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THE SENTINEL'S CHRISTMAS EVE.
BY GULA AIERF,DITH
"Slowly I'm pacing my lonely round,
Cold is the night and white is the ground,
All seems very quiet to-night, I think—
Ha! what is that! down there by the brink
Of the woods? who goes there?Jtis a dog,
Had it be3n a man, he'd been dead as alog."
4 ,`That is Charlie's dog. I must tell his
master,
: •3I ust keep him in or he'll meet with
• ster;
Dear brother! we've roughed it all aorts of
"-weather;
I wish hiand I were both home together,
Oz-this Christmas Eve. What a time there
would be,
What a fuss they would make over Charlie
and me."
"Sweet 7 ife! I know whom you think of
sow,
Ad whose name you breathe, as you
meekly bow
Nln prayer at the miditight hour. I ween,
, (The fairest and sweetest that ever was
seen), .
Our darlings are sleeping, their socks in a
row,
While I am still trudging it, here in the
show.'!
4 "'Tie very cold: I'll be glad when they
come,
To relieve the guard; I am almost numb,
Bark! what is that? 'tis that dog again;
What has got into his silly brain
To be out such a night as this? call him
And send him in, or some ill will befall
him."
"Come here, sir; come Nero,old fellow, come
here!
He surely must hear me, make haste sir,
don't fear!
Here's the guard! what is that? it sounds
like the click
Of a trigger! who goes there ? run boys,
quick!
'There he goes! yes, rm shot! catch him,who
may,
I'll mount guard no more! he has Tut me
away!"
“Yes! I'm dying. Don't grieve, boys, 'tis
all for the best,
'Tis only one more that is gone to rest.
Tell my wife that for her was my last
falt'ring aigh;
It is .sad, yet 'tis sweet for our country to
die;
See there, boys, see there, how bright the
day's dawning!”
For he stood at the gateway of Heaven, in
the morning!
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
We have received from J. B. Lippincott
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a text book on Chemical Physics and In
organic and Organic Chemistry; illustrated
with 163 new wood cuts one colored plate.
By Professors Morton and Leeds.
We remember how much we were amused
by a passage in one of Dickens's stories—
David Copper&ld we k it was—in
which is described the first attempt at short
band writing by David, and how theorator,
whose speech he was attempting to catch
.s s nd transcribe, walked away from him,
leaving him hopelessly behind. Now
science seems to be performing the same
fe*with those was make elementary books
for schools and classes. In books on Natural
Philosophy, prepared for such purposes, we
have looked i3;l' vain to find any notice of
some o the most remarkable discoveries of
modem times. Science has walked away
from the authors, and they are quite out of
sight of some of its most surprising
triumphs. The wonderful Ruhmkorff Coil,
- which enables the adept to perform such
splendid electric experiments, putting at
his command the very lightning flash of
the sky; the singular spectroscope, which
htts opened up a new world of facts with
rsgard to the composition of matter by the
d of light, leading to the discovery of four
new bodies, and revealing the chemical
•compo*ion of the fixed stars and nature of
the nebulae; , the splendid and peculiar
effects of the magnesium light, by means
of which the light of gas burners is made_
to diaappear in shadows, and opportunity
is offered of taking beautiful photographs
by night and in dark caves and 'dim cathe
drals;theswand other triumphs ofscience,we
havfe'looked to see mentioned in Modern
text books for ho - ols, but we failed, till to
( e took up the "Student's
actfcal Chemistry." There we find all
these matters revealed fully, Clearly and
ably, and illustrated by a laige number of
admirably executed wood cuts. The prac
tical directions and suggestions given in the
book are evidently the result of long con-
tinned successful experiments, making it
useful to practical operators as well as to
students. The singular skill which Prot
Morton has alWays showed in his taanitni
lation and ::experimexital trials led us to
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Railroads in Northeastern Pennsylvania
In an article on Railroads in the Norm
eastern corner of the Commonwealth, the
Pittsburgh Gazette says :
The first work of magnitude executed was
the Delaware and Hudson Canal, extending
from Rondout, on the Hudson, to Port Jer
vis, on the Delaware, thence up the left bank
of the Delaware to a point nearly opposite
the mouth of Lackawaxen. thence across
the Delaware, on a suspension aqueduct,
constructed by Mr. Robling, upon the plan
adopted in one of the bridges over the Alle
gheny, in this city, thence up the Lacks
waxen to Honesdale. From Honesdale to
Scranton is a railroad on which ran the first
locomotive ever used in the United States—
a huge, cumbrous machine, of English
manufacture, that ought to have been pre
served as a curiosity, but was not. This
road crosses the Moosic Mountains by in
clined planes and stationary engines, with
two separate tracks, one for empty ana the
other for loaded ears. It crosses the moun
tains through Rix's Gap, at the elevation of
1,700 feet above this water.
