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A POLITICAL PARALLEL.
Senator Pendleton on the Party Issues
of the May.
W HAT THE REPUBLICAN ORCIANS AND OKA
TORS CUAROE ANI> TIIK DEMOCRATS DROVE
—WHY TIIK DEMOCRATS DEMAND A
CIIANUE IN THE ADMINISTRATION
or THE OOVERNMKNT.
Prom lll E-l-ntun (Otiio) Special.
KEI.LOW-CITIEENH : We aro confronted
by questions as great as ever stirred
parties in this Government. They touch
not only good administration, honest,
wise execution of the laws, but they
touch the very groundwork of our en
lire system. These questions involve
elections, free from military and govern
mental interference, and currency ami
trade, free from the control of gigantic
moneyed corporations. The Republi
can party claims the right to use the
army at the polls. 1 will do them no
injustice. They do not avow the pur
i>ose of controlling the votes. They say
it is only to keep the peace. We dem
onstrate that the use erf armed force at
the perils for any purpose is dangerous ;
that it degenerates into an effort to con
trol results ; that it is of itself a menace
and coercion ; that it subverts public
liberty. And these gentlemen all in
chorus, hut in different keys, following
the brilliant conception of Senator
Riainc, who showed that our army, if
distributed pro rata, would give only
one soldier to many thousand people,
exclaim : "< >h, it is such a little thing !"
We show that a people jealous of lib
erty will resist the very beginning of
danger, will permit neither great nor
little armies to interfere with free bal
lots, and thereupon they answer that
we l>emocrats desire that election day
--the day which above all others should
ho consecrated to peace nnd harmony—
shall be given over to turbulenco ami
violence. We Democrats, who repre
sent more than half the people of the
land—less of the money, it is true, but
h-tlf the virtue and honor and patriot
ism and intelligence, and more than
half of the bone and sinew, more than
half of the poor and lowly and laboring
anil aspiring, whoso all for themselves
and their families throughout all their
lives depends upon the peace and order
of the industries and the quietude of
civil society, who have the largest stake
in the well-ordered community—we de
sire that violence and intimidation and
lawlessness should riot in the land ! It
would be an offense to our manhood
uud patriotism if it were not so palpable
a confession of the weakness of their
ciuseand the impossibility of an Argu
ment. It would bo an offense to public
intelligence if it were not so transparent
an outrage on public decency.
We show that for 200 years Great
Hritian has permitted no armed soldiers
under any pretence to approach the
jiolls; that no nation has ever permit
ted it and preserved |>opular govern
ment, and they cry out, following in
this the example of the President, that
this Administration does not now in
tend, and never has intended, to use,
never has used, and never will use, the
army at the JKJIIS.
We put to theui this question : "Why,
if you never intend, do not now intend,
never did, and never will, use the army
at tho polls, have you so strenuously re
sisted tbe repeal of the law ?" And an
nouncing at once their purpose and
their answer, they all exclaim—and
here the Stalwart comes to the fore—
"We will never surrender this power,
which may become necessary to con
tinue the Administration in our hands."
Mrs. Toodles, when she bought the
brass door plate with another man's
name on it, informed her inquiring
husband : "It is such a bandy thing to
have about the house."
We point to the evidence taken in
Roston and Newjiort and Cincinnati
this very summer. We point to the
evidence of our candid and just minded
marshal in Cincinnati.
Ife does not believe in any new-fan
gled civil service reform ; not he. He
has no reason to do so. Ife did his duty
as an officer of the court efficiently, hon
estly, impartially. He did his duty in
the appointment of deputy marshals ac
cording to the spirit and intent of the
law. lie says he appointed all Republi
cans ; he associated with such people
and be knew them ; not a Democrat, he
might be deceived in them. He sta
tioned them all in Democratic wards.
He knew the Republican wards would
not need them. He knew that in Re
publican wards there could not be any
illegal voting, or hardly any ; certainly
not enough to hurt the Republican
party, and, therefore, he left them
alone.
