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J. U. EST1LL,
Savan nali. Ga.
Atlanta u
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Affairs in Georgia.
jg full of people, including a score
.wkiie places in the convention
ftf messenger, doorkeeper, etc., etc.
* very man who has ever held such a
:1 ' c . ,, T,""isUtnre is now on hand
LjjiioniB luu
[ mother chance.
P Lethe indications are that there will
I gtrong lobby at the convention.
* * Me! registers of Atlanta show the
"* ° if many of this class already on
, jn the interest of some particular
[^'(porting men of Atlanta expect a
I hbarvest daring tho convention. Their
Ip d halls have been renovated and refur-
I p j and a large number of agreeable
I 1 experienced members of the fraternity
^jvfd from other cities. We trust
i 11 in Fotty I’cagreen will not attempt to
I .ipiit the tiger.”
jndge ffm. B. Woods has closed conrt in
| At ^t.andgone to New York.
I Urge numbers ot families are going to
I porter Springs for the summer. Colonel
I SivaoD&li people aro constantly passing
I tliroa „i, Atlanta to the mountains, to view
I the niagmficout scenery of North Georgia.
The Second Infantry leavo Atlanta on Fri-
dlt morning and will go direct to San Fran-
ci-co by rail, tlienco by steamer up the coast
•o the Dtareat point to General Howard. The
cf the oflicers will send their families
N„rtl>, as there is no proper transportation
| jfter leaving tho steamer.
Lieut. Flipper seems to have “gone back”
I o- his Atlanta triends. He came home
I from Weal Point with a good academy re
cord and behaved himself with becoming
| ^nlty. The oflicers at the barracks treated
I kiin-not socially, but as an officer of the
&rm v—with due respect, as did the citizens
of Atlanta, who felt that ho had won credit
by bis good conduct and success. But in
in evil hour the colored friends (?j_of Flip
py gave him a public recoption, and in full
uoiform he' made them a speech. Now
ipetcli-making is a dangerous thing, and
this colored warrior seems to have been
made a victim of it. He distorted the offi
cial courtesies of the oflicers of the barracks
into social courtesies, and abused the white
people of the South because they did not
give him and his race social equality. Not
only were sensible colored people displeased
with his remarks, but many white citizens
who went to the meeting, friendly to Flip
per, left disgusted with his sentiments.
Mr. L J. Hancock, a prominent merchant
ind citizen of Jackson county, also ex-Mayor
of Jefferson, died suddenly last Friday
night of congestion of the brain.
A lot of land about live miles from
Calhoun, within a mile and a half of
the railroad, containing one hundred and
fifty acres, well timbered and situated, sold
at Sheriff’s sale on Tuesday for ninety-
three dollars.
A son of Mr. John Flynt, of Monroe
county, was drowned at High Falls on Sun -
day, 1st inat. He was in bathing and
getting beyond his depth was instantly lost.
Ninety-four acres of improved land in
Dooly county eold on the 3d instant, at
Shir,fTs sale, for one hundred dollars.
The post oflice at Calhoun, Gordon coun
ty, was made a money order office on the
1st of July, which will prove of great con
venience to the business community of that
place.
A colored fire company in Albany at a
meeting previous to tho national holiday,
voted down a resolution to celebrate the
day by a parade. Tho motion being put,
one member arose and indignantly ex-
I claimed: “Why you must be a d—d Domo-
I attic nigger to talk dat way. Don’t you
I know d&t is do day dat Georgo Washing*
I ton pat us into slavery ?’* The motion was
voted down and they didn’t celebrate.
A prominent gentleman of Albany has a
( iirge quantity of olive cuttings from Cali
fornia which aro thriving finely, and we
tope to see the day when the shipment of
oil and fruit will become a prominent indus
try m Southwest Georgia. Upon the Geor
gia and South Carolina seaboard olives have
teen successfully cultivated, and we have in
our mind’s eye now the splendid grove and
[ fruit of Dr. Chisolm, of South Carolina,
[ who wag very successful in raising the fruit
previous to the war.
Athens was visited last Friday evening
with a considerable wind and rain storm,
aud along the lino of Clarke and Jackson
Wc learn that qnito a hail storm prevailed,
•iiig some damage to the coirn crop, up
rooting treei and tearing down fences.
^'•1. H. Richardson, of the Atlanta Con-
■'•‘•u.iou, delivered the address before the
graduating class or the Dalton Female Co!-
ia»t week. It is highly spoken of by
Dalton press.
• ho Macon library, under the successful
management of Mr. Charles Herbst, now
jJUtnbeis over four thousand volumes, and
aj nearly five hundred members. When
c h’ok charge, eighteen months ago, there
greenly sixteen hundred books and one
hundred and fifty members.
A deep religious feeling pervades the con-
j r 'gation of Triuity Church, Atlanta, and
c meetings which have been for some time
m pn
desire of tl
'gresH, will continue, by the expressed
e congregation.
ie annual meeting of the Young Mon’s
i insti an Association of Atlanta will be held
0 &U( henee room of tho Second Baptist
Church
Ll >nd Tom.
Colnmb
° n Friday evening next.
the celebrated pianist, is in
us on a visit to his parents, under
of Air. John Bethune.
• } oung man named Barron was drowned
t Satur| lay last while bathing in Dr.
ttL J ^ m l * p0nd ' Henry county. It seems
il iioaud some companions bad been
ehaUf 1 ^ UGar dam wij ere the water was
the ° W ’ CoDcl adod to row about over
middle^ 0 , a bateau, and when out near tho
into thaw.*^ yonng Barron jumped
He w }* er# . linking it not over his head,
swim A deceive< i» and not being able to
po w ’ 'J 0Q sank beyond his depth aDd the
ceased I hl * . fr *eud« t0 aid him. Thede-
hiehiv about 17 years old, and very
bought of by all who knew him.
havfthcP aiae8vilIe Southron says: “There
v lait * u uearI y three hundred’ arrivals of
the utn^ 1118 tlle pa8t week * These, with
Itichmorul p°“i baud P revi0Q 8. make the
quite • O! xt dra °nt aud Gainesville hotels
(chaivi.L IIol, and (limestone), Gower
Sprin'. ate ^ a nd Oconee White Sulphur
timber h«-n fiUing up ra P id b', and a large
bpriugs ’’ aVC g0De up tbe count ry to Porter
Jsatl? r?/»? roe . Adcertiser announces the
at the r 1 i lcajal1 harper, while on a visit
r uw in M flldc ‘ nco of his son-in-law, John Bar-
8ay d ’. iif® c 2,unty, on the 3d instant, and
conn tv Warper was born in Wilkes
^oald o1 ^ Decenaber, 1708, and
Oext u een 8ev ®oty-nine years old in
tv in 1h >- tnb i er * mov ®d to Monroe conn-
^as on«w.’r W ^ ere -^ e has since resided, and
meat ix l e . Pioneers in its early settle-
w hich longed to the grand army
the 3ri-nl a( ^f # tl10 wil dnrness and removed
u c primeval forest.”
at * oas * one d °S in Griffin who
AT«p, K ,°, od record, albeit he is a cur. The
Itana hoa Publishes him : “Mr. Henry
^ herevf* 8 »*»i g f°h°ws his cows daily,
with may s ° or 8to P he remains
P° 8 8ible m *T?4 tliey treat him as kindly as
ft&'j . lhe regular cur species,
4 a lhlQ S cf this sort is unusual.”
