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BY HOYT & CO. ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1876._VOL. XII-NO. 23. RATES OF-'SUBSCSIl'TlOy.?TKoDo^xiiS per anccra, and Okk Dcllae for six months. Subscriptions are not taken for a less period than six taonths^r.-, - , Liberal deductions made to clubs of tea or ?nore subscribers."^ s ;j. ? * i v 1 ' ? F RATES OF AVrERTrSIXQ.-^OB* Dollar per ??q,u,are.ol oce.inch.for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents per square foriubsequent insertions less than three months, No-advertisements counted less ? fchaa a square.?" " * ~, % 5 * Liberal contracts will be made with those wishing to advertise for three?aix or- tweNs months. A& Tcrtlsing by contract must b? confined to the im? mediate business of the firm or individual contrac? ting. . Obituary.Nbticas exceeding fiTe lines. Tributes of Respect, and all personal communications or matters of individual interest, will be charged for at advertising rates. Announcements of marriages and deaths, and notices of a religious character, are respectfully solicited, and will be Inserted gratis THE COST OF A TKAIN. At the time when the first open court of law was established in Russia, a lady, dressed with the utmost elegance, was walking on the Moscow promenade, lean? ing upon her husband's arm, and letting the long train of her rich dress sweep the dust and dirt of the street. A young officer, coming hastily from a side street, was so careless as to catch one of his spurs in the lady's train, and in an instant a great piece was torn out of the costly but frail material of the dress. "I beg a thousand pardons, madam," said the officer, with a polite bow, and then was about passing on, when he was detained by the lady's husband. "You have insulted my wife." "Nothing was farther from my inten? tions, sir. Your wife's long dress is to blame for the accident, which I sincerely regret, and I beg you once more to re? ceive my apologies for any carelessness on my part." Thereupon he attempted to-hasten oh.. "You shall not escape so," said the lady, with her head thrown back in a spirited way. "To-day is the first time I have worn this dress, and it cost two hun? dred rubles, which you must make good." - "My dear madam, 1 beg you not to de? tain me. I am obliged to go on duty at once. As to the-two hundred rubles?I really cannot help the length of your dress, yet I beg your pardon for not hav? ing been more cautious." "You shall not stir, sir. That you are obliged to go on duty is nothing to us. Mr wife is right: the dress must be made The officer's face grew pale. "You'force me. to break through the rules of the-service, and I shall receive punishment?'. "Paythe two hundred rubles and you arefree." The tjuiei?tr-^hanging color in the youtig man's face, sKo'wea. how inwardly disturbed he. was.; but stepping close up to them both lie said, with>pparent self command: - "You will renounce your claim when I tell you that I am a?a poor man, who has nothing to live on but his officer's pay, and the amount of that pay hardly reaches the sum of twohundred rubles in aVwhole year.- I can, therefore, make -no amends for the- mwforttrae except hy again begging your pardon." "Oh 1 anybody, could say all that; but we'll see if it's true; we'll find out if you have nothing but your pay. I declare myself not satisfied with your excuses, and I demand my money," persisted the lady, in the hard voice of a thoroughly unfeeling .woman. "That is true?you are right," the hus? band added, dutifully supporting her. "By good luck we have the open court now just in session. Go with us before tire judge and he will decide the matter." All further protestation on the officer's part that he was poor, that he was ex? pected oh duty, did not help matters. Out of respect for his uniform, and to avoid an open scene, he had to go with them to the court room, where the galle? ry was densely packed with a crowd of people. ' After waiting some time, the lady bad leave to bring her complaint. "What have you to answer to this com? plaint ?" said the judge, turning to the officer, who seemed embarrassed and half in despair. - "On the whole, very little. As the lateness'of the hour, compelled me to hurry, didrnot notice the lady's train, which was dragging on the ground. 'j ?caught one of my spurs in it, and had the misfortune to tear the dress. Madame would not receive my excuse, but perhaps she might find herself more disposed to forgiveness, when I again de? clare, so help me God, that I committed this awkward blunder without any mis? chievous intention, and I earnestly beg that she will pardon me." A murmur ran through the gallery, evidently from the people taking sides with the defendant, and against long trains in general, and the lady in partic? ular. ?' "The judge called to order, and asked, "Are you satisfied with the defendant's explanation ?" Not at all satisfied. I demand two hundred rubles in payment for my torn dress." - "Defendant, will you pay this sum ?" "Vwould have paid it long before this bad I feen ih-a'position to do so. Un? fortunately I am poor. My pay as an officer is all I have to live on." "You hear, complainant, that the de? fendant is not able to pay the sum you demand of him. Do you still wish the complaint to stand?" An unbroken stillness reigned through? out the hall, and the young officer's breath could be heard coming hard. "I wish it to stand. The law shall give me my rights." There ran through the rows of people a murmur of indignation that soun ded like a rushing of water. "Consider, complainant, the conse? quence of your demand. The defendant can be punished only by being deprived of his personal liberty, and by that you could obtain no satisfaction; while to the defendant it might prove the greatest in? jury in his rank and position as an officer, ana especially as he is an officer who is poor and .dependent upon his pay. Do you still insist upon your complaint?" "I still insist upon it." . The course the affair was taking seemed to have become painful to the lady's husband. He spoke with his wi fe urgent? ly, but as coula be seen by the way she held up her head and the energy with which she shook it, quite uselessly. The judge was just going on to further con? sider the case, when a loud voice was heard from the audience: "I will place the two hundred rubles at the service of the defendant ." There followed a silence, during which a gentleman forced his way through the crowd and placed himself by the young officer's side. f "Sir. I am the Prince of W-, and beg you will oblige me by accepting the loan of the two hundred rubles in ques? tion." "Prince, I am not worthy of your kind? ness, for I don't know if I shall ever be able to pay the loan," answered the young man, in a voice tremulous with emotion. "Take the money at all events, I can wait until you are able to return it." Thereupon the prince held out two notes of a hundred rubles each, and coming close up to him, whispered a few words very softly. There was a sudden lighting in the young officer's face. He immedi? ately took the two notes, and turning to? ward the lady, handed them to her with a polite bow. "I hope, madame, you are satisfied." With a malicious smile she reached out her hand for the money. "Yes; how I am satisfied." With a scornful glance over the crowd of spectators, she .prepared to leave the court room oniier nusoand'slirm. "Stop, madame," said the officer, who had suddenly become like another man, with a firm and cenfident manner. "What do you want?" The look that the yoUng woman cast upon him was as insulting as possible. ?