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( VOIAJME XXXIV Jflfi CAMDEN JOURNAL AN Independent Family Paper. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY TRANT1IAM & 11AY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year, in advance $2 -30 six months 1 50 Three months 70 teijrAll Transient Advertisements will be charged Oxk Dollar per Square for the first and Ssvkvty-fivb Cknts per Square for each subsequent insertion. Single insertion, $1 50 per square. t-ir Transient Advertisements must be | n?iit fn?in Ailv.ince. r THE TRUE SOUTHRON. The Paper for the Times. Independent and Fearlesss?Devoted to the ( Interests of the Good and True People of ~tbe Country, and especially the Supremacy of the White Race. Published withoutdhc aid of any Official Pat. ronage whatever, and appeals alone to the Friends of Honesty and Good Government for support in its tight against villainy. We call upon the WHITE MEN of South Carolina?those who desire to redeem our State from the abomination of thieving intruders, domestic scoundrels and mongrel leeches, who have acquired place and potver through the power of negro supremacy, combined with corruption and bribery?to come forward and sustain us by a cordial and liberal support, and show to Radical corruptionists and Scalawag traitors, that they arc determined henceforth, to sustain a fearless exponent of their views and principles. We say candidly, we need your support. The party in power have done their utmost to crush us by endeavoring to deprive us of legitimate business, and all we ask is the subscription of every true Carolinian?which will place us beyond the reach of contingencies. We are no adventurers, but Carolinians, to * ? 1 the manor born?nave necn engagd-* ... ...? publication of this paper over eight years? and ask your patronage, believing that it will be given wi.hout hesitation. Subscription price Three Dollars a year, in advance, with reductions to clubs. ^ To business men and others, desiring to ad. vertise, we beg to say that, our circulation is much larger thau that of any other paper in this County, with large and increasing lists in all the Middle end Eastern Counties of the State* Send one cent stamp for specimen copy. DARK & 03TEEN, Proprietors, W. G. KENNEDY, Editor. Sumter, S. C. tf. NEW FIK3L THE undersigned, successors to A. D. KENNEDY A CO., have just opened their Fall and Winter Stock CONSISTING OP Staple Dry Goods, CLOTHING, A "<U ISOUIW Hats and Caps, HARDWARE, Crockery and Glassware, SAddlery, cfcc. a large supply of FANCY AND FAMILY - GROCERIES. Bagging: and Ties. jjgf* The above Goods hating been purchased with great care in the Northern markets, since the decline in prices, we are able to sell the same on terms to suit purchasers. Give us a call. KENNEDY & BOYKIN. October 30. tf ? ? - - a t NO USE TALMixui ? WE want EVERYBODY to know, that wo do not intend that ANYBODY shall sell Ooods cheaper than we do. Kirkley A Garland, January 8. tf Molasses, Molasses. 50 barrels New Orleans, 25 half barrels 20 barrels Muscovado For sale bv n. 22 BAUM BRO EVERYTHING TO BE FOUND IN A First Class Grocery Store, CAN BE HAD AT THE VERY LOWEST PRICES, AT KIRKLEY A OARMYOS Fruit Jaw, Fruit Jam. A large lot of the celebrated OEM" FRUIT JARS, (self-sealing.) For sale nt very low prices, by KIRKLEY & GARLAND. June II. if Corn, Corn. SAAA BUSHELS. For sale low, by I WW BAUM BRO'tf. e 1 iSBH v S HR HI I m FAVORITE HOME REMEDY This unrivalled Medicine is warranted not to contain a single particle of Mrncruv, or any injurious mineral subsance, but is Purely A'eg*etat>le9 containing those Southern Hoots and Herbs which an all-wise Providence has placed in countries where Liver Diseases most prevail. It will cure all Uintnxcs canted by Derangement of Ihe Liver or IJoicchX Simmons' Liver Regulator, or Medicine, Is eminently a Family Medicin*; and by being kept ready lor immediate resort will save many an hour of suffering and many a dollar in time and doctors' bills. After over forty years' trial, it is still re-| ceiving the most unqualified testimonials to its virtues from persons of the highest character and responsibility. Hmineut physicians commend it as the most EFFECT LAI. REMEDY For Dyspepsia, or Indigestion. Armed with this AXTIDOTE all climates and changes of water and food maybe faced without fear, Asa remedy for )IA LA RIO FS FEVERS, ROWEL COMFLAIXTS, RESTLESS X ESS, J AFX DICE, XA USE A, IT HAS NO EQUAL. It is the cheapest, the purest and best Family (Medicine in the world. manifactuked only my J. II. ZEILIN & CO., MACON, OA. AND PHILADELPHIA. Price ?100- Sold by all Druggists. January 1. 1873. 12ju PALL AND WINTER 'MILLINERY ?AND? Fancy (*oods. MRS. T. B. WALKER has opened at her establishment on Broad Street, ahandi sonic assortment of Millinery and fancy Goods, Of the latest styles, selected with great care, to suit the tastes of her customers and the public generally Tbe Ladies are respectfully invited to call and examine her stock of Straw Hats, Sash and M Mm. Together with every article to be found ill a well supplied Millinery establishment. October 23. | A SOUTHERN ffOUSE. GEO. S. HACKER S IMXVSS. WAKBI, AND BLIND FACTORY King, Opp. Cannon Street, aiAiu^ s. c. The only house of the kind in this City owned nn<l managed l?y a Carolinian. a large stock always unhand and Mold at 20 per cent, leas than Northern prices. address GEO- S. HACKEE, Charleston, S. C. P. O. ItOX 170. January 22. 