Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 24, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 September 1874 — Page 6

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THE YEAR OF R ES. ALGERNON CHARLES BWISBCRNE. From the deth of the green garden-closes Where the summer In darknes dose Till autumn plack from his hand Ad boar-glusa that holds no a aand, From the maze that a flower-belt enclose To the stones and sea grass on the strand How red was the relgu of the rosea Or of the rose-crowned land! The year of the rose Is brief; From the Hrst blade blown to the sheaf from the thin green leaf to the gold, - II has time to be sweet and grow old, To triumph and leave not a leaf For witness in winter's sight How lovers once In the light Would mix their breath with its breath. And itssplrit was quenched not of night, JL love Is subdued not of death. In the red rose land no! a mile Of the meadows from stile to stile. Of the valleys from stream to stream, But the air was a long sweet dream. And the earth was a sweet wide smile Red mouthed o a goddess, returned Krom the sea wh.ch bai borne her and bnraed, That with one swift smile of her mouth Locked full on the lorth a it yeaned, And the north was more than the south. For th" north, when winter was long, la his heart hd nude him a song. And clothed it with wings of desire, And shod it with snoon as of fire, To carry the tale of his wrong To the southwest wind by the sea, That who might bear it but he To the ears of the goddess unknown. That waits till her time hall be To täte the world for a throne? In the earth beneath, and above Jn the heaven where her name is love, She warms with Hzht from her eyes The seasons of life as they rise ; And her eyes are as eyes of a dove. But the wings that light her and bear As an eagle's, and all her hair As Are by the wind's breath curled ; And her passage is song through the air. And her presence is spring through the world. Ha turned she northward and came, And the white thorn laid was aflame With the tires tha.. were shed from her feet. That the north, by her love made sweet, Khould be called by t ro e-red name; And a muriner was heard a of doves, And a music beginning of loves I n the lirht that the roses made. Such liuht as the mnsic loves. The music of man and maid. Rut the days drop one upon one, And a chill soft wind is begun J u the heart of the rose-red maze That weeps for the rose-leaf days And liie reign of the rose undone Tht rule! so long in the light, And by spiiit,and not by night. Through the darkness thrilled with its breath, Still ruled in the viewless night, Ak love might rule over death. The time of lovers is brief ; From the fair first Joy to the grief That te'.ls when love is grown old. From the wa m wild kiss to the cold, Fptoh the red to the white rose leaf, They have but a season to seem As rose leaves lost on a stream They part not and pass not apart Asa spirit from dream to dream, Aa a sorrow from heart to heart. From the bloom and the gloom that e ncloses The death bed of love where he dozes Till a r?lic be left not of sand To the hour glass that breaks in his hand. From the change in the gray garden closes To the last stray grass of the strand, A rain and ruin of roses Over the red-rose land.

AN ANSWER. BY ROSE TERRY COOKE. Independent. Von ask me if I love you still With such a ferver and good will As clang to you in year before, 3Iy little saint ! I love you more. You lieht your candle at the flame That warms your hearth 'tis still the same; A thousand tapers share us ugni, üut leave the radiance just as bright. For love wJth loving is not spent, .Not such a love's divine intent; AVhat, year on year, tue sun hall dim? "What worship tire seraphim? Tice some sweet bloomless plant that grows iseside the rei and lavish rose, That sees those blossoms bl-ize and die, Brief darlings of the summer sky. T?ut holds its own mot odorous leaves 'JToevery band that plucks their sheaves. And where one branch for guerdon goes Another and another grows. o, dar'ing, though my heart be filled With newer love, it is not stilled, "ttut dal!y prays for daily bread, Forever hungering, everted. As in the dew drop stars may shine, So )ove itself august, divine, - Kindles our finite lives with fire -Xhat cannot smoulder nor expire; Kla'es our souls with boundless strength Till lovers are lost in love at length, I Our mortal lights grow far and dim And love and loving merge in him. ABOUT WOMEN. Anna E. Dickinson sails for Europe next month. A young lady Is school superintendent of Teoria county, 111. Pittsfield, Mass., has a bae ball club composed of young wompn. The San Francisco ladies have established a borne for Chinese women. Agnes Ethel is happily married and setlied in an elegant home in Buffalo. Mrs. Florence Rice Knox is studying for the opera in Paris under Nilsson's old teacher. The cheemloon, whatever that is, is recommended by Miss Ada O. Woolsoon, as a proper srtkleof female a tire. A Chicago paper raminds w ives of the pacifying influence of a clean, well-starched, and well-ironed shirt upon the average husband. Mrs. Stonewall Jackson resides in Charlotte, N. C. She is quite j'oung, between twenty-üva and thirty, of medium height, and beautiful free. Mis Lockwood, the Washington lady lawyer, has started fr Texas, to settle on the estate of the late Judge John C. Watrous, who was a large landed proprietor in the southwestern part of that