We show by testimony, perfectly ir
refragable, that by the intent and pro
visions of the law, and its practicn! ap
plication, supervisors and marshals are
only partisan electioneer* for the dom
inant party, paid out of the public treas
ury j and thereupon a ghostly proces
sion of fearful figures of State rights,
Ku Klux, Kliza Pinkstons, and, above
all, Republican defeats—more fearful
than those which struck terror to the
soul of Richard, file before the eyes of
the Attorney General, and he cries out:
"The war is not yet over, its results are
nil imperiled." Andachorusof voices
exclaim : "Confederate brigadier ! Cau
cus dictation! Starving the Govern
ment 1 Payment of Confederate debt I"
Confederate Hrigadiera! Whose fault
ia it that Union brigadiers do not rep
resent Republican Slates ? C aucus dic
tation 1 When it is perfectly notorious
that Senator Schurt tried to extort an
answer from Senator Sherman on the
Finance bill, and utWrlv failed because
the Republican caucus forbade. Starv
ing tbe Government! Who refused to
pass the Army bill when Andrew John
son, the brave and i nest old man, was
President?
Payment of Confederate debit No
Democrat has ever suggested it. No
Democrat desires it. No party could
propose it and live.
We turn to financial affairs. We
point to tbe enotmoua wrongs which
have for years paralyzed (ho industries
of tlio country, which have deprived
laltoref employment, which have ruined
strong men, crushed out youthful mid
vigorous enterprise, and sent many who
had been prosperous with broken hearts
to paupers' graves. We demonstrate
these things as the result of the Repub
lican policy. We point to a system of
National banks, having an unequal ca
pacity for combination, wielding an
enormous money power, employing the
shrewdest talent in the country, pene
trating every locality, ntliliated with the
Administration by the influence of par
ty advantage on the one side, and the
use of the public Treasury on the other.
We show from the reports of the Treas
ury that hundreds of millions of dol
lars are left on deposit for months with
some; that others are not required to
pay for the bonds which they purchase
until long after the time fixed by the
contract. We show favoritism to mon
ey nnd oppression to labor. And Sec
retary Sherman shrieks out in his loud
est tone : "Specie payments are restored.
A good time is coming. Are not our
crops good ? Are not crops ahroud
scant? is not Ktigland hungry? Is
not trade in our favor? How down nnd
worship the Republican party. The
Democrats want to ulmndon specie pay
ments. They hate the sound of reviv
ing business. They abhor the idea of
the returning prosperity. They gloat
over business failures. They want small
crops, hard times, depressed industries,
starving people—those wicked Demo*
erals."
The recuperative energy of llie peo
ple, the bountiful richness of the soil,
the promised recurrence of sunshine
and rain, are working to the benefit of
the people, and he claims the credit for
his policy ! The storm-king, amid the
wrecks which his fury has made in the
night, points the starved and fro/.en
sailors, just cast upon the shore, to the
warm, bright sun and balmy air aqd
placid ocean, with which the glorious
morning has put an end to lus devasta
ting tornado, and satirically exclaims:
See what blessings I have given you!
I believe I have given you a faithful
epitome of the argument of our oppo
nent*. I believe I have done them no
injustice. The air has been vocal with
eloquent rhetoric, with praises of Re
publican policy, with professions of ro
form, with figures Qf economy ; but re
duced to tiie last analysis, the argu
ment is us I have stated. I appeal to
the speeches to which I have alluded.
I appeal to every speech that I !yve
seen published. I appeal to every issue
of the partisan Republican papers of
this State.
It is becoming that the great ques
tions involved should he discussed in
this vein before the intelligent people
of <Hiio?
Fellow citizens, there is no other ar
gument left to our Republican friends.
TIIE word "confederacy" is not a pop
ular one in the Northern States, sinre
it was used in connection with the effort
of the Southern people to separate from
the I'nion and form an independent
Government; and frothy orators and
those who make platforms from time to
time tell us that "our country is a na
tion. not a confederacy." If they are
really satisfied of this, what necessity is
there for frequent reiteration? It sounds
very much like the utterance of a per
son whose faith is weak, and who hopes
to strengthen it by constant reju-tition
of bis creed. That our country is a "na
tion" no one disputes. We have ana
lional flag, a national Government, a
national Constitution and a national an
niversary of our independence; but
when "nation" is taken to mean con
solidated Government, that respect* no
rights of the commonwealths which
compose it, the wor I is perverted ; and
it will be wdl to a*k those who ignore
the "I'nion of States" why this nation
has never had a name which indicates
its centralized character? Its propel
name is "The 1 nited States of Amcri
ea," and formerly the word
was used to indicate its |ecuiiar charac
ter. "The Federal Government/' "the
Federal Capital." "the Federal Army,"
etc., were phrases in common use, and
tiie simple word "I'nion" was regarded
as an equivalent.
