Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 16, Number 40, Jasper, Dubois County, 13 November 1874 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER,

C. D0A5E, Publiihtr. - - INDIANA jAsri:i:. in; ms 01 i.Mi:in:sr. I'c-rwoiml mid l.llrrnr). Cel. J. W. Forney, of the Philadelphia Jh-tm, is t remain in London during the coming winter. F.J. Dicken, son cif tin late novelist, is now in l Htawa, Canada, ami will probably take up hi residrncc there. .Toll i Mitchell i nlioiit to deliver a scries of lecture- on tlie present condition :iiul political prosjiects ol In Intnl. 'i'lit shah of Pcr-ia has written atonk of hi travels. ( ne passage Is as I'ol Ivs : "The people of London tliillk Very inileli nf their police ; anybody that shows any lirc.cct to tlie pidieo must In; killed." , Kx-Pre-idi-tit John-oil lias upon his place at ireenx ille, Tennessee, two large; weeping-widows that have grown from sprig taken by u traveler from the tree that formerly overshadow ed, the grave ol Napoleon at St. Helena. The f.thcr of little Charlie Boss, the hey w ho wasaltcluctecl from Ids home near Fliila h lphia some months ago, it is Mated has m arly lost his reason, and it i thought will not long survive. I'he inuther, too, is .said to he a hopeless invalid. The iuka (Miss.) Herald says : " Mr. ..lames Stewart, the foreman of the bricklayerson the hotel building in this place, aiid a splendid workman, is h lawyer hy profession, was !Krn in New York, practiced law slxtii'ii years in llliimls and Nebraska, and was a ineiiilM-r of the Lcgi-la-ture from the latter Territory bclore its admission.'' The I ;-v. Adirondack Murray is not the only gentleman of his cloth in Mas-a-e hue -its w ho has a hankering utter horse-tle-h. At the recent fair in tin at Harrington. Berk-hire County, the Be-v. Mr. Mnith. ef Kis, eiife-rcdand drove a horse in one of tlie trotting matches, but did not .Mii-eccd in w inning the run. At the fair of the llooac Valley Agricultural Society, held at North Adams a lew days previous, one of the comM-ting horses in a trotting match was the prope-rty of a Koman Catholic clergyman, hut in this instance the reverend gentleman did not handle the ribbon-. Srlotol anil 4 Inirrli. T1e cXie rime-lit of the tw o churches .'it r.elievue, Iowa. (Congregational and l'n byteri ui). employing the same miii-i-tcr. w hi' h was be gun last year, works sati-fai torily to all concerned. In accordance w ith a dying w i-h of thel.it' Hi-hop Whit'diou-e, f Illinois, his ehun h in Chicago ha h-e n made tree for all time to eone hy the payment of its entire debt. A generous uk-iiiIm rha contributed tie llie-ail. Tin girl in the New York Normal School prefer tin study of German to that of French in the pmiortinn of 01s who chose German, and 1T Freiicti, out ol 1,1. VI stud- lit-. It Heeded Hot this new evidence to attest how much stronger iihe German e h mi nt in thi country than the French. Tl.e M ti?hmtt Tfirher says: Teacher too often - sight ol the noteworthy tact that dull scholars are not to blame fur their dullness any more tb.n they a:- tor the color ot their hair." And the writer is M-vcrw upon teachers who .-how "a mark'-d p.trtialifv l"r good scholar-and a H-aeeabh lilik and neglect toward tin'-. who are dull." It will ! rccollectc) that a great hubbub wa- r:iicd in Knglaiid recently Ih-iau-e t!n- Bi-hop of I.inci'ln n fu-cd "to let a Methodi-t minister engrave the title " lli v." n a tomb-tone erected to the memory of his d iiighter In a hutch nt Lnghtnd burying-grmind. Tlie matter has hcc-ii settled, however, ill the highest court o! Kugl!-hcc-clcsi.t-tical judicature. by Jue-e n Victoria writing a note to the "B.v." Mr. W. M. Puiihoii. Mr. G-orge ti'iHiam Curtis is lay t'reacht r ! the I'nit.irian Chnn li In New I'.righton. Statcti Island, and w ill ol!i iate (lurini: tin-aiituuin and winter. Th l.th"nl ( hri.