The Singer. She rut* and fting* in tli* room below A lender balled of lore aud woe. Wedded to music ; tive and alow. And who WoaM dream that her heart ia K*J While *h* atngelh no *ad a lay— Beeaiug to ponr her aonl away ? Why not? She doeth bar heart no wrong; Life }oy-Udrn the whole day long Wall can afford to aorrow In eotig ! So keep her Beaveu! nor let her knew Other *ighing than than* that (low. Rhythmic, through ballads of IOTW and woe. Beautiful Ma;. Winter'e departing, angry end milieu ; After hi* footsteps conies a bright band Flowerets m numbers start from their elum bera May is awaking all over the land. IVep in the hollow* anew drift* are lying, lake early BOTTOM , melting away ; Warm ram is falling, wild buds are calling— Beeuuful *ptlug-time, beautiful May ! Oh. could 1 eee her come o'er the mountain. Under her eyelid* hanging Ui day ! Uirda would at tig sweeear only to ffreet her. Oirl of my heart'* love, aty beaunhU May ! Via VsM: JUDY. At dawn on a February morning, fifty yearn since. the lookout oil board the akiop-of-war Rosebud, engaged ia nv pnxaaing the alave traffic on the African coast, reivirksl a susjuoiotw sail about eight miles to leeward. CUas© U'ing made, tlie vessel vras quickly identided by the delighted pursuers as the Arrow, a noted slawr, whose capture had hitlver to prvivtxl impoavible ; her eaptaiu and mate, both Rngiiah, being men dis tinguished alike for skill and harvlihom.!, and ixtsst-asing a far more accurate knowitxlge of the coast than was fur niahtxl to those newly-arrival by the im perftxjt charts of that time. The chase hadixmuuencedaboat w^ven o'clock in the morning, and by thro© laud was rt-portevl, something less than twenty miles distant ; chat* five miles still to leeward, tmd apparently running straight for th© n'anet headland. As they apfxroached, the land roe© high, and.* shelving towanls th© shore, dispbyetl small hi am pa, marking itself as that kind of coast which generally terminates in rock*. The sloop-of-srar worked tiwar\ls the shore as far aa it was safe. The eaptain of the Arrow erideutiv knew the coast, and knew the little land-locked cove for which he was now making. Th© crew were all on deck. The first line of breakers was passed, and their courage rose aa they witnessed the ouol bearing of the captain. One*- only he betrayed emotion, turniag de-Uy pale, but without changing a muscle. It was when the sea caught the Arrow ou ber starboard quarter, and she threatauad to broach-to before the helmsniaa could stop her. But Jones was a good hand. He checked her at the critical moment, and kept her head right well in the cen ter. It was when this sea, which lifted the vessel and surged along with her, subsided, that the vessel, as she fell into the hollow, just touched th© ground. It wan but for a moment. The next nea lifted them clean off the passage, the helm was clapped hard a-*tarboard, th© point was rounded, and the anchor let go in what was, comparatively, a mill pond. Satis were furled. She was safe as in DoTer harbor. " What about the 'ebony!'" asked Rawley of his chief. "The aloop must see our mast above the rocks, ami may try the passage. In that case we're trapped." "bhell be lost to-night," replied the other, coolly. "She could never claw off iu this sea, and is too close in to es- cape. If she drifts to leeward only a mil© an hour, shell he hard and fast and battered to chips by midnight. Send a hand aloft, and let me know what the fellow's doing." Report was presently made that the sloop was off the point, some seven or eight miles, carrying & press of sail, yet apparently dropping shoreward. " Hahsaid the captain, rubbing his hand.*. " She's not to have the picking of the little Arrow this trip, anyhow ! Well, what about these nigger*. In these climate* the wind chops round in a second, and then we should have her boats in the core before See could land our ebony ! They will always keep the passage open—for, if it blows, 'tis their only chauce." " Well, air, they'll hav o more lock than often fails to such sharks, if they get in here said the mate. ••Well, land the beggars, an.l away with them to the rear of the hillock, where the old hut stands. KttaekL. them well, and laud half the bauds to watch them. Look after the crew yourself." "Shall I land them ail?" asked Rawley. "No, not aIL Leare Judy to re plied the other, glancing towards a corner of the deck where, throughout the recent perilous maneuver, something like a hnmau figure ha 1 lain crouched under a tarpaulin. The nnfortuuate slaves—a bandits 1 and seventeen in number—were quickly lauded, and goaded along to their des tined hiding place. Jndy, who remained on board the slaver, was now at the perfection of negress womanhood—sixteen. She was cheerful and intelligent; so quick, in deed, of apprehension, that in the short time she had been a captive, but dis tinguished by the captain's favor from her fellows in misfortune, she bad learned much English, and begun to read. Meanwhile, on board the Rosetrad things looked leas and less satisfactory. Despite all efibrin, she had neared the land considerably. The wind rather in creased than diminished, and Captain Henderson, though externally calm and confident as ew, began to feel serious alarm. * Again and again bad be strivoe to make out the narrow entrance and been compelled to claw off from the perilous spot. It was in one of these anxious searcbings that he discovered the Arrow's masthead—motionless, and evidently in security. Suddenly, there was elevated on a small hillock an English union-jack. WM this a tender of amisUnoe f Was it intended to direct them to the difficult entrance ? An anxious consultation fol lowed. At length the mainsail split and went to ribbons, and there being no alterna tive but to anchor, the necessary order was given. On sounding, they found but eighteen fathoms of water —muddy bottom— showing how ranch they had drifted in shore, but also affording some hope, as the anchors might now hold, thanks to the mud mingled with the sand. Allowing her to drift into twelve fathoms, the