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WW. WHITK LEAD, at ilcAdcn's
,KPWKy Corner Drug Store.
300 Oallon3 Linseed Oil, at M-e Aden's Comer
Drug Store.
3 Barrels Spirits Turpentine, at McAden's Drug
Store.
NO. 1 Coach and Copal Varnishes, cheap, at ;
McAden's Drug Store.
FIN'K Lubricating, Lard an.i Sic-m: Oil. at Mc
Aden's Corner Drug Store
Bright Illumin:itiB Kerosene Oil, cheap, at 11c
Aden's Comer Drug Store.
Tanners' Strait's and Brinks' 0:1, at the lowest
market price, nt McAdeu's Corner Drug Store.
May 20, IKCI.
Zf HOXKS M A X L- F A C T U I ! E D TOBACCO,
rBrUP for sale at the Corner Diu Store.
June :, 1807. J. II. McADKX
A Ij A 11 O K T J K
OK
SPBING GOO US
Fine white an 1 colored Marseilles Quilts, just
received at BAUUIXGEU, WOLFE & CO S.
e-V- Ladies' French Dimitry Skirts, India Twilled
Long Cloth, Linen Dress Goods. Extra Fine Lace
Collars and Culls, Valencine Lae, Cletiy Luce,
Black Silk Guper Lace. Call and evamine our New
Goods. l; A UR I XG EU, WOLFE L CO.
sa' Irish Linen of an extra quality ; Clenched
Shirting, extra quality. Call soon.
Black Challey for Mounii.'ig Dresses, English
Crape and English Crapu Veils, at
BARCIXGEU, WOLFE & CO'S.
April 15, : 8fJ7.
JUST RECEIVED AT
C. M. QUERY'S HEW STORE.
A Luge and well selected Stock o."
fclMSIXi ASI) SUM JJKSft GOODji'i
DltY GOODS, at extremely low prices.
WHITE GOODS, a fu'I assortment, which will be
Bold low fr ca.!i.
TUIMM1XGS Our stock of Trimming; is com
plete, and was selected with care.
A full assortment of VAXKEE NOTION'S and
FANCY GOODS.
HOOP SKIIiTS Bradley's Paris Trail Skirts
the most popular Skirt now worn all sizes Ladies,
children and Misses.
KID GLOVES all colors and sizes, of the best
rticle Ladies" an 1 Children's Milts, all sizes, and
of the best quality.
FAX'S AX D PAUASOLS A full assortment of
all kind.
SHOES Ladies', Children's and Misses' boots,
shoes and gaiters, of the best Philadaphia make.
Also, Men's and Boj's ihocs and hats.
MRS. QUERY would inform her friends that
fhe has spared no pams in selecting her stock of
Millinery and T: immings; and having had a long
experience in the business feels satisfied that she
can jdease all who will favor her with a call.
Bonnets and Hats made and trimmed to order, on
the most reasonable terms and shortest notice.
Dresses Cut. Fit ted. Ti initned and made, on reason
able terms arid at short notice.
Our terms are strictly Cash. Our motto is, small
profit, and jut dealing to all.
April 1, 1S;7.
r ox kjTwa vjtkek
A Chance to Make Money.
The subscriber will purchase Bones at 50 cents
per hundred, delivered at Concord Factory, or at
any R.iilroad Depot between Charlotte and Greens
boro Cash paid on delivery.
Those who wi'.l accumulate Bones in quantities
ftt any point on the Uailroad lines, and inform the
ubscriber, arrangements will be made for their
purchase.
11. E. Mcl. AXALD,
April 1, 1SG7
tf Concord, N C.
OF THE X EAT EST AND MOST SUPERIOR PATTERN.
XX- BY33B.LT,
Springs' Building, Charlotte, N C,
Has for sale "Sptar's .f 111 i- )llSt Cooking1
ST(t fJCV," which, for every aiieiv of cooking
and great economy in fuel, caunot be surpassed by
any Stove heretofore used.
Everybody who has used one of these Stoves
testify that, for convenience in cooking, durability
ami cleanliness, they are far preferable to all other
patterns. Call and see them.
D. II. BYERLY has also on hand a good as
sortment of Tin, Japan and Sheet-Iron Ware such
article as nre necessary for house-keeping.
