Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 January 1871 — Page 1
A LABGE amount of counterfeit curren •cy has recently been "shoved" at Lafay •ette. W-:
THE Cincinnati papers of yesterday are ticstatic over the arrival of NILSSON in thai city.
TNE HON. JOHN HICKMAN, of Penn •ylvania, is enjoying the rare privilege of reading his obituary in many journals.
THE two Methodist churches,in Greencaatle, have appointed committees to take into consideration the propriety of uniting the two congregations.
THE scholarly suggestion of the Lafay ette Courier that the Can-Can affords a good opportunity "to study anatomy," is the only argument yet advanced in favor of tfcat much-abused performance.
TJIE Wyoming National Bank, at \Tilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, has elected a lady director, she owning or representing a large amount of the stock of the bank.
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DEMOCRATIC papers, throughout the State, are trying hard to repair the blunder they made in bringing out the names of two Presidential candidates, HENBRICKS and KERR.
THE SAUI-SBURY family still holds its lien on Delaware. Ex-Governor Eia succeeds his boozv brother WILLARD in the United St.'••« Senate. Any change uiUJt be an imp ement.
THE Lafayette Journal thinks the pre sent Democratic legislature is laying up a Iical thy lot of "precedents" for th« benefit of its successor, which will undoubtedly be Republican.
MHS. MARY A. LIVERMORE'S lecture on "Queen ELIZABETH," at Indianapolis Wednesday evening, was a very decided success. Mrs. L. is a lady of fine serse and rare culture and never fails to bring her audience into sympathy with herself.
IN discussing the preliminary arrangements for a new State House, it should not be forgotten that Senator ELLIOTT would make a good weathercock to surmount the dome of the grand edifice. In this way his peculiar qualities may be utilised.
THE reintroduction of the BLAIR element into politics is the most deplorable suit of the difficulty in the Republican arty of Missouri. Among the plagues that persistently cleave to the Republic, wc count none more afflictive than the UI.AIR family. "How long, oh Lord! Mow long?"
THE Crawfordsviile Journal notices the fact that Mr. AS. V. MITCHELL, of Morgan county, the only pretended Republican member of the House of two years ago who voted against the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, lias been elected Canal Commissioner by the present Democratic Legislature. Verily, he lias his reward.
WHATEVER may be said in disparagement of the State of Camden and Amboy, few will deny that she has done herself honor in deciding to return Hon. FREDERICK T. FHEMNCJIIL'YSKN to the United States Senate. lie is a decided Republican, an able statesman, and a liberalminded gentleman. He succeeds Senator CATTEI.L, who declined to be again a candidate.
THE Cleveland Herald sadly remarks: "It is one of the usual misfortunes of any movement, that tends to the advantage of woman, tlmt those take the lead who have failed to secure the respect'' or esteem of their acquaintances. It would lend about the same moral weight to man's cause to have it championed by JIM FJSK, that it does to woman's cause to have it led bv Wooimri.i. and CI.AKI.IN."
MISS VINXIK REAM, it is said, is to be awarded another heavy sum out of the Treasury for'a statue of FARRAIIUT or Gen. THOMAS, and that too before her Htatue of LINCOLN has been unveiled and submitted to the public judgment. The Cincinnati Times pertinently suggests that although VtNSiEniav be the best sculptor in the country, yet it would look better to examine the work she has done before giving her another job.
TIIK Kvansville Journal tells of a woman who applied to a Catholic clergyman of that city for a contribution to help pay her passage to a neighboring city. The reverend gentleman gave her three dollars, when she turned to him, with scorn in her looks, and exclaimed, "An' what's three dollars to get me mul my three children a passage?" Father M. asked to see the money again, and when it was handed back he referred the "ladv" tn the police, and pocketed his contribution.
WHO will dare to say that we are making no progress in the Woman Rights movement, when LIZZIE LYNN isbrought to the bar of the Marion Criminal Court and lined, in lour cases, five dollars each, for selling liquor without license.' Doubtless there are two or three hundred men, in that county, who deserve this mark of consideration more than LIZZIE, but it is their misfortune to belong to the masculine division of the yenus homo. Hence the Grand Jury and Criminal Prosecutor ignore their claims.
"Goi blessed me with singular abilities, but 1 abused them," arc given in the Philadelphia Press as the last words of a recent suicide in that city. It is a sad testimony to one's life at any time, but especially so at life's close, as in this instance. The abilities of this gentleman were said to be of a high order, and little foreshadowed so tragic an end. It is a lamentable fact that the best talents among mankind rarely achieve the possible results—the brilliant possibilities of the world so often fade away into dull realities.
THE South Rend Regisler ,'hows (hat citv to have one hundred and forty-two industrial establishments, all of them in a healthy condition, employing over one thousand men and turning out annually products valued at little less than three millions of dollars. Ten years ago her vearly manufactures were but one-fifth of that amount. The principal articles made there which have given South Bend her reputation as a manufacturing centre, are wagons, furniture, clover-hullers, grain drills, plows, sewing-machine cajes, chairs, uaper, and woolen goods.
TERMS $2.00 A YEAR}
A Contrast.
A Lieutenant of the United States Army, who is believed by nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine, out of every tenthousand people, in this State, to have committed a most cowardly and brutal murder, and who escaped the gallows on the "momentary insanity" dodge, is deemed worthy of repeated honorable personal mention in the Indianapolis papers and his name is continually thrust upon public notice, as if he were worthy to associate with honest men. In this way
the
foulest crime is sought to be made
respectable through the agency that should be the greatest conservator of public morality.
In the same city, a woman,—a true wife and kind mother,—charged with a similar crime, but of whose guilt the public mind has never been satisfied, has been hunted down and relentlessly persecuted by the press for years.
It is very likely that the woman is guilty it is certain that the Lieutenant is. How, then, is he entitled to more respect than she?
He is known to have pitilessly killed his victim in cold blood, long after the alleged offence had been committed, if indeed it ever was committed and the poor wretch fell before the assassin's pistol, into the cold embrace of death, with a vehement protestation of innocence on his lips. She is suspected of having had a hand in a horrible murder, and if guilty, deserves the severest punishment.
But one's sense of what is due to common fairness is shocked to see the known murderer continually honored, and the suspected murderess persistently persccu* ted.
The prison or gallows that claims Mrs. CLEM and spares Lieutenant DAUOHERTY (who, we are told by the Indianapolis papers, has gone to join his regiment in Dakotah Territory, where he will proba. bly be received as a gentleman by his brother officers) may get a part of its dues, but will satisfy the public mind that it is far from being an impartial vindicator of Justice.
