Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 October 1869 — Page 1

The Expftw.

The ^EXPRESS wa« established nwfcr*^ twenty-eight yearr agty by* oar ftHosjfcitizen Col.

THOMAS DOWIAKO.

J»NR 1832.

He had

been for years before well known to the people of our valley, as the founder of the Wabash Courier. The latter paper wan 'V "I established by him, at thia place, in the

The first issue of the

EXPRESS

was made on the 13th of December, 1841. There had been no prospectus circulated, as is usual in such cases. The morning that the first number was issued, there was not a single subscriber on the books. Within four weeks, however, from its commencement, it had the largest circulation of any sheet upon the Wabash. It has maintained this distinction ever since. On the 12th of February, 1845, Col. DOWNING retired from his connection with journalism in this State. He had been connected with the press of India^^fipr the last fifteen years preceding his retirement. DAVID S. DANAXDSON, Esq., of this city, became, at the date above mentioned, the proprietor of the establishment and editor of the paper.— Mr. DANAI.DSON maintained his connection with the paper lor a period of nearly nine years. During his control of it, on the 12th of May, 1851, the DAILY EXPRESS was first published. At that time the publication of a daily sheet in Western Indiana was an experiment of very doubtful success. From a feeble beginning, however, the Daily continued to expand, until it became, at least remunerative, under Mr. DANAMJSON'S management.

On the 9th of November, 1853, Messrs. S. B. L. SOULE and MOSES SOULE became the managers and owners of the paper. For some months after the change, it was -under the editorial control of the former. The entire charge of the establishment, however, passed into the hands of thelattor, and was held by him for somewhat -"*»-over a year.

ROBERT N. HUDSON, Esq., become the owner and editor of the Ex-

PRESS on the 14th of September, 1855. Upon assuming control of the paper, he purchased the office and good will ~of the "American" newspaper, of this city, which he merged with the EXPRESS. Afterward, on the 13th of April, 1857, MR.

HUDSON also purchased the entire establishment, subscription lists and good will of the old Wabash Courier (daily and weekly) of this city. This paper had been established for a quarter of a century, and, when mergedjwith the EXPRESS, had a re-J'-spectable circulation and patronage. These additions to the EXPRESS establishment gave it increased influence and circulation. -The paper continued to advance during S' the five years of Mr. HUDSON'S editorial

eareer. j§|fl| :.V' On 28tli January," 1861—nearly nine years since, the EXPRESS passed into the hands of the present owner.— Ult has been enlarged and improved from time to time since, andi has kept pace with the growth of the city. It is impossible, in place of the population of Terre Haute, to publish a daily newspaper which shall equal in size and extent of matter the press of the larger cities. With a desire, however, of approximating to this end as far as possible, we have recently added largely to he machinery and material of the ofce, and to-day greet our readers with an ntirely new dress, and an enlarged sheet, which will enable us to meet the wants of our patrons better in the future. The circulation of the paper is larger than it has ever been, and the businesf&of the office is in satisfactory condition. 'We trust I that a requisite increase of patrorage on 'behalf of the commumity will enable the '"EXPRESS" to exhibit in years to come,

similar prosperity and improvement to that which has marked its history during the twenty-eight years past.

THE <Tribune> thinks it has become so common for "unfortunate" women to shoot their seducers, it is hardly worth while to make a note that at Monroe, Wis., ANGELINE THAER, a ruined woman, has just been found "not guilty" of killing PATRICK CROTTY, the ruiner. The verdict means nothing. Of course, ANGELINE did shoot PATRICK, and we do not mean to say she didn't do it under extenuating circumstances. The proper verdict should have been "guilty," with a recommendation of mercy. It is a wicked absurdity for twelve men to be thus able to put a lie upon the records of a court of justice, and to declare upon their oaths that a respondent didn't do something, which all the people of the vicinage know that she did do. It is for the pardoning power to decide upon a plea in mitigation, and juries tbus stultifying themselves should be rebuked by the Court. ———<>———

THE latest <on dit> from the Arctic regions is that Dr. HAYES intends to lead an expedition toward the "open Polar sea" next year, and it has already been hinted that Capt. HALL will endeavor to procure the assistance of Government to aid him in discovering the North passage.— Noticing these rumors, a Cincinnati journal inquires if money enough has not been spent, and a sufficient number of lives lost in these barren fields of ice and snow, to warrant the discouragement of any further attempts in this direction? These expeditions arc stimulated by the mere love of adventure, and now it is full time that the dignified mask of "scientific research" should be laid aside. We can not believe that the interests of science will be advanced, or navigation facilitated, by the further encouragement of these expeditions. ———<>———

THE Criminal Court of Vigo county is not a solitary exception to a general rule in the facility with which indictments prepared by its Prosecutor, or his deputy, are quashed. On Monday last, in "V\ ashington city, a culprit who had stolen $12,000 from the Treasury was discharged on account of a flaw in the indictment, making the fourth discharge of this sort within a brief period, to-wit: one for §30,000, one for $200,000, one for $30,000 and the fourth for $12,000. Is it impossible, in the District of Columbia, to obtain an attorney capable of drawing an indictment that a good lawyer can't drive through, "four in hand"? Justice appears to depend on technicalities and professional craft rather than on the great principles of law. Indictments are, apparently, framed with the view of affording the indicted every possible avenue of

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TEEMS $2.00 A YEAR}

THE next State election to be held is that of West Virginia, which occurs on the 23d instant.

OUR DISPATCHES report another battle in Cuba, on the 9th inst., in which the Spaniards were defeated. The losses on both sides are said to have been heavy.

WE GAIN a revenue from liquors of $44,000,000. That is what the Democrats do not like $34,000,000 of our revenue comes from stamps a tax the poor man does not have to pay a tax that comes out of the moneyed men of the country almost exclusively.

Two or three weeks ago we ventured, with some hesitancy, to predict the election of GEARY and. HAYES, whereupon the Journal informed us that it had placed our prediction on file for reference after the election. Isn't it a good" time now to make that reference?

THE election in Iowa on Tuesday appears to have called out but a light vote, there not being sufficient opposition to make the fight interesting. The'Republican majority will, probably, reach about thirty thousand, and the Legislature will be almost entirely Republican. ,,

A GOOD DEGREE of interest prevails among our citizens generally in regard to the Bloomfield and Danville railroads, and we hope soon to see both enterprizes moving forward with sufficient momentum to carry them through sucessfullyPersonal considerations should not stand in the way of great public movements.

