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Gotham Gossip.
Return of Summer Excursionists.—Ski/par
lors in Fflh Avenue.—Coming fashions.
—Decollete Dresses Coming in Vogue
Again.—Oscar Wilde said to have Se
cured the Affections of a Young Western
Widow.—New Tenor and Love Among
the Roses. —Mr. Bonner and his Trottevs.
Special Correspondence lo the DEMOCRAT.
NEW YORK, Aug. 21,1882.
The first harbingers of the coming
cooler season are making their appear
ance. Every incoming train brings
back thousands of New Yorkers who
have spent the summer days away
from the city, and expressmen and
hack drivers are kept busy from early
morn until late at night in removing
them and their luggage. As yet the
returning contingent comprises mainly
those who have been to the mountains.
These worthies come back with won
derful tales of how cold it was where
they have beeu. Overcoats it seems
were the rule by day and three or four
blankets with a bone obligato, played
by chattering teeth, the correct thing
at night. As a result of their men
dacity, or to give it a milder term,
wealth of imagination, the heat is
again growing inteuse within Gotham's
precincts, and the presence of a cool
wave is looked forward to with all the
eagerness of the ancient mariner look
ing for a cloud. Of course the season
is not yet ended, and most of the peo
ple who have returned thus far, that
is those who have wealth and leasure
sufficient to make time their own, will
round it off with a brief sojourn at
Long Branch, Coney Island or other
seaside resorts which *ire never more
attractive than at this season of the
year. But how close we are to the
end of the term of enjoyment is best
seen by the fact that the boarding
house keepers have commenced to
raise their prices nearer to the winter
schedule, and as a result the young
man who intends to own a sky parlor
in Fifth Avenue during the winter
must needs be quick if he wishes to
make at all favorable arrangements
for the next ten months. It is really
remarkable how this eagerness to live
in fashionable quarters has spread
among those whose means are limited.
Not only single men but small families
forego comfort aud real economy in
order to be able to have their letters
addressed or their friends call at No.
Fifth Avenue. A small room
under the roof of a five or six story
house in a noisy street and an absence
of all homelike enjoyment, brings a
fancy price to satisfy the occupant's
vanity. As population iucreases thus
on the Avenue, the wealthier residents
are beginning to move further uptown,
and iu less than a year we will see the
fashionable and classic precincts of
Murray Hill transformed into a region
of boarding houses.
The modistes are naturally busy
putting the fiuishiug touches to their
designs for the new fall and winter
fashions. As yet of course it is a bit
too early to peep into the sanctum
sanctorum where La Mode reigns and
imparts to her menials those cun
ning devices which cost husbands and
fathers such ocean's of money, hut chic
will require this winter that in the
matter of full dress, ladies will have
to follow the English fashion. At the
summer resorts this year, high necked
dresses were all the go at evening re
unions, and very comfortable they
were to ladies whom nature has not
endowed with plasticity of shoulder
and arm, or the contour of whose neck
does not show the true lines of art.
