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Vortrp.
The roil-winged merle from betiding mpray
With graceful pinions poising,
Pours Out is liquid roundelay
In jubilant rejoicing;
The cock-grouse drums on sounding log,
The fox forsaken the corer,
The woodcock pipes from fen and hog,
From upland leas the plover.
The speckled trout darts up the stream
Beneath the rustle bridges,
W &
hile docks of puns glance and gleam
O'er hecch and maple ridges:
The ,7,0111011 robin thrills ilia Ilt/LO
Alla/llg the netted ShadOWS,
The bob-o'-link, with mellow throat,
Makes musical the meadows.
The peeping frog, with silvi,r
In rilytinnieal ovation,
Iting nil chine. of treble
vwrlk
In Joyous grunt lot lnn ;
Tlu low of gine Is ruhigllng with
Thii song of larks Intl sparrow,
Anil fallow .Lregrowlng
llenuath tin,: plow and harrow.
The s ituton sill night, SerOLIO anti 10111.1 . ,
Ili I:11, and I,t.rtstin ix vrowlngt,t
Whllo rippling fielllll.llllB.,k
woodland valleys floe Ing;
And ;nil night long it low sweet snug
Sweeps o'er the misty hollow, '
From Inal,ll and fun, front hill tool ;41,1
Frnnt ',Tool:, and and tallow.
II is Onto of pleasant thin:4B,
Winn' mak',
Anil litiarts Up, la, hidden sprint"
Pylon -
A to hoar at lainalc of day
A silvor-nliortooill ninlin—
.l !liana
alitiosphorin
A 111/) , • tho
To watch 4.11 bird that
And half .11111 , ... that birds :iro
Turn I,llly u....+;
11.1 Ildt•Il Ir) (1,11:111.1 1 . :11,1. th.•
NVeary SholiltierS1).•11.1111,.
1141 lake Ile r.r.L.I
1 . 11:11 I,llk -11100
itlif.')ccllanrotts
1.0 ai all 111.
glad la,
Ever sine, bird, sang, and flowers
bloomed, ha,: :klay been the favorite
month of youth,: :11141 pot
1111/1101 fur lovers; and ever skive lovers
first wooed inn! won , have May Ilmvers
Leon gathered and twined into wreaths
gild garland,. I low merry in the olden
(line watt the dunce upon the green!
the May-pole, gaily declied with
garlands and floating ,treanters, lifted
its head aloft ; then the young and the
old gathere.l merrily around it, :mil
joining hattil-i, ilitneed gleefully to the
sound or the ! Ji l t(' 31111 labor. Close by,
i+aatud upon a ru.tie throne of moss and
11 ”wl:r` , or l',rilaps joining in the sport,
was the prettiiiiiit laes of the villim e,
crowned with :\ fay 1,11,,,0ni5, and sabi
fed by all a, tlimen of the May. .dud
lions' many brave 'Warts Were ensnared
by the love-I,lo,soins re,ted
:Move the brow; or that ro,ti,
first of i\la,v has:dways been con
sidered a propitious day for It,VlJrni.
long ago :LS I !Iv I Ilifteell Lli century,
1/atite nod his 11c:it:ire for the first time
upot: :\ Tay 1).1y, at a grand festival given
al the Portittari palace. :\ lay Day has
also it; superstitious omens, and thus
vrroti. , the poet (lay :
1.a , 1 rtir a., ht 'll, 11.1 a
Thal ilio,lll nn ,i•C1 . .•1 Jo ',T . :, nartit• revcal;
Upon a hitt.ii a I 1.,1111t1,
altvily, 11,11' . ,',•lril 1.111 :0,11111111.
I SI•1%.0 , 1 110' 110111 , I .1111 c lily
Anil till ill.) hiatia n lii 11111i,•‘‘
SION' grawhil lii •in iil, awl if I right ran spill,
1i Ho. :ion marl:oil it I'M itlll, 1..
tviinilrialt. Ini•liy
For I, I.
Illy P /".•.• t 1111 c,
Lln
And turn 11, 011 . 1' , • :11,111111, :LI MI /Id
rpm' :\ 111 ,, r1Ii11:4 laJir gathercit the
early dew \ritit Ivllich to loathe their la
ces, leilievitez that it the charm
of imparting lieittity.
II wettiti La ilinietilt to trite,. the :\lay
Lail: to tit,• eittilitiA linou. but
Itn,l prigin in the
if Fiera, Nvitielt tiernittentititl iu
the nem th ..r April cotitinuc.l 14,i•
:4(•voral thy- , is The household
•
•
!,..4):1, \Vert. t• 11, \Vile.' with IIt,W4TS,
(him cro,Vll the
the 1:01.1111:t mitt! 14,111alldS
111/011 1111' 1.1 a wire
I . l'olll very 2tll4lClit g; rent observurti
ul Ntity-itiy. lit I'll:Irks VI. rti
titat the \lay pule
wliirlt \VaS :mini:illy planted at the gate
ttf Iht palarc lilt Lnnl hL Crum the Buis
tit. B.olcogne. In I:121 it tlurnl lest icul ‘tiittt
'tin' Tint
l'rovcii-
weri. ,1 . -Sl . lllllll . and.
In rrrilc Lll,ll' mtnio , ,ition•-. A
of nnhl v,•;1.1, , ,jv, , ii It , tin
ttii•rii• Omit inilissidultly
As 0011 , 1ileilltill, iu these
youthrui d a y, of lit,rature, to L . OlOlllOO
10 the 1111.01i1005- of 1111011:11111, i-11100 its
:1111 WlOllO Care front
lie heart, it was called the "(lay Sei
mice." Seven judge: were appointed to ,
doride the isietical merits of the trout ill
--. 111111 1110 golden vlOlO, a
silver tii.llllllllllo, :sod a silver marigold,
were given as prizes. Put we have a
glimpse of the dark ages, when we read
that no prize teas: 10 n heretic
,011 . 0011illic, or an excommunicated !
person. No woman was allowed to
00111pi:10 11111 i ,, 1101' 111Icots were so eel
clirated as to leave no doubt as to her
ability to write the poems she might of
fer. The seini-ptietie, semi-nor:LI festi
val of Toulouse, Meanie so celebrated
throughout Europe, that it wi_s the re
sort- of ern toned heads 11101 persons of
distinction. Eor nearly live centuries
this 1 . 12 , 1iVal Wl0:1[111111,11iy 011SerV0d, a n d
did out cease until the revolution in
France. In the mean time the Proven
cal language was supplanted by the
Frenell ; the number it prizes was in-
creased to live, the violet of gold, still
the principal prize, two silver eglan
tines, and 10 . 0 silver marigolds. These
flowers were 0110,011 111 1101101' of the
memory if ciciii,rnee Isaure, a beautiful
lady of whit had given them
to her lover, Laid rev, at parting. The
violet she gave lino as her color, the eg
lantine was herfavorito flower, and the
marigold Wll- 1 1111 0110110 M of the grief
that 0411001110:11 her heart, for this love
u'as all unhappy one, a cruel father hav
ing separated the lovers. Lantrec was
killed in the liugiislr ciogo of Toulouse,
and the beautiful Clemenee soon after
died of grief at his hiss. NVlndlier this
tradition is true or not, a small statue of
(lenience Isaure is still placed over a
dolls in the eomistory of the Hotel de
Ville at Toulouse, where the meetings
were held for the distribution of the
prizes.
W
In it the toaster goldsmith , : of Par
is agreed annually to present a May-.
bough nitro , Virgin Mary, in the ( introit
of Notre I tante. This
placed upon a shrine in the form of
tabernaele, before the great door of the
church, where it remained from mid
night until after vespers the next. day.
Then it was placed before the image of
the Virgin, near the altar. The old
May-bough \\"os removed into the chap
el of -if Anil and kept there fur one
year. This enstion was faithfully ob
served until 1607, when other offerings
were given in Mace of the May.
I it England, in the olden times, May
day was We merriest day Mall the year. Every village green and city square
boasted its May-pole wound with gar
lands and etinsecrated to the tioddess of
Flowers. The doors and windows of
every house were decorated with the
green, blossoming May-boughs, which
hall 1,0011 gathered front the woods in
the morning, befitre sunrise, by the lads
and lassies. Every lover brought a
birchen bough to hang over the lattice
of his sweetheart, and there wure crook
ed orgnarled boughs hung over the door
of a scold or an ill - tempered woman. In
Oxfordshire, it Wasi the custom to bring
hawthornes front the forest anti plant
them before the doors. In Holland ,
also, young trees are placed before the
houses on this day, and are called May
booms.
But the most celebrated tree of all was
the May-pole, which was brought from
the woods with great, ceremony, drawn
by 30 or 40 yoke of oxen, each ox being
decorated with a nosegay of flowers on
tile tip of his horns. These were follow
ed by a great throngof people, men, wo
men„ and children. The pole was
wound with garlands,",,and sometimes
painted in various colors. It was set up
with streamers, and handkerchiefs, and
gay-colored ribbons floating from it, and
the people danced and feasted around it.
Near the Church of St. Andrews, in
London, every May-Day morn a stately
May-pole was erected, which reached
higher than the I churoli steeple. From
this circumstance, St. Andrews was call
ed " St. Andrew's lindershaft." After
Evil-May-Day (so called because of an
insurrection of the apprentices and oth
er young men against aliens in 1517),
the shaft was not erected but was
laid along a row of houses over the
doors. There it hung, suspended by
iron hooks, until, In 1552, Sir Stephen,
curate of St. Katherine's, preaching at
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Paul's Cross, said that the people had
made an idol of this May-pole. This
sermon had such an effect upon the au
dience, that on that very afternoon
(Sunday) the neighbors gathered to
gether and took it down. It was then
sawed into pieces, every man claiming
as his share as much as had lain over his
own door. The planting of a May-pole
being violently opposed by the most
rigid reformers, it was at last declared
by Parliament that all May-poles should
be taken down and removed. The res
toration of Charles 11. was the signal for
the restoration of the people's tavorite
holiday, and up went the May-poles as
gorgeous as ever.
