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Everybody also I: il‘v:,
I:u•o ul I~~il
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11 Ihe display of niorican industrial
shirts at the Great Exhibition, how-
mr grand, :1111.'1'11110 rouni it medal Ml
\evil :mther In our inventors or reap
, ;LI M r e eMeers, and presses, and vitt
inized caotttelione, calling to attention
tat Nellat wa- limiting iu vonipleteness
•IS colilliell , at , 1 in IleSigll, 111(1111
Ille [Seine. laughed. Anil
inure stuisitive of (Jul ()wit cuutary
lk —Uvorge l',Lhody, for a time :wing
to nuwLor—tlnni_ht it WIIS beSt pr-
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lA, !hat ww hl 4iiiivtly withdraw
nl Wave no n,dia whoro try wore likely
aohievo failtiro awl possibly disgravo.
It was at this limo, tint Srl' from the
iddle of Juno, that I roceived a note
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lyre Nyultl he any imprnprinty in per.
titling Rickel, our de
atinent ait Imur Le tiro the time of
wiling; and, if not, begging me to
t,iglialt• a day ashen I W,1111.1 lilccl
W days arli•nyank I had the
11 . 0 111 . ng the ~li~lingui:hud
I,velist thrtttigh tottr,ection ttis theCtrt•at
:xhiltiti.itt, anal t•ttrly in the litllttwittg
ttf tlittitt.4 :tt ott
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At that line• Diel:cie, was thirly-iiiite.
\ troll-divs,t4l , z,taitltatianly mai', span. ,
hardly al.uco middle height,
.apid iu Ilitutaalitait, rat law slaw of
I”,tl;iiig you full in file fae,
luring ruur,•rsatiun, grave, antlettlan
trative, lint'-veiecd, awl apparently as
feu• renteved front the litinleretis as the
❑u,st aterel Scetelintati. Tito great ati-
I her wade ,if the sin ei,/-
.4 his lillt,l.lollS wore
rawtintalt, r.elrsc. lle teas a Capital
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th,mffighly tatinitreliendtal
tar tutotwatians of iiinpliititwy. There
was Ha apiwaralice of fl u • !eel' Of fee,
leeeiii , lotl afterward in all antaalate
Inaglittw at kis Lathe, ,luring thin
haul' tee ItlgClllol . , except olive. A
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piawl :tad playtal
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ens "..11 limit at the instru
ment le attract his allentiert. The
stieveei NV:I, Iticlu•us turned,
Ittal:tl at 111, 111:111 :111,1 his iii , trumelit,
faro itemterit, Itre \\* his hat twur
his ryas, :Lad ralrleing toy look a all
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lVt.l'i.tl it by that quiet staih•ul'yuaiut
uwrriuuatt, Heat, ruin• it Wl/111,1,
11l NV:IV, l'clllllltl,l tolll. r. Pickwick.
111 . 11 IS "Wit 11 , 1[1,` MI% 1 )11•1iC11,1 was ut
11:1t time apparently the happiest of
men, :mil lie was certainly the most
genial of hest,. (If difficulties and
troubles which afterward rater nothing
was. thin suspected. Mrs. Diel:ens was ;1
beautiful woman olabout live and thirty,
of fair Saxon complexion, ktrge Histrous
eyes, Burly rbiselr,ll . ,,altres, tier ligure
1111•11iiiilg .carotin i
movement, cordial in wanner, motherly
to excess, perhaps, wlo n the children,
according to English custom, value
111111 ping - in, the dinning-room at des
sert, and very attentive Miler husband.
The sister of )1 rs. I Betters was present,
and ;mother lady. I ;lover saw a hap
pier family in England or America.
Everything was well ordered. Tin ,
dinner wa, capitally served. The host
said grace hi•fore the meal. At his own
table Dickens was the best of talkers.
No man ever told a hotter story. lie
had that genial, hearty laugh which
Montaie,no says never come: front a had
heart. Of his children, down to the
baby, he was excessively fond, holding
0112111 MI his knees, toasting the elder
in wine, and giving himself to their
humors with delightful oh;ou/o/i.
A.t that (late the personal habits of
.I)iekeits were those of the average En
glish gentleman, lie was abstinent
I non to half an hour before
dinner. 'Phis Was 1114 working 11111 e.
10 14,111 ear that 1 . 1,111' how's at his desk
and four,•,hours afield—On I . oot or horse
back, rattly in a carriage—was the - rule
of his working life. Ile took brandy .
and seltzer beton. ,dinner: drank, as
everybody drink's in England, sherry
with his meats, and port at dessert ; sat
long at table; enjt.yed his cigar ; spent
an hour perpaps in the drawing-1 . 60m
at the conclusion of the evening—and
then, retiring to his study, read, smok
ed, and sipped brandy and water, till
his bed-timo at. midnight.
Dater in life, since the unfortunate
separation from his wife, and particu
larly during the last years of his resi
dence at lad's Hill, lie habits became
more confirmed. lie brand: more often.
His liquors were Mille choicest kind.—
NVnies of rarest vintage were stored in
his cellars. Highly spiced beverages
came to be liked and he was vain of his
skill in compounding them. The "cider
cup of (lad's Hill"—a drink composed
of cider, limes, brandy, pineapple, toast
cdf,apples, lemon peel and sugar—became
famous as a speciality of the place. A
friend of mine who spent a day and
night at Gad's Ilill last yearot gentleman
to whom Dickens felt under great per
sonal obligations and for whom lie may
therefore have emphasized his hospital
ity describes the visit as a continued
billulims festivity from noon till mid
night. There was the cider cup on ar
riving at half past, twelve P. M., sports
in the open air till two, when came
brandy and water—a long walk through
the fields till six, when curacou with
other liqueurs were served—dress, din
ner from 7 till 10 with every variety of
wines—coffee and cigars, and then pure
spirits of various compoituds of spirits,
until bed time.
If any one infers from what I have
I,teatiOtet sittectitg/Wce
VOLUME 71
written that Charles Dickens was au
intemperate man, in the usual accepta
tion of the word, whether in this coun
try or England, he mistakes my mean
ing. Dickens was never drunk. His
intelect was never obfuscated by ex
cess. But he "enjoyed life." He lived
indeed too fast. This he himself felt,
and hence his long walks of from six to
ten miles a day.tocounteract the effects
of indulgence. For the last twelve
months of his life he had been increas
ing in stoutness. He noticed this, and
fearing what it portended, increased his
hours of exercise. It would have been
better had he begun :it the other end.
Charles Dickens' life, like his works,
was moral. I L wits not religious. What
Dean Stanley said about him in the
Westin i n ister Abbey sermon, one would
like to know. How religion grit into a
WWI who never went. to church, never
kept Sunday sacred, never read his Bi
ble, never attilated with religious people,
would be as great a mystery as Miss Ta
hitha Bramble's. "11 ow the thunder,"
she wrote to her friend, "could have
spoiled the beer, when the door was
doubled-lucked, 1 cannot converse."
But as a moral inan, respected by his
neighbors, loved by the poor, foremost
in works of charity, free from social vices,
;old as regardful of the rights of others as
of his own, Clurrles Dickens is worthy of
all praise. 11e was fret , from the too
emunion sin of using profane language.
In true loyally to friendship he was
never surpassed. Quick to takeolfenee.
Ile was equally quick to forgive. NI)
Mall river from envy ; no man truer to
his instincts.
. .
The ugliest feature in his lift. is hi
treatment of his wile. r. his
Mishit,. partner and mod intimate
friend, told the last
. year that it NVa , the
0110 111111ariii,Ilahleaetiliat Cuall.l !Wither
eXplailleti forgiven. Tile Call.,
01 . the separation are perhic tly well
known. :\ I iss llogralh, ONVII ,inter of
rs. Dickens, who hail always lived in
the family from the time (4 . the marriage
was lulu 11111111 the favorite of the head.
him yearS thiS WaS tile SllljeCt
111101 it ceded ill :-.(paratit.ri, )IN. Dick
ens removing to (donee:der Crescent,
London, while NI is.; Jlograllt remaintid
at I. lad's hill to the last. No charge of a
criminal aspect WaS over Wade. pink
ell:: paid his wife 1.401111.1 S a yyar.
children, of whom eight
are living, went at limit. op
thin fr o m one hOutC tO the (Idler, tile
sons mostly residing at their
house, tile daughters with their lather.
A corresponthinve \vas kept up Itettvetin
husband and wife, and logarth
frequently saw her sister :tt her litre
re. D.'s) house% It was the refusal of
Itrallitury X Evan , 11l publish Diclten's
"statement" ill the etil mutts of / ' ,i)1 , 4(
Ihnt CaiiSed the (Itiarlei tattling by his
withdrawal front //mist h„/t/ Wools itild
commencing Ai/ l/Fr Fitt/. Roam/. Al
though Charles Iticltens,. .Ir., married
NiiSS Evans, the soniur, never alter the
Spi)iie h, eatili other.
'Pie day of Dickens's death was tht
anniversarysr the railway accident in
which his MI , was in and front
the shock of which it is thought Iry
friends he neverrecsvereil ,
have heard him th , ri,t the woos will
never hirget how, as the fearful interest
grew and the climax approached, In
would rise front the tattle, his lace flush
eft, his eyes hiudlcd, his NVOI'IIS faiths
one tty site, like first drops of a thorn
der shower, " and act the part of thi
several sull i erers ts whout he lent a help
ing Loud. It was 111.11
the railway, however, that caused lii.
death even remotely. The real cause.
are definite and precise. Ile worked lei
hard and lived too last. A listinenci
umd rest might have given him two Ill'
elides more of life. Ile tried these
year ago, and at that time staved thi
threatened But the Mil habit.
of life and work returned, the systen
was more nail more iiverstraincil, all 4
this elillSil in of blood ‘)11 the brain
long predicted by ntctlical mem hniugh
about the inevitableend.
