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THE MONEY MARKET.

The money marAet was rrexular, with rates on
extreme quotations ranging from four To seven per
cent. The general business was aG hve to six per
oenL. -Four auo seven PEI cent were the exceptions
the former governments the latter on sock col
lateras. In. the earlier hours Of business lenders
were disposed TO discount the activity which Is
pected during the month OF Apri and hence some
borrowers palc Us nigh as seven per cent on call.
Before three O'Clock, however lenders were Offering
money low as i've per good stock coiaterals
70 prime houses. The banks are doing nothing III
paper. On tne street the rates for arst Class double
name acceptances range from seven to nine and for
slngle names from seven TO twelve per cent
STOCKS WEAK AND DECLINED.
The absence OF any speciai strength In the gold
market left the stock market without tone and rem
dered 1t susceptible to a rather sharp decline In
some OF the stocks whch are without the support OF
she Dun cques. "bear" attack Of great force on
Pacin nc Mail and Western Union carried the former
DOWN to 327. and the later to 32h. while IN the
railways sharp assault on Northwest common
took Is to 70x. These and the Vanderbilt shares
we're the most active features Of the day, the latter
being strong and yielding out slightly IN tue depres-
-00n OF the general list Lake Shore and Rock
Island also were strong. Late in the afternoon the
''bear" movement was directed against St Paul,
winch declined TO 8ok. The market at the close
was extremely dun. with prices showing
. recovery from the lowest OF the day.
The following were the closing prices OF stocks at
the last session OF the Stock Exchange:-Canton,
60ss pd; Western Union Telegraph 33t4; Quicksl-
YER H. u IL Mariposa 0 a 91a; do. preferred, lsh
q; do. certificates, 49j1 SO; Pacific Mai 343a n
34K; Boston Water Power, 17h I7ss; Adams Ex-
press, 6l1s q G2A; Wells-Fargo Express, 2oja 20h
American Explcss, 3s3s a 3sh; United States Ex
press, 4s9s Merchants Union Express, Did; New
YORK Central consolidated. 975s 97h; do. scrip,
ssH s5s; Harlem, l43 a 1a4k; Erie, c4,& a25%,
do preferred. AK A; Reading, 96A 81; Michi-
gan Central, ll9A; Lake Shore, S611 s64s; Illinois
Central, H1 a 143; Cleveland and Pittsburg, 87s
%; Chicago and Northwestern, 71s 713s; do. pre-
terred, SO SCI; Cleveland, Columbus and Cncin-
natl, "A 74si; Rock Island. l1s1 1s7I; Milwaukee
and ST. Paul, 6l1 6l4; do, preferred. 74A 7i1;
Toledo aDJ Wabash 45 46l1; 90. preferred, 73 "A:
Fort Wayne, s3ss bd OHIO and MISSISSIPPI, 2sI a
-; Delaware ana Lackawanna, lO2 q 103s; New
Jersey Central, 1927 q 1903; Chicago and Alton, 1l2
1l34; do preferred, 1l3 ll4<; Morris and Essex,
% el; Hannibal and st. Joseph, l05h bid; do
preferred i0J,S bd Dubuque and SioT1 City, los q
rosA; Columbus, Chicago and indiana Centrai, 1ss
1915,
THE EXTREME FLUCTUATIONS.
The highest and lowest prices OF the leading specIx
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The highest and lowest prices OF the leading specx-
,..vo or ,cca tn-nav were aa folOWs.-
GOVERNMENTS STEADY.


