Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 February 1870 — Page 1

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IT IS undentoadlfrat. TL* ens willjbe taken under the adopted in 1850, modified to suit thenew amendments to the Constitution.

GEK. ROBERT E. LEE believes that regular and constant labor in Virginia can be secured only by the introduction of a respectable class of laborers from Europe.

-P THE Alabama man who offered a iribe of $1,000,000 for the assassination of President Lracour, now humbly prays Congress to remove his political disabilities

THE Newark Courier says: "Looking at the portrait of MAHTON MABBLE id Harper's Weekly, one may well be astonished that such a handsome man could be such a dirty politician."

THE Indian appropriation bill reported to the House amounts to nearly three million dollars less than the appropriation of last.year, and nearly two millions less than the department estimate* For which the country can thank' Mr. Dawes.

THE Wheeling Intelligencer says that no )er8on in West Virginia, so far as it knows, favors a reunion of that State with Virginia, and that certainly no party is willing *o avow any such wish or pufl*»e-

W ASHIHGTOK FLUNK EYISM,"as shown •luring the recent visit of a son of the excellent old woman who sometimes pro* tog'ies the British Parliament, to our national capital, has stirred to their innermost depths the feelings of the youftg man who oscillates between statistics aftd hifslutin on the fourth page of thb Ifldianapolis Journal. Be seeks relief in "oh 1-ing for the days of THOMAS JBFFEBand his stump-tailed sorrel mare, when the wife of the President was not disgraced in 'riding behind' her august husband through the streets of the Federal City." **^sf •A "ECONOHT has the floor," is the Mirse way in which the Chicago Republican desibes the present feeling in Congees*. Seduction is the rule of arilhMtttiti that every legislator now needs t» uttthiMtand and practice. Even Mr DAWKS is behind the times. There is occasion of gratula* tion in the alacrity with which the Mouse cut down .his naval deficiency bill the other dejr» from three millions to one and a half million, and the unanimous \i\ibiic approval that has confirmed the wisdom of the reduction We no more need a nlrong navy to meet the possibility of offending impotent Spain, than we Meed ah army of occupation hi Minnesota to settle the Winnipeg half-breed question! ^m. ijt^ 3. -J' -Va

THE Cincinnati ©aWtfe, after aclcnow'Iedging that Gi*. HAI.I.OCK purposely withheld th$ Order removing Gen. THOMAS, ttlvjaes its last article on the "BattKi *4f Nashville" questioh with the foltowiihg paragraph: "The blunder of order removing TFIOMAS is seen, and the good fortune which saved the country from it is appreciated. It is not necessary that anybody should be proved infallible nnd successful men can afford to face their mistakes. GIIANT and STANTOW both thought that they at Washington and City Toint could comprehend the situation and the military possibilities better than THOMAS could on the ground. THE result proved that they were mistaken, aiid justified the greater confidence Which the country had reposed in Gen. TdOHAS, to which all now assent."

JUDGE BRADLEY, nominated for the Supreme Bench, is about fifty-two years of age, a graduate of Rutger's College, New Jersey, and a member of the sarde class with ex-Senator FKELINOIIUYSEH. lie graduated with high honors, and then studied law under the late Chief Justice IIoRNBLOt^R, of New Jersey, Whose daughter he married. He is a literary and classical scholar, and is remarkable as a mathematician. lie commenced his practice poor, nnd now stands at thfe head of his profession in his native State. He has also practiced at the bar of the United States Supreme Court in Washington. He was recommended unanimously by the bar and bench of New Jersey, and by many of the profession in Philadelphia. This is the first time that New Jersey has been honored with an appointment to the i4 United States S'ipreme Bench.

"RcpuJ/gican County Convention. 7 Elsewhere in this issue, we publish the proceedings of the Republi*ii- can Convention, of this county, held on Saturday last. There was a fair attendance from the various tofrbships and everything passed off in the ordinary manner of political conventions. A list pf delegates and alternates to represent

if re to S a vention was appointed, and in addition N thereto every Republican of the county who shall be at Indianapolis, on the 22d jnst., was constituted a delegate. An

JJiocutlvo Commi^ee, for the crifonty, was selected. The Convention adopted a phort series of resolutions expressing the sentiments of the party, in this county, on the leading issues of the day.— Tito usupl efforts to substitute other resolutions for those reported by the Com•niittec on Resolutions were made, and failed. The M-csolutions adopted fairly reflect the views of the party, in this locality, on all general questions that will probably come before the approaching

S'a'e Convention, and cannot fail to meet the approbation of ourRepublican voters. The temper of the f^Nention was good, nnd the interest manifegjd by thosi in attendance on its processings argued well for the future of the campaign now opening, and was an indication that Vigo will be heard from in October next, with »ti increased Republican minority.

The Sentinel Corrected Again* One false step is almost sure to necessitate another. Thus it is with the Sentinel in the pig irop controversy. Having attempted f/palra off some worthless figures—gleaned from a paper printed ibefore a ton of iron was made in Clay tcounty—as the result of A. L. CRAWJFORD'S experience as an iron-maker in tthat county, and having had its sharp practice pretty thoroughly exposed, it now Heels compelled to resort to ftirther attempts at deception. This is the way of doing it: II takas the average telling price which, we gave, and puts (that as our statement of the ateniffe cost, thus: "The Express gives the figures to show that Hie average cost of making several irrades of iron in.Cla®fcounty is $37 per Ion."

Now the editor of the &»<«** must have known when he wrote that paragraph that the EXPRESS had don* nothonr tables were beuiit to be $30.60 for pig iron made* frtli Iron Mountain ore $31.42 for that made from a mixture of Iron Mountain and Lake Superior ore and $33.05 when made from Lake Superior ore alone. Following these was a table showing the average selling price to be *37.00 per ton. Will the Sentind •e irrect its tthstateoient? Or is it so badly poshed that it most resort to such jneass «C4fM(fJaS

ing of the kind, for fore him showing ths'

A Dugemi Policy,

The personal opinion of the editor of the Evansville Courier,or any other newspaper, is a matter little pnblic interest, but the serious Utterance of the organ of a party, and especially of the domi' nant party, in a Congressional District, upon a grave question of public Sfcpor» tance, is another matter. It-is this view of the subject that induces us to notice a studiedly and villainously abusive article in the Evansville Cornier under this caption: "The Reverend Scoundrel White." The immediate cause of this effusion of editorial billingsgate was the attack made upon the Bev. J. G. WHITE, a few days ago, at Columbus, Ohio, on which occasion he was followed by a howling, infuriated mob, stoned and otherwise insulted, because he had exercised the right of free speech, which he in common with every American citicen, from U. 8. QBAST to the humblest boot-black, enjoys a right that underlies our free institutions, and the maintenance of which is vitally ential to the preservation of liberty.

