VOLUME 2.
A Buffalo-Tiger Story.
A paper published in India, tells this
remarkably exciting story about an ad
venture there of an enthusiastic ento
mologist :
'•Olio very hot day, shouldering His'
Entomological net, and with his bottle of
cyanide of potassium in bis pocket for
the purpose of killing his specimens, he
had succeeded in taking several species
of moths and beetles, when, suddenly
on an open space, a gigantic i
female buffalo charged right down upon
him. Quick as lightning the narrator
sprang up a tree which .fortunately hap
pened to be near, and almost before he
had comfortably settled down upon one
of the branches it buffalo calf appeared
upon the scene, and V»oA mother and
offspring sat down at the foot of the tree,
'directly under his position. In order to
-attract the attention or bis friends, who
were in the neighborhood, or of any native
\vho wight happen to be near, he shout
id Mntil he was hoarse. Kver and anon,
\jy way of variation, with the vain hope
of frightening away the buffalo, he awak
ened the extremest echoes of the jungle
with his yells, and perpetrated the most
hideous noises ever produced by the hu
man voice.
All was of no avail; no friendly hand
came to aid him. and the brute still lay
placidly licking and caressing its call,
lie was about to assume a standing atti
tude in the tree, when suddenly bis left
hand, with which he had seized a branch
above his head, was severely stuug or bit-
ten by some insect or animal Starting
with the acute pain, as the fear of whip
or tree snakes flashed through his mind,
he involuntarily lossed his hold of the
bough, apd thus deprived of support, he
lost his balance and fell from his place of
refuge. He dropped on the buffalo s back,
and in another instant was carried away
at a tremendous pace through the long
thick grass of the jungle. It was a diffi
cult matter to keep his seat, when all at
once the buffalo sprang into a large "tank.'
and he was immersed up to his neck in
water. I liable to swim, he was obliged
to cling to the brute, which for a time
swam round and round the pool at her
pleasure. lie only hoped his legs would
not be seized by one of the alligators, of
which lie ha 1 seen several in the water
during the day. Then, to bis infinite
horror, a stinging sensation in his log
made him feel sure he had again been
bitten by another kind of serpent. And
still the buffalo showed no signs of re
turning towards the land, when just as
he thought she was preparing folic down,
lie dug his heels into her side and deliv
ered random blows with his fists on her
head and neck. Then, striking out for
laud, the brute speedily reached the
shore, on gaining which .she commenced
tier mad gallop. A tew minutes brought
tiieni to the spot from which the auiniai
had started, where the call was stilt stami
tug.
i'he animal was preparing to lie down,
tvhcu seiziug the blanches ot the tree
from which he hau laiteu ou the brute s
neck, fie swung himself up 111 tits old
position. He had not, huwevei, Oeeu
very long there when the smarting in his
hand and legs caused hun to remember"
that he had been bitten by sna-.es. The
very idea of this, and the knowledge that,
one of tho.se venomous reptiles was in the
tree on which he was perched, caused a
deadly faintness. from which it was some
time before he rallied.
Alternately filiating and reviving, hour
after hour passed away, night darkened
down upon the jungle, and the buffalo
still kept watch and ward at the foot of
the tree. At leugth. at au advanced hour
of Hie night, he suddenly became con
scious that a struggle was going on be
pfceen the buffalo and some large wild
animal, which he judged to be a tiger.
'The growling of the latter,' he continues,
'the groaus of the buffalo, the noise of
their struggles, and the incessant bleat
ing of the calf, combined in producing a
series of sounds, which, in the darkness
of night appeared worthy of the
tants of Paudemonium. For full five
minutes, which appeared hours to me,
the dreadful struggle continued, until at
leugth groans of the buffalo subsided into
a series of convulsive grasps and snorts,
and the sounds of struggling ou the grouud
a'uiost ceased. 1 could, however, hear
the tiger growling, suarling, and spitting
"like an immense eat. Of course desceut
was now quite out of the question. 1
therefore determined to remain where I
was until daylight, if 1 did not die from
the efleets of the snake bite.- before morn
ing appeared. 80 strong was the inter
est with which I listened and strained my
eyes for the purpose of learning what was
going on below, that 1 never ceased to
thiuk of this contingency, and forgot the
death-like swoons 1 had previously expe
rienced .
AMERICAN CITIZEN.
