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The Story of the Good Little Boy Who Did Not Prosper.

BY MARK TWAIN.

Onck there was a good little boy by the name of Jacob Blivcns. He always obeyed his parents, no matter how absurdatul unreasonable their demands were,; and he always learned his book, and never was lateat Babbath sfhooL He would not play hookey, even when Ills sober judgment told him it was the most profitable thiim he ( cpuld do. None of the other boys comtl "ever make that boy out, he acted so strangely, lie * wouldn’t Ate, no faatter how convenient It was. He just said it was wrong to lie, and that was sufficient for him. And he was so honest that he was simply ridiculous. The curi ous ways that Jacob had surpassed everything. He wouldn’t pbvy marbles on Sunday, he wouldn’t rob birds’ nests, he give hot pennies to organ-grind; ers’ monkeys; he didn’t seem to taks-eqy. interest in any kind of rational amusemeat.' Bo ihe other hoys hsed to try to reason it out and Qonje.to an understanding of him, but they couldn’t arrive at any satisfactory conclusion ; as I said before, they could only figure out a sort of vague idea that he was “afflicted” and so they took him under their protection, and ncver tdjowed any harm to come to him. This good little boy read all the Sunday school books; they were his greatest delight. This was the whole Secret of it. |le believed in the good little boys they fiut in the Sunday school books ; he had very confidence in them. He longed to come across one of them alive, once; but lie never did. They all died 4>efore his time, may be. Whenever he read about a particularly good one, he turned over quickly to the end to see what became of him, because he wanted to travel thousands of miles and gaze on him; but it wasn’t any use; that good little hoy always died in the last chapter* and there was a picture of the funeral, with all his relations and the,Sunday school children Kt iihding around the grave in pantaloons that were too short, and bonnets that were too large, and everybody crying into handkerchiefs that had as much as a yard and a half of stuff in them. lie was always headed off in this way. He never could see one of those good little beys, on account bf his always dying in the last chapter. * Jacob had a noble ambition to be put in a Sunday-school book. lie wanted to be put in, with pictures representing him gloriously declining to lie to his mother, and she weeping for joy about it; abd pictures representing him standing on the door step giving a penny to a poor beggar-woman with six children, and telling her to spend it freely, but not to be extravagant, because extravagance is a sin; and pictures of him magnanimously refusing to tell on the had boy who always lay in wait for him around the corner, as he came from school, and welted hifa over the head with a lath, and then chased him home, saying, “Hi I hi!” as he proceeded. That was the ambition of young Jacob Blivens. He wished to be put in a Sundayschool hook. It- made him feel a little uncomfortable sometimes when ho reflected that the good little boys always died. He loved to live, you know, and this was the most unpleasant feature about being a Sunday-school book boy. He knew it was not healthy to be good. He knew it was more fatal tiffin consump- - tion to be so sunernaturally good as the boys in the books were; he knew that npne of them hftd over been able to stand it long, and it pained him to think that if they put him in a book lie wouldn’t ever sec it, or even if they did get the book out before he died, it wouldn’t be popular witllbut afiyplcture of his', funeral in the back part of It. It couldn’t be much of a Sunday-school book that couldn’t tell about.tM advice be gave tp tho (jigifmi'nity when he was dying. So, at last, of ceurte, lie had to make up his mind to do the best ho could under the circumstances; —tp live right, and hang on as long as he could, and nave- his dying speech all ready when his time came. But somehow, nothing ever went right with this good little boy; nothing ever turned out with him the way it turned out with the good litfje bays in the books. They always had ■ a good time, and the bad boys had the broken legs j but in his casethere wan,a screw loose somewhere, happened Just the other way. When he found Jim Blake stealing apples, and wont under tho tree to read to him about the bad little boy who fell out of a neighbor’s apple tree, and broke his arm, Jim fell out of the tree too, but he fell on him and broke hi* i arm, and Jim *vrasn*t hntt at all. Jacob couldn’t under* stand that. There wasn’t anything in the books like it. t And oncer when seine bad boyfc pushed a blind man over in tho mud, and Jabob ran to help him up and receive his'blestirrg, the blind m*ndffl not give him any Messing at all; but Whacked him over the head with his stick and said he wottjd like to catch htyn shoving Mm again anil then pretending to help* him up. This WaS hdt in accordance wjth any of the banks. Jacob looked thfiih all oyer to see. thing that Jaoob wanted to do was to find a lame dog that hadn’t any place to

