Ltfe In Exile.
A Paris correspondent of the London
succeeded, in five-hours' sitting,
. drawing from an almost demented re
tnrned exile an account of the life in New
Caledonia. Ho gives as follows the re
sult as to efforts at diversion and occupa-
b "In 1878 there were further relaxa
tions Leave was given to publish a
' journal, which was a work of pnre ini
Igination and conjecture. Newspapers
srrived at rare and regular intervals. Lp
totlieyear l4an emuurgu s mtuu
on all but the Figaro, Uaulois, liiivers
.1 in wtucmue Vyuuiuiuiiiirds
had the gratification of finding them
selves painted in the blackest colors.
But after that date Republican prints
were tolerated. Progre de I He des
Pins was lithographed, and had a ci-cu-lfltion
of '280. It dealt extensively in
canards and ingenious deductions from
the news given in the European journals.
When the tidings arrived of the elections
of Hth October, it announced the imme
diate carriage through the Chambers of
gn Amnesty bill. . A number of
ignorant political convicts, who clung to
the hope thus held out, were not able to
bear the disappointment which followed,
ind committed suicide. In others, the
revulsion of feeling brought on acute
fits of homo-sickness and the depression
coming with it.
'A theater was then licensed, and it
was patroriized by the otticers and their
wives. The dramntic artists were, with
out exception, of the malo sex. A fair
enough orchestra was formed by musical
Communists. Instruments were fetched
from Sydney, and colors for scene
painting. The official ladies gave their
old finery to be altered into stage cos
tumes, and supplied poinke de riz and
rouge to those men who shaved their
faces and played feminine characters.
No device for cheating the tedium of
exile, besides the theater, ever succeeded
in tho Pine Tree Island, Chess demand
ed fixity of attention. The mind out of
tuno nud unable to concentrate itself,
was unequal to the exertion of playing
that game, A single billiard-table was
in the island, but it was at the residency.
The amateur actors had not the cerebral
power to commit to memory dialogues
new to thorn. They were obliged to
limit their repertoire to comedies which
they had learned by heart at schools.
Racquets and hand-ball wearied. Cards
lost their charm. Men wrangled over
them, and tossed their hands in each
other's faces.
"The convicts inhabited a central
plateau of the island, the soil of which is
superficial and ferruginous. When they
arrived they were each given a knife and
hatchot and told to construct huts for
themselves. This they did by going into
primeval woods and cutting down sap
plings with which they made the frame
work of their cabins. Boughs were
twisted in between and covered with
plaster of mud and chopped couch-grass.
In the lies de Pins there were upward of
4000 men confined in an area of a league
in circumference, and the only women in
the island were married to officers and
functionaries. Those prescripts whose
families were authorized to join them
were at Noumea. M. Massard was a
Pine Tree Islandor, having for his chum
a packer (emballeur,) a very decent,
good fellow, but of unrefined habits, and
by no means artistic in his instincts.
"Men herding together, and removed
from all feminine influence, become
snarling misanthropes. They do not go
to the trouble to hide their native rough
ness, and become objects of mutual dis
gust and aversion. In long sea voyages
naval officers of gentlemanly breeding
fall out and snap at one another. In l'ine
Tree Island the male convict's greatest
happiness was to be alone. When rainy
weather forced the chums to remiun un
der tho insufficient shelter of their huts,
they sat with their arms folded and their
heads on their chests, trying to evoke
images of bygone scenes in France, or
speculating on what might next happen.
Tho man who broke tho sileuco brought
npon himself a stream of abuse. His in
terruption produced the effect which is
experienced when one is awakened out of
a pleasant dream to an unpleasant
reality. Not ovory one who wished was
able to command happy remembrances of
the past. Memory had become enfeebled,
nd wanted coaxing and goading to oper
ate. When it was stimulating into work
ing order, it was flickering and uncertain.
One fine season the prescripts attempted
to form c&vles, whero they were to meet
and recount episodes of interest in their
lives, and amusing anecdotes. But this
was soon given up. When the story
teller did not break down for want of
memory, he was discouraged by the in
attention of his brother exiles, who were
brooding over their own unfortunate ad
ventures. "I asked was there no attempt made to
find a solace in gardoning. There were
numerous attempts. But Ceres, Flora
and Pomona loved not the island. The
vegetation of the banyan was glorious.
Maize grew well one year. The next
year the thin stratum of soil, which was
ipread over the iron ore and plutonic
and coral formations, was too
much exhausted to bear anything but
blades. Yams were about the only gar
den product that could ba relied upon. A
vine-cutting arrived at maturity in 18
months, but it was never suffered by the
stimulating soil and atmosphere to leave
off bearing it was used up in a few years.
Water springs were scarce, and, without
an exception, strongly ferruginous. To
drink of them induced headache and
gastric irritation. The fi.sh was poison
ous, it gave St. Vitus's dance, and there
there w ere ieriods when it brought on
mortal illness. It was also dangerous to
batf9 along the coast at the spring or
vernal eqinox. The bodies of those who
plunged in the sea-water swelled out,
tingled all over, and these symptoms
were accompanied by vomitings."
Abraham Ireland, a Westminster, Md.,
negro 68 yeart old, has been turning
white for 22 years, and now preserves bis
original color only on bis body, and in
few freckles on his face. Abraham's par
ents were coal black, and so are his chil
dren. Soma of the doctors attribute the
thange to his contact with acids in the
tan-yard where he has worked, and others
regard it as a kind of erysipelas, but, if
it is disease, it has had no visible effect
on bis health.