Brother Millar's Protest A*nin*t the New
IIrata Book -Sun* Down by the l kofr.
H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY. JULY 12, 1877.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
The Albany Adnerfiser says- “A stock
^TurposYofr 0 '’ 89 ° f or KBnizaUon t for
Flmt river!” runum e a steamboat on the
the ‘lit?’“ ys: “ A hail 8,orm .
soco bv on. r^ L | h ^as never _ before been
damages from tbe Btorm to growmir crons
be cons?dc*rable! > ” State ’ b3 ‘
atMlS? I s an iDcia °nt of the storm
fr T ‘5 e MiUadfrevUle He-
toraer. a little colored girl nine vparu nf
W” of Samuel Vhdps? wls pass-
ing over the railroad bridge which spans
F.sbinK creek near the depot, with a larel
parasoior smili umbrella stretched over
her head when the blast struck her, and in
a momout she was swept off the bridge and
r?J: 11,n L gt ° th ® earth Sixty feet below.
A lady who saw tbe whole affair from a short
distance off, Hays she went down hanging
to tho umbrella which was stretched over
her head, m the fashion of a parachute, the
handle of which broke, however, just before
she reachod the ground. Several persons
went to her assistance immediately and
were doubtless surprised to find her alive
She was not only alive, but comparal
lr,Jur ,°, d ' a8 Dr - I. L- Harris, who
attended her, told the writer that her worst
injury was a severe sprain or one of her
auclee, with possibly a fracture of one of
the smaller bones. Her preservation from
death is probabiy owing to the fact that the
small hut strong umbrella acted as a para
chute and that she fell on a smali haw bush
three or four feet high, both of which ma
terially broke the Torce of her fall.”
• Ju hB A , u " UBt , a Chronicle and ConslUulional-
isl fins.the following singular case of the
poisoning of a whole family, by buttermilk,
on Monday last: “Several members of Mr.
C. A. Piatt’s family, in this eity, were ren-
aered seriously ill last Monday, apparentlv
from drinking buttermilk. Tho churning
took place as usual during the morning, and
the buttermilk was, as far as could be seen,
pure and good. The colored woman who
did the churning drauk some of the butter
milk when it was first poured out, aud more
afterwards. When Mr. C. A. Piatt went
home to dinner he drank a glass of the milk
before dinner and several others during the
meal. Every member of the family, with
the exception of three, drank the milk more
or less copiously. Three servants on
the place also partook of it. No one
noticed anything peculiar about it. After
dinner Mr. Platt went down to his store,
and about half-past five was sitting in his
oflice when he suddenly became very sick.
The disorder increased to such an extent
that his son, Mr. W. E. Platt, one of the
three who didn’t drink the milk, had to
assist him home. While on the way they
met a messenger from the residence with
the information that the whole family had
been taken sick. And such actually proved
to be the case. Soon after Mr. Platt left
home for.the store the colored woman who
did the churning became ill and Mrs. Platt
was attending to her when she was in
formed that one of her children had
been attacked by similar symptoms. She
went to the assistance of the child, aud iu a
few moments was herself in a similar con
dition, together with every other person on
tho place who drank the buttermilk. The
three who did not driuk it were not affected
at all. Six who had partaken of considerable
quantities of the milk were soon seriously
ill, while three others who had swallowed a
smaller quantity were not so much affected.
A physician was at once summoned aud
remedies administered. The patients
gradually became better, bat several
of them were still quite sick yester
day. The physician stated tbat the
symptoms were similar to. those in
cases of poisoning by tartar emetic. Mr.
C. A. Platt, who drank the largest quantity
of buttermilk, was the greatest sufferer.
Yesterday a portion of the milk was given
to Col. G. W. Rains for analysis. Colonel
Rams stated that buttermilk undergoes
rapid fermentation, and is always more or
less poisonous during the months of July
and August, although it may not affect some
persons. It has tho same effect as that pro
duced by tartar emetic. The churning was
done in a wooden churn, and the milk
poured into an earthen vessel afterwards.”
Florida Affairs.
Farmers on Lake Griffin, Orange county,
are complaining of the depredations of ali-
gators, who make sad havoc with the hogs,
and yet Pratt, of the Herald, wants a law
passed for the protection of the ravenous
saurian.
The report, circulated somewhat exten
sively, that the Colora lo potato bug has ap
peared in Florida, is without foundation in
fact.
The Jacksonville market is glutted with
tomatoes, which sell as low as twenty-five
cents per bushel. This, however, is an ex
ceptional occurrence.
The Tayior county herders are now busily
engaged in tho gathering and selling of beef
cattle.
Very fino onions, of the Tripoli variety,
have been grown this season near Fernan-
dina. One specimen weighed twenty-five
ounces.
A lemon troe in the Spier grove, in Orange
county, produced last year nine thousand.
Orange trees in the same grove bore last
year thirty-eight hundred, fifteen hundred,
twenty-eight hundred and thirty-throe hun
dred each.
A subscriber at Cedar Keys, renewing his
subscription to tho Morning News, writes:
“My subscription to the News expired on
tho 7th June, at which time I was unable to
renew. I find, though, I can’t get along
without it, and I herewith send five dollars
for six months’ subscription, at tho end of
which time I hopo to be able to spare tho
funds for a year’s time.”
Among the sports at St. Augustine on the
4th of July was an Indian foot race on Bay
street, a distance of ouo hundred and fifty
yards. Several of the fleetest footed sav
ages entered, and the race was a splendid
one. Buffalo Meat won tho first prize, three
dollars, and Ta-A-Way-Ite the second prize,
one doliar and a half.
Mr. Ozra J. Curry, living near Fort Og
den, in Manatee county, accidentally shot
and killed himself recontly while getting
over a fence, with a double barreled gun.
Both barrels were discharged, one charge
taking effect in tho breast aud tho other in
the Load.
Mr. John McCullough from Indiana has
discovered at a distance of about five miles
from Tampa lime rock, and on trying to
burn it into lime found it to be of the very
best quality, aud pure white. He is erecting
kilns to go regularly into the business, and
says he can sell tho lime at one-half tho
price of shell lime.
Two incendiary fires were discovered in
Jacksonville on Monday, one of which de
stroyed a large wooden structure, two and a
half stories high, unoccupied. The other
was discovered at one o’clock in Moon’s
Hall, corner Ashley and Ocean streets. Tho
front room and door had been saturated
with kerosene and fire applied. The Mayor
has offered a reward for the discovery of the
iocendiaries.
