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VOL. XXXII. CAMDEN. S. C-, THURSDAY, FEBRUAHTi O, 18^3. NO. 33
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SAM AN A BAY.
An Enormous Speculation in Land
no American Live On.?A Ncics reporter
had a talk on Saturday with a three
years' resident of Samana. He does not give
a rose-colored review of the healthiness of
the climate or of the nature and character
of the inhabitants. He says the population
of the peninsula is not over 3,000 souls.?
With few exceptions, they are all thriftless,
idle negroes, or Door,' dissipated, reckless
S paniards. No ordinary white emigrant can
live in Samana, as the ground is low and
marshy, and therefore pregnant with malarious
fevers, devolutions and sectional contentions
are epidemic, and protection to all
peacefully disposed citizens is almost impossible.
It is true that tiie mineral wealth of 1
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the country is great, oui tying a* n, uuco iu
land that has no Communication whatever 1
with the coast it is almost valueless.
He thinks the cost of producing the tropical
staples will outweigh the profits arising
therefrom. In regard to the absolute conditions
of the treaty, he has no hesitation in 1
saying it was framed for the purpose of af- ;
ter consideration for the Administration to
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carry out practically, the old scneme 01 annexation.
Baez, the President of Dominica, has but 1
three months yet to serve as the ruler of the '
Republic, at the end of which time, knowing 1
the character of the masses, the usual revo- ;
lutfoh and bldod letting will commence, "Baez,
in the mean time pocketing all the money
for the purchase.
The company have so far refused to give '
to the public the text or substance of the '
treaty. On the evening of the 6th of January,
the night of the departure of the Com- 1
misaionera from Santo Domingo, the treaty J
was published in one of the Dominican pa- '
para, and re-published here yesterday. The
powers are absolute, and no corporation oth- :
cr than the famous East India Company had
such boundless and indisputable authority. J
In an interview yesterday with Burton S. '
Harrison, one of the commissioners, that
gentleman said the company would bo or- !
ganized on Monday, and stock would bo im- '
mediately Issued. This is the whole amount '
of the speculation. The stock will be sold,
and th-jre is every intention to create & furore,
so that it will go at high prices.
X. Y. Times. |
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Funeral of Napoleon HI.
Cni8ELHUR8i*, Jan. 15.
The funeral of his late Majesty Napoleon I
111 took place this morning. The resident)
of the decease J. was thronged vitlupecUtore
and friends of the family, who had arrived
from all parts of the continent. Crowds of <
people from London arrived at an early hour
to witness the final ceremomies to the illus- j
.trious dead, and the road to the chapel was (
lined with spectators to view the procession ]
as it passed.
Matty oftho adherents of the late ex-Em- ,
peror were present to take part in the obsequies
and pay a last tribute to their leader.
The immense throng of spectators assembled j
remained quiet and decorous throughout the
proceedings. (
Tbo funeral processions started for the
11 "o'clock, and moved in the fol
lowing orded :
A oian boaring the tri-color borne on an
ash stick cut at the last moment before the
cortege, moved ; the deputation of workingnicn
from Paris, with uncovered heads, bearing
their wreaths; tho chaplain of the family,
bearing aloft a golden crucifix ; the hearse
drawn by eight horses? driven by a postilion,
and the mourners, who nuuibered eight hundred
in all, and included the Prince Imperial,
who went uncovered ; Prince Jerome Napoleon.
Prince Joachim, Prince Achille, M.
Roucher, and many distinguished Imperialists,
English noblemen, Paris priests, and
others.
The Prince Imperial was very pale, and
exhibited traces of the anguish he has undergone.
The Empress Eugen ie was too ill to
i.tten(hthe luneral. The coffin was covered
with immortelles and violets.
There do funeral sermon at the chapel.
The Bishop of Southwark sang a requiem
Mass over the remains. He was a&sisted by
Father Coddary. the spiritual adviser of the
the Ut? ex-Eiupcror, apd all the priests who
were chaplains at the Tuileries during thp
reign of Napoleon. Mr. Lutr, the organist
of St.-George's Cathedral. London, was present
at the Chapel with his choir, and conductj
musical portion of the services.