THE New York livening Mail gives a few lines on the subject of short-hand reporting which
are
of sufficient importance
to be generally circulated. Some idea ol the work of a short-hand reporter maybe ferred from the fact that they write from 100 to 200 words per minute. By rule of one society, no person can become a member unless able to report 175 words per minute and read his notes readily and correctly. Some reporters are faster than this, but few are able to keep up this terrible rate any great length of time. On one occasion a gentleman reported a speech of one hour and forty-five minutes. The speech was extemporaneous and contained 18,900 words, spoken at the rate of 180 words per minute, although at times the speaker would talk at the rate of 225 per minute. Very few reporters in the world can do this, continuing their work without interruption for so long a time. If set in type the same as ordinary editorial matter, the speech would make nearly fifteen and a half columns. One can judge from the above that to report correctly is no easy matter, and to report rapidly a person lias not much time for other business. About one student out of fifty who dare attempt this difficult .science becomes an expert, and then only after severe study, long application and years of experience.
THE Indianapolis Journal fails to give the names and specify the particular offenses of aiiy of those "many Senators and Congressmen who," it says, "make the distribution of Federal patronage among personal friends the chief business of their official lives."
So very grave a charge should not have been made, except upon actual knowledge of facts sustaining it. And justice to the innocent requires that the guilly should be exposed.
We make no question that too much attention is given, by "many Senators and Congressmen," to the distribution of patronage among their political friends. This is bad enough, and calls loudly for remedy. But that there are ''many" in either branch of the National Legislature whose chief concern is to "gobble spoils" for "personal friends," we do not believe nor will the Journal's readers believe it on a vague, general charge. Again, we respectfully ask for the names of the accused, or at least a portion of the "many," and for the evidence against them. A strong desire to "go for" the guilty, and to vindicate the innocent, prompts our request.
THE St. Louis Democrat's chagrin and vexation at FRANK BLAIR'S election to the Senate, considering that event as a natural result of the Democrat's own political engineering, remind* the Chicago Republican of a little story which Mr. LINCOLN used to tell when he wanted to illustrate a marked case of parental repudiation. It was that of BILL REYNOLDS' mare. This animal had just passed through the pains and perils of maternity, and was about to indulge its joys and its hopes, when, looking round, she beheld in her offspring the unsightly form of a mule colt. She pricked up her ears, ran otl, and was never afterward seen or heard »f but her owner was heard to remark that she alone was to blame for it. We leave the Democrat to make the application.
SUMNER is consoled. A man has been found who declares Alaska a good purchase. It is Captain IIARTWEI.L, commanding a New Bedford whale ship, and he says: "The climate is not too severe for Americans, and not so trying to the constitution as tropical countries The soil is adapted to grazing, and the common vegetables are raised in abundance, making it a good recruiting ground for ships." The Captain has great confidence in the extent and value of the seal fisheries, cod and Salmon fisheries, timber, cranberry fields and gold mines of Alaska, and he thinks the new Oregon or North Pacific Railroad will start the tide of emigration and adventure to Alaska. He may be right.
THAT was a sensible Kentucky doctor, ALLEN bv name, who, when called, recently, as a witness in a murder case, in which the deftnsa was insanity, heard the hypothetical case stated by the lawyer, and prefaced his opinion as an expert by saying that the more he studied the question of insanity the less he understood people tire of being cont.nually reminded it, and he looked upon such theoretical that "the Hon. JAMES SNOOKS,just elected controversies as occasions where lawyers
made fools of. themselves in trying to of the doctors. Anyone who present at a trial in which exve been examined on the quea insanity will agre' thtbcdoc*
THE custom of publishing and republishing, a man's biography every time he is elected to any important office or promoted, by the votes of his fellow-citizens, from one official station to a better one, is getting to be a newspaper nuisance. The
to the United Slates Senate by the Legis lature of was born" &c A"c. There are, in this country, only three events that really call for the infliction of a biography, to wit: hanging, natural or accidental death, and noniinatiou for 'he
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THE Indianapolis papers report that a special meeting of the members of the State Board of Education was held in that city on Tuesday evening. Governor BAKER, Hon. B. C. HOBB3, State Superintendent Dr. CYRUS Ncny President State University Prof. W. A. JONES President State Normal School Prof. A. C. SHOBTRIDGE, Prof. A. M. Gow, Superintendent of the Evansville Schools Prof. J. H. SMART, Superintendent of the Fort Wayne Schools, and several other leading educators were present.
The cause of education, and the means necessary to advance the same, were discussed, and the establishment of a system of University education, embracing the Perdue University, the State University at Bloomington, and a central institution, with several departments, to be founded at the State Capital, was also under consideration. As a result of the meeting, additional legislation in the educational interests~of the State will probably be asked for this winter.
THE number of members of the United States House of Representatives at different periods has been as follows: 1709 65 1793—1803 105 1803—1313 141 1813-1823 181 1823—1833 213 1833—1843 240 1843-1853 223 1853-1863 236 1863—1873 243 1873—1883 (proposed) 2S0
JAMES R. FKISBIE of Anamosa, Iowa, sent a letter to the New York Tribune on paying the national debt. And HORACE follows it with the following philo sophical, christianlike and compliment ary notice:
We do not know that we shall he able to convince Mr. F. that his is the project of a fool as well as a knave, hut we will make the attempt, quite sure that, should he dissent from our conclusion, he will stand in a small minority.
TERRE HAUTE has been peculiarly unfortunate in lierpublic exhibitions: First, Phillip Phillips was advertised to sing there through some unfortunate circumstance he was unable to fill his engagement.—Exchange.
That must be a mistake, as P. P. has not been "advertised to sing" here, for several years. And even if the item were true, our citizens would not regard the disappointment as the most "unfortunate circumstance" that could happen.
THE proposed new Democratic daily paper at Louisville, is soon to make its appearance. A dispatch says:
The company have a capital of $150,000 stock already subscribed. Popular feeling is strongly in favor of a new paper, and it will be a success.
As Louisville already has the ablest and best Democratic paper published west of New York city, the necessity for another is not clearly apparent. If the Democracy of Louisville are dissatisfied with the Courier-Journal, they must be utterly incapable of appreciating journalistic talent and enterprise. And such a community cannot be regarded as a promising constituency for anew paper
AT THE Italian Unity meeting in New York, Mr. HENRY WARD BEECHER told the assembly how hierarchies are formed, as follows: "I say ministers are just as good citiizens, if you let them be common democratic citizens but the moment you make a class of them you spoil them. The moment you say to them, There are the people—there are the men of God,' that very moment you have made a hierarchy, and made a class, and now if they feel the impulse of that class, if they adhere to all the class instincts among themselves, with class ambitions and feelings, then they bccome—not because they are ministers, but because they are banded together—they become the worst managers of all public or political affairs."
