Business Directory. OFFICIAL IMRIm-'TOKY. l u i gt o.f circuit (y>urt-j r Mu /Wm!’ ''"Mrf— Wm M to.'Ufut Fr^aiurer—K. K William oLoAI L U 3 <>t f rof jA h H h MIS «b of Circuit Aw rß— David 8* County yvUl W W I>. DEWEY, 'TORF'FY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW LANCASTER. U IS, (Offoe in the N ti< in *l’. St»t» comi will buy a«l ...II |.,ml- p.y tax— Mainland pat«»t., Loun t: pmi.ii n. i» nd ut lior rlaiiii.- again*! th* Ona t. 21-24 WAT. W LIKENS, »i, r to Cold. A Likens.) TTORNEV .in I COUNSKLORat Law, Min-ral Point, A Fi< Pratt, Ilia I' S m l Hiata court* and nd-. t>, uM, tTToRNEY and t OUN. 4 ELOR at Law, Jainasfown, A W la. Will pl nt. claitaa and make collec- I t>-promptly. 22-80 BUSHNELL fit CLARK, 4 HURNEYS and I OUNSKLOKB at Lan. G. iiT Col- A I• ti"» and Land Agta, l.ania-t.-r, Wis. 22-30 4 l.f. KINK.’ op LEGAL BLANKS for aula at the A Ifta*in offiiw. ABSTRACT 01’1 ICE forgibnt county, JOSEPH BOCK. LANCASTER Ittti in Hauk P.ni'diug. up »Uir«. <22-N) .JKSSI-l BR<»< liv'd, /IENEUAI ol 1.1? TIN') AIIENT imd' ONVEV- I| in 11l iniiigt.m, Via Titles Investigated and p rfe. i lie u .11 pr. niptly attended to. Beier i 11. a given when d’ -‘red 21-23 J-. ft. SNECLODE, VOTARY l-I. BLIC, Claim Agent, and Agent for ,N .rd ..f tie I t Life and File insurance Com panies 111 Hie entry. Also l.u ti».-d Am tmneer. All I,mu eutrii-t. d t>. Inin will f»- promptly attended t... at Canville, Wl 21-17 CAFIRtER HOUSE. HI t ABItIEIt I lister, «"■«n "I gm'Sl’ T dee well provided. Stab Big n'ta< bed and attentive h ..tiers. 23-22 UNITED STATES HOTEL. b. IJ>K pr«>pri« t ;i, Dini uh. 11l m.< p-ii.ts Kant. jjitiAt'hiig in eonn.’t ti<»n with th<» h"h‘l. PLATTEVILLE HOTEL, VG. I> STI F.IH ER, cornel I Mill tal u.d Second I) ti.-els, Pla ti ville Wis. U I stabling aud at- t nine ho»tler«. Sample ro.mi.attn u.d <.’ATt;s iiocsi;, A. HATKS, preprint -r, Platteville.' Mi«. Tlii» new hotel is slim,ln IOUHt or Oak St 2 do. IS e nth ol Mam II I’ newly Im nisbe.i and lilted up in I i i be.. -i vie. Oo ..I Sampl* KmunamlStal.lingat t tn. nmi'.i, s walk from the ,|,.p. t. I id per day 22-2 BLOOMINGTON HOVEL. , Wi- It -ii, in I .ml.-i.au4 i .1:.. Ii 22-30 HLAKK. C HOUSE k F I’.I.AKFI.V |-r pii.'i iHrlingt n Win. This I I. I. I. 1., nr..-nth ill u .'•'iiunit ri'furi.islunl 111 u, it, .Uni I not «-»i..|n .1 l.v .ms ill he western 111 I-, -t .1 A.. M I I.illianl ball and livery *U -1,1. „tt. I. 3'4-M II W SMITH. M. D, I >ll V.-li It s Hl’ltuFoN tlllleu ut te«i.loticc, 2 .1 el II" 1 1 Uei.it: town. Grant ...m.ty, Wi* a 3>i DR. A. H. BARBER, tIHV'II'IAS .in 1 .»V IIG IN I.Hiiciwter Win .main. Olli e .ll 11. I "i'lell. I>l>p. -lie I,ell .1 Alien Bir. I er a -1 43 D. W. CARLEY. M. D. nIIVHIi'I.VN vvn Hl IIiIEON. 11.. K.. bel.Urxut c< nnty, I Wi n-in. 0t11.... nt hi. leafilvnee 22-3'' DR. P. A. CLARKE, IJIIYSICIAN Itti'i BVRGKON. hull" inter, Grant Co. I Wh Mat 1... r>'.l:.| «t Im resnliu'e 200 yiril» we,t..f.l nea‘ Hing Store. 22-10 DR. C. F F ALLEY, |>II V.’lt’l AN and sriICEON till l’en.i.,ll Kxair.inln? I mu,: i, l,nn. ..let, WK. Olli over Meyer'* atom, 20-21 II A Mina U. bier It M. Ohtm, I’reat. Ist NATIONAL BANK OL BOSCOBEL, i.itwr i oi xi’y. Wisconsin. in i■:< .s 11 st. iftrn, V >rt J ..n it wn.Kfß, i ii .uu i tut run »i> el., .so, r nii.i'! ihim', niLi.laMNei.mr, rr lii«.n ta <1 ■n> i I tluiiku-x Hit«itie-« Imy and sell i. teli.'ivir He. 11l It ‘l, Fi'.el, Bullion. Sc.— |i< i« .In t in all tlii.|iii. t .»l.ilii,..t Germany, KnuUnd. Ir 1,in.1. He .Iml.- in lin i' i,., Frsnce, Italy 11.. .0 ill I I tuatraltn .'j.. :al attention glren to tiie oil-. ii-ei ..t in -niv- m l I' t’.n-m lureijn conn- Fel.i n t -I, n.l 22-3 Mt THE BANK OF BOSCOBEL la i.I t<> do a general Banking anc Exchange Business: Bt’l an.l tell t*‘ ISuv> i Bond*: pi -a. y.t re IMm” nd transact ill i ••iitnwL it" it- hr 'an Letters of t I'.lit i h c pm if .i B and Bank Ktn* f »i he Oi it ,AKt*ncj fur the Al LEM i k <»r Sr< t hvl /runt Kurupu. Through tick- et* n out Lm-rp.- I i I iH i.ditrj to IL-.sd.rl. Wm. |52 Antwerp, tt’2 2’ ILtmbiii .;.Ai i-'tr i l ii.i, RottetidAtu 62 00 Christian i mCV .11 -'ll Eiat.rn F h.mge, U. 14 and Srl'ar ind ii eminent It 'inl« Stea!-., draw Foreign Fx hii..n m C, Fiaiea and Thal.r*. on Rritain. Finn .an Itleitnaiiy Al-' |'irii. nlar attention given turtle paviiiont at Tax mil tiotia ni.ie and pro el. niptly remitted. K-» »tan pa of ail da. I. >miu itieua a 22-3 HODGES McCARN, IANKL'.HS jDEAIFRS in exchange \Nl> GUI KRSMKN l' 'f I II'IKS. Ph; mtu-ii, Wtay.ittatx Par tall Ur attention given t C I t: an i pro- rotnpt'v rviuitt d a -t payment Isl'ltT I.V t| -ii i'! a< N V I t ...