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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-15
FOREIGN.

One thousand troops will be sent to
Cuba on the 10th inst.
The steamer Kathleen Mary, from
Odessa for Falmouth, has been lost at sea,
and twenty-six persons drowned.
Preparations are making at Barcelona
for the reception of King Alfonzo. The city
is to he Illuminated and there will be a review
Of troops. The Bank of Spain has advanced
the government treasury forty millions reals.
Ri. Rev. Mr.. Vaughn, Roman Cath
olic bishop of Stafford, accompanied by sew
erel priests has sailed on the steamer Oceanic
for New York. He goes to promote missions
among the negroes of the south.
The London Globe says a cores
pondence is in progress between the govern
ments of England and the United States in
relation to some territory in British North
America, which England claims but has never
formally annexed to her dominions.
In an engagement in the province of
Valencia, the government troops defeated the
Carlists, the latter losing forty killed aud
many wounded, and forty prisoners. The
Spanish orders Of Charles the Third, Isabella
the Catholic. and Marie Louise, have been re-
A special from Berlin says the bank
commission have passed a resolution that the
imperial bank buy gold ingots at 1892 marks
so pfennigs per pound, in order to compete
successfully with the American government
and attract gold to Germany. This action is
taken in view of tine contemplated resumption
Of specie payments IN the United States.
Pasquier CASTELAR, is preparing to
quit Spain before Alfonso's arrival. Two prot
estant newspapers have been suppressed in
Madrid. King Alfonso has sent a dispatch to
Conovas, confirming the ministerial appoint
ments, and expressing the hope that there
viii be now insugurated an era OF real liberty,
peace and forgetfulness Of past discords.
King Alfonso's sister, the countess Of Ger
geuli, accompanies him 10 Spain
A Berlin dispatch says q lively cor
respondeuce is in progress between the Ger
man and Spanish governments in regard to
the outrage by Carlists on the German vessel
Gustav 1t Is rumored that the German cor
VOTES Victoria and Laura have been ordered
to be in readiness to proceed to chastise the
Carlsts, if necessary. The German war YES
sells. Nautcilius and Albatross, which recently
left the Spanish waters. have been ordered
back to Santsndor.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-15
SOUTH

OF the sixty-aiT convicts in the Florida
penitentiary only nine are whites.
The nail-cutte-s at Wheeling have
agreed to the reduction proposed by manufac-
turers.
Baltimore had a 800 900 fire on the
9Th inst. uoon which there was insurance to
the amount OF s75,0OO.
Revenue collections in the Louisville
district. last wear. S1.313. .931 on tobacco and
nearly $50. 900 on whisky.
Tavlor Strander, c1lored, has been
convicted Of numbering his wife at Wheeling.
West Va. and sentenced to be hung on the
26th Of March next.
DR.. G. B. Adams. OF Augusta, Ga.
was drowned at Grau'tevine a few nights
since. While waiting there for the train to
move he accidentally walked into the canal.
The Arkansas senate has passed 6 Joint
resolution instructing the encouragement tn
institue suit against ths Memphis and Little
Rock railroad FOR one hundred thousand dol
lars, borrowed by the company from the state
in 1860, and due in 1870.
The pope, replying to the consraEnIs-
tions OF ex-Queen Isabella on Friphanv. sends
bis apostolic benediction for herzelf and her
son Alfonso. and says he prays God to grant
the latter all happiness in the dificuIt task
which he is about to undertake.
The latest from the Louisiana cane
growers returns show an unuzusuv largo
yield Of cNDo per acre, and a greater portion
Of saccharfns matter thau usual The pros
poets now are Surpassed to he Eooiffor the
production Of the largest crop OF sugar since
1851.
A Paris special Saws MoAIahon has
decided 70 summon Dufoure. Isbonlave
Larcy and Caztella7e to form cabinet and
agree upon a political programme. Itisststed
that this basis for he new ministry has been
settled Dukes Da BroElie and De CAGES and
N. De Fourton viii be the chief members.
On she night of thu 21 inst. Richard
s. BaTnuul, OF Lee county. Miss, his wife and
two children and Etge negro boy were MR.
dered and their bodies consumed with the
building. Sulh OF the remains as could be
found were taken TO West Point for interment.
Intense excitement prevails there. but no cine
to the murderars.
The supreme court of Arkansas has
decided the Hrooks-Faxter case. on auroaI
from the circuit court. The decision below IA
overu'ed. and the suit ordered to be dis
missed for want Of Jurisdiction. The court
holds to the opinion announced in the ono
warranto decision OF 1873. that the courts
have no jurisdiction Of a contest for the Office
OF governor.
J. NJ. Seixss. By request of the con-
gressionsl committee has compiled state
ment from the files Of the Price Current.
showing the depreciation in the valuo Of lead
ing banks and other leading stocks in New
Orleans, ani the estimated depreciation in
securities for two years from Aug. II, 1872 to
Aug. Is. 1874 The following round punbers
closely approximate the result: Bank stocks
7lo25o.OOn, shriukage $500, 600; street rail-
ways S425O,OoO, shrinkace 1850 900 mis-
oellaneous stocks $4,000 ono. shrinkage 81
"ooooD: insurance stocks 81. 500 600 shrink
age S2,500,O20; city securities nearly 500
900, 0oo, shrinkage sA125. .OOO-totaI sbrinkapa
IN two years. over S14OG,OoO.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-15
Good Things About Mules,

