obo;
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
BY
V B. H. HILL,
; CHARLOTTE, N. C,
Devoted to the vindication of the truth of
Southern History, to the preservation of
Southern Characteristics,: to the develop
oient of Southern Resources, under the
changed relations of the Labor System, and
to the advancement of Southern Interests in
Agriculture, Mining, Manufacturing and the
Mechanic Arts. .;
In addition to the contributions from the
old cbrps of writers of f The Land We
Love," the services will be secured of
thorough men of Science, and of Practical
Farmers, Miners, Machinists, Ac.
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" - 14 and Practical Planter,
To Advertisers. The Southern Home
haying now the largest circulation of any
paper west of Raleigh, affords a fine adver
tising medium. Terms moderate.
H. EISCHOFF.
J. H. WUXBEKN.
C. PIEPER.
Henry Bischoff & Co.,
Wholesale Grocers,
AND .DEALERS IN .
Wines, Liquors, Sega rs, Tobacco &c.
.. 197 EAST BAY,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
Ca, Rice and N. O. Molasses constantly on
hand. v . - . Dpp ft-fim
Notice This.
Don't let your IIvkh die of Cholera. No
necessity for that. Read the following cer
tificate. '
44Third Creek Station,
V. N. C. R. R., Sept. 1st, 1872.
Rev. C. Pitler Dear Sir : I tried your
remedy for Hog Cholera. It is all it claims
to be not another hoer sickened or Jied af
ter I "commenced the use of it."
Very truly yours,
1 Address, inclosing $1, Rev. C. PLYLER,
Salisbury, N. C. dec. 9-12m.
ALEXANDER & BLAND,
DENTISTS,
fHTARLOTTF. NT n
ALL WORK GUARANTEED.
I Teeth extracted without pain, by
4'Nitrou9 Oxide Gas."
Office, in brick building, opposite the
Charlotte Hotel. Nov 7 tf
Hotel
; CHARLOTTE, N. C.
II. (1. EffLES, PROPRIETOR.
The patronage, of the
traveling
public is respectfully solicited.
Jan 27, '73 ly feb. 12, '72
J. B. JONES. V JOS. GRAHAM
'Tnn dc RT,fl-paViQm
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS,
; CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Office, over Kilgore & Cureton's Drug Store.
April 1. '72-ly
Z. B VANCE. A. BURWELL.
VANCE & BURWELL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
PRARTYTlTTW "W fi '
AAA A-A -A-J y m
Office in the Court House, rm
: April 1, 1873. .-'
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- nViot.lnfn "NT f!
y. M. MATTHEWS & SON, Proprietors.
Trust that the liberal patronage of the
public will be continued.
56 ly
ZF1. SCA!Ril7
Druggist and Chemist,
CHARLOTTE, N. P.
- Has a well selected stock of
Oils, Paints, Lamps, &c.
W. F. COOK,
(Trade Street, on North Carolina Railroad.)
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
The Dublio will please call and see the
CIDER MILLS,
Ida Greeley Cider Mills,
Old Ladv Greelev Churns,
Old Man Greelev Plows, Harrow &c
M& All Orders promptly attended to.
Jan 23 tf
P. M. HE LTON,
UNDERTAKER,
And Dealer in Furniture, &c,
Trade Street, Opposite the. Market,
CHARLOTTE, N. C,
A fall supply of Coffins and Caskets con
stantly on hand, ready for use.
jan 6, '73-ly '
TO TAX-PAYERS.
All who owe BARRINGER & WOLFE
are rea hps ted to come forward and settle
We have been patient. Wecannot wait any
longer as the old business must be settled up.
Call at Once. We desire to settle up with
everybody ourselves.
Nov. 4. BARRINGER & WOLFE.
FOR SALE
AT TIDDY'S BOOK STORED
Ryles' Exnositorv Thoughts on the 'Gospel,
Hodge's Commentary on Romans, (with
- Questions,) . L
Jeaus, by (J. F. Deems,
History of the Bible, by Dr. Wm. Smith,
ighteen Christian Centuries White,
Paul Conybeare and Howson,
personal Religion Goulburn,
Jesuit of Holiness- "
uetiecoTerv of Jerusalem.
