Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1882 — Page 3

FRETS GRAVEL ROADS.

A Complete Digest of the Free Gravel Road Law, by Thomas T. Moore, a Greenoastle Lawyer. Id central and southern Indiana,such are the vicissitudes of climate that ordinarily for four months of the year the inhabitants not resident on some line of railway are completely mudlocked and cut off from business, save in the immediate vicinity of their residence. The fact, coupled with timidity of capital, and the unfriendly feeling toward corporations. caused the Legislature to make provisions by law for building free Macadam and gravel roads, and for acquisition by purchase of such toll roads as desire to sell to the public. Much of the law on the statute books on the subject of taxation , for gravel roads, only provides for the taxation of property to assist corporations in building such roads where a certain part of the capital stock or necessary expenses had been first subscribed therefor. Such, notably, are the acts of March 6.1865, March 9, 1867. March 11,1867, and May 14, 1869. The act of Marcn 13,1875,replied most of the foregoing, together with the act of March 6,1865. These were afterward in a great measure revived as to exisiting corporations by the act of March 2, 1877. The act of March 6, 1865, provided for the assessment of lands to build gravel,gravl and also prrvided that all roads built under the provisions of that act should become toll free after twenty years. This seems to be the first act that in any way provided for free gravel roads. It seems that the only acts now in force providing for {building, and purchasing roads on the acts of March 3. 1877,March 24,1879, March 3,1881, and April 9,1881. The law now in force, it seems, provides for two methods of obtaining free gravel roads. The first is by building them; and, second, by purchasing those roads already built and operated as toll roads by corporations. The act of March 3, 1877, provides the method for building free gravel roads, and the provisions of said act are in substance as follows: Whenever five or more of the land owners whose land will be assessed for the cost of the improvemep t shall file with the county Commissioners a petition for the paving, macadamizing or graveling of any of the State or county roads in this State, or any part of such roads, within the limits of their respective counties, and shall also file therewith a bond with one or more responisble freehold sureties, to whom the petitioners shall be responsible prorata, conditioned for payment of the expenses of the preliminary survey and report, if the proposed improvement shall not be finally ordered the Beard of Commissioners shall ap-

point three disinterested freeholders of the county as viewers, and acompetent surveyor or engineer, to proceed upon a day named by the Commission era to examine, view, lay out, or staigh ten said road as in their opinion public utility and convenience shall require. The County Auditor is to notify said viewers and surveyor of the time and place ot their meeting, and is also to give notice by publication in a newspaper printed is soid county, for three consecutive weeks next prior to said notice shall state tha time and place of said meeting; the kind of improvement asked for; the place of beginning, intermediate points —if any—and the place of termination. Be. 3rd, provides the manner in which the survey shall be made, and Sec. 4th provides that the viewers and engineer shall report to the Commissioners; and, provides, further, that no land shall be assessed for the purposes of &ai d act that does not lie within two miles of the proposed improvement, and that lands once assessed for any improvements made under the provisions of this act, shall not be reassessed unless the prior assessment shall not be deemproportionate to the whole benefit reresuiting to said land; and that where lands are liable to be assessed under said act for the construction of two or more roads the viewers shall take into consideration that fact in assessing benefits. Upon a favorable report by said viewers the Commissioners shall, if in their opinion public utility requires it, enter on record an order that the improvement be made, the width and extent of the same, and the lauds that shall be assessed for said expenses; but such order shall not be made until a majority of the resident land owners of the county, whose lands are reported as benefitted, and ought to be assessed, and also the owners of a majority of the whole numbor of acres of land that are reported as benefiitted aud ought to be assessed, shall have subscribed the petition mentioned in the 2nd section of said act. The Commissioners shall then appoint a Competent engineer to supeimend said work who shall, with the approval of said

