* Yf .u *4. ' > The world want* nut—large-hearted, manly Men who shall loin Ha chorus, andprolong The psajm of labor and Uio song efwve. The times want SCBOLABS— edbolan who shall shape The doubtful destinies of dubious Tears. And land the ark that bears our country's good, Sale on some peaceful Ararat at last. The age wants uiuoas—hcrwea who shall dare To struggle in the solid rants of troth ; To clutch the monster Error by the throat; To bear opinion to a loftier scat; , To blot the era of oppresaion out. Ami lead a universal freedom in. And Heaven wants sorts—frtalt and capacious Nth, To teste its raptures, and expand like flowers, Beneath the glory of its central aun. It wants frtsli soula—not lean aud shriveled ont * • ... It wants frosh souls, my brother-—<JIV; IT THiNr. If thou, indeed, will set as man should art; If thou, indeed, will bo what scholars should ; If thou wilt be a hero, and Wilt strive To help thy fellow and exalt thyself. Thy root, at last, shall stand on jasper floors, Thv heart, at last, shall seem a thousand hearts. Each single heart with myriad raptures tilled - While thou shalt sit with princes and with kings, Rich in the jewel of a ransomed soul. Open Your Henri to Me, Ihvar. Open tliy hea.. to me. dearest aud fairest; XKmbly my child and my stater thou *rt. Since of all the pure gsint that are brightest and rarest. True motherhood shines like a pearl in the heart. Smile through those tsar-drops of happiness— be using "Neath the ckieed lashes—l sec on thy cheek ; Trust in nie, Lilybud ; tell me thy dreanfing ; Open thine heart to thy mother, and speak. Now the quick tear-drops fall faster and fvy>i : Ssv, hits dc come who all men is above I* ] i Has IUV queen found her king? haa herhsnfr round its master ? Lily, my sweat, is it dawning of lave ? There ! O, I gussaVMit, I kuew it. Ny dearest, 80 it is he—it is just as 1 pray'a. One to thine innermost bosom is nearest Nearer than she at whose feet than hast play'd 1 Well, be it so, love; 'tis Nature's decreeing : Think not that aho who held thee t lr breast Prom the all-blessed hour of thine earliest being Owns not that God ever orders the bust. See 1 the red sunlight grows palo ' i the gloam ing' Tis the last day of the quick-dying year: Gold the horison, unerring the omen Morn shall dawn smiling, unclouded, and clear. Ton aportive birds, row the summer hath ended, Tcarn not for warmth of the mother s soft breast: When spring brings her green, with her flower buds blended, J j In turn they will build 'neath the t v their neet. Darling. I love thee I What though lam weep ing A few tender tears ? there is jov in civ heart; j For I give my sweet blossom with pride to the keeping Of one who will guard her 'till death do them part. There! I have done, love: what ts the meetest. j Baring 4 him' to me, he shall see not a tear; ' A dear gift will I give hiin, my best and my sweetest,— A bride, and a wtah far 4 a happy new year 1' The Heart Bowed Down. I The heart bowed down by weight of woe To weakest hopes will cling. To thonght and impulse while they flow That can no comfort bring ; With those exciting acenea will blend "O'er pleasure's pathway thrown, But memory is the only friend That grief can call its own! The mind will, in its worst despair, Still ponder o'er the past. On moments of delight that wets Too beautiful to last; To long, departed rears extend Its visions with them flown. For memory is the onVy friend That grief can call its sera. A LEGEND OF ALEXANDER THE GP.EAT. No hero except Solomon, perhaps, has so many wonder nil adventures credited to h;ni by the story-teller of the E&t a< Alexander the Qreari One of these, which I am told is also to be ionm! 1 in the literature of the Hebrews, is not onlv entertaining but possesses some deep ant! gtacvful morals. , 1\ 1 Luring the unprofitable march of Alex aiider in India he cam* to a lovely oasis watered by a clear running stream. The great king stretched bis weary limbs on its banks and ordered from the scanty ! stock of provisions a few dried salted fishes : for his repast. Clear water, served in at golden goblet, replaced the choice Lesbian in which the great king so often indulged. But how astonished was the conqueror when an accountably delicious odor and taste jervaded the water firon this running " stream! 44 Surely,' 1 said Alexander. u a river so full of rich properties must take its rise in a happy land. Let us explore j its sources." After a fatiguing journey on foot in quest of the head-waters of the stream, the king at last came to what seemed an immense enclosure, the walls of which were cf great height. He was re assured by fiudiug a pair of colossal gates right before him. Knocking loudly at the postern he demanded entrance. A voice from the interior answered, 44 Thou cans'! not enter here; this is Paradise, and the gates are the gates of the Lord." '■ I am," answered Alexander proudly, ! u the conqueror of the earth: whv do you hesitate to open the gates for me ?" " Here," said the voire, l * no conquefbf is acknowledged except he who can cdtn *! quer his own desire*. Art thou fit Alex- 1 ander, to enter V The great conqueror felt that if admit- : 1 tancc to Paradise depended upon this law he had no chance to effect an entrance. •'Give me," said Alexander to the voice j which spoke to him, " some token at least, so that I may show the world that I have 1 been to the very gates of Paradise, where j until now no mortal was." !' A small pert-hole was opened, and from it Alexander received a portion of a human skull. "Take this," said the voice within; " a single look upon it may teach thee more wisdom than thou hast received 1 1 from all thy masters and philosophers." Alexander contemptously took the gift, 1 and wended his way to his tent. Throw- j ing it down in disgust, he said", "And this < is the present that is given to the conque- 1 ror of the world ; truly, a paltry present < from such a source as Paradise." * 1 " Great king," sa'd a sage who was pres- i ent, "to me this gift ponsesses a secret i meaning. Pray, put it iuto one scale, and j 1 fill the other with the finest gold." 1 The king ordered it to be done, and le !< the piece of human bone outweighed the t filled up scale of gold. ji il This is a wender," said the king. Larger scales were brought, heaps of gold t were placed in one, and the human frag- t ment of the skull in the other, yet the s bone outweighed them all. e The sage then ordered the skull to le j* covered with earth, and behold it only p weighed its own specific gravity. j c " How remarkable is this," said Alex&n- c der, " can you give me a solution V a " Great king," answered the sage, " this fragment of a human skull is that part i which in life encased the eye. The human s eye, although hemmed in, is nevertheless c insatiable and unlimited in vision. The more it possesses the more does it desire, j I The treasures of the earth fail to satisfy its 1 continual longings. But when once de- : 1 sccnded to the grave, and covered with its 1 f mother earth, rt finds a limit for all its 1 once boundless wishes. Learn, O great j < king, wisdom! Of what avail will thy < conquests and riches be when thine eyes 1 are covered with dust and thou sleepest ] the sleep of death ? 1 " What!" cried Alexander, "is fame 1 nothing, that thousands of years hence 1 people should speak my name—nay, be as 1 1 familiar with it as are my own legions? 1 Thoa art a grovelling philosopher, and hast I not the soul of a conqueror in thee." Heedless of the warning he had received j 1 at the gates of Paradise, Alexander march- j 1 ed on from kingdom to kingdom, leaving destruction, famine, misery, and death be- : hind him. At last h came to the country I < governed by the Amazons, where women govern and fight and men do the household 1 work. Alexander summoned their chief 1 city, which was walled in, to surrender. 1 The Amazons sent him a deputation, who 1 thus spoke to the great king: " Great con- | < queror, if thou intendest war with us thy < arms prevail, thou wilt not add a jot to < thy fame by having oonquered a kingdom ' of women. But as all war is doubtful, and 1 battles are not always to the strong, thou 1 i mayest be beaten; and then behold the 1 ignominy with which thy name will be branded forever: The conqueror of the 1 world was beaten by women ! 