Next the Erie Railway, which skirts the
northeastern border, part way in Pennsyl
vania, but mainly n New rork. In Sus
quehanna county, Pa., this road has the
largest, machine shop owned by any Com
pany in America.
Then the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Railroad. This starts from the
Erie Railway, at Great Bend, in Susque
hanna county, passes on to Scranton, in
Luzern - county, thence to Stroudsburg,' in
Monroe county, thence down the Delaware
to near Epton, in Northampton county,
where it connects with the New Jersey Cen
tral, which terminates at Jersey City. This
is a broad gauge road like the Erie.
The Pennsylvania Coal Company has two
lines of railroad, one for empty and another
for full cars, extending from Pittston, just
above Wilkesbarre, on the Susguehannarto.
Hawley, ten miles below Honesdale, on
the Delaware and Hudson Canal. These
railroad tracks cross the Moosic Mountains,
through Cobb's:Gap, by stationary engines.
From Hawley to the month of the Lack
awaxen, a distance of fiftaen miles, is a
broad gange locomotive road, built by the.,
Pennsylvania Coal Company, and run by
the Erie, Railway Company under a perpe
tual lease.
The Pennsylvania Coal Company has the
right,on the puyment of certain tolls, t use
one-half the capacity of the Delaware and
Hudson Canal, and has besides access to
the Hudson by rail over the Hawley branch
and the Erie Railway,
The new road spoken of above, by the
Scranton Republican, must follow from
Hawley over the Meosic Mountains sub
stantially the same route as the roads of the
Pennsylvania Coal Company. Archibald
is in the Lackawanna Valley, a few miles
above Scranton.
This year, over these lines about 3,500,000
tons of anthracite coal must have been sent
from Luzerne county into New York. In
the Lehigh region New Yorkers have been
equally enterprising. Whatever prejudices
may exist elsewhere fn Pennsylvania
against' New York 'connections, there is
none in the northeastern counties. But for
such connections those counties would have
remained almost in their primitive condi
tion. While the New Yorkers have had
an
. eye to their own interests in -all these
projects, they have necessarily promoted,
and. on a large scale, the welfare of Penn
sylvania.,
Execution of a Murderer.
_
RocErEsma, Dec. 22.—Wilson, the mur
derer of Devoe at Portage, was hung to-day
at Genesee.
The murder took place'on the 16th of May.
Wilson went to the gallows with the same
callous spirit he had shown since his con
viction, and smiledwith contempt upon the
scene in which he was the most prominent
person. He deniedthat he had killed Devoe,
but admitted he knew whciwas'the guilty
party. He refused to entertain any clergy
man as spiritual adviser. Sheriff Chase has
caused a photograph to be taken, as he was
on his way from the jail to the gallows,
against his protest. For this he , told the
sheriff, as he stood with the rope about his
neck, he would take his (the sheriff's) pic
ture quick t if he had the power, He died
like a brute, without looking for sympathy_
from any one present. Wilson confessed he
didnot bear his true name, and' refused to
diaclose it, or tell his history to his coru3seL
He did, bowever, confess he killed the Hon.
