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The News,

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*& ,, ft t*s -w I DOMESTIC. I***. Senator Kh-jrmin on his way to Indiana for a week's stumping tour.

The funeral of Mayor Walker, In Evansvllle, on Hunday, was onecf the largest ever held that city.

Wendell Phillips' has accoptcd the Labor Reform nomination for Governor of Massachusetts.

Consul Pardons, at Santiago dc Cuba, died Tuesday afternoon of vomlto, after a short Illness.

The censrrs of Brooklyn, official, except one ward, flx«* the population at 406,072, against 21)0,1— In liitij.

On Monday the first through train from Fnrt Wavne to Cincinnati was run on the Fort Wayne, Muiicio and Cincinnati Kailroad.

Twenty-four of iht twenty-eight wards of Philadelphia return a population of 505,529. The imputation In 1800 was 5«2,»». The increase will not be as large as was expected.

The steamship Hienvlllc which arrived at yew York from Havana Tuesday morning detained at (Quarantine having yellow fever on board. Seven vessels, all from Cuban infested ports, are now at quarantine.

The sentence of a number of Brooklyn politicians to imprisonment for terrns van'fng fioin ten days to three montl« each, for illegal voting last November, wM fully confirmed Tuesday morning, and will be immediately executed.

The yellow fever has made its appearance nt Washington and Ilarry's Landing, on the MissiSHiDti. Seven deaths have occurred at the former placc, and one at the latter. It Is believed that the disease was Imported by Koine mlgiants who recently arrived Irom 11118 Han Domingo.

The Houthern Pacific lUlLroad Cmnnany wim teiiLuorarlly organized, in New iorK lv IlTaeneral Fremont as President mV Hunter,Vice President John IX Defress Hecrrtarv and Marshall O. Roberts, Treasurer. A iavorable report was made on tlx- charter granted by Texas.

On Htindn tlie leading membemof Strange

Inrilanapollsrttused to permit the

l'.iust sent by the Conference to occupy the mil The doors of I he chiueh were lockJ.,I against him and 1«- was compelled to nreaeh In !h" bas-rn -nt. 'llic congregation desired to supply their own pulpll lndependeiitly of I lie CfcllferenCB.

President (i.Wit has tendered tlie place of Minister to the Court of St. James to Oov. Morion who, aftei'a day or two lor consideration has poatlvely declined the oiler. Ills principal reason lor refusing Is that the state !,R his health ISMJ precarious that a length, eued residence, abroad, coupled with the cares of diplomatic life, would bo too much tor lila strength. .4$

FOREIGN.

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Porffiga! is rocognl/.3d the Freno.i Uojuiblle. Americans residing In Ihesuburbsof Paris are advised to remain in liieir houses and raise the national flag for protection.

The French Government will soon Issue blils of t!i^ denominations of live, ten and twenty francBCHCii. .«re dfs|Wches from China report that Ihe war In Kurope has nearly suspended buNIIUSS of all sons in China.

The Pone has orderel tlx' cessation of resistance to the occupation of the Papal States hy Italian troops.

Prussia has formally notified Bavaria of her Intention to annex to Germany a poitlon of France as military frontier.

Tlx-steamer Napoleon III, of the General Transatlantic UiU!, la now engaged transporting French refugees to Kngland. .\ dispatch from China, through Russia, savR the ('hlnesft are preparing tor war. 1- urther ont.iages have been committed on nilsMoiinrtc*s. ?7

Theotllclai report of Ihe battles of Sedan shows that HM) cannon were taken, and the losses of the French in killed, wounded and prisoners were 140,000.

Some of the prisons of Paris have been emptied ami their occupants sent to the provinces. The pillions and church

OH will,

be used us ho-spiUils nud storehouse!. The Ministry issued tv dwree that no person would be allowed to leave 1 arls after 0

I, of Thursday, without a special permit. Martial law is practically enforced. The (ioniums are said to have lost SO,000 m«n In the battles round Sedan. Asiatic cholera prevails among the troops besieging Met/..

Russia Is more decided ttian ever In opposing the dismemberment of France, and will propose a Vongre«4» to Settle the terms of JH'UOO.

King WlUtam

slept Wednesday night

the conntrv-seat of Rothseidld. It is said this place was tendered the King by the owner iu order to save It from destruction.

