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tiffi i' ?' * BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 6, 1884. --; SS VOLUME XX.-NO. 17. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT ? NOW IS YOUR BEST OPPORTUNITY TO BUY Lamps, Chandeliers, Parlor and Library Lamps ! We are selling LANTERNS at bottom pri ces-something every household should have. We have the largest stock of LAMPS in Anderson, and ask that you come and see them. Elegantly Decorated Shades, Polished Brass Library Lamps, Nickle Student and Hitchcock Lamps, Silvered Reflectors, And anything in the Lamp line that you can -want. We have bought these Goods in large quantities and at manufacturers prices. Call and #et our prices before buying. Respectfully, WiLHiYE Ii WILHITE Nov 6,1884 , 17 MISS DELLA KEYS Has received a handsome assortment of FALL AND WINTER MILLINERY GOODS. TO which she calla the attention of the Ladles, and aska an inspection of her Gooda, as she is satisfied sha can givo satisfaction in both Goods and prices. Rooms In WAVERLY HOUSE BUILDING, first door above 8impson, Held & Co.'a "rug Store. Oct 2.1884 12 2m GOODS WERE NEVER SQ LOW. s fact We are prepared to Prove to oar Friendo and Customers who may favor us with a cali. E are now receiving the largest and most carefully selected Stock of General Mer chandise whicEwohuve ever purchased, and will make it to yonr interest to 1 and examine for yours ?Iv VJ. We have added to the lines usually kept by us many ow and desirable ones, embracing- . ad?es' Bress Goods, Flannels, Suitings, Shawls, &c, And the best CORSET on the market at 50c, worth $1.00. Also, a LABOE LINE OF BEADY MADE CLOTHING, ". HATS, TRUNKS, UMBRELLAS, BLANKETS, SADDLES and HARNESS. Also, the Celebrated ??NEW GLOBE" 8HIRT-the king of all Shirts. It needs nly to be worn to be appreciated. Wo are agents for the Celebrated Misbawaka Sulky Plows, Cultivators and Hand ming Plows. The "White Hickory" and "Hickman" one and two-horse WAGONS, every one of Weh we guarantee. The attention of Glnners and Farmers is called to our COTTON SEED AND GRAIN CRUSHER, y which yon can crush your Cotton Seed and make your FertWier. Get our prf.-cs on Plantation and Oin Honse 8cales, Cotton Gins, Feeders and Con sera and General Farm Machinery. / . We are at all 'times In the Cotton Market, and will do yon right. Wo will pay all es who owe us for Supplies and Guano an extra price. A large lot of HAGGING and TIES at lowest prices. McCULLY, CATHCART & CO. Oct 2,1881 12 . THIS NEW FIRM. Successors to J. G. Cunningham A Co., doa?ers In RY QQ?DS, 0KOO?BBI?S, HATS, BOOTS, SHOES, n A. ? i> yt .A ?,? ? ? ? full line of EVERYTHING usually kept In a General Stock. ?I?, th? worid-renownei^DlKl? kory Wiiffons, and tho Baggy, titbcttln ik* *oria KI UM J?. We Want all the money that is due us ^^^??f?s?^j^^^ "o, or otherwise. The Books, Nob? ?nd Acoountoof.thetatoFirm o? J.u. van ?barn & Co. are in our bands for collection, and must be settled tn some way. ?haaking our friends Sar past patronage, wq ask a continuance of the same. Come OUJNNliVGHA^I Sc FOW3?BK. 0,1884 " . < .1? THE MAGNOLIA CITY. Th? Poet of th? Si err M Discovers New Orleans, ?nd tn a Lotter Treat* of Ita Pe. callar Features and Varied Attractions. Correspondence of the Courier-Journal. NEW OBLE ANS, Oct. 24,1884. I bate discovered a city here, not far from the Mexican seas, which ie built below the levels of the river. I h.ve before me a city here where the wells are built above the ground. I have come upon a city here of nearly a quarter of a million people, where the graves aro built on lop of the earth. And the dead people in these graves which are built on the top of the ground in the heart of this mighty and antique city outnumber the living. But notwithstanding all that this is a healthful and a delicious city. The wa ter is not so bad after all. I have not yet tried the graves. New Orleans, on first sight, reminds mo of a very pretty girl with a smudged face. And it is to be admitted that she is a pretty old pretty girl, too. And she knows a tremendous lot, I can tell you. 1 But for all that, she is a girl that you can't bolp falling in lovo with nt first sight to save your life. DY THE BANKS OP THE MIGHTIEST HIV ER. It has a month and catt speak for itself, I hear you say. My friend, take oil' your hat, and be serious in hie presence. Millions of thoughtful men of Europe would gratefully baro and bow their heads here. These waters come down to us from the stormy North with their story of nearly thirty States. They have nourished and ministered to needs of a hundred millions of people. Their work is done for this year. They are on their way to the sea* to rest. They aro entitled io respect. I bavo basked on the banks of tho Amaron, gone all the way to the Ganges to see the worshipers of water, made my home on the banks of tho Nile, but no where have ? found a river at all like HUB I have come upon here. This is a strong and swift ana sweeping river. It is up and doing and entirely alive. It is an American river in its fullest senso. An independent river is thia, too, running : on its own account, turning asido for ; neither Republican nor Democrat. Maybe lt is running the Independent tickot. Maybe it is for St John,, the cold-water man. And how few Americans have seen this mighty river, or either source or mouth. I know plenty of pretty Eastern ladies who are willing to be counted well traveled. Not one of them >n ten ever saw this greatest natural wonder of the