The most celebrated pole of which
we have any record was erected at this
time in London (16611, and was called
the , Mug-pole on the Strand, and was
' reared with the wildest enthusiasm and
great rejoicings. Never before had such
a May-pole been seen ! Its bight was
one hundred and thirty-four feet; as it
was :carried to the Strand streamers,
were nourished before it, and the air
resounded with the beating of drums,
the sound of trumpets, and the glad
shouts of the people. Prince James,
Duke of York and Lord High Admiral
of England, commanded twelve seamen
to assist at the raising. They came with
their cables, putties and other tackle,
and with six great anchors. The two
parts of which the Pole was made were
then joined together, and hooped with
two bands of iron, and a crown and cane
with the King's arms richly gilded,
were placed upon the top of it. Then
the trumpets sounded, and the work of
raising it began. After four hours of
liii or it was placed upright, and greeted
with shouts and exclamations. From
the top floated a royal purple streamer,
around which wits placed four more
crowns. There were also garlands, and
under them three large lanterns, to give
light on dark nights and to be a perpet
ual honor to seamen as long as the pole
should stand. For it years lids remark
able May-pole lifted its head proudly far
above the Strand, and was annually
decorated with !lowers and garlands;
but, on becoming decayed, it was ob
tained in 1717 by Sir Isaac Newton for
the purpose ofmounting the largest tele
scope in the world. It was then taken
down, and removed with great pomp
through the city to Wanstead in Essex
where it was once more set up.
An funtising character, who took an
active part in the May-Day games and
daces, was a youth decked in ribbons
and flowers, who was called Jack-o'-the
Green. Then there were the num.'s
dancers in their fantastic costumes,
jingling with hawks' hells," and swar
thy gypsies who told fortunes to youths
and maidens. And there vita a fairy
bower redolent with the perfume of
inany Ilowers, in which sat the young
and beautiful Queen of May, wearing
upon her coquettish head the chaplet
which had been the envy of many ten
der hearts; for what maiden did not se
cretly long to be herself chosen as Queen
o' the Mav ?
But :tlas! the resistless march of time
is fast obliterating the simple rural
fetes. The people in the city are too
much absorbed in the cares of business,
for simple pastimes like these. The
people in the country :ire growing to be
too much like the city people in their
tastes and desires. But would it not lio
well to lay all care aside for a brief time,
and rejoice in the luxuriance of nature?
The fields are white with daisies, the
gardens are blooming with flowers, and
the birds are singing in every tree.—
Pause a little, ye who are en aged in
the earnest struggle fora livelihood, and
and enjoy, for mime brief duty, at least,
the luxury of living. (to out into the
blossoming ileitis, and rest in the green
lap of nature, :mil hear the wind mur
muring through the fresh young foliage
of the trees.
It IS 11 1 , rloirr liiilr Ilf II.; yhar,
For Iho appear
Now the roNe revolve, LIS irlh.
:k lid pro( ly prltorliShdohlii 111
lo thc 31:tyliolt; own, ILNV.IS . .
For it IN now a holiday.
Burning of the Richmond Theatre
Lt connection with the late awful ac
cident in Richmond, the following ae-
count of the burning of the Theatre of
that city, in Deuenilwr, 181 1, taken from
llowison's History of Virginia, will, we
trust, prove of interest to our readers:
" It is not kften that adoniestic calain
ity is so mortal in its character, and so
wide-spread in its influence, as to merit I
a place in general history . ; but one now 1
presents itself, which has Moiled an
era in the life of Virginia, never to be I
forgotten. k I.) During the winter
of this year, unwonted gaiety prevailed
in Itiehmond ; brilliant assemblies MI- I
lowed e a ch other in quick suceession ;
the theatre was open and sustained by
unconumm histrionic talent ; the nisei
', nations of the season hail drawn to
, gether, from every part of the State, the
young, the beautiful, the gay. On
Thursday night, the Lltith of December,
the theatre was crowded to excess. Six 1
hundred persons had assembled within
it, embracing the fashion, the wealth
:11111 the honor of the State. A new
drama NV:IS to be presented, to the ben
: elit of Placide, a favorite actor; and it
! was to be followed by the pantomimeof
'• The Bleeding Nun." The wild legend
on which this spectacle was founded,
hall Inst none of its power under the pen
of Monk Lewis, and, even in panto
mime, it had awakened great interest.
The regular piece had been played; the
pantomime had commenced; already
the curtain had risen upon its second
act, when sparks of lire were seen to fall
from the scenery on the back part of the
stage. A moment after, Mr. Robert
son, one of the actors, ran forward, and
waving his hand towards the ceiling,
called aloud, "'The hotte is on !"
Ilia voiee carried a of horror
through the assembly. All rose and
pressed for the doors of the building.
" The spectators in tile pit escaped
without difficulty ; the passage leading
from it to the outer exit was broad, and
had those in the boxes descended by the
pillars, many would have been saved.
Some, who were thrown down by vio
lence, were thus preserved. But the
crowd from the boxes pressed into the
lobbies, and it was here, among the re
lined and the lovely, that the scene be
came most appalling. The building was
soon wrapped in dames; volumes of
thick, !flack vapor penetrating every
part, and produced suncation ; the lire
approaching, caught those nearest to it;
piercing shrieks rose above tile sound of
a mass of human beings struggling for
life. 'like weak were trampled under
fool, and strong men, frantic with fear,
passed over the heads of all before them,
in their way towards the doors or Win
dows of the theatre. The windows even
of the upper lobby were sought ; many
who sprang from them perished by the
fall; many Were seen with garments on
lire as they descended, and died soon
afterwards from their wounds ; few who
were saved by this means escaped en
tirely unhurt.
"But, in the midst of terrors which
roused the selfishness of human nature
to its utmost strength, there were dis
plays of love in death, which makes
my heart bleed with pity. Fathers
were seen rushing back into the flames
to save their children; mothers were
calling in frenzied tones for their daugh
ters, and were with difficulty dragged
from the building; husbands and wives
refused to leave each othe, and met
death together; even friends lost life
in endeavoring to save those under their
care. George Stnith; the Governor of
Virginia, had brought with him to the
theatre, a young lady optiur his protec
tion. Separated from her in the crowd
he had reached a place of safety, but,
instantly turning back, himself and his
young ward both became victims of the
tire. Benjamin Botts, a lawyer of great
distinction, and father ofJohn M. Botts,
had gained the door; but his wife was
left behind. He hastened to save her,
and they perished together.
" Seventy persons were the martyrs
of this horrible night. Besides those
already named, there perished Abram
Venable, the President of the Bank of
Virginia, anti Lieutenant Gibbon, who
was destroyed in attempting to save
Miss Conyers. Richmond was shrouded
in mourning; hardly a family had es
taped the visit of the destroying angel,
and many had lost several loved ones.
And the stroke was not felt only at
home. It fell upon hearts far removed
front the immediate scene of the disas
ter.
"On the 30th December, intelligence
of this calamity was communicated to
the Senate of the United States; and,
on motion of Mr. Bradley, a resolution
was adopted that" the Senators would
wear crape on the left arm for a month.
On the same day, a similar resolution
was adopted by the House of Represen
tatives, !having been introduced in a
short and feeling address, by Mr. Daw
son of Virginia.
" Many years passed before the im•
pression of this event was erased in the
State where it occurred. It will never
be forgotten. Some who escaped, yet
survive to tell of the scene. The day
after the fire, the Common Council of
Richmond passed an ordinance forbid
ding any public show or spectacle, or
any opening dancing assembly, for four
months. A monumental church has
risen on the very spot where the ill
fated theatre once stood, and its monu
ment, bearing the names of many vic
tims of the night, will recall to the
visitor thoughts of death and of the life
beyond."
The American Senate
Seen Through the Eyes ern Woman
Mrs. Mary C. Ames, who has had
seven years' experience as a Wash i ngton
correspondent, writes for the Indfpen
d, nt a description of the Senate, from
which we take the following:
I have tried to adjust old seats and new
Senators with satisfaction, and have
failed. My private opinion (which, as
usual, I am making public) is that a
number of these gentlemen might quite
as well have staid in their native wilds,
or be still pursuing destiny, "carpet
bag" in hand. It is very evident that
they do not belong here. It is not in
their poor power to reflect any lustre
upon one of the greatest legislative
bodies of the world. This being true,
why are they here? Shall politics,
'trickery and money buy seats for third
rate men in this august assembly. They
do. Mr. Muddlebrains takes his scat.—
He who by the birthright of (lod would
adorn it, serve and honor his c(mn try in
Its stays at home—at least, that is where
he very often stays.
DIEM
In personal aspect the Senate has re
trograded within !sour rears. .1. mong
all its elders, one looks in vain fur two
such " grave and reverend seignors,"
two such grand old men, as Foote and
Collamer, of Vermont. Senator Came
ron carries his seventy yeays straight
and stalely as a winter pine; hut he has
not the noble head, the open, large ex
pression, the grandeur of mien, which
made these men the most senatorial of
Senators. And who :looking down on
his wonted seat, can cease to mourn for
ri.:::sENDEN, TUE GREAT DEBATI:It,
the incorruptible statesman, the irasci
ble, sensitive, loving-hearted man ! Not
in his seat, it seems as if, waiting a mo
ment, we should see hint meditatively
pacing up and down behind it ; or slow
ly slipping through the door of the cloak
room, his hands in his pockets, hi ,
slight figure bent, his groat head—so
much too great 6,r the frame which
could not support it—always drooping
forward, as if weighted down with
thought, his lips compressed, his expres
sion one of weariness, often of pain.—
The longer we look the more we miss
his presence, and the more unreconciled
we feel to his untimely taking-off. 'l'lle
longer we listen to a dry dribble of talk
the more we long to hear pierce the dull
ness one of his old keen, incisive sen
tences, cutting straight to the marrow
of things. Without him his long-time,
generous antagonist, Sumner, finds no
foe at once so provocative and worthy
of his speech. Trumbull, more pugna
cious and irate, lacks the far sight :mil
wide mental comprehension of Fussell
den.
still sits the figure-head of the Senate.
