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Mark Twain's Experience with the Barbers. ?All things change except, barbers, the ways rrf,?barbers, and the surroundings of barbers. They never change. What one experiences in a hjpbar shop the first time he enters'one, is What lie always experiences in ar barber shop afterward till the end of his days. I got shaved this morning, as usual. A man approached, the Meejt Pfraih Jones street as I approached from Wmr?zthing that always happens. - I hurried up, but it was of no use?he entered the door one little step ahead of me, and I followed on his "fcjels and saw him take the only vacant uhahvHthc one presided over by the best bar bwrfj>?t.always happens so. I sat down?hoping that I might fell heir to the better of the re majniag two barbers, for he had already begun t$mj>ing the man's hair, while his comrade was not yet quite done oiling his customer's'locks. I'watched the probabilities with strong interest. When JC saw that No. 2 was gaining on No. 1, m':,* interest grew to solicitude. When No. 1 ^rtopped a moment to make change for a bath titiet for a new comer and lost ground in the rj*oe> my. solicitude rose to anxiety. When No. 1 caught up .again, and both he and his com? rade were.puiung the towel away and brushing the powder from their customers cheeks/ and tt was an even thing which would say, "Next!" fifstTmy very breath was still with suspense. I BuTwhen, at?ae final culminating moment;! No. 1 sloped'to pass a comb a-couple of times trough his customer's eye brows, I sar that | T^Tost'ffie;race by a single instant,' and?! f it indignant and quitted the shop, to keep [ tram, .falling into the hands of No. 2; for I J have none of that enviable firmness that eh-1 ables'-a/man to look calmly into the eyes of a I waitkrg- "barber and tell him he will wait for I the fellow-barber's chair. I stayed out fifteen I ndmrtes: and. then went back, hoping for better I kke*7 ^w^eourse all the chairs were occupied now, and four men sat waiting, silent, unsocia-I ble,. distraught, and looking bored, as men al? ways* do who are awaiting their turn in'a bar-1 berWshdp. "I sat down in--,one of the ir?n fed/compartments of an old sofa, and put in time for a while reading the framed adver Usements of . all sorts of quack nostrums for dyeing and coloring the hair. ' Then I read the greasy names on the private bay rum bottles; ' r*Sfcd the names and noted the numbers on the private shaving cups in the pigeon-holes; stud led . the stained and cheap prints on the walls, ojf battles,, early Presidents, vuluptuous, recum? bent sultanas, and the tiresome and everlasting young girl putting her grandfather's spectacles on; execrated in my heart the cheerful canary and .the distracting parrot that few barbershops I i i*rj t?thout. Finally, I searched.out the least ?in.apjdated of last year's illustrated papei-s that J littered the foul centre-table, and conned their unjustifiable misrepresentations of old forgotten j' events tAt last my turn came, -A-voice, said, ''Nexrr^n?'-rsur^ : ^.ajways happeus so. I said meekly, that . I was in a hurry, and it affected'him as strongly I fctPif fernerer heard it. He shoved up my feSed-and-put a nankin under it He plowed his, Angers into; my collar and fixed a towel there, ^fe/.^^lored my hair with his claws and sug ?g^'ted tiuit it needed trimming. I said I did V ?not want it trimmed. He explored again and ?istidit was pretty long for the present style? ?better have a little taken off; it needed it be- ? nhiJtMpecially. I said I had it cut a week be-. 1 fan*. He yearned over it reflectively a moment, . Laud then a*ked, with a disparaging manner, .' -who did it I came back at him promptly with I :a "You did." I had him there. Then be fell. '&> stirring up the lather and regarding himself jlu'the glass, stopping now and then to get close ,'8ftcL:.examine his chin critically or torture a | -f?S^en bi? lathered one side of my face thor tm$ply: and was to lather the other, when a - "def^fight -attracted his attention, and he ran to the window and stayed and saw it out, losing '^shillingson the result in bets with the oth *er b?rbersi a thing which gave me great satis? faction.; He finished lathering, meantime tret ting the brush into my mouth only twice, and ."then began to rob in.the suds with his -band, an i-as he now had his head turned, discussing _tfcti.dog-fight with the bther barbers, he natur" jfttly shoveled considerable latherinto*riy mouth Without knowing" but I did. " He?4bw began to' 6Eirp^mMbt oV ah5 61d'enspebuV*,-?Was< delayed a grea^dea\ on aeoount of a con trover- j Tfer^%ti?&Iff in which he J as some kin<fof a king.^He^as^^'gTalin^ I wi^b?n^nhafleii>^a?raedamsel- who he7 Mdjemitten with his charms, that he. used eve- [ mtf Weans to cdntnfrte^the 'contrt/rirtftyipQ - tending torbe annoyed at the chamrig of hisrfeJ-1 r-loiCK1 This matter .begot more surveying^ of . himself in the glass, and he put down his razor , ^.fiftlff brushed his hair with'elaborate care, plas- . *$$pg^$n.'averted 4rch of it down oh" his fore-j j Jicad, aex^raplishing ajci accurate "part" behind; I -arntbrnehing the two wings forward over his -earswith.nice exactness. Iu the meantime the ?'lather was drying on my face, and apparently ' eating into my vitals. Now;he began to shave, '^digging his fingers into my countenance'to stretgh the skin , making a. handle of my nose . mow-?n? then, bundling and. tumbling ray head this way and that, as convenience, in shaving