Srml.ngton'8 Travels in South Africa,
rgeon'sGems.;
WE HAVE RECEIVED
telope9,
EnerulTaried Stock of Writing Paper,
goouv CUp and Files, and many othei
other
Uct ii " w are ottering at iair pricen
ces
Central
TIDDY & BRO
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VOL. 3.
L W. SANDERS.
J. E. 0ATES.
211 f B HfflK
OAIILY ARHIVIN S tN STOKE.
The following Quanos will be sold either
for Cash or on Time, with approved se
curity i
When planters so desire, we will bind
ourselves to receive cotton in payment
next Fall, at 15 cents per pound,
giving them the benefit of the
advance, if there should be any.
The following Fertilizers have been used for years past bv many of our most successful
planters, with the most satisfactory results. We can give HOME references and do not
deem it necessary to add the usual numerous testimonials :
WILCOX, GIBBS & CP'S. MANIPULATED GUANO,
Wiicox, Gibbs & Co's. Phoenix Guano,
(This Guano is imported by WILCOX, GIBBS & CO., from the Pho-nix Islands, South
Pacific Ocean, direct to Charleston and Savaunah in BULK and sold in iis natural State
without manipulation. It has a well-merited reputation throughout the entire South, as
being the most successful agent used in the recuperation of worn-out soils.)
The NAVASSAas manufacturedin Wilmington, N. Cby an association of Southern
business men and planters of known responsibility. We could -adduce strong HOME
testimony as to is efficacy and value as a manure.
STOisTO, G-TJkHsTO,
CVnluible For Composting witli CJottora Seed.)
' SANDERS, OATES & CO.,
Jan 20, 73 ly Charlotte, IV. CJ.
pecial Notice
TO THE PUBLIC.
As a great many changes have taken place
this year, I. respectfully beg to inform the
citizens of Charlotte and the public in gen
eral that no change has-taken place at my
establishment. I am still at my old stand,
No. 24 Tryon Street, David Parks' building,
with a large and well selected stock of the
finest and latest styles of custom-made cloth
ing for Men, Youths and Boys wear, also on
hand a fine stock of Gents' Furnishing
Goods, Shirts, of Ballou's make, the best flt
ting shirt in the world. The very late"5t
styles of Hats, Scarfs, Bows and Ties, Um
brellas, c., &c, and 1 will still sell theni at
prices to defy competition.
1 expect to leave lor JNew lorK Uity in a
short time to lay in my stock of Clothing and
lece (Joods, lormv Tailoring .bstablish-
nient and will also bring with me an expe
rienced Cutter and Tailor, and will be ready
by Spring to cut and make to order at my
own establishment and. under my own su
pervision and at lower prices than the
same quality of goods can be made up in
this or any other city, this side of Baltimore.
Being thanklul to the citizens ot unariotte
and the public in general for the liberal pat
ronage heretofore bestowed upon me, I most
respeetlully ass a continuance or tne same.
itespecttuiiy,
jan 20, E. SHRIER.
A. HALES,
Watch-Maker and Jeweler,
Trade Street,
Between Messrs. Witkowsky & Rintels, and
Dr. Scarfs Drug Store.
Is receiving a large stock, Consisting in part
of Ladies' Gold Watches and Chains, Gent's
Gold and Silver Watches and Chains, ladies'
sets, Earbobs, Breastpius, Gold Rings, Cuff
Buttons, Studs, Thimbles and all goods usu
ally kept in a Jewelry Store, which he will
sell cheap: Call and see them. '
B Very particular attention paid to re
pairing Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. All
work warranted for twelve months.
Dec. 23, 1872-iy
New Inducements!!
In order to make room for a
A HEAVY SPRING STOCK,
we will sell all our
Fall and Winter Goods
AT
Greatly Reduced Prices!!
Your attention is particularly invited
to our Stock of
FINE DRESS GOODS,
SHAWLS, . '
FLANNELS, I
CASSIMERES,
BLANKETS,
and all kinds of Woolen Goods, together
. . with a large Stock of
Ready-Made Clothing,
WHICH WE WILL SELL VERY LOW.