John Adam* did pro|ose a
naine for the nation, but it received
very little consideration.
Why are those thirteen stripes on
our flag, and stars indicating the num
ber of States, and why is a State with
less than a hundred thousand people
entitled to two Senators in Congress,
when another with four or five millions
of inhabitants is entitled to no more?
Why is one Stale permitted to make
laws different from those of another
State? Why ha* each State an organic
law of its own and a legislative body
which can enact laws which indicate
sovereignty in the State government,
even determining the punishment of
individuals for the most serious crimes ?
<ur Government is different in charac
ter from the monarchies of the < ld
World, whose great feature is concen
tration of jiower, while ours aim* to se
cure the rights of individuals by writ
ten constitutions.
Those dabsters who undertake to
teach the principle* of a "Republican
form of government" and advocate
measures of a despotic natore, do but
show their inability to comprehend the
peculiar and complicated character of
our institutions. There can lie no
greater absurdity than the notion that
a free and pure election can be had
under the coercion of bayonets. Our
country is a "nation" formed by a
Union of States, its jiower being defin
ed and limited by the Constitution.
Its only sure basis is justice to every
member of the Union and regard for
the rights of citizens of every section.
When .States are held together by mili
tary power they do not constitute a Re
public, but a tyranny in which individual
rights and freedom are ignored. We
badly need a school in which partisan
orators may learn the simple principles
of civil institutions. HoHuiayihurg
Standard.
There are 7,000,00p barrel* of crude
petroleum in the oil region* going
a-begging at ixty oenU a barrel. In
iipite of the enorraou* ooneumption the
•took accumulate*. Kaperimenta have
been made to u*e it a* a Meant producer
with the beet reiulta, and the da; when
crude oil will partially take the place of
coal for that purpoeo ia near.
Abrogation of States.
From tltr \V latiliiptmi Putt.
It is not often that one finds a frank
admission of the aims of the lb-publican
leaders. They are accustomed to dis
guise their purposes and accomplish
their objects by indirection. Hut, an
able and earnest exponent of itudicalism
in the Northwest, in nu almost phenom
enal spirit of frankness, thus indicates
the object toward which the parly ha*
been working ever since it uttained
power in this country :
"Congress can find the power under
the Constitution to make laws under
which United Stales can
arrest and puni*h these assassins of the
South, and compel order in Mississippi,
It might require u considerable stretch
of National authority, hut the time has
come to stretch that power to its utmost
limit."
So far as the I'ott is concerned, it not
only desires but urges the punishment
of crimes in all States and sections, and
the preservation of order in every lo
entity. No journal has urged this policy
inwre persistently than we have. Hut
there is not an intelligent man in tin-
Cm ted States who will pretend to find
in the Constitution any warrant for in
terference by Congress in the criminal
affairs of a State. If the general Gov
ernment tuny manage the criminal con
cerns of a State, it may. with equal pro
priety, attend to a Stale's civil affair.*,
and thus abrogate utterly all semblance
of local Government. This proposition
is so entirely sell-evident that it would
bo folly to argue it.
We nave, then, a square declaration
of Radical organ in favor of ttie abro
gation of State Government, for the xn
terance above quoted amounts to that,
and nothing else. It the central author
ity can interfere with the domestic af
fairs of Mississippi, it can do the same
with Massachusetts. A* to the "stretch
ing of National authority," there has
been quite enough of it, and the people
will tolerate no more. Instead of fur
ther "stretching," there will be a relax
ation of the already too great tention,
1 and a return to normal conditions—to
the safe line of constitutional duty.