world. Lord Houghton, to whom I dedicated my book about the Amason, gave a din ner in celebration of the little circum stance, at which many American ladies were gathered. A pair of these beauties were u 3rting his lordship after dinner with the woUders of the Nile, which they had visited. Now, Lord Houghton owns about half j a county of land in Florida, and, with a pretty clear eye to business, I suppose, it occurred to him to get some account of the Mississippi as well os of that tiresome and too familiar Nile. An Englishman's knowledge of Amer ican geography is not very reliablo at best, and it is no ''isparagement to imagine that his lordship io his mind's eye located bis own Florida possessions not far from the banks of the mighty American river. You guess the sequel? But, ab, it would take a Henry Irving to depict tho disgust on that old nobleman's face as he turned and silently waddled away from these cultured and traveled ladies who had not seen their own wonder of all the civilised world-ibis majestic Mississippi, which had been all thia time flowing in their back yard, unnoticed and un known I Bat it seems like profanity to prattle on and try to pratr& and call my country's attention to tb:s silent majesty of waters. Ab, De Soto, what a tomb is yours I It was time for you to die. The Mississip pi's rushing banks were a fitting place for you to leave the world behind ; nis bo som, his great strong breast a place to make the gods envious of your rest. Like Balboa after naming the Pacific, like Moses, indeed, when looking upon tlic promised land and the rivers of it and the place of rest for his 1 people, it was your right to die and remain forever a part of that which you had discovered to your people. It is hard to escape the immense fasci nation of this vast surging, sweeping river before ms here; hard to cease say ing things of this tremendous' stream, this artery, the life blood of our broad republic. And, ob, how the poets of old -the poets when poets were upon earth -would have loved this river! There is not a poem in the world worth reading that has not rivers running all through it, from the Meander and the other little rivulets around Troy, on down to the story of the unhappy Arcadian?; whose final place of rest I can almost seo from my household. AU such places in the Bible aro made greea with ruuning riv ers. Paradise, that it might be of matebless elegance and eternal verdure, gathered three great rivers in one. This wonderous river here, like all things that are great and full of power and of splendor, ts very still, very docile seemingly, as if it might be easily man aged, led or driven anywhere. But con template ita vast volume aa its sweeps ?utl Its depth? 100, COO, 800 feet! hat is the Mississippi river. And yet, you American mud-heads, you railroad makers, you hardly know we have such ? j river in the country. Shame on you 1 Bot, airs, you may need it, need a! of it, every drop of it, to-water your stock. A THOUSAND YEARS HENCE. The Tiber is, comparatively, a rivulet But when the Bomana permitted the trees about its source to be cat down, the roots of the fallen forests let go their hold upon the soil. The leaves of the trees held back the falling rain no more. But ? down, down, down, the loosened soil, the leaves, tho decaying rocka that rotted in the eon, all .rolfed down the Mule river together year after year ; gradually at firsti slowly for many seasons, many cen turies, iud - ;rt! ; but each year aa the mountains ?i sw more bare, as the bed of the river grew more rank and full with aand and mud and muck, lt began to leave its bauk? and grow audacious as a buccaneer. The mouth of the Tiber was filled full at last. Beautiful little Ostia, the city aa Ita mouth, became a bed of fevers. And then, mark yon, sat'a peg here, end do not fail to remember this then, for the first time, was the word "mat-aria'' made a part of the classic language of the Roman Empire. The valleys , from tho mouth of the Tiber. even to Rome, began to back up and fill into malarious floods. The Pontino marshes were formed and made famous aa breeders of death. The Tiber filled up Ita bed and hacked up evan to the heart of the City of Rome. Io .1872 I tras row; d in a boat down the length of the Corso and into tho Pantheon, where the tomb of Raphael lay seven feet nader water. And all this bewv? Rome sold her wooes, her forests, for gold away ',ut in the foothills. They should hare been kept, even for the nightingales to slog in and wild beasts and wild birds to bouse io, if nothing else. Ah, every such ravishment must be paid for sooner or later. And Rome's penalty was to see her abo wolf at the door of tho tomb, her population reduced to 1,500, her place ou the msp of the world nothing, for nearly a thousand years. I witnessed year after year a more recent example. We denuded the foot.? bills of California, swept the mountains into our great river, and deluged and ruined bair a State. Our capital is to? day 10 or 20 feet below a dirty stream of diseaso that was once like silver, its bosom a tower ol health. And so. with some knowledge on this subject, I was summoned before Italy to testify aa to this, and I was sent with Garibaldi to look at 0?t!s, 20 feet under tho earth or the mouth of the Tiber. Briefly, thin city of tho Mexican seas here by tue great river, this flower town, this Magnolia land, this city where you plant and gather the orango and tho fig and all the sweet fruits that grow under the face of the