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4a c0l '. . TTAT O I' 'r''.' '?: . it . --VT2 " Vwsj-, iLs-jz-esz''- FAYEITEVILLF C, APRIL 28. THE NEWS. i P0BLISHXD EVERY TUESDAY. '' ' Editors and Proprietors, . . - FAYETTEY1LLE,N. c. " ' . " TERMS "v On yr, :? . $3-00 VTttkly, 1 50 RATES OF ADVEHTlSiNG. iu$n or less) 1 instrtioa, i- f - i- ; t bios, .W,..'1 - ... .. . . 4 II At It r.i 6 " 12 Ten inarcs ( col.) 4 It II Twenty squares (1 col.) ti i ;$i oo 1 61 " 8 00 u 20 00 30 00 40 00 50 00 33 0,)' 50 00 70 00 90 00 CO 00 80 00 125 00 150 00 er cent. additional on rejrula S I 9 12 S ii ii jSpscial Notices 20 rer rhtes. . '.riiadm? Notices 25 cents per line. MrContcAct adTertiseraonts my bs changed at op tian and keot on inside pas b PVaent of 15 per cant, oa Tnlar rato. . 5unna.l dTts. payable cjnartarly in adtance. All he ora pyablat ftrst inRertion. wil ! POST OFFICE, Fayettivillk, Nov, 19, 1867. TTnrafter and until fiirtlier notice ta ilails clone ftt this 6 flice as foil ws. GpinJj North, East and South Tia "Warsaw Sunday Tuesday and T hats day, at 9 p.m. Goinjr North and West, Tia W. K. R., Haywood, Pittsboro and Raleigh very aay except Jsnnday s at , .. Carthage, Troy and Ashboro Monday and Friday at S p. m. Rckinf?hnra, Wadesboro, and offices on th6 Wil. Char, and Rnth'd R. R. via Wilmington Sunday at 9 n. to. Via Lumber ton Friday at 6:30 a. m. " Sfift Island. Tia Bennett's Vineyard, Bosticks Mills, - Covington, Powaltton, Little's Milis, Mangnm, Mount GileacC and Albemarle erery.Tnfsday, at i) p. m. Rleih. via Mill Gro7S. 8nraTnerville and Chalk Level every Monday at G:30 m. GEO. LAUDER. P. M. - jo 30 ECAEG? D2FEECIATIDIJ. AT)0?TTu nT TH LEGISLATORS OF NOTSTH CASOLTJA Sc:it of a'wiih'o'i Confederals- Currency the ffoht dollar b-:ij Ik unit and measure vxhi' from Nov. IH.'; 18nl,fo May Is., lbt.!. January, February, -Mirch, April, ' JJumm-z .:. . .... July, August. ; - Bepte'nber, . October, 5lvnb9r, II 10 'DsfaVr, 1 15 J3er I to 10 inclusive, "Ur. 19 ta "20 inclusive. fcr ai.to 31 inciuv.vc, L.J.! .Ji i.l 1 1 50 r-o 1 ' 1 50 -1 50 3 0-3 1 00 2 53 2 50 . $3 00 3 00 4 00 5 00 50 tjS-,1. 9 00 -li 01 H 00 14 00 15 00 20 00 1864. 185 $21 fiO-450-00 21 00 5') 00 2.voa m oo 20 mi lao.-ou w oo 00 23 00 t 00 00 1 25 0 30 26 000 00 15 00 42 00 000,0:1 4;0 00 000 00 From the New York Herald. The '4isa-Whr.t is ta stronger in Kootuck thlilnbthr fitatej Tennessee. next,Missouri third. Vir. g.n.a iourth, Maryland fifth, and New York alu. jinere is not a federal go vern men t. of uiat has not department of the fhe army and navy potent inprntioroinn federate and Federal Idiers, Confederate and Federal sailors, alike vie intheobiects and purposes ot-the Organization. There is not a leading daily, newspaper through out the entire country hat has not tlfeir Ku-Klux. Therefore, the Ku-KW Kla.i s neither sectional r hor. 'partisan, hut emi nently conservative and national in its or ganization and purposes. r -While citizens of tho United States can only become members of the i Ku-Klux tifan, liadicals, infid&ls Vrnd cowxrlnembeJs of th3 KaKfuxTCTaTifr the meaning of the term is a Circle of t! fiends,, the sole object of which is the perpetuity ot constitutio lal liberty. The organization of the Ku-Klux Klnn originated from a necessity the result- ni Radical legislation and the formation of the secret political orders of th "T,wni League" and the "Granr Army of the Re public;" consequently th Ku-Klux Klan is the effect of Radical despotism and injus tice. The Ku-Kl.ix Kl ized in Giles couuty, Tennessee, in August, iS66, and. was an absolute necessitv. ro' suiting from the tyranny!, domination and aggression of the BrowAlow Legislature. The passage of the Siierinan-Shellabarer bills and supplements in' (the spring of 1'8G7 gave the--' organization a--new impetus throughout the South. I The increase of the organization in the Northern and West ern States, and especially in the Pacific States from the 1st of November, 1SG7, to the 1st of April, 1668, has been beyond the expectations of its most ardent friends. i uium.iuiuu nt, tins nine numoers over seven hundred thousand rapid additions as the pu require. The Know Nothing prty was defeated ana utterly destroyed by ocratic party, without recourse to a coun ter secret organization ftr the main reason that the Know Nothing" party had not the control of the federal government and hence were