North Carolina Newspapers

! - f . : CI I -h.-.-iVi - :''' -V- ' - --1 r f . , 1- : r : T .1 ITntt'H of - A.lvcitiiiijj t One squard, ono time, ' - -u- - 100 ' ; I " two times,- . - - i f0 ,r j " three times,- - - - - 2 00 A square ? the tehlth 0 a column, nnd 11 inches depr- , J&f Contract Advertisements taken at proportionately low rates. , j . Professional Cards, not exceed tag 1 square, will be puWished pne joar-for $12. f . TRI -TV K EX I. Y WEEKLY BY THE j i ERA PUBLISHING COMPANY. - - . - f Ttate of fcSulcrition t f Tri-Weeklt One year, in advance, $3 00 o montns, in advance, z oo I . . 3 months. In advance? . 1 00 ! 1 month, in advance. f 60 Weekly On year. In advance, .1 00 "Vol. 1. RALEIGH, N Ci; THURSDAY. AUGUST h' lO, 1Q71 - y r ' :s ' NO: lO. i six monuis, in advance, f ! 50 rial - 1 , ,1 llll ill ill 1 I , , - - , ' 9X I :.f. i ? KU KLUX DIABOLISM. Eleven Pregnant Facts Brought to Liglit by . the Congressional k Investigating CbmmitteeJls Conservative Paterni ty, its JTeUish Features and Forty Purpose. The Congressional Committee inves tigating the Ku Klux villainly a sub committee in "Washington and another ssub-committeoln South Carolina have now been in daily session mocp tlian two months, and have had before them many scores of witnesses from all sec tions of the late insurrectionary' States men of both , high and humble sta tion presiding elders, preachers, ex- members of the Federal Congress and ex-members of the Confederate Con gross, ex-generals of both armies Governors, ex-Governors, judges, so licitors, Sheriffs, Revenue officers, ofll cera of the army, postmasters, school teachers, repentant and non-repentant members of Ku Klux Klans,and dozens of their maimed and suffering victims, black and white. What has this political and thorough examination established ? It has proven leyond all doubt the following facts: 1. That in all the late insurrectionary States! and crenerally diffused, though not found in every county, is an oath bound secret onranization, workim only at night, and its members always in disguise, with officers, signs, signals, lass-words, grips, and all the necessary Iaraphernalia, with the pledged and sworn purpose of putting down the Republican and putting up the Coriser ative party : known in different locali ties among the initiated by different names, but everywhere recognized by the general edgnomen of "Ku Klux." 2. That the organization came into Ijeing a few months previous to the last v Vi i as .1 ; . 1. ' 1 I'resiuemiai eieciion, uurmir wiucu mnmni it. wn in its most vigorous non- dition. but is now through all the South, with more efficient discipline and .effective direction than ever, reviv ing, in preparation for the 'next Presi dential campaign, when, as they told one of their victims in Tennessee a few weeks since, 'no d d Radical voting is to be allowed in any Southern State, by black or white." j 3. That thW organization is the pre meditated and determined scheme for carrying the South at the next election of President, and so, by securing the entire electoral vote of that section, make sure thc election of the Demo cratic nominee. "-' 4. That the officers and cstabhshers pf these 'dens," as they appropriately cull their separate bands, are the lead ing and active Conservatives of the South. - I o. That the scheme has the hearty good will of a large section of the Con servative party in all those States, and the acquiescence of nearly the entire party. G. That the direct and chief purpose of the organization, as sworn by all the victims, as the assertion uniformly made to them by these midnight assas sins, and corroborated by the univer al testimony 'of the repentant and di vulging members of the order, is this : The putting down of the Republican and the putting up of the Conservative parfy. 7. That while the Democratic and Ku Klux witnesses on their direct ex amination usually deny the political purrse of the order, asserting that the Ku Klux are a social necessity grow ing out of the abolition of the old patrol ; that they have j to ride the country to keep the nig gers in their place ; that under thd in lluence of Republican legislation and .Methodist preaching, the niggers: are liable to become saucy, and without an occasionaldxu Klux visit would ; begirt to think themselves as good as white folks ;" and that these frequent flog gings, and an - occasional murder, are necessary to maintain such a state of morals among the blacks as will ier mit the vice-hating 'whites to live in their neighborhood; yet, on the cross examination, these witnesses also very generally, as well as very reluctantly, confess that the intimidation of Repub lican voters is a prominent and not to 1)Q regretted result. . 8. That to secure this purpose, putting down. of the Republican the and the putting up of the Conservative larty, intimidation is the grand meas urethe intimidation of Republican voters, black and white, but especially the humble and defenseless, by mid night raids ; by burning houses and stores, and, the destruction of crops; by whippings of such extreme cruelty as often to end in death ; by most inde cent and painful maiming, by assas sination and murder in such cowardly manner and with such hellish device as may strike terror into whole coun ties, and bring down the Republican vote from two or three thousand to less than a single dozen. 