We RUptioso there is scarcely a State
in the I'tnon in which notorious crimi
nals do not walk the streets with impu
nity, and no one thinks of bringing
tin-in to punishment. There nre cor
rupt judges, there nre brila-d prosecu
tors, there are cowardly grand juries,
there urc packed petit juries, and there
are many other means by which the*
worst of criminal* escape the prison or
the scaffold. These things • xi*t in
many of the States north of Mio-on and
Dixon's line, and the pre** of those
; States will not undertake to deny their
existence. They are deplored by all wbo
love order and justice, yet they are facts
all the same. Hut if it were proposed
for <'ongreus to enact a law authorizing
Kniled State* Matlml* to arrest those
unpunished offender* against State law*
and bring them to trial, there would be
a most emphatic protest against such
meddling with local concerns, and the
protest would be tight, for the Consti
tution leaves the treatment of offender*
against State law s to the authorities of
tin- State*.
it is not difficult to account for those
disturbances of social order that have
occured in some portions of the South.
They are legitimate fruiu of Republican
Legislation. The intelligence and man
hood of the South, by general disfran
chisement, were subordinate to the igno
rance and brutality of that section, sup
plemented by a good deal of cunning
and cupidity of the North. The won
der i*. not that there ha* l>oen so much
disturbance under *uch conditions, and
during the slow return to the natural
order of things, but that there lias been
o general a prevalence of tranquility.
Southern society wa* overturned, the
bottom was put on top, the people were
robbed and outraged. Is it strange that,
in the process of getting back to the
natural domination of basis, character,
wealth and social influence, there have
lieeti occasional disturbances and some
unpunished crimes! Under the ssme
circumstance*, no people on earth would
have lorne themselves better, and the
**>uthern people to day, a* a rule, are as
well governed and orderly as the people
of tho North. They will take rare of
their own matters, and there will la* no
further "stretching" of the Constitution
m order to meddle with fhem.
The Gullj Trial.
HEX. cttAt.v EßS* orixiox or tixx. WOOD
roRD's IIERAXI).
To thw Kulitor of th*
My attention ha* just l-een directed
to an article in a Republican newspaper
calling on Lamar, Singleton or <'bal
mora to anwer the statement of Gen.
Woodford as to the trial of Gully for the
murder of Miss Chisholm. I take pleas
ure in answering, as the statement of
Gen. Woodford nnd the comments of
the Republican press noon it are most
startling indications of the extent to
which the Repuhlicsn party i* prepared
lo go in the destruction of civil liberty.
GPH. Woodford state* that the jury were
fairly drawn and selected ; that if the
judge erred it was against the prisoner ;
that the district attorney had prepared
his cose well And prosecuted it with
ability, nnd that lie wa* assisted in the
prosecution by Judge Morri*, one of the
ablest criminal lawyers he had ever
met. Mr*. Chisholm swore that she
*aw the prisoner shoot her daughter,
but in thi* she WAS flatly contradicted
by a number ol unim|>eachcd witnesses.
Mrs. Chisholm wss more likely to have
been excited at the lime thnn the other
witnesses, snd, therefore, less able to
give a correct statement of the facts.
The jury, who by law nre the sole judges
of the facts, twdieved the other wit
nesses, and found Gully not guilty. For
this verdict Gen. Woodford vilifiee the
jury, and the country and the Republi
can papers ask that a search IH> made
through the statute* to see if some
means cannot be found whereby the
Nation can protect its citisens. In oth
er words, whether the Nation cannot
take away from a Mississippi Democrat,
when charged with killing a Republi
can, the right of trial by jury. This
right, which our ancestors held most
sacred, entitled the prisoner to a trial
by a jury of the vicinage, and it waa
held to be better that ninety nine guil
ty men should escape than an innocent
man lie punished, It is now asked that
this right shall bo taken from Missis
sippinns, and when ono i* charged with
crime he shall ho tried by a jury of
Hon. Woodford's, who godown to regis
ter a verdict agreed on before the trial.
A new hatch of reconstructed laws are
demanded, under which the bloody
scene* of judicial murder under Jeffreys
and Scruggs may he re-enacted. This
is the fate the South may expect from
the Republican party, and yet she is
denounced for bring solid against it.
Yours truly, JAS. K. (,'IIAI.XEKH.
ORKNEY SI'RINUH, Sept. 20.
■ •
TIIK KOUM.KAKKD M.OVKK.
She, stooping in her girlish glee,
A* we roamed the meadows over,
Plucked from its little solitude
A wondrous four-leafed clover.