State. It was the mother of the present Lord Dur ferin (governor general of Canada,) Iiis wite, who wrote the plaintive ' of the Irish emigrant : " - "I'm sitting on the stile, Mary, Where we sat side by side. and not Lament Among tne most noteworthy marriages of Americans during the present month is that of a daughter of Mr. Samuel Q. Ward, ol TCew York, to Baron Ernst von Schonberg, t Bregenz. in Aus'ria. on Ansrust 1. Mr. Ward is the agent of the Baring Brothers in rew Yort. The New York Times remarks that the elevation of women is a very excellent aspiration, but let the work begin where it is most needed, the great body of hard -working women, who are barely able to Jjtain sustenance from the means that are with their reach. Miss Mitchell, professor of astronomy In T College, is going to give a course o lecu on her favorite science at Gothic J I all boarding school, in Stamford, during tae coming school year. The fair girl graduates with golden hair will doubtless take Kindly to star gazing. Miss Emma Brough, daughter of the ex Kovernoroi Ohio, was lately married in San Francisco, to Mr. John W. Myers. There -was notable innovation on the established rule, inasmuch aa there were no grooms men. The bride was attended by Miss Car rle Brough and Miss Minnie Cunningham. Hiss Lily Conrad, the original of Rine-

hart's "Hebe, has married Alfonso Teodoll,

Marchese üi San vito a Dnam young man with a fine aristocratic lace of the true old Roman mediaeval type. Miss Conrad is described "as beautiful as an angel tall and graceful, with brrwn eyes, and hair as golden as Fra Angelica painted on his Madonnas." The American Free Dress Association will bold Its first aniaal convention at Child's Hall, Painsvilie, Ohio, September 2 and 3, 1874. The address of the ldi to the public reads as follows: No question now agitating the public mind appeils to the reason and the conscienca of candid thinking peo ple with greater force or a deeper pathos than the subject we are to discuss. Upon a proper solution of the vital problem of a suitable and hygenic dress depends not only the well-being"of women, but. the very existence of the rase. Able speakers will be in attendance, and the whole subject will be most thoroughly and scientifically treated Let there be a large representation of dres reformers from all r art of the country. An experienced Western editor pays a high compliment to the fair patrons of the press: "Women" he says, "are the best subscribers in the world to newspapers, magazines, etc We have been editor for forty yearsand have never lost a dollar by female subscribers. TheyBeem to make it a point of conscientious duty to pay the preacher and the printer two classes of the community that suffer more by Imd pay and no pay at all than all the rest put together." The Women's Educational and Industrial Society are not satisfied with having taught 4,000 workingwomen during the past 18 months bow to earn an honest liviug. When asewing-ffirlcan earn only a le-v dollars a week, she must be taught anot er lesion how to keep soul and bady together on whit she earns. The managers ..t the Free Training Schools have solved t ie double problem by opening their doors every morning and giving every working oman who comes a hearty breakias. for fiye cents. N. Y. Tribune. Tidings have just reached us from Roch ester's silent Susan, from which it would appear that tha reports in the m rning papers concarnlng her are not Btrctly accurate. She had read Bessie's shameful yarn, but not a word escaped her. On "6 or twice she removed her gold rimmed spectacles, flourished them over her heao as if they were a tomahawk, and then f- t down on them and gave way to thought. There was no wildness in her eye, no frenzy in her manner, no tremor of her nerv s: but the triined observer easily detected ' he settled expression of a woman who lett that she owned a Juggernaut car. and meant to move it. Brooklyn Argus. There are, as I h iva said, man v more la cllities in Paris lor American ladies who de sire to study ar; than there were formerly; but there are still difficulties in their way Ladies are not readily ad mitt el into the best schools ; they are not allowed to attend any ot the lectures at the Beaux Arts; not even the sober spoken essays of M. Taine. They do go, nevertheless ; for la lies who are thoroughly bent upon accomplis-iing a pur pose have had their own way ever since the world began, and there are stones concerning certain masquerading practices that are as well left untold. Correspondence isew York Herald. A few days since the wagei of the girls in Dunham's woolen mill, in Poquonnock, were reduced, or held back, to meet the ex pense of was' age made by their work. Tois incensed the employes, the men taking the part of the girls, and a strike followed. The men prevented the girls from going to work Wednesday, and the cons'.ables there could not preserve the peace. Four me a threat ened the bosses, and followed them through the mills with bars ol iron, and the bosses barely escaped by drawing . revolvers in their own defence. Word was Rent to con stables, who came and arrested the men. New Haven Journal, 14 : h. Middle-aged young ladies are looking up in the matrimonial market. It is besoming Quite the fashion in England for men to marry women oldar than themselves. Thus the brilliant wifj of the brilliant secretary for India, the marquis of Salisbury, is sev eral years his