? The remJWOre ^?P0I'ied 'D Sacristy,
, , , j." c "^"d into a mortuary chopw
hi I'll baa been Fori*. .11.11 *
el, until the removal of tDu . ^ rauce
for final intcrmant. * ,v^
The procession was very long, and tu. '
hearse was at the chapel before the end of
the cortege had left the family mansion.
All the carriages and pedestrians were drawn
upflthree abreast across roadway, and in
that order proceeded to the chapel.
The I'rince Imperial and I'rince Napoleon
returned from the chapel in onu carriage.
They were cheered by the crowds through
which they passed.
More than 25,000 persons, including
Prince Christian, the I'rince of Wales and
i'riuce Teok, viewed the body of the late Kuiperor
Napoleon while lying iu state. Notwithstanding
the presence of the immense
crowd there were but few accidents, and
those were of a slight character
One thousand Metropolitan policemen lined
>?? ?r ti.,. i.,.
II1C ruuunuji aaunij; uuui lut? uuuoti n 111.1 v
the ex-Emperor (lied to the chapel where the
funeral services took place. Flags were displayed
at half mast, and the bells kept tolling
? .
Queen \ ictoria did not attend the funeral
in person, but was represented on the mournful
occasion by Right Hon. Viscount Sidney,
Lord Chamberlain of Her Majesty's housebold.
The Sheriffs of London have united with
the Town Council of Edinburgh and tht
Vestry of Richmond in Resolutions of condolence
with the ex-Empress Eugenie.
*
TERRII LB SNOW STORM.
St. Paul, Iinn., January 14.?The remarkable
pola hurricano which swept over
this State on ' uesday last has left behind it
a sad record o ' casualties, but from information
now rea hing the city the number of
deaths will no sustain the early estimates.
The history o its first appearance and lamentable
const qpences may be briefly stated
as follows: Ti esday was a mild, damp day'
and those ha. ing occasion to leave their
homes had ii tie reason to anticipate the i
fierce gusts w.iich set in during the afternoon,
and in many instances no adequate
provisions had been made for such an unexpected
situatii n. The weather continued
? 1J ?K?. t A n'Mnnlr in tV?n nffprnnnn.
tillIU UUl/ll awuv -X V V1VVA iu vuv
the hour whet: it* approach was first ob- i
served by the residents in the frontier set- 1
tleinents in suddenly increasing cloudiness ,
and for a few moments the earth was swept
by a tremendous wind, and the temperature
Tell with wonderful rapidity. People living
in the sparsely populated sections of the
State were talon entirely by surprise, and
many were a long distance from home, and
without sufficient clothing. It is not surprising,
under the circumstances, that so
many fell vict ms in its path, each a struggling
ice boun 1 laocoon. The storm continned
with oni? temporary lulls until Thursday
morning a. hen it gradually abated its
fury. The vel >city of the storm is reported
between New Ultn and St Peter as traveling
from point to point in thirty minutes, a
distance of t\ enty-eight miles. Had the
degree of cold beeu 'great the number of
deaths would ;ave been fearfully increased,
but while it w is at its height the mercury
stood from fivi to eight degress below zero,
[t is entirely w thout precedent in tho history
of the State and only finds a parallel in a
polar storm wl ich swept over the State of
Illinois in 183t, destroying many lives, and
leaving an ind dlible record in the minds of i
those who exf irienced its fury and terrific
power.
It is impossi >le to make an accurate estimate
of the nui tber who have been frozen to
death or scrioi sly maimed. On the line of
the St. Paul an I Sioux City road, the number
is variousl estimated at from 17 to 34, [
with the probal ilities in favor of the number
first given. Ti e authenticated deaths thus
far do not reac .17. In that section of the :
??? V.OTTA wahirnoi] lirvmn I
DUUU uiauj rup lieu lUOUiatwuuni^. uxw
safely. On tl ) line of the St. Paul and '
Pacific Koad tl 9 number of deaths v. ill not '
vary greatly fr in the estimates for ihe re- 1
^ion traversed ov the Sioux City R >ad.? 1
That country a so being thinly settled, and,, >
owing to the d fficulty in the way of <btain- !
iog it fctuwtioa, tin tiiimt? of-h
death Are large than the facts will warrant,
but the real fat Jity is sufficintly deprjssing.