unable to up lold their organi zation by the purse and fiwurd. Until re cently, however, the enemies of the Ku Klux Klan possessed the government and wielded its mighty powcVs. They possess it to-duy, but only in naibe; not in reality. Let the grants of a mongrel and infamous- -'i'J pt p'Ty.jewarjLXuur. narly-jaJ. out stten. --rne castle Ot Radicalism has oeen permeated and uridermmed by the wiuie ani oi ute Ku-Jrlliix. The Ku-Klux Klan is political organization, WW INO. 108. the pump. While on the boatv the artr. and lead form a load for a strong man. Under the "water they -impose horealizab' weight and in ho, way impede motio Mr. Hill has informed us that he he while under water, clambered up stu: chions, jumped down hatchways, a distan of twelve anil fifteen feet, with much gn? er ease and less risk than he might have formed the same feats but of water. ' Taki with him his tools, he lias frequently Wo; ed for hours. a't a time, patching up : X bottomsofsnaggedsteamers.sawingboar boring holes, driviorr-nails Sec. with r feet ease and accuracy. ; When the w; 4 i ciear lie can recognize shapes at: a t a . nco of t wo or t h reo feetn nda it a d members, with as blic security mav Bity, the sole object of which is to thwart radicalism, arrest .nejjro bouth, negro equality i i the North, per J. 1 T-1 1 l" w . . . 4 Union Cemetery, S:uthrn Srates, - 'Aprilis tie'7th,'lS(iS.". To tU Editor hf M: Ilraid:'. Bj eoitt-nand '.of the (jmnd Cy,clo'ps. of, tl secret orslirr k'lown to th'; outsilit; world as tho K'l-rX'Ux Klan,'I &m ' direct ed in the.' ni n i of truth ' an1 -jsjsticQ ta tnike the fol lowing .statement- in refereiic; to this or-, canizatiou.' The columns, of the Herald' hive boon - solectcd as the medhyn 6t Tins statement for the reason of its well-known' "metropolitan circulation. . It is a well-known axiom that men pre fer misrepresentation und slanderous criti cism to truth and charity. It is equally well known that there exist at this time in the; United States two (if not more) gig antic secret political organizations sustain-' ed by Congressional legislation, to wit: . Tho .Grand Army of the Republic," a se cret, oath-bound military order, and the 'Loyal'; League," which is composed in the Southern States almost exclusively of ue gros and radical emissaries from the North. The grand object of these secret Radical iocieties is to keep ir. subjection the Dem ocratic party, of the North, and to Africanize the South, and thereby, acting in concert with Congressional legislation, perpetuate the rulet the Hadical party and change the American ' co vernmen t from a Tree re public to a mongrel despotism. The army And navy of tho United States, under the control of a Radioal Congress, have been nnd arc being used to destroy the liberties of a once free .people, andUo uphold and sustain with their mighty power the insid ious and devilish purposes ofthesecret or ganizations of the "Grand Anny of tlfelie naW and the "Loyal League.'; , There J'ore, tUVby no means woudorful 'thAt these Secret societies phould raie the cry of a mew jrcbelUon,'! rebel." "Southern trait- nsa:isan:"; Sea Lot tUn enemies of , jjroe. government and the advocates of negro equality and negro domination .-beware.! White men, and white men alone, are the Comprehensive exponents of constitutional liberty, and rniust and will exclusively rule and govern tfie American republic. Mich igan and (Connecticut but re-echo this . sen sentiment, 1 V .What, then, of rfic .Ku-Klux Klan? Is ifa ttiyth or a stern reafityf We answer that it iu great and unconquerable organ ization. It is not confined exclusively to any State or Territory of the American Ujiioot but has strength and form wherever the flag of the American republic is recog nixed as-themblem of constitutional lib urtV:" In some localities the organization t nivh marc rrowertul tuau U tiers. . li 4 1 petuate the Federal U vim ll-MIIHUliOn H-Ttir1 ! And whoever asserts to lalscnooJ. i hat the K i-KltiY k'l ... 