Fluht thousand Prussians prisoners nre at Chalons. The WWW ©uirrnlssere are at Chauniy. waiting th« flWlvW of the army to attack Solssons.

Xdvloee from Strashor* nri'that theheroIc defence is drawing to a close, and surreiider Imminent from the failure of ammunition and provisions. grM\t nnml-er of brldg, 1 around Paris Nvrio blown up OH WtHln^clny* wooussot on Sire anil luaises likely tooth l-eluge to the (enemy burned. [tnmouse posters lmve been plapvrded on 1 he de«wl walls ot Home, pnc!aljulng a universal Italian Republic. The (Im-umcnt Is sl«msl by a Itepubllcan revolutionary comjnlttw\

Mr. Washburne, the American Minister, In response to another p^pular demonstration in l*Hrts, mid the French were entituxl to c.\p»MJtthelargest moral mipiort

A proelamntion. Issued by the King, at Itnlv. to the Uomatw,#ay»: "Peace, order and self-govern meat, not war. iw imutghl and otteml by the Italians, and the INipaey will remain Inviolate.*' on Sunday a PmssTalfl^ertilnnTterlng jwreneouute'ctl Ixxly of 1" rt'nch at ChateftUnMilerry, and a nharp engagement occtirrco, and the l'russlans.wetv pulsed with a considerable uws,"

The Times eonialns an wliloHftl npon the interview tietween DrauvilU and Tiiion*. expnvssed the tlrui InMlef that the mission or Tillers has been a fh'.lOTe, ^rtduc!lve of no

result and the war must go

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The citadel of lAon surrendered to save the city, from destruction. The I rnsshuissubsequently blew up the fortt(ications. The Prussians have linpiv.ssed into their iscrviee young men at Monttulrulls wlwm they found assembled for conscription

The North-German (Mteffe utiya ni^ia Is not Innind to rccogulte the French

Washburne, American Minister, Is constantly pursued by shouting and cntftnst*.* ^tlc Fn-nehmen vrhcuuvcr in pul»llc. Waxhburnc ad vistas Americans retild! ng outside the city walls, to display the American flag If they Insist remaining there.

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There is a great influx of gold to the Bank of England, out the stock market Is weak and demoralized. It was believed on Tuesday night in Ioudou that all hopes of peace must be abandoned, and no treaty will be signed unless In Paris or on the banks of the Rhine.

It Is almost certain that PrusMa will refuse to entertain the proposition looking to armistice, mainly btjcause it wonld delay army operations iu case negotiations were unsuccessful, until the unfavorable season sets In and renders the situation of her army less favorable.

The operations against Strasburg are carried on slowly but surely. General Loewen^ sky, General Von Woerder's Chief of Stan, says he could express the opinion with mathematical certainty that the place will fall about the 24th inst., barring unforeseen accidents to works of approach.

Tlie Tribune correspondent before Strasburg writes on the 9th In the sorties on Thursday and rklay the French report the German loss from eight to ten thousand. The actual loss was under flrtv. The total loss during the last

fortnight "will

not exceed one hundred and

ttfty. The Pope contemplates returning to Tyrol. Tlie proposition of Italy to the Pope is the same that was acceptable in 18(J1 and later. According to another dispatch, the 1 ope has decided to lemaln at the Vatican. He has recorded a protest with the diplomatlccoijw at lloine against invasion of Pontincial States by the Italian army.

An Imposing demonstration was made in Marseilles, Tuesday, in honor of the United SUites. Twenty thousand people assembled in front of the American Consulate, and the authorities, through M. Esquiros, presented and address to Milton M. Price, Consu of the United States. Speeches were made, bands played the national airs of America and France, and the immense crowd cheered with great enthusiasm for the Consul and Government of the United States.

The Journal do St. Petersburg, at hand, contains nothing of character of certain extracts professedly made from It in telegrams sent to this country, recently from Belgium. On the contrary, it. explicitly says, that an understanding has been reached by two powers hitherto neutral, with the object of uniting to put and end to the war, and causing it to be succeeded by a peace, whfch shall not leave the defeated party the pain of losing any portion of its territory. Tlie two powers here spoken of are understood to be Russia and Austria.

