Marshall County Republican, Volume 16, Number 50, Plymouth, Marshall County, 24 October 1872 — Page 3

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Death of the Eminent Statesman-The Last Hours cT hl IJtnessBrtef Biographical

Hon. T illiam II. Seward breathed his last atjdjs residence in Auburn, N. Y.t at fifteen rfitttefe .iafteyfiwVfelock, on me evening oj JThtrfeda ej. 10. rM leiegram iu$nisnes the folibwing pari ticulars of the sari Prent - been somewflatlihwel. fef a day or two was, on tne evening ot batureay, the 5th, seized with a severe chill, and his physician was summoned to him. He had been, during the summer, in his ordinary good health, suffering only frora the inconvenience of the muscular palsy of his jLrms, and had been entraced in JJerrinifor the r.tSK hi l r oi r x - account ofiis? recent journey aronnd, the work "The chill was- that of 'ordi-s nary j tertian qgue, accompanied by a harassing' catarrhal coughi It 'vrisf fol lowed by fever and delirium. :whit-i lasted till lata in the nieht on Sundav lie was uPjiP jJiBjafteriiqefrij took dm-. On Monday, with "the exertion" Sf Ti.'s cough and catarrh, he was (comfortable, and dic'ated as usual to' h L3 assistants' on the completion 0f his book. H piiyed whst jcui Monday, everiinc, bat at 10 . m. a slight chill occurred followed by delirium and fever,. with aggravated catarrhal disturbance of the chest, which lasted nearly aU night, his physician seeing him on 'this ac.cunt after midniht. On Tuesday after some sleep, he jvaaun, better. anu urove out in tne ariernoenrfcnt lever, aeiirium, and restlessness re turned with the cough on, Tuesday night, un u ednesday he drove out for two uours, anor aictaeect to, hi anianaensiTtirtistralj'thotigli harassed U dy witn tie couga ana tne catarrhal enu sion in the chest. "On Wednesday evening his congh abated for a while, and there seemed a promise of a good night, but the fever, restlessness, and cough returned at bed time. He was nearly sleepless until 5 o'clock in the morning. At 4 a. m., to relieve the tedium of lying sleepless, he had his son William read the New York Times of Wednesday morning to him. He slept after 5 pretty well tifi 11 a. m. of to-day, though his fever kept up without any real remission. At halfpast 1 he was seized with great difficulty in breathing, caused by a sudden catarrhal effusion into the lungs, commencing with the right lung, and soon involving the left also, inch occasioned his death in about-two-JiOurs. He entertained no apprehension but that he should recover from the attack of catarrhal ague till last night and this morning. While at his age and with the condition of muscular palsy, from which he has offered ss long, the fact that the fever was increasidg upo;: h.m, together with the catarrhal disturb -;cf, led his physicians to apprehend a fatal result in the course of a week or more, yet no immediate fear was felt, and his dissolution was saidennd unexpected. Mr. Seward's Intellectual faculties were; clear and vigorous to the last, save when disturbed by paroxysms of fever. Just after the effasion from the lungs to-day, and thinking it would relieve his breathing, he was, at his own desire, placed on a lounge and bolstered up and moved from his adjoining bedroom into his study, where,.-ia the mid of. his books and h;3 literary and other .papers, and surrounded by hie relatives and. a few friends and his devoted dependants, he breathed his last. For the last hour of his life, as the powers of nature were giving away, his .condition became easy, and he spent'tite time '.a affectionate leave-taking3 of relatives and dependants, and finally sank quietly to his last rest, as if going to sleep." William H.Seward was born inXJransre county, N. Y., May IT, thl." His an' cestry was Celtic. Welsh on his fathers and Irish on his mother's side. His father was a wealthy physician, who died in 1M9. ' At 15 Wi.liam ' Henry entered Union College; at IS, rhile still a student, he visited Georgia, and taught school there for six months. He then returned to New York, and was admitted to the bar in 1S22: The next year he changed his residence to Auburn, entering a law partnership with Jude Miller, and a year later married his partner's daughter. Miss Frances Adaiine Miller. In 1S24, he began the war upon the "'Albany Regency," the leaders of the Democratic party. In 12S he presided at a Young Men's Convention held in New York favoring the election of John Q. Adams to the Presidency, and in the same year declined a nomination for Congress. In 1 830 he was elected to the State Senate. In 1n33 he visited Europe, publishing a series of letters in the Albany Evening Journal. In 134 he was a candidate for Governor of New York, and was opposed and defeated by Mr. Marcy, and in 1S3S was again nominated for the saae-effiee, thi time beating .his, former opponent. Tn 1840 he was re-elected Governor, an3, ufori retiring, in L42, resumed his practice of thex law. ' In 1J44 hevigorbusly supported Henry Gay, and in' Gen. Taylor, for the fresiden cy . The . Legislature of New York, chosen in 1 848'. elected Mr. Seward United States Senator for the term beginning March 4. 