ght Xannotir gutelittenctr, PUBLISHED &VERY WEDNESDAY BY H. G. SMITH & CO A. J. STEINDIAN H. G. SurTrr TERNIS-2wo Dollars per annum, payable all cases In advance. OFFICE-SOUTHWEST CORNER OF CENTRE SQUARE. re-All letters on business should be ad dressed to H. G. SmITII & CO. foettm. " BLACK 1,111. LTV Let the Truth of history be preserved Nigh a million of lives we have spent And the ee hil lions of idollars or more, That each fetter in twain should be rent 'And the slave horn be heard Lever more; Full six years we Ih.ve Oven to the black, And the thing was tilid"' igd Y Now suppose, jniiit to alter the tack, We devote half :ill hour to the white. When the Souili in Its lr,ur of load pride At Fort Solider let drive tile lirst shut, Neck and heriv our pea' was tied, And the held 01, end of the knot; But our heal we 1.•1 the sound, For both r. luired in the fichi— And the sear tor the 1,1 -elc was then found Quite a tongs job' i work for the white. Well, we fot,ht—a. , . , , ler four Sears we lought, POUritht nut laVisl, treasure and life— Did tine hint lc !nen arise a. lie ought, Cleavin t 4o..rt.t.war.l with t-rch and with knife All hi, uctsters were tar from Ills track Under on and in the light There we tett hitt, : the blaek back Front champion, the white. Did he aid , 'when I.leetlltnt we shod .10 Vila,: ll' slavcry,.•r.m.,, Or to le•e food, Horne 5,1 , 11W11 , ,, (Viii,lllllllES and teams? We a.t 111 l .t I I 1,11 Sl”gh . Slate A revolt nd l have 1,1111101 the light; So it, more of.l heir •• alt y " 1,1 att., For the olahlt reh., urrtL wo se than Lhe Whltl The sahil relicts come tVit:l a cheer, Their nets:bayo sPtiit.,,tiil While the bind: I ehe:s slunk: in ill, rear, Assisting, Otntl treely) ; Phillips, :simmer, ineli or Ilia! :11ity till night,— But H•bl.el: or ...bite rebels wu,L tide, 'filen, by 11. aver tile to it LAC tt bile. It would se, en this vile euill T71:11. u t• .• ii I.Q, :Lily - 111,V— ALIII I Wail ,. lilt' •.,o1 OH the 511!..j.• I, WI, t. rho Ilse lull'; Mit situ, c.u‘l 1; In 1." 1.0,1 gun, ,t) urnle titer fight, \Vt. ere [old "1, hh. d volt,: se, turn"— ' TIS :111 11111111.4 1,1;1,11,1 the )tithe! 131!=1111E E., ,v1,.1e n I 4,ains and disgrace! 111:010 1. S , , 110:0,0, rubes the hour, • IN,. lo V. :1011 1 . 10,0! TO iny In ai allll /1111, jollll in In in il.e I Inl st You 11 1.•.11,/ I iitit•—y, , o'r , 15111Ie! 111,1 - , Y. Vol. lidantry laisCi'liclllColl.s. The itiimance or the Viceroyalty isuutii Paella t 11,111 . 11, in succession from l s .leheinct \ the founder of the dynasty in pt. liis urbanity and inteuiLy . .nce durim• rceent visit seem to hav , won he . I;:t I! the good will of the people both In Paris and Lividon, atfiough It. hat amused the populace in Paris Ly his alarm when a pistol was lined Juriug the performance of the opera of " Dmi Carlos." lie evi dently ihought he was tired at, and speedily left - t he tlicatre. 11 is accession to power Was marked Icy a circumstance sufficiently curious in itself to merit narration. Said predecessor, was known to Ix• very di, and Ismail, the heir-apparent, \vas hourly expecting inLelligenceoiSiiiil'silccease. Said was in Alexandria, and Ismail in Cairo, so that the first initilligence would cer- tainly be conveyed by telegraph. It is usual in Egypt to reward the individual Who fir,! aItIIOUIIV , S the accession of the Paella to the supreme dignity by cre ating him a bey, if he lie a commoner, and a paella it he is already a hey,— paella being the ugliest title of nobility conferred in Vgy pt. The smii•ia mi.:Meld of the telegraph at Cairo, aware or the hopeless nature of Said's complaint, told hourly expecting news of ids demise, tool: up his abode at the telegraph ordiir that lie might he the first. to communicate the intelligence to the new viceroy. He waited and wailed, b u t hour after hour passed away, and 11e expected news did not come. Said was evidently an Un- Caliseioliably long time in dying. At length, tir,il of waitini , after more than forty hours of wakefulness, ilessy Bey ladled a young man, tin assistant in the deliartment, in whom he hoped lie could conlide, and told him wind he was expecting. "1 and about to lie down," said Bessy I to him. have made 100 a couch in the next room. Wake lie the moment the telegram conies from Alexandria.' The young man pronostal obedience. But before lying down Bess)' hey said further to hint, "Ile faithful in this matter and you shall have from ine live hundred francs" t 20), and so saying the bey resigned himself without fear to his repose. The telegram came whilst he slept, three hours alter. Said Paella was dead. The young man, the hay's assistant, re flected that by communicating the news himself to Ismail, who was anxiously expecting it, he would get inure than live hundred frailer. So, leaving his master asleep, he posted oll' in hot haste to Choubrah, where Ismail was then residing, with the telegram iu his hand. He was admitted to an audience with out delay. Ismail made him a bey upon the spot, but gave him no largesse, such as he expected. In his excitement, however, Ismail had dropped the paper containing the announcement of Stud's death, and the young man picked it up, and, as soon as he got leave to depart front the palace, he took the telvg - rain to his master, Bessy liey, whom he roused from slum ber. Bessy key teas delighted at being able, as he hoped, to communicate the news first to the but', viceroy, and gave the order fi n ' the live hundred francs thereand then to the young man. flurrying oll' to the palace, Bessy Bey Was quickly undeceived, Ills news was already known. The paella received him coldly. Ile got no honor. lie so o t ! Mund out by whom he had been forestalled, and ret Unita! to the office to abuse Ins assistant ill good set Clams, anti to dismiss hon. "Speak to Inc with more respect, my brother," said the young man, "for I ant a hey as well :is you, and cannot, be dismissed from my post under govern ment without Ili,. highness' sanction.. Let lls c;,, to hint together." But he ov Itcy was by no means pre pared t'or this, and, on reduction, thought lie had Letter he tiuit t, tintl let the mat - terdrop. •yotiog man who exhibited such mart ties , tts the Americans '(111111 call it, is now governor a a province, a favorite at court, the com panion of the paella ill Paris and Lon don, and it much greater malt than llessy lacy ever was The arta ssion el Said, however, the uncle and prc , l-ccssor of the present viceroy, Was 111,,rItc11 Icy a much more extraordinary :111(I characteristic event, —an event that would he considered horrible anywhere eke except in Egypt. The licad i,t the family, the oldest male within certain degrees of affinity, succeeds to the government in Egypt, not the eldest son. Abbas nicht', predecessor of Said, was hated l'or his cruelty. Ile seemed to think no more of human life than most men do of canine life, and he thought less of murdering or torturing 0 human being than most, seen Week! lbiuk of putting a (log to death In the least pain ful manner. As an example. lie was walking in the grounds of his paha:eon the hanks of the Nile, when tt rievt , brctichloadi lig gun,it towling•plece, was brought to Wile It good shot, and ordered It to be loaded with ball, which was done, AL the tither side of the Nile, a poor peasant , 'Olllllll had just 1111011 her Witter pot el the Flyer, lind was walking up the hank with the water.pot on her head, Abbas presumed the gun at her and 11 red. She was wounded hl the kWh 111111 fell wrlthlng to the ground. The courtiers applauded the accuracy of his highness's arm, awl the viceroy himself yawned the weapon to the attendant who brought it, saying that he was satisfied with IL. No one paid the slightest attention to the poor Wretch who had been wounded. She died that night. It is not wonderful, then, such being the character of Abbas, that he was murdered at last. It, is said 'that those _ who did It, Ills own servants, were In. stigatod by members of his own family, whom he had outraged, so to do. Abbas was living at the house of Benla, near Cairo, when he was mur dered, and the chief eunuch, who dis covered the