The Night Wind. ' a lonalT inn among tha ptnas 1 it alon* In tha firelight's glow, in\ where e Polly ?" Above the tress t< . ' ney bets swarm by with I uxa and b via, . And in the field n*l > an ten a hundred flowers t loom. Within the faronr's meadow a brown eyed daisy h' s Aud Cewu a; t! • e-'ge Of the hollow a red and tootny nee. Rut Polly 'Ply; The oowa are m the ecru Ob, w here's Polly ? How *'range a; euch a t.iue of day the null > -lollld sti ;> :1 ciat'er ! Ttio farmers wn'. i ' - ei.it g now, and won- era what * : ea. t r. Oh, ai d the ; uda ar -u gug m the wood and ou the tail!, Vihi'e whtatiirg up the hollow goes the boy l ira' minds ;lie tci 1. Rut Pol y ' Pv Uy !—The cows are m the ooi u '. l>h, wheres Polly ? .Hrrihasr /or AujtL THE MASSACRE AT HO LI All. As trrssal b. the tnl* IJilu .Was whs Kuflllrd 11. S&i'ta Anna invaded Texas in Febru ary, 1886, with 10, iOO men. The army entered by two route*, the larger divi sion, commanded . y Santa Anna, g"iug from New Leon, crossed the river at the Presidio del Rio Grande, and taking the main road, ma le forced marches toward San Antonio dc Bexar The other divi sion, under Gen. D m Jose Urea, ex governor of Dnrango, crossed the Rio Grande at or near the city of Mat* morns, and entered Texas at San Patri cio, on the Rio de las Nueces. The two sections advanced, having several engagement* marked by cruel r.laughter. Col. Fannin was at Ctoliad, thirty miles distant, with Texan troops. The fortress of Goliad stood on an eminence. It was a large square build ing of stone, inclosing about wu acre. It was rather a series of buildings, hav ing an arsenal, a barrack and a church. It had three strong bastions of solid masonry, two of which weie turret**.!. The place had a formidable appearance, bnt was not really so, as the walls were thin, having l>een designed to resi*t the attacks of Indians only. Two or three good field pieces could 1 ave breached any section of the structure, save the bastions, in an hoar. Faunui's force in the place amounted to i.ot more than 325 men. The country was open, and an army conld march past it on either side unmolested. When Gen. Urea reached Goliad, in stead of besieging he marched around, crowed the San Antonio river above. Fannin then set fire to th ■ fo' trees, and I* gnu his retreat towaid Goadalnpe Victoria, but soon surrendered. The terms offered by Urea were : That the Texaua should be received an t treated as prisoners of war; that private prop erty should be respected and restored; that the side arms of the officers should be given tip; that the mm should be sent to Oapauo. and thenoe in eight dava to the United States, BTKI thst the r.ffi cers should be parole.L No written copy of this agreement was ever found; but Capt. Shock leford said it was re duced in writing in both languages. He made this assertion in my presence at Goliad on the day of the massacre. Hut written or unwritten, the stipulations should have been equally binding. There is no kind of doubt that the M 'xican officers destroyed the docu ments. Fannin aud his fellow prisoners were then remanded to Goliad, and General Urea went to Victoria. The prisoner** wrre huddled at Goliad into the old church, a place not half large enongh for them, with bnt one window that I can remember. They wers kept there two days, and then allowed to go out into the open area of the fort. On the twenty-third of March Miller's command, to which I belonged, reached Goliad. The oompany consisted of seventy men. who had been captnr* d at Capano. We were allowed to mingle freely with the other prisoners, but were assigned sr-parnte quarters at nightfall. Next day Ward's tstPahon, which had escaped from the mission, and had been captured near the GuaJalnp* river, were brought into G Viiad, making iu all nearly 500 prisoners. On the morning of onr arrival at Goli ad, we m**t two gen tie man ard a squad of lancer". One of t!;e gentlemen was CoL Fannin, who, although wounded, was on horseback; the other was Col. Holzinger, a Mexican artillery officer. Fannin said he bad fonght a hard liattle on the nineteenth, and had nrrendered noon honorable terms the next morning. De was then on his way to Capano, to procure a "vessel to transport bis men to New Orleans. This is proof positive that Fannin surrendered upon honorable termH, and not at discretion, as Santa Anna always insisted, and, doubtless, be lieved. I have read Urea's dispatch to Hants Anna from near A'ictoria, in which he gives a full account of his proceed ings since leaving the Rio Grande, tells of all prisoners at Goliad, but says not one word about any agn-ement with Fannin relative to terms of surrender, leaving the commander-in-chief in the belief that Fannin surrendered at dis cretion. I know, from Almonte'# diary, that this is the only dispatch re ceived hy Santa Anna fr >m Urea since he hail left the Rio Grande. The courier from Santa Anna arrived at Goliad on the twenty sixth, having left San Antonio the morning of the same day, distant one hundred miles. D m J. N. Partilln, the commandante, glanced at the superscription,then at the bl ickseal be'iring the president's a ms, an npright arm and dagger, with the legend "Maao v Clavo," aud sat down on bis camp stool to read the missive, uttering something like a groan. Its purport was that he bad certain prison ers in charge, that he knew what his hitj was, and r*ust execute that duty tid promptly rejoin his commander, ortilla threw down the dispatch in dis- Ist. " Duty, indeed," he muttered, Ining his head upon the table. I young woman entered the room, ti*ittaiiii's orderly, shall start for Bexar to-night." •• It -hall Ie a* you desire. They call mo Indian, Seuora Alavesqtie ; but were I president 1 would not write that letter for all the land* your father owns , not for all the gold that ever the mint of Mexico." The colonel leaned his brouxed Axteo face ujnm the table, weeping like a child. Donna Pachita Alavesque, a lovely women of twenty, was the wife of a colonel of the Mexican army, a man of great wealth and power. Siie had fol lowed him to Texas, partly from whim, but chiefly iu the hope of doing good. Her visit that night to the commander saved scveutv lives. 