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- VICES BURG WEEKLY HERALD. Vol. V. Vicksbnrsr, Mississippi, Saturday Morning December 11. 18G9. No. 15. fa THE WEEKLY HEEALD 8ATURDAY, DECEMBER 4. HE mt 'SBH .KAl. ALCOBISI rscvuAX roaiTioxi. A C&ndidate, on the Radical ticket, for '.State Senator from Man hall County, stated in a pub lic speech in Holly Springs, that General Alcorn had said in de fending himself for aiding the ne farious transactions of the despi cable Committee of Sixteen, iu a speech recently made in Holly Springs, that ho desired to have the Constitution as it was then, fastened upon by the people by the exercise of auy power. True, it was, he did not like it, but he con fidently believed that it would bo corrected. And as corroborative of this opinion, bo slapped his hand upon his breast and said, "I have letters hore from Bing ham, Butlor, Boutwell, Garfiold, Sumner and others, who pledged that as aoon as tho Constitution was adopted and the State restor ed by Congress, that Congre$t nhould strike out of the Constitu tion the oppressive and objection al clauses," and said General Al corn further, "I believe Congress will do It" Was ever such a preposterous declaration uttered ? Aad yet the man who uttered it has in all probability beeu eloctcd Governor of this State, and aspires to a scat in the United States Senate. From what source does Congress derive its authority for changing the Constitution of a State ? If it has this power, how does it hap pen that the Constitutions of oth er States are not tampered with. Many of them havo clauses in them which are odious to the dominant party in Congress. If Congress bus the right to modify or change the Constilution-of Mississippi in any way whatever, it has the same right to change that bf New York or any other State. True, Con gress can refuse, whether by sanc tion of law or not in not iu ques tion, to accept tho Constitution of Mississippi when presented, but the idea that it Jias the power to change any feature of the Consti tution of a State is childish. then General Alcorn only had the written declarations of Bing ham, Boutwell fc Co. Do they constitute the whole Congress ? Is Congress compelled to accept their ie dixit ? Do they carry thatbody in their breeches pocket ? Besides, General Alcorn only bad their word that they would do these things, could General Al corn have believed one oFthem ? With all his faults, we give him cfPtfffwlth more intelligence than this; do one would believe these men. This, General Alcorn knew. Therefore, if they ever had the power, it would never have been aa they promised, since they make it an invariable rule to go counter to their words. Thi member ot Congress arc as sembling in Washington City rap idly. As we learn by Washington letter writers, the opiulou expres sed by prominent members of both bouses indicates that there will be little legislation of an important character until after the Christinas holidays. From the mcetiug of Congress until that time the busi ness of the session will be consumed in the Introduction of bills and Joint resolutions for reference to com mittees. The Cuban question will come np for immediate aotlon, and although a remarkable unanimity of sympathy exists on tho subject, it is not likely that the country will be spared a few able speeches and a raft of meaningless harangues. The American eagle is expected to . soar aloft to the highest pinnacles of nutional glorification. Judging from tho views of those who are gified with the ability to conceive on idea, Congress will tako strong grounds In favor of Cuba, whether directly or by Increasing the pow ers of the Executive cannot bo said Congress, having reassembled in January, the financial question will consume weeks of discussion and tinkering, In which funding and specie payments will be the leading features. The various appropria tion bills for the different branches of tho government will, as usual, constitute a protracted and perplex ing fund of controversy, verbal rencontres and ludiorous scenes. The China mission, which it is nn derstood the Presidont in his mes sage will suvnfest bs raised to the first class, at give an opportunity to Sumner to ventilate his new ideas on the yellow man. The St. Domiugo annexation will be dispos ed of amid a torrent of eagle screams and salvos of bombast. The project of the Darien ship ca nal will doubtless be put in a tangi ble shape. The other measures set down for legislation are tho bills for taking tho census, the Paraguay an controversy, revenue, and recon struction in the rases of Virginia, Mississippi and Texas for readrais sion. As usual, the army is likely to get another blow from the mili tary failures who bavu managed to get iuto Congress, and have proved as much of an embarrassment to Congress as they were to (be army. TUB EITBALITY LAWK MAID TO KEtOU.VIZS THE CI UAMS. Ono G. P. Lowcry, Esq., of York State, flies into print, most recklessly, in the declaration that the neutrality laws protect