Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 24, Number 14, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 November 1874 — Page 6

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10. 1874.

REMONSTRANCE. CELIA THAXTEK. 'Come oat and hear the birds sing! Oh.- wherefore sit you there . , , , , At the western window watching, dreamy-pale and still and fair, "While the warm summer wind disparts your tresses' clustering gold? "What is it on the dim sea line your eyes would "1 seefe asaiUhat looms from out the purple At rotyedawnf or fading eve, or In the noontide' blaze." 'AsiiilT Lo, many a column of white canvas

lax aMiu ucm . All da they glide across the blue, appear ana See, now they crowd the offlng, flocking from me saury oouin ' "Wh v stirs a smile more sad than tears the pa 'They lean before the freshening breeze, they . v. Hnv HUM luomxauuuuii .... , Eut be ship that brings me tidings of my love comes nevermore. - "Come out into the garden where the crimson phloxes burn, . And every Blender lily stem upbeaTS a lustrous A thousand greetings float to you from bud and oenanusiar, Their sweetness freights the breathing wind "Their brilliant color blinds me; I sicken At tneir Dream ; .... The whisper of this mournful wind is sad to me as uea in." "And must you sit so white and cold while all Ah, come with me and see how all Is brimming wunaeiignt: , On t he beach the emerald breaker murmur o er tue lawny sand; The white spray from the rock Is tossed, by meiung rainoown spauueu. "Nay, mock me not! I have no heart for na lure b iiupiuca! One sound alone my soul can Gil, one snap? my K.gnican oies. "Acd arc your fetters forged so fast, though you wereiicctiiiuBuuug, By the old mysterious madness, told in story In S" iv tr Since burdened with the human race the world te;an to roll 7 Can vou not thrust the weight away, so heavy "There is no power in earth or heaven such And 1 would not part with sorrow that I sweet er far than joy." "Oh, marvelous content that from such still despair is born! Nay, I would wrestle with my fate till love were s.ain wan com : Oh, mournful Mariana! I would never sit so Watcuing. with eyes grown dim with dreams, . . . . . . i n. i i in "Peace, peace! How can you measure a depth 31y coigns to me are dearer than your freedom i - fi IS IU UU. NEWS AND GOSSIP. The progress made by the pupils learning drawing in the public schools of Boston is mite satisfactory, it is said. Tho cost of instruction is only two mills per pupil oer day, or $31,835 52 per annum lor the whole. Count Von Arnim was born iu 1321. He did not inherit his title, but was created count while he was Prussian ambassador at Rome. He is ot middling height, has black hair, which ho wears long, and blue eyes lie uses spectacles. According to Bert, meat does not putrefy in compressed .ir, but - merely undergoes a slight change in external appearance. Even when putrefaction has been beirun it is said to be entirely arrested when the substance is introduced into a condensed atmosphere. New Hampshire presents 222 new or newly repaired school houses, 41 cew schools, C7 additional graded schools, but a diminished average attendance. Of its 227 town?, 1HJ either failed to report to tho State superintendent or reported lack of interest. "Howard Glyndon," that is to say, Laura C. Redden, is said to be no longer deaf and dumb, but has learned to talk like other folks. A gossipy letter-writer says her manner is full of happiness, she bubbles with laughter while speaking, and enjoys life to the utmost. Sir Alfred Stephen, late chief-justice cf New South Wales, has addressed a letter to the Sydney Morning Herald, in reference to the Tichborne case. Hitherto he has favored the idea that the claimant was indeed Roer Tichborne, but now be i3 satisfied that he is Arthur Orton. Mr. Robert Bonner has purchased lrom Mr. Gray, of Boston, the wonderful five year old, Wellesley Boy, for a double horse to trot aside of Startle. The pries paid is not announced. It is known that Mr. Gray asked $25,000 for him, and that Mr. William H. Vanderbilt was a competitor lor the purchase. Late advices from Japan report Mr. Avery. United States Minister to China, as in extremely poqj health. While at Tokio, en route to his post, he was con lined to his bfd for several days at the house of Minister Bingham, where he was a guest. lie sailed lrom Yokohama for Shanghai on the 2ijth ultimo. An ink closely resembling that forming the characters upon the Egyptian papyrus may, it is iaid, be made by dissolving gum lac'in an aqueous solution of borax, aud adding lamp-black in suitable quantity. This ink is claimed to be almost indestructible, resisting both time and chemical agents, and becoming a beautifully lustrous black. Prof. O. C. Marsh, of Yale College, the eminent student of fossils, arrived at Cheyenne, Wyoming, last Wednesday, and will proceed to Red Cloud Ageney, in a few days, in company with Maj. T. H. tanton, paymaster U. S. A., to examine the recently . discovered bone fields