senior; and now the earl . of Pembroke, the greatest "catch" in England, who is 24, is to be married to Lady Oer trude Talbot, who is 34. .Lord Pembroke is the son of the late well known Sidney Her bert, and inherited vast estates of both his uncle and father. He Is the greatest property-owner in atd around Dublin, and has at least 100,000 a year. Lord Pembroke's mother, Lady Herbert of Lea, who is well known as an author, joined the communion of the Church of Kome soon after her hus band's death. We don't know that Miss Vinnie is com ing in person to grace with her charming presence our great Exposition, but one of the creations of her genius-a statue called 'The West" is now on the way, and its sa fe delivery insured on a policy of 4,500. There have been some plsasant notices of f this emanation of the young lady's fancy and ringers, and we doubt not 'The "West" wilt become the cynosure of all eyes in our new art gallery. The subject of the statue is a fair maiden in her teens apparently, but full of life and animation as well as beauty, and symbolizes the advance of art and civilization from the Atlantic to the Pa cific. Miss Vinnie is in a double sense "native and to the manner born," being a child of the West and her soul filled with love of the plastic art. St. Louis Republican. The New York Evening Post says : The Ladies' Training School for Nurses, which was opened in the face of many difficulties, has proved itself to be one of the most valuable adjuncts of the physician wherever its usefulness has been tested. By the terms of the gift with which It was endowed at tht outset, its ministrations were to be limited to hospitals. Tne medical board of Bellevue Hospital opened several wards to the nurses from the training school, and hitherto there has been employment for all of them under instruction. Now, however, three of them are unemployed, ana the lady managers win permu mem to go into private nursing 9 ; . A 1 A. 9 . A. - A service until they are again required for duty in the hospital. These women hive been in training service for more than a year, ana are thoroughly competent and trustworthy. I have recently heard some touching de tails connected with the last hours of the be loved and lamented Parepa-Rosa. She was in unusual health and spirits daring the days that immediat ely preceded her death, and one day she not onlv rehearsed the whole of "Lohengrin," but also entertained some company in the evening. That night her child was born dead. . Ou learning the fact of the death ot this ardently expected and long desired infant the shock seemed to turn the poor mother's brain; she became delirious, wildly accusing herself of having caused the death of her child by imprudence and over-exertion, and in that state she con tinned till her death. Her husband is sadly broken down both in health and spirits by bis great loss, ana though he is now engaged in forming an Locrush ooera trouDe to trave during the coming season through the leading cities ot Great Britain, he is said to be totally Indifferent and spiritless, possessing scarce shadow of his old business energy ana artistic enthusiasm. I'ans Letter.

THE CROQUET QUEEN.

You may talk about skating, and slslghlng, and danci g; Proclaim the delight of the rod and gun : Of the ride through the "park." upon steed gaily prancing, The row on tha lake until darlieht la done : Praise the sports of the land and the water, each one The batn by the beach, or the yacht on the seaBat of all the sweet pleasures known to the sun, A "good game of croquet s the sweetest lor me To miske it a good one there needs a good ground ; The grass closely cat ana the tun smoothly rolled: The mallets well balanced ; the balls thoroughly round; And the bridges set square with true distances told: The players close matched about four to a side t our sweet gins ror partners, or cot less man three: All playing in earnest-no trifling aside in the croquet arena no ni rung snouia ne. For nowhere Is fl rting with such peril fraught, Not evealn dancing is dancer like this, Ah! well 1 remember myself getting caught At a croaae'luK match, by at crouue'luiz miss? They called her the "Croquet Queen," Je ne sals quoi; There were in the arena good players as she, But something about her a look that gave law. Ere the game was half ended she "queened'' it o'er me. ; ' , Her figure was faultless nor tall, nor peti teller skirt barely touched the top lace of her boot; I've seen in my time some remarkable feet. Bat never one equaling that little foot, its tournure was perfect, f om ankle 1 1 toe Praxiteles, ne'er had such model for artNo arrow so sharp ever shot Cupid's bow ; When poised on the baU It seemed pressing your heart. It crushed more than one, as I sadly remember, A dozen at 1 -aat In the sweet month of way And long ere the season had reached to September, It numbered of victims a dozen a day. As one on the list you won't wonder, I ween. That I warn you 'gainst flirting while playing tn's game. Yon may meet, as I did, some fair croque'ing queen, Who will croquet your heart, till it feels all aflame! , A DARK DEED. THE TENNESSEE KU-KLUX. THE WHOLES ALE MURDERS IN WESTERN TEN NESSEE THE GIRSON COUNTY ATROCITY A GRAPHIC ACC ÜNT OF THK BLOODY SCENES BY AN EYE-WITNESS, The correspondent ot the Cincinnati Com mercial, now traveling in the South, sends '.he following account of the Gibson county horror to that paper. He writes from Nashville, the 