Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 July 1870 — Page 1

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IT WAS EAIMMRXMG IIMMM HCXPHKETB should B«.411efl toCpfoide over a Convention that nominated D. W. VOORHEES. Those two tripiit names are inseparably connected in the history of the rebellion, and should oontinne to cleave together. It is useless to apply •pithets to AXDT, for his very name, in this State, has become a synonym for all that patriotic men most hate. When yon say AHDY HCKPHBETS, yon utter a volume of denunciation in two words.

THE Journal denies the responsibility of the Western Democrats in the House for the defeat of the apportionment bill. They voted against it, while Western Bepublicans voted for it. Had the Western Democrats voted with their Republican colleagues, the bill would have passed, and the domination of the minority east of the Allegheniei would have been ended. If this does not fix the responsibility on Western Democrats, then there in no such thing as responsibility connected with the doings of those men or their party.

COL. JAMES FISK, of the Erie, ajTj^RS ts be more than a match for the venerable Commodore. The papers tell "a Ivttle story" showing how nicely the latter was beaten a few days ago. .The, principal fight between the two parties had been in carrying freight, especially live stock, from Buffalo. Determined to beat, the Commodore reduced the price of stock cars to $1,00 from Buffalo to New York, which everybody knew he could not do without great loos. No sooner did this news reach Erie headquarters than a di# ixitch was forward^- their agent to

ship by the Central route. The consequence was that FISH'S and GOULD'S cat tie took possession of the Central cars at nominal rates, and they reaped a harvest. It is reported that the Commodore was mad when he heard how he had been beaten, and said it was the first time in his life when he had been compelled to carry Erie stock at a loss. ,,

THE EXPRESS says there were. some grave errors made in the radical county nominations of two years ago.—Journal,

Considering the altitude of the mercury during these awful days, the above is astonishingly cool. It is not pleasant to apply hard names, and we will, therefore, call it "a mistake." Here is what we did say, and the reader can judge how far the "mistake" of the Journal is accidental

Mistakes that were made two years ago —whereby bad feeling was engendered throughout the county before the nominating convention wn- held, and by which the vigor and suecesf of the entire canvarn were seriously impaired—have been avoided this year, &>.. a-

Instead of "grave errors made in the Radical nominations of two years ago," it will be seen that wc Bpoke of "mistake* that were made" "before the nominating convention iww held." The Journal will, we just seo the propriety of offering an apology for attributing to us lauguage trust the reverse of that which we employ" ed and if it means to conduct the present canvass on principles that accord with the requirements' of decency) it will not ]et such accidents happen, in future, quite so frequently as they have occurred here tofore. When we profess to quote the Jour* nal, we give its own words, with the most scrupulous exactness, and it seems to us that no other course should satisfy journalist who desires to preserve his own

self-respect. ggUT&A1 *5 A

Daniel on the Track. 'n

Now that DANIEL is fairly on the track for his regular, biennial valedictory Con' gressional race, it is well for us to look the facts squarely in the fnce, and sec what we have to do to beat him. By reference to the election returns of 1868, it is seen that his majority over Major CAKTEB was only 182 votefe. It is known that more than this number of illegal votes were cast for him in the single county of Owen. They were cast by men temporarily employed there on the I. & V. Railroad, most of whom left the District on the completion of the job in which they were engaged. Subtract the ballots of those men from VOORHEES' present available voting power, nnd we have a majority for Mr. DUNN. But that' is only a beginning: In this city, and in almost every precinct, throughout the District, VOOKHEES' vote was augmented by fraud. This fact was so palpable that many well-informed and judicious advisers urged Major CARTER to contest the *eat in the House, and had it been deemed politic to give DANIEL an opportunity to play his favorite role of Martyr, he might have been ousted from a position to which he never had an honest title. Careftilly made estimates indicate that not less that 375 fraudulent votes were counted for him in' addition to the wholesale fraud in Owen county. Htippoeing, then, that with the improvement in our election laws, and increased vigilance, we can secure a fair election, no reasonable man can doubt that the Democratic nominee will find himself handsomely beaten, even on the white vote of the District. But we are to bear in mind that the Fifteenth Amendment brings a regiment of voters to aid the party opposed to VOORHEES, and every L.in of this new force will feel that it is a peculiar privilege to a'si^t iu ihe defeat of the persistent, systematic viiSificr of him and his race. The thousands oi epithets which he has cast upon tlie lored man are a troublesome brood c? 'chickens coming home to roost."

This brief but tair"survey of tETTield shows that we havo only to bring out a ill Republican vote, and to hold in check cheating propensities of the oppoition, in order to elect MOSES F. DUNN fo the Forty-eeeond Congress by a handsome and decisive majority. Mr. VOORHEES knows full well the frail tenure by which he holds his fraudulent lease of power, and it was this unpleasant knowledge that drew him from his post of duty, at a time when all the important legislation of the session was being perfected, to make a preliminary canvass of the District. A man confident of the strength of his position, would never have dono that thing. A man who did not believe that his case was literally desperate, would never have resorted to so desperate a remedy. He has confessed his weakness, his sense of fear, by acts that speak louder than he can roar." Let us see to it that his worst apprehensions are fully -realized in October next.

There is not a man, woman or child in this part of the country who is not familiar with the political record of t,ys Democratic candidate, and there' ic a single feature of that record to excite the utter loathing and abhorrence of evtry one who has any attachment to the principles which have characterized the Republican party. We thank the Democ* racy for giving us such a candidate to oppose—a candidate who is the embodiment of all that Republicans have hated, fought and conquered in the past, or hope to vanquish in the future. JLjg. is no Re* publican who does not fecSTiat it is a greater privilege, a more pi wng duty, to defeat D. W. VOORHEES th 1 it would be to perform the same pleasant duty upon any other Democrat in the Sixth District.

TERMS $2.00 A YEAR.}

UHDEE the caption "I^UKN'S Platfe**,'' the Journal

enumerate

several carina?

principles of the Dei^cratic creed, bat foils to mention anythita of importance that Mr. DUHN, or his ptoty, supports.

"ATEW WORDS of Wl^mso" is the caption of a series of lettiys, written by a prominent citizen of TerVe Haute, and now running

through

the Bpckville Re­

publican. They are intended for special application to the political situation in Parke county, bnt contain lh^ny suggestions of general importance, The first of the series is reproduced in tl\is issue.

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ONE of the Southern Governors has vetoed a law passed by the Legislature of I'tis State, on the ground that it is a mixta re of "bad spelling and nonsense generally." An exchange suggteis that if /he President should ti\ke it into hi# head to veto acta of Congress for the same reasons, it would n*t cost half so mnch to

rint the laws of the

States as it

United

ow

does.

xBfTTexas State Press Associ anxious to disabn'9® P°hlic^ mil erroneous impress. 'OM regarding State and its people, ^have issued an tation to the press of th United Stat meet them at Houston

on the

November next, to travel

Of course there is nothing in the speeches of Mr. DUNN, or any act or utterance of his, on which to base such a

charge, and it is as unjustifiable as it would be in UR to accuse Mr. VOORHEES of being in favor of hanging for larceny, or garroting for forgery. *.£

i' a The Amende.