Three negro prisoners have escaped from
the jail of Jackson connty. These jail de
liveries are becoming of weekly occurrence,
aud are growing monotonous.
The exports of Cedar Keys
$000,000 annually.
Lawtey’s cotton seed factory was blown
down by the storm in Fernandins last
Thursday.
The citizens of Palatka aro discussing the
expediency of a railroad from that place to
Hake City. It certainly would bo a good
thing for the development of that section
of ooontry, and would give a direct connec
tion with Savannah and the Northern mar
kets, which the people of Florida so much
need. By all means let the road bo bmlt.
eight hundred dollars worth of sponge
found purchasers in Cedar Keys last week.
One coaster brought in three thousand
pounds of green turtle.
The South Florida Journal says:
new office, under the skillful workmanship
or Geo. C. Tranter, builder, and assistants,
is rapidly nearing completion. It will have
a -pizarro’ in front for the benefit of tho
second siory.” Now, tho architect ought to
put a “porto rico” in the rear for the benefit
of the editor, and there should also be Uni
oat a “revenue” of orange trees to the big
road, BO that onr editorial brother could
treat his visitors in a “hostile” manner
when they come to borrow his exchanges.
amount to
“Our
The peach crop iu Patnam county is said
to be abundant.
There were 2,995,000 oranges shipped
from Tampa by the merchants during the
last season. This does not include aU the
oranges shipped from the county.
One of the leading merchants of Gaines
ville stated to a correspondent of the Fer-
nandiua Express that there were $38,000
then lying in the hands of his New York
banker, most of which was exchange for
early vegetables shipped from Arredondo
and vicinity.
The storm of last week was general
throughout a considerable portion of Flori
da. Id Tallahassee it passed over the city
Thursday afternoon,and the Floridian says,
though the fall of hail was not very heavy,
some pieces were picked up nearly as large
as hen eggs. Iu the western part of the
county, near the Ocklockonec, the hail fell
to the depth of several inches and seriously
damaged the growing corn. About Moocas-
sin Gap the hail was very large, one piece
being found tho size of a man’s fiat.
Efforts are now being made by parties
living near the month of the St. Lucie river
to capture specimens of the manatee fre
quenting that section for exhibition in the
Northern States. Only three have ever
been taken alive; the fiist, several years ago,
died on the passage, the other two were
taken to Philadelphia last summer, and
were destroyed by fire on the second day of
the exhibition.
The store of Capt. Jessee 8. Wood, at
Lake City, was broken into daring the
thunder storm on Friday night and robbed
of goods to the value of two hundred dol
lars.
The residence of Mr. Ben Chaires, in the
northwostern suburbs of Tallahassee, was
entirely destroyed by fire last Wednesday
night, between 12 and 1 o’clock. The fire
startol in the kitchen, adjoining the house,
and, the family having all retired, the
flames made such headway before discovery
that the people had barely timo to escape
from the burning building. By the time
assistance arrived from town it was too late
to do anything. The family lost everything
they had.
An entertainment was given to Mr. Fred
Geer, of Lake City, on the Fourth, in appre
ciation of his calm and cool courage, just
one year previous, in saviDg from drowning
Messrs. Gus Polsdamer and George Harris,
in Alligator creek. An honorary badge was
presented to Mr. Geer, upon which was
written the history of the circumstances.
The Palatka Herald says : “The storm of
Thursday afternoon passed over Welaka,
unrooting houses and tearing trees up by
the roots. A saw mill was partly blown
down, and much other damage done, tbe
particulars of which we have not learned.”
A correspondent of the Columbus Times
says: “There are three places where I
would choose to live above all others, viz.:
Heaven, Columbus and Marianna. This
last named place is remarkable for the
social spirit which pervades its refined and
cultivated people.”
The Live Oak Expositor is responsible for
this snake story: “J. It. Heath, a colored
man iu this county, and said to be a very
reliable one, captured a rattlesnake on the
17th day of last September, kept it in a
cage until Juno 27th, nine months and ten
days, the whole of which time the snake
lived without food. Several rabbits were
offered his highness but he stubbornly re
fused them. He was six feet long, and after
death measured eight inches around the
body. He had thirteen rattles and a
button.”
The tlorida Agriculturist says : “The ap
pointment of Judge Du Pont by the Board
of Immigration as traveling lecturer to
make knowu the advantages of this State to
immigrants, will meet with the hearty ap
proval of all who have the Interest of the
State at heart. If the State had been picked
all over we know of no one more suitable
for the appointment than that noble old
gentleman. As President of the Fruit
growers’ Association, he has identified him
self with the East as well as the West.
Pleasing in his manner, agreeable in hi*
address, and a fluent public speaker, he will
command respect ana attention wherever he
goes. The Board of Immigration have
shown a wise judgment in this appoint
ment.”
There is food for thought in the follow
ing from a subscriber and correspondent at
Rock Ledge, Indian river.Fla.: “If tbe capi
talists of Savannah wouiu look into the in
ducements of spending some thirty-five or
forty thousand dollars to open a communi
cation to this section, it would pay them
handsomely, and accrue greatly to the in
terest of your city. Au ocean steamer from
Savannah to New Symrna with au inlet of ten
feet water at ordinary tide, and river steam
ers from Symrna, thirty miles up Hillsboro
river (at which point it is necessary to cut
a c-tual one and a half miles to connect with
Indian river, six thousan t dollars will ac
complish it), then navigation would bo
openn one hundred and forty miles
down Indian river to Jupiter. This would
insure to Savannah all the trade of the Lake
Worth settlement, the Kissemmeetrade (the
best stock region of the State), besides tho
whole trade of the rivers from Jupiter,at tbe
south end of Indiau river, to the head of
Halifax, two hundred miles. Have you ever
estimated the amount of freight from one
single acre of oranges ? One hundred trees,
five hundred oranges, make fifty thousand
half pounds, or twenty-five thousand
pounds per acre. I would say there aro
now six hundred acres set in trees, which
will give seventy-five hundred tons of
freight in oranges. Then consider the
amount of vegetables, melons, hides, beef,
fish, honey, etc., etc., to be transported,
and the imports that will be bought of
your city, aud you have some idea of what
fifty thousand dollars expenditure would
do for you. Also, consider that we would
famish you the winter through with toma
toes, peas, beets, cabbages, onions, conks,
butter beans, etc., and iu May watermelons.
Wake up your capitalists to their aud our
mutual interest. Onr merchants are now
selling us goods at fifty to seventy-five per
cent, more than they ought. We want
communication, transportation, and we^will
have the most glorious country known.”
LIU HT-F1HGE HE I) AU I STOCK ATS.
Kx-OlpIomatUt’H Wife and Niece
Sent Up for Shoplifting in Paris.
[From Galignani’s Messenger.]
The Tribunal of Correctional Police
tried recently three foreigners, two
women and a man, natives of \ enezuela,
and persons of good family, on numerous
charges of shoplifting.