Mules are easier kept than horses be-
cause they eat less and will keep in
| good condition on poorer food. They
are by far less liable To disease. Tbev
are more hardy and will endure degrees
of heat and cold that would greatly in
jure horses. II they sometimes refuse
to go, they are rarely known TO run
away, and, accordingly, they do not
break harness, wagons, and carts, not
to speak of legs and arms. They are
not naturally vicious, and most of their
bad characteristics may be ascribed TO
defective education and to bad ex-
amples.
The power of endurance Of mules is
much beyond that of horses. They are
also sure-footed. They are, accordingly,
better adapted as beasts of burden 10
travel in warm climate, to endure IA
tigue, and TO make trips over noun
tains. Mules are almost the only re-
lance of the inhabitants of Central and
South America. They are used for
drawing plows, harrows, and harvest
ers, and for taking produce to market,
and for all purposes of travelling. In
the southern states they perform nearly
as many useful purposes, and there is
hardly a cotton, cane, or tobacco raiser
who would think that he could raise
one of these crops without the use of
mules.
For blowing between the rows of cul-
tivated crops the mule is in many re-
spects the superior of the horse. His
feet are smaller and, accordingly, do
less damage i'll stepping upon plants.
His skin is tougher, and therefore is not
so liable to be injured by defective har-
ness. The gait is more uniform and
accordingly the driver is not so likely Co
become wearied. As a rule, mules are
less liable 60 become irritated and frac-
tious on account OF the presence of
bites of insects, and, consequently, do
less damage to crops among which they
work.
Mules may BE- put to wolk much
earlier than horses. There is in this
respect at least the advantage OF one
year in the favor of The mule. In other
words, the mule will do as much work
when three years old as the horse will
when four. The mule not only begins
to pay his way much earlier but con-
tiuues to be useful much later in life.
We have repeated accounts of mules
continuing tn do good service after they
were forty years old. A mule, the
property of the late Prof. Mapes, of
New jersey, was healthy, active, and
fit for labor when it was sixty years old.
It is urged that the mule is slow and
awkward, but these faults are largely
the results OF bad breeding. As a rnle,
no care is taken in breeding mules. The
dams of most mules are animals that no
farmer would want to raise colts from.
They are themselves slow and awkward
and oftentimes lame and diseased. 1t is
not to be wondered at that these defects
reappear in the offsprings Of these ami
male. Horses would be slow aud awk.
ward if they were raised from animals
of this sort, and we can expect nothing
different in the case of the mules.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-15
TIE CAPTAIN OF THE NoRTHFLEEr.
By GERALD MAssE'