tho Cu bans. This Mr. Lowery, if we un derstand aright, is a Northern man, writing for Northern approval, aud what is more, wo think ho is in tensely Radical. Upon the Cuban question be observes that the neu trality act of 1818, which alone Is now iu force, was intended by Congress to guarantee to revolu tionary colonies or peoples the same neutrality on the part of tho United States as we observe to ward belligerent princes, poten tates, or States that are recognised diplomatically by our Government. It seoms not only that was this the plain intention of Congress at the time, but that the courts have re peatedly 10 decided. For instance, the right of the people of Venezue la to commission vessels of wan and to capture the vessels of Spain, was maintained under the law of 1818 by the Supreme Court of the United States in several cases, while Venerucla was only a revolt ed colony, not yet recognized by our executive authorities. It has no doubt beeu the opinion of many lawyers aud publicists, that there must be a proclamation by the President ' declaring the bel ligerent rights of a revolted colony before the courts can tako cogni zance of those rights ; but Mr. Low ry demonstrates that this opiulou U founded on error, lie demon strate also that the law ns it Maud is only In aciord with reason and right; sinco if it be otherwise, while Cuba may be forbidduu to violate our neutrality, as in thcca.se of the alleged fitting out of tho Hor net, she would Dot bo entitled to any corresponding benefit or pro tection ; or, as Mr. Lowry express es it, the law would thus become iu the case of a civil war "bo'.h a sword aud shield in the bauds of ouo belligerent alone." This being so, it follows that our relations to the two parties in the pending strugglo in Cuba are al ready determined by law, and that no recognition by IVosldcnt Grant is necessary to secure to the Cubans their rights as bolligereuts. Spain can as little be allowed to violate the neutrality act as can the Cu bans ; and the officers of the law are Just as much bound to enforce (be statute against the oue party as agaiust the other. This statute, it should be understood, prohibits the building and fitting out of ships and the enlistment of soldiers aud sail ors in our country for the service of either belligerent, but docs not prohibit the sale to them of arms or warlike material. Now, these views of Mr. Lowry are very beautiful and pleasautlv presented. Bpt suppose that, in stead of coveted Cuba and imbecile Spain being tho parties used in il lustration tho late bravely contend ing Cofedcrate States and the United States should be the parties interested, how would Mr. Lowry and his ' Radical friends relish such reasoning, or rather bow was it liked as prac ticed in Great Britain ? It is sin gular that the Radical niiud is inca pable of applying the tame princi ple to tho same subject wherever found. British recognition' of bel ligerent rights, as practiced iu tho late war, was coutrary to tho neu trality and to all international law, yet when the great and fearless Uni ted Stales proposes to apply this law to puerile Spain iu her conflict with one ot uer rebelling colonies, a new interpretation is put upon the satne law which is sought to bo o vigorously applied in an entire uillcrcnt Turin in a treaty Willi anotl.or power. This law and lode is simply Radical, nothing more, nud, aa a consequence, is perverted. TrtB latest "loll" wrinkle is to change the plirise, "King's English" to rrcsulcuis r.iiuusti. ' .Now don t. We can stand almost auy thing after the terriblo experiences of the last nine years, still we would beg to bo aparod "Uranrs jsngluu." Certain 'loil' New Eoglandcrs wish Plymouth Bock Monument taken down because the Corner Stone was laid with Masonio cer emonies. Fanaticism will always be rampant in New England. . VDITOMIAL BREVITIES. The people of Tennessee are in a fever of excitement There is to be a Constitutional Convention held in Nashville on the 2d Mon day In January next. God save them from such remits as followed tho assembling of tho Constitution al Convention in this State. Is the Cardiff giant a humbug, a Yankee wooden-nutmeg sell, or a reality? So many of the people of the North are Radicals, that we afraid to takethcirstatoments upon any subject; therefore will seme good, honest, truthtelling Demo crat furnish rellablo information upon this interesting and engross ing subject The New York Sun professes that it is no humbug, lut who will believe it. Tennyson is building himself a spacious bouse on the Surrey Ilills, near Godalming. It will be sur rounded by exteniive grounds. A new religious society, calling itself tho Church of Progress, has beeu iuaugurated at 8t. George's Ball, London, by Mr. T. Baxter Langley. The master spirits of it aro John Stuart Mill, Lord Amber ly, and Sir John Browning. Seventy-three years ago the town of Franklin, Conn., "voted to Lire a man to instruct the school for four aiohths, at $8 per month, find his own board, to