton, but of Senator
McDonald besides. If there should ho any
election of a Senator of the United States, the
Democracy, having a majority, will doubtless
make it effective in securing a man of their
own choice.?Memphis Sun.
? ? ? ?
Millions and Billions.?How few stop to
dwell upon the immensity of millions I Few
people have any more idea of what millions,
billions and trillions are than they have of the
style of brogans worn by the cobblers who in?
habit the moon. A million of one-dollar bills
possesses a vastness that is rather startling to a
man that has never faced such a pile. To
count this sum at the rate of one thousand five
hundred dollars an hour, and eight hours a
day, it would require a man to work nearly
three months.
If the said dollar bills were laid side by side,
they would reach three hundred and seventy
two miles, while their transportion would re?
quire more than an ox-team. If a million be?
comes thus overpowering in its magnitude, what
shall we do with larger Bums ? The seconds in
six thousand years seem almost incalculable,
and yet they amount to less than one-fifth of a
trillion. A quadrillion of leaves of paper, each
the two-hundredth part of an inch in thick?
ness, would form a pile the height of which
would be three hundred and thirty times the
moon's distance from the earth. Suppose a
man to count one in every second of time, day
and night, without stopping to rest, to eat, to
drink or to sleep, it would take thirty-two years
to count a billion, or thirty thousand years to
count a trillion, oven as the French understand
it.
Those who inconsiderately round off the
number of millions that stand for the amount
of our national indebtedness have a very limi?
ted idea of the amount involved in it Much
food would result if mors thought could be
rought to this subject by all creating liabili?
ties, but especially by those National, State
and City representatives who-are intrusted with
the power and authority of disbursing public
moneys, or, rather, with the authority of invol?
ving tax-payere in debt There is an old
proverb that says "familiarity breeds con?
tempt," and it is as true in the use of short
words covering immense strme as; ft is rtf its so?
cial significance.'
?r*-T-.?
Fighting for Posterity.?During the late
Avar, General Jubal A. Early one day heard an
old "vfet" growling at a fearful rate about the
hardships Tie had to encounter, short rations,
&c., ana took occasion to pitch into him for his
want of maniless, etc, ana in the course of his
remarks said: "Remember you are not fight?
ing for yourself, but for posterity."
"Is that so ?" demanded the soldier in tones
of astonishment.
"Of course it is," said old Jube.
"Well, by thunder,, if I had known that I
would never enlisted. Posterity never did any?
thing for me, and she can fight her own bat?
tles^
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? A striking illustration of the saying "the
pith of a lady's letter is in the postscript" was
that of a young lady who, having gone out to
India, and writing home to: her friends, conclu
I ded with the following words: "P. S.?You will
ecO by my signature that I am married*"
Iii Old Debt.
Nearly thirty years ago a luckless bdj and
bis infant sister were left by the death bT their
Earents to the mercy of a lfcgal gtiamian, who,
aving despotic control bf them by formal in?
denture, Was at liberty to expand* for their ben?
efit the treatment generally in store for nobody's
children; In Paris, Maine, where he lived and
led a chbir; this guardian Was in high popular
repute for his religious severity, Being one of
those too numerous churchmen who talk the
New Testament and live the Old; and no soon?
er were the orphans fairly within his adminis?
tration than his inclination to cuff, box, and
heartily thrash them for their sins was too
strong to be resisted: Regarding them as the
children of Iniqsity, although that was by lib
means their father's name, he scourged them
before him daily until they were too old to
stand it any longer, and then endeavored to se?
cure the girl's future piety and anhappiness by
striving to force her into a marriage with his
son. Such matrimonial consummation would
have kept in the good man's own family a cer?
tain homestead coming to the maiden at her
majority; and, as her brother did not approve
> the project, the attempted prosecution of the
i latter precipitated a revolt By advice and aid
of her fellow-sufferer in the house of bondage,
the damsel fled for rescue and shelter to the
home of a distant relative in another State,
leaving her adviser and abettor to face the dea?
