Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 10, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 September 1871 — Page 6

[For the Hftlurday Evening Mail.] FAITH.

1 dare not seek to penetrate the soul's Deep mysteries, and bring forth the hidden light That burn* upon the altar of the heart's

Inheritance whose flame illuminates The darkest chamber* of the human mind With Heaven's borrowed beams. I cannot tell Whence it comes or whither goes. Reason may •£•. Search the age* for a clue, bat baffled in its vain attempt, for want of it turns Back and seeks within itself n» answer. In blind obedience to a higher law, Whosedictates bid me serve, unquestioning, The power 1 cannot understand, 1 lay Aside the baffling inquiry and trust It all to Him who says that I am God's And God Is love."

{From Harper's Magazine.] LO VINO, BUT UNLO VED.

Out from hi* palace home He came to my cottage door: Few were his looks and words,

But they .nger for evermore. The smile of Ills sad blue eyes Was tender an smile could be Yet I was nothing to him,

Though he was the world to me!

Fair was the bride he won. Yet her heart was never his own: Her beauty had and held,

Hut hi* *plrit was ever alone. I would have been his slave, With a kiss for my life-long fee Hut I was nothing to him,

While he wus the world to me!«

To-day, In his stately home, On a (lower-strewn bter he lies, W 1th the drooping Hls fast closed

It was afterward known to Madrono ~J Hollow that sharp words passed between "Miss Jo" and the old man, and that tho latter coupled the nanus of one Culpepper Starbottle and his uncle,

Colonol Starbottlo, with certain uncomplimentary epithets, and that Miss Jo retaliated sharply. "Ilor father'sblood before her father's tace boiled up and proved hty truly of his race," quoted tho blacksmith, who loaned toward the noble verso of Byron. "Sho saw the old man's bluff and raised him," was the director comment of tho collegebred Masters.

Meanwhile the snbiect of these animadversions proceeded slowly along the mad to a point whore the Folinsbeo mansion came In view—a long, narrow, white building, unpretentious, j-et superior to its neighbors, and bearing some ovldonces of taste and refinement In tiiO vines that clambered over Its porch, in its French windows, and tho white

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O'er the beautiful had blue eyes. And among the mourner* who mourn may not a mourner IK* For I WSIS nothing to him,

Though he was the world to me! IIow will it be with our souls When they meet In the better Janu? Wlmt the mortal could never know.

Will the spirit yet understand? Or, In some celfstial form, Must the sorrow repeated be, Ati'i I be nothing lo nlm,

While he dims the heavens for me?

[From the September Atlantic.]

The Romance of Madrono Hollow.

IIY BUKT HAUTE.

Tho 1 ntell on tho irarden gate of the Folinsbeo Ranch clicked twice. The ate itself wan so much in shadow that .'ovoly night, that "old man Folinsbee," sitting 'lis porch could distinguish nothing but a tall white hat 'ind beside it a lew fluttering ribbons, under the pines that marked theentranco. Whether because of this fact, or that he considered a sufficient tiino had elapsed si wo I lie clicking of the latch for more positive disclosure I do not know but after few moiuonts hesitation ho quietdy laid aside his pipo and walked slowly down tho winding path toward tho gate. At tho Ceanothus hedge ho stopped and listened.

Thero was not much to hoar. The hat was saving to the ribbons that it was a lino night, and remarking generally upon lho clear outline of tho^SiA erras against tho blue-black sky. Iho ribbons, it so appeared had admired this all tho wav homo, and askod the

hat if it hud ever seen anything half so lovely as the moonlight on the summit? •, Tho hat novor had It recalled some luv»d» iiinii.'s in the Houth in Alabama ("In the South at Ahlabahm" was the way the old man heard it), but then there woro other things that made this night seem so pleasant. Tho ribbons could not possibly conceive what the hat could bo thinking about. At this point there was a pause, of which Mr.