Sho laughed, she tossed her glossy head,
"I'm sure pi have a lover,
For ev'ry good they *av 'twill bring,
Thi* little four-leafed clover."
H"w bright the sky—how sweet the air,
As wo— girl*—roaiiu-d together,
Mid Held* of bloom and o'drous halm,
And loveliest of weather.
Some year* have told since that sweet time
I ve never hud a lover,
Hot she, alas! of dusky locks,
She found the four-loafed clover.
♦
The Melancholy Czar.
Ill* COAT Of MAIt. AMI Ills "st'l.EMiill rui#
ON or STATE."
fatla Curre*|mili-mr ..I N.- V.,ik W<.r|.|,
1 have come to the conclusion that
llu*Hia wants a new Peter the Great.
1 may have taken this conclusion to St.
Petersburg with me, but at any rate 1
came away with it, as a result of the
little I saw and of the great deal 1 heard.
1 he country is ready tor a new depart
ure, and as willing to be led a* ever by
itstVir*. but it must bo led in a new
way. Alexander now wants to lead in
the t>bl way, and hence all the troubles
of tin* part of hi* reign. Yet no man
has such an opportunity, for he still has
mortally speaking, u kind of absolute
power. 'I he great mass of the people
worship him as their priest and father
not le** than a* their I/oni. It is touch
ing, I am told, to see them prostrating
themselves belore him in the streets,
and even ki-sing the ground on which
he walk". Thi* only ititen-ilie* the
awful solitude of his position—a solitude
which tln-y say i* driving him mad.
He meet* no man on a footing of inti
macy, not even in hi* *|iort*. 1 have
lately looked over hundreds of sketches
a! hi* early life at court, preserved in
the album* of Do Xn by, who w* for
soiiie time painter to the imperial farn
• ly. AV hstever the Czar may be doing
bunting, dancing, dining or idling—it
i* always under conditions which re
mind him that he ha* no true fellow
ship with hi* kind. When he kill* a
l>oar he stand* well ahead of hi* suite
to meet the monster, the rest being so
dispo-od, indeed, a* to help hirn in case
the l<oar should show himself unduly
forgetful of the distinction* of etiquette.
The very winter palace, which i the
f'lur's ordinary residence st St. Peters
burg, i* but a splendid prison of state
where 1 .<**> titled jailer* stand between
huu and the other world. If 1 had time
I should like to describe that palace, at
the rik ol traveling over ground already
covered by the guidebooks. It i* a
town within a town. Its inmates are a
veritable population, duly grade] into
the minutest subdivisions of otlirial
rank. The Cxar, to do him justice,
often break* bounds, and indeed up to
a late date he continued the habit of
all hi* predecessors of going out on foot
every day. Hut the recent attempt on
hi* life has changed all that, and made
him more lonely than ever. He has
now fallen completely into the hand*
of his advisers, and their advice, in de
fault of better, i* that he shall increase
the di*tanoe l>ctwoon him and human
nature. ilefore that unlucky pistol
*hot he went out afoot to pay his regu
lar morning visit to a j>eron in whom
he took particular interest, and to two
or three laughing children, who were
|erba|># the only "subjects" wbo could
venture to treat him with the familiar
ity for which his heart must sometimes
yearn. He was returning to the palace
from aueh a vi*it when that madman,
with the method of Nihilism in his road
tie*#, meeting him face to face began to
make him a target for ball practice
with a revolver. It has t>een a mystery
to me—it was a mystery to every one
how the Czar escajed with his life. The
Nihilist meant to kill him; he fired
point blank, and shot after shot. It
was given out that Alexander wa* not
once hit—no doubt to make his prqscr
vafion apj>ear something in the nature
of a miracle. This was only true in the
sense that he was hit more than once,
although not wounded. He wore a
shirt of very fine, strong chain mail
under his coat. It was made for him
by 1-ehlanc, of the Houlevard Magenta,
a well-known Paris armorer, who sup
plies the theatres for their mimic wars,
hut who also knows how to turn out
work that bear the brunt of a
real one. first im|>erial cus
tomer was the Kmperor Napoleon 111,
and it was probable through the recom
mendation of some friend* of the Km
|>eror that Alexander, st the beginning
of the present troubles, was led to ap
ply to I.oblAnc for one of his patent
suits. The armorer's own story is that
a gentleman sought him out and with
some mystery asked if he could make
a coat of mail that would turn a revol
ver bullet. He waa doubtful himself of
hia own power* in thi* respect, though
he had already provided Napoleon with
an undershirt Warranted to turn the
edge of a knife. But an experiment
was made with one of hia best suits, and
it was found that even a (kill's army re
volver made no impression on ita serried
rings of steel. Thi* explain* the mira
cle of the Ktnperor's preservation. I.e
blanc ha* other illustrious customers,
among them Prince Bismarck, and the
confidential distribution of his business
cards seems to be a common courtesy
among the potentates of Kurope. Hut
the wearing of a cost of mail can hardly
be conducive to unalloyed cheerfulness
of disposition. The Kmperor has a
troubled look ; there is unrest in the
very fixity of his gase. He stares at
you when he meet* you in the street as
though he were wondering with what
wea|Ktn you were going lor him thia
time—the one-shooter, the six-shooter,
the bomb or the knife.