in that locality. He expects to find many new and valuable scientific fossils in that region. Mr. M. A. Little, ol New York City, on Saturday presented George Evans the jockey who rode Fellowcraft at Saratoga when Lexington's great four-mile raco was beaten, with an elegant split-hand gold watch and chain. Inside the case is an inscription, "Little to Evans. Fellowcraft, lour milea, 7:WJ, at Saratoga." An English correspondent writes to an American paper: "It is tho oddest thing in the world to me that you will tolerate such literary humbugs.who have no reputation at home. What ha9 come over you that j-ou reject such a scholar as Charles Kingsley, and open your arms to Hepworth Dixon and Charles Bradlangh? The one a mere literary chiffonier, and the other an uneducated and soulless infidel." Maine shows a smaller number enrolled in schools, but a decidedly better average attendance, an increase of $311,121) in the amount raised for school purposes a very large addition to the number of iU high. scboo's, more vfgor in many instances of local action, and a better adjustment cf the parts ot the State system, calculated to promote the advance of all the interests or culture. It is best to prepare paste by triturating the starch with cold water in a mortar until no lumps remain, and not too thick a mass is formed, and pouring into this boiling water,ery slowly, with rapid stirring, until the paste begins U - form, as indicated by the . increase of transparency, and then rapidly adding the rest ofthe boiling water necessary for the paste. Boiling the paste is very iniuri.ous, rendering it less adhesive, and liable to peel ofl. Nearly a year has elapse .1 since llio Uni

versity of Modern Languages was incorpor- . i ! 11 1 m r , ' ilta Tho

aieu unuer me laws ul udtsatuusckH, report of the board ox trustees, lateiy reau before a large meeting at Newburyport City Hall by Mr. E. M. Boynton, showed that accommodations had been secured in thla important line or instruction ior iw rwnnila TTo nfforpil tn Iva nnA of 100 to raise f 100,000 for the institution, and he had no doubt mat it niewDuryport woum iso much, $1,000,000 would be invested within ten years. In a speech at Oshkosh on the late visit to Wbconsin.Gov. Seymour said: Several years aero I was unfortunate enough to be a can didate for Dublic office, and many unpleas ant thincrs were said aeralnat me; but I con sole myself with the reflection that the harsh thtnmi d;h thnnt me. which were untrue. ""v " - v. were no greater tnan me many woica uiigui, nave neen saiu aicaiusi mo uu nvi. an1 nf Kölner HialfiVftl. dlSBaiUt A -J v.uav v. j v l..of V..rs,-iHal nnrl intricrninrr. but m V noiirhhnmoorAil littlA for that. Hilt if III V enemies accused me of watering my milk, I ... . i, ., f 1 I 1 k. ! would have Deen enureiy rumeu iu iu can mation ot my Onleda county friends. Julius, is vou better dis morning?" "No! I was better yesterday, but I got over It." "Am der no hopes, den, ob your discov ery?" "Discovery of what?" "Your discovery from the convalescence which lotcbed you on your oacK." "Dat 'pends, Mr. Snow, altogedder on de nrrxrnnstinatlrtns which amDlifv the disease: should they terminate fatally, the doctor thinks Julius is a goce nigger; Bnouia aey lint t Ai-iiiinftt fataliv. be hoped dis colored in.-Ui-irinai H:a auo.lf-r time. I said before, it all 'pends on the prognostics, and till dese come to a head it is nara teiiing weauer tue nigger will discontinue dis time or not Hartford Times. A writer in Chamber's Journal speaks of the fact as decidedly noteworthy that the cjinmon opinion that excessive mental oc cunation gravitates toward insanity is not only not "verified bj facts, but that, on the contrary, one of the foremost of living physicians doubts whether alienation of mind is ever the result of overstrain ; it is to physiral not mflntal derangement, he thinks. that excessive work of the brain generally gives rise. Insanity, he points out, finds the most suitable material ior us development amonz the cloddish, uneducated flaaqnq whi 1 the worst forms of nbvslca diseases are originated and intensified by the eaucatea, overstraining Dram-wuriterj. THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL. REASONS FOR NOT PRESSING ITS PASSAGE THE PRESENT DUTY OF CONORESS. f The Cannelton Inquirer contains the fol lowing editorial on the principles embodied in the civil rights bill: In about a month Congress will again meet, when, if the republican majority in that body see fit, they can take up and pass the civil rights bill as passed by the Senate. The question Is, will they do it? We hope and believe they will not. Nothing would more delight the opposition than the passage of the bill, for in that case nothing in the future is more certain thaa the fact that the country will return senators and representatives to Congress pledged to its repeal. It will be infinitely better lor the party to pauso at once in its career and give the country the assurance of a disposition not to meddle with matters