9. That "school-teachers," and "preachers of the Methodist Church !North," seem to be the especial abhor rence of these Conservative assassins : and hundreds of school-houses and Methodist churches have been given to the flames; and Christendom i will stand aghast when it is made , known the scores of school-teachers and Meth odist preachers, who, by this Conserva tive agency .within these three years, have been Whipped ! Shot ! Ilung ! and, in same instances, it is believed, burned at the stake. ! 10. That in nearly one-half the States of this Union this work of hell is now going on, night by night every month extending the range of its bloody opera tions, and fearfully multiplying, the number of its victims ! , i 11. That it is solely and immediate ly in the service of the Conservative party a large portion of .the party isbuth heartily approving large num lK?rs of the party North attempting its filiation by excuse, and its shelter rom scorn by covering up or denying its crimes, as if cowardly assassination could'be palliated and brutal murder excused and the Conservative party throucrhout the land rejoicing in its promise of help. i5ox either by open and acknowledged action, or by the no less criminal and the more cowardly imrticipation of extenuating and shield ing the crime, the party, South and iNortn. Decome Derore tne people ana before God equal sharers in the respon sibility. . Out or the mouths of more than two hundred witnesses is every syllable of this established ; and more than ten thousand of the shroudfess dead, from hidden places by the wayside.in swamp ana mountain, ana from tne sleep less ashes of fired homes, shout their ghastly amen ! A single instance of these thousand outrages perpetrated : upon an Ameri can citizens on foreign soil, would be thought ample cause for war ; and our entire navy would hasten to enforce the nations's indignation. And such abuse as is daily meted out to these humble Methodist preachers, if offered one of our missionaries on-neatnen ground, would arouse the whole American Church until every mind was laden with demands for 44 protection. " The thanks of all citizens who love right and hate rapine are due the faith ful men of this committee, who. for getting their own ease, have sd indus triously devoted these hot montns to the uneathing of this giant villainy. Christian men of our country! llu mane men ! All decent men.we appeal to you I Is a party . worthy of life in this land which seeks supremacy through such hell born measures THE FAMINE IN PERSIA. The telegraphic accounts of the Per sian famine exceed in horror anything In modern history. The recital of the practices to which the people have been driven for food is absolutely sickening and we might wish rather that a veil could be drawn over t the revolting de tails of cannabalism and the violation of cemeteries, than that .all the fearful Incidents of the famine should trans pire, t JMal-adminisuation i appears to have been the cause of the worst phases of the scourge. A derth of provisions last year should. have directed the atten tion of the government to the impor- tan ce of stimulatinsr the jrrowth of cram and other lood. nut the- agri- culture of the country continued tQ oe largely devoted to the production of cotton and opium, and when the small crop of grain to which the people look ed forward in the spring of 1871 had failed, the srovernment With inconceiv able fatuity increased the taxes imposed upon the husbandmen of the country. The result was a rush of the people of the rural i districts to the cities where the taxes were light, and the depopu lation of whole districts from the want food. All the horses, all the domestic ani mals, were quickly consumed, then the starving thousands killed and ate their children', then they, exhumed the dead for food, and, as a natural consequence, pestilence added its desolations to the ravages of the famine. The condition of the unhannv neonle is rendered still more aepioraoie oy tne . , v .... . . f fact that they - are not allowed to leave Persia. Upon the Russian boundary they are hemmed in by the quarantine regulations of the government of the Czar, and it is expected that the British government of India will establish the cordon sanitaire on the line which sep arates Persia from its dominions. In every; aspect the case is horrible." ml a V A ! ine auty seems piain to senu supplies at once to feed the emaciated survivors, but it will be also necessary to send beasts of burden to transport these sup plies into the interior from the Persian Gulf. Altogether, it is the saddest page in the record of this distressful year. iV. P". Post.- INTEMPERANCE AT LONG BRANCH.