YOl'Mi fiHIMTA
T . r. tltll V4BK
V.I.I ilrixr.e U doa.-tliM old tnrt (
V"t oe'er ihH K'f him more;
put he hit Mt mn who bvari
TtM wuat that o!4 Urimef bora.
Jlr Fftn a coat of Intent cut,
ihi hat It Bfw and jrat ;
li cniuutt hw to virw Uiftrwi1,
it jo it (unit awuv.
II u fain and fraitcn fitting mug,
O't-r patent leather hoi't :
Bit Lair u Uy barber curled
lie ftnokc cigar and cbewt.
A chain of mawlre fold if bo rue
About Ui l flashy veat ;
Jlif rMhoi re better every day
Than were old tirimos'i heft.
ii Ka1)ini court he eon't&iit walk,
here ho delight doth shed ;
,9 uautU arc r.hitc and Tery aaft,
But softer ii hii bead.
llc' nix feot tall do pott mora ttraight
Hi teeth are pearly white j
In habit be U uioetinit'S loose,
. And sometime very tight.
Ills manners are of sweetest ffrace,
Hit voice of softest tone ;
diamond pin ' the rery one
That old O nines used to own,
1 is uiiutachio adorns hit face,
li is neck a scarf of blue ;
. lie aomcUmes goes to ehureh for change,
A-ud sleeps to U rimes' s pew.
He sports the fastest "cab" In town,
( aJwavs quick to bet ;
He never knows who's President,
But thinks "Old Abe in yet.
lie has drank wines of every kind,
And liquor cold and hot;
Yoniig Grime, in short, is just that sort
' Of m wltf 6rlme wu net
rOLITSV.il. U1HTORW
Relics of Llurolu'a Rastllea The Case of
Colonel KurtU.
Slowly but surely the record of
crime at Washington is unrolling it
self. It is as bluck, but with letters
more distinct than thecliarred papyri
which came from the mud and cinders
of Pompeii. Mr. Seward may try
to write over them the conservative
platitudes which now dribble irom his
pen, but, Irom underneath, the story
of wrong, and outrage, and wanton
abuse of power, struggles to the light
at last Heading tome of those revel
ations, one is lost in wonder at the
patience and long suffering of the vic
tims, but we do not wonder at the
tenacity with which such wrong-doers
as fceward, ana Manton, ana lion
cling to the immunity which the mere j
possession ol office appears to give.
Mr. Lincoln, whom these recent dis
closures seriously implicates, is in his
gravo, and pity lor an untimely cud
softens in his case the voice of censure.
But, while Sandford Conovcris in goal,
ur.l Detective Baker is dismissed, and
Boston Corbott who so unnecessari
ly, or with an evil intent, shot Booth
in the barn has sunk out of sight,
tho triumvirate at Washington still
retain high positions, and still are
amenable to public criticism. These
ideas are prompted by tho singular
and, as we may well describe them,
awful revelation recently mado in
New York, in the caso of Col. North,
tho uncontested facts of which are
briefly these:
Cofonol Samncl North, who resides,
ws presume, somewhere in the neigh
borhood of Coopcrstown, was, and is,
a ui&nof entire personal respectability.
In 164 he was appointed agent of the
State of New York, to rcsido at Wash
ington, to look after the interests ol
tho volunteer soldiers of New York in
that locality, and to do and perform
such things as were necossary in ad
ministering to the wants and interests
of all such connected with the army,
the sick in hospitals and elsewhere.
How faithfully he discharged those
arduous duties, how willingly and effi
ciently he aided hundreds of poor nol
dicrs, how many acts of kindness were
shwn parents aud friends, how im
partial was his treatment of all, may
be shown by the nr.itcd testimony of
political friends and opponents. With
him were associated a Mr. Cohn and
Air. Marvin M. Jones. On the 27th
of October, 1804, about a fortnight
before the Presidential flection, these
gentlemen were arrested by military
process, in Washington, and thrown
into the Old Capitol Prison, the charge
being "defrauding soldiers of their
votes." There they remained till
January ard February, 1SG3, when
they were discharged as innocent.
Now let us see what happened in
those dreary thrco months of illegal,
wanton imprisonment. From within,
.10 word of complaint was allowed to
roach the outer world. But Governor
Seymour, hearing of tho case, ap
pointed a commission, consisting of
men of high standing Messers. Palm
ar, Allen and Kelly ho visited
Washington, and with some difficulty
were allowed to visit those poor men.
In their report to tho Governor, the
commissioners give this ghastly nar
rative so bad that wc almost hesitate
to reproduce it:
The andersiirned availed themsrleea of the per
mit granted them to visit Colonel Korth, M. M.