" Bets) Patterson'," ( unglit.st
the resio,nt, of wushit,,,wn
are SIIIIIO who
could
till column after iiiihnitit with the "
vial gossip" of other days. One of these
\v:ts it schoolmate of Ntine.
lies much to say of" Iteisy Patterson's"
conquest and the way in which it \vas
accomplished. l)f the brilliant lieanty
and rentarkable conversational power.:
of this woman, whose history had si
much of tragie roniani•ii :Wont it, hei
frienil says too nutelt cannot lie
She was justly entitled to all the adnii
ration she receivril, awl iivtin uoty that
her !wanly is gone, her intellect i.
perfectly clear, and her \via and read
ines, in conversation have lost littlt
of the lire of her youth. " :\lary,'
she CKt•I:01111'11, in all Zit!
her friend a few years ago,
think. of a \vt,itinii of atubilimi hchig
so cruelly crushed!" Site showed a
most beautitul likeness to lierself,a , she
was, to some ladies, with a perlectly in
nocent and surely tad NVOllllerflil
ill its loveliness, and said, "1)o you see
how pleased told :unhappy
NV:I.S because all the tinge I was
the artist me how much lit
admired me, and how handsome I was.'
Nhe wits Oita she ought to :1114,W 111(
picture to he copinti, hut she in.lignati
ly refused to du so, saying it was for it
grandson :mil no one eke should
it. The captivating of Jerome Bon:
part, %%sus done (if math , pr,
she hail heard of his arriv:
iu 1:11111111 , re, ;111 , 1 when lie 1;
who the St.)ry w.lll (II Visit 11er
her father's county seat, a few mile
front that city, tin the York road, th
conversation tip.:l the newly
tarived l , renehman. raid Ow visitor
" You must come to sett ine soon, Ile.'
sey, and meet llonatiarte." " I shat
tautly," replied the yt , tilig lady, " prt
pared fortotiquest. On, tight" Prone
as his wife, and lie the adiftiratiott of a
Europe" A few days alter ward s h
went to lialtimnre. "lllea 11 I w ilts
i
the street," says the friend, " and tool
lug out of the window I saw Iktse
coming a jackass." In this way
seetns the beauty l'ode lin to glory. Th
nest tlay there were races, anti Bet
attended them, wearing a white Nvi!
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It was the fashion ill hose liayS
laciieS ILL Weal' wigs of every imaginable
color. A belle might appear in the
morning With red hair, :it noon with
while, and at night with brown, her
own perhaps being Hock, as Wa: , thr
case with Miss Patterson's which was of
I,... m tiful s hade of 1,1:0•k not the illky
blaok, or yet the blue-black. Wearing
her whlte wig and seated in the carriage
with other ladies, she Was iutruduocd
by Commodore Barney to Jerome Bona
parte, WllO was ut once struck with ad
miration of the "Grecian beauty, — a:
she was Called, While a rival 'Wife NOP/
afterwards married one of Jerome's
suite, I ;en. Rubel!, was known as the
" Roman beauty." The same day (IL 11.
" the hero of Mud-fort," gave a
dinner to the Frenchmen at which Miss
Patterson appeared, wearing her own
hair, and completed her coniowst on the
spot. Jerome told her she Wati
111111'e beautiful When adorned by her
natural tresses than she could possibly
be in any wig that she never again don
ned One of those monstrosities.
In the course of a few days young,
Bonaparte gave a grand ball, and Miss
Patterson was his portlier. In the dance
he threw over her head a gold chain, to
which wasattached a miniature likeness
of lanself, set in diomonds, awl the lady
bore it oil' in triumph. Thus the en
gagement was made. Miss Patterson's
father, however, disoliproved, and sent
her away to what is termed the wilds of
Virginia. Jerome's love penetrated
even to that secluded spot, and he suc
ceeded in having letters carried to her.
When Mr. Patterson discovered this,
he
made no further violent opposition, but
brought his daughter home awl in a
short time the marriage tool. place.—
When the young people were ready to
go to Europe, Mr. Patterson, who WLLS
a merchant ship owner, lilted out one
of his own vessels to convey his daugh
ter in regal style to that France which
she hoped to conquer by her beauty.
Alas! alas! she reached it to only find
every port closed against her by reason
of the Emperor's order. A message
from Napoleon that Ids brother should
come at once to Paris to consult with his
majesty was conveyed to the ship, and
hoping, all things, the bridegroom de
parted, making sure he could win his
sovereign's consent to his marriage in a
personal interview. He never saw his
wife again. The Emperor forbade his
return to her, and she, after awaiting
him in vain, was taken to London by
her brother. There her son was born.
She met Jerome once, years :afterward
in Florence, in a picture galler3v They
recognized each other instantly; but
the gentleman who had accompanied
the deserted wife led her away at once,
and the next morning Jerome Bonaparte
left the city.
Mississippi Steamboat Duel
The Reigning. Western Sensation--A
Track Twelve Hundred Miles Long and
a Million Spectators.
The 'Western papers are filled with
accounts of the great steamboat duel to
the exclusiod almost of all other news.
The Democrat and Republican of St.
Louis. both mammoth sheets come to
us with enough 'natter in each to fill a
good-sized volume. From the /kinor-rut
of the 11th inst., we extract as follows:
At one minute to 5 o'clock, June 30,
1870, the Hobert E. Lee left St. Mary's
Market, immediately followed by the
Natchez, and the great race was com
mented. For an instant each boat stag
gered in the water like a race-horse that
is being brought to the scratch ; and
then darting lorward with an impetus
such as they had never felt before, sprang
forward on their courses. And the
Natchez :11111 the Lee were living! Up
from the excited thousands—as from
the earth, and air, and water—came
the thunderous applause, until the
air was "all a yell," and the earth
as far as the eye could reacli—eon
fusion. Words cannot describe that
,•I.llr—imagination cannot picture it.—
Even to look upon it at a moment of
such excitement would scarcely enable
one to ,•ompreliend it. The contrast be
tween the conduct of the populace on
shore and the persons MI board the
racers, at lirst sight, would seem strange
ly singular to one unused to such a
seem. —and who is nnl? On shore it is
one xcacmc —on
board, almost a
Far as the city limits extend, and he
yowl, the Ilanks Wert . lined by shouting
multitudes, :old :is one of the five steam
ers which started up the river \ vith ex
eur-ionists was pa5 , ..•.1, each cargo of
living freight lent its lungs to the occa
sion. Thk• only ,ptiet spots iu all
erea
tiou Set•lllt•ti 1,1 IW 11,•111,1151o1' till' Hying
The con triLuliun el the 'tepid:tee te
rli a eifiliOSt exprt•s,iute, ul jug.
sympathy, its words dicer and
cwiragcrilent. Thu c.litribution nl
r 'mart' is uunl, nerve, C.,111'-
energy, and no viol
(los, watchiuganil liaril \rod:. 'Fitch .
no for shooting is :ditto' the rare.
NII One tall imagine the terrible strain
err is
111,0 %Olu liaVe in olotrgo a [mat and it,
malting ,orli rare as
is. 'l' lion! is an eye upon Lcr evory
,)voinont —upon every spot :thout hor
at eViTy 11110,11i_
.r mighty arm is 1.11 ccd by :lux
eye. index linger oli (lie dial
lier steam gaup.. ra Sl'a r y 11 iV'Lr.
\air a figure—ill:l' viaiy breathings :ire
:Anil so it happetis that
here is u-ivally less danger iii running
than on runs.
(in the wharf-haat at Natchez were
lie !owns of the Prima., tiriitelally (lee
irated awl iii waitiiie kir the leailing
la. ()II theSi in gill are the
words, " Time or the Princess front Yew
Oilcan:, to Natchez, 17 hours and :to min
utes; why don't you take the 'toms?"
The Lee touched the wharf-Lout, and
that question has Suit yet heel' repeated.
On new the boats, anti at every beptt
or the river, :it every house, at every
amiet, excited ermed,4 awaited their
rival. Where cannel' could be hail it
wad used with a will, and where it could
not la, produced, anvils wnre
led. Old and young, wale and female,
white and black, people from the river
Lore and people from points within
:to miles eaeli way, flocked to the shore
to witness the mightiest taro that ever
la,heil the waters of the turbuktit 1111
river into fury.
Cl in -lieu wile.: abovv Nvw ()deans
supply pipe on the live gave Nvay,
ausing a little loss tit time, :tint forming
❑ie more tlralvlntek during the rest Of
lie run. No correct estimate eau lie
nails of titne lost this tteeident in the
ggregate, but it lutist have been 1 . 1
•I e, as the engineer had to cool
ler dun•n to ninety pounds of steam lie;
'ore he could lix it.
At 3 A. AL on the first night out, a
NVII.S sprung in the md-drum,
liii L, win.ni noticed, had cont r ibuted
is little sluuc lu retail the progress ul
he Lee.
:111 the Nvay,to \'iel;,lntrg the Nah•hcz
va; plainly to he soon, thought
, round From that point, ar-
riving tit the long reach at Helen, Where
as the Lee passed out, the hots' of the
Natchez was uhsei'Ved just rounding the
point. Frinti there on nothing but her
smoke at intervals was ever seen, awl
that she :1.1 Ways ,Pcilled l 4) be out ill
Im emintry.
