Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 February 1870 — Page 2

J*rt undfotoadt** the «n will b* taken nnfar the regulations adopted in 1850,. modified to suit the new 'amendments to the Cpnttttotion.

GEN. ROBKKT 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.

THE Alabama man who offered a bribe of $1,000,000 for the assassination President Lracour, now humbly prays Congress to remove his political diaabili -ties.

THE Newark Courier say#: "Looking at the portrait of MAKTON MARBLE in 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 ^ereon in West Virginia, so far as it ^nows, favors a reunion of that State with ^Virginia, and that certainly no party is •willing 'o avow any such wish or purpose.

WXSHIMOTOK FWTMK

BYISM," as shown

during the recent visit of a son of the excel lent old woman who sometimes pro* rubies the British Parliament, to our na'ional capital, has stirred to their innermost depths the feelings of the young man who oscillates between statistics slid hifalutin on the fourth page of thfe Indianapolis Journal. He seeks relief in "ohl-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." .* *%££&

"ECONOKT has the floor," is the tlrse way in which the Chicago RepuMitok desibes the present feeling in CoMgtess Seduction is the rule of arHhNMtfc that every legislator now needs to uftdttffltand and practice. Even Mh DXWES is behind the times. There occasion of gratulation in the alacrity with which the House cut down .his naval deficiency bill the other d«f, from three millions to one and a half million, and the unanimous ^Viblic approval that has confirmed the wisdom of the reduction^ We no more need a strong navy to ttteet the possibility of offending impotent Spain, than we Meed ah army o? occupation in Minnesota to settle the Winnipeg half-breed question*

THE Cincinnati GaMlv, after acknowledging that GeH.

HAI.I.OCK

purposely

withheld th* Order removing Gen. THOMAS, atones its last article on the "BattNi df Nashville" questioh with the fuU«w(hg paragraph: "The blunder of 'order removing TnoMAS is seen, and the good fortune which saved the country from it is appreciated. It is not nefeessary that anybody should be proved infallible and successful men can afford to fade iheir mistakes. GRANT and STANTOH both thought that they at Washington and City Point could comprehend the situation and the military possibilities better than THOMAS could on the ground. The result proved that they were mistaken, and justified the greater confidence Which the country had reposed in Gen. THOMAS, to which all now assent."

JUDGE BRADLEY, nominated for the Supreme Bench, is about fifty-twoyear* of age, a graduate of Rutger's College, New Jersey, and a member of the banle class with ex-Senator FBELINOHUYSEH. lie graduated with high honors, and then studied law under the 'ate Chief Justice HORNBLOWER, 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, and 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 inany of the profession in Philadelphia. This is the first time that New Jersey has been honored with an appointment to the United States S'ipreme Bench.

Republican County Convention. Elsewhere in this issue, we publish the proceedings of the Republican Convention, of this county, held on Saturday last. There was a fair attendance from the various tofcbships and everything passed off in the ordinary rnannor of political conventions. A list of delegates and alternates to represent the different townships in the State.Convention was appointed, and in addition thereto every Republican of the county who shall be at Indianapolis, on the 22d jnst,, was constituted a delegate. An £xecutivo Committee, for the cdhnty, was selected. The Convention adopted a phort sories of resolutions expressing the sentiments of the party, in this county, on the leading issues of the day.— The usupl efforts to substitute other resolutions for those reported by the Committee on Resolutions were made, and failed. The ^resolutions adopted fairly reflect the views of the party, in this locality, on all general questions that will probably come before the approaching 8\-ite Cenvention, and cannot fail to meet the approbation of our Republican voters. The temper of the convention was good, and the interest manifested by thosd in attendance on its proceedings argued well for the future of the campaign now opening, and was an indication that Vigo •will be heard from in October next, with #n increased Republican majority.