-ri ii. Nevr Vrk a N it I n K. I’lm ig 1 l »li ’ll.*', t'alik f Uak-M wiiiivv. rti'Mrnats w. u clank. HUMPHREY CLARK, BA.NICKKH BI.ik’MINUTON. WISCONSIN lat’i AND Mil '.’il> VM> GGVKRNNKNT K ndvatil E.-toin Ft Prompt atten tion gt ven V I- ir,t.aiil the pay- hint ..t 111 .-0,. V. I i" 1:..,n, neg .t la- te! Ads.iii.'.v lade up ll minj«< n Wi« June 27. laTu. 22-2F'tf TEORGE T. WALKER, Uwil U*nt for frint. I »i A hhplt* CoMties for HOWE SEWING MACHINE, Ft maay, kering, Gn-. »tun, Fuller d Coa PIANOS, PRINCE’S ORGANS ANO MELODEONS, •a-. LANC ASTER. WISCONSIN, ESTABLISHED IN J 843. B^B -VOL. 29, NO. 35. SOUTH CAROLINA KU-KLUX The Appearance and Statements of Those In ustudy In Columbia [From the Columbia Pboiaix We, y esterday, by permission of Deputy Butts, paid a visit to the Ku*klux confined in the county jail Nineteen ofi.hr prisoners surrender ed voluntarily to the Marshal. They belonged to the small farmer class, none of them are more than thirty years of age, ami several are not over eighteen. The faces indicate a low grade of intelligence, but there i-. not one really bad-looking face in the part)’. In fact, they belong t-> a type made familiar to Northern soldiers in the squads so often easily cup' ured toward the close of the war. Men who were driven like sheep in* to tiie Confederate army, and who, when safely penned up at Point Lookout, were in no hurry to be ex changed. it is doubtful if one of them over owned a slave, or had an interest in the institution. They are a class whose physical characteris tics may be found in any farming district in the North, but whoso con dition of social subordination is un known. For generations they have been led by the “gentlemen” of their section, and have never been used to eoinider political acts from a moral stand-point, or thinking of a personal responsibility in such mat ters. They speak with an astounding simplicity of acts which may send them to the Penitentiary for years; they assert that they were forced to join the Klan or bo whipped they hope to sec it suppressed, and peace and order secured in their county. They think that they ought not to bo severely punished, while the load ers are suffered to escape. 1 hey profess a willingness to supply all necessary information to secure the arrest and conviction of the leaders. One of the party said that he was willing to suffer an imprisonment if afterwards he might be allowed to cultivate h'S farm in quietness, with neither Kil-khix nor soldiers to trouble him. He said, however, that it dischargt now he would be afraid to return to Spartanburg, unless pro tected by the presence of United Stales iroopit. In this all who had sui'rtoid'jred concurred. They were sure that if the leade s were caught, convicted, and severely sentenced, Ku-kluxisii. would be killed oil, but that ttiero must not be a conviction ot a tow unknown and poor men uud theii sttin. From the interview toe impress ion was gained that the leaders have studiously put forward these dupes to do the work of the Klan, while they have sought to remain in safe ty. Few of those prisoners ever at tended a eeting where the leaders were present. When a raid was de termined on, ten of them would ic ceive either written or verbal orders to meet and execute the orders. It a man was whipped the execution ers knew nothing of his offence. Each of the ten gave the victim a proportionate number of lashes, and n >t seldom they were lightly laid on by men who had little heart in such pii'ceedings. Generally, however, frequently punishment was inflicted upon a luke-warm Klansman. A Train of Misfortunes —The Sioux City Times in speaking of Mr. Wellman and family of four children, sufferers by the fire in Chicago and now in Sioux City, gives a sad recit al ot his misfortune in the last two years. Two years ago Mr. W. was a merchant in Utica, New York. At this time his warehouse was burned, containing 85 000 worth of goods.— About one month afterwards a child fell into the cistern and was drowned. The death of the child produced in sanity with the wife and mother, and the day the child was buried she committed suicide by cutting her throat. Hardly were her remains eold ere the fire fiend again visited him, and his store was burned to the ground, and his son was crippled for life in his endeavors to extinguish the fire, Gast January he removed to Chicag open d a store and was do ing well. In March he was again burned out, losing his store and house hold goods. Again he started busi ness, and the big tire swallowed him up entirely. He is now looking for a home in the far west. Horrible Cruelty.