Jones and Levi Cohn. The, found them in the
"Carrol Prieon." in ehise exinfinentent. They
learned that Moi.m. Jiorlh and Cohn had been
rjnfined turether in une room, and had not keen
permitted to leave it for a moment during the four
dayi they had been firi.tinera, for the rturtvHte af
answering thn ealls of nature. They Iia4 bora
rupnlied with nieaffra and eourae insoa ratKina,
to he eaten in their room where the, eonetantlj
breathod tho fool atmophera arising from the
standing: odor. Thrj had no vessel out of ethieb
-a drlak fitter, eieefd the ou furnished them for
etnnation. 1 tiee nJ out one ciiair, ana nna sieia
three of the nights of their confinement nmin asa.li
straw on tha floor. They bad not been .per
mitted to ee a newspaper, and were ignorant of
toe cause ol their arrest. All communication De
tweea them arid the outer world bad hewn denied
them. The undersigned complained to the aoting
taiierintcadcnt, who aectned humanely disposed.
but justified his eonrse bt Uie pri-en rules and the
tnlriietwne of his superiors. The undersigned
afterwards pomplaincd of the treatment of these
persons to the Judge Advocate, and also to the
S.icretary of War and the Assistant Secretary tf
War, and were happy to learn, at a subsequent
visit to the prisoners, thst the eeTeritirs were re
lated and their oonditiou made more tolerable,
tut at neither of tbrae ris.te made to llie prisoners
livtha an ieraigned were Ibej permuted to see thein
without special permit, and only in the resenor
of an officer of the prison.
Brief, however, was this indulgence,
for we read that "though for a time
tho prison brutalities were somewhat
modified, they wero soon taken to a
room on the second floor, w here they
were confined with thirteen others,
and were allowed to purchase food fit
to ml, at a high price, of a jeerson
supposed to have intimate relations
with tho bead keeper of the prison.
On the 2r,th of November, for a pur
pose which will appear, they were
taken thence nnd placed hi solitary
confinement, to subsist on hard lack
and fight the vermin which infested
tha prison."
Aaer timo the trial, before mili
tary coUrt t,f vbit.h lhc rc(louUb0
hero, Abner IV)iibledav-the detractor
of General 4lradewWpr.aMpnt opd
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Holt, of course, prosecutor. During
this trial an incident occurred, which
but that it is positively stated and
proved, wo might hesitate to believe,
llolt, we infer, finding the evidence
ngauibi these gentlemen tailing, seems
to have dovised a plan of most sinister
ingenuity, using for his instrument an
individual, Charles a Dana, Assistant
Secretary of War, who has throughout
shown a singular facility for enter
prises of the kind, and having for one
of his objects to make Mr. Lincoln do
some of tho dirty work on the occa
sion. And very dirty work it was.
Mr. Cohn, one of the parties on trial,
was taken to the White House, and in
the presence of the President "pumped"
invited tutu State's evidence.
The report from which wo quoto goes
on to say :
To the desperate extremity to whieh the admin
istration was driven, Mr. Cohn was aunt for y (At
'rasiieel, who proposed to try on him the experi
ment of "my plan.'' An intcrriew was had at the
Presidential mansion, in presence or C. A. JJana,
Assistant Secretary of War ; J. A. Foster, Judgn
Adrocale of the Military Commission, and Wood,
the keeper of the prison, when Cohn was first giv
n to understand that if he would frankly atate "all
that he knew about the illegal transactions uf Col
onel Kortb, Mr. Jones, and othcra, in connection
with the soldiers' volea, no harm abould cuttle to
him," and it was intimated that he might the soon
er be in the enjoyment of hit own liberty liborty
which long imprisonment and bard tare had ren
dered double precious and deeirable. He was also
pat through a eourwc ol "pumping." and alternate
eoaaing and bullying all designed to elicit some
thing which might oonvict North and Junea and
compromise Governor Seymoar.
We see, sometimes advertised, en
gravings of tho "Kepublieau Court,
tempore Lincoln." "Lincoln reading
the emancipation proclamation," "Liu
coln teaching his boy his lessons," 4c.
but here is a tableau well worth
some dark limner's art. Mezzotint
would hardly make it black enough.
The President, jocular of course, for
"pumping" was to him a merry scene
the hall starved prisoner roster in
uniform, and alove all, Dana, like the
detective in "Oliver Twist," clinking
the handcuffs ostentatiously, and re
presenting faithfully bis principals,
Stanton and Holt ! Peally, it is hide
ous. And yet this scene occurred iu
the nineteenth century and tho Lund
of Liberty. The- Presidential experi
ment failed. Tho prisoner was reso
lute. He know nothing and could say
nothing, and ho was taken back to
prison, and the trial went on, and on
the sixth of January, 105, Doubleday
and Foster had to put their signatures
to tho following :
Copy. The Commission waa then cleared for
deliberation, and, after due consideration, do find
the accused. Bamnel North, Levi Cohn and Marvin
M. Junes, as follows:
As to the charge Not guilty.
And do thereln-v aeouit said Samuel North, Levi
Cohn and Marvin M. Jonee.
(Sigurd) Anvta Dot si.emt,
Mnjor-tienerai Volunteers,
President of Alililary Coicmisrion.
J. A. Foster, J. A.
This was on tho 6th of January, but
not until tho lltlh was it approved by
Stanton, or allowed to bo made public,
aud then Colonel North alono was
discharged, though, as we understand,
the fact of his formal acquittal was not
communicated to him.
