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VOLUME XX.—NO. 216
THE BVRIAI OF LOVE
BY WILLIAM CULLEN BBYAKT.
Two daik-eyed maids, at shut of day.
Sat where a river rolled away,
With calm, 'sad brows and raven hair:
And one was pale and both were fair.
Bring flowers, they; sang, bring flowers
unblown; ,
Bring forest blooms of name , unknown;
Bring budding sprays from wood and wild,
To strew the bier of Love, the child.
Close softly, fondly, while ye weep,
His eyes, that death may seem.like Bleep;
Ami fold his hands, in.Bigabf rest,
His waxen bands, aoroßS his breast.-
And make his grave where violets hide,
Where star-flowers strew the rivulet's side, 1
And blue birds, in the misty, spring,
Of cloudless'skies and Summer sing.
Place near him, as ye lay him'low, ?
His idle Shafts, his loosened bow,
The silken fillet that around
TPa waggish eyes In sport he wound*
But we shall mourn him long, and miss
His ready smile, his ready kiss,
The patter of his little feet,
Sweet frowns and stammered phrases
sweet,
And graver looks, serene and high,
A light of heaven in that young eye;
All these shall haunt us till the heart
Shall acheand ache—and tears Will start.
The bow, the band, shall fall to dust;
The shining arrows waste with rust;
And all of Love that earth can claim,
Be but a memory and a name.
Hot thus his nobler part shall dwell,
A prisoner in this narrow cell;
Bat he whom now we hide from men
In the dark ground, shall live again—
Shall break these clods, a form of light,
With nobler mein and purer sight,
And in the eternal glory stand,
Highest and nearest God’s right hand.
SEW PtTBUCATIOSS.
“Cameron Hall” ißarebel novel just pub
lished by J. B. Lippineott & Co. The au
thoress is a lady of Alabama, and has de
voted her talents to a glorification of the re
bellion and the abuse of Federal soldiers.
It is very much to he regretted that such
pernicious productions find any countenance
from loyal Northern publishers. Their
whole tendency is bad, and their circulation
in the South, for which market we presume
they are especially prepared, only fosters
-feelings and opinions which all lovers of the
Union should Seek to suppress and eradi
cate. Messrs. Lippineott <fc Co. .do more
good when they send a gross of Comly’s
Spelling Books to the South, than would be
effected by adbzen editions of Cameron Hall.
lieypoldt & Holt, New York,- have just
published a little elementary work , called
■“Beginning French,” based . upon Abn’s
French Course, which has gone through the'
■extraordinary number of one hundred and
forty editions, and Beleze’s Syllabaire. It
contains exercises in pronouncing, spelling
and translating, and seams admirably
ad apted for the purpose of grounding pupils
in the rudiments of the French language.
It is for sale by J. B. Xdppincott & Co.
Harper <fe Brothers have published “Liz
zie Lotion of Greyrigg,” a novel by E r
Lynn Linton. It is a story of life in Cum
berland County, England, and is managed
with considerable artistic ability. For sale
by T. B. Peterson & Brothem.
AMXJHESIESrXS.
The Chestnut.— Matilda-Heron appears
in “Camille” this evening. On Wednesday !
she pro<Jnces ‘‘Griffith Gaunt;!’ andnext
Monday Mr. and Mrs, Barney Williams
begin a:briefengagement.; Here, certainly,
is variety enougn to please every patron of
the Chestnnt. ' . .- /' /• •' J
The Walnut.— Sir. J; 8. Clarke appeara :
during the week; To-night’s bill Comprises
“Single Life” and “Married Life.” .Of
-course the house will be crowded;. .
The Arch. —“Out American. Cousin- at
Home” Toodlea” will be given
at the'Arch: this evening. Mr. Chanfrau
will appear in three of bis moat amusing
parts. ■...•. - * ■
The Amebican.— ‘.‘The Black Crook”-
4hisevening. ; .V '!
National Hall.— TheOld Folks.
, Assembly Bxnmbraa.— Signor Blitz,
Howthe Indiansßehave xnTSxas.—
The following recent incident; of Texas bor
der life may, perhaps, tend todispel some of
the remaining romantic notionsentertained
in regard to the Indian character:' “Sarah
Jane Luster was .in Texas witha family,
named Bobb. Baring the absence of, Mr. ,
Bobb, a band of Nlcorah Oomahohes came
to the hoose, invited in by the children, bat
, refused, until satisfied there; were no men"
there. They; went in, attempted'to carry;
-off one of the children. Mrs. Bobb resisted,
-and clung to the child, whereapon one of
the savages went behind, seized her by the
hair, drew her back and cut her throat.
This was committed 1 in sight of Miss Lus
ter, who had taken refuge in the upper part
of the cabin, and was so shocked as to utter
a groan, which, leading ;to her , discovery,
-she was captured, and ,with two children,
leaving a babe in- the cabin, was' taken to,
camp. The boy Houston is from' Weathers
ford, Texas. 1 Hesays there wasanother boy
captured with him, but he was small, and
fell off the saddle, and was not picked up.