-tinn t-ays it is not every church that is -o iortiiiiatc as to have Mich a preacher, and thinks " It would Is a very excellent i ha il more laymen of the denomination would li l Valliil to lend a hand when the regular pulpit -upply, for on rea-oii or another, is not forthcoming. 'I lure an always gool printed sermons to - read, and there seems to 1 no reason why a little -ocii ty should not keep tyther. e n where' it is impos-iitle to sii"rt a p.i-tor. if the layiueti an willing to take a little trouble and a-siiuie son u extra rep..;.-ibili(y." rlrnre nml I mlii-l r y. The Atlanta AVir says that gold ore n'ar I i.tliionegi. Ja.. is said to N yielding tin-en c inou-aiooimt of jlil.Ooo a ton. I he mil,! - jire owned ly capitalists, one '! tlietu. tin Ainibict. having Im-cii sold to Mr. ll.tnd oi Ohio for f."iHi,iKi. It is xpect 1 that hy next summer two thoii;ind M tsons'will In. emplovcd in the o.-emill-. The i ite doth, which enters so largelv into th. ni:itiulactuv f grain liags in !,'is nitrv. esHciaily in Califi mia. is ino-tly in ide at I uiiilc', Scotland, w here there ate Y iniiuen-t mill-, one of which employs .".(' n workmen engaged in tin inaimi u ture. It is estimated that ten per cent. o Hi,, xa'ii. of .the California wheat crop i. im iid. in the j-urcha-e of coarse lite, c.fi,) and linen bags. Mi" I'liiled States Yu-u Kcport for give- th total numlMTof milcli cows "n the I'.iriii-o tl.e l liitcd States S,- , ; !!.'. This d'M-s not include any kept in itic. or illages, nor tho-e k-pt hy meehanii to- prol. ssional men in firming, f'-i'ii-. The mi mis r ,(f pi Mini 1- of butter inainita. 'iired is given at .'.hl.iRtJ.'M'. The iiumtwrot pounds of cheese on farm- at l"i '.. T,e ch'se iiiaiiulacturrd at 1h-m i,. -torics is pliiit-d at 1(hi,.(.i.-j.!) I-Hii.! r,i t"tal chee.-e pntdr-ct of li;.'''.ISJ pounds. l'he total liunits r ol heiM-lactoriesis placed at l.lild, of which ''"mbcr New York had M, Ohio llli'"is " Wi-.-on-in;-!. A I'.ir!iii journal speak of the new tca'ii-ciigiiu. Ian y dci-e by M. Siemens i1 likely to proe a piactiial succc-s. 1 hi n,,y, , .,,,, jV:,.,. (,.,, neither evlin-l'-r, pi-!...,, -rnii'e ro l. ct;n.'ks, iiorvaHcs, '

hut only a boiler, the Interior arrangement of which constitutes the chief Kcullarity of the invention. The steam remains, us well us works, within it. not a droit ol water being lost. It is only adapted to produce mic-teiith horse power, but it is always ready, Is entirely safe, and, when gas is employed for heating, requires only two feet Jmt hour. Fxternally the appar. utus is cylindrical in form, widening at one end i-onically, and placed at an angle ol forty-live degrees, and turns on supports a conical-t'M'theil wheel on the top, converting; the motion into horizontal or vertical. A very profitable and entirely congenial industry for young women is wood carving: Someyoung ladies in ( incinnati have turned theirattrntion to it with grear success. The details of the work so lull of delicate beauty gave theui more delight than trouble, the pupils acquiring rapidly a sux-rh ta-te and invention In design and coii-tritction. The results of this employ

