And Yet. X ww htm look it Linda'* wvy hair ; I • him watch Owwlia'* winning *mil* t 1 ww him notie* Hand'* complexion fair 5 My heart U baating all th* while ; And yet I'm almoet earn ha lovaa ma baat of aIL I we htm glance at Milly'* fairy feat. And follow all thair movement* with a rail*; I w>e him charmed by many maiden* *w**l. My heart with dread faat baauivg all the while; And yet I'm almoet enre ha love* me beat of all. P<* wta*n lw lakes my hand in both of liia. And look* at me with hi* confiding amila, My ewery donbt and fear are eet at ease. Although my heart 1* heating all the while; And—yet! I'm enre, quite aura, ha lovea me beet of all. Inexorable. Pand the I'ulnul. the marraioua king. To hia golden harp sang once and again t IViwn through the agea I hear ht votoa ring, "The year* of a man they are threa-wore-and tan." Bui what if tlie mail or wotuaa. • W aay, Mae a heart of fire, and blood hke new wine. Oaa find Hansen'* own bhna in a Summer'* day. And in human eyaa ww a light dismal The life that was given for seventy year*. What if he wjuauder. it all in a acor* f If. in arstent Joy* and agonUed tear., lie conaumee it all till ha haa no morw ? Say, what aiiall become of the epeudthnft. then. Who bait live,! hie hfe, yet who i* not old - Such long soar, left before three-eeora-and len. And the fire burned out, and the aehee cold! Oh stately psalmist! oh marvelone king! Through the dim agea I hear thee again ; Without change, without pity. I stiil hear thee **"l^ " The years of a man they are thrve-aoora-and tan.* BISHOP pons or TTAH. Ki> Trial* Chrtitsaa* Thus. Biahop Potts of Salt Lake City was the husband of three wives and the hap py father of fifteen interesting children. Early in the winter the bishop deter mined that his little cues should have a good time on Christmas, so heconcinded to take a trip down to San Francisco to see what he could find in the shape of toys to gratify and amuse them. The good bishop packed his carpet-bag, em braced Mrs. Potts one by one and kissed each of her affectionately, and started upon his journey. He was gone a little more than a week, •when came lack with fifteen beauti ful mouth-organs in his valise for his darlings. He got out of the train at V ilt Lake, thinking how joyous and ex hilarating it would be at home Christ mas morning when the whole of thoae mouth organs should be in operation upon different tunes st the same mo ment. But just as he entered thedepot he saw a group of women standing in the Indies' room apparently waiting for him. As si HI u as he approached, the whole twenty of them rushed up, threw their arms abont his neck and kissed him, exclaiming : " Oh, Theodore, we are so—so glad yon have come back! Welcome home ! Welcome, dear, dear Theodore ! Wel come once more to the bosom of your family !" and then the entire score of them fell upon his neck and cried oTer his shirt and mussed him. The biahop was surprised and confus ed. Struggling to disengage himself, he blushed and said : " Really, ladies, this kind of thing is well enoagh—it is interesting and all that, bnt there must be some kind of a that is, an awkward sort of a —excuse me, ladies, but there seems to be, as it were a alight misunderstanding about the—l am Biahop Potts." •' We know it, we know it, dearest," they exclaimed in chorus, " and we are glad to see you safe, safe at home. We have all been right well while yon were away, love." " It gratifies me," remarked the bish op, "to learn that none of yon have l>een a prey to disease. I am filled with blissful serenity when I contemplate the fact; bnt really Ido not understand why yon should rush into this railway station and hug me because your livers are active and yonrdigestion good. The precedent is bail ; it la dangerous !" " Oh, bat we didn't 1 they exclaimed in chores'! "We came here to welcome yon because you are our husband." " Pardon me, but there must be some little—that ia to say, as it were, lahould think not. Women, yon must have mis taken TOUT man." "Oh no, dearest!" they shouted, "We were married to y<su while you were away!" " What!" exclaimed the bishop, "you don't mean to say that—" "Yes, love. Our husband William Brown, died on Monday, and on Tues day Brigham had a vision in which he was directed to seal us to you ; and so he performed the ceremony at once bv -th-th-tli-umler !" observed the bishop, in a general sort of away. "And, darling, we are all living with yon now—we and the dear children." "Children! childrenexclaimed Bishop Potts, tnrning pale, "yon don't mean to say that there ia a pack of children, too ?'* "Yes, love, bnt only onehnndred and twenty-five, not counting the eight twins and the triplets." "Wha-wlia-wha-what d' Ton aay ?" gasped the bishop, in a cold prespira tion : "one hundred and twenty-five! One hundred aud twenty-five children and twenty more wives ! It is two uiuch —it is awful r and the bishop sat down and groaned, while the late Mrs. Brown, the bride, stood round in a semi-circle and fanned him with her bonnets, all except the red-haired one, and she in ber trepidation made a futile effort to fan him with the coal scuttle. After a while the bishop became rec onciled to his new alliance, knowing well that his protests would be unavail ing ; so he walked home, holding aa many of the little handa of the bride, aa he could conveniently grasp an his, while the red-haired woman carried his umbrella and marched in front of the parade to remove obstructions and to scare small boys. When the bishop reached the house, he went round among the cradles which filled the back parlor and the second story rooms, and attempted, with such earnestness, to become acquainted with his new sons and daughters that he set the whole one hundred and twenty-five and the twins to crying, while his own original fifteen stood around and joined in the chorus. Then the bishop vent out and sat on the garden fence to whittle a stick and solemnly think, while Mrs. Potts dis tributed herself in twenty-three places and soothed the children. It occurred to the bishop while he mused, out there on the fence, that he had not enongh of mouth organs to go around among the children as the family now stood ; and so, rather than to seem partial, he de termined to go back to San Francisco for one hundred and forty-four mars. So the bishop repacked his caipet-bag and began again to bid farewell to his family. He tenderly kisaed all the Mrs. Potts who where at home, and started for the depot, while Mrs. Potts stood at the varions windows and waved handkerchiefs at him—all except the woman with the warm hair, and she, in a fit of absent-mindedness, held one of the twins bv the leg and brandished it at Potts as he fled down the street The bishop reached San Francisco, completed his purchases, and was just about to get on the tram with his one hnndred and forty-four month organs, when a telegram was handed him. It oontained information to the effect that the auburn-haired Mrs. Potts had just had a daughter This induced the bishop to return to the city for the pur pose of purchasing an additional organ. On the following Saturday he returned home. As he approached his house a •warm of young ehildrea flew out of tha front gate, and ran toward him, •hautinf; "There's pa! Here oomee KKKD. TCI'HTZ, Kditornud Proprietor. VOL. VI. il>* .' Oh, pa, we're glad to ace vou! Hurrah for pa f etc. The bishop looked at the children aa they docked around htm ami clung to hia lag* and ooat, aiul was astonished to perceive that they weie neither hie ww the late Brown's. He aaid, " Vou youngsters have made a uiietnke ; 1 am nut your father and he aimled good naturedly. "0, ves, you ore though !" screamed the little ones iu chorus. " But 1 aay 1 am not," said the bishop, severely, and frowning; "don't you kuow where little story-tellers go ? It is scandalous to violate the truth iu this mauuer. My uauie ia Potto," " Yes, we know it is," exclaimed the