II II ittsk* Gaytte 11 / I DIIIIIIDLE. DEM lE. I$S li IN order that all persons employed on the Gazirre nay participate in the fes tivities of this season,' we shall issue no 'Paper to-morrow morning. TO.DLT the ehristiae world, following `traditions that run back more than : • eighteen hundred years, celebrate the greatest Get' fa human Manny. 'From that humble cradle on the hillaidee of - - ' Judea what vut and precious inthienCes • wentente_whicti still .operate in ever •widiedeicircles, and shall continue to emistmitil they 11l and coaqUer the • ,_._ viols Cant 2 Frits‘ that cradle to the cross, how • . brief the space I how mementous the units ! That cross was the law's symbol of ~ tweafrotuatice, as the grim and abut -4 gallows is now. That superhuman victim was stretched upon.% and it be awe tranetigured. No longer the in seAment, of penal execution, it became r and ehall stand forever, the emblem of \ _ I be world's salvation. Ever aim* fair 1 ' and gentlewomen have- beetled it tai -1 i elly in their bosoms ; trembling pent. trots have looked by to it trustingly for ‘ deliverance; 'Wong men in all the deep concerns of life, have drawn from it • their highest inspirations ; and defout saumblue have crowned with it the •, temples to whiclithey worship. Well may events lo momentous and • r bleated, cause us alt to cease for one day from the stir and bustle, the cares and ' anxieties, of the prevent life, and joy and rejoice in that serene km' of hope that not only gladdens WI here, butunds its hallowed light far over the darkness 1 '' of the sepulchre. WAITER in Hours at Rome hints j that the story of The appearance of the Devil .to _Martin Luther at Wartburg, proof of which still exists, in the stains . from the thrown inkstand on the walla of the' Reformers cell, finds full explans. , in one word—Buz. Thu writer misapprehends altogether both Luther and his times. In his days Me super nattiral Was believed in, not as an ex ceptional condition of things, long be fore and fora special purpose, but u • matter of every day experience—later. Jested into the plain of the natural so constantly that the two seemed to be in extricably mixed. Whoever has read thoughtfully the annals .of those time*, as they have come down from contem perineum authOrity, cannot fail to ben bean deeply impressed with the strange -commingling of reason and credulity, of - the common and the =arsenious, and which, however Absurd when judged according to modern ideas, were real to ,the apprehensions of people than living. Luther believed in ghosts, going np and down the earth, equipped with vast powers, and doing terrible things. This belief did not proceed from his stomach; anymore ghat% the disbelqf m such things which now prevails ongiastes Ls improved digestion. Ills weakness con sisted in sharing some of the Emeriti• Lions of his age; his courage consisted in combatting shades that he firmly thought to be spirits, powerful and malignant. - - ' Tom Pat pas more confidence in' tke , honesty of democraiic oillasholders that We have. Many years ago, in the palmy 'ys of ..jacksonism, we remember a m yemr.nt . agent was sent into the - t. -.. mimed to look after lidncialplacemen i . i in that quarter. Be did not find honesty _ ; 14 rule among the men, but the , creep i' tion. He tame across one fellow who . i bad been plundering tight and lett, and !adult his pockets f1:11; and- he naively suggested to the Department that tills chap had better be allowed to remain, giving as a reason thatbe had secured all he wasted, and if turned out, some body would have to be put it whose pockets were empty.. Upon th - potent consid eration the thief wu allowed to hold on. These facts were disclosed upon a catiby Congress for Information. We are in poaseuion of no &eta showing that the generality of democratic office-holden have improved in tmstwortkinese ethos -that period. . A DZKOCIUTIO JOITIUL laiCh pre . fosses intense horror at what it desig nates "negro equality," protrays the demoralization of society among the whites in the principal Northern towns. It tar: _ "Murder is. perpetrated in open day light; theft occurs in crowded streets in sight.of a multitude too busy In