—The Lanca shire papers report an almost incredi ble case* of wife torturing from the neighborhood of Bolton. A collier, uamed Bradley, having some grudge against his wife, locked the doors of the house so that she could not escape, and then incited a large bull dog to worry the unfortunate woman. The details of her frantic struggle with the brute which were given in evi. deuce before ’he magistrate, are un speakably horrible. She was savage ly bitten in many places by the dog, her husband rf>r your children, traced back, are found, in the r initial forms, i i this Lord’s Prayer. This is a birth right prayer, belonging to every man. A gate it is, through which every living soul may pass. Each petition is a separate gate. Aud be yond is an infinite variety of blessed things. These gates open, as it were, into a garden where are growing fruits and flowers in wonderful pro fusion. Endless diversities of thingH are there: and all of them are ap propriate to the utterance of this prayer. Who may pray it? Every one. May the pirate pray it, on his bloody deck If ha can, he may May the murderer pray it while the noose is yet swinging and waiting for his neck If he desires to, be may. May the reeling debauchee, re turning from his night's excess, and wearied and jaded and depressed, pray it If he bas a heart to, he may May the man who bus been overcome again and again by the temptation of the world, who still is standing in the presence of bis conqueror (th sin that doth so easily beset him), and who is ashamed that ho is s of ten carried away—may he, with a full consciousness of his wickedness and insincerity, and broken promises, and worthless life and sinful heart, pray If he desires to he may. Mwi- a good time to use our negative credulity Alphonse A le mur, a celebrated mathematician, starts a theory that the earth is c iv cred with a deluge once in 10 500 years, on the following calculations: During the cycle one pole of the earth enjoys seven more days of sun shine than the other, and at present we have seven more days in the Northern hemisphere than the Sout hern, which means two hundred years of freezing at one pole against two hundred years of melting at the oth er. The effect of this is to form such an immense mass of ice at the less favored end of the globe as to change the form of the planet and disturb its gravity for a league or so. This displacement draws to the ice»bound regions almost all the seas and oceans, un i eventually causes a change in the oscillation of the earth so as to reverse the order of things, and bring the greater power <>f th sun upon the frozen region- Tnen suddenly, as the pentaUp w aters in an Alpine valley burst their barriers and destroy a village, so this gigan tic polar glacier by its disruption overwhelms a hemisphere. As proof of this theory, ho points to the effect of the last or Noah’s flood, and reck oning from the accepted time of tha' the next will be upon us in the year 7254 A D. We are not personally interested, of course, unless it should occur about ressurrection time, but wo are supposed to have a little con sideration for our descendants.— tiaii' 11 has been thought that Har vard College was growing liberal, but upon the application of a young lady of Nashua, N. 11., to be admitted to the Law School, a decided nega tive was given. There are semina ries, however, we believe, where the applicant can study law,if she pleases. Harvard refuses to matriculate the lady, because it is not common for thejsex to practice as attorneys,! o n selors, or advocates. When it has become common, then Harvard wiil turn lasses into lawyers without mak ing any objection. Our only wonder is that any woman should desire to undertake a profession in which so small a proportion of men win either money or fame, and in which, honest ly to secure both, here must be such un abandonment of leisure, ea-e, and e joy merit as the Na-hua lady little dreams f. it is ba 1 e tough to put boys lo the law—»par« the girls. BffiuA writer in a Swiss journal ex presses great astonishment at the equanimity with which Americans accept the constantly increu-inji power ot the Jesuits, who already control one fourth oi the votes vl the United States, and who by judi cious speculations are roiling up enormous wealth. It is Jesuit h flu ence that has kept Italy, Spain, Aus tria and France plunged in supersti tion and ignorance. Il is Jesuit i> fluence that is attempting to under mine our system of public sebouis and if the enlightened people of the land do not interpose a counteract ing influence, incalculable