TAKING CAHK OK HIM MOIITM.
Kol in tlie niowil baby,
lb-hardly I-vi-r TI*H ;
Ah'l nil ' hit i Jn#t Urn lovely
When ho shuts liin I!M rk bun- eye* !
Don't you wi.li ymi could see liim 7
It in worth H tlioii'iiiiil sight*!
"I Kum' you wouldn't think *•>
If you iiKil to take cure of him night* "
I'm gltul lie I* j out no littlu I
Wait till hit KIHUIH tin- doom,
Wait till ho slumps, nnd shout* nrid scream
I!ntil hi! Khaki!* thi! floor* !
Wait till ho wi-ar* great rubber boot*,
And ton*!** for ball* and kit*** !
"1 guess you'd bo glad to have him grow
If you had to take earn of hint nights."
—Dor* UooJal*. In Ht. Kliliolu.
Slorlca of I'rof. Morse.
When Morae, the father of the tele
graph, waa taking daguerreotypes on
top of the building at the corner of
Nassau and Reekmaii street*, New
York, Samuel (xilt, the inventor of the
revolver, wan a friend of the electrician.
Colt had hi* mind full of a torpedo for
the defense ol the coast, which was to
he exploded by an electric circuit. A*
Morse had the wire* and buttery, the
dabbler in torpedoes found liia necessa
ry machinery ready at hand. I >n one
occasion, when Morse wa* absent, an
experiment was to be tried on the roof
of the house, with a slight charge of
powder, which wa* to be confined under
a drum of fig*. 'Die gentleman who
tells tins story was then a mere lad,
light of weight, and was exactly the
convenient resisting medium which Colt
wanted. It was agreed that the boy
should stand on the box while the jiow
di-r was fired, Just as all preparation*
were completed, and the lad stood on
the box, I'rof. Morse appeared, who
took in the situation at a glance. "Stop,"'
he cried, "Colt, bid that boy get down.
If you want to try the experiment,
jump up in his place." "Tlicro i not
the eighth of a pound of |>owdcr there,"
said Colt, "hut, lam agreed. I will get
up in the Imy's place, l'rofessor, do
you touch the key." Touch the key
did Morse. An explosion followed, and
it was all Colt coul i do, who was a man
I of large build, to prevent himself being
hurled over into the street below. If
the boy had stood there, he would have
certainly been lifted into the air. It
was evident that then I'rof. Morsi.
knew that explosion* were intensified
in accordance with the mean* employed
to fire peculiar substances, ami must
have had an inkling of the effect* of
what i* now called the vibratory influ
ence on detonating substance*. "Knee,"
**ys an informant, "in i'rof. Morse*
later life, be wanted a package of pa
per*, which he told me. were on his
table. 1 secured a voluminous bundle
of document*, and having brought them
down, presented them to the Professor.
'You have mania * mistake; these are
not the paper* I wanted. Still, though
they are of no moment now, at one
time they caused nic a certain amount
of disturbance. They represent vouch
ers paid by me for lawyers, cost* and
expense* in defending my telegraph.
I once took the trouble to add up the
figures. 1 can't give it exactly now, but
the aggregate ought to sum up some
thing very close to |WK),OOO. Prof.