The government market heavy in early deal
ings but became steady at the noon and afternoon
boards, and closed firm with the following street
prices:-United states currency skies, ll2S 1l2X;
do. skies, 1881, registered, 1llk hay; do. do,
coupon, 115 l1514; do. fve-twenties, registered,
May and November 109 109H; DO. do, 1902, Cou-
pOn do, 11oA 1l0I; do. do, 1864, do. do, 10s
1895: do. do, 1856, do do, 10S3s 1o9; do. do.,
1865 coupon, January and July, 10sA l0SK; do.
do, 1867 40. do leo 1o914; do. do 1868, oo do,
l094 t08ls; do ten fortes, registered 1865 los;
do. do, coupon, loo lO8l<.
SOUTHERN SECURITIES STEADY.
The Southern State bonds were steady and IN
some instances nrmer, the North Carolinas be-
ting especially strong and In demand. The Virginias
we're better and the South Carolinas active, the lat
er on demand from insurance companies to de-
poslt at Colubs as collateral security for policies
issued In the state. The Louisanas were active and
rrm. The following the latest street prices or
Ine Southern nst:-Tennessee, ex coupon, SO 6eH;
dO., new 5Oh 50k; do, nve per cent AZ A.; Vir-
enia, ex coupon Tx . Y; do, new, SO 20; do,
registered stock, 53A q s6; do, registered, 1865.
% 81; do, registered, 1867, 81 81; Geor-
Ea skies, 50 ss: do. sevens, % 81;
North Caroiina, ex coupon, AK 4T7<; do, new, 2S
29 do, special tax 23t4 23k; Missouri skies,
%; do. Hannibal and st. Joseph, SO "a; Louisiana
eights SAX So; Alabama eghts 81 o es; do. hves,
II 70; South Carolina sixes ss 30; DO, new, s31
s3h; do, registered stock, 10 IS; city OF Menu
phis sixes 81 Sly; city OF Atlanta eights SO SIS;
city oil Savannah sevens, SO 81; city or New Or
leans CONSOLIDATED IS q 20; do. DO, railroad issue,
II Y; Mobile and OHIO, sterling, rs 70; do eights,
81 50; Mississippi Central Railroad first mortgage
se a n; do. second mortgage, 5S 60; Memphis and
Charleston first mortgage, IS 81; do. second mort
gage, 70 u; do stock, 40 o Al; Greenvie and CO.
mmbus Railroad, guaranteed, IS II; Macon and
Brunswick guaranteed by State OF Georgia, 50 SO;
Louisiana sevens, IA 70; do. eigbts SO "a.
THE sUB-TREAsuRY REPORT.
The following shows the result OF days business
at the sub-Treasury In this city,
General balance yesterday $s1, ,3o3, 476
God receipts. ........................... 574 4S7
Gold payments. ........................ 03,oof
G0O DalanCe. 1o,44Z
Currency receipts. s..............-......... 1b5,IZ
Currency payments ts..................... 36i, 1856
Currency balance. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 4,S60,6f3
6enerai balance. oi,6oo AZ
Customs ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $4,000
RAILWAY MATTERS.
The earnings Of the st. Louis, Alton ana Terre
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FRef0RTs- rket very quiet, the offerings of
almost articles esing sma, and rates were generally
lower The caaerng business quiet the demand
classes Of being light Tho engagements
rs-To Liverpool steamer os bales cotton st I'D
b.loda declne SO boxes bacon at 2)s and 40 bushels
wheat at 6d To London, 3 bbls Hour At 2. and, per
steamer cheese at 50s To Glasgow steamer
bark lob to fernambuc0 general cargo,
pLoua AND GxArs-ReoeIpts s,s4s bbfs. four $50 birs
and Ssuo PACKAGE corn meal, 1890 kushsas vhest,
g,26 do. corn 3,5l0 OATS 1,l0 do nsall Ihs
m arkat for State and Western -four ruled more
seady under better demand at yesterdays prices the
bbs. Southern -four more aoiive
but for tho low grades sales were 400 Gbs Rye
-four was steady, with fair demand and small suppy;
800 bbls Corn meal dull and prices were
,,u,tsI sI{opa We
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COTTON MiRKEls.
--~-.-,.,~--~->-.-------.~~->

CALvrsTos, Texas, March Is, 1870
Cotton good demand, with an upward tendency. Good
ordinary 1s5sc lsc. Receipts III ba EXPORTS coast
wise ~ bales Sales, 900 baes. Stock. ~ So bales
NEW ORLEANS, March 10, 1870
Cotton in active demand full prices. Mddng, ALAG.
c2c Net receipts 37ua bales; coastwise go baesota,
3s2 bales. Expors-To Liverpool iJ65 bales to Cron-
itadt bales Sales 5000 baes Stock so 66s bales
Cotton nrmcr and IN limited suppy. hiddng, 2ic. n
2lsc Receipts So bales Exports to Liverpool. 5,s28
bales. Sales, $40 bales. stock, II ,y5V bales.
SAyANSAH, Ga, March Ii, 1870
Cotton 10 good demand. Kidding. ac. Receipts, lJo2
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Holders OF god had their balances carried at rates
hanging from three i've per cent The Sllesla TO.
day took out SAT, 100 In specie. Tne operations oil
she Goll EXCHANGE Bank were ~ foows:-
God cleared .....................S S92, IT'S 900
Gold balances. l,oJJ77
currency balances. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. lSy0, 32S
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REAL ESTATE MATTERS.

