Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 April 1870 — Page 1

TJIE ceremonies of laying the cornerstone of the "Southern Illinois Normal University," at Carbondale, will take place on Tuesday, the 17th day of May next. Gov. PALMER has consented to deliver the address on the occasion.

THE Louisville Courier-Journal is not excessively complimentary to those Democrats who have so suddenly changed their hate for "the nigger-' into affection for their colored brother. That paper says:

When a man who has been a rampant secessionist and a bull-hculed hater of abolitionism all his life suddenly takes the negro to his arms as a long-lost brother or sister and commence! to abuse the white people at the same time, you have but to point your gun at him and pull the trigger if you wish to shoot down a full-blown scalawag in starch of negro votes.

TUB official canvass of votes cast at the late special election in the Tenth Ohio Congressional District gives the following result: For ERAMUS D. PJCCK, Republican, 13,'228 for W. I). Hrix, the regular Democratic nominee, 10,083 and for I'. M. CAIITEU, Repudiation Democrat, 1,003. Majority of PECK over IIII.L, 2,045, and over both competitors, 1,042. This will do very well for a district that gave nearly 1,000 majority for the Democratic candidate at the last previous election.

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IT IS stated th^t the passage' of the Forccbill by the English Parliament, has already caused an outflow of Irish grants to the United States .almost unprecedented for this season of the year Every steamer and vessel leaving Cork is crowded, and there is a general desire to escape the tyranny of the Coercion act, the despotism of which the Irish people have once before fell. They are looking with longing eyes to Amcnca, and if they can obtain the means, the number who will emigrate will exceed any thing in years past. tr t. I

A BOSTON JOURNAL mentions the fact that a person bearing the somewhat vola-tile-cognomen of PATRICK GASS, lately died in West Virginia at the advanced age of' 98 years and 9 months. This GASS has been for many years, so far as known, the sole survivor of the adventurous company of forty-three officers and private [sic], who under LEWIS and CLARK made the celebrated exploring expedition over the Rocky Mountains, and then back, being the first white men who ever accomplished it. This was in 1804-5-6, during the administration of Mr. JEFFERSON, and the results of the expedition were justly regarded and widely published as of immense and national importance. Mr. GASS published a private journal of his observations during this expedition, now many years out of print, but at the time a work of some notoriety. ———<>———

Tin: Journal is alllicted because the salary of Senator REV BUS "goes on" while the .Senator is ab.-.ent on occasional lecturing tours. If Mr. KIOVEJ.S desired to point to a Dcmooratic precedent in justification of his absence, he might select the example of DANIEL W. Voonni-:ns, who is proved, by the Congressional Globe, to have been absent at more roll-calls than any other mail who occupies a seat in either branch of Congress. Hut we have never heard that Mr. V. declined to accept any portion of his salary or mileage on account of long-continiied absence from duty. The Hon. JOHN MOKKISSKY is another model Democrat whose example might be quoted by Senator Ri vi-:t.s. That distinguished New York statesman is hotly contesting with DANIKI, the honor of being "The Great Absentee." The country, however, is not imperiled, the perpetuity of the Great licpublic not jeopardized, by the failure of Voouinci-w and MOIIKISSEY to subject the cushions of their rcats to diurnal pressure. These things can be safely borne in "these weak, jiif«ing times of peace," so long as the" country knows just where these two illustrious men will be found when danger threatens the Hag!

i- \v MEXICO, just HOW a pressing applicant for admission to the Union, has an area of 1-1,201 square miles, or nearly eighty millions of acres, 'lhe surface is made up of vast table lands, traversed by ranges of mountains, between which are extensive and fertile valleys. The largest valley" is that of the liio Grande, which extends across the Territory from north to south. There are mountain peaks 12,000 feet high, and which are covered with perpetual snow. The Territory is deficient in navigable streams, and will be obliged to depend upon railroads for its means of travel and trans|Krtatron. The agricultural portion of the Territory is mostly confined to the valleys, which are of grcaj productiveness, and are adapted to corn, wheat, barlev and oats and also to apples, peaches, melons, apricots and grapes. The semiI roptcal fruits grow in the southern portion of the Territory. There are extensive foiesis'of pine, cedar, spruce, cotton"wood and sycamore, with a liberal sprinkling of oak and walnut. The principal weal'.h of New Mexico, however, lies in its rich mineral deposites of the must valuable and useful ores. The lands that have been surveyed amount, in the aggregate, to 3,114,731 acres. It is worthy of mention as a remarkable fact in relation to this Territory, tljat it was visited by the Spaniards nearly a hundred years before the landing of the Pilgrims, and its nineral wealth was known to the Spansli adventurers.

Finn's AN os of people in this city, Thursday, as they beheld the rejoicing of the colored people over their political emancipation, experienced a sense of devout thankfulness to the great Kuler of Nations that lie had permitted them to live to sec the 1 Velaration of Independence cea^e to be a mockery and come to be a fact. The event of the day prompted Memory to open the vista of buried vears, and many a heart traveled back to th'a davs—not very remote—when millions of oil countrymen were treated by the nation, by Stales ami by individuals, as mere animals, ui tor lhe use and convenience, of the white race when the Slave Tower wielded its scepter in even-

part

of the Union, and ruthlessly smote down all who dared to question its divine authority when men were stoned and women mobbed for quoting the word* of the Fathers of the Republic when to follow the dictates of humanity, the te idlings of the ord ot »xl, in on-is treatment of the colored race, was Jv,invite lines and imprisonment, gcr and often to incur death.

Heaven

defy dan-

Well may every patriot heart

thank

that the era of cruelty and bar­

barity has passed away that through the long dark night of war, and the scarcely less dangerous years succeeding it, we have conic, at last, to the glorious dawn of the era of Justice, when all the inhabitants of this land, "favored of God so highly," are frcsmcn and fellow-citizens.

For those poor, croaki.ig,conservatives, who sit amid the mouldy ruins of decayed institutions and obsolete ideas, wearily •r sighing over the past and bitterly cursing the present, we have only pity, somewhat tinged with contcmpt. In this age of progress, they have no rightful place, but will grumbling!}' Wing on the verge of ex istence until lhe Jisparing Reaper galh^rs.heu,:in^

THE Express sneeringly says that the men who build railroads never rote the radical ticket!—Jounud.

The EXPRESS has never said anything that could be tortured into such language as the above. Our exact words were "As a very gener.il rule, the men who grade railroad* do not swell Republican majorities."

FOM,O\VIKO the example of numerous successful proprietors of patent medicines, the Journal is collecting testimonials as to the efficacy of DANIEL'S last speech. This Is its way of preparing the public mind for the rcccption of that document when it shall have screwed its courage up to a sufficient altitude to commence wrestling with the initial column of the great serial.

THE black slaves of lhe South in the days of their thraldom bad-far more freedom than the white men of the arm), who were recognized as democrats while in the service.—Kvfxnsrittc (Joitricr.

How can that be true if, as Democratic organs declare, the army was mainly composed of Democrats? It must have been a very small, feeble and cowardly minority that would submit, for four long vears, to le treated worse than toe "black slaves of the South!" r-tobalwiCr

was

A MONT, the few State Prisons which are made profitable to the State is that of Massachusetts. Last year the receipts were 8132,400.74. The stock on hand

$7,290.87, making a total of $139,757.71. The expenditures for that time

were

§104,020.8-1, which with the stock on hand in 1808, of $7,101 40, made a total of SI 11,181.24, showing a balance ot over $20,000 in favor of the prison. The Massachusetts State Prison, for the past three years, has yielded profits as follows: 1857, §22,340.10* 1807, $52,040.40, 1*09. §28,550.05 total, $78,548.70. The convicts arc hired by different manufacturing companies, and are largely employed in the manufacture of furniture, gas fittings, and boots and shoes. The statistics of the Massachusetts State Prisons show that it is possible to make criminal labor profitable. But the statistics of most prisons show them to be enormous burdens of expense to the States.

SOMEBODY, who occasionally corruscates in the Journal, occupies about two columns of Thursday's issue ofthat sheel in proving that Col. KICIIAKD W. iiiOMrSoN has made progress, in his political views, since 1855.

A mangy old' dog, sitting on his haunches beside a railroad, gnashing his rotten teeth, and growling at passing trains, is a true type of your modern

Democrat." The serenity of Col. THOMPSON S nnnd is not likely to be disturbed so long as his opponents do nothing worse than to prove that he is not a BOURBON. We venture to say that he will plead guilty to the charge of having learned a great deal in the half a generation that has elapsed sincc lie made the speech from which the Journal man quotes. Progress is a grave offence "gainst the code Democratic," but ev-y man whose life is worth anything to his country, or his rac?^ lives in constant violation of that code. It is only your "Democrat" who thinks it necessary to wear his moral and intellectual diapers all his life, because they may have been rendered sacred by the touch of bis grandmother.

THE Cincinnati Tiiiwx publishes divoice statistics of Ohio from which it appears that the aggregate of divorces in that State as follows: 1805 ... .:.. ^.:..V.-937

ISM 975 975

years 1800 1807

84i

J'003

It is calculated from these figures that bv 1879, allowing for the increase of population, Ohio will have 300,000 marriages and 10,000 divorces. The aggregate of divorces the five years between 1805 and 1S09, both inclusive, was 4,900. The average of divorces for these years was 1 to 28 marriages. The ratio for three as follows: 1 to 20 1 to 30 1809 1

This shows that in 1809, in spite of the increase ol population and in a spile of a considerable diminution of divoice.-*, the proportion of divorces to the number of marriages wa-one to tweiuy-tour, while in 1800 it was one to twenty-six. it thus appears that in 1809 the number of marriages was not so great, by a considerable, as in 1800. The same causes that diminish the number of marriages seem to increase the number of divorces. The facts, therefore, show that there is in progress an encouraging degree of improvement, in domestic happiness in Ohio.

THE Kvansville Oniric, has an article discussing the "military despotism" that bore so heavily upon the patriotic Denu crats of Indiana at the State election of 1804, which was about the time when the necks of several of those patriots were be. ginning to ache in anlici|ation of the halter, and shortly after the war-a-failure demonstration at Chicago, in which, if we remember correctly, the editor of the Conritr was an actor. Speaking of the city of Kvansville. in those days this veracious historian says: "Spies and informers stood on the corners to pick up soldiers who dared lo be independent, and a guard of men was regularly detailed to bring them up for punishment. Many a )oor soldier wa punisned by military tyrants for daring to vote as theirapunseience* dictated, while hundreds aiurthoiisands were compelled, bv the iron rule of petty tyrants, to vote direct Iv in violation of their sentiments."

Now we happen to know—because the writer of this article was then in Evansvillc and in a jwsition to have a full knowledge of military affairs—that there is is not a single word of truth in the Com-icr's statements. No such "spie.s and informers stood on street corners no soldiers were "pickcd up" for •'daring to be indc[endent no "guard was detailed'' to bring anybody "up for punishment no soldier was punished for voting one way or the other, and no one was "compelled" to vote at all. But it i. true that the soldiers then stationed at Kvansville were very desirous to vote for MORTON and the Republican ticket, and ncarlv all of them did so. They could not vote with the party that contained, in its verv core, an infamous organization of traitors—an organisation that had a strong branch in Kvansville, which met in midnight conclave, to plot treason. Where they met, who they were and what they did, ought to lie well known to the Courirr.

Three thousand vagrant goats roam the Streets of Savannah.

A WASHINGTOH CORRESPONDENT state* that "in considering the question of the. Louisville Canal, the Appropriation Committee, on motion of LAWRENCE, of Ohio, inrtructed BECK, of Kentucky, to examine the whole subject and report. This work hits been performed and LI ready for pre sentation to the Committee. It will recommend the immediate completion of the canal by the Government, and the im mediate appropriation of such sum, not less than two hundred thousand dollars, as may be needed. While no formal discussion has taken place upon the matter in full'committee, it seems to be understood that BECK'S proposition will be agreed to."

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New York holds her next Stale Fair at utica. Tartar emetic pic detected a lunch thief in a Vermont school.

There were one thousand five hundred wagons in the Memphis Fifteenth Amendment procession.

Three suicides occurred within a recent week at Monaco, of persons ruined at the gaming table.

There were over 10,000 cor. victions for offenses against the game laws in Great Britain last year.

Kangaroo skins arc the latest things in French gloves, and kangaroo cutlets in' French restaifrants-.

Cornish miners, acco. ding to Dr. Barham, die of consumption between the ages of thirty-five and fifty.

The native churches in the Sandwich Islands gave, last year, nearly $30,000 in gold for Christian objects.

Juvenile prize fights, •governed by the latest rules of the London prize ring, are the latest novelty in Ilarrisburg.

Six strong-minded ladies in Philadelphia have created a sensation by walking down Chestnut street a la Bloomer.

The fruit-growers of Sacramento will pay fifty cents per day for Chinese labor, in gathering the fruit crop this season.

Iler Britannic Majesty's colonial troops are permitted to wear their beards, while those intended for home service must be clean shaven.

A Cincinnati horse ran over a boy recently, but according to the papers, "no bones were broken except his skull." The boy died soon after.

The Dwight Manufacturing Company, at Chicopec, Mas:- employ 1,600 persons of whom 885, more than fifty per cent., can neither read nor write. «f-

A Philadelphia lady, now residing in Paris, advertises that she will hold herself in readiness to accompany Amcrcan ladies on their shopping excursions.

A monster aerolite has recently fallen Fezzan, near Mourzouk. It weighs nearly 5,000 pounds, and is thought to be the largest meteoric body yet discovered.

A Texas man who lately committed suicide by taking poison, left a note requesting that a knife be buried with him, "so that, if he came to, Jie could cut his way out."

Two young men of Charleston were knocked down a few nights ago, gagged, and put on board the ship li. C. Winthrop. The shipsailcd the next day. This is the old press-gang revived.

New Dominion papers jire very much perturbed by the belief that the French Canadians are inclined to look upon the Ked river insurrection with something very near approaching gratification.

A nine-vear old boy at the school in Lincoln, Cal., was asked what punishment was given to Adam and Eve for eating the forbidden fruit in the garden of Kden? "They were driven off the ranch."

