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CON NTRIBU rORI.t l..
LAM AsTER, AUGUST z. 1887.
Cause and Pretext.

II is an important principle in mo'als
and politics, not to mistake the cause for
the prete1t. nor the pretert for the cause
aud ny this means, to distinguish between
the cause and the os,ensihIe motive.
On this principle, his,orY might be re-.
compensed in new manner; il would
no, often describe circumstances and char.
Gcters as they usually appear.
When We mistake the characters Of
men, we mistake the nature Of their &C,
tons: and we shall find in the study Of
secret history, that some Of the most i'm,
portsnt events in modern history were
produced from very ditfereat motives from
their ostensib'e ones
Without citing examples other than the
great subject which now occupies the poll
tic mind, aud which involves the des,inies
OF a nation. ae would ask the cause but
at !he same time consider the pretert for
plun9ing n government, once the admirs.
tion Of The world, into a state Of anarchy
and confusion.
The Congress. a body OF men to whose
care and wisdom the people entrusted the
power Of making laws for the benefit OF
their comm country, have truckled To-
their own base aspiration, and become the
despised and contemned Of every brave
and virtuous man. With the pretert Of
preserving the Union, the blame OF seces.
sion WAS thrown upon the South. -
Thousands Of soldiers were brouch, 10 the
Union ranks bv the cry "preserve the
Unior." The people Of the North were
led on by tho crv, and though many like
X-rscs, viewed the smoke Of battle from
alar, vet from turre, and tour "the crusade
for the Union" WAS preached Cut ihros,s,
pick pockets, gamblers, were mustered hy
patriotic citizens to do or die for the land
OF the brave aud the home OF the free
and Congress, that might, umpire, sat con.
tenplaung the work OF her hands; kind
ling into blaze the spark which could
b1 seen and known in the South by the
bold eI"qnence OF her representatives, and
when the rupture came, soothing the
minds OF their fAna'lca brethren with as
sura"ces OF unavoidable necessity.
is indeed degenerate age AMI
c"rr"p'ed-when learning and religion
have she'd the" heavenly beams DER tins
C""'neH', ana snch men are per'n'ttedt to
exercise their own d'screti"ns IN governing
""d"r IN" pre'ext OF "preservnc the
Union Under this pret-xt ihev have
d'Sso''ea the Union ; under it they have
prosecuted war "f over f""' years; they
h'V' passed the kec"n"ur"c'ion laws;
'"eV nave freed the negro with the pre-
text OF ame'"rat'nI his Condition.
he' the pe"p'e look to the cause and no
'"n'er I" me Preferf
o"""d moral principles are the only
source o' 'as'ng god have Congress
S"c" P''"c'P'es' "A Tree Is known nv its
"""'' nave Congress IN their mu',if"rlous
p'o""e'o" "'onsht f"fth anything OF
swear "d"nr or fragrant smelf None
nut """n"" "eo's VIII say they have
'"ev are marching on IN their career re.
CARELESS OF all interest save their own
WV" '"e" hS"'cA' o'nner spreah 10 the
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Jurors.

Jurors.
The following are the list Of Juror.
drawn for the O'toher Term Of the Dis
'ric, Cour'. j. will he seen ,ha, two of
me n"mher are persons ~ color:
T. L C'vh"rn. ] n K B-'k. w B.
Hi'to" p " Thomnaou. Samn.l Tsvror,
(h'ark)J w P"r'ar Ansnn S;za-. J VI.
Gee. 4 'aol) Jno n Neshi'. A r Nesh;,.
u y Th"mnson, F. B Mnh'ev. Andrew
MrI'~"ir Simon Watts. Wesley Black
mon. r J Hagins
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l. d & "A Z. .
Extra Frpit and Vegetables.

Our esteemed friend DR.. s L. STRAIT
has 'e't at our office an extra variety Of
Fruit and vegetables, grown on his premi
ses, consisting Of Peaches. Prunes, To,
mat"es, Onions, ETC., for which be will nc
cept eur rhanks. -r-ra-a-.s... -s.rs--r.
Among this selection is q Peach weigh
ing thirteen and half ounces. wi,hout ex
cep'ion the largest we have ever seen and
equal in ,as'e to anv.
The "Fecjaa leland Tomato" in,ro.'u.
ced here last Spring hv MRs CnAFEE and
successfully cultivated by Dr. g., deserves
the special attention Of gardeners. II ;s
an extra variety and grows luxuriantly
with but little cultivation.
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Death of W. N. White. ESQ

We laarn from the A,heus (Genrcis)
Waterman, that WIN n White. E.o
editor and proprietor Of the Southern
Cuihpntor. nnhlisaed At 'ha, place. ,,i.i
On The l4th July, n the 4s h wear OF his
age
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LATEST BY MI All.
From Washington.

