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J rre sire fingers tapping wpon the pane : , lome waurterln? ghoet of tho ir, no doubt, T,.riija in through the half-closed blind .T? .'r the rif tare pidBted upon the night .l in r - T$ the hn Ahe warm flreHght. . :.. mv favorite corner. ad fUiuking the picture prettier tor , Than -trtoite cloud crowned with the . rainbow ac ki ith the sunset's gold and gems; "(hiks the wandering ghost, no doubt, .or stiU he arries, and still I hear 4 His weir3thp on the pane without. .,..,n,rtln antique oaken chair, w itii damask cusliions of gold and red, , ,r i bj" riilles ' "of brown hair, afTdVe nes over we orow H03IE A5D POBEIGN JTOPICS. thoughts have tracked their ebb rthd ,,.. straT Where the line. t tUP while lids real line summer clouds r the ln-aven of deep Mue eyes : ( vi '..tliiis in cushiouithe slippered feet, 'inif ljaiidprl irt'iH the pitdnre which charms the ghost IVi'rinK into l nrisoned withiu a book itofnr fir.-side nook. all'H lliav " near j ,,iunu i if stuiotithing the path of life tor me ; , t tliat patiently trudge and plod, That mine may never so weary be ; t,r.fv which lightens as I draw nigh, j.;ve where my image throned appears This w the picture on which t feast, seen through the prism of happy tears. s Wiiut if tucihandu should forget their craft ? What if Ij, listening, heard no breath T What if the eyes should shut out met, - And image only the gaze of Dental "What if the feet -were Weary grown 1 'What if the brow should have lost its light! What if the firelight found but one In iho himney-nook this winter's night ? i i-nre tlie wound of the goading thought, riy to cover the lips and brow With countless "kisses: the eyes unclose, And the ghostly tapping is silent now. A ' ! MURDER MOST FOUL. From JAppiitcotrs Magazine. JULITJS Bonitz, Editor and1 Proprietor. For us, Principle is Principle Right is Rigbt-pyesttrday, to-da to-morrow, Fo rever. n Published Semi-Weekly. VOL 1V-N0.18.' GOLDSBOIiO, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESPJlY, NOVEMBER 16, 1869. And the long separated were once more united. Within a fortnight they were married. - ' Randall did not Ions remain with his young wife his business, he said, calling -him to Virginia and ho loft. h her parents upon the pretext that his home was not quite prepared for her. He was absent two months, correspond ing regularly with her, however. At the end of this period he came again, staying some weeks, and again leaving her on the same ple i. These coiSmgs and departures were repeated several times, until Maryland her parents began to suspect that KandaLL for some reason, was either ashamed or afraid to intro duce his wife to his Own family. Mary had baen shocked to hear the .gossiping whisper that her husband had another wife in Virginia, and she had to ac knowledge that his conduct; was not above suspicion,? notwithstanding his plausible assurances. On his last visit the old farmer insisted that Randall should at once decide either to settle down there with his wife or to take her with him. Irritated by the apparent lack of confidence in him, he at once avowed his determination to carry her to Virginia, and making hurried prepa rations for the jomney, they soon went South together. It was during the tiip that Mary first found resolution enough to show her husband a letter which sue had received some months before from It ran as follows : SUBSCRIPTION, $3.00 PER ANNUM. Forth from the smoke and ;m.l thunder oi the tremendous thh-d day of Gettysburg there staggered a be wildered fugitive, wounded, fevered, and luilf blinded by pain and blood. His finl. -d, torn, and tatterbd clothing (once j.crh-ip a uniform) was blood-stained here and there, and his hatless forehead win marked by ,& bleeding cit. His K-ft hand, wrapped in bloody bandages, lvsted in a sling, and he limped as he v.vnt with a labored gait. He bore no iintis nor knapsack; these had already been flung aside ; and now, as he pur sued his way, he divested himself hur riedly of all his accoutrements, one after another, and cast theni impatiently to the ground. He took no path. He pushed on with.unsteaMy yet rapid strides through bushes, over rocks and fences, straight ahead, with lips compressed in silent agony.- His apparently wild and aimless flight had carried him some . mile from the actual conflict (which was not yet decided), when his fast-di-lninishing .-strength was shown in his feebly-tottering steps and in the diffi eulty wifh which he kept from plunging headlong to the earth. At this, moment In- cama in view of a farm-house, and th . sight stimulated him to renewed ifort. Forward he toiled, full of fresh 1m. pe, when, half way between him and the goal of his exertions, there arose a lagh,"broid stone wall. It seemed to him insurmountable, and he groaned in :muish. Nevertheless he essayed to i lamber over the obstacle. More than t.nca he fell -. r . (. i,.olu,3 K with ins last expiring energies, he managed to drag himself to the top of the wall. Dizzily he looked about him, as he thought to rest himself a moment ; but suddenly all grew blank an i he became unconscious. He fell fainting and insensible to the ground on the inner side of the wall, with a despairing cry for " Water !" He had luckily fallen near a spring-house, and a startled girl, pail in hand, heard his exclamation and s.w him fall. She at once approached him, put water to -his" Hps, .and washed the blood from his face. She continued her ministrations I "until animation began to return" to the ! seemingly lifeless form. He opened his eyes and gazed at her. Smiling faintly, I .he fondly murmured, ! "Indiana!" His fevered brain evidently mistook her for another. Closing his eyes, he ; lapsed suddenly into a deep sleep. ' Taking advantage of this, she hastily ir. iceeded. to' the farm-house, whence she soon returned with the old farmer and his wife.r Spreading a blanket, they! piaceti the wounded soldier upon it, and wim dithculty bore him to a bed. " He. is a rebel," said the old man " But he is a' fellow-human," remarked! '.'And he is wounded dvinr,.perhapsJ far from home and friends," added thej girl, who was obviously the daughter oi the aged couple. On the fourth day of July it was known to all the .army that Lee was r treating. That general had faller hack into Virginia when the woundec tidier whose fortunes we are following became aware that he had been left be hind in the enemy's country. Hefounc himself tenderly cared for in. the housi et Mr. Ordolf, a plain but substantia' tanner, whose wife and daughter were assiduous in their humane attentions tc t ie disabled Confederate. They wen . mother and sister to him in his forlor 1 "iidition, and