EX-SENATOR DOOLITTLE, recently, had an interview with the President relative to the proposed purchase of the Island St. Thomas. Judge DOOLITTLE has been retained by parties interested in the purchase of the Island by the United States as counsel. From the nature of the President's conversation it is believed he is not favorable to the project, and he does not think that St. Thomas would be a valuable acquisition. t_

A WASHINGTON SPECIAL states that the Secretary of the Treasury and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue had a conference on Friday last, relative to the mode of the collection of the income tax, and to prevent frauds on the Government in that matter, and decided that hereafter none should be employed for that purpose save regular revenue officers, such as assessors, collectors, etc. It is found that specially appointed officers have abused the position by attempting to black mail alleged violators of the law.

LAST YEAR, in the hope of making a small batch of political capital, the Democratic Commissioners of Vigo county reduced the levy ten cents on each hundred dollars, thereby running the count}- in debt. This year, when no election is pending, they send it up to fifty cents on the hundred dollars to get the county out of debt. Verily, Democratic financiering is a beautiful science! We have an interesting collection of statistics on this subject that we shall administer, occasionally, in such doses as we think the Democratic system can bear.

HORATIO SEYMOUR is not the only politician who when a chance for office is presented, oscillates between "decline" and "accept." The Republicans of Wisconsin have a similarly afflictive dispensation in the person of Mr. E. A. SPENCER, whose knowledge of his own mind docs not appear to approximate entire accuracy. He was nominated for Secretary of State, but upon the discovery of sundry irregularities in his official conduct, resigned and Mr. L. BEESE was put on the ticket in his place by the State Central Committee. Most of the Republican journals of the State have promptly indorsed the Committee's action. But now SPENCER comes forward and retracts his withdrawal, declaring that he is still the candidate for Secretary of State.— Such vascillation indicates unfitness for any office. SPENCER has no claim to the support of Republicans, and will not be likely to get a single vote, except his own. If there is any process by which a man can be summarily "read out" of a party, SPENCER is a fit subject for its application.

IT is also stated that the lower House of the Ohio Legislature will be Democrat ic, and this fact insures the defeat of the infamous Fifteenth Amendment in that State.—Journal Yesterday.

Wouldn't it have been better to have waited for more light before going to press with the article from which the above is clipped? The "infamous Fifteenth Amendment" will soon be a part of the Constitution of the United States, and the Journal, in its hungry haste to curry favor with colored voters, will hate to face such extracts from its columns as that which we are now considering.— Why will our neighbor go on planting such long, sharp, ugly spikes fonts knees to come down upon when kneeling time comes, "as come it surely will? Don't call on us for sympathy when "the pliant hinges" of your knees have to bend till you feel the cold iron grating cruelly against your shank bones! Don't ask us for pitv when your bowels arc distended to the very verge of explosion by heaps of '"humble pie" crammed down your throat by your enfranchised colored fellow citizens! You are sowing the wind, and you will reaf the whirlwind. We warned you long ago, but our warning was slighted, and we shall have no tears for you when the day of your humiliation and anguish comes.

THE New York Tribune reproduces the words of two or three of tne richest men in this country who have recently given, in sententious language, the secret of their worldly success and fortune. '"There is no secret about it," said Commodore \AXDERBILT "all you have to do is to attend to your business and go ahead— except one thing," added the Commodore, never to tell what vou are

cscajie. Until these abuses are reformed, "and that is respect for the so-called administration of going to do till you have done it." The

,m'yersa'nor

profound,

GENERAL WILLIAM W. BELKNAP, of

Keokuk, Iowa, succeeds General RAW-

LINS as Secretary of War. A Washing-

ton dispatch says his appointment was received there "with astonishment and disfavor, not only among army officers, but by all who have expressed opinions concerning it. He is even more obscure 4 thanJSoKTE, HOAR and ROBESON were, j- prominent Western men say j^w^taa never known outside of his ii won in thefarmy." aeral BELKNAP entered the military irvicc early in the War, as Major of that gallant Re^nient, the Fifteenth Iowa.

He gradually rose, by meritorious conduct, to be a Mi^jor General, and cornaided a division of the Seventeenth .fjov Corps. He served on General Mc-

JkjJRSOS's^taff, arid also on the staff of nc&l SiiEiaiAN, to whom he owes bis I'jwinfment.

!v

who has no views subjects, recently'

wav

j0

eve.' on political a

get

my"

cli in the remark: "Econo-

and safe investment are about the best means of attaining financial prosperity." GEORGE LAW, also, who is a tolerably rich man, though not, we suppose, quite as rich as VANDERBILT or ASA PACKER, remarked in conversation a few days ago: "There is nothing so easy as making money when you have money to make it with the only thing is to see the crisis and take it at its flood and, when ,further pressed to tell the secret of his own success, he quickly responded: "Determination to work, and working."

These opinions are certainly worth something, and will doubtless be eagerly stud ied by young men ambitious of wealthy But they are incomplete mark of.A^^ than MthwYi BR, aiu! wfco will

short time ago V". esty and truth/' cl. of fortune." lit ducvu1"1

Six Months of Grant.

The Washington Chronicle reminds the people of the country that "in six months of President GRANT'S administration, including the dullest business summer within recollection, the national debt was reduced nearly fifty-seven millions.' In March of 1870 the entire reduction will be at least one hundred and fifteen millions for the first year of Republican rule. At the end of four years the reduction will be four hundred and sixty millions. But if the experiment of retrenchment and integrity has worked so well in six months, it is fair to infer that the ratio of reduction will be increased and it is abundantly probable that in 1876—the century year of the Declaration of American Independence—the whole Government obligation of the American people will not be more than one thousand millions. Indeed, one of our shrewdest statisticians taking.a more analytical view of the same subject, and supposing the minimum surplus revenne to remain at $100,000,000 annually, counts upon an entire extinguishment of the debt in less than fifteen years. Or, if the surplus revenue be fixed at $50,000,000 annually, the investment of this amount in a

And this is a mast important proviso. Democratic gain3 in recent elections loudly admonish the Republican party that it has no strength to fritter away in internal feuds that it will have work enough to do in preventing the Democratic party from gaining control of the government it tried so long, so persistently and fiercely to destroy, the party which, there is every reason to believe, is still animated by the

same

Our State election will be upon us in less than a year from this day. The result should not be doubtful. But. unless we can go into the contest a united party, sinking all those contemptible personal spites and bickerings that have wrought us so much evil in the past, we shall have no reason to expect success. The principles which we profess to hold should be too sacred to be sacrificed for any merely personal consideration. Have not those principles been hallowed by the blood of three hundred thousand patriots?

THE radicals were jubilant yesterday over the election returns. It was a narrow escape for that party—Journal.

Not a very "narrow escape," after all. We hold everything in Pennsylvania that we had before the election, while in Ohio we gain the Legislature, a mast important consideration for the taxpayers of that State, and of great moment, viewed from national standpoint, as it insures her vote for the Fifteenth Amendment.

