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The Carolina Watchman. i I ' 'i ."--ijfcj '" ! ,Uytjjfcjj;'T I- AV IT " T b tft . V-THIRD SERIES. SALISBURY N. 0., APRIL, 8, 1875 NO. 76. WHOLE NO. 80 j. J. J. BRUNER, Proprietor and Editoi . J, STEWART Amociate Editor. I gATRNOF SLBCBIPTION WEEKLY WATCHMAN. Thar. payable in advance. gu Mouth b i I fjoeiesto 0Y address. ..$2.(0 .. 1.25 .. 10.0 : GUANAHANI ! - AN IMPORTED NATURAL ' A GENUINE A0VF.KT 11 RATES t . SouaM (1 inch) One intion $100 1.50 Special notices Zo per cent, more T ncaiir advertisements, neaoing coice ewlin for each and every insertion for ANIMAL DEPOSIT. i: ,( ff . .! " i f ; : . ?- :iit V U ii J Senator Ransom in bis great speech on Louisiana and the South, delivered in the United State Senate, paid the following eloquent tribute to Southern patriotism and valor. Bat, sir, other, imputations are brought here against the South, all calculated to create prejudice against her people. Frequent allu sions hare been made in this debate to what Senators are pleased to call "southern chivalry," in terms of derision and reproach. I shall not discuss with Senators the propriety of their criticisms. Hi at is a question of taste, about which we may wel 1 d i fl'er. I trust sincerely that the day is not far distant when a just corrective of a custom I do not defend, and which has been really abused, shall be found in an enlighten ed Christian public sentiment. To that humane A MONOPOLY OF THIS VALUABLE DEPOSIT HAS BEEN CREATED i in favor of this Company by the Crown offieere. The name "GUANAHANI !" arbitrament I hope always to be able to defer. . . . -. m - - i sin iA .u i u A a ni ii r ii i Carolina Fertilizer. CASH PRICES $50 00 PER ! TON OF 2,000 POUNDS. is a Registered TRADE MARK at the United States Patent Office, aad all warned worn making use of the same in connection with fertilisers I t r THE COMPANY GUARANTEE THAT EVERY CARGO will be ANALYZED BEFORE IT IS OFFERED FOR SALE. TIME PRICE $58 PER 2,000 lb. paya ble Nov. 1. THE HIGH STANDARD OF QUAL ITY HAS-BEEN FULLY MAIN TAINED, AND IT IS CONSIDERED Bf THOSE WHO HAVE GIVEN IT A FAIR TRIAL THE BEST AND CHEAPEST KRTILIZER MAMETMKD. Liberal and advanta geous Terms for Large Lots Given on Application. Local Agents at all the-Trincipal Depots. Dcr6sset& co,, ' General Agents for North Carolina and Virginia, AT WILMINGTON, N. C. IcCONNAUGJIEY, Agent, Salisbury, N. C. But. air. to whatever tribunal I hall feel called upon to refer that responsibly, which seems 1mm mmm . A ' . 1 r mm ui uuuie quarters 10 give so mucn onense, l trust I shall be scrupulously careful to observe, in all controversies, every law of courtesy and kindness, and never so far to forget what is due to myself and equally due to others as to sub stitute in intellectual combat for the parliamcn tary weapons of reason and argument the use of opprobrious epithets, harsh aspersions, violent crimination and recrimination. I shall leave such means of warfare to be employed by those to whose tastes and RPIlti merit, thov r mnro Pnminc ths 1 nilnn .11 ii l atlam vf Put T XI WTT 5AV n.litimnMi Pmf TT O I rt. tL!i. 1 .1 11 1 .1 WHITE. Professor of Chemistry, University of Georgia ; Prof. F. A. GENTH, Philadelphia, the feeblest instiuments of assault upon the po Professor of Applied Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania. I sition of others. I should certainly feel that they were the weakest armor for my own char acter or honor. Holding myself strictly ac countable for all that I may utter in this Cham ber or elsewhere, I shall not dispute with any champion the laurels that are to be won on the field of personal or partisan abuse. Those who are ambitious of that palm may wear it. But if by these references to "southern chivalry" Senators intend to impute to the people of the South any want of those high Jnalities of honor, virtue, troth, courage and ignity of characterwhich have been asserted to belong to them, or the absence of those gentler humanities of charity, courtesy, GUANAHANI GUANO COMPANY, PETERSBURG-, VA,. generosity, and all the graces of Christian life, I meet the Senators on the threshold of their accusation, and i tell them before the In offering this FERTILIZER to the Agricultural Community a Second Season we do so with the utmost Confidence, feeling satisfied that the high opinion, we 'formed, and expressed 1 I J J , mm ' ... . 