The ladies look at him as much as ever,
and many and remarkable are the com
ments which may be heard on him in
the galleries, He sits as he sat years ago
—not an attitude, not a gesture changed,
apparently in tho indenticalsuit of gray
with dark coat, in which he towered
the New England school girl's Pericles
a score of years ago. Time, which has
spared his clothes, has dealt less gently
with him. Life, which leaves its sub
tle tracery on all our faces, has laid its
hand heavily on his, as it always does
on the face of man or woman in whom
existence is a battle, not a dream. The
evening gray has fallen on his hair, the
trace of many an inward and outward
conflict is graven in the strung
features; but he has still unbroken
what he had in the beginning, that
which is indispensable to the successfhl
statesman mid orator—" the physical
basis of Oratory." Without his six feet
of altitude, and his thunderous ayes
and noes, Charles Sumner could never
have been Charles Sumner. If lie had
been compelled by feeble lungs and a
defective throat to shriek his dictum in
a shrill treble, or in a squeaking pipe,
he could never, res a statesman, have
been at once the king and the conqueror
of an idea. If he had been as little as
Lord Russell, not even Sydney Smith's
excuse to the disappointed farmers of
Devonshire—" that he was naturally
bigger, but ha‘i been reduced by Iris
labors in the cause of reform"—could
ever have given him that personal im
pressment which now, by tilling the
eyes and ears, more than fulfils the
prestige of his name. Without special.
premeditation, 1 have strayed back to
the thought from whence we started—
the physical basis of the statesman.
For lack of it Fessenden died. For lack
of it, and it only, he missed the highest
intellectual success; without its mind
try even his fine brain could not fulfil
its loftiest function. For lack of it some
of the most intellectual men in the ;Sen
ate to-day are slowly dying.
Excepting, perhaps, a been really
noble-looking men, the United States
Senate has nothing to be proud of in its
external aspect. The remainder are a
mussy and inferior-looking company.
We have a right to be, disappointed in
them. In the House of Representatives
we expect to see a heterogeneous asscnt
lily, typical of many climates and con
ditions. lint front the Roman to the
American Senate the inflexible idea of
Senator has been that of an eclectic, el
oquent, wise, and august man. If a
man possessing no one of these quali
ties still by some circumstance obtains
a Senator's seat, I know of no patent
that he holds to high esteem because he
has filched a name which he does not
Motor.
Of course, it would be unjust to meas
ure a man's intellect by the length of
his limbs, or exclusively by the width of
his chest, though the Tatter has much
to do with it. Yet it is indisputable
that physical qualities are analogous
with mental and moral ones. This es
pecially true of the orator and statesman.
The more powerful the physical temper
ament, the more magnetic and master
ly the oratory. A master of written
thought may need broader shoulders
and a deeper chest, and not yield his
entire; but if John tituart Mill had
both, he would now be pealing, forth
immortal truth in Parliament,instead of
writing essays at Avignon. The masters
of eloquence have invariably been men
of commanding energy, or of .the most
imperial presence. Both these were Pitt
and Burke, Calhoun and Webster and
Clay. What lionly men rise and roar
in the past as we evoke the ghost of
rabeau and Banton, and what pictures
come across the ocean of the living mas
ters of England. What large-throated,
wide-shouldered, deep-chested, high
headed inch they are—as they should be
—to rule the land and lead the people
by eye and voice and royal speech ! Be
lieving religiously ht the great intellect
ual and spiritual facts of which these
are the outward symbols, we look below
on our own Parliament, which should
represent our grandest and best, and are
satisfied with nothing less. Not we!
Unfermented Manure
Many excellent farmers have an idea
that manure to be most efficient in rais
ing crops should be well rotted ; but this
is a mistake. Manure loses a very heavy
per tentage. Fresh manure, dripping
with animal urine, hauled directly from
the stable on the land and ploughed
under, is worth nearly double that
which has decomposed to a saponaceous
consistency. When it is convenient for
farmers to haul their manure on corn
ground from the stable as fast as it is
made, it saves handling it twice, and
forwards the work in busy spring time.
No fears need be entertained that the
atmosphere will carry oil the strength
of the manure if left on the surface. The
only danger to be apprehended by this
method will be in case of the ground
being frozen and covered with snow and
ice when the manure is applied; if upon
sloping land, the virture of the manure
might wash away; but on level land
there is no exception to this plan of op
eration during the entire fall and winter
season.—Germantown Telegraph.
Two of the men engaged in the rob
bery of the Lime Rock Bank, at Rock
land, Me., have been arrested, and
$20,000 in bonds and currency recover
ed, which is believedlto be all the mo
ney stolen.
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING MAY 11. 1870
Mr. Lincoln's Religions Oplnions—Polit
teal Preaching.
We copy the following from the Lead
er, an able and respectable journal, pub
lished at Bloomington, Illinois. The
writer, Mr. Herndon, was the first, and
for many years, the law-partner of Mr.
Lincoln, at Springfield, in that State.
He is a Republican and has retired from
the bar, and is a gentleman of high
character and undoubted integrity. This
article has been published for several
months past, and we have not seen any
correction or contradiction of the facts
therein stated. We publish it now, to
correct history, and because some in
discreet political clergymen, throughout
the country, continue to misrepresent
the religious opinions of Mr. Lincoln,
and insult portions of their hearers, by
desecrating their pulpits in dragging
into them, the vexed and exciting po
litical questions of the day, thereby
keeping up strife and angry feelings,
instead of " pouring oil upon the trou
bled waters," by following the precepts
of our Blessed Redeemer, who PREACH
ED and practiced the forgiveness of our
enemies and "peace and good will to
wards men."
ffi==
From Thr Index, published at Toledo, Gide
by ti e ' Rev. FranelmElllupeood Abbot.]
SPRINGFIELD, Feb. IS, 1870
Mr. Abbot :—Some time since I pro
mised you that I would send a letter in
relation to Mr. Lincoln's religion. I do
so now. Before entering on that ques
tion, one or two preliminary remarks
will help us to understand why he dis
agreed with the ChttStian world in its
principle:3, as well as in its theology.—
In the first place, Mr. Lincoln's' mind
was a purely logical mind; secondly,
Mr. Lincoln was purely apractical man.
He had no fancy or imagination, and
not much emotion. He was a realist as
opposed to an idealist. As a general
rule, it is true that a purely logical
mind has not much hope, if it ever has
J'aith in the unsccn and unknown. Mr.
Lincoln had not much hope and no
faith in things that lie outside of the
domain of demonstration ; he was so
constituted—so organized—that he could
believe nothing unless his sense or logic
could reach it. _I have often read to
him a law point, a decision, or some
, thing I fancied; he could not under
stand it until he lie took the book out
of my hand, and read the thing or
I himself. He was terribly, vexatiously
skeptical. He could scarcely under
stand anything, unless he had time and
place fixed in his mind.
I became acquainted with Mr. Lincoln
in 1834, and I thiuk I knew him well
to the day of his death. His mind when
a buy in Kentucky, showed a certain
gloom, an unsocial nature, a peculiar
idisterautedness, a bold and daring skep
ticism. In Indiana, from 1517 to INio,
it manifested the same qualities or (at
tributes as ill Kentucky ; it only inten
sified, developed itself along those lines
in Indiana, He came to Illinois in 1510,
and, after some little roving . , settled in
NeNV Salem, now ill Meilard county,
and State of Illinois. This village lies
about twenty miles northwest of this
city. It was here that Mr. Lincoln be
came acquainted with a class of men
the world Dever saw the like of before
or since. They were !cubic Men—large
inyn_nly and large in nand; hard to whip,
and never to be fooled. They were a
bold, daring, and reckless sort ()I' men ; :
they were men of their own minds—
believed what was demonstrable—were
men of great commons sense. With
these men Mr. Lincoln was thrown ;
with them lie lived, and with them lie
moved, and almost had his being.
They were skeptics all—scoffers
sonic. These scoffers were good
men, and their scoffs were protests
against theology—loud protests against
the follies of Christianity • they had
never heard of Theism and the newer
and better religious thoughts of this age.
I fence, being natural skeptics, and being
bold, brave nun, they tittered their
thoughts freely. They declared that
esu, , was an illegitimate ch Id. I know
these men well and have felt for them,
—have done my little best when occa
sion offered. to educate them up to
higher thoughts. These men could not
conceive it possible that three could be
in one, nor one in three Uods; tiny
could not ?Alit ye that the Father ruined
1,11(: ej hbi own lovely children. This
was monstrous to them. They were on
all occasions, when opportunity offered,
debating the various questions of Chris
tianity among themselves; they took
their stand on common sense and on
their own souls ; and though their argu
ments were rude and rough, no man
could overthrow their homely logic.—
They riddled all divines, and not UM
fr,quently made them skeptics—disbe
lievers as bad as themselves. They were
a jovial, healthful, generous, social,
true, and manly set of people.
It was here, and among these people,
that Mr. Lincoln was thrown. About
the year 153.1,he chanced to conic across
Volley's "Ruins," and some of Paine's
theological works. He at once seized
hold of them, and assimilated them in
to his own being. Volney and Paine
became a part of Mr. Lincoln from Is:14
to the end of his life. In lsit's, he wrote
out a small work on "Infidelity" and
intended to have it published. The
book was an attack upon the whole
grounds of Christianity, and especially
was it an attack upon the idea that Je
sue was the Christ, the true and only be
gotten Son of God, as the Christian world
contends. Mr. Lincoln was at that time
in New Salem, keeping store for Mr.