children—" we know it is, and ao ia j ours; that is oar name now too since the wedding." "Since what wedding?" demanded tlie bishop, turning pale. "Why, ma's wedding, of ewnrse. She was married yesterday to you by Mr. Young, and we are all living at Tour house now with our near little brother* and sister*." The bishop sat down on the uavemeut and wiped away a tear. Then he naked: " Who was your father ?" " Mr. Simpson," said the crowd, "and he died on Tuesday." "And how many of his infernal old widow*—l mean bo* many of your mother are " Only twenty-seven," replied the j ahildren, " and there are only sixty four of us and we are awful glad you have come." The bishop dnl not seem unusually glad; somehow, he failed to enter into the enthusiasm of the occaaion. There appeared to be in a certain sense, too much sameness about these surprises, so he sat there with his hat pulltsi over his eves and considered the situation. Finally seeing there was no help for it, he rushed up to the house, ana forty eight of Mrs. Potts rushed up to him, anil told him how the prophet had hail another vision in which he was com manded to seal Simpson's widow to Potts. Then the bishop stumbled around aaioug the cradles to his writing-desk, where he felt among the gum rings and rattles for his writing paper, and then addressed a note to Brigham, asking him as a personal favor to keep awake until after Christmas. " The man must take me for a foundling hospital," he said. Then the biahop saw clearly enough that if he gave presents to the other children and not to the late Him peon's the bride relict of Simpsou would prob ably souse down on him, fumble among his'hair and make it warm for him. So, repacking his carpet bag, he started again for San Francisco for sixty-four more mouth organs, while Mrs. Potts gradually took leave of him in the entry —all but the red haired woman, who was up stairs, and who had to be satis fled with screeching good-by at the top of her voice. On his wav home, after his last visit to San Francisco, the biahop sat in the car by the aide of a man who had left Salt Lake the day before. The stranger was communicative. In the course of the conversation he remarked to the biahop: " That was a lively little affair up there in the city cm Monday." " What affair ?" asked Potts. " Why, that Wedding ; McOrath's wih>w, you know—married by proxy." "You"don't say," replied the bishop. " I didn't know that McOratb was dead." " Yea ; be died on Sunday, and that night Brigham had a vision in which he was ordered to seal her to the bishop." "Bishop.'"exclaimed Potts. "Bishop! what bishop ?" " Well, yon see there were fifteen of Mrs. McUrath and eighty-two children, and they shoved the whole lot off on old Potts. Perhaps yon don't know him ?" The bishop gave a wild, nnearthly shriek, and went into a hysterical fit, and writhed on the floor as if he had hydrophobia. When he recovered, he leaped from the train and walked back to San Francisco. He afterward took the first steamer for Pern, where he entered a monastery and became a celi bate. His carpet bag was sent to his family. It contained the balance of the moutn organs. On Christmas morning they were dtstribnted, and in less than two honrs the entire two hundred and eight children were sick from sucking p.iHh off them. A doctor was called, and he seemed so much interested in the fami ly that Brigham divorced the whole con cern from old Potts and annexed it to the doctor, who immediately lost his reason and would have butchered the entire family if the red haired woman and the oldest boy had not marched him off to a lunatic asylum, where he spent his time trying to arrive at an estimate of the number of his children by cyphering with an impossible combina tion of the multiplication table and al gebra.—Max Adelrr. A Singular Idea. The enterprising individual who earned a few dollars by charging sight seers for admission to the house where his father had been murdered, has a rival in the London proprietor of a music hall who hired for exhibition ten of the survivors of the Northfleet dis aster. Penniless aa they were, they consented, and the very night after the catastrophe, less than twenty-four hours since the terrible tragedy'in real life had been enacted, these ten men found themselves seated upou a concert saloon stage with the curtain rising and re vealing thein amid loud cheers to a very large and uncontrollably enthusiastic audience. The eutertainment was re peated again and again, the contraet being for twelve nights. Crowds greeted them every evening aud financially it was a great success. It ia a singular illustration of the freaks of fortune that the calamity which shocked the whole news-reading world and sent more than three hundred souls into eternity should have filled the pockets of this saloon-keeper with money and bronght upon the uncouth, ill-appearing men round after round of applause for merely sitting upon a stage from which forty-eight hours before they would have been ipnomiuiouslv driven. The temporary victory over death makes a man something of a hero after all, even if. iUm certain that the victory is really, at best, but a check. Singular Stone. The Sacramento Union describes a curiosity found in a bed ot gravel in that city, fourteen feet below the sur face, while the discoverer was digging a | well. It is composed of rock, hard as flint, dark green in color, with white specks, perfectly rouud and smooth, about 3J inches in length, about an inch in diameter in tha oantre, and tapering to a point at either end. About half an inch from one ond a hole lias lias been drilled through it and a groove cut from the hole arwind the end of the stone, aB if it was intended to pass a line through the hole and suspeud the stone by it. The rock, however, is so excessively hard that it is almost impossible to scratch it, and the question therefore arises as to what sort of an instrument the aborigine that did the drilling—which was prob ably performed hundreds of years ago —Used. The Queen of Sheba's palace is the latest archmological discovery announced THE CENTRE REPORTER Nwlft Justice, A merchant left Bt. Petersburg to travel acroa* Kurojie. In the eottree of hia journey he arrived at Warsaw, Be ing furnished with a letter of introduc tion, he repaired k> the house of one uf the eliief oititeus therif, and was uiol courteously iwivwl. He stayed at Waraaw fr a week, and hia hut spared no pains to make the visit agre.-able, and showed him everything worth see lug iu the lowu. Indued, the viaitur ww overwhelmed by au amount of kiudur.a rarely showu tu any but a frieuvl of long ataud<ag. At length the pleasant visit drew to ita close, and after breakfast tlie guest expressed hia wish to see aottie jhht parts of the town, of which lie hud ficard. " But," said he, " 1 have with uie a antall box of great value that 1 do not like to risk in such place*. If it were iuv own, 1 should not he so par ticular, \>ut it was intrusted to me by a friend, who raqueeted nie to deliver it to u person in another town. It cou taina diamonds and other valuables. Would vou do me the great favor of taking charge of it for the day ?" The host, with his usual urbanity, williugly agreed to this proposal, and the mer chant departed with s light heart ou hia tour of inspection, I forgot the name, but let us say iu the " Semi l>ials," of" Five Points "of Warsaw. Next moruiug, after breakfast, he cordially thanked his kind entertainers for their zeal out hospitality, and added that, as he was abaut to depart, he would now resume his charge of the box, which had never before quilted his presence since he hail received it from its awuer. The host and hostess stared at him in well-acted amazement. •' What box ?" asked he host " 1 rememlser no box—do you, my dear ?" turning to his wife. "No," she said, I have no recollee tion of any box whatever." "What was it like?" inquired the host; " perhaps