'secrets, unknown, to' the uninitiated is not orders of Free therefore, a secret le tesult of neces- domination in the non and n reserve fathers made it. he contrary utters kindi of timber. When the rivers are hieh and the water'ismuildy, everything is im penetrably black, rendering it immaterial. He has been at the business so long, that by the mere sense of touch he can instantly determine what portion of the wreck he is exploring; can cork up cracks, or patch up holes; can determine the character of the suuken cargo; pass from hatch to hatch through the hole, and do everything else under water that an expert blind man might do on land. He says that he breathes full and satisfactory; that there is no stifling sensation, no odds how long he remains un der. Indeed so accustomed is he to life and labor under water, that he feels somewhat lost when his stay on land i protracted. He is of opinion that three years of his life have been spent under water, yet he has no scales on his body, no sign of fins or gills; now even web teet. lie is, to all intents and purposes, a human being, not eveu parta king of the nature of a mer-man or any other fish. Cairo (III) Democrat. V A LOBSTER AT DINNER. -' A writer in a foreign j paper thus pleas- antly refers to the habits of this peculiar shell-fish: A lobster is a particular fel low in his food. I have been watching one in my large marine aquarium. If a portion of food be thrown down to him, he immediately sets his long horns at work to ascertain the whereabouts of his dinner. If he does not like it, he at once pushes it away from him, with the attitude ofj an epicure, who bids the waiter take away a plateofmeat he does not fancy. If tho food is agreeable to him, he munches it up, moving his jaws in a peculiar way, like a weaver, making a blanket. He tears his food into large pieces, Heaving the actual -very b if he? 'hud tell that i wasn't drunk that e, but that my stummuck was out ov 'et ahud'ask him tew state over a tew irds, jesjhow a man felt and acted when was vvell set up. tf i wasn't drunk that nite i had sum ov i most natural simptums that a man ever lrand'kep sober. h the - first place it watf about SO rods i where i drank the lager beer to mi aiid i was over 2 hours on the road, liad a hold bustid thru each one ov mi :tlbon neez, and didn't hav any hat, and Jto open the door by the bell-pull, and upped avfully, and saw everything in rqom;tryingjo et on the back side ov ind in setting down in a cliair i didti't .vtig-fewii? for ittd- gk'-exirtty,: aader me-Av'hen it was goin round, andi set down a liltle too soon and missed the chair about 12 Inches, and couldn't git up soon enuff to. tike the next one that cum along; and thalain't awl; mi wife sed i waz az drunk az abeest, and az i sed before, i began to spin up things freely. If ager beer is not intoxicating, it used me llost almighty mean, that i know. Sti I, i hardly think that lagr beer is in toxicating, for i hav been told so; and i am protibly the. only man living who ever drarvenny when his life was not plumb. I don't want:to say anything agin a harrsless temperance bevridge, but if i ever dritu any more, it will be with mi hands tiedjbehind'me, and my mouth pried open, I don't think lager beer is intoxicating, but if i remember right, i think it tastes to me like' a glass of soap suds, that a pickle had been put tew soak in. ALEXANDER T. STEWART. Alexander T. Stewart is a native of Ire land. He came to this country while a youngjman, and was at first employed in teaching. He soon engaged in a small way as a merchant. His first store was opened in 1S2, and was conducted, in all its de partments by himself. His ad apt ability to his new pursuit soon became manifest in his prosperity. At a fortunate juncture he purchased the structure known for so in any years as Stewart's Marble Palace, on the corner of Chambers street, Broadway and Rende street. In erecting this immense building on the east side of Broadway. Mr. Stewart committed two acts of innovation which plaiuly indicated his independence and nerve. - The West side of Broadway was jijvvTi as the promenade. or 'shillinu' ir,f.rnnl itU e..A V..i PS S Vrau WHS SUppOeU 10 WLn ir,e. ..." ! "Vlr un.y on uie uest sine; wnne never uemeo; so nave the anr.i but. of the stomach. out for a 'constitutional.' and is not in a particular hurry, he carries hisgreat claws in front of him, well away from the ground. He 'wolks' upon the little legs which are underneath his body, while he keeps his horns moving in front of his nose, Jike a blind man tann'm? the fljjrs with his 'stick 11 - O- before had the most venturesome trades man dared to invest ino costly a structure. To one who now visits Broadway for the first time, it will hardly seem possible that until within the past fifteen years, Stew art's marble store' was the only marble building on that magnificent street. He may be said to have fixed the character of V ' TOO MUCH HONEY. 