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PARIS. r (i The Tragic End of tho /‘Little Prince " Melancholy Retrospections. Wind Paris Tlionulit of It All—Sym pathy and Bejfntment—Eujenio at ChlxollmraU Political Consrqnpnccs of the Prince’s Dentil—llls “ Sucessors ” ( Jo route, Victor, and Pierre. Tlio Destruction of the Bonapartist Forty— . Bid Louis Go to Afrloa Deoauso of a Lovo-Disappointmont. SpteM Corntponitene < of The Tribunt. Parts. June 23.—Paris was preparing to Illuminate la honor of the coming return of our legislators, when a report, at first vague and doubtful,—then sure, sinister, and pre cise.—was circulated on the boulevards. Prince Louis Napoleon, who hU friends called Napoleon the Fourth, was dc&d. . Done to death by savages, in nn obscure corner of thu dark and fatal Continent of Africa, and brought back to his comrades In firms wltii seventeen assegai-wounds In his body, the telegrams aald. It was true. The wires soon flashed us melancholy confirmation of the atory; and Paris, staggered and pitiful, stopped lu prep arations for rejoicing. Tho flags were re moved from Uic windows; the lanterns quietly taken down; amt for o moment 2,000,000 of people seemed absorbed by ono common senti ment of regret for tho sad fate of the un fortunate boy who might, had Providence not ordained It otherwise, at this very hour iiavb nuns their ruler. Poor little Prlncol Where now are the days of Tour Iniocrlnl splendor? How lor they seem 1 That ulgbt, twenty-three years ago, when the thundering cannon of the Tullerles announced the joyful news of your birth to Paris,—how far away It sccmo 1 And that day of stately thanksgiving on which, with pomp and ceremony becoming the occasion, they bap tized you in tbo ancient Cathedral,—wbo re members it? The world has gone round,since then. Nine yean of sorrow had ilmost effaced tbo memory of your carlv greatness. Little Prince Lonls—a Pope’s godchild and an Emper or's heir—had become an exile and a pretender, —glad to risk hlsyoung life In uuglorlaus strife with n tribe of African barbarians. Now, In deed, llte sun of tuePonapartes has set- The Imperial father Bleeps—shorn of his honors and his dignities—in a little English Tillage. The •on and heir Is slain. ' TUB MOTIIEU LIES ALONE AND DESI’AIHTNn, ln ( hcr forclcn home, beside her husband’s tomb, waiting for the coming of her only child’s dead, murdered body,—herself, they say, in dnnge? of madness. Who can wonder if Eugenie’s reason did indeed give way under so terrible a blow? Since the news arrived, however, public opin ion has' had lime to cool, and sumo harsh sounds have been mingled with the general chorus of commiseration and sympathy. At first people hero thought only of the bereaved and stricken mother sorrowing for her Irrepara ble loss in loneliness and exile. Presently, how ever, they remembered nil the mothers and the children who had been made to mourn for the faults uml crimes of the Bonapartos,—all the thousands kilted in battle, and the hundreds shot down in cold blood tu the streets; mid a cry of C'BST 1.8 CnATIWENTI arose. Divine Justice, stern and unforgctful, has awfully avenged tho. crimes of the Third Nupolron.* I, an Englishman, cannot enter Into the feelings of Frenchmen In this matter. It seems unmerciful and horrible to talk at retri bution at such a moment, when every post may tell us of the crowning expiation. (They wern fearful for the Empress’ life as well as her rea son, yesterday.) Yob lio>r,.,caa.Frenchmen*not remember that, this' Empress 'was' chiefly re sponsible for the war .which ravaged the fairest province* of France and made desolate u hun dred thousand peaceful hearts! It was her war , the would say. Poor woman I . * ‘ Tho unlonuotlo Prince; could scarcely hate become a dauger to the French Hepubllc had ho lived to 50; but, for all that, bis death Is u po litical event of extreme Importance. The vio lent and unscrupulous party which employed bis name ns a pretext forks unseemly manifes tations will be almost crushed by the disaster, for the only Bonapnrtes left l to. ncrpctuot(\ the NnpoleonlelUea are either luslgnlUcunt, or hate ful, not only to Uiclr countrymen generally, but to iheir party also. Prlnco Napoleou Jerome, familiarly kuown In Paris as , “PLON-PLON," Is a personal enemy of many leading Bona partlsts, and has quite recently made public profession of Radicalism. When be satin ibo Chamber of Deputies, bo voted with tho Uc publlconson more than one occasion; .and ho lias always made a point of opposing M. llouhcr. 'lll* sons, Victor und Louis, are mens lads, utterly unknown till the other day. Vic tor, the elder, Is at present n pupil of the Lvcec Charlemagne, In the neighborhood of the Uasttlc. lie Is about 15 Tear* of age, neither rcry stupid nor very intelligent, und, so far as we con Judge, not likely to be a serious thorn In any one's side—unices, perhaps, Ills father's. A section of the Bonapartlsrs, represented by Paul de Caswumae, has already put forward the name of Prlnco Victor as a successor to (he airy Idle of poor Louis; und it I* even given out that M. Boulter had In hU possession a will uf the dead Prince oppolnling him his heir. The head of tho BonapartUt family, at all events, and TUB ONLY DANGEROUS I'BUSON, Is now Prlnco “Plon-Plon," Napoleon lll.’s cousin and protege. During the Lmpiio he lived on the disdainful bounty of the Emperor. At one time ho inhabited a suite of apartments lit tho Palais ttovul, His character and reputa tion are those of a base and seusual cynic: but he Is clever, and hu cortofnly Is not scrupulous. If ho found It convenient to drop Ids democratic “principles” for Cicsarism to-morrow, there Is uo moral doubt ho w ould do It, It was rumored last night that another Bona parte, even less Interesting ami more odious than •• Plon-Plon," was on tho potut of giving up tho ghost and rendering an account ot his very ‘‘shady” actions In this world. Prlnco Pierre, tlm man who shut Victor Noir,—and made the fortune of Gambelta,—was thought to bo dying, it turns out that the facts of the ease have been exaggerated. Pierre, who has resided ut Versailles fur some yeir* past, is In a bad way, hut not so bad us was supposed. When Interviewed bv a Parisian reporter, be wub discovered in a hotel pear the Chateau, very much out at elbows und down at heel, but not appreciably nearer the lower region* now than at any other time since be murdered Vic tor Nolr. It U dlfllcult to understand TUB BXfIIAOUUINAIIY CONDUCT of the ofllcers who accompanied tlm luckless Prlnco on the fatal expedition In which hu lost his life. A panic of a natural, but by no means honorable, sort must have seized the reconnol lering party at the sight of the Zulus crawling towards them In the tall, treacherous Jungle grass; ami In a panic men grow savages, deaf to all bub the instinct of self-preservation. But 1 pity Lieut, Carey. The French pres* lies not, from politeness, snoken out Us mind so freely as the Loudon Standard, but U will be even more terrible for him to read the veiled sarcasms of the Paris papers than to endure the sternest reprimand or punishment of bis commanding officers. WJUT CAN ItAVB ÜBBH TUB ÜBASON9 that impelled the young head of the Bonapart tsts to leave his mother and the quiet ease of un English gentleman's tile for (he needless perils ot an Inglorious campaign! Many explanations* of the mystery have been attempted, but they have been almost wholly bused on political bjnothi scs. People have forgotten that, besides being a Prince, Louts Napoleon was a man, with nil a man's affection, unit more than a common share uf scnshlveness. It Is whispered now tliuta love-dUupDolutmcnt was at the bottom* of the story. Borne go so far as to name the object of tils affections. X cannot vouch fur tlm truth of tho report, and yet It mav bo true,—lf, us I bear, Hie Princess Ueatrlep ftlhted nrfav, the other day, when the news was brought her. Tho los* of the “little Prince"—the term is so natural—will be felt more In England than; In Frame, and by no suction of English society, mure than bv the Court. Here, lu a week, Jus very name will be baldly