1849. In 1n3. he was re-elected to the Senate. In the Chicago Convention of 18G0 he had been a candidate for the nomination, receiving as high as ITS votes., In the composition of his Cabinet, Mr. Lincoln appointed him Secretary of State, and during the war controlled our relations with foreign .Governments. Upon' the death of Mr. Lincoln, in 1S65, Mr. Seward was continued" in office -by President Johnson, and remained.. Secretary of. State until " March 4,-lbo, having Jield the office continuously for.eight years. . Mr. Seward was an industrious writer. His ofijcyil correspondence as Secretary of State wag volumlnp'uf. 'Tlf speeches were frerment. His unofficial addresses were numerous. He also wrote a life of Jonn tQuincy' "Adamsy nd nothercf j DeWitt Clinton. ' After' his Retirement ffrom office, he mad6 voyage around ,Jkeworid, returning'.in JIS7L ;In, pri--vate hfe he was an exemplary gentle- ( man Kind and generous by nature, lie wa3 in all things opposed to oppres- . sioas or injustice. ;A stav hearing of another who was a hundred years old, said, contemptuously, " Pshaw ! what a fuss about nothing ! Why, if my grandfather was alive he would be 150 years old."

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A St. Louis correspondent of the Cin - cinnati Commercial says : 1rBtM.ouis rWt thV jeastOjuibfa i& t.el Texan. Familiar with his animal as I T v..4 j -1 a mhdii ir.fcre the iTiifli! at home 1 ' Ft' J he arr ears on thft stnfta of St- .Louis, nn.l ?n U ife)lmuBrfiiht, isa,brited afci somewhat malarious creature, "full ot strange oaths, nd somewhat demon-, strative in;, his eflbrts t3 impress the' people with a nowledga of, the fact that he is a Texan; He is bearded like the Pard. ' I neverieaw file Pard..'ar.1 hayen,'t the lightest idef, how he was bearded, but it is.skfe'to say be couldnl lay uvci vup iLKX.ua. m me inailer OI hair. . That noble- creature cherfeh A healthv horror of lather. andVnlv fnt' eraiutsteei n we, jsajq ie pi a DOWiekniff. TTa aleA' baa ' n ihnniltfU''n' i 1 1 - . 1 7 n 1 tempt fortcombi n,d brushes. Wher ever nair win grow, ne lets it grow in i-fiatKfr-rankne-andrthe dust'end bcoa -grease ffotm 51 pomatum which seems to stimulate the fierceness of ragged bristle about his mouth and chin. The Texan isn't sturk-iin in the. motto of-drees, either. He usually appears in cowmae 0001s, garnisnea witi.rowel fis larse as a Mexican dollar (if mv momn. ry of that ancient coin serves me), shirt of red flannel or striped percale which has never , made the acquaintance of soap and water, astounding' brppotiAi and no vest. As to hat, sometimes it is an immense. BomDteToy DTH anerally a slouch of black or moose-colored felt. In' the theater le&aa tallta loudly dunng the performance, usine as manv Snanish wmHs possible, and always wants to bet "a doubloon" ' with his- compahleil "that something is or isn't so. He has an abundant wad of tobacco in Viia fiiootand plenty more in his cache. He wants to leave the one-horse show and go to a casa puta, and talk about his cavallo. He is full ot corcahs and othr RiMmisVi bt. pletives when he is swearing for effect, but when actually mad and meaning business he drons back intn the mov forcible English. A favcrite joke of me lexan 13 to saunter into a drinkinghouse, take a fearful horn, and toss a half-dollar on the counter to pay for it. When the urbane bar-keeper gives him fractional currency in rhnrurp rV,a Texan examines it with 9 nrmA Unir and finally inquires : " What's that ?" J. he dispenser pt family disturbance, thinking it a question of price, proceeds to explain that whisky is fifteen cent per drink. " Oh. d n th our Texas friend ; " but what's the stuff good for ?" The bar-tender pledges his honor as a gentleman that it is money. cut win it puy anything ?" continues the skeptical rover of the prairies. He IS assured that it will, nnri wnHe it nn is if to put it in his pocket. Then, meditating thoughtfully a moment, he puts it down on the counter for & moment. and says, " Well, give me some more whisky . ior it. That stuff is no lueno whar I "come from."' The Texan never tires of this little pleasantry, and repeats it as long as his hide will hold another drop. Even if his vest pocket is crammed with fractional, be will urn. duce his silver at every new place, for me purpose 01 impressing the barkeener. As he sits in hU sent. t the theater. . leathern VmH loins gives him a deal of trouble. He hdrets uneasily and adjusts it frequently, revealinz the hilt of a naw m he does so. He bears the restless and uneasy look of a man who hasn't killed anybody for a.week, and is beginning to suffer from the deprivation of his accustomed stimulant. The Texan comes up with cattle. His mell 4S bovine, with a hnrsv hnee Altogether he is a picturesque creature, 1, i.j i".Tr , . 