The Trwe Wsman. No wnrfnw romance wreathes hsr life; N*r hath aha lad a martyr tram ; Nor besntiful ihw nch m aha. But poor -and aoma would <*ll her plain. No rilkon rwba enfold* bar harm ; No dainty Maura bath bar hand*; Bar Jewels are a etmpie ring, ... A ribbon binda bar bur's auooth band Tat in har earmantN aimplr grace Bar soar* punty you trace. She walks in humble arara of life Thai lead on times through gloom and abado. And cares and cross** not a few Ara on her patient abouldara laid, Tat amilaa and drinka each bitter cup. And kaapa har bra TC area lifted up. And homely wnya aha wrcathce with grace. Hand) duty turna to loving aaat: And cbaerr hope and stesdfest will Arc at har aide In work and reat; Tat never ditaine aha you can any. The angel looking from har eye 1 Weariness. 0 little feet that such lon* years Mas l : wander on through doubt* and fears, Muet ache and Meed beneath your load 1 t, nearer to the wayside inn. Where toil shall erase and test t-ecin. Am weary, thinking of your road. 0 little hands, that, weak or strong. Have still to serve or role so km*. Have still so ton* to give or ask t I. who so tnnch with hook and pen Have toiled among mv fellow-men. Am weary, thinking of your taak. 0 httie heart* I that throb and heat With such impatient, feverish heat, Kuch limitless and strong desire*l Mine, that so long has glowed and burned. With passions into ashes turned. Now covers and conceals its Ares. B. nr. toegfWoM-. The Cloud. A white little rirodict np in the sky— Born of the winds and of the waves am I, And soft I float through the tremulous blue. When the shining stars of heaven peep through. 1 cover them often from mortal night. And hold in mr bosom their silvery light; And the moon enfolds me in soft embrace, And smiles upon me with tender face. The sun climbing high in the rosy morn My whiteness tints with the colors of dawn. And around me sheds through the long, long dav The glory and light of hi* shining ray ; And the lark springs forth in the aaoruiug sweet And sings to me songs for the dawning meet; While he plunge* deep in my snowy wave. The ataina of eaith from his pinions to lave. When the sun sinks deep in the far, far west, On a purple billow, with golden crest, And ataina with his glory the mountains dim. And tinges with crimson my cor ling rim. And the twilight die*, while the nighl-hirds sing. And darkness sweeps downward on noiseless wing, Then again I hold in my boaom white The deep ahimng stars with their silvery tight. THE SETTLER'S TALK. " You don't believe it, then 7" said the old settler, stroking his beard, and spread ing the long crisp curls oxer his waistcoat, where they lay like a tangle of cocoa-fibre. He flicked* away, too, now and then, the powdery cigar-ash that had fallen as he smoked* as though be phtted his manly adornment, or aimed strongly at wearing a patriarchal guise. "You don't believe it, then V he said. " Travelers see strange things,'' said a thin man sitting opposite to hint; and he indulged in a low. sneering snigger, a de spicable kind of cachinnation that it would be insulting the hearty, mirthful, Joy-be gotten shake of sides ami shoulders, and extending of farial muscles, to call a laugh. * " What is it ?" I said ; for I hsd at that moment entered the room. " Why," sniggered the thin man, "he wants to make me believe. " " So, no, no r* chorussed several voices. " Let him tell it himself; second-hand stories are poor. Tell it out for the com pany, sir." But the owner of the besrd looked Tery dignified, and kept on smoking, till he sat like a very Jupiter amongst nis clouds. Then he referred to the ambrosia brought to him by the white-neckclothetl Gany mede of the hotel, set down his brandy - and-water, and looked Tery reticent. "It's all true enough," said an Austra lian captain who sat near the thin man, and had evidently heard what bad pre viously been said. •' I've often seen them take fixing leaps that looked tremendous, and such as 1 should have do>ibted if I had not teen; while, as to the tale our friend here has just told about kangaroos carry ing their young in a pouch, and also about their being able to destroy a dog with a kick, why, they are facts that almost any national schoolboy will endorse. 1 mean no insult to our sceptical friend here, but I'm afraid be studied polities more than natu ral history." " Good things, too," said the thin man viciously; and then he looked round him for the applause he did not get. "You see," said the old captain, not taking any notice of the interruption, " there are some people like the sailor's mother—more reaav to believe in Pha raoh's chariot wheel on the anchor-flue than in firing-fish. Australy's a curious place, 1 can tell you; and if you saw tome of the bones of the great Moa, they would make you scratch your head, and think of the ostriches seTen feet high as so many chickens " * Ha, ha, Ao, HA, HA laughed the thin man, in a perfect crescendo. " Go'on, sir; don', be afraid. We'll listen, and then believe as much as we like." "And we've got little animals there, gentlemen," said the old captain, "that swim abont in the water with their flat webbed feet, and they've got a bill like a duck, and lay eggs." "Go on, sir; go on, sir," laughed the thin man; and be bestowed the wink of wisdom upon all the company present. "Yes, ves; I reel Wink away," said the captain ; " but I'm no romancer, gen tlemen. I only said what I did to support my friend here. There are some people who will not believe the truth when it's told them." "Why don't you tell it 7" said the thin man. " I always do, sir," said the captain simply, ana with some dignity. "As I said before, Australia's a place that would startle some people here with its ways. What would our friend over the wiy there say to five thousand sheep being boiled, or rather steamed down, in one day, just for the sake of their tallow 7" 44 Ha, ha, ba !" laughed the thin man again. "Better still!" and then seeing that no one else laughed, he snorted, and looked defiant at every (me in turn, from out a pair of twinkling dark eves, the more striking from being unshaded by lasbea. while his eyebrows had evidently disap peared at the same seaon when hi# coun tenance had licen seamed and pitted with the small-pox. But few people noticed him, for it was evident that, after retiring in displeasure within himself for a few minutes, the owner of the beard was once more coming out. He smoked furiously for a few min utes longer in utter silence, till bis cigar end was so short that it singed the great beard, when he threw it away, drew out a case, carefully selected another, rolled it upon his tongue, and then sat balancing it upon his finger. " Our friend here Ls right, gentlemen," he said, " that there are some people who doubt almost everything you say; but, for my part, I think that the traveler who plays upon the credulity of the untraveled friends is a creature beneath contempt. 1 can vouch for the truth of all my seafaring friend here ha# 6aid, for I have seen the things, and many more too, quite as won derful; and I think that you, gentlemen, who sit from year's end to year's end in your shops, might acknowledge that men who make journeys four-and-twenty thou sand miles long must, in the foreign parts tbey pass through, see some strange thiugs. I, don't want to inflict my stories upon anybody." •' Go on, sir; go on!" from-two or three; but the thin man was totally unabashed, and snorted before telling his neighbors, in an undertone, that you couldn't "do" him. 44 I wasn't talking about wallabies gen tlemen, which are only a small kind of kangaroo, but of what we call out there, up the country,' old men'—the great kan garoos that the settlers hunt—the curious leaping animals that Sir Joseph Banks brought home from his voyage with Cap tain Cook, and used to keep in bis park at Revesby, in Lincolnshire; beasts that I dare say you might see for yourselves in FRED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor, VOL. IV. the Regent'* Park tianiens in London, thouph 1 cttn'l aay I'm sure. At all areata, I've sceu then* often enough, and hunted them often too." The thin man snorted and winked again at everybody in turn, as much as to say, * Now it's coming." " You must believe what! tn going to tell y,u, gentlemen, or you may be rmle enough to doubt it if you like; I shan't complain: hut it's as sure as ntv name's Jam** Smith, a York ah teem an horn, and that- f tidied at slice p-lsrrnnig, hut uiade ten thousand |Humds at the diggings ; and that's what not one man in five hundred who were there managed to bring away, for his share of the spoil." The thin mau winked again, hot the thoughts of a sum of ten thousand golden pound* seem to add so much weight to the respectability and vcracitv of the hrvded man, that had he telt disposed to enter into the borders not limited to vera city, he would now hare found plenty of believers lor anything he might choose to sav. The settler paused, ignited his cigar, and then waited to enjoy a few pufik, while the waiter of the old Southampton Hotel replenished several empty glasses. "We were having a kangaroo-Hunt,'.' continued be, " some years ago now, up at a place where I was. Kangaroo* were not so scarce then as they've grown aim*; and perhaps if our friend here were to go over on purpose to have one, he might travel some hundreds of miles before be rould enjoy that pleasure. Being a b.t *f a sport ing man in a mild wav, as 1 had dropped in at quarters where the squatter n> also fond ota bit of the field work, I got stay ing on day alter day ; for 1 happeued then to have nothing to do, having been driven out of mv holding bv a drought that had starved three parts of my beasts and sheep, and a flood that ha idr vwned the rest. So that I was on tLe wand.r, looking out for some Irtwh spot on which to locate myself, and uattjraliy feeling rather low-spirited ; lor, after working aeTen or eight years to get together a decent bit of stock, it seem ed rather hard for the climate to turn dead against me, and to make me a ruined man." " I should think ' Stralia's a nice place, air," said the thin man. lau hing. " Very, if a man has his wits about him," said the settler coolly; "* and. what's more, it's a very hospitable place, as I found then, for I'd falleu into a good quarters, my host being from my own county, and having had many a good galop with the same puck of bounds. So we talked over old times, and fished a bit, and shot a little, and I helped him take slock ; and we com paied note*about management, he beiug able to give me plenty of good hints and I perhaps giving him two or three respecta ble little wrinkles. 44 The day before I left him we went out for a kangaroo-hunt, for oxer night one of his men bad come in to report tracks that he had seen near a water-hole some few mile* awav. "Perhaps my friend here will think that 1 am throwiug the hatchet, when I say that this was all on my hull's piece ; for sheep-farmers they think more of miles thin they do of acres of land, and I have known gentlemen out there whose holdings were such that you might ride twenty miles without getting to the last blazed tree. The country alnnit there was so woody and rocky that my ho-t said he had better go on fiot, so we did, taking with us a black fellow, and one of his men—an old convict —who hehl the two dogs, in a leash, after the fashion of grey bounds for courstne, till wt came to the spot—what tbey call our there a creek—a long water hole that depended on the wet season to supplvrit af. csh after the long dry Aus tralian summer. "It was a glorious morning in a glorious country. The sky was defigbtftiily blue while the atmosphere was so elcar ind transparent that you could see the very have# distinctly upon the tree#, it an as tonishing distance. Ah, gentlemen! if there is a beautiful country in this world it is Australia ." " Where droughs and floods destroy the whole of a man's stock." sneered the thin man, as he whispered the words into the tumbler be raised to his lips. " And where industrious bard-working men may dig gold out of the soft earth by the creeks," arid the who had managed to hear every word, p " Good—good—good !" chorussed the company, so that any one but the thin man would bare been crushed by the weight of that gold ; but he only laughed, snorted, and took refuge in clouds of tobac co smoke. 