Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1891 — Page 7

DECORATION DAY SERMOM

Two Garlands for Northern aha, - , ■?. '"*■"■• -• * ' " Southern Graves, “To the North, Give Up; to the Sooth Kefep Not Back.”—Bev. Dr. Talmage'i Sermon. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn Sunday. fText, Isaiah xiii, 6. “I will say to the North, give up, and to the Southy keep not back.” He said: ? Just what my text meant by the North and South 1 can not say, but in the United States the two words are so point-blank in their meaning that no one can doubt. They mean more than East and West, lor, although between these two last there have been rivalries and disturbing ambitions and infelicities and silver bills and World’s Fair controversies, there have been between them no batteries unlimbered, no intrenchmen ts dug, no long line of sepulchral mounds thrown up. It has never been Massachusetts Fourteenth Regiment against Wisconsin Zouaves; it has never been Virginia Artillery against Mississippi Rifles. East-and-West are distinct words and. may sometimes mean diversity of interests, but there is no blood on them. They can be pronounced without any intonation of wailing and deathgroan. But “the North and the South” are words that have been surcharged with tragedies. They are words which suggest that for forty years the clouds had been gathering for a four-year's tempest,- which thirty years ago burst in a fury that shook this planet as it has never been shaken since it swung out fit the first world-building. I thank God that the words have lost some of the intensity which they posessed three decades ago; that a vast multitude of Northern people have moved South, and a vast multitude of Southern people moved North, and there have been intermarriages by the thousand. Northern Colonels have married the daughters of Southern Captains. Texas Rangers have united for life with the daughters of New

York Abolitionists, and their children are half Northern and half Southern, and altogether patriotic. * gut North and South are words that need to be brought into still closer harmonization. I thought that now when \ye are half way between Presidential elections, and sectional anitnor ities are at their lowest ebb, and now just after a Presidential journey when our Chief Magistrate, who was chiefly elected by the North, has been cordially received at the South, and now just after two memorial days, one of them a month ago strewing flowers on Southern graves and the other yesterday strewing flowers on Northern graves, it might be appropriate and useful for me to preach a Sermon which would twist two garlands', one for the Northern dead and the other for the Southern dead, and have the two interlocked in a chain of flowers that shall bind forever the two sections into one; and who knows but that this may be the day when the prophecy of the text, made in regard to the ancients, may be fulfilled in regard to this country, and the North give up its prejudice and the South keep not back its confidence. ‘‘l will say to the Noi’th, give up,and to the South, keep not back.” But, before I put these garlands on the graves, I mean to put them this morning for a little while on the brows of the living men and women of the North and South who lost husbands and sons and brothers during the civil strifa There is nothing more soothing to a wound thai. a cool bandage, and these two garlands are cool from the night dew. What a morning that was on the banks of the Hudson and the Savannah when the son was to start for the war! What fatherly and motherly counsel! What tears! What heart-breaks! What charges to write home often! What little keepsakes put away in the knapsaSk or the bundle that was to be exchanged for the knapsack! The crowd around the depot or the steamboat landing shouted, but the father and mother and sister cried. And how lonely the house seemed after they went home, and what an awfully vacant chair there was at the Christmas and Thanksgiving table! And after the battle what waiting for news! What suspense till the long lists of the killed and wounded were made out! All along the and the Connecticut afid the St. Lawrence and the Ohio and the Oregon and the James and the Albermatle and the Alabama and the Mississippi and the Sacramento there was lamentation and mourning and great woe. Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be eomforted, because they were not. The world has forgotten it, but father and mother have not forgotten it. They may be now in the eighties nineties, but it is a fresh wound and will always remain a fresh wound. Coming down the steep of years the hands that would have steadied those tottering steps have been twentyeight years folded into the last sleep. The childlessness, the widowhood, the orphanage, who has a measuring-line long enough to tell the height of it, the depth of it, the infinity of it? What a mountain, what an Alp,what a Himalayan of piled-up agony of bereavement in the simple statement that 300,000 men of the North were slain and 500,000 men of the South were slain, and hundreds of thousands long afterward through the exhaustions there suffered death. I detain from the top of the tomb these two garlands that I am twisting for a little while that>l may with them soothe the brow of the living. Over the fallen the people said: “Poor fellow! What a pity that he should have been struck down!” We

did not, however, often enough say: 1 ■•“ Poor father 1 Poor mother! Poor wife! Poor child!”and so I sayit now. Have you realized that by that wholesale massacre hundreds of thousands of young people at the North and the South have never had any chance? We who are fathers stand between pur children and the world. We fight their battles, we plan for their welfare, we achieve tneir livelihood, we give them the advice of our superior vears. Among the richest blessings of my life I thank God that my fatner lived to fight my battles until I was old enough to fight myself. Have you realized the fact that our civil ,war pitched out upon the farmfields of the North and the plantations of the South a multitude that no man can number,children without fatherly help and protection?