Rosebud's captain let go both bower anchors—one backed by the stream, the other by the kedge—at the same moment, and veered away a whole cable upon that, so that now he had five anchors down, each bearing a proper strain. "Does she drift?" asked Henderson every moment, in his accustomed steady voice, though an affirmative would have been his ship's death-warrant. " Not an inch, sir," was the invariable reply. Thus affairs remained for more than an hour. On shore, the captain and mate of the slaver had been carefully watching their imperiled pursuer. The suspicion started on board the latter had been correct. The flag had been so placed that, had the sloop used it as a guide, she must inevitably have been dashed upon the outer ledge of rocks. As the day shut in, the two worthies resolved to improve the snare. ' They obtained a oouple of lanterns from the brig, and hoisted them on the false bluff. This done, they returned on board, where the mate made a kind of official report relati re to the slaves. Day dawned. The gale had moder ated. The Rosebud was safe. She had V I I KIX K I HTZ, I'Mitor utnl 1 Vopriotor. VOL. V 111. held ou well, aiul though ah© liad dragged I a little, Liiil still tan fathom* of water. About muni, a slight lUv of wind com ing off Uiit Uiul, IM iiuitautljr weighed, ' and got under canvas. The slaver's IN-ople eyed this operation ' with intense delight, and the captain and mate h.-ul a littlo carouse of con gratulation. At l*t it occurml to the wary skipper to see what the aloup was j doiug, and a hand was ariit aloft. The report was startling. •• How to, air. Boats just entering • th© core. Raw lev looked at hi* chief. " Condemned, air. Judy " wan all ha i mid. i "No tiuio to laud bar I" " luijNwsible." ' Th© captain's taiuied visage flu-died, 1 and thou grow sheet white. Ill* mat* pointed significantly in tli© direction of tlx* coming boats. •'Here, Rawley," aaid tli© other, pub ting hut liatul ou his shoulder, and wdiia isoiag in lu* oar, " Bequick. Yen un derstand. IXJWU, ever)* mau or jron, fore and aft," he continued, " aud scrub out Uw hold a* quickly aa poosildo," The hand* disappeared, aud the unite, who had jumped below also, returned, . , leading J udv. " ihsar a hand, my lad, or we're done for!" Those below heard one loud shriek, j 1 sounding above all the uoiaw they made, < 1 and skipped appalled. But tie 1 mate's j voice was heard, talking cheerfully: •' I'll give them work enough ! They' | shan't get the Arrow out without a job ! They si tall weigh every anchor them selves. And here goes another ; The as was heard to fall on tlie atop I per. and the larboard anchor dtvpjHxl I from the bows. I At this moment the Rosebud's boats ; rounded the point, and dashed along side. Mr. Hall had come in person. Too j i shrewd of olxaervatiou to be easily gulled, J he had observed, on eutering, that had they steered for the signal they must have been lost. This confirmed him in his opinion of the character of the v.tcwl pursued, even had die not alrea.lv l** n pretty well identified as the victorious Arrow. As the armed boats dashed np, the captain and mate were s-en quietly smoking ou deck, much at their ease. "What vessel is this t" dumand<-d Hall, as he jumped on deck. " The Arrow, of Liverpool." " Where from last f" " Sierra Leone." " Your cargo I" " Kmptin. ss," was the saucy replT. "Jump down there, men.'" said Hall, disdaining farther colloquy, " and ex amine the vessel thoroughly." Half a dozen weu obeyed. " How many men have yon on board?" asked Hall, now ad-.lreMnng the mate. "Six." " What are you doing here f" "Getting out of the way of the wind." "Then whither bound when we first sighted you I" " To Loango." "Working ' Tom Cox's traverse," eh f" said the other, ironically. "You were standing to W. N. W. with a fan wind. Is that the course for Loango ?" "I was working my own reckoning," put in the captain, "and perhaps I should have found my jmrt just as well without your assistance." " Show uie your papers." "Here." There was nothing in the papers in consistent with what had been stab d. The vessel was bound, apparently, for gold-dust; and, as far as observation went, there was nothing to justify her detention. The midshipmen reported, indeed, that the vessel, though empty, was not guiltless of that peculiar aroma that, to the nose of exjxTienco, denotes the recent presence of negro-*. And a shackle or two had been found; but, lx £oud this, there was nothing on txwrd > bear ent the suspicion tliat this notorious craft was still engaged in the inhuman traffic she had hitherto pursued. "Stay. How Mime yon to ntiek up that flag yesterday in th© wrong place ?" resumed Mr. Hall, sternly. "There, Mr. Rawley," ejaculated the slaver's captain, addressing his mate, with a sanctified look. "See what men get for doing a good turn. There were we, up half the night, straining our blessed eyes out, with ropes aud every thing ready, to render these people a-i sistance, and this is the reward—to be treated as slaves and pirates I" " That doesn't answer my question, J sir," said the officer. " Come, you must see the captain; and, as we can t part company with such kind and well-in- 1 tentioned folks, jnst weigh at once, and out with you, alongside the sloop." " Weigh for yourself," was the sullen reply, " I shan't go nut of this till bet ter weatlier. If you start my anchors, I hold you responsible for auythiug that may hspjieu to the vessel. Mind now, sir. I tell you, before you begin, not a man of mine shall render you the least assistance. The instant you touch my anchors I give up charge of the vessel, and hold you responsible to its owners. Note that down in the log, Mr. Rawley. Mark the exact time. And now, sir " (addressing Mr. Hall;, "begin assoon as you please." The officer hesitated—ho knew the danger of the passage. The wind was very light, the sea still running heavily on shore, and it was far from certain he coaid take the brig out in safety. In this dilemma, he dispatched one of his boats to the Rosebud, giving an account of what he had seen, and requesting