con. After that, of course, there was a grand
scene between guardian and remaining ward,
ending in the withdrawal of the latter from the
household. With the scars of his n?nierous
earlier beatings indelible upon his back; with?
out a Cent in his pocket, or a friend to help
him, the voting man went out into the world
a beggar, but resolute to bring his persecutor
to a reckoning and himself to fortune some
way. Working his Way by land and wfltef to
New York, he took passage before the mast on
a clipper bound for California, and in due-time
reached the land of gold. Nearly fifteen years
of tireless labor and the usual vicissitudes there
brought him at last to the ownership of a fine
farm, a mile square, near Los Angelos. At the
present time he is one of the most prosperous
workers in his part of the State, and could af?
ford to forgive and forget any ordinary injury
of his earlier days; but in the injustice and
heartless persecutions of his guardian, particu?
larly as shown to his sister, there was something
to rankle fiercely unforgiven in his nature
through all the changes of three iustres. On a
day of last week a correspondent of the Hart?
ford Courant met him on the Cars go'ihg north?
ward from Nashua, and learned that he was on
his way to his old, unhappy home in Maine,
for the particular and single purpose of paying
the debt justly due the guaraiail of his youth
in one relentless horsewhipping. He had left
his home in California upon this efrana only,
was inflexible in his determination to execute
his long-brooded revenge at all costs and haz?
ards, and has, before now, done the retributive
deed upon the tyrant of bis boyhood, unless
baffled by the timely flight of thot personage.
?EAfH of an enterprising NEWSPAPER
Proprietor.?Calvin W. Starbuck, of the
Cincinnati Times, whose death by apoplexy has
been announced, was one of the most success?
ful newspaper publishers in the West; He Was
a practical printer, always industrious, ener?
getic, abstemious and. persevering, and to those
qualities owed the large fortune?not less than
$700,000 or $800,000?he had acquired at the
time of his decease.
In connection with two other printers he be?
gan the publication of the Cincinnati Times in
1841, on a borrowed capital of two hundred
dollars, and soon became its sole proprietor,
his associates growing discouraged and aban?
doning the enterprise a few weeks after its in?
ception. Few men ever surpassed Mr. Star
buck in his capacity for work. For two or
three years after undertaking the Times he
worked sixteen or eighteen hours 'a day, and
slept on a straw mattrass on the floor of the
composing room. To such industry and deter?
mination fortune could not long deny her fa?
vors. 4 ?
The Weekly Times is indebted for its large
circulation almost entirely to him, and by and
through that he mainly obtained his wealth.
He was ? kind-hearted, generous, charitable
man, wholly without ostentation or pretence of
any sort, doing good in secret, and putting for?
ward no claim to private or public approba?
tion. He leaves a widow and a large family,
many of its members grown and married. He
will be widely missed in Cincinnati, especially
by the poor, to whose behoof he devoted many
of the last years of his unassuming and aseful
life.
General Lee's Kindness and Liberal-,
ity.?Biographers and newspaper obituary
writers have united in ascribing to General
Robert E. Lee the best qualities of heart and
mind. A Cincinnati paper relates the fol?
lowing anecdote of the deceased, which does
I him honor > {
One day last autumn the writer saw General
Lee standing at his gate talking pleasantly to
an humbly clad man who seemed very much
pleased at the cordial courtesy of the great ]
chieftain, and turned off evidently delighted as
I we came up/ Aftef exchanging salutations,
the General said/ pointing to that retreating
I form. "That is orte of our old soldiers, who is
in necessitous circumstances." I took it for
granted that ft was some veteran Confederate,
when the noble-hearted chieftain quietly ad?
ded, ''He fought on the other aide, but we must
not think of thai." I afterwards ascertained
?not fron? General Lee, for he' never alluded
to his charities?that be not only spoke kindly
of this "old soldier" who had "fought on the
other side," but had Bent him on his way re?
joicing in a liberal contribution to his necessi
(ies.