Under all these advantages which we had of fatherly guidance, what a struggle life has been to most of us! But what of the children two and five and ten years of age, who stood at their mothers lap, with great, round wondering eyes, hearing her read of those who perished in the battle of the Wilderness, their father gone down amid the dead host? Come young men and women, who by such disaster has to make their own way in life, and I will put the garland on your brow.

Before I put the two garlands I am twisting upon the Northern and Southern tombs I detain the garlands a little while that I may put them upon the brow of the living soldiers of the North and South, who, though at variance for a long while, are now at peace and in hearty loyalty to the United States government and ready, 4f-need be, to march shoulder to shoulder against any foreign foe. The twenty-six winters that have passed since the war I think have sufficiently cooled the hatreds that once burned Northward and Southward to allow the remark that they who fought in that conflict were honest on both sides. The chaplains of both armies were honest in their prayers. The faces that went into battle, whether they marched toward the Gulf of Mexico or marched toward the North star, were honest faces. It is too much to ask either side to believe that those who came out from their homes, forsaking father and mother and wife and child, many of them never to return, were not in earnest when they put their lives into the awful exigency. Witness the last scene at family prayer up among the Green Mountains or down by the fields of cotton and sugar cane. Men do not sacrifice their all for fun. Men do not eatomoldy bread and go without bread at all for fun. Men do not sleep unsheltered in equinoctial storms for fun. There were some no doubt on both sides who enlisted for soldiers’ pay or expecting opportunity for violence and pillage or burning i&ith revenge or thirst for human blood, but such cases were so rare many of you who were in the army four years never confronted such an instance of depravity. Yea, there was courage on both sides. They who were at the front know that. When the war opened, the South called the Northern men “mudsills” and the North called the Southern men “braggarts” and “pompous nothings,” but after a few battles nothing more was said about Northern “mudsills” and Southern ‘ ‘braggarts. ” it was an army of lions against an army of lions. It was a flock of eagles mid-sky with iron beak against another flock of eagles iron-beaked. It was thunderbolt against thunderbolt. It was archangel of wrath against archangel of wrath. It was Hancock against Longstreet. It was Kilpatrick against Wade Hampton. It was Slocum against Hill. It was O. O. Howard against Hood. It was Sherman against Stonewall Jackson. It was Grant against Lee. And the men who were under them were just as gallant, and some of them are here and I detain the two garlands that I have twisted for the departed and in recognition of honesty and [>rowess put the coronals upon these iving Federals and Confederates. North and South, we will make a great fuss about them when they are dead.

There will not be room on their tombstones to tell how much we appreciate them. We shall call out the military and explode three volleys over their graves, making all the cemetery ring under our command of “Fire!” We will have long obituary in newspapers telling in what battles they fought, what sacrifices they endured, what flags they captured, in what prisons they suffered, but all that will cbme too late. One word in the living ear of praise for their honesty and crsirage will be worth to them more than a military funeral

two miles lorfg or a pile of flowers half a mile high and ten bands of music playing over the grave “StarSpangled Banner” or “Way Down South in Dixie.” Now, while they are in their declining years and their right knee refuses to work because of the rheumatism they got sleeping on the wet ground on tne banks of the Chicamauga, or their digestive organs are off on furlough because of ,the six months of prison life in which their rations were big slices of nothing, and their ears have never been alert since the cannonade in which they heard so much they have never been able to hear but little since, in these cases I call upon the people of North and South to substitute a little ante-mortem praise for the good deal of post-mortem eu.logium. These two garlands that twisted for Northern and Southern graves shall not be put upan the grass of the tomb until they have first encircled the foreheads of the living. I

