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VOLUME IX.-NUMBER 1360. CHARLESTON, MONDAY MORNING, MAY 2, 1870. SIX DOLLARS A YEAR. > WASHINGTON, i . COTTON AT FIFTEEN CENTS. eport ofthe Committee of Agriculture on the Growing Crop. IFEOH THB ASSOCIATED ERBS3-] y WASHINGTON, Jane 22. Woods, the congressional captive, has been [safely returned to tho capital. The Senate Judiciary Committee will report {in favor of the confirmation of Akerman, as jrney-general, but will oppose action until ie arrives here, which he ls expected to do to ?7 The revenue to-day is $630,000. Secretary Boutwell orders the exclusion om the money rooms of all persons not bear ; his orders. The revenue for the present fiscal year will "mount to $180,000,000, which is largely in ex? cess of Igst year and of the estimates. The agricultural report for the current lonth is as follows : "Cotton growers seem determined this year reduce the price to fifteen cents, with every prospect of doing lt. The acreage of cotton is iteriaHy increased in every State, while that I wheat, and probably of corn, (although the stimates for the entire country do not come . until July first) has decreased. If the ne Igleet of all other interests can only be cured | by cheap cotton, the sooner the production comes the better. "The condition of the growing crop in North 1 1Carolina is good. In South Carolina cotton ls looking well, except that some complaint of bad stands is made. In Georgia the crop is ] we and smaller than usual, from the effects 'of a drought of five weeks, which terminated on li Hay 25th; bot the plant is now growing vigo? rously. The dry time was rather shorter in j j \ Florida and Alabama, and cotton is - generally j in good condition. The reports from Missouri . and Mississippi are still more favorable. In j ; Tensas Parish, Louisiana, where the greatest ; ' '?? cotton yield of 1869 was made, the condition of J S the crop is twenty per cent, better than last j ; j year, and the acreage is increased one-fifth. ; ? From Texas come reports of the backward ] \ spring, with the cotton late but thrifty and ; \ promising. ?o State makes a more unfavor I I abe return than Arkansas. ! "The acreage and the condition of cotton are ? -bettor than last year at this time, a fact desira ; , ble and gratifying in itself, bat of no control? ling force in determining the ultimate result. > Last sespspn was unpropitious up to August, and afterwards it was favorable to an almost ^unexampled degree-a tenth of the crop being due to the extreme length of the autumnal I season. "The acreage of sea island cotton in Texas has been Increased. " The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has issued regulations regarding distillation from fruits, greatly reducing the bujdens on that in . dustry. ' SENATE. Bills were offered authorizing a cable from the Bermudas, and to facilitate telegraphic communication with the Belgians. The Tax bill was taken up and led to a sharp j contest on the income tax question. Sumner j and Conkling argued for its abolition. The I matter was finally postponed to Thursday. 1 HOUSE.. ( In the House, the bill authorizing a bridge '. over the Missouri River at Omaha, of three \ hundred feet rpan, payed, f The Ways and Means Committee reported a r bul regulating the collection of internal reve? nue, reducing the force in proportion to the - reduction of revenue. The bill allowing Massachusetts over half a million for interest on debt of the war of 1812, . was amended so that this payment closes the .account, and passed, 101 to 61. Jgh? President's veto of the bill to extend the patent for Smith ? Wesson's pistols was sustained. During the discussion there was a I severe collision between Farnsworth and But? ler. The former accused Butler of having re c?lved$2000 as the attorney for the parties d? . siring the extension. Butler retorted that Farnsworth had more beard than brains. . Farnsworth said, "Whether lt is long or short, no member shall steal under the shadow of my beard if I know H.n Recrimination and denunciation followed. _. ? _ ? COMMERCIAL CONVENTION IN VIR? GINIA. RICHMOND, June 22. The Commercial Convention met at Mont? gomery, White Sulphur Springs, to-day. The , Cities of Richmond, Norfolk, Petersburg, Lynchburg, Farm ville, Abingdon, Bristol and 'Knoxville, were represented. Resolutions .' were adopted advocating more perfect com? mercial communication between the South? west and the cities named, protesting against discrimination against any ol them, and Invit? ing the merchants and planters of Georgia, ? Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee, to co? operate in extending commercial facilities in ' - the Mississippi Valley to reach the waters of | [Virginia. THE INDIANS ON THE WARPATH. ST. LOUIS, June 22. Late letters from the plains report that nearly all the young Indians belonging to the Arapahos and Cheyenne tribes, below the Ar? kansas River, are on the war path. Several trains dive been captured and a number of whites killed. It is highly dangerous for trains, or any parties, to travel below Fort Dodge. NORTH CAROLINA MILITIA. RALEIGH, June 22. Kirk has been commissioned colonel of the Second Regiment of North Carolina State troops, with headquarters at Asheville. He has issued circulars calling for one thousand recruits. THE PIGTAILS. ST. LOUIS, June 22. ?About one hundred and fifty Chinese arrived here to-night, on their way to New Orleans. SPARKS FROM THE WIRES. The troops sent to the Taylor farm, New Hamptom, Va., on Sunday last, to effect the j j squatters' removal, have returned to the fort. -TJke Special Congressional Committee sent to Philadelphia Jo make arrangements for the | j centennial anniversary on the 4th of July, 1876, is still engaged upon a tour of inspection of the mills, manufactories, refineries, &c, of Philadelphia, and the neighborhood. HEAVY OX OB AXT. Lively Radical Reading-Dana again Pitches into the Administration. [Prom the New York Son, Jane SO.] As for General Grant personally, we have neither spite, grudge nor revenge. He never refused us any personal