you left it in your room." But on the merchant persisting that it was with the host himself it had IHH?U left, on turning to his hostess, and trv . iug to make her recollect the ctrcum j stances, both (after appealing to each ' other several times, and fortifying each other in their deuial,) became cold and distant, and begun hinting that some ' thing must have happened to the mer chant, to induce him to persist in so strange a delusion. As the host touch ed his forehead with a significant glance, the poor man rcmeuil>ered that he was in a strange city ; the gruund seemed to be slipping from under his feet : danger to himself loomed iu the distance, and he hastened from the hoii&e in alarm. Straight to the police he went and stated his case. The of ficial listened imperturbedly to the whole story, and then asked: " Von gave up this valuable box to an acquaintance of a week's standing with out anr witness or any written ac i knowledgnient ?" " He had been so very kind ; a man s in his position " " Bah! yon a man of business! bnt yon have uo proof that the box belongs to Ton ?" " None whatever—except the key. It is locked, and I have the key—here it is," and he produced a small key from his inner-pocket. The official remained lost in thought for some time, and then said: " Well, I will do the onlv thing I can for yon. The Archduke Constantino— the Governor of Poland, is a stern, harsh man, but he is known for his rigorous justice, and if he believes your rtory, he will Jo his best for you. 1 will take von to him at once." No time was lost, and the merchant soon found himself in the archduke's presence and was desired to relate his story. When it was concluded the archdnke, after a few moments reflec tion, rang a bell. An official appeared. "Send for M ," naming the treach erous host. It was quickly done, and the arch dnke, without preamble or question, said to the guilty man: "Sit down at that writing-table, and write as I shall dictate to you." The man took his sent and took up the pen ; the archduke began dictating: "My dear wife—all is fonnd out " " No," said the man, springing from his seat, " I won't write that. '' " Then yon are guilty," was the prompt alswer. Puzzled and foiled, he resumed his seat and wrote as he was desired. "My dear wife—all ia found out. Send the box by the bearer." Then he signed it with hia name, by the archduke's order, and a messenger waa diapatched with it. The messen ger found the laly at her toilet; when •he read the missive sho turned aahy pale, trembling violently. Then lean ing forward, AHE drew the IKIX from the recess in her toilet-table, and handed it to the bearer, who, awiftly returning, G'aeed it in the handa of the archduke, e immediately handed it to the mer chant, deairing him to unlock it; that being done, he aki*d whether the dia mond* were all there. Yea, the box had not been opened ; they were exact ly aa the merchnnt had left them. Again the archduke rung the bell, and to the attendant who entered he said, designating the guilty man: " Take him to Siberia ; he is not to go to hia own home again." The William Tell Story. Few more interesting controversies, both in a literary and an historical point of view, have ever arisen than the discussion which has recently been car ried on respecting the authenticity and genuineness of the Bwist legend in which the archerv feats of William Tell are described, 'the object of this brief note is not to attempt to settle the dis pute, bnt merely to state that the story has penetrated the aretic eirele. In the metrical traditions of Lapland aud Rus sian Karelin, all the lending particulars in the life of the Hwiss hero aro closely reproduced—nnless indeed the story he of Northern origin. In Lapland litera ture it is varied so that the son "is the active, and the father the passive, per sonage in the tale. The latter has been takeu captive hy a band of Finn marau ders. The former—a boy twelve years of age—threatens the party with his bow from a position of safety on the other side of a lake. The captors dreading his skill, promise the father's liberty n a condition similar to that re lated in the Hwiss legend. " Raise one hand and Hink the other, for the water will attract the arrow," is the fathei's advice. The apple is dnly cloven ami the father released. The incident of the jump from the boat is also recited; and tho northern locality specified as distinctly as the Lucerne of Hwiss his tory. The legend in this form was dis covered about thirty years ago by Mathias Alexander Custreu, a native of Finland. In the Finnish and Lappish me rical writings he also discovered the leading particulars of the adventure of Ulysses with the Cyclops, "From what original Bource," says a reviewer of Castren's work, "or through what channels these traditions have traveled, it is probably in vain to inquire or dia pute; the triumph of courage otei numbers, of policy over brute force, lias its charm for the rudest nations, and from Jack the Oiant-Killer to WilHam Tell the key-note of the strain is ever the same,"— Gentleman'i Magazine, CENTRE HALE. CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1*73. Curiosities of t'onelenre. Truly, conscience ia a queer tiling. Existent in some sha|e, iu every hutuitu soul, its oprratiolia are as uncertain a* the wind itaelf, nud, Heeiutligly, far lens subject to law. la it an lunate faculty, or is it merely a product of education? unks the metaphysician, and straightway the whole body of abstract thinkers is by the earn, in a hopeless effort to solve the unsuitable problem, tin tlii* ques tion hang# a good deal of truth doubt less ; but it is not with abstraction that • cart* U> deal. The human couacieuce iu ite actual workiuga furnishes mys tery enough, without going lieyoml its outward mauifeatatioua. History is full of elrauge doiuga, resulliug solely from incomprehensible cranks of men's consciences. Cwaar faltered wheu about to Ynvade Ins country, aghast ut the euoriuity of the technical crime he was about to commit ill merely rroaniug the stream which merely bouuded his right, llut for his real crimes after he had crossed, wo find no aigu of contri tion in any act or word of his. lleurv VIII sought the Pope's pardon iu ail vance, when he wished to contract a marriage forbidden by the canon, but he had no qualms of conscience ut spuming thepapaoy when he wanted to dissolve the marriage in question. Our own Puritan forefathers dared many dangers, and endured many hardships, for the sake of freedom of conscience, and strsightwuv proceeded to persecute (Quakers and Raptista who claimed a like freedom. We have outgrown many of th-se ohl crrv.r*, but our couwiruren ur queer thing* still. Straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel, la aa true* a story now aa it was eighteen centuries ago. Almost every profession lias a ten dency to work a pattern of its own into ita follower*' consciences ; and so we And men everywhere disposed to eon done certain sins in people of their own cloth, which are quite aa bad aa other lapses from moralitv for which they have uo toleration. We once heard an eminent lawyer say, that in hia pro fession there is especial peril—that the necessity uuder which every attorney constantly labora of drawing nice dis tinctions between hia own and hia clients'a responsibility for questionable proceedings, and that, too, with the weight of his own pecuniary interest constantly upon the wrng aide, de velops, in many case*, what is termed the " legal conscience," with which everybody is familiar. Theologians toll u* that they find it necessary to guard themselves constantly against the for mation of " ecclesiastical cousciencea," which shall make a juggling with words ataud for right tlanking, to the detri ment of the moral sense. Ho subtle is casuistry in morals, and so strong is the instinct of aclf-preacrvatiou in all organizations, that the clergyman's dan ger in