„Burr Burton, of Syracuse, in May last, and
also a Mrs. Lewes, at Lancaster, Ohio,about
a year since. He hinted at many other
crimes but disclosedno particulars, and gave
his body to hie counsel, who sold it to a sur
geon at Nunda. '
AND LIVE, LAME,
: i 'I = It I ' I Li s , 1865.---TRIPLE SHEET.
AND GROW FAT
The Supreme Court—The Continuation of
Garland's Case—Constitutionality of the
Test Oath.
WAsinNerox, December 22, 1865.—1 n the
Supreme Court of the United States, to-day,
pending the case =parte A. H. Garland, of
Arkansas, tusking to be allowed to practise
as a counsellor, the Hon. Reverdy Johnson
delivered an argument against the constitu
tionality of the Congressional test oath, say
ing, there being no such antecedent Govern
ment as our own, it is necessary to look into
that instrument itself, to see what powers
were originally conferred upon Congress.
None being stated, Congress is authorized
to pass all necessary and proper laws to
carry them into effect. These powers are to
be so construed as to effect the object they
are designed to accomplish. It is the duty
of the court to ascertain what this is, and
then to determine whether the impeached
legislation will defeat or secure the end. A
restriction to this class of powers is that
Congress shall pass no ex post facto law, or
bill of attainder, and the meaning of this
is well understood to be any law which
makes an act a crime which was not a crime
when the act was committed ; that the law
of 1865 does punish in point of fact, because
it precludes the petitioner from the exercise
of a lawful occupation, and strikes at a pro
fession in vi , hich his hopes and ambition and
the support of himself and his family are
involved.
The punishment is severe, cruel and un
exampled: It subjects him to all the obliga
tions of the Constitution, while it takes
Isom him all its advantage. The original
act of 1862 was not made applicable to
Attorneys in the Courts of the United
States. Three years were suffered to elapse,
when some one in Congress, who may have
been peculiarly sensitive, and who saw
danger in every man who had taken part
in the Rebellion, introduced a bill apply
ing the provisions of the law to practising
attorneys.
The bill was submitted to the Judiciary
Committee of the Senate, and by a unani
mous vote was rejected. It afterwards,
however, received the sanction of the Senate.
It was passed for the purpose of excluding
the petitioner and all others similarly
situated, and to punish by excluding them
Trom the United States Court. It was not
for conduct subsequent, but antecedent to
the passage of the statute. This act comes
within the clear meaning of the clause in
the Constitution that "Congress shall pass
no cx post facto law or bill of attainder."
No rights can be taken away by law unless
theaccused shall be first convicted of the
cffence charged, and those rights include
the holding of offices of emolument and
trust.
Such laws as that of 1865 were penal
statutes.
The Attorney General, on Friday, had
argued that the admission to practise in the
Courts is not a natural right, but is created
by law, and therefore may be regulated by
law, and be either given or taken away; but
it is not trte that Ccngress can by law pro
hibit the appearance of counsel in the Courts
of the United States.
The Constitution provides that parties
charged with crimes still have the benefit of
counsel, and therefore Congress has no ju
risdiction over that subject. It is true that
every Court is vested by the common law
with power to make regulations to exclude
improper officers, but Congress has no right
to say who shall or who shall not appear as
counsel.
The obligation which is imposed on Con
gress to create Courts carries with it an ob
ligation on tha part of the Court , to admit
counsel, and the safety of the ,citizen dee
pends on the existence of the provision for
the admission of counsel, and the preserva
tion of liberty demands, as illustrated by
the history of the world, that there should
he such a body of men.
In all revolutionary struggles and despot
isms which have disgraced - the world, the
accused have been denied counsel. Con
gress would convert itself into a tyranny if
a hill establishing courts would exclude
such's class of men. The act of Congress
under review compels a man to swear
against himself, while ico power is given to
the Court to inquire into the facts. No man,
by the Constitution, is compelled to testify
against himself. The petitioner, with others,
was involved in the effort to establish their
separate independence of the authority of the
United States, and resisted it by levying
war. The punishmenn for treason anterior
to the passage of the act of 1865 was death
or imprisonment, but this act - imposes an
additional penalty, that persons thus ac
cused shall not be admitted as attorneys in
the United States Courts.