Commissioners, make contracts therefor; and said improvement shall be let in sections of not less than one-half mile, to the lowest and best bidder,who shall give reasonable security. The Commissioners, when any such improvement shall be ordered, shall immediately appoint tbree disinterested freeholders of the county, who shall upon actual view of the premises apportion the estimated„expenses of said improvement upon the real estate embraced in the order of said Board, according A o the benefit derived therefrom, and report tbe same to the County Auditor; and in making said assessment and apportionment tney shall take into consideration previous assessments on such realty under the provisions of the act for the improvement of any road, etc. The same sec., Sec. 6, provides for hearing and adjusting complaints and exceptions to said apportionment,after proper notice thereof, given by the Auditor by publication. Section Seventh of said act, which was amended by act of March 3, 1881, provides that for the purpose of raising the money neccessary to meet the expenses of said improvement, the Commissioners of the county are authorized to issue the bonds of the bounty, matuiing at annual intervals after two years, and not beyond eight yearfi, and that said assessment shall be divided in such manner as to meet the payment of said bonds, and go placed i upon the duplicate for taxation against the land assessed, and collected in the same manner, as other taxes. The Commissioners haveJpoWer to receive subscriptions and donations in money or property for such improve-

ment, and said road when completed is to be toll free. The most emportant section in said act is the 9th section. It provides that where a road to be improved begins or ends in a city or incorporated town the authorities of said city or town may upon the recommendation of the Commissioners, agree to pay, in the bonds of said city or town,in the manner and proportion described in Bee. 7, in addition to the amour t to be assessed upon the real property of such city or town by virtue of the provisions of such act au amount not exceeding one-fifth of the entire cost of said road; provided, that the entire amount to be assessed by virtue of said act for said purposes shall not in any one year exceed fifty cents on the one hundred dollars of the taxable property in said city or town. In this connection it may be well to notice Sec. 60, of the general laws lor the incorporation of cities—lst Davis, Ind. Statutes, page 298—which provides th§t an incorporated city snail have power to borrow money to subscribe to the stock of any plank, macadamized,gravel road,or railroad running through or into said city. The act of April 9th, 1881“ provides the manner in which existing toll roads may be purchased by the county and become toll free. It provides that whenever the County Commissioners are petitioned therefor by fifty freeholders, citizens of the county, they shall submit to the voters of the county, at any regular spring or fall election, or at any special election that may be called by said Board, when no spring or fall election is near at hand, at each voting place in the county, the question of purchasing any turnpike or toll road in said county. At least twenty days notice shall be given of such election by publication and posting notices, and at such election each voter who is in favor of such purchase shall inscribe on his ballot: “Purchase of toll road—yes;” and each voter who is opposed thereto shall inscribe on his ballot! “Purchase of toll road—no” The vote on the question shall be certified by the proper officers of the election to the County Commissioners; and if at such election a majority of those voting on said question are in favor of said purchase the Commissionera may make said purchase; but not otherwise. If such election shall result favorably to the purchase of said road, Commissioners shall, at their first term thereafter, make an order to that effect on their journal, aud thereupon three competent,disinterested free holders and householders, for each road to be purchased, residents of said county, shall be appointed in the following manner: one by the Commissionesrs, one by the Judge of the Circut Court of said county, and one by the directors of the road to be Durcbased. These appraisers, after qualifying before some officer authorized to administei oaths, shall, within twenty days after their appointment, personally examine, inspect and appraise said road in the manner provided by said statute, and shall make a return thereof to said Commissioners within thirty days after their appointment. If the Commissioners shail deem such appraisment reasonable, they may submit to the directors of said road a proposition to purchase the same at a price not exceeding said appraised value; but they may reject said appraisment if they deem it excessive, and order a new appraisment. If the proposition as made by said Commissioners is accepted by I the directors of said road, said Commissioners shall thereupon purchase aud take conveyance thereof from said owners, and upon the execution of such conveyance said road shall be declared a free road. Any turnpike so purchased shali be paid for out of any money in the county treasury unappropriated, but no county sh»'ll, under this act, purchase any turnpike while in debt for one previously purchased. If there is no money in the treasury, it provides that the Commissioners may issue the bonds of the county, payable in installments, or at intervals, not exceeding, in all, the period of eight years, therefor; and such bonds, with interest, shall be paid in such installments as the Board may deem best, by a special tax levied for that purpose at the time the general yearly tax levy is made. All lands assessed for the purpose of free gravel roads under the act of March 3d, 1877, shall be exempt from taxation for the purpose of purchasing toll roads. All suen roads, after purchase, are to be kept in repair the same as other free turnpikes, under the provisions of the act of March 24th, 1879. The act of March 24tb, 1879, provides that the County Commissioners, by virtue of their offices, are constituted a Board of Turnpike Directors, under whose management and control all the free turnpikes in such county shall be vested ex clusively. It is made their duty to divide the coufity into three districts as nearly equal in number or miles of free gravel roads as practicable, and each director shall have the personal supervision of one of such districts under the regulations agreed upon by said Board. After defining the powers and duties of such Directors, it provides that for the purpose of keeping said road in repair the auditor may levy a tax on all the taxable property in the county, such sum not tr exceed one mill for every ton miles of free turnpike completed in said county. The receipts thereof shall constitute a turupike fund in the treasury of the county. It also provides for the application of the two days’ labor on the road, but this part will now, perhaps, be inoperative, since the act of 1881. These acts are all. doubtless, to some extent, modified by Sec. 1 of Article 13, of the Constitution of the State of Indiana, which section limits the right of politic aland municipal corporations so that such corporations, except in time of war for public defense, may not become indebted in any manner to an amount exceeding two per centum on the value of the taxable property within such corporation. There are* other minor provisions in the law of free gravel roads, but space will not permit me to give them.