Samuel Hill, a merchant and postmas
ter of that place. Lincoln and Hill were
very friendly. Hill, I think, was a
skeptic at that time. Lincoln, one day
after the book was finished, read it to
Mr. Hill—his good friend. Hill tried to
persuade hint not to make it public—not
to publish it. I lill at that time saw in
Mr. Lincoln a rising man, and
wished him success. Lincoln re
fused to destroy it—said it should
be published. Hill swore it should
never see light of day. He had an eye
to Lincoln's popularity—his present and
future success; and believing , that, if
the book were published, it would kill
Lincoln forever, he snatched it from
Lincoln's hand, when Lincoln was not
expecting it, and ran it into an old
fashioned ten-plate stove, heated as hot
as a furnace; and so Lincoln's book
went up to the clouds in smoke. It is
confessed by all who heard parts of it,
that it was at once able and eloquent;
and if I may judge of it from Mr. Lin
coln's subsequent ideas and opinions,
often expressed to me and to others in
my presence, it was able, strong, plain
and fair. Ills argument was grounded
on the internal mistakes of the Old and
New Testaments, and on reason, and on
the experiences and observations of
men. The criticisms from internal de
fects were sharp, strong and manly.
Mr. Lincoln moved to this city in
1837, and here became acquainted with
various men of his own way of thinking.
At that time they called themselvesjrce
thinkers or free thinking men. I remem
ber all these things distinctly, for I was
with them, heard them, and was one of
them. Mr. Lincoln here found other
works, Hume, Gibbon, and others, and
drank them in ; he made no secret of
his views,no concealmentof his religion.
He boldly avowed himself an infidel.
'When Mr. Lincoln was a candidate for
our Legislature, lie was accused of being
an infidel, and of having said that Jesus
Christ was an illegitimate child •he
never denied his opinions, nor flinched
from his religious views; he was a true
man, and yet it may be truthfully said
that in 1837 his religion was low indeed.
In his moments of gloom he would
doubt if he did not sometimes deny God.
He made me once erase the name of God
from a speech which I was about to
make in 1834, and he did this in the city
of Washington to one of his friends. I
cannot now name the man nor the place
' he occupied in Washington ; it will be
known sometime. I have the evidence,
and intend to keep it.
Mr. Lincoln ran for Congress against
the Rev. Peter Cartwright, in the year
1847 or 1848. In that contest he was ac- I
cused of being an infidel, if not an an
theist ; he never denied the charge—
would not—" would die first ;" in the
first place because he knew it could and
would be proved on him ; and in the
second place he was too true to his own
convictions, to his own soul, to deny it.
From what I know of Mr. Lincoln, and
from what I have heard and verily be
lieve, I can say :—first, that he did not
believe in a special creation, his idea
being that all creation was an evolution
under law ; secondly, that he did not
believe that the Bible was a special
revelation from God, as the Christian
world contends ; thirdly, he did not be
lieve in miracles, as understood by the
Christian world; fourthly, he believed
in universal inspiration and miracles
under law ; fifthly, Jae did not believe
that Jesus was the Christ, the eon of
God, as the Christian world:iontende;
sixthly, he believed that all things,
both matter and mind, were govern
ed by laws, universal, absolute and
eternal. All his speeches and re
marks in Washington conclusively
prove this. Law was to Lincoln every
thing—and special interferences, shams
and delusions. I know whereof I speak.
I used to loan him Theodore Parker's
works; I loaned him Emerson some
times and other writers, and he would
sometimes read and sometimes would
not, as I suppose—nay, know
When Mr. Lincoln left this city for
Washington, I know he had undergone
no chan,,,ve in his religious opinions or
views. He held many of the Christian
ideas in abhorrence, and among them
there was this one namely, that God
could not forgive; that punishment has
to follow the sin ; that Christianity was
wrong in teaching forgiveness; that
it tended to make man sin in the hope
that God would excuse, and so forth.—
Lincoln contended that the minister
should teach that God has affixed pun
ishment to sin, and that no repentance
could bribe him to remit it. In one
sense of the word, Mr. Lincoln was a
Universalist, and in another he was a
Unitarian; but he was a Theist, as we
now understand that word ; he was so
fully, freely, unequivocally, boldly, and
openly, when asked for his views. Mr.
Lincoln was supposed, by ninny people
in this city, to be an atheist, and some
still believe it. I can put that supposi
tion at rest forever. I hold a letter of
Mr. Lincoln in my hand, addressed to
his step-brother, John D. Johnson, and
dated the l'2th day of January, ISSI. lie
had heard friofft Johnson thatliis father,
Thomas Lincoln, was sick, and that no
hopes of his recovery were entertained.
Mr. Lincoln wrote back to Mr. Johnson
these words:
" I sincerely hope that Father may
yet recover his health; but at all events
tell hint to remember to cull upon and
confide in One ii . reat and good and mer
ciful Maker, wrto will not turn away
front hint in any extremity. Ile notes
the full of a sparrow, and numbers the
haiN of our heads; and I - to will not for
get the dying man who puts his trust in
Say to hint that, if we could
meet now, it is doubtful whether it
would not be more painful than pleas
ant ; but that, if it be his lot not to go
now, he will soon have a joyous meet
ing with many hived ones gone before,
and where the rest of us, through the
help of Clod, hope ere long to join them.
A. L1NC,,1.N."
So it seems that Mr. Lincoln believed
in God and immortality, as well as heav
en—a place. lie believed in rm hell
and no punishment in the future world.
It has been said to me that Mr. Lincoln
wrote tlie•aboye letter to an old man !
simply to cheer him up in his last mo
ments; and that the writer did not be-
neve what he said. The question is—
was Mr. Lincoln an honest and truthful
man? It' he was, he wrote that letter
honestly, believing it; it has to me the
sound, the ring, of an honest utterance.
I admit that Mr. Lineolmin his moments
of melancholy and terrible gloom, was
livingon the border land between theism
and atheism—sometimes quite wholly
dwelling in atheism. l a n his hap
pier moments he would swing
back to thei-mi, and dwell lovingly
there. It is possible that Mr. I,incoln
was not always responsible for what he
said or thought, so deep—so intense—so
terrible was his melancholy. I send you
a lecture of mine which will help you to
see what I mean. I maintain that Mr.
Lincoln was a deeply religious man at
all times and places, in spiteof his tran,;-
lent (1004:4.
Soon after Mr. Lincoln was assassin
ated, Mr. Holland came into my oilier
and made some inquiries about him,
stating to me his purpose of writing his
life. I freely told him what he asked,
and Mutth more. He then asked me
what I thought about Mr. Lincoln's
religion, meaning his views of Christi
anity. I replied, "the lcss .skid, tin
bcitcr." Mr. Holland has recorder my
expression to him, (see Holland's LQ''
of Lincoln, page I cannot say
what Mr. Holland said to me, as that
was private. It appears that he went
and saw :Mr. Newton Bateman, Su
perintendent .of Public Instruction
in this State. It appears that Mr.
Bateman told Mr. Holland many things,
if he is correctly represented in Hol
land's Life of Lincoln (pages flc, to 241
inclusive). I doubt whether Mr. Bate
man said in full what is recorded there.
I doubt a great deal of it. I know the
whole story is untrue—untrue in sub-
I stance—untrue in fact and spirit. As
soon as the Life of Lincoln was out, on
reading that part here referred to, I in
stantly sought Mr. Bateman, and found
him in his office. I spoke to him polite
ly and kindly, and lie,spoke to me in
the same manner. I said substantially
to him that Mr. Holland, in order to
make Mr. Lincoln a technical Chris
tian, made him a hypocrite; and
so his Life of Lincoln quite plainly
I says. 1 loved Mr. Lincoln, and was
mortified, if not angry, to see him made
a hypocrite. I cannot now detail what
Mr. ll:ltem:in said, as it was a private
conversation, and I ant forbidden to
make use of it in public. If some good
gentleman can only get the seal of se
creey removed, I mu. show what was
said and done. On my word the world
may take it for granted that Ilolland is
I wrong, and he does not state Mr. Lin
coin's views correctly. Mr. Bateman,
if correctly represented in Holland's
Life of Lincoln, is the only man, the
sole and only man, who dare say that
Mr. Lincoln believed in Jesus as the
Clo'i,d of God, as the Christian world
represents. This is not a pleasant situ
; anion for Mr. Bateman. I have notes
I anti dates of our conversation, and the
world will sometime know Will) is truth-
Mt and who is otherwise. I doubt
whether Bateman is correctly represen
ted by Holland. My notes bear date
Dec. 3, 12, and H, Huß. Some of our
conversations were in the spring of 1.5:66,
and the full of 1865
I do not remember ever seeing the
words Astes or fluid in print, as uttered
by Mr. Lincoln. If he has used these
words, they can be found. He uses the
word God but seldom. I never heard
him use the name of Christ or Jesus,
but to confute the idea that he was the
Christ, the only and truly begotten Son
of (hod, as the Christian world under
stands it. The idea that Mr. Lincoln
carried the New Testament or Bible in
his bosom or boots, to draw on his op
ponent in debate, is ridiculous.
If Christianity cannot live without
falsehood the sooner it dies, the better
for mankind. Every great man that
dies—infidel, pantheist, theist or athe
ist—is instantly dragged into the folds
of the church, and transformed through
falsehood into the great defender of the
faith, unless his opinions are too well
known to allow it. Is Christianity in
dread for fear? What is the matter with
it? Is it sick, and does it dream of its
doom? Would that it would shake it
self free from its follies, and still live
till mankind outgrow it!