McMURRAY & DAVIS.
Jan 27 55
THIRTY SIX YEARS
EXPERIENCE III
vn W. SINGLETON & CO., of Suffolk,
IT v. Ovster Packers, inform all dealers
that thev are prepared to
aUU WUi3U"v. ml - .
furnish OYSTERS in any quantity opened,
..in.t.oithv h harrel. We send to our
":r.: .plant oysters."-
Thirty-six years experience in addition to
th font tht w own all the vessels, boats,
wharves, packing-houses, &c, necessary to
a successful prosecution of the business, is a
sufficient guarantee mac saiisiacnuii wui
Sven. G. W. SINGLETON & CO.,
wholesale Ovster Packers and Manufac
turers of Shell Lime, Suffolk, Va. sep23-6m
WHITE VINEGAR,
For Piclking, at? '
u SCARR'S Drug Store.
PUKE CIDER VINEGAR,
Ju.t received at gCARR,s Drug Btor.
f -
T "
CHARLOTTE, N. C, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1873.
W. C. BLACKWOOD.
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VJ. R. BURWELL & CO.
(Suc&ssom to Kilgore & Cureton,)
Druggists and Apothecaries,
AND DEALERS IN
Drugs, Medicines,
PAINTS, OILS, DYE STUFFS, &c.
Springs' CorneH,
CHARLOTTE. N. C
Jan 1,73 ly "
Diamond Spectacles.
These Spectacles Ere manufactured IrOm "Mindtk
Cbtstal Pebbles" melted together, and are called
Diamond on account of their hardnesa and brilliancy.
It is well known that spectacles cut from Brazil lian
or Scotch pebbles are very Injurious to the eye,
because of their polarizing light. Having been test
ed with the polariscope, the diamond lenses have
been found to admit filteen per cent less heated rays
than any other pebble. They are ground with great
scientific accuracy, are fre irom chromatic aberra
tions, and produce a brightness ana distinctness 01
vision not before" attained in spectacles.
Manulaetured by THK ispencek uptical manu
facturing Company, New York. For sale by re
sponsible agents in every city in the Union.
J. 1, UU1L.H.K, Jaweier and uptician, is eoie
agent for Charlotte, N. C, from whom they can only
be obtained. No peddlers employed.
The great demand for these Spectacle has induced
unscrupulous dealers t j palm off an inferior and
spurious article lor the "lJiamond.' tireat care
should be taken to see that the trade mark (wnich
is protected by American Letter Patent) is 6tamped
on every pair. Nov 11 ly
NEW GOODS
WAT QUEUES,
CLOCKS, JEWELRY,
Spectacles, &c,
AT
JOHN T. BUTLER'S,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Those wanting Goods in my line, will do
well to examine my stock before trying the
Northern markets.
MY PRICES ARE MUCH LOWER,
' as I have moved to the store
i
Next the Express Office.
MY STOCK CONSISTS OF
FINE GOLD and SILVER WATCHES,
JEWELRY, DIAMONDS,
SILVER AND PLATED WARE,
SPECTACLES, &c.,
And everything usually kept in a first
class Jewelry Store.
Call and examine my stock and prices.
.. JOHN T. BUTLER,
Oct. 17, 1S71. Tryon Street
New Firm.
On the first day of January, 1873, the
Finn of Wolfe & Barringer will be changed
to WOLFE, BARRINGER & CO. Mr.
A. G. TROTTER will become a partner of
the Firm. We return our thanks for a fair
and liberal patronage and hope our old
friends and new ones will continue to trade
with us. !
S C. WOLFE,
! M.L BARRINGER,
I AG. TROTTER.
Notice.
All claims due the old firms o
f Barringer
& Wolfe and Wolfe & Barringer must be
settled before the first of Januaiy, 1873, or
we will be compelled to give them : out for
collection.
Dec. 161872.
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COUNSEL.