The Indian -, Princess, Sarah Winnemucca, the heroine of the Bannock war, was married on the 6th to L; H. Hopkins.formerly of the United Stales army. Since the war, in which she rendered signal service to the troops and settlers, she has lived quietly at Carson City, Nevada, where the old chief, Winnemucca dted a few months ago. She has a good English education and resembles a Mexican rather than an Indian girl.

THOS. T. MOORE.

THE LONG JOUENEY, FRANK J. OTTABSON. Ohen our feet become heavy and weary On the vallevs a nit mountains of life, And the road has grown dusty and dreary. And we groan In the struggle and strile, We halt on the difficult pathwav Ulance hack over vailey and plain, And sigh with a sorrowful longing To travel the journey again. For we know in the past there are pleasures, And seasons of joy and delight, While before all Is doubting and darkness, And dread of the gloom aud the night; All bright dunny spots we remember— How little we thought of them then! But now we are looking and longing To rest in those places again. But vain of the vainest is sighing, Our course must beforwaia and on; We can not turn black on tliejourney, We can not enjoy what is gone. Let us hope, then, as onward we travel That oases may brighten the plain. That our road be beside the sweet waters, Though we may not begin it again. r For existence forever goes upward— From the hill to the mountain we rise, On, on. o’er Invisible summits, To a land in the limitless skies. Strive on, then, with courage unshaken— True labor is never in vain— Nor glance with regret at the pathway No mortal can travel again. <’

A PASSING CLOUD.

“Holmsley Court, Yorkshire. Dearest Connie— Papa has at last given me leave to gratify my pet desire, and to get up some private theatricals. We are going to play the ‘Lady of Lyons,’ and we nave no one here who can act the part of Pauline as you do; soeome, dear. I have secured a splendid Claude to play with you. The original Claude was never so handsome.” i '.r': 1 - This was the letter that Constance Beresford read over her coffee, one morning, aud four hours later found her settling herself comfortably in a first-class compartment of the Great Northern express from KiDg’s Cross. Just as, she was seated to her satisfaction, she saw enter the carriage just as handsome a man as her eyes had ever rested upon, and he placed himself, unconsciously, in a most favorable position for her to scrutinize him, on the opposite side. She watched him arrange his traps; then, as the train steamed out of the station, buried herself in her novel, “thinking what a Claude he would make.” For half an hour her bock held her interest, then with a yawn she closed it, and fixing a wrap to pillow her head on, settled herself for a nap.dra wring her veil over her face. Her nap was not of long duration, however, for she opened her eyes suddenly, to find the handsome stranger regarding her with an amused smile, that vanished quickly when he found his gaze returned, The color rushed to her cheeks, and she quickly straightened up with a dignified air, but her observer had withdrawn his gaze; so she returned to her book, unaware that the dark eyes were still watching, the owner much amused at her dignity. Soon he drew a little yellow-covered book from his pocket, and became so deeply engrossed therein that he did not notice the start of surprise Miss Beresford gave when she happened to glance up. “The Lady of Lyons!” she said to herself; “how very strange, and he is studying it, too! Can it be, yes, it must be, the Claude Ethel wrote of! She was right about his good .looks; but what business had he to laugh at me? I would like to shake him!” Then the thought of shaking that great fellow was so absurd that she nearly laughed outright. With an almost unconscious sigh she shut her book, rearranged her wrap, and kept her eyes out of the window until her destination was reached.