••After some time spent in listening to
the voice made by the animal while en
joying his feast of buffalo flesh, the sounds
ceased suddenly. I l'elt sure, however,
lliitt the beast had not departed, for I
had kept my eyes fixed on tl»e dark out
lines under the shadow of the trea, aud
the mass remained of the sai/.ie appear
ance. 1 fancied 1 could "race the form of
a tiger lying alongside the dead buffalo,
and this was t'.ie shape the dark objects
had assumed and retained since the ter
mination of the conflict."
At length, however, succor was at hand.
Seeing a light in the distance, he shouted
as loudly as he could, and this attracted
tlie notice of a party who had set out in
search of him. On coming up to the
spot, both tiger and buffalo were found to
be dead. On telling bis friends he had
been bitten by snakes they first examin
ed his hand, and pronounced the wound
he received whilst in the tree to have
been caused by the sting of a hornet. On
turning down his stockings they discov
ered several leeches gorged with blood,
for numbers of these voracious animals
had bitten him during his ride through
the water on the buffalo's back. The
faintings he had experienced were attrib
uted to loss of blood from the leech bites.
They then turned their attention to
the dead tiger. Not a wound was dis
covered about the carcase, but on slight
ly moving the body of the buffalo, they
discovered the bottle of eyadine of potas
sium. which had been intended for ento
mological purposes, broken, and partially
introduced into the wound in the neck
from which the tiger had sucked the
blood of his victim. While imbibing the
life blood of the buffalo the tiger had also
received one of the mrtst deadly poisons
known, which in the course of a very
short time bad produced its usual fatal
result. The position of the two animals
and of the deadly bottle left no room for
doubting that such had been the case.
On ascending the tree in such hot haste
the poison bottle and other little matters
were dropped, and during the struggle
between the animals the former was brok
en. and perhaps even Cut its way into the
jugular of the buffalo; thus probably as-
sisting in the death of the latter, as well
as proving so fatally destructive to the
tiger. On the appearance of dawn they
discovered a small wasps' nest hanging in
the tree. Later in the day they had the
satisfaction of superintending the skin
ning of the tiger, and distributing the
meat to the villagers, some of whom regard
it as particularly strengthening food. The
absence of bullet holes rendered the skin
a valuable one.
A Model Speech
A correspondent'from Missouri sends
a newspaper slip containing a report ot
' the speech of Gen. Uilcy.in the House of
1 fleprcsental.ves, l'ebiu.iry X, 1861. Al
' :or a long and heated debate on the ref
erence of a bill amending the charter ot
lie city of Carondelet to a StandinyCotu
mil tee of the House. Mr. Riley obtained
_ the floor, and addressed the House:
.Hit. SI'KAKKR Every body is a pitch
ing into this matter like toad-frogs into a
willow swamp on a lovely evening in the
balmy month ot June, when the mellow
' light of the full moon fills with a delici
-1 ous flood the thin, ethereal atmospheric
air. [Applause.] Sir, 1 want to putin
a word,- or perhaps a word and a half.
There seems to be a disposition to fight.
I say, if there is any fighting to be done,
i- come on with your corn-cobs and liglit
( ning-bugs : [.\, ■plause.] In the lan
j gnage of the ancient Roman.
•Tomemie. n«me all, tbia r<rk sball fly
1 From its firm INUW, in a pig's eve."
r Now there has been a good deal of bom
- bast here to-day. I call it bombast from
- "Alpha" to "Omega." (1 don't under-
I stand the meaning of the word, though.)
. Sir, the question to refer is a great and
magnificent question. It is the all-ab
f sorbing question —like a sponge Sir—a
- largo unmcasurable sponge, of globe
1 shape, in a small tumbler of water; it
s sucks up everything. Sir, I stand here
. with the weapons i have designated to
e defend the rights of St. Louis County,
the rights of any other county—even-the
t county of Cedar itself. [Laughter and
0 applause.] Sir. the debate has assumed
i. a latitudinosity. We have had a little
:1 black-jack bumcombe, a little two-bitt
r buncombe, bombast buueombe, bung-hole
g buncombe, and the devil and his graud
t mother knows what other kind ot bun
-1 combe. [Laughter,] Why, Sir, just give
I some of 'flu ajittle Southern soap, and a
II little Northern water, and, quicker than a
1- hound-pup can lick a skillet, they will
r- make euough bun'combe lather to wash the
y golden flock that roams abroad the azure
is meads of heaven. [Cheers and laughter.]
o 1 idlude to the stariy firmament.
e THE SPKAKKK. The geutleuiau is out
of order. He must coufiue himself to
the question.