favor, for we never asked anything of him, save only the appoint? ment of Horace Greeley as minister to Eng? land, and, as he sent a man there who isn't half as flt for the place as Mr. Greeley, we have never borne him any grudge on that ac? count. But toward General Grant, as Presi? dent, we confess^hat we cherish a very pro? found feeling of disappointment and dissatis? faction. There were few men in the country who bad taken more stock in him than we had. During the war, when he was digging canals at Vicksburg, and was. on the point of being relieved from his command, Mr. Dana did what he could to have bim retained at the bead of tbe army in the Mississippi Valley, and the effort was successful. But for his agency, Grant would then have been sent back to Galena, and in that event be could neither have become commander-in-chief of the army nor President of the United States. Next, when he was a candidate for the pres? idency, we did what we could to secure for bim the nomination of the Republican Nation? al Convent!^; and then we helped to get him the votes ol a majority of the American peo? ple. AU this we did simply because we thought ft best for the country; and all we demanded of General Grant was an honest, sensible, dis? interested and patriotic administration of bis office. Soe? anybody think that was too much to expect of him ? ?. But instead of this, bis administration is bad, foolish, weak, cowardly, corrupt, anti American, contemptible at home, and more contemptible abroad. It ls impossible to speak the truth and deny that this is so. It ls im? possible for an independent Journalist, anxious to discharge his obligations to the people, to conceal ot palliate facts so fearful and so no? torious. Tbe President ls Incompetent, lazy, neglect? ful ot Ms duties, unable to comprehend them, and careless about performing them.. He ap? points men to office simply because they have made bim presents, or are bis relations, or because some foolish caprice prompts lt. He degrades tbe country in the eyes of all the world, and stands trembling like a coward for fear of a corrupt and bankrupt power like Spain. The man who saved the nation as a soldier ls covering ns with shaine as a Presi? dent. Must we forbear to tell the truth about him because it ls unpleasant to him and bis satel? lites? Must we prophecy only smooth things because a few fools charge us witta personal animosity ? We do not so understand our office. In our judgment, if there ls any man who has the right to speak the whole truth in this case, to state all the facts, and to urge them upon public attention until the mind of the country ls entirely aroused to the subject, that right ls ours. Nor ls lt a right alone; it is a duty._ THE CHIXE8E COBB WAIXEB8. The Free Trade Question In a New lj.ght. [From the New York World, June 20.] Among the revolutions wrought by the wonderful expanslorf of the means of commu? nication and transit which ls the most marvel? lous achievement of our era, one of the most striking is the emigration, now evidently set? ting in, from the mo3t "Eastern East*' to the newest West. Of all tbe episodes In this great epic which ls now beginning to be wrought, and which will not, for many generations, be ready to be written, not one ls more startling nor more impressive than that of which the World this morning continues the chronicle, and which presents to us the disciples of Con? fucius as coming into a Joint tenancy with the disciples of Calvin of the soil ol New England. It ls not. however, alone by tbe strange con? trast it calls up, nor by Its remoteness from ordinary experience, timtthls initial Incident mast give us pause. It ls useless to endeavor as yet to discernavhat changes this inevitable tide of an Illimitable sea, of which hardly the flrst billow has as yet broken upon our shores, will ultimately work in America. But there is an immediate and economical consideration which forces Itself upon minds altogether dead to all sentimental aspects of the situation. It ls clear that these Chinamen are Imported simply because they furnish cheap labor. They do furnish the cheapest skilled |abor in the world. Whatever their bands And to do they can do. And they can work, for a number of hours impossible to an American laborer or an European laborer, at a rate ot wages at which an American laborer would starve. This labor, the cfiespestin the world, available in unlim? ited quantity and lor an unlimited period of time to come, is now, brought, by the act of those who bave been instrumental in import? ing these seventy-five Chinese laborers into Massachusetts, Into direct competition with the dearest labor in the world, in that only portion of the American continent which is so thickly settled that tbe supply of native labor ls so nearly adequate to the demand that the ''labor question" has already come to be a practical and vexatious problem. * One of tbe most curious circumstances of this curious transaction is that the Massachu? setts manufacturers are the most clamorous and greedy of all the clamorous and greedy persons wno demand, under pretence of "pro? tecting American industry," that Americans shall not be permitted to buy their wares ol those who will sell them cheaper than them? selves. These manufacturers are continually calling upon Congress to handicap with an enormous tax those products of the "pauper labor of Europe'' which compete with their own. And the particular Massachusetts manu? facturers who have now brought into competi? tion with the "pauper labor of Europe" the immeasurably cheaper "pauper labor" of Asia, have still the hardihood to call themselves "protectionists," and next winter we may look to see tbem the loudest of any in insist? ing upon the raising of the tariff in ostensible benah" of that American labor which they are at the same time doing their best lo degrade not only to an European, but to an Asiatic level. This shameless greed is the reductio ad absurdum of protection. THE TIME FOB ACTIO S HAS COME. [From the Barnwell Journal.] The convention to which we have looked for? ward