1 I .? F ! ft m A t - iasi season oaseu on 11s vnemicai or.stuuenis nave oeen most sausiacioruy Dome out ny uie test, by which all Fertilizers must be judged, that of the Plantation. Liast season, owing to the lateness at which we commenced lranortinfi we were forced to out our Guano on the market at once, but now having continued our importations during the sum- world that this impeachment of the character mer and fall, and having large and well ventilated Warehouses in this City and City Point, we of our people is groundless and injurious ; as un- are enabled to put our Guano on the market, in a condition as to dryness, and freedom from just to those who make it as it id to the brave, lumps, equal to any Manufactured Fertiliser. honest, noble people who are thus misunder- We solicit a careful persual of our Circular containing the certificates sent us, and which can stood, misrepresented, and detained. I repel the be had on application at this OFFICE, or from any of our AGENTS. Having nothing to con- aspersion with the indignant scorn of an injured ceal, we made an innoyation on established usage, by publishing those letters received unfavora- and out raped people. I repel it in the name ble to our Guano, but careful inquiry in many cases proves that the cause of its failure was not of eight millions of living, virtuous freemen; American civilization, to enlarge and magnify all the beneficent influences of American liberty. W hue 1 shed tears over toe loss of the gallant men of both armies 1 rejoice in their common bravery, truth, fortitude, aad splendid achieve ments, and still more in the fact that no one bat .Americans couru nave resist ea as we aia and that none but Americans could have presevered as you did ; yet I but speak the simple truth before the world and before Heaven when I de clare that human history from the begin ing has failed to furnish a brighter example of all the devoted qualities of soldiers' duty than was daily exhibited in the army of the Sonth. I need not recall those who formed that glitter ing line of bayonets on Marye's burning hill ; who met the read storm of blood and fire at Chancellorsville ; who stepped like bridegrooms to a marriage feast up the stony ridge at Get tvsburgh, and meetinc death from foe men worthy of their steel, fell back Uke the sullen roar of broken waters. I need net recall those noble spirits who drew their expiring breath in the mortal trenches t Petersburg!! or who bore their wasted forms and looked for the last time upon the bleak hills of Appomattox. No, Senators, we are worthy to be your coun trymen, worthy to be the patriot-brothers of your own ever-glorious and honored men who prevailed against us. Instead of carping and criminating snd taunting, let us bury deep and forever recollection of that war that does not revive the common honor and courage and Christian humanity of the North, and the Sooth, and the whole American people. If there be any cloud upon the arms of either, thank God there is glory enough for the arms of both, and that glory belongs to the American people. Are not the victories of Pompey and Cesar the common renown of Rome? Are not the "red rose' and the white rose now intertwined in the crown of England's history ? Is it indelicate for me to remind you that the noble Greek", the Athenians and the Spartans, erected monuments of perish able wood to celebrate victories over their coun trymen ? They built them for their triumphs over foreign foes of enduring marble and brass. The brave Romans, whose conquering legions made the world their empire, never permitted a triumph to any victor in their civil wars. Those nations of antiquity would not perpetuate their own strifes. Shall this Christian Union be less magnanimous than the republics of the idolatrous ages ? f, r vr,.. J"fce Tree Minister of J. - wuw Ta on nmiu Amos, has a. snn aknnt .. u i jan reaotvesi m report of a Claudius, and the other evening