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Sir, and was hungry and persecuted, and ug him home, ana him and have that dog’s «rfpet£»l»bb gftflLudhC A»d at last ho found one, and was happy; and Ue brought him home and fed him, but when be the dog fiew at him and t?re all the clothes off hjm except those that were itt FrOnt, and mdde & spectacle of him that was astonSsitaaft? ms? of the same breed of dogs that was in the books, but Ht,.acted very differently. Whatever tlrfa bby did,- he got into trouble. The very things the boys in the books -goi tevnanded sos tmrjjad out to be, about the most unprofitable things ho could invest In. , . y , Once when he was on his way to Sunday School he saw Borne bad boys starting off pleasuring In a sail-boat. He was filled with consternation, because he knew from his reading that boys who went sailing on .Sunday, invariably gpt deowned. So he ran out on a raft to warn them, but a log turned with him and slid him into the flyer. gfs*d*im out pretty soon, and Are doctor pumped The water' out of him and gave him a fresh start with hifi bellows, hut he caught cold and, lay sick abed nine weeks. But the' m6st unaccountable thing about it was that the bad ReySi In tHe bAak had a gded time all day, and then reached home alive and well, in the? unat sunni*ing manner. Jacob Blivens said there was nothing like these things in the bookg. He was per-, fectly dumbfounded. When he got well he was a little discouraged, but he jrcsolved.to keep on trying, anyhow. He kifew that so far his experiences wouldn’t do to go in a book, but he hadn’t yet reached the allotted term of life for good little: boys, and ha hoped to be able to make a record yet, if he could hold on uutjl big time w.as fully »e had his dying speech to fall back on. lie examined his authorities, and found that it was now time to go tq sqa as a cabin boy.” “He called ’ oil “‘a .4Mp' c*iptrin and made his application,.and when the captain asked Tm'piS Tocdinmehrliftion he proudly drew out a tract and pointed to the .words“To Jacob Blivens, _ from his. affectionate “teacher. Bui the captain was,a coarge, vulgar pum, and.be sajd, “Oh,'that' bo biowerfJ that wasn’t proof that he knew how to wash dishes or handle a slush" bfidket, and he gnefeCd he didn’t want, him,” This was altogether the tridst ektraordinrfry 1 \htbg that had 4 ever happened to Jacob in all his life. A compliment from n teacher, on a tract, had never failed to move the tenderest -emotions of ship captains and open the way to all or honor’ rtfid '•piwfit Jh their gift—it never had in any book that everbad rsad. He.could hardly, believe his senses. This boy always had a hard time of it Nothing fcvdr csone Out -according to, the authorities with him. At last, one day, when he was around hunting up bad little boy* to admonish, bo found a lot of them in the old iron foundry fixing up a little Joke on fourteen or fifteen dogs, which they had tied together in long procession, and were going to ornament with empty nitm-glycerine cans made fast to their tails. Jacob’s heart was touched. He sat down on one of those cans—for he never minded grease when duty was before him —and he took hold of the foremost dog by the collar, and turned his reproving eye upon wicked Jones. BcR just at that moment Alderman McWefter. full of wrath, stepped in. All the bad boys rim away; but Jacob Bilvensrosc in conscious innocence, and began one of those stately little Sunday school book speeches, which always comifienckvfcith “Ob, sir!" hi dead opposition to the fact that no boy, good or bad, over starts a remark with “Oh, sir l” But the Alderman never waited to hear the rest. He took Jacob Bivens by the ear,, and turned him around, and hit him a whack in the rear with the fiat of his hand; and in an instant that good little boy shot out through the roof and soared away towards the sun, with the fragments of those fifteen dogs stringing after him like the tail of a kite. And there wasn’t a sign of that Alderman or that old iron foundry left on the face of the earth; and as for young Jacob Blivens, he never got a chance to make bis last dying speech after all his Rouble fixing it up, unless he made it to the birds; because, although the bulk of him came down all right in a tree-top in an adjoining county, the rest of him was apportioned around among four Townships, and so they had to hold five inquests on him to find out whether he was dead or not, and how it occurred-: You never saw a boy scattered so. Thua perished the good little boy who did the best he could, but didn’t come out according to the books. Every, boy who ever did as he did prospered except him. Ilis case is truly remarkable. It will probably never bo aocounted for.— The Galaxy. \

Hoe Your Own Row.

There is no better way to ruin a young man than to give him to understand iu early life that his future success will not depend upon his own individual efforts. There are cases in which young men,who have had such teachings, have overcome their prenicious effects, but as compared with the whole, these are exceptions and not the rule. The parent, who thoroughly impresses upon the mind of his boy the idea that he will bo dependent upon his own exertions—tfiaxtbe responsibility of bis success or failure rests with himself— Will find that a good work has been wrought, tho effects of wliicjl will be seen only when the boy enter* upon the grand struggle which is to result iu triumphant victory or lamentable defeat. A boy thus taught feels that he line a duty to perform —that *while he may have tho support and influence of a parent to assist, still, upon his own energies and efforts will depepd his success. He recognizes, therefore, that he is a power within himself, and this knowledge puts a restraint upon immoral tendencies, and prompts to habits of active industry and prudent economy. Who that lias, been the architect of his own fortune cannot recall tho pride of the moment when he himself the pos•si'ssor of tho first thousand, or the proprietor of t.fie workshop, factory, store or offlije !n which 'the fiAmdatibri of his Vveauh was laid. There may have been happier moments of his life, but none that carried with them more genuine and perfect satisfaction. -Parents, teach your boys to rely upon themselves. Teach them tq,stand alone in early life. Implant in ”em a feeling of confidence isl their own ability and tneir ttwn powers, coupled with a feellog of personal responsibility, whictfwlll steady thorn when tfidy incline to vacillate or waver, and inspire them with that spirit of solf-dependencc which rarely over {tils to win a trimph.—tyW--1 ern World.