bA Ht-LhAL4D MASoA4s
So often is the proud deed done
By men like this at duty's call
80 many are the hOnOrs won
by them, we cannot wear them an
They make the heroic commonplace,
And dying thus the natural way;
Yet ii is our worldwide English race
Ennobed by that death, to-day!
1t brings the thoughts that fathoms things
To anchor fast where billows roll;
IL stIrs us with sense of wings
That strive to lift the earthiest soul.
Love SO new, and life 90 sweet,
But at the call he left the wine,
And Fprang full statured to his feet,s
Responsive to the touch divine.
Nay, dear, I cannot see yeu die.
For me, have my work to do
Up here, Down to the boat GOOd-by
God bless you. I shall see it through,
We read, until the vision dims
And browns; but, ere the pang be past,
A tide Of triumphs overbrims
And breaks with light from heaven at last.
Thro' srl the blackness of that night
A glory streams from ont of the gloom;
His steadfast spirit holds the light
That shnes till night is overcome.
The sea will do its worst, and life
Be sobbed out in bubbling breath;
Bat firmly in the coward strife
There stands man who hath vanQuished death
A soul that cOnquers wind and wave,
And towers above a sinking deck;
A bridge across the gaping grave;
A rainbow rising Ger the wreck.
He saved others; saved the name
Unsullied that he gave his wife;
And dying with pure an aim.
He had no need to save his life.
Lordi how they shame the life we Ifve
These sailors of our sea-girt isle,
Who cheerily take what Thou mayst give,
And go down with heavenward smile!
The men who SOW their lives to yield
a glorious crop in lives to be:
Who turn TO England's harvest field
The unfruitful burrows of the sea.
With such breed of men so brave,
The old land has not had her DAY;
But long. her strength, with crested wave,
Shall ride the seas, the proud old way.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-15
FROM WASHINGTON.

Geo. Il. Baker has been appointed
minister to Russia.
The president sent the nomination of
George Nancy, of Tennessee, as minister
resident to Ecuador, to the senate.
The senate has confirmed the follow
ing nominations: John NJ Thatoher, commits
sioner Of patents. NJ. S. Hopkins, examiner
in chief Of patent Office.
The supreme court decides that the
secretary of the treasury had a right to i'm
rose a tax OF four cents per pound on cotton
for permits to purchase it and transfer it
from the insurrectionary states during the war.
The solicitor of the treasury has pro-
nounced as fraudulent the clam of Sugg Fort,
OF Tennessee, and the secretary of the treas
ury has directed action to be brought against
Fort IN the United States circuit court at Nash
vile, for She recovery Of the money. and has
called the attention Of the attorney for the
District Of Columbia to the facts, for such
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-15
Jim Fisk Estate.

An inventory Just made Of the Jim
Fisk estate, which at the time of his
killing was reckoned at millions, shows
that, with all claims paid and suits set
tied, it is S187, 500 worse than nothing.
The inventory put it originally at $780,
ONO. Half million has been paid ont
in the settlement of claims. The worth
less stock found in his possession aggre-
gates 100000 at par value. His wild
owls legal expenses have been enormous,
and only the lawyers in the case appear
to have got anything out Of the dead
mans pocket. His jewelry was valued
at S., ZOO. The legacies to his father
and mother, and the Misses Morse, and
to Mrs. Hooker, his sister, have been
paid in part. Only $4,000 went in
horsefesh, a single horse, too. Six
hundred Thousand dollars are tied up
in lawsuits, His mistress, Josie Mans
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-15
National Bank-Note counterfeits.

ANY one who handles money at all
occasionally gets hold of counterfeit
bills, although some are such clever i'm
itations that even the experts are puz-
zIed 20 distin guish them. II is some
what startling, however, TO be told, on
the authority of the note printing bu-
reau, that seven out of nine denomina-
tions Of the national bank notes have
been counterfeited. The makers Of the
spurious notes are getting more and
more expert every year, the recent Issue
Of limitations of the notes of the Tad
er's National bank OF Chicago being the
most skillful and dangerous ever sent
out. The counterfeiter, alter having
once perfected such plate as this, is
not limited TO using it on any one bank,
as q cnange of names and signatures
can easily be made, so that it may do
service for a dozen. The amount Of
long and careful labor he has to per-
form is an important consideration in
his nefariOus business. It requires
from one TO two years TO execute the
plates containing the vignettes, letter
ing and geometric lathe work, the lat
ter being done by hand. But If the
operator turns out good plate Of any
denomination, he leaves blank on the
face for the name of the bank, enRraves
as many titles and signatures on differ
ent pieces of steel rs there are banks
upon which he desires to alter the
notes, and thus his work is complete
The occasional captures of counterfeit
ers and their plates have really had the
very slightest effects in reducing the
amount of spurious currency in circula-
ton. While they have been so success
full in initiating bank notes, it is re.
rnarkable that they have altogether
failed with their legal-tenders, only two
denominations of these ever having
been counterfeited. Their efforts in this
direction are said ta be balked by the
peculiar kind OF paper the greenbacks
are printed on, which protects them
from counteyfeiters. as no mill in the
country could furnish it TO any other
party than the government without be-
ing almost immediately exposed.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-15
Raising Tobacco in the South.