hie boy re ceived permission to allow a aeiffhbor's an to stay all night with him. The old people sleep down stairs in the sitting-room, and the boys were put in a rooea directly above. When they went up to bed Claudius had the skinee-iine under bis coat, and the neigh bor's boy had a mask ia his pocket- They JU m t 1 . V. . hb am. soeet oown aaa say their prayers use good ooys, and tau inmp in extraordinary atuir, which is ly to create some aenaauen. Thirty j aro a young girl named Harm waa found poisoned in bar bed. Ska bad been betrothed a abort time before to a inung msn, with whom hi edetioe was said in he love. The latter was at tried, and hoaUy eoudemned to locked the Braeeer boy remarked : "You'll see mora fun arown' aere to-night than would lie on a ten -acre lot !" From a clue they brought oat a eaetoff soil of Brasaer's efotbea, staff sd It with whatever eame bandy, tied the mask and an old straw hat on for a bead, and while owe boy was can-fully raising the window the other waa tying the etothee-line around the man." The imago waa lowered down la front of the sitting-room window. lifted up and down once or twice, and old Brasaer waa beard to leap out of bed, with a great Up. He waa just beginning to dose wbeu he beard sounds under bis window, and his wife suggested that it was anew ia the yard. He got up, pulled the curtain away, aad. aa he beheld a man standing there, he shouted out : '"Great bottles ! but it's a robber! aad ha jumped into bed. j "Theodorius Brasaer, are yon n fool T" screamed the wife, aa he monopolized all the bed -clothes to ever up his bend. "Be quiet, you old jade, yon ! be whis pered : "probably he'll go away ! "Git up, you old onward !" she snapped. "III laTljf tll k : L. Tm i I Which she anffmJ r.lml. anJ .1 wm. iiw. iuv ms B-KTU U1S OOOT WSS I . . ' J ' M l nttbnut uttering a word of complaint ornfT )ustihcatioo. Kvery body felt the gnaj eat sympathy for the poor aid father of the two girls, who was giviog aigna nf she moat violent grief Ha had eweaa laria. aQsnsnsnsnsfi S0fl(s OarOtt9 sTwitsnl tnw9 an"anl'' bad inherited from their mother, hat hta grief did not seem to be A fortnight age the aid before his death con tensed to his " si hah priest, Rev. Abbe Barman, that be waa' himself the murderer of his eldest tcr. He had. moreover, allowed eion to rest on the younger ia order to inherit the money of bath. The pnanr victim had died innocent njlhanjt Uttering a word in her defense, because she knew who was the murderer, and rather to die than to denounce him I THE MAN WHO FLT He entered a ban! ware store on t I never live with you another day if you ward avenue about ten o'clock Satnrdar don't do it!" I : ..j . . i uawiuiug f auu Mtn tsn at vcama uj lurj n J vj be beckoned to the proprietor and NO MORE. This is the burden of the heart. The burden that it always bore ; We live to love ; we meet to part ; And part to meet on earth no mora ; .mtmimmr. tv ans fault in Wa NftMfti k n lk. f - Wo Imr.i f ran 1 1 tin 1 1 v I T MMH'I it ill tllP nfimO of Iwplvp irnnnlinnft nf I heard the same comolainls of its kindred Fertilizer. Peruvian Guano, but the concurrent testl- gallant patriots ; I protest against it bv the " e c,asP eaca oltltsr to tne nea,l mony of well known Farmers and Planters from Maryland to the extreme Western counties of solemn judgment of history ; I refute it by the And part to meet on eaith no more. I . . . . . . v ... . . an I . a . r i I. . I : T l.l 1 s tr I I .North Carolina, justiiy us in claiming a place for our Fertilizer Superior to many, and beconu to None. We confidently expect the continued patronage of the Agricultural Community and no exer tion shall be spared on our part to make THE STANDARD FERTILIZER FOR THE COTTON, TOBACCO & GRAIN CROPS OF THE SOUTH. Ju. A. NSiV Couirr! In 8xiPe"OT Court- BbsBMsr Frost. Admr. de bemu non of John 1. Allen, deceased. IHmntiffs. Aoainst. Giles Liven good, and Mary A. Liven good, his wife. William Allen. William (Van fill and his wife, Sarnh J. Cranfill, Martha Allen, and hnsna Allen. JJrfauiunts. FditioHto sell Land for Pavment of debts. Itanpesring, that the defendants, above nam ed, are all uon-residents