Let it be clearly understood that we care no more for Mr. WHIT* than for any other respectable citizen! atad were it

not

that the enemies of free speech, by assailing that right in his person, bring him into prominence, it is not likely that we should find occasion to mention his name.

The Courier, in view of the shameful mob at Coluinbusj iays! "It is not wonderful that the adherents of the Catholic faith should be incensed at the efforts ttf that tJHUy fcnatic Rev. J. G. White, to make it Appear that the sanctuary of the Catholic church is nothing more than a den of prostitution. Every Catholic who has a virtuous wife or daughter, is insulted by the intimation.

That he does so teach is clearly deducible from his lectures "to males onlv, in which he reads from approved Catholic books to show the practice* and corruption of the confessional!"

Only a tcowndrd of the deepest dye would in this base manner BEAK FALSE WITNESS against his neighbor, without a shadow of provocation."

The italics and small cap's are the CMr't, not ours, and show the animus of the article. We admit that "it is not wonderful" in view of the past, "that the adherents of the Catholic faith should be incensed" at the very free manner in which Mr. WniTE handles their creed and practices. Tolerance of free discussion has never been a peculiar characteristic of that, and some other, religious denominations. But we deny that he, or any other public speaker, endeavors "to make it appear that the sanctuary of the Catholic Church is-nothing more than a den of prostitution." -No sane man questions that there ar« good and virtuous men and women in all the various branches of. lie Church of Christ. Buthow doe« tin C'mtrier say that he attempts to prove hi or "to make it appear"? Simjilv eading from approved Catholic tio'ils.-.' We ask the Courier and all intelligent men of all sects and parties, if there could be a fairer mode of attack upon any church than the public reading of its own "approved books?" Is the man who adopts that mode of combatting what he deems error "a teoundrel of the deepest dye?" Is reading those "approved books" and challenging the learned men of the church to deny their authenticity, "bearing false witness?" Is such argument to be met by counter-argument? or is it to be rerefuted by a mob with insult and violence? Can those who are "incensed" at WHITE'S reading from "approved books" find nothing but rocks ith which to reply to him? Is a man to be persecuted in one city, egged in another, stoned in yet another, and then have still other mobs incited by the Democratic organ of the First Congressional District of Indiana, for no other offense than lecturing against the creed and practices of a church?

That the Courier is influenced by political feeling only is shown by this paragraph from the article above named: "This Rev. Mr. White is the same man who made villainous attacks upon the Hon. Judge Law, when a candidate for Congress in 1862 in this district."

The "villainous attacks" to which the Courier alludes consisted in copious readings from the "approved" speeches of the Hon. JOHH LAW, Democratic candidate for Congress. Judge LAW is now a feeble old man, not in political life, and it is in bad taste for his party organ to drag his name into this controversy. His age and feebleness forbid an unkind allusion to him. We do not believe that the Judge would sanction the use of his name in an article calculated to excite the mob spirit, and we have no idea that he would suggest bowlders as a proper reply to argument. It was always his liabit to meet his opponent face to face, and answer argument with argument. He values free speech too highly to encourage that mode of defense against pulpit attacks which relies on the Rtrength of "dornicks" or brickbats, or the pungent odor of addled eggs.

We disavow any unfriendly feeling toward any church or denomination of Christians. All have equal rights in this land of religious liberty, and among those rights is the clear right to attack each other, in the pulpit or lecture room, or in their denominational organs, or in any other manner in which they may prefer to use the many weapons in the armoiy of argument. This is the right of the Catholic as well as of the Protestant, and we will defend it as readily and earnestly when assailed in the person of a Catholic priest as when mobs and the Evansville Courier assail it in the person of a Presbyterian clergyman. If there is any creed in this country which cannot stand the test of free discussion, it must die out. If there is any sect or party that enoourages mobfl to suppress or punish free speech, that sect or party is handling the meet dangerous kind of edge tools, and may, possibly, learn, too late, that it has whetted a knife,for its own throat.

IK EVAKSVILLE on Friday night Harry Henderson was badly beaten and robbed of $26.

LAST Thursday the New Albany Rolling Mills received one hundred torn of pig iron from Clay county.

THE Rev. Amu At water has been elected Professor of Latin by the Trustees of the Indiana State University.

Srarai A Co., Indianapolis, are patting np an entirely new engine house on the site of the one destroyed bythe r«cent explosion.

Air indigent correspondent writas that pif iro«is «Ulnf to be a "boar." Does be mean that (br a joke, or is he deficient la octliogrtpbj?-iML Jmtrm,

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PolitiealHotea and Qleuiifi»^

THB Ohio Senate has indefinitely postponed a bill for- the abolition of capital punishment.

MR. CCMBACK honors his profession in refusing to abandon it for the paltry al luremettts of the Portugese Mission.

THB Indianapolis Journal advises the President to nomiiute the Hon. Joseph Holt, of Kentucky, for Court.

the Supreme

THE fowa Legislature has a strong infusion of the military element. There are twelve soldiers in'the Senate and twenty-seven in the House.

THE Louisville Courier-Journal advises the Democracy to "watch and pray."— Which the Cincinnati Times says is evidently a misprint—prey was intendeds "WotrtiD It Hot be well," asks the Foetoria (Ohio) News, "to give Jim Ashley an appointment as postmaster in the northern part of Alaska, where they only get a mail once in two years?"

IT IS said that Gen. Bntterfield, until recently Assistant Treasurer at New York, was at one time so confident of receiving the Spanish Mission that he began the study of the Spanish language.

A MASSACHUSETTS paper, tells of a recent Congressional Nominating Convention there in'which voting was carried on in such a scientific manner that on the fourth ballot each candidate had a majority of the whole Convention.

WHILE the Maine Legislature' was vacillating over the question of attending the Peabody funeral a respectable member from the back country saidt "Mr. Speaker, I am disgusted with the conduct of this House. This funeral at Portland is agoing to be agreat affair but when I see this House a-tetering and see-sawing as if it didn't know its mind, I declare I wish Mr. Peabody hadn't died,"

THE Philadelphia Press thinks there is reason to be .hopeful of Tennessee yet, since the Legislature of that Stale has passed a law providing the mast rigorous penalties against Ku Kluxism, and even against masquerading under suspicious circumstances. Now, if Kentucky would only give evidence of a like progress in overcoming lawlessness, the millenium might soon be expected.

DILATORY

State

Legislatures may learn

a lesson in driving business from the assembled wisdom in the Lower House of the Iowa law-makers. That body on Saturday adopted a joint resolution memorializing Congress for a grant of land to aid in building a railroad from O'Brien county to some point on the Missouri river also, for a postal telegraph also,, for a removal of the National Capital also, for aid to the Wisconsin and Fox river improvement

SPEAKING of the vote in the House on the Tariff resolutions of Mr. Marshall,the St. Louis Democrat remarks that "Indiana elects men who represent her—and not some other State. A single vote was cast against the resolution by Mr. Williams, and we suspect that his constituents will remember it. Two members, Ilolman and Voorhees, were absent. Eight members, Packard, Shanks, Tvner, Orth, Cobum, Julian, Kerr and Niblack, voted against tabling the resolution. Indiana may be counted ten to one against the monopoly system. And that is pretty well."

