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ON THE QUI VIVE.

The many friends in this city of George M. Allen, former editor of the Express, admire the manly stand he made regarding the humiliating offer made to accept a clerical position under Major B. F. Havens, paymaster in the army. No more humiliating offer could have been made to a man that had spent the best years of his life fighting the party battles through the party organ than to be asked to accept a minor position under a man who had so recently become a member of the party he had been fighting long years. Mr. Allen felt that he was entitled to more consider* ation than this, and be proudly refused to accept the place. He has gone to Washington to take the place if Charles Carlton, son of Judge Carlton, of this city, as the Washington correspondent of a syndicate of papers Mr. Carlton has represented for several years. The latter left this week for a six months' tour of the world, and it is said on bjs return will be given a responsible position on one of the New York papers he represents, in which event the position Mr. Allen has taken temporarily may become permanent. The latter has the ability to make a good correspondent, and if disappointed, as he seemB likely to be, in his ambition to be restored to his rank in the United States navy, may win renown as a Washington correspondent. He has many friends in Terre Haute who would be glad to see prosperity shine on him in all its splendor.

Q. V. has noticed, as a rule, that the people who commiserate one the most at the failure to secure something of this kiud that he is after are the very people that would "knock" on him the hardest were he successful in his ambition.

The most beautiful harmony does not exist in the Democratic ranks right now, anil one can go away from home to have this knowledge confirmed. A Putnam county friend told Q. V. in Indianapolis one day this week of a little passage at arms between Mayor-elect Henry Steeg and ex-judge D. N. Taylor, at the recent Democratic state convention, that illustrates this point. The mayor-to-be was talking with a group of Putnam county friends when Judge Taylor came up, and asked in a casual way: "Steeg, who are you going to have sterotype youi inaugural address?"

Quick as a flash, the mayor replied: "Why, I had thought of getting you to «**xlo it, #•*,-:.

Then silence fell on the group with a dull thud. _____ There was general shake-up on the Express on Monday, aud as a result, George I. Heed, formerly editorof the Peru Republican, and for several years a member of the board of trustees of the State Normal School, is managing editor of the paper, succeeding Ed. P. Bell, who was "fired" as suddenly and ignominously as the new stock company "fired" George .Allen several months ago. Bell is an unusually bright newspaper man, has the advantage of a college education, has traveled, both hero and abroad, and has furnished some unusually interesting letters to metropolitan papers, detailing his experiences abroad. He was well fitted for the duties of managing editor, and could be depended upon at all times. In a public interview he claims that he was discharged by W. It. McKeen, Jr., the business manager of the paper under the new regime, because he (Bell) refused to attack President McKinley on account of his war attitude. Bell furnished interviews to all the Terre Haute papers, in which he dwelt at length on this particular point, that the management of the paper is opposed to the administration. None of the papers printed the interviews in full, but if they had there would have been very interesting developments. The statement has not yet beeu disputed regarding the differences as to the attitude of the paper towards the administration. This is likely to prove somewhat embarrasing for Mr. Faris, who Is said to be interested in the new company controlling the Express. The McKinley administration is about the most popular thing that one could have back of him at the present time, in view of the present war situation, and it may require considerable explanation to straighten this matter out.

George I. Reed, the new editor of the Repress, is one of the best known men in the state, has striking ability, and will decuoostrate it in the conduct of the paper. For many years he was one of the strong figures In Republican politics in northern Indiana, and a man of such strong individuality i« sure to make his impression on an organ like the Express, that is capable of doing so much good for the party in this district.

When Mr. Belt was discharged, Frank Parks, the city editor, and Robert MUler, a Wabash college friend of Bell's, who was employed on the paper, quit abruptly^ Parks explained that he did it to save being fired, while Millerquit without notice. J. C. Rutherford, formerly a reporter on the Express, and later publisher of the Sunday Post, and Chart** Davis, a student

at Harvard college* spending his vacation with his parents here* am now doing the fwor*

local work that formerly fell to the share of Burks and Miller,

It takes a man from Terre Haute to get there, no matter where he Is. C. Porter Johnson, who was formerly law student In the office of Col. T. W, Harper, wm nominated by the Democrats of one of the Chicago districts this week asacandldate1

for congress. from Clinton, relatives, and his brother was for a long time telegraph operator for the C. & E. I. at that point. While here he was noted for his "nerve," and when he went- up to Chicago, and in a short time became prominent in Democratic politics, his former acquaintances here were not surprised. They said it was the'natural result of the ''gall" and push he had. He was elected a member of the Illinois state senate, was afterwards deputy city solicitor or prosecutor, and is always very fortunate in getting his name in print. Now he is honored with the nomination for congress, and even if defeated, as he is likely to be, for all the Chicago districts are Republican, he will get considerable prominence out of the race. You can count on a Terre Haute man getting to the front, no matter where he finds himself.

