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TELEGRAPHIC,

WASHINGTON.

Orders for Coin from riic Treasury Department.

More Arrests In New- - York forElection Frauds.

Police Regulations for To-Da- j-.

Spatiiards Wanting a King.

Public Disorder at Barcelona

y . A Radical Judge Ignoring Katu- -

ratlzcd voters.

Registration in Arkansas SetAside.

SEW YORK.Arrests for Franchise Fronds Poison- -

ins: of School Boys, etc.New Yoke. Nov. 2. Marshal Murray-- .

yesterday arrested Lewis Suddcnbacb, theClerk of the Supreme Court of Orangecounty, J. DickEon and Wickham T. Shaw,his deputies, Samuel E. DommickxandHenry C Millspauch, lawyers at Newbury, for being concerned in the issue oflaua certificates of naturalization. OwenL. Coffin, a lawyer, and Barney Scully, alaborer, were arrested at Peekshill for thesame ofTenfc. Hearings will be had tGismorning before Commissioner Baborno

Sixty pupils at liifbee's Military Schoolat Poughkeepsie, were taken sick withcrampa and diarbea on Saturday afternoon,and a panic prevailed for pome time.Prompt measures were taken, however,and it is thought something was wrongwith a dish Of headcheese that was heartilypartaken of by the boys at dinner, and iiis undergoing a minute examination.

McMabon, charged with murder iaWeehawken, and who escaped fromConstable Laurel on Saturday, was arrestedin this city yesterday and taken to Jersey.

Superintendent Kennedy issued an order.Hbis morning directing policemen totake prisoners arrested for fraudulentvoting before a United States Commission-er, and not suffer them to appear beforeany police Justice, or local or State Courf.The order was not submitted for approvalto the Board ef Commissioccri. ThomasWorth and Bruman will, it is said, issueinstructions to the force nt to obey anyorder of the Superintendent unless issuedby authority of the Board.

2fnv York, Nov. 2d. Governor Feu-to- n

remains here until after the elcctton.1Dwight and Townpend, Democratic

candidates in the first Congressional dis-trict have withdrawn in favor of the othercandidates.

Henry S. Reeves and W. S. Hillier, in-

dependent candidates in ths ninth district,have withdrawn in favor of John Savage,vbo is making a vigorous canvasa againstFernando Wood.

Forty-thre- e arrests were made in New-ark for illegal voting in the last election.Quite a number are' yet to bo arrested.

A number of prominent lawyers at New-bur- g

for alleged connection with fraudulentnatilralizition paper.

Henry Ward Becclier preached at Ply-mouth Church, Brooklyn yesterday. Refotehissermon he stated that by a formal vcteof the cLurcli, baptism was forbidden anychild, one of whose parent wannot a mtnibtr of the church.

He Wxii'd conform to the inHtruction, although he said he did not be-

lieve in its propriety, and outside churcheswould administer baptism to any childone of whose parents was a Christian.

Sheriff Campbell, of Brooklyn, has, un-

der inatructions from the Mayor, sworn it)two thousand deputies. The excitementat police headquarters contim.es, but noth-ing additional to Sap;. Kennedy's orderlias been made public. General McDowellhas i;sueJ a circu'ar requesting all officersof other commands visiting or reading inthe city, to- - report at his headquarier Uptoa late Lour this evening, Governor Feu-to- n

had not received any requisition fromGov. Geary, of Pennsylvania, cr learnedanything now on the subject.

Report sava the Erie Railroad Companyhas bought 1'ifct's Opera House, for SS50,-00- 0,

and eusteuiplate establishing theiroffices in t lie front building and renting theOpera House for its legitimate purpose.

The case of G. M. Lamar againstSecretary tf War Dana, claiming

100,000 damages for false imprisonment,came up y. A motion to have theorder removed to the United Slates Courtwas made and the decision reserved.

SPAIN.Ferdinand iVaiiloil fur Ililt:;-- Ilirer.t- -

ened Ilrrnil Kiols at Rarcclonn.Snv York, Nov. 2d. A Madrid ppe- -

rial says that the Conservatives favor Ferdinand, of Portugal for King of spam,while the Democratic clubs have unanimously t elected General Prim for Chiefof State, on condition that he will take thetitle of President of tho united provincesot fcilieria.

A Barcelona, Spain special of yesterdaytays that all the work shops and manu- -

lactuters ot tne ciiy have been clof ca inconstnuenco cl the free trade decrie issuedby the Provixici.al government. Thewoiking men of tin-- city deprived of thewotk, have asstmbicd and actually threatening to brejk into grain stores and bakeric. The militia has been called out andeevcral arrests have been made.

PHILADELPHIA.Ai?U;ttniorJIiinry I.cgnl DecisionPmi.ADEi.rniA, Nov. 2. Judge Beid

v delivered an opinion that the naturaliiation of foreigners in the A'tai Priusbranch of the Supreme Court, is contraryto the act ol Assembly, and papers sogranted rbonld be rejected at the polls. He!'rO ordeied that no more alieus be nati- -

t(lizcd in his couit.Philadelphia, Nov. 2 A card pub

lished by Gto. H- - Biddle and eight otherDemocratic mtaiberj of tho bar, expresseshe opinion that it is undoubtedly the duty

of election officers when a certificate ofnaturalization is presented having theProtonarie's signature and tho seal of thecourt to receive ench paper, and that anyelection rlhcer rejecting such paper sub'jeers himself to an action of damages andcriminal prosecution.

i lie city is vrv quiet this evening.The politicians are engared in foldingtickets for and no meetings arebeing held. There is a deep feeling prevailing in all clswe", which will call out aheavy vote and the polls will be ctorvdedat an early hour.

""WASHINGTON.'trtnftnr.y VnrrnnlH Hir Coin.

Washington, Nov. 2. Warrants for$2,- -

375,792 50 in t'lin passed the TreasuryDepartment to dav, and were sent to vari- -

i us points to pay matured ecmi-annu-

on rcgistereel and coupon 0 bondswlnrh fell due on the lirst instant.

CUKA.Il:i.t I.itrU'for llio I t:mrs:ciitt..

Havana, Nov- - 2. The government'announrts that the iorce .f insurgents is

rapidly dir Several engagementshave taken plaer, n herein the revolutionists wre w rvltd.

Aft KANSAS.(lii.Vtoii li)iltr.tlii Ilioivulotr.

St. Lorif, Nov. 2 A Little Rock ens--

natch to the Reporter av the countieo inv.hicli Gov. Clay Ion has. declared registration invalid are largely Democratic andcrticrinllv allee" three Congressional ells

tricts. They emhrpeed about one-sixt- h ofthe registration e l the state ami were cli-mated to give fix thousand Democraticmaioritv.

The Democrats countermanded theirtrceting Saturday night, to prevent dis-

turbance?, tho Republicans having ar-

ranged a torch-ligh- t procession the samenight, and ili alleged instructed the ne-

groes to com- - armed. Thedispatch furtherstates that the assassination of Congress-

man Hinds was the rcult of a private dif-

ficulty, and that tho Democrats condemn

ESTABLISHED MAECE 30, 1835.

THE PJLAIA'S.IiiiU.nl Depredations OnilnwH Exccii

ted by n Vigilance Committee.St. Louis, Nov. 2. An Omaha dispatch

says tliat the Indians displaced a rpil oathe Union Pacibc road, near bvdncv. Saturday, by which a freight train was thrownfrom the track, and a foreman killedwrecking train iroing Wcat had beenobliged to return, in consequence of the appearance ot a large ooav ci Indians.Troops from Port "McPhersbn and'Rutsellhad been sent .to protect the menworking on the railroad. All was quitat last accounts. Five desperadoes werehung near Uilmer, onl-rida- by ths ijnlance committee. Joseph Mufgrove, a notorious horse thief and murderer, was can- -

turcd near Fenton on tLc tame day, andhas been surrendered to the military authorities, at fort Steele. He was disguisedas an Indian, and is known to have led alarge band of .Indians who robbed at different times hundred thousands of dollarsworth of stock from the government. Heis believed to be the leader of the bandwho killed four whites near Percy stationtwenty miles North.

