Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 50, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 June 1871 — Page 2

Rural.

HINTS OS DRAVOHTHOBSKSANDHARN*ESS.—Whenever a horse is employed for the purpose of drawing any vehicle or load, it is of the utmost importance that h« should be able to employ all his strength to advantage. Every one who considers at all must ackowledge that if a horse has to do his work in a cramped and confined condition, or when he is inconveniently placed as regards the load, he cannot exert his full power, which is so much loss to his master or, if forced to perform a certain amount, then he is obliged to waste a great deal more of his strength than is required, to his own great pain and injury.

The act of pulling is performed by leaning forward with the weight of the body against the resistance of the opposing force, and then, by strong movements of the limbs, keeping up and increasing the pressure, the weight of the body being of the utmost importance. Muscular movements exhaust the strength, whereas the body weight is easily employed without •consuming the vital energies.

First, and unfortunately in too many cases the collar is finite unfit for the animal. A horse collar is, we are sorry to say, frequently looked upon merely as a ring for the neck, to which the traces are affixed whereas there is 110 part of the harness which is so important, and which ought to fit so accurately.

Second. The horse is often prevented from throwing his weight into tho collar by a check-rein—a useless and painful encumbrance, introduced by vanity and retained by thoughtlessness amounting to cruelty. Ask horsekeepcrH whv they use it, and hardly any two will givo the same answer, although it is generally supposed by them to bo a safeguard in case of stumbling. Tho real object with which it was introduced, was to make every horse to which it was applied, however, weak, or old, or poor, assume the lofty carriage of the thorough-bred horse. Fortunately, this vitiated taste is going out of fashion as bettor information is (fused.—RuralCarolmum.

Mow

FAitMINO

PHOKITA MM-:.—At

WIIHUK CITY HOIISRS COM!-:

discussion at the New \ork Fanners' Club, in reference to the cash money profits of farming, it seemed to be generally conceded that the business failed to yield seven per cent. 011 the capital invested. Wo were somewhat surprised that none of the debaters thought of giving tho farm credit for the throe great necessaries of life—houso rent, table supplies and fuel. N iewed in this light, iiirming is the safest and best investment that can be made of capital. Take for instance, $20,000 let it l»e judiciously invested in a moderate amount of land, and all tho stock and implements necessary to its successful cultivation. Tho proceeds from such an investment will support a family a degreo of comfort, and even luxury, that would cost six or seven thousand a year here in New York and where Is ih'osafe, honorable mercantile or mechanical pursuit that will yield six or seven thousand a year on a twenty thousand dollar investment? The profits of farming, except in rare instances, will bo found to diminish as wo oxtond our operations beyond what is requisite for the comfortable support of a family, and this may be done as well on three hundred as on a thousand acres of land and this is a strong argument for tho subdivision of the great landed estates of the .South.— Turf, Field and Farm.

Into tho large cities in the course of a vear. New iSngland suppliosthe finest driving horses that are found in this market, both as regards speed and Ntvle. Maine sends among her quota many of the Knox stock Vermont, has, in previous

years,

sent numerous repre

sentatives ot the Morgan blood, and in this State it will not be difficult to find on the various stock farms, horses of high pedigree, such as Morrill, Black Hawk, llambletonion, Abdullah, Mamltrino and other well known stock. Having been raised in our changeable climate thov are better adapted lor this market anil bring high prices. Kentucky and New York supply a very large number of lino horses, a largo proportion of them blooded. Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Pennsylvania also furnish a large supply, those from the latter State being, for the most part, large draft horses, as they are possessed of great endurance.

PKKSKIIVINM MKAT

in C.vS'ADA.—A

correspondent of the Gospel Rainier, traveling in Canada, fell in with a quaint old farmer, who descried one way of preserving meat in a severo climate "It is shocking cold here, much colder, sir, than with you. But tho cold is not without its advantages. We kill all our fresh meat in the fall— locf, pork and poultry—and we pack it in great boxes, or sometimes in large tub* filled with barley or some other kind of grain. Do ve see. sir. this is the way wu do it: We take a spare rib, a roaster of beef, a urkey, a goose, a chicken and all the other things, and we tie to them different colored strings, which we flwten to nails and so you see, sir, we know the different articles bv the different colored strings. I waut a turkev. and so I go and pull on the white string, and by and bv tho turkev, which is way down in the grain,' will come up. I want a spare rib next, and I null on the mi striug, and it comes. When I want a roaster, I pull on the black string, and I bring him and so with the whole.