A Newark man is getting Mispiciousbecause his wife has several umes, lately, asked him why he didY.t apply for work at that nitro-'glycerinefactory which has exploded twice lately. lie wajjts a divorce.

A London paper lately made a novel use of the art of music by recommending the shares of a new mining company to its trusting readers on the ground that a gentleman, well known in the. musical world, was on the direction.

A Confederate medical officer hap estimated the whole number of rebels killed during the war at 53.773, and including those who died by disease, the nntnber lost was 100,000. lie says the whole available force of the Confederates was 0 0 0 0 0 0

According to high German authority, beer i« aduleratcd with a great variety of drugs and other substances, principally vegetable. Some of tlie are -harmless, some injurious. Anion" the substances mentioned are "opium belladonna, henbane, tobacco, ignatius beau and cocculus inducus. U- W

One of the oddest defences'* on record has just been made at Hamburg by a man who had murdered his wife from motives of jealousy According to his own account he had not murdered her, but "had killed her in a fair and honorable duel, as he had placed a pistol in her hand and told her to shoot at him."

Dion Bourcicault says that the human voice, when speaking with clear articulation and supplied from good lungs, will fill 400,(K)0 cubic feet of air, provided they be inclosed in a proper manner, and the voice placed and directed advantageously. The same voice singing can fill, with equal facility, 600,000 cubic feet.

Hundreds of barrels of pigeons are killed daily at a "pigeon roast" about six miles from Sheffield, Pa., on the Pennsylvania and Erie Railroad. Shooting tliem there degenerates from a sport into mere butchery, as there are such countjess flocks in the woods therealouts that huge limbs of trees are frequently broken down bv the weight of birds crowded on them.

The New Y"rk Sorosis bears on its roll the names of thirty eight newspaper and magazine writers,.six editors, twelve poets, six musical artist, twenty-five authors, two physicians, four professors, two artists in painting, nine workers in art nine teachers, ten lecturers, one historian, one compiler of scientific works, and three, well-known philanthropists.

Singular celestial phenomena are attracting the attention of Australasian astronomers. The nebula in Argo has been discovered to have changed its place in the southern skies, and is drifting away from its old place. A star in Argo, which in 1813 was the most brilliant in the heavens, excepting the dog star, can now scarcely be seen. ———<>———

A Slight Difference.

Pierre Soule was fond of telling the story of his first public essay iu English. It was an argument cefore a court in New Orleans, in a murder case. lie intended he said, to make a very dramatic and pathetic statement of trngiiy, which took blac« in the kitchen a public house. Hh thought he was getting on finely, hot every now and then lhe jury and the entire court burst into a laugh, which Jie could not understand. At last lie indignantly appealed for an explanation to the judge, who was also laughing. "Why Mr. Soule," said his Honor, "when you dot btiess intend to sav kitchen, yon say cAtobrw."

Sugar planters in Louisiana are paying $1 50 per day for ordinary laborers. The negroes are mostly engaged on their own little farms and little reliable"help" can be found in New Orleans.

The Kentucky Legislature passed social act for the benefit of a young man twenty years of age, that he might be permitted to practice as an attorney mil counselor at la'

AIWTBXATie*.

AUfeutfai CnrMtin at

Siagan Falb, Jaljr 4,1870.

To the Feoplt tf Ike United Statu emdtke Britiik Provtnea: Nearly one hundred years ago, thirteen out of fourteen British colonies of North America lesolved to sever their connection with the mother country, and to establish a nation for themselves. After a contest of seven years their object was accomplished, but one colony refusing to join in the effort for independence. This action of Canada must seem strange, ^considering Chat it had jnst been conquered from France, and therefore could have no sympathy with Englshd, iind its determination could only be accounted for upon the claim of precipitancy on the part of the ether colonies, by misdirection on the part of its leading men, or -upon mere accident—which ofter- shapes the destinies of mankind and forms the na tions of the earth.

The wisdom of thirteen colonies separating from the mother country, and in establishing a nation for themselves, is now admitted by the civilized world. From thirteen feeble colonies, they have grown to thirty eight powerfhl States, and by purchase, annexation, and conquest, have extended' from the lakes to the gulf and from jhe Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans. Their'advancement has been uncqualed among the nations of the earth. During the same time, while Canada lias progressed in common with the general advancement among mankind, the United States, with a kindred people and similar natural advantages has sur passed all others in the rapid increase of population, in the' general diffusion of Knowledge, and in material and political progress, thereby proving conclusively the manifest superiority of republican over monarchial institution*.

At all times, during the war of independence and since, the people of the United States have been in favor of

union with Canada. The union of kindred and)contiguous nations has, in all ages been advantageous to the nation so united, and recently this principle has been ex-, ciusively practiced in Europe, with the general approval and uniform advantage of united nationalities.

As a very large numlftr, if not even a majority, of the people of both countries are known to be in favor of union, which number is rapidly increasing, therefore many of the friends of annexation both in the United States andthe British Provinces, have concluded to call an annexation convention at Niagara Falls on the 4th of July next, for the purpose of fraternal and political intercourse, with the hope that a speedy union may be effected, so necessary to the continued peace and political prosperity of two kindred countries.

One delegate from each Congressional District in the United States, and one delegate from each 100,000 inhabitants in all the British' Provinces, will compose the convention. As a striking illnstation of the purpose of the convention, the "Old Ship Monarchy"—dismantled, with bulwarks stove in, despoiled of its ornaments and gilding, ana making a complete wreck, will be sent o.ver the Falls, to be dashed to pieces, on the eternal rocks of Liberty beneath. Other new and striking Republican and political spectaIes will be presented, intended to manifest and insure a fraternal feeling,and. en* courage the speedy union of the two kindred countries..

By order of the Canadian Annexation Euciety AMERICUS T. WILSON, President, Washington, D. C.

Louis MONTAGUE,

'i Vice President, Quebec, C. E. CHARLES^. DONALDSON, I Secretary, Toronto, C. W.|

The Women of

We concur in the remark of our Minister, Mr. Hassaurek, that their natural dignity, gracefulness Jand politeness, their entire selfppsession, their elegant and unaffected bearing, and the choiceness of their language, wouldenable them to make a creditable appearance in anv foreign drawing-room." Their natural' talents are of a high order but we must add that the .-.enoras are uneducated, and are incapable of either great vices or great virtues. Their minds, like the soil of their native country, are fertile, but uncultivated and their hearts, like the climate, are of mean temperature. Prayer books and French novels (inipor ed, as wanted, for there is not a book store iu the city), are the alpha and omega of their literature. Paris is considered the centre of civilization. They are comely, but not beautiful. Venus has given bee girdle,of fascination to few. Sensible of this, they paint. The ladies of Quito give few entertainments, for lack of ready money. This spend much of their time in needlework and gossip, sitting like Turkish sultans on divans or on the floor They do not rise at your entrance or departure. They converse in a very loud, unmusical voice. Wre never detected ba.shfulne.ss in the street or parlor. They go to mass every morning, and make visits of etijuete on Sundaya. The take more interest in political than donn tic affairs. Dust and cobwebs are unmistakable signs of indifference. Brooms are rarities suclj as exist are besoms made of split stick. Since our return we have sent to a Quitonian gentlemen, by request, a package of broomcorn seed, which, we trust, will be the forerunner of a harvest of brooms and eleaner floors in the high city. Not only the lords, but also the ladies, are inveterate smokers. Little mats are used for spittoons.—Prof Orion.