A barber refused to color the mous
tache of an intoxicated customer because
he did not want to dye a drunkard.
1 BRIEF BIOGRAPUT.
A Might ftfcmch r Stwral Omat'a
rWNMl HlHtary ttn4 rub.
lie ftcrvlet.
Clyi
April, 1822, at the village of Point I'leasant,
situated m Clermont oounty, Ohio, on the north
bank of the Ohio Biver, about twenty-live miloe
above Cincinnati. lie it descended from the
Grants of Scotland, and possess many of the
characteristics of that sturdy race. Hit Cither,
Jesse Root Grant, wan born in Westmoreland Co ,
Pa , the 2.1d of January. 1TV4. 11 i grandfather,
Noah Urnnt, Jr., was a native of Connecticut,
aerrod ai a lieutenant at the battle of Lexington
and subsequently shared all the dunijers of the
revolutionary wur. Ilia great grandfat her, Xoah
Grant, came to America early in the eighteenth
century, but in what year ia uot now known.
A brother, Solomon Grant, came with him. The
two brother! took active part in the French and
Indian wars which preceded the revolution, and
in which Noah Grant (Gen. Grant'a ancestor)
commanded a company of colonial troops. When
the revolutionary war broke out the brothers,
Xouh and Solomon Grant, (as well as Noah
Grant, Jr., aa above stated) Drotnptly
entered the service, and both were killed at the
battle of Whito Plains in 1776. It will be seen
that Gen. Grant conies of first-rate fighting
stock.
Noah Grant, Jr., moved west shortly after the,
close of the revolution. His son, Jesse R. Gmut,
at the age of sixteen, was sent to Maysville, Ky.,
where he was apprenticed to a tanner. In June,
1820, he married Hannah Simpson at Point
Pleasant, near Cincinnati.
After the birth of their first sou, I'lysaes, who
is said to owe his name to hi: step-grandmother,
who is represented as having been a reader of
Pope's Homer and an anient admirer of the
Homeric hero. Mr. and Mrs. Grunt removed to
Georgetown, Brown county, Ohio. Hero their
son first went to school.
SENT TO WEST POINT.
By the time Ulysses had reached his fifteenth
year he had fully 'resolved that he would not bo
a tanner, and gave his lather warning to that
effect. He said he desired a good edncation and
intended to be a farmer, or a trader to the States
of the South. But his father did not fancy this
plan, and fortunately for the country sagaciously
suggested the idea of sending him to West Point.
At the age of seventeen he was appointed to that
military school at the instance of Congressman
Thomas L. Hunier. At the ago of twenty-oiio
ho graduated twenty-first in a class of thirty
nine. On the first of July, 1843, ho was appoint
ed second lieutenant and assigned to duty in the
fourth infantry. The regiment was stationed at
Jcll'erson Barracks, near St. Louis, then the prin
cipal military station of the west In 1844,
Grant accompanied the regiment to Louisiana,
whither it had been ordered in view of probable
war with Mexico. Early in 1840 the war broke
out He participated in nearly all its import
ant battles. At Molino del Bey and the City of
Mexico his beliM ior was so gallant that he was
mentioned for "distinguished and meritorious
services." After the treaty of pence with Mexico
he returned with his regiment to New York
City. In 1848 he married Julia, daughter of
Frederick Dent, a widely known and successful
merchant of St. Louis. After a short leave of
absence he returned with his wife to Sackett's
Harbor, N. Y., where his regiment was stationed.
Ho there remained till 1849. In September of
that year he was appointed regimental quarter
master, which office lie held till 1853.
TO TUB PACIFIC COAST.
In the full of 1819 his regiment moved to Fort
Brady near Detroit, where it was stationed near
ly two years, and then returned to Sackett's Har
bor. In 1852 it was sent to tho city of New
York, preparatory to sailing for tho Pacific coast,
whore a rush of emigration was then setting in.
The regiment pirooeded by way of Panama, and
suffered much on tho isthmus transit, but Grant's
rugged constitution defied the malaria. A por
tion of tho regiment came on to Oregon. This
portion, including Grant's company, was ordered
to the Dalles, whero it. remained some time.
Major Alvord was in command. In August,
1853, while on duty at Fort Vaucouver, Grant
was promoted to the full rank of captain. Shortly
afterwards he was assigned to the command of
Fort Humboldt in Caliiornia.
SWIM'S HIS COMMISSION.
Grant remained at Fort Humboldt about a
ycar,but seeing no chance of further promotion,
and having nothing to compensate him for sepa
ration from his family, he resigned his commis
sion on the 31st of July, 1854, and rejoined his
wife and children at St Louis, from whom ho
had been separated about two years.
SKTTI.ES I'POH A FARM.
With no fortune of his own and with few
friends in civil life, Grant was thrown upon his
own resources. Without hesitation ho settled on
a small farm near St Louis, which had lieen pre
sented to Mrs Grant by her father. Ho worked
hard and attended closely to his business Dur
ing tho winter season he employed men to clear
land and chop wood, which ho hauled to St.
ijnuis, driving one team in person while his little
Min dutve another. When the summer ripened
his eroiis he was the foremost hand in the harvest
f.eld
BISCOVgS TO GALENA.