'Mr. P., a wealthy man retired from -business, was urged by a friend to engage iu a mercantile scheme, from which large prof its were apparent. ? You, arc right," said he, 4as regards the probable success of the scheme, but I shall not embark in it. I have top mach money already." . . He was asked to explain, and remarked, "Yes,. I would not cross the street to gain thousands. I should be happier if my in come. were less. Iam old, and in a year or two whatever I possess will avail me naught. My daughters are dead, aud I have three 6ons whom I dearly love. My own education had been neglected; my for tune was gained by. honest labor and iare- I resolved that my sous should have every advantage.. They each received a good, classical education, and I then gave them the choice of a profession. The eldest would be a physician, the second chose the law, the third resolved to followT my foot steps as a merchant. This was all to my mind; I was proud of my sons, and hoped one day to see them distinguished, or at least useful to their fellow-men. I had spared no expense in their training; they had never wanted money, for I gave to each a liberal allowance. . Never had men fairer opportunities, but look at the results. The physician has no patients; the lawyer no clients; while the merchant instead of fol lowing my example is above visiting his counting room. In vain urge them to great er diligence. '.What is the response? 'There is no use, father-t-we shall never want mo ney; we knowr you have enough for all. Thus, instead ol beiiiv energetic and useful members of society, my sous are mere idlers and men of vain display.' - Had they been forced to struggle against difficulties to gain their professions, and were, even'now, de pendent on their own exertions for support, they would, iu all probability, have done credit to themselves and me." American Continent A COOL CUSTOMER. Out at Columbus, in Ohio, lives a little, weazen, dried-up, shabby-looking politician, named Joe (J . . He 'A lit Dili Iu n inn l..r liici A K . . x T J the least thins alarms backward on Ids little him, he scuttles legs, whicn move Monry, Odd-Fellows!, p and other secret ' rVL ral,ld,tV ot th k:Ss ot a centipede, order and sodetie: hJ. lik 1?,- Af,r,JAl ne docs not 8 enough in this way, ry and Odd-Feliowsiii. , the objects and ; sudde,l,y en;,I,s his tail towards him, purposes of the Ku-Klux Klan ihave thus i ,'ke V" 8Ui,J,i,y closing his hand, and boen for .the first time oiriciallv promul- i "T, baw"r4 wuh jerk, like an ?India gated. The increduio-.is and guilty may I rubbe,Vb;lllV'U,l,s hi half. He always carp and misrepresent; but the wicketl, tho : mt0 ijls cave t:,il remiost, aud he ungodly and the perjurJd will soon feel the I J, HS th ,iJOSt wonderfully, good shots at keen edae of th sii-Ul.l ! tt,0 'irr;ua,i.. ! tlle entrance. I really think the lobster - ----- w rftW 1 I IDI VlW border of the white ant Let the coffin be closed. GabbieL G. G. T. & V. THREE YEARS UNDER WATER. About twenty years ago Hiram Hill, then well knowti in . Cuiro,. accepted em ployment on Messrs. Kads & Nelson's wrecking or sub-marine bell boats. In time ho was installed a diver, and as such we propose to speak of him. He remain ed in the employment if Messrs. Eads and Nelson a period of eigl teen years. He is now on Messrs. Dugan & Co's. Underwri ters, where we saw liim yesterday, and leanied something of the fife of a diver. The use of a bell, in dicing, is now discard ed. ' Tho diver wears u water titrhr. rmnr wav excent the head. which H covered by an inverted metalic pot, in which the head can turn and move at ease. - Thick, transnarent xlass is fixd in t a - - tront to serve as windows; and to prevent accident this glass is protected by steel guards or fenders. Equipped in this'armor, the diver puts on a pair of dejidisoled shoes, weighing each twenty pouuds lashes to his back and breast a piece of lead weighing forty pounds, attaclUs the tub through which he receives air, to the back of the head-pot, and them is eady for his subma rine explorations, Jl i generally descends to the bottom of the iver by the use of a ladder, but nan, without incurring any risk, jump, from the. boat and sink . to the bot to.ii. The moment he disappears underwa