THE OPEN POLAR SEA. WHAT A BAII.OR WHO IIAB BRBX THKRK HAYS. Captain A. B. Tuttlo, who claims to have had u longer ami more varied experience us a seaman than almost any man now living, is in Washing ton to negotiate with the government for a small steamer, to assist in his further explorations in Arctic Seas. Captain Tuttle is a native of New- York, but at the ago of sixteen ran away from his parents and went to sea, and has ever since, soiuo thirty-five venrs, been n seafaring man. Ho has been all over the globe, he says, and has sailed in every sea, and has made twenty voyages to the Arctic regions. Since bis early manhood he bus been enptaiu of wlmliug and surveying ■hips. One of the things tout par ticularly attracted his attention in sail ing northward was that he found the sea more and more open, especially every fourth year. He made his lust trip about a year ago, starting from Hakodado, Japan, in a full-rigged ship, with forty-five men all told. In latitude 7H he found an o]>cu sea clear of ice. In latitude N1 lie no ticed an extraordinary dip of the compass, und on taking soundings dis covered the cause of it to be immense lodes of a magnetic substance in five fathoms of water. It was mixed with minerals and fine particles of gold. In latitude 82 he encountered the ice belt, grounded under the water, and extended in height in some places over 400 feet. It stretched east and west as far us the eye can reach, llere he discovered that the needle pointed due south, and in his own mind concluded that the magnetic deposit he hud pass ed hal some connection with the di rection in which the needle usually pointed. By climbing to the highest points on the icy harrier he could see directly into an open polar sea lying beyond, and by tracing along the belt castwardlv he found a passage through into this sea, with a depth of 00 fa thoms, or 540 feet. The water was quite warm, and a gulf stream was steadily setting out with a velocity of from four to six miles per hour. He pulled through this passago in whale boats, and found it to be about eigh teen miles wide. Iu the north part of this open sen he found nearly fresh leaves of plan tains, bananas and other tropical plants floating on the water, and show ing that they had been ofT the trees but a short time. I-aet October he found u large female whale going north through the oj>en passage IK- fore men tioned, and also saw migratory birds going north. In July these birds went back south with their young, and about the same time, he observed whales going south with their young. From these facts ho concludes that during a consideiable part of tbe year there is a warm climate within the open polar sea sufficient to produce tropical fruits. In the ice harriers on one of his trips he found bones and tusks of the mastodon, which in 1476, he carried to the Centennial at Phila delphia. They were so large that some naturalists thought that the ani mal to which they belonged must have been forty feet in length. He also found some hard wood in the shajs? of troughs imbedded in the ice. They looked like feeding troughs, and the edges had the appearance of having been gnawed by animals. In sailing west he struck the north part of the coast of New Liberia, where he found a race of people that he thought no one had ever seen be fore or heard of. Thev spoke an un known language which sounded like Hebrew. They spoke a few words of Hawaiian aud the Esquimaux langu age, and with these and the aid of signs they conveyed the idea that they came from the north. He was a little acquinted with the Esquimaux langu age, having passed four winters with that people, living on raw walrus, whale blubber ami bear meat. Du ring one of these winters, which are without daylight, he made a journey of three hundred and eighty miles in the dark. During his adventurous terror he has met with many disasters, the most serious of which was an encounter with a polar bear. He had both arms and both legs broken, aud lost one finger off his left hand, another being so badly lacerated by the teeth of the animal that it is sadly out of sha|ie. He also lost two ribs, which wen* com pletely torn from bis body, which near* the marks of wounds which it seems almost incredible that any mr.n could receive and live. The polar bears attain an incredible size, some being reported to weigh as much as three thousand pound*. He contem plates making another trip to further explore the open polar