In fashionable London however decol
leteism is growing more and more pro
nounced. The amount of material for
the corsage is growing less and less;
sleeves are giving way almost entirely
to invisible shoulder straps, and even
the old fashioned bit of lace is getting
too much for the ultra fashionable
wearer. Of course such ladies who
have very little divinity in the forms
which nature has given them will find
such attirement very tryiDg, but fash
ion like death, makes all alike in her
presence, and thus they will have to
put up with the inevitable, while those
gifted by nature will have every rea
son to rejoice in the fact that the same
dictatorial goddess of fashion, which
has frowned upon them so long, will
no longer sternly forbid them to hide
their resplendenco under a bushel. At
the same time the length of the skirt
in front is increasing while that of the
waist is decreasing. Thus it seems we
are again reviving the bizarre fashions
of the Directory days in France, when
the waists of ladies began almost un
der the arms. Perhaps this is intend
ed as a compromise with the mandates
of sestheticism, which has held a
limited sway ever since its apostle
Oscar Wilde commenced the crusade
in its behalf. By the way Oscar
Wilde in this country is about* passe,
or to use a much more expressive
Americanism, "played out!" He has
made the round of fashionable water
ing places and failed to arouse the inter
est which he anticipated. If rumor is
to be credited however, his pilgrimage
has not beeu entirely profitless, for he
is said to have gained the affections of
a widow who claims the great and ex
pansive West as her birthplace. She
is young, aud gay, and,
what mav interest Oscar more, her
first husband who made money in lard,
had the kindness to resign the owner
ship of this treasure and die before an
adverse turn in the tide landed him
high and dry on the sand of financial
failure. This happy creature is said
to be not overburdened with book
learning and spells the name of Os
car's favorite period, iuediieval, in the
rather unusual way medievil. The
poor thing thinks the name is meant
to designate those wicked days, when
the monks used to roast men alive for
not buying new vestments for the
statues of the saints. This of course
ought to make no difference to the
hirsute evangelist of kneebreeches arid
sunflowers. In his leisure moments,
for she has money enough to secure
him many of them, he will have plenty
of time to instruct her and even if he
would not care to waste his spare
hours he ought to be able to endure
such slight defects in a picture other
wise perfect for the sake of the solid
gilding of the frame.
If the new tenor means to succeed
from the outset he should not fail to
appear in a role requiring military
shoulder straps and brass buttons. It
is passing strange that in this free
country where we nominally have such
a horror of the pomp and pageantry
of war, it needs bnt the sight of bul
lion and gold lace to make a band of
love-sick maidens out of girls other
wise quickwitted and sobcrraiuded
enough. The most recent escapade in
militia life is a case in point. It is
melodrama, tragedy and comedy all
in one. The scene is the camp of the
Twenty-second Regiment N. G. S. N.
Y. at Peekskill, Dramatis persona':
Private Rosenheim and Cora Lent a
fine healthy Peekskill girl. 'I he argu
ment tells us that Private Rosenheim
is a descendant of a very ancient
family which came from the Last and
at one time emigrated from Egypt
without the aid of the Russian He
brew Relief Society. Rosenheim's im
mediate ancestor makes his living by
dispensing nicotine to the gentiles in
the shape of cigars, and in his leisure
moments, when he does not wear the
military buttons, young Rosenheim
devotes himself to the humble avoca
tion of stripping tobacco at live dol
lars a week. Though his purse was
weak his love was strong and aided by
the wealth of oriental imagery and
eloquence he succeeded in persuading
the fair Cora that happiness was to be
bad only when he was near. Cora
was persuaded ami followed him to
New York. Here they lived on milk
and honey like Rosenheim's ancestors
in Canaan. Rut unfortunately milk
and honey cost nioi.ev in the nine
teenth century and thus in a few days,
they became scarce for the young peo
ple. Rosenheim had an "uncle," who
in consideration of his watch, studs,
and rings advanced him cash wherewith
to prolong the agony. When that
gave out Rosenheim thought it was
time to ring down the curtain, inter
esting as the play was. S.> he brought
her to the Grand Central Depot,
bought her a ticket for Peekskill and
kissed her goodbye. The poor thing
wept bitterly at being thus obliged to
depart from her oriental lover. In
this condition she was found by a
friend of her family who informed
her folks of her plight. She is now
home again, and if the gossips are to
he, I relieved, busily engaged on a lec
ture entitled "A Midsummer Night's
Dream."
The trotting track is likely to he
made additionally attractive this full
by the prcsftice of Mr. Robert Bon
ner. The smashing of records both in
single and double harness by Mr.
Vauderbilt's and Mr. Work's horses
seems to have aroused the veteran and
in September it is more than likely
that he will allow some of his cattle
to appear at the Gentlemen's Driving
Park and show that when it comes to
racing they have a word to say. The
turf proper will also be next season
enriched bv the appearance of a num
ber of gentlemen whose colors will be
sported for glory and not for gain.
