Zits dotty ptelligillar, PETBLIfiErED EVERY WZMNESDA'S BY 11. G. SMITH & CO U. Q. SMITH TEKII3—T«v Dollars per annum, payable In all cases In advance. TUE LANCIABTEE DAILY INTELLIGENCES is pabitehed every evening, Sunday excepted, at Si per Annum in advance. ••V' °oar= or Clorras OFFICE—Bo Scitreas. gliortilaitrouo. The fostchatse Concert ITrantibited from the German by Edine T Howard. It was nearly time for the diligence which served as a means of communi cation between Heidelberg and Stutt- gart, to start, when a man, dressed in a • brown frock coat ornamented with yel low buttons, wearing a gray slouch hat and carrying au overcoat of the same color over his right arm, could be seen, evidently very impatient to be on his journey. The valise by his side, though containing all his worldly goods. seam ed of no account, judging by the man ner in which he tossed it into the dili gence. But a case Clasped to his bosom as ;Affectionately as a mother encircles irellirst-born, proved conclusively that however lightly he might value his other possessions, this at least, held something very dear. Mounting the coach step, he deposited it very careful ly on the cushion beside him ; covered it with all the thoughtfulness with which we shield some beloved Invalid friend from the cold air; and, giving a signal to the postillion that all was right, planted himself in the corner of the stage, fully prepared to make him self as comfortable as possible. To this end, on discovering that he was the only passenger, with one glance at the valuable case by his .side, as if still doubtful whether its seOrrity were cer tain, he took out his beloved pipe, filled it, lighted it, and began to puff with that true lazy 'movement of the lips which none t,ut real smokers under stand. Then, us the soft vapor wreath ed itself around the massive brow, half hidden beneath the slouch-hat, our traveler folded his arms across his chest, and fell into a deep reverie ; so deep, indeed, that not even the stopping of the vehicle at the station sufficed to arouse him, nor the noise made by va rious persons who, with busy hands, were loading its top with baskets, satchels, cc , which, of course, betoken ed the presence of at least more than bent upon traveling the same road us Limseif. Ills dreams, however, were now rudely interrupted by the voice of a young lady, who exclaimed, as she placed a foot worthy of Cinderella on the coach-step, and felt the thick smoke in her face, "Oh, Marie! we will certainly choke!" The new-comers were, to all appear ances, sisters; for both had dark hair and eyes, and wore black silk dresses, with crepe hats, the color of which served not to conceal, but brighted, the extreme beauty of their faces. Both were young, and on both countenances rested that expression which told of beauty of soul and heart as well as of form. But they might have been as ugly as the queen of the Hottentots, if such a person exists, for any impres sion produced upon their neighbor, who now sat opposite to them, and drew his eyebrows in a most terrific frown as he asked, "Ah ! tobacco smoke is perhaps WI pleasant, mesdemoiselles?" "Indeed, sir," replied the elder or the two, in the softest voice imaginable, "if you would , ttave the kindness to i sacrifice your own tastes to ours, we should feel under great obligations." ' , 1V hut was to be done? The voice was toe sweet to lie resisted, and, beside, the speaker wasa lady ; so, with what would have been a growl u oder nther circum stances, the beloved companion was suffered to slide back into its accustomed ,pocket. Ilia how it was missed! Again and again lie endeavored to resume the thread of his broken dream, but in vain. Becoming each moment more and more ,' restless, he moved, first one way, then I another; and, had it not been for a drizzling rain that had just commenced, he would have gratified his longing fur the weed by taking a seat outside, on the box. Finally, a bright thought nt scented to st the hi, and, soding that both Mine. v e busilt engag,ed in read ing, lie sal( - himself, "A h ! if smok ing is forbidden, where is there a statute against my other friend? If I cannot smoke, I can play." Reader, the case contained a violin, No sooner said than done; aud, to the girl's great astonishment, a strain of music, wondrous in its power and tone, greeted their ears Their books fell from tl:eir hands, while their counteuances showed that they had no wish to inter fere with their strange coin pan ion. But, wrapt up in this new pursuit, he took no notice either of their pleasure, but continued improvising the most beauti ful strains. Now sad, almost wailing. Was it a dirge for the friend in his pocket? l'erhaiis! But the sound be came once inure full and loud ; and finally, over every string, seemed to hover the word Resigned, followed by notes whose melody increased in beauty, until the dream of the musician was over, and all ended in a loud cry. Mo tionless, speechless, sat his listeners, scarcely daring to breathe,until Therese, the elder, met a glance which thrilled through her whole being, and t he ex claimed, "Ali, sir! and wherg is the finale, the close, of this?" "Pray, pray, sir," interrupted the other, by name Marie, "give us the end." " It is finished," responded the per son addressed while the corners (if his mouth drew themselves 'omuiously to gether. " No, no," said Therese again, under the influence of feelings which she could scarcely comprehend ; the ending of such strains should be a hymn of praise for all.that is beautiful and good." " A prayer from a full breast," ex claimed Marie; when, turning to her sister; "Therese, do you finish it." " an artiste?" broke in Herr astonished in turn. .1 play occasionally." "I pray you then—" and, without finishing his sentence, he handed her his bow and violin. But, waving them back, she looked toward her sister, who, with a meaning smile, that lit her face as sunshine lights the landscape, stepped over, and, drawing from under the seat Vivo cases, almost the exact cm, u terpart of his own, took out, not one, but two violins. And you, too?" he exclaimed to Marie, seeing the'pmvement. She only bowed in answer; and, turn ing her instrument, said, "Ah, Therese! .you have certainly never played before such a large audience before." Aud, while the artiste's taper fingers grasped the violin, a picture arose be fore the charmed eyes 'of her fellow traveler. A golden harvek-field glowed in the brilliant sunseo, With the mowers and their scythes\ came young and old, rejoicing over ithe ripened grain. Then, as the music continued, it changed to a hymn, and all were on their knees, praising and 'blessing the Giver of every perfect gift fore all His kindness to His creatures; while,far above, in the blue sky, the notes"of a lark might be heard, his tones mingling in unison with the voices of earth. Ilesat perfectly entranced ; and, with out giving him time to recover himself, Therese said, in a voice almost stifled with emotion, Now, Marie—" "No, sister! Hush! I can add noth ing. But stop! Let us play that duet of Kreutzer's ; that will best accord with the feelings of my heart." This , truly magnificent composition, in such hands, might have sufficed to have transformed even a music hater into an enthusiastic ;over; judge, then, what the effect must have been upon the third on 3 of the-e artists, brought BO strangely together. His heart heaved, while the pearly tear streamed down his pale cheeks; and, as the note died died away on his ear, her , both hands and cried, "Either, spirits from thif other world,y; r sisters of Milanolia." " Only the latter; dear sir, the younger, smilingly , Theresa, and I am Marie." " Your hands!" he.continued, with a pleading voice, and, taking them both, he clasped them in his own, ex claiming, " As long as memory lasts, I shall bear in mind this hour." " But why speak so sadly? Now that we have met, shall we not also have the pleasure of learning your name? Are you Baillot, or Lafont, or it may be even Kreutzer himself? Your manner of playing says that you are one of us." "Not so, mademoiselle, I have not that honor, being only an ameteur ; but, if you wish to know what I am, people call me Nicolaus Lenan." " Lenan! Lenan!" Interrupted Therese, "The Post?" "As such, I am known." "There lie, then, your own produc tions,—v,olumes dear to us from many associations ; for, in all our wanderings to and fro,', they have accompanied us. Oh, how often the reading of thepoems A. J. STEI:N/fAST 'VOLUME 69 has broughtthe wish to know the poet!" and theenthusiast seized Lenan's hand, even as:he had done hers before, and pressed it in her owu. "At last Fate has accomplished one of mytioost earn est desires." "And to her, the godtl44 whom so many wish to propitate, shdll he sung hymn, when we arrive at Stuttgurd," replied Marie, almost as much airsoted • as her sister. "Why wait for that. Here, where she has bestowed on us her gift, let iia praise offering be given. Sir Amateur, you know Kreutzer's trio in C sharp? And can Way it? So much the better. Take your violin, and let the faultless beauty of this master piece be accepted by fate In return for what she hasgranted The horses changed their trot to a walk, and picked up their ears at the unusual sound; while the postilion, with the reins loose in his hands, thought, "For' twenty-three years I have driven over this same road, bui never was it my lot to carry such pas. sengers before. Longere the stage reached its destina tion, the but now strangers had become friends, and neither of them had reason ever to regret making each other's ac quaintance. The residence of Milanol• la and his sisters became a second borne to the gifted Lenan while the former were in Paris; and, when the united voices of their many admirers in Ger many brought them back again over this Rhine, no voice was more ready to welcome them than that of the poet. Marie afterward died in Paris, in the fall of 1838; and, a few years later, on a small marble tomb near Vienna, have been seen a nurt e-wreath. tied with white ribbon, on which was writ ten: Arid es. i &hand, :.0 Ills last farewell to their_, Ile !max away each • hfu: And left but me34,y. nunrs,: I T. • Female A 1111111'8 foes are tho,e of his own household, and the keenest enemies of women are women themselves. No one can inflict such humiliation on a NVO. mau as a woman eau when she chooses; for if the art of high handed snubbing belongs to men, that of subtle wound ing is peculiarly feminine, and is prac tised by the best bred of tile FeX. WO- men are always more or isss an Ligon tic to each other. They are gregarious i in fashions and emulative in lollies, hat they cannot combine; they never sup port their weak sisters; they shrink from those who are stronger than the average, and if they would speak the truth boldly, they would confess to a radical contempt tor each other's intel lect, which perhaps is tha real reason why the sect of the "emancipated"' commands so small a following. 