MEN AND MONKEYS. It cannot be too generally made known, for the relief of those who are under the impression that man is only an improved species of op©, that with the exception of a certain general resemblance in outward appearance there is no ailinity between tnem. On this subject M. Prnnner Bey has recently communicated a paper to the Society' Anthropologic, in Which he states that, independently of the difference that exists between living men and apes in attitude, gestures, movements, and aspects, which regulates the ape so decisively to the brute creation, there are three characters that are peculiar to all apes, rendering them fundamentally distinct are all covered secondly,

eVOryap©

UiJ 1 MMMaMaaaiaaBi

has

a canine tooth, which serves him as a weapon and thirdly, as is evidenced by the form, struetureand arrangement of the bones, "down to the most minute details," the axis of the body is horizontal in the apo and vertical in man. But besides theso there is the muscular and circulatory systems, the structure of tho viscera, and in the formation of tho nails, tho board and^ the penal bone. Again, tho surface ol the cranium of an apo is less than that of its face, while in man the opposite obtains. Further, M. Pruner Bey finds that in tho formation of tho forehead, nose chin, simian skull, the position of tho eye and tho direction of its axis, apes are quite distinct from man and concludes with tho remark that "tlie ape dill'ers anatomically from man, not onlv by simple degradation, but by a conjrak evident in every part."

lll.sMAKlv'S KKrOKT TO TllE KING OK HIS I NT Kit

The dotluiuv of the I qualifications, and is highlv res|Hcted all who know her. This appointment qualifies her to administer oaths. take acknowledgements of deeds, ml eninize marriages. Arc.

...-twins to the Prussians demanding a surreu tier. Is enthusiastically approved oy the in|bv habitants, nil of whom declare their determination to tight to the last, and endnreany haitlship in the service of France.

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stonalGovernment, nnd tti? Prtis^Hiti tYoSs iia*ett say* if Prussia does so to-dny, she will obliged to recognize RoftlicfortVt friends to morrow.

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VIEW WITH NAI*OI,KON AT SK-

DAN.-Bismark's

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olticial report to King

William, dated Douchery, 2d instant, recites at lenghth an interview hold with the French Emperor at Sedan, which lasted for an hour. Napoleon sought hotter conditions in tho matter of capitulation than had boon offered at first

the Germans. On this, a mili

tary point, Bismark refused discussion, but announced to the Emperor that he was quite willing and ready to discuss questions looking to peace. The Emperor replied that as he was a prisoner that was impossible, but referred tlie Count to the actual Government at Paris. Bismark said that the situation at Paris offered no entering point for such overture. Tho Emperor then proposed that Ihe French army bo allowed to pass the Belgian frontier and there surrender their arms. This was also refused. Tho Emperor stated further that he deplored the horrors of war. but that he had yielded wholly to public opinion in declaring war. Bismark accompanied the Emperor to Bellevue, where General Wiinpfen was at the time negotiating with lving "William relative to capitulation. The Emperor was not allowed to see the King until negotiations for surrender were concluded. When they were Anally announced, they destroyed the Emperor's hope for better terms. The French oflicers were then dismissed on parole.

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Miss Annie P. Ladd, of Augusta, Me., has just been appointed by the governor nnd council a jnstieo'of tho peace and quoru m. This is believed'to bo the llrst appointment of a lady to this office in New England, and perhaps in the

Wyoming terri-

t'nited States east of torv. She holds tlie responsible |Hsitlon of chief clerk in the I", S. pension agency, in Augusta, and is said to he

%*•?.rr, ani* 1 voting lady of flrwt elass business

Miss Dorothea Ii. IMx whose name is dear throughout this broad laiw in in© 'cause of philanthrophy, has l«*en lately visiting insane asylums in the south a'mi west. That Miss Iix should have stieh a task in hand gives the public more assuraneo Xhat there will I »e a ehauce of getting at tlie truth in rerani to the management of these instlut ions, for, of courstS she must have jaid her visits without notiec and takng things an they wore. To her the S establishment and improvement of I these institutions are in a great measare due In various parts of the couury.

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TERRE-HATJTE, SATURDAY E^INING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1870.

THE RA VEN.

Wo have already expressed ourselves in theso columns concerning the letter recently made public in tho Now ork Tribune, purporting to have been written by Edgar A. Poe, in which it is stated that Jio was not the author of "Tho Raven," that it was sent to him for examination and publication by its author, one Samuel Fenwiek, and that while tho poem was in his hands its author died, and afterwards Poo brought it out under his own name.

