Two IJTM. Born—ha |nw to manhood fair. Weak —ha stray'd from mothar'a ara Mad—ha wad a woman low. Drunk—ha dealt a deadly blow. Hung—ha broke a mothar'a heart. Wrong—a'an from the eery atari Bom —na grew to manhood fair. Btrong—he pna'd a mothar'a rare Lore.! -he wad a maiden pure. Kind—ha belp'd the needy poor. Deed la mournd by every one Oood—oh. true and faithful aim ' lj Life. My life ia like tlia summer rose That opaoa to the mortuug aky, But are the ehadaa of the STemnjt close. !• aoaitareil on the ground to die ' Tat cm the rose's humble bail The sweetest daws of mgbt are abed. As if she wept the waate to see But none shall weep a tear for me 1 My life ia Uke the anbunn leaf That trembles in the macro's pale ray, Ira boM is frail -tu date ia brief. Resiles* and soon to pass sway ! Tat are that leaf shall fall and fails The parent tree will mourn its shads The winds buwatl the leafless tree. But none shall breathe a atgh for us My life la like the prints which feet Hare left on Tampa a deeert strand . Boon as the rising tide shall beat. All trace will vanish from the sand . Yet, aa if grieving to sfface All vaattge of the human racs On that lone shore lotnl m.rw, dying wail of the organ, at Synyw struck one or two ineffectual notes, and exhausted its last bnath. He came down aud joined me ; and as I was tiking np my book and lantern, previous to our departure, he suddenly cried : "Hollo! that tower hole is open. Just fancy looking down through there into the nave." 44 4 Yes,' said I; 4 1 daresay it wonld be very pretty ; in the meanwhile, I am going home, however.' 44 4 Ail right,' says Byrae*. 4 Lend me your lantern, and I'll bid yon good night.' 44 Why, what are you going to do f I sa d. 44 "Going up into the tower,' he re plied. 44 In vain I tried to dissuade him, using every argument to represent to him tho folly, the nselessness, the dan ger of such a proceeding. Good bn moredly, but obstinately, he threw aside my remonstrances ; and when at lat I found him resolved, I made up my mind reluctantly, and not'in the beet of h urn'-re, to accompany him on his fool's errand. Thauk rojritttr. VOLUME IX. mediately above the opening a etont rope was swinging, to which wax attach ed a btrge Look. 1 remembered I lust some rcjistrs had been going on for a low davs on the roof of the cathedral, and that 1 had seen one or two rolls of lead wound up through the hole ou tlio pre vious day. These thoughts were paaa tug through tuy mind, when Bvines, catching hold of the rope, jerked it to as.ertaia that it was fastened above, and leaned forward with but weight upou it, as lie looked downward with exclama tions of delight. ' Come up, air, and see; do I' he cried. ' It's worth all the trouble of a climb.' " 1 was just about to creep up, that I might share his gratideation, when a sudden whirring, grsiing sound of wheels above—a gasping exclamation—a scuffling snatch with his feet, at the edge of the hole, and, before 1 could move, 1 saw the poor fellow disappear rapidly through the opening, aa the rope unooUM itself with increasing velocity from the winch overhead. It flashed across me in a moment. The handle of the winch had boon imperfectly secured; the jerk sod the subsequent weight had overcome the resistance, and trusting I wholly to the row, be hail slipped from I his footing. The hope occurred to me that the evident resistance which still restrained the free revolutions of the winch might prevent the desci-ut being j so rapid as to endanger life or limb; so that he would posaiblv laud in safety with only a severe fright and shaking. These thoughts crowded pell-mell upon my mind at the first shock of surprise. But, eouoeive my horror, when, with a loud jar, the noise of the wheels ceased, and the row uo longer descended! " How I started ! He has let go, thought 1, and listened breathlessly, in sickening expectation of the crash w hicb I conceived must follow. But ail was still; and mechanically I crawled np to the edge of the hole sod leaned over, thinking to see his crushed body in a ghastly heap below me. j "No 1 About flve-aad-twenty feet down, vibrating in sheer Wpaoe, was sus pended my poor friend, at a height of at least fifty feet above the stone flooring of the nave. He was in the very midst of the stream of light that poured through the clerestory windows. In some way or another, he had relieved the strain upon his hands by getting his leg over the book at the end of the rope. I called to him to hold fast for a while, and to keep up his courage ; but I never shall forget his despairing eyes, nor the hoarse agonising whisper that replied: "' I can't hold on! I'm numbed. Loose the winch ! Be quick, for God's sake!' 1 44 Waiting for no farther suggestion, 1 rushed back again to the staircase, and 1 found in the darkness, alm.ist by intui tion, the steps which led still upward, and hastened to mount them. Once or twice, as I panted in the ascent, I re member that I came to the edge of a sheer depth, and drew back, scarcely conscious of the danger. I listened in tently for any sound from balow, but heard nothing ; and, at length, in what 1 mast lave been an incredibly short space of time, breathless and gasping, I emerged on the rough, uneven flooring of the higher story of the tower. Trem bling, I crept carefully forward to the oenter of the space, and found the winch standing over an opening eorresjiondiug to the one below. I eagerly looked down, and could just see that something was still suspended in the now partially obscured light. I shouted again and again words of encouragement and hoj>e; but there was no reply. With a sicken ing thrill I set to work to exxmiuethe i winch, and found, as 1 had supposed, that the handle had been entingl d in the coils of a rope, from which I had some difficulty, in the darkness, in extri cating it. But, onoe released, I allowed it to revolve slowly, uutil I felt there was no farther attain upon it Scarcely, however, had the assurance of Symes' security dawned upon me ns a possi bility, when a deadly fain tn ess crvj>t over me, and I think for a minute or two I lost consciousness. 