with so much Interest, and upon whose action so much depended, bas closed its delib? erations after quite a harmonious session. The State was pretty generally represented, and the colored delegates seemed fully to endorse all the measures which were enacted. The plat? form of principles was presented by General M. C. Butler, of Edgefield, and fully recog? nizes the changes which have been made in the government, and accepts thc vari? ous amendments which have been made to the constitution. It is surely a plat? form upon which all can unite who are deter? mined to establish in South Carolina a just and equal administration for the beneflt of thc whole people. The new party ls to be known as the "Union Reform Party of South Caro? lina," an? its efforts will be chiefly directed to reform thc present incompetent and extrava Knt administration of the State government, .ion this platform Judge Carpenter, of Charleston, was nominated as the candidate fon? Governor, and General M. C. Butler for Lieutenant-Governor. These candidates will meet Jhe wishes of the people generally throughout the State. Judge Carpenter, al? though a native of New England, removed to Kentucky When a boy, where he re? sided until his removal to this State, with the exception of three years, when he was professionally engaged in another State. As circuit judge be has discharged his iutles impartially, and hts given general satis? faction. He is spoken dPas a man of ability, ind a better nomination under the circum? stances could not have been made. General II. C. Butler is too well known to need many remarks from us. His record is before the people, and it will bea pleasure to every South Jarolinian to cast a vote for this gallant officer ind true patriot. We earnestly call upon our people, both white and colored, to rally to the mpport of these very worthy candidates, who rvill do all in their power to place our noble )ld State in the way of peace and prosperity Sain. Let there not be one dissenting voice, j e time for action has come. 1 THE SECRETS OF SPACE. THE XOST WONDERFUL OF ALE THE ASTRONOMERS' DISCOVERIES. The Marvels of the Spectroscope-The Inhabitants of the Planet Mars-Jupi? ter a Flntd Mass, Seething with Pri? meval Fires-Life Throughout the Universe, Richard A. Proctor, F. R. A. S., one of the rising* lights of British science, who is espe? cially distinguished for astronomical learning, has Just published in London a most interest? ing work, under the title of "Other Worlds than Ours," far more entertaining than any modern novel, in which tbe question of the plurality of worlds is studi?d under the light of tbe most recent scientific researches. The conclusion arrived at is that several-of the planets of our system are obviously adapted to be the habitation of intelligent beings like man, and are probably inhabited and peopled much like this earth. In arriving at this conclusionwMr. Proctor propounds views which differ from those usu? ally accepted, but all his theories are based on careful consideration and accurate statement of acknowledged facts, and are apparently the result of fair and candid reasoning. Since the great discussion of the same subject thirty years ago, by Whewell and Brewster, vast ad? vances have been made in astronomical knowl? edge, and especially within the last few years. STARTLING DISCOVERIES have been mad i in the most unexpected quar? ters. Analogies tbe most interesting nave brought the distant orbs of heaven into close relationship with our own earth, or with the central luminary of the planetary scheme, and we have learned to recognize within the solar system, and within the wondrous galaxy of which our sun ls a constituent orb, a variety of structure, anda complexity of detail, of which, until recently, astronomers had formed but the most inadequate conceptions. Mr. Proc? tor argues from the analogy of the earth that the diversity of climate which exists on tho planets affords no logical reason to conclude that they are destitute of life. On our own globe we find LIFE EVERYWHERE, in the arctic regions as well as in the torrid zone, on the mountain summit, and even in the depths of mid-ocean. And geology shows that in all the strange vicissitudes to which the earth has been exposed in its past history, there is no evidence of an epoch when life was abaht from ber surface. The climatic condi? tions of the planets may be so modified by at? mospheres as to be not materially different from that of the earth, in the case at least of the planets nearest to ns-Venus and Mars. VENUS bears, in some respects, a striking resem? blance to our earth. In size, in situation, and in density, in the length ot her seasons and of her rotation, in the figure of her orbit and in the amount of light and heat she receives from the SUD, she is more like the earth than any orb within the solar system. Venus has a year of 224 days and 17 hours, and her dis? tance from the sun is somewhat less than three-fourths of ours. Her day ls only half an hour shorter than ours. Her size is but little less Ulan that of the earth. It ls clear, then, that merely In the greater proximity of Venns to the sun, there is little to render at least the larger proportion of ber surface uninhabitable to SUCH BEINGS AS EXIST OS THE EARTH. The sun, as seen in her skies, has a diameter one-third larger tban he presents to us, and his apparent surface dimensions, on which, of course, his heating and illuminating powers depena, are greater In the proportion or about sixteen to nine. This undoubtedly would ren-. der his heat almost unbearable in the equato? rial regions of Venus, but in her temperate and sub-arctic regions a moderate climate might exist, and still more moderate in her polar re? gions. Venusls the only planet the extent ot whose atmosphere has been carefully estima? ted. It is considerably larger than ours, and probably tempers very much the fierceness of tbe solar heat. Of tbe constitution of her at? mosphere we know little. The spectrum of her light showuhe dark lines which belong to the solar spectrum, and the Padre Secchi