001. Portilla sent a courier that uight at nine o'clock to Victoria, informing Gen. Urea of the receipt of Santa Anna's note, and of the plan he should pursue. He also informed him of his intention iu respect to the company to be pre served. On that same evening ihe rumor got abroad among the prisoners iuside the fortress that the commander iu chief had beeu heard from, aud that all would march in the moruiug forCapano, where ships were waiting to trausport us to New Orleans. Nearly all were youug men, most of whom had pleasant homes, iud friends who would welcome them home with joy. Mauy were siugiug gleeful songs, or telling pleasant stories and talking of their frieud*. A youug mau asked some one, apparently among Ward's men, if he remembered Jack Fellows- I think Hint was the name. The answer was: "Yes." And the first voice continued: "Do you mind how he n-Hsl to sit up theo> in the bastion evening* and sing aud talk of his moth ers and sisters at home 1" "I do right well. That chap used to make me cry sometime?." "Well, he'll never sing any more. He's as dead as Julius Ciesar, He wa the first man killed in the Eucinal. Poor fellow ! I helped to bury him in the ditch. 1 wish he was here tonight." A flute in the hands of a (skillful ier former had beeu playing all the evening such airs as "Auld Lang Syne," aud "Home, Swist Home." Every one around me appeared to be happy aui spoke in pleasant tones. At length all the voices were silent, and nothing was heard bat the cries ot the Indian sen tries as they paced to and fro on the walls yelling in most unearthly accents: "Centinella Alerts!" "Ceutiuella"— something else, which I have loug ago forgotten. At daylight the reveille con sisted of simply a few drum traps and u bngle blast. Soon lines w> re formed and the rolls called. There were no sol diers inside the fort, only a few officers, who were counting the prisoners, and making preparations of some sort in a very quiet way. Now and then some thing was said about the early release and departure of the prisoners; about the necessity for slaughtering beeves, and other preparations for a voyage. Soon a nnmtar of prisoners, I should say at least 150, moved out of the mam gateway, in the direction of the south ern taction. An officer came np t< where we were standing in line and or dared us to move. As we passed through the gateway, the party that hail gone out ahead of us hail turned the corner of the fortress, going apparently toward the river. We turned the opposite way, and entered a small peach orchard, where we were told to sit down on the grass and keep quiet On one Ride of this orchard, facing the Matamoras road, was a line of officers' tents. The other side was pro tcctcd by a cactus hedge, beyond which was an old graveyard, mnoh dilapidated. The western side was an open prairie, with here and there a tree. The rest of the prisoners then came out of the fort, one-half going three or four hundred yards westward along the Matamora rad, and the others in the direction we had hik- n. The latter passed up the road, aud, turning round the orchard hedge, lialted just beyond tho grave yard. A line of soldiers marched on either side. A tall young fellow walked at the head of this party, with a Mexi can blanket about his shoulders. He looked toward us, smiling pleasantly. I had conversed with him the day pre vious, when he spoke hopefully of an "early departnre for his home in Penn sylvania. This party had barely turn# d the cactus hedge when a prolonged roar of musketry was hoard in the direction of the river beyond tho fort. The cry then arose among our m n that they were shooting the prisoners. The firing was kept np for several minutes, and then it die-1 aw.iy in occasional shots. The firing oommfluood at the grave yard. Tho intervening bushes pre vented our seeing anything save the occasional gleam of a Imyonet, but I could hear the trampling of feet and the shouts and groans of dying men distinctly. Meanwhile my attention was directed to the party that had marched ont on the ro.id in front of the fort. They were in plain view. Some accounts of this massacre say that the prisoners were shot while in sitting postures, i'his was not the fact as to the party coming under my notice. They halted, when fairly out on the open prairie, the soldiers forming a line facing down the road. The prisoners were then placed in a single line facing the aoldiers. The soldiers then faced the prisonera, and at the command leveled their pieties, and each soldier fired at the man direct ly in front of him. About a third of the prisoners fell, others stool appar eutly astounded until bayoneted, bnt about forty of them ran iu various di rections. Not one of these fugitives e-tcaped, however, as all were pursued and either sabered by the dragoons or killed by the lancers. The wounded prisoners, about thirty in number,* were murdered in the open area, inside the fortification. Major Domingnez, a yellow, pink eyed man, a refugee from Ban Domingo, had charge of this part of the massacre. He ob tained it by request, being a friend of Gen. Oaray. This is the man who, at Agua Duloe, caused Capt. Grant to be placed on the back of a wild horse, with a lasso ronnd bis neck. The horse was then whipped till, maddened, he dashed away, dragging Capt. Grant through a thorny chapanal. Grant was left dead upon the ground and mangled in a hor rible maimer. This miscreant that morning hacked a wounded boy to death while the lad was on his knees praying. He and his assistants then stabbed the wounded men to death, first dragging them from the hospital floor. THE CENTRE REPORTER Meanwhile Father Maloney, the curat*' of San Patricio, pushed the three Ameri can physicians