the pnr milt of trade's gain to go to the rescue; Its Ares on the fruits of honest toll;..the libertine Ands entrance to society ; where the purest are soden geredrorivig• glory in their Infidelity; htutbands make no apologies for their adulteries; ind glina in all tbie lon comes to. guild with wealth alms, which should be and really are aa black as hell. The corruption ofwhatis called ."seciety . ITOI never worse In any coun- America.l' try in the world, than it la tads,. in That is decidedly bard on the whitea It is greatly to be hoped the blaclui will mot illegt upon an equality with them in these particulars. Szawrons show signs „of returning sanity on the subject of buying the cob. nfal piasmodons of European powers. To inch an extent has the reaction gose that it is now believed the Danish treaty for the acquisition of St. Thomu wM be defeated. Senators begin to realize that ' the people do not mean to he loaded with taxes for the purpose of buying.real es. tate of no special consequence, and that if thewgsme shall not be stopped there will-tro a sort of political earthquake about as nnpietuant for them ae the earthquakes at St. Thomas recently prey ed to the Inhabitants of that Wand. Tu Row York budtera give -token that what we said some weeks ago was well considered—which was, that the at. tempts to revolutionize the National Banking System, however deelrable in itself, would be attended by a financial crisis, prejudicial to the credit of the government and to the course of private enterprise. The Secretary of the Treas. or;, It new appears, has uncomfortable opprebenelons of the - consequences of each a movement. • MM. Tnumew Wasp is considering whether or not be will write an ante. biography. For half a centruy preen.- madly connected with the journalism of - the couniry, and sharing largely in the nansgement of ,polltical parties, he has mmusonlated • an uncommon fund if In. formation reipecting public men and public affair; which Will be of interest and Value to those who shall come alter A nacosr tomes from Washington that a Ctagressional Investigating porn. nittee Las tmeartbed gigantic frauds lit anapplytxtg arms and ammunition to Tile goternment during the war. It would 'afford the tax payers great satiefachon, teem at this late day, to hare some of the scoundrel' that plundered the coon try' In its hour of sorest need, not only =poem, but punished. IT WOULD seem that the English, as a This,, havibecome salaried of the exfst cam of real grievances in the sevens =sac of Ireland,. for is cable telegram iesieidaY announced "a wide.spread and increasing - feeling favorable to'an amelioration of the condition of - the Irish, sa the most effective means for ompriesing Fenhuilem." Tan new Conpan Las a l rea d y given :good proof that In The matter of Becoi• Atruction It del" not .mean to recede owe' I go through, without fal. `•• bails laid down by the • - • A MERRY CIIRISTmAo. It is very pleasant, even for' those who do not believe in Cluistmaa, to wander through ear principal streets just now. The throngs of busy people, the long lines of carriage; the troops of emanci pated children who seem to enjoy the holidays so much, the brilliant shop Windo4e, and the clear, cold bracing weather—all combine to make a pretty and a pleasant panorama, and even to lighten a little the heavy loads that op press aching hearts. It certainly is a sad fact that death and disease are just as busy about these times as for those disagreeable realities are no re specters of days ; but those who can for get this—aid most, number themselves in the merry throng—have nothing to do with the dark aide of life in this bright season. We will live and forget that life is not all kappineeus, and that Christ mas comes but once a year. It is mere blessed to give than to re ceive, and therefore this mighti i rush of pedestrians on Fifth, Market and 'Wood streets; thathfore these thronged shops and package.ladenpeople ; all are pre parthivto taste the pleinntres . of the Ben-. son, and to teat the truth of the. text., We kart always hadruthonudid admires,., Lion for brown paper parcels. lt o -ether .material ever contained so many Myr teries, or was able to rustle