No more capable man could have been named as deputy revenue collector, to succeed Oliver M. Tichenor,, than John C. Warren, who was appointed by Judge Henry to that position this week. He made the very best county clerk the county had ever had, and his records and books are models of neatness and precision. He is an accountant and expert of the greatest accuracy, and will perform the responsible duties of the position to the satisfaction of all concerned.

"01" Tichenor, who gave up this good position to enlist in the army, made innumerable friends during bis brief residence in this city, and they see him go with sincere regret. He is unusually clever personally, and when he makes a friend he is sure to keep him. He performed the duties of the office with ability, and under the ruling of the treasury department can have the position back if he cares for it, if his enlistment does not exceed one year. He therefore was not compelled to resign to go to the front. Tichenor's appointment to the adjutancy of the new regiment was received with much satisfaction throughout the state, as he has a large acquaintanceship in nearly every portion of it, and his popularity was well attested by the universal approval it received. If good wishes would bring him promotion he would come back a major general, no matter if the war ended next week.

Q. V. does not care to be put in the position of deliberately misrepresenting any person, and therefore must take exceptions to Dr. Young's .statement in the B^lpresl^fh which he denies that Dr. Pote is a relative of his, and further denies that the sanitary ordinance was created for the benefit of that gentleman, who made a most capable official. In this statement Dr. Young says: "After the ordinance was adopted the question as to who should be appointed under it was referred to a committee. Before this committee Dr. Pote and Dr. Elliott laid their recommendations, and the former was chosen without hesitation." This is not true according to the records of the city council, and according to a report made to the council by Dr. Young as chairman of the sanitary committee. According to a report made by him on August 7th. 18W, the committee met on the 11th day of May, and after considering the matter as between Dr. Pote and Dr. Elliott, recommended the former for the position of sanitary inspector, "in accordance with the provisions of the ordinance which has since been adopted." These are the words of the report. As shown in this report Dr. Pote was agreed upon May 11th, while the ordinance providing for the position was not adopted until the 17th day of the following July, or two months after the man had been decided upon for the place. When Dr. Young recommended Dr. Pote, Mr. Briggs arose and also nominated Dr. A. J. Thompson for the place, and in the election that followed Dr. Thompson received ten votes and Dr. Pote seven. In a fit- of pique because his cherished plan had miscarried Dr. Young resigned, with a great deal of feeling, at the same meeting, as the chairmatr of the sanitary committee, but the council declined to accept it. At the next meeting, however, August 91st, an ordinance was presented repealing the sanitary inspector ordinance, and it was adopted, and Dr. Thompson was thus legislated out of office. From August 31st until December 18th, 18&4, the city was without that very important officer. On the last named date another ordinance was presented re-establishing the office, and Dr. Pote was elected to the position. Now, if this doesn't look as if what Q. V. said last week were true, he gives It op. As to the statement that the inspector ic not a nephew of the ex-councilman. It is technically true. He Is not his nephew. He is said to he the nephew of Dr. Young's brother-in-law.

It is a reminder of the old Jefferson club anti-Lamb fight that flourished several years ago to run across some of the circulars that are being scattered throughout the city by the parties who are engaged in fighting that faction of the Democratic party which Is supposed to pay allegiance to Mr. Luinb. Q. V. ran across one In the north part of the city the other day, and learned that they are scattered around at night that the person engaged In the

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circular says is a grwst deal. Even Mont Owey in his palmiest moments could: not aay any meaner things about Judge Taylor than are used In the circular. It shows that there Is an organised effort being made by one faction of the party against the other, and the developments in this respect promise to be very lively before No-« where the conditions of soil and climate

A SAIL AROUND CUBA.

BUSINESS CHANCES FOR ENTERPRH INC YANKEES.

Fannie Brlgliam Ward Writes About Pineapples and Cocoanuts and the Prospects for Profitable Fruit Culture In Cuba—Forgotten Villages,

Special Correspondence of The Mail.