Think of the immense majority which Ohio gave two years ago against admitting the colored race to the right of Suffrage, and now see her come squarely up with a handsome indorsement of the same proposition!

There is progress for you! That is what your opposition to a measure, dictated alike by justice and expediency, amounts to!

And remember, too, that the Republican party has achieved this victory while suffering from the disintegrating influence of innumerable quarrels in its own ranks, arising from the disaffection inevitably resulting from the distribution of Federal patronage.

No election since the Republican party had its birth has so fully attested its strength, so clearly shown the tenacity, with which its principles are rooted the hearts of the people, as the contest which ended in Ohio on Tuesday last.

We confess to having seen many hours of discouragement during the last six months. There have been times when we feared that the people might be deceived by the plausible fallacies and hvpocritical pretences of the Democracy, feared that the blood of three hundred thousand patriots might prove to have been shed in vain, feared that, forgetting the woe and ruin the Democratic party has wrought, "the family of freedom" might permit "the jewel of liberty" to slip from its grasp into the clutch of that party whose paricidal hand essayed for four long, bloody, agonizing years to destrov the life of this Government.

But the hour of doubt and darkness Ls past. Our lack of faith in the people is rebuked. The glorious Party of Progress has another victory inscribed upon its banners, and, wiht a firm and steadv tread moves onward to fresh conquests.

In a few months the Fifteenth Amendment will become a part of "the supreme law" of this country, washing out the last of the damning stains of that great Dem ocratic idol, the woman-whipping, baby peddling, God-defving, man-destroying, Ilell-descrving system ofhuman slavery,a system so dear to the Democratic heart that the life of the party can hardly ex ist when the last of its stains is effaced.

THE Petersburg Erpress, after reading the statement that the Minneso»

IT is

sinking

fund at

6 per cent, interest will extinguish the debt in about twanty-threeyears.

Either

of these amounts is easily controlable now that due economy in expenditure and prompt collection of the revenues are guaranteed by faithful officers. Under wise administration, and a feeling of national security, $150,000,000 is reckoned as an average measure of the annual increase in revenue. Regarding this important item, the above estimates are all brought within the range of probability provided Democracy does not intervene to prevent it."

sentiments that ar­

rayed it in open hostility against^ the unity and perpetuity of the Republic.— We know that it is led and controlled by the same men, as of old—so far as fate has spared their lives—and they have given no intimation of repentance but are more inclined to boast of, than be sorry for, the past.

General GRANT'S administration promises the most expeditious andleast4burdensome reduction of the load of debt incuired in suppressing the Democratic rebellion, but to make his efforts effective he must have the earnest support of the people and of Congress to the end of his official term. It is the hope of the Democracy to gain control of the House of Representatives to be elected next year, and this hope may be realized unless wiser councils shall prevail among Republicans during the next few months than have been operating on and in the party for some months past.

For our Republican friends in this City, County, District |and State, there are wholesome lessons in the elections of the 12th instant. Democratic gains have come—in nearly every instance where that party has inincreased its vote—from quarrels in the Republican organization. Hamilton county, Ohio, is strongly Republican whenever the party can unitedly face the opposition. But a local quarrel gives it over to PENDLETON. Terre Haute and Vigo county are Republican beyond question, by a large majority, whenever the strength of the party can be concentrated. But local and personal piques and prejudices, dividing the party, have given the control of the city to the Democracy, and have placed several important county offices in the hands of Democrats. The same causes,working on a larger field,give the loyal people of this District a Repre-* sentative in Congress whose very name is a sinonym for all that Republicans most detest.

a source of constant annoyance to

the New York Express, and other Democratic papers, that soldiers' monuments are being erected in the North, "swallowing in the aggregate several millions of dollars."

A CINCINNATI JOURNAL thinks the secret of the' success of Chicago newspapers lies in the fact that every man and woman in the town takes every paper, for fear a divorce notice in which they areinterested may be published and they not find it out.

COLORADOiscomposed of nineteen counties. Summit county is the largest in fact, its boundaries are so extensive that, the Georgetown Miner says, the whole of South Carolina, with a half dozen Rhode Islands appended,might easily be crowded within its limits.

IT IS a mistake to suppose that any Administration can afford to disregard popular feeling, altogether, in the matter of appointments. It is believed that an approach to this policy in many cases has lost thousands of vote3 to the Republican party in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

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A DISGUSTED EDITOR inquires if the CORBIN "lead" isn't about "petered out," worked down to the "bed-rock," as the miners say. We know the history of his business career, his courtships and marriages, his stock and gold operations, his relations with TOM BENTON, his operations as a lobbyist, and the pay he got in that capacity, Now, suppose we let him drop out of sight for awhile?

THE papers down East are engaged in earnest arguments as to the whereabouts of Gen .LANDER'S horse, some contending that he is doing duty as a hack-horse in Boston, and others that he is tenderly cared for in New Hampshire. In the meantime, as they are reminded by the Cincinnati <Times> legless and armless soldiers and their families are starving and dying in uncared for poverty. How much better to have been a General's horse! ———<>———

WONDERS never cease. A day or two since we heard of one of the most prominent of Parke county Republicans declare that he was, and is, deadly hostile to the Fifteenth Amendment. At the next election that class of Radicals will have to seek refuge in the Democratic party. Let them come, and welcome !—Journal.

To whom our cotemporary refers, we don't know, but we do know that there is no discount on the radicalism of Parke county Republicans, and that they are not "hostile" to t% Fifteenth Amendment. They are the advanceguard of the Republican party of this part of the State, and take rank with their political brethren ot Wayne county. If the Democracy depends on them for recruits "at the next election," it has a slim' chance for any augmentation of its strength. Parke county will help them about as much and as soon as Judge HAXNA and II.K. WILSON and their political associates in Sullivan county, will help our side. We don't think either of these miracles is likely to be wrought "at the next election.^ And here we would suggest to these Democrats who are counting upon accessions to their ranks through disaffection occasioned by the Fifteenth Amendment, that the election in Ohio affords them a profitable lesson. Look at the returns from that State, and see the progress that has been made during the last two ears. In 1S67 the proposition to confer uffragc on colored men was sunk out of sight. In 1860 it is triumphantly carried. "The world moves" in spite of the Bourbon Democracy. Its efforts to clog the wheels of the car of progress have, it is true, cost "rivers of blood" and "mounains of money," but the car has moved on notwithstanding. It will still move on, and the Republican party of Indiana will go forward with it.

