Faith. "Mid naked bough* the rehin rings! Tliat hnd* will break he i* so sure ; Boenre that flowers c -1 sit sweet 1 Tioga Will b!casom while the years en.luro. Though cold the wind, he ha* no doubt Of warmth and comfort on the way ; He knows that at', green hiade* will sprout. However late Uie frosts delay. He knows, by wonderful prevision. That summer soon will haunt the wiswl, And tiring the barren bough fruit ion. And to the empty neat He brood ! A Sketch. The sky i# blue and bright above. The ireee have donned their soft greeu dreaeee, And prattling out ite lazy love,' The river takes the sun's oareesee The air with swwet spring scents is rife. And pleasant with the talk of thrushes. And glad with a new sense of life The year toward its noon-day rushes. Within a eorner of the wood. Where the sun'a might come* something fainter. Am! dulled the voices of the ff,*od. There sit a lady and a painter. Inteut the scene's delight to trace. He deftly phes hie practiced dagera. With eyes that grow to* aid her face. And most on her his labor hug era. And while he works Uie day glides by, Until with pink the hillside flushes. And with a half regretful sigh. Thus speaking hd dings doan his brushes "The light that travels doan the stream. Or, pterciug through au opening slender. Falls through the leaves with fitful gleam This light my skill can catch and render. *' But, sweet, your eyea give out a light That, though 1 strive from morn till even, I never can reflect aright— -1 paint the earth, and not high Heaven." THE BOOST AFFAIR. Oae et Ike Meat Evtrssrillaarv Cases sf Clreanssiasilsl ItvMrsrr KeearU. On the morning of the 26th of No vember. 1819, I read in the Rutland (Vt.l Herald the following notice : " Murder ! Printers of newspapers throughout the United States are dCM red to publish that Stephen Room, of Man cheater, in Vermont, is sentenced to IKS executed for the murvier of Russell Col vin, who has been absent about seven years. Any person who can give nfor mation of said Colvin xuav save the life of tho innocent, by making inimidiate communication. Colviu is nbont five feet five inched high, light complexion, light hair, blue eves, and about forty veara old. Manchester, VL, November &6th. 1819." This communication wits copievl very generally by newspapers, and created a great deal of inter.-st. Before describ ing events that followed, let as go back to the year 1812 and to the little town of Manchester, Vermont. llaruey Boom, au old man, had two sons. Stephen and Jesse, and a daughter Sarah, wife of Russell Colvin, a half crazed, half-witted day laborer. They were a bad lot, poor, ignorant, and in doubtful repute for honesty. Two mis erable hovels served them for shelter, and a few acres of pine barrens consti tuted all their possessions. They raised a few potatoes and garden vegetables, and eked out a scanty livelihood by days' work for the neighboring farmers." In May, 1812, Colvin was at home. In June he was missing. At first this occasioned no remark. He was always a tramp*, absent from home sometimes for weeks together. But this time he did not come back. As weeks grew into months inquiries began to be made among the neighbors about the missing man. There are no tongues for gossip like those which wag in a village. One spoke to another. Excitement grew. Wonder, like a contagious rlisease, af- fected everybody. It was known that there had locg existed between the old man and boys a grudge again ->t Colvin ;it was in proof that the last time the missing man was seen he was at work with the Booms clearing stones from a field, and that a dispute was going on. and Louis Colvin, a boy, son of Buaael, had stated that his father had struck his uncle Stephen, and that he, the boy, I>-coming frightened, ran away. Again, a Mr. Baldwin had heard Stephen Boorn, in answer to the inquiry as to where Colvin was, say: " He's gone to h—ll, I hope!" "Is he dead, Stephen I" pursued Mr. Baldwin. "I tell yon again," replied the man, " that Colvin has gone where potatoes wont freeze." For seven years the wonder grew. Colvin*s ghost haunted every house in Bennington county. There was no known proof that the Bohrns were guilty, and yet everybody tielieved it. A button and jackknife were found, which Mrs, C. believed to have belonged to Rnssel; dreams, thrice repeated, were had by old women and kitchen girls— and ten thousand stories were in circula tion. Five years after Colvin was missed, Stephen Boorn removed to Denmark, N. T., while Jesse remained at home. After the former bad left, some bones were accidentally found in the decayed trunk of a tree near his house, and though all surgeons said to the contrary, it was universally believed that they were part of a human skeleton. Of course, then, they must be Colvin s bones. Jesse was arrested. Stephen was brought back from Denmark/ and both were held for examination. Although all the testimonywhen sifted was found to be worthless, yet the two brothers were remanded back to jail, and Jesse was worked upon to moke lum turn State's evidence. The jailor tormented him with suggestions, which his wife followed np with womanly adroitness. Neighbors helped. Beset with 'directions—told that there was no doubt in any one's mind bat that Stephen committed the murder—nrged to make a clean breast of it and thus save both his body and soul, what wan der that the man confessed, or was al leged to have confessed, that Btepbeu Boorn did murder Rnssel Colvin? On September 3, 1819, the grand jury faund a bill of indictment against Stephen and Jesse Boorn for the mur der of Russell Colvin. William Farns worth testified that Stephen confessed that he did it, and tliat Jesse helped him; that they hid the laxly in the bashes, then buried it, then dug it up and burn ed it, and then scraped together the few remains and hid them in a stump. Upon this unsupported evidence* the jury re turned a verdict of guilty against both Erisoners, and they were sentenced to e hung on January 28, 1820. Aud now the men came to their senses. They asserted their innocence. They said that they had confessed as their last hope. Some compassion be gan to be felt for them. They might, after all, be innocent. A petition for their pardon was presented to the Legis lature. But it only to obtain commutation of Jesse's sentence to im prisonment for life—no more. Stephen was to be hanged. Let the reader now torn to another chapter of this strange history. In April, 1813, there lived in Dover, Monmouth county, N. J., a Mr. James Polhamns. During that month a way farer, begging food, stopped at his door. Being handy, good-natured, quiet and obedient, homeless, and weak of intellect too, he was allowed to stay. He said that his name was Russell Col vin, and that he came from Manchester, Vt. Not far from Dover lies the little town of Shrewsbury, then a quiet ham let, now invaded by the cottages and villas of Long