My dear sir, I now have given you
my knowledge, speaking from my own
experience, of Mr. Lincoln's religious
views. I speak likewise front the evi
dences, carefully gathered, of his relig
ious opinions. I likewise speak from
the ears and mouths of many in this
city ; and after all careful examination,
I declare to your numerous readers that
Mr. Lincoln is correctly represented
here, so far as I know what truth is,
and how it should be investigated.
Very truly, NV. H. HERNDON.
The Value of Leaves
A bushel of well pressed dry leaves, as
they fall from the trees in autumn,
weighs about four pounds; by further
drying they part with a little more than
thirty per cent. of water held in the
cells of the leaf structure. A cord of ab
solutely dry leaves will weigh about 320
pounds, reckoning 100 bushels to the
cord. In weight then, a cord represents
about one-twelfth of a cord of wet
barnyard manure, and if they contain
the same amount of fertilizing ma
terial in the same condition, would be
equal in value to thatamou i nt of manure.
But this is far from being the fact. The
dried leaves I have found to stand rela
tively to the leached organic ;matter of
manure, as 10 to 30 in ash-valueand
when the soluble salts of manure are
taken into account, the comparative
value is as 10 to GO, weight to weight. A
cord of dry forest leaves, made up
of the usual deciduous varieties, maple,
beech, oak, &c., has an actual manurial
value of not over fifty cents, reckoning
stable manure at eight dollars the cord.
Will it pay to collect them? Certainly
not for the amount of fertilizing materi
al they contain. As litter or absorbents
in the stable, leaves have some value,
but much less than straw, inasmuch as
they lack the reedy character of straw,
and because they are far more.:difticultly
and slowly decomposed.—Dr. James B.
Josh Billings's Papers—Tight Boots
I would jist like tew kno who the man
waz who fust invented Cite boots.
He must hey Lin a narrow and kon
trakted cuss.
i
If he still lives, hope he has repented
ov hiz sin, or iz enjoying grate- agony
ov some kind.
I hey bin in a grate menny tite spots
in mi life, but generally could manage
to make them average; but thare is no
such thing as making a pairov tite boots
average.
Yu kan't git an average on the pinch
ov a tite boot, enny more than you kan
on the bite ov a lobster.
Enny man who kan wear a pair ov
tite boots, and be umble, and penitent.
and not indulge in profane literature,
will make a good husband.
He will do more than that, he will do
to divide up into several fast Mass hus
bands, and be made to answer for a
whole naberhod.
Oh! for the pen ov departed Wm.
Shaksspear, to write an anathema
against tite boots, that would make au
shunt Rome wake up and howl agin, az
she did once before on a previous ocka
shun.
Oh! for the strength ov Herkules, to
tare into shu strings all the tite boots ov
ereashun, and shatter them to the S
winds of heaven.
Oh! for the butt' ov Venus, tea make
a bigg foot look hansum without a tits
boot on it.
Oh! for the payshunee ov Job, the
Apostle, to Huss a tite boot and bless it,
and even pm for one a size smaller and
more pinchful.
Oh ! for a pair ov boob.; big enutf for
the foot ov a mountain.
I hay bin led into the above assort
turn t ov "Oh's" from having in my
pos . .seshun, at this moment, a pair ov
number nine boots, with a pair ov num
ber eleven feet in them.
:SU feet are az a dog's noze the fast
time he wears a muzzle.
I think uii feet will eventually choke
the bouts to death.
I live in hopes they will.
I supposed I had lived long enuflnot
to be phooled agin in this way, but I
have found that an ounce ov vanity
weighs more than a pound ov reason,
especially when a man mistakes a higg
foot for a small one.
Avoid tite boots, mi friends as you
would the devil, fur many a Man has
caught for life a fust rate habit for
swearing by encouraging his feet to hurt
biz boots.
I have promised tiii two feet, at least
a dozen ov times during mi cheekured
life, that they never should he strangled
ugh', but I hind them to-day an full ov
pain an the stummuk ake from a sudden
attack ov tile boots.
But this is solemnly the last pair ov
lite boots i will ever wear; i will here
after wear boots az big or toy feet, if i
have to go barefoot to do it.
I mon too old :Lod too respectable to be
)pool cony more .
Eazyboots iz one of the luxuries uv
life, but i forgit what the other luxury
iz, but i don't kno az i care, provided i
can git rid ov this pair uv tite boots.
Luny man ban hav them for seven
dollars, just half what they kost, and if
they don't make his feet ake wuss than
an angle worm in hot meshes, lie med'ot
pay for them.
Methuseles iz the only man that i kan
ball to mind now who could have af
forded to hay wore tite boots, and en
joyed them; he had a grate deal ov
waste time tew be miserable in, but life
now days iz too short, and too full ov
aktual bizziness to phool away envy ov
it on tite boots.
'rite hoots are an insult to cony man's
umlerstanclings.
He who wears tite boots will hav to
acknowledge the corn.
Tite boots have no bowels of mercy,
their insides are wrath and pruntiskious
cussing.
Iteware of tite boots.
Annexing the Enemy's Tune
The English national anthem of "God
Save the Queen"—which was first pub
licly heard in 1745, after the defeat of
Prince Charles on the fatal field of Cul
loden—says All the Year Round, was
originally a Jacobite song, which it was
dangerous to sing within hearing of the
authorities. When the Jacobites spoke
or sang of "the King" they meant "the
King over the water," 1111E1 the words
still sung, "send ldm victorious," imply
clearly that the King in tended was not the
one who was already in England, but the
one far away, to whom the singers were
loyal in his evil fortunes. A great deal
of controversy has arisen as to the author
ship alike of the words and music; but
no satisfactory clue has been discovered
for the elucidation of either mystery.—
If a prize had been offered for a nation
al anthem, expressive of patriotic as
well as dynastic loyalty, no competent
critics would have awarded it to the
author of the words, whomsoever he
may have been. Yet this song, which
grew rather than wan made, is the rich
est literary jewel in the British crown,
mud may fairly claim to have been of
more value to the House of Hanovor
than any standing army. "God Save
the King," as originally sung at the
Drury .Lane Theatre, shortly after the
news arrived in London that the last
hopes of the young Pretender had been
crushed at Culloden, consisted of nine
stanzas, or six in addition to the three
which are 110 W familiar to all of us.—
These three are the genuine Jacobite
song, without the alteration of a word.
The remaining six are strictly Hano
verian and Whiggish, and have long
since gone to the limbo that is reserved
for all literary rubbish. A specimen
verse will suffice to show alike its qual
ity and its temporary purpose:
" l'onfouud tall Jemmy's plod
Polo, Freneh and Sp;Lnr,l; I; not
Coutound them all;
Tlllains nutorluns,
Thrlr fears inglorlons,
Nrour shall rcanniner us,
Confound (hunt all."
It was a fortunate accident, if it were
not a profound piece of policy, by which
the present royal house took possession
of the song of their enemies, and turned
to their own glory that which was in
tended for their shame.
It Is Node Smooth by a Dome or Corromive
Sublimate-..A Cruel Pa ren t---A Sad Sui
cide.
.11:1/F imsoNv Sullivan Co., N. Y.,
April is.—This village has recently been the
scene of a sad occurrence, resulting in a
lingering and terrible death. I Brand,
a prepossessing and estimalil e young lady of
about 19 years, daughter of Ur. Wm. Brand,
committed suicide on Wednesday.
The details ()lithe affair partake somewhat
of the romantic, and though there are sev
eral versions of the affair, the following is
believed to be correct:
The young lady was engaged to a young
man to whom her parents had a great ills
ke,and urged every inducement to prevent
them keeping company together. Alter
exhausting mild arguments, her father de
cided to use more forcible means, and itc,
cordingly locked her in one of the rooms
of the house. This was on Wednesday
morning.
lit the afternoon she released herself,
and went directly to her father's drug store
and took a sufficient quantity of corrosive
sublimate to kill fifty persons. But, as
though repenting this dreadful act, she
rushed to her home and related to her moth
er what had occurred. Her father being
absent from home, her mother gave her the
whites of several eggs, and sent for Dr.
Robinson. The latter and her father re
turned in a short time, and administered
mucilaginousdrinks to her the whole night,
but with little avail, except to lessen her
intense pain.
The unfortunate girl died in great agony
on Thursday afternoon, and on the follow
ing day an inquest was held, the jury ren
dering a verdict in accordance with these
facts.
Interesting Records
The records of births, deaths and marriages
in Massachusetts during the past year
develop some curious facts. A comparison
between the marriages of American and
foreign-born persons in the State and the
births in the families of the same extraction
show that while there were twice as many
" American" as " foreign " marriages,
there were more children born of the latter
parentage than of the former. In Boston
the two classes of marriages were about
equal in number ; but the births of foreign
were as 7t03 of American parentage. "I et
the total number of births was the largest
ever reported. Twins must be scarce, for
the plurality births were not one in 50.
The number of marriages has diminished,
being less than in either last year or year
before; but there need be no discouragement
to those seeking a tender tie, as it is record
ed theta maiden of 38 years became the sixth
wife of a gentleman of 65, and there were
three instances of marriage at ages exceed
ing 80. On the whole, the population of
Massachusetts is increasing at the rate of
29 persons a day, and if half of them settle
in Boston, a moiety of its present inhabitants
may live to see—abstractly considered—a
very eonsiderable city, something like
New York 20 or 30 years ago.
AT TOE BOTTOM' OF THE SEA
Adventures of Diver Who
The
-
laimit the Oneldn-Verification of
the Testimony of the Saved.