fact in the morning, before any one else knew it, called Elfi Bey the Clovernor of Cairo, to the palace, in order that they might together concert e i,lanaqcr sittcatqatect VOLUME' 68 measures for their own benefit, before the event should become generally known. They decided that they should put Elami Pacha, son of Abbas, on the throne, and not Said Pacha, who was then at Alexandria, and who by Mo hammedan law was the rightful heir. Had Elami been on the spot they might have succeeded, but, unfortunately for them, he was then at sea, having set out in a steamer, two days before, to go to France, intending to make a tour of Europe. If they could succeed in keep ing the viceroy's death a secret until he could be recalled, the two friends, the chief eunuch and the Governor of Cairo, doubted not that their enterprise would be successful, and that the new pacha would do anything they pleased for them afterwards. The difficulty was to keep the death a secret. A telegram was sent to Alexandria forthwith, in the name of the Viceroy, ordering the swiftest steamer available to be sent after Elami Paella to recall him. Said was himself admiral of the fleet, and therefore the necessary orders had to be issued by him. Carefully as Elfi Bey and the chief eunuch took their measures to conceal the viceroy's death, whispers were spread from the palace in various direc tions that all was not right; and Halim 'acha, a friend of Said, having heard of ie order sent to Said, and having heard likewise the whispers alluded to, sent another message to him by telegraph, stating that the house he desired in Cairo was empty, and begging of him to come himself to occupy it, and not to send for any other tenant. Halitu was afraid to speak more explicitly. Said understood him and did not send for Elami. The expedient which Elfi Bey adopt ed in order to conceal the death of the viceroy was one which probably would only have entered into the head of au Oriental, and which an Oriental only would have had the hardihood to exe cute. It was this. He got the dead body of the viceroy, Abbas, alreay more than unpleasant, dressed up in the or dinary clothes, ordered one of the vice- roy's carriages, had the corpse lifted into its accustomed seat, and took his own scat, as he had often done during the life of Abbas, at his left hand. It was given out that Abbas was going to the palace, which lie had himself built in the Desert, ten miles from Cairo, the palm e called after him, the Abbassich ; other carriages followed, and, during e horrible drive, he, Eli Bey, lifted the arm of the dead man occasionally, as if replying to the greetings of the multitude. Was it 'nut horrible? In this way the drive was accomplished. 'rile viceroy had gone, as ou former oc casions, to bury himself in the A bassieh, and there to celebrate his usual orgies, remote from public, business. .:. , ;othing more. But the truth had got vied. It was known that Abbas was dead notwith standing Elli horrildedrive. Said had come to Cairo, and had sent a mes senger to Constantinople to announce the tact of Abbas' death and of his own accession. 1 lli still had his own guards in the citadel of Cairo. He daily expected the return of.Elatni. It was not until eight days after the death of Abbas that Lie became convinced that Elitmi was not coining, that the country had accepted Said as its ruler, and that there was no more hope for Shut up in the citadel, he trembled as he thought of the revenge which Said Paella would take on him, and he be came finally convinced that there was no more hope for him. Said, in the meantime, sent to him to say that he looked with leniency on his transgres sion, inasmuch as it resulted from too great a devotion to his late master, and Lis family. But Elli judged Said by himself, and believed that the direst tortures would be his fate when lie gave himself up, so he destroyed himself by poison. " What a fool !" said Said, when lie heard the news ; "had I not promised to forgive him '.'" Such is Egyptian life in high places! lsmuil Pacha, the present' ruler in Egypt, is about thirty-nine years of age, with n mild expression of countenance, a yellowish or carroty beard, usually dyed, and au inordinate passion for amassing money. To this lust passion every thing else seems subordinate with him ; and with a monopoly of cotton and sugar in Egypt, he has contrived to render himself perhaps the richest in dividual, privately, in Europe or Africa. The Boston Girl. The Boston correspoudeut of the Chi cago. Tribanc thus describes the Boston girl : The series of Fraternity Lectures is the last great fact of the Boston girl's life. She dotes on Phillips, idolizes Weiss' social problems, goes into a line frenzy over Emerson's transcendental ism, and worships Gail Hamilton and her airy nothings. The Boston girl is of medium height, somewhat cottony, pale, intellectual face, light hair, Hue eyes, wears spec tacles, squints a little, rather di.qhabilic in dress, slight traces of ink on her right second finger, Hue as to her stockings and large as to her feet. Of physical beauty she is no boaster, but of intellectual she is the "paragon of animals." blather a dandelion Ly the roadside, she will only recognize it as the Lcuntodou lara.eucum, and dis course to you learnedly of its fructifica tion by winged seeds. She will describe to you the relative voicings of the or gans of Boston, and the size of the stops in the Great One. She will analyze the difference in Beethoven's and Men- elssolm's treatment of an allrgro co? inoto. She will learnedly point out to you the theological differences in the con servative and radical Schools of Unita rianism, and she has her views on the rights of woman, Including her sphere and mission. But doubt whether the beauty of the flower, the essence Of music, the sublimity of Beethoven and INilendelssolin, or the inspiration of the ology, every find their way into her science-laden skull, or whether those spectacled eyes ever see their way to the care of nature and art. The Boston girl is a shell. She never ripens into a matured flush and blood woman. She is cold, hard, dry and E===l=E !awl! ton is a type of the Boston girl at naturity. Abby Kelly Foster was a ype of the Boston girl gone to seed. If hail Hamilton lives as long as did Abby Kelly, she will carry a blue cotton um brella, wear a Lowell calico, and make speeches on the wrongs of woman and the abuses of the tyrant man. If the Boston girl ever marries, she gives birth either to a dictionary or to a melan choly-looking young intellect, who Is fed exclusively on vegetables, and at the age of six has mastered logarithms and zoology, Is well up in the carboni ferous and fossill fermis period, falls into the frog-pond a few Wiles, dies when he Is eight years of age, and sleeps beneath a learned epitaph and the Lconlcalun laraxacnin. The Polish Colony In Virginia The Polish refugees who settled In the colony of New Poland, in Spottsylvailla county, Virginia, a year ago, held a public meeting In their reading room on the ultimo, and put forth a decla ration, Thu following statement Is In teresting : " The area of our settlement contains 2,40:: acres, of which 1,3:0 acres have been purchased at $5, 1,0117 acres at ss,Bu per acre—on six years' credit. We have In the settlement Imo acres of clearfield land, and 1,402, acres under heavy oak Limber. This whole settlement is di vided into lots or farms of 100 acres each —so that each of us have, lu the body of his farm, the arable land, the meadow, the wood land, and the water in run ning streams, creeks or springs. " We have resumed or adopted here agricultural pursuits, because we earn estly believe that agriculture alone can secure independent competency to those political exiles from Poland who, like ourselves, have no other means of living but the earnings of labor. Aud because our opinion is, that by thus securing our individual Independent competency we will become more useful to our native land, in case of need, than we would be should we choose to earn our bread In exile as simply daily laborers for hire." An Underground City The Sewers of Paris end the 