The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, July 17, 1875, Image 2
E. A. WJ?HSTER. Editor and Proprietor. A Weekly Paper Ucvoled to Temperance, Literature and Politics.
VOIAJMK I. ?RANG?B?RG, SOUTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JULY 1?, 1875, N?MI5KR Iii
TIMELY TOPICS.
ONE of lilt" mau y good pointu of the
HOW cons! ii ut ion of Arkansas, adopted
li ss Dian a year ago, is the provision for
tlio payment of thu slate debt. This
providion in now being curried out under
tho moans provided by tho lust legisla
ture. _
Jared lt. linell, of Indianapolis; and
Susan D. dilbert, of Athol, Maos., have
..married" tboinsclves by a written con
tract, which is to "bo in forco during
our physical lives, provided our mutual
love natures ever blond as now-but to
terminate without prejudice by the wish
of either party, if love shall ever contle
to bo mutual,"
IN 1870, New York oily had a popida
lion of 012,202, and a municipal debt of
8122,800,780. In 1871, London had a
population of :i,2(Jii,0S7, and rt city debt
of S2fi,018,000. Those figures are im
posing. Tho city and county debts of
Ibo whole union aro estimated to bo to
day $35,(100,000 ; but. as this cstiniato is
only for (bono having ono million and
over of liabilities, the total mny bo not
down itt a thousand million. Add tho
stale and national debts and there re
sid?s a heavy load for poHtority.
IT in quito discouraging lo know that
tho importation of lire crackers for
fourth of July purposes this year will
amount to .'HU),ODO boxes-n large excess
over the rocoipls of inst year, owing
doubtless to. tho centennial typhoid.
The Chinesti and Japanese make a good
thing out of thc squibs, as they alone
can manufacture snob explosives, the
attempts to reproduce tbeni in this
country Laving failed. Tho invention,
however, is deemi d by many people,
not highly creditable to Johu China
man's civilization.
Tim inundations in Southern France
have called fori li thc ready sympathy of
tho cneli people, for ibo sn florero,
and relief funds, io familiar to Ameri
can cars of lalo, aro being rained every
where, JTlie. city o{" Toulouse^ which
has s ii floret f so terribly, is very aucient,
having been a leading city of the Gauls
when HU? Homans conquered their coun
try. Massive walls of Roman work
manship havo been broken down by tho
recent Hoods from the river Garonne,
on whoco banks tho city is built. The
loss of property n now placed at $150,
000,000._
LATER advices from France confirm
previous reports of tho frightful charac
ter of tho inundation tdoug tho river
Garonne. Many towns havo been sub
merged and whole tedious of country
overflowed. More t?tun a thousand 1??'CB
were lost, over two hundred dead bodies
being found in ono village. Twenty
thousand people aro homeless and suf
fering. President MucMahon has de
parted for tho scene of desolation to
render bitch assistance as may be nec
essary. Tho Garonne rises in tho
Pyrenees, on the e.onlines of Bpaili, and
ia subject lo overflow, on account of tho
general Hal ness of its batiks.
PEOVM? seo things differently. For
instance, tho terrible earthquake that
recently destroyed San .loso do Cnoutn,
in Columbia. When the catastrophe
began, most of the inhabitants went
down upon their knees and prayed for
relief and mercy. Yet, iii tho midst of
the scene, when the earth wan heaving,
buildings falling, and tho dying groans
and shrieks of men, women and children
Oiling tho air, a wild horde of demoni
acal thieves and robbers swarmed into
the. I owns, sacking houses, pillaging
bank vaults, and plundering the dead,
and even murdering. If an earthquake
will not quicken a man's consuionco,
there is no lolling what will.
TllP. NOW York World muk?s the
establish menthol a zoological gardeu in
Philadelphia tho occasion for tlio pre
sentation of sonni interesting facts con
cern i ng tho famous Loudon zoological
gardons. Tho London oolloo!ion in
187;i included 500 quadrupeds, 1,227
birds and 225 reptiles, and was at that
tiine, us yet, tho largest in existence.
