Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 24, Number 31, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1875 — Page 6

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL TUESDAY, MARCH 23 1875.

TUEFOLLOWKR, K. n. STOPOAKD. Oaper'a Magazine for AprtI.I We have a youngster in the houhc, A litle man ol ten, "Who dearest to his mother U f all (iod's little men. In-doorsandout be clings to ber; He follows up and dowt : II tea'a his slender band In here; He plucks her by the rowu. "Why do yoa cliDg to meo child T You track me everywhere; You never let rne alone." And he with serloua air Answered, as closer still he drew, m 'My feet were made to lollow yoa. Two years before the boy was born Auoiherciiild.of seven. Whom Heaven had lent to as a wbllo, Went l.ick again to Heaven, lie came to flil hi brother's place, And b!e our failing years; Tii s"od Jod sent him down in love To dry our unless tears. I tlunk k, mother, for I hear la what the child has aid A meaains tbat he knows cot of, A me.v;4e from the deal. H answered w ht thitu he kew. .My Tee; wero made to follow you. Come here, ray child, and fit wilh ra. Your head upon my bresv; You re the lat of all my kons. And on must be the best. How inucb i love you, you may giu-m, When grown a man, like me, Ynu hii as 1 am sitiinj; now, Yonrcbiid upon your Unee. Think of my then, and what I Raid ( A nd practiced when 1 could) " 'Tl something 1 1 ha wise and great, lis i eticr to ue good. !i, sy touil thlnxs good and true. iy feet were made to follow you ! Come here my wi'e and sit br me, nj place your liana in mine (A)d yours, my child): while 1 have yoa IM.. 1 j?r In TPTilllH.

We've had our share of sorrows, love ; We've hd our grave to flil: l!u, thank the good Uod overhead. We have each other tcill! W've nothing In tee world bewiJea. t or we are only three: Mother and child, my wife aBd Cbl.d, How dear you are to me! I know indeed, 1 always knew. My fett were made to follow you ! NEWS AND GOSSIP. Shackcasty Jim is in Washington. This is cica maple sugar weather, Verbum sap. Tbe fair for dumb animals in Doaton realized f 20,000. Birnutn is going to send a balloon to Europe this Bumnier, sure pop. A number ol uiluer3 have resumed work at the cli ratea in Athens county, O. The fur trappers of Minnesota are reported to have had a very prosperous winter. .The chriie:dng robe of Gen. Sickle' babv. baptizod in Paris recently, cost $3,000 (gold). The private library of the llev. Dr. "Walker, which was bequeathed to Harvard College, is valued at 15,000. Tho acreage of wheat in Colbert county, Ala., is five-fold larger than in any previous yetr since the war. The District Conferenee of the Methodist Church, South, will convene at Irvine, Ky., on the 13 b ol May, 1375. Tue Massachusetts legislature have dedared the 17tuof June and 15.li of April legal holidays lor this year only. Two subterranean tanke, filled with f.0,000 gallons Of grap3 .brandy, wre recently ei.ei by rcveaue oncers at Loh Angelos, Cat. Six Milwaukee svomen, with babies, met the other day, and agreed to voto which was tne handsomest inUnt. Kjch child i;ot one vote. Iu BrockiK.rt, N. Y., the crusaders have instituted seventy-two suits against one dozn of liquor dealers for soiling without a license. The ;iIartford Po?t announces that 1. T. JUrnum will be a candidate lor mayor'of Bridgeport ai the approaching municipal election. Large flocks of snow birds uro making ä living in Kansas in eating the eggs of grassboppwis, which tha frost has heaved up out of the ground. Smart boys lioV.on boys are. Two oi them lately made 11 in one day by clearing sidewalks lrom snow. They approve of big snow storms. Farm lands in Aroostook county, Maine, can be bought of the state at sixty cents an acre, payment to be made in labor on the public highways. 'L0 study and more fun" is Rev. Robert Collyer'a viewon theeducation of young children. Collyer would ba the next president if the boys voted. The new club house to be erected by the Queen City Cinb, of Cincinnati, will cost S65.0U0. It is to be built on the corner or Kim acd Seventh streets. The new house of Leland Stanford of the Pacific railway, in San Francisco, Is tobe 12.1 feet square, aud tbis will make ib tho largest private residence iu California. A process of toughening glass by hestlng it to redness and then cooling it in oil, has been discovered by a Frenchman, and is attracting attention in manufacturing circles. A lar,je Bramah rooster attacked a little girl at Stanford the other day, and injured her head considerably by picking it before (he little one was rescued lrom tho cowardly creature. A girl in Florida baa been christened Neuralgia, alter a bottle of patent medicine approved by her mother. Probably Neuralgia will ba a good thing to have a lew years hence. The fences of tho United States are said to be worth f 1,800,000,000, and, it is added, that it costs J'JS.000,000 annually, to keep them in repair, there is nothing moro interesting than statistics. In Illinois the civil damago law is constantly made the bisia for suiU against aloon keepers, and in nearly all casos with success. A liquor sailer In Amboy, inthat täte, has just been compelled to par 2,000 to the widow or a drunkard who was killed in his saloon. Jack Frost has gone into tho medium baslness. One cold mornicg, rec3ntly, he painted ou the parlor window the picture ol a Wisconsin roan's aunt in the act of giving him something; a few days later ho received the intelligence ot her death and bis accession to her property. " A IVovidenco, It. I., man, who spent half a day endeavoring to thaw out what he supposed was a frozen water pip?, in order to obtain water for home consumption, was a Hille üisguo.iej wuen uo iiu'iu iui me wat rind le'n t!m: off that diy . fur nonpayment of warer tax. A mac died cf small-pox at Canij.hano last fail, and his cl jlha wore burltd to prevent icfiction, but lately, through motives cf economy, tho brother of tha deceaLoddisJaterrod and wore them. The frugal man 1 now in the pst hoyie and tho clothes will probably b buried again. We tern New York, which produces aanually about half a million barrels cf apDles. is s&iJ to b tun unrüoji But f r that fruit in the United S:ü'.c?, Ono sin-! - Ic a n, 1

thttof Lyon, In Wayne county, sent last year 40,000 barrels to market, made into cider 20,000 barrels, and dried 2,000.