demanded, and. "hawking" and expectorating ^pleasantly all the while. As long as he was on ?'th^ sides-of my faee I did not suffer.; but j When" he began to rake, and rip^and, tugatriny f qhju, the" tears came. I did not'mindhisgct-J ?ting bo close down on me; I did., not' mind his j TOf&ftl suppose? but .there was added tome * thing tna? made me fear that 'he' waffnecaying inwardly while atiH alivcj and .this gave me mach wncernr. ;fie now put his finger into the] corner of^ny-month to assist him in shaving] the cornels of my upper lip, and it was by this 1 tit of ci rcumstantial evidence that I discovered that a part of his duties in the shop was to j clean the kerosene lamps. I had often wondered j in an indolent way whether the barbers did J (hat, or whether it was the boss. About this 1 time I was amusing myself trying to guess where he would be most likely to- cut me thisT nlwne, but he got-ahead.of jne and.sliced jnc.on Mietend of niy chin before.I'had got my mind inada4in. He immediately,sharpened his razor. -^framteht have done it before.- - I do not like A close shave, and would not let him go over ? .:?J{e-ar second-time. I tried to .get him to.put up * his razor,' dreading fhat' he would make'i?rthe ;,?deof my chin, my pet tender spot, a . place r\wbfite a razor cadnpt touch twice without r making trouble. But he said he only wanted : to smooth off one little roughness, and in that r moment he slipped his razor along the forbid? ding, ground, and the dreaded pimple-signs of ..'Abl?se 9have rose up smarting andauswered to . the call. Now he soaked his towel in bay ruin I and slapped it all over my face hastily?slapped [ - it ov?r as.if a human beiinr ever washed his face in that way. Then he dried it by slapping ' #ith the dry part of the towel, as if a human being ever yet dried his fece in such a fashion; ,nut a barber seldom rubs you like a Christian. Sow he poked bay rum into the cut place with his towel, and then he soaked it with buy rum again, and would have gone on soaking and powdering it for evermore if I had not re? belled and begged off. lie powdered my whole face now, straightened me up, and began to plough my hair thoughtfully with his bauds and examine bis fingers critically. Then^he suggested .a champoo, and said my hair needed it badlv, very badly; I observed that I had shampooed it myself very thoroughly in the bath yesterday. I "had hrm" again. He next recommended some ?f "BrnHhte Hair Glorifi er"," end oflfered to sell nie a-bottle. I declined. He praised the new perfumev tones' Delight of the Toilet." and proposed to sell me some ?f that' T declined again. He tendered me a toothJwash atrocity of his own invention', and when I declined, offered to swap knives with me, He returned to business after the miscar riage of this last enterprise, sprinkled me all over, legs and all, greased my nair in defiance of my pretests against it, rubbed and scrubbed a good deal out of it out by the roots, and combed and brushed the rest, parting'it behind and'plastering the eternal inverted arch of hair down on. my forehead, and then, while combing my scint eyebrows and defiling them with I pomade, strung out an account of the achieve? ments of a six-ounce black-aud-taa terrier of I his till "I- heard the whistles blow for noon, and knew I was five minutes too late for the train Then lie snatched away the towel, brushed it lightly about my face, passed his comb through my eyebrows once more and sang out, "Next 1" I This:barber fell down and died of apoplexy I two hours later. I am waiting over a day for my revenge. I am going to attend the funeral. Our Poo* Old World. ; . .War, famine, fire, flood and pestilence, "are erila which perpetually afflict the human face. Within the present ,year, our poor old .world, in one place or another, has suffered from the ravages of all of them. . . . In'Persia, for many months past, there has been famine of the most appalling character, which has swept the entire length, and breadth j{ the country. It is one of those destructive famines which have appeared from time to time in the Oriental countries during all the ages of their history. It was said a short time ago that exaggerated accounts of it had been pub? lished;, but the recent reports of its ravages which have been received from official sources, leave no doubt that the actual facts of the case ire far more horrible than previously repre jented, or than can .be represented. Tens of thousands have perished by starvation, amid circumstances inexpressibly shocking, and it appears as though the entire country would be depopulated, for, at the date of our latest ad? vices, the famine continued unabated. . The S)vcrnment of. Persia is a despotism of the riental type, and, instead of adopting intelli? gent means to relieve the sufferings of the peo? ple, it seems to increase its exactions and op? pressions to a greater degree than ever. From China, we have accounts of the de-1 jtructiveJmiudaiicms which have swept over the uor^h^,They have resulted^in a fearful amountjpf siifferiug, and, ? ver5[ great loss of life in those densely populated regions; the people of entire districts have been impover- j ished by these floods. They have swept away I whole villages, destroyed crops, aud left npth* j iug behind tnem but desolation. We have retra letters describing the scenes witnessed in | jome of these localities, and we will only say 1 ?bot they were fearful beyond description. In the United States, the ravages of fire du- , ring the last two months