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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10
An Old Time Boat Item.

A writer for the Pittsburg Chronicle
tells of an Ingenious device fixed on ono
of the early western steamboats, to pre-
vent attacks by the Indians
In the year 1918, Major s. II. Long
was in charge of detachment of Uni
ted States Typographical engineers, de-
tsiled for the purpose of making the
first exploration of the sources of the
Missouri. To carry out this project the
steamer, "Western Engineer" little
fellow of thirty tons, was constructed
in this city under the supervision of
Maj. Long.
Mr.. George Evans was engineer of
this craft, and by Maj. Longs orders,
there was constructed singular device
to prevent the dusky warriors of the
unexplored west from boarding the
western Engineer" A steam pipe
issuing from the engine room proceeded
along forward until it reached the bow
spirit Tin these early days the position of
the present jackstaff was occupied by a
small "bowspirt. Here the pipe was
curled up and fashioned into the simili-
tude of serpent, from whose open
jaws George Evans, in the engine room
could cause to issue an appalling,
shrieking blast of steam sufficient to
cause the most hardy Indian brave to
fec in terror. John @. Calhoun was at
that time secretary of war, and this
steamer, with companion crafts, the
Expedition and Independence"
assembled the Missouri to Council Bluffs,
being, of course, the first boats that
reached that point.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10
A Puzzle for the Scientists.

At the house of a colored woman by
the name of Mag Blutbey, on the corner
of Tenth and Wooster streets, there
reside colored man and his wife by the
name of Fisher, who are the parents of
q girl child baout nine months old who
is certainly one of the greatest curiosi-
ties of the human species that we have
ever heard or read of. Ex-Policeman
William III. Harris, who visited the
house on Sunday, and examined the
child, informs us that its skin is per-
fectly white, although its parents are
both of dark ginger cake complexion.
Its form and features are perfect up to
the bridge of its nose, the chin, mouth
and nasal organ being not only well
formed, but really handsome in their
symmetry and general appearance f; but,
commencing with the eyes, the face and
head has the appearance of an animal,
more resembling white bear than any
thing else of the animal species our in
formant could call to mind. The hair
is of whitish color, and like the wool
of sheep. Its eyes are round and
piercing, resembling those of a mink,
and revolve in their sockets in very
peculiar manner. They cannot bear
the light of lamp or candle, and are
Instantly closed when one is brought in
the room, and are only kept open in the
day time, when the room is somewhat
darkened. It has no eyebrows, and the
lid is of peculiar formation, in no par
ticular resembling the eye of human
being. 1t is very timid, and when any
one approaches it has the appearance
and actions of a rabbit startled from its
lair. Here is fine field for those who
make human nature in its various forms
and peculiarities an object of study and
ANALYSIS.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10
A Woman Walks Across the Con-
tinent.

A woman passed through Truckee
who had walked the entire distance
from Kansas City. She has followed
the railroad track closely and has been
fifty days making the trip. Nearly ev-
cry conductor and brakeman on the
railroad between Omaha and Truckee
has observed her as they passed her on
their respective trains. She was very
reticent in conversation, but claimed TO
have a recreant husband somewhere in
California, whom she was seeking. Nu-
merous offers were made her of a ride
on the freight trains, all of which she
peremptorily refused. She declined
trusting herself to the dangers and un-
certainties of railroad travel, and walked
every step of the way.
Her dress consisted of pair of loose
Turkish trousers, made of canvas, sim
liar in texture to that used by miners
for hose in hydraulic mining. A woolen
sack protected her neck and chest, and
q small striped shawl was wrapped
around her shoulders. In height and
size she was rather below the medium.
Her features we're rather coarse, and,
as may be supposed, severely bronzed
by exposure to the sun and weather.
The distance from Winnemucca to
Wadsworth-136 miles-she made in
four days, at the rate of thirty-four
miles day. She made no halt in pass
ing through Truckee.
A great many persons here were aware
of her coming, but thought she would
not make her grand entry until about
the middle of the forenoon yesterday;
but the walk of this remarkable pedes-
trian was mysterious and past finding
out" and she strobe on ahead of time,
arriving here at such an early hour that
scarcely half dozen were able to take
observations of the event.
It had been the intention to give this
wonderful woman a sort of triumphant
reception in Truckee (and surely the
occasion warranted it), but she stole the
march on us and passed along rapidly,
silently, and determinedly, as il bent
on an important mission, the fulfillment
of which admitted of no delay, circHm-
locution, speech making, nor public re-
ceptions. The case is, we venture TO
say, one of the most singular on record.
Republican.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10
A Chicago Hotel.

