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BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1879. ts VOL. XV-N0.15. Piedmont, Sudar Behool Institute. Delegates from several schools in tho bounds of the Piedmont Association met with the Liberty Church on Friday be fore the first Sunday in this month, for the purpose of organizing a Sunday School Institute. Tho introductory ser mon was delivered by Rev. D. Weston Hiatt; text-Nehemiah 4:0-"So built wo tho wall ; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work." The dis coureo was practical, interesting and well adapted to the occasion. In the afternoon the above Institute was organised by electing the following named officers : President, Rev. D. Wes ton Hiatt; Vico President, S.A.Gary; Secretary and Treasurer, L. Mauldin. On Saturday, at 10 a. m., we had a Sabbath School address from Mr. 8. A. Gary, which was delivered in a very forcible aud edifying manner, deeply im-. pressing the audience with the great work of advancing the Master's cause in the way of Sunday Schools. By request, Rev. D. Weston Hiatt explained the work of the Institute, which was done with good effect. In the afternoon we had a lessou in music, ably conducted by Mr. A. A. Simmons. On Sunday morning, at 9 a. m., we held a Sunday School mass meeting. Addresses were made by Rev. W. H. Kay, Mr. S. A. Gary and Rev. D. Weston Hiatt. Tho speeches were good and well worth listening to. We then assembled at the water, where the pastor (D. Wes ton Hiatt) led two young ladies into tho water, and they vrero buried with Christ by baptism. The missionary sermon, which was an excellent discourse, was preached by Rev. F. R. McOlanahan. We then adjourned to meet with the Beaverdam Church, Anderson County, S. G., Friday before the third Sunday in May next. D. W. HIATT, President. L. MAULDIN, Secretary. Fair Flay Lodge, I. 0. of G. T. MK. EDITOR: This Lodge bas been numbered with the things of the past, or, in other words, like most similar socie ties, it has died a natural death. It was organized with eighteen or twenty mem bers, and out of this number, strange to nay, there were only two church mem bers ; but, however, the Lodge went to work, and fought bravely for eight or ten months, asking the old church members in the neighborhood to join us and thus swell our little band, in order that we might bettor contend against the great army of intemperance, which has so many men, ayo ! and women, too, in its ranks, and which ia daily growing larger and larger. Let all this bo as it may, I contend that the members of the Lodge ought to have worked the harder. There was no reason why it shonld die out in the manser it did. But, alas ! Borne of the members became disheartened, and, consequently, became irregular in their attendance, and the rest of the members soon found that they were too weak to accomplish any good, or rather they too I soon gave up the good work in which j they were engaged. Before they gave up, feeling their weakness, and, being de B?7QUS of awakening a new interest in " e community in behalf of their Lodge, they called on tho members of the church, especially those living in and around Fair Flay," to join the Lodge, but all in vain. They merely evinced carelessness, or rather indifference, to tho cause, when we thought that they should have ron? dered all the aid they could in behnlf of our Lodge. When called on to join, some cf them rnmarVoil that they hau been waiting to see whether the Lodge would continuo to hold np or not This was all tho encouragement that we, a few worldly persona, received from them, when we were doing our best to improve tho morals of our town and vicinity. Do you suppose that if the peoplo of a neigh borhood were to soe a fire, driven by a bowling wind, approaching ibsir fencing, that they would stand back and say that we will wait to see whether tho fire will reach tho fencing or not? No 1"yon would see no waiting, but tho mind of every one would bo bent upon quenching the flames before any damage could be done them. There would soon be quite an army of persons arrayed to contend against the flames, and they would fight in earnest, too. Then is it not of much moro importance to contend against the great flame of intemperance which is sweeping over our land and destroying so many persons, both morally and socially ; that flame that is wrecking the happiness and fortunes of so many of -our fellow beings. It is a plain fact, which does not requiro double glasses to behold. It requires no deductive or inductive system of reasoning to get at the troth of the matter. W? hay? tha ??tj- csussvl by in temperance dally before our eyes, and why will people not unite in its suppres sion? Has it taken ouch a hold upon our people at large, that it is too strong to be overcome? I answer, emphati cally, no 1 All that we need is unity of action and perseverance. Wo must cast asido our indifference and supply its place with energy. We must determine to win, and we can ?ria. Wilt we niiow our fellow-beings to throw themselves away without a straggle on onr part to save them ? Will we allow them to give themselves up to the demon, Intempe rance, that destroys so many, robs so many, blights so many hopes, and wrecks so marty brains, making persons totally unfit for society or earth, or to enter the kingdom of Heaven ? Let every man stand bravely .to his peat, and we can provent these direful effects-If not in whole, we can In part. P. Wlnnaboro' Newt : Col. Rion, st the ro quer t of Gen. LoDuo, Untied State? Commissioner of Agriculture^ hw recent ly sent to the Department of Agriculture two specimens of cork wood from his own tree. Tho bark sent t'j ono Inch thick. Tho Colonel's tree) ls sold ta ha the fargeet In this country. THE SIBERIAN MINES. Woy KuillUm ls Bo Widespread, la Busala. Letter from Germany. If a person of sane mind were lo in form you of his or her intention to spend a vacation in Siberia, you would un doubtedly smile audibly, and opine that the party making so audacious an asser tion would be a nt subject for the lunatic asylum. Still, I am bound to confess that I have lust returned from a trip to that Arctic region; where I mada quite a stay, in company with my friend. Robert Lemke, the eminent politic*! economist, and a student of political phi losophy, tuan whom there is noLo mon thorough and more searching. Wo b&vt been through the laud of the Nihilists ; and, however earnest we might have beet in our desire to discover important in' foran .ion, all oar efforts would have beet in vaia had not an influential Americai at St. Petersburg, whose