WASHINGTON, july 27.-I. is reported
that General Sickles has arrested several
military officers in his department, for
meadling in politics.
A Buenos Ayres letter 10 the New York
World SAWS that during the prevalence of
cho era in that province. tkrtv five or
f"r'v DAYS. 1880 persons died Of the
disease.
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sHSPlasrsas ---rhs ten cent, three
cent. twenty five cent, and 6fty cent rsa.
eeiness, known as fractional currency,
ara no, sufficient TO NEE, the demands Of
the publ,o for fractional cnrsa"v, and
there ~ill hsis'usd in sfs~ wasks, aa
additional isse,ionsl currency note Of the
denomination Of Is cents
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An empty whi.ksy barrri, 9TH ,hs
rsvenna marx on Il. cannot ba sod or
purchased ~.,hout lNssin9 ssllav andpu
chs,er iishIe to hssvv 6ns. anisss s.ia
revenue mark or stamp Is totally oblilsrs,.
ed.
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Generals Hiodmsn and Chaip,srs. men
Who did good fighting for the Confederate
Shiloh to the disastrous onset At Nashville.
hsvs enrolled themselves IN the Sonthsfu
wing Of the RepuhIicsn party. led by
Loppstrset, jeff. Thompson. Gov. Brown.
B1ksdsis, Gen. 8. B. Bucknsr. and
Others.
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Rebel Srury.--The Declaration Of In
dependence wa read to tie negroes OF
Memphis on the Fourth at pic MO -
They bscame highly incsosed and the
most OF them left. declaring they didn't
20 th<rs 10 bear such id rebel stud.
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the approaching elections, is IA i,npera,
tive as That of protecting, our wives nod
children. Should intelligence fail to es
Ahlsh i,se!f nov, the dreadful foreboding.
which we anticipate must serve its day.
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From Georgia.

AUGUSTA. july ~ Accounts from
Florida, Middle and East Alshsma are
favorable to crops; grain crops abundant
and cotton generally promising.
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The s~.hisn Mercury .,s,s. th.. the
news Of the E.no~,n, n sximilisn's death.
=, ths Mnnioh R,ilsav' 'StaHon. producsd
= a,orribis effect on the emperor ~ Au.tsis.
His Majesty was seen 10 weep bitterly.
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From Massachusetts,.

BosroN, Julv 25 The Snprsma Conrt
has decided tha, National Bank shares
are subject to citv and Stale taxes. ...
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The horse tha, the Emperor Of Austria
rode when he ~'. Crossed King Of Hsn.
gary was shod with gold.
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Dry Goods