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',tut was .verhauled, curl thesupply of
'net sent al.aril frffizi he•r wa.: taken mi
ocord.
At 'Alentplii , the widt.—t etillta,iasut
wevaileil. Altletug,ll late at night tier
whole population seemed to have gath
ered upon the river bank, awl !lignites
were blazing everywhere. l'unfortu
!lately the first
.great beauty of the seem.
wtet ittst to the Lee as the Thompson
Dean, ahead id' the Lee, caused the I
,
Memphis people by mistaken. toile!! on
their fireworks and shout themselves
hoarse.
At Columbus, crowds lilted the whatr,
streets :11111 seines, Call 11011 Were
and the cheering was deafening.
About eight miles sinew Cairo, the
Evansville and ( * air() packet
the lightning express of the lowerOldo,
crowded with people front all points 011
lhet lh io, W 110 lta , l I,llle down (I) mituece
the great race, lay in waiting to secure
the Lee's Louisville people.
As the Lee appri.aelmil she conceived
the idea that if she would gather a large
head of steam, and turn on a full head
itiet, as site tiame opposite, she could
keep alongside sufficiently h u ng to allow
passengers to gel uu I,larti.
anti ran as site h a d never run before,
but she learned in a few seconds that it
Was wildly idle for the Idlewild to try
to keep palm with the Lee. Dinging
'slow hell," the Lee allowed her to
(mine up and get the passengers.
From the moment of eatehing sight of
Cairo from the bend, round upon round
II artillery was tired by the excited citi
zens until long:111er the Lee had passed
the idly. Throngs of people more con
gregated from the extreme point of the
,ttiet-ipta• :it the junction I,f the rivers,
all the way up to the city along I . 'ront
street, over the wharf-tmats, over the
house-lops—c;very place from which a
view of the river could lie obtained.
At a point seven miles from tln• rim
tluouco (ir the rivets, where the channel
runs ,lose to the Illinois 5.114,1 V, 111.111-
,IMb , of CairOitt , had assembled t , ,
I.IIC night of the birds.
When the Lee left Cairo, the ,moke
of the NatChtZl , lul.l.beseen hanging oil"
the horizon in the rear, and :ipparently
about twenty miks away. The Lee lost
s i g h t of h er antagonist at Vicksburg
and she did not catue into virtu again
during the race; but up to 12 o'clock
Sunday night she did not, for one hour,
lose sight of that pursuing black cloud,
which told where our great rival was
when she could not beseen. Someti Men
it seemed to approach nearer, and then
it appeared to recede further Mr, but all
the time, day and night, it followed,
like the breath of nit :ivenging fiend, on
the track of the Lee. On Thursday
night, under the heavy pressure of steam
carried by the Lee, her safety valve be
came disordered, and her supply of
steam ran down to a stage that was
alarmingly low for a boat running a
race. Iler speed slackened to about ten
milesan hour, and remained at thispoint
till the valve could be readjusted, and
the supply of steam replenished. Dur
ing this time the Natchez's smoke crept
closer, and it was thought on board the
Lee that she would actually come in
sight, and perhaps make a desperate
brush to lap her antagonist; but the
black lire fiends who fed the Lee's fur
naces did their duty in this emergency;
they east their hest fuel into the iron
jaws of the furnaces till they roared and
crackled with the fury of the caged con
flagration, which could vent its fervor
only on the boilers. This soon repaired
the waste of steam, and as soon as the
wheels of the Lee resumed their accus
tomed clatter under its influence the
pursuing cloud drifted slowly and sul
lenly to the rear, and the danger was
passed.
On the river, at 12, it had thickened
so as to shut the more distant bank of
the river out of view, and an hour later I
it had grown so heavy that a landsman
could scarcely see the nearest bank,
only a hundred yards distant. It seem
ed certain that:did boat would be corn
' pelted to halt in the middle of the
homestretch and lay by till morning,
with the prdspect of not getting under
way until the Fourth of July sun had
risen high enough to lift the fog. What
the Natchez would be doingall thisthne
no one could tell. She migh t lay by too;
but she might not; and the bare possibil
ity of having to creep up in the mist and
get ahead of the Lee was something too
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unendurable to contemplate. The boat
was therefore kept to her work, fog or
no fog, and the pilots managed to hold
her pretty well in the channel,when the
fog was so dense that an inexperienced
eye could not distinguish a mark on the
river. It was slow work, however;
once she struck the shore, and at an
other time soundings were taken, and
the water dwindled from "mark twain"
to seven feet. There was constant jing
ling of the bells in the engineer's de
partment, accompanied by the stopping
of the wheels, backing, and the swing
ing of the boat towards the adjacent
shore. In spite of all this, however, she
kept laboring forward, because she want
ed not only to beat the Natchez, but to
beat the Natchez's time to St. Louis,
without which a victory would be hide
e is i v e.
About half-past one in the morning
the fog began to be scattered by a gen
tle breeze, and in three quarters of an
hour afterwards it had entirely disap
peared. The boat then resumed her
usual rate of speed, and maiiitained it
without further obstruction.
During the night the river seemed one
blaze of light, so numerous were the
bonfires.
All this time the negro deck hands of
the victorious steamer, collected round
the jackstair, were chanting their wild
barbaric song of victory, the clioir being
led by an improvisatoire• mounted on the
crosstrees, who made up the song as he
\vent along, and his 1!"111panions repeat
ing the chorus with deep, melodious
voices thud were heard above all the din
on the boat anti on shore.
The crowd of sttectators grew denser
and larger as we neared the city, until
'Market street was reached, where the
wart of it accrued to be. The steamers
in the harbor, the wharf-boats, the
levee, the windows of the levee stores,
and s o rtie of the routs were packed with
lunnan beings, who made the air ring
with profound cheers as the Lee passed
up in front of the city, turning magni
tieently above the bridge piers, coming
slowly back and rounding to, at a gap
furnished fur her at the foot of Walnut
street. No sooner had she touched the
wharf-boat, than the crowd, whom the
police, headed by Commissioner Meyer,
could not restrain, poured upon the
guards and spread over tier deck like a
living torrent, eager to touch and caress
the proud and victorious steamboat that
had given so Inueli renown tai her pro
fession, and to a leading Western inter
est.
. .
The most forward object on the great
steamer was a little white flag a foot
saluare, with the name " Lee" rudely
printed on it, which one of the deck
hands had tied to a rod, and stuck in
front of her bow. Just above this were
a painted tin mule, with the words,
" Hioo-tly, don't ',odder me," on his
side. It was a device of the lower deck
to express disdain of their antagonist.
Old Time Steamboat Racing
By way of contrast with the recent
t 1 ississippi stetimboat race, the Memphis
Aiircrt/ gives the hillowing reminis
cence :
fu Is2:l Captain Shreve commanded
the good steamer General Washington,
the fastest boat that had ever traversed
the waters of the west. Ile made, in
the year designated, the fastest time
ever known between New Orleans and
Louisville—twenty-five days! When
at Lonisville;he anchored his steamer in
the midst of the river and tired a gun
for each day consumed in the wonderful
voyage. '1 he whole population of Lou
isville was gathered on the river shore
to behold tire marvel of speed, the glo
rious General Wtshington, and Shreve
was feted anti honored and crowned
with roses, and borne by the huzzaing
multitude through the streets of Louis
ville. Shreve, dressed its an American
admiral, made an eloquent speech to the
people iff Louisville, and while whiskey
flowed and toasts were drunk, Shreve,
who gave paternity to Shreveport, de,
dared that the time of the General
Washington could never be equalled.
"Curiously enough, it was eclipsed
before the season closed, and the Tecum
seh, in ISIS, made the same trip in eight
flays and seventeen hours, and not until
Is,, was this time beaten. 'rite Shep
herdess was then crowned victrix, beat
ing the Tecuniseh's time seven hours.
She Was commanded by Captain Milton
Dailey. The Reindeer, in 1823, made a
desperate effort to defeat the Tecumseh,
hut failed ignominiously. In those days,
when on a race, all the passengers, offi
cers and crew were employed at stated
intervals in wood-chopping along the
shore. There were no wood and coal
yards. When a steamer encountered
all altraOtice pile of drift-wood, people
fill board covered it like birds of prey,
and depositing it on tire boat, soon con
verted it into firewood.
" The Pennsylvania was the first
steamer that ever descended the Missis
sippi. She came down front Pittsburgh
ill 1!,13. At that very time this whole
valley, front Memphis to Louisville, was
convulsed ln• successive earthquakes.—
When the thunderous Pennsylvania,
descending the Ohio, drew near Shaw
!letdown on a dark, tempestuous night,
and the people of the village heard the
fearful thunder of the Pennsylvania's
voice, they thought it the living genius
of the earthquake. Let' by John R.
snulley, who was gathered to hisfather's
ye:u•s ago, the people of the village went
down to the river shore and on their
knees in abject terror prayed for escape.
" At length the steamer, with its glar
im, eyes redder than that. of Polyphe
mus, and hideous noises, came insight.
Fires beneath the boilers illuminated
the scene with a ghastly glare, the boat
breathed heavily :is the e mbodiment of
an earthquake might have done, the
people of Shaneelown rose up, and
in helpless flight and utter dismay, lied
away to the hills. Shawneetown has
never recovered from the shock of that
fearful night. Its growth was stunted,
and there it stands to-day a hunchback
ed, little, half-grown ancient village,
the victim orstupendous terror inspired
by the first steamer that ever descended
the Ohio and .lississippi."