- Dissipation at the Popular Watering Place. A correspondent of the New York Commercial Advertiser, writing from Long Branch, deals with a very disa greeable phase of life at that fashion able watering place. Manjvof the gen tlemen, so-called, who frequent the ho tels of that place are altogether too fond of the cup that inebriates. Some of them, as is the case elsewhere, drink so freely as to make themselves abso utely disgusting to their wives. One lady wished that intemperance might be a ground for divorce, saying, with fire in her eye, 'If that .time .should ever come 1 would dissolve my part nership very soon with a whiskey bar rel." Unfortunely, inebriety is not wholly confined to the male sex. The same correspondents mentioned above writes : t "I am informed that at Ilowland's Hotel there is a very unhappy husband. His wife, one of the first families pf Philadelphia, a lady of rare beauty and accomplishments, has an ungovernable appetite for strong drink. She' has to be watched as closely as a candidate for the lunatic asylum, to prevent her from disgracing herself and family at the dinner table. When wine is being used, she suffers the "torments of - the damned." The very sight of it excites her much in the same way that a red flannel petticoat stirs up the cussedness of a mad bull the figure is coarse but expressive. She has no control of her self, and in order to keep temptation out of her way, her dinners are usually served in her room.; I pity her, and her husband more." This woman probably inherited her unconquerable appetite from her fash ionable ancestors, and how to remain respectable she is practically banished from lier proper circle of acquaintances and friends because of the popular vice of passing and using wine. Were she possessed with an uncontrollable desire to commit suicide by shooting herself, it would be considered both cruel and actionable for her friends to ostenta tiously put revolvers on the mantel shelves and centre-tables where she could get hold of them. Yet it is held perfectly proper to lure her on to both disgrace and death with wine. Mrs. VaMiANDIXgiiam. As reports are in circulation to the effect that the mind of this unfortunate lady has been shattered by her recent double bereave ment, the Cumberland (Md.V Times deems it necessarv to crive the state ment a denial, as it is informed on the best authority that although, physical ly, her suffering have been great, her mind is far from being in the deplora ble state represented, while her general health is rapidly improving. Any thing can be effected by industry. i Local politics are at a white heat just no,w. 1 Between the xammany misior tunes of alleged fraud exposures and the riot, the Republicans think they see their way clear to victory, provided they can harmonlze,and they .are strain ing every nerve to attain that union in which there Is strength. For this pur pose; a meeting was held at Apollo Hall last night, where more peace and good will was exhibited than has been the case among city Republicans for many a long day. It was decided to form one General Committee from all the strag gling committees throughout the city. Land although each one claims to be the only genuine Simon Pure Republican organization now extant, a strong dis position to concede and compromise little .differences was displayed. In deed, there is some probability that the Republican union will be effected uQ less Tammany comes down with una sual liberality and scatters dissension again. . " t On the democratic side the disaffec tion shows no-signs of abatement. The Irish Democratic Union, at a meeting last night at Masonic Hall, denounced Governor Hoffman and the militia and approved the action of Mayor Hall rel ative to the riot, while it incidentally threw a bomb into the camp of Steph en J. 3ieany and his co-operating fare- brands. But the most significant move ment pf the season is the organization of German citizens, who express them selves! dissatisfied with the ruling poli ticians of the city, and Who proposciio form a German , party, by which the immense German vote of the city may be consolidated and directed to their own benefit. A meeting with this end in view was held on First nvenue last evening, and was very enthusiastic and zealous. It was evident that the Ger mans mean business, and intend no longer to fritter away their political power. Under all these circumstances the Republican party of the city may wejl feel sanguine. The promising oppor tunities which presented themselves to the democracy are being uselessly thrown away, and with the disaffection of the Irish and (ierman voters the ller publicans need only harmony and hearty erood will to bring them to the front again. Herald. THE HERALD THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS AGO. t In an article concerning the New York newspapers of thirty-seven years ago, the Washington Pepublican has the following concerning tlje Herald'. Among the penny papers, of which about SOjOOO per diem were issued that year, may be mentioned the tSun, the Transcript, the Man. ana tne iiwd. The Herald at the day was so indecent a sheet that no respectable person pat ronized it. it received iavoraoie non ces from such notorious ' persons as Anne Royal 1, in consideration of com pliance ' with her usual demand for black mail, and irom others oi no char acter. It was published in a basement, and James Gordon Bennett, its edi tor, generally worked at the case. It came near collapsing a few months af ter it was started, owing to the propri etor not being able to meet his pecuni ary obligations. The day before a cer tain liability became due (the meeting of. which would determine the fate of the paper) Bennett tried all his friends . T 11 1 A !11 A. : to borrow ine money, uui wiuiout suc cess. As a last resort he tried a weal thy colored man, and to his surprise lie agreed to furnish the money the next day. But unfortunately this was the time of the New York abolition riots, and Bennett, to cater to the mob, in the -next number pitched into "the niggers and the niggers' friends. ' Thjs