Whatever may bo ilie foundation of this story few will feol inclined to give it a favorable hearing. Tho Raven is so evidently after Poo's own heart, so plainly stamped with his own peculiar, original, burning genius, that it would be difficult to attribute it to any one else. That ho wroto it needs no proof, and that in doing so he contributed a valuable gem to the rich treasury of English poetry, is universally acknowledged. We have no wish, even if we had the power, to detract an iota from the author's fame—a fame which is hourly becoming wider and surer. We do not believe Poe was a thief, nor have we any intention of charging him with plagiarism. We wish, however, to point out a coincidence between

The Raven and another poem,which has not to our knowledge been publicly noticed and to express our opinion that the former poem was in a measure the outgrowth of the latter.

In a poem of Mrs. Browning's entitled "Lady Geraldine's Courtship" occurs the following stanza: ii. 8rj^*.

With a murmurous stir uncertain, in the air, the purple curtain Swelleth In and swelleth out around her motionless pale brow."

In The Raven we have

each purple curtain

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And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling

Thrills me, fills me, with fantastic terror never felt before."

Now between these two stanzas it will be observed there is a singular resemblance. Mrs. Browning speaking of the window-curtains, behind which Lady Geraldine stood, says: with a stir uncertain the purple curtain." Poe says: tho uncertain rustling of each purple curtain." In both cases the same adjective (purple) is used to describo the curtain, (and that, too, when the rhyme

Eyes, he said, now throbbing through me, are vc eyes that did undo me? Shining eyes like antique

Jewels set in Pari

an statue-stone

Underneath that calm white forehead are ye ever burning torrid O'er the desolate sand desert of my heart and life undone

The above is Mrs. Browning's. The following is from Poe: "'Prophet!' said I, 'tiling of evil—prophet still, If bird or devil By that Ileaven that bends above us—by that Clod we both adore— Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the 1st nut Aidcnn, It shall clasp sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Clasp a rare nnd radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore

Quoth the Raven,' Nevermore!'"

In the face of this it wero hard, we think, for Poe to establish his claim to original versification—a claim which, in his Philosophy of Composition," lie makes in these words: Now, each "of these lines, taken individually, has been omployed before, and wThat originality The Raven' has, is in their combination into .stanza nothing even remotely approaching this combination has ever lecn attempted." To say that Mrs. Browning's stanza does not even remotely approach Poe's is, we think, to use a rather unwarrantably strong expression.

The spirit, too, of the poems comparedj is much the same—fiercely passionate in both. Who that notices carefully the two stanzas above quoted can resist the conviction that one was at least suggested by the other? This conviction will grow stronger on reading the poems at length.

Poe calls Lady (Teraldine's Court"shi"" "a very palpable imitation of "4 Locksley Hall.'" If so, can we be blamed for calling "The Raven" a much more palpable imitation of "Lady

Geraldine's Courtship

To obtain a good night's sleep, sponge the entire length of the spine in hot water for ten or fifteen minutes. This will reducc the circulation, quiet tho nervous system, and induce sleep better than anv drug.

JI 4 WK- ..1

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[For the Saturday Evening Mail.}

[ventures of a Wanting Jour. Printer.

BY GEO.

HARDING.

NUMBER III.

It'hae besn so long sinco I wroto my lastjChaptor that I havo almost forgotten where I left off. I believe, however, thntft was in St. Louis. At any rate, I wiliftuck up the thread of my narrativtyjt that point, and if there is nnythiif^jfmissing, the loss to society will not be irreparable.

I remained in St. Louis about two monU|8^ living an uneasy life, never knowing one week whether I would bo suro of enough to cat and a place to sleep foir the next. Old Merritt, however, was- indulgont to us boys, Bligh, Otis and myself occupying a snug little garret room in the sixteenth story, and lulled*1!# nightly sleep by the amorous catj&rvnodings of feline troubadours, or by thftgpttering of the rain on the roof itely over head. Business was the regulars, making small re fhost nfernally regular and inc'ustrlous in their habits. We were above t^S tricks resorted to by some unscrupulpm "subs"—such as enticing a susceptible regular into a drinking house, pud starting him on a weeks drunk, that wo might inherit his cases ui^he got sober. And we didn't have capital to expend in that way, even if wtf-coulil have reconciled it to our coi^ij&nccs. So we hung about the offices, Jo,diking haggard with anxiety until sojoteiegular with compassionate intestines *tould indulge in a day's loafing,^st^o keep us from starving. This, witll^iittle distributing of types for late|6leiiier3, kept us from the poor house. 'Sotnjptimes we would make a trifle ovdr board and washing bills, and sometimes we would fall a little short, so that the average was about an even thing. "We neither gained or lost, only that winter .was coming on, and our clothes vteiie wearing out. Finally there cam# jw sudden ctjld snap which froze therfver solid, and stagnated business. '-3|e' newspaper offices were ed witft an economical streak, and