Yesterday was brisk day In the real estate mar
ket/ The offerings az the Exchange were above the
average. and attracted large attendance the Irans
actions closing very satisfactory to both buyer and
seller The feeling In the market Is stil one or eau
i,o and in It's present temper unfavorable to heavy
dealings without some concessions. Al the desk the
inquiry continues FAIR most The properly disposed
0 being, however, bv way OF exchange. Amons the
prisiag TOUR lots, 25xi0o.ll each. fronting TWO
on the north side OF lioth street ana two immed!.
street as ee east Of SEVENTH the avenue s
The rent market was without new feature ten
ants continuing TO nod or In expectation OF q do
cline and landlords tndisposed to AIiOw reduction,
but with every prospect OF being compelled 10.
The following are the particulars of yesterdays
NEW YORK pRorKnry-BY MULLER, WILKINS AND co.
story houss and lot =. we. 95th st lot 2sxs 800
story brick house and lot loo Amty at, lot 2lIla-
story brick house and 10; ii Great one. 81. lot sSis ''0o
story brown stone house and ot a wes, 5sa 81. ID.
io; srn:i 18th s.; and I'd a
:oa;S e .as ss T. fssfs il west Of s
%. south side sih 81: us n ws. Of 9Th .v ;iss S
Ss: norsS st. rs Il west Of 9th av sj.iis
Lots 10. s"n'ns sarns9 h ss@s .sa "a a.; Il; sS sS
lot adjoining, same size. la
lot joining same $50
"''F' ny n"SEars AND M;auiaE '''''
House and lot 18th sI 2o6 II OF LIST av lot lsx 900
Columbia st. lot s5s75.. - m 7co
story brown house, story stable lot, 236
S5th ST. a0l OF 20 lot 26xas9 ....,.... 1880
story brick dwelling and lot - Essex st, rs II from
Grand st, lot 2sx44.. $500
story prick house and lot 4S sSd st. 1853 IL OF 9Th
lot is9xioGs... 1000
buildings and lot, known Nos S90 and 392 I'd st.
l63 Goerck ST. 10. i3 txi00 f0x36g. 1000
story building, story Stable and lot Nos jl, l69 aud
l57 Goerck adjoining The above lot o4xf00 600
lots Madison and lsth each 25x60.. 6,Ds0
Brick building and o %stw No 4 woo.ss g. s su
A. j. MATHENsoS.
Bindings and plot or ground, W corner Bayard and
Mott ats, size OF plot, b0x50 .2O60o
EY AM on HU3BRLt-
House and stable " corner Madison nv and Hth o.,
BROOkLYN PROPRETY-BY MULLRR, WILKINS AND 90.
House and lot No n Macon st. lot 36xlV) Richards 8Op
ny JOHNSON AND MILLER.
l9t corner Myr avenue Central and Chestnut st,
2s0h x7hlya5xa6. 1850
lut on Central ahoinng 2u0I1 .........,. BG
3l0ts Central adjoining 2Dxy5. ......... 2400
lot Stockholm Av, 2Oxl0O
lot Central Nv, adjoining, 2Ox95 .......-... 725
lots Central av adjoining aOx95 ........... 2100
lots 3 st. Central av, 93iD
lots on Chestnut st. adjoining size. 95u
lots n . st. Central nv, l5u
ots gores Chestnut it near Evergreen av 30x7 g. 900
lots Cedar st. Evergreen 20x8l 5 100
lots on Cedar 81 adjoining 2Dxooo LOO
lots Centra, jacob st. 20xl0o. liu
lot cor Central and Jacob IT. adjoining 20xlOL. 400
lots Evergreen Ivy It, 3Oxl00. l,0u
lots Jacob it. lis from Central 2bxlOO. $40
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And black wins.