Branch pleosura-seekers. Here lived Taber Chad wick, brother-in law to Mr. Polhamns, and intimate with the family. Accidentally reading the New York Evening Pott, he met, not with the notioe of the Rutland Herald, FRED. KUJtTZ, F.ditor and Cropi-intor. TOE. VIIE lul with an mvount of tin* trial of the IWrw, Convinced that the Russell Colvin, alleged to hare l>e*u murdered, w the very man thou living with Mr. PxlhutU, ho WToto to tho Utemtty /W letter, which vu pnblhbwl ]>v comber 9, 1810. Upon the arrival of thi* p*a|ur at Man cheater it excited but little attention. Tho lot tor wai lelie*ed to t*e a forgery or a fraud. Had not tho boat }H*|>lO in tho town long believed tho Booms U> l>o guilty t llaa not ouo, j*erhap> both of thom, mailo full oonfmaion I Tho louce of tho murdered man, a button of his o**at, Ins jackkuife-—hail tlley not all been fouuii 1 Had not an upright judge math* aoletuu charge that tho evidence was conclusive, ami an intelligent jury found thom guiltv, and tlio ljogialaturo sanctioned tho findings I Thoro was no doubt of thoir guilt—none whatever; ami therefore m> benefit of a doubt hail Uvu given by jury, chief justice or court of apiM-a). Mr. Chad wick's loiter was, neverthe less, taken to Stephana cell ami read aloud. Tho uews wan ao ovorwhohuing that nature could scarcely survive tho shock. The psror follow dropped iu a fainting tit to tho tloor, and liad to bo re covered by dashes of ©old wator. Intelligence oamo next ilav from a Mr. Whelpley, formerly a real dent of Man chester, that Imhimself hail Iteen to New Jersey ami *en Kussoll Colvill. The members of the jury which had convict oil tho Booms, however, hesitated to ae "eept any thing short of tho man's pres ence, and Judge Chase, wln had sen tenced them, pointed to Stephen Bourn's confession. The third day came another letter. " I have Russell Cilvia with mo," wrote Mr. Whelpley. "I personally know Kumell Colvin," swore John Kemptou; "ho now stands before mo." "It is tho same Russell Oolrin who married Ann Boom, of Manchester, Vt.," made affidavit Mrs. Jones, of Brooklyn. But it would not answer. Pride of opinion is stubborn. Doubt of opinion tlios hard. However, Colvin, or Calvin's double, was on his way. As ho paused tlirough Poughkeepuie, tho streets wore thronged to see him. The news everywhere pre ceded him. His story was priutoti in every uewspttpver, and told at every tire side. At lluilson cannon were fired ; iu Albany he was shown to the crowd from a platform; and all alung the road to Troy tvuiiLs of music were playing ami banners were daunting, and cheers were given as Colvin passed by. Some men become famous from having l*en mur dered. Russell Colvin was famous be cause he was alive. Toward evoiiing of Friday," December 22, 1819, a double sleigh was driven fu riously down the main street of Man Chester to the tavern door. It contained Whelpley, Kemptou, Chad wick, and the bewildered Russell Colvin. Immediate ly a crowd of men, women and children gathered around, and as the sleigh un loaded its occupants and they took their places on the piazza, exhibiting the last man to view, "That's Russell Colvin, sure enough ! There's no doubt about it!" came from the lips of scores of gazers. He embraced his two childreu, asked after the Booms, and started for tho jail. The prison doors wore unbolted, and tho news was told to Stephen Booru. i "Colvin has come, Stephen," said the Rev. Lemuel Haynea. "Has hef" asked the prisoner. " Where is he ?" "Here I am, Stephen," said his brother-in-law. " What's them on your legs f" "Shackles!" replied Boorn. " What for?" " Because they sail! I murdered yon." " Yon never hurt me in your life," re plied Colvin. The sequel is aoon told. Stephen Boom was released from prison, as was Jesse also. Russell Colvin returned to New Jersey. Rut the judge who suf fured an innocent man to lie convicted of mnrder by the admission of extra judicial confessions—the members of the jury who deliberated but one hour tie fore agreeing npon a verdict of guilt upon evidence that should not hang a dog- the deacon ami raoinhi r* who urged confession and preached re pentance, and the ninety-seven inemliers of the Legislature, sitting as a court of appeals, who refused rehearing of evi dence—what became -ef them I He Never Saw. Two gent! men from New York, one of whom hail been in California for nearly a year, and the other just ar rived, were overheard in the following conversation at the Sutter House, Sacra meuto. The now-oomer was lamenting his condition, and especially two beauti ful daughters, who were just budding into womanhood—when lie asked the other if he had a family. " Yes, sir; I have a wife and six chil dren in New York—and I never saw one of them." After this the couple sat a few moments in silenoe, and then the interrogator again commenced: " Were you ever blind, sir ?" "No, sir." Another lapse of time. "Did I understand yon to say, sir, that you hail a wifo and six children liv ing in New York, and hail never soon one of them ?" " Yes, sir—l so stated it." Another and a long pause of si lence. Then the interrogator again in quired : "How can it be, sir, that yon never sawouoof them?" "Why," was the response, "one of them was born after I left." "Oh ! ah !" and a general laugh fol lowed. After that the first New Yorker was especially distinguished as the man who hod six children, and never saw one of them. The Two Men and the Bear. Two men hail to go through a great wood. One of them was short and stout, and one was tall and slim. "I cotild not run fast or climb well," said the short one; "if a foe, man or beast, came on rae, I should have to stand my ground." "Have no fear," said the slim man. "lean run fast and climb well; but still it is my rule to stand my ground— I would fight for you to the last. I fear no man or beast, not I. Hark ! what is that noise ?" "lam snre," said the short man, "that is the growl of a bear; I know there are bears in this wood." The l>ear was soon in sight. The tall man ran a short way and hid in a tree. The short man fell flat on his face on the ground and held his breath. The bear came to him, smelt him, and thought he was dead. So he left him, aud with a gryff growl or two went on his way. When the bear was out of sight the short man rose from the ground, and the tall mail came down from the tree. "What did the beast say to you, my friend ?" said the tall man to the short one. " I SAW him put his mouth close to your ear." "He told me," said the short man, "to put no trust in one who Drags in the way yon do, for those who boast so much are not brave!" One of the modest little fanning patches in Illinois is laid ont in 19,000 acres of corn, 2,500 acres of flax, 1,000 acres of oats, and enough grass to pro duce about eight thousand tons of hay. THE CENTRE REPORTER DISASTER* l> CHURCHES. •i Trrtlklr Hrr*r4 ml (TtUailllri •< Ihr I.KU l>w V ran Nn MrrJ l'ald la Waralaa*. The French Catholic churoh disas ter at ll"broke, Mass., bv which aisty six men, women, and children lost their lives, is not the llrat nppttlang disaster of the kind that Jiaa occurred. The warning* have lxtui many. On tho evening of the 2Hd of June, 187-1, while a strawlterry festival was in progress in ill the Central Baptist church of Syra cuse, N. I„ without any premonition Uie floor gave way, precipitating the people iuto the story Iwlow, The uum t>er iu the room was variously estimated at the time from three hundred to five hundred, and thirteen persona were killtal altogether ami one humlred and seven more or l*ss seriously injured. At a service held by Sjmrgeou in Surrey Gardens, London, a false alarm of danger was given, causing a ueodless rush, and over fifty persona lost tlieir live*. The terrible catastrophe at St. An drews's church, New York, on the 25th of February last, is still so fresit in the public mind that this new ami appalling disaster must have a powerful effect iu forcing public attention to the neceaaity of adopting proper precautious against such accidents. On the feast of the Immaculate Con ception, December 8, lSiwt, Sant lugo, the capital of the republic of Chili, was visited by the most terrible calamity that has ever been known in connection with a church. The Church of tho Jesuits, one of the most inagiiitlcent in South America, was crowded to suffoca tion. An eye w ituess thus describes the sviie : A few uiiuutes la-fore seven o'clock, and when the religious jwrformance was alnuit to commence, they were still lighting the last lights in the chancel when the portable gas iu the half moon of canvas and wood tliat formed the JK dcstal of a colossal image of the Virgin Mary Is-gun to burn one of tho extremi ties of the apparatus. Some one rushed on the rising tlamo and succeeded in suiotht ring it, but by a fatal rets>umlthe gas, compressed bv the effort, buret out with redoubled vigor at the other ex tremity of the false half moon. Imme diately a tierce tlame rushed up. The people who thronged the church tlew to ward Uie sacristy crying, " Water, wa ter!" while the women, who filled the nave, arose in tumultuous confusion, screaming for help. The fire spread with wonderful rapidity to the rtrtdo* of wood and hangings, and thence attracted by the current of air that always circu lates between the upiprer Uiarduig and the roof, rolled through the church. In a few moments all overhead was a mass of flames. In the mean time the men liad succeeded in escaping, for in this church the sexes were separated by au iron grating, and th^ women had fi.d as far as the middle of the church in a state of the most terrible confusion. But the headlong hurry, the fainting, the obstruction of the bell shajs-d drawees and th' frantic eagerness te gain the street, which, by a culpable imprudence, gave access to tlie fresh air only toward the open space in front and the small court on the west side of the church. That obstacle was the barrier of death. And now what appeared most horrible was tliat, seeing the salvation of lives within reach of our arms, it was impossi ble to save even one of the victims, piled one ujnm another on the very threshold. Hardly had the noble men, who devoted themselves to save lives at the peril of their own, seized by the anus or the clothes a prostrate form tlian the other women, mad with terror from the near neas of the fire, clutched the victim about to be saved, and, in some casee, dragged those w!io came t> help them into that fiery vortex. It was almost impossible to extricate even one from that heap of lies pairing wretches and to undo that ghastly knot. But the fire ac complished that which bullied man, and the passage into the doomed ehnreh was cleared ouly when that impenetrable phalanx of beautiful, precious life, was a handful of cinders. At midnight the smoking ruins of the fatal temple—so soon a silent cliarnel house were risible, and by the light of a lantern every step showed to the appalled gaze fearful groups of carbonized corpses, that preserved still the supplicating or despairing attitude of their frightful martvnlom. Three thousand women, comprising the beauty mid fashion of Santiago, wen- iu • the church, and 20,WW enmphene lights ■ illuminated the edifice. When the fin ■ occurred the scene was terrible. Women, ; seized in the embraces of the flames, were seen to undergo a transformation, : as though by an optical delusion; first, daxxlinglv bright, then black statueo, ; rigidly fixed in agony. The silence, • after the piercing screams were hushed in death, was horrible. It was the silenoe of the grave, unbroken but by i the bitter wail or fainting cry. Over 2,000 souls liad passed through that ordeal of fire to the judgment seat of God. Almost a Hoi)oke Disaster. The congregation of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Leonard, of Port Maurice, on the Ilushwick meadows, I Long Island, bail a very narrow escape from the ami and shocking fate that re cently overwhelmed the little Imnd of French Catholics at Holyoke, Mass. A solemn high mass was hningcclohrateil, and the rite of confirmation was also to bo administered to a large number of young persons of both sexes. In order :to give greater impvmsivenees to the services a full military band and a company of militia were present, as was also the sodality attached to the church. The interior of the euifico wax crowded to repletion, aud the ceremonies were 1 progressing in regular order, and the congregation were deeply impressed by the solemnity of the occasion, when sud denly, as the military were firing o/cti dujoir outside the building, an alarm of fire was raised. The celebrant, Rev. Father Miller, in turning around toward the altar, accidentally knocked over a lighted candle, and the flame iiistaiitann ously caught the light and inflammable trimmings of the wooden framework, which, in another moment, was in a bright blaze. Before any panic could ensue among the people, Father Ilnlx-r, the pastor of the church, with marked aud unwonted presence of mind ordered all of the windows anil doors to lwi im mediately closed, iu order, to prevent a draught. He then quietly turned to the blazing altar, and with the assistance of Father Miller and others speedily ex tinguished the flames. Very little damage was done by the fire, but, hail the pastor been less prompt in his move ments and orders to his congregation, n more deplorable accident than that of Holyoko might liave occurred. Captured. One morning lately three men ap prooehed Punts do Curias in a boat, and one of them asked in English if this was Cuba. The coast guard replied yes. The men then tried to put to sea again, bnt the guards leveled their rifles and 1 compelled the men to land and surren der. Two were found to be Russians, and one on American. It is suspected that they belonged to the crew of the British brig Mary Chilton, wliich was re cently discovered aground and aban- ; doned. The naval authorities are inves tigating the case. The prisoners under | examination have made contradictory j statements. 