29th Inst: In the long, long record of crime called history the blackest pages are those which detail the murder of the innocent, defenseless, and imprisonel. None but the most barbarous of barbarir.ns tie the hinds ot defenseless and innocent men, and then shoot them down like hogs That is precisely what the Gibson county Ku-Klux did the other night. They murdered 16 men, men who, so far as any evidence has yet been developed, were guiltless of any crime save that ot being i.egroes. The stories set afloat as to the supposed crimes of the negroes are frightful lies. We need not be surprised at this, for those who will murder will lie. I want to call your attention to one fact. In all the trouble in Gibson county, which has resulted in the tragic taking off of 1G prisoners and the killing of two others, not a whits man has been sciatched. Bear that in mind. Here are 18 negroes killed, and for what? Sift the evidence, which is all from the whites, and necessarily colored as much as possible, and you fail tj find the negroes guilty of any crime. Some negroes but whether these 16 or not is not known are said to have fired on two white men Morgan and Warren. These two white mn eay that the band who did the firing numbered 30 or 40 ; that they were close upon them and saw them. Now, it is very plain that those negroe could have killed Morgan and Warren, bad they chose to do so, and the fact that thev escaped without a scratch is proof that the""thirty or forty armed negroei" did not have murder in their hearts. The more we sift the evidence the more we are convinced that the murder of the 16 negro prisoners at Trenton was without the shadow of justification. They bad not killed anybody; they bad not harmed anybody, and the very most we can make of it is that they, or some of them, had threatened to resist if attacked by the KnKiux. A strong proof of their innocence of wrong, either com mi ted or intended, is the fact that none of them tried to get away when arrested or before being arrested. They were taken out of bed at night or in the fields at work. The difliculty had its origin in a dispute between a negro and a white man at a negro barbecue about the payment of 50 cents. Then two white men, while riding along the public road leading to Pickettsville, were fired on "by thirty or forty negroes." They jumped from their horses and ran, followed, as they say, by a storm of bulle s: but the fact that neither they nor their horses were touched, that their horses walked I home unmolested, and that they, Mor Kan ana wlrTi louowea oy the probability of the whol-i fctory, But even were it true, was u lustincation lor tating 16 men out of jail, without evidence connectmg tnem. wun snoaung, tying tneir hands behind tnem, ana , SHOOTING THEM IN COLD BLOOD? It happened that a Nashville friend ol mine was in Trenton, attending the teachers' in stitute, at the time, of the lync'iing. He inves me the details, and as be lurnished the same to tne union ana American, or this city, I append that account, only aiding that I know the eye-wit ness wen, iv. u. stone, ana mat ne is a genleman in every sense, aicreet ana reliable: " The jail is a new iron and brick structure recently completed, standing on the north east corner of the public square. The Hicks nouse stands on the southwest corner, and the court house, with yard surrounding, occupies the center of the square. I had a front room at the Hicks House, and was awakened out of a sound eloep by a voice shouting, 4 Close up there; don't you hear? D n you, close up merer At the same time i neara tne rawe of horses hoofis. Springing fron mv bad I saw through the win dow a band of about eighty mounted men, galloping in from the southeast corner of the square, swinging around in front ot the hotel, then to tne rignt, towara ineiau. 'Hall!' 'Keep everybody off!' came the command in the clear, ringing voice of the leader. Then a knocking at the jail door, distinctly audible across the square, fr it was now near l o'clock, ana everything qniet. Knock, knock, rattled againat the door, and the leader cilling Mr. Alexander 1' 'Mr. Alexander!' 'We won't break in, men, but we must get in." Up to this time I thought it was a sheriffs posse, bringing in more prisoners from Pickettsville, sixteen being already in there under charge of , being connected with the shooting on Saturday night. Startled by the wbrds, ;'Wre'll not break in, men,' I dressed and went d )wn, but ould not see a soul on the street. I saw, however, the long row ot horses and men in front of the jail, the group at the fail door, heard the hum of voices along t le line, the command 'Keep back,' and retired toward the hotel. Here I met two other just awakened men, and seeing some slip among the trees of the court-yard, we all started, but wont over to the opposite side of the square going toward the iail, until a sepulchral voice halloed Haiti and we stopped. I saw now that the men were masked, and understood their mission. They were after the sixteen

negroes, and were growing more vociferous