Sir. Jones and tho refractory Cohn
were detained, and on the 80th, a
friend, a Member of Congress from
Buffalo, writes to Colonel North :
WanniMiTon, Januarv CO, lfCi.
Oooaef S. A'erta.
Mr JJr.A. Sir : I enclose you a certified copy
of the order directing your release, auying yon
were auitlrd. The olhers arc convicted and sen
tenced to imprisonment for life. Ho says the Sec
retary of ar. Very truly yours,
JolIX tiAISO.
'So sayh tho Secretary of War!"
If Mr. Ganson tells the truth, Mr.
Stanton tormented the distant families
of these poor men by a most atrocious
filsehooj. The report thus ends:
Cohn and Joncj were held in strict confinement,
suffering the torments of suspense, and uncertain
as to their fete. Klanton alone could haa been
uilty of originating aurh refined cruelly, as be
alunc oould have token the position he did in re
gard to the exchange of our poor suffering prison
er during the wnr. llolt may also come in f'r a
full share of the infamy altiu hing to the cruelty
practiced towards these innocent parties aud their
triends, who were told, in answer to the anxious
inquiries of the tatter, that "they were convicted
and sentenced to the Hate prison for lite !" In
the face of theMi inconsistencies, and tbe practice
of inch nroscriptiee intolerance, two weeks after
Colonel North a release, Jonel and Cohn were set
at liberty, Uie prison doors were flung open and
they were told to "go !' without hearing Willi them
anything in the form of official disehsrce to show
what had been the finding of the court or the reason
of (Iteir discharge.
And not until February 12, 1(17,
more than two years after the original
arrest, did these injured men even suc
ceed in procuring a glimpse of the
record. It at last sees the light, and
goes into history.
American reader pause and medi
tate on all this. Think of it calmly if
yoo can, but at least without the tem
po r whieh party prejudice may excito.
Think of tho arrest tho torture in
prison tho forty days' trial the at
tempt by tho President of tho United
States tc extort a confession the re
luctant acquittal the holding back of
reparation and then say if wo arc
not a pstient, long-suffering genera
tion. We ore sick ti dcalh of hearing
of Mr. Lincoln's good nature and grn
llencss. He was an actor in thisseeno.
To him wo owe Seward nnd Stanton
and Holt and I'ana, and he is alter all
responsible, fur he could have con
quered the South without it, for the
great guilt and heresy ol "the end jus
tif'vin" the means" his end brini? the
in; in0 tut nit itns ins enu ncinj, ine
proserfntion of a Vo it.cal union his
means the discard ol all coititu -
thinul restraint. " i on nuk me. Mid
rant , ou ana n.e sa.u
Pole to Henry UII," hat
have committed. I answer
.Cardinal Pole to Henry III, hat
j..- v............ a ..ce,w
the greatest a man can commit-yon
have destroyed a Constitution. Age..
Fred. Donclass was on Friday ad -
milled within the bar of the House of
j the Michigan Legislature, introdnrod
i by the cipeaker and received with ap-
plimse.
A couple were married in Uhio the ol the JIailiciil party, thai on the dny i Columbus (Ohio) churches. Tho Jour
other day, not leaving thcirsleigh, but ! of the night of tho assassination, Mr. I atif ot that city suggests, however,
the obliging magistrate standing on j Lincoln hud railed and hold a Cabinet j that "gentkmeu" need no such ndimv
the rnrtotone. tncctin, und at mid tm-rting Mr. Lin- nition.
Is J. IIMAra Uootli Head 1
New Kevelatloua.
The Memphis A valanche of Saturdny
has a lengthy article in which it ar-
fues the probability of J . W ilkes Booth
eing still in tho land of the living.
Tho ingenuity of tho epistle renders it
worth a porusul. The Avalanche cor
respondent says :
"The statement which appears in
your paper of Sunday last, in rogard
to tho point as to whether J. Wilkes
Booth sul! lives, calls to mind other
publications that have heretofore ap
peared in print on the same subject.
Allow ine to call your attention to
these, and also to some circumstances
that would tend to attpport the idea
of Booth's death being a fraud perpe
trated on the public. Early in the
spring ot 1H0G a letter was received
from one of tho West India islands,
by a correspondent of a New York
paper, stating that J. Wilkes Booth
had been seen on the Island of Cuba,
a short time previous to the writing
of the letter. This letter was noticed
by some, if not all the Memphis pa
pers. Not long after tlii publication
a statement appeared in some of the
papers of this country, to tho effect
that Booth had been Keen in Kurojte,
in one of the Italian States.
Some time lust summer man wu
arrested in Kentucky on charge of
horse stealing, and lodged in jail. If
my memory serves me right, he gave
his name as King. He wrote to Jef
ferson C. Davis of the U. H. army, sta
ling that he desired to make a con
fession to him of importance to the
country, (icn. Davis, accompanied by
another officer of the army (a gener
al) went to tho prison, and the ncwa-
papers slated at tho time that tliey
occupied nearly an entire da)', taking
down in writing the confession of the
man. The newspapers also stated
that the substanco of tho confession
was that Booth was not the assassin
of Lincoln, but that tho man King
committed tho crime ; that after shoot
ing Lincoln he leuped upon the stage
of the theatre ai.d passed out at the
hack door where Booth was with the
horses.