1 Alexander felt the force of this argument, 1 and abandoned his undertaking, ordaining 1 an obelisk to be erected, with the follow- ( 1 ing inscription: i I, Alexander, aptU now foottah end vain, have < leaned wisdom irdm women. ! 1 Somewhat subdued in his desires, he : ] marched on' a northerly direction and!] " { , V, ■ - - ■ ■ ' IIIHI- ■ - V 1..-.W .RII KJENTRE HALL REPORTER ISiM priarnm S I.MIMH T* MII HI *.I I<t* . . i. / ,i , iLllcfoht* ■, . . , l - ~ '*" • . ' 1 ,1 .'•! /'I b n . • FRED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. IV. reached the small but haiipy kingdom of Rurinapoor. The native kirk: knowing his own weakness against the might*.host* uf Alexander, received him and>hi* army huv ' pit ably. He sent BwaaMigera to unite Alexander to his modest. palace, end pre parcd a banquet. When the conqueror wa* seated, he beheld a must singular spee ttacle. Instead of the wual fish and neah and fowl and bread, all that wa* placed before him wis either of gold, silver, or precious atones. Yka.*. instead of the soup there was a plate of emeralds. The goblet lof wine was represented bv a goblet of were there to represent the wheateu loaf. 44 Dayou eat, gold, and sjlwjand drink Ifitjlx In yoyr Tagd jajktd JAl*xan<lr "Can I believe," said the native king, "that you, the great conqueror of the ~ world, w|o has left yydr Awn taiil to xub idvfo the ijJipfoA of tljt iarth— can I think that you can feel satisfied to lie fed from the usual productions of the land like other men 1 Surely, of grain, meat, and wine you have plenty in your country, Your reaming and conquests can have no other object but riches and power. Here there is gold, silver, and precious stones. Eat and drink them, and show us that you are mote than a common mortal." Alexander who could at times appreci ate sreni truths, kwriJy answered, '*Mv friend, I have not come to conquer nor to and your laws," . , f AllvfgelL eonqufbo( !f Anil the native prince, "if inquisitive princes thirsting for knowledge should nil adopt your plan, by bringing an armed host along with them to learn the customs and laws of distant lauds, there would bo Utile of either left body of phi losophic traveflers. However, I will gra tify the curiosity of my great guest." Ciap piug his bauds he demauded of the attend ants whether anv causw or lawsuits were lat that moment Woe* the great gate of , the palace; and, finding that there were, H Let the switors come befod? me." said the native king. 1 Two villager* theu appeared before the , king. The first ona addressed him thus: I •* I have bought a small piece of ground from this my neighbor. Digging upou it I I suddenly discovered a hidden treasure, which I forthwith took to my neighbor, telling him that although I Insight laud 1 did not buy gold and silver from him ; j therefore the treasure belongs tjO.him." The second villager said, ''May it pkftse the king, when I sold uiv neighbor the J land 1 frh tlmt f h*l tiofCirt her right nor title to it; ndw*th£n bkn Tttcrept the treas-, ure which no longer belongs to me ?" The king, stroking bis long beard, asked whether the cootendiug parties had children. " Yes," was the reply, •* We hav* | both of us sons and daughters." j " Well, then," said the kiuu, "my juilg- \ ment is tl'.qt the daughit cof iixa|One liti gant many the son ?>:' the ' treasure be given as a dowry. 1 The villagers thanked the lung ana left f rejoicing. Alexander, who had listened to this' strange suit and to the kings decision, i could not conceal his astonislmmnt. i '* itaß my derision faij<rt*<iit>tain yr approbation, 1 ' demanded the native king of Alexander. " llow would you, in your, own country, in a case like this, have! derided r !/*'•" .4i 1 "In my country," said Alexander, the ! autocrat aud conqueror speaking in every ' word, "a treasure found in the bowels of the earth, no matter who the owner of the surface may be, belongs to the kins; and I would put to instant my* sAject of mine who, finding a \hcasfire, iould dare to conceal or fill to deliver it to the authorities within the day." The native king, much astonished, and looking fctl Alexander attentively, at last i said > ♦' Fray toll roe, great conqueror, does ' the sun shine in your country f 1 " Certainly,"<*aid Alexander. '• How strange T 1 said the native Jtiug, j musingly. " Does it rain in your conntrj I" 1 he asked again. " Certainly," replied Alexander. f | •vWoirftßljl| mifiuured the nativkj" priact. -Iltvfl vbu any domestic arqamU L in your land T 1 "Of course we have," answered Alex ander." " Ha!" cried the native prince, relieved, i "it is for the sakeof these poor animal* that J a good and wise Providence allows the blessed son to shine and the rain to fall upon your fields; for surely you and year ; people, O great king, do not deserve these < blessings." FIFTEEN KIXITEN TOO SOON. The sun had almost left the eastern window of Mrs. Grov 1 * kitchen, as she set on a low seat, with a willow basket 011 the floor beside her, patiently assorting a huge pile of carpet rags, aud putting the pieces j of red, yellow, blue and black in separate j heaps, ready to be tied up into bundles, j On the floor aat the two-year-old baby, 1 watching the proceedings with great inte rest, and sometimes working away as busily ! as mamma herself, but whose tiny fingers were, unfortunately, more of a hindrance ' than a help. Over the fire the kettle and j : dinner-pot were boiling briskly, while from the oven a savory odor issued forth of the good things within. | Aa the forenoon waned, Mr. Grey glanced anxiously at thh clock, from time to time, but kept steadily at work, over seeing the cooking of the dinner at the fc*ne"t}ne£ "A Idfik <>f rested oil her coiAilenmoe d lliesgtcafpife of rags gradually diminished in size and finally ; 1 disappeared, and the pieces of different , colore were ail ready to be thd up and put j j away. " Just a quarter to twelve," ahe said to 1 herself. " I shall have tine to put these 1 away, set the table, and have dinner pre- j 1 cisely at twelve.'? 1 This had been a busy forenoon with . 1 Mrs. Grey. She bad. ri*n_earlier thin'* usual, had performed her household duties 1 ] with more than usual dispatch, and by a j good deal of close calculation bad gaiattd 1 an hour for this work. Aa,erery moment ] counts where the wofy of a fkmiJy is te-be ; ( done by one pair of ha uds, she thought j that a little extra effort in making a ,J pet would save a vist deal of. time aow< ] spent in scrubbing and clmnmg, and t hen, ) 100, the room would look so much mere H tasteful and pleasant. 00 it was wit h' 1 much satisfaction that she locked upon her morning's work, as being the first Ktep • toward such a desirable end. But just as she rose from her teat ahe, * looked out of the window and saw her; * husband coming up the path to the house.! ] "0, dear," aaid she, " Heiliy has come,' J and dinner is not ready. What shall I ' do?" II j ;i 17 wr Now, to meat wives the coming of the [ husband a few before dinner is not a matter of such fearful importance as 1' to cause a disarrangement of the wlryl* I i household economy, bat Mr. Gary always 1 expected dinner to bo ready at the moment ' of nis coming, whether before or alter the • 1 usual hour, aurl his wife, who' Wat a timid i' woman, stood greatly in awe of her bus-, 1 band, and deemed it the most awful thing '' in the world in any way to cross bis \ 1 wishes and thus offend him. , ,1 J So she hurried to the stove, Hfted the heavy dinner-pots, aomewbat changed their places that they might boil faster, and gave the fire a vigorous stirring, which, 1 b I unycessary, for Ue fiieWas buAilg before jjast as brightly as itpould, and the flinnef was already cook ed; thenJwrntilybrushing thecarpeb-rags all up together, she crajpm©4 'hto the bas ket, and rushed with it into the bed-room. Little Annie playfully oaoght hold of her | . CENTRE IIALL. CENTRE CO.. L'A., FRIDAY, JANCABY 20, 1871. f 1 divas as the (iass 4 d, and her mother being • In too great a hurry to notice lior she was f dragged along a atep Mid fell over back • j ward, hitting her head a, xiust a chair. • t Now followed a acene of coafusiou. • Rabv'a loud acreani* mingleii with the M mot her's exalamation* of pity and regret, -' & he vainly tried to soothe her. aud in i the midat of it all Mr. Grey came in. with 1 a ft\>wu on his brow, aud iu a stern tone r said, " What ia all th'a I Why isn't dinner > i reedv ?" •' It is all ready. Heart; you shall have fl it joai as soon a* 1 can take it up. But see I how Aanie has hurt herself" • •' Never mind her; she'll aoou get over 1 erring, i am in a hurry. Seem* to uie it never have my mU when I want . them." u O. yes. Henry, sometimes you do, for veaterday I waitei a ftdl hour for you; but ,' it isn't quite twelve yet; 1 dididt expect ■ | you before twelve." ■| •' The clock is too alow, I know." aaid ■ the, going to it and moving the hands. 