ter the air pump commences its work of supplying him with a constant stream of fresh air. If at anv time, the nir e.renf.p too great a pressure ipon him, the pres sure is relieved by a self-acting yal re, fixed ;at the side of the hea. If the pump does not furnish sufficient iir the diver indicates the fact by signs, aul the supply is in creased. Mr. Hill informs us that 'he has remained under water five hours at a time. -The great weight of lead fastened upon his feet and body is liecessary to counter tliejb'uoyan'cy of air furnished hiin by must have an eye in his tail somewhere. Our pet lobster is not willing that the se crets of her loih-t should be exposed to vul gar gaze,- so the first night she was in the tank, she artfully collecd cockle and oys ter shells, and made' a trench round herself, after the fashion of the Romans when they took possession' of a hill-top. A branch of sea-weed forms a canopy over her head, and'there she is at this minute, in a house of her own making, a regular "compound householder with no taxes to pay." r : ' LAGEE SEER. BY JOSH HILLINGS. I hav finally cum ! tew the conclusion that larger beer as a beverage is not iutox i eating." I hav bin told so by a geman who sed he hed drunk it awl nite long, just to try the experiment, and was obliged to go home entirely sober j m the morning. I hav seen this Fame man drink sixteen glasses, and if he was drunk he was drunk in ger man, and nobody cpuld understand it. It is proper enuff to state that this man kept a lager beer saloon, aud could have no ob ject in stating what was not strictly, thus. I believed him tew the full extent ov my ability. I uever drank but three glasses ov lager beer in mi life, and that made mi hed ontwist as tho it was hung on the end ov a string, but I was told that it was owia to mi bile bein out ov place; and i1 guess that it Was so, for i never biled over wuss. thati i did when i got hum that nite. My;wife thot that i was goin tew die, and i was afraid that i shouldn't, for it did seem as tho every thing i had ever eaten in my life waz cummin to the surface, and i do really believe that if mi wife hadn't pulled off mi boots jest as she did, they .would hav cum thunderin np too. " . 0! how sick i was! 14 years ago, and i can taste it now. j I never had so much experience in so short a time. 1 If enny man shud tell me that lager beer was not intoxicating, i -shud beleve hid ; tenal is used for the business houses on Broadway. . In 18G0 tire splendid retail store on the corner of Tenth street was b'lilt, which, with the addition now being made, will occupy nearly the entire block, bounded by Broadway, Tenth street, Fourth Avenue and Ninth street. This is, undoubtedly, the largest retail dry goodi store iu the world, nnd, without, question, the most perfect and systematic in its ar rangements. In the fact, the one word, system, inay.be regarded as the key to his wonderful success. Everything connected with the business is 'subjected to the most exact system. The business ilself may be likened to a huge machine with every cog, wheel, belt aud pulley in its dace. There is little or no freedom of action among the numerous employees of the establishment. Every movement is regulated as if by clock work, and whoever cannot conform at once to the arrangement, is permitted,, without auy circumlocution, to form a part of some other machine. Mr.-Stewart has just completed the most costly, and elegant private residence in this country, on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Thirty-fourth street, the exterior being of his favorite fnateri.'.l, white marble, elabo rately wrought. The cost of this palace Is variously estimated at from one to two mil lions of" dollars. '. It certainly should not be considered extravagant for a man to invest the thud of a one year's earnings in a pri vate residence. - Mr. Stewart is a public-minded citizen, and contributes liberally of his immense wealth to charitable purposes. There have been various reports as to his practical phi lanthropy, in erecting cheap dwellings for the poor, alter the manner of Mr. Peabody's London plan. . In thus hastily reviewing the career of these eminent men, one point will be ob servable. Their success has been the result of unremitting labor in the special direc tions chosen, and of unbending f-utcgrity and promptness in all matters of business. The leading