and their assistant* into the vestry, and shut the door. He had hardly done so when Meuora IVtchila Alavosouo entered, atul asked if they were atiil alive. The priest answered that they were in the Vestry, but that he expected Domiugues for them every moiueuE "Give him tin* note," she said, "and if he dares to treat it with he shall never pass that door alive.' Soon Dominguex entered. "Show hiui the note, father," said Pachita. l>omiugu<£ raeen left for the purjvvse of explaining anything that the colonel might have to say. Tha colonel tk from hi* jKH-ket a letter aud a watch, ami asked that they bo seut to his wife. He then handed the officer some doubloous, which he Wgged him to aocept, requesting that he would have him shot through the heart ami decently buried. All t±ii* was promised, the offi cer pocketing the uiouey. Fauuiu was then blindfolded, shot through the head, his clothes stripped off, and the body dragged 'out through the mam gateway, aud left lying on the grass. After Fannin was murdered, the offi cer ordered Spiau to take his seat iu the chair, a* he also was going to shoot him. Capt Splan replied that he had been reserved a* an interpreter. "We have no further use for inter preters now," said the officer, "all the Americans have beeu shot Take your seat" 0 At that critical moment an officer with whom Splau had a slight acquaintance wa* pn-siug. Splan hailed him, and they commenced talking aWut the exe cution of Fannin, which had ju*t taken place. Becoming impatient, the officer ordered Splau once more to t.iko the chair. The officer told the oommauder of the tiring |>arty that he would W re sponsible for Splan, and taking him by tlie arm, they walked away together. The i ftieer conducted the captain to where we were statioued, and then 1. ft hi in t- seek the commander. It was here, from ('apt. Splau'* own lips, that 1 learned the particulars i f Fnuuiu'a death. Ho had scarcely finished hi* narrative, when an orderly came up and told him he wa* want d by the com mander. He bade u* an affectionate adieu, saying he had no doubt tint he vni* going to l>e shot, and walked off with the orderly. Happily, he na.* mis taken. The next morning he wa* started ff u> Mstameras with a returning pro vision train. The soldiers stripped the clothing from the dead bodies of their victims, and, making a bundle of the gory vest rueuts, hung them oil tlieir bayonets, and thus marched back to their qttar ters. As they came past where we were, one fellow raised his guu, shaking his bloody bundle at us. Some of tle-m got tank notes out of the prisoner's clothe*, of the value of which they knew nothuig. l'lflit afternoon a man came to our quar ters and offered a twenty dollar United States tank note for fifty cents. He succeeded in effecting a sale. A lancer came with a jair of boot* banging t > his saddle, which he offered for " ilos reals." Davy Strong wanted lsots very (sully, and thought they would fit him. Many of the men cried ont " shame " to l>avy, but he paid the mouey and pulled them on. The I todies < f the murdered men were burnt Ht the places where they died, l'he cremation occupied three or four •lays. Whatever may have been the motive for this, the result was lienefl eial, as it spared us from the .st- tich tiiat would have arisen. Eight days after the niss-acie an or der arriv.wt at Goliad to shoot the re maining prisoners, but liefore it could he carried into effect it was counter manded. And this, Don Manuel Talsa told me, was the result of Senorn AUvesqne's influence at headquarters. Al>ont the close of April following Setiora A lav esq tie ue day with the don, her husband, who look*d like a good heaths! man, but dreadful stiff and dignified. Puchita Iwde ns all good bye, and said she was going home to Duraego. There was a very handsome young Kentocki.tn named Allen iu our company, who used to talk iti French with the senora. Oti taking tier fit al departure Allen was the hud man she spoke to. It was plain to me, boy that I was, as I watched their part ug, that there was a special cause for her great interest in our fate. Allen was young, about twenty five, n blue eyed, handsome fellow, with a quiet, well bred air. The nenora was hardly twenty, a black eyed, high-bred beauty. God bless her. Hhe saved my life and the lives of my companions. Seuor Alavesqne was a man of middle ige, a self contained, quiet person, who was never seen without his cigarette. A Hoarding House in an Uproar. This is how the rumpus occnrrrd : Biggins, who is a top-fl< Hirer, came home late, bringing a friend with him. As the ways leading to Hipginn' apartments are tortuous, he left his friend in the hall and ascended alone to illuminate. Having struck a light, he gave a low whistle as a signal to his friend to ascend. This little circnmstance was fatal to the peace and well-being of the establish ment. The old gentleman Battles, who has the first floor front, was in a half wakeful state, aud hearing the sibilant signal sounded on an upper landing was ooiivinoed that it was a thief's method of communicating with his fellow. Battles is energetic, and in a very brief space of time bang went his pistol out of the front window, accompanied by a volley of cries of ''Police!" "Fire!" "Bob bers!" Bnd "Murder!" This demonstra tion ha Inlrrrallna Slsllsllrs. The area of the United States is 3,578,- .T.i'J sqiiure miles, which were acquired as follow* : IfllM I'MrllOrjf (Svlrwl by Pti|lt>il 111 1?W I A-UtaUtia, A* t,<|Ul!cl friHM Krklu* 111 1S noruU. •• mjiittnl fiom IU IWJI IfllM, a* •.tiullfv I Id Ihr t uuU IU IMS. AlT>* (kMiitiu, by ifvMtly iu lMfi Jia tiA t'kiituroi*, t*ht< trvxu Mnh-o iu Im:. Ar u.'ua, fr\tu \lni.o by *rriy iu tvM AiMkA, fiom Humia by Itrjkly lu iM? >77,W InUi |>rpfbt im. ..... S.ftiR.JWJ lu ltl'2o there were but HOO white s-t tier* m New F.tigUud. le 2eu log cabins, and all the laud uow comprising the city ami couuty of New York was purchased fur £li One hun drtsl years ago we were thirteen feeble colonn s aud d.tKKl.lkkl |>eople ; now we consist of thirty seven sovereign aud mdejH'Uvleut Stat*** ami twelve Territor ies. The thirb'en original colouies, iu the order in which the names of their repreaentatives are appended to tile Divlaratiou of lude|H'udeiioe, were as follows: New llam|>Hhire, Massaclm* ttM, Rhode Island, (Vmnectiont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, V'lrgiuia, North Carolina, South faruluiaaml Georgia. The entire list of our present Statea, arranged alphal>etically, with the date of their ad mission into the Union, is here append ed : at.ras >u raaaiTeaias. imu */ iwi Nal#4 iJNMrtv. .V 4iM JJIWH.