The raid was made last July.” -
Pabis Exhibition Items. —There are
now in Paris a number of enjgineers sent by;
•the governments of Belgium, -Holland,
Prussia, Baden, Bavaria,-Austria, Switzer
land, Russia, Spain and Italy, to make arr
rangements with the French railway com
panies for fixing tarifib of fares for next .
year’s exhibition. ,-r ~■
• The advertising pages of the English
tionof the catalogue of the Exhibition have -
been taken by a speculative printer in Lon-,
don, who announces the following prices-of
advertisements: . - . J 'v?,
£., s. d.
Page, - . - , . . - 157 10?; o:
Half page, - ; - - - 84 0 ; 0
-Quarter page,: - - . , - , 52 *lO 0
Eighth page, - - 31 10 0
_ Name.trade and address (3Unes),.ls 15; 0
: Twbntt prisoners escaped from the pri
son at St, Joseph on Friday.
THE PESSSILVASIA CONGKESS»«>SAE
DELEGATION,
Proclamation by the Governor.
PENNSYLVANIA, 88.
In the name and by the authority of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Andrew
G. Curtin, Governor-of said Common
wealth.
A PBOOIiAMATION.
Whereas, In and by an aot ol the General'
relating to the Elections of this Common
wealth,’? St is made the duty of the Governor
—on the receipt of the returns of the election
of the members of the House; Of Represental
fives of the United.- States, by the Secretary:
of the Commonwealth—to declare by Proc
lamation, the'names of the persons returned
as elected in their respective Districts:
i And whereas; The returns of the general
election held on Tuesday, the 9th day of Oc
tober last, in and for the several districts for
members to serve in the House of Repre
sentatives of the Congress of the United
States, for the term of two years, from and
after the fourth day of March next, have
been received in the office of the Secretary
of the Commonwealth, agreeably to the pro
visions of the above act. Whereby, it ap
pears that in the First District. composed of
the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth ,and
Elevehth.Wards, in the city of Philadelphia,
Samuel J. Randall has been duly elected;
in the Second District, composed of the
First, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth
Wards in the city of Philadelphia, Charles
O’Neill has been duly elected; in the Third
District, composed of the Twelfth, Thir
teenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth
and Nineteenth Wards, in the
city of Philadelphia, Leonard Myers has
been duly elected; in the Fourth District,
composed of the .Fourteenth, Fifteenth,
Twentieth, Twenty-first and Twenty-fourth
Wards, in the city of Philadelphia, William
D. Kelley has been duly elected; in the
Fifth District, composed of the Twenty
second, Twenty-third and Twenty-fifth
Wards, in the city of Philadelphia, and the
county of Bucks, Caleb N. Taylor has been
duly elected; in the Sixth Distriot', composed
of the counties of Montgomery and Lehigh,
Benjamin M. Boyer has been duly elected;
in the Seventh Distriot, composed of the
counties of Chester and Delaware, John M.
Broomall has been duly elected; in the
Eighth District, composed of the county
of Berks, J. Lawrence Getz has been duly
elected; in the Ninth District, composed of
the county of Lancaster, Thaadeus Stevens
has heen duly elected;. In the Tenth District,
o mposed of the counties of Sehuylkill and
Lebanon, Henry L. Cake has been duly
elected; in the Eleventh District, composed
of the counties of Northampton, Carbon,
Monroe, Pike, _and Wayne, Daniel M» Yen
Auken has been duly elected; in the Twelfth
'District, composed of the counties of Lu
zerne and Susquehanna, Charles Dennison
’has been duly bleated; in the Thirteenth
District, composed of the counties of Brad
ford, Wyoming, Sullivan, Columbia, and
Montour, Ulysses Mercur has been duly
elected; iii the Fourteenth Distrlct,compbsed‘
of the counties of Northumberland, Union,
' Snyder, Juniata and Dauphin, George F.
Miller has been duly elected; in the Fifteenth
District,' composed of the counties of
York; : Cumberland- and -Perry, A.
J. , Glossbrenner > has been duly
elected; in the Sixteenth District, composed
of the. counties of Adams, Franklin ,Fult on,
Bedford and Somerset, Wm, H. Koontz.haa
been duly elected;: in the: Seventeenth . Dis- -
trict, composedbftheoountiesof Cambria,
Blair, : Huntingdon - and Mifflin, Daniel J.