has noticed certain faint lines which seem to indi? cate tbe presence of aqueous vapor in the at? mosphere of the planet. The same eminent observer finds also In the strengthening of the nitrogen lines near the F line of the spectrum, otter evidence that the atmosphere of Venus is constituted very Similarly to THE AIR WE BREATHE. On the whole, says Mr. Proctor, the evidence we have points very strongly to Venus as the abode of living creatures not unlike the inhab? itants of earth. "Certainly, the strong light which the sun pours upon Venus need least of all be objected to, since, if there is one ad ap- j tatlve power which Nature exhibits more clear? ly than another, it is that by which the various creatures we aresacquainted with are enabled to live in comfort under all degrees of light, from the obscurity In which thu mole pursues bis subterranean researches to the blazing light of the noonday sun, toward which, in fable If not In fact, thc eagle turns his un? shrinking eyes." PECULIARITIES OF MARS. The evidence in favor of Mars being inhabi? ted is much stronger than that In the case of Venus, or indeed of any other planetary orb. Mars ls about 5000 miles in diameter, so that his linear dimensions bear to those of the earth the proportions of about five to eight. Gravity at his surface is much less than terres? trial gravity, so that thc weight of objects ot the same mass in Mars is much less than half what lt ls here, and consequently there would be a far greater range of activity for creatures of the same size; that falls would be less dan? gerous; the strain on walls, or columns, or any other supports would be much less, and, therefore, roofs, arches and structures ofthat kind might be easily set up on a much larger scale by creatures of emmi skill with our? selves; but, on the other hand, friction, which is more or less proportional to pressure, and therefore, in the case of piles of stones, Ac, to weicht, would be far less than on the surface of the earth, so that any violent lateral dis? turbances, such as hurricanes, would exert a still greater effect than on our earth In de? stroying such structures, since there would be less solidity, and, therefore, less frictional re? sistance to overcome In overturning them. Again, the vastly diminished weight of given masses would give a very great advantage to all kinds ol engines of draft. Carriages, carls and -railways would attain a vastly greater speed than on our earth, and the sledging on thc snow-fields of Mars might be as swift as the wind. MARTIAL SEASONS. Mars travels in such an eccentric orbit that the light and heat he receives from the sun vary very much according to his position. When he ls nt his mean distance from the sun, thc light and heat he receives arc less than ours in the proportion of about 4 to it. His year contains very nearly 0S7 of our days, so that each of his seasons last about 5j of our months. But owing to thc eccentricity ot his orbit, the winter and summer ol' his northern and southern hemispheres are not equal. His equator is inclined to the plane of his orbit ?it an angle not muck greater than that of the corresponding inclination in the case of the earth, so that his seasonal changes, so iar as they depend on inclination, do not differ much from ours. Though Mars when nearest to us ls FORTY MILLION'S OF MILES distant, lie has been observed to more advan? tage and with better results than any plane? tary body except the moon. So well, in fact, bas his surface been .studied that Mr, Proctor has constructed and printed ift his book the map of Mars, in which the seas and continents are displayed in a very interesting and un? doubtedly authentic manner. It is true that for a long time after the Invention of telescopes astronomers thought that the darker portions ot the moon were seas, though we now know that they are not; and it may be asked, How cm wc be certain that a similar illusion does not prevail In the case of Mars? To this the answer ls that there ls an important distinc? tion between Mnrs and the moon. THE SURFACE OF THE MOON is always the same; no natural processes seem ever to take place upon it. But on Mars the case is very different. Pliysicial processes ol* change are constantly taking place there on a grand scale. There are winter and summer seasons, clouds and fogs, rain and snow. The spectroscope shows conclusively that the at? mosphere of M?rs contains aqueous vapor, and from that fact alone we can Infer with certain? ty that the appearance of clouds and fogs, and snow which present themselves to the eye of the observer are not Illusions, but are sure In? dications of the existence of water like the water of our earth. The oceans are clearly seen, and are distinguished from the conti? nents by their greenish hue, the land of the planet being red in color. From the motion of the clouds lt is evident that there are winds, and from the magnitude of the clouds, a. rain fall at least as great as that on our earth, from which, of course, we?may safely conclude that rivers exist to carry the fallen rain water to the oceans. Mr. Proctor says: ''Who can doubt what the lesson is that all THESE THINGS ARK MEANT TO TEACH CS ? j So far, let It be remembered, we have been guided onward by no speculative fancies, but simply by sober reasoning. But can we pause just here? Shall we recognize In Mars all that makes our own world so well fitted to our wants-land-and water, mountain and valley, cloud and sunshine, rain and ice and snow, rivers and lakes, ocean currents and wind currents-without believing further in the ex? istence of those forms of life, without which all these things would he wasted ?" The planet Jupiter is the giant of the solar system, beng more than 1200 times as large as our world. The grandeur of his orb naturally jpggests, at first sight, the idea of beings far Exceeding, both Tn might and bulk, those which live upon the earth. Mr. Proctor, how? ever, ls Inclined to think that If there are LIVING BEINGS ON JUPITER they are on a much smaller scale than on our planet, on account of the difference of