remembered ;*or, if remembered, it will be with a sigh of'fejlel. Ab lit appears cruel to you. no doubt/U) say such things, but, politically, Ids death Is A OilN TO PUANOB. A few years obo. four parties were sttavglim; for supremacy. The OrleauUts, us u pbrtrj,djs oupiarc 1 wbuii tiie C’uuut of I’uris ttWtmiwi: tdued the superior' claims of too OUajv de Chambord, In ITTII. Since poor Louis hnsdKiji pcarcd, tin* have een*ed (Hmnch they will not yet admit It) to lie n political (ac tor. Tin ronrn liut. tiro purlW In France now. Thu Dnnnpnrllsfs, nr I/Cgihmlsts. renresenttng the principles of Hcredltarv mid Divine lUfflit. Catholicism, and Restricted HnlTrmru,—wllli the Comte do Chambord (otherwise Henri V.) n« (heir chief, and the Comte do Paris as his suc eessor-ajtparont, form ono party. Thu Repub licans of all shades, representing (he Hnverelgn t.v of Ihu People. Universal Suffrage, Anti- Clericalism, mnl, Indeed, Anti-Catholicism, form ihu other. One npholds lh« banner of the Post; the other triumphantly unfurls the stand ard of ttic Present. Who rati predict the Future I u. rouuer, the ruling spirit of the councils of Ihc Bonapart hts hitherto, was at his citato at Ccreey when the telegram from Africa arrived. Vou may Judge of tho effect It had upon him from the fact of hts fntqjing away, like a girl, on hearing what had happened, lie left fur Chlsclhursl a day alter, ami I# still with the Empress. Prince Jerome’s hpßehman Is thcsinlsterEmiloOllivler, by all accounts. ' Ilouher personified the auto-- erotic Empire; Olllvtcr nlTcctcd to champion • Ije Liberal and Democratic Empire. But really U Is hardly worth while to go Into all these de tails, for the death of poor little f.otiis has done lur Ilouher, Olllvier, Jerome, Victor, and the whole party. There are signs already of seces sion to thu ranks of the Republicans, on (ho one side, and of'tho Uovallsts, on the oilier. M. Janvier do la Motto Ills, a rather prominent sup porter of the Imoerlnlist doctrines, has gone over to tho Union Republlcalne,—M. llmnbotto’s group;'ami it Is known that a number of his lullow-Bonapariists are only waiting a decent pretext to imitate trim. Paul do Cassaguae .was publicly questioned, some years ago, at an electoral meeting, as to the line of conduct he would adopt If at any lime the hones founded on the young Prim e were dashed to the ground; am) then replied that ho would cease to bo the partisan of nny dynasty. M. Houher has over and over again declared that “'The national voice must alter all be listened to.” Nobody In his senses run suppose the na tion cares a straw about Prince Jerome or his Insignificant son Victor; so tho position of Hie leading Bonoparllsts BCF.MB UNTENABLE. Paul, however, who ot course knows that the Republicans under no circumstances have any thing to do with him, ami who has few friends among the Royalists, is now drawing Hue dis tinctions between Bonapartism ami Imperialism, lu the ono, you attach yourself to a family, he suvs; in the athcT, to a principle: nml he has solemnly sworn never to abandon Imperialism. That old saying, “ More Royalist than the King,” will have to be altered to suit Paul’s case Into “ More imperialist than tho Emperorl” Whv does nut Cassaguae go out to tight thu Zulus, with a score or two of his companions? An assegai or two In A s body might calm him. To parody a familiar speech, “The Chamber is at pence when Cnssagnae is silent-.” Assegais si lence noisy brawlers or Inoffensive Princes with equal certainty; but the brawlers are prudent, IlAnnr Meltzeu. CHICAGO. Comments of tho Croat. English Journal on n I.ottor from it Unddent of This City. London 7itnrs, June2.‘. Wo print In another column a letter from Mr. G. M. lligginsou, a citizen of Chicago, giving some Instructive particulars concerning the growth of that city and the development of the State of Illinois. * Mr. IKggtnson sets forth his reasons for considering himself entitled to write with authority. Hu is one of those New En glanders to whom the Great West Is as much indebted os New England was to the stnrdyaml energetic Puritans of the Old Country. To him, and others like himself, the part of the country In which they have settled ought to be grateful. - Others, however, who are citizens of New England by'.birth or,adoption, have proved the reverse of benefactors. Brigham Young, whose doings In Utah have been the source of Infinite trouble and anxiety to the United States Government, wan a native of Ver mont: he was one of the Green Mountain hoys who are the pride of their own State for irre pressible vigor, dash, mid resolution. Mr. Den uls ICearcey,’ who has ‘ become the terror of wealthy and .industrious citizens In California, had his homo in Massachusetts. Indeed, so many of the settlers in the furthest West mi grated from Boston .that, the .Indians of the Foclfie const call a cltlzou of the -United States a Boston man,- just as the Indians In the Great West of the Dominion of Canada call uu En glishman one 'of King George's men. Some Western States, of which Colorado Is the cnlof, have been principal)? settled bv Immigrants from the Statu of New York;.yet tt Is the rule fur New Englanders to 111! the tlret places us men of business and politicians In the roost - prosperous States of the Far West. They ' display not energy onlv, but adaptability also, and the account which Mr. Illgglnson gives of himself Is a strik ing c.vciuplilleatlon of this. He begun life in a Boston counting-house at the age of Id, remain ing three years there, and acquiring a knowledge of commercial dealings with all parts of the world. Then lie spent four years In New York, where he learned the details, first of trading In textile fabrics, ami thcnul mnmtfacturiiigthctn. Jlo afterwards went to Chicago in 1543, and there ho curried on a ceqyyal business In ‘‘dry goods, groceries, hardware, and crockcrv,” con jointly with keeping a lumber-yard, saw-mills, ami a ship building establishment. Ho has also been un< Insurance agent, a manager of ami dealer In real estate; so that, ns he Justly says, bo bus had such a varied experi ence of business as enables him to form an 'opinion of the capacities ami resources of different parts of hit country. From the point of view of the Old World, a man who had tried so manv things would be deemed unequal to the conduct of anv single cue. But, in the United States, n man who has turned his hand to several trades Is probably the superior of his fellows In resources and shrewdness. This adaptability to circum stances, which is the characteristic of the push ing and successful citizens of the Union, gives them uo advantage over the European emigrant who cun do one thing only, and who hesitates to embark in an undertaking for which he dues not feel a special aptitude or has not had a previous' training. We readily admit that, so far from being a typical rolling-stone, Mr. iligglnson Is really a man who has learned his lesson In the school of experience, nod who, alter haring lived and labored for (liirty-slx years In the City of Chicago, has earned the right to a hearing when he records his Impressions. Wo concur with what lie tells us about the marvelous progress of Chicago. The Inventive faculty of Queen Scheherazade never produced a more extraordinary tale than Ihe true story of the Garden City on Lake Michigan. When Mr. Illgginson first visited it, hi 18-10, the In habitants numbered -IjOiX). He might have said that ten years previously there were but lUO persons there, of whom but u few were white men. It. was then a small Indian trading-post, in 1837 It was Incorporated us u city, ami year after year Its Inhabitants Increased with a rapid ity ot which there Is no parallel, Ihe estimated population now being halt a million; and, If the prospective increase keeps pace wliu the calcu lated amount, there will ha two millions of people In Chicago by the year IBUO. Quite ns noteworthy as, ’tho rate of increase is the good sense ami forethought which the citizens have shown In rendering (heir city comfortable and healthy. For several years after Its foundation It was found that fever pre vailed, owing to