name I hav< tiromised not to mention, given ns sad ettore of introduction that all portal were opened wide to us, and we saw ant heard what ONLY A PRIVILEGED FEW have seen and heard for a good msnj ?oara. It is easily n odors toed that th< tusaian Government, under the tryinj circumstances of the present day, is no very liberal in granting extended privi leges to newspaper men ; and, had I trav elied in that capacity, I might have beti denied access to the sources from whicl I have drawn the information about : good many things in Russia. The larg cities, however, are not the places for th accumulation of knowledge each as w desired to get ; and, after idling ? fc\ days at Moscow, St. Petersburg and it villogeatures, we started for tho Siberia) mine. Until we carno to Toliolsk, there wi still some civilization about and aroun us. But after that, wo received a fon taste of the horrors we were about to wit ncaa. For day? ?. dragged along in miserable carriage, without meeting c.v. j thing or anybody, except the lonely Qo\ crament posts, with their stupid "Starost and his subordinate Cossacks. At hu we saw in the distance a towering mout tain, and within its cleft side a colossi opening, Bi?iilar to tho pit of a volcam From within FOUL AIR AND DISAGREEABLE 8MELI sainted our nostrils, and for some timo A had to draw our breath hard. With ot pocket-handkerchiefs crammed into ot mouths, we entered the gigantic mont of tho rock. From the walls dirty wah dripped down in large drops, forming little rivulet, which gathered in a po outside the entrance. Toward the ca and the north the territory rose os hip os 4,000 feet above tho sea. A chai: several miles in length, of snow-cappc glaciers gave to the mine tho charact of an unapproachable fortress. To tl left of the entrance an enormous g\an house was built, occupied by a numb of Cossacks. The establishment w; about as filthy os any habitation for h man beings can well bo. The fnrnitu consisted only of a few rough bench and a large table. In front ot its dodi double file of muskets were etucked, h tween which a bearded Cossack marchi np and down. We showed oar letters t"?'o young officer of the day, who regar A us wonderingly, searchingly. I ?cerned at a loss to understand the gnu ing of a privilege so seldom coup ht ai so rarely granted. ' A guide wa? p;iven 1 and we passed a long, narrow and da corridor, which, to judge from the. inc nation of the floor, lcd into tho dep! The ground was so slippery and'so v? that we were in danger of falling mc than once. PESTILENTIAL MIASMA filled tho air; and, in spite of a good i cloak-the gift of a friend ia Moseow actually shook with the cold. * The dat ness was so intense that neither of could see the other. We had gone on perhaps ten minn when I perceived, far in the distance, t trembling, uncertain glimmer of a ligl and I felt sore that we were approach! tho mine proper. The ground beca softer and moro slimy, and cold mi penetrating. At ev.-./y setp wo sank ii the marana for several inches, and th was a smell of putrefaction, as in a ch nel-house. "Wo are in front of the mine," said < snide, pnlnt?n? ?O a big!* iro? rail which' surrounded a long cave--its m sive rails, through tho crevice of wb hardly a rat might have eqtieezed its being covered with rust. The locks w fastened with chains pf immense thi ness and weight. A guard made bia pcarance, and upon the word of our gu no opened thc lock hut only Wi? great deal of strength was he enabled far to tarn the railing upon its Jain that we could pass through into the it rior. We stepped into a room whi although it was large enough others hardly permitted a full grown man stand upright, and was lighted only b poor oil lamp, which left all surround things in darkness. "Where are we?" I asked tbs gu "In tho dormitory of the prisoners," answered. "Formerly this was a vi yielding lode ; now we have made it i a sleeping-room." Wo shuddered. 1 subterranean cave, into %. mch neil sun nor moon could ever '.end a ra; light, was called an apartment; ant this terrible gravo, the air of which pregnant with fearful miasma, the un tunates banished here by the unpitii law of despotism were compelled to i after the day's work, upon a poor bei straw I Into the dripping waihi of rock nlcove-liko celia bad been hollo out, and the entire room gave the pression of an enormous bee-hive. E cell harbors five prisoners during night; and above each of the single a strong iron bar waa r*?t*no.lr to w! the unhappy mortals were tocked chained like so many dogs. No doo window, no chair, no table, no shelv everywhere the naked rock and r iron 1 The straw which served as a for the delinquents was WET AND HALF ROTTEN; lt looked and felt like a mass of dung, little bag filled with straw served pillow ; a wet Bhect, made of bag-li as a coverlet. No bench-no utensil any kind. In one come; a lamp fal glimmered, in honor of the. Mado whose imago was fastened above it h old gilt frame. An insupportable dread overcame in gating apon this picture of ten desolation and misery ; and I drew a breath of relief when m paned ot the "dormitory," and into another c dor, dark as tba fi rat one, but 1er. pery. Everything was as qui? i i graveyard until we reached an ec TI cave, in tho centre of which ?tot round table and three benches. Bo' torrhes, fastened to iron rings ip the served to lighten tho hall, In the ce of which I saw a window almost coi with iron bara, through which a ?tia of daylight endeavored to penetrate, this, mingled with the torchlight, doced an efleet at once dismal gloomy beyond description. Thu the mine proper, and bera an inf nnl?A was beard, caused by the p?? and hammers with which tho exiles working the iron ore. before un wo saw several hundred ragged creatures, with terribiy rough, long beards, faces palo as death, or of a sickly yellow, with red rimmed eyes, dragging heavy chains, rat tling them at every motion, TBE PRISONERS. Not one looked healthy, and not one spoke, or sang, or whistled; they all worked io silence, looking askance at us, j j and rattling again their chains, which | j had been put upon them in the name of justice. Many of them were barefoot; a few wore tho remnants of (shoes upon their feet. The rags which covered them | \ were completely saturated with tho drip ping water, so. that they could not give to | j the shivering bodies one atom of warmth. Upon their beards I saw long icicles; and I sometimes watched one or the other . blow into his chiller! hands or shake con* j vulslvely in the icy-cold air. I shall j never forget the dreadful scene : and, in j contemplating