Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 24, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1875 — Page 6

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL THURSDAY. JULY 29 18751

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THE PliUMBt.K'd KEVJSüUk:. A LE,3D OF MAEISON AVi-:-.'. BY G. T. LANIGAN. From the New York World. CANTO I. THE DEATH-BED OATH. It was some thirty years ao, An evening calm and red, .... Wnen a gold-haired stripling stcoJ bcMde iiisfa'.bcr'sdilng bed. trend, my son," the sick man said, tTnto my d sins tones. And swear eternal vengeance to The accursed rtce of Jones. For why! Jost nineteen years 20 A Irl sa by my s-de. With cheei of rose and breast of snow. My peerless, promised bride. A vip-1 by the name of Jonea Came in between u.s twain; Witn honeyed words he stole away My lovetl Belinda Jane. For he wm rich and 1 wai poor. And poets ali are fctupid Who f-in the God of ove Is not Cupidity, but Cupid. Perchance 'tis well; for, bad 1 wed That maid of darlc brown cnrL, You had not been, or been, instead Of boy, a pair of girls, ow. listen to me. Waiter Smith; Hie to ym plumber bold. And thou would 'rt eae my dying paug, Iiis 'prentice be en roiled. For Jones has houses many on The fashionable souaie. And thou, perchance, may'st be called In To see to the repairH. Think on thy father's ravished love, lUcall thy father's Ills, Itetnember this, the aeath-bd oath, Then mute out Jones' bills!" CANTO II. THE YGCNG AVENGF.K. Young Walter 's to the piumber gone, A boy w.lh smut on noe ; Furnace and carret saek in "and, ' With th Journeyman he Kots, t Now grown a journeyman himself, In grimy band he gripes A caudle end, and 'ueath tho sin Kiplore the frozen pipe. Iii furnace portable he lights With smoking wads of newsPapers, ard smiles to ste within lue rot -hesottder fuse. He gives fc Is Hat : "They are froze Down a,tout sixteen feet ; If you wa it water ere July, You must dij up the strett. "Practical Pluml er" now Is he, Ai wltoesstta tasti'.i. And rrady now 4 to undertake Ilepairs in any line." One day a housemaid, as he sat At the receipt of biz. Came crvlns:: "Ho, eir Smi-.h.eir .Siu.i.i, r liii'spipisfriz!" He gilt his apn n round his loins, Iiis tools took from the shelf. An I to the journeyman he saiJ, 'I'll see lo 1 1iis niysell." 0 (, "Vould." said lie, as he drew the bill, "My lather were alive ! M lb.c' ssider at He , 1 1 75. CANTO III. THE TRAITOR'S DOOM. The Jones had bou-e? many on ine avenues aud squares. An I hired the yonrg avenger, tmilii, To to the tVpairs. Ana Srnit l put faucets in, and cock?, And me ers, eliex, and taps, Cm.m cuuiis, T joints, sewer pipes. tlas-ins and wa.er traps; Kr tore tlie walls, and ripped the Loor, To reich the pipes beyond. And exea alio is in the street And -'nei'.th the sld wait yawned ; And daily, as he ent-re i up 'i be items in hi Uk. Tue jiuiü't-r s iaee wore a serene Avd retiofpective look. And Jones would wrin his hands and cry : ' W oe. woe, a nd utter woe ! Ah. me ! that taxes nbunld be so high And rents should be so low !" Then he won'd give the Smith the house Ainsta mento account Ht i'a repairs, and no es of hand rr ihe ie-t of the amount. CAXTO IV. AVEXGED AT LAST. Now, Smith had been for a dozen years In the p-ac tc il plumbing line, And bills of fcmuh did not grin 1 slow. And they grouud exttemely flue. Terrace by terrace, house by house, The lpntls of Jones be tootc. An 1 heavier still the balance was Writ iu that fatal boot. At laf,, uo property nor cash Had he. so did he full, An . ihe avenging plumber locke J, Hi n up 1 1 Ludlow jail. Hi heartless creditor he besought For mercy In hi need ; Vpy. ;, . no mercy : lie and rot," iautlt lis, -in Jail like Twted, Fo 1 hav swoiu avenged to be 0.1 thee, thy kin and uith ; Heme-rubere.; thou ileliud. Jane? J u;u ths son of femith! ! !"

