Tanght bj th Rra*t, A lorslv lily droopad hr q nasal* hssd. And looked npon th RT** which at hsr test A bright green i!air-e potted carpet apread. And thue shs sjxike, and all the air grew sweet " JV> yon not wieh. O gra, that yon could !<• Aa tall, aa fair, aa beantifnl ac I, That ron might toaoh the gr*e of purity To ev'ry paaaci •by ?" "Nay," waa the anawwr; "I'm eoutent nay friend. Ix>w aa 1 am, I do not live in rain: Tsngbt by the grass, the wiae will meekly bend When teiujH sU blow, no they may riae again For who with stubborn neart the atorm detiea I* rudely torn from faith and hope away. But he who bowa look a up at rainhowed akiet When cornea a tunny day !" Rood Night. Good night! Now the weary reat by right, And the huay Angers bending Over work that aeema unending. Toil no more till morning Ught Good night' Go to reat' Cloae the eyea with alumber preat ; In the streets the ailenee growing. Wake* but to the wateh born blowing, Night make* only one rtspuwst— Go to reat' Slumber (Met Rleaacd Jn*ni each dreamer greet , Re whom lo*w baa kept from aleepmg In awet drenv- now o'er him creeping Mar he hia In 'ovtxl nnxt— Slumber aweel' Good night ' Slumber till the morning Ugbt, Slumber till the new to-tuortvw tVimes and bring* ita own new so,-row. We are in the Father a sight Good nig id 1 V'ji TV t.Vrm.xx (if TiaaxAwv Aiwswe WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR? " O what a lowly bunch of pausies ! Is it possible thev are {or me *" 1 ex claimed to a tiny, brown-eyed ;irl who • placed a f: -igrunt bouquet of the gold and purple dev bKauus iu my hatn inook \u which I "was idly swinging un der the big maple. " Aunt v Lee >ent them," Raid tl>e wee child, " and she hope* the moun tain air will soon make you well, tuid she's Tour neigh taw, down under the hill" " Who is tit is neighl>orly Auuty Lee*" I asked the woman with whom 1 board ed when next she came within hearing of my voice. " O, then, she's sent ye some posies," replied talkative Mrs. Evans, coming briskly from the garden and sitting down on the steps of the little porch so that she might entertain me while she was shelling her pease, thns " killui* tew birds with one stun," as she said. "I v.u i wonderiu' tew myself not tew minntee ago how long'twould be afore she'd find out about ye an* send ye snthin'. I can't see, for my part, how she can afford to do as she does." " Whv, what does she do 1" 1 in quired. " Ob, she says she aims to lie neighborly, and if anybody happens to be sick anywheres around she sends "em little things to eat an' flowers to cheer * ecu up. as she says ; and she al ways has her kuittin' work in her i>ocket and her ' odd job o' knittin" as she calls it, grows eout like magic into gloves and mittens and wristlets an' stockiD's that she gives away." "To her friends, peeple fully able to buy them, I suppose." "Oh, dear, no. To poor children an' tew old men an' women that, I spose, are real needy, an' that set great store by her warm and handsome presents, for her yarns are as bright as her flow ers, an" I've told my man a good many times that the color went half toward makic' her little gift so welcome. An' then she has so much eomp'ny." "Rich people from the city, whose visits she returns ?" "Oh, land sake*. no; poor folks that are tickled most to death to get an invi tation to her pleasant little home. Yis, her home is an amazin' pleasant one, though her man is only a poor me chanic. She's always a savin' that she'd rather dew a little good every day as she goes along, than tew be a waitin' to dew some great thing when she gets able, and then, p'raps, lose her opportunity and never do n>.ak flawc ou Thursday afternoon at five o clock, and talk the matter up over a •neighborly" cup of tea. At the time appointed 1 had a car riage oonte to take my hostess and me, and UT Kasket of cakes and buns fresh (mm the bakery, to the beautiful grove. As we were driven along 1 was sur prised to seei\iug u :he same direction. '• Almost evervtxxrv in town is going," said M rs. Evans, " high an' low, rich an' poor." As I was being assisted to a seat a gentle, motherly little woman spread a soft shawl over the lack of the chair intended for me and quicklv folded an other shawl for my lame !<*it to rest UpOU. "This is Auntv Lee," said Mm. Evans, and the sweet-faced little womau and I looked mto each other s faces witli a little curiosity, perhaps, as well as sympathy, and shook hands cordially. " I don't know what all these gvxxl ixx>- ple are to do with Elijah ami me," she said with a smile that was a* genial aa a sunbeam, " but the minister would have us eoiiie, and he aud his wife drove around for us." The minister ascended the platform just tlieu, and after tenderly yet im pressively invoking the Divine blesaiug, he looked down benignly upon the faces upturned to his and with a touching iutouatiou of voice asktsl : " Who is my neighbor*" He then went on to tell how Auuty Lee had answered that question in regard to himself. " When I first became acquainted with Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Lee," he said, "1 was finishing my theological studies here in the village with Dr. Mills, and thev hail just married and settled down in Aieir little house yonder, which they hail inherited. One day 1 was sent for to preach on trial in the adjoining town of I.' - ". 