that belong exclusively to the States. For our part we have confidence that the States are as well disposed towards the colored people as the federal government, and we hope and trust they will be allowed to regulate the affairs of all their citizens without any interference by the latter. Only a few days ago we received a letter from a prominent legal gentleman of Iowa, in which he states that practically.in that State tho questions involved in the civil rights bill are already settled. So far as MIXED SCHOOLS are concerned the few colored inhabitants of that State prevent any trouble on that account, and in cases when persons have been denied their rights of public conveyance, the courts have given damages to the complainant. This has all been done without any assistance by the general government, without any civil risrhts bill, and entirely by the State, This is the true theory in our opinion, and is in strict accordance with our idea of State authority. At common law the rights of all persons are alike protected without reference to race or color. Take for example the law governing innkeepers. Should they refuse to accommodate a traveler who applies for food and lodging in proper condition with the means of payment for the same, and is refused without adequate cause, he ha his remedy by an action lor damages. This has always been the law, and it makes no sort of difference whether the person is white or black or copper colored. But the common law never made such refusal a misdemeanor, and subjected the landlord to arrest and FINE AND IMPRISONMENT. The liberties of the subject, even in the most arbitrary days of our English history, were regarded too sacred to bo thus interfered with in a matter that affected only the personal accommodation ol others. So in relation to public carriers. There are two principles involved in the civil rights bill which are highly objectionable, and either of which ought to secure its defeat. One is, that it makes a misdemeanor of an act which in itself involves no moral turpitude, and which, if it be a wrong, should be redressed by an action for damages according to the common law doctrine, which has been found sufficient for more than a thousand years past. The other is, that it takes from the States the authority to regulate their own municipal affairs. It is an encroachment upon the legitimate sovereignty of the States, and an undue augmentation of the national authority. Tho tendency of the law is to teach people to resort to the national government for the protection and enforcement of their rights, instead of to the State. It invites litigation in the United States courts, and in a measure ignores local or State courts. Its influence is powerfully TOWARDS CENTRALISM, which we wish to avoid, and which the people are determined to avoid. There is an opportunity yet remaining to the republican party to extricate itself from the difficulty into which extreme men have plunged it. Let Congress repudiate its errors and show the people that they have no grounds ior apprenenstou mat local authority is to tie interfered with. Let national, not local affairs be the object ol Congressional legislation, and the people will not became restive. There have been acts of Interference with local authority on the part of tha departments of the general government, aside from tho attemptodone ofthe civil rights bill, which It would be well lor Congress to look after and correct. We have great hopes that the recent elections will have the effect to teach our representatives some practical lessons in statesmanship, and that tho country will be largely benefitted thereby. Should it prove otherwise, then there is nothing more certain than a total change in the administration of the government at th earliest practicable period.

TUE AC3RN.

F. W. B. From the Galaxy for November. An acorn swung On an oak-tree bough; Ho long it had hnng. It would fain fall now To the kindly earth. That its germ within Might barst into birth, And iu life begin. And the antumn came With iU burning hand; And each leaf grew a flame, And each bough a brand. And a worm came tip And began to eat Through the hard, dry cup To the acorn sweet. And the acorn thought, "I shah soon see now The Ufa I have sought. When I fall from the bough ; For the worm gnaws through Ea?h tendon slight, That about me grew. Ana bound me tight." And with dying day Came the zepnyr's sound: And the acorn lay Next morn on the ground ; But its germ was eone By the worm's sharp teeth ; And the ground It had won ' Was its grave in death. THE WOLF AT THE DOOR. NEBRASKA STARVATION. A SAD AND TERRIBLE STORY OF PRIVATION AND POSSIBLE STARVATION PERSONAL NAR RATI V ES OF PRESENT SUFFERINGS FOR FOOD AND CLOTHINO. In hi3 official report on the condition o the plague and famine stricken people of Western Nebraska Gen. Brisbin gives graphic account of the sufferings of those for whom he is asking aid. We make a few extracts: Stopping at the cabins by the roadside to see for myself how the families