keep six days In the week, and twenty-six days (or a month, and that no partiality be used on the part of the master." An elegantly dressed 'ady recent ly presented herself to one of the police magistrates Iu Paris, and po litely denounced beraolf as the mur deress of eleven children. Inves tigation fortunately proved that she was laboring under a fit of halluci nation caused by the horrors of the Pantin tragedy. The Baron De Novo Friburgo, supposed to be the wealthiest man in Brazil, died on the 4lli of Octo ber, lie loft instructions that his body, placed iu a plain coffin, should be carried to the "rave in one of bis own carriages; also, ttntt no invi tations bo insued to Lis funeral. His dwelling house in Itio .'aneiro is said to havo cost him $1,500,000; but he lived to enjoy it only a year or two. Profcisor I.onmis, of New Haven, considers tho earth a very unsafe place to stay on any longor, from tho fact that tho latu volcanic man ifestations havo been ho general in thuircharaclcr that there is no long er auy doubt about tho theory that all volcanoes have not a local, but a general and common origin, in the central liquid parts of our globe, where the most iuteuae beat pre vails. Patti has declined an offer of a million of francs to sing for ten mouths in the new serious opera which Offenbach has composed to a libretto by Sardon. Patti recently wounded her thumb with a dagger which shu held while playing the part of GUda iu "Rigolctto." The thumb bled, but Paul went ou with the performance. Chinese literature has met with a serious lost in the dcrtruction by fire of a wing of the Emperor of China's palace which contained stores of books and of blocks for book printing. From its connec tion with literature, It was one of the best known buildings in the palace. It name occurs on all books printed at the Emperor's chargo for two centuries. To Cube Tootuacuk. Accord ing to tho London Lancet, tooth ache can be cured by tho following preparation of carbonic acid: To ono drachm of collodium add two drachms of Callert's carbonic acid. A gelatinous mass Is precipitated, a small portion of which inserted in the cavity of an aching tooth, invariably givciiinmcdiuto relief. Tho heirs of John Campbell, tho possessor of 300 acres of land, which uow embraces the commer cial cctro of Louisville, Ky., are about instituting a suit lor this property, of which they claim they aro the lawful owner bincu the first charter of tlio city, iu 1812. This property has passed lrom ono hand to another until it is now owned by a largo number of per sons, all of whom will bo defend ants to the suit. Ihc land im provements arc valued at iZ'J, 000,000. . A Japanese history of the British Parliament has benn published al Jcddo. Tho object appears to be to help the first Japanese Parlia ment to an understanding of its functions. The work Is compiled from the best English authorities on the Britten constitution, is publish ed in two volumes, and contains several good illustrations. Three Interesting fossils have lately been found Jo the township of Seymour, Canada. Tho first is apparently a petrified human head, which shows the tongue, eye-balls aud muscles of the face; the head having the reddish-brown appear ance of an ore of Iron. The other relics are the foot and leg of a young girl about teu years old, auv soctiou of meat from tho side of an ox, showing two ribs. Relapsing fever, popularly known as famine fovor, is raging iu Lon don. It is a sort of stealthy epi demic, depressing mind and body, though not always mortal, and or iginating in squalid living aud mis ery. Tho London Times says it is not tho bare waut of food, but the hopelessness of earning food, which prepares tho way for tho ravages of this disease. It provails in White chapel sud other more wretched parts of tho cast of London city. A ubaht has been made by the Russian Government to Mr. Tied gen and others, through whose ogeucy tho great northern cables were laid Iu the North Sea and Bal tic, to lay cables from Posietta Bay, on tho southeast coast of Siberia, to China and Japan. A company is in course of formation to do the work. The Russian Government will, it is said, connect their land lines with the company's cable. This will be carried to Shanghai, touching at Nagasaki or Osaka. Thence it will be laid to Hong Kong, touching at Niugpo, Foo chow, Amo) , and Swatow. When this line is completed New York will be in telegraphic connection with China and Japan. A Wisconsin paper gives an ac count of the capture in northern Montana, of an "animal of a species wholly unknown to naturalists, which is claimed by some to be a relic of the mastodon." This mar velous cresturo Is only two years old, but stands sevon loot high Tho New Orleans Bulletin says that all tho business now done in that city by seventy thousand men could easily tie dono iy twenty thousand. Ash necessary cousecitirncn, the city abounds with unemployed and hall' empl y cd persons, and the inordinate competition for bus iness is