11 dr a dozen ordinary men advocating 'eman cipation' doctrines would do inore_to wards leavening the whole bulk ‘d . WO mankind than atiy number of 11 rst-clas women. Where' they do stand by each other it is -r- instintive or personal affection, rattier than trom class solid arity. And this is one of the mac[ ing distinctions of sex, 111111 cause, among others, why men have the upper hand, and why they are able to keep it. Certainly there are reasons, sufficiently good, why wotneallo not coalesce; and one is the immom:f2 Ulf ference between the two extremes—the silly being too silly to appreciate the wise, and the weak too wtaii tt, 1/1::.11" the armor of the strong. There is more dilll:rence he! %%run th outsiders among women titan t bore 1- between those 5100;4; men; tunit n eh article ristic of exaggeration malt ing a gap which the medium or a vera man tills. The ways of women with each other more than all else show tI great difference between their moro,' and that of men. They flatter and ctedN as men could not do, but they are also snore rude to each other than any man would be to his fellow. It amazon; to see the things they can it() and wilt beat - -things which no man would dream of standing, and which no 111:111 would dare to attempt. This is be..ause they arz, not taught to respect each other, and because they have no fear of consequences. Hone woman is insulted by another, she cannot demand salis• faction or knock the offender down, anti it Is unladylike to swear and call names. She must bear what she can repay only in kind; but, do her justice, she repays in a manner undeniably effective and to the point. There is nothing very pronounced about the feminine mod,. of aggression and retaliation, and yet it is eloquent, and sufficient for its purpose. It may be only a stare, a shrug, a toss of the head ; but women can throw au intensity of disdain into the simplest gesture . which answers the whole end perfectly. The unabashed serenity and unflinching constancy with which one woman can stare down an other is in itself an art that requires it certain amount of natural genius as well as careful cultivation. She puts up her eyeglass—not being short sighted—aud surveys the enemy standing two feet from her with a sublime contempt for tier whole condition, or with a still more sublime ignoring of her existence alto gether, that no words could give. if the enemy is sensitive and unused to the kind of thing she is absolutely crushed, destroyed for the time, and reduced to the most pitiable state of Self-abase ment. If she is of a tougher fibre, and has had some experience of feminine warfare, she returns the stare with a corresponding amount of contempt or of obliviousness; and from that moment a contest is begun which never ceases, and which continually gains in hitter. ness. The stare is the weapon of offence most in use among women, and is speci ally favored by the experieneed against the younger and less seasoned. It is one of the instinctive arms native to the sex, and we have only to watch the intro duction of two girls to each other to see this, and to learn how even in youth is begun the exercise which time and use raise to such deadly perfection. In the conversations of women with each other we again meet with exam ples of their peculiar amenities to their own sex. They never refrain from showing how much they are bored; they contradict flatly, without the flim siest veil of apology to hide their rude ness ; and they interrupt ruthlessly, whatever the subject in hand may be. One lady was giving another a minute account of how the bride looked yester day when she was married to Mr. A., of somewhat formidable repute, and with whom, if report was to be trusted, her listener had sundry tender paSsages which made the mention of his mar riage a notoriously sore subject. " I see Non have taken that old elm Madame Josepheue wanted to palm H 1 on me last year," said the tortured list. suer brusquely, breaking into the nar rative without a lead of any kind; and the speaker was silenced. Lt this case it was the interchange of doubtful courtesies, wherein neither de served pity; but to make a disparaging remark about a gown, in revenge for turning the knife in a wound, was a thoroughly feminine manner of retails tion, and one that would not have couched a man. Such shafts would fall blunted against the rugged skin of the coarser creatures ; and the date or pat tern of a bit of cloth would not have I told much against the loss of a lover. But as most women passionately care for dress, their toilet is one of their most vulnerable parts." Ashamed to be un fashionable, they tolerate anything in each other rather thou shabbiness or eccentricity, even when picturesque; hence a sarcastic allusion to the age 01 ew-yards of silk, is a return wound of considerable-depth when clevarly given. The introduction of womankind be longing to a favorite male acquaintance of lower social condition affords a splen did opportunity for the display of femi nine amenity. The presentation can not be refused; yet it is resented as an in trusion-; and the smaller woman is .nade to feel that she has offended, "Another daughter, Mr. C.! You must have a dozen daughters surely,'• a peer ess said disdainfully to a commoner whom personally she liked, but whose family she did not want to know. -The poor man had but two, and this was the introduction of the second. Very pain ful to a high-spirited gentlewoman must be the way in which a superior creature of this kind receives her, if not of the same set as herself. The husband of the inferior creature may be "adored," as men are adored by fashionable wo men who love only themselves, and care only for their own pleasures. Artist, man of letters, beau sabreur, he is the passing idol, the temporqy toy of a cer tain circle; and his wife has to be tolerated for his sake, and because she is a lady and tit to be presented, thOugh an outsider. Bo they patronize her till the poor worn, /you are else the 'answered " this Is ..:Lt.;st.3,l:iirt,..ixOt/c/4t srattti,eitete Often women flirt as much to annoy other women as to attract men or amuse ~uemselve t. If a wife has crossed swords w lib a friend, and the husband is iu any say endurable, let her look out for re ' I:illation. The woman she has offended it, take her revenge by flirting more rr less openly with the husband, all the .chile loading the enemy with flattery ,f she is afraid of her, or snubbing her without much disguise if she feels her self. the stronger. The wife cannot help nerself unless thingsgo too far for public patience. A jealous woman without proof is the butt of her society, and brings the whole world of women liken nestuf waE , psaboutherears. If she is wise she will iguure what shecanuotlaugh at; if sensitive, she will fret; if vindictive, she will repay. Nine times out of ten she dues the last, and,may be, with interest; and so goes on the duel, though all the time the lighters appear to be Most in timate friends, and on the best pds,iible terms together. But the range of these feminine-mnenities is not confined to women ; it includes men as well ; and women confiuuully take advantage of their posipon to insult the stronger sea by saying-to them things which can be neither answered nor resented. A wo man can insinuate that you have just cheated at cards, with the quietest face and the gentlest voice imaginable; she can give .you the lie direct as coolly us if she was correcting a misprint ; ted you cannot defend yourself.— To brawl' with her would be unpar donable, to contradict her is useless, and the sense of society does not allow you to show her any active displeasure. In this instance the weaker creature is the stronger, and the most defenceless is the safest. You have only the rather questionable consolation of knowing unit you are not singular in your dis comfiture, and that when she has made an end of you she will probably have a turn with your betters, and make them, too, dance to her piping, whether they like the tune or not. At all events, if she humiliates her sisters stilt more ; and with the knowledge that, hardly ' handled as you have been, others are yet more severely dealt with, you must learn to be content, and to practice a grim kind of patience as well as nature will perm it.