sun, is only another Ostia. It is a dismal thing to say. But there are duties that must not be run away from. Truo, this wondrous river here is a thousand Tibers tied together. You say, and may believe, that it is 6trong enough to sweep its way forever .to the sea. Not so. The soft, loose soil of twenty States contributes every hour to choke it up. The sand of Illinois fills its mouth. Go on denuding, destroying, defying nnture ; and a thousand years will bury not only this city, this State, but many State?. And tue remedy is so cheap and simple. Sell no more lands up yonder in the North to be pillaged of all that nature planted here. Turn it buck into foreste. Nature knew what she was about. Set trees along the banks of every stream. Keep out the fires, make parks, places of pleasure, turn your 100,000 old pensioned tramps in there to take care of theso ?larks. And that, my neighbors of the iortb, will bo "saving the Union" to some purpose. COMING TO THE CRESCENT CITY. All tho way (rom Montgomery and down through Alabama and the State of Mississippi pines and lagoons, and lagoons and pines ; so level, green and grassy! I wanted all the time, when we struck the pines, to get out and walk among the trim, slim and open trees. Tho lagoons remind one of the approach es in Venice. No sign of lifo for hun dreds of miles, save now and thon a yoke of oxen drawing a "reeking wagon with ita dozen barrels of \ ?sin and a "darky" j asleep on the top; only a little cotton field dotted down here and there tight among the pines, little "darkies" standing there among the black stumps, bag at I side, the white cotton in tho black hand, Btauding still as the stumps about them, staring at the train as it dashed past. A thousand barrels of resin at each of the wide-anartdepots, the creaking ox wagons with their barrels of resin, or the balee of cotton ; the smell of pine forests in the air and all along as we dashed through Alabama and Mississippi, Then we come upon the home of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of unhappy histo >jr. Here we gel ? glimpse of the Mexican seas to the left. The great broad sun hat caught fire and is rushing down into thc nea beneath bim. And we are dashing on right 'gainst the sun as it falls inte the Bea. The Crescent City and the great river are fifty, forty, thirty milee away. Lagoons behind us and bayoui before us and right and left of us. Little clumps of oak and ash and beech art springing up right and left from out tb? vast brown levels of marsh ; and mer hunt here for deer, thirty miles from th? city, and Bhoot "cauvas backs" by th) ship load. On, on in tho face of the falling sun Tbe nun is in the sea. But there is i conflagration of earth and of air. Thi beavens aro illuminated. They know w< are coming. There is a scene of con quest, of discovery as we come near thi olden city hy tbe great river, all in th face of the burning heavens. Ah, doti' you know that if this sunset, this scene this water and thin land, this air an< illumination were in Europe, th?) writer there, upheld, countenanced, ?mcourege* by the country, would lin them up i1 glory, so that all the word should b compelled to come and see? Yet yoi money-mad Americans, berause you ar looking in the mud for mosey and see n beauty, starve your cc rib a. to death, an even deride them for daring to look ne ture in the face-for dating to love he and fall at ber feet and call her bcautifu "LANDING" IN NEir ORLEANS. It is not pleasant-too much like Nc York. Yet it- is something to kno-r tbs if the cabmen are BO nnmerous and c insolent as up North they are not s large, and you eau lick theo; li necessar -and it is necessary. This evil must b curbed before the people come journej lng down from toe North. I deman this, as much for the sake of the poe cabman, who no doubt bas bis babes t feed and clothe, even as well as the rei of us. And he ought not to be put t the trouble of entering tbe cars and draj f;ing his victims out by tbe hair or bee n order to get his load. That ia tc much to ask of any set of backmen i the world. THE HOTELS. They are not very great, with ouo < two exceptions, or very good. But tl .private places of accommodation are sal to be excellent and almost limitlcs This ia a city of homes, remember. Ti thousands of families who were ruin? here by the war atill have there bouse and many of them, I am told, aro ope for the accommodation of the coming? journers. As for prices, I pay $28 a week in wh ls called the best hotel bei-e, or $5 a da .nd am liable to he ''fired oat" at a dav notice any time, to give niece to some oi who hie already engaged this little'be room ; which is indeed too email for bed room, bot a little too big for a colli I see tacked up alt about the hom "Beware of Thieve?," and the Who hotel bas a sort of down-nt-tho-he atmosph?re about it which makes ot want to get back into the Alabama pin we passed through the otberday. Still am comfortable, and enjoyment is mk The food ie first rate ; ns good, if- po? ble, as io my dear old New York nob And that is the highest praise I koo This etty is ? famous place for food. A SONDA Y IN KKW ORLEANS. - I arose st 6 my first Sunday, and te a car to tbs French Market. This famo ?ica is dirty. I wish I could praise t it'? inpossible. The plea? ls pa lively nasty-dirty water floating i about, dirty people bottling, buttlit eh o uti og out their wares; and a sm that rises to heaven. Three hours tn tl famous place waa not enough time te i It all, but enough to make me sick. I turned to my hotel, breakfasted sod wc to bear tbe celebrated Carolina preach Dr. Palmer-a strong mab in 2very sen Dinner, sod then a four hour/ dr! with an editor; native of the city, ab< the vast Exposition buildings. M< than fifty acres under roof I More th thirty acres in a ?ingle building ? "\\ I jon get her ready rp I asked. "Get! ; '. ;*'? .'