"Let us have Faith that Right makes Might; and in that Faith let us, to the end,dare to do our as we understand it"-- A - Lincoln
BUTLER, BUTLER COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1864.
Mil. RILEY. Just retain your linen, if
you please. I'll stick to the text as close
as a pitch-plaster to alpine plank, or a
lean pig to a hoi jam-rock.' [''ries of"Go
on !" "You'll do !"] I want to say to
these carboniferous gentlemen, these ig
neous individuals, these detonating de
monstrators, these pereginous volcanoes,
come on with your combustibles ! If I
don't— Well, I'll suck the Gulf of
Mexico through a goose-quill. [Laugh
terund applause.] Perhaps you think 1
am diniinitive tubers and sparse in the
mundane elevation. You may discover,
gentlemen, you are laboring under as
great a misapprehension as thongh you
had incinerated your inner vestment. In
the language of the noble bard,
"I was nut I'.nn In a thicket
To be scared by a cricket/'
Sir, we have lost our proper position. Our
proper position is to the zenith ami nadir
—our heads to the one. our heels to the
other, ;rt rjght-angle with the horizon,
spandcd by that assure arc of the lustrous
firmament, bright with the coruscations
of innumerable constellations, and proud
as a speckled horse on county court day.
[Cheers.] "But how have the mighty
fallen !" in the language of the poet Sil
versmith. We have assumed a slosh
indieular or a diaganological position.
And what is the cause? - Keho answers,
Buncombe." Sir, "buncombe." 'file peo
ple have been fed on buncombe, while a
1 it of spavined, ring-boned, ham-strung,
wind-galled, swyneyed, split-hoofed, dis
tempered. poll-evilcd politicians have lncl
their noses in the public crib until there
ain't enough fodder left to make a gruel
for a sick grasshopper. [Cheers and
laughter.] * * ■ * Mr. Speaker, y°u
must excuse me for my laJ.itudino.sity and
circumloeutoriness. Mv old thunderbluss
scatters amazingly; but if any body get's
peppered, it ain't my fault if they are in
the way. Sir. these dandadical. super
s(|uirtical. mahogany faced gentry —what
do they know about the blessings of free
dom ? About as much, Sir, as a toad-frog
does of high glory. l*o they think they
can escape me? I'll follnw them through
pandemonium and high water! [Cheers
and laughter.] These are the ones that
have giit our liberty-pole oft its perpen
dicularity. "lis they who woulj rend
the stars atuUstripcs—that noble flag, the
hi nod ■>f <mr revolutionary fathers em
blemed in its red. The purity of the
cause for which they died—denoted by
the white, the blue —the freedom they
attained, like ihe azure air that wraps
their native hills and lingers < n their
lovely plains. [Cheers.] The high bird
of liberty sits perched on the topmost
branch, but there is secessiou salt 011 his
glorious tail. 1 feat' he will no more
spread his noble pinions to soar beyond
the azure rogious of the boreal pole. Hut
le. not .Missouri pull the last leather from
hi- sheltering wing to plume a shaft to
pierce his noble breast, or what is the
same, make a jen to sign a secession or
dinance. [ Applause ] Alas ! poor bird,
if they drive you fioiu the branches of the
hemlock "112 the North, and the palmetto
of the South, coiuo over to the gum-tree
of the West, and we w ill protect your
noble birdsllip while water grows and
grass runs. [lmmense applause.] Mr.
Speaker, I subside for the present.
HI:F.CIII:R ON 1111: APPLE. — Henry
Ward Beecher made an address the other
day in a New York fruit convention,
the apple, lie said it was the greatest
of American fruits, being the hardest,
most widely distributed,, aud the most
useful. The tree often reaches the great
age of two hundred years. 'Hie fruit is
always a luxury. I'.ven a pear may not
vie with it in luseiousncss, and it has one
peculiarity, which not even the peach
can share; it never cloys. Mr. Beeeher
ran over the various methods of preparing
it for the table, alid indulged in a most
glowing apostrophe to the apple pie and
its blessed inventor. The'usq of cider, he
thought, was gradually creeping back
from the ablivion to which the progress
of temperance lmd consigned it.and, al
though as a temperance man, he could
not recommend its use, "it you will make
.it," said he,"l beg of you to make it
good."