1 >ro'. My only coat was worn tlireaooare and extensively patched, and I had no way of proeunug another. Feeling sorely grieved and dispirited I started out for a walk, and for the sake of telling my troubles to some fellow - creature and with no thought of receiv ing any aid in the premises, I turned in to Mrs. Lee's house and read to her the invitation I had had from Lnxboro* and frankly told her why I could not go at present" " Leave it to the Lord," said the good woman, and forthwith she proceeded to take my measure with a piece of tape. "Go home," she continued, "write your sermon and come here again Satur "day morning." I obeyed. I subsequently found that the woman had actually taken a piece of cloth that she had laid by in the house for a cloak for herself, and tailored as she was by trade, 1 ad cut and made me a coat from it. I preached my first sermon iu it, and shortly received and accepted my first call." "Oh, dear," whispered Aunty Lee from her seat by my side, "he's paid me for that coat evtry New Year's Day since, and it wasn't much for me to do, after all. Major Hanfonl, the richest man in town, was the next to take the stand. The old people smiled and nodded their heads, but the young '.ks looked at each other and wondered what he could be indebted to Auntv Lee for. "When I was a boy,' the major be gan, "I was bound oat in H to a very, very bail master, from whom 1 determined to rnn awav. I availed my self of an opportunity to escape <>ne Saturday afternoon, when I wns seut to the pasture to salt the cattle. I came straight over the mountain to this place. I wanted to get out of the State as soon as possible, so came directly to the bridge down here at the river, which is, von all know, the New Hampshire boundary. Just after I hail stepped upon Vermont soil I overtook, on the road, Mr. and Mrs. Lee, young people then. They had a basket and a spade, an repair the damages done to the dear little horostead and to rebuild mv old friend's aliop.'' and Major Sanford snt down, wiping his eyes with his hand kerchief, while his delightful audience applanded vociferously. "Dear heart," said Aunty Lee to me, "what was he talking about ? He's paid us over and over, and he's tried and tried to make Elijah go into partnership with him, but he wonldn't, and I would not let him." Then followed one minute speeches by the Bcore. "They kept me three months when I was sick and homeless," said one. "I made their house my home for weeks when I was out of work," said another. Ten homeless working girls were married in their parlor anil went out into the world with their bless ing. There was a great number of teaching little speeches from those who had received flowers and delicacies in illness and warm garments in times of need. And so from them all sowed out con tributions of money, the greater part of which was safely placed in bank for the benefit of the Lees when old age and failing strength should overtake them. "Dear me," said Mrs. Evans to Aunty I Lee, "you've been lendin' to the Lord, i and He pays the best interest, arter all. I never could understand before; but I ! dew now." "There are none of us so poor that we cannot give such as we have. A smile j or a kind word even will come back to ns 1 in kind," said Aunty Lee. and we all brushed away the tears that we could not suppress while those touching speeihes were being made, and went to i our homes. Ths United States sold to France in 1876, $52,900,000 worth of raw cotton ! and other stuffs, and bought in return : $45,920,000 worth of silks, velvets, dress 1 goods, and ether articles. THE CENTRE REPORTER A Virginia Tragedy of the Past, Among the numerous luoss growru uhl tomb • stones m the gravevanl of Williamsburg, Vs., is out which bears the following uisciiptiou: Sacred to the memory of s \ ti a it akMIUIII.L, Who dnxl at the ago of twenty the, slain, with her two iufaut daugh ters, by her owu husband. She was fair to look npon, pure as snow, aud beloved bv all who knew her. Divine Providence aloue knows why she had to perish so miserably. This epitaph, some of the words of which are hardlv legible any longer, is the only recordleft t>f one of the most terrible tragedies that ever tk place in the Old Dominion. It was in 1 TIM that Joliu Semphill, a young man. who sanl he was from Suuta I'rua, in the West Indies, arrived at Williamsburg and settled there as a tobacco planter. He had plenty of inouey, and was able to purchase about one thousand acres of the finest soil within a short distance of the old town. Heing apparently a gentleman in every sense of the word, Mr. Hemphill was admitted to the ls->t society IU his new home, and a year later he was married t > Sarah Jouea, a beautiful heiress, the utxldiug festivities b ivg ovlebruted with extraordinary pomp and splendor. In of time two daughters were Imrn to the young oouple, and i very laxly predicted a long career of clou '.less hap piness for them. Alas ! llow terribly those bright anticipations were to tie disappointed. It was on Christmas eve, iu 1801, that a strange- looking man, in 1 a sort of military uniform, apjmared at the house of Mr. Seuiphill, who was m Richmond at the time. Mrs, Hemphill I received the stranger in the parlor. " Do vou speak French, madam ?" he said to her iu very broken English. She replied in the affirmative. t " Then, madam, please send