JEST TlX-WAKK made to order at short notice
On reasonable terms.
KLIVVlKI Vt; promptly exrented. .
D IE BYERLY,
Spiings' Building, Charlotte, N. C.
March 25, 18G7.
NEW GOODS! NEW GOODS !
S . 15 - H K A C il A ,
J3 now receiving and opening his Spring stock of
DRY GOODS,
comprising every article wanted by th people,
bought for Cash, and since the great decline in goods.
' I keep constantly on hand all kinds of goods, viz:
Dry Goods, a general ussortuaeat.
Yankee Notions, " "
Hats and Caps, "
loots and Hioes, " "
JWooden Ware, 41
feather of all kinds,
Hardware, Cutlery, Guns, ic.
Groceries of all Kinds,
Consisting of Bacon, Lard, Hams, Sugar, Coffee,
Pish, Flour, Meal, Pickles, &c , &c.
I will sell any of th above very low. All I wish
if a call from any one before purchasing. My motto
Js, quick sales and short profit
Ap.il 29, Js7. ,S. B. MEAOIAM.
DEXTJSTKY.
DR. W)i. E. CARR, lnte of Wilmington, having
located in Charlotte, is prepared to attend promptly
to all calls relating to his profession. Having had
seventeen years experience in the practice of Den
tistry, he is satisfied that he can please all who may
give him a call.
All work done with reference to neatness, dura
bility and dispatch. Office over Barringer, Wolfe
k Go's, where he can be found at all hours of the
day. All work warranted to give entire satisfac
faction. Teeth filled and extracted without paiD.
June 10, 1R7. Cm
"pictures at so cents
And upwards, at the
PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERr
Over Jas. Harty ic Co's Store, next to the Court
Houte.
Call and get a superb likeness of yourself and
family, at low rates according to style and finish.
Copies taken of old Pictures in a superior manner.
Satisfaction guarantied at the Gallery of
II. B A U M GARTEN,
May 6, 1807. Next to Court House
HAMMOND & McLAUGIILIN
Have just received a Itrge assortment of Groceries,
which they olfer for sale at .reduced prices. Their
Stock consists, in part, of the, following articles :
10 Sucks prime Rio Coffee,
30 Barrels Sugar all grades,
5 Hogsheads Sugar yellow,
25 Barrels Molnsses assorted grades,
5 Hogsheads Molasses Cuba,
10 Barrels Potomac Shad,
10 Half Barrels Potomac Shad,
10 Quarter Barrels Potomac Shad,
10 Half Family Mackerel,
10 Quarter " " '
40 Kits, No 1 and 2, "
100 Sacks Liverpool Salt,
50 Boxes fine English Dairy Cheese,
50 " Adamantine Candles,
50 ,f assorted Stick Candy,
25 Layer Raisins,
Fine Lot of Bacon X. C. and Western,
" " Flour, Corn and Corn Meal,
Codfish and Irish Potatoes,
Hemlock Leather. Iron and Nails all sizes,
Bale Yarn and Shirting,
Fresh Cove Oys:ers, Sardines and Pickles,
Sauces, Flavoring Extracts, Soda Crackers, ic.
And every other article usually found in a gro
cery and P.-( vision Store.
We invite the attention of country merchants and
others to our stock, and solicit an examination.
iiammoxd & Mclaughlin.
May 27, 18G7 tf
J. E.
STEXHOrSE,
Xew Yokk
ALLAN MACAULAY,
Charlotte, N. C.
STEMiOUSE & MACAULAY,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
42 Stone Sti eft, New York.
Prompt personal attention given to the sale of
Cotton, Cotton Varus, Naval Stores, &c, and the
purchase of Meichandise generally.
Consignments solicited.
June 10, 13t;7.
NEW STOCK OF GOODS.
The undersigned has just returned from the
Northern cities with a good Stock of
Gr X O O O X O JS ,
and various other articles, consisting principally of
Java Coffee, Rio Coffee of superior quality none
better; Black, Green and Imperial Teas; New Or
leans and other Molasse; Bacon Sides, Sugar Cured
Hams, Fresh Mackerel, Pickled Shad, Soap, Candles,
I'epper. Spice, Ginger, Soda, White Wine and Apple
Vinegar, Willow Ware, Buckets of all kinds, Tubs
Broom, Churns, Kegs, Half-Bushels, &e.