-a Alihamß il* MIMPUH Jiil \r\k*um+m In Nrl fkt 1*67 ('4lifi>rtiUi !5o Sovkvl* iptai t'oUUrcUv'Ut • Nfit NfW Jfftr) HofbU. 15*:. New York tkrortfta North C*rv>Uua IUIHOU .litis Ofclo lßk . ItivlUu* .iHiti OfwKvio i im i m A' luiuu ~IMI HhvKle I*l*l*l Kr tit tick) ITy) South IxRUIUUI 1"U IrUUrwAcsr NtaiUe 1""X IrUs ...... I**4> M*ryl*u. The A'm uup p S'.rntiri'ju' contains an iutereetiog A q.t, r quoted from a work ou volcanoes by M. K. Fncli*. The au thor, aftor reviewing all the different theories hitherto in vogue, distinctly re pudiHte* the notion that vulcanot * are m ts>mmunicatioii with the center of the earth. The real cause of eruptions, he s-avH, l* still a mystery ; the modern hy p diiesis, which supjH>.ssl the center of the earh to lw solid, but euvel 'jssl by ■ stratum of rts-k* iu a wlate of aqni'ou* fusion, over which lies the hardeutsi crust we inhabit, answer* pretty nearly to the facta brought to light by recent investigation. li 11 not to l>o doubted that eruptions are owing to a struggle t*ra contained IU the vol otitic focus and the masae* of lava that "top their isaue. These will abaorb a large quantity of the former, but in the end they get saturated, and the remain ing vapors force a passage to the terrea trial surface. The origin of tlieae vapor* is stated to l*i the se-i, which provide* the volcanic force with the requisite steam. In support of thia view the an thor point* to the fact that active volca n.** are almost exclusively situated near .1 sea coast. Out of 1311 that have ha I eruptions since the middle of the la-t cutnry, ninety-eight are insular, and nearly all the other* are close to the onset. Another argument in favor o the infiltration of sea water is this: tint the chemical constitution of volcanio va pors comprises all the suls-tsnoea that distinguish sea water from fresh, and even iu the same projairtioos. The real volcano i-* the invisible toon* situated in the entrails of the earth, and not the mere crater < zposed to view. The menu tain is nothing but a sort of chimticv formed by and for the passage of the lava, and it incloses a vast space where the lava accumulate* from time to time until it is expelled by the steam. We may h re ste'e tliat these news coincide with time-* explained by I>r. Montncci in his (jun.ti.in* Scirntifitjur*, in which he considers the various focuses of vul canic activity as so many "uloera" of the terrestrial globe, aud not r* aching further down than a couple of miles be low the level of th<- sea lien the Sioux Fight, The ,Sioux, when on the warpath, black their faces from their cy*s down, the forehead I wing colored a bright rod. When in mourning and when veiy eager t'i avenge the death of friend-* or rela tions, they cut their hair short and daub their faces with white earth. Their teats of horsemanship aro wonderful. Tboy consider the greatest act of valor to IM* the striking of their enemy with some hand instrument when alive, and, whether alive or dead, it is the first one that strides the fallen foe that "counts the coup," and not the one that shoots him. They do not always scalp. Their object of scalping is t > furnish proof of their deed and give them to their women to dance over. They always attack iu a sweeping, circling line, cagle-liko, give a volley, pass on, circle and return on a different angle. When they kill one of the enemy there is always a ruh Pi get the first crack at him so as to "count tho coup," and then some Indian who was disappointed in getting a cut at the victim while alive scalps him, Tho Hionx always camp with tepees (lodges) in a circle, making, as it were, a stock ade, ami when on dangerous ground they picket their jKinics in tho center. Mr. Keller is familiar with the ground where tho disastrous engagement of Custer occurred. Concerning this be said: "My idea of the Ouster slang li ter is that the India* s had no women and children in their lodges, ami had parapets ouilrHi Tell* • wfeit lie le—l*ee llurtl Ira af like Indiana. The Chicago Tribume oorroep indent wiv he lian learned almost t complete history of thm hostile warrior, Hitting I Hull. He in u Teton Sioux aud only thirty five yen re of age. Captain Mo lurry, of the steamer Benton, tells ue he has known Sitting Bull about the upper Missouri trading IHMUI for many ! yearn. HIN principal bartering plaoe wan at Fort Peek, though of late yeam he ami hia liaiut have followed the buf falo north on the Souris and Pembina livera, ami have bartered their robes and touguea for guna ami ammunition with tin# French half Lreeds of Manitolia. Sitting Bull was a convert and friend of l ather de Hmet, who taught him to read and write French. He haa always scorned to learn Kngliah. but is a fair Freuch scholar. In the Dakota language he is also Tewed, ami declared to be a greater orator than Little Pheasant, chief of the Yanktuuuaia. Captain Mi Garry says he knows that Sitting Bull lias read the Freuch history of Napoleon's wars, and believes that tie has modeled his general ship after the little Comicaii corporal. Sitting Bull has never accepted an over ture of peace, the report that he gave m his adhesion to Sully to the contrary notwithstanding. 