Tha followimr Duzzle Is again on its rounds : "To five and five and fifty-five the first of letters add : 'twill make a thing that killed the kine and drove a wise man mad." It was published first about twenty years agorard has never been correctly answered. Hut i ney say mat mere is no A poor woman bound for San Francisco on a Union Pacific train, was obliged to leave that train on the 21st u.U., and became a mother at Papillion station on the 22J. The conductor at once telegraphed from Papillion: 'IIe weighs twelve pounds, and bis name is George Washington." All the passengers in the coach, upon hearing the announcement, gave three cheers for George Washington. Then they chipped in aud bought a little hatchet and stn; it to the youib, bidding him also follow the example of his illusions namesake. TUE RED CAP. TflK CRHATIOX OF CARDINALS NATION A LITT OY THK riUNCFS OK THE CHURCH UOW THE HONOR IS CONFERRED. Tho New York World discourses editorl allyontbo nationality ot the cirdinals.of the Catholic church: Whith the accessions of CVrdinals Mannlnz and. McCioskey to its numbers, tbe "Sacred College of Cardinals" will contain threo English-speaking meaibarf, a thing noteworthy of itself, as beinp, we believe, unprecedented sine tli3 time of Henry VIII. When Cardinal Pole died, in li3, he was the sole Lnglisb-epaak. inz " Prlnco of. the Church,' tb Scottiih Cardinal Beaton having been imnroved off the arth " by a rarty ol zaalous reformers twelve years tefore. Car dinal Da York, the last prince of the direct male line ot the Stuarts, died near Homo iu 1S07. and no new Enzlhh Cardinal was made until the nomination of Cardinal Weld, a kinsman of the first husband of Georcre IV.'. first wife, in 1S30. Cardinal Wolddied in 1S37. The purple was conferred upon the late Cardinal Wiseman, to the horror and alarm o! Lord John Rusell, in 1S."0. Dr. Cullen, the Catholic archbishop ol Dublin, was made a Cardinal in 1SG6. The three cardinals, archbishops of Westminster, Dublin and New York, will now represent the English speaking Catholic world in a liege ol 57 members. It may be interesting to see what proportions are borne Co eacu ether in the college by the different nationalities. Of course Italy comes first. The den of the Sacred College i an Italian, Cardinal Patrizl, bishop of Oftia and Velletri, now a venerable man of 77 years. After to-morrow'a proclamations, Italy will count, with the dean, no fewer than 38 cardinals in the three orders, bishops, priests and deac ns, all the cardinal-bishops, six in number, being native of Italy. Austria and France coma next la order, each with live cardinal, two of whom, by the way, it is worth noting, are NATIVES OF TIIE SEW WORLD, Cardinal De La Lastrey Cuesta, born in Cub3 iu 1S03, and nowarchbhbop of Seville and Caidinal Moreno, born in Guatemala in 1817, and now archbishop of Valladouid. Germany will havo one cardinal with the nomination of Count Ledochowakl, archbishop of Posen, and Belgium, which has ben irreverently fctyled the bantam chicken ot the cburcb, one, altto, with the nomination ot Mgr. Descuamps, archbishop of MalineorMeailin. Sothat,on tee whole, the Knglish speaking Catholics can scarcely complain of being inadequately represented in the highest constitutional body known to tbsirchurca. As we bave.fllready explained, however, the cardinalate has no direct reference to the administration of the church, bat is in its very essence an electoral body de-tigned to intervene between the church at large and the papacy, and to control the succession to that supreme otflce. So far as the Catholics of the Uuited States ara concerned, therefore, tbe elevation ot their archbishop in -New York t this priucely rank must really be regarded aa in the main intended to show the recognition by Home of tbe growth and Importance ot American Catholicism. So far as the really important electoral function ot tbA cardioalate ii concerned, care has been taken, it will be seen, to give Italy precisely the number necessary if the Italian cardinals act together to control the college. -A two-thirds vote elects the pope, and ot tbe 57 cardinals Italy, after to-morrow's proclamations, will have exactly 38. CONFERRING THK PURPLE. Tho llerald tells how the honor of the cardinalate is given: A newly appointed cardinal receives a red cap and a red bat as mark or symbols of his office. According to the usage of ma-y centuries the cap is given to the cardinals by the pope if they are at Home, and is sent to them if they are absent; but the bat has never been conferred except by tbe pope's own hand. The red cap is in the nature of a notification; tbe conferring of the red bat is a 'ullinves'.it ure. which completes tbe title to t ie office. The cardinal's cip is called a berretta.andthe statement of our intelligent correspondent at Home that tbe berretta is to be sent at once by special messengers and the cardinal's hat to follow atterward in the care of an ecclesiastic of higher dignity, indicates that tha old distinction between the two is to be observed, while releasing the American cardiual frnra strict observance oi the established ecclesiastical etiquette. The berretta will be an authentic official notice of his elevation, and the sending of tbe bat by a church dignitary disoenses the archbishop from the duty of The European cardinals to go to Rome and receive it from the hands of tbe Pope. Tbe berretta, or red cap, is to be sent at onc, without waiting nntil after the equinoctial