RENSSELAER JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, MAY 5, 1870. ■' ' ' ■ - HP'! / ■ 7 IT .

Weekly News Summary.

CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on tho 2iJd, theresolution directing the President of the. United, Rtareq to appdlnt commissioners to open negotiations fhr the annexation of the Winnipeg jUstrlct a Terri toijy or State, waa taken up and illscuhuo el and re<°rr*ltq the Committee on Foreign RClaWoni ■K 1 ®.,5. ere P***e<i—repealing the act of Fcbfuary •JB, 1833, prohibiting the Importation of person! of color Into certain States; prescribing the oath of office for persoae who participated in the rebellion but are not disqualified by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Ooastllutton, the qath bohig Identical* with that-required of‘tlibse whose piMltal ahd' legal disabilities, hate been removed:, providing fqt the obtaining of the action ol' the iiegUJatnies or the States In wbloh-Natlonal Cemeterlesare located to perfoct the title or tho United States; the Invalid Appropriation Bill, appropriating some $3,000,000; to preyent the copuiermituig qf foreign trade marks protected by treaty stipulations....A Joint resolation, providing that all public lands in Alabama. Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida and Arkanaos shall be subject to disposal under the Homestead laws by pre-enjptlou under the earne regulations as apply to tho lands of other Sfatcs, was 'amimdadffid laid over.... Several bills were Indefinitely postponed, among them one to provide for a return td specie payments.... Executive session and adjournment to the gdth. In thc .on tha 22d, several private bljle were passed, among them one tp relinquish'to Dubnque, lowa, tho title of the United States to a certain lot of ground. .The consideration of the Tariff hill we* resumed In Committee of the Whole....Adjonmed. Ln the House, on the 23d, tlje credentials oi Krasmns D. Pock, member elect from the Tenth Congressional l.’latrlct of Ohio, in place of jtoag, deceasod, iwftr* prqeanted, and Mr. peck toog the oath.... A bill was passed—!W to 54-ln relation td the Hot Spring* Reservation of Arkansas. allowing fto .nueatlotCoCtltle to be decided by the Court of Clalgiq.... A resolution wasadopted,:limlting.leavosd absence heretofore granted, to the Sd of-May... .The Wenalo amendment to tho Income Tax bill was uon-doncurred in... .The Speaker announced tha appointment iff-Messrs.! ’.Garrison, Allison, and Cox as a Conference Com: mlltee on the Census bi 11.... Adjourned. ~ In the Senate, on the 25th, a bill was . reported from the Judiciary Committee covering thq subject of the ottforfetiient ,of the Fifteenth Amendment.,.. A hill was reported from the 'committee on Foreign Relations, making anapproprl- ' at ion to carry into execution a recommendation of the President of the United Staton in pursumico of an award made by tho .Joint Commission 1)0 tween the United Stales and Peru.... A 'Mil was Introduced amendatory efthe law for the disposal of coal lands, Ae., on. tho-'public domain... .Bill* were passed—extending three years the time for consolidating the statntes or the United States; glylng priority In: the courts of the United, States to cases to which a State Is party, or whqre the exeention of the revenue laws of a State may be stayed hy judicial oyde* o» process.... The bills ■«> authorize the settlement ,of accounts of officers of tho army and navy, and to make the tm portal lou Qf lumilgronts under labor contracts unlawful, were referred ...The Senate insisted oq its amendments to the Income Tax bill, and Messrs. Sherman, Williams, and Morrill (Vt.X wore - appointed a Committee of Conference. .. Messrs. Couklin, Carpenter, and Bayard were appointed a Committee of Conference on the Cenlus bill....Thebill specifying regulations for the foreign and- coasting trade on The - Northern, Northeastern and Northwestern frontiers was passed... .A large number pf private bills were passed... .Adjonfaed. In the House, on the 25th, hill's were Introduced—granting lands for a railroad from Ontonagon to.the Michigan State line ; for A railroad from Lake Superior to Vermillion Lake, and for the Omaha * Northwestern Railroad; fora survey of the Mississippi River, from the Missouri to the Maramac; for the teller of the people' of the United States by reducing taxation, providing that on the 30th of June next there shall bo a reduction of 15 per cent, on Internal taxes, and 10 percent, on Import duties, except on spirits, tonaccoand cigars, and that no income derived alter December 31,1801), shall bo taxable, and abolishing all special licenses, except on distillers, brewers,And manufacturers of tobacco, snuff, and cigars ... A resolution was adopted, inslructing the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions to consider the propriety of providing pensions for all surviving officers and soldiers of the war of 1813.... A petition was presented of nlqety-four business firms and companies of Cleveland, against the passage of the Funding bi11..,.A joint resolution was passed, appointing a commission to -procure an appropriate bnrial place for the remains of General John A. Rawlins, late Secretary of War, and to provide for the erection or a suitable monn- ■ ment over the grave, and that the cost of the same -be. paid out of the contingent fhnd of the War Department.... Joint resolutions were passed—to enablo the Secretary of the Trcasury I?, fbl'btl wrecked and abandoned property, dereact claims, and claims bekmgtnj; to the United States; donating four pieces of condemued cannon to the Ladies’ Monnirtent Association of Peoria, Illinois/...A report was made from the Flection Committee, in iho election cuse from the Fourth District of Louisiana, that Michael Kynirfs not entitled to a seat, and J.J*. Nowßham is ...A resolution was adopted, calling for the lbsmation of the amounts expended In tho improvement of the Boston and New York h«rbora, Dclawsro breakwater, and mouth of tho Mlsdissfppi... .The Tariff bill was further considered in Committee ol tho Wh01e.... Adjonmed. In the Senate, on tho 2Gtli, ft memorial and resolutions pf a public meeting In Chicago were presented &nd referred, recommending that the balnnco of tho f IQO.COO or $500,1)00 known as the Chinese Indemnity fund be conveyed Into the United States Treasury as a special fond, either to be returned to China, or to bo used for the establishment of uniyersitie* of learning at Pekin.... A report was made that the Finance Committee wero unanimously of the opinion that no change ought to be made In the rate of taxation bn distilled spirits.... Bills were reported from committees—« substitute for the House Army bill; to regulate public printing and discontinue the publication of books and puhUc documents; donating to the Wllberforce University $35,000 from the funds of the Freedmen'a Bureau.... A bill was Introduced forth® lKitter protoctl on of tho frontiers of Texas ...A resolution was adopted—directing the Committee onßducallon and Labor to Inquire Into the expediency of dividing tho net proceeds of tales of public lands among the several mates for educational purposes, boo otherwise so providing by law that all tho people of the United States may have an opportunity of acquiring a common schopl education ...The Joint resolution relative tp tho conduct of the Spanish Government in Its treatment of the Cuban tnsutgonts, was indefinitely postponed.... Bills were passed—providing for disposition by the Interior Department of uselota military reservations : WlaUng to the untry of certain lands In Wisconsin: to aid the construction of the Gteen Bay & Lake Pcpj« Railroad...jTho bill for the survey of Hie-ship canal and raltroaa across the Isthmus of Darien wsb referred to the Committee on Foreign Relatiotis.'.. .Executive cession and adjournment. In the House, on the 2Gth, the Fortification Appropriation bill, appropriating $13*11.76u, was made Iho spbclal ardor for the Itb of May ...A bill was passed, authorising the Secretary of tltd Treoaflfy tpappolpt special agents, notexceedfng fifty-three at Any on* tlmd, for IhO purpose of making .examinations qf books, papers, ana accounts of Collectors, atul Other officers or customs .. ..A bill waa reported, to establish a department of Justice, of which tko Attorney Gcnaralls head ... Tho Speaker appointed Messrs* abhonck, Dawes and Voorhecs a Conference Committee on the Income-Tax bfll....Afl«r furl her consideration or tho Tariff bill In Committee or the Whole, tho House adjourned. In the Senate, on the 27th, a Committee of Conference was ordered on the House bill relative to the Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas.... BfilsTfqre roporud-for the removal or csucostiYcertain case* from mate *o nulled States Conrts; the House bill fixing the ttmefor the election of Representatives ana Delegates m .Congress; to organize the Territory of Oklahoma, and consolidate the Indian tribes under a Territorial Goverumenl.-.: ,’i’ho bill for tho enforcement* of tho Fifteenth Amendment was made a«pdci*lArdlrt, t *tad comes up next after the Franking bi 11.... A bill wae introduced and referred, to extend until July, 18i5, lbltefs patent issued to RlchardM- Hoe... .A number of private bills weropassed .<,THie Joint rciolutlon for the saly of the Bergen Uetgtft* Arsenal was passed; ale*, » hl | l appFopriaUn|j<sßto,lW tor this Albany Post ufflco.'... Adjoumeu. * w > 4 ■- - * i In the House, on the 27tb, Mils wore reported and passed—for additional terms of the liuttiid tjtatea Uoazfo at Ne«? Albany and RvansI vine, Ind.; felting construction to the prdvMoßeol i the act of April !0, r'eforence to the more effltlcnt government of the rebel States; removing dlsabllltlej from eleven citizens of Texaa... .A report was Made from the Sab-Committee on Elections, In the election case from tho Fifth Congressional District of Louisiana, that there waa no lawI tnl oleettoo In that district, and that nelUmc Ueo A. McCfiulo, Fraak Morey, nor P. J. Kennedy was entitled to a seat.... The House went Into ComI mittee of the Whole on the Tariff bill, and during