11" haa always been ttu unrelenting and vindictive savage, to the Americans what Schamyl was to the ltusnian. Father de Smet kept the Teton Sioux from the war;>ath until IN6B. He then left the upper Missouri and Sitting Bull tiecauie a chief. No organised ellort was made to array the Sioux nation against the whites until sftcr the Minnesota massacre of lHftd, a lieu the Sioux were driven West of the Mis.ouri into the bud lauds and moun tains of Dakota. Sitting Bull aspired to the leadership, but lied Cloud, Spd ted Tall, Little Pheasant and the Ogalalla Sitting Bull chiefs repudiated him. From tliat time lie has been a malcon tent, and at war with the chiefs of the Sioux nation, though he has by his jier s.nisive arts of oratory seduced many hundreds of their young braves into his ranks. He in also largely re enforced by young braves front the Croos ami Assmi bonis of Mauitolm. Every summer for five years he has l> n up north smoug these trilx s. and now tin y are hocking to his standard. If these r# ports veto lie l*lieved, and I have no reason to question tin m, when he next aiukm s -land against the Federal troop- he will have in the neighborhood of 5,000 war nor*, every otie aruied with repeating rifL-a. A print ib ait* <- x jiectixl from Silting Bull's inability" ti take care of the wounded already ou his hands, ami which i- a sacred duty auioug the In dians. If he ha* not *eut hi* wounded north among hi* Man Ito tat friends, ho will do so !efore he hazards another fight. The telegraphing report of Cap tain Smith, who brought Hello"* wounded town, that T rrv had found the biers of nine chiefs killed in the engsgi meut with Custer i* a mi-take. They w< re the remains of sub chiefs and braves killed by Cu*ter when ho *!• with Stanley iu 1871. The Sictyx custom is to carry off their ikawi braves to a se cluded valley, and after their customary ruouruing J ri<*l has xpired, to lay out the dead Drives on a platform high enough to be beyond the reach of wolves or coyotes. An Kxpov. A remarkable feature of the gnat in ter collegiate rowing matches, such a* that which took place at Saratoga, is the freedom of costume permitted to the contestant*. Nowhere, outside of the art studio, are the l>cAtitic of the living manly form so completely exhibited. A cap and lmthiug drawer* not much loss -canty than the conventional tig leaf, urn the only drawlaicks to complete nu dity. Dur ug the race the bare bodies of th* rowers writhe and glisten nuder th eyes of the sp-ctatorw, and wheu it is ov r tin* victors arc carried on the -hotilders of their friends through the idmiring crowds on shore, so that all may observe their masculine figures and their muscular devclopmrnt. One of the rowers, stretched at full length in a boat und smoking a cigar, was leisurely paraded up and down before the grand stand, naif courting admiration. Women as well as men are regaled with the spec tacle, and both sexes seem to witness it with equal satisfaction. We have here an illustration of the purely artificial nature of the current laws of modesty. Just a* it i* immodest in a woman to be -een in her nightgown or in her corset, but quite proper for her to show herself in n lull dress, which covers her form jn-t as little if not leas, so a man who is, or who jlist lias leen in a boat, and wielding a pair of oars, may strip him self before the public to a degree which "U tiv other occasion would subject him to arrest by the police.— Hun. Itnportaure of Peat Bed*. In some remarks on the climatology of New Hampshire, Prof. Huntington states that the preservation of the vege tation on onr mountains is of greet im portance, not only in modifying the dis tribution of rain, but also 111 modifying the extreme of cold iu winter. Our mountains, especially the higher sum mits, are ooveredtoaconsiderable depth, except where it has IM*CII destroyed by fire*, by peat, formed chiefly from moss ami lichens. Now, it has been found by experiment that i**at m<*ss can alisorn more than twice its own weight of water; dry clay, nearly its own weight; dry earth or garden mold, more than half its own weight, ami dry sntul a little more than a third of its own weight. With equal times of drying, under the same circumstances, therefore, j>r*Ht moss lows two thirds of all the water it oon t lined; clay and earth more than three fonrths, and sand more than nine tenths. Thus, iu a dry season, beds of peat ninst form nn invaluable reservoir of water for the supply of springs and streams. Wherever it or vegetable mold abounds, the soil retains its moisture, being only gradually evnj>ornted,a high relative hu midity is maintained, ami springs gush forth from the SIO]HS of the mountains, and a slight change in the P*ni|M*ratnro causes rain to fall in gentle showers. It is nupsl that on the mountains of New Hampshire * l res in general spread only over their eastern slopes. Marched Too Rapidly As further fact** are brought to boar upon Gcu. Custer's disaster it licooines more evident that his swiftness iu marching against the Indians out stripped calculation as to the forces that were to have supported him. Had his march been extended, as it was expected Pi be, liy the exploration of some lateral valleys, delaying it a single day, Gen. Gibbons would have been with him in the attack. A now grape fungus, which first ap pears oil the loavs of the grapevino in tho form of i miunte yellow Hpot, was described ly Dr. Eagclmann at a recent meeting of the St. Louis Academy of Science. It uiak4 Well. The Philadelphia /rujuirer haa the following: In the office of a relative of Mr. Christian K. Boas, ou Walnut street, there was assembled a knot of men who listened closely and anilousiy to the answers given by a mulatto man to questions put by Oaptaiu Ileitis, who lias had cliarge of the ltoss abducttou twse ou behalf of the city pallet! depart ment ever since the tlr*t infoimatlou of the curly haired boy's disappearance was left at Fifth and Chestnut streets. I The mulatto came to Philadelphia and was discovered in tlie vicinity of Mr. Boas' former office