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Death of John Morgan.

have previously written an account
of the taking-off of this Confederate
raider, but yesterday Mr.. Williams, who
owns tire large garden where he was
killed, took me to the spot and gave me
all the particulars, as he was an eye-wit-
ness. All the stories that Morgan was
betrayed by a daughter in-lsw of Mrs.
Williams are bOsh, and originated from
Major Gassett, of Morgan's staff, who
escaped, fed to Jonesborough, and from
there telegraphed the account to Rich
mond out of which these stories origin
ated. Mr.. Williams and bis wife, who
now occupy the mansion where Morgan
spent his last night on earth, and in the
garden of which he was killed, gave me
iull particulars OF this much talked of
affair, and make it clear to my mind at
least that their kinswoman had nothing
whatever to do with it. Mr.. Williams
was himself soldier with Morgan, and
rode with him to town upon thst fatal
occasion, although protesting TO the
General toat the experiment was exceed
ingly hazardous. Morgan, however, was
deaf to ali suggestions OF fear, posted his
men SO as TO face tie enemy, but made
n, preparation for guarding the rear,
and rode up to the Williams mansion to
spend the night, along with his staff.
rhe surprise and attack, the dash of two
companies of the Thirteenth Tennessee
Cavalry (Union) into town, and the
death of Morgan are well known. When
Morgan ran out into the garden, Mr..
Williams hid under the porch, getting
into sAals tf4s -isAEee ff 9gg aRaSd GqTssSliRa
among The vines and shrubbery. and
heard the report OF private Andrew
Campbell's carbine, who, firing from the
street, killed the General. Williams and
Gassett only escaped Morgan wss
killed ard his staff captured. Mr. WI
lisms remained under the porch, the SOL
diers walking all about him so close thu
he might fairly have grabbed some =.
them by the legs, but he refrsiued fron
experiments Of the sort. A plain stonol
hiss been set in the ground where NJ
gan fell, and the point in the straa4
where his slayer stood is still no;ntos
out Tennessee Cor.
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A Dream Fulfilled.


That dreams are often fulfilled in :
remarkable manner, says the New Bed
ford Massachusetts, Standard. is ex.
enpiiiied in case which has lust come
TO our knowledge in this city. A Young
man who occupies responsible position
IN a corporation having an Office at the
North End, not long since found that
ms cash account was short to the amount
OF $50. AS he is careful and orderly. the
circumstance troubled him, and his mind
dweit upon the occurrence frequently.
The other night he retired, and probably
thought of the affair before sleeping. for
he mad dream, clear and distinct tbst
the lost money was under his desk in the
ofhce. In the morning his dream came
vivldly to him, and upon going to his place
OF business he secured the aid of another
man in the Office, the desk was remox.
Cd, and 10 there was the loug-Iost money |
lat least. eight cents of it. The vopny
man feels quite encouraged, and thinks
that il such dreams occur freouentlv
enough, he viii eventually recover tbs
whole amount lost.
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viii De different from his character, De
who seeks reputation must not be beyond
the times he lives in. 1t il important to
men beginning life tc know which they
want, chassctef or reputation. To build
a character is work of time; as ships
are built on one element and used in
another, so character is formed in youth
and home for after life. Reputation Is
easily got it is generally charlatanism,
taking many forms, as that of the Pstriot,
a tribe numerous 81 The mosquitoes
who. like them, lean and hungry, suck
All the blood they can, but make none;
who live on suction. "a 4 man, as in $
ship, the material must exist orig.
inaily; man naturally mean
NAV be improved, but never
will be a noble man. Reputation may
be made for man, character must be
made by him, with labor and time, and
It cannot be taken away The aatsgonis.n
between the two is pce so great as the
dispreDcttson. Thus, man, if wise
will be content to be wiser, if he likes 8
shadow three times his s.Eei like bank
that issue three paper dollars f6f every
one in specie they have; if werth 4
quarter he likes to be called worth hal
q million, until the assessor brings him
to his senses. BE will disclaim {" pop
ularity," but claim the same thing undel
the name of influence" but 1t is wha
God made man and he makes of himself
that determines his inGuente; tn,
weights never ask favor of the scales;
Thousand pounds will weigh down fvt
hundred by their natural force. So h,
speaks of prudence" Prudence i
coincident with rectitude, and there ~
been men against the grain of litsR
their days who yet were most rddsns
men. He substitutes love 81 appreciation
for love of truth. Thousands lose their
chars cters to save their temptations.
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HospitabIe Beyond Her Means