WASHINGTON, D. C., July 12.—Next bananas the most important product eastern Cuba is cocoanuts. The tre| grow rapidly, without cultivation, an every mail's field is fringed with them Fruiters buy the nuts, at the rate of $8.0^ the thousand, and they are hulled on tbf island, ground in primitive mills anjl pressed for oil. Or, correctly speaking we should put it in the past tense and say this was done, up to a few weeks ago. Now every industry, however simple, is paralyzed. Spanish soldiers, almost asj hungry as the starving people, occupy every village and hamlet, and prey lik® locusts on the devastated land.

The Cuban process of extracting oil from the cocoanut resembles that by which Texans make oil from cotton seed. The "cake" of solid residue is fed to the pigs—about the only "livestock" ever successfully raised in eastern Cuba—and the shells are used for fuel in the sugar factories. So far the oil has been locally employed only as a lubricator for sugarmaking machinery, a wicked waste of valuable material, it seems to those whot are familiar with the splendfd possibilities, of the product. Here is an unequaled opening for the manufacturer of palm oil' soap, cocoa fibre mats, hats, etc., to say nothing of the hundred other uses to which parts of the tree, its fruit and fibres, may be put. The saying goes that a cocoa tree bears a nut for every day in the year. In time of peace one might buy a dozen nuts for a twenty-cent coin anywhere in the rural districts of Cuba, and he who has never tasted the "milk"irom one freshly gathered can have no idea what is meant by "a draught fit for the gods." In their proper state, however, the nuts are not brown and hard, as you see them in northern markets they look like enormous pale-green apples, slightlyelongated, for each still wears its Robin Hood jacket, which is removed before shipment. Being still "alive," as they say on the island, its shell is soft and a cut with the machete, or long-bl knife, which isVery ibountryinan ^carti or your own pocket knife may answer the purpose. Make a hole in one end of the nut about the size of a half dollar, and out gushes the "milk" like a living spring not by any means such sour Ituff as you have seen come out of cocoanuts at home, white as chalk and thick as buttermilk. Give one of those imported things to a monkey, pining in captivity for its native food, and he will refuse it with scorn and indignation.

The trouble is that the cocoanuts of commerce are gathered before they are ripe and entirely spoiled in transit. The fluid shut up within it should have no suggestion of milk, but be colorless as water, with a slight sparkle like that from some clear mountain spring, except for a slightly sweet and most delicious flavor and if freshly picked in the early morning, after the nut has been swinging all night in the cool breezes, the liquid is almost ice* cold. Where cocoanuts grow, younever see inside of their shells any of that hard, white layer which Northerners grate aud "dessicate" (one might as well say desecrate), for in its best estate the nut has no such substance only a creamy white film inside of it, hardly thicker than your thumb-nail, which is scraped off with a spoon when eaten. Before drinking the juice, the "tender foot" generally pours it out into another vessel than that which nature intended, but the sophisticated epicure tilts the cocoanut at just the right angle to let the "milk" trickle gently down his throat—and like the old toper we have heard of, he wishes his throat were a mile long. There is nothing in the wide world more nourishing or fattening, more health-restoring and youth-preserving. Emaciated invalids are recommended to begin on the juice of half a dozen nuts a day, the dose to be increased according to the patients Inclination. And the invalid is yet to be discovered who does not develop a taste for it so rapidly that in a week's time halt a dosen nut* at a single sitting will hardly satisfy him. Each full-grown nnt contains nearly a pint of this true "fountain of youth"—the same, perhaps, which the old Conqulstadores sought vainly bur and wide, expecting to find it gushing out of the earth in some sequestered spot, innt.nad of hanging, green and beautiful, everywhere overhead. The big nuts grow in bunches, five or six on a stem, away up near the top of the tall tree, just under It* crown of plume-like leaves. A native darky, young or old, thinks nothing ofj thinking np the smooth, branchless trunk, which looks like a telegraph-pole, towering straight and slender from fifty to one baud red foet—whacking off the nuts with his machete, (carried up In his teeth) and tossing them down with the ease and agility of his ancestors, the monkeys. No cocoanut em* falls from the parent stem until it Is too old and withered to be good for anything. The poorest denizens of the tropics would disdain to eat such wind falls—and so they are shipped to the North, to be eaten by those who know no better: Nowhere on earth do pineapples thrive as In eastern Cuba,

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absolute perfection yet the pineapple industry has never had much attention in this section.