The Sentinel Corrected Again. One false step is almost sure to necessi­-

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tate another. Thus it is with the <Sentinel> in the pig iron controversy. Having attempted to palm off some worthless figures—gleaned from a paper printed before a ton of iron was made in Clay county—as the result of A. L. CRAWFORD'S experience as an iron-maker in that county, and having had its sharp practice pretty thoroughly exposed, it now feels compiled to resort to further attempts at deception. This is the way of doing it: It takes <the average selling price> which we gave, and puts that as our statement of <the average cost>,

thus: "The Express gives the figures to show that the average cost of making several grades of iron in Clay county is $37 per ton." Now the editor of the <Sentinel> must have known when he wrote that paragraph that the EXPRESS had done nothing of the kind, for our tables were be-

ore

fore him showing the cost to be $30.60 for pig iron made from 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 <Sentinel> correct its misstatement? Or is it so badly pushed that it must resort to such means of deceiving the people?

^ADasgerMs Paliey.

The personal opinion of the editor of the Evansville Courier,or any other newspaper, is a matter of little public interest, bnt the serionf) Utterance of the organ of a party, and especially of the domi nant party, in a Congressional District, upon a grave question of public ithpor» 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 Courier under this caption: "The Reverend Scoundrel White." The immediate canst 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 citizen, from U. 8. GRANT 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. WHITE than for any other re*peccable citizen and were it not that the ettettties of free speech, by assailing that right in his person^ bring him info prominence, it is not likely that we should find occasion to mention his

name. The Courier, in view of the shameful mob at ColurtbuS) iays! "It is not wonderful that the adherents of the Catholic faith should be incensol at the efforts Of that BttUy fknatic 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 practteef and corruption of the confessional I"

Onlj a scoundrel of the deepest dye would in this base manner BEAR FALSE WITNESS against his neighbor, without a shadow of provocation."

The italics and small cap's are the CotWWf'e, 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 are good and virtuons men and women in all the various branches of. lie Church of Christ. But how doe" 'be Ctmrier say that he attempts to prove hi or "to make it appear"? Simply eading from approved Catholic We ask the Courier and all inteliijvnt 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 scoundrel 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 with 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. JOHN 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 cxcite the mob spirit, and we have no idea that he would suggest bowlders as a proper reply to argument. It was always his habit 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 strength 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 armory 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 Presby terian clergyman. If there is any creed in this country which cannot stand the test of free disenssion, it must die out. If there is any sect or party that encourages mobs to suppress or punish free speech, that sect or party is handling the most dangerous kind of edge tools, and may, possibly, learn, too late, that it has whetted a knie,for its own throat.

Iw EVAXSVILLE on Friday night Harry Henderson was badly beaten and robbed of $26« f.'

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

THE Rev. Amxi Atwater has been elected Professor of Latin by the Trustees of the Indiana State University.

SINKER & Co., Indianapolis, are putting up an entirely new engine house on the site of the one destroyed by the recent

explosion.

Aw Indignant oorrsapoodent writes iw that pig iron isgetting •obea'Wr. Does ha mean that for a joke, or is he deficient Is orthography?—Ad.

PaliUcalHotea and Gleaaiag*.

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

MR. COKBACK honors his profession in refusing to abandon it for this palter allurements of the Portugese Mission^

THE Indianapolis Journal advises the President to nominate the Hon. Joseph Holt, of Kentucky, for the. Sup Court.:

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 Owner-Journal advises the Democracy to "watch and pray."— Which the Cincinnati Timet says is evidently a misprint—prey was intended:

"WotttiD It Hot be well," asks the Fostoria (Ohio) Netes, "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. Butterfield, 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 Pea body 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 a great affair but when I see this House a-tetering and see-sawing as if it didn't know its mind, I declare I with 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.

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, ft

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That body on

SPEAKINO 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, Holman and Voorhees, were absent. Eight members, Packard, Shanks, Tvner, Orth, Coburn, 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."

IKDEPEFDENT 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 up 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 neminating 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 bring 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 bar, 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 SIXVER" 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, ne 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 face. 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. lie 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 pro posed action will have the desired effect, and send oar wandering coins homeward.

THE "blondes" have departed from Indianapolis, leaving the editor of the SmfMie(,the leg-acy of their unmitigated contempt. He now demands the restoration, of the fcgr-itimate drama.

FRANK AINSWORTH, Superintendent of the House of Refuge, reports the number of inmites in that institution at 132 Since its organisation not a single boy has escaped who has not been recaptured and bronght back.