idea upon which Mr. Stewart's fortune was founded was the steady per sistence in the "one price" system. Who ever purchases an article at his counter can be.sure that he pays neither more nor less than anybody else. Aud more than this, every article-sold ii just what it U repre sented to be. A clerkr cannot commit a more positive offence than to claim for an article qualities which it does not possess. He would be as soon discharged for such an actas for dishonesty towards his pi oyer. American Continent: em- is the most insig nificant looking specimen of humanity one would meet in a month, but smart as a steel trap, and any one who takes him for a fool will find himself sadly deceived, j H is notorious for furnishing the finest speci men of cool impudence of any man in Ohio. The fujlQwiiHjLi of this iraiFot his character, is Told ot inm: Some years ago, being in Philadelphia, he received an introduction to a prominent divine of that city. The reverend gentle man invited Joe to attend his church on a certain Sunday, which invitation was ac cepted. They entered the sacred rdifiee to gether. It was one of the first churches in the bity, and its members were fashionable and aristocratic in the extreme. The minister put Joe into an elaborately fur nished pew well to the front. Joe nes tled comfortably down into one corner of i the same, and looked about as interesting and comfortable ad a toad under a cabbage leaf. After a while the owner of the pew ar rived, and at once gave signs of intense disgust an'd indignation at ti e presence of the interloper. He looked at Joe, looked at the pew, scowled magnificently, and finally, after fumbling through his pockets for some time, drew forth a card and wrote on it with a pencil: "77t is my sett, 5'7" and with an air ol the loftiest contempt, tossed it over to Joe. The latter took it up, read it with lamb like meekness peculiar to himself, and then, wit ii the most dehizhuul coolness, wrote in reply: "It's a devilish good seal! What rent do you pay?" and tossed the card back to its OAvner The latter took it, looked at it with the most profound astonishment a minute. or two, and then a broad orin over spread his countenance. He evidently en joyed the sublime brass and coolness of hir new acquaintance, and when service ' was over he approached Joe, apologized for hi rudcutss, incited him to his house, gave him the best he had, and treated him with the utmost respect and consideration' dur ing his sojourn in the. city. ! . A Day Without a Night. One night in July we landed on the shore of a north ern fiord in latitude sixty d'g. north, i We ascended a clifi" which rose 1,000 feet above the level of the sea. It was late, but still sunlight. The Arctic ocean stretched a way in silent vastness at our feet, j The sound of its waves scarcely reached our airy lookout. Away in the north the huge old sun swung along the horizon like the slow beat of the pendulum in the tall clock in our grandfather's parlor comer. When both hands came together at 12, midnight, the full round orb hung tiiumphantly above the w.ave--a bridge of gold running; due north spanned the waters between us and nim. There he shone in silent .majesty, which knew no setting. We involuntarily tciok ofl'our hats; no wo'd waseaid. C'o.n b:ne if you can, the ino-t bril)i;tiit "sunrise aud sunset yoi ever saw, .and its heities will pale bclore the most gorgeous color ing which now lit up the ocean, heaven and mountain. In half an hour the sun had swung up perceptibly on its beat, thr colors changed to those of the morning, a fresh breeze ripple J over the fiord, one songster afrer another piped up in the uroye behind us -we had slid into another day. Norway -Letter. JOSH BILLINGS ON BEDXBTJGS. I never see anybody y t .what des pised bed-buggs. They are the meanest of all crawling, creeping, hopping, or bit ing things. They dassent tackle a man by dalite; but sneak in after dark, and chaw him while he is fast asleep. ' A musketo will fight you in broad dalite at Short range, and give you a chance tew knock at his sides the flea 4s a game bug, and will make a dash at you even in Broadway but the bed bug is a garroter, who waits till you strip aud then picks out a mellow place to eat you. , If I waz in the habit of swearing, ! would poUi qsitalJola his face. ' ' ft " - 1 Bed-buggs are uncommon "smart in 'a small way one pair of them will stock