his grateful affection fo iiiem grew day by day as he experienc th ;ir unselfish kindness. Toward Mary Ordi-lf, the daughter, his feelings rapidly grew to be of a holier and more tended character. What sh was in form and feature would have been sufficient excuse for this ; and then her simple daily life, exhibited in alts gentle purity before shim and in his behalf, was enough to ku'mJuc the most obdurate of masculine hearts. It did not take him long td Uani that his love was returned, and 'H'tre ho became strong enough to leave room h fend hia tun- niirsA werrt baleful conjunct maiden and shall see. as soon as John . Kandall (such was th- younr Confederate's name) wasj strong enough to march, he felt he could; no longer remain where he was : he had to choose between a Federal prison and an attempt to escape to the Confederacy. fie promptly made choice of the latter idternative. Giving his " parole " to the feUer Ordolfs, and a kis3 of etarnal fi- 'lellty to thp wopninc TWarv. h. bade! them all farewell and made the venture.! He. was successful, reaching Richmond', 8afely, and, being shortly declared duly; exchanged, took his part in the remain der of the war till tne surrender of Lee. In the meantime, however, the Ordolfs heard nothing of him. We leave it to tne imagination of her sex to conceive t've emotions, ever varying from hope to luum uj ana nis iair j ' I'ugaged' , Was it a balefx turn, this of the "loyal" m t !' " rebel " lover ? We shall spair, experienced by Mary Ordolf de under these circumstances. . ' On the thlrd of July, 1865, she was Bitting on the root of a huge oak which shaded the spring-house, thinking mournfully of that day, two years before, when the Minting Confederate fell at her feet ap- peaUng for succor. In the midst of Jheae reminiscences she thought she jeard a noise on the stone wall near her, turning to look, she saw a man in the act of leaping to the ground. . She cognized him in an instant. ' Marv !" "John!" his home in Virginia. " Mary : I have chanced to see a let ter! addressed to Mr, John Randall, Bee ville, Virginia, by you, in which you claim that gentleman as your husband. As I am an intimate acquaintance and near relative of his, I am surprised sit your pretensions (whether well or ill founded), for he is still considered a sin gle man here, where he was born and reared, and passes himself as such. .If he. is married to you or anybody else, I assure you that he keeps the matter a secret here, and I am certain that neither his father nor mother knows anything of it. Tell me all about it, and you will oblige Indiana." " That girl is my evil genius !" ex claimed John Randall, excitedly, when he had read the note. " She is my first cousin, and has always loved me .from,, childhood with a sort of fierce passion. When I first saw you, Mary, I was en gaged' to her, and I. have never had the courage to announce our marriage to her or to my own family. I have weakly kept the secret, putting off the evil day as j long as I could, or, until my circum stances would justify me in braving the wrath of my parents and all concerned. But matters have come to a crisis. A day or two will decide whether we are to be repudiated or kindly welcomed. ; " John," entreated Mary, " let us re turn to my father's." , " 4jid thus confirm the gossips in their slanders? Never! The die is cast. Indiana and her friends will rave ; . let them; Great God ! what a creature she must be. Did you answer her letter "r" j " I didj giving her, in self-defence, all the information she asked." my marriage with you, she has con stantly been eager for me to consum mate my engagement with her, indi rectly urging it by every means at her command." It was Saturday evening when they arrived at the depot nearest to Beeville, and stopping at the hotel there that night, next day Randall hired a convey ance (driving himself) and started home ward with his bride. Monday he returned the horses and vehicle.1 Tuesday night he escorted a young lady of Beevitle to a party, and there bore himself as gayly, apparently, as the other young men. His wife had mysteriously disappeared ! The public of Beeville and vicinity knew not of her coming, and therefore she was not missed. Whe.e was she ? II. Ten days after the body of an "un known woman was found in the woods a few miles from Beeville. A pistol ball was found buried in her neck; on her throat were the marks of a murderous clutch ; and from head to foot she had been beaten and bruised in the most cruel manner. The jury of inquest was not able to identify her, nor was there found any likely clue to lead to the de tection of her jnurderer. Descriptions of the murdered woman and her dress were published, and rewards were offered for the apprehension of her murderer, bat all in vain.' The body was buried, but within a few weeks the excitement occasioned by the dreadful horror had completely subsided. It seemed a hope less mystery, for ever impenetrable. Meanwhile, the Urdoiis neara regu larly from Randall. His first letter ex plained why Mary did not write : " You will understand wny mary employs me as her amanuensis when 1 mtorm you fViaf. ah was so unfortunate as to have her right hand severely bruised by a slamming car door on our way here. She can not use it at all at present, dui we are in hopes that it will soon be well. With this exception we are enjoying ourselves here, and have every prospect of doing well. Mary is delighted with her reception by my relations and friends, and desires me to assure you of her content. ' The next letter from Randall still harped upon the injured hand: "Mary has caught cold in the hand that I told you had been hurt, and it is much in flamed. Causing her great pain. A doc tor has bean called in, who expresses fears as to tne result unless great care is taken. But he is note,d for making a case appear worse than it really is, and we are not alarmed." There was some delay in the next let ter, causing the simple and confiding o.h uneasiness. At length-it came, fulfilling their wildest tears : " May Heaven help you and all of us to bear it ! Our darling Mary is gone : she nci T T75vf davs asro she was seized with lockjaw, and expired next day, in spite of every effort to relieve her. She was sensible to the last, but speechless. She was buried yesterday. f X on may faintly imagine mygnrf TWo You have lost a daughter, but I have lost in her all that was aear xo me. uuu help us all! , , "1 am too unnerves, w wuro But I must begas a last favor, that you allow my darling's remains to rest here undisturbed. I will care for them, and water the flowers on her dear grave with my frequent tears. As soon as I have tV heart to undertake the task, I will send you all