of the 8tate of North Carolina, and their place of residence unknown. It Is therefore ordered that publication be made in the "Carolina Watldman." a newspa per published in Salisbury, N. C. for six weeks soeeessivelv for the said Giles Li vengood, Mary A. Livengood, William Allen, William Crar.fi' I, larah J. Cranfill, Martha Allen and Susan Allen, the above named defendants to appear at the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court, st the Court House in Mocksville, on the SJVth day of April A. D., 1875. and answer the com Mntof the Plaintiff, or the same will be heard ex parte as to them. Witness II. B. Howard, Clerkjiu per ior Court, st office in Mocksville, tins March 1876. a r H. B. HOWARD. C.S.C. Match 4th.-ws. -:o:- DIRECTORS. President, N. M. TANNOR, of Rowlett, Tannor k Co. Vice President, ROBT. A. MARTIN, of Robt A. Martin & Co. JOHN B. STEVENS, of Stevens Brothers. S. P. A UUI NO TON, of John Arlington & Sons. JOHN R. PATTERSON, of Pettersou, & Soua. C. R. BISHOP of Bishop & Branch. JOHN MANN, DAVID CALLENDER, W. A. K. FALKENER. FRANK POTTS, General Agent. FOR SALE BY MERONE Y & BR.O., 8AL18BYBT, N. G. BURROUGHS SPRINGS. CMORLOTTE. N. C. Ia offering this Feitiliaer to the people of Rowan, and surrounding counties ws a rs satis fied that we offer them the best Guano for Uis least money new on the market. It has been superior conn, throaf j, j tried during the past season and the resulU have beeu even better than we hoped second da of j e,, vc append two of the numerous certificates we have received. MORE STOVES. and better ones than ever. Come now and get the BEST. Get the stove called the AN IMPORTANT TEST, PAID OVER 600 PER CENT. ACORN COOK f jeu want one that will outlast any other, and ast is madeof all NEW IRON, and warranted give satisfaction Ac. Various styles, or coox ag stores at a small profit. TIN WARE. 6hxxr Ikon & Coffek Wakk made of the jnt Material, on hand or made to order. Msrehacts supplied at Low Prices. Cash JAH for all kinds of Copper, Brass && Ask for -7-m in swop aiaui .ireei. uiuiwirs. .L.V. Brown. well prepared to cut good 8TENCIL PLATE8 P marking Tobacco, Flour Patent articles Ac. ry person doing any kind of work or busi an should have a stencil to advertise his busi- tt is acknowledged to be the best and way to let people know what you are Salisbury, N. C, October 10th, 1874. Messrs Meroney & Bro. Gentlemen : In reply to your inquiry as to the merits of the Guanahani Guano, I will state that I have given it a fair, and, as I think, a thorough teat, and believe it to be one of the best fertilisers now in use in our country. In the month of February I bought two tons and applied it over my farm at the rate of 200 pounds to the acre under Cotton, and 100 poundstothe acre on Corn. On the 8th of October I picked from one row of Cotton 14 rods long, which had been fertilized at the above rate, 8 pounds of seed cotton ; from another immediately by the aide of this one, of the same length, to which I had applied no fertilizer, I picked 1 J ounces the same tiny showing! difference of over 8500 per cent, between land fertilized and not. I counted the a aval a S X 1 T H I I a. iL. 1 .. . .1 number of unopened bo Us in eacn, and mating calculation on wis Dasis, 1 una mat we nu without the Guanahani would yield 30 ounces to the row, 80 rows or 150 pounds to the acre ; with Guanahani it will yield 12 pounds to the row, 80 rows or 960 pounds to the acre showing a difference of over 600 per cent. I have not had an opportunity to test the Corn yet, but from general observation, I feel war ranted in making the statement that Guanahani has benefited my Corn at least 100 per cent On one acre of ground, as a test, I sowed 400 pounds of Guanahani broadcast, subsoiling at the same time 15 inches deep. This acre, under ordinary circumstances, has average 700 pounds of seed cotton ; this year the yield will be at least 1800 pounds E. A. PROPST. character of the living and the dead ; I appeal from it in its error and madness to the universal and concurrent testimony of mankind. I luirl it to the ground ; I trample it in the dust. There is not an event in the nation's annals