THE Lafayette Courier learns thai during the recent religious revival at Shaw net Mound acarly one hundred peraoos hare 'professed religioM, and eighty new members have heea added to th« Methodist Church.

TERMS $2.00 A YEAR) TERREHAUTE, INDIANA WEDNESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 16,1870.

PerMnal a«4 Politiul.

THE Bostanifafsays "Carpentermade chips of- Somner's argument on Cuba." "THE Great Anlerican Clamorer" is the Chicago JkpMlta*** pet name, for Wendell Phillips.

THE Republican State Convention of Oregon is called to meet on the 7th of April.

THERE isa little talk about running Gen. Butler as a candidate for Governor of Massachusetts.

THE Universal Peace League in France has elected-Andrew Johnson, Charles Sumner, 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.

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

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

A LARGE 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. -jvs*

THE politiflidl 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 <World> 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 a better 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 PAPERS 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 rate 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 correspondent under the cheapened rates fully compensated for the reduction in price. ———<>———

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WASHINGTON.

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, 123,975,830 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 inr terest on public debt, $2,548,531 84 purchase of United States bonds $40,281,015,28 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.

LOUISVILLE, Feb. 12.—Track-laying on the Ohio river bridge was completed this afternoon, and at 6 P. M. an experimental train, consisting of an engine and several empty cars, passed over it safely, amid shouts from spectators on either shore. Next week the members of the State Legislature and State and municipal officers will participate in a grand celebration to be given for its formal opening to the public.

The President of the Bridge Company notified the State and municipal authorities of Kentucky and Indiana that the bridge will be opened for railway purposes on Thursday, Feb. 17th, and for vehicle and foot passenger travel on June 1at, when the gran final celebration will be held.

^rr: TiiE oij» rKor^ueB. •The-oM professor taatfhtno more. Bnt lingered round the college walk Stories ofhim we bojrs told o'er,_.

Before tne (be. In evening talkr* •PU ne'erfometaowlie enmeift.&Mt.< To raptatioAt OM Mirekiiiahti And asked oar tutor to Oeftn

And let me hear these Voyi Teelte/ •&!•:. .-.•••• 'V-

As we passed oeU we heard himsay. "Pray leave me'here awhile alone! Herein myoldpUee let me stay MuJast as Idid in years long flown. 06r tutor stalled, and bowed consent,

BOM courteous ftowhis hiafc-Wked enair, And down the darkening staifs he Went, Leaving the old professor there, ,,

From out the shadows faces )emed To look onnim in his old place. Fresh fisees that-with radiance beamed—

Radiance of boyish hope and graee 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 cUng.

"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 fan. And thstone's cheating —ah! Isee-STS

I see and love them every one.

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 onee more is in my hand. Once more I hear these very boys,

And seek their hearts to understand.

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

There used to be when fellows went To ask him questions an^ to talk tesu When recitations were all o'er— We saw him in the college walk ,.

And in his former place ne more.. —[Barnard Advocate.

A TRICK OF TRADE.

Showing How a Poor Offle Seeker was Made to Decline a Place when he did not Want to, and Containing a Hint to Office Seekers Generaly. From the Milwaukee Wisconsin.]

The German was naturally very indignant. _"Who say dat—-who tell dat tam helltire 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 hell-fire you doe3—vot for is dis— "Whv," said the other, "you have declined "to be a candidate—what are_you talking about? "Teclines—I teclines? I teclines noting—I want de blace, unt you say I gets him, unt now you doe's 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 thev would confer upon liim 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 jill now. He had been led into a trap as told above, and now had lost the office he coveted so 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. "I did not believe there was so great a rascal in the world,'' said the man^ "I showed that signature around and was iroud to work for a man that could write lis 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 we hope he will not, and we hepe too that none of the office-hunters now so anxious for a place will be caught in the same or any 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 Sc tland.

The Mormon missionaries in Deniurk made a thousand c^n verts last year.

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

The National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart, London, has. had more "than 33,000 patients.

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 memorv, has done $10,000,000 damage.