it, I would imagine for a < moment that mountain sprites were busy j here at their hidden work ; but the clank- . lng of the chains, the groaning of the ? priBoners, and the rough cries of the task- , masters soon recalled the dreadful reality. The hammering and digging never censed. If an exile attempted to rest a little, the sharp command of the overseer soon put him to work again ; and there was a feverish, uncuay activity. One of the prisoners-a slight, fino figure, with a face the profile of which showed extra-1 ? ordinary beauty-excited our particular , attention. With visible exertion he j j Bwung bis pickaxe, and his breath came | j wheezing from the chest ; but he could not loosen the stone, and sometimes his arms fell despairingly to his side. We approached htm. "Why are you here ?" I asked. He looked np shyly, almost frightened, and continued his work. "The prisoners are forbiddon to speak about tho cause of their exile," the in spector informed ns. "Who is the prisoner?" I asked our guido. : "No. 114," ho answered, laconically. "So I see," I replied ; "but I mean his name, his family, his crime.'' : "It is Count de Parentoff," he replied .-"a well known conspirator. I am sorry not to be able to tell you more about No. 114." i The foul air almost. suffocated me. I beckoned to the guide and to my friend. He and I hastily traversed again the nar row corridors and ascended to tho world again, where the chief commander sa luted us. - "Well," ni asked, "what impression bas our institution made upon you?" We bowed in silence. He seemed delighted, and remarked ironically : "Our boys below work dili gently, do they not?" "Indeed they do," answered my friend ; "but with what feeling of relief the un happy oars must greet their Sunday, when they can take a rest." "Re?t!" he said, ?onderiogly, "they have none ; THEY MUST WORK ALWAYS !" "Always?" "Moat certainly I They are condemned to work everlastingly. He who once enters the mine never leaves it again I" "But this ia barbaric," I could not re train from saying! Ho shrugged his shoulders. "The ex iles," he replied, "work twelve hourn daily, and on Sundays, too. They are never permitted to rest. Oh I but yes twice during the year : at Easter, and on the birthday of onr glorious Emperor 1" And he removed hr. nat, as though he had spoken tho c.mo of the Lord. We bowed agf.in and hastened to go back to Tobolsk , My friend and 1 were, both very Bilent until wo got out of Bus pia. But hereafter we shall not be so very much shocked and surprised when we read of the terrible spread ofthat po litical fana?* ??am which is called Nihi lism in the gr<*it Empire of the European East. E. DENNIS KEARNEY RISES TO EXPLAIN ABOUT HIS CALL ON GRANT.-The San Francisco Post, in a recent issue, says Dennis Kearney, as usual, was tbs prin ci pal speaker at the Rani) let yesterday The only thing of interest in his speech was tho explanation of his "call" upon Gen. Grant, of which he said : AU of you have heard of the arrival in our city of Gen. Grant. He came ese rrcck ago yesterday, and was received with great honors. Looking upon him as a representative citizen, who has hr. i un usual opportunities for observatioL in foreign countries, and particularly in China, I considered it my duty as a cit? zen to visit him. and to bid him welcome in behalf of the. workingmen tn our home; to invite him to the" sand lot, and to visit our mayor elect, Dr. Kallocb, who is unable to pay his respects to this distinguished citizen. Therefore,, on Thursday morning, o'right and early, after having spent. the only twenty-five cents that I had on that day in getting shaved and bavins my shoes blacked, I went to tho Palace Hotel, wrote my name on a card, and naked tho clerk to send it np to Gen. Grant. He did so, and after the lapso of a few moments the waiter re turned and in fora cd mo that the General waa not up. I asked the waiter what he had dono with my card, and he replied that he had left it on the General's table, and that Mrs. Grant had informed him that the General was DTA np, whereupon I thanked him and left, and returned In half an hour, when the clerk told me that he was ont. Yesterday morning at 10 o'clock I renewed my "visit, sent Up my card, and waa informed by the waiter that tho General had left to visit tho Mint. I awaited, his return, and called again, when, upon scuding un my name. I was told by the waiter wno returned that Gen. Grant wished to be excused from seeing me. I thanked him and left, considering taut X had ?ono my duty. During the week, when my intention of visiting Gen. Grant, became known, I waa told that it would bo necessary that I should bo introduced by some of the persons by whom he has been surrounded since his arrival in this city. Not being d?sirons of associating or being identifled with thia class of persons, many of whom I expect to see in the striped garments of convicts before another year rolls round. I declined tho proffered assistance ana went ?lone, thc .~c?ult which I Imvo stated. I hava no comments whatever to make upon the facts, but tho working men of this country must draw their owe conclusions from them. - Next to the love of her husbsnd, nothing so crowns a woman's life with honor as this srrond love, the devotion of the son to her. And I never yet knew a boy to "tara oat" badly who began by falling in love with his mother. Any man may fall lu love with a fresh-faced giri, and the man who ls gallant to the girl may cruelly neglect the poor nnd<| weary wife. Bat tho big boy who is a lover of his mother at A middle age isa true knight, sr ho will love his wife as moch in the sere leaf autumn aa he did IQ the daisied spring. There is nothing so beautifully chi val rous aa the lovo of a big boy for his mother. - Every moral system which cannot . give to man a new heart will be aud 11 most be a failure. [ t WHALES FIGHTING. AT SE/. an old Whaler Explains Why tt> Xerefcitnt Vessel Stny Bon Into Anything. lo the Editor of the New York Awn-SIB : Da board of all merchant vessels (as the ?ark Columbia would be called in nau tical par?anos), there ia no lookout kept, lither from the vessel's deck or mast* iesd, and if any strange object is seen on the ocean by any of tho oren of a mer* jhautman, it io more by accident than de sign. That la the reason so many Ship* wrecked mariners who survive, the disas ter have always incidents to relate of vej iols passing near them and pot coming to heir rescue. All merchant vessels take as few men ia possible to manage them from port to [K>rt, for the purpose of reducing expon* ?os. There are no extra men provided