| want my dr?s?," he answered, with j a slight but still perfectly polite bow. "Give me your address, and I will send it to you." "Oh, no, my dear madame, I am in the habit of taking my purchases with me at once. Favor me with the dress immedi? ately." A shout of approbation came from the gallery. "Order !" cried the judge. "What au insane demand," said the lady's husband. "My wife cannot un? dress herself here." "I have nothing to do with you, sir, in this matter, but only with the complain? ant. Be so good, madame, as to give me the dress immediately. I am in a great hurry ; my affairs are urgent, and I can? not wait ? moment longer." The pleasure of the audience at the expense of the lady increased with every word, until it was bard to enforce any approach to quiet, so that either party could be heard. "Do not jest any more about it. I will hurry and send you the dress as soon as possible." "1 am not jesting. I demand from the representative of the law my own proper? ty?that dress," said the officer, raising his voice. The judge, thus appealed to, decided promptly. "The officer is right, madame. You are obliged to hand mm over the dress on the spot." ? "I can't undress myself here before all these people, and go home without any dress on," said the young woman, with anger and tears. You should have thought of that sooner. Now you have no time to lose. Either give up the dress of your own ac? cord, or?" A nod that could not be misinterpreted brought to the lady's side two officers of justice, who seemed about to take upon themselves the office of my lady's maid. "Take your money back, and leave me my dress." "Oh, no, madame; that dress is now worth more than two hundred rubles to me." "How much .do you ask for it ?" "Two thousand rubles," said the officer, firmly. "I will pay the sum," the weeping lady's husband responded, promptly. "I have here five hundred rubles. Give me pen and paper aud I will write an order upon my banker for the remaining fifteen hundred." After he had written the draft the worthy pair withdrew, amidst hisses from the audience. Query: Did the lady ever again let her dress sweep the street. A Strange Case of Suspended Anima? tion or Decomposition. The case of the young lady, Misb Laura Rothsfeld, whose death was announced last Wednesday morning, furnishes some strange and singular features, which will give our physicians and scientific men fresh material for study and reflection. After having lain in a coffin for several hours, she exhibited symptoms of life, and the body was immediately removed aud placed upon a sofa in front of a fire, where it has oeen ever since. The com? plexion remains the same as in life, the features are unchanged, and she looks like one in a peaceful slumber. Miss Rothsfeld had just turned her seventeenth year, and at times during her whole life has suffered from epilepsy, an affliction that has been hereditary in her family. She has always been deli? cate, never enjoying good health, and attacks of epilepsy have been more fre? quent during the past few years and more severe than at any other time. Last Sat? urday she complained of having a head? ache, and on Sunday her suffering was such as to confine her to her bed. and she grew worse, and Monday afternoon was attacked with cramps, and Dr. Mason was sent for. Every thing possible was done for hor relief, but without avail.? Once during the evening she spoke to her mother, but from that time remained un? conscious until about 7 o'clock Wednes? day, when she seemed to pass away as quietly as one falling into a pleasant slumber. Her pulse continued to beat, though hardly perceptible, until 11 oclock, but finally all signs of life ceased, and the physician pronounced her dead. The body remained warm until some time after this, aud was kept in the bed until Thursday morning, when her family be? came satisfied that she was dead, and ar rangraents were made for the funeral. In preparing the body for interment, it was noticed that the breast and neck were of a bluish color, which extended along the right side of the face to the hair. The face was also very pale, and those who dressed the body stated that the cheeks appeared somewhat sunken. After dressing the body in a white shroud it was placed in a coffin about 9 o'clock, Thursday morning. About noon a number of friends gathered around the coffin noticed that the complexion had changed to a more natural shade, and that the mouth had opened. The family were immediately called, and when they returned to the coffin the mouth had closed, but otherwise there was no indi? cation that life still remained. Rev. Dr. Weygold called at the house about two o'clock, and upon bis suggestion the body was removed from the coffin and placed on a sofa near the fire. This was Thurs? day afternoon, aud the body has remained there ever since, within a few feet of the fire, without the slightest change taking place. A reporter of the Commercial called at the bouse last evening. The body was lying on the sofa dressed in the shroud, covered with a ouilt, and looked like one in a peaceful slumber. The body was stiff and cold, except the feet and the fingers, and the ears. The fingers and ears were as pliable as in life, and not icy like the rest of the body. The btuisn color about the breast and face mentioned above had passed away, and the com ?lesion changed to a more natural color, he mother stated that several times the mouth bad opened sufficiently to show the teeth, but it was closed and the lips firmly set last night. There were no other signs of life. A number of physicians called at the house, yesterday, aud were of the opin? ion that the girl was dead, but were puz? zled as to the changes said to have taken place. The mother, however, thinks that life still exists, and says that she will nut permit the body to be buried unless de? composition sets in, of which there is not the least indication at present, although the body has Iain by a fire for two days. It is, indeed, a strange case. "As "a strange coincidence, it oiay be stated that, the grandmother of Mias Rothsfeld, when seventeen years of age, laid in a trance for three nays and the body was stiff and cold as in this case. She afterward recovered, lived to be sev? enty years old: and was the mother of sixteen chi\$r?n;?Ij>uufville Commer? cial. ? Children must have love inside the house and fresh air, and good play and some good companionship