further orders. In the meantime he got into the other boat, and examined the soundings of the cove. On the return of the boot sent to the sloop, the midshipman handed a card to Mr. Hall, who at once pulled liack to the slaver. "You will get under weigh, sir, and go out to the sloop. There are your orders. Aliout it, with no more palaver." " I shall do nothing of the kind," was the answer. "I am in n safe hartior, j and here I stay till my sails are repaired and my rigging set up. If yon choose to take charge of her, do so, but you got no help from me." " Very well. Then I relieve yon from ail responsibility. Board her, men. Some of you "get tlrnt topsail aloft, just as it is. The rest weigh anchors. Smartly now. Wind's drop e mate here interfered. "Why give yourself and us more trouble than is necessary ? You know very well we shall be back here in a couple of hoars." "Will you?" said Mr. Hall, doubt fully. "At all events, we'll take the chance. So why not slip the cables and buoy the ends I There'B nobody here to steal the wood." "All right. I'vo no objections to that. Go slip and bnoy, my lads." Giving this direction, while walking forward, Mr. Hall remarked that the larboard anchor, which lay in only three fathoms' water, was upside down. He therefore ordered his people to slip the starboard cable; and, as he came aft again, observed to the captain : "As you've so little cable out on the larboard anchor, we'll weigh that." "Why so?" asked the other, un easily. " Because, if the wind fails us, as seems likely, wo may have to anchor outside. How, bear a hand aloft there." | THE CENTRE REPORTER. Meanwhile the mat* had run forward, and was seen assisting busily to luiKplico the lower cable. " Belay that." cried Hall. " l?n --splioe tlie other, the atarbtiard cable, men !" The mate made an attempt to com plate the work, however, by attempting to alip the end through the hawse hole. But he was again frustrated, for some of the Rosebud* men bad stiffened the cable la-fore all, and brought to the messenger. By this time the Halls were loosed, and the mu. assembled at the capstan, began to heave around. The result must, I think, have been anticipated. Very few who Lav© ac quainted themselves witli the but too autlieiitic narratives of the laritiea practiced by slave captains at this period, will doubt the truth of thin. They need uot; for the circumstances, named excepted, are )>arfscUy accurate. When the anch<>r reached the bows it brought up with it, USIKHI to the shank, and gaggtal to stifle her cries, Uie corjaa of pt*w Judy ! 'rhis condemned the Arrow as a piixe., tSiieli, however, was the indignation of th© Koa>-biid's m.-u that it rejuiri-vl the energetic interferenee of Mr. Hall to pruUn-t the captain from oumuiarv vengeance. Unhappily L Rawk y, the ) ai-tive instrument in the murder, that I miscreant, hoping to eaoapo ahog- th.-r, j ltuqasl into the sloop's boat whieh lay alongside, with only the boat ke©:<*r re ■wnairiiug in it. Striking the latter ou the bead with some heavy instrument, and sending him into the water, tlie mate juuqied overboarxl and uuale for the shore. " Come lwek, you murdering acouu drel." shouted Hall, whose quick eye had caught the whole proceeding, rapid as it was. " Back, or we fin-!" He had seareely uttered the last word, when a shot frvim tlie bows, fired bv a sailor who liad mistaken the menace *ioi an order, atopjied the fugitive. Turn ing round he nee, OH by some convulsive movement, half aUivc the surface, tlx-a, with a wild toes of the arms, went to the bottom. i The stunned seaman having been tiuiekly pickevl UP and pawsxi on Ixxml, the boat proceeded in search of tlie mate's body, which, owing to a strong eddy, liad beeu carried some little dls Une© from the afxit at which he sank, it was at length descried tliroiigh the clear water, and, by ne-an* of the boat's miehor. with little ceremony hauled on bo ml, of course lifeleas. Tlie brig was condemned, and the valn.i of the prise was much augmented by the circumstance of her crew Ix-tray i iug th© hiding place of the alave cargo. These were spet-ilily reahip|x-d in the very vessel iu which they had been so roughly stowed, and in "due course re gained their home. An incident of the War. I Gen. Sk-rman, in his (icrsonal narra tive, refers to tlie fact that immediately after the first battle of Bull Run in subordination crept out among tlie troops of his command to ouch an ex tent that he ordered Ayer's lm. During this " insubordinatiou," an amusing incident occurred. The trooiM esjieinaliy referred to were OoL M-- q'iud"Si ltth New York infantry, lm preascd with the idea that their term of service was *ut, tliey expreased a de termination to go home. Fearful of difficultv, Sheruian ordered a section of Aran battery to Uke position at the right of Fort Coroonui, on an elevated sjiot, the 1-tth Iwing enctuiqied on a -unall plain below. Tlie guns of the lwttery l>w dim-tly njxm the camp, aud a few shell* exploded in the Fourteenth would have blown the regiment to pieces. The IKON of the 14th took tlie matter iu good liumor, and seeing the smoke *tack of a mill torn down near at liand, they mounted it on a pair of wagon wheals and organn-xl a battery of their owp. Running tti© improrisoil gnu to the very limit of tin- camp ground to which • the men were ronfineil, thev would halt, go through tlie manual of loading by detail, mid, at tlie command " fire, every man in the regiment would give rout go a prolonged " bxvo-m." This maneuver waa kj>t up, a new gun squad relieving an old one when tired, until the thing became such a farce that Sliermau, very much annoy ed, ordered the lieutenant and his sec tion back to }>ark. The lieutenant in charge of the guns, afterwards a distinguished general, was so annoyeil by tin- ltth lioys that it i was with difficulty he could ooutrol his temper. Some officer suggesteil that he fire a blank cartridge over the corps. "No." lie thundered, "if I iq>en fire on the fellows it will lie with shell, nnd I'll fir© low, too." There was no occa sion for firing, as tlie