have been, immense ind terrible... Of course the most memorable uid impressive incideut is the great Chicago conflagration ; .but the tremendous forest fires in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan, which h'ave raged over thousands of miles, have been, far more destructive to life, if not to property.. Hundreds of people have perished in them ; two villages, with nearly all of their inhabi? tants, have been wholly consumed; thousands 9f.farmers,.with their families, have been com? pelled to fly for. their lives before the devouring Haines; and innumerable farms, with their crops and stock, have been blasted aud destroy? ed. The immense extent of these fires, and the appalling suffering that has resulted from them, has hardly yet been realized by the American people. : i -From pestilence in one form or anothejy.sev-1 eral countries of the world have suffered fear-' fully duriug the year. The cholera which.! along with famine, raged, in -Persia,, passed [? through Eussia with limited fatality.in JulyJl arid soon after appeared in several parts' or ' Prussia, where it counted its' Victims' by thou-' f sands. It 'appeared for ? time-as though it would break out in France and Great Britain, from' whence It conld very easily have passed I to America, but its progress was providentially t stopped ibefore reaching these countries. The J nuwt. -terrible display of the power of then plague, this,year, however, has been in South, America, in the vicinity of Buenos Ay res, and in that,city itself.! We have only lately re? ceived Buenos Ayres papers containing ac? counts'-of its ravages there during the first half I of the year, or from January to May. Within | that time; nearly thirty thousand victims of the yellow fever perished, of whom twenty-two thousand were buried in one cemetery ; a hun* dred.-thousand people fled from the city; all business was for a time suspended; and so tcr^ I rible were the scenes that many meu went I crazy.' The disease also raged in.several small I towns, carrying off their inhabitants' by hunj I dreds; ano^."the"'?nffm^ivTiieh''^the plague hasj J spread^th'rough the whole Argentine Bepubil? I is .painful to read about, : t . . j Of r,the^irarft-which /during the year have anlicted~a portion of the human race, .we Jiave J. Jately spoken so fully that it is not necessary ! afi'this time to' make any reference' to them.' " 1 Thus if appears that our pooT old world'?j notwithstanding tiie gf?afcdiscoveries' of science I and-the great advance of civilization?is still] doomed to suffer from famine, flood, fire, pes? tilence and war.?Scottish American Journal. ''HoiirE RfiAnim?One of the most pleasant and noblest duties of the head of the family is to furnish its members with good reading. In times which are past it was considered enough to clothe and feed and shelter a family. This was the sum of parental duty. But lately it has been fotind out that wives and 'childrcn have minds, so tbatit becomes a necessity to educate the children and furnish fending ibr ithe whole household. It has been found out that the mind wants food as well as the body, and that it wants to be sheltered from the piti? less storms of error and vice by the guarding arid1 friendly roof of intelligence antl virtue. An ignorant family in pur day is an antiqua? ted institution. It smells of the musty past. It is a dark spot which the light of the modern sun of intelligence has not reached. Lot good reading go into a home, am? the. very atmosphere of that home gradually bot surely changes. The boys begin to grow am? bitious, to talk about men, places, principles, books, the past aud the future. The girl* begin to feel a new life opening before them m knowledge, duty and love. They sec new field*, of usefulness and pleasure. Aud so the family changes,, aud out from its number will gaintel ligcut men and women, to fill houorahlc place* and be useful members of society. Lot the torch of intelligence be lit m every household1. Let the old and young vie with each other in | introducing new and useful topics of investiga- | tion, and in cherishing a love of reading, study | and improvement. The Baltimore Southern Central Railway System. We have from time to time alluded to the purchase or lease of Southern roads by parties in close connection with the Pennsylvania Central. For a time it was believed that these operations were being made for the benefit of that road. Some months 'ago we discovered that this organization, under which this South? ern consolidation was being- effected, was an independent one, and we have heretofore been restrained by prudential motives from speaking on the subject. Now that the system has.at? tained proportions which make further ?ecrecy unnecessary, we give to the public details which will be of -unusual interest. Some four years ago, the great body of the Southern railroads, being still in a dilapidated condition from the wear and tear of an ex? hausting war, their stocks and mortgage bonds being in a very depressed condition, their means and credit being limited, and their co? operative organization, not only incomplete, but checked by the antagonism of special in? terests and narrow views, a movement was in? augurated by Mr. W. T. Walters, of this city, which, he believed, would not only yield a large profit to himself and his associates, on money invested, but benefit the city of Baltimore by adding greatly to its. trade. It seemed, indeed, evident that a compact organization of the great lines of