igainateases of sickness or death; If a uah is off duty the others of his "watch" >u deck sro obliged to perform his part of the work. As everybody knows, it is the mle of the sea for the vessel's safety to il way? have ono-hnlf of its crew on deck when abo is upon the mighty deep. But rou can easily comprehend that if tho :rew of a merchantman is small in pro* portion to her tonage, one-half of her :rew has constant employment during he day. in fine aud fair weather to keep ;be vessel elesn and in sailing condition. The rigging of a vessel is worse than the -igging of a woman. You get a woman weft rigged and she will keep herself so Tor a while ; but the rigging of a vessel is always out of order. Of courso I am referring lo "sailing" vessels only. I have merely stated these facts to show rou that the watches on deck during the lay have all their time and attention ta* icon up "in board," in keeping the vessel in order, and that tboy rarely cast their jyes "sea board" without they expect lomcthing to cross their vision. I will vi cn t ion an incident which, occurred to ne in the Indian Ocean,. a hundred siles tc thc eastward of the Inland of St. j Paul's. Our Jgokout at mast bead, one ! lay, discovered a sail two points off our co bow, apparently standing the Bame 7ny aa ourselves on an east northeast :ourse. As the day drew along we grada* illy overhauled tho stranaer, who ap* seared to bo a full-rigged ship, with ev* irytiriug she could set, from ncr royals lown, standing, as we were, close hauled >n the port tack. When we raised her mil from our deck we 'sent the stars and itripes glancing to the peak, brought our 'lasses to bear cn ber, and expected to ;ct a response. We held our spy* .lasses to our eyes , for some time, jut we could get no responsive signal rom ber. We were now curious Our msign was of an unusual sizo and might lave .been easily seen by the naked eye rom this slow sailor o< our leo bow. (Ve gave them a better nw of our flag iv approaching nearer. We swung our hip off, hauled up, our.fore and main tails, and ran before the wind toward he ?trange vessel, which was now bot wo points forward of our lee beam. . We cept watch of her mizzen peak, expecting ?very moment to see the signal go up in espouse to ours. Nearer and nearer we brew, but although our man at the mast lead bad for some time seen the crew novo about on her deck, ehe failed to ihow her colors. We then resolved to rou down across her stern, and 'seo if she lad any name, and learn) if we could who md what she was. To briefly conclude, JO ran down across ber stern and hailed ior, and we got to leeward of her, hauled .gain on the wind, and bad lowered .one ?four quarter boats before sha got the Dutch flag to har peak. As we were itrong banded, I lowered tho quarter wat and,Selecting two Dutchman from tar crew, pulled along Bide of this Dutch Sast Indiaman and boarded her. Of ; ourse, after the first salutation that one nnstsr cf ? Vc?scl gives to a?.otuer On 1 ike occasions, I inquired tho reason why hey had not responded to oar signal and bown their colors boforo they did: rVould you believe it, they never saw our hip until we were down almost on top >f them and created a consternation imong their crew ou dock I So you see tow easily a merchant vessel may knock he end off of an iceberg. There have been two vessels-whalers -sunk hy whales, history records. Both vere sunk in the South Pacific Ocean, md both were sunk by sperm whales bulbi). These veaanl* had both sticked he whales first ia boats, which were | ttove by the infuriated monsters. The :aptaics ia each case then attacked the vnales with their ships, and in doing so vere in return attacked by the whales, ind sunk. The wbale is tba most do* die fish that swims, and thoso two cases are ho only ones. I believe, knows irv the listory of th > whsle fishery. I do not lelleve a winde attacked the bark Oolam* lia. If a whale sunk that bark It was ty accident. Two incidents in my expo* fence of wbalea strengthens my opinion. Sperm whales (the oulla only) have Ireadful battles with each other at sea, ind when fighting those battles are ob* ivious to everything around them. Two lund red mil J northwest of the Western ialanda in the Atlantic Ocean, in 1852, I was an eye witness of one of those fear* 'ol combats between these leviathans bf he deep. We bad just begun oar cruise, md were not ready to catch or lower for whales, so we ran our ship down dose to them, and evon ran on ton of hem, without being discovered. Tho lea all around *hr~" was colored with flood, and in and out of the water they fought liko demons. Again, in the C?le les, in 18561 witnessed another conflict. Then wo were prepared to take fish. Wo lowered our four boats and came ?pon them so unawares that we fastened o each whale and killed them with our ancos at once. Here, again, was th J sea til bloody, and when we hauled 'hem ilongaideof the ship long, deep . '.dzea if oro found ploughed in the aides of the whales, and the Jaws of each were torn md bleeding. We stowed down 188 bar* rois of sperm oil ont of the two. If a vessel as old ss ?he bark Columbia ihonld strike one of these sperm whales, he vessel going at the rate of six or light knots, it would start her planking ind spring her seams at tho stem ; and if he Captain or crew did not know enough o heave tho vessel, to, draw a sail under ter bow, or pump ship, why shs would ?efe" According to tbs SCOO??? I read, he Columbia's crew did nothing but lesert her when they found sba had prong a leak. Might not the Columbia lave run into a sperm wbale while fight* ng a comrade T AN OLV WH XKB. - The Democratic national committee fill bold its meeting to arrange for the ipening of tho presidential campaigu, in teston, on the 23d o.vFebruaiy next, the 12d. their customary time of meeting, ailing on Sunday. - In a recent speech at Austin, Texas, Senator Maxey advised that tbe actiona ind utterances of tho Southern people hould be regulated so as not to famish Republicana with grounds for conducting i sectional campaign. --Hon. Henry- Watterson, editor of he Louisville Courier-Journal, bas de* '?rfd his purpose to stump Norih Caro lus next year in the interest of tho Na* ional Democratic ticket. BaU-Fighting In Mexico? MATAMOBOB, August 4. I nave just witnessed a bull fight in this city-a singular scone within a milo or two of the United States boundary line. The fight was so different in many respect* from similar scenes in BorAh America and old Spain that I describe it for our readers: Tho seats around the arena aro filled with the elite of Tamau