1 CENTRE 11A EE, CENTRE CO., FA., THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1875. AX AIIEH MO 111 blt'H FATE. I.Om Psna Is Otc Mlihla *llu *llll* Til. U.r Ml kw lilrlkal- % Hsu-IM-l.rtW '• Is. rrrl*lblr keertiip ir siraaj llnak. A month ago, say* the New York Ann, Harah Smith returned to her old home iu New Jersey from viatLuig one of her children in another SUtc. For many years she and her husband had lived tit tho little village of Franklin. They were jxxir, not even owning the cottage they dwelt in, but they so lived that they earned the reajiect of their humble neighbors. A year ago the hu*- Luid ilicd, leaving little or uo provision for tlie supjHirt of Ins widow, then sev eiitv three years of age; but she had sev eral children married iu different nartsof New York and New Jersey, and with them in turn she passed much of her time. A* often as he could, though, she came to visit the friend* who liad lawn her neighbor* while her hiuil>aml lived. She so came a month ago, and after a few day* her son-in-law, benja min ltobinsou, of Itaritaa, arrived oue Saturday to take her to hi* home. She started with him, and tlie two reached Newark, ami there Kohiuaoit went into a Haloou and got drunk. His fit-tile mother could do nothing to rest nun him, and shii, in the midst of a street row, he was arrested, and she was alone and IHunileaa. She Ixirrowed a little money rum tlie man who sold her sou the drink, and liegsu a wearv trudge back agaiu toward Franklin. Iter route Ink* easily tieen trtusnl, for she *ttip}M-d fre quently on the way to make inquiries, ami her *ad, old face impressed all to whom slie sjxike. At one time she was sitting by the roadside, when two young men approached her ami asked whether she needed help. •' Please raise me on my feet," *aid she, "for 1 am very weak, and tell me, if you ran, by which way 1 can reach Franklin." They aided her as they could, and she slowly tramped on. She was then only a mile from her home, but she lust the road soon and kept getting further away. Later she met a party of workmen returning from their work in Yautamw, aud they pointed out to her the spires of her distant village, and walked along by her side until their road* ported, and then giving her a word of cheer, they stood for a moment watching her as ahc wearily left tln-m. Her gray hair, louseued by the wind, straggled from under her hood. Her sliawl had fallen from oue shoulder, aud her short dress of daik siuff was covered with dust. One of tlie men offered his support for a bit of her journey, but she thanked him, saying that she had but a little distance to go ami she would not trouble him. Soon she became too weak to con tinue, and turning aside from the high way she jiaMxod a rude foot bridge over a narrow stream to a heavily-wooded island in Acquackttmmk. Then she climbed to the summit of a knoll a few rods away from the beaten path, ami folding her hood to make a pillow, straightening her dies*, ami covering herself with her shawl, alio turned h-r face so that she could see, scarcely a mile distant, the home toward which she had been journeying, ami lsid herself down to r-*t or to die. She did not move from the snot, and her friend* did not miss her, for those in Franklin thought ilie wan witli her daughb r iu lUntau, and her sou-in-law, Robinson, supposed she had safely returned to Franklin. On Sunday morning a tailor ing man strolling through the woods found her laxly. Immediately the coro ner and n jury was obtained, who found simply that "Sarah Sniitli died oitSstur day, May I, from cold and exposure. Her children gathered, ami quietly buried their mother, decorating her grave with flowers. Man's Enemies. There have lieen periods in tlic earth's history, nays the .Scientific Ameriean , in a chapter on bedtigua, when nothing on the globe wax of the slightest human utility; man couht not even exist. Again, still later, the earth, though in hahiteit by living being*, wan unlit for humanity, for the creatures which thou flourished would speedily have extermi nated it. Because, then, the human race now dwells and multiple** upon the globe, there is no reason to stipjame that ite enemies have utterly dumpjoaml, any mor* tliuu there is to warrant a like *up]>usition regarding thing* hostile to any other living creature. That the number of enemies of man i* constantly divreasing is true, and tliat some time they may altogether disappear is not without the bounds of imagination; but it nevertheh-ss is just as plausible to le --lieve that the great cave boars and other gigantic brutes which |*Hpled the earth at mau'a advent did not attack him a whit lew fiercely than rimrx does now. Iu fact, we have no doubt that aoine tropliHlyte in the recesses of his cavern, or lake dweller jierehed on his pile-sup* ported lacustrine habitation, has won dered of what earthly turn cave Ix-ars, and wolves, and hyenas, and gigantic saurians were, with as much fervor as anv modern individual has vexed his brain with the same thought after a night's eomlmt with the minute pests. "Clearly, then, the attempted detrac tion of ourselves by the bugs is only one link in the chain which pervade* all ani mated nature, and therefore it is with equal plausibility that it may lie asked: Of what use are we to the bedbug ? as of what use the bedbug is to us. We know nothing good of the bedbug; he lias never foun 1, so far us we can learn, but two defenders; one, an insane Englishman, who made a js t of him, and left, on dying, to his disgusted heirs, a room swarming nt every point; the other, a Haitian hospital at Surat, In dia, in which n ward was devoted entire ly to vermin, as other wards were to va rious kinds of animals. Forlies, in his "Oriental Memoirs," says: The over seers of the hospital frequently hired beggars from the streets, for n stipulated sum, to pass a night with the fl.y not yet five years old. It seems he was detected in spitting Oil his slate, and the teacher shut him up in n room, locking him in. When the ac.hool wo* dismissed for dinner he was forgot ten. The child's mother, a poor widow compelled to work in the mill to support a large family, missed the child, and on inquiry found him locked up and in a state of imbecility. He is still under the physician's care, with some hope of his ultimate recovery. The mother, of course, is obliged to give up work to watch over her child, and beyond an apology from the teacher there does not seem to be anything done by the com mittee or anybody else toward aiding her in her difficulty. PNKHENVED NR SNOW.