? ? ,; ].'}'.'? V';. . . ready? Wo have fifteen hundred ham mers driving every day. Fifteen hundred thousand nails every Jew hours will get her done mighty soon, now." Tbe buildings are a rifle-shot from the banks of the Mississippi. The place is high and dry now, of course above all approach of floods ; level as a lawn, green, cool, beautiful, with avenues of oaks that have no equal on earth ; but the grounds are going to be muddy. The ground is a deep black Oregon Camas muck ; it is the mud of Illinois, in fact, worked over and washed down and made tenfold moro sticky by it? long transpor talion. Hut of course planks-and there are plenty of them here-will keep your feet from the mud. It ia going to be simply a tremendous success. I can tell you more of tho details two weeks later. In the tbrco great Expositions of the past I wassentto report upon the show grounds. I was sent to Vienna, to Paris, and also to Philadelphia, os I am sent here, long in advance of the opening; nnd I can only say that things nero compare most favorably with tho best prospects, as I remember them and recounted them, at these other place?. And that ?B about all that I nm justified in saying now. I will Bay this, however, to my frleuds and readers-ana I have about n million, I bclievo-that any ono who fails to visit this city and these scones at this coming Fair, health and all things permitting, is simply silly. This city hopes toget somo good out of the coming show. Tue main good, my friends, will be to the North, iou want to learn some bing of the sire, tho :-tory, the glory am the splendor of your land. You want t see theso people hero, too. A vanquished, beaten and impoverished people ; but brave, and good, and true, and warn? at heart M thc sun above thom. I nm already assured, from what I see, that it is going to bc the greatest thing of its kind that bi s over been on earth. Tbat is saying a very great deal, cortatnly. But bear m miud that outeido of the million dollars, these brave sunny-hearted mid show-loving people have perpetuated their Carnivals through all their trials and have long been celebrated for their matchless skill in getting up such things. So you can safely calculate that to mies this Exposi tion will be a life regret. But to continuo ibo Sunday's excur sions. I wont to see the "Bandit King" and "Hunch of Keys" at night, alternat ing between the two theaters, which Btand close together. The bent was too intense, and before the plays were over I went out, walked down Canal street, stripped and plunged into tho river from tho wharf, which slopes to the wi.'.er's edge. Not a soul in sight, not even a policeman. Tbe elecCric light made the water a sheet of silver, and I did not see that the swift, strong river had caught me up in his arms aud was rushing on with all bis might to the sea. Perilous I But what did it matter ? When I got back and sat catching my breath on the edge of the wharf i saw a lot of jet black bugs as big as mice sitting on tho edge of the plank at my side. 1 never saw such creatures in my life. Now and then they would dive off into the water. Ono of these bugs finally elbowed around, and lifting upon his bind legs, looked mo squarely in tho eyes, lie hail a mustache like the King of Italy. I fled precipitately, as soon as I could dress. I sauntered up Canal street two blocks -.nd turned down a street to tbe right. I heard men calling out games and names which I had not heard called for thirty years. Up a wide, bright stair of brass, and gambling was before me in all its doubtful glory. A policeman lookingon, good order, no noise except tbe men call ing out their games. Twenty-seven tables going in this room. No woman in sight. Thc dealera were generally tittie pot-bellied and bald-headed Frenchmen. The language b.ostly spoken was English. I went out, down, up again ; saw four otbor places, all so alike that.i need not mention them. i t>. I passed on, down a hundred yards or so toward Ibo French quarter, and I heard wild, discordant music and tbe cracked and squeaky voices of matured women who were dancing and singing by dozens right and left; I pushed open ii om o of tbe doors ; the dingy floors were pacbed with mon and women. It was time to go home. I wish I had not seen it all. I nish I did not, as a truthful chronicler, have to set it down here, lt mars my picture of discoveries and of the mighty scenes that bava been beiore me. God, how pitiful is man, and how contemptible ho can be, even in the presence of all this majesty of Nature. JOAQUIN MIM.ES. intelligent-Educated--Learned. The English language is made op of such a varied combination, and is med so figuratively and allegorically, that one can hardly give utterance to au un studied phrase but what ingenuity and /ulick perception can construe into a di? versify of meanings ; and ao many words have nearly the same meanings that they are BO often misused and miu-up plied ; more probably. from a careless custom than -from ignorance. The words intelligent, educated and loamed are often used aa though they bad the same meaning, although they convey entirely distinct ideas. '? Intelligence is