ONE sometimes finds a gem among tbe castaways of the forgotten years. The following congratulatory letter to a young lady on the eve of marriage comes to us from the leaves of a venerable scrap-book. The gentle heart that indited it, with the bride and her maidens, may have passed away with the flowers that perfumed the feast, but "the old, old story" is told as sweetly now as then, and the same stately ceremonies usher in the event which links the destinies of two hearts. "I am holding some pasteboard in my hands—three stately pluckings from the bush of ceremony. I am gazing upon a card, and upon a name a name with which your gentle life began, a name with which your throbbing heart was lost. There is nothing strange about that card. The maiden sign still looks up from it, calm and customary, as it looks on many a friendly vi^it. as "it lies in many a formal basket. "'I am gazing, too, upon a card where the nearer parent tells the world she will be "At Home" one day and that is nothing new. But there is another card whose mingling there puts a tongue of fire into this speechless pasteboard. It tells us that feeling is maturing into destiny, and that these cards are but the pale heralds of a coming crisis, when a hand that ha-s pressed friends' hands, and plucked flowers, shall clasc down on one to whom she will be a friend and flower forever after.

I send you a few flowers to adorn the dving moments of your single life. They re the eentlest tvnes of a delicate dura

he gentlest types of a riendship. Thcv sprir

ble friendship. Tlify spring up bv our side when others have deserted it, and will be found watching over our graves when those who should cherish have forgotten us. "It seems meet that a past so calm and pure as yours, should expire with a kindred sweetness about it that flowers and music, kind friends and earnest words should consecrate the hour, when a sentiment Ls passing into a sacrament. "The three great stages of our being are the birth, the bridal, and burial. To the first we bring only weakness, for the last we have nothing but dust. But here at the alter where life joins life, the pair come throbbing up to the holy man whispering the deep promise th:lt arms each with the others heart to help on in the life struggle of care and duty. "The beautiful will be there, borrowing new beauty from the scene—the gay ana the frivolous \till look solemn for once, anAvouth will come to gaze on all that its sacred thoughts pant for—and age will totter up to hear the old words repeated, that to their own lives have given the charm. Some will weep over it, as if it were a tomb some will laugh, as if it were ajoke but two must stand by it, for it is fate, not fun, this everlasting locking of their lives. "And now, can you, who have queened it over so many bended forms, can you come down at last to the frugal diet of a single heart?

TIitherto you have

,th

been

a clock giving

your time to all the world. Now you are a watch buried in one particular bosom, marking only hoars, anu ticking only to the beat of his heart, where time and feeling shall be in unison until these lower tics are lost in tliat higher wedlock, where all hearts are united around the

clasped hands, I Rink silently

ran" timber—the Board of. Health

TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 20, 1869.

THE unusual amount of "scratching" performed last Tuesday by the voters of Ohio and Pennsylvania, whereby Republicans lost in some of the strongest Republican counties and gained in Democratic strongholds, indicates a laxity of "party discipline" and teaches the necessity not only of putting up good candidates, but of having tlfem fairly nominated. The days of political "rings" are well-nigh numbered. He is the shrewdest politican who sees arid admits this fact, and that party will be most sure of success which shall adopt for its maxim, "Honesty is the best policy." The "party whip" is fast becoming an obsolete piece of furniture.

THE Iowa Register concludes a handsome notice of COLFAX'S plain talk to the Mormans with an earnest demand for the suppression of BRIGHAM YOUNG'S despotism. There are many people in the world who sympathize with the Register's indignation and who are anxiously inquiring how long the Government will tolerate within its own borders and on its own soil, a despotism baser and more absolute than any in Europe. Utah is in the territory of "the United States, and should be governed by its laws. But how is it? It is ruled by a man whose rule is the most despotic of any man or king in the present day, and who not only treats the Government and its officers with contempt, and its laws with indifference, but who refuses to obey, or let any of the people of his church obey,, any law that does not originate in himself. It is generally asked shall any laws brook and tolerate polygamy but it were better, and it is now time, for us to ask, shall our Government tolerate a despotism within its borders? The immorality of polygamy is one question, and a great one "the existence of a despot on our free soil another one, and a greater one. A good question for Congress next winter to settle wpuld be, shall Utah be governed by the Government of the United States or by BRIGHAM YOUNG?

Ancient and Modern Travel.

BY EDWARD EVERETT HALE. *y

LADIES' RIDING AT FAIRS.

What a Reckless Amazonian Did.

Twelve ladies appeared to contest the prizes for equestrianism at the Decatur (111.) Horse Fair last week, one of whom, Sallie Wilkinson, of Nyantic, had her saddle removed, and mounted bare-back just before-t'ic hoives were sent off for a scrub race. The word was given, and in an instant every horse was unper full run, the ladies were applying the whip, and the air was filled with hats, ribbons, laces, and "lixins" which have no place on a race track. The maid of Nyantic gave her black horse the whip, and soon passed the rear horses, and then the middle group, and was in the act of taking the lead when her horse stumbled and fell upon the grass at the edge of the track. She was up before him, however, and had hold of the bridle, when four or five men sprang over the guard and held him while she mounted from the ground. As the horses were nearing the grand stand the lady riders cut the air with such swiftness that their long skirts floated over the backs of the horses. For some distance now no change had taken place, each doing her level best, cxcept "with the Nyantic maid, on the bare-back steed, who quickly took advantage of the clear space on the pole side, and rapidly passing one after another, came under thestringneck-and-neck with the third horse, and only a length of the lead. The young men cheered and yelled the young ladies applauded with their fans and kerchiefs, while the tears ran down their pretty cheeks the old people, in many ca.ses, embraced each other in their joy, while the thick tongues in their choaking throats murmured in broken syllable, "Nyantic!" As she rode back on bet1- foaming steed, all covercd with dirt by his fall, and her clothes torn almott in shreds, the grand stand resounded with the "cheers of thirty thousand voices, and the surrounding groves prolonged the echo.

Ohio and Mississippi Railroad. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company, held yesterday, at the office in this city, the following .named gentlemen were elected Directors for the ensuing year: Joseph W. ALsop, Larz Anderson, Wm. H. Asplnwall, Allen Campbell, William D. Griswold, A. H. Lewis, Samuel N. F. Odell, Lewis B. Parsons, John J. Roc, John Ross, W. W. Scarborough, F. Schuchardt, and William Whiteright, jr.

In the afternoon the new Board of Directors met and elected the following'officers for the ensuing vear:

President—W. D. Griswold. Vice Pre«ident—A. H. Lewis. General Superintendent—J. wold.

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The ease of travel in our time enables men of family to see strange lands without leaving their families at home. And it enables men who are in the midsjt of large business arrangements, by selecting what in business we call the dull season, to absent themselves from home for a few weeks, and in those few weeks to view, or, as it is better called, to do, a continent. The mind looks back with sympathy indeed on the ignorance of the people a century ago, when John Calver took two years and a half to go from Boston to Detroit, from Detroit to Marquette, from Marquette to St. Paul, and from St. Paul back to Boston. If he had only invested in a single copy of Appleton's or the Official Railroad Guide, he would have learned how to do it in a fortnight, and could have taken his family with him, most of the time in a palacc car.