IN Massachusetts there is a disposition to make the dissevering process still easier than it now is. The bill now pending, giants to every married pair who will mutually live apart for three years, a complete divorce without any oth»r ground. The Old Bay State is seemingly envious of Indiana's reputation. Cin. 'Times.
The Old Bay State has so long been furnishing gtists for our divorce mills, and has sent so many clients with fat fees to Indiana lawyers, that the legal fraternity of Massachusetts are alarmed, and have determined to divert so profitable a current of traffic into their own pockets They are welcome to it, and all the honors connected therewith.
WENDELL PHILLIPS, in his speech at Cincinnati, the other night, made this hit at the glorious railway triumph in this country:
It was a mistake to teach the boy at school that there were thirty-seven States in this Union there were thirty-six States and a railroad—the Camden and Amboy. And to day the Legislature of New York does not meet at Albany. Vanderbilt carries it it his waistcoat pocket.
In another portion of the same effort, WENDELL ''touched off" the power of railway corporations thus:
It was no joke when a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature, a year ago, remembering that Thomas Scott was President of the Pennsylvania Central, rose in his seat and said, "Mr. Speaker, if Thomas Scott has no more business for this Legislature, I move we adjourn."
THE Carbondale Xetc Era, alluding to the efficient service rendered to Gen. LOGAN by his estimable wife, in the recent Senatorial contest says: "From the fact in immediate notice we beg leave to impart two lessons: First, that Gov. Ogle?by must remain a bachelor no longer and secondly, that our public men must make up their minds to get wives with brains in their heads, and souls in their natures. Heretofore, the editors of this country have managed to marrv about all the tip-top women going, leaving only one now and then for the politicians, ll" these, like the others, had just the right kind of wives, we would have civil service reform, the speedy payment of the national debt, the abolition of all 'rings' and land jobbing swindles. revenue reform, economical
TERREHAUTE, INDIANA,
and
A Kat.
.F BY J. X*
"Conscience makes cowards of us all." I dreamt that a rat Quite near me sat, Perched on my pillow, close up to my ear.
And he whispered me thas: "you're a silly cuss,
Fooling your time away here each year."
Then I said to the rat. Take tb' .and that:
Striking out at the impudent varmint near But, at each blow struck, The fellow would duck,
Still whispering thus: "You're a silly cuss.
Fooling your time away here each year."
Then I cried to the rat Get out! and s'cat!
And whistled and hollered the fellow to skeer. But the more 1 cried.
The more 1 tried
To get rid of the vile tormenter near. The nearer my lug He would hitch and tug
Still whisperine thus: "You're a silly cuss.
Fooling your time away here each year,"
No more said the rat In my ear, but that,
Perched on my pillow so very near: And so lor a week Did I hear his squeak
II is summons to leave. His advice to retrieve. The months I had spent, And the leisure
Through the mother's brooding love! Though all were dear and dearest, Yet were their fond hearts set On the tiny, helpless darling.
The precious household pet.
Now by the Snowv ribboh That flutters from the door, Ly windows closed and curtained
Lest the merry sun in pour, I know that 'mid the snadows Of a dim and darkened room They're weeping o'er the broken bud
That never more may bloom.
Wee hands like crumpled rose leaves. Restless and round and fair. Are folded fast on the little breast,
As still as a saint's at prayer I And through her grief tho mother ehivors witn sudden pain, That the angels first shall see them
Kestlcssarid round again.
Ah me 1 a little baby Leaves an acliinp blank of spaco-. When God stoop-' down and takes it
From an earthly dwclliog place! Speak by-and-by of he,iven Fer tho shadowed home to-day A flower, a kiss, a silent tear
And softly come away 1
just
administration, wise legislation generally and, in short, everything would be lovely."
WILLIAM CVLLEN BIIYANT, at the great Italian Unity Meeting, in' New York, said: "I respect profound religious convictions wherever I meet them. I honor a good life wherever I see it, and I find men of saintly lives in every religious denomination. But when I hear it affirmed that there is a natural alliance between despotism and Christianity, that the necessary prop and support of religion is the law of force, and that the Christian Church should be so organized that its head shall be an absolute temporal monarch, surrounded by a population compelled to be his slaves, I must say to those who make this assertion, whatever be their personal worth, that their doctrine dishonors Christianity, that it brings scandal upon religion,
a
^j blasphemes the holy and gracious
Presidency. jNflL. memory of the Saviour of the world."
conn'Kin,
With feet that falter as I go, Thf slower step, and yet innrc slow. Up the steep stair I clamber: Just as the day dies down the west. And night is born, and sombre guest,
I near the haunted chamber.
I stand before tho silent door, Whero love has cried "come in" before To lift the latch my hand advances I look.I almost hope tosee The face I loved look out to me
With all its happy, old time glances.
There on the door ih.it once swung tree. Bach golden hour to welcome me, Some grief or gladness bringing: In dusty shreds that float ami fail Like sorrow's shroud and enflin pall.
The cobwebs old are clinging.,
I turn once m"re down the stair, I will not, will not enter there: The dusty, floating cobwebs chide me, Their curtains drawn before tho door That checksjny entrance as before.
That shadowy stillness, all decide mo.
By blinded eyes my feet arc stayed, My heart is once more unafrai i. My tears the shadows banish The cobwebs gathered on my henrt By sorrow's rain arc sWept apart,
My foolish fears will vanish-
I open wide the long shut door, I step across tho echoing floor. And swinging back the shutter, Tho mellow summer moon looks in As if my lonely heart to win
From thoughts I cannot utter.
"Dear heart," I murmur then with tears, "In all the busy coming years. This room shall be my ehosen altar Forever moro its denr shall be Left wide open to welcome mci
When up these steps my feet shall falter." —[Independent.
Encroachments of the Sea. England is gradually approaching America. If tlip process which has been going on for many hundreds of years concontinues unchecked for as many thousands, the inhabitants of the State of Labrador may look across the gradually narrowing waste of waters in the year of our Lord 11.S71, and see the west coast of England so near that the Atlantic will be reduced to a strait. It is a well-known fact that the sea is encroaching slowly upon the east of England, and that on the west the land is gaining on the sea. The latest startling reminder of this is a land-slip at Whitby, a town on the sea to the north of Scarborough. The people living under what is known as the East Clifl", late one night in December last, were rudely aroused from their slumbers by the cracking of walls and ceilings, which told them that their real estate was about to be "conveyed" in a manner extremely unsatisfactory to the owners.