1 ( 44 There, now it ia twelve." i Mrs. Grey made no reply, but resolutely putting Annie, who waa still sobbing and ' cryiug down 111 a chair, turued away .and 1 Atußveltoed taking up the dinner. In a lew moments she called her husband to the > table, and, with the child again in her ' arms, sat down to pour the colfee. Mr. tlrqy'sstem feature*relaxed a little 1 M he looked over the table. Every thing was just right, and had evidently 1 been cooked with a view to pleasing his town particular appetite. The roost beef was juicy and tender, the potatoes white 1 and mealy, the fragrant coffee, light, apongy bread and gulden butter could not well be improved, while his favorite apple pudding had turned out a perfect success. A good dinner naturally puts one in good hntnor with one's self and the world generally; thus it was with Mr. Grey. He was dis posed to be quite social and communica tive, and to chat about the little affairs that had taken pl.ee dining the forenoon. But not *0 with the wearv wife. The consciousne>s that fear of her'kusband had caused her to undo in a moment the toil some work of the last hour, the uncomfort able reflection that one idea was upper most iu all her domestic arrangement*, and that idea the grmtificatiou of all his wbima at the expense of every thing besides, roused up rather rebellious feelings for the time, while the nervous excitemout ahe had felt for the last half hour caused a vio lent headache, which disinclined her to talk much. Henry, being uuablo to sustain the con versation alone, hastily finished his meal and harried off to work, thinking all the way how duli and commonplace Mary had become, ami wondering what had changed , the bright-eyed, light-hearted girl he had f wooed aud wo" three years before, into such a sober, mopish woman. Then be retried it in his mind tbat it was the wsy with all married people. Of course their cares would make them grave and sedate. , But just then hi* memory served to remind him of Mrs. Morris, an intimate friend of his wife, who was married about the same > time they were. She looked not a whit 1 older or sadder than on her wedding-day, j _ and, so med to enjoy life just as well as iu her girlhood. It was strange ; did he not ] provide bountifully for hi* family ? Wa* no! their every need supplied ? He could obii understand why it waa, and it not being a very pleasant subject on which to 1 reflect, lie put it out of his mind. Mrs. Grey still *at by the table with a 1 weart, despondine look on her countenance that would pain you to witness. The tide of angry feelings had rolled away, and now the poor, tired heart ached for sympathy; for a word, a look of tenderness ana love; aud unbidden tears streamed down her cheeks. Long, long she sobbed, but grid- ( ually the intensity of her lecling* wore 1 away, and she became calmer. Then her ' woman'* heart pleaded for her husband.' and she said. 44 Itenrv ia not so considerate as some, but he doesn't mean to be unkind," 1 and she tried to forget self in the alieorb- j ing interest in what she felt to lie her life work ; but still the little incident of the day. trilling though it seemed, was helping, 1 with many others, to steal the bloom from her cheek, the lustre from her eye, and the 1 joy from her heart. Afc.Yiusband, it is not the great, heart i crushing sorrows that imbitter life so much as (fid little, selfish exactions, the petty unkindnenses, the thoughtless neglect;and i the •' small, sweet courtesies" of life arc far more potent in their power to smooth the roughness of the way, than all the wealth of the Indies unacompenied by them. A N AVBCDOTK ia told of Chief-Justice Marshall, evincing his ready humor. The old gentleman like Miles Stnndish, was very fond always of doing every thing for himself, anil objected strongly to any asaiatanco being rendered him. One day, wishing to consult some work of referonee. he entered the law library and proceeded to mount the steps and draw out a l>ook from an upper shelf. The books being tightly packed together refused to leave one without the other, and the Chief-Justice, not noticing this, in withdrawing the one he wished dis lodged the entire row, which come down upon him, felling him to the floor. The librarian instantly ran to the r<*cue, inquiring if the venerable gentleman was hurt, and offering him assistance in rising. *' Let me alone," said the Cliief- Justiee; "let me alone, I'm a little stunned for the moment; that's all . I have laid down the law often, but this ip the firat time the law has laid me down." INSAIOTV AJCD MRRDER. —At a murder trial in Memphis, wherein an attempt to establish insanity was made on the part of the defence, Dr. J. R. Allen wo* called as an expert, and testified as follows : I have been a practising physician for nearly thirty years; I have" had some experience in coses of insanity, having been for ten years medical superintendent of the Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, and during that time had over two thousand crazy people under my charge ; I have heard the hypothetical case read by Mr. Phehm ; I am here as an expert, and before aaswering this question, would like to say that the more I studied the 1 question of insanity the less I understood it; and if ynu ask me where it begins and where it ends, neither I nor any pUysioian in the world could tell you ; in fact, on occasions like this, lawyers make ; fools of themselves in trying to make asses of doctors. P l ' TORPEDOES ADBUT —There is some thing extremely disagreeable says a Loftdou paper in the story that during the lab; experiments carried on with iu_ the Elbe some of these unpleasspt machines broke loose and figutaj away into the ocean. The possi- Irimijrof yacht, steamer, or peaceful trading ship comiug in contact with one of mem IB a very uncomfortable idea, as we fear they would not respect, neutral bottoms. It is earnestly to be hoped that if any of those torpedoes have wan dered from their proper paths, they will sink by their own weight without loss of time, or become the prey of some sea monster, who will not be a little surpris ed at the effect produced by such a peculiar pilL PESNSTLVANIA lia3 2,002 school dis tricts, 11,212 schools, 2,892 graded schools, 13,100 directors, 79 country and other superintendents, 17,612 teachers, 828,891 pupils, 5 normal schools with 2,675 students, 66 professors and stu dents, 8,135 volumes in the libraries of the normal schools, 13 colleges with 157 i professors and teachers, 2,805 students I and 75,000 volumes in their libraries. g Immigrant* from Europe, 111 During the year 187U there arrived at New York alotiu, 211,110 immigrant* from the old world. During the year '• 18t>9 the number was '268,989, showing a * falling off the year just cloned of 47,75*9. • This result is prohably due in a great J' measure to the European war. but it j must i>e taken into eonsiderntifn t at c the year 1869 wm an exceptional year, ' the mimker of uimiigrauts being largely iu sices* of any year previous; sill, lookkg at the tuldes, it n ill be seen that i the greatest decrease i* 'rou tlmse eouutries affected by the war. Tims, r Uermany in 1808 mmt to thi* country " 99,1'06 soul*, and during the last year 1 ! only 7'J,3t58, a ilntrasss of 27.287. France seuds only 555 less than the year r j previous, lrcliuul 1,936 lea*; England j 1 2,600 less; while Sweden cornea 11,902 1 short of the number of 1869. But tlmt ! year the immigration from Sweden was ; exceptionally large, having been 23,453 '• ' against 14,520 for 1868, and 4,843 for j 1867. Norway is 787, and Denmark 159 'j liehind the previous year. The countries J from which tlie immigration lias increas ed aro Kcotlaud 88, Italy 533, Russia 57, 1 and China 5, more than eauio from those countries iu 1869. The largest imrui r gration last year wus in the months of ; April, May, and June, the total in May 5! footing up to 52,105, or 15,416 mor than ; arrived iu any other month. During the j r j rear the immigration from Germany 1 ' j kept in excess of that from Ireland until | April, when the number of Irish was 1 j 2,243 greater than the Germans. Then ogaiu in August, September, and Oc ! tolier, the numbt>r of Irish was in excess ■ of the Germans, but for the last two ' months the number of Germaus have ex- 1 " j needed the Irish by 3,319, and for the - whole year 7.200. The countries which '; send the fewest immigrants to this j ' i country are Japan and Turkey, which 1 have sent one apiece. China sent hut I 20 during the last year against 15 the ' year before. The total numlier of aliens who have lauded in New York since Mav 11847 is 4,509,170. Stie of I'sited State* Senator*. 