‘,Ob, Connie, how good of you to come so soon! Your telegram made me so glad that I had to t ome down for you myself,” and Constance’s friend, Ethel Deveraux, kissed her, regardle-s o: lookers on. She did not see one observer, however, and gave a start of surprise. *• Why, there’s Mr. Armytage! He must have come by your train. Let me inroduce you. Mr. Armytage, Miss Beresford, otherwise Claude aud Pauline.” “Is it possible H’ and a pair of very grave eyes looked down at Constance as she gave her hand: “Had I known it sooner, what a pleasant journey I might have had.” \ I knew it,” she replied, “but you seemed to find it sufficiently enjoyable.” “How did you know it?” he asked, quietly ignoring the latter part of her speech. “I saw your book and guessed at the rest.” “Well, we must not stand here all day,” chimed in Ethel. “Sorry I can’t offer you a seat, Mr. Aamytage, but I have only ihepony phaeton. You will be over this evening, of course.” “I shall come with pleasure,” he replied. “Isn’t he splended, handsom, grand, Connie?” “Really, Ethel, you use strong language poor man. Are you in love with him, dear?” “Oh, no; I leave that to you. I did not write you the latest news,-because I wanted to tell you myself, that I am engaged ‘♦To cousin Frank at last? Oh, I am so glad! When did it happen?” “Jusl a couple of days before I wrote. Now we will be cousins as well as friends. Have you nothing of the kind to tell me?”

“Nothing. I have had three proposals ibis season, but all have been for my money, 1 am convinced. How I hate that money! Ethel, if you love mo* do not speak of it, or tell a living soul here that I am an heiress. Do let me enjoy this visit at least,” It was three weeks later, and the even I full night. The audience was gathered in the large ball-rodm, and the play was in progress. At the end of the second act Claude and Pauline were called before the curtain, and having made their bows, they retired behind the scenes, apart from the others, where their conversation showed how they had improved their three weeks’ acquaintance. “Oh Pauline! if it were but true! If you were as truly mine, as Pauline of Lyons was Claude Melnotte’s! But,like him, what have Ito offer! Nothing. While you, like Pauline, have been used to every luxury. Yet I love you, love you ” They were called, and not again did he have a chance to speak to her until at the end of the fourth act; but when he did he heard ringing in his ears her impassioned appeal: i

(“Claude, take me! Thou canst not give me wealth, title, station—tout thou canst give me a true heart I will work for thee, tend thee, bear with thee, and never, never shall these lips reproach the post.” It seemed as though she was appealing to him in earnest—as though ibe play were a reality. “Pauline, do you, did you mean it?” he asked, when they met again, and with a sudden blushing face she bowed assent, “Could I have done otherwise?” she asked him later, as they wandered through tbe grounds while others danced. “You were too proud to ask me and I could not let you go, so I acted as my heart impelled, hopiug you would read the truth, yet feariDg ” He placed his first kiss on her lips. “Good, and beautiful, aud true,” ha murmured, as he looked iu her happy eyes. Three weeks more went by, and on the morrow, there was to be a general breaking up. Gerald and others had left the previous week. Constance was lounging in a big easy chair, in a dim-ly-lighted drawingroom, when at the sound of voices outside, she listened, on catching her lover’s name. “Daring dog, that fellow Armytage. Think of his presuming to come up here and play the gentleman.” “Wonder where he got the money ?” “By gambling, mo9t likely, as lie dare not forge any more checks.” *‘His uncle let him off too easy.” “Ob, he did not want the name disgraced, so he hushed the affair up.— Pity he did, though, for the scamp, it seems, went to work immediately to entrap the heiress Mi9B Beresford.” “By Jove! he is handsome enough to win any woman. Wish I had half his good looks.” And the two young men left the room, little dreaming that their careless words had ruined a young life. Constance Beresford sat like one dazed, for a moment, then rousing herself, escaped to her room. Had she been deceived? Was Gerald a forger—a fortune hunter? It could not be, yet they had said so; it must be true! What should she do?—what course Dursue? No one but Ethel knew of her engagement. To her friend she need say nothing, as she was going home on the morrow, but to him! What should she say to him? She could not see him, she would not;/she would write to him, and at once. She must be proud, brave, unflinching, so she wrote: ‘-‘You have deeeived me, I have found you out, in time, fortunately, to prevent an esclandre. Make no attempt to see me, for I shall refuse to see you, even ifyoucome to the house. Constance Beresford.