The alarm spread, and by moonlight the people prepared to remove their goods. The mass of eath moved steadily but slowly, and by the next night it had come to rest, a large part of the village and the whole of the village grave yard having been pu.-hed out to sea, where the waves were tearing to pieces the frail houses and preparing their forces for a new attack on the cliff. Fortunately the motion ol the caving earth was so slow that there was no loss of life, but the destiuction of property was great. It is S" years since a similar slip occurred at Whitby, but elsewhere on the coast the progress of the sea has been greater and not less jcrceptible, because unmarked by extensive caving like that which has just taken place. On old Yorkshire maps are still to be seen, beyond the present coast line, the names of a dozen places "lost at sea," and authentic records exist that Hornsea, now a coast town, was once ten miles inland. A similarly hostile movement of the ocean is destroying with irresistible attacks a portion of the coast of our own beloved New Jersev.
Death front Whisky.
[Special to the Evansville Journal.] MT. VERNON, January IS.—William Bishop, a man of family and addicted to liquor, living a few miles from this place, got drunk la-t night and tried sleeping out. The weather be ng unpropitious for this exercise he froze to death.
A few days since. William Turner, an old man and a drunkard, returned from a trip across the river, where he had been for whisky, and walked through the ice in a slongh a few miles above town and was drowned.
PROFESSOR JOT AVERTS Ihat the substance called nitre, in the Hook of Proverbs in the Prophecy of Jeremiah, was carbonate of soda.
1
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I lent
For my body's ease. And my mind to please.
In spite of my conscience while staying here.
I'm tbinkingnow that The obtrusive rat
Was the spirit of enterprise once so dear Or some spirit sent To make me repent.
So I picked up my traps. As I said, perhaps The varmiut is right To return each night, And counsel me so That I'd better go 13ut who would iike thus To be called a cuss,
And be ordered away from there or here?
Ah, ouch lias his rat And :t matters not what
He may sny or do when it whispers near IIow much he may 8 cat I Or hit at a rat,
When it whispers thus "You're a silly cuss.
Fooling your time away here each year,"
OSlil' THK BABY.
Tliey have only lost the baby, The little, little one, Whocainowhen the April blossoms
Were smiling t'i the sun 1 As frail and sweet as a flower The wind might blow away, It grew in the golden sunshine
While April wore to May.
Thert Summer brought her roses, Ilcr butterflies and bees, And her birds to sing for the baby, t'p in the rocking trees, "No bud in all the garden,
No birdling in the nest. Is half so sweet," cries the mother) "As the baby on my breast.'
Such hopes are hovered o'er it. Such happy dreams as wove Their silver-threaded fancies
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INDIANAPOLIS LETTEB.
The Bnrson Business Again. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. IS. The Senate Committee on Rules reported an amendment to the standing rules requiring that no Senator should vote upon a question in which he was interested. This brought up the Burson affair. Hughes made a long speech for the report, in which he attempted to ridicule some correspondent'.' description of Mr. Gray of Randolph, but left the real question just where he found it. In fact he couldn't well do otherwise, for the whole case lies in a sentence. Mr. Burson is practically expelled, without an investigation, or a two-thirds vote. To make anything more of it is as impossible as the proverbial difficulty of "making a silk purse of a sow's ear." Mr. Gray replied quite effectively, giving Mr. Hughes a slightly foreshortened view of the political worm-fence which that eccentric gentleman has managed to lay ever since the days of the Lecompton difficulty. Mr. Harvey D. Scott followed in about the only pointed speech that was made. He showed the injustice of the proposed amendment, as well as the wrong of the act by which the amendment becomes applicable to Mr. Burson. This afternoon the debate was resumed and consumed the remainder of the dav. Mr. Dwiggins of Jasper made his "maiden" effort, and made a good one. It was a well constructed and well reasoned argument against the party outrage which has disfranchised two counties. Mr. Steele of Grant, followed and his argument was mainly directed to the analogy between the rights of a citizen and the rights of a Senator. A citizen is not debarred the ballot-box while resting under charges against his character, and a Senator would not be excluded from voting in a like cese. A better argument might be ade, but it is not my business to make it. The notable point of his speech was an allusion to the declaration of Mr. Hughes that "he (Hughes) would act with the Democratic party "hereafter." Hughes "rose to explain," like "Truthful
JallCSj"
Without explaining anything.
He admitted that he had said what Steele reported, but that it did not. mean what Steele made it mcah. A further comment upon the remaik by Mr. Steele) brought Mr. Hughes up again. He evidently feels sore in the region of his con' stitution where his political consistency ought to be, and a taunt upon it galls him. He declared that lie had said that he would act with the Democratic party henceforth, but that Steele's construction was "unfair ar.d untrue." This struck fire out of Steele, and he went for the Monroe teetotum with all the keeliness of fresh whittling or a brickbat. He said tliat when Mr. Hughes had declared that be would vote hereafter with the Democrats, lie (Steele) believed him. He had the highest respect for that gentleman's veracity, and he could not think of imputing a falsehood to him in making so public a declaration of his purpose. If there was any untruth in the care, it was the Senator's own untruth. He (Steele) had repeated only what the Senator had admitted. This brought up Hughes agaih, wild said that1 he should claini the floor when Mr. Steele was through. lie did, and got it. He contended that his political record was the business of nobody but his constituents, but forgot to mention the fact that his constituents had requested him to resign, and that it was not courtdoUs to call it in question. He was mild, very, cooing arid dove-like, in the gentleness of his remonstrance against the impoliteness of making him face the most tortuous and unaccountable record ever made by anybody in the State, not even excepting Dave Gooding. He did not explain it, and did not try. He then insisted that the object of the Republican' in urging Mr. Burson upon the Senate was, (as Mr. Steele srtid inadvertently) to obtain a recruit because they, needed his vote. It was not to do justice. He had law and justice on his side, and lie gave notice that if these attempts to fillibuster (shaking his finger threateningly at the Republican side of the chamber) were not abandoned, he would move to lay upon the table every bill and measure that came from that side of the House, and call the yeas and nays upon it. This magnificent threat, which was much like that of the fellow who threatened to throw a man and his horse over a gate if they didn't get out of his way, was heartily laughed at by the Republicans. It was quite characteristic, though, for IIughes) with considerable ability, and considerable audacity, and very inconsiderable scrupulosity, has a large suggestion of the bullv in his composition. If lie has not learned that one man, and that one a renegade, can't scare a score of men he has missed a lesson that he needs. He moved the previous question on the adoption of the amendment prohibiting a Senator from voting where he is interested).