1 A Washington correspondent writes : One cannot nelp recalling the phreno logical dictum—"that other things he j ing equal, size it the measure of power," , when looking on tho Senate assembled. 1 There is a good deal of head here, aud proportionately a larger amount of belly also. Small men are bv contrast at a j great disadvantage. Look over the outer circle to the left of the Vice-Presi-1 dent, as an illustration. Thore are no j small men in it, though some are not fat ones, yet the lean meu, however large of > brain, are made to look small by contrast. There is Hamilton and Flannagrui, of : Texas, "lean aud hungry kine," tall and lank men of the Cassias stripe. Next comes vour goodly proportioned Senator, loth physically and mentally, Matthew ' H. Carpenh-r, one of the strongest men 1 in the Chamber. Scott, of Pennsylva nia, sits next to him—a man of moderate i statue and weight Rice, of Arkansas, | long-headed aud loug-limbdd, follows ; ; his colleague is by his side, young, but' weighty ioaverdupois and sagacity ; then 1 Ramsay, handsome und stout, flanks i Chandler, homely, coarse, und large of 1 j frame, and heavy in flesh. Howard, j { Nye, Sumner, sit side by aide, sustained t I by Kellogg and Yates, who complete the , ■ row. Of the fifteen Senators named, there is not one weighing less tliau 16" I p*nnds, and all but three or four will acknowledge 200 and upwards. So size i in body and head docs really give evi i deuce of power. In the House there is | not so marked a distinction. The rep 1 resentatives will average better, and 1 there arc some little men who hold large ! places ; ability, not experience, jierhnps, is us great. The Battle of the Pigs. The following story was related to us i by a gentleman of undoubted veracity, ; who vouches for its tru'h : In the vil lage of Brewer, opposite this city, two } men cairy on the bverv business—occu pying stables situated about a quarter of a mile apart—and each owms a huge Chester hog weighing nearly 400 pounds. The other day Mr. A's hog broke out of his pen and strayed down c>n Mr. H's I premises, and the latter, mistaking the 1 animal for his own, drove him into the j pen under his stable. Presently he heard a terrible rumpus, and fonnd that his own porcine had resented the intrusion, and WHS giving the hog he hud turned in a terrible thrashing. Separating the combatants, Mr. B drove Mr. A's hog' home and he was secured in his owu do main. The next morning Mr. B upon going to feed his hog, found him lying upon the liottora of the j>en utterly ex hausted, nud his adversary of the previ ous dnv industriously engaged in knarw- > ing a bole in his back. It appears that after Mr. A's liog had been driven home he meditated upon the drubbing he had received until he hail got mad all over, and breaking out in the niglit, he had made his way through the darkness to his sdveraary's sty, smashed his way in, aud proceeded to avenge his wrongs by nearly killing his antagonist— Bangor I (Jfr.) Whig. What a Battle is Like. As a matter of fact, says a correspond-1 ent, unless one is riding with the staff of j a general who commands, one cannot form on idea of wliat is going on by hanging about, and it is a horrible sight to look with an opera glass at men and horses bring massacred. When knights charged each other with lances there was a certain chivalry in war; but there is nothing either ennobling or inspiring 1 in watching a quantity of Breton peas-; ants who cannot even speak French, and an equal number of Berlin gioeers, , who probably ask for nothing better than te be back in thoir shojw, destroy-1 1 ing each other at a distance of two or '! three miles with balls of lend and iron, many of them filled with explosive uiu- j i ternus. I confess that 1 pity the hors< s j i almost as much as Ido the men. It 1 \ . ecms a monstrous thing in order that the Alsatians should be forced into lie- 1 coming subjects of Prussia, an omni-, * bus horse, who lias honestly done his 1 work in the streets of Paris, should be j' i taken outside the Wulls 0J the lown to '! have his head blown off or to stump ' ibout on three lege until he dies of cold !! uwl hunger. Horses hare away when 1J they are wounded of making desperate efforts to get on their feet, and then lot- j ' ting their heads fall with a bang on the 1 soil, which is horrible to witness. LCTMBGB AT ALBAKT.— The official state ment places the receipts for 1870 at 452,363,9 ft!? feet, which aro the highest . figures Albany has ever reported by 8,000,000 feet. The stock of lumber on 1 hand at the close of the year i*estimated at 90,000,000 feet, which is about 20,000, - , 000 feet less than the stock a year ago, ; and tho receipts are about 8,000,000 feet greater than those of 1869. A girl writes a composition as follows: SEOW. —I Love To see snow I Love to ! get up in the morning and see a Deep | Snow I love to see the trees and the ground all Covered with snow some girls do not like to come to school for thev I say it tis to eokl and they watch till school is in and then they g* then on the hill to slid* • ■ ■ ■ ■* 1 THE mayor of San Franciseo has given his entire official inoome for the present {ear, amounting to the sum of 94,200, 3 the public oharities of thq raty. Intermittent Brlxsndagc. I The brigrnds in Greece are uot, as ( in other eouutries still cursed with i brigands, a class completely cut off from 1 society. Kiu-'b troop hud iu olden time, mid probably lias still, its director, its . iinprcHMsrio, in a fowu, sometimes in the : enpitol, sometimes at court. The subal terns often return to civil life ; often also i the peasant turns brigand for a few weeks, ' when lie know* that H good liaul is to !H> made. The job finished, he returns to . his tillage. Gf all the countries iu the world, Greece is the country in whieh opportunity has aalh d forth Uie greatest number of highwaymen. A Fl ouch man, residing in Athena, has told how liia servant one dsy timidly ac costed him, twisting his cap*between his fingers. 1 " You have something to ask me ?" j '• Yes, effeudi, but I dare not." " Dare, nevertheless." , " l-'.ffcudi, I want to speud a month on I the mountain." 44 On the mountain ! What for." "To stretch mv limbs, saving yonr resjiect, effeudi, 1 get rusty here. In Athens, you are a heap at civilises, (1 have no iuteution of offending you,) aud I am afraid of catching your oouiplainL" Tho master, touched by such valid rea sons, allowed his valet to take a month's man-shooting. He returned at the expiration of his leave of abcenoe, and never touched so much as a pin of his 1 muster's property. j Thore was a poor gondii rme who, for long, long years, aspired after tiis rank of < corporal. He was a good soldier, brave enough, aud the least refractory in his eompanv ; but bit only patron was him ' self. 80lie deserted, and turned brigand. . Here lie was stile to display his talents. He wa* soon well known to all the heotL> lof the geudermerie. They tried to catch him, aud miseed cau hiug him five or six times. Giving up tlmt game, they seut a friend to treat with him. 44 You shall have your pardon, and, to make up for your 1 trouble, you shall tie matte a corporal to-1 morrow, and a sergeant in the oourse of the veer." Hi* ambition was satisfied. He con-1 *i-iitod to be made a corporal, awaiting iiatieutly his sergeant's stripe*. He bad long to wait for tnrnn. One day, his jia-! tienee was worn out, and he returned to the mountain. He hud not killed three 1 men, before they made haste to make him a sergeant. He afterwards rose to au of ficer, with no other liatroua than the i persons he bad put underground. Sain Houston's Love. The most singular incident in the life 1 •if Ham Houston, and one never hitherto : explained, was liia abandonment of the 1 Goveruorahip of Tennessee only three, •lays after marrying a voting wife. Ho. became a voluntary exile lunong the In- j dians of the plains for years thereafter, wsa made a great chief, and only reap peared in public life when Texas was 1 struggling lor independence. The Gal- 1 veston Anri lifts the voil from this se-1 cret cliamlier of Houston's heart by this 1 strange narration ; 44 What wo know i J about this matter is so honorable to him . that we shall, for the first time, put it, in print We may premise that our in- j formation wa* indirectiy derived from . , one now deceased, who. during her life, J had a right to know what caused this! strange episode in the Ufo of a great' ! man. Governor Houston's first bride I was a Tennessee belle of surprising | beauty and considerable social standing, j She wit.