All the winter long she suffered in silence, never having beard from him, In the Spring her favorite sister Maud died. Tnis blow,with her other trouble, prostrated her utterly, and for weeks she was very ill. When she was able to bear the journey,they took her to Switzerland. In her fresher sorrow her love for Claude seemed buried aud forgotten. »*»•■* * Two years and a half aie gone. It is the London season, and for the first time since Maud’s death Constance is at a large eveniug gathering, and, singularly enough, again heard a conversation between the very same young men who had, long before, decided her course of life for her. “So Armytage has been sent up at last?” “Yes, I knew he would be, sooner or later. You remember that summer we made a flying visit at Helmsley Court, when we thought Leliad been up there on the lookout for an heiress?” “Yes, I remember. We meaut to scare him out of that rascally scheme.” “Well, he wasn’t there at all; it was the cousin. Deuced {unpleasant, his having another fellow’s name.” Is she going to faint? What makes the room whirl round so? She half rises, but falls back in her chair. “Can I assist you? Are you ill?” and looking up she sees—Gerald Armytage standing over her. “Let me take you from this heated room,” and leaning on hie arm, she walked out upon the cool balcony. “You have met with a serious loss since I saw you last; you have been ill and away, and aie sadly changed,” he said, with evident feeling. “Yes, I shali never be the same light hearted girl. lam a woman now.” “Miss Beresford, may I ask you a question?” “As many as you like,” she answered wearily. “I overheard the conversation between those young men just now; did you think I was the Armytage they spoke of when you wrote me a certain letter?”

“Yes; I overheard a conversation between those same young men to that effect,” “And you would not even let me vindicate mysell?” “This is no time for reproaches; it is too late to undo what has been done— Let us go in.” “One moment, Constance. Is it too late to undo the past? Has the time been so long that you have lost the feeling you once had for me? I love you now as I loved you then, deeply, tenderly, lasting Jy; you are the only woman i shall ever ask to be my wife, and I ask you now, as I once did long ago, will you marry me? ’ Fcr answer sbo places her band in his, the room swims; it grows dark, as once before that evening; only this time, as she feels his strong arms arms around her, she lealiy faints. '*

Trouble in the Church.

New York Commercial Rdvltiser A short time since Bishop McQuaid, of .Rochester, in an address condemned some features of the Irish Land League policy. The Land Leaguers of Rochester and other localities, indignant at the Bishop’s interference in matters outside of the church, bid defiance to his remonstrance, and are up in arms against his assumed dictation. There j.an£,disguising the fact that the Irish and sons of Irishmen in this country are largely in sympathy with the Land Leagueitf'of Ireland. One good thing will come out of the bold defiance of Irishmen against the dictation of the Bishops aud priests in matters outside the church. It will nave the effect of silencing the slabderour fanatics who are continually representing the Irish to be nothing but slaves to their Bishops and priests. Bishop McQuaid might better attend to his legitimate duties. Priests and ministers generally have a muddle when they interfere in poltitcs.

JOCOSITIES.

They were twins. The parents ohristend one Kate and the other DupliKate. Why do girls kiss each other, while boys do not? Because girls have toothing better to kiss, aud the boys have. “Horse racing.” says a Western preacher, “is an ulcer.”No, sir, you are mistaken; it is simply a runaround. A gentleman recently asked a mite of a girl how old she was. * Old!” excliamed the child, lifting her eyebrows in surprise, “Old !Pm not old at all. I’m quite new. Grandma is old.” “Ish tbis’er postoffloe? inquired Cauliflower, slightly disfigured after nineteen rounds of'sour mash. No, this is a butcher shop,” replied the sarcastic mailing clerk, licking a one cent stamp. “Sho! Ish that sho! Well give me a tender line for my nauzzer.” Music teacher—“Oh, yes, Miss Clotilda likes playing tunes well enough, but she shudders at ,the very mention of the scales.” I tot I red eJeesemonger’s wife (loftily)—“I should' hope so, indeed! You’ll bear In mind, sir, that we have nothing to do with business now.” “Pray excuse me,” said a well-dres-sed young to a young lady in the second tier of boxes at the Theater; “I wish to go out and get some refreshments—don’t leave your seat.” A sailor seated in the box near with his sweetheart, and disposed to do the same thing, arose and said: “Harkee, Poll I’m going ashore to w’et my whistle—don’t fall overboard while I’m gone.” “Wanted—A plain cook,” rends an advertisment. Wonder whose wife put I that in the paper ? A story is told of a member oi a cer- [ tain theological seminary who was so \ sensitive as to suspicion of plugiari*ni ! that he never allowedjiimself to nuke i the slightest quotation without giving l his authority. On one occasion he commenced grace at breakfast thus;! “Lord, we thank Thee that we I ave awakened from the sleep which » wn t er in the Edinburg Review has called the image gt death.” (