aroused the ire of his colored friends, j who called on him next morn ing after reading the article and told him he would not lend money to one who so abused his race. Foiled in this attempt, Bennett sought another weal thy colored man, and was iortunate enough to obtain the money just in sea son to save himself. Geo. T. Downing, the venerable caterer of New York,late of the refreshment room of the House of Representatives, can possibly tell the name of the "nigger" that saved the New York Herald from being sold out by the Sheriff. THE FARM PRODUCTS OF PENNSYLVANIA An abstract of the portions of the census of 1870 relating to the farms of Pennsylvania reports their cash value o be $l,043,48l,oS2; and tne annual value of products, including additions to stock and improvements of farms, to be nearly $184,000,000. As an agri cultural ; State the relative rank of Pennsylvania is declining rapidly. Her wheat crop is less than 20,000,000 bushels oerannum. an amount exceed ed by he products of some of the Wes tern Commonwealths which not many years ago were unbroken prairies ; and the farmers who reside: near large cities, where land is valuable, are in ( a UUUr pUSUJUU IU A7111JJCl3 nil" l"V farmers of the West in the productidn of wheat and corn. It is 'therefore natural enough that the value of the usual dairy products of this State, at he usual average prices, wouia exceea he value of the wheat crop; and we are only surprised that more . attention s not given to market gardens, ine an nual value" of their produce being set down at only $1,81G,01G. No return lias yet been matie 01 an nual value of the mining and inanu- acturing products of this State ; but our coal, iron, and oil, by the time they are 1 carried to the boundaries of the Commonwealth by Pennsylvania rail- ways, will probably approximate 10 he value of our agricultural products ; and this distribution pf ourindustries should satisfy all reflecting citizens of the suicidal folly of an endorsement of the i free-trade fallacies, which are direct i attacks upon our pnnci al sources of wealth. Pressi At Lawrence. Kansas, on Sunday, while a minister was holding forth im the church, a crowd got up a cock fight in the yard. The people who had con gregated in tho church went out I to stop the fight, but'awaited until the battle was over before objecting. The The minister looked out of the window at the crowd, and said. "We are all miserable sinners, which whipped?" POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN NEW YORK CIT Si THE NEW CANCER CURE. A Supply Expected in August How it i . & Obtained. ' - No" discovery in the medical world could be received with greater rejoic ing a cure for consumption, perhaps, excepted than the new cancer remedy; for while cancers are less frequently met with than consumption they present a certain, linsrerinsr death in its mast awful form, and they are hereditary. It! is not surprising then that the an nouncement of a cure ,should call out innumerable applications for the cun durando. The steamer Ocean Queen, which arrived at thi3 port from Aspin wall on Saturday,1 brought intelligence that a large supply of the plant may be expected in the Aspinwall steamers due here on the 1st and 15th of August. About three mon'hs'rsro the State Department at Washington received a few pounds of the cundurango from the Government of Ecuador, through its Minister to this Scountry, with a com munication describing it. But little importance was attached to the matter at first, and it might have been neglec ted altogether, had not Dr. Bliss been given a small Quantity of the plant by the Ecuadorian Minister, who happened . -m -m rrt 1 i J ? 1 to be unaer ms care. j. nougn sKepxicai as to its virtues, he began to use it in his practice, and obtained such surpris ing results that the limited supply of the remedy "in Washington was soon divided among eager applicants. About fifteen cases of cancer have been treated with it in this country, and in all its use has been attended by a wonderful improvement of the patient, though the necessarily small doses given have been Insufficient to produce its mil ei- fects. . -Mrs.-Matthews J- the mother of Vice President Colfax, has been nearly cured of a cancer which it was feared would end" her life within the year, although she had taken less than five ounces of the cundurango when the supply gave out. The wife of George C. Gorham, Secretary of the Senate, and ai lady in Utica, to whom some of the remedy was sent by Secretary Fish, are among the other sunerers whom a lew ounces have nearly cured. The mode of administering the plant is very sim ple, it being merely steeped in boiling water, and the profusion taken in ternally. ; ! ; As the news of the discovery gained circulation, a great number of applica tions were sent to Washington from all parts of the country, 20 to 30 letters a day being received by Dr. Bliss, and an equal number by the State Depart ment. Many persons, j refusing to be lieve that the supply was exhausted, went themselves to Washington from distant points, in the fruitless effort to obtain the precious drug. Dr. ; Bliss, when convinced that the cundurango was a specinc ior cancer, sent an or der for 500 pounds of it to a business house in Guayaquil. He soon learned, however, that7 as it was not an article of commerce, it was impossible to ob tain it by