44 How I succeeded in getting down without disaster through that perilous | labyrinth, I can form no idea, nor have i I any recollection. I remember tie voutly thanking God as I stepped out from the door of the transept on to the floor of the nave. 44 4 H-we I am, old fellow ! 4 I cried aloud to Symes, and sprang forward into the open space. < 44 There was no reply. My heart beat violently ! Could he have gone home, and left me there! The moonlteams had sloped further np the building, leaving the center aisle in deep gloom. Creep ing forward in vague terror, I almost stumbled over the body of my fri<-nd, apparently lifeless, but still clinging to the rope. With trembling haste I dis entangled his limbs, and drew him on to the mat txsride the verger's ls-nch. where I left him for a moment, while I rushed to fetch assistance. But oon oeive again my blank desjair, when I found the door, which shut with a , spring, locked, and the key—l couldn't tell where! I hail probably laid it down in fume forgetful moment, and 1 was locked in, with a man dying or dead uu der my charge. j 44 I shouted; I beat; I kicked upon the door, in the vain hope of lieing heard by some Rtray passenger; but there was no house within fifty yards, and I had heard the clock atnke ten some time be fore. Wild with desperation, I ran back to my inwiimate companion. By this time I had become so used to the ob scurity as to be able to discern that, while I had la-en away, he had lifted his arm on to the bench, although there was still no further sign of oonsriousness. \ Such moments, my dear fellow, make one religions, if nothing else does. I do not know whether yon have ever ex perienced the wave of relief that suc ceeds the unexpected deliverani-e from extreme peril; but I assure you that tho conviction that poor Symes was uotdea I brought me npon my knees, in thank fulness for the mercy that bod protected us in such an awful crisis. 44 1 was overcome with weariness and weakness holding the hand of my un conscious friend, and I almost think that 1 was dozing, when I heard the aoond of an opening door and friendly voices. I cried aloud, and we were at once surrounded with lichts, and eager, frightened, inquiring faces, besieging me with questions, which for the time I I was altogether -nnablo to answer. Byrnes, still insensible, was carried to his lodgings on the other side of the green, whither I followed him, and wait ed for more than half an hour, until the doctor came and told me that he was , partly conscious, but must not on any ! aoconnt be disturbed or excited by see ing anybody. He said he would remain with him through the night; and I re turned with anxious thoughts and an exhausted frame, but with a grateful heart, to my own home. 44 It turned out that little Jemmy Ox ! ley had been the means of bringing ns the help that we had despaired of. My old housekeeper had come into my room here two or three times daring my ab senoe, aud oould uot understand my leaving the light burning, if I had in i tended to be away so long. She went I over to Oxley's, and mentioned the cir i cams tan ce, on which the verger said: | 4 Why, my boy left them in the cathe dral an hour ago. And yon may depend upon it,'added he, 4 that they've agone and locked theiraelvea in, and that 'ere young fellow has been and lost the kpy, and they can't get oat!'" THE CENTRE REPORTER. " Well," said 1, " that's an adventnre, certainly, and uot badly told, ettlier. It made me feel very shaky about the knees when that pr fellow went down the hole. 1 suppose he got all right again t" " No; poor man," said Maitland, with a sigh; " that ia the saddest part of the history. lie was dreadfully knocked down fiit some days, and then sp|>areut IT recovered his general health, except that be had lost all his buoyant spirits, looked like an old man, and always Secured to avoid we. He lias since gradually sunk into a state a little better than idiotcv, which the doctors attribute to the shook to a highly excitable brain, and declare to tie quite hopeless." A Touching Story. 1 was told this morning, says a corre spondent of the New York AYminy Post, a very touching story, which may illustrate one side of Farts, and will pos sibly aflf.vt many a reader who has him self seen something of art life in the great Babylon. A young American artist of much talent has been for some mouths preparing a picture entitled "Charlotte Cordav on the Eve of her Execution," proposing to send it to the Centennial exhibition. As he is must thoroughly conscientious aud painstaking, he has labored earnestly with models. It is scarcely necessary to say that he had much difficulty in finding one who suited him in every particular. When he did find her he WHS surprised to learn that she was the virtuous daughter of pious parents, and had adopted this curious profession because she had drifted into it at a moment when there was nothing else to do. Joined to her rare and deli cate beauty was an indefinable and ex quisite melancholy, which seemed born of some vague and uueipressed appre hension of future trouble. During the seventy or eighty sittings which the model gsve the artist the latter frequent ly and respectfully endeavored to win from her the secret of her troubles, but always in vain. At last he himself could uot help seeing, in the mysterious pal lors or the sudden dashes which over ' spread the lieautiful features, that the model was doomed to consumption—that insidious malady which here so rarely releases a victim which it takes from the poorly fed and overworked classes. One day the model came late; then there were days when she came not at all. At one time she said : '' You must make haste, or we sliall be too late to see the picture finished." There was a whole epic of sufferiug in the manner in which she uttered those words "too late." The artist delicately endeavored to se cure care aud attention for the beautiful model, aud to warn her of her danger. But, with the intense pride so character istic of the Parisian women of her class, she refused all succor from