*, if not the aflianoed bride, at i lou>t the tweetiieart of a neigh'joring geutleuuui when Governor Houston | sought her hand. Her family being | very ambitious, forced the match and she was married. After retiring to ber bridal chamber her deportment was sncli , as to cause him to suspect that she did not love him ; that while her hand was | liis, her heart waa another's. She con fessed the truth when interrogated, and. while promising fidelity and wifelr dutv, j declared he reel f unable to love him. lie j at once retired from the house, leaving ; his bride as pure and sjiotleas as ever, j He than resigned his position and went among the Comanche*. In due course 1 of time the lady sought and obtained a | divorce. A Bill's Wendcrfttl Adventure. If antiquarians divide the periods cf primeval man into the stone, bone and iron eras, we stand a good chance of gov ing down to posterity as l>clonging to the advertising age. 4 Ah !" said a traveled j fneud of ours, "when 1 was in Soudan, news came to us that a great chief some days' journey from us had a treasure, a picture of untold beauty. We mounted our camels and went through the burn ing sands for three mortal days. At hurt, just a* our water-skins were dry. we ar rived at the .Sheik's tents. He was a su . perb old man, and after a sheep was ; killed nnd eaten, with a traveler's curi osity, I broached the delicate subject. ( From the bottom of a cedar chest, be neath iMiurnessea and caftans, he disen tonibed something done np in a shawl. 4 See ! behold 1' he cried ; 4 this came to me from a strange land. It traveled here from the Nile, in boats. From even fur ther thnn that.' I wm quite excited. Was it some old papyrus, some grand ! relic of the Pharaohs ? I trembled with emotion. With shaky fingers the old maD undid the coverings, and exhibited to me a show bill of Dan. Bryant's—the flaring picture of a regular nigger break down. 4 1 cannot sell it to you,' went on the old man, 4 it ha* preserved our stock from murrain this year, and in ouses of fever nnd blindness it works marvelous curse. Blessed be the Prophet' " Sickening Scenes. The country lietween Orleans nnd Tonry, and in front of it, is beyond conception, terrible to contemplate, now since the storm of war and oattlc has passed over it The villages and farm-houses arc burnt; the towns gutted. They ure, nevertheless, full of wounded 1 miii. Every house, almost is crammed 1 with them—Prussiaua, Hessians, Bava rians, Hunncatius, Mecklenburgliera and French. The fields and roads are cov ered with dead men and dead horses, frozen and stiffoncd in hideous multipli cntion of fantastic contortions. Or leans has not suffered except in the sub url*, but those are shell-blackened and in ruins. Tlio Catholic cathedral ia flUed with irreverent prisoners, who swarm in the sacred places, play Offenbach on the organ, and mistake recklessness for gaiU (U ra-ur in their captivity. A FIUBIITFUL ACXUDLVT. —Details are given of a frightful railroad accident on the Mississippi and Tenncseee Road. The accident was caused by the breaking of au axle of one of the passenger cars. This car was overturned by the shock and oaught fire from the stove. Several persons were burned to death, one wo man being literally jammed head fore most into the stove and reduced to a cinder. The terror of the unfortunate negroes who occupied the car was indes cribable. 44 Packed upon one another, thrown violently from seats that were broken from their fastenings, the car on fire from tho overturned stove, they crushed one another; children were Buftocatod and crushed under foot, and many met horrible deaths." 44 Call that a kind man," said an aetor, spoeking of an absent acquaintance, 44 a man who is away from his family, and never sends them a farthing ? Call that kindness ?" 44 Yes, .unremitting kind ness," Jerrold replied. What u Woman Did. . , ■ A Buffalo pop* tells how a votuw i • put to flight n mob of twenty drunk* u i men, in the village of Holland as fot , low* : Tim mob was on a geormi n "apree,** aud the disposition to do inisf i chief wit* manifest. Entering tlio tavern j of a Mr. Paul, the landlord was speedily ! i driven froin the scene, hia two yuUOg t , i aona, one eighteen and the oilier twenty <*yeem of age, coming fortrord to deal' > with the riotous visitor*. The boy*, who | s vainly eudeavured to pacify the drunken, i ' navnge gang, and to iuducv them to. t leave the premise*, were tiually et upon ' ! and badly beaten, a* were also a couple 11 of men boarding in the house, who name j -1 to their rescue. Up to thia tin** Mrs. i' Paul hail not appeared. It was not until one of her aona, covered with blood , and bruiaea, retreated to her, in the rear j apartment of the house, that ahe felt her self summoned to action. Her first 1 i instincta wore altogether womanly. She 1 thought that she could persuade the ruffians, by an appeal to the ordinary ■ 1 respect of man for woman, to deaiol from i ! their violence, and ahe loldly went into their midst, drunken and armed with clulw aa they were. Her appearance 1 and her appeals had no eflect upon them, j They threatened her own peraon with ! i violence, aud swore that they would burn the house and kill the inmates. Thee this strong-hearted woman MM to anna, i tuid declared for buttle with the savage mob which would not be conciliated by r * peaceful persuasions. Escaping from ' a aide door, ahe attempted to rally the neighbors, of whom there were' enough near at hand, to the defence of I her threatened bouse and family. Pat i j the neighbora would not rally ; the mob i looked too formidable to them. She j could gather no force to aasist her ; and I perhaps it is not singular that the j villagers atood timidly aloof, because, without some resolute leader to givcj them confidence in each other, tneu are apt to appear cowgrds in such an eta erg ! ency, through every one's fear that he , • may expose himself without good back ing from hia fellows. At all events, the neighbors of Mrs. Fsul declined to' , assume the defence of her premises, so •be was left to bur own resources. ' Nothing daunted she borrowed two re volvers, disjmtolied s messenger to the village store to purchase s hundred < rounds of cartridges, and returned to; her beleaguered home. The rioters j were in full possession of its front rooms, j and engaged in indiscriminate smashing of windows and furniture, helping them selves to liquor and appropriating pro- I perty. She loaded tue revolvers that she nod borrowed, placed them in the ; hands of her two sons, stationed tbeiu at j the two door* leading into the liar-room, j 1 where the mob was mostly congregated, j and directed them to fire* several shots, first into the ceiling of the room, above ' the heads of the crowd, hi the hope that that ought suffice to alarm the marauder* i , and drive them off. That the shots wen-' .so fired is i.Umtod, we are told, by the | ( bullet marks in the culling. They had | no effect ; the rioters were too mad with | liquor and with their passion to be ao ' berrd by the warning. Some of them, on the contrary, made a rush toward on** i of the bora, and then his brother fired a' i shot which struck the foremast of the ; ojemihuits in the abdomen, and then, too. under the directions of the courageous > , mother, who