The defendants were lime. Pulgar,
wife of a former General and representa
tive of the republic in Paris; her niece,
Mme. Lopez, and the husband of the
latter, aged twenty-four, and who de
scribed himself as a Colonel in that
South American country. The women
were elegantly dressed, of attractive and
distinguished appearance, and formed a
striking contrast to the usual occupants
of the prisoners’ bench. Mme. Pulgar
is even said to possess a certain fortune,
and lived in great style in the Champs
Elysees. .. .
They were arrested after the theft of a
sapphire ring at the shop of M. Bouche-
ron, and on their apartments being search
ed a great quantity of stolen art.cles were
found, most of them still bearing the
tickets of the Louvre, Bon Marche, Prin-
temps, and other drapery establishments
The defendants had evidently committed
the robberies, not under the influence of
temptation, but ou a system of plunder,
for many of the objects taken could have
been of no possible use to them. The
practice followed appears to have been
for Mme. Pulgar and M. Lopez to occupy
the attention of the shopkeepers while
the younger woman laid hands on any
thing near her. She now attempted to
assume all the guilt and to extenuate her
aunt and husband, pretending that they
know nothing of the thefts.
The courts condemned the young wife
to eight months’ imprisonment and the
aunt and husband to a year and a day
(which term will require them to under
go their sentence in a central prison,
where the regime is more severe), and to
afterward remain five years under police
surveillance.
Barry Suilivan, the actor, has recently
submitted to the painful process of hav-
ng his eye ball cut open. It had troubled
him ever since he was wounded by a
sword in Drnry Lane Theatre, and it was
found that the sword point had thrust in
an eyelash. This was successfully ex
tracted.
THE PLEASURES OF YASITY.
Home ot the Advantaf ett of Having a Good
Opinion of One’s Self.
[ From the Boston Courier.]
There is really no sort of discredit in
appreciating yourself if you do it with
true discrimination, if you appreciate
your own weak points as well as your
strong, and do your best not to exagger
ate your strong. It is true that not very
many men have the fortune to be able to
appreciate themselves, and that there is a
sort of knowledge of self which seems
always to be knowledge of shortcomings
and not a knowledge producing satisfac
tion. But surely that is a misfortune
rather than a thing to pride oneself upon.
It is very far from a subject of congratu
lation, no doubt, to be the victim of self-
delusion, to imagine yourself all sorts of
things which you are not. But is there
any harm at all in having a little discrimi
nating pleasure in your own qualities, so
far as they are reaUy what you suppose
them to be, any more than there is any
harm in a girl finding some satisfaction m
her own beauty, and even more satisfac
tion, say, than she has in quite a
different style of beauty which she
has not got ? No one supposes it
to be a discredit to a man to be
prouder of the scenery in which he
lives than of the scenery in which he
does not live—rather the contrary. Well,
but every human being is a part of his
own scenery, and one of the most im
portant parts. He is an object which
can never (unfortunately sometimes) be
hidden from himself; and if his own
nature is not a part of the landscape
which he genuinely likes, his life must be
a very unsatisfactory one. On the whole
nothing seems to us more unreasonable
than the supposition that it is a weakness
for a man to take a moderate amount of
pleasure in his own qualities, so far as
they are really good qualities. There are
few other mental pheuomenas in the
world which he must inevitably have so
close an acquaintance with, and what is
the moral advantage of alwajs being at
odds with your actual condition in life ?
Apart from any question of conceit or
false estimate, it seems to us that there
is nothing more unfortunate for a man
than to feel auy needless amount of
displeasure with his own mental and
moral constitution. It is quite enough
if he feels the full burden of his volun
tary sins and hates them with a perfect
hatred. For the rest, what is the objec
tion to feeling about your own character
what you are very apt to feel about your
own house and grounds—that with all
defects it has merits which no one knows
so well as yourself—that there is really a
corner or two which might be made
charming but for the projecting upper
story, which so completely over shadows
the whole, or that that noble study would
be delightful m its broad prospects and
its spacious bow, did it not unfortunately
prove quite impossible to exclude from
the view the unsightly basement with its
bulging veranda and its stuccoed front.
All that we suggest is quite consistent
with a real humility. Nobcdy supposes
that because a girl is conscious of any
beauty she has she need be anything but
really humble; and what is true of the
body, of which the true self is partly in
dependent, though the body is its organ,
may be equally true of the general basis
of the character of which the true self is
in a les3 degree also independent, though
it has to work within its conditions and
to mold those conditions as far as possi
ble. As a matter-of-fact we think people
who do not wholly at least dislike them
selves are apt to be much pleasanter than
those who do; and this applies quite as
much to so-called literary vanity as to
vanity of other descriptions. What is
perhaps pleasantest of all is to find a
man with an amused knowledge of his
own best points, and of his own
pleasure in them, a state of mind per
fectly consistent with a very profound
moral and spiritual humilicy—which only
means a very profound consciousness how
far in all moral and spiritual things tbe
best life surpasses his own. Literary self
appreciation is often an apparent cause of
a literary productiveness of which we
should not otherwise have the benefit.
Where is there any greater harm in a
man’s enjoying his own works than in
another’s enjoying them—gl* even in a
man’s enjoying them more thoroughly
than any other man could ? Doubtless
some of the greatest writers have been
free from vanity. No one could suppose
Shakespeare to have been vain, or we
should find more traces of himself in his
writings. We know thoroughly that Sir
Walter Scott was not vain, and that Miss
Austen was not vain. High dramatic
power often seems to take men too much
out of themselves to admit of vanity.
There is no trace of vanity in Georgo
Eliot. There is very little in either Emily
or Charlotte Bronte. But when it exists,
as it constantly does, both in poets and
artists of a high order, it is quite as often
a lovable as an unlovable characteristic.
As a rule it is lovable where it is sim
ple, unaffected and unr^sentful in appre
ciation of criticism—that is, where the
pleasure in appreciation is not replaced
by anger when appreciation fails. And
the reason for this is very simple. True,
unsophisticated self-appreciation should
be of the objective kind, like a similar
appreciation of other people, and not
complicated by personal exigence of the
sort which no one would display on be
half of any other taste or aesthetic pref
erence. When this is the kind of self
appreciation we regard it as rather an
amiable characteristic than otherwise,
aDd certainly, if it be not excessive, a
taking one, for it is quite true that a dis
criminating man does know the points
of his own nature better than any
one else usually knows anything at all,
and is therefore exceUently qualified
to take the public into sympathy with
him. Hence the pleasure we all take
in vanity of this charmiog kind—in such
a vanity as Goldsmith’s, Andersen’s, Mr.