The following is a translation of an
article in a Berlin paper, which will
convey an idea of the German estimates
of the coming American hotel: The
latest American progress in building
will be the mammoth hotel, soon to
be erected in Chicago. This enormous
hotel is to have a frontage of three
English miles long, and depth OF
six miles the height of seventy-seven
stories, will measure 8, 4S0 feet from the
ground floor to the roof. The hotel
will have 10 stairs, but five hundred
balloons will always be ready to take
visitors up to their rooms. No room
walters are to be employed, but visitors
will be served by newly patented au-
tomato, put up in every bedroom, who
will do all shaving, shampoolng, ETC.,
to the guests by very simple and in
penious mechanism. Supposing the
guest requires hot water, the automatic
will be able to call down stairs A
bucket of water mp to room number
one million three thousand one hun
dred and seven" and the water will be
up in seven seconds by patented eleva-
tor. Half an hour before table dhOte,
Instead of the ringing of bells, a gun
124pounder) will be fred on each floor
to call the guests to get ready for their
meals. The tables in the dining-rooms
will measure four miles each, attend
ance to be performed by twelve walters
on horseback on either side of the table.
Music during table d'hote will be played
-gratis-by eight bands of seventy-seven
men each. For the convenience of Wis
itors a railway will be built on each
! floor as we'll as telegraph Offices. Tbs
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10
Great Gun,

Some progress has already been made
in the royal English gun factories at
Woolwich arsenal in the manufacture
of the experimental 80-ton gun, which
ia intended to furnish data for the con-
struction of the guns of the Indexible.
The length of the gun over all viii be
27 feet, the bore being "a feet long.
The calibre will be IA inches, 10 iTIches,
and I6 inches successively, the gTn be-
ing bored up after each series of expert
ments. The 14-inch calibre will take a
proiectile of LOO lbs, firing a maxi
num charge OF about $50 lbs OF special
iy manufactured powder; the, 15.inch
will take /, ,400.fb shot and about 245
lbs of powder; the 16-inch will throw a
/, I,65O-fb shot, with about 300 lbs of pow
der. The heaviest gun now in the SER
vice, 12. 35 tons (Woolwich Infant), can
pierce Is inches of iron at the muzzle !;
the ranges at which the proiectiles for
the 8O.ton gun will perform the same
feet will be-for the 14-inch shot, 3, 800
yards for the 15-inch shot, $500 yards;
and for the 16-inch shot, 6,500-nearly
four miles. At fighting range Of 900
Yards the Woolwich Infant will pene-
trate IA inches of iron but the S0-ton
gun, with a 14-inch calibre, will pierce
about II inches; with the 15-inch, about
l84 inches and with the 16 inch, about
90 inches. The maximum range at which
shells could be thrown into a fortress
will be-for the 12-inch, about 5000
wards I4-inch, 10000 yards 15.inch,
10, 200 yards 16-inch, 10000 yards, or
close upon six miles.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10
Patrons in Texas.