12 TH-A-LTIECSy17k deaire to return our thanks to the publie genern'ly for the patronage so liberally testowed upon us in 'lie past, and hope, by a strict attention to business, and an earnest cndcirvor to please, to merit a continuance of the same. K1HKLEY & GARLAND. January 8, 1K74. tf FOR SAL33. 7000 foot of choice IIotitrh-Kiloc arid " I I VI R ! II fur ctln :?f f liO prices, fur casli. II. K DITJiOSE. December 4. (f Mmnll Profitw, AND Q UlCIi tsaij:s, IS OUR MOTTO fpHOSE who don't believe it, rnll and exX amine our Goods ami the ju ices at which we are selling. KIKKLEY k GARLAND. W^IISTTIEID, TlVERVnODV to know that KIRK LET k I j (1 Alt LAND keep Store one door FOUth of the corner, in the Workman Building, where they keep always on hand, n complete stock of General Merchandise, at LOW PRICES. / AMDEN, SOUTH-C THE COTTON WORM. A Scientific View of the Plague of the Southorn Planter. [New York Tribune Report.] Jacob Ilubncr wad the first to name tbe | cotton worm scientifically. He described the cotton worm moth under the name of ! Alctia Argillacea, and figured it in two positions. This name is fixed by priority [ of description. The different stages of the Aletiaas found throughout the cotton belt of the Southern States have been faithfully portrayed by Prof. Townscnd ! Glover, of the Agricultural Department at Washington ; the work is as yet unpublished, and would he of great value, as it also describes the habits and the insect enemies of the cotton worm. The publication of this work should be tukcn in hand by the State Legislatures in the cotton belt. Prof. C. V. Kilcy, of Missouri, has noticed the Ahtia and furnished a drawing, in the second report on the insects of Missouri, of the uioth, representing its head downwards as in a state of rest.? In the sixth report he again discusses the insect, and the moth is represented in a normal position. He claims that the cotton worm hibernates as a moth. The present paper will undertake to show that such a view is erroneous, and will give some particulars respecting the habits of the insect. Prof. Grotc has observed the cotton worm during five seasons in Central Alabama and on many different plantations. It belongs to the Xoclucc, a family of nocturnal moths. The genus is one of a number of intertropical or Southern forms related to a more Northern genus i'lusiu, and has on our own soil the genus Ammis for its more immediate ally. The worm is a "half loopcr." The chrysalis is held within an exceedingly loose web on the plant and is visible through the mesh, j Tho egg, the worm, the chrysalis and the moth have been very fully described elsewhere. It is designed here to trace the consecutive history of the insect. Prof. Grote has observed the worm in Marengo and Greene counties, on the Touibigbeo and Black Warrior rivers.? There cotton is sown in March and April, begins to bloom in Juno and July, audi perishes in November. The earliest period at which Prof. Grote noticed the young worm was in the last week in June, its first appearance varying in the same locality to the middle of July. The multiplication of the first brood causes the greatest loss to the planter. The appear, ance of the worm is always heralded by the advent of the perfect moth, the latter coming to light itl houses at least a week before the worm appears in the fields.? After making this observation?that the worm is the progeny of moths appearing for the first time in June and July? Prof. Grote noted the extreme irregularity of the first brood, which skips some and visits other plantations over many miles of country. But this irregularity is only made up by later broods and subsequent increase. The next feature observed was that the worm is always to the southward of any given locality ; it comes as an army from the south, the broods arriving consecutively as long as the season lasts. The latest broods, when the worms were numerous, ate everything that was soft about the cotton plant?the flowers, the persistent calyx, the very young boll, the terminal shoots, then changed into myriad chrysalides clinging to the leafless stems in the face of frost, the latter chrysalides and retarded worms perishing. This Southern army was killed by the advancing winter and the decease of their food plant. Prof. Cirotc asks if the few specimens of the moth visible in sunny da}?