Lorillard Snuff best quality ; Soda, Ginger and
Egg Crackers ; a fine lot of Brogan Shoes extra
i.es ; Liverpool Salt, and best Carolina Rice.
Xj o a t 11 o r .
White Oak Tanned fine article; large lot of
good nnd good damaged Hemlock ; French Calf
Skins; Upper and Harness Leather.
White Lead, Powder. Shot and Percussion Caps,
all sizes; Whim Rope, Well Rope, Bed Cord, Cotton
Cards cheap, Scythe Blades, Pad Locks, Blacking,
Matches, Cotton Yarn, Durham's Smoking Tobacco,
Chewing Tobacco; Crushed, Pulverized, While and
Brown Sugars, and a fine assortment of best Ntls.
I have selected this Stock with great care, and
cannot be undersold. Give me a call before pur
chasing elsewhere. Remember my Motto,
Quick Sales, Short Profits
and fair dealings with all. Wheat, Flour, Corn,
Bacon and Lard taken in exchange for Goods.
Friends, recommendit g Freedmen to me, may be
assured that they will be dealt with fairly, both as
to weight and change no objection to all goods
being weighed that go from this establishment.
Piofits are short, and terms necessarily CASn.
I also buy and sell on commission all kinds of
Produce. Orders arid consignments solicited.
W. BOYD.
Charlotte, N. C, June 24, 1S07.
C I . a 21 A SI SCHOOL,
MEBANEVILLB, N. C.
SESSION OF 1SGT.
Fall Term opens July 24th. Course of instruction
CLASSICAL, MATHEMATICAL and COMMERCIAL.
For Circular aJdiess
Col. WM. BINGHAM.
June 17, 18d7 6w
JUST IS EC El TED
AT
Wilson Eros.,
Embroidered Bareges, Striped Mozambique, Plain
Mozambique?. Lawns, Striped Poplins, and a good
assortment of Prints.
May , 1SU:7.
Grocery and Provision Store,
Under the Mansion House, opposite the Springs
Building.
I have on hand. -and will constantly keep, Corn
Meal, Flour, Bacon, Lard, and Country Produce
generally..
Also, Sugar, Coffee, Crackers, MoL.sses. and in
fact everything in the Grocery line a family may
need.
I have also a fine lot of Northern Potatoes and
some very fine No. 1 Mackerel.
I wili sell as cheap as the cheapest. Try me.
The highest market price will be paid for
country produce cf all kinds.
Feb 18, 1867. tn A. BERRYUILL.
i HAVE YOU SEEN 1UE ELEPHANT !
If not juat walk down to
! PRESSON 6c GRAY'S
! Family Grocery and ProFhJou Store,
Where they are daily 'receiving fresh snpplies of
j Groceries of every description, and buy your eup
I plies while the Horse and Wagon is standing before
j the door ready to convey your purchases to' your
house anywhere within ihe'corporafe limits, free of
I fi i r-rp i ft r DDPCCnv
June 10, 186?.
GRAY.
SUPREME COURT OP N. CAROLINA.
Important Opinion hy the Chief Justice,
We are indebted to the Clerk of the Supreme
j Court, (says the Raleigh Sentinel.) for thefollow
I ing able and interesting opinion, just filed by
Chief Justice Pearson, bearing upon . the validity
; of contracts founded on Confederate currency, in
this State, during the war.
PHILIPS VS. HOOKER.
The right of the plaintiff to relief does not rest
alone upon the ordinance of the Convention or
the act of the Legislature, but upon the broad
ground that the courts are bound to admiuister
justice and enforce the execution of contracts. '
In 1862, the defendant agrees to sell to the
plaintiff' a house and received $2,500 in Confed
erate treasury notes, as the consideration, and put
him in possession. The contract had no special
political significance, and there is no averment
that it was entered into with an intent to give
aid to the rebellion; so, it is to be taken as a deal
ing in the ordinary transaction of business. The
plaintiff bought the house and lot " because it
suited him. The defendant took the Confederate
notes because she needed funds.