imlty dull* bills,

cut uimnjif the regulafs. ten days withot ally I proposed

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tlie sort of motion made. What are wo to think of this? Did Poe copy from Browning? It is certain he was familiar with her poetry, for in his critical writings will be found a somewhat extended review of her poetical works, in which is noticed especially this very poem, which he praises iglily, as indeed lie could not help doing.

There are other points of resemblance between "The Raven" and Lady Geraldine's Courtship," The versification is similar in both—indeed almost iderti Mrs. Browning's si stanzas consist of iour trochaic octameter verses, the second and fourth rhyming together, sometimes with a middle rhyme in tho first and third—generally without. Poe uses the same stanza, adding, however, another lino and a refrain, and frequently introducing in tho second and fourth verses a middle rhyme. Let us compare a stanza from each:

illgh And I stood it for earning a c&fit. Finstrike out, and Bligh

assented. He was a slitn, pale faced, weak-chested young fellow, with hair as \vhite as the hackled tow, and I felt apprehensive that he would not distinguish himself cp a pedestrian. However, something liadto be done. Otis had luckily droppil into a long spell of subbing, and declined, with thanks, a cordial invitatijn to accompany us.

We crossed tie river on the ice and struck out southward from Illinoistown carryingja light reserve of shirts in a couple of iall valises. The ground was covered \fthsnow, which had been partially melt|d, and again frozen over the roads unll it was exceedingly precarious for 11 beasts that were not rough-shodd i. For three dreadlul days we kep it up, stopping at night with some fa mer, feeding enormously on tho stand rd fried pork and hominy, and retiring early, full of aches and groans. On tie thijd day poor Bligh began to ft and it required all my us&i^n to prevent him up thfe sponge. Finally, rnoon, he laid down in swore he'd be d—d if he other step, expressing a stern and uJlterable determination to die, right thh and tlWre. I coaxed and threatened, jut he Was stubborn as a mule. It wl bitter cold, and to my alarm I disqrered lie was getting very drowsy. I iuldn't leave him to seek help, becaul if ho once fell asleep he would nevej wake agaiu. So I cut a and wattled him soundin grousing him to a nal ifloignity and the neing fight in self-defense. Fortunatelyit thiS juncture a countryman drove in a two horse wagon, and he agrdl to haul us to Chester, a few miles dlant.

powers of from throwij late in the a| the snow, a^ would walk!

sprig of ha: ly, succeed^ senso of pel cesslty of ir

A little p^er called the "Randolph County" sdething or other was published then by a couple of fellows named Whikide and Hanna, who had been recent] married, and wero tranquilly starng in that

God-forsaken

town. We plied fbr work, and were told that uy had no work and no money, bu plenty to cat. If we felt disposed to /op and rest until the blisters on ou feet healed up we were perfectly Dome. We rather thought we were so sposi d, and so Bligh went home with lutesid^, and I quartered on Hanna. We staid two weeks, helping them gi iut the paper and then all hands, arid lot of village hounds joined in the Jiilarating sport of a rabbit hunt, finances were reduced to the amoi of forty-five cents, coin of the rcali

Finally *c came a thaw, the ice in the river Ike up, and the steamer Iowa came luffing along o»e yight. Our affairs jre desperate, and so we boarded thi wa, without the slightest

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idea of how wo wero going to get through. It was late when we got aboard, and tho clerk told us we could settle our ftiro in the morning. This was a temporary respite at any rate. Wo wero at least sure of a hundred miles or nioro of distance before wo wore set ashore. A little gamo of penny poker was in progress in the cabin, and as wo might as well bo dead broke as to havo forty-five cents, I took the capital of the company and invested it. Luck favored me, and bv daylight I was three dollars ahead, when thegaino broke up in a fight in which I napped a hot one on tlie potato trap and drew abundant claret from a loan Pike, who had attempted to raise a cold hand, consisting principally of aces, on me.