Folinsboo availed himself to walk grimly and craunehingly down tho gravel walk toward tho gate. Then tho hat was lifted, and disappeared In tho shadow, and Mr. Folinsbeo consfca» fronted only tho half-foolish, half-mis-ohihvous, but wholly pretty faco of his daughter.

curtains that kept out the

fierce California sun by day, and wero now touched with silver in the gracious moonlight. Culpepper leaned against the low fence and garni long and earnestly at tho building. Ihen the moonlight vanished ghostlike from one of tho windows,* material glow took Us place, and a girlish figure, holding candle, drew the white curtains togetli er. To Culpepper it wus a vestal vii 'u pepper ling befbr to the prosle observer, I fear It was

.wfbre a hallowed shrine

gin standing to the pros!" onlv Mr-haired young woman, whose wicked black eve# still shone with unfllial warmth. 'Howbeit, when the figure had disappeared he briskly into the moonlight

topped out oftno high

road. Here he took off his distinguish* ed hat to wipe bi» forehead, and the moon shone lull upon his faco.

It was not an unprepossessing one, albeit a tririe too thin and lank and bil- •*, llous to bo altogether pleasant- The

Cheekbone# wore prominent, and the black eyes sunken In their orbits. Straight* black hair foil slant wise off a high but narrow forehead, and swept part of a hollow cheek. A long black mustache followed the perpendicular curves of his month. It was on the whole a serious, even Quixotic face,but at times it was relieved by a rare smile of such tender ami even pathetic sweetness, that Miss Jo 5* reported to have a it id that, ir it would only last through tho ceremony, she would have married tu possessor on the spot. once told him so," added that shameless young woman "but the »tan instantly ibllinto a settled melancholy, and hasn't smiled since."

A half-mile below tho Folinsbeo Ranch the white road dipped and was craned by a trail that mo through Madrono Hollow. IMrhapi bectuso it WM a near cut-off to the settlement, perhaps from less practical reason, Culpepper lock this trail, and in a faw momenta tiood among the rarely beautiful trtxw that gave their name to the valley. Km in that uncertain tight the weird beauty of these harlequin maaqueratfor* was apparent their red trunks—a I ..*h in the moonlight, a deep

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out against the silvery green foliage. It was as if Nature in some gracious moment had here caught and crystallized the gypsy memories of the transplanted Spaniard to cheer him in his lonely exile.

As Culpepper entered the grove he beard loud voices. As he turned toward a. clump of trees, a figure so bizarre and characteristic that it might have been a resident Daphne—a figure overdressed in crimson silk and lace, with bare brown arms and shoulders, and a wreath of honeysuckle—stepped out of the shadow. It was followed by a man. Culpepper started. To come to the point briefly, he recognized in the man the features of his respected uncle, Colonel Starbottle in the female, a lady who may be briefly describe! as one possessing absolutely no claim to an introduction to the polite reader. To hurry over equally unpleasant details, both were evidently under the influence of liquor.

From the excited conversation that ensued, Culpepper gathered that some insult bad been put upon the lady at a public ball which she bad attended that evening that, the Colonel, her escort, had failed to resent it with the sanguinary completeness that she desired. I regret that, even in a liberal age, I may not record the exact and even picturesque language in which this was conveyed to her hearers. Enough that at "the close of a fiery peroration, with feminine inconsistency she flew at the gallant Colonel, and would have visited her delayed vengeaneo upon his luckless head, but for theprompfc interference ot Culpepper. Thwarted in this sho threw herself upon the ground, and then into picturesque hysterics. There was a tine moral lesson, not only in this grotesque performance of a sex which cannot afford to bo grotesque, but in the ludicrous concern with which it inspired the two men. Culpepper, to wliom woman was more or less angelic, was pained and sympathetic the Colonel, to whom she was more or less impropor, was exceedingly terrified and embarrassed. Howbeit the storm was soon over, and after Mistress Dolores had returned a little dagger to its sheath (her garter), she quietly took herself out of Madrono llollow, and happily out of these pages forever. The two men left to themselves, conversed in low tones. Dawn stole upon them before they separated the Colonel quite sobered and in full possession of his usual jaunty self-as-sertion: Culpepper with a baleful glow in his hollow cneek, and in his dark eyes arising fire.

The next morning the general ear of Madrono Hollow was filled with rumors of tho Colonel's mishap. It was usserted that he had been invited to withdraw his female companion from the floor of the Assembly Ball at the Independence Hotel, and that failing to do this both were expelled. It is to be regrettod that in 1854 public opinion was divided in regard to tho propriety of this step, and that there was some d.scussion as to the comparative virtue of the ladies who were not expelled, but It was generally conceded that the real casun belli was political. Is this a dashod Puritan meeting?" had asked tho Colonel, savagely. "It's no Pike county shindig," had responded the floor manager, cheerfully. "You're a Yank had screamed the Colonel,profanely qualifying the noun. "Get! you border ruffian," was the reply. Such at least was the substance of the reports. As at that sincere epoch, expressions like the above wero usually followod by prompt at^lon, a fracas was confidently looked for.

