n ..u.' w I i HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESPERANDTJM. Two Dollars per Annum. VOL. IV. 1UDGAVAY, , ELK COUNTY, PA.',' "THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 187,4. NO. 10. iflls y5 . . Season Song. Sweet love," eaid I "His the forth of the year, The snow is gone, imd the roses are blowing ; Oh I say my hope may banish my f oar, I'or my love grows strong as the flowers are growing." And she Paid, for the thrush's glad note was ringing, 1 No need of love when tho birds are sincing.' 'Sweet love," said I, "'tis the summer's' prime, And the leafy earth is a sea of gladness ) Oh I make it my perfect summer-time, Of Buu-lit joy after wintry sadness." And she said, and her voice was sweetly mel low, " No Deed of love when the corn is yellow." " Sweet love," said I, " the year grows old j But many a beauty still is staying ; Oh 1 bo your lovo like the autumn gold To giM brown loaves loo soon decaying." And hIio said, for the reapers and gleaners were come, ",No need of love at the harvest-homo." " Pweot love," paid I, " tho year is dead, And the trees are baro iu the killing frost j Tho buds avo i-ilint, tho roses are fled, And my hope, like tho sunshine, is almost lost." And she said, 'I take my heart from its cover, For winter is cold without a lovor.' AJT EDITOR'S EXPERIENCE. I tell you now, rf it -wasn't for the in dependent press the country'd go to the dogs 'n less 'n no time. Yes, sir, I'm for a inderpt-mleut press all the time ; but it costs n powerful sight of money to keep it up. Cause why, you dassent borrow or lend. There's not nienny as knows .more about the business of runnin' a paper than Wirt Suttredge. Alius Lad a Lankerin' that way. Head the papers from the time I could cpell out words ; ef I've pored over Gibbon's ' Rise and Fall" an' "Josephus" onct, I've gone clean through them a dozen times. Yes, I reckon I know all about inder peudent au' somethin' about cor poration papers, too I I see you don't quite take my meaning. An' to tell you the truth, it's only lately I discover ed what a corporation paper is. I run a corporation paper down to Goosetown without kuo win' it. It has grown up on me blow like, but it's a hard-baked fact now. An' nuothcr thiug has grown on me. An' that is, after you've begun on a corporation paper you've got to keep it up, for el' you try to make a independent paper of it tho chances are it won't stand tho wrench. It's like giving a man an all-fired twist in a wreetlin' match ; ef he don't know how to free himself of a toe-look, or catch his man on tho hip, he's sure to see stars. I speak from experience, because I was fool enough to think I could switch off the track I was runnin' on, an' make a inderpendent paper of the Streamer of Liberty. Ef you ever saw a bunch of freight cars shunted off on a siding a lcetlo ruie too strong, an' a bringin' up in a heap after buttin' down the snubbin' posts, p'raps you can form tome idea how I folt when I got through with tho experiment. Seein' as you don't know much about tho press, of which I am proud to say I am still a honorable member in good standin', I'll explain how I fell inter the business. If you take notice it's a business people generally fall inter. At tho same time it's more like a lottery than auythin' I can think of. It takes mighty good management an' pluck, an' plenty of money a power of money to keep a man alloat in it, unless he's a fool for luck (which I never was), or a genius (which is wns, ef anything !) or his credit is uncommon. Mostly I Had that runnin' a country newspaper is a distraetin' business ; a man may hang on by tho eyebrows, ready to suspend every week for months an' years, an' at the end of that time not have enough money in his clotheH to treat himself to a good square meal ; consequently country edditurs mostly get treated ef you notice. What I was goiu' to say, or tho heft of it mostly, was about my corporation paper. When the railroad from Huekleberrv Flat up to Goosetown was first talked oif the railway folks sort o seemed to halt 'tween two opinions. You see. thev hadn't made up their minds whether to go around by Crab Tree Hollow or shin 'round by Smoky Eun. The Smoky Eun people got up a big meet in' and had a big time speakin' and resolutin. I reckon there was nigh on two hundred people or more, an' every man voted to take a sheer in the new road. The Crab Tree Hollow people weren't to be got over in that style. They held a rousiu' meetin', voted to take twice as many sheers as Smoky Eun, au pledged the town corporation to take as many more. You'd think that ought to have settled it. But it didn't You just try to get one town to acknowledge its neighbor has the purtiest women, the bebt bosses or lighters, an you'll Bee no end o' nonesense I The proceeding of the Crab Tree people more than woke the Smcky Eun people up. They held another meetin', voted to take as many sheers as the Crab Tree Hollow folks, an' offered the railway the town for a depot. You'd think Crab Tree Hollow couldn't beat that. An' it was liberal of the Smoky Eun people. Ef it hadn't been for the fact that the railroad company