Congress, in 1862, passed a law, saying
whenever the President deemed proper he
might declare a general amnesty, while
the Constitution itself confers upon him the
exclusive power of granting pardons and
reprieves. The pardon places the recipient
of it in the position he stood before the com
mission of the crime, and makes him a new
man and divests him of all antecedent con
sequences.
Suppose the law of 1865 had been made a
part of the act for the punishment of treason
and the man committing the crim. had
been pardoned, would it not also tilipe[ex
empted him from the punisetit for the
offense and prveented him from - being ex
cluded from practising as an attorney in
the United States Courts. The pardon
covers every part of the offence,
and
Congress cannot, after the pardon has been
granted, pass a law to punish tor the offence
pardoned. The disgraceful fact is presented
to the world, that Congress undertakes to
interfere by denying the power of pardon,
as conferred by the constitution exclusively
on the President without limit. Congress
cannot say to the petitioner, you shall be
tried for treason, after having been pardon
ed. If this was true of one class, of coarse
it was true of all others.
Mr. Johnson quoted from various judicial
opinions to fortify the points of argument
by him presented.
The Court holds the matter under advise
ment, and has adjourned until Tuesday
next.
SPEER'S SAMBURG 'PORT WINE.-Mr.
Speer, an enthusiastic horticulturist in New
Jersey, has a very excellent wine matte
from the Samburg .or Port grape. The bent
judges pronounce it auger!). it said to
have been adopted by the New York Hos
pital and physiciansgianerally, as a very
superior wine, and held fin high estimation
for its medical properties. It is also reconi
mended by ':Many medical gentlemen for
female weakness and general debility. We
touched it to our lips somewhat unwillingly,
but were agreeably disaPpointed in finding
one of the most delicions wines we have
ever tasted. We hope I that_ our leading
physicians will test the virtues of this wine. ,
—N. I r . Times.
Bold by our druggists.,
EVERY NIGHT AND
EVERY AFTERNOON
OUR: WI" OLE COUNTRY
Sherman In Arkansas—El Good Speech.
A convention of delegates from all the
counties in Arkansas met at Little Rock on
the 11th, to take into consideration the po
litical affairs of the State. Maj.-Gen. W. T.
Sherman, who was visiting that Department,
was invited to attend, and accepted the invi
tation. He was received by Dr. T. L. Gib
son, the President, who, in his address,
made certain complaints on behalf of the
citizens of Arkansas, theprincipal one be
ing the test soath adopted by the existing
State authorities, and asked the General to
aid them to a full realization of their civil
rights without delay.
Gen. Sherman responded as follows :
Gentlemen: You are fully informed of
the reasons why I am here, which is by spe
cial invitation of your committee. I am a
military man, and as such it is not expected
or desired that I shall engage in any politi
cal discussion, or give you any ' advice
politically. We military men dislike to
mingle in political movements. We are
sworn to obey the Constitution and laws,
and in this country the laws govern.
I have not stopped to inquire by what
authority you come together nor do I care;
for citizens of any neighborhood, county or
State, have a right to meet together and
consult as to the best mode of promoting
the interests of the community, but be sure
you represent the sentiments of the people.
I think you ought to be very careful that
you reflect the opinion of the whole people
of Arkansas. I know the people of the
South, and I know no Southera gentleman
would willingly or intentionall y represent
himself to be what he is not. But I under
stand you are citizens of Arkansas, and
delegates of the people,therefore you have a
right to be here to discuss matters of inter
est to yourselves ; to consider your
grievances, if you have any, and to peti
tion the President or Congress for redress,
and I believe they will do you justice.
But you have a more important work. It
is not . politicaL Your State needs attention
in other directions. I come here from a
distance, and I tell you I lind;you far be
hind all other parts of the country. Give
your immediate attention to these things
which will make your State inviting to the
stranger to come and settle among you.