will let the front of the wreath come down Over the sear of a scalp vfound made by the sword of a cavalryman at Atlanta and drop a little over the eye that lost its luster in the mine explosion at Petrsburg. Huzza for the living! and camelias and afnaranths and palm branches for the living! • But we must not detain the two garlands any longer from the pillows of those who for a quarter of a century have been prostrate in the dreamless slumber, never oppressed by summer heats or winter s cold. Both garlands are fragrant. Both have in them the sunshine and the shower of this spring time. The colors of both were mixed by Him who mixed the blue pf the sky and the gold of the sunset and the green of the grass and the whiteness of the snow caystal. And I do not care which you put over the Northern grave and which over the Southern grave. Does any one say, “What is the use? None of them will know it. Your Decoration Days both sides of Mason and Dixon’s line are a great waste of flowers.” Ah, I see you have carried too far my idea that praise for the living is better than praisd for the departed. Who says that the dead do not know of the flowers? 1 think they do. The dead are not dead. The body sleeps, but the soul lives, and is uuhindered. No two cities on earth are in such

rapid and constant communication as earth and heaven, and the two great Decoration Days of North and South are better known in realms celestial than terrestrial. With what interest we visit the place of our birth and of our boyhood or girlhood days! And have the departed no interest in this world where they were born and ransomed, where they suffered and triumphed? My Bible does not positively say so, nor does my catechism teach it, bulj my common sense declares it. The departed do know, and the bannered procession that marched the earth yesterday to Northern graves and the bannered procession that marched a month ago to Southern graves were accompanied by two grander though invisible procession that walked the air, processions of the ascended, processions of the martyred, processions of the sainted; and they heard the anthems of the churches and the salvo of the batteries, and they stooped down to breathe the incense of the flowers. These august throngs gathered this morning in these pews and aisles and corridors and galleries are insignificant compared with the mightier throngs of heaven who mingle in this service which we render to God and our country while we twist the! two garlands. Hail spirits multil udinous! Hail spirits blest! Hail \ \ arty red ones come down from the Eng’s palace! How glad we are that you have come back again. Jake the kiss of welcome and these garlands of reminiscence, ye who languished in hospitals or went down under the thunders and lightnings of Fredericksburg and Cold Harbor and Murfresboro and Corinth and Yorktown and above the clouds on Lookout Mourn tain.

And now I hand over the two garlands, both of which are wet with many tears, tears of widowhood and orphanage and childless, tears of suf. sering and tears of gratitude, and as the ceremony must be performed in symbol, there are not being enough flowers to cover all the graves, taka the one garland to the tomb of soma Northern soldier who may yesterday have been omitted in the distribution of sacrament of flowers, and the othei garland to the tomb of some Southern soldier, who may, a month ago, havq been omitted in the distribution ol the sacrament of the flowers, and put both the wreath gently down over the hearts that have ceased to beat. God bless the two garlands! God save the United States of America!

An Indian Goldfish Pond.

Port Townsend Call. Several Indians have been observed around town for the past day or two peddling goldfish, which they sold at 25 cents each. The Indians are reaping a harvest at the business, and strangers remark that it is a mighty prosperous town where the go around selling goldfish. It has been something of a mystery to most people asOto where the source of supply existedQthat has proved such a veritable bonanza to the meek and lowly siwash. Judge James G. Swain yesterday discovered the secret. He says that several years ago a vessel from Honolulu brought to Port Gamble a small lot of these beautiful fish, and not being able to dispose of them all dumped them into a pond near Port Gamble. The fish continued to thrive and multiply, and now the Indians there have a monopoly of the goldfish trade and no doubt will be able to supply the whole State with those aristocratic fish.

Finest Card Made.

New York Times. ‘‘Here is a card that typifies mj line of business,” said an energetic tradesman to a friend, handing out a business card so iight and thin thai but for its elasticity and crackle a blind man would have said that if was gold leaf. It was thinner thac ordinary writing paper, and yet il had the elastic qualities of finebristo! board. “The card is made of alum inum,” said tlje tradesman, “and il is a novelty. It is the finest care made, and, as I sell the finest good* made, it typifies my business. It is more durable than anything that 1 have been able to find, and I havi tried, evervthinr made of paper metal, wood and celluloid. ”

ON THE BED OF THE OCEAN.

What the Floor of the Atlantic Looks Like, as Shown In a Relief Map.