- in the winter wore cases of hibernation or merely accidental survival. llubncr describes tlio moth as originally from llahia, Prazil. Its destruction of perennial cotton in the West Indies, Mexico and Hrazil is established. From a scientific point the insect is of a Southern type of its family. Prof, (irote believes that the insect dies out with its food at the end of each year in the Southern States, and that its next appearance is due in every instance to a fresh iiniui gration front more southern regions. For many years alicr cotton was cultivated at the South, the insect did not nut make its 1 appearance. Its earliest date in Central i Alabama was not much preceding the war. ; It does not appear every year, nor does it. 1 at the same time of the year in any locality. The moth is capable of extended flights; Prof. Packard has seen it in the Kustcrn States; Prof. <!rote and l>r. F. L. Harvey in Puffal<>; Prof. 11 iley says it has been taken in Chicago. It probably | follows the coast line and the water cour- : ses emptying into thcdulfof Mexico? the water shed of the Mississippi extend., j ing to within fifty miles of Puffalo. There is evidence of most extended flights on the part of other nocturnal insects. Spread- j m 1^5 AROLINA, THURS ing thus rapidly froin the South it escapes its natural parasites. If the hibernating theory is adopted, a period of several months in the history of the insect caunot be -accounted for. The worm has never yet been seen on anything but the cotton plant, and perishes by thousands rather than eat anything else, remaining so long as the plant furnishes j food, and turning to a chrysalis on the leaves or stems at last> The wandering is accidental, as the worm is not gregarious like tent caterpillars. There is no pfoportion between the few that survive in warm winters and the swaruis of the first appearance. The permanent residence of the Aletia is outside of our cotton belt.? Prof. Grotc concludes that it is not indigenous with us, but an annual; not a denizen, but a visitant, unable to contend with the variations of our climate; and he believes that the process of artificial extermination may bo simplified by limiting the period of successful attack and doing away with certain proposed remedies.? The agent of destruction must be directed against the first brood in each locality, and concerted action on the part of the planters, where the remedy is to be applied, will be necessary. Prof. Riley began the discussion of the paper on the cotton worm by saying that lie had recently received a number of letters from men who had investigated this subject asking for definite information as to the cotton worm, lie thought Prof. (J rote's paper would in a measure answer those inquiries satisfactorily, and he would simply make one correction. When the essayist implies, said he, that I have como to other conclusions, and states that the moth hibernates simply from analogy, I have dune so more from recorded facts than anything else. The question was whether it hibernated as a chrysalis or as a moth. The conclusions of Mr. Grotc arc that the moth hibernates anJ dies necessarily. I think Mr. Grote's facts show that it does. Now the question is, over how wide an area docs this moth perish every winter. Can it be possible that in the Gulf States the moth cannot survive the mild winter ? Mukt.every year an insect be brought necessarily from the tropical regions of the i>outh '! I think, where the instances of the moth further north arc concerned, the facts brought forward demonstrate that it perishes, especially where there are no cotton plants. Uut there are analogous cases of moths and butterflies in the temperate zone where they hibernate, and their larvjc do not appear until June or July. An IxTKitKSTixa Legai. Question.? The issue raised in the Tinted States District Court last week, between Juntos F. Hart, Esq., representing judgment creditors, and J. S. It. Thompson, Esq., representing the assignee in bankruptcy, as to the validity of judgments entered without a revenue stamp on the writ, while the act of Congress was of force, elicited some interesting arguments on both sides of the ! question. Tor tiie creditors it was urged that the > act requiring :i revenue stauip on process of a State Court was beyond the constitutional power of t.'ongtess; that the ritrht to levy an excise tax carried with it the power to impose lines and penalties, but that the process could not bo impaired by the omission ; that to grant the right would yicid the power to obliterate the State Courts, which were an integral part of the State's sovereign powers. It was further urged that, aside froui the constitutional quest ion, the omission of the stamp was n mere irregularity, which the judgment concluded; that under the laws and j decisions of the State, the judgment was j valid without the stamp, and that under the net of Congress of 18GD the Federal [ Courts must give effect to the laws, and conform to the decisions in the States' where they were Itoldcn. For the assignee it was urged that the ; right to determine what papers should be j received in evidence in the L'uitcd States Courts was a matter within the power of! Congress to decide; that the Supreme, Court had divided in a recent case that a note improperly stamped could not be ad mittcd in evidence; that the