The two rodo rapyiy to the resi
dence of Mr. Seward. King dismount
ed and went in, and attempted to kill
Sewnrd. Ho then returned to Booth
nnd the two mado their escape through
Mai) land on horseback, and thence
to Canada, and toon after they went
to Cuba, where ho separated from
ISooth in the spring of l.Miti and came
to Kentucky. He called the attention
of the two Generals to tho fuct that
no proof had ever been mado identify
ing Booth with the killing, except the
testimony of Laura Kecno, an actress,
who, ho stated, was a personal enemy
of Booth. She stated bho recognized
Booth as tho man who jumped upon
stago with tho drawn dagger. King
said it was not Booth, but him. He
aUo said that Mrs. Surrattknew noth
ing of the conspiracy, and ho gave in
formation to the said official where
certain papers could bo found that
would throw light upon the subject.
All this has appeared in the newspa
pers heretofore, aud may bo taken for
what it is worth.
Now, as one who is somewhat in
the habit of looking closely into facts
and the circumstances surrounding
complicated cases, 1 propose to call
your attention to certain facts that
iiave an important bearing upon the
whole question as to tho probability
of Booth not having been tho man
who w as shot in the bnrn when Har
rold was arrested. The history of the
matter, as given to tho public at tho
timo, is that Harrold was arrested and
Boston Corbett had shot Booth ; they
put the dead body in a wagon, nnd
proceeded with it to Waidiirigton city,
the news of their success having reach
ed Washington beforo them. Baker,
tho Chief Detective of tho Secretary
of War, Mr. Stanton, went to meet
tho purly who had killed Booth and
captured Harrold. I'pon meeting
them. Baker and Corbett took posses
sion of the reputed dead body of Booth,
and a they say buried it in some se
cret place, that is known to no person
living except Baker aud Corbett, and
they both took a solemn oath over the
grave they would never reveal the
burial place. A "lurgo reward had
been offered by the government for the
apprehension of Booth, and this being
the caso, docs it not soem most natu
ral that if the man who was killed in
the barn was Booth, that Baker and
Corbott would have carried the body
lo Washington city, w hero tho body,
if that of Booth, could have beon iden
tified by thousands who knew him,
and thus shown themselvos entitled to
receive the reward!
Where is tho testimony sluiwing
any prow oi me siatemeni oi -jiumt
nnd Corbett Mini t.lirt limlv buried was
thul of llooth t It is not even nscrt
ed that Harrold confessed that it was
Booth. Ho stated that he was with
Booth at the ba'-k door of the theatre,
but does not sny that it was Bnoth
who was killed in tho barn.
j
Tho pnper staled that after Gen. J
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1 tho rufc lBi, ioartlcd flhing of llie
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supposed to to in lhc hands and under
! thecontrol of Mr. Stanton. Now who
.1 - 1 t. a
t.,,uld be benefitted bv tho death of
Lincoln ? Certainly not iho Coiil'ed
erates, for tho war was over.
The public was told by tho nowspa -
ners of the time, and particularly those
coin had informed the Cabinet that ho
ntended to issue a proclamation de
claring tho rebellion at an end, placing
tho Southern Slates in the same rela
tions as occupied by them towards
the United Slates before tho war, and
also grunting general amnosty and
pardon. It was also said that Secre
tary Seward indorsed the position of
Mr. Lincoln, although not alio to bo
at tho Cabinet meeting. K.ipposu
such a proclamation had been made
by Lincoln, would it not have been a
death blow to the itadical party f
They would Lavs been deprived ut
ono blow of the power of reconstruct
ing the South, or of intermeddling in
the in tenia 1 affairs.'' fie Slates. That
party would Imvc? "dropped dead, und
the Union would Lave been put upon
its former basis, except as to tho ex
istencc of African slavery in the South
ern Slates.
The lladiculs would Luve been pre
vented from overriding the Constitu
tion, and, in fuct, that party would
have been powerless, inasmuch an sla
very had been abolished, and there
would have been nothing to feed their
dupes upon. But Lincoln was killed
the night after he hud expressed him
self in regard to the proclamation. It
is probable the people of the United
Slates would like to know why the
Secretary of War and a Radical Con
gress permitted or directed Baker to
receive tho groater pjrtion of the re
ward offered for tho apprehension of
Booth upon such slim testimony, when
Mr. Stanton had it in his power to
force Baker to produce the dead body,
he being tho Biijicrior officer and mas
ter, so to speak of the erealure Baker ?
Why was Baker brevctted Brigadier
General by Mr. Stanton, soon after
Booth was said to havo been killed y.
Although the Kentucky man tells
Geucral Davis that he murdered Lin
coln, and this fuct was made known
to Stanton, wo hear no noise about it.