fctorens before the papal messengers croa the ocean, which, we suppose, is the reason of the inquiry respect in tbe safest lines of steamships and their days of sailing The Catholic of this country will think tbe value ol the Pope's recognition or COMPLIMENT Is ENHANCED by the deviation from usage which exempts the American Cardinal lrom the duty of a long journey to Rome on a point ot cere mouial etiquette. This, at least, is tbe interpretation which we put up-n the dis crepancy between our dispatch fiom Rome and the ordinary usage to which the cardinal's hat could be received only taom the bands of the pope bimell Archbishop. McCioskey acquires new dlgDitv,but no additional power by this gracious rnd complimentary act. He is precluded by distance from participating iu some of the moet important functions of the Sacred College. The most important of all, tbat of electing a new pope, although in the course of nature it must son devclve oa the Collegs of Cardinals, must be performed under conditions which will not permit Cardinal MrClo-key to take part in It. Tne conclave meets for this purpose on the tenth day after tho demisi of a pope a period so short tbat an American Cardinal could not le present unless he should happen accidentally to be in Europe at the time. Tbe other functions of the cardinals are chlellv local, appertaining to the civil and ecclesiastical administration of the papacy. The cardinals have always bscn the princes and chief dignitaries of tLe Roman Statep. Daring tho long period befora the yope was stripped of his temporal power thfy held the highest ollices In bis civil government as well ai in his ecclesias-, tieal administration.

ONLY A WOMAN. BT HESTER A. BENEDICT. From the Home JonrnaL

Only a woman, shriveled and old? The play ot the wind and tne prey of the cold! i nee a a tnai are laronien, Eyes that are sunken, LiDi that were never o'erbold : Only a woman, forsaken and poor. Asking for aims at tne bronze cuurcn uoor. Hark to tbe orzan t roll noon roll The waves of lui music go over her soul ! suks rustle past her Thicker and faster; The great bell cease Its toll. Fain would she enter, but not for the poor Hwlngeth wide open the bronze church door. Only a woman waiting alone, Iciy cold on an Ice-cold throne. What do they care for her? hi ambling a prayer lor her, tiivln? not bread but a stone. Under old lacea thlr haughty hearts beat. Mocklns the woes of their kin In tbe street. Only a woman! In the old days Mope caroled to her her happiest lays ; fomebody ralswd ber, Sonubody kRsed her, .somebody crowned her with p aise; Homebody laced ap Ihe battles of 11e Strong for brsake who was mother, or wife. Homebodv lies with a tress of ber hair Light on his heart where the death-shadows are; sSomebody waits tor her, Opeuing the gales for her. Giving delight for dexpalr. v Oalv a woman nevermore poorHead In the snow at the bronze church door! THE ROPED ARENA. A MILL MADE UP. TOM ALLEN AND GEORGE ROOKE TALK OP AN INTERVIEW DESCRIPTION OK THE BUSINESS GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF THE ROCK EY MOORE KIQHT. The St. LtOuU Republican, by way of variety, gives a lively chapter of the ring suggested by what mayor may net happen It says : It seems thit, despite Tom's oft avowed retirement from the ring, and in the face of his recent denial of tbe report tbat be was about to make a match with George Rooke, he has gone East to arrange the preliminaries for that encounter, and that a deposit of $'M a side, being one-sixth of the agreed stake, is now in p the hands of Harry Hill. Tbe fight is arranged to take place within 50 miles of Pittsburg, on tbe 17th of Jane. The chances are about five to two tbat the fight will not occur, but as it will probably attract a good deal of attention from the sporting world a brief review cf tbe careers of the combatants and of their respective pugilistic abilities will not be uninteresting. Tom. Allen is too well known to require any detailed description, and the sporting public is already familiar with Lis history. He is in prime health now, fat as a bear," and will have to do some of the hardest training ol bis life to get dowu from his present 210 pound ot adipose to the 17J pounds of hove and muscle requisite to lit him for tbe roped arena. Moreover, Tom. is getting a tr!lle stale. Not that his age 30 has b.'gan to tell on him, but be has trained down and then fattened up again so many tl Ties tbat his system docs not take to the flesh-reducing process as kindly as it used to. Indeed it is seriously questioned by sporting men whether Tom is not a better man at 200 or 210 than at 172. It is true that in bis present HesU he might be a trifle slow, and bis wind might give out in a protracted struggle, while bis faco would present a cushion for hid antagonist's knuckles, and could be cut and carved like a tenderloin of bol. lSut to offset these disadvantages it is said that be loses strength in training 83 much that th6 increased activity of hi trained condition is not of sufliuieot advantage to counterbalance the loss ol brute farce. Moreover, it appears that all the tights Tom has won ot late years has been gained by QUICK WOKKj and even bis friends admit that he can't stand tbe heavy jolting of a long and evenly contested battle. In fact be has never fought but three dragging fight3 in his lifo and those were all fought in England several years ago. The longest t'yne he has stood up In tne ring in tbis country was 41 min