Brown Shertings and Shirtings are generally
quotations. The stock on hand Is light. and
goods eontinueyery active for standard makes
grades, which are q shade lower. Prints CON
tinue active for best spring styles, with no
surplus stock on the market. Others, less de-
sirable, are accommodating IN stock and tending
downward IN quotations. Denims are steady
with no q rotabie change in price. Drills are
shade lower. with restricted sales Stripas
ana Ticks are IN fair demand, and are frac-
ton lower. Corset Jeans sell more freely al
current quotations. Printing -clot hs are weak
with light transactions. Ginghams In good
styles sell more freely. Prices steady. Cotton
Bags are in moderate demand, at more easy
quotations. Printed Lawns, newest patterns
are selling quite freely. Others are neglected
and lower. Rolled .Iaconets are wanted at
unchanged prices. Cambricsi are selling SLOWLY
at a little lower rates. SIIesias are firm and
active. NJ Muslins de LANES continue in very
active demand for best spring styles, Others
are lower and pressed on the market. Cloths
and Cassineres are not in great demand. The
stock rs large and prices are lower. Flannels
are fiat, with moderate saies, mostly IN small
lots. Carpets are, selling qaite freely, at firm
prices for new styles.
Foreign goods are generally lower, except
these OF newest sty les. The auction rooms are
filled with second class goods, which are sell
ing AT loss. Our importers have hitherto been
willing 10 sell at some sacrifice hoping TO ma ke
up the same In remitting at lower gold uota-
tione. In that. for the present al least. they are
disappointed N. L. Independent. 18th.
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MANASSAS GAP RAILRoAD.-The repairs to
the track and the relaying of the rails on the
Manassas Gap Railroad, from Manassas Sta
tlon 10 Piedmont, distance of thirty four
miles, was completed on Monday last, and
that portion of the ROAD is now in excellent
condition. and will have trains passing over 1t
as soon as the switches and turn outs are ad-
Jnsted, TO accomplish which, will require, tits
supposed, but three or four days, 81 the ut
most because arranRe ments have been made
70 bring the stockholders OF the Company re-
siding along the line of the read over it, to this
city, prior to Wednesday, the 2ith inst when
their called meeting will be held. Another
section of this road that between Strasburg
and Timberville, thirty five miles long, is,
with The exception Of the bridges, also in good
eondition-the road bed and rails having been
.undisturbed since they were originally laid.
The running 2 sock OF the road now consists of
Elk locomotives. fifty freight cars-thirty boxes
ana twenty gondola, and one mail and bag
gage car.-AIezandria Gazette. 10 :,
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variable chAnges Prussia In about ten DAYS
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S1be fire department OF Chicago EMPLOYS
lao men and has Si0OOoG worth of property.
sVOce hundreda and twenty thousand chill
oren IN New York do not attend school.
SGeorge r. Train was admitted to the bar
of Cincinnati on Tuesday.
- man in London beat bis wife nearly to
death "for having too many children"
STwenty five thousand persons from otn-
er States and countries visited Florida last
winter.
RDickens is really going through" the
principal American ,ities.
0From 100 10 200 human skeletons are an
nually sold In New York city. They are
worth SIS apiece.
sxThe frst cost OF Russian America il
about two 81 a half per acre in gold
aUAnnie Durham, a seamstress In ST. Louis
cut her throat last week because she sscould
not earn an honest living"
ga general convention Of the Msthodist
Protestant Church will be held in Monteom-
cry. Ala, on the first Tuesday OF May.
~Tbe census Of New York for Isss re-
Gently publis he'd. shows email dimin utlon IN
the population Of that State since 1860
0Hepry Ward Beecher has been nonni-
mated as one Of the republican, candidates for
the New York Constitutional Con veutiou, In
Brookiyn Horace Greeley has also beer nom
~The farmers in the neighborhood Of Bel
fAst Maine, have hauled one hundred thop-
sand bushels Of potatoes 10 Belfast the pask
season. which they have sold At an average
price Of nifty i've cents.
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J. 1itHIrlor AHp BuILDss.
Once, Ne. $40 seventh street. =,
sps In' n. j. cor. Louisisns avsaus.
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FIFTH WAED REPUBLICAN CLUB.-A meet
ing OF the Fifth Ward Repu blican Club was
held last evening al the Ebenezsr CT ureh, cor
ner OF ith and ~ streets. Mr A X. AirisoH ln
the chair ana A. j. Clark secretary.
- The object OF the meeting was explained by
the Char, who read the call. signed by the
presidents @ the dIfierent wards, calling upon
the wards to send five delegates each to g con-
yertlon 20 be held on the 2Oth inst, for the pur-
pose of nom mating city on GERS.
After some discussion, the subject was laid
upon the table. .-.t
A motion was adopted providing that when
the meeting Sdlourns IL will meet next Wed
nesday. and then elect delegates for the nom
mating convention TO meet on the second
Thursday in May next
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1867-05-28

Rev. DR.. Butler the well.known Metho-
dist missionary who established the mission
of that church in India in 1856, recently
returned to this country. He makes the fol-
lowing statement of remarkable case:
In 1859 British soldier, while bearing
dispatches from one magistrate to another IN
the Kingdom of Dude, passed an unlre
quented ravine, where he saw pack of
wolves, and with them a human being, eYi-
IDENTIFY one of their company Immediately
turning back he reported the circumstances
to the magistrate for whom he was travelling
The latter forthwith mustered number OF
Coolies and went TO the place. The pack of
wolves fed short distance and sought
refuge in sort of cave or den. Beginning
to dig, the party soon discovered the feet of
the wild man, and drawing him forth, sue
ceeding in binding and carrying him to the
town. DR.. Butler has seen him often since,
and says he is evidently man, and al the
time of his capture apparently about twenty
four years of age.
The captured creature at first violently re
sisted the attempt to put clothing upon him,
but after while ceased to tear the garment.
He is now kept by gentleman in the city OF
Thabje-V -Vampore, some eight hundred miles
west of Calcutta. When first taken Ire was
unwilling to eat anything but raw meat, and
has never been able 10 speak or make any
approximation to knowledge Of the alpha
bet. If any one looks earnestly or sharply
at him, he expresses his annoyance by a
halfuttered grunt, Immediately turning away
and settling upon his haunches in a corner
of the room, or lies down. He eats his food
off the ground; and although evidently a
human being, is in habits wolf, with the
instincts Of that beast.
This is certainly an anomalous fact in
natural history, although it is said that four
similar cases are known to have occurred in
India, presenting the same general facts.
Wolves abound in India, where the in
habitants live wholly in the cities and vii
lagos; and at the approach of night all per.
sons employed in the open country retire TO
these clusters OF houses, or huts, and these
rowing and ferocious animals find free range
1t frequently happens that a wolf steals into
house and carries of a child. So frequently
is this the case that in the schedules fur.
nished for recording the mortality in each
place, one column is headed, "Carried of
by wolves"
. DR.. Buffers theory Of this strange case is
that a she-wolf probably carried off thii
person when he was an infant, but that be
fore she devoured her prey, the child in
stinctively searched for food Beginning tt
draw its nourishment, it awoke in the vol
the maternal instinct, which led to the pre-
, servation of its life, and thus the boy liye'
n and grew.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1867-05-28