A VERY curious fact is developed-by the statistics of the Eastern Penitenliaiy for the past year. From Hon. Richard Vaux's report it appears that of the prisoners admitted during the past year 25.80, or nearly twenty-six per cent., were total abstainers from intoxicating drinks. As this is probably a larger proportion than the percentage of total abstinence men to the entire community, it at least affords ground for curious speculation. Generally one of the stereotyped arguments for the cause of temperance in drinking has been drawn from the prison statistics but here is a case which flies in the face of all the general assertions on the question. Mr. Vaux pushes the matter further in the figures which follow. For the same period the moderate drinkers supplied forty-five per cent, the sometimes intoxicated over_ twenty-two per cent, and the often intoxicated about six and a half per cent, of the penitentiary inmates, all of Which a fiords food for reflection.—Philadelphia Press. em#

A Remarkable FamiJj.

Webb is the name of a remarkable family in Hawkins county, Tenn. The father of the Webbs was named Theodoric, and the mother was named Catharine. They were both from Buckingham county, Va.: were of German extraction were married in the year 1795, and lived together fiftyseven years. Their immediate family consisted of seven sons and five daughters, and they raised them all at one spot, in Poor Vallev, within twelve miles of Kogersville. Ibe old man died in the year 1852, aged 84 years, and the old lady in the year 1870, and but a few weeks ago, aged 84 years. At the time of old Mrs. Webb's death their offspring numbered 216, ot whom 176 were living and 40 dead. Of this immense progeny, there are to-day living the whole of the original 12 children, 87 grand children, and 77 great-srrand-children, all of whom are to-day in goodheaith.

A WEALTHY RUSSIAN nobleman, whose" name has not been allowed to transpire, was detected in forcing his way to the private apartments ot thfe King of Prussia, in the Royal Palace at Berlin. The matter has been hushed up, and he was surrendered to the Russian authorities, and expelled from Prussian territory. The whoje affair is a mystery which creates no little talk in the society of Berlin.

Eugenie is now getting along with nly forty-three female attendants, whereas Josephine had sixty-six. The P.ince Imperial has bat fifteen besides his play

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Cox is called "the HoB."8unaet ShooFlyCofc." Dr. Newman Hall rays lie has no notion of ooningjhere to live.

Governor English pays tax in Nfew Haven on $286,895 of property. Hans Christian Anderson Is lame in one xrm, deaf, and in danger of becoming blind.

George Francis Train has had a book dedicated to him. It is the Omaha Directory.

The Dev of Tunis will visit Paris in August next. He wants to borrow money in that city.

Pierre Bonaj&rfo is gbihg to Belgium —to Russia—to America—to the bad," more likely.

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The Rothschilds'ne\ted £200,000 in introducing the Russian loan—all in the —T»Y of commissions. JT«ISS(UA

The first Christian Persian Ambassador has jnst been appointed to reprerent the Shah at the French Court?'*1"

Hartford society is pleasantly exercised over Clara Louise Keltogg's reported engagement to a gentleman there.

Mr. Howe Wheeler, and wife, of Worcester, Vermont, have jecently died, after a wedded life of seventy-two years.

Admiral Rous, of England, says one of his friends won $375,000 on a single race, and cioth sr friend won $575,000:

The o'ttsn day the Lord Chancellor of ining of ing present.

England read prayers at the opening of the House of Lords, no bishop Dei

The colored Senator, Mr. Bevels, v* ill deliver an. oration in the hall of the House, at Harrisburg, on the 26th .inst., the day of the amendment celebration.

Froude says that emigration, in-door occupations, hard work and poor living are impairing the British* constitution and producing a nation of dwarfs and invalids.

Geo. H. Butler, Our distinguished Consul at Egypt, has' propitiated his wife Rase (late Eytinge), and will take her with him to the land of the Pharaohs and Ptolemies. 'i?•n

Mrs. Gladstone is f*aid to be always in the ladies' gallery of the British House of Commons when any important question is debated, watching her husband's proceedings. I

Indiana IMrorccs.

From the Indianapelis Journal. Some man of equal parts knave and fool who lias access to the editorial columns of the New York Time.', writes an article upon the "Disgrace of Indiana," in which he says: "The State of Indiana occupies now, in the matter of popular vraalth, internal improvements, and the intelligence^ and refinement of Jarge bodies of its citizens front rank among the States of the Central West. Yet by Indiana law, a resident of

another

State, having taken up a

temporary abode in that State, and presented a claim for divorce on the most trivial grounds, can, if the Judge so decide, be at onCe freed from the bonds of matrimony. A man in New York becoming tired of his wife, or a wife preferring some more wealthy or attractive suitor, can, on going out to Indianapolis and spending a pleasant Winter, and giving notice in some obscure paper .be henceforth at liberty to follow 'elective affinities' and marry again."

This is hardly worthy of notice but for the reason that its appearance in a paper such as the New York Times was once, may give it weight with those who are not informed of the facts. This stuff and nonsense and libel about Indiana. divorce. laws has been permitted to go unrebuked about long enough by the respectable newspapers of the country. Heretofore it has been confined to little paragraphs and squibs, harmless from their insignificance but when utter ignorance or willful untruth is dignified bv admission into the editorial columns of an assumed leading newspaper, it becames worthy of refutation. The New York Times should know that, by the laws of Indiana, no one coming here for temporary residence can obtain a divorce,, no matter if that temjHjrarv residence be prolonged for ten years. The very first step necesiary" to make application for a divorce under our laws, is an oath that the applicant is a bona fide resident of the State, and has been for at least one year preyious to the date of the apr plication. The divorce laws of Indiana, which we do not care to defend, if they need defense,

were

made for the honest,

honorable citizens of the State they have

been outraged and disgraced by tLe black perjury of New Yorkers who desire to follow their "elective affinities," in Whose

perjury journals like the Times have been aiders and abettors. The Times had Ijfetter use its influence, qua*tionabIe information and debatable ability for the repression of perjury on the part of the citizens of New York, than in base and libelous attacks upon the laws of a State about which it has nc r»preciable knowledge. We thank the Cincinnati Gazette for the following reproof, which appeared vesterday:

The New York Times joins and aggravates the common hue and cry against Indiana divorce laws, because persons have gone there especially to be divorced. Divorces are no more easily procured in Indiana than in a.nuinber of other States. The laws of Indiana allow all the privileges of citizenship upon a year's resi: dence, and with others the privilege of suing for divorces. If persons come into that State and reside a year, and make an oath that they are boim fide residents, it cannot be disproved. There they arc, actual residents for a vear, and making bath that they are residents in good faith. If they are not, it is the secret of their own hearts. The State has to accept their oath. If it is false, it Is not her fault, nor should she be charged with the abuse of her courts by citizens of other States,

The New York Tribune read the 1W a handsome lesson when it ter.-ely saiu: its utterances have long since ceased lo be of concern to any but its stockholders. Governor Raymond has been dead for now nearly a year."