the houses being built uu too low a level, in 185flthls drawback was removed by raising the Houses to the night of eight feel above the shore of the lake; widlo the work was ip progiress business went on us usual, the houses continuing to be Inhabited notwithstand ing they were slowly rising above their founda tions. The water supply was next found de fective, tho W«<cr ot the margin of tho lake being contaminated with the sewage. To remedy this a funnel was tarried for two miles tutu the lake lolsdl. u second being added ten years later, both costing enormous sums, ami butti subserving the purpose ut affording an excellent supply of pure watfer. Thu river widen winds through tho city Wing found an obstacle to traffic, first one amt then another tunnel was driven under Its both in order to facilitate the passage of foot-passengers and vehicles, iu 1371, when at the bight of its prosperity, Chica go was the scene ul’u fire quite us disastrous as that wbleh ravaged Loudon In ICtW. Three miles and a half were burned over, the urea Inlying been covered, before the lire made ft a 'waste, with 17,433 houses, Inhabited by 03,300 'persons. The damage done amounted to SIOO,- 000,000, after deducting $30,000,000 paid fur in ' tmrunce. Bciuru another vear elapsed the greater part of the coy had been rebuilt In u stile fur more substantial and effective than beiorc. Three years later a second lire devas tated sixty acres »u the heart of the city, caus ing a loss of $1,000,000. 4* present the city's prosperity continues us if nothing hail ever oc curred to check It. It Is now, what it was as > Jur buck as 1851, the greatest depot tu the world furgrulu. A» a cattle market no other can sur pass it. During the year nearly hull u mill ion pigs and 05,fil'd cattle were killed and rx ported. The trade lu lumber (s also a large one, wliiie muuufaciorUs or vur.ous kinds give cm pluvmcnt to 50.000 persons. If it were mu tor the btata in w hich it occu pies the first place wnuntf populous and rising cities, Chicago would be as unimportant a mart fur the transaction of business as Springfield, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, JULY 9. 1870-TWELVE PAGES. which has the honor of hu nt; the Capital, The area of Ihu Slate of Illinola Is nunriv Hot same an that of England, vet In one thing alone— Unit Is, Indian corn—the production Is usually three times In excess of the production of wheat In this country. • Tnu wheal cron Is estimated at JW.tKW,O(K) hushels, mid other cereals yield larcclv. Mr. Hlgglnson might have rendered his picture still more at tractive had be said somethin,i; about the i-opa lillitr of tin* State lor fruit. One of the sights of Chicago, during thu season, is to wnlcli thu fruit trains arriving from thu part of Ihu Slate called Egypt, (Hied with strawberries and peaches. Vet it Is not this great, and fortllu Statu which alone furnishes Chicago with produce for consumption and export. Sixteen trunk lines of rail centre In the city, and Ihev bring tho products of many other States to find a market there; thu receipts of grain In n single year have been as much as 07,(XW,CW bushels. Not only Is- It a converging point for railways from all parts of thu Union, but it is also a port of no mean Importance, though a thousand nines distant from the sea. In (he Inland waters of (he Inked 500,000 tuns of ship ping are emulovcd. It Is probable that steam ers will regularly carry cargoes direct from Chicago to Liverpool now the Welland Canal has been deepened; sailing ships have already made the trip, and there Is no reason why lines of steamers should nut compete fur the trade, which must bo largo und profitable. It Is true that for onc-balf of the year thu navigation of thu St. Lawrence and thu lakes is impeded by tee, vet, during the other half, the crops could he chcaplv transportcd from Illinois toEneland. The prospect of tills form of transport being still further facilitated has lately been wonder fully Increased. A project U In contemplation for making a ship canal between Lake Huron and Lake Ontario. II this canal were avail able, the saving In distance between Chi cago and Liverpool, compared with the route through the Eric Canal, wuttld be 824 miles; the saving, ns compared with thu route through thu Welland Canal, would ho !)30 miles: while the estimated reduction In tho cost of carrying freight would ho $3 a too. This scheme was carefully examined by n Select Committee of the Ontario House of Assembly lost session, and was pronounced to be both feasible and desirable. Thus wo see, on the one hand, a prodigious increase In the produc tion of articles of food In the United States mid Canada, ami, on the other, improved means for transporting the surplus from North America to Europe. The agricultural develop ment of Illinois is not more extraordinary than that ot the Slates of Kansas, Colorado, Ne braska. and Minnesota. Even thu Territory of Dakota, which was not regarded us a place fur the production of wheat, Is already becoming a rival to the neighboring State of Minnesota; while the Canadian Province of Manitoba bids fair to surpass all rivals. Nut wheat anlv, but barley also, has become an Im portant article of uxport from these Western States. It has been found that the barley of Colorado cannot be equaled iu certain particu lars, mid the demand which has sprung up fur It in this country, however large, will not soon exhaust Ihu almost illimitable supply. Thu prospect of meat and grain being cheaper in England than has ever been known in living memory becomes stronger ns new land Is brought under cultivation on the other side of Hie Atlantic, and as the cost of transport from the place of growth to the place ol consump tion Is lessened. Cheaper food lor thu whole body of the English people means increased conlcutmcut ami capacity ter progress. “MCUPIIY NO, 2.” Tlio Eloquent Tramp nn<! Drunkard. Phlleultlphtn Timet, July a. “The temperance racket is played out,” yelled John Murphy, bunting Into the Timet ofllcu yesterday, lu a glorious statu of Intoxica tion. “I told yez so a year ago, und 1 thought so then, Begob, now 1 know It. - I’ve proved it, and now yez hear the words of Murphy No. 2. That's me name, and well ye know’t. There's reporters here now who came to Con cert flail when I had mo shoulder to the wheel In the cause of tcmpcranco' and printed me words of eloquence—burnin* eloquence they called them. Begob, It was mcsclf tlia£ was hurnin’ fur a drink W’hllo I uttered them, and I tell yez I was the big globule in the bowl of cold water that the Murpbyltcs held out to despairing, whisky-swillin' humuultv. Whoop! 1 say, do yez hear me! I'm Murphy No. 2. But the tcmpcranco racket Is played out. I’ve only cot drunk twice In the Inst week br signing the plcdco ami catching a dollar from the abstinence chapfl. Used to catcu them for a 810 note without any trouble.” With these words John Murphy, ex student of graduate with high honors and valedictorian of Jus class at Bt. Mary's College, Maryland, and In bis 25th voaramanof the brightest promise,, but now 30 years of age and a pitiful wreck of manhood, settled Into a chair und Instantly full Asleep. Of Id* oratorical power none who attended the temperance-meetings at Concert Hall'two years ago can entertain any doubt. Well road, with a ready command of language, a rich, clear voice, and good delivery, Ids speeches were n power ,thut*the movers in the temperance cause gladly welcomed, and for a time Murphy' No. 2 was, ns ho expressed himself, “ livin’ in clover hip hTfeh, begob.” lie had been educated with a view of taking orders In the Catholic priest hood, but was stopped just short of that, for lit* passion for drink had rendered him unwor thy, although in other respects ho was In every wav lilted for the high and holy otllcc. The clforts that wero made to rescue hint from tlm habit* into which lie had fallen were In Tain. Whatever else be was fitted for, he was, beyond all things, lilted to become a magnifi cent specimen of a drunkard, and In that direc ting he realized every fear that hU Irlcnds enter tained fur him, and in a few years after