Rene Baehe tn Kate Field’s Washington. *. One often hears about the “floor” of ttffe Atlantic, but the significance pf the term so applied can in no way be vividly conveyed to the mind as by viewing a wonderful relief map that stands in the Superintendent’s room at the United States Coast Survey office. This is a big picture in plaster of paris, of what is called the Bay of North America, which means the great sweep-in of the ocean from Nova Scotia to the West Indies, and of the Gulf of Mexico, with "all of the United States that lies north of the gulf shown also. Just as the mountains on the land are represented in elevation, the configuration of the bottom of the sea and gulf is exhibited by the map, so that you can see how the Atlantic and its great arm would look if all the water were drained away. The first thing you remark is tlfat the bottom of the vast bay of the A tlantic is a floor almost as smooth and-level as a Western prairie, save quite near the eas teni~ ~s~Sbfe ' df the continent. If the water were gone, you could drive very comfortably in a carriage over a nice shell road all the way from the Bermudas to within 150 miles of cape Hatteras, which would be the nearest point of dry land to reach. Then you would have to climb, for at that distance from the coast the bottom begins to rise from the even depth of three miles at which you have been journeying, to nearly a mile higher, in a distance about equal to that between Philadelphia and New York. From that point on you would be obliged to dismount and do some real walking, inasmuch the ascent becomes quite abrupt, rising within a few miles to a depth of only two or three hundred feet. But the sort of traveling you would do in mounting from the ocean floor to get to the coast would depend entirely upon what point along the coast you tried to strike, inasmuch as the contour of the slope varies greatly. ; The line of the bottom of the slope follows in a general way the trend of the shore southwest from Cape Sable to the southern part of Florida; but at some points it is much, farther off from the coast, its distance opposite Savannah beingabout 300 miles, and nearly as much opposite New York. It would be imprudent to try the route from the Bermudas direct to New York, because you would be likely to get into a remarkable, hole that goes down suddenly, just before the slope begins, from the level floor three miles deep to nearly a mile deeper. But you might go comfortably from within 200 miles of Cape Sable to very near San Domingo and Porto Rico in the West Indian group, traveling in a buggy straight south more than the length of the United States. You would find an even road, at a little more than three miles down below what is now the surface of the sea, descending a trifle after getting south of the latitude of Jacksonville, Fla. Then you would have to look out; because, a few miles to the north of Porto Rico the ocean floor takes a most astounding dip into one of the deepest sea-holes that can be found in the world. Reaching its edge at about 130 miles from Porto Rico, you would find this tremendous gulf suddenly descending to a depth of more than five miles below what is now the surface of the water. It is extraordinary how these West Indian Islands rise precipitously from the depths, uplifting their mountains miles high out of the sea. South of Cuba, in the Carribean Sea, is a hole even more remarkable than the one just described.

It is much bigger than the one north of Porto Rico, and forms an elongated valley nearly six and a half miles in depth. Who can guess what ocean monsters, pulpy, vast, and formless, inhabit these great ocean caverns lighted only by processions of torch-bearing fishes? What haunts, these, for the sea serpent and for the gigantic creatures imagined to be extinct since the Deluge! » Among other surprising things at the bottom of the sea, you would in your travels come across the little Bahamas east of Southern Florida, where they rise suddenly from the ocean’s floor with so little slope that, within a distance of thirty miles, you would have to climb more than three miles high to find yourself in Nassau. So it appears, as had not been suspected until recently, that these islands are the tops of very precipitous mountain peaks projecting out of the water. A still more extraordinary submarine structure you would discover in the Bermundas, some 800 miles due east from Charleston. These islands rise abruptly out if the midst of the great flat ocean plain. They, top, are the peaks of mighty and precipitous hills. The bottom floor of the Gulf of Mexico is little less than two and-a half miles deep. Flowing out of it, the great perennial stream becomes so shallow by the time it reaches the southern point of Florida as to be loss than a-half mile in depth, while .is it sweeps up close by the southeast shore line of that State, it diminishes to but little more than a quarter of a mile before swerving off from the coast on its journey northwestward. What makes the Gulf .Stream has long been a matter of dispute, but science has arrived at the conclusion that the trade winds blowing steadily from the southeast, push the water fipm tropics and pile it up in the Gulf of Mexico. The readiest outlet fdr this water, and the one it naturalij- seeks, is east-

ward between Florida and Cuba and up along the east coast of the United States, upon whose climate itfhak so much influenoe. One reason for this theory is that, at the fee of the year when the trade winds blow the other way, the flow of the Gulf Stream lessens in rapidity, the “head” of water in the Gulf being not so great.