in their calls for the jailer, whlls continual ly, irom one end of tne line to the other, men were yelling in hollow tones: 'Watch out, watch out!' 'Halt, no excitement here.' 'We mean business The mules and horses of the dismounted men were grouped along tne line, a lew outsi.ie the line were riding npand down, exchanging words with a lew town people gathered about at a safe distance, when suddenly there was a command 'Fifteen men follow me!' and A LOT OF MEN DASHED AWAY on foot from the jail door across the street into the court house, from whence thev soon issued again, blowing a shrill whistle.'uUering yells of triumph and rushing back to the jail, dashed into the jail door. Then there was a momentary quiet, followed bv exultant expressions from those outside. I passed around and got into the court-yard on the fence directly opposite thejjail, which was only across the street. The full moon lit up the indescribable scene, obscured by occasional clouds, and horses, mules, men and most of the grotesque costumes were distinctly visible. Ten or twenty town people were inside the court-yard, intently watching the s?ene. A lew on the fence Kept up a running banter of words wth some or tne masked party, as Helle, ain't you tnirsly?' 'Come and take a drink. Look at the old gal (referring to one with a black gown on). 'Say, Bob. Lee, thought you was aiweu at oniion:" Answered In as sumed voices: 'Yes, I was killed at Shilob. uuk a ui lioiD, ears reauy, etc "in the meantime, dirkness and quiet seemed to be in the jail. It was difficult to think of that Gpy Fawkes crowd enacting the terrible tragedy that soon followed. About 2 o'clock there was a rush at the door of the iail a whistle sounded the order Mount!' given, and we saw a dark lookinir i- -: i i . . group ueiug pus leu aneaa oi tne column. i . i i . . . . wmcn was lmmeuiaieiy put in motion di rectlv eastward. . " 'They've got them,' was whispered along njö cuuri-uuuw) iBDcw, uui not a cry, not groan irom tne a oomea men. A ratti mt hoofs, a cloud of dust, and nothing was to be seen ol them. We went across to the jail and plied jailer and prisoners with questions. The jailer knew nothing, had not gone up, saw nothing, was moody and silent, and his women lolks frightened and silent, but the prisoners said they had taken 16. We stood silently, involuntarily looking down the road taken by the band, and soon we hear 'bang.' " Our hearts paused 'bang!' volley!' 'bang!' Some counted the shots; others said'Tis awful!' others, 'The negroes are gone. A few of us started off in the direction of the shots, others followed, and about half a mile awav. just beyond a bridge over a small stream. and down the right-band side of the road, we found fix bodies, lying in various positions apart, but all within three or four yards square. Four were dead, but the pulses of two Btill beat. Matches were lit, and by the fi tting light we examined them, called to them, out no answer. Finally a motion, the ropes binding their hands are cut, and both groaned and then spoke. Water was called for, brought in a hat, and the wounded men placed in as comfortable a position as possible, and a physician sent for. I went back, utterly horrified. On my way to the hotel I sa w some negro women, and begged them to go to the wounded men ; but they were too thoroughly frightened. About 10 o'clock a. m. a young man came dashing into Trenton with th fearful news that 300 armed negroes were marching on Trenton to avenge the killing of the negroes last night. There was a momentary paralysis as men thought of the possible entry of such a body of infuriated, blood-thirsty negroes into town. There were BLANCHED FACES OP STRONG MEN as tbey shut stores, left the street and shops and hurried home swift couriers shot out on the road one by one, with awful dread on their faces, women and children gathered in groups, trembling with terror at a danger so awtul. One group of ladies I had seen a tew moments before come in on a visit all radiant, now they were in tearful despair. The Teacher's Institute, in session here, broke up instantly, and the male members either went to their families or to secure gun. Men burned to and fro as if in painful . uncertainty whether to gather on the square or to stay with the loved ones. The very air seemed nervous with awful apprehensions. Those that secured guns finally began to mass on the square. New scouts were sent out, ammunition divide!, and Major Gay soon had 60 men with all manner of fire arms, from old single-barreled pistols to a double-barreled shot-gun, in line. He commenced at once to drill them and form a nucleus f r the constantly arriving recruits. Fear began to vanish as the people sw their means of defense, and the first chill of terror was over. The scouts bgan to return, too, without having seen any negro troops. S ill they "had heard." Doubters arose with eaeh accession of assurance, and two wagon loads of badly frightened women and girls were not enough to renew the fright when it was found that the' too had only 'heard,' but tbey had heard awful things and bad lfc their homes at a moment's notice. By this time doubts of any armed negroes being- about were openly expressed, and some even suggested the masked men had sent in the report to cover up their tracks. Finally, after an age of apprehension, terrors, bloody resolves and dreams of carnage, attended "by all the circumstances of the most horrible possible war, the terrible report was boiled down to something like these facts: Some three or1 four negroes called in the morning on a farmer named Gleason, living about five miles from Trenton. He was in the field, and Mrs. Gleason cent the neorroes to him. While they were there another small party of negroes (none of whom are said to have been armed) came up. Mrs Gleason, influenced