leaving college bad reached the lowest plane, lie re turned to Ireland, und worked for a while on the foreign stuff of the Now York Hern <I . He Uohomiunlzed on the Irish press, und then dis appeared for a time, only to turn up In a hos pital In New Orleans. Afterwards bo was a teacher lu a Catholic Institution in St. Louis, where drink mustered him again and be became a tramp, giving up alt bones of being able to 'reform, and, without attempting resistance, ho wos swept beyond the power of good influence and was lost. Ho cumo to Philadelphia just at tho time the tcmpcranco tide was at its Hood, and, stepping Into one of tho saloons at Eighth and Chestnut, pleaded for a drink. Some one said to him, "Why don't you go to the tempcrance-mcctlngi" And thus be tells bis story: “ I was sick und desolate; 1 hadn’t heard a kind word, and. wlmt was uf more Im portance, 1 hadn't had u drink that day. 1 didn’t earo about eating, and so 1 went as they directed, to Concert Hull, although 1 Hrstgot a drink of bramlv, that braced mo for a grand effort. Thera was a crowd there, and I, ragged und dlrtv, pushed mvwuv through the throng of well-dressed people to'tho platform. Iliad made up my mind what I was going to do, ami 1 climbed up to ibo table and wrote my name under the pledge, and us 1 did It 1 threw up mv hands like this und cried: 1 Saved 1 Praise bo to Hod!' I made a hit right there. That's what I was after, and the leaders of tho meeting gath ered round mu and talked with mo; but, savs I, ‘ lot mo sneak to tho people,' und they said,'* Ou ahead.' 1 knew 1 could letch tho audience If 1 over got lu front of them. They put mo up us a frightful example who bad Just started to re trace bis steps, and Introduced me with a neat speech, and I laced the crowd. “1 tired (be eloquence at them. Says I: ‘The historical record ot Alexander tho Gccut, that ttiero existed, no more worlds to conquer, bus traveled down the limitless corridor of lime to find Us opoehryplml hour to destroy and efface It from (he tablets uf the world. Ctesar, Alex ander, Napoleon, Frederick tho (treat, und Allred the Great are names burn never to die, but 1 would prefer to-night to havo my brow wreathed with tho laurels that belong to (he victor lu (ho great battle of passion than to wear a crown,made from alltbosu Unit the great men wore, fur then could I ear I begun to bulh duo and control when those mighty men found a limit of power to them unattainable.' Why, (hut audience got ou to Its lect. I pad them. 1 was all right then. That week I kept sober, preparing for a big drunk, and J raised lor myself from among the people, who thought a great Intellect had Iwen rescued, tflSlt. Chen l hud u week’s drunk, and spent It all. I ■ caino bask and I worked (ho tcmpcranco racket for about . four months, i went to Pittsburg with Frank Mur pbv—lie's No. Iyo know—and to Baltimore, and then I got too prosperous entirely. 1 was u* big a card os Frank himself, and bo was hecom tug Jealous, so bo tired me out. savin' 1 was drunk, bo I was, but 1 was a better man drunk than hu could ever be, sober or drunk. Lust summer X worked tho uump-meutlugs, and 1 tell you iam an tythorler when I gut mroln'; lean make'sin bowl around, the mourners’ bench, bometlmea i gut excited, und by (he reason of myCathollo training, I forget (he Methodist doetrme audbruig in the Holy Virgin and tho balnta. 1 did (hut down at Dual’s Island, Md., last summer, 1 was full as u tick, but 1 rushed ou, amt the people were shouting so that no body noticed it except % colored Bishop. Hu came up atlerwanis and soldi ‘Brother Mur ulir, 1 fear tou are not sound in vuur doctrine.' 'All the same; Bishop,' says 1, 'it's all the reli gion ot our Savior.* But be had msdo up his mind, and X charged them S2O to gut nd of mu. Thev wouldn’t have heresy in theirs, even at the price 1 was payip’ In outraging my conscience In preachm' to them.” “ What did you do last winter!” “ Well, 1 had a bard lime ot It, but X pulled through, and I’m after thccjmp-mectlngs again this summer. I’m ready to Incite a mob nr od dress a society of p'l InlogDls. Terms, nun In unlimited quantities. I wish I could go out mnl join Reamer. I’m his master in Invective; nml now, hovs, lake up a 'comp-town* to tmv Murphy No. 3 a few drinks.” With these words Murphy No. 2 rolled out, and a few hours inter words was seen on (lie streets drunker than ever before, and vigorously haranging a tele graph-pole and a lamp-post in choicest Latin. Onetime Murphy colled on the Ron. James ff. Blaine, ot the Continental Hotel. That statesman was in the cltv to address a meeting on the issues of the Presidential campaign. Murphv met Blslno In the rotunda of thu hotel, and Interviewed him on the subject of a quar ter. lie relates his experiences: “‘Jim.’ ssvs I, ' I want n quorlhcr to gcltncsllf in tone to listen to ycr Hpem h to-night,’ He didn’t make me any answer: in fact, ho wasn’t going (ogive It io me, but says I, *Jim, bo reasonable. I’m Murphy No. 2, and if vcz don’t let tnu have tt I’ll gel up an opposition meeting to von across the way, and y er. know I can out-talk ye.’ lie examined ms’leaturcs to see Hint I wasn’t Sen ator Hill, or Conkllng. or Lamar, and, bein' much relieved to find that I was none of them, he gave me a dollar, mid I went forthwith to wet me whistle.” THE DEAD PRIIiCE. Indignation of thn Rnellsli I’onpl* at the Wnntnii Sacrltlco—l.nrd Chelmsford De nounced In Unmeasured Tonus, Cvrrrtanmlenf* .Vrre Vork Herald, London, Juno 24.—Shame and indignation bare taken the place of surprise ami horror re garding the asd death of the Prince Imperial. The first thoughts In the public mind were the probable political consequences mid sympathy for the widowed und now childless Empress. But at present the feeling uppermost In the English heart Is one of shame fur the blot cast upon the.. English army by the want of proper guardianship over the young Napoleon displayed bv his superior officers whose guest, ho was, but mostly by the ignoble (light of bis comrade In arms, Lieut. Carey, ami the other English soldiers with Dim. In military circles In England nothing has for years, It over, created such a sense of disgrace. Tim papers are filled with letters from army officers ex pressing indignation at the conduct of their fcllow-olficcr, and urgently demanding nn Impartial Investigation. 4, ile is a fine young fellow,” wrote the Duke of Cambridge to Lord Chelmsford at Ihc time the Prince went out to Zululuml, "full of spirit und pluck, mid, having many old cadet friends in the artillery, he will doubtless find no difficulty in getting on, and If you can help in onv w ay, pray do so. My only anxiety on his account would be that be Is ton plucky und go-ahead.” The Duke also wrote that the Prince wished to serve in the army, but (tie Government would not permit It. The Prince, therefore, went out as a spectator ami a guest. In spite of the above warning tiie young Bonaparte was allowed to go into the heart ol the eneim’s couuiry with a meagre es cort of less than a dozen men, wbo, when sur prised, nil scampered away and left tlmirguest und comrade to follow on foot ns best ho could. Perhaps the soldiers whose oodles were found by that of the Prince did die in his defense. Later accounts will tell, and every one hopes they did, for English honor is at stake ami Lieut. Carey did little for its glory. Whnt a chance this was for h man to have earned the thanks of a nation and the personal gratitude of the heir of the Bonaparte*, not to speak of more substantial rewards in the shape of the Victoria Cross and promotion. There were models of bravery, lor Lieut. Curev, but unfortunately the stuff of the hero was'want- Ing in him. •* Such a story,” writes a gentle man to the 'fclef/raph, ‘‘reddens the cheek of every Englishman—aye; mid cvcrv English woman—with unutterable .distress ana indig nation.” It was possible for him to see service without risk. The Prince would have been Hie la»t to sanction such tender care. Ho was brave to recklessness, and would have smarted under anv more restraint than U customary to similar eases. Ho was nut serving In the army, how