In many portions Of the south, be-
fore the war, very much OF the tobacco
used among the farmers was grown
upon farms and plantations. In Mis-
sissippi, Florida, Georpin, Alabama,
the Carolinas and Louisiana, there was
considerable tobacco grown but a few
years ago. Now there Is but little at
tention paid TO growing this very im-
portant crop. The old "home twist "
is hardly to be seen, where a few years
ago little other was 20 be had. The
poorer Glasses, with the o5lored popula-
tion, since the settlement among them
of tho northern element, have re-
ceived very luxuriong notions in their
drinking, smoking, and chewing habits.
The finest whisky or brandy 10 sought
after, while "white wheat" Gnd "peach
and mOlosses are fast going ont OF nse.
Fine smoking brands Of tobacco are in
use, as we'll as tho most popular plug
and fine cuta. Those who should be
the producers are consumers OF the
very article they could grow more
cheaply than others. How much like
nonsense 10 looks for Connecticut, Iowa,
Missouri, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and
Tennessee Co raise tobacco for tho south
and a large export trade
The idea that cotton had ceased 10 ba
king in the sOuth wGq n most absurd
and premature one. That moro corn Is
grown, we DO not deny, bui not 10 the
considerable extent we have boen led 10
believe by the reports oi those who
desire 20 make IL n corn-producing
country.
Experiments have been made in more
than thirty counties in Texas, the past
season, in growing tobacco of The vari-
Gus varieties, 10 test their adaptahility
10 that soil and climate Tho greater
part Of these tests have been made in
northern and central counties OF the
state, where the Missouri and Ohio
population has settled. With n pro-
traoted drouth aud an early frost, still
the result 20 the planters has been the
most satisfactory. Texas will become
one of our most excellent tobacco
states.-COr. Rural World.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-15

room. 7 found Aunt Hetty talking to
Walter, and saw him gravely kiss her
hand as he came toward me. When I
saw the light in his eyes as he looked
at me, for the first time in my life I
thanked God for my glorious beauty.
There was a grand time when went
home, and for while my unfortunate
appearance" ceased to be the general
theme of conversation.
My first anxiety, when nurse brought
me my little Fannie to look at, was
whether she was pretty. I need not
have troubled myself. Her nose is fat,
her mouth is wide, and only her blue
eyes and sunny temper keep her from
positive plainness. She has relieved
me from al fear of perpetuating the
race of "Lorleis. The 4Idigae,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-15
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
WEST

The United States ship Pensacola,
now at San Francisco, has been detained to
carry King Kslakaua home.
A committee of prominent citizens of
Omahs hiss left for Galveston on a tour Of in
specGion of the route and the advantage of
that port as an outlet for grain and other pro-
ducts to the sea.
Lieut.. J. Fl. Winters, who was sent
out from Cheyenne with company of troops,
to survey and measure the route thence to
Red Cloud agency, reports from Fort Laramie
that he was driven in there 10y the severity of
the weather, after getting as far as old Red
Cloud agency. The snow was deep and drift
ing badly. The thermometer ranged from 20
TO 40 degrees below zero in the day time. Ap-
prehensions are felt for the command under
Capt Henry, who left Fort Laramie few
days since to drive the miners out Of the
Black hills
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-15
A Fish,s Care Of Its Young.

An English writer publishes AN inter-
estipg statement-which we quote in
full-of some fresh observations npon
the habits of a member Of the perch
family in the nurture OF her Young.
He saws "While on the point OF liking
nv accustomed morn-plunge in ono OF
the clear, pebbly streams that find their
wav into the plains from the northern
mountaiu-ranges of Trinidad, my atten-
ton was attracted by the eccentric move
ments of q small fish Of the perch tribe.
In general, this fish is extremely shy,
scudding of into deep water, or under
some over-banging bank, on the APP
uroacb of man. On this occasion, how
ever, on putting my hand into the wa
ter, the fish, to my astonlshment, darted
forward again and again, striking my
hand with considerable force. hather
at a loss to account for such temerltY IN
a fish only four inches long, l watched
it's movements narrowly, and at last
found out the cause. In small hollow
close by, about the size OF half an egg,
artistically excavated from the quartz
sand, q multitude of tiny fish were hud-
died together. their minute fins and
tails in constant motion. They had ap-
parently been only very recently hatch
ed, and were no larger than common
house-hios. The parent fish kept leal-
ous watch over her progeny, re- entlng
any attempt on my part TO touch them.
Next morning, accompanied by my
father and brothers, l returned TO the
spot, which I had carefully marked the
day before. For some time, however,
we searched in vain for the fish and her
young. At length, few yards further
up the stream, we discovered the parent
guarding her fry with jealous care, in
cavity similarly scoOped ont of the
coarse sand. ANY attempt TO introduce
ones finger was vigorously opposed by
the watchful mother. This ia the first
and only instance that has come under
my notice of fish watching over her
young, and conveying them, when
threatened by danger, to some other
place"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-15
How Women Headed the Table.