ment may bo applied to furniture or ornamental und less u-efu articles. For some years past the lighter and less useful branches of this Industry have been taught as an accomplishment in the tiuishing schools. It should now Ik considered one of the essential requisites of female education and taught more thoroughly. It may oicn a career to man v a poor young gill wlio would otherwise he compelled to worry through life the slave of utterly uncongenial pursuits. Iln mill .llftliat. Hy the careless handling of a gun, Frank Miller, of Waterloo, Iowa, aged !, blew the top of his head oil' a lew days ago. Marcus S. Hooke, son of Judge K. M. Hooke, of Chattanooga, Tenn., committed suicide recently by taking chloroform. Tin cause was unrequited love. While Miss Lizzie Lvnn. of Danville. ill., was sitting up in bed ono night recently, a shot was lired through the w indow, striking her a little above the shoulder blade, producing a painful, though probably not dangerous wound. The jx-riM-trator of the act is suppoMil to tx a di-cardcd lover, w ho, it is said, has made res-ated threats that Le would take her life. A North Carolina minister lo.-t liis life a few w-eks ago in a singular nmnner. lie was anointing his entire body with kerosene, as a cure for rheumatism, when th oil was ignited hy the lire on the hearth near which he was standing, and lie was burned to death. A distressing accident occurred in I'u-la-ki County, Mis., a short time since, which has ea-t a gloom over the entire county. A party of four young men w ere hunting d'-er in Tallahatchie I.ottom and became separated. One of them, Hell Mitchell, w hilt pursuing a path through the cam-brake, observed the cane shaking ahead of him. ami. thinking it was can-ed by deer, lirrd the contents of his doublebarreled shot-gun, loaded with buckshot, and. hearing scream, rushed to the spot, and found Thomas I,. Mo-ley, one ol his companion, Ivingdead, shot through the heal; Iavid hite, another, shot in the head and mortally w ounded, and the t'uird one, S. W. .It hiisoii, severely wounded. All of the parties wen very respectably connected, and the deplorable accident has brought mourning and sorrow to many homes. i'nrrtjfii .Noir. ' ount Von Arnini was born in 1J1. lletli liiot inherit his title, but was created a count by royal dcrec dated July LN. 170. while' he was I'mian Ambassador at Koine, lb i of medium height, ha black hair, which he wears long, and blue eyes. He Uses spectai les. What are the authorities of Canterburv Cathedral a!out? a-ks an Kngli-h oaper, win n recently some Koiii.au Catholic Canterbury pilgrims, led by eight priests, took osesion of th building, went through a series of devotions on the sxt w here th brains of Thoms a Ilcckctt were scattt'tcd on the pavement. and afterward put the finish!:) stroke by as-endii:g on their knees to the steps h ailing to the shrine. This sjM-ctacle is often witnessed, the vergers not interfering with their devotion. The salaries of twenty-eight prelates of the K-tsbli-hed Church of hngland amount t f I.VJ.'mi a year, or nearly eight hundred thousand dol'lar ; tint to this vou must add :W (HMifor a many dean. The annual patronage attach'il to these twenty-eight dioceses is valued at X'.iOl.b;.'. This patronage includes canons resident, archdeacon and other clerical snuggeries. Th" value of the real e-tafe of tin K-tab-lished Church of F.nglaiid may Ih estimated from it n venue, which at it lowest rate I 7 .(M'lKm, or thirty-live million of dollar annually. '1 he Ktahlihi hurcli o Scotland "(I'rc-hvtcrian) owns l.'JV I churches, educates llu.ooo scholars, and raises 1 M,(KH) aiinuallv for home and mi-ionary purpo-cs. Within twenty vears l.s) "pari-fi cIi.im1. co-ting $..