44 Perhaps I'm boring you with my stories, gentlemen," said the settler, part ing hm beard. "No, no—no, no—go on, sir," came from all parts of the room, and he con tinued : u Well, gentlemen, we noon got into the hunting country, and were not long before we pat up a kangaroo, when I felt almost ashamed to hunt it, for the poor beast eat up on its hind-legs and tail lor a few mo ments, turning upon us its simple doelike face, as much as to say 1 Flow can you be such brutes 7' but it turned directly, gave a bound that startled me, and was of!', Hying over rock and bash in a most sur prising manner. Then the dogs were I •dipped, and away we were scrambling ' amonz't bushes and rocks, tripped up now and then, but making a rush over every bit of open ground, to try and keep the dogs in sight; but ts to my host and self, we were separated directly. " I was not much used to this sort of thing, but I soon warmed up to the chase, and, now getting a peep at the dogs, and now led by the shouting and barking, 1 managed to get up in pretty good time to where the Hlack fellow was dancing about with delight, and the convict was t coupling up the dogs, as thev lay panting and lolling out their great red tongues, be side the kangaroo they had killed. " Ixmg as I had been in the country it had never fallen to my lot before to he at the death of a kangaroo ; and once more I could not help pitying the soft, mpusey skinned animal, it looked so innocent, tame, and simple. Hut, there! it doe* not do for men who hunt to be too sentimen tal, and besides, they may make a mistake in the character of their quarry ; for, I've never seen the animal yet that was not, when driven to bay, a perf.-1 savage, either from fear or natutal couracu. " Where's tbe governor, sir 7' said the man, as I came up '•l have not seen him, since I tripped over a creeper that came down crash bruised myself awfully. He did not stop when I went down. I thought that he would be on here.' •"Help! help!' came a faint cry from the distance. " 1 Hat a gubner!' exclaimed tbe black fellow, grinning as if it was the most hu morous thing that be had ever heard. " 1 Yes, that's him,' said the convict, changing color. ' He's among the blacks, and we've no guns.' "i n a moment there floated before me visions of savages in their war paint, their black bodies streaked with white, to re semble skeletons, while lwl he only spent one day here. Otily a little ways east—ala-nt ten miles—are rich fields of sugar csnc, indigo, wheat, barley, ami other things. A SC.VSET IKCIDKNT AT BI TFAIAJ.— TIie Buffalo Erprrtt says : " The sunset of ■Saturday evening, as witnessed from Central Wharf, exhibited a most singu lar phenomenon. As viewed from that point the great Inminary appears to sink into the waters of the lake, and present* a beautiful sight on all ordinary occa sions, but at the time referred to, just at the moment when the sun apjieared to be floating, as it were, a ball of fire on the surface of the lake, it suddenly as sumed a conical shape, as if of molten iron and the sides had run down, the whole form evidently magnified to twice its usual size. Directly in the centre of this lxidy of Qm was plainly visible the form of a ship, as if sailing in and a part of the aun. Many of the business men of Central Wharf" who hfcve for years witnessed many curious features and beautiful scenes in the western sky, never before saw the like of this." Can yon realise Mrs. Malaprop's be wilderment at hearing her grandson read from an article in the paper, abQut Borne : " The ground is se parched 'that it is full of fisners !" CENTRE 111 EE, CENTRE CO., PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1871. IIu They Suffered. It ia cotinuitcd that tiro diminution uf the woehtmr chuw* of Hnrjw amotmt* trv our hundred thousand, ohicHy killed, prtaotiwe ami fugitive*, timing stnls'i**' tl Commune. In ldftft there were thirty thou*aud tailors in Pari*, to-day only about twenty thommml ; then twen ty tlion-vind cnt'duotiiivkerH, now but fourteen thousand ; uhiln of ahocit altera and other .irti-.ut* there ia a like de crease iu number*. The conasquenco i* that the city is iu danger of losing Ha supremacy iu elegant artisanship, a* for want of workman nnuir ordera canuotbe filb-1 for ex|H>rt ; nnd of course trade will seek other sources of supply, where conditions are uioro favorable. It is .holy heotmipig more ap|st(eut tint tho Thbsfe ikkflinirni mmk * stupendous blunder iu its frantic ami indiscriminate arrests after the full of the (kuauimie. Not only were great nuiuWrs of the most valuable workers withdrawn from industrial' pursuits which would have i benefited the whole community, but the (iorernuimit now has tens of thousands of prisoners on its hands whotu it must: siijqsirt, has promised to bring to trial, dtirtp not release, and Vet a great pro portion of whom it will bo unable to convict of any offence. When the Ver- ; sadles troop* entered l'sria, vwfclM*l slaughter of llio Communist—and nil the inhabitants of that ill-futod city who wuwo poorly dressed were deemed com ' tdnuisU— -WH* followed by wholesale at-' rest*, the killed and prisoners amount 1 iug, it Is thought, to not lev* than fifty thousand. Many of tl|o*o bn|tris4ifd were Bus. rictitm of denunciations in spired hy iientonul malice ; others were seized in the blind rage of the ipument, without miy r.