Mrs. Julianna Nangle, the wife of John
Nangle, who owns a brewery on Reuben
street, between Hubbard and Indiana, came
to her death on Friday last in the following
shocking manner at about half-past 9
O'Clock in the evening, she went into the
brewery in which, at the time, there was no
one but her brother-in-law, her husband hay
ing gone down town. She stepped upto the
great vat, about seven feet high, and con-
tanning nearly five feet Of water-very hot
but not boiling-and by some means lost her
balance and plunged headlong in. Her
screams were heard by her brother-in-law,
who ran to the spot and tried to draw her
out of the blistering water He found, how
ever, that his efforts alone were insufficient,
and was obliged to leave the poor woman
while he went for assistance. When she
was finally drawn out, she had been fifteer
minutes IN the fearful prison, and the skir
was boiled off the lower part of the body
and in some places the flesh had parted from
the bones She had managed to keep he
face above the water, and 30 the feature
were not materially changed, but the rest o
her person formed a shocking spectacle
Death of course ensued. The inquest wa
held on Saturday evening, and the verdic
rendered of accidental DEATH
There is no reason to doubt that stron
drink was the murderer of this woman-a
she was under its influence Mt the time. Sh
has lived for five or six years quarrelsom
and unhappy life with her husband, as sh
. was confirmed drunkard. For two
three years she appeared in the Police Cour
} about once q week, on an average, charge
with being drunk and disorderly, and HI
husband has applied two or three times f
, divorce, on the ground of habitual drum
enness. The suits, however, were wit
drawn on the promise that she would reforr
8 A dreadful death, caused by her own eV
/. habit, has at last procured the divorce Of th
e miserable woman from her husband and Il
Q world.
~ Mrs. Nangle was of prepOssessing Appei
IS ance, possessed Of good sense, one OF t
1t most intelligent women in the vicinity VIII
Il sober, but she was almost always under
8, influence of liquor-and her temper rend'
10 ed her husband almost desperate. t
'r brewery being connected with the hou
She had constant facilities for drinking, a
gave herself up to the depraved appel
is which has ruined so many others.-Chfef
an Tribune.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1867-05-28

A JAPAREsn IN "STORE CLoTHEs."-A Paris
correspondent of the Springfield Republican
writes:-"The other night l saw o ludicrous
istance Of the progress of civilization consequent
upon the exhibition. There came into the court
Of the Grand Hotel one of the little Japanese
graudees newly arrived, aud dressed in his civ.
ilEed clothes. He cast conscious glance at
the groups of smokers and promeuaders. and
tried to walk straight to his chamber in the
Partisan style. The effort was very evident.
His arms, hitherto used to flowing robes, would
not swing properly 10 tight.ftdug coat sleeves
his head was i'll at ease in his beaver hat; be.
sides, the peculiar conformation of his Uranium
| and the dressing Of his hair allowed the stove
pipe to clip on too far His feet would not CONT
down snug to the ground in his new boots, h'
was too accustomed to shutting slippers, and hi
wanted 10 turn his toes out. He settled hi
collar, but it was more difficult to settle tn
gravity Of his spectators. He ascended III
steps which led to the inner rooms, as, majesti
cally as he could but one of his boots playe
him false, lie stumbled Poor little grandee
The acute French and the observing American
.snickered;' : he cast despairing, half-detan
look behind him. and as he disappeared frol
view doubtless cursed in Japanese and hearth
wished himself safe once more in Jeddo whei
the heri kari is as common as shaving here, an
where every vrtuous woman stains her teei
black"