Notwithstanding the more hopeful news ,
brought here o-night, but few nan.es ac- <
jompany the re ported losses of life. A large ]
nuuiDer of cattl j and horses must be also in- .
eluded in the tatement of the destruction i
which has char cterizcd this storm. I
St. Paul, M inn., January 14.?Reports <
received to-da^ increase the deaths by the |
late storms as follows: Thirteen in tbe vi- ,
einity of Lake linsley. six miles from Lako '
Crystal; six sc 100I children who had been |
attending school between Fort llidgwuy and j
Reaver Falls; v man named Woolverton,
across the rive from Alexandria, making
twenty-five >n a 1.
A dispatch 1 -oni Fergus Falls reports seven
more bodie., and estimates that within a
radius of twent -five miles tho victims will
reach fifty. A German named Lenidccker,
of Hastings, a id his .team, perished a few
miles from this city. One of tho saddest ca- ,
sp.4 renorted an I one illustrating the tearful
nature of the > orm comes from New Ulm.
On Tuesday aft jruoon a man whose wife was
sick started for New Vim for a doctor, leaving
her alone a home. No doctor wo uld go
out in tho storn . but one promised to go the
next day. Th > uian started back bdt was
frozen to death when about half way. The
next day, when tho doctor reached the house
he found that t ic woman had given b rth to
a child, and bo h were frozen to death.
A comraerci:: traveller of this city, who
was caught in t he storm near New Ulm. and
witnessed its U -riblo severity, gives it as his
opinion that it has resulted in greater dam
age to the .Stat, than did the famous Sioux
massacre of IS 12.
Winona, M nn., January 14.?Tin news
of the innume able deaths and the excruciatiug
sufferii g of porsons in the torrible
storm of the 7t 1 and 8th instant is not jet
received in th i city, and even now, in the
the case of mai v persons who doubtle.-s perished
upon tht broad prairies of Norchwastcrn
Minneaot , their bodies are not yet
found by their friend*. There apjwars to
have been the reatcst loss of life alo ig the
- ot the Sir ix City Kailroad. Several
deaths are 7** tcd "eaT Medalia- Mr. Holdcrmosk,
who ttcm:7d t0 wa,k fron' Sundown
station t Jlcdalia. was ?*ertahen bv
the storm and rozen to death. The w.'.t?
()le Lcmefaon was found on Friday morning
frozen to d atli. Thero was no wood in
the house, but some a short distant* > from
the door. In the village of Medalii. one
side of a dwei ing house was blown down,
and several cl mneys hurled to the ground.
Snow drifts as high as the telegraph poles
aro reported.
XT \fnvlrlim tniin d roach*
rrom j'ir. ft v/. ~
er of the Wint in and St. Petor Kniln ad, we
aro furnished vith the following latest particulars
: A gr ig of eleven section man, between
Mcdalii and St. .lames, started for
St. James abo it three o'clock on 'I icsday
afternoon wht i the storm couiuici ced. ?
Finding they could not roaeh thai point,
they ?heltcrc< themselves in a snow drift,
where they roi ained thirty-six hours They
suecocdcd in r aching St James. The body
of a man froze to death was picked tp in a
garden on th south side of the river, at
Medalia, on T lursday. He evidently lost
his way, and overcome by exhaustion and
cold lay down md died. From Line >]n station,
on the Si. Paul and Sioux City Koad.
on Sunday, Mr. Kirk started tor the tiui
ber, to procure a load of wood. His cattle
were found, but he was missing. Later,
Kirk was found near Garden City on Saturday
dead. Along the Sioux City Road, the
number frozen we9t of Mankato, foot up
twenty-six.
A report received at Mankato on Monday
night from Minnesota Falls says that 11
persons have been found frozen to death.?
Seven persons?three women, two men and
two children?were found in a sleigh dead.
A report from llodwood Falls says there are
Bix persons frozen to death as far as heard
from in that neighborhood. A party consisting
of four persons, a man, his wife, child
and nephew, started from Uedwood to go to
Marshall on Tuesday. When within about
one and a half miles of Marshall they were
overtaken W the storm, and lost their way.
The nephew frozo to death on Wednesday '
afternoon; the child died in its mother's1
amis on Monday morning. When found j
the man's arms and legs were badly frozen.