A MARRIAGE OR A FUNERAL"

Fashionable Courtship Uaceremtn. loaslj Eaded—Aa Aflanced Lover Attempt* to Kill ttls From bed

Bride.

"7*~ rfvtositttoajr

From the Now York Sun.]

Amiss who has been a few weeks in the family ol Gov. Randolph, at Morristown, N. J., was attacked bv a young man from Brooklyn, who made a desperate attempt to kill her. A few months ago the girl, whose name is withheld, was eagaged to be married to the wo«i!d-be murderer, and received his visits at her father's house in Brooklyn. The father of the girl is wealthy, and was a General in the Union army during the late war. Apartments were fitted np tinder the paternal roof, at a cost of 156,000, for the young couple, whose monograms marked every piece of the rich furniture. Elaborate preparations were made for the wedding, invitations were sent out, and no one for a moment etiiertaed a iliniht of a marriage. Two days before the eventful day, the bridethat' was to be leaTned that her promised hu-band was a person with whom she conld not consent to trust her happiness. She immediately broke the engagement, and ordered her suitor never to appear before her again, when he attem]4ed to stab her in her father's house. She escaped and being again threatened, she went from the city secretly, telling only her parents her destination. She went to Morristown to visit the family of Gov. Randolph. Her suitor presented himself at the door of the Governor's mansion a day or two afterward, demanding admission. Having seen him approaching, the girl gave orders to bar the door. Then he a"empted to smash the doors, and finally, il is said,fired upon his affiint-! through the window. He is'sail have been seen since lying in wait Ihr h.-r near the house, and guard hai betn «ta'ioned in 0»

MASK TWAIN OS^SIELLS."

Mih Olfactories and Perftamed Theology.

In

a recent Issue of the Independent the Bev. T. De Witt Talm ice, of Broklyn, has the following uttera-icc on the subject of "Smells:" "I have a good Christian friend who, if he sat in the front pew in the church, and a working man would enter the door at the other end, would smell him instantly. My friend is not to blame for the sensitiveness of'his nose, any more than you would flog a pointer for being keener on the scent than a stupid watchdog. The fact is, if you had all the churches free, by reason of the mixing up of the common people with the uncommon, you would keep one-half of Christendom sick at their stomach. If you are going to kill the church with bad smells, I will have nothing to do with this work of evangelization."

We have reason to believe that there will be laboring men in heaven and also a number of negroes, and Esquimaux, and Terra del Fuegens, and Arabs, and a few Indians, and possible even some Spaniards and Portuguese. All things are possible with God. We shall have all these sorts of people in heaven but alas fin getting them we shall lose the society of Dr. Talmage. Which Is to say, we shall lose the company of one who could give more real "tone" to celestial society than any other contribution Brooklyn .could furnish. And what, would eternal happiness be without the Doctor? Blissful, unquestionably— we know that well enough—but would it be distingue would it be recherche without him? St. Matthew without stockings or sandals St Jerome bareheaded, and with a coarse brown blanket robe dragging the ground St. Sebastian with scarcely any raiment at all—these we should see, and we should enjoy seeing them but would we not miss a spike-tailed coat and kids and turn away regretfully, and say to par ties from the Oriea "These are well enough, but you oughi to see Talmage of Brooklyn. I fear me that in the better world we shall not even have Dr. Talmage's "good Christian friend." For if we were sitting nnder the glory of the Throne, and the keeper of the keys admitted a Benjamin Franklin or other laboring man, the "friend," with his fine nitural powers infinitely augmented by emancipation from hampering flesh, would detect him with a single sniff, and immediately take his li^t and ask to be excused.

If the subject of these remarks had been chosen among the Twelve Apostles, he would not'have associated with the rest, because he could not have stood the fishy smell of some of his comrades who came from around the Sea of Galilee.— He would have resigned his commission with some such remark as he makes in the extract quoted above.- "Master, if thou art going to kill the church thus with bad smells, I will have nothing to do with this work of evangelization."— He is a desciple and makes that remark to the Master the only difference is, that he makes it in the nineteenth instead of the first century.

Now, can it be possible (hat in a handful of centuries the Christian character has fallen away from an imposing heroism that scorned even the stake, the cross, and the ax, to a poor little effeminacy that withers and wilts under an unsavorv smell

Fratricide*

A terrible affray occurred in John Appell's barn at North Bradford, Conn., on Tuesday morning and resulted in the murder of Sereno Appoll by his brother Charles. It appears that Charles and Pierre Appell worked their father's farm, but that, this year, Sereno, the youngest son, had agreed to work, and, by so do ing, had excited the jealusy of Charles. On Tuesday morning Charles went to the barn'and fed the horses and while returning to the house was met by Sereno, who told him he did not want him to feed them. Charles says that Sereno struck him first, and then beat him with a stick until he ceased to resist. *He then went to D. A. Rose's house and told him that he had been fighting with- his brother, "had given him a good whipping any way and perhaps had killed him Mr. Rose knew that the brothers had frequently quarrelled and made no investigation.— After leaving Mr. Rose's, the murderer went to Samuel Harrison's where he breakfasted and told the same story. Mr. Harrison went with him to the barn and with the father and Pierre, who had just come to the barn, beheld one of the most heart-sickening sights ever opened to vision in a civilized country. Large pools of blood were seen along the floor, where Sereno had crawled after Charles had left the barn. He tried to reach the front part of the barn, but the loss of blood was so great that he fell back into an empty stall, where he was found two hours in insensible condition with thirtvtwo cuts upon the scalp, front teeth knocked out, face beaten one ear mangled, skull fractured over the left temple and scalp torn off on the top of the head.— The wounds were undoubtedly made with a heavy stick of split wood, but no such weapon has yet been discovered. When first found te gasped, "Oh, dear, water," and while Dr. Holcomb was dressing his wounds, he said, "Yon hurt." These were his his only and and last words, and he died at one o'clock. Charles was immediately arrested by officer J. S. Harrison and taken before Justice Palmer, who committed him to the New Haven jail to await trial at the next.term of the Superior Court.- He appears cool and says he regrets the affair, but was not much affected when told that his brother was dead.

A Father Sentenced for Killing His Child—A Sad Case. In the Criminal Court yesterday, before Judge Gilmor, a man named Azrel Lewis was tried for manslaughter, under very affecting circumstances, which furnish a sad warning to the intemperate. It appeared in evidence that the prisoner, who is about twenty-eight years of age, had been one of the employes of Abbott's Rolling Mills, who, on the 8th of March last, were on a strike; that the prisoner came home about 12 1/2 o'clock at night, very much intoxicated, and entered the sleeping-room in which were his wife and

a little son, the latter being asleep in his

UOSSIP FOB WOttEH. if

A good side show—A pretty cheek.

Somebody calls a baby a Home Mclo dist. The only organ without stops is a gossip's tongue. *6 J*.\

Judy wants to know if ohignons are not hair-em scare-em things. Mis-Construction Getting up young lady in the height of the fashion.