Congress has not apjioinled a commit
tee to investigate tho affair. The
question presents itself, what has be
come of the man who confessed to
having killed Lincoln and tried to mur
der Seward t Tho whole matter in
regard to hi in seems to have been
hushed up in some way. It might be
of sotno interest to the public to know
what has becoino of Kinij
Is he slill
in Kentucky, in prison wa.'ling his
trial as a thief f or has tho War De
partment taken charge of him ? When
tho dispatch from General Davis, in
regard to King's confessien, reached
Stanton, what order was given in ro
gard to him, and why has he not been
tried before a Military Commission, or
a Court for tho murder f
They bung a woman, who said on
tho gallows bho "fas innocent; why
don't Stanton have this mau hung
who says, 'I murdered Abraham Lin
coln T While all tho Itadical papers
and slump speakers ntiti Congressmen
aro churging that Jeff. Davis was im
plicated in the assassination plot, why
don't they sny something about the
way Stanton allott ed this man Baker
to put away the dead body ? Or cry
aloud and groan heavy because Stan
ton duit't hang King f Why is it thst
no attempt was made upon tho life of
anyone but Lincoln and Seward, who,
it is staled, agreed to tho proclama
tion granting amnmity to all ! You
will observed 1 accuso no one; but
there is such a fog floating around
this whole matter, that 1, for one,
would like to be able to see more clear
ly through it.
am .
Daily Life of a Conorkshmas.
The Washington correspondent of the
Free latest gives the following humor
ous account of the arduous lifo of a
Congressman :
I think Willard's is a good place to
stop, because hero you can, c.rhaps
better than elsewhere, witness the
habits and daily routine of business of
Congressmen, which is about as fol
lows : Come down about eight iu the
morning and visit the counter, where
they get their stomach bitters. (This
is for dyspepsia Congress is an awful
plaeo for dyspepsia.) Breakfast at
nine. Belore this, each one takes
moro or less of impeachment, which
is dispensed in tho house at tho low
price of twenty cents a glass, plain'.
After breakfast a little impeachment
is taken by way of ojieiiiiig the day's
business. The time until the hour ar
rives for them to assemble, is devoted
to abusing each other and unlimited
damning of tho President.
After this they saunter over lo the
Capitol and spend the morning inves
tigating tho case of some friend in a
whiskey distillery, involving lhc im
mense sum of about a hundred dollars,
and talking impeachmonL At noon,
all assemblo at Willnrdsand investi
gate more whiskey fruuds; this time
i smitHer quantities safel ysaya pint
t. t: r. .i . . J -
i-ni:u.
Dinner at from three to bvo;
after which time most of the members
are fatigued and retire, looking con
siderably impeached. Some don't
make their appearance until tho next
morning, and when they do, they look
as if they wero sorry the)- had. The
prayer meeting comes in some time
during tno duy. l haven l attended
! . J ,. f . -w.li..J
, ny J U. but ahaforl am rcoued
t0 M "' "' ' ""lU
'
I The Boston Vsf asks: -If thepres-
"'K'""" "xnifiiiu present
, Gov ernments of the Southern States,
j why can t the next ( ongreaa abrogate
- t- - v .-
1' 1 Fris. H 1 1 11 IMC ".J 1 1 L. I rrta H IIT II fl II 11(11"
1 r-'rcss- nml rnc Congress alter another
S on ,lic MmB wa-v
'(ientlemen will leave their tobacco
iat the door," is the polite intimation
posted at the entrance of una nl !
jrapoltoH,9 Phennaul I'rttrrvtn.
The imperial phoasantry covers
eight hundred ana forty-two acres of
tho forest of Fontainblcau. It is man
aged by ten men four koepers, two
pheasant men, two servants and two
egg-hunters.. There aro, hesides.eight
night watchmen, who shoot hawks,
owls and other birds and beasts who
destroy game. At the season of the
year when the hen pheasants begin to
lay eggs, they aro each of them en
closed iu a circular wired coop. All
these coops are placed in a fiold set
apart for litis purpose. As last as the
pheasants lay eijgs, the latter aro
taken and planed under hen chickens,
who hatch them, so tbe hen pheasants
continue, to lay egirs during the whole
season without interruption. Juno is
tho month when most of these eggs
are batched. As the pheasants aro
hatched they aro placed in a basket,
wadded at tho bottom aud aides with
looso wool, where they cluster and
move and get on each other like craw
fish in a fisherman's basket. As fast
as possiblo they are placed in long
white boxes, divided into two unequal
portions. The small portion is occu
pied by the hen chicken, and it is di
vided from the larger portion by wide
bars which allow the pheasants to go
and come at will, but keeps the brood
ing hen from their food, which is
placed at the further end of the box.