INDEPENDENT journalism is a good thing. When we shall see a perfectly independent paper, we shall regard it with profound reverence. But we doubt the propriety of a professed State organ of a party devoting a large portion of its space to denunciation of the "leading men and measures of that party. And there is a slight tinge of ingratitude in such a course when the "organ" is in the enjoyment of very liberal party patronage. If the proprietors of an "organ" desire to try the independent tack, let them sail their ship under her true colors, and not draw from the public purse, as the organ of the party controlling that purse, the means to keep np their attacks on the men or measures of the party. This is common sense and common honesty.

THE Republican papers of Pennsylvania think that the President has fittingly recognized the claims of that State in nominating Hon. William M. Strong to the position on the Supreme bench of the United States made vacant by the death of the Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, whose nomination and confirmation were designed as an acknowledgment to Pennsylvania. Judge Strong will brirtg to the Supreme Court the ripe experience of many yeais of practice at the bar, in addition to the long term which he spent in the highest court of Pennsylvania, where his decisions and opinions were noted for their ability, clearness of conception and expression, and soundness of judgment. He is deservedly popular, not only with the har, but with the people of the State at large, and his confirmation by the Senate will be heartily indorsed by all classes of citizens.

'Too MUCH SILVER" is troubling the Canadians. They regard it as a nuisance, and Sir FRANCIS HINCKS asks the co-operation of the banks in driving it out of the country. He proposes to fix a day, sufficiently distant to enable all to prepare for it, when -American silver coins shall be a legal-tender only at 20 per cent'discount on their faco. That is to say, the coins of 50, 25, 10 and 5 cents will then circulate only at 40, 20, 8 and 4 cents respectively—rates which, being far below their intrinsic value, will drive them out of the country. He has applied to the Royal Mint for a Canadian silver coinage, to the extent of a million dollars in 50 and 25 cent, pieces and until that is received he proposes to recommend the temporary issue of fractional Dominion notes of 25 cents, redeemable, like all other Dominion notes, in gold, when presented in sums of $6. We hope the proposed action will have the desired effect, and send oar wandering coins homeward.

THE "blondes" have departed from Indianapolis, leaving the editorMjkthe Smlmet.the legacy of their unmitigated contempt He now demands the restorationof the feg-itimate drama.

FRANK B-AINSWORTH, Supanntendent of the House of Refuge, reports the number of inmites in that institution at 132 Since its organization not a single boy has escaped who has not been recaptured and brought back.

THE Lafayette Owner learns that during tbe recent religious revival at ShawRN Mound nearly one hnadred .persons have 'professed religion, and eighty new members haveheen added to the Methodist Church.

Personal and Political.

THE Boston iWnyi "Carpenter mads chips of-Sumner's argument on Cuba." 'THE Great Anicrican Clamorer" is the Chicago MipMieaufi pet name for Wendell Phillips.

THE Republican State Convention of Oregon is caile-1 to meet on tfie 7th of ApriL

THESE isa little talk abiJut running Gen. Butler as a candidate for Governor of Massachusetts.

THE Universal Peace League in France has elected-Andrew Johnson, Charles Snmner, Benjamin F. Butler and Horace Greeley honorary members.

THE Central (Col.) Herald says that ex-Senator Wigfall, formerly of Texas, but who has for several years resided in England, is sojourning at Idaho, in that Territory.

ADDITQB WICKLIFFE, of Louisiana, has sworn an oath to "warm" Governor Warmouth, of that State, and has prepared charges of "bribery, fraud, corruption and seduction" against him.

THE Rome (Ga.) Commercicd avers that "Immodesty, roguery, rascality, grossnesp* Want of morals, drunkenness, licentiousness,and free love, all are embraced inthat anthems, 'Woman's Rights."

A I.AROE Temperance Convention lately held at Sandwich, Illinois, resolved that temperance men cannot consistently act with either of the political parties of the day

A. T. WNITTLESEY, a distinguished Democrat of Evansville, has written to the Library Association of that place, tendering the hospitalities of his family residence to Fred. Douglass on the occasion of his intended lecture there.

ARNELL'S bill, providing that women employes of the Government shall be paid the same salaries as men in the same position,-is right and should be passed.— Let the Government work be paid for according to the labor done, and not according to the sex of the laborer.

THE politiftjftl contest in New Hampshire waxes warm. The Democratic party will not put any speakers in the field, but will allow all disposed to go over to the Labor Reform party. A new secret organization, called the Labor League, has been formed, and it is rumor" edit is to odset the labor reform movement

CONCERNING the test vote on the tariff question in the House of Representatives, on Monday last, the Washington correpondent of the New York Herald says that the free-traders polled their entire strength and more. Marshall's resolution, declaring in substance that tariff should be for revenue only, and not for protection, was regarded by the Democrats as a party measure, and at least six Democrats from Pennsylvania voted for it

who

will support the tariff bill. APROPOS of the disgraceful reports concerning the sale by Congressmen of cadetships at West Point and Annapolis, the New York IPorM sensibly suggests that the appointing power be taken from them. A much better plan than the one now in vogue would be to allow each Congressman to nominate a dozen, or even twenty, candidates, who should pass through a competitive examination by a board of army or naval officers, and the cadetship be awarded to him who passes the best examination. This would" remove all chance for fraud, and insure abetter class of students at the United States Military and Naval Academies. Under the present system, many of those who gain admission to these academies fail to graduate through lack of proper preparation before entering. A competitive examination would uproot this evil at once.

MANY TAPERS throughout the countiy are advocating the reduction of the rate of letter postage from three to two cents per half ounce, and the plan meets with as much general approval as did the proposition a few years ago to reduce the fate from five to three cents. Mr. Bingham's bill will doubless be satisfactory, as it provides for a reduction of tWo cents per half ounce, and one cent for each additional half ounce or fraction thereof.— The bill also reduces newspaper postage from two cents to one cent per four ounces, and the postage on drop and unsealed circular letters from two cents to one cent. At these rates it is believed that there. would be no considerable, if any decrease in the annual revenues of the Post Office Department, and this opinion is based on the fact that when the postage was reduced a few years ago from five to three cents per half ounce on letters, the increased correspondence under the cheapened rates fully compensated for the reduction in price.

WASIIISfttTON.

TREASURERS' STATEMENT?

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—From the Treasurer's statement, showing receipts and expenditures by warrants for the quarter ending December 31st, 1869, issued to-day, the following exhibit is made:

Receipts, from revenues, $79,393,568 51 miscellaneous, $11,020,531 66 loans and treasury notes, $23,975,830 22 repayments, $1,984,360 98. Total, $116,374,291 37.