Southern intercommunication, under a system controlled by one head, kept in full working order, thoroughly equipped, with regular and speedy passenger and freight trains running at the lowest.paying figures, must ne? cessarily improve the.condition of the whole Southern country, and lead, consequently, to the development of this, its natural and most important market. Over seven million dollars have already beeq expended in actual cash outlay, and up to the present time, by purchase of stock, a control ing majority in a number of most important lines of railroad, comprising in all 1,425 miles, has been secured. Besides this, control has been obtained, under lease, of 363 miles addi? tional. These combinations already comprise complete lines from Richmond, via Danville and Charlotte to-At? lanta; Richmond, via Weldon and Wilmington to Charleston and Augusta; and from - I Atlanta,: I'ia Knoxville to Bristol, from which a I connection will in all probability, be made with Danville by General Flournoy's road, which will he constructed. Additional roads- have been built, and all [ are, or are being put, in first class working qr-r der and thoroughly equipped. It will thus be seen that this new company now controls both the main lines south from Richmond, the North Carolina roads, the chief roads of South Carolina, two main roads in Georgia, and the important lines of East Ten? nessee. These combined, Southern lines will] have direct .communication north of Richmond j with Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New: York, both through the present hues and j by others to be built in friendly alliance with] the new organization! ; I The programme will be complete within two] years, when facilities for freight traffic, and passenger communication, will be afforded then entire South that will not only be simply uh-j rivalled, but cannot be provided by any com-' peting interest, at less thau double the outlay ' of this Company, as control of these roads have been obtained at an average cost of about fifty cents iti the dollar on the original cost in times of gold currenoyyuid cheap labor. Baltimore will, have complete communication with the whole South by lines of railroads 200 miles uearer than New York. Atlanta will be placed in direct communication with this city by a route 100 miles shorter than any existing one, and .passenger trains will traverse the entire distance, ??? miles, in less than twenty-four hours, upon the final completion of the Char? lotte and Atlanta link, to be finished within eight months. It follows, as a matter of course, that the. enterprise of this new organization' cannot stop here. From Chattanooga and; Atlanta, it is hut a railroad step, to Now Or? leans and Mobile. The great benefit to be derived by.the South I from a. thorongh organization of a complete system of roads,under.one management^,ftjfV}$ equipped, and free from the . petty annoyances' of local interference, must be apparent .to eve-' ry one. Such a system must tend to develop immensely, those great home interests, agricul? ture-and manufacture^, 'upon which the very vitality,.indeed we may almost .say existence, of the South now depends. To Baltimore the ad vantages, of | economical transportation and cheap travel must be very great. We shall thus be thrown, into more intimate business and personal communication with those with whom we are allied by common sympathy, and1 j with whom, wo have always contended, our most important commercial interests are insep? arably united. There is no risk in predicting that, in the staple- article of cotton alone, the receipts in this city for the. first year after the final completion, of communication with the leading business centres of the South,' will be increased fully 300,000 bales. There will not only be' a vast increase of receipts from the South., but there must necessarily be an enor? mous addition to the supplies shipped to the South, a Baltimore will not only become a large exporting mart, but its foreign importations must of necessity grow very largely. 'loFpf. .prudential reasons wo forbear ,for the present giving furtber facts in regard to nego? tiations now in progress, which' will add-.great? ly to tho magnitude of this enterprise. We J will only add that the organization which con-1 trols these operations is in no way connected with the Pennsylvania Central. It is necessa? rily a most' dangerous competitor for the Balti? more and Qhio Road, its prime movers having had the sagacity aud,the tact,to obtain quietly most important leading communications, .from which our State,-road is. now completely cut off. Baltimore is at least to be congratulated upon the fact that, no matter what else may be said of it, it has grown great enough to sustain more, than two. considerable railroad enterprises/? Jiaitifiiffrc. Gazette. , , ? It is remarkable how much sooner fjlie weather sets in "bitter cold"- to those furnished with handsome furs, than to those not so fortu? nate. ? A.saloon-keeper, having started business, in a building, where trunks had beeq, made,, asked a'friend-what he had better do with the*, old sign, "Trunk Factory." "Oh!"' said,.the friend, "just change the T to a D, audit will suit you exactly." ? The St. Louis gfrfa were so badly fright? ened by the experience of one of their number who dislocated her neck while resisting a kiss, that now they hold their lips in the softest and uv*t-comfortable position whenever they sec fil man anywhere near. ? A young eelesti:?l geologist Iras lifted out of the rut as regards our future fate. For hundreds of years we have steadily believed' that in the end, this planet will he parched up like a scroll, and it is refreshing to find it proved by this individual that, so lar from mel? ting with fervent heat, we shall probably break I in pieces from intense cold, and be distributed through space iu aerolights. !