Desultory' Hints and Maxims for An
\Viten you see "excellent trouting in
a romantic mountain district" adver
tised lu the papers, gin soinuwhere else.
tni arriving whereyou Race reason to
believe trout exists, inquire a some ru
ral angler which nine tine bent brtmkn,
:11111 tish exclusively in those lie runs
down.
In making a east, throw your line as
far as you can. 'rhe biggest fish are
usually obtained from the long Re:wiles.
Never angle under n blistering sou,
nor with Spanish flies.
Keep :is far as possible from the brook.
If the trout see you they will connect
you with the rod, in which ease you
will find it difficult to connect them
\\lilt the line.
Many anglers fish up stream, but the
sureA way to secure a 'Mess of trout is
with the Current.
Take some agreeable stimulant with
you io the water side. You will find it
:1 greater assistance when Reeling in.
One of the best places for obtaining
the spreek led prey is under a Waterfall
but you needn't mention this fact to the
ladies.
When a brook divides among the
trees, angle in the main stream, not in
the fir:inches.
In playing a trout under the willows,
be very careful, or you may get Worst
ed among the Osiers.
When you land a two pound trout,
t which you never will,) double the
weight, else what's the use of having a
Multiplier?
If you wish to take anything heavy,
you must walk right into the water.—
The regular Sneezers are generally
caught iu this way.
The experienced angler goes forth ex
pecting nothing, and is rarely disap
pointed.
Superstitious Piseators have great
faith in the heavenly signs, but often
fail to find a Sign of a Fish under the
fishiest sign of the Zodiac.
Avoid water-courses infested with
saw-mills. These dammed streams sel
dom contain many trout.
To jerk a fish out of the water with a
wire is even moredespicable than polit
tical wire-pulling.
A rod should never consist of more
than three sections, and the angler
should look well to his joint after a wet
ting, as they are apt to swell and stiffen
in the Sockets.
Rise early if you would have good
sport, Should you feel sleepy after
wards, the river has a Bed that you can
easily get into.
Catching trout is strictly a summery
pleasure, and when indulged in at any
other season should be visited by Sum
mary punishment.
There are numerous treaties on ang
ling, but in "John Brown's Tract" the
youthful Piscator will find the best of
Guides.
It often happens that trout do not be
gin to bite till late in the day, in which
case it is advisable to make the most of
the commencement de la in.
As the culture of fish is now engaging
the attention of philanthropists, it is
probable that the superior.varieties will
hereafter be found in Schools, where, of
course, the Rod will be more profitably
employed than in 'Whipping lunder
present circumstances) " the complain
ing brooks that keep the meadows
green."—Panchinellu.
Negro Superstitions.
We take the following extract front
an article on "Negro Superstitions," by
Theodore Norris, in Lippincott's Maga
zine for July:
Of course there is the universal
horse-shoe branded on the door of negro
cabins as a bar to witches and the devil.
There are also the "conjuring gourd"
and the frog bones and pounded glass
carefully hidden away by many an old
negro man or woman who by the dim
light of a tallow candle or a pine torch
works imaginary spells oy any one
against whom he or she may have a
grudge. There are also queer beliefs
that are honestly maintained. One is
that the cat bird carries sticks to the
devil, and that by its peCuliar note,
Snake ! snake!" it can-all snakes to
its rescue and drive 0111111 Y those who
would rob its nest. AtiTaher is, that
every jay ,b4d earricA i a grain of sand
to the in fel'l44 f6gi•ms onceNt y(_;; and
that when the last grain 0Pm , ffni.52..146
taken away from the earth the world
will come to an end ; all of which, of
course, is at variance with lather Alit
lees calculations. 'Filen., is a belief in
a certain :tinnily and secret communi
cation between themselves: And wild and
domestic animals. )lany persons have
observed a negro', way of talking to his
dog or to a horse. " Aunt list" will say
as she is milking, " Stall' aroan' now,
you hussy, you. You want to git
foot in (le piggin, (10 you?" and the cow
with eareful tread and stepping high,
will assume a more favorable position.
Among the mythical animals of the
woods is the moon:Lek. It is generally
supposed to live in a cave or hollow tree. -
The negro who meats with it in his sol
itary rfunbles is doomed. Ilk reason is
impaired until In . beC.IIIVS a m n
adma,
or he is carried off by some lingering
malady. The one who has the misfor
tune to encounter it !lever recovers from
the blasting sight ; he dares not speak
of it, but old knowing n'groes will
shake their heads despondingly fun' say,
" He's gwine to die ; " he's see(l de
moonack."
Many of these superstitions, as the ef
ficacy of the frog-bones and conjuring
gourd, are no doubt handed down from
their African ancestors. A few years
back the rites of the " Hoodoo" were
I
New
and believed in the city of
New Orleans. From the description I
have had front those who have wit
nessed the ceremony, it must have re
sembled the incantation scene in _lffy—
, iwth.
Negroes are naturally suspicious of
each other—that is, of some secret power
or influence llmse of greater age have
over them—and will entrust their mon
ey and health and well-being to white
persons with perfect lidence, while
they are distrustful of t. - )se of their own
color. I cite the following as a case in
point—its truthfullness 1 can vouch
for gentleman in Alexandria, Vir
ginia, had in old servant by the name
of Friday, who filled the olhice of gar
dener and man-of-all-work about his
premises. One summer, Friday, fromt
some cause unknown to his master, was
very " lie lost his appetite,
his garrulity, his loud-ringing laugh,
became entirely incapable of attending
to his duties, and appeared to be ap
proaching his last end. On questioning
lain closely, he told his toaster, with
some reluctance, that he wan sulfer
ing from a spell that had been put upon
Liar. by Au n t Sins, the cook, who was
some years older than himself. When
pressed hard for some proof, he:said that
he had seen her, one moonlight night,
raise one of the bricks, in the pavement
leading front the portico to the street,
near the gate, and place something un
der it which he knew was a oharin, for
lie had tried s..veral times, without avail
to raise the brick ; mid that he could not
even see that it had ever been moved.—
Further that he had frequently heard
Aunt Sina muttering something to her
self which lie could not understand, and
on one occasion saw her hide something
in her chest, which he was pretty sure
was a conjuring gourd. All of this, he
I said, was a part of the spell ; that all the
physic he had taken was of no avail;
that he was troubled with a constant
" misery in his heath," and was certain
he was going to die.
His master, knowing, how tintless it
would be to endeavor to reason hint out
of such belief, and beinga practical wag,
determined to treat Friday's ease with a
like remedy. He accordingly enjoined
strict secrecy towards Aunt Sinn. as to ;
any knowledge of his being, bewitched,
and put him on a course of bread-pills '
tinctured with assafoctiola. He then
searched the garret, and finding a pair of
old boots with light morocco interlin
ings, he cut out and drew distinctly, on
two smaller pieces, a skull tutu cross
bones encompassed by a 11, fur
ther warned Friday of the evil effict
that 'night ensue by pa-sing over or
near the brisk under which Aunt Shia
had deposited the charm. mod pnimiscol
to write to a telebrat,l I iltliall
who lived collie 1.110L1,11111 11111,S away
and get his advice. Then he sent his:
old servant with a letter on. some pre
tended business which would keep him
away a few days.
When Friday had departed, with con
siderable dillijully and much care his
master raised at brick as near as possible
to the place where the charm NVO.S sup
posed to have been hidden, and careful
ly laying down one of the cabalistic
pieces of leather, its carefully replaced
the brick.
In a few days Friday returned. Some
heavy rain having fallen during his ab
sence, all marks of disturbance in the
payenie ut were effaced. Friday still
coutinueol to grow worse, and in a few
days more his master produced a letter
from a long envelope with a singular
looking post-mark 111111 mysterious char
acters on it which lie informed Into was
front the Indian doctor. Th, letter of
this wise sachem, as his master read it
to Friday, informed hint that the Con
juring gourd had no power of evil in his
ease, but that the person who brad put
the spell on him had hidden twocharms;
that if one of these could lie found and
certain conditions observeol, the other
could also; 111.111 if they were both odike
the spell would be Molten. The letter
went on to describe the place where one
of them was hidden. It was in an old
churchyard, but the doctor could not say
Where the church was; it might be in
America or England or France. The de
scription of the church, however, wasso
graphic that by the tittle his master load
read it through,the white of Friday's eyes
had enlarged considerably, and he gasp
ingly exclaimed, " Fo' hod, Mats Ant'
may' it's Christ church, here in dis very
'town !" His master here laid aside the
letter, and bringing lois list heavily down
on the table declared that it was; it had
not occurred to him before. The charm
so said the doctor's letter, was under the
topmost loose brick (which was covered
witli leaves) of a certain old tomb, the
fourth one front the gate, on the left
hand side of the middle walk, going in.
It was to be taken from under the brick,
and by the bewitched, going out of the
churchyard backward—all tile time re
peating, the Lord's Prayer. He was to
turn around when lie reached the street
and throw a handful of sulphur back
ward over the wall.
The day on which the letter was read
to the patient, Aunt Sina was sent on
1111 errand which would detain her all
night ; and when the moon was well
up Friday complied with all the condi
tions, his master awaiting his return.—
Then a few bricks in the pavement were
removed with much difficulty, and the
charm was found. They were compar
ed by the light of a red wax candle in
his waster's office, and to Friday's joy,
one was an exact duplicate of the other.