1 vme'i rrgarueu irom a proper distance. Curious Wills. Chambers' Journal irive. some stran facts and figures appertaining to willmaking : In 1814, Lady Francis Wilson, daughter of the Earl of Aylesbury, was informed by Archdeacon Potts, that a parishioner of his, named Wright, then lying dead at a poor lodging in Pimlico, had leit her a valuable estate in Hampshire. The fair legatee ridiculed the idea, as she knew no such individual. However, she went to Pimlico, and recognized her defunct friend as a constant frequenter of the opera, who had annoyed hor by continually staring at her there. One would naturally suppose that the friendless man had fallen in love with the lady, or been attracted, perhaps, by her resemblance to some lost love of his youth. There may have been some tender feeling in the case ; but then, how can we account for his leaving 4,000 to the Countess of Kosslyn, 4,000 to the Speaker of the House of Commons, and 1,OUO to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, sJl c whom .were ignorant of his existence. The worthy Archdeacon would have "scouted ;the notion of the man being insane; for had he not proved himself in his. right mind, by leaving him 1.000, V as a mark of approbation 01 a sermon ne had heard him preach." in n,-, a aionmouthshire squire left 29,000 to a laboring man to whom he nvuiu. ixui .peat, wane living. A. ittr. rurstone leit t,uuu to the first man bearing his surname who should marrv bearing his surname who should -marry a temale i urstone. This was one way for a lone man to provide himself with heirs, but we prefer the practice of honest George Watt3, of Stoke Bishop, who, having no kinsman or kinswoman to whom he could bequeath his sundry cottages of which he had by industry and self-denial made , himself proprietor, left each of his bumble tenants the cottage in which he lived.,' " - ' - Heelins la Trees. 1 The , -t 1 , .,, " ;; . J nn fJZlJT t8ayS : ,We n - imrerfect heelinc in tUn have' from imperfect heeling in than-iiom . 1 . !. . . ... . . ' nuy oilier cause wuaiever ' wmcnjsvery observintr nerson who hns fceert tV. wo - i;.4fY.( x7 I 1. ' in masses with large interstices tf ni among ine roots wni assent to. Trees badly heeled in should not riimain so twenty-four hours before planting outT Clods and masses of earth are merely thrown on the tops of roots, and only shade them from, the sun'3 rays, i In a few days the roots will beeome dry; because they are not in contact with Ihe moist earth. If the heeling in is well performed, every crack and crevice will

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1 earth, and , the trees will keep a long tLuic, as wen m Liie nursprv inw. it jadly heeled in in autumn, and left till fP"ni trees , are, nearly, if riot wholly, ruined by freezing and arying combined S f " Give it a XameVlBeg." A name to be reallv s. tism ruiwht. tn belong to one possessor.: There is no sense , in his eharihg it with dozens of other people. ..Bufparents seldom look at things , .in this light. They do not consider the value of their offspring of a uennite uue, wnicn shall nominally uisimguisn inem. trorq the .rest of mankind, but give theta names which please their- parental . fancies or, inclination, without regard to the future needs of 1. l?il . m. ' . ... ine uiue creatures, inus is continually increased that dreadful crop of Johns, Williams and Marys which threaten to overwhelm and render useless the no menclature of civilization. We speak advisedly. We do not riow-a-day?