Nothing, however, occurred. Colonel Starbottlo made his appearance next day upon the streets with somewhat of his nsnal pomposity, a little restrained by tho presence of his nephew, who accompanied him, and who, as a universal favorite, also exercised some restraint upon the curious and impertinent. But Culpepper's face woro a look of anxiety quite at variance with his usual grave rejKJse. "The Don don't seem to take tho old man's set-back kindly," observed tho sympathizing blacksmith. "P'r'aps he was sweet on Dolores himself," suggested the sceptical expressman.

It was a bright morning, a week after this occurrence, that Miss Jo Folinsbeo stepped from her gardon Into the road. This time the latch did not click as sho cautiously closed the gate behind her. After a moment's irresolution, which would have been awkward but that it was charmingly employed, after tho manner of her sex, In adjusting a bow under a dimpled but prominent chin, and in pulling down the fingers of a neatly fitting glove,sho tripped to the settlement. Small wonder that a passing teamster drove his six mules into tho wayside ditch and imperilled his load, to keep the dust from her spotless garments small wonder that the "Lightning Express" withheld its speed and flash to lot her pass, and that the expressman, who had never been known to exchange more than rapid monosyllables with his fellow-man gazed after her with breathless admiration. For she was certainly attractive. In a country where the ornamented sex followed tho example of youthful Nature, and wero prone to overdress and glaring efflorescence, Miss Jo's simple and tasteful raiment added much to the physical charm, of, It it did not actualist a sentiment to. her presence, ft is said that Euchre Deck Billy work-

ing In the gulch at tho crossing, never saw Miss Folinsbee pass but that he always remarked apologetically to his partner, that "he believed he must write a letter home." Even Bill Musters, who saw her in Paris presented to the favorable criticism of that most fastidious man, tho late Emperor, said that she was stunning, but a big discount on what she was at Madrono Hollow.

It was still early morning, but the sun with California extravagance, had already begun to beat hotly on the little cb'ip hat and blue ribbons, and Miss Jo was obliged to seek the shade of a by-path. Here she received the timid advances of a vagabond yellow dog graciously, until emboldened by his success, he insisted upon accompanying her, and booming slobberingly demonstrative, threatened her spotleea skirt with his dusty paws, when she drove him from her with some slight acerbity, and a stone which haply fell within fifty feet of its destined mark, having thus proved her ability to defend herself, with characteristic inconsistency she took a small panic, and, gathering her white skirts in one hand, and holding the brim of her hat over her eyes with the other, she ran swiftly at least a hundred yards before she stopped. Then she began picking some terns and a ftw wild flowere still spared to the withered fields, and then a sudden distrust of her small ankles seised her, and she inspected them narrowly for those bans and bain and snaken which are supposed to lie in wait for helpless womanhood. Then she plucked some golden heads of wild oats, and with a sadden inspiration placed them in her black hair, and then came quite unconsciously upon the trail leading to Madrono Hollow. llere she heaitatfed. Before her ran the little trail, vanishing at last into the bosky depths below. The sun was

very hot. She must be very far from home. Why should she not rest awhile under the shade of a madrono.,

Although Miss Jo had confidently expected to meet Culpepper somewhere in her ramble, now that he came upon her suddenly she felt disappointed and embarrassed. His manner too was more than usually grave and serious, and more than over seemed to jar upon that audacious levity which was this giddy girl's power and security in a society wnere all feeling was dangerous. As he approached her she rose to her feet, but almost before she knew it he had taken her hand and drawn her to a seat beside him. This was not what" Miss Jo expected, but nothing is so difficult to predicate as the exact preliminaries of a declaration of love.

What did Culpepper say Nothing, I fear that will add anything to the wisdom of the reader nothing I fear that Miss Jo had not heard substantially from other lips before, but there was a certain conviction, fire-speed, and fury in the manner that was deliciously novel to the young lady. It was certainly something to be courted in the nineteenth century with all the passion and extravagance of the sixteenth it was something to hear,amid the slang of a frontier society, the lan guage of knight-errantry poured into her ear by this lantern-Tawed, dark browed descendant of the Cavaliers.