The following extract and the con-
cluding portion OF the address OF Hon.
w. W. Lang, worthy master OF the
Texas state grange, are timely:
The opponents of the order of Pa
irons of Husbandry accuse us of parti-
san objects, just as they might, with
equal propriety, accuse us of endeavor-
ing to form a new church, or interfere
with the present modes of religious
worship.
The only restrictions in the organic
law of the order are, That no religious
or political questions shall be discussed,
nor religious or political tests applied
to applicants for membership. This
does not mean that we should be any
the less citizens, or release us from any
of the duties or responsibilities of cit
izenship; nor does it in the slightest
degree control the course of our free
dom and conscience, thought or action.
What the social and moral influence
may be upon us, it is sine rely hoped
that we be none the worse, but the very
reverse is expected, and that we will be
better citizens.
Let us steadily pursue the legitimate
purposes of our association. uninfiu-
enced by the prejudices of our adver-
saries, looking TO the rectitude of our
intentions and the justness of our prin-
ciples, as our vindicaation from every
calumny.
The education of the farming inter
est in the knowledge of their own bus
mess is of the utmost Importance. To
educate is to improve their labor, to
promote their we'll being and TO elevate
their calling. Following Immediately
in the footsteps of such amelioration is
the augmented prosperity of the gen.
eral community. Let me, in the name
of the order, aud for the sake of the
great interests intrusted to us, invoke
your earnest and especial attention TO
the business before You. You are as
sembled under no ordinary circum-
stances. The suffering and oppressed
people of the state are looking anxiously
but with hope and confidence, to this
powerful and popular order for the in
auguratior of some system of agricul-
tural reforms that will work their own
and their country's deliveranoe. AS
cooperation is the vory base OF our
noble order. let their be cooperation of
thought and effort in all your works. |
Let prudence and wisdom guide your
counsels. Let harmony and modera-
sion mark your conduct, sustained and |
supported by the convictions of right !
labor with faith, hoping to attain the
of great good, enlist
ing the sympathies and securing the |
cooperate ton Of all other industrial in
terests in the cause which you are so
zealously laboring to promote. You
may rise to the full importance of the
duties and responsibilities resting upon
you, and may you, in your conduct on
this occasion, exhibit the truth and
beauty of holy scripture, when it de-
clares Chow good and how pleasant
it is for brethren to dwell together in
nnity."
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10
A Southern Actress Tragic Story.

Mrs. Westmoreland, the Georgia au-
thoress and lecturer, tells the following
sad incidents, hitherto not made public,
connected with the sudden death a few
months ago, in New York, of Miss
Alexander. She was the daughter of
an old and highly-respectable North
Carolina family, and, it was under
stood, went on the stage with a view to
assist her parents, whose fortune and
health had been broken by the war.
Says Mrs. Westmoreland
/ heard from Wallack's own lips the
sad story of the very tragic death of a
Miss Alexander, who had been engaged
to play the leading part in "Man of
Honor" a play specially written for
Wallack by BoHcicault. They had en-:
gagged lady first to take the part, but
for some reason or other she disap.
pointed them. Then Mrs. J. B. Booth
was engaged, and three days before the
opening night she came with tears in
her eyes to say that she hadn't sufficient
confidence in herself to play the part
that she believed she would fail, and
for these reasons begged to be allowed
to withdraw from the engagement.
Fearful of failure, she was allowed to
depart, and in despair the manager and
author looked about them for heroine.
At length hearing of Miss Alexander,
she was sent for, Boucicault rehearsed
her, was delighted, and the play went
on. But alas for the certainty of
human hopes-how often are they
blighted, for when the "leading lady"
arrived at the theatre on the evening of
the performance, and descended from
her carriage, she was so much intoxi-
Gated that policeman had to assist her
to her dressing room. However, the
curtain went up-the play began-but
for the poor girl was not herself and
the stage manager was forced to ring
the curtain down upon her. The play
was ruined, the audience disappointed,
while manager and author were indig-
nant. The following day, of course,
brought the young girls dismissal.
This was followed by a stormy inter
view between the manager and herself
she pleaded upon her knees for hours
to be taken back, while he remaiEed |
firm in his denial, and before noon an
other day she was dead.
Wallack told the story with great |
deal of feeling, and said that during |
his whole career on and off the stage, |
nothing so tragic had come under his
He said she had much |
talent, and a brilliant future would
surely have rewarded her efforts had
she remained true to herself. She was
a native of North Carolina-had played
second lady to Janauschek, but had
been dismissed from every position on
account of her infrmity, which it SEEM
I'd nothing could cure. Wallack firmly
believes she died of broken heart, and
yet people laugh at such things as i'm
nrohah1e
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10
Where Jet is Found.