your two uurse-girls with the children out of the room." She did so, and looke 1 interrogatively at her visitor. The latter* hesitated a moment, l'hou he said in a tone of deep emotion: " Poor lady, I have terrible tidings for you." " Heavens !" she cried, turning very pale; " my husband —" " Your husband is uu 'infamous vil lain." "Sir !" she exclaimed, iudignantlv. "He has basely deceived you. He is an escaped galley slave, a thief and a murderer !" She uttered a heart-rending scream. "Do vou tell me the truth?" she gasped. " He is a Spanish thief, and was sunt to the galleys ot Barcelona for life. He made his escape from thence, and fled to Cuba, where lie rob bed and murdered a richjilauter. lam here to take him to Cuba, where the scaffold surely awaits • him." The affiicted lady had Iveoume strangely islm. ♦' Sir," she said to the stranger, " be fore vou arrest him, will you permit me .to hold a private interview with— . with—" " His true name is Juan Ceffrio. if you will let me remain in an adjoining room until he returns from Richmond, i where he has gone, I understand, yon IUHV see him privately." "I expect him back every moment" Half au hour later, Cefirio, alias Hemp hill made hts appearance. His wife briefly told him everything. He flew into a terrible rage. He shot her through the heart, and rushed out of the room to the nurserv, where he stabbed his two little daughters. The next moment the Cuban officer, who hail runted after him, grappled with him, and saeoeodml, after a desperate struggle, in shackling j him. The news of this horrible tragedy spread like wildfire through the old town, and in less than twenty minutes a large course of people had gathered in front of Hemphill alias Ceftrio's house. Vociferous threats to lynch the murder er were made, and the deputy sheriffs, who were promptly on hand to arrest him, had the utmost difficulty in taking him to jail, where he wns chained to the floor, having threatened to commit sui- | i cide. The villain was hnng on the 17th of May, IHO3. Ire Water. A prominent Western paper has re- j oontly published a series of articles pointing out the evil eff., 187 H. THt MVSSKUI: ir wvtmiMi CrriarmlMi i -lrbrmr Ha or ll un.irnh Inaltciut* *n Jul* .1 aail I Tfc* •!•* l Ifcr llulllr mi# l~M rr. A aurrli*ut of a Now York paper write# a# follow# from Hoxinltin, IV■. The elals>rati>re,parHtu>u in pr*'Kr"s among the people of lYuunylvania for a centennial commemoration of the battle and iua##acre of Wyoming, recall nun of the uiokt thrilling incident# of the Invo lution. Tin' name of Wyoming ami it# ami hintori have obtained a world-wide fame, ami naturally tli* thousand# who have been stirred by the recital of it# woe#, will fool an intormt ui the forth coming celebration, which will nvnr on the Sd tuitl 4th of July next, the tirnt hcillg the ilute of tho battle ami uiu.saa- Ore. The preparation#for the demoustra tiou were hopun ott the ninety-niuth anniversary of the event, when a IIUIUIHT of the ih -cemlaut# of the pallalit yeomen who fought ktnl fell met amlorganuud an mtl ieutial unsocial ion, with sub committees scattered throughout the valley to atteml to the iletalln. The heartuit'NH witu which they entered upon their work ami the euthu#ia#m With which the public have aeoomied their effort#, warrant the UO|H< that t IN uffair will be worthy of the occasion which it i# designed to honor. The invasion f the valley was ioMm pliahed uu the 3d of July, 1778, when a uutubar of British soldiers, commanded by Col. John Butler, mid aticompauied by 7UO lu liana, led by the cruel half breed, Brunt, or Gi-eu-gwah-toh, de scended 11 |H>U the defenceless settlement. They acre mot by a fow companies of olit men uml boys, whose extreme age .uj youth had exempted tlrom from service iu tlio distant ranks of the lle publio, and for several hours u throe battle raged ou tho banks of the Sus quehanna. But the eon teat waa unequal. The Indians from their ambush, kept up a deadly think fire, which sooll thiutlod the ranks of the yeomen, and, utterly shattered, they were foreed to fall lan'k, despite the appeals of their courage >us hauler, Col. Zebuloti llutler, who cried, " Don't leave me, my children, ami the day is ours." The ludiaus, seeing their foes retreat, fell upon them and slaugh tered witnout mercy, men, women ami ehfldreu. When the Sis Nations espoused tin* English cause against the Colon if* it wa* part <>f tho compact that tin- latbcr should lead them against Wyoming, to afford tin'in uu opportunity of leing upon the settlor*, whom the* regarded a* the usurers of the rd mail's paradise, a name sometimes given to the valley; and so, the tlrst skirmish l*iag over, the Indian* gave full scope to the spirit of detraction which |s*ises d them, and, breaking away ft""* 'heir leaders, they reaped a terrible revenge upon the gentle people of that Arcadian ataxia. About three hundred were put to death with torch, tomahawk and spear, regardless of age or sex, aud the most cruel torture* that a tleudish t irit could devise were employed to make the last lingering moments of their victim* full of agony. An awful night followed that day of carnage. The huts and homes, "the crop* and orchard*, were set on tire, and tho devastation of the eu tire settlement was made complete. S'-veral were drowned in tlieir efforts to escape down the ri\er