whole record of the State Court came in review here, and it was necessary to show that the pro eecdings were regular. The argument on this question was concluded on Monday. Judge liryan j hesitated to decide hastily the grave con-1 stitutionai question raised; but on the i second point made for the creditors, that it was a mere irregularity, concluded by the judgment long acquiesced in, decided in favor of the creditors Circe it villi ?Y< trs. The ' baby farming" establishments of. New York have been found to exceed in j horror those of London and Paris that ereutod such world-wide indignation last year. DAY, SEPTEMBER No Chance for a Choice. I The South Carolina tax-payers have expressed their willingness to support a Republican for Governor in the approaching election provided that he he au honest man. But it is evident the opportunity is not likely to proseut itself. The Republican candidate will be either Moses, the individual who at this time defiles the seat of Rutlcdgc and Hayno, or exAHm-nnv.Gnnnral Chamberlain, a carpet bagger. It was supposed that nothing ( cq?ld be worse for a continuance of the Moses regime; that tho election of any ( other thief in the State would bo a turn ( for the better. But, if we may believe the evidence set forth by the Charleston Xeics and Courier, the carpet-bagger ( Chamberlain is the more dangerous man of the two. He has been concerned in nearly ^ all the outrageous schemes by which the | people have been plundered, and has , probably profited more largely by the , thieving than any of his fellow conspira- ( tors. He is understood to have the sup- , port of the Long Branch Administration, which is alarmed by the bad odor arising , from tho Republican muck heap at Col- ( umbia. But Moses is tho favorite of the ( blacks, and that gives him a fair chance ( against tho Grant oandidate. Tt is clear , that the South Carolina tax-payers cannot countenance the election of either of these , persons. Moses, of course, is out of quetv | tion. Chamberlain has the manners of a gentleman, and relieves his victims with the grace of a Claude Duval, but that | renders him more perilous to the State than the brutal brigand who is now in possession at Columbia. The one seizes the property owner by the throat and ( chokes him till he empties his pockets. < The other is a genius, and is capable of ( concocting vastschcmcs of plunder beside < which the operations of Moses would be < contemptible. The white people of South , Carolina must not do themselves the injus- s ticc to support Chamberlain. In the ab- s sencc of a comparatively decent Kepubli- 1 can candidate in opposition to Moses, 1 they cannot do better than to nominate and i support one of our own prominent men.? ] They li!*re abundant gubernatorial timber. General Kersbaw would niako a < Governor worthy of the older and better ! days of the commonwealth. Coi. llichard I Lathers, ex-Governor Porter, Mr. F. W. < Dawson, the editor of the Xcia and Cou- I ricr, cx Senator Campbell, Judge Bryan, < Mr. George W. Williams, the leading I merchant of Charleston, arc all capable ' and available men. If Moses, as the negro i and scalawag candidate, and Chamber- 1 lain, as the Grant and carpet bag candi* ] date, enter the lists, a genuine Conscrva- i tivc candidate, as the representative of i ,;all the decency" in the State, would have an excellent prospect of success. < X. Y. World. i i The Memphis Appeal on the Dis- , orders in the South.?The St. Louis Republican, discanting on recent collisions between whites and blacks in the South, and anticipating their constant occurrence and increased violence, says that the condition of affairs will surely become worse when the next Presidential election is pending. It says it is an error to imagine that the North can remain unaffected by this disastrous confusion. It will affect the whole country. If it continues it uiay bring troubles wc little drcaui of. for it may throw into dispute ? the legality of tho election of thirty or j forty members of the next Congress; it may produce half a dozen double governments, it may make a fatal strain on that 1 weakest point in our polity, the l'resi- i dential election. We may flatter ourselves a that in some way or other these disorders 1 will be nuictcd before 1870; but the ex. s pcrieneo of the past dues not bear out tho i pleasing anticipation. It is nine years t since the pacification and reconstruction ? of the South began, and it is not completed i yet; indeed, the condition of some of the I Southern States is more threatening to 1 day than it was in 18G5. Imagine the t next Presidential election taking place in I this disturbed condition of the South. 