Morrell has been duly eleoted; in the Eigh
teenth District, composed of the counties of
Centre, Clinton, Lycolning, Tioga and Pot
ter, Stephen-F. Wilson has been duly elect
ed; in the Nineteenth District, composed of
the countiesoLErie, Warren, McKean, Fo
rest. Elk. Cameron. Jefferson and Clearfield,
Glenni W.'Scbofield has been duly eleoted;
the Twentieth Dlstriot,composed of the coun
tks of Crawford. Yenango, Mercer and Cla
rion,DarwinA.Finne/hasbeendulyeleoted;
in the Twenty-first District, composed of
the counties of Indiana, Westmoreland and
Fayette, John Covode has been dnly eleoted;
: in the Twenty-second District, composed of
that cart of-Allegheny county south of the
Ohio and Allegheny rivers, and including
.NeviUev lßlaßd, James. K. Moorhead, has
been duly elected; in the Twenty-third’Dis
trict, composed of that part of Allegheny,
county north of the, Ohio and Allegheny; ;
rivers; and Butler and Armstrong connties,
Thomas Williams has been duly eleoted; c
in the Twenty-fourth District, composed' Of
the oonnties of .Lawrepce.Beaver, Wash-;
iDgton and Greene, .George V. Lawrence has
been duly elected.
■> Now,. therefore, I,i Andrew .G, Curtin,'
Governor as aforesaid, have issued thla my
Proclamation that Samuel' Randall,
Charles O’Neill, -Leonard .MyerSj William
-D. Kelley, Caleb N.- Taylop,' Benjamin M.
.Boyer, John M. Broomall, :J. Lawrence
Getz, Thaddeus Stevens, Henry L. Cake,
Daniel M. Van Auken, Chas. Dennison, -
Ulyßseß MercuTjGbo. F; Miller, A.: J,Gl6f|B«
brenner; Wm. H. Koontz, Daniel. J. Mor
rell, Stephen F.Wilson;Glehni W.Sohofield,;
Darwin A. Finney, John Covode, Janies jC.
Moorhead, Thomas Williams and George:
'V. Lawrencehave -been returned as duly
elected in.their several districts before men
tioned, as Representativea in the Congress
of the United States, for the term of two
years each, to commence from and after the
4th day of March next.
Given under my hand and the great seal
of the State, at Harrisburg, this 27th day of
November, in the yeair ofour Lord 1889, and
ef 1 the Commonwealth' the 91st. ;By the
Governor, r .Eli Slifkk,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Indians Still in Flobida.— According
to the following statement in the last num
ber of the St., Augustine Examiner, there
are still from one to four hundred Indiana
iin that State:; The 'Examiner, savs: ;
",; It is reported that there are a large num
ber of. Seminole and Uchee Indians still
remaining in Florida, variously estimated
at from one to four hundred—men, women
and • children.: The country occupied by
1 them is in the vicinity of Indian River; In
let! then -south to Jupiter and Hillsboro
-Inlet, then ’ west through the; everglades,
; coating outon the ' Corlosahatehie ■ river.,
Col. Sprague, oommandingthisdiBtrict,has
- made.arrangements; to,communicate with
- tnemi'and'twUl-prObeed down theooast in
the United Statea-revenue cutter to tha.
points : referred’, tO.whehitißexpectedt hat
Thock-to-ttirten'agge, the chlef 'of the band,
, will he induced to visit our city;' The nrinoe
-of these “wild men of the woods’’ among US
will he of much interest, and cause.many
of onr citizens to revert to their services and
trials durißg the desolating and prolonged
Florida War.
•Albebt H. Inman, a recent graduate of
Tale College, and Miss Eddy,a young lady,
were drowned at Pasooag, near Providence.
R. L, on Thursday evening, while skating,
PHiLADELPHIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17,1866.— TBIPLjS SHE^T.
IHE DEATH PEN At I f ISOHI©. ‘
Execution of W. e. Smith,at Washing: ton,
finetie County, Ohio,'for *Be 1 Murder
•f JOhn o*o7, !>' '
' CrKentirA.Tij Dec.v14,1866.—W; G. Smith
Buffered theextreme penalty of the law at
Washington, Fayette; county, Ohio, to-day,
for the murder ot John Gray on the .19th of
October, 1864. He was bom in 1816, in the
State of Virginia, and' removed to the State
of Ohio during the year 1856. He attributes
bis fate to the influence of evil associations,
denying positively his gnilt as to the; actual
killing of Gray; but acknowledges he was
ah accessory. We called on the condemned
man last night for the; purpose, of eliciting
information in'regard to his past life, but
found' him very weary. and worn out,;
complaining of ! excessive talking. Ep
appeared ;• perfectly calm. ; and ; had
previously .. to our , calling,. .been
quite cheerful, convening freely and smok
ing his pipe with perfect composure. Since
his conviction he has been closely confined
in an. iron oage, about eight feet wide by
probably seven feet high, occupying one
corner of the tftek cell in the seoond story of
the prison building. His wife has been with
him during the past; week, and. appeared'
perfectly,heartbroken. During our stay in
the prison, she ocenpied a position 'near the
head of his bed, swinging her body to and
frp, indicating great mental Buffering;. The
instrument of punishment was; situated in
the publia square, immediately at the west
end of the building. Sheriff Straley had
taken all the necessary precaution to
have the : execution conducted in secrecy,
as directed by law. Ah inclosure of about
I twenty feet square had been erected as a
protection from the gaze of the populace;
On the : side of the structure adjoining the
jail was placed a platform.jn the floor of
which waa.the trap door, calculated to give
the prisoner a fall of about twenty-thrss
inches. The day was bright and cheerful,
I and, excepting the cold, pleasant. Not-
I withstanding the knowledge of the fact that
I the execution would be conducted secretly,
1 thousands flocked to town. The fences and
] in some places the buildings in the neigh-
I borhood. of the jail were crowded with
] people, who could see just as much of the
I execution had they remained at home.