RKBFL FORCES IN THE FIELD. —The
Army and Nary Journal . which is very
high authority on all military matters
computes the forces which the rebels now
have in the field at a very moderate fig
ure. Hood's army, now in Tenuessee, it
estimates at 35,000. Early's force in the
Shenandoah Valley is set down at less
than 15.000, and Lee's as less than 50,-
000. These figures amount in the total
to 100,000. The forces with which Price
recently invaded Missouri, and the garri
s>ns of Charleston, Savannah and Mobile,
aud a lew other points, may swell the ag
gregate to 175,000.
-i-Leaky, the weather.
KISS AND NEVER TELL.
Though yon may sip from beauty's lip
The thiil there do dwell,
'Ti» very mean in you J ween,
If you shall kiss and tell!
What makes the fciss exquisite bli9S,
A sweet lllyaian spell»
lie always mire the ki.su in pure;
But never kiss and tell.
This bond of lovo springs from above
W here saimsaud angel* dwell;
It is but lent, aud never meant
That you shonld kiss and tell.
It is seal—a balm to heal—
A pearl within a shell—
The Hybltan dew, forever new;
Hut never kiss and tell.
It is the plan, wince time began,
Appt<i\i*l and honored well;
From Kubla Khan t.» Ispahan,
They kiss and never tell!
In night* in June, beneath the moon,
The fairies know it well;
Puch rosy breath our Venus hath;
We kit* and never tell!
Since Eros rose, or Helen's woes,—
The monk within bin cell,—
The mitred one—the praying nun-
All kiss and never tell!
WIT ANJD WISDOM.
Is death's door opened with a skeleton
key?
THE newspapers arc full of prophecies,
but where is the profit ? Echo atfswers
on all sides, " can't see it."
SIDNEY SMITH compares the whistle
of a locomotive to the squeal of a lawyer
when Satan gets* him.
A MAN who courts a young woman iu
the starlight probably expects to get a
wife in a twinkling.
WHY is a man who stakes his money
at Baden like a star? Because he's an
ass to-risk.
Is there any truth in the report that
the Arabs who live in the desert have
saudy hair?
WOULD you say a lady was dressed
loud who was covered all over jvith bu
gles ?
Wnv is a pig the most provident of
animals ? Because he always carries a
spare-rib or two about him.
A TAII.OR who, in skating, fell through
tlft ice, declared that he would never
again leave his hot goose for a cold duck.
WHEN a man says " I would not be
egotistical," lie might as well add, " if J
eould help it."
A RICHMOND chap advertises a pair of
old shoes as lost, offering a reward for
their recovery.
NEVKU confide in the young; new pails
leak. Never tell your secrets to the aged;
old doors seldom shut closely.
THE school-girl who "fell into a rev
erie" last week has been pronouueed out
of danger by her physician.
WHY is a person drawing an ox's teelh
like tli" sunset ? Because he's an oxy
dental phenomenon.
JOHN BULL has to pay at the rate of
per week for every convict ho
keeps under lock and key.
A GOOD question for a debating socie
ty :—Which is the most delightful ope
ration, '-To kiss a fair woman 011 a dark
night, or a anrk woman on a fair night?"
THEY hung a contractor out in Indiana
a few days since, lie had contracted so
much, that it was thought advisable to
stretch him a little.
WiTif a little house well filled, a little
land well tilled, a little wife well willed, a
husband well skilled, and servants well
drilled—a little time may be well killed !
A MAN who had brutally assaulted his
wife was brought before Justice Cole, of
Albany, lately, and had a good deal to say
about ••gelling justice."
"Justice," replied Cole, "you can't get
it here. This court has no power to hang
you."
A WONDERFUL story-teller, addicted to
humming an air, beginning " Strike the
Lyre," was much surprised when one of
his acquaintances, taking him at his word,
knocked him down.
A YOUNG man at Pittsfield, who went
in fir exemption from the draft, and who
was asked'by the examining surgeon up
on what grounds he claimed exemption,
told him that "ho never felt hungry af
ter dinner." '
" FOR want of water, I am forced to
drink water; if I bad water, I would
drink wine." This speech is a riddle,
and here is the solution. It was the com
plaint of an Italian vineyard man, after
a long drouth, and an extremely hot sum
mer, that had parched up all his grapes.