< Ki: Klux in Indiana. A special dispatch from Louisville, under date bt November 17, gives the following ac? count of the lynching of three negroes in In? diana: If this ;;hihg had occurred In the South, the cry of Xu Klux.would have gone up all aver the land,.and Grant would have been in? vited to declare martial law. Now, let us see whether Grant will dare to'.npply the same law to Indinha that he" has so frequently applied to South Carolina ?har oth^'r^uiliern States:. Lo?isvrLLE, November 17.^-Last' night, about! o'clock, a-band of inen in disguise; numbering between 50 and 75, entered Charles? ton.' the county seat of Clark county, Indiana, and went to the jail where three negroes, named George Johnson, Squire Taylor, and Charles Davis, who were chafed with the brutal mur? der or the Park family, near Henryville, on Saturday night last, were confined) and en? tered tBe jail for the purpose of removing them. They demauded the keys of Sheriff Baxter, who resolutely refused to give them upi They threatenedIijm, and in various ways tried to force hiiri' to give up the keys, but he refused to the last. They then broke down the doors', se? cured the victims, and took them about two milesfrqm town on the New Market road, and there hung them in the most unmerciful man? ner. Trom the appearance of the victims and sur? roundings, it was evident that Davis had been bung "first, in the presence of the others, for the purpose of making them confess their guilt. A fire had been kindled, and Taylor had been terribly tortured, his right hand "was burned to a crisp, and his back bad been fearfully burned and then he was hung, so that bis feet touched the roots of the tree. In fact, he was not hung, but was; merely choked to death. The rope was fastened around the trunk of the tree be? low^'tne lowest branches. His neck was not broken, and he died from torture and strangu? lation. fohnson'was hung to a limb of the same tree, and he w?s the only one whose neck appeared toiife broken. None of the victims' faces were cover&Jj'??d they presented a horrid spectacle. TayloV/ when' found this morning, was without clotliing.. -The- men who did the hanging were com? pletely disguised. They each wore a white hat, with a rjsor over the face; and they were dressed fit old soldiers' blouses, coats, &c. They were in-jn.il an hoar before they succeeded in getting the wretched negroes out. When they caine into the town, whenever, they saw any one watching them, they threatened to shoot if an alarm was raised, and a guard was placed over each person who was found on the streets, and over each house where any one was found looking out. The correspondent of the Louisville Courier Journal, who' Waq on . the qui vive for items, was arrested by the mob and held until the work was done/ The Ledger man Was the more fortunate in keeping at a safe distance, and witnessed the whole affair, but was? too faraway to see or hear all tnat was going on. ?The bodies were cut down and takefl to Charleston in :l wagon,- where they remained, and werc.?aicd upon by men, women and chil? dren; Tile feeling in the vicinity ia intense. The greatest excitement prevails, and as far as it is known here it is the only theme of con versatioii. Good people everywhere deplore the hanging of the negroes. In the first place, it is regard? ed as doubtful whether they were guilty of the murder of the Park family, and if they were guilty, it is believed they were only the accom? plices or tools of other* who were more guilty than they-. The. opinion is freely expressed that the negroes were hung by parties who knew as much about the murder as the negroes, and that the hanging was done to hide the blood on their own hands. The grand jury had been in session- three ?r four days, and had heard all the testimony against the negroes, and yet'they were unable to find a true bill against them. Some believed the negroes were all guilty rind deserved their fate, but they hoped the law would .take its course, and possi? bly ' the investigation Would lead to other facts, and otlter parties would be found to have been implicated;;- As the matter stands, the whole afI^iM|^g^reat:niy8tery; and the death of the three n?groes cuts" off- what Was considered the b'eat' clue to the guilty parties, [f: There seems to have beeil a terrible feud be? tween certain families in Mr. Pork's neighbor? hood, in which theCleggs, Parks, Pralls, Kirks, and others Were mixed up, and it is asserted that written threats had been made against Mr. Park and one or two others; and'there is a be? lief among, some that the murder Was done by Mr. Park's enemies in. this feud, or instigated by them. It is thought possible that the ne? groes who have been so summarily dealt with may have done the bloody work, at the insti? gation of others. But, of course, no one is named. From the feeling to-day, it is not likely tho investigation will stop here. ' The Squire's Indioestiox.?Old Squire H--was a very successful I and substantial farmer, in an interior town of Massachusetts, and a more amazing eater never lived in any town anywhere. And especially much did he eat when