After four years of farming Grant roolved to
try something else Ho removed to St Louis,
where lie conducted a real estate office, and sub
sequently had a place in the custom house. An
application which he made forthe position of city
engineer was denied. In 18G0 he accepted a prop
osition to remove to Galeno and join his brothers
in the leather business He was here when the
war broke out. At this time he was just thirty
nine years of ago. Immediately on
PKKsini:nT LiNcouTa cam, fob troops,
In April ISM, ho raised a company at
Galena, and shortly after was appointed by Gov.
Yates, mustering officer of the State, and subse
quently at his own request was made colonel of
Uie Twenty-first Illinois Infantry. He reported
to Gen PojieinJune, 1S01, and in the following
August wm commissioned a brigadier of volun
teers, without his knowledge, upon the recom
mendation of the Illinois delegation in congress
In September he whs phiced in command of the
Southeast Missouri District, and a few days after
seized Paducah, nn important strategic point,
.k.'.i, MntmumUl TenneiweA nmf Ohio riv-
nuiLU ivni"" . .. -
ers, and practically saved Kentucky from seced
ing, in tue earivparcoi noveinuer uswaaui
in nm La ,lmrtntrntinn ntminst Relmont.
UllCU IV '.'" " ' -o "
t point on the Mississippi river, to prevent the
ending OI reiiei im"W llli" iiiiwwiri mi viw
men he attacked 700 con federates, broke up and
.1 ..... n.l iK.i. Mnin mnA rrtinttt t1 his tinns-
UOUUTKI . ' " '
ports with 200 prisoners and two pieces of artil
lery. In reomary, iw, ai nn owu inju,
.it j in attack Vnrt Henry, on the Ten
nessee river, in conjunction with a naval force,
and alter a ngni engagement mo num"u -rendered.
Without'waiting for orders (Jeneral
Grant moved on to Fort Donelson, 12 miles dis
tant, on the Cumberland river, and with 15,000
men attacked the fortreas. which was defended
by 21,000 men ana netvv arunerj. ncre
the turning point in the General's career, and
with the tall of Donelson came the plaiwiu
- r u,, .'a mnA nwYumition from the
U KUV -''. ...... . -
Government The fizhl lasted three days, and on
the 15th Grant earned the worm iy aseauii, cap
turing 55 cannon, 17jOO small arms, 14,62.1
soldiers and the fort About 2,000 Confederates
escaped, 2,500 were killed and wounded, while
Grant's loss was about 2,0i0. Bidea being
the first important success for the I nion of the
war,
tbi CAPTcai or row oovr-unt
Contributed to the opening of the Tennessee,
Mississippi and Cumberland Biyers, and eaused
the States of Tenneawxf and Kentucky to till en
tirely into Tnion hands. Grant was made a
Major-General at once, and placed in command
of the West Tennessee District In March, the
battle of Shik.h waa fought, Grant, with a force
of S,00 being attacked by 50,000 Confeder
ate He fought fiercely, but waa driven back to
the Tenneswe Biver; but held his position untj
the moraing of the neat day, when General
Buell arrived with reinforcements, and subse
quently, upon the appearance of Oen' M1
leek the rebels m 01,1 Conuth and
the pli taken In July, Ualleck was made
General-in-Chief, and Grant was placed in com
mand of the Army of the Tenne-ee. Dunnr.
tho autumn the battlea of luka, Hitdue and
Corinth were fought under Grant's direction, all
of which were victories Immediately alter the
repulse of the Confederates at Corinth, Grant
acuta communication to General Halleck, pro
posing an attack on Vicksburg, but receiving no
reply, commenced a movement into Miisippi,
that' place being the objective point The cam
paign fell through, however, owiug to failure in
executing his plans. In January, 1853, hebegnn
the memorable campaign, which resulted in the
surrender of Vicksburg, being opposed by John
ston and Pemberton with ovor 0,000 Confeder
ates, while his own army numbered but little
over 4.1,000 After a series ol flglit, assaults and
terrible battles on the land nd river, he scattered
Johnston's army and drove Pembertou back into
Vicksburg, and on the 23d of May beiptn a regu
lar siege On tho 4th of July the place surren
dered, with Sl,G00menandl"2 guns, the larg
est captuw.at that time, ever made in modern
war, with the exception of that at 11 m, by the
Emperor Napoleon.
THK LOSS Or TaC COKFEIIKaTt8
during thia campaign waa about 00,000 men.
Grant's entire loss is given by Badeau at 8873.