Here came near occurring a scene of the liveliest sort. As soon as the Clerk began reading the roll Mr. Wedge, of Porter, moved that Mr. Burson be calledUp rose a dozen Democrats to points of order. Hughes rose to a point of order, so did the elastic Rrown, who can rise at any time, about anything, to as little purpose as any man that ever had legs to rise upon or a natural appliance to fit down upon. And Johnson, of Putnam, and Laselle, ol Cass—the last the most wo Tying bore of his size, except a grub worm, that I ever saw—and William" of Knox, all rose to points of older. Mr. Gray, of Randolph, in the Chair, ruled the motion in order. Says Hughes, "How will you get Mr. Burson'* name called, with an order of the Senate" against it?" Says Mr. Gray, "1 do not recognize that order as legally affecting Mr. BursonsV right-*." This was getting down to the "hard-pan,'' down to where the ground is solid. "But," says Mr. Hughes, "the Secretary is ordered not to call Mr. Burson." "II he don't do it," said Mr. Gray,
,lI
will call him
mvsclf.'' This was cutting the Gordian knot. The Senate and the lobbies applauded. Hughes looked excessively worried. Not at the effect of calling Burson, for the journal could be corrected at the reading to morrow morning. Burson's name struck off, and the result changed, so far as his vote affected it, but at being resolutely faced with an action a» decided as bis own. He moved to amend bv saying that "Mr. Burson should not be called." This was objected to as being a mere negative and not an amendment. Mr. Hooper, of Whitley, made the point that the mo:iin nt Mr. Wedge to call I!iir.-onwas not uindf uri:il llu* rull call had commenced The chair held this and d-iwn wem the whale fab lie of a neal little row. The roll was
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WEDNESDAY MOKNING, JANUARY 25, 1871. {PAYABLE IN ADVANCE
called, and Burson was not. Before the ity for all bonds. But this fear, if not result was announced, Mr. Martindale, hypocritical, is chimerical, for no qtiesof this county, "demanded that Mr. Burson be called," Hughes was up again, so was the Jackson county fellow with the i:idia rubber seat to his breeches, and Mr. Hadley, of Morgan, and a half dozen others. There was a confusion of motions and the renewed prospect ol a row. But just then Cumback came back, announced that "he held the views stated by Mr. Gray, but as the Senate could correct the journal with Burson's name in the morning, it could do no good to call him, and it was not his business, as presiding officer to call any Senator if the Secretary refused to do it." So ended the Burson case for the third time, the result of the vole was announced 24 to 23 for Hughes' demand for the previous question. Elliott voted right, and ran out straightway for fear he might be needed for the next vote. Burson drops back into his old hole. Nothelse was done in the Senate.
In the House a proposition w.vs introduced to rescind the vote ratifying ihe Fifteenth Amendment, and it was referred to the Committee on Fedoril Isolations. I doubt if any que-tion will be made on this point, even for Iiuncomb. Tho House business was without special interest, all routine and preparatory. It passed several bills, and one was introduced enacting that if a majority of a township opposed the licensing of liquor elling by any person, license should not be granted to that pcr.-on. T. T.
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 10.
In giving so much attention to the Burson debate yesterday evening, I omitted to notice that the Senate, in the morning, passed the resolution for an amendment of the State Constitution prohibiting the resumption of the Wabash and Erie Canal. As originally offered by Mr. Caven, of this county, it prohibited all legislation touching the canal, except such as might be necessary to prevent the sequestration of its revenues, until approved by a vote of the people. But it was amended by Mr. Brown, so as absolutely to prohibit "any act or resolution ecogftizing the liability of the St:ue" for the canal stocks, and declaring that they were payable exclusively from the tolls and revenues oC the work. The difference will probably never amount to anything. politically even if the provision should be added to the Constitution. In the original form it was made possible for the people to order the resumption of the canal, if at any future time it might appear worth completing and improving. In the amended and adopted form the connection of Ihe State with the canal is ended entirely and forever. The first would have been the better form, and was supported by nearly all the Republicans. Mr. Scott, o" your county, voted for Brown's amendment on the ground that he wanted to be clear of the affair for good and all. The vote was pretty nearly a party vole. 2o to 22. strikingly drowsyIt will probably pass the House as it passed the Senate, as it seems to have lapsed into a party shape.
In the Senate to day, a long debate occurred upon a bill to prrtect property from the trespasses of hunt-men. It is, in some sort, a supplement to the game laws, though not conncctcd wiili them formally, to prohibit hunters from entering upon any man's premises without his consent, and lines each offense—which is to be considered a "malicious trespass''— from one to fifty dollars. There are a number of provisions in it, but this Is the •rain one. The bill was passed this afternoon. A proposition is now before the body to appoint a committee of four, two Republicans and two Democrats, to invesgate the condition of the judicial districts of the State, sit dining the vacation and report to the next General Assembly. Mr. Hughes made the amendment to the original proposition requiring the Committee to be divided between the two parties, and wanted the men named in the resolution so that he could know who weie to have charge of so important a work, not to oust the chair from its cus tomary power. The point is not yet decided.
In the House the Superior Court bill was passed. This is general in its terms but is really intended for this county. The Circuit Court here is overloaded with work, and the new Court is intended to relieve it. They have the same jurisdiction precisely and are merely the same thing doubled. The Siate pays 81,000 a year of the Judges salary, and the county pays $2,000. The only other action of any note was emphatically one of no e. It was the report of the Judiciary Committee recommending the table for a bill authorizing the maker of a note to insert in it a clause that in case suit was brought upon it, attorney's fees should be charged on the judgment. In other words it allowed a debtor to made himself responsible for all the expenses of the creditor in collecting the note. The House refused to concur in the report, thus showing a disposition to keen up the bill and pass it.
There are quite a number of ihe editorial fraternity of the State here to day in attendance upon llie Editorial Convention. I have not learned what they have done, but if the*- have adhered lo the time honored custom of the craf: in their Convention iliey did very little. T. T.
INDIAN A ROI.IS. JAN. 20.