(Ni,(oii, liave ls-cn endowcil and erected. Tlie body of Lady I Hike, w ho died recently in Loudon, was burnt, on ct. Id. at liresdeii. The ceremony was performed in th furnace recently invented lor burial purpose by I lerr Semens, and thr relatives f the deceased lady Js Tlilittillg strangers to 1m prt -ent. a large nunibcr of scientili' men attettd' d the exp'riment. When the company had complied with Ib rr Sicmcn's reqnet to oiler up a mental prayer, the colli n was placed in the chamber of the furnace; six minutes later the colli ii btirt ; live minutes more and the lleh began to melt away; ten minutes more and the skeleton was laid bare; another ten minutes and the hone began to crumble. S'venty-llve minutes after the introduction of the collln into the furnace all that reinaii'-d ot La-ly Iilk and the colli n wen six pounds of dust placed in an urn. The brother-in-law of the deceased was present. An amusing lawsuit w as recently decided in Foiitainehleau, Franc, according to Solomon's principles. Monsieur C poscssiI a turkey-hen. which hatched out a brood of fourteen little ones; but unfortunately they soon disappeared. .Search for them wa made in v.un; but one day th mother's olt-rejs'ated -a!ls were answered from n neighboring barnyard. The polity were called to inestigate, and on the sn-pected premise found it cage containing ten little turkeys. Monsieur C protested that they were his ; poabo did the owner of the cage. The matter was brought into court, and the chicks were suiiiiiioii'l to give evidence, as well as the hen belonging to the farm

er. This latter witness lh-w at the young turkeys, and (recked them. Then Monsieur C 'a hen was summoned, and, spreading her wings, she called her brood, and they joyfully took shelter un

der her wings, 'lhe Court pronounced this proof of ownership decisive. Otltla Mm! F.iitla. Said one girl to another, this morning, as they were going to school. " We're too early ; we'll have to loaf around there until tlie doors arc okii." "Loaf around?" replied the other, " that Is not a pretty x-pres-ion." Well. I'd like to know," said the reproved girl, how I'm to leanto talk proper, when I have three brothers harping about 'chin music,' 'cheese it,' ' w hoop 'cm up,' ' that is not your rac ket,' and all that sort of talk all the time." Culutntmn (O.) VUpateh. And now the draw ling 44 Tha-a-nks" of the languid swells has. crept into the dry-goods stores ; w w hen a lady hands her currency to the brisk coiiiiter-uinper, and he has yelled " 'a-a-sh ! " In a ra-ping voice into her very face halt -a-dozen times, and rapped on tlie counter till her teeth are on edge, he unsettles her digestion for the re.t of the day by handing her the change anil drawling "Tha-a-nks" in a vapid, easy, familiar style, as if he had just tini.-hed a waltz with her. Jioston lhdletin. While a healthy ox may 1 a fair, steady-gaited digester, there is no coinparisoii iM-twccn the slow assimilating jiriKt-ss of his bread-basket and the quick electric stomachic machinery of the sccdy and voracious grasshopMf. A sound, valid ineiulter ol this nomadic family of gluttons can eat. digest, and extrude three times his own weight in green corn, four times his bulk in peaches, without sugar or cream ; six times his stature in raw turnips, four pounds of green tobacc o and ajN'di of onions every twenty-four hours. And radihes, which "are quite trvintr on the ordinary human stomach, the grasshopper digests as a calf does milk. Montana Herald. Some time since a party of ladies and gentlemen went on a tour of ins-iection through lurhaui Castle. The lions" were shown to them by an elderly female of a sour, solemn, and dignitied as(te t. In the course of their (x-rcgrinations Ihev came to the celebrated ta'x-stry for which the castle is go famed. "These," said the guide, in true showman style, flavored w ith a dash of piety to suit the subject, and pointing to several" groups of figures upon the tal i st rv " the.-e represent scenes in the life of Jacob." "Oh yes how pretty!'' said a young lady ; ami wit ha laugh, pointing to two figures in somewhat close proximitv, she continued, ' suppo-ethat is Jacob kis.