any indi vidual, and waited and wasted until she was compelled to go to the hospital. Now she lies there, failing out, just as a white cloud sometimes fades in the moroiug sky. You admire it for an in stant, it is so unutterably pure—so re mote from all things gross—then it is gone. IT. .1 - a Perhaps yon will think for a moment about this poor modi 1 when you look at the picture of 44 Charlotto Corday " in the art J- partiu< nt of the Centennial ex hibition at Philadelphia this summer. Xs Mexico. The population of tli" Territory of Sew Mexico, of which it is proposed to uiako a new State, is, sooorikng to a letter writer, coni|>osed of Mexicans, In diaus, half brt eds, 1 greasers," and whites, is less than one inhabitant to the square mile. One sixth of the popu lation are li.J-.uus, many of whom aie hostile, and, where these are found, it is unsafe for white*. The Bpauisb lm triage is used altogether. Even when they understand English, it is almost impossible to g< t them to con verse in that lai j,;. .ge. Outside the large towns Euglisli is about unknown. There are few schools, anil nothing to eh-vate the people to a higher standard. There are a few missionaries who arc trying to raise the people from their degradation, but the policy of the Jesuit leaders seems to be to keep the masses in ig norance and superstition. They culti vate a little ground, using a branch or a trunk of a tree for a plow, and the little grain they raise is threshed by allowing cattle to walk over it and the wind to carry the straw and chaff away. A shawl for a girl and a shirt for a boy are considered sufficient clothing until they are ten years of age. A virtuous woman or a trustworthy man is unknown. I never expected to see such a race in America; they hardly deserve the name of human. Of course there are excep tions, and here and there an intelligent, wealthy man is found, but they always have all their neighbors under them as serfs, in a condition bordering upon slavery. Tliey are very superstitious, aud completely under the control of the Jesuit priests, who, I know, are none too good, having met many of tliem in busi ness. The American population is -mall. I have been told that there are not more than ftfU-eti hundred Ameri cans in the Territory. With the exoep tion of the sheep and Cattle men, the large proportion of the whites are out casta from the East, tho scum of our large cities. The resources of the Ter ritory are few. There is some very tine stock country, and along the ltio Grande river there are good farming lands. There are no mines of any value, and no hopes of finding any, unless iu the north western portion of the Territory, where the Indians now hold sway. There is not a single mile of railroad in the Territory, anr. Sunderland, in hia own ing prayer, said : "We pray Thee lie very especially nigh to Iny nor van t who presides iu thin place, and in Tliy servants, the senators, in the discharge of the high and aolemu function* with which thev are here now vented. May they not fail to nee the right and to tiiajx-iise justice for the con tinuation of all that in good and for the welfare of the nation." Chief Justice Wait*', of the nnprerue court of the United States, entered the chamber and wan shown a neat at the right of the presiding officer. Sorgeant at Arms French made proclamation an follows : " Hear ye! Hear ye ! Hear ye ! All persons are commanded to keep silence on pain of imprisonment while the Senate of the United States is sitting fur the trial of the articlen of impeach meut exhibited by the House of flopre sentativen against William \V. Belknap, late secretary of war." The following is the oath administered to the Senators : "Yon and each of you do solemnly swear that in all things |ertaining to the j impeachment of William W. Bel!, nap, now (tending, you will do im(ear and answer, etc., and the secretary read as follows: " The following writ of summons, ad dress xl to William W. lielkuap, and the foregoing precept addressed to me, were duly served npon the said William W. Belknap by delivery to and leaving with him true ami attested copies of the same at 2,022 It street. \S aabington city, the residence of the said William W. lielkuap. on Thursday, the sixth day of April, lb7t>, at six o'clock and forty minutes m the afteruoon of that day. "JOHX It. Fuxcn, " Sergeant at Arms of the Senate of the United States." The Sergeant at Arms then made proclamation a* follows: " Wiliiam W. lh lknap, William W. lielkuap, William W. Belknap, apjxur aud answer the articles of impeachment exhibited Against you hv the House of Representatives of the United States." Mr. Caqx-nter, counsel for the ac cused, arose and said: Mm PJUMTDKNT William W. lll knap, a private citizen of the Uuitcd StaU-s and of the State of lowa, in obe dience to the summons of the Senate, sitting as a court of impeachment to try the articles presented against him by ' the House of Representative* of the Uuited Stab s, appears at the laur of the Senate, sitting a* a court of imjx-ach lunit, and iiiti'riKimn the following pica, which 1 will ask the secretary to rani, and atk that it tie filed. The secretary then read a* follows : In the Senate of th United State*, , mtting a* a court of impeachment The United State* of America vs. Wil liam W. Belknap, tijnm article* of im pearhineut of tlie House of B"pro*onta tive* of the I'nited State* of Atnrrim, of high crime* and misdemeanor*. And the aaivl William W. Belknap, named in tlie said article* of impeachment, come* ben* lieforv the huuorahle the Senate of the United State*. Hitting a* a court of itntx nrhmer.t, in liia own proper person, and -ay* th it the honorable conrt ought | not to hare or tak* further eogniz.