fresh-pork was to bo the nourishment. Weuy-st aicertain time one of his hogs had been killed. The next morning there was to be-fresh pork for breakfast, and the old man eat! most wondrously. In the . course of the forenoon bo ate his luncheon, consisting of bread and butter and mince pie and cheese. At noon his dinner consisted of fresh pork, pick .les, mince pie, and the usual accompaniments. Hia afternoon luuch was like that of the fore? noon. When he came home to his supper, his favorite dish had been prepared as part of that meal. The old man fretted and scolded till fresh pork was added to the substantial*. He ate voraciously, as usual. In the evening he toasted some cheese, buttered and ate it. Just before going to bed he roasted a couple of ap? ples and dtc them. In'thc night he was taken with a severe colic; the doctor was with him till morningy aud .wrought a miracle in saving ?the old man's- lifc.- The next day Holies W., one i of his neighbors,- went in to condole with -tho old Squire. "Faithful BoUes," said the old worthy, "i diked to have died lost night. FU never eat another roast apple as long as I live. 1 never did love them very well; and last night I 'atc ?wty two, aiid they noarly killed me." ? It is all very well to say "take things * they come," but suppose they don't come. ? Dogs are said to be the best dentists,, be? cause they insert natural teeth. ? A Wisconsin man reported that he couldn't) find a word in the dictionary,- beeattJC "the Hasted book hadn't got! an index." ? Men are frequently like tea, the real strength and goodness arc not properly drawn out of fihem until they have been for a short time in hot water. ? A man once wont to a lawyer's ollice and told the legal gcutleinau that he had been in rultcd by a man who told him to go to-, and desired to know what he should do. The law? yer suavely said : "I would not advise you to go ; the law don't compel you.'' The Elements of Opposition to Gen. GraUti The New York World, in a leading editorial, asserts that at least three-fifths of the voting population of the United Stales are opposed to the re-election of Gen. Grant-. In addition to the whole Deinocratic p?rtjr} fully one-fifth of fhe Republican party ttfo ready to j?in in an effort to defeat trio imbecile and disgraceful administration. The ' World is prepared to nriitc with' these Republicans) and expresses ?h iridiffereHce its to the matt' wlt?m all the oppo? nents to Grant may be able to centre upon ns their Presidential candidate, provided that man can give the needed tone and dignity of pure statesmanship to our public service. In the meanwhile* ii; is necessary to-sfettle the princfc pics tittd issues on which the combinatiofi against Orati1: shall be made, and our contem? porary enumerates some of them as follows: Without undertaking to give a complete Cat1 alogue, we will indicate a few of the clehtelits of Opposition to Gen-. Grant: 1. The crusade .against corruption in office. This is one of the most hopeful issues for a combined movement of honest Democrats and honest Republicans. It has been well Started in the. successful campaign against the Tain many Ring; a campaign irt which Democrats and Republicans have served together with co? operating zeal. The overthrow of Tammany is a preliminary engagement, which introduces the general battle against official corruption; It has demonstrated the possibility Of sinking party differences in a joint effort to expose and dethrone fraud and punish its perpetrators. A movement of this kind, which is prompted by an awakened public conscience, cannot stop with a mere local triumph; It will spread throughout the country like a devouring con? flagration, consuming the nepotism of Grant ana the corruption of his subordinates as effec? tually as it has the abuses of the Tammany Ring. This is one plank of the platform on which all the opponents of General Grant can stand together. 2. Amnesty to the South. Liberal honest Re? publicans can unite with Democrats on this ground as cordially as in opposition to official corruption. The rascality that has been brought to liglit in the Southern State governments is absolutely astounding; and it has chiefly re? sulted ffom the vindictive, ostracizing policy which has excluded the property-holders and intelligent classes of the South from their due influence in local politics. A victorious cru? sade against corruption necessarily includes the only radical cure for the hideous maladminis? tration which prevails in the Southern States. 3. The revenue reform orfrce-tradv movenienl. This is one of the most important basis of the new political combination. For the last three years, revenue reform has been making great progress among thinking Republicous, especi? ally in the West, The most widelv circulated Republican journals in Chicago and Cincinnati are ardent advocates of fr'ee:trade; and free trade, with amnesty for its ally, carried Mis? souri against Grant and elected Gratz Brown last year. The revenue reform Republicans and the Democrats can cordially act together on this greift ksuc. Such a new movement as itc pfopose affords the best promise of enlisting the Gewiaii rot-: in opposition io General Grant. The majority of our German citizens, both in the East and the West, favor purity of administration and uni? versal amnesty. Among the most zealous and determined foes of Tdinfiiany were the German voters of this city; and the great amnesty tri? umph in Missouri last year was chiefly owing to their co-operation under the lead of .Senator Schurz. This eloquent and gifted statesman justly despises General Grafit; and in such a combined opposition as is proposed he would be a host. His vigorous sense and persuasive tongue would aid the reform movement to cap? tivate and carry tlje. whole body of German vo? ters in the United States, in opposition to such a nepotist, venal gift-taker, and corrnpter of the public morals as General Grant. Wc will not, at present, enumerate farther. It must be obvious, from the points we have presented, that nothing is needed but a liberal, conciliatory spirit to bring all the opponents of General Grant together on a satisfactory* plat? form, and make the nor t Presidential elect ion the opening of a new and brighter era in ouc politics. ? ' ? '? ? . "' ?