were living, I met among others Mrs. Russell and her daughter. They live on a creeK seven miles from Arrapahoe, in Gosper county Nebraska. Their habitation is a dugout, and when I entered the cabin, the ladies of the familv had iust finished their dinner, which consisted of two small pieces of bread and a watermelon. I talked with them for some time and asked them many questions: General Brisbin What have you got here to eat? Mrs. Russell Very little, sir. General B. Tell me all about it? Mrs. Russell I have only a pint cf flour in the house. General B. Have you no meat, sugar, coffee, rice, hominy or breadr Mrs. Russell None, sir. General B. Have you any money? Mrs. Russell None, sir. Miss Russell Mother and I have lived on $ 20 since April last. General B. How old are you, Miss Rus sell? Miss Russell Nineteen, sir. 1 1 T Wlat start i?rtn 1r Mrs. Russell I wish she could get work. General B. What can you do, Miss Russell? Miss Russell I am a very good seamstress. General B. Can you read and write? Miss Russel Oh, yes, I am a pretty fair scholar, I think. Mrs. Russell She is a good dressmaker, and worked for many families in the Hast. General B. Can you get work? Mis3 Russel No, sir; I have tried.but no one has any dresses to make out here this year. That is the trouble. General B. Mrs. Russel, are there any poor families near you? Mrs. Russell Yes, sir ; our neighbor across the creek, Mrs. Beck, an educated lady, is as bad off as ourselves. Miss Russell Let me run over and tell her to come over. General B. Is it far? Miss Russell Only a little distance, and she will bo here in a' minute. General B. Mrs. Russell, have you any shoes? Mrs. Russell No, sir; but I have an old pair of slippers? General B. You have seen better days, madame, I should think? Mrs. Russell Indeed I have, sir, and I never knew what hard times were until now. Mrs. Russell Has the aid society clothing to distribute? General B Yes; what do you need? Mrs. Russell A great many things, 6ir, but it is humiliating to ask for them. General B. Never mind; we are not going to let you starve or freeze, Mrs. Russell, because you live out here on the frontier and have been unfortunate. Mrs. Russell (crying) I am eure it is very good of the kind people in the East to think of us, and we shall never forget them for it. General B. Mrs. Beck, will you please tell me when you camo here, what condition your family is in, and what you need? Speak fransly, as though talking to a friend. Mrs. Beck I will, sir. We have been out here two vears. and came from Champlain county, Illinois. We live on a soldier's claim. My husband was a soldier In the second Illinois cavalry for four years, and served under General Örd. We have a good farm and feel like sticking to it. Of course, after being ou it so long, we dislike to give it up. We have NO MONEY IN THE WORLD except ten cents that I have. All our crops were destroyed, both last year and this year, and we have now literally nothingno horses, hogs, cattle or sheep. I am baking my last loaf of bread to-day, and I wondered where I would get flour to make any more. I was thinking about it all day. and had faith to believe some good Samari tan would comr along and bring me flour. I did pot despair, for (od will not let us starve. Our women are nearly out of shoes, undergarments and dresses. I have had but one new calico dress in a year. I was educated at the normal school in Illinois, and taught six vears before I was married and two years since. These are hard tiroes that have fallen upon us, and we can never be grateful enough to our Kasteru friends, or repay their kindness in helping us out. It is unpleasant to accept charity, but tho truth is we are in great need, and many more families are just as bad off as Mrs. Russell's ana my own. Mrs. Beck was accompaniea by a bright little girl, and both Mrs. Russell and Mrs. Beck were remarkably handsome and intelligent ladies. Miss Russell wore a pair of boy's brogans, and I do net think Mrs. Beck had on any shoos. In Mrs. Russell's dugout the earthen floor was swept clean, and although poverty was everywhere apparent, tber6 was no want of tidinf ss. At Arrapahoe a merchant, whose name I did not take down at the time, and which I have since forgotten, related to jour agent the following incident: "The other day, as I was eating my dinner in tho room behind the store, where my wife and I live, a little girl came into the store and my wife Invited her to come in and bo seated until I had done, when I would wait on her. I noticed the child looked wistfully at the table, and a3 1 rasspd out saw the tears were roiling down her cheeks. I asked her what was the matter, but she would not tell me. I told my wife to find out what ailed the child, and went out, closing the door behind me. The little girl then confessed to my wife she wa3 hungry, and said she had not tasted food for 4S hours, and that her mother ard littl3 sbter were at home in the same

condition. We gave her her dinner and sent some food to her mother."