outstde?oth? erwise young life runs the greatest danger in the world of withering or growing stunted, or at best prematurely old and turned Inward on itself. CREMATION. Successful Cremation at Washington, Pa.?Burning of the Body of Baron de Palm. From the Pitttbvxg Dispatch, December 7. Startiug from Vienna, Austria, in 1873, with all the impetus that a hearty recom mandation of the Managers of the World's Exhibition could give it, crema? tion was yesterday firmly planted on the soil of free America. If there had been the slightest defect in the process of Baron Von Palm's cremation, that method of disposing of the remains of the departed would have received a death blow iu this country. But the experi? ment was a success, not alone in the per? fect incineration of the body, but also from a sanitary standpoint. Opponents of cremation have asserted that the gases arising from the burning body would poison the surrounding atmosphere. The test of yesterday proved that the gases can, and are consumed in the furnace, before reaching the Sue through which the smoke passes to the air beyond. The experiment yesterday proved another thing incontestably. Two hours and twenty-seven minutes were consumed in the cremation of the body of the Baron, and as a preliminary to the cre? mation it was uccessary to maintain a fire in the furnace during thirty-six hours, so that it may be brought to a proper degree of heat for the reception of the body. In the actual work of in? cineration but forty bushel of coke were used. These facts show that the system is yet in its infancy here, even in the ap? plication of facilities. The furnace of Dr. Le Moyne is susceptible of many im? provements, whereby there would be much saving of time and fuel. At the exhibition at Vienna Professor Brunetti displayed the ashes of a man whose corpse weighed ninety pounds.? The body was reduced to ashes in about four hours, at an expenditure of about 160 pounds of wood. The furnace he used was oblong in shape, and was made of refractory bricks. Tbe greatest success in the matter of furnaces has been achieved by Siemens. His furnace is constructed ou the princi? ple of regenerative heat. To build it costs about $1,250, or about $600 less than that of Le Moyue, and it will incinerate a body of 200 pounds weight in one hour, at an expense of 75 cents for fuel. The wife of Sir Charles D?ke was cremated in a furnace of this description at Dres? den in 1874. Yesterday's cremation vividly recalls the burning of the body of the poet Shel? ley, on the banks of the Mediterranean, in 1822. The horrid details of that sad scene in Tuscany are familiar to all English readers, as Trelawney did not. fail to graphically reproduce them. That was probably the fir.it cremation in modern times. That of yesterday was the first of any time since tho settlement of this country, or, at least, the first pro? moted and successfully carried to com? pletion by.the civilized people of the country, and tbe reader of the detailed report appended cannot fail to mark tbe great contrast between the scientific cre? mation of Von Palm and the burning cf poor Shelley. THE CREMATION. The successful cremation of the re? mains of Baron Von Palm in Little Washington, yesterday, was an event that will make that borough famous. But its citizens did not seem to appreciate it. Tbe majority of them are hard-headed Presbyterians, and they are prone to re ?ard the reform as a desecration of the ead. Rev. George P. Hays, the Presi? dent of Washington and Jefferson Col? lege, is a notable exception, however, and his influence has done much to mollify the people of bis sect thereabouts. The apathy of the people seemed to be a studied one, and very few of them visited Gal lows Hill during tbe cremation of the Baron. The narrow space around the building was at no time crowded. Few carriages were driven to the scene, and those were of a public character. The reception room, small as it was, was suffi? ciently commodious to accommodate the spactators in attendance. Scientific men were conspicuous by their absence, and before the cremation was over it leaked out that the slim attendance of notables was attributable to Dr. Le Moyne, who had notified them that there would be no room for them. The night before the event was a busy one for Col. Olcott. Upon him devolved the whole business of arrangement, and of this duty he ac? quitted himself very creditably. At the last moment there was some discussion as to whether the body should be inserted head or feet foremost, but at the earnest suggestion of Dr. Le Moyue the body was put in head first. THE BODY IN THE CRIB. The crib rested on the catafalque near a window in the reception room, and di? rectly opposite the door leading from the front of the building. In tbe crib were the remains of the Baron. The head only was exposed, the body being wrapped in a winding sheet of linen.?, the face was very dark, nearly black in color, but the features were natural. The tissues were flaccid, and the eyes sunken and wasted. With the exception of a faint smell of carbonic acid, the remains were odorless. The body was in such a condition that a number of physicians expressed the opinion that it would not be a difficult work to separate the skin from the muscular tissues. The odor of catholic acid noted arose from a crystali zation of that acid with which the cavity of the stomach had been partly filled. In addition to this, a preparation of pot? ter's clay was used in the process of em? balmment. The body weighed ninety two pounds. At fifteen minutes after 8 o'clock Col. . Olcott completed the preparation of the body for cremation. Frankincense, myrrh, and aromatic spices were sprink? led over it, and then it was wrapped in a linen cloth, which had been saturated in a solution of alum. A few primroses, some immortelles, a bunch of geraniums and roses, and several sprigs of ever reeu were laid upon the dead Baron's reust, and the pall-bearers stepped to the crib and lifted tbe body from the cat? afalque. At the head were Henry S. Olcott and Henry J. Newton, the execu? tors of the Baron, and at the feet were Doctor Le Moyue and Doctor Asdale, of Pittsburg. Before the body was put into the furnace tbe members of tbe Theo sophical Society broke off sprigs of the evergreen, and put them carefully away as mementoes of the occasion. The march to the furnace was a very short, one. A blast of furious bent came from the furnace when the door was opened, and the pall bearers propelled the body quickly into it. It was thought that the hrst attack of the flame would consume the coverings of the body, and to avert this the winding sheet, soaked in alum water, had been wrapped about it. The temperature of the furnace was then 1,000 degrees, and this was increased until, after tbe body was in the furnace about an hour, the temperature of the furnace was believed to be about 2,000 degrees. This was purely hypothetical, however, as there was no pyometer at hand to ac? curately determine the intensity