AN ARMY OK CATKKIMI.I.AUH.—The

Memphis .1 t-alanc/ir says: For several days past, mvrladsof little black caterpillars have' appeaml in various sections in this vicinity. On tho line of the Mississippi and Tennessee railroad, fow miles south of this city, they covered the railroad track to such an extent that the wheels of the railway trains refused to pass over them, but whirled around with such velocity that .• It ia afntrw) flint it I

train stood Still, is simcu»

little lake or sheet of water sonic seven

to the water bv force

...* a tw) (*Jtn

A coHRKsroxnRXT of the Germantown Tcifffraph. who lost sfxtv chicken* by gape*, last year, now say* that fre»d"water daily, with a lump of brimKlone kept in it," will be found a certain preventive.

Si.i:

that your stock have constant aec«ews to fresh, pure water, as a means toward tn iking them thrive. Wateringtroughs. when used, should be kept clenti and sweet.

Young Folks.

COMBINATIONS.

1. A part of speech, A pronoun small, A space of tiine united ,-AVill give what you should er avoid,

Or with it be requited.

HAUTBOY.

2. A boy's nickname, a pronoun, and a conjunction, compose a fish. 3. A season and a conjunction form a civil officer. 4. Right, and a delicacy compose a civil officer. 5. A tool and a Scotch robber forin a title.

CHARADE.

My first is invisible, yet it is sought By rich and by poor, and by money IB bought It travels by railroad, by lightning, ana

Ancfwhen it is youngest is valued the most. My second in every household is seen, In various questions, white, red, blue, and green. Our secrets wejoften confide to care, Though 'twould scatter them far, if allowed, in the air. All welcome my whole in house and in stable, And give it a place 011 counter and table It tells us of this, of that, anil the other But soon it grows old and we long for another. W. S. II.

CONUNDRUMS.

1. When is monev like a hermit? 2. What is the difference between a sharpshooter and a person who is struck by a sailor? 3. What architectural term expresses what a beggar would say

PUZZLE.

Make a sentence out of these letfis: A

ANSWERS TO ENI MAS,,CIIARADES AC. IN LAST WEEKS PAPER.

Problem.—%ths true. Biblical Enigma.—Hate the evil and lovo the good.

Charade.—Jaundice.

JOKING A JOKER.

I)r. M. H.Wright is one of the jollied citizens of Indianapolis. Ho likes a joke. If the joke is on soni6body else he likes it better than when I10 is the victim but the other night Doc. himself was beautifully sold, and he won't hear the last of it for some time. lie was returning home from Louisville 011 tho night train, and was chatting with tho conductor in the sleeping car. Tho latter said

Doc., I'm powerful sleepy. My train don't stop till it gets to Seymour can't you let me take a ten minutes' nap, and wake 1110 at the Junction?"

Yes," said Doc. "Go to sleep—I'll call you in time." The conductor shut his eyes, but didn't go to sleep. The doctor, did, though. In fivo minutes the former was wide awako and tho latter sound asleep. "Wakn 1110 at Seymour, will ye!" muttered the railroad man. "See whether I wako you at Indianapolis, either." .j was reached, but the doctor didn wake, and the conductor wouldn't allow anybody to wako him. So tho sleeping car was transferred to the St. Louis train, and soon tho unconscious sleeper was being hurried toward Ter-re-llauto at lightning speed.

He awoko somewhere along the road, and found out the joke which had been played upon him, but concluded to keep on io Terre-llaute, where ho could get breakfast and return 011 the next irain. Ho fell asleep again, and, waking a second time, found himself moving out of Terre-Haute towards St. Louis.

With one bound I10 reached the door of the sleeping oar, grasping his "traps" in one hand and under his arm, and tho next moment ho leaped from the train just as it was moving upon the Wabash bridge. It was a pretty cool morning, and Doc. threw himself insido of his clothes as soon as possiblo after which he made his way back to the city and took the first train for homo, didn't sleep on the way.

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FIRST FAIL URES.