The fall of Vicksburg opened the Mississippi to
tho ocean, aud closed all important fighting in
the vallev. Grant waa immediately made Major
General in the regular army, and given command
of the Military Division of the Mississippi, which
included the armies of the Ohio, Cumberland and
Tennessee. While in such command, he defeat
ed Bragg at Chattanooga, and extinguished the
lost hostile army west of the Alleghcuies. This
series of important successes, and the publio at
tention attracted to them, caused Congress to cre
ate, in February, 18(14, the rank of Lieutenant
General for Grantnd ill March ho assumed com
mand of the Federal armies of the nation. Hav
ing defeated every other Confederate commander,
Grant immediately prepared to encouuter in per
son the army ol Virginia, under Gen B. E Lee,
and occupy all othor important forces, so that he
could g-it no support He consequently sent
Sherman to Georgia, Butler to Bichmond, Sigel
into tho valley of Virginia, and began fighting
his own way from the Bupidun to the James
Grant started with an army of 110,000, while Lee,
fighting on the defensive, had 73,000 The bat
tles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North
Anna and Cold Harbor followed, iu each ono of
which Lee was forced back. AH these engage
medtseost the Union army many men, but they
were fought with the sole purpose of annihilating
Lee, in whose destruction Grant believed, lay the
only hope of ending the war. With this view
only, the campaign ol the Wilderness was plan
ned and fought. When Grantarrived in front of
Bichmond, he crossed the James, and as Butler
had failed to capture the city, its seigo was begun
Sherman was fighting his way to Atlanta; Sigel
had boon defeated in tho valley of Virginia, aud
was superseded by Hunter, who, in turn, was re
pelled at Lyuchburg Hunter's retreat left a road
open to Washington, and Lee sent Early to Uneat
en the National Capitol. A force was quickly
gathered up by Grant, and placed in charge of
Sheridan, who, by a series of brilliant successes,
completely destroyed Early's army as an organi
sed force. In the'meant'iue Grant was unable to
cut off the supplies to Bichmond, and for several
months attacked the places without carrying it.
Iu September Sherman reached AUilantn, when
Grant sent him on his famous inarch to tho sea, a
trip which ho had planned for himself several
months before. Grant then pitted Sheridan,
Thomas anil Sherman, agaimt the Confederates
ouUide of Bichmond and kept Lee occupied him
self. Seholiold was brought from tho west and
sent into North Carolina, and the four having
whipd everything accessible, Grant brought
the great cavalry chieftain, Sheridan, back to the
James, and together they assaulted Bichmond
and drove Leo out of the city. Lee had
73,000 men behind . tho entrenchmonts of
Bichmond and Grant had 110,000 on the outside
Richmond fell on the 3d of April, 185 Leo
fled to Lynchburg, being fought on all sides dur
ing his retreat, and finally, finding himself sur
rounded and beaten everywhere, he surrendered
all that remained of his army 27,000 men at
Appomattox Court Houso on the 9th. In this
ten days of fighting, Grant had fought four or
fivo battles, eiptured Petersburg and Bichmond,
taken 47,000 prisoners, and captured an army of
over 70,000 men During the year tho losses
under his command were, in round numbers,
12,000 killed, 49,000 wounded and 20,000 mis
sing total 81 ,000 He had destroyed the armies
of Lee, Early and Beauregard, scattered the roin
forocinonts sent to Leo from all parts of the
South, and captured 00,512 soldiers, His forces
were nover more than one-third greater than
those opposed to him. Tho terms givon Lee at
Appomattox were embraced by the remaining
Confederates, ond thus the rebellion was ended
Grant returned to Washington to superintend
the disbandnicnt of his army, but the work had
hardly begun when President Lincoln was assas
sinate'l. It was doubtless the intention of the
conspirators to kill Grant also, but fortunately he
had been prevented by engagoments from attend
ing the theatre whore tho attempt might have
been made. This event made Ardrcw Johnson
President, and lefc Grant tho most conspicuous
man in the country. He was honored every
where Congress created the olfice of General of
the Army for him, and as about this time John
son began measures in relation to the Confedera
cy which displeased the North, laws wero passed
conferring unheard of powers upon Grant, with
the design of nullifying Johnson's power. The
President had previously been the bitter enemy
of the Confederates; ho suddenly turned and
created the suspicion that he was plotting their
return to power. Tho whole country turned to
Grant. Johnson endeavored to secure tho Gen
eral's advocacy of his policy, and, suspending
Secretary Stanton, he made him Secretary of War.
Grant, however, finally came out openly and re
fused to violate the law in supporting Johnson's
policy, and thus the President became his enemy,
and his resignation from the Cabinet was accept
ed. The Gcucral's popularity waa much strength
ened among the people who had supported tho
war, and in 18B8 he was nominated by the Re
publican Nationol Convention and elected Presi
dent of the United States
The above facts concerning the military history
of General Grant are drawn mainly from the
work of General Badeau, which i considered on
the whole tho most accurate authority.
Oil ART AS PBIKlnlNT.
Grant's first administration witnessed a cessa
tion of the strife between the North and South,
the carrying out of many popular reconstruc
tion measures, a material reduction of the Na
tional debt, and the settlement of the difficulties
with Great Britain growing out of English pri
vateeringduring the-war. In 1872 he was again
elected President by a larger vote than ever be
fore received by any candidate, although bitterly
opposed by influential members of his own par
ty. His second term was paiwed as the first had
been, and on March 4th, 1877, he retired from
the offli, having had hesied upon him more
honor than any American since Washington.
Hia TRIP B'Jl'KD Till WORLD.
Immediately upon the succession of B B
Haves to the Presidency, General Grant sold out
his' farm at Galena, Illinois, settled up his affairs,
and in the fall of 1877 left New York on a tour
round the world, accompanied by Mrs. Grant
and several friends. Upon arriving in London
he was lionized by the English nobility and ev
erywhere wined and dined 8ince leaving Eng
land the General has explored France, Italy,
Turkey, Russia, India and China, having been
received everywhere with great consideration and
respect, by lyings, Queens, Emperors and potent
ates generally.