At Arrapahoe I learned of a poor family named AuguUii, and visited It. The state ment or Mrs. Auguish, as given me, was as follows:. I have two children, both girls, the eldest aged five years and the youngest two years. Aiy nusoana is a laborer, but nnas it nara to get work now. lie came here with some money, bought a lot and commenced to bcild a house and a mill. The house is unfinished. I live in the school house, which a director has kindly allowed me to occupy until after hit confinement. I nave aooui nrty pounds ol Hour on band and about one-quarter of a pound of tea. We have no stock of fowls of any kind. My children have no stockings or shoes. I have had about S5U to live on since April last. I have one decent dress, a calico. We raised no crops; the grasshoppers EAT TJP EVERYTHING. I hare no one to take care of me when I am sick. I wish I had some red flannel for my children. I have picked up some old scraps and r8gs and made clothing for my baby. have less than ever before, but can get along if we only have enough to eat. I never saw such hard times before. Do you think the grasshopper's will come again ?" on my way down the Arrapahoes to Melrose I stopped by the roadside to visit a poor woman who lives in Harlan county, near Watson's postoffice, eight and a half miles from Melrose. She made the lollowli statement: I have four children aged seven, six and three years, and a baby seven months old. My husband has gone to Iowa to see if he can get help for us from friends there. The grasshoppers eat up all we had. I have forty pounds of flour and ten cents' worth of tea, but nothing else. We have no stock. The children have had no meat. I have no coffee or sugar. I nurse my baby. My milk is drying up. Dr. McCoy got me the flour on credit, and said he would pay for it himself if I could not. I do not know where I can get any more when that is out. Xone of the children have i-hoes or underclothing. They have one dess apiece. I have a pair of old shoes, but no stockings or underclothing. My baby boy has no stockings, shoes or underclothing, and but one old calico wrapper. I am in want. My cabin is very open and cold at night My name is Mrs. Martha Duncan. The following is the statement of a little girl who was at home keeping her brothers and sisters: "My father and mother are out haying for a neighbor. There are five children of us. I am the eldest. We have a little flour in the barrel. Father had a pig, but he killed it and we ate it all up long ago. Father says, When the flour is out we will starve:' but mother says, 'God will take care of us. Our neighbor, Mrs. Winter, is as badly off as ourselves, and Mr. Foster is worse off. We have NO SHOES NOR STOCKINGS. We have one dress spiece. Mother has no shoes. Father and mother are out working to get six dollars to pay Mr. Austin. We owe him that muchj and father says it must be paid. We have no sugar, tea, or coffee, nor nothing to eat but flour, and we are thankful for that. I know money when I tee it; that is money! Billy, come and see the money! I will take good care of it and give it to lather when he comes home. He will be very glad. I wish I had some clothing. I would like to go to school; I- went to school last summer, and learned to read. I am ten years old, and my name is Lizzie Chamberlain." This family was very poor. The cabin had no furniture, and the children were almost naked. I gave the children S2 for their parents and left an order for ?3 on Mr. Tinkham's store. In many places the larger girls hid themselves, ashamed to be seen by a stranger and the older women felt confused and constantly apologized for their ragged appearance and the poverty of their homes. Nearly the whole population in many places is barefooted, and half the people are nearly naked. I beard of a great deal of poverty and distress in all directions, and wherever I traveled not over ten or 20 days' supplies of rations were to be found. A THEATER FIGHT. THE POUNDING OF FACES A SANGUINARY CONFLICT. The New York Sun of the 31st. ult. con tains the following account of a unique en tertainment in a theater in that city: They had a spectacle on the Bowery stage last night, A play called "Life in New York" had been advertised for the occasion of Billy" Edwards's benefit, with a sparring match between Edwards and "Fiddler" Nearv. OnThursday Neary said that he would not attend, and "Patsey" Hogan was substituted in his stead. The the ater was packed from pit to dome. On the stage were Arthur Chambers, Mike Coburn, Johnny Aarons, George Siler, Bill Clark, Harry Hill, and a crowd of others of the "profession." Edwards stepped to the footlights and said that as Neary was not in the he-use he would put on the gloves with Hogan. At this Neary jumped from his seat in the gallery and shouted that he was "ou hand" and was not afraid of Edwards. "Come down, then," said Edwards, "and let's see." Neary descended to the stage amid a deafening shout, and stripped for a fight. Both men were excited, and it was evident that they "meant business." The stage was surrounded by policemen, and others were stationed in different parts ot the house. A riot seemed imminent. Old "Bill" Tovee stepped lorward and tried to pacify the excited crowd, and called for fair play. At length the combatants stepped toward the footlights and shook hand?, smiling grimly. At the word "time ' the herculean "Fiddler" aimed a blow with a fist like a sledge hammer. Edwards stepped aside and struck Neary a fearful blow on the side of .the face. The men then closed, and a terrific round ended with the fall of both, with Edwards uppermost. Six rounds followed, both pugilists lighting in earnest. The "Fiddler," finding his antagonist more skillful than himself, stopped sparring after the second round, and sought onlv to throw Edwards, depending upon his own suporior physique. At length he grew desperate and laid himself open to the fierce assaults of his adversary, who kept cool, waiting for his chance. Every round ended with a fall, and six times out of the seven the "Fiddler" was under. When the men fell they struggled desperately, rolling over and over, striking savagely, until the "sports" on the stage had to disengage them. The contestants allowed each other hardly any time, but almost as soon as separated renewed the fight. The admiring crowd arose from their seats en masse and shouted themselves hoars?. Before the end of the tilth round the "Fiddler's" face was battered almost past recognition, and the blood, which flowed freely from his nose, was spattered over Edwards. .At tho end of the seventh round Neary "threw up the sponge," and the sectators on the stage lilted Edwards to their shoulders and carried him to the "flies." He was loudly called for. For several minutes the uproar wa. 30 great that he could not mak" himself heard. When it ended he waiked to the front, and, panting for breath, said: "Gentlemen, I hope this will be a lesson to Mr. "Fiddler" Neary, and the next time he promises to pnt on gloves with me I guess I

THE WEUDIXG-VAIL.