ler clothing, e$c., reserving to myself only a few mementoes. JUay Heaven bless you and sustain you : . The al couple were heart-broken at the loss of their only child, and mourned with a grief that refused to be comforted. Ah! it was not long before they would have thanked God that their daughter s fate had been no worse than they at first believed. The rewards offered for the di and apprehension of the murderer of the woman had stimulated one man to a patienf and ceaseless investigation. He wa3 a sort of amateur detective, named Tinsley, who i had no special fitness for his self-assumed office, except an intense curiosity and a persistent brooding that would sometimes bring form and pur pose out of chaost He haunted the spot where the corpse was found, and medi tated, upon all the circumstances of the case with tho dogged Bertinacity of stu pidity. A brighter, person would have yielded the task in despair, but his very dullness kept him at! it, and at length gave hin a . clue that he slowly but steadily followed up.- Near the scene of the murder he one day found a chignon of coal black hair. . ,The dead woman's hair; was auburn, and when found she wore a cKlgiion of -th: same color. Close to tne chignon lay; piece of inuddy-t paper, ix proved to be an", oidettr, dat'.d "Near Gettysburg, Pa. It was simply addressed to " My dear husband," and was signed " Your affectionate wife, Mary." Nobody but Tinsley would have attached any importance to these dis coveries, but it beingdiis habit of mind to refer everything td the case then in hand, he at once beiieved that he had iound the key to the awful mystery. Yet how easy it was to account for the presence of those things there! Hun dreds of both sexes, from far and near, had visited the noted scene, and it was very probable that some of these- had lost the chignon and the letter. Tinsley, however, was not at all -impressed with this view of the matter, and. he thought it worth his while to go to Gettysburg and inquire? for " Mary." He did so. It was a weary hunt, and. would have seemed a fool's errand to most people : but at length Tinsley got on the track of JMary, and he pursued it till he was welcomed by the Ordolfs as a friend and neighbor otrJohn Randall! He al ready knew enough to convince him that John Randall's wife was the murdered woman found near - Beeville, and that John Randall was her murderer. He had already seen the minister who mar. ried them, and now he ' read Randall's letters written since the hellish deed, and he thrdled with horror at their cold blooded duplicity and atrociousness The evidence was apnallinglv over whelming. We .cast a veil over the scene that : occurred when Tinsley told that old, bereft couple what he believed to be the true story of their daughter's end. " All Beeville and the country around was amazed when it was announced that John Randall had been arrested for the murder. It was incredible. His char acter was excellent? both as a citizen and soldier, and he was noted for his abstinence not only from . the vices but from the follies into which .youiig men commonly fall. Yet when alithe damn ing developments appeared, it soeiued impossible to doubt his guilt. As he had once been high in public estimation, so now he felL like Lucifer. ,The popular indignation rose against him in a tem- summary veng'eance ol T$HXclTei mvrj?" On the trial it was positively estab lished, by the identification of clothing and ornaments, that the dead woman was Mary' Randall, once Mary Ordolf; that the prisoner married her in 18G3, and had since strangely kept that fact a secret, not ionly from his acquaintances at Beeville, but from his own family ; that, in short, he brought her to Vir ginia, and was la.t teen with her in a carriage driving through Beeville on the Sunday we have already noted; that at the hotel an the Saturday night before, he told his wife that he intended next day to take her. to his uncle, whose house she never reached ; that he was engaged to be" married to Indiana Handall, his cousin; and that he had cruelly duped the Ordolfs into believing that his wife had come to a natural death. There was a cloud ' of other testimony to the like effect, and though he was eloquently de fended, the jury did not hesitate iu re turning a verdict of " Guilty of murder in the first degree." jWhen asked if he hadany thing to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, Randall simply an swered: "Nothing!" His counsel appealed, but in vain besought executive clemency, but with out avail. The day before that set for the execution of the condemned man, the following communication appeared in the BeeTilie Uazette : ; i j; : I Editor Gazette : i do not claim to be the only person in town who im partially and critically heard and ex amined the evidence submitted in the case of Randall, who is soon to be hanged; but such seems to be the fact. While 1 must admit tha, the mass of, that testimony appears to bear fatally' against the condemned, there are certain odds and ' ends of it that point away from him; Jo another or others, xae nian who first found the body said that he saw no tracks of a man near it, only the tracks of a jsvoman or of women. Kot distant from the spot was an old body would nave from Randall, written on the eye of his I death. We give an extract : f " " ! . .. . . - .... ' I did not do it, nor consent to it, nor know of it until the awful deed was i done beyond remedy. ; I would willingly nave sacrificed a thousand lives lor her, as I now sacrifice life and reputation to screen the one who is really guilty. With Mary perished every desire Jin me for life. I long . for death evejn the death of thegallows. But I would Jlot die leaving you forever under the hor rible belief that I am the . murdferer of our darling. Oh ! I adjure you to credit me when I swear here, in the presence of voa and eternity, that 1 am innocent. Mary, who know3 me guiltless, will meet me joyfully beyond the tomb." Indiana Randall was taid to be a raving maniac. From the first arrest of John Randall she had exhibited symp tonasof ajnind unsetlbvj;he. weight of sudden and overwhelming grief. Her family gave out thaUtheioss of her lbver under such fearful circumstances had temporarily affected her physical and mental health, and friends and ac quaintances were requested to forbear their visits until her recovery was an nounced. She was seen rarely, and then under the closest surveillance. As the day of Randall's execution approached, it was rumored that she grew wors?, and on that day it was whispered that she was so violent as to require' strong re straint and constant watching. And it was so. She was mad, but there was a terrible method in her madness. She