" Now, Friday, drink this," said Maas
Anthody, handing him a large tumbler
of whisky, into which he had stirred a
teaspoonful of sulphur taken from the
same paper as that he had thrown over
the churchyard wall. " The spell is
broken, and if you sleep well to night
you will be all right in a day or two.—
Remember, though, if you hint to old
Sine anything about breaking the spell,
she will bewitch you again. Now go
to bed."
Of course Friday slept well. With
his mind at ease, and under the influ
ence of nearly- a pint of whisky, why
shouldn't he? He soon recovered Ins
health, his garrulity, and his loud
laugh,".
Wall Street Gambler's Story—Whereof
Edward B. Ketchum is the Hero.
The failure of Mr. James Boyd, the
Wall street broker, on account of Ed
ward B. Ketchum, who lately returned
from Sing Sing, to resume his old gam
bling habits, is alreadt knowh to the
public. Mr. Boyd's story is given as
follows :
I will tell you all. I have been the
early and devoted friend and admirer
of Mr. Ketchum, who, as you have re
marked, was the principal in these op
erations. I don't wish any notoriety,
but I can tell you all. I knew him seven
or eight years ago, when I lived in Chi
cago. I was at that time a correspond
ent of his house, and was doing a large
business in that capacity. At his soli
citation I came to New York, and lie
gave me a start in business. I had not
been here long when Mr. Ketchum's
troubles began. But I was his early
and intimate friend, and my affection
for hint was great, you see. I thought
so much of him that my loyalty never
faltered toward hint, nor will it even
now. My sympathy was with hint con-
stantly while he was confined, and I
was constantly planning to put him in
his old position when he should return
to this city.
I looked upon Mr. Ketchum as one of
the most brilliant financial men in the
country. He wa cool-headed, practi
cable, and had a marvellous grasp
Mind. He could measure the cause that
lead to ends better titan most men of !
jeCtter experience. and older years. II is !
power was his analysll4. When he came
into the street our fortunes became hien
tieal. I believed that his information
was thorough, and believe so still.—
Hence, when he began to operate, I
was with him heart and soul. He wish
ed to pay Millis old indebtedness, and I
had already cstabl kited myself on a firm •
footing and my house hall a solid char
acter. Our balances were large. Mr.
Ketchum began cautiously; the conse
quence \VMS he madea very large sum of
money. Matters eontinued in this way.
Ile made and lost. Ile had a notion of
his itch, with which I did not agree.
His theory was that there would be a
rise. Ile spoke of the shipment of cot
ton and used other arguments which
induced him to buy large quantities of
coin. I could not object as to his mar
gins. They were amle and I was sim
ply his broker, thought I felt intensely
interested in his success; iu fact, his
success was my success, for I stood by
him as a brother and remembered when
Ire stood by me. My interest in him
was not in dollars and cents, it was
purely one of affection.
For a time he made brilliant raids mi
the market and his purse grew pletho
ric, but when his turn came his opera
tions weakened him—his margin grew
thin. I told him I must have more.
Ile said lie had plenty of means, and I
believed it up to last night. Late last
night I didn't like the outlook. I hail
a premonition of the cumin , disaster.—
tiold fell this morning, and I knew it
would lie worse than useless to try and
keep up. This morning Mr. Ketchum
come down the street. I saw him. In
my interview, which was very painful
—more painful to me than to him,
though to him it was very trying—he
said he had given Ids la.st cent and could
respond to no more margins. Then I
sent my letter, (as above,) and the panic
came. A good many settled quietly,
and if this had not been done I believe
gold would have fallen to 110. But a
good many sold short to break the mar
ket.
Reporter—This, then, was a 'natter of
feeling Inure than business?
Mr. lloyd—Precisely, I went into it
not front greed or front gain, but for my
personal tlttaeltment. toward Mr. Kgt
chum. I told hint this morning that I
had no unkind word for him, and I
shall stand by him, come what may. As
I told you, I wanted to place him
where he belongs. His genius entitles
him to a high position, and between
him and me there was a uommon tie as
necessary to each other as air and water
to either of us.
I hate a Ile.
A lli is got no nuunn
lie Hilt Ill) gentilmun.
lie's an hammier, don't send in no
kar,l nor ax a interduekshun, nor don't
knok at the front door, andyiuver, nuver
thinx uv takin oir his hat.
Fust thing you know he is in bed with
you and up your nose—tho what he
wants thar is a mistry—and he invites
hisself to brekfast :1.11(i sets dour in yore
butter, thout breshin his pants.
lie helps himself to sugar, and meat,
melassis, and bred, and presurves,
and vinnegy—entiything, and don't
trait for no invitashun. He's got a good
appytite, and jilt as sun cat, one thing
as anuther.
raint no use to challinge him for
Lakin liberties ; lie keeps up a hostile
kerrispondence with you, wether or not
and shoots hisself at you like it
and he nuver misses, nuver.
He'll kiss yore wife do times a day,
and zi•z.z and zoo, and, ridikule you if
you say a word, and he'd rather you'd
slap at him than not, cue he's a dodger
UV the dodgirinist kine. Every time
you slap, you don't slap hint, but slaps
yosell, and he zizzes and pints the him,
leg uv skorn at you, till 1,0 aggrevates
you to distraekshin.
lie
,glories in a lightin every pop ell
the ixackt spot whar you druv him
from, wick prudes the intenshun
meze ynn. Don't tell me he ain't got le,
mind; he knows what he is after. He's
got sense and to much uv it, dm he
cover went to skool a day in his life ix
cept in a supa dish.
He's a mean, millignant, owdashus,
premedditated cuss.
Ins mother nurser paddled him with
a slipper in her face. His morrals wile
nigleektid, and he lacks a good deal uv
humility mitely. He aint bashful a bit,
and I doubt of he blushes offing,.
In lack, he wuz nuver futch up a tall.
lie wuz born full grown, he don't git
old—utter things gits old, but he nuver
gits old—and he is imperdent and miss
chevus to the day uv his Beth.
lie droopz in cold weather, and you
kin mash hint on a window pain, and
you've jest put yore linger in it. Ile
cum,: agin next veer, an.l tt licep more
with 10111. 'Faint no use.
011(' in to a family might do fur :miss
intent, but the good UV so many llize I be
kin see; kin you ?
I has thort much about Ilize, and I
has notist how offing they stops in thar
devilry to comb their heads and skrateli
thar Ili.", with that four legs, and gouge
thar arm-pits under thar wings, and
the tops UV thar wings with that hind
legs.
And my kin ,lid opyinun ar, that flize
is lowsy, they eeches all the time, is
miserbul, and that make me bad-tem
pered, and want to make arbor peepil
Zurbul
Er that ain't the ilossfy uv thee, I give
it up.
Mlle a lli don't send in his kard, he
always leaves one, and 1 don't like it.
Taint gritty of 'Cis round. Ile kan't
make a cross mark, only a dot, and he
is always a (bat in whar Char ain't no is
'l'hare no end to his periods, but he
never cums to a full stop. r4uch hand-
ritin is dizagreabil.
He's a amiss, but his fresh.•n and his
paperin I don't :Muller. Thar's too
much sameness in his patterns. His
specs is the only specs that don't help
the eyes. You can't see throe um, and
you don't want too.
I hate a
Durn a tli.
lint Summers
From the records kept at Nuremberg,
in Bavaria, we get the following Inter
esting facts:
In 1131 the earth cracked by reason
of the heat, the wells and streams in
Alsace all dried up, and the bed of the
river Rhine was dry. In 1152 the heat
was so great that sand exposed to the
sun's rays was hot enough to cook eggs.
In 1160 great numbers of soldiers in the
campaign against Bela died from the
heat. In 1276 and 1277 crops of hay
and oats failed completely. In 1303 and
1304 a man could have crQssed,dry shod,
over the rivers seine, Loir, Rhine and
Danube. In 1393 and 1394 a multitudeof
animalsperished by the heat—which wills
so great that the harvests dried up. In
1440 the heat was extraordinary. In
1538, 15:19, 1540 and 1541 all the rivers
were nearly dried up. In 1556 there was
a great drouth which extended over
nearly the whole of Europe. In 1615
and 1616 there was, in Italy, France,
and the Netherlands, an overpowering
heat. In 1648 there were 58 consecutive
days of extreme heat: 1678 was very hot,
and as were the first three years of the
18th century. In 1718 it did not rain a
single time from April until October!
The growing grain was burnt, the river
dried up, the theatres (but wherefore is
not stated) were closed by command of
the police. The thermometer showed 36
degrees Iteaumer, equivalent to 113 de
grees Fahrenheit. In irrigated gardens
the fruit trees bloomed twice. In 1723
and 1714 there was great heat. The
summer of 1748 was hot and dry, the
growing grain being calcined. It did
tint rain for months. 1745, 1734, 1780,
1787, 1778 and 1785 were years in which
the summers were extremely hot. In
the famous comet year-1811—the sum
mer was warm, and the wine produced
that season was very precious. In 1518,
the theatres had tube closed on account
the heat, the highest temperature be
ing 35 Reaumer, or Fahrenheit.—
During the three days of the revolution
m July, in 1780, the thermometer stood
at 38 degrees Centigrade, about 97 Fah
renheit. In 1831, during the uprising
of the sth and 6th of July, the tempera
ture was about the same.
The Baby Farming Horror
Forty infants Murdered by One iVoman
—1:11111111i0ral Fiendishness of an Adopt
ed Mother—Advertising for Babies to
Bring. Ap"--Iteaping n Ilibrvest of
DCA th—A ppearanee of the Yfurderess.