This food is rare, and even in so greut
a forest as Fontuinblcaa it cannot be
obtained in sufficient quantities. It
is sut's eggs. Every morning before
daybreak the ant-hunters go iu light
carts to nut hills in tho forest und
open them with a trowel. Tbey take
all the eggs they find in them, and
sill them on thoir return home. Once
every fortnight the name anthill will
afford a supply of e.'gs, but as each
egg hunter is expected to bring home
daily two hundred quurls of eggs, a
great many ant-hills are necessarily
visited every morning. This ant hunt
is extremely annoying Tho ants,
whoso castle is invaded and sacked,
sally forth in numbers and sting tbe
hunters, pouring into tho puncture
formic cil, (that acid moro corrosive
lhan vitriol, and whieh tho modern
chemists can make with sugar,) which
irritates the epidermis in a painful
manner. The young pheasants require
in addition to the four hundred quarts
of ant's eggs brought by the egg-hunters,
ono hundred quarts of porridge,
which is made of hard-boiled eggs,
mcul, and some other ingredients, all
chopied fine.. Tho imperial pheaa
antry at Pontaiiiblcau annually pro
duces G.tMIO pheasants, 1,500 gray part
ridges, and COO Chincso partridges,
California colitis, silver and golden
pheasants. While the pheasants aro
under tho care of the brood-hen
they are subject to a dysentery, which
is fatal to a greafnuny of them. No
specific for this disease has been dis-j
covered. hen the pheasants leave
tho brood-hen, they aro placed under
coops in shady places to gain strength;
hero they remain for a lortuightund
then they aro let loose in tho under
growth of tho preserve. This under
growth consists of young oaks planted
closo together, and this causes them
to throw out a great many thick leufed
lateral branches, hich give the pheas
ants the shade and humidity they like.
They are now free, and if they are
wise, they fly off in the forest where
they aro secure from gun, and take
tho hardships with Uie security of to ,10 foi0V. i,,g sensible conclusions :
liberty. J-ew, perhaps none of them. The parent after committing his
are so sagacious or so strong willed as cilUJ to ,he teaching ofanother,sli,.u!d
to resist the pleasure of being fed corilinuo ,0 mnnt.Hl , aftw-tionaio
daily w ith regularity and abundance. I interest in his improvement, by con
hvery evening at fouro clock mashed ; stnnt jno,,iry and encouragement
iw.iied potatoes are uislruiutod to them.
A t the sainted hour the whole lawn
"e preserve is cotereu w.in silver, nocdCM money, mid tho permission
golden, red, ordinary and Chinese to C0Illrn,.t (U.f,u llro to ll8 n..,robt
pheasauts, partridges and col.ns, pre-1 cdi u8 tempting lo a sinful prodigality
senting a most animated and interest-1 BnJ niui,j.,viIlf, ,hc dangers of con
ing MKSclacle. But this feeding by j .,.,! ,al,i,s of vice.
hand ami this food domesticates the g. The i.roper authority of teachers
bird and destroys his game flavor, and I must Ik) fil.my sustained "by parents,
makes shoottng such wild fowls as 4 Kvcry rerfi0n houlJ j,c
tamo asa barn-yard massacre letter uormo by liis parents that ho must
from J'aris.
Tin Prkripint's Vetoh. A list of
the vetoes ol President Johnson, of
bills passed bv Congress, shows that
during the first session he returned
without Ins sanction six bills, and du-
Pllirt ll.s SAMnil Biuinw.n fin- If 1 1...-.
" si "en.. u,o. iii"se.iiniin, to form ins son into a wormy
eleven bills, six were passed over the man.
veto, and four failed for the want of a
two-thirda majority. The President I IsfU'f.nce or Hafpinilss oh rns
caused one bill to fail, which had not
been presented to him within ten days
of the end of the first session, bv re-
fusing to sign it this being what is in a state, of happiness the mind is vating his heels in tho air, and falling
called a "pocket veto." Four bills Iks free and at liberty for the exert iso of j against the clean buffet in tho Conner,
came laws without his sanction, by his its faculties, instead of spending its bis gravelly shoes endangering the
omission to return them to tho cham-1 thoughts and energies in brooding ' ancient china j nhnt is the meaning
her in which they originated, within i over troubles; but also becauso the f of this? Arc your brains sj decom
ten days. Onofiho army annronria-' action of tbe brain is stronger when : posed that you have forgotten which
tion lull) he signed with a protest.
a protest.
A young lady writes from San Fran-1
j cisco her experience of the preaching j
j of ono of the fashionable clergymen of.
that tit v, w hich is worth reproduction, i
Shejutvs : "1 went to hear him iireach
j last Sunday night. Ho is certainly t child. If she is anxious or fatigued, ijesturo uf the brain, and sec how many
j ono of tho best elocutionists on thfs , sho will exercise some control over ' men kill themselves during operation
i coast. And such gestures! they ar hentelf, speak cheerfully, and try to ! of mind, and let it be a warning to
! so graceful, lie is said to live finely ;' enter freely into the subject of'the ' you. What should you think of my
j keeps seven fino horses! But who i moment; to meet Iho child's mind, in ; turning heels overhead, now, and cut
would keep slow and jKiky ones. 1 1 short, instead ol making him sick for ' ting np all sort of antiques like a cir
' should like to know, if they wero able want of companionship. j cuit rider?"