Wc have no disposition to misrepre sent our morning cotemporary of the radical persuasion. When that paper solemnly stated that serious radical errors prevailed in the county canvass of 1868 we very naturally supposed our neighbor alluded to tho composition of the radical ticket of that year, a portion of which was defeated. The EXPRESS denies that our conclusions were correct, and we arc disposed to accept in good laith its disclaimer.—Journal.

We accept the above as a pleasing indication that the Journal intends to "tote fair." *V

THE story which has securcd such extensive publication within the past few days, that the Episcopal Diocesan Convention of Wisconsin had adopted a canon cxcommunicating all who married out of the church, or ware married by a clergyman of another church, is authori tatively contradicted. Some idio*IT*in the convention made a motion to that effect, but it was promptly voted down, receiving only the vote of the mover. The Cincinnati Times pleasantly remarks that tho thing looked incredible from the first, particularly as the dispatch teas doled at Chicago.

A MERCHANT of Cleveland, Ohio, was several years ago made the victim of a conspiracy by his wife and mother-in-law, and by means of perjured witnesses pronounced insane. He was confined in the State Lunatic Asylum for nearly two years, at the end of which time he escaped and took refuge with relatives in Connecticut. He established his perfect sanity, and returned to Cleveland to find his property almost all gone —by a compromise with his faithless wife securing a portion of it and a divoree. He is now once more successfully engaged in business, and has married again. Speaking of this case the New York Time» says that the laws under which such outrages as these are possible, ought to be revised, and some reliable guarantees to personal liberty enacted.

OUB unhappy Democratic neighbor is again afflictcd with an awful vision of "negroes in our public schools." Stuff and nonsense! The colored people could not be induced to give up the present system of separate education, and they will not permit any Democrat or Republican to send I.is children to their schools. They are, as a general rule, quiet people, easy to be entreated but on this point they are very obstinate, and any attempt to drive them from their position will meet with prompt resistance. They have secured the right to participate in the benefits of the school fund, in spite of Democratic opposition, and that right they will keep, however much Democracy may grudge then its possesion. And they are not likely to forget that Democratic laws, executed by Democratic officials, took from them their hard earnings to educate white children, nnd decreed that their own children should grow up in ignoronce. The history of Democratic legislation against the colored people of Indiana, reeks with the odor of infamy and the Democratic paper that calls attention to it, does a most impolitic thing for there isn't a decent man in that party, to-day, who isn't heartily ashamed of it.

Europe for $1S1 in Currency. 1ULHI KEELER tells us in the AtlMlie for July how much of JEuropc ho saw for the above sum:

He walked from Tcledo, Ohio, to New York, at a cost of $3, and paid $33 for passage to London visited Paris, Strasburg, Heidelberg, when, having $S0 in gold, he matriculated boarded for fourteen cents per diem found what the students did not do—stud? what they did— carouse and vagabondize. At Christmas he was penniless until evening, when he received $25 from home, lor correspondence This sustained him unspecified months longer, during which he received another remittance of $50. He then quit the University, visited various cities, and met G. A. Townsend in Paris, by whom he was inspired^ when he had but two dollars, to write for the London maganiues. He received an unspecified fortune in reply, while debating whether poison was easier than drowning, and visited Italy. At Florence he dined sumptuously, includine wine, for five cents, and wintered there. He tried the London magazines unsuccessfully, when his funds gave out again reached Leghorn with lenthana dime, and got home by the generosity of an American ship-master. Here he found the cash for an article he had sent to another English piagasina, and so return^ t« TQWP typ jean in Europe^

CAR. H. C. GOODETO, Republican can didate for Congress, in the First Dis' aict, favored us with a call on Friday. The Captain seems confident of success a the canvass, and if the Republicans »tf his Djstrict "will come to .time" and go to work with half ..the confidence: tha their candidate feels, they will be able tvretire Mr. NIBLACK from the Honse.

TH® Journal opposes "negroes in our workshops and in,the jfeM." Would it be impertinent to inquire whether the Democracy propose to starve the colored race to death? Is a man to be forbidden to earn a living, by honest labor, because he can BO longer be worked under the laati of Democratic master? Has the proud Democratic party Mien so low as to deM*** the humble toiler for bread, and seek drive him from the field where his labor i» needed? The deliberate, devilisli'crueliy of audi a proposal is shocking to every n?ind in which a single worthy impulse lives.,

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SttMtkiig X«w JUM H**dso*e.i The handsomest paper in the State, a*i one the elegant and attractive appears ox* of which would be a credit to any city, is the Terre Haute Saturday Evening Mail, tfce initial number of which was issued os

15« the 2d inst. The editor and propriet-«r,

tl,em

Major O.J. SMITH, is a gentleman of fii «e

the public thoroughfares, via the tobusiness qualities and is unusually we.U and cities, view the beautiful t'°untry, applied with that rare rommodity whichi come acquainted with the peOP'c Journalists sometimes call "newspaper partake of iheir hospitalities. Ce.r'*i||ense." He will make a first-class family if Texas has been misrepresented, ^htaper, and we heartily commend his encould be no more effectual way derisi^rprixe to the favor of our readers. We of setting her right before the world. we no doubt the.Major will succeed m- he not only deserves success, but

AMOKO the multifarious views and scnrws just what means to employ in ortiments which Mr. VOOBHEES' organ at- to insure it a tributes to Mr. VOOBHEES'competitor, is the gratuitous assertion that he is in 'iioaE who have read thb platform favor of "a wholesale importation of Chinamen to degrade labor and oppress white laborers 1"

nted at the Convention over which yt General AHDY HUMPHREYS pre 1, and hy which D. W. VOOBHEES nominated, can not have foiled to ie a significant omission. Not one

is said therein about the land-grab less. We have good authority for t)»tement that a resolution was beforfc tllatform Committee severely denng land-grabbers and all who h*ided or abetted their schemes but' ajtous counselor suggested that, «nCe th([y Democratic daily paper in the Dit, was the only paper in the State thai favored the fand-grabbers, it wofcc advisable to keosp quiet on that qua and his advice, seeming good andilesome, was followed-

I p. RE has been any "improvement in olfaction laws" since 1868' the fact is nOherally understood by ttifc peo-ple.-rma/. "Ttact" may not bo "understaMl™ by yoteadcrs, but the EXPRESS and nearly the papers in the- State, bam* publish the election law passed by last Llature and approved May ISj, 1869. lie people" are nearly unanimous ieclaring it an improvement om the act 867. It does away with the expensiveincsB of registration, and pro~ vides reliable

safe-guards

V00RH»

against-

fraudul voting. It will be found on pages 59, 60 and 61 of the acts of the special lion of '69, and we commend it to your eful perusal as a good specimen of* legislation. Read it and see how niait provides for the detection of frauduUvoters.