out l io tante: lisiegly its intention to keep t secrets until the . proper time for uhfolding them. No other things waist ever se carefully . carried home,. or mimed to cause so many people to sidle, and so in this season when we are all dlatribtuing showers of blessidga, we shall drop one upon the brown paper and what it con. tains. To./ 1 7, seated at our ease, With our limbs reposing under groaning inshog an.Y. with our eyes feasting on 'beauty and our mouths sweet with the flavor of mince pies and plum puddinge; when our ears are still gladdened with the wit which is as indispensable as cranberries with turkey, and when the *stems boil redolent with spices end 'bearing slices of lemon on its bosom is broight in; when the glum, are filled sod all standing we drink the tout' Of the sea son, we.will remember all brown paper parcels, their givers and receivers, and about out like the immortal paint "A merry Christmas to all, and to all a good" time generally.' -The thhicago Trthune thinks that thievery,. burglary and crime . of al/ I iumts are becoming even more common than before in that delightful city. The financial demotion hal beekralt en the illegitimate as well as in the legitimate business circles, and . eonsecinently an unusual amount of energy is necessary. The moat atrocious crime are of (mo mentary OCCRITaICe and of horrible con ceit.- Within the last week fourrespect able gentlemen hare dirappeared,l and no trace et their whereabouts can be found. Each of these men started out to be gone but a abort time, and'esch had more or lea money, betides watches and jewelry, about his person. ,fi.ielther of them bad any reason for departing voluntarily, and an they were unkifotni to each other they could not verywa hays gone off preormeertedly. The po llee are bard - at teeth, and think that undoubtedly all of them have been foully dealt with. The friends of the - Tarim gentienien irci in a state of distracting uncertainty, mina more harrowing then anything Death alone can do. -French travelers, And, probably, to emulation by the mere of If. Du Obaillu, have announced a new nicer ay, or *rather an old legend revivedr-a race of pygmies in Mies.. They bare located LUlipat on the eastern Meat of the great Southern continent mi as to be meliciently far off for mystery and spec. dation. The. small creatures are but eighteen lichee in height,- and are q uite black, though of a pleasant countenance . and agreeable manners. Their neigh. bees call theca dncelll, which \Deans Wonderful. Ii ie ceitilnli . cincedi. How often this old fable reappears, and er bow many atight/y &faint Ins has had it. day. The crones mentioned in this latest "discoverY, bbt they must be there, for pypinesare lug without them.- It would pay rimtt or • Banyan% mimeor one clam, to rend over for a slop load of them, to start a village and charge litti cents admission for all thole who with to see something of their domestic emu, We believe that one of the reasons of the enormous and sudden success of Chicago is that a day is never allowed to pass by without some great crime, mystery or phenomenon occurring to attract the attention if 'not always the admiration of the world. They ltad-s great. eanitm7 fair, slake tunnel, horrid =orders and ccuserquent executions, g hosts, divorce alas Uhler even that some of the Eaitern weeklies dire pub Ust, although they dare much, install ono diesppearantas, and new they have got an artesian well which spotai gas and water enough to supply the . city with both commodities for all time, if it holds out. What will he the novelty for the morrow we cannot tell, but that there will be one there ie no reason to dottbt. '• • -a man went into a fashionable Jew eiry. shop in Cincinnati and asked to be shown some diamond rings. The pro. prietor ehowed brm a tray fall, worth altogether soma ten thousand dollars. The - stranger examined them very closely, then 'very auddenly threw a handful of muff Into the eyes of ,the Jeweller, and . departed with the tray. One of the clerks gave chaie and cried, , .'s'op thief," which soon brought a crowd. The thief, hard pressed, dug the tray, mg* and all into the snow, bat was almost lenuedlateiy 'orptured. The story of tekthousand dollars worth of ;diamonds in a snow bank soon , brought crowds of spectators. but, strange te'relate, scar as Ahojewallers tbaroseires know, there is not :hag —Some papers do their little tatTiont to glorify Charles. Dickens, quothiLlarge/y from "American Notes," tmt not trona "Martin Chlutzlewli." 