If thou dost bid thy friend farewell,
But for one night though that farewell
maybe,
Press thou his palm with thine. How canst
. ' thou tell
How far from thee,
Fate or caprice may lead his feet v
Ere that to-inorrow comes ? Men have
been known
To lightly turn the corner of a street,
And days have grown,
To months, and months to lagging years.
Before they looked in loving eyes again.
Parting at best is underlaid with tears
With tears and pain.
Therefore, lest sudden death should come
between, .
Or time or distance, clasp with pressure
true
The hand of him who goeth forth ; unseen,
.bate goeth too!
Yea, find thou always time to say
ooine earnest wora between the idle talk :
Lest with thee henceforth, ever, night and
ay,
Regret should walk.
Galaxy. .
zttttb torg.
A FALSE FEIEND.
MarT Eaton was in doubt. For hours
she had paced her neat apartment, strug
gling between duty and inclination. The
day had been an eventful one in her life,
for she had been the recipient of two pro
posals both from young men qualified to
make good husbands, though entirely dif
ferent in their disposition and circum
stances.
The one, Robert Kenard, son and sole
heir of the wealthy and aristocratic bank
er, William Kenard, of the firm of Ken
ard, Atkinson & Potter, and reputed to
be worth half a million.
The other, Frank Sedley, a clerk in the
office of Kenard, Atkinson & Potter, with
a ieeble mother "and young sister relying
on his arm for their support.
Kobert Henard was rich, handsome and
good tempered ; easily led to. do good or
evil; with little strength ot character:
loving flattery, and of rather extravagant
tastes, fostered by tender care of rich and
indulgent parents.
.brank Sedley, on the contrary, had al
ways been used to the rough side of life.
His father died a bankrupt when he was
out a boy ot sixteen, and he was lett to
battle with the world alone. He entered
the employ of Kenard, Atkinson & Potter
as an office boy, and bad risen by gradual
stages to the position of a "confidential
clerk." Through his inteeritv and strict
attention to business, he had become al
most indispensable to the firm.
Both telt they were sincerely in love
with the beautiful and accomplished Marv
-c-aton.
Her father, Jacob Eatou, was quite an
old man, with no family but his daugh
ter.
Some little time previous he had failed
in business ; and when Mary told him of
her two offers, he strongly recommended
accepting Robert Kqjiard.
'Of course, Mary," said he, "you will be
guided by the dictates of your own heart,
but for the sake of your old father, try
and fix your choice on Robert Kenard.
Frank Sedley is a nice young-man, but
ne is poor, and has a mother and sister
dependent on him, while Robert Kenard
is wealthy and would surround vou with
every luxury, and perhaps lend a helping
band to your poor lather.
Nothing more was said on the subject;
but, after the daughter had returned to
her room, she had a long struggle be
tween what she considered her duty and
inclination.
Duty prompted her to marry Robert
Kenard and please her father; inclination
incited her to bestow her hand on Frank
Sedley, and be happy.
At last duty triumphed, and the next
morning's mail bore to Robert Kenard a
messenger of bliss, and to Frank Sedley
a herald of woe. '
So rich Robert Kenard and lovely Manr
Eaton were engaged, and the time fast
approached when their nuptials should be
celebrated.
"O, Robert!" exclaimed Mary, one eve
ning, as her lover entered tho parlor,
"give me joy I I have prevailed ou my
dear friend, Marion Rupert, to spend the
winter win me. Isn t it jolly?
"Ye yes, 1 'spose so, drawled out
Robert, "but I'd rather she would'ntcome
myself."
"O, you horrid, selfish thiDg 1 I'm glad
she's coming ; you will like her well ;
you can't help it, she's so handsome !
Such splendid yellow hair, and such a
complexion!"
"O, a tow-headed blonde," exclaimed
Robert, petulantly.
"Well, if you don't like Marion, you
haven't any taste ; that's all !" retorted
Mary.
There were fair prospects of a lover's
quarrel, but it was cut short by the en
trance of a caller.
A week later, Marion Rupert arrived,
and a truly beautiful woman she was
enough to turn any man's head.