111-vette/8 EC IC= LCorrespondenee of the Boston Post.l One of the great sewers of Paris runs the whole length of the new and mag nificent Boulevard de Sebastorol, and from that in a further direct line to the station of the Strasburg Railway. A branch of this magnificent and chief artery of the city life, nearly as vast in its dimensions, extends along the centre of the Rue de Rivoli. Both of these terminate at the Seine, near the Place du Chatelet. At this point visitors are generally admitted, and descend by a spiral stairway of iron to a level slightly above that of the river. Here we find ourselves in a lofty and spacious gal lery about fifteen feet high, into which several main lines debouch. The shape of all the sewers is a symmetrical oval. They are made of the sandstone so commonly used in Paris for building purposes, and the axis orthe largest of their, by which, of course, I mean the longest diameter, is that which I have just given as the height of the gallery: From a line about one-third of the way from the bottom projects on either side a stone walk two feet in width, which is,ordinarily several inches higher thaii the surface of the sewerage. The walls and railings are nicely whitewashed, and at intervals are in sorted white porcelain prates bearing in gilt letters the names of the streets under which the diverging sewers run. The map of the underground city, it will thus appear, corresponds exactly with that of the more brilliant Paris above, and it is quite as easy, with the aid of a lantern, to find one's way through it. Directly under the arch of the vault run the waterpipes, painted a clear black, and of enormous size, as might be imagined from the huge sup- plies needed for the fountains and other uses of the city. Opposite them are lung and slender tubes of lead, side by side, in a single cluster, each of which contains /a telegraph wire. These are thus issOlatO from every weakening attraction, anti— moreover concealed =from any other injury. The city itself is also thus preserved from the disfigure ment of unsightly poles and loose iron twine dangling from chimney to chim ney. At long intervals are large reservois into which the contents of the drains can be drawn oil at once, and etn.ptied in case of necessity. These are partly for possible military needs, as in qsothe events it might be desirable to send troops underground in order to make a sudden and unforseen attack upon a mob in insurrection. This would cer tainly be a somewhat novel piece of strategy, even in the present complica ted manoeuvres of modern warfare.— It might, however, very probably, have saved Charles X., or Louis Philippe, if either of theSe royal birds, when en tangled in the meshes of their own nets, had possessed such a method of com municating with their distant troops, or dispatching them to points of impor tance: As it was, when ordered out from the Tuileries, the soldiery had uo means either of finding their way back, or of forwarding information of their peril to lortri,linfrter:,. In each of 1,1,2 s<<Lewai Unit line the larger sewers is inserted au iron rail. Upon these cars are run for various pur poses. :Sometimes to convey away the more solid part of the city garbage, sometimes to carry vegetables and the carcasses of cattle and sheep to the mar kets, and again they are employed iu clearing out the drains. On this occa sion they serve a more obviously useful and agreeable end in forming the track if a line of six neat little carriages that iore the invited guests on their tour of uspeclion. Each of these was lilted for he accommodation of fourteen persons. Four faced the engine, if that term may I,e properly applied to the biped power that drew us—four ride with their faces to the t—less attractive point of view, while between these extended two benches with the same back on a tine with the rails on which sat six pen Ons, three fronting one wall and three the other. It was altogether a neat; eco nomical and comfortable arrangement. The cars were handsomely painted and tastefully fitted up, and bore in each corner an elegant brass lamp with a large glass globle. These were tilled with kerosene, - and shone as brightly as the full moon. They much more stylish on their pedes tals than those which many families are wont to read by in New England. One after another the little wagons for which we were waiting were drawn forward like preambulating fire work—a jcu dc joie—from the long cavern in which it was hidden, and the passengers rapidly seated themselves. It was then drawn before to join those that awaited it to complete the train. Each was pulled by two men, attached to ropes, while the same number pro pelled it from behind. A conductor in official badge went before, and off we started. The track was rather rusty, and the men perspired profusely with their labors, though perhaps the hopes of bachshccsh opened the pores some what more easily than usual. At first our progress was slow, but soon a little impetus was gained, and on we went stemming the turbid and sluggish cur rent, thicker and fouler than that of the Gauges, that flowed beneath us, the Lethe of a great city bearing slowly to the sea the cast off slough of it,o daily renewed life. For a short distance we followed the main line leading under the Boulevard de Sebastopol. From the point of juncture with the Rue de Itivoli, its vast tunnel gradually faded away into the heaviness of thick darkness. At our right disappeared one arm of the latter sewer, and no eye could penetrate its dense gloom. Only here and there the faint splash of water distinctly falling, but one voice of mt• ture to the silence around us, while tverhead the unceasing title of travel ',owed full and free with a noise "like thunder heard remote." Here we halt ed for a minute, while car after car slow ly Lorna: the corner and proceeded up the Rue de llivoli, when a new feature lit up the scene. The whole two miles and more of this stately avenue was il luminated at intervals somewhat great by lamps like those borne by our car riages. The eye could follow them till they became like sparks from the anvil In the far perspective, and at length seemed merely a burning ray of glitter ing light. Their effect was increased by the fact that they were not sufficient ly numerous to dispel the darkness, but served only as It were to make it visible and abundantly evident to the senses. Slowly we passed on and on, while the loud rumble of busy traffic over head became deeper and deeper. Our shining cars pierced the obscurity like great squares of light, lit up the mass of stones for a moment with an unwonted glow, and then glided forward, casting behind them phantoms grim and tall, that danced a transient' and fantastic reel upon the walls and ceilings, until gradually they mingled with the gloom of which they seemed the lilting off spring. At times we came suddenly upon a brilliant reflector, that sent a broad shaft of light athwart our path, and brought out one after another the features of all in startling contrast with the (1111111CHH around. We looked launch other, thought of Charon's bout, won dered for an instant whither we might be tending, and them again traversed the gloomy night. Once in a while our limited vision enjoyed a near range, and for a few yards we looked into the smaller tunnels, whose Lilli putian dimensions were swallowed up in the great Gulliver through which a world or a gleam of purest daylight slid down through a distant grating, and we were touched for a moment by the cheerful clatter of human voices. Now and then water, with ceaseless ooze, dripped down narrow stairways, which gave access to the sewer, and cold, sticky and clammy seemed the blood of death, as it clung to the stones, as if loth to part. Leaving visceous and snail-like traces of its trail on every thing it touched, and casting a dark vapor like a shroud around it, it crept towards its cave. And still on we mounted towards the source of the muddy torrent, and silent clove the silence. Only once when the water LANCASTER PA WEDNESDAY MORNING OCTOBER 2 1867 bed mounted higher than the walks on either hand, the heavy tramp