4 writer SAYS "In Elizabethau,
England, when gallimawfreys had given
way to the substantial fare of our later
cookery, it was the custom at private
dinners to place the principal joints and
masses of meat at the upper end of the
table, above the salt, so that the chief
guests could see clearly the best of the
good cheer, and also appropriate the
choicest cuts before the inferior folk
below the joint of honor we're served.
Fashion having thus decided that the
carving should be done on the table,
the ladies were invited to the top of the
table, not out of gallantry, but in order
that they should do the work which
could no longer be executed convenient
II by professional carvers. It may cost
the reader a struggle to admit that our
ancestors had no more chivalric pur-
pose in view when they promoted
woman to her proper place at the festal
board. Bat there is doubt as to the
fact. The new ordering of places was
the result of masculine selfishness and
insolence rather than masculine gallant
rv. Just as in medieval society the
lady of the house rendered service to
her guests by discharging the functions
of a gentle serving woman, in prepar-
ing dishes for their enjoyment, and
even in bringing them to table with her
own hands, SO in Elizabethan life she
went up to the top of her table, and
seated herself among the first guests,
in order that she might serve them as
carver. At the same time the number
of great pieces requiring several carv-
ers, she brought other ministering la.
dies to the upper end of the table where
the grand Joints were exhibited. Hav-
ing been thus called to the top of the
table for her lords convenience, instead
of her own dignity, the mistress of the
house soon made it point of honor to
occupy the place, which had in the first
instance been conceded to her as a ser
want, rather than as principal lady. Ere
long. with her characteristic cleverness
in making the best OF things and stat
ing her own case in the way most agree
able to her self-love, she regarded her
carver's stool as throne of state, and
effected to preside over the company,
though the terms of her commission
only authorized her to help them to
food"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-15

field, sues for $4,000, and has Just
recovered S35, 600, and hopes she may
get it. Albert Speyers, the broker whom
Fisk, on black Friday, left, as Fisk put
it, "to carry out his corpse" sues for
$500, 900, which he bought in for Fisks
account, and went crazy about it when
the margin was not forthcoming. In
short, the great estate has "Gone where
the WoOdhina twineth -
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-15

Says Miss Kellogg a young
girl in her training to become q singer
must make a covenant with her Dyes,
and not look upon q man,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-15
ImmiRration.

The report Of the chief OF the bureau
Of statistics has the following table,
containing a comparative statement OF
immigration by countries ethnologically
grouped fer the four fiscal years, from
July !, 1870, 70 June 80, 1874:
CoUntrics cfbnoto- - Ysnr sHded june ~
gtcuHV grouped. 1871. 1871. A0'A' 1878.
England. Scotland - 80.
Ireland sh1 .... S7i55 Gs751 77,5H Sa70T
Teutonic Gorma-
NY Austria and - -.,
Netherlanda..... g. i3l llI,2D l53,Ni WieAl
Scandinavian:
s%fdS@s sHG DsSmsTs. S9TS'y 22is2 2ss75 atI isi7s
LhtR: Belgium,
France, Switzer-
land.Italy, Spain -, o., ...
and Portugal. .... gs33 lS,Siu .Hahl 9ltNta
Sclavonic: Russia. .-
and Poland. .... 1903 2Gil A-t1 800
AilAuhs Ntlln tff"' -''t~.e @Nf''N
British North
American Prov ~ -, 49,,
tnces ............ a1,0s2 fOtllh diIHA jaw
Spanish and Port
uguese colonies:
Mexico, Spuih
America, Cuba -.
and Porto Rico. l,2lN 500 LOO less
All other countries l,al7 a,itl h""' o'iAA
Total mmigrants.SgI, 800 iOi,sod 1hasoS siasS'
'i6,Oi2 Of this number were reported as from
" Great Britain, not apecinod.'
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-15

The fact that twenty seven men are
wanted by the Sa~ Francisco police for
deserting their wives indicates change
of sentiment from the time when the
first white woman was received in Cali
fornia with procession,