ABOUT WOMEN. Miss Emily Faitbfa!, in a recent lecture, pid a high cotnplbnent to American ladies." Rose Hfrs?e recently appeared in London E K:Iy O'Concr, n "?ns epera, tat "la i Kil.ariiy.' Mr. JJouci-rault is writing a drama for Mrs. Rtjü'iv, wb ca sho will produce at Booth Tnea er in October next Vi tP-hack tyle is not popular with tlx ie:( ;-;c.sci(' of Iris. Tcey look upon it too iiLiiK des'. Uuapiuci.itivo excaange. Miss Johnstone, the admirable actress cotin..tcd with tho Toolo treu ft-, has returnul to Eafflaud. In a certain line of charaetträ the waj matchless. Poor Mrs. Tilton i3 in trouble aiin A flyic2 spark (not a parson, th:3 time,) struck in and burned her eye, so that fehe has teen ob ieü to k"ep her room. Liura I. Fair made applicat'on to the Probate Conn of iin Francisco last week for rrnii.-aion to sf 11 some property ol her daughter. Permission was granted. ' How foid jou ss"n f that eternal old doll oi jours, Mabel!" "Oh, aunt! it has teen the desire of my life to LlIs it Iroic her that bhe'd a doll. I hupe alxo didn't bear JOU." I; i3, anr:oanc?d tbst Nellie, the second diuxhter ot Judga Thornss Kussel!, minister to Venezuela, is sttianced to Gen. Z'oinow, di.tiiigui-sLel VdUtZueUn. Mi,a Russell is 17 years of age. Herbert Sp:-ncer lately read a paper on "Comparative Pasjchology" before the British An:hr"poloiioal Society, iu whioa Le t:ok tio ground tbat women are mere confrvatiVM than men. The news has crept into tho fjsbicn letters that TurkUa trousers for women are coining. Each trtuser lejj will be "fulled inti a band around the ankle, and finished with a ruitia edged with lace." Mrs. Young, the mother of little Mabel H. Yourjg üe Tictim of the Boston churefcbalfrey tragedy, suffers such acute mentai aony siac that sad event that she has to b- constantly attendeJ. A New York servant girl out on the har. b-r in a bot the other day for the purpose ol committing fuicd, saw a red-headed sail ir. ieli in love witn him, and was marriad instead of drowned. The Shah of Persia has a cross-eyed daughter who wiU receive a dowry cf 000,000; acd i,.i.mriU of DobM yr.ung men declare thn: i.-r eves ar beautiful as diamonds atid as Mig'a'. a u h';op-poe. A young man of Knapp Station, Wis., having circulated unpleasant rumors about ayonng lady of the same place, she Invite J him to call. Then she locked him in a room, and used up a broomstick, a mophandle and two rolling pins, in convincing him oi bis error. A lady, boing asked tey a gentleman to fce hi3 wife, vrrote the word 'stripes," and stated that thetrsvKorude

transposed into the answer. He finally studied out "persist" what every woman wishes her lover to do. It i3 said that Miss Julia Smith one ol tbe Smith tisters or Glastenbury, Conn., vhos9 resistance to taxation brought them s- prominently before the public at one titne has iust completed and will shortly publish a translation or the Bible from the original tongues. A young lady lectured on "Dress Reform" in Springfield recently; and she was "pulled b.a-k" to such an extent that when she attempted to tit down at the conclusion of her divxrurse, bh failed to reach the chair by ovt six inches. She seemed to rest that way, however, just as well. The modern school girl must have queer

ideas. In a conversation with a New York reporter at a hop at Vassar, Tuesday even ins, one ot them queried: "Are you single?" an affirmative answer being given. Then she asked thoughtfully, "Do editors ever get ricr?" Tho "peDcil-heaver, again replied in the affirmative, and instanced several leadiDg journalists, and then added, "I iem for Xw York to-iuorrow. and it will take me three days to pay my taxes and cut the coupons off my Loudsr "is it pos sible?" replied tbe miss, "and you soyouug, too!" I'ougbKeepsie Jagie. A fist-fight took place the other day near the Warm Spriogs, Panaca, between a body of twenty-five or thirty Indiana lor tho possession of a squaw. A party of Indians are encamped there, and a party went from Pioche to obtain possession of the squaw. Atter considerable knocking, broken nosef, etc., the Pioche party were victorious, and bore away the woman. During the melee all the squaws were teated on the nillaide, at:daseverv knockdown occurred tney ex Litired their intense delight by yelling, laushirg and screeching. A Paris letter-writer savs: "A French woman in Lent may be truly said to be tnf virj opposite of a French woman during the Carnival. From Ash Wednesday to Easter Mnnd-y she draws her veil close about her lace; her dress becomes sombre; her bonnet iaicus coquettishly perched on berhead; her bign heels tread tne pavement with lea pannes than usual. During the forty days whim lo'lnv the Carnival, she walks as thuiiüh bowed beneath engrossing rerlec ti-ins; bhe preache inwardly to herself; she expiates the sin of having lent a ready ear to mundane proposal; she lcels twinges cl fonscieneo as she thinks of how many waltzes she has indulged in; she does not efcow ber teetn so much when she laugh", and a minute observer might be astonished to Fee, when she takes her seat in her box at the opera, that tbe body oi ner areas nas heightened in proportion to ner repent ance." The io'.lowing actually occurred in our vicinity thi3 week. The parties thereto are well known and respectable; the lady is fifty five years of age and the gentleman rive years her senior. They had frequently heard of each other through mutual friends. but had never met