MEMPHIS.71m Election r rveifcmeiit Ha leldi

Itnccs, Etc.--MEitrms, November 2. The excite

ment in regard to the electionjellll runs high. The Nunn wing of theitcpubltcan party charge Captain Sears,vjonimissioBcr 01 ivegistration, wun usinghis office to defeat Nunn. Laree numbersof negroes have been coming into tho cilT;.o(..Uw ;,.: rv' -elm., jwiyti; uiu.uiu. x ive companiesof the twentieth infantry arrived thismorning, which, together with the presentforce on duty here, together with heavy ad-ditions to the police force, will be nmnlv. i .. ' -suuicieni io Keep tne peace.

A waiter girl at the Varieties Theaternamed Rose Colo, formerly from Wisconsin, shot herself with a Derringer lastnight, mliicting mortal wounds.

A large number of well known l.nrarchave already arrived for the meeting oftne .Memphis Course, which umminmon the 9;h instant.

Dihsolntlim of Pnrllnincnl rnrtli.qunkes.

London. Nov. 2. The Standard sava aformal dissolution of Parliament will baannounced on the 11th.

Several shocks of earlbouake have beendistinctly felt recently in the western conn-lie- n

of England and Wales.Prince Allred left Plvmouth to d .IT in

the frigate Galatea, for a cruise around theworld.

Lo.ndow. Nov. 2. The British government dt clin Cj to recozniza the rightsclaimed by the Hudm "Bay Company inthe territory between Canada and the" Pa-cific coast.

The riots which occurred in RoterdainSaturday were not of a political character.A quarrel arose bslween the citizens asdtbe police. The latter were overpowered.

THE ALABAMA CLAIMS.I'rosprct of Tiiimetllntc Kclttcmciit.

Lokdcj.-- , Nov. 2. Negotiations for thesettlement of the Alabama claims wi '

be settled in a few days. Kis willing to pay the American

claims.

BOSTOIV.The Potvcrri or It.mli Officers Lcsnlly

Considered.BoiTo:.--, Nov. 2. In a suit of the Mer-

chants' National Bank vs. the State Na-tional Bank organization, tho Slate etreetirregularities, Judge Clifford y readan opinion of the Circuit Court. He do.cided that the act of June. 1SG4. underwhich national banks were created, con-ferred no auibority on cashiers of binks tocertify checks, and that the power to certifychecks for third parties who were notinterei-U- d in duties appertaining to

lie aLo held that, by law,the State Bank, which declared the dutiesof cashier did not conler any power oreucn power to certily to checks of thirdpartio", and ia addition, there appeared tobe .i . tuj iuczuuu wiai we national OJI1K3generally could not certify to checks in acoutt. In view of these thing', directedthe jury to give the verdict for the StateBank. Counsel for the Merchants' Bmkimmediately filtd exceptions, and the casewill go to

.the United States Supreme Court

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lur uuai iiujuuicauon.

IXCIDEST AS ACCIDI2XT.

St. Locis, Nov. 2. The steamer Htltna.loaded with government freight forEsndall, sank oa Saturday four miles be- -

lowbioux City. A part of her cargo willbe saved.

A Denver dispatch save. Mr. W. Erip.one of the Commissioners sent by Napoleonto examine the Colorado mines, has organ-ized a French company with 5100,000 capital to ounu a tramway irora the coal bed,with a view to furnishing cheap fuel forsmelting work. They also agree to con-struct gs works here within ninety days.

NOt'TII CatlOLLVA.The South Carolina railroad i laving

steel rails on that part of the track in thedepot yard as an experiment.

luere m a baud of highway robbers.composed of innlaitces and negroes, with awhite chiel, in the region about Bennclts-ville- .

Thry number about thirty, and arewell armed.

The Yorkville Knquiier says: On Monday last a considerable amount of l.md waidisposed of at auction by assignees in bankruptcy. Ihe prices realized in some casesshow an improved feeling in this species ofproperty, itie mas were all lor cash.

ihe Anderson Jntulintncrr pays: Ir.another column we'publish a card from A.loud, certilymg that the UnionLeague at pleasant Grove Church has disbandedthe books and papers destroyed,and cxpreFsir.g bis belief that such organi-zations are not. calculated to LcneCt thepeople for whom they were intended. Anote from him also informs U3 that severalcolored per.r.ns, f.rmerly belonging to iheleague, promised him to join the Demo-cratic party on hi' assuring them theywould nevey be placed agan; in slavery.

Ihe Abbeville 1 rat reports the destruction by fire of the barn and stables of Gen.McGowan, together with a very valuablehorse and some provender. It was thework of an incendiary.

Major Cicero Adams, who ltd the firstcompany from ivlgelield, and from boothCarolina, died at Hamburg on the 2d mst,aged thirty-fuu- r.

Ihe .Marion Crescent says: We havebeen informed that a planter in this vicinity recently received one hundred andeighty elollars for a bale of Zipporah cotton, which was sold in New York at fourteen cents per pound higher than theordinary upland cotton.

DisTiNortsuni) Voters. Among tho"coloreel indiwijualn" registercil as votersin Angu'ta, Ga., are found the names otDaniel Webster, Henry Clay, GeorgeWashington, John Milton, Thomas Paine,and other names cl distinction in history,pcetry and art.

TlIERATUi F.D BCRXIXG OF A MONAS

TERY. The Pittsburg, (Pa ) Post, has thefollowing :

The Abbott of the monastery at St. Vincents, county, received priorto the election, several letters threateningto burn the property of the institution ifthe men connected with it attempted lovole. Thifc letters were written by thefriends of John Covode, as the votes wvrecertain to be cast against him. lhcdistrict is now contested by the ''scalawas"because the volets from the above namedinstitutions were catholic. They weresubject to draft, pay taxes, and entitled tovote by the rarae rules which govern otherriuzer.5. The only trouble about them isthey we re not cast for the Republioin o

WUafu 12ic ?

Both the Louisville and Memphis tele-

graph lines fiilcd to exhibit any vitalityafter 12 o'clock last night. Would it be

00 uncharitable to eay that asmo Radicalrascal had cut tho wires for political effect

to tho bent fit of his associates in

Y JLJUJU

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Tho Somcrville Falcon is gratified tolearn that cotton crops are turning outmuch better than wa3 expected in Fayettecounty.

A Virginian named Shcphard has purchased the lease of tho .Louisville HotelTen years ago the annual rent was 35,000now H is

The Waco (Texas) Kiumincr urgesplanters to burn all their cotton stalksbelieving that the egg of the. cotton wormare deposited in them.

The New Bedford Ifcrcury records thesudden death of Charles H. Leonard, thelargest oil manufacturer sperm and whale

in this country, if not in the world,

The Louisville merchants are sellingtheir names down for subscriptions to erecta splendid Merchant's Lxchange. Dr. JohnBull, of sarsanarilla fame, heads the listwith S44.000.

Joseph L. Pike, has been convicted inPortsmouth. New Hampshire, of the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, of HamptonFall?, and sentenced to be hanged on thosecond Tuesday ot rsoveracc

Mr. John Bark, a prominent C3al dealerof Indianano is. anil an old and highlyrespected citizen, had his foot and ankleso crushed between the caw oa Wednesdayas to render amputation necessary.

"Mnthei" Bickerdvke. the famous hOs

pital nurse of the Western armiesduringthe war. is keening a hotel at Salina, oneof the western stations on the Kansas Pacific railroad.

nt Bnchanan ti farm of onehundred and twentv-fou- r acres in Chestercounty, Pennsylvania, has lately been sold,uith the building', to William jucoanna,for 16,500.

The South Bsnd (Ind.) Register, Mr.Colfax's home organ, sava that his marriage "will not occur until after his dutyai Speaker at the session of Congress of."November 1U is perlormed.

The Legislature of Florida, accordingto the provisions of a law passed at itslast session met yesterday and will vote forPresidential electors

Mr. Edward Thornton, the British Minister and the members of his legation onone side, and a pieced eleven uom tneWashington clubs on the other, played agame ot enctcet, oa'.nraay. inc latterwon.

The question whether re distillation isrectiGcation, if done within a certain distance from the still in which the whiskywas first produced, is no-.- belore theAttorney General.