an innate faculty of the human soul, that enables one to think and receive ideas witb a degree of com prehension and understanding. Education is the cultivation and re finement of the powers of understanding, and includes both moral and intellectual training. This term is usually applied to the early developments of the mind, when it is made capable of receiving learning. There are two kinds of edu cation'; one we have given ns at school, which only prepares us for the more sub stantial one we get ourselves from tho world. Human nature can never be learned from books: it is a knowledge others may acquire, hut never impart; it constitutes an important part of our edu cation, and can only bo gained by ming ling with our fellow men. There is a great difference'in people, nnd this dif ference is featly the result of oar edu cation. ? .. Learning ia knowledge gained by research n.vd study. Ir is erudition which s well educated man ma/ not pot seas. Knowledge *? information gained by study, experience and observation.' Wisdom is an endowment and is higher than knowledge With judgment and dis cretion. Intelligence; education and learning are three great steps to the highest de velopment of the .human mind, neither of which can bo obtained , without the aid of tho ether. Cod places ns on: the first atop; we make sure of our footing, snd reach the others by ear own efforts. The second requisite to this end is ap plication. He who would acquire man ta! OB .well aa human knowledge matt never admit defeat or pause over a dlfiK cutty, but work steadily on to the end, that he may conquer every obstacle which comes in bis way. "In tho lexicon of youth," says Bulwer, "there should be nc euch word os fail." . .>.. /;! "?*-. Be loving, and you will never want for lovo; bo humble and yeti will never want for guiding. 1 A COLUMBIA WOMAN'S ROMANCE. Uer Triumph. Uer Dowutall ?nd Uer De* cavitation In Japan. NEW YOHK, October 20.-Soon after the war a moat beautiful young lady ar rived in New York from tho South. She brought letters to Thurlow Weed, Hugh J. Hastings and many other New Yorkers., vouching for high respectability in the South, lier family had lo?t heavily by tho war. Soon tho beautiful refugee wen all hearts by her sweetness of manner and beaut ful face. Among her suitors was the wealthy Mr. John Beecher, who married her. Mrs. Beecher soon became famous os tho mot beautiful woman in thc city. She was beautiful in her lovely Filth avenue residonco and graceful aa a queen as sho rodo in the park. Sho led in beauty at the Jerome Park races. Her lovely face attracted Mr. Floyd Pheonix, who soon won ber affections away from her husband. The story of her relations with Mr. Pheonix and her shooting him as he went up the steps of bis sister's mansion on Fifth avenue wcro narrated in every newspaper of the time. Mr. Pheonix had his ticket bought for Europe, but Mrs. Beecher's pistol so frightened him that he gave up bis state-room and left New York quietly for Philadelphia. A week after Mr. Pheonix sailed for Europe. Mr. Beecher separated from his wifo, though it almost broke his heart, and she followed Phoenix to Europe. Once in Purin her beauty captivated, not Mr. Phoenix, brit Count Portaiiis, former* ly of the Frenoh Legation at Washing ton. The first wife of Count Portallhi, who was Mins Jennie Holiday, daughter of Ben Holiday, bad been dead two years. Count PortalllB took Mrs. Beecher to China, whera he was an attache of tho French Legation. On their return to PariB tho Count's money gave out und he abandoned Mrs. Beecher. In Paris Mr. John ileecher, who never ceased to lovo his wife, furnished her with money. After bewildering the boulevards and turning half of Paris mad with her bewildering loveliness, she went to Japan with a French officer. A few mouths of lovo and extravagance and Mrs. Beecher ruined tho officer and ho returned to Paris, leaving her in Japan. While there she won the heart and became the mistress of the Japanese Secretary of Stalo, a very wealthy and highly titled Japanese. After astounding court circles with her grace, beauty and extravagance sbo at tho end of a year had a quarrel with her husband and went to live with another titled Japanese, but inferior in rank to the Secretary of Stato. Last week came the astounding news that the Japaneso Secretary of State had prevailed upon tho Mikado of tho empire to have Mrs. Beecher beheaded. An o iii cia I edict was ir:; ned and the onco beautiful rofl ige o from South Carolina was beheaded ano] her last husband imprisoned. Thus ends the lifo of a woman once known and ad? mired by thousands of people in our city. Her caa fate is the talk of the uptown clubs. [Tho above evideutly refers to a some what noted and very handsome woman, a native and former resident of Columbia -Miss Mary Boozer. She was the reput ed daughter of Peter Burton, her moth er's second husband, but adopted by Dr. Boozer, the third BOOUBO. The first hus band was weddell on his death-bed in Philadelphia ; the second died in a very singular manner in Colombia; the third suicided in Newberry, and the fourth was abandoned by the muchly-married and really beautiful woman, whoso remains now repose in a paupers grave in New York. When Sherman evacuated this city in 1865, among tho hundreds who followed bis army were Mrs. Feaster and her frail but lovely daughter Mary, or Marie, os she was pleased to call herself. A brief history of tho exploits of this young woman in New York and other cities-for she traveled extensively-was fmblisbed a few years ago, while she waa iving as the wife of Count Portaiiis in China. This is the first intimation, so far as we koow, that has" been given to the public as to her whereabouts and adventures since that time.