Expenditures, civil and miscellaneous, $11,445,908 50 War, Navy, Interior, Indians and Pensions, §25,280,965 45 interest on public debt, $2,548,531 84 purchase of United States bonds $40,281,015,redemption of the public debt, $54,271,200. Total, $107,925,912 07.

Balance in Treasury Dec. 31, 1869, $128,463,137 16. Balance on hand Sept. 30, by this statement, is $4,651,194 93 in excess of balance as published in debt statement of October 1st, 1869 and balance in Dec. 1st is $6,529,798 18 in excess of balance as published in debt statement of Jan. 1. The differences are accounted for by the fact that the expenditures are all known and included in the monthly statements, while receipts being taken from the returns-in the office at the close of business on the last day of each month do not include the entire receipts for the quarter.

INCREASE OF REVENUE.

Supervisor Conkling reports an increase of $600,000 in the First district, Louisiana, during the last six months, over any previous assessment.

LOUISVILLE.

OHIO RIVER BRIDGE.

LOOTSVILX.E, Feb. 12.—Track-laying on the Ohiq.river bridge was complied this aftersoon, and at 6 P. M. an experimental train, consisting of an engine and several empty cars, passed over it safely, amid shafts from spectators on either shore. Nait week the members of the State Legislature and State and municipal officers wiA participate in a grandrcelebra: ion to Mrgiven for'ita forma' public. /The President of the Bridge Uompany is notified the State and mmritspal auorities of Kentncky and Indiana that bridge will ha opened for railway poses o« Thnnday, Feb. 17th, and for ehlclas and ibof passenger tcavel on one l*t« when the grand final cekbrttlon

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TERMS $2.00 A YEAR} TERRE-HAUTE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 16,1870. (PAYABLE INADVANCE

TDB OU ^tonfMA.

Tfceold professor taatffctno aore. But lingered round the college walk Stories of him we bojrg told o'er.

Before the we. In evening talk* ,» •Fll ae'er forget Mow he ease ill T« rMlko«ii DM JUHkniiiht) And asked oar tutor to begin

And let me hear these V»s reelte."®^ -t As we passed oat, we heard him say, "Pray leave lie here awhile, alone* .J, Here ia my otd-plaee let me stay «Jast as I.did in yean long flown. Otr tutor stalled, and bowed consent,

Brae eoarteoai firom his high-backed chiir, And down the dafMeiltat staiK he Went, Leaving the old professor there.

•ma «s From oat the shadows faces seemed To look onnitn in his old place, Fresh faces that with radiance beamed-

Radiance of boyish hope and grace And faces that had lost their youth. Although in years they Still were young And faces o'er whose love and truth

The funeral anthem had been sang.

"These are my boys," he murmured then. "My boys, as in years long past Though some are angels, others men

Still as my boys I hold them fast. There's one don't know his lesson now,. That one of me is making fun. And that one's cheating:—ah! I. see—

I see and love them every one. -HM*

"And is it then so long ago This chapter in my life, was told? Did all of them thus come and go.

And have I really grown so old? No 1 Here are my old pains and joys. My book once more is in my hand, Once more I hear these very boys.

And soek their hearts to understand.

They found him there with open book, And eyes closed with a calm oontent The same old sweetness in his look

There used to be when fellows went To ask him questions anl to talkWhen recitations were all o'er— We saw him in the college walk ,a.

And in his former place no more.. —[Harvard Advocate.

A THICK OF TRADED

Showing How a Poor Ofllc Seeker Ing )Ma

he did not Want to, and Containing a Hint to Office Seekers General?. From the Milwaukee Wisconsin.]

The excitement and anxiety among those after office at the present time reminds us of a little incident that may be given as a caution to those who. want office very badly, In our own city not many years ago there were several gentlemen who wanted a particular office and had the ".vant" as severely as mortal man could have it, which is saying considerable when we consider the office seekers of Milwaukee. The*e gentlemen were considerably disturbed by the fact that a worthy but most innocent German was after the same place, and _whaf%as more, stood a chance of getting it. They went to him and tried to induce him to leave the track, but no, he had too good a thing. tJne day one of the men went to this German and said: "You are running for such and such an office!" "But look here, they all say you cannot write your name. This will not answer. In that office a man must be able to write his nameat least."

The German was naturally very indignant.

—"Who

say dat—who tell dat tam hell-

hre Yankee lie—who say I no writes—I make hell mlt him." "All say so. But look here—this is the way to settle it—there is pen and ink —now write your name on this paper and I will show it to the boys, and they will see that you can write."

The innocent office seeker did as requested, and Wrote his name in a prettv style. "I'll show the boys this," said the man "and they will believe what they see."

The poor German went off happy, and counted upon the nomination. When the vote was declared he did not receivd one —not a solitary one. What did it all mean? He went to see one of his pledged friends. "Vot de liell-fire you doe3—vot for is dis— "Why," said the other, "you have declined "to be a candidate—what are_you talking about? "Teclines—I teclines? I tecljnes noting—I want de blace, unt you say I gets him, unt now you doe? like dat. 1 no sees dat."

The delSgate hustled about and soon found the paper setting forth that he, the German in question, was thankful for the honors they would confer upon him but he declined in favor of his friend (who was nominated). "Look at that, and then tell me you have not resigned, if you can. Every one knows your signature and can tell it anywhere."

The poor office-seeker was nonplussed. There was his signature just as plain as day at the bottom of a declination. He saw it _»11 now. He had been led into a trap as told above, and now had lost the office he coveted BO much. He hunted up the man who managed to seduce the signature out of him and gave him a blessing, but the man was equal to the task.

7,I

did not believe there was so great a rascal in the world,'' said the man. "I showed that signature around and was

Eroud

to work for a man that could write is name so prettily. Somebody borrowed it to show to a friend, and that somebody has played this joke. It is a good joke, isn't it?"

The German failed to see' the joke. He stormed and swore and ripped and tore for fully a day, and declared that he would never be caught by any such hellfire Yankee trick again, and wc hope he will not, and we hepe too that none of the office-hunters now so anxiou.s for a place will be caught in the same or anv like trap &-"

Foreign Gossip.

Four Peers come of age and take seats in the Lords this year. A lobster thirty-two inches long has been caught off Sot land.

The Mormon missionaries in Demark made a thousand cn verts last year.

Emile Ollivier proposes to charge 100,000 fraces for the .privilege of fighting a duel in France.

The National Hospital for Diseases bf the Heart, London, has. had more'than 33,000 patients. I

A statue is to be erected in the town of Mugron, France, to the political economist, Frederick Bastiat.

The rising of the Nile this year to a greater height than within living memory, has done $10,000,000 damage.

A Paris musician enjoyed the unusual

Py

leasure of playing his own faneral march taking a slow but comfortable poison and awaiting its action at the piano-forte.