HEREDITY IN STATEMANSHIP

What a Glance at the Senate Roster Reveals—Sons Who Have Succeeded Fathers, Indianapolis Journal. It has always been a matter of pride with Americans that have no “House of Lords” in our national legislative body, where a son succeeds a father simply because he is the son of his father, and yet a glance at the list of the Senators of the United States reveals the fact that there is a dangerous tendency towards hereditary succession. On no less than five occasions have sons succeeded fathers. The families who have held these honors are the Stockton, the Bayards, the Frelinghuysens, the Colquitts and the Camerons. Indeed, in the case of the Stocktons and the Frelinghuysens it would seem that to be born in that family meant to be born in to the United States Senate. The most prominent instance is that of Stocktons, who held the seat in the United States Senate for four successive generations. Richard Stockton, who died in 1781, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence from New Jersey. He was a Senator of the United States from that State, and his son, his grandson and his great-grandson all in turn represented New Jersey in the Senate. So, too, with the Frelinghuysens. Frederick Frelinghuysen was a Senator from the State from 1793 till 1796. His son, Theodore Frelinghuysen, was in the Senate from the same State, and: his grandson, Frederick -T- Frelinghuysen, has also been a United States Senator from New Jersey.

To be a Bayard means to be a Senator. The original James A. Bayard was a Senator from Delaware in 1804 and it has been hard to imagine a United States Senate without a Bayard. Delaware has also been very kind to the Saulsburys, giving a senatorship to the brother when Willard Saulsbury retired. The Colquitts and the Camerons are represented in the Senate now, though in both these cases the heredity has only been from one generation, father to son.

Some Great Very Small Things.

At a shoe shop in London in 1745 was exhibited a common Barcelona nutshell holding a tea table, tea board, a dozen cups and saucers, with sugar dish, bottle, funnel, fifteen drinking glasses, five punch bowls, ten rummels, a pestle and mortar and two sets of ninepins—all of polished ivory exquisitely fashioned, and according to the account of the time, “all to be plainly seen without the aid of optic glasses. ” This wonder was the work of a poor artist who had hit upon this plan to make a living. His little exhibition was soon outdone by Boverick, the watch-maker. For 1 shilling this last-named genius would show visitors the half of a common cherry-stone, from which he would take a quadrille table, twelve chairs with skeleton backs, a looking glass neatly framed, two dozen plates, six saucers, twelve spoons, a dozen knives and forks, two salt cups and a lady and gentleman whom: he seated at the table.

This same Boverick also made an ivory camel that could be passed through the eye of a common needle, six pairs of steel scissors that could all be hid under the wing of a common house-fly, and a gold chain of 200 links to which a miniature padlock and key were attached, all of which were of such minute dimensions as to be easily pulled across a pane of glass by a flea. Later on he produced a small ivory coach which he harnessed to a flea, coach and steed weighing exactly as much as a barley-grain; and a cranenecked carriage, with wheels turning properly on their axles, carrying four passengers, swo footmen, a coachman sitting on the box with a dog between his legs, driving six ivory horses, one of tne leaders bearing a postillion, the whole affair so light that this same pet flea could set it in motion, but was not equal to the task of dragging it across the show-case.

Goat's Blood for Consumption

Paris Special. Professor Berheim has submitted his report to the Academy of Medicine, regarding experiments made to cure tuberculosis by the transfusion of a goat’s blood. The Professor, in his report, says that fourteen patients have been treated by this system, and that two of them in the last stages of anaemia were cured. Ten of thejremaining number, suffering from tuberculosis, the report adds, have greatly improved under the new treatment, and the last two oi the fourteen patients, both of whom were in an advanced stage of consumption, died six weeks after re. ceiving the first transfusion of goat’s blood. Professor Berheim declares that the goat s blood treatment has an important effect in the first stages of consumption, but adds tc should not be used in the last stages

His Kind is Common.