A Paris paper states: "King VictorEmmanuel has just officially recognized the.Mexican hepublic and Juarez. Jt is atestimony of gratitude to the Emperor ofthe French." A little satire there.

The potk packing season a' Cincinnati isnow at hand. One or two houses havoalready commcacjd in agreeing upon pri-ces.

The French Minister of Marine is buying large quantities of oak for the purposeof building in the government ship yardstwo hundred boats of light draft suitablefor navigation in shallow streams andrivers.

The King of Belgium is said to havegiven the tnest precise directions as tolhofuneral arrangements to be carried out incase of his son's death, lest he should be incapable from grief of issuing orders when-ever the event may occur.

The Ilitchings Opsra tronpa appears atle Academy ot .mimc in ntisourg, on

Wednesday crening.The second Convention of the General

Council of the Evangelical LutheranChurch in America commences in Pitts-burgh next Thursday. The council willcontinue in tesion about ten davs.

Lat week a farmer was murdered nearSedalia, Missouri, and on the followingnight two men, suppoiC.l to hive com-

mitted she crime, were hanced by theeople.

fire on Friday night, destroyed thePeoria Starch company buildings of Poel,Miller t Wishmcyer, on the eastern bor

er of the citv. The damage amounts to40,000, on which there is a 517,000 in

surance.A n it icc admirer of Adelina Patli, in'atis, has published a pamphlet, printed

golden letters and embellished withlirtv photograph', representing the littlerinia donna in all of her prominent ro'.

C03t hini over forty thousand Iranci toget up thts pamphlet, of wlucn only livehundred copies were printed.

Miss P. W. Forsvth, daughter of theublishcr e.f the Liberty (Mississippi) of

Advocate, has assumed that po?iiioiiersclf. after having been engaged

for twelve years in the typographical department cf the paper. Ihe paper hasbeen published for nearly thirty-thre-

ears by her father, whose declining yearsand feeble health have at leng'.h unfittedhim for the tusk.

The Hebrew Sviugogue at IndianapolisTas dedici'.ed on the 30th inst., with ini- - otpodng and impressive ceremonies, the dis-

course being delivered by Dr. Wise, ofCincinnati. The Synagogue, though notso large as some of tho?e in other Westerncities, is a well built and finely, finishedtdihce, costing 52o,000.

By the falling of tho staging on theCourthouse, nnw building at Stillwater,Minnesota, a elay or two since, IlenrvGhostly was instantly killed, and two othermen seriously injured.

The Attorney General, ii 'n said, willsoon give an official opinion reversing theconstruction placed npon the InternalRevenue law by Commissioner Kolimswith reference to the distillation e.f tvhirkv.Mr. Kvarts descides that stills cm run asheretofore, the law imposing no separatetax upon singing', doublings cr backings.He "says tbn t:is attaches only when thedistilled spirit-- : g to the receiving room ina proper condition for mlp r.s whii-ky- .

By a private dHpiteii from Nicholas- -

ville, Ky., we learn that aboit forty menin disgui-- e appeared at that place abouteleven o'clock night before lait, and surrounding the jiil, took out two men namedJohn Ryan and Jerry Lewis, of Lexington, ami hung them 1:1 this woods near by.The prisoners were charged with horsestealing, and it is stated that they confessed their guilt before being executed.Rvan was recently pardoned out of thepenitentiary.

Thk reraiin3 of Mr. Pablo Felieti, whowas, with a portion of his family, burnedin his residence, at Terre aux Beeufs, by amob of negroes, were found amid the ashesof his dwelling. The hands were stillgrasping the gun with which he had en-

deavored to defend him'elf and family,and by his side lay a knife, which was stillin its scabbard, evidently never havingbeen drawn. X. U. Picagune.

Leveling. John nuskin's letters arcbearing fruit. lie is immensely wealthybut every yesr givts away a large part ofhis income. He is a philanthropist inpractice, and preaches his doctrine loothers. Oio of hi' hubbies i' that no mmshould be allowed to have too large nn income- - For some years past he has advo

cited this restriction, --w.v, we read 111 aNew Yotk paper :

Public meetings are held in London atwhich Parliament ii called on to fix amaximum to the incomrs of individuals.The prevalent opinion seems to be that

50C0 a year is ejuite as much as any manshould be allowed 10 have. As may beimagined, tiuse meeting? are not made up,a' a general tiling, either of those who-ar-

wertlihy or of those whoever expect lo be."

Issue?. Alive isu-- c ThejRidical debtconstantly increasing.

A dead issue Tha Ridical promise oftefotni.

A forgotten isMie Republican pledgesof economy.

1 . . .....AT Canton, China, the Lntliulics are

building ar Cathedral which will cort $3,- -

000,000.

The British troapj have gained addi- -

tional success iu the northwestern provinccsof Spain.

TTWIOW""NASHVILLE,- - TENNESSEE, TJJESDAY,

WASHINGTON NEWS ANDGOSSIP.

ncccpllou If acnerai;rnnt VirsrliilaWill Vole for President Dischargeof Employes AHFnrtbcr "Slight' Iacrease" of the Public Bebf

Special to tho Lonivillo Courier- -

Washixgtox.OcL 31. The committeo of tho organizations in this city, tvhoare arranging for tho reception 01 Gen,Grant, and a demonstration to be madewhon he returns, havo addressed a letterstating what they propose to do. misletter has been forwarded from tho GeneraVs headquarters, but asyet no answerhas been received.

It is now said that Virginia v ill votenext Teusday and the Democrats havelorraed an electoral ticket.

Tho.fearful consequences to result fromnegro supremacy aro aptly illustrated bythe courso ot tho lately cnirancniseanegroes in this city. livery demonstration thoy mako is attended by outrages,all ths more sliamclui because utterly unprovoked. "Whenever they parade everysquad is ofheored by negroe?, armed witndrawn swords, and every one of themcarries concealed weapons.

A short timo since, after a meeting of anegro military company, tney sacKeastores, carried off their contents, anddestroyed tho farnituro and fixtures.Another tim6 they serenaded MayorBowen, and

.after his address

.1they stoned

. 3a urug store, smashing mo wmaows anabottles, and indulged in many simularamusements along their line ol march.Their recent terrible outrages aro freshin tho memories of our readers. Anaged and honored citizen, a high officer ofthe Grand Lodco of iiree Masons, whilopeaceably proceeding from tho hall tohis house was brutally assaulted by aband of negroes who had been paradving in the streets seeking to creato ariot, and was brutally beaten with clubsfor no offense whatever. Thepolico wereand assaulted and almost killed,whito women wero insulted andcrSelly beaten, stores wero sacked andwindows smashed all along the routtVnother timo an inoffensive sncctatorwas 6truckwith a razor and killed. Sincethese outrages, the negroes have openlyproclaimed their purpose the next timothey paraded, to clean out establishment?where could they:get something, and theirfull intention to do so cannot bo doubted,nearingthata demonstration was to bomado last night, tho polices visited thostores along Pennsylvania avenue andbesought owners to close their establish-ments, as they would no doubt be attacked, and they (the polico) wore pow- -

erlcss to protect them, ihe stores weroclosed in accordance with these sugges-tions, clso some of them would have beensacked.

Washington, Nov. 1. Official dispatches from New Orleans say that all isquiet there, but that Gen. Rousseau hasissued an order providing that all of thetroops in the vicinity of the city be cantercdin town. A battery of artillery andadditional infantry from the Granville

arracks have been properly distributed, and moro troops arc expectedtomorrow.

There is quite a commotion among thoemployes in the Register's and SecondAuditor's offices of the Treasury whosenames are on the black list (Jamaissupposed to have the power to secure thedetention of those about to bo beheadedarc beset on every hand, but all in vain.

he order is imperative, and will be enforced.

As far as can bo ascertained from thecustoms receipts now in, tho debt state-ment will not vary a great deal from thaton tho first of October. The prospects arethat there will be a slight increaso - ofprobably half a million or a million doli'lars.