The first ihinoccros cost Xl,000; tho
four giraffes C700, and their carriage au
adtlitional ?700; tho olephahtand a calf,
?800, and Ibo hippopotamus, though ti
gift, was not brought home and housed
for lens ?han .Cl.000.. Tho cost of
maintaining tho London gardens is very
great, but tho receipts aro ample to
mcot it.
THE American riflo team has achieved
great victory in Ireland over tho crack
shots of that country. A mutch wnp
shot Inst week between tho two teams.
In tho first bout, at eight hundred
yards, tho Amoricans woio beaten by
..no point, tut in tho ?wo succeeding
bouts, at nino hundred and a thousand
ya?-d? roBptjntivolyi tho Am*r??wn "*PH
out ali?ad, thus winning tho mutch.
Tho victory of tho Americans was r?
ccivcd with tremendous cutliUH?a.sm, and
they wore tho recipients of tlio moHt
distinguished honors from tlio populace
and their competitors. The contest lins
boon marked by tho most fraternal feel
ing on all sides. Tlio American ri He
men have been trnated with tlio utmost
coiiHideratiou by their hosts, and even
tho fiting of dofeat has not caused any
suspension of tho friendly intercourse.
A I'IUVATE soldier of Prof. .Tenney's
escort, in his geological survey of the
Blaok Hills, writes that he found gold
by menus of a pick and a shovel, while
tlio geologists wore tryiug to lind it by
seientilic principles. His advice is that
those desirous of going gold hunting
should hold themselves in readiness,
and tho instant tho Indian treaty ia an
nulled to hosten on. Tho party had
encountered three mining camps on
French creek. Thoy were panning ont
about ?10 a day, each, and. were of tho
opinion that, when they get their work
ing apparatus ju good order, they will
bo able to moko ?T>0 ll day. Tho soldier
lind washed four pans of dirt ami gst
about live cents to the pan of seale gold,
sumo of thu pieces being a little larger
than a piu's head. Ile did not have to
dig a foot down for tho dirt, and declares
that all that Gustar told concerning tho
treasures of tho country was strictly
true. .
TUB statistical reporta just published
by tho agricultural bureau indicate
wide-spread disaster to tho fruit-grow
ing interest, an will bo seen from the
following notes : Insect depredations
aro recorded only in Maine, in Eome
counties of which caterpillars were
troublesome. In New England gene
rally tho crops woro late, and in some
parts a tendency to simultaneous
blooming t xcited remark. In tho
middle, southern and western Btates
generally, the climatic conditions were
very unfavorable. Tho severity of the
wiutor has not oulv destroyed tho fruit
germs, but also tho trees. Tho cold
brttto HA -nu .i^.iiiu .nji.tifii.'.t '?rio oovjt-?,
of this injury, and heavy late frosts in
many places destroyed what had sur
vived th-j winter. In ?orno casca it is
noled that tho plums stood tho severity
of tho season better than other sorts of
fruit. Grapes in many eases escaped
on account of late blooming, but the
vineyards of' several sections were
greatly depleted by tho extreme cold,
rimal' fruits were loss severely affected
and aro reported as producing very
luxuriantly.
Con. BouoiNOT, who has just returned
from tho Indian Territory, says twenty
seven murder cases havo just boen dis
posed of by tho United States district
court at Fort Smith, Ark., before which
all criminal business from tho Indian
nation comen. Out of thiH number
thero woro eight convictions for murder
in ttio firp.t degree. Kevon of those
convicted, including two boys, ono
oeyentcon, tho other nineteen years,
both aro to bo hanged together on the
3d of September next. Thc eighth one,
a negro, was lulled after conviction
whilo attempting to escape. Much out
lawry prevails in tho Indian Territory,
and ten men havo been lulled in the
vicinity of Fort Smith within a few
mont ha, A very bitter contest is uow
going on in tho Cherokee nation for thc
position of chief of the nation between
tho KOKS and Downing parties, and it ie
alleged conspiracy and secret assassina
tion aro rife Col. W. P. KOKO, present
chief, is a candidato for re-election, and
a mau named Thompson ia the candi
date of tho Downing party.