Here is another chance for the enterprising Yankee. A tract of unoccupied land, extending far as one can see, may be bought for a few dollars and turned into a fruit farm, the virgin soil of unparalleled richness being capable of producing every tropical growth. Shipping facilities are 1 ready established at Baracoa and sevral small ports: and if the land touches ie Yumiri or some other river so much Che better for its owner. Until one has Been the golden glory of a pineapple plantation he can think of no more attractive sight than a sugar cane field, glistening pale yellow under the torrid sun and billowing in the gentle breeze like a windswept sea. But even more fascinating is field of pines, each great "apple" guarded by a circle of glittering, sharp-edged bayonets. In Florida the pineapple leaf is so sharply serrated that the thought of getting around them suggests a field of torture. Evolution seems to have progressed farther in Cuba, for in the older and more carefully cultivated plantations the saw teeth that edge the long, pointed leaves have mainly disappeared.

Before the war, it was the sight of a life iime to go out to Marianao, a suburb of Havana, and there drive through an estate •Which had 80,000 pineapple plants in full bearing. Over in Nassau they call the "pine-plantations "groves" and "orchards" as if they were trees. Whether groves or. fields, the plants are about the same, ucing one of the most luscious and pular fruits known to man, for which ere is constant and ample demand. Like ost things worth having in this troubled e, the golden "vines" are not easy to get

A very short stroll among the sting £§ig leaves will lead you to sympathize with the New Yorker who after a visit to .Marianao said: "You do not mind the first two thousand or three thousand sticks prods from the needle-points of the ib&yonet-leaves as you cross a field but

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a while your tortured cutis can endure no more and your remarks about !e pine-apple crop are likely to be ejudiced by present soreness. How much nicer it would be if the 'apples' really did fgrow in 'orchards' and you could send a (Moored boy up the trees to shake down a flaw, and then you could sit down in the sh»de and eat them!"

A plant produces only one pine at a time. The fruit thrusts itself upward in the mididje of a mass of long, narrow and sharp

lea.ye$—ispreading. fojth Jteasgua* J,8 central stalk, precisely like those of the different trees.

Agavi Americania, or "century" plant, with which everybody is familiar. The stem is perhaps eighteen inches to two feet in height. The same plant produces a second apple, and a third, and so on through several bearings after which a new plant must be started from the "slip." Nothing is easier of cultivation or requires less capital and previous experience, and few crops bring in greater or more certain returns.

Baracoa, the port and village fa the eastern trip to Cuba, a few miles north of Maisi light, has a population of about three thousand. It was once of considerable importance, when the Cubans had a fruit trade, as the shipping place of large quantities of pineapples, bananas and cocoanuts, and at certain seasons its small bay was crowded with fast sailing fruitships seeking their cargoes. There is no hotel in the village, only the usual wretched "Fonda Posada," fit for neither man nor beast. The port is surrounded by an abrupt range of hills, part of the Sierra Nisse chain. At the summit of the mountain, a few miles from the town, there is a huge volcanic cavity of great depth, in the form of a crater, but in which, singularly enough, the strata gives no evidence of volcanic origin. The most conspicuous feature in the landscape, however, and the one most dwelt upon by Columbus in his journal, is the great table topped mountain close behind the town, which is visible miles out at sea. It is still called by its aboriginal name, Yunque, and about it many traditions cling. To this day the natives declare that at times the face and figure of the martyred cacique, Hatuey, may be clearly traced on the perpendicular cliffs of Yunque that overlook the valley he loved and then the apparition disappears as mysteriously as it came. By the way, we have heard little about the aborigines of Cuba, but this particular chieftain, Hatuey, seems to have been a savage of remarkable foresight.