Morse's chsnties were endles*. All the
impecunious of the f'nited State* made
him their milch cow. He gave, if not
wisely, at least well, and must have,
during the la*t twenty year* of his life,
dispensed a fortune in small sums.
How Did i* (ill**.
The oldest specimen of pure glass
bearing anything like a date is a little
molded lion's head, bearing the name
of an Kgytian king of the eleventh dy
nasty, in the Slade collection at the
British museum. That is to say. at a
|>eriod which may be moderately placed
as more than 2,(*0 year* It. glass
wa* not only made, but made with a
skill which show* that the art was notb
ing new. The invention of glaring pot
tery with a film or varnish of glass is so
old that among the fragment* which
bear inscriptions of the early Kgytian
monarchy are beads ]>o**ih!y of the first
dynasty.
<<f later glass there are numerous ex
amples, such as a bead found at Thebes,
which has the name of liatasoo,
or Ha*hep, of the eighteenth dynasty.
Of the same period are vases and goblets
and many fragments. It cannot be
doubted that the story prejiared by
I'liney. which assigns the credit of the
invention to the Phenicrans, is so far
true, that these adventurous merchant*
brought *|eciniens to other countries
from Kgypt. Dr.Schliemsnn found disks
of glass in the excavation* at Myccnrn,
though Homer doe* not mention it a* a
substance known to him.
That the modern art of the glass
blower was known long before is cer
tain from representations among the
pictures on the walls of a tomb at Bcni
Hassan, of the twelfth Kgyptian dynas
ty ; but a much older picture, which
probably represented the same manu
facture. I* among the half-obliterated
scenes in a chamber of the tomb of Thy.
at Sakkara, and dates from the time of
the fifth dynasty, a time so remote that
it ia not possible, in spite of the assidu
ous researches of many Kgyplologers, to
give it a date in year*.
Tnx depth of the water in the (forge
below Niagara Falls hasjust t>een meas
ured for the first time. The swiftness
of the stream had bntlted all previous
efforts, but a cor|is of Government en
gineers accomplished the feat. They
cmbark<4i in a small boat not far below
the falls. An old guide accompanied
the party. With great difficulty they
approached within a short distance of
the American falls, which darted great
jets of wster on them. The roar wa* so
terrible that no voice or sound could be
heard. The leadsman cast the line,
which rapidly passed down 83 feet.
This was near the shore. Passing out
of the friendly eddy which bad enabled
them to get so near the falls, they shot
rapidly down stream. The next oast of
the lead told off 100 feet, deepening to
192 feet a little further down. The
average depth to theHwifl Ih-ifl—where
the river suddenly becomes narrow,
with a velocity too great to be measured
—is 153 feet. Just under the lower
bridge the Whirlpool rapids set in, and
so violently are the waters moved that
they rise like ocnn wan to the hcigih
of'.!)) f •<•(. At thi point lliny com|iutcl
til* depth at 210 feet.
For thi* Ijtst '| jmr.
Few 11>< flr-jplilr.
I hero in u touch of pitthon about do
ill It even the simplest tiling "for liio
last time. It in not alone kissing tho
•lend that given un tiiin strange pain.
ou fool it when you have lookeil your
lant time upon nonie scene you have
loved—whin you stand in some quiet
city street where you know you will
never stand again. The actor, playing
hi# part lor the lout time; the ninger,.
whose voice i# cracked hopelessly, ami
who after this once will never stan'l he
fore the sea of upturned faeea, diaput
ing the plaii'litn witli the frenher voices
uri'J fairer forum ; the minister, who
has preached his last serman—these all
know the hidden bitterness of the two
words, "never again." How they corns
to us on our birthdays as we gtow older.
Never again young, always nearer and
nearer to the very last—the end which
is universal, "the. last thing which shall
follow all last things, and turn them, let
US hope, from pains to jOJM." We put
away our boyish toys with an odd heart
ache. \N e are to old to walk any long
er on oar stilt* too tall to play marbles
on the sidewalks. Vet there was a
pang when we thougt we ha J played
with our merry thoughts for the last
time and life * serious grown-up work
wailing lor us. Now. we do not want
the lost toys buck. Life has other and
larger playthings for U-. May it not bo
these, too, shall seem in the light of
some far olf days as the boyish games
seem to our manhood, and we shall
learn that death is but the opening of
the gate into the new land of promise ?