connected with the South that does not condemn and rebuke the odious sentiment. It ran find no hibitation or sympathy in the heart of the civilized world ; it can find no logdmenlin one solitary, isolated spot of authentic tradition ; it will Ikj banished and driven awav from the face of men in despair of finding a home where truth and justire reside. Branded with infamy all over, it must seek a resting place only in bo soms from which t lie dark pardons of hale and fury have forever excluded the light. Before the Republic has attained little more than man's life have we reached a development of passion that France did not mature for near ly a thousand years ? Are we in the early youth of the nation about to discover the worst symptom of the insane maladies that assailed trance in the revolution ? Have we so soon fallen on t! e dark scene in thct'ramaof nations which marked the declining days of the Roman Empire? Is all truth confounded before our eyes, and are the very vestiges of just ice oblitera ted from our hearts ? What unheard-of madness has destroyed the consciousness of fact in our minds and the sensibilitv of conscience within us ? Has the storm of sectional!strife drowned the voice of history ? Are the living records of the age erased by the intensity of party beat lias memory been dethroned from the human mind and her proud scepter surrendered to prejudice ? For such must be our melancholy condition when we can believe that the "South is degenerate." Rise from your graves, immor tal founders yf the Republic, and rebuke the impious calumny ! Great Father of our coun try, I invoke your hallowed name to silence it forever. Illustrious author of the "Declara tion," has thy glory been so soon extinguished ? Father of the Constitution, has thy honored name perished amid the blows inflicted on thy great work ? Hero of New Orleans, has the bright fame of your victory over a foreign foe been eclipsed by a more recent victory over the liberties of the State you defended ? lias the 8th of January, 1815, been blotted out by the atn 01 January, 1070 r When did the South become degenerate ? When her sons unaided and alone bore the "Lone star" westward and carved an empire State from the heritage of the Moutezumas ? Or did her courage expire on the blazing heights of Buena Vista, and did Taylor and Bragg and Crittenden dim its luster ? Was her honor lost by Scott or Lee in the valleys, on the hills or before the walls of Mexico, or wss her bright sword tarnished when Butler and the Palmetto Regiment left on the field of Churubusco (he example that was to be no more gloriously followed by the six hundred at Balaklava? Are we to be told of southern degeneracy in the Halls of this Capitol, where There is a time for tears to start For dews to fall and larks to soar ; The time for tears is v-'hen we part To meet upon the earth no more ; The time for tears is when we part To meet on this wide earth no more. Brasaer turned up the lamp, sat up ia bad. and cried oat: Is that you, boys ?" Mercy on me ! git up !" yelled the wife as the straw man waa knocked against the window. "I'll blow bis bead off clean . as milk ! said Brasaer in a loud voice as he not op. He struck the stove three or four times, upset a chair, and reached behind the bed and drew out an old army musket. "Now, then, for blood ! he continued as he advanced to the window and lifted the cur iam. The man waa there, face eloae to the glass. aad be had such a tnaliguaut expression of countenance that Brasaer jumped back with a cry of alarm. 'Kill him ! Shoot him down, yoo old noddle-head ! screamed Mrs. Brasaer. I will by thunder! I will!' replied Brasser, and he biased away and tore out nearly all the under sash. rmt a . aA a . 