-materially increase our stock of surnames. They must lemain at about the present level while their possessor-increase with the increase of the census. What, then, can we do but vary our Christian names. These are left entirely to our choice and judgment, and there is no reason why they should not be made to those who must wear them all their lives. And a good name without any reference to reputation is so very valuable indeed, that every man and woman is entitled to one. The law take3 care that ships and streets and towns shall have distinctive titles, and there are even rules in force to prevent a confusion of names among race-horses and fancy cattle. But the poor babie3 are left to the whims and fancies of their parents, who from vanity or hope of gain, from the desire to please some friend or relative, or from admiration of some noted person, give their chydren names already owned Christian names, surname, and all--by numbers of other people in their own family and elsewhere. The practice of using a family name as the given name is an excellent one, if said family name is applied judiciously 5 but this business of naming children "for" or "after" other members of a familv Allffht. tn ha stopped by law. It is often a compliment to the older owner of the name, but it is an imposition upon the child, who has a right to a name all its own. Handsome or not, let it be dist:nctive. We would rather be called Rrnmntnn Stolumite Higgs than G. W. Montmorenci. If there were any other male Montmorencis, it is ten to one some of them would be G. W. too. We know a leading iournalist in a neiwhhnrino. ;. - C . A l J who was suspected of being concerned in cheating wool-merchants, and was, at the satae time, avoided hv n Ir-.r portion oi Yna relations because of an improper ana secret marriage, when all the time it was another manof his n.me who cheated in wool, and utill who had sought the secret altar. One 01 the most accomplished writers of the day is often credited with the most mournful trash because several other persons who write for the papers have exactly the same name. The Danger of Letter Writing. It is not political candidates alone who should be careful ..hnnt. letters. Candidates for matrimonv. r well, should make their communications as exclusively verbal as possible : for under certain circumstances a loveletter mav become an uclv tbin to deal with. An Iowa bride learned this by costly experience a few days ago. The church was full of neoDle. silks rustled, jewels flashed, eager expectation and unfeigned delight were even-where : c x t.. 1 iV 1 I uiauucsi. jduu wuen me noiy man came to the usually meaningless words : " Let him speak now, or forever after hold hi8 Deace." lo! a Stronc-limber,. rlarV. haired, fierce-eyed man among the con gregation rose and torbade the bans, giving as his reason that the fair but false one was "engaged" to himself. And lest his words should be deemed the mere idle utterances of a jealous lival. he immediatelv drew frnm hU pocket, and began to read aloud, the letters wnicn tne Dnae had written him. The tPBdnr . fund thlra cKorot.r nf these epistlei niade it evident that his ciaim was jsf.r,, mends ot the vounsr woman tried to silence him with trni of ijfetsire nd yells wbHrastrwig party of hisiyrfrf frieWdfl en Ifoj-tb a 8M-glaA,arjd ?, Jdiarminfef uproar was the raniil VeKii .t.."JTi.- , "J7erf itmnn made his escape by the yestryldbor,. the crowo, eurgea out at tne rron.iao tne buttle was re.ne.wei- in the irorrJ . .The xfseiij-iier llipness-toT!ette -the -dispute by marrying her ilrst- lover an fer whichJs. likely .die accepted. L'.' ....IJ. !' " ' ' ; tm but -1 r. 1 ... .l.ni,.iir-in'"" . feow 'SomeTif the-feest.wranges in' -the rworl-ds- mkel- Hi t of fl.tinr thiii.Hali. tcious-iraiC-: To' en. for an.oranse thoriibJy.TOU should eatit in Braziljao fash.i5ffL3LJi?i?. segment" of Hie flower ena deep enough to go comp.eTely througiajj fiijnT therrireplacing the seement. thrust a Tor khrotiirh it to the very centef. tjb-$rage, if the tines " i" " , u ii Va - W r 1 - rti a tuT 2 s Clu v "4V n ffiZZH'i?? n ' , irr T7 hrrr'lZZ ZZtJJ' ij norS.lIistmrTTmtifm a;hseld -fit -, t t . v".-. to Tirevent an ."-nvi Sf-.'iiitin. Ihe left- thtimbr Kowr wi.h-i.ut. jlhe -KBtte, uissactoat Uue, puipjoZohe Jhp BDckfita knrl (Vmwv lt. int. the mnitth 1 v-j jt- - x " -V -" ..J5!ollCwthis tip, pocket by pocket.' and the ct;r, aI ;tv, - v- -U-tv.-fork, lik$ tlifejf S5k open unthe covers touch. " a.rn -i .;: 1 1 , Keeping Cder. first, to lust brine it to the boiilrilr Pbint 4.in2'aright 4n- kettle !-or.-cleaB tin ;5U'ftisQgn nmB Kettle f-otveteaat 1 LilSniTSBa Barrel UglxfTyVTOT . . -2. T""5 . .Ft-V i. hen sir.. itj arref let the- air hare aceesg-tofe-fer a J .' v.' : .... j"aj OT iwor . -W4U tnej-ie tu nne.conSettled M'Uia.b&Ifi'iearaw y.ii.giiai gp;irinu newDarreis inrougn the- bungs. . Add " two (quarts, .of pure alcohol to the barrel and cork tight. In till cases put -in the fack ' Wore filling the barrelsT.so that there, used be no shaking or moving of the cider after it is once stcred.iu ,u.j.iJt t ;,,t, vjon Self-made men are almost always apt to be a little proud of the job.