You have not fifty miles of good roads in
Arkansas. Improve these; make traveling
more easy from point to point. You are be
hind your sister States because you have
not adopted any system of internal improve
ment or developed any of your vast re
source's.
You are welcomed back into the Union,
which is today stronger than ever, and the
United States is now more highly honored
abroad than heretofore, and beloved at
home. But you think you have not all the
rights you are entitled to, yet you now have
more rights and privileges under existing
circumstances than you would have in any
civilized country except America. Had yon
done 'as yon did in this land, under the
bloody flag of Great Britain or the tricolor
of France, many of yon would not be here,
and you would not have'been permitted to
assemble as you are now assembled, and
talk over political questions and rights. Is
not the meeting of this Convention the best
evidence that you have a good deal of
liberty. As to the measure of your rights
I cannot inform yon. What is right and
wrong Ido not profess to know, and Ido
not think you know, but we can all under
stand what is law. In mire as to what is
lawful--that is plain and simple. Act law
fully and you will do right. There are
large lumbers of lawyers within the sound
of my voice who can tell you what is lawful.
Confess to the law. This is all we, as mill
tarymen, can sanction. Law iigg our guide.
I _lake the liberty of suggesting to you the
propriety of every citiyAn helping his neigh
bors. The country is poor, and you can all
do something towards building it up and
restoring it to prosperity. Cultivate the soil;
Set your plantation' in order; make every
possible improvement; get your local and
county affairs in good shape. Such work
will be far more important and benefic.'..l
than whether you shall vote this year or
next, or not until two or three years hence.
There need be no hurry about this political
organization; bide your time; help build up
the country, and never mind about voting
for the present. I believe all will work out
right in a few years. What you want in
this State is work—"elbow grease." You
have minerals and other resources; develop
those and let the matter of voting alone for
a while.
With one million of acres of good soil, fine
rivers, yet: our population is thinner than
in South Cairolinn, that you have been
taught to call uncivilized and barbarous.
You are partially responsible for this. Im
prove your roads, and do all you can to
make your State attractive to the immi
grant, You are behind in all this. Now go
to work earnestly in these directions and
then invite immigration. Fully as favored
as Missouri in climate and resources, you
can invite people hither, and many will
come and settle with you. I think lam not
overstating when I say that from 50,000 to
t;.1,000 persons will have come into Missouri
within the year, who will pay into the trea
sury from five to fifty dollars each as taxes.
With proper efforts Arkansas can receive a
large addition to her population and tax
paying citizens.
With reference to the particular thing
which brings youtogether, I have nothing
to say. Yet it yoWa' teed advice concerning
your interests as military men we cannot give
any, but as one gentleman to another we
can. General Reynolds will, as it is his
duty and will be equally his pleasure,
cheerfully confer wilh any of you and ren
der you all the aid he can.
But you think you are oppressed by the
State government. The fact that you are
here to-day to talk concerning it, shows
plainly that you are not suffering any severe
oppression from it.
Yon want peace; the nation wants peace;
we all desire peace, and I know we will
have it. Whether you want it or not yon
shall have it, for we have the power to en•
force it. [Loud cheers.]
AN ENORMOUS VASE.-A dispatch from
Toulon, France, announces the arrival there
of the ship-of-war Perdrix,from Limisso, in
the island of Cyprus, where the crew suc
ceeded', with great difficulty, in taking on
board the celebrated vase of Amathonte, one
of the finest ornaments of the temple of
Venus, built by the Phcenicians. Limisso,
the ancient Amathonte, was one of the cities
of former times most remarkable both fok
the luxurious habits of its people and the
splendor of its monuments. It was lately
'a mass of ruins possessing nothing but the
enormous vase brought to Tonlon by the -
Perdrix. This work of art weighs thirteen
tons, and its removal was hitherto con
sidered impossible.
DURING THE
HOLIDAY WEEK
ll:fields.= Potato trade. '
(From the Detroit Free Press, Dec. 10.]
The origin of the potato traffic in Michi
gan is so recent that its history can be
summed up in a few words. It was inau
gurated by Mr. Shoecraft, of Sturgis, St.