aud store tuqutiiug where Mr. ltoss could be found. The man says his name is (Aeorgu, and that he was born and raised in Ctuia, N. Y. He is tall, powerfully built, about i twenty-eight or thirty years of age, with complexion very light, even for a inn latto, and keen, dark eyes. His manner is simple aud quiet, but earnest. He -ays that he was the cook of a gang of thieves which was a branch of the gen eral organization of which Moshsr and Douglass were the leaders. The latU-r were with " Division No. 1," which had its quarters here iu the Northeast, and ho was with "Division No. 2," which located and operated in the Houth aud West. Charlie ltoss wus stolen on the first of July, and three days afterward he was m the custody of " Division No. '2," then at u point near Cincinnati, O. George says that Charlie was turned over to his care, and the first thiug he was ordered to do was to clip the curls from Charlie's head; that ho did so, and another man then went "over the work again and cut ttie child's hair very close to the scalp. The party with the child in their possession soon moved South, and for nine months constantly shifted their quarters, but kept Bouth all the time. He asserts that he saw the child alive and well within five weeks, and that, within u week, if the facilities he asks are afforded him, he will recover the long lost boy safe and sound. George alleges *.o fine feelings of humanity as the motive which promoted hira to now • ek to r store Charlie ltoss to his heart crushed parents, but says plainly that he is afu r the reward, which he would have moved after sooner had he dared. He claims that he hail no hand in the abduction, and that he never did any crooked work with the gang. It is said tliat he was able to give very straight answers concert ing the names of leaders of the latter, detailed information as to work done by them, etc., in response to questions put to Captain Heine and others, together with other information which would implv tliat he has seen Charlie Boss since tiie Letter's abduction. The mulatto solemnly protests that every word he utter* at>out the matter is the truth, aud says he only want* his assertion* tested, and that he is ready to do what he promises or forfeit hia life. Mr. Boss has been summoned to the city, and when b" arrives there will tw another < xauiination of George in his presence. There are three theories re garding this man's act on : First, the man may be simply a " beat," to use an expressive slang term, mh-aTuring to make a f< w dollars out of Mr. Boss or *t cure free ttaua]Mirtation to a certain distant p>iut he is auxiotia to reach; second, he msy le commissioned liy men having p>aao**iou of the child, which lias grown a burden ell. It wa a silent, breath less day, and the canoe shot over the surface of the lake like an arrow. Al*>ut half n mile from the t-hore, near the center of the lake, toe woman, wishing to convince the Indian* of theerruneona- IK"*S of their *np rstition, uttered a low crv. The countenances of the Indians f> il iustaiitlv to the deont gloom. After a minute's pause, however, they redoubled their < xertions, and iu frown ing silence drove the light tark swiftly over the w.iter.u They reach's! the shore in sifi ty. and licw up the cstioe, when the womau rallied the chi< f ou hi* credulity. "i h Oreat Spirit is merci ful," nnswered the roomful Mohawk ; •' ho know* tliat a white woman aannot hold her tongue t" Suspension bridge. When the first suspension bridge st Niagara Falls was projected, in IKIH, Mr. Charles Eliot offered a reward of tlvo dollars to any person who would get a string across the chasm. The next windy day all the boys in the neighbor hood were kite-flying ; and, belore night, n lucky youth landed his kits* on the opposite shore and secured the re ward. Of this little string was lioru the large cables which supjKirt the present vast structure. Rut the first successor of the string was a small wire rope, seven eighths of an inch iu diameter. To tins was suspended n wire basket, iu which two persons oould cross the chasm. To this was attached an endless rope that was worked by a windlass on each bank. The ride down to the center was rapid and exhilarating, but the pauae over the center, while the slack of the rope was being taken up, was apt to make the coolest person a little nervons, ami the jerky motion up the opjiosiP* slope wns rather annoying. The pres ent bridge, with its railroad track and carriage way, was built by the late Mr. John A. Roeblitig. It is 800 feet lon*, aud 200 feet above the water.—Scrib ncr't Monthly. Table Rock. On the twenty-fifth of June, 1850, oc curred the Rri-ut downfall which reduced Table Rick, at Niagara Fulls, to aimrrow bonch along the lutuk. The portion which fell was one immense solid rock two hundred feet long, sixty feet wide anil one hundred feet deep, when* it separated from the bank. lortuuately, it fell at noonday, when but few people were out, and no lives were lost. The driver of an omnibus who had taken off his horses for their midday feed, aud was washing his vehicle, feltthe prelimi nary cracking and escaped, the vehicle itself being plunged into the gulf below. ROME FIGURES. —There are in the UniPnl BtaPs 6,000.000 farmers, 1,200,- 000 trades people, 9, 700,000 mechanics, 2,600,000 professional men, 43,000 clergymen, 40,000 lawyers, 126,822 teachers, 62,000 doctors, 2,000 actors, 5,200 journalists, 1,000,000 laborers and 75,000 domestic seivanta. TERMS: S'-i.OO a Year, in Advance. A Wise Furniture Car Driver. One of the gayest hearted men in ML Louis is a furniture oar driver, whom, by wy of |let name, wn will nail Curly Jim, usually contracted into Curly. He has away of always lookingao contented and so entirely at peace with all the w 'fid that the rest of mankind (vide Preai lent Taylor's rnnwags) are ever disposed to trout with hint ou the most trieiiuly torms, and he is OUI Popularity himself with the female portion of the