Among the more noted ones are those
of Commodore Kittson who has pur
chased the celebrated Erdeuheini stock
farm of Aristides Welch, and who will
enter his yearlings for next years
stakes. It is just such men that are
needed to keep up the turf, for other
wise the Waltons and that ilk who
regard it only as a variation on piore
unpretentious methods of gambling
would soon drug it down to the level
on which the trotting turf' was before
the present revival.
The Influence or Forests oil t'lliuate,.
Man is a destructive creature. For
his present benefit he destroys the fu
ture of continents. The tree-cutting
axe has played an important part in
the travel of civilization westward
with the sun. Now that the circle of
the globe has been made by civilized
man a halt is called and philosophers
and scientists go back to the comtem
plation of causes and effects. The
problem of weather generation ig an
old one. The ancient inhabitants of a
little oasis in the province of Numidia
tried to break the spell of summer by
flogging a serpent and centuries before
the days of Romulus the Etruscans had
attempted the problem by establishing
a temple in a grove where an effort
was made to chase winter from the
lap.of spring by incantations and
charms. To-oay man has captured the
lightning and utilized the elements.
He can predict the weather; his next
business is to control it. The effect of
forest culture upon the climate and the
soil of continents is by fur the nios
serious problem of modern civilization*
I)r. Oswald in au able easay on
" Weather Factories " in the current
number of the International Review
gives the results of some historical re
search into the subject which are start
ling in the warning they give to mod
ern man. The denudation of the for
ests has turned Asia Minor from a
luxuriant garden to a howling, blind
ing, thirsty desert. The past and pres
ent condition of Asia Minor can be
approximated if one imagines what
would be the appearance of Massachu
setts after a twelve days visitation
from a sand storm. The luxuriant
vegetation of Central Asia even in the
days of the Roman Empire of the
West surpassed anything of the kind
that can be attained to-day 011 the
American continent by cultivation. In
an area of thirty thousand square
miles Mithridates raised armies that
for twenty-two years defied the all
conquering bests of Rome. Cyrus the
Great passed his vacations in Babylon,
in *' a region of perpetual spring,"
where now the sand storms have cover
ed the gigantic ruins of that once
mighty city. There was a time when
Greek emperors located their country
seats in Central Asia and enchanted
by a delightful climate anil perfect
scenery a Greek could forget bis na
tive laud. But the destroying axe
worked steadily on the protecting for
ests and to-day the meadow brooks aie
gone, the lovely dells and cool retreats
are no more and the rich stretches of
productive land have vanished. The
traveler meets only weary wastes of
waterless deserts, blinding sand storms
and insufferable heat. Asia Minor no
longer needs armies to repel her ene
mies. The tire-wind of the Arabian
desert is an effectual protection against
invaders.
Europe in the destruction of her
forests has been following in the foot
steps of Asia. There was a time in
Italy when winters were sharp and
cold, when it was a yearly occurence
to sec the yellow Tiber ice-bound.
Now the winter season brings warm,
wet, unhealthful weather and the sum
mers are hot and dry. Southern Eu
rope is fading as Africa did twelve
centuries ago. Italy is preparing the
way for visitations from Siroccos.
Portions of the once fertile coasts of
Spain are degenerating into treeless
deserts. The sand drifts struck the
west coast of France near Cape Bre
ton in the seventeenth century and
their encroachments drove half a hun
dred hamlets from arable soil to loca
tions further landward, until the pro
prietor of an endangered farm stopped
the work of destruction by protecting
his garden with brush wattles. The
abundance of forests in America has
thus far prevented any serious climatic
changes although the effects of strip
ping the hills of trees are already be
ginning to appear. Within the last
forty years the temperature of the five
mountain states of the Alleghanies
has steadily moderated in winter and
increased in summer. Streams in the j
southern states, which in the first half
of the century were solidly frozen j
every winter have been ice covered but j
once or twice in the last fifteen years. !
In Western Pennsylvania and We t
Virginia heavy snow storms have be
come shorter in duration and come at
longer intervals. In the gulf states
and the West Indies the clearing of 1
the forests has already produced ex- I
tensive sand barrens.
Experience dearly bought has taught
the value and necessity of tree culture.