Anothor obliquity of ancient travel has been relieved by the invention of the time table, and the perfection of the Waltham watch, used on all railroads in all habitable worlds. Sindbad the Sailor, besides great sufferings on the seas and on the land, endured the greater misery of having to spend much of his fiftie at stations. Whenever, by some unusual fortune, he did turn up at a point known to commerce, it inevitably proved that the ship for Bussora had sailed the day before, and that but one ship sailed inayear. So Sinbad had to adjust himself for the remaining three hundred and fifty-three days (the Mussulman calendar being lunar) to his journal and to his whittling. Supposing this happened to him seven times in each voyage, he must have spent forty-nine Mussulman years minus fortynine days, say, on a rough calculation, for-ty-seven Christian years, four months and twenty days at these places, where they had no Atlantic Almanac at the newsrooms, not even a Beadle's dime series or New York Observer and where, therefore, fortunately for us, he was obliged to make up his own serials or die of ennui. Let it be mentioned, in passing, that if all people knew what good fun it is to make up your own novels, there would be but little market for the wares of those who write for the journals. It may be, perhaps, surmised that this will be the cause for the demise of the novel and the tale of the present generation, which may die out from the literature of another as completelv as Amadias and Esplandian and Metis"and Galien have died from this.— Such loss of time at way-stations may be considered now as substantially unknown, and the traveler who leaves Soho Square on the 10th of June for his holiday, informing his junior partner that he shall be back on tiie 5th of August, is as sure that he shall keep that promise as he is that any other promise of Grcenfell & Cowill not go to protest.—Atlantic Almanac, for 1S70.

L. Gris-

Treasurer—Charles S. Cone. Auditor—P. Van Deuscn. ... Secretary—E. D. Hammond.' Assistant Secretary—Samuel Trenail -[€£». CbnuuermJt^

The one hundred and sixth volnme A Japanese novel

FROX JERU

STRANGE STORY

SALEM.

Fire Seen Near Solomon's TempleWarning of the Coming of the Messiah. ...

From the New York News.] Our friends of the Hebrew faith will doubtless feel much inte c^ed in knowing of certain strange developments which, according to the Austrian newspapers, have manifested themselves in Jerusalem. Thee developments refer to the coming this year of the Jewish Messiah. The story, as told, is certainly singular enough. It appears that the Rabbi of Paks, a town in Hungary, has received letters from Jerusalem which state that toward the end of last month a column of fire was seen near the ruins of Solomon's Temple, and that a strong voice was heard which addressed itself to an Israelite who was worshipping there at the time. This voice warned the devotee of the coming, this year, of the Messiah, and declared that the Israelites should repent, and be more observant of the religion of their fathers. The man so addresed then went to the city and spoke prophetically of what he had heard. Thereupon the people treated him as an iriiposter, and some even went so far as to seek to take his life but he, as if lniractilously endowed with more than human strength, fought hundreds of his assailants, and when, afterward, a battalion of soldiers was sent to arrest him, baffled them in their efforts to capture him. Two Israelites, the Hungarian journals say, have been dispatched to Jerusalem to learn the exact facts of this extraordinary affair. It is clear that, if not one of the race of prophets, the man who, as above narrated, opposed this host of enemies, must be an athlete of no small pretensions.

How Some of Onr Merchants Have Risen. From the New York Republican.]

A few years ago, a large drug firm in this city advertised for a boy. Next day the store was thronged with applicants, among them a queer looking little fellow accoiripanied by a woman, who proved to be his aunt, in lieu of faithless parents^ by whom he had been abandoned. Looking at this little waif, the merchant in the store promptly said "Can't take him places all full besides, he is too small.' "I know he is small,"'said the woman, "but be is willing and faithful." There was a twinkle in the boy's eves which made the merchant think again. A partner iit the firm volunteered to remark that he "did not see what they wanted of such a boy—he wasn't bigger than a pint of cider." But after consultation the boy was set to work. A few days later a call was made on the boys in thestore for some one to stay all night. The prompt response of the little fellow contrasted well with the reluctance of others. In the middle of the night the merchant looked in to see if all was right in the store, and iresently discovered his youthful protege usy scissoring labels. "What are you doing?" said he "I did not tell you to work nights." "I know you did not tell me so, but I thought I might as well be doing something." In the morning the cashier got orders to "double that boy's wages, for he is willing." Only a few weeks elapsed before a show of wild beasts passed through the streets, and very naturally all hands in the store rushed to witness the spectacle. A thief saw his opportunity, and entered at the rear door to seize something, but in a twinkling found himself firmly clutched by the diminutive clerk aforsaid,J and, after a struggle, was captured. Not only was a robbery prevented, but valuable articles taken from other stores' were recovered. When asked by. the merchant why he staid behind to watch when all others quit their work, the reply was, "You told me never to leave the store when others were absent, and I thought I'd stay." Orders were immediately givon once more:— "Double that boy's wages he is willing and faithful." To-day that boy is getting a salary of $2,500, and next January will become a member of the firm.

Rapidity of Thought in DreamingA very remarkable circumstance, and an important point of analogy" is, says Dr. Forbes Winslow, to be found in the extreme rapidity with which the mental operations are performad, or rather with which the material changes on which the ideas deJTend are excited in the hemispherical ganglia. It would appear as if a whole series of acts, that would really occupy a long lapse of time, pass ideally through the mind in one instant. We have in dreams no perception of the lapse of time—a strange property of mind for if such be also its property when entered into the eternal disembodied state, time will appear to us eternity. The relations of space as well as of time are also annihilated, so that while almost an eternity is compressed into a moment, infinite space is traversed more swiftly than by real thought, There are numerous illustrations of this principle on record. A gentleman dreamt that he had enlisted as a soldier, joined his regiment, deserted, was apprehended,'carried back, tried, condemned to be shot, and at last led out for execution. After the usual preparations, a gun was fired he awoke with the report, and found that a noise in the adjoining room had, at the same moment, produced the dream and awakened him. A friend of Dr. Abercrombie dreamt that he had crossed the Atlantic, and spent a fortnight in America. In embarking, on his return, he fell into the sea, and, awakening in the fright, found that he had not been asleep ten minutes.

3ar Wit.