Notwithstanding her manifold charms,
Robert was blind to her attractions, and
appeared so indifferent on the subject,
that Mary became almost angry with
him.
Spite of her beauty, Marion Rupert was
false-hearted and jealous of the love
Robert lavished on his affianced. , She de
termined to win him from Mary, if pos
sible. Mary would often leave them together
purposely, so that Robert might have a
chance to notice bow handsome her friend
really was. ;
This had the desired effect, but that
was not the end of it. From noticing he
soon came to admiring from admiring
to loving was to him but a step, and be
fore the winter was half over, he was
madly in love with Marion Rupert.
wb uigut-auring mis state or affairs,
they were all intending to go to a ball,
and Robert' bad called for Mary and Ma
rion; but, when just on the eve of start
ing, Mary sprained her ankle ; so she con
cluded not to go, but insisted on Marion
and Robert going. Only too glad to
am
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NO. 164.
comply, they needed but little urging,
and so off they went, leaving Mary to
read Trollope's latest and nurse her in
jured ankle. j ' 1
Robert was so infatuated with his com
panion that he determined to ascertain if
possible, her feelings toward him before
returning home. So, after the ball, he
privately told the coachman to drive
around a square till he was ordered differ
ently, and leaped in the carriage after
Marion.
After a few minutes of silence, he lean
ed over toward her and said in a low
voice :
"Marion, Miss Rupert, you will not be
offended if I tell you something ?"
"No," she replied, blushing slightly.
"I have felt for some time past," he
continued, "that I love you, and that my
happiness will not be completed without
your love. Can you do you love me ?"
"O! Robert, how can you talk so!
What would Mary say! Don't you love
her?" "
'My love for her is nothing compared
with my love for you, Marion ! But con
gent to be mine, and I will cast her off
and forget she ever existed. Then we
shall ever be happy in each other's love!"
he exclaimed, clasping her hand passion
ately and covering it witb burning kisses.
Her heart bounded with triumph.
Mary's lover was at her feet ? Should be
yield to his importunities, or exult over
her victory ; but she chose the former,
and Robert sent the following letter to
the woman whom he had so foully
wronged :
"I have ceased to love you, if ever I
did, so I think we had better part for
ever. For some time past I have loved
your friend, Marion Rupert. Last night
I discovered that my love was reciproca
ted. This morning we were married,
and when you receive this, we shall be
on our way to New York, whence we
shall sail for Europe to morrow. Fare
well, and forget, and, if you can, forgive
him who used so often to sign himself
your ardent lover. Robert Kenard."
Mary was not, as might be supposed,
heart-broken at this intelligence ; but
was, on the .contrary, almost rejoiced at
it. For she had already seen many de
spicable traits in Robert Kenard's char
acter ; and she was thankful that he had
broken off an engagement of which she
even then began to repent.
On hearing of Robert Kenard's con
duct, Frank Sedley again resumed his' at
tentions to Mary, and soon had the pleas
ure of leading her, a. blushing bride, to
the altar. '
He is now partner in the firm of Pottar
& Sedley, an esteemed and wealthy citi
zen a happy fatherpf four children two
boys and two eirls. and the fortunate
husband of a loving and amiable wife.
According to the last accounts, Robert
Kenard and Marion had separated, hav
ing run through the fortune left him by
his father, and he had obtained the situa
tion of clerk in the employ of Potter &
Sedley, bankers, while she was living in
Paris, in her home in great style.
Frank and his wife often congratulate
themselves on her having sprained her
ankle on the night of the ball, as it was
the means of bringing them together
again, through the perhdy i ot a false
friend. '
Ths Efficient Causa of Crime.
What, then, is the other and perhaps,
the most efficient cause, to which the im-
punitv. and, therefore, the trrowth of
crime in this country, is properly attribu
table V lewed in the light ot actual and
present experience, the question gives its
own answer. When the Congress of the
United States, after weeks of investiga
tion virtually sanctions bribery and cor
ruption ob the part of its own members,
proved beyond reasonable doubt, and
then puts its own dirty hand into the na
tional treasury and takes therefrom, by
violence no better, morally or legally,
than that of Jack Sheppard and Dick
Turpin, two millions of money to pay it
self for service never rendered, or never
rendered for such a price, who can cen
sure the poor devil who steals a loaf or
a herring to keep him from starving, or
punish a common highwayman who mur
ders a citizen in order to get his purse?