Ruskin’s and to some extent eyen
Goethe’s. And, as we have sa'd, there is
no real contradiction at all between vanity
of this simple kind and very deep humil
ity, for such vanity only implies a dis
criminating admiration for a man’s best
quaHties, and is perfectly consistent with
—perhaps even sometimes implies—an
equally deep distaste for the same man’s
bad qualities. On the whole, discrimi
nating vanity is quite as much a good as
an evil qualify. It is whoHy good when
it is not absorbing and binding, and not
complicated with resentment for those
who do not sympathise with it. It is
mischievous only if it makes a man mis-
see his own character, or see very littlo
of anything else except his own charac
ter, or if it leads him into vindictive feel
ings towards those who cannot share his
admiration for himself.
A Queen’s Prophetic Warning to
Napoleon.—Among the papers of the
lately deceased Queen of Holland the
following interesting letter was found.
It is dated June 18, 1860 :
Sire : You give up to very straDge iflu-
sions. Your prestige has suffered more
within the last fourteen days than during
the whole period of your government.
You aUow the weak to be oppressed, you
permit the insolence aDd brutality of
your neighbor to increase. You receive
a present from Venice and cannot afford
a word of thanks for the giver. I regret
that you do not see the critical danger to
your interests in a united Germany and a
united Italy. Your dynasty is menaced,
and will pay for the blunder. It is the
truth, but you wiH know it when it is
too late. * * * Perhaps this is my
last letter. However, I believed I would
sin against friendship, long and seriously
cherished, if I would not once tell you
the whole truth. I do not expect that it
will be heeded, but I will have the satis
faction to have done everything to check
the ruin of him who inspired so much
friendship and affection in me.—St. Louis
Globe ■ Democrat.
BRAIN WORK IN PARIS.
Terrible Condition of Journalist*
md Authors.
When brain work is not the noblest of
all the professions, it is the vilest of all
the trades. Despair, envy, hatred, desti
tution, vice and madness are at the end,
sometimes in the middle of this con
temptible career, in which popularity
robs glory, in which money is the only
aim, in which debauch becomes an in
centive, and drunkenness a muse.
Look at that miserable young fellow,
over there, with his contorted features,
yellow cheeks, grimacing mouth aod vag
abond eyes. He was born to walk free
and joyful behind a plough, and proudly
to sow the seed of the next harvest. In
the evening, at the farmer’s fireplace, he
would have eaten the bread he had earned
during the day. Every step, every move
ment of his would have vivified some
thing. And now look him in this vast
city, pressing day and night his poor
head between his two hands to squeeze
out of it tales and adventures for a hun
gry crowd, who devour him to-day aud
take to somebody else to-morrow, if noth
ing more can be got out of him.
For a more or less extended period of
time he will make Henriettes marry
Arthurs, will make husbands catch lovers,
will poison some of them and send others
to the guillotine, keeping, of course, the
sensational interest duly alive till the end
of the chapter or feuilleton. He will
sell everything in succession—love,
jealousy, tears, history, scandal, slang,
satire, morals, laudation, insults, politics,
sentiment, obscenity, religion—in a
word, everything out of which manu-
script can be made—at from two to five
cents a line, according to the momentary
taste of the public or the tendencies of
this or that journal. When he shall have
eaten up his own contents he will live
upon the contents of others. He will
patch up old comedies and novels; warm
up the arras of past centuries. He will
swallow whole libraries aud second hand
book shops. He wants ideas, anecdotes,
witty sayings, pleasure, money and
notoriety. No time to be lost now; he
mast get celebrity. Once celebrated, he
is quoted: once quoted, he is rich. The
journal goes to press, the theatre can not
wait, and there is no time left to get up
anything. What does it matter? Two
or three men of us will put ourselves
together and spend nights at work. And
the bodily force—where is it to come
from ? We will take strong black coffee.
And the inspiration ? We will take ab
sinthe.
Go on, human brains ! Throw out sen
tences, lines, pages and volumes ! Swell
yourself like a sponge and squeeze your
self like a lemon, till you dry out and
out, till lunacy and paralysis take posses
sion of you, till besottedness strikes you,
and death comes to finish the whole.
Meanwhile, we will enter the homo of
this celebrity. What we find there is dis
order and indigence; au old mistress, of
whom he made his wife in a moment of
lyrism and exhaustion ; some unhappy
children already dressed in black and cry
ing, without much knowing what about.
The air of the room is still full of yester
day’s tobacco smoke. He liked smoking
so much, poor fellow! He was often
told that smoking was bad for him, but
he was unable to give it up. Oh ! what
jolly days had been spent in this room
at the time of the little so-and-so !
A number of friends escort him to the
cemetery; possibly a sight-seeing or
sympathetic crowd will join them, for
the deceased was much liked. He used
to be so jolly at times! A lot of anec
dotes are told of him; speeches are de
livered over his grave; a flat tombstone
is placed on his cose; the friends return
to the city to take a bite; some obituary
notices are gotten up at once; for two or
three days the journalists live on him; a
subscription is started for a monument;
the government is informed of the sad
occurrence; a pension is obtained for the
widow and a scholarship for one of the
children; and all this done, the surviving
friends rush to resume the very
same frenzied life which killed him.
F arewell, thou great man of a year,
month, or a day. Quiet be thy sleep,
now that eternal night has come 7
It is into this pandemonium, into this
penitentiary, into these sewers that thou
sands of young men rush, with a good
natured, frank smile on their lips; be
lieving that they will meet their fortune
and reputation as easily as one meets a
cart on the high road. They would not
stick to ordinary labor, obscure and re
quiring patience, but certain in its results
and sure to make a man robust, serene,
respected, useful and good. I have gone
myself through these horrible swamps in
the beginning of my career. I came out
shivering and pale, terrified by what
had seen. And I become still terrified
when now and then I have to go back there
to shake the hand of an old comrade or
to take his body and carry it to a place
of rest. I would have been dead long
ago if I had remained there. Blessed be
the Lord of the destinies of the universe
for His having shown me the way to get
out, and for having commuted my sen
tence. No, Dante, whose name is inva
riably invoked when people speak of
abominable tortures, could not have
dreamed of this damned production of
iutellect, which rolls its own head as
Sisyphus rolled his stone and knocks it
against iron walls to get out of it a last
little spark. Alexander Dumas.
Haberdasher (to assistant): “Why has
that lady gone without buying ?” Assis
tant : “We haven’t got what she wants.”
Haberdasher : “I’ll soon let you know.
Miss, that I keep you to sell what I’ve
got, and not what people want.”—Puncfi.
A Historic Coincidence.
The Emperor Alexander is now over
looking campaigns at the very point
where his father, the stern Nicholas,
came near being killed by a shell in 1828.