DRAKE of the Trcmont llouso tells a
story of una of his waiters that wot'.'j
have fitted Same Lover's II a v,ay Andy.
'■ Bring me the castor," said a traveler
to a newly imported tahlc servant. The
boy rushed about in a spasmodic and ob
viously distressed mauner, and finally re
turned with the auswer, " it's all ate, sir!"
As Irishman, in describing America,
said," I am told that you might roll Eng
land thru it, an' it wouldn't make a dim
in the ground ; ther's fresh water oceans
inside that ye might droun Ould Ireland
in ; and, as for Scotland, ye might stick it
iu a corner, and ye'd niver be able lo find
it out except it might be by the smell ut
whisky."
Geii. Butler's Speech.
Before leaving New York, (Jen. Butler
was waited upou by a goodly portion of
the ladies and gentlemen of that city, 011
whose behalf Hon. James Wadsworth, ex
pressed to the General their thanks for
his valuable services in the preservation
of order throughout the city on election
day ; as also, for his distinguished servi
ces during the progress of the present
civil war, and invited the General to favor
them with his views 011 the present situa
tion of affairs. The following is his re
sponse :
GEN. lIuTLEn then said :
Mr. WADSWORTH, LADIES AND GEN
TLE MEN : The citizens of New York have
done me honor overmuch, your kindness,
exhailsting every form known of Chris
tian courtesy, overwhelms me; that I
should be ablo to add anything to the
sum of intelligence, is a still greater hon
or. That I entertain very distinct views
upon the subjects just adverted to, is
most true, l'eace hath her victories no
less renowned than war. and of all the
peaceful victories ever achieved in the
interests of human freedom, that achiev
ed in the peaceful ijuiet that almost brood
ed over this land on the Bth of Novem
ber, was the greatest,
Before we proceed for a moment to
look at the material results, let us look at
the moral. It has taught to all the world
who shall look on, and it is not now a
vain boast to be said in America that the
eyes of all the world arc upon us, that
we are able in the strejig and strain of a
civil war like that never seen before, to
carry on our institutions in peaceful quiet;
that we cau change or re-elect our rulers
as we weigh them in the balance and find
them either meritorious or wanting, with
out so much ef trouble or disorder or riot
or commotion as attends a constable's
election in a parish in England.
The moral, then, is that a Government
embalmed in the hearts of the poople, de
pendent on the intelligence of the peo
ple, is the strongest on earth—strong in
the affections, stronger still in the right
arms of the people. And when we have
heretofore been told that it was necessary
there should he either monarchy 01 des
potism to wield bayonets, wo sec the bay
onets wielded by hundreds of thousands
where other countries have not been able
to wield them by tens, and these entirely
subservient to the peoples' will.
The material results are not less strik
ing: first in the fact that all disputed
questions which have divided the coun
try are now settled by an almost unani
mous verdict of the people. Does any
one complain that in the conduct of mili
tary operations there should be the arrest
of a traitor, that question has been argu
ed and settled and the verdict is ''guilty,
and arrest him when he is guilty."
[Cheers.] Docs any one complain that
the true history of the Constitution has
been carried out which enrolls all able
bodied men to fight in defense of the
country's life and liberties; that question
has been settlpd—and hereafter it will be
more honorable to be drafted than to vol-
Docs any one complain that the Gov
ernment in its wisdom has organized
troops irrespective of color, and believes
that the black man would till as much of
a grave as if his color were whiter, when
he falls in battle in defeuso of his coun
try's liberties—that question has been
settled, and has passed away forever to he
among the things that arc past. Docs
any one now claim, as was claimed in
18G0, that Abraham Liucoln is Presi
dent of a minority—that question is set
tled by an overwhelming majority. [Cheers
and laughter ] And let us look for a mo
ment at the fact that-if we count every
Hebel against him—if we count every
Rebel sympathizer against him, as they
were —if we count every untrue, disloyal
man against him—yet he is elected by a
majority second only to that with which
Jackson swept over the land in a season
of financial pctil.
These material results have been achiev
ed. Now, then, what is the duty of the
Government in the present and future?