didn't jest know their own mind two minutes to onct, Smoky Euu'd made the riffle. An' while they were a deliberatin' of it among themselves, the Crab Tree Hol low people sent over a sub-committee to Scrub Grass, a town site where you couiu 6caseiy Keep in range 01 the houses, an coaxed them to jine forces. Then they held a sort o' secret council, an' voted both towns to the railway company, an' pledged theirselves to tax theirselves 60 much a head down to their grandchildren. Same time they resoluted thanks to theirselves for the benefits they were a conferrin' on pos terity. When it leaked out through some of the railroad men, Goosetown came right np level with the Smoky Eun peo ple an' went live generations better. That fetched the railroad. Smoky Eun couldn't go no further, an' the railroad men said as how they were tired of the wrangle, an' the railroad to Goosetown was begun in earnest, an' pushed through just as long as tho people's money held out. When that was nil done every last cent gobbled up the folks at Goosetown plunked down their mortgages ; same time the Huckleberry Flat folks forked np on the some line, an' by that time the road was ready for the rollin' stock. No 1 I forgot. The company found they'd made an oversight somehow, for whon the depots were built they hadn't enough money left to lay in their win ter's stock of coal, so they had to pay tor that out of their own money. I lived midway between Goosetown an' Huckleberry Flat then. I was my own man, with nigh nine hundred dol lars in my pocket, an' a feelin of my oats purty- well ; bo nothiug 'd do me but a professional life. An' us I was counted strong in our debatin' society, an' was a master hand at epellin', I concluded to start a newspaper.; The moment I said I'd do it, the Goose town folks covered every dollar I had, an' . blamed ef I wasn't a edditnr almost afore I knew it ! Well, jest about that time the railroad was com pleted, an' everybody was crazy to get a trip over it. Some folks made so many trips they made quite a talk. There was the Mayor, he'd run down to Huckleberry Flats as much as two, three, or mebbe four times a week. Thinks I, here's my chance. I've start ed the Streamer of Liberty on the strength of : tho railroad, an' -the rail road's got to support me. I conoluded I'd see about the Mayor's many trips, so I went over to tho railroad office, an' kinder struck up a desultory conversa tion with the superintendent. You see, I wanted to come at the business iu n roundabout way. Says I, " See here, Shackleford " (I knew him like a book went to school with him), " what's the reason Tom Winterbottom spends so much money runnin down the road ? How can he afford such nonsense ?" "Sh-h-h," says Shackleford, givin' me the wink; "haven't you been fixed?" " What do yon mean ?" says 1 jest liko that. " Hasn't no one been to see you with a ticket ?" " It's likely they'd found me if they had." Shackleford's face cleared up. " I was wonderin' why you was so savin' of your ticket. Look here, now, Wirt, yon ought to be on the dead-head list." I didn't half like his look. It was a cunnin' pmile Shackleford had, and sly. Au' he was so blamed deep you never know where to find him. So I told him right short : " I don't think a man who can edit a paper is any deader in the head than railway officers." - " Pshaw 1" says Shackleford j " yon don't take. All edditurs are dead heads, an' it's onacountable how you've been overlooked. I'll fix this thing right at onct. I'll givo you an annual pass." " Is that tho way the Mayor does it ?" said L "To be sure." ". ! ' The next day I got aboard the cars, an' there was Tom Winterbottom ahead of me. But the conductor knew his trick like a gambler, an' nobody was any the wiser until somehow it leaked out, I reckon, all along of Winterbot tom's ridin' over the road so much. Jest about this time the company wanted to dig a two-foot trench acrost to tho new settlement. They'd made a perfect lake of tho old town, chopped up the old town hall for kindlin' wood, an' did purty much as they pleased, an' no one could say boo ! because the town was purty much theirs to do as they pleased with. But when the Town Council learned about the Mayor's free ticket, they kicked upa terrible rumpus. They held a secret meetin' one Sunday iu Si Sturgis's grocery, an' swore sol emnly the company shouldn't strike a pick in tho trench until the matter was settled satisfactorily. That fetched the company. They knuckled at onct, an' every man got a free ticket. Same time I writ a colyum an three quarters in the Streamer of Liberty dwellin' on the importance of the early completion of the new trench. I almost made myself believe that the new trench was necessary to the salvation of the State, an' without it ruination might fall upon every last featherof theohick ens in the limits of Goosetown. I took occasion to point mookingly at the prostratioiwof Smoky Eun, proved that more butter an' eggs were sold in a week in Goosetown than were sold in Smoky Eun in two (which wasn't so wonderful, cousiderin' Goosetown was twice as big), an' came down on the Town Council severely for their shilly shallying temporizin' policy. So coun cils was compelled in a manner to rec ognize the importance of the two-foot trench. The company got along for a-spell first rate after that. They broke down a ilimpsy bridge or two, killin' abont.a dozen people, an' all strangers, but the Streamer of Liberty demonstrated that such accidents were unavoidable, an' to be expected, like any other dispensa tion of Providence. But one day the widow Klingenfel ter's cow got her nails pared ruther close right on the edge of the new set tlement. Leastways the heft of the testimony tended that way. There was forty witnesses swore the cow was fair on the line between the old an' the new town, an' as many swore she was more than half on the old town. 