And black wins.
COMMENTS ON THE GANB.
td) Mr.. King excels in the briancy OF his COM
bnations. He VIII get up an attack at all hazards.
The present one Is sound.
tD} Ii seems incredible that black should ultimately
have extricated himself from such position.
c} White dtd not suiicIentIy consider the cost OF
the winning his opponents queen.
tn Black was much relieved Dy this move, which
enabled MN to Tree hrs game
(e1 We'll piaycd as the capture OF the pawn would
have cost black the bishop.
t|j This is decisive. The three pieces must win
against her majesty in this position.
Progress OF tho Tournament of the Br0eklyn
Chess Club.
Several very Important games viii be contested
during this week between the experts.
The celebrated chess player, Captain Mackenzie,
Will contend with Mr.. DeImar, who was the victor
In tournament at the Europa Chess Rooms some
time ago. lie has also to play his second game with
Mr.. r. r.. BrenZinger and with Mr. Perrin. Messrs.
Ueimar and Mason have each to contest one game
with Mr. Brenzlnger. Mr. Perrin has to play two
games with the last named and one with Captain
Mackenzie (as above stately, and with Mr.. Mason.
MAJOR Wernich, who won the first prize IN the
Williamsburg tourney, lost Two games against Mr..
Gilberg.
The following Is the position Of the combatants
who stand highest on the list
f. f. Brenzinger won twenty five, lost one.
]. Mason won twenty, lost one.
Mackenzie won twenty-one, lost two
Il. Delmar won twenty nine, lost Ave.
+. Perrin won nineteen lost nve.
g. A. Gllberg won twenty-five lost eight.
Dr. White won eighteen, lost eleven.
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~ heat was dull and lc &C. sel The sales
prsed aoou Un bushels a, 81 Tor rejected spring 81 u for
choice NJ Milwaukee IN tore, S Z, for red Western ~
for amber win er IN store and IL IS q 60 white. Corn
WAS seay or new and nomnay 81 01 81 %, for old The
ano,t aUoU bushels 6Sc Ste for mixed.
9Sc 81 U for rev yeiow and 81 Uy for old
steady but dull Sales 20 oJU bushels IN o at 5y &C.
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CHESS MATTERS.
King VI. MunOz.

King MunOZ.
The following game, pisyed in.the Brooklyn Chess
Club Tournaments by the above mentioned cham
ps0ns, contains many interesting features. Two
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Hamburg Smith, the Water Man.
Tsaratoga Cor. Chicago Tribune.I


Sitting OH the porch of one Of the
hotels the other night, 1 saw a man
who has put spas into every village in
America, Hamburg Smith. He is a
thin German-lOoking man Of much re-
spectability, with gray side-whiskers,
and mingled look of the professional
man and the merchant. He came to
this country many years ago, and per-
ceiving that Saratoga waters were dear
and in rare use, he resolved to intro
duce erated waters among the Ameri-
cans. Nobody could see anything in
it. There was nothing in it, because
the national stomach was then running
upd ia Cruz sour and rye whisky
cock $. Poor Smith went stumbling
round the country with his tanks of
Kissengen, Vichy, PyrmOnt, and Spa,
but nobody wanted TO do more than to
taste the disagreeable things. He set
up his sign in vain in Philadelphia,
Cincinnati, and elsewhere, but his idea
kept him as poor as a rat-a chemist
with a retort but without a response.
All the while, however, q little creep
ing, yearning for the waters had been
developing among few persons, and
still the number grew. Soda fountains,
with their plain soda, helped prepare
the way. All at once, Smith set up his
Spdf OA D4OcN"dyg III NC" 1OEky HI
1865, and he found his shop full. In
five years he has made $3.50, 1000, keeps
his horses, bottles his waters, has spas
in all parts of New York, and he has
excited the ire of the natural water
bottlers; but they are foolish, for the
wider the taste for an artificial spa wa
ter grows the better will the genuine
sell. Drinking from springs is thing
of accident, of superstition and Of eX-
perience. Get the taste for the salts
and you will never lose it. Smith
merely pOpularized here an old idea in
Europe, and so he is unable to hold the
trade, hosts of imitators having risen
up to divide it with him. 1t is anus
ing to read his gentle insinuatiou that
the Congress Springs has detei iorated.
1t is equally amusing to read TIE fierce
responses of the Congress Company
that artificial waters are humbugs and
possess no real properties. Smith has
real properties. He is the only man
who ever got better with water on the
BRAIN
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What Young Men Should Do.