*uoe of the Mid article* of lmjieachmeiit ex hihited and presented against him by the Hou-e of Representative* of t' o United Stat*-*, lM - fore, and at tlie time when* the asu.i Honse of RepreHAntative* ordered and directed that ho, the Maid Belknap, shonhl tie imjieached at the bar of the ' Senate, and at the time when the said article* of impeachment were exhibited and presented againat him, the aaid Belknap, by tbe aaid House of Bepre Hentativos, he, thenud Belknap, was not, nor hatli he since lecn, nor i* he now, an officer of the United Stateachn;ent. Wmm AM W. BKUKNAC. ! United State* of America, District of Colombia. William W. Belknap, being flr*t duly sworn on oath, Hays that the foregoing plea by him subscribed is true in sub stance and fact. WILUAM W. BKUKSAT. Bubecribed and sworn to before me this seventeenth day of April, 1870. DAVID DAVIS, Associate Jnstice Supreme Court of the United States. An adjournment waa made for a few days and the trial continued, the board of managers of the House of Reprcsen tative*, Messrs. Lord, Lvnde, McMahon, Jenks, Ijaj liam and Hoar, conducting it Former Treatment of Insanity. While men believed that madness meant jxissession by a demon, it is not difficult, perhaps, to account for the superstitious and brutal treatment shown to those possessed; but the reader will lx> amazed by the details of the scientific devices, happily of a past age, planned for the cure of tlie unsound. One of these was to entice the sufferer to walk across a floor, which, suddenly giving way, dropped him into n bath, where be was half drowned. Another mode of tortnre was to let tho patients down a well, in which the water, mode gradually to rise, frightened them with the pros pect of an awful death. Within the memory of men still living, tlie patients of Bethlehem hospital (London), chained to tho wall like wild lieasts.woro shown to the public on certain days of the week at the charge of twopence a visitor; and here wore to lie found iu their c-lis, crouching on straw, women with nothing hut blanket for clothing. Qisirge 111., in 1788, was subjected to a uselessly severe treatment, being con stantly tortured with a strait-waistcoat, and denied tho society of his wife and children. Ho recovered a few weeks after the substitution of kindness for se verity. A Parliamentary committee, which elicited the horrors of madhouses iu 1815, strnck tho first blow against the system of mechanical restraint of the insane; but it was not liefore tho early years of the present reign that the old order of things finally yielded to lienevolent treatment. His MEANS OF SUPPOKT. —The Toron to Ijcader relates the following : At the Division court a witness was under ex amination in the case of an unpaid ac count. Tho jndgo pnt the question to him. "What is your occupation " Tho witness did not seem to understand tho meaning of tho word "occupation," and answered with " Eh!" The Judge— " What do you do for a living I" Wit ness—" Oh, my wifs's a dressmaker!" Making a Show. A friend of the late A. T. Stewart re lated an aunodote which allowed the methods that the merchant adopted when carrying ou a small business to in crease the uutuber of his customers. Mr. Htewart made inquiries among his friend" and learned the name and resi dence of the leader of faahiouable socio tr in the city and also the church that she attended. He thru sought out the sexton of the church ami leased a pew directly tu front of that of the lady, ltogutarly Hunday after Hunday there after he sat in his seat and look part in the worship. A few months j mated, and ! one Huuday as the congregation was alxiut leaving the church it suddenly be guu to rain. The fashionable laity had a carriage, but the nidewalk between the church door ami the roadway was wide, sml she stopped irresolutely at the (hair upon perceiving the drops of rain, dreading injury to her costly dress. The frequent mixta and rains of Ireland Lad caused Mr. Htewart to form the habit of carrying an umbrella on all days of the year, and he had one on thil day. Kaismg it, he told the lady he would shelter her beneath it until she could walk to her emi riage, if she would accept the service. The proffer was accepted, he took her to the carriage, and was heartily thanked. The following Bun day, after the servioe, she ad dressed htm aud again thanked him for his kindness. A short couveraatiou followed, and oc casionally on Bumlaya that succeeded, as they were coming out of church, a few words passed between them. While talking with a member of the church oue day the lady learned Mr. Btewart's oceujmtiou, and the next time she met him she said : " Mr. Stewart, have yon auy articles at your store that you think I would like to buy I" " No," he replied ; " I don't think I have anything.' "I would like to aid yon in your basi licas in some wav." " You can in this way : I have noticed that your coachman exercises your horses ] every day, and yon not caring always to ride, 1 presume, the carriage is fre quently empty. If on the days when you do not wish to use the carriage you will order your coachman to take it to my store and remain in frout of the store for half an hour, you will do mo a ; good turu." Tin? lady was amused by Mr. Stewart's suggestion, anil cheerfully grant,-. 1 the request. The frequent appearance of the carriage in front of the store and the presumptive presence of the fashionable owner <*f it within the store w*. soon noticed by other women, and Mr. Stew art's scheme was speedily successful. Carriage after carriage itbopiwd Ivfore the store, and the stream of fashion was started that lias auioe run ceaselessly in and out its doors. Tin* Eruption at Widow Wade** Farm. The l>ud report which NO startled Jtunes Me Man us, the Hudson liiver trackman, the Ml MSS Hrnlut Mr. Bernard Feldmau, aged about fifty-eight years, living in Baltimore, after several days of mysterious ahaetu-e puts in a reappearance and tells a most marvelous story. He left bis home on Wednesday for the purpose of visiting Ilighlaudtowu, a suburban village, ap I stroll tly in souud mind aud having with tim about S4O in money. Not return iug that night his family became alarm ed, and all efforts to disoover his where about* were unavailing until he pre sented himself at hia house about three o'clock ou Hunday morning, anil related a curious array of experiences. He said he had not proceeded far on the rocd to Ilighlaudtowu when he saw a wagon, the stiles of