, to afford better?'' I m "llully '." shouted Ike, fltttipinff hia
Shoe Pl.titiiMi. At tho recent ex-
hibition c,f t10 Polytechnic branch of,
.a a . . I
tho Aniorirnn Inatitiiln in Ve-w Ym-L
I a hand shoo pegging machine was ex-! quest was ever held on his hotly ; no ; "and if 1 see you trying any more of
j hibilcd, which is saiu to have ourale! j legal cvidenco taken as to tho manner your nasty trick, my shoe shall leach,
;to tho satisfaction of the members, tif his death, nor was a binglo person you which end belongs up."
j The exhibitor claimod that by his ma-1 accused or connection with it evvr! Sho looked at him severely as if sho
; chine ho could peg ono pair of boots brought into a court ot ln-v, nor is 'meant it, and the boy vei.t ont, ap
jper minute, tho work consisting of ! there to this day any legal testimony j pearing as if he weie regretting sho
I cutting the pegs from lung strips of t habever as to the manner of bis did not try the experiment, kicking
! birch wood, punching tho holes and ! duitli, the cause of K or tho killed ; over tho dust barrel on tho sidewalk
tdrivipj a doublo roA uf pg him " ! in Y :T"r t j'i'np o er it.
The my or It.
The philanthropists of the Philadel
phia Evening Bulletin proposo that the
suffering poor of tho South be left to
starve to death on account of thoir
political opinions. It says :
"Loval Philadelphia cannot forget
that Alabama, not long since, elected
tho pirate Semmes judge of a court
there," and adtls : "So long as the
Southern people insist upon honoring
such scoundrels as Semmes, they can
not expect such loyal communities as
that of Philadelphia to forget the hor
rors of Andersouville And Belle. Isle,
and bestow alms where the only re
torn is an exhibition of vindictive
spiio."
Who could bare thought that any
person, much less the editor of an in
fluential journal, in this Christian age,
would give utterance to such an infa
mous sentiment! Eighteen hundred
years ago, Do who preached Charity
to all men told tho late of those who
wickedly refused to practise it :
'I was an hungrcd, and ye gave me
no meat ; I was thirsty and ye gavo
mo no drink ; I was a stranger and ye
took me not in; naked and ye clothed
me not; sick, and in prison, and ye
visited me not. Then shall they also
answer him, saying, Lord, tthen saw
wo thee an hungered, or athirst, or a
stranger, or naked, or sick, or in pris
on, and did not minister unto thee?
Then shell he answer them, saying,
verily, I say fnto you. Inasmuch as ye
did it not to one oj the hast of Ihcte, ye
did it not unto vie. And ?jjese shall
GO AWAT 1N10 JEVtRLAKTINU l'LM.-SH-MEST."
A Midnioiit Funfral. In accord
ance with the wishes of the late Prof.
John II. Alexander, who died on Sat
urday last, at his residence, No. Til
West Lexington street, his funeral
look place in a somewhat novel man
ner, at six o'clock last evening, the
body being romoved from his resi
dence, carried by six persons, followed
by his relatives aud friends on foot,
to S. Luke's Protestant Episcopal
Church, on Carey and Lexington
streets, where tho proper religious
ceremonies were read by Itev. Dr.
Pinckney, an old friend and chissinate
of tho deceased. Tho body then re
mained iu tho church until midnight,
shortly after which hour, in strict ac
cordance with the expressed desiro of
tho deceased in his will, it was borno
to St. Paul's Cemetery, on tho corner
ot - rcmon t and German streets, where,
after tho ruadingof tho burial services,
the remains were
consigned to the'lv.
tomb. As the clock struck one this
morning, in tho midst of a pelting
huil-sUrm, the coffin, elegantly draped
in black cloth, with handsome silver
mountings, was lowered in the vault
in the presence of a large number of
his male friends, who accompanied
the body to tho grave. The scene at
the burial was of an cxcoidinely so'cir.n
character, tho intense darkness, tho
late hour, the lurid torches, illumina
ting tho faces of the attendants, the
solemn ritual for the dead, all adding
to tho impressive effect. Bait. Sun.
(iF.NI.RAL Lr. as a TtAcnER. The
Educational Association of Virginia
recently appointed a committee to
prepare an address on their behalf,
"urging a hearty co-operation with
teachers in matters of instruction, dis
cipline, ic." The committee in their
rotwirt ilrntcn tiv (ciiernl T.i pnnm
2. Tl)e sttrinlvinff of rounir persons.
wlli'0 absent frorathcir home, with
givo dilligence to profit bv bis studies
or elso must bo compelled to make
himself useful to society by actual la
bor in some humbler sphere.
And last, an unworthy parent ca:i-
. not reasonably
expfct the teacher,
ae-sinst the current of Ids wrono- ex.
I 1. e I- . 1
I Mind. It should never bo forgotten
I that tho happier a child the cleverer
he will be. This is not only because
ne iramo is in a state oi hilarity ; llie
i ideas aro more clear; impressions ol
outward object arc moro vivid ; and
the memory will not let them blip,
This Is reason enough for the mother
to take some care that bIio is the
' cheerful guido and comforter of her
SiMut i.An Fact. The ''Youth's His -
tory of tho Wnr" says : '-One singular
fact in connection
with the death of
' Mr T.inrci!n n-n u tl,ut -,i- .,.,.' In
nnt anflumer.
"A little nnnsrn new and tfaesi
li mhkht-d by the Iwst uf ineu."