of human footsteps were added to the scene, and feet that had descended noiselessly before dashed heavily the water on either hand with a monstrous regulari ty that at length appeared to make the silence more intense. In abodes like this felony has not unfrequently found a refuge, and red-handed outcasts driven from society and hunted by outraged justice, have lived a life of gloom like that of their own souls. Here they have fought, here they have died, and their blood, accursed of all, has vitiated even the cold putrescence into which it fell. But uow these Ishrnaelites of the sewers have disappeared before the on ward mach of humanity, and Paris and London, in providing for the health and thrift of their citizens, have deprived crime of one more frequent refuge. At the corner of the Rue Royal the railway came to an end, and we descend ed from our seats. The gentlemen pur sued their way on foot along the walk on the right of the tunnel, like wan .deriug souls on the dreary banks of the Styx. For the ladies, boats lighted like the cars, had been provided, and they quietly stowed themselves away. The houtineu rowed off one after anoth or as fast as they received their freight. The rest of the way was but short, and ere long we came to an iron stairway ke that at the entrance of the sewer 15p this we mounted, and before us stood the majestic and classic church, or rath er temple, of the Madeleine, " bosomed high in tufted " sycamores, and glorious in the evening sun. We had begun our descent in the grove that surrounds the fountain in the Palace du Chatelet.— Between thesse two oases, which stand amid the wastes of a vast city, and en liven its arid heartlessness and the pro fitless struggles for a barren existence, our caraven had quietly glided along in the darkness. Entering at the door of a theatre, we had come out at that of a church. It was uo unfit illustration of many and many an existence in the re sort of pleasure, which, lavishing its early years and the vigorous and abun dant blood of youth on worldly and sensuous delights, brings its exhausted age to the threshold of the Almighty, tnd thus seeks to secure a salvation ichly forfeited to justice, and invigor ate tile dregs of a wasted life by offering t at the shrine of religion. ~. A Cattle Show In Olden Time _Nearly a year ago a new State Agri cultural Society was organized in Bal timore, and last winter the State Legis lature made it a liberal endowment. This was designed to enable the society to purchase permanent grounds, and it was hoped the city council and the cit izens of Baltimore would have given such furtlier aid as would have enabled the associatiou to lit up its grounds and put forth such a premium list us would have dra..vn forth au exhibitiou credit able to the agriculture of the State. Such hopes are disappointed. The city treasury is bankrupted by magnificent schemes of various sorts, and a purpose so beneficial to all the interests of the city and State was too modest in Its pretensMu,; to gain favor at the hands of our city fathers. In Virginia, North Carolina mid other of our sister States which were overrun and devastated by war, there is spirit and energy enough to get up numerous exhibitions, but in Maryland the attempt fails flatly. Just one hundred and twenty years ago things were di ffereut. The General Assembly ordained that a fair should be eh! in Baltimore town on the first 'hursday, Friday and Saturday of Oc ober yearly, and the commissioners of he said town made all necessary ar ungements, a list of premiums, &c. We lind a record of this in the old Mary- land Gaz,clte, one of the few papers pub lished at that time in the Colonies, and which was continued to the death of the late Jonas Green, of Annapolis, having been published in turn by Jonas Green, and last by their son, with whom it died; and Ever-Green, as it was called by .i‘leMahou. The Ga:atc of Septem ber sill, 1747, published the proceedings of the commissioners of Baltimore town, as fol lows : MEI= )y act of Assembly to be held m Balti fore ton•u on the first Thursday, Fri- lay and :Saturday in October, ,yearly, he commissioners of the said town hereby give notice that whoever brings to the said fair, on the first day thereof, the best steer, shall receive eightpouu ds current money for the same; also a bounty of forty shillings over and above eight pounds. The said steer after wards, on the same day, to be run for by any horse, mare or gelding, not exceeding live years old, three heats, a iluarter or a mile each heat, not confin ed to carry any certain weight. The winning horse to be entitled to the said steer, or to eight pounds in money, at the Option of the owner. "On Friday, the second day of said fair, will be run for the sum of five pounds current money, by any horse, mare or gelding, the same distance, not confined to carry any certain weight. Also a bounty of forty shillings will be given to any person who produces the best piece of yard-wide country-made linen, the piece to contain twenty yank. "On Saturday, the third day, a hat and ribbon will be cudgelled for; a pair of pumps wrestled for; and a white ,hip to be run for by negro girls. "All persons are exempted from any arrests during the said fair and the day before and the day after, except in cases of felony and breaches of the peace, ac cording to the tenure of the above mentioned act." It will not be claimed that the pre miums of this fair were magnificent, yet they were in full proportion, no doubt, to the expenditures then Indulg ed in for town purposes ; neither did they cover all the ground embraced in modern premium lists. In the lending element, however, of our modern "cattle shows," the horse-racing, it will be ac knowledged that nur forefathers were not behind us. They did not confine t hemsel yes Loa trot, nor was theirphrase puritanized into "trial of speed." It was honest running, and they didn't care who knew it. Their first premium was to encourage the production of good beef, which as loyal Englishmen they were bound to do. This bore directly on their own interests in the beef market of Balti more town and the interest of agricul ture. The premiums for horse•racing were for about the same purposes that are answered now—a good deal for the universal excitement and interest, and something for the improvement of the breed of horses. The premium for "yard-wide coun try-made linen" was intended to attract and interest and compliment the notable housewives of the day, when the best ladles of the land, like Solo mon's "virtuous woman," would " seek wool and flux, and work willingly with their hands." We remember, by the way, something of this country-made linen which our good mothers made. It was not Just the fine linen that the Proverbs describe, nor does our memory go back to the days of this fair we are speaking of. On the Maryland farm, where the writer of this was born, there was a crop of flax grown each year, which was broken, hackled, spun and woven at home, as was all the crop of wool. Of this linen was made the sum mer pants and shirts of the negro men, the frocks and shifts of the negro women, and for their summer wear there were long shirts for the boys and long shifts for the girls. It was made also into towels for the family use, and were rough enough at first but soon wore smooth and soft. We never tried it for shirt wear, but an acquaintance of ours having donned a garment of this material, respectfully asked his father to permit one of the negro boys " to break it" for him, This "country made" was of a dark color, and the " white shift" in the premium listof the fathers of Baltimore town was doubtless of Irish linen, and considered a splendid holiday out lit for a sable maiden of that day, albeit it scandalizes the progressed ideas which enlighten us now. The third day of our Baltimore fair of 1747 was given, it will be seen, purely to amusement and simple jollity, when all were free to enjoy themselves, and when the negroes, taking a share in the games, had no doubt a full share of all the fun and frolic. We are not of those who sigh contin ually for " the good old days." We are