gravity. A man of our earth removed to Jupiter would weigh two and a half times as much as he does here, and would ?hardly be able to stag fer under the burden of his own-flesh. Mr. roctor, however, does not think it probable that Jupiter is inhabited. He conjectures rather, from various indications, that the plan? et ls a sort of sun to his four moons, and sup? plies them and their inhabitants with heat and light. In other words, he thinks lt likely that Jupiter ls a glowing mass, fluid probably throughout, still bubbling and seething with the intensity of the primeval fires, ;send?rjg up continually enormous masses of cloud to be gathered into bands under the influence ol the swift rotation of THE GIANT PLANET. No otherwise ca? one understand whence his atmosphere ls loaded with vapor masses, whose contents must exceed, on a moderate computation, all the oceans on the surlace of our earth. Mr.'Proctor says, speaking of the striking changes observed in the face of the planet by our astronomers: "When we see masses so enormous swayed by Influences of such energy, that Intermediate belts thousands of miles In width, are closed up Ina single hour, when we recognize the tremendous character of the motions whim, from beyond four hundred millions of miles, are distinctly cognizable by our telescopes, we see that we have no ordinary phenomena to deal with, and that the theory we adopt for their explanation cannot bc otherwise than striking and surpris? ing." The theory that Jupiter ft yet to some extent a hot and luminous body, ls borne out by the observations ol' some very eminent ob? servers. Professor Ut'orge Bond, of Cam? bridge, calculated that Jupiter sends forth more light than he receives. And the recent researches of Dr. Zollner, the eminent German photomelriclan, show that if Jupiter does not shine in part by native light, his surface must possess reflective powers nearly equal to those of white paper. In the remaining chapters of this very cu? rious and entertaining work. Mr. Proctor gives us the latest news from Saturn and his rings, from Uranus and Neptune, the Arctic planets, and from the nebula; on the remotest verge of the visible universe. His book is the best contribution that has been made to the litera? ture of science for IL my years, and we hope to Bee lt soon republished in this country. It cannot fall to have a large sale, for lt tells In Intelligible language Just what everybody wants to know about the starry heavens. THE PRIVILEGE OE " PROPOSING. >> The London Spectator thus closes a review of Epes Sargent's "Woman Who Dared"-the woman who dared to "propose" to the mon she loved : It is strange that this demand comes from the United States-from the very place where the courteous deference to women, with which lt ls obviously Incompatible, is practiced to an even excessive degree. Or do the American ladles think that they can retain the old privi? leges, and also secure the new ? Will they, for instance, still be able to indicate to a man, by a touch of the parasol, that he must vacaje some** seat they may fancy, while they have every power and right for which these conces? sions of courtesy are really meant as an equiv? alent ! Why, the parasol woflld become the awful Instrument with which they would order off the unresisting man to tlie church, or wherever else their advanced wisdom might choose the ceremony, if indeed they still cared for a ceremony, to take place. It ls quite clear, indeed, that the whole order of our social arrangements must be remodelled be? fore the privilege of "proposing" at her pleas? ure can be accorded to women. At present, the woman who chooses to do such a thing uses an enormous and most unfair advantage which our customs give her, on the implied understanding that lt should not beso employ? ed. The rules of courtesy which make her re? quests law must bc altogether abrogated In view of this new contingency. There must be no precedence, no deference, nothing but the courtesy accorded by equals to equals. And there must also be the equal purse on both sides. A man proposes because he can offer an establishment and a maintenance; a woman who can do the same is allowed to do some? thing very like proposing. But that women should propose to share that which they do not help to earn, ls a thing which, if men would endure it, they could hardly venture. Such a state of things may come to pass. Happy he who can congratulate himself that his matri? monial arrangements are made already, and who will Und In the possibility o*'such an event a new motive for hoping that they may be per? manent. THE GERMANT OF TO-DAY. * - The Magdeburger Zeitung observes the en? during results ol' these three laborious years may be summed up as follows : North Germany has become one political, economical and judicial community; it posses? ses a diplomatic representation abroad, a com? mon army, a respectable navy, a common citi? zenship and uniform laws in the department of trade and industry, a mild and humane crimi? nal code, and in a short-time it will obtain a general Juridical sys:em and a common order ol'procedure for civil and criminal cases. Ger? man unity is every day taking tinner root, the national feeling is becoming deeper and strong? er, and we are continually approaching tlie moment when thc German people, North and South united, will assume that position in the world to which they have a just claim, but which has been huberto refused them because they slept, unconscious of their own power. Our posterity will envy us for having lived in this memorable period, when the German na? ilon is again arising in the might and majesty; which lt hits lost since tlie days of the Honen Staufens, not by the act of nn external enemy, but solely through internal discord. CURIOUS THINGS TO KNOW.