sought to break from her confinement and rush to the place of execution. She shrieked aloud avowals sof her own guilt and declarations of the innocence of John Randall. She prayed to be permitted to die in his stead. Alas, poor wretch! she was already beyond the vengeance of law. Could her guilt have been established beyond a doubt, she was now insane, and it was too late to save the condemned. " 1 knew, she cried, " that he had gone to see his wife, perhaps to return with her, and I watched daily for his coming back. Constantly alone in these ; watches, I managed to get one of John's pistols from his room, and this I carried with mo, but only for self-defence. I met them that Sunday afternoon, and my soul was in a tumult of emotions ns John accosted me and introduced me to his wife. His wife! Yes, I knew it was she lefore he told me. I had known for months of his secret marriage. Sup pressing my feelings as much as I was' able, I endeavored to bo calm. We had met just beyond the path which leaves the main carriage-road and cuts off about a mile of the distance to the house. As we all could not ride, I suggested that she and I should walk through by the path, while John drove around by the road.. John strongly objected to this, but she seemed anxious to accom pany me, and he at last reluctantly consented. " I had no idea of hurting her. The wish was strong in my heart that God would strike her dead, put I had no in tention of raising my own hand against as inys1ate of mind 'wo'ufcPaliow'wi came to the spot where her body was found. There the path became so nar row that we had to go singlj', and it so chanced that she went before. It flashed upon me like lightning from hell ! The place was desolate and lonely. There she was, a few feet in front of me, all unconscious and at my mercy. It was a mad impulse, but in a moment I drew the pistol and fired ! She fell, but at tempted to rise. I sprang upon her in a frenzy of excitement, and kicked, beat, 4 bit, and choked her until she lav quite still dead !" " My child," said her pale and trem bling father, " these are but the dis tempered fancies of fever. You have brooded over this unhappy matter until it has quite upset you. Doubtless you wish to save John so do we all but it is folly for you or any of us. to seek to become a substitute for him. My child, take our assurances that all this circum stantial account of ySur killing that unfortunate woman is the mad work of a disordered mind. Calm yourself, in a few days you will be betUr, and will have forgotten all that you now ins.st on so vehemently." " Ah, father," she exclaimed, "it may suit your purposes to argue that I am mad. Perhaps I am. But I know my guilt, aud I will no longer conceal it. You all know itftoo. Who, that fatal evening, kneeled to the furious and dis tracted John and besought him to si lence ? .Whose entreaties prevailed on him to adopt the very course which has brought him to the scaffold ? To save me you will allow him to be sacrificed ! I have been deceived long, but it is not yet too late. I will proclaim my guilt to the world ; I will take his place on the gallows ! Loose me !" But her cries and struggles were in vain. Thus she raved of her real or imaginary part in the horrid tragedy, giving' now a coherent version, as plausible as it was astonishing and anon a confused and silly jumble of impossibilities that arou- -ed naught but pity and incredulity. The scaffold from which John Randall launched into eternity was I The Tidal ITarc. - From the London Spectator, The aym-Ofts-h nf nn r V i . l ides wach the combined attraction of tne sun d moon can possiblv rai h made rmny of u9 look ou; in. tame tb t:.,i fcvery (op has satisfied himself whv ih comingspring tide will ba higher than usuaL . We know that the moon will be near tbt Equinoctial when new, and also near h-r tion of these circumstances at a season ftIi : when the! tidal wave raised by tat jwin. is unusually high, must necessrrpy result in causing a very re arY";k tide, even fthough the wind thouldbe unfavorable. For if we do DO iTa5 a Pcularly high tide, owing to tie' influence of the winds being op pose. 4 the progress of the tidal wave, thenfiABbetae equallyeignificant pheno menon of a singular withdrawal of the t,Uv.. . me uiuu oi a iow viae. a. te.w years ago, when a very high tide was ex pectol on the shoivs of France, the wind drove back the sea, and many who lad come from far inland to witness the gjeat influx ot water returntd dis appointed. But had they waited for six hourslor so they would have been wM rewaied for tueir journey, since at the time t low tide the water withdrew far withix the usual limits, and strange sigat were revealed to the wonderin" hsaeiien who lived along that shore. Wrfceks of forgotten shins wr. to h seen buried in the ooze and slime of a botpm which had remained sea-covered ior cinturies. Uld anchors were dis closed to view, with the broken cables airacrea to them, on which the lives of many gallant men had once depended, so that every parted strand teemed the record at a lost life. And crawling uiugf una stranded hsh showed how far me groat sea had retreated within its ordinary bounds. We may therefore ex pect that results well worth noting will under any circumstances arcorrmanv thp tidal action of October Gth, on which day the effects of the conjunction of the sun aud moon on October 5th will be most strikingly mainfested. But our object at present is los to con sider the effects of the great tidal wave of October bth, than to dwell upon some interesting effects and peculiarities of tidal motion. When we learn that ns tronomeis for the most part recognize in the t:dal wave a causj which will one day reduce the eirth's rotation so effectu ally that instead of .twenty-four hours our day will last a lunar month whilo many astronomers believo that the same wave will ut a yet; more distant day bring the moon into collision with our glotTe it will be seen that the laws of the tides have a cos'mical as well as a local interest. Thev involve more im- poitant considerations than whether the water in the Thames: will rise a foot or two uighr than usual at Vauxhall Bridge on any particular day. And though many thousands of years must elapse be- lore eitner ot tho events looked torwaid to by astronomers shall have happened, yet we can not but. look with deep in- centuries. To the astronomer, at any rate, the study of What will be, or of what lias been, is ifs: interesting even as the study of what is. But at the very threshold of the in quiry we are met by the question, " Do any ot us know the law of tho tides the action of the tidal wave depend on the choice we make between the rival theories. If the ordinary