-ing l.'achcl ''' " No. madam" respondi-d the indignant guide, with crii-hing dignify, " that i Ja:oh nrtttiti) with the in7-." The men haw-hawed, the young laily subsided, and o Hi-red no further expositor' remarks, but groaned under a scn-e of unwotthiiiess during the rest of the vi-it. llirper'g Prawtr, The Ila-qtie Dance. A Spanish correspondent of the London Tun writes; "Anything more harmless, anything more proper or stupid than the laque dance a- it is is-rformed by the boys and girls of Ib-ndavc, it never was my lot to see in this sublunar world. A toothless old man with life and tambourine con-tit iite the w hole orchestra. His music - limited to the two-in-one tnelit onal notes of the old Morisco turn-turn. In come and up step the dancers, not in couilcs and not by invitation, but one by one, rno'ii prinrio, the women w Ith handkerchiefs tied turbanwi-e round their heads, the men with their jackets loose, thrown over tle ir shoulders, and some of them barefooted and brandidiing a stick. They go out a they come in, one by one, w ithout order or consent, no attempt at combination or tlgure, no joining of hands, no Ik)w or courtesy, no visible recognition or apiHiiiituietit of partners, hut ev ry one joining in the melee at odd times, mid lighting l;ke Cow Chroni for his or her own hand; even body as potter a a judge; no crowding or chirruping or jumping into the air, none of the voluptuous, ogling and leering of the Audi lu.-iaii. none of the monkey-like grimacing of the French, none of the hearty cla.-ping of the Herman, none of the mad capering and gambling of the negro; nothing of the joyoiisncss, the sweet sadness, the consciouncss, the lolihics, the bashful ness, tin coquetry, which gives dancing its sweetness and bitterness all over the world. Kvery one here tikes his or her till of the cltiius-, Is-ar-like evolutions, and all go back as cold and dull and un-vmpathizing as they came. You would be lieve the (x-ople all those uncouth, heavy men, all thos plain, and many of them not young, women are Ntformiug some religious penance ; and the priest w ho looks i n all the time seem to Lc there to see that the sentence he ha pa-scd in the morning at the confessional is carried into execution and enforced to the titmo-t extent of its severity." The rocket on the lL,p A correspondent of the San Francisco Morning Qill writes that " it ha occurred to me to suggest w hether a c ertain fa-hion of we aring pocke ts in the side of the pantaloons, whic h ha prevailed lor the lat ten or fifteen ye ars, lias not tss-n the fruitful caii-c of many a homicide. We nil know that th motion of a man in (Hitting hi baud in this pocket i Ihc same as that made in drawing a pi-ted. w hich is usually worn in tin .same position. The other day a man shot another on board of a vessel here. The one w ho shot sa s the o-h-er made a motion ns if to draw a pi-ted. This may Im so. and Vet the latter Is unarmed, and he might only have Is-c n going to take-a chew of tobacco. The motion, however, w ill always caue apprehension in tlie minds of those w ho cany weapon. e-H-cially when crson are angry. We recollect years ago hearing the late Kdward Mar-hall in summing up a murder i ae to a jury, w In n he texik occasion to re fer t this satin suggestion. 1 1 r said that it might not mean anything for a man in Ma -ae liu-etts, whe n he had an altercation, to put hi hand under hi coat-tail, hut hi South Carolina it might mean a good eleal. In this community, where weaMns have; always leen so generally c arrie-d. thi motion by mi angry man is full of elaugcr. 1 f there is no pocket on the hip, this motion w ill not Ih mad' by an iinarmi d man, and more than one lite thu saved. We go for abcdi-hiiig the pocket eill the hip."