A woman recently fell out of a fifthstory window in Pans upon the head of a foot passenger. They both had a roll in the mud, but neither was badly ii\jured.

The King of Prussia said, rvjeently, to a celebrated German criminalist, that as long as he was on the royal throne of Prussia the death penalty should not be abolished.

Anew city and port is to be fonnded on the south coast of the Caspian Sea, for the purpose of promoting the trade with Central Asia, and the scheme is actually supported at St. Petersburg.

Only one death from small-pox occurred in a whole year in Kensington, where they have compulsory vaccination.

At a recent session of the Criminal Conrt in Nuoro, Sardinia, some malicious person set fire to the judge's wig and robe.

Louis Kossuth will receive a copyright of ten thousand lire from a Turin publisher for the Italian edition of his autobiography.

The student Ivaaoff, who recently be trayed the great political conspiracy in MOHCOW, has been assassinated by of the "Coomplicea.

At the (oneral of V. Victor Noir, the earried wreath* of r«d im-

the free

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SCHOOL-BOOM DISEASES.

•r ShorWBgfctetaess—Diffi the Heat—KM* Bleedlnr'

—Spinal Mieawa Frfnwary and Seretalonf Complaints. The ^celebrated Gerpinn physiologist. Dr. Yirchow, of Berlin, lately addressed to the Minister of Public Education of Prussia a report upon the diseases incident jto and connected with school-rooms, which is full of -valuable information upon this subject. A leading .disease, which, to some extent, is believed to originate in the school-room, is myope or short-sightedness. Of the 10,000 scholars

Is near and in the neigh' slau, the capital of. Sil

seventeen per cent, are near-sighted. The smallest percentage of diseised eyes was found in the village schools, mid the largest in the highest classes of the colleges in the city. In the "gymnasium" thirty-two per cent. of. all the students were near-sighted, while among every hundred students of the University the fesight of sixty-eight was impaired, 'he causes of this disastrqps condition were found, not only in the insufficient light of the school-room, but principally in the permanent nearness of the reading matter to the eye, connected with the bending forward of the heads. Alterations of light and sh%de are also injurious to the vision. Scholars shut up in semi-darkness find their eyes seriously affected for some minutes after coming into a strong light. This weakens the optic nerve, and reduces the length of vision. The light should be kept as near medium iu quantity as possible. Dullness in the head, headache, and congestion of the blood to the brain, are also set down- as peculiar scholastic diseases. In Newcastle, in Switzerland, 296 pupils out of 731 or upward of 40 per cent, suffered from headache, the girls being about twice as much affected from it as the boys. In Darmstadt, 3,564 boys- and girls belonging to Miblic and private schools were examined a competent physician 974 of the whole number suffered from headache. In the uppper class of the college of that city, upward of 80 per, cent, suffered from the same complaint. The percentage in? creased with the increase of studies andintellectual exertion. The Doctor attributes this class of ailments to bad ventilation, and heating school rooms with iron stoves, which imparts a dryness to the air, and takes from it its life-giving principle. Bleeding from the nae is also rapidly on the increase in German schools. This is accounted for from the cause just given. The higher closes are more disposed to this manifestation than the lower. Increased mental labor would account for the difference in the numbers. Curvature of the dorsal column is strlknoticeable among the pupils of the schools, who have been in attendance for some years. It invariably commences between the age of six: and fourteen, and as the curvature of the spine in 619 cases out of 742 which were examined, corresponded to the bending of the spine, as it is caused in writing, figuring, drawing, and by almost every kind of needle-work, it evidently can not be attributed to any other cause except the habitual deflection of that part of the body. How trifling^ a matter will change the proper direction of the human frame at an early age may be gathered from the remark of a skillful orthopedist, who found one shoulder of almost every girl of a class higher than the other, in consequence of sitting one-sided upon their garments, which by constantly entering into seats on the same side were unequally spread. Pulmonary diseases are also ranked -among those which may be induced by the imperfect construction of school houses. Poor ventilation, dust in school" rooms, and especially the defective movements of the lungs and of the diaphram, must occasion many pulmonary diseases. Scrofulous taints are also developed and aggravated by causes such as those mentioned, while a large class of abdominal complaints find their origin in defective seats? improper confinement, and false habits in the schools, whereby the circultion of the blood in the abdominal regions may become interrupted. Thee are the facts underlying the report. They are intensely interesting, and should be studied attentively ana thoroughly by the friends of education in this country. In all the large cities our school houses have been vastly improved within the last few years. There is more room, ventilation is freer, light better, and the heat distributed more equally. But the end of needed improvements has not been reached.,?

AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY.

Two Women with Five Children Undertake a Journey of Two Thousand Miles on Foot—"Half of the

Distance Accomplished.

From the Aurora (111.) Beacon, Jan. 29. Yesterday evening a party of two women and five children, three of them under eleven years of age and one only a babe of five months, reached this city on foot, having walked a greater part of the distance from Philadelphia. They halted here at Hill & Rice's auction room on the island, where Mr. Hill noticed their fatigued and impoverished appearance,made inquiries, and learning tne above facts, called in Marshal Fish, who at once provided them with comfortable quarters under the Court House.

After supper John Hilt, Wilder Gates, Marshal fish and our reporter visited the party, and learned that one of the women, the mother of the children, was.named Sarah Chaffee, tha other, a sister, Elizabeth Ray. The latter is a "grass widow," and the one with a family fiaa a husband in Philadelphia who is a cripple. They left, they say, because they could not earn a living and pay their rent, and were destined for Lawrence, Kansas, where they had a sister living—and stopping on the way to Quincy, where another lived. Four of the children are girls: the other a boy aged ten. They walked the whole distance from Philanelphia to Cincinnati, at which latter place the Mayor procured them a railroad pass to Chicago. From Chicago they walked to this city, traveling the last day fifteen miles.

The party seemed as cheerful as could be after supper, and reconnted soniswhat with pleasure the hardships they had endured on the journey. The. gentlemen we have named, with those true feelings of philanthrophy which are characteristic of our citizens, told them that they would nit be allowed to leave this city on foot, nor without money and we were happy to learn this morning that the poor wanderers were sailing pleasantalong over the Chicago, Burlington and ly and Quincy road, their|fare paid to Quincy, and money in their pockets.

Of thelhdicsof "Rio Janeiro a correspondent writes: "Female beauty is not very common here. Perhaps the elements are not well combined. But the richest colors of the skin—more charming than the rose and more soft than the sunny peach—I have seen on the Campos Geracs, where health, clime and culture conspire to perfection. The cheeks seem animated like the diamond with inner light the eyes are black, seldom blue, and brilliant the dress and deportment always modest and what they lack in regular beauty is forgotten in their amiable deportment. They have intelligence without much book knowledge. I remember a senhora who asked me if my country, the United States, bordered on Spain."

The Legal-Tender Decision.