| Martial Law for the.Noetic?We Re? lieve that hot'only are Northern Conservatives unable to Vindicate the Iiberties-o'f the country j but that the North is. ripe,for military govern? ment. The Northern population is no longer the agricultural, homogeneous population it ' was, in former days. It is made up ?f the ig noraut and untrained representatives of ail countries, who are incapable of self-govern-. mcut, and require to be ruled by .1 strong hand. Its capitalists, as we have before said, feel a sense of insecurity, not only from the voting power of the multitude who ao* not pay Wies, out from the spread' of international doctrines now threatening property and order all over ' the world. They will welcome any change which will secure their pockets from plunder. Our deliberate opinion is that, if Grant, upon any pretext, can raise an army of 200,000 men he can hold his office for lift, arid! without as? suming the name of Emperor absorb all power in his own harrtfe. The South would be una? ble to resist such a scheme, and, as she has her? self been deprived of liberty by the North, would not if she could raise a finger to'.prevefft the fetters slic wears for being imposed on oth? er people.- Nor do .'we believe the Northern masses have the spirit to resist. Wc arc not so absurd as to1 deny their physical courflgsv TUtti they have become so1 demoralized by their love of gain that they have ceased to appreciate liberty at its true value. They would fight bravely if their property w'ais threatened-. But they no' longer' love' freedom well enough to' (fie for it. Wc honestly believe this to be the troth, and moreover, that there is a growing sentiment among educated Northern men that republics at best are humbugs. They know thab therf e>>is[ctSc'e' hitherto has been of brief rfiTr;ttroTr.- They have come and gone in the firmament of history, like comets portentous and brilliant; but the monarchies have been fixed stars.?f/ynclU>urg ( Va.) Newt'. Tin; "Fiuf.Ni? of thj; Colohicd Ma?i/'?m "Here's yer nice roast chick'n," cried1 an aged colored man, ns the cars stopped at a Virginia railway station. Here's yer roast chick'n 'n taters, all nice and hot," holding his plate aloft and walking the platform. "Where did you get that chicken, Uncle ?'v asked! a passenger. Uncle looks at the intruder sharply, and then turns away, crying, "Here's yer nice ro.'ist chick'n, gentl'm'n, all hot; needn't go in the house for dat." "Where did you get that chicken?" repeats the inquisitive passenger. "Look-a-ycr," says-Uncle, sneaking privately,1 "is you from de Norf?" f'Ycs.'v. "U you ? friend of the cullud man?*' "1 hope 1 am.". "Den don't you nebber ask me whar 1 got dat chick'n. Here's yer nice roast chick'n. all hot."?New York Tribune. The Pretended Rebellion. Our Radical cotemporaries, says the Phila? delphia Age, call our attention to alleged con* fesibionsj reported to their papers, which justify the military intervention of President. Grant in South Carolina, under what is commonljf called the Ku KTuxTair'! """"Wemuat be jardon ed for some incredulity as to this cbr-venient kind of evidence furnished to or.by thofe.whose; political interest jsjuyolvcd in./the extension of martial law all over the 'country. '."C?nfi-' uence is "?'pinnt 'bNroV 'growth',''"said Lord" Chatham. We know the impudent pretense that sufficed m' this^ city for tn.e niilitary-.ottt** rage, which eveh Governbr Geary denounced* We are .fresh,from a local canvass, in which this convenient "'dodge of putting" words into' men's mouths was freely resorted to, in defiance of truth, probamHity7andTrrmrmon sense. The principal Radical bigans. Weje always assuring their readers that Furman Sheppard or James S. Riddle had made sonic most damaging rer mark or avowal, not irl their numerous publid speeches^ bllt in private conversation, opportu? nely overheard by some Radical eavesdropper.{ We doubt not, with, the appliances of martial law at their" command, aud with arbitrary and unchecked poWer over every mau's liberty, the" military straps" 'andTa'rpeT^tjag thieves and ty* rants of South '<3aroliua.will.be able to obtairi "confessions" to suit their purposes. They may, perhaps, find many who,' from fear to.'fa; vor, will be ready, tike 'Topsy," "to 'fess^any? thing that may be agreeable to the party wantf inga confession. ? We are familar wjth thedifficul-: ty of arriving at truth,, through the best, means' that biVil j list-ice has learned in centuries of ex? perience in England and America, and we shalf be slow to believe that the brutal, processesof military despotism are indeed the short cut tp; the administration of real justice. That acts of violence and crime are committed in South Carolina, is tf?? of