Tho Radicals of the District have madocxtensivo arrangements to give Grant areception on his arrival here, but tbey are

nablo to hnil out tho time he is coming,which, with his known modesty and aver..sion to special speaking, leads them to bcieve that he does not desire any ovation.fhey recently wrote to him to ascertain11s wishes in the premises, but he is reti.ent The momentous question will be

settled on Tuesday next.Governor uulloct, ol Georgia, arrived

here to day. In conversation he expressed his belief in a peaceful electionn ttmt Mate on luesdav.

There has beon a greater exodui to-d-

persons going home to vote than onany previous day. Tho afternoon andnigh: passenger trains wero among, st

that crer loft Washington.Returns received by Commissioner

Wilson, of the General Land Office, showthat during the month of September pastthirty-tw- o farms, embracing 2074 acres,wero added to the productive area of theState of Mississippi under tho formation

tho homestead act of June21, 1SG5, byentries made at tho local office at Jack-son.

A ISO VE THE WORI.1K

Observations of a Memphis illien'NHnlloou Journey.

Mr. C. Nonrse, of Memphis, who accom

panied Prof. Brooks in his late balloon

journey from that city, give-- i the followinginteresting account of his experience inthe upper regions :

We started up at twenty minutes to fiveo'clock. The balloan, which has onlymade one previous asceusion, was filledwith about 30,000 cubic feet of ga. at thecorner of Jackson and Third street?, under the direction of the buperintendant otthe Gas Company. The balloon was conveyed to tne pari: by thirty men in aboutfive hours. When all was ready I got inthe basket, and Professor Brooks steppedin after me and gave the order (0 let go,which was done with precision. A smalldog, belonging toa little son of Mr. Byron,was suspended lo a parachute below tbecar. We went up like an arrow, butpassed rapidly northward. Tbe earthreceded quickly, nod in five minutes thecrowd looked like an ant hill, andthe trees no larger than cornstalks.At an altitude of eight thousand feet Pro-fessor Brooks let loose the little dog,Owing to too much handling by the crowd,the parachute was out of order, andcollapsed as soon as let loose; hence thedog went down swiftly, and the Professorremarked that he thought tbe dog waskilled, which subsequently was confirmed.After that the balloon shot up more

we experienced a cooler sensation.I had been trying to keep cool all tho whileand the Professor flittered me that I succeeded pretty well. A small quantity ofga3 was permitted to escape, and wedescended rapidly until within two orthree thousand feet of the earth. Thena few handsfnl of sand were thrown out,and we went up to a hight of at least twomiles. From ibis position the city lookedlike a dim patch in tho autumnal landscape so farkbe!ow, and the Mississippiriver, which was visible for at least twohundred miles, looking like a windingstrip of silver ribbon. We werethen about ten miles from the park. Thesun. to us. was getting far away into thegorgeous West, but long, dark shadows,like' funeral plumes, swept over the worldbelow. A strong current carried us !oward Arkansas, and we bad a fine prospectof lauding in a swamp, toi-tu.- ? a tree andlisten to the screech owl and wild cats allnight, or stay up all night in the cool regions of boundless space until the nextday. At 5:15 we begun to de.ec.ecd slowly.A counter current carried us further east,and the Professor decided to come down ifhe could see a good place to drop. At 5:20he descried a cornfield, as it proved to be,and. ripping open one side of the balloonby n peculiar contrivance, came down likea meteor, whizzing through the air. It wisa moment of great anxiety, but we quicklystruck the earth, with no great jar, andwere safe. We alighted on the place of Mr.J. E. Douglass, a noble gentleman, whocame lo our assistance, and helped to rollun the balloon and convey it to the house,The work was considerable. We passedtwo hours athis house, and at eight o'clockwe started with one of his team', kindlyfurnished, for Memphis, and arrived atthree in the morning.

GOXMAflT.-

Slslits iu Xcvr Tofbi-l'asbl- oii and tlioGrecian Bend less 3Iis KelloggBe Kind to, tuo; lltieus Bccchcr nadtncsiffser.

correspondencs of the! Union and American;New York, October 2G, 1SG3. To-

rural visitor, letr xoru is an unceasingwonder. Thi3 vastr metropolis with itstemples to God, standing beside. tho3e toMammon, witn us bhiuouj 01 pleasurereared above the haunt of poverty, withits votar'es to fashSonHrailing their rustlingsilks, beside the lio'mely plaid of thejrustic

--neannt. all excite theimind lo a kind obewilderment, anu,;sicep me tnoughts otthe beholder into a state 01 eireamy intoxi.cation. Were we asked what is the prevailing epidemic of Xncw lorfc, we shouldunhesitatingly say ltgi this is Irulyan age of legs legs at tne the-

ater, leer on Broadway, !eg3 at Ihe oneraand legs at the church. The seed3 ofBlack Crookism fe11"wa,ceaial8oH here.and have blossomed forth into a plenteousliarcMt nf lrW A ballet Biogercouhl notdraw a fashionable audience, without anexhibition of leer. A prima aonna.thouahshe may have'splecdid histrionic talent anda voice as mellow as till notes or a flute,could not entice a lasajonaDie audience,without pandering to the taato of ths popu-lace . for- - leg?. Alas! what a depravedtaste. '

Since our arrival heie, wb .have seenseveral real cisrVSf-ili- e Grecian bend. Itis, however, not a prevailing epidemic,even in New York society. It is confinedto the denii inondc, where it criginated.There have been many queries as to theorigin of this mo3t disgusting caricature ofthe lemale lorm. it is believed that it wasthe last struggle of a fair unfortunate toconceal her jroicinj shame. It is a crown-ing shame, that. nearly, all the. moat dis-

gusting fashions, adopted by the elite of ourland, are copied from the sensuous inmatesof those salons, where virtue never enters.There is no despot so tyranical as that offashion. It rises "above the authority ofhome and its edicts are a3 irrevocable asthe Persian code. Six months of exhor-tation or entreaty by a husband or fatherwill not add oraubstract a cubit from thelength of a body's dress, but the stern fiatof fashion doea it in a day.

A few nights since we heard the greatNew York prima donna, Miss Kellogg. Itwas her hrst appearance 111 America sinceher return from Eurone. That she isgraceful, fascinating and themost carping critic is willing to admit.Her voice is soft, though of sufficientcompass to fill Ihe spacious Acade-my of Music, and her acting isperhaps superior to any peroa on IheAmerican stage of the age, yet, we believewe have heard a3 good singing by some ofour Nashville girls, who only warble outtheir bird-lik- e notes in the hallowed pre-cincts of home.

THE rtJRITAN ELEMENT IN NEW YORK.The Puritans cf New England burned

beautiful vonng women at the stake, be- -ievicg them to be witches. This same

tocoitrol everything and every-body, crops out in their dtcsndants in "NewYork. They permit a pojr outci-- t tofreeze in the wintry winds or to un- -der the shadow of Fifih Avenue homes,and tho Bame time imprison a man forwhipping his heirsc severely, or cronninghis terriers' eats, or for cruelly killing achicken by probing it with an awl in the

ck of the hevl, instead of the old fashioned way of wringing eff their heads.

A lew d ;ys srcce, two men were arrestedfor carrying ducks, (not Wards' ducks)through the streets by the leg', with theirheads hanging down. The pirtic' thus"mistreating the aforesaid ducks were boundover in a bond of $200 each to answer thisawful crime before court. These are fact3as strange a3 they may appear. Ifyou wishto kill a chicken, wring his head off and doit easy. If yon wi?h7loSill an oyster givehim chloroform, :uut. !y no means let thePresideni. trt "the sjociet for-th-e preven-tion of' cruelty to animaV sea you eating

IViT eIter,or rntUfeig a hva one in afrying pin, for if wi to, you must appearbsfurd court and beindicttd for murder.

A Pl'LI'IT 5VFNE.