utes with Mace, and of this about 30 minutes was a sparring match, not more than 14 min utes having been devoted to business. From these facts it would seem tbat Allen's main reliance is in his science and strength, and tbat his capacity to endure cuts but a small figure among bH figbtiog endowneuts, His prospective antagonist, George Bxke, is about two years bis junior, and is his exact opposite la build, tempera ment and appearance. Kooke is an Irish man, but has lived nearly all his Hie in England and America. He is about rive feet ten and a half inches in height. The New York Sun puts him at tlx feet, but if that ba true he must have grown an inch and a hall since the sporting reporter saw him tight Kockey Moore eight vears ago next fall, at Isle ot Shoals, New Hampshire. He is broad shouldered, fiat chested, an guiar Doay, uig loiniea ana just a trifle bandy legged; his complexion is dark, his lace v'cious and for bidding, and his head shaped like a cub ; his forehead is low and his brows projecting and ing, bis noso somewhat "out ot true" from the eiiects of brjad, lowertwiste Itickev Moore's fearful left-hand hitting, and his In ejes are 6inall and black like a weasel's. short, he is as repulsive a specimen of the genus rough as could be imagined. But he is a gamo tighter, cither in the ring or in tbe rough-and-tumble, and is what is known in pugilistic parlance as a thorough glutton tbat is stand up and to say, a man who cn be mauled ad day. Hiis like leather, and his like gristle, so that no swarthy skin spare fle9h is bitting short of the bone-smashing .variety cfn "faze" him to speak ol. He is not, however, a verv scientific boxer. Lbls low grade ot intellect rendering science in anything :ai possible to htm. His ring experience is not brilliant. He beat Hussey, a third rate, receiving hardly a scratch, in 1805. Then he fought a draw with Collins, whom the president's son-in-law, Sartoris, recently culled about to suit himself. Finally he was AWFCLLY WHIPPED by Rockey Moore, a perfect novic, who fought him out of a pure freak of boyish cussedneas, and whom nobody expected to stand before him five minutes. Since that time Kooke has been keeping saloon in Newark, and has made two matches which were never fought one with Joe Coburn and the other with Jem Coyne. HI fight with Mocre was a most peculiar affair. Moore was a young fellow belonging to ont of tbe best families in Brooklyn, and bis roysteriug proclivities led him into many a scrape, and his family into much sorrow. HU older brother, the Hon. Hugh Moore, now täte aeuator Iroui j the eighth district of New York, was something of a sporting imn in a high-toned wav, and when Hockey pot embroiled in a didiculty with Rooke which led to a challenge by the latter, Hugh encouraged his younger brother to tako it up, and, we believed, backed him for the ?2,UU0 which was tho stake of the combat. The difliculty which led to this fight was the result of a lark, and consisted of an imnromptu knock down between liooke and young Moore, in which the swarthy pugilist of Newark was badly worsted by the gsy and festive ocie:y yourrg mn of Brooklyn. Arrangements ror a regular fight, according to tho P. It. followed, and the battle took placa at Isle of Skoals, N. II., in October, 1S07. When the two men shook hands in the riDg a greater contrast than they pre

sented could not be Imagined. We have

already described tbe personal appearance ot Rooke, and need not repeat the descrip tion. Hockey Moore, then about 22 years of sge, was as handsome a specimen of physical young manhood as could be found. He stood about five feet eight and a half. nd weighed about one hundred and fiftylive pounds, lie was built like the Apollo Belvidere, his skin, was almost white as snow, his cheeks were rosy as a girl', his eye was bright and full of frolicsome humor, ana nis coesmut nair, wnicn he bad not cropped as prize fighters usually do. curled gracefully about his temples and over his üne, intelligent looking lorebead. Nearly evervbodv thoneht it a nit that tnfin lace should be mashed np by the big fi4s of a brnto like Kooke, and nobodv imagined that Moore's fate would be in doubt lor more than ten minutes at the outside. BET TINO WAS ALL ONE WAY among the sports; but there were a few of Rockey Moore's friends and associates present who still backed their favorite by taking the great odds that were oflered. Time wss 11. I 1 a i r i a . caueu ana mo ugos commenced. It was one of tbe most sanguinary and savage flsrhts in tue nisicry oi me r:ne, and lasted an hour and fort'y miaute, Rooke being fairly hammered aud mauW to exhaust on and insensibility, wb;le Kockey received much punishment about th9 tibs and chest. hi face escaping with ouly a few bruises and a coup;e or trilling cuts. Moore's tactics were to save his f.ice from disfigurement and to blind Rcoke's eyes, the latter a most difficult tak, because it amcd almost impossible to make the Mlow'a Hesh frwtll with any amount of bruUintr. At the beginning of the fight Kocke went In with all the assurance of a man who is confident of an easy victory and is inclined to take his ease about winning it. He was suddenly awakened from this pleasant dream by a ilasbing left bander from Moore, square on the bridge of his nose, which laid him snrawli n J and crew firt claret, amid the plaudits of tbe astounded bystander. Thea Kooke lost his self-control, got mad and fought wildly. Thenceforward the fight became a struggle between