THE waocratic mind is in fearful disordering, in some measure, to derangeme of the Democratic stomach, occasion, by the heated term. Hence the Denratic organ gives vent to many foolish uirance* whereby we hope "the pressure'iayi b« mitigated. Here is one of its muirilgs:

Those i/nt«»d supporting Moses F. Dunn

thiW

niwt vote for more bacha-

nalian c»f'a

at

Branch!

The coiiion between voting for Mr. DUSK

and

louring aULoi* Branch, is

not appareio anything ftuC the Democratic intelt in its mort mwldled moments. Itjust about as reasonable and sensible t«nt such stufTwefcat, as it would be, a Republican jommaJ to declare

that'Thone

who intend sapporting

DANIEL VOOBHEES this fWft must vote for fresh baked missionary to be served ulaHy for the King of the Cannibal Islis." .."-vi

THE jrnal charges that Mr. DUNN is in favor' an income tax. We are not particully advised as to his position on that q»tion, but we know that Mr.

is strongly and earnestly in fa­

vor of ch a tax and the Journal will find, iits own columns, an extract from one of ARIEL'S best speeches in which he tas high ground against a proposal t(polish the tax on incomes. A little me caution on the part of our cotempary might prevent it from attacking lose measures to which D. W. V. is pi «ed, and on which ho proposes to al the Congressional canvass. Somo dege of harmony between the organ and theandidate might reasonably be expecd. Especially should this be the cas in regard to those questions upon wfch the candidate has recently enuncied his views. It must be very annoyin to Mr. V. to see his organ attributing political opinions to his competitor "going for" Duid on the supposition tat he is in favor of a measure to which !AN is irrevocably committed. Really, begin to pity DANIEL, and fear lie ill have but a dull time of it in this ,impaign if his organ keeps on, oontin-

ally

wetting his powder.

THE most "checky" tiling we us cen in prinv, for along time,is the charge

nade

by the Democratic organ of tl jonnty, that MR. DUNN is in favor of "more

land-pahs."

In reply to this it

is only neccsary to say that Mr. DUNN opposed to'.he land-grab business from beginning to nd. But were he disposed to go the full length of the landgrabbers' wildest Bchenc of public robbery, he could hardly equal he seal with which wholesale land-grabing was advocated by the Terre Haute ioumal while the Northern Pacific Railrfcd bill was pending. Then the Journal supposed Mr. VOOBHEES was working secuie the passage of that bill and thmsupposing, the organ of Mr. V. found easy to endorse not only a "grab" of 60)00,000 acres but, carried away by unrftrainable enthusiasm, it wanted six tines that amount given to the various corpontions that were asking aid of Congress. jTe respectfully submit that the only paper in Indiana that has endorsed and advocated the landgrabhing business, is not in oonditton to attribute its wnopinious on that subject toa gentleman who haa opposed them paimtently ud tag

Iir ORDER to preserve "the eternal fitness of things," the Convention that gave AHDY HUMPHREYS the seat of honor, and pat VOORHEES on the Congressional track, should have adopted a resolution of thanks to the soldiers. It would have been a sublimely affecting scene to see M^JOR General AXDY putting snch a resolution to a vote l!|3||

IT will not be very surprising if the heated term is followed by much sick neas, and perhaps by some epidemic. The cholera, yellow fever, and small-pox are all raging in tropical regions, and the terrible heats predispose to disease. It behooves all to be careful in their food, drink, and habits, and take active precautions topreserve health and strength. .Enervation and exhaustion are the wont foes to the human system keep as quiet and cool as possible.^,

WITH a laudable desire to heal the wounds inflicted by the Democratic County Convention, a few weeks ago, the Congressional Convention of Thursday last eomferred upon the slaughtered aspirant for the office of County Treasurer a distinguished honor! He was appointed as one of the Committee to whom was assigned the pleasing and dignified service of escorting the President, Major General Andy HUHPHBEYS, to the ChaiH After this we trust there will be one convalescent on the list of Democratic "soreheads."

THE cloven hoof will now and then protrude. The Democracy would like to assume the virtue, though they have it j»ot, of respect for the soldiers, but at times their actual feelings can not be repressed- Witness the following reference to the dedication of the Putnam county monument to-day, taken from the Evansrillc Courier of Thursday: "We see by the Journal of yesterday that the citirens of Greencastle, 'without distinction of party,' are to have a grand lornick dedication on Saturday next. A nonument has been built, and speeches' rue to he made over it, and songs snng.— We suppose this kind of thing will be loept irp until the election is over."

Soldiers of Indiana! what do you think of a party one of the leading organs of which styles the dedication of a monument iin honor of your dead companions "a don iek dedication!"—Ind. Journal.

And to preserve its consistency the same party, in this District, makes ANDY HUMMHREYS President of its Congressional Convention and nominates D. W. VOORHEES!

-3JOTES ALFD CLIPPINGS. '•-Oi _________

THE trade of the Ohio is'more than $450,000,000 per year. rA itENTUCKY EDITOR announces that his wife has been admitted to a full partnership in the paper.

FIFTY English passengers have lately arrived in Kansas City, direct from London. coming on through tickets purchased in London.

THE Columbus Journal says the Republican papers, of Ohio seem unanimous for Gen, Sherwood's renomination for Secretary of State.

THE monument to Joshua R. Giddings has been received at Ashtabula, Ohio, &nd will be put in place as soon as proper arrangements can be made.

AN Illinois minister preaches with locked doors until the deacons collect a specified amount. Last Sunday it took three hours for one hundred dollars.

CHICAGO is increasing her debt much faster than her population. In the last three years licr debt has more than tripled, and it now amounts to over Seventeen millions of dollars.

COMPLAINTS have been filed against over 300 business men of Kansas City for violating the revenue laws. Numerous lawyers, physicians and merchants have been summoned before the' United States Commissioner.

THE New York Evening Post wants Congress to "establish a Department of Grammar, to bo conducted by a Cabinet officer, known as the Secretary of Syntax." That, says an editor who knows all about it is exactly what is needed at Washing1 ton—s»n tax.

THE Kentucky papers are engaged in

an

animated discussion of the question— "Who killed Gen. Zollicoffer?" The Cincinnati Times suggests that, in intensity of interest, this is only equaled by one other question which has thrilled the world for many years—"Who killed Cock Robin?" -'''v

THE penalty of inflicting distinguished names upon children is sejsn in the fact ^hat four George Washington^ six Andrew Jacks oils, five Henry Clays and two James K. Polks reside at present in the Louisiana penitentiary. The report that John Smith was also there is reliably contradicted.

PHILADELPHIA is discussing the matter of holding an International World's Fair in that city in 1876 in commemoration of the hundredtii anniversary of American Independence. The move is good, and the entire American pebple sliould take hold of it and make it a success worthy of the day and nation.