view is right. the moon's motion U continually being hastened by the attraction of the bulging tidal wave, and hastening will bring the' moon into a smaller and smaller orbit until at last she will be brought into contact with the eaith, unless, as Pro fe ssor Alexander Herschrl suB"est4.. she should crumble under the increased offects of the earth's action, and so come to form a ring of fragment around our globe. If however, the other view is right, the moon's motion will be con tinually retarded, her orbit will gradual ly vnaen put, and some day, presumably, we shall lose her altogether. This re tarding and hastening refer to the rate at which the moon completes her revolu tions round the earth. As a matter of fact, paradoxical as it sounds it is a continual process of retarding which eventually hastens the moon's motion. Evei-ycheck on the moon's motion givis the earth an increased pull on her, and this pull adds more to her velocity than she lost by tho check. And tier rcnxi. Again, if the views commonly given are just, the earth's friction should cause the tidal wave to lag behind its truo place. But if Newton, Laplace, and Airy are right, then, to use the words of the last-named astronomer, "the effect of friction will bo to accelerate the time of each individual tide." We apprehend that there is room for improvement in the current Recount of the tides. Many eminent men, as Whe well, Lubbock, and Haughton, have dis cussed in the most elaborate and skillful manner the laws according to which the actual tidal wave travels along the great sea-paths. But as yet no one has tried to reconcile the throry: of Newton, which may be called the dynamical theory of the tides, with that commonly given in our look?, which may be called the statical theory. .i . - - '; There is a project for bringing Wales loser to England, by tunnel: under Che Severn, which will probably soon be an accomplished fact. Tho ground on which Chicago stands is, in the central , part of the town, eleven feet higher than it was bafors Chicago was put there. V -V, The Ucbreio Xaikma s ' new Jewish journal published in London, gives the statistics of the Jews in , the world. There are 6,000,000 Jews in the world, one-half of whom lire in Europe. Amer ica contains 260.000. , . - - A. A company of gentlemen are about erecting a large building in Hartford. . CU, for the accomodation of small fam ilies who do not wish to board under the . E resent system, and yet cannot afford to. eep house. j An English mathematician has figured .up the weight, sire, etc., of the animals that he says entered Noah's Ark, and tl e room required for provisions, and he finds that the ark was four miles long and half a mile wide. The great West has produced a great mathematician. He is named Fields, lives in Missouri, and solves any mathe- matical problem from twice two to the j calculation of a lunar T5clipsein three minutes. - ; Half a dozen clergymen of Bucyrus, j Ohio, have united in a protest against "promiscuous dancing, at any time and " anywhere, as an amusement," and add ; i the request that they be not nereaitcr Th5 whole countrv between the Sierra invited to any place or entertainment Prieta and the Moyal!on ranges of moun- ! where dancing will be allowed. tains is a limestone formation, and full Interesting Discoveries in Arizona. A correspondent of the Cleveland Htr all writes from Arizona under the date of September 20, an interesting account of the recent cave discoveries in that territory : On Saturday, September IS, a small party from the military post at Camp Verde visited the Montezuma Well, situ ated on Beaver creek, about eight miles distant The well is about 100 yards back from the stream, upon a high, is solated neza, and is about 125 yards in width and about 100fe.t down to the water, which is surrounded by perpen dicular walls of rock. The water is very clear, of a light'green'or bluish color, and is very strongly impregnated with lime, sulphur, soda, iron and , other minerals. It has no visible inlet, but the outle t is by a small subterranean passage at a point nearest Beaver creek, into which empties a largo volume of water. ' int wmcn the - ' iL-i Vt nnnflnnTlfl Vl Hit hfi Vill hMaEfcwWptiw-M he still standing m the jail-yard, when, one did not kill her, but that she was JkilW by some one unable to convey ner corpse tr that place of concealment. iA freeu- ihan testified to seeing two females pass that way on tne sunaay in question. Mr. Tinsley found a oai-black chignok near the scenej' which was not claimed as Mrs. Randall's. A certain young lady;witnes,"'with raven tresses, pos sessed of 1 a motive quite equal to that alleged gaint Randall, admitted that she knew Randall was married, had seen a letter from bis wife to him, had wn1 ten to hereto. Is it not barely possible that her i information of the marriage may haver been derived irom tne yury letter found oyAAins.ev u. Jt' -"-"r by some one not Randall '? ! "These things that I have briefly mentioned, are; of ooursj, inconclusive, but they iare terribly suggestive, and 1 Id not let John Randall die before bringing them to public notice, i ;. "Justice." On the! day of execution Randall's counsel published acard, in which they "The communication in yesterday'-i Gazette, signed f Justice, indirectly im putes to us a gross negligence in the de fence of our client;, We can oniy say. in self-justification, that .the line of ar gument indicated and the course of m-t;aJ-.nn 8uff?ested by the facts alluded to, were peremptorily, objected to by Mr. Randall himself, and were accordingly abandoned by us." j Randall was hanged in accordance with his sentence dying without con fession or denial. night close on the stroke ot twelve, the guard beheld with terror the noiseless approach of a form arrayed in white. Awed to silence by the apparition, the guard watched its motions with breath less attention. Entering the yard, it proceeded at once to the scaffold and mounted it. In a few moments the staring guard beheld the figure suddenly sink through the platform to the shoul ders, where, after some convulsive mo tions, it remained stationary. To that guard it was the ghost ot Randall, and he fell fainting With alarm. In his fall his musket was discharged, and this bringing the jailer and others on the scene, it was speedily discovered that tho ghost was a woman ! Eluding her guardians, and providing herself with a cord, Indiana Randall followed the man she loved through the same exit he had taken! - Was he alone guilty? Or was she alone guilty '? Or were both guilty ? W. C. Elam. After warded in. .the execution to Mr. Ordolf the sheriff for a sealed letter Decomposttiox Affected by Ligiit. -It has been generally