,
I,‘ oNDI,N, June '25.—" They have been
making a great row about the fellow at
Denham, who killed seven people;
what do you say to a Wolnan who has
killed forty children ?" This inquiry
was addressed to me by Policeman X.
Y., kg, and as in reply I expressed my
ardent anxiety fusee this female 1 lentil,
he kindly piloted Inv to the Lambeth
; Pollee Court, :nut there pointed out to
me a woman iu the dock, aged about
thirty-five years, ut plain but not re
pulsive appearance. This was the great
" baby-farmer," of whose exploits I
have already written you some account
Margaret Waters, alias \\*Wes,
Hurley, Walters, Ellis, Oliver, Black
burn and Fort. yoll are aware,
this Wealall Was Originally arrest
ed on the charge or starving to
death only one infant, an illegitimate
child committed to her charge by a Miss
Jeannette Cowan ; but facts that have
since come to lightmake it probable that
she is guilty of the znurder of no less
than forty infants whom she took I'm- V,
each, "which included everything, and
a parent's loving and tender vary." At
the time of this woman's arrest, her
house was found to contain several in
fants, all ;if wii,) were being gently
shoved along the DWI 01 death by the
;Mt or "Paregoric Elixir" and other sim
ilar applianees. For four years, it ap
pear,, this alai:Lt./le dame has been con
ducting the business of baby-farming.
nvnicrisist; Fon HAM'
Ifer etude Of tmeration was to adver
tise under one of her many !tallies, her
, willingness to adopt an infant, on the
; papal:lli Of a premium of £5. She would
appoint a meeting at sonic railway sta
tion with those who replied to these ad
, vertisements, and would there make the
I bargain, which was to the etket that the
infant and the money should be handed
over to her, :cad no questions should he
j asked on either side. She did not ask
where the child calm, fr o m ; the party
who disposed of it was not to ask where
it was to be taken. 11l this manner, as
Imes now been ascertained, forty children
have passed into this woman's !lands
during the last four years. ;What has
become of them Well, what has be
;
come or sonic of them has been ascer
tained.
The house where this women lived
WILS it at secluded spot, called Frederick
terrace, Brixton ; within a few yards of
the house are some vacant grounds,
vaned Myatt's Fields; and in these
fields, and in other places close at hand,
have lately been found the bodies of no
less than seven infants, all of which
have been at least partially identified as
the remains of children who )veregiven
to Mrs. Waters, with each, in order
to receive a " mother's tender care and
love." The evidence against the woman
scented to be perfectly conclusive. ller
servant, Ellen O'Conner—a miserable
(•rcature, only fourteen years old, and
reminding one forcibly of Dick SW ive
marchioness—testilied that when
she went into the prisoner's service,
three months ago, "there were soven
infants, and the number shortly in
creased to eleven. Mrs. Waters used
to i_to away from home, and when she
came back she would bring a new baby
with her.
"(Me night Waters took two of the
.•hiiiren, Who were very ill, away from
the house; when she came back she
brought stone of the clothes of the in
fants with her, and said she had taken
them home." Afterwards she took
away another infant, and returned
without it; and about three weeks ago
she took a fourth child away in the
same manner. The supposition is that
rthe woman ;Administered to the infants
enough" Paregoric Elixir" to kill them;
took them into the fields, and left them
to perish. The servant was in the habit
of going to the post-oilier to get letters
addressed to " Mrs. Oliver," and when
Waters had read these site generally
[imed them.
Ml=
Luckily, however she neglectcd to
destroy all her correspondence, and a
number of letters were found in her
house and read in Court. One of them
makes alt appointment with her "at the
Loughborough road station, on the Lon
don, Chataham and Dover line, June
Ilth, at four o'clock P. M.," and adds,
"please wait in the first-class waiting
room, lind wear a white kerchief round
your neck in a conspicuous manner. I
shall wear a blue striped shirt and a
frock coat." Another front a woman,
vacs: "I should be pleased to have
you take my child. I would give .C.",
with her." One of the letters written
by Waters to a WOlllall who propOneS to
give her a baby, is as follows :
•' IsIAY NUL—Math/in: In reply to
your letter, I beg to say we should be
very pleased to adopt your baby; we
love children very much, and would do
sll ill our power to secure the happiness
of the little one. I should like very
much to see you ; so, if you will writc,
saying where and When I Call do so, I
shall 11,1 obliged. Hoping soon to hear
from you, I remain, yours sincerely,
M. llt'iti,EY."
And another is as follows:
ply to your letter I beg to say that it
would give me great pleasure to :Mop
as my own your little boy, if he is no
too old. You omitted to,state the
age, and 1 wish for one as young as pos
sible that it may know none butou rsel ves
as its parents. The child would be well
brought up, and carefully educated; lie
would have a good trade, and be to us in
all respects as our own. We have been
married several years, but have no fam
ily. We are in a comfortable position,
have a good business, and a home in
every way calculated to make a child
happy. We are both very fond of chil
dren, and should you entrust your little
one to my care, you may rely upon his
receiving the love and and care of a
mother. Any place you like to appoint
for an interview will suit me. 1 can
meet you at any time you please, and
should be very glad to have the matter
sealed as soon as possible. 110 ping t
have an early reply, I am, sir, respee
fully yours,
" It Om vim."
nt:ApiNG Tut: DEAD HARVEST.
On the 10th of May a police constable
found the body of one of the infants
whom " the love and care" of Mrs.
Waters had deposited in a hedge close
to the footpath in Myutt's Fields. The
body was covered with a napkin and a
handkerchief, which were proved to be
long to Mrs. Waters. On the 17th a
laborer found in the same neighborhood
the body of another infant. On the '2Gth
of May a policeman found near the same
place a basket containing the body of a
male child ; and on the Gth of June,
in the same place, he found a paper
parcel within which was the body
of a female infant. On the 1:Ith of
June, at a spot not far distant, a man
found a paper parcel, tied with string,
containing the body of a male child, and
on the following Sunday a boy found
another paper parcel containing the
body of a female child. On the paper
were written the words" Mrs. Waters;"
and a handkerchief, a rug, a piece of
red flannel, a night-gown, and a little
chemise, found with the other bodies,
were all identified by "the small ser
vant" as being the property of her mis
tress,whowasso "very fond of children."
The mother of one of these murdered
children had been found, and was in
court. She produced the following paper,
given her by Waters: "4th of March,
1870, received the sum of .£4, for which I
take this child, and I promise to adopt
it entirely as my own, never again to
give it up, but always to strictly study
its present and future happiness. Signed
Fanny Stewart."— World.
NUMBER 29.
d Tariff Bill
WisulNuToN, July 13.—The conference
report on the Tax and Tariff bill having
been agreed to by both Llouses, awaits the
President's signature to become a law.
Some of the features of it are as follows;
On and after the Ist of May, 1071, the
special taxes imposed by the 7 1 1 1 th section of
the Internal Revenue act approved Juno
30, and as amended by subsequent
acts,-are to be repealed ; but this act shall
not be held to repeal, or any way affect, the
the special taxes imposed by the act or 'Sits,
special tax on brewers by that section, or
imposing taxes on distilled spirits and to
bacco, and for other purposes, or the acts
amendatory thereof.
On and after the first day of October next
the several taxes on sales, saving and ex
oewing such taxes on sales as are by the
existing law paid by stamps, and the taxes
on sales of leaf tobacco, manufaot n red to
bacco, snuff, cigars, foreign and domestic
distlled spirits and Wines, imposed by said
act, approved July, lanS, and acts amenda
tory thereof, be and the same are hereby
repealed. On and after October first next,
the stamp tax imposed in schedule 11,
on
promissory notes for a less sum than jitte,
and on receipts for any sum of money, or
for the payment. of any debt, and the .stainti
tax imposed in schedule I' on canned and
preserved fish, be and the same are hereby
repealed, and no stamp shall be required
upon the transfer or assignment of a Inort
gage where it or the ins estinent it secures
has been once duly st u mped and the pro
prietor or proprietors of articles naAteil in
the same schedule IC , , who shall Mr 1.1.411
his or their own die or design for stamps to
be u s ed especially for its or their own pro
prietary articles, be allowed the billowing
commissions, namely, on aliments pur
chased ILL one time, 11210 L less than $. - ,0 nor
more than tivl. per cent, :lid on
,LitiotilitS over ten per cent. on the
whole amount pis rchasvd, provided Inciter
and friction Matches and cigar lights and
Wax tapers May be reinoved front the
place of inalitinictilre, for export tort fort ion
....nary. without paym e nt nt tax or :Mix
ing stallips thereto, under such rules :out
regulations a; the Comninitisioner of Into,
nil 1:0V...1110 may prescribe, and all pro
visions of existing laws inconsistent here
with are repealed.
mn and miner the first ,lay ofttcbobcr next,
the taxes imposed b); the Internal Revisit!,
laws now in spe,itied, be and
the saint, moo herel.y repeal el, namely -on
articles in schedule A, the special tax ou
boats, barges and Ibits, tilt legavies and silo
co...ions, on passports, and on gross ro•
ceiMS. There shall bo let .Lll.l collected
annually as hereinafter provided for the
years 1070 and Is7l, and no loimer, 2.1 per
ventuin upon the gains and profits and in
come of °Very person residing ill the l lil
ted States, and M . any citizen or the Knifed
States residing abroad derived from any
sou rev whatever, whether Within or With
out the Potted States, except. :Ls hereinafter
provided, a like tax annually upon gains,
profits and derived from any lei
lit•ss, trade or profession carried oth in the
United States by any person risiiiing with
wit the United States and not a cilizon
thereof, or from rents from real estate with
in the United States by tiny person resid
ing without the ("nit,' States and not a
citizen thereof', there is an exemption of
$2,000, and also the amount paid for rent ot
dwelling house. In the, purpose of ,Lllow
ing the deduction allowed by law from the
income at' any religious or social
city holding all their property and ;insane
therefrom, jointly and Ili ...Minion, each
live of the persons vonitiosing such society
and any remaining fret weal number of
'moll persons loss than live over sueli
groups of five shall be held to con.litute
aunt a deduction of SI,OOU shall l it '
allowed for each of said families. Any
taxes on the incomes, gains and profits of
such soeieties now due and Unpaid shall be
assessed and tsillectoil aoisirding to this
provision, and the tax upon the dividends
of insurance companies shall not be deem
ed duo until such dividends are payable
either in money or otherwise, and money
returned by mutual insurance eompanies
to their !motley holders, and annual or semi
annual interests allowed or !maid to the de
positors of savings hanks or savings insti
tutions, shall not be considered as dive-'
deeds.