From the Chicago Repabliean"] The Suprema Conrt of the United: States has decided that the LegailTeader act ia unconstitutional, so £sr,asit impairs the obligations of contracts. The case of Hepburn t«. Griswold, in which the decision is given, came np on appeal from Kentucky and una argued for the last time at the December term, 1868, by Mr. Evarta and^ Mr. Curtis. The subject in controversy was a note made before Feb. 25,1862, payable in "dollars." Legaltenders notes were offered in payment and refuesed. The Kentucky Supreme Court held, that "dollars" meant coin dollars, the only dollars known to the makers of the contract- The Supreme Court of the United States, three jndses of the eight dissenting, affirm the judgment below.

The decision of Chief Justice Dhase, in which Justices Clifford, Grier, Nelson, and Field concur, is now the law of the land, to which all must do homage, "the very least as feeling its care, the greatest as not exempted from its power." The decision confines itself to the case before the Court, holding only that the LegalTender act does not change the nature of contracts entered into before its passage Of the effect upon contracts made subsequent to Feb. 25,1862, the date of its passage, or upon contracts hereafter to be made, the decision is silent. The dis* senting opinion leaves the record, and gives an obiter dictum, that the act is in every respect constitutional. The argument of tne Chief Justice is very simple. However disloynl it may have been to doubt the constitutionality of this measure at the time of its passage, the Court does "toot now .hesitate to impugn its validity in relation to pre-existing contracts. Mr. Chase, as Chief Justice, condemns the. measure of which Mr. Chase, the politician, was the father. The argument in favor of the act has been, concisely stated, that Congress has the power to borrow money, and as an incident to this power Congress may determine the means for its exercise, subject to two limitations' first, that the means should be appropriate and conducive to this end second, that these means should not be expressly prohibited by the Constitution, nor by any just deduction or-inference from its-.provisions. The Court holds that the Legal-tender act, as to pre-existing contracts, comes vitlp this second limitation, that it is invalid, in that it is inconsistent with the spirit, if not with the letter, of the Constitution, No one denies that there is no express power in the Constitution which might give validity to this act. Many doubt, and the Supreme Court has decided, that there is no implied power to accomplish this. "Among the $reat cardinal purposes of the Constitution," the Chief Justice tells us, "no one is more conspicuous or more venerable than tHe establishment of justice." What was intended by justice in the minds of the people who framed it, the Court believes there can be no doubt. It is quite clear to many that they supposed they had prohibited them reserving to the States the control of private contracts, and at the same time prohibiting the States from issuing paper legal-tenders. But this is not the round of the decision. One of these funamental principles was that "no State shall pass any laws impairing the obligation of contracts. True the prohibition does not apply in express terms to the Gefieral Government, but it declared that a law, not made in pursuance of an excess power, which necessarily, and in its irect operations, impairs the obligation of contracts, is inconsistent with the spirit of the Constitution. Another provision, expressly relating to the National Government, kindred in spirit, ordains that private property shall not be taken for public use without compensation which, together with the provision that "no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, witheut due process of law" are held^to operate directly and in restraint of the legislative power conferred by the Constitution. Since a verv large proportion of the property of civilized men exists in the form of contracts, the consideration of which, prior to the Legal-Tender act, was gold or silver dollars, it is considered that the act operates as a direct and inevitable deprivation of property "without due process of law." A dollar is not seventy-five cents, and a aper legal-tender promise to pay a dolar cannot be called a dollar, except by means of a legalized fraud. The Court says that "it is difficult to conceive what act would take private property without process of law, if such act would not," and concludes that such a legal-tender in payment of debts previously contracted is not such a means as is calculated to carry into effect any express power vested in Congress that it is inconsistent, with the spirit of the Constitution, and is accordingly prohibited by the Constitution. But whatever argument may have led to this decision, it is the supreme law of the land, from which there is no appeal. The dissenting opinion represents doubtless, the views of a very considerable portion of community. Its chief argument is the alleged stringent and imperative necessity of the act as a war measure. The arrament istoo broad and unsatisfactory.

Under a similar plea any measure considered necessary by a majority in Congress for the safety of the Republic might be made valid, and the people would have no rights rights except by sufferance. This would be to make the discretion of the National Legislature the only measure of constitutional rights. This dangerous principle, which, if carried into effect, might destroy tbe Government received an essential limitation in theMilligan case, and has just received an additional one in the Legal Tender decision.

Some of the effects of this decision are apparent, others will only be determined by additional litigation. All contracts made prior to Feb. 25th, 1862, payable in "dollars," if unsatisfied, are now payable in gold dollars. If such contracts have been settled under protest, it will remain for the courts to determine whether the payees can recover back the difference between the value of gold and greenbacks at the time of settlement. Interest paid in currency on such contracts, the principal of which is not yet due, cannot be recovered in gold. The principal class of contracts affected by this decision will be honds for the corporate debtedness of States, counties, cities^ railraods, and other corporations. Since these corporations have saved in interest the difference between the value of greenbacks and gold at the several times of payment since 1862, this decision will not work great injustice. It is to be presumed, reasoning from the same principles as those upon which the dicision is made, that till contracts made since Feb. 25, 1862, and prior to Feb. 7, 1870, the date of the decision, will be payable in green backs, those oeing the only "dollars" known, in fact, to the'contracting parties. This, however, is a matter of inference, although it is improbable that a different decision would be rendered. It would seem that a third effect of this decision, by implication, at least, will be to make all contracts made after Feb. 7} 1870, calling for "dollars," payable, principal and interest, in gold dollars, except currency is mentioned, and that the interregnum of legalized fraud from Feb. 25, 1862, to Feb. ?, 1870, ceased on the latter date. If this position is correct, current^ contracts must be paid in gold, unless greenbacks are specified. In any event, it will be prudent for all hereafter to know whether they are making contracts for gold or reenbacks, which they may do by speciing the kind of money in writing.

The experiment of placing lady at the head of one of the public schools of Dayton, Ohio, will be made in a few days, in the person of Miss Belle Westfail. If the experiment works, there is no knowing where the new departure will end.

Here is the wav a New Yc^k clergy man consoled a widow at tbe funeral of her husband a few days since: "One word to yon, dear woman. Infinitely better for von to sit and sorrow at such a pure and true man's grave than to have a living husband by yoor side, fclse to God, and false to his marriage vows."

The c»ny Strtswe fiwtf USgoWhwoUf tlmr

IT IS stated that there are 1,500,000 public .documents and pamphlets in the vaults of the Capitol, waiting to receive a frank in order to be mailed between the present time and July 1 next, and more are being printed every day, which will be added to the list.

Declined.*^

JLiewenant Governor Cnmback has sent a letter to the President of th TJnited States thankfiMr him for the of X&Hatcr to Portugal, bat demaing it, for the pmcljiel reeeoe that the salary

TROTHPlieilT.