Hue ' Chicago e wsi)arer Union rrosperous Instltntion: - A correspdhdcht "writes ''as' follows from Chicago: '" " ' -i : At the time of the great fire which swept over ; Chicago' one year ago, and reduced the fair proportions . of, the v estern i metropohs to a ,mas3 of rubbish and ashes, the Chicago , Newspapsh lNiojf were -, preparip?' to move into their new building, on the South Side, ihey had just fitted tip, at ' large expense, an elegant and commodious office in a marble palace frcnting the old Cu3tom-House,. on Monroe street, and, another week, would have found them located there :. and. of cnni.o the machinery, presses and material, confu"""is jii 01 tae most pertect'piintmg 'establishments iii the f Western C0UnT . TVOnJd have hoan .ectMr. 1. that terrible . Etorm,. of ' flame, which swept unresistingly and unpitvinglv over the doomed city. ' Fortunately the building tph?h thot.occupied in the West Division, and which they were about to exchange ior more commodious nnartorann tV.e s.iitV. Side, was beyond the reach of the fire Send. It was the only .printing ofSce of any magnitude that escaped the almost universal wreck and ruin. Of course the concern was not of sufficient capacity to undertake the herculean task of nrintinr all the numerous tlsilv papers in the city. ' But it certainly did all that possibly could be done under the circumstancei in lenrJi'ncr a he1r;Tn hand to its stricken contemporaries. Its proprietor! generously threw its doors open and lent the use of its presses to four of the larce dailies The first tr (an edition of the Evenhg Post) printed after the fire, waa issued from the office of the Newspaper TTvmv nn Mnnrfav afternoon, the 10th of October, 1872, wniie the names were even yet raging, and before the extent of the awful calamity had become cenerallv known: and for several weeks thereafter the numerous presses of the establishment were taxed to their fiille.t. running night and day, in printing the large editions 01 tne Daily Evening fost, Daily Republican I now Inter- 0aiw. Tiniln Staals-Zutung nd Daily, Union, besides serving their own patrons as usual. Immediately after the smoke of the great conflagration had cleared away the proprietors of the Uxiox gave orders for the reconstruction of their new building, into which, as before mentioned, they were on the eve of removing at the time of its destruction. Meanwhile they have continued to oceunv their old Quarters in the West Division until within a few days past, although sorely cramped for room. On the anniversary of the destruction of Chicago they moved into their new structure, at 114 East Monroe street, where thev are now located. The office of the Chicago Newspaper Union, as now arrnmi1 a model establishment. We have been and seen, and know whereof we speak, and we feel sure we do not Mncowato one jot or tittle when we assert Ihat it 13 one 01 tne most, periectly ntted up and best arranged printing offices of the kind in the country. Carrier Pigeons. A writer in Cassd? Magazine says : In Holland and Belcium a creat deal of attention is paid to pigeons, and a yearly exhibition at Antwerp does much to foster and encourage the breeding and training of them. There is, in fact, or was, in that city, a society of pigeonfanciers ; and at their annual competition in. 1319 an interesting trial came off, the result of which has been handed down to us. A pigeon belonging there was conveyed to London and thrown up, when it immediately flew away back to its home, returning in six hours a distance ot 10 miles, measured m a straight line. . Ihe pigeons used othciallv m France during the late war are said to have exceeded this rate considerably, traveling at the rate of nearly forty "miles an hour. 1 By what intuitive principle the bird is guided wnen it is thrown up, and im-1 mediately, alter soaring to an immense 1 height, makes for its home, it is of course impossible to say. The pigeon is not the only animal which possesses this peculiar power of finding its way back from a long distance to the spot it has previously left. Dogs, cats, horses, cows, foxes, and many kinds of birds, have done this, often by a route never before traversed, and indeed the migration of birds of passage to foreign climes is a no less remarkable exercise of this faculty than any of the others. The subject has for ages deeply interested naturalists, who have endeavored to ex' plain in various ways how these feats are performed. .'Eut tht problem still remains unsolved, . although ' various theories have bee,n started upon it, and the only conclusion, at which we can ever arrive