sea, but needs a small steamer for towing purposes, which he hopes to obtain from tho government He proposes to start some time in 1850. A COLORKD firm recently dissolved partnership and posted the following notice to tM public; "De dissolution of copartnerships benttofb resisted lie twix me and Muses Jones, in de bar ber profession am heretofb dissolved. Pumuds who owe must pay to the sub scriber. Pern what de firm ose must eail on Jones, as de firm am involved. Labor without ceasing to do all the good in your power, while time is al lowed you, for the night will come ■ when DO man can work. A PLEA FOR TIIE TUOt'T. fivmlha Altoona Trltiuim. We noticed yesterday that Repre sentative (lilland had ottered in the House n supplement to gatno laws re lating to elk and deer. Wo wish either he or Mr. Hewit would go a step further und amend the law so for as it relates to the catching of brook trout. The indiscriminate slaughter that nnnually takes place of this gamy fish, without respect to size, calls for some repressive legislation. There ure a- class of fish pirates—it would be a libel to call them sportsmen —who fish for numbers rather than quality. They do not regard any person their equul in the manipulation of the rod and line, unless he can surpass them in the capture of ten or fifteen dozen of troutlets, ranging from one to four inches in iength, though the real sportsman may succeed in capturing from six to a dozen that will weigh more than the pirates whole basket of minnows. There is more real pleas ure in taking a twelve inch trout than, as one puts it, "there is iu creeping through the bushy little side streams, fishing with a microscope book, and bringing in a gross or two of small fry, averaging a half ounce in weight apiece." The true sportsmnn deplores this sort of pot fishing, this invasion of "the precincts, the cradles of the inno cents," who arc to keep up the supply iu the streams to which trout nre in digenous. It is a monstrous and wick ed waste, for what would in two or three years be a hundred weight of trout is now crowded into a day's sport. It is useless for our Fish Commis sion to stock streams with trout, unless thev at the same time throw around the small fry some adequate legal pro tcctiou. \\ by not put the same re striction iu regard to size on the catch ing of trout that there is on black bass? The law forbids the killing of bass less than six inches in length. Why should not the same restriction i lie applied to that much hotter fish, trout ? The headwaters of many of our streams swarm with the small fry. They remain in the locality where they : were spawned until after a certain age, when they seek the lower and deeper i waters of the run, creek or the river, if they can get there. The upper waters of trout streams are the nurs eries, and they should scarcely ever be invaded. lauU season the writer trnmp id several miles up one of our trading trout streams, only to find the waters inhabited by numbers of small fry. The numlier captured, fit to grace a sportsman's creel, was so insignificant as to afford no adequate reward for the toil and worry over rooks and logs, ami through the thick undergrowth. This has been his experience on sev eral occasions, and will not lie reprat ed. However, it is a glorious field for fish pirates, who revel in quantity, no matter if that quantity is reduced to pulp when traii|N>rUd home, ami then thrown awav. "Oh, I caught twelve dozen" is the pride of such fishermen, ami satisfies all demands ami ques tions. A* Mr. Hcwit is a member of the Fish Commission we trust ho will take this matter in hand at once, and have the law co amended as will limit the size of the fish killed, and also the length of the trout season. Long ex [>enencc and close observation of the inbits of brook trout, convince u* that the law should forbid their capture after the 15th of June. The destruc tion after this period amounts almost to annihilation. From the 15th of March to the Ist of June would be an excellent limitation, affording a pro tection which would, in connection with the penalty of live dollars for killing trout under six inches in length, be a vast help to the Fish Commission in replenishing our now almost depop ulated streams of this species of the finny tribe. Unless some such restric tive legislation is enacted, wc regard all efforts to stock the streams of this State with brook trout as a piece of foolishness and so much time