Though nearly twenty years elapsed from the time of Colnmbns' discovery of the island to the founding of Its first settlement, the chief cacique, Hatuey, never ceased to warn his people against the Spaniards. Having secretly informed himself of the barbarious treatment inflicted upon the Indians of Santo Domingo, he called all the tribes of Cuba together in a three days* council. He told them that the Spaniards performed all their cruel deeds for the sake of a great god whom they were serving, whose likeness be would show the??. Then taking some gold from his pouch said: "This Is the god whom they serve and him they follow. They are coming here to seek this god. Therefore let ns make a festival and dance hefore him, to the end that we may please him, and when the white strangers come he will order them to do as no harm." After they had danced and sung till exhausted, the chief directed his people to keep no trace on the goldgod anywhere about their persons or In their houses. He advised them to throw it all Into die bay. or bury it deep in the earth, or hide it in the depths of caverns lor, said he, "If a bit of

the gold-god were inside of you, yet would the white strangers find it." All this they did, but it did not save the simple people. In their insatiate thirst for gold the Spaniards hounded the Indians through forest and jungle, swamp and desert, until in a few years all were captured or slain, and the poor old chieftain himself was burned at the stake. But this was long after Columbus' day. He reached this coast late in October of 1492, and spent five weeks searching vainly for "Bonio," a place where some Indians had told him he would find plenty of gold. Not finding it, he sailed away on the 4th of December, steering straight across the channel for the cloud-like mountains of Hayti—just across the narrow "Windward Passage." But it was owing to his glowing description of "Puerto Santo," as he named what is now known as Baracoa Bay—that Don Diego Velazquez came here a few years later and founded the town. He christened it, Nuestra Seriora de la Ascunsiop, appointed civil officers, created a Bishopric, and-established his own residence here but some how the place never amounted to much, although a more favorable site cannot be found in, Cuba than the locality which the great discoverer spoka of as "The most beautiful land eyes ever beheld." On all Spanish maps the town is still named in honor of Our Lady of the Ascension but everybody calls it Baracoa.

One of the funniest sights you will see here is that of a countryman coming to town, astride the back of a cow or an ox, perhaps with two or three of his family seated alongside, covering the animal from horns to tail, one mqfnber of the party holding aloft a palm-tree for shade. The roads are often too heavy for carts, and the farmer who is not rich enough to own a horse and volante, or a mule, has only to throw a sheep-skin on the back of his cow, run a cord through her nostrils—and the family vehicle is ready, and as good as that used by most of his neighbors.

anging Everybody would rather see anybody prosper than the undertaker.

In time of great trouble it is some comfort to find others in trouble also. When people curse doctors you may be£ that they have doctored to no effect.

It is only in war time that women are glad if their husbands are getting old. A woman has no need of a paper knife to cut magazines. She uses a hair pin.v

You can't tell by the perfume of a tree's blossoms what kind of fruit it will bear. A dressmaker is expected to piece her dresses so the different ones won't show,

It makes anybody mad to have others talking when trying to read to some one. We enjoy nothing more than to see two mean men get into dealings with each other.

Lots of people do not ask questions because they don't know what they need to know.

It seems to us if women knew how ugly nets on their hair look they would wear something else.

When we say things about people in the hope they will hear it again, they are sure never to hear it.

Nothing is more refreshing than to see a couple of eighty-year-old men looking at gay show pictures.

When people have to tell of their own generosity you may know that nobody else ever heard of it.

The best way for a boy to fool his mother is to pretend that he wouldn't do a thing against her will.

Seeing a man dressed up is not always a sign that he is on his way to church. He may be running for office.

Nothing makes a man feel quite so foolish as to start out to buy strawberries and end by buying bananas.

When people begin to notice the effect the weather has on them it is an indication that old age is approaching.

Sometimes we change our heavy underclothing for light because it is too warm, and sometimes because it is worn ont.

When insured property burns people wonder if it wasn't set on fire. If It was not insured they wonder why some folks are so careless. AI.KX. MILLER.

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FALL OF SANTIAGO.

The United States Gains Its Firsthand Victory in the Present War. Dispatches from Washington this morning announce that the city of Santiago, which has been In process of surrendering for several days has formally capitulated to the soldiers of Uncle Sam. The 20,000 Spanish soldiers in the province are to surrender, and will be taken to Spain by the United States. The victory is the first of importance on the land in the present fight, and the highest authorities are of the opinion that it will be the first step towards negotiations for peace. In fact it Is announced Hurt Spain, through France, is already negotiating with the government at Washington for peace.

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It is not the loafers who fight a country's battles. We don't believe anybody wants to be short in stature.^

Everybody likes to tell sensational news whether it is good or bad. Seeing an undertaker dressed up is not always a sign of a funeral.

Mr TWENTY-N IN TH YEAR

CAMP ALGER.

Special Correspondence of The Mail.