O.i l.i- -l Sibbath, in e .mpir.y with CjI.Donan, the fearless and gincl editor of theRecord and Vindicator, we visited PlymouthChurch, aliai the Plymeiith theatre. AfterMr. Baecher hid oncln le 1 Im sjrrnon, heintroduced tj the audiene.; a tall, goodlooking negro, who delivered a lecture forthe purpo-i- of railing (o assist his

fricin friends i th-'- :r . ii'j.-t-s lo reachAbraham's bosom, respondedin variom groeabick fchhiplvierj, for yon

now the "colored troop? lou-- ht r.obly."After the lecture, Batcher and the negrostood side by s.do and out of thesame hvmn-boo- Whether he ate at Mr.Beecher'i? lable or slept in his bads, weknow not, but wo opine th it singing with anegro and isleepin; with one are two dis-

tinct thing-"- , even in Mr. Beccher's theology.

lhose wisuing a 111 expiditious anddelightful trip from to NewYork, will of course g- - by the Louisvilletrain to Falls City, and then on ihe Buperbme ot mail steamers to Cincinnati, thence

ria the Atlantic and Great Western andErie railroad-"- to New York. These arethe only broad gauge rm,h in America,and combine ail the eomfirts and eleganceof home, with speed a::d safety. Theirofficers are attentive, ar.d their "line staterooms oner great protection to ladies whoare compelled to travel alone. Since ourarrival here we have nn.le a liying trip toPhiladelphia ' civ liviog trip, for itseemed like Hying to travel on the NewJersey railroad, which is -- , ably managedby Col. 1. Nolcott .Iick- ..(.

More anon. Ruralist.

IXIHA.riooil anil Threatened, I'umlnr.

Correspondence of the I.onJon Times-Calcctt-

Sept. 1 1. Famine onco morothreatens isorthoni In Ih, especially allthoso rovinces in which alone the termIlindostan is correctly applied. I can-not better elescribe tha treason than bysaying that it has be.-- advanced just onemonth. Thoro was hardly any hotweather, in the Indian sense, :in May andJuno last. Iho monsoon rains began amonth before the usual time, in thomiddlcof June, and poured down with greatfury in June. Again in July and August the heavens wero opened with themost disastrous rcsuit3 in :n the coastdistrict, cast and west, on which thomonsoon bursts. Unssa was swept : theother districts between Calcutta and thesea arc still four feet under water; evenmore distant lirhoot was uelugeJ. Therice crops rotted ; those sown .1 secondtime are now rotting before my Cycs.But in Bengal the crop of the year comeslater, as vo have too good reason to knowsmco 1G60 On the rainlall this mnnthand half of next depend the late of thecold season crops and the lives of thousands. sow, Bengal hai already hadmuch more than its whole year s supply.Noles3than sevcntyneight inches havofallen at Calcutta, or eleven muro thantho annual average, again3t fifty-thrc- o intho same timo last year. A week ago,when wo should have been parboiled withheat and damn, tho hrst breath of thocold season come, and the apprehensionis spreading that even Eastern Bengalwill suffer again. Suffer horribiy it will.if rain does not soon fall, for the existingcrop has been ruined in many places, andthe future must bo provided for. Norhas Western India escaped the deluge.At this time last month it inundatedGuzcrat, Ahmedadad, Kaira, aurat andthe other great old cities there have beendesolated. The news of a calamity,whicn, in Europe, wouiu nave called lortlthe lamentation of nations, in India take)three weeks to travel across the peninsula. Houses have fallen down by tens ofthousands, and lives, both European andnative, havo been lost, while railwaybridges havo been wasncd away. 1 ne(juzaratee merchants 01 ijmbay arosubscribing liberally lor tne suiierers ina catastrophe which has swallowed up 11

quarter of a million sterling of propertyat tho lowest calculation; and yet, withsuch floods in the coasts, wo have aminefa the center.

General Dulce has finally accepted (heappointment of Captain General of Cubaand will soon sail for Havana.

ANDNOVEMBER 3, 1868.

CLOSE OF THE EPISCOPAXCONVENTION.

Paslornl Letter of the PresldliiBishop.

From tho New York Tribune, OcctoberSO.

At 7J o'clock the Right Rer. Bishops ofthe various diocesci of the United estatesappeared and occupied the seats providedlor them.

The introductory services consisted ofthe. usual evening prayer. The GeneralConfession was read by the Right Rev:Bishop of California. The Right. Rev.Bishop of Arkansas read the LI Id chapterot Isaiah as the Lesson. The SecondLesson was the Xllth chapter of Hebrewsand wa3 read bv the Right Rev. Bishop ofColerado. The Right Rev. Bishop cfOhio, read the Creed, after which the RightRev. Bishop of Tennessee, escorted theRight Rev. Bishop of Kentucky, to thepuipit to read his 1'astorai .Loiter, iheletter was in substance as follows :

It is cow nine years since wemetwithfull representation of all our dioceses. Inthis period sixteen of our venerablebrethren in the Episcopate, of whom twowere presiding bishops, have departed Ibisute. A mortality go unnanal impressesyour bishop3 with a deep sense of thoshortness and uncertainty of their fdtuteupon earth, and leads them to address youwith greater solemnity. Great, ha3 beenour consolation amid many triaU of ourFaith and Patience, in the entire restora-tion of ono unity as a National Church.Among tbe unusual excitements of theday let us bless Almighty God that onegreat Council has met, with a full representation of our churches in all parts oftne land, and with wonderful harmony ofpurpose and action 13 about to close a longscsion, from which many who understandus not had argued confusion and evprvevil work. We-lame- that while the rs

ofour missionaries at home and abroadhave been so noble and so faithful, the of-ferings of the churche3. by which theyshould have been bountifully sustained.have not been commensurately abundant.Cbtistian education is receiving an enlargedmeasure of practical attention, and schoolsof the parish and the diocese have been toa cheering extent multiplied and effectu-ally worked. The Christian family is moreand more regarded among us as the Divineinstitution on which the church itselfmainly relies for its prosperity, and towhich nothing less than the succors andheavenly consolations of the Church ofChrist can impart the means of nro3neritvand perfection. Much thojght hasbeen given by your Bishops tothe necessity of enlarged anociatedeffort in works of mercy and educationxuuen that needs to be done can be accom-plished in an other way. Lst it be underjtoou that the sort ol associations we must

commend, must be wholly free from en-during views or enfjreed confession, anin all thing3 subject lo canonical and dio-cesan authority. It is a matter of painfulobservation to your Bishopj, that, moreespecially in larger towns and great cities,where the need and the opportunities forcontinual worihip are greatest, the churchesare too littlo used, at all seasons, and often

the summer months are closed,even upon the day ot the LordWhile we rejoice in the multiplici- -ion of churches professedly free, provided

they are properly maintained, we suggesttha: hundreds of our churches, apart fromthe ordinary services of the Lord's Day,might be freely opened to all comers forthe ministration of tho blessed Gospel.City missions might thm be carried on, inmany place?, without the expense of erect- -

more churches, and the means thussaved might be used for the support of therequisite missionary clergy. But everything must languish in the Utiurcu untuall our families aro made truly Christian,and until there is, as of old, a church inevery house. We fear that examples ofmanly piety arc not abundant, andfathers loo olten forget that they areprices in their own homes.

1 he unscriptural and uncathouc pretensions of the Bishop of Rome as in timepaU up now, are a fruitful source of errorand of evil. They constitute y, a3they have done for many centuries, the

reat bar to the restoration of the unity ofChriitendoni. We deprecate most earnest--

those extravagances is Ritualism, recently introduced, which tend to assimilateour worship lo that of a church not sectarian but hostile to our own. And we mustalso urge you to remember that the urgentobedience to our Bishop and other chiefministers promised by the clergy at the ordination would, if faithfully ren lered, prevent these evils.

In the former pistoral letters vour Bih- -

ps have warned you concerning worldlyamusements, and of the tendency of manyforms of them to create a distaste fcr pure,simple, domestic pleasures ami innocentenjoyments, and especially lor tne stern

ulies and elevated sympathies 01 a uoiylife. But, in our day, there is a licentious-ness and grossnes3 in theatrical and likeentertainments which would have beenhocking to even the least refined in theavs of our fathers. We exhort you to

flee these thing, and above all, to separatefrom all contact with these pollutions the

oung and precious souls for whom youhave answered in the Holy Baptism.

"BROWS."The I'tlier of n fashionable t'lmrcb m

Sen York.Now York Correspondence of the Troy limes.