A Paris musician enjoyed the unusual leasure of playing his own funeral march iy taking a slow but comfortable poison jid awaiting its action at the piano-forte.

and awaiting

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

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

Anew city and port is to be founded on the south coast of the Caspian Sea, for the purpose of promoting tne 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 Court in Nuoro, Sardinia, some malicious person set fire to the judge's wig and rol

Louis Koesnth will receive a copyright of ten thousand lire from a Turin pu lisher for the Italian edition of bis autobiography.

The student Ivaaoff^ who recently betrayed the great political conspiracy in Moscow', has been assassinated by some oftlfcJMsmmpUcesg

At the faneral of M. Victor Noir, the RepnMieafci aarHed wreaths of reil" immortelles. tiw other partiet riolels, and tha free fUsken wbite.

SCHOOL-BOOM DISEASES.

Mjwt 9T SkrtSjItotaess-DH-euties afthe Head Itw Bleediar —Sfbul Diseases—PahMBary and

S«r«tmla» CoBplaiats. The -celebrated Gerjnnn physiologist. Dr. Virchow, of Berlin, latjy addressed to the Minister of Public Education of Prussia a report upon the diseases inci dent to 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 scholacB in the schools near and in the neighborhood of Breslan, the capital of. Silesia^ seventeen per cent, are near-lighted. The smallest percentage of diseis&i eyes was found in the village schools, and 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 eyesight of sixty-eight was impaired. The causes of this disastrqps condition were found, not only in the insufficient light of che school-room, but principally in the permanent nearness of tne 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-darkhess 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 oat of 731 or uj ward of 40 per cent, suffered from heac ache, the girls being about twice as much affected from it as the boys.. In Darmstadt, 3,564 boys- and girls belonging to lublic 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 increased with tne 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

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 eity not many years ago there were several gentlemen who wanted a particular office air, and takes from it its life-giving prin-

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and had the ".vant" as severely as mortal man could have it, which is saying considerable when we consider the office seekers of Milwaukee. These gentlemen were considerably disturbed by the fact that a worthy but most innocent German was after the saincplace, and whal^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. One 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."

ciple. Bleeding from the no»e is also rapidly on the increase in German schools. This is accounted for from the cause just given. The higher classes 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 strikingly noticeable 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 -amopg 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 ana 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 seatflj improper confinement, and false habits in the schools, whereby the circultion of the blood in the abdominal regions may become interrupted.. The.*e are the facts underlying the report. They are intensely interesting, and should be studied attentively and 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 (Ill.) 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 the 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, the other, a sister, Elizabeth Ray. The latter is a "grass widow," and the one with a family has 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 recounted somewhat 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 not 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 [sic] and Quincy road, their fare paid to Quincy, and money in their pockets. ———<>———

Of thelkdicsof 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 saft than the sunny peach—I have seen on the Campos Geraes, 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 alwavs modest and what they lack in regular beauty is forgotten in their amiable deportment. They have intelligence without much book knowledge. I re member a senhora who asked me if my country, the United States, bordered on Spain."

The experiment of placing a 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 wajr a New York clergy man consoled a widow at the 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 pnre and true mxuj's grave than to have a living husband by your side, false to God, and false to his marriage vows."

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The Legal-Tender Decision. From the Chioago Bepablieant] The Suprem Court of the United States has decided that the LecalTeader act is uacoastitntional, so fiu- as it impairs the obligations of contracts. The Hepburn vs. Griswokl,in which the decisionis given, camejnp oa appeal from Kentucky and ma argued for tha last time at the December term, 1868, by Mr. Evarts and Mr. Cortia. The subject in controversy was a note made before Feb. 25,1862, payable in "dollars." Legaltenders notes were offered in. payment and refuesed. The Kentncky 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 jndaer of the eight dissenting, affirm the judg ment below.

The decision of Chief Justice Chase, 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 mads subsequent to Feb. 25,1862, the date

a law, not made in pursuance of an exiress 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, without due process of law" are held^to operate directly and in restraint of the legislative power conferred by the Constitution. Since a very 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-nve cents, and a japer 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 ar^iment is '. too broad and unsatisfactory.