ever, und bis place shtmid have been by the side of the Commander-In-Chief or (Sen. Newdigate, Into whose euro tie bad been put. The AVitj, citing a supposed parallel case, save that, “If a son of Gen. Grant or of Marshal MacMnhon had been allowed to be present with the British army In Booth Airlca under conditions similar to those under which the Prince Louis Na poleon accompanied It, (he sense of the care and protection due to a guest would have'lnvolvod precisely the same obligations toward either of them as' toward the Prince.” To show you how this part of the incident Is regarded bv '.he En glish army, U|ls only ricerssury toouoto the end ut a letter* to the SUvttiartl from one who says. Up to this time we have sustained many mllltory disasters und have made many military blunders, but never before this occa sion have I blushed tto sign myself a British officer.” Another signs hilnscll "A .Much Ashamed Englishman.” The Standard, In printing these two communications, says it does so with pain, bat that “It is useless to conceal the sense of humiliation and shame which ts felt throughout the length and breadth of the land at manner in which the gallant young Prince wsa etakied for a most danger ous duty, and was lien deserted by bis escort upon the first ....iinntlon of the fact that (he Zulus had surprised them.” A proof Unit Lord Chelmsford never realized the Importance of the charge committed to him is the matter-of-counm way in which Ills official dispatch Is written. To him it was an “unfor tunate affair,” as ho described the Isamluln massacre, and when ho meets the “bravo” Carev und the other survivors of this later affair, ho will probably say, “Thunk you all vcrymuch for your gallant— jimdcDco." Sir Barilo Frcrc and tbu colonists aro still less considerate. Donald Currie & Co. offered to have their steamer stop at St. Vincent In or der Unit the news might bo telegraphed to Europe from there instead of later from Ma deira, but the Colonial Government paid no at tention to the offer. Vet another example of disregard of propriety and good taste Is the an nouncement Unit tlHcfostlrllles connected with the reluru of Sir Hurtle to Cape Town would not bo Interrupted, because tho I'rlneo Im perial did not hold an official position. Sir Bartlo has been, you doubtless know, making a triumphal tour ihrough the colony. Hu was to make a grand entry into Cape Town, and there was to be a great procession und ban quet. Triumphal arches were being erected when the lust mail loft, though where the cause for triumph Is nobody in England has been able to discover. Thu glad music In celebration of tho unknown triumphs of .Sir Bartlc Frere will bu mingled with the requiem of the Prince Im perial as Ids body U earned on its war io En gland. No wonder British pridu Is wounded. • To give you any Idea of tho Indignation that prevails 1 may give the letter of a British oillcer to the .S/am/mt/. He says: “ The report of the incidents connected with (he death of thu Prlnru Imperial will canto a deco sensation, not only of sorrow, Iml ul shame, throughout Uiu British army. In the find place, It was an act of the most extraordinary recklessness to send two young officers miles away from Uiu support of Uiu British column, with a scouting party of six Irregular troupers, white men, and a K'nlllr guide. Bo great has been thu dread lull by the authorities for the Zulus that they suf fered our dead to Beat Isamlulafor four months within sight of a military post, and during this time only ouu scouting parly ventured to pay a living visit in the place; mid yet these youug officers were dispatched many miles Into uu ut terly unknown country with only six troupers. It would In onv case have been an act of unpardonable recklessness to dispatch tins little party upon such an expedition, but thu recklessness Is o thousandfold mure serious when It Is remembered Hist one of these officers was Uiu Prince Imperial of France. It la clear that lu ids case the greatest caution should have been observed, and that he should have boon the verv last person chosen for a service of extraordinary danger. Dues any one suppose (Inn, bud the Duke of Connaught been present with thu force, the (juartermiistur-Gim era! would have dispatched him upon such a duty as llilsf Vet he scut Uni I'rlncu Imperial, Urn heir to thu throne uf France, Uiu guest of England, a lad nuw to soldiering, who could have known nothing what ever of the duties ul scouting und the care nec essary to bo observed upon such an expedition as that on which he was engaged. Nor does tho oillcer who accompanied him appear to have teen mure instructed lu Ins duty, il it be truu tlml the party unsaddled their burses und sat duwp fur an uuur in Hie heart of Zululuml with out even taking the precaution of putting a wan on duly to act ui u scout. “But, air, unhappily, this terrible blunder of a British stall oillcer In high position Is not the only, nur Indeed thu most lamentable and dis graceful. feature of (he affair. Englishmen eaunot read the account of the struggle Itself without u deep feeilng of sbame. Tho party bad Just saddled ihelr horses when thu alarm uf the Zulus was given. Each leapt upon Ids horse and galloped fur bis lllc. There was uu (nought of the brave young I'rlncu: no one looked round to see It. the whole party were together, or had a thought fur any one but bimself. Contrast this selfish flight with some of the heroic Incidents uf the present campaign which have been pub lished. Think of Maj. Levi, at Zlohane, botlv pursued bv the Zulus, yet slicking by Ids dis mounted frieud, LUml. BmltU, who ion by bis side holding on hr thu saddle, and from time' to time turning round, shot with his revolver those Zulus who came within assegai tench. Hotly pressed. mid willi Smith's strength Idllinc. Maj. Leet made a great effort, and by rnnlti forte bunted his commie tin to his linm« behind him &nd boro him off In safety. Think, again, of Capt. Brown at Kambula. who—when a yttlun leer wbo hod dismounted to flro was unnnlc to regain bit teat, hi* borne being frightened by . the advnnclnc Zulus— rode back and held Uiu man's horse and assisted him to mount when the Advancing tine of the Zulus was Just clodng around him. Contrast these eases with the suave qnl peut of the officer and men who accompanied the Prince Imperial. Nor w.-fi the desertion and panic merely momentary. We are informed that ft was not till they reached the deep outline, fiDO yards away, that they looked round, and, finding the Prince's riderless horse fob lowing then. concluded that ho woa killed. At that lime no Zulus appear to liavc been close on their track, but not one of them thought of turning horse to sec tf the Prince was near. Had thcr dime so, had ther even waited for a minute, they would have saved his life, for It was m this very cutting that Ids body was found. Ho had apparently kept ahead of his pursuers on foot thus far. mid had the horsemen waited—still more, hail they rid den back to meet him—he could have been sjvcd, as Lieut. Smith and the volunteer above spoken of were saved. '• No comment upon mv part can deepen the feelings of shame which every oQlccr In the British armv must feel at perusing this narra tive. It Is but too evident that the persistent maintenance at his post of a coininmidcr-lii chlef wholly unequal to the position baa acted most dcletorlousiy ti| on the staff officers and troops employed under him. The one hare been altcrnatclv Incapable and reckless, the other have Imbibed Unit overwhelming dread of the enemy which lias distinguished Lord Chelms ford's operations ever since the fatal day of ls;iiidula. Had the vtmng Prince who has licen sacrificed to the recklessness of a British staff nlllccr, mid to the want of calm courage on the part of those wbo were with him been a subal tern of our own army, the occurrence would have not been less disgraceful, but It would bare been less notorious. As It Is. a noble young Prince lias fallen a victim, and tlm cir cumstances will be discussed and criticised by* ever? oillcer In Europe. It Is needless to say what the comments will be. Up to this