which were closed like a prison van. The wagon halted near him and a man jumped out and remarked to him that there was a dead man in the wagon, and that he should look in the vehicle, ss he might be able to identify the body. Aa he attempted to do so be was seised by four men and thrust violently into the wagon, which wan rapidly driven off, and being dosed on all aides* he was prevent ed from seeing the roed. About nine o'dock, aa he supposes, the wagou halt ed, and getting out be was taken through a dense woods aud finally taken into a cave, of which tWo desperate men were in charge. A fire was burning, and after robbing him uf hia money they thn w faggots from the fire in hia face, and burned off his beard and the entire hair from his head, following this by kicking aud cuffing him until be was almost senseless. He passed the night without food or rest, and on Thursday and Fri day implored his captors to allow him to go home, 1. ut their only response was to again assault and beat him in the most cruel manner, threatening at the same lime that, if he did not cease hia impor tunities, they would murder him. Dur ing his entire stay in the cave a small piece of stale bread was hia only food, and the nervous prostration and physios! suffering be endured were indescribable. On Baturday morning some of the gang brought in a girl about nineteen years of age. Four of them soon after left, leav ing two with the girl, and, while they were guarding her in another part of the cave, he oaaapod. He was suffering intense agony from his injuries, fearful of recapture and did nut know the road he was traveling un til he reouguixed the dome uf Bay view asylum on Saturday night, finally ivach mg his home at the hour stated. His Ixwd and hair are entirely gone, his face and neck terribly blistered, and his physical strength so much exhausted that he is unable to leave hia bed. Feld mau ia a man of strictly temperate habits, and his story ia accepted bv all those who know him as entirely true. At present he is unable to give any clew by wliich bis abductors and assailants can be secured. Relations with Km plovers. Personally the late A. T. Stewart was a very unassuming man. He dressed plainly and with good taste, and never wore ring* or diamonds. The only cost ly article b* carried about was a gold watch, and this was not fastened to a ' cliain, but to a black silk onrd. If be sew one of his clerks displaying much i jewelry, this ws o*mmdervd sufficient cause i*y him to establish an inquiry into the habits of the man, the amount of his salary, and his mode of living. If his salary and circumstances did not war rant such outlay Mr! Stewart would have n watch sent nn lit* actions, and the re sult in manv emm-* proved that the clerk v.ui dishonest. Many instance* could be recounted in which be diKoTercsl dis honesty in hia clerks bv tits display of Cwvlry on their part. He wwa gen. rally uient with erring employers, aud never prosecuted them if there w. re any ex tenuating circumstances. Ilia ol .serra tion was remarkably keen, and h>> was quick to observe the slight M ir regal on ty in the arrangement of (he dim rent departments of the store, or any eloven ' linesa is the dress of the elrrk*. If a clerk, on the other hand, was dressed too extravagantly Mr. blcwart * often took occasion to offer a gentle rebuke. As an instance of hia distaste for out ward display, it may be mentioned that he wan walking through hia retail store one day when a massive gold chain and locket in the buttonhole of one of his clerks attracted Ins attention. He stop ped up to him and said : " Young man, if I were yon I'd button np my cost on that;" and, pointing down to hi* own plain I deck cord, be added : "That is the best I can afford to wear ; take my advice, and keep that covered up I" Centennial Jiotes. The women of Massachusetts have for warded 94,400 to the treasurer, making their total contribution to the Centen nial 810,000. The Philadelphia sportsmen's dull has appoints! a committee empowered to offer, through the agricultural de partment, one or more prizes for the lH*st setters or poiuters exhibited at tbo Centennial. Upon many of the east* in tbe EgyP" tiau buihling on Uio Ceutonnisl ground* are hieroglyphic* or inscriptions in Arabic, a notifiable one at the latter Wing: ffooa met nh- Allah, which trans lated means: "As it pleases CHxL" Prominent in the Spanish space are six excellent medallion paintings, each nine or ten feet in circumference, rep resenting Columbus, (Jnesn Isabella, Ponee do Leon, Dc Soto, Cortex and Pi zarro. These medallions are inserted in the front and rear of the structure form ing the entrance to the pavilion. The clock for memorial hall ha* lieen completed in Thomaston, Oonn. It has 1.160 piece*, the estimated weight of all tieing six tons. The main wheels are four feet in diameter. The pendulum ball and rod weigh respectively 700 nnd 800 pouuds, the rod being fourteen and one lialf bad long and connected with tlie clockwork by what is known a* gravity escapement, and makes two second beats. The rod is of steel, and to compensate for contraction and ex pansion is encased in two cylinders, one of zinc and one of steel, which, by their relativo expansion upward, maintain n uniform center of oscillation. A Sad Scene. That must have hwn a sad procession of Northwestern editor* which filed out of the dinitig-room in Port Royal the other day, hyn the Savannah JVETOI. Tliey were on an excursion, and moßt of them had the well known habits of edi torial excursionists. They had boon re ceived at the Port ltoyal station with lieating drnma, gay banners, and a crowd of tumnltuoua and enthusiastic citizens. The chairman of the reception oommittee, mounted on a barrel, made them a sjieecb of weloome, and tlioy were tlion taken for aup|>erto a building over which the word " Weloome "jwiw displayed in gigantic letters. Supper being over, tho excursionists prepared for a stroll about town. At the door they enoouutered an effusive citizen, who calmly extended his hand. They shook it andaalled him "brother," but he calmly