lAt about one o’clock tiie prisoner
I was brought into the inclosure ac-
I companied- by his spiritual advisers,: the;
Sheriff, his deputies and R. M. Briggs, the
I prisoner’s counsel. Smith ascended the
I platform with a firm, unfaltering step and
1 look a seat over the fatal trap. After a very,
I impressive prayer by Rev. Mr, Emerson,
I the prisoner arose ana heard his death;warr
I rant and the decision of Governor Cox read
I by Deputy Sheriff Blackmore, which he
1 listenedtoattentively. His demeanor during
I all this ceremony exhibited a degree of
j nerve rarely equalled. After the Deputy
I Sheriff had finished reading, Sheriff Straley
I asked the prisoner if he had any remarks to
j make. Smith arose and said, as near as we
I could get it:
I I want to make a few remarks, gentle
. I .men, lam innocent of the murder of old
John Gray, perfectly innocent. I hopß I
will be the last man to suffer death in this
way.' This is a, solemn occasion. I have
been a very wicked : man. For fifty years I
have lived in rebellion against God; but,
thank God, I can put my trust in him.
Gentlemen,death has no terrors for me. We
all have to die. It is only a matter of time.
I don’t fear death, but I regret the manner
in which I have to die and the disgrace it
will bring to my family. What I have said
to Mr. Briggs and Mr, Emerson is strictly
true. This Is all, I believe, I have to Bay.
Sheriff Straley then inquired if he was
ready,
‘•Yes,” replied Smith, “when I bid fare
well to my friends.” Then turning to
Judge Briggs his bid him good by and
1 hanked him for his kindness in his bohalf,
and to Mr. Emerson, bis spiritual adviser,
he expressed a wish to meet him inheaveo;
then to the Sheriff and the Test present he
bade' adieu, ..
The drop fell at half-past one o’olooh, and
Smith died without astrnggle.After hang
ing twenty-five minutes the body was cut
down ana delivered to bis friends.
Extbaoboinaby. —The five leading j our
nals of Paris contain long and circumstan
tial accounts of a - distinguished engineer
whose head was'tumed perfectly white by a
most frightful dream. The engineer had
visited a rough, and unfrequented mineral
region for the purpose of exploring and re
porting to a company of capitalists upon the
riohness of a certain mine; The night of
hiß arrival, and before he.descended into
the mine, he lodged at a amall inn,and,after
devouring a pound or -two of - pork -chops,
went to bed. He dreamed tnat he hac
-visited the mine and was being hauled
up, when he discovered that the
rope was ’almost, severed,, and' there
was only a single, strand- to support
bis weight and that of the buoket in whioh
he: was being drawn up. Suddenly, when
he: had ascended two hundred feet, the rope,
hedreamed, gave way, and he uttsred a.
fearful shriek, which roused the inmates of
the house, and when they'burst open the.
door of the dreamer’s Tooth, they found a
white-headed-martin the plsceof the blaok-;
haired young gentleman who had retired a
few hours ' before. The story is well au
thenticated, and, hiß is the first instance On
j record of aman’shhair aving been turned
white from the effects of a dream.
. The TbeAsuby Depabtmkxt. The
amount of National Bank currency;issued
during the week is $344,440. The total
amount, to this date: is $300,231,371. From
this is to be deducted the ourreuoy returned,
including worn-out notes, amounting to :
$2,091,432, leaving in actual circulation at
this date, $208,139,939. - - •
. The treasury disbursements for the week
ending Saturday, were as follows:
War Department, - $3,092,495
Navy Department, >■ ' -293,009
Interior Department, ’ - - 197,609
, Total, - V? _ . $3,583,113
The total amount of national currenoy for
warded hence during the week ending Sa
turday, amounts to $453,310, and waseent ag
follows: 1 '
United States Depositary at Buffalo,’s3s,ooo
j '■• “ , at Baltimore, 60,000
Assistant Treasurer at Boston, - 100,000
[« , “ New York, 100,000
To 8ank5,158,310
The i amonnt ;of fractional currency. re
ceived during the week is $338,000.
Thb Centbal Club of the “Boys -ih
Blue,” of' Pennsylvania, has • Received an
immense-, number of: responses - ’’from olubs
, of the "Boys in Blue”thronghout the State,
slgnifylng-their willingness to be present at.