The "Temptation Bow" is the latest and most extensively patronized style of neck-tie for the girls of the period.

The Boston Post says that "Lillian Edgarton is to be pitted against Anna Dickinson." Which is to be the more pitted?

Every plain girl has one consolation though not a pretty young lady, she will, if she lives, be a pretty old one.

One the gentler sex says that' the heaven of the strong-minded woman is "where buttons grow in their proper places, and men cease, from, bothering, and needles are at rest t-

Alas for justice! More than a hundred women are already studying law in the United States, elate with the prospect of going to court themselvo*, instead of staving at home to be courted.

Seven American Ladies are engaged as sculptors in Rome at the present time— the celebrated Miss Hosmer and Miss Whitney,, and Misses Lewis. Freeman, Stcbbins, Foley, and Virginia Ream.

A young lady in Newark, when her jealous admirer sent back her letters with a request that she should return his, answered that "lie regretted that she could not compV 'immediately, as she had lent them to a young gentleman to read.

George Sand will probably soon become managing editress of Girardin's IAberte. Eniile de Girardin desires to retire from journalism, and says he knows of no person more competent lo succeed him than the authoress of "Consuelo" and "Indiana."

Husband—"If I were to lose you I would never be such a fool as to marry again." Wife—"If I were to lose you. I would marry again immediately." Husband—"My death would be regretted bv at least one person." Wife— By whom?' Husband—"My successor." "Do you believe in second love. Mr. McQuade?" "Do I believe in second love? Humph! If a man buys a pound of sugar, isn't it swate? And, when it's gone, don't he want another pound? And isn't that swate, too? Troth, Murphy, I do believe in second love."

A Frencn writer recalls a triumph of skating. The Cheyalier de Saint Georges was performing on the ice at a nocturnal fete at Versailles Marie Antoinette approached, and to warn her of danger he executed that word on the ice in an instant, giving, no doubt, a glance which attracted her attention to his feet.

Aggravating Flippancy—"Well Dear est where have you been to-night?" 'Monday Pops,' again?" "No. Celia. I have spent a most instructive evening with the 'Anthropological Society.'" "The 'Anthropohowmuch,' Darling?" "The 'Anthropotoifica/,' Celia! Are you deaf?" "How nice! And where do they 'Anthropofotfye,' Ducklims?"—Punch.

Mr. Greeley and his Visitor. The New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Telegraph tells this story, illustrating Mr. Greeley's imperturbable manner with horses: "Mr. Greeley, like other distinguished men, is bored with visitors whom it is not always easy to git rid of. Among them, one day, was a man—'an old subscriber like an old friend, who takes the liberty of saying disagreeable things—who has some grudge against Horace on account of some thing that hnd been said iu the Triubne. So without either standing quiet within or entirely without the sanctum, but remaining perched uj on the threshhold^ he commenced a tirade of some twenty minute*' lenth' to which Mr. Greeley, writing pider's-web on the foolscap before him vouchsafed no reply. "You've been carrying on this game a long time," said the subscriber at length in desperation, "but I've found you out." "I'd rather you'd found me out than found me at home," answered the caliligraphic sage.

I've been talking-to you all this while just to tell you what I think of you,"said the angry visitor.

You've been a devilish long time doing it," replied Grcelev. "And. I've just come to say that you are no gsntleman," added the subscriber, suri now that he had hit the mark. "Who the said I was?" remarked Greeley, going on with his writing. "The subscriber bolted, and was never ecn in that office again, and Greeley finished the article as quietly as though nothing had happened." fyUt,

bed; that he was very boisterous, exclaiming "I am a devil," ami flourishing a horse-pistol in his hand, breaking the furniture and extinguishing the lights. His wife, alarmed, ran out. The explosion of a pistol was heard, and Policemen Jordan and Fooks entered the room and found the prisoner prostrate and senseless upon the floor, his arms extended and the pistol in his hand. They at first thought he was dead, but took him to the police station. They did not know till their return that the child was killed. The ball passed through the child's arm and entered the stomach, and it must have died instantly, as the position of its body was not changed. It was also in evidence that the prisoner was very fond of his child, who was an attractive little boy, and was kind to his wife, and was not known to have been intoxicated before.

Judge Gilmor, in giving judgment, said the facts of the case were such as to arouse a great deal of commiseration, but the case was altogether free from any difficulty as to its legal character. The killing was a calamity, unexpected and unforseen as it was undesigned. The prisoner may well be exonerated from any intent to take life. But if a party is engaged in misconduct which results in killing, the law makes him liable for the consequences. His entering his own bed-

chamber in a frenzied state, and behaving himself with great violence, is proved. The proof of malice is not requisite in manslaughter. His wanton and reckless conduct makes him responsible for the loss of life, and the offense charged is the in [sic] offense of the prisoner. Under the circumstances, he would only sentence him to six months imprisonment in jail. <Baltimore Sun, April 5th>. ———<>———

In Paris arewird ot iwen-

I'l.-uif-

given for every dm.l lol fished out of the river, and only tii'i ecn franc /or fished oat aiivc, so the rescue:* make five by icttiitg*.

A Boy Eight Years of Age Murders His Sister. Last Wednesday the town of Commerce, Missouri, was startled by the intelligence that a little boy, son of Henry Wolff a farmer living about five miles from here, had killed his little sister, about three years old, with a shotgun. The boy is about eight years old. It seems the parents left the little boy in charge of his little sister. As soon as the parents had left, the boy insisted that the little girl should eat breakfast; childlike, she refused. The boy then beat the girl, and finally got hold of a shotgun and placed the muzzle upon the breast of the girl and fired. The girl, it would seem, must have instantly died from the effects. After this act the boy took the body of the dead child into a clearing, covered it with boughs, and fled to the woods. Soon after this occurrence, the mother returning, saw bloody tracks, and following these, found the lifeless remains of the child. The boy soon came back. From what we hear, the boy has been so cruelly treated by his father that he is idiotic. He seems to have no conception whatever of the horrible deed he committed.

Two weeks before this horrible occurrence, two daughters of Mr. John T. Lowry, living near Benton, formerly county seat of this county, were also killed by the criminal carelessness of leaving a shotgun within the sight of a child.—<St. Louis Republican>. ———<>———

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.VARIETIES.

The Prince and Princess of Wales are going to visit Ireland. General Dix has consented to run for Alderman in New York.

The trial of Prince Pierre Bonaparte cost him about $30,000. Olive Logan's lecture next season will deal with 'The Passions."

Jnnanschek has paid a four-hour visit to the Empress Eugenie, by request.

Mr. John Bright's phvscians protest against his return to the Board of Trade, It is reported thjut the Democracy of Dayton, O., are going to run Vallandigliain for Congress I.

There is a total membership of 400,000 Good Templars in the United States. The New York Timrs likens the Democratic party unto frogs, as they do all the croaking.

Baltimore loafers standing on thestreet corners are at once arrested and incarcerated in a dungeon.

A man in New Orleans offers to fight an alligator tinder water with only a knife if some one will give him $500.

The New York World savs Schcnecfady belles have organized ball clubs, with a view to getting up return matches.