-Besides the fact that ice*ls lighter than water, there is another curious thing about It which persons do not know, perhaps-namely, Its purity. A lump of ice melted will always become purely dis? tilled water. When the early navigators of the Arctic seasgot out of water they melted fragments of those vast mountains once called icebergs, and were astonished to And that they yielded only fresh wafer. They thought that they were frozen salt water, not knowing that they were formed on the land and in some way launched into tlie sea. But if they had been right the result would have been ail the same. The fact is, the water in freezing turns out ol all that is not water, salt, air, col? oring matter and all Impurities. Frozen sea water makes fresh water ice. If you freeze a basin of indigo water it will make ft as pure as that made of pure rain water. When the cold is very sudden these foreigu mattera have no time to escape, cither by raising or sinking, and are thus entangled with the ice. but do not form any part of it. ' TBE ART OF RETICENCE. [From tbe Saturday Review.] Of all personal qualities, this art of reticence is the most important and valuable for a pro? fessional man to possess. Lawyer or physi? cian, he must be able to hold all and hear all without betraying by word or look, by injudi? cious defence any more than by overt treache? ry, by anger at a malicious accusation, any more than by a smile at an egregious mistake. His business is to be reticent, not exculpatory, to maintain silence, not set up a defence nor yet proclaim the truth. To do this well, re? quires a rare combination-of good qualities, among which are tact and self-respect, in about equal amount, self-command and the power of hitting that fine line which marks off reticence from deception. No man was ever thoroughly successful as either a lawyer or physician who did not possess this combina? tion, and with lt even a modest amount of technical skill can be made to go a long way. Valuable in society, at borne the reticent are so many forms of living death. Eyes have they and see not, ears and near not, and the faculty of speech seems to have been given them in vain. They go out and they come home, and they tell you nothing of all they have seen. They bave heard all sorts of news and seen no end of pleasant things, but they come down to breakfast the next morning as mute as fishes, and it you want lt you must dig out your own in? formation bit by bit by sequential, categorical questioning. Not that they are surly or ill natured; they are only reticent. They are dis? astrous enough to those who are associated with them, and make the worst partners in the world In business or marriage; for you never know what is going on, or where yon are, and you must be content to walk blindfold If you walk with them. They tell you nothing be? yond what they are obliged, take you into no confidence, never consult you. never arrest their own action for your concurrence; and the consequence is that you live with them in the dark, if you are timid, forever afraid ol' looming catastrophes, and more like a captive bound to the car of their fortunes than like the coadjutor with a voice in the manner of the driving and the right to assist in the direc? tion ol the Journey. This ls the reticence of temnerament, and we see lt In children from quire an early age-those children who are trusted by the servants, and are their favorites in consequence, because- they tell no tales; but lt is a disposition that may become danger? ous unless watched, and that is always liable to degenerate luto falsehood. For reticence ls just on the boundary of decent lon, and lt needs but a very little step to take one over the border. Still nothing can be more foolish or more suicidal, to say nothing of its sin, than lying. No man's memory ls so good as to enable him to He with constant Impunity. Some day there must come the Inevitable slip, and one such slip of memory and consequent discovery will undo the careful labor of a life, and reduced the whole fabric to a heap of un? sightly ruins. That obtrusive kind of reticence which pa? rades itself, which maires mysteries and" lets you see there are mysteries, which keeps silence and flaunts lt In your face as an inten? tional silence, brooding over things yon are not worthy to know-that Bllence which is as loud as words is one of the most irritating things in the world, and can be made one of the most insulting. If words are sharp arrows, this kind of dumbness is even sharper, and all the worse because lt puts it out of your power to complain. You cannot bring Into court a Hst of looks and shrugs, or make lt a grievance that a man held his tongue while you raved, and to all appearance kept bis temper when you lost yours. Yet all of us who have had any experience that way, know that his hold? ing his tongue was tbe very reason why you raved, and that if he had spoken for his-own share the worst of the tempest would have been allayed. This* ls a common manner ol tormenting, however, with reticent people who nave u moral twist; and to fling stones at you from behind the shield ol silence by which they have sheltered- themselves ls a pastime that hurts only one of the combatants. Reti? cence, though at times -one of the greatest social virtues we possess, is also at times one of the most disastrous personal conditions. Half our modern novels turn on the misery brought about by mistaken reticence; ana though novelists generally exaggerate the cir? cumstances they deal with, they are not wrong In their facts. Il the waters of strife have been let loose because of manv words, there have been broken hearts before now because of none, or not sufficient. Old proverbs, to be sure, inculcate the value of reticence, and the wisdom of keeping one's own counsel. If speech is silvern, silence ls golden, in popu? lar philosophy; and the youth is ever enjoined to be like the wise man, and keep himself free from the peril of words. Yet for all that, next to truth, on which society rests, mutual know? ledge is the best working virtue, and a state of reticent distrust ls more prudent than no? ble. Many people think lt a flue thing to live with their most intimate Iriends as if they would one day become their enemles,<J_W never let even their deepest affections strike rool so far down as confidence. They rear? range La Bmy?re's famous