Wo ate neartily at breakfast, not knowing when we would get another meal. Our cabin game was broken up and I thought I would go down among tho deck passengers, and, perhaps, win enough to pay our passage somewhere. I found a game, and played all dav, with varying success.

Up stairs, in tho meantime, things were getting lively. Bligh had been captured by the clerk, sind I was in active request. The cabin, boiler dock, hurricane deck, pilot house and texas, were unsuccessfully searched, and as a final resort a runner wras sent down to the lower deck, and found me sitting behind a hand of "aces and"expecting to fill, which I didn't do it. The runner patiently waited until I played my hand, and then escorted mo to judgment.

The boat Was iust rounding into Cairo, and the clerk was hopping mad. lie let into me savagely, and said that no honest man would be guilty of sutfh conduct as those. But I already felt as mean as if I had been caught with a sheep on my back, and the clerk's indignant denunciation didn't hurt much. I told liim that we nuideno pretensions to honesty—that we were printers, out of money, hungry, desperate, almost naked, a'nd determined to get somewhere so we could be honest. The clerk stiid we ought to have told him when we come alioard, and I cheerfully admitted that it would have been the cheese, but he must lay it to my natural diffidence.

Wo wero set ashore at Cairo, along with another dead beat, who Was stealing a passage, and had been eliminated in tho search for me. He was justly incensed at his little (game having been spoiled by our bungling.

Cairo was at that time tho most dismal hole on earth. Most of the inhabitants wero semi-aquatic and lived in little boats moored at the wharf. A rain had been steadily falling for ten hours, and the inhabitants, bipedal and quadrupedal, weltered in a rich alluvial muck. It was dark, and we iq&de our ""•r tKroiiorh tain. o«au NffeUfcUy tumbling into tt smk'iWlo, To a "hotel wnei'e I negotiated a pocket knife for our suppers. Tho landlord at first demurred when I ventured the assertion that, d—n it, we couldn't starve. O yeS, b]0[t wo could, though, retorted the genial publican. That was ap aspect of toe question which had not before presented itself, and it is probable that we looked a little blank. However, just as I was revolving in my mind the propriety of handing him one under tho ear/ he grumblingly relented, pocketed my knife, and led the way to tho supper room. I should have stated before that I gave all tho money wo had to tho clerk of the Iowa, and in consideration of that much honesty, tlie jolly mariner let upon a previously ex-

firessed

determination to retain our va-

L--.. After filling up with corn bread,^fricd catfish and stewed pumpkin, myself and fellow-scoundrel went up to tne printing office to look for work. Wo found one sallow, ague stricken, lank, miserable looking jour and a boy engaged in parching corn on the stove, apparently as a substitute for supper, and hadn't the heart to ask for work,

Back at the hotel, dismal enough, we discussed probabilities and possibilities. The weight of evidence was in favor of a plunge from the muddy delta into the confluence of the two great rivers, and a watery solution of our troubles. Tho puffing of a descending steamer created a diversion, and we concluded to try it again. The steamer proved to bo tho Atlantic, and wo boarded. Remembering the good advice of my friend of tho Iowa, I thought I'd make a clear breast of it at the start, and so laid our case before tlie clerk, who referred mo to tho captain. I found "the old man" on the hurricane deck,and duplicated my story to the clerk. "All right," said the facetious brute, "go ashore!" I didn't do it. It wasn't to be thought of. If it had been hell instead of Cairo the thought wouldn't have been so dreadful. So I hung around waiting for a good chance to renew the subject. Finally the captain saw me. "I—n vou," said he, "ain't you gone yet? Will I have to throw you overboard?" Eloquently and pathetically I opened up Uie case again, and went over the ground in detail. The captain was inexorable. He had to pay for everything he got and ho wantea others to pay. He had seen our kind before, d—n us. Finally, by promising to pleage our baggage, I got the old carmudgeon to take us.

I told the clerk to give us a room and let us have the valises till we got a clean shirt. We shirted and left the valises in the room, thinking that if the clerk wanted.them he might come for them. On the trip to Memphis Bligh and the subscriber ate a good deal. We got to Memphis late at night. I was afraid the clerk had forgotten the valises, but as the boat landed I saw him walk down to the room, open the door, look In, lock it, put the key in his pocket and asho^. I had exercised forethought nough to leave the door opening on the gu&rdg unfastened, and as soon as the clerk was gone, I walked around, took a valise in eacn hand, and followed him ashore. It wasn't honest, I admit, but we were too poor to be rigidly honest.