General Grant arrived in Ban Francisco from
China on the 20th of last month. With his
splendid reception in that city and throughout
California our readers are familiar He is now
among us for a short time, whence be goes di
rectly to the eastern 6Uts .
(leaimlstr fh Uraat.
In the life of Grant by Dana and Wilson, there
is the following note on tlie Grant genealogy:
Plavfair's British Fsmily Antiquity, vol. yii.,
states 'that the original of the GmnU is somewhat
doubtful, and whether tbey were originally
Scotch or came from Denmark r France, cannot
now be positively stated. It is probable, how
iTT tb-v wera Norman,and arrived alout 10C0
with William tha Conqueror It ia eerUin that
the dan bad become (ml and powerful in the
early davs of the hootch monarchy. Gregory
Grant, was "Sheriff Principal" of Inverness, be
tween 1-14 and I24! John Grant commanded
the rijfhtwiDg of the Scotch army at Halidotin
Hill "l 33,aDd was defeated About ljO, th
clan beearoe divided into dan Chiaran and dan
Allnii They held great possessions In the
Slralhsiwy country, and iu the Jacobite troubles
a.lheml to Hit Protestant and Whig cause.
The Strathspey country, the original home of
the Grant, I in jn northeastern part of Scot
laud, along the course of the picturesque river
Hey, in the shires of Inveruew, Moray and
Banlf, and is remarkable for iu beautiful vuery
and noble forests of fir.
In "Collectanea Topographica et Geneologica,"
vol. vii., it is stated that Lieutenant General
Francis Grant was buried in Hampshire, Eng
land, December, 2, 1781, and that his monument
bears as a crest a burning mount with tho motto
"Steadfast" In "F.'irbain s Cnrsts of the Fami
lies of Grout Britain and Ireland," twenty one
different crests of the Granl family are given
One of them represent a burning hill with four
peaks, each surmounted by a llame, with the
motto: "Stand sure: Stand fast: Craig Kllochio ! "
Another Grant has as a crest, an ouk sprouting
and sun shining, with the motto: "Wise aim
Harmless "
Kobson'a "British. Herald" gives twenty-four
crests of different Grants Grant of Jamaica has
a burning mount motto: "Stabit;" Grant of
Grant, a burning mount, supported by two aava
cea motto: "Stand sure;" Grant of Currimony, a
deml savage inotlo: "1 11 stand sure," and Grant
of Leith, a rock motto; "Immobile."
One of tho moil distinguished regiments of the
British army iu ndia during the Sepoy rebellion,
was a highland regiment composed aluioft entire
ly of Grants, bearing upon their colors the motto: I
"Stand fast Craig Elinchie I "
The reader cannot help being struck by the
remarkable description of Grant s most noticeable
peculiarities 'contained in the foregoing mottoes
of his sturdy clantmen.
The Inhabitant or Northern. Siberia.
Tho Pntl lf,i f!nr,'ln' I'ovrosnnrtilont
at Copenhagen, in his summary of the
Niimrts vivtnfvnil frnm lrifonniir Nor-
denskiohl, savs: At Caiw Schelagskoy
uie BH was unu-u unuiin'ii'ii .,
and it van tletorminoil to try to proceed
through tho more open aotiud along the
const. Here tho steamer was met by
several boats, manned by natives, tho
first which wero met with since leaving
Chalurava and Judo Schar. The boats
nlnsuik- rnwmliloil tlinHo iiHOil bv the Es
quimaux in Greenland. The Vega was
stopped to allow tno natives to get on
l.nnr.l Tlinv mirn Imiillv rpcpived. but
it was diseovered that they did not nn
i i t :.... i., :..;i:...i
lltUTUUHl JUINXiail VT Ullll-I loiui.ru
lnnininco. A linv. however, was able to
count up to ten in EngliHh, which
slinwod tuat tno natives nau more inter
nonrafl with tho American whalers than
with the Russian merchant. Professor
Nordenskjold states that he brings Home
m1i l.itn a nnll.w'tinn nf itnlllriniPTltil
mostly of stone or bone as well as of
dresses of tue people, wito are a curious
mivtiira nf tlin A uinriivMllOTll fACfl nml of
the American Indians. During tho (Hh
S.I M . . , 1 it 1 1
and i til or HepteniDer uie ega sieaniuu
nlnnir tlm ennut lint nn tlm 8th she WAS
obliged to anchor; and on the morning
ol tlie inn, tlie natives Having ny Bigns
invited Professor Nordonskjold to come
on shore, ho landed, with most of his
companions, and visited the Tsehukt
anlmr'a tint wliiidi were conorallv cov
ered inside with tho skins of reindeer,
and lit and warmed iy lamps on riung
train.nil Tlm triivnlnrH wero kiliillv ro-
ceivod and treated most hospitably, tho
m .1 . . .1 il..
provisions oi tue natives at mo uiuiueiit
lw.inrr ulnntifnl Tn nlin tellt l'oillllcur
tlosh was boing boilod in a large iron pot;
in another, tno natives were occupied in
.lfoauiiiir tun nnu-1 v-slint, rmndi'OT. In a
third tent an old woman was busy pro,
., . .1......'
serving ine contents oi uiu numwuis
ilimni' ia a irrnoniH i. Blimiu'll-HKO lOOK-
ing substance, in a bag mado of a seal
skin, evidently as a iiencacy ior uio
rinlnr tlm linlf-iliirnMtnd vegetables 1)0-
mg looked upon by -tho natives as a
great delicacy, iiiey aro iiuxeu wim
tlio green "buds of trees, allowed
to ferment and then to freeze,
and in tho winter are stewed and
eaten with meat, or boiled into a kind
of vegeUblo soup. Others of the natives
wero occupied in filling seal-skin bottles
with train oil. Children swarmed every
where ; they were evidently kindly treat
ed, and looked healthy. Outsido tho
tents the children were covered up in
skins, but insido they wero nearly nukod,
like the women, who only woro a skin
cover around the waist probably a rem
iniscence of the habits which prevailed
when tliey inhabited a warmer climate.