time we have sustained many military disasters, and have made many mllitarv blunders, but never before this occasion have I blushed at signing myself, sir, your obedient servant. A British Officer.” “ANI3IILES.” Snakes, Alligators,' Fish. Cntx. nod Fowls. As the brute-animal creation arc averse to the tobacco-plant, so do tho Utile birds at Saratoga eschew Congress water. TWIN CHICKENS. There were two chickens hatched from the same egg at Cumberland, Kv.. a few weeks ago. Both are Bring and doing well. AN ALLIGATOR’S REPAST. OiinifteburJ iS. C) 7 tme*. An alligator was killed by IL 0. Smoke. Esq., Inst week, on the Kdixto, over ten led lung, and weighing about 250 pounds. A bog was found In il. KILLING A KITTEN WITH CHLOROFORM. A lew days ago a Imlv of Luwrllle, N. V., used chloroform to try to kill n kllien. The animal, seemingly dead, was placed in a pasteboard box nmi buried in the garden, under a light covering of earth. Two davs later the larnllv beard it mewing, and upon imcartbtng the box the kit ten crept out. It Is now alive and well. POISONED nr HANDLING A DEAD SNAKE. % /Mtiniore ISulUtln. John Irwin Elliott, of Cumberland, was poi soned by handling a rattlesnake a few davs since. He was not bitteb by the snake, hut. af ter It was killed, cut off the head and rattles, ami commenced skinning it. He lay a. the point of death for a day or two, and is still very sick. INCIDENT AT A TIRE. AVirA/rH f.V. f\) Suuhtll. One of the nozzle-holders of the steam fire engine Elijah Ellis informed us vcfitcrduy that the engine “sucked up” n catfish and an eel Saturday night from Trent River, am! that these Inhabitants of the deep were forced through tho nozzle hy the powerful pressure of water which was “ played ” ou the burning stables. COACHWHIP UP A TREE. Ttlik’qt? (.Ibi.) .V'ir», Burrell Barrow tells us that bo lolled a coach whip on tits place, near.town, last week, meas uring six leet tn length. He was attracted bv a squealing noise to a tree, in which he. found his snakcshlp devouring a rat. In the top of the tree was a rabbit, viewing tbo scone with ap parent unconcern. TUB CHAMPION ALLIGATOR STOUT. Tnurnn (PH.) Trthiinr, During the recent dry weather In Manatee County the lower Mlaka Lake dried up all to one hole.—a thing never before knuwn to tin* oldest inhabitant,—which hole was quite deep und was the only resort for water for the cattle. This hoio was tall of alligator*, and. as the stockmen feared their depredations on the cattle, a number of them went there one dav and killed alligators, from six feet to four teen feet tn length. A SNAKE WITH TWO HEADS. i/l(/W(/XJ.) CftrfiilrU. A gentleman whose word we cannot doubt states Hint a negro named Bteohen Wapies.ire siding between Btavtonaville and Greenwood, this week killed u wonderful reptile, which was nothing less than a two-headed snake of the ordinary viper species. It had two separate uml distinct, head*, which branched forth on each bide of its neck, and was about two leet In length. TOOTH-OUAFTINO ON ROOSTERS. Dr. P. G. C. Hunt, the dentist, litas been ex perimenting in toolii-croftmg. Two weeks ago lie took two robtm chmillcleers mid Inserted in each of their combs a human bicuspid tooth, und to-dav the teeth are as firmly imbedded in the combs as If they had grown there. A chirk en-faucier who saw the fowls desired to buy them uf the Doctor, being under (lie impression that the birds were uf u new strain. To secure their growth It was necessary to remove tho uerves auci fill the orifices in the teeth. a mo SALMON. Mv. Dudley Olcott, of Albany, caught on the 17th of June a salmon weighing thirty-six ami three-quarter pounds in Cundlnn waters. He writes: “To kill him was the hardest hour's work 1 have yet put In. and the excitement was ahead of anything 1 hud Imagined. When lie took the fly ho Jumped dear out uf the water, it seemed us If bo would take the canon down. When struck ho made my tackle buz/, ns if a race-horse was at the other end. He tried all my strength every moment until be was brought to guff.” KILLING DUCKS AND GEESE. A Ilgbthmisc-kecDcr near the mouth of tho Potomac has dcvwcd uu ingenious plan for tlm slaughter of the ducks and geese widen light on a sand-bar near his station. He bus a battery uf twelve muskets firmly fastened to two heavy timbers, six above uml six below; them* are heavily loaded mid connected with the light house'br a long wire cable. As soon as ho sees geese near enough lie pulls his cable ami ex plodes all (tin guns at once, and theo takes his skiff mid nicks up tlm game. Quo shot this sea son gave Idm thlnv-tnreu geese. TUB LATEST PROOP OP FELINE INTELLIGENCE. A woman in Both, Me., suggested in the pres ence of.Um house-cat recently that the latter’s two kittens be drowned, whereupon the animals suddenly disappeared. Two days later the cut brought a mouse intu Hu* kitchen uml laid It at Imr mistress’ feet. •* Now*, puss,” said Ihe wom an, “If You’ll take tlml mouse out of the way und will keep your kittens from under my leet vou may bring them back to the house.” Buss trudged away with tlm mouse, went lu u holo under tlm barn und soon came toward the house, the two kittens behind her. A PLItCKT HEN. Hugh D. McMullen, of Aurora, 0., owns a matronly old game hen which Just now struts about with u brum) of citlckens. One day dur ing last week a luruo gray rut seized one ot tlm chickens mid started lur ins hole. Tlm hen cut off Urn rut's retreat mid fiercely attacked him. 'J pc strange pugilists fought for five minutes, at tlm ono of which time thu rat gave up the ghost. Next dav another rut made Ids appear ance In the yard. He, too, was attacked, but fuucht mote gamely limit (he first of tlm rodents, lie put out ouu of tho fowl's eyes, but was himself finally laid low. A GANDER'S API'ECTION for a man. «.*unimlm/ («<».) c/'irnm. About leu years since Mr. J. M. Bennett was, by Icgel process, declared to be a lunatic, but being harmless und inoffensive was nut sent to tbu asylum. About three years ago un old gander took uu with him, und would follow him wherever he went, in .Mr. Bennett's rambles ihrougo tlm woods or about Die neighborhood tills (Bithlulbody guard always attended him, walking Just c few Pud buturu imp, nl if lo ward off all attacks upon Us charge, mid bUsing st hogs or any uimiml they chanced to meet. Whenever Dm old man would slop to rest or lie oowu the g.mdor would sit down near bv, and remain until Da- old man left. While walk ing along the road, If Bennett found a gram of corn, or anything mat Dm gander could eat, Im would pick il up und put it Intu his pocket until be rested, and (hen be would gtVu II to his cum- pnnfoti. Whenever the old man went into ibe lioiiflo the tr indiT would seem to be wild, ami would Wake such ft terrible noise that the at tendants were obliged to let him la. Just os the fowl saw Ita companion It would become perfectly quiet. A short lime ago It became no troublesome at night, by trying to get Into the house, where IU master was, that they killed It. SOUTHERN SENTIMENT. A Few Mori* Gems from the Moat Notorious Kxponent of this Views of thn '•Chival ry.’’ Otrtfoqa Oflti.) SnuiXtrH Statu (Dfm.), July 3, MssHichnscit* has defended Slate Nights, amt she may be called anon to do It again.—ifflifon lUra.it. Wii—wn—wn—WHAT! l.ord bless us and save uai Treason in Boston! Okolonn treason In the Huh of the Universe! n-r-e-a-t General .lehosauhat! •* c °niwriou.i, children, and It will fly like wlld-liro all over this wide continent when once It’s well started. Well, Messrs. Conservatives, Messrs. Boards of-Tradc, Messrs. Soft-Shell Journalists and Politicians who said that von preferred Hayes to Tlldeti, Messrs. Policy-People in general and particular, what do you think of your grand old Bx 7 Fraud at (he present writing, in the face of his quartette of vetoes! Didn’t the Stop* tell you that ho would awing hock into the Stalwart camp before the curtain fell to slow music! And didn’t you look as wise as owls and oracles, and tell n» that he would prove a true and powerful friend of the South! Hut jou were sold, weren’t you! Sold cheap, too! on long credit and without security, at that. Well, boys, learn a lesson irotn this, and hcrealtcr take the counsel and advice of the Statu, it will never carry you amiss. The Okolona Staten has no other following than the Ibnnibhcitiis who support it. and pay IP* editors for scandalising and mlnreprcscntliig the Bouthorn people.