lipas,. including, many, women, some beautiful, some pretty and a good many ugly. Tho ball ls driven into the arena, a thin, gaunt animal, pale yellow or cream color, long*pointed horns, ebert head and fiery eye, oat yoong, not evidently moro than a three year ola, and sadly weakened by long fasting. He snorts and takes a hurried surrey of the scene. A picador, in red tights, runs past him and flaunts a red rag ia his face.? The ball snorts, rms his long horn, with a quick flashing motion, through the red cloth, and tears it from the man's hand. Other picadors repeat tho same thing, the brute becomes excited end chargea wildly at his torm?n? tors tboy spring lightly to one side blinding the bull with the cloth, or bound up the side of tho high fence, beyond the reach of his sharp horns. The crowd hoot and yell for tho bandarlas (arrows with strong, barbed iron pointa, winged with a profusion of colored paper cut in strips.) Tho picador most skillfully seises one in ?aoh hand, and when the now thoroughly aroused and maddened animal rushes savagely at him, plants the two bandarlas in the two sides of the animal's neck, who pitches roars *vA charges around the arena, blood flowing lively, tho colored paper streamers flying, and the crowd yelling and booting like demons. When the bull, worried and bleeding, shows an inolination to make his escape from his torturers, the crowd yell aprtiidu* lotfuegot (light him with fire.) Thon another brings what 1 ^oka like two short rockets, with hage barbed hon points, each con- lining several loaded rockets, so arranged that when struck into the bull they will at each discharge and drive the Eoint in deoper. The match is touched > the rocket, and they are hurled or driv en into tho neck or back of the brute. Ho bellow*. The fuse hisses. The rock ets explode one after another .in rapid succession, enveloping the animal in smoke. The hair is -barned from the skin, and the skin parched and burned by tho fearful explosions, resembling a ?mall cannon. Tho sharp irons are driv c further into the ! quivering flesh at every discharge. The blood streams from his wounds until, as lt happened to one of tho bulls on this occasion, ho fulls to the ground as though dead, overcome by torture and loss of blood. Now the clown announces, after tinco animals, almost precisely aliko in alzo, action, and color, had been thus bated and worried, finally lassoed, thrown down and the iron barbs palled outof their flesh, and turned oat of tho arena in turn, that they were most profoundly grateful in turo, ?Sec., and would announce the close of the pcrformanco, and that another, would take, place on some future day. His voice is drowned by a fierce roar from the crowd of "Traigen una poa man tato." (Bring in ano??or and kill him.) The clown answers: "This ls a sovereign city, and parmisaioa mast first'bo ob tained." Ho bounds up the fence in front of the officials of tho city and aska permission with - hat in hand. It ia, of course.-orranted. He announces the re cult. . The crowd cheer vociferously. The Ball enters, is bated and worried as before described. A picador seizes a short, straight, double-edged sword, makes a lunge at the bull, inflicts an ugly flesh wound in the neck. He circles around and again drives the blade down tho eldo of tho neck into his vitala. The datk blood ?T-utia Out. Tua clown ex ecute* the movement of the staggering, dying animal. The bull does not fall, but looks BO appealingly with his great brown liqaid eyes at his executioners, as if asking what they would do next. He is only terribly wounded A rope is thrown over his"horns, bis head is drawn down to the ground, and the sword forced into the nack of his neck. The dying moanst the screams of twror and agony mterea by the poor creature are heartrending to three having a heart. WOMEN ANO TOBACOO.-There are many women, wives particularly, who make tobacco a source of a large amount of family unhappiness. Tboy are everlast ingly railing against smoking, continu ally getting at swords points with every male friend and relative, and gaining nothing by it bnt a grim dsfiannA, ??hicE discovers the fact that io the long ran a man's will ia equally as strong as a wo man's when ho once sets out upon a sub ject with the preconceived determination of having his own way. Thea there is the nervous - woman who faints at the smell of tobacco smoke, and can detect a smoker a stile off; and the particular creature who is afraid of tho house and the furniture becoming impregnated with vapor. These unphilos?ph?cal wives rush to tho extremity of driving the smoker from home to indulge elsewhere in his failing for the obnoxious "weed." All this is a very grave error, and if tho little wives only knew how much un happiness might-if it has not already -j-reault from this very Droceedinc*. they would reflect twice before resorting to such petty tyranny. Let the smoker have some cozy little nook to himself where he can puff as much as be pleases without being continually tormented about it until fault-finding becomes a boro and dread to bim; let it be sacred to cigars and meerschaum, spittoons and pipes, of whatever description. He has an equal right to home and the privi leges the propriotorBhiD ahnuM Ins?r? him. iou '.viii ?od tl at ha will rot fall into the unpleasant trick of keeping late horns so frequently, and neglecting to spend bia leiarre hours at his own fire side. In the days of courtship-which bring as to young ladies who may be at present enjoying that delectable season-you would not have thought to upbraid him for '.inch small errors, much less to have driven him from your side by fainting fits and small attempts at lectures. No, no. Yea might have stowed the knowl edge of the aforesaid away in your mem ory nguii.ct the time "when yoa two shall be one," but for the time being you would have let it slumber voiceless, Just as the knowing little sweethearts of tho present generation are doing. In fact, on birthday anniversaries and holiday occasions, when yoa found you bsd pre viously exhausted every other suitable and available memento of friendship and something more, you might have active ly decided upon a smoking-cap cs your offering to hts lordship. - An Alabama woman has originated a novel industry which may prove to be an important and interesting one. She strips tho down off the feath-ars of turkey and other fowls from their quills and weaves It Into a> thick soft cloth, which can ho dyed any desired color, and ont of which most beautiful and comfortable cloaks, sacqaes, eta, can be made. His In ability to buy her a seal akin sacqao