accepted that Sunlight was necessary to enable plants to decompose carbonic acid, but M. Prilleux : has found that such artihcial flames as contain chemical rays the electric light, and that from burning tnarrnefiium. fdr examples are sufficient to enable plants to carry on such action, rh at . a slower rate, , A branch of nhtamo' aeton. for instance, in water; ai exposed to sunlight gave twenty bub bles of oxygen in a certain time, while exposed to the electric light but eleven Vmhbles were evolved in the same time Even un ier gaslight an exceeding slow decomposition was noted by our autnor The reader may be disposed to smile at such a question. Does not every book of geography, every popular treatise on astronomy teach us all about the tides ? Can not every person of average educa tion and intelligence run through the simple explanation of the tidal wave? Certainly it is so. Most of us suppose we know in a general way (and that is all that we at present want), how the moon or sun diaws a tidal wave after it. The expl mation which nine hundred and ninety-nine (at lea.it) out of every thousand would give runs much in this wise. Being nearer to the water im mediately under her than to tho e irth's center th moon draws that water some wnat away irom the earth ; and again, being nearer to the earth's center than to the waier directly beyond, the moon draws the earth away from that water. Thus, underneath the moon a heap of water is rnixuf, and at the directly op posite point a heap of water is left (so to speak.) So that were it not for the effects of triction, the water would assume a sort of egg-shaped figure, whoso longest diameter would point directly towards the moon. i And not only is this tho explanation which is invariably given in popular treatises, but scientific men of the ut most eminence have adopted it, as cor rectly exhibiting the general fact of the case. Recently, for example, when Mr. Adams had published his proof that the moon's motion is gradually becoming accelerated in a way -which tho lunar the orycan not account for, M. Delaunay, a leading French astronomer, endeav ored toi prove that in ' reality it is the earth's rotation which is diminishing in stead of the moon's motion which is in creasing. He thought the tidal wave, continually checked bj the earth's fric tion js it travels against tho direction of her rotation, would act as a sort of "brake." since its 'friction must, in turn, check the earth. And in discussing this matter he took, as his fundamental ax ioms, the law of tidal motion commonly given in our books of geography and as tronomy. 1 his presently called up the Astronomer Royal, who gave! a very clear and convincing i demonistration that there would always be low water under the moon, if there, were no friction. But this is not all, nor is it even the mot remarkable part or the case. Eminent as tho Astronomer Royal de servedly is, and especially skillful as we know him to be in questions such as the one we are considering, yet if he were nobt contra tnundpm, we might readily believe that there, was some flaw in his reasoning since, as every one knows, the most eminent mathematicians have some times misconceived the bearings of a per plexing problem."! But, as Mr. Airy himself pointed out Newton and Laplace were both with him. ; ' How is it that , the views of Newton and Laplace, admittedly the very high est authorities which could be quoted. have found no plase in our treatises of astronomy ' Their views have never boon disproved In fact, as we nave seen, one of the most eminent of our mathematicians, i in re-examining the Question, has come to precisely the same . - n.- II v . iL .Ilk. -1 conclusion, van it j mi vui u.vuiiu- t:on actually given' is preferred; on ac count of its greater simplicity '; i That would be reasonable, if the two explana tions were accordant, but they happen unfortunately to be .'wholly opposed to each other, and nhereforj one ot them must be false. -Those who teach our geography and astronomy ought to look tj LlliS. The worst of it is that most of tbe con sequences which astronomers ascribe to The Tower of Babel. A writer describe the present ap pearance of the place where languages j got mixed : " After a ride of nine miles, we were at the foot of the Bier's Nim , rood. Our horses' feet were trampling ! upon the remains of bricks, which show ed here and there through the accumu lated dust and rubbish of ages. Before our eyes uprose a great mound of earth, barren and bare. This was Bic-r-Nim-rood, the ruins of the Tower of Babel, by which the first builders of the earth had vainly hoped to scale high heaven. Hero, also, it was that Nebuchadnezzar built for bricks bearing his name have been found in the ruins. At the top of the mound a great mass of brickwork pierces the accumulated soil. With your finger you touch the very bricks large, square- shaped and massive that were 'thor oughly' burned, the very niortar, the 4 lime,' now hard as granite, handled more than four thousand years ago by earth's impious people. From the sum mit of the mound, far away over the plain, we see glistening, brilliant as a star, the gilded dome of a mosaue. that mrauu uv AoM;wi7lIgirtTTlySoI the morning sun. This glittering speck was the tomb of the holy Ali. To pray before this at some period of his life ; t j ki;s the sacred dust of th ; earth around there, at some time or other ; to Ix-rid his body and count his beads is the dai ly desire of every devout Mahommedau." Canses Bowed lcirs of Deformities. and knock-knees are among the commonest deformities of humanity : and wise mothers ass ,rt that the crookedness in either case arises from the afflicted one having been put upn his or h r feet too early in baby hood. But Dr. Compton, who has watched for thf true cause, thinks differ ently. He attributes the first-mentioned distortion to a habit some youngsters delight iu of rubbing the sole of one foot against that of the other ; rome will even go to sleep with the soles pressed together. They appe r to en joy the contact only when the feet are naked ; they don't attempt to make it when they are socked. So the remedy is obvious ; keep the baby's soles cov ered. Knock-knees the doctor ascribes to a different childish habit that of sleeping on the side, with one knee tucked into the hollow behind the other, lie has found that where one leg has been bowed inwards more than the other, the patient has always slept on one side, and the uppermost member has been that most deformed. Here the preven tive is to be careml every night to place the child to sleep in different positions. Indeed, all through life, it is well . to learn to sleep on cither side. of caverns, some of which are