CAMP AI.GER, VA., July 10.—Sunday has been a real day of rest for the soldiers that remained in camp, but not for those wbo went to Washington on passes and not for the fair school inarms who iuvaded the camp.

The visitors brought out boxes of good things for the boys and later on strolled over the parade grounds and through the company streets seemingly enjoying themselves to their hearts' content.

Religious services were held by the chaplains in all the regiments, and the Y. M. C. A. tents held crowded meetings, which, in response to the president's proclamation, were all of a patriotic nature.

Saturday was pay day in the Oue Hundred Fifty-ninth and yesterday the fakirs all did a rushing business. The ice cream and cold drinks man could not compete with the enterprising fakir that erected, early yesterday morning, three wooden figures of Spanish officials, each holding a sword dripping with gore. These figures had detachable heads, and were labeled Blanco, Weyler, and Sagasta. For 5 cents a soldier was given three baseballs to knock off the heads of the enemy. Cigars and money were the prizes offered. The proprietor probably retired from business a millionaire, as his stand was crowded all day, the men even fighting to get a chance to hit the Spaniards. Speaking of fakirs theijrowd infesting Camp Alger are about the toughest looking set of tin horn gamblers and three card inonte men you will find. Soldiers are gouged every time they buy anything and it is reported that all the different stands are to be closed up and.that the Woman's Relief Corps will take charge. This change would be hailed with delight by the boys.

The Indiana contingent of school marms that are at Washington attending the national meeting of educators have beeu regular visitors to the camp the last week and those from Terre Haute have brought messages of good cheer to the boys from, the dear ones at home.

Capt. Jacob Casey of Co. G., Fourth. Missouri, St. Joe, was a welcome visitor to Company to-day. Capt. Casey formerly lived in Terre Haute and while there was in the emplpye of Prox & Brinkman and the Archer Fuel Gas Co.

The latest rumor in regard to the One

endeavoring to have us sent to the Hawaiianislands in case it is settled we do not go to Cuba. A petition to this effect was started yesterday and all the commissionedofficers signed. The men are all chafing at the delay in sending us to the front and they take very kindly to this statement,and if we are not needed in Cuba the change to the Hawaiian islands will be hailed with delight by all.

The weather during the past week has been nil that could be desired the nights have been delightfully cool and pleasant and it has had an exhilerating effect, upon the men, and the answer to sick cnlls lias been considerably decreased during the week past in consequence. Private O^car Leek, who was operated on last week, is about and will soon be entirely restored to perfect health.

Our boys have established a mess fund and we now enjoy a few luxuries not furnished by the government and our bill of fare, while not elaborate, is much better than that of the other companies.

The new recruits, or "rukies," as they arecalled, afford much sport to the older men. The Twenty-second Kansas holds the record, however, for amusing breaks made by the "rukie." One day last week the corporal of the guard by mistake put one of the "rukies" on Post No. 1, which is at the guard bouse, not knowing be was a new man, and instructed him to be on the alert and when the colouel or officer of the day approached to be sure and quickly call out the guard. It seems the officer of the day made frequent visits to the guard house and, later on, when the colonel came around the "rukie" promptly brought his rifle to an order and said "colonel the captain has been looking for you all day."

Sockless Jerry Simpson, of Kansas, is sockless no longer. During a visit to the Twenty-second Kansas a few days ago he was presented with a pair of government socks by one of the majors, and in accepting the socks smooth Jerry said he could now refute the slanderous stories circulated by the opposition press.

The two troops of New York cavalry, A. and C, commanded by Capt. Clayton, each seventy-five strong, started yesterday morning on a ten days' practice march, through Leesbarg, Va., towards the Shenandoah valley. The men were in heavy marching order, and from the moment they left camp until they return the same formation as would be maintained while advancing through an enemy's country will be observed. Flankers were sent out, and a rear and van guard were posted. The wagon-train, consisting of twelve large army wagons, each pulled by four mules, were heavily guarded and kept at the heels of the moving column. A detail of eleven men, under Corporal Maclin, of Troop C. was left to guard the property left behind. ROBERT L. HAVMAW.

George Holloway and Charles Merring are in Celeron, N. Y., attending the annual meeting of the National Photographers' Association, before which the former will complete for the handsome prizes offered by the association for special work. He won a handsome prize at the last meeting of the association at Chantauqua.