I Capt. Jos. B. Fades has written i
lotter to President Graut and secretary
of war Iiulknap, advising them of titi
progress of tho jetties at tho South Pass
The main point in tho lotter is that pro
visional works, ono thousand foot long
are already constructed on tho line o
tho east jetty, and being pushed seawan
at tho iato of two hundred feet per day
Two hundred mechanics and laborer
and four piiedriviog machines aro n
work ona a large quantity of stone am
othor matorial aro ready at hand. Ail
ditionol accommodations aro being pr<
pared, und in abort tho working fore
will bo largely increased. Tolegraphi
communication bas been established bi
tween New Orleans and Ibo head of til
Pass, and the line is being extended I
tho worliH at tho mouth of tho Pas
Capt. Koihi Bays the provisional woi
mentioned is what is koo rn as shee
piling, and whilo it is only rjrolimiuat
in oharactor, it will temporarily ter
the fa-no purpose and produce tho san
r result ns permanent jett ies. Tho ca
. tain is quito miro that there will 1
I twenty feet of water on tho bar, ut tl
, Ht? ii th ?'nun, by Mis 1?*ot February,
THE OLD CONTINENTALS.
In their rngKi-d rcgliuentalH
Blood U.lil ?ont menial.-",
Yielding not ;
While the crclimliiTH wen- I ll iij;i HfT,
Ami liku iiail !'. ll Un- plunging
H1IUIIOI1-9I10I ;
Win n Hu- SICH
Oftho isl? :<
l-'rotu Ihr smoky nigh) encampment
L ue Hu- banner of tin- rampant
tliiicorn,
Ami gruiutuer, pr limitier, nrnmmer,
Kuli? il Ilm roll of thu itrumuicr
Through ibo muru !
Thou with eye? la Ibo front all.
Anti willi mum horizontal,
Slooil our sires ;
While Hu) balls whist hil ilenilly,
Ami in streams tbisiiini; redly,
Iilu7.?tl thu lins;
As Ihu roar
i m the shore
Kw, i a lin-sti'on;; lialHe-brrnkerti
<)Vr Uni eii'. ii-ibli <1 acre.?
Of tin- plu I n ;
Ai il loitiler, louder, louiler.
Cracked Ike blnelt ?mipowdir,
Cr.u'l.iii? amain !
Now like Un' Finllha ai tin n- forgea
Wollo il III- ri il Si. tll.OlgO*?
i 'annoncer* ;
\tui ill" " ? ill inion - nalt|ielre
Kan:;, a llereu ilifcnrilant luelle
lion ml our earn.
As 111? swill.
Stone-drift,
Wilb liol swecpinu ntu;er
Cline Hie horru-gndrda clanger
( in our flunks ;
Tin n Muller, hitcher, higher,
Un rm <l Hie old-Lothl.cl lite
Through Hie ranks !
Theii Hu- hare.headed colonel
li.tllo|ii'il ibruttiili Hi" white Infernal
l'ottib r-eloucl ;
Ami his broadsword was Hwlugihg,
Ami los brazen timmi wan ringing
Trumpet louil.
Theil tb? blue
Labels Hew ;
Anil Ibo lriinper-tne!;etH reilileneil
At the lunch ol tile le?deil
Kilte-hteiiUi; .
Ami rot luirr, rounder, rotiuder
Itoaretl Hie iron Bix-Jiouinler,
Uurllii); ib nth '.
- (hiu Humphrey MuManter.
THE GREAT STAPLE.
K< port ?if the New OrlcmiH Cotton Kx
cliimcv Tile Crop Iii ion ii il lu 10x
eellelll Condition.
Tin* Committee on Information rind
Statistics of I he Now Orleans Cotton Ex
change, to whom lins been entrusted tho
iluty of compiling n national crop re
port, nnulo tip from returns of vuriotiH
Kxehatigos appointed therefor by tho
National Exchange, .submit tlio follow
iiiir for tito mont li of Juno:
New Orleans, Department of Louis
ifinn-We liavo H'.) letters from 37 par
ishes, which unite in reporting generally
favorable weather. There has been no
additional acreage put in cotton nineo
tho 151 h of May, but thoro ban been
?nm/i rnnlojitir.tr wh.-.rivliuiilfl wism nyar
oweif ami to periecl tho stanitu. Tiro
plant has been better cultivated tlnui
for many years, and ia growing and
forming well. Many blooms arc re
ported. Tlio stands ure represented as
very Rood to excellent, and thc prosout
condition of tho crop is most nattering,
much better and about ono week earlier
when compared with last year.