ordinary- commercial meth ods. He therefore despatched his part ner, Dr. Keene, as an agent to procure a supply. To facilitate his mission, Dr. lveene was given an omciai char acter, by an appointment as bearer of dispatches to the Government of Ecua dor, and was supplied by letters of recommendation by President Grant, Mr. Colfax, Mr. Fish, and other prom inent persons. ! He writes that the task of obtaining the cundurango is more difficult than was expected. The roads to the Loja district are rough i and unfrequented, the rainy season is not yet over, the streams are swollen, and dangerous to cross, and the Indians are disposed to throw every obstacle in the ; vay of foreigners, of whom they are deeply jealous and suspicious. However, when he wrote he was on the point oi start ing for thetinterior, and was confident of procuring a supply of the cunduran go in season ior it to reacn in is port, early in August, on arriving in tne Loja district he will hire a lorce oi. In dians to gather the plant, and bring it down from the mountains, where it grows at points so high as to be inac cessible to beasts of burden. It will then be packed on mules, and trans ported to the coast.' Dr. Keene found that orders for cundurango had been re ceived at Guayaquil from persons In England, France,; Italy, and other countries, to the governments of which the government of Ecuador had fur nished samples. None of these orders had been filled. Ex-Governor L. L. Gibbs, of Idaho, sailed from this port for Ecuador last week! Dr. Bliss hav ing engaged his services in aid of those of Dr. Keene.i--iVew York Tribune. SEQUEL TO A FORMER BANK ROBBING. Five years ago Genevieve Brower, a beautiful girl from Maine, was arrest ed on a charge of conspiring with Ed ward Jenkins to rob the Phoenix Bank, in this city. Jenkins was paying teller of the bank, and stole over $100,000. He confessed that he had given a large portion of tho money to Genevieve, whom he habitually visited in Madame Bell's saloon, in Broadway, where she was employed as a waiter. Jrie had furnished a house for her in Bleecker street and was about to elope with her when the officers of the band discover ed the defalcation and caused his arrest. Both prisoners were subsequently re leased - ; ; '" ' Two years after the ! occurrence Jen kins died in St. Luke's hospital, and Miss. Brower returned to the home of her mother, in Portland, Maine. Tier mother, however, ;was soon prostrated by sickness,and Genevieve was her only attendant. She cared for her night and day, and owing to the want of sleep and fatigue she became stone blind. When her mother died Genevieve was led to the house of her sister, I a married resi dent of Brooklyn, and some wealthy persons sent her at their own expense to an up-towri assylum for the blind. She speaks kindly of Jenkins, but la ments that he ever crossed her mth. iY. Y. Sun. 1 . It is a curious fact that during the ravages of the plague in Buenos Ayres, nearly depopulating the city, not one of the three hundred and sixty grave- diggers" employed died of the lever. . The gravel of General Leonidas Polk, at Augusta, Ga., is decorated with flowers every morning by a lady - who lives in that city. - i DIAMOND SEEKING. A Visit to Golconda Busy. . Scenes T7ie thirst for Gain. - : . , From the Cornhlll Magazine.' A broad valley, with a gentle sweep through which winds ; a ' river about a hundred, yards , wide. - Willow. r trees skirt its banks, and they are the only sign of vegetation visible.-- Little roun ded hills, called "Kopjes," also staind along the stream. Wagons, carts , apd vehicle of every kind: tents of all shapes ; buildings,' hastily 'put upj of plankaron and brick. Ant-like figures swarming everywhere, especially nar the water's edge boats plying on the river, and a dike scehei oF activity ton the other sidej A great buzz and hum. Such are one's, first impressions. Get ting nearer, apd' traversing the centre of this busy scene, one is struck '"by the intentness with which all do . their work. Some are shovelling gravel and dirt out of their claims ; some are driv ing this to thd river , bank, , where the cradles are at work ; some are engaged in washing rocking, or sorting the dart .when it gets there- Day after day the process goes on. A lew hours work! in the morning. & siesta at noon, more work towards! evening. Some ardent searchers, toil on even by torchlight. You hear a shout, the report of a gun, and follow a rush to'., a certain spbt, where a lucky . digger has made a find. Week by week he . has labored on for naught, his fingers have been sacrifi(jed and his nails worn down, to no purpose Now. all at once, his eyes have fallen acros the long-Iooked-for prize this tinny bit of crystal, with its rare secre tion of light. And off, with redoubled zest, the envious spectators rush j to ineir worit again, . , . 