BekwcUd the re vulvar* as they were emptied, the finug waa kept' up,*straight into tlie mob, until it broke ' iuto panic and fled. One man was killed outright, or dropped dead a few paces 1 1 from the door, and was found lying as 1 he fell, with a bottle of whiakv under one arm and a piece of clothing plunder-, ied from the tavern under the other. Two others are likely to die from the wounds that they received. (>:inpouder Tactics. On the last third of July wc witnessed ' a singular dispute between two young sters of the gamin sort One held an open j park of firecrackers defiantly in air, and i the other a bigger boy, 'flourished n lighted bit of punk. " Hand that pack over!" shouted the j punk-boy, fiercely. " One uv them 1 crackers is iniue 1 You promised I sh'u'd have it" "Shan't do it!" roared the cracker boy. "Ta'n'ttime to break the pack till to-morrcr. * " I tel] you, I want to fire off mv . cracker ;so hand it over. Y'ou lu'n r t got no right ter hinder me—" " Y'ea I hare, too !" Whereupon the punk-boy ruahed upon * his adversary, and, after a moment's) fierce struggle, secured the pack. " You just tike out a single one of l them crackers if you dare !' panted the ; vanquished boy, now very red in the face, bnt retreating before the other's j threatening gestures. " I ha'n't agoin' to," sneered the punk-1 boy, "if you're so torn el mean about it. 1 But I'll do what no Idler on earth can j , hinder me from doin'— l'll Jure of my ' cracker /" Suiting the action to the word, he 1 ble#upon the end of his punk, at the' same time applying it at the fine red specimen in the very heart of the pack. ' Off it went! And with it— Do you see the moral dauaing about j in that exploded chain ? In the affairs of life, in our pet enthusi asms, our schemes of reform, our enter prises, our pleasures, it is very trying to nave our single cracker in the Com munity's pack, esjieciallv when said Community has lus own notions con cerning the proper time for letting ns Are oar own. On the other hand, it i* equally trying to have a Community's j single cracker in our pack, when that , Community is determined to set off its , oae little firework regardless of oouse- j queuccs. But is it not often so ? j< As society stands, are not half its ( members holding open pocks aloft ont of harm's war, waiting the appointed hour j ( of explosion ; and the other half as I) earnestly flourishing their lighted punk? \ j And are" not the men who kwqi their eye j | i on Uieir own cracker as apt to har*their t j own wav a* those who own the rest of j j the pack ? j < And, all things considered, when a ( | cracker-boy is smaller than a punk-boy., - isn't it sometimes wi?r for the formet j j to quietly allow the latter to enjoy his 1 ( own single cracker at will ? ( BALLOON Prjsonhbb TO b OOURX-MAB TIALHD. —Bismarck sent word to the i French Government that several balloons have fallen into the hands of the Prus sians, and that the persons thus captured >| would be tried according to the tows of ] war. However, the French refuse to 1 believe that the Prussian Government ■ has any serious intention of taking the | responsibility of such a barbarity as the ) trial by court-martial and execution of | balloon travelers. It is believed that ■ the object is simply to strike terror and 1 discourage resistance. A HATTY vonth in Connecticut has i! three living grandfathers and six living , grand mothers, making nine grand- 1 parents. His grandfather, grandmother, : greatgrandmother and great-great- ( grendmother are living in the same j family. Next door live his grandfather. , grandmother and great-graDdmother, and within a mile live his great-grand father and a third great-grandmother. , i In English, the Merouriout Politique in J652 advertised an heroic poem,' the " Irmadia Oraiuloria," and this was the i aire of the whole progeny of advertise ments. j fj „ The Winter Fsaktena. " 1 j , Evmuno Dnnseaa -Hoßd colored '■ gr<>s groin, poult do aqic, and faiHe, henvTly repped anrt of the ).afet huon, •am tire materiel* fai evening lircMiuw this syaaon, Bfinll pink, del j blue, ]irl, chrysoliruae green, guano ! gtv, and tire definiteFrou FrrtuUnto of, I butt are tire ouk>rw shown. These choice colore in flue quatitia* yfrvpptnl *Hk onto 8R to 87 50 a yard. Yety hamlsom* i corded silk* ate whk# reld for 91 a yard, but the rage *hauas row ill vogue are not , found among tln iu. Bull lower prised 1 than tla line of silks, costing from K 5G a yard to W W, of thin, uneven • •lusiitv, dflwitel lt-ediiy by heldhig the fumrie before the tight. FXSUT Biuia.— Ot Are fancy silk* , shown the reversible tripod gros grain* are the ouly novelty, There nave satin stripes two inches wide of r v-color, alternating with white oh one vide of the 1 fabric, while <he reveree aide haa black stripes on white, or oliw two studies of violet or of purple one naed with white, i There are 87,60 a yard. Other striped silks are shown at varum* price*, begjp nmg as ln as 81,75 a yard. AU figured ' silk*, excei* the novelty just mentioned ! and the rich satin brocade*, are reduced 1 in price. 82 a yard buy* veyy pretty white aiik with "blue, mauve, rose, or green stripes half an iueb wide. Solid colored silks are still eapetuive, , and will beeoins mure so, , MXWKVU or 51 AElKU.— L'wntmiy to prediction, low corsages arc again in favor. Tiiey are straight around the ' neck, falling low off the sljtraldenb to- 6 ' stead, of die three-quarter square neck i with all older-straps worn teat year. I Hound waist* are entirely superseded by j pointa beck aud fitmt So- itnos bnly one dart and a sort of side U a are seen in the/root of pointing but for, tleuliy figures there are two and even three darts. The jioiuta ore very sharp, i slender, and three or fonr inches long, A double cord is the prettiest finish for them. Lace or fringe is often attached to the points, to initiate basques, or the flounces of the skirt, but this has a , poor effect. A silk lacing fastens the are** behind. Byway of variety the Irnck of low corsage* has sometimes a postillion basque instead of a point, bnt the pointed front ui te rigutr. The sloeve for suoh waist is the merest puff !or baud. The ornament is * beHh of , folds of tulle, or of the material of the trimming. These ore called Grecian folds, and give beautiful round ndteeas to the bust. H I i t 1 w Tmxxxs.—Of the immoderate length worn two years ago have disappeared. Ladies who refused to give them hp last winter are now having donii-tsaine about i ; sixty inches long. Tim newest fancy is I to cut the three straight back widths of ' the skirt hall a yard lunger than theride i widths next them, giving a square train, and trimming the long widths with a I jdewtvd flemwee. which, extending up ' the sides to the waist, has the efisal of | a court train. A skirt of this kind, with a corsage pointed in front, the back in a long, aieudar basque, is very becom ing to a, stout jK-raon. a i;< > TmioiTKO#.—Telvet niffiee an eighth of a ysxd wide, put on in scanty gathers, : trim the handoomewt ailks of the season. The velvet is exactly the shade of the, dress. Pink, blue, pearl-color, and clear green velvet flounces are exoedlßKly j admired ; but the shadowy grey silks and the undefined pale tea-rose, apricot, , eclu tints are not effective in velvet. For the letter there is, nothing so pretty a.- 4 1 ruffles of the material of the drvas, al- j 'tcrnating with lace or pleated muslin: flouncw. lux Drowms POINT LACK and the I stronger Brugre are gi-noraUv nsed for j trimming colored ailks aud white muslin , dresses. Thcv lisve think Honiton fig | ures wrought "on tin- lightest nwuhes. Cm*l CBAPB is so frail that it is no 4 longer in first favor for tunica, but is ! retained as garniture ip the way of festooned ibapery ami flonnoes with fringed edges. i TAUUATAN. TIXUK. AJTO GAVZK.