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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
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OH the 511!..j.• I, WI, t. rho Ilse lull';
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,t) urnle titer fight,
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E., ,v1,.1e n I 4,ains and disgrace!
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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
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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
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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-
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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.