A cleTgymen, travelling in the noun
tains of West Virginia, put up tor the
night at the house of pious old lady
who never refused to entertain strangers
lest haply an angel might be turned from
her doors unawares. Shortly after his
arrival supper was announced, and the
lady, after blessing had been invoked
began to rattle the cups and saucers,
preparatory to the matronly ceremony oil
pouring out and handing the hot coffee.
It was customary to make the inquiry,
and, therefore, the good dame, with q
gracious smile, inquired of her guest:
Do you take sugar in your'n? ?"
eff you please" replied the hungry
and thirsty evangelist; ''and I'll be OBJ
liged if you make it tolerably sweet"
The old lady began to twist in her
chair, adjust her spectacles and look
searchingly around the table. She dipped
the spoon desperately in the blue china
sugar-bowl, but it ratified ominously
against the sides of the empty vessel.
At last she summoned courage to tell the
truth. With admiral pluck and candor
she opened her mouth and spoke, and the
words that reached the ears of her guest
were these: stranger, We hain't Il. -
Charlottesville (Va) Chronicle.
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Aerial Navigation.

a flying machine" invented and
built BY Professor Ritchtel of Michigan,
and patented by p J. Cullen, of Bridge
port, will, It Is expected, be publicly ex-
hibited and tested in this city some time
in May. We have seen a photograph of
the machine, which combines an oblsng-
shaped balloon bag, with suspended
machinery for prOpelling and steering.
Suspended in a skeleton framework Of
light iron the aerial navigator is seated,
and propels the machine by crank and
gear motion which runs a screw propeller
underneath, and another wheel or screw,
managed by the feet, is intended 10 steer
the machine in the air. Experiments in
halls have shown that the navigator can
propel and guide the machine. We do
not know how thoroughly it has been
tried out doors, with varying conditions
of wind. But The apparatus is quite
ingenious, and the exhibition, when it is
made, will be pretty sure to be an in.
teresting and attractive one-much more
so than the ordinary balloon ascension.
: Hartford CouIant
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ORANGE CAKE.-FOur eggs, two cups
sugar, four tablespoons butter, one hall
cup sweet milk, and two and half cups
hour, two teaspoons baking powder, juice
and pulp OF one orange bake in Jelly
tina; cave out two whites of eggs for
frosting, and sprinkle the grated peel
on it.
Soft GINGERBREAD. - Three pints
-four, one cupiul lard we'll mixed through
it one teGspoonful salt, ono teaspoonlul
ginger; beat two eggs, add one pint
moiasses, one cupful brown sugar, one
and half teaspoonfuls soda, dissolved in
water, stirred in half pint of seur milk
or buttermilk thoroughly; add all to
hour, mix well and bake in a good oven !;
put cake in sponge cake pans.
CoRSED BEEF.-For one hundred
pounds Of beef take seven pounds salt,
two pounds sugar, two ounces saltpetre.
two ounces pepper, two ounces soda !;
dissolve in two aud half gallons water;
iloii, skim and let cool; when scum
rises after few weeks, scald the brine
eyer. and by g g sGiajRig and ksspiug the
keen n war and more
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a. It. Stewards Hot4l Failure.

New York Correspondence Detroit Free Press
Thus far there has not been any
tumultuous rush for admission to the
Woman's hotel. Not to put too fine
point on it, as Guppy used to e>y UT 1t
wasn't Gupps perhaps you can supply
the right name), there is no rush at all /;
but. on the contrary, quite the reverse
The building can accommodate about
one thousand. 1t is now accommodating
about hHy. Possibly it will DO better
some day, bat the woman who ought to
60 there ere so backward in coming for
ward that both Judge Hilton and Mrs
Stewart are considerably disappointed
The two score and odd ladies who have
availed themselves CT the comforts and
luxuries provided there are quite enthu
sisstic in its praise, but their recon mend>
alton does not induce cthefs to join in.
Alphabetically speaking, most of these
ladies are not success. In passing the
hotel the other day, I noticed some o
them going in and out, and 1t struck me
quite toroioly that they wefe not built
on a good plan, There was too much
gothic style about them, and most of it
ran to points and corners. \ woman in
whose general design there is a prepon
derance of angels is, esthetioally, fail
ure, Whatever she may be intellectually.
There Is no doubt at all about the intel
lectual qualities Of the ladies who have
taken up their abode in the Women's
Hotel, but when you come down to
Hogarth's line of beauty, The curve, faint
there. One lady who spent a week in
the hotel says there is no trouble about
seeing gentlemen in the parlOrs in the
evening, and intimates that facilities for
counting are just as good a. in any
clearinghouse. Possibly. But the
thigh sort of material to practice on
seems to be rather scarce. l doubt il
there Is the slightest danger of matri
mony making the least inroad on the
population of the hotel in the next five
years
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A Mntsr Psaoh