led her to make the experiment. Tho "Bloodhound" Show. John Thomas Butler, of Hamburg, 8. C., bas brought to New York a pack of hounds with which bo proposes to show the manner in which ruuawny slavca were formerly bunted and convicts are still pursued io the South. He asserts that an exaggerated Impression prevails at . tho North respecting the cruelty of this prac? tice, and Ids exhibitions are Intended to make money and also to illustrais hUj claim that the purpose of using the hounds is simply to Und and dottun cue fugitives without injuring them. He has braucht with him a negro, hamed "Sam," who is willing to play lue runa way, and a sturdy little mara, whose speed is to give him an advtntago over tue bounds. A reporter accepted an in vitation to inspect the pack before the exhibition, ana approached, with trepi dation, the stable where they wira con fined. On entering he found hiuicclf, to his surpriBO, in the midst of adosen long* headed, playful fox-hounds. "Why?' said ho, "these ara not blood-hounds." "They are as near to it as we have iii South Carolina." said Mr. Butler. "What do yo-: call them?" "We call them 'nigger* dogs, or fox dogs. They ara tho same that wera formerly used to catch fugitive slaves, and no huge savage blood-bounds, Buch ss you have heard about, can be found down there. I wan ,ted to travel a littlo, rad brought these ?dogs along to pay my expenses, and to show you all at thc North that we are not as baa as we are said to be." "Sam" mounted the maro, and rode down the bill on which the spectators Bat to the judge's stand in Fleetwood Park, where ne demounted and started to ruo at a pace that would win him a place in short-distance foot-race. He ran about a quarter of a mile just insldo the track, and then rushed in behind some bushes. Mr. Butler called his hounds by sound ing an old cow-horn, and started them in ?iursuit by a kind of "cat call." Catch-1 ng the ccont quickly, they followed, bay- ; ing loudly, and were lost to sight. The negro reappeared from tho bushes, and running quickly to tho fence, remounted tho maro and galloped around the course. The dogs came behind, at a considerable distance, taking his exact course, but when they came to where the negro had remounted they wore puzzled. IL try ing to recover the scent thoy sot across the former trail and gave up the bunt i Mr. Butler bad said bofr *o the trial that the high wind and the dry ground would make it difficult to sive a catisfactory exhibition on that day. "8am" then came up with the pack, and again started, mounted fruin the beginning this time, with the pack at his heels, and an excit ing etip. ;<j took placo around the course, with odds in favor of the ouo, She in creased her lead all the way around. Reaching tho gate "Sam" consontod to be "treed," and mounting tho high gatepost* awaited the hounds. When they found him they redoubled their noi&o, and leered high into the air. trying to reach the negro, who beat them oil with bis whip, until Mr. Butler came up and i sounded his horn, at which the barking ceased' as by magic, and the fugitive came down. Mr. Butler said the dogs would have bitten the negro, well as they knew him, had he descended .before the horn sounded, unless k * had a club with which to beat them oif. Tho mond seemed to bc that a runaway slave must bo careful to have a troo handy when the dogs overtake bim or. If he ia caught in a swamp, he should be able to cut a hickory stick in season. J. T. Butler ia not a relative of Gen. M. C. Butler. Helsa young maa of twenty-five, of pleasant manners. His father had both slaves and dogs, sud on ono occasion tracked a man three bun- j dred miles, and brought him back. Mr. Butler expects tc exhibit his dogo ia other parts of the country, and ia Eu rope.-New York Tribune. EFFECTS OV MODERN INVENTIONS ON NIQGEXI PBOOR?8S.-Old Si waited until the signal beli of the .telephoto, ceased ringing. Then said he : "You w'ite folkes is allus lamentatin' 'bout de niggers in dis county not hum* 1 pin' dereel bs na' makin' ob er livia' like unto odder folkes-how yer 'spock dey's awl ne ter do dat wid all sich convert nuns es dst dar nangin' up on ebery wall indolad'T" "Well, that ls n grave question of polit ical economy ; bat what has the tole Bhone to do with the negro making a iving?" "Dar now I dat opens de marier fer debate, I'm wid yer now. Dal's what vcr call? 'CT ;5bsr-???>??' CuMvcnsb.?n, nins hit?" "Yea, lt is." "An' whose laber do hit eave? Not de w'ite folkes'labor, do it? No! Hit's de neiggorV laber all de timo. 'Fora des* tings cum 'round byar ebery. time er gonrmon wanted ter sen' word ter his wife 'bout de company fur supper, er de bucks wished fur ter forrered er note to dere sweetheart fur ter go ter de theater, doy bunted up or slim, limber-jinted, flat foot nigger ter gallup wid de note. Dat war laber dat pado nigger er big profit on do outlay ob strenf-but how am hit now? De telerfono dun saved all dat!? "Ah 11 eeo you polntl" "Well, hit's mo' pinted dan dat I Hyar dey puts on a'r-brakes on de tra?nes and 'achargo all de nigger brakesman; you'se all turned de niggers outen do press room down Biara an' ackohully dun gone ter fold.*' papers by rnerehenry ; an' down dar tor do boss' house de odder day I seed dey bcd er fiyin'-jinny od de ta ble dat skeers off de flies by some kin* or clock-work 'rangement I" "But, old follow, these are great helps "Dat's what dey say, but I's moughty jnblous on nigger progriss in sech times ex dose. Ennybody what kno'a er nigger kno's dat he wam't cat ont ter llb in et country full er Yankee nosh! ns an' double-back-ackonun convensbuns ter beat 'em outen de odd jobs dey woe fetched up ter do 1" "You darkeys must take advantage of these things I" . "Jess v> 1 But bow'a we gwins ter do hit? Dat'? do nint wid me! But ! boas', efl WUK tu rn'tl loose' in do patent offis bout er day wid dis ole ax dere'd be.mo' labor fer niggers in dis country do nex' week dan all dom wha'rs heah an' What's in Afriky sense do Zulus got lick'd by de Britishers could do! Don't yer try me!" And tho old man made a mouth at the telspbono and went out wistlicg, "Auld Lang Syne."-Atlanta Constitution. - The Baltimore American entertains hopes of a revival ia the Republican party ia the Booth. It says: "Re cent trustworthy advices from South Carolina and Texas report serious distan cions among the Democrats of both States that may provo a powerful force for party dlamtergration. Ia Texas there is ev?ry prospect thai iwo indepen dents, pledged not to act with the Demo crats, will ba elected to the next Con gr???, ?u? in South carolina there seems to be oo doubt tba; tho Republicans will effect a perfect organisation daring the coming roar." A Letter from the Daughter of Agent Heelier. DEN VEE, COL., October 9. Tho following 1? a letter from Miss Meeker, daughter of Agent Meeker, re cently murdered by. tao Utes at the White River Agency : ; GRKELEYI, October 9,1879---L aa, tho eldest daughter, of the martyred. Agent Meeker, of the Wbjt? Riv?