and money thrown away. We hnve Urged this matter upon the attention of the Legislature for several years past, and we hope Mr. ilewit will embrace this opportunity to give these views prac tical effect, and in doing so we feel sure he will receive the thanks of every genuine troutist in the State. They will prove a heavy blow to the pirates that infest the waters of the Commonwealth, while it will prove a lasting benefit to the great majority of our citizens. HOW HAYES "8CBIXP8." II J. R Is lh. Phlll>lpliU Tim#*. Mr. Hnycs receives an annual salarp of 150,000 —a good round income, it must lie confessed. There is no way of finding out all of his pickings or allowances, hut some of them I am able to mention. In the first place, ho gets his house rent and furniture free. Not a curtain or chair, or blanket or nankin, or towel does be have to buy. All bis fuel is furnished by the Gov ernment, and not a cent does he have to pav for gas. His vegetables are raise*] in the public gardens by a gar dener paid by the Government. His steward is paid by the Government, and so are his cooks and his coachman. How many other servants our good Government pays for I do not know, but, so far as I can see, Mr. Hayes' only expenses iu the White House are for meats and groceries. Even his doctor and medicine are paid for by the Government, Even hie beef cornea from tho Government butcher, and he pays only the cost price which the Government paid on the hoof. In other words, the Government buys an ox alive for beef, paying, say four cents a pound. The President gets the IHH*f at the same rate, and so the White House table is supplied with sirloiu steak, tenderloin steak, porter house steak and rib roasts for four cents per pound, while the depurtnicut clerk, on $1,200 a year, pays from fifteen to twenty cents per pound for his lieef. The President does not buy wine or liquors—how economical tcm perunce is! Wines have always been a big item in the White House, for it was never conducted on temperance principles before. Wines being out of the question and nil the advantages counted, will any head of a household who is accustomed to good living tell me that it costs Mr. Hayes more than $10,(100 a year to live? If the family is charitable I have not heard of it. True, a bouquet of flowers is occasion ally sent to a fair or hospital, hut, bless you, the flowers were raised in n Government conservatory cared for by a Government florist. Even in the summer time flic President |>nys no house rent, but lives in n house be longing to the old soldiers of the country and supported by contribu tions from the soldiers in the regular army. TIIE "PINAFORE" ANALYZED. REFLECTIONS BY ONE "WHO WAS THERE," AND LEPT-HANDED CRITICISM. From th tVijlrvUma Democrat. !!* jroti eff (MB * Uttrops?i X, never. U bftC N-vrr? Well, hardly sv#r. We have lx-on to see the "Pinafore," that charming little ojs-ra which ha* been drawing such magnificent audi ences at the Hroad Street Theatre, Philadelphia. We were charmed, of course. No one could follow the sparkling music without being more limn pleased, while the changing character of the plav is of the highest interest for such a simple little thing. Kupjiose we follow the play, and try to discover the secret of the unparalleled success which has greeted this opera. The. curtin rolls up. and discovers twenty-two sailors of the good ship "Pinafore" engnged in cleaning up the deck, burnishing brasses, splicing ropes, etc., while in a moment thev burst into a sailor's chorus "We're sober men and true, and attentive to our duty," etc. "Little Buttercup," comes to the front, armed with an im mense basket, filled with all sorts of provisions suitable for sailors, "ltnlph Ilackstraw," a fine young sail or lad, sings of his hopeless love fyr "Josephine," the captain's daughter, and "Sir Joseph Porter, K. it., the ruler of the (Queen's Navee," makes hi# appearance in a Imrgc manned by twelve trusty sailors ami attended by his "sisters and his cousins and his aunts." Among these is the leautiful "Cousin Hebe," who ha# set all Phila delphia wild about her surpassing lieautv. The admiral compel# the captain to sav, "if you please" to his men, and calls him to tak for Using one profane word. Thia profane word i# wrung from the captain by discov ering that Josephine and Ralph are preparing to elope. The admiral or ders Ralph in chnins and the captain to retire to his cabin in disgrace, when "Little