-a*.ui w luu*vy* Now languishing trade, a changed public opinion, and a continual development OL fact* favorable to the prisoners and 1 injurious to the (kmvnmrnt, combined to rentier any fnrtlier postponement of a general iuuuesty an imitation for fresh conspiracies ; ami yet Tlders is power | lea* te move iu the mutter, as a law ha> nutde til* act of amnesty * privilege of. the Assembly, which is in vacation. The History of Coal. Once n year, auJ at thin season, it is eouveutiomil fur newspapers to say something concerning the discovery of coal in this country. C\ mpiyiug tifc this custom, it msv t* noted that bttib miaous eo*l was mined near IlicliimSUl. Vs., as early as iu 17fl0. It was exten sively ustwl f in thn vicinity iu 1775, and a Kudioioßd fondflrv- rt)4c>V"l * 1U making shot and shell during the Revo lution. It w.is scut to Ronton, Philadel phia aud New York iu 17K9. t nl.i.bsb Gore and his brother, Muakamitliv fn ta Connecticut, were the first to make use of anthracite coal in the Wyoming (Pa.) Yarin* m 17t>V JalkO Jwae 11, of Wflk**bsrie. a is tko fir* to upph it to household uses, Philip Ginter, a hunter in the Manch Chunk region, discovered the Ldttgll eual in 17U1. Mines were ojeneil iu 17V1, lat k vsl ten years later before the coal was sent to Phila delphia. The Schuylkill coal was first sent, to ui I*l'A 'fihia brief ly stins' np Ui rtlr fliscoßk-riesJif et.vl in this omttry. Iho tuna who fttiiew* tliat coal will ever full to its former price of three or four dollars a tou is yet to be discovered- —-V. i'ajter. A SixafLJir. CASK. —A roost singular ocvunvne© recently < -ocutad in HUM ,AT a grove. The deceased hail for ncroc time previous to lus denlh k> |4 • dog, who had been his censtnat coinpan ion. Mid uvea in dmth the faithful am mml would nut leave the aid* of the re main* of hia roaster for scarcely n mo ment When the family left the house to go to the cemetery, the dog was shut up ; bnt before the procession had reach ea the cemetery he made his e*ra|H- and ran ttU-ut, looking eagerly for his roas ter. lie was very much bewildered, aud waa finally taken into tha carriage with hia mistress. Arriving at Uie grove the poor hrute crowded to the aide of the gnive and looked witfully and mourn ful ly at the casket A* it was ty-ing lowered into the grore, and was about to jump in himself, when he van caught ami held by a bystander. Tim aceno waa vary touching. NKwsr AREH MKS.— Tlieieia no class OF .people who do luilf So much good, or work so bard, ns newspaper men. They publish good piper*, and they straiii every nerve to do this, but the popnlsre do not consider this,or the fact that uewm papen are fair indej of their own in telligence And enterprise. Sonic jiapera pat up with all sorts of expedient* to get along, when there are scores of infltmn -1 tial men who are greatly benefitted by the papers who do nothing to sustain them. They might speak a good word for them, got their frieuds to mihsrrilie for them, sustain them with their adver tising patronage, and thus remunerate the hard-working newspaper toon. Every citizen ought to lie nniiwnted by sufficient pndc, if by no other motive, to oastaiq good pnjiers. and thnjj see them worthy repr. r unlives of the pcpl*. ADVERTlHlSO. —Advertising ia an art, and is the mother of the art of money making. Huocesaful advertisers tmhosr tatingly and gratefully declare that they owe the beginuiug of tlieir prosperity and the foundation of their wealth to the liberal and judicious use of priutr-r's in paradoxical, but uot {lingular, tlmt yrkiter's -ink. ly Muokemng s timu'S reputation, actually benefits him. The ingenuity displayed by some neoomplish ed advertisers makes advertising almost a fine art. These shrewd men manage to mojie tdio muni uunillujg tw-I their nnndfiticvmcnt*. 11.- AH Inl*>rcr were at eulttog-n hew thnhurtl a hid, 1t1"n hollow known a* Hang Hollow, near Council Bluffs, they excavated ft snek containingSißl.OOOgold and silver money, hidden there eighteen yrnrs ago by one Muir, who tnnrderod eomrnde, a Cali dfornian, in that city. Muir was hung by mob Californium. and nxkl lie had Hidden the money under a Mump in this hollow, but refused to toll where. Many persons Imve huntud for this secreteil treasure in vain. The laborers shared tire booty equally. InnionATion.—Wieridan'a oolicitor enll ing one day found his wife alone, and walking about in a state of violent excitement. He asked what was the mntter. Her only reply was " that her husband was a villain." After some timn she added, with some hesitation, " Why I have discovered that all the love-letters he sent roe were the rerr satne AS those ho sent to his first wife. GOWE HOWE.—The citadel of Queliec will IKS left without a single British sol dier within ita walls. Tho sound of a familiar tattoo, the marching through tho streets of flue regiments of rod-coat ed soldiers, will soon be recollected among the past. All the forts, military stores and armaments will be handed over to the Dominion Government. WHAT IS rr ?