General Geary’s inauguration, provided ar
rangeuiehta caD be made for the issuing or
excursion tickets at half fare.. Letters have
been addressed to the Presidents of the dlf
ferent railroads running into Harrisbuig,
asking, in behalf of the “Boys in Bide,”
that such excursion tickets be sold at all
> depots along such lines.
OTTTt WHOLf! OOrNTKT,
At a late meeting of the Societe des.ln-.
genenis Civils,' in Paris, M. Flachat
read an interesting report on the country r
: of Darien; recently explored by him. In
his first excursions he acquired an idea
; of the general features of the country by
cutting down the trees on fhe summits
of certain, hills of considerable altitude.
He next determined as exactly as possi
ble the elevation of the beds of tho vari-.
pus tributaries of the river, or, in other
words, in the different parts of the
, basin of Darien, for the purpose of as
certaining the moat' advantageous
line for a canal joining the two oceans.
The impossibility of penetrating into
the forest. without much loss of time
obliged him to follow, the ; course
of the river and .‘its ‘ tributaries for
the. survey .he had undertaken. As
nearly all the inhabitants areihe debtors
7of certain merchants, for wbo'o they are
obliged to work until their debts are paid
off, M. Flachat could onlyget hands by
treating with the capitalists'.' The pop
ulation amounts to 1,600
ently of the free tribes which inhabit the
northeastern declivity of the Cordilleras,
between Cape St. B'as and the month of
the Atrato. The inhabitants live along
the banks of the river in huts built of
bamboo and out of the reach of inuuda
. tions. The-ground floor is reserved for
cattle; the upper stoty for the family,
which is thus protected from being stung
by venomous reptiles. Pigs are kept in
enclosures, in order to secure them
against the attacks Of jaguars. M. Fla
chat found the Indians & very docile
people. The country of Darien is cov
ered by a virgin forest, with trees from
15 to SO metres iu height. Even ou the
banks of the river the forest is often im
passable. The country is extremely
wild andintersected with torrents,which
though rising to a formidable height
duriDg the rainy season, are quite dried
up in summer. The only possible line
for a canal is across the western hills,
which are not so high as the others, and
between which the river has found its
way to the Pacific. It is highly proba
ble that the basin of Darien was once a
Tbe Isthmus of Panama.
lake; and it would not require much
work to lay it under water again and
make the communication between the
two oceans as easy as by Nicaragua.
Spanish and Italian Ecclesiastics.—
The clergy of the cathedral churches of
Spain consist of 58 prelates, and one coad
jutor bisbop, 52 deans, 431 titular canons,
and 756 prebendaries, the salaries of whom
amount to 24,404,250 reaux.. The parochial
clergy is composed of 19,311 cures, 156 per
petual vicars, 986 officiating vicars; and
3,904 coadjutors, at a yearly cost of 79 mil
lions of reaux. The religious houses en
dowed by the state number 4,726, and the
payments to them, added to those of 791 al
moners and 799 priests, amount to 8.401,240
reaux.
The GazetUx di Firenze gives the following
as the net revenues of the church in Italy
Religious corporations about to beabolished,
11,035,675 lire; mendicant religious corpora
tions, 298,221; sisters of mercy, 163,777;
bishops’ 5a1arie5,5,555,391; seminaries,3,22s,-
011; chapters and prebends, 8,553,780; and
varions other sources of revenae, amount
ing in all to 75,811 1 439-lire. ‘
Three Men Rescued from Pbbil by a
Gibl. —The Providence Press, says; “On
Tuesday lash while the wind was blowing,
a gale from the sontheast, three men started
off in a frail skiff from the shore at the lower
end of the inner harbor of Newport to rescue
a sheep which bad by,some means got adrift,
but owing to the gale were neither able to
reach the Bheep nor return to theshore, and
were fast being swept off into rough water,
where their skiff must inevitably have
swamped. In this situation they. were dis
covered by Miss Ida Lewis, daughter of
Capt. Hosea Lewis, keeper of the Lime Rook
Light, who at once took the lighthouse boat
and put off to their relief. She reached the
men, took them from the skiff, which she
took in tow, and afterward went in quest of
land saved the sheep and landed the whole
safely on terra firma. This is not the first
act of this description, performed by this
young lady.”
Hebe’s Histoby fob You.—The follow
ing item appears in a morning cotemporary
and as it gives old history in a new light, we
reproduce it:
“The mines at Braddock’s Fields are lo
cated in an historical spot—in the identical
ravine where Braddock lay - in ambush
during the war of the Revolution, and in the
midst of one of the richest sections of the
coal district, no less than in one of the most
picturesque parts of the Commonwealth.”