I do not know that there was anything more in it. The facts, however, go to show that at a certain point Miss Jo dropped her glove, and that in recovering it Culpepper possessed himself, first of her hand and then her lips. When they stood up to go Culpepper had his arm around hp» waist, and her black hair with lts^beaf of golden onts, rested against.tjaeoreastpocket of hi$"coat. But even then I do not think her fancy was entirely captive. Sho took a ccrtain satisfaction in this demonstration of Culpepper's splendid height, and mentally com pared it with a former flame, one Lieutenant McKirk, an active, but under sized Hector, who subsequently fell a victim to the incautiously composed and monotonous beverages of a frontier garrison. Nor was she so much preoccupied but that her quick eyes, even while absorbing Culpepper's glances, were yet able to detect, at a distance, the figure of a man aproaching. In an instant sbo slipped out of Culpep

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or's arm, and whipping her hands her, said, "Therers that horrid man!" .,

Culpepper looked up and beheld his respected uncle panting and blowing over the hill. His brow contracted as he turned to Miss Jo: "You don't like my uncle!"

I hate him!" Miss Jo was recover ing her ready tongue. Culpepper blushed. Ho would have liked to enter upon some details of tho Colonel's pedigree and exploits, but there was no time. Ho only snoiled sadly. The smile melted Miss Jo She held out her hand quickly, and said with even more than her usual effrontery, "Don't let that man got you Into any trouble. Take care of yourself, dear, and don't let anything happen to you."'

Miss Jo intended this speech to be pathetic the tenure of life among her lovers had hitherto been very uncertain. Culpepper turned toward her, but sho had already vanished in the thicket.

The Colonel came up panting. "I've looked all over town for you, and be dashed to you, sir. Who was that with you

A lad^r. "(Culpepper never lied,but ho was discreet.) D—m 'em all! Look yar, Culp, I've spotted the man who gave the order to put me off tho floor" ("flo was what the Colonel said) "the other night!" "Who was it?" asked Culpepper listlessly. "Jack Folinsbee." "Who?"

Why, the son of that dashed nig-ger-worshipping, psalm singing Puritan Yankee. hat's the matter, now! Look yar, Culp. you ain't goin' back on your blood, ar' ye? You ain't goin' back on your word? Ye ain't going down at the feet of this trash, like a whipped hound

Culpepper was silent. He was very white. Presently ho looked up and said quietly, "No."

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She answered these questions by going there at once. After thoroughly exploring the grove and satisfying herself that it contained no other living human creature, she sat down under one of the largest trees with a satisfactory little sigh. Miss Jo loved the madrono. It was a cleanly tree no dost ever lay upon its varnished leaves its immaculate shade was never known to harbor grub or insect.

She looked up at the rosy arms interlocked and arched above her head. She looked down at the delicate ferns and cryptogams at her feet. Some thing glittered at the root of the tree. She picked it up it was a bracelet. She examined it carefully for cipher or inscription there was none. She could not resist a natural desire to clasp it on her arm, and to survey it trom that advantageous point of view. This absorbed her atttention for some moments and when she looked up again she beheld at a little distance Culpepper Starbottle.

He was standing where he had halted, with instinctive delicacy, on first discovering her. Indeed, he had even deliberated whether he ought not to go away without disturbing her. But some fascination held him to the spot. Wonderful power of humanity! Far beyond jutted an outlaying spar of the Sierra, vast, compact and silent. Scarcely a hundred, yards away a league-long chasm dropped its sheer walls of granite a thousand teet. On every side rose up the serried ranks of pine-trees, in whoso close-set files centuries of storm and change had wrought no breach. Yet all this seemed to Culpepper to have been planned by an allwise providence as the natural background to the figure of a pretty girl in a yellow dress.

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Culpepper jumps forward about here" (reference is made to the diagram) "and Jack fires. Nobody hit. ItYs a mighty cur'o's thing, gentlemen," continued the blacksmith, dropping suddenly into the ahstract, and leaning meditatively on his anvil*-''it's a mighty cur'o's thing that nobody gets hit so often, You and me empties our revolvers sociably at each other over a little game, and the room full and nobody gets hit! That's what gets me."