'Twas mighty clost swearin'. The widow was very popular. She was rich an' remem bered her friends likewise her enemies. Her cow was ruined, an' she wanted its value. The company's lawyer said he pay for the hoof, but he wasn't in the milk trade. The j udge wriggled out of it at last. You'd never suspect how. Said he to one of the, widow's wit nesses : " How was the cow headin' " " For the old settlement," said the witness, afore his lawyer could give him the wink. , That settled the widow's case. Every one of the company's witnesses swore the same thing, an' the widow was cast in the costs. Everybody thought the suit was ended, but the widow's lawyer moved for a new trial, au' as the com pany had a dead sure thing of it, the judge 'lowed him till the next day to prepare his reasons. Tho next day fmrty much the whole town was on innd to hear the reasons. But the widow's lawyer moved that judgment be recorded at once, an' as soon as that wns done, ho got np on a wagon in front of the court-house nnd made a powerful speech. He said the reason judgment was rendered agin tho Widow was on account of bribery. All the Town Council, the Mayor, the Judge and his family had free passes. He called on nny one present to deny the fact. But "nobody was fool enough to say a word. I saw at once how the pop'lar mind was goin'. I knew ef the widow had been poor nobody would havo cared a gnat's heel for her ; she might have lost her last pullet an nobody'd loaned her a patent egg for a fresh start. Thinks I, now is the time to let fly at a great abuse. So I writ the matter up that night. Said I in my eolyums : " The current of popular sentiment has been stirred to its depths by the recent decision in the cafe of Klingen felter versus the Goosetown and Huckle berry Flat Eailway Company. It is not becanse the widow Klingenfelter's cow's head was really towards the new or her tail switching near the old settle ment that public sentiment sides with her ; it is because of tho wholesale bribery practiced by the railway com pnny. Tho company gives truck for truck. It don't bow courtesies of this kind broadcast for nothing. Every free pass is framed in a consideration, ef we could only get at tho facts, an' tho consideration is mostly in favor of the company. It is a -well-known fact that a drink of whisky will go ten times as far to'ards influenciu' a man's vote as ten times the whisky's money's worth would go. On precise! 1 the same principle a railroad pas3 has forty-hoss corruptiu' power. Wo cannot take time to explain the principle more fully in this issue. We simply ask, shell the the people of Goosetown be content to let this system of pass bribery to obtain, until it saps, the foundations of our institutions ? We trust not. We hope public sentiment will eventooally crystallize inter a law forbiddin' ail city officers an' judges to accept passes from railways, steamboats, canal-boats, and rafts." That was nbont the heft of my edi torial. Thinks I, that'll draw like a poor man's plaster. The people will rally round me, mebbe send me to the Legislature 1 But to make sure of it, I threw in a lot of stuff 'bout tho tre menjus inflooence of the independent press in freein' the people from the corruptiu' an' overmasterin' power of tho railway corporations. When I met Jim Shakleford next day he looked sort o short grained. Said I, "How do you liko my edditorial? It ought to save tho company a heap of money. I've made a little calculation. Ef everybody pays, tho company will make more than twenty thousand dol lars of a savin . " I reckon everybody will pay their fare, incloodin' the ass what edits the Streamer of Liberty," said he, jest like that. An' they did. It shct down tho hull business. Consequence was, everybody in office and everybody that wanted to get office (an' that incloodcd pretty much the whole town) came down on the paper heavy. Suit. Consequence was, I couldn't get credit for soap to wash my hands after that, let alone buy a wholo ream of paper twict a month, so the Streamer of Liberty suspended. Wirt Suttredge. A Model Love-Letter, Madam : Your honesty and grave countenance, your modesty and your wisdom, your wit and great judgment, and thousand other virtues with which you are most happily endowed, besides the incomparable beauty which in creaseth your renown in all parts of the world, havo so entangled my thoughts in the consideration thereof that I