Crimsoa red behind the hill

S

Day WM staking (jowly Totes of melancholy. Home ward, from a bootless qnestf^™ Went the wild bee hamming Karth was weary, day was done. And the night was coming-

Sadly thro* the greenwood ws J, Walked a youth and maiden. Looking in eaeh other's eyes, 'Fond and sorrow laden. "Rudolph, now thy country callst,.

And onr lives are parted Be thou brave—but keep thy troth* And be constant-hearted."

Of the gleaming golden hair Ss ».* One bright lock sne sunders Day is dying—far away Sonnd the.battle thunders.

Fare thee well, mine own trab love •xWhere oar flag is flying I shall bear thy lock of hair, faithful unto dying." -•ss&

Far away the thunder sounds, ^••Swiftly speeds the lovor, Wild and loud the-days go by.

Till the strife is

OTcr.

Red and bloody gleams the sun Over dead and dying, Siok to death upon.the field lhA'Intrfir Ivinv! See the .lover lying!

To a comrade dear he cries, "Truest friend, and nearest, Bear this lock of bloody hair To her my heart holds dearest. Bertha I we shall meet again Where the true part never Bertha!" then his eyes grew dark, And were closed forever.

Home to Bertha hiod the friend. Found her wild with weeping

"Bertha was his latest word Ere he sank to sleoping." "Ishall follow him full soon, Whom I loved so blindly Then she met his comrade's eyes. And she thought them kindly.

"Comfort 1 comfort! donotdio! Thou art fair and youthful!" Once again she met his eyes, And she thought them truthful. Smiling slily, stood at,hand Love, the flaxen-headed When, for her dear Rudolph's sake. She his comrade wedded!

LAW the Year Round,

QUARTZ MINING IN WYOMING.

The Richest Gold Region on the Con* tinent.

South Pass City Cor. of the Omaha Herald.] Our country{ like all other quartz and mining countries, has had its drawbacks -its quartz vampvres and sharks, its retailers ot mines'which have no existence but on paper. Large amounts have been sold in Chicago and other places but this has not retarded the progress of the camp in the least. It is to-day ahead of any quartz mining camp on the .North American contineat of its age.

Our quartz mills hive been another Teat drawback. Many of them were ught by inexperienced men the mills being old and useless, were sold by machinists to get them out of the way, frequently failing to save a color of gold, when the same rock crushed in an arastra would yield forty dollars per ton, and men at the same time were extracting sufficient gold from the same rock, by hand mortars, to sustain themselves and push forward their work.

The most of the rich ledges here are owned by poor men, who are co-opera-ting together, driving tunnels and sinking, shafts, preparing for a rich, golden harvest,in tne spring'if, poor Lo will only let us alone, as that is the only drawback now that can ever retard us, as miners, one whit.

There is considerable feeling in this camp agafhst certain men who have gone east and sold ledges that had no value, only On paper, and never came back here. We would, of course, like to.have men of capital come into our midst and invest their money and make large fortunes, as they are sure to do if they invest in gold ledges. There is no place on this continent where money invested properly will pay better than in milling the Sweet Water quartz. Our quartz is as rich as any on the continent, and contains no base metals as does Colorado^ The most of the quartz in that country has to be sent to Swansea", in Wales, to extract the base metals. A great deal of gold will be taken out next summer with arastras, as they save more gold than a mill, and most any person can have one. On Rock creek last summer, one arastra, run by one man, took out $17,000 worth of gold—a good summer's work—which will be done in many instances next summer. What the people want here is this-: If persons whiih to invest in quartz, they should come to this place, go among the miners, and down into the shafts, and pick up the gold themselves. Let their own eyes be their own judges, and not trust to a lot of gold speculators who care for nothing but their pockets.

The greatness of Wyoming and her mines of gold and coal, is fully established.,

"Is Society Growing WorseS" Various journals have insulted and are engaged in discussing this question. Unhesitatingly we take the negative. If any one should take up the journals of the day knd consider how many revolting crimes are recorded: if any one should stop to think, seriously, about the multitude of crimes com mi ted, no doubt he would be appalled at the wickedness of fallen human nature. It must, however, be recollected that we live under different conditions from those which encompassed Our ancestors. Then we hnd r." railroads, Bo telegrapos, no comprehensive meaas of intercommunication. In the early days the Republic, we had only three or four journals, good, bad and ibdifferent. When Franklin wanted to marry the woman who afterward became his wife, it was objected that there were already in America, three or more newspapers consequently, that he had small opportunity to make a reasonable support. At that time, population was widely dispersed, being far less to the square mile than now. The record of crimes was restricted to a few newspapers. Now, every felony, of considerable importance, is spread before readers by the column. From every part of the country, moreover, the details of crime are reported by telegraph. A sensational murder, committed yesterday in Louisiana, or Texas, is next moaning fully known in Chicago, and in all of the principal cities of the Union. This was not so in the times long ago hence the conclusion that the present generation is more wicked and criminal than any which has preceded.

In our view, morality, religion and observance of law, considered in gener lity, are making commendable progress. We do not believe there are as many criminals in every thousand of population, in this countiy, as were formerly. Apparently the number may be greater really, the number is less. The larger and more instant means of publicity must be taken into consideration. What, forty or fifty rears ago would have died out, and been gnored as matter of journalistic news, is now caught up with avidity, Jand made a topic of local comment, perhaps of editorial excoriation.—Chicago Republican.

The Woman's Club of Brooklyn is composed of about thirty ladles, nearly all of whom are married. Meetings are held every fortnight, and it has been determined to have a social gathering at once a month at the house of some of the members. The admissian fee is $3, to be followed by the annual payment ^f the same amount. Gentlemen are admitted to associate membership on the same terms. The object of the Club is mental growth, though philanthropic ^roric will be heartily engaged in if it $oi»es in the way of the Association. The discussions are chiefly tipon other subject*, and Woman Suffrage is in no wise an aim Of the ClubAhough it is not exploded as a topic of interest. It is an organisation or thoughtful women, who earnestly desire to know something more, and know it more thoroughly than, they have hitherto done.