mischief will accrue to republican institutions. te»“ln times of disaster, fsvf Thackeray, ties which we thought were iron, prove weak as thread. A Word of caution. (From the N« w York Tribune.) Is t general rule it is safe lo decline giving money, at least to alms-ask •is, whetn >r sturdy beggars or even tearful widows io w jeds, who inform you that they have lost ail their w<> 1 po—-A-i<>!H by the fire in Chic ig -ol rt'atil to get, together i‘i pre ol a railway ticket to cur ry them to Bom place where they have sores of friends living in afflu ence. i'hese imposters have become verj numerous everywhere On< of them has been operating in Bos ton. who was in partnership with a wid )>v beggared by the conflagra tion and anxious to reach St. Joiao, N B. This sort of thing has be come a nuisance which ought to be suppressed if only out of pity for those really afflicted. Sull, as it would he running a little risk to say “No” it is best perhaps to refer -uch suppliants lo re ief committees bj Whom their pretensions may be ictutenized. Unfortunately, how evei, the game is mostly’ played in shi rural districts in which no such commitlc.'s xist. liven there, how ever, a lutle cross-examination may deveiope the truth. One s iftahearted genii email, who was also the most credulous of human beings, always gave when ho was asked, because it was pleasanter to give than to retuse, it wastneopinion of tbos who knew him best that lie hud relieved no /ess lhau live hundred persons who hud been shipwrecked tn eyery sea ami upon every coast, while the trusses and wooden legs for which he had subscribed were innumerable. Peo ple who had been burnt out in Con stantinople, Jerusalam, and Milan people whose fathers had died in St. Petersburg or Dublin, leaving them lorluues which the}’ were too poor to g over and claim; peo ple wiionud been blinded in b astiog rocks or maimed by the explosion ot botleie, gravitated towards our friend by some inexplicable law, prcsenle I th' ir claims. We need not treuble ourselves lo show that the benevolence of such too cheerful givers is mischievous; they ought i«> be pul Uiiper some sort d /nard ianship. 11 w the French see Us.—A French writer on America gravely U'S'*rts that no one is allowed to sm"k<‘ in the str'cts of Bdtimore, Philad Iphi:' and Boston and that the Yankee, ;>r >ud as he is of bis in dependence, is forever sighing for ihe g >u- of the old coloni- al days! M >reovi.T, the Yankee hates jewelry, an I wears clothes that w -re cut before the flood When In’ is not ciphering be is whit tling This is his supreme distrac •i••>'!.” II is not in the least sym patiieiic The most beautifui city in the countrv of the Y nikees is Phila delphia H>w r ireshing is this ge ograpiii!-el mi'm inutioii Les fj’esl wit’/t,’’ or, in intelligible language, the We-terners. are always dressed like farmers They wear very big boots, and when tney descend to a cravat it is cither tied ‘like the devil’ or not at all. When they are not smoking, they are whistling. A IFfslz/ifl/j nev er asks permission to light his cigar by the fire of a stranger’s He cooly takes the cigar out of your mouth ami returns it without a word of thanks. Women have railway car riages entirely to themselves, and a man never puts ins foot in the ladies' saloon (>f a steamboat. Women are respected in America, but rarely ad’red ami during leap-year it is quite common for them to demand men in marriage, from which fate the persecute I creatures are allowed to esc ape on presentation of a valuable gdi. And this veracious author as surcH a credulous public that he has traveled in the United Staten J California—California has prob ably changed more in the character ot its population during the last ten years than any other state. This change is illustrated in no other way so tbrcibly as by the transfer of po litical power from the mining dis tricts to the commercial towns and the rich agricultural counties. A few years ago the mines ruled Cali fornia legislation. Under the new census, San Francisco and St. Mateo counties will have about twice their present number of representatives in the legislature, while the mining counties will be relatively about one third t as Strong as in 1860. Nine small counties in the central part of the state have a majority in both branches of the legislation. Califor nia, so full of rudeness and lawless ness twenty years ago, now has an agricultural and commercial popula tion which compares well with that of any stat® in the Union. BURLINQ-xOIN'. Leering the East and arriving at Chicago or Imhanapolis.’how shall we reach