Every young man should make the
most of himself, physically, intelleCtu-
ally, and morally.
?. He should depend upon his own
efforts to accomplish these results.
3. He should be willing to take adj
vice from those competent to give it,
and to follow such advice, unless his
own judgment and conviction, proper
ly founded, should otherwise direct.
t. Ifhe is unfortunate enough to have
a rich and indulgent father, he must do
the best he can under the circumstan-
ces, which will be to conduct himself
very much as though he had not those
obstacles to overcome.
). He should never be discouraged
by small beginnings, but remember
that all great results have been wrought
out from apparently slight causes.
6. He should never, under any cir
cumstances, be idle. If he cannot find
the employment he prefers, let him
come as near his desires as pOssible-he
will thus reach the object of his ambi-
ton.
3. All young men have " inalienable
rights" among which none is more sa-
cred than the privilege to be some
| body. .O-DIIJlgL,
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4 Unique Prayer.

\ Cincinnati paper publishes the fol-
lowing prayer, offered by Col. Granville
Moody ut Newport, Kentucky, a few
days since: "GOd of the nations" s.tO
whom belOHgeth the shields of the earth.''
Thou hast styled Thyself 1.-The God of
battles" and hast promised to ''Oyerturn
and Overturn, until he shall come whose
right it is to reign" We devOutly in
woke Thy blessing OH our EuroDean
brethren. struggling for the inaiieIIable
rights of man against the ambitious and
unscrupulOus NapOlean, who strobe TO
arbitrary power over his broken vows,
and seeks the perpetuatiOn of despOtism
in the person of his son; and bY the con-
quest of his Prussian neighbors would
seek the overthrow Of Christianity in the
disintegratiOn of Protestant Prussia.
Put hook in his nose and lead him out
with the workers of iniquity; and may
the smoke Ofhis torment ascend from the
battlefields OF the Rhine; and may his
discontinue prove the disaster OF PO-
perry, of which he has been the chief sup
port; and may his overthrow, rim-rack
and centre, shake the dominiOns of the
Man of Sin; and then may the wrath Of
man praise Thee, and the remainder of
wrath do Thou restrain.
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THE JOSH BILLINGS PAPERS.
FLIES.
L udlC q ILL.,
A fiji is got no more manners.
/ hate a fiji.