It is said every dealing in Confederate treasury
notes gave them credit and circulation, and con
sequently aided the rebellion; so every such deal
ing was illeo-Hl. and not lit to be enforced by the
.courts, without reference to the intent of the par
ties. The proposition is general, every man and
woman who, in the ordinary course of business,
received a Confederate note, did an illegal act,
tainted with treason; it embraces all contracts ex
ecuted as executory, for if true as to one, it is also
true as to the other, and it aims a blow at all
dealings among our people during the war, and
upheaves the foundations of society. I do not
believe the proposition can be maintained by any
authority or any principle of law.
1. It mav be conceded that if, at the outbreak of
an insurrection, parties to contracts, with a view
of aiding the cuuse, by giving credit and circu
lation to its paper, receive it as money in their
dealing, such contracts are illegal.
But that is not the case under consideration.
in ibu'z, tne contest naa assumed tne magni
tude and proportions of war; each party in terri
torial limits had the boundaries of a mighty
nation, and each party counted its people by mil
lions The "Confederate States" was recognized
by the nations and by the United States itself, as
a belligerent power, entitled to the rights of war,
and in the exercise of its powers, it had issued
paper as the representative of money, which in
cluded all other currency and constituted the
Only circulating medium f the country. The
governmentof the United States was unable to pre
lect the people, and there were no currency but
Confederate treasuiy notes. In this condition of
things, was every man to stop his ordinary avo
cations and starve, or else be tainted with treason,
and deemed guilty of an illegal act if he received
a Confederate treasury note.
The Attorney General of the United Stales, in
his opinion on the subject of disfranchisement,
uses this language: '"Officers in those rebel
States who, during the rebellion, discharged offi
cial duties, not incident to war, but in the preser
vation of order and the administration of law, are
not to be considered as thereby engaging in re
bellion. The interest of humanity requires such
officers for the performance of such official con
duct in time of war or insurrection, as well as in
time of peace, and the performance of such duties
can never be considered as criminal." Was a
Judge to cease to do these "duties required by
the interests of humanity" "the performance
of which can never be considered as criminal,"
or was he to perform the duties and starve, rather
than commit an illegal act by receiving his salary
in Con federate treasury notes f Was the mer
chant to c'ose his store, the blacksmith and shoe
maker to quit woik, and the farmer to let his to
bacco and surplus grain rot on his hands, and
allow his family to suffer for clothing and the
other necessaries of life, or do an illegal act by
receiving Confederate notes ? Really, unless the
receiving of such notes can be connected with a
ciiminal intent to aid the rebellion, the question
seems to me too plain to admit of argument. A
naked statement exposes the absurdity of the
proposition. The courts must act on the pre
sumption that Confederate notes were received in
ordinary dealing, not for the purpose of aiding
the rebellion, but because there was no other
currency.
2. Look at the subject in another point of
view : At the close of the war the President
granted amnesty and pardon to all, save a very
few individuals. Congress in the act for recon
struction disfranchised only those, who, having
taken an rath to support the Constitution of the
United States, afterwards engaged, actively, m
the rebellion, and bus refused to enforce the
rigorous measure of confiscation. On what
pricciple, then, can it be, that the Courts are
called upon to take up the matter "at the little
end search into the private dealings of the
people and all the ramifications of ordinary busi
ness and declare of no force in effect confiscate
ail contracts based upon the consideration of
Confederate uotes '( V hat good can result from
this action of the Courts ? It can have no effect
upon the rebellion ; for that is over. It can
have no effect upon the future, for "necessity
knows no law," and whenever a condition of
things occurs, in which the people most use the
only currency of the country or starve, the car
rency will be used. Ttie idea of the Courts
assuming the duty of preventing civil wars by
holding that it is illegal to receive the paper of
rebels, in ordinary business transactions, when
there is no other currency that such contracts
are not fit to be enforced presents to ay mind
a palpable absurdity. So, what good will be
done by this action of the Courts ? None save
only to show, on the part of the Courts, a detes
tation of treason by treadir gon the extremities
of the monster after it is dead.