Yes, indeed, if wo have the right stuff" in us, these failures at the outset are grand matorials for success. To the feeble they arc, of course, stumblingblocks. The wretched wcaklinggoes 110 farther I10 lags Ibehind, and subsides into a life of failure. And so by this winnowing process the number of the athletes in the great Olympics of life is restricted to a few, and there is clear space in the arena. There is scarcely an old man among 11s—an old and successful man—who will not willingly admit that he was made by his failures, and that what he once thought his hard fate was in reality his good fortune. And thou, 111 bright-faced, brightwitted child, thou thinkest that thou canst carry Parnassus by storm, learn to possess thyself in patience. Not easy the lesson, I know not cheering the knowledge that success is not attainable. pcr.&aUum, by a hop, step and a jump, but bvarduous passages of gallant perseverance, toilsome efforts long sustained, and. most of all, by repeated failures. Hard, I know, is that last word, grating harshly upon the ear of youth. Say. then, tliat we molifv it a little—tliat we strip it of its outer crustaeeousness and asperity and truthfully may we do so, mv dear.

For these failures are, a-s I have said, but stepping-stones to success gradw* ad /VirwwKwi—at the worst, non-at-tainments of the desired end Iwforothy time. If success were to crown thine efforts now, where would be the great

It is stated that I success of the hereafter? It is the

to "do better next

tjj thja lavs lh(? aulwtrKlo of all roai

miles from the city, near N greatness. Manv a promising reput-a-literallv swarming with

1 has been prematurely destroyed

which bv early success. The uood sap runs sin int

r**.1 knife la wanted. I repeat that it is not of the season, and none can account for the unexpected visit.

sucker*. Tho hard dkcipline of the

pleasant but when thou feel est the sharpness of the edge, think that all who nave pine before tliee have been lacerated in like manner.— ^an Qjrfiwtsl, by John ll'i/iidw Kane. S.

THE BIRTHPLACE OF PICKWICK. This little monastic inclosure is Furnival's Inn, once the mansion of the Furnival family.

says Mr. Jesse, "from Gerard de Carnival, who fought by the de of Richard C«eur de Lion on the plains of Palestine, to Thomas de Furnival, the companion of the Black Prince on the field of Cressy." Alas!

The knights are dust, Their good swords are rust, And their souls are with the saints, we trust." No more helm and tabard, lance and trumpets, round the house of Furnival Eut lawyers' deeds, blue bags and red tape. In 1383 the gallant, hardfighting Furnivals became extinct, and the inn fell by marriage to the Earls of Shrewsbury. In the reign of Edward Yl„ however, an Earl of Shrewsbury sold it to Lincoln's Inn.

The Inn was rebuilt in the reign ol James I. but a part of it having "been rlpstroved bv tire and the rest grown ruinous, it was pulled down in 1817, and rebuilt by Mr. Peto, whose complacent statue now figures in the centre. In the old building there was a chapel, near which stood a mulberry tree a relic, perhaps, of the reign of James I., when loyal persons planted u.ulberrv trees by the king's wish, to furnish food tor silk-worms, which were then being bred bv the English silk-manfacturers. But the chief memory that consecrates the Inn is neither of the mulberry-tree nor of tho knights of Cressy it is a later and more immortal memory. At No 15 high up at tho top on the righthand side as you face the doorway, are the humble chambers where Mr. Dickens was living when he wrote Pickwick. He was newly married then, and writing zealously for the newspapers. Here his quick fancy devised that delightful crowd of oddities, genial old Pickw ick, romantic Snodgrass, daring Winkle, the gallant Tupman, the shitty but vivacious Jingle, Sam Weller the incomparable here, with those vagrant pigeons from Guildhall strutting and fluttering at the window, Dickens must have sat roaring at his own fun, and tho creations of a humor only transcended by him who created Falstaff. Yes, there has been laughing in the Inn before now for here fit No. down to the left as vou enter the archway, that gav, light-hearted Mercutio. Mr. Chas. Mathews, set up as an architect, and many a bright castle in the air lie built "I went one day," says Mr. Mathews, "left a card pinned up, 'Back in an hour,'and did not come back for five years."—Belgravia.