The manufacture of weather is des
tined to become a science. The de
stroyer has already turned too many
lands of Eden into uninhabitable des
erts. The imperial council of Russia
has sanctioned amendments to legisla
tive acts which provide for the taking
of measures to improve the climatic
condition of southern Russia. The
destruction of trees has reduced the
lowlands in France in value at least
one-half, and those of Africa, Asia
Minor, Syria, Armenia, Persia, Greece
and Spain eighty per cent. A scien
tific system of tree culture has enabled
the dwellers on the coast of Europe to
reclaim ten thousand acres per year in
Denmark, Belgium and eastern Prus
sia. The planting of umbrella pines
in portions of Belgium has more than
doubled the average monthly rain fall
in summer, and decreased it in winter.
In 1832 Mehemet Ali undertook to
reclaim the sand plains on the coast of
Egypt. Fifteen millions of fruit and
forest trees were planted, eightv per
cent, of which took root and flourished.
The result has been that the averuge
yearly rain fall has increased from 0.
to 14 inches, and the average tempera
ture at Suez decreased from 92 de
grees Fahrenheit to 80 degrees. If
the increase of population in this coun
try continues at anything near the
present rate of six hundred and eighty
thousand foreigners a year, in another
century there will be as many inhabi
tants to the square mile here as in the
most thickly populated portions of
Europe. Climatic influences will then
he a matter of vital importance, but it
then may be too late to give them at
tention. Now is the time. Laws are
needed in all the states of the Union
looking to the preservation of the for
ests. To use the expression of an an
cient Roman, the destroyer of a tree
nymph should be held as guilty as a
murderer. The forestry associations
which are here and there being organ
ized should be encouraged aud their
number increased. They may prove
the saviours of the nation. Trees pro
pagate themselves. They assist in the
fertilizing ofthe soil, they are the na
tural defense against heavy winds and
they regulate the climate. With the
proper cultivation of the climatic
science the age may not he far distant
when men will blame themselves for
permitting a drouth and when the
weather may he controlled as lightning
is utilized.
AFTER DI'RNBIDE'S HOARD.
IVolcome News to the Claimants.
Lawyer llrumier Returns From Ireland Con
fulent That His Clients are John Jiurnside's
Heirs—The Contest for the Sugar Plant
er's Fight Millions.
Henry U. Brunner, ofthe Montgom
ery county bar,who early in June sail
ed for Ireland to inquire into the his
tory and family connections of the lute
John Bumside, the millionaire sugar
planter and speculator,of'New Orleans,
iias just arrived at his home in Norris
town. His investigations in Ireland
were attended with difficulty and re
quired hard and protracted work, hut
lie lias satisfied himself that the clients
who he represents are in right and law
entitled to a share in the dead man's
millions. John Bumside, according
to his own statement, made to numer
ous living witnesses, left County Ty
rone, Ireland, for America, in 1819,
being at the time about eighteen years
old. He came to Louisiana and,
shrewd, well educated and with the
touch of a Mides, lie soon acquired a
large fortune as a sugar planter. Sever
al of his partners retired with hand
some fortunes, but he still stuck to his
business. The war found him one of
the richest planters in the South and
the possessor of over three thousand
slaves. These were of course freed, hut
as he had retained his allegiance to the
British Government his property was
not confiscated and by giving him the
opportunity to buy up at nominal pri
ces the land taken from Confederate
planters the war greatly added to his
wealth. Shortly afterwards he took
out naturalization papers. On June
29, 1881, he died of apoplexy,at White
Supliur Springs, the richest sugar plan
ter of the United States, his fortune
being estimated at from eight to ten
millions of dollars.
THE CLAIMANTS FOR THE MILLIONS.
In 18.17 lie made a will disposing of
about 8300,000 of his estate, hut con
taining no residuary clause. As he
was a bachelor and had 110 known rela
tives the State of Louisiana laid claim
to his fortune.