The woman had ond hand frozen.
"Baby Farming.''
Convincing evideuce of a revolting crime,
or rather a series of crimes, has recently been
discovered in Naples, involving the wholesale
murder of innocent babes by n process
which taxes the credulity of human nature.
The person charged with these crimes is a
woman named Rose Porre, who has occupied
unpretentious quarters only three doors
from the little chapel of San Severo, on one
of the most frequented streets of Naples.
The attentiuaof the Dolice was first atirac
ted by the frequent appearance in the Neapolitan
journal.** of an advertisement the
purport of which was that persons wishing
to relinquish their claims upon infants ebokl
find a home for them by the payment of a certain
sum to Rose Porro. Two policemen
were assigned recently to investigate the
subject, and tho result of their vigilauce
was the discovery that an extraordinary number
of babies were brought to these apartments.
and that they were rarely if ever
brought away. A close search through every
part of the house was instituted, and in
various rooms infants were found sprawling
about the bare floors, crying from cold and
hunger. The cellar was also searcl^d. and
.here the corpses of five children were found,
and beneath the tiles of the floor were throe
other bodies. The house was taken possession
of by tho police, who will closely inspect
the walls to find out the full extent of
these grievous infanticides. The keeper of!
the house is described as a strong, beautiful
and cunning woman in appearance, with* nn i
air of innocence, that would deceive the
iharftflHt. rir.frfit.ivft.
1
What " Credit Mobjlier" Meanh.?A
lorrespojident a^kj the meaning of the words
Credit Mobiler." (Several Congressmen .
have asked the same (juestion.) We pr*.-1
suuic he wishes to be informed concerning'
.lie original derivation and meaning of the j
term. We will endeavor to explain it. The j
Credit i'oncier" lias long been the general'
title iu France for associations that advance :
money 011 landed or immovable securities.?
flic ''Credit Mobilicr" was the name piven
to a powerful corporation organized in Franco j
in 1832, for advanoing money on movable
property. The name was adopted evidently
with the purpose of affording a ready d? fini- 1
tiun of the object of the association. The
;'Societie Generate do Credit Mobilicr," be-1
came a great and profitable enterprise. It
had special privileges under its charter. It
assisted considerably in the construction of |
railways and the promotion of the mining 1
schemes. Among the other enterprises in !
which it was notably interested were the j
Government loan ou account <?l tlie Italian (
war. the Grand Central llailway Company |
and the General Omnibus Company at l*a-)
ris. At one time it advanced 250.000.00i)
francs, and at another time 275,000.000
franca, to the French Government. Its business
was so great in 1855 that it declared
a dividend of forty per cent on its capital..
While it was manifestly the means of d<>iu?|
much good in France, it eventually failed.
The introduction of the terms. "Credit
Foncier and "Credit Mobilier'' into America
is due to Mr. George Francis Train. lie
established a Credit Foucicr with Omaha
lands, which he hawked about the country
some years ago. lie gave the name of-Credit
Mobilier'' of America" to a corporation
" 1 -"-1 mln'nli \r?ia nrir'ili
tvitn universal privilege,
ized in Pennsylvania. It was appropriated
by Messrs. (lakes Ames, Jhirant L On., to
serve as a party of the third part in the famous
"triplicate agreement" by which the
managers of tho I'nion Pacific Railroad let
out the contract of building the road to themselves,
in payment for which they modestly
took the road itself, all the L'nitcd Slates
bonds, all the first mortgage bonds, all the
l'nitcd States lands, etc . at a profit of over
1,000 per cent . on an entirely fictitious
capital. This is what Credit Mobilier means
in the modern American and congressional
use of the term. The title is not inappropriate.
The transaction was literally a credit
on movables?the I nited States Government
furnishing the money and the credit,
and Messrs. (hikes Ames A Co. taking (ho
movables -that is. the securities and the
flic nrofits.? ('hicay>> T.'iljutt*.
From the Galxay for Frhruarv.