A PIECE OF NATURAL ACTING. A Chicago paper, speaking of the performances at one of the theatres in that city, tells the following story:

A few nights since Bob Hart and William Manning were doing the sketch of The Quiet Lodgings. Tho po sition was Manning on the bed, endeav oring to enjoy tho "quiet lodgings," and Hart as'the right ot the stage. Enter a mechanical rat worked by a string loading to the wings. All was quiet as the rat entered, when a fourth party suddenly appeared, in the shape of a huge yellow cat, who took up her position in tho wings. Yellow cat caught sight of the mechanical rat, and prepared for the fatal spring. Hart tried to keep a sober face and forgot his lines. Manning, 011 the bed, begged Hart not to discourage tho cat and forgot his lines. Yellow cat crouched to the stage lloor, and, working her way, made a spring for the rodent, but missed it, as the man in the wings hauled it back. Nothing discouraged, Tabitha took up her vw =arv*.,-iiU the audienc® i/wh rats, who wore to distifFhen ejitQJ 111 his "quiet lodgings." Tabitha was fearful on the odds, ventured out on the stage a little ways and then returned in good order to await the motions of the enemy. When tho two rats had gone, rat No. 1 was to reenter. Iftbithii was in readiness she gave a plungo toward him and became entangVd in the string. Clearing herself, she looked at tho string and then at the rat, evidently impressed with the novelty of the situation. As tho rat was going off", however, there was little time to lose. She gathered herself together, and with a magnificent spring, described a curve through the air but, alas for the deceptions of man, tho rat was pulled into the wings, and Tabitha missed her supper and retired disgusted. Neither Manning nor Hart knew their lines after that, and tho last words hoard from William, as the curtain went down 011 tho convulsed audience, were "Don't discourage her, Bob she is doing her part well."

1 NPOMITAnr.u.—There are somo people in tho world who may be classed as tho indomitable. Difficulties never daunt thom, and they are suro to go ahead. .Vaiong these wo class a conntry dame of whom wo havo read in the nowspapft-N. Here is tho story:

She wasp'eparing to start for market with her riiul productions, when she found she vas short 0110 egg of two dozen sho ransacked the nests and hunted alKut for astray one to mako up the desied number. It could not be found, bit observing a hen on a box, she clappofla basket over biddy, and placing thtTowl thus secured in the wagon, stand on her way. On arriving at the nv-ket she found her calculations had eon correct biddy had paid for her ide by laying 11 fresh egg which just nMo up the dozen. Now this farmer's ifp, wo will wager a big apple to a pithead, has a resource in every emergen-, and if she has a dozen sons they in all bo successful in life. „...

L-oiii. AIR INVRLUS.—Those of our readers who lit jn the country, and depend upon v*s for water, will be interested in

Vwjng

how to clear

their wells of f(* air.* and keep their water pure. Iti

wen

known that

many accidents VUr to persons going down into wells*^,, them, owing to the noxious g*n such places. To remove the iras 111^ descent is made into any well, a (fotitv of burned but unslacked limeMouf,i b» thrown down. This, wh% comes in contact

with whatever wa a great quantity and lime, which rying all the delet after which, the de with jerfect safety sorbs carbonic acid ways lower a light if it is extinguished, ger of suffocation.

below, sets free at in the water es upward, cargas with it may be made le lime also abthe well. Al[re descending is still dan-

A LIVELY CHKKSE.-

called at a houso in ago. to buy cheese, bd -t to look at the lot he cot

A posthumous scrap ot Artemus not take it, it was so Ward's writings is a letter to a men- As he was going off tin

agerie agent who sent him some tickets: him •'Thanks lor the tickets. This act of]

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lost on trader e, some time en he came ed be woajd skippers, ler said to

nere, mwwr.

kindness, so miblv conceived and de- mv cheese to Boston theL^^,., lieately consummated, assures me that the trader took anothl^jj all is not base and sordid in this world, clnese, and seeing '"ore %«0re eviand that the human heart, when connee- dence of its being alive, rt^ ted with a menagerie, is capable of lofty Well, let it be for a "^^-olong impulses.** er, and I guess you can dr|

QUEEN ELIZABETH.

Queen Elisabeth is dead. It doesn't make any matter how we got the information. We've received the news, and that's enough. She died two hundred and sixty-eight years ago. She survived until the laat vital spark had fled, and then she saw it was of no use resisting the inscrutable decree of fate, and so her unfettered soul took its flight into the mysterious void, and settled down in that bourne from which 110 traveler returns unless he has a mission to jerk chairs around and tfap on tables for the benefit of mediums and other long-haired, wild-eyed lunatics.