—Some Western newspa pers talk about a mvsterioits, but fearful enemy, wMoh is destroying flocks of sheep about Manitowoc, Wis. No marks of violence can be discovered save a small hole behind the ear.from which the blood lias been sucked. The prevailing idea is that it is the work of a vampire. A Tale of the *tw. On the ifcid of July hurt the American brig Hhetchoff, 'ill) tons, wua dispatched by Me-v,r*. Glidemeiater, ltfueckc A Co., from H.nj Francisco, hound to C*U*o with n nirco. llsr crow and paAaeuger* uuui be ml in all twelve. Kim hunt a rough voyage down, and ou the night of the 3d <•( J illy wan caught in* c\ clone. For tunately the steamship Moara TaVhir, foil in nui| boarded tlie wreck of tb| brig. Found one man, the captain, ulive ou the forecastle dock, iu *u extenuated unu dition. All others, nw slid paMsengfrs, hod died from a tat-ration. The captain, ! who hud been * mun of *235 pounds, was found an emaciated aVeleton, and when ; discovered in the forecastle of hi* wn ck> ed hlilp weighed lee* lliUll I'JO pounds ! The suffering* he endured for over three uioutiia oamiot he told ; he literally nub* ' Mated ou his own fat, an he had nothing !to eat. Hta providential rescue ranie ut the last moment, for it ia believed it w*a hia iutcutiou to cud his suflwuig* the Mime day by taking vitriol and ink. From the /JauviiKm (ku*Ut we glean the following partioolnrs of the disaster: On Thursday, October 19, at 8 i. a., u aai! was discovered by the whnrluiunuu the steamer Muara Tajrlor. The veasel lay directly in the steamer's truck and I appeartsi to be disabled, having but one ma*t standing, and only her lower top -1 tail set, ruuuiug before a freali southeast Iwind. Ou approaching her it iirovad to be a lirig, apparently ilaaerVst nu p. i sous appearing in sight on board. A ul spieud over the forecastle and a tent ringed in the forctop cmastrera showed that the crew had occupied those places for some time. At every lurch the sea made a ilean brunch over the vessel from Stem to stem. To all appearanoo it was a wreck which had kmg beeu water-logg ed, and her crew taken of! by some pass ing vessel. Her stern was broken away, ' the bulwarks ou both aide* gone,and her sails dying (row the foremast in rags. On reaching the wreck the steamer stopp ed, and Captain Bennett sent off a boat to ascertain whether any persona were on board, and if none, whether any re cord could ba found respecting her. The ae* being quite rough, the brig lurched heavily, aud the Inert upproa* hm) her with some difficulty Khe was board ad, however, by the third officer and a seaman from the steamer, who immedi ately went aloft into the forctop, and finding uo one, went into the forecastle where tbey discovered a weak, emaciated tuna, who eselaimed, as he saw them. ''Cireat ox ( of China starch were flnhad up out of th i hold, but the drinking water was si! i found to be brackish. Tixß snlmoti, 1 tongue*, starch, and a few flah esnght l with a hook fr>>m tima to time, and oo< caakmally * little rain water caught ia a ■ i sail,and always more or W* brackish from j i the salt spray, were all that the ship's company had to subsist on. Captain HopVenw account of the sufferings of his 1 I met' and passenger* is a moat heart rend-' ing one After the death of the mate.on I the nth of July, nuaa occurred till Hep- : tcuibfu 0, when Uiry I tegs n to bocama I delirious aud weak fmsu hunger aud| thirst, and several died w j>uupel over board in theii delirium. , Boil* aud dts- j I sane, induced by hunger and salt wafer ' added to the intvusiTv oflb>pken state* that a bark ran down to the wrack, hota to for a fi minutes, aud tbeu squared away j without sending off a boat of making auy , effort b> rescue the lives of thune on board. , of whom there were eight then living. The bark came so nror that pewm*! could be seen moving about on her deck. | Those on tlie brig were so wenk as to l*< i unable to stand, twit got on their knurs j aud waved pieces of auk-loth, hoping to . attract attention. Their feelings. as they ; ■nw the lmrk square away when so new j them, nniy tie lietter imagined than de-j scribed. Their last hnp ix-ing gone, they lav down. and one after another j died or leaped overboard. The Kptvopal Convention. 1 The Triennial Convention ni the Epis copul Church in the United sLaU*s, lias ■been in session in Baltiiuorr. A very critical position and nmuj" trying ques tions were met,discu*sed ill a conciliatory spirit. The discussion on the ritual, the point of divergence between the evwn gelieal and ritualistic wings of the de nomination, and the leading feature of interest before the Convention, was amicably adjusted. After a long IIIUU.H --siou on the subjeeA, a special resolution was adopted, tliirty-flvo to thirty, with seven divided, iorlddduig the elevation of the hreofl and vfinC by the clergy when dispensing the cnleumted to make ttiem objects of wiwwhlp, ami n comprehensive resolution was unani mously jMuwed condemning all cereiwoniea expressing any idea foreign to the au thorised atnndnrd of the Church, and as serting that the advice of the Bishops is all that is needed to secure uniformity. The resolution condemning unauthorized changes in a Trover-book, after being an amended na to iiielnda the introduction of uiiaathorixed italics, pnnctuation aud musical notation, waa also passed. A FAMII.T or FIVE PKKSOS* MTHTER lorsLY MrßDsnO.—A family named Parks was found murdered "in thair house near Henryville, Indiana. The family consisted of Cyrus M. Parks, his wife, IMIKIILI, his son John aged ten years, and his daughter Evalino, agod 17, and Ellen sgea 12. The beads of nil were terribly beaten and crushed by some blnnt instrument. The brains of Mrs. Parks and her son were scattered about the room, while their liodies were lying in bods. The daughters were found sitting in the kitchen, olive, but were delirious and fatally hurt. The neighbors heard shots in tlic night, but the bodies bear no bullet marks. Mr. Parks was A leading member of a church, and was much esteemed in the commu nity. Great excitement prevails in the vicinity. THE BMALL-POX. —There arc grounds for alarm in tha report from Washington as to the cause of the terrible spread of small-pox in our Eastern cities. It is semi-offlcinlly affirmed that the infected buffalo skins bought and captured from the Indians two years ago, having dis appeared from quarantine, have been sold to the public, and that the pre valence of the virulent diseases is attri butable thereto. Tbv Famine In Pcrala. The following uroount of the fx initio in Perm* ia taken fruui a statement mad* at a public meeting rcoently held in Loudon t<> mis* niouey for the relief of the sufferers : '• lb* 11 ota-11 