Never mind, Thompson," chimed in Bill Masters, "there's another and a better world where we shall know all that and—become better shots. Go on withvour story." "Well, some grabs Culpepper and some grabs Jack.and so separates them. Then Jack tells 'em as bow be had seen his sister wear a bracelet which he knew was one that had been given to Dqjores by Colonel Starbottle. That Miss Jo wouldn't say where she got it, but owned up to having seen Culpepper that day. Then the most cur'o's thing of it yet, what does Culpepper do out rise up and takes all back that be said and allows that he did give her the bracelet. Now my opinion, gentlemen, is that he lied it ain't like that man to give a gal that be respects anything off of that piece, Dolores. But it's all the same, now and there's but one thing to be done."

The wav this one thing was done belongs to the record of Madrono Hollow. The morning was bright and clear the air was from the mist which arose alongthe banks of the river. As early as six o'clock the designated ground—a little opening in the madrono grovewas occupied by Culpepper Starbottle, Colonel Starbottle, his second, and the surgeon. The colonel was exalted and excited, albeit in a rather imposing, dignified w&y, and pointed out to the surgeon the excellence of the ground, which at that hour was wholly shaded from the sun, whose steady stare is more or less discomposing to your duellist. Tho surgeon threw himself on the gra.ss and smoked his cigar. Culpepper, quiet and thoughtful, leaned against a tree and gazed up the river, there was a strange suggestion of a picnic about the group w. ich was heightened when the Colonel drew a bottle from his coat-tails, and taking a preliminary draught, offered it to the others. "Cocktails, sir," he explained with dignified precision. "A gentleman, sir, should never go out without 'em. Keeps off the morning chill. I remember going out in'53 with Hank Boompirater. Good ged, sir, the man had to put on his overcoat, and was shot in it. Fact."

But the noise of wheels drowned the Colonel's reminiscences, and a rapidly driven buggy, containing Jack Folinsbee, Calhoun Bungstarter, his second, and Bill Masters, drew up on the ground. Jack Folinsbee leaped out gayly. "I had the jolliest work to get away without the governor's hearing," he began, addressing the group before him with the greatest volubility. Calhoun Bungstarter touched his arm, and the young man blushed. It was his first duel. "Ifyou are ready, gentlemen," said Mr. Bungstarter, "we had better proceed to business. I believe it is understood that no apology will bo offered or accepted. We may as well settle preliminaries at once, or I fear we shall be interrupted. There is a rumor in town that the Vigilance Committee are seeking our friends the Starbottles, and I believe as their fellow countryman, I have the honor to be included in their warrant."

At this probability of interruption, that gravity which had hitherto been wantin.r fell upon the group. The preliminaries wero soon arranged and the principals placed in position. Then there was a silence.

To a spectator from the hill, impressed with the picnic, piggestion, what might have been thfe popping of two champagne cocks broke the stillness.

Culpepper had fired in the air. Colonel Starbottle uttered a low curse. Jack Folinsbeo sulkily demanded another shot.

Again tho parties stood opposed to each other. Again the word was given, and what seemed to be tho simultaneous report of both pistols roso upon the air. But after an interval of a few seconds all were surprised to see Culpepper slowly raise his unoxploded weapon and fire it harmlessly above his head. Then throwing the pistol upon the ground, he walked to a tree and leanea silently against it.

Jack Folinsbee flew into a paroxism of fury. Colonel Starbottle raved and swore. Mr. Bungstarter was properly

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we can proceed. But the Colonel's blood was up, and Jack Folinsbee was equally implacable. A hurried consultation ensued, which ended by Colonel Starbottlo taking his nephew'8 place as principal, Bill Masters acting as second, vice Mr. Bungstarter, who declined all further connection with the affair.

Two distinct reports rang through the Hollow. Jack Folinsbee dropped his smoking pistol, took a step forward and then dropped heavily on his face.

In a moment tho surgeon was at his* sido. The confusion was heightened by the tramplihg of hoots, and tho. voice of the blacksmith bidding them flee for their lives before the coming storm. A moment more and the

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pound was cleared, and tho surgeon, up, behfeld only tho white face of Culpepper bending ovor him

Can you savo him I cannot say. Hold up his heart a moment, while I run to tho buggy.