The New Haven Register says: pungent little incident occurred an argument before the Supreme Court on Friday last, between Messrs. H. B. Harrison and T. E. Doolittle, Esqs., counsel in the matter of the Derby Railroad injunction. Mr. Harrison was contending that, inasmuch as the Legislature did, only six days before the expiration of the charter, execute important legislation in reference to the completion of the Derby Railroad, it was ridiculous to argue that its charter could 'be forfeited by the old terms of non-completion at a certain period, or that the Legislature could possibly expect the railroad to be completed in six days. At this point Mr. Doolittle (who was making a sharp fight on the other side,) suggested that'possibly Brother Harrison had read of a little incident in sacred history, in which a work of nearly the size and importance of the Derby Railroad was completed in six days? He referred to the creation of tbe world.' (Responded Mr. Harrison,) 'Ah, yes that is very true but Brother Doolittle omits to mention a very important fact in that connection. He should remember that during the creation Satan was not hanging round with his pockets fnll of remonstrances and injunctions, impeding and obstructing the work."

BISMARCK at a review is thus described A man of great stature and size, mounted on a strong black horse, rode into the group around tbe king. He was dressed in a plain dark frock, with yellow facings wore the high boots and long straight sword of the cuirassiers, and his dark massive face was covered with a huge helmet, which appeared to have come out of some antiquary's collection, its broad projecting peak casting the upper part of his face into shadow. Close Inside him sat Von Moltke, the strategist, whose forecast had given his aggressive policy such success but whereas the profound military thinker was thin, and bent, and worn, the statesman, bold and "stern of aspect, was perhaps the largest man on the field, and looked capable of upsetting in combat a brace of cuirassiers.

I THE

probable reasons for the nailing of

Father Hyacinthe to this country are much discussed. Does he want to secure I a permanent and safe asylum, or merely a temporary change of 4ccne and restpveparatory to- a desperate fight for the faith that is in him? Hie-anxicfrv to learn

what lys mrttlv

ABA

to be heavr of thoAp'' every

A STRANGE STORY.

Another Proof of the Old Adage, "Mnrder.Will Ont." From the Trenton Sentinel.]?'

It is now forty years or more that the dead body of a stranger was found in the woods near the Stonybrook Bridge, alwut one mile to the east of Pennington, a vil lage of this county. We were a child then, residing near said village, and remember the circumstance well. It was an incident to make a lasting impression in a quiet rural neighborhood. Years later when we boys used to go in to swim in the locality, more or less fears were always excited by reference to the circumstance, for boyhood as well as age is superstitious. Nobody believes in ghosts, and yet almost everybody is afraid of them! The body was"found in a sitting posture against a beech tree. The face was distorted, the eyes protruding as though the dead man had died in agony. His hat lay a few feet from him. His dress betokened one in comfortable circumstances. He was a stranger, and no one ever remembered tohave seen him. There was no money upon the corpse. The bod\% without special examination, was buried, we forget where. There were no wounds upon it and no evidence^ of violence. At that day public scrutiny was not so acute in reference to the mysterious deed, and no verdict of supposed murder was recorded. And now comes the strange elucidation of the case. A few days since accident placed in our hands a copy of the Manchester (England) Examiner. In that number we found the dying confession of a man named Daniel Ilulseman, acknowledging to a murder perpetrated forty years ago in the State of New Jersey, United States of America. The Murdered man's name was James Eberhart. The murderer was acquainted with his victim in the old country, and came out about one year before him. Hnlscman was a tanner, and worked in New York. When Eberhart came over he sought out his old acquaintance. He had about two hundred pounds in money. On pretense of examining the country and purchasing land, Hulseman started with Eberhart on a tour through New Jersey. He had with him a flask of poisoned brandy, as lie resolved to murder his friends for his money They first stopped at Princeton, and then concluded to walk across the intervening nine miles to Pennington, the weather being pleasant, and public travel being greatly circumscribed. When within a mile of the latter place they stepped over into the woods, under a tree, to partake of some victuals they had procured before starting. Hulseman then passed his flask to his companion, who drank liberally, and died within an hour thereafter in fearful agony Hulseman looked on all the while. He then robbed him of his money and set him up against the tree, as before described. There are still old men about Princeton who will remember this event. It seems almost marvelous that after a lapse of forty years this affair should have come to light by a death-bed confession, three thousand miles from the place of commission. And yet it isj even so.

Educational Work Among the Colored People. By a law of the last Congress the Frecdmen's Bureau is now confined to an educational work among the blacks of the South. The report of the bureau for the fiscal year just ended shows a steady and gratifying advance in (he cause of education there. During the past six months there has been an increase of 380 schools, and over 14,600 pupils. At the close of the spring term there were known to be in the bureau 4,424 schools of all kinds, 9,503 teachers, and 250,353 pupils and besides these a multitude of small schools scattered in rural byways of the South that are not included in this report, and not enrolled on the nooks of the Freedmen's Bureau. Seventeen of these schools, with 9S0 pupils, are industrial, teaching labor as well as knowledge"— There are also 39 high and normal schools, with 3,377 pupils training to be teachers. Most of these scholars are teachers in small villages among the blacks during their long vacation. There are six colleges where a fair classical education can be obtained, and at Howard University there are between 50 and 100 scholars in the law, medical, and theological departments. Two hundred and ninety-two schools are entirely sustained by the frcedmen, and 1,289 in part. Of the 250,000 pupils, over 192.000 were slave before the war. About 759 school buildings are owned by the blacks themselves, while in Washington, Georgetown, Petersburg, Wilmington, and other places, the freeschool system is fairly carried out to blacks as well as whites.— The educational expenses of the bureau for the past six-months have been $438,000, while the blacks themselves and the various benevolent societies have raised $550,000 more. Since the 1st of January last Dr. SEARS has made an arrangement with the bureau that they should distribute a certain share of the Peabody fund. During the year the bureau has made a reduction of three-quarters of all its agents, and of over 5700,000 in expenses. Its affairs are now conducted with the closest economy, and its efforts are chiefly confined to introducing schools into the destitute and rural portions of the country, where the blacks are unable to originate schools without foreign aid.

Toe New Secretary of War. Gen. W. W. Belknap, who will assume the functions of Secretary of War within a day or two, is one of the many disting uish'ed officers whom Iowa furnished for the servicc of the country. lie entered the military service of the United State in March, i862, as Major of the gallant Fifteenth regiment, which rcndezvousi-d at Keokuk, llugh T. Reid beinK Colonel. The regiment was mustered in and left Keokuk for the seat of war March 19. Making a brief stop at St. Louis, the regiment was forwarded to Gen. Grant's command, reaching Shiloh on the memorable Sunday of the battle of Pittsburg Landing, arriving in the heat of the first day's battic, while our demoralized troojis were flying in disorder before the fierce onset of Johnston. The Fifteenth was instantly disembarked, and drawn up line to stop the fleeing soldiers, hav ing been assigned to Gen. Prentiss' command, who was by that time prisoner in the hands of tbe enemy. It bore an honorable part in that fearful contest, Col. Rcid being wounded in the fight. In his report of the battle, Col. Rcid makes especial mention of the coolness, bravery, and valuable services of Maj. Belknap. He was soon afterward promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, and was appointed Provost Marshal at Corinth.— Col. Reid being ill, Lieut. Col. Belknap commanded the regiment at the battle near Corinth of Oct. 2, Gen. Crocker being in command of the brigade. In March following the Fifteenth took part in the campaign, Lieut. Col. Belknap commanding the regiment still. The following January the boys organized as veterans,and madea brief visit home,when Belknap was made Colonel of the regiment, which was soon ordered to Chattanooga, and assigned to the Seventeenth Army

Corps under Gen. McPherson, participating in the superb campaign against Atlanta, and taking part in most of the battles and skirmishes of that notable march. It greatly distinguished itself in the battle of Atlanta, July 22, in which the gallant McPherson was killed, being in the division of Gen. Giles A. Smith. In this battle, Col. Belknap displayed distinguished gallantry, actually taking a rebel Colonel—"Lamblev of the Forty-fifth Alabama—prisoner with his own hand seizing him by the collar and dragging him over the works amid^thc fire of his men at short range. Gen. Smith complimented Col.