A Kl -kLFX UI IILAKSAL. 'onffresiiiiNii llnya (Taught MM-iufae. lurliiK Out rule fM ill 4 liic-kmaaboKiic, tNt-w Voik World's M-intKi-inTy (Ala.) Letter, October lb.) One of the cleverest ami most amusing of the late Judge Longstrcct' tale s in hi " Georgia Scenes," is that one in which he gives a wimple of " Georgia Theatric." lie narrate that he happe ned, while riding In thu "dark corner of Lincoln," to surprise an ingenious youth rehearsing the charac ters and all the particulars of u Lincoln Court-house light, from the preliminary banter, challenge and clinch, to the llnal gouge and surrender. Hut truth is always stranger than fiction, and what Judge Longstreet probably only imagined of the dark corner of Lincoln, is surpassed by w hat u clerical gentle-mati accidentally happened to see the other dav in tlie corner T Marengo hard by Wilcox. The story is too good to be lost, the more es-(MH-ially as it concerns our scamp of a Congressman, Charley J lays, who te lls a story of goodly propoi tions himself upon occasion. Tlie INv. John McKce Breed, a Bapti-t cle rgyman, ts ing on a sort ol circuit in company with his w ife, had h it tlie railroad at Spring Hill, where he had a friend, from whom he obtained a carriage end horse to enable him to get to Clifton, in Wilcox County. This was last week, so I am informed. Mr. Breed took Linden and Shiluh on his way, preaching or lecturing (he was peeking "money in aid of foreign missions) nt both (daces. He stopped all night at Shiloh, and left in the morning for (Milton, where lie he ard there was to lie a Bepublican meeting that night. He did not prooe to have anything to do with the meeting, but only to get into town before the meeting commenced, Ihing a nervous man, afraid of horses and not caring to run the risk of the pistolshot, bonfires ami other usual accninpanlloeiiU of balls-cues. When lie rcae-he-d

Chiton, however, he found that lie had liecn niisinfornie-d the meeting was not till the next night. He tilled his Hpjolnt ment at Clifton, sjient the night there, and in the morning starteel on his return. Ju-t Ix-yond Shiloh is a pretty extensive and very dismal swamp, known as Chickasateogue swamp, through w hich the road to Linden and 1 Mnnpolis passe. Driving through the swamp Mr. Breed was suddenly startled to hear shouts, cries and repcateef firings just ahe-ad of him, in theelecK'st and thicke-i part of the swamp. He stopped his carriage, got down, made his wile get dow n, tied his horse securely, aii'i men. leaving lr-v pniii sianuing in the road by the c arriage, went forwaM to rccoiinoiter. The shots and cries grew louder as he approached the -iot, and the reverend gentle-man was firmly js-rsiiaded a horrible battle or mas-acre was going on. He was jut turning to lly the spot and give the alarm, when he saw three or lour horse s and mules saddled and hitched together by the roadside, and near the-ni a negro man, looking olf toward the tiring and grinning enjovuie nt from ear to ear. I.'apidly approaching this man. the hrri-fn-'i minister asked in an agi'ated voice: " For God's sake, friend, w hat is going on?" The negro quietly laughed, and said "Slio! nothlu' to Ik skee re dat; it's only some o de-re fun." "Fun! but what ate they shooting and screaming so about ?" "O, tna-sa, dey's only ptayin' like a c f de Ku-Klux was arte r de in an' given 'em particlcr hell. Dey's gwine to de nice tin' to Clifton t night, an' d-y wants to get de sympatic o!i de l.'e publicans on 'count ob elere narreT capc, you see. Look at dein now ." Mr. Breed did look, and saw an Alabama re he arse 1 of theino-t original sort. The-re were a buggy and a de arborn wagon in a little oeii space ill the swamp. In the se vehicles were hanging the hat and coat of a party of eight me n. four black and four w hite, w ho, in the ir shirt-sleeves and lare headeel,werc tiring volley from their revolvers ir.to their clothes aiul he ad-ge ar and into the wagon, with cries of, " lake that, vou relic whelp!" " I've got you now, you l.'adical skunk!" etc., e tc. " Who are those men?'' a-ked Mr. Breed. The negro, proud of tsing so well-informed, said, pointing: "Thar' Charley Hays in course yon know him. lie's our Congressman. That man with the calico shirt i Mr. Anton Nibbling. He' sort of a Dutchman, 1 