Toper's Excise.
"Then lo die Lord old Kuah aaid.
The water now tasl-a voiy bad
llrcauae there has been drowned thereia
All heaM" and tinners in their am
Tit therefore, Lord, I ever think
I would prelor soma other drink."
Take care when you buy, that you
are not sold.
The only shares that are sure to
turn up all right plowshares.
Punch says that resolutions are tho
best proof of a government's irreso
lution. When is a young man's arm like tho
Gospel f When it makes glad tho
waist places.
An urchin remarked that tbe chief
branch of education -in his school was
tho graceful birch branch.
What is tho difference between a
tunnel and u spenking trumpet? One
is hollowed out and the other Is hol
lowed in.
"Now, papa, what is humbug?" It
is," replied papa, "when mamma pre
tends to be very fond of me, aud put
no buttons on wy shirt."
An old ludy, reading an account of
a distinguished old lawyer, who was
said to be tho father of the New York
bar, exclaimed : 'Poor man ! be had a
dreadful sot of children."
A man was asked what induced
him to make a law student out of hia
son. "Oh, he was always a lying lit
tle cuss, und 1 thought it no more
than right to humor his leading pro
pensity." A Dutchman, a few days ago, pick
ed up a bound volume of documents,
on tho back of which was stamped,
"Pub. Doc's." "Ter teylul," said he,
vat kind of books vill dey print next ?
As I lif, here ish ono on pup togs."
"Charlio, my dear," said a loving
mother to a hopeful eon, just budded
into brecches,''Char!ie, my deur,oome
here and get some candy." "1 gt,et I
won't mind it now, mother," replied
Charlie, "I've got in some tobacco."
Mrs. Partington is in New Y'ork.
She camo in from Boston as soon a
she learned by telegraph that gold
was falling rapidly in all street, but
after several uusucceasful attempts to
get into the shower, is going back a
disappointed woman.
A man named Aaron Pr'Ki-r jj.
eently apn'i ! 4o iCrritu .': Leg
i iuiu.oi i l.av !.h iiamo cliariged.
Ho says bis swci l-heai (., wVsc r.ama
is Olivia, ii unwilling he shall bo call
ed A. Bedbug, she OT Bedbug, and tho
little ones, little Bedbugs.
"Jenny," said a venerable old man
to his daughter, w ho was asking his
consent to accompany her urgent and
f-tvorcd suitor to the altar, "Jenny, it
is a very solemn thing to get mar
ried." "I know it," replied Jenny,
"but it's a heap solemncr not to."
"I say, milkman, you give your
cows too much salt !" "How do yoo.
know how much salt I give them?"
"1 think I judife from tho appearanco
of the milk you have brought us late-
Nil I makes tlio cows dry, and
Then they drink too much water that
makes their milk thin, you know."
. , , ... ., " , ,
, A lady went the other day ...to a
iur - 'u" ""1'"1- " " u
examining sotno articles, another lady
entered in search of (don't blush la
dies,) some undress muslin. Not wish
ing to use this simplo term, with sev
eral audible und diminutive hems, she
said lo the attentive clerk, "Have you
any muin that isn't up in the morn
ing r
A female freedman was brought be
fore tho Mayor the other day at Ab
erdeen for fighting. "This is your
first fight, is it not Peggy?" aekexl the
Mayor. "Bress your soul, no, mussa,"
was her energetic reply, "when we
used lo b'long to Dr. W , we fit
constant. Dare want no police both
eru folks' business in deni limes."
Going down street tho other day
we overheard the following colloquy
between two "American citizens of
African descent :"
"Sec hcah Sam ! who's going to make
do f;re ilcst stir in de new Congress ?"
Dc greatest stir, Julius ; by Gen-
i ersl duller 1 'spects.
"Why so, Sam?"
"Why Julius, Vou see hi
spoons to do it with '."
got do
Too (itton To bk Lost. A dav or
two since, two members of tho Veat
Virginia Legislature wero engaged in
a conversation on the Lord'b prayer,
when ono offered to bet tho other five
dollars that he did not know it. The
bet was accepted, and by agreement,
the Legislator was to repeat it He
commenced as follows:
"Now I lav wie down to sleep,
1 near the l-rU mr sonl to keep.
If 1 abould die befura I wake,
1 prat tbe lArd wit sor.l to take."
"Well, 1 declare," replied the aston
ished Member, "1 did not think yoo
know it," whereat ho handed him the
five dollars.
Mrs. Partington and Ike "For
j P
ity's sakes, what arc you doin ?'6aid
i!r. I arlinglon, us Ike came in, clc-
, enu you suotim seep nppcriiios:
i 1 ho recovered, and simply said no
was trying a little gymnastic exercise.
"I should think it was nasty exor
cise," Mi id she, wiping the dirt from
the buffet with her orn: "but Tou
! should be kocrful. Only think ot ecu-
; hands ; jest try il ; you cau't doit,
j I bet."
1 "I si a'i t.vou tlisgracckas nov, said
l, KltiaWi,,, t.i tlm mnli ftf h.r rnn ?