—.S'aturdaN Review. Under the title of "Queretaro, Leaves Detached from a Journal kept in Mex ico," the Prince Salm-Salm, a German adventurer who served in the Union army durint; the war of the rebellion, and afterward devoted himself to Max imilian, in Mexico, has published a minute accoUpt of the last days of that luckless prino. He certifies that dur ing his impr4onment Maximilian was treated with tierfect kindness, and en joyed as much liberty as was poSsible under the circumstances. As his capa city was prolonged, the desire to' live was gradually extinguished in his mind so that he unwillingly consented that attempts for his escape should be made. Twice a plan had been arranged which must have saved him, but for his in sisting that Miramon and Mejia should also be included in the flight. Finally it was determined that he should make tile effort in the night of June 2. Three Mexican officers had been gained over, one of them, a captain of cavalry, had even organized a small escort for him; another had provided Salm-Salm with a republican uniform. There were no troops outside of Queretaro, nor along the Cerro Gordo road. Maximilian, however, finally refused to start. About 1 o'clock in the after noon he received a telegram from the Frussian Ambassador saying that he was coming to him with two lawyers. ,Bretton also complained that a horse which had been provided for him had been taken away. At 5 o'clock the Archduke told Salm Salm that he would not try to escape, adding: "What would the Ambassador, whom I have invited here, say, if they should come and not find me ?" Salm-Salm tried to persuade him, but in vain. "Bah!" said he, "it will go quick any way, and a few days more or less is of no ac count." Another attempt, still better organ ized, was to be put in execution on the night .of June 14. The court-martial him met ou the 13th, and its decision was certain. Two Colonels were to have been gained over for a hundred thou sand dollars each. They were to be paid in notes of hand, with the endorsement of the Ambassadors ; but the latter hesi tated to make themselves responsible. If they had had ready money, Maxi milian would then have been saved. But they had not, and one of the Colo nels discloses the scheme to General Escobedo. Maximilian received the news with perfect resignation. The negotiations in this latter at tempt were conducted by the Prin cess Salm•Salm, who is said to have done more and risked more for Maxi milian than the diplomacy of Europe and Mexico combined. From her live ly pictures of the Mexican leaders we extract the following:."Juarez is a man of middle size, with strongly marked Indian physiognomy. A. long scar rather becomes than disfigures his face. His eyes are coal• black, and very penetrating; and he conveys the im prAssion of a deep thinker, who never acts ivithout premeditation. He wears cravat and a very high collar, and dress es in black." Juarez treated the Prin an's blood is on fire, or they snub her till she has no moral consistency left in her, and is reduced to a mere mass of pulp. They keep her in another room while they talk to their intimates; or they admit her into their circle, where she is made to feel like a Gentile among the faithful, where either they leave her unspoken to altogether, or else they speak to her on subjects quite apart from the general conversation, as if she was incapable of understanding an-m on their own ground. They ask her to dinner without her husband, I and take care that there is no one to meet her whom she would like to see ; hint they ask him when they are at their grandest, and express their deep regret' that his wife (uninvited cannot accompany him, they know every turn and twist that can hu miliate her if she has pretensions which they choose to demolish. They praise her toilet fur its good taste in simplicity, when she thinks she is one of the finest on an occasion on which no (me can be too line; they tell her that pattern of hers is perfect, and madejust like the dear duchess's famous dress last season, when she believes that she Las Madame Josephine's last, freshly imported from Paris; they celebrate her dinner as the very perfection of a relined family dinner without parade or cost, though it has all been had from the crack confectioner's, and though We bill fur the entertainment will cause many a day of family pinching. These are the things which women say to one auotherravheu they wish to pain and humiliate, and which pain and humiliate some more than would a positive disgrace. Ijor some women are distressingly sensative about these little matters. Their lives are made up of trifles, and a failure in a trifle is a tail tire in their object of life. 'Women can do each other no end of despite in a small way !ii society, not to speak of mischief of a graver kind. e V , A hostess w as a grudge against one of her gue .s c always insure her a disappoin ' evening under cover of doing her supreme honor and paying her extra attention. If she sees the enemy engaged in a pleasant Converse• Lion with one of the male stars, down she swoops, and in the sweetest manner possible carries her off to another part of the room to introduce her to some school-girl who can only say yes or no in the wrong places—"who is dying for the honor of talking to you, my der ;" or to some dnltudged stripling who blushes and grows hot, and cannot stammer out two consecutive sentences, but who is presented as a rising genius, and to, be treated with the :ousiderution due to his future her persecution is done under the guise of extra friendliness, the poor cannot cry out, nor yet resist, but she knows that whenever she goes to Mrs. So and So'sshe will be seated next the stupidest wan at table, and prevent ed from talking to any one she likes in sonic occult manner unpleasant to her. And yet what has she to complain of? She cannot complain [bat her hostess trusts to her for help in the success of her entertainment, and moves tier about the room as a perambulating attraction Which she has to dispense Fairly among her guests,lest someshould he jealous of the others. She may know that the weaning is to annoy ; but who ran act on meaning as against manner? how crooked soccer the first may he, if the last is straight the case falls to the ground, and there is no room for re monstrance. The Lost Days of Maxlmlllan LANCASTER PA, WEDNESDAY MORNING DECEMBER 30 1868 cess with perfect courtesy, but declined to permit her to enter Queretaro until the capture of Maximilian was announced. From that moment she spared no effort to help the latter, but was ill seconded by the diplomatic crops. These gentle men arrived in Queretaro on June 5, and imagined that their presence would have sufficient weight with the Repub leaflet() preclude the necessity of further interference on behalf. of Maximilian. They seem also to have overlooked the fact that they had been originally cre dited to the Imperial Government, and not to theßepublican Government,with whom their influence was insignificant. Juarez knew that while he was backed by the United States he need fear noth ing from the menaces of the Powers which the - se Ambassadors represented. Their parsimony was, however, more disastrous to Maximilian than their want of diplomatic address. Money might have saved him; but from those who could easily have raised it, not a dollar was forthcoming. "How can I help losing my patience," says the Princess, " when I reflect that this wretched stinginess killed the Emper or!" The Ambassadors were fearful of being involved in trouble; while the two Colonels, as one of them afterward confessed to the Princess, were doubtful if the notes of hand would be paid in Vienna. On the morning of June 13 the Austrian Ambassador sent the notes, with his signature attached, for his col leagues to inspect. But a few hours later lie returned to the prison and rushed into Maximilian's cell, tearing his hair, and exclaiming, " We cannot do it ' • we should all be hung!" He even took a pair of scissors and cut out from the notes his signature. The next day Prince Salm•Salm was placed in confinement, and his wifo ordered to leave Queretaro. She repaired in all haste to San Luis Potosi, gained ran audience of Jaurez, and throwing herself at his feet, plead ed for the life of her husband and that of the Emperor. Juarez was affected to ear • e pardoned the Prince, but re .' ely refused to interfere in behalf of aximilian. "I am grieved, Madame," he said, " to see you at my feet, but if all the kings and all the queens of Eu• rope were here I could not spare the life of that man. It is not I who take it; the people and the law demand it." The execution of the Emperor, it ip well known, followed soon after this. It is not true, Prince Salm-Salm tells us, that lie was only wounded by the first fire of his executioners, and while lying on the ground implored them by a second discharge to put an end to his misery. Five muskets were discharged at him, and each inflicted a mortal wound. He sank down on his left side with a convulsive movement, and the officer in command, thinking him still ! alive sent a pistol ball through his head. ! Marrj log, by Lot "Marrying by lot" is, or rather was, one of the customs of the Moravian Church. In the American, and as we should imagine, in the English commu nities, belonging to that body it has be came obsolete; but Miss Mortimer, from whose little tale bearing this title our information has been drawn, gives us to understand that in some of the Ger man settlements it remains at least par tially in force. A system under which, we are told, unhappy marriages were unknown, deserves some notice; and, little as it harmonizes with English sentiment, possibly some regret. Miss Mortimer, who is now dead, was the daughter of an able and zealous minis ter of the Moravian Church. Though in after-life she withdrew from its com munion, she never ceased to regard it with affection ; and in telling her story she preserves a uniformly respectful and kindly tone which inclines us to trust her description. The working of the system will be best described by giving an account of what took place on an occasion when seven single or widowed brethren, au unusual number for the small settle ment where the scene of the tale is laid, signified to the society their wish to marry. It should be said that the set- tlement contained an establishment in which all the single women of every age resided