have been forced to collocate and place the sum of my felicity in meditating the rare gifts both of body and mind by which it hath pleased the gods to make your ladyship famous. But when I consider mine own unworthiness and perpend the great difference which is between such excellency and myself, such is the despair which possesseth my heart that I suffer incredible tor ment. Yet tho force of your beauty constraineth me to judge myself happy, in that I suffer a paiu for so worthy a lady as yourself. So that I feel sin gular joy and gladness in my evil, and receive an extreme glory in enduring grief. Pain unto me is a pastime ; to weep, a pleasure; to sigh, a solace; grief, health ; which does rain the fury of torment in me, though therein I en joy a blessed content. All this do I suffer for you, madam; it is your ueauiy uuu vinne wnicn caueth me to be so tormented with such contrary passions. And, therefore, pit y an un fortunate lover who offereth you his own life, and who desiretn not that his evil may be addressed, but ouly wisheth that it may be known. The Rheumatism. An Englishman with the rhenmatio gout fouud this singular remedy a cure for his ailment : " He insulated his bed from the floor by placing under each post a broKeu-oft bottom of a class hot tie." He says the effect was magical ; that he had not been free from rheu matio gout for. fifteen years, and that he began to improve immediately after tne application oi the insulators. "We are reminded by this statement," Bays the Scientific American, "of a patent opcainea through this oihce lor a physi cian, some twelve or more years ago. which created considerable interest at the time. The patent consisted in placing glass cups under the bed posts in a similar manner to the above, and the patentee claimed to have effected some remarkable cures by the use of his remarkable insulators." A gentle man in San Francisco who has been afflicted with rheumatio gout, or gouty rheumatism, one or the other or both combined, accidentally stumbled upon the above statement of facts, and tried .the experiment. The result is, that al though nearly 50 years old, he is ready to run a foot race with any man of his age in the State for one hundred yards; drinks of lager beer for himself and his competitor being the wager. WHAT IS IITDROniOBIA 1 Soma ' llemarkaltla Instances of the K treats of Dog Bites after Many Years. An interesting paper on hydrophobia was rend by Dr. Charles P. Eussell at tho meeting of the Medical Society of Now York. Dr. Eussell has given the subject much thought and research, nnd his essay will bo a valuable contri bution to the not very extended litera ture of this most dreaded and myste rious disease. He fully sustains the views expressed by us some time since, that it is among curs and mongrels, the Pariahs and outcasts of dogdom, the disease usually originates, and that these should be unrelentingly destroy ed. It is certainly better that ninety nine innocent dogs should suffer than ono guilty one should escape to destroy human life by the most terrible of agen cies. That is a dootrine which scarce ly Mr. Bergh himself can dispute, more especially since Dr. Eussell supports Mr. Bergh's views, which are also the views of every sensible person, on the fallacy of supposing that muzzling dogs in hot weather will act as a preventive of the disease. Dr. Eussell stated very clearly there is no distinctive season for hydrophobia ; and, if anything, there is rather less liability to it in the summer, unless the tendency be in creased by this most absurd and cruel practice of muzzling. Two points appear, in thQ discussion, says tho New York Times, to have been less fully elucidated than those who are interested in the subject would de sire. One is the curious eclectioism if we may so term it shown by the dis easo in attacking only one or another out ol several who may have been bit ten by the same animal. This would seem to support the theory of those who contend that it is, to a great ex tent, an affection of the imagination aud tho nerves. Yet, on the other hand, enses are numerous where the imagination can have had little or no influence in producing tho most horri ble manifestations of the disorder. And of these none are more remarkable than two instances recorded in the news papers about a fortnight since, and which, if authentic, tend to deepen the mystery aud increase the inevitable uess which make hydrophobia so ap palling. Eighteen years ago, it is said, one Darnel C. Weidner, of Farmiugdale, N. J. , then a child of six, wns bitten in tho arm by a rabid dog. The wound, though painful, healod after a time, and ho doubtless congratulated himself on a wonderful escape. No incon venience appears to have resulted from it until a few days ago, when, on iti tempting to wash his face, he was 'at tacked by convulsions, which tho doo tors declared to bo those of hydropho bia. In spite of every effort he grew worse, and died in great agony within forty-eight hours after the attack. The weak point in this narrative, as we find it recorded, is the omission to "stato whether at any time during this, inter val of