Joseph county, in the fall and winter of
1857-58. He bought at that time at fifteen
to twenty cents per bushel, according to
quality, and shipped them to New York
city. Of course the amount of his shipments
was rather small, since but few worth ship
ping could be obtained by him, and the fa
cilities for transportation were not first-class.
He packed them in barrels and sent them
in return emigrant cars, with a number of
men with each lot, to keep fires in the cars
to prevent the potatoes freezing. He also
shipped a few in the same way to Chicago.
In 1858 or 1859 he brought to Michigan,from
New Jersey,a quantity of the varietyknown
as "peach blows." He distributed the
amount brought by him to the farmers for
feed, and pledged himself to take in return,
at twenty-five cents per bushel, all they
could raise in two years from the seed fur
nished. The farmers considered the price
offered a most extraordinary one, and gladly
took advantage of the offer From that
time to this, but six or seven years,.the trade
has annually increased, and was this year
much larger than ever before. Mr. Shoe
craft's operations were originally along the
line of the Michigan Southern R. R., where
the amount of production has accordingly
greatly increased from year to year. Be
tween White Pigeon and Hudson it is
estimated that there are more potatoes
shipped than from all the rest of the State
together. In most of the other portions of
the State the trade is much newer, the
farmers having not yet become aware of the
importance and profit of raising potatoes.
This is practically the case along the line of
the Michigan Central Railroad, where the
trade has never been carried on to any ex
tent until within the past two or three years.
Eighty-one thousand eight hundred and
fifty bushels have been shipped from the
several stations on the line of this road
during the present season. The average
price paid was forty cents per bushel,
which gives the round sum of $32.740 paid
to the farmers for their potatoes. The ship
ments are ended for the present by the
setting in of cold weather. The farmers
through the region of country specified
have heretofore, and have this year, kept
back the bulk of their potatoes to sell in the
spring, as they usually bring better prices
at that season of the year. Besides, they
have them on hand to feed to stock, in
case they run short of other food. Taking
into account the amount already shipped
with the amount already held back, the
trade in potatoes is of no inconsiderable
importance. Michigan has the facilities for
furnishing potatoes enough to feed the whole
people of the United States.
From North Carolina.
WILMINGTON, Dec. .V...—People who are
sensitive about the negroes as the holidays
approach have observed that the number of
negroes in this city very perceptibly di
minished within a day or two, and it is said
that they have gone to a rendezvous in the
country. The authorities entertain no ap
plehension for the safety of this commu
nity, but admit the possibility of trouble in
the sparsely settled portions•of the country
in the interior.
It is reported that suspicious characters
have been seen lurking about for- a- week,
inciting the aeges to an outbreak. Mach
allowance should be made for the timidity
of the people. The apprehensions may be
well founded, but the best informed antici
pate nothing serious.
Should anything occur,the military force is
sufficient for the emergency. The organiza
tion of a home guard, under the ordinance
of the Constitutional Convention, is pro
ceeding rapidly, and fifteen to eighteen full
companies are organized in this county.
The officers have been appointed, but no
arms have yet been distributed.
General Rogers's order forbids the issue
of arms by the Government ordnance offi
cers, but they can be quickly distributed if
foun dwnecessnry.
Cleared, steamer Washington, New York;
brig Logan, 'Havana.
From Fortress Monroe.
FORTRESS MoNRoE, Dec. 21.—A portion
of the cargo of the English brig Victoria,
which was wrecked near Cape Henry, on
the 30th ult., was sold at Norfolk yesterday,
by the Board of Underwriters. Among the
lots sold was an assortment of brandy, the
duties on which amounted to $lB,OOO.
Fourteen Government buildings will be
sold at Portsmouth, Va.,on the 28th.
The steamer George Lary ran over an
oyster schooner in the bay last night, and it
is presumed sunk her with all hands, as
her boats could find no trace of the vessel
or of the crew.
From St. Louts.