This example of crime in high places in
the persons of the very law-makers of the
nation naturally dignifies crime and. af
fords it a reasonable hope of license. Bad
as this is, it is not the worst. As if the
countenance and favor of even the official
head of the nation in behalf of crime,
private and public, should not be want
ing, the President himself is weak and
base enough to openly express his hearty
sympathy for the most guilty and shame
ful of the whole pack of scoundrels, and
liars whom Oakes Ames bought with
the stock and dividends of the Credit Mo
bilier. On the 4th of March the" very
day, curiously, on which he was formally
installed as President for a second term,
Grant wrote the following letter:
Executive Mansion, ")
Washington, March 4. 1873. j
My Dear Mr. Colfax: Allow me to
say. that I sympathize with you -in the
recent Congressional investigations ; that
I have watched them closely, and 1 am
as satisfied now aa I have ever been, of
of your integrity, patriotism and freedom
from the charges imputed, as if I knew
of ray own knowledge of your in
nocence. Our official relations have been
so pleasant that I would like to keep up
the personal relations through life.
Affectionately, your,
U. S. Grant.
Not satisfied witb giving the big asso
ciate thief the consolation of bis compas
sion, Grant ignores proven facts, violates
official dignity, impeaches the judicial in
tegrity of Congress, and insults the un
derstanding and feeling of the American
people, by telling a convicted political
and official prostitute and perjurer that I
us um juijiuuit iBitu ju uta luiegniy, pa
triotism, and innocence! I . T; .i -
This is the crowning cap-piece of. our
argument. With the right sort ' of nur
ture, crime will, grow ; anyw hereof Our
soil may not be more favorable to it than
that of England Trance,' Germanr,"or
Japan.- But '. the manure makes all the
differenoe. ', When the head of a great
government 3ke, -6ar$ publicly sympa
thizeslwitb nd presumes to acquit of all
legal and moral culpability, a man whom
the people and the world believe guilty
of the highest degree of political crime
except; technical treason, the devil may
reasonably claim to have captured the
nation and prepare, at once, to establish,
his kingdom right here.. He who en
dorses a thief, is no better than the thief.
Ia Grant particeps criminis with Colfax ?
We shall not aay so ; and yet, how can
hi HtrancrA and indecorous approbation
of a convicted "cufc-rjurse of the Empire,"
ba exnlained nnon &cv other principle
, j- rf
than tbis, that -
A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind?"
; - : Philadelphia Mercury.
Thi End or thk Republican Parit.
We beard a good deal last summer, of.
that fearless, independent paper, the New
Yotl Herald. Well, we find below, what
that ; paper says of the Credit Mobilier
party: . . . .
"With the expiration of this debauched
and degraded Congress (tne fnaj,
passes away the Republican party. No
continued professions of virtue and re
form can save the political organization
whose leading members, with a large ma
jority in both Houses of Congress, have
shielded corraptiomsts and perjurers, ana
thus made themselves responsible as a
party for the offences they were too cow- ,
ardly or too base to condemn,
"The party which thus stands branded
as disreputable and self-convicted of cor
ruption, cannot hope to escape public con
demnation. No professions of honesty
and virtue will save the politicians who
still clasp Colfax to their hearts and make
common cause with Patterson and Har
lan, with Pomeroy and Caldwell, and
with Kelley, Garfield and Bingham."
The Old Sroat. Alfred G. Jones, the
defaulting book-keeper of the Southern
Bank ot Georgia, is a native ot Maine.
The I defalcation "will amount to about
thirty thousand dollars, and will not ef
fect the capital ot the bank. Mr. Jones
was one of the most insinuating ot carpet
baggers, but-it took him two years to win
the confidence of his employers, and real
ize the neat little sum above. He did it
in such a manner, however, as to render
his future residence out of the State a
matter of necessity, which is, at least,
some small relief. Wilmington Journal.