4 Every want! that man can have here is easily to be of the innume gratified at one or other of the innumerable stores, canteenssor inns that dignify by their imposing titles the frail tenements they occupy. Here, at Pnei , we are in the heart of the digging district' Opposite is Klfp drift, Hebron,! Gong-gong, Good Hope, Bad Hope, Sifonell ; and other centres of work lie albng the river, on either side, for a distance of eighty, miles. Every week brings with it a new. rush. Within six months ten thousand peo ple have found their way here. Al, ready politics Jiave asserted their sway, and more than one revolution has taken place. There the territory ; that British are many claimants for but all express a hope rule will be established here, and that the appointment ofj a British magistrate is an earnest of this change. Considering that this throjpg comprises men of every grade and stamp, the orler that, prevails is sur prising; but & stronger organization than yet exists will be needed to pre serve health and order efncientlyjin the future. j Thus we have reached our destina tion, and the monotony of digging can scarcely be greater than that of trayel by an ox-wagon. Thirty days' occu pancy of that Vehicle, however, hasjat tached us all jto it, and toriiight we regard it affectionately. Hundreds! of camp-fires blaze around ; . lights flick er upon the river ; music and laugh ter are borne jto us through the air ; oxen low, andj Kafirs chant their songs. Over and upon all the thick stars shine peacefully. Here, in this remote Afri can wilderness, where a year ago the jackal and the! vulture stalked in the pe- curity of solitude, we may now sleep surrounded by thousands 01 our ienorvv men THE SAD PLIGHT OF MRS. BOWKN NUMBER 3.. I ..; As for Mrs. Bowen, her case excites the deepest interest and sympathy here. She is devotedly attached to her nu merous husband and declares that she will stick to him. : She believes tfiat her marriage was legal, and that it was formed in good laim by both laer husband and herself. It is said thfey are now living together, occupying a house here owned by herself. Bo wen's friends assert that he will at once take steps to procure a legal divorce to which he is entitled, while persons mo are not particularly ineirajy say ne will do nothing of the kind that he is not entitled to a divorce -that no court would dare to grant it now, and that he dare not apply for it; but that he and Mrs. Pettigru King will continue to live together, leaving the world! to say and think as it pleases, thus leav ing it in the hands 01 the other tiwo Mistressjes Bo wen to obtain divorces on the ground of adultery, if they see jfit. The gentleman who lives in Charleston above alluded; to, says that Mrs. Bo$ren was celebrated for her Wit and sarcasm in Charleston land he related many'iin- stances of her! brilliancy in , conversa tion and in society. She was at pne time regarded; as the most brilliant and fascinating wonfan in the State; and,' owing to her father's position, hersbciT ety was greatly sought by distinguish ed strangers.- ne was, in .nwt, in ner prime (perhaps after she was married to her first husband,) the sort of woman that was always popular among gentle men, but looKea upon witn suspicion, born of envy, you may be sure, by j the ladies. She reigned supreme in eery assembly party, for rout, and the prim, modest-going ladies called her1 fast. Cincinnati Commercial. A BOY HANGS HIMSELF. - 4 . - - A correspondent writes from Copper ticulars of the hanging of a boy only 10 years of age. Our correspondent SayS:.. . - .. ." : ' J "One of the most unnatural occur rences upon record took place hear here, on Friday last. Willie G. Sjwit zer, a very sprightly boy, in his tbnth year, without any known -cause, j ad justed a small string to his neck land afterwards to a bush (as related py a small girl with him ; at the time) land swinging off, hung himself. He was dead beyond recovery before aid. could reach him. All who know the little boy arrived at one conclusion ; that he did not intend to destroy himself,! but that he was playing, and that his death was purely an accident, never contem plated by himself. I J I I It is, indeed, a sad occurrence, and is at present, the wonder pnd astonish ment of this community, i ' I ! - ANOTHER WHAT. IS IT. ' The following 5 sensation 13 from the Reading Eagle: V'---:. ".; -Never in the history of the ; southern part of Berks ' has." there been" such an excitement as has gone through I within the last two weeks, caused by - the sub- ject of this article. . About two) weeks ago a man' presenting the appearance of a huge overgrown bear made his ap pearance .on .the Welsh . mountain, di rectly opposite the village of Morgan town, ana made the' night hideous with his beast-like howling. 2 The citizens becoming alarmed, concluded to . catch him if possible, and, with, this "object in view a number of the neighbors assem bled, -armed with guns, clubs, etc., and started . for . the. mountain. . : The men were, deployed in squads, and a times the yells from this half , man and half beast were so close to them that they, thought it utterly; impossible lor him to escape, yet, when morning dawned the object of their search was nowhere to be found. -Night after night the'samo doleful howlings re-echoed through the valley bordering on the, mountain. A few days since he was seen in !a field back of the village,and a number of the citizens started in pursuit and overtooK him. . He was captured and brought to the hotel of Mr. D. K. Plank. - j When caught he was very I nearly in a nude state, having but a few rags hanging to his body. The hair, on his head; hangs down his back ; his face is very! nearly covered with long, bushy hair, (giving him the appearance of a ' gorilla more than of a human being. To questions nut to him he said he was a native of Ireland; and had lived in the State of