under the charge of an elderess, and that the Burgle men lived in similar fashion, and that all speech between unmarried brethren and sisters was absolutely prohibited. This, it is plain, would do something, but as we shall see, not everything, to clear away from the system the enormous difficulty of "prior attachment." On the Sunday, then, before the con ference for the settlement of the mar riage was to be held, all the unmarried sisters, dressed in their most becoming attire, were in their place at church. The rule which forbade the interchange of a glance between the two classes of worshippers was tacitly repealed for the day. Both parties used their liberty. It was observed that the looks of the seven brethren ranged over the whole company of sisters, but that the sisters concentrated their attention upon the five bridegrooms out of the seven two, pf whom more hereafter, were absent. The excitement was increased by the discovery that more than one of the brethren were unusually desirable. Each of the five, by the way, had two friends, nomenclatures they may be called, to answer any questions they might wish to put about the sisters. On the day of meeting of the Conference the order of proceeding was asßollows : One of the candidates for matrimony, whom we will call A; presents him self. He is asked whether he has any preferepce for any particular sister. He answefbd in the negative. This he need not have done if he had happened to have any liking. But he is a mission• ary, and it was the general though not the invariable practice fur the mission aries to leave the choice of a wife to the wisdom of the society. Accordingly, the elderess of the house of the unmar ried sisters is called on to produce her list. On her recommendation—she was evidently a person of immense import ance in the community—a sister is selected. Then the lot comes into use. Two papers, previously prepared, and tightly rolled up ark placed together in a box. One of these has yes and the other no written on the inside. The box is handed to a member of the com pany, who takes out one of these papers, which he passes to his next neighbor, who opens it and reads its contents. If the no lot is taken out the sister mentioned is considered to be vetoed ; another is chosen, and the process is repeated until a favorable answer is obtained. The latter is sub- mitted within the next few days to the sister, who has the right of accepting or refusing the offer. If she refuses, an other has to be chosen in the same way. Theicase of B, the second missionary, is the same as A's. That of C, however, presents some peculiarities. He ex.- presses a preference. But the sister had got some inkling of his intention, and, not reciprocating his liking, had con trived that it should be summarily stop ped. Her father interferes, and pre vents her name from being submitted to the trial of the lot. Disappointed in his first choice, he proposes successive ly for several of the sisters, each one of whom is either negatived by the lot or refuses her consent. The fact was that a terrible rumor had gone through the sisters' house to the effect that C had been heard to speak very confidently of the way in which he should manage his wife, and they were all unwilling to venture on such a tyrant. A little more experience of the world would have enabled them to anticipate what actually happened, viz., that the boaster became an utter slave to the wife whom he at last managed to ,find in some settlement. The two missionaries who had not been able to leave their work were dealt with just as their impartial brethren A and B had been. A sister was selected, and if approved by the lot sent out. It was evident, however, that they ran a greater risk, because they abandoned the veto which the presence .of the others enabled them • to.exercise, and trusted themselves to the wisdom of the Conference. Sometimes, indeed, these absentee bridegrooms would en deavor to make their happiness more sure by ;sending home some descrip tion of what they wanted. For in. stance, one gentleman who had had the misfortune to lose his wife, requested the Conference to find some one who might supply her place. She must, be told them, be a short, dumpy sister of about five fbet high ; that had been the size of his late partner, and it would be well if the new corner should fit the large wardrobe of excellent clothing which she had left. So modest and sensible a rNiuest was, of course, attended to. Af ter several negatives, the lot approved of a sister who was found on measure ment to be of exactly the right height. About F and G, the two lay candidates, there is nothing remarkable to be said, except that F had provided himself with two "preferences," and the lot vetoing the first, fell back philosophi cally on the second. . We may, perhaps, be mchnell to won• der that such a practice should have re tained its vitality so long. But it is impossible to measure the constraining power which a religious organization, of which the enthusiastic force. is un impaired, can exercise over the indi vidual will, Some Reminiscences of Fort Lafayette, President Lincoln, and Mr. Seward, by George D. Prentice. The Louisville Courier• Journal of the 9th instant, contains an article, inspired by the recent burning of Fort Lafayette, and signed with the well know initials " 0. C. P." We quote the narrative portions of the article, as follows : I have some peculiar reminiscences I connected with Fort Lafayette. In 1861 three distinguished gentlemen— Hon. William M. °win, who had serv ed many years with distinction in the Senate of the United States; Hon. Cal• houn Benham, who has been United States District Attorney in California, and Mr. Brent, who had been a prpmi inent lawyer in Baltimore, and was then a very prominent lawyer of Cali fornia—embarked on a steamer for some point in the East: General Sumner was on board the same steamer. When she was near the Isthmus the General made them his prisoners. He simply deigned to tell thew that he arrested them on suspicion that they were in tending to fight against the U. States, a suspicion perfectly preposterous in the case of Dr. Gwinn, who was an infirm old man of about seventy years. When they demanded the ground of his sus• picion, he only answered that he enter tained it, and was not responsible to the Federal Government, and Mr. Seward, Secretary of State, ordered them, with out an interview, to Fort Lafayette. As one of these prisoners was my near and very dear relative, I hastened very soon to Washington to procure their re lease. I had written and telegraphed earnestly to the President for. the re lease of Governor Morehead, Mr. Dur rett, and others, but when a member of my own family was a victim of oppres sion and tyranny, I felt that I should give my personal presence to the effort for deliverance. 1 arrived at the capi tal long after dark, and called immedi ately upon Mr. Lincoln. He received me with the greatest cordiality and ge niality, though he gently intimated that he rather thought that I had been a little unjust to him. I asked him for the discharge of the three Fort Lafay ette prisoners--Gwin, Benham and Brent. He inquired what were the charges against them. Of course I told him that I didn't know, and suggested whether it wasn't more his business that ours to know. He answered, "Well, I don't know about these things, but I am disposed to do what I can for you, and will give you a letter to Sew ard." I took the letter and called at Mr. Seward's office the next morning. The distinguished Secretary received me with his accustomed amenity, but, in regard to the matter in hand, talked quite diplomatically. It was about my tirst experience of a regular diplomat ist's conversation. I didn't much ad mire or understand it. Mr. S. invited me to take tea with him that evening. I did. Alter tea, I renewed my appli cation for the release of my friends, and argued the matter as well as I could. He had only this reply to make : " am considering the matter, and I be very glad to see you at tea, or I" .ik- ' fast, or dinner every day, and we will talk the subject over." One evening, when I had ls:en about four days in Washington, I ventured to urge my request very strongly upon Ohe iSecretary,and he said. "Call at my office to-morrow morning at half past ten, and 1. will give you an order for the re lease of your friends." Of course I was punctual to the minute. "Fred," said he, addressing his son and Assistant Secretary, "give Mr. Prentice the docu ment I directed you to make out." The Assistant Secretary placed it in my hands. I read it. It was not au order for the discharge of the victims. It was only an order that I should have the privilege of seeing them in their prison when I pleased. "Why, Mr. Seward, this is not what you promised me yes- I terday." "No, it is not, but .1 specially I desire that you go to New York and talk with your friends, and ascertain their feelings and intentions, and report to me.?' I told him - in terms, a:little brief, possibly, that he certainly could not expect me to visit my friends in prison and enter into a conversation with them as a Government spy. I " Well," he said, "do me the favor to go and see them, and write to me as you like." I said "Yes." I went and wrote to him every day as strongly as I could in favor of the release of the prisoners. My first three letters were unanswered. In reply to the fourth, received a despatch saying that my friends were "paroled to Washington for explanation." Of course I consid ered that despatch as implying a dis charge. I went immediately with Dr. Gwin's wife and daughters to Fort La fayette, exhibited the order to the pris oners, and advised them to proceed to Washington immediately. "Go with us," said they. I told them that it would be exceedingly inconvenient for me to go with them. They were appre hensive of deceit and treachery. 