'We . aliould like to knoW if they get well paid for thew prevarications., and if not, if they would dcu much for aniothar distlngOloaed author, Longfellow for Instance, whom they do not (car. —ln London the bank; open at nine o'clock. Four thousand bankelerke have petitioned to - lave the unclosing New liNweveries at Attn.% • The Moniker quotes; from the Journal of Naples an account of an interesting discovery at Pompeii: It is a large chest lined with iron, profusely ornanseated with bronze reliefs, and mounted on four feet. There is no zeal Jock, out the lid opens and eihuta by means of a little apparents that served Instead of one, and which was fastened to • the chest by anus of metal. of which the traces may yet be seen. The surface of tke ild ht In the feria of a rectangle and 'nearly a metre to length, and cayoritionaly orna mooted with a branch Or riy . in broom. This ornament hi half destroyed, but the sculptures roman:vend aro fixtrernely beautiful. In the centre of the lid is the heed of a man, and at the fear corners are two busts of winged children, crosvn od with flowers and lumps. of Diana. Immediately under the point where a ring was Pawl for ralaingthe lid, lea no ble head of • dog. This is said to be a chef d avers, and the beads of the chil dren are also miracles of graceand beau. ty, such as might Save served fur nsod els to Ghlberd when he carved the cher ubs on the door ante liaptisti7 of nor- The remalnsotanother chest ' have also been found,' oontalnlng •several articles In gold; among others, s batita, This was acme !Ikea locket, for holding sou venirs and email articles of value. Ro man boys were such ornamesto round the neck WI they arrived at the Dire of , fifteen. Then, saimming the tivw strata, they laid aside the tows, and attached them to the• Images of the hausehold deities. Certainittdfac wersdavoted to the reception of royaldoctamente, and contained the seal of the sovereign end It Is as an inheritarase Item this Pagan custom, that the proclamations of the Pope made at lisme are called bulls. Lost In the Seriesr—A Terrible Disaste in Kansas. • S A corresponpent in Salina, Kansas sends us no account of a distressing oe !eurrenee near tlmt place on the '2 , th of last month. On that day a lad of twelve Years, a son of au old cleyemponcient, Colonel W. A. Phillips , had cone out shooting in company with his cousin, David Addison. About noon, at the ad vice of his companion, who saw a storm coming on, be turned to go borne. He immediately started toward, town at a rapid gallop, and was never spoken to again. About ono o'clock a terrine allow storm set In. After it had set in, and before it had got so bewildering as to be completely blinding to him, a hop like hint was seen riding with great rapidity along Mulberry creek. The terrible; snow atoner:st Thanksgiving day seemed to travel from the north west ta the south. It was live o'clock before Mr. Addison, with whom the boy was supposed to be, returned hornefrom the woods. Ouch a search as the storm permitted was at once made, but all In vain. Ton davit passed. A hundred people had been searching for the lost bby, but no trace online wait found. The horse he rode was found In the hills twenty miles to the southwest, four days after he was last. On Mondawh ite s h instant, a .Daw Indian vieitednettler on :the Smoky Mill river, at a point tiilrty- Six miles from Salina, sonthwest, and told him that a "dead - white man was in the river." Ile Ives a petty chief, and with a number of his people accotupan led the white settlers to the spot. It was Only a half mile dittant front the house. :Fearful of being suspected, as these poor people often are, the toutlous In- Alan made his people atand upon the bank, and, with the 'white men, first examined if there Ivor any trail of man near the spot. Nona were found. Then the body was carelully