under tlie cover of night, but a party of a hundred women and children succeeded iu mak ing their wav to the mountains, under the leadership of one old mau. who was their solo protector, lint though they tl\l tlie terrors of the massacre, it Wiis to encounter hardship* equally severe. Their path l.iy through the (Jn-at ttwHinp, now kuowu as the " Shades of I hint h," bv reawn of tho numlier* who had penslnd there, and the sufferings they endured from fear and famine aud sickness are unmatched by anvtluug on nwnl. One poor woman, whose ISIH* died at her breast in a vatn effort to ob tutu nouriahment, earrie i her dead dar ling twenty milcff ratlier than leave the precious burden behind to fall a orey to the wolves, and many other incidents of love and devotion are related. Only a few survived the fntigue of tin' inarch aud the plague which overtook them in the swamp. The bodies of those who were massacred in the Wyoming Valley lay tinburieJ on the plain for months, until a detachment of soldiers gatherd them together one night and consigned them to a large hole in the ground, fear ful lest a more rcsnoctfnl interment might excite the enmity of the Indians, who were still prowling about the neigh borhood. The result was tliat the exuet location of the remains was unknown to the friends of the dead for many years, ana their discovery at last was a mere accident. An unassuming obelisk om meuiorntive of the virtues of the fallen heroes have been raised over their rest ing plnce by the patriotic women of Wyouiiug, atid is visited every summer by hundreds of persons attract**! to the scene bv a spirit of reverence or curios ity. In order to make the coming Centen nial a* roahstic a* possible, a number of hut* are in process of erection along the river, to look exactly like those which stoo l there one hundred years ago, ami the old fort* are being rebuilt. A tribe of friendly Indiana detailed their chief a few days ago to wait on the committee of arrangement* and offer their services, in full costume, and their ajqienranee will doubtless aid the picturesque features of the representa tion. President Hayw and a number of men prominent in polities and litera ture have also signified their intention of being present. The first day will be devoted to isles and oration* commemo rative of the event. The words of a poem by Miss Htisan E. 1 hckmson have Men act to innate and will be sung by one hundred voices, and a similar con tribution has been made by another accomplished lady, who retiree behind the nom 11r plume of "Stella of Lacka wanna." The programme for the Fourth . of July consists of a grand pageant, j participated in by the civic and military societies of Pennsylvania, to lie followed in the er?*ii"g by a display of fireworks nlong .as nver banks a distance of twenty miles of charming scenery. A sketch of Wyoming would be incom plete without mentioning the "Bloody fjllll— Esther,'' an Indiau fury, who with ber own band put twenty men to death. Her viotmis hod been taken prisoners, and were promised mercy; i out just at the moment when they hoped I to be released they were led from the fort where they hnd been held captive, and ranged around a rock, upon which their murderess, with death-maul and tomahawk, dashed out their brains. It is known to this day as Queen Esther's Hock, and the portion which rose above the surface of the earth has l*en almost carried away by the relic hunters. The story of Frances Hlocum.wbo was carried off from her mother's door, a mere baby, by the Indians, nud discovered half a epntury later by her brothers, who found that she had forgotten her lan guage, anil was happy and wealthy with the "children of the forest" is tsi well known to need reproduction; neverthe less,owing to the touching circumstances of the case it occupies considerable prominence in the tradition of the massacre. The nephew of Frances Slocnm ia at present residing in Scran ton, aud rememliers well having heard his father describe the meeting with his sister. Indians are not at all contagious. They are very difficult to catch. The Press, The following is taken fnuu an ad dress ou the Press, delivered Iwfnrs the Psi lipsilou Society, tu Boatoti, by (Icorgc forming llill, a journalist of that .'ilv : • Obedient as the Press may seem to tie, it is, nevertbs' .. sleeplesaly jeal ous of lis staudiug u' I influence, lest they should be underrated or niisup phot. It ia au unerring measurer of public men, ami alone knows the little ueas of great ones. An integer in the fabrics of society, it has a scorn of l>e llig thought to represent merely individ ual interests. The personal organ is •lead the day it is born. If to-day, therefore, it ia the udvocnte, to-uiorrow It is the judge. If It ia the eulogist now, it was the censor yesterday. Though it linve three hundred and sixty five opinions iu the year, it is nevertheless Consistent always. Not as yet has it found its ranks among learned professors, and it is doubtful if it ever will, for it must need* le practical rather thou learned. In this country it is not rnoogniaed as the stepp.ng-stoue to public preferments, and it js-rhaps gaius by the dissociation. In England it is the accepted touchstone of intel lectual capacity, recruiting Parliament, the Bar, and the sohoola of authorship. In France it is the ocknowlcdged finish ing-scln*l