'Go with us," said they, "or we will not go." I went with them. On arriving at Washington I called upon Secretary Seward in their behalf. He required that they should either take a certain obnoxious oath or be remanded to prison. I asked them what they would and they agreed that, as there were no charges against them, and as they had committed no crime, they would sooner go back to their bastile than take any oath. All my appeals to the Secretary were of no avail. Then my appeal was to President Lin coln. At my second interview with him, he said, " I will set your friends free. They may go as much at large as any other citizens of the United States." I asked him if he would grant them per mission to go to Europe. He replied that none of our people had the right to go to Europe without passports, not even himself, and that therefore he could not give passports, but that my friends should be just as free as he or any other man under the Government to go and come at pleasure. I requested him to put this declaration in writing. He said, " No, it is a very delicate subject, and Seward will be very mad about it I will not touch pen to paper in regard to it. Tell your friends what I told you, and tell them, further, that I shall be glad to see them." All of them, I believe, called upon him and express ed their thanks,though whether thanks were due, under all the circumstances, is, I think, quite a question. In 1866 Dr. Groin, who bad not taken and could not have taken any part in the war, went from this country to Mexico for his own private purposes, whatever they were, and I have reason to know that they were right and proper. He went, and took others with him to make money, but, on account of the miserable condition of Mexican affairs, they failed. Dr. Gwin came back to the United States in the full Conscious ness of right and the expectation of safety. He had done no wrong to others, and he anticipated no wrong to himself. But upon his arrival within the Federal lines, then kept up for no useful or proper purpose, he was snapped up upon not even a pretext, and thrust into Fort Jackson, below New Orleans. Several of his friends were thrown into Fart Jackson with him. There they were kept for many months. They were kept incarcerated, but perhaps not very badly used. I went to Washington to get them discharged, and succeeded, although in opposition to all the diplomatic efforts of Secretary Seward in the opposite di rection. And in the interview on that occasion, Mr. Seward had the very in tense coolness, fifty degrees below zero, the point of the thermometer where the mercury freezes, to say to my face that lid was the man who had discharged 'my three friends from Fort Lafayette, and given them all their subsequent liberty. An oyster boat was sunk by the steamer Locille, in Chesapeake bay, on Saturday night, and three men were drowned. One of them was the mate of the steamer, who got on the oyster vessel to discover her dam ages, before she sank. A gentleman of Detroit, who has eaten snails in France, says that they are served in the shell, and coaxed out with a common pin. They taste like clams, without their toughness. Some Detroit ladies also ate and found the ;mails savory. The Modern Plow.: Was Its Inventor! P How far away in the lapse of past ages is the period when the plow was first used to tear up and abrade the soil for the reception of the seed, there are no certain means of knowing, but tra dition, and the pictured records of the oldest nations, tell of its use. Made un doubtedly at first of the forked branch ing portion of a tree, it underwent only trilling changes in form and structure for many ages; these, made at some' unknown period, being the curvature given to the diging portion, the first ap proach to the modern mold-board, and the iron point, the rude prototype of the plowshare of to-day. One of the first improvements upon the primitive plow thus formed was the addition of the colter, a thin blade extending downward from the beam, and serving :to divide the soil in advance of the digging por portion proper, and :facilitating thereby the forward movement of the latter. In this form the implement was that known as the Rotterdam plow, and from this name it is inferred that the sturdy Hollanders had something to do with the first radical changes in the make of the primitive apparatus. About a hundred and thirty years since a Scotch man invented the cast-i ron moldboard, which was a marked im provement on the wooden one, and after this the plow manufacturers and the plow-holders seem to have remained content for half a century, when au English inventor gave a new start to their ideas of progress by bringing out a plow with a cast-iron share. Sixty years after this au American produced a plow having a cast iron land-side and mold board, and a wrought-iron or steel share. Thus at long intervals the different parts of the modern plow were evolved in rude shape and design, but so slowly did the new ideas make progress that it is within the memory of men still liv ing when the old "bull-plow," so called from its blunt configuration, formed mostly of wood and wrought iron, was in almost universal use. It yet remain ed to so combine the crude elements of the implement that • its capabilities should become known to the manufact urer and be made available to the tiller of the soil. This task, and a thankless one it proved, was accomplished by Jethro Wood, a Quaker farmer of New York State, who in 1511 took out a United States patent for a plow which embraced most of the vital points essen tial in the modern implement. These were the suiting of the curvature of the mold-board to the resistance of fered in turning the furrow, there by decreasing the draught; the connection of the cast-iron mold board with the beans by means of a cast-iron standard ; the attachment of a cast-iron share to the upper and for ward surface of the mold-board, and i also means of fastening the plow han dles to the mold-board, and the latter to the laud-side, without the use of bolts. These improvements not only greatly increased the value of the plow as an implement of labor, but also greatly cheapened its production. Not withstanding this, however, it was long difficult to overcome the prejudice of the farmers against the "pot-metal plow," and whn this at last was done the manufacturers stepped into the field, took advantagejof the then de fective condition of the patent laws, and inch by inch and year after year fought the inventor out of his rights, so that he died financially ruined, after years of vain and constant strug gling, during which his invention was found in the furrows of every farm throughout the land. His descendants fared no better, although the patent was once extended, for it has been shown that from the commencement of the efforts of Jethro Wood to improve the plow, only about five hundred dol lars were ever received by him or his from his great invention, while in these Self-same efforts he spent the fortune he had originally possessed. There seems a sad parallel between the story of Samuel Crompton, living a life of poverty while his improvements in spinning machinery whirred In all the cotton factories of England, and the bitter trials of Jethro Wood, while all the broad fields of hie native land owned the benefits conferred by his ge nius. Yet the world moves onward, and iu these later times, to some degree at least, a kindlier atmosphere surrounds the energetic inventor. Manufacturers as a general rule, find it more to their special interests to pay for the protec tion afforded by a patent than to break it down ' • and, more than all, the moral sense of the community grows more and more alive to the truth that the invent or, like every other laborer in the field of human progress, is worthy of his hire.—American Artican. Curiosities or Ice In 1850 Mr. Farraday discovered that two pieces of ice placed in contact froze together almost instantly. Mr. Tyn dall says : "One hot summer day I en tered a shop on the Strand. On the window fragments of ice were lying in a basin. The tradesman gave me per mission to take the piece of ice in my hand. Holding the first piece, I at tached all the other pieces in the basin to it. The thermometer was then above sixty degrees, and yet all the pieces were frozen together." In this way Mr. Tyndall formed a chain of ice. This experiment may be made even in hot water. Throw two pieces of ice• in a full pail of almost boiling water, keep them in contact and they will freeze to gether despite the high temperature. Mr. Farraday made another experiment of the same sort. He threw into a ves sel full of water several small pieces of ice. They floated on the surface of the water. The moment one piece touched another there was an instantaneous re freezing. Attraction soon brought all the pieces in contact, so that in an in stant an ice chain was formed. An ice wheel turning on a surface of ice refreezes at the point of contact, during the rotation a series of cracks are heard, which show the ear that succes sive refreezing is constantly taking place. The phenomenon of refreezing is easily explained. At the surface of a piece of ice the atoms, which are longer in equilibrium on the outside, tend to leave their neighbors, as happens in boiling or evaporation. Melting ensues. But if two pieces of ice are brought to gether the atoms on the surface are re stored to their equilibrium, the attract ive action becomes what it was, the at oms resume their relations with their neighbors, and juxtaposition ensues.