the West? The bes line is acknow edged to be tbe C.B. &Q., joii.pd together with the B. M Rai way by the Iron Bridge at Burlington, and cal e l th" Burlington Route, The main line of the Route running to Oma ha, connects with the great Pacific Roads, and forms to-day ihe leading route to California. The Middle Branch, entering Nebraska at P attsmouth, passes through Lincoln, the Stale Capital, and will this year be finished to Fort Kearney, forming tbe shortest distance across the Coi.iinent by over 100 miles. Another branch of tne B. M diverging a Red Oak. falls into a line running down the Missouri through st. Joe to Kansas City, and al Kansas. Passengers by this route to Kan sas, see I Itnois. Southern lowa, and Missoui, and. and by a s ight divergence, can see Ne braska a'so Lovers of fine views should remember the Burlington Route, for its towns •‘high-gleam ing from af_r.’’—its tree-lringed streams —its rough bluffs an 1 quarries—its corn-oceans stretching over prairies farther than the eye can reach. Land-buyers will be sure to remember it, for they have friends among the two thousand who have already bought farms from Geo. S. Harris, the Land Commissioner of the B. .M. R. R. at Burlington, lowa, or among the lour tiiousaiid home.sieaders and pre-emptors who last year fi'ed claims m the Lincoln land otfice, where -‘Uncle Samis rich enough to give as all a farm.” Parisian Typographers Parisian typographers, although their position may be snubbed and ridiculed by many strangers, totally ignorant of their ability, talent and general capacity, form, nevertheless, one of the most learned and able classes of the literature-loving capit al, and it requires more than the simple knowledge of type-setting and composing to enable a typogra pher lo obtain a good situation on some leading journal or to bo ad mitted as a member of the Typo graphical Society, which, in its way, is exceedingly powerful, aud exerts a boundless influence over the en tire Parisian "press. With few ex ceptions they are all more or less gifted with highly cultivated, artis tic feelings, and many, though stead fast to their chosen trade, give over whelming proof of their talent as poets, painters and musicians but their dominant passion and pet pas ime is the stage and everythingcon i erning theatrical matters, and often ii. dramatical representations, des li ned to alleviate some misery or organized for some charitable pur pose, they display the animation, spirit, good-will and enthusiasm which seemed to be an appanage ol their profession. Many of the best French drama ists have passed through the print ing office on the road to fume and popularity, and a society of typo graphical actors exists still, who in terpret the principal pieces of the Boulevard theaters in the most masterly, artistic manner. A mil itary career posesscs few attractions for the Parisian type-setter, and if obliged to serve, at the expiration of his time he quickly returns to the work-shop, not being at all ambitious of following the gory banner of Mars and reaping the life-bought laurels of war. Only during the siege of Pari-*, it must be said, that the “Franc Tireurs de la Presse,” com posed entirely of typographers, gain ed universal praise for theii' heroic conduct in all Trochu’s famous sor ties, and behaved themselves in such an admirable, chivalric manner that it is at present a great anti merited honor to have belonged to that val iant battalion. Off duly, the typographers load a pleasant life; for they are all well pai l, and have always been famous as being the most reckless’ dashing, extravagant fellows, next to the stu dents of literary and Bohemian Paris —the young ones, of course. Olli ers live more rationally, follow the classes of different philotechnicai associations, either of music, draw ing, singing or languages, or else des vote their time entirely to the lioly pleasures of “homo,” which is so sel dom cared for in the gay capital, and other distractions capable of orna menting the imagination developing the mind and refining the taste. As Usual.—A handsome bachelor clerk in one of the finest dry goods stores inArlanta,is smitten with a fair resident of that city. The father of the young lady came to Atlanta re cently, and registered at the hotel where the bachelor clerk boards. As soon as the discovery was made the old man was looked up and made tne recipient of earnest attention (such as ail of us have and are dispos ed to pay the parents of the “hoped for,”) to ingratiate himself into his paternal favor. Just before dinner the old gentle man wanted information of the young one where he could get a drink of “peach and honey.’’ “Well, 1 don’t know myself, but I’ve heard that in bar-rooms good li quors are kept,” was the innocent reply. The old gentleman asked the young one to show him the way, “Certainly though 1 don’t drink mys'll,” replied the teetotaller. Arrived at the bai, the want of the old gentldman was made known, when the bar-tender remarked “1 suppose you will take gin and sugar, as usual, Mr. lle“had orter” winked sooner. The of Guilt.—The atheist may speculate, and goon speculating till he is brought up by annihilation he may then return to life and reason away the difference between good and evil he may even go further, and imagine to himself the perpetra tion of the most atrocious acts; and still be may eat his bread with rel ish, and sleep soundly in his bed for his sins, wanting, as it were, sol idity to leave their traces in his memory, all future retribution may seem to him a thing with which, in any case, he can have no concern.— But let him once turn his theory to practice, let him make crime palpa ble, and in an instant he feels its hot impress on tiis soul. Then it is that what may happen beyond the grave becomes no matter of indiffernce; and, though his reason, may have proved that death is a final end, then comes the question, What does his reason know of death Then, last of all, the little word swelling to a fearful size, and standing at the out let of his theories, like a relentless giant, ready to demolish his conclu sions— AUston. X-iF Japan has already imitated our greenbacks, their irredeemable “kin sats” being as near as the Japanese can get to our currency, both in char acter and in the pronounciation of name. Now they propose to import our system of internal revenue, or something approaching to it, and have closed a contract with Gen. Geo. B Williams, Second Deputy Commissioner of Internal Revenue, who goes out to set up the machin ery.lt isflattering to American vanity that onr institutions are imitated by a newly awakened people, but we ■should be sorry to see our political vices also copied by the new brood of Japanese office- holders. TERMS—S2.OO PER YEAR. sEs-VOL. 23. NO. 21. Robert Toombs. From the Atlanta Correepondence of the Cincinnati Commercial. No one could have been at the Kimball House tor the past lew days without noticing that among the guests was a marked character Every night a stout, thick, heavy man would appear in the rotunda of the hotel long uncombed locks borne down by his slouch hat to hie very eyes, big mouth, a small patch of long thin chin-whiskers, hair well sprinkled with gray, and a lace that lit up with a wealth of intelli gence whenever animated in conver sation. This man was Gen. Robert Toombs, one of the first intellects oi the South, say what you will. He is vastly popular with bis personal acquaintances, and has friends by the thousands. The moment he leaves his room he is surtounded by a crowd, all eager to be in his presence and hear every word that falls from his lips. He may begin talking with a friend, and in live minute* he will have a dozen listeners, and the crowd will increase until, if he does not break away, he will soon find himself ad dressing a respectably sized audience. He talks in a fluent flow of words and ideas, posessing something of the graphic conversational powers attri buted to Dr. Samuel Johnson. In deed, the grtlft old lexicographer is brought to my mind whenever 1 see Toombs. The General is now here in attend ance upon the federal court. lie has a* extensive a law practiceas any law yer in the State. Indeed, he *ays he has more than he can attend to, and more than he wants. His speech, s at the bar are fine specimens of for ensic eloquence. Yet it is said that he is not a close student, spending lit tle time among his law books, and gives over the preparation of his cases to other hands. It is in the court house that his talent shines out con spicuously, and there he literally overrides all opposition ami carries the day by adroit management and vehement eloquence. I called on him, and fotin I him in his room fumbling over a great pile of political speeches. He received me in a frank, open hearted manner, ami immediately entered it to conversation taking in a “solid sluice” about law suits, fairs, fires, and whatever topic was suggested. A client of his in a two-thousand dollar case came in,and in less than two seconds the general was rattling away at him, giving him enough advice in five minutes to last a week- General Toombs is a natur al taike>,amf ins gilt of speech is bac f ed by a head