tab jo famine now raging in fVrsia, and threatening to carry off liumlrctb of th ni-auds of the scanty pop illation of that csteiuuv* kingdou, has been c ii*ei by lh unparalleled bought which h** prevailad throughout th* country during the last three year*. "In an area far exceeding that of flreat Britain and France together, uo river of any import xoo* exists, and the quantity uf rain iu the spring nnd sum mt-r is maiguiiicant. In onlinory year*, however, the fall of snow between November and March is considerable. It thickly covers the huge mountain rouges w Licit intersect Persia, ami as it uiwt* tu the spring and summer it fills th* watHseuttimw and small canals faun which the puAssiit* irrigate their crop*. The stril in the valleys l* naturally for-1 tfhk and a little labor Insure* a' large barvwat if ouly Uie winter snowfall has been abiuidaub This, unhappily, has for th* last two or three ears been sin gularly wanting; the springs, water course*, and rivulet* have been complete ly dried up, the corn sown over and over again ha* been wasted, the supplies in the country have been exhausted, slid famine, with disease in it* train, is nuw rapidly tiering it* deaJl* work. ••The population of tVrsia boa recent ly l>ccn f -.timut.-d at about foor millions, a Urge proportion of whom arc EclyauU, wandering tiibe* who eorrtwpoud to the I tods ween of A mliia and Mesopotamia. : Theac Felvaut* principally inhabit the southern and eastern parts of the empire, where the drought has been most severe. Their means of subsistence depend mainly on their flocks and heeds, which have now in soma place* altogether per isliad, owing to the total want of grass on the mountain slopes and in the valley*. 'lbe moit pitiful destitution and tha most spiralling mortality are lite result*. The towns have aeareely suffered lcsa. At Ituahire. whrrw relief ia most aaaily afforded, and where in .oh has been done under the auspicra of tha British Resi dent, deaths by starvation are of daily occurrence. It is reported thai the pop ulation of Kaxtruon, lately estimated at lU thousand, has fallen during thrae days of visitation to one-fifth that num ler; that in round numbers acme ftnr thou wind hare died of famine since this time last year, aud a like number have fled the place. A similar condition of affair* exist* at Killing. Koomcaheh, and mora or less all ever the large provinces of Kirman and Khorscaan, sriifle even in the lew slllictcd northern district* the most Urorutahle distrraa prevail* It is reported thai iu the oity of H|ialiao alouc no leas than t welva thiMiMod people hare died of want, and more than double that numlier in the province. Ko material improvement ran be looked for until next spring. ** The fitjr *f Jwr ir MrtTtf. We regret to record, says an India pa per, a sudden and great disaster at Joan i-or. a fine native city of the second dsn. t contained nearly 9.000 houses aud nore than 2i,0u0 inhabitants The Riv er Oumli fx* suddenly on the night of Friday, the 15th of September, flooding most of the mowllaa south of the river, and one or two on the north of it It continued to rite all Saturday ; b--fore noon Uie Rohuia MohiiUa, GooUr tihat, Jeliengesabad. Wsiiandgunj. and Jy*a pur prmafc d the tppsman of cans Is; 1 liefore evening the foundations of the bouses begnu to give wav. and tben, one by one. they came crashing down, dis solved by an elriueut aa devouring as fire. All Sunday the waters Ugan to rise, aod covered the roadway of the far famed Mohamodaa Ifidg-- ; the fine pucka seria wras now flooded, and crowds who liad taken refuge there were driven to seek another rotting place. All Monday and Tuesday the waters grew mightily and prevailed :the river by this time flowed freely over the pampeta of the bridge, of which only the shops or kiosks wow* then visible." snd the flood was still rising when the last tidings reached us. The whole of the city sooth of the river hss been totally destroyed; and aa some people are skeptical when tbev hear of native losses, we roav add thai the post-office, mission school, and the solidly-built dispensary have all like wise perished. On the north aide of the | city uanv mohnliaa have beeu swept awnv. and in the chief barasrv the larg est fionscs, undcrmincfl by the rwdiing waters, wcrv tumblingih, one after anoth er, with a crash like that of thunder. On a moderate computation, between '2OOO and 8.000 houses have beeu destroyed ; many otheiw must undergo demolition. Ten thousand persons have leen depriv ed fif bonce ana home, and it w ill require all the energy of district officers snd the greatest litxrality on the pert of the government to prevent this calamity to be fdlowed by the ills incidental hi want and exposure". This disaster, accompan ied as it is by a deficient harvest and a aceoml total failure of the indigo crop, will, we fear, inflict a Mow from which the city and district will never wholly recover. It is believed that no lives have lieen lost, lite people with good sense and forethought begun removing their families as soon as the danger became imminent Perfect order prevailed. The magisterial officers and district su perintendent of police sjiofit most of their time in the citv, and the exertions of the last-named officer are said to deserve high praise. Though the waters were still rising when the mail left wv trust that the civil station is not in danger. Tna NEWSPAPER A NUCESMTT. —The Cincinnati Gummareiai, describing a re cent visit to Chicago, dwells upon the wonderful display of newspaper vitality as one of the notable signs of the time. Political and personal antagonisms have la-en sunk in efforts for the common good ; rival sheet* are printed amianhly in Uie same ofiin* and on the same preaa; the old spitefnlnesa and abu*e have been nut aside; the business men are pouring in their advertisements by the hundred, and tb improvised accommodations are