On the 24th day of February the "bor
rowed" steamship Aroostook, with Charles
and J. S. Lougee, practical and experienced
divers from San Francisco, went to where
the Oneida lies in 123 feet of water. After
the usual preparations had been concluded
and by sounding, it had been ascertained
that the deck of the Oneida was 103 feet be
neath the surface) of the bay; after every
caution had been given to eight strong
sailors to keep the air-pump constantly in
motion, and allow not au instant of time of
stoppage to occur, as thereby depended the
life of the bold diver ; after Charley Lougee
had been helmeted and shut from air, ex
cept that supplied through the slender tube
of coiled rubber, with a life lino around his
body and leaden clogs to his feet, with
"Good-bye" and "God bless you" from all
aboard, ho was dropped over the side, and
slowly disappeared in the blue waves, whi lo
a nervous tremor shot through our frame
as we realized the fearful risk undertaken
by that man who was seeking for truth in
over ono hundred feet of water.
Away to the leeward, borne by tide and
wind, route floating bubbles to the surface
life-signals from below. The men at the
pump wore laboring manfully, but be
coming fatigued, attempted to change for
fresh hands, and there was a stop. "Great
(hod! you will murder my brother! Quick!
for Heaven's sake, quick!" And as the
men recommenced the revolution 01...X1ee
air-pump, the elder Lougee, with bin Med
face and trembling lip, gave a signal on the
life-line below. For an instant there Caine
no response, and the face of that brother
scented to turn to marble; but then wo
saw too quick motions front the submarine
station, and knew it was the welcome sig
nal of "all right," and then Lougee turned
to the men at the wheel, who came so near
sending both below, and simply said :
"My only brother's life depends upon your
efforts in keeping that pump in motion—
stop again at your peril." flue calm fare
and passionate eye told those men hot to
stop again, and with Lieutenant Tanner
close by, they kept at work until stopped
by orders from Lougee.
Meantime, while we were on the deck of
that " sand-pan," counting the tedious
which engthened to half an hour.
Charley Lougee was searching the Oneida
at the tremendous depth mentioned. At
last tattno (lie signal for"' surface," and in
stantly the life-line was put in motion;
slowly came the coiling heinp and 11 1 / 1 101 .
on deck, and at last, away in the deep blue
waves, (tame in sight the diver, shrouded
and panoplied hi weird garments. As he
came to the surface he reached Minister
DeLong a sword and lacquered •box, anti
then was 111,11101 MM loused, alai our party
crowded around to hear tit the gallant ship.
Among our party were many of the sur
vi vors or the Oneida ; among them were
William Crowninshield, Captain Clark,
Master Yates, and Dr. James Sui t lards,
who were intensely excited to learn the
tidings.
Said the diver;—a' The seater for the first
seventy feet was quite clear, as the sun
gave excellent light, and idthough my sup
ply of air was once choked ft:r all instant,
I reached the deck of the ship just astern
of the mizzen-watt, and close 1/y the mess
room hatch; the title was el/flint; quite
strong, anti I was compelled to hoffito lines
from the rigging to keep from being swept
forward. I first examined the side of the
ship; she was cut from the mizzen rigging
tat an angle of about forty degrees) across
the whole stern of the ship, her timbers,
fin) below the water line, being crushed and
broken, the captain's cabin cut in two, the
wheel aryl steering gear all carried away;
in fact, the whole siduand end of the ship,
stove in or cut away. The ship is heading
southwest, and sits upright on the bottom,
and is making sand slowly. I laid down
on the deck and peered over the broken
cud into the cabin, but did nut dare trust
my air-lino in contact with the jagged
timbers. The guns and armament, except
one, are all in place aft; but I did not go
forward, as I was afraid of entanglement in
the rigging." Turning to Crow inshield, he
said: " Your evidence, which I read, de
scribed almost exactly the injury, except
that she was cut deeper than you could
have known." Lougee expressed the be
lief that it will lie impraeticable to raise the
ship, but that the spledid battery, personal
otrovt,, etc., can be saved if the Government
sees proper.
By this survey the testimony of the liv
ing is verified, and the memory of the dead
without a stain, for the position of the ship
as found, and the positions of both the
Oneida and Bombay, as testified to by the
navigating officers, show that it Was im
possible for the captain of the Bombay to
have ever seen the red light of the Oneida'
and that the order of "Portyour helm," by
Captain Eyre, seas wrong, and the "Star
board, hard-a-starboard" of Master Yates
was right.—C'eercoponticace Narrainodu
Bee.
T=MEI3!IMI
Harper's Brizoorgossipo pleasantly about
journals and journalists as billows:
'rite Tribune property is estimated to be
worth a million dollars, which includes
two or three hundred thousand dollars of
real estate. It is the intention to take down
the present building within a year or two,
and erect in its place a superb edifice that
will contain every convenience and appli
ance hult/Wll to modern newspaper oflices.
The profits of the paper in ISII9 were $11113,-
nOU, which is $1,630 on each share. There
are one hundred shares in the company,
of which Mr. Sinclair, the publisher,
owns the largest amount, or twenty-one;
Mr. (;reeley, twelve; the estate of Mr.
• Stephen Clark, its late money editor
Murteen; Dr. J. C. Ayer, the Lowell metli
eine man' • sixteen ' the late Mr. Richard-
son's estate, live; Bayard Taylor, live; 'l'.
N. Hooker, foreman of the composing de
partment, live ; Mr, Runkle, who has just
married Nlrs. Calhoun, two; Oliver John
son, of the Independent, one; Mr. Cleve•
land, brother-in-law of Mr. t:reelev, one;
two other of the printers, one each; Nlr.
Smalley, the London correspondent, two;
Solon Robinson, two; Solomon A. Cheney,
three; John Hooper, two; and 13. F. Camp,
two; Mr. Greeley now receives $1004:0
year salary, and Mr. Sinclair, the publish
er, an equal SUM, while the pay of Mr.
Reid, the managing editor, is ;I.\ OM but
will probably soon be increased to i 1.1.4,500.
The principal writers on the World are
understood to Ito Mr. Marble, the proprie
tor, Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. I fulburt, NI r.
Evans; Mr. Schuyler, Mr. Stilson, Mr.
Wheeler, Mr. Hickey, Mr. Calkins, Mr.
Kirwan, Mr. Ford, :mil several others. 'lit'
managing, editor is Mr. D. G. Croly, a very
capable and experienced man.
Among the 4S'ari, writers are Mr. Dana,
chief, Mr. Bartlett, Mr. 11. 13. Stanton, Mr.
Hitchcock, 2.1 r, IVevinan, Nlr. Bowman,
Mr. Comstock, Mr. Knox, Dr. Wood, and
especially that lively gentleman, Mr. Amos
J. Cu nuning,s, the managing editor.
In the Timex, now under the general
management and control of Mr. George
Jones, one of the largest proprietors, are
Mr. Sheppard, manager, Mr. flacon, Mr.
1,. J. Jennings Mr. S. M. Chamberlain,
late of the liutialo r. J. 'l'.
Thompson, Mr. 11. W. Raymond, Mr. Sin
clair.
The I ferrild, for some time under the
general charge of Mr. T. D. Putnam, has
nu its stall Dr. Wallaee, Captain I.vons,Mr.
llosmer, Mr. 'ha,. Mr. Phillips, Mr. (lien,
Mr. Smythe, Mr. Leaning., and others.
We have this week a tirst-elasssensation.
furnished at the expense of a "strong
minded" girl, svhoo, clad in the garb of a
clever boy of seventeen, made application,
some three years ago to Mr. TiIOIIIILS Cook,
living some miles out of the village, for a
situation on his farm. He was received on
trial, and, having shown hit noel!' to lop a
first-class hand, was hired for a year. The
time having expired, he seas re-employed,
and continued to be kept in the service of
:11r. Cook until the startling discovery, a
few weeks ago, proved the "boy" to be a
"girl." Of course this brought !natters to a
focus, and Mr. Cook settled with the "girl
boy," and she departed for parts unk mown.
Before leaving she purchased a genteel suit
of clothes, and, when dressed in them,look
ed not only the "nice young man," but the
scrupulous dandy. We have not learned
much respecting her history. Her name, it
appears, is Kato Danly, and canoe to this
State from Wisconsin. She called herself
Jemmi• Hart. She has been wearing the
garb of a man for five years, and according
to her own story worked at the Sherman
House, Chicago, for about two years as
"waiter boy." She has enjoyed quite a
reputation for her intelligence, and parties
who had worked with her in the field speak
of tier as being a very moral and religious
person.
As a reason for assuming this strange
disguise, she said she had a mother depend
ing upon her for support, and failing to
get a position as "school mann," and the
amount usually paid to girls of "all work"
being inadequate to support her and her
mother, and having a good knowledge of
farm work, she disguised her sex, in order
to get a proper compensation for her labor.
—Chicago (Ill.) Herald.
Negro Aapiranto In Philadelphia.
In many of the heavy Radical wards of
this city negroes will be placed in nomina
tion by the dominant party for School
Directors. This is intended as an opening
wedge for the introduction of negroes into
the publicsehools,an issue which white men
will have to meet. Negroes are not con tent
to have their rights apart from those of
white men. They aro determined to force
amalgamation in the cars—the schools—in
hotels, opera-houses, theatres, and all other
places where men "most do congregate."
They are egged on to this course by the
Radical leaders, who hope to profit by the
excitement created. In this they will be
disappointed, for white men will take care
of their rights and protect their children
from the outrage intended' by quiet but ef
tual means—the ballot.—Age.
NUILBER 19
Singular Trial of a Clergy
A singular trial of a clergyman has been
going on in New-York. Rev. C. 13. Smyth.
minister and pastor of the Eleventh Street
United Presbyterian Church was arraigned
before the First United Presbyterian Pres
bytery of Now York, in the Smyrna Welsh
Church, Eleventh street, near Third ave.,
the Rev. Dr. Findley, Moderator, and Pr.