ST. Louis, Dec. V.,.—The remains of Pre
sident Lincoln were removed yesterday
from the vault at the Oak Ridge Cemetery,
Springfield, to the new vault erected near
the site proposed for the monument. The
remains of Mr. Lincoln's two children were
placed in the same vault.
Robert Lincoln and the Directors of the
National Monument Association were pre
sent at the removal.
A•heavy snow has fallen on the plains,
and over twenty teams are snow bound at
different points, and large numbers of the
animals are dying from cold and starvation.
.From Georgia.
SAVANNAH, Dec. 22.—The trial of General
W. W. R. Mercer, charged with murder„in
shooting seven Union prisoners in this city
in December last, has been temporarily
suspended, awaiting orders from Washing
t6n. The steamer Indian River, belonging
to a New York Fishing Company, went
ashore at the mouth of the Indian River,
Florida, on . Dec. 3d. The vessel and cargo
were lost; but all hands were saved. The
receipts of cotton for the week have been
5,397 bales; exports, 1,524 bales; stock in
port, 10,070 bales. Sales of Middlings at
48@49c.
A Tram WORD.—"Spiridion" of the Bos
ton Gazette says : I remember one evening
I was thrown in company with the princi
pal of the most memorable duels of this
century. The other guests had taken their
departure. I was fond of late hours. It
was nearly two o'clock in the morning, and
we were alone. In the course of conversa
tion he said to- me, " Depend upon it, the
man who falls ifia duel is the party to be
envied, for the survivor ever afterward finds
earth to be hell." The longer I live, the
longer my experience, the more convinced
lam of the truth of the remark. No man,
let the provocation be what it may, can spill
blood with impunity.
CHRISTMAS DAY, - THRRE
GRAND PERFORMANCE
F. L. FETIEERSTION. PubliAer
THREE CENTS.
Lsterary Men In the French Legislature
_ .
A Paris letter in a London Journal says:
"The number of editors of newspapers and
contributors to the daily press who have
either a seat in the Senate or in the Chamber
of Deputies is note worthy. The great
writer on political economy, M. Michael
Chevalier, is perhaps among the most dis
tinguished of the Senators; next in im
portance ranks M. de . Sainte Benve, whose
'Causeries du Lundi' in the Constitutionnel
are written with as much care as any of
that great writer's most important works;
M. Darimon, one of the celebrated five, a.
recent convert to Imperialism, is deputy of
the Seine, and one of the most active con
tributors of La Press, M. Gamier de
Cassagnac, deputy of Gers, not only writes
in the Constitutionnel, Pays and Nation.,
but in several other papers. ,M. Gnerault,
deputy of the Seine , commenced his lite
rary career in the ebats; he was then con
tributor to the Pre,sse, and is now the well
known editor of the Opinion Nationale.
Another of the deputies, M.'Havin, edits the
Siecle. M. La Thnr Dnmonlin, member for
baube, wrote for fifteen years in the Bulle
tin de Paris, and latterly in the Fauche
Comte; Eugene Pelistan, Jules Simon, ecc.,
write in, the daily papers as often as they
speak in the House, and I need not remind
you how indefaiisable a contributor M.
Thier.3 has been to French journals. I
merely give the details to prove, the influ
ence and high standing which the notabili
ties of the press enjoy in this country, and
you will even find persons of high rank and
members of the anciennes noblesse—as, for
instance, Viscount de la Gnero - nniere, Vis
count de Calonne, Viscount Ponson do Ter
rail—gladly signing a leading article or even
afeuilleton in any of the daily papers.
From California
SiN Flu/casco, Dec. 22.—The Pacific
Railroad Land Grant bill passed the Senate
to-day.
_ .
Legal tenders, 66-1; mining stocks firm;
Savage $830; Ophir, $335.
Arrived ship Ladoga, New York. Spoken
December 8, latitude 38° 23' north, longitude
134° 28' west, barque Hallett, irom New
York tor this port, 145 days out.
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 21.—The Legislature
took an excursion on the Pacific Railroad
to Colfax to-day. The road was found in
splendid condition.