When I wrote yb:i thai the canal case was ended, I supposed, very naturally, that the Senate having declared tliit the unsurrendered bonds of 1S33 should be paid, fome provision would be made to pav them, and the canal saved from attachment upon ihe judgment which Mr. Garrett is sure to get. But it is not certain thai ibis will be done. Hughes' resolution, amendatory of Brown's against the unsurrendered bonds, was adopted by but one majoriiv, ihe Democrats going against it solid, with the exception of Hughes If ibis provision be made a party question, a? it was in '.he Senate, it is as likely as not that the Democratic majority in the House will follow the Democra'ic lead of (he Senate, and oppose it. That will defeat it, and leave Ganeit's claim unprovided Tor, and all the mischief which I have so often exposed in this correspondence as tl.e inevitable consequence, will occur, after all. In the Senate this morning a bill was introduced, providing ihai the Attorney General should de'end against Garrett's claim for ihe purpo-eof clearly ascertaining its legality, and providing further, that in case of judgment by ihe Supreme Court, drafts should be made on the Treasury to meet it. The Democrats resisted the measnie, becau.-e, aa ihey said,
tion can arise upon the old bonds which will affect the canal bonds. The bill was at last referred to a committee. The real difficulty to be apprehended is that the provision for the old bonds may take a party shape—the Democrats against it, the Republicans for it, and in that case none will be made, and we shall have trouble enough. The Sentinel of this city, supports Brown's resolution not to pay the old bonds, and declares that Garrett's claim will amount to $1,000,000, The Scntineff arithmetic was never perfect) and in this case it is ludicrously wrong It makes Garrett's claim bear compound interest, while really nothing bears compound interest but the coupons, for the thirty years since the last interest was paid, in 1841. The principal bears only simple interest. This simple interest, some $2,000 or a little wore, (the claim is $41,000,) is separately compounded, the coupons being held a separate contract. The Sentinel's attitude shd the party vote upon Hughes' amendment favoring the old bonds, look ugly.
Mr. C'ollett, of Vermillion, this morning introduced in the Senate a petition and an elaborate bill providing for the entire reconstruction of our road system. The effort, he thinks, will be to make good and durable gravel roads all over the Stale in twelve years. This, at least, is its object, and it is a very carefully and ably drafted bill. It does Mr. Collett credit, and will do the State incalculable service if it is enacted, as it should be.
The feature of thf day has been the convention of the two houses, which met at th ee o'clock, to hear the Woman's Bights Association of the State present I heir claim to suffrage. The Hall of the IIo:ise was crowded, many of the Senators having to stand up in the aisles during the proceedings. There were probably thirty or forty ladies present, many of them young girls, who came to laugh, and did it. The courteous and amiable Cumback occupied the remote north-western corner of the Speaker's stand.on sufferance with Miss Amanda M. Way and Martha B. Swank lilling up the body of that conspicuous situation, while Mr. Speaker Mack vacated his rights entirely and took refuge in the lobby. Miss Way opened the case in a pleasant and well constructed speech. It is but justice to the ladies to say that, having but the one subject to discuss, and familial i/.ing themselves thoroughly wilh tha', they make very much more compact speeches than men do ordinarily. They make fewer digressions, indulge in fever irregularities, and if they are not cogent they are at least consistent, clear and intelligent. Miss Way was followed by Mrs. Dr. Swank of this city, who was ex peeled to furnish what the French call the "pieic de resistance' of the occasion, the solid join: upon which the Legislature could "cut and come again." Her manner of speaking is llcr voice ri-e.sand fa I is in gentle iong drawn modulations, much as one hears from a mother humming a sick child to sleep. It is not musical, it is hardly pleasant, it is monotonous to the degree of exasperation. One feels after healing it a quarter of an hour that it would be a delightful variation for her to hesitate, to boggleMor a word, lo lose ihe thread of her thoughts and clutch wildly at the vocabulary to find it. But on she goes in the same lingeiing, plaintive wail, up and down, up and down, through this same succession of elevations and depressions, of emphasis and intonations, till itsoumhd to the car as an endless field of little furrows looks to the eye. The matter of her speech was pertinent, sensible and a.s well presented as one is likely lo hear that side presented by anybody. She apologized for her own appearance on the occasion, complimented the intelligence and justice of the Legislature, anil generally pul herself on good leims with her hearers. Not a bad thing to do for a rather pretty, ""neatly dressed lady of not over thiity 1 should say. The body of her argument was the usual claim, which il would be hard to deny though its logical bearing on the question is not so clear that women were part of the "people," that women were part of those "governed" from whose consent the "government derives its just powers," that women were taxed and women ought therefore to have the right of representation. All of which is conclusive enough as to unmarried women of competent age, but does not settle the great fundamental difficulty, the exercise of suffrage by married women
If man and wife vote alike, one vote is sufficient for the connection, and I don't care which casts it. But if the right to vo is !o be anything but a name, a married woman must be allowed lo vote against her hu-band's views or candidates at times, and if she docj, if there is not a fuss in tlie family" it will be because the milleniuni is as close as the lale prediction of the Adventists says it is. Religious differences need not, and usually do not, make family differences, because lliey are mc-:e abstractions if not forced into discussion. But political differences can't be abstractions, as love, as they most be put into the ballot box and he counted on the tally -beet. There, is no keeping them out of sight, nor keeping them innocent of marital disagreements. Tliev must be voted, if suffrage is to be wurthy anything, and if they are voted they must hurt. This is a point that ladyorators never touch, Mrs. Swank did not touch it. Her speech was much such as we hear at all Women's Conventions.
After she had concluded. Mr Cumback rose and said that he had less power than a Senator on determining the question of woman suffrage, but if a measure conferring that ii^ht should be "tied" in the Senate he would give hi- cas:ing vote for it. This was applauded by the ladies and regarded by the men as a go-wl jcke. Several voices called out for the views of the S|ieakcr, "What has the Speaker to KIV?" "What does Mack think about it?" XIr. Mack entered the stand and said he had nothing to sayju«t then, but proposed thai "ihe House go into Committee of he Whole, with the gentleman from Miami .Mr. Cox) in the Chair, and discuss the matter at leng h." This "brought the house down." Nothing of consequence was done by ihe Represents, lives.
In ihe Senate a resolution wan offered by Mr. Iii-eson of Wayne thai the petition of the women be teferrid lo the Committee on High's and Pi ivileges, with instruction lo ie}ort mi act submitting the queslion of Wons-in Suffrage to a voteoiihe women. It wits amended so as lo refer
men want suff. age, let them hare it. The difficulty with its advocates is that' they don't represent the wishes of more than one woman in fifty. A vote, if at all full, would beat the proposition to death. Most women, especially most wives, care very little for (he privilege of voting.
The last time I met Socrates he was on his way lo take tea—hemlock tea, I think—with the sheriff of his county.— He recognized me, gave me a little hemlock bough and passed on. We boys felt very bad when we heard they had soe'd it to old Socrates, for we liked him.
I was with Julius Caesar when he passed the Rubicon. He held a good hand, and I told him he had better order it up, but he jxtsscd. The result is well known he lost the game.