Buttercup" ap|>enr* on the scene and complicates matters bcauti fully by the relation of the following story: Many years ago, when she was young and charming, she had practised liaby farming, which we must know was m<#t alarming. Two tender ba lnea she nursed, one being of low con dition, and one of tipper crust, a regu lar patrician. Now these two bnhic* she mixed ami not a creature knew iL However she could do it, we do not know, but the complications are mani fest when she announces that the high Imrn lad was Ralph, and the captain was he other. Thi# complication eventuates in the changelings again resuming proper places, Ralph, as •-aptain of the "Pinafore," and the former captain, a member of the crow. Cousin Hclie takes charge of the admiral, Josephine and her cajv tain mate, while the former captain takes Little Buttercup and promises "never to lie untrue to thee. What, never? No, never. What, never? Well, hardly ever." Now, all this is given by a chorus of fifty voices, male and female, nml is highly captivating. It* many change* of tone, tune, music and senti ment, together with the perfect purity of the play, have made it the musical succem of the season. It i* safe to say that thousands who have never been inside a theatre before, have attended this opera since it* introduction in Philadelphia. Ministers and church member* have recommended it highly, and why ? It* perfect purity is the only reason which can be given. The people of Philadelphia, and the country round about know a good thing when they see it, aud, knowing, dare appreciate. But there are sora6 features in the plot, which to us appear funnily twist ed. For instance, the absurdity of an admiral teaching a ship's crew how to dance a hornpipe; the idea of said admiral ordering a captain to say "If you please" to his disciplined y IUv.J. MlLTu* tr.fK, l>mfnrv tho Will Ifuw O-uilMiiy, of Danville, r* Ami right hero let me s|K>ak of a terrildo sin that is so common, that the public conscience seems perfectly blunted to its wickedness. Let me speak of it kindly, und because I can not, I dare not, pass by the opportuni ty, for your nukes. If there is a God Who is Almighty, Who has written Ten Commandments for man's obedience, Who has mark ed one of those com mandinents with a peculiar and terrible emiiliaj-is, what can we think of those who seem by Satan's help to select that one com mandment and break it with almost every breath tlicy draw! Men who would not, dare not, ste al or murder, yet in ordinary conversation, with and without excitement will blaspheme God's holy name ami call down lib curse upon their fellows. "Thou eh alt no I take the Xante of the J/ord thy (tod in rain : for the. Lord will not hold him yuiltlese that taketh hie Xante in vain." I know that men do not know what they are doing in this sin of profanity. It is an ignorant defiance of Heaven ! It is something fearful to hear the pro funity in these streets: curses lisped out by infant lips, and the Almighty's Name and His curse mouthed out. by young and old, rich and poor, high nml low, men and women ! It is Itor- rib!'-, to those who are trying to be Christians. The least and lowest view of it if, that it if iuteuw ly vulgar: ac cording to (lie Bible it is sinful pre sumption and impious before (iod! I And methinks it haf put 011 a new form of late yeans ; because theHacrcd ] Nnrne seems to le jsartieularly the ! Name to IK; profaned—" the Same of Jem*," at which the Divine word tells i us; sooner or later, "even/ knee shoull bow, of thing* in Heaven, and thing* in hsirth, and thing* under the Earth." (Phil. 11, 10.) i'here seems j to be a new and dreadful intensity to this profanity, which so far as we know was not always beard, by this use of the Saviour's Name. 1 have thought it might be a part ami parcel of Satan's peculiar work for just those times. I localise, the iwculiar form of the infidelity and false teaching of this day is the intention to put down the written word of God or the liihle, and to Isdittle the attributes of the Living Word, Jesus Christ, Who is thought also to IK- the personified Wis dom of the Old Testament. 