inadequate to supply the demand. In abort, the Chicago dailies are revived with the teet promise, and their profits are so large that a great part of their heavy losses will bo made up in a year or two. The newspaper lias become a necessity in every civilised immunity, and neither fire nor tempest oan repress the energy which it rej>reeent*. CHI OAFX STTRREREKS. About " Chi cago refugees" the Journal saya : " Let other communities shelter and provide for those helpless and destitute women, children and infirm men who may have thrown themselves upon their charities but when an able-bodied male * refugee' who elaims to be from Chieago, comes whining round, let him be sent off f */onm wife told him in eonae quanew ol hi* bad habits aha was afraid e uaehsH, and advised him to marl UM matb-r quietly. H* ismrtj (hat be would. " About 3 4i o'clock ya t< rdsr afternoon he called again, when Mr. tw-Kistar was out of hia tfficc The j clerk, Mr. John S Rtow, was in the front 1 office. Mrs. Ri'giste- and deceased had just MM* in, having been out to consult j a lawyer with regard to procuring a dl- I voroa. Uskins walked iu, iippmvntly rather excited, but with a stoadv atep. : lie ap}>earad to be aomewhat under tha imflurnce of liquur. He walked up to his wife, who wa* sitting on a chair, and said to her. M Are you going to make this your residence ? ,f She endeavored to make some reply to the effort that she did not know but what she would havs to. He mumbled aomathing, which would not lis beard. He then yoo V Tlim Ibt jufWtt aouucf ou day, nuuyr yr *g*> to afl young lad. Msttg Anton " f the praia of God and the dcHgkt of <>, at hhiKJltng-mateltM, raarmgSa, family feast*, and other great oorasiMM, and at laal bk other youth*, be reached Itia tvrutV'fint vmt. Antouvrastortu'- (Mt*. and drew owe el She highest nuia ler m bis district- Eft 1 too ho was ordered to Munich, but er one com forted him by telling him that on ae> .-mint of hit high number ba would soon Im* free. He went away jovially, for be had never Mentha reenfopee of the sov ereign, and the trumpet would rarely be Mown well there. A handsome power. M tad. be wa aooa grade a cairsraier la spite of bis high number. Ha panted Ilia time aa rg the .r, vctT was proud V> find mraelf there, for it is not ever*r Otet> srtio M nUowsd to rids in Ferric ran. 1 hoard the taunpiog of bipw*, but did pot trouble mytkdf about them ana ro-.le on. ttnddeuhr, on earning- to a torn, Inter* brilliant suit a# ofiknr* of high rank be fore me. I rode to the side, halted, and raid to myself, * Attention P for "at the head of the riders cam# the old King himself? He toolurt at m*. stopped, and turning to the right, pulled up hi* horse and the reek stopped also. The officer on his right, rods forward, and plaeed I&S&2P&BZ£gh^2Z moaMed tnqnprter, Mangwas Hoe*, of tlua third regianml (he gave my name and surname without having asked me.j His king gave him the crass of merit, out he received the iron rreaa at Worth- Ftorabwrilnr; Jhig * the trumpeter trho, under a dcwdlr fire, continued to aonnd the adrsnfv in fh# attack on *ictfdlon's saanp.' The. King manhnd onk hi* hand n> mr ia* % poor tremnrter—and all jliia -mite came forward; au bat I*4 of them bote the Iron crow., nod thoyahonk hands with me. Tears rolled over my Mown checka and moustache, I could not speak a wArd. T Stood alone before (Be noblertdera. He wise ntvarsted me to the King was none other than the Crown Prince of Prussia. 'Hoaa.' said be, * when we oamattp you tbrww away a lighted, cigar into the garden; you may be glad thai it is in time of war, other wise no man wootd dare to throw burn ing cigar-endf into the garden of Roth scbUd Ihcs, amiligg. he handed me his case, asying. *"Way yw like Hie con tente.' 'and fi> tug to laris,'aAiisd. 'We shall meet Uiarri' I rodealowly willing the tears /nun my ere*, and a was weft I had not mw tTurnjjrt with me, for in the joy of my wart I would have Mown the advanoa on Paris there and then. Such or (he contents of the hase as were tor iKking T have mooted; they wave my fit** and pacMfly toy last i roysl cigars. The thaler notes which,it also ctitttainelTt aifl not use, I send theft remembrance Of tie- (seniles# day of my j life, and if I diabetoru voo—winds, in qsts of mr yoatb, 1 think vary likdy to be the cara—ahen yon shall kevp il for the kind iatetest yew have aiwajs takes in rac. In that ease you will c Jtte. fort my deer <>ld father and tay sivters This foreboding HraHC alas ! too soon tot filled; spam! in five feattle*. he died a few daw. after this o# typhna fevr, ia Corbei 1. There lies Mamma Hew pqa* soseoc of the iron-croan of the Bavarian military order of merit, and of tha medals „of 186* _ White lan Taming Black. The folio wise will be regarded one of the most eccentric frenka of nature, if it baa frank at all 5 A gentleman about 25 years of pge, rttddy complexion suid curly red hair, who had an intractable ami painful nicer on the loft arm, resist ing all previous modes of treatment, yielded to the requested trying the offset of transplsutmg a piece of skio to *h# ulcer from another person. Tha nlaac was prepared in the usual manner by his phy>i>), and • bit-of akin ahonk an men square was taken from the arm al a fine, healthy negro man and immediate ly spread over the ficly tdeer and then csrefally dressed and bandaged. The skin fcninaplsntation had the desired effect. Healthy granulation sprang up, and the utmigktly tdoer soon healed. A few month* afterwards he went to his physician atel told him that ever since the sore healed the black skin com menced to spread, and it was InereaMUg. About one-third of hi* am was com pjetelv nec Toed. The high probability ta that the whole skin of thia white man will bacome negro. Thia ta a new thing under the sun. It wnohl be rather diffi cult to explain the physiological process which takes place to bring about such a skin change as this. The problem it, how cau the coloring matter of the skin be so radically changed ? and how is the pigment change propagated f It is cer tain thai the law of oapiliarv attraction plavs no insagniticttnt part in the spread ing* process. Grafting peers on an apple tree has communicated to the apples a pear taste.