THE Boston Jottrnal says there will be three candidates in the field for Governor of Massachusetts, and in all probability the Bepublicans will have as their standard bearer (fov. Claflin, the Democrats will again rally round Col. John Quincy Adams, and the Labor Reform party will put up Mr. Colby, of Newburyport. Among the local political questions of next fall in the Western part of the State, the Chinese question will come np.

THE Chinese emigration, which, while it was only a thing far away in California, was a subject for pleasant paragraphs and dreamy thoughts of the future, is rapidly assuming a serious cast. The workingmen, astonished at the ease with wiiich the Celestials pick up trades, and the rapidity with which they amass fortunes on incredulous small pay, are beginning to investigate tho matter. This almost forced emigration from a Pagan country is at best of doubtful results. Mf

THE Cincinnati Times recalls a promise, made by "some genial savant, in the early spring, that owing to the fortunate juxtaposition of certain spelts on the sun, we were to have a cool bracing summer, like that of last year. If the weather which we are just now enjoying be the remit of said juxtapoaition, we wish some body or something woald

1

Th«

knock the spot

off* our solar luminary. A protracted experience like that of the past week or two would go for toward removing the terror faeulcated in oar youthfiil minds fajastrkt interpretation of the orthodox dbctrijp of /Wat* ponMsnatf."

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tfewa*. ...

A correspondent of the Bocky' Mountain News, of the 17th, very properly signing himself G. Hlliver, Jr., supplements the Salt Lake Whirlpool with an account of the Lake Sahwatch boiling spring. Here is the tale: "Those visitors who have camped near the lake must sometimes have been awakened in the night by a singular gurgling sound like that of fluid escaping trom the neck of a demyoJ*n, and perhaps have uncharitably ascribed it to the guzzling propensity of some comrade. I have often heard it, but on a recent night, when had penetrated faf into theswamp in search of mud-turtles— really the finest game for'the pot in this region—the gurgling became so loud, and at the same time was so evidently distan^ that my curiosity was much excited, determined to make an attempt to ascertain the cause of the strange sound. "I pushed on as I could in my skiff for several hours, through water, mud and thickets of reeds, and at length my labor was rewarded. I came into an open lake, half a mile across, which was ubbling and foaming like a boiling pot, and I could see that beyond a little island the agitation was still greater, and that the water was leaping up in a great jet there, and flowing out in all directions, rapidly extending and deepening the lake. At considerable risk I pushed quite near to the center of operations, and I could see that the outburstof water was growing larger every minute. The agitation was now so great that I did not dare to remain long near the grand jet and besides there were choking fumes rising from the surface, suggestive of anything but 'the better land. "Just as I started my skiff towards the point at which I entered the lake, my attention was suddenlv arrested by what seemed to be along aug-out ejected violently from the boiling flood. As good luck would have it, it was driven towards me, and what was my astonishment to discover the form of a man lashed to the thwarts in the inside. As quickly as possible I caught hold of the dug-out. and towed it to a safe distance from the boiling water, thinking only thatl was taking an unknown body to its burial. But some signs of life were soon visible in the prostrate form. Happily I had a_ flask of whisky in my pocket, with which I occasionally wet his"lips with good effect, and when I got both boats to the outside of the swamp, now a very respectable lake, it was evident that there was hope of saving the man's life. Securing help, I took nim to the nearest ranch, and after three days of careful nursing, he is now able to speak. He seems to be a Welchman and a Mormon, and unfortunately can speak very few words that we understand. But we make out the drift of his story, which is so incredible that I do not much blame my neighbors for saying that he is a crazy fellow and I am his, silly dupe. But I know where he came out, and so am prepared to put some faith in what he tells us, which is this: "He says his name is Yeneke Sikwot, or Sikwurt that he came from Wales with Elder Hardy, who converted him six years ago that he was out fishing on Salt Lake about a week ago, as he thinks, when he found that his boat- was being drawn into a great whirlpool that finding he must inevitably 8° down he lashed himself to the thwarU of his boat,thinking it might prevent his being dswhed to pieces on the rocks, and that its lightness would cause it to rise to the surface again with him. After lie went down into the vortex he remained insensible, for haw long he doesnot know, and when he awoke lie found himself rapidly borne on a rushing river in total darkness. Luckily he had some food in his bag, and bailing the water from his dugout with his hands, he made himself as comfortable as he. could.

Occasionally there was agleam of light through a crevice far above, just sufficient to show that he was on a wide river with an immense .archway of jagged rocks above his head. The occasional fall of a fragment into the water caused him much alarm. His idea of the time that elapsed on this subterranean voyage is necessarily vague, but his famished condition proves that it must have been several days. He has but a single remarkable incident to tell of all that dreary time. Not long before his boat emerged into the lake, he passed under a large open cleft in the mountains so wide that he could look up to the distant snowy peaks, and the great chasm of the river was made bright with sunshine.

One side of the archway at that point seemed to him a wall of solid, brilliant gold for hundreds of feet above his head, and he thinks for a mile in extent. He has no doubt that there lies the gold 'in mass and position' so often spoken of by the great prophet and eulogist oft his centre of the glooe, and as poon as he is strong enough we shall explore for the cleft where he saw it, which he is confident must be among the mountains encircling this valley. "Such is Sikwot's story. Is it the dream of a madman or is it reality I can swear that he came out of the lake, and the rest is as yet a matter of faith. If a great subterranean riverJfrom Salt Lake flows under this park, where is its outlet? Evidently its debouch into the lake can only be caused by an occasional flood in its waters or the obstruction of the stream further down. But speculations are futile. If I obtain any further information from Sikwot or by our joint explorations of the lake and the neighboring mountains, I will hasten to make

boring mountains, 1 will hasten to make it known to you. Ever since I heard Sikwot's narrative I keep repeating to myself the lines from Coleridge's Kubla Khan: 'Where Alph, the saered river ran -•Through caverns measureless to man

I Down to a sunless sea,'

A SOUTHERN SNAKE.

A Surreptitious Way of Obtaining Nourishment—He Imprndcntly Exposes Himself and is Killed

Some of the papers in the South and West arc trying which can tell the toughest snake story. The State Journal recounts one which we think fairly entitles its editor to the champion belt: A negro woman living near Che&terfield, Virginia, (according to the Journal,) has a nursing child which occupies the entire night iu imbibing its regular nourishment. The woman has frequently during the period imagined, while in a semi-somnolent state, that both the maternal founts were bein^used atthesametime, and mentioned tlie circumstance to her husband and severcl {friends, who puzzled their brains to account for it.

She was afflicted with asthma, and frequently sat during the warm evenings with her dress loosened to allow of greater ease in breathing. One evcoing she was sitting thus, half asleep and half awake, when she felt something creep over her shoulder and down upon her bosm. She immediately aroused her torpid faculties, and glancing down saw a monstrous black snake in the act of nursing, its basilisk eyes gleaming into hers. Of course she Was almost frightened out of her senses, and screamed and threw up her hands in the wildest teiror, which alarmed his snakeship into loosening his hold and executing a prompt disappearance. The alarm also awoke her husband, who was asleep in the same room, and who was at once informed of the astonishing circumstance. He, rightly thinking that the reptile would return and attempt to finish his meal, took a favorite position and waited for him. In a short time the snake which was of enormous size, came out, and, after a sharp battle, was dispatched. This is ccrtainly a remarkable story, but it is vouched for as strictly true by our Kichmond contemporary.