Frank Pixley has bought for the Yuba.
Railroad, the California Central Railroad
and rolling stock for $78,560.
THE FIRST AND LAST DITEL IN I
—The St. Louis Republican says: In Ford's
history of - Millais he states that the year
1820 was signalized by the first and last duel
which was ever fought in that State. It
took place at Belleville, St. Clair county,
between Alphonso Stewart and William
Bennett, two obscure men. The seconds
bad made it up to be a sham duel, to throw
ridicule upon Bennett, the challenging
party. Stewart was in the secret, but Ben
nett, his adversary, was left to believe it e.
reality. They were to fight with rifles;, the
guns were loaded with blank cartridges;
and Bennett, somewhat suspecting a trick,
rolled a ball into his gun without the know
ledge of the seconds, or of the other party.
The word to fire was given, and Stewart
fell, mortally wounded. Bennetk,made hia
escape, but two years afterward he was ar
rested in Arkansas, brought back to the
State. indicted, tried, and convicted of
murder.
"A great effort was made to procure his
pardon, but Governor Bond would yield to
no entreaties in his favor, and Bennett stif
fened the penalty of the law by hanging in
the presence of a great multitude of people.
This was the first and last duel ever fought
in the State by any of its citizens. The
hanging of Bennett made duelingdisuredit
'table and unpopular, and laid the founda
tion for the abhorrence of the practice
which has ever since been felt and ex
pressed by the people of Illinois. The late
Judge Lockwood was then the Attorney
General of the State, and prosecuted this
case. To his talents . and success as a prose
cutor the people are indebted for this early
precedent and example, which did more
than is generally known to prevent the
barbarous practice of dueling ,from being
introduced mto Illinois."
INTVRESITNG STATISTICS.—From the re
port of General Meigs, Chief Quartermaster
of the Army, we learn that during the last
year of the war we used 214,102 horses and
58,818 mules. These poor, dear creatures
were hardly ridden, especially when the
merciless genius of Sheridan controlled the
cavalry of the Potomac. How fearfully he
rode his men will be apprediated when it
was known that a horse did not last a man
more than four months, and that his army
had 'to be remounted three times a year.
To feed these horses when in Grant's army,
cost $1,000,000 a month. Fifty years ago
the whole Government did not cost more
than what was last year paid for forage for
the oraes of one of its armies. If our
readers are anxious to know how much the
horses of an army eat, General Meigs will
inform them. During the war we gave'
them nearly 23,000,000 bushels of corn,.
about 79,000,000 bushels of oats, more than
1,500,000 tons of hay, and 21,000 tons of'
straw. This does not include what was
gathered from the country. It was enough,
Heaven knows, for it cost us over $155,000.-
000. Horrible life and blood exhauster.
War! How many schools this would have
built, how many miles of railroad to the
Pacific ! It was eaten up by slavery in its
vain struggle to live.
HARD ON I'lll, MORMONS.—The office of
the Union Vidette has been removed from
Camp Douglas to Salt Lake City. In giving
notice of the fact the editor says : "We shall
stop not, nor yet move a peg, until obedi
ence to the laws, abolishment of beastly
polygamy, and equal rights and privileges,
with securityof life and property, to Jew
and Gentile, are the order of American
principles in Utah, under Territorial or.
State government; until the robbers of the
righteous and the tramplers of the weak,
the usurpers of the land and obstructors of
iromigant enterprise, the stumbling blocks
to continental greatness, and the damning
disgrace to our country's glory, are legiti-•
mately removed; until the bounteous birth
land of the free is developed, and made the
home,of men obeying wholly and uncondi
tionally the laws and statutes of the govern
ment that protects them—not the home of
foreign fanatics, duped into degradation
and disloyalty, 1311 , high-minded men and
women.
THE Secretary(of War is daily reducing
the number of clerks in his Department. It
is stated that the present "general service"
is to be abolished, and only regularly en
listed men of the regular army will be de
tailed. i
AT iSSEMBLY
LINOLS.