Mkv am' Womks.?It is strange indeed
that men's self condemnation of their coarseness
and vices should be interpreted as delicacy
and chivalry toward women. ' 'We
arc so vulvar and vile," they seem to say,
' that we roust continue to bo vulgar and
vile to show how tenderly wc cherish, how
fully wc appreciate th? dear creatures who
?.-? .nr I,ctter iinircls." If wo arc not fitted
u"' *""" o
to bo women's eompnnions, if wo pn where
wo should not, so much the worse tor os II
women arc too good for us.it is our duty tr
be better. Wo require reformation, and tlx
best reformation will come to us by admit
ting women to what we rail, eujdieinisticalb
enough, our recreations and pleasures. Tha
that these are unworthy and rude, it' not j
gross, for the moat part, wo will not deny. (
ily making women our partial partners, our
associates on occasion, wc admit our inferiority
and our fear lest they should k"ao\v of
us what we know of ourselves. We have
not advanced so far beyond baronial barbarism
and Eastern indulgences as we would
fain believe, while we hold our wives and
our daughters in the prison of iguorance
and the seraglios of restraint.
It is uot consideration for wonicn that induces
us to keep them in the border land of
acquaintance with our real lives. It i3
consideration for ourselves; it is supreme j
selfishness; it is engrossing egotism. ? e i
shrink from the thought that the gentler
and purer beings who love us, and whom we
love?when we have naught else to do?
should have a perfect understanding, a clear
revelation of what we arc. It is an article
of onr social creed that they prefer pleasant
illusions to disagreeable facts. This is not
without its verity; but it evinces the false
education of women, and one of their
weaknesses that should be removed.?
In this age we live, or ought to live above
every thing else, for truth. Whatever leads
thereto, should be followed, though the following
dispel every deeoption which, from
the first, has bccii oar most grateful food.
The men lire precious few who would bo
willing thci^ lives should be unrolled panorsm.-i-liko
before their nearest and dearest
friends. The tilings that they arc vain of. j
even to boasting, they would hide from their
wives or mothers, at imminent peril to themselves.
The worship mast of us receive is a
species of sentimental fetishism offered under
the delusion that the idol is far more
than it seems; that it possesses powers and
influences linking it to the divine. Transparent
as we may be to our own sex. we art
eopaa u to tho opposite. Genuine to cch
one, we are shams to the other, and we exercise
constant care that we shall continue
such. In respect, esteem, admiration, and
affection, we are actually obtaincrs of goods
by false pretences, and arc amenable to a
spiritual law which wo alw.i\*s evade. Is il (
flattering to our manhood, to our sense of
integrity, to know that to those we reverence
most wc are miserable fictions and animated
lies.?Junius IIemit Hrown.
An Improbable Story About Mr. Seward
and Napoleon III.
[From the San Francisco Bulletin.]
The death of the ox-Emperor Napoleon
vocal Is an inoident of the great Southern rebellion
which has not hitherto been made
public, it \faswell known that the late
more than owe? ho scHuuslTttiedftntcii material
intervention in iu bolialf; that tiio invasion
of Mexico and the enthronement of
Maximilian in the seat of the Montczumas
was a part of a deliberate plot to break up
the American Union. JJut to what lengths
lie proceeded?how resolutely lie was determined
to carry his fell designs into cxccu- I
tion?has never been fully known outside of j
a narrow official circle. Tiio .-.tory of his 1
?- ... i ? ....j [
{ lirpiidu la blu'ii uiil i:, .ui?i wits
told by Mr. Seward to a low personal friends
at a dinner party, among wliuui was the
w riter* of tins article. No one who was
present will ever forget the intouso oarnestnc.ss
and animation of the great statesman,
as he related the momentous incident, The
exact words, so pregnant with eloquent
meaning-?so solemn and iiup;is*ioMcd?we
can not in every instance reproduce, but the
general import is given below.
It was," says 31 r. Seward, ''in the darkest
days of the rebellion. l>isasler upon disaster
had befallen the I Hion armies. Treason
was active and l?o!d fronted at Washington,
in the North and in the West, itebcl
emissaries and their allies were plotting
against us over the Canadian border. Our
foreign relations were most critical, llebel
cruisers wrro being fitted out in British ports
and sent to prey upon our commerce; tiermany
was coldly neutral; the smaller European
States were indiifcrent hpeotators of
the conflict; Jtussia was the only friend we
had among the powers of tin: earth.