until a few days ago, when the iollowing conversation took place: Her: "Madam, wha: is your name?" Lady ".My name is ." Gent My name is . I live In Livermore, where 1 own a ranch Ahem! How woold you like me for a husband?" Lady "Weil, really, I don': know. I've heard your name, Mr. ; but Low would you like me for a wile?" Gent. "Madam, the sight of you more than does justice to jv hat I have heard. Will you be my wilft?" The lady assented. The gentleman went immediately to Oakland to get a Juense, and tweqty-four hours after tbeir first meeting the couple were man and wife, and by this time are on his ranch at Livern.ore. Aimed a County (Cal.) Independent. A Pittsburg damsel had a very singular f-urprise the other day. Sho lay down to take a nap after dinner, and when she awoke her hair was all gone. She had a heavy ?uit of beautiful golden hair, which was her crownirg glory, the delight of her male f: lends, and the envy of her female associates, ol course. She perlujied it with j sweet?, trained it in ringlets, and let it flute te r in the brerzi and shimmer in tha moonshine, aDd made the very most of her luxuriaut crop. She had it when she went to sleep; it had gone from her like a dream, and her head w3 almost as bare as a barber'a pole. She looked aa foolish as a sheep alter shearing, and felt very much as if sbe had nothing to wear. The crop was evidently gathered by the hand of an artist, for the btubuie was even as the nipe of velvet. Tiio lady's watch and purse and jawelry were all lelt in sight on tho table where she had laid tbem. It was not money er trinkets the thief was after. It v.-as iiuiply that rcsplendently beautiful head-gear. The lady was doubtless drugsed and plundered. She now fears to go to sleep, for fear of accidents. GRANT'S GRANDSON. THE GIRLS WANT TO KISS THE BABY'S PINK TOES. Olive Logan writes from Long Branch: Our eminent friend of the New York bar said vesterday, yawning behind bi3 newspaper, "This is Mahomet's paradise with a difference one has th-i hours, but not the uouris," which waj a pheasant remark to make t a lady friend and his wife within hearing to! He explained that he meant it was dull here. Now, it seems to me that something is happening at this place ail the time. How anybody can call it dull, I don't know. The dintists are no sooner on: of the way than the surgeons arrive. The birth of Ne!lie?s baby gave me what grandmother Fdkins used to call "a turn." Well, well! Why, it was only tbe other season I wa writing to the newspapers about the president's little girl a pretty, brownejed, gentle creature in short dresses, her hair pushed off her forehead with around comb, who devoted a great dsal of her time nd energy to whirling a skipping rcpe. Nelly got" a baby! I want to know. "I wonder," said the gill from St. Louis, "it sne'd let us kiss it it we all call in a bo;ly cd ask her." In London, a long time ago, I used to know tbe nurse of the queen's babies an excellent, good person, clean and m and rosy and lo vie e. It might occur to the uninitiated that this person perhaps was a gentlewoman and that the queen's babies had real ladies as nurses. But It was not so. This royal nurse was but another Peggoty, as humble in station as the unod woman who was selected to care for toe sacred welfare of the heir ot Dombey. One day we congratulated heron the excellency of ber place. "That is, indeed, ma'am, a good place," replied the woman, warmly; "to good for the likes ot me; and et," said she, her motherly bosom swelling and warm tears gushing to ber honest eyes, "it has one great tirial I am not hallowed to kiss tbe children. Being royal 'ighnesses and me an 'ireling, I am not hallowed ; and w 'en you love a baby, UUI IAJ uauto tu aim l iL A as a&u , asuv, and here she brighteded up considerably "I don't mind telling you, rna'am, ror l don't think It will go any further, though horders is borders, they can't prevent me a-kiasin'of hia little toes." And for my part, I'd rather kiss a baby'a toe than the pope's, any day, and so would lota of women. So Nellie may issue Invitations to thif little pig went to market festival whenever she likes, and, I warrant me, plenty will go.

THE TWO VILLAGES. Over th.j river, on the hill, Lieth a village white and still, And ail around the forest trees Shiver and whisper In the breeze. Over It sailing shadows go. Of soaring hawk, and screaming crow, And mountain grasses low and sweet, Grow in the middle of every street. Over the river, under the hill, Another village lieth still. There I see a cloudy night Twinkling stars of household light. Fires that gleam from the Smithy's door, Mists that curl on the river shore. And in the roads no grasses grow, For the wheels that hasten to and fro, In that village on the bill. Never a sound of smithy or mill; The houses are thatched with grass and flow ers Never a deck to toll the hours. The marble doors are always shut, You can not enter hall or hut. All the villagers lie asleep. Never again to sow or reap, Never in drenms to moan or sigh, Silent and idle and low they lie. In that village under the hill. When tr e night is starry and still, Many a weary soul In prayer, Looks to that other village there, And weeping and sighing long to go, Up to that horue from this below; Lonsis to sleep by the forest wild. Whither have vanished wife and child, And heareth, praying, this answer fall. "Patience, that village shall hold ye all." WRONGS OP THE RED MEN.