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the proceeding* the'Calamity it Richmond wa» anHouTOadj dtbat ® 011 *8 ' T * r ‘ff bill, the In the Senate, on the 28th, a memorial wii pretexted from the National Executive Come mltte of the colebedpeople, asking that the word white tiehtritken ont of the ttaturaUxatlon law* ....BUJi were . Introduced—to Incorporate the National Academy of Eettere and Art*; for the relief, with Wttoln exceptions, Of all .persons en■gagedln the rebellion under the Fourteenth Amendment; to reytae the Coinage laws; granting lands In aid of the Memphis & New Orleans Levee Railroad Company ; to make uniform the pcnslons.of widows of naval staff officers ....The else W Gilbert, the sitting memhor front Florida, was considered, and the report of thoJndiciury Committee that he was legally elected WM adopted....Bill* were reported—tho House bill, without amendment, limiting the appointment pf apec'al agents of the Treasury Department; In relation to fraudulent tradh maria on foreign watches, with amendment.. Bills and joint resolntlons were passed—tor a board of naval officers to examine such officers as deqm themselves unjustly passed over hy promotion* made In conformity with the act of Congress July 33, 18G0; toprovido for better security on boavd steam vessels; appropriating SB,OOO to pay the expenses of the Iqvestlgaof the charge agalitst General Howard; relative to the Clrenit Conrts of the United States," prohibiting suy construction .of the act that would require the holding of a Circuit Court where not required by previously existing laws. .'.'.The bill granting right of way to ditch and canal owners over public lands waa amended so aa to protect the Sutro tunnel franchise in Nevsda, and tho bill went Over.. .'Executive session and adjoarnmettt.. In tl;e House, on the 28th, a majority report was made from the Committee on Elections, that Adolph Bailey Is not, and C. B. Darrell is, entitled to the seat from tho Third District of Lou)s|ana; and a minority report was also mado, with opposite conclusions.... Bills ana Joint resolu I ions werepaseed—to establish a De-. pertinent of Justice; appropriating $2 01)0 for a portrait of General Thomas, to bo placed In a oanspfCniohs position In the Capitol; appropriating $3,000 for experiments In the ventilation of the hall of the House; Senate bill to change the time of holding United States Courts in Wisconsin, With aMenu- ■ mont....The contested election eaßo in the Fifth Louisiana Distrjct was considered, and tho majorD ty report that the election held on November 3, IfIJS, was illegal, was adopted... .The bill to revive the navigation and commercial interests qf the Unjted States waa referred.... After farther consideration of the-Tariff bill in Committee of the Who «, the House adjourned. FOREIGN. The revolution- in St. Domingo continues, and, Gen. Calbral has been declared an ontlaw for delivering Sal nave into the hands of the Haytiens. Advices from Manilla report"" ff destructive fire involving tha loss ol $1,500,000. No insurance. Recent advices ffom Manilla, in th,e Mediterranean, report a destructive fire, involving the-loss of $1,500,000. No insurance. Captain Eyre, of tho steamer Bombay, is seeking a restoration of his certificate, on the ground that the evidence against him is contradictory and inconclusive. Much sympathy is ghown for him in London. On the 24th of April a thin slip of wood, about a "yard long, and painted blue, drifted ashore, near Ligger Bay, on the northwestern epast of Cornwall, containing the following inscription in large letters; “City of Boston; sinking February 11.” The wood bore evidence of having been broken in two, and the remainder of the inscription is consequently j cept the letter “ M.” which followed the words above given. There was no means of knowing whether this is a genuine message from the missing steamer, or a heartless hoax, but the latter was strongly suspected. A party of diplomats were recently captured on the plain of Marathon, in Greece, by a party o”f brigands. In an attempt to rescue tho captives, thirteen of the brigands were killed ; and nine fled and were pursued. Oh the fourth day of the pursuit, Herbert, attache of the British Legation, and Count Boyd, Italian Secretary of Ligation, bqcame exhausted, and were murdered. On the next day Vyner and Lloyd were poniarded. The bodies of and Herbert arrived in Athens on tKe"2sib. It was announced in the British House-of Commons on the ,25th that the English Government would hold the Greek - Ministry strictly responsible for the outrages, and indemnity for the lives of British subjects would bo demanded. A New York telegram of the 26th says reliable Cuban correspondents state that little was doing there beyond a guerrilla war, in which the insurgents evidently were able to hold their own. General Valmazeda was at Bayamo, looking after affairs in that district. The Captain General still remained at Puerto Principe. A London dispatch of the 25th says the editor of r the Cork Reporter .had received a warning that his life would be taken in a month, for writing against Fenianism. The strong representations made by foreign powers to the Greek Government in regard to the late massacre, have led to the resignation of General Sautzas, Minister of War. The place will be supplied ad interim by Valavritos, Minister of the Interior. TheJßarl of Clarendon stated in the House of Lords, on tho 28th, that the Groek and Turkish. Governments were both making active‘Efforts to secure the capture of thb-b&nfiygf assassins, and 500 troops were in hot pursuit. More than half the gang had been overtaken. Of these jpVcn bad already been behß4dfcd. and five were;undergoing examination, and would probably be executed. Baron Liebeg, the emineint chemist, was dangerously ill in Paris, on the 28th. DOMESTIC. Gold closed in New York on tlie 28th at 115,y. *** Southern Arizona advices to the lplh state that the Indians were ravaging the country. General Sherman received on thq 34th official dispatches confirming the advices heretofore at hand, which indicated that the Indians in Dakota arc on the war-path in good earnest. A telegram says they had appeared near some of the forts in that Territory with fresh paint and dancing the war-dance. At one point they were estimated at 2,000 to 8,000, and were bent on hostilities. . A Washington dispatch of the 25th says; " A special order has been issued from the War Department directing the Seventeenth United States Infentry, now