Culpepper passed his arm tenueny around the neck ol the insensible man. presently tho surgeon returned with some stimulants. "There, that will do, Mr. Starbottle, thank you. Now my advice is to get away from here while you can. I'll look after Folinsbee. Do you hear

Culpepper's arm was still round the neck of bis late foe, but his head had drooped and fallen on the wounded man's shoulder. The surgeon looked down, and catching sight of his face, stooped and lifted him gently in his arms. He opened his coat and waistcoat. There was blood upon his shirt, and a bullet hole in his breast. He had been shot unto death at the first fire,

Culpepper Starbottlo had challenged Jack Folinsbee, and the challenge was accepted. The cause alleged was the expelling ot Culpepper's uncle from the floor of the Assembly Ball bv the order of Folinsbee. This much Madrono Hollow knew and could swear to but there were other strange rumors afloat, of which the blackshith was an able expounder. "Yon see, gentlemen," be said to the crowd gathered around bis anvil, "I ain't got no theory of this affair, I only give a few facts as have come to my knowledge. Culpepper and Jack meets quite accidental like in Bob's saloon. Jack goes up to Culpepper and says, 'A rord with you.' Culpepper bows and st 'ps aside in this way'Jack standing about here," (The blacksmith demonstrates the position wouiu pr of the parties with two old hon$esho*» with solid gold and lighted by a on the anvil.) Jack pulls a bracelet nier sun. from his pocket and says, «Do you know that bracelet Culpepper KHVOT?S haste at a railway station •I do not* quite cool-like and eaav made a Boston lady cram her wallet Jack says, 'You gave it to my sisU r/ down her throat, and empty a glass of Culpepper says, still cool as you pie®* ,. 1 tnonadeln to her pocket. The prompt •I-did not.' Jack says, "You lie, G- of a stomach-pump saved the d—ma yoa,' and draws his derring-' l**.ket.

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GOLD—It

is said that gold in

a liquid state is one of the prettiest sights ever seen. A correspondent whe recently visited a mint says that the liquid is the color of pare sherry wine. Looking through the side of the Jar at the gold which had settled on the bottom, it presented a splendor and magnificence such as be had never witnessed even in tho most brilliant sunset— an appearance not unlike that which one would imagine the vault of heaven would present if inverted and lined sam-

AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER —REDUCING ITS THEORY TO PRACTICE.

The Louisville Courier'Journal some time ago concluded to have its own opinion, upon political questions and party measures, and to be alone responsible for the ideas it should advance upon all subjects of public and local policy. In the recent election in Kentucky, the Courier-Journal gave its influence to the success of the nominees of the Democratic party. The candidates of the two tickets had their names published in the CburtepJournal, with the announcement of the particular office for which they desired the suffrages of the people. Among other notices the Courier -Journal published a list of appointments for one or more of the candidates and for this service it presented, in one instance, the following bill:

LOUISVILLE, —, 187

MS. JOHK RODMAN: 7b Courier-Journal, Dr. 1871. May 21. To printing list of appointments, 6 squares— average 2J-J—d 2mos., and weekly 9 times S141 00

To this some of the party organs in Kentucky have taken exception and pronounce it a great outrage. The Frankfort Yeoman, for iustance, makes the following comments upon the course of the Courier-Journali

If our candidates are to be charged proportionally by all the Democratic

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in State, they will have a eavy to Of course we do not question the right of the QjuHer-Jour-nal vo view this matter in its strict business light, but we doubt whether any Democratic paper litis over before made this individual charge. The appointments wero not made for tho personal benefit of any of the candidates, and were in no sense an individual matter. They wore for the benefit of the party at large, and chargeablo accordingly just as the publication of debates or other matter of general information. Wo have alwavs acted upon this vie

ourselves, and In

the whole course of our political experience have never known of a similar attempt to tax candidates for such publication.

The Courier-Journal admits the correctness of the bill, that it did make out and presens the bill just as set lorth above, and then It proceeds to give its notion about it, and as it is a "new departure" in newspaper business wo give its reasons therefor at length, with the suggestion that they aro worth considering:

The bill, as rendered and published, is correct. It is one of a number ot similar bills presented to tho various candidates for office on the two tickets recently before the people. Wo do not understand that the parties interested dispute the accuracy or justice of the accounts presented them. They do not consider themselves pensioners upon the bounty of the press, and the press —we mean '.he legitimate press—is by no means to be regarded as subsidiary to their charity. On the contrary, as far as the Courier Jountal Is concerned, tho Democratic nominees ought to bo and doubtless are, thankful that they received its gratuitous support. It is a vehicle of communication whose service is worth something. Space in its columns is sertainly valuable. That it should contribute a hundred fold as much to the Democratic party, or any other party, as other members are expected to give, is absurd. Advertising is business. We advertise nobody—no pursuit—no transaction—no individual —for nothing. We ask no subsidy, require no charity, and charge everybody alike. What "we contribute to our church, to our party to our friends, is a private and personal concern. That wo should give away hundreds of dollars, which our space is acLually worth in dollars and cents, merely for the privilege of supporting a certain number of gentlemen for office, is nonsense. The Democratic party, the Democratic organization, the Democratic office holders, ought to bo grateful for what they get of us. The Courier Journal costs them nothing. It shares in none of their counsels or their spoils. It is not a recipient for a seeker of official patronage of any sort. It goes its own way, does as it sees flt, anuasksodds of none ot them. Even as matters stand, it gives fifty fold more than tho whole of them put together. It has 8 universal circulation in Kentucky. It is read by everybody. Its prosperity was never so groat as now. The office holders have no power to disturb it. Its circulation and influence extend themselves broadcast constantly, and it can afford to be independent, to tell no lies, to flatter no follies, to perpetrate no shame, to call things by theii right names, and to put its relations to its party ana to the general public on the plain and unaffected footing of truth and common sense.

In the old tlmo the press was supported by the office holders. It did a great deal of work on poor pay, and yet it was a costly tax on tho politicians. All that is changed. Tho Gturier-Journal is supported by the people. It asks nothing of the men in power. They are no more to it than otner men. No divinity hedges them in. Their necks are not clothed with thunder. They are common cattle like tho rest of us— a little elevated—and must nay as they go. So, we havo charged Mr. l^eslie, no less than Mr. Harlan, for space which is valuable, which costs us a great deal of money and is worth a great deal of money to us, and the sooner the fossils get used to It the better it will be for their nerves. The Yeoman, in particular, will do well to quiet its agitated fbelings. In other words, it had better "come down out of that sUk hat, for everybody can see its legs a wiggling,"

THE UPPER. T%:N TIJO USAND" OF ENGLAND. There are two hundred and thirtyone members of the Privy Council of England and Ireland, of whom thirtyone are entitled to sit on the judicial oommittee. The House of Peers consists of four princes of the blood-royal, two archbishops, twenty-seven dukes, thirty two marquises,one hundred ana sixty-fonr earls, twenty-lour and seventyhundred and sixty-two. There are one hundred and peers of Scotlad and Ireland who aro not members or the Upper House, vir,: one marquis,thirtyone earls, twenty viscounts and fiftyfour barons. The House of Commons consists of six hundred and fifty-two members, there being at present four vacant seats. The nobility of the United Kingdom are five hundred and fortyeight in number, and there ale fourteen peers who are minors, of whom one (the Earl of Pembroke) will come of age this year. There are thirteen

peeresses in their own right, and twen-ty-three widows of peers whose titles have becomo extinct. The number of judges in England is twenty-six, in Ireland there are twenty-three, and there are thirteen Scotch Lords or Session. There are two archbishops of the Church of England, and twenty-eight bishops, of whom two aro suffragans. The Irish Episcopal Church consists of two archbishops, and ten bishops, and the number of Indian, colonial, and missionary bishops is fifty-four. There are seven bishops of the Scotch Episcopal Church, and the number of retired bishops is nineteen. Tho Roman Catholic Church in England numbers twelve prelates, and tlero are four archbishops of that Church in Iret land. Ther*5 are twenty-two accredited foreign ministers in England, and thel number of British Ministers abroad isf thirty-five. The number of Governors of British possessions and colonies is sixty, and the lords-lieutenant of coun-

ties in Great Britain and Ireland aro one hundred and. sevoutcon. There are eight hundred and sixty-three baronets ot the United Kingdom, and the number of noblemen ana baronets who are knights is one hundred and wontyeiglit. There aro five hundred and nineteen knights, civil and military, exclusive of the honorary knights and the native knights of tho Star of India, The Order of the Bath contains seven hundred and i#nety-two companions, and there are one hundred and .sixtytwo companions of tbe Orders of the Stars of India and St. Michael and St. George, which number includes the surviving knights of Hanover. There are four field marshals of the British Army, and the number of general-offi-cers "of all ranks (including thoso on half-pav and those whose rank is purely honorary) is six hundred and twen-ty-nine., 'flie Indian army contains