quite ex tensive, as was shown by the result of the day's explorations. All along the bluffs of the liio Verde and Beaver creek, wherever these caves exist they are found t j have been the dwelling places ot a race of people which long since 1 pass,xl away, and about which not even mythology tells a tale ; but it is generally supposed that they are of a very ancient character, probably older than the Aztecs of Mexico. The object of the expedition was to explore the caves and ruins by which thelaceis surroundedand ascertain if possible the depth of the water in the well We took with us a rubber bag, whiclrwas inflated and launched. Dr. W. H. Smith, post surgeon, and myself undertook to make the soundings, which we did in a very satisfactory manner, but with a great deal of labor and im minent peril, owing to a thick growth of water plants which floated upon the sur face, and extended some twenty feet from shore, and through which it was next ! to an impossibility to swim. By great exertion the difficulties were overcome and the soundings made, which in the deepest place was eleven fathoms. All around the well in the high walls were caves which, too, had once been oc- I cupied, and, from their sheltered position, all remain nearly as perfect to-day as j they were when abandoned, probably i hundreds of years ago. The openings I are built up with masonry .through which are left small entrances and loopholes for protection. The walls overhead are ' blackened with the smoke of their fires, ' now so old that it will not rub off. The j plastered walls show the prints of their ! hands us plainly as if they were made but yesterday. Corncobs, pieces of i . . .. ..r gourus, mescal and seeds aro lound in the plaster, which conclusive proof that they were an agricultural jeoplc and for a similar r ason it is believed they were a manufacturing people, as a good article of cloth aud pieces of com mon twine have been found in these caves, and which were preserved in the To-day we discovered a new enre which no white man had ever seen before; it wa evidently the Gibraltar of this ancient city the name of which to us is forever lo.-t Upon entering the great ,u, in every mrection were seen o(K) bales, and lift I .-v 1. 1 . . 1 uiuriwuH,, wuere niems in the rocks , a 11 tho mux eeii omit up with loopholed walls, forming, as it were counterscarp galleries, as interior lines of defence, impregnable to any enemy except starvation. Lead ing from here aro numerous passages which have not yet been explored. One passage led down into a great chamber, at the lower end of which a stream ol water was found, evidently a branch of the outlet to the well. &win" to tho poor improvised torch that we had it was A . sprightly, bright-eyed brunette lately arrived at Omaha in the evening on a visit to a relative, and managed to transact considerable business in a very short time, thus : She was introduced to a young man in the morning, went to a picnic with him, and brought him buck and married him before supper. The annual ocean " tea race" between English clipper ships has been won this year by the Sir Ijtiuricrlot, Captain Rob inson, which made the passage from China in eighty-nine days, the shortest on record. The same vessel won the race in 1SGT, and only lost it last year by a few hours. The Committee of the Liverpool In dustrial Schools have given permission to Miss Rye to take out to Canada fifty Protestant orphan girls from their school. She intends placing them in an orphan school at Niagara until they are old enough to be put in situations. In South America it has been discov ered that steam-blown cane can be man ufactured into paper pulp by merely beating up the . blown fibre in water in an ordinary heating or rag engine, with out boiling or chemicals. This pulp can be used in the production of almost every article for which papUr macJic is employed at present Another case, illustrative of the dan gers of premature interment.cdmes from Toulouse. Just as some grave-diggers were lowering into the earth a coffin containing the body of a girL who was supposed to have died on the previous evening, a groan was heard, the coffin was opened and the inmate was taken out alive. The Beverly (England)" Quardian makes mention of a novel way to make a man pay a debt. In the window of a pho tographic gallery is the following an nouncement : " Wanted, Mr. groom of , to call and pay for his portraits. N. B. This notice will remain here till the portraits are paid ior." Attached to the notice is a curte le tiite of - the un- not de ot The Narrow Gauge Railway. Portmadoc and Festiniog Rail way, Wales, is now attracting much at tention from railroad men. This is a little line in North Wales, which was originally constructed for the pur pose of acting as a tramway for slate and stone from the hills of Merioneth shire to the sea shore. It is now being used as a regular goods and passenger line. The chief peculiarity in its con struction is that the gauge is only two feet broad. Hence, though the line runs through a very difficult country, the traffic yields the enormous revenue of thirty per cent. The reason is simple enough. It is because the proportion between the dead weight and paying weight is so miieh less than upon other railways. Th forty tuns upon the wider gauge of other lines. Instead of a first-class car riage weighing seven and a half tuns, to carry thirty-two passengers, and rep resenting nearly fiveewt. of dead weight for each passongor, the carriages on the Festiniog weigh only thirty cwt. for twelve passengers, or two and a half cwt. for each person carried. cmed prudent to exrVon nnv i . - r . j me- i.iaaus leaamg irom this room. 1 hese caves are a ktrangc place to live in. Some of them are up almost perpen dicular walls of rock to a considerable height. And under extreme difficulties; with an incredible amount of labor, they have carried great rocks, immense timbers and other building material, where it is almost impossible now for a man to go. Stone, nutals upon which they ground their corn, acorns and mes quit beans, pieces of broken ollas in which they cooked their food, pieces of pottery, painted and glazed, are found everywhere. It se ms as if every inhabit able place teemed with life, and that this country was once as densely populated as any ot the Eastern States of the Union are to-day. lhe most perfect of these ruins, and which is in tne best tate of preservation, is in a cave on the Beaver creek, about one mile and a hall from Camp Verde. It is in a perpendicular wall of rock, be tween 2(K) and 300 feet in height ; the lower entrance is over 100 feet above the valley below. It is four stones in height and bke all others, has its interior