Fifty years ago the fanatical Romanoff
was pushing his legions across the Danube
and into the fatal Dobruascha, and a
stone still marks the spot where the ene
my’s shell went wide of the mark and left
the royal soldier to be killed by a subse
quent campaign. Thirty years later he
was again watching the aged Paskievitoh
force the orossing of the Danube, and
this time defeat and mortification were
too much for the proud Russian, aud ho
fell a victim to his own ambition, and
the pacific Alexander hastened to make
peace at the conference of Paris. Auto
cratic Russian Czars like other monarchs
imagine they make peace or war and the
stern logic of events dispose while they
propose. Nations in the process of
growth and development infringe upon
each other, and as their orbits come near
together conflict results despite the most
pacific autocrat or the most humane peace
policy. Alexander finds himself, despite
himself, directing the Cossack legions
which he himself called off a half
century age. Like Alexander I. he is
averse to war, and yet his illustri
ous predecessor twice entered Paris and
marshaled eight hundred thousand men
to destroy the first Napoleon. The second
Alexander is likely to enter the city of
the Crescent as a conqueror when he
would rather have pursued the pacific re
forms of internal administration. The
two are remarkably similar in many
respects. Each has the delicacy and
gentleness, with the subtlety, and per
haps tho perfidy of the Greek, while each
has something of the loftiness and
heroism of the Roman. Napoleon said of
Alexander the First that bis intentions
were the best, but he would lie like a
Greek.—Nashville American.
The following ingenious lines, written
a generation ago, are reproduced by the
New York Evening Post:
The “Brewers’' should to “Malta” go
The “Boobies” all to “Sciliy,”
The “Quakers” to the ••Friendly Isles.”
The -Furriers” to “Chili.”
The little, snarling, carroling “Babes,"
That break our nightly rest,
Should be packed oil to “Babylon,”
To “Lap and” or to “Brest."
From “spithead - cooks go o’er to “Greece,”
And while the “Miser" waits
His passage to the “Guinea” coast,
“Spendthrifts” are in the “Straits.”
“Spinsters” should to the “Needles” go,
“Wine Bibbers" to “Burgundy,”
“Gourmands” should luncn at “sandwich Isles,”
“Wags” at the “Bay of Fundy.”
“Bachelors” to the “United »tates,”
“Maids" to tbe “Isle of Man
t “Garden- i r8”go to ’‘Botany Bay,”
And “Shoeblacks” to “Japan.”
Thus emigrate—and Misplaced men
W r ill then no longer vex us.
And then all who’re not provided for
Had better go to “Texas.”
TnE LOUISIANA RETURNING
BOARD INDICTMENTS.
WflN Thinks that lie Can Force Hayes to
Keverse Ills Southern Policy.
[From the New Orleans Democrat.]
There were indications of a storm at
the custom house yesterday, in the neigh
borhood of the private office of the
Surveyor of the Port. Ex-Gov. Wells
was in the condition of mind of a man
who feels himself hard pressed by his
enemies and is determined to fight. He
had his war paint on and snuffed the
battle in the near future. The cause of
his warlike attitude was the fact that the
grand jury had ordered bills of indict
ment against all of the members of the
late returning board. He was especially
severe upon the Judge who, he asserted,
had urged tho grand jury to take this
action. He had been aware, of course,
for some time past that efforts were be
ing made to procure the indictment of
the members of the board, but from his
conversation it seemed as if he expected
that the matter would fall through.
Wells, on learning of the indictments,
immediately engaged counsel to take
charge of his case, and the friends of
Gen. Anderson telegraphed to him to come
to the city at once and give bond for his
appearance. As soon as these prelimi
naries are settled, ex-Gov. Wells and
Gen. Anderson will leave for Washington,
where they will lay before the President
the action of the grand jury. They will
then make an appeal to the Republican
party, claiming that with the present
state of feeling against them, and with
the courts constituted as they now are,
they will have little or no chance for a
fair hearing. As far as conld be gathered
from Gov. Wells, the plan to be pursued
in the event of indictments being found
was discussed fully during the last visit
of Anderson to the city.
They seemed to have the impression
that as the President owed his position to
them, in a great measure, he was bound
to see that they were protected if possi
ble. To an inquiry as to what the Presi
dent could do for them, Gov. Wells said
that if it became imperatively necessary,
the President might abandon his South
ern policy, unite all the elements of the
Republican party, and endeavor by some
means to secure tbe recognition of the
Ludeling Supreme Court as the legal Su
preme Court of the Stale.
With the Ludeling Supreme Court,
Governor Wells thought that the return
ing board members would have ample
protection. As wild and as impossible as
such a scheme appears,it has undoubtedly
been discussed seriously by Wells and
Anderson. Can it be that they have it
in their power to compel the President to
take such pronounced action in their be
half ?
Perhaps there are dark secrets connect
ed with the manner in which the Presi
dent reached the White House, unknown
it may be to the President, which promi
nent politicians dare not permit the light
lo shine upoD.
There is one thing very certain, and
that is that if Governor Wells and Gen
eral Anderson are not handled very ten
derly in Washington, they will make such
a rumpus that there will be a rattling of
dry bones in high places.
THE GEM OF THE SIERRAS
A Lake tbat Never Freeze*, and Never
(.Ives Up its Dead.
Africa.
[From Blackwood’s Magazine.]
The history of that dark continent, so
far as known to us, presents an awful re
trospect, and one all the more dreadful
when we take into account the kindly aud
affectionate qualities of so many of its
primitive people to which Mungo Park,
Livingstone, Grant, Schweinfurth, and
Cameron have borne witness. It is inex
pressibly sad to think of the unnumbered
ages through which these poor dark sav
ages have continued, scarcely advancing
beyond the elements of art and science,
and even of language ; from within, de
stroying and devouring one another, will
ingly offering their throats to the knives
of sorcerers, or paving the deep grave pit
of some bloody monarch with the living,
trembliDg bodies of a hundred of his
young wives; from without, hunted down
and destroyed or captured by aid of
the weapons of civilization, until
every man’s hand is turned against his
brother, and terror reigns over vast re
gions. The bounty of nature has pro
vided for them such abundance that they
continue to exist despite all the cruel
conditions of that existence. But they
are arrested at a position, not so much
between heaven and earth, as between
earth and hell. There is an old touoh, a
tertiary or pre-tertiary touch about them,
affiliating them with the ancient hippo
potamus and the crocodile ; but there is
also a touch of sensitiveness and of an
affection as keen as any lo which the more
civilized races have attained. This has
exposed them to a torture which the cro
codile and hippopotamus do not know ;
bat it has been insufficient to elevate
them to a platform of order aud hap
piness. Surely here is a case where
the introduction of European civilization
would be most justifiable, and might well
repay the cost. But if this is to be done
at all, it should be done effectually—not
as in India, to the great loss of the agents
of civilization, and in the fostering of a
weak native conceit, in itself incapable
of developing or even retaining the bene
fits which have been conferred upon the
country—not as in America, to the ex
termination of the aborigines. In the
interest of England the African continent
might be made really to correct, the bal
ance of the Old World, and enable ns to
keep in front of such expanding nations
as Germany and Russia. Then, perhaps,
it might be given to England, in the
evening of our days, to wander medita
tively on the shore of Tanganyika, that
mighty Uiles-water of Africa, or of Lake
Nyassa, its softer Windermere. It does
not seem at all likely at present that Eng
land will undertake suoh a work, but Ger
many has of late displayed some distinct
symptoms of being inclined to do so.