* Agency, wish to express my feeling* in limited way about this horrible massacre. Had them .been half as much expedition and force put in operation from the timo of my father's calling for troops until thebsttie jw .there has DOAB ?ince the battle this horrible massacre would neror have oc curred. The government with ita slow movements bas let my father bo murdered .?hon it could have.been prevented, My .atber wrote Governor Pitkiu on Septem ber 10 that bia and all the 3vea at the agency were in peril, and requested troops. After three weeks' delay so small a detachment was sent that it was overcome, giving the Indians more power tb An they bsd before. Had tho cow-boys of Colorado been called out on Septem ber 10, they would havo reached there in time tosave the lives at tho, agency; and ,thoy would have made BO clean a work pf tho red dovila that It would have boen jK~rd to find one alive to day, i The life of ono common white maa bi .worth more tbaa all the Indians from the beginning of their creation uotll the pro fee nt timo, and yet euch a man as my fa ther, with brains, intellect aud power to move thu thoughts of men-his lifo ia w ignominioualy put out by tho hand of a savage foe whose life or soot is not worthy of a dog, and no power. Ip th? land to Btay the deed. What a magnan imous government we b^ve to pamper a set of creatures whose existence should havo been a thiug of tho past long ago. < Oh, my father I Gould I have .but died ia your stead I My protector,,my hope anTjoy I Oh, tho broken heart of jwidowa f laughters and cintera who to-day at tbia hour mourn the loss of their.dear martyred ones who were their support, love, life and1 their all 1 They aro now gone from their side forever, with only BO?? row and desolation foi- thor comfortei through life. Who can pay the price ol this mighty woof Truly, the blood ol tho martyred: ones cries out for ven genaco, and shall tho voice of anguisn bt huahed? ROSE MEEKER. ! TEACH YOUB BOYS.-Teach them tba ja true lady may be found in calico quit? as frequently as in velvet. j Teach them that a common schoo education with common sende, is far bet ter than a college education without il. : Teach them that one ' good' hones trade, well mastered, is worth .a dozei beggarly "profeaalons." . [ Teach them that honesty is tho bes policy, that 'tis better to bo poor than U oe rich on the profita of "crooked whls Ikey," etc., and point your precept by th examples of those who are now suifeiinj the torments of the doomed. ; Teach them to respect their eidero am themselves. ? Teach them that, as they expect to b raen some dan, they cannot too soo: learn to protect the weak and helpless. Teach thom that to wear patch? clothes is no disgrace, but to wear black eye ls. Teach them that God ls no respect* of ?ex, ac? that when He gave the seven! commandment He meant it for then, i well as for their sisters. Teach that by indulging; their deprave appetites in the worst fors?a of dissipate (hey aro not fitting themselves to becca the husbands of pure girls. ! Teach them that It ta better to bo a honest man seven dava in the week tht to bo a Christian (f ) on J day and a villa! six days. I A GOOD REASON-T-T'T bear that it hi been decided to have nothing but nat.ii California wines at tho Great Bassaot j Sah Francisco," remarled ? man ou street yesterday. "Yes; that's the idea," said half dosen within bearing. I The first speaker w ja lost in reflootic for several minutes, *?uen he continue "ItT moko trouble, sae, if they usa CW ?>mia winos." 1 Every maa ia the group seemed io ' fishing ap somothing from his memoi and one after another they expresar their views. 'Tt was five years ago," said the fii speaker, "that I first tackled Callforn champagne. I called on a lady and a opened two bottles, l.drank 'em bot ait natone glass. Pretty soon I Inhalt the lady, beat her poodle to death witt chair, kicked nchild, broke np the mirrc and gass fixtures, and was dragged o of the house by tho {voiles. Next d the husband came after me. with a G shoo 7 and demanded an explanatic i simply told hi- his wife bad open some California wine. . He grasped x hythe band and ?aid nc apolegtes wi necessary." Here every listener looked a moment tho speaker and they all murmured concert : "Yon bet ; I've been there." REAPING TWENTY SOT/ABB MILES WHEAT.-The poetry of the harvest fi will have to be written; A correar* dont of the Chicago Tribune, writ from the Dalrymple farm, furnishes rough materials for ono canto. "Just think," ho saya, "of a sea wheat containing twenty square mile 18,000 acres-rich, ripe, golden ; i winds rippling over it. Aa far aa the < can see there fa the aame golden aun hue. Far away on the horizon you I hold an army -waning alt**** fa ^e procession. "Riding on to meet it j see a major general on horseback-1 superintendent; two bri/rndier* on hor back-reapers. No swords flash in I sunlight, but their weapons ar<> mon) Wrenches and hammers. No brass ba no drum beat or shrill noio cf 1 fife, but the army moves on-a sr phalanx of twenty-four self-binding re ero-to t?r> music of its own mac ~n# At ooo sweep in a twinkling, a sw*\i one hundred and ninety-two feet i bc??oufc aim bonna--the reaper toss tbs bundles almost disdainfully into air-each binder doing the work of m?. Io ali there ar? 116 self-bind reapers at work. During tho han about 400 mea aro omployod, and dur thrashing OOO-their wages being $ day with board. It ia said the carrier-pigeons fitch Bight and therefore that; although t! can cover three or four hundred m without a rest, they could not fiad tl way to laud over throe hundred odie trackless ocean. Soma Antwerp.rb were pat ou board a ship going to Boat At a distance of ..ona bund miles from homo tLr/ were oat cf their cage. Thor would return home, but kept flying about vessel. Tho inference ie that they, sot know the way back. j . ? H ???ir- - People learn wisdom by expone A man never wakes ur> hts second b to sea H l??gh, h?? 