this respect in peculiarly great, and the only wonder is that so few ministers succumb to it. lint most tempted of all, perhaps, is the merchant; and while there are un doubtedly sound consciences in many counting-rooms, it can nut be d*uo-d that mercantile morals sre often at ebb tide. The apparent difficulty of com peting, by strictly fair menus, withux-n who sre not verv scrupulous, aud the extreme esse with whicn unfair advan tages may be taken in commercial mat ters, makes "the merchant's conscience a p*rj>etually besieged castle, unless, in deed, it surrenders at diaeretion, and adopts the code of its conquerors. Wo once know a merchant, a plain, blunt man, who would say of an article winch a customer was about to buv, "It ia not worth the money, sir. It looks pretty well on the outside, but it ha* several concealed defects. I eau't sell it for less, and I have nothing bet ter to offer vou, but my advice is not to buy it. Mr. X —, on the next block, has something very much belter at the same price." Now, all thia WHS simply what honesty dictated, and yet, so rare ia this sort of honesty, this old mer chant was known far and wide as •• queer otd B—," and there was not a few people who thought him craxy. The Coal Combination Prlres AC lanced.# The New York Post says that the publication of the scale of prices adopt ed for March by tho Philadelphia and Heading Coal Company, and the rates of freight and toll to lie charged by the Heading itailroad and Schuylkill Canal, has infused new life into the coal trade, and dealers are now beginning to make contracts for the spring season. Some opposition is still shown to wards the new consolidation movement, bv agents aud "middlemen" in this city, but it is generally acknowledged that longer resistance to the scheme is practically useless, aa all the aveuuca aud means of transportation are in the possession of the leaders of the " pool," who, they any, can dictate whatever terms they choose. The rapid advance in the jpri™ of coal, which has been brought alx>ut bv the combination of mine-owners with the great carrying companies, seems to have weakened many opponents of the movement, who are now anxious to range themselves among the followers of the Philadelphia and Heading Rail road Company, in order that they may reap the lienefit of the high prices, which, it is expected, will prevail dur ing the year. Dealers who still refuse to have their coal sold by the above company say that they must toon submit to the ni w order of things, or suffer many draw barks, with probable loss. When the combination was first sug gested by the president of the Reading Itailroad to the coal dealers of this city, the officers of the Pennsylvania Coal Company, one of the largest mining corporations of eastern Pennsylvania, refused to join it, and have since main tained an entirely neutral position. The following schedule of prices at which coal will be delivered during March by this company, shows, how ever, a considerable advance over form er rates : Lump, $4.50 ; Steamer, $4.- 50; Kgg. $4.70; Htove, $5.00; Chest ant, $4.00. This eoal is deliverable at Weelinw ken, ami the freight to New York is fixed ut 40 oenta a ton. The regular monthly auction sale of Scranton coal, lias ulso served to exalte the conl trade, as it was thought that the prices obtained would influence the rates to l>e adopted for March by the Wilkesbarre Coal Company anu the Delaware and Hudson Coal Gompauy. The attendance at the sale was very large, and comprised many agents of steamboat lines and owners of retail yards. Ninety thousand tons were offered by John 11. Draper, in belialf of the Delaware, Lackawanna and West ern Company. The bidding was very spirited, especially for stove coal, which was in great demand by retailers, and sold rapidly, buyers being allowed the privilege ofr purchasing five thousand tons. The resultof the sale showed an over age increase of nearly twenty rents a ton over the prices of Jauuary 29. The Russian Government owns one half of all the doily papers published in that country; and it has recently purchased a controlling interest in M. KatkofTs famous Moscow Gazette, a journal which is said to have s larger circulation than that of all the other Russian political newspapers together. .in lurldrut of the " Xorthfleet" Olaaatert A very curiou# circumstance lias coihe to light in connection with the loss of the Northltoet. Captain Outea, who was her actual captain up to within a few hours of the stop's sailing, has been fretting and fuming in the toils which the Ticnbonie case co*t around hiuf aa being an important witness agsiuat the " claimant.' Captain Onto# ia the ouly man liviug who saw linger Tichltorne safe on board the lit Ha at llio, bound for New York, aud he was subpomsed by the counsel for the youug heir aa soon as the claim of the popularly es teemed Sir Roger was put in. When the Northfleet was ready for sea, Cep taiu Dates secretly feared deteutiou, but aa lie had already made a deposi tion which was iu the hand# of the leading counsel for the prosecution, lie put n I told face on mutters, aud went on with hi# preparation* for the voyage, as if uo Huh|Krna w ere hanging over hia head. When the lawyers heard that the Northfleet was about to nail, they intimated to Captain Dates that he was " wanted" iu April, and must not sail, under heavy penalties. " Erne me X'AW, or £3UO, if you like," said Captain Dates ; " but I uls#t sail in the Nurth fieet ou Haturday next" "No," said , Mr. Hawkins, the counsel for the 1 Crown ; " we must have your body in i court, and if vou at tempi, to sail you will le arrested." The Northfleet was to have sailed ou Saturday, the 11th ultimo, aud on the previous Friday, Ca;Uuu Datea, from lufonnatiou received in the ahape of sundry for formidable iastructious of the law, said it woa impossible for him to sail. After a hasty consultation with his brother owners (I'aptain Date# had a share in the ship,) it was decided te i give the command to Captain Knowlea, who had aailed with Captain Dates for five years, aud of whom a very high opinion was held. All the peraoual effects of Captaiu Dates aud Mrs. Date# were at the time ou lioard the vessel, and were hostly removed to give place to those of the new captain ana his bride. Mr. Knowles had been engaged for some time to be married, but had aiwsya said lie would wait till he got a command. The watting *u ao long that about Christmas he determin ed to tarry no longer, aud here with j wonderful good luck, as it appeared to the poor fellow, a command unexpeet edlv tumbled into his hands, wheu he had been married only a few weeks. He and Mrs. Knowlea gave up the apartments which they had juat taken and furnished, and on a given day, Mr*. Knowlea joined the ship at Uraveeeud, taking up her residence in the superior cabins which Captain Datea had especially fitted up for him self and wile. The rest of the story the worhl knows; j but there are some curious incidents connected with it which arc worthy of mention. About seven yer.r* ago, Mr. , Knowlea bring then chief officer, an emigrant ahip outward bound front laiudon was lying in the downs, when hia alup was run into by a steamer and cut down to the water's etlge. For tunately, assistance was at hand, and she was towed back safely to London, and there underwent repairs. What odd# greatly to the remarkable character of the coincidqgcr isthatOeorge Ilroek, ' the pilot in charge of the Nortufb-et at the time of her being run down, was also in cluirge of the other eintgmut I ship of which the vwv chief male. The loos a Dead World. Among the illusions swept awav by modern science was the pleasant fancy that the moou was s habitable globe, like the esrth, its surface diversified with seas, lakes, continents, and islauds, and varied forms of vegetation. Theo logians and Mean/* gravely discussed the probabilities of its being inhabited by a race of sentient