Missistippi-10.*l replies received.
Average date about the 15th. Weather
nearly universally represented IIB very
favorable. Stands line and the plant
forming well, though too early for many
blooms. The present condition is
stated as very good, and much botter
when compared with last year. No nd
ditiomd acreage put in cotton. Re
planting has been done where thc plants
were imperfect. Labor plenty and ef
ficient.
Arkansas-50 correspondents send in
their answers from 22 counties. Since
the first of .Tuno tho weather han boon
hot, and most enough to promote rapid
growth and cause tito plant to form and
htpiaro well. Tho stands aro vo?"y good,
und no replanting hus boen needed, ex
cept in a few exceptional eases. Brad
ley county reports the first bloom on
tho 8th inst., but it is only exceptional,
and as it rulo blooming had not begun
at the dato of our answer and corres
pondents aro unanimous in represent
ing tho condition us exceedingly promis
ing and far superior to that of last
year, l'lau'ters ?no encouraged by thc
prospect, ?me of tho linost. over known.
Considerable attention und ciro has
been devoted to tho cultivation of
cereals, nud owing to the excellent
harvest, a feeling of independence is
vbrv noticeable in mir correspondence.
Charleston, Department of South Car
olina-1)7 unsWorn received from 2f
oonntios, reporting weather since May
lons generally favorable. Some com
plaints of cool-nights. Very little ad
tl i I ional planting. Blands represented
us good, ?jI answers soy forming well ;
'.V.), sny few fnnns, mid ?) no forms. All
agrco iu stating, no blooms np to date
of answers. Present condition good,
though sinai), being clean of grass and
nome parts comparo favorably With Inst
year. Heavy storms of wind and bail
ure reported in six comities since Juno
7, tining miieh real tl a runge. Lice aro
reported in four counties.
Augusta Department, covering that
portion of th? state of Georgia not in
cluded iu the.Savannah report -Weather
favorable ; no additional planting; Homo
little replanting ; stands good ; forming
I well but no blooms. General condition
good. Crops generally very clean. La
hor plentiful and good.
Savannah Department -Savannah Cot
ton Exchange, covering Northern, Mid
dle and Southwestern (borgia und thc
stato of Florida-Weather dry and pen
orally favorable ; ho additional planting
of any consequence; stands gootl ; plant
vigorous ; ga orally forming well, but
no blooms except iii the southern por
tion of the stat?;; condition good ; croj
clean and weil worked ; plant somewhat
smaller mid a few days later, but ratliei
bolter than at tho sume time last yenr.
Florida-Dry and favorable weathei
j clearing i ho Holds of grass; stands good
plan* forming well and commencing tc
, I bloom; condition good and compare!
favorably with hu>t year, though ?mal
1 j from il ry went her and somewhat iatci
I t-lmn hvsl ye??", promiser! tu bo prell
fruited at the bottom, which ?H tho
principal part of tho crop.
Mobile, Department of Alabama
From fifty-two counties, 12(i replica :
Tho w< atbor bas been genorftlly favor
able, rather too dry in Homo places, bid
not eiough so to iujuro tho plant.
Ihore ans boon very little replanting or
additu iial planting. Tho utanda aro
good laid the plant ia forming well ;
very few blooms ; tho condition UH com
pared (.Uh last year in reported from aa
good t'? ranch bettor ; there aro acarcoly
any tin favorable circumatanccB rolativo
to growth or condition of tho crop ; only
a few reports of lice and grasshoppers,
and complaint? of cold nights and
drouth. Tho crop in clean, in good
condition ?nd better cultivated than last
year.