with certainty is this ; that Providence has bestowed upon certain birds and animals an instinct which, as we do not possess it, we can never ua-i derstand. , r ., ,,, It seems clear that the desire for food, and its attachment ' to the place of its birth,' or, more particularly, to the spot where it is bringing : ap its young, are the means by which ' the capacities of the pigeon are made useful to man : for it is always' necessary to carry the bird away from one or other of these places before it is sent on an errand, and to no other will it return when left to itself. But by what landmarks its course is directed if, as is generally supposed, the sight is tha sense of first importance in these journeys, is to us utterly unknown. In short distances we can very well understand that the keen eyesight of the bird might be sufficient to enable it to descry its destination, but it can scarcely be believed, '. however ' powerful their vision may be,, however far-seeing -their eye3, that these birds can see for hundreds of miles, over ' mountains and hills, forests and seas, to the end of the journey on which they are bound. It is well known that a pigeon cannot undertake a journey ,by night, and also that a- fog greatly endangers the success of its mission ; and from this it seems pretty evident that keen sight .is an essential element in its flight. , , : Another ' letter from Livingstone. The Bombay Gazette publishes a letter addressed by Livingstone to Sir Seymour 'Fitzgerald, the late Governor of Bombay, dated " Unyanyembe, March 13, 1 872." 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the kindness and important service1 he received from Sir Bartle Frere and the isombay.ljovernment before starting on his expedition, and says that he has written to express his thankfulness, but his letters to , and, from tiie.coast have all been destroyed, apparently because he was considered a spy on the slave trade, whose correspondence would do no good to the traffic. ,."The search for the sources of the. Nile they know to be a sham, and I was prevented from either getting supplies of goods or sending information coastwise, , Thi3 letter, however, goes by Henry M. Stanley, the traveling- correspondent of the Ne.v York, Herald, sent at an expense of over 4,000 to obtain accurate information and afford assistance in my isolation." The' Doctor then describes ' at some length his geographical discoveries in terms similar to those bi his letters in the Herald, and concludes as follows : ' I have 1 been much longer than I intendedsix years instead of two but I have lost two whole years in time, been burdened by 1,800 miles of useless tramp, and how much waste of money I cannot say all through the matter of supplies and- men being intrusted to our Banian Indian fellow subjects, and tney intrusted the whole thing to slaves, who lay Rud feasted, on mv stores for sixteen months,, and then sold off all tor slaves and ivory. The idave trade in all this region, and especially in Manyema, is, carried on almost, exclusively with arms, ammunition andt goods advanced to Arab asrenta bv ' Baniftno Their slaves needed no more than a hint, and all came and, solemnly swore that they were told hot to follow, bat force me back. ' They forced me back 500 miles, and again I had to come 300 tc seize good, here sent by another lot of slaves, and my agent at Zanzibar be lieves all they tell him; It was stated in the House of Lords, on the authority he receives, that all my wants had been supplied, while I virtually got only what I myself sent to Ujiii in 1866. But I am all right and ready by Mr. Stanley's help, and will be off as soon a3 nlty men come from the coast. Broken Tale. The cash must accompany all tales and poetry published in this depart ment. 1 Ihe following extract is a portion of a thrilling story of love, revenge, benzine and dry holes that the local editor received yesterday, from a talented young writer, whose literary star is in the ascendant, and is now beginning to twinkle, above the hiik of lied Hot. Our usual custom has, been to publish original tales at our regular advertising rates of so much per line, and,' as we are determined not to deviate from this rule, we only print as much of this story as four dollars and thirty cents inclosed by the fair authoress-wLu pay for,: THE SILVER MONKEY WRENCH ; OE, THE LOST fcCLL WHEZL. A Talc of the Pipe Line and Teamsters' Crusade. The late September twilight was loth to leave the faintly starred, dim blue heaven. Wafts of delicious fragrance floated down over the town of Titusviile from the sweet scented