In Virginia, and the Fourteenth Infantry, now in Kentucky, to proceed with all possible dispatch tp Sioux City, lowa, and Report, thence,to the General commanding the Department of Dakota, for assignment t 6 duty. The order removes all troops now performing duty in those States, The understanding is that the move has something to do with the condition of affairs in the Red River country,* and refers to the neutrality of American* soil during the existing troubles. There are already In the Department of Dakota three regiments ; of. infantry and a battalion of cavalry.” The house of Mrs. Martha Kean, in East Mansfield, Mass., was burned ob the 25th, and a'young man named Frederick Ames perished! , ■ ' Nearly 800 brickmakers were on a strike at .Croton Landing, N. Y„ on the 26th, in consequence of a reduction of wages. The Auburn (N. Y.) City National Bank was robbed on tho 26th of $31,000 in greenbacks. A Washington dispatch of the 86th says there is now an imminent and certain prospect of an Indian war. The Navy,Department at Washington has received all the papers pertaining to the Oneida and Bombay affaii*. Admiral Porter sftys that, after a thorough investigation of all .the facts of the case, the Department is led, to the belief that the, Bombay is solely and wholly to blame for the accident. The report is denied that the officers of the Oneida were drunk and carousing in the cabin at the timo, and leaving tho deck, in charge of a midshipman. He also says tlie Oneida had ; a full coniplemcnt, as a letter df Admiral Rowan, on file at the Navy Department; shows. The iron railroad bridge across the Wabasfy river a» Terre Haute was cpmpletpd, and special trains passed over it on the 26th. The Gas Works at Virginia City, Nevada, were destroyed by fire, on the 20th. Nine hundred and forty officers and men belonging to the Fourteenth United States Ihfantry, who have been stationed at Nashville, Tcnn., for some months, left on this morning of the 2Qth, on a special train for Sioux City. A Laurence, Kansas, special of the 27th states that the Indians had recently attacked the settlers near Independence, and wounded two. The whites resisted, and the fracas was for the time ended by Friend Gibson, Agent of the OSages, calling out the military and driving eighteen families out of. the country. It is stated that the government agent hsd been engaged in settling the tribes on settlers’ claims, for which the settlers had made amicable arrangements with the Indians, and that the immediate Cause of the disturbance seems to have arisen from the settlers refusing to allow the Indians to cultivate square patches from their clearings. A Washington telegram of the 27th says: “ Tho latest official advices received here do not mention fears of a general Indian war; but certain accounts of threatened demonstrations have been considered sufficient to call for reinforcements of government troops on the front as a precautionary measure.” It is stated that the propriety of allowing British troops to pass over our soil and through our waters to the Red River country, for the purpose of putting down the rebellion, Was fully discussed in a recent Cabinet meeting at Washington, and it was unanimously agreed such a thing could not ‘be per mltted.