a great evil. For the your endiug Sep tember 1, 1800, the amounts of imports aud exports into and from tho city was twice as lurge ns for the venr ending September 1, 18U9. Profits then were fur greater thon they are now. The growth of the city was regular, healthy and vigorous, resting en tirely upon its commercial needs and its increase of wealth and population. Except for the war, says the Bulletin, that growth would have continued, aud New Orleans would now have employ ment for a hundred men and le gitimate uso for two hundred millions of capital. A couple, male and female, reached St. Louis tho other day ; they engaged rooms at afoshiona blc hotel, aa husband and wife.'Thc next morning the male was rains ing, and ot police headquarters the disconolate ''last best gift" states that she was a milliner, who resided in an iutcrior town in the West ; that coming to St. Louis ou the train sho had been proposed to by the aforesaid "Lord of crea tion," aud finding an accommoda ting person on tho train, the "twain were made one." TliM af ter a short twolve hours expe rience in tho sweets of married life, sho hod awoke to find her "Charley" gone, and strange to say, ho bad been accompanied by her gold watch and her one hun dred dollars worth of national pledges to redocm. She prayed that tho truant might be restored. Charley was soon found and stated that he knew Mnlissa; that he was a married man, and that Malissa knew it, yet she had consented to permit tho forms of marriage to be gone through with ; that nei ther of tlieni had a cent but she had a watch ; this she had kindly given him to pay their bill at the hotel. He journeyed forth to pawn it, and succeeded in raisini.' live dollars upon it. Temptation hnd crossed his path on his re- turn, and he had invested the five; tlollais in tho iutoxicatin" bowl His story was adjudged lole true ' nnd he was released, and Malisiaj lost a temporary husband and a waica. So much for a mock mar - iragc by a woman to a married man. A New Yohe boarding-house keeper has adopted tho novel ex pedient of putting a fifty cent itnmnin it,. m.;i.. j ' a . h7.w7,t'u'..u!"' hash, which becomes the Drooertv of the fortunate chap who finds it in his mess. She has no difficulty now in working off. that commod- ty. -- f. ..a,. IS IT AS STATED t The editor of the Chicago Times indulges somewhat in an ex pression of opinion about that animal commonly called woman. His remarks are not 'as compli mentary as tho ''last best gift," usually enjoys from the Lords of creation, but they . arc to the point whether the true poiut or not. At all events bo points, by way of illustration, to certain his torical facts which aro indisputa ble. Ho writes: "If oue wishes a groat histori cal example of cruelty, he cau al ways find oue in which soiuo no man was the prime instrument. A case was not long since expos ed in France, in which some thirty or forty poisonings wcro fastened upon a woman. Lucrctla Borgia need onlv bo mentioned. Tho Inte atrocious developments at Cracow, in which some sisters kept ono ot their number in a noisome cell for twenty-oue years, is still fresh in the public mind. Mrs. Grinder wns only a woman In an uncommonly high state of devel opment. The IJueeo mother who opened the fusillade at the St. Bartholomew massacre was no more or less than a woraaa. Eliz abeth, the virgin Queen, had she been a man, would have been bon cstly execrated through all time for her atrocious treatment of Mary ; but she was no ogre, no hyena; she was only a woman, Catherine of Russia was not i monster, but simply a member of the gentlo sex. One reason why women make such admirable nurses is found in their Insensibility to the sufferings of others. When the patient writhes in pain, raves in delirium, or mils back with set eyes and a hoarse rattle in his throall it is woman who is the calmest among the obsorvort, the readiest with her assistance and suggestion, and all because sho feels less the tnllu- cuccs of the situation." O'JJonovax UoshA, a political eon viet, has recently lierurclurned to the British Parliament by tho vo ters of the county of Tipcrary, in Ireland. Our readers will well re member somewhat of the history of this gentleman's wife, who n few months ago was delivering lectures in various portions of the Union. Ono of the few occasions when he appeared in public, Mr. Charles Halpin, "Miles O'Reilly," tl.e lute brilliant and talented edi tor of the Newt York Citizen, in troduced this lovely lady to a New York audience. Her hus band was incarcerated in prison in England and sho, to assist him, and support herself, was traveling throughost the United States giv ing readings and lectures. Senator Camxhox and Cominis siouer Delano, accompanied by about thirty other persons, prin cipally politicians, propose to travel over Southern Georgia, to discover from persoual observa tion the real condition of that re gion, politically and otherwise, with the view of imparting the re sults of their observation to Con gress. What