beings, with forms and faculties like onr own, and even propounded schemes for ojieniug com munication with them, in ease they ex isted. One of these was to construct on the broad highlands of Asia s series of geometrical figures on s scale so gi gantic as to l>e visible from onr plane tary neighbor, on the supposition that the moon people wonld recognize the object, and immediately construct simi lar figures in reply! Extravagant aud absurd as it may appear in the light of modern men from makingfools of them selves, stood in the way of actual ex periment ; but the discussion was kept up at intervals, until it was discovered that if there were people in the moon they must lie able to live without breath ing, or eating, ur drinking. Then it censed. There can be no life without air. Beautiful to tho eye of the distant ob server, the moon Is a sepulchral orb— a world of death and silence. No vege tation clothes its vast plains of stony desolation, traversed by monstronscrov iees, broken bv enormous peaks that rise like gigantic tombstones into space; no lovely forma of elood float in the blackness of its sky. There daytime is only night lighted by a rayleas sun. There is no rosv dawn in the morning, no twilight in tlie evening. The nights sre pitch-dark. In daytime thf solar beams are lost against the jagged ridgea, the sharp points of the rock*, or the steep sides of profound abysses; and the ere sees only grotesque shapes re lieved against fantastic shadows black as ink, with none of that pleasant gra dation and diffnsion of light, none of the subtile blending of light and shad ow, which makes the charm of a terres trial landscape. There ia no color, nothing but dead white and black. The rocks reflect passively the light of the sun; the craters and abysses re main wrapped in shade; fantastic peaks rise like phantoms in their glacial ceme tery ; the stars apfiear like spots in the blackness of spar*". The moon is a dead world ; she has no atmosphere. Ojloa. The island at Orion is very besnti ftU, the scenery lOVO.IT. and the aoil pro ductive in spices and many kind* of fruit; indeed, it la said that it alAu> might produce sufficient coffee for the consumption of the entire world. The natives, however, are far from pleasing. They are generally of short Mature., verv effeminate-looking, apathetic, and snelb liar* that it is impossible to depend upon their word. If they may but re pose for hour after hour under s tree, \nth a piece of broad-fruit beside thom, they see in te core for little else. The men wear their hair turned up behind with a comb, the lieight of the comb denoting the rank of the wearer. This, and the small features, gives them al together such an effeminate appearance, that it is difficult for a European to dis tinguish f them from the females. A visitor lately entered one of the schools, and, seeing a row of boys with their back* towards him, and each with a coinb in his head, unconsciously asked if the boys and girls were educated together. One of the natives of high rank was lately called on to give evi dence at a trial, and swore such com plete falsehoods, that he was imprisoned for perjury. He applied to the English Government, and, with surprise, asked why he should bo punished for what his people did. "My father," ho said, " was a liar, and my grandfather was a Har, and we are all liars. Ik is the cus of my country. Why shonld I be punished ?" A Romance of the Peerage. . The reailrrs of ttoinutd Warren's ' " Teu Thousand a Tear," an amtsaiug ' law story, torrihlv spuu out and over ! laid with religious sentiment, have probably condemned the plot, iu which, with the assistance of Messrs. Quirk, Oaiuutou k Knap, a firm of rascally thieves' attorneys in London, Charles Aubrey, M. P.. who has lulicriled the rich estate of lattou, iu Yorkshire, from his fntlicr, has a law suit brought against him bv a certain Tittlelrot Tit mouse, then all but starving as a shop man, at fik'i per year and his board, to Tag-rag k Co., soft goods retailers iu Loudon, which lawsuit ends in Mr. Aubrey's having to surrender the estate to the said Tittlebat Titmouse, with a debt of £OO,OOO, on account of " the mesne proffta," the legal terra for six vears' back r-uta. Something in this line, romantic and true, ia now on the tup i iu the Scottish law eourta. The fifteenth Earl of Egliugtoun and Win toun, who, in 1830, revived on hia own estate, in the west of Scotland, the tournament of the Middle Ages, died in October, I MM, and was succeeded by hia eldest sou, who has been in poaoes -1 aioa of the family titles and estates ever since. These have been lately claimed by Stephen John Pulton, who served in the Crimean War aa a private in the 1 Royal Irish Huoasra, and toft the army with a penaion of sixteen cents a day for life. lie lately appeared in the Sheriff's Court at Edinburgh, where he made a declaration in regard to an ap plioation to receive the benefit of the poor'# roll, iu reference to hia contem plated action. He may #ue if he please# 1 "in fortua txiuprrit, aa a pour man, if he eau show hia jtoverty. We have not heard on what ground# he challenges the rfe /artu Earl of Kglingtoun ; but, having eiammed the family pedigree, a* given in Hurke's Peerage, conclude that hia only show would be by imput ing illegitimacy to the fifteenth Earl the tournament man—who was born in Palermo in 1012. Aa the Earhngtonn estatea are worth ffiMO.OOO per annum, aud the six years' mesne profit# would amount to gl.3ou.otW, the prise ia worth striving for. If won it will throw Charles Aubrey's "Ten Thousand a Year " completely in the ahade. A Peculiar Sect. Rattle Creek in Michigan ia the head quarter# of one of the most peculiar re ligious sects to be fouud in this coun try. It i# called the Seventh I>#y Ad veiitiata, and it# member# differ from the denomination generally known as AdvetilisU, in looking for the second coming of Christ soon, without assu ming to Ax on anv particular time for hia appearance. They constitute e large and wealthy portion of the inhabitants of Rattle t'rrek, where they are greatly reepeetod for their strict integrity, their exactitude in tbeir dealings, and their devout, conscientious adherence to the nrinriplee of religion and morality. They occupy a distinct quarter of the city kuown ae the Advent Hettlement, sLaeh is distinguished for th* scrupu lous cleanliness which prevails every wber •. They are strct ujgirniat*. and an extensive "water eure, which attracts visitor# from #1! part* of the United State*, forms one of Uieir enterprises. They have a large publishing bones where denominations books, tract*. periodicals and the like are printed, emptying fifty hands. The most ain gular thing about them, however, ia the fact that all of the practical, money getting tncml>er* of thia denomination in Battle Creek are under the absolute domination of a woman named White, who profesaea to receive revelations, aud ia regarded as the inspired medium of eujiernatural communications. There is net one of these Adventists who does not place implicit faith in the revela tions of Mrs. White, siul they unhesi tatingly obey her directions in'all things both spiritual and temporal. Should she require one or more mcmtiere of the church to remove from the city, or to give up a profitable business, tbe in junction is sctrd on without s murmur. The Seventh Dsy Adventists olieenrc Saturday aa their Sabbath, which be gins on Friday eveuing at sunset and lasts until the some hour on Saturday. On Sunday their workshops and places of business are alive with activity, and sneh amusements ss they indulge in are apparently enjoyed with unusual sest on that day. Blscmerte* of Tin in (jaeemdaud. The most recent reports substantiate the fact that tin fishls of unexampled richness have been discovered in tbe Kngliah colony of Queensland, lis*tern Australia, the presence of the metal be ing detected oYcr an area of 550 square