On collet., all kinds, :t cents per lb.; teas
of all kinds, Ili cents per Ili.; till mousses,
5 cents per gallon ; uni Lank bottom syrup
of sugar vane juice, mulado ..c.oni•entrated
inelado and omeentrated molasses, 1 i cents
per lb. ; on all raw tir Al ustaivado sugars,
not above No. 7, Dutch standard, In tailor,
and on syrup of sugar come, melado ur
concentrated inelado told coneentrated Mo
lasses, 13 cents per lb.; on all rase ur Slus
cuvado sugar above No. 7, Lunch standard,
in Color, and not above No. le, D. 5,, in
color, 2 cents per Ib. ; on all other sugars
above No. 10, D. S., in tailor, and not above
No. 13, 21 cents per 11,.; on all other sugars
above No. 13, It, S., in ,'slur, and not
above No. lei in tailor, 21 coitus per pound;
on all other sugars above No. le, mind
lot above 20 in color, :12 cents per pound,
all sugar above No. 20, and on mill re
ined Icgif, lump and crushed, powdered
mil granulated sugar, cents per pound.
.'rovided, that the Secretary of the 'Freas
mry shall by regulations pr,scrilme and re
mire that, samples shall his taken by in-
Teeters from hogshead, box or other pack
ige, in such a Manner as to represent a true
iverage of tho contents of the package, and
from a suilleient number of packages of the
;tune timrk in owlh and every invoice, so
that the samples on which the classification
is made should be a fair average in quality
of the sugar imported under that mark, and
the classification shall lie adjudged on Oa
entire mark accordingly, and tho weight,
of sugar impoled in casks or boxes shall
be markf4l distinctly by the custom Innis(
weigher, by scoring the !mores indelilmds,
on each package.
On all wines inuiporl,l in casks ~.amtaim
Mg not More than 22 per vent. of alcoho
and valued not exceeding .10 cents per gal ,
lon, 25 cents per gallon ; valued above -It
cents and not over 31 per gallon, 50 cents
valued al over 31 per gallon, $1 per gallon
nil' 2.5 per ventimm ail valorem, mmil wine:
till kinds imported in bottles not other
vise provided Mr, the same rate per guile!
.s wines imported in easks, but all bottle:
aitaining one quart or less than olloquar
ill More than ono pint, shall Lc hold L.
.ntaili ono (Mart, and all bottles rnuL in
g less than one pint shall be reg.:tided to
itaining one pint.
in champagne and other sparkling wine
bottles, a dozen bottles, containing
not nif.ro than one (wart and morn, than
()no pint, mill .it:t per 1111'1,11, 111/1.
ILION, than nun pilli 0301, and in 1,111.1. k,
c•ontaining not more than half a ',tilt nail,
;31.50 per dozon, N.c.; providc , l that any
nor containing mon, than '2:2 per rout
which shall he entered limier U
ono id Wine, shall he tiirfeitiiil In 1.1
niteil States.
Uu lirandy and other spirits niantiliu
red ur distilled front grain ur /Lill, In;
-lids, and not otherwise pro, idell for, ;
per gallon. Provided, that each and ,very
gauge or wine gal 100 of ttleamur,illent shall
110 C.IIIILed vs at 11.atit. one prw,tgallon,
..lie standard fur determining tint proof c
iratitly :ind other spirits, and of wino
qiiur of any kind imported, shall he tl
. , .
inn that .11•1111 lid ill
!ction c3f the act imposing t:txt, on distill
REffE==l
approved July 20, IsGs.
on cordials, liquors, arrack, absynthe,
pershwasser and other similar spirituous
liquors or bitters containing spirits and not
otherwise provided or, $2 per gallon. Pro
vided that any brandy or other spiritous
liquors imported in cask ,of a less eapa,•ity
than II gallons, shall be forfeited to the
Unitol States.
On siraw Ilan, per ton ;on gas not
hackled or dressed, $2O per ton ; on gas
hackled, $.lO per ton.
On hemp, manilla and other like substi
tutes for hemp not otherwise provided for,
$2.5 per ton. On towed has o r h e mp, 310
per ton. on cotton bagging or other 111011-
ufnetures not otherwise provided for, suit
able for the uses for which cotton baggin.
applied, 0nnp0141,41 111 . Whole 11r in part
nethp, jute, Ilax, gunny bags, gunny cloth
or other material at 7 cents or less a square
yard, 1! rents per pound ; valued at over 7
cents, 1 cents per square yard. nen cotton
:is above, valued over 10 cents a square
yard, 1 cents per pound.
On iron in pigs, $0 per ton ; not cast scrap
iron of every description, $ll per ton; on
wrought scrap, iron of every description,
$6 per ton; on steel railway bars, 14 cents
per pound; and on railway bars wade inn
part of steel, 1 cent per pound ; provided
that metal cementol. east or made from
iron by the Ilessamer nr Pnuernatie pro
cess of whatsoever form or description shall
be classed as steel.
011 hair cloth of the description known
as hair seating, ls inches wide or over, 30
cents per square yard; less than 10
10 cents per square yard.
Un nickle, 10 cents pound; on nickel Ox
ide or alloy of nickel with copper, 20 cents
per pound.
All animals brought into the United
States temporarily, and fur a period not
exceeding six months, fur the purpose of
exhibition or competition for prizes offered
by any agricultural or racing association,
shall be admitted free of duty, upon bond
being first given, in accordance with regu
lations to lie prescribed by the Secretary of
the Treasury ; with the condition that the
full duty hereinafter imposed shall be paid;
in ease of the sale of any such animals in
the United States.
On cotton thread, yarn, warps or warp
yarn, and wound upon spoofs whether sin
gle or advanced beyond the condition of
single by twisting two or more single yarns
together, whether on beams or in bundles,
skeins or caps or in any other form, valued
at not exceeding .40 cents per pound, 10
cents per pound. Valued at over 40 and
not exceeding 30 cents per pound, 20 cents
per pound. Valued at over 50 and not ex
ceeding 00 cents per pound, 30 cents per
pound. And in addition to said rates of
duty 20 per centum ad valorem.
For the term of two years after the pas
sage of this act, and not longer, machinery
and apparatus designed only for and adapt
ed for steam towage on canals, and not now
manufactured in the United Stales, may bo
RATE OF ADVERTISING
BUSMESS ADYSIVTISEMISNTS, $l2 a year pe
equ r e of ten lines ; Uper year for mob pe r
tlonal square.
REAL ESTATE A HVfinTSSING, 10 Cents allno for
the first, and 5 cents for each subhcquent In•
Insertion.
GENRL DVERTISING, 7 MILS lino forhe
first, a nd A 4
cents for each subsequent tu mor-
Lion.
SPECIAL Norher_i Inserted In Load Columns
15 cents per lino.
SPECIAL NoTicrs preceding marriages and
deaths, I 0 cents per lino for tired
n Inserticn,
and 5 cents for every subsequent Insertio.
LEGAL AND °TITER NOTICES
-2 60
Executors' notices
2 541
Adult ulstratoni notice
250
Assignees' notices 2 oil
Auditors notices
Other "Notices,' ten lines, or less, 1
50
three times...—. .....
imported by any State or by any pomp,
duly authorized by the Legislature M . drip'
State free of duty, subject to such regdM3
I
lions as may be prescribed by the Secretory
of the Treasury, and also that for the term
of two years front and alter the passage of
this act, and no longer, steam plow maehi
nery adapted to the cultivation of the soil
may be imported by any person for kits own
use free of duty, subject to such regulations
of the Secretary of the Treasury.
The bill contains also the provisions for
merchandise entered for transportation.
\VASIL IstrroN, July 13.
Thu fidlowing is the Funding bill its
agreed on by the et , llllllittel , of cunt . ..rt . :ice,
:till isimairred in by twill lists/es to-day
.1 a wit ;o , Illthori:f • the Ref Hurling of * the
Natimial Debt.