Belknap in general orders, and he soon received his commission as Brigadier-Gen-eral, in jjhich capacity he served throughont thejjreroninder of'the war.

G^. Bjflknap was a great favorite with Gen. Sherman, who was qrtick nize itfe soldierl qunlj

remcmbe

{PAYABLE IN ADVANCE

Can a Lady Train a Horse. Grace Greenwood answers this question in the Indopendent as follows

I once—ah, me, so many years ago!— made a fair trial of my capacities in tha direction. On returning to my quiet Western home from the East, in midwinter, I found anew inmate of thestable, a wild, wicked-looking, young chestnut sorrel from Indiana.

This stranger from' Posey county, whence we might expect the very flower of Indiana horseflesh, "the expectancy ana rose of the fair State," was bv no means a handsome animal, thoilgh he had some good points. His pedigree had been made no acconnt of even in his sale. His sire was to fame unknown, and his dam of low degree. Yet I felt that there was some good blood in the creature which blood had evidently a "determination to the head," for that was spirited and almost beautiful. He had large watchful, warning eyes, fiery nostrils, and small taper ears, which seemed not only sensitive to a degree, but sentient. Thev were like little spires, into which his hot, quick, spirit tiamed up, and there threatened ana quivered. They were unfailing indices of his mood, be it savage or serene.

His neck, though a little heavy, was finely arched but here the patricion stuff gave out. The tout ensemble was rough, powerful, long-limbed, strong-willed, Ishmaditish, unregenerated dnimal, of the sort which no proper young lady should have aypthing to do with.

At the time I made his acquaintance he was incarnate rebellion. He had never been in harness, and but a few times under saddle. He was being kept up for the first time, probablv, and was evidently bored by the solitude and restrained of the stable. He expended his nervous energies mostly in kicking—lashing out in al directions, and thundering away at the walls of the stable in gallant stvle.

When I first enterd his stall lie endeavored to intercept my advance by a flank movement but I was too quick for him. With my arm around his neck I made immediate interest with him by means of a large lump of sugar. He evidently had a sweet tooth, answering to a soft spot iirliis luiart for at ones his licrce eye softened, while the lead-back ears came quivering up and forward in a pretty, pacific way, that was most engaging.

From that day I paid morning and evening visits to the stable, and soon found myself welcomed by a joyous neigh. How pleasant that was I need not tell a true lover of horses. My pet showed himself as playful as he had before been sullen. He would steal sugar from the pocket of my apron, play bo-peep with me, bite my arm and tumble my hair, with many other endearing and delightful^ tricks. One joke which was never stale with him was to snatch oil" the hat from my head and swing it high in the air. Oncc, when to tease him I wore no hat, he caught a large comb from its placc and swung ft aloft.

Yet my friend and confessor was no general lover of the sex. His fealty was not transferable. No other woman could ride liim with safety. lie was an excellent animal t5 keep to lend one's friend.

During the spring, summer and autumn months we two explored all the hills, woods and gorges of a wild, picturesque region. Wc forded streams, climbed steeps, descending intodark ravines—we were of't together in the early mornings in night and storm and darkness.

In lonely woodland places I used to iraclice myself in all sorts of perilous arbaric horseback exercises he always bearing me home afterward with a demure ana honest countenance. Discreetest of comrades!

In the meantime, several attempts had been made to break this horse to the harness, but without success. He chose to do the breaking 'himself—in fact, did such a heavy business in that line as to defy all competition.

But for my actual groom service. Our onlv stable-man was a small boy, who, being" not a little afraid of his charge, performed his duties but imperfectly. Then, all unlearned in the mystery of the art I would teach, the ancient craft of the ayaso stabularius, guided only by a woman's divine intuitions, 1 took it on me to instruct the lad, sponge and curry-comb in hand.

Well, it must out. I actually grew so fond of that unladylike improper bussiness, that for a time 1 took it out of the boy's hands, leaving him the still ruder work of cleaning the stall, which he went through with daily like a Hercules.

It was really curious to mark the change wrought in that horse by a few weeks ot such care and lending. His coat became soft and sleek, his mane glossy and flowing, and his limbs looked daintily clean. The Iloosier of him disappeared and there was a general air of gallantry and jauntiness. I taught him to raise his feet for mv inspection at a word. Sometimes.as I crouched before him, lie would lift a foot and placc it on my hand or arm, where it would re-t light as the caress of love.

What fast, dear friends we grew to be, mv horse and I! He would know me in anv disguise, or in the dark. lie would follow nie about up and down the banks and steps. At a word from me he would come out of a frenzy of fright or anger. And thery was something wonderfully pleasant and sustaining to me in the mute good-fellowship of the big ungainly fellow. More than once, when oppressed by the vague sadness and discouragement that

comes

to one in the twilight, I have

leaned my head against his neck for a good coinfortabel cry. And, though he stood still and "munched and munched," I have interpreted the little nervous thrills that now and then agitated the glossy coat under my cheek as tokens of benign pity for my womanly condition.

I was filially obliged to leave home, to enter upon some literary enterprise and with me went my poor comrade's chief occupation. I consented that lie should be sold, the less reluctantly from -the fact that 1 did not own the horse, he beingthe propertv of another member of the family. In "fact I don't think that my consent was asked, lie wa« sold as a saddle horse, yet his rash purchaser, despising all warning and advice, immediately wenl to work to attach him to a light buggy, only to have that piece of property dissolve before his eve-:. Heavier vehicles went to swift destruction in the same way, and then did the pitiless man, bent ujion subjugation, hit upon a cruel expedient. He put Pegasus to his last humiliation. He coolly proceeded to harness my precious pet to a canal boat! saving with a dreadful oath, "that'll fetch him?"