— In an Immense mass of ice anil earth, detached from Mont Blanc through the melting of the snow, has just been found the corpse of an American actor, John Blackford, who three years ago made an attempt to as cend the mountain without guides, and did not reappear. The clothes and fea tures of tho unfortunate man were as on the day he was lost. THE HEATII OF ItlNllOl* FOLK. An ArrMMl Ifcxl IHSctx Irum tknl •( lira. NkwaM. An officer on (lon. Howard's staff at the time (-• iv< tin the following account of the dmth of lilalioji Folk : (Hi June 14th, General Ho ward and staff loft their h ndqu*rt -r* for the front, where Staulfv'a division of Howard's (Fourth) nor}* Ink) broken oauip and worn await ing tho order to attack Pino mountain. It wo* J unt after WflfilO. A nolo or two 1 in roar of tho advaiioo Howard mot Mhormait, but tho conversation botwoon thom I did not hear, an tho twp generals oouveraod nnido. Howard and staff joined Stanley ami hia staff on the road, and in full view of Pino mountain, and an wo drew roil, ami exelwnged greeting!* Staidey exclaimed: i '• Howard, do you aee that group up ■ there on the crest of the mountain I 1 wonder who they are I" Wo all brought our Held glosses to I war upon tho jxiint indicated and could plainly see tiireo jmraoua atauding in front of a lino of breaatwork* and a larger group in tho Iwwkgrouud. We could not toll whether they wore officer* or private*, but a* it was evident that ! they were watching our movements Staidey suggexted that a few aliote be tired to drive them undercover. How ard, who had suggested that jwrliaj)* Ihahop Polk wan in the party, made no objection*, when Stanley turned to (Jap tain Simouaon, hia chief of artillery, with the remark: " Stwonaun, can't yon tmlimber, put a allot into the group and give the bishop a morning salutatiuu f" " I'll try 1" wan Simonaou'a laconic reply. And away he galloped to the rear. A few minute* later a section of tlie Fifth Indiana lottery (Simouaon'■) wan unlimlx-red within twenty feet of U*. The lieutenant nigh ted the gun ami tlie allot exploded over and to the right of the group. Here my memory fail* me, but uiy impnvwuon i* that a second allot was sighted and tired by tin* lieu tenant with no I letter effect. ttimonsou, when the gnu had boon relusded, din mounted ami aaid : "Here, lieutenant, let me try it," He took the range and the inutiaenger of death sped on ita una aion. Our glasses were uont upon the group ami we observed a commotion a* the aiiot took efTVvt in the group tliat scattered to tlie rear. While Simouaon waa it|M>u In* knees aighting the gun for another diacliarge, (juptain Leonard, chief of Howard a aignal oorjis, aitimg on hia horae Iwaide me, r<*d the Con federate aignal r*xlc thai our officer* had interpreted at Lookout mountain, and caught the word*: "General Polk is killed!" With a look of amaaemetib Leonard turned to Howard and Stanley and exclaimed : •* Hiahop Polk is killed! " *' Wliat f" exclaimed Howard; " hare you interpreted tlie signal correctly f" *♦ Yea, general; Hinioiison's hud idiot killed him. They are aigualing it along the line." Tlie young men of the staff who were cracking juke* instantly c uatl, and for a moment none *j*ke. Then Howard said : " Well, a Christian has fallen. Such is war." . Just then Simon son caught tlie word*, "ftiabop Polk is kilhsl!" He was sighting the gun, and, lifting hi* eye*, that glared fearfully, ex claimed : " What i* that, Leonard I" "Hinliop Polk i* kilhsl! Your last shot diii it. Thev are signaling it over the mountain," 1 replied. Simonson's ln-ad dropjxsl nion the "vent," where it rested for a mouieuL Then, raising hi* eves, he exclaimed : " Thank God ' Yesterday they kilhsl my dear brother; 1 have killed a lieu tenant general and am avenged !" Without discharging the piece Simon *>n arose, remounted and joined the staff. Silently lie rejnurcd to hi* regu lar duties, ami, the hue being formed, we advanced slowly against the moun tain, every one of 11* feeling that we would have rejoiced hail some other than Louisiana* fighting bishop pone down before Simonsou"* tlrwt and ouly shot. The enemy was so demoralized I that he evacuated the mountain, ami half an hour afterward we stood upon tne sjKit where Polk fell and saw tlie ground stained with his blood. A day or two after p>or Simonsou, the only one of us who rejoiced at the bishop 1 * death, fell, shot on the skirmish line in Aek worth wood*. The World's Population. The United States bureau of statistics, getting its information from reliable sources, furnishes the following inter esting foots and figures on the above subject: The aggregate population of tho earth is 1,.191 ,f 132,000, Asia being the most populous section, ami containing 798,- 000,000 ; while Europe luui 300,500,000; Africa, 208,000,000; America, 84.500,- 000. and Australia and Polynesia, 4,500,- 000. In Eurp]** the leading nationa ore credited with the following mimlwra: Kinwia, 71,000,000 ; the German Em jure, 41,000,000; France, 30,000,000 ; Great Britain and Ireland, 32,000,000; Italy, nearlv 27,000,(100; Spain, lfi,50fl,000; and 'Turkey nearly 16,000.000. The other countries do not exorad over 5,000,000 each. In Asia, China, which is by far tho most populous nation of the earth, is credited with 425,000, (X*); Hindustan with 240,000,000; Japan, 33,- 000,000; the East India islands, 30,500,- 000 ; Burnish, Hiam and farther ludia, nearly 26,000.000 ; Turkev. 13,500,000 ; and Russia, 11,(100,000. The Australian population is given at 1,674,500, and the Polynesian islands at 2,703,500, New Guinea mid New Zealand la-ing include*! in the latter. In Africa the chief divi sions are West Soinlan and the Central Africa region, 30,000.000; South Africa, 20,250,000; the Gnla country and the region east of the White Nile, 15,000,- 000 ; Samauli, 8,000,000; Egypt. 8,500,- 000, and Morocco, 6,000,000. In America two-thirds of the jmpulntion an* north of the isthmus, when> the Cnihxl States has nearly 39,000,000 ; Mexico over 9,000,000, and the llritisli provinces -4.ooti.tMM>. The total popula tion of North America is given at 52,- (*>o,ooo, and of South America 25,500,- 000, of which Brnxil contains 10,000,000. The West Indies have over 1,000,000, and the Central American States not quite 3,000,000. Aooording to these tables Loudon, with 3,254,260 iubnhi tuut-s, is the most populous city in the world, whilst Philadelphia, 674,022 in habitant* (in 1870), is the eighteenth city in point of poiralation. The*e eighteen cities, in their order, are the following : London, 3,254,200; Hntelum (China), 2,000,000; Paris, 1,851,792; Peking, 1,300,000; Tschantechan fu, 1,000,000; Hangts-ta fu, 1,000,000; Hiangtan, 1,000,000; Siuigunn fu, 1,000,- 000; Canton, 1,000,000; New York, 942,292; Tientsin, 900,000 ; Vienna, 834,284 ; Berlin, 826,341 ; Haukau, 800,- (KKt; Tschiiitn-fn, 800,000; Calcutta, 794,645; Tokio Yeddo, 674,447; ami Philadelphia, 674,022. Of cities smaller than Philadelphia the leading ones are; St. Petersburg, 667,963; ltouibay, 644,- 405 ; Moscow, 611,970: Constantinople, 600,000; Glasgow, 594,536; Liverpool, 493,405, and Rio de Janeiro, 420,000. Advertising, to the trade, and plowing to the farmer, are similiar in their re sult*. The earth will yield somewhat of itself, just as goods will sell, but both will bo increased ten fold by careful cul ture. THE MOXEV-VALFK OF A MAN. Wkal n k a* a< lal Melears Skr llir l la[< .