Several other claims were soon pre
sented. The would-be hairs, represen
ted by Mr. Bunner, are the grandchil
dren an<l great-grandchildren of Wil
liam Burnside, who came to this coun
try from County Tyrone in 1792 ami
died in 1819. William, according to
their claim, was the brother of John's
father, aud Mr. Brenner's investiga
tions have convinced him that such
was indeed the ease. William Burn
side had four childred, Thomas, Fran
cis, John and a daughter, who after
wards married a gentleman named
Kilpatrick. Thomas Burnside was for
the greater part of his life a resident
of Centie county, whero he was in
early life appointed to a Judgeship.
In 1841 Governor Porter appointed
hi in President Judge ofthe Montgom
ery County Court, and four years later
he was elevated to the Supreme Bench
of the State, where he remained until
his death in Philadelphia in 185(i.
It is said that Judge Burnside and
the Louisiana planter were for years
intimately acquainted, and that letters
which passed between them, showing
that they were both satisfied of their
relationship to each other, are still in
existence. Francis, the brother ofthe
.Judge also long since deceased, resi
ded during the later portion of his lite
in Gwynedd township, Montgomery
county, and was for years prominent
as a local Democratic politician.
PHILADELPIUANR HAVE A SHARE.
John left two children, who are
both dead, but whose children are liv
ing in Clarion county, Ohio, and Sus
sex county, Delaware. One of Judge
Burnside's sons, who nlsoattnined judi
cial honors, married Simon Cameron's
eldest daughter. He is now dead, but
has left tnree children. The living
childreu of the Judge are William
Bnrusidc and Mrs. Mary Morris, of
Philadel pliia, Thomas Burside, of IJelle
fonte, and Mrs. Bowe, of Centre coun
ty. The children of Francis Burnside
are Thomas and Mrs. Ellen Keesey,
of Philadelphia ; Mrs. Amelia Bean, of
Montgomery ; James, residing in Gwy
nedd ; Washington, who lives in Mary
land, and William, of Sussex couuty,
Delaware. Mrs. Margaret Law, of
Lower Providence, is the only daugh
ter of the Judge's sister, Mrs. Kilpat
rick.
Iu 1857 John Burnside revisited his
native land, and from people who there
saw and dealt with him Mr. Brunner
has heard many facts concerning his
early history. In Belfast he hud a
confidential agent, to whom it is said
that at the opening of the war he cent
for safe keeping nearly 8800,000 iu
specie. The litigation over the estate
promises to he long and remarkable,
and a number of eminent lawyers, both
here and in Louisiana, have already
been retained by the contending par
ties.
THE Chicago Inter-Ocean says:
"There are more thau 1,000 cats con
nected with the United States postal
service, their especial duties beiug to
distribute rats aud vanquish mice that
are prone to make mail bags their
habitat." Have they been assessed ?
Signing the Declaration.
The Men who Pledged their Lives, Fortunes
and Sacred Honor.
lii looking at the signatures to the
Declaration, not one is written with a
trembling band except Stephen Hop
kins. It was not fear that made him
tremble, for he was as true a patriot as
any of them, but be was afflicted with
the palsy.
But one of the residences ofthe sign
ers is attached to his name, aud that is
of Charles Carrol. It is said that one
was looking over his shoulder when
he wrote his name, and said to him,
"There are several of your name, and
if we are unsuccessful they will not
know whom to arrest." He immedi
ately wrote " of Carrolton," as much
as to say if there is reproach connected
with this, I wish to hear my share ;if
any danger, I am ready to face it.
There was genuine patriotism.
It was rather amusing, after they
had signed their names, to bear Ben
jamin Franklin say toSamuel Adams:
"Now, I think we will all hang to
gether." " Yes," said Mr. Adams, "or
we shall all bang separately." Many
have supposed that all the names were
signed on the 4th of July, 1770. Not
so. It was signed on that day only by
the President, John Hancock, and
with his signature it was sent forth to
the world. On. the second day of
August it was signed by all but one of
the fifty-six signers whose names are
appended to it. The other attached
his name in November.