An Indian near Fort Scott, Kansas, recently traded two mules for a set of false teeth, and proudly wore them necklace fashion. ———<>———

Extensive fires are raging in the"vicinity of Oeooomowoc, destroying timber and fawn. They have originated from •tamps set on fire bj sparks from locomo-

fives.

TFJRRE-HAUTE, INDIANA!, WEDNESDAY MORNING. JULY 6, 1810. {PAYABLE INADYANCE

BV JOHS O. WHITTIKB.

I hold that Christian (race abounds Whore charity is aoen: that when We elimb to Heaven, 'tis en the rounds

Of love to men.

I bold all else named piety A selfish scheme, a vain pretense, Where centre is net, can there be ,,-j

Circumference?

This I moreover hold, and dare Affirm where'er my rhyme may go. W ha in or a

Love makes them so. -L

Whether it be tho lullabies That charm to rest the nestling bird. Or that sweet confidence of sighs,

And blushes without word: it

Whether the dazzling and tho flush (tt softly sumptuous garden bowers," Or by some cabin doer or bash

Of ragged flowers.

DR. LIVINGSTONE. ———

Probable Fate of the Great Explorer.

——— At the final fortnightly meeting of the session of 1869-70 of the Royal Georaphical Society of England, in London, June 14, Sir R. Murchison referred to the present position of Dr. Livingstone and the succor which is to be sent to him.

He said: "There have been great misapprehensions about this affair, and I have received numerous applications from active young men anxious to go in search of Dr. Livingstone, supposing that there was a real expedition about to start from this country or elsewhere. There is no such expedition, even in imagination, and certainly none in reality, contemplated in any way. Dr. Livingstone has been more than three years and a half in the heart of Africa without a single European attendant. I am not sure, that the sight of a young gentlemen sent out from England, who was not acclimatized, would not produce a very bad effect instead of a good one upon my friend the Doctor, because he would have to take care of the new arrival, who would very soon die there, and the poor Doctor would have an additional load. I have, therefore, to announce that there is no such intention whatever. I have received a dozen letters from admirable young volunteers, who are anxious to distinguish themselves, but who have not the least idea of what they are about. I have every reason to believe that the L1,000 that the Government has given will go out by the Consul of Zanzibar, who happens, accidentally, to be in this country, and who is going out immediately. He will instruct Dr. Kirk, the Vice Consul, to refit the same expedition which was started before, but which was impeded by an attack of cholera. The cholera has passed away entirely, the country is free from Zanzibat [sic] and the only difficulty now is to get to Ujiji, where my dear and valued friend was and still is, for he can not move forward or backward without carriers, supplies, and so forth. It will take two months or. more for those supplies to go from the seaboard to Ujiji, therefore you must put aside all anxiety for some months to come. I hope in about seven or eight months hence you will hear good news, and that very soon after that we shall see our friend again in his native country." ———<>———

SECRETS OF A MONEY BELT.

A Smart Woman Leaves IUinois— How she Robbed licr llnsband of $18,000—She goes to Europe for a

Life of Quietude aud Ease.

From the Now York Sun.) Three weeks ago a well-dressed woman arrived in this city via the Hudson River Railroad. There was apparently nothing wrong about her. She was modest in demeanor and of a taciturn disposition. For two days she stopped at the Metropolitan Hotel, and then went to 150 East Twentythird street to board. On Saturday last she went to Europe in the steamer City of Washington. She gave her name as Mrs. Hccfling said that she had separated from her husband, and that an equal division of property had been m?de before the separation. Her share she said amounted to a trifle over $20,000, and she exhibited Government bonds and bills to that amount in support of her assertion. When asked why she desired to visit Europe, she replied: "I wish to live alone. I shall never marry again. The interest of the money in my possession will keep me until death. I have seen enough of life, and only desire quietness and peace."

It now appears that Mrs. Heeding was the wife of Mr. Frederick Hcefling, of Quincy, 111. Mr. Hcefling kept a jewelry shop oh Hampshire street in that city for

some

years, and amassed quite a fortune. Through the advice of some friends he resolved to sell out his business, and seek a better field for operations in Californai. This was done. On closing up his accounts Mr. Hoefling cleared about $18,000. Having great confidence in his wife, he gave her $4,000 with which to come to this city and buy a stock of jewelry to furnish the California store. Mr. Hcefling was to use- the remaining $14,000 in purchasing a place of business in the Far West. At his request his wife made him a be It in which to keep his money. The wife suggested' that for greater security the money should be sewed up in the belt. Mr. Hoefling handed her the money. She walked into another room for thread and a needle, and on returning handed him the belt. The money lay in a lump, within it, apparently perlectlv secure.

Mrs.:

Hccfling in due time left Quincy

for New York to lay in Btock as arranged while the husband with the $14,000 secure, as he supposed, in his belt, departed for California. There he arrived in safety, and commenced arrangements for starting business on a large scale, only awaiting tidings from his wife and the New York purchases to conclude operations. The anticipated tidings and the expected purchases never came._ Expectation became anxiety, and anxiety grew into alarm.

The loose cash he had about liitp being exhausted, he had recourse to the belt. The belt was opened, and instead of bank notes he found only blank paper—not a cent of the $14,000. The wife had succesafully tricked him, and is now in Europe* The husband, broken-hearted, has made no eGbrt to find her.

~ns

Tis not tho wide phylactery.' Xor stubborn fast, er stated To make us saints wc jadgo

prayers.', the tree

By what it bears.

And when a man can live apart .- From work on theologic trust, I know the blood about bis heart

Is dry as dust.

OF CALIPHS.'

Bagdad as It Is—Its does. People and "Amueamts.

..few English-speaking men,

fewer Mussulmans, who can make aUrik visit to the ancient city from rhich I am now writing, witlionl light quickening of the mental pulse. Strolling through the same bazaars which Once echoed to the feet of the good Caliph Haroun al Baschid, of his Vizier Giaffir, and of his trusty eunuch Mesroor, or pausing before a coffee shop, haunted of fore by the Silent Barber of the Hunclionck or passing by some mysterious mansion, with closed windows and barred doors—the house, doubtless, of Zobeide and Safie and Amine in short, go where you will in Bagdad, so long as you steer clear of the resident Europeans, you can dream over again the delicious dreams of early boyhood—dream them over again, too, not in the mind's eye simpiy, but'with'the figures and scenes of your fantasies in actual, literal procession before you.