— ID \ thin fabrics fur ball drosses white re mains in favor and t rlaton is the popu 'far material The prettiest white tar latans, copied from an imjmrted model, hare deini-treined akritii of coarse white net, trimmed with tea tsrtotan flounces. Tin) flounced mode double of the tarla tan are nearly two fingers deep when double, and have a white silk oord, or feathered braid, or satin ribbon near the odjje, to suggest a hem. They have one- I third extra fullness, are gathered in a; ■ plain seam, and i=ach flounce laps half way over the oua below it. A gathered I ruche of tarlnten howls the upper) flounce, and a similar one edges the , | skirt. The long, simply shaped ovtr-, skirt is draped behind, and reaches to j j the upper flounces. The low pointed i | contsge is of white silk plainly covered j I with tsriatan. Wwrra CUAHBKBT Garza. —-Triremsd I I with blaak lace and decorated with crmi | MIU rosea, deaorilaw a liandfome design . ' ball drees. Some white gauzes eighteen ; inches wide and sold for 81 * vard; 1 wider goods coat from $1,75 to $2,30. The striped Chambarya sold last year 1 for SBS are now offered for $45. DOUBLE TUNICS or MUHON.—Thtoi i double tunics described last week are > made of white muslin, and trimmed with insertion of duchess point, separated'by clusters of tucks, aud edged with dura ess lace. They ore worn over blse or rose-eoloved satiu dresses, bordered with wide flounces of pirated muslin and Lice, with lengthwise strips of l>ows ot satin between the pleats. A flower pariffe worn with mien dresses is of blue and pink oonvtdvitli. forming breteUre, chatelaine, and sash. On a garnet satin ■ c the edge of the train is cut in square ' blocks to disclose a pleated muslin flounce below. v THE KANSAS COT Journal,ho • lively 1 (leecription of tlie "lunch fi.md," the individunl|who travels from' one svtoon to another at lunch hours and iqflicte much eomjiany Upon other pwrtLis, aud leaves uo money behind the bar. This is hia picture:'" He indulges in Yifjpid oonvoresUon, ineauwhite doing fall jus tice to the lunch, ojactiag to* sentences while buvily engaged in iujecilng his food, all the time sut]>iciously,.yet gra ciously eyeing the lar tender, wlto u anxiouslv awaiting liis order for drinks.' After eating as much as policy will MDow, thefleud wipes hi* mouth, draws oht' k toothpick, and if there is no person present whom he can bore with a con versation previous to making an iuwo tieadexit, he t uddemly becomes vaatiy. interested in the pictures or handbills on the walls. These he studies Until ah op-, portunity present* itself, whereby the barkeeper's attention being dißtrnrted, 1 the fiend escapee JUid makes his way has tily to the next saloon, where the sun* performance is gone through with. CoNViNciNa.—An attorney brought on immense bill to & lady for some busi ness he had done for her. The lady, to whom he at once paid his addresses, murmured at the charges. "Madam," replied the limb of the law, "I wanted to convince you that my profession is lucrative, ana thai I should not have been a bad match." n* -1 The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has decided that, if a man put his head or arm through a car window and is injured by coming in contaot with something which reaches dose to the window, he cannot recover damages for the injury, the act being considered as negligence; on the part of the passenger. ; ' " ■ ■ 11 "■ ■. . •slWm ><s Iwv >ii fail !'• .!♦**}• ituci ' "" MO _j i* i TERMS"; Two DblUrt a Yew, in Advance. N ' ">/ "#j Jmtli oh o I • JmT * it *9t, rii " M l- * t*< cffbc satf***.' 1 New* hu bMi ritecNwd' at Man F*w oi*oo of th* totat km of the United §STa2rTfc"3ial&% I the mbrtringW Botarihrr. October 29, IMOkAa Ocean IMaudeaFbto* Imwf Hasdwtati Jallredw ftw 4he time tb* rewpl weut ou antri she wt*to piece* ft heart rail., prevailed,; andin Httfc <*wM b6~apd from the wneek. itepaciaUy waa ft diffi cult to obudo Uie urvvifuoipi on board, and b : < suae of (Jig nieiuffe quantity raved the officer* and diet* were placed on (fuwterraiuMi aa the ishuid oft whiflb Uof wrecked furnudwd nothing ia j the shape of food. On the lfitft of Novem ber the executive officer of the "Hagi <nw," Ideal IWhat, wfthhoma of the , sab-cfficrra, started .jin the gig f<* the fiupdwiisb lalanda, •#, OD the Wtk at Dumber; one month *fte; wi.rti, efttne ra eight <U Kanri, ono of the H*nd wieh Wand gww, but ftU were *> thor oughly exhausted beceeee of their eon tinned privation* ftfld suffering* that while \ti' m*lie ftUnding,liient Talbot, the executive officer. Fetor Fran oift, quartermaster, Mil Jsm<w Muhr and John Andrew*, sailors, were drowned in the aurf. Thajr. bodies were subse quently found on the beach, and inter red. The stttrivora immediately took j tmmmtm to lurwanl Urn new*of their r- j rival to Honolulu, and. the tore of the ' " Saginaw at Ocean Taland, and on M leetpt of the information the Catted I State* Minister chartered ,# .%na j packet, placed a supply of pionwm 1 and water on board and dinjwn-bed her 11 the relief of the foipwracked waune**. t Two days afterwfnL theSaodwich Wand . Government plarod the steamer "Ella-' ned 1 * at the service of the United Stated t Man tater, and h* ueinedinteij dispatched j ; her to the aeene of the disaster, %nd where ft wm hoped ahe would arrrvw in j ! ca*on to rescue the officers and men, from death by starvation and exposure. The " Bagina# wae a fourth-rate vi wfel ' of the pwlffie wheel dam, rrk two gone, and km tonnage JHd Montgom- • cry fcbcar.i, of >fw York, waa th* lieu-! tenant commanding. " Lihd —dt ' ! Tie Yaragua j Affair. The U S. House of Bmnrewfhtativee 1 have had the Paraguay affair under* coo-! aide ration , < An additional reaninuoa IM. ioftmed onawing Fleet Cut Bnmxer. and Lieut.-Commander Kirtland, for] going to the camp of Lopex, and acting • with inquisitors who esicrtad false coti j faaaiona from Blim and. Mfl|tamaa; and another, reqhesting the Secretary of the ' * Navy t institute proceedings; bf Court j t of laoairy t Court-BWirUah Jqr the ( trial , ot ddnurala Gordon and lor the offeaaes *-t forth in the re|>ort. Mr. Wil ■ land. • member of toe Committee on and Navy DerMtttnemebad ootopUnwct. d Admiral* 4tordon and ltoyu forth*, , manner in which thfV had performed their dutiiM as Admirals of the South' 1 Atkntfc ftqtiadrtn. At 41m doaa of the < debate Mr. Wood movwdAo lay the whole 1 if i ! di*wring a Court of inquiry wm agreed i to by f to 26, while that censoring, Capt liamsev. and Ueut-Cmin*ndfer' 1 Kirtland vra*'rejected fey 66 to 69. -The * r,wolntjon duapprovmg the conduct of . 4k*-Admiral Davis, in delaying to prp- j ' ceed to the rescue of Messrs. BHm and ] ! Maatcrmunc in accepting the rdmee in i the ifnauoor anduotiar the eircomatenaw J detailed in the testimony ; in receiving, ' holding and treating them as priaotieiA | was by JOO to 62. Tne rweH- i j tion deeuurtng that Admiral Gordon, in ( i uqglecting to akl Mr. Waebhurn in reach- . ing the Government to which he wm! ; accredited, failed to tliacliargn his du^r 1 !as commander of the South Atlantic Squadron, wsa ailopted "by 86 to 39. The' ' other majority resohition wae agreed to • without division. Permiaaion waa asked , to offer a resolution iustruering the Sec- 1 retary uf the Navy to publish in general' order* the reeolntiona of censure juat, ' adopt .-d. but objeotiun waa made. i DOT GOOD*. —The dry goods trade of ! Boston is thus reported by-the Skipping j ! Lwf of that city: ,v j j Very krile bounem has been transact ed the past week in the vrnj at bales*, and the rear closes on a quiet market in all departments. We noticed a tonM®" j : tone, however, and symptom* of an im-1 proved trade the coming month. Stocks jin agents' and jobber* hand* are un f ■ unudtv email, and with the curtailed ; production inhneed by the scarcity of water we would not be anrprised to see ian upward tendency iinmodiafcaly after . tine op.