The war cannot last always. The L .story
of nations and the experience of the
world ' liaß shown us this. War, there
fore. must come to an end, but how ? Iu
what way ? A war of this kind is to be
prosecuted for the purpose of breaking
down the power of those opposed to the
Government, and bringing them into its
folds and under the supremacy of its
laws.
In view, therefore, of the unanimity
of the American people, in view ot the
streugth, the majesty, the ot the
nation, might it not be suggested that
now is a good time once afpiiu to hold
out to the deluded people of the South
the olive branch of peace and say to them
"come back, cume back now. this is the
last time of asking, coine back and leavo
off the feeding on husks and come with
us to feed upon the fat of the land, and
bygones shall be bygones—if bygones are
bygones—our country shall live in peace
hereafter." [Cheers.] Are we not able
to offer them that ? Are wq not strong
enough ? Do we not stand with I'nion
enough to be able to offer that to the
leaders and to all ?
There might have been some complaint,
I think, among a proud ami chivralrous
people, that they would not desert their
leaders in answer to the amnesty procla
mation of President Lincoln ; but now, as
we come to them and say, "come back
and you shall find tlie'laws the same save
and except as they are altered by the
legislative wisdom of the land." Are we
not in a condition i!?t taking counsel of
our fears or weaknesses, but froiy our
strength and magnanimity, again to make
the offer, and the last time to call on them,
and then shall we not have exhausted all
the resources of statesmanship in the ef
fort to restore peace to the country ? And
shall we hinder this? And if they do not
come back, who shall complain?
I ask not for the llebel to come back
after he has fought as long as he can and
tlien chooses to come back, but state
some time—perhaps the sth of January,
ISOS, for the association will be as good
as any—and when that time shall have
come, every man who shall scout the prof
fered amnesty of a great and powerful
nation, speaking in love, in kindness, in
charity, in hope of peace and quiet for
ever, then I say to him who then scouts
the proffered love and kindness: "let us
meet him with sharp, quick, decisive
war. which shall bring the matter to an
end and to the extinguishment of such
men wherever they may be " And how
is that to be done ?
Blood and treasure lmve been poured
out without stint and without measure
until taking advantage of the depletion
of treasure had uien have banded togeth
er by speculating in that which should be
the circulating medium, and have raised
upon every poor man the price of the coals
upon his hearth and the bread upon his
table. Let some measure be taken to stop
that, and a better measure than any other
is to let it be understood (hat hereafter
we pay no more bounties from the taxes
of the North, but taking counsel from
the old lioman method of carrying on
war, to say to our young men. " Look on
the fair fields of the sufiny South, and
unless they take our amnesty, let us go
down South and you shall have whetever
you get in a fair fight," and we will open
land offices wherever our armies march,
and distribute their landsand divide them
among the soldiers, to be theirs and their
heirs forever.
This is a harsh measure, everybody
will say, but is it not quite as just as that
wc should tax ourselves auew aud anew,
and raise the price of the necessaries of
life for the purpose of paying r,ouutics
for the support of the soldiers to fight
these men whom we have three times off
ered and called to be our friends, in 1802
and in .June ?gain in December in
1864, again by the Bth of January, 1865;
and when that clock strikes the last knell
of that departing day, then all hope of
return to those who have not then made.;
progress to that return shall bo cut ofT
forever, and they will have togo to .Mex
ico, or the West Indies, or some place
which I will not name, because I know
not any land bad enough to bo cursed by
them ; at all events they shall never come
here again.
I look with some interest to what I be
lieve to be the present results of this
election, and I believe first that wc have
settled the war by determining that the
people are strong enough to carry on the
war, and I never expect to see in arms or
in council a greater victory the one
we have just achieved, and I think wc ai'e
now strong enough to make them and of
fer such a one that the most squeamish of
our friends will go with us when they
Cud that we have exhausted all the re
sources of statesmanship, aud that we
are now ready to make peace, and are
therefore prepared "to make war to the
'hilt; therefore, I say. I look upon this
victory as one which has decided the war,
decided it not in a military point of view,
but in that overpowering civil point of
view which decides the fate of nations
everywhere. To this it may be answer
ed, aud I desire for a moment to that an
swer to call your attention, so that every
man may work out in his own miud the
problem that if we carry on the war with
the strength and stringency with which
I have suggested, how shall we ever live
in the same land with men whom we
thus fought against. Let us go to the
teaching of history and there draw also
from the history of that laud which we
are proud to call our Motherland. Eng
land. Every considerable estate in the
NUMBER 1.