Queen Elizabeth was a virgin—a vergin' on seventy and yet the fire gleamed as brightly as ever in her cream-colored eye, and the delicate sheen of her finely tinted mazoon nose contrasted, as forcibly as in her youth with the alabaster of her brow and the plugs in her teeth were just as valuable as when gold was at 1.56.

She had 110 small vices. Sho did not smoke or chew, or belong to any society for the promotion of cruelty to animals. Ana when sho swore she never descended to tho vulgarity of Horace Greeley—Queen Elizabeth didn't. When she'used profanity sho gave it with a finish, an elegance, a delicate airy grace, and infused into it a luxurious Ibandon, and rounded it off carefully at the corners, and dressed it up with well-selected poetical adjectives, so that it sounded like a strain from some sweet singer, like some sweet singer straining himself, in fact. And she had red hair.

Her chignon was burglar proof. And often in the dim twilight of evening, when the sun had sunk to rest, when the western sky was filled with tender radiance and lambent light, and the bulbul woed the rose in the back yard, she would play a few notes on her harpiscord, or write a Latin hymn or an essay upon the Harrison boiler. She was supposed to be the author of "Rock me to sleep, Mother," and "Beautiful Snow" and "Five o'clock in the morning." But nevertheless sho was a very estimable woman, and with all her faults we love her still—better, indeed, than if she were still fooling around.

Queen Elizabeth was not proud. She always insisted upon cleaning her own teeth, even if she was a queen and she always did it once a week, every Sunday morning, with her own toothbrush. What a lesson does it teach to those who are haughty and vain, and belong to the bonton She never forgot that sho was mere perishable dust, and that the sheep anil tho silkworm wore her fine clothes long before she not them. She road every SundaySchool book that taught these facts and she once trod on Sir Walter Ra leigh's cloak to remind him of them, because he was so set up with his new fancy cassimeres. She said upon her death-bed that Lydia Thompson need not learn this lesson, becauso it had 110 moral for those who browsed around in nature's simple garb.

Queen Elizabeth was not sorry to die. She saw that George Francis Train was coming to England, and she said to her physician, that she would profoT the enduring peace of the cold and lent grave to three weeks ot Georgo and the Alabama claims' controversy, and the Schleswig-Holstein question, all at the same time. Her last words were, "Kill Horace Greeley before ho has a chance to write, "What I know about Farming.' There was not a dry eye in that second story front room. Every body was thinking how impossible it was to fulfill her request, and to escape so much misery.

But she has now gone she has left n»t wo shall see her no more. Perhaps it isjiMi.jLlia Jiesl She was .ajyigisgtfs "have come to America, and wo might have given her offense, and she might have pranced around here and flogged us like tho very nation. For she was a woman who followed closed in all the prevailing fashions. And so we are pi ad she is dead, and has four tuns of raarblo planted 011 her to hold her down.

Rest in peace, old girl! Rest 111 pieces!

MANITOBA.

\n adventurous young Irish lieutenant, belonging to Her Majesty's 60th Regiment, named Butler, having disph.yed marked ability as a scout during th« late Winnepog troubles, was select ed by Gov. Archibald of Manitoba to uniertak? the mission of exploring tho entire region from the Red River to the Roiky Mountains, noting down the ehifracteristics ol the country, tho custons and habits of the natives, their numbers and dispositions, the currents of trade, and the results consequent on thesmall-pox epidemic. This mission, inv)lving hardship and constant exposireto danger and death the most hor.'iblo conceivable, was faithfufly acconplished by Lieut. Butler, and the resilts have been incorporated in a report to tho Government.

Tie aspect of the country is given "as a vast spreading territory, over whi roam bands of mounted shvages, engiged alternate^ in tho chase or war, and an eternal vendetta between the Plain and Wood Indians." The treacherous Blackfeet hold the gorges of tho Rooky Mountains the Crows and Sioux, roving and predatory, scour the plaias unscrupulous traders abound with their fire-water and plunder tho savages while tho miner and frontiersmanshoot tho Redskins without compunction. Throughout the fifteen hundred miles of territory no man can call his life his own, and the only 'aw recognized is that of force. American traders, according to Lieut. 15., have supplied even the Blackfeet with Spencer repeating rifles, so the whites possess no advantage in the matter of weapons. The American problem of how to manage the savages is equally troublesome in Manitoba. Extermination. as with Western white settlers in the I'nited Stales, has 111.1113* advocates. Broken bandsof Indians hunted North from the I'nited States, have found refuge in Manitoba, and hating Americans, do not discriminate between them and their British cousins when the opportunity offers to strike a blow at white men. But the ravages of smallpox and the losses in war have made ferafuliinroads upon tho,tribes, so that the days of the tribe aro numbered. Another source of weakness is the increasing scarcity of the Buffalo. Lieut. B. traveled over hundreds of miles white with the bones of these animals —where they are now rarely if ever seen alive. The once countless herds have become dccimated by useless slaughter, and now the hunter has to travel hundreds of miles iu order to