— In consequence of this property ice is endowed with singular plasticity. A rope and a knot or a buckle may be made of ice. It may be moulded. The schoolboy who fills his hands with sum and compresses it into a ball, pro duces the phenomenon of refreezing and forms an ice-ball suffielently hard . to prove a dangerous projectile. This explains the extraordinary rigi dity of the bridges of snow which are often seen in the Alps suspended over deep crevasses. The Alpine guides by cautiously walking on those snowy masses freeze the particles together and transform the snow into ice. If snow be compressed in moulds ice statuettes may be obtained. Fill a hollow ball with snow, pressed in as hard as possi ble,.and you may obtain ice balls ad mirably tranelucid. Nothing would be easier than to dine with a service made of moulded snow—plates, glasses, de canters, all of snow. A gentleman in Paris recently served sherry wine to his friends before a hot fire in beakers made of snow. Snow com pressed in this way does not melt so rapidly as might be thought. Ice re quires a great deal of heat before it melts. A layer of ice often becomes a protection against cold. If you would prevent anything from sinking to a temperature below thirty-tvso degrees during the very severest frosts, we know you have but to wrap it in wet rags. The process of freezing gives to the environing bodies all the heat necessary to destroy it. The water in the rags slowly forms small piece's of ice on the rag, and in the meantime disengages heat, which warms the object wrapped in the rags. A ' tree wrapped in rags,or in moss saturated with water,doeanot freeze even whop the thermometor is several degrePbelow the point. The slowness with which ice melts is well known. During the winter of 1740 the Czar built at St. Pe tersburg a magnificent palace of ice which lasted several years. In Siberia the windows have panes of ice. The remarkable prOperty with which parti cles of. ice are endowed of moulding themselves into different shapes by .re freezing, easily explains how glaciers make their way through narrow gorges and expand in valleys. The ice is bro ken; ,into fragments which refreeze whenever they touch. Women of Fashion In Ancient Rome. All that constitutes the making-up of a woman of high standing in society was called her world—mundes mulle bris—a phrase which included her dress and personal ornaments, her baths, mir rors, and ointments—everything in short, that pertained to her toilet. At that remote period personal vanity seems to have been woman's ruling passion ; for when the Senate was ana- ious to confer some honorable distinc• tion upon the female sex in geneial, in acknowledgment of the service render ed to the state by the wife and mother of Goriolagus, the only reward that could be devised was the privilege of wearing pendants In their ears, a fillet round the head, purple robes and cir clets of gold round the neck. These out ward decorationswere subsequently pro hibited during the second Punic war, on motion of C. Oppius, a tribute of the peo ple,,when it was forbidden to women to wear dresses of more than one color, to exhibit on their persons more than half an ounce of gold, or to ride in a carriage, either in town er country, within a thousand paces of Rome, unless they were going to a public sacrifice. This enactment, however, was of brief dura• tion ; for; to obtain domestic peace, the magistrates and people were finally forced to give way. Then luxury speed ily pervaded all ranks of society, and a most pernicious effect was produced upon public and private character. The boudoir contained mirrors of a sizes—some of silver, others of polished gold, others, again, of brass, or steel, 9r tin. They were usually of a circular or oval form, and were enriched with precious stones. here was generally one large enough to reflect the whole figure. Here, too, might be seen the expedients ado, ted by an antiquated beauty to eine& or hide the ravages of time, and to preserve the semblance of youth long alter the reality had de• parted. As the hair thinned, or became unmistakably gray, they wore different kinds of head dress, according to their own taste or the fashion of the hour. The three ordinary varieties were the "Ualiendrum," the "Calautica," and the "Corymbriutu"—so called because it terminated in a point like a grape. It was especially worn by women of low stature, as it added to their height. In the case of respectable matrons, the color of this false hair was invariably black; in that of courtesans, of a lighter hue and approaching to auburn. Then, when the teeth begau t to decay or to leave an "obvious void," 'they were replaced with others of bone or ivory fixed in gold. To preserve the complexion, recourse washed to a variety of cosmetics. While sitting in their own apartments, and, allove all, before retiring to rest at night, they would cover their face with a paste made of wheat flour, or of crumbs of bread well soaked. Others used au ointment made of the suet extracted from the fleece of a fat ewe, twice washed and bleached in thesun, but still retain ing a rank smell. Other cosmetics were ' more costly, and not unfrequently com posed of singular ingredients, the apeci 7 tic virtues of which it is not easy to di vine. The simplest was alotion of asses' milk. Popplea, Nero's wife, used to bathe in milk, WO asses being kept for the purpose. A certain fluid mixture, much in vogue, was obtained by slowly boiling for forty days and nights the heel of a young white bull. Another famous medicament was produced from crocodiles' excrements. Another, again, was a kind of paste, in which whitelead predominated, that came from Rhodes, and imparted a dazzling whiteness to the skin, but had the defect of melting in the sun or under the action of great heat. There was likewise a preparation of chalk steeped in acid, but which shunned all contact with water. Ver milion, too, was sometimes applied. The eyebrows and eyelids were very commonly touched with a long needle dipped in a paste, the coloring-matter of which was soot or powdered char coal, and occasionally saffron. Pomades of bean-paste were employed to smooth the skin and efface wrinkles. An unguent called psilotrum was also used to remove hairs from the arms and legs. Pastilles of myrtle and mastic, kneaded in old wine, were found effica cious in correcting the breath, as also, were the berries of myrrh, cassia, and ivy. The skin was, besides, rubbed with pumice stone, which, when reduc ed to powder and thrice calcined, was much esteemed for cleansing the teeth. Then, to harden the gums, recourse was had to the fat of sheeps' tails formed into pills, dried in the shade, and pul verized. For the same purpose, rose leaves were cut into small pieces and mixed with a fourth part of oak-gall and a like - quantity of myrrh. To hide pimples - on the face, and likewise for the sake of ornament, little crescent shaped patches were much in fashion. All this was idle folly, and is repeated every day in the fashionable circle of every European capital at the present day; but in one respect the Roman ladies possessed au unenviable distinc tion, though one not impossibly shared by their modern representatives in the West Indies and in the Southern States previous to the abolition of slavery. In many instances the female slaves who helped to "make up" their mistress waited upon her naked to the waist, so that any awkwardness might be in stantly chastised. In some cases these unfortunate attendants were bound to a pillar, or suspeusacapillis—while apub lic executioner lashed and gashed their bare shoulders with a whip or with thongs of hardened leather, and that In the presence of their mistresses, who completed their toilets impassive to the shrieks of their tortured handmaidens. Corsets for Men Do men in this country wear corsets? If yes, do they wear them made in the same style as the corsets usually worn by women ? In older countries, it seems that they are not an unusual article of manly arparel. A gen tlematreducated in Austria declares in a British:maga zine that, when a boy at school, he and all his schoolfellows were habitually laced in close-fitting corsets, and that be haS always worn them since. "The sensation," he says, "of being tightly laced in an elegant, well made, tightly fitting pair of corsets is superb." An other Englialt writer is "informed by one of the leading corset makers in London that it is by no means unusual to receive the orders of gentlemen, not for the manufacture of the belts so com monly used iu horse exercise, but veri table corsets, strongly boned, steeled, and made to lace behind in the usual way." Another gentleman of the same en lightened nation says, " Although not, a widower, but a married man, I have worn ladies' stays for the last three or four years, and find them very comfort able indeed, and would not go without them. I would recommend them to wear them as near the same shape as the ladies ad possible; the fullness at the top is an improvement. I generally wear blue silk or scarlet French merino for winter, and the Paris wove (white) in summer. Your correspondents need not feel at all bashful in going to be meas ured. Stays are-worn by gentlemen a great deal more than they think." Perhapssome enterprisingstay maker in this country will add to his or her business by advertising that he or she is ready to furnish corsets for gentlemen of weak backs or delicate chests, who need the support of an artificial enclo sure of steel and whalebone around the thorax. Conundrums. Why does a donkey eat a thistle? Because he's an ass! Why was the giant Goliah very much astonished when David hit him with a stone ? Because such a thing had never entered his head before. What is the difference between an honest and a dishonest laundress? One Irons your linen—the other steals it. When is a lawyer most like a donkey? When drawing a conveyance. Ask your brother just home from col lege for the holidays to write down, without hesitation, in figures, twelve thousand twelve hundred and twelve dollers. We hope he will do it cor rectly. Thus: 513212. Sir John F. Fitzgerald is the senior gen eral of the British army, and has had over seventy-five years' service. In Robert Bonner's stable, his horses are