of the heat. INTO THE FURNACE. It was about twenty-five minutes after 8 o'clock when the door of the furnace was closed upon the remains of the Baron, and, for probably ten seconds after, an unpleasant smell tainted the room. The odor was faint, but quite pronounced enough to be noted by trie spectators. A constant current of air was forced into the furnace by a blower. For the first half hour observations were made every few minutes, and uo change could be observed in the appear? ance of the body in the crib. The ever? greens had curled up on each side of the crib, forming an arch over the remains. The crib was red hot in a moment after it was was put into the furnace, and by following the line of its upper rail the body could be plaiuly seen through the small hole in the furnace door. At ten minutes past 9 o'clock the form of the body was unchanged. The wind? ing sheets had not crumbled away, and the corpse looked like a black line in a 6ea of rosy fire. Col. Olcott made an observation at this time, and expressed the opinion that . THE BODY AVAS DESTROYED, but the ashes still retained the natural form. Five minutes after this another observation disclosed the bones of the left knee, incandescent and protruding from the winding sheets. At the same moment the bare and illumined skull was also visible, and above it the ever? greens were curled into a wreath. It had been suggested that there was no draft in the furnace, but a test was made by Dr. Ottarson, and it was found that a current of air constantly passed into it. This did not circulate in the furnace, however, as the oxygen was combusted the mo? ment it entered, and the hydrogen was diffused in vapor, and therefore there was no current of air passing through the furnace. At twenty minutes after 9 o'clock the ribs on the left side showed through the linen wrappers, and a few moments after the larger bones of the thigh and leg on the same side of the body was apparent. The wreath and arch of evergreens were still intact. At 9:43, another observation was made. Then it was impossible to distinguish the outline of the body. The furnace was in a rosy glow, and a slight mist rose from the body, and filled the space below the arch. From the midst of what appeared to be a molten mass in the crib tue evergreens rose in faint black lines, but in perfect form. At ten minutes to 11 o'clock, Col. Ol? cott, Dr. Le Moyne and Dr. Asdale, and three health officers, made extended ob? servations. The crib was pushed forward, and the moment it was moved there was a great crumbling of the body. Dr. Ot? tarson announced that the incineration was almost complete. So great a portion of the body had been reduced to ashes, and had fallen to the bottom of the re? tort, that the lower rails of the crib upon which the body had rested were exposed to view. The pelvis had not then been incinerated, ana the sprigs of spruce were still in perfect form. INCINERATION COMPLETE. At 11 o'clock the incineration was complete, nothing being left of the Baron but three pints of ashes, quite enough to fill the small urn which rested the top of the furnace during the cremation. The heat was kept up in the furnace un? til 12 o'clock, to mate the assurance of the completion of the work doubly sure. During the process of the cremation, men were sent into the surrounding coun? try to make observations of the effect of the smoke upon the atmosphere. There was no perceptible taint of the pure, crisp air. The smoke ascended in a steady volume during the whole time, and was diffused about the neighborhood by the sharp mountain winds. It was as pleas? ant Jto the nostrils as any smoke could be. There was no odor about it at all, and it was much to be preferred to the black clouds that rise from our manufactories. At 12 o'clock, Col. Olcott and Dr. Le Moyne made a last inspection of the re? mains, and the cremation was declared to be complete. What was left in the fur? nace still retained the outlines of a human being, but it required but the coyest touch of the gentlest summer zephyr to crumble it into an indistinguishable pile of ashes. The gentlemen upon becoming satisfied of this ordered the fire to be drawn and the crematory bricked up. To-day, at 12 o'clock, the'ashes will be carefully collected and deposited in an antique vase, procured by Col. Olcott for the purpose, from the region of the Upper Nile. The vase or urn is of red clay, and in shape is very like those found in exca? vations in eastern ruins. Brass handles are on both sides. A brass plate, with the following inscription, will be put upon one side of the vase: "Joseph Henry Louis Charles, Baron De Palm, Grand Commander of the Sovereign Order of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusa? lem, Prince of the Roman Empire and Knight of St. John of Malta." The ashes will be sprinkled with perfume be? fore being enclosed in this receptacle, after the old custom of the ancient Ro? mans, and especially the Greeks. The urn will be taken back with the party of the Theosophical Society and kept by them in their temple in New York. DR. LE MOYNE. Dr. F. Julius Le Moyne is a gray haired man, now very nearly eighty years of age, of French parentage, and was born and reared at the place he resides. His life as a medical man has been a success? ful one, and he has had, and has yet, a large practice. His wife, a Miss Bureau, died some years since, leaving, besides the Doctor, the following family: John Le Moyne, present Democratic member of Congress from Chicago, Third District of Illinois; Frank Le Moyne, M. D., partner of Dr. James King, of this city, and Julius Le Moyne, who prefers an ag? ricultural life in Washington. His daughters are Mrs. J. A. Wills, of Wash? ington, D. C.; Mrs. Harding, of Wash? ington, Pa.; Mrs. Nicholas Wade, form? erly of Pittsburg, now of Columbus, Ohio, and a lively young lady who stays at j home, who vowed last evening that her' life of late had been made hideous by the unceasing calls of the newspaper men, or j words to that effect. Mrs. Wills keeps house for the old Doctor in the substantial family homestead, on Maiden street. In 1835 Dr. Le Moyne became the cham? pion of Abolitionism, and was the anti slavery candidate for Vice-President of the United States, in conjunction with James G. Birney, of Cincinnati, for Pres? ident; was candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania in 1841, '44 and '47, in the latter year receiving 2,566 "Abolition" votes. In 1845 he assisted in the estab? lishment of the Washington Patriot, con? ducted by Russell Errctt, Esq., and which was run as an anti-slavery paper. The Doctor is well "fixed," financially, being worth, on good authority, over two hundred thousand dollars. He has made the following donations: "To the Le Moyne Normal school for colored persons, at Memphis, Tenn., $20,000 in 1865 or '66; to the founding of a professorship? in Washington an] Jefferson College?of agricultural science or something similar. $20,000, seven or eight years since; and to the