Jnder 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 the_ 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 bonds for the corporate indebtedness of States, counties, cities^ railraods, and other corporations. Since these corporations have saved in interest the diflerence 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 all contracts made since Feb. 25, 1862, and prior to Feb. 7, 1870, the date of the decision, will be payable in green backs, those being 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 ne 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. 7,1870, ceased on the latter date. If this position is correct, current^ contract! must be paid in gold, nnless greenbacks are specified. In any event, it will be prudent for all hereafter to know whether they are making contracts for gold or greenbacks, which they may do by specifying the kind of money in writing,

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

Deellnei.

JLieatenant Governor Cumnack nas sent a letter to the President of the United 8tatei'thaflking him for the appointment •f Minister torartngal, bat declining it, far the principal zaaaon that the salary woakfaot jMtUylllni la leaving laaal ntnatiia.

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sage, or upon contracts hereafter-to be made, the decision is silent. The dig* senting opinion leaves the record, and gives an obiter dtetem that the act is in every respect constitutional. The argument of the Chief Justice is very simple. However disloyal it may have been to doubt the constitutionality of this measure at the time of its passage, the Court does tiot now hesitate to impugn its validity in relation to pre-«xisting 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 hoids that the Legal-tender act, as to pre-existing contracts, comes within 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 great 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 1 private contracts, and at the same time prohibiting the States from issuing paper legal-tenders. But. this is not the ground of the decision. One oft hese fundamental principles was that "no State shall pass any laws impairing the obligation of contracts. True the prohibition does not apply in express terms t'o the General Government, nut it declared that

NU T*OTIIPX,I«HT.

Cnnuoa radbchind the hill rang ioijr. Homeward, from a bootless quest. Went the wild bee hamming

To a comrade dear he cries,' fey "Truest friend, and nearest, 9 Bear this lock of bloody hair

To her my heart holds dearest. Bertha! we shall meet again Where the true part nover Bertha!" then his eyes grew dark, And were closed forever.

Home to Bortha hied the friend. Found her wild with weeping "Bertha was his latest word Ere he sank to sleeping." "I shall follow him full soon, •m ji Whom I loved so blindly

Then she met his comrade's eyes. And she thought thorn kindly.

"Comfort! comfort! do not dio! Thou art fair and youthful Onee again she met his eyes And she thought them truthlul. Smiling slily, stood at.hand Love, the flaxen-headed When, for her dear Rudolph's sake. She his comrade wedded!

LAU the Year Sound.

QUARTZ MINING IN WYOMING. ———

The Richest Gold Region on the Continent. ———

South Pass City Cor. of the Omaha Herald.] Our country like all other quartz and mining countries, has had its drawbacks —its quartz vampyres 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 continent of its age.

Our quartz mills have been another great drawback. Many of them were bought 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 the spring if, poor Lo [Indians] 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 against 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 [sic] 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 Worse?" ^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 and consider how many revolting crimes are recorded if any one should stop to think, seriously, about the multitude of crimes commited, 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 lirtd r.n railroads, ito telegrapoe, no comprehensive means oi intercommunication. In the early days of the Republic, we had only three or four journals, good, bad and iindifferent. 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, taoreover, 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 onr view, morality, religion and observance of law, considered in gener lity, are making commendable progress. We do not believe there are as many crimi nals 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 years ago would have died out, and been ignored as matter of journalistic news, is now caught up with avidity, [and made a topic of local comment, perhaps of editorial excoriation.-—Chicago Republifxm.

The Woman's Club of Brooklyn is composed of about thirty ladies, nearly all of whom are married. Meetings are held every fortnight, and it has been determined to have a social gathering at least once a month at the house of some of the members. The admissian fee is $3, to be followed by the annnal payment of the same amount. Gentlemen are admitted to associate membership on the same terms. The object of the Club is mental growth, though philanthropic work will be heartily engaged in if it Comes in the way of the Association. The discussions are chiefly tipon other subjeccs, and Woman Suffrage is in no wise an aim »f the Club'though it is not excluded as a topic of interest. It is an organisation of thoughtful women, who earnestly desire to know something more, and know it more thoroughly than.they have hitherto done. 9*** *=•-.•

MRS.

STANTOH'S advice about choosing wife is: "Always look for a girl with 'good teeth, for the teeth area sample of every bone in the fair one's body." Judged, by this rule, there are precionsfew girl* of the period with sound bones in (heir bodies. HBless it holds good with re-

PERSONAL

Earth was weary, day was done. And the night was coining.