But, however that may be, it is to Eng
lishmen belongs the glory of having first
penetrated into the centre of tropical
Africa, and of having achieved there a
series of grand individual explorations
which has no parallel in the history of
the human race.
[From the Salt Lake Herald.]
Truckee is a thriving railroad town,
and the starting point for .Lake Tahoe—
called the “Gem of the Sierras.” The
road from Truckee winds along Truckee
river up a canon bearing the same came.
It is fourteen miles long, and a succession
of fine views the whole length of the
road. The snow-clad Sierras are on our
right, and beautifully timbered hills on
each side of the river. A few miles up
the canon a successful fish farm is in ope
ration, where tens of thousands of trout
can be seen in every stage of a trout’s
existence. As we reach the head of the
canon we find wn are also at the outlet,
or head cf the Truckee river, whose wa
ters, like all the .other river: of Nevada,
are lost in sinks. None of them have an
outlet into the ocean.
The view as we emerge from the canon
is beautiful The broad expanse of the
majestic lake lies before us, encircled on
a ] l sides by towering mountains. Half
of the lake is in Nevada, the other half
in California. It is twenty-eight miles
long aud from twelve to sixteen miles
wide, and has been sounded to a depth of
sixteen hundred feet. Its waters are a
beautiful ultramarine, and it may be called
the purest water in the world, con
taining by analysis only four per cent, of
impurities. It is so light and mobile as
to be easily lashed into foam, or calmed
to a mirror-like surface. In the early
morning it is like a locking glass, with
surrounding objects reflected in it with
surprising accuracy. Several steamers of
small tonnage are used in navigating it.
Its altitude is about six thousand three
hundred feel; it is always cool and pleas-
ant in the hottest weather. The lake
never freezes, and never gives up its
dead. No person that was drowned has
been known to rise to the surface. Wood,
as soon as it is saturated, sinks to the
bottom. The water is as clear as crystal,
and huge rocks fifty feet down are plainly
discernible. In fact, it is a marvel, and
the very contrast of our own Salt Lake;
for that is so dense and sluggish as to
offer great resistance to the human body,
and everything else that will float.
The finest place on the lake is Emerald
bay. Ben Holladay owns a beautiful
place at the head of it—a very neat resi
dence in a shady nook with the snow clad
summits of the Sierras for a background,
and a magnificent waterfall for the mid
dle distance. The foreground is every
thing an artist can desire. Near by is
the beautiful little islet called the Emer
ald isle, on which an old salt called Sailor
Dick built a home and a grave where he
intended to be bnritd should he die on
land, but I am credibly informed tbat he
got on a drunken spree aud sunk, to rise
no more, in the lake. The property is
now in charge of another seaman called
Sailor Jack. He may properly be called
the hermit of Emerald bay, for there in
the deep recesses he lives without the
society of any other human being, his
only companions being three dogs
and four cats. He is indeed
curiosity, but the soul of good nature.
Old Dick's fate seems to have set him
thinking, for he i» a total abstainer
now. The story of his conversion is
worth being told. He relates that on
one occasion, when crossing the lake, a
squall upset his small boat. Down he
went with it, he says, seven feet. He
swam to the surface and grasped firmly
his demijohn of whisky in one hand and
the upset boat in the other. He thought,
“now, this might bo my last drink, and
as it is cold I will take a swallow.” He
then took a look at the favorite bottle
and hesitated to throw away so much
good liquor, and thinking it was cold
thought he would try yet another, and
there, on a cold, dark night, with the
prospect of death staring him in the face,
he vowed to take his last drink of fire
water. This resolution he has firmly
kept.
A cascade of surprising beauty is seen
at the head of the bay. It is over one
hundred feet high. The towering masses
of rock on each side make a beautiful
setting for this shower of pearls.
A Railroad Paying Its Employees
in Silver.—The Central Pacific Railroad
Company are now paying their train,
yard and office men exclusively in silver.
Men who had a few hundred dollars due
them were leaded with coin when the pay
car arrived here yesterday, and for once
seemed to have more money than they
could conveniently carry. While the
company, without the sanction of Oon-
gresr, have made silver coin a legal ten -
der for all amounts dqe their employees,
with that inconsistency for which power
ful corporations are becoming notorious,
they refuse to receive such coin for fares
or freight for any amount over five dol
lars. If an employee of the company,
who received his two months’ wages in
silver yesterday, had freight brought here
by rail to-day he would have to pay all
chaiges above five dollars in gold. The
agents, acting under instructions from
the company, would not receive the silver
paid him for his labor even at a discount.
This is one of the arbitrary and despotic
decrees which make people distinguish
the Central Pacific Railroad*Company
from other corporations by the name of
the “great, grasping, soulless monop
oly.’— Winnemucca Silver State.
How to Keep Well.
[From Hall’s Journal of Health.]
The remedy for summer diseases, by
whatever name, is: Eat less. We do not
mean that you shall starve yourself or
deny yourself what you like best; for, as
a general rule, what you like best is best
for you; you need not abandon the uBe of
tea or coffee or meal, or anything else
you like, but simply eat less of them.
Do not starve yourself, do not reduce the
quantity of food to an amount which
would scarcely keep a chicken alive, but
make a beginning by not going to the
table at all, unless you feel hungry; for if
you once get there, you will begin to
taste this and that and the other, by
virtue of vinegar or mustard, or syrup,
or cake, or something nice. Thus a
fictitious appetite is waked up, and be
fore you know it you have eaten a hearty-
meal.
The second step toward the effectual
prevention of all summer complaints and
the like is : Diminish tho amount of food
consumed at each meal by one-fourth of
each article. If you have taken two cups
of coffee or tea at a meal, take a cup and
a half; if you have taken two biscuits or
two slices of bread, take one and a half ;
if you have taken two spoonsful of rice
or hominy or cracked wheat or grits or
farina, take one and a half; if you have
taken a certain or uncertain quantity of
meat, diminish it by a quarter, and keep
on diminishing it in proportion as tbe
weather becomes warmer until yon have
no unpleasant feeling of any kind after
your meals, and until you have not eaten
so much at one meal but that, when the
next one comes, you shall feel decidedly
hungry.
General Antidote for Poisons.—A
French medical journal gives the follow
ing formula as an antidote for a number
of deadly poisons: Solution of sulphate
of iron (D. 145J 100 parts; water, 800;
calcined magnesia, 80; washed animal
charcoal 40—these ingredients being kept
separate, the solution of sulphate of iron
in one vessel, and the magnesia and char
coal in another, with some water. When
needed, the sulphate solution is poured
into the last mentioned receptacle, and
violently agitated; the mixture t© be ad
ministered promptly, in doses of from
l.G to 3 3 ounces. This antidote, em
ployed in proper proportions, renders
preparations of arsenic, zinc and digital-
ine completely insoluble.
Parents’ Paradise.