Eplievesthc

f.an

down

rocure his supply of meat. Lieut. B. slopes of tho Rocky Mountains to be rich iu auriferous deposits, and that some day a rush of miners and gold seekers will take place thitherward. In such an event aaolution of the Indian problem would be easy. The savages would disappear before the on-rushing tide, at the same time that vast regions of virgin soil were opened to the husbandman and thus made tributary to the interests of civilization.

GAMBETTA

is still at .San Sebastian.

WA DEHA UPTON'S HOME—A PICTURE OF RUIN AND DESOLA

TION IN SOUTH CA ROLINA. A correspondent of tho Cincinnati Commercial, writing from Columbia, furnishes the following: I walked on some three miles from the city, and was directed bv some children to the bill at the right "of the road, where are the ruins of Gen. Hampton's famous resident e—famous because beautiful and costly, and the former home of the most distinguished descendant of a distinguished family. Before the war the Hamptons were the first of the first families, having descended from along line of ancestors wealthy and warlike. The old original Hampton was a Revolutionary General, and the family have since kept up the reputation he gained as fighting stock. I turned from the road up among the trees, as directed, and in a short distanco came to the ruins. The site was magnificent. From the top of this hill, or rise of ground, the country spread out before you, visible in all directions. To the west Columbia Bay lay enshrouded in trees, and to the east and north a landscape of rare loveliness presented itself. But the look of the place itself was in sad contrast to what could bo seen from it. Nothing is left of what was an elegant mansion but four stout pillars and a great mass of blackened brick thrown into a confused heap. The house was largo, and is said to have been filled lrom cellar to garret with all that was costly and historic. Hero were gathered the trophies and heirlooms" of ono of tho oldest, wealthiest and most distinguished familiesof South Carolina. But in February, 1864, the house and its contents were "reduced to ashes by the cavalry of Sherman's army. Hampton has never rebuilt, having been reduced to the verge of bankruptcy by tho war.

The surrounding grounds were once beautiful, and remnants of their beauty remain to this day. It is said that Hampton expended $60,000 in laying out and beautifying these grounds. All around the ruins of the houso are walks and drives, shaded by tho numerous trees and shrubbery that grow so luxuriantly in this Southern clime. But for several years these grounds have been turned out to the common. Cattle roam over them at pleasure, and no one seems to havo cared to provent it. The hedges havo grown stiff' and rank and out of shape, tho cedars and pines and box trees" sadly show tho need of attention, but aro still beautiful. The flowers aro nearly all killed out, only now ono blooming hero and there, making the surrounding desolation still more impressive. Imagine that which was once a miniature Garden of Eden turned out to the cattle, tho shrubbery eaten down, the llowers and small, plants trampled over, the trees untrimmed, the graveled walks grown up in weeds and brambles, the hedges broken and scattered, and you havo somo idea of Milwood" now. There was a row of frame (houses near, foremerly tho servants' apartmnts, but all deserted.

Desolation and silence reigned supreme. Seeing a small house, some distant*. away, that looked as though it might be inhabited, I walked toward it. A small boy was playing in the yard. "Who lives here?" I asked. "Mother," he replied, apparently startled at the appearance of a stranger at that desolate looking phvee. A lady came to the door, evidently of the "poor white" persuasion. "That bouse in ruins was fortnerlv Wade Hampton's, was it not?" I inquired.

Yes, there's where the General lived before the war. But tho Yankees, they tore everything up about tho place and burned the house. They seemed to

Mt?.j,G»8rse.naVll\'ey destroyed three lino houses belonging to tho family. One was where tho General's sister lived, and was mighty nigh as lino a place as this. Then they burned up Frank Hampton's houso. "Tho General himself is still at the West, but we look for him back some time this mopth.