1 with a close contest in the North, and a s compact vote from the South, east amidst c violence and ullcdgcd fraud, coming in to r turn the scale in favor of one party, and c we have a possibility which wo may well v do all in our power to avert. ? Ymn 1 tfc'scKiI'TioN.?The St. Louis r It*IHibtican says, tho following is an ex- < j tract from a letter written by Mrs. S. P. () Barrett, formerly of Cambridge, Illinois, ^ but now residing in Nemaha county. Kan- j sas. Her home is in the track of the s northern column of the devastating grass- ., hoppers, and we presume her vivid de- p seription of the scene will give our reaJers t a clearer idea of the magnitude of tho j, pest than they have hitherto been able to form. ' It looks very sad and dreary to me L ml 10, 1874. to-day. The sun is quite hidden by the clouds of grasshoppers flying all around and alighting on everything. They are pelting against my doors and windows as fast as hailstones ever came. I can scarcely see through my screen door for them, and to look out as far as the eye can see, it looks like a snow storm?as they fly their wings look like white flakes of snow in the air. They destroy everything they alight on. They have destroyed acres and acres of corn, and now they aro going in our com fields by clouds, and will destroy all in a day. Every shrub and tree is covered with them. You know we read of Pharaoh's plague, where the insects got into the kneading troughs. I think this is one of them. I went out by the door to try to drive them off, and they flew all over mo, and I had to change my dress to ^et rid of them. Instead of rain, we are having showers of grasshoppers. Our six windows are completely covered with them, and. as I write, they are pouring down the chimney and coming down the stove pipe." "Father has just come in. Ho cannot work out doors, for they blind him; and they arc coming faster, and are now eating the netting off my doors and windows, and the heat and close air are stifling. I never saw anything so terrible in my life. The ground is now completely covered, and they cause such an offensive smell, that but for ar. occasional brecio to carry it off, t know not what wc should do. " Please excuse mistakes, as I feel so bad and nervous under this awful scourge ind desolation." Influence of the Comet on tiie jerman Vintage.?Tho news just received from Germany, says the Pall Mall jazette, seems to promiso that the comet of 1874 will leave behind it in the wine countries a pleasant memorial of its visit. A. correspondent writing from Ehrenbreitstoin states that tho vintage in the Rhine md Moselle districts, especially where the lighest class of wines are produced, is ikely to compensate for the disastrous fears of 1809, 1870, 1871, 1872, and L873. Iu the favored spot known as the Rhcingau no such quantity has been recorded since the celebrated comet year of 1811. At one time it was apprehended that the early May frosts had, as in former years, committed much damage among tho vines; but these fears have long been lispelled, and there is now, we learn, the fairest promise that the vintage of 1874 will be an exceptionally grand one, both in quantity and quality. Such delicate little attentions to wine drinkers on the part of theso erratic heavenly bodies are the more appreciated because we are not always able to count upon them. Since 1811 not by any means all of the numerous comets which have appeared in this country have been careful to perpetuate their memories by haudsomo presents of wine. The comet of 1811, above referred to, and Donati's comet of 1858, with the mnn-nifinont /Onrrtt vintlMrA whirh followed ,Hft4"UVVMV . it, are perhaps the only two which can be held in grateful remembranco for their iffects upon wine. On the other hand, the famous years, 1824 and 1834, proluccd their wines without any cometary issistancc, unless the near approach of a ' :omct iu one case and ita recent depature 11 the other, can be supposed to have exireised any influence upon the vineyards. V comet was visible in December, 1823, ind the year 1835 was the date of the ast appearance of Ilallcy's comet of 1682. The Cotton Gamblers.?The gamilers of the Cotton Exchange are beaming somewhat nervous at the prospect of i short life for their latest schemes. They ?ave succeeded in depressing the market o that the ruling price is 15-1 cents, which ucans 11J or 12 ccuts to the planter ;^>ut he latest reports from the Southern Itates, which are given in another column, ndicatc that these prices arc artificial and >ear no relation to the supply and demand. L'hcy are established simply to impoverish he planter and to enrich the speculator. t would be interesting to know how many lundrcd thousand bales ofcotton have been < ,11 ,i.(i,rt lu-nsiMit season. in formal 1 "IU UUI IIIq VIIV I'ft J ontracts, and represented to bo actually j eady for delivery, without any intention , f carrying the transaction further. While i re have no sympathy for ono party of 1 peculators as against another in this efbrt to establish artificial prices, it is but easonablc to say that the facts do not ustify the present depression in tho value if cotton, and that the planters should not >e deceived by it. If it were not for the 1 ilanter, we should view these continual , truggles between the ''bulls" and the , bears" of the Cotton Kxchangc with per- ' cot complacency; but, unfortunately, ' heir antics involve the injury of innocent I icrsons. I What is tho best key for a Christmas ( ox ? A tur key. 1 ??gg il , I . 