Mts;; ?uri -Nineteen conidios, 56 re
plies. The weather lia? ben generally
fiivoroWe, needing rain in some conn
lies, nt- 1 Borne complaints of cold nights,
prod IM og lice. Tbero ban been very
Hule replanting or additional planting ;
stands ..re good and plant, forming well;
only a lew blooms ; pi osent condition of
crop is better lhau Inst year at samo
period tho indy unfavorable eircum
H'aneen1 aro those noted above; the
fuvoraWe cirouinstnnei s aro, tin* crop
?H clea M?r, bot'er cultivated and more
ad vane-d than last year at same time.
Norfolk mid Portsmouth Department
Fifty five rejilicH from 2'.) counties in
North karolina, nix replies from two
counties in Virginia. Forty-fivo replies
report, weather dry find cold ; l l say
favoral !e, and only two represent tho
wcathe- wet and cold. Fifty-four an
swers leport tho stand as good ; sumo
few complaints on stiff lauds ; some
forms ;. no blooms. Soven roplies from
Bevon counties in eastern Carolina rep
resent I ho stand as below tho average ;
condit ion vory generally stated aa good ;
crop will cultivated and free from grass
and we 'ds ; plant smaller than at t he
same time last year, nod from eight to
liftCCU dajB later. Five answers from
tivo counties in eastern Carolina ropo t
condition bad. Correspondents state
that tin: weather since tho loth of May
has ben too cool for rapid growth, but
with warm nnd seasonable weather a
great improvement is looked for.
Memphis Department-145 answers
receive'.1. Weather generally repre
sented ijs favorable ; no additional acre
age pu', iu eotton sinco May 15 ; stands
good n;,d satisfactory ; plant generally
squaring and forming freely ; 12 reports
ot blo<?.iB dating from 18tli to 20th ;
condi'.'Jv ?jood : lrelds free of grass and
m ii-vHB<rai? vi . >umc"Ou'ui|Miiiirc?ri'r>vu
!ol?l nights, lice, etc., dating from May
15th to Juno 5th, mostly remedied by
subsmpieut favorable weather.
Galveston Dopartment, Texas- We
have received 120 reports from QM coun
ties, embracing tho period between
May 15th and June 20th ; weather very
generally Bind to buve been favorable ;
no addition to acreage in cotton since
May 15th ; uorne little replanting whore
seed tailed to como up ; stand? repre
sented ns good, and in the coast range
reported to bis forming nnd blooming
wei!.
A InrRo majority of our reports agree
in the .statement that tho season is from
oue to threo weeks later than last year,
and that tho plant is generally small,
but is clear of gruss and ru good con
dition. Kains are needed. Tho cater
pillar is reported in three counties, but
so far hus dono no material damage.
How He Caught Them.
Home years ago, an eccentric g. nins,
tho Rev. Tilomas t\ Hunt, used to give
tomperanco lectures; Ono night ho an
nounced tbnt ho would lecture in Easton.
Now, tomperanco was not in favor
among th? malo portion of tho burg.
The women, however, were all iu for the
pledgo, nnd consequently, on Hunt's
first night not a mau showed himself in
tho hali. Tho benches were pretty well
lilied with women, though, and Hunt
commenced; but, instead of temperance,
ho put them through on tho vanities of
dress, ole. They wore great puffed
feather sleeves then. They-the sleeves
-caught it, then their tight lacing, and
BO on through tho whole catalogue of
lemah! follies; not a word about temper
ance. And tho ladies went home bop
ping mad, told their husbands about it,
nnd voted old Hunt down to the lowest,
notch.
ile hud annonnoed that ho would lec
ture nt tko ?amo plhco tho next night.
Long before tho timo appointed they
commenced to como, and when Hunt
hobbled down the aisle tho building was
comfortably well tilled with men. Tin
old fellow looked about, chuckled, and
muttered : l?ogs, I've got you now !"
Tho nmlieiicn stared. .? Aha,' bogs, I've
got you now !"