miles. Mr. T. F. Gregory, the mineral land commissioner, states that, at the preaeut time, only about 225 square miles of tliie area have hitherto been found sufficiently rich for working, but there are many Instances of tiu being fouud in paving quantities beyond these limits. The physical and geological character of nearly the whole of the area de*erile<l is that of an elevated granite table land, iateraeeted by ranges of abrnpt hills, the highest limita of which are about 8,000 feet above the sea. Tbe portion of tbe district over which the dej*mils of tin ore are dis tributed is that comprised bv the water shed of the Severn river. The richest deposits have been found in the stream beds and fiurial fiats, the paying ground varying from a few Yards to five chains in width, occasionally broken by roelty bars; but even in these instances large deposits are frequently lodged in the pockets and crevices between the granite boulders. The probable yield of ore is stated at ten tuus per lineal chain of the hods on the various creeks. In some in stances, this haa lieen found to extend to thirty tnns per chain. Aa the lodea and veins have as yet been but very partially tested, it would be premature to give any decided opinion upou them. It is probable that they will prove a source of great wealth, and pcrhapa render Australia one of the first tin pro ducing countries in the world. The Chicago fMy Lota Swindle. The Chicago Tribune publishes a full exjiose of the swindle in so-called Chi cago City lots which appears to have already numbered its victims by thou sand* and to le still sdding to the num ber in the Eastern State*. It appears from this account that one G. W. Scott purchased a quantity of swamp land about twenty miles from the Court Tlousc st per acre, and sub-divided it into lots which have been sold at ftiOO each to hnndreds of people in this city. The Tribune publishes a list of over 1,000 purchasers, besides many persons in other sections of the country. An ex amination of the plot of this snb diviaion, which was dubbed the Boule vard Sub-division, shows that the lots ranged in aizefffrom fifteen by thirty-five to nine by twenty feet; the streets aver aged six feet in width and the alleys thirteen inches. Letters aro being constantly received from parties East inquiring as to the value of lots in this sub-division, which shows that some parties are offering them for sale throughout the country. A recent work on gardening is called " The six spades." "The rake's pro gress" would not bs an inappropriate title fer a sequel. Terras: t-C-1.00 a Year, in Advance President (i rant's laaagaral. Kaixow Cmtwn*-— Coder Providence I hsve been Called a second tiro# to act aa Kiaontin otar this giwit nation It baa bom ar endeavor in tba pant to maintaiu all the lawa, and, ao fur a# in HIT WWW, to act for the beat interest of the whole people. My beat effort# will be given in the tunc direction is the future, aided, I timet, by my four year#" experience in the office. Wlw# in* drat torn of the office of Chiaf Exec utive Wgnn.'the country had not re covrred from the effect# of a great in ternal revolution, and three of tlx# former State# of the Union had not b##n reetor ed to their federal relation#. It seemed to me wiee that no new questions shpuld be raiaod, ao long a# that condition of affair# exiated; there fore, tho paat four yeara, ao far a# 1 oould control eveuls, have been eon aumed in Die effort to restore harmony, pnbliveredit, commerce and all the art# of peace and program. It ia my firm conviction that tlx# cmlixed world i# tending toward Republicanism, or gov ernment by the jK-ple through their choeen rrpr*-#enttive#, and that our own great Republic ia deatined to b# the guiding atar #f all other#. Under our Republic w# support an army leas than that of an* European Power of any standing, and a navy leaa than that of any of at leaat flv# of them. There could be no extension of territory on thie Continent which wonld call for an increaae of tbia force, but rather might such extrusion enable oa to di minish it The theorv of govern aseat change# with general progress. Now that the telegraph ia made available for oimmu mcitiug thought, together with rapid transit by steam, all parte at a oootb nvut are made contiguous for all pur pose# of government, and communica tion between the extreme limlta of the country easier than it wis throughout the old thirteen State# at the beginning of our national existence. The effects of the late civil strife have been to free the slave and make him a citixeu, yet he is not possessed of the civil rights which ciUxenahip should carry with it. This ia wrong and should be corrected. To this correction 1 stand committed, ao far aa Executive influence can avail. Social eouality ia ot a subject to be legislated upon, nor shall 1 ask that anything be done to advance the social statue of the o'lured man, except to Sve him a fair chance to develop what •re ia good in bim. Give him acres* to schools, and when he travel# let bim fhel that hie conduct will regulate the treatment and fare he will receive. The States lately at war with the gen eral government are now happily re habilitated, and no klxecaUve control ia exercised in any one of thein that would not be exercised in any other State under like cirrumatanoea. In the first year of the present ad ministration the proposition came up for the admission of St Domingo M * territory of the I"nion. It was not a question of my seeking, bat was a proposition from the people of St Domingo, and which 1 entertained. I believe now, aa I did then, that it was for the best interests of this country, for the people of St Domingo, and all concerned, that the proposition should be received favorably. It was, how ever, rejected constitutionally, and, therefore, the subject was never brought up again by me. In future, while I hold my present office, the subject of acqui sition of territory rant have the sup port of the people before I will recom mend any proposition looking to anch acquisition. 1 say here, however, that I- do not share in the apprehension held by many as to the danger of governments becom ing weakened and destroyed by reason of their extension of territory. Com merce, education, and the rapid transit of thought and matter byte'egraph and steam have changed all this. 1 lather do I believe that our Great Maker is pre)>aring the world, in His own good lime, to become one nation, sjieaking one language, and then armies and navies will be no lunger required. My efforts in the futnre will be directed to the restoration of good feeling tietween the different sections of our common country ; to the restoration of our cur rency to a fixed value as compared with the world's standard of values (gold), and if poasibl* to a par with it; to the construction of cheap routes of transit throughout the land, to the end that the products of all section! msy find a market, and leave a living remuneration to the producer; to the maintenance of friend 1 j relations with all oar neighbors and with distant nations ; to the re-es tablishment of our commerce and onr share in the carrying trade upon the ocean ; to the encouragement of anch manufacturing industries as can be eec nomicallv pursued in this country, to the end that the exports of home pro ducts and industries msy pay for onr imports, the only sure method of re turning to and permanently maintaining a apeeie basis; to the elevation of labor, . and, bv a humane conrae, to bring the aborigines of the country under the benign influences of education and civilisation. It is either this, or a war of extermination. < War* of extermination, engaged in by people pursuing commerce and all industrial pursuits, are expensive, even against the weakest people, and are de moralising and wicked. Our superior ity of strength and advantages of sirii isation should makers lenient toward < the Indiau. The wrong already inflicted upon him ■hould lie taken into account and the j balance placed to his credit. The moral view of the question should be consid ered, and the question asked, " Cannot the Indian be made a useful and pro ductive member of society by proper teaching aud treatment ?" If the effort ia made in good faith we will stand well j before the civilised nations of the earth and in our own conscience for having made it. All these things are not to be accomplished by one individual, but i they will receive" my support and such recommendation to Congress as will, in IST judgment, best servo to carry them into effect. 