founding of a library at Washing? ton, $10,000, in 1869." It seems scarce? ly fair, but to make this record complete It must be stated, that another cherished hobby of the Doctor's is that water was not intended by nature to be used for ablutionary purposes, and that he rigidly lives up to, and eloquently argues, this theory. To-day he nas the appearance of one whose end has almost come. And yet the Doctor's features bear the impress of firmness and characteristic dignity, and he talks of the time when he shall occupy the fearful white-hot retort as an affair "of the near future. The disease known as diabetes mellitus has under rained his strong system, and to walk about he requires the aid of two canes. In conversing upon his pet theme he never hesitates for a word, expression, or simile, and will brook no contradiction. the subject for cremation. Baron Joseph Henry Louis De Palm was born at Augsburg, May 10,1809, and was for a time Chamberlain to the King of Bavaria, and afterwards followed a diplomatic career. He held patents of nobility in a German baronial family, dating from 832. He came to this coun? try previous to 1860, and secured papers of American citizenship in Chicago in 1861. He invested in Chicago real estate and mining operations, but with indif? ferent success. After living in the West for a time he went to New York, and there, by his learning and accomplish? ments, gained an entrance into cultivated society. He aided in organizing the Theosophical Society, and became one of its prominent members. The Baron had always taken a deep interest in philoso? phical scientific research, and the line of study pursued by the Theosophical Socie? ty aroused his earnest attention. The purpose of the society is to study the his? tory of ancient mystic symbols, religion and science, the psychological powers of man and his relations to the laws of na? ture. They seek to obtain knowledge of the nature and attributes of the Supreme Power by inquiring into physical laws. In short, the aim of the society is to study the Supreme Being by processes directly opposed to the lessons of revela? tion. Baron De Palm willed all his world? ly possessions to Henry S. Olcott, Presi? dent, in trust for the society, and left in? structions that his funeral should be a simple ceremonial in accordance with the rites of the ancient Egyptian ritual, and he expressed a wish that no Chris? tian clergyman should be present at the funeral. A Masterly Summing Up of the Situa? tion. The Hon; Joseph Pulitzer, of St. Louis, Mo., has written a review of the political situation for the St. Louis Times, which is by long odds the best document of the kind yet issued. We give his conclu? sions : Mr. Tilden has carried the Electoral College beyond any question, if you count either of the three Southern States. Mr. Tilden has a majority of 18 elec? toral votes, if you count all these three States. Mr. Tilden's popular majority is over 1 300,000 votes, or larger than that of Grant in 1868. Mr. Tilden has received the largest I popular vote any candidate ever received I ?larger even than Grant's vote in 1872. Mr. Tilden has the present House of I Representatives, by an overwhelming ma? jority, to support him. j Mr. Tilden will have the next House of Representatives by an absolute major? ity. Mr. Tilden, in any conflict, would have the Legislatures and Executives of twen? ty-one States in the Union to support j him, including the States of New Jer? sey, New York, Connecticut and In? diana. Mr. Tilden will have very nearly the entire half of the population of such States as Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois to support him in any conflict. Mr. Tilden will have nearly one-half of the United States Senate, only from two to four votes less than an absolute majority, to support him. Mr. Tilden will be the Constitutional and only President if by virtue of the throwing out of Southern votes, the elec? tion is thrown into the House?if ever should come to a conflict. Mr. Tilden?if Grant's desperadoes should dare to declare Cipher Hayes elected in open violation of the Constitu? tion by a mere rump of the Senate?could issue a proclamation as the only Presi? dent supported by the only House of Representatives, calling for one million of men. Cipher Hayes, and everybody engaged in his enterprise, would be trai? tors and rebels to their country, and for? feit their lives. For these reasons I don't think there is much ground for serious alarm about the final result. But should it come to the worst, we would be defending only law and Constitution, liberty and self government, the Union and the Repub? lic, and Kellogg, Grant, Morton, Hayes & Co. would be the rebels fighting against their country. But mark my prediction?they will never let it come to this. A Materialized Hole.?Take a sheet of stiff writing paper and fold it into a tube an inch in diameter. Apply it to the right eye, and look steadfastly through it, focussing the eye on any con? venient object; keep the left eye open. Now place the left hand, held palm up? ward, edgeways against the side of the paper tube, and about an inch or two above its lower end. The astonishing effect will be produced of a hole, appa? rently of the size of the cross section of the tube, made through the left hand. This is the hole in which we propose to materialize another and smaller hole. As we need' a genuine aperture, and it would be inconvenient to make one in the left hand, let a sheet of white paper be substituted therefor and similarly held. Just at the part of the paper where the hole equaling in diameter the orifice of the tube appears, make an opening one fourth -in diameter. Now stare intently into the tube; and the second hole, de? fined by its difference of illumination, will be seen floating in the first hole, and yet both will be transparent. The illu? sion, for of course it is one of those odd pranks our binocular vision plays upon us,1 is certainly one of the most curious ever devised. Besides, here is the actual hole clearly visible, and yet there is no solid body to be seen to define its edges. It is not a mere spot of light, because, if a page of print be regarded, the lines within the boundaries of the little hole will not coincide at all with those sur? rounding it and extending to the edges of the Targe apparent aperture. Each eye obviously transmits an entirely dif? ferent impression to the brain, and that organ, unable to disentangle them, lands us in the palpable absurdity of a materi? alized hole.?Scientific America?. ? Atlanta Constitution: A Macon man who fell over a town cow on his way home the other night and tore his clothes, is talking about bringing suit against his mother-in-law for misrepresentation. The old lady evidently takes no stock In such accidents, and to one who has never fallen over a cow, any fair recital of the accident would seem absurd and exag? gerated. INAUGURAL ADDRESS. Cor. Hampton's Position in this Crisis. Gentlemen of the Senate and Howie of Representative*: It