AGENTS' KNAVERY. A VISIT TO THE YELLOWSTONE REGION THE WRATH OF THUNDERING BULL TALKS WITH OTHKR CHIEFS THE TRADERS MANAGEMENT OF THE AGENTS. An emissary of the New York Herald is on the war path among the Yellowstone re gion Indians. He writes from Fort Peck: Thero were 533 lodges or 4,000 Indians at Fort Pock until the 20th of June. They were mostly Assiniboines, Santees, Upper Yanktons and Tetona. The latter aro fierce, and all of them are wild enough for tha war path, though the Assiniboines are very friendly. What struck me the most on my arrival was tbeir immense statue as compared with tnsny of the lower Indians. Their muscular development is , simply wonderful. Some of them could pick up a whit9 man in each band and shake the life out of them. They bandle their beavy rifles as thongh they were pistols. With the exception of the Assioiboinee, they are hard to interview, much more so than those of the Soutnern tribe. However, I visited fourteen of the principal chiefs, including Mr. Altroid, ol the Bear, White Eagle, Good Hawk, Long Fox, Black Catfish, Thundering Bull and Redstone, tha distinguished irlrnd of the whites. I told them what I wanted, and Thundöring Bull, of the Cut Head Sioux, was appointed speaker. They assembled in a ring and lighted the pipe ot peace. It was a pleasant smiling group until Thundering Bull took the floor. Then a marvelous change followed Their faces darkened. Every man was silent a3 the grave. The orator became another man. All of the outrages and villainies cf the agency mu3t have appeared in lines ol fire before his eyes, for a midnight blackness came into them. His muscles swelled, and his whole body was convulsed with emotions. Then his deep rich voiC9 kindled with passion, and he poured out a stream of rhetoric that rolled like an angry river. His gestures were masterly. No interpreter could follow bim, and none but a nitfo-glycenne short-hand machine could take half of what he said had it been spoken in the English tongue. A minute had hardly passed before the perspiration was streamine down the laces of his brother chief-?, and he himself looked like Vulcaa taking a Turkish batb. When be bau finished A PEACEFUL. SMILE shone on his face, a-j tha sun shines out on a stormy sy, and ho took his seat with the air of a country boy in the House oi LordsFrom what the interpreter was able to catch I learned that the agent had two houses, onafortbe annuities nnd one lor the food. He (the speaker) had saen the houses filled with blankets and ration?, "but each day hts neoDle were erowins poorer. The G00 lodges never received what belonged to them. For three years their eye had seen their blankets and flaur disappear, but they could not tell whither they went. When tbe Indian goes for food to tLe HgeLt he puts some before him and says, "this is for you;" but he don't toll him wuere tbe res; has gone. The agent tas a door which opens for none but those who rob the Indians. Tho little lather tells them to come, then he send' them away, then say3 come again, and at last he gives thorn what a white man would throw away. The fcreat rather talks well, said the speaker, and promises to keep hia young men from spoiling our country. Ha sent the agent blankets. We saw them come. But they stopped in the agent's house. They didn't come to us. We got no rations, so we have to eat our dog?, The whites poison wolves; our dogs eat the wolves p.nd die. We received no blankets last winter when it was cold, and tho moons were dark with ice and snow. But now, when the sun shines and the grass grcws,this little father of ours says, "Come and ge: your blankets." I asked Thundering Bid what rating they gave him. A sarcastic smile ran around the lodge, and he continued: For an ordinary teepee, one pint of sugar, two scoops ol flour, bacon the same as none, and beef none, that any one knows of. Once they gave us a handiul of coffee, but there Is none now. . THE LITTLE FATHER TALKS WELL, but we are still hungry." Mr. Afraid-of-the Be ir, of the Yanktons, sayd hia people wexe to ba pitied. They wanted some guDS or provisions. Now they could neither shoot nor eat. The steamboats come with much for us, said he. The agent gives us little. My heart is full to find that at lafet the GreatFather sends to hear our complaints. The two agents have not treated us right, and it makes our hearts bad. I have known the country for 50 years. All of us, the men, tne boys, the squaws and the little pappooses, want a new agent. What does tbe agent do that is gooc? He does it all bad. He made me one of his children. When tbe cattle came be put tbe fat ones in his own corral and gave the poor ones to us. It we go to his house to speak with h'm he locks tbe door. The trader Is bad. He seilt our goods. We had rather have the old trader (Durfee ifc Pecs.) He gave us more for our skins and money. My talk is 6m all, but it is enough for the white nation to hear. Redstone, chief of the assiniboines, It is a pleasure to talk with. All the whites agree that he has rare intelligence and a good heart. He were a Hungarian military hat, with a string ot decent beads around tis neck. His chest and shoulders were bare, but a dark blue blanket felt from his waist, and hs looked like a sailor in the tropic. His face is melancholy and he is as quiet and gentlemanly as a member of tbe New York Farmer's Club in its palmiest day. He said that he represented GoO lodges and 5Ü0 warriors. He had been around the -agencies three years; was first at old Fort Union, near Fort Buford. There they traded v. it b him well. Since then the cups of flour and sugar have been growing smaller. The traders are bad since Durfee & Peck closed. Lelghton had treated them worse than all the rest. THE OLD TRADERS used to make the chiefs a present or give them a feast when they came from a distance

to trade with them. When he came up from Wolf Point that day Lelghton gave him a quarter of a yard ot flannel. Our weekly ra