Much, very much, has been written about the dangers of the streets of Bagdad. Imaginative travelers have described their narrow escape from being devoured alive by the dogs, who, they have said, .relish Christian much more than Moslem flesh and blood. The streets are very narrow and dirty, and are, indeed, infested with scores of thousands of howling masterless pariah dogs. But these animals are by no means dangerous creatures they bark, but never bite. They cover the streets with their ordure, and in summer the thoroughfares are, from this cause,' very offensive, especially as Bagdad is not yet blessed with a streetcleaning commission.

Among the natives life runs on in the same smooth channel that it did in the timejof Haroun al Baschid. The rich loaf away their time in the bath, in the harem and on the divan, everywhere smoking nargheelahs and drinking coflee, and solemnly chatting. And the poor, rising at daybreak af the call of the priests from the half a score of minarets, perform their ablutions, spread their little devotional carpet, say their prayers, and then betake themselves to their various avocations. Laboring, not very actively, as it seems to us, until sunset, each nian goes home to his pibob or pilaf, his melons and oranges, his coffee and bubblebubble, served tohi'm By the fair hands of his brace of wives. This is the story of their lives from year to year. The Bngdadees have no amusements except such as they find in talking politics in the coffee shops! or in laughing at the misfortunes of their acquaintances, or in telling stories, or in the society of their wives, or in a wedding or a funeral. Every night the Pacha's band (for there is a Turkish band here) plays in front of the serai, but the Bagdadees do not care to listen to it. A Company of Italian acrobats and singers have also come here and fitted up a house as a theater, but arc playing only to empty benches. And a newspaper published in Turkish and Arabic, by the Pacha's printer, amusing as are the lies it tells of the wonderful prowess of the troops fighting against the Arabs, finds no subscribers, and subsists only by official advertisements. Your Bagdadee has no soul for music, no taste for the trapeze or ballet, no appetite for Journalistic sensations. Society here, indeed.has reached, as Chinese society did a couple of thousand years ago, the fossil stage of existence. It has only been fixed for a few hundred years, it is trne^ but it has not the less stopped growing.—Correspondence N. Y. Herald.

FASHIONS FOR THE HEAD.

Antiquity Sanctions the Use of the Chignon.

A fine, smoothly-outlined head, resting lightly, half imperiously on a fair neck, next to the eyes, the most, excellent beauty of woman. The delicate contour of the temple, the noble crown, the gentle curve at the base brain, claim by right of their loveliness an expression which they are not allowed of late. Individual taste and the requirement?

her dainty head, of the preltine.-s of her little pink ear. and adjures licr by all the graces anil goddesses to fling her golden locks into tlie simplicity of pose that befits her style. Obstinate little lady! She pouts deliciously, and airily elevates that perfect nose as she informs Sir Joshua that "'Twould never, never do —don't you see it isn't the fashion?" So Sir Joshua, in despair, sees what is the fashion, and paints the proud, inhocent,

Diana

profile under amass of false puffs, and erepes that some Parisian Anonyma had worried her wits in devising. Then he sends the picture to the Academy and the critics don't like it, and, at a loss for areason, give couftl suggestions of "bad coloring" and "wooden treatment." But the miserable artist knows his fault. Incongruity he has shadowed the face of Diana with the chevelure of Anonyma. The little thing looks charmingly, of course, but how much more charming would she have been with that rich hair simply knotted. Belter than this was the image of the immature Mary Jane of his childhood's Appleville—the small, freckled creature, with her hair braided in two little tails and tied with pink ribbon.

Putting aside the question of artistic bucaty, the present Btyle of dressing the hair, though they are irritatingly evident in their deceptions,are becoming to t|e majority of feminine faces. Their intricate evolutions give a certain air of distinction to the most commonplace personnel. Sir Joshua should be grateful to any fashion which exposes the temples, those pretty outposts of intellect.

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THK National Convention of the Y. M. C. A, recently in session in Indianapolis, exhibited a keen perception as to the proper field for active missionary work when it resolved to hold its next annual meeting in Washington City. If the zealous young Christians should assemble simultaneously with Congress, and remain in session continuously with that body, they would find ample opportunity for the exercise of all their "gifts" in counteracting the baneful and anti-Christian influences of the National Legislature, though we may perhaps be pardoned for expressing a doubt as to the efficacy of prayer in this care. Still it might be worth while to try the experiment, as all the praying which has been done by Congress for some time past has been spelled with an e, and if a change in this regard don't save the souls of the members it will at least relieve the pockets of the people.—Gin. Times.

The ston^ recently given by Congri to the Lincoln monument at Springfield, III., was really procured from the wall of Servius Tullus, in Rome, by Free Masons there, who supposed that Mr. Lincoln belonged to the order, and sent it as a manifestation of their fraternal respect for his memory.

A belt of black crickets more than a mile vida and of unknown length, cam be see* ««r Elko, STetife.

Recalcitrants, who love traditions and respect their grandmothers, may become reconciled to "the abomination of false hair" when they are told of the discovery recently made in Cri?sa by the mellifluous Babon Rajenchalala Nitra, a very learned Hindu savant. While engaged in archeological researches he proved by monumental figures that tlie fashion of chignons exited there 2,000 years ago, among the women of the ancient Ariajis, who bore bunches of hair formed like those worn at the present time. These bunches, he informs the world, were sometimes of immense size. A better precendent and excuse for our fashion it might not be easy to find.—iY. Y. Tribune.

"A MOTHER'S EXPIATION.

A Talc of Murder and Suicid6

One day last week a dog that had been prowling about in a neighborhood in Ihe southwestern portion of Henderson county, Tennessee, brought up the lower half of a white infanvs body. One of the child's feel were gone, and looked as if it had been eaten off. The citizcns were greatly shocked and incensed when the discovery was made known. A meeting was hela and opinions interchanged, but no facts were elicited pointing to the author of the infanticide. Suspicion strongly rested, however, on a woman in the neighborhood, who is believed to be the murderer and unnatural mother of the child.

An inquest was held, and information obtained which led to the issuing of a warrant for thoarrestof Mi^sSu^an Yoes, charged with the guit of child-murder. The young woman, aged about twentyfour years, was working in a cotton field when information rcached her that the warrant had been issued. Dropping the hoe, she went to the well on tlie premises of Mr. Benj. Rhodes, about four hundred yards distant, andplnnging headlong into the abyss, was drowned. The well was twenty-six feet to the water, with ten feet of water at the bottom.

The introduction of be Chinese shoemakers at North Adams has had one good effect already upon twenty-five of the striking Crispins of that place, who instead of abusing the Chinese, or raising a riot against Mr. Simpson, have bought a shoo-bctory, intending to run it on the etHo^ratlre syrten.

A few words of Warning. EDITOR ROCKVILLK REPUBLICAN the writer can beiisefnl, he prefers being so rather than to be conspicuous— Hence, he. proposes^o furnish you a few articles Under tlie abpve caption, and orrr the signature below,

The' rebellion^ now happily terminated Was forced uponihe Nation byv its conspirators in the interest of SLIVCXT. Slavery perished by the" rebellion thus fulfilling the Scripture: "WTioso tnketh up the sword, shall perish by-the" sword."