moving world. Curly'a wagon always seems to be loaded with the lietter daiw of furuiture, ah if he were employed only by genteel families, and he has a knack of piling it ou ao as to present a ahioshape, if not an artistic appearance. He i* quite a philosopher, too, in bis way, and has a pretty good insight into the labyrinths of the human heart. " How is it. Curly, that you get tho moving of all the millionaires in town t" said a tttfmbliran reporter to htm the other day. " Well, you're a little out of plumb there," replied Curly; " milliomuree never move. I get pretty nice loads, to be sure, and that ia partly luck ami part ly a little knack that theae common fel lows don t understand," 1 must lie oue of the common fellows, too, replied the reporter, for I dou't un derstand either. Explain. "Did you ever buy a box of strawber ries in the market f" . " Many a time." " And didn't you always fiud the nice, plump berries on top t" " Always." " Well, that is the way 1 make np my load*. Now most families have got a few nice things, and nearly all, even the very beet, have got an awful sight of tranh; and suppose you have got to move them, and is there any sense in piling all the nice things in the bottom and covering them up with traah so as to look as if you were moving a j uuk ahop or around hand furniture store f For instance, here's this load I've got on now. The only nice things the people have are thx wardrobe, bureau and washstaud. As I pass along the street vou don't notice anything else on the load but them, do you ? That's owing to the way they're put on. When we get to the house they are living moved to the lxv>t things will all stand on the sidewalk, while the old traps aud rub bish will be fetched into the house as fast as it can be taken from the wagon. The neighbors, of course, will all be l>eepiug through the bliuds and out of the comers of the windows, and will say: 'That is a very genteel family moving iu; they have got pretty nice things.' Don't you see i" "That all looks very plausible; but do people who are moving care, as a general thing, for the appearance their traps will xnake in being moved f" " l'ou bet they do. The other day I was moving a family into a row and an other carman wan moving a family into next door. I accidentally overboard the lady at this house say: • How provok ing" ! That atiominable carman seems to take hj-ecial pains to make as much display an possible of every broken legged chair and rickety piece of furni ture we've got. Our things arc nicer than those next door folks, but while theii * look an gentarl one might think we were moving from the poorbouae.' " " Then you believe iu always putting vour I*-*t foot foremost, as the saying ia I" "True for you. It's the grand secret of succt-sa in the world. And when 1 put other people's best foot foremost for them they like it, and that ia the way I keep my business." An Anecdote of Forrest. The little old theater in Albany, N. Y., bun been made the ace ne of many carious theatrical etoriea. On one oc casion Mr. Edwin Forrmt, then a young man, and mere famous for his muncle than hi* genius, gave a tremendous dis play of really powerful acting, lie was supposed to represent a Roman war rior, and to be attacked by MI minions of a detested tyrant. At the rehearsal Mr. Forrest found a great deal of fault with the snpes who condescended to play the minions. Tboy were too tame. They didn't lay hold of him. They wouldn't go in as if it were a real fight. Mr. Forrest stormed and threatened; the supe* sulked and consulted. At length the captain of the snpes inquired iu his local slang: " Yer want this to be a bully fight, eh f" " I do," replied Mr. Forrest " All right," rejoined the captain, and the rehearsal quietly proceeded. In the evening the little theater was crowded, and Mr. Forrest was enthusi astically received. When the fighting scene occurred the great tragedian took the center of the stage*, and die six min ions entered rapidly and deployed in skirmishing order. At the cue " Seize him !" one minion assumed a pugilistic attitude, and struck a blow straight from the shoulder upou the prominent nose of the Roman lie.ro; another raised him atsiut su inches from the stage by a well directed kick, and the others made ready to rush in for a decisive tussle. For s moment Mi. Forrest stood as tounded, his broad chest heaving with rage, his great eyes flashing like fire, his sturdy legs planted like columns upon the stage. Then came the few momenta of powerful acting, at the end of which one supo was seen sticking head foremost in the bast* drum in the orchestra, fonr were having their wonnds dressed in the green room, and one, finding himself iu the flies, rnahed ont upon the roof of the theater and ahonted " Fire !" at the top of his voioe; while Mr. Forrest, called before the curtain, bowed his thanks pantiuglv to the ap plandiug i ndience, who looked upon the whole atlair a* part of the piece, and " had never seen Forrest act so splen didly." ruin Funerals. The undertaker received an order to have everything as plain as possible at the burial of Mr. (lamer and his wife, victims of tho Mohawk disaster in New York hartwir. Here is a proof of good sense and task* on the part of Mr. (lar uer'a friends. " Sated with the pomp ons follies of this world, of which I have had an uncommon share, I desire have no posthumous diaplav," wrote the c**U*brated Lord Chesterfield, and ordered lit* liody to be buried in the nearest graveyard, and his funeral ex penses to IM* limited to a small sum. His example had great effect in England iu pntting down foolish funeral pomp. Iu this country it is among people who aro uot rich that funeral folly ia carried to its highest pitch. People who can scarcely see a month's food ahead, will s|HUid what is to them a little fortune at a funeral, and the hard earned savings of friends are expended in a dreary procession of hacks to a distant oeme tery. " What possible