America, Hardtack—How are you getting along with your new clerk? Is he 8 good man? Clambake —He works like a charm. Did you ever see a charm work? Hardtack—l never did. Clambake—Well, that’s him.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Sedalia, MoV. has a pack which no body can get;to. Maud Evans, of Beaver falls, Pa. ; who is only sixteen years of age, has a third set of natural teeth. A Wichita (Kas. )man proved up th< first claim in Oklahoma, and sold it the other day for $1,600. Of the 2,328 fires in Massachusetts last year, kerosene caused 255, - matches 262 and electric wires 21. One million dollars of gold cois weighs 3,865 pounds advoirupois; of silver coin, 58,920.9 pounds. Waiter —You owe me quarter, boss. Guest —What for? Waiter —Changin’ that dime.—Munceys Weekly. The English flag floats over onesixth of the population and one-eighth of the habitable globe. There is a man in this city who makes a handsome living regulating self-regulating clocks —-New York Recorder- -» A six-vear-old boy at Hantsport, N. S., fell forty-three feet into a well containing but little water and es. caped with a few scraches. A sheriff at Gadsden, Ala.,allowed part of a jury under his care to visit a saloon and drink beer. His indiscretion cost him a fifty dollar fine. A palace barber shop at Cameron, Mo., advertises: “A screen arounq one of our chairs, which protects la* dy patrons from the scrutiny of pas-sers-by.” Two Japanese mining are traveling among the coal mines in Pennsylvania studying American mining methods, which they desire to apply to the development of the coal deposits of Japan. Ex-Governor Boyd, of has had strange experiences for an alien. He has repeatedly held office, has been Mayor of Omaha, andaeteq as Governor of Nebraska, only find at the end of a long official esu reer that he was never a citizen ol the United States, and that many oi all of his official acts may be void. He believed that his father was a naturalized citizen before he was o) age.

A short distance out from Buena Vista, Cal., there is a cave literally swarming with spiders of a curious species and of immense size, some oi them having legs four inches long and a body as large as that of aca nary bird. The cave was discovered in December, 1879, and was often r& sorted to by the pioneers, who obtained the webs for use in place ol thread. Early and late the cave constantly resounds with a buzzing noise, which is emitted by the spiders while they are weaving their netting. The late Professor Joseph Leidy, of Philadelphia, and his brothei Philip, bequeathed their brains to the Anthropometric Society, of which the Professor was a founder and the first president, and which numbers among its members Phillips Brooks, Dr. William Pepper, and eminent anatomists and croniologists all ovei the country. “The brains of thetwc brothers,” a Philadelphia newspapei tells us, “were of the same weight to a fraction of a grain. Both were noticeably below the normal size, confirming the deduction of anatomisti that quality of tissues rather than quantity distinguishes the valuable brain from the ignorant.” Certain clubmen were discussing the fee of $260,000 that William N, Cromwell received as assignee in settling the business of Decker. Howel] & Co., and one man, a merchant,said that he thought the fee was a tremendous one for eight week’s wqrk. “Sc it was,” said a lawyer, “the biggesl that any man ever got. But it wai legitimate and correct. The law allowed it, and in my opinion it is always right to do or to take what thi law allows. The statutory allowance is five per cent, on all moneys paid in or disbursed. Mr. Cromwell gos $260,000, but $5,000 a year is a fail estimate of what the average assignee receives in New York, while outside the large cities the work of an assignee makes more trouble than money for the man who performs it.’ 1

“I was pretty forcibly reminded ol a law of physics as to the rapidity with which heat will pass through glass the other day.” said a New Yorker yesterdayjust returned from a trip to the West. “Our train Eassed near one of the great foresi res raging in nothern Pensylvania. I was in a parlor car. The windows were double, and were of heavy plate glass, and with so much force that J felt as though a white-hot mass ol iron had passed within a few feet of my face. All the passengers who had been looking out of the windows, eager to witness the spectacle recoiled as though we had received a slap in the face.” Resident South Americans in this town are European rather than American in their social sympathies. Many of them have been educated in Europe, and they seem to sympa thize with aristocratic rather *than democratic institutions. Even the Haytian negroes that occasionally come to town are a different order oi beings from the folk of their own race in Thompson street. They are frequently keen in company with whites, they generally dine at "French restaurants, and their whole bearing is that of men unconscious of .race distinction. The few Americans pres* ent in a restaurant of the French quarter were astonished one night to see a coal-black negro presented by several French naval officers to th« ladies of their party. The negro was thoroughly at ease, and when he rose to leave the restaurant in company with a white companion, he shook hands with the Frenchmen and their party.—New York Son. v