Jet is found. in various districts of
England, notably near Whitby, in York
shire. It occurs also in Spain, in Sax
ony, and in the amber districts, on the
Prussian shores of the Baltic. Scien-
tific men, in the language of mineralo-
gy, say that jet is variety of coal !;
that it occurs sometimes in elongated
masses, sometimes in the form of
branches, with woody structure that
its fracture is conchoidal or shelly, it's
lustre brilliant and resinous, and its
color velvet black that it is about
twenty per cent. heavier than water !;
that it burns with greenish fame, and
emits vituminous odor while burning,
and leaves a yellowish ash. But the
Whitby folks can ad uce many reasons
for thinking that jet, in some of its
forms at any rate, must have been at
one time in semi-hquid state, quite
unlike coal derived from lineous Or
igin.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10

I bA WALL WhAIAAN-
/ Come, said the Muse
| Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted.
Sing me the Universal
In this broad earth of ours,
Amid the measureless grossness and the Stag
Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
Nestless the seed Perfection.
None born but it is born-conceal'd or uuconcaal,d
the seed is waiting.
Lo J keen--yed. towering Science!
As from tail peaks the Modern overlooking,
Successive, absolute fats issuing.
Yet again, 10 the soul-above all science;
For it, has History gatherd like husks around the
globe;
For it, the entire star-myriads roll through the sky
In spiral roads, by long detours,
(As much-tacking ship upon the sea.C
For it, the partial to the permanent flowing.
or it, the Real to the Ideal tends.
For it, the mystic evolution;
Not the right only justfed-what We call evil also
Forth from their masks. Lo matter what,
From the huge, fostering trunk-from craft and
guile and tears,
Health TO emerge, and joy-joy universal
Out Of the bulk, the morbid and the shallow
Out Of the bad majority-she varied, countless
Electric, antiseptic yet-cleaying, suffusing ALL
Only the Good is universal.
Over the mountain growths disease and sorrow,
An uncaught bird is lowering, lowering,
High in the purer, happier air.
From imperfection's murkiest cloud,
Darts always forth one ray of perfect light,
One fash Of Heavens glory.
10 fashions customs discord,
To the mad Babel-din. the deafening orgies,
Soothing each lull, strain is heard, just heard,
From some far shore, the final chorus sounding,
~.
o the blest eyes the happy hearts!
That see-that know the guiding thread so fine,
Along the mighty labyrinth!
And thou, America!
For the Schemes culmination-its Thought, and
For these, (nOt for thyself,) Thou hast arrived.
Thou too surrOundest all;
Embracing, carrying, welcoming all, Thou too, by
pathways broad and new,
To the Ideal tendest.
The measured faiths of other lands-the gran
Are not for Thee-but graudeurs oS Thine own;
Deific faiths and amplitudes, absorbing, compre-
All eligible to all.
All, all for Immortality!
Love, like the light, silently wrapping all!
Natures ameliOration blessing all
The blossoms, fruits of ages-orchards divine and
certain;
Forms. objects, growths, humanities to Spiritual
Images ripening.
Give me, o God, to sing that thought
Give me-give him or her love this quenchless
faith,
In Thy ensemble whatever else withheld withhold
not from US,
Belief in plain Of Thee enclosed in Time and
Space.
Health, peace, salvation. universal.
Is il a dream?
Nay, but the lack Of il the dream,
And, failing It, lfe's lore and wealth a dream
md ali the world dream.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10
Take Care of the arindstons.

A good grindstone is worth saving.
If you leave it in the sun the top gets
hard and CLASSY. If the lower portion
is kept in a trough of water, the por-
ton so saturated will wear fast and con-
sequently become fiat. II you have the
stone hung true and keep il under COW
er, it will remain as sound as it came
from the quarry; that is, if it was uni
form in quality then, it will remain so.
If you have a water-tight vessel sus-
pended over the stone, with a faucet or
other arrangement for letting the water
On the stone regularly, to be graduated
at pleasure, it will be found not only
economical but very much more pleas
ant for grinding than on the stone as
usually kept. Let Western Rural read
ers try it. There is yet time before
new stone is ruined by hot weather.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10

price for one bedroom will be from
81 to $40. The cost of this building is
estimated to be $3.50, 600. The
billiard room will contain 900 American,
SO French, and l English table, and,
most of the visitors expected to be
Americans, the billiard room will be
fitted out with spittoon of 100 feet in
circumference"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10
The fashionable girl of the period