is with feelings of the profoundest solicitude that I assume the arduous du? ties and grave responsibilities of the high position to which the people of South Carolina have called me. It is amid events unprecedented in this republic, that I take the chair as Chief Magistrate of this State. After years of misrule, corruption and anarchy, brought upon us by venal and unprincipled political ad? venturers, the honest people of the State, without regard to party or race, with one voice demanded reform, and with one purpose devoted themselves earnestly and solemnly to the attainment of this end. With a lofty patriotism never surpassed; with a patience never equalled; with a courage never excelled, and with a sub lime sense of duty, which finds scarce a parallel in the history of the world, they subordinated every personal feeling to the public weal and consecrated them? selves to the sacred work of redeeming their prostrate State. To the accomplish? ment of this task, they dedicated them? selves with unfaltering confidence and with unshaken faith, trusting alone to the justice of their cause, aud commend? ing that cause reverently to the protec? tion of the Almighty. When the corrupt party which for eight years has held sway in this State, bringing its civilization into disgrace and making its government a public scandal, saw that the demand for reform found a responsive echo in the popular heart, and that the verdict of the people would be pronounced against those who have degraded the State, they ap? pealed to Federal intervention, and by a libel on our whole people as false as it was base called in the soldiery of the United States army to act as supervisors of our election. In a time of profound peace, when no legal officer had been resisted in the proper discharge of his functions, we have witnessed a spectacle abhorrent to every patriotic heart and fatal to re? publican institutions?Federal troops used to promote the success of a political par ty. Undismayed though shocked by this gross violation of the constitution of the country, our people with a determination that no force could subdue, no fraud could defeat, kept steadily and peacefully in the path of duty, resolved to assert their rights as American freemen at the ballot box?that great court of final resort, be? fore which must be tried the grave ques? tions of the supremacy of the constitu? tion and the stability of our institutions. What the verdict of the people of South Carolina has been, you need not be told. It has reverberated throughout the State, and its echoes come back to us from every land where liberty is venerated, declaring iu tones that cannot be mistaken that, standing on the constitution of our coun? try, we propose to obey its laws, to pre? serve, as far as in us lies, its peace and honor, and to carry out in good faith every pledge made by us for reform and honest government. " We intend to prove to the world the sincerity of our declara? tion that the sole motive which inspired the grand contest wc have so successfully made was not the paltry ambition for paltry supremacy, but the sacred hope of redeeming our State. It was this nope that led our people to a victory which was grander in its proportions, greater in its success, nobler in its achievement and brighter in its promise of prosperity than any other ever waged on this continent. But it was sought to wrest the fruits of this magnificent victory from the hands that won it by a gigantic fraud and a base conspiracy. When the members elect to the General Assembly repaired to the Capitol to take the seats to which the people of South Carolina had as? signed them, armed soldiers of the Fed? eral government confronted them, and their certificates of election were exam? ined and passed upon by a corporal of the guard. A spectacle so humiliating to a free people, and so fatal to republi? can institutions, has never been presen? ted in America. It could not have been witnessed even here, where civil liberty has for years been but a mockery, had not the ruthless hand of military power struck down the most sacred guarantees of the constitution; for the tread of the armed soldier, as he made his rounds through the halls of legislation, was over the prostrate from of liberty herself. It was amid theae ominous, these appalling scenes, that the members of the General Assembly were called on to assume their duties as the representatives of a free State, and that State one of the original thirteen who won our independence and framed our constitution. That the natu? ral, patriotic indignation of our people did not find expression in violence, is creditable in the highest degree to them, and this was due in a large measure to the statesmanlike and dignified conduct of those members of the General Assem? bly who had been made the victims of this gross outrage on- their persons aud this daring conspiracy against their con? stitutional rights. Debarred the free ex? ercise of their rights by the presence of an armed force, a legal quorum of the lower House, after placing on record a noble protest, quietly withdrew from the Capitol and proceeded to organize that branch of the General Assembly. Not one form of law nor one requirement of the constitution was wautingtogive force and legality to this organization, and that its authority has not been fully recognized is due solely to the same armed usurpa? tion which has subordinated the civil to the military power throughout this whole contest. Of the disgraceful, dangerous and revolutionary proceedings resorted to by the defeated party after the organi? zation of the lower House, it is needless for me to speak. You nave been the witnesses and the victims of these, and the civilized world has looked on with amazement, disgust and horror; you have seen a minority of that House usurp the powers of the whole body; you have seen the majority expelled from their hall by threats of force; you have seen persons having no shadow of a claim as members admitted to seats as Representa? tives by the votes of men who themselves were acting in direct violation of the constitution; and you have seen the last crowning act of infamy by which a can? didate for the office of Governor, defeated by the popular vote, had himself declared elected by his co-conspirators. I make no comment on these flagrant outrages and wrongs; it pertains to the General Assembly to take such action in regard to them a9 that honorable body mav deem proper. But it is due to my position as the Chief Magistrate of this Common? wealth to place on record ray solemn and indignant protest against acts which I consider as subversive of civil liberty and destructive of our form of government. These are questions which concern not us alone, but the people of the United States, for if acts so unauthorized and so uncon? stitutional are allowed to pass without rebuke, popular government as estab? lished by the constitution will give place to military despotism. Our duty, the duty of every patriot, is to demand a strict