— San Francisco paper. A flcinawwo Discovkbt. —lt is re ported that a physician in Australia has discovered away of distinguishing hu man blood from the blocd of other ani mal*. It is wonderfully simple, and is thus described : "A small drop, not a mere speck, of the blood is to be placed upon a microscopic slide, and carefully watched, at a temperature of fifty-four to fifty-nine degrees Fahrenheit, until the picture of network formed by its coagulation is developed. Human blood speedily breaks up into a small pattern networt; the blood of other animals takes a longer time and makes a larger pattern : but the blood of every animal stems to form a characteristic picture. j A Bay'* Utter About CMtftf*. Hie PhilH telphla PU pMMMS" ! fe following loiter, written by a bright lit" j tin CUnago |foy of is® ywr* j i how I ing to attempt to deawiha 11 Aa the ! Are is raging 1 am composing tha !db ' lowing varum : mtraoo. flty of dm, wrapped Ml owe, : - would ritA S f , vr It woald krapmaay aseatare* tow* P*®- tVals Who one* r rate' My o^wrbevalaifaa Eight rtW of trntMSaga wrapto* * >< W. o*ltebt that !ti. art . A rtrr Midi Hta twrwji to Wo*ml go; ta had iliM miwtttaof awd. VbitdslWl B! bra" /, : IE > The biowiS an of ap*r ianow aaanfaetwrwt in ■frmvre- .TM material* nacd are ordin ary paper Mp and finrty prided sponge. The, army baketri In Washington la mid n fandtti raldfem with turn pound loaves of bread for efb pound of floor chmL f * * An iodignaaf ga* eonrame.- aaya that thrn-'s tv, ura in abusing the * oonr }aalr. *, ~ ! The lanpwt Mlasy paid to • railed i official In the raited *to a 0.<0. and FroddUnl Ootto* of the Bending Uoadgnbi it of iqrcut to Hong Kong to employ eoouen :for operative*. A cargo of them in - I jMsetod at Hakto, " " ' Kyoklwe ia very tnneb on the dedinn inEnjrtand At ttie mifveratie* not ooe jseis in flaw now smftfaat, wbermw a tew 1 years ago d ie*t lour in five did. Daalou said to hi* executioner:—"l !ho vc had a ptwvl time of it; let me go to Wmw ; then nam will ahnw nm haad to the peuplc ia worth the teoablo. An epitaph on a tumbsUae reaila : T^-sttxr.^ssr 110 "^ ; Om'ai . .Win uppaara tha legend: " Bootn and Ihopato hw--lodie* imd abewjtUaneo* rapaiwi Knm m bear."* 1 ' In England tbentomt nf tend covered with tuecsa baa inewfewi lorty tbouiand acres In the lart ttfm -flw year*, and tii* |daiitltiir i* encourage*! among land lwldara by bhend presaiuiu*. A fellow teebng: lodignant Old Ladj--" Guard do you alfow amoltii* in this comnftrtmcnt ?" Obligißg Goanl —Haw. wart, if nan* * the jn-ntlemen you can take a fen draw o' the | A man in Ohio, who was acquitted oi I raerder on a plea of inanity, aeenred the lawyers by giving them a mortgage lon hi* farm ; but now repadmica the mofteage'On the grrmnd that he wan in sane when be sum it I A Iwbfnl voerm man vaa escorting a eonig eonig Ujy, whn die raid, ra trvwtircrr, • Jabd:, dont tdl anybody roe Isweed me Jmnae." 'Don't be aftaid. ' hesfc," I> aelinniod oi it ait you are. That *et ttedie J; - ■ " Ma, *bv dooU vo epoak ? M raked littte Adkri ;V Why 4vtt> J< I fUQOI Jl " What can IJ ? Don't The tnoet inemtMe form of imouaiW, my* Dr." Clomton of the Aey lmat Carliale. Euftlrad, that which rrmsh' - chiefly of a monomania of sus picion of poisoning, with haHueSnatioßS of beorior. It iaouly by being token ia time that rack a case ia ever cured. It has become bpown that no legal im ufdimeiii \o tho mwrmg© ot Alexia with an Atoeriean n.aiden t *i the Ke rian Rqval familv irentf* limited to ror al blood. This in wfy encouraging to our feelWi who nro ♦feasor how *' Mrs. Alejandrovitch " would look on pap< r. A young mgn named Strieker commit ted suicide at Leirvcnworth. His father was kindly mmnnatcatii* agahi-rt lua diraipotion, and remarked that he would rathertollow \m ran to the grave than we hhfl a drnoksrd, when the younw man replied : ** Here goea, father, and inatoiitiy put . Fated to his own head and discharged it. ( friend feporis Ala of a family to which, during the past Summer, he paid dclightful visU n Obigo;. "The husband wra shot and tilled in his own honae bvn'bnrgfeu- on Saturday night; the Italian was burned on Sunday night; and now the new* comes that the wu® perished, with the corpse, in the con flagration tlmt annihilated store, dwel ling-plane and evry tiling. A lady teacher in a Sunday-school recently W pecasion to illustrate a les son on faith, fef the story of a child who Vtuf told by hi* fatlwr to drop from an elevated place Into his arms. The father could not be seen by the child, vet. wtlen wihttanded.it dropped. l'V° n the teacher's asking her dam what was shewn by this story, a bright little fel low immediately replied, *n!t showed be hadplifA. X-—-aiaMW tiAunuKu 0* RAEUBOAD®. —We hear a gocid deal of complaint that gambling should "be allowed on the pwaenger trains. A few wtfeks since a man was swindled out of S6U in a Maine Central smoling car by ft blackly, intro duced him into the beaulaea of "three card monte." To be sure, it *ia strange that any man is so green or devoid of common sense as to be inveigled into (wrd-playing and betting with steangera on railroad-cars —but such people there are in the world, and we do not think our rail-rood* should be th® field for such knaves to ply their pursuits m. We have recently noticed warnings posted np in the Eastern feaUrond-cam, like this: " Beware of atrangera who aak you to play cord*." That is a very useful placard, to say the least. The common law says that each may so use his own that he does not abate the right of binneighbor. ■* vt v WT* , sft NO. 47.