the brute force, pluck and bull dog endurance of Rooke on tho one band, and the sagacity, intelligence and courage of Moore on the other. Kooke's evident rage naturally excited tbe wrath of hi9 antagonist, and every blow was sent in with all the fierce vigor that resentment cau give. But the brutal pluck and Btolid end ur a tee of Rooke availed nothing against the science and intelligent strategy of Moore. And besides, it soon appeared that Moore, tenderly and luxuriously raised as he had been, did not lack endurance, while bis pluck showed all tho s'ubhorness that distinguished the swarthy Rooke'. Before the fight was hall over it became evident that llooko's defeat was only a question of time. His face was one blotch of bloody Jelly, several ol his teeth were knocked out and hi3 eves were nearly blinded, while Moore's hands had been lacerated BY THE nONES OF ROOKR's FACE worse than bis face had been punished by Rooke's fists. At last, at the beginning of the thirty-eighth round, Rooke's brute endurance gave out and he fell down twice from exhaustion as his seconds tried to bring him up to the scratch. Finding tbat Rcoke was exbaus:ed from loss ot blood, while Moore was fresh as a race-horse and ferocious as a leopatd, the seconds ol the former threw up tbe sponge and Kocky Moore, the novice, was declared, the mid Jle-weigtt champion of America. At that moiDett the ecene was sickening. I took e was pplashed, spattered and soaked with blood from head to foot. The dried gra ia the riii, nnd the garments and bodies of bis seconds, the chair In which he sat between round, and the ropes in many places where ho bad fallen against them were also stained with gore. The victor had lost but very little blood from his fae, but his kunckles were bleeding, and his hands, face, breast, and arms were spattered with Rooks's blood, which latterly in the light flew like water whenever Moore bit his mangled face. Rooke was assisted out of the ring and taken away. Morre dressed himself and went borne to New York tbat night with his friends. He never lcnght another battle, but went back to his friends and behaved himself. He is now a politician ot considerable note in New York. Those who saw this fight rate Moore as the natural equal of Tom Savers, and say that he showed qualities never surpassed by any middle-weight fighter in prizering history. It does not argue that, because Rooke was beaten by him, Rooke can be beaten easily; lor there is no doubt that Hockey Moore, when he fought at Iäle ol Shoals, novice as he was, could have stood his hand with any man in the world at tbat time, middle-weight, and that he could have held to bis best work any heavy weight, barring Mace or Tom King. He was doubt ies at that moment as good a man as Tom Allen and a better nun than Joe Coburn or Ned Price. At all events, if Kooke fights Allen we shall be better able to judge bow much credit Moore deserves for whipping him. FOUR MILES PER SECOND. PNEUMATIC MAILS IN VIENNA ANOTHER STEP OK PROGRESS, On Sunday, February 28, the pneumatic mail system was opened for' pnblic use in the city of Vienna, and for the few days o! its working,' it appears to have been emi nently satisfactory. By this method, letters aud packages, not exceeding two ounces in weight, can be sent from one end ot the city to another a distance of about eight miles in something less ttai two seconds, so tbat, adding to this tbe time necessary fr making up packages, as sorting and delivering them, tbe whole is just about one hour. But this only covers extreme distances, aud the managers of this system in V ieona Bay tbat in a short titae the time between the receipt ana aenvery will be greatly reduced, in fact, between stations only two or three miles distance from each other, such pack aes are even now delivered witbin twentv minutesatter being deposited. Any post master iu this city, or postmaster general. who would ir augara e uch a reform in the local mail arrangements or the metropolis, m'ght achieve immortal iame. As the general pottofilce in Vienna is also in the building of the general tele graph office, powerful steam engines are cms antly at work comprebt-ing atmospheric air In a mammoth reservoir, from which tbe double svstem or cast Iioi pipes, liid tl r e feet under the burface of the eUeet. are fed. One system or pipes serves rfor err "j ing packages, and tho other J for pushing thtm aheau iu the oiuer direction, At tbe seven principal stations, marvelous parts of the city,similar engines are kept at work dav and nicht drawing the air from the pipes and creating a vacuum in iront of the packages which are thus mere rapidly preyed iorwaid by the expansive fjreeof the compressed air bebind them. The fcixty sab-fctations are connected not only with the two central offices, but a!.o with each other by tbis double system of pipes. TLe dUpab'h of each package is announced by telegraph to the ollices to advise the latter not to stop it on its way. The pipes are six inches in diameter, with a perfectly Bmootb polisshod inner surface, and the packac.es are made upon India rubber cylindeis of various lengths. The pestage on mail matter must be prepaid at the ralo of two kretilzsrs, one cent, for each hslt oucce or fraction,, which is evidently much cheaper than tbe two cent postage for city letters in this couotrv. This is the first instauce of a large city Vicuna has about JOO.OCO Inhabitantsgiving its people such facilities of correspondence at moderate ccst.