-Columbia Register.] From the New York Truth, October 27. The story of the tragic death in Japan of Mrs. John Beecher, afterwards the Countess Portales, published yesterday, was the talk of tho town. It appears to have been known to a few of the unfor tunate woman's friends, but by general acquiescence was kept os secret as pos sible. Such a story, abounding as it does in tragic and romantic details, could not long remain'untold, and uow that it hes reached print, m suv nsw and interesting details will doubtless be dis closed. A prominent banker of this city, a friend of both Mrs. Beecher and also the Count, was called upon by our representative, and obtained the follow ing additional particulars as to the man ner of her death : After Mrs. Beecher, or tho Conntess, became the mistress of the Japanese Prime Mininter she was informed that the custom of Japan toward the unfaith fulness of a mistress with death would be observed should she break her vows to the Prime Minister. The little woman langhed at . the warnings and said she would only dio in two ways, a natural death or bj her own hand. Au the mis tress of the Prime Minister, one .of the wealthiest mci? of Japan, ber every wish and caprice was granted. Not content with anything, however, she deserted tho Primo Minister and became the mistress of another officer of the Japanese Gov ernment and openly defied her former lover. Fully aware that an. attempt would bo made to kill her she always went armed and, with a body guard. Among ber many accomplishments she bsd by daily practice made herself an expert shot with the pistol. To all out ward appearances sbo cared naught for the impending and terrible death which hung over her and which ia regarded aa inevitable. None bf her gayetles were overlooked and she was.dally seen at the public places ID company with men. "WA It NED OF HEB DOOM. Warned to fly and seek, safety fa France or America, she indignantly de clined. Fear certainly was not one ol ber faults and her courage was remark able. In lesa than two: weeks after hex desertion of the Prime Minister, Ycdda was excited by rumors of an. attempt tc kill the daring Woman, but which failed through the bravery and devotion of her body servant, who was seriously wounded, from tho effects of which it waa necessa ry to Hind him to the honpltal. Le fl alone and without anyone tb protect her, tb?: Countess still refused to .take thc Opportunity of flying, but remained ant! nursed her wounded servant, whom ehe visited daily. ; i SUE SCHISTS UER DEATH, Towards morning A week later thai th? first attempt two masked men ob tained entrance to her bedchamber. Om concealing himself 'at the .rear of th? room, the other awoke and informed h? of the fato which awaited her. ?ulckl; drawing her revolver from under tho pi! tow abe attempted to shoot, bot the mai etationed from behind waa too quick fo ber. Overpowered and at tho mercy o the fiends, she asked tho privilege o gagging ber to prevent any outcry", th wretches how-strung her and pinioned her army. The how which crossed the back of tho neck, and the string which tame under the chin were then screwed tighter and tighter until tho Countess died in horrible agony, and her body then thrown into the river, where it was Anally found. Such was the fate of the woman who had all Paris at her feet, who ruled in Japan, and who was the honored guest at the firesides of our best families. The Confederate Congress. In coming on here (to Washington) after we hsa talked of almost everything, Dr. Curry was asked Bomo leading ques tions about tho Confederate Congress, and about why Jefferson Davis was made President of the Confederacy. Ho re plied substantially : "There was noth ing to develop great men in tho Confed erate Congress. Nearly all the legisla tion had reference to the war, and the debates were all in secret session, except such os were of no consequence. As to why wo elected Mr1. Davis President, there wore several reasons. He had dis tinguished himself in the Mexican war, had been trained a soldier ot West Point, and had been Secretary- nf War. Wo all felt that it was necessary tn elect a man of military capacity and experience, acquainted with the officers who would como to UH. Then. Mr. Davis had dis tinguished hin'! el. in the United States Benato os a debater. He and Hunter and Benjamin and Toomba were tho foremost men from the South in the Senate at that time. Mr. Davis was nat' an extreme mau. He was a man of finie culture, and in all debates wbero colen tiiio principies were involved ho could take part with credit to hirn??lf. Ho was a man of stainless character, and bis privato life, as well as bis nubile life, was blameless. Tho people wno say that tho choice of Mr. Davis for the Presi dency was a bad one should remember that the field of selection waa a very re st neted one. Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee had not then joined the Confederacy. Mr. Stephens "had been a strong Union man and had recently made very strong Union speeches. Georgia presented bim. and no was elected Vico-President with the hopo of conciliating the South and uniting the whole people upon the great undertaking. I don't think there was much antagonism between Mr. Davis and Mr. Stephen?, Mr. Davin took very few persons into his confidence. In Washington you will alway:! find the vice-President hos very little to do in aiding the Presider I in the dischargo of hlB duties. Mr. Bi njamin wa* probably tho greatest man .ve had. as a thinker and apoaker, while his ca pacity for work was simply wonderful. Howell Cobb was'another great man. As President of tho Provisional Congress (in Montgomery) ho held himself admi rably. He had boen Speaker of the old Congress, and, added to his large legh In live experience, he was noted for his great ability and thorough integrity.' In 1850, when there was 'great oxoitement in the South, looking to secession, Cobb was a Union man, and as such was elected Governor of Georgia. He was a Jackson Democrat in contradistinction from a Calhoun Democrat. Ho was Sec retary of the Treasury under Buchanan, and resigned and went homo to plead for lecc-soion. He wau ono of the wisest of statesmen, and many . thought bo would bavo made a better President than Davis. Howell Cobb was in many things very much like Senator Jos. E. Brown, whom I regard as a very able man. in the Provisional Congress Georgia had tiie strongest representation. It had Ste phens, Toomba, the two Cobbs, Ben Hill. Fran!: Barlow t killed at Manassas) and Neubit. Ben Hill was the ablest debater in tho United States Senate, and his loss was irreparable. I repeat, there was nothing to develop statesmanship during tho war and since tho w'nr. This race question has absorbed all questions and overshadows everything else. No man. North or South, seems to grasp it in all its bearings. The negro- problem more than any other in this country, or even in Europe, requires tho highest order of statesmanship. Thus only can it be set tled justly for both race's. Our people io not see as they should that tho prin ciples of Christianity must enter into statesmanship. In our protest against tho union of Church and State we have fallen into tho error of separating Chris tianity from these groat principles. An Unlucky Storable. "Pa," said Samantha to Deacon Bod kin, "what was that story you were tel ling at the posto??co yesterday after noon ?" "Ob, nothio' much," said the deacon. "It was about some of his pranks when he was a young man, I'll be bound," said Mrs. Bodkin. "Ob, do tell us 1" chorused both girls. "Wal," said the deacon, "it waa when I was jest about one an' twenty, an' I' was down to the grocery one day r,-tal lc iti' politics with the boys, when in came1 Black John." "Who ts Black John?" asked the girls. "Wal, he was a curia old fellow, as | black as the ace of shovels, as the fellow said. He waa a character, Black John was. He used to drive a gray hoss about, a-peddlin'. He was mighty - p.*oud of that boa?, and ho bragged that ho could beat any boss in town a-trottin'. "Wal, Bill Trent, him as ts Squire Trent now. was there, an' be bet Black John a gallon of molasses that he could beat tho gray with his roan mare, ?no race to tho cornera, round the old rod school house an' back. Black John tack him up en' the bosse-? was saddled an' brought round. 'Bisca: John liked his gio* pretty well, an' while he was ni i in* up one or tho boys--" '?'?.<: "One of them I" said Martha. "It waa y ou, I guess," "Ono o' the boys," went on the deacon, "got a clothes-lice In the grocery ah' tied one end to the ring in the back of John's saddle and hitched the other end fast to the feed trough lb front of thc grocery. ' -'^ ? One of the fellers went up the road ? pieee and dropped his handkerchief for a start nod they went off together; Black John give a yell ah' dug his heels into hts horse's side with ull bia might. The next minnit there waa a spill. ' Joh n fetched up with n yank, fit to Uko bis bead off; *fae saddles girth broke] the hons slid out from under John, laid his ears back and tuck to. the woods. John, j f courte, came, down all in a heap tn ^iirtfo td'b?lp him op and,to"uta's fasten the rope and get it out of Bight. But ?>o'?eramt>?ed up before we could r-'.-cb. him and shook: off the dust, and said : . : "Golly ! If. my how hadn't et?roble?* I'd a won that race, ehuub," W^WklM "You'd ought to bo cnhaincd of your self, deacon," said Mrs. Bodkin, "that you had S part in. such a thing, and I both just ?a had as your pa." r- P*y for your paper, and be happy. A "NEW DRESS REFORM. Thotis?ncls ' ot ' Gorman? ' Now Wearing Wooloo Clothing Ont/. London Times. The doctrine ot urtu with; tho funda mental principio that, being anim?is, we should wear animal clothing. Tho ab sorption by, vegetable life of poisonous emulations from animal life is a process not limited, it would appear, to living plants, but continued by vegetable libro, such as cotton, linen, ?c., with tho dif ference that, while.the living plant ?io similates theso emanations, tho dead fibre ' cannot do eo, but exhhl?a them again when wetted or warmed. Thus our clothes, in consequence of their vegetable charac ter, attract and retain those noxious prin ciples which ahould, on tho contrary, be thrown off with the greatest 'possible promptitude. On the other band, ani mal material, such as wool, is made by naturo to protect animal life, and wi'.' not prevent, but assist the evaporation of the emanations coming from tho body. This can readily be proved by the sense of smell. It suffices to wear clothes of pure wool throughout, and there is at onco an end to the unpleasantness noticed in the linen underclothing, tho-cotton linings of the coat, &c. From these facts Dr. Gustav Jaeger, professor of /.oology and physiology at Stuttgart, de duces hi-, medical theory, which has won innumerable disciples iii an incredible short time. Dr. Jaeger point? out that tho .human body is most susceptible tb disease when it contains too largo a quantity of-water or of fat. The presence in excess .of theeo substances can be teated by the spe cific weight, and tho rapidity ol' tho nervous action. But the..specific weight muBt be given In proportion with the cubic measurement of tho person, and this latter ia not cosy, to ascertain. By tho immersion of the body in a measured tank we have a rough-ana-ready method of. gauging its cubic capacity, which must correspond with tho displacement of tho water.