Atter the crowd lind got quiet, a little,
tho h durer said : "Friends, you
wanted to kuow what 1 meant, by say
big, hogs, I've got you now, and I'll toll
you. Out west tho begs run wild ; and
when folks get out of meat they catch a
young pig, put a stvt?p under his budy,
and hitch bim to a young sapling that
will ]<"i8t swing him from tho ground
nicely. Of course ho squeals and raises
a rumpus, when nil tho old hogs gather
round to Reo what IS tho matter, ana
tbcu tiley shoot thom nt their leisure.
Lust night I bung a pig up ; I burt it a
little, and it squealed. The old bous
have turned out to night to seo the fun,
and I'll roast you." And BO ho did,
pitching into their favorite vice with
relish and guato.
-41 Sir," said a littlo blustering man
to a religious opponent, "to what peet
do you snpposo I belong? "Well, I
don't exactly know," rep)ii d .
i neut, "hut to ju Inn fron '? ?
1 appearance, and constaut ?
f Buonlti think you belonged to th? clan?1
. g?UfiWUy called insoatt"
TUE LOST FLORINDA.
New Url? ans Picayune, June "Ju.
Recent revolutions have excited an
intense nud growing interest in tho fate
of tho fifteen or twenty men who, more
t lmn n quarter of a century ngo, char
tered tho schooner Florinda and set Hail
for tho golden shores of California.
For twenty-nix yours tho familioj of tho
adventurers have mourned them nH Jost.
Tho last news of tho Florinda WUH re
ceived late in thc year 181'.) from Kio
Janeiro. She had put in at that port.
Homo time previous and then procoedod
on her way, leaking badly, it, was said.
A vessel touching ut Rio Janeiro short
ly afterward, reported having spoken
t ho Florinda in the Pacific, jiut beyond
(.apo Horn, From that time forward
nothing moro was ever heard of tho
Florinda, and it became an accepted
theory I hat. she had hoon ena! iway
und her crew lost somewhere oe the
South Pacific iv ut st. No tidings reached
tho families of the ill Tated argonauts,
and twenty six years ?lioped by without
ii waif or whisper to disturb tho mel
ancholy conviction which had souled the
record of their lives. Their children
h av o grown lo manhood nod woman
hood without, the knowledge, with
scarcely tho memory of a father's love.
The hopes that clustered around them
have long ugo bren transferred to that
other world in which they were be
lieved to be.
Such is the story as it han passed cur
rent all this time, with tho general pub
lic and wit h the greater number of the
relut ives of tho Florinda company. At
lirHt, of course, Ibero were doubts and
fears and expectations, moro or less re
luctantly resigned for certainty, but to
Ulis conclusion all eventually carno and
Lho hiss of tho schooner with all on
hoard bay, for fully a quarter of a cen
tury, In en regarded as a fact about
which there could bo no sort of ques
tion. Tho unfortunate men havo been
is utterly given up us though their
iuria?6 had taken place in presence of
ho whole community, and to have told
my of their familier? that they were
.till alive would have been to ask them
o believe that tho dead had risen after
weuty-livo years of sepulture and
vnlkod forth once more among the
iviug.
Within tho past, few days, however,
ireoiscly this proposition bas in eftcct
>eeii made. The strange and startling
itutement bas transpired that Harmon
Iones and bis fellow voyagers were not
c>j^t^us.vvo^Jmy<? thought, but aro now
nknowu island in thc lower l'aoilic.
About a month neo a friend of Mrs.
[arm?n Jones rend in an English paper
u account of sonic British vessel having
icon driven ont of her course in a storm
nd sighted an unknown island. Much
o tho surprise of tho crow tho island
urned out to bo inhabited, and still
ioro astonishing, by men who spoke
10 English language. Tho rest of tho
tory, UH given in tho paper referred to,
s that tho castaways told Ibo ship's
Oinp?ny that they were the Florinda
uir'.y who had sailed from New Orleans
11 1S11) bound for California, that they
iud been wrecked ou the island and had
Iwolt there ever since, it being then
aoro than twenty-five years that they
nul hot Hi OU a human face or u fiigu of
ho world from which they wore so
ittcrly eliminated. Tho paper gave the
lames of several, all of whom me
mown to have been of Florinda's crew,
md iu many other ways, according to tho
'crsion of Airs. Jones' friend, thu iden
ity of tho party was established a? none
? ut themselves could have established
t. lt was further stat', d that tho British
"'snot olfered to take ibu mon on board,
nit they declined, saying they bad been
ost for a quarter of a century ; that
hoy kinny not in what situation they
voiild find tho families they had left,
ind that they prefened staying and
'liding their days Ibero ral her than
rcnluro back tu such a doubtful and
luoertain future. This paper was four
uouths old when Mrs. doues'friend saw
t, ono month ugo, and tho ovonts nar
ated were described as having occurred
our months previous to tho issue of
he paper, ii, is just niuo months then
ance tho island was discovered by tho
british vessel, and nt Unit timo all, or
lenrly nil, of tho Florinda party appear
o havo been alive.