an impartial report that crowd will inako! To obviate the danger from stoves broken or overturned iu railway accidents, a stove has been patented for which it is claimed that no coucussiou can break it. In the first sixmonths of his ad ministration, Gen. Grant changed his Secretaries of the fctate, Treas ury, and Navy Departments. This is a larger number of changes in the Cabinet than was ever made in so short a timo by auy President except Tyler, all of whose Cabinet resigned on one day with the ex ception of Mr. Webster. This is hardly a parallel case, however, be causo Tyler's first Cabinet was not solectod by himself, but by Ueu. Harrison. STATE ITE.US. egret to leuru that Mr. We Frank Brook and a Mr. Estcs were arrested by order of the military In Carrollton, on last Wednesday. Wo understand that they we to charged with being the priino mov ers iu tho recent fight between the nnm-nna nnil U'httnA nt CnrrnlH nn. I W learn that Mr. Estes refused to be arrested, and they shot him in tho arm. It is impossible to get news correct these limes, even a short distance, so-wo do not vouch for report.-l Valden I inics. The Grenada Sentinel says a first class rolling mill is to he built there jby tho Mississippi Central and (Mississippi and Tennessee Rail- road;. Ou Saturday last tho northern bouud train ran off at Duck Hill, the switch being wrong, and killed a wounded several persons. Among the slightly wounded was Mrs. Bottle Byrd, of this place, and her two little daughtorbut ws are glad to say to ber friends that the injuries are not serious, .though very palaiuWf Panola BUr, , , , Littu Bock, rm Biart Vlckskarr MaUraa. But a short time sgo we were congratulating ourself that a line of railroad from Little Rock, Arkan sas, via fine Ulun, would soon reach our city, and give us that im petus which we so sorely need. And we fondly termed this route the Little Rock, Piue Bluff and Vicksburz Railroad. Col. Sap- plngton, of Arkansas, came hore and called our pcoplo together to consult them as to their wishes re garding tho building of this North western route, aud after carefully explaining the mutter and the steps already taken aud yet to bo taken, submitted it to our people as to tho action they would take and the aid they would give the scheme. But other pi : its aro working for this road. By an article published iu the Hamburg, Ark., Times, and republished In die Ouachita, La., Telegraph, we see there is to be a movemeut, if not already on foot, to take this road away from Ticks burg and run it Sooth 112 miles from Pine Bluff, in Arkansas, by Moullcello aud Hamburg. This article asserts that this route is best because of iu eligi bility, the immense good to the country, and tbo stnallnoss of the cost of construction. It says the route to Vlckiburg is impractica ble, passes through an inaccessible region of country.of small benellt;to the public, and can only be built at immense cost We will not pause to argue the truth of these state ments, for that is not our present purpose, Suffice it to say that we believe the Vlcksburg route far prefcrablo for all parties In every way. But it should be enough to stimulate us to some action in fav or of this road, that others are tak Ing steps to draw this road away from us, a result that would be I deplorable in tho highest degree. j Now let ns call attention to a I few facts iu connection with this ! road which are stroiivly injits favor This mule, from Little Rock via ! 1'iue BlutI' and Napoleon to this city, is a link in a grand trunk 1 1 no I to llic JNuilh.west. It connects I with the Mississippi, lied Riveraud j Wnchi'.a Railroad, from Fulton and Camden to (ialne's Laud ing. It connects with a route from Fulton to Cairo, and one from Little Rock to Memphis. Go ing northward aud westward it branches off into the numerous lines that crossbar the northwest, and becomes "a tributary of lines in all directions. By this route the heart of the grain producing coun try would be tapped aud the cereals df the west would naturally follow the first and nearest outlet to a de dosirable market. That the road would be a paying ope there can be no doubf, as it affords such an attractive route to s market that the northwest alone would more than support the road. Aud this, taken in connection w ith thostotton and shipments from Arkansas, would insure this to be a valuable and desirable investment Nearly f 000,000 bales cotton would, in a short time, be. passed over this route. The most of this cotton would come to and via Vicksburg. Twenty parishes in Louisiana and couuties in Arkansas would bo pro tected by this road and an immense quantity of the richest lauds re deemed from waste and placed un der cultivation. With proper enterprise and ac tion, why should not Vicksburg be come one of tin foremost cotton markets. Thousands mid thousands of bales of cotton might bo concentra ted right here, aud our city might be the head quarters of Northern and European buyers. Undoubt edly these buyors would prefer to