tion, said be, is two kettles ol flour, a pint ot sugar, a pint of coffee and a pound uf pork, and this is; all to feed seven persons seven days. They wont let us have guns to shoot game or to defend ourselves against the Tetons. I have always been friendly lo the whites, and have obeyed the great father We are looked on as dogs. I have thought that he would help us if be hnew how badly we W6re treated. Ala. I can not read cor write. I am helpless. We are in the bands of bad men, and we have to take what we can get. Beef haa ben snt to us. We got only 6ix cattle for 113 lodges during the winter. The trader cheated us and the a.ent would not give us food. The steamboat Fontennelle came up the river, and I went to trade with her, for I was hungry. I sold some furs and did well. Then LeiRhton, the trader, put a, stop to it and made the captain pay a fine ot 500 for soiling us goods at honest prices, and his boat was tiod up to the shore until the fine was paid. I have received no blankets until now. Tbe fquawa got some in the sprinz. At Fort Belknap the Indians had to eat horses and dogs. . The white men put tobacco in our sugar so that we could not nse u. i.ney gave us iwo cups oi sugar for a robe. I know just what the agent and all bis friends will say on reading these letters. A man spoke lor him the other day, " Keep all white men from tho reservations and there will be no trouble. If they persist in coming, shoot them and throw 'em into the river." Even men who pretend to be honest have said in my presence that zgents can do nothing if white men are allowed to interfere with their management. In other words, THEY WANT TO BE LET ALONE so that they can brand and rebrand their stolen goods ; bo that they can load their sleds in the dead of winter and send them away to the lonely posts of the North and there make way with the Icdisns' food, so that they can rob and grow rich and flaunt their wealth in the tices of honest men and starvin Indians. It was only two weeks ago that eome chiefs ciins to me with their eyes blazing and said th'it I was trying to teal their lands; the agent's interpreter had just told them so, and the agent advised them to keep away from me. The agent went to Woit Point the next day threatening to drive away all white men (except his own), an J a report came that stricter rules would be enforced at Fort Peck in the future. The brazen Impudence of the ring Is unparalleled. Every pains is taken to prevent iu vestization and fair deaiiDg. The representatives of the graadest government on earth stoop to the level of a common fraud, and the nation's shield is made to cover tha most contemptible acts ol the robber. Fur the last two years to my own knowledge, these wicked i!eeds have been committed aud reported at Washington. Nothing is done but to grant new favors to the guiltiest members of the ring. Lsgalizad swindlers are escorted through the country by orders from Washington. The president's brother organizes and protects a chain ol stores that become depots for stolen goods. The wellfed demagogues at the capital sncer at the complaints of the Indians and burlesque their claims lor juit' jo. Rut a day of retribution coming. If the law refuses to adjust these wrongs the tomahawk will surely nave its revenge, and the b'.oody massacres ot Minnesota will be repeated beyond the Mi: souri. A FAMOUS FRAUD. HISTORY OF THE CHORPENNING . CLAIM A BAREFACED AFFAIR. A dispatch from Washington says that the httorney-general has sent his opinion on the Chorpenning claim to the president. The St. Paul Pioneer-Press give3 tbe following account of the case: The features of this famous case, in brief, are as follows: In 1S51 the firm of Chorpenning & Woodward, of caniorma, secured irom the government the contract for carrying the mailü from Salt Liks City to California. This contract was three times renewed making the entire term of service nine years. In November, 1S51, Woodward was killed by tne Indians, and Cborpennlng inereaner performed tne service alone. Un der the various contracts the full amount of regular pay was, in round numbers. 8150, COO, but at various sessions of Congress, and by various methods, this sum has already neen sweiieu, as additional allowance, to no less than ?51S,595. Of ths means employed in securingthis money, it is not worth while to enter into detail. It is sumcient to say that the original allowances on the contract were sufficient to properly fulfill tbem and have a reasonable margin for profit, and all thnthaj since be-en added may be set down ai absolute gratuity. Not satisfied with this, Chorpenning in 1S70 renewed b3 demand, and in July ot that year congress passed and the president approved a resolution under w hioh Postmaster-GeDeral Creswell awarded on this already vastly overpaid cpn tract the further sum of 443,000, making a grand ;ota! cf NEARLY A MILLION DOLLARS. The resolution directed the postmaster general to "investigate and ajast the claims of George Corpenuing under the fit's t section of an act for his relief, approved March 3, 1S57," etc. The act of 1S57 referred to peremptorialy instructed the then postmaster general, the Hon. Aaron V. Brown, to adjust and settle, not according to the proof that might be bad in the matter, but "as shown by the proofs and affidavits on file in tbe House of Representatives." When it is considered that the ony proofs , and affidavits on file were those contained In j Chorpenning'a petition, the iniquity of tne wnoie proceeding is at once apparenr. Previous to the passage of the resolution in 1870, Chorpenning had importuned four successive postmaster generals for a reopening of the case, but by each been re fused. The resolution ot 1870 was brought before tbe House for consideration the last day of the session, without having been reported, and waa passed during the last hours of the session. At the session of 1S72, and betöre the money had been paid, tbe resolution was repealed, but appeared again at the last session on the private calendar, bearing tbe approval of the judiciary committee, which had reported a bill the court of claims jurisdiction in the matter. The bill failed to become a law, and the claimant then appealed to the attorney general, before whom the case wax argued at length a short time ago, and from whom a decision is promised aa above stated. A wire-walker, at Molin e, 111., last Saturday, attempted to carry a man named McEdary across the wire on his back, the height above the ground being fifty feet When half way acros3 two men, named Stauback and Newcomb, caught the ropes which were used to ßteady the wire, and tried to shake the man on". "He was obliged to drop his pole and catch the wire In his hands to saye himself. It is said that afterward S'auback, Newcomb and McEdary bragged that it was a put up job, and tbat there was a bet cf 5 between them that they would make Mr. Thompson fall. The brother of the sun and moon, cousin of the comets and champion consumer of green tea, otherwise known as the de facto emperor ol China, makes up his mind that coolies have rights in Cuba, and will allow no more emigrants to leave the Flowery Land until consulates have been established to protect their rights In the island.