of publicists ami statesmen, and the rntrrt inU the liest society. With us, jMihticiaus would fain make a whetstone of it to shar|>eu and polish their blades; advertisers find it almost the whole of tin r intangible capital ; lawyers and doctors resort to it as birds do to the hedge* for shelter; the grand army of grievance liearers marches up and fiiugs down its knapsacks full of complaint* at its feet ; the accused run to it with their ready explanations; the defamed with their denials and defence*; the philosophers with their remedies, the ixw'ta with their fol-de-rol, and the other sex with their sleepless causes. The world at large seeks the oovsr of its sheltering fold. Everybody is eager to proclaim his existence and something more through it* effectual agency, they alone excepted who are in the real secret and sit silent at the source of its jvtwer. It is Argus, Bi.arena, Hercules and Hermes rolled into oue. Day and night it keej>s its messengers running, tlying, swimming, delving, hs'kmg and listening, auil with their faithful assist ance it manages to turn the world in sole out. For it Hchliemann uncovers Homeric Troy to verify the immortal story; Stanley cuts tlie iark core out of the lung-forbidden fruit of Africa; gov- eminent despatch MtMunmeni to thi* far-off capes to rejnirt the transit of Veil tis an l correct the dmUiio' f lbs sun; Hitting liuli haraugne* hi* harle quin brave* and swings round Ibe cards of Indian villages; tin* tirrle** iuterview er pnlls the l>ell at nil front d<*>r* ; ami tin- local g stip glneahi* capa<>tt ear to cvurt private keyhole. All this purely for tlio production and di-vmmatiou of intelligence, the valuable iml value less. It supplant* theorator,eompreaaea wrbuse debate into pregnant statement, tnakos only straightforward business of legislation, and turn* eloquence into tin* raw staple of farts ami figure*. It edits the telegraph, the mails, the caucus an.l eonvetition, the Legislature-science, art ami invention—commerce, law ami agriculture. It is the free publish er for them all—makes their announce ments- a.lju-1* their liffereucea -ami •ssnres their influence. It boila down tsxiks; extract* the aoul from treatise*; culls bouquet* fr >m the gar>leu of the poets; give* fl< iihilitv ami present use to learning; sets profe-sor* of tJreek \0 writing on international law; ami, m geuerai, sifts, assort* ami distribute# literature. Its remorsehwa appetite for news—presenting horror ami humors in parallel column#—will, however, create n surfeit aome time, and after that is . ver will yield to the finer auggeationa of ita palate for thought. Juat now it i* not greatly given to the nicer moral shading*, but thug* the pigment on the cunvaea with a rapid bniah and exhibit* all thiuga in the wtin# fierce glare of light. But ita loudness will gradually lie diaoiphntH] down to a low-keyed ang geativauew, with steadier aim and more practised engineering; and it will yet Ixavime the true living outline of the national hteratnre. A (Jueer Kngllh C#lw. The ancient ceremony of towing tha pancake, a* it took place tliia year in the great achool-room at Weatm 1 later, ia thua deaaribed by an Kughah paper; After the prayer* at twelve o'clock the college cook, preeeeile throw thia pancake over au iron bar, from which formerly hung a 1 curtain, ncpiirating the upper from the under acliool. On the further aide of the bar, which ia aomo twenty-five feet perhaps from the floor, stands an ex pectant crowd of boys, every one of whom is eager to seize the pancake a* it falls, and liear it off entire to the Dean- i cry. where the reward of s guinea awaits the foitnuate pos*i** .. Uy lUtimnludilill *, Ou their way out, however, by adnoeof the captain of the *hi|> Hi which tliey had l*ken panaage, theydecidfcd U) goto lueveMlbfo Inland. There they were imiiieii ou the '27 th of Noveintier, 1871. A quarter of mi hour afterward the whaler departed, mid they were left aloue, the ouly luhabitauta of one of the moat remote spot* on the faoe of the globe. They remained tliere for two yearn, or uutil they were taken off by the Challenger. The atory of their life on the lonely inland read* like a chapter from Robuumß Crusoe. TKIMTAS Isl.lMbv Thirteen Hundred miles south of Ht. Helena, and lift.-.-u hundred miles west of till) o*|W "f Good Hope, aud nonrly Oil S lino I let Worn the t'a|>ei>f Good l|.|>r mi.l C|h< II •m, lies Tristan IV Cuiilin, or Trutiiu D'Aounha, u cluster of three volcanic islands, the largest of which glVeB till' lUIU II' to tll gfulip. Tile O til or two are tin- Inaccessible Island and tli Nightingale Island. The group received its name from H Portugese navigator, who discovered it in l.'MWi. Inaccessible 1H11.11.1 lIOH sts'llt eighteen llllll* HOlltll west from Tristan, and Nightingale Is land twenty miles south. The largest island nt the only one permanently in habited, an.l in probably the most isolated ami of all the a bod Mi of men. It ia nearly eirenlar, ami contains about forty square uiilea. l)u the north airle it rises ahrut'tly to an elevation of about a thousand feet, and from the Ktimmit of tlie cliffs the land riaea to a corneal peak 8,1126 feet high. The sur face consist* of abrupt ridge* covered with huahea, with deep ruviuea and ehaama between. The summit ia a .