Womanly Modesty.?Man loves the mys?
terious. A cJotkHesssky, the full-blown rose,
leaves him' unmoved, but tho violet which
hides its blushing beauties behind the bush, and
the moon when she emerges from behind a
cloud are to him sources of inspiration and of
pleasure. Modesty is to merit what shade is to
figures in painting?it gives it boldness and
prominence.. Nothing adds more to female
beauty than modesty; it sheds around the coun?
tenance a halo of light, which is borrowed froitt1
virtue. Botanists have given to the rosy Att*
which tinges the cup of the white rose' ftie
name of "maiden blush." This pure and del"
icate hue is the only paint CbrMatf virgins
should use; it is the richest ornament., A wo?
man without modesty is like a faded flower,
which diffuses an unwholesome odor, and which
the prudent gardener will throw from him.
Her destfay' is metencholy, for it terminates1 in?
shame and repentance. Beauty passes liðe
flower of the albo, which blooms and1 dies kr a
few hours; but modesty gives the female Char?
acter charms which supply the place of the
transitory freshness of youth.
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?? A woman abandons her opinion the nu>
ment her husband adopts it. Even in church
the Women sing an octave higher than the men
do, in order not to agree with them- in- any?
thing.
A Ghost Story.
Since the fail of the Pembertrjn Mills the city
of Lawrence, Mass., has known no such excite?
ment as that produced on Safcarday, the 20th df
August, by the unaccountable appearance bf a
female's features in a light of glass in the win?
dow bf a n?sse on Broadway. It appears that
a few days previous to the discovery of the phe*
nomenon an elderly lady, after a long and
wearying sickness, had died. The day aui>
ceeding that on which the; funeral occurred a
lady who was visiting one of the1 tenants of the
same house, in passing saw .a figure in the attic'
window, which she recogriizea as urtri1 of the1
deceased lady, and with great consternation
communicated the fact tj the other occupants
Of thei building, aha in a short time, the entire
neighborhood was made acquainted with ths
strange and exciting discovery.
The window of the room in which the woman
had died was i aim ediately under that ih, the a t
tic, and was the usual setting-place of the de?
ceased. Some supposed that by some means
her face had become impressed upon the glass,
but the fact that it was'not ir* the room occu?
pied by her, and in a room that was usually
unoccupied, displaces all belief ih this idea.?
During the day and evening the story of the
ghost on Broadway Was Widely circulated
throughout the city, and early the next morn
ing, which Was the" Sabbath; people commenced
to gather about the ill-fated and haunted house/
much to the annoyance of its inmates and im'
mediate neighbors. None professed to believe
a word of the wild story, and they were only con*
vi need upon an actual view With their own eyes
A sister of the deceased, hearing of the matter,
visited the place, and pronounced the likeness
to be that of her relative. The only remaining
members of the family are two small children
The excitement momentarily increased, ae
also did the crowd in the street, and by noorJ
it was so great as to render the passage of the
horse-cars quite difficult. The inmates tried
various means to remove the figures from t h <
glass, but were unsuccessful, and, with a view
to Bending the crowd away, removed the sash
to the rear of the building; but as a means of
scattering the people, it was only successful in
drawing them from the front of the house to
the rear, where the face was seen to a still bet?
ter advantage, though it seemed to have a some *
what different appearance: It was only when"
the sash had been removed add secreted in the
house that the crowd began to disperse and
wander rack to their homes, each having an
idea as to the cause of the singular vision, arid
.all agreeing that "there was something ih it,
an v way."
i Early on M?nday morning; another crowd
gathered around the house, and Dr. William
D. Lamb, a prominent physician, obtained per?
mission" to remove the sash to his office, on .Es?