Armstrong, Secretary. The prosecutors
in the case were Messrs. John Rosbarough
and Harman C. Henderson. They charge
that, according to an article published in
the New York Sus of Monday, April 11,
the accused, on Sabbath, April 10, is guilty
of the following misdemeanors :
First, After he had finished the sermon
he called together the six reporters who
were present and asked them to take some
refreshments.
Second, That then he hod them to a wol
known liquor and refroshment saloon in
the avenuo noar by.
Third, That they pussed in by the private
door.
?earth, That beefsteak and oyaterii hay
ing been ordered, ho turned to the roport
ore and asked theta what they would drink
Fifth, That their orders - having been
given, he himself requested the barkeeper
to bring him some of the same.
, Si.st/i, That this turned out to be gin and
milk, of the former of which liquids he took
live fingers.
,Yeventh, That he swallowed the , lase with
evident relish.
Eighth, That the viands having been dis
posed of, all arose to leave. and Mr. Smyth
turned to the barkeeper, carelessly re
questing him to " hang that up."
The prosecution think that the facts
mentioned In the foregoing allegations in
volve a breach of the r.urth emumandment,
as contained in Exodus, xx., S, 11, and if
they prove to be true, Mr. Smyth ought to
be censured. The Rev. Mr. Smyth, man
answer to the above cause of complaint,
says that the complaint, in the language in
which it is fran.tga, is untrue in every par
ticular, and requests the Presbytery to pass
judgment upon them as they appear in the
daily newspapers, on which the AS.111111:011!
is based, and to acquit 16111"i:ill the elidrges
in full. But the defendant further says,
that after the church on Salilaith, the 11111,
day of April, 1870, he weld Put respectable
hotel on Broadway, ate n heorsteak, Slllllll , l
SlllllO gin nod mith, cif the former of which
liquids he took about six teaspoonfuls,
according to the hest of his recollections,
and a pit of liliwk that on the
same occasion there were two gentler en
with him, members of the press, both of
whom took a plate of oysters r.tw eaelidithl
cite of them a glass of ale, the other same
gin and milk—the saute in quantity as that
which the defendant took ; that it being the
Sabbath day, dui . ..lid:nit dill col pay the
bill then, but requested tho ea-dtier to wake
a note of the amount, and 111.6 , nd:int called
and paid the bill the next day; that he rt•
sides four wiles front his ; (11. IL he
cannot go for his !mit , and g'cl
back in time to attend to his duties, vl.l
al
ter a very busy week he felt vfiry min•li in
need of such a lunch, as to his
vonipany with hint on who oct-asion, he be
lieves that when the attendant eireitin
stances shall be shown icy the witnesses,
the Presbytery will ciiiistiler them suffi
ciently extenuating to render that part ex
cusable, and hopes and respectfully re
quests that accordingly no c,11,4111"0 s11:111
be passed 111,011
Two reporters testified that they had
to the Church of Mr. Smyth to get notes of
his sermon, and that ho wcat to a resiasta
ble place to take some lunch, inviting them
to go with him, 11,1 look over his 111:11111-
geript in the meantime. They went. He
asked them to call for Wilat, refreshments
they one Of tlww called for oys
ters and a glass of ale. Mr. Smyth took
something to eat, and drink some gin with
milk in it, the iferadfl reporter taking toe
saute beverage as a rally. The ease was
submitted to the authorities for a decision
which has not been rendered yet.
The Tariff Debate---Lobbyint, on the
Floor--Interested 31entberm Voting'.
WASIIINOTON, 7%fay a.—There was a
sharp contest in the Ibiuse to-day Over the
Bessemer sheet section of the Tariff bill.
Next to pig iron, no paragraph of the bill
has met with such vigorous opposition or
has been defended with greater pluck and
pertinacity. There has been a quiet, but
powerful lobby at work here for some
weeks in the interest of the half dozen Bes
semer steel manufactories in the country,
anxiously awaiting the action of the llouse
on the recommendations made regarding
it by the Ways anti M riots Committee.
John A. Griswold, of Troy, has been the
must active agent, and undoubtedly the
most useful on areount of his extensive a t
quaintame with members, and hie privi
leges as an ex-inentber of the House.
\Vhile the discussion was in progress to
day Mr. Griswold was upon the fluor of
the House. Eldridge, of v, isem,sim made
the point of order that parties meaning
Griswold) interested in the paragraph under
' consideration were upon the floor of the
Douse acting as lobbyists, and he insisted
that they should be removed by the tw
forcement of the rules. The chairman, Mr.
Wheeler, of New York, decided that this
was a question of privilege and Out such
questions should not be raised while the
House was in Committee ortim Whole. So
Mr. Griswold wasallowed to remain on the
floor. Mr. ('ox, of New York, tootle the
point just before the vote was taken on the
paragraph and amendments, that there
were certain members ,if the House per
interested in the matter and that
they should not be unused to vote. The
Chair said the mein hers interested must be
named by the gentleman making the charge,
whereupon half a dozen nunnbers of the
Democratic side called out Mr. Morrell, of
Pennsylvania. Mr. Cox called hir the
reading of the twenty-ninth rule of the
liouse, which says, " No member shall vote
on any question in the event of which he is
immediately and particularly interested. "
The rule was read by the Clerk, but it did
not seem to have any effect twin Mr. Mor
rell, for he voted every Dine with the other
members. Morrell is the sliperinteinient
:11141 part owner of the l'anLhria Iron \l"gal.
at Johnst o wn, Pa. The Colliniittee Vine
and Means, in their bill, tlxe,l the duty on
Bessemer steel rails at thniars
per ton. The present chilly is tarty-live per
cent rni valur,e, or :Wont twenty-t,o
allars a ton. An clrort was made to lix it
at thirty dollars a ton, but this failed, titel
Med uty was final ly settled at t dol
lars at ton, which is highly f.r , ,to , tive. con
sidering that there tire Only .ix
in the United states Yho maim the Besse
mer rails. The vote t• witty v.:ts a deci , l,l
victory for the Monopolists. It is ~t.lnaled
Hutt it Will Inc worth at least
them for the next three p.m's.
Suicide In nerkni Conn! y
Reuben Mull, a resident of Sinking
Spring and Supervisor of Spring towuNhip,
Lierks 00. , CI,IIIIIIiLLOII .at M.ll,laV
afternoon, the 2d inst., I,v hanging liiinsea.
The particulars are as
Ile had a number of men under br,
elm . rge at the time, repair tho "Reed - or
"Bern - road. About .1 o'clock P. M. Mr.
Mull stated to his men that he would leave
them to look up some men with teams t'
assist on the road the next day. I the should
not return by the time they ceased work
for the day, they should take his horse
home with diem to Sinking Spring, the
horse at the time being in Anthony LlM
nershita s stable, close hy. After the men
stopped work, Mr. Mull not haying re
turned, they went to the stable and took
away the horse, noticing however, that the
hitching strap was gone. Supervisor
not making his appearance at home in
the evening, some of the. Sinking Spring
men started out to look for hits. They re
turned to Mr. Ilinnershita's lawn, searched
through it and found Mull's body hanging
by the hitching strap to a rafter in the hay
loft. His hat and coat were inn a beam Hose
by, on which he had stood to adjust the
strap, and from which he evidently swung
himself. His feet [welled the hay beneath
him, and it is supposed if he last stood
erect the tension would not have been suf
ficient to produce strasgulation. The body
was founffiabout half past is o'clock, and it
was taken to Sinking Spring next morning
after the holding of an inquest over it. Mr.
Mull was a man about 5 . 2 years of age, anil
leaves a wife and one child, a daughter. Ire
had married the second time but last year.
The cause of this self-destruction is sup
posed to he recent monetary losses, but it is
said that he had sullivient left to live inde
pendently the remainder of his life.
A Female Reporter
As ladies who go out of their "sphere"
expect to he criticised, and are not afraid to
see themselves as others see thorn, there
can be no harm in transferring the follow
ing pen-picture of ii . female reporter, who
was recently in professional attendance at a
woman suffrage convention in Dayton,
Ohio:
"Miss Sallie M. Joy represented the Bos
ton Po ol. She distinguished herself by her
generally independent, don't-care-a-cent
air, and by the number of books she car
ried under her arm and kept on her table.
She walks with something of a masculine
stride, and always carries a pencil in her
hand. She has the:Bostonic affection for
eye-glasses, wears a sailor hat and dresses
neatly, but plainly. As she is nut pre-em
inently 'a thing of beauty,' I should think
her chances of remaining 'a Joy forever'
are good.
The photographer might have refrained
from throwing "ffuff last brick.''
Mr. Mackey 's Treasury Account
The Philadelphia:Ledger says:
" Mr. Mackey, the late State Treasurer,
surrendered his keys on Monday, and turn
ed over to his successor $I 765,000 cu,yk.
Tho whole amount was in funds in bank, to
the credit of the State, and not a dollar of
due bills or checks, or any other class of
paper, heretofore covered up at such times
under the convenient title of "vault ac
count." When Mr. Mackey took 'posses
sion of the Treasury he received $.211,000 of
this "accommodation paper." lio now re
turns a "clean Treasury," and we hope it
will be kept so.
111 33311•01=
ill'SiNnis ADT EnTIAKIVIE:YM, $l2 n year par
agar° of ton lint.; SR per year for each addi
tional square. , .
,
RYA ESTArn AID VEITUSING, 10 rents it line for
the first, and 3 Cents for each subsequent. In
insertion.
riEll ERA L A 111'ICI:T IST NO. 7 Cents ft lino for the
first, and 4 cents fur each subsequent Inver
t
11141 CIA I. StITICE4 Inserted In Local Columns
1d) Ceti tai p, r 11110.
SPECIAL Norrees preceding man-WW 2 nll
deaths, 10 ecaLs tier line for (trot irnertionf
and 5 cents tor every mulisequent imiertlon.