ELIZABETH II. WHITTIER. Dear Anna, when I bought her vail. Her white vail on her wedding-night. Threw o'er my thin, brown hair ita lolds, And, laughing, turned me to the light. "See. Bessie, see! you wear at last The bridal -vail, forsworn for years!" She saw my face, her laugh was bushed. Her happy eyes were filled with tears. With kindly haste and trembling hand. She drew away the gauzy mist; Forgive, dear heart !" her sweet voice Bald: Her loving lips my forehead kissed, We passed from oat the searching light; The sammer night was calm and lair; I did not see her pitying eyes, I felt her soft hand smooth my hair. Her tender love unlocked my heart : 'Mid falling tears, at last I said : Forsworn, Indeed, to me that vail, Because 1 only loye the dead 1" Bhe stood one moment statue-still. And, musing, spake In undertone: 'The living love may colder grow. The dead is safe with God a'one!" SHOCKING BARBARITY. AN INHUMAN MOTHER AND STEP-FATHER. The St. Louis Republican of the 31st ult. gives the following facts connected with an unparalleled example of brutality: A case probably of the most disgusting brutality that St. Louis papers have ever been called upon to chronicle, was brought to the notice of the police of the first district yesteraa. The story, as related by Captain Hercules, is as follows: Living near McNair avenue, between Pestalozzi and Lynch streets, is one Peter Mulvay, and living with him in the relation of wife is one Mary Hardeman. This Mulvay is the man who, as was nroved at the inquest, beat his wife in a brutal manner, last spring, bringing on a premature birth, as a result ot which she died. By some technical means Mnlvay escaped indictment. He has several children by that wife, and, according to the testimony of his neighbors, he frequently beats them and drives them from home, compelling them to find shelter in outhouses or in the houses of pitying neighbors. Now to the preeent case. Mary Hardeman has a little girl about two years of age, who has on all occasions been beaten and mistreated by both its mother and Mulvay. The neighbors have frequently seen the little thing abused in a manner that, It would seem, an adult could hardly endure, and the matter had become the talk of the ontire neighborhood. Complaints were frequently made to the police, but as they were not witnesses to the cruelty, they were loth to take any steps in the matter. On Thursday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, Bridget Mulva?. a 10-Tdar-old daughter of Mulvav. went to thehouse of her fatuer, intending to pay a visit, she being employed In another family earning her own living. She found the house closed, and was abont going away, when she heard a faint, moaning voice cry "O, mamma ! O, mamma !" The neighbors told her that the little girl was in the cellar of the house, and an investigation proved this true. The opening to the cellar had been nailed up, and thi3 and the child's condition went to show that it had been put down there for the purpose of starving it to death. It was taken out, but it was so benumbed with cold and so exhausted from want of food that it was unable to stand. The neighbors took charge of it and brought it out of its exhausted state, but the woman Hardeman soon came alter it, and, threatening that it they ever touched it again sho would split their heads, took it home, where it was beaten by Mulvay and again placed in the cellar and left there all night. Mnlvay amused himself when it cried by poking it through the cellar hole with a long stick. Some of the neighbors remonstrated with him, but he said that the child was in his charge, and be would do with it what he pleased. This is the case, as ten respectable citizens are willing to testify, and surely something should be done to bring the brutes to the punishment which they deserve. The child Is still in their hands. PECULIARITIES OF DENVER. "THE PRIDE OF THE PLAINS" REVOLVERS BELOW AND MONEY ABOVE PAR MORALS AND MANNERS OF THE CITY. A correspondent of the Graphic writes thus entertainingly of some characteristics of life in Denver: An innocent traveler enters a railroad ticket office in New York and examines the various advertisements of routes to Denver. To Chicago his path seems straight, and west of that the Chicago, Rock Island it Pacific, and the union zracuic nnas iavor m ma eyes. The former road advertises connection through to Denver by wav of Omaha, and tnence Dy tne union pacific toChevenne. This is a delusion and a snare. There has been no practical connection for many a montn. l reacnea Cheyenne about 1 o'clock p. m., on Friday, and Jor 13 mortal hours hovered about that spot wondering when the "connecting" train to Denver would appear. At 2 a.m., on Saturday, the "connection" was made, and the sun rose from the plains on the left hand and illumined the Rocky Mountains on the right sometime before Denver came into view. I own, 1 