acid works, the hillside brewery, the golden jungle of sunfloivers, and dew covered patches of sauerkraut in the raw. Low above the ragged line of forest that fringed Kerr's Hill, hung the young silver crescent. Two lovers stand at a garden gate. The woman's face is , fresh and fair as that of the Sisline Madonna, and from the same, cause paint, ! laid on by a master hand. You can (if not near sighted) see distinctly the , lustrous richness of her hazel eyes, as the soft light , of the , moon , falls aslant her slightly aquiline nose. The man is handsome, too ; tall and symmetrical as a telegraph pole, well shaped, and muscular as the sheet iron statue of William Shakespeare on the Parshall Opera House, and with a face of graceful contour, slightly oval, like that of a Hubbard squash. It is Elsie De Ferguson's voice that comes over the gate and breaks the stillness of the gloaming; ! ' "And so, Paul, you have signed the contract not to drill any more well3 for thirty days?" ; " Ves 1 yes 1 of course I have," he murmurs, as he taKes her hand in his while murmuring his words, and at the sanie time removing a chaw of fine cut, which he slyly hides on the gate. post, ard stoops to kiss' her white forehead that glimmers in the moonlight. " But what aie you going to do for a living,. Paul V asked the unsuspecting maiden. , i , Elsie did not see the sinister smile that flitted over Paul's iace as he heard her question, nor did she catch the rhnttered words; " three queens beat one pair," that fell from his. lips. This is all of the above interesting storyjhat will appear in these columns. We regret that such is' the 'case,1 but business h business,, -and if 1 we' com-, menced any relaxation from our 'rules, Bret 'Harte,' Joaquin Miller and Walt Whitman would fill our columns chuck up every day. The public must be protectedand unless we receive another installment of very hard (looking) cash the reader may consider the tale finished. Titusviile Press. ' ', Everybody is. supposed to have heard of Ike 1 Bromley late editor of the Hartford Post. , He is a scholar, a- gentleman, a man of sense and wit, and something of a wag besides. After his return from California he wrote a lecture, chiefly on the wonders of Yosemiie Valley. The paper was carefully prepared, and attracted uncommon attention , wherever delivered. He read it before a large; audience in a church in ew Haven.' Th New Eaveh Postmaster, a keen, sharp man, a' wonderfully .effective, politician,' and a warm, friend of .Bromley, was 'greatly edified, by the production. Congratulating the editor upon: his success as the crowd was dispersing, the Postmaster observed that there was one drawback he only heard imperfectly.' Bromley; thought he spoke loud enough for the size of the chutch. ;" "" , ;" Didn't you see me holdmy hand hp to my ear, thus?" suiting the action to the word. ": l. 1 "Thunder!" said Ike, " I thotight it was your ear."

rS'wain and His English Editor; To the Editor of the London Sf-eetator. ' V 1 Sir: .. I only venture t'J intrude upon your because I come, in some sense, j in ; the interest of public morality, and this wks my.. nai.si6a;j-esj)ectable. ilr..John Camden Hotten, of London, " has,k of his owfai individual ' mAt-oa, f e " published several of ray t books in England. I do not protest against this, lor there is no law that could give effect to tn protest ;, apd besides, publishers are not accountable... 0.. the. .laws of heaven or enrHi in t .... derstand , it. But my little grievance is . . , vvok.3 are Pad enough just as thev are written . tv, -t,. ".. they be after Mr. John Camden Hotten has composed half a dozen chapters and added the same to them ? ; I feel that all true hearts will bleed for an' author whose volumes have: fallen under such . dispensation as this. If a friend of OUrs, or if even von von reel1' ti-oi-o t. , J J . -, ' V 1 V. write a book and set it a?!-;ft a m.n the people, with tae- gravest apprehensions that it was rnitnn tr nrhot it mml.t. to be intellectually, how woyld you like iu uave onn oamden Hotten sit down and stimulate his powers, and drool two or three original chapters on to the end n mat r-ooi would not the world v eem cold and hollow tn vnu ? -."trw.!,. you not feel that you wanted to die and be at rest 1 Little the worid krtow3 of true SUfferina. Atlrl -nnnnso he -liniil.. entitle these chapters " Holiday Literairue oiory ot Chicago, "Un Children.'