full of ideas. Gre.A talkers are apt to be commonplace,but he is not. lie does not talk without saying something; every sentence contains ar. idea, and he seems to have the power to keep up an unin terrupted flow for hours at a lime. tetFColonel Forney tells a story of bis old friend John Guy. as fol lows: “Guy bore a striking resem blance to G en. Lewis Cass, and while he was proprietor of the National Hotel at Washington, the Michigan Senator was among his favored guests. Guy dressed like Cass, and although not as portly, his face, in cluding the wart, was strangly famil iar. One day a Western friend of the house came in after a long ride, dusty and tired, and walking up to the office encountered Gen. Cass, who was quietly standing there.— Mistaking him for Guy, he slapped him oh the sholder, and exclaimed “Well old fellow, here I am the lust time 1 hung my hat up in your shun ly one of your clerks sent me to the forth story but now that, I have got hold of you, I insist upon a lower room.” The General, a mos digni fied personage, taken aback by this s'at.ling salute, coldly repiiid;— •Yuu have commited a mistake, sir. I am not Mr. Guy I am General Cass, of Michigan,’ and angrily turned away. The Western man was shock ed at the unconscious outrage h e had committed, but before he had recov ered fiom bis mortification General Cass, who had passed around the of fice, confronted him again, when, a second time mistaking him for Guy, ho faced him and said ‘IL re you are at last. I met old Cuss and took him for you, and 1 am afraid the Michigander has gone off mad.”— What General Cass would have said may well be imagined, if the real Guy had not approached ami rescued the innocent offender from the twice assailed and twice angered states man. A Spirit Interviewed.—ls the late Theodore Parker were still in the flesh, there could be no man up on whose opinion of French affairs we should set a higher value. Why, then, should Thoodore Parker in the spirit sufply us only with nonsense and balderdash, when duly summon ed from celestial regions to give us information upon the same subject? We have here an answer from Park er the Spirit which would have made Parker the Man shake big sides with laughter. It was given at a seance in Boston, and was utter ed through the “mediumship" of one Mrs. Uonant: Question —Will France be govern ed by the Napoleonic dynasty, or the Orleanist Answer, —Your speaker cannot see either one way or the other. Now, just imagine Theodore Park er, before his translation, taking refuge in such a confession as this Pray, was he not a man who usual ly saw clearly enough —“one way or the other?" Cin it be that he has been raised to a higher state of ex istance spiritually and intellectually, if his ability to reason of the future has been thus diminished? But this is’nt all. The Spiritual Parker says, “What France needs is to bo brought up higher.” Yon don’t say so! Why. without the •‘spirit«.”we never should have guessed it Never Pen and Scissors. Autumn hues—cutting wood for Winter. Smoking in the streets is prohibited in Chicago. Dickens is io he monnmented in bronze at London. 1 he official income of the iceroy <4 Fg\ pi is $36,000,000. The ciown prince of Russia laises hit own “garden sass.” The next eclipse of the sun will take place on December 12th. Edwin Booth has enacted Hamlet over twelve hundred times. A mine of meerschaum c’ay has been dr covered in Patagonia. Twenty-nine hundred grog-shops were burned up at Chicago. An Indiana chestnut tree is in blossom foi the third time this year. Among the contributions received at Chi cago has been a parasol. A female horse thief captured nt Fon du Lac, proved to be insane. A bull fight was one of the entertainments at the Oregon State Fair. It is said that 4,500,000 of the inhabitants of Germany can read English. Berlin expects to show a population of 900,000 in the new census. A lady translates the C, O. D. on express packages into “call on dad.” 13,800 pounds of figs were raised in Ala meda county, California, this year. An elastic tire for car wheels has been tried and found to be of great value. The new steam fog-signal at the Boston lighthouse can be heard eight miles. A Kentucky burglar roused the family and compelled them to cook him a supper. Lumber which sold in Oshkosh for sl2 be fore the Chicago lire now sells for sl6. The “Chicago sufferer” is stated to have become a nuisance thoroughout the east. One thousand ladies recently attended a political meeting in Stockton, California. Near Green Bay ten acres of pototatoes are as nicely roasted as if done in