Alexander the Great and myself were schoolmates. We were brought up little girls together. He used to amuse himself, I remember, by smashing up all the lobes there were in school and then sit down and cry because there were no more worlds to conquer. I happened to be with him when he cut the Gordian Knot.— Many others had tried in vain to do it. It was "knot for Jo." Smart Aleck came along and cut it the lirst time trying, with a paten! corn-cutter.
Nero had one of the most sensitive organizations 1 ever knew, and keenly sympathized with human woes. I have seen iiim it in tho amphitheater at Rome aia: weep bitterly when captives were torn ii pieces by wild beasts. It is a base slancr to say he fiddled while Koine was burning He belonged to a fire engine company, and I saw him working at the breaks myself. Some one saw him as he helped to brcak'er down, and in the excitement of the moment thought he was fiddling, and so reported. 1 knew Shakespeare as long ago as when lie tended store for the .Merchant of Venice and sold the 1'iintsof Denmark by thc yaul. lie was an honest lad with the yard stick, giving Measure for Measure. He always wanted to be an actor and was perpetually quoting Shakespeare to customers. Pcople'iised to leer at him for it I have even seen the King I.ear.
Iiakcspeare only laughed, and said :hey were making Much Ado About Nothing, adding, "you can have it As You Like t."
He was fond of ihe ladies, and popular candal associating his name with certain Merry Wives of Windsor, his employer raised such a Tempest about his ears that he ran away and joined a variety company. He made his debut as first gravedigger in Oihe'lo. He was the lirst grave digaer 1 ever saw, and Richard the Third -McKean Buchanan came forth, I think, shortly after. Othello was a tragedy until Buchanan made such a perfect farce of it.
Shakespeare was a failure as an actor. I assisted him nil 1 could, but he couldn't speak the speech as I pronounced it to him, trippingly on the tongue, although he tripped often enough oil his feet. He sawed the air too much with his hand (saw I thus while in the torrent, tempest, and, I beg leave to add, whirlwind of his passion he ncirlecied in form and beget a temperance thai would give it smoothness. No, William wasn't a temperance man. He never signed the pledge and got a medal (with other people's business).
Failing as an actor Shakespeare took lo adapting Boucicault's plays, translating them from the original Choctaw, and soon found him elf (in :he road to fame and fortune, llis play» have had a great run. 1 have seen them when they run everybody out of the theater. The least meritorious of Shakespeare's plays was his play upon words. He often used to tell me that he envied me my talent in that particular.
Diogenes was oue of the most eccentric men 1 ever knew. His mother was a washerwoman and he lived in her tub, except on wash days, when she had to use it too make a living for him. Although he gets a good deal of credit nowadays lor having lived in a tub, he didn't at the time of it. The neighbors used to call him a lazy, shiftless fellow, lolling around in a tub, talking philosophy to a lot of other good-for-nothings instead of working for a living.
A good deal has been said about his going around the streets of Athens with a lantern "to iind a man." I saw him at the time. He wanted to Iind a man that would stand treat. The greatest remark of-his that has been pro-erved, was when he said: "If I could live Alexander ihe Great, I had rather yji'-ogenes!"
Columbus was a mild, sweet-disposit-ioned, but exceedingly thoughtful boy, as I remember him at school. When we boys were out playing, he would sit and weep for hours over .he incompleteness of the maps of the period. He felt as though something was wanting. He wasn't satisfied with three quarters of a globe, such as was employed in the schools at that time. He pined for the other quarter. I recollect liii borrowing a quarter of me on two or three occasions.
He used to tell us we were a continent out, somewhere, and that when he got big enough he meant to run away from home, go on the canal nr.d discover it, but we only laughed at him, little thinking he would yet give his name to the State capital of Ohio. 1 lost all traces of Christopher until years afterward, when the telegraph brought the announcement of his having discovered America, which, up lo that lime, had successfully eluded the most persistent efforts of our best discoverers.
C'ci. Time*.
Lei lor from Boardin g-Schi ol Miss Dear Mar. I am now being leached the Spanesh langwftge! wich my tuieor says I learn'with great fasilitv, I've improved amasingly in ihe cnglish -ints ive been here! I 'jM-ke and write the real sew stile now, anil my compositions are being very much admired among the pupils of the school. I came within one of getting ihe meddle for being the best englisli ncholer, at the close of the last quarter, and 1 shood a done it, but I was Bein sick a bedd and couldn't attend to my studies—for a whole weak? and I got beehyndhand by the buy Mar! (what shocking letters you do right?) ime ashamed to sho your letters to cny of the mis-sesi-ess among my awkwaintances for instants you sa wiie the wotter was biling the other day etceterah and so forth now yu should sa wile the the wotter was bein bilte—par too! riles jus as inkorecklv for instants tic says in his letter french guds are falling very fast instead ofsaing french guds are oeing fell, imerealy athamed that you and he don't keep paice with the march of modern improvements bui ime being called this minit to excite my spanesh lesson so I must wind orf. I super scribe nivself vonr affectionate dawter,
MIIIANPA MACKF.RREL.
OLIVE LOOAN won't stay sick. Last week she was dangerously ill in Roches ter, with two doctors, a nurse and a bell boy in constant attendance, and this week
she
is lecturing on "The Bright
Side" as hard as ever. No, there'H no putting ('live under a bushel.—Xetc York Star.
TKRUE HAITTC'S capacity for filling, offices is one of her rong points.—Terre ll.t tjjr Hfjh'r.**.
We iiuist confer that the Prairie City has a decided talent in that direction and
-i ii «eems to be cultivated with assiduity
iliey feared a contpst in the court* might the juatier to a special committee. Mr-| We bow reverentlv In Terre Haute.— Open up liie qucsiion of the State'ii liabil-1 ljv$uu'i jiiea is a goytj one. If the WO- f-'wntcille Courkr,
A 1JH.
A Care
For
North OU3 there of been ma passed a history
et^ns, hou turalimpl have in
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religious scientific been coii or evenfc
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Personal Recollections guisheil Men.
Distin
BY TIIF. "KAT COX TMBUTOK.'
My only recollection of Demosthenes is his attempting lo speak a piece at a dis-trict-school exhibition when lie was a boy, and breaking down. He was reciting the familiar lines: "You'd scarco expect one of my age
To speak in public, on the stage If I should chance to fall below
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Demosthenes or" At this point he hes tated, put the corner of his apron to liig eye, burst into tears and sat down, tot ally overcome by the allusion lo himself and by the novelty of the situation. Cicero, who was a lad at the same school, made fun of Demosthenes, asking him, derisively, if he hadn't better go and hire out for an orator!