/ hate fiji.
A fiji is got no more manners.
He amt no gentlemun.
He's an intrOOder, don't send in no
kard nor AK an interduckshun, nor
don't knox at the front door, and nuver
think Nv taken of his hat.
Fust thingyou know he is in bed
with you and up your nOse-thO what
he wants thar is a mistry-and he in
vites hisself to breakfast and sets dOun
in yOre butter, thUut breshin his pants.
He helps himself to sugar, and meat.
and melassis, and bred, and presurves,
and Vinnegy- and don't
wait for no invitashun. He's got a
good appytite, and jist as sun eat one
thing as anuther.
Tain't no use to challinge him for Ia.
ken liberties; he keeps up a hostile
kerTisPOndence with you, wether or
not and shoots hisself at you like bul.
lit, and he nuver misses, nuver.
He'll kiss your wife 20 times day,
and ZiZz and zoo, and Tidiculef yOu if
you say word, and he'd ruther you'd
slap at him than not, coz he's a dOdger
NV the dodgirinist kline. Every time
you slap, you don't slap him, but slaps
yOuself, and he ZiZZes and pints his hine
| leg Ov skOrn at you, till he aggrevates
you to distrackshin.
| He glOries in a lightin every pop on
| the iXact spot whar you druv him from,
! which pruves the intenshun to teeZe
! YOU. Don't tell me he amt got no
mind he knows what he is after. He's
got sense and too much NV it, tho he
nuver went to a skOOl day in his life
except in a supe dish.
| He's a mean, millignant, Owdashus,
/ premedditated cuss.
| L,
a slipper in her face. His morals wuZ
niglecktid, and he lacks a good deal Nv
humility mitely. He aint bashful a
/ bit, and [ doubts eff he bushes Ofting.
! In fack, he wuZ nuver fotch up q
tall.
He wuz born full grown, he dOn't
| git Old-uther things gifts old, but lac
nuver gifts Old-and he is imperdent
and mischevous to the day of his deth,
He drOOpz in cold weather, and you
kin mash him OH a window and you've
jest put yere finger in it. He Gums
agin next year, and heep more with
him. Taint no use.
One fiji to a family might do fOl
amusement, but the good Nv so many
fiiZe, be dog eff / kin see; kin yu
I has thOt much about flies, and
has nOtist how Ofting they stops il
thar devilry to comb their heads anC
skratcl1 thar nose with thar four legs
and gOuge thar arm-pits under tina
wings, and the tops NV thar wing
with thar hind legs
And my kandid Opyinum ar, tina
fiize Is IOwsy, they eeches all the time
is miserbul, and that makes EN- baC
tempered, and want to make uthe
peepil miserbui too.
Ef that amt the flOssyfy Nv fiize,
give it up.
AIthO a fiji don't send in his kard, In
always leaves one, and 1 don't like it
Taint pritty if 'tis round. He kan
make a Cross mark, only a dot, and b.
is always a dOttin whar thar amt n,
. is. Thars no ends TO his periods, bu
he nuver Gums to full stop. Sucl
handritin is dizagrSeabils
He's artist, bat his freshcO and hi
wall paperin I don't admier. Thar
too much sameness in his patterns. Hi
specs is the only specs that don't hel
the eyes. You can't see thrOo um, an
you don't want too.
! hate fiji.
d DUrn fiji.
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4 STRANGE STORY.
Three Thousand Confederate Soldiers
at the Dry TOrtUEUs.


The Abingdon Virginian contains the
following communication, which is
well calculated to excite profound in
terest. If the revelations it makes be
| true, the matter should engage the at
tentiOn of our people. The following
is the letter:
SALTvILLE, VA, Aug. 2, 1870.
EDITORS ABINGDON VIRGINIAN: l
saw man to-day, who gave his name
as Edward Parker, and represented
that L was a lieutenant in Capt. J.
w. Kellyis company "K," Col. Greer's
regiment 4Oth North Carolina cavalry,
in the Confederate army; that he was
captured at the battle of Chickamauga,
on the 18th June, 1852; was sent to
Camp Chase, and from there to Dry
TOrtugas, where he has remained until
the lst day OF June last.
His tale is a strange one, but am
forced to believe every word OF lt--and
so would you if you could see the man
and it may be Of interest to some OF
your readers. He says there are still
about three thousand men on the island
who have no means to pay their pas
sage and no way to make money
enough to do so. Among those still
there whose names he remembers are
James Grady, Thomas w. Stinson,
William Stinson, aud George Taylor,
of Washington county; Thomas Car
ter and Jesse Carter, Of Russell; John
Black and William Black, of Scott 4;
Jas. Higginbothann, ThOs. w. May, j.
T. May and William A. May, of TaZe-
well county. Parker says the prison.
erS were all relee sed at the close OF the
war, but they had no means Of fcommu-
nicatiOn with their friends, and they
uf3 Al N q -
ditiOn, their only means of sup, port be-
ing derived from labor at the levees at
fifty cents per month. He saved S36, 80,
with which he paid his fare to New
Orleans, from which place he has walk
ed since the 7th of June, and begged
his Way. He is in a most pitabie con-
ditiOn, being entirely blind in one eye
and very nearly so in the Other-caus-
ed by expOsure-and very lame and
crippled up from long walks. He is
now on his way to his home in
Hopkins county, North Carolina, hav-
ing walked up the Mississippi to the
through Kentucky, several hundred
miles out of his way, owing, he says,
to his ignorance of the country, and
the ignorance of those who gave him
directions. He says the poor fellows on
the island are praying for relief from
their friends, but he does not know
how that relief can be afforded, as he
seems to be entirely ignorant of the
means of communication with the
island, and only knows that vessels go
there for coffee.
I write this, hoping that you will
publish it, and that it may be the
means Of communicating the where
abouts of some of those poor wretches
| to their friends.