At Memphis w6 got let Into it aay arid nig

VICTOR HUGO TO ADDRESS A SPECIAL A PPEA TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. "J-

Ifff

0110,

and made moro nearly scIf-a^just-ing. And that it may the less interfere with free bodily motion, il should be less voluminous.

Woven woolen undergarments can already be procured tli.il clothe tho body from neck to heels. One set or several can be worn, according to tho climate or the vitality of the wearor.

Over this may be a garment fitted to the form, easily but closely, resembling tho ordinary high corsage, as short on tho shoulders, and nearly as high as a gentleman's vest, sleeveless and covering tho hips liko a basque. Upon iis lower edge should be fastened a skiit made of some light, warm, still' material, with ono or two deep flounces to sustain the upper drapery. Theso,with the ordinary snort walking basque or polonaise, might complete a cost. 11 mo at once simple, convenient, healthful, and elegant.

Water proof hooded cloaks, round hats, and shoes with bro:*d, low heels, leave little to be desired in tiieir way.

If the vest and added skirt were made fancifully, tho other dress might on many occasions be lain

The vest basque, fitting easily to allow the full inflation of tlie lungs, might easilv be made to hold even tne weight of the outer skirt by Having a row of buttons at the waist line. It would supersede the corset, and would suspend the weight of all

ted der.

good work, and _nt, until we got

ahead and a little decent ex peritraveled

some money a clothing. This wound up my enec as a green printer. I had

from Chicago to Memphis, occupying six months tho trip, and at no time ever had more than three dollars ahead.

A strike drove us out of Memphis, and we went down to New Orleans, where I worked for two years. Poor Bligh developed a lung complaint, and went back to Wisconsin where he died.

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undergarments from

Let it be remembered that the necessary warmth' is mainly supplier I by clastic, closely-fitting garments, that collar and eufis are always in place, and tho next garment may

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A Paris letter, dated September 12th, says: Yesterday I obtained an intorviow with Victor Hugo. He has determined to address a special appeal to the Amer- a iean people. 'Since you saw me last,' he said, 'the snows of many years havo whitened my head, but years of exile havo not deadened my begirt. Dcsolation fills Franco to-day. My grief at tho sight of the misfortunes which havo befallen this unhappy land is toojxiignant to express in words. This is the ''I work of a man who is now expiating *f his crimes. But why should t..e con- .4 queror not bo satisfied with tho blood .... otso many victims already sacrificed by his unholy ambition? Why should the King of Prussia, who declared he warred not upon the people of France, not »j. .*t be content now that his antagonist has been stricken and has disappeared from the scene of strife. Tho fall of Bonaparte allows mo to return to my home after an exile of nineteen years. Is it right we shonld bo slaughtered on our hearths because Prussia was provoked by a criminal whom Providonee has overtaken It will bo an eternal disgrace to the King of Prussia if he re-» fuses to sheath his bloody sword, now that the cause is gone which induced

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him to draw it. The people of Oer-1 many are as humane as thev are cour-,' ageous. Their King mistakes their sentiment if ho thinks it is their wish to prolong this frightful butchery, and degrade the nation which lias been dragged into the conllict. The appeal. addressed to all Christian (icrmans was the only response to tlie many solicitstions received from every quarter of Fatherland to raise my liuiuble voicp against the barbarity of this war. 1 thank God that it has been heard for to-day I received a letter from tho camp of King William, signed by ten thousand men in arms, spying that they shrunk from tho slaughter. Will not thoUuited States,the common homo of so many Germans and French, will not its citizens, if the Government rc-,t, frain, inako a Christian effort to extin^uish this horrid torch of war Will' not tlie elder sister of onr young Rc-^ public stretch forth the hand'of remonstranco at the untold calamities which,

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Proposed Schetne for Improvement— Union of Garments—ArtiMic Grace. So much has beens iid about the need of a reform in woman's dress, that it may be more convenient, better adapted to tho uses of life, more healthful and less burdensome, thai wo propose at once to oiler a scheino for its improvement, in hope that others moro able will give us other practical directions that may bo of greater value.

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