spec. Yonder' Luke Snoddy. ami t'other' Simpson Breathitt." The minister set al' the iiaine s down in his pocket-book. "The darkie s the re is named Bob Fullerlove. A1m Kcll, Bill Heiison. ami Bolige-e Jack I don't know what his Christen name mont I.' "What's vours?" itkcd the mini-ter. " Mine' N'l-lse Colvhi." "Where do you live-?" "I'p Dcmopoli way.' " Well, N'e l-on, I want you to get in my carriage with me it' just hack he-re and goto Miiloh to testily about this matter. It may prevent serious trouble." "Can't, indeeel. liia-sn : I'se one ob ele pnrtv; I'se got ele horses to mind, me if I was to el elat." sioii could move him. Side. ,1, v'd kill And no iersuaThe minister walked b:i k to his carriage, ejuiete-d hi alarmed wife, and then, prompted by a sense of duty, turned hi horse luad and drove back toward Miiloh, though he grcatlv incoiiviiiieiice-d liimclf by so doing. He was iiei.r the edge ol tlie swamp when he heard the clatter of hools he hind him, and saw the gentleman who had len tolutcd nt a Hay riding rapidly up. Thi time be had bis coat and hat on. ami seemed considerably embarrassed. I 'rawing rein alongside the carriage, he touched bis hat to the reverend gentleman unci his wile, and said. " Lcue my seeming impertinence, but Ce.liu tell me vou we re a witness to our plea-i'. littfe comedy N-yond there a minute ago? " " I wa'. sir.'" "A ridiculous spectacle, wasn't It? " " I wagn-it-Iv sho, ked. sir, I confess." said the iniui-t'e-r. "Well, the fact 1-. Mr. . exeue im "'"Breed is my name.' "And mine u Havs. 1 was going to say, the bovs are all" in liquor, an I up to all sort of Voini'-al prank." " I that all of it?" a-ked Mr. Breeel. "Nothing el-e in tlie world, sir. What cl-c could vou sup-po-e?" " We ll. I make no c harges. Mr. I lavs, but I de-em it my duty, as a e ilicn ami a Chi i-ti hi, to go I fore the neare-t niagi-tratc and make oath f what I have seen and he ard Ju-t now in I hi' ka-nlMigue Swamp. I am on my way hack to Shiloh now for that express purpo-e." "For God's s.ik', don't elo that, Mr. Breed. It will ruin nie- if you elo." Well, you i re I nil i lg the country w ith your manufactured outrage--, Mr. Hay, and it i time tlli bllsilic- Wa -toppc-d." 'I he up-hot of it all was that Chailie

Hays phniged his honor as a gentleman that there should no "outrage" come out Chii'kaaboguo Swamp Uou any consideration, ami the clergyman was prevailed upon not to go to Shiloh. ami not to te ll w hat he had seen. Mrs. Breed, however, did not promise unythingof the kind, ami through he r the hu ts about this unique adventure got abroad. A Terrible State of Things. We print be low an extract from a le tte r written from hreveort. La., by the agent of a prominent house In this city. '1 he arrests alludee to are those which 1'ackard ordcreil made of the merchants of Shreve(K.rt who signed the following pledge : " We, the undersigned, agree to use every endeavor to ge t our e mployees to vote the People" ticket at the ensuing e lection, and in the event of their re tusing so to do, or in case they vote the l.'adical ticke t, to refuse to employ them at tl.e expiration of their pre.-e-nt contracts." The writer, afte r remarking that six or se ven merchants have already been arrested, savs : " Warrants arc now out for about seventy others, Including every man of any prominence in town. Jacob-. Ford of B. A.F.,ainl Pike, the banke r, are among those alre ady taken. This thing should be fully advertised in St. Louis, as it is evide ntly intended to make these men stand a trial in New Orleans, In which case the-ir business for this year will Ik ruined. I was rccpicstcd to tele graph you this evening stating the caseaml asking -ou to u-e your influence hi St. Louis in stirring up the me reliant to some action in the way of resolutions, &c. I cscms-I from telegraphing only by stating that a le tter would reach you as soon. It is important to St. Louis merchants' inteiest to take some action 4on 'Change' or otherwise in procuring some ch-monct rstion denouncing the course now le ing pursue d he-re by the Fnited State Marshal. If all the' merchant are arrested and carried aw ay It will stop the trade of the town for the year. Several parties are now deterred from buying only by the uncertainty as to how this present pcr-ecution w ill re'-ult." The se- are some of the direct and Instant result of the infamous dragonnade to w hich Louisiana Is be big subh-cted. Matters have come to such a pa-s that a few "oundrels who de-ire to ge t into ottlce, or, lieing in, !esire to keep in, may w ith impunity inflict injury to the extent of thousands and millions of dollars upon the material interests of the whole pe-ople. Not sttti-licci w ith stealing ami pillaging in