Two women, convictcd of poisoning their huslmnds, will be guillotined next month at Caroassunne, in France.

A lady who was injured by tha falling seats at a circus in Oregon City, Oregon, has recovered $ ,000 damages Troiu the company.'

Ill-treatment of the mother-in-law by ths husband is one of tlic grounds upon which a divorce is asked "by a lady in Richmond, Va.

A bill is about being brolight into the English Parliament to established a court to which condemned murderers may appeal from their sentence.

The debt of the city of Paris is'said to exceed by two hundred and fifty million francs what Baron Haussmann in his official documents sfated if to be.

The King of Italy pardoned hist year two hundred and twenty-five criminals the Emperor of Austria, one hundred and ten ami the King of Prussia, forty-five.

Mr. J. S. Clarke appeared at the London Sirand Theater 121 consecutive nights, performing 201 in the character ofToodies.

Major George K. Bradv is the father of the first child born in Alaska that will be eligible to the Presidency of the United States.

Montrealcrs are anxiously inquiring: Have photographers any right to sell pictures of their customers without theirconsent?? ».T

The number of workingmen in Paris is computed at three hundred thousand. Thirty ccrns a day is the average pay they receive.

James Fasy„, the,eminent Swiss states-: man, though in liis seventy-eight year,! proposes to establish a great financial association in Paris.

Wood's Theater in Cincinnati, the Times of that city says, has been engaged for the entire month of June by BillinyManning's company.

General Prim receives from Spanish Exchequer every month two hundred and fifty thousand reals, and Marshal Serrano five hundred thousand I'eals.

The late cx Mayor William V. Brady, of New York, is said, to have left an estate valued at $1,500,000. His property is bequeathed to-his widow and two daughters.

A new style of wcattft? appm cl, considered jaunty and stylish, has appeared for the fair sex. It is a double breasted coat, which buttons high in t'ie neck and has a wide turn-down collar.

Polk bequeathed his residence, after li is wife's death, to Tennessee for an executive monsion, as it is quite near the apital. Mrs. Polk still fives, and is a 'ery genial old lady.

Ilaussman, the late famous Prefect of Paris, has been placed on the retired list, itli a pension of $1,200 which is a small pittance for a man accustomed to dispose of billion".

Fanny-Burt, soubrette of the Academy of Music at Buffalo, ha« received $2,300 from the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad, for injuries sustained by the accident at Huron.

John B. Southmayd, for twenty-five years sexton at Middletown, Conn..where he buried over 12,000 of his fellows— twice the living population of the city— has finally been gathered in him-elf.

In some Maryland counties, where the hools for white children are closed for want of funds, the negroes support volunrily, by their own contributions, free schools for ilie colored children.

I.ouis Napoleon advises the ex-King of Spain logo on t-avels, and let Isabella alone. This model wife is at daggers drawn wi her husband, and L. N. is afraid that iliey will kill each other one of thc»c davs. ,1 l.i i*.

1

THE gold mines of Virginia are being once more worked to advantage. A nnui ber of Philadelphians have bought land in the neighborhood of Frederick-I irj the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, ami ange Courthouses, and it is estimated thai capital to the amount of half a million ol dollars, in the hands of companies and private individuals, has been invested in the business of digging and washing gold. Property in Fredericksburg and its vicinity is advancing in price, railroads are building in various parts of Virginia, and there is at least a certainty that the unequaled resources of that Commonwealth mil be developed. The mere business of collectine sumac and preparing it for a market is giving employment to many hands in Northeasten Virginia, the product in 1869 of ten mills alone having been twenty-eight hundred tons. These facts concern more than the inhabstants of the

State immediately benefited

and their near neighbors on the North, for as theindustrie- of the South grow and multiply, the burden oj national lavwill everywhere grow lighter. •. ....

A Yotmi named Jacob Garnish, seventeen years old, deliberately cut off his foot."onSaturday last, in L-impeierTown-ship, 1'enn., and when asked why he did it, replied that we are told if o:ir hand or our foot otlcnd us. we should cut it off. lie had struck three blow.-, and picking UJI the foot, hurled it some distance from linn. The multilation proved fatal. »t»

IT IS said the Chinese members of Mr Burlingame's suite were very much affected by death. They had put their whole confidence in him, and evidently loved him very much. They reverenced him so much that they not only were not reluctant to enter a Chris tain church fo the funeral, but on, the contrary, were very umch surprised that any question -ahotiidha

-Dr. Rudolph Dulon, of Rochester, N. Y., died suddenly on Monday evening, aged sixty-three years, He was a native of Germany, and was noted for his fine education and ability. General Sigel married liis daughter, if —The venue of the 'wrest!trig" rifatch between J. I!. McLaughlin, who won tine prize at the tournament at Detroit, and Homer Lane, of New York, has been changed from Detroit to l'ithoje, Pa., where they contend on April 2-ith. -The French lady who has bought thesplended diamond necklace of the exQueen of Spain for 8o0,000 francs, wore it lhe other evening, for the first time, at iheopcia. By a curious accident, lhe ex-(ueen ofS|ain was present in..tju.'HoiiH»si box.

A icucher in one ol lhe Boston public .-ciiools has ic- ifMicd, after several jeui'S service, beemi-e he has conscientious •ci iij»les against teaching on Saturday. She belongs a sect known there as 1 tittle In isiiaii-." .Mr. Sp-ugeoii's church, in London, uw n- about -i lOO.OU'J iii property. It expemL j-1 UU,UIH) ani.ually in the educaion of candid.res for the muiL-try, and

II o\ iding he. places in London with eligio ii- --er\ ices.

Colombia, Tenn., has the droll anatOm cutting up the hats of successful candidates in a municipal election. The Mayor and Aldermen all have to sacrifice" the head-pieces they may have on on election day.

The inhabitan..- o: the Punjaub have "struck ile'' on lie east coast ot ilie Caspian, and one well is .-aid to How at the rate of about 1,200 barrels aday! A regular Pennsylvania petroleum fever is consequently raging

Parliament is n-ked to investifrate the methods of some of he .English banks to discover he n-crcls of their great dividends. During lhe last six months, for instance, lenders have hardly made any profit, while the Joint Stock Hank, of London, declare- a semi annual dividend of 7* per cent.

The.persuasive and humbugging agent* for selling lightning iods are equal to every demand. One old lady told an a»ent she had no fear of lightning, but she had always been afraid of thunder. "Just so," he replied "we can meet your case exactly. The square rods arc light-ning-rods, and the round one thunderrods." Of course she now "protected."

Two IKISHMKN were one day engaged in roofing a house, when one of them lost his holt and feel to I he ground. The other hastened to him, and inquired, when he found him lying" prostrate and still, "MickeyI "Mickey! are you deadi" "No," replied Mickey "not dead, put sfeechlffie'"

ADJUSTING BALANCES. "AN Old Problem Newly Stated."