The Petersburg (Va.) Rural Messen-
ger thus describes this fruit, which, it
Gays, originated with Mr.. James Haw-
kins, OF Dinwiddie, Va, before the war,
and which IL called the Hawkins Win
ter Peach" That gentleman has had
for some years trees in full bearing
The fruit does not begin to ripen I'M
I'll the leaves have fallen from the tree
in November; is in no way injured by
the severe frosts Of that season, and
hangs on the trees until it assumes n
beautiful red cheek. When ripe they
may be picked and put away to be car
ried to market at leisure-say any time
in November or early December. The
fruit is large (the frss important tom in
a market peach), color whitish, with red
cheek, hesh whitish, rich, juicy and
pleasant. 1t will keep far into Decem-
Der without rotting. 1t can be handled
pretty much the same as apples"
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HippOphagy.

+ - went on Saturday." writes Paris
correspondent, to horsefesh dinner
given by NJ. Ducroix, veterinary-in-
chief to the etat major Of Paris 1t was
prepared by an ordinary cook, the host
wishing his guests to know that the food
/, pIseed before them owed mono of it's pal
! stable virtues 20 extraordinary culinary
science. Every thing except the sweets
at desert were of chevaline extraction. I
Thought the soup better than bullion
made from beef. The builli was very
toothsome ; cheval 8 la mode was very
excellent; but the crowning dish was a
roast flet, which was very tender and
succulent. There was no flavor or odor
that in the remotest way reminded one of
the stable. The weak point of the feast
was the salad, which was dressed with
oil taken from horses feet NJ. Ducroix
is an enthusiast, and dreams of nothing
less thanIcheapening meat, and render
ing the lives of horses tolerable by get
ting people to become hippophagists.
If the ultimate fate OF the |
horse was to be sent to the butchers (
SHAMELESS instead of to the slaughter +
house, cabmen, he opines, would be more
lnerciful to the beasts they drive, and
he poor would be able to fall back from
ieer beef and mutton upon cheaper and
more nutritive meat. Since hippophagy
las been introduced. here more than
welye thousand horses annually have ,
alien into the stewpsns and soup pots of
he French capital. 1t appears, indeed,
hat the supply is scarcely equal to the
emand. On sitting down / felt, con- !.
sss, somewhat nervous. 1t occurred to
he that sundry chevaline diseases were I
ken by inoculation. NJ. Ducroix, who /
my misgivings, informed me
lat the inspection of horsefesh for the /.
esh market is more close than that of t
sef The living animal has to lass a t
re mary surgeon, and when it is re- z
lced to the condition of butchers meat = =
is again subjected to microscopic G.
.amination. Some members OF the
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Turtles Eggs.

Turtles eggs are held in great a...o..
wherever they are found, as we'll h. - r.
ropeans as Others. They have -
soft shell, and are about the 81. - ;
pigeons egg. The mother turtl.. T.
thrice ayear, at intervals of twoor ~ -
weeks, depositing in one night As - -
as hundred at q laying. Anerna-;
enced eye and band are required = a.
teet the eggs, as they are always ;n,.-:
ousiy covered up with sand; but 81
they are hunted, very few escane IT. r.
Oronoco Indians obtain from tbe.. -
3 kind OF clear, sweet oil, which thav 60 90
instead OF butter. In the month ofrs-L
ruary, when the high waters Of r.
Oronoco have receded, millions of tn,tIas
;ome on shore to deposit their e0Os Tuso
certainty and abundance of the No..
such that it is estimated by the .ora
he yearly gathering about the month
+ the river alone is about FIVE thonsand ;
ars OF oil, and it takes five Thousand anra
make a jar.
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An Underground Forest.