813 TE VIATOR. AUGUSTA WEHSTER. From tbe Crownhlll Magazine What is It that Is dead?

Somewhere there la a grave, and acme thing Ilea Cold In the ground, and otlra not for my sighs. Mor aongs that 1 can make, nor smiles from rne. Nor tendereat foolish words that 1 have said: bomethlnz there was has hushed and will not be. Did It go yesterdav. Or did it wane awav with the old rears? There bath not been farewell, nor watcher's tears. Nor hopes, bor vain reprieves, nor strife with a earn. Nor llnjcerlnzin a me'ed-out delay: None cloed tha eye, nor felt the latest breath. Bat. be there Joyous 6k ie. It Is not in their ranKhlne; In the night It In not In the silence, and t he light Of all the Oliver s ars; the flowers asleep Dream no more of it, nor their morn tne eyes Betray the secrets It b&s bidden them keep. birds that go 6'.nglng now Forget It and leave sweeinessmeanlnglesi; The lltful nightingale, that feien a i stress To sirs it all a way, flown on by rote; The seeking lark, in very Heaven I trow, bhall Had no memory to inform her note. The volrea of tho shore Chime not with It for burden ; in the wood, Where It was soul of the vat solitude. It bath forsook the nUUm; dawn anddny Aud the ddeD-thouzhied dutk know Jt no more; It is uoruore the frcshuesiof the May. Joy hath It not for heart ; Nor music lor Its tecocd subtler tongue, Souudins what music's self hath never surg; Nor very Borrow needs li help her weep. Vanished from everywhere! whit was a pirt Ol all aud every where! last iuto sleep! What was it ere it went ? Whence had it birth? What is Its name to call. That cone nnmlssed has It ft a want in all? or hall I cry on Youth, in June-time still? Or cry on Houe. who long kince am content? Or love, who held him ready at my will?. What is thltht Is dead? lireath of a ttowe ? spa-frehness on a wind ? Oh. dearest, what is that tbat we 6hould find. If von aud 1 at lenc'h could win It back? What have we lost, and know not it bath fled? Heart of heart, cou.d it be love we lack? REVENGE. THKILLINU TKAGEDY. VENOEANCE WITHOUT LAV IN THE COCRTROOM A DESPERATE B1Y STABS HIS BROTHER'S MURDERER IN ST. LOUIS. From several accounts of a frightful affair In St. Louis the following is selected lrom the Democrat of Tuesday: An attempt at murder in a criminal court is not known in the annals of crime; but, for deliberate intent and swift, terrible and daring execution, that of 11. P. W. Boatwright upon the life of Charles Woodson yesterday in tbe criminal conrt, has never been turpss&ed. The outh of both boys, lor Bciatwright is but 16 years of age, and Woodson 15, makes tbe deed a startling one, and as the bloody act was done under the very eye of the judge on the bench, and before assembled hundreds of spectators, one can but wonder if human Ufa is ever massacred, especially before the bar, whore the most exact justice is supposed to ba perfectly and accurately meted out. Judge Jones was trying tbe case ol tbeatate vs. Charles Woodson (colored) on charge ot murder la the second degree. It sftPins that tbe boy Woodson on tbe 23J cf September last, was on one side of Morgan street, near Sixteenth street, and on the opposite side Oscar J. Boatwrijht and some other boya were playing when taunts were passing on both sides. Stones were thrown back and forth, and one hit Oscar in the bead. lie tvas taken home and died on the 21t of the next month, November. Tbe trial was call on yesterday at 1 o'clock. A jury ha 1 been obtained, and the dead boy's lather, lt. V. Iioatwright, had been caned to tbe witness stand to tell what he knew of his son's - SICKNESS AND DEATH. His statements of the condition cf his boy when sick were questioned, as he is not a physician, and the jury were asked to retire that they might not ba prejudiced by the tslling of tbe story by so interested a person 88 the boy's father. It waa necessary tbat the physicians who attended the boy during his If st illness should corroborate the father's testimony. Then Mr. Boatwright called his son Robert, who was among tbe spectators, and told him to go to the doctor's office and ask him to ecme to the court-room. The boy started off, and in a tew minutes entered tbe room at the door by which spectators are admitted. Walking quickly up tbe aisle, he passed into the space reserved for the carrying on of court business. lie was close to the prisoner's chair before any one observed him, and even then it was supposed by all that be had returned with a message from the doctors. Standing abreast of his victim, whose head scarcely reached the top of the cbairb.?ck, he struck an attitude, threw his head back, and pulled out a locg knife. His eyes glared fiercely, and his face was livid wilh rage and excitement. Not ten teet lrom him, and facing him, sat