willing to go on with '" the times" in all that is wise and good. But we have been, and are too " utilitarian," and in this very matter may take a lesson from our fathers. A cattle show should not be all for profit and mere material use, but should combine these with such well-chosen entertainment and amuse- merits as will bring our people together at least once a year in social gathering. Baltimore city should do, on a grand scale, what Baltimore town did accord ing to her ability, make all needful preparation for such a convocation, and open all doors to the comers. Cock Fighting In San Antonio • A letter from Texas says, hot a grand moral spectacle, and particularly on Sunday, is a cock fight, but to visit the cock tight amphitheatre just beyond what is called Mexico, the name given to that part of the city lying across the San Pedro, from its being inhabited ex• elusively by Mexicans, was set down in the programme of last Sunday after noon. Two carriage loads went from the hotel. It was an intensely hot day. The hot glare of the sun and the plaza fronting the hotel and the walls of the limestone houses did not invite to the excursion, and the very quietude of the air proclaimed against such sacrilegious infringement of the day. Bu' it will be remembered this cock fighting is a Sunday institution, and as sight seeing is our object, if we did not see it now, we might not see it at all. And again the fighting would go on whether we were there or not, so these whisperings of opposing conscience availed not, and if a remorseful thought did cross any mind, it was quickly banished by a preliminary round of drinks, replen ishing our pocket flasks of whisky, laying in a gook supply of cigars and the excitement of the ride as we went over the main bridge crossing the San Antonio, and thence on through Main street, made our way across the main and military plates, and after that go ing over the San Pedro and through Mexico, took a detour to the left for half a mile to our place of destination. The thoroughfare 'through which we made our way was lined with people bound for the same locality—tawny Mexicans, wearing immense som breros and smoking corn husk cigarettos, and broad shouldered Mexican women and young Mexican girls, wearing the inevitable shawl over their heads despite the broiling sun. Many of these senoritas are quite pretty, their features regular, with splendidly dark, languishing eyes. The absence of hoops showed off to advan tage their charmingly lithe and yet inviting robustness and roundness of figure. All were dressed in their Sun day clothes, or, more properly speaking, their clothes were clean. Some of the young Mexicans wore clothes gorgeous ly decorated with gilt buttons, extend tug down the outside seams, and nearly all, though ou foot, wore Mexican spurs which kept up a lively, clanking jingle as they walked. The shawls of some of the women were most elaborately embroidered, showing Most skillful taste in this branch of feminine indus try. The road was all alive with their laughter and conversation, the latter carried on wholly in the Spanish patois prevailing here. At intervals we saw among the crowd gamecocks, running sign boards that we were on the right road, the champions and victims of the coming contests. As we descended from our carriages and advanced to the amphitheatre, seats were most obligingly vacated for our accommodation. Spaciousness or ele gance forms no feature of their cock- int. It has this extent and no more—a circular area some twenty-five feet in diameter closed by a rough board fence two feet high, and outside of this rude wooden benches without backs, for seats. The enclosure is sacred to the cocks, hitters, stake-holders, and um pires. Over all, as a protection against the blazing sun, is a booth of mazquite branches. Adjacent are two Mexican huts, having booths in front, awl un derneath them tables and benches. Here are furnished Mexican dishes and drinks,. done up in the most approved style, to those who like them. I might write a column and more the cock lights which shortly began and lasted till sundown, but with giving the bare skeleton will leave it to the reader's imagination to fill up the lecture. Everybody seemed to know every cock, their pedigree and fighting qualities, and nearly all put up stakes on tneir favorites, varying from ten cents to as many dollars. To keep an eye on the varying progress of the fight, the large crowd of those stand ing up kept rushing back and forth in frantic segments of circles seeking by encouraging words and signs to cheer on to victory their favorites. It was a Babel confusion on a small scale, and far more exciting. When victory was declared the excite ment knew no bounds. Next to the luxury of seeing a cock fight, the high est luxury to a Mexican is to win,his bet. I have seldom seen a more excitable crowd than during the progress of one of these fights, and I certainly have seen far tamer pictures than their easy attitudes and picturesque groupings in the intervals of the fighting. Some of the cocks were fought with slashes, a scythe-like blade, two and a half inches long and sharp as a razor, and some with their own spurs. These slashes are a monstrosity of cruelty. A good hit with rue in a vital part is sure death. In the second fight the two cocks made oue mutual dash, gave a mutual thrust with their slashes and both fell dead. This, of course, was a draw. One fight with spurs lasted one hour and thirty•five minutes, and at the last final blow each killed the other, making this likewise a draw. Seventeen lights were fought altogether, and of the contestants twenty-one died on the field, bathed in glory and blood. I have never seen cock fighting before, and I do not care to see a repetition of this Sunday's scene. Jenny Lind. Among the singers at the Hereford musical festival in England, afew weeks ago, was " Jenny Lind." The Pall Mall Gazcite criticizes .her performance as follows: "Of Mme. Ooldschmidt's singing it Is needless to speak. Of course she did all that lay In her power for her hus band's music; but it was to little or no purpose. She happily took part in other oratorios—ln ' Elijah,' for ex ample, and in the second and third parts of The Messiah.' Her singing in these works was more than ever em phatically expressive; but— " eu fugneem - tabu!' tur unul-, etc,' " "Even the voice of the ;'Swedish Nightingale' cannot endure forever. I n plain truth, It is now little better than a beautiful wreck, which the frequent ordor of the still aspiring artist only makes the more apparent. Some of your contemporaries, remorselessly severe upon Herr (Joldschmtdt, have displayed a generous lenity towards the representative of his Ruth. For this respect them. But the truth must not be ignored. Madame Goldschmidt's enthusiasm is very nearly as often provocative of pain as of pleas ure ; and it was only In her In comparable reading of the divine melody of Handel, ' I know that my Redeemer liveth,' the notes of which seem to come within her means as readily now as in the days of her prime, that the ' Jenny Lind' of the past was recognizable. To those who remember what Jenny Lind was, the exhibition of what she actually is could have brought little else than regret, and substantially as she helped the success of the Hereford Festival, In an almost equal measure she may be said to have imperilled her old renown." The State Department Is understood not to be despondent about the settlement of the Alabama claims, though it is delayed by the death of Sir Frederick Bruce. The New York Republican Convention met yesterday, and nominated a State ticket, hooded by Gen. McKeon, of Sarato ga, for Secretary of State. Indian Life on the Prairies. Beyond the Missouri, in the wilder ness, is an Indian village, forty-eight hours from Chicago. It is as rude and old world-like as Longfellow's " forest primeval." It might have been de scribed by the old French fathers two centuries ago, just as you see it, or the illustrious " native of Genoa," or any body this side the deluge of Deucalion. It is as much a stereotype, that village is, as a flock of muskrat houses, which