maxim, "L'on neut avoir la confiance de quelqu'un sans en avoir le cour," and take lt quit* tbe contmry way; but perhaps the heart which gives Itself, di? vorced from confidence, ls not worth accept? ing, and reticence where there ls love sounds almost a contradiction in terms. Indeed, the certainty of unlimited confidences where there ls love, is one of the strongest of all the argu? ments in favor of general reticence. For In nine cases out of ten, you tell your secrets and open your heart, not only to your friend, but to your friend's wife, or husband, or lover; and second-hand confidence ls rarely held sacred If it can be betrayed with impunity. By an apparent contradiction, reticent peo? ple who tell nothing, are*often the most charm? ing letter-writers. Full of chit-chat, of des? criptions dashed off willi a warm and flowing pen, giving all the latest news well authenti? cated lind not scandalous, and breathing just the right amount of affection, according to the circumstances ol thc correspondents-a natu? rally eloquent person who has cultivated the art bf reticence, writes letters unequalled for charm of manner. The first impression of them is superb, enchanting, enthralling, like the bouquet of old wine; but, on reconsidera? tion, what have they said '! Absolutely noth? ing. This charming letter, apparently so full of matter, is an answer to a great, good, hon? est outpour, wherein you laid bare that foolish heart ol'yours, and delivered up your soul for anatomical examination; and you looked for a reply based on Hie same lines. " At first delight ed, you are soon chilled and depressed by such a return, and you feel that yon have made a fool of yourself, and that your corres? pondent is laughing In lils sleeve at your in? sane propensity to "gush.'' So must it be till that good time comes when man shall have no need to defend himself against his fellows, when confidence shall not bring sorrow, nor trust betrayal, and when the art of reticence shall be as obsolete as the art of fence, or the Socratic method. ALL FOB LOVE. A Rejected Suitor Kill? his Former Sweetheart. Missouri seems to be unusually afflicted with bloody butcheries and horrors of all sorts just now. The latest tragedy occurring in that State was in the town of Ashley. A former lover named Coe. who had once been betrothed to Abbie Somers. :i young and beautiful girl, on Sunday, the 12tli instant, called on that lady, who was stopping at the residence of a Mr. Griggs, principal ol Watson Seminary. On entering the room he walked up to her and extended his hand familiarly, which she refused to take, and made a motion as ifto retire from his presence. Coe, divin? ing her object, requested her to stay, saying 1 that he desired a few moments' private con? versation with her. The request was granted. Mr. Griggs, proprietor of the house, a few mo? ments after young Coe had entered the recep? tion-room, went to thc door ol'that apartment, but found lt locked. He retired to an adjoin? ing room, and as he was about to enter was startled byan agonizing shriek from the re? ception-room. Anticipating the worst, being aware of the peculiar relation oi'the parties,'he rushed to the door and burst lc open. To his horror, on her left side, near the window, lay Miss Somers, the wicked instrument of death, a huge butcher-knife, fixed in her body, the floor covered with her blood, while close by stood the assassin, who without warning had plunged ber through the body with the deadly weapon. The girl died almost instantly. Coe was Immediately seized and placed in custody, making no resistance. Upon examination "it was found that the murderer had inflicted four wounds on the body of the deceased girl, one upon the left breast anti arm and three others in the back, any one of which was fatal. The blood had spurted from the wounds lo the celling, some twelve feet above the floor, and left there great crimson spots, while the car? pet was saturated. The murderer ls about twenty-two years of age, an Intelligent young man of good habits, but desperately in love with his victim, who was of about the same age, well educated and accomplished. MITCHEL AGAINST DIX. An Interesting Sait. Mr. John Mitchel, the well. known former j Irish patriot, who fled to this country before the late war, and was for some time In the South, is now prosecuting a civil action in New York against Mr. John A. Dix, for false imprisonment. The case was argued in the New York Superior Court at the close of last week, on a motion by Mr. Dix to remove the cause into a Federal court. What purports to be an abstract of the argument, appears In some of the New York papers. By way ol sample ot these, take this extract: From the papers In the case it seems that in June, 18G5, Mitchel wrote, or caused to be written and published in the News, a scurrril ous article, Justifying the murder ot President Lincoln, for which General Grant ordered his arrest in this city, when he waa taken to For? tress Monroe, and after confinement ot a few months was discharged. - Mr. Mitchel publishes a card stating that there is not In "the papers in the case" the faintest allusion to any such odious charge having been maje, or suggested, or hinted against him, or, Indeed, any other charge whatsoever, and, from the day of his arrest un? til now, he does not know, has never been In? formed, why he was arrested and kept con? fined nearly five months in a casemate and treated as a felon. He says his object In being in court how ls to force out the reason for that outrage upon him, and he adds: "Though lt is not strictly relevant to the matter in hand, I will add that I never did write or publish any article justifying, or even palliating, the foul murder ol Mr. Lincoln, and never, either In writing or in the most private conversation, spoke without horror of that terrible and stu? pid-assassination." HAMLET BEHIND THE SCENES. Interesting Conversation with Booth. A New York correspondent gives this ac? count of an Interview with Booth while he was playing Hamlet: A few evenings since, in company with a couple of literary