the judge, and around him were lawyers and court officers, among them Judge Stumpf and James Hutcbicson. All were bcrror-struck even paralyzed not a motion was made to save the little fellow. Iioatwright shouted : "You killed my brother, aud I will kill you 1" DOWN CAME THE KNIFE into the abdomen of the boy. Before the young assassin cou!d strike again, Mr. Voullaire, the attorney for the state, seized his uplifted arm, and Mr. Clabby, clerk ot the court, took tbe murderous weapon from the now unresisting hand of Boaisvright. The entire court was in an uproar. Judge Jones descended from the bench, and with Deputy Marshal Horron, took charge or Boatwright for the time The little fellow who was stabbed, not reali zing nor hardly knowing that lie was stabbed, stretched out bis bands toward tbe counsel who was defending him, Mr. Charles P. Johnson, and crying "Oh, uod! ' ran forward and . sunk into nis lawyer's arms. He was laid on the Moor. The spectators bad been spell bound while this tragedy was enacting; but, all at once, its meaning seemed to flash over them, and a sudden and simultaneous rush was made for the spot where tbe boy fell. The officers bad recovered their presenca of mind, however. and pressed the crowd back out of the door and down the stairs. Tbe officers in the police department and in the coroner's office, on the first Uoor, had not heard of the occurrence in the court room above. As he crowd ran and tumbled dowu the etair way, with a great racket, Deputy Coroner Praedicow ran from his door with bis pistol presented at the front rank. He supposed that there was a new break from the jail in tbe rear, and compelled I he throng to jam, helter-skelter. Into bisoluco, until be could learn tbe cause of disturbance. Meanwhile, n the Criminal Court room order had been somewhat restored, but tho trial and further business were stopped lor the day. Deputy Marshal Klenien took young Boatwright down stairs and delivered him ts Chief Detective O'Connor, who put him in cell No. f, where ho now lies. As the grand jury is in pension be will be arraigned lor .trial in the Criminal Court room before the same lauge iu whose presence he stabbed Charlie Wccdson. Th3

bleeding boy was examined by Dr. J. J.

V Erlen, of Central township, who happened. wiwiii ins maranars omee. Theo Dr. Ksblnson,.or the city dispensary, arrived with a maurass, on which tbe boy was placd. The wound was found to lx a slashing cut, nearly seven inches long, which left tne intestines protruding from the gap. The physicians could not replace them, at inflammation immediately began. To do this the wound must ba enlarged. The danger lies in peritonitis resulting from the inflammation. This is often caused by a mera scrat.-h of the intestines. The boy' condition is extremely critical. After the stabbing tha knife was shown by the clerk of tbe court, Mr. Clabby, who kept i: In his possession. Tbe blade was nearly a loot long, and had evidently been ground very recently, for there was aa edgs oa both sides as KEEV AS A RiZOR. The point was slightly bent by striking a button on Jhe colored bov's vest, and there were blood Btains along the blade. The hand'e was of wood, fastened like that of a bread cr butcher knife. Notches had been cut all alöng the sides, and on one side are tbe initials "J. B." Mr. Boatwright; sr., raid that he had never seen the knife before, nor had he heard his hoii threaten to take Woodson's life. The officer who took the lawless boy to his cell savs that on the way Boatwright told hlra tbat when his brother Oäcar lay on hi death bed. he astured him that ho phouM bs avenged. "I f aid to bim, I vflH kill him who killed vou. " Soon after Eoatwnght'a arrest a Damocrat reporter saw tim in a cell, where hewas confined with four other boys, lie evidently expectea questioning, and assumed a bravado air. His coolness, bowever, was not real, lor at one moment he laugb9 with well simulated glee when ho relused to answer any questions.and then he immediately scowled and frowned as t hough angry. That be was yet excited was apparent, for he laid down on tbe narrow shelf, then rose and walked, and then sat down again. His face is full ot cunning. When tb'i reporter moved away, be broke out into a shrill laugh wbicb, contagious as laughter is, failed to move the risibles of even the hardened criminal beside him. Tbe three boys Robert, Oscar and Frank have been unruly from childhood up. Two years ago Mr. Boat w rieht requested that this son should be sent to the House of Refuge, for ho was uncontrollable. He would have been held nntil be was legally a man. but his father, believing his protestations that he would reform, bad him released. Mr. Boatwright said yesterday, alter the stabbing: "I've one boy in the work