—• iputanlt f.l/<r/*.j Commercial. Now, dcarlv beloved, don’t kick your coat tails through the crown of your hat” in that ungraceful way. Jt looks ugly. Mealdc, tlu! people hereabouts know Hint you arc Iving; imil it Is 21 very unbecoming tuid dirty business, even fora bastard Democrat, to lie. Mr Mu! wav, will you canter up und tell us the (iiiTucnec between your doctrines end the doc trines of Mie Madieul party! Kcallr, tweedle dum and tweeillcdoe are us far court us zenith mid the nadir when compared with your cheek* by-jowl proximity to Mie rankest fools und knaves m the Republican camp. The bastard Democrats of Vaukccdcvlldom arc pluyiifp; at lotlty and love of tlic old ling nowadays ; but In lSfll-’3 many of them ran olt to Canada In order to siieul: out of tlie draft, while others staid at homo and voted for Vul t.iiiiilirlnm and the other peace-patriots who were helping uh hr hampering Llnkhurn. Tin ac bastard Democrats arc defaming the .Si,tlft to-day; und yet tlie time was when (her mood shoulder to shoulder nna shield to shield beside us. ileneuudeal deserters I traitors to your trust I Vuii may denounce us because we continue to ui hold Mie principles Mint you once upheld; hut u whole wide world of high ami honorable men will know how to Judge between your treason to 1 ruth and oar lldulity to the Faith. jfot long ago. Gnv. Colquitt. of Georgia, was in the North imerinc cooing platitudes about con ciliation. the burial o> dead insurs, and the desir ability of suppressing sectional animosities grow ing out of Siuverr and die Civil War. Now, ho makes tits appearance at borne forbidding the use of thu Capitol in Augusta hy admirers of William Lloyd Garrison, who desired to bold a memorial meeting.- tialtm (A. )'.) Prtu. Yes, slr-ec, bob-tuil-mulol These “coning platitudes about conciliation” arc conilned to the mongrel and mouthing poli ticians; but. when they try to put them into practice, the people rise up In their royal, majes tic might, und sail down on them like a hearty, old, seven-barreled thunderbolt. Colquitt and his fcliow-Conscrvatlvc*, whoso bowels yearn for the sweetmeats und solids of place und power, would sell out their people, body und soul. If they could: but they can’t; and', if they can’t, how can they! Mr. Davis whooped up the boys on the old, old Issue [st I'twcaguatnJ, mid they all slumlul und scmmicd wills delight. Tbit muy be inn fur .Mr. Davis and the boys, tmt it adds much to the bur dens of tlie Conservatives. heirs burg Herald. Illuht, right,—nurrah, you are right I and we propose to loud down the burdens of you Con servatives until your splues are split und broken iuto lortv hundred fragments. Ye*,—ami another thing we want lo whisper in your car while wc arc holding it: If I’rcnl dent Davis wants to go to the United States Senate, lie will (lo with a huzza thut will ring uver thu continent like a regiment of thunder claps. 1< ue doesn’t want to go, we’ll select a good friend und supporter of Jefferson Davis in his place. . You know the man we mean. Now, Just square voursclt on your heels, uml have a straight, old sacrilegious howl, all by yourself. Thu vitriol-throwinglnndnrHHH getting lon unan imous. It ought iu be slopped. . . , The heitthenlidi desecration of slabs ana gravestones in the cemetery la gulling to be a vei y acnous matter. Tiie dastardly act Las been tepeated so often that forbearance is unendurable longer.— Cerro Uordo (jo. I llepublicm. lowa haa already made herself infamous us the State of murders and manslaughters, of rapes uml robberies; and now sbo has added vitrlol-tbrowing uml the desecration of human sepulchres to her long and damnable catalogue of crimes. Hhe brags of her Free Schools, her Prohibi tion laws, and her unfailing Kadlcal majorities; uml yet her soil swarms with ’ unstrumrled wretches who ride frec-bouted-aml-spurred through her counties, rninmlitlng depredations from which the suvugo devils of tho Fiji Islands would shrink back appalled. These mo mutters of her own, and sho alone Is responsible lor ami mu-t correct them; hut wo blush to thiuk that the Hag waving over her thugs, huim-lurliarlnue, and lumittii is the same that Haunts Ur dark, stained, and dishonored folds over Hie people of pure, proud, and pro gieshlve Mississippi. "0 ihu shame of it! 0 the shamo of HI” These unrepentant Itohels do not baiievo In a (•ovrrmuenl where me majority rnlos, diner In Ilnur own Mate or Iho nation, but m the sway uf the Lu-Klux and tho White League.— AtUgan (Mlt fi, i Journal. That Is Just where you make your mistake,— your big mistake,—your blasted big'and burly mUiuUe. Wc po want tho majority to rule.—the white, constitutional majority, wo mean. That is why we wanted tho Democracy to in augurate a high old wur-daneo when Tildcu was counted out. Hu bud a majority of the Electoral votes, Hu null a quarfep-mllUtm mujorlty oi tho whim uml (unconstitutional) black votes. Hu had 0110 million two hundred thousand mujorlty of (ho while votes, Ut Uiu White House door was slummed, locked, mid double-burred In hla lace; Huycs wiiK permuted to sneak lu through u back-win dow; mid our Itcpubllc U ruled by a minority to-dav,—u Kudlcai minority, remember. Just put that ciivruot In youe. mouth, Mr. Henderson, aud smoko It for sovuutcuu minutes by your chronometer. Accounts corns pouring In from every quarter (hat Drcormluii-Dny uns never so uniformly ob served as lhi< year. Amt ni nearly every place the practice of according confederate) craves was dis carded.—7i»no«u«'/u (A‘. i*.) /ntler. Happy to hear that your people have quit playing tho hypocrite ut tho graves of our gal lant slain. You have thereby knocked the pugs from un der tho conciliation-corner of the policy-plat form, uml helped to still farther solidify the South. When you covered our burled braves with fragrant flowers you fooled a fow of our weak, limp, unthinking, and emotional brethren into iho belief Uml tho South ami your section could live together iu peace, harmony, and fraternal love. ftiit vou never fooled tho Slate*. Nlxvl Wo knew you too welt for that. However, Uiu whole .South Is beglnnhiß to look ut you through our pair of spectacles now, and you had better not try (hut Decoration dodge u second time it vou don't wuut to be kicked sky-lmth over Urn eeuuttery-w011a... You will rim u durnlng-mseiUo through this paragraph and bear it m mind. If you know what U healthy for your wholesome. •• I’ll Never Marry \ou, Blr.** I’eiru [Hi. ) Umt Journal. In Crawford County, nut far from Fort Vulloy, )u«t week, a young uentteinau was to have beau married to a very estimable young lady. Tho Invited guest# had assembled to witness the err* cmonvnnd participate in the festivity of the occasion: the clergyman who was to make the couple a happy pair waa present, ready topper* form his part; the table was prepared with tho usual dainties: the bride, with a throbbing heart, noxiously awaited the arrival of her bc< trolhed. At a tardy hour ho came. Ills up* pearnnee told too well that ho had broken the pledge which he had so seriously and so sacred* ly vowed to keep—to drink no more. The iirm and resolute voting maid rose to her feet, rind, with nn Invincible determination, sooko In words too plain to be misunderstood: •Til never marry you, sir I” Consternation and con fusion ensued. Friends interceded and earnest ly besought the young woman to retract the words which were so fatal to her conjugal fetid ly, the bridegroom pleaded with all the vehe* mcneo and eloqnence of a hopeful lover, but still the mild would have her will, and said nay. She boarded the train a day or two later for southwest Georgia, and took her bridal tour without the would-be bridegroom. THE JEFF BAYIS BOOM. Mississippi Democratic Comments of All Sort#. Grenada Sentinel, Frank Burket,'of the Chickasaw Afmengtr, Is not ft Jeff Davis mao, Scnatorially