examined to see Wit had an wounds, .It had none. It I was the body of a boy, with light golden r hair and broad forehead. Me lay on his face, his ooat and overcoat ,till carefully I buttoned up, and his glove. still on his handa. A revolver .was buckled about his little person, which the Indian who discovered him had not molested, and Etweboxes of matches =irefully dopmd ted in separate pockets. The child bed ridden thirty-tire to forty miles through mountains that terrible night, I Ins fiery horse, a thin-akinued ' flying before the horrible storm. From all the evidenoe, he hadyeached the spot where found about ten or eleven o'clock at night, before the snow ceased, lie rode Into a bend between two forum, and could have seen them had the /MOW, which ceased before midnight, not tilled the air with its blinding drilla. In that one night the cold area no intense B 3 to freeze the river thick enough to hear up , 1 % , s r C rossingo the reel he ta n u d . e t h Mu the , en exhanato: and chilled. $l. feet and' hands had not been frozen, but exhaust.' ed nature fell .' before the terrible ex initiation and hxposnre. The country through whichte must have passed was the very roughest and wildest in that section. At tames the snow alai so dense that it was impOsaible to see through It bate few feet, To have returned be had probably to face the alarm several miles, and no horse would hold head In such a stern). It is believed that in bin anxiety lo get home, he urged his ant. mat through the bewildering storm as long as nerve and brain could oomtuand. Arrived &tale river the home dently borne him down the re d, t o drink, and in stepping down befell front it on the gravel Clew to the wafer. P European Frost, A catalogue of the great Eu ropean frosts hay been publish ed, from which it would went asif the glacial purred fri Europe need ink have been indefinitely remote in the past after all. Some the periences of e mid- dle has e notof ex beet matched since, th in this line. Tho last time the Thames was frozen over at London was in IMS, This had occurred four times in the present mainly, via, in 1813, 1820, itr.t and 1838. From elder times we have notice of only remarkable frosts, which in the eighteenth Century occurred six Heim and via, 1791. Aln 170$, t the Aprilsecond oof NIA 1 f th7lo, ese 1740 d ,17%, ates the Mediterranean _froze fat Genoa and Leghorn: In the third the Tiliames was used as a solid pavement from Novem ber 24th to February 9th, and during the same term, to a day, in 1413. In lose the Thames vats frozen over for more than three months, and in 1334 a front contin cdng eighty 'lay's froze the rivers In Italy. In /&41 the. Hellespont was frohen. - The Great Pictorial Annual. Mostettar's Vatted atates A'marse, tbr 11 , 24, for dimribistiou, grat:s , throughout the tinned Mates mid all eivillaad countries at Om Mamma, ILemla there, mtil ha gublishe I about the drat of Jmunrs, and all mho' wish to Smarm-ad Mie isms phlloshrhy of iteilth Mould' /sad and pmp der the valuable suggestions it smutty In a/- Malan to an admirable turbo II treatise ea the Sang., Derventlon and cute of • great variety o: di•eases, It embrarma • large smonat of in- ' rossiatlonintarrUng to the merchant, the me -*mum. in. minor. Ms farmar, tit. planter, and prof4s/m.l ass; sad tea calculations have beta made for Inca tnerielmo and laalludas as era meat saltabia for a currier sad ncattlirehaa- Mae NATIONAL. OLLYNDAR. Tae nature, aces aad extrnardlenty asnitat7 I Itteta of HOSSISTILICIIrTILIgnefI IlfrintS, It. Mania toal a and alittatlve of mare then half Ike Christian world. am folly ter pa lona to Us D. which are ins, ed wit ILEns M. tratlous. valosbla raelp e -• rs for mah pictorial boa .ahold ad ga sa,•smarova me/dm., aid mime la structlve and amusing coming manor, °fish:lel ant neleSted. gamma Ike A ;A.A. to Coos nub meet pastas of ma y , ChM mill be oat or the mat.. and be last h+v-t h a main,. ...ad for conic! to the mammal Illastilactory, at 5n'417ri.,14-,..70114,%1 `41.1711.'":. arrrs.os are sold iu me ell an Imre of the thillact r Wes. th T. Lawn d cu. Coufhlulf In Claw ch. Eataseas of Damns deo arca t➢. 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