1 beg your support and en couragement. . It has been and is my earnest desire to correct abuses that have grown up in the eivil service of the country. To secure this reformation, rules regulating method* of appointment and promotion were established aud have been tried. Mv efforts for such reformation shall be continued to the best of my judgment The spirit of the rules adopted will be maintained. 1 acknowledge before this assemblage, representing as it does every section of our country, the obligation 1 am under to my countrymen for the great honor they'liave conferred upon me by return ing me to the highest office within their gift, and the further obligation resting on me to render them the best services within my power. This I promise, looking forward with the greatest anxiety to the day when I shall be re leased from the responsibilities thst st times are almost overwhelming and from which I have scarcely had a respite since the eventfnl firing upon Fort Sumter in Apri', 1861, to the present day. My services were then tendered and accepted under the first call for troops growing out of that event I did not ask for place or pesition, and I was entirely without influence or the acquaintance of persona of influ ence, but was resolved to perform my NO. 12. rat to struggle threatening the very existence of the ustiou. I perfivnied • conscientious doty without asking pro motion of commend, and without • if reugoful feeling toward any section or anj individual. Not withstanding thin, throughout the war end from my <NMt dulaey fur my present office, ia 1 to Ute close of the Iftftt Presidential cam paign, I hare been the subject of ftbnae and slander scarcely erer equaled in ! political history, whieh to-day I (gel that I esu dtsregaid, in rise of your rerdict, which I gratefnlly accept u my rindioatioa. Marriageable Women. One of the great social problems of the day is to explain why there are au many 'msirisfenblc women who neror get married. Home say that it ia owing to an exoeaa in numbers of women orer men, in eonaeuuence of wlueh there are not husbands enough to go round. This, however, is disprorcd by statis tics. Take the world through, and the figures show that then aiw as many men ia it as there ere women. Others attribute it to the rxpetuureneee of modern life. Men do not marry be cause, it is said, they cannot iflbrd to. Bfct the (act is, that no man who truly loved a woman ever hesitated to become engaged to her and eventually marry her because of poverty. There are cold-: blooded men, with no idea of say feel ing for a woman stronger than a languid admiration, who may be deterred from ' assuming what they regard as a burden j in the shape of a wife, nukes assured of e liberal income; bat nod are not so calculating. Others, again, attribute the evil to women's fastidiousness. They expect too much ia a hatband, , end.* while waiting for an impossible shadow, let the possible substance slip 1 through their fingers. This ia a libel on the sex. da a role, they are bo more fastidious than man are, and ate just as : Nuseeptible as men to that enchantment of love which invests its object with every perfection, and covers up every fault. So far as men sad wumea them- " selves are concerned, they are as prone j to marriage now as in any period of the world's history. Nevertheless, there the women are wanting tor husbands, and not getting them. Every social circle is fall of them. Tbey are pretty, j they are accomplished, they aiw eenai- i bla, and under proper training they . would make excellent wives and moth ers; bat they never get • chance. What seems to be needed is a more thorough method of bringing men and women into social con tec* with each ! other. | People yea Object te Meet. Mr. Whmer, who never sees yoa without saying how very fat you've grown, or how pale yoa look. Mr. Humdrum, who, when in society, confines his coavsrsstioe to the change* of the weather, and the rising price of * coaL I Mrs. Pwaddkr, who, if yoa meet her j ia the Park, as pretty sore to ask yon to carnr her fat lap-dog for her. M Onsver, who raves about the maaic j of the future, aad never says a word of sens# about the music of taw present Captain Bluuterham, who bellows o*l vour name when he meets yon in the street, and shakes yon by the hand till * he nearly wrings your fingers off. i Mr. Wbeeaer, who fancies that he ia , an invalid, and explain# to yon the symptoms of hit latest ailment Mr. Harduppe, who, upon the strength of old sehool-feHowahip, will 1 never miss a chance of borrowing five ' dollars ef yon. Mr. Borer, who even now discusses j the merit# of the Tiebborne ease. Messrs. bawboaee and Pilgnciic, who, 1 when they happen to meet at dinner, invariably talk shop together, aad take sway your appetite. Mr. Jeremiah Doldrum, who thinks he has a grievance against one at your beet friends, and takes yon by the button-hole in order to expWn it Baron Munchausen, Jr., who was i once eupturcd by Hie brigands, and j every time he sees yoa embellishes the incident Mr. end Mrs. Cadger, who, if yoa 1 invite them for a day or two, always : come provided with luggage for a fort night _ _ Later Inventions. Among my mors recent inventions f are: A printing press that seta its own , type, writes its own editorial* and stirs : up delinquent subscribers. I* answers verr well for a clothes' press, or a sub soil plow, or a threshing machine, and , is warranted to press the question, or ' to press fsrarsrd. A brick ship, to sail the mighty waters of the great Atlantic. It has a l grauite foundation, with a fine cellar, and agood well; with s free-stone-paved walk running in front of it at tlw rot#, of ten knot# a mile. A simplified pot-hook, which yoa can I unfold, and it makes a nice spring bun- j net for toot wife; and it is equally easy > to turn It into an overcoat, or you eon use it for a handkerchief or a standing collar. A compound toothpick, which will i pick anything oat of a hollow tooth 1 from a shoulder of meat to a toothache. . Ton uufold it and behold you have a step-ladder; give it another twist, and ' then you have a one-horse dray ; reverse j it, and yon have a cottage with three . rooms and an acre lot An umbrella, so antagonistic to water I that, if you should fell in the river with it, you would eome out perfectly dry. It ia altogether nnneeeesiury even to hold it over you in a storm. Fold it i up and it is a walking eaoe, press on a . spring and it is a coal Seattle ; tarn it inside out and it is a plug hat; turn it > again and you have a pair of books. t Everybody gets dry who carries it Paper Car-Wheel*. 