it very much resembles. Your ride through the billowy country already described, seamed with deep "runs" freckled like a face, with yellow flowers. You begin to find out, now it is want ing, how much company a fence may be, running along beside you post haste as you go, how much of their pictorial beauty the "pastures green" owe to flock and herd, and how a little sprink ling of Indians in such a scene seems to date the landscape back to the days of Leatherstocking, Hawkeye, and Path finder, and you feel as if one of the old almanacs in which the s's were all f's would answer as well as any. But two signs of civilization appear, the trail beneath you that is flattened out into a wagon track, and the little patches of corn, shaped like an old fashioned harrow, that lie about on the sunny sides of the hills, belittled to vulgar fractions of acres. These spots of earth have been gently irritated by the squaws, and the maize has grown of itself, and amazingly tall. You are nearing the village. Ponies of all colors, poor enough to herd with Pharoah's kine in the lean year—for their masters have just returned from the buffillo hunt—are spooking around, dragging after them long lariats of buffalo hides. Small pieces of bifucrated animal cop per, " all alive," but-not big enough to say "how," are tottering about loose, the soul of a shiny black button in every eye. Fancy thirty muskrat houses re moved out of their damp Hollaudic hanitalion to dry laud, ranged in a cir cle, and magnified to a height of twelve or thirteen feet at the top of the arch, and with a circumference, some of them, of forty. Cut a door in the side and build a narrow hall of approach. Pierce a hole in the top for the light to go in and the smoke to go out. Set weeds and flowers to growing upon these homely domes. Lay lazy Indians at length upon the sunny sides of all of them, and you have the picture of au Indian Summer viliage. Coming nearer you discover lurking paths running in every direction among the tall weeds. Squaws and children are constantly entering and emerging by the little hall door, like the bees of an old straw hive on a pleasant day.— The sun shines, and the tableaux are various and picturesque. Here two squaws, with knives of bone, are cur rying a buffalo robe on the wrong side, stretched upon four springy sticks thrust in the earth and holding it tense and level as a table. There a mother, with a round black head in her lap, is ex amining its contents, for the ideas of the urchin are pretty much all external and pediculous, and can be caught with that fine-toothed rake called a comb.— Yonder, an old grandma with gray hair sits upon the ground, clasping her knees with both hands, and swinging to and fro, for all the world like my lady in her rocking chair. Here a group of boys are shooting at wild thistle heads with bow and arrow. The explosive merri ment of the white and black race is wanting. They laugh inwardly and silently, the smoky faces just brightening up with a show of teeth at a good shot, and that is all. But the girls have a laugh worth hearing. It bursts out like a peal of silver bells shaken for an instant, and then ceases like a bird you surprise in her song, only to begin again in an other place. There, two Indians smok ing a red sand-stone pipe. One takes a few whitn, and then the other. Yonder, a brawny fellow asleep on the roof of a wi W am. Ilc,und a little kettle-ridden fire a group of a dozen are gathered, some squatting on their haunches, like hun gry and expectant dogs ; some sitting upon their heels, and one fullgrown young Indian in a napkin lies, as our first mother's unpleasant friend in Para dise was condemned to travel for all time ; his heels thrown up like a couple of flukes at one end, and his head on a level with the top of the kettle at the other. A row of other dogs, only they are four-footed, form the periphery of this family party, a sort of animated onion, if you please; you peel off an outer rind of dogs, then of Indians, and soon, dirt, dogs and savages, until you come to the kernel, which is the kettle. The ch , / dr cuisine is an old witch in a sort of aboriginal petticoat fool short gown, and she is bending over the kettle of boiling fat, cooking "sage biscuit," to wit: Lumps of leaden dough dropped into the fat. As fast as she forks them out upon the ground—what should we do without it for everything to fall on? —a smutty arm, with a hand at the end of it, is reached out, and the lump is drawn toward the owner, the lips are cautiously retracted and the teeth set into the glowing and greasy morsel, much as a horse manipulates a thistle. The feast is over and the dogs lick the kettle. Passine through one of the narrow halls, l,uilt up of sticks and sods, you find the hollow dome as cool as a cavern. The floor is of hard, well-swept earth, with a raised seat or couch running round the wall. Here, a papoose is shelved; there, a package of skins; yonder, the drowsy master of the house hold. You perceive the structure of the wigwam ; poles brought together in the centre, thatched with wild grass and sodded with turf, the amphitheatre is spacious enough for a large family, and day falls pleasantly through,the small sky-light. We have seen homes less desirable a thousand miles nearer sun rise, but the wild smoky smell of the occupants suggests a burrow with a beast in it, and a doubtful mingled fra grance of blanket and buckskin he-- wilder.; the sense, and you feel a queer -ity to scratch for a sotneuody else to itch ! A capital place is an Indian dwelling to get rid of sentiment. The reader of Cooper, in love with the ideal red man, will ilnd nothing there to deepen it.— There was in our party a lady who had often, as she owned, felt like running away, letting her hair down and being a squaw. The Indian she had known never soiled the clear white page of the book she saw him in, and his language read like a pleasant ballad. But she went about here on tip-toe, her skirts lifted at half-mast, as if in mourning for the sins of the tribe against cleanli ness, touching nothing, as If every thing was contagious, and holding her breath like a pearl diver. Her gods of tine porcelain had turned to thecoarsest of clay, and the crockery, like that in the story of All Baba, was a greasy jar with a thief In it. And so, good night to Pocahontas! But these turfy domes so cool in Summer, and by the same sign, so warm in Winter, are deserted with the first frosty howl from the North, forpeaked tent of buflitlo skin, something like an elongated chelpcau bras, such as stands yonder, with a dusky face Het in the parted flap like a button "with a strange device." They pack pony and squaw and away for tall timber, put up their tents under thei lee of the woods, and get the fuel for their Winter fires with out packing it. The Fever In New Orlennw NEW (faI.EANs, September 'Lt.—Accord-- to the Ilepubacan's figures the whole num ber of deaths from yellow fever, from its commencement to Saturday morning, the 21st instant, was 1,214. The deaths during the twenty-four hours ending Sunday morn ing were 0, and for the twenty-four bourn ending thin morning wore 77, being the largest number of deaths for any two days since the epidemic began. General Pope Itules Out the Negroes. We have the authority of two respect able white men (not radicals) for reiter ating the assertion that a secret circular of instructions had been sent from Atlanta to the different counties, discontinuing the candidacy of negroes, and that the groat body of the negroes regard these instruc tions as "orders" not to run, and so desig nate them whenever they are alluded to.