Braddock in ambush in the revolutionary
war is decidedly fresh. —Pittsburgh Cbrtwner
cial. ;V.-. \ /
Fobt Hats.— General Hanoock has or
dered that the post now being established
at Camp Fletcher,in the Department of Mis
souri, shall be named Fort Hays, in com
memoration of the name and gallant ser
vices of the late General Alexander Hays,of
Pennsylvania, who was killed at the battle :
of the wilderness.. The order is subject to.
the approval of the Secretary of . War, and it
will doubtless .receive the hearty approval
of that official, who is familiar with the re
cord of the lamenteddead.
Despatches from Jefferson city Btate that
Governor Fletcher continues to receive des
patches - from, Jackson county, urging ■ a
withdrawal of the troops: but he : remains
firm ■in the' determination not r to do so
until every hnshwbaoker is killed or driven
off. The Sheriff of Jackson county says that
he can have the laws executed by civil pro
cess, and that the heavy tax imposed •on
the people by the quartering of-a military
force there is hard to be borne.
Judge Silas Mobbis Cochbanb, Asso
ciate Justice of the Court of Appeals of
Maryland, died in Baltimore, on Sunday
morning, after, a brief illness. He was a
native of Wyndham, New Hampshire, but
removed here some years since, and was
Elected in 1860 to the !>enoh for a term of
fifteen years. The State Constitution gives
; the Governor the appointment of a successor
; until the next general oleotion. ~ .
Taxation in Fbanob. —The tax collec
tors of France look sharply after the inland
■revenue ;of the, Empire. The 'Gazette de
Namur reoords that the Marquis - do Molins
ahd tire Duoheass de los Rios were recently
tfined for shooting without a license. Their
■ guns were also declared forfeit, but were
restored to: them bn payment of fifty franos
each: : ’■ _* .... 'J
. . Majob Lathbqp has been- appointed
United States Agent of theFreedmen’s Bu
reau in Texas, vice Major Douhieday, re
signed.
I Froh Beef Packing lo Texas. ]
i Owing to the , unsurpassed facilities Tor
grazing in, Texas, together with the high
prices to whiob products have attained of .
latq yean, the attention of prominent bush
ness men in New Orleans and Texas has I
ceen directed to enterprises forbeef packing
in. that State. We learn by our Texas ex-,
changes that: the farmers of that State are.
quite generally directing their-attention to j
grairine, and. that the bnUdiQg, of corrals
and filling them with choice breeds of cattle;
'has come to be quite general,. .The Indianola
Zl'mesmentionathe establishment of a pack-'
ihg.bouse at that place,in wblah Stable’s
pioceas.of putting up fresh beef is adopted.
The proeesß is thus briefly d&jcrlbed: , -
The beefisentup bone
taken ont, a small quantity of sqtt put on,
and allowed to 'stand three honrs,- to.draw- j
part of -the moisture from the meat. ; It is
then put into cans, which areptaoed in an.
iron box that can he made air tight by the
, quick motion of a screw. The air is, then :
, exhausted by means of a column of water,;
l and carbonio acid gas introduced. in the
1 place of the air, when the cans are soldered
up and ready for shipment to - any, part of
the world, taking six minutes to each 160
pounds 'or meat. The carbonic acid gas;
which is used in this proeess is the : same
that is' in daily use in, all families
for bread making and ; other. pur
poses. This gas will not support
coaabußtion, being free from oxygen,
and hence its Bnbstitntion ferair, the oxy
gen of which causes meat to decompose.
The process, it is said, has been thoroughly
tested in South America and other tropical
countries with eminent success, and a board
ot examiners at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
have pronounced the beef thus put up re
mark ably well preserved, j aicy, tender and
palatable. The firm in.question are re
ported to have a contract with the Navy
Department for supplying a portion of the
.. beef issued in .the navy, and from the ad
vantage they have in packing in Texas,
where cattle are cheap, must increase the
proportion to other kinds of beef They are
also filling large orders for beef for planters
through the Southern States.
An Ahe bican Hotel Clesk.— l tell you
a hotel clerk is the embodiment and concen
tration of dignity. If their wealth is to be
judged by their dignity, they must each be
possessed of several millions, apiece. Per
iaps you are not aware what lam driving ,
at. Just go and ask one of these lodging
room potentates of the whereabouts of some
friend of yours who may be an inmate of
the house. Providing you are a major
general or congressman you may receive a
satisfactory answer. If you are a brigadier
youmay get a vague, one. If a coloael. it
may be necessary to wait three:or four
minutes.. If a captain or a lieutenant, six
or seven. If a- mere civilian —but words
.fail to convey an idea of the man
ner' in which civilians are crushed
and subjugated when they pro
pound their modest inquiries. Not that they
are rude. Oh, not But there is a ma
jesty, a loftiness,, and exaltation and con
sciousness of power in, their words, looks
and gestures which reduces the inquirer in
his own estimation to the last verge of in
feriority. Christiana who are always strong
to humble and abase themselves, whose be
setting sin.is pride, just come down here
and lake a dose or two of hotel clerk.