SATISFIED, Not here! Not here! Not where tbe sparkling waters Fade In mocking sounds as we draw near; Where in the wilderness each footsteps falters; I shall be satisfied but O, not here ! Not here, where all our dreams of bliss deceive us. Where the worn spirit never gains its goal ; Where, haunted ever by the thoughts that grieve Across us fioods of bitter memory roll. There is a land where every pulse is thrilling With raptures eart h's sojourners may not know; Where heaven's repose the weary heart is stilling, And peacefully life's time-crossed currents flow. Far out of sight, while mortal robes enfold us, lies he fair country where our hearts abide; And or Its bliss Is naught more wondrous told ns Than these few words, "I shall be satisfled." "What! truly satisfled! The spirit's yearning For 8 weet companionship with kindred miuds. The silent love that here meets no returning, The inspiration which no language finds Shall they be satisfled? The soul's vague longing The aching void which nothing earthly fills? O, what desires upon ruy soul are thronging As I look upward to the heavenly hills? Thither my weak and weary steps are tending; Savior and Lord, with thy frail child abide ! Guide me toward home, where, all my wanderings ending, I then fchRll see the? and "be satisfied.

MY ÜELOVED. A SONNET. JOHN G. SAXE. fin the (Ja'axy icj August. Choosing fit names to call my lern an by. When 1 resjurd her majesty of rnien. And uiarij how proud sue is, 1 say nnwn !' my In loyal lowliness and marvel why jJ y k ve did ever dare to look, so high ; ilut when, anon, I feel the soft caiess Of her dear eyes, fulfilh d of tenderness And passionate desire, " Darling !" I cry, A oue who sees at last his long-sought mate. Nor tuiaks or high or low, but only this, To lovr and to be loved, how swt-et Jt Is; Then, gazing on her beauty, all elate With gladne- s, I exclaim, -Mine, mine alone !" My love, my life, my beauliiul, my own!" WITH WHALER'S EXPEDITION. NEW MEXICO AND HER PEOPLE. TROUBLES OF A SURVEYING PARTY TUE PEOPLE DIGNITY OF TUB ALCALDE THE BCEXEF.Y WILDNESS AND GRANDEUR. A correspondent of the New York Times, who is with tho surveying party of Lieut Wheeler in New Mexico, writes in an interesting manner of the country and the people, lie says: Lieut. Wheeler receives hundreds of applications every year from young men in good positions, who offer to give their services in any capacity whatever fvr the privilege of accompanying his expedition, and from some who are willing to bear all their personal expanses. A youth with a sound constitution and the ability and tho disposition to endure hardships, may find employment aud health in such a trip, but, unless he has these qualifications, let me urge him to stay contententedly at home. The life of surveying parties in the field i of the roughest kind. The simple difference between it and existence undt-r the humblest, conditions in a town is that while in one case pretty nearly everything iä done for you, in the other you are compelled to do pretty nearly everything fjr ytiii.s.s.l!'. At 5 in the morning. when the eastern sky is blushing crimson. an nanas are turned out, ana between that hour and 7 you have to fold your tent and bed and catch and harness your mule. Now a mule is at once a sagacious and capricious animal. As you go towards her, with the bridle in your hands, muttering seductive whoa-o-o-e, aud such adulatorv expressions as "Poor old girl," she probably ua:ts until you are cose upon her and then tosses her neela in the air, and, with a wicked snort, dashes out of your reacb. Several like efforts have still to be made before she is caught, and in tbe end you are hot, breathless and nervous tbat.is, unless you are an old cam paigner. Meanwhile you are in a statejof lerioraoout tne pacaers, lor they have a true VY estern contempt lor rank and per son, and unless your bed is folded in the most compact fashion you are as sure to be damned as Ananias. By 7:30 o'clock vou are on the march, which Is continued at the jog trot rate cf thr6e miles an hour unfll late in the afternoon, when you undo all the things you oid in the morninsr. Unless the weather is wet, however, the tents are not pitched at all, and tbe beds are made en the ground. A night or two or aco the thermometer stood at thirty degree?, and wh"n I awoke in; tha morning the canvas wrapper under which I slept W89 coated with thin ice. Our second camn after leav ing Garland was on the San Antonio river, anu tcence wa went to coneios in search of a .viesicin guiue to show us the best route OVEH THE MOUNTAINS to Tierra Amarrill. Southern Colorado hereabout i3 very like New Mexico in its people, buildings, and other characteristics. What New Mexico la like very few persons in the East know. Tbe general impression is that it is a vast undeveloped territory, sparsely inhabited by white immigrants engaged in stock raising. But, in reality, it is an