1 / - ./ ,r ?; ji NUMBER 1. The Baltimore American on a Third Term.?So it seems that the times are ripe for a divergence on a new track, and if there is anything at all in the third term notion it has no favorable prospects except in the definite formation of what, for want of a better name, we may call the Grant party. Speculative people, who ^occupy themselves with imaginings of the campaign, which will actively open in a year from now, are forecasting the combinations which are likely to make Grant the candidate of such a party. From the Soath we hear that there is quite a strong influence which is disposed to turn towards hiu in the expectation that he will throw the weight of his executive power against the dominant Republican governments which are so distasteful to the majority of the whites. His refaaalto send troops to Petersburg and Vicksburg in the interests of the Republican party; his reported strong condemnation of Moses, of South Carolina, and his assiduous endeavors to cultivate the general public feeling, are instanced as evidences of his determination to be the first President of the United States who has occupied the White House for twelve years, and to that end to cut adrift from the political organization to which he owes his present elevation. It wonld be too much to say that he has no snch purpose in his mind. While it is not even positive that he eares for another term, or that if he does he entertains this shrewd scheme to attain it, there is nothing improbable in the sapposition that he has such aspirations.? They are enough to daule any man, and for the reasons that we have indicated, there is no intrinsic improbability of their realization. Within the two years that must ensue before conventions are assembled and'nominations made, the wholo i .F.A.! 1- - -1 J l_i il- - uppeui* ui an aire may uc coangea, Dili/ vac contingencies are rather in favor of their quietly drifting along until the control of tho current rests entirely in tho hands of Grant and his friends. It will be said that such an event would be revolutionary, but American politics are a constant revolution. Precedents count for very little in thia country. The majority of our people are very apt to do whatever they fancy to. If they think another four years of Grant in the White House is the best they can do, they will return him there in spite of oar institutions and the warning -cry of Caesarism. The American Ball Platers in England.?The sporting sensation of the moment is the grand successes of the American base ball and cricket players in their contests with the English. That the Americans should have lately doubled tho scores of their English opponents in their own special game (ciicket) has exeited amazement. The scene of the games is attended by brilliant companies of gentlemen and gaily-dressed ladies, the latter showing a keen interest in the contests.? Tho fino and shapely appcaranoe of the Americans excites general admiration, and is not unlikely to relieve the English of any apprehensions they may have that the Anglo-Saxon race is dying out in the United States. I am bound to say that the English youths are showing themselves far removed above any mean jealousy, and the young men from across the sea have already been offered hospitalities ? sufficient to make tneir visit here very pleasant.?London Letter. Desperate Suicide?A dispatch from Poughkeepsie, New York, dated the 22nd ult., says: " A notorious charaoter, named James Cramsey, repaired to the foul Rock, on the bank of the river eighty five feet high, and lying down, fell asleep, being in a half intoxicated condition. In an hour he awoke and said to a party with him, who had been jumping, "I will give you a lesson, boys, and show you a leap," and pulling off his shoes, he went to the edge of tbo rock, evidently to look for a place from which he could jump into the water below, without striking on the bottom.? Running back from the edge, he exclaim, ad, "That's not much of a jump," and started for the brink. A man caught him and held him back. Cramsey exclaimed, \ "What's the matter with you ? Let me go," and again started for the edge, looked over, and ran back ten feet for another 1 1? a al^ - j a.! Starr. ana was caugut m?j tsecona tunc, and a struggle took place, and Cramscy struck one of bis captors in the breast, crying, with an oatb, "If you don't let me go, I'll take you with me!" Ho was released, and sat down for abont five minutes, and a man took a seat between him and the precipice. Cramsey said, "Let me jump, and I will meet you at the Furnace Dock," and then he suddenly made a dash for the edge of the rock, shooting, "Now I'm off!'' and with a fearful spring leaped out into the air, and plunged, feet Srst, down a distance of eighty five feet into the Hudson. It is stated that he turned once in the awful descent, and struck the water sideways. Up to nine j'clcek to-night his body .had not been found. j