Whenever T feel that I need , being taken
down a peg dr two. that I am riding too
high a quadruped, I have a never-failing
remedy, I merely step into one of our first
class hotels and ask, “Is Mr. Smith stop
ping here?”' and the great man, after the
necessary delay, lifts his eyes, and I feel
that I am a worm, and when he speaks I
deem myself a Chinaman.— California
Paper.
Hon. Jack Rogebs will have a supper I
and ball given in bis honor, in Paterson, N. I
J., on Wednesday night, by bis ardent ad- I
mirers in thatcity. The Guardian waxes I
eloquent over the anticipated event and |
spreads itself and Mr. Rogers as follows; |
“Democracy is aliving principal like Truth, 1
It can never be crushed or die. It may.be |
borne down.as has been the best 1 * and I
truest man ever sent from this district I
and the representative -of good and ]
true principles, bnt it wilT rise again, j
and, Mr. Rogers, defeated by treachery I
and- corruption combined, as' was I
Washington daring periods in the early I
War of our Revolution, he yet stands above
those who succeeded in defeating - him by a
few votes at the election.” There is some
thing beautiful in the constancy of the
Guardian. The. Sussex Register learns.that ]
Mr. B. will locate in Baltimore and resume
.there the practice of thelaw. > j
Extbaobwnaby Freak of a Fox.—A. I
few weeks ago a curious trait in the charao-.
ter of a fox was witnessed in a hay field at
Bronwydd, Cardiganshire. While the hay
makers were busily employed at one end of
the field, theirattention wasßuddenlydrawn
to the other, where a fine dog fox'was seen to
gambol in fearless confidence with a sheep
dog, which had been left the guardian of the
Workman’s 'victuals under, the'shade of a ;
tree.- They were seen to play, like a oouple
of puppies; in open-mouthed friendship. On
the approach of one of the hay-makers, who
feared'that the amusement might cost him
his dinner, Reynard madeoff to a neighbor-’
ing covert, but in a few minutes returned in
, the same festive humor to renew his gam
bols' and secure his prize. There can be
little doubt that this behavior was one of
Master Reynard’s canning dodges to get at
the food. . -
Ait AttTEMFT at murder was made jin
Paris last month. MadameChapuis, a
young actress at the Theatre des Noa
veantSs; was called out by a message from
het husband, who wished urgently ,to speak
to her. She went down to the street outside,
and no soon er was she in the presence of her
husband than he made a bio w at her neok
with a poniard. , Fortunately the weapon.:
glanced, inflicting only a slight wound.
She, however, fell to the ground, bleeding.
A crowd assembled,and while the wounded
woman' was carried into" the;theatre, the,
1 assailant, under the impression that he had
killed her, inflicted five stabs on himselt
He whs taken to the hospital of St. Louis,
where' he lies wilhout prospect; of recovery. :
Jealousy w.as the motive of the attack. . ,
The Cokqbessiohai. . Ijlbbaev.— The.
room devoted to the, library of Congress has
been extended and refitted. in admirable
style, Its. capaoity has been, doubled,' and
it is intended to provide .shelves for two
hundred thousand volumes. ,It has now
one hnndred and thirty-six thousand. The
last accession is the celebrated collection—
. forty thousand volumes—of Mr. Peter Force..
The library is entirely fire-proof, is lighted
exclusively by skylights, is fitted up with
quiet elegance, and will be, when perfected,
an honor to the nation.. ; 4 u . (
An Ou> N kwspapeb. —The, Qazette de
France ia the oldest newspaperextant. It
Isnowin Its two? hundred and thirty-sixth
year, and was already mature before the
revolution of 1688. So aaya a foreign ex
change,
F. L . FETHERSTON. PabMal
. three cents.
Hr*. Jonei, the iallinMrt .
, • On one of oar earliest visits to
! illusive charm attached to the ideaef *.
i:female author became, indeed, clwtngea
toa horror from which we have never
fully recovered.: We were requested:; to. i:
.escort a lady.to what we understood was ■
an ordinary social gathering. _ Afterefl? c;;
tering a small and somewhat Obscure
•. drawing room, saluting the hostess and ‘
taking the proffered seat,we were strueje. .
with the formal arrangement ofjthp.
company. Thtey. formed an. :
row along the jvalls of the room, ex.cepb
at one end, at whieh stood a table surr
mounted by an astral lamp; and in an. •
arm chair beside itj in a studied attitude*' ■ r
dike one posed for a deguerreotype, sab : *
awomanof masculine proportions,coarse ; *
features, and the hair between yellow. ,
and red, - which fell in unkempt masses'..'
down each side of her broad face; She .'>•
was clad .in white muslin of; an. anti- '
qnated fashion. We noticed, that, the '?
guests cast looks, partly of; euriosity, -
partly: ofuneasiness upon’ this herculean ..
female; who rolled her eyes occasionally
andsmiledonus all with a kind of com
placent pity. ■ t ;
We ventured, amidst, ther silence, to ’ ,
ask* our neighbor the name of the ■
gigantic unknown. She appeared ex-
surprised at the very natural _
question. “Why, don't you know ?