THE LOTTERY Of LIFE. Tho Boston correspondent of Chicago Journal tolls this story:

NOTWITHSTANDING

From the Washington Capital.] A MAGDALEN'S DEATH. Fisk's is the Fall River line, i9 it not

the

Fivo years ago tho wife of ono of tho most prominent men of State street was a poor seam stress. When sho first came to tho citv (from Maine) sho worked three weeks before receiving any pay, and sleeping with ono of her shopmatcs, sho borrowed money and bought bread having been refused regular board without paving in advance. I11 order to keep body and soul together, relentless work employed her all day, and hours at night demanded that she should ply tho needle. But tho most cynical of men approve of woman's makinga good personal appearance, and this seamstrcs finally managed to dress well and pay the price of 11 seat in an up-town church. Her natural beauty coupled with aspirit of womanly independence drew towards her kind friends, and tho result was that sho married one of tho wealthiest gentlemen at the South End, against the wishes of his friends, however, who did not like the idea of his marrying outside of the circle of wealth. But Cupid cuts up some curious tricks, sometimes. The poor seamstress is now sitting in the lap of affluence, and those who know her are inclined to envy her good luck as she conies down town in a carriage to do her shopping. But this sudden change in her worldly condition has not maclo her a bit stuck up." She not only drops a tear of sympathy over the heart-sick condition of the struggling shop-girl, but italicizes that sympathy by donations of much cash for her benefit, through the medium of Boffin's Bower, the institution recently organized for the amelioration of tho temporal condition of tho workwomen. It isn't every seamstress that can catch a rich man. Tho lady in question is not over twentj'-fiveyears old, and 110 doubt you have seen her namo in tho papers more than once in connection with tho efforts of lac ies here to help the needy poor. Her husband is a banker, and within a year inado a pile of money iu land speculation in Kansas whilo sho is now as accomplished as the young ladies who "never sewed a stitch/' and is the peer of many of them.

the statement to

the contrary, three Vice Presidents of the United States have died in office— George Clinton, El bridge Gerry and William R. King. The last named was in Cuba, in feeble health, 011 the day his term of office commenced, and tho official oath was administered by the American Consul there. He died'at his home in Alabama alout six weeks later. Elbridge Gerry was inaugurated Vice President in 1K13, and he died at Washington in November of the following year. George Clinton, who had been Vice President during the administration of Jefferson, was re-elected in Isos, and died in office.

A writer in Land and Water states, on the outhoritv of the celebrated Diana of Poisters' perfumer, that sheowed the retention of her charms, when atan advanced age, 10 the habitual use of rain water, which has, it seems, an extraordinary salutary action on the skin.

Yes. And the way he tries to beat everybody else, and make his the only lino to Boston is astonishing. Wliv, I'll tell you something about Fisk. One day, just as we were starting from New Vork, a trim little girl stepped aboard and took a state room saying she was going through to Boston. She wasn't dressed loud, but mighty neat and rich, wearing a Turkish hat, velvet sack trimmed with lace, a dress with a lot of scollops and satin trimmings around it, and abont tho most bewildering foot I eyer saw on a human. She was pretty, sassy, and called me old father at supper, and carried on in a way that soon showed what she was, though she deceived me at first with her baby face and girlish manners. "She was standing on tho deck about seven o'clock, after having horrified the ladies and amused the gentlemen by her rollicking humor, and looked far out at sea. she turned round to the Captain and, putting up her small white hands and taking him by the whiskers on each side of his face, she looked up at him and says she very solemnly, "Did you ever

want

to die.

Captain?" "We'll, no," said ho, "1 don't think I ever did." And

you

did," said she, "what would you do? Well, in that case," said tho captain loosing her hands and turning away, "I think, as I have plenty of opportunity, I should jump into tho sound and drown myself."

Tho words were hardly out ot his mouth before she turned round like a flash, and putting one hand 011 the railing leaped overboard. Sho was gono before a person could stir to catch ner, and a terrible scream aroso from the passengers who saw it. I was standing aft when I heard tho shouts and looked out and saw her conio to tho surface.

Sho had taken off her hat,and her splendid brown hair, which sho wore loose down her back,floated in amass on tho water. I fancied sho looked straight at me with 1 er childish face as she came up, and there was nothing wild or struggling about her, but sho seemed to smile in tho same jaunty waj* that sho did when sho was plagueing me a half an hour beforo.