sex street Here it was placed in his window,
opening upon the main buainess.street in the
city, and every one could get ? fine view frb'rri
below. The window was examined by intelli?
gent and Scientific men; and while some were
of the opinion that it might be the result of the
action of lightning,- When some person had
been sitting near, others thought this theory
one of impossibility. Of course, the many, su
pemtilious were satisfied that it Was the ''ghost
of the dear woman, and nothing more:" There
is one thing about it, at least; thai seems
strange, and that is the fact of n o face or figure
to be seen in looking on from the inside: Du?
ring the day a firm of photographers, after sev?
eral attempts, succeeded in getting a very good
likeness or the sash and the ace it contained;
No one can account for the strange phenom?
enon, but men who are practical, and possessed
of a good share of common sense, conclude that
it must be one of those curious defects that will
sometimes appear in window glass. The strang?
est thing in its connection is that it Was riot
discovered until after the death of ah inmate bf
the ho ase. Those who believe in the "spiritu?
al" art' making the most of the circumstance,
and doubtless there seldom occurs such instan?
ces upon which they can surely reach the par?
tially superstitious mind. Ghost or not, noth?
ing has occurred in the city' of Lawrence of this
nature that has produced such wonderment
since the well-remembered stories of appari?
tions in connection With the' fail of the' Pern-'
berton Milte;
The MoKET-ORDer System.?The money"
order system is intended to promote public
convenience and insure safety in the transfer
through the mails of emill sums of money.?
The mode by which safejjv is secured, conjeoft
in leaving out of the order the, ns(m$ ?f jhe
{ayee or party for vvh?m* the money is intended.
. n this respect a money-order differs from an
ordinary bank draft or check. An advice or
notificition containing full particulars of the
order Is tranwrrHte? by Uttl SstfifJg p?etmi<st*r
at the office of payment The latter is thus
furnished, before the order itself can .be pre?
sented, with the necessary information to detect
fraud, if any should be attempted
Iff view of frequent mail robberies, ?trserM
will find it to their advantage to patronize Che
postal order system, as then there is no possi?
bility of their being the losers should their
letter containing the order be lost or stolen, as
it will be duplicated by the postmaster from
whom the order was bought
The rates of commission charged for money
orders are as follows: On Orders not exceeding
$20,10' cents; over $20, and not exceeding $30,
15 cerife; over $30, and not exceeding $40, 20
eents; over $40, and not exceeding $50, 29
cents.
! ?-?
Stamps fob Old Deeds:?'the Charleston
Republican calls attention to a matter of im
Sortance to manv persons, viz: the stamping of
ocumcnte issued without stamps during and
since the war, contrary to law. The difficul?
ties in the way of getting such documents le?
gally stamped have been removed by a recent
change in the revenue laws, and the penalty for
previous noncompliance with the laW has been
reduced. It is now only double the amount of
stamp duty, but can be, in no* Case, less than
five dollars. The Collector of Internal Reven?
ue has power to remit this penalty, when due
cause is shown to him before August 1,1872, or
within one year after the document was issued.
As the soie value depends upon their being'
drawn up' and1 issued in strict compliance with
the letter of the law, holders of irrist?mtecT doc?
uments should attend to this matter while the
penalty is so light- The' Republican says fur?
ther :.
"Where an instrument, required oy law to'
be stamped, was issued unstamped at a'^Sme,
When, and place where, no collection diiitrict
has been established, it is lawful for any party
having an interest therein to stamp it riiniself,
prior to January 1st, 1872, As, however, the
rates of stamp dmy have* eeetf several times
changed, parties would do Welt flo' Consult ?lm
Collector of internal Revenue* fte&tfe aiftrm;*
stamps to such instruments.''
? Let the cause of temperance prosper erer
so well,-it cannot prevent the whole world from
going on a big burst one of these fine^ays.
? A Georgia editor has had his pistol stolerr.
He advertises to give the thief the content*,
and ask no questions, if he will return-itv