Tl

the PhJladelj&iaJLetfcerl The small actual proportion of money —paper or specie—to tlnvirciilation in adjustment of balances, was amusingly exhibited in a counting-room in Buflalo, a few days since. The Express records it as a "singnlar transaction.' But His not singular, or unusual, being only an illustration of the natural current of trade and exchange. Ordinarily the business agents are not all known to each other directly, and do not so consciously play into each other's hands. But the iittle picce of fun which we are about to state, is a very neat illustration of the relations of debt, credit and currency. It is indeed better than many a long, unintelligible treatise on finan.ee. Here is the story:

The office boy owed one of the clerks three cents. The clerk owed the cashier two cents. The cashier owed the boy two cents. One day the boy having a cent in his pocket was disposed to dimi nish outstanding indebtedness, and paid the clerk, to whom he was indebted three cents, one on account. The clerk, animated by so laudable an example, paid one cent "to the cashier, to whom he was indebted two cents. The cashier, who owed the boy two cents, paid him one. And now, the boy having again his cent in hand, paid another third of his debt to the clerk. The clerk, with the said really "current" cent, s^uarrcd with the cashier. The cashier instantly paid the boy in full. And now, the lad with the cent again in his hand, paid off the third and last.instalment of his debt of three cents. Thus were the parties square all around, and all their accounts adjusted.

This, already stated, is a clear illustration of a part of the curious ramifications of debt and payment. And it illusrates also the wisdom as well as the wit of the inipecunion» debtor, who replied to his troublesome creditor, "Go pay your own debts, and no« be teasing me about mine!'' If the Buffalo boy had kept hold of his jiennv, and said to the creditor clerk, "I will pay you as soon as the cashier,pav«|me,"the great financial problem

would

probably have remained till

this dav unsolved, and nobody can tell what effect the delay would have had upon the Buffalo "Exchange," and the balance of trade with the Western country generally. But the boy paid in part his own debt, and in the round of circulation the money, catnc home again, to start on a new tour of liquidation.

For one penny read dollars—from one to thousands and for the three persons in one office sulwtitute hundreds—aye, tliou sands of negotiators in a wide community, and you have before you the problem of "circulation." One cent iii the story paid seven cents of debt. It might just as well have paid seventy, or seven-hundred, if the circumstances had been larger. The amount of money, or of tokens representing money, actually used and transferred from hand to hand in trade bears a proportion to the business done less than even the one cent in seven. And much oftener than people know, or even sus[ect, the identical money they pay out for debtor a new purchase, finds its way back to fill the void in their pockets or purses. Cash fiayraents in small transections are the life of trade, lie who conscientiously pays ca-sh or^ takes short credit, for the article he "buys for consumption and use. does more in his sphere lo keep up the wholesome current of trade than the man who writos on trade volumes which few persons read. While articles of commerce rcmain mere articles of commerce they arc fit subjects of credit. But when they reach their ultimate purpose and cease to be productive in trade or in exchange tlicy must be paid for, otherwise they become capital sunk, dropped out of the business of the country, unavailable "assetts in bankruptcy."

The Buffalo story illustrates .also the theory of banking, and shows now in prosperous times the comparatively small Coin b.isis answers all the purposes of "specie payments." If bank notes represented only the actual Bpecie in bank they would not pay the expenses of printing, signing and issuing. They.would be at a premium, and specie would lie at a discount. The public pay for their banknotes on account of convenience, their only recommendation, on tbe same principle that they pay a drayman for transporting a keg of specie, or pay freight to any common carrier. Bank notes in their capacity of representativei of money also represent other property of all kinds, and credit also, as well as specie. But, if the boy in the story had owed four cents instead of three, his penny in cash and his two cents in assets would not have squared the accounts. The fourth cent, still unpaid, without either.cash or" assets behind it, would have l^lt him. bankrupt and his creditor crippled.— Money is an enigima. So life. But as to preserve the latter people must, take' v. care of their health, and not eat. what they cannot digest, so in all business matters, great and small, they should not open their mouths for more than they can swallow. —1 .* it

War not Massacre.'

If, we should see a huge St Bernard or mastiff dog, who had been long annoyed by a pestilent little cur fall ujxn him at length and stretch him dead upon the ground, we should sav that the sainv. litle brute had got his deserts. lie had no right lo be snarling and biting all lhe while at his neighbor, simply becau-e he,, was a neighbor. But if the big victor, not satisfied with this sort of retribution, should hunt up the kennel of his \ic nju and proceed to tear in pieces an un re litter of halt-blind pu|is because 'hey ivce of the same blood, we should say that lie was a very ferocious and very nn-an bi^dog.

There is precisely the relation which exists between the I'niled State- and ilie: Indian tribes. We are the big dog, and

they

lhe malignant little cur, AVe pun-i-h ilu'in when they give ustrouble, V«»pcrlyanotigh but we have no call lo take vengeance on them. We may kill heir warriors ami fighling-men, who reli.i-e to smoke the pipe of ieaee, bu.t may no kill their old men, old women, and b.il.es. War is self-defence and war is soinenmcs retribution but it is not massacre. The nations that pursue it as massacre, inllict an indelible disgrace upon their name. Do we not at all remember what a shtidder of indignation ran through tbe conntry when we read of the butchery at Fort pillow? Was not the civilized world shocked by the deed done by the Sepoys at t.'a«iipo:e? Has not Glencoe left an impression on history which will never be flea cod? What, indeed, is the distinction between civilized and savage raee:.» but this—that one carricson wai .t^ if it were murder the other nnder lulc and, ?.- with human pity?

Besides," in the case of the Indians, they are not wholly to blame if I hey have remained hai barians. Our own conduct towaid-them has kepi up their he:eiliarv character and mannc s. We have treated wiili them always as tribal organizations, and they have prc-cived with their ancestral forms the ancciral spirit. We ought to have treated with them as men we ought to have disregarded the tribe wc ought to have prepared them for citizenship and for soci: 1 and' individual duties and then wc should not have had these periodical wars,'then incessant frantic outrage*, which provoke" lis out of our dignity and even out of oiii* humanity.—Putnam'* Monthly.

Siff'orr.AR what absurd ideas the Eastern folk ha^-eof the West! Now here, for instance, is the New York Herat*! advocating the organization of a "grand emigration scheme to simply the surplu- of Eastern women with husbands in the West." As if the supply of women weie not already greater than the demand! The men of the Fast had better "husband their own resources," and not ml their..-, "surplus women" out West to render tlicS already slim chancer of the Western girls still more.desperate. Not withstand ig the superior rations of the pniirie llowers, they

ttd

stand no chance

when pitted against the maneuvering mammas and thin-visage spinster- of Yankee land, if this emigration project is pushed there will be counter oigaui/.atioiis formed in the West, and a wai of the laces will ensue which will ing destruction to the chignons ot the unfa ii in-*, vancrs. Let them be warned in time: Our girls will stand no foolishness when it comes to a question of a husband or a fight.

WiiATEVEH methods of co-opei a*ion the future mij§|iiave in store for us—and we aee to leason to doubt ihal Sociology,with o'.her science, may make great pi ogiep*in

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future'as it ccrtainly has not in the past —of one tai-i we may re^t ^assmed, that, in the world of an ond but converted Fourricrite, "The fancy is a rock .against whi -h all oijicc not onb- will dx-h w»U full s,hiv«sdat i« ba