anomaly among all the other United States, different in its population, language, religion, and local government. The people are a mixed race of Spaniards, Indians and half -breeds; tbe language is a dialect of the Spanish, the religion a phase of stern Roman Catholicism and the local government of a primitive and exceedingly simple form. New Mexico thus offers one oi the most interesting studies and curious puzz es a traveler cou!d desire. While in all our other territories education is general, and Old World superstitions are laughed at, in this benighted wonder-land the principal instruction is given by a few priests, and blind fanaticism exhibits itself in the most extraordinary forms. Lieut. Morrison and I rode on from the camp on the San Antonio to the first plaza of Con6jos,for all that important Mexican towns are subdivided into several villages a mile or so apart, to which a coilec tive name isgiven. Conejost comprises five plazas, each consisting of about a dozen adobe dwellings, built irregularly over;a smay area without separate inclosures. I believe that an adobe house is the nearest approach to pre eminent ugliness in architecture the world contains. It is one story high, flat-roofed and square, sometimes whitewashed, but usually left the brown color of the mud. A wooden window frame, six panes of glass, and a paneled door are luxuries that only a pampered few can afford, and the majority are content with the light and ventilation admitted by an aperture about two leet square on each side of the small doorway. The interior is divided into three apartments, with the earth for a floor and rough hewn trees for a ceiling. Articles of furniture are scarce, and a sort of mattress, serving the purposes both of a sofa and a bed, together with a few etools and a tole, constitute nearly all the household effects or the commoner. We stopped a small boy for Information, and, doffing his hat, he pointed to a building much larger than the others, which he said was the RESIDENCE OF THE ALCALDE. The New Mexican is always sauve and polite. He will incommode himself to almost any extent to oblige a stranger, and this small boy, whose felt hat had lost its brim, and whose ragged trousers were suspended

oyer the shoulders by a string, saluted us with the grave courtesy of a polished gentleman, scratching himself the -while with a furtive vigor that was bo:t amusiDg and

eusiciuus. uut me aicaiae in wnicb country shall we find one more smooth, digpified, and hospitable than he? When he had demonstrated our way to us in voluble Spanish and by earnest gestures, ho invited us to dismount and take.v.uts ui ul BKu3 vi wine, lis was the magistrate of the town, a: once the maj-or, the police justice and the town council, as comprehensive a character as the urvivor in Gilbert's ballad of "TLe Naacy Ball." His house was a castle ot its kind and had been built in the days when Invti ans were troublesome on the border. All the windows looked cut upon an intenoi courtyard, and tho door was wide and strong A look of disappointment pasd over the reverend Benor'a brown face because we declined his hospitalities and as we left bim he reiterated hia directions in Lis anxietv lest we should mistake them. TLe building Eext in importance to the executive mansion is the church. an adote structure, with a plain wooden croaa surmounting its one story I have been told that the New Mexicans" are the worst priest-ridden people in the world and of this I shall speak again hcrf-ffer. It i3 certain that they are religiously inclined The men who gathered around us at the al cade's door wore little silver cresses on tbeir bare breasts, and ia each house a small crucifix Is the only ornament. In personal appearance the New Mexicans are snare and brown-skinned. Their hslr ard eyes are lustrously black, and thf ir speech is low ad pleasant. You can net know how sweet the human voice U until yon have heard on oi their women say no sabo cr quien sabe. SheuttEM it with a gentle, melting, loncintr intonation to 1m Ptihrail o.w . ."iscribed. But NEW-MtXICAN WOMEN are not all sweetness and beautv. The features are irregular and !he fcrnis" are squat Ssnie of them study comlort more than dlicacv. and in hot weath ter about iu a chemise and Camel petticoat" UUIU1 uoora ineyswaine tnemselve-i in large black shawls, covering th head and part oi tbe face in a picturesque insurer thpt reminds one of Turkey. And a friend of mine maintains that there is a still furtner similarity between tbe extremes of lire here "and those of ancient Paitwu;e. Tbe houseware primitive enough certainly, aud tee maidens carry earthen vessels of water on their heads in the same manner that Rebecca did In the time cf the patriarchs. The only American usuallv settled In the Mexican town is the post-trader with a wife or a daughter, in whose house we perhaps find a piano, a sswiug machine, and & rocking chair things that'strike us as