land of England under Cromwell parsed
through Courts of Confiscation; and yet
when the King came to his own again
after a time the nation came together
again in friendship nevermore to be divi
ded. Is there any difficulty then in the
Anglo Saxon race in this land being
again in unity and friendship and peace
with them with whom •they have had
fight. Is it not a well-known rule that
those with whom we have fought bitterly
if they have fought honorably after the
fight is over they are more endeared to
us after that fight and we arc the more
ready to take them by the hand; there
fore I say there will be no difficulty in
the good men of the North and the South
coming together again, and letting bygones
be bygones and I have said that I desire
the extinguishment of thebadmen. . Al
low me to say that I am honored by this
opportunity to tender to the citizens of
New-York, who have come here this even
ing to do honor to the Government which
L represent, my most sincere and hearty
thanks; and now me to say stthose
who have done m#the honor to say that
the presence of the United States troops
here tended to prevent disorder, to say
that far more did the influence of all good
men hete, all tending iu one direction,
tend to prevent disorder, and still further
the solemnity of the occasion which even
the bad men seemed to feel, and from
these causes and the certainty that 110 bad
man could find any support or countenance
from any good man of any party, to that
we owe the peace of thj city. I again
return you my thanks and am happy to
bid you God speed on the morrow when
I leave you for the armies in operation at
the front.
THK AMERICAN SCHOOL OF MINES.
—The Loudon Mininy Journal says: Tlie
immense value of the mineral deposits of
the United States is so well known
Englishmen; that it has long been recog
nized by them that the judicious appli
cation of capital is all that is required to
elevate the mineral industries of the coun
try to that proud position of being first in
contributing to the general wealth of the
nation. Hitherto great inconvenience has
arisen from the difficulty of obtaining re
liable information from America as to the
peculiar merits or disadvantages of any
particular mineral property brought under
the notice of English capitalists: there
were no American engineers who especi
ally devoted themselves to the subject,
and English engineers sent out, wore ne
cessarily unacquainted with the peculi
arities of the districts reported upon.
The difficulty will henceforth be remov
ed ; a well-constituted School of Mines,
the first session of which will open on
November 15, being now attached to Co
lumbia Ctllege, New York, the principal
chairs having been given to the most
competeut men that could be found, many
of whom have honorably distinguished
themselves at. the Imperial School of Mines
at Paris, and other schools of equal repu
tation. The standard of instruction will!
be as high as in any of the mining col
leges of Kuropo. and the advantages which
must thus accrue to the mineral interests
of America can scarcely be over-estima
ted. It must be particularly gratifying
to Englishmen to find that Columbia Col
lege should be first to found so important
an institution as the American school of
Mines, since that college must ever re
main a connecting link between England
and America. It was originally founded
as King's College, New York, by George
111., at the same time as the now cele
brated University of Gottengen ; and al
though some trifling internal dissentiona
for a time prevented Columbia College
from attaining the distinction of its twin
sister, it is to lie hoped that impediments
no longer exist to its onward progress,
and that as a School of Mines and as a
University. Columbia Collage will be
known aud respected throughout the
world."
SIIOWtNd THK DKAI). —There is a cu- \
rious custom at Havana of laying out
bodies instate during the night before
burial. They are placed close to an op
en window fronting the street, on a couch
raised four or five feet from the grout-d.
The corpse is surrounded by high wax.
tapers, and the whole room illuminated.
Frequently when returning from a lerlu--
lia, or a ball, I have been startled to see
the fixed aud rigid features of some old
gentleman or lady, dressed in their best
attire, and apparently reclining before the
window. It used to appear an unneces
sary mockery of death, dressing out a
corpse in a new suit of clothes with tight
patent leather boots and white neckcloth.
I remember one night in particular, t
was returning hone through one of the
by-streets, when, seeing the lower win
dow of a house illuminated, aud conc.u.
ding that there was a body lying in state,
I went towards it. There close to the
window, so close that I eould have touch
ed it through the bar 3, lay the body of a
young girl about fifteen years of age.
She was dressed as for a ball, with flow
er in her hair, and white Batiu sb' es on
her feet; her hands crossed on her breast,
her eyes closed, and her mouth slightly
opened ; end altogether her face and ex
pression was one of the most be-autiiul I
I ever saw.