house, one in jail for tbis desperate act, and one was kibed last year; I wish all were dead." lie was almost beside himelf with anguish. GREAT GUXS. THE CANNONS OF THK FÜTCItS-HOW THB MILLENIUM IS TO BE BROUGHT ABOUT. The London Standard saye: Kcgland is now buildins a ship to carry twenty-four inches of armor, and she is making a gun which will be eighty-one tons in weight. It may be said here is proof of England's superiority. Unquestionably the shipis splendidly designed. So also is the gun, which we are to have pome time about next July, and whici will doubtless turn cut to be a wonderful weapon. Artillerists speak of tbe cominff monster aa an "awliil gun." Crowds assemble at the forge whenever one of the bupe coils 1 tobe pummelled by tbe new team hammer at Woolwich Arsenal. Even in the making of thirty-eight ton cans niaHes of Iron weighing twenty-eight tons, kt a welding heat, have to be laid under the hammer. For the larger gun an incandescent mass of forty-five tons b.is to be fetched cut of the fire and duly hammered. Tbe furnace has the capacity of a cottage, and the tongs bv which tbe glowing cylinder m lified out of its burning bed weighs no less than thirty tons. A steam crane bears the whole weight of tongs and coll, and everything proceeds without accident or hitch of soy kind. At night tbe eizhtis truly gracd, and well rop.ays these who take the trouble to le prefect. Other nations are not likely to be blind to the advantage which accrues from ths possession of guns exceptionably powerful. Already it is known tbat steel tubes are being made, having a diameter six inches greater than tbat of the tube of the 81-ton gun. These tubfs may be intended for tbe lining ot tbe American smooth-bore runs which are to be convered into rifles. Possibly they are for the use of the French government, or for tbe Italian. At all events such masses of steel are being made, and are destined to play some part in connection with loreign artillery. Most certainly the appearance of a 190-ton muzzleloading gun among foreign armaments is by no means a remote contingency. But what are we prepared to dc? Assuredly the great steam hammer at Woolwich arsenal can accomplish something more tor us than THB MAKING OF AN EIGHTT-ONR TOS GUN, big as that undoubtedly will be with its bore of sixteen inches in diameter, aod twentyfour teet in leqgtb, firing a prcjectile weighing 1,630 pounds, propelled by 300 pounds of powder, thrrange of the weapon being eeven miles. All this is very formidaole, but it is not by any means all that can be done. We mav double the weight of the gun, making it 160 ton, having a caliber of twenty inches and a bore of at least thirty feet. This would bo a magnificent piece of ordnance: bnt e?en then there would be something beyond. and why should we stop short ot tbat which must be gained at some beriod or othir. Let uicomtern plate tbe further ttep at once. Why not have a gun with a bore ot twenty-four inches imply two feet? Tho weight would be 273 tons, the charge of powder would be l.OOO pounds, the weight of ' the projectile nearly two tons and a halt, and the range eight or nine miles! Tbis is not a mere drenm, but a perfectly practicable piece of work. Tbe coit would probably beatrille less than 100 per ton, or 20,000 for the entire piece. In weight of projectile such a gun would bs something more than a 5,000po under". Perhaps when we ha J made suck a weaDon we might think we had gone tar enough. As for armor, tho projectile of tbe 273-ton gun would possibly penetrate three feit with a corresponding backing. A a we showed some time ago. Dr. Collis Browne modeled a ship which shall actually carry three feet of armor. This armor would also be presented at a slope, so that oar 5,000 pounder would not have its work to do. As for cost, there is tbe consideration tbat one such gun will give results as no number of smaller guns could accomplish. Tbe Infiexible sheathed in part with two feet ot armor, will ctrry four 81 toa sruns. cosiingVs 00!) each. Her four guns, therefore.will cost more than one,o ton gun. Yet bow would such a vessel aa the Iullexible be able to stand the attack ot so tremendous a' weapon? The 5.0C0 pound projectile, unless striking with considerable obliquity, would readily smash tbrouab the thickest part or the armor, and two or three euch visitor, bavipg a burstirs charge of SOU pounds of powder, miht decide the fate of the ship. Surely tho result would be cheap at tbe Tho Chicago Tribune assorts tbat the praise cf Irving's Hamlet U designed to pave his way lor the American stage, and that his interpretation is really "vulgar, melo-dramatic and ridiculous." Bat as the play has run one nundred nights in London, isn't this kind of "coaching" tlightly expensive.