The large factory of the New York Watch Company, in Springfield, Mass, was completely destroyed by fire on the 27th, together with the valuable machinery. Los*, $200,000 One hundred hands are thrown out of employment. A terrible calamity occurred at Richmond, Va, on the 27th. The Court of Appeals was in session, and the room was crowded with eminent citizens, many local politicians, and a great many of the public at large, drawn there by curiosity to hear tho decision upon the question of the Mayoralty. At 11 o’clock the galleries of the court-room, which were crowded, feU in. The floor followed, and descended thirty feet to the floor below, which was the floor of the House of Delegates of Virginia, in which some few of the members of the court were wailing. The list of killed is given as follows: Patrick H. Avlett, Captain Charters, Chief of the Eire Brigade; E. M. Schofield, City Assessor: Dr. J. B. Brook, editor of the Bn<ju(r«r; Julius A. Hobson, City Collector; 8. Dugger, member of the House of Delegates; T. A. Ifrewls, of Alexandria; Samuo! EAton, of Boston; Powhattan Roberts, Commissioner In Chancery of the Court of Common • Pleas ; Jos. A. Blamire, of Berlin, PrnsslHi 8. E. Bureaus, of Syracuse, New York; N. P. Howard, lawyer; AbU Levy, merchant; J. W. D. Blend, colored Senator from Prince Edward ; Thomas 11. WDrox, ex-Confederate General: Samuel H. Hairston, of Henry county; Charles J. Truman, of Washington, 1). C.; Robert H. Maury, Jr., land agent; Edward Ward, of England; William H. Davis, coal merchant; John Robertson, colored Baptist minister; Colonel I’ich.lgrow; T. H. Fo|ey, Deputy United States Manual; w. K. Randolph, of New York; R. E. Bradshaw, grocer, and ifdrty-three others—among them One captain, one sergeant, and nine privates of the police on duty .In (he building. Among tho wounded were ex-Governor Wells, rib* broken and otherwise Internally injured; Ala lor 11. K. Kllysnp, slightly; 'Mayor Cahoon. slightly L Unhandier, Judge John A. Meredith. Ja«i Neleon, John Howard, Kush Burgees, Collector of the District; William C. Dnnham, Agent of the Virginia and New York Steamship Line; Hop. Tbea. 8. Boeeck, er-Speskoi bf the United States House of Representatives, leg amputated ; General M. D. Corse, ex-Mrior General Confederate Army; Colonel George w. Brent, of Alexandria; Captain George W. Allen, Poet Warden; W. O. Flow, newspaper correspondent and broker, Tho*. C. Baldwin*. Newark, W. J ; • WvD. Chesterman, of the petoraharg Index; Vinx. H. Sopper, of Baltimore, and ahorft one hundred other*.