regret to say, no stock in any railroad, and I do not advise any particular route to Denver. Only I should be unwilling to remain more than half a day at Cheyenne again. Perhaps, now that the railroad magnates, including he ot the slapped face, have "crossed the continent," a new order of things may b instituted. Denver is a city. Nearly seventeen thousand souls dwell within its boundaries. Of this number some three or four hundred are receiving from 18 to 36 per ent. a year for their money, and a majority of the remainder are paying these killing rates. I am naturally inclined to take a gloiious view of affairs in general, but, even after elevating myself to a level with the saDguine ones, l am unable to comprehend how such a state of things can . last very lcng. But I will say that every oue seems to be jolly and light-hearted. There are no shopkeepers who sit in the doors of their shops, looking as if they would gladly apply the torch to their tenements and realize their insurance if they only dared. Nothing of the sort here. "How many of these Denver tradesmen pay their expenses lean not conceive; but to a purchaser they make no concessions. If one is not suited with their prices he can go elsewhere. No effort is made to induce him to buy. The shopkeeper is as indifferent about it apparently as if he were WORTH MILLIONS. This may, bo accounted for from the fact that all of them came here in the condition of Franklin when he entered Philadelphia; attfl they reason if tbey return whence they came with nothing there will have been little practical loss. I haven't yet dared to ask any ol them about this matter, for fear of a possible rifle or revolver behind the counter. This sang-froid extends to all classes. The jokes ot the driver who stands readv to take you to the fair for 25 cents fall dead upon tho ear of the passer by. The pedes trian scarcely raises his eye while the backman explodes with 0iie3-s of wu. ir the former is readv to go to the "show," a quick little dash for the vehicle is his only method of signifying it. The waiter in the restaur ants and hotels (of all in the East the most obsequious) is here metamorphosed into an aggressive fiend. One day he is lamiliar, the next cay be ignores you. ion enter your restaurant ior Dreaufast ten minutes before the time 01 obtaining that meal has expired. The fiend approaches with a silver watch in bis hand,

and a minatory frown on his face. You have the same feeline that possessed you in your school dav. wh

vandng ruler in hand. You Involuntarily : v... up auu iJicpare ior tne worst. The watch is thrust under your nose; then follows, m vicious accents. "So you're late, eh?" What is to be done with ine nenar report him to the proprietor. Useless: the rtronietnr wniU -,.k , ' 1 - laiuci JUSO your custom than dismiss the fiend. Seek vuurprovenaer. eise where? No, for vou might fall into thft hanrf. c j - - v. vi wiuci UCUU9 who would develop more atrocious qualities than your livliest imagination wuiu puinajr. -unn ana Dear it?" Ye if vou intend to Uta in rnm. 1 V home" of your own. In years gone by the uuuu n aa Buut, ueueve; ana under the repressing reign of the revolver his fiendishness Beldom rose to the surlace. The close of Christianity of Cromwell was natnrally succeeded by the moral laxity of Charles II but decency, after a while, resumed its sway; and 1 presume that at some future day THE FIEXD OF DENVER will again be gathered to the fold of waiterdom. This place is full of Englishmen. What they do, no one seems to know. They seem to be a very decent set, minding their own affairs (whatever they may be). A lord is among them, a quiet fellow, who doesn't hold himself aloof from the common herd, and, who, apparently, has money enough to pay his debtsa little matter which all of our noble foreign friends haven't attended to. Most of them, like the uxford graduate, have a paper amou their curiosities, labeled "Receiptor a tradesmanvery rare." The morals of Denver are said to ba improving. There is little open vice. To be sure, Sunday is not as religiously kept as in the East. The billiardrooms are open on that day, and the echoes from the ivory balls mingle with "the sound -of the church-going bell." The lager beer saloons and the barrooms have no closed doors; but we ni5ght say pretty much the same of New York on Sunday. Assuredly there is an improvement upon several years ago. That there should l6 no circulating librarv of any description in a place of this size is rather against its Intellectual improvement. Perhaps it ia too soon to expect much. The democracy ot Cincinnati is said to be made up of those who kill pigs, and the aristocracy of those whose fathers killed pigs. The great peoDle of Denver are the 'Fifty-niners," those who came here In 1S59, and the small people are those who have come since ; so, as this city is but a j-outh of fifteen, we must not look for the