purchoso at first hands, if the amount of cotton thrown upon the market was sufficient to warrant tho establishment of n purchasing agency at this polut. This, like ail else, depends upon the energy and enterprise of our citizens. Vicks burg is nearer New York and the European ports than Now Orleans. Cotton cau ho placod in New York in ten days via Savannah Georgia; whilo from New Orleans via the Keys it requires thirty-two days. Thus nearly one-third of the time is saved, and thus a capital can be ''turnod over" twice in shipping via Savannah, to once when ship ped via New Orleans. Further, the whole future, of Vicksburg depends upon those raiK road enterprises. We cannqt "af ford to bo Isggardly about these matters of railroad Improvement. The best and truest economy iu this respect is to take bold of such schemes heartily, and spend money for , tbena freely. , We - should Invest la r these roads liberally and bold not sparingly and timid ly. Not because we hope to bene fit ourselves Individually by the In vestment, although such would, doubtless, be the result ; out we should invest in these roads be cause through their means our city is to be made great and prosperous, and without them we will remain a "one horse," no 'count" town until our city gradually falls to de cay and presents that pitiful, di lapidated appearance which we sometimes see iu towns where the npiril of energy and enterprise died out and left the shell standing meekly awaiting its doom. Louisi ana is wide awake to the impor tance of this route,' and so is Ar kansas. Both these States will aid liberally. We are positively as sured that it is the wish and Inten tion to bring the road to Vicks-, burg. If it should not come here the fault will be ours. They ask of us now subscription to the amount of $100,000, and $'0,000 In all. Bonds cau be used. $5,000 would put 1,000 Cblnamon.at work imme diately. Koopmanschop has agreed to take stock In the road and furnish the Chinese laborers. This scheme will accomplish two most desirable object. It will provide a levee to protect a vast extent of magnificent country, and a railroad to carry off tho products thereof. By all means "let us be np and doing." We call upon those lead ing citizens who are Interested In this route to organize an effort to do something. We do not mean our advocacy of this route shall be construed as ono word of detraction regarding tho North-easterly or Yazoo Valley, road. , Wo can have both roads, and we need aud must have both. Push forward our Yazoo road vigorously and let us never pause uutil it is finished. Tako hold of the Little Rock road aud give it tho aid which will bring it to our doors in fifteen mouths. THE 01 UTS AT VICKKBUBti Tub Ciucuit and Chanceky Coi:rt for Warren county will eo::itit -i.ee u the second Monday In December next, and continue for ten weeks. The 1'uou.ite Court for this county sets lirst Monday In each month, continuing, each term,' ono week. The Ckimimal Court-sel s four times a year three weeks to the term commencing each terra on the e ond Monday of February, May, August and November. The term closed ou Saturday, leaving several cases untried. The Covmtt Court sits four times a year. It will b 3 seen from tho forego ing that we have during tho year, forty-eight weeks of Court at Vicksburg. Wo make .this mention of the Courts for tho benefit of the law yers, witnesses, and all parties In terested. iu legal business. A Bad Ish Free Loveism. Disguise it as you may, it is bad, very bad. It is an outcropping of Fourerism and from the affinities of Spiritualism. Disregarding the established metes and bounds of society, it is apt to culminate In gunpowder. .Prudent men will avoid it and all its affiliations. There is no safety ooteido I he es tablished order of society, as there is none in disregarding the laws of the land. N. i. Herald. Yot B opinion, Mr. Herald, Is that of this entire section; so unani mous, iu fact, Is it, that it does not require discussion hero. It appears to be different with you.. TimWiiinns Brothers, of Balti more, have sold their interest in the Moscow and St. Petersburg Railway to a Russian company,, for six millions of roubles, and are arranging for the purchase of a new line of railway running, southeasterly from Moscow. At a hotel in Sonoma, Col., on the 13th, ono Wm. Hurd, who wag drunk, said to Wui. Hudson, his friend, also drunk, with whom he hnd never quarreled: "I wish you would cut my throat or my head oil." Hudson replied: "All right; I can do it for you in a few min utes." Soon after Hudson bor-' rowed a knife, returned where' Hurd was eittiug, and inflicted a severe wound in his neck, onusinir aluiOBt death. Hudson was ar rested for thus accommodating his fricud. , . lion, JBrrxasox Da via has been elected President of the South Car- olina Life Insurance Company, lot ' cated at Memphis, Tenn., with a : salary of $15,000 per annum. "' ' - Brown university has Just tad i a rofeesorehip endowed - With $40,000 by Rowland Ilazzard. - )