' In this desjk.'rate emergency L received
an autograph letter from the Kmporor of
tlie French. It was marked private and
confidential. Jt began with expressions of
j peranual regard for myself and pain at the
, spectacle of the great republic in the throes
j of dissolution. Personally,' said Napoleon,
I 'I could wish the cause of the l iiiou to succeed.
Hut the welfare of France, and the
force of popular opinion are paramount to
individual sympathies. Our commercial interests
are seriously suffering from the pro|
longatiou of your war. My subjects appeal
to me to arrest the bloody conflict. I must
obey the voice of France at whatever cost.
Yuu can not put down the rebellion; embrace
the earliest opportunity to make terms with
the South. If you fail to do I Iris, 1
shall feel compelled, in the interests of my
country?in the interest of civilization. I<> I
intervene with all the power at iny command.'
' I answered Napoleon's insulting letter
immediately. 1 did not waste words in compliments.
1 said : .This is a family rjunrre!.
We propose to settle it in our own way and
our own time. We do not wish the assistance
of outsiders ; we wii! not hrook interference.
'the American 1'nion is to he pro
served. It shall he preserved if takes twenty
years to do it. The war is hardly commenced
. ?t.? i?ut luurinnimr to warm
H'l , HIV jiioj'iv uivjuti r .
i t<? the work. We wisli in he nn {rood terms
, with our neighbors?we w ish especially tn
I bo mi good term, with France. our ancient
r frieiul ami ally. But ynu must keep your
i bauds off. If you presume to interfere, wo
1 will show you what a free people battling
i for national existence are capable of. Ilithr
crto we have conducted the war humanely
> in accordance with the c< do that govern the
5 most Christian States. Interference on your
- part will be signal for a war uf compiest anil
i destruction. Wc will free the negroes; we will
t put arms in their hands, and send them forth
to ravage and plunder. We will make the
South a waste mid a desolation. Kaiscahaud
against us. and horrors worse than those of
San Domingo will be seen from one end of
the South to the ofher.
' The letter was sent by the first steamer.
The same day I telegraphed to Thurlow
Weed, Archbishflp Hughes and Bishop
Simpson, to meet me at the Astor House
on the morning following. That evening I
left for New York, and explained to those
eminent gentlemen the object of the conference
and the now danger that threatened
the Union cause. I told them they must at
once go to Europe, to labor, unofficially, with
the government and ruling classes of Etig
laud, and on the continent to represent the
wickedness, danger and folly of foreign interference.
In less than a week they were
on their journey, reached Europe at a mostopportune
moment?(Mason and Slidell had
just been seized?England was in a white
heat with rage) and did much towards convincing
Europe that the proper thing and
the only thing to do was to leave us alone.
And the mission cost the government less
than seven thousand dollars.
Postal Cards in England.?When the
Postmaster General informed us of tho new
privilege by which wo could communicate
with our friends at a cost of one-half penny,
instead of a penny, we were not indisposed
to rejoice that we could get anything at half
price. The rejoicings were considerably
moderated when we were told that our communications
must be written on an open card,
the observed of all observers. Lt did not
require a conjuror to tell us that half-pinny
post cards would be liable to scandalous
abuse, and that the new method of convev
ing messages would bo a means of disseminating
abominable libels. We venturod to point
out this at the vcr^ commencement, and our
words have been more than verified. From
that day to this we have heard of nothing
but libels. Impertinent shop girls in the
Burlington arcade have gratutiously insulted
ladies of title, and irritable gentlemen
like Mr. Ilnmpdeu, with "a fad" concerning
the rotundity of the earth, have ijscJ post
cards for the worst purposes. Every miserable
little tradesman .vho owes a grudge,
and every scoundrel whp dare not say openly
what he thinks, flics to the half-penny
postcard to gratify a mean feeling of paltry
revenge. Post cards having been tried,
therefore, for some considerable time, and
having been proved to be extremely danger
mis weapons, it Deeouies a question tor tne
I'ostma&tcr General to uccitle how long he
will retain them as an authorized means of
communication.
For private purposes they arc useless.?
Courtesy and decency alike prohibits their
by ?H versed in the' ordinary tlecencics
of society. For what purpose, therefore,
are post cards retained '! Thrifty housekeepers
use them for ordering coal and candies.