fed from a box in the floor, he believing thot nature intended they should take their food from the level of their feet,. A white muskrat was killed near Alex andria, Minnesota, a few days ago. It was clear white, with no colored hairs on it. Such an animal is a rarity and worthy the attention of naturalists. NUMBER 52 f!rawtog . for seats lo the Howie Drawing for seats in the ipuse is tawny , attended with a great deal of confusion and more or less merriment. It is nut usually done except at the beginning of a new Con gress; but there has been no drawing since the "carpet baggers" came in, and many of them were dissatistied with being compel led to "take back seats." They together with a few old members not well located, succeeded In getting a resolution through to-day for a new drawing lo? seats, The members who had good seats of course fought against the resolution to the last. Considerable lime was spent in tilibustei ing, and at one time the resolution was ac tually laid on the table. The "carpet bag gers," however, went to work araOln; them selves, and with the aid of the tha , atistied amorg the old members, were able to move a reconsideration and to pass the res olation. The first name drawn out of the box. by the little blindfolded page was Broom well, of Illinois, who had the click, of seats. "Shake up the box more, Nitte Pherson!" was called to the Clerk Trion a dozen members, who feared some foul play. Sypher, of Louisiana, was the second name called. With modesty well becoming a car pet bagger the representative of toe Nets ttr leans Olatfict walks.d directly to the seat formerly occupied by Old Thad ;steeer,s, and eat himself down with an air of assu rance which seemed to say, I ant the man to step into old Thud's shoes." It was , noised that carpet baggers unit several members who are of little accolint House, had their names called that, ant!, of course, got the choice of the best seats.— Schenck, Bout well, Bilighlim, Butler, Kel ly. Wilson. [of lowa,] E, li. Washburn and other leading members were kept out in the cold until all the best scats were Taken. irrepreseible Mullins, of Tennessee, who is a character in the House, and has heretofore occupied is solit:on the first row, directly in front of the Speaker, rat. down I=l==2Mil=all= at a rate of speed remarkable for In man, amid a roar of laughter trout all lau of the house. When tie reached his o seat and found it still vacant, hu kicked his heels after the manner of a young cm to the infinite amusement of all presen and then took his seat. When Dickey, of Penu'a., was called be walked over to the seat next the OM. formerly occupied by his predecessor Ohl Thomas. The modest iiypher, to i ; ihow t,t generosity arose and tendered Min the old titan's seat, which he accepted trill wail hereafter occuliy. Washburn of M tress chusetts, the Brother of E. B. Washbarne, was called before E. 8., and in order to se cure the latter his old seat occupied it tint E. B. could get a chance. By Luis mean the "Father of the House" WHO enabled t get his old seat again, and his :elierou brother got oue just behind him. Garlieh of Ohio, took Selienek's ;Ad seal, and th "leader of the House" was forced to take a back seat. Quite au amusing scene was a race between Glosshrenuer, of Pennsylva nia, and Plantz, of Ohio, for a seat formerly occupied by Glossbreuner. Both of them are fat men, and the mariner In which they tumbled over chairs and desks in their ef fort to reach the seat albirded great merri ment. Plautz was the successful Ina, When Ben Butler's turn came nearly all good seats on the Republican silk` (. the House were occupied. After surveying !In field Butler walked deliberately over to the Democratic side of the Houseand took if seat on the same row with Brooks, ot N. V., amid general applause from the flour and the galleries. Some one cried out, That is where he belongs," and another, "'Phut is where he came from originally." Hooper, of Massachusetts; Farnsworth, of Illinois, and several radicals were forced to take seats on the democratic side, where the car pet-baggers used . to sit. Russ, of Illinois, the author of the resolution fora new deal, was among the last called ; but he got a front seat to the right of the Speaker. 'rho utmost confusion and disorder followed the drawing for seats. Members began to move their papers from their old seats to their new ones, and though the Speaker kept hi, gaval corning down heavily upon the desk constantly but little attention was paid to his appeals for the House to corns to order. At last, losing his temper, Colfax turned to his page and In a loud tone said, " Is the Sergeant at-Arms in the hall P" whereupon the tall form of the Sergeant at-Arms (Ord way) made its appearance, but still the con fusion continued until the House adjourn ed.—N. Y. Herald. A General Delivery of Prisoners The late decision of Judge Underwood in the case of Ctesar Griffin is beginning to produce a stateof things in Virginia threat ening to the best interests of society. It has been already mentioned that the decision in the case of Griffin bas,been followed up by the discharge of the colored convict, Sally Anderson, sentenced to death for arson. The ground of this discharge was -that one justice of the county court which sentenced the convict was disqualified by the fourteenth amendment to the constitu tion of the United States, and that the disqualification of one annulled the whole .proceedings, though there might have - been a competent court without him! His Honor availed himself of the occasion to repeat his laudation of the clemency of the United States government in not banging somebody after the late war, though what that had to do with the pro ceedings on hand he did not vouchsafe to point out. The sentimental Jurist also gave it as his opinion that "it was fur better for one of the feebler race and feebler sex to escape the extreme sentence of the law than that lawless usurpation should be made valid." Attorney General Bowden re marked in his speech on the trial, that un der Judge Underwood's decision in the Cassar Griffin case, there are only two I judges.ln the State of Virginia competent to bold a court, and that he might go out into the Street and shoot a man down without fear of punishment. Since the 28th day of July last, when the four teenth amendment was officially declared to have become a part of the conetitution, one hundred and fifty-nine convicts have been received into the Virginia peniten tiary, five of whom were convicted of ur der , and all of whom Judge Underwood has the power to turn loose upon the communi ty. It is stated that writs of habeas corpus are being now prepared for bringing several of thesegentlemen before Judge Underwood, and a general jail and penitentiary delivery would appear to be only dependent upon the leisure of the Judge to give attention to the various cases. The Richmond press In voke the authority of General 'Stoneman to arrest and Imprison the criminals whom Underwood is turning loose upon aociety.— Baftimore dun. Conflict of Races In the Routh, The news that come to us almost . daily from the South about conflicts between the whites and negroes shows an unpromising state of things. It indicates, indeed, a con flict In the future between the two races as irrepressible as that which existed between the Niirth and Souttron the subject or sla very. The reports published in the Herald on Sunjay of a white man being shot by a negro in the Mayor's Court at Charlotte, N. C., and of the horrible outrages by the colored militia in Arkansas are only two cases out of numerous ones of a similar character occuring all over the South. And what is the cause? Radicalism. North ern carpet-bag - radicals, with a few radical Southern scalawags, make the deluded ne groes their tools and bring about these con theta. The mass of the Southern whites every where desire peace and to live in harmony with the negroes under the new order of things. They are aware their own welfare depends upon this, as well as that of the colored folks, and strain every nerve to maintain friendly relations with the negroes; but the radical firebrands will not permit that. If these conflicts continue they will assuredly inaugurate a general war of races, and In that case the negroes must go to the wall. Blood is thicker than water, and the whites will rally together against the blacks. In such a war the sympathy of the white people of the North, too, must be with their own race. The pretended radical friends of the negro are really his worst enemy and are preparing the way for the extinguishment of his race In this country.—N, Y. Herald. ,• Who Is Renard? [ - From the Washington Evening Union, Dec.lol Menard is the colored member of Con gress from Louisiana. He is a dingy mu latto, thirty years of age, and of medium stature. He speaks fluently, but incohe rently, and professes to be a:politician of no mean pretensions. lie says he is the grandson of General Menard, who enligra ted from the provicne of Louisiana to Illi nois beforethat State became a member of the Union. Menard labored on a farm in Southern Illinois until he was nineteen, when he removed to the northern part of the State. There he worked during the summer months and attended school dur ing winter. In 1859 he entered Liberal College, Ohio, where he remained until Dill!, when he visited Canada, returning to the United States in 1863. He entered the army as hospital Steward, in this city, but remained only a few months, when he was assigned a desk in the Immigration Bureau of the Interior Department. The - prejudice exhibited towards him 'Wins official posi tion soon inthiced him to resign, and, Ms- , gusted with the government, he sailed for British Honduras. Here he was ernployod by the British Honduras Company in make an exploration of the country, which he did to the satisfaction of thegovernment. He next visited JaoßiCli and Hayti, return ing to New York in 1865. Hers he remain ed but a short time, and again shipped for New Orleans, where he arrived in Septem ber, and, as he says, commenced at once to organize the Republican parts of the South. The Dresden tradesmen have a society' to protect themselves against dishonesty debt ors, numbering 400 members. It publish es lists of people as "bad pay." The Supreme Court of the United States will take a recess from December 24 tp Jan uary 4. On the latter day, the docket of cases arising under the Constitution will be called. HATE OF ADVERTINIING. [BIMINI= ADVERTIMEMEATO, SW i year per ItiorzfsrunarVg , " per year fo r eacb ad - k . REAL ESTATE A.ovrarreirra,.lo cacao ii line NT the lna, and 5 cents for each au nsequen t :D -aemon. GENERAL ADyRICTIHINCI i retttA ft 1/110 for the nom, sod i cents fur each bole equeot Ito el. Uon. SPECIAL NOTICES Inserted In Local ()Dino= 15 cents per line. • Beacrsi. Norregs preceding marriages and deaths, 10 cents per lime for first insertiCas and 6 cents for every subsequent lusertioni LEGAL AND OTII t N NOTICES— Executors' .ctlces... 