and sternly said to every man: "Seventy-five cents, if you please." And every man paid. It was a sad soene. TERMS: a Year, in .Advnnce. The Brerur of the "Dotttr Part;.' ltoadrra of Bret Hirtr'i "debris! Oonroy " will remember the following foot nolo which oocnra in connection with the author'N dcooription of BOOOM in Htarvatiou (lamp : "1 fear I must taak the incredulous reader's further ;>aticpon by nailing at lection to what may, perhaim, prove the moat literal ami thoroughly atUUarticulsr distress. He woke, profoundly impressed with his distinctness and apparent reality of the dream. At Length ha fell asleep, and drowned exaotlj the same dream again. In the morning he could not expel it from hia mituL Falling in, shortly, with an old hunter oomrada. be tdd him the story, and was only the more deeply impremnd by hia recognising, without Inwitatiuu, the woenery of the dream. This oomrado mm*? over the Sierra, by the Carson valley paan, and declared that a spot in th# jvuw answered exactly t<> hi* ussoription. By thia the unso pbisticated patriarch u decided. Ha immediately collected a company of man, with mules and blankets, and all necessary provision*. The itMfrkUnv werr laughing, m-*nrime,atlua credulity. •' JTo matl*T, mid bo, "I ID able to do this, and I will, for I warily believe that the fact is according to my drvam." The man fc ir sent into the mountain*, one hundred and fifty miles distant, di rectly to the Cars, m valley pass. Aud there tin y found the oomjiauy, in ex actly tbv condition of Uie dream, and brought in the remnant alive. A gentleman present said: "Yon need Tiave no douiit of thia; for we Cali foruiatM all know the facts, and the names of the familice broaght in, who now look upon our venerable friend M a kind of savior." These names be gave, and the places where they reside, and I found, afterward, that (he Cali fornia people were ready, everywhere, to second his teetimooy.— Scribncr for April. Pork Parking KUtistles. Secretary Howard, of the American pork packers' association, makes the fol io wins report of the packing of hags of the Wont during the winter season of 1876 6; The total number of hogs pack ed is 4,874,126, against 6.566,226 last season, a decrease of 692.101. The average net weight is 218.86 pounds, against 209.77 pounds last season, an in rrease of 8.59 pounds. The average yield of lard is 85.52 pounds, against 84.20 ponnda last season, an increase of 1.32 pounds. The aggregate net weight of the bogs packed this season is equal to 5,073,850 bogs of last year's average weight. The production of lard is equal to 541,115 tierces of 320 pounds each, against 594,939 tierces last season, a decrease of 58,824 tieroea. The de crosse in the aggregate net weight is 108,297,000 pound*, or equal to 92,908,- 400 ]Kmnds of meat*. The decrease in the uumber of bogs packed in the West, with the receipts at New York, Phila delphia Boston, and Baltimore, is 994,- 180. Calculating the receipts of hogs at the seaboard cities at the same aver age weight and yield of lard as those packed in the West, the decrease in weight is 159,429,500 pounds, equal to 74.400 tierces, or 22,320,000 pounds of hams, 25,508,000 pounds of shoulders, and 63,772,000 pounds of side*. The riiortage in the yield of lard Kant and West is reported at 26,442,900 ponnda, or 82,634 tierces. On. Santa Anna In hi* Old Age. Hants Anna lives in the city of Mexi co, in a third-rate house of two stories, with courts of not more than twenty feet square, the pavements out of repair, the whole telling the story of poverty. He was seated upon a much-worn sofa, at tended by a smart appearing Mexican of middle age, and rose, with some diffi culty, in receiving us. He complained considerably of nis wooden leg, and also of blindness. He is an old man of eighty years, very decrepit, yet in full command of bis fac ulties; has a good head and face, not un like the pictures of Humboldt in old age, with broad temples and an abrupt, square nose, and, at one time, good eyes. He had little to say, but appear ed pleased at oar viait; and, as we told him of the four or five general officers of the Mexican war still living, he listen ed with interest, but showed no special recognition until the name of Pillow was mentioned, whom he remembered per fectly. Over the sofa where Santa Anna sat was the pictore of a beautiful woman in her fullness of yonth and loveliness. This was his wifo when both led the for tunes of Mexico. As we passed ont the oourt onr attention was called to the fig ure of a woman of fifty in the window opposite, in plain dross, and devoid of any interesting attribute. This was she whose picture had so interested us, Mrs. General Santa Anna. NUMBER 19. Incident* About A. T. Htewart. Mr. Htewart'* art gallery oont him over •780,000. Mr. Htewart never had a sign oontain tug his name or the firm name on any of his stores. This attracted the attention of a lady aomeyear* ago, who asked him the reason. Hi* answer wns s" Ik bott itn ru a matffn pot."-—" The good wine needs no push. ' Mr. Htewart had seven thou and men in hia employ in New York city alone, and perhaps about one thousand in Eu rope. He kept fourteen mills going in the United States, and bad many houses in Eugisnd and claewbere which bad charge of the work of operatives in those oiioM. When asked if be believed in lack, he replied : " Indeed Ida There are persona who are unlucky. I sometimes open a eaaa of goods and aell the first from it to some peraon who t* unlucky and lose on it to the end. 1 frequently *ee persona to whom I would aot well U I could avoid it." He w T*nr green when b* find open ed ait tore. Onion, it ie said, be nwwhd the lain William Beeobnr, from whom he bought many goods, M ftdlova;. " Mr. Bencher, a lady otm* into my etore to-day and naked me to ahow her 1 aome hua>-. I did not know whet the ' goods were, and I told bar that I did not keep the article. What did abe want!" j Mr. Beeober laughingly showed him a pair of mocking*, and the young mer chant waa oocvulaod with mehment. The find money earned by Mr. Blew-' : art in America