fruits of maturity. In general "goaheadativeness" Denver certainly will rank tmperior to any eastern city of like size. ATTEMPTED REVENGE. A VIOLENT ASSAULT IN NEWARK ON A. J. COMSTOCK PUBLIC INDIGNATION. The New York Tribune of the 1st inst. contains the following statement concerning a most brutal assault near that city: Anthony J. Comatock, an agent of the New York society for the suppression of vice, and also an sgent of the United States government lor preventing the transmission of obscene matter through the mails, was assaulted and dangerously nvounded in Newark, N. J., on Saturday night, by Charles Conroy, of No. 318 West Fourth street, Brooklyn, E. D., whom he had arrested on the charge of having in his possession money letters obtained fraudulently. Several complaints had been made against Conror, who bad been operating in several places in New Jersey, Staten Island and Long Island, and these had been referred to Mr. Comstook lor investigation. He has been on the track of Conroy for a long time, and finally succeeded in tracing him to Newark, where he arrested him on a definite charge; and accompanied by Mr. Hopwood, a clerk in the postoffice at Newark, took his prisoner in a carriage to the Newark jail. Mr. Comstock, on arriving at the jail, alighted and was stopping to open the carriage door, when Conroy suddenly drew a dirk with a blade about thiee inches long and stabbed him in the head, inflicting a slight ecalp wound. The blow was instantly repeated, the dirk this time cutting a fearful gash in Comstock's face, extending from the temple to the chin, and laying the flesh completely open to the bone. Four of the facial arteries were severed. With the blood epurtiDg from his wound, Comstock seized the prisoner, with assistance from Mr. Hopwood, and presenting a revolver, threatened to snoot him if he resisted. The guard soon came to their assistance, and Conroy was locked up. Mr. Comstock'a wound was then dressed, but so bunglingly that the flow of blood had not stopped when he arrived at his residence in Brookl3n. His clothes were saturated with blood. He was at once attended by Dr. Hutchinson, who did not succeed in stopping the flow of' blood until two hours after his arrival. Mr. Comstock was doing very well last night and Dr. Budington said there was no doubt about his recovery, the only danger being from the possible setting in of erysipelas. His wound is so severe that his physicians will not permit him to converse, and he can scarcely speak above a whisper. He says that notwithstanding the provocation oilered. he is glad that be did not shoot Conroy. While Conroy was in the carriage he tried to wheedle Mr. Comstock into letting him off. He KISSED MR. COMSTOCK'S HANDS, and resorted to the most abject flatterj-to secure that end. After the attack his conduct was changed, and he cursed and reviled hi captor. Conroy is described as a large, heavy man, with three fingers of one of his hands amputated. He was committed by United States Commissioner Whitehead, before the assault, to answer on Thursday. He has been arrested before at the instance ot Mr. Comstock. The latter has several times been assaulted by those whose nefarious business he has broken up. About a month ago he was aasaulted In City Hall Square, but being a man of great strength he had the advantage of his assaliant and put him into the hands of the police. He nolds several charges against Conroy, lor the transmission of obscene literature, which will be duly presented. Mr. Hopwood will prefer charges against Conroy to-day for assault with intent to kill. The assault'upon Mr. Comstock has aroused intense indignation among the Clinton Avenue Congregational Church of Brooklyn, of which he was a member. The Rev. "Dr. Budington announced the outrage from his pulpit yesterday morning, and detailed the circumstances of it to the male members of the congregation, who met in the lecture-room at his request after the close ot the services. Dr. Budington spoke in terms of highest praise of Mr. Comstock's courage and success in his warfare on vile literature; and was followed by Mr. Henry W. Slocum, who, in a short and vigorous speech, depicted the magnitude of tho evil against which Mr. Comstock is contending, and the duty of all decent men to sustain him. The sneaker had given him a few paltry dollars, but he needed more than that the moral support of everj-right-meaning and right-thinking man in the community, who would save his children and those of his neighbors from pollution and destruction. Alter remarks Inother members of the congregation, a committee, consisting of the Rev. Dr. Budington, Gen. I'f.W. Slocom, and Messrs. El well, Libby and Hall, was appointed to dralt resolutions expressing the sympathy of the church and society with Mr. Comstock, and to devise means for increased and certain financial support of the society of which Jir. Comstock is the agent.