eighteen years he had been! again bitten. It is plainly implied, however, that ho was not, and that his hydropho bia was the result of the wound inflicted eighteen years agtt The other case is even more striking. Twenty-one years since, a little daugh ter of Peter Hank, of Monroe County, Pa., was bitten, as Weidner was, by a dog unmistakably mad. She, too, un der 'prompt and proper treatment, re covered, to all appearance ; she grew to womanhood, and was married, without any unfavorable consequences from tho wound. Two weeks ago, however, tho fatal symptoms appeared, and after four days of extreme suffering she died of what her physicians declared to be undoubted hydrophobia. Tho same omission is noticeable hero as in the other case, and, indeed, it seems in credible that hydrophobia should re sult from a wound inflicted so many years before. Both cases are worthy of investigation, and we should be glad to seo an authoritative decision on their merits by the Medical Society. It will add immeasurably to the horror of hydrophobia to know that its venom may be latent iu the system for nearly an entire lifetime, only to carry off its victim at last, when he has long deemed himself entirely secure. Lf gal Holidays. The New York Journal of Commerce notes the muddle which has been cre ated by the effort to settle by statute tho question as to notes falling due on holidays : Most persons suppose, it says, that wheu a note falls due on Sun day it is made payable on Saturday by statute ; but this is a great mistake. We never had nny such legislation. The courts had simply come to recog nize the popular custom of requiring a note due on a holiday to be paid the day before. Sunday being a universal holiday, this custom applied. But as most other holidays were only recog nized by part of the community, the custom was divided, and the case could not, therefore, be settled by common consent. A bill was passed by the last legisla ture with reference to the holiday law, which, the editor says, is one of the most extraordinary pieces of legislation eVer attempted in any country. It en tirely overturns all the practice con cerning notes, etc, as connected with Sunday or any other holiday, and makes all such maturing paper payable on the next Bucoeeding, instead of preceding, secular day. This would mako our State an exception to all the rest of the world, and before the new rule could be universally known would lead to endless complications among busi ness men. . The Popes. The popes of Eome have, until modern times, had a rather rough time of it. The first fifteen, it is said, were beheaded or crucified, and between 224 and 1304 ten were killed in a variety of ways. Of those who have filled the pontifical chair 170 have been Italians, and most of them Eomans ; nine nave been ureetts, nine Syrians, fifteen French, two from Palestine, two Sardinians, one Portuguese, one Aus trian, one Dutch, one English. There are so many Italian cardinals that the chances are largely in favor ol an Ital ian pope. SCENES OP A SIEGE. Incidents of the Parti Civil War as by Rochefort. -' . tol( Bochefort, in his first letters after his escape from Caledonia, tells the follow ing terrible story of incidents in Paris during tho civil war there : During eight days a sinister sound filled the Labau barracks, wrote the immortal author of " L'Anneo Terri ble." Hundreds of prisoners were taken in chains nud placed before the mitrail leuses nnd blown to pieces. At the Buttes Chanroont the ignoble Gallifet caused tho National Guards to dig im mense graves, at tho sides of which he gronped pntiro . bnttalions, whom he fired on till they fell in these impro vised tombs. Oue of our companions of captivity iu the casemates of Fort Boyard was a bravo republican, who had been but badly slaughtered, and waited for the advent of night to crawl out from among the cadavre with which he was surrounded and to gain a place of retreat, from which he was not taken till several months afterwards. Behind the prison walls of La Bo- quetto the butchery had been such that burial had become impossible and the good health of the neighborhood was much interfered with. Ihe omcers in charge of the execution had found, as they thought, the 'solution of tho matter by bringing into requisition n largo number of wagons, into which they pitched the dead as they were handed out. Probably to give an interest to the proceedings they compelled the National Guards to put into enrriages the bodies of their dead brothers in arms, and each time that a prisoner had finished his sinister task, that the tumbril was full nnd that he was preparing to de scend from it, a shot from a gun stretched him next to his companions, and the cartman carried to the same grave the dead nnd their gravedigger. These recitals seem imprinted with ex aggeration. Well, I affirm they nro still very far from tho reality. Wo can only mention sortie episodes, and it is the multiplicity of like events which augment their horror. I saw every day for ono year, walking in tho courts ard of tho citadel of St. Martindo Ee, a young man whose name and profession J could never learn. Ho