Mns. STAKTOS'8 advice about choosing a

wife is: "Always look for a girl with good teeth, for the teeth area sample of every Bone in the fair one's body." Judg ed by this rule, there are precious few gt#lit nf the period with sound bones in (heir bodies, vnless it holds good wttf re-

PERSONAL HEROISM. ———

The Work of a Lighthouse Keeper— Eleven Llves Saved by Personal Effort in Twelve Years—A Case for the Humane Society. ———

From the Chatham (Canada) Planet.] We have frequently, in these columns, been called upon to record the brave, humane, and self-sacrificing efforts put forth by Mr. Thomas Cartier, keeper of the River Thames Lighthouse, in the way of lending aid—personal and pecuniary—to sailors and others in distress on Lake St. Clair. A very notable case occurred during the early part of December last, which deserves especial mention. The facts are these: George Snook, Jr., a married man with a family, who engaged rather extensively in fishing in the vicinity of Herson's [sic] Island and Mitchell's Bar, at the upper end of Lake St. Clair, in the first week in December last, started from Herson's [sic] Island in a skiff, for the mouth of the River Thames, for the purpose of disposing of some wild ducks and purchasing his winter supplies at Chatham. Having visited Chatham and made his purchase, he found upon arriving at Lake St. Clair that the lake was frozen up and so rough that he could not make his return trip in his frail little craft, and was therefore compelled to leave it with Mr. Cartier, at the lighthouse, at the mouth of the River Thames and makes his way home per Great Western and Grand Trunk railway to Detroit and Algonac, and thence across the River St. Clair, and its deltas to Her- [sic] son's Island. Not daunted, however, Snook determined to procurc his stock of supplies which he had left with Mr. Cartier, and, with this object in view, a few days after, the weather now turning much milder, he set out in a small sail-boat for the river Thames, a distance down the lake some twenty miles. But, unluckily, when some ten miles out, the weather changed, the wind chopped round, and a gale sprang up, blowing very cold from the N. N. W. It was nearly dark when he was descried by Mr. Cartier, with a spy-glass, some five or six miles out in the lake making, however, toward the river's entrance. Of course, Mr. Cartier did not know who was in the boat, and only wondered why it should be there and how it could be rcachcd. To go out on foot was certain death, the ice being very weak, and far out being but one broken, moving mass. However, to let the man in the boat know he had seen him, Mr. Cartier lighted the lamps in the lighthouse, which were kept burning all night and at first peep of daylight, taking in tow a small skiff, he started across the ice to the distressed craft, whose little sail had now been lowered to protect the solitary occupant, who had been struggling, hope against hope, for upward of thirteen hours, against wind and wave. After a long and tiresome pull, and tramp of over two miles, the plucky lighthouse-keeper reached the outer edge the solid ice, and came in contact with the moving ice which was being rolled about and tossed up and tossed over by the angry elements. He now shoved his little skiff ahead of him, and finally succeeded in reaching the distressed and disabled sail-boat, wherein he found poor Snook benumbed and almost helpless from the cold, being only with great determination sustained by the light-house light, which told him that his situation was known on shore, and that with the dawn of day relief would surelv come to him in his forlorn situation. The great joy with which his chilly hand grasped the oucstretched [sic] hand of the no less thoughtful than brave Cartier, can be better imagined than described. Suffice it to say the two, as quietly as possible, started for the land, one at one quarter of the boat, and the other at the other quarter. Thus did the two. reach the firm ice, over which they dragged the skiff to its original position. After remaining two days with Mr. Cartier, and being generously cared for by Mrs. Cartier—who in her sphere is no less generous and thoughtful than her husbnd—a mild south wind came up and Mr. Snook, with the aid of Mr. Cartier, once more reached his boat and safely made his way back to Herson's [sic] Island, arriving there on the 16th of December, and being joyously welcomed by a father, sister, wife and children, the minds of whom had been filled [blot] the worst of fears as so his safety [blot] acknowledgment of Mr. and Mrs. [blot]er's kindness, Mr. Snook sent by the first post—on the 17th—a letter full of thanks, in which all of his relatives most sincerely joined.

But this is not the only case, by any means, in which Mr. Cartier has proved his bravery and big-heartedness. In April, 1858, assisted by a younger brother Mr..Cartier, at the imminent risk of both their lives, put out into the lake in a small sail-boat, in a very wild storm, and rescued Capt. Charles Parker and a crew of four men from thescow China, which had become unmanageable and filled with water. Fortunately, before the scow had reached the shallow water and the breakers, some two miles from shore, the Cartiers succeeded in taking the men safe into their boat, not, however, until the entire deck load had been swept overboard, the men, when picked up, being upon the floating cordwood.

Another instance of Mr. Cartier saving life oecurred in December, 1857, and was recorded at the time of its occurrence. A wood-scow became disabled in a storm, and was seen by Mr. Cartier, by the aid of his glass, drifting to the northwest, off Tickeytackey Point. At once Mr. Cartier put off with the small sail-boat which he then had, to the scow, and succeeded in overhauling her some fifteen miles from the lighthouse, and during a blinding snowstorm. However, he succeeded in getting off the two men who were upon the scow, which broke up and went to pieces a few minutes afterward.

A fourth case was in connection with the schooner Wetzell, which lost her main mast and capsized off the American shore of Lake St. Clair, but afterward lighted, and full of water, drifted across the lake within the range of the River Thames light. Mr. Cartier and his brothers Charles and Frank, notwithstanding a strong northwest gale was blowing at the time, put out to the rescue of those on board the foundered vessel. This was early in the moning [sic], the vessel being discovered when Mr. Cartier went to put out the lights in the lighthouse. After considerable work not unmixed with much personal danger the schooner was reached by the Cartiers, and three men taken off, each one of whom was so benumbed and disabled by the cold and wet that he was next to being totally helpless. So bad indeed were they that it was fully three weeks before they were in a condition to leave Mr. Cartier's house and one of them, about a month after he did leave, died from inflammation by the privations he suffered on board the Wetzell during the night previous to being rescued by the Cartiers.

Here, then, we have enumerated no less than four separate instances wherein Mr. Cartier, sometimes alone, at other times nobly supported by his brothers, has, at the imminent peril of his own life, succeeded in rescuing from certain death no less than eleven human beings. We think these facts which we have stated, deserve more than a passing notice, are entitled to more than a careless consideration. Some months ago we noticed that the Royal Humane Society of England granted medals to two men named respectively Tinning and Berry, for having saved some lives off Toronto harbor, and we were pleased to see their unquestionable pluck thus prominently recognized, and we feel sure that Mr. Thomas Cartier's repeated acts, similar in every respect to the one single act of Messrs. Tinning and Berry, have only to be fairly represented in the proper quarter to assure for them a similar recognition. ———<>———

"Kentucky, Oh, Kentucky." The Kentucky Legislature has decided against allowing negroes the same opportunity for the protection of the courts as white men. The House has decided by 74 yeas to 15 nays against allowing negroes to testify incases in which white-, men are parties. Our Frankfort letter, gives the facts.

This places Kentucky in her proper position before the country. She decides that a negro has no rights which a white man is bound to respect.

Old Kentucky seems determined to die singing anthems to the past and H-coir ling defiance to the pre?ent. Let her hold fast on the horns of her old blood-stained altar, and go down under the judgment pronounced against the old gods of heath?, enism.—Cin. Times.

THE ^National Association of School Superintendents is to hold a special session in Washington beginning on the first of next month, at which brief and prac!ir cal addresses will be delivered by Commissioner Barnard, General Howard, and theStateSuperintendents of Maine, North Cnrolina^ wuisiawt and Ohio.