We’re invited here to meet her, and:l
assure you it is a rare: privilege. That
is Mrs. Jones; the celebrated author of
the ‘Affianced One.’” At this moment
a brisk little woman in the corner, with
accents slightly tremulous, and a man
ner intended to be very nonchalant,
broke the uncomfortable hush of the
room, “My dear Mrs. Jones, ’’’ said she,
“as one of your earliest and most fervent
admirers, allow me to inquire if your
health does not suffer from the intense
state of feeling in which you evidently
write ?” The Amazonian novelist sighed :
—it was funny to see that operation- on
so largeascale—-andthen in a voice so
like the rougher sex that we began to
think she was a man in disguise;,
plied: “When I reach the catastrophes
ef my stories, it is not uncommon for
me to faint dead away; and, as I always
write in a room by myself, it has hap
pened more than once that I have been
found stretched, miserable and cold, on
the floor, with a pen grasped in my fin-'
gets, and the carpet littered with manu
script blotted with tears!” - ,
The Siddonian pathosof theannounce
ment sent a thrill round the circle;
glances of admiration and ;pity were
thrown upon the self-immolated victim
at the shrine of letters, and other in
quiries were adventured which elicited
equally impressive replies, until
psychological throes- of - anthorsh'p*--
particularly in the female gender—as
sumed the aspect of an experience j com
bined of epilepsy and nightmare;. .'J'he
tragic egotism of these revelations at
length overcame our patience, and leav
- ingour fair companion to another escort,
we slipped from the room. ■
A thunder stormbad arisen;: the rain
was pouring down in torrents; , upon th&
door step we encountered a /rory pale,
thin, little man, with an umbrella under
his arm, and a pair of overshoes- in his
hand. As we passd, he addressed us im
a very meek and frightened voice:.
“Please, sirs, is there a party here?”
“Yes.”
“Please, sirs, is-the celebrated' Mir&.
Jones here?’,’
“Yes.”
“Please, sirs, do you think I could step
in to the entry? Pm Mr. Jones.”—if. J-
Tuckcrman. ",
1 Of this year’s crops in Michigan 'the De
troit Free Frees -says:; Wheatmay fairly
challenge comparison as to quality with any
that was ever grown in any country. , The-:
oat crop waß excellent, andexoeededthe
before unexampled’crop" 'of l£66'by more
than; a million bushels. The orop-is
ahont the same as, last. year. . Barley has
done better this year than eveF before. The
’ value of the crops of the present year is esti
mated at $49,00(^600.
Samuel J. Dowell, an of
Worcester. Mass, j recently pardoned' from
the jail at Fitchburg, to which he had been
sentenced for one year for firing a pistol
with fatal effect into a crowd opposing an
arrest he was making, has reeeivedihe ap
pointment ofturnkey at the jail in Fitch
burg—a good position With a good Balary.
The Tblal of Scott, Cullen and Dee, is
proceeding at heavenworth, Kansas, . The
developments so far go to prove their crime.
More hones have been found ia the
ruins of their store, leaving no. doubt that
hoth the young men, Guest 3 and ®icketta»
perished in the flames.; : ~
Silk.— At-Bourg Argent el, o,ear-St.Etr
enne, lives one linden Tracol, whbissaid to
have discovered the method of Making sl&t
direct from thO mulberry tree without the
intervention of the silkworm. No hint is
given of the prooessby which this is- effected.
H.M. Bkje, an original pre-emotor of a
portion of the land on which St. Faul,
Minn;, iß'bullt, sixteen jea*s ago-presented
the city the land required for streets. De
cently he attempted togetit back on account
of certain defects in thenrethod of trans
mission, but failed /
Papebs of the 7 th, from Colorado, say.
about sixty Cheyenne Indians areprowl - ’
ing around Living Springs,forty mUesjftQta.
Denver, - under the old. Chief Doablehead.
A. strict and anxious watch is kept on their,
movements. V -f ,
THE-iehahon (Tenn.) Herald has a story
about alady who fell; into a cavern eighty i
feet deepand was rescued,: hut it doesnlt
com e up to the Mobile yarns in interest and.
excitement. ; - ■.bsf
A Young liAßjr, who booked ’hsrself- at
Hatch House; Chicago, as Mias Miller; coin*
mitted suioide by taking morphine: This
event was the seqnfiL of‘an unwise love, 's l
1 The Nabkagaksext Indians, in Rhode
Island, have declined to become citizens
and .voters, as may under .the Civil
Kights bill of the State., , .
Geokgk L. Vestv; ofEaat‘Boeton r Mass.,
-fifteen years old, killed* himself by aod-i
dentally firing off a pistol he? was loading
on the evening of the lOth last. j
lst' inB6 ohe ; toUilon bushels -
of wheat had been received at the port or
Milwaukee, WisoonBln;esslmated to be twop
fifths of the whole crop of the State,
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