was walkingconstantly, his eyes wide open and fixed on something horrible, absolutely silent nud forgetting the meals which his comrades servod him, and which ho took mechanically and without leaving his frightful contem plation. This unfortunate Was one of tho rare prisoners who, taken to throw tho dead into tho carts, had escaped by a miracle, or rather bv the fatiaue of the assassins, from the cud which awaited him. Another, as a consequence of this lugubrious work, had not. fallen into insanity like the other, but in tho midst of the unimportant conversation he would becomo pale all nt . onco and would precipitately nnd several times pass his hands all along his body, as if to make the blood run off, which ho thought 'was perpetually dropping on his clothes. I have known, and my companions in tho escape have kuown liko myself, at Fort Boyard, a condemned man, who, wouuded in the leg by n hand grenade at the beginning of the fight, had beeu shot in his bed in tho Hospital of St. Sulpice, where ho had entered. The ball had gone through him, completely through, nnd had even broken one of tho bars of tho bed. lie had neverthe less resisted this new assault, and we found him iu tho midst of us nearly re covered, this victim of tho fury the most hideous that ever Soiled a civil war I know him, I could name him ; but this dead alive is actually in Caledonia, in tho power of those who, after having shot him a hrst and a second time, would make no scruple about shooting him a third time, which would probably bo the last Killing a Pig. In one of the late Chief Justice Chase's letters to a friend, he says : One ludricrous incident of the chore kind impressed itself strongly on my memory. Tho Bishop and most of the older members of the family went away one morning, ho having ordered me to kill and dress a pig while they were gone, to serve for dinner that day or uext. I had no great trouble in catch ing and slaughtering a fat young pork er, and I had tho tub of hot water all ready for plunging him in preparatory to taking off his bristles. Unfortunate ly, however, tho water was too hot or otherwise in wrong condition, or per haps when I soused the pig into it I kept him too long. At any rate, whon I undertook to take off the bristles, ex pecting they would come off of them selves, to my dismay I could not start one of them. The bristles were set in pig-killing phrase. I picked aud pull ed in vain. What 6hould I do ? The pig must be dressed. Iu that there must be no failure. I bethought me of my connsin's razors, a nice new pair, just suited to a spruce young clergy man, as he was. No sooner imagined than done. I got the razors and shaved the pig from toe to snout. I think the the shaving of the pig was a success. The razors were somewhat damaged in the operation. They were carefully wiped and restored to their place. My impression is that, cn the whole, the pig-killing was not satisfactory to my uncle, and my good cousin found his razors not exactly fit for use the next mornin g. Severe on Soothing Syrups, The Popular Science Monthly re marks that one of the great dangers attending the use of the various seda tives employed in the nursery is that they tend to produce the opium habit These quack medicines owe their sooth ing and quieting effects to the action of opium, and the infant is by them given a morbid appetite for narcotio stiutn lants. The offering for Bale of such nostrums should be prohibited, as tend ing to the physical and moral deteriora tion of the race. In India mothers give to their infants pills containing opium, and the result is a languid, sensual race of hopeless debauchees. Jn the United btates the poisonous dose is administered . under another name, but the consequences will proba bly be tne same. I How tho Discovery was Made, At 'the time of the last war between England and Franco, a brig, commanded by an Ameiican, was captured off San Domingo by the Sparrow cutter, under tho belief that she was sailing under false colors, or, st any rate, carried enemy's goods. . The Admiralty Court at Port Eoyal found the ship's papers perfectly correct ; and ns. the captain sworo hard and fast to her American nationality,' the Court deoided in .his favot. The Yankee immediately com menced proceedings against the Spar row's commander, Lieutenant Wylie, for the illegal capture. While the case was pending, a small tender, in charge of Midshipman Felton, entered the port, and the young officer being a friend of Wylio's, went on board the Sparrow, and was not long before he became acquainted with the latter's misfortune, and most unexpectedly de lighted him by declaring the brig was a lawful prize, rnd the proof forthcoming. It appeared that the tender, cruisiug near the spot where the Sparrow's chaso began, sighted a shark, which was upon deck iu a very short time. Hearing the men employed cutting the monster up cry out, " Stand by to receive letters, boys ; tho postman's como on board," Mr. Felton went to see what it meant, and received a bundle of papers just taken from the shark's maw. Upon ex amination, theso turned out to be the genuine papers of the brig, thrown