lines of delcnce. The floors are elaborately constructed of small timbers, covered with straight sticks, placed closely to- (jtiuci, ouu ujiuu mis is placed the ce m.'"nit fTLflooriu& usually six inches thick. The upper floors seem to have been constructed entirely for defence. A crenated wall breast high overhangs the whole structure, from which can be seen the surrounding country, and from its giddy heights a stone can be thrown in to the river .100 foct below. The excellent state of preservation of the wood and materials id in th is ilue to tneir lucky creditriT. " The Charleston- .tunr that the twelve cotton States will this year show more true prosperity than any other mic tion of the world, and shows that this year's cotton crop will amount to 3,000,- that the average value of crops will amount to f 64 Tor head of the population. South Carolina is doing even better than this average, and will yield this year products worth f 59,000,000, or an average of about $75 per head. The manufacture of chignons is car ried on very extensively at the prison of fcst Ptdarge, in France. All the hair pur chased off doubtful heads, picked up here, there and everywhere, collected from the comb, or thrown into the street and caught by the rag-picker's hook, is sorted into shades, divided according to its length, and. after a cleansing process which does not make it much nicer, it is sent to St Pelagic, where prisoners pass their days in fixing it on silken threadf. Thence it is sent into the world to adorn the heads of those who can afford the luxury. . A very pretty young Quakeress is mak ing a sensation in Indiana and Ohio by her visits to the prisons and" charitable luabibuiivua x ix itiCTi. 1 1 if. ueo. A wis uuu days ago she called at the Indiana State Prison and conversed with its inmates. In the evening she conducted religious services in the cell-house. A coi res pondent describes the effect of her elo quence as something marvelous. The hardest-hearted criminals wept and some of them were not content until they touched her dress. ' At the close of the services the beautiful angel iri drab was invited to call again. ' . Professor Cleland has brought forward a new method of measuring skulls and, so to speak, of measuring their worth." It deals chiefly with the curve of the base of the skull, which is greater in adults than in infants, in males than in females, in civilized than in savage. races. In the. same paper the author reasserts a fact tolerably familiar to i craniologists, but apparently not so to the . general public, that -! tpere u no foundation whatever for the supposition that the lower races of mankind have the forehead less developed than the more civilized nations " cav( s is nue to tneir sheltoriv. K I . - w 'W.J 4 I engine and tender upon a- tne dry, hot climate of the countrv. ' : line weigh about tea tuns, against 1 " tre nt for this nothing would have i i been known of these people, as every thing perishable which had been used in the construction of these houses ha de cayed whenever it has been exposed to the weather. Much has been said of these ruins and many speculations have been made as to the builders; but it is all speculation, as no one knows who they were. A volume might be written on this subject and still leave it unfinished. A Novel Pyrometee, The estima tion of very high temperature is a task accompanied with so many difficulties that entire dependence as to accuracy cannot be placed upon the best pyrom eters made, while the majority of ap paratus in market deviato far from the truth. A r renen patent nas oeen grant ed for a very simple instrument of this . , i ! ;X x 1 :xe C Quaker Courtship. Martha, dost thou love me V asked a Quaker youth at whose shrine his fondest heart's feel- in gs had been offered up. " Why, Beth," answered she. " we are rrtmmandarl tn love one another, are we not?" "Ah, l art ha I but dost thou regard me with lass, which is said to always mark with- 1 that feeling the world calls love r" " I in two or three degrees of the absolute temperature at a considerable distance off, so that a foreman in his office can see at a glance the heat in all the fur naces of the establishment. The instru ment consists principally of an iron re tort filled with marble. When, the re tort is heated to a red ' heat the marble is " decomposed, and carbonic' acid" gas liberated. . As V direct relation Exists between the tension of the gas and' tem perature, by noting what the former arrives at, as it is conducted throu h an .. lo igited neck of thu retort, by a spe cial contrivance tha latter is marked on a d.al plate at any distance removed. hardly know what-to tell thee, Seth. I have tried to bestow my loven all; but I have sometimes thought perhaps that thou wast getting more than thy share." , - Scientific Zeal. Professor llante gazza, tb physiologist, was recently en g?(ged in investigations on the lowest forma of life. Believing that ho could detect the very beginnings of organic existence in an infu ion he had ninde, he kept his eye steadily upon it, in the microscope, for sixteen hours, without intermission, until compelled by exhaus tion to leave it. It is well understood that Queen. Vic toria has strong opinions upon var ious social abuses and misfortunes. She has in fact several times thrown off her reserve of royalty for the purpose of remonstrating publicly with those who are responsible. The great ma. s of pov erty in London is always a sad attend- ant ujon the glories oi inat great city but much of it is kept out of sight It has been lately . proposed that on some public occasion the opening by the Queen of a new bridge over the Thames is spoken of the unemployed and starv ing poor shall make a demonstration. They will, it is said, rangw lu,cm,w:"" at the sides of the road along which Her Majesty will pass. If this i carried out there will be a strange spectacle of royalty and rags in close proximity, at which the world may well wonder. j The bulk of intelligent medical men have come to the conclusion that while our knowledge of the nature of disease has been gradually increasing," our power over it effects is not keeping pace with it. Statistics based on the mortality cf Great Britain, show that while in the seven years from 1833 to 184 1, the death rate was 2.189 per 100, iri the four years from .1863 to 1866 it .had .xten to 2.348, showing an increase., of . one per 1,000, and corresponding Vitli the augmented ratio of. 3,000 additional- deaths in Lon don, and 22,000 in the whole of England and Wales, every year. This is attributed less to any decay of nicd'cxl science than to the increasing and complicated f7.1? of society, arising from a more aitifioal mode of life.