a hair mattress in 2 weeks with bugs enuff tew last a small family a whole year. It don't do enny good to pray when bed buggs are in season; the only wiiy to git rid of them is tew bile up the whole bed in aquafortis aud then heaye it away and buy a new one. Bed-buggs, when they hev grone all ihfy intend to, are about the size of a blue-jay "a eye, and have a brown complexion, and when they start out to garrote are as a grce.se spot, but when they git thru gar rotiug they are' swelled tip jike a blister. It takes them t(iree days to get the swelling out of them. If bed-buggs have enny destiny to fill, it must be their stummuks, but it seems to me that they must have been made by acksident, just as slivvers are, tew stick iu to somebody. If they wuz got up for some wise pur pose they must hev took the wrong road, for there can't be any wisdom in chewing a man aul nite long, and raisin' a family, besides, tew follow the same trade. If there is sum' wisdom in all this, I hope the buggs will'clTevv them folks who kan see ir, and leave me be. because I am one of the heretics. 1834-1867. v Thirty-three years. One generation. In 1S34 the total valuation of the real and personal propeity of this city was re turned by the assessors as one hundred and eighty-six millioudollars SlSG,54S,5Jl. In 1SG7 the total valuation ot real and personal property was returned at eight 50L713. The taxes collected in the City of New York in the year 1S;H arr.i)unteato eight j hundred and thirty-five tbimsnd dollars SSi3-3,GO-5 to somewhat less than one mil lion. In 1SG7 our Suite and City taxes were twenty-two million tJollafs S22.17G, S7S S3. We have increased the rate of taxation as well as the aggregate. 'Thu rate in 1S34 was less than oue-half one per cent.; in 1SG7 the rate was nearly two and three-quarters per cent. 2 G7-100. j. uui i-a uu w inn wouoeriui mcreaso in this most wonderful city, as well as do the curious statements of the "oldest inhab-. itants," who remember when Canal street was "up-town," and when Madison Square was a country farm. American Continent. New Things in Snakes There is a snake of more than ordinary hideous de scription which infests the Brazilian forests, and the plains up toward the country in which the head waters of the Amazon take their rise. It is described as having a hood on the back of its head, ' somethings like that sometimes attached to a lady's cloak, and it crawls up to a sleeping man or animal, throws the tiood over the sleep---its' face, aud then quickly breathing its poisonous breath therein, the sleeping man or animal inhales it and dies. A company oi. explorers mat weni to the head waters of the Amazon from New York, in IS-54-5, reported that they lost several members of their party in tnis way. They would find a man dead in the morning, his body livid and swollen; and showing evident signs of poison, but no mark of biceor stiti;; upon hi.iK V Tiiey could not account for the casualties, until the natives told them of the reptile, and explained its mode of operating. I Tliis sn.ke is represented ag growing to the length of twenty feet. New Sea-Moxstejcs. Within lour or flvo years,. M. Houren-j has excited theattentiou of the French Academy considerably by an account of an enormous cephalopod seen by Lieut. Bouyer, about forty leagues' north of Teneriif;. It is said to have ap peared thirty or forty feet in length," hav ing a soft, gelatinous body, like an im mense horn, about two yards wide in tho widest part, and surrounded by very strong arms or ten.icles. After bing shot at and h.irn )one a rone was nasoJ rourid t n i ' i - body of the creature, but the rope cut tho flesh, and only the posterior part of the' body was cap ured. Lieut. Bouyer, was afraid to let the sailors pursue the remain der of the monster in the boat lest its lonsr tcnacles armed with suckers, might enable it to swamp them all. It is said that the fishermen of the Canary Llands often meet with similar creatures, about two yards , long. M. Milne Edwards speaks of numer ous instances of monster cephalopoda beinj en, all not of the same species, and : hiuks there are many kinds of them in th depth of the sea, which far extend in bj.k 4 iny knowu invertebrate animal.
The Eagle [1866-1875] (Fayetteville, N.C.)
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April 28, 1868, edition 1
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