The signers of the Declaration of
Independence were all natives of the
American soil with the exception of
eight. Sixteen of them were from the
Eastern or New England Colonies,
fourteen from the Middle, and eighteen
from the Sothern Colonies. One was
a native of Maine, nine were natives of
Massachusetts, two of Rhode Island,
four of Connecticut, three of New
Jersey, five of Pennsylvania, two of
Delaware, five of Maryland, nine of
Virginia and four of South Carolina.
Two were horn in England, three in
Ireland, two in Scotland, and one was
horn in Wales.
Twenty-seven of the signers had
been regularly graduated in colleges,
or about one-half. Twenty others had
received a thorough academic educa
tion, and the remainder had each been
taught at a plain schooljor at home. Of
the fifty-six signers twenty-five had
studied the institutions of Great Britain
while sojourning in that country. All
had something to lose if the struggle
should result in failure to them. Many
of them were very wealthy, and with
very few exceptions, all of them were
blessed with a competence.
Thirty-four of the signers were law
years, thirteen were planters or farm
ers, nine were merchants, five were
mechanics, one was a clergyman, one
a mason, and one a surveyor. The
youngest member of Congress when
the Declaration was signed, (Hutledge j
was twenty-seven years of age; the
oldest one (Dr. Franklin) was seven
ty. Forty-two of the fifty-six were
between thirty and fifty years of age;
the average age of all was forty-three
years and ten months.
They ail lived to a good old age.
The average of fifty-three at the time
ot their decease was over sixty-eight
years. The last survivor was Chas.
Carrol, of Carrolton, being overninety
when he died. Fourteeu signers lived
to he eighty years old, and four past
ninety. 'I he pen used by the signers
is preserved in the Massachusetts His
torical Society at Boston. * What tales
that pen could speak ! What a histo
ry there is connected with it!
Not one of the signers ever fell from
the high estate to which that great act
had elevated him. It had been well
said that " the annals of the world can
present no political body the lives of
whose members, minutely traced, ex
hibit so mgch of the zeal ofthe patriot,
dignified and chastened by the virtues
of the man."
The Tariff Commissioners are hav
ing a good time at Long Branch.
They struck the Branch just in the
height of the season, when lieauty and
fashion abound, and are calmly snif
fling the exhilarating breezes that
come in from the vasty deep. All
things in nature, both animate and
inanimate, are charming. The rolling
waves, upon which no one aver wearies
of gazing, stir the soul and inspire the
noblest and the grandest thoughts;
the white-winged vessels skimming the
sea are beautiful to behold ; hundreds
of young ladies, superlatively attrac
tive in their elegant bathing suits, dis
port like mermaids in the surf; or,
richlv attired and sparkliug with dia
monds, dizzily float in the mazes of
the dance. Nothing is lacking to
make the Commission's sojourn at the
Branch delightful. Besides, each mem
ber gets ten dollars a day, and they
are aware of the fact that the country
does not expeet their report to be of
any special value. 80, with minds at
ease and expenses paid, to them the
days pass dreamily away. Who would
not be a Tariff Commissioner at Long
Branch in midsummer?— Timet Star.
MR. SKILLET read in a rash house
hold journal that a man should treat
his servent girl as he would his daugh
ter. Mr. Skillet was in the habit of
taking his daughter on his lap and
kissing her, and as his servant was
sweet eighteen and pretty, he under
took to treat her the same way, but
bis wife objected. She objected so
violently that the lump on the left
side of Skillet's head has not yet sub
sided.
Tiic Fourteenth District.
COLONEL 6AM lIAHK 3 LMK(J£|{ HICNAIB
WIM. JUDGE MCPHERSON HE TRADED KOK
HARK ?
HABRIHBURfi, August 8.
TIIG outlook for inachiiic
is far from flattering in this district.
Heretofore the Senator had no diffi
culty in his way that was not easy of
removal. He sent Mr. Sam Han- to
Congress two years ago, just as lie
would have sent him on an errand
and has always been able to manipu
late delegates and conventions, with
out consulting popular feeling 'or tho
public interest. There is trouble
ahead this year for him and his de
pendents. Josiah Funk, Esq., may
get the Lebanon delegates for Asso
ciate Judge, and it has been intimated
here that it may become necessary to
trade off the present Judge, John 15.