by the unquietness in the community succeeding theaflair of Saturday night, at once became terrified, blew her horn and alarmed the neighbors, to whom rushing in she told her fears, which grew at once into all manner of frightful rumors, amonz wnicn i neara ai riCKeus t V 1 1 A Vl 1 A i ville that ber house was surrounded and Bhe and other women murdered, that 500 armed negroes were marching on Pickettsville and Trenton, etc. "I went from Trenton to Humboldt and from there to Picketsville. and found appro hensions, fears, and excitement, but could not ascertain or any actuu nghting, or any one being hurt or molested." And what did vou understand had been done with the ten negroes carried away by the masked men?" inquired the reporter. "1 understood that thev were all shot a few miles out from Trenton, was the reply I mieht mention here that every man talked to, without a single exception, de nounced this outrage. ' -11. . lv RETURN OP A CABLE SHIF. A TEAK'S WORK SCRVETINQ A LIKE FROM JAPAN. ' ' ; Sah Francisco,' Kept. ' 2. The steamer Tuscarora, which arrived to-day, left here just one year ao to-day to survey a line and make soundings for a cable to Japan. The first attempt front Cape Flattery was abandoned on account of the lateness of the season, and she made soundings on and off tha coast from Cape Flattery to San Diego. Fro'n that port ahe struck out for Honolulu, making- soundings as she wnt. From Honolulu she proceeded to Yorkshire via the Barim islands The deenest water on this line was 3.287 fathoms. Two lines were started from the coast of Janan. but abandoned on account of the irreat deoth of water. The third line was found feasible, and a line was run to the Kuril Island, one of the Alenttan group.and thence run to Ounataski and from there to Cape Flattery. The greatest depth found on this line was five and one fourth miles.

THE 80NG OF THE MYSTICS. BT R. H. STODDARD. Independent.1 GOOD NEWS OB BAD?

There cams to Nnsherwan, surnamed the Just, A certain man, a courtier, with the dust Of travel on htm and with heart elate. "i near," he said, "that Uod (his name be great!) Has taken from the world your mortal foe" Naming a kins: whom death then had laid low. And did you hear," the Hultan made reply, "That I am overlooked and not to die? I have no room for exultation, friend, For, 1 ke my rival's life must end " The courtier slunk away, ab-isbed and sad. r or ue una icarnea mat good news may be bad. WO FORCE. Let me theslmple tale repeat. As Kadi wrote it. Thus it ran; His servants, at a nan lng seat Were roaUng game for A usherwan, And, as they had no salt there, one Was sent lipon a village near To fetch some. Ere the man could ran. The Sultan called to him. "Come here, Take It a a fair price, and see There la no force, let there shon'.d be - A precedent established bo, AV'hlch might the village overthrow." They asked what darcage could ensue From such a trifle. V, hereupon He answered : 44 When the race was new Oppressions were but small and few ; hul as j ears went on and on Every new comer added more And each was larger than before. Till what was small had grown so great It toppled o'er on many a state And crushed the people Into dust. We may be lust." And from that day, Hadi, I think, goes on to say, They surnamed Nnsherwan the Just. TEAK KOT FOETUITB. Trust not fortune. (She will be Everything but true to thee; False and fickle all her life, The old dame has been the wife Of a thousand bridegrooms none Mourned a day when he was gone! She delights to desolate; Very bitter is her hat; And she hates most when she knows There are those who scorn her those Who rejoice in better things Than the baubles that 6he brings Conqueror's laurel, crown of kings! To reject these ana be wise ' Is a folly in her eyes; To be good Is ivorse than this, Kince it shows her what she is, And that she is baffled, too; For what is there she can do To the good and to the wise. Who her earthly dross despise. For their hearts are in the 6kies. Where their heavenly treasure lies. THE NEW GOLD COUNTRY. AMONG THE BLACK HILLS. AN INCIPIENT GOLD FEVEU EXPEDITIONS OR GAMZINO TO GO TO THE NaW DIGGINGS AN ORDER FROM GEN. SHERIDAN FINDING THE FIRST GOLD THE RICHNESS AND EXTENT. The recent expedition of Gen. Custer has been the means of producing a great excite ment in the discovesy ot gold in the Black Hills. The New York Tribune correspon dent writes thus from Chicago: The publi cation of the results of Gen. Custer's explo ration of the Black Hills country has exci ted as much interest here as in the East. Gen. Forsyth's letter and diary have been widely read. In the Chicago Tribune of this morning he writes from B ar Butte, Aug. 15: "The two miners we have with us tell me that they found "color" in every pan ol dirt they washed near Harney's Peak; that the diggings there in Custer's Gulch will pay $10 per day now; that they only had two or three days in which to prospect, as we kept moving so fast, but that. in their ' opinion, when the Eastern Hills are rightlv prospects zold will be found there in abundince. I am in clined to think so, for the very roots of the grass would pan five cents to the pan in our camp near Harney's Teak. There have been signs ot a gold fever here as the consequence of these discoveries. Expeditions are now forming in this city and at different points in Iowa, Dakota and Wyoming, to go to the new diggings. Tbey have forgotten that thee lands are secured as a reservation to the Sioux Indians, and that they have no right to enter them. Gen. Sheridan recalls this fact to their notice in an order published to day, as follows: Headquarters Military Division of the Missouri, Chicago, Aug. 27, 1873. Brlg.