The fashionable girl of the period
now takes her sewing machine with her
when she goes to the watering-places,
for there she will get "ideas" which
the machine will work out. The wise vir-
gin keeps her dress goods in the piece
until she sees how the rival McFlimsy
has her summer toilet made and this
makes the rival McFlimsy lawfully
mad" for if there is one thing she
hates more than another, it is to have
her clothes copied.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10

To make dog add, multiply, or
subtract, tie up one of his paws and he
will put down three aud carry one.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10

DIR. Hayes measured an iceberg
that got aground in water nearly half .
mile in depth.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10
THE SONG OF THE UNIVERSAL.
BY WALT WHITMAN

By WALT WHITMAN.
Come, said the Muse,
Sing me song no poet yet has chanted;
Sing me the Universal.
In this broad earth Of ours,
Amid the me1sureless grossness and the Stag,
Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
Nestless the seed Perfection.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10

LO keens@yed towering Sciencei
As from tail peaks the Modern overlooking,
Successive, absolute fats issuing.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10
ArrORNExs Ar Law.

I'D ALEXANDER,
Vt Atterney-at-Iaw and Solicitor I'm Chancery,
Columbia, Tennessee.
once: Whitthorhe Block, Jan'y. 16 1y
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-03-20

OF men like Butler was to II certain
extent unavoidable, though we hardly
think it was ever desirable. 1t was
when the party had set for itself II few
distinct and important aims determined
by the condition of atf;,irs after the war.
These aims Butler took good care to
pursue with conspicuous zeal. The
party holding the end more important
than the means, did not stop to criticise
him, or Others like him; he could be
trusted on the strict party questions of
the past ten years, for he was ready to
be faithful in these that he might have
free swing i'll other directions /; he cam
not be trusted now because it unfor-
tunatcly turns out that his interests and
those OF pure and sound government
arc not identical. We take the liberty
of suggesting that the party aud the
have had about enough of him
and of the selfsceking, the arrogance,
the want of principle and the generally
low standard of political life which he
represents.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-03-20
DEATH OF CHARLES SUMNER.

The telegraph had scarcely flashed
the news OF FiTmorc's death, before it
was again called into rcQuisition. This
time to announce the eclipse of the
central light OF republicanism. Charles
sumner, tho scholarly Massachusetts
Senator, the tinisher, if not the author,
of frec-soil-ism, is dead.
He was born in Boston january 6,
1911, and was, therefore, little more
than siXty-thrcc years of age when he
died. Graduating Mt Harvard College,
and afterwards ut the Cambridge Law
School he; unlike Mr.. Fillmore, began
life with all the advantages which a
thorough classical and legal education
can give. For 4 time he travelled in
Europe. picking up there Il vast deal of
information, which served him we'll in
after years. He was, ut ono time, cdi-
tor of the "-Amcricnn Jurist," aud was
the author of selcral legal works, in
three volumes of reports of
decisions in tho United States Circuit
Court OF Massachusetts.
He was elected to the United States
Senate from his native State, as Il free
soilcr, to succeed Daniel Webster,
Whig, and took his scat December list,
1851; was reelected in 1857 again in
1868; again i'll 1869. His last term,
Which has bccIf cut short by tho hand
of Death, would have expired March
3d, 1879.
His career since the war is familiar to
all. For many years he was the very
head and front of Radicalisln, but, Of
late, had modified his views to such an
extent as to put him i'll disfavor with
tho extremists Of the Republican party.
With all his shortcomings, Charles
Sumner was an able man, and has writ
ten his n;lnlc inuelibly upon the pages of
American history. Upon points of in
tcrnational law he was considered an
OIlclc; ns 4 classical and finished
scholar, without II pccr in the Senate.
lie was no friend Of our section, but,
now that he is gone, we can bc charitn~
bic enough to cover his faults with the
broad mantle, "De n'oyt'tis nil nisi ho-
l,1tip. p NObIe Register.