1 ue ooys up ttairs uttered a veil and a ' 1 r a aea er.au. Hu d Hia-ser iuimed for the window He u gone aud we shall never to g'-e if the man was down. He wasn't. I more I ion and I must sooner "Sit dowu here ; I wan: to speak with. yon. He waa a own who looked aad from the erowii of bis hat in the tent of hit boots. There were deep care lines on hia face, bis eyes were red and anxious look ing, and bis tattered overeoai waa drawn in at the waiel by a wide I eat her belt. "Can we do anything for 70 to-day T asked tbe merchant, aa he ant down. The aad man slowly wiped bis none, slowly turned around, aud slowly re plied : MAi, :, m.L.. m-mmm C-l . J - t- V that e have all rot to die. les nm ' ren Un merchant. Christopher, Columbus is dead 1" con tinned the aad man, "and who feels aad about it who sbeds n tear over kta loarT see him, or later Her Triumph at Last. With flush of lip and shine of hair I woted your love and never won. I se: you think the flower more fair When it is smitten by the suu. With spells of song I tried to keep About your mouth the flitting smile. My helpless silence wakes you weep ; My voice were music uow a while ? You kiss the pallor of my face As bloom was never kissed on earth. My tears can hold you in your place You, who were restless at my mirth. And yet for all of this good-bye. If. dying, I grow sweet to you, It shall be sweet for me to die. Wbeu life was false shall death be true. I, who as a mortal found un grace, For all my beauty, in your eyes, I, as a phautoni, through all space. Shall hear from you forloruest cries. He stood right there, and he made a leap a, follow him, and the world will go on joat the same.' "Then you don't want anything in day !" queried tbe merchant after a pain- fal pause. "And King James ia dead !" exclaim ed, tbe aad man, wiping bis none again. "Is anybody weeping over bis Wee 1 Don't folks lai and let and laf. and don't the world go on j ist tbe same 1 Sir, fit may not be a week before you and I will the Ubors of yoa be called upon to rest froi this life. Doesn't it an when yon think of it t' "Of course, we've all got to die." re The following conversation, at a meeting in San Francisco, is reported Chronicle of that city "How old are yoo, ray boy ?" "Six, sir." "Have vou signed the covenant card 7" "Yes. sir." "Do you love Jesus 7" "Yes, sir." "Why do yon love him, dear?" "Because he first loved me." "Were you a great sinner, pet?" "Yes. sir." "And yon felt very sorry for your sins V "Yes, sir." "What sin did you commit 7" "SirT "What did you do that was wicked ?' "I forget, air r revival by tbe A Thousand Skeletons. A Chattanooga correspondent tells asin- the echoes of (he mighty words of Clay and gular story of several acres of skeletons r-ii -..Ml . . I . . . . . eape,t wan. v On mark with stencil may get a customer, j" that will put Hundreds of Dollam rj nad. Try it and you will get a cua gawr you never thought of. PRICES ARE LOW, AS FOLLOWS, (Wk rth lnch letters 5 cents per letter Trii and live-eights 6 " " raii-fourth & One inch letters 7 " " " in your orders stating sise of letters y ta and the Btencil will be made neatly re .promptly forwarded. et Salisbury, N. V 123, 1874-tf. L. V. BROWN. Davis Co., N. C. Messrs Meroney & Bro. , Gentlemen : In reply to your inquiry as to the merits of Guanahani Guano, I would sa tUrnt I .moA it last Summer on an oil 1 field which would have produced very poorly under ordi nary circumstances but which under the application of Guanahani yielded me a very good crop. I had one teat row and thia showed a difference of over three hundred per cent, in favor of the Guano. . . t w.wl thai it crorwl Frt i 1 i zpr and take pleasure in recommending it to every far mer who wiahns to increasehis crops as being fully equal if uot superior to any Guano on the market.- MATTHIAS MILLER. f i WE SELL GUANAHANI AT $38 PER TON. Freight added. CALL AND SEE US. MERONEY & BRO. .ft f on.fftlft -. !f f 13th. 1875.- -3mos. - w it Km Calhoun still ring in our ears and the proud images of Marshall and Taney stand guard at the altars of justice ; where ten r residents of the United States rise before our eyes to a t t its falsehood, and a train of heroes, statemea, jur ists, with an endless line of patriots, proclaim its injustice? Senators, before you can believe it, you must tear from American history its brightest pages ; you must pull dowu tbe Cap- toi, remove its monuments, and obliterate ita name. Go to the uttermost limits of the earth. the remotest waves of the sea, stand on any spot in the vast breadth of your country, and look up and behold tbe flag