-ning of the new rear. It is ' generally conceded that prices are at their loweat point, end somo targe ! Western buyer* have already commenc ed to order cotton supplies in advance of their wants. The jobbere hve beeh engaged in nsttUng topounts, and Ami but small bgluuccs lu their favor. Still, j ! the iiastyear's buajneaa has been more oae,' and*' I toe trade generally ain better con ditiou than it wna this time last year. Very few fail urea are ( p>yorVd, jaa ottr houses are all in a sound conkrioi'f The results of the year have di*appoiul-, 1 cd those oulv who looked for aa active 1 Rpeculktivfe trade and large profit* Ignt < the aooner our merchant* pet those ex travagant ideas out of their hkeds the bettor,H :. - ,i i *d|! lßWj'tntw* then a thousand preater Uwrn was ever reported before The deftlw jF/ew whicb if. oae in nyory T5 m habiiAuta.. The death rate thus boctgtoee IMTWUW id Maerfchunettv it i K-ut W } And'4b Rhode Mand rimrly There wore 2,661 •oonplcs mariied. tire j laipsat numberireporteddb anyytore oept iB6O. The number uffbvorcua 167 —17.7 per cent, of all the mamiUftfl performed- Ip 1867 it ttas 159 ; hi, vvtpulation than th<' nariie, aa caee fall oarer Now England.' The dlwoeto, however, are ohaedy among tbtf native* ■ Iha Itttaw Novbltx in job printing hap juat bere evented, ly Loudcu. grin tor, who had n order ffoip uafcer, > print h number of blll-heada or three different ccdored paper*; vki. rw, 'green and white. The objuct if ri* it ap i pear*, waa to avikt givitig iimtnu'tion* man who.delivered the bread, flour,, &, to the cuskuaaru . Tgi I rcvent miaUAes, whe : the bUI ww xwde out Sa!" ™ae out .' Ac rash ; if on green it idsnoted "Oaftioto,'*i i theeiHtoHHH'was doubt ful, land the man *m to tot ha money if be could'; if-on whita, it wto> ttle to leav< o*y quantity. . •j '4 .t -■ il< nl u'.'i'i >Mi u Atoto in Beee* c*Be<| on one of the that town a few^days^ago pose of rasping off the. peg*, bait the purchaser Objected. becOusr esad he, if the peg* are'nut off the boy would run all oter town, and thay would not lm* him three week* 4 j '6 1 < The Indian Territory wants to be pro moted the to " State of Ocmulgea. " : ':L* Xatthi. Bream. ... As |ba brirhwtt dreanw nai ia<to away. Ad tmsit 'Besllx AttwnMii# x%j, Aad >ei I tope reu 'w vrltt think, tardea .irhi. ditok. -1 Aa ciooda mm a aotamar's day 8o atowly lane, aad pare away, < ' ! Pvfova has paled aud waned | And yet I tain would kava you know That In my heart there atilt doth tore .it Aleve whichOiceyougatoed. y 8 1 Ton wooed mid woo my treating heart; Aad. oh! 4did auefc tulaaiapart (Into my very oul . ,i - And through three log and dremfer yaast, 1 .. WMl* waiting km 'thee, eft tar teara . . .. Arnold eham away eaoh "ki,i ' Xetl have airuggled.wlth y toaft. And tret* ih* & trota me I Wad thre alltbe while Where'er thou atrayad, whtre'*# tolat ream, ? Tar o'er th'- land 'mm* oecan'a ftwha. I yet to the* mm tree X ' ' And whan flret came ante my auto Tkli tala, ! errehed uiy dotota sad fear* j ' And etfll did trret in you. ' But now? alaa! th* tale to told;, > Y 7.5 • • H j And erek that " endlaw Uourtif" v—rewreueomuums * • !,* - Facta sad Faneitau j Everybody Mdown on slippery Jrid^ l Delaware has. a debt of 11.113,000 less i' invcetmentt amounting u 65W.850. n *>lt la a criminal oflknee in. dllinoi* to - U nun a *' mutton-ln*!4j>Agan." The Norwegian Lotherausju the Uni ; tod SUtre. now number iSff oongrcga ITI 4 , Hi | 1 Uia retimatod that there are 220 la rabble oongregfttionft in the United ! Stole* V-- The Chitotmna in DmntoWftire ftgain suffering pcreecutioD and • general maa aerrc is feared. A wrestling match between a butcher and a brer U to be a Sunday feature ill B*u Francisco. , PgUteaeaa ia like an' air cwahion— there may be nothing in it bit ft ease* 1 our jolts wonderfWly. i A woman in Detroit the other day went to church, kwving four kttie chti {dreu with only a box of motofcre to play WifiL WSJ rets are ao pleaty in Alabama that dogs come home without any hide to aptittli of An Ruglisb biahop cmce aaid"Our ! giris are -poorly educated and our boys nover Una it oat" I ♦ At Kiagrtoa, Mo., there is* boy who • luu no ere*, and hi* mother baa to ' 'box the top of his lead. ' Somebody pasted lOOthreewdnt stamps an •rendu Wtot ami dropped it into tbs Chicago poatrotooc. The receipts of a minstrel show it < Michigan one evening were otely aigbt (cents, whereupon the loader killed hun- M£ < t A man who stole another man a hat. . even when hi* name was written on it, was tot off on the ground that b*.waa ! coßecting aatograpy. ! 1 A Mtrntosippi Judge annoonoed that i he would not hold u.c December Term of his Court, aa be had important private business to attend to. 1 The Chicago papcra say there are mora P t>w out of eaiuovinent in that section . now than there We been at any time during the last eight year*. ' The Kentucky Supreme Court has Mttfedth* fart that a dwg mnaining on a neighbor's pretniaaa may b* killed with impunity or suitable moan* ' In an obituary notice of aa elderly cirixrti of a village in Maine, it is stated , that he had killed forty-seven bears with - in the limits of the town. ] The V. S. Treasurer has received a ' note from New York, irigusd " Honesty, " < indoreng 878 to an emission in I the payment of internal revtmua taxes. Bull fighting ia an amusement of soma ' parts of China, aa wefl as of Srern, but lin the former country they match bull , against bull, instead of man against brute. . , 1 A man who been Governor of Maine < *' aeroiamodatoil" a rtmnger on the rem , with $250 the other day, "until he oould g,:t a check fors3.!><o cashed. That ' Ex-Governor has lost his faith in human : nature. A Quaker Indian agent who has re cently visited the Cherokeea, Choctaw* and other triW, gives it aa his opinion ; that the Indian fvmalee can be elevated, and adds that "hoop-skirts are more j useful in a family than war-whoop* M California, looking back over to 1876, f rejoice* that it has seen during the year , rite shipment of the first bale of bome . raised silk; tire raising ot the first suc cessful crop of cotton, and the first sno ' ce m the manufacture of beet sugar. A Chicago boy, being asked if he had ;s mother, aaid be didn't know, aa he hadn't been home since morning, and when he left his father and mother wore i quarrelling, with odds in favor of Lis aa ha had the hatchet in his hand. At a wedding recently, when the offi- J eistingpriert asked thetoiy, " Wilt thou s have this man to ba thy w.-d.led hus band ?" she dropped the prettiest cour > tesv. and. with a modesty which lent her hcaatv and addiriamri grace, replied, "If you please." A lady in Bath, Me., has just had re turned to her bv the Post-office Depart ment a totter which rie nailed eight yews nud six months ago. It gas cover ed with post-marks, but it was difficult to trace ont its journeying*. An eifft* mila ride through the heart of Aha Alps, in uttor darknea* t or dark ness so nearly utter that it will be dark ness riMMe, wffl be rather a gloomy and disagreeable journey, hat thousand* of people from all parts of the worjd will go and caperience it, just so soon aa it will be available. f An Indiana man was sent to the peni jtowtiary about a year ago, and his wife got* decree of divorce, for which she t o*rd the cbst* On Friday the husband made his appearance to* hia ex-wife, : maAa up "ij*her, and went to get a marriage license. He couldn't get it litdrtenh pJJd ibe cost of the old ditcree. H - ■# i The clipper-ships FroHe and GHory qf tkt Stm toft Ban Francisco on the same r day; rare for Liverpool and the other for nQork, were in each other's oompeny for . sig wrekf, tlu'ii Separated, and reached their destinations on the some day, the ' HbUv Arriving but x hours before her competitor ' 7 . ; Topers throughout the Eastern States Arc cdtmdaing of the drouth, and the ' -Norwich Adtevririe explains that the dif feri nce between lost Winter aad this is, . that ttere waa plenty of water then but j BO.fcelil weather to freeze it, and now therutt plenty of cold weather but no j#sW.Tor it to freeze. . 4 G(tt>L Travera, of Rochester, V M mads a wager of 525 that he wffl, at the dia . fahec tlf ibrrty-six feet, with a pistol, ''ahoot from the top cA a winc-bottle a ee+\ on which is plito?a a bnliet, drop * pmg the. bnltot in the bottle and not breaking the b jttl* He has twalve,shot, and engages to perform the feat four Th* Income Tax. —An examination of the incoifie-tal returns of the United States wr Hie lost yeAr develops many curioas facts. A hew York paper gives a resume of these, among which it is elated that the whole amount of income tax, exclusive of the tax from oorr •:ra tions, was $25,025,068.86. Of this amount Seven States paid the sum of 818,887,828.99, and nearly of 1 the wholp amount was paid by New 1 York. In nineteen States the amount ' collected Was less than $75,000. 1 A Lost Chtld. —A child about four ■ yeoretT age, who waa abandoned by a ' wondering party of gypsies, last Summer, > m Ottawa County, Ohio, has rinee been in the family of a farmer rasidmg in Ot tawa, and he, thinking the lijttis girl may - haws been stolen from her parents, has now advertised the fact •or-mi itfori i M HIS* JffM T vY ri Ip '*y , „ A m 3. rtjjiwil 1* M
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