3. In Blossom vs. Van Amringe, 1 Phil. 133,
the maxim, ev turpi causa actio non oritur.
was rreSvd on the Cturt, and it was insisted
that, as the parties had made a transfer of pro- !
perty, in Jraud and deceit, icith an intent to
evade the confiscation acts of the governmentof
the Confederate States, the case fell under the
maxim. The Court say : ''The objection would '
co doubt have been fatal, if taken before & Court
of the de facto State Government, while it
formed a part of the Confederate States, bnt this
Court is a co-ordinate branch of a rightful gov
ernment, forming a part of the United States,
and cannot entertain such an objection." In
our case, the matter is reversed. The turpitude,
if any, was aimed at the United States, and the
maxim applies, provided there be the crimina
imenc. in at is tne question i l deny ;ne in
tent there is no evidence of it or anything
from which it can be implied. It cannot be
held that the mere receiving a Confederate note
was illegal and base, without involving in the
imputation of baseness, every man and woman
in the State.! the minister of the gospel, the
Judge, who received their salaries: the pbysi
cian, the merchant,, the" mechanic, the farmer,
who carried on their ordinary business. The
poor seamstresses, who at the end of the day
received their hard-earned wages, were all guilty
of an act so base that the doors of the courts of
justice must be shut against them ! The pro
position is monstrous. During the war a farmer
should not have made more grain than enough
to support himself and family; making a surplus
was illegal it aided the rebellion. If every
mau had quit work, the rebel army could not
have been sustained ; the war would have been
stopped by starvation. We were told in the
argument that "gold, as well as iron, is a sinew
of war." It may be added, meat and bread are
also sinews of. war reductio ad absurdum.
4. But, it is said, the consequences of hold
ing all such dealing to have been illegal, will
not be so grievous, after all, for, in its practical
application, the maxim will only make void
executory contracts. The principle, if a sound
one, evidently includes all contracts, executive
as well as executory, and the admission, that in
practice it can only be made to reach the latter.
demonstrates the impotence and absurdity of
this action of the Courts, as the means of put
ting a stop to civil wars. Let us see how it is
to operate: A man buys a tract of land, pays for
it in Confederate notes and takes a deed. The
Court cannot reach him, for it is met by the
maxim "in pari delicto meiior est conditio de-
fendmtis;" so he keeps the land, not because
he is innocent, but because the Court cannot
take it from him and restore it to the original
owner, for he is equally guilty. If one has
paid off a bond in Confederate notes, whether
the creditor will be allowed to sue on the origi
nal debt, whioh is not tainted with this "turpi
causa" is a problem that I will not undertake
to solve.
But suppose the bond is only paid in part;
the payment must be rejected, for, being in
Confederate notes, ifis of no more legal effect
than if made in counterfeit money or suppose,
in our case, Mr Hooker brings ejectment for
the land the contract has been in part per
formed, and the Defendant is in possession, will
the Court hut its doors against her on the
maxim in pari delicto? In short, is the prac
tical application of this novel principle to be al
lowed to cover all intermediate cases, when the
contract has not been fully executed, or is it to be
confined to contracts wholly executory, where
the purchaser has paid the price, but, in the
simplicity of his innocence, has neglected to
take a deed and has not even taken possession?
The amount of it is all who required the Con
federate notes to be paid down or who have
taken deeds and acquittances under seal, al
though equally guilty, are to go unpunished,
and only those who gave credit to their neigh
bors or who neglected to take deeds are to be
made victims to the vengeance of the law, while
the remiss debtors and dishonest vendors are to
be the sole gainers, although equal participants
in the illegal act. Lame and impotent conclu
sion I
Thus encouragement is to be given to dis
honesty, justice is not to be administered, and
the people of the country are to be involved in
utter perplexity and confusion, in order to make
a useless show of zeal on the part of the Courts
4,io punish rebels."
R. M. PEARSON, C. J.
-
Colic in Horses. I will give you a receipt
which I have known to cure in a few minutes
I knew a horse taken with it on a tread wheel
to a carding machine, so that the owner thought
he could not live. He got the veterinary sur
geons, and they did what they could, and all
decided that the horse must die. The man's
wife, who believed and practiced hygiene, from
the time the horse was taken, tried to persuade
her husband to use a wet bandage, but be in
sisted it would do no good. After all had given
up that the horse could not live, by her en
treaties the doctors sayiog it could do no good
or hurt he took a thick bed comforter, bound
it around the horse, went to the well and drew
water, and poured it on till thoroughly soaked
It seemed like a pot boiling. In less than fif
teen minutes from the time he commenced the
arafortnrv T.rnpoco ifio hnrsa itqc nn qnit Anting.