friends, I went to see Edwin Booth play Hamlet. The theatre was crowded to overflowing. After sitting through the first three acts, and while witnessing the splendid acting of the interview with his mother, which I think the finest point of the play, one of my friends suggested that we should call upon the great tragedian behind the scenes. I had never seen Elm beforehand the tempta? tion of seeing Hamlet as he was, was too strong to be overcome by any hesitancy about Intruding upon the great actor's retirement. The conversation was mainly npon dramatic matters. Hamlet, who had Just left his mother in such a fearful condition at his Invectives against her marriage, was sitting on a lounge In an easy posture, smoking a dark meers? chaum pipe. Beyond his stage costume, bis make-up for the play was but little more than his natural appearance. He wore his own hair, and beyond the faintest possible tinge of rouge on his cheeks there was no attempt to Identify himself with the character by any mere accessories of art or fashion. Mr. Booth has made his home in the theatre. He had a suite of eight rooms on the upper floors, which were Intended for studios, but he found that lt would be better to convert them Into a dwelling. He said he was so tired after acting that it was a tort ure to go through the trouble of dressing to travel four or five blocks. Hamlet, he said, did not exhaust him, except by its intensity. Richard was the most ex? hausting character. He wanted to produce it, but did not like to attempt it until he had for? gotten Colley Clbber's wretched version, and could be able to produce it as written by Shakespeare. One of the party suggested that many of Cibber's emendations were of advan? tage. Booth. There Is no advantage in Cibber's play that cannot be counterbalanced by the original text. Shakespeare, as Shakespeare wrote It, Is a great deal stronger than Cibber's variation. Anyhow, I shall make the experi? ment with it. Correspondent. "Do you intend to play Richard after Hamlet ?" Mrs. Booth. "Oh, no, Indeed ! Richard after Hamlet would quite weary him out." Booth (smiling.) "No, I don't think I can reach Richard this season. I Intend to bring out Ma cbeth." Correspondent. "Do you make any changes in it?" Booth. "I have the same trouble with Mac? beth as with Richard. The adaptation ls not good. I had not played lt for so long that I hoped I had forgotten it, but some weeks ago a Louisville manager asked me to perform Tc I said I was trying to forget it, but would make the effort. He took the book, and though I had not recalled ten lines ot it lu eight y?ars, I went straight through without missing a word." Correspondent. "I see that some ol' the crit? ics think your Hamlet too realistic." Booth (with animation.) "Whatam I todo? If I read Hamlet as I read Manfred, it ls sim? ply a poem. Tlie intellectual few will appre? ciate lt, and probably after I have read lt two or three times the interest will die out, be? cause the people who would be Interested In a mere reading are comparatively few. I play it as il is written, and put it on the stage ac? cording to every authority. There ls not a costume, or decoration, or painting, that I have not some reason for introducing. Now. in my speech about the bare bodkin. I touched my dagger. It has been complained of, but it Is a very natural motion to make. In my ad? dress to Rosencrantz I throw over his ueck In disgust the miniature. That action has been criticised, but lt is natural and proper. There ls not an attitude nor situation that ls not an effort to express what I regard to be the mean? ing of Shakespeare." One of the company suggested that the speech In the second act to llosencrantz and Gulklenstern should be soliloquy and not dec- i lumation. Booth. "I think Shakespeare meant to have it declaimed, because when Hamlet says, 'Man delights me not, nor woman neither,' Guilden stern laughs. He asks him, 'Why do you laugh ?' Now, If he'had been musing or solilo? quizing, ol' course Gulldenstern would not have interrupted him." One of the company asked him what he thought of Fodder's Hamlet. Booth. "It ls altogether new. In some re? spects like a revelation. I know Fechter, and like him very much. I hope he will play in my theatre before he returns." It was noticed that Mr. Booth did not desire to enter into a criticism of Fechter, and rather avoided the subject. Correspondent. "Does an audience affect you ?" Booth. "No: I play as carefully to ten as to ten thousaud." Correspondent. "Do you believe an actor can thoroughly learn a part, so that it cannot become routine to him ?" Booth. *I have never found it so. I find a new meaning in Hamlet every time I play it some subtle shade of feeling that comes sud? denly upon me. I should feel that if I was not playing my part better this year than last, I was neglecting my profession." The conversation ran along from acting to other topics, which probably should not be In? troduced here. This was during the fourth act, while Ophelia was dying, we could hear no sound save the echo of her voice when she sank. Finally a door opens and a boy screams out : "Fifth act, stage waits !" Booth arose, retired to an adjoining room, and returned lurred and draped for his Journey back to England. While bidding his friends a pleasant good-bye, the door again opened, and the voice came, "Stage waits for Mr. Booth !" In a moment he vanished through the door, and in another we were back in our seats list enimr to the wonderful scene between Hamlet and Horatio in the graveyard. Shipping. Jp 0 R LIVER P 0^0 L\ The first-class American Ship ALICE ML MINOTT, Lowell Master, having a large SH portion of her Cargo engaged, whl be dlspatchec for the above port. For balance of Freight engagements, apply to STREET BROTHERS A CO., Jonl8_No. T4 East Ba> ?pOR FORT SUM: The safe, fast sailing and comfortably ap? pointed Yacht "ELEANOR" will make two< trips daily to Fort Sumter and the other point historic interest In the harbor, leaving Sonta Commercial Wharf at 10 A. M. and 3 P. M. 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