insubordination was soon settled. Who'll Cover That ? In one of the colored churches of Charleston the preacher adopted a novel way of raising the funeral exjienaes of n criminal sentenced to lie hanged. Htand ing amid his books aud pnlpit drapi-ry, with a hvmn-book in one hand uml • I five-dollar bill in the other, he invikxl contributors to the fund. Laying down his five-dollar bill oil the pulpit, he said: ; "Who'll oove.r tliatr'' ill© amount was soon revered by one of tlie CrawaaoH of the flock. Down went a two-dollar bill followed by the exclamation: "Who'll cover that?" The amount was covered, and so on he went until ho reached fifty cents. On laying down this piece of fractional currency, he said: I now come to the old ladies; surely one of them will cover that amount.' One of the elder sisters tottered up to the pal- j pit, and with an evident air of satisfac tion covered tlie fifty oenta with cur rency of the name denomination. " Now for the Sunday-school children." said the preacher, as he laid down a ten-cent bill. " How many of the lam lis will cover that i" and tlie original ten-cent bill was buried in a heap of similar bits of the nation's promises to pay. Ry this novel method a goodly amonnt was realized. Changed His Mind. The late Professor D. was, prior to his appointment to his chair, rector of an academy in Forfarshire. He was particu larly reserved in his intercourse with the fair sex, but in prospect of obtaining a professorship, lie ventured to make pro jKisals to a lady. They were walking to gether, and the important question was put without preliminary sentiments or notes of warning. Of course the lady replied a gentlo " No." The subject was immediately dropped, but the par ties soon met again. "Do you remember," at length said the lady, " a question yon pnt to me when we last met ?" The professor said be did remember. " And do you remember my answer, Mr. D ?" " Oh yes," said the professor. "Well, Mr. D.," proceeded the lady, " I have been led, on consideration, to change my rjiind." " And so have I," dryly responded the professor. He maintained his bachelor hood to the close. Beet root sugar can lie made in Cali fornia at seven cents a pound, including , every expense. CENTRE 11ALL, CENTRE CO., I'A., THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1875. Tin* Influence of School Life on Uie Vr tout lirlom the American Hin'iid Science Convention, Dr. luucola, of Boston, stated that the entire uatiou was lw liovxl to IK- suffering from certain * ide spread sources of uervuua degon<**cy. If a chtlil uiheritcd a susceptible const!- tutiuu from excitable parents ; if from its food ui infancy iron, lime, and the phosphates were mainly excluded ; if its diet ui maturer years WM very rich ami very unwholesome ; if it lived iu a cli mate exceedingly trying -at its beat kill ing the aged by executive oohl, ami tho young by excessive boat—if to these surrounding* were added an atuiusphere of constant emulation, impelling every imui, woman ami chihl to jier*oujd ambi ' tiun to get on in life ami Is-at the others, then the result of theme oouditioua would be to make it deviate from the at only AugloHai.m type of the pioneers aho founded tlua country. It was the Iwlief of the writer that beanie* the facts noted there was an appreciable ami increasing amount of nervous damage doue to clul dreu by their school life, though he ixiuld not pretend to give tlie statistics. That wan being done tit New York, I'hil adelplua and St. Lout*, but he aimed ■amply at allowing the phyaiolognvd lawn which governed the subject. He desired to QMOMintl that at present nervous harm (vaulted from school life, whereas it was possible to derive nervous banelU from the same t htnga. llere the doctor, iu illustration of theae principles, cited the principles and observations of some seventy physicians. Afterward he developed tlie thx>ry of nervous action, ami then cited tlie diseases which have liven grouped tinder the term " ueui a-thms" —debility, depression, dy*|-)t sia, sleeplessness, irritabilitv, hnalaehe, mom bleed, chorea or SI. Vitus' dance, neuralgia, hysteria, irritable spine, or spinal anamiia, ami menstrual anomalies. '1 he question before them, then, was to divert children fruiu those evils, and by a sounder system benefit tlieir nerves. This, lie thought, would be hcl{Hxl ui the first place by making every school provide for a reasonable amount of physical exercise. He tlien went to Uie oouaideraLiou of tlie question whether brain-work was unhealthy, which he an swered 1U tho negative, oil the ground that just as uinxcular lal>r iiirrr went on to My that lia|>pim-M was tin* I test materia tnrdira, and considered the causes of nnhappiness in children, laying down as a law that the true secret of liappines* was in alternate lalxir and rest. Consid eration of the Iml effects of tea ami ■ coffee, and at overheating school rooms, closed the diacourxe, which was heard with great at be. lion. I toiled tireen Corn. An amusing story is told of tlie late George IVabodr, the oelebrmUxi Aim ri iwii Imuker. It spj■ears that Mr. l'- liody had invited Utrtx> English gentle men to meet two American gentlemen at dinner, at his house iu Loudon, and hariug received as a gift U-u ears of freeu corn, determined to astouudi Ins Ingliah ami please his American guests, by having it served up in the well-known American at vie. Accordingly, at a projior time, plates of butter ami salt wore placed before each guest, and tho banker, with some think of tui air of mystery, announced that he Mas now about to treat his guests to a well-known and delicious American dish of food, cooked iu the American manner. It would be no nov elty to his American guests, but the F.uglisluu.au must watch how it was clis |sated of by them, and follow their ex ample and mauner of disponing of it. Then, at a signal, enters a stately butler Itearing a large covered dish which he deposited solemnly before Mr. Peslxxly; in a moment morn, in obedience to tlio banker's nod, he whisked off tlie cover, and there before Uie astonisluxl