Connecticut for a long time. ' He gives his name as .Thomaib Foley, and says he has been roaming m the woods lor two years. A good suit of clothes was put upon him,1 and he immediately started for the mountains, ' tearing his i ... . j 1 1 i i i . cioines in strips as jus iuoveu uumg. The horses and cattle belonging to far mers along the mountain run. and gal lop through the fields continually, as if frightened irom some unknown cause ; the dogs howl and cry as soon a4 night approaches; in fact, the community is in a terrible state of excitement. Crowds have gone out night after night to cap ture him, but up to this time have not succeeded. At times he is seen! on his hands and feet, moving along with the fleetness of a wild tiger. '. , r A most singular circumstance connec ted with this affair, is that since; he has made his appearance, and near the resi dence of Mr. Robert Yocum, a farmer, his horses and'cattle refused to eat, and are constantly running over thej fields as if some demon Was after theni. lie runs through the bushes with the swift ness, of a deer, and persons caniiot get hear him. On Saturday f night about forty men from the village and vicinity repaired to the mountain, and near the residence ofMr. YocUm,and kept watch during the mglit,and at times 'hq would appear in close proximity to them, but when they would start for him he was off like a race-horse. A few nights since this ". Whatlsltf" made his appearance in the village, on his hands and feetJ In a few minutes the villagers were up in arms ready to annihilate this curious specimen! of hu manity. He made? at the crowd on all fours,when there Was a general scatter ment and stampede. ? What will be come of this animal it is difficultto tell. All other topics are lost in the discuss ion of this strange affair. If caught.the citizens have promised to bring him to J Reading. . THE TOBACCO TAX. The question, pf reducing the tax on tobacco is again being brought! up for consideration by the manufacturers, who are endeavoring to secure the in dorsement of the . Government favor able to a reduction preparatory to bringing the matter to the attention of Congress. The tax, as it now stands, invites dishonest practices. The poorer quality of tobacco is taxed sixteen cents per pound, add the finest grade thirty two cents, but it has come to the know ledge of the Internal Revenue Bureau that an extensive system has been in augurated whereby the government is defrauded out oi considerable revenue. The practice by" some manufacturers, ih order to evade the tax, is to (mix a few stems in with , the fane tobacco and stamp it with it sixteen cent stamp. It is ciaimeu. nuit me euunaumciit ui iv uniform rate of taxation say twenty four cents per pound for all kinds of all kinds tobacco would lie beneficial to both the manufacturer and the gov ernment. There -would then be: no in ducement to commit . frauds, j conse quently the Government could readily collect the tax, ana tne npnest manu facturer, would also be pecuniarily ben efited by reduced taxation. The pro- Eosition to reduce the tax would, have eeh successful last winter but for the fact that manufacturers favored a tax of twenty cents as the proper , rate! for all tobacco, while Congress were of the opinion that twenty-lour cents was the correct figure. ; f s HOW TO DO UP, SHIRT BOSOMS. We have often;' heard ladies Express a desire to know by what process the fine gloss observed on new linens: shirt Dosoms. xc, is unxiucou, , in oruer 10 gratify them we subjoin the following recipe for making . gum ,arabic fetarch: Take t wo ounces of gum arable powder, put it into a pitcher, and pour on it a pint; of boiling water j (according to the degree of strength you desire,) and then, having covered it, I let it set all 1 night. In the morning pour it carefully from the dregs into a clean . bottle, cork it, and keep it for use. A tablespoonful of gum water, stirred in a pint ofj starch that has been made in the usual man ner, will give to lawns (either White or printed) a look of newness when noth ing else can restore them after washing. It is also good (much diluted) for thin white muslin and bobiriek ? v " A severe storm passed ovr Nebraska Friday night, washing away roads and bridges in many places, and seriously damaging the crops. I The track of the Union Pacific Railroad was washed away in several places between Omaha and Gilmore Station, ten miles distant. At one place the stream - swelled to so great an extent that the water barried a quarter of mile of track bodily, over a fence four feet high. landing it .some distance in the prairie. A TIGER HUNT IN INDIA. V., ' V HY A. j:. T K AYK. Mr; Kayo, who is a brother of Sir Kaye, Chief of the British jndiafi Office, London, at present a resident o'f Buffalo, furnishes the Express with the following incidents of a successful skir mish1 with a monster tiger" daring his latef residence In India i " ' ' - "' j" " Fiat expert meiTtum in corpore v.il t, which I suppose means ments on a worthless carcase," was tho . . -r . .a . - i.' v. .1 A t 1 III l,T VI'V motto x musi-'jiave uuopuu: wneu j. made practical scientific discovery that the cpliesionof the leaden , bullet was stronger than the component" parts of my rignthand. '.I had been .wounded, and was only partially recovering the use of my hand, when I. made my one great attempt at killing a tiger. I was