•rater Ave hundred yards wide, and filled with water. On the northwest aide of the ialand ia n narrow plain,aome bun lred and fifty feet above the level of the M*a, witli excellent noil, and tu a high state of cultivation. Here hvea the fauioua Glass colour. There had been residents on the ialand off and on at varioua timea. be ginning in 1790 when Cspt. l'atten, freen constantly inhabited. In 16*23 the little settlement numbered seventeen jxsrsons, of whom three were women. Six years later Capt. Morrell visited tie ialand ia the U. H. ship Antarctic, and the oniony compris ed then twenty sevan families, and thev were able to supply passing ahijai witli bullock", cuwa, sheep and pig" and fresh vegetables and milk in any quantity. In 1836 there waa a population of forty two on the inland, ami in 1H52 Capt. Denliam visited the group of lalauda and Tristan's population then numbered eighty-five. He described "tlie young men ami young women aa partaking of the mulatto caste, wives of the flrat settler* beiug natives of the ('ape of Oond Hope and St. Helena, but the children of the aeoond generation he would term handsome brunettes, of a strikingly fine figure." Before Capt. Denham'a visit the great majority of the population had been males, bnt as time went on, and a new generation sprang up, the young men in the ad venturous. spirit of life found their island home quiet, ami they had de parted, seeking more surnng occupa tion elsewhere. Accordingly, in 1852, tlie women were considerably m the majority. Glass has lot) g held the title of gov ernor. He w* Scotchman. and wm U> have been a man of sound principle, <>f prcat energy and industry, and to have acquired tn a remarkable degree the confidence of the little community. Their miuiater, Mr. Taylor, wrote au ao emint of tlie little a*'iety, which wa* published in iHfiO. He apoke in the hipheat terra* of the moral character of hit flock, poinp far aa to say that he could find no vice to conteud with. They had no formal guverumeut, and aa they had no rum, p vernmeut wa* lea* Deeded. Whatever dispute* th'V hail were aettled by fisticuffs, vitK by stander* ptwK'Ot to secure fair play. Guv. Glass died iu IHM, die year after Oapt, ltenhara'a visit, and wa* suecMd ed !>v a sort of tacit consent, by tlreen a ho ha.l m&rriou one oi Glass* daughter*. In '*t>7, the l)nke of Edinburgh viaited Tristan, in the < talatca, and in honor of his royal highness, the chief settlement wa* named. Hixteen children hail l>een born since the departure of Mr. Taylor, and the colony, instead of dving out, as Mr. Taylor feared, had Jakcu a new stait, the population hanup increased from forty-seven to eighty-srix, which -ems to lie about the normal figure. In the island had a population of sixty, of which thirty-five were children tinder ten years of ape. 111 hi* "Vovapo of the Challenger." Sir Wyville Thompson describes a visit he made to this intereatinp oolonv. It consisted at that time (October, iH7.'i.) of eighty four persona, in fifteen fami lies. the females lieinp aliphtly in the mnjoritv. He speak* of the yonnp men as fine-looking and sturdy, somewhat of the English type, but most of them with a dash of dark blood, tlreen was still the governor, and they looked up to him with reapeet and confidence. They pos s >as from fiOO to tttlO head of cattle, an equal numlwr of aheep and pips, ami poultry in large abnndanoe. From eight to a doxen American ships visit them yearly, and from them they obtain what they want, by the proeeas of bar ter. They live in cottages of two or throe rooms, built of a dark brown tufa econs stone which they blaat from the rooks above, anil shape with great accur acy with axe*. Many of the blocks are upward of a ton in weight, and aa there is no lime on the ialand, they have to lw> fitted into each other on the Byclopean plan. But with all their preoautiona, the wind* are so violent that sometime* even these massive dwellings are blown down. The furniture of the rooms is scanty, owing to the difficulty of procnr ing wood, but passing ship* furnish them warm fabrics enough to supply liodding, and hi enable the women to dress in n oomfortalile and seemly style. Low stone walls partition the land mini 1 the cottages into small enclosures which are cultivated as gardens, ami here all the ordinary European vegeta bles thrive fairly. The goods of the colonists are in no sense in common. Each has liis own property in laud aud in stock. A new-comer receives a grant of a certain cxtcut of land, and he gets some grazing rights, aud the rest of the settlers help him iu fencing his patch nnd in working it and preparing it for a first crop. Then they contribute the necessary cattle, sheen, potato seed, etc., to start liira. This assistance is repaid either in kind, in labor, or in money. When difficulties occur they are referred to Green, or are settled by the general consent The old argument of the fist is still occasionally resorted to. Sir W. Thompson suggests, that " this system is probably another sonrce of the apparently exceptional morality of the place; in "HO small n community where all are so entirely independent, no misconduct affecting the interests of other* can be tolerated or easily con cealed, and as there is no special' machinery for the detection and punish ment of offences, the final remedy lies in the men themselves who ai n most of them young and stalwart, and well able to