He ha3 been ssxtonof Grace Church andmajor domo of fashionable parties fortwenty year?. ith sueh a chance heshould be worth S300.000, and no doubt he13 worth more. e believe that he canmatch some of his own congregation inpoint ol cash, and many of the worshippers at Urace envy his well-line- d pocket- -book. Brown has a list of fashionableyoung men in the city, and when he makesup the guests lor a party, he can put I113

friends in by a little adroit management.Hence, it is au important thing for all thi--

class to be ou good terms with thismaster of fashion, and not mind amall fee now and then. n

nearly sixty years old, but hebears age well. H't3 fat face and rotundbody walk well with Father Time, andhnd him a gentle mister, lie will neverresign, because his profession is congenialto his nature ia the highest degree. He iaof the spaniel order when waiting on hissuperiors, while tolas inferiors in wealthhe is quite a dtllerent character. .Duringthe twenty yeara of his sextonship, Brownhas attended and managed at least onethousand parties, besides many secondaryaffairs. He has heard as much nonsenseand insipid conversation as any man onthis continent, and knows the full value ofpolite life and conventional llittery. lieholds a petty sovereignty over hackmen,cooks, and all the varied servants of luxurywho acknowledge him as their patron andpay the tributo.due to Jus position. heathe party breaks up, Brown takes his placein the porch and calls the carriages forthe guests in a voice which Stentor himself might have envied. As tho sound iswidely borne on the midnigni air, tnewhole neighborhood is iniormeu 01 111a at-

tendance at Mrs. Diddle's reception, and iB

made to know that Mr. Jiggms, the mil-

lionaire, and his wife, and also the Prig- -

gers, whose diamonds are creating a worldofjealousy, were there. To these are to beadded the Alisweiis (.old Aiiswen got ricuon tobacco, but that ia forgotten), theBlarchers, who have a big property uptown, and tne Snimpertons, whose grandfather was a milkman, whicn h also en

in consideration of the style inwhich they live. In fine, Brown is chiefsnob amid a world of'snobs, and seei morefools than any man of the age. Underthese circumstances he cannot be spare.ifrom the circles which play the snob evenunder the very shadow of the pulpit. emar, therefore, congratulate both Ihechurch and the world, Fince it is authoritatively stated that Brown lias not resigned.

Wheat Cr.or of Western ArkansasThe Fort Smith Herald says :

We are pleased to know that our farmers are getting in so much wheat, and thatthe season so tar has been so uvorauie lorit. We learn that more wheat is beingsown th'13 season in this section of Arkansi.iliqn any previous year. We trust itwill turn out well, and our farmers mayhave a plentiful return.

Tnn election for the Constitutional Cor--tez of Spain will take place on the 29th ofNovember.

AMERICAN

PHENOMENA.Tho Iteccul Envthqnalies In trie Son til

anil west.The earthquakes in California brin

home to the dwcller3 in tho Atlanticstates, with fearful distinctness, tho tenble disasters in Peru and Ecuador.The relations between tho Pacific andAtlantic States ara so personal and intimate that apainful anxiety and solicitudeis generally felt respecting the fate j)fuantornta. lhat btato presents numerousvolcanic traces that indicate the possibi!--:i r . .ny, 11 noi prooaoiiiiy, 01 cartnauacesHappily, tho shocks in California appearto navo been sngtit, aitnougti they nanrauy mspireei a wiue-spre- terror.

ihey were no doubt occasioned bvthe,1 - I .1name uisturuing inuucnccs matproauceusuch fcarlul results- - in South America inAugust. This is in accordance with thegeneral law of earthquakes, which travelfrom south to north. Rut in Californiathe volcanic forces stem to have expendedineir sirengtn, anil resulted in comparatively slight undulations. Tho observaations on thess plionomona warrant thoconclusion that tho Californians havo already experienced tho worst effects fromtho earth's vibratory motion, and thatno further injuries are

' likely Aatt occur. '.' t

Tho recent eartliffuakos'annear to havebeen diffused over a wide extent of territory. In Pcshawur, British India, anearthquake occurred on the 20;h of Amgust seven days after the events in SouthAmerica. The strongest buildings weroshattered, but although tho shock werevery violent no lives were lost.

In the Sandwich Islands from the 2Jto the 0th of August, numerous slightshocks of earthquake wero observed. Onthe 9th a terrible rain storm, the usualattendant of earthquakes, occurred atHawaii, and a few days afterward the at-

mosphere became sultry and oppressive,as is frequently the ca30 both before andafter telluric disturbances. In Sydney,Australia, on the 15th of August, therewas an extraordinary tidal disturbancetor several days, that extended along theentire coast The water ebbed and flowedwith great violence, and for severaldays tho tides were unusually high.

in Chili, since the earthquakes of the3th of August, the atmosphere has ex

hibited signs of sultriness and oppressionthat occasioned no slight alarm among thenhabitants, who connect these conditions

with volcanic eruptions. Scientific ob-

servations have not confirmed this view.Earthquakes have occurred during heatand cold; in storm and calm; but theSouth American view, like most popularimpression seems to be based upon someoundation ot tacts, in nearly all the

recent disturbances from the shock inIndia on the 20th August, down to tharccont disturbances in California, includ-ing the disasters in South America, therewere tho same conditions of sultrinessand oppression in the air. The Califor-nia papers by the last treamer all noticethe warm, still air, and light vapor, whichwere attributed to fire3 in the woods inremote regions. But in the light of recentevents, it may bo concluded that thc,3o atmospheric peculiarities were connectedwith volcanic agencies.

A review of the facts that have been sofar gathered relative to tho recent earthi--

quakes, indicates that they were all prob- -bly occasioned by the same internal ac

tion, and were transmitted from the in-

terior of the earth in placa of extendingover its crust in vibrating motions, as isusually tho case, rurther information

pon these and other points will bo lookedfor with peculiar interest by scientificpersons, as well as by the general pub-lic. .X

Tho terror inspired by the comparaJivfi.--

lyligHt shocks of earthquakes in Caliwr-ni- a,

of which wc have news by telegraph,is founded upon a deeply-roote- d principlein human nature. These phenomena reverse all of our established ideas of thomaterial universe. We arc accustomedto the changes of wind and water, butthe earth is always associated with ideasof stability and the ordinary successionof events founded upon known naturallaws. An earthquake reverses in a mo-

ment all preconceived notions of thomaterial universe, and induces an in-

stinctive terror to which all other emo-

tions and feeling ara as nothing Noris this confined to man. It is also sharedby tho animal creation. Daring an earth- -

tpuate tno lrigiit ot beasts lsuescnoeu asmost pitiable. In India crocodiles andrcptihia havo been known to forsake thebanks of rivers, and hasten to the forests.led by a mysterious instinct

STRANGE FEAT.31an Walks with i Wheelbarrowroar.'a He In Forty-seve-n Jllmites.

From the Dubiniuo Tinoj.Tho great local excitement of the day,

yesterday, was a trial of speed and en- -' . ..1 r- T 01durance on 1110 pari 01 air ioun cuaunuu,

a river pilot, who wagered $120 that hecould walk with a wheelbarrow irom tnecorner of Sixth and Main streets toBeebce's nursery a good four milesnorth of the city in una hour and tenminutes. Tho bet was accepted, and themoney, S240 in all, was placed m thehands of responsible parties. Sinee thopartial failure ol Perkins to perforin theleatlast Sunday, its successful accom-plishment was deemed by many impossi-ble, and a number ol side bets were made,until quite a largo amount of money dcpended on tho result. The time agreedupon for starting was four o'clock in theafternoon, and at tho hour named Mr.Shannon appeared promptly on theground with his wheelbarrow and set outon his trip in tho presence of a largocrowd, while tho various judges andtimers lollowcd m carriages up mainstreet, down Seventh, and up to CouleraTenuo ho went at a rapid gate, reachingthe race track (.halt the distance; intwenty-seve- n minute3. hero to tnoond of his destination the road is veryuneven and hillv. with a steep elevationnearly the whole distance, and yet, withall these obstacles, Mr. Shannon made thotrip in just nineteen minutes, perioranugthe whole distance in forty-sev- en mia- -

ntM. having twentv-thre- o minutes to

spare. Beyond tho sligut latigue inciucncto such exertion Mr Shannon exhibitedno symptoms of distress whatever, butwas apparently as fresh and vigorous aswhen ho started, and good for fourmiles further. After tho extraordinaryiVnt. Mr. Shannon draw on his coat, and,refusing all offers of u ride, walked backto the city, where he was overwhelmedliv tha congratulations ot numerousfriends. He performed the feat noblyand gracefully, and is entitled to all duocredit in consequence.