'allays kvcpa Boll's Baby Syrup handy. GKNEBAJD SEWS f?U&HABX j -- The only woolen ta?1, in Texas ls at ?New Brauufels. Last year the pronta ?were $31,000 - If a mari have love in his heart, ho may talk in broken language,; hut it will' be eloquence to those who listen. j -- It is said that mummies make good limp-black, and nowj thank heaven, we ?know what Jane SwbaUelm was made; - Mora lawlessness Sn tho South. A georgia paper profaces a duh notice to Hits delinquent subscribers with ?cut of & 'doub.ts barrel shot guo; . j --A lively old womat; in North Car olina cooked ? big dinner for the friends who came to cel?brate bet ,00th birthday t and, unless the local paper .?he still livesj though that occurrei sereu yean ago*, . - According toa Washington dispatch to . tho Cincinnati Commercial, Southern Democrats laugh at the story that they 'fear' the loas of Louisiana, Mississippi ,and Florida at the next presidential olcc faon. j --Presldeut Grcvy deserves tho gratl ludo o? tho traveling public for. vetoing the plan adopted by tho municipal coun cil of Paris for re-naming, the otreets of the Empire, such as tho Hue Bonaparte, {tho Boulevard Hau win ann and the Hue C&mbaceres. Such, a proceeding, aside ,from the confusion it would occasion,' would be of a piece with (ho Commune's .overthrow of tho Vendome column. - Gen. Chalmers' diagnosis of Gener al Woodford'* case is probable i the Cor rect one. Woodford does not believe in ith'e jury system whet? fjqr.his.client Iosep"j; [it is only when bo xvins that it becomes, tko palladium, otc. GchoraVWoodford ls jalao incensed because ho was treated like ja gentleman. He wanted to be outraged 'and wasn't. He returns to Now York an nnpt.r.MMiv-i -^iad-W-~*aH Cf BOUUd and fury, aigoffying nothing, i - Mrs. Keto Chase Sprague was 89 jvea?B old on the 18th or last August, [Tho Bible says so. In Mr. Chaae'fl diary ?at tho time of his daughter's birth occurs ;tue following remarkable entry: "Tbs 'babe IB pronounced pretty but I think it ?inuit? otherwise. It is, however, well formed, and. I em thankful. May God ive the child a good understanding that, bo may . keep His , commaridmeate." Iss i poor father I Poor daughter 1 - J3ib Bank of England was . incor rated In 1049. It covers five acres of und and emplojB 900 clerks. There nb windows on tho street; light la raittcd through open courts. No mob: uld tako tho hank,. therefore, without anon to batter the immense walls.. The, , lock in the center of tho bank has fifty fi iain attached to it. Largo cistorns aro Bunk in the courts, and engines in perfect order aro al wave in readiness in case of Ire. - Aman in Kansas who represented himself ai a "practical farmer" visited ill the fain with a prize pumpkin, and ? took the premiums . every time. It measured eovoa feet around and weighed 230 pound?. Several days ago, at Coun cil Grove, a rival farmer attempted to tap tho pumpkin, in the absceuco of its own er to getBomo of thoseed}, and he discov-, ercd that it was made of wood. This boats the ingenious Connecticut invention of bass-wood cucumber seed, i - When the present Popo was a Car dinal he cherished the idea of publishing a Catholic, journal that: should bo au organ for his church, sud that could bo. road by . all tho people, of Europe and America ia their mother language. Sinco bis elevation to the Pontificate, be has exerted himself to start this newspaper, ?nd now announces that ita first number ?will bo issued next month. It will be < , printed lu seven different languages; it will diacnua ibo political and economical - questions of th o'day, and offlci&lly repre- . sent tho opinions of tho Holy See. Thc . compositors aro to bo .tho deaf arid dumb pupils >n tho aayiums of Home. Ali-, mond? will be-the general suporinteo deni. and thc Pope ia auauima thai a .car dinal Bb oui d be at the head of tho edito rial department Tho novel paper will i start with 43,009 ta&BeriberB- - Very few of this number are; Italiana.. ; --Tho arrsst by the police of a child ??a years old has revealed tha exf^esce of cae of those mysterious branches of industry carried on ia Peria under 'cover bf darkness. Tha child ia question had bean observed by the guardians of the peace loitering, with a big wicker cage? along, the rtreets, and making .midden atabes into docrvrayc after some invisi ble object. Thia object wai found, on a dsssr ?atdi'tob? invariably a elland a ?e?ee-rati thuCgut. himself Jhs?fied in asking tho little vagabond his business. "Ob, I ?rn hunting cats," re plied the boy, "but I bavn't cono much bo waa tb??, seal out at night to capture tho unlucky felines ' by hw father, who employed tho day in Belllnfif tia r^ills of bia sou's nocturnal prowUogs to tho i keepers of eotiug houses. What the lat* I ter did with tho cata is net stated, . -- "VVheu Mary Queen of Scots was a Srisoner in the Castle of Lockburne in tie winter and early ?pring of 1588, she [drewyoung George Dcuglas, the strip ling brother of William Douglas, tho ' Governor cf Lccbbsra, ?sto her favor for the purpose of effecting her escapo. Tho youth was woo completely. On tho evening of tho 2d of May, 1568, tho keeper and his family being itt table, George seized the keys and fled across tlio lake with the royal prisorior. For this romantic allegiance Queen 2?aiy presented to George Douglas, a lock of h : hair.. Now it so came about that as thno roUed on thisjock--of a tiilken ter tuia MU\1 "uaiuuim paie auburn-was foand among Eomc old papers, ?t "Wishaw," ono of tho, estates of tho Douglas family. And ok time again passed when the late John Carrol Brent visited the ?ato Mrs. Catharine Pye Douglas, of Hose Hall. 8cot!ahd, a rela tive, she showed him the lock, and, dying sovea yearn later, in 1847, bequeathed it to him. At tho death of John Carrol Brent it fell Into the possession of his elster. Mk? CD, Brent, of Washington, p. fi. who is sow ai Bedford Sprie"*, aufl wno herself kindly told the Lynch burg yew?, of last Thuraday, all about tborolic. . ? 1 MANUMISSION OF Stavxs ra OrjnA.-^ A commercial house ia Now Yorkies furnUhed tho following advices from their correapwO^te. to Havana, oatcd tho l$th Instant ; The alcalde corny Ider (mayor) of Havana, Mr, Auto uioGoara ?a* Mender*, has .given freedom to all bis slaves, three hundred in number. When thLi became known te the aegrocs * Havana they proposed to serenade the iaayor, but tho gov?rnm?is Interfered prohibited th wa from ne doing. Ino planters of St. J??o do Cuy* have held, ameetfo* and egwetL; vrith two exceptions, to freo their slaTes, but upon ^t conditions la not kuotr?. Ou iwc eiftatcc tho negroes killed their o versar? acd then won* before a jnaUcc a^aUied UIBV they had deue so O? ac-wuu?> ir* ?*u ?titment. From many bf the estates the cegroca have left and Joined the insur gents, those that remained lefhsJog ie wprk.