guests was displajed a pile of ten lioiled corn oolis ! • The banker gnxed for an instant in mul horror and dismay, and then found voice to demand an explanation, which was tlnnlly reached when the cook was summoned—■* fellow who had never lie fore seen an ear of Indian com iu his life—who replied that he had followed his master's directions to " strip off all the ontside before lioiling," which he liad done most faithfully, not only the tmsks, as was intended, but kernels also, no that the banker had only what is in America the mute evidence of the feast to indicate what were his good iu tent ions to liU guests. Shocking .Mode of Burial. A correnpondent wrib-s from Naples: Tlie Oempo Hanto Honchio, the grvit cliarnel house of Naples, contains three hundred and sixty-five pits under a wide paved square. Every evening the stone which covers one of those pits is re moval and the common (load of the city for the day are thrown iubi it, with out even a winding sheet to cover them. The old man, the young child, the rough lazzaroni and the tender maiden are I dropped together in one indiscriminate ' moss, quick lime in thrown in to con sume the liodies ami tho pit is scaled for another year, to lie opened at its cloae. We waited not to see the revolting scene, although the city carta were ar riving with the dead; but drove to the Gampo Santo Nnove, the cemetery for tlie aristocratic dead, and here f was surprised to find a burial ground laid out with such refined tuete, shaded with the cypress and other trees and adorned with tombs of the most e<>sUy descrip tion; many of them were in tlie form of cha|M>ls, Imilt of fine Italian marble elaborately finished. After what I hoard of the burial of the dead at Naples and after what I had seen at the Camjio Beechio, it was a relief to enter one that indicated so much refinement of feeling. Having the Hay. A Boston jrnper tells a story of Mr. Williiuns, the ancient pastor of Dudley, Mans., who was a practical Oliristian. One sultry aumiucr Sunday, says tho legend, the sound of distant thuuder heralded the approach of a shower. .Suddenly the preacher stopped, and {icering from sine hi Hide through the church windows, as if observing the tokens of a change in tho weather, he quietly said: '' Brethren, I observe that our Brother Crosby ia not prepared for the rain. I think it onr duty to help our Brother Crosby to get in his hay before the shower." With that ho descended from the pulpit, and with several of his hearers, proceeded to Mr. Crosby's lrny field, where they worked for half aii hour, or until the hay was housed. The staunch old clergyman then returned to the church and resumed his discourse. THE BLACK HORSE ( AVAI.ItV. ll.n •• Mirlklus " I, ( arrlrd en Is ■ Ultsls. I urr.•!*■> Ins llrat Hills. 11l all State Ix-gltlnt urea there ia a ring of members known OH the " black horae cavalry," or '• Btrikent," wlioae buaiueee it is to make legislation pay them per aotially. A cxrre|xjndeut of the New York It'oWt? has been inter ro wing cue of 111 eee ctriktrs, and frotu the cxiliveraa tiou th.it followed eoiue \cry inu Jt-Nting notes were takeu. The reporter aay: Tlii* man showed in© a full list of the block home twvalrv. To prove hia pre science be tuarkxf down on a yea and nay list of the two houses the probable Yoiea on two billa, "with money in thriu," which were to let considered next I lay. Th© accuracy of tiioa© lists proved amaaiug. Tlie striker went on to aay: " This is the wont vear tliat hanlxiru ever known. 1 don't I*Aleve any on© of 'em has made SSOR. And it's a disgraceful busuinaa, and it's a shame they can't get no mure money. Things are dryer than a desert —except the regular jaymeut*." " What do you uieau by the 'regular paymenta 'I" " Well (if you want to know all alxmt lobby iug) here's th© way it's dune: in tli© first place sum© of tli© big corpora tions know they're going to IN- struck. They make up their minds to that, just aa they do to any other thing. Ho they tlx the boy* in this way: they make a regular promise to ]*ay for the session giilO, fdOO and |6OO to uach rider in tlie cavalry, provided h© *upjorts all the bills iu their interest and 'goes for' all the bills against 'em. Tlie only trouble is, some of the coontrynien are uull. You rnav spend hour after boar with 'ecu, and drill 'em over night, and some of 'em am sure to go w rung next day. Thoy get so outifused you can't reckon ou 'em at aIL If eomelxidy get© up and makes a motion they're all at sea, and away goea their I file. It's enough to make a mau swear terribly sometimes to hear thea© fouls vote awnv tiicir Ixiard bills. " The minute the LpgialaUire aaaem blf-a tit© lubbvmoti gather. What do they ,1© l Weil, first they watch. They iuqum- about every niau ©lectad- who h© is, a hen he cornea front, hi* habit*, hia cliaracti-r, who h© runs with; in fact, they get him down to a fin© point. Then when the oimmitteca are mad© np they lock at them. There's their citancc. They fiud out whether they know any ou© ou a commit to*. If titey do they manage to know the r*wt of tit© corn untie© soon, or perhaps thry arrange it so a* to ' ©o© ' only that one man." " You aay the big oMrjx-ratiuu appoint their own ag<-nU to control th© Lr-gmia ture ?