It is remarkable how closely tho imple
ments used by tho natives resemble, even
to tho moBt minute details, those employ
ed by tho Esquimaux, which will bo
shown by comparison when tho Professor
returns. M. Nordenskjold then writes ;
"As in 1875 and 1N70, 1 could not make
any use of tho different articles which I
brought with mo for barter with tho na
tives, who, however, accepted eagerly
oven Russian paper money. This time I
unfortunately took only Russian money
with me; but this is quite useless here.
A note of ' roubles is thought less of
hero than a gilt sheet of paper covering a
piece of soap; and gold and silver coin is
of less value than a gilt button, and to bo
of any use for bartering must first Imj
perforated, so as to lie able to serve as an
earring. Tobacco is here generally used
by men, and by women also when they
have a chance. It is usually smoked in
short, curiously-constructed pipes, which
every adult malo carries about with him.
Usually the tobacco serves first for chew
ing purposes; it is afterwards placed lie
hind the ear to dry, and is then in fino
litinn fur amokiiiir in a iiiiio. Not a
few had round their necks amulets, which
they would not part witn at any price,
and one, who probably had been bap
tised, wore a Greek cross. His religion,
however, was in any case only skin dtep,
as ho crossed himself with great rever
ence for the sun in onr presence; other
wise we have been unable to discover any
vini nt rolifinn or of reliirious ceremo
nies. The clothes of Uio men aro made
of tho skin of the reindeer, or, in a lew
cases, of bearskins, with the hair turned
outward; on the feet moccasins are worn.
Tlie hair of the head is shaved off, except
a narrow border, which is combed down
over the forehead; and generally the ears
are pierced. The women are tattood in
tl. 4,.,.a ami vpir a kind of fur robe
reaching' to tho knees. Occasionally the
men are painted wiut a ureea cross on
both clieelui.
Readt fob Bcbikkbs Aoais. Those
enterprising young merchants, aieasrs.
Coggins 4 Reach, have to-day opened
their store, No. VA First street, to the
pnblic again. Tlie fire caused good
nt ui in fillincr country orders,
but they are now ready to meet all re
quirement. We are glad to see them all
right again.
Rey. James Spurgeon, a brother of the
Spnrgeon, is now traveling in this
conntry with his wife, a granddaughter
of General Hir John Bnrgoyne, who sur
rendered at Saratoga. He has just Tuited
tlie ccne of her grandfather's defeat.
A Sen Danfer to Wheat.
In many of the wheat fields adjacent to
Hciililsliuig largo patches have developed
symptoms of blight, the grain turning
whito and withering. It is something
unusual in this section and ha caused
our farmers considerable uneasiness and
anxiety. 'Squire Wilson informs ns that
his wheat yield will be from 10 to 15
bushels per acre less, owing to tho visi
tation of the evil mentioned. Many
farmers will bo similarly all'ected, but
the aggregate yield of our section will
nevertheless bo about an average, as a
largo acreage has been sown and the
the healthy grain will prodnco well. As
to tho cattso of this uew evil tho majority
of our farmers, we presume, are unable
to deterniino. However, William Capell,
whose farm is on upper Dry eieek, has
discovered what ho thinks will throw
light on the subject. While investigat
ing his blighted grain he discovered a
bunch of seven stalks the growth of ono
kernel, four of the stalks leiiig diseased
and threo vigorous and healthy, else nil
tho stalks would havo been all'ected alike.
Pursuing his investigations, he found
tho tap root sound; ho then proceeded to
examine tho diseased stalks and found,
between the first and third joints below
tho head a small worm, very much like
tho pea worm, the largest being alwut
one-quarter of an inch long, though
most of them were considerably smaller.
Generally there was ono worm m a stalk,
but iu some places he found two. These
worms wero found in every blighted
stalk examined, and plainly accounted
for tho disease. Mr. Capell aud 'Squire
Wilson (both old settlers) inform us
that for many years after they had locat
ed here they nover diseovered a trace of
the pea worm, but when those pes
tiferous little insects did make their ap
pearance, they woro so ruinous to peas
as to almost completely diseoilrago the
culture of tho plant. Tho worm that has
now mado it appearance in onr wheat
fields threatens to bo aliko destructive,
unless means are discovered and adopted
for its riddance. We hope our farmers
will extuniuo their injured wheat stalks,
and thus boo if tho cause is produced bv
the agency discovered by Mr. Capell.
Reports handed to us w ill bo duly noted
and wo shall endeavor to give tho fanners
all information attainable. The matter
may not bo serious, but if it is no delay
should exist in tho effort to chock it,
llMhhburg Enterprise.