80 it may Ik' that Satan uses now men's profanity i in this peculiar shocking form, to make the .Sacred Name to seem leas holy in men's sight. If wo hear it every day amid cursing and vulgarity, how does it sound to the same cars in hymns, ami the praise* of the Sanctuary. Young men, I beg of you, do not, for the sake of that dear Saviour Who hung upon the bloody Cross for your souls; Who will judge your aouls at the last day, do not take (iod'* holy Name nor the Name of His Only Son upon your lip* in vain. It is to lie feared the drunkard*, Uie whore-mon ger*, the idolalor*, and the munierer* are not more sure to Ik* cast out of the Kternal Kingdom of (iod than they *rho take Hod'* Same in rain ! It is a sin without a temptation or advantage ; it i* Saian'i empty hook, at which hu manity seems to bite with insane wil i liugnew! A ROMAMT, (IF PEARLS. 1 tssdn lM ukl W.t.r I will tell you a circumstance that i happened twenty-five or thirty years ago, when I was residing in (Calcutta. | One morning our friend, the late I)r. Yaw, Surgeon of the 1 loyal Army, | brought to my husband," Dr. John (iraut, a Im>x containing twelve or ; thirteen pearls of various sizos, saying: : "Grant, you arc a well-known man in I Calcutta, and I want you to hear the curious account of these jiearls and to take charge of the box ami let me J know any change that you may aee in • thent. Their history is as follows: About forty years ago a lady at Am boytta gave a pearl to each of two sisters, saying, 'These are breeding pearls: take g'ssl care of them; never touch them with the hand, as heat in jures them, and feed them on rice.' One of these sisters has just come U Calcutta, and she ha* I cut the box to me to show you. In the forty years she has had it this is the result twelve or thirteen young ones." The box was opened and there lay on the cotton the mother peart. A rather large but ill-shaped individual. The eldest daughter, as I called it, was a lovely pearl about the site that jewel ers generally set three in a ring. The others were perfect in shape, but gradually decreased in sise; two very small ones 1 called the twins, as they stuck to-gether, and the last was a wee seed pearl. According to instructions, rice was put into the box, which was locked in a secret drawer in the cabnet, of which my husband alone had the key. Af ter some days we opened the box, and to our astonishment we found that every grain of rice bad been nibbled. I cannot think of a better word. How nibbled I cannot imagine, hut that one fact I can vouch for. A few day* later we had lo leave (Calcutta. The box wan returned to Dr. Van*, and w hat become of it I know not. I have often mentioned it to my friends, and Home yearn ago 1 mw in a hook that lay upon my friend's tiihle that people in the Kant believe in breeding pearl*. BIUUEK MEN THAN HRITONN. THE NATION THAT ROUTED A ISRITUII A KM Y —aper, ami varying in weight from 75 to 125 (sounds, they used to perform the journey regularly in twelve hours, and came in n> a daisy!" Are they a cleanly race? Yes, almost too much so: I used to wi-h they would instill their scrupu lousness* in this resjxv-t into the dirty "Bushmen" and Hottentots. The fel lows are always washing themselves or their clothes. I had a faithful servant who prayed inc. with ttars in bis eyes, to take him to Kugland with me on my first return to the old country. 1 remember once making him a present of a pair of black cloth pantaloons, with [which lie was highly delighted ; be used to Wash them three time* a week regularly—a process which, though not conducive to the longevity of the pantaloons, spoke volumes for Zulu cleanliness. I'm no pesimit, said the old colonist, and any man would be a fool to doubt what the final result nf a collision letwcen Kugland ami Zululaml would lie. yet I far the authorities make a mi-take in overestimating the efficiency of the force* at their disposal, and un derrating those of Cetywayo. There are about 7,000 native troops in Na tal and the Transvaal, and 5,000 whites. The number of Zulu warriors is ostimati-d nt 40,000, hut I am cer tain they could throw OO.OtH) fighting men into Durban in n single night. When roused, they fight like wi Ideals, and as nearly every able-bodied man has been supplied with n breech-load ing rifle by the trader* from Delagoa Hay, it is most unwise to despise their (wwers of doing mischief. IT IH not the boy alone who stand* on the burning deck. That nerve is not a masculine monopoly occur* to : one on reading how Mr*. Isadora Mid dlcton, of Mobile, the other night, out witted a burglar. While putting away some jewelry she noticed that the library lamp had thrown upon the • floor at her foet the shadow of a man who wa cnmching under a table. The shadow was so distinct