X.YNCJEI X.AW.

SXarse Thieves Jlnnsr Jlhlnlsht Juttier.

From tho Lexinstoa (I'r) Gazette, Oct. 31.

Torn men by the nara?a of John L.Ryan and Jerry Lewis, who were confined

injau m jNicnoiasvuic lor norsicuingfwpr taken out of tho hi! I7 a partyof mca at midnight on Thursday night,im! from thence to the suburbj of the vil- -

lan-t- . whera they wire hung on trees tillthev were dead. Our informant saw themhanrrTnr on Friday morning as he ctniethrough Nicholasrville. Ryan Jiad rerontlv been pardoned out of the penitentiary, but had been arrested for hor-ate-

ini nt'ain. and taken to Nicholasyjlle Jortrial. Liws was from thi-- i city. atrl waini before tbe grand jury a Bhort time agofnr stealing corn, but got ofl. The menwho hung them came to the iail aboutmidnight, and demanded the keys of theiiiler. who refused to give them up. where'unnnthev proceeded to possess themselves

i j .lof them in no very orderly manner, iheparty came into the town secretly, and nonttp recognized anv of them.

Verily the way ef the transgressor whois caught in Jesssnrane, Boyle, Mercer, orthe neighboring counties is hard.

The drvgood3 house of Brown, Thompson & Co", Hartford, Connecticut, was

entered and robbed of silks tothe amount of SS00O to 310,000 on Wed -

nesday night.

NEW SERIES NO. 59.

VAUD00I8H.

African Fellsli Worship Amongtne Memphis Negroes.

Remarfenhle Case oflloodooln

From tha Memphis Appeal. Oct. 25.The word Hoodoo, or Voudoo, is one of

the names used in the different Africandjalecta for the practice of the myste-ries of the Obi, (a African word signi-fying a species of sorcery and witchcraftcuuiuiuu among me worsnipers 01 meletisni. in tho west indies tho word"Obi" is universally used to designatethe priesta or practicers of this art. whoaro cauea "Ubi men and "Obi women.In the Southern portion of the UnitedStates, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi,South Carolina and Georgia, where thesame rites arc" extensively practicedamong the negroes, and where, underthe humanizing and christianizing influence of tho blessed state of freedom andidleness in which they now exist, and areencouraged in by the Frsedmen's Bureau.the religion is rapidly spreading; it goesunder the name of Vbodooism. or Hoo- -dooism. The practicers of tho art. whoare always native Africans, are calledHoodoo men or women, and are held ingreat dread by the negroes, who apply tothem for the cure of diseases, to obtainrevenge for injuries, and to discover andpunish their enemies. The mode ofoperations is to prepare a fetish, which,being placd near or in the dwelling ofthe person to be worked upon (undor thedoor step, or in any snng portion of thefurniture), 13 supposed to produce thomost dire and terrible effects upon thewomen, both physically and mentally.Among the materials used for the fetishare feathers of various colors, blood,dogs' and cats' teeth, clay from graves,egg shells, beads and broken bits ofglass. The clay is made into a ball with.liair and rags, bound with twine, withfeathers and human, alligators' or dogs'teeth, so arranged as to make the wholebear a fancied resemblance to an animalof some sort.

The person to bo hoodooed is generally made aware that the hoodoo is "set"tor him, and the terror created in hismind bv this knowledge ia generally sufficient to cauae him to fall sick, and, it is& curious fact, almost always U die in aspecies of decline. The intimate knowledge of the lloodoos of the insidiousvegetablo poisons that abound in theswamp 3 of the South, enables them touse these with great effect in most in-stances.

With the above as introductory, ourreaders will better understand tho follow- -

g, which we vouch for as strictly true,in overy particular. Names and the exact locality (although we will say that it

curred within a lew miles ot this city,)arc withheld, at the request of the lady,whom we call Mrs. A :

Some months since the only child, alittlo daughter of Mrs. A., who had beenleft a widow by tho war, was taken illwith what was then thought a slow mal-arious fever. The family physician wascalled in and prescribed for her, but inspite of his attentions sho grew gradual- -

worse and seemed to bo slowly bussurely sinking and wasting away. Every-thin- g

that medical skill could think ofwas done, but in vain.

One evening, while Mrs. A. was watching by the bedside of the little sufferer,an old negro wbm"an, who had been manyyears in the family, expressed her beliefthat tho child had been "Hoodooed."Mrs. A. was a Creole of Louisiana, andhaving been from her earliest infancyamong the negroes, was familiar with,and bad imbibed not a few of their siperstitions. In dtspair of deriving anybenefit from tne doctors, and completelybaffled and worn out with the peculiarlingering nature of her child's illness,tho suggestion of tho woman made agreat impression on her mind.

In the neighborhood were two negroeswho bore the reputation of being Hoodoomen. They were both Congee3, and werea psrtion of the cargo of slaves that hadbeen run into Mobile bay in ISfiOor 1SC1,

As usual with their more civilised pro-fessional brethren, theso two hoodooSwere deadly enemies, and worked againsteach other in every possible way. Eachhad his own particular crowd of adhercnts, who believed him to bo able to maketho powerfnl gngrts.

One ot theso Uoodocs lived on or nearMrs. A 's place, and although she wasashamed of tho superstion which led he?to do so, she sent for him immediately tocome over and see her child. Tho mes-senger returned and saVl that Finney(that was tho sorcerer's name), wouldcom?, but that Mrs. A mast first send!him 11 chicken cock, three eonch shellyand a piece of money with a hole in it,She complied with his demands, and heshortly nlterward appeared with tne cockunder his nrni, fancifully decorated withstripes of yellow, red and blue fiannel,and the threo conches rigged up prettymuch in the same manner. Placing thoconches on the floor in the shape of 11 triangle, he laid tho cock down in the cen-

ter of them, on its side. He then drewhis hand around it in tha same direction,threo or four times. On leaving it thecock lay quiet and did not attempt tomove, although it was loose and appar-ently could have donoso had it wished.

Alter mesa preliminaries, 110 exammeuthe sick child from head to foot, andafter doing eo, broke out into a loudlaugh, muttering words to hisiself in anAfrican dialect Turning to Mrs. A., whowas all anxiety, ho told her thit the childwas hoodooed: that he had lound themarks of the hoodoo, and it was beingdono by his rival (who lived sime milesoff, although considered in no samsneighborhood), and that lie (.r innoy) tntended to show him.' that ho culd notcomo into his distnet hoodooing withouthis permission. Ho then called the ser-

vants and every one about the phca up,and ordered them to appear ono by onobefore him. So great was the respect andterror with which thoy regarded hna,that, although many of them obriouslydid so with reluctance, not one failed toobey the summons. Ho regarded eachono closely and minutely, and asked if heor sho had seen either a strange rooster,do or cat around tho house in tho pastfew days, to which questions they madevarious answers. Tho chambermaid.who attended tho room in which thochild lay, was one of tho30 who were particularly reluctant to appear oetore mm,or to answer his question?. He remarkedthis, and grinning bo as to show hissharply filed teeth nearly from ear to car,ho said, "iia, gai, better me nnei youout than tho buckra.

This was lateatnight, and after matinzhis 'rcconnoissance' ho picked up hisconches and tho cock, and prepared to

telling Mrs. A. to move the little sutfercr into another room and bed. Prom-ising that he would be back early in themorning, he left tho house. At an earlyhour next morning ho returnee, wunlari'e bundle of herbs, which, with pemiliar incantations, he made into a bath,into which he placed the child, nnu iromthat hour it began to recover rapmiy.