V. f f L'lVVVd? . . j UW.OI; I V. .T f' SUVA tailll
to the great surprise of the horse doctors, who
knew it could not live. The horse did good
service afterwards. This recipe I gave several
years ago, and it was copied into mo6t as I was
told by an editor of the agricultural, and many
other papers in the United States. .Many have
tried and proved it. Try it, brother farmers.
Farmers' Advocate.
Tomatoes a Protection Against Borers.
Mr II. J. Foster, Quincy, Massachusetts, in
forms tbe iNew England Farmer that be Las an
apple orchard which ha? been badly infested by
the borer. Two or three years ago while going
over tbe orchard in the fall, and removing from
ten to fifteen young borers from most of tbe
trees, he noticed that invariably there were no
signs of their work to be discovered wherever a
chance plant of tbe tomato had sprung up from
cpprl in anil nr mnnnrp A rf in rr on th disncpru. !
he has since planted tomatoesxtensivelv about
his apple trees and quince boshes, and finds it ;
a complete protection, as the beetle which de
posits her eggs during the summer months upon
the Lark of the tree near the ground, shuns
every tree near which a tomato plant is growing.
A young lady, on being asked wbre was her !
native place, replied, "I have none; I am the
daughter of a Methodist minister."
f LIFE IN PARIS.
ine averybodie and Everything oj the Uity.
It is one o'clock in tbe morning. Every cafe,
theatre and ball has been closed up half an hoar.
There is a midnight excise law here no less
peremptory than New York's. . The gas is
lighted in the streets, but not in tbe dwellioes.
The great hotels even must illuminate in Paris
with candles, as tbe city makes barely enough
gas for public uses. The practical eivilication
of Paris is only a grease-spot compared to the
full blaze of our Western cities. There are no
hydrants here to speak of. Water must be car
ried inter yoor house from the public fountains,
or served to you by a barrel wagon at so much
subscription per week. In this silence of the
night, sit you down on the broad stone quary
beside the Seine, where the Toileries looms
darkly up in the night, and in the swift river
there arc darting fires, where all the miles of
street and boat lamps fling their reflections.
Up yonder in the central pavilion there is one
window aflame the Emperor's. Whether for
a statesman's vigil or a sensualist's carousal, he
is awake : and at his portal below you see now
and then the flash of the light upon the bayonet
of the Turco that guards him. Through the
dark gardens are other guards, revealed by their
steel flashes. Now, all alone, noiseless, like a
great creeping glow-worm, you see the most
wretched man in Paris steal up to the palace of
the most powerful; tbe chiffonier is under toe
windows of the King. ' .
The chiffonier is the Paris rag-picker, le
has a great funnel-shaped basket tied to his
back; a lamp drops to his feet; by its ghastly
light he discovers whatever in gutter or ash
heap is worth his notice, and this he tosses with
a dexterous movement of his iron hook into the
basket. The motion is so rapid, and the hook
so long and thin, that you can with difficulty see
tbe transfer. 1 be lamp glares at tbe chiffonier s
feet alone; the rest of his body is only a hunch
backed shadow, and in the light he seems to be
some monster eating the offal of the highway.
There are seven hundred chiffoniers in Paris.
They live, in main part, on the Rue Monffetard,
and if you go thither of a morning, you will see
their wives washing out the rags they set. and
assorting the old bones. Here they have a ball
called the Old Oak, and every Sunday nizht
there are several hundred of them here dancing
tbe cancan. The most remarkable chiffonier in
Paris is Gaston, the Ilibon, or Owlv Gaston.