Course'; where is the land in which thev do not occur? But that any "re? bellion," as defined by the last'Co?gress, "sd powerful and numerous as to be able by vio? lence to overthrow or set at defiance the con? stituted authorities' of such State and of the* United States;* does now exist in any South? ern State, we do hot believe; for no reliable evidence proves it. The statements in the Radf ical papers fall far short of proving this coiiuU tion, even if we credit them implicitly, ana they have been expressly and circumstantially dented by the Charleston News, by the Grand Jury in Chester county, and by numerous at? testations worthy,of full as much-credit as the statements they impugn. There is not in the Ku Klux law,- or in any other law, any warran? for establishing martial law, and military des? potism in South Carolina, on the pretexts which4 the Radical press urge for so doing. After the New Hampshire election of this year, the Rad^ ical leaders deliberately resolved to re-open the', war. as a means of obtaniug a new lease of power, wluch they saw, slipping from .their' hands. That is the game they are plavihg; now ; and all.the Radical officials seem willing to take a hand in it, and their organs are clam* oring for "martial law" everywhere, though, neither the word nor the thing has a shadow of authority from the Constitution of' the law3. . 'Chicago and the Sorrn.?One of, the' most gratifying ameliorations of the great fire' is the sympathy of the South; Chicago was conspicuous throughout the war for its loyalty^ and in the political contest on the reconstruc? tion issue! it uniformly stood by the Republican1 party, and demauded Radical measures.' 'As-d consequence it has been specially obiioxious to* the Southern people. But in the hour of dis? aster all thought of past differences, were for? gotten. Judging from the t?ne of the South? ern press, no other section of the country was? more keenly alive to the horrors of our situa? tion. It is not too much to hope that from the Chicago conflagration will date an era of better feeling. "Our Southern brethren" is a phrase' of more real meaning than ever before. It is neither the sneer of enmity nor tlie eatcb-w-ord of hypocrisy.- Over the still smorildering' ruins of Chicago the right hand of brotherhood^ is reached to us and most cordially graspcd.''Not our own .people alone,- but the whole-country will take note of this "new-departure." A civil war always leaves a. jSrge logd'ev *of i bates.' SWrfetiWes they linger on intcimimibty. ? One genmrrbn transmits them: ta:ariothervwi ! til they become as sacred as heirtoenis.v There' . was, d anger rf aueh <a, perpetuation in the ease* [ of the'North and South.' The -flames whjcr* f 'consumed i also aknost'a third ?l*^the'Tesidehc&portipnV'lf the city, turned tft^heft^aayi;e/i;tlv&-;T^lief>.ef the Avar. . Let th.em^g?, ..Both sections are bet j ter without themj The present, bond of sym? pathy, encrr&ing'thc whore rrati?fi, Will endure' ?with'its gbpdehects lohg-after.oar city hasfios* every-vestige of the fire.;. .? .,j i! Iek;fj .. The.evil of sectionalism was not wnolly.cpii fined to' the North' and South: 'Tliefe -waFa slight interchange nf it between the E?siwrd West. We use the past ' tense/because: it .nits, all vanished,- 'fle*tvii?g not a wreck behind.'7 It went up in.smoke. There never was a time' when the United ?tates was' brought into such close fraternal' relations'. There will be some' reaction, of 'course,u but a: gun always-shoots" further-than it kicks./ - ;?.. . ,.:; . ,.{-./ . . From, the golden imle-'Htorre of old Rome all tue highways of Che empire radiated. Chicago' is to-day the focal point of paths jruorenumer ons, far-reaching and thronged than those an? cient pikes; ri? a mystic but intensely.real sense,it .is* She'.jCapital of the World. The' tributeif ?f contribution to. our sufferers are' v^ferthan jnVy' rnrpcrial levies, anil our :friends far and' near may rest assured that their wealth of sympathy, in whatever currency, is keenly appreciated.?Chicago Evening Journal. . Fin* is GniiKXvn.Lii.?About ? o\lock;last. night a fire broke out iii the eaqieuter slib'p bf Mfssrs. Oline & Gibbs, located on the river" bear the crossing of Main street. The com? bustibility of the building with its contents. was sfrch, that nothing could be saved ; and our enterprising fellow citizens,' Messrs'.' Clihe &'Gibbs,-"have ??thereby sobered a loss of bvef six thousand doHarsv.iii material and machinery, besides the loss that necessarily accrues from the -consequent suspension of work on their large contracts. The machinery of the estab? lishment was extensive and well adapted to its purpose, and afforded excellent facilities for the' I rapid ahd reliable execution of work forbuild i'ig purposes, And' in its destruction the . com j muiuty generally are indirectly sufferers whir our unfortunate fellow-citizens, the proprietors. Adjoining the shoo there was a saw-mill be j longing to Alex. McBeo, Esq., which was also* j entirely consumed, inflicting on Mr. McBee a loss of about one thousand dollars. ; Mr. J. \V. Cagle also loses several hundred dollars By the destruction of .lumber aud pre? pared work that, wo^in the shop. The cause of the fire cannot he certainly ac-" j couWcd for ? the strongest suppositions are'thnt ' it was accidental.? Greenville Mountaineer, 22rf I mutant." ? The largest cotton mill in the world will ' commence operations in Norwich. Coriu.-, in aJ j few weeks, fts capacity is 110,000 spindlefe.