Exiwr op Amkmcan Raoon. A Bos
ton firm of exporters of baoon and other
produce some timo ago complained to
the State Department of certain allegod
regulations of the German, Austrian, and
Italian Governments prohibiting the im
portation of American bacon into the
ports of those oountrios. The State De
partment instructed our Ministers to
look into the matter. Lately Collec
tor Merritt received a communication
from tho Treasury Deiuivtmcnt embody
ing tho replies received from our Minis
ters in Rome and Vienna. The former
replies that there is no general regula
tion prohibiting tho import of American
hams (which woro specially referred to)
into Italian ports. Mr. Kasson, from
Vienna, says tho same for the ports of
tho Austrian Empire; but ho adds, for
tlm iiifniMuntinn nf American exnortcrs of
moats, a warning that, if they want fair
treatment, tliey must io carenu to seiect
for their correspondents mon who aro
shrewd enough to see that they get fair
i1.iv Aim A miwicnn ornort inula has
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bocoino so aggrossivo that European pro
ducers aro gelling wriimniy uiinun-u.
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Xliej 110 liivuijr, won .ui, ..""', vu ...
yoke olllciid and othor inlluencoto lesson
lb Uy lllSl'UIII 11111 "W 1OU I ""
products. IIo mentions instances of the
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prominent publication in tno Austrian
nf luriro uiinenH of Amnricnn hams
at Trieste, which, it was Btated, had on
examination ueen loumt to contain men
nia. Thore was reason to suppose that
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tlieso examinations wero iwi. uw
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as impartially as tney niigiii ne wvu.
An offer was mado to havo thorn tested
with an equal nnmlier of Austrian and
American hams, but no Vienna paper
..1.1 ....l.i:ul. If Hf ITtiunftn Think
..l.ntnv.n- ivnnlilim 1 1 rive, arisen at tho
ports about tho introduction of Amoricar
lm.iin lmvn linnn lllllilllv caused 1)V tilt
jealousy of the home producers.
How Hk Got Hih Hiioulder Stbapb.
It was during the siego of Wagner,
and tho Union parallel woro but a few
hundred yards away from the lino of
grim black tubes that ever and anon
"ombowollod with outrageous noiso the
nir (lisfforirinof foul their devlish glut
of iron globes," A lino of abatsi was
to be uuilt across a clear space in point
blank range of tho rebel guns and
sharpshooters. "Hergoant," says the
officer in charge, "go pace that owning
and give mo tho distanco as near as
possible" Says tho Sergeant (for we
will let him tell the rest of tho story),
"I started right off. When I got to tho
opening I put 'er liko tho devil in a
galo of wind. What with grape, canister,
round shot, shell, and a regular lieos'
nest of riflo balls, I inst think there
must have been a foarful drain of am
munition on the Confederate Govern
ment about that time. I don't know
how it was, but I didn't got so mnch
as a scratch, but I did get powerful
scared. When I got nnder cover I
..i.i,.' ,.1.1 fr tlm Hfn o' me
whether it waa a liamlrad or a hundred
thouHund pacoBj I Hhouid oonor er
Captain, 'Well, Sergeant, what do yon
mako it?' Soon's I could get rny wind,
says I, 'Give a guess, Captain.' He
looks across the owning a second or
iwn nn il Own KiivH. 'A hnnrlred and hov-
a.! u A,w.ii asr ' 'Tli 11 nlor! f'nfi
tain Hayn I; 'you've made a pretty clone
gnen. JtH junta i.nnureu ami buvcuij
iriA A ml tlint." added the Serjeant.
after the laugh had snbsidod, "that's
how I got my shoulder straps." Boston
Transcript.
The new organ of the New Albany
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(inu.i i,iirisiian tunreu una i'-
antiva linnnnnv. Tt 1H tllA first in-
UUVCTA ..... ... -- .
strumetitthe church has had, and the
t - rtn
Sunday that it was arst used, jessc innr
man, an old member and relative of Sen
ator Thnrman, delilierately arose from
ine for the D0.1-
pit. Then and there, in the presence of
f -1 1. ..t . l.o li.wl hnt.l tA
a $25 Bible that his wife had presented
to tlie CUIircu some uo jci
ir;i. ,.;iiui-r nrwiHinn Mr. T. walked
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home with his gospel book, laid it on the
the tapis and said to his good wifa that
his Bible shonld not be disgraced by any
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Yankee fooaie innes on ounuj m m
House 01 uou.
Napoleon and tlie Coup D'Etat.
Mr. Borthwiek's father the head of
the Rot th wicks of Glencorse, collaterals
of Lord Borthwiek's family was one of
thoso enthusiasts in politics who spend
their substance freely on elections with
out extracting any ptid pro pto from
their party. With the Bortliwicks this
policy was traditional. They appear to
have been rather luyi,! fli,v.i
cians, and to havo sn tiered . . r1V,.;:!y.
When fighti.i;.? v..s t.i i!.e I'w they hod
an old h.ibif 1 if t.i!i !ig the 'got aide.