The wicked pucpose -of,the rebellion aroused the patriotism of the Nation, and for four long, weary years, the ardor of loyal men knew no cessation orabat'ement., till the authority of the Government Was fully vindicated, .-ind traitors jfrffl-c forced to ground the arms of rebellion. Had strife and .dissension on minor issues been permitted to1 rule the hour, among tlie loyal hosts, the rebellion would have been a success,1 and 'defeat) .humiliation aud ruin would have been, our lot. It is. no purpose of the writer lo advance new ideas, but to impress old truths which will be recognized as such at first si*ht. What has been said will be acoepted as truth, by every Republican, at least.

The lesson taught us in "the premises laid down js, that harmony among friends of a great cause, and tolerance of differences of opinion among them on all minor questions, not vital to the object to be accomplished, is the sign to lead the conquering army to victory.

The question, therefore, comes to us, as patriots, as Republicans, was the war of the rebellion waged for an unworthy purpose, was the blood of our martyred sons and brothers shed in vain, was the Nation's life purchased at too great a cost, and if so, shall we cast the purchase aside for that reason, as a bauble not worth preserving.

If, now, after all that we have done and suffered, we allow dissensions to crcep into our ranks, on issues less material than the great cause of Republicanism, as laid down in the platforms of the' party, and exemplified on the battle-fields of the Union, then we yield to the enemy all that we have battled for during the last ten years we yield to the rebels that which they were unable to wrest from us on the battle-field If grievances exist, inside of the Republican organization, and not outside of it, is the proper place, and the only proper one, to correct the evil. To go outside of it, is to desert to the enemy.

If we were sincere during the war, and there can be no doubt of that, "then it is well to remember the fate of the cause lying near the heart of all rebels, slavery. By their own indiscretion, they assured the downfall of the institution. If we would avoid like fate, let there be no rebellion instituted within Lhe Kepubli-. can party to effect some changc of policy on some given [wjint, as snch a course, equally certain as that the rebellion assured the downfall of slavery, would assuro the downfall of the Republican party, together with, all lite principles held dear by all true Ilepubiioins.

In my next communication, I shall attempt i'::rther to ilh:stra my views on some of the "vexed" questions that afflict us. VERITAS.

VARIETIES.

Opium, it is sftid,has at present as laryre a i:ale in this country as tobacco.

Sixteen of the fathers have died since the assembling of the Ecumenical Council.

In Loudon there id a liriu by.the name of Holland & Sherry, who deal in dry goods.

The Austrian Embassy in Paris has hired the honse in which Napoleon III., was born.

Mr. Ezra Felar.d exhibited, in Austin, Texas, the scalps of several Indians who came for hii'ii.

Buttermilk is said to be very good for the complexion applied either internally or externally. ,.

A man in Portland' tvrtnted to-.gain admission to a panorama at h.ilf price, «n the ground that he "had hnfone eye.

face and figure have little to with the dressing of the hair. Sir Joshua ilk3 to Mademoiselle of the beauty of her Greek feautures, of the spiritudk expression

The oldest man in Boston is James 1.. Rogers, 102 year: old iu August next,"and the* oldest woni.nn is Hannah llawley, aged 0f.

The great uouipij.-ci' of walues, Strains, receivoi a -alary of "?12,000 in gold for hi-' participation in twelve concerts in Baden Dadcn.

A wall street broker who Ins been engaged to a lady about three weeks luk3 presented her in that space of time with ten thousand dollars' worth of jewelry.

Mrs. Lynch was run over aud killed by the cars in Philadelphia. An-infant which she held in her arms fell on the cow catchcr and was carried three thousand feet unhurt..."lirf sii* nla-*

The statistics of emigration and immigration of the Kingdom of Saxony show that 471 persons moved into that country during the year 1869, while 4-51 emigrated from it.

One of the larger openings observed in the sun is said to be 187,000 miles in circumference. The earth rolled into this dark crater would be like an apple thrown into a bushel basket.

The Judges of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire arc making a movement to have their salaries raised. The salaries of the Judge- have been increased in all the other New England States.

The Catholic Club, of Vienna, offers a prize of twenty ducats for the best essay on 'How can the increase of our Jewish population and theaccumlation of wealth in their hands be prevented in a legal manner?"

The next Universal Exposition will be held at Vienna, in 1873. Six million guilders will be required to meet the expenses of it, one and a half millions of which have been already, £U lf,gril)cd,.by a a

Boston temperance reformers intend to revive the old days of the "Cold Water Army," to save the ri'ing generation from the poison" of alchohol. John

"ftirc Every Man Thine Ear, Bnt Few Thy Yolcc

The traveling world, which includes all who can possibly got away froni theirf daily engagements, is now in motion.—» And to the number of those who travel •lor pure recreation is to be added such wise citizens as find a ready excuse for .moving about on business pretences,'at -the season of tlie year when traveling is, most fashionable.

The charm of traveling is in encoun-f tering now faces, as well as new scenc-j ry.

It is hard, we know, to live upon tlie maxim that "all tlie world" is a rogue, and that "his wife" is a confederate.— Nor is it necessary to be quite so harsh jn our judgment. But, on the other band, it is not quite prudent to fancy that all the smiles one meets with are Dearua of pure bcnevolence, and that all tlieJ,ea(f&t courtesy encountered is disinterested politeness. Most men are aware that they have personal objccts in viewr. the center of which is that important personage self and they may, therefore, eafely conclude that other people are^ r'juite likely to be selfish too. Extra po-i iteness from strangers should of courser' be met with politeness, bnt it does not de-^.. mand that the recipient sliall^ carry his fconrtesy to the extent of placing himself ,* in a stranger's power. It is safest to keep out of the shower of gushing bencvolencc and too abundant and airy courtesy. f.

You may talk to your neighbor in a.^ railway car, or at a hotel table, or associate with him in a strange placc under casual introduction, and yet be under no obligation to continue the acquaintance afterwards. You may make your chanct intercourse pleasant, and be entertainedji and benefitted by strangers, unless -you^ happen to know they are undesirable, or chance to see that their surroundingsi are of questionable propriety. With these precautions you may travel safely, and sojourn at waysides and watering places .v pleasantly. The people .you meet are, part of your recreation. And you are part of theirs.