lt. need not be said that this news lins
Housed tho dee J lest interest. To the
iOmmiinity as large it recalls the fumil
or occurrence of Hie Florinda's Hailing
rom New Orleans with its adventurous I
5'Vinpauy. To tho families of tho ill
ated men it conies like a message from
unit her world, and is as though it were
.bo announcement of a resurrection.
Within thu past few days the relatives
nive been bviinr in a slate of constant
ixeitemeiif, ami ninny of them, espo
lially thc sons bf Harmon Jones, Jno.
\. Sidney, and Capt. Kenmore, tho
'kipper of the Florinda, have devoted
themselves to tho task of following thc
el no given by tho friend who saw tho
Kuglish pnpor. Kxtensivo inquiries ure
now on foot, and the British consul has
kindly interested himself in thu affair
io far as to agree to forward to thc war
dlice in h indou a full statement of tho
circumstances SO that the name of the
tresse! which touched nt thc castaway's
homo can he ascertained and tho bear
lags of tho island taken from her lopi
it. would greatly facilit?t this end,
however, if a copy of tho paper giving
tho original ncconiit wi ro found, and it
is still hoped that sumo one who Kees
Ibis publication moy have noticed tho
paper and be able to toll us whoro a
number oan bo had. On that contin
gency d?pendu nundi that, will simplify
and expedite tho quest, but it is cert lin
that iu any ?.-a tu tho friends of Florind i's
nrew will lever o.sl ngr-.bi until tho
mystery ls fjuhopiefl to 'tn uttermost
livpthi
FACTS AISD FANCIES.
-Mrs. dribbles bn8 great i dun? of
h?r husband's military powers. " For
two years," says she, " bo was a lionten
ant iu tho horse-marines, aftor which ho
was promoted to the oaptaiuoy of a reg
ular squad of sap-hoads and miners."
-Out of 296,000 of tho last levy of
conscripts in Franco 25,000 have boen
declared exempted from both activo and
passive linties in tho military lino. It
looks bad when BO many mou nra not
even fib to bo food for gunpowder,
though tho fact, should bo considered as
a good wigu iu behalf of peace.
-Only two hundred years ago the old
moss-back who waa governor of Virginia
got up and paid: "I. thank God that
wc have no free schoolR nor printing
presses, ?nd I hopo we shall not have
any for a hundred years; for loaming
baa brought disobedience: and heresy
and secta into the world, hud printing
ha? divulged I hem and libeled govern
ments. God keep ns from both 1"
-lt is well that apurent should know
tho peculiarity of tho pulse of each
child. Tho pulse of a healthy adult
beats seventy times in a minute, though
good health may bo enjoyed with fewer
pulsations. But if thu pulse al way H
exceed?sevouty,it indicates disease, tho
human manhino is working itself out
thuro is fever or inlhimmntion some,
whore, and thc body is feeding on itself.
---The college orator is now abroad ia
tho land. His voice is heard from tho
four quart ors of tho earth, telling of
tho efforts ho has made for distinction
in tho past, and his hones and aspira
tions for tb?? futuro. He is sanguine- '
far moro suuguiuc, than he will bo a
Few years hence, when ho shall have
Hicountercd and boen countered by
nome of the stern realitiesof lifo. Thus
far his education hus been ouly theoret
ical ; in thc futuro it will bo practical.