connection can there be between my drinking s glasi of wine, and that fellow's health ?" asked a man when urged to drink a toast; and what possible satisfaction can there be to the dead in a long retinne of haoks at $lO apiece filled with mourners, whoso grief is not always as palpable as it ought to lie, following him to Green wood f If people want to give proof of affection after bereavement, let them subscribe to help widow or children, if they need aid, and not to the hack pro pi ietor and undertaker, who BOW alone benefit— New York Sim. NUMBER 33. THE TKKBOK OP DEATH. .Waa MaSafaraalrallaWafct l>aa*r—Tfc# Marnlaa al Ik* St, Clair*. J. B. Baiphin, of Minneapolis, was on board the propeller Hi. Claire, which was destroyed by fire off Fourteen-Mile Point, Lake Huperior, and is one of the Ore (and the o taught how to put ont fires in their own homes, and be trained to pres ence of mind, to familiarity with the thought of what is to be done in case of tire, and to a full realization of the most important fact that any fire can be put out at the beginning. Twenty hand pnmps are distributed throughout the building, each supplemented by six pails filled with water. Every pnmp has its captain and company of six girls, one of whom is lieutenant, and all the companies are drilled at convenient opportunities in handling the pumps, in forming lines and in passing the pails. The whole organisation is officered by a superintendent and secretary. Hose oompanies for operating the great steam tire pnmp are organized in a similar manner. A girl was killed near Danville, Va., the other morning while milking a oow. If girls would ouly learn to play the piano and maze worsted dogs such acci dents would never happen. I IMB * f lateral* It is a bad night when monquitoeß *n gfft iimp Hrt to a naor that lake* bold well hi ahßvtng, on* that tela go eeay *■ moil doetatble. Why IN KINMB like the Creation t Because thay are made of nolbing, and are wry good, A ebild wu drowned ia a street gat tor daring a thunder shower at New Orieana the other day. A Spanish proverb : The man who, on hii wedding day, atarte ae a lieutenant in hi* family, will never get promoted, Man may learn wiadom from a poteage stamp it sticks to ita legitimate busi ness. Letter* profit by it. Bait Lake papera aay that 10,000 miner* have left Utah thi* seasonto assist in the Han Joan excitement. llow 000 l and nice it would be to fail down a well! Provided you are careful not to kiek the bucket. George Eliot aay* that " what we aee exclusively we are apt to aee with iome mistake of proportion*." A modern eaosyist defines "goeaip " to be the " putting of two and two to gether and making five of them." Two W*" Fraaciaoo butchers own 700 < 000 acre* of land and employ 1,000 men. Both these oapitalsts are German*. A borae committed suicide in Lake Village, N. H., the other day, by drown ing himself. He waa nick, aid became despondent. A giri of thirteen, in Guildford, Eng land, was reovntly caught by gypsies, .tripped of all her clothing, and aent home unhurt. In 1759, George Washington, in send ing to London for some goods, put upon the memorandum: " Nine pounds of Mogar candy." The Missouri Pacific railroad baa ud deolr discovered that train conductors have robbed it of SBO,OOO during the hut twelve months. An Indiana lady sent a letter to her brother in California, toiling him that the family had smallpox, and in a few days he had it, too. A Liverpool magistrate estimates tliat $14,157,000 are annually spent in that city for intoxicating liquors. There are 1,410 drinking houses. An exehange aays: "It takes thi- ty men a mouth to make one camel's hair ahawL" Tea! and it often takes one man thirty months to pay for it. To feed sparingly and irtvgulaiiy is to lose all you give to fowls ; but to study into their want* and anticipate them is to render them very profitable. It ia estiaxatod that there are about S0 American youths, aged from twelve to twenty years, who are engaged ia the business of ••amateur journalism." In 1857, while Lewis and Clark were crossing the It'why mountains, a number of Indians followed them for several days in order to restore soma articles that they had lout. A wife in Han Joae, OaL, became wild ly jealous of her husband, and killed her 4lf, which left the husband free to mar ry the woman who canoed the jealousy, and he did it within three months. Troy papers aay that the firing of can no a on tie- night of July 3d deafened the bones of Trojan hook and ladder company, and when the alarm sounds the horns have to be led to their places. In this matter of preserving health by eating at regular hours, it ia interesting to note that a vigorous old lowa tramp of ninety years has lived for the past thirty-five years of hts time entirely on catch meals. The numlier of visitors to the Centen nial Exhibition since the opening to July 18th, aggregates 2,254,074. and tie cash receipts $743,576.50. The number of " deadhead " or non-paying visitors is, therefore, 166,921. A- gentleman of Jersey City, N. J., has token the fourth of July deooraiiuos from hi* house and sealed them in a packet, which is to be opened by his de scendants in order that the same decora tions may be used by them in 1976. On® of the fruit* of the Ot-tenuial Exhibition win be that yon can buy a dosen different makes of erwicg ma chine* next year, and eaeh one will have received th< *• tint" premium for excel lence, light raiming, and such. Edward Ttmmons, father of Louise Hawthorne, the actress who was killed by falling from a hotel window in Chi cago, h" committed suicide in Middle town, Conn. He was greatly depressed hy his daughter * death, and at length ' -coame demm< d. The Centennial sash of red, white, and blue ribbon six or seven inches wide is that he disapproved of it. The first Boston church was ne*f a list of Boston meoharfcY m 1670 does not include a painter. This abominate did not become oommoc unti. after the Revolution.