** " Aiwa vs." " Do tiie*© agent* attend to other out aid© job* I" " Very seldom. They m*y on©*- in a while go out of their way to help a friend iu the Ix-gudaltirc who lias duuc litem a good turn." " Then th© indepcndflnl lobbyriata ' hare to depeml montly on their wit* f" " Y*. Some of them who hat© the .Nmflilence of tnemlx-ra manage to get in with street railroad and inanranc© cmu- I pauio* and other ©jqxmtiuDi likelv to J It© -htruck.' or if tliev don't BIUXMNXI in , tiiia they devise billa ilirectlv against the ; intenwt* of tiirec wualtity coqiorationa and iutrxxluce th- ui through on© of th© ' lrs, and threaten tiiese coqxiratiou* with these bill* until tit© onqtoration* ' come down. Of course they don't i actually say to 'em: 'Gome down !' But i after tin- bill i* introduced and tit© cor i [innbi-u aeuda som© one to pretext ngai i*t it, they contrive iu variou* wars to 1 t tit© agcut aud the company under stand tliat for a pnci they can *<|ueleh this or that bill. Th© agent flud* out ! pretty soon that tie can't get the bill squelched in any other way; o in- ouu ! -nilts with hia employers and paya over I the ca*h." "To the lobbyiat?" " Ye*." "And what dtxw the lobby iat do witli it?" " Well, IN- puts oonniderablo of it in | hi* wallet and divide* the rest of it j among the boys." A TVmperance la-cturr. Judge Wtwtitrook, in aentenciiig Bat ting, at KiiigsUni, N'W York, t<> Sing Hing prison for life, for the murder of a man while intoxicntel, embraraxl the occaaion to deliver a very forcible lec ture njxm temperance. Judge W-*t brex>k naid : We know tiiatyon wen- not in aphysi cal or mental stut© to comprehend the crime. You were flnxl by tliat which I lu fired many a man before; your : brain wn* erased by that wliieh ha* ) crazed many a brain before; but can court*, in the prevention of crime, listen to an argument and n plna like that t If they diil or could, whoa© life would be safe or who*© property aecure ? We know the *afety i>f human society and human life require* tlmt you should IN punished, Ix-catise you voluntarily put yourself in that condition. You lx canie voluntarily drunk, and mimt take the cnnsi-quence* of tin- act which you did while U1 such a state. You are guilty of an awful crime, And yon are to-day receiving tiie judgment of tliia earthly tribunal; but rememlx-r you must answer to another which will judge with entire knowledge and in the sentence of which I there can lx> no pos sible mistake. You have time and *|iaet- I for reix-ntimo© ami to make your peatx aud obtain forgiven©©* before you stand in the presence of the august Judge who shall there- preside. Perliapa in saving what we have, our whole duty i* done, yet it aeeni* to n it i* a proper time ami prn|xir occasion to utter one word more. In there not a most eloquent appeal from tliat bleeding body of your un happy victim, and m hi* gaping wounds, in your unfortunate condition, and the condition of your family, against that traffic whieh haa brought yon to this Imr, separated you from your wife and > family, ami sent Tompkina into the . presence of hi* < lod ? 1 trust that this sin ami thin lemon will IN' remembered and, never forgotten. If any other ar gument ia needed against the use of ' intoxicating drink ami the traffic there in, you on thi* occasion furnish Hint ar gument, and it is written to-day, a* it ha* oft times been tx-fore, in tears, and in blood._ Still Insane. The Boston Traveller j* ay* : It may IN- authoriUdively stated tliat Mia* Kate •Sb whlord, supjK>ssl to be the murdertm of Gixxlricli, is iu an insane asylum, and that letti ra of receut date auuouuoe that th<-re is little prospect of her recovery. She has relatives ui Maftsnchum-tt* who are in communication with her keeper, and who liave given no hope that she may recover a healthy condition of mind. Tlie statement in the New Y'ork papers that alio ia mnixpienuliiig abont Brooklyn ia, therefore, erroneous. A Peat. At Eufatiln. Alabama, aa a prevention againat the bite of the buffalo gnat, the farmers are compelled to coat the eara, flanks aud other parts of their live stock with tur and grease, and also to keep fires burning in their stock lot* at night. The Mississippi buffalo gnat ia de scribed aa alxnit half tlie aize of a com mon house fly, nnd jet black. It haa a hump hook, or shoulder, Uko the buffalo, and hence its name. ALCOHOL'S REGAL ItIVAL. Menu's Mraeeal t kelra fer Iks Hlllls* *• MeekleS—Meatr Misrlllee feels. Another suicide ! In Ulia case, as in unui v of which no account ia taken by the uaily uews|*|>er, says til© New York Akn, the ]xiiau]j temporary, and tiie wretched victim almost invariably falls back into the old wars, and th© end is at last reached by either suicide or a total prostration of mind and body. " I am a strong mau,' said a physi ctan, "and have rejeruniary ©lubar nutxtneitbi, ilixagn-eminita, jtadousiea. Kcasuulisra, etc. Iu thea© case.- the drug ia resorted to to drown thought or pro mot*- excitement. Titer© ia no doubt tlinl opium ia too inuxvllaneoitaly proncrilxxl, perlia]>© to th© ©stent that if it did not exist th© human race would b© Ix-tter off. It ia a most useful titerapeutic agent, but of all the article* of tit© mafrria, mrtfira it re quire* th© mo*t intelligence and oar© in its uac. i'stieuta sttffmng with delirium tremens have been killed by it, and yet in tit© *arne diacaar, with pngx-r caution, it ia a moat beneficial remedial agent, lu gunshot wounds, in railroad aoci deuti, and in ©xooaaiv© hemorrhages, opium, if properly administered, ia a bixm to maiikiud; but if thrown into th© syatem injudiciously it ia most disaatroua ti> human life. Then the fibriaoal pruatration produced by tin UN© of opium render* its victim* liable tocuatagiou, unlre* titey are rem tuiually under the influence of the drug. The sudden diaoontimianre- of the tut© of the drug ha* a aomcwliat similar effect to that prexluced by a discontinuance of the exoewuv© use of alcoholic stimulant* in th© can© of confirmed drunkard*. It ia followed by a sort of mental collapse or great prostration of th© mental ©tier govt. Opium give* and takes sway. It defeat* the steady halut of ©xertioo, and ©real©* *|NMUU* of irregular exertion. It rums the natural power of life; it de velops preternatural jwroxysut* of iuter mitting power; it bring* on hypertrophy or eiihtrgement of the liver, habitual ©on*tipatiou, bronzed complexion, rigidi ty of *kiti, vacancy of expruN*ton, g-n --©ral hypertextlHNU*. and innomnia, or ulcrpk-Hussi; a morbid coudition of the stomach, rejecting many kiuihi of flrelly mreiioalman a* sim ple and easy of digestion; acute, shoot ing pains tliat are confined to no one part of tiie laxly; and unnatural seuxi livenosa to cold, frequent IN-rapirations in part* of th© body, and a chronic ten dency to impatience and irritability of temper, with paroxysm* of excitement wholly foreign to the natural dinjKtsition. Iu the long run