Sadly thro* the greoc wood Walked a youth and maiden. Looking in each other's eyes, rood and sorrow laden. "Rudolph, now thy country calls. And oar lives aro parted Be thoa brave—bat keelthy troth. And be constant-hearted.".

Of the fleam ing golden hair One bright lock she.sanders Day is dying—far away Sound the. battle thanders. "Fare thee well, mino own true love Where oar flag is flying I shall boar thy lock of hair. Faithful an to dying." •«.

Far away the thnnder sounds, Swiftly speeds the lovor, Wild and loud tho.days go ty Till the strife is ovor. Red and bloody gleams the sun Over dead and dying, Siok to death upon the field See the.lover lying!

The Work of a Lighthouse Kccper-. Eleven Lives Saved by Personal Effort in Twelve Tears—A Case for the Hnmane Society.

From tho 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 tho way of lending aid—personal_ and pecuniary—to sailors ana 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 engagied rather extensively in fishing in the vicinity of Herson's Island and Mitchell's Rar, at the upper end of Lake St. Clair, in the first week in December last, started from Herson's 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 couid^ 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 Herson's Island. Not daunted, however, Snook determined to procure lns stock of supplies which he had left with Mr. Cartier, and, with this object in view, a tew 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 how it could lie reachcd. To go outt ... on foot was certain death, the ice being., verv 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 burningall 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. Aft alcng and tiresome pull, and tramp of over two miles, the plucky v. hthouse-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 Snoek benumbed and almost helpless from the cold, being, only with great determination sustained by the light-house light, which told him that his situation wa3 known on shore, and that with the dawn of day relief would surely come to him in his forlorn situation. The great joy with which hisvchilly hand grasped the oucstretchcd hand of the no less thoughtful than brave Cartier, can be better imagined than described. Suffice it to say the two, as quick-. 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 Sir. Car- ». tier, and being generously dared for by Mrs. Cartier—who in her sphere is no less jenerous and thoughtful than her liusjand—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 Island, arriving there on the 16th of December, rJ and being joyously welcomed by a father, sister, wife and children, the minds of whom had been filled with the worst of fears as so his safety. In acknowledg-' ment of Mr. and Mrs. Cartier's kindness, Mr. Snook sent by the first post—on the 17th—a letter full of thanks, in which all of his relatiyes most sincerely joined.

But this is not the only Case, by any means, in which Mr. Cartier lias proved his bravery and big-hcartedness. In April, 1858, assisted by a younger brother Mr. Cartier, at the imminent risk of bot]i_. 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 the scow China, which had become unmanageable and filled with water. Fortunately, before' the scow had reached the shallow water 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 occurred in December, 1857, and was recorded at the time of its occurrence. wood-scow became disabled in a storm, and was seen by Mr. Cartier, by the aid ..V of his glas.j, drifting to the northwest, off Tickeytackev Point. At once Mr. Cartier put toff with the small sail-boat which he then had, to the scow, and suc» ceeded 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 Americanshore 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, the vessel being discovered when Mr. Cartier went to put out the lights in the lighthouse. After considerablc 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 had 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 CartiersX

Here, then, we have enumerated no less than four separate instances wherein Mr. Cartier, sometimes alono, 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. i'

"Kentucky, Oh, Kentncky." The Kentucky Legislature has decided against allowing negroes the same oppor* tunity for the protection of the courts as white men. The House has decided by 74 yeas to 15 nays against allowing negroes to testify in ca^es in which white men are parties. Our Frankfort letter gives the facts.

This places Kentucky in her proper position before the country. She decides thata negro has no rights which a white man is hound to re«pect.

Old Kentucky seems determined to die singing anthems to the past and scowling defiance to the present. Let her jiold fast on the horns of her old blood-stained altar, and go down under the judgment pronounced against the old gods of heath*

Tma 'National Association of School Superintendents is to hold a special session in Washington beginning on the first of next month, at which brief and practir cal addresses will be delivered by Commissioner Barnard, General Howard, and theStateSuperintendents of Maine, Jfonh urtyir Louisiana and Ohio.