Thus ono htad of tno i:tmilv was killed at
Flodden; another came to grief under
Mary Stuart iu consequence of a too
warm ei'ponsal of her cause; a third was
tho oripii.il of Henry Morten, the hero
of Old M t.tlity. It was not, it will bo
reoollectf . that Borthwick, alias Henry
Morton, In ed the Convenanters on the
contrary, lie abhorred them but his
sense ol . i.i duties of hospitality was ex
alted as . . t of Ruv Conies de Silva. In
later tici.w the Rorthwicks clang to the
Stuarts ...i.l lost their estates, but after
all the ) ilsfortunes of his family the
member (or the Evesham had a handsome
fortune v. iien ho came of nrjo, and his
son naturally expected a political careor
liko his distinguished father, whose chief
opponent in the houso of Mr. Villiers
"tree Trade Villiers," tho member of
Wolverhampton always speaks in tho
highest terms of his power as a parlia
mentary orator. The member for bvos
haiu was 0110 of- tho Young England
party with tho late Earl Strangford,
Lord George Bentinck and Baillie
Cixdirano, a thorough-faced Tory
and protectionist, clinging to the idea
that freo trade and protection are not
matters of principle, out of expediency;
and having, more mujorum, got well on
the losing side, clung to it with all tho
chivalrous loyalty of his race. The
effect of this devotion to party was, that
when Algernon Borthwick reached the
age of l'J he found himself a gentleman
without estate or the hope of one.
Trained for diplomacy, and promised a
nomination 111 the foreign otllco by
Lord Aberdeen, ho at once gave up his
promised career and applied himself to
journalism. Ho was very young, but his
i...: t 1.M
milling nau immmi nH'cim. i-iiiii-iinu
partly in England and partly abroad,
and having helped his father for some
three years aa Secretary and precis
writer, ho had what may bo called tho
run of politics, and know personally all
tho principal Englishmen of both par
ties. So far he had some stock in tnule,
but it was to be curiously applied, for
his first essay in journalism was as a
Paris correspondent of tho Morniufj W,
in which his father had some interest.
Young Borthwick went to Paris, and,
going to work at onoe, soon acquired
tho art of combining and expressing tlie
news which his father's friends and po
litical commotions enabled him to ac
quire. He hod known the Prince Presi
dent since hn was a child, and was,
therefore, on good terms at tho
Elyseo, while Lady Normanby aud
the Duchess do Granimont mado every
salon in Paris open its doors to him.
Over a final cigarette ho will sometimes
give his version of the coup ifelat, a story
quaint enough w hen contrasted with tho
many other extant versions of the cole
hmtod event. According to Mr. Borth
wiek's reading, supported by not a few
present in PariH at the end of November,
1851, nothing was less a secret than tho
contemplated move of the Prince-President
and the Generals. Over all Paris
hung tho gloom of expectation. Tho
preciso form of action to be undertaken
by tho head of tho executive was, of
course, unknown; but that something
would be dona was obvious. Napoleon
had spoken of tho Chamlier as foyer h
vonqHrattim,ni had jitBt written a pam
ulilnt wln'i'li iint liix vinws dcarlv beforo
the pnblic. This remarkable brorhim
was already scarce on the night of Mon
day, tho 1st day of December, and Mrs.
Norton came to tho Elysee in quest of
ono. . Tho President had not a single
copy left, and Lord Normanby had sent
lus to London, when young jjormwics.
said ho would give the lady with tlie
Irish eyes his copy if she would ask him
to breakfast on the following morning.
Mrs. Norton agreed, and then took her
leave of Napoleon, saying that she must
leavo Paris. He protested against her de
parturo.whereat she said,"Nothing would
induce me to stay unless you promise mo
your cotipd'etnt, ' At these words he turned
away, and a few minutes later, at hia
usual hour, 11 o'clock, he withdrew. The
Paris correspondent of tho 7W walked
homo by moonlight, and slept soundly
till his servant awakened him with tho
news that tho coup d'etat was struck.
After telegraphing the news and the text
of the proclamations to London, Mr.
Borthwick went to Mrs. Norton's for his
breakfast, and, thanks to her, saw most
of the remarkablo scenes of Decemlier
2d. Every quarter was occupied by
troops, and it was impossible for a man
to pass from one to the other. The pres
ence of Mrs. Norton, however, made
everything possible. The most obdurate
yielded to tho pleading of her beautiful
eyes, and ono cordon of troops was passed
after another. Passing by the quays,
the pair at last reached the chamlier, and
witnessed tlie old scone of the deputies
trying to get into their own house, and
heard La Roche Jaqnelin deliver his
harangue. On attempting to cross the
carronsol they found the on ne pmttepa
very firmly littered; but after some ex
postulation the sentry agreed to foteh
his officer, who yielded to the irresistible
eyes, and sent their owner and her com
panion across the great square with a
corpora'! guard. Thus they saw tho
congress of plumes, the great meeting of
Bonapartist generals, convened by the
Minister of War, St. Arnaud and Gen
eral Flenry. London World.
How Hk Kept His Pitoinsg. "Save
me doctor, and I will give yon a thousand
dollars." The doctor gave him a remedy
that eased him, and he culled out. "Keen
at it, doctor, and I'll give you a check
for five hundred dollars." In half an
bonr he was ready to sit up, and he
calmly remarked: "Doctor, I feel like
giving yon a fifty dollar bill." When
Uie doctor was ready to go, the sick man
was up and dressed, and as he followed
the doctor to the door, he said: "Say
doctor, send in your bill the first of the
month." When six months had gathered
to Time's bosom, the doc tor sent in a bill
amounting to five dollars. He was press
ed to cut it down to three, and after so
doing he sned to get it, got judgment,
and the patient put in a stay of execution.