A -private telegram from Richmond says tpo Court was about to deliver ain opinion In favor of Ellyson, one of the Judges dissenting;, as the floor fell. Collector Patterson, at Memphis, Tenn., has received instructions from the Secretary of thq Treasury to take possession of all property sold in that city during the war for taxes and Afterward re-delivered. It was apparent in Richmond, on the 28th, that the recent calamity was mnch greater than had been reported. The

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number of killed wpu!4 resch over sixty,, and the wounded wore known to be over 200. the scene* of despair ana anguish in the vicinity of the disister were beyond description. Dark mfrurriltag covered the whole city. It wo* believed that the Capitol would be abandoned as a public; institution. It was built in 1702, and’ is now pearly sfeventy-eight years old. All honses of business in Rlchniond were closed on the 28th, and the streets were filled with fttneral corteges. The fourth of May had been appointed as a day of humiliation, prayer, and religions service. The Presbyterian Church at * Wrlghtt(ville, Pa., was struck by lightning and totally destroyed by fire op the 28th. A Washington dispatch of the 28th says: “There Is no doubt that a large amount of war material, belonging to the Fenians, is distributed along the border. Our government has adopted ajl means to restrain a possible movemaqt, and prevent a breach of the neutrality laws.’* There was official evidence in Washington on the 87th, tbait the Canadian. Government was making preparations to send a military force to Red Riyer by the Bault Ste. Marie Canal. PERSONAL* The funeral of Anson Burlingame was observed on the 23d inst,,at Boston. The services were impressive, the procession long, and an.jmmensp throng lined the* route. Minute guns wire fired, flags were at half-masti and all business suspended. The remains were interred at Mt. Auburn. It is stated that Chief-Justice Chase, after the close of a term es court at Richmond in May, will take a trip td Europe for the benefit of his hfcalth. An immense concourse attended the funeral of the murdered Marsh, children, in Baltimore, on the 24th. The mother, who was confined in the city jail, was a raving maniae. The President, on the 26th, nominated to the Senate F. Appleton far Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of TeXas, vice WatroUs, retired on fall pay; James Coats, Pension Agent at Little Rock; Henry O. Deans, Postmaster at Ann Arbor, Mich. The decoration of the graves of Confederate dead took place at Mobile, Ala., on the 26 th. The defense In the MdFarland trial at New York rested their Case on* the 27th and the prosecution began the offering of rebutting testimony. In a game of base-ball at New Or Jeans, on the 26th, the Red Stobkings scored TO to the Southerns’ 6. . POLITICAL. A special dispatch to the Louisville Courier-Journal of the 25th indicates the election of General J. H. Lewis, Democrat, to Congress, from the Third Congressional District of Kentucky, by a considerable majority. Gov. Hoffman, of New York, has signed tha Eight-hour Labor law, ahd issued a proclamation for it* enforcement. The Legislature adjourned nine die on the 26th. The New York Democratic State ConJ vention on the 27th made the lolloping nominations for the Court of for support at the May election: Chief-Jus-tice, Sanford E. Church, of Monroe; Associate Judges, Chas. A* Rapolle, of New York, Ruftis W. Pelham, of Albany, Martin Grover, of Allegheny, and Wm. F. Allen, of Oswego.

Tite Boots.

BY JOSH BILLINGS.

I would jist like tew kno whoi the man wuz who fust invented tite boots. He must have bin a narrow and kontractcd kuss. If he still lives,! i.hope he haz repented ov hiz sin, or iz enjoying grate agony qy some kind. I have been in a grate menny tite spots in my life, but generally canid manage to make them average; but thare iz no such thing as making a pair ol tite boots average. Yu kan’t git an average on the pinch ov a tite boot, enny more than yo kan on the bite of a lobster. Enny man who kan wear a pair ov tite boots, and be humble, and penitent, and not indulge in profane literature, will make a good husband. He wul do more than that, he wall da to divide up into several fust klass husbands, and be made to answer for a whole naberhood. Ob! for the pen ov departed Wm. Shakspear, to write an anethema against tite boots, that would make anshunt Rome wake up and howl agin, az she did once before on a previous ockashun. Oh 1 for the strength ov Herkules, to tare into shu strings all the tite faiots of croashun, and skatter them to the 8 winds' of heaven. Oh! for the buty of Venua to make a bigg loot look hansum without a tite boot ou it. Oh!,for the payshunco ov Job, the Apostle, to nuss a tite boot and bless, it, and even pra for one a size smaller and more pinchfal. Oh 1 for a pair ov boots bigg enuff’for the foot ov a mountain.