Secretaries of charitable societies arc
not above employing them for the purposes
ui iiupormm&y. rur summoning meeting? j
and collecting councils they may be handy!
enough; but tlicy aro a perpetual annoyance !
to editors of newspapers, who would cheer j
the hour when they were abolished. Their i
condemnation is pronounced in Lite recent1
libels on Lady Constance Fitzgerald and
Prof. Wallace.
The Woman Suffrage Convention which
opened in Washington on Thursday was very |'
poorly attended. The only gentleman who j
took any part in the proceedings was E. W. j:
Davis of Philadelphia, who brought forward |
a plan for a national woman's paper, on the j
basis of a stock company, to be chartered by j
Congress, '."he capital to be i?lUO,UO0. In)
opening. Mb* Anthony gave her views of |
the claims of woman to the franchise, the!
history of the cause in Kansas, and the su- j
porior claim (he women have over the no-1
"roes. A series of resolutions were pre- j
n . , i... ai... i i : ' !
Pt'ljvCU uy chuiiiuii, uv\i?i 1 iug? aiir.'iig
other tilings, that so long :is women are denied
the right of suffrage, they are politically,
civilly and socially enslaved, and that i' !
is the duty of Congre.-s, by appropriate legis- i
lation, to protect women in the exercise of|
the right pf suffrage under the Fifteenth j
Amendment to the Constitution.
India Uur.bf.k.?The halt of land arouud '
the globe. 500 miles north and 500 miles j
,-outli of the equator, abounds in trees pro-'
duviiig the gum of India rubber. They can !
he tapped, it is stated, for twenty successive '
seasons without injury; and they stand sol
close that one man can gather the sap of1
eighty in a day. each tree yielding, on nn 1
leverage. three tahlrspnonfulff a dny. Fortythroe
thousand of these trees have been '
counted in a tract of country ft mile long:
l?y eight wide. There .are ia Knropa and
America iimro than I.'jO manufactories of
India ruhht r articles, employing .100 opera- [
fives each, and consuming more than 10.-!
<>00,000 pounds <>f gum a year) and the
business is considered tube sti!! in its infancy.
Fut to whatever extent it may increase,
there will still be plenty of rubber to supply
the demand.
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A Sao Mistakk.?A young man once!
pickc<l tip a gold coin that was lying in the
road. Always afterward a.? bo walked along,
lie kept bis eyes on the ground, b ?ping t<>
find another. And i:i the course of a long'
lit'- he did tuck up. at different time . a
goodly tintiiber of coin--, both guid and silver.
lint all these years that lie was looking
fi r them be saw n ?t tliaf the Heavens
were bright above biiu. He never let h;eys
turn away from the filth and mnl in
which he suighf his treasure ; and when be
diihl?a rich eld man, lie only know uos
fair earth as a dirty road in which to pick
rtp motley.
fi'no of?tii ;* fashionable youths donned his;
(5r<t silt It- Hill fil- S:if lll'tl.l V eXCIiiie '
.... . . ...? ..... ...... ...... - "V .**
Ilo ;j >t v.oll enough with tinhut
ho had to give up the hat?it mad? him
sick at the .stomach.
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Switzerland is having an unusually mild
winter.
The little Indian girls of Colorado have
taken to doll pappooses.
Hot sand baths arc now extensively used *
as a remedy for rheumatism.
Partridges in Illinois arc tame enough to *
eat from the hand?when properly cooked.
A literary correspondent of the Pittsburg,
(Pa.) Gazette,signs himself 0. Pluddlc Styx.
With all our newspapers in the U. S. we
only one paper to every 5,633 inhabitants.
Mrs. Partington says she gets up every
morning at the shrill carrion of the chandelier.
A cynical bachelor, in speaking of ladies'
ball dresses, says: "They wear but' little
here below, but wear that little long."
The first exclamation of an American
belle on entering the cathedral at Milan, was,
"Oh, what a church to get married in."
A tourist who was asked in what part of
Switzerland he felt the heat most, replied,
'When I was going to Berne."
Anions: the items in the report of the
overseer of the poor of a llhode Island town
is this: "Cash paid for funeral sermons, $4."