The authors of the newly published
book named 1.-TWO Thousand Miles in
Texas on Horseback. tell a wonderful
story about the sdbterraneah forests
which they observed on the prairies ly-
ing near the River Concho, in the west
ern part of the state. Riding over
these vast prsiries," thus tie story runs,
." though you will see no trees, yet you
will often SEE tender little switch of
the mesduit shooting few feet above
the ground. Now, stop at one OF these
and strike at its root with a pickaxe. you
will expect nothing but tender, fbrous
roots; bat instead Of these, the pick
comes in contact with a heavy, solid
body.
"Surprisei, you remove the thin COW
ering of earth, and you find a living log
as thick as mans leg, extending you
know not how far. Exploring further
around the same little shoot, you find
many clogs of the same size, and an
infinite number of branches extending
from them. Thus each little twig yields
you from a quarter to a half cord of
Fleetwood, not egualed for that purpose
by any other wood within my knowledge.
Thus these treeless plains are filed with
fuel, almost equal in its supply to the
heaviest forests. These shoots do not
increase in size, but after attaining a
certain dimension, too small to be
dreaded by an urchin, they either stand
at that or die and give place TO others.
The branches of the large roots left in
the ground speedily supply the loss by
other roots as large as those taken
away"
Various theories are put forward to
account tor the existence of these under
ground forests, but none cited by the
narraters of the story are satisfactory,
1t is said by some that the burning heat
of the sun has prevented the growth OF
the trees above ground. Others urge
that the scarcity of rain in the region
induced the phenomenon and again,
that it is owing to the frequency of the
prairie fires, which consume the vegeta
tion exposed to its effects. But the
same Influences have nowhere else pro-
duced the same remarkable results.,s
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"BEAUTPuL FOREVER.
Trial and COuvIaioI in London Of Mad
anne Rachel. Ihs. isea utiGer OF Ladies'"

]
Trial and ConvIsion 10 London Of Mad
anne Rachel. Ihe. ises utffier OF Ladies'"
Madame Racha, the London enameler,
has come to grie with a sentence of i've
years imprisonment for obtaining money
under false preenses. Mrs. Pearse, a
daughter of the tenor Marie, was the
plaintiff IN the ase. and concerning the
analr the Londoa Week says:
The career Of Madame Rachel as a
beautifier of her sex may now be con-
sldered closed. How many bewitching
specimens of her skill there may be
moving about in the highest circles OF
society we have no means of deciding.
We shall be better able to tell when the
enamel peels of and nature is allowed
to stand forth unadorned. 1t would be
rather awkward If the coating cracked or
came OFF IN patches. for in that case some OF
our most beautiful women would present
the appearances of fine old china, interest
ing as curiosities, but deprived OF any
attraction TO the male human being. 1t
is clear that Madame Rachel will not be
In position 10 repair her work. She
has fallen a martyr to the useful art.
Mrs. Pearse, when she first went to
Madame Rachel, could not quite make
out why 1t was that a woman who had
the power of confering beauty on others
should be SO ugly herself. This, no doubt,
is on the same principal that sellers OF
hair restorers are always bald Mrs.
Pearse herself was only twenty-three, and
very good looking, and one would have
that shecould well have afforded
10 leave her natural charms to do their
destructive work on the helpless male
But there are two things OF
which woman can never have enough
beauty and diamonds. So Mrs. Pearse de
TO be enamelled all over. We
must here mention that it is not our
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zinc philosophie Wow OF Death.