construction of the constitution and a rigid adherence to its provisions. We; can only thus preserve our liberties and* our government. A great task is before the -eonsefvutire party Of this State. They entered on this contest with a plat? form so broad, so strong, so liberal, that every honest citizen could stand upon it. They recognized and accepted the amend? ments of the constitution in good faitlf* they pledged themselves to work reform and to establish good government; they promised to keep up an efficient system of public education; and they declared solemnly that all citizens of South Caro? lina, of both races and of both parties, should be regarded as equals in the eye of the law, all to be fully protected in the enjoyment of every political right now possessed by them. To the faithful observance of these pledges we stand committed, and I, as the representative of the Conservative party, hold myself bound by every dic? tate of honor and of good faith to use every effort to have these pledges re? deemed fully and honestly. It is due not only to ourselves but to the colored people of the State that wise, just and liberal measures should prevail in our legislation. We owe much of our late success to these colored voters, who were brave enough to rise above the prejudice of race, ana honest enough to throw off the shackles of party in their determina? tion to save the State. To those who, misled by their fears, their ignorance or by evil counseling, turned a deaf ear to our appeals, we should be not vindictive but magnanimous. Let us show to all of them that the true interests of both races can best be secured by cultivating peace and promoting prosperity among all class? es of our, fellow-citizens. I rely confi? dently on the support of the members of the General Assembly in my efforts to attain these laudable ends, and I trust that all branches of the government will unite cordially in this patriotic work. If so united and working with resolute will and earnest determination, we may hope soon to see the dawn of a brighter day for our State. God in His infinite mercy Sant that it may come speedily, and may e shower the richest blessings of peace and happiness on our whole people. ABRAM S. HEWITT'S TIEWS. He Claims that Tilden Is Elected and will be Inaugurated. Washington, December 7. The Democrats are determined to stand upon the single vote from Oregon, and to insist that it elects Governor Tilden. Mr. Hewitt said in conversation this morning: "You Republicans may take either horn of the dilemma you choose. If you maintain that there is no authority for the House to go behind the face of the returns, then Tilden has 185 votes certi? fied in accordance with the forms of law. If you insist upon investigating the Oregon case, then you concede us the right to do the same thing with the re? turns from South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana; and we shall throw out those State or count them for Governor Tilden. In either case, the result will be the elec? tion of Tilden." Mr. Hewitt was asked if he fears that the trouble will go so far as a resort to arms. He replied that be could not tell what revolutionary measures the Repub? licans might take, but that Mr. Tilden was lawfully elected, and will be inaugu? rated. As to a compromise of tbe diffi? culty, which was tbe last subject touched upon in the conversation, he said that tbe only one which the Democrats could en? tertain would be for the House to elect tbe President and the Senate tbe Vice President?an arrangement unjust to Mr. Hendricks, but one which he felt sure that gentleman would agree to rather than risk any disturbance of the public peace. He did not think the Democrats would assent to the creation, of the con? tingency in which the President of the Senate must administer the executive of? fice for a year, and a new election be held next November. The Oregon Election?A Checkmate and a Surprise. The news from Oregon puts the Repub? lican party in a position resembling that of the donkey, renowned' in fable, who found himself between the two bundles of hay. That venerable descendant, (or, perhaps, progenitor) of the animal who found his tongue when cudgelled by Ba? laam has served many uses in the contro? versies of the learned. The metaphysi? cal philosophers have ridden him with Sreat comfort and satisfaction in their isputes respecting the freedom of the will. If tbe will has no self-determining power, they say, but is always governed by the strongest motive, an ass midway between two bundles of hay of equal size and quality would be unable to decide from which of the two he should satisfy his hunger, and would helplessly flop his wise ears and starve with abundance of tempting food on either side. Descend? ing from, the barren heights of metaphys? ical speculation to the soft, enchanting vales of sentiment, our patient and hon? est donkey has- served as the emblem of lovers spell-bound between equal beau? ties. If the donkey between the two haystacks had possessed the gift of speech and of song he might have brayed, m plaintive strains: "How happy would I be with either Were 'tother dear charmer away!" This would seem to be the affecting condition of the Republican party since learning the last news from Oregon. "Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens"?namely, Oregon and Florida, the extreme Northwestern and the extreme Southeastern State. If the mere certificates are to be regarded as conclusive, the votes of Oregon must be admitted on that footing as well as the votes of Florida. If Congress has no power to go behind the certificates au? thenticated by the State Executives, the one Democratic electoral vote from Ore? gon gives Mr. Tilden tbe requisite 185, and he must be declared elected. If, on the other hand, Congress can go behind the certificates and decide on their valid ity, Hayes may get the one disputed vote in Oregon, and lose the votes of either Florida, Louisiana or South Carolina. Whichever horn of the dilemma Issa? char, couching down between his two burdens, may take, the result threatens to be equally fatal. If the mere certifi? cates are held to be final, Tilden's elec? tion is put beyond question; but, if the origin of the certificates can be investiga? ted, and their genuineness and legality reviewed, there is no certainty that Hayes will retain tbe electoral votes which have been so long in dispute? The Republicans have a great deal more at stake in this controversy as to the finality of the certificates than the Democrats. They need all the votes of the three Southern States and all the votes of Oregon to give Hayes a majority, whereas the Democrats are safe if they get either the one Oregon vote, or one vote from any of the States which have been so keenly contested. If the Repub? licans refuse to go behind the certificates, Tilden is elected; if they consent to go behind the certificates they may lose the Hayes votes in the South. The Repub? lican donkey stands between these two bundles of hay; they. are in a dilemma between Oregon 'and the South, with an equal danger of being gored whether they accept one horn of it or the other. ? 