What a Negro Thinks 'op Radical-.
ism. That sable orator, Fred. Douglass,
indulges in a bit-of cutting irony over
the Credit Mobilier investigation. He
says Congress need not fear the standard
of legislative honor will bo lowered by the
introduction of negroes into that body.
Pardoned KuKlux. Pardons for Jno.
C. Robinson, of South Carolina, and Wm.
C. Dupriest, of North Carolina, who have
been imprisoned at Albany Penitentiary,
the former for six and the latter for eigh
teen months, lor Ku-klux crimes, were is
sued by the Attorney General yesterday.
uenerai juews.
Censure of Loyal Congressmen. The
Illinois Legislature has censured the lov-
m
alists who voted to increase their own
salaries.
A Growing Citv. Alexandria, in
Egypt, has grown more-rapidly than any
other city on the Eastern continent. In
1842 its population was about 60,000, and
now it is nearly 300,000.
A Big Petition. Another petition,
signed by twenty thousand women, is
now before the English House of Com
mons, praying for the legalizing of t4e
marriage of a widower with his deceased
wife's sister. ,
Great Revival in Virginia. The
creat revival which has been croincr on in
Winchester for many weeks was closed
last Sunday. There were 375 converts.
It is noted as the greatest revival ever
had in that place.
Case op Rev. Dr. Huston. Rev. Dr.
L. D. Huston, charged with gross immor
ality and licentiousness, whose case has
excited such deep interest in Baltimore
and the entire Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, for the past year or more,
was convicieu ai xaiiimore, on ine i4in.
Death of Bishop McIlwaine. The
eminent Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese
of Ohio, died recently at Florence, Italy.
He was one of the first graduates of West
Point, and the author of many valuable
works, among which, was a 'most valua
ble treatise on the Evidences of Cbrisliani-
Destructive Fires. We give below,
the record of fire, as given by telegraph,
in a single day, last, week:
The block bounded byj Water and Cath-
vruio Bireeis anu me river, ai ugaenourg,
N. Y,vhas been burned, i Loss, $10,000.
A fire has occurred in the. Bowery, NV
Y. j Loss, $60,000, divided among small
dealers who lose from $3,000 to $10,000.
Insurance $25,000.
Ten elegant stores at Eiyria, O., have
been burned. Loss, $200,000. . Insurance
$138,000. '1
The house of John Simmons, farmer,
near Chicago, has been burned. His fath
er, aged eighty years, .and a child two
yearB old perished. A, thousand dollars
secreted in the wall was burned.
The old Catholic Church and ten other
puiiaings oarnea at norristown, ind.
The Agricultural Works at Quincy,
III., have been burned: ' !
G beat Pyramid of , Cheops. It is ad
mitted to be the largest structure on. the
globe reared by human; hands. For ages
it has been described by travellers and all
uiAjgtuauio ubcb uave ueen assign eu io ii,
but in these latter days, men of science
begin to confess tbe object is still a mvs-
tery. No doubt .Cheops intended to be
entombed in it somewhere, but Herodo
tus; bad the testimony of the pritsts and'
tbe traditions of antiquity that tbe hard
hearted old Pharaoh's mummy was tuck
ed away av here he never intended bis
rigbt royal body , should repose to the
day of judgment. . Suggestions respect
ing tne exact purpose contemplated in
tbe building of that monster of ancient
stone masonry might be quite as unsatis
factory as any that have been discarded.
Therefore, without ' troubling readers
with notions based on our own personal
examination, it is a quite enough to show
its actual dimensions '.to astonish those
who have not seen it. The original di
mensions were 764 square feet at the
base, '408 eight feet "high, covering 43
acres. I rod. and 22 perches of Gizeh. on
the margin of the Libyan Desert, now
about eight miles from the' right bank of
tbe River Nile. It contained 80,028,000
cubic feet 'of rough-split blocks of lime
stoned To build another like itnow, in
the. United States, would , cost $160,000,
000 provided the commissioners were,
honest mem v fJ 1