-Gen. A. H. Terry, St. Pan!, Minn.: The lieutenant-general commanding, di rects me to say that unofficial basiness information has reached these headquarters of the organization of parties at Sioux City, Yankton and Bismarck, to invade the Sioux Indian reservation, with the view of vi-iting the country known as the Black Hills. Should such information be correct, you will please notify to such parties that they will not be permitted to go unless undr authority from the honorable secretary of the interior or Congress. R. C. Drum, Assistant Adjutant General. A correspondent of the Black Hill's ex pedition writes on the 10th inst: If Charles iteynous, tne ooiu ami expenenceu numer, who. at the risk of his life, undertook to carry dispatches from the expedition to Fort Laramie, arrived tnere in saieiv. you have before this been informed by telegraph of THE DISCOVERT OF GOLD in the Black Hills. The Indian couriers who take this letter will carry additional dispatches. A mor 6 circumstantial account I have reserved for the mail. It was a wise forethought which indoced Gen. Custer to secure, In addition to the scientific corps ap pointed by the department, the services or two sKiuea ana experienced miners, who should supplement the accurate geological survey of Prof. Winchtell by a minute and special research for valuable minerals. The men selected for this purpose were H. N. Ross and W. T. McKay, of Bismarck, Dakota, who, as prospectors and practical miners, had served a long apprenticeship in i;aiiiornia, Aiomana, and Nevada. Tbey provided their own team, wagon, and mining outnt, and had liberty to prospect wnerever tney cnose on the route of the expedition. The result of their labors has justified this foresieht. and converted a glittering fable into a srlitterinK feet. The hints and surmises of geology have been tested and proved by the Eick, pan, and ecales. As we left the e mga-Ya-Kars and entered Floral VaUey, we lelt tha Jurassic age with its flaming red walls, and came suddenly upon a cahjaroous chapter of the carboniferous acre, in tables of stone which had been broken into fragments, the fractured Blabs left lying on the older beds beneath. Between these two beds, thinks the professor the one of broken carbonifnrous lime stone, the other a limestone of the upper Silurian a volume has been left out ot the creolo&rical record. The whole devonian period, With its coral, fern, and ganoid chronicles, is missing. The history of a great age has in some way dropped out more likelv it was not stitched in at the bindery. I leave the solution to the ge olozists. Below this nether limestone which, by the way, would make a very good nnicklime and a fine building Btone was a hard sandstone of still earlier repute. As we Droceeded up the valley and reached higher altitudes, the geological formation rjersistentlv became older. The discovery of some Linglna flags iden tified the Fotsdam sandstone the Lingula belne the name of a small shell peculiar to this formation. Stratified rocks with their included fossils then gave place to nietamor Dhlc rocks, which, if less communicative to our geologists, were more communicative to our miners. Huge masses of mlcaschist

protruded from the hills.incllned at an angle oi 45 dearees. sbowinir the eftVci cf the

jrreat upheaval which produced the Black Ullis. THK FIRST GOLD. Here, on the 26th of July, the day of our little Indian excitement, we found also the first good evidence of quartz rock. Our miners' experience chimed In with the sur mise of the geologist. They begin to prospec: here, but did not find the guttering encouragement thev soueht. The discovery further on of large quanti ties or leldspathic and granitic rock, and ledges of eold bearing ouart. which, with alternation of mica schist, re placed all other exposures, set our miners to work still more diligently. What they most needed was not a field, but an oorxirtunitv. The discover of eold wa not th nrim L jct of the expedition,, and. the other interests of the exploration could not be entirely sacrinmri to the incidental one. Our mirrhm wm so long that after getting into camp, the mi ners na Dut little time to search. However, they made good ose of their time, and woraed wlta a patient and commendable industry. The sight of gold-bearing qutrtt to an old miner kindles hopefnl anior w hich is not easily discouraged. i this hope and patience were mor tuibly rewarded. On the 30th of July we halted about noon in a pleasant valley, within ten miles of Harney's Peak. One of our miners tcok his pan, went to the stream and washed out a pan or two ot earth taken right from the grassroots. There was gold there, but it was merely a color, requiring careful manipulation and an experienced eve to find it. The few glittering grains, with a slight residue oi earth, were carefully wrapped up in a small piece of paper and put in the miner's pocketbook. It was simply an earnest of what was to come. The discovery announced created a good deal ol Interest but little commotion, not half the excitement, indeed, that the blooming exhuberance of Floral Vallev produced. Perhaps many were still incredulous. The next day the expedition