binc prodigious and exceptional luxuries Afti a month oi camp life, Indeed, the smallest suggestion of home and home comfortcomes upon us as gratefully a a pool ol water in a desert. We travel for days togotcer without seeing a living soul until we would willing exchange a hundred mile of the rugged mountains for a mere glance at a New England village. As we passed out of Conejos we saw a native plowing a field with an iron-shod torked stick, dragged by a pair of oxen, and the other agricultural implemenis in us? would have been a disgrace to mechanical geni-j3 a hundred years ago. Our guide sicureJ, we followed a trail over some thickly wooded hilte into a branch of tbe Conejos canon, and from that point to the present caiup our path has lam through m oonntry cf lemarkatle luxuriance. Here the thirsty sage bush i superseded by succulent plants, the sparse grass hytall sheaves, and the dust bv refreshing dews. The foliage is prodigal in its variety and beautv of shades. The pines are marshaled on the height, with prickly arms thrown out to catch the sunshine which thev repel. In strong contrast with their massiveness of color are the cottc:;tvcoSs, with pray bark and small, oval leaves that tremble and gleam like the silver poplar at ;u8 least touch of the wind. Down in the hollows a 6hrub grows with a profuse emerald leaf and a bright red stem, under the shelter of which are gardens or wild flowers, mosses and ferns. The gra?s is from twelve to eighteen inches high, and a tropiclike plant, called the cebadiüa, Las leavennearly eight inches broad. Tnick. too a the living timber ia, the trail is made difficult by that which is fallen or burned to tbe stumps by forest fires yet smouIderiD and by- the mazes - of elastic youcr Cottonwood in the undergrowth. The cottonwood is the most prolific of Western trees and the prettiest. On a breezy day in Sprint? the air is filled with Its seed, which lloa aboutmaccat of silky down. But were ail this beautiful luxuriance :s, wherelhe grazing is the finest in the world, and the land the most prom isinp, the climatic conditions are Buru iha- iuuuinz is impopsibl" and cattie can not live in Wiattr. In one of the loveliest spots in the canon tsere ia an abandoned log cabin, and that is the only habitation we saw between it town oi Conejos and Tierra Amaril.'a, ad;"acU nt about thirty-eight miles. Per tLe greaUr part of a day we threaded th canon o tv"e Los Pinos by a precarious trail vcrn in one of the walls at least a hundred feet above the bed. Masses ot rock and pebbles came alorg down upon us from tbe impending clilf cf rasrged basalt, and a misstep would have cost the hve3 of a mule and its rider. Camp No. 11 was at the head of tha valley r.t V; Chama.lna cold, dark, silent glrn amocc uuu jus tun juutou uown upon a hundred miles Of conntrv. Tho r,-- - thick around, intens: frint tfa ' j - "to iyvtu niiu profound stillness of the. primitive wilderucff. iiurimjua sancaione roci& jutted out hundreds of leet overhead, worn into weird forni3, and dyed, gray, red, blue, and yellow Directly over our camp three needles cut the air;iike the pointed turrets of an c'd Normaudv house, and na th ft'caught theo they burned like brilhantlycolored fires. Tbe night followed soon, cold, dark, impenetrable, yet so clear that we could count the pioes on the mountain ridges, and our camp fires threw a ruddy glow on the chaotic piles of rocks. FI1IGHTENED FATHERS. EIGETEEN OF THEM IN NEW YORK TWE3CTY CHILDREN ABDUCTED. The San, of New York, lor Monday, tells of a bad scare: Police Commissioner Voorhls and Inspector McDermott, while closeted at at an early hour yesterday morning were astonished by the irruption of 13 excited Germans., they were all fathers, had lost tbeir little ones, and the only news they had of them was that a man drivings large wagon had invited them In, and had spirited them -away. The fact of over twenty children being kidnapped in a densely populated neighborhood Btartled tbe two Jcnns, and. they ar once set the police telegraph at work.. At 3 o'clock in the morning Inspector -McDermott was awakened by Ofiicer John-. Riker with a telegram. The Union Market street police had news of the children. Tbey bad returned home safe and sound to their fathers. Johu Hume!, driver of an. excursion van, as he drove past Rivington street, was bailed by tbe merry voices ot many children, who begged for a ride. He stopped his horses and took the little ones In. Merrily the young excursionists rode up, and Humel, dalighted with hU load, took them to Tremont. There he gave theca all ice cream. Then he took them back to the Third avenue railroad depot, put them all on a car, paid their fares, told the conductor where to let them out, and with a heaity cheer left them. The police, Beeing so many little ones promenading the streets at so early an hour, took them to the Union Market police station, where their anxious parents awaited tbem,