-A> lalrrtwilas |arllaa. A ctinous eeonouiitml queatioii, often diacnased, has arisen incidentally in the recent American H>x-ial Hcmuon (Jon grt-Ms, a* to tlie money-value of each in dividual hi society. Mr. Wells states, as the English experience, that the cost of bringing up a child in a public insti i tntiou, allowing nothing for education or amusement, will amount, without in terest, when he is fifteen years old, to fHOO, and at eighteen, allowing for in terest ami all ex|>euditurea, he repre sent* a capital value to the community of $1,500. This is the value of a person brought up in a public institution in England. In this country it must lie considerably greater. Jiut w hat ia the value of a pro ductive laborer I J>r. Kugcl estimated the cost of sup|xrtiug a laborer in Ger many at forty thuk-ra a year for the first five years of hia life, at fifty thaler* for the next five years, and at sixty from the eleventh to the sixteenth Tear, or say seven humired and fifty thaler* for tlie whole. It would lie reasonable to esti mate the exjwuse of bringing up an American farmer or lalxirer for the first fifteen years of hia life at one hundred • thaler* jx*r year, or a total of 1,500 tliolera- say about $l,lOO currency. An oilier statistician of eminence estimates the average money value of tlie foreign lalxirer as SBOO. The statisticians, however, the New York 7i"ws says, make one frequent : mistake in estimating the pecuniary value of a human being. Value docs not de I jx-u.l alone on tlie cost of production, I) it also on supply and drtuamL The cost of imxlucmg the best breeds of horses might lie uo greab-r titan that of raising poor breeds, and yet Urn demand might be so great that tlie value would ha proixirtionalely increased. There might also be, for instance, an ovorpro ductiou of sewing machines, or they might be of jxxir quality, so that the de mand would fall, am! their money-value to the community sink lielow the o >t of production. The same is true of all ar ticle* which belong to the capital of a .xiuutry. This principle applies atao to ! human being*. An idiot may cost as much to bring up as an intelligent boy, I bnt his money value to the community will depend ob the demand for his labgr. So with the wages or solar* of men in ! the profession*; these are measured not ! alone by the cost of their education, but by tlie demand for their services in the market. The capital value, then, of a J human being is always determined by two elements: cat of production and demand. Hut the service* of a male lalxirer are nearly always iu demand iu the United Klalos, so that his value, like tliat of gold and silver, will dejiend mainly upon the coat of production, which in undoubtedly near Uie estimate made ntHive of on- thousand or one thousand one hundred dollars. If this be compared with the money value of a wale slave iu former years in thin country, it will lie found to be little less, inasmuch as the jxnctuiiary value of atavca waa somewhat speculative, lioacd on the exjwvtation of profit from the best cotton lands. Tin-re is still another way of estimating the money-value of cacli lalxirer to the country. This must be the profit* from hi* lalxir after deducting the oust of his support. Now tlie average cost of each lalxirer to his employor, including wsgos and Ixsird, is about four hundred dollars jx*r annum. Hie onliaarr profit on common farm tabor is |owb|j from fiftc-n to eighteen ami three-fourth* jwr cent.; thin would have the gain to the country from sixty to seventy five dollars annually from each lalxirer. Thin, at six or seven fwr cent, interest, would represent just alxmt the value es timated aVxive for a male labon-r, or alxmt one thousand or eleven hundred dollars. l>r. Hill, iu bin paper on immigration, has touched upon the interesting con elusion we may derive trora taia estimate an to the money-valne of immigration. Thus, estimating tliat one-half of the immigration of lost year was of prtxluo tive laborers, it wonld make ail addition to our capital in 1874 of one hundred millions, a sum which spjiears in no statistical records of importation*. Mr. Wells in his paper makes a still more impressive use of this vaiuatiou. If a 1 poor boy has reached the age of fourteen, 1 neglected by the community, he repre sent* a capital of nearly one thousand dollar* which is unproductive; and if he iivei out the term of life for whicli he i ha* a prolwblc eliaroe in the life inaur anoe tables—forty years—as a psujxT or criminal, he entails a loas iqxin his Stale of five thousand dollar*. On the other hand, every youthful criminal made into an honest lx\v by our preventive institu tions of cliarity and reform is a clear saving of five thousand dollars to the community. It may be somewhat un pleasant to regard tlie human being simply as a money capital, but the as pect has its peculiar and impressive lea se us. Fun from Srrlbner's. Here are the heads of a sermon once preached bv a quaiut old minister on the text, "Adam, where art thou?" "Ist All men are somewhere. 2dly. Some men are where they ought not to lie. Hilly. If they don't take care, they will soon find themselves where they had rather not be." Tom Sheridan once told his father that when he got into Parliament he would uol pretend to greater virtue than he IMissessed, bet would at once write upon lis forehead "To Ite lot." "That won't do, " replied his father, "uulessyou add unfurnished." Meeting the author of a celebrated poem, after he hail been seriously injured by a railroad accident, a friend remark oil: "You did not find 'riding on the rail" as pleasant n* yiqj pictured it." "Oh. that wasn't riding on the rail, but riding off it. Don't you sec?" "What kind of a man is Squire Sim mons, any way?" "Well, you've seen thorn snow storms along early in the winter, when there's a good denl of wind but not much sleighing? That's the sort he is," Treatment of Children. A member of the British Parliameut lias recently called the attention of that government to the case of a child, seven years old, who hail lcen sent to priabii for stealing sugar plums. The home secretary did not deny the truth of the statement, but said, iu explanation of the extraordinary circumstance, that the father of tho child was an habitual drunkard; that anotaer child of the same family had died from starvation, caused by tfio father's ncghrt, and that this same child, - ve' ••—•eld, had previ ously I ►cell convicted ul bidding. and as it was too young to be sent to