that she saw that the open hand had hut two fing i ers. The instant conviction flashed ; upon her that she was alone in the room with n negro desperado suspected | of several burglaries, and having but i two fingers on his right band. There was no one in the house beside herself hut one maid -servant. She went "to ; the table, under which the burglar was concealed, and rang for the girl, and wrote a note: "Take this to the jewel er's at once," she said, "and hring home mv diamond necklace and ear rings. They are my most valuable i jewelry, and I do not wish to pass another night without having them in < toy bureau drawer." And then the brave woman sat there and read the j newspaper, and hummed an operatic air, ami when the door bell rang, went carelessly down stairs and admitted Bridget and the policemen she had sent tor. "Two-fingered Jeff" is now serving a twenty years' sentence In the state prison. "EUOEXIA, Eugenia, will you still insist on wearing the hair or another woman upon your head?" "Alphoose, Alphonse. do you still insist upon wearing the skin of another calf upon your feet?" To remove paint from the wall back up against it before it gets dry. ANECDOTE OF VICTORIA. Queen Victoria was not twenty yearn of age when she ascended the throne, (iomiug into possession of power with a heart fresh, tender and (Mire, mid with all her instincts inclin ed to mercy, we may be sure that she found many things that tried her strength of resolution to the utmost. On a bright, beautiful morning, the young queen was waited upon at her rmlace of Windsor by the Duke of Wellington, who had brought from Indon various pajier* requiring her signature to render them operative. One of them was a sentence of court martial, pronounced against a soldier of the line—that sentence that he bo shot dead! The quoen looked upon the paper, ami then looked upon the wonderou* beauties that nature hud spread to bt-r view. "What has this rnau done?" she asked. The Duke looked at the paper, and replied: "Ah, my royal mistress, that man, I fear, is incorrigible. Jle has deserted ; three times." "And can you not say anything in his behalf, my lord ?" Wellington shook his load. "O! think agniu, I pray you!" Seeing that her majesty was so deep ly moved, ami feeling sure that she would not have the man shot in any event, he finnlly confessed that the man was brave, and gallant, ami real ly a good soldier. "But," he added, I "think of the influence." "Influence?" cried Victoria, her eves flashing, and her bosom heaving j with strong emotion. "Let it be ours jto yield influence. I will try mercy jin this man's cae, and I charge you, I your grace, to let me know the result. | A goarents, or even those of moderate cir cumstances. Tli v will be well edu cated anyhow, liut the case is dif ferent with the very poor and ignorant, i their training in the elementary branch es is a prime nerossity, and if the State does not provide lite means, they will grow up in ignorance. In the development of our school system, and fitting it to the wishes and theories of the more cultured class, this vital fact has been lost sight of. One of the worst things connected with jthe recent attempts to mix the school question with politics, is the selling up the system as perfection itself; some j thing that must be criticised as too costly to the taxpayers, or failing in ; the most important requirements of State education. An avowal of thia kind is apt to bring down on one's head, from the host of superintendents and directors, each one equipped with his separate hobby, the allegwlioo that you arc an enemy of popular educa tion, old fogyish, or behind the times. They have planned everything on a magnificent scale, and fealty to this is insisted on a* an essential of good citizenship. There are gratifying evi dences that the people are commencing lo rebel at these assumptions, and that, at no remote day, they will be checked in a summary manner, and the expe riment tried of developing the educa tional system downward so as to im prove its efficiency in meeting the wants of the lower strata of popula tion, rather than upward for the oeaa fii of the wealthy. "WHAT does your husband dof* asked the census man. "He ain't doin' nothing at this time of the vow," replied the young wife. *I be a pauperf" inquired the con win runt! She blushed scarlet to the ears. "Ijiw, do?" she exclaimed, some what indignantly. "We ain't bee* married more'n sut weeks,*