is aaid to bare been paid to him by lame F. Bragg, who had a ' aohool in Boeaareit atreet, Mew York, in 1821 or 1822, and who mafdoyed Mr. j Stewart aa bis assistant. Mr. Bragg rdill has in his powaaasion Mr. Stewart's receipt for SSO earned aa amudaut teach- < i er. Mr. Bragg, who ia marly ninety years old. aays that Mr. Htowaitaban- j doned Ilia school beaaaee he was off tad <*] at being aaked to make collections for his employer after school boors. Fletcher Harper and Hamilton Fish * j were tiro of Stewart's scholars. (letting in interview with him ana, very ranch like getting an interview wmL the prime m mister of England. He was to be seen only at the down town store, and on the viator's entering, the floor' walker near the door would arm inquire that visitor's basinesa. If be said ha wanted to see Mr. Stewart, ha waa aaked what he wanted of him, and that if it waa anything that a subordinate could attend tu, be was turned over to him, If he still insisted upon seeing the great j man himself, he was allowed to go as far 1 as the foot of the atoirs, whore another , Oat bar us waa in wailmg, mj unless be] oouhi be Hatisfled that it was Worth while disturbing Mr. Stewart the visitor was turned baok. Settlers and Railroad Lead Grant*. The following is the foil tost of a bill passed by the United States House of 1 Ucpresciibitivca relative to homestead , &nd pre emption entries within land 1 grant limits. The bill waa passed with out amendment, 3 oat as it came from the Senate, and will therefose become e Itw as soon aa it receives the President's "ignaturw. It docs not conftom. but, on the contrary, entirely reversal the ruling of Secretary Delano- -that railroad grant* ' can take effect prior to the reception at the local land ottcera and aotioes of j I withdrawal: Br il enact**. He . That all prs empuon and bomwui eutnsa. or entries hi compliant* ' with any law of the Doited Htste*, of lbs pub lic laud. mpflS in mod faith by saSsal aethers ; , span tract* of lands of no more than 140 acras ' each, wtthiu the Hunts rf atrr Wad grant prior ' te ibe time when aoucs of withdrawal at the j ! land* embraced in anch grant wsa taoaived at the local land office of ths dlstrtcSin which ancb i lauds are aitoalad, or after their restoration to ■uta by order of the general laud. .'boa, and 1 whore ibe j re-etnptioa and h exptrauon of eneh grant, shall be deemed v*bd. aud a oumpi.tuos with ths I. law* and the making of the proof* required ' shall entitle the bolder of the claim to a patent ' therefor - ' I The Staff that Fell. During the month of August, 1867, masses of gelatinous matter containing minute granules were found in the streets of the city of Albany, New York i State. The following account of the phenomenon, published at the time, is i from Dr. 3. S. Manlier, then of the Albany university . Viewed through a microscope the small, brick colored todies were some what of the shape of grains of wheat, and the gelatinous matter seemed to be connected to each one an a separate covering. They wore apparently sepa rate cell*, very uniform in sine, being 1-190 of an inch long and 1-160 of an inch thick, filled with granular particles, from which they derived their color. The gelatinous envelope and their ap pearance gave them at first somewhat the Character of one of the single celled prototype*, resembling most the palmo ghea. " That they were not these waa proven by their behavior with iodine and their "containing a distinct orll wall. Several persons claim to have seen them fall in a shower, and they were not found under trees or shelter. They have probably been carried a great distance hv the wind, and are likely to be germs of marine growth, perhaps the fttemt platf/corpM, which they resemble. The firesoncc of chloride of sodium, which is ound largely in the gelatinous enve lope, is corroboration of their marine orgiu. A Pies for Mercy. The wretched murderer Dolan pleads again and again for mercy of Governor Tilden, as if he himself had not been obdurately deal to the beseeching prayer of the man he killed. " Spare my iifo," said poor Noe, as he was be ing beaten to death, " and go free. I will not follow yon, nor appear against yon. Spare my life for the sake of my family. 1 will never harm you." "I can't trust you," said the villain, and the murder was finished. This is the cruel, heartless fiend who now pleads or his lawyer for him, for "Christian charity," vexing the air of Easter day with reiterations of his innooenoe with cries for pardon.— yew York World. The Bounty. The large sums of money which were paid by the authorities of several coun ties in the mountainous parts of Pennsyl vania as bounties for scalps of wild ani mals daring the last year prompted an investigation, which revealed a well de vised and carefully executed scheme of defrauding the county treasuries. In one instance the skin of a colt which had died was deftly cut up and made into ears, and palmed off as those of a fox. A large number of warrants have been issued against the persons suspect ed of the fraua. Ohl For a MM. In 18M* Dr. Holland wrote the follow oof generally repub (VNM! a rtw !l> teta demand* mroßf ateda, groat heart*. true faith end ready tends. Mm etna ths tart of arte* date sot MB i Mm atom tlrt spoils of edtassaaa* toy I Bw arts peana* opinion* and a wtll i Mao wbo have honor . aaea whowUl not Ua; Mao who am stand before a d—agogi#. And (UWQ hi* treeeb arena flaturtee wittcml wteMag, Tall men. m areened, who Baa shove Ua fog la public duty aad in print* thinking For, wbil* lb# rabbU with lb air ihoab-wora mad, Tb air larga profaaafooa and litUa deeds, Mingle ta eaifteb atrtfa, lot freedom waapa, Wrong ralao lb# land, aad waiting Justtee ataaps. Items ef Interest. I a tin re* begins in oobwebs and end in iron chains. Romantic death—A yoong lady drowned in tears. An honest barber will hone up when he baa a dull raaor. Texas ha* nearly two thousand miles of railroad in operation, i It will noon lie lime to take Presiden tial votes on the boras car*. The natural age of the apple tree is the same as that of