TIMELY PA 11A GRAPHS ABOUT MAD DOGS. It is very difficult, in the earlier stages to know whether a dog bo mad or not but in all cases of doubt kill the poor thing at once 11 may save him much suffering, and you from the harrowing reflection that some human being has been bitten through your neglect. Madness Is not always traceablo to a dog having been bitten It sometimes cotnes on spontaneously. A friend of .mine once owned a favorite terrier, and as sho was constantly kept in his garden, she could not possibly have been bitten for some considerable time. But she suddenly displayed unmistakable symptoms of madness, and ran up and down the garden witii the saliva flying from hor jaws, and her head twitching from side lo side, as the heads of all mad dogs do. This arises from the convulsivo action of tho throat and neck, which Invariably characterizes hydrophobia—in human beings, unhap-

Fmitation

nly, as well as In

first

two hundred and ninety-four general officers, and the number of flag officers in tho Navy is three hundred and fifteen. Tho number of aides-de-camp to the queen is forty-four, and there aro thirty-two medical officers who are honorary physicians and surgeons to Her Majesty.* The judges ot the county courts aro sixty-ouo in number, and there are one hundred and ninety-seven queen's counsel and sergoants-at-law In England, tho number in Ireland bolng one hundred and ten the number of recorders of boroughs and cities in England and Wales, Is ninety-eight. There are thirty-three deans of cathedrals and collegiate churches in England and Wales, and tho number of archdeacons in the »mo division of the kingdom, is seventy. Tho chaplains^ and priests in ordinary to tho queen number sixty-four. The number ot royal academicians is forty-two, there being ono vacanoj' to fill up, and there are three vacancies in tho list of associates, who aro twenty in number.— Appleton's Journal.

qiiHdrupods—and

the

of which makes poisoning by

strychnine so painful to endure, and so horrible to see. Luckily, my friend himself was tho

to notice ner, and

his first caro was to close tho doors and order no one to go into

the

MUSICIAN.—Some

THE German

garden.

I have known a child's arm torn and bitten to the bone by a dog outrageously rabid, and tho child did not suffer more than it would havo done from any othor Injury of equal extent. There havo been frequent instances where a dog has bitten a great number of human beings, and one has gone mad while tho rest havo escaped on the other hand I have also known a very slight

tincture, from a dog not suspectea to rabid, bringon tho most deadly madness. The treatment of hydrophobia Is just as unsettled as the disease Itself.

As a rule a mad dog will not go out of his way to bite you. It pursues a straight course, snapping at overj living object which It meets. A friend of mine once passed, on a lonely country road, within a couple of feet of a dog which struck him as having something strange in its aspect and movements: fifty yards further on lie encountered two men with guns who asked him if he had seen a dog, and on being answered that ho had, and where, told him to thank God for bis escape, for that very brute was raving mad, and had bitten at least dozen animals and two or three mon and children that morning. My informant almost fainted with the shock which this intelligence communicated, and was greatly relieved to hear the report of a gun directly afterward, telling that the career of the mad dog was ended.—Engluih Paper.

JOHNSTUABT

Mll.fc

AH AltTIST ANT)

of the Scotch, and

after them some of the English papers, have lately mentioned with surprise that John Stuart Mill, who is now visiting the vicinity ol Edinburgh, passes much of his timo in sketching the scenery in that region. Mr. Mill's artistic accomplishments would still more astonish his countrymen if they knew, as his personal friends do, that besides adding to his remarkable attainments in every variety of learning, this sklU as a draughtsman, be is also a very imo pianist. I may add that Mr. Mill

surpassed by few as a botanist, andL that his studies in philology and archteology a r.j quite oxtensi voLetter from England.

Parliament has the

most generous manner voted a bounty of to each man of the landwehr and reserve, and four million thulers to be divided among sixteen generalsgiving each 250,WO thalers. It is evidently more profitable always to enlist as a general.

Cir.y. Sheridan said last night, In course of conversation on the designs of Russia in the East, that if the Czar attempted to cross the mountains be might suffer Himaiayatlon. In view of the coming visit of tho Grand Duke, this is not without significance.— Chicago Republican.

Dio Lewis declares that the present system of employing doctors la wrong, and advises people to make contracts with them at

$2fh

a year for each family

and a deduction of 92 for each caso of sickness. We commend this to the leaders In the Reform movements.

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