a rcforroa t >ry it was only sent to prison as au act of kindness to remove it from tho evil influences of the parent. The secretary further added that the atteutiou of the chaplain and schoolmaster had been directed to the cose. At the same time this is an extraordinary commentary ujMin the state of society in England that children of seven years ran only be res cued from tho evil treatment of a worth less father by 1 icing formally convicted of a crime and scut to prison. The advertiser who writes us to "pnph up" his business neglects to remit a phew phartliing* phor the phavor. Term*: 5'4.00 nYonr, in. Advance. The Ijul NliUm. lb hod lieen nick at our of th* hotels for three or four wi*>k, aud tlie ky* an th* road had dropped iu daily to see how lie got along, and to learn if they could render iiiiu any kindneas Tlie brukeuiau woa a gtsal lellow, and eun oud all encouraged hiin i|i tlie hope that h* would pull through. The doctor didn't regard tlie COM* aa < longeron*, but lb* other day the (aitieut Imgau unking, and it waa seen that lie could uot live the night out A dozen of hi* frienda sat iu th* room when night cam*, bat hk uiind wandered and he did not recog nize them. It waa near one of the depots, and, after the great trucks aud noisy drays hod ocaaed rolling by, the belk and th* nhort, sharp whistles of the yard engine* sounded painfully loud. i'he patient had been very quiet for half an hour, when he suddenly unclosed hk eyes and nhoated: " Kal a ma zoo !" One of the men brushed the hair back from the cold forehead, and th* brake man clotted hk eyes and was quiet for a time. Then the wind whirled around the depot and banged the blind* on the window of hk room, iu d he lifted hk hand and cried out: "Jack-aon ! Passengers going north by the Kogtnaw road change cars." 'The men understood, i'he brakeiuan thought he was coming east on the Michigan Central. The effort seemed to have greatly exhausted him, few be ky ike one dead for the next five minataa, and a watcher felt for hia puke to see if life had not gone out. A tug going down the river sounded her whistle loud and long, and the dying brakeman opened tea eyes and called out: "Ann Arbor!" He had been over tlie road a thousand umok but had made tea last trip. 1 irara waa drawing a spectral train over th* oUI track, ami he was brakeman, engineer and conductor. One of the yard engines uttered a shrill whistle of warning, as if the flora of the headlight had shown to the engi neer some stranger in peril, and to* brakeman called out: " Yp-lauty—clukige oars here for the Eel Etver road!" "He's coming in foet," wtespeml one of the men. " And the end of hk ' ran ' will be the end of tes life!" aaid a second. The dsmpn as of death began to col lect on the patient's forehead, and there was that ghastly look on the face which death always brings. The slamming of a door down the hall startled him again, and h* movt-d tes head and faintly called: "tirank Trunk junction - - passengers going east by the Grand Trunk change oara F" He woa ao quiet after that that all the men gathered around the bed, believing that he was dead. Hk eyes closed, and the brakeman lifted tea hand, moved hk head and whispered: " lie"— Not " Detroit," but death ! He diiwl with the half-uttered whkper on tea And th* headlight death's en gine shone full in hk face and covered it with such pallor as naught but death can bring.—fV(* Prem. The lokhioiubfe ( kild. There is unqueationably in infaney on intt-rferanci. with the natural instincts which k far too great for healthful growth. This, of course, from the oon dition of the subjects of it, who ore hardly mora thou vegetative Iw-ings, k cteetly phywoal. Conaider for a mo ment bow'artificial a thing a modern (why becomes under the hands of a fash lonsble mother ! Look at its manifold wrappings of tiuery, with involution* of lac>. and fine linen mora corn plicated than touae of a mummy! See how carefully it k handled and deposited lest a speck should soil or a touch derange the dress ed-up manikin! Notice how often it k introduced to company, not seldom even awakened out of sleep to be shown by mamma, eager for a compliment, to flat tering visitors with the ever ready "What a fine baby!" on thvir lips. What more unnatural usage could an infant lie subjected to than being thus oppressed with finery, deprived of ik liberty, disturbed of its repose, torment ed by strange hands, and infected, per haps* in the closeness of a kiss by re- j peoteil inspirations of tainted breath ? It is a cruelty to an infant to clothe it in any way by which its limbs are checked in the "freest movement, to which it k impelled by natural instinct. It should have the fiilleat liberty to turn and roll, creep or toddle, aa it may, without fear of disorder from exercise or dirt from floor. No superfluous swathing* of finery should be allowed to interfere with any of ik vagaries of motion. A baby should be left very much to ikelf and nature. The leas clothing it wears, and the lees this shackle* ik body and limba, the better. We need hardly insist upon ik being allowed to get all tlie sleep it will take, for a great deal of this, it k well known, is essential to ik health. It is equally obvious that ik natural in stinct seeks for pure air, mid not the atmosphere corrupted by human breath ing. Burning Iron. A Berlin experimenter has demon stratod the combustibility of iron in a peculiar manner. He takes a straight itar magnet of some power, and sprinkle* iron filings ou one of its pole*. The** filing* arrange themselvw in accordance with tlie line* of magnetic force; and however closely they may appear to he placed, of course no two of toe metallic filaments are parallel, and consequently, a certain amount of air k inelooed as in a metallic sjxmge. The flames of any ordinary spirit lamp or gns burner readily ignite* tlie finely divided iron, and it continue* to burn brilliantly for some time, the combustion hcinfit ap parently, as natural and easy as that of any ordinary sulistauee. If th* experi menter with this operation stands on a slight elevation and waves th* magnet to oud fro while burning, a magnificent rain of fire is said to lie produced. An Extraordinary Case. An lowa paper report* a remarkable case of transfusion of blood and the ex troorduiiuy consequence* that followed: ; A celebrated lawyer was " transfused," a noted stock-breeder furnishing the san guineous fountain. The cure was per ft>ot, but the attorney's ideas on Black stone and Durham liecame so confused that he wns eventually compelled to re tire from the practice of hk profession. In hk first case, after recovering, ho commenced to make a plea for hk client, accused of larceny, as follow*} "If it please the short horn oourt, my client k the victim of a thoroughbred conspiracy. Although of honorable parentage, he was arrested by this six distinct crosses of constable, and hurried