There IS great deal of very vile none
sense talked upon both sides of the mat
ter; tearing divines reducing life to the
dimensions of mere funeral procession,
so short as to be hardly decent, and
melancholy unbelievers yearning for the
tomb as If it were q world too far away.
Both sides must feel little ashamed of
their performances now and again when
they draw in their chairs to dinner. In
deed, a good meal and a bottle Of. wine is
an answer to most standard works upon
the question. When mans heart
warns to his viands, he forgets a great
deal of sophistry, and scars into rosy
zone of contemplation. Death may he
Hooking at the door, like the com-
mander's statue we have some
thing else in hand, thank God,
and let him knock Passing bells are
ringing all the world over all
the world o7rr. and evetF hcrr;scrte one
is parting company with all his aches
and ecstacies; for us also is the trap laid.
But we are - fond OF life that we have 70
leisure to entertain the terrors of death.
IT'S honeymoon with us all through,
and none of the longest. Small blame to
us if we give our whole hearts to this
glowing bride of ours, TO the appetites,
to honor, to the htngfy curiosity of the
mind, to the PLEASURE Of the eyes in ma,
ture, and the pride of our own nimbls
bodies We all of us appreciate the SEN
sations; but as for caring about the
peimanence of the possibility, a mans
head is generally very bald, and his
senses tert dun, BETTE he comes to
that. Whether we regard life as lane
leading TO a dead wall, a mere bags
end, IS the French say, or
whether We think OF it as vestibuIe or
gymnasium. where we wait our turn and
prepare our faculties for some more
noble destiny; whether we thunder in a
pulpit or pule in little atheistic poetry
books about its vanity and brevity
whether ve look Justly for years Of health
and vigor, or are about to mount into a
bath chair as a step toward the hearse in
each and all of these views and situations
there is but one conclusion pOssible-that
a man should stop his ears against para
lying terror, and run the race that is set
before him with single mind. No ohh
surely eoild have reeoiled with more
heartache and terror from the thought of
death than our delightful lexico rapher
and yet we know how little il
affected his conduct. how wisely and
boldly be walked, and in what fresh
and lively strain he spoke of life. Al
ready an old man, he ventursd on his
highland tour; and his heart, bound
with triple bra 5. did not recoil before
twsnty-seven individual cups of tea. ~
courage and intelligence are the two
Qualities best worth a god mans cult
walton, so it is the first part of intelli-
gence to recognize our precaRous estate
In life, and the first part of courage 10 be
not abashed before the fact. 4 frank and
somewhat headlong carriage, not looking
too anxiously before, not dallying in
maudlin regret over the past, stamps the
man who is well armored for this world.
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auIt if anything in this article frightens

fault If anything in this article frightens
nervous persons OF either sex--we are
merely following the laR. report, To be
euamelled all over is long Job, ard the
beau titler agreed to take 9200 for it,
which seems to US very cheap. TO be
made like the rose from top to toe, an d
warranted to last beautiful till you are q
hundred, Is surely very great triumph
Of skill. We should have thought it
would cost nearly IS much merely to
varnlsh full-sized body. Mrs. Pearse
began to use the washes which were given
her until her face broke out in rash
we hs-e never seen a woman who looked
at her best in TINS condition, and poor
Mrs. Pearse WIS in great trouble. Her
husband could not fail to notice her
altered visage, and sometimes it is
found difficult to extract from
husbattda the requisite number Of
checks when the female nose and face is
covered with pimples. Mrs. Pearse went
round to Madame Rachel's, and, as she
had no Gaottey; she took some Jewels with
her, and deposited them With the old
woman. She was naturally much en-
couraged to learn that the beautifier had
at that moment jewels in her possession
belonging 70 4 7ell.khown COUNTIES,
worth at least $4,000. At last a bat
was proposed. By this time Mrs. Pearse
would evidently have done anything to
get rid OF her pimples. So the bath was
dragged cut from under the table, and
Mrs Pearse JUMPED in, being;as she says,
under apprehensions as to her skim 1t
must have been rather dirty bath, for
the old witch Who presided over the Ger
emony threw in some mysterious powder
and other stuff which she said came from
thA east.
When next re are permitted 10 see
Mrs. Pearse, it is at ball in Shropshire
where she admits that her friends told
her she was quite lovely The infer
ence is that the bath did her good. But
still she was not satisfied, and she wrote
to her kind old friend, 81 hope you will
re able to finish ms OF Thursday. ]
should so much like to be made beauti
full for ever before I leave She also
wrote that she had been 'seedy,' which
perhaps may be another variety of PIN
pies, and asked for some pink powder and
red powder Little do we think, when
we admire lovely womeDs how much care
and time and skill have been expended
on the effort to produce the brilliant
effect we witness. The bloom which we
take to be that of innocent youth may
afte+ eli; be only some of old Rachel's
powder"