? " Train iTnn.f!hilrf on . An-oo-he Goes," and " Vengeance,'?' and then, on the strength of having evolved these marvals from his own consciousness, go and "copyright" the entire book, and ul in me iuie-pae a picture o! a man with his hand in another mrni's nnfkot. and the legend "All Rights Reserved." i omy suppose tne picture; stul it would be a rather neat. thitKT Am.. further, suppose that in the kindness of ins ueart ana the exuberance ot his untaucht fancv. this thnrmicrhlv treHmeaning innocent should expunge the ruoaesi title which you had given your book, and replace it with so foul an invention a5 this, "Screamers and Eyeopeners," and went and got that copyrighted, too. And suppose that on the top of all this he continually and persistently forgot to offer you a single penny or even send you a copy of your mutilated book to burn. Let one sup pose all this. Let him si'iinnsp it with strength enough, and then he will know something about woe. Sometimes when. 1 read cne oi those additional chapterconstructed by John Camden Hotten, I feel as if I wanted to "take a broomstraw and CO and knock that maris brains out. , Not in anger, for I feel none. Oh ! not in anger ; but only to see, that is all. Mere idle curiosity. And ilr. Hotten says that one nom de plume of mine is "Carl Byng." I hold that there is ho affliction iii this world that makes a man feel so downtrodden and abused as the giving him a name that does not belong to him. How would this sinful aborigine feel if I were to call him John Camden Hottentot, and come out in the papers and say he was entitled to it by divine right? I do honestly believe it would throw him into a brain fever, if there were not an insuperable obstacle in the way. Yes to come back to the oricinal subject, which is the sorrow that 13 slowly but surely unaermming my health Mr. Hotten prints unrevised. uncorrected, and in some respects spurious books, with my name to them as author, and thus embitter., hi cus tomers against one of the most innocent of men. . Messrs. George Rout-edge & Sons are the only English publishers who pay me any copyright, and therefore, if my books are to disseminate either Slltferlnw nr rrime mrui . readers of our language, I would ever so much 1 1 j: : . i , , - ramer uiey uiu ji tnrougn mat nouse, and then I could contemplate the spectacle calmly as the dividends came in. T 1 . 1 van, Kir, etc., Samuel L. Clemess ("Mark Twain"). London, Sept. 20, 1S72. ,. .Value of Uymnastic Training. An incident is related nf the fire in Canterbury Cathedral which goes to snow, uie value 01, gymnastic training in an emergency. When it was at. tempted to convev the fire hose tn tha roof, where the fire first broke out, the laaaers usea ior tne purpose were found to be too short. Time was jiresiiri it - tn have sent for other ladders would have been to give the fire such headwav as to make the destruction of the entire cathedral almost inevitable. Tn the juncture a soldier, who had mounted nrst, snowed tnat rather rare combmanation of mental decision and physical intrepidity which are the basi of the true heroic element. Without hesitatinz a moment, he leaned, at t he riclr rf his life, for the overhanging leaden gut ter aooye mm, caught it with one hand, and, by sheer strength, drew himself up and on the roof. From this position he Could assist his comrades tn asnerifl onrl so the magnificent structure was, happily, saved.; , In the first year of the rebellion, it will be remembered, the Fixe Zouaves rendered a somewhat similar service in saving Willard's Hotel, in Washington city, from threatened conflagration." Ladders were not at hand, or sufficient for use, and the Zouaves made , ladder? of themselves, swarmine un water-snonts -1;!,;!. upon one another's su6Ul;.frs. 6f daDg ling in living chains from the roof, with an agility and daring which were duly and wonderfully commemorated in the pictorial prints of the day. These incidents suggest the value of a systematic gymnastic drill for our firemen, as is the custom, we believe, in the French fire brigr.de.' ' ' ' - ' :.'.'.. . On a Tare- , ... : f,This .story ws told pi a father who .was one evening. teaching his little boy to recite his Sunday, school le'ssrtn. It was from th fourteenth .'chapter of Matthew, whei;ein. is related the' parable of. .a malicious;.. individual who- went bout sowing tares : '? What is a. tare? Tell me, my son, what a tare is,'" said the anxious parent.' " You had 'em I" "Johnny, what do you mean?" asked the father,' opening ! his eyes rather wide. " Why, last week, when you didn't come home for three days," said Johnny, "I heard mother tell Aunt Susan that you were on a tare." Johnnywas immediately sent to bed. , ' -- .: ,. r- .-.,':,, Some negro minstrels are traveling through Norway.