considered, and tells his feelings in words of no uncertain significance; and be is more than half right in what bo aavs of the matter. Wc have so often expressed our sentiments on this matter that we need say no morn Just now than that wo think It would close Mr. Davis’ life, now scrcoo and calm, in a storm of troublcsaml contention,' and place our Stale in the Iront rank of disor ganise™. When wo have such men os Walthall, Barksdale, Houston, and others, men of the prevent, we need not go down amongst the political fossils for a Senator. LOVED AND REVERENCED. Knierttriu Courier. Now that the weight of years Is upon him, ami he can feel the end approaching, it must be Kicullarly gratifying to the Hon. Jefferson avis to sec how much he (a loved and rever enced by Misslasloolans,—not Mlsslsslp plans alone, but Southerner* • everywhere, Ihe editors of the Mississippi press, the ladjes amt all present on the recent occasion at Pas cagoula, seemed to love to linger nean him, to grasp his band and drtnl. in the words that fell from his lips. A King might envy him such a place m the affection of his people. KRAI) OUT. \’ick»’>ura Ihrnlii. The Chickasaw Mr**ewttr % which believes la burring Mie past, working for Uic future, and in honorably keeping pledges, reads Mr. Jefferson Davis out of the Democratic Conservative partv of Mississippi. Tlie Mmtnuer is fullv justified In this. Tested by our principles as set forth In our last Convention and unanimously adopted, Mr. Davis Is not a Democrat. Hu has never ac copied Mie amendments, has Dover been recon structed, but on the contrary clurtes In the be lief that there arc many in the South who ore unreconstructed, lowering ms personal DioNiir. Canton CUUen. We believe Unit wc express the opinion of nine-tenths of the people ol Mississippi mid nt the South when we sav tiiat for Jefferson Davis to seek or accept anv political ofllce would be a lowering of Ids personal dignity, and a descent from Mie proud position that be now holds us Die Representative of the Lost Cause. There is no place In thu polities nt these times that Is worthy of Mr. Davis; his throne is In the hearts of the true men and Women of the South- Let him be content with their love and veneration while ho lives, and when ho dies his name will bo enshnoed In their memories for* ever. WANTS TO RETIRE HIM. Chino Herald. While he, of all men of our State, bos been the most honored, and perhaps the best loved, bo seems unfortunate in committing egregious blunders, for which the South Is held responsi ble. The Uerrible Past has become historic, and Mr. Davis* history is In the past. We therefore suggest thu importance of retiring Mr. Dans. No tongue or pen rnu add to the brilliancy of bis name; and this continual harping on'his favorite theme. “ construction reconstructed,” is simply ridiculous. Tlie youth of Mississippi will tuKe their proper places In their devotion to the Union, uml will keep step to the music lo Us defense, Mr. Davis lo tho contrary notwith standing. • CURTAIN QB IS NOT A CANDIDATE. /Unofa Mar. Of late It has been a favorite theme with the aoslllon ureas to parade the honored oamo of eriou Davis as a candidate for the United dunes donate from Mississippi, It was even stated that “ Thu name of Jefferson Davit will be presented to the Mississippi Legislature lor United diutes Senator.” It adonis us not a little pleasure to be able by direct authority to positively contradict ail such rumors und state ments. 'Die loveut all truo Southerners for the grand old chlettaiu of u cause, though lost, sifll dear, ever increases and intensities with thu (light of years. The measure of his glory and greatness Is full. His fame Is immortal. Im partial history will record his name beside thut of Washington. A commission as United States Senator could impurt no new honor to Jefferson Davis. DYING WITH DISTINCTION. Ta tt e Editor a / Tht TrUum/. ’uiCAdo, July 7.—On tho sth of July, 187—, u pious citizen of Chicago departed this life, after comforting his wife with the assurance that sbo would follow him in less than a year. Well, she hud so overdone herself in waiting upon him, and so mourned his loss, that she declined steadily after his death, and, for months previous to the close of the year, was hopelessly ill. On the 8d of July following she was so low that her physician said she could not live past midnight; hut she did. Theu It oc curred to her friends that, os her husband had Used on the sth of ono July, and one of their children on tho sth of another July, that partic ular day of that particular month was fatciul for the family,—so that she, too, would die on the sth ot July. This piece of manifest destiny seemed so ap propriate that her friends felt no uneasiness on iliu 4th, and were nut surprised that, ou that mornlmr, she roused and seemed to tsko a new hold oflllc. Thev gave her some drink to sus tain her through the day sbo must live, and went about tiieir business: but, ou the morning of Uie slb. they gathered about her to await the event which must come that day, and, feeling that it was quite useless, os well as Impious, to Inlerforo with Providence, they carefully ab stained from so much us wetting her Ups. “U would be ot no use. you know, for she cannot live through the day. l ' All day they waited in tearful expectation ot tiie end. Some sat iu one room, sumo in an other, ami some in the null,—nothing doubting hut that ihc grim messenger would come that day. Hut hour after hour passed. It was noun, amt the year complete In which she was to have Joined her husband on tho other shore. Tim afterpoon woru on, and still she breathed. Could it bo possible that Destiny was to bo defeated: that Urn family was to no deprived of tho consolation of Koto and lixed dates in this important matter of transit to the Better Land t Had she died on the lid, and so fulfilled tho - prediction ot. her husband, there would hayo boon tho honor of a prophet In the family. Full ing in this, she certainly owed It to her Borrow ing relatives to go on the fateful 6th. There would bo no euphony In having ,hcr die ou tho lith, or 7th. or BUi. Her child had died on the fitii, her husband had tiled on the sth, and it must ho Hie will of I’rovldeueo thatshu, too, should die uu the 6th. Hut 10 o’clock. p. ui. came, and she lived. The fouudatlons of faith and family-distinc tion tvere giving wav, when her sister suggested Uml all might ho saved bjr slmjilv removing tiie pillows from under tho head of' the dying woman! She had noticed that life was pro longed In such eases by raising the head; and sogclv concluded that lowering It would have an opposite clfoet. Thu matter was discussed pm and eon. Tho pros said she was quite un conscious, would know nothing about It, and the pour dear would ho better away. To this lint eons agreed, hut ttiutight there wus no occa sion fur interference. Hhe was already far ad vanced in Urn work of dying, and had yet two hours in which to complete it. U would he heller to wall, if worst came to worst, some thing might bo done. Ho they waited and watched, moment by mo ment, ok tho hands moved over llio (ace of the cluck; but, alas 111 came, and she st 111 breathed. They felt her feet, and found them cold: lor a moment they couhl not And (he pulse. ui)d hope revived; but once more it beat. Slowly, feebly, hut still it best. They stood, and watched, and waited; but halt-past 11 cumc,and there was no change. Forty minutes post 11, uml still she breathed, Something must bo done, and that quickly. So the sorrowing sister gently drew a pillow from under the bead of tiie dying I ft sank back heavily, and all waa over. Not an other breath—a struggle and a gasp—tho pulse ceased—and the pour dear had had the unspeak able satisfaction of dying on the melancholy uu- Tho deadlocks had their “Ghost’s Walk," and a ghost to walk uu it. Most bloated aristo crats of Europe have a haunted chamber, or sumo old prophecy of inestimable vuluo; but uo such patent ot nobility Is more highly esteemed hv tiie possessors ttiau is this colucldcoce of uwi fateful slh bv tho family it distinguishes. JAN 9 GH9V s>yi*oUXUl, 9