of the Republic, and the starry banner that biases over your head will recall at the "dawn's early light and the twilight's last gleaming" the genius and soul of the southern patriot from whom it derived its dearest inspiration. But Senators will exclaim this is the boutn as she was, not as she is ; the South years ago when she stood with the North in the Union, not the South during and since the war, shorn of her strength and beauty. I am admonished not to tread on ground on which the smothered fires are not yet ex tinguished ; but though . I walked barefooted and blindfolded over burning plowshares, in this I ought not to hesitate ; for he who with a right heart bravely treads the path of truth and duty has nothing to fear. Yes. Senators, duty more sacred than Life commands me to ask on what field in the late evei -to-be-deplored war did the South betray anything but the highest qualities of the best of men ? Where were the evidences of her decline and degeneracy ? Ask your uoble patriots who met her no leas noble sons on a hundred ensanguined fields ? Read the reports of your generals and all contempo raneous history and you will look in vain for but one response. I will draw no contrasts be tween those brave armies, those true, devoted men on either side. I only wish their great struggle had been a united effort to expand the area of free uutitution, to extend the light of laid bare by tbe recent floods in the Teu- uessee river. Tbe high water of tbe recent flood washed about four feet of earth from ten or fifteen acres of land lying along the Tennessee river on the farm of Mr. James Prater, near Louisville, in Blount county. About two feet of soil was removed from tbe samo grouud by tbe high tide of 1801. When tbe waters subsided after tbe laat flood, a strange spectacle was presen ted. The whole of tbe deuuded area was covered with skeletons. Some were straight, some reclining, some doubled np, and some iu a sitting posture. There were the osseous forms of infants, of chil dren, and of full grown persons. Mr. Prater has counted over a thousand forms. Persons who have lived in the vicinity of this mysterious cemetery for sixty five years never heard of any human bones being discovered there before. 1 he skeletons, we understand, are not found in a mouud uor ia what appears to be an artificial formation of the earth We understand one or more mounds were partially washed away in Meigs county, disclosing rkeletons, some batch eta, and pipes, and implements common among tbe Indians. rwas a a Til lne skeletons iu .Blount county pro bably oecnpy a burying ground, which n perhaps centuries ago, was covered vp by the same agency which has now ex posed its occupants to view. oer caine up troiu lne station, and a of premises was made. Not so much as a track in tbe snow was found, and the officer nut on an injured look and said to Mr. Brasaer: " A guilty conscience needs no accuser." That's so !f chorused the indignant neighbors aa they departed. As Mr. Brasaer hung a quilt before the haltered window, he remarked to hb wife : "Now, tee what an old oondurango you've made vf youfaeif I "Don't fling any insults at me don't do it or I'll choke tbe attenuated life out'u you !" she replied. And tbe boys kicked around on the bed. ehuckiug each other in the ribs, and said : "I'd ruther be a boy'n be President. Detroit Fret Pres. Curiosities of Beecher's Defense. N. ,Y. Son. ttdj It ia four weeks to-morrow since the prosecution rested in the scandal ease, aud Mr. Beecher's defense began. Doting this long period ntnnjr witnesses have been examined, and what ia remark able about then) is that their testimony Lam siawa S ii a k m 1 A m.m m Atf) nvt t s-v iUa A fense of Mr. Beechcr against the charges T ?Lf brought by Mr.'TUton, but eolely to the wu. ou 10,011 uc " ' overthrow of I Ikon. If Mr. Beecher ia innocent, thia sort of thiug isaltogthcr unnecessary. Theodore thank Brasser. "He's com in in ! Per-lice 'boys bo! p-e-r-1 i-c-e !" roared the old man. Tbe tattered curtain permitted Mrs. Brasser to catch sight of a man jumping up aad down, aud alia yelled : "Theodorius, I'm goiu' to faint!" Taint and be darned ! boys ! per lice !' he replied. Walloping the sheet-iron stove with the poker. "Don't you dare Ulk that way to me !" shrieked the old woman, reooveriug from her desire to faint. "Po-leece ! po-leece !" now eame from the boys up stairs, and while one continued to about, the other drew the "man un. tore him limb, from limb, and secreted the pieces, plied the merchant, as he toaaed a Several neighbors were aroused, an om I uail over among tbe eight pennies. from the station, and a search I Andrew Jackson is dead." continued the aad man, a tear falling on hie hand, yes, Andrew baa been gathered and a good man has gone from among us. Were yon acquainted with him f I believe not," was the answer. "Well, he was a fine man, night I have laid awake and cried to that he would be forever. Yet, do yon hear an wailing and sobbing T Does anybody sense to care a cent, whether Andrew Jackson fa) dead cr living? Yod or I stay fat tie next to go, and tbe world will mora en net tbe aaaae ee if wo had newer lived." The world eao't of eooree atop for the death of ooe man, no matter bow said the merchant. "That's what makes why I weep these tears! man, wringing his long, rigorous gnef. "William Peun is Ouea in n great while 1 express sorrow, bat as a general thing the world has fnrgottm William wKh the rest. Don't it make yon feel sad when yon reflect that yon will never .nee Feel like crying gone from among usr l newer bare lime to think of these things," answered tbe merchant, fondling the coal stove shaker. "And Shake peare ia gone, tool ex claimed tbe man, his cbiu quivering with agitations "we may sigh, and sgb, and rigb. and wish, and wish, aad wish, bat poor Shaky will never be aeen snoring with us again ! They hare laid bim away to sleep hi long sleep and n bright lamp has been extinguished lorever. "Well, did von want anytbinr in the line of hardware f" asked the merchant, as be rose up. "Can you speak hardware to see at s sea a . . a a a time at in is I exclaimca toe Ma 1 lsT ti vsr i r 4W ween i A Isaml i era n j n aw aaiiv D easy arena ivviiugea wvvhb tears and listening to my broken can you lure tbe heart to try and hardware apoa me V Tbe merchant went over to bis desk, and the aad man wrung bis nose again and weat oat. Detroit Free Pre. Tilton'e diameter was badly damaged before, and it is not worth while for Mr. Beecher to employ the cr art, nod jury, Snd lawyers for a month in destroying it over agiin. If Mr. Beecher ia guilty, his arimea will not be palliated by blackening TiltoL at least not in tbe opinion of in telligent men. This evidence, however, though entire ly needless and useless, ou the bypolbeai of Mr. Beecher s innocence, may yet be Very proper as tending to mitigate tbe damages to be awarded by the jury on the hypothesis of bis guilt ; and it is in deed a very striking circumstance that so great a period of time should ba occupied by the defense in bringing ont each a maaa of such testimony. This course of defense produces a very naiolnl impreeeion upon the public mind. If Mr. Beecher is innocent, one witness was necessary above all to prove it, and that ia Mr. Beecher himself. lie should hare been tbe first if not the only person sworn for tbe defense, and when he had done, they mirht have gone to the jury. This long delay in . product ig bim, and tbe manner in which tbe time k aeaapied, Mississippi brother was killed irenrtbeas the suspicion that be ia un will I with at actor last week , and wsf m ' ing to appear apon the stand. We even beard it said that be will not come for ward to testify to bis own innocence, and challenge the onspairing cross examina tion which awaits bim. Aad when tbe Question ia seined : Why not f the answer ii : lie does not dare I Edttom' Mism ajs. A sort of March madness seams to pass can editors this yearn. A Virginia journalist baa bean tbiaabed. In New Jersey erne fane had an ounce of lead pat into hie twain. A in a.daot at West Point, in the sassa State, twa rival editors made targets of one another, aatd ess wee perforated by four ballets. Laat of all. tbe editor of the Chicago Time hi seat to jail for ero tempt of eoart. yet there are fond parrots woo eni editors. 1 -I i