1 The numerous usee to which paper and paper-pulp are applied in the vari ous departments ef general industry, form one of the most interesting chap ters in the history of recent mechanical I and chemical progress. We have paper j doors and window-blinds, paper billiard- j balls, boats, and wash-basins, paper clothes and curtains, and, not the least important, as recent experiments hsve demonstrated, paper car-wheels. From an exchange we leant that a Connecticut railroad is about to make trial of these new wheels, which have been known to car-builders for some time, though their general introduction has been hindered by the expense. These wheels are msde by the following process: Sheets of common straw paper are forced into a compact mass by a pres sure of three hundred and fifty tons. The solid maas of paper thus formed is placed in a lathe and tamed perfectly round. After which, a huh is forced into a hole in the center, under a pressure of twenty-five tons. This paper wheel, or disk, is now forced, under a pressure of two hundred and fifty tons, into a steel tire, with a one-half inch bevel upon its inner circumference. Two circular iron plates are then bolted on I to the tire to keep the paper tilling in ' By this arrangement the steel | tire rests upon the paper only, and is ■ thus rendered more elastic, a quality of i great importance, as regards both the safety and comfort of travelers. j ' " —• Man's chief wisdom consists in being ! sensible of his folies. Imtching nmtkaeea in Nevada are band." Our eonntrr. it la said, has bad but one black eysd President. That waa Qeneral Harrison. Michigan never brags much about It, bat dBfWW UMiifia "her prison under life seqteuibea.' T: _ _ Tliev irniMMftayirt Win C" nit ed States tteuatorshJp up a* pobtta auction in the Kansas legislature ia the fatal*. True liberty consists ia the fririkge of enjoying our own rights—not in the destruction of the rights of others. The auto who tried toaweateh hiatra with one of his wife's smites, has " fall en beck on sugar." ft Baltimere nnpli lif tbsircourting ,0 ad,-ccu sails, aA wera engagod be fore seeing each other. The man who ate bis dinner with tha fork of i* river has sprained. bis foot white attempting to apTionUin tosi Prayer wa* oflbred hi behalf of the , Washington ai ■ iiirau rr in the First CorariNrittoiial C'uureh of that city the other day. , 'f The mot baallfo! gilt traater heard of was the young lady who blushed , wbeh die was asked it she had not beeo . , courting sleep. [ It win never pay to start business in } the belief that.-ratybodv will know who > yoa ore and whtotonaeli, without being advertised thereof. ♦ We're in e pickle now," esid s man ;in e crowd. I'A regular jam," said } auotlier. • Heaven prseerre ge I" ex , claimed an old lady. The refund maiden of the period, dremed te the faabtonable low-necked party drees, look* like an oyster on the Ull-shell-pale, puJpy sbd peaceful. I The Hawaiian UastMe says thai strong efforts are being mad* to revive the j project of the radbrority treaty between ! the Sandwich Uknd* and the United States. An attack of toothache delayed a Green Bey (Wto.)umtoling Muse hours. jumping around crying. | Advises from Ariaana State that Lieut. Miohler. of the Fifth iteratev, fought the Apaches at Touto Creek, killing seventeen warriors One soldier, nameS t George Html—i, urn* hilled. A reduetomm the public debt of the i United State# to the extent of five end a quarter millions of dollars is the principal feature in the Treasury state ment lot the month of February The Council of the Nevada Legisla tors has passed S lull to remove the capital fiura TOOK* to Ftramix, but it waa thought tt would be defeated in tha j landlord Las offered to abandon dm sole of liquor if his towns j men will psy hraia pear, thus as ennting part of his torn. The towna -1 people refoue, and threaten litn with oroH*wution if he eoututuea the traffic. The Massachnsette Legislature is pe titioned to appoint s board of eosupe ' tent aeefcagtcal eaglnaerc sad arien i tike men to devise eome sheep aad ef feetirs plan lot ewelrunUing fire end , water prauf Amws tor meatsmrile butid- A farmer nop in lUisom, who thir teen years ago sold a load of potrioea in Main, sad by short measure made twentv-five bushdtoout nf fuuto-four, has just seat his old customer fI.SO, to :: return the diahommt gain, 'Pith internet st ten per esnt This touching tribute to the late Mr. Grafton, of Grdfct, Oi.. ia from the Htaitter ol that piaoe: f'Hewaesfine man in all erapacte; he wea owing us seven doHsrs on that lastgAnteof seven op: but we win tbaow that in toward I Ifcif ittfMMj'EVirT fii M 1 Bslnmor. councumsm ineiated that . the city to placed betmslhSmrae periasmers, than ruling In tfes ouw, beeanse eSmatimea t sesidante aeaur as.them. - ;a . The farmers and milkmen of South Orange have L. 1J a puhbemeatang in answer to the chawee made against them of edUmg themstkuhdmeseed cat tle. They dray the cbaigee, snd sap there were lees than a dcxen cases in the <mtis Uieeetiqi aad that all the rr _.L. oare killed wd tmraed. I A denhet not a thousand miles from Bristol, Conn., was recently extracting s tooth from a young man under them fiuenee of laughing gnu, when he (the ysung man) suddenly breams uneon ma wna nt" nwm wwi the dentlel calling St Mm top of hie ! voice, "Stop him, he is full of gaeT Feeling is s much alower sense than f right If a man had an arm long t enough to reach the sun, sod were to touch that body with the Up of his finger, Imp wouKf new find pr.t whether it were hbt or odd, as he would be dead before the aenastom arrived at head auartera, which would requir* one hun dred years. Up to January, 1871, the New York Central Park has eeet the esty twelve , aad a half million dollars; hat since the park waa commenced, the taxable propertv in three words n the imme diate neighborhood of the park has in crsaaed iu valuation from twenty-six : million to nearly one hundred and eigfaty-eix million dollars. A minister hi Wilton, hewing hurried j a young fellow, was asked whet was hie price. The pastor said that the law gavw him SB. •'Well,*' said the hridgrtwm, "if the law gives yoa *2, there is fifty cents, no that now you hare two dollars and a half," and before that parson I could shut hi* eyas the married pair were off en their honeymoon. -U UL.JJHBI T Rkh leu tor the Senate. Commenting on the prevailing opin ! ion that only rich men can get into the United State* Senate, nowaday*. Hot San Frtutcitco Bulletin goes over the list of M wealthy" Senators : i It has come to this that, as elections i are now managed in a large number of ' the States, the candidate must either I have wealth or he most be the friend of some powerful corporation. No mat ter how much ability one may have or : how superior he may he in all that I would make a good legislator, there I small chance lor him without money. If he is poor and honest, there ia leas ' hope for nim. The Senate ia filling np ! with inferior men, who, having readied offio# corruptly, will theseoitee legislate corruptly. If they were the tools ct 1 corporations before election, they will be nothing lees afterward. The ih<d v is with tha people, just where the evil hu originated. If they are willing to perpetuate this reign of fraud, then t these is bo hope ef reform. The worst men in the community will have a far j better chance of going to the Senate i than toe best The roomX exposures of bribery will not mend matter®. Nor can any reform touching the purity of elections be expected te originate in the Senate when so huge a number of that body are more or less tainted by election trfeks. The popular anathemas go for nothing unieas in some way a re form can be initiated right down among the people. The Bastes Feeteffiee. Washington correspondents sag that the Postmaster of Boston has received an appropriation of #300.000 for Uiecon trauation of the Postoffioe buildtog, as trifi as half a million of dollars for the additional aite. The Postmaster haa been criticised for too much attention to business not particularly connected with the interior management of the office he holds ; but theßoston Trim. \ script thinks if be sneeeedsiu erecting j a government edifice afte; sb magmfl ' cent plan contemplated, it will be at I eoee such mi ornament to the ntetropo l lie and present so mueh fa barrier to j the spread of another wmllagratipn in the business part of the City—should | the experieuee of last November ever be unfortunately repeated—that his present labors will redound greatly to 1 the advantage of toe oommunity.
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