Ise it ellileted, kte., the Secretary iii
the Treasury is hereby authorized to issuc
in a SUIII or sums not exct.etling fit tlif ag
gregate two hundred million of dollars,
coupon or registered bonds of the United
States, in Meth form as he may prescribe.
and or denomination, of fitly doll:tn., on.
swum anattninlin sf that sum redeenied fu
eehl of that standard value at the pleasure
of the United States alter ten years frills
the date oft heir issue, and lwaring interest,
payable semi-annually in such coin, at the
rate el live per relltelll per annum. A15.,1
a5lllll of still,: not eNceeding in the ag
gregate three hundred million dollars, of
like botels,t he same in all respects, but pay
atleatthepleasureullhol Sited Stale alter
fifteen tears distill the date of their is
sue, :cod bearing iiii.•rest at the rate
or fent . lied It half per cent, per
11111111111. Also, a sutra or MMUS not I•S eced-
Nig in the anger :Cato one thells3lell 111111 jell
dollars, or like bonds, the Nall. , in a!I re •
but parable at the pleasure of the
Sited States alter 11111 . 1 N. yl l 3l, rl . l/111 1110
111111111 f 111,11' issue, and b racing intrust al
the rate of 61111 . per 1111111. AII
lit' which set 'rat class. , of bonds and the
interest ther...ii shall lie exempt. trim the
pastoral of all taxes or duties of the P.M
ted States, AS well as trout taxation in any
01' 11111101 . State,utunirip:d or be
cal outdo n'ity; anti lhu said Lauds sll3ll
lutte not forth :lea upon their
Lice the llboVe speeilied roulliliw ts, and
shall, ,villa their cotipens, be made payable
at the Treasury or the unnon , nt Stales. that
nothing in this act or in any ether Into hot)"
iu Glue shall be VoliStrlled to 1111theri , any
increase what., er of the keeled debt of
the heal States.
That the Secretary of the Treas
ury is hereby authorized to sell and insists°
of any of the bonds issued under this act
at 11111 less than par value ref ruin, and to
apply the ioroeectiS thereof h, Chi, I'l,lolllp
-11.11 of ally of the bonds of the UlliteilStitte ,
toast:siding 111111 111111,AI us the live-twenty
bonds, at their par cabin; or he may' I's-
- the sans , fsr such lii tt-l‘Velay
bonds, pal' i;11 . pal'; but the lisink hereby
autherized shall be used for nu other 'im
pose whittssever, 1111.1 n 011111 list exceeding
site-half per voittunt of the bonds
herein authorized is hereby aPpropriated
to pay the ex posse ill preparing, issuing
and diSposillg er the Sallie.
SEC. That the pltyllielit Or ally of than
bonnnk hereby authorized after the t•xpira-
Min of said several terms of ten, fifteen and
thirty years, shall be made in amounts is
Ino determined from time to time, by . the
Secretary if the 'Treasury at his diseretisn,
the 1/1/11(1111•11/ 111 111 1 1131 d 10 11/1 distiuguinhml
33111 deSeri lust dates :Std nlmLurs,
1/1144111111g roe each StlecessiVO payment.
s.ttli taunts last dated and utinthered, lid
which time of intended payment or re
demption, the Sec rotary or the Treasury
shall girl public notice, and interest on the
particular bonds so selected at any time to
be paid shall cease at the expiration sr
three mouths from the date of Sll( 1 11 111111/ 41.
SEC. 'I. 'That the Settnititry of the Trl . ll.4llry
is hereby authorized, with ally coin in the
Treasury of the 1 ',tined States which he may
Lawfully apply to 1 1111•11 purpose, or nth it'll
may be derived front the sale of ally .if the
I bonds the issue of \villein is provided flu . in
this act, to pay at par amdcaneel any six per
CO11(11111 bends of the Unit,' Stites of the
kind kanntva as live twenty 11011.1 S, which
11/tee 111'1'01110, lII' Shan hereaflur las•sitte, re
deemable the terms of their issue; hilt
the particular Lundy SO tO Le paid and C3ll
- shall in all eases Lu inditvttel and
SpOeiliell by' class, date and Mauler, ill the
order of their number and issue, beginning
with the first tiumlimssi and issued, ill
11111/111 1 1/1/1.11 . 11 10 110 12:1Vell 1/y 11111 Sl3l,l l lllry
of the Treasury, and in three months after
date of such public mitice, the interest ell
the bonds SO Seieeted and advertised to be
paid shall cease.
S tar. 'I. That I.IIIISI/1•1,111.ry of the Treasury
is hereby authorized at tiny time (Sithiu t‘vti
yours from the leeeille,ll of this clot to receive
gold esin of the United States en deposit fir
out less than thirty duty's, in MIDIS of nut
less than one hundred Within', with the
'Treasurer or any assistant treasurer of the
' Fitted Stales authorizotl by the Secretary
.If the Treasury to receive the Hann., who
shall issue therefor certificates or deposit
made in such hirm its the Secretary of the
'Treasury shall prescribe, and said certifi
cates of deposit Shall bear interest at a rate
not exceeding tlvo and a-half per etsittlin
pet . annum ; and any amount lit' geld
coin sr bullion deposited Dtny
he withdrawn tram deposit at any
time after thirty days from the date of
deposit and after ten &INS lietieo and ell
the return of said vortificates ; previded
the intc•rest on all such deposits shall cease
and determine at the pleasure of the Secre
tary of the 'Treasury, anti not less than
twenty-live per centuni of the cuiu depos
ited tor or represented by said eertilicittes
oftleposits shall beret:tined in the'l'reasury
tor payment of said eertiileatl.S, lied thecs
-less beyond t‘ventv-five per centinn may
be applied at the discretion of the Secre
tary of the Treasury tAI the pa)'illellt or re
demption of such outstanding bonds at the
uninunni States heretsfsre issued and Innown
as the bonds as he Ile
/ der provisions of the fstirtii section of this
:wt.; and any certificates of deposit issued
as aforesaid limn' be revel viol at par, with
interest accruall LllOl - 0011, in payment for
any bon.hn authorized to be...issued by , this
6. That. the United States bonds r
ellased and now held in the treasury in ae
eordate, with provisions relating lux 01111:-
Ong fund of seetion li 00 o f the set entitled
:1.11 :let to authorize the issuo of United
States notes, and for the redemption or
funding thereof, and for funding Iloating
dela, as approved l'ehrtutry 21, 1 , 62, and
all other I Shales 1,011118 which tints,
Lunn purchased by the Secretary or the
Treasury with surplus fluids in the Trcasti
rv, and flair held in till, Treasury of the
lilted States, shill! be cancelled and de
stroyed, a detailed record of such bonds so
cancelled and destroyed to lie first made
in the litoike or the Treasury Ifepart -
inent. Any bonds hereafter applied to said
sinking kind, :intl. all other United Stales
Lands rodeenieti or paid hereafter by the
Tufted States shall also in like manner It,
recorded, and cancelled and destroyed, and
/I.llllllilit itt I.lolllla of each etas that have
liven cancelled and destroyed shall Le tle-.
ducted respectively from the amount of
each class of the outstanding debt of the
United Staten. In addition to other
:1111./Lllll,l that may be al,plied to the re
demption or payment of the public debt,
an
. litnount equal to the intorest (111 all the
bonds belonging to the aforemid sinking
ronil shall be applied, :as the Secretary of
the Treasury shall, from limo to time di
rect, to the payment of the public debts,
provided for in section live or the act
aforesaid ; and the amount to he applied is
hereby appropriated annually for that piir
-111/413 Mit 1/1 . the receipts from duties on im
ported goods.
A Strniglrle with a Mud flow---A Dog.
Catcher Risks his Life to rinvoOtherii.
inn Wednesday last a rabid dog appeared
ins Desperanco street, and, after biting sev
eral other dogs and a cow, made several
attempts to the pedestrians on the street.
Louis Strumberg, ono of the dog-catchers,
hearing of it, and knowing the street to In,
full of children, several of whom would
probably have been bitten but fur him, took
his wire noose and pursued the animal.—
Coming up with him, he succeeded in get
ting the loop over his head, and a desperate
struggle ensued.
The dog (a largo hound) at once endeav
ored to fasten his foaming jaws spun Strum
berg, who for a time, with considerable di di
culty, held him off with the wire. The
noose, however, ti mdly broke before the
other dog-catchers could collie up with and
assist him, and the animal springing upon
the man, caught his hand in his mouth and
tore it in a shocking manner. 100 then ran
down the street, with the foam dripping
from his jaws, and, getting into the rank
weeds growing upon the fiats near the
river, was lost to sight. Ile was found
after a live hours' hunt, and shot by one of
the other men.
The wounds on Strumborg's hand were
at once cauterized, but the hand began to
inflame, and on Saturday he exhibited un
mistakable symptoms of hydrophobia.
His friends, learning that Dr. Schmidt.
of Carondelet, was said to be possessed of a
madstono, had him taken there, when the
stone was applied to tho wounds. The
stone certainly drew from them a greenish
fluid said to be the poison, but whether tho
man's life can be saved by it remains to be
seen. At last accounts he was rapidly - grow
ing worse. Strumberg deliberately periled
his own life to save the lives of others, and
did it in a manner that few would have at
tempted.-Bt. Loyo Democrat, July It.
WASHINGTO July 14.—The President
to-day, sent to th N, o
Senate copies of further
correspondence, relative to the Alabama
claims. In January last, Mr. Motley in
formed Lord Clarendon that it was the
President's desire, that when negotiations
concerning those claims should be consul
ered, they be re-opened at Washington.—
On May 24th, Earl Clarendon, in a letter to
Mr. Motley, says, that her Majesty's Gov
ernment "considers it neither useful or
expedient to resume a controversial cor
respondence, in which there ism° little hoi
for one ;Government being able to con
vince the other.