“And will you be able so civ* up ; these frequent nights at your whiei club for the sake of your ducky? Eh! dear?” He—“ Give them up, my angel? What would 1 not give up to gain you?” She—“Y’ou mean that, really ?” He—“ Really!” She—“ Then I’ll tell you what, dear. When we are married we will put ‘no cards’ after the announcement in the papers, so as to let your whist-playing friends know what to expect. Some visitors were going through a great house recently, aud at length paused before A fine painting representing a handsome black-bearded man clad in gorgeous attire. One of them inquired of their guide whose portrait it might be? “Well, sir,” replied tbe housekeeper, “I don’t rightly know; but I believe it is the Dowager Venus!” “But” said the visitor, “I scarcely think that tbe Dowager Venus would be represented with a beard. Perhaps you will be good enough tolook in the catalogue?” She did so, and the Dowager Venus proved to be the doge of Venice. This man is a Seoul Teacher. He iu going to Sit Down in the Chair. There is a bent pin in tbe chair, aud* it will Bite tbe School teacher. Tbe School Teacher is a Able Man, and be will find it out as soon as rhe Bent Pm Tackles him. Will the School Teacher rise again? We should smile. Put the School Teacher will not smile. Ito wilf Play a Sonata with the Ferule on the Boys Back. The Boy put the Bent Pin in the Chair. He is trying to he a Humorist. When the School Teacher gets Through with him the Buy will eat his meals from the Man tie-Piece for a Week.—Denver Tribune Primer.

Grant and Porter.

Interview Id Boston Herald. “How came you to satisfy yourself that injustice had been done to Gen. Porter?” the reporter asked. “Well, as you probably know,” was the reply, “I had fully made up my mind that the judgment of the court martial was a just one. Recently,however, ot the request of Geu. Poiter, I have read over all the testimony iu the case, and also the orders and reports of the Confederate officers who were at the second battle of Bull Run. As I progressed in my reading 1 became very much interested in the case, and found that the facts were very different from what I have hitherto believed. I am of the opinion that, had all of the testimony and documents now available been brought before the court martial.tbere would have been no verdict against Gen. Porter, The orders of the Confederate Generals show that the Confederate army was just where Porter said it was, and not where tbe>court martial was led to believe it was. For nineteen years I have believed that the finding of the court was a just one and warranted by the facts. But now I see that Jam in error, and the fact that for twelve years, when I was General of the Army and President of the United States,l had it m my power to do Gen. Porter justice and did not, makes me ftel under obligations to do all that J possibly can to remove the odium and disgrace from him now.” “How long is it since you became convined thst the finding of the court martial was wrong?” “Oh, within the last two months. I finished reading the testimony about two weeks ago, and since then I have expressed my convictions unreservedly to some of my friends. I did not expect, however, that anything would be printed in the newspaper* about the matter. I communicated my conclusions, after investigating the matter,to General Logan, who, as a warm personal friend of mine, I desired to understand clearly my position. I think that General Porter is entirely innocent of the charges made against him, and am thoroughly satisfied that in General Pope’s campaign be did his duty to the very best of bis ability.” “Have you written to President Arthur about this case?” “I must decline to say anything on that subject. Wfiat Ido or say will all be made public in due time, and through the proper channels. I shall write out my views and append my signature to them,and it is quite likely (bat my statement will, in the course < f lime, fiod its way Into print. I cannot tell you when that statement will be prepared.”

“Do you believe that General Porter will be reinstated in the art^y? , * , - “I think justice should be done him on the faots as they exist. He has been greatly wronged, and there is scarcely «ny reparation that can enlirely compensate him for the many years of misrepresentation ami humiliation. Of course, the first step to i*- taken, providing the government!- e a ii be brought to see the mat er ip the sirne light that I do, is to restore to General Porter his good name ai d give him back his reputation as a idtor, s <» -hat neither himself nor his family need longer suffer hqmiliatiou and dishonor. Ultimately be may be rested to the army, but that Is a point that Ido not care to talk about.” “What do you think, General,of the rule that a soldier should aiwavs obey orders?” “Sometimes It may become the duty of a soldier to disobey orders For instance, a commanding general may send an order to a subordinate who w a long distauoe off. He may not be fully acquainted with tbe condition of affairs at the place where his suboidinate is, or, during the transmission of the order, circumstuuces may have taken on an entire different phase. Such things have been kuowu to happen, and very often, therefore, it becomes the boundeu duty of the subordinate to disobey orders. Being in possession of knowledge of which his superior is not, and,perhaps, cannot be, he should exercise his own judgment, and do what may seem to him tc be right.” “Do you now understand that General Porter failed to obey Geueral Pope’s orders?” “I did so understand for'nine teen years, but now I understand that he did not disobey orders.” — 1 ■ ——

The Right Time to Kiss.