— Macon (oa,) Telegraph, NUMBER 39 The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus One of the most picturesque myths of ancient days is that which forms the subject of this article. It is thus told by Jacque de Voragine, in his " Le gends Aurea" : " The seven sleepers were natives of Ephesus. The Emperor Decius, who persecuted the Christians, having come to Ephesus, ordered the erection of temples iu the city, that all might come and sacrific before him ; and he com manded that the Christians should be sought out and given their choice, either to worship the idols or die. So great was the consternation in the city that the friend denounced his friend, the father his son, and the son his father. "Now there were in Ephesus seven Christians, Maximian, Maichus, Mar clan, Dionysius, John, Serapion, and Constantine by name. These refused to sacrifice to the idols, and remained in their houses praying and fasting. They were accused before Decius, and iey confessed themselves to be Chris- thins. However, the Emperor gave them a little time to consider what line they would adopt. They took advan tage of this reprieve to dispense their goods among the poor, and they then retired, all seven, to Mount Celion, where they determined to conceal them- selves. "One of their number, Malchus, in the disguise of a physician, went to the town to obtain victuals. Decius, who had been absent from Ephesus for a little while, returned, and gave orders for the seveulto be sought. Malchus, having escaped from the town, tied, full of fear, to his i2.omrades, and told them of the Emperor's fury ; they were much alarmed; and Malchus handed them the loaves he had bought, bidding them eat, that, fortified by the food, they might have courage iu the time of trial. They ate, and then, as they sat weep lug and speaking to one another, by the will of Uod they fell asleep. "The pagans sought everywhere, but could not find them, and Decius was greatly irritated at their escape. Ile had their parents brought before him, and threatened them with death if-they did not reveal the place of concealment ; but they could only answer that the seven young men had distributed their goods to the poor, and that they were quite ignorant as to their whereabouts. "Decius, thinking it possible that they might be hiding iu a cavern, blocked up the mouth with stones, that they might perish of hunger. "Three hundred and sixty years passed, and in the thirtieth year of the reign of Theodosius there broke forth a heresy denying the resurrection of the dead. "Now it happened that an Ephesian was building a stable on the side of Mount Celion, and finding a pile of stones handy, lie took them for his edifice, and thus opened the mouth of the cave. Then the seven sleepers awoke, and it was to them as if they had slept but a single night. They be gan to ask Malchus what decisions Decius had given concerning them. "'He is going to hunt us down, so as to force us to sacrifice to the idols,' was his reply. 'Uod knows,' replied Maxi main, 'we shall never do that.' Then, exhorting his companions, he urged Malchus to go back to the town to buy some more bread, and at the same time to obtain fresh information. Malchus took live coins and left the cavern. On seeing the stones he was filled with as tonishment; however, he went on towards the city ; but what was his be wilderment, on approaching the gate, to see over it a cross ! He went to an other gate, and there he beheld the same sacred sign : and so he observed it over each gate of the city. He believed that he was suffering from the effects of a dream. Then he entered Ephesus, rubbing his eyes, and lie walked to a baker's slioli. lie heard the people using our Lord's name, and he was the more perplexed. 'Yesterday no one dared pronounce the name of Jesus, and now it is on every one's lips. Wonder ful ! i can hardly believe myself to be in Ephesus.' He asked a passer-by the name of the city, and on being told it was Ephesus he was thunder-struck. :Now lie entered a baker's 51101), and laid down his money. The baker, ex amining the coin, enquired whether he found a treasure, and began to whisper to some others in the siloP. The youth, thinking that he was discovered, and that they were about to conduct him to the Emperor, implored them to let him alone, offering to leave Ipaves and money, if he might only be suffered to escape. lief the shop men, seizing him, said, ' Whoever you are, you have found a treasure; show us where It is, that we may share it With you, and then we will hide you.' Malchus was too frightened ) answer. So they put a rope round his eel:, and drew hint through the streets into the market place. The news soon spread that the young man had dis covered a great treasure, and there was presently u vast crowd about him. He stoutly protested his innocence. No one recoguized him, and his eyes, rang ing over the faces which surrounded him, could not see one which he had known, or which was in the slightest degree familiar to him. " St. Martin, the bishop, and Antipa ter, the Governor, having heard of the excitement, ordered the young man to lie brought before them along with the bakers. " The bishop and the governor asked him where he had fouti'd the treasure, and he replied that he had found none, but that the few coins were from his own purse. He was next asked whence he came. Ile replied that he was a na tive of Ephesus, if this be Ephesus." "'Send fur your relations—your pa rents, if they live here,' ordered the governor. " They live here, certainly,' replied the youth, and he mentioned their names. No such names were known in the town. Then the governor ex- Claimed, " How dare you say this money belonged to your parents when it dates hack three hundred and seventy seven years, and is as old as the be ginning of the reign of Decius, and It Is utterly unlike our modern coinage? Do you think to impose on the old men and sages of Ephesus? Believe me, I shall make you suffer the severities of the law till you show where you made the discovery.' " ' I implore you,' cried Malchus,' in the name of (lod, answer me a few ques tions, and then I will answer yours. Where is the Emperor Decius gone to?" "The bishop answered, "My son, there is no emperor of that name; he who was thus called died long ago.' " ' All I hear perplexes me more and more. Follow me, and I will show you my comrades, who fled with tne into a cave of Mount Cellon, only yesterday, to escape the cruelty of Declus. will lead you to them.' "The bishop turned to the governor. 'The hand of God Is here,' he said. Then they followed, and a great crowd after them. And Malchus entered first into the cavern to his companions, and the bishop after hitn. And there they saw the martyrs seated in the cave, with their faces fresh and blooming as roses; so all fell down and glorified God. The bishop and the governor sent notice to Theodosius, and he hurried to Ephesus. All the Inhabitants met him and con ducted hint to the cavern, As:soon as the saints beheld the Emperor their faces shone like the sun, and the Emperor gave thanks unto God, and embraced them, and said, 'I see you as though I saw the Saviour restoring Lazarus,' Maximilan replied, 'Believe us! for the faith's sake God has resuscitated us be fore the great resurrection day, in order that you may believe firmly in the resur rection of the dead. For as the child isin Its mother's womb living and not suf fering, so have we lived without suffer ing fast asleep.' And having thus spoken, they bowed their heads, and their souls returned to their Maker. The Emperor, rising, bent over them and embraced them weeping. H e gave them orders for golden reliquaries to be made, but that night they appeared to him in a dream, and said that hitherto they had slept in the earth, and that in the earth they desired to sleep on till God should raise them again.'r such is the beautiful story. It seems • • BATES OF ADVEATISERG. Ewa:miss A.D PERTISERENTS, 112 a year per: of ten lines; SO per year for each ad,.. ditional square. BEAL Ensaa,Panaorita. PROPERTY, and GEN ERAL ADVsairiturto, 10 cents a line for the first, and 5 cents for each Subsequent Inser tion. SPECIAL NOTICES inserted in Local Column, 15 cents per line. SPECIAL Nam= preceding marriages and deaths, 10 cents per line for first Insertion, and 5 cents for every subsequent insertloll•l SIISINEsS CARDS, of ten lines or less, one year,— Business Cards,five lines or leas, one year,..._ 5 LEGAL AND OTN h. a NOTICES— Executors' ... . ........ 