it saps the vitality. It >ngend©T* sterility. Tlie offsj-nug, if there l>e any, is generally markrel by or ganic cerebral defects—imjaunsi intel lect and unoonxtit utioiud cachexia, or d© tenoratod vitality. The amount of opium imported into tiie United States in 1874 was alxiut two hundred tons, and it is estimated that twenty-one hundredth* of tli© opium sold by retailers would cover all the prescrip tion* of phyaiciau* proper, and five per cent, excepted from tli© entire a* an extra allowance for the .various nostrum* afloat would be liberal and abundant. This is from a eompariaou of opinions enter tained by many aixitlusoarie* of New York city, and to these estimates the experienced l)r. Carnooluui alla the opinion that while th© therapeutic value of opium has suffered no abatement in the (wtimation of the profession, the total of prescription* is proportionately lea* tliau it wan twenty years ago. A ('*.*© of Premature Interment. A cm> of protmbhr premature inter ment is thus recorded in the London Jrwieh W'orlii. It occurred at Wilna: A Jew nth young woman, agrel twenty five, was pronounced by two Jewish doc tors to lie dead. The friends of tlie woman desired, for some reason bent known to themselves, the funeral to take place on the same day, and, having obtained the necessary certificate from the medical attendant* allowing tliat the Serson hail died, *lie wna removed to the ewisli mortuary. While washing the IxNly the women engaged in the opera tiuii discovered to their terror that it liad gradually assumed a life like apjx*nuiee, and their dismay rose to its height when it raised itself to a sitting mixture. The resuscitated woman lieggod those around not to bnry her alive. The doctors were called in, and at their aolicitettou she drank some medicine whieh tiiey offered to her. Ten minutes after she w* ngoin pronounced to bo dead, and pres ently sh© was buried. We do not know whether th© Jewish authorities at Wilna sanctioned this premature iuturmcnt. If they did tbev are deserving of severe censure. What aggravate* the natnre of the case is the fact that the hunltuid of the pixir creature wa* absent from home at tiio time of her alleged decease. A Fire. The St. Louis Globe man who writes nlKint fire* thus discourses of a coufla gration iu u millin u'.i u.q-: Tlie flames crowded through the door luul sturti-d in for fun. They trieu an ice-do©, and to a.hi a chapter on the foreign veaael* Uad were driven out to MM by inhospitable winds, I just a* they had almost sighted th© port* to which limy wore bound. It would, it is true, be very difficult to do jaetipe Jp, the mibjcct unices lite writiw happMca to liav© witnessed th© agony reach there; but he never once faltered in his duty until the Mendota was safsly anchored.' An hospital surgeon, well skilled in the treatment of Java fever, *w a.x>u on txwrd, and gave speedy re lief to tit© sufferer*. Mr. Adam*, like all true heroes, is very modest in de- ' scribing the }>art he took in bringing th© Mendota safefv to port, merely con cluding his narrative by characterizing th© voyage a* the "toughest" b© haa ever rustle. To add to its ac verity, it should be atated that during sixteen dsys tiie veas©l was within five hundred miles of N©w York, battiiug with west erly winds and seas that constantly threatened to make an end of her. Now, a* we have already aaid, the case of Mr. Adam* ia on© that commends itnelf very atronly to the notice of humane *o oietiea. But for his heroic conduct the Mendota might lisve lxxn lost, with ©very soul on Ixwrd. This fact should be spcedilv taken into conKiderntion, ao that when Mr. Adams, who, it is to be hoped, may soon have the cliief com mand of a ship, leave* on his ne.xt voy age be may carry with him a mark of public appreciation more substantial than newspaper article*. The Iron Kindness. The first half century of the United States, says a writer on iron, n* bat little progress in the manufacture iron, ami tlie total amouut produced in* 1810 in estimated at only M,OOO tone, which i* not eqnal to the present animal yield of four or fire of our modern blast furnace*. Doling thia period charcoal waa the only fuel employed, and the first great step in our iron manufacture was the u*e of anthracite. Attempts were I made to employ a mixture of thia fnel | with charcoal at Manch Chunk, I'enn svlvnnia, in 1820, and at Kingston, Mas sachuactts, with tlie anthracite of Rhode Inland, in 1827, lmt the way to the solu tion of the problem was finally prepared by the introduction of tlie hot blast in 1&31, and in 18S8 a patent was granted in the United Btat* for the mudting of iron with anthracite by the aid of a blast of heated air. The first successful at tempt to use anthracite alone in thi* country see mi to lure been in IRW, near i Manch Chunk, with a furnace twenty - one and a half feet high, producing two tons of iron daily, i rom thia the in dustry spread, and in there were six furnaoae employing this fuel, and making each from thirty to fifty tons weekly of pig inm. To-day our anthra cite furnaces are many of them sixty and even eighty feet in height, producing from 250 to 300 tons of iron in a week. Of 680 furnaces in tlie Uuited States in 1873, 226 consumed anthracite, and pro dnoed nearly one-half of all the pig iron made. The history of the growth of the iron manufacture in the United States within the last flftv years exhibits a remarkable progress. From a production of 54,000 , tons in 1810, it had l>eoome 105,000 tons iu 1830, 347,000 to us in 1840, and 500,-: UOO tons iu 1850, as near as can be esti mated. In 1860, it had reached 919,870; in 1870, 1,856,000; and in 1872, 2,880,- j 070 tons; while the diminished produo- j tion of 1873, 2,695,434 tons, shows al ready the effect of the depression under which the iron interest of the country still suffers. Of the production of 1873, very nearly one-half was made in Penn sylvania, and not loss than 1,249,678 tons with anthracite, while the total amount of oliarcoal-made pig-iron was only 524,- 127 tons, to which is to be added 50,000 , tons of