I hav bin led to the above assortment ov “ Oh's” from having in mi posseshun at this moment, a pairov number nine boots, with a pair ov number eleven feet in them. : Ml feet are a* a dog’s noze the festtime he wears a muzzle. . ? I think mi feet will eventually choke the hoots tqdqth. I Uv in hopes they will. I suppozed I had lived long enuff not to be phooled agin in this way, but I hav found that an onnoe- of vanity weighs more than a pound ov reazon, espeshily when a man mistakes a bigg foot for a small one. Avoid tite boots, ml friend, aa you. Would the grip of the devil, for many a man has caught for life a fust-rate habit fox swearing by encouraging hiz feet to hurt hiz boots. I hav promised mi two feet, at least a dozen ov times during mi checkurd life, that they never should: be strangled agin, but I find them to-day azfUil qy pane u

TOE BEISMI ■; %&£s£fo&MKiar* M idTMtiMMift ttt uMi miwt mMW marked the length of time deoirod, or they «U 1 be tontlneed and cbatfod UUI erdOrad 4mC »&IS£VSSBA££22JSRIS the(r regnlar bnalnoao. All foivina adrertfaementa anal be paid qaartedo hi adranee. Prefeealunai <Jotd» often euyear. «M* ’ im.) Eas. |6m.j l yr. * Qpe Square... 1..... s*oo *<ml Mtstt SUM Two 6.00 7,0 i lion IAM One-quarter Col'ma. 10«3 itoo i«o3 MM Ona-baK Column.., ltjoo l#.or m.£J mm One Column 160(9 <O.OO ts ooj MOV

' • . •r. .' I t , 1 , /' * 1 SO stomrauk ake, from a sudden attak or e boots. 1 But tbfa it solemnly the laat pair ottlte boots 1 will cvar wear; i will hereafter wear boots ax bigg az my feet, if 1 bare to go barefoot, to do it. lam tob'old and too respectable to be a phool anymore. Hazy boots lz one or the hnmieaoT life, but i forget what the other luxury is, but i don't know az i care, provided 1 can get rid or this pair or tite boots. Enny man ken bare them for seres dollars, just half what they kost, and if they don’t make his feet acne woes than an angle Worm in hot ashes, be needn’t pay for them. Methuseles iz the only man that i kaa kali to mind now who oonld hare afforded to have wot e tite boots, and enjoyed them; he had a grate deal of waste time to be miserable in, but life now daya iz too short, and too full or aktual bizziness to phool away enny ov it on tite boots. Tite..boots is an insult to enny man’s, understanding. Hb who wears tite boots will hare to acknowledge the corn. , Tite boots haye no bowels of mercy; tbair insides are 'wrath and promiskious cussing. Beware of tite boots. New York Weekly. ■ ' 1 ' ’ :

A Swindling Letter.

TraChicago Tribune of the 28th till publishes the following letter, recently received bv a gentleman of that city, the writer of which; like nearly all who pro?oee to sell counterfeit greenbacks, probaly never intends to make any reply to money letters he may receive: Washington, April 23,1840.,.. Dear Sib: You have been recommended aS reliable; it you want to make a fortune sure and sudden, and pledge yourself to seer gey, you are the man. We furnish 1, d and 6 dollar Mils which are absolutely perfect, being printed from the original plates on best bank note paper, and can only be detected by the numbers; that is, Government in printing its biijs has numbered them from one upward, We printing from the same platea of course our issue will be the same, from One upward, and as fast as we issue our bills there becomes two bills of the same number in circulation, one of which must be bogus.

The plan is then to sell a few thousand of the bills to one man only in each town where we can get a suitable agent, so that it Will be impossible for the two bills of the same number to come together, for nothing else will ever detect them, and even then who is to tell which is genuine V We will sell $5,000 of the money for $500; but to begin with will let you have SSOO for SSO, or even S2OO for S2O, if you agree to buy the balance as sooa as you dispose of the first lot, which you can do easily and safely, as no one will think of comparing numbers in. your locality! where the met of the Treasury plates being stolen is not known, as it is herd in Washington. ’ The plates cost ns SIOO,OOO, but we will soon make ten 'times that, with the aid of a few true men, amassing a fortune for themselves and as. When you write, order silver spoons; T dozen fbr each SIOO that you want of the money, and say size 1,3, 5, or assorted, according to the kind you want. If you prefer, we will send the money by express C. O. D., and you can pavfor the box of jewelry (money) at the office of the express company. . We ship the goods from a well-known establishment with which we are connected, and by that means, they will paas through unsuspected, the same as goods. If you wish to save us trouble and yourself express charges, you can send money direct by mail) but suit youself. We trust von will speak of this to no one else, ana please do not delay answering, for we wank to get our Whole stock in circulation as soon as possible. Address, in perfect confidence, ' llrlmkb C. Lokolabd, Washington, D. 0. P. B.—A few days ago we directed a letter to your name at , street Having since ascertained that the number was wrong, we respectfully ask you to get that letter, as it may get into som® Pf£ son’s hands with whom we do notaestre to haVe any dealings. H. 0. L. The Reason Why— “ Grandma, tend me your specs V “ What for ? For half a minute 1" •

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