- Dr. Jaeger, however; baa constructed an air-tight obamber where a column ?f mercury records the amount of compression brought to bear upon the air by the introduction of a foreign body . or person. Out ol 05 > men, thus measured, Dr. Jaeger found that the litre woight varied from 764 to 1,060 grammes, difference of almoBt 40 per cent. To teat tho nervous activity a stop-watch is eysployed which can record the two-thousandth part of a second. The operator sets the index . hand in motion, which has then to be immediately stopped by' tho person undp'r Sing the test. The difference between o two readings records the time needed for the excitation, produced by the sight of the moving handle'; to: run its 'course through the nye, thc optic nerves, tho brain, the nerves of the arm, and Anally to reach tho muscles -which actuate tho finger that stops the watch. Experi ments conducted in this manner showed in one instance that the rapidity of action after a Turkish bath increased to the ex tent of 13 per cont. , What is now known ns Dr. Jaeger's sunitary woolen clothing ?B SO contrived its to obviate these evils. The clothing cobsisuf, for men, bf1 tight-fltthig'stock ingette undergarment* made of puro un dyed wool fastened over the shoulder, and' of doublo thickness' over tbe; breast. The coat or jacket ls double-breasted, buttoned well up to the, throat, contains no lining nor padding unless' of pure wool, and is either uudyed or treated only with uninjurious fast dyes. The same, rulo applies to the trousers, while the waistcoat is either dispensed with-alto gether, or it formH and inner flap sfliscd to the side of tho ?ont. inside the sleeves and tho trousers legs there is a contriv ance, which fastening tight, round- the limb, provenu updraughts; fdr cold, rheumatism, lumbago, ?co., aro caught hy tho sudden rush of cold air to one particu lar pari of the body, and ' not by the gradual cooling of the entire system. The feet are clad in nure woolen socks, with divisions for each toe, while the upper part of the boot is made of felt, the lower part also of felt or of porous leather, anti, tho inner: soles consists'of perforated leather and layer* of felt Thns the boot ls thoroughly porous, and the feet.aro. consequently kept as clean and as pure as the hands. . By doubly protecting the front of the body where the blood vessels converge, these.are stimulated; and, as an even temperature throughout ls maintained, the necessity for greatcoats 1* obviated, rain or damp - having little or no effect, for in ?very easespadas* ?ad even evap oration ia ensured. While they, aro the best protection against cold, these clothes aro also the coolest in Bummer. I/ittlo or po change need be made between Winter rind Summer, nt least in the tttn ?t?rate regi?n: and means have been ound by which, thia system can with equal facility be adopted by, women. Nor can a "woolenlter! he eoaily dis tinguished from the iiwoOdssUW* ^e wearers of vegetablo fibre moy be, callee!. The substitution bf,a collar made of unstarched whlto cashmere' for the cus tomary' starched linen collar ,is the most conspicuous. . feature in tho dreas: other wise it would bo .difficult to detect tho disciples of this system. The cashmere collar, however, ia hot only, thc moat comfortable, but ls a preventive of throat disorders. AU these precautions taken during tho day : munt be continued at. night. Tho bed must also bl) freo"'front vegetable fibre. The linen sheet must be.replaced .by wcclen blsoket* or.'.tr?el-bair ruget"witb. . white cashmere atieWif preferred. The mattress mid tho pillow should also be stuffed ac J covered with wool ; but. when thus .pro! jeted the sleeper, need not fear sibility of thus securing pare air in the bedroom without risk is one of the,most important advantagcs(of the system; In reward for thia great change to in? jst/?fto of living the action of tho skin is soatini Inciples^h? era, so .often ffiW&V iri ^f^^^?^p?i mu physi cal and mental,wicking powells dem onstrated by thc stop-watch test., .Then, according to Dr/J?eger^thOjb?dy haa.re-, r?me<i^ "... X briefly ?fi. the reform ib. clothing d ?nrf carried out by thousands V into our"m?dit.;at tho South Ken non Health Exhibition, and hy .the Miine of a'depot ir^ Tr? -?a street, ^here, " .leles of every a?4C?i?tlo'i ?n -sssaw Hon with' th? system aie to bo sccu. i rsm s? . - 'J: your hormtte.ts frightened at any unu'au?l sight ot?oTf?;do nftV/wbip hju?, forjf you (Jo h? will connect ,|be,, whip;.' ping with IhQ.cttfeet that, alarmed- him, and bo afraid of it'.ever after, af hi* merely ahies at au object givo hies ito?.' to .examina, itv *Mob, wlfh some cn - ?oqragiog word? from tha driver, rill persuade him; to pase it. ,..sou gft frightened, 'aomeUmea, and, would wt Uko to bc whipped for it, .