2.50 Administrators' 2.60 Assignees' notices2.so Auditors' notices 2.00 Other " Notices," ten lines, or less , three times 1.50 to have travelled to us from the East. Jacobus Sarugiensis, a Mesopotamian bishop, in the fifth or sixth century, is said to have been the first to commit it to Writing. Gregory of Tours (De Glor. Mart. i. 9) was perhaps the first to in troduce it to Europe. Dionysius of An tioch (ninth century) told the story In Syrian, and Pontius, of Constantinople reproduced it with the remark that Mahomet had adopted it into the Koran. Metraphrastus alludes to it as well ; in the tenth century Eutychius inserted it in his annals of Arabia ; it is found in the Coptic and Marouise books, and several early historians, as Paulus Dia con us, Nicephorus, &c., have inserted It in their works. The Mosquito. A writer thus tells how the mosquito looks, what he does for a living, and how he is produced : It is unscientific to say that mos quitoes bite, for they have no teeth ; and they have no need of teeth to seize upon and prepare their food, for they are dainty and take food only in the liquid form—spoon victuals. They are -- a chivalric rake, and attack their ene mies with a sort of sword or lance; no doubt they consider biting and gouging quite vulgar. The lance of the mos quito is a very beautiful and perfect piece of work ; it is smoother than bur- nished steel, and its point is so fine and perfect that the most powerful micro scope does not discover a flaw in it. As the most delicate cambric needle is to the crowbar, so is the mosquito's lance to the best Damascus blade. This lance is worn iu a scabbard or sheath. The lance is a suction pipe through which the mosquito drinks its food. The mosquito is the most musical of all animals. There is no bird which sings so much. Ile never tires of his simple song. How happy must he be cheerily singing far into the night ! What a volume of melody from so slight a creature! If a man had a voice so loud proportionate to his weight, he might hold a conversation across the Atlantic, and there would be no heed of the tele- graph. Let us inquire about the earliest be ginning of the mosquito ; let us take him in the egg. The mother mosquito has a notion of naval architecture, and out of the eggs she lays she constructs a well-modeled boat, with elevated prow and stern and well-proportioned mid ships. For the boat she employs two hundrtd and lifty to three hundred and fifty eggs, building it up piecemeal somewhat after the manner of men binding together the individual eggs by means of powerful water-proof ce ment, into a substantial and complete structure. Unfortunately, we are un able to give a receipt fur the water-proof Cement.; there are many who would like to have it. The boat is built on the water, and, when completed, she confidently abandons it to the mercy of the wind and the wave. Thanks to that water-proof cerncrt, it can neither be broken, wetted, norsunk ; it is safer than if it wire copper-hottome(l. The little craft, it must he remembered, is freighted with life—each of its two hundred and lifty, or three hundred and fifty little state-mourns has its ten ant. After a lbw days' cruising, the occupants of the shells conic forth, and the ship is destroyed. But those little creatures are surely not mosqui toes; they appear more like lisp or serpents, or little dragons. On closer examination they prove to be what every one knows under the name of " wigglers;" they are the larvae of the mosquito. They wriggle about in. the well-known way for a week or two, and after changing their skins two or three times, they assume quite a new form and movement. They are now what the boys call "tumblers," and are the pupae of the mosquito. In about a week, if the weather, etc., be favorable, something of the form of the mosquito is seen through the transparent skin of the tumbler. Hhortly the prisoner es- capes from his confinement as a full fledged and bold mosquito, and soars away in search• of food and pleasure.— kit( Oic A Genuine Ghost Story The Monongahela .11 , :publican says: "Net very long ago, the young and beautiful wife of one of our citizens was called to her final account, leaving her husband disconsolate, sail, bereft. She was buried in the adjacent ceme tery, and the husband returned to his desolate home- but not to forget the loved one. She was present with him by day in spirit and in his dreams at night. Ono peculiarity of his dreams, and one that haunted him, being repeated night after night., was this, that the spirit of its wife cloneto his bedside and told iim that the undertaker had not re• novel from her face the square piece of nuslin or napkin which had been used o cover her face after death, but had screwed down her coffin. lid with it upon her; that she could not breathe in her grave but was unrest on account of the napkin.— He tried to drive the dream away, but it bided with him by night and troubled him by day. He sought the consola tions of religion ; his pastor prayed with him and assured him that it was wicked to indulge such morbid fancy. It was the subject of his own petition before the Throne of ( ;race, but still the spirit came and told anew the story of her suffix:talon. in despair he sought the undertaker, Mr. Dickey, who told him that the_napkin had not been re moved, but urged hiw to forget the cir cumstance, as it could not be any possi ble annoyance to inanimate clay. \V Idle the gentleman frankly acknowledged this, lie could nut avoid the apparition, and continual stress upon his mind be gan to tell upon his health. At length he determined to have the body dlsin. erred and visited the undertaker for that purpose. Here he was met with the same advice and persuasion, and convinced once more of Ills folly, the haunted marl returned to his home. That night, more vivid than ever, more terribly real than before, she came to his bedside, and upbraided him for his want of affec tion, and would not leave him until he promised to remove the cause of all her suffering. The next night, with a friend, he repaired to the Sexton, who wan pre• valled upon to accompany them, and there, by the light of the cold, round tnoon, the body was lifted from its nar row bed, the coffin lid unscrewed, and the napkin removed from the face of the corpse. Tina night she came to his bedside once more, but for the last time. Thanking him for His kindness, she Dressed her cold lips to his cheek, and came again no more. Header, this is a true story ; can you explain the myster ies of dreams': !Beauties of Registration In South Caro- EVA act from a lot ter trout .00thC:arollua, ro. M2=2lM= Just after receiving your letter I was ap pointed, at the request of Ilcoorul Sickles, ono of thu Rogistrarm of this state, and I have been busy ever since, It t n a l t u l i ngtl h z (n o ,i ns of our 1( 0 ' f maul brulht • ea ; y of p In feet nearly ail of them, had no Mon what " rogisturing" meant, tint], 1114 a natural consequence, the inost ludicrous scenes transpired, quite a monhor brought along hags and baskets " put It In," and In nearly every' illstallCO there was a great rush for foul' that we would not have right ration ounotigh to go round." Sumo thought It wan soinothing to eat; others thought It Wall something to Weill', and (who a numbor thought it was 010 distribution or confisca ted land under a nue: sumo. Thuy wore told that they were to eomo before the Board of Registrars . " to rueuivu Muir clued vu fran chise;" hence all the mistakes abovo mon• turned. All were sworn, and several, on being asked what was Bono when they wore rogistured, said that "Do gemblin old do big whisker make me moor to deport (sup port) do laws ob Unitud Sour Callum" A now book by queen Victoria has boon printed, and will shortly bo glvon to tho public). Her Majesty describes, In her own fresh and feminine style, a merles of journoys chiefly , made by the royal party In Scotland. A good deal of guide book matter la thrown Into tho narrative, and thorn aro many pleasant references to her travelling com panions and servants. Prom this book tho public will learn something authentio about Prince Consort's illle, who hum recently attained a sort or groteequo notoriety in England.
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