malleable iron made by the direct process in bloomaries. The importation j of foreign iron and steel for 1872 was, 795,655 tons; for 1873, 871,164 tons; and for 1874, less than 200,000 tons. From the figures for 1872 and 1873 we may conclude that the consumption in the United States was then equal to about 3,500,000 tons of iron yearly. NO. 2,3. y -—1- -■ - ■ h J The llopefalam* of Ike ( oaauaiptJr* • In diaoMMi of the lung* the condition of depreariun is rarely present, ad wh#*n so prowut i possibly due to some sb domiualoomplnation; though, of ominw, | some of the existing depression msy be fsiriv attributed to Uw anxiety Uatundiy i arista* from an intelligent CDtapreben aicst of the danger impending. In tuber I j euluais of the long there is Mommily I j suoh an emotional attitude in lbs patient j as has mnmd for itself the ibwigmttton of ■tKMfpbthisica. Here the hnfiuMU is as mattoual as is the depression of nome other sffecrioua The oonsumptivr pa triut, just dropping into the grave, will , indulge in plana -4retching fax into the future, ignoring his real coudifcuo and the inqMisKibiiity of any nch sarrivsl as i' be is eaieulsling upon. It to a curious i yri a familiar rile. Hope seems to rise above ik mtsUigeim, just as ip aerteui ;#hA)mUl diseases tln-re ia a iWvr,*wron which defies its correction*. The fa tHllect to not equal to finding Urn true bearing or omvwctiiig the exaltod emo tional center*. In curious relation to these ounditione stand well knows differ micas of the pulse. I n chret diereeeH the pulse to usually full, sometime* bound tag; in abdominal diaeasM II ia small and often thready. The pulse of MM mouis and the pulse of pentesnUe are distinctly drisimilar aiid n bill, t A Philadelphiaraw fadtag* to fifty three sseret ao-icta*. and is conmx]n*jit lj in prtjooaakia roost, of bin time. Th* Turner's Fall* Rrtmrlrr has fallen in with a tramp whoaoid bin Rothes were like Niobe—H teen, r 'J the shadow* found ia cmr | paUJr of life ia* made by "tending in •stir own light. In some of the French eMm the pwr maa wham house gets afire ha* to nay - the exp©ua of the wgti>'. coming t. < . .- , Tlie Han Francisco directory inat is .ned estimate* th<- ropnla'ion at 390,000. „ , The JiuUelin is willing to Wlieve it 80,- 000 lea*. • Artificial butter making has never D proved a soooaaa. liea in „ f putting in the hairs ao they look natural The Roeiwate* (H. ¥.) Democrat pro e poena to dale the origin of the Geoaaaa y Fails mm hundred jean fwck, and have i a ornteiitiial. Good flaanctern**: Santo Domingo y government rod x< d $250,000 out at t gi,700,000 obligation* negotiated in the i English market. . c lamdkßda, m a rale, have no objeotkm '* to I mm honaea to military men. but i thay do oluact to a " !e£| tenant" who jj baa not paid his rent. *, A confectioner who twelve mouths # ago taught bis parrot to ay " Prtfity „ . creature "* to WT lady who entered baa I afaup ia now a million SM*. . . a The Toledo JSfcft say*: T. T. stands a on the figged edge of tn enormona K * afcyaa. Terrapin Toeer, we mean.whicfi a | has been rei.mli at Niagara Fail*. I Ia noma parks of Louisiana whan n : gul nets tile marriage day, aha oounta "■ up her ague day* so as to have the a ' marriage oom<- on the off day. [| Nowadays whenever any one tells a ram which baa the appearance at l * ' " stveteh " about it, tba listener aimply * inquires : " Where's yonr hatchet!" Gcmlorttaf; isn't it, to ba told now, h that if Uaasa had only beau telegraphic nrmmnninarion with the mainland, all * ,on board the Hotel Ur might have been [. saved t a The Milwaukee Smtmet aays it ia all a right lor Lotto to giv* a fountain to Han a Fraoctaeo, but it woold ba more aatwtoc e ton to the world if abe gave her agent 1 a clean shirt, •j "Why do you nae paint!" aafcod • violinist of his daughter. "For the * same reaada that you nae main, papa." •t ** How ia that f " Why, to Lop me vIJ m y brum." 1 |.. Said tba German acholar Niebubr. ' A bad handwriting ought never to be ■ | forgiven; indeed, sending a badly-written letter to a fellow creature ia as impudent r an act as I know of. s A ebeeae fiartory at Maaomanie, Wis., I WM opened with a dance the other eve ; rang Thi*, doubtlcm, waa to give no , ties that the dripper business was to be |) outride at the cheese. J; "Every lave ia subject toe disease," - j said e apealu* in a fruit-growers' eonvea • I torn. "What ailment can yon find on - ao oak f" asked the chairman. "J-oor*," i WM the triumphant reply. ' It baa been diaoovered that the Hew k England tady who spelled KX hundred and fifty vwh out of the word " oon j gregattouattat." has never learned to make a loaf of bread oat of flour, yeast, r j and water. : s A gun factory in Upper Austria iu 360,000 rifles fe* Germany. It t, has delivered 180,000, and baa rtxmved a farther order for 75,000. A Vienna firm i' ia reported to be executing a German or :j der Uit 30,000,000 cartridges. ' The Duke at Argyle'a new deer forest is about afar miles round, baa just been finished, and acme two hundred deer ' s were driven into it lately. The fearing '! ia compoeed of twelve wires, and is eight feet high, and ia quite deer-proof. One of the Hchiller crew waa arrested in ' Hoboken for being drunk a few days be , ' fore the vessel aaued. Recorder Bohn atodt sent him to jaii for five days His time expired the dav after *"hf Schiller sailed and he eaoaped the fate of hia com piuiioujfr. It is aaid that daring the thirieeu yearu that Oliver Chaiiick waa pxerident of the , * Long Island railroad he never drew any part of his salary, although it had been , i fined by the board at directors at SIO,OOO a year. This makes tllO.fiOß which hia estate will, of soune, call upon the oom txuiT to nav UP. The recent fire in Oahkoah, Wis., burned four hundred bouses, seventy stores, fifty manufacturing establish ment* tour hotels, four churches. About a,OOO people were burned out of bouse and home, and three hundred families are destitute. Over 2,000 are out of employment. Inspector {who notices a backward ness ia history)—Wbe signed Magna Chart*!