otlice, this brood of varh ts prostrates a community, ruins its business men and destroy a ertioii of the trade of a great city t cury out its designs. How long is the" country going ;o stand this thing? What huiness man i the n in St. Louis who dares to stand up and pallitate thi infamy by saying that it must Im done in order to pctpctuate the princ iples of llepuhticauisin? As a companion picture to this we might add that ob-erviiig gentlemen who have recently traveled through Hays's di-trict in Alabama, which i now undergoing a similar crucifixion, estimate the damage resulting from the political canvas in the counties of Simter und Mare ngo alone at over a (juartc-r of a million of dollar. Planters are dragged f;-oui th'-ir homes by the dragoons and sent oil to Mobile. The negroc ele e-rt tin plantations and f "How the politicians alxnit Irom hustings to hustings in gre at crowd, plundering the country a they go. Meanw hile the cotton fall' to th ground and rots unpicked. We repeat the question, how long w ill the people of the c ountrv, upon whom hard lime are N-aringdow n with aluie-t c-ru-h-ing force, stand thec things? l'he answer c annot le long delayed. St. Louts Republican. MialfHiTcl Will. Hie-hard Grant White, writing in the Gatnry, Pays : " 1 he mi-take nio-t commonly made in the ue of the-e word, and the one therefore most careful I v to lc avoided, is the use of will for shall, and of the corresponding would for should. Shad i much less olte-u used for w ill. And ye t in the word shilly-shally which i U(mii everybody" lip, is ( tritic-d the tule and the example; in regard to shall and will. Shilly-shally is merely a colloejuial corruption of ' shall I?' and thus expresses the condition of a man who I vac illating Is tween two e-ourses of conduct. It ha In-cn made into paiticiple. (s rhaps c-vcu into a ve rb. A man w ho stands ' shilly-shallying afxiut a woman,' as the ladies say, doesn't know his own mind alniut her a mental condition for which the sex has not tin highest re-pe-ct. Now no one would say that a man stood asking himself: Will I? Will 1?' and yet such is e ic ntially the mistake most frequently made in regard to the ne if the-e wold in conversation. We hear j.eopesay : What will 1 do?' and even Will 1 ' do thus or so? Among jMople of the Anglo-Saxon rai-e md of average education the mi-take, when made, most commonly take the indicative form, thu : 'I will goto Im-I (e h-cantly, n tire) at 10 o'e-loe k to-night.' or ' vie will breakfast at S to-morrow:' instead of I shall go to lied,' etc. We shall brcakf.t-t.' etc." Superstition Among Miners. Bece ntly a large numttcr of the mine rs employed' at some of the I'.cil worth collieries in North Warwick-bin-. (Kng..) giving way to a sii's r-titin which ha long prevailed among this class, re -fused to ele-scc-nd into the coal-pit ill whic h they arr employed. The me n are ctcdulou enough to Is lii-ve that c rtaiu noc tural sounds, w hich im doubtless produced by tly-l'oe k of night-bird in the-ir passage; iii-ro the country, are harbinger of an impending collie ry eli-astcr. Inning the Sunday night picdousii was stuted that the-e -ounds. which have N-eii designated "The S ve il Whi-th rs." had lse n eJi-liclly hear 1 ill the neighborhood of Bed worth, and tin-re ult was that on th following morning, whin the work should have liecu re-siinied. many of the me n psiticly rclused to descend the pit, and we re to U see n idling about the stres t of the town. The recent colliery accident at Bedwortli, ami the sounds bv whie li the y are said te liavelH-c n pre e e-i le d. se e in to have angme nte-d rathe r that diminl-he el this sujs rstitioiis tie lie f. .ledin M. Muiih. of Polk Countv. Ne braska, latallv shot him-elf at i'erry. Kansas, la-t week, by a reo!ver falling Irom hi Is Ita he v a strapj ii.g it around his wai-t.