an oven. A Missouri musician sat down upon a keg of powder and began to smoke. They found one button. A St. Louis man worth $26,000 bequeathed to his children one dollar each the rest went to an hospital. Oceans of tears will be shed in Connecticut this year. The onion crop is one of the largest ever produced. The London Times calculates that in fifty years more every civilized nation will speak the English language. The Pittsburgh Gazette corrects a.i erroi whereby “wood-shop haml”was printed where “Good Shepherd” was meant. Now that the embroidered sack has become the rage, the young ladies dovoutly pray— Give us this day our daily braid.” A copy of Plutarch, which, it is plausibly supposed, belonged to Shakspeare, has been found in the Greenock Library, Scotland. An African church South recently expelled a female member on the charge of being “double-headed,” that is, wearing a chignon. A citizen of Richmond, blind in one eye for three year-', was lately kicked in the face by a horse, and the sight of the eye was restored. The average income of 9,000,000 of people in England and Wales is less than (wo shil lings per dav |S,000,0(M) live on a shilling 1 day. ~’J SJ. T J '->rsia deals summarily with «bu.. ~iO charge enormous prices for their brK.d. He bakes them in their own ovens. Mr. Egan, of Wisconsin, thought fie w >ubl feel of a circular saw’ to see if it was going. He is now learning how to write with hi* left hand. A Tennessee girl broke her arm on the eve of her wedding day, hut pltickily went thro’ the ceremony witli her arm in a sling at the appointed hour. Forty-seven young ladies in Wausoon, Michigan, recently charivaried a youth of eighteen who had wedded a widow oi forty six, in that town. A pig with one eye in the center of its forehead and a trunk similar to an elephant’s, growing directly over its eyes, is the boa«t of a California town. Milwaukee proposes to lay a submaiine cable across Lake Michigan, in order to avoid the necessity of repenting all messages for the Northwest at Chicago. The crime of jerking the hair out of yonr wife's head is not «o sinful as it formerly was. It is just as nngentlemanly a’ ever, but it doesn’t hurt as it used to. Dr. Thompson contends that the worst of women have fallen, like Goethe’s Marguerite* through “a dear delusion,” and not on ac count of any criminal intent. In 1870 Philadelphia manufactured carpets to the value of $10,000,000, $5,000,000 worth of prints, $7,000,000 worth of silks and other fabrics, amounting in value to $10,000,000. Henry Wolfe, a Kentuckian, recently com pleted his one hundred and eighth year with out having known a sick day and then not to mar so clean a bill of health, cut his throat Not long since a farmer in Sauk county, gathered fourteen tons of grape from a vine yard of only two acres. At ten cents per pound that would be a fair profit on two acre* of ground. A minister in Indiana became mixed up in land speculations, and announced to his con gregation that his text would be found in St. Paul’s Epistle to the Corinthians, section 1. range 3, west. Among the books and papers of the Chicago Historical Society,destroyed, was the original copy of the famous Emancipation Proclama tion of Pi esident Lincoln, for which the So ciety paid $25,000. Olive Logan says that in Europe the wo man suffrage movement is generally classed with Mormonism, Oneida communism and free-loveism— which shows that the people of Europe cannot be bad at classifying. A set of paper car-wheels on one of the Pullman cars running to Jersey City, have run over 160,000 miles of track, and worn out en tirely one set of steel rires, which have been replaced. The ordinary wheels, it is said, will only run 60,000 miles. They have begun in Canada to cultivate rabbits as an article of food, imitating Euro pean conntries, where hundreds of miles of coast lands are used as rabbit warrens. The rabbits furnish a cheap and nutritious food for millions, and the furs have considerable value in trade. The total vintage of California this year is set down at 8,000.000 gallons, and from 180,- 000 to 200,000 gallons of brandy to be added. But vine-growers are distilling less brandy than usual, on account of their heavy Federal taxation, making a loss of the material hereto fore used for this liquor. In driving a London undergruond railroad tunnel, we are told that in one part of the line the cuttings were made through a mass of skulls and bones, sixteen feet in the ground. In another place a forgotten secret passage> twenty feet wide, was discovered, supposed to date from the fourteenth century.