keep nnrnliness in check." Mr. Thompson tells, in connection with the history of this colony, the in teresting story of two Germans, the brothers Frederiok and Gnstav Stolteu lioff. After the war of 1870, Gnstav shipped in nu English ship for Rangoon. Wlieu seven hundred miles from Tris tan the ship caught fire and exploded. Gnstav wa on a boat that reached Tris tan. He remained there for eighteen TKRMS: S'-i.OO a Year, in Advance. l.lterarj Mrs as IMpleaulie Agents. Alluding to the departure of Mr. Bayard Taylor in the cajiacity of Minis ter to Germany, the New York Tribute recalls the ualiieß of aeveral other gentle meu who have won distinction in the literature of the country, and who have also served it abroad in diplomatic posi tions. It says; " Joel Iter low, eele hrated us the author of • Hasty Pud ding,' snd forgotten as the author of • The Coluuilnad,' was rather a distin guished diplomatic character in his day. He was sent by Madison to France, and up]ream to have Ikwd considered a char acter of some importance, for was summoned, st a critical period, by Napo leon, to Wilna. Nothing came of the visit except the des'": **f Barlow, who was taken fatally sick on his way back to France. Daxid Humphrevs, a small Connecticut |**t went to Fruacr , as s.-<-retary of legation, with Jefferaon in 17H4. He was Minister to Portugal from 1791 to 1797, and then held the aaiue office in Hoani until lWfi. Franklin, we supjsrse, may le regarded as a literary as well as scientific character. His diplomatic successes are known to all the world. In modern times, tlie writers have by no means Ireen overlked in the selection of ministers. Mr. Wheatun, for so many years our Minister at the Court of Prussia, not only distinguished himself as the author of works on rntep uatioual law, and as a writer of l.Kig raphy, but also as the author of * The History of the Northmen.' Mr. Imng, our Minister to Hjiaiu, stands in the front rank of American letters. Mr. Bancroft, MiuisU-r to Kogland and to Prussia, and Mr. Motley, who repre sented us in Austria and England, w re authors of the highest repute. Mr. Bigekiw, our Minister to France, in lHfiS, is distinguished as a journalist, and as the compiler of an excellent life of Franklin. Finally well-known as a journalist was James fck Pike, who was our Minister to ths Netherlands from 1861 to 1868. Mr. George H. Boker, a writer of ability, has represented us both st the Turkish oet, is now our Minister to Spam, and great result* are anticipaUsl from the studies in that interesting country. Mr. George P. Marsh, emi ueut as a studious and succeaafnl philol ogist, has Iteen the UuiWy) Hlates Minis ter in Turkey and in Italy. Mr. Theo dore 8. Fay, well remembered as s New York journalist, as associate editor of the (M .Virror, and as a uoyeliat, was our Minister resident in Switzerland from 1H53 to 1861 ; aud OoL John Hsy. who lias won distinction t>oth ss a poet and journalist, wss our ('barged"Affaires ad interim at Vienna in 1868, aud has ahiy discharged other diplomatic ap pointments also. Mr. Hn lisve s place of business, tie fonnd there when wanted. Contempt naturally implies a man's esteeming himself greater than the per son whom he contemns. He, therefore, that slight*, that contemns an sffrout, is properly superior to it; and he con quers su iujurv who conquers his resent ment of it 8 >crates, being kicked by an ass, did not think it a revenge proper for Socrates to kick the ass again. Paper Bottoms ror Iron Ships. After getting used to paper car j wheels, wo need not lie surprised to learn that a new coating for the bottoms of iron skips consists of brown paper " attached by a suitable cement It is the invention of Captain F. Warren of England, and the snbstanoes he pro ' poses to nso is a preparation of paper i! mnclie. It is stated that weeds and liarnacles will not adhere to paper, and i that the special cement by which the • paper is secured may be applied cold, > hartleys under water, ia unaffected by oouiparativelv high temperature, and r possesses great tenacity. A plate this , protected on one side has been immersed for aix mouths, with the result that i he . protected side was found oleau, while - i the unprotected metal was covered with i ■ rust and shellfish. NUMBER 23. A Eight Among Elephants. The Piedmont Virginia* fives lbs following psrticulan of a flares Agbt among the elephants belonging to a traveling menagerie: A rather *oiUng arena occurred while Old John Robin• Hoa'a Circus was traveling en root* to l/iiiiti Court House. Tb belligerents. Chief, l'nneeas, Mary end Bismarck, wire the actors and actresses in the "little iffleulty." It had been super cut to Mr. King (their keeper) and sev eral older attaches of the show that trouble was brewing, the two factors, Marvaud Chief (Asiatic) on one side, and Bismarck and Princess (African) on the other. The denouement occurred while cmeaing the Sooth Anna river, on s bridge; the elephants cross - ing in the following order: Princess first, Mary aeoood, Bismarck third, and Chief bringing up the rear of the aqaad; the other elephants not being allowed to ootnn un the bridge at Urn aame time on account of its apparent weakness, their weight being twenty ton*. About midway of the bridge Chief became un manageable, and despite the efforts of Mr. King, with hook and spear, made a fearful