remained ia camp, and the miners had a chance to renew their search. The result was the discovery of a good bar, yielding from five to seven cents per pan, which could easily be made to pay if water were more p'entiful there On the succeeding day the expedition made a mar oh of but five miles, ami f jund another excellent camp, in which Gen. Custer decided to remain for four or five days. Ross and McKay, in a literal s?ne, found this their golden opportunity. Along the creek, running down the valley, VERY GOOD COLORS were found in the loose dirt, none of which were worth less than half a cant a pan, and some worth three or four cents. A hole was then sunk in a promising bir to ths depth of six feet. Water intruded and embarrassed the work; but the earth panned out as high as ten cents. The miners were not able to reach the bed rock on account of the water. An examination of the gulch for two or three miles showed the existence of a succession of gold bars of equal and some perhaps of greater value. Time proved insufficient, however; to test them all, or yet to define the limits of the gold belt even in this special locality. To one unacquainted with the details and methods of mining the discovery of a gold field yielding anywhere from eight to fifteen cmts to a pan may not seem a very valuable discovery. It depends altogether however, on the constancy and uniformity of theyleld, and the ficiiitj with which It is worked. Many an old miner will prefer a digging which yields ten cents a pan to one which yields a dollar a p9n, and will iustify his preference by making ten times as much in a dav at the former as he or any one e'.se could make at the Ialtr, the difference being that In one place it is rock, while in the other the pans are easily rilled. TO THE SEA. thk people's freight line convention AT MOUNT VERNON,' O. EFFORTS TO ESTABLISH A LINE TO THE SEA. Mt. Vernon, O., Sept. 2. A railroad convention,under the call of the People's I reight Railway Company, of Pensylvania, issued upon a circular of the New York Cheap Transposition Association, met in this city to-day. 1 he object of the association was to perfect an organization in each of the States of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indianaand Illinois, to push forward the sur vey ol the best line ror the construction or a cheap freight railway betweeu the Atlantic seaboard and the Mississippi river. . Delegates were present from all the above named States, and the convention organized by electing the Hon. H. B. Curtis president, and Will A. Coveter, of this city, secretary. A committee was appointed, consisting of the Hon. Columbus Delano, of Ohio, Gen.. Benj. Dornblazer, ot Illinois, H. M. Hamil ton, of New Jersey, James Boyd and Judge David Kichards, ot Uhio, and W. G. Patter son, of Illinois, to report the order of busi ness and prepare proper resolutions. Tele grams were received Irom dinerent points in the Wes ern States promising assistance. On the recommendation of the committe, through their chairman, the Hon. C Delano, committees were appointed for each State to solicit subscriptions to pay the expenses of a preliminary survey of the entire line, with a central committee at Pittsburg, to which the other committees are to reoort. A certificate of incorporation 'or the People's Freight Railway Company, Ohio division, was executed with five incor porators. The president was authorized to appoint, upon the approval of the local committers, one attorney for each State to prepare papers and perfect the consolidation of the five companies into one, to be called the People's Freight Railway Company. Charles U. Quhil, late engineer of the Texas & Pacific railroad, M as appointed chief engineer ot the preliminary surveys, with his headquarters at Pittsburg. Tbe convention adjourned to meet at the call of the central, committee. There was a full attendance from tbe different States, and a loll Interchange of views was had and considerable interest manifested. From the character of the gentlemen present, succass seems reasonable at no distant day. THE CENTENNIAL COMMISSION. . THE APPLICATIONS FOR SPACE FOR AMERICAN EX HrmTORS NATURAL RESOURCES AND RAW MATERIALS OF DIFFERENT SECTIONS DESIRED. The United S fates Centennial Commission announces its readiness to receive applications for space in the international exhibition of 1876, at Philadelphia. It is important that it should be known with the least possible delay what space will be required in each of the departments of the exhibition by American exhibitors, in order that it may be determined what room can be assigned to foreign nations. Manufacturers and otfiers who purpose exhibiting on this occasion should therefore make known their intention promptly.and thus avoid the disappointment of finding the room they desire pre-occupied. It is especially desirable that early provision should be mode for the organization of those collective exhibitions of the natural resources and raw materials of different sections of tbe country, which can not be made by individual exhibitors. Tbe importance of this, as an incentive to immigration and to tbe investment of foreign capital, can not be overestimated; and a liberal provision for the prompt and thorough performance of the work will amply repay those States which undertake it. The advertisement of the director general of the international exhibition tells In what manner applications should be made.