He is sixty-five years old. and bald as a sole-
leather truuk. Forty years ago he was a beau
and dancer, owned a ball in the Faubourg St
Germain, and claims to have invented the van-
can, which is the most shameless and poduui
ball-room dance extant. A love of earning and
worthlcssness ruined Gaston at thirty-five: he
married one of the girls be had hired to dance,
and while one of them went to the hospital to
wrestle with death, the woman took her crook
and basket and perambulated in the night. She
found a diamond of great value at tbe cleaning
out of the Pont Neuf canal, and this so excited
the cupidity of Gaston, that when he was con
valescent he turned to mud larking himself, and
coaxed into the same business several of the
broken down belles he had known. They found
no more diamonds, but Gaston was shrewd
enough to become tho common patron of all bis
converts, and is alleged to be well off. He is
quite a character in his district, and he has pro
bably been into every sluice, sewer and passage
under tbe city of Paris. It is related that Baron
liaussmann, who has projected a grander system
of sewerage for the metropolis, sent for Gaston
some time ago to confirm a plan of the subter
ranean ditches he had ordered to be prepared.
The veteran rag-picker took the map and ex-
plored the whole under world of the city, being
absent six months, and traveling and retracing
nearly a thousand miles of filth. liaussmann
gave hi in a years pay oi a policeman, and a
pioneer's decoration.
TWO O'CLOCK THE NIGHT TROOPS.
When the dull lamp of the chiffonier hag got
round tbe corner, you hear tbe tramp of hoofs
in concert, and directly a company of mounted
policemen come sweeping up the street, with
guides out in advance, as if for a skirmish with
mt 1 a a
some enemy, inese policemen wear brass Hel
mets, like a Roman General s, with red horse
tails streaming out behind : carbines are slung
around them; they carry naked sabreg. Riding
along in the night, tbey make the city seem a
conquered one, full of conspiring citizens. On
the opposite side of the river, as if riding down
conccrtedly to sweep an enemy from the quays,
a squadron of regular cavalry is seen bearing
along, their burnished accoutrements glittering;
and a bugle call streams over the Seine, an
swered back by the gens d'arme. So, in the
daikness supporting eolomns move over the
whole capital; the forty great barracks of the
city and its dependencies are never quite
darkened, but in their guard rooms telegraphers
aim Beumes keep perpetual Vigil; lour thousand
policemen walk all night in cocked hats and
side-swords; wherever a taper burns past its
season, there is a cold eye in the street fixed
upon it. Sixty thousand men of all arms are
distributed over Paris, and horses stand day and
night to pursue revolution or crime. Within
every place of frequent resort the mouchard, or
spy, abides no introduced agent in general,
bat your friend, bed-fellow or school-mate he
to whom you are free to unbosom every indig
nation and purpose of your life, purchased by
natural deceit or a treacherous political regimen
to deliver you up for your thoughts as remorse
lessly as for your deeds. Said M. Vivien, of
old, the Prefect of Police :
. "There is no lack of candidates for spies.
They come from every class. Every day a hun
dred offer themselves. Our mail is filled with
e
volunteer letters betraying some friend or rela-
u" iow-pncea among my couo
try-men
The "Felon's Biography" consists of 400
registers and of forty book-cases filled with their
supplementary leaves, making a grand catalogue
i of French criminals and
suspected people, coo-
taining 800,000 names.
This remarkable book
is kept in the Rue de liar lay, on tbe island of
i the city. A spy and a policeman get the m (
average pay about 5260 in gold a year, or 75
cents a day. - . . '
FOUR O'CLOCK TUK ABATTOIRS.
While these are the night scenes in the leaf,
of the city, away out on tie bills of tbe suburbs
the butchers of cattle and sheep are getting ready
for market, There are but eight butcher shops ia
Paris, and three of these are a long distance from
the city proper. Tbe five principal ones stand oa
the outer boundaries of Paris; tbey are owned by
the city, and rented to the several butchers wbe
are compelled to drive their cattle to them in the
night, to permit none of their employees., to be
seen upon the public streets in tbe garments of
the slaughter house, aad to transport all tbe meat
to market between midnight and sunrise. Tka
cattle markets proper are at Poissy and Sceaur, a
days walk from Pa ru each; the drover is not com-
pelted, therefore, to pay tbe octroi, or municipal
tax; this is paid by the butcher when be . passes
the city gates, or at the abottoir when he kills.