LECAL AND OTHER NoTicE2:--
Executors' notices 2 IA
Administrators' note, 2 ;i0
A.ssil2nces' notices . 2ri i
Auditors' notices 2 W
Other' Notices," ten lines, or lii;,,
, three times ............ ...---... ..... . ..... I ',O
Inauguration of Governor E0g11411.-41is
Message to the Legislature.
NEW IlAvEs, May d.—Gov. English was
inaugurated as Governor of tile State this
afternoon. A largo assemblage was present
at the ceremonies. Tbo Governor commu
nicated his message to the Legislature, as
suming the duties of his °Mee with a pro
found sense of gratitude and a desire to co
operate in whatever legislation the public
interests shall demand. As the past year
has not been marked with evils specially
calling for legislation, he supposes the term
of the session will be short. Ito recent
mends that the necessary steps lie taken
fur calling a convention at the earliest day
practicable for a revision of the State con
stitution. This lie considers neetxxsary as
well as expedient ir the state detcrolbacs to
facilitate by any net of its own the operation
of the Fifteenth Amendment. The right to
vote, is a constitutional privilege in Con
neetieut, and the qualifications of in oho.-
tor lire preseribed by the State Constitutien
and the general assembly has no now,r
over the subject. That instrument, as it
now stands, prescribes no qualiticatiens
for any other than the white citizen. .t o
the general assembly has no pow o r t o
make a white citizen On elector of this
Sunni, the Gov critic is unable to see how the
requisite qualifications are to bo provided
for the citizens not white, except by a con
stitutional provision. 'Julius:Moiling to the ,
sec:1110,1 Fliteentli Atileintillent loth° Fed
eral. Constitution how:isnot insensible to the
circnilishatices or its adOptioniniproelann
ed by the President of the United Slates.
'no , tact is notorious t h at its claimed ratifi
cation liv several of the Mates enumerate.l
among these requisite for its adoption was
accomplished by Weans of chicanery told
Barge which would properly vitiate and
eontrinit between our citizens. In its ob.
jeet and etfeet, too, it is revolutionary of
that system of government which recogni
zes local self-government as necessary to
the stability and indispensable to practical
working republican institutions. By the
',ewer of appr,v.to legislation Which it
_ices to l'oinzicss it coinillitm to absolute
.-entrel el the general government the right
voo• ot 1,1,y ,L,lll`, and mockeries of
Inch hate tt 101111 the past ICNV
bl,ll in Ile' StIllt111•111 Stales
under the havellet, of the general govern
ment is a sildielent 1,)111111011tAry 1111011 010
y t 4, suet an important
poxver. Itnl till the l'ortas or law in tho
mL,ptl itol thi. amendment littve been com
plied wltil and It !won oilitiallyproclaitti
t•,l n., aii it, tegratk , t rill at ,tt tilt,
11. n. If the ,ILtto Lr4i.,lntnro ruuld by ally
constitutional not of its otcn prevent this
deprivation dile- right INAitch, ever min,.
its foundation as a Commonwealth it has
at all times proclaimed, and would not rr
liy I Ile cede lit' its
the right to manage her int^real ail l airu, I
should not hesitate to re,1111111,11,1 if far
your ad.iption. lint I kir ovof novc av in
which this eatali.• Thr,
is i5 , u4•1 . 1..5. , tor that purpose, but nearly
tuo eenture , of it. people should treasure
in their h. all , liege tree
the limn Will surely
it. Wil ;is tine salr
quurd the roptildir.
Ile rissitninends that the Legislature ex
press its opinion 11,r its iullururo 11110111110
1 . 01/I`SlilltilllVl'V . iii . the States iu ( l ongress
that a general tunnesty for politioal otlbunrs
should he forthwith proelaiined. linan
vial condition of the State continues to Ik.•
in it high degree encouraging. Intring the
past Ole lauded dolt has boon reduced
Tile entire liabilities of tile si“te
1.1101 , 1111111 . 11,111011 i of th, prt•sent
vear are $6,727,406 till. Ile recommended
that the arrunUvs of the State ' treasurer le
inerea.cil and his orliee removed to the
Capitol in order to protect against defalca
tion. ' rho liovernor then promeded in de
tail to consider the institutions of the:it:lto.
Cigar. by 3lnclalnery
The nimble lingers and the dexterous
hand have hitherto born held the only tools
1. , 1 wrap and shape t4,1,.•11, haves int,o the
orthodox form of the cigar. But just as it
was limnd that lingers were not tho most
economical nianipu Lams of the sewing
needle, so is it new dawning upon the, fab
ricators of choice I lavanas that human
digits may be profitably superseded liv
mechanism for "bunching," "binding,"
and "wrapping" the cigars. Eighteen dol
lars a thousand is a long price to pay for
mere labor ; and we are told that that is
about the cost of making prime cigars, to
say nothing or the lax upon the master
inanufaeturer inflicted by his hands, who
each smoke sonic eight or ten of the host
weeds per diem. No wonder machinery
should be thought of! It is rather:surpris-
Mg its aid was not invoked long ago; but
its time has come, and a cigar machine
company has started with a flourish in
New York. Tlo, implement they manu
facture has been reduced to its present
state of compactness and practicability by
the combined agency of seven simplify pug
patents, Its essential parts are two pairs
of parallel rollers, arranged ono pair over
the other, and with their surfaces helloweil
to a concavity corresponding to the desired
outline of the cigar to be formed. These
rollers are set rotating by a little wheel,-
work, driven by a treadle, like a Hewing
machine; and when a bunch of telniceo
leaf is placed between them it is rapidly
turned and pressed into the proper spinalo
l'orm. A strip of fine strong leaf is then
gummed along one edge and inserted at ono
end of the machine ; this is instantly coiled
round the shaped 111:444 of leaves and twist
-141 tOn point, and the cigar is finished. A
girl, after proper training, can thus turn
out fifteen hundred cigars a day. Accord
ing to the above quoted rest for hand
mak ing, there ought to be a saving of some
thing like three shillings on a hundred.
This is good news for smokers, at all events.
—.Yot s rilay Re 1,11 y loaf.
Shocking . and rntal Accident
The Reading Macs and Dispatch says:
in Saturday afternoon lust a number of
workmen in the employ of the Heading
Railroad Company wereputting up ono of
the iron frames Or girders, at the new
Midge, on North Sixth street, a sleeking
iatal accident iieeurred. The workmen
IN erg' , 1“11 I rig nisei a scull Id, and the gir
ders were being gnalually put in place,
when one of the ropes slackened, and the
immense eight tell upon Eli Nagle, throw-
I no; him against a pile el' logs, and crushing,
his back hone, and also breaking °noel' his
thighs. I filer a weight of possibly thirty
thonsittel„ polled, lei was compelled to lie
ten or linicen min ores before it could be re
moved, Which hail to his done by jack
sorties. r John Devore, of Phounixville,
:tootle, of the workm,n, bad ono of Iris
11•Lis slightly bruised, After Nagle was
rescued from his perilous position, the
i..wer part or his body Waii forma hanging
to the upper by the mere skin, and yet in
this horrible condition he lived for an hour
and a Milli Ile waS taken to it room in ten
upper depot, and from th mee conveyed to
the Dispensary, where he died just after
being carried into the building. Ills body
was taken the same evening to PiALstown,
where he resided. Mr. Nagle was about
years iilage, and leaves a wife and throe
i•lublren to mcourn his sudden and terrible
death.
Telegraph fable.. Iletrreen California
The bill lately presented in the House of
Representatives Our an ocean cable between
New York .ind Holland, under a conces
sion granted by the King of Holland, ()e
-mber, ISO4I, provides that it shall be con
tinued from New York by wires over the
eontinent of America, and IT cable from
the Pindlie coast to China am Japan ; 310,-
iroe,001) e/dit bowls to be issued
for wires :intl cables front Europe to
the Pacific coast; $10,111X1,1100 for cables
from the Pay nie coast to Asia; the bonds
soured on the wires, cables mid property
of the company; the government to use the
wires and cables of the company ono hour
each day wi Limit t eliarge, and the addition
al bourn, if needed, at half ale tariff rates.
'Me bill to incorporate the Pacific Sub-ma
rine Telegraph Company anti to facilitate
telegraph coot lIIU nil,tillll between A meri
ea :toil Asia meets NV lilt 1111/Ch favor. No
opposition has yet been expressed against.
it. Week after next Mr. Cyrus N. Field
will return to Washington to give informa
tion on the subject before several of the
committees.
Annulling Terryoriull.nulg:--The Union
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The Senate has passed the bill annulling
the Territorial laws of Wyoming. under
which the present court of that 'territory
assumes jurisdiction to appoint a receiver
of the Union Pacific Railroad in the suit of
James W. Davis for tics furnished the road.
This action was in consequence of the in
formation just received from elloyenne,
that Judge Howe proposes to order a
receiver unless the company pay the
suns demanded, or deposit in court WO,-
Ono as security for any judgment that Davis
may recoAer. Tho company refuse to make
the deposit, claiming that they do not owe
Davis and, even if they did, no such-pro
ceeding could be legal until a judgment be
first obtained in the usual form; and they
have given orders to their superintendent
to stop the running of the road if the Court
shall undertake to put a receiver in pos
session.
Comditutionoights l Conventi on. Adopted.—The Bill or
B
Svnisormi.o, April 30.—The Constitu
tional Convention has adopted the Bill of
Bights. thie of its provisions is that no
person shall be compelled to attend any
ministry or place of worship, or to contrib
ute to the support of the same, and that the
General Assembly sha ll provide Boum meas
ure by which persons, conscientiously ob
serving the seventh day of the week, or the
Sabbath, may be exempted from answering
any civil process on that day.
Another section provides that an action
for libel shall not lie whero the truth is
published as fact or sentiment without bad
motives.
Another section provides that grand
juries shall not be empanneled and the
Legislature is empowered to abolish grand
juries in all the courts.