McPherson, Esq., to make sure of
Lebanon's support for iiarr. This
would be likely to raise a breeze, even
among the subservient Cameron politi
cians of Lebanon county, and there
are none more so in the State, judging
by the specimens that come here to
represent that county. 15arr is the
Jumbo in the Cameron menagerie and
would be bounced if he did not know
too much. Still, the displacement of
Judge McPherson will be a high price
to pay for another term of Parr, and
will be resented by our people, without
distinction of party. MePher.-on gives
promise of becoming one of the lead
ing jurists of the State, and if sound
policy controls the selection, rather
than partisan intrigue, the result can
not be in doubt.
Wolfe had over 3,000 votes in the
district and the independent ticket is
considerably stronger this year. There
will be thorough organization and the
certainty of success inspires ail with
enthusiasm. Parr wants no Inde
pendent support and scorns the move
ment for reform. In one of his spiri
ted interviews, recently published in
the Press, he declared the Independent
Republicans to be "so manv asses."'
They certainly would deserve the ap
pellation if they re-elected him' to
Congress. Cameron may, however, be
compelled by the pressure of public
opinion to withdraw him from the can
.vass, with a view of strengthening
himself and his State ticket. Parr
will he a heavy load for Beaver. His
candidacy means fight a third candi
date and the probable loss of the
Fourteenth district to the Republicans.
Time*.
TIIE Republican Senators, reinforced
by their latest recruit, Mr. Voorhees. of
Indiana, yesterday voted against while
all the Democratic Senators voted for
Senator Bayard's amendment to the
Kn.t Goods biil. This rascality was
passed after a speech by Wood Pulp
Miller, who seems to hold retainers
from every branch of the lobby. Thus
in order to enrich about twenty-five
manufacturers and a powerful lobby and
possibly some Senators, and in the very
face of a tariff revision conference (over
which it has been understood that u
(lag of legislative truce as to protection
has been raised,) every sailor and miner
in the 1 nited States who wears a woolen
cap, every man, woman and child in
the United States who wears knitted
woolen drawers, undershirts or socks,
is to be amerced in the sum of fifty
cents and upwards upon each of these
articles purchased for the benefit ot two
dozen monopolists, their attorneys and
their tools. Ret the Knit-Goods bill he
pressed to the account of the Republi
can Congressional robbeis upon every
stump in the country.— X. J". HW/.
TEMPTATION is far belter shunned
than grappled with. We may get
strength by a victorious encounter,
and so gain tbe beatitude, "Blessed is
the man that euduretb temptation.''
But we may be worsted in the trial,
and so get the spoils of tbe conquered
—wounds and bruises and dishonor.
Southy says truly: "To grapple with
temptation is a venture ; to flv front it
is a victory."
WE ask our young readers to say
tbe following alliteration as rapidly as
their tongues will allow after they
have committed it to memory : Five
brave maids sittiug on five broad beds
braiding broad braids ; said I to these
five brave maids sitting on five broad
beds braiding broad braids, braid
broad braids brave maids.
A I'EiwoN overheard two country
men, who were observing a naturalist
in the field collecting insects, say to
one another, "What's that fellow do
ing, John ?" "Why, he's a nat-uralist."
"What's that?" "Oue who caches
gnats, to be sure."
A POEM commences, "Under the
willow he's lying." He must be a
tramp. They lie under all sorts of
trees. One was discovered lying un-.
der an axle tree the other morning.
The owner of the wagon made him
wheel wright around and leave.
BOYS are so very careless and im
pulsive where their pleasures are con
cerned. Two Brooklyn juveniles were
severely punished last week for stoning
their mother's new bonuet, under the
impression that it was a wasp's nest.
THE greatest length of Lake Erie
is 250 miles; its greatest breadth kBO
miles ; its depth is 84 mean feet; ele
vation, 261 feet; area, 6,000 square
miles.
"YOUNO man," said the master "I
always eat the cheese rind." And the
new apprentice replied : "Just so ; I
am leaving it for you."