I11 another moment she was swept rapidly astern and disappeared. We put about, and lowered tho boats but we never found her. It is strange h°^v tho women, who had been so_ shocked at her conduct beforo now pitied and even wept for tho little girl when they found what a load there must liavo been in the foolish baby's heart while sho was laughing tho loudest. Sho had loft a small reticule in tho cabin, and. j, when we opened it we found some verses, written in little enunpod hunu on a folded sheet of note paper. They ran about this way and weie headed,

A MAUDALEN'S DK.VTll.

I can 110 longer endure this polluting. This festering breath Gladly I ily to the rel'ugu that lett me,

Merciful death. Not sndlv, tearfully. Hut gladly, cheerfully,

Go to my death.

Priests may refuse to grant sand ified burial. There unto me. Father, I thank Thee a blessing is always^ held

Over the sea.

1 1

Aye, in its wildest foam, Aye, in its wildest gloom, Blessed is the sea,

Welcome, O sea! with thy breakings and' dashings That never shall cease Down in thy Htormiost is

O hide me in peace. 1.

SIIV

to Hie weary face,

-'TO!

SPECULATION. I

Business Iii.sk,i and Hewanl*—Starlnif/t Statistics. Tho following curious comniunica-, fion appeared in a recent issuo ot the New York Times

I am over sixty years old, in active business, and have been so since 1 was seventeen years old, and since twentyfive vears old, 011 my own individual account, or as a member of prominent firms in this city and at tho West. I am a close observer, and havo boon imminent and bold operator in cotton,

Vestern produce, Southern produce,

stockH amf real estato in thiscity. U11-

fortunately for my purse, it lias only been within a few years past that 1 determined to cut adrift from tho golden illusions of stocks and cotton, and t« concentrato my remaining depleted means and tho attention of my now reinaining years upon judicious turns in real estato. I have been adoseobserver of men and of the individual charac- I toristics of prominent, lucky and bold men have watched their gradual rise, culminating in glory, iu country-seats,| horses, European tours, etc., etc., and in a few months thereafter seen the stocks descending rapidly and surely to tho ground. I havo also estimated chancres, 011 simply ten years' active uso of brains and capital, in tho chief loading sources of speculation, and now submit them.

In round figures, from old data I rerefer to, I estimate as follows: Start fifty educated busiuess men, twentv-live vears, and supply each ol them with $ii0,000 to use lor ten years, and that period to report their actual position. Tho probable returns would

jwsit

In stocks—One man at that period, would bo worth &200,<H)() two men, about £-10,000 to .V),(HH two men, about $20,000 to $£",000 forty-five men bankrupt.

Iu grains and Western products—One man at that period, would bo worthabout $100,000: one man, 87".000 to $80,000 three men, £r0,000 to *7r»,000 fivo men, $40,000 to $."0,000 ten men, $".25,000 to $10,000 ten men, 810,fM*) to &£0,000 twenty men bankrupt.

In cotton—one man, at that period, would be worth alioul £1."0,IM)0 one man. abont 8100,000 one man, about 87"),000 five men, about

8-10.000

8.10,-

(XX) three men, #i0,000 to $M",000 ten men, &>,000 to £10,000 twenty-nine bankrupt.

In sugars, tens,'and foreign produceOne man, at tliat period, would lw worth about 8150,(XX) one man, 812.),(KX) one man. 8100,000 three men, 8W.OOO to 97',,000 five men, 840,000 to 8-"0.000 four men. JM.OOO to 840,(XX) ten men, 820,(XX) to $25,000 ten men, 810,000 to 81-",000 fifteen men bankrupt.

In roal estate in this citv and environs—One man would, at thai period, bo worth about8200,000 two men, 8150,000 five men, 8100,000 ten men, 850,000 to 875,000 ten men, 840,000 to 850,000 ten men, 8'V).000 to $35,000 ten men, 810,000 to 815,000 two men bankrupt. Or, in other words, thero is less danger of loss in real estate than in any lino of business, taking steady operations for ten consecutive years, and attention and taste for the pursuit. There area great many sheep in it who try to follow the lines of operations of others whose plans of operations they cannot oonceive, and by injudicious purchases of cheap bargains, are steadily in a fog.

"Coromxo I loss" is tho Indian inine for locomotive.