The man who is "too -simple-to understand these prudential guards, or who is such an optimist that he despises caution, had much better stay at home. His inperience, or his romantic confidence, .,.11*bring him to grief if he travels.— His pocket will be picket, or, what is.-., worse, because a more enduring mis fortune, he will make "entangling alliances," which may afterward prove anything but pleasant reminders of his travels. You ,V can "pass the butter" or tender tkanks "for the cream," without exchanging references. You can lend your Ledger or borrow your neighbor's New York paper without the formality of comparing credentials. But beware of traveling confidences. Do not accept any man's pretention3, further than to listen with po- .... liteness, and reserve your action. Keep behind the conventional hedge till time

and evident propriety show that it may bo broken down. You have a right to stand politely on the defensive, and no sensible man or woman will think the worse_of you for it. Nor, between gentlemen, wills such caution be any bar to pleasant social intercourse.—Phdu. Ledger.

llcsponsibllilies of a Sen Captain. If we regard the ship as a living monster forcing its way by its own peculiar organs of locomotion through these bil- •. -.,k. lows and storm.-, wc consider the ^atcroom of the captain as the seat of its bruin. The duties of the commander of 'V a ea-going steamer are not only extremely various, but they involve the possession of a combination of mental qualities and attainments most diverse in their r. character, many of them being such as are seldom conferred by nature, andaic

currents,

H.

Gougli and other distiiiKuished tpeaker? are mtei eotcd. -t Mrs. Sophia Dickey, the last surviving child of Maj, Gen. John Stark, the hero of Bennington, died on Saturday last at Reading, Mass. She wi« the widow of Samm.l Dickey, of Londonderry, N. Ifand was upward of 90 years of age.

Iraac Wheeler, of Amherst, N. II., better known a., "Father Wheeler," and said to be the only surviving hearer of Kev. John Murray, who preached the first Universalis! sermon in this country, died on Friday last, aged 91 years.

They have caged a burglar at the Hvracuse jail who did br.wness. He kept an account book, and gave, each man credit for the article stolen. He informed the oflicer that hi- wa3 the system of donble entry—once into your safe and again hi* books.:-- r." «..*

Mr. J. II. &hrteder, of Ifamfyrg^Tias just founded an asylum for widows and their children in Hamburg which cost him about nine hundred and ,.fifty thousand dollars. Ills donations to the poor amount besides to several :ndreA.thousand dollars annually.

A ITartfoid youth of twenty-two was so enamored of a mis* of fourteen that he forged the name of her father to an order on the town clerk so that he could get a marriage certificate,and then eloped with his prir.c. He was pursued and arrested for l'orgery, but ihe cast- w:11 he settled.

The sale of beer in Kalamazoo is esti- mated at five hundred barrels per month, founded upon the returns made to the internal revenue office. This interesting inference is drawn from the fact: Five hundred barrels reduced to drinks makes 256,000.

At a match race of carrier-pigeons, during the last month, two pigeons flew a distance of seven hundred miles in less than eight hours. They were let loose in the morning at 6 o'clock in Pesth, Hungary, and arrived, at 2 o'clock P. M. at Cologne, although in an exhausted condition.

and through licet* of jislwr-

men, and among fields and mountains of «•—. floating ire. with only a plank between hii-little world of human hopes and fears and the world ot waters, which when in their angry moods, rage and roar aiound him, as if eager to make the ship and all

{•,*' "Drapery Misses." It is probably not within the pale of. human possibilities for a I'renchman to comprehend England. lie may live next door to it, as he does, or he may jo.-s half a lifetime on the tight little island, and then go to his grave without the faintest knowledge of the manners, customs and ways of tliought in England. He is never -o entertaining, however, as when he write? about these matters. Apropos of this, a French journalist, M. llertrand, has discovered a new profession Which, it is interesting to know, i- pur-,1

very difficult of attainment, but which are'all absolutely essential to the successful execution of his charge. He must .bea good,ruler. No monarch can be more absolute than he in the control of every thing on board a hliip, from the tiiue-of his dissmissing the pilot at the commencement of his voyage, to his taking the pilot at the cud ot it. lie has, however three different communities to govern, entirely distinct from each other, ,r ,, and involving quito different methods and.principles ot treatment in the emergencies that occur. There "are, first, tho company of cabin passengers secondly, the ship's company, consisting of seamen, engineers, firemen, cooks, and stewards, If sometimes amounting to hundreds iu number and, thirdly, the emigrants a body of men, and women, and children, ,, to the number often of more than a thousand. Thus the commilndcr of one of these ships has intrusted to his charge a hetcro--» geneous community of ono or two thousand souls: enough lo form the popida- 4 tion of quite a town. These, all packed together in the closest quarters, in the ?h7p which lie commands, he has the re- ,,, sporsibility of conveying through mists and gales and driving storms of snow and rain, breasting the heaviest seas, a.id -j,.threading his tortuous way among tides and

it's contents their prey. lie has to find his way over this pathless deep by means of stars which are constantly in motion, and bv thesun, which on no two days pursues the same track through the skies. ...... The needle of his compass is liable to be disturbed in its indications by many

causes, A. blow struck upon any portion of his iron ship may derange it anil upon the variation of his chronometer to the amount of the fraction of a second during the voyage the question may d^ y' whether he shall strike upon a enter the port in safety attheenu. One would suppose that the solicituoll.||jV and anxiety which would attend the attaining of responsibilities like these would be overwhelming. I5nt they are

not so. No class of men enjoy better health, or perhaps lead lives of greater ,« freedom from anxiety and care, than these ., commanders. The reason is, that they arc as a class thoroughly qualified for their work and men do easily what they, do well.—llarjKr's Magazinefor JiUy.

naed in Iiondou. He calls it a stj inge, efccentric profession—"bizarre" i.- hi- own word—and, as regard-s its char.acterization, he is not far wrong. It consists, M. & Jl.n-trand explains, in picking out pretty fjjrls of low station, washing them, dress- ,..: ing them like young ladies, giving (hem '. few lessons in deportment, manners and the art of speaking English, and then Hi exhibiting them in the parks, public garliens, and theatres, until they attract the attention and gain the heart, and ultimately the hand, of some rich man. "hittie by little," says the innocent M. Her-if!1 trand, "the poetic illusions of the honeymoon disapjtear, until at last the husband .. discovers that lie has married a girl without position or education. So much '1 the worse! I'.ut in the meanwhile the l«argaisih.v been struck, and the matriuio- ,,. nial agent hits jxjckcted his premium."* The-e improvised young ladies are.it appears, called "drapery misses." sMftaes*

A Crown i'rincc With Sense*. A Paris letter says: "The ncw*iapers i. are very merry over what they call the stinginess of the Crown Prince of Prussia,* .', but which I think shows great wisdom# and judgment. When liis lather, the King of Prussia, went to G'arisbad, in s, 18G5, the hotel where lie lodge brought in a most exorbitant bill, charging him over four thousand florins for the flowers ved to adorn tlie rooms. The Crown Prince desired te visit Carisbad this year, and unwilling to be bled as his father, had been, about three mouths since nent one of lib private secretaries to Carisbad to come to terms with the landlord for the whclb season and for every article,... and he ordered the secretary to gi\e no^, hint for whom he was bargaining. lhc:V,,. landlord at once proposed, letting six rooms for ninety llorins a week, and aIjrced to as moderate charges for everything else

so

the whole expense of the

Crown Prince, family and servants will not amount to as much as his father paid for his flowers. When the guests for whom the lodgings had been taken came, ..} and the landlord found them to be theCrown prince and family, lie bit his lipe, with vexation."