2.5. Administrators' 214 Assignees' 2.58 Auditors' notices. Other "Notices,' ten lines, or leas, .7 three times 1.50 =ICI= An "Indian Suffrage Party" Is being or ganized in Texas. The handsomest man in New York is said to be a barkeeper. Putnam county, Ohio, has had no prison era in its jail for six mouthtt. The 4000 pound ox, lately in Bostgn, is coming to Philadelphia. New York has 200 "Rome houses," where thieves disprew of stolen goods. Only 35 cis, a bushel for oysters nt Ports men 01, Boston is gettingfour huge tire-alarm bells in Albany. Texas has now tlfty beef packing emu! - lishinents. Horace Greeley to going to write n book on oblyeal economy. Rochester has 2.500 young ladies ens lolls (01 1111,04111115. They'n . re hoeing red snow-falls on the Miosl r ri river. Afp legged duck i 9 011 exhibition at Ambny', Oswego County. The now State Cu. pawl of New York, of Albany, is to (sag nearly $5,000,000. A nephew of Sir Walt. r Seotto4d and in firm, lives on charily at Montreal. Four widows, all over fill , live happily to wiler in One small home in Barton, Vt. Dubois county, Indiana, has a man WllO 110 had 04;111, wives. INS 1110110 is Slllllll. e The New York SOH prints Itnlf n column, of ; letters to prove that Uteri wear corsets. Gem Stoneman has extended the slimy law in Virginia until July let. Andrew field.', a well-known railroad 11O1111110'02-1,-1111.11 in St. Look on Saturday. The Bell field Presby torin n Chu rob, nt Pittsburg, was burned 011 Sri - inlay. Lobs $20.000. wol to of the new hospital of Howard Cluveroity, at Wallington, fell yeeterday, injuring a number of w‘wkimni. Vicar General of the ROlllllll Canaille lhoetiou of Hartford, died on Sunday. 1)00 hundred eotton M.S, Involving soy oral millions of dollorm, ore before the U.S. Court of Claims for inßutlient ion, I I ~)11. SchitylPr Colinx arrived In 1L11,4 city •t eight , nod is swiping at the Continen. Fifte•een per ciad. according to the New York World, is the average amount of short Weight a tv ind l lul by grocers iu I hat city. A policeman was murdered In Bost,n, irly yesterday morning, by a man whom be caught prowling about a railroad depot. Generals Babcock and Porter, of General runt's hove gone to Arkansas, to In quire into the militia troubles. In ,ow York, the detectives now mistake newspaper reporters for pickpockets, and order them out of the street cars. The Ilehrewm of Cincinnati have erected a monument in memory of their brethren killed during tho war. Frank Reno is said to have burled $90,000 the product of his robberies somewhere, and the Secret (lied with him. The Ohio penitentiary made $7OOO profit thin year. the eunviets aro anxioun to • know when dividend day will come round. • A German soldier, bearing fifteen war medals for meritorious nervioe, has had to beg in New Orleans. An order " abolishes red nhirtm In the New York Fire Department. Hereafter blue slims urn to be worn. The Bainbridge, Georgia, women have determined to abjure Northern geode, and wear hernespun Only. Four thousand and twenty o;anges have been grown ibis season upon one tree at Montgomery, near Savannah. The war excitement is reported to be In tense in Constantinople. The Russian flag Nothing remain,' of Fort Lafayette but a ruined mass of brick and mortar. The loss to the (Mvernment will be about $250,000. Friday, December 11 was the roldeet (ley in St. Louis for tinny yearn. The mercury wont down to 14 degrees below zero. A citizen of Indlnns, who has had the ex perience of eight wives, save divorces are cheaper than !lolanda as a way of disposing of an uncongenial partner. Writers from Paris say that during the into visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to tho French Court, tho Prince ne glected his wits abominably. The graduates of Harvard College are trying to raise a subscription of half a mil lion dollars for the perpetuation of the col lege library: The new bridge across the Mississippi, at Dubuque, lowa, was finished on Monday. It in 17 00 feet long, with a draw of WO feet, find cost tOOO,OOO. A despatch from Brownsville, Texitk dated the 22d, says two customs Inspectors have been Murdered, and another badly wounded by robbers. A boiler oxploileil In a marble quarry at West Ru dam], Vermont, I ant Sal urday lho enginuer and Injuring four workmen. Providence, Rhode Island, presen la a WO lan to all ad miring world who MIA had live children in eleven menthe—triplets at first; twine next. 41k Caleb Cushing has left Aspinwall for Car thagena in the U. S. steamer Yantic. lie goes to Bogota on u special mission for our Government. A construction train ran MT the track of the Manassas Gap fj.idiroad, in Virgin's, yesterday, killing three or four men, and mortally injuring several others. The KIIIINOS volunteers joined General Sheridan's command on the 19th, The Gen eral Intended to be at Camp Supply on Christmas. Many Maio soldiers were se verely frozen. A British sloop bus horn Seized, and her cargo confiscated, at Curthagena, for alleg ed want of it manifest. An English wur vessel is expected there W ; investigate the matter. Gov. Wiseiii farm, In Princess Anne Co., Va., has been restored to him by the Gov ernment. The owner of Libby Prison In ulno to be paid three year's rent for the non of that building by the U. 5, uuthoritlel. A couple of Houston negroes got Into a quarrel over curs and one chased the other into the bayou, where ho was drowned.— Now there arises the Interesting question whether it Is murder. A daughter of the late Hon. Thomas FI. Benton, and a sister of Mrs. Gen. John C. Fremont, it is said, is now engaged as teacher In one of the public schools in San Francisco, California. In the U. S. District Court, at Boston, yesterday, a verdict was given for the Gov ernment against the distillery carried on by the Suffolk Lend Works, for evasion of the revenue law. The decision forfeits about e;,50,000 worth of property. In the case of tNI United States vs. about ij20,000 Krth of:property found at the ree -1 ify Mg stablishment of Watson & Crary, before th United States District Court, in New Ynri, yesterday, the Jury returntid a verdict for he Government. The Idah Legislature met on December oth. Governor Bullard's message recom mends a revision of the Mining laws, and states that there are from live to eight thou sand lodistis in the territory who are friendly, and should be settled on raserVa [ions. A correppondent of the London Times nnouneem that Mr, P. T. Barnum Inabout to establish a museum, in the popular American' sense, in London. The great showman will 01.0 take to England a race horse which he proposes to enter for the Derby. The British clergy are accused of attend- ing too much to politica. A Manchester paper merit ions ape who was no busy elec tioneering at the Fate election that he left a corpse In his church for three hours, with the mourners waiting for him to come and officiate. A Littlo Rock Despatch says that refu gees from the counties in Arkansas " afflict ed with militia" continue to [lock to that city. The news that lion. Ortint has sent officers to the scene t.f trouble causes much ME!=EMEGI=M GE= restored civil law In one county and part of another. The Park bank of New York has Ju-t moved into its palatial new building in Broadway, between Fulton [lnd./inn stream. The edifice, which cost $l. 200,000, was built with the surplus funds of the bank, with out touching the capital, and it is estimated that it will yield a rental of ten per cent on its coat, beside furnishing quatera to the bank free of charge. A Jury in the United States District Court in Boston yesterday rendered a verdict for the Government against the distillery in South Boston carried on by the Sutlbld Lead Works, of which Samuel H. Ward is treasurer. forfeiting to the Government the entire properly of the works, valued ,at a bout $150,000, the bond required by-law not having been given to the collector. Later advises from China state that owing to the presence of British merchants, satis faction has been given to the jjritish Consul for the Insults to missionaries. The that Protestant church in China was dedicated at Hankow on November 17. A new rebel lion under Ting has broken out in Northern China. The trouble with the foreigners al Formosa is growing serious, and two gun boats have been sent there. The rebels are still fighting In Japan, but their chief town is reported captured. The Great Billiard Hatch. CHICAGO, Dec. 23 The great Billiard Match between Mc- Devitt and Goldthwaito, for $5OO and the , championship, terminated shortly after midnight last night. The game was well and evenly contested throughout, and some very brilliant shots executed. At the con• elusion the score stood, McDevitt 1800 ; Goldthwaite 1483.
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