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A hundred and one bodies in a single grave! One hundred and one charred, mangled, unrecognizable bodies hidden forever from sight in a great trench on the summit of Battle Hill! A hundred and one together in joyous life, together in terrible death, together in the dread moment before the Great White Throne, and still together under the winter sod of Greenwood Cemetery! Seventy-nine coffins held all that was left of the hundred and one victims of the Brooklyn calamity, whom fiiends could not recognize. Not one body was in the shape or semblance of humanity. Gnarled and knotted and smoke-black? ened, dropping to pieces under the touch, the lost hundred and one were tenderly coffined and carefully numbered. No effort was made to array them in the habiliments of the grave, for, even as they were, it was next to impossible to raise them from the floor and put them properly in the narrow boxes, stained and polished and silver studded in which they were to make the last journey to the churchyard. Even the practiced attendants at the Morgue, who undertook the difficult task of coffining the bodies, showed signs of trepidation as tbey handled the crooked forms. Then, when this was finished, a line of death was made in the improvised Morgue, and fifty-four vehicles, seven? teen being hearses and the remainder undertakers' wagons, drove one by one to the doors and carried away their terrible loads, taking them rapidly to the point from which the procession was to start. in the cold winds. The right of the line of the great funeral procession was formed at Scher merhorn street and Flatbush avenue, at two o'clock yesterday afternoon. Thou? sands stood patiently, exposed to all the fury of the icy gale that was blowing, waiting patiently and sadly for the start. Two detachments of military, with muf? fled drums, marched up, andthenata few minutes after two, the mounted police started off, and the mournful march was begun. The police, on handsome horses, headed the procession; then members of committees, in carriages; the Forty seventh Regiment, headed by its band; a detachment of the Fourteenth Regi? ment, without arms; a Gatling battery without a gun; another band heading the Twenty-third Regiment; then the terrible row of seventeen hearses, follow? ed by forty-five undertakers' wagons, bearing from one to four coffins each; then carriages with relatives and friends, carriages with clergymen aud officials, and last of all the Thirteenth Regiment and drum corps. All along the broad Flatbush avenue, up the steep hill that leads to the park of the dead, the bands played their most solemn dirges, and the muffled drums beat their melancholy time. As the coffins passed tue spectators upon the sidewalks reverentially uncovered their heads, and the women sobbed aloud. The wind howled dismally; dust blinded the eyes; the cold was almost unbeara? ble ; altogether, it was a page in her his? tory that Brooklyn will drape in folds of black. in the cemetery. The head of the procession entered the cemetery gate at a quarter before 3 o'clock, and the line went directly to Battle Hill, very near the entrance. This beautiful bluff is the highest point in the cemetery. Here a circular trench had been dug, seven feet deep and thir? teen feet wide, nearly surrounding a round, sodded space, ten feet in diameter, upon which a monument is to stand. One at a time the vehicles bearing the bodies drove up the main avenue, stopped long enough to discharge its ghastly load, and then moved out of the way down Battle avenue. Twelve cemetery em? ployees received the coffins, six men car? rying each coffin up the steep mound to the trench, and lowering it to eight men who stood in the open grave, four on each side, arranging the coffins in a double row as fast as they were delivered, the heads all pointing inwardly, on the bottom of the trench. The solemn work was necessarily slow, but bravely the thousands withstood the piercing wind and the terrible cold, wait? ing for the last sad rites. The double row of black coffins almost filled the trench, and to these two more were added ?two which had arrived before, each containing a recognized victim of the dis? aster, which bad been brought by rela? tives and friends. Sixty German singers, members of the Brooklyn S?ngerbund, South Brooklyn Quartette Club. Sch?t? zenfest and Brooklyn Msennerchor stood upon the central grass plat and sang Abt'a "Repose." The Rev. John Parker read the Protestant Episcopal burial ser? vice. The Rev. Dr. Putman, instead of the extended funeral oration which he had prepared, announced that the ex? treme cold would preclude the possibility of its delivery, and merely said a few words on the. uncertainty of life and the blessed hopes of immortality. Then the benediction was pronouncea by the Rev. Mr. Odell, and the ceremony was conclu? ded with the singing by the Germania choir of Kuhlau's choral, "Above all summits there is repose." an army of grave-diggers. Forty-two grave-diggers stood at their posts, and, at the moment that the last words of the beautiful choral died away, began the melancholy rattling of the frozen earth upon the unprotected coffins. Many of the spectators, as they turned away, dropped handsful of clay into the great grave, and many lingered till the last coffin had disappeared under the cruel shower of earth. The mournful work was soon done, and the deepening shadows of the winter's eve fell at last upon the beautiful gift of the Germania Theatre, a floral crown and cross, that alone stood between the new-made grave and the lowering heavens. The bodies of Murdoch and Burroughs, the dead actors, were taken to Irving Hall on Saturday afternoon. They had been put in rosewood, silver-mounted coffins, which bore the inscriptions sev? erally : "Claude de Blenau Burroughs, born August 12,1848; died December 5, 1876," and "Henry S. Hitchcock, died December 5, 1876," aged 31." Crosses and wreaths, the gifts of friends, covered the lid of each.-? At their head was placed a stand containing a large scroll of white flowers, with the word "Arcadian" in violet, the tribute of the members of the former club of that name. There was also a rich offering from the Order of Elks, with the mystic initials of the Order predominant. As soon as the bodies were placed injpo sition friends began to pass by the coffins. The New York relief committee has prepared an address to the public solicit? ing contributions, in which they say: "Of the three hundred destroyed, the canvass, as far as made, indicates about seventy-five cases of absolute destitution, one hundred to two hundred cases re? quiring partial assistance, and a number of exceptionally painful cases requiring continued assistance, such as old or in? valid men and women and young chil? dren thrown friendless and penniless ujojft.the world."