into a foul dungeon charged with being a Devon shire thief." To Civil Life. An interesting event transpired at La Crosse, Wis., where fifty Winnebago Indians, having complied with the law ill abandoning their tribal relations and adopting the custom* of civilization, j made their appearance at the land office and proceeded to enter forty acres of land each under the homestead act. The land is located near the Black river i falls, Wis., and the Indians will at onoe | occupy their new possessions, where they will erect farmhouses, establish schools, and generally cast off the gene- j ric habits of their race. NO. 25. Where They Am A oorreopoudent of tlw Ctnritouoli ("timrnrrcial, in winning to the Tweed ring, mfn : Hw*ny k in Pan*. Ho live# with his family in • large house on the Chomp* Ely***, awl liv* in tyk- A uiodkte. who waa jmtroniaed by Aim city a few month* ago tliat the Bweenya were ready to par any rtrjcwa, ami never disputed any bilk. Mr*. Hweeuy had the Iwwt dream* that iKHM be made, and in the matter of laae, sb bought enough to get up a reepeetali| retail atom. " But I du*t think," aaid ahe, ** that they are nice people. Uy onem to r what you Americana aomaUmo* call ' off color but tliey have bit* of money." ''The people of New York think a great deal of Mr. Hweeny," replied the lady. "They think ao much of him that they would I* glad to nay but t penarw back to New York, and it wouldn't coot htm anything to live after be get* there. They would give him ajmrtmcut# in a palace at King King, on the Hudaon, and let him live there free for twenty yearn or ao." " Really, tlmt ia very atrange," tlte modiate roajmnded, " for one day I told Mm Bw>euy to give ma plenty of time before ahe went to New York, and I would make her mob a wardrobe as never waa. Bhe flushed up in the fane, and aaid they were not going hack to New York neither thia year nor the neat. And she wasn't very civil to me all the rest of her visit." Connolly k in Italy with tea family at iiraacnt He haa uaassd hk time turn* tea escape from New York in traveling about Europe, and never ramainiug long in one place. He pttk in the winter in Egypt, occupying a whole auite of rooms in the Grand Hotel at Cairo, and spend ing money at a rapid rate. In toe win ter of 18734 th* bilk of hia party wane not leas than fIOO a day, and hk son 1 (ought s Urge quantity of Egyptian an tiquttn which he intended to take to Park. The whokparty waa registered in the name of J. Towtmend Connolly ; that of "Hlippeey Dick," as be uend to It* called here, did not appear at aIL Connolly, to* older, appeared to be the wreck of a man, and poor wreck at that. Hour after hour he est oo the piazza of the hotel quite alone ; be made no ocquaintanoea, and whenever ad dressed tea answers were monosyllabic. He waa suffering from a nervous affec tion that caused his hand* to tremble like those of a confirmed victim of the poky. Tom Fields is in Belgium, and living in poverty. All to* m-r husband in on ex cited tone: "Why are all throe doors left openf" "I give it np I" instantly replied the lady. At a teacher*' institute in Ohio recent ly • tody teacher waa given the word " hosaritoua" to qpdl and define, and did it in this style: "II -a-x- has—o rd, ard—e double , cm hat,aniens, a fe male hazard." How's thiaf Bihd for having spoke m of an alderman aa "a jail bird," the Chicago 71roe* acta up the eariotia de fence that the nhrase is really eulogistic. I a d disUngnisheathe person named from a State priaon btrd! A gentleman odverttow Ida willingness to exchange a omrk tog few a revolver. This to the nearest approach to the old kw of retaliation we have seen for a longtime. It taut aa eye for aa eye but it's a tog for aa arm. Aa convincing proof that the grass hopper* read the papers, it to mentioned that they have this season entirely avoided a certain county which was mentioned loot year as raising the poor est quality of wheat in Kansas The purchase \rf flrf and .Vw by Seribaer k 00. makes the fourth maga zine devoured by ASnrfftncrX and m SL .VtcAota* took in five of the old ones, the Scriboer's will evidently soon con trol the magazine field of the country. She wae beautiful, but she had large feet, and when she warn just recovering from ulnves and mid, in response to an inquir, that ahe "could jn*t nut one foot before th* other," the spiteful friend responded: "And that to a great deaL" As a garbage cart wws dumped lately in toe suburbs of London a human bead rolled out of the mam. It wasfrwh and bleeding, and the mystery k from which one of the ash pan* emptied into the cart toot tnoming it come. To tost the quality of wool, take a look from tha sheep"# back, and place it on a measured into. If toe spirals count from thirty to thirty-throe in the space of an inch, it equals the finest Electoral or Saxony wool grown. The diminution of the number of fohk to the inch shows the inferiority. A paper in Eastern Oregon has thk generous announcement: Ail those who are in arrearage for toe paper, by calling and settling the same, can have toe uiarirn and brand* erf their hogs publish ed gratuitously ; otherwise they will bo placed upon the black list and their names publiahctL Aa adventurous little boy undertook to cress the path of a huge elephant which wm walking is a circus pooawiaa through Detroit the other day, when the animal aeiaed him in its trunk, held him long enough to frighten him well, and then act him down about three yard* from the starting point. Ex-Gov, R. C. Powers of Miiwiwsippi was foreman of the grand jury of Noxu bee county, and found an uniusual uum bor of true htUa for larceny. After the grand jury adjourned, the ex-Governor found that one of his brother jurors had relieved hina of his pocketbook contain ing seventy fire dollars. A Chicago jury being confined in a room without anything to eat or drink, the other day, lowered a string from a window and* palled up a bottle of whisky that somebody had reedy for them, and one of them got so drunk that he was unfit for duty. The judge fined nine of them five dollars each. The following appears in a will record ed in the surrogates office in Bingham ton, N. ¥.: A word of advice to my wife. I think you had bettor sell every thing you do not need for your own use, on a credit. Take good, reliable notes, to be paid when you want it Be care ful bow you trust blood relations; they are apt to be blood-suckers. A dashing Pacific slope scamp lias an out flit consisting of four M horses and gilded wagon. He drives into a place with a flourish, makes extensive arrangements for a mythical circus —usually calling it Van Amburgh's or Banmm's—borrows several hundred dollars on bogus cheeks signed by Ids imaginary employer, and rides away. James Fisk, father of the late James Fiak, Jr., and formerly known through the Hoosac and Connecticut valleys, in connection with his son, as a peddler of •. J&i to* a **