A young man who was crossed in love,
attempted suicide recently by taking a dose
of yeast powder. He immediately rose above #
his troubles.
"This is the rock of ages," said the father,
after rocking two hours and the baby still
awake.
"Mamma, do you know what the largest
species of ants are? You shake your head.
Well, I'll tell you. They're eleph-ants."
Who first introduced sail provisions into
the navy'( Noah, for he took a Hani with
hint on board the ark.
V,ch Critimnet wonders why poor people
are never afflicted with kleptomania- We
call it stealing, then.
An ingenious farmer brought a turkey to
the Tloston market with eight pounds of shot
in its crop.
Incredible as it may seem, some of the
richest planters in Jamaica live 011 the coffeegrounds.
,
The reigning belle at a fashionable assent
bly in Wisconsin lately created a sensation
by sneezing her false teeth out.
A Chicago woman tried to commit suicide
by swallowing two yards of shoe-strings, but
had got so accustomed to Iacjng that they
didn't have any'effeot upon her.
A Western editor concludes an affecting
appeal to delinquent subscribers as follows :.
' .May the famine-stricken gbostof an editor's
baby haunt his slumbers."
A youth with a turn for figures, had five
ergs to hoil, and beiiig told to give thcui
three minutes each, boiled them a quarter of
an hour.
"."kip the hard words, honey dear." said
an Irish schoolmistress to one of her pupils;
"they're only names of foreign countries,
and you'll never be in them."
The lirsf Russian newsp&pcr was publish
cd in 1S03. Peter the ('rout not only took
part petaonally in editorial composition, but
:ii.so in correcting pruois
The < 'oirrit r-Jnrrun/ says one might as
soon think of-operating upon the-painted
walls of the catacombs of Egypt with the
; -eihsyrs. upon a Philadelphia paper.
They have tried it some tiuic down in Texas.
and have QOUiO U) the conclusion that a
cattle herder can't be a Christain, and that
lie stands no chance of being saved.
Dennis (VShannessy advertises as follows
the Columbus Republican: "1 hereby give
notice that my wife Bridget has left my bed
and board, and that 1 will not pay her debts,
as we are not married."
A fond husband boasted to a friend.
"Tom, the dd wnniau came hear calling me
honey last night." "Did she. Hill ? What
did she say?" "She said, 'Well, olu Beeswax,
come to supper."' >
A young man in San I'micisao found an
..1.1 <1.vir>(in in> knew "bucking the tiger'' in
i ir:i'.!il>linir hell. " b hat," he exclaimed.
u deacon. arc you here?' "Yes," was the
reply. " I am bound to break down this eul
in.-titut: ui."
A fellow in Norwich was bitten by a do...
As '>> '1 as he recovered from his fri-ht ho
declared be would loll the auitnal.
the d"^ isn't mad.*' siud the o\\ ncr. "Mad."
shouted the victim, cxaspcra'.iiigly. "what in
thuuder lias he j^.?t to be nud about
A eitv (on was takintr mi 1 airinic iu tl.
country, tried to .iuiumi himself by ptii/i'i..:;
an nil firmer about his Jbald head, who
solenit b. remarki 1. "youno man, when my
bead _ {s;e. soil yours, I can raise hair to
sell."
At :i muting of a parish, a straight-lacc J
and must exemplary done. ? submitted a re|h
rt ia writing, <'f tho destitute widows atui
others. wiic stood in need el' assistance ln.ui
the j .ni h. "Ave yon t;itro. deacon, ih.it
you have emlraccd all the widow.-':" Jlo
said he believed be had.
(*i.i > i?:tKi)irons.?;,Tiontny, my . m.
v.Mu yi u going t > do with that club?"
l-i i.d it to the editor, of course.'' "Thit f r
wl.at arc you going t.> ?"nd it to the editor?"
"Vauso lie says if anvhodv will send liiui n
oluli. ho will semi them a copy of his paper
The mother cauie pretty near faintim;. bat
rot ihicil c ii :ei..ii-n?>s. u n; Jih : "Hut,
Tommy, dear, what <1 > you u; j -so lie wants
w ith a club if ' "Wei!. 1 ilon'i know," replied
the hopeful uryhiti, 'unless it is to knock
down subscribers as don't pay lor their paper.*'