FlnlftiielpMa Times. An obse, vvnt and evidently discrim-' in.suing y-'uii.g reader of the Times e.'ri’.Vi io »ay ill.it he has read with I.■."‘dy.svisfcclion Ills' occasional exposi i ms yf kissing in its various moods auJ tenses that adorn these columns. But he didares that he is still in doubt as to the right time to begin kissing. He details at some length the embarrrs aents ththis uncertainty has brought uponlhlm, and begs tbe publication of his letter in full, that others who are similarly situated may contribute to the discussion, and thus make the matter clear to those whp are willing but timid. His own experience is not without certain unique interest. He has known the “sweetest girl in the world” ever since she left school. She belongs to a familyjtbat considers it a first duty to “live up to the diuing-rooiu dudo aud the blue china” that garnishes the side board and table. The mother holds kissing in gbomination, and is fond of remarking that “intellect is not fed through the lips;” that a kiss is a purely fleshly perversion of the sweet intimacy of (esthetic love. Under such a frowning providence tlie young girl he adores displays an aversou to kissiqg him good night, in welcoming him with this lovers’ privilege, when he comes of an evening to take her to church, the theatre or what not.

This, it will be Heen, is a rather trying plight for a young lover—for a kiss is the visible sign and token of au inner sentiment which no words cau express. The eyes and toflgue do a good deal oi appreciable work in love making, but the meeting of the lips Is the sign and seal, the chrism, so to speak, which transforms the earthly into the divine. L »ve without (i kiss would be like the harp without the hand, the rainbow without its iiue. the brook without its bauble, the landscape without its colors, tbe lea rose—sweetest flower for scent that blows—without its odor, tbe borealis without its variations, poetry without rytlmi, spring without sunlight, a garden without foliage,or marriage without love. The young woman whose ideas teach her to reooiJ from a kiss, cheats the lover of the joys of loving and does not deserve the ctavo-r tionofamanly heart. Sue may live up to the dining-room dado aud the side-board bric-a-brac, but she will never prov# a congeuiai wife, and our correspondent will save his heartstrings many a future wrench by leaving her to do dado and bric-a-brac.

A Modern Ginevra.

Louisville Courier-Journal. 4 Miss Lida German, the daughter of Mr. Louis German, with a little party, went to spend the afternoon with a little friend, Miss Mamie Parsons, at the residence of Mrs, llosseau, on Walnut street, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth, and after other games had been tried and given up, there was a call for hide and seek. The little girls amused themselves for some time at this, until at length oneof the party, Lida German, could uot be found. This caused the iuteiest to droo out of the sport, and all the little girls Joined in looking for their missing companion. They looked high and low for her but failed to discover her hiding place. After a considerable time had been spent in the fruitless search, Mrs. Itosseau heard of the circumstance of the child’s disappearance, and she attempted to find her. Failing in this, some alarm was occasioned, and messengers were started out to look for the child in the neighborhood. It appears that during the play a small closet had been visited by some of the girls with a view of biding there, and a peep in this was taken, but it failed to discover the child. During the time the messengers were out a servant, having occasion to go to the closet mentioned, Jilted some clothing and uncovered to view tne trussing child. Khe was in a fainting condition and swooned several time* after being taken out of her close quarters. From the time she was first misseduutil she was discovered was about one hour. She bait gone in and covered herself with clothing. and the door being closed she was overcome before she became aware of her situation. Khe soon recovered arid was able to return to her home. W. —‘t— An editor at Dover, N. H, feels called upon to glowingly describe, as an important local improvement, a “new bread wagon, painted in the highest style of decorative art, bearing upon its side in golden letters the talismanic word Biddle, and drawn by a coal black steed, clad in a neat fitting and ornamental harness, to which were added broad white reins,skilfully handled by a good-looking driver.” S; Herma^d* 109 8 snuggle goods into