overboard when capture was imminent ; and they proved beyond any doubt that her cargo was Frcnoh. The friends hastened to Kingston ; but the news had traveled on before them, and the Americau skipper had disappeared, leaving his ship to be condemned, and Lieutenant Wylie to bo made richer by three thousand pounds. Wylio and his crow were not the only ones destined to profit by the happily timed catch. In consequence of information derived from tho strangely recovered papers, the captain of the Trent frigate was in structed to look out for a certain brig engaged in the same risky business, having ono Penrl Darkey for its mas ter. Before many days had passed, tho Trent fell in with a vessel answering tho description given, and Captain Otway ordered her to heave to. As soon as the American skipper appeared on the frigate's quarter deck, Captain Otway accosted him with, " Glad to seo you, Mr. Pearl Darkey ; you are the very man I have been looking for. I know all about you, and nm going to send you to Port Eoyal 1" Taken aback by the unexpected recognition, Mr. Pearl Darkey, for it was he, did not deny his ideutity, or demur to visiting Port Eoyal, where his ship and hi3 cargo were adjudged a lawful prize to the Trent. Chambert's Journal. Fashion Notes, Tho sacques and jackets that Cud fa vor are not slashed like those of last year, but each seam is sewdd to the end ; they are also longer than formerly, and nre very loose, easy, and careless looking. The Medicis sacquo is the popular fashion ; for undress wraps this pattern is lengthened behind to make it even with the front. Tho plain back then fits smoothly over tho slight toumnro. Black cashmero sacques are worn until they aro displaced by lace sacques nt midsummer. Many of thorn are literally incrusted with jet beads, dotted about in most irregular fashion, while others are wrought iu vermicelli patteru.or in more elaborate arabesques. Jet trimming bought by tho yard is re jected by people of wealth, and tho jet embroidery done by hand on tho gar ment is tho extravagant substitute. Modistes pay Frenchwomen large wages to do this work. Ladies who have plenty of leisure sew the beads on their own garments of black silk and cash mere. Bias bands of black silk, dotted in diamond spaces, with clusters of four tiny beads in each cluster, are very effective on black silk basques as head ing for bead fringe or bead luco. Hang ing loops of six jot beads in each loop are placed at intervals all over cashmere sacques. Very elegant black silk dresses have tho new scarf over-skirt embroid ered all over with jet. This scarf over skirt begins under tho belt in front, laps there, passes around the sides, holds up the puff of the train, and hangs in long ends behind. Arabesques wrought in jet en the sun cover the scarf, and jet fringe edges it. The basque has lengthened side pieces fill ing in the outlines of the scarf, with a dagger of solid let embroidered there, and concealing a pocket. Dotted jet bunds and fringe for trimming the basque. On the collar aud cuff's are smaller daggers, beautifully embroid ered in fine cut jet bends. The demi trained skirt is trimmed with Knife pleatings and puffs, with bands botwecn uiuuaea wnu jet. Black Grenadines. Many dresses of black grenadine are being nia '.e by the modistes for summer wear. The newest grenadines nave pin- head dots, cross-bars, and lozenge shaped figures ; but there are also many sntin-striped, watered-striped, polka sootted. and plain canvas grenadines An elegant black grenadine dress-for one of the lenders of fashion in Wash ington has tiny pin-head spots. The silk skirt has alternate knife pleatings ot silk and of grenadine three in front, curving up higher to six in number ou the back breadths. The long apron is of alternate stripes of grenadine and beaded lace, with gathered lace on the edge ; this apron is hooked together over the touruure, and the square back drapery, consisting of two wide ends and loops, is formed of grenadine and laoe. The basque is square behind, with belted front and Pompadour neck, This is for dressy afternoon and car riage toilettes. Imported oastumes for the street have skirts of black taffeta silk, trimmed with five or six very line pleatings, and a polonaise of spotted or of striped grenadine, without jet, but trimmed with beautiful fringe of curled Bilk tape. These polonaises are very long, with apron fronts trimmed with. smrala of the grenadine and fringe, while the Frenoh back is prolonged over the tournure in the Marguerite fashion, giving the appearance of being moulded to the long slender waist ; the front is usually without darts, and worn man is one of the largest business opera with a belt. tors in Bay street. Items of Interest, The treasures of the deep are not so precious as are the concealed comforts of a man locked up in a woman's love. " What is the maximum ball ?" said a young lady to a soldier in tho Woolwich Arsenal. " The Minio-mum," was his reply. . As an excuse for rejecting a widower, a fair young damsel informed a friend that "she did not wunt a 'warmed over' man." Eegard this world as though thou wert destined to