Whether tho former shall tit tho sub
jects for thc latter, tho futuro alono eau
lutorrainc.
-ff a man wants to go auywhero in a
irief space of timo ho munt walk fiud.,
jut he loses his popularity in propor
iou to bis rapidity. Balzac, who
icenis to have thought it worth whilo to
?ctico this contemptible fact, anys :
' Violent gesturo or quiok movement
uspircs involuntary disrespect. Ono
oohs for a niomout nt a cascado, but
?no sits for l ours lost in thought and
fazing upon tho ??ilI waters of a lake.
\. deliberate gait, gentle manners and a
inmenso ad rant?g? over those vastly
mjerior to hiai."
-All good men should live in Arch
ngel ; all angry men in Ireland; all
inrderern in Kildare ; all circus-men in
lomorset ; all brokers in Stockholm ; all
old men in Chili ; all geometricians in
Juba ; all fools in Folly Island ; all
orticuUurists in Botany Hay ; all wags
ii tho Bay of Fundy ; all perfumers in
litscnt or Cologne ; all brewers in
latta ; all gluttons in Turkey ;
ll beggars in Hungary; all laconic
ion in Lacinia; all mourners in Siberia
r Wales; all confectioners in Candia ;
ll o! itklvcji in the Crimea ; all oil spoc
h.ioiTi Ire tire Dee ; all gamblers in tho
i'l'XOQ XnismSs; all stumblers in Tripoli ;
ll ooric'jH men in Pekin ; all shoe
iiaknrp iu Boolan ; alluoldiers in Arnie
ia or War?aw.
-A Brussels paper gives a painful
ccbiiut of the ex Empress Charlotte of
l?xico, llor physical condition is good,
. ut her mental condition in hopeless.
?ho lives in constant communication
/ith imaginary beings, and dislikes tho
.res?rco of any living person. Bhe
peaks only when obliged to do so, and
?ives orders to her attendants in writ
ng. ribo ?li esses hoi self without por
aitting assistance, takes a fixed walk in
bo park every morning when fine, fre
jnently piny? on the piano-forte, and
umetimes draws and paints with do
ided taste. Sh?> recognizes no visitors,
lot even lier brother, King Leopold or
ho queen. Tho latter always accom
.anicd the physician on bis monthly .
isit, when, in reply to bis inquiries as
o ber health, the empress coldly snys
ho is well, and immediately rotiros.
Iho has become stouter, and shows a
endeucy to cor pu louey, but nt present'
t is stated that thia ha? only increased
icr beauty, which is now truly striking.
-lt hus been justly said that tho
! reutest discovery of our lives is that
bo world is not no bad as, in tho first
li* appointment of youth's extravagant
.xpoetatiotiM, we uro disposed to regard
t. Tho passage from boyhood to mini
mod is "over the bridge of sighs;"and
mr finit exporiouoos of lifo as it is,
?.semblo the Haver ?if th?? forbidden
ipple-w?? aro enlightened and minora
do. Gladly would wo command tho
iccrot of ieoliug ns we one?? did ; but,
das, every day takes from ns pomo
nippy error-some charming illusion
inver to return. Wo aro reasoned or
?diculed out of all our jocund mistaken,
.ill we aro just wise enough to bo raiser
iblo, and wo oxcluini willi Lady Mary
Worlley Montague, "To my extremo
nerti Heat iou I lind myself growing
IV?KVV and wiser every day." But a
inn: Comes, ut length, when our views
nv more just. Wo leave our imaginary
[fideu with "solemn step and Blow," anil
login to appreciate tho good qualitioii
if Ihoau whoso friendship WO ?bought
ludlow, and thc necessity of that labor
which we deemed a curso. Wo ex
diauge ecstasy f?ir content, and, " for
getting tho four rivors of our ideal
heaven, open our oyes to the manifold
beauties of earth-its skies islandoil
itnrs, and ita oceans starred by islands,
its Bunahines and culms, and tho good
ricas of its prent heart, which sonils
forth tries Bud flowers ami fruits for
mr benefit and exultation."-fxrofcn*vr
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