A lleiiiarkahle Intention.
I.IOIIT *\U IUAT I'IOUK HI WIIUOIT WOOD
OK <MI..
A correspondent of London Athsrwum
has received information of the discov
ery by M. I'-iurlx-inne], of Itijori, France,
of the means of lighting and maintain
ing a fire without wood or coal : a fire
instantaneously lighted and extinguish
ed ; a fire causing no dust, smoke or
trouble; a fire costing one-tenth at
least of ordinary fuel, ar,d, what i more
wonderful still, a fire the portion of
which answering to our fuel is everlast
ing. that i to say, would last a lifetime*
M. K >urbonn< 1* invention compre
hend* both stove and fuel. The fire#
could he on the minutest scale or tho
largest. They could be used for heat
ing a baby food or for roasting an ox.
Being lighted instantaneously, they will
be a great economy of time." M. Hour
bonnel at once patented hi invention,
and a body of engineers and savants
from I'aris visited hint and pronounced
his discovery one of the most remark
aide of the age. He has had aeveral
offers for the purchase of the patent in
France but wants to sell it in England,
hi* own occupation being in another
line. Before he |erfectt-d it, he was at
work on it six years, having discovered
it by mean* of two inexhaustible natu
ral substances. Ibe .1 tArn# corres
l-ondent regards the discovery as
tined to settle the great fuel question.
Mirage on 1-ake Frio.
The Jnvmal, published at St. Thomas,
Ontario, wbich i-#f>out ten miles from
the shores of Lake l.rie, describes a re
markable mirage which was seen at
that place. Soon after 12 o'clock. Mr.
John took > hanoed to look in a south
ward direction from his bouse, and saw-
Lake l.rie spread before him with all
the distinctness of reality. After look
ing for a few moment* he called his
family to witness the scene. Thev wcro
.joined by Mr. Kathvon. builder, and by
Mr. Sexton. The whole jrty could
see the lake a* if it were only a few mda
off, and the waves rolling in regular
succession toward# the shore. Three
#te#iner# were speeding towanl the east,
the smoke from their funnels streaming
behind tbem. while a couple of vessel*
under sail were pursuing their steady
course. They could see the lay of the
land for a considerable distance along
the coast, but it seemed as if some hanks
intervened to prevent a view of l'ort
Stanley. The opposite coast of tho
I'rnteil States was so distinctly visible
that they could perceive the indenta
tions of the shore, the very trees, and a
town away to the southeastward, tho
buildings of which were plainly discern
ible. The meridian sun was shining
brightly all this time, and an npsquo
cloud, fringed with pink, stretched
along the southern sky from east to
w-est. I'nder thi# cloud the mirage ap
peared, and after for some time present
ing the scene disrrihed, faded, and.
gradually dissolved away in the direc
tion of Buffalo.
Was* the preaent Pope >v a cardin
al he cherished the idea nl publishing a
Catholic journal that should be an organ
for hia church, and that could be read
by all the people of Kurope and Ameri
ca in their mother language. Since hia
elevation to the pontificate, he has ex
erted himself to start this news|iaper,
and now announces that its first num
ber will be issued this month. It will
be printed in seven different languages;
it will diacuaa the political and econom
ical questions of the day, and officially
represent the opinions of the Holy See.
♦
Hon. flarkmn N. Potter has wtittgp
a letter accepting the Itemoeratic nom
ination for I.ieutenant-Oovernor of
New York. Mr. Potter aays he did not
seek the nomination, and, under ordin
ary circumstance*, would decline it, but
that, at this crisis in the affairs of the
party, if it be thought that his name or
services nan contribute anything to thn
union or success of the l>raocraey. ho
doea not feel at liberty to withhold
them, and therefore accepts the nomi
nation tendered him.
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AM Irishman, in describing America,
said : "1 MI told that you might roll
England thru it an' it wouldn't make a
dint in the ground: there's fresh wa
ter oceans inside that ye moight dround
old Ireland in ; an' as for Scotland, ye
moight stick it in a corner an' jis'd
never lie able to find it out again, except
it moight be for the smell "bf lot
whisky."