man. Australia exported, in 1875, gold dast to the amount of §15,889,5®. The ooming placard—"No peddlers of Centennial articles admitted here." % Burnt aocietie* are being organised by the Chinese throughout Nevada. A man who ean invent a lacier amuse ment than croquet will make his fortune. A fit. Joseph (Me.) girl Lately refused a wealthy suitor because he ate beans j with a knife. The rrtrow* height of misery is • , small boy with anew pair of boots and no mod puddle. Nature is nature, vou can't alter the ? crook of a do#** tail mush and preserve the length of It tea If you would pee* far mare than your value, aay tittle. It is earner to look wiae than to talk wise. The Crir—ngitionsl church' * of Con necticut will celebrate the national cen tennial on Sunday, July 9. A Nevada highwayman bought six books of an agent jurt for the pleasure of stealing the money buck. An o0 farmer once said, with more truth n-n elegance: "There are two rati* in this world to one do." H there is a pert ta which men have done ill, let them have hope, for there is a future in which they may do wclL A celebrated Frenchman when asked to give an inscription for a ean dial re plied : "I count no hour* but bright ataaa." A mav be said to have been drinking tike a fiah when he find* that he baa taken enough to make hia head swim. Only forty out of 900 of the Xootka sound tribe of Indiana, British Colum bia, have survived the visitation of smallpox. A Frenchman named ImMoth has in vested a fire-proof and anti-ooliiaion de structive freight ear of half the weight of the ordinary car. You may never have thought of it, but i it is utterly impossible to get downright , angry without raising your voice. Con trol your voioe and you are sure to oon too! your temper. Prof—or Coffins, of fPhrtefltld, N. H , pi of—as to have discovered a ! pwna of —alias Muter with chemioal* so that it will produce alight cheaper and brighter than kerosene. Masons and Odd Fellows are warned against the wilt* of a woman about fifty vura of age, blind in oaeeve, who has hem imposing upon the order* in var ious parte of the United State*. Ttfuiipn for RPF A^T * |> G A row—Walk along the pavement of a crowded thorough fare with a ladder on your shoulder, and turn around evwry few minutes to see if anybody is making faees at you. A company known as the "Jencinge Estate Association " waa incorporated by the Virginia Senate. The object is to secure untold riches left by a Mr. Jennings in England a century ago. Dry book wheal flour, if repeatedly applied, will remove entirely the worst grease spots on carpets er any other woolen cloth, and will answer as well as French chalk for gttmm spots on silk. "I do not want any lawyer. lam go ing to toll the troth thia tune," what a regular customer at a recorder's court told his honor, when thai functionary inquired If he had engaged legal mut aace. A Boston preacher arid : "If any to cktv wiO take charge of all the cast* of poverty brought op by intemperance, this church wiQ take upon itaelf to re lieve all the rdmsbrfng t Upera of Bos ton," V" - : " f * lu Wwhinrtm it la quite common to see some of the female employ. m of the departments wealing oostuines that have cost an ft""-"" 1 * of money equal to th- ir pay for three or four, or even aometimes six mouths. The number of immigrant settlers who arrived in Canada in 1875 was 27,- 882. against 89,872 in 1874 and 50,050 in 1878. falling off wea of coum> due to the general depression on thia aide of the Atlantic. There are 62,553 churches in the United States, with sittings for 11,395,- 542 people, the Methodists being the strongest denomination. The total value of church property is placed at 1349,619,780. The Narragansett Indians at Charles town, R. L, have elected their council At an election a line is drawn, and the stands on either aide. The one (hat gets the most Indians to stand on his BUM is elected. That " shower of flies ' x which fell at Riviere da Loup proves to hav • been a swarm of the "sugar flies" so frequent ly met with in Vermont in February, though Canadian naturalists do not ap pear to be familiar with them. The lons of the German government by the depreciation in silver is estimated by dinhrent judges at from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000. In adopting the gold atandanl for ooin they were too alow in calling in the old silver Hitlers. Two large drapery firms in London, England, have private chaplains, to whom they pay a salary each of $2,500, for attending every morning to offer prayer and give addresses to the young men and women in their employ. Member at hunt (to farmer)—" I wouldn't ride over those seeds if I were you. They belong to a disagreeable sort of fellow, who might make a fuss about it." Parmer —" Well, sir, as him's me he wont say nothing about it to-day." Ether drunkards are a product of England. In a Londonderry neighbor hood an offioial report has been made of two deaths caused by drinking ether, and, "notwithstanding attempts Coade by the clergy and others of influence" to stop the practice, it seems to be spreading. "Ah J Mrs. Dasher," said gushing ; Mrs. Simpleton, daring.her morning call. "How delightfully (bat bouquet of violets and roses perfuma&your parlors, i " Do you really notice it 1" replied the widow, with a smile of 111-concealed triumph. "Why, they're only artificial, my dekr Mrs. Simpleton." That even ing when Simpleton came home he found I his wife oo®lined to her bed with a high ; fever, and no supper ready. A Quaker having married for his wife a member of the Church of England, was asked, after the ceremony, by the clergyman for his fee, which he said was a crown. The Quaker, astonished at the demand, said if be could be shown any text in Scripture which proved the fee was a crown he would give it, upon which the clergyman directly turned to the twelfth chapter of Proverbs, ver.-e fourth, where it said: "A virtuous woman is a crown to ber hu s biid." " Thou art right," replied the Q l> r, "in thy assertion: Solomon w..- u wi e man. Here is thy money, which thou hast well and truly earned,"