live forever, aud the world to oome as though thou wert to die to-morrow. The sage observed, " A good name is the noblest pedigree, and closing the eyes the surest protection against world ly allurements." A boy was recently killed near New ton Highlands, Mass., while trying to " stump " another boy to cross the track before a locomotive. A lady asked Mr. Johnson if he liked children. "Don't know, ma'am," an swered that crabbed old gentleman ; " never tried 'em am not tin ogre." The Eev. Dr. West of Cincinnati de clared in a recent sermon that " the crimes of that city have well nigh made Sodom and Gomorroh respectable." ' A Western editor thinks that the habit of carrying tobacco in the pistol pocket is a bad oue. To meet a man on a lonely road and see him reach for his tobacco box suggests unpleasant pos sibilities. ,. . At one point on the Northern Pacific Railroad, where two years ngo was a howling wilderness, there is now a hand some depot and not a house for 20 miles around. Certain Vermont rumscllers havo es tablished their saloons on the Canada line, tho back part, with liquors, being in her Majesty's dominions, and the customers' room in the United States. La Mothe was not a great writer, but he understood human nature. Finding that his book had a slow sale, he pro cured a prohibition against the read ing of it, and every copy wn3 dis posed of. A woman should never consent to be married secretly. She should distrust a man who has any reason to shroud in darkness the act which in his own esti mation should be the crowning glory of his life. It is estimated that threo million cubio yards of levees are required to bo built to save Louisiana from nbother innudation next year, and tho State is not in a condition to pay for one-third of the expense". According to tho last German Army List, tho German army numbers now 1,32A,910 men, with 2,740 cannons. Tho held forces number vua.vuu, tne neiu reserve forces 213,ol0, and the garrison troops 375,700 men. A woman at Lcwisvillo, Oregon, who was blackballed from a grange, blamed a man living near her for doing it, nnd shortly after, meeting him at cnurcn, gave him a drubbing. She is fifty rears of age and the man seventy. An enual quantity of chalk nnd an thracite produces a strong flame nnd good heat, nnd experiments recently made iu England prove that a certain mixture of shale aud coal will yield greater heat than oruinary coal. A Virginia politician is so anxious to go to Uongress next session inai no promises laithtuny to be content; wiiu one term, and moreover that ho will give SJ2.000 yearly from his salary to re ligious and benevolent organizations in his district. A phvsician of skill nnd experieece says a mustard plaster should never be mixed with not water, dub wiui me white of an egg : and when so prepared does its duty as a counter-irritant with out producing the anguish of a blister, as in the old method. Seth Green's grayling spawn at the Caledonia trout ponds are hatching sat isfactorily, nnd probably in a lew years the grayling will be as well known in our cold waters as the trout. It is be lieved that they will increase twice as rapidly as the trout, being mucn hardier. No French or English woman of cul tivation nowadays wears her garters below her knees. The principal vein of tho leg sinks there beneath the mus cles ; and varicose veins, cold ieet, ana even palpitation of the heart may be brought on by a tight garier in wu wrong place. Vhen it is fastened above the knee all this pain and deformity may be avoided. If additional testimony be wanting to prove that the English language is rapidly becoming the universal tongue, the card of a hotel proprietor at Havana is herewith offered to supply the lack : "The Both Wold .ttotel, JSumtSan Jg- nacio Street, Plaza Viea. in tms es tablishment set as the European style, receives lodgers which will find an splendid assistance so iu eating as in habitation, therefore the master count with the elements necessary." A Hint to Youug 9Ien. In 1855 a young gentleman registered his name in the largest hotel in the City of Louisville, Ky. He had a pretty good wardrobej bucu as young men usually have, including a gold watch and chain. He was in search of occu pation. At the expiration of two weeks he took an inventory of his personal effects ; " Out of work and no busi ness." He had a brief interview with the proprietor of the hotel. His trunk was left as security for his board bill ; he hypothecated his watch for the loan of $i0, and having kissed the tip end of his coral fingers to a kind and sym pethetio landlord he " went diving for the bottom." Ha found " bottom " on Water street, where a steamer was be ing discharged of cotton by Dutchmen, negroes and Yankees. Having purchased a heavy pair of boots, a blue shirt and overalls, he commenced rolling and piling cotton at the rate of five cents per bale. In three weeks he was pro moted to the position of marker," with a salary or$45 per month, and at the expiration of nine months he had a right to grow mellow over a salary of S125 per month. To-day this gentle-
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