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vanced fonceni On Saturday,'' Times of the ilth,a discovCf^^ully wonderful as any yet reported ifi' t£ North-west, was made by the workmen on the Dubuque & Minnesota Railroad,] near the base of one of the tall, frowning bluffs overlooking the river, a short d' tance above Eagle ^tint. At the foot this bluff a squad of^»orfemen were en| gaged in excavadnf%B«i« loose stratifi ,lirae stone roc!# for^*_le and while digging a\W_ and crowbar id the side suddenly found" thSFf arrested by a large, sq on the outer surface.c ed a numbect)/.. devices,' wl $ workmen.- v" dc ihi instr by the united -v men, the stone their astonishment','" i.^ violent rash of cold square opening, which extended bluffs in a horizontal directional rushing out with such force that a cd taper held to the mouth of the opening was extinguished in an insfant. Inspirec by the thought of hidden treasnre, and thinking that perhaps a cache of some of the early explorers had been unearthed, it was resolved to explore the mystery at once, and bring out the strong ^lo -ta and precious gems reposing somewFidje within
Lights were procured, and, holding a candle in each hand, five men, headed by the foreman, set out to explore the subterranean {xpsage, which was about four feet wide, and high enough to permit a man lo walk by bending over a little. Groping their way cautiously, and casting many fearful glances around them as though they expected every moment to encounter some dreadful spectre, the party proceeded along the tunnel, which extended directly into the heart of the bluff, about fifty' feet, when they found their way impeded by another large stone. Rcmevine this, tliev found a flight of slune steps leading downward a distamv of ten feet, and ascending these the par!
found
themselves ih what appeared
to be a huge chamber, cut out of the solid rock, about twenty-five feet square and twenty leet high. For a moment the men stood lost in admiration at this wonderful work. The Hoor beneath was hard and perfectly smooth, while by the dim light of the candles ihey could see that the walls were embellished with a milltitude of uncouth characters, intended to repiesent flowers, birds, trees and other natural objects, all carved in solid limestone. On the south wall appeared a representation of the sun, and imiuediatelv below this was a man clad in a loose flowing robe, in the act of stepping out of a boat, and holding in his hand a dove.
The roof of the chamber was embellished with stars, serpents and chariots, the onilines of all being revealed plainly and distinctly. In the centre of the apartment was a large flat slab, and upon removing this a large vault was rcveale'd below, which was tilled with the skeletons of some unknown race, all of them being in a sitting or standing posure, and almost perfectly preserved, even to the smaller bones. It was noticed that all had originally been interred with their faces lo the South-west. By the ide of each skeleton stood a small vase o' ihe most perfect form and finish, each being filled with a species of yellow-col-orcd earth. One of the vases was examined, and at the bass fofind (o contain some animal bones and dark particles of animal matter, which had evidently been placed in the sepulchre to support the departed to the spirit land, a funeral rite in obedience lo lhe widespread custom among the many barbaric nations. Heads of arrows, stone hatchets, and pieces of shells perforated with "IOICS, were found scattered about the ault in profusion. The skeletons were arranged in the form ol a semi circle, the largest being placed in the center. This kelcton, by actual measurement, stood even feet eight inches high. The teeth were while, and glistened like ivory, while in the palm of one of the outtretched hands, securely locked in the articulated bones, reposed a small pearl ornament. This person had evidently been the chief of the tribe, and was conequentlv buried with unusual honors. By the side of the cranium were two ear oraments of shell while numerous minute bone and copper beads covered the floor of the vault. Vestiges of a fibrous cloth were also discovered near the lower extremities of each skeleton, but so thin and palpable that it crumbled away at the slightest touch. No ornaments of gold or silver were found, but various implements copper were scattered thickly about which had evidently been procured from the mines of Lake Superior, as the evidences are accumulating thai these mines were worked at a date long prior to the eluge.
APer making a thorough examination of lhe chamber of death and its ghostly occupants, the men came out, closing the entrance behind them. To what race the skeletons belong, by whose hands the tomb was constructed, must ever remain a mvstery. It is another leaf looking to the long ages of the past, another evidence of the fact that of this world and its founders we know but little.
We understand that measures are ou foot to remove the skeletons of all the most important articles to the hall of the
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Institute of Science and Art. It is to be hoped that they will remain here not lie suffered to depart to enrich the museums of Kastern cities. Meanwhile some of our learned savans would do well to investigate the cave and its surroundings, anil establish, if possible, the identity of the skeletons—whether Indian, Mexican or Mound Diggers. It will prove an interesting research.
A Remarkable Might of Locusts. Some idea of the damage done tj vegetation by locusts in tropical countric may be gathered, says Nature, from the following account of a raid made by them in an East Indian cotton plantation. The
njeans
adopted to repel them was by
recourse to the discordant sounds of native music—horns, tom-toms and pipes— aided by the waving of Hags and branches of trees. These measures, undoubtedly, saved the product forjudging by the performance of the very small number that succeeded in gaining admission lo one of the finest fields unobserved, had
was
a
full Complement effected a lodgment, one hour would have sufficed to stiip everv tree of its leaves, though the foliage
abundant, and the plants in one field from five to six feet high. The immunity which the native Indian cotton enjoyed from the attacks was considerably, considering the avidity with which they devoured the exotic description', and, true to their early traditions the Egyptian was evidently an especial favorite. Some of the swarms that passed over the country at that time were exceedingly numerous.
T!.e arrival and settlement of one mightv mass was a remarkable sight What* was first observed was a .-on of
haze
on the verge of ihe horizon, in a" long line, as if a steamer had pa- ed and its smoke was rising into vapor ibis H.H some hours before the insects arrived.: The cloud gradually thickened, and rose higher as they approached. When iliev' got fairly overhead the air became darkened as if night was setting in, it being, midday, and the peculiar sound which accompaneid their flight resembled that of the rustling of the leaves of the peepul tree whan agitated by light winds but it is not antil they have settled down that any idea can be formed of the immensity of their numbers, and the early dawn, before sunrise has wanned them into life and motion, is llie time to witness ibis raojt- extraordinary sight.
In the instance now referred to, the appearance the face of tire country wore would be best described by supposing that a tolerably heavy fall of snow had taken place, only that the color of it was light brown, and this extended for miles, as far, indeed, as the eye could reuch. Trees were the favorite perching ground for the night, and the manner in which they contrived to crowd upon them, piles--over piles, concealing every vestige o» and branch, gave the trees a singular appearance. At one spot a stout and widespreading branch ot a banyan tree had snapped at its stem from the incmnbcnt weight of the insects.'