stopping at a small - wayside, station n few hundred miles north of Calcutta in the presidency of Bengal, the only olh er Europeans with me being a youm rt surgeon, and an officer of the .Commis sariat, a noted -sportsman and dead shot. It was the hot season and we were sitting outside oyr tents after a late din ner sindking cheroots and enjoying the little cool air we could get after tho heat of the dayK when the cutwai, or native head 6f an 'adjacent viliigei brought a report thafa tiger, had approached tho contines of his village and was .regal ing itself on a; bullock which it had appropriated.' ' Our sportsman was all excitement in an instant, the surgeon followed snit. I trusted that . my dis abled condition would have led them to dispence with my services, but no.. I was t6ld"thatl could iust pull a trig ger,' ' and after that I . did not I i ke. I was not seventeen years of age. to re fuse, t Verily I was led as a lamb to the slaughter, in the wake of these two monsters, the native guide following us at a safe distance. At length, with cautious steps (oh ! how I prayed, some body would inake a noise alarm, tho beast), we neared the littlejunglc where the tiger had dragged his victim, when to my horror I was told I had better be in the advance and take the first shot, as it was advisable to keep tin sure shots in case the tiger sprang and my hand might render mo unsteady. In a ;minute or two we heard the- low growl and the crunching of the poor, bullock's bones. Vividly I pictured to myself what might happen to my own body, and then in tho dusky light I saw theanimal himself, hishead turn ed towards us as he discovered oiir presence, evidently undecided as to what he would do. 1 1 knelt: feeling much like the sailor who met the lear and requested that if assistance of a su preme power could not be given him it would not betextended to his ' hairy adversary, and fired. ! I heard a roar', and can just call to mind dim remem brance of a huge body f springing to- ward me, when, the pain of my wound overcome me and I lost all i consciousness1"- When I came to myself I saw. in the spot where he fejl, not three feet from where I fainted, the body of tli tiger. But for the precision and cool ness of my companion's aim I ' must have become his prey, as my bullet' had struck him in a' part of the. body where it produced ho immediate effect. That night I returned hearty thanks for my deliverance, and never, "went out tiger hunting again.' V ; -M. . " ' . . A FOOLISH ADVENTURE. . Capt. John Meiks who, in 18G7 .cross- ed the Atlantic on a life-raft, is prepar; ing for another voyage to Europe on a smaller raft of a similar construction'.. The raft is composed of inllalcd India rubber tubes which, when , not filled with air, fold up in a comimrativcly small compass, nut when inflated will carryall the persons that can crowd on it. The raft on which Uiptain Meiks performed his last voyage was 2" feet long bv 18 feet wide. lie then had two menhvith him. A .canvass tent-was erected on the raft, and the three cross ed the Atlantic, arriving safely in Eng land in forty days. Captain Meiks iK now having another lite-raft made lj ' feet long and 12 feet wide, on which iif intends going to Europe,' accompanied onlyjby a boy. lie will be ready tb start about the middle of August, and will take with him Hixty days' provii? ions,' He intends taking the direct steamer's track, and is confident of suc cess.wV. I'. Times. ; f- A REMARABLE WOMAN. About twenty miles from' the Heal ing Springs, in the Alleghany Moun tains there lives a most remarkable wo manl Her name is Morrison, but1 she is known all through the country as "Miss Jennie Rucker."v She is' about' sixty years of ago, has her hair boblcd like a man's, wears a man's hat, and rides a horse astride. Hunting is JuV means of llvlihood, and she kills deer, bearjand other game with the skill o'f forty years experience. ! Not long since she wounded a deer, but before coming up with it another hunter a man--had gotten to it and commenced carv ing it up. The old lady expostulated, iieti, Ktul he d h with no avail, and finally drew a beat, on him with her rifle to enforce "rights." the fellow lumped behind tree, but left his heel exposed, at which vulnerable spot the old lady fired and hit. She got her i deer, i She has nine or ten children, and is said to treat all travellers hospitably who stop at hei--cabih. Ijetter from Bath county, IV.' - BOWEN OX HIS LATE .T JUJHECUTIOX and' PAiiDON. At the reception given on Wepnesday by a 'political .club at Charleston to C. C. Bowen, in referring to the late events through i which he had passed, he said; "But, thank God and the President of the United Suites, those clouds have passed away, and we are once more permitted, to ! stand . face to face in the old city jof Charleston, where we so often met our common en cmy J No one, unless our enem ies, for a moment doubts that the persecutions which, i . liave passed ' were ; brought about for political purposes. . You. re member the campaign of last 'summer and the frauds perpetrated in the Oc tober election., Rut, my friends, I re gard this case now as settled, and when . Congress assembles in December, 1 will obtain a seat from the. Congres- . sional district to which I jwns legaly elected. I am assured that no further. ; opposition will be made." j ' ' -j .- 'L-. ; !-- .' .' r l !