In the great butchery of Monlmartre, the largest
in tbe world, there are nine streets, sixty-four boil
ing bouses and butcheries, eight pens capable qI
inclosing four hundred cows at once, with abun
dant shade and fodder; two artesian wells supply
U00,000 quarts of water a day; there are tnperies,
machineries for curing calves head, and sheep s
feet and tongues, almost as perfect as your hog-,
killing methods in Cincinnati, and so superb is
the drainage that outside of the abottoir not a
drop of blood is ever 6een upon the sidewalk or
in tbe gutters, nor is the hot summer made a
stench by the breezes from the shambles. These
butcheries were projected by tbe .first Napoleon,
and finished in 1818.
The horse-batchers is a new institution 1iere,
and il has, until of late, been established' in the
abattoir of La Villette, just outside of Paris.
About forty horses are killed a day, knocked in
the head, their throat cut, and they are made
into quarters, shins and ribs in no time. The per
formance is perfectly legal, and government en
courages the consumption of the horde.
"He Shot all but Me." When General
Bragg commanded the array of Tennessee, . on
day, while on the march, be suddenly came upon
one of the "ragged," butternut fraternity, who was
just then busily engaged in plundering a garden
ihe General drew up, and in that clear, ringing
voice, which one heard on the field of battle k
not readily forgotton, called out, "To what com-,
manddoyou belong?" Butternut was caught,
he recogtized the Gerieral, and he knew the maa
he had to deal with. Assuming a green, gawky ,
manner, he answered as follows : Mister did
belong to Mr Bragg's company, but he shot all
but me!"
This was a little too much, and drawing his
hat over his eyes and compressing his lips, the
General rode on, and let the last man of his "com
pany" live.
Another Chance for Babnum. Western
North Carolina is prolific with natural curiosities,
monstrosities, and almost every other kind of
osities, but Yancey county bears off the palm for
the most prolific Cow-osity. We are reliably in
formed that a cow belonging to Mr Hampton,
living near Burnsville, presented bar owner a few
weeks ago, with four calves at a birth. Wa ,
have not heard whether all the calves are .living,
but our informant tells us the cow is doing weH.
She ought to live in clover the rest of her life.
Such feats might be commendable in cows, but
in human natur it is orful to think of, these bard
limes. Ash v tile JVews.
China has a population of 400,000,000 peo-,
pie, and her rulers govern an area of 4,088,000
square miles. An English journal says it is a
curious reflection that if any one man of he
military genius of'Geoghis Khan, or Tamerlane
or Alexander or Napoleon should arise to com
mand these countless hosts he might march his
swarming legions with perfect impuBity over all
Europe.
An editor down South say he would as soon
try to go to sea on a shingle, make a ladder of
fog, ch ase a streak of lightning through a crab
apple orchard, swim up the rapids of Niagara,
raise the dead, stop the tongue of an old maid,
or set Erie on fire with a wet match, as to un
dertake to make an intelligent man out of a
person who don't take a newspaper, or a gentle
man out of one who refuses or neglects to paj
bis subscription."
T T
Prentice thinks that if a young lady has a
thousand acres of valuable land, the young aaen
are apt to conclude that there are sufficient
grounds for attachment.
And after Marriage, those young men will
conclude that bad coffee will produco sufficient
grounds for a divorce.
A lady writes that salt is a sure thing on bed
bugs. Wash the articles and places infested
with tbe bugs with salt and water and fill the
cracks and crevices where the vermin bide.
They will give no more trouble.
A roor fellow being asked oo a late trial for
a certificate of his marriage, exhibited a large
scar on bis bead, which looked as though it'
might have been made with a fire shovel. The
evidence was satisfactory.
The sherry-wine merchants at Cadi told our
consul that "the stuff sent to the Uoited States
was not sherry at all, but merely slops used to
wash out the tubs and fur other dirty work about
the stills."
An indulgent husband and father sold bis
cooking stove to take bis family to the circus.
Mrs . Yell lately cowbided Mr Lay for not
performing a promise to marry- her. As ha
wouldn't make her.Lay, she made him yell.
Brigbara Young, Jr., and his companion Rich
ards, are living gaily in Paris the former with
two wives and nine children- the latter with nin$
wives and no end of children.
i Philosophers say that shutting the eyes nukes
the sense of bearing more acute. A wag sug
gests that tbis accounts for tbe many eloaad
yes that are aecaatxhurch ejrejj Sanday,