TTp. however, did net stop here. HeWormined to find out tho "hoodoo," andhow it had been used; so, after askingnprmission. he npped open the pillowsnml tho bed in which the child had lain,and in them he found and brought forthn. lot of fetishes made of feathers bound.tncether in the most fantastic forms.which ho gave lo Mrs. A., telling her to

burn them in tho fire, and to watch thennnmhermaid carofullv. saving that asrhivv burned and shriveled up, so sho

would shrivel up. The girl, who haddi3nlaypd from the first tbe most intense uneasiness, was listening at tho keyhole ofan adjoining room, ana nearu meseininnctions. With a scream sho rushed

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into the robs, and dropping on her knso,,at Mrs" A.r8 feet, imglorad her not tborn tha fetishes promising, if sh,would not, to make a clean confession 0her guilt

lTra. A., by this timo deeply impressedwith the strangeness and mystery of thoaffair, was prevailed upon, by the entreat-ies of the girl, and kept the "fetishesintact, and the chambermaid confessed!that she hod been prevailed upon by the-oth-

"Hoodoo man" to place theso fe-

tishes in the bod of the cMld. She pro-tested she did not know for whatreaaon,and that afterward she wished to takothem out hot dM not Hurra in tin SO for

Wear of him.At soon as. the family physician cama

in, Mrs. A., completely bewildere'd, toldhim the whole affair, ahntrintr him thofetishes: and maKnir tha rirl repeat herstory to Mm. He being a practical manand hayings withal considerable knowl-ed- go

of chemistry, took the hunches offeathers home with hira. and on makintra chemical examination ofthem, he foundmem imbued with averj deadly poison.

Meanwhile, he told tha affair to two orthree neighbors, and. cettinsr out a warrant fox the arrest of the malumant Hoodoo man, they went to his hut to arresthim. The bird had flown, however, andcould nowhere be found. Some of thonegroes had. no doubt carried word tohim, and he had thought it best to clearout from that neighborhood. The litllspatient, relieved from inhaling tho poisonin her pillow and bed, soon got well ; andMrs. A. has now in her possession thefetishes which came so near making herachilelles3 widow., It may no tba generally known to thepublic but it is nevertheless a fact, thatthese barbarous African superstitionsand practices prevail, and are increasingamong the "freedmen." not only of Mem .phis and Tennessee, but of all the South-ern States. It is the clearest proof of theinevitable tendency of the neirro to relapse into barbarism when left to controlhimself.

H03IAXTIC JLIFE HISTORY.A Hatband Belarus After Twcnljr-Slr- .

Tears' Absence. Finds Ills WlfoMarried, Claims unci Ktcelvcs Iler ntthe Age of SIxt

From ths New Albany (Ia.) Commercial. Oct. 3.

Thursday morning the subjects of thissketch passed throngh this city, on theirway fromPutnam county, Indiana, to theirhome in Lincoln county, Kentucky, andfrom a gentleman who talked with themwe have obtained the following romantustory :

In ls4o John JMliott left his home andwife, who had borne him eleven children,in Putnam county, this State, suddenlyand in passion, at some slight misunder-standing that had occured between themHe gave his family no intimation of hideparture previous to leaving, and thrynever heard ot him again until alter thelapsed twenty-si- x years.

Ihe wife believed her husband dead,and after two years waiting she gave himup a3 lost to her forever, and married arespectable citizen of the county, namedllallou, and has resided happily enoughwith him near Cloverdale, ever since, nntillast week. It was then that the first tidings of her supposed deceased husbandwere received by her.

It was in this wise that these tid.inreached her. A letter oamo to herthrough the hands of a person who was astranger. This letter set forth that if shewould visit a little town several milesdistant from'CIoverdale she would nie:tan old and very dear friend, nnd urgrd

er not to omit making the visit at a certain time. Tho letter impressed herstrangely, and she concluded to visit thetown namea as tneaesignatea urn?, anadid so.

What was hersurnriso on entering thehouse where the meeting was appointed,to meet her first husband. Twenty sixyears had passed, and time had left itsimpress upon the man, yet sho recognizedhim at once, and threw herself into hisarms ; for notwithstandwg she was nowsixty eight years fage, the sgfct of iterfirst choice warmed the loving pulses other heart and broke open the fountainof her affections that had been so I n -sealed up. She threw her arms aL 11.

his neck, kissed his wrinkled etu L.

and wept, like a girl, the tears f

I'hc husband's heart was alsom';: iinto tenderness, and he embraced his ac Jbut long deserted wifo with all the fervorof a young and ardent lover. The passwas talked over, the sudden disappear-ance, long absence,'and continued sileiuoof the husband explained, and then andthere it was agreed that they wouldspend the remnant of their lives" tjjgether.

The woman returned to her home inCloverdale She explained to her so ndhusband all that had happened, and t ldhim that she felt it her duty to go wit.ithe first husband, from whom she ha 1

beon so long separated. The second hus-

band, Halloa, was loth to consent, but t' ewoman was unchangeable in her d vrmitt-i- t ion, and he was compelled to n?quiescw Their worldly effects wcrjdivided, and on Monday last the old i lyleft Cloverdale to rejoin her husband inthe littlo village whoro the meeting taskplace, and Thursday they passed throughthis city on their way to Kentucky.

When the husband left home he w ed

off to Kentucky, where he remain-- J

until the California gold disooverifs created such excitement in 1S4'J. lie waseized with the gold fever and leftfor the placers ou the Pacific cjx t.There he worked und saved his earningsuntil ho hnd accumulated some f.trtythousand dollars. With this he returne Jto Kentucky, purchased and stocked afarm in Lincoln county, and has be nliving upon it ever since ISj'J. Havingaccumulated considerable wealth he isnow prepared to comfortably care .orher whom he so cruelly deserted tweniy-si- x

years ago, and to give a good start mtha world to the children sue bore tuin

four of whom are yet living un.l Lav;families.

AI&M.S FOR TUKSOUfH.KIHirl to Make a Imvxo .Shipment ti

tne ProvIncrH.We have it frem reliable authority (L t

there were, two or three days ag, 111 SLoui, received frem Dxrtreit, and iu tl.-

po&se.-sio-a of an authorized ngBt, i .1

thousand stand ol small itrtn, Hirc!.ajtfor the Governor of Arkvsv and thaGovernors of other Sombero S.atei, to ol, .

which ai eflbrt has been going on f r

several days past, the comrua ider of I jDavid Watts, among others, having lieioffered a handsome price if he would l 1

this businev. Other boatmen have n.'.--o

been applied to, and two prices were oflVrc 'one owner if he would permit hU boat tba chartered for a single trip into the

river. The Times ays it i r?garded impossible to ship by rail to Memphis and reship by boat there without in-fection and interception; hence the uc- -cesiity cf chartering a steamer direit ' ilithat or tome other paint on the up. rriver and avoiding Memphis. Thm farthis plan has also proved equally unava..ing riot only have the military azen siu St. Louis of the carpet-ba- g governmentSouth utterly failed thai far In securing aboat, but they have encountered quite 31

striouj an obstacle in securing officer an Jcrew. An "ex-Reb- ," bailing from A kaa-s- a,

and welt knosuon the Arkansas riv.r,wal offered a "big thing" if he would taLrcommand of a boat for the trip, in thevent one conld ba'ceurtd. UI courn-refuse- d

to lend hiuvelf to the RadicdU inin such a venture, as had several Ltiirrsapplied to before him. The boarding' f ticHe.pr, the summary disposal of thea ripf Mind npoa her, nd the threat tint I i t!mraui? 1I110K wa rcp-- a el, a rttll uiosr dimmart procedure might bj anticipatt.i, ta.itended to intimidate ihosaowning arMn.u-nin- g

packeU iu the Hirvice of liij Eietl-Iency- ,

the Goveru.r of Arkansas, m dthreatens with si-t- itl failure the etlorts cithose employed in t.lis and other ctliei tsupply the negra autocrats of the Southwith the means of perpetuating their domi-

nation. The place of concealment if i!earms in St. Liuis is well known, and :hattempt to ship them in shoe boxes andcoffin boxes willhirdly escape detection.Memphis Avcdance, Not. 1.

A lodger in a Portland hotel, a few eve-

nings since, came down Ihe stairs and toldthe clerk the guligbt would not burn, andhe thought it wanted a new wick.