The horse, it was said, gave one sharp, intelligent look at the monstrous clog to which lie was attached, then with a wild plunge tossed his small rider over his head and dashed forward at a furious rate. lie actually ran away with that canal boat! But he did not run far before he fell and threw himself over a high embankment, down on a heap of rocks, "struck death into his brain," and tlietl.

I was touched by his tragic end, but I loricd in his spirit.

THE absence of the old semi-barbar-ous way of settling personal feuds is one of the inost gratifying signs of the better spirit of the people of the South. Duels in that section have become rare events, the trival circumstances which generally induce them proving no longer a subject of interest to a community that for four years faced the stern business of real warfare. There are still in the South, however, a few hunters after cheap notoriety, the latest example of this class being

MOSBY, the Fauquier county guerrilla and highwayman. He has challenged Colonel BOYD, of the United States Army, and the lattter [sic], it is asserted, has so little true courage and self-respect as to consent to fight the bandit and petty pilferer of the Shenandoah. ———<>———

A LOCAL EDITOR in the San Francisco Chronicle has attended a Chh cal

ABACEfO&l

Hnsband and Jatit Lives of His Family bjr of Mind*

On Sunday afternoon the Railroad Company sent train up the road preparat' mencement of work on Mo as is the usual custom. anxious of course to work asshortas possibi out ofthe depot and arortlla the bridge at the top of ner arriving at the bridge, h~ that which caused him to gine and apply the brakes forcc. A man with his children were on the narrow the bridge, where it is just for a train to pass, about length of 600 feet. Neither reached by the imperilled the train would rush upon father and husband was emergency. Catchingup his arms, he told his wife th3jf^ see to them, and bade her rull end of the bridge, until thc traitf-. reach her, and then jump lftto th«

She must run for her life, as her safety depended upon her getting near enough to shore to find shallow water before be-

ing overtaken by the train. She did as she was directed, and when she felt the hot breath of the iron monster she jumped from the bridge, fortunately alighting in not more than two feet of water and weeds, and the train passed her in safety. But what of the father and little ones?— H could not run with them; and while almost distracted with fear of his wife's safety, he was bound to find some escape for them. Taking the little ones in arms, he coolly and steadily, in the face of the approaching train, lowered himself with them to a brace beneath the bed timbers, and there held them fast within a few feet of the water, while the train came thundering over them. About the time the engine reached the center of the bridge the exertions of the engineer and brakemen effected the stoppage of the train, and their assistance was rendered to extricate the frightened family from their yet perilous position, and they went on their way, thankful for their deliverance. ———<>———

Pun and Other Things.

A pair of tights-t-wo drunkards. A work of art—a fashionable latiy.

The way to kill time—shoot every day A current impression a five dollar bill.

\n acrobat thinks one gobct (urn dcserves another. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred man in company, [Smft.

A delicate parcel to be forwarded by rail—A young lady wrapped up in herself.

Jealousy of twelve years' standing kill^. ed a Frenchman with his owji hands. Lobelia is drscribed successfully, by the Matron of an Eastern boarding-school for girls, as a cure for the incipient symptoms of love. .. I V?

By a natural but indiscreet slip of the

tongue, a loyal orator recently addressed a saddle-colored audience in .Tennessee oat "yellow citizens."

A Paris lady has gone mad with love for her cook. This is the first instance of such a dis-aster.

If cableistic utterances are always in-__. scrutable, we can account for the incohe .ti rcncy of our translantic dispatches,^'** Otherwise nowise.

A man's best friend is a dollar or two, savs an exchange. Two dollars, or two dollars and a half is a better friend—and so on up. The more, the more so.

An illiterate clergyman once preached from Job 19:20, dividing his discourse into three parts: First, skin-worms second, what they done and third, what the ni'in seen after he was eat up.

A worthy old salt remonstrated with a lecturer the other day for speaking of the "sounding brass." "Any lubber/ he remarked, "ought to know that the lead is the thing we lake soundings with,"

A dear little girl, on being told that God made the fruit and the flowers grow, and sent all tbe good things she enjoyed, said, in her gratitude, "Then, I'll send a kiss to God."

A correspondent, praising the hafdi- _• hood of some lady travelers in the Yoscmite Valley, says "tlicy burst their con-^__ ventionalities." We hope- he discreetly looked the other way.

A merchant from the extreme Southwest says: '"Louisiana is aching with sugar, add Mississippi is white with cotton." lie might have added "and Ken-.. ttickv is boozy with rye."

A lady fell in Detroit the other day innn attack of vertigo, and was nearly strangled by her artificial teeth falling into her throat, before the cause was discovered and removed.

One of the Salt Lake saints has for three of his wives a grandmother, mother, and daughter—in this way avoiding the unpleasantness of a mother-in-law.

Women.

Women spend too much thought up themselves. Those who arc happily mar- V* =.| ried and tenderly cared for are often tne greatest- sufferers. They are free from care every wish is gratified they have nothing to thinkof outside of themselves every little plan is noticed every now sensation duly heralded and cared for.} amisery in the head, or a distress in thcTstoniach is looked upon as attack upon the citadel of life. Now when the nervoftfT" system is in this condition, women have no power to resist disease, but will imbibe every deleterious influence. When if she only had some worthy purpose in her head or a love for humanity in her heart, and woulii keep the hands, head and heart all busy in working out that love and purpose, she would not notice a slight indisposition her nervous system would.have strength enough to expel t" invader. Let any one think himscl£«6yspeptic and keep the mind forever/on the stomach, and it will positiveJy-Tefuse to digest a cracker.—Agitator.

A CONSTABLE in Michigan recently had a severe "tussle" with a prisoner whom he had taken into custody,and whose clothes -'twere all torn off', excepting a shirt, during the struggle, and who finally made his escape in that plight. While in search of his prisoner, the constable was told by a so to ad re at he to that there had appeared at the bouse of'*one of the neighbors, during the night, an individual who was stark naked, and who^»* refused to give any acconnt of himself.-:

The neighbor further said that the stranger was still in his house, and might yet be taken. The constable flew around, got his handcuffs, and rode up to the residence of the informant, to find that the lady of the house had given

birth dursng the night to a very fineoa^ bv

Ax Eastern youth, traveling in

IT IS TO .D of the elder while laboring binder one of fits, and wher. the manager ai his assistants were looking him, he was found*with around the fori/ '-s of a that body was Ls

For severely frown its multitudinous shapes, the ladies of California. fes?

the

un­

civilized regions between here and California, provided himself with .a small pistol so as not to be out of fashion. While he was apparently examining it,' but really "showing off," a brawnv miner, whose belt was weighted with twcTT--heavy six-shooters, asked

him

what he-

had there. "Why," replied the young man from the East, "That is «V pistol. "Wal," said rough, "if yon should me with that and I should ever tu out, I'd lick you like fun."