onslaught on Bismarck, and such was its force that be was knocked heed foremost into the river. As the water was very deep he unstained no in jury from the fall, out when he roar to tii*- surface he emitted from his flexible trumpet such an unearthly blast test it was hmrd for in ilea up and down the river. And then a scene commenced which is indescribable. The elephants on the other aide rushed into the river to the assistance of Bismarck. Chief ran off the end of the bridge and into tli*- river, where he renewed tips contest with redoubled fury. Emperor (an In dian animal) got to Bismarck about the ms me time that Chief did, and then a trunk-U>-trunk ounteat commenced j whu 1 loggers description. They fought right on top of Bismarck, who did not Dumr to the aurfaee for ten or fifteen second a. At Una junctors Badjak, Whoodah and Caliph came np, and the light became general Bismarck grad ually worked himself up to the shore, but the banks being muddy, and he be ing week, he sank in the mud completely IK>ggd and perfectly helplcar. Just then Mary, together with Princess, who had leen pae*i\<- spectators of the trou ble, sounded their boms and pitched in. They made short work of it, and aoou | put the rest to flight. They, then, with almost human intelligence, turned their attention to old Bismarck. Mary put her tusks under his back, and with the as- Mhtanoc of Princess, succeeded in get ting him into a sitting posture. Mr. John F. Robinson, Jr., with all the mauagera, canraamen, grooms, perform er* and innairiana, with rope and block and tackle, came mC it will here the unspeak able eonoolotoon of knowing that it baa lid lived to itself; thsi it has left the world happier and better in eome de gree than it found it; that H has been fsithfnl to its earthly mission. I>M-kier Vf *he Tower of Leaden. Few persons ore aware of the stnet nM with which the Tower of Laodoa is CTLorded from foee without ood from treachery within. The ceremony of shutting it up every night continues to be M solemn and a* rigidly precaution ary ae lffhe Frwh invasion were acta allr afoot. Immediately after " tattoo' all* strangers are expelled; and, the gatea am closed, nothing short of each imperative neceasity aa fire or Hidden illnea# can procure their being re opened till the appointed hour the next morning. The ceremony of locking up is very ancients curious and atately. A few nnnatea before the clock strike* the hour of eleven—on Tneedaya and Fri dam, twelve—the head warden (veoman poiter) clothed in a long, red cloak, bearing in hia hand a huge bunch of keys. and attended by a brother warden, carrying a gigantic lantern, appear* in thf main ID ' loud voice, '• Escort keys f At theae words the aergvent of the gnard, with five or cix men. torna ont and follow* him to the " Spur," or outer gate ; each sentry challenging aa'they pass the poet. •• Who goea therer •'Keye.*' The gatee being carefully locked and barred | - -the warden wearing aa aoleran aepect and making aa much noise aa possible— the procession retnrna. the sentries ex acting the same explanation, and receiv ing the same answer as before. Arrived omw more in lront of the main gnard house, the sentrv there gives a loud stamp with his foot, and the following conversation takes place between him and the approaching party: " Who goes there?" •• Key*." " Whose keyaf" " Queen Victoria's keys." Advance Queen. Victoria's keys, and all'a well. . The veoman porter then exclaims, "Clod klcas Queen Victoria!" The main guard devoutly respond, •• Amen." The officer on duty gives the word, Present arms!"—the firelocks rattle; the officer ki*es the hilt of his sword; the escort fall in among their compan ions; and the yeoman porter marches majestically across the parade alone to deposit the' keys in the lieutenant's lodg- The ceremony over, not only is all egress and ingress totally precluded, but even within the walls no one nan stir without being furnished with the coun tersign; and anyone who, unhappily forgetful, ventures from his quarters unprovided with his talisman, is sure to be made the prey of the first sentinel whose post, he crosses. The Fewer of Suction. In a Soottiah port, celebrated for its herring fishing, there lived a character named DngaldM* , owner of an old fishing boat called by the loan! wits the •• Emsie." On one ooosaion the " Em nie," with a crew of three hands, includ ing the owner, was fishing in the Kyles ofßute, and had what fishermen call a run of bad lnck, by reason erf whioh the crew had for a considerable, time to sub mit to short rations One morning, however, a stroke of luck pat them in funds, and the owner replenished the locker, one item being one pound of salt j butter, which, be it noted, was placed in a bowl. On going to sea in the evening, the owner descended to the " den " to get what he called a " pieof." One of the hands followed by-and-by on the same errand, but was surprised to find the bowl empty. Thinking he had made some mistake, he inquired of Dugald . where the butter had been put, to which Dugald replied, M It's in the bowl," at the same time moving forward to seek what he knew oould not be fonnd. On looking into the empty bowl he ex claimed, in surprise, "Eh, gudesaks I ' the bowl has sooked it in." We nssd hardly remark that the hand went on 1 deck "a sadder but a wiser man." . ■, ■' f Vftf