We were much impressed lately by tho
orderly behavior of a large frmily of chil
dren, particularly at the table. We spoke
of it to our host, and he pointed to a
paper, pinned on the wall, on which was
written some excellent rules. He said he
gave each child who obeyed the rules a
reward at the end of every month. We
begged a copy for the benefit of our
readers. They were called “Rules and
Regulations for Parents’ Paradise: ”
1. Shut every door after you without
slamming it.
2. Never stamp, jump or run in the
house.
3. Never call to persons up stairs, or in
the next room. If you wish to speak to
them, go quietly where they are.
4. Always speak kindly and politely to
the servants if you would have them do
the same to you.
5. When told to do, or not to do, a
thing by either parent, never ask why
you should or should not do it.
6. Tell of your own faults, not those of
your brothers and sisters.
7. Carefully clean the mud or snow off
your boots and shoes before entering the
house.
8. B9 prompt at every meal hour.
9. Never sit down at the table or in
the parlor with dirty hands or tumbled
hair.
10. Never interrupt any conversation,
bat wait patiently your turn to speak.
11. Never reserve yonr good manners
for company, but be equally polite at
home aud abroad.
12. Let yonr first, last, and best con
fidante be your mother.
Blaine
And Cbam-
Berlain
Went sailing over the main;
They wanted to blow,
With a tor-pe do,
Ye Ship of State in twain.
Their sail,
T’ inb le
Ye gale,
Was spread, a Tribune wide,
And on they flew,
As sailors do—
Ye haze and fogs defied.
Blaine
And Cham-
Berl&in,
They sank their machine one day,
Bat ye Ship of State,
Quite ob-sti-nate.
Sailed roand by another way.
[Frcm the Ctago Guardian.)
An extraordinary scene occurred at St.
Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Dunedin,
and the chief actor in it was a Mr. J. P
Millar, who objected to a new hymnal
which had been introduced. He had pre •
vionsly protested, aDd appealed to the
Presbytery, bat all his objections had
been dismissed as frivolous. On Sunday,
May 6, he was present in the chnrch. The
pastor, the Rev. Mr. Gow, having con
ducted the previous devotional exercises
as nsnal in the commencement of the
service, announced the beautiful hymn,
“Revive Thy work, Oh Lora,” when Mr.
Miliar, making his way to the platform
beside the minister, in a loud voice com
menced to read oat the following extra
ordinary document :
(Protest.)
Dunedin, May 6, 1877.
Before God and in the presence of this
congregation, I solemnly protest against
the unconstitutional and illegal manner
in which the English Presbyterian Hymn
Book is being introduced into this con
gregation, pending the judgment of tho
Supreme Court of the church on the ap
peals taken to it, and because its intro
duction at the instance of a smali
minority of the membership of this con
gregation will virtually prevent many
from joining in praise to God in His own
appointed way.
(Signed) James P. Millar.
As the clergyman, paying no attention
to the interruption, continued to read the
hymn, Mr. Millar, finding that his voice
was no match for the sonorous and pow
erful tones of the practised speaker, and
that it wa^ in fact drowned, after a few
sentences of his protest quietly dropped
back and allowed the minister to finish
the reading of the hymn. But he had not
abandoned bis purpose, and was appa
rently gathering up his strength to break
m before the singing. However the pre
centor and choir appeared to have aroused
themselves to the necessities of the oc
casion, and ere the minister had com
pleted the rereading of the first two linrs,
when, in fact, within three words of
the end, the powerful melody of
the choir burst forth and filled the
church, the congregation joining in
the strain with heart and wilL Nothing
daunted, however, Mr. Millar, from his
stand beside the minister, proceeded
with great vehemence and force of lungs
to deliver himself his burden, and read
the protest from beginning to end, every
word being inaudible owing to the zest
with which the people applied themselves
to their new hymn books. Having fin
ished reading the paper. Mr. Millar threw
it at the minister, who quietly warded
it off with the back of his hand, and it
floated down to the congregation, one of
whom picking it up has kindly furnished
us with the foregoing copy.
Having thus “witnessed for the truth,”
Mr. Millar retired from the platform and
resumed his place in a pew, bat on tbe
second thought arose and again retired
from the church, accompanied by one
sympathizer.
A Specimen of True Goodness.
[Washington Capital.]
When General, the P. M. of Baltimore,
said that he would have no uogentieman -
ly language in his office (post office), and
then wheu his ruffianly assailant slipped
outside and called him, Tyler, a liar, und
Tyler said nothing, bat shut the door iu
the face of the infuriated maligner, Gen.
Tyler acquitted himself with a dignity
and forbearance that we have long known
were graceful traits of his amiable char
acter. This distinguished officer ha3 been
known, lo, these many years, by his true
Christian impulses, that have kept him
through his chequered career, from hurt
ing anybody.
This is the highest order of courage.
It is moral courage. It is that sort of
courage that made such Christian sol
diers as Howard (O. O.) and Col. Moody
aud Gen. Tyler and other pious captains
retire to some secret place, as their men
were going into battle, to address the
Throne of Grace and petition the Lord
to aid our side.
To those who sneer—the scoffers at
true goodness—we indignantly call their
attention to the fact that this assault was
not made upon Tyler per se— it was di
rected at the Postmaster. The vile as
sailant was not calling a man a liar—he
was attacking the post office of Balti
more. What could the post office do and
preserve its self-respect but shut the
door in the face of the violent man ?
How admirably the Postmaster of Bal
timore obeyed the grave instructions
taught by the immortal Shakspeare
through Justice—not Aliunde Joe, but
Dogberrj another man, not so sharp but
more honest. In his instructions to the
night watch as to how they should con
duct themselves in the arrest of a “va-
gram character,” in case said “vagram”
declined arrest, he said: “Why, theD,
take no note of him, but let him go, and
presently call the rest of the watch to
gether and thank God that you are r:d of
a knave.”
We can see the post office of Baltimore
calling himself together and thanking
God he was rid of a knave.
How to Become a Millionaire.
You must be a very able man, as nearly
all the millionaires are.
You must devote your life to the get
ting and keeping of other men’s earn:ngs.
You must eat the bread of carefulness
and rise up early and lie down late.
You must care little or nothing about
other men’s wants, or sufferings, or dis
appointments.
You must not mind it that your great
wealth involves many others in poverty.
You must not give away except for a
material equivalent.
You must not go meandering about
Nature, nor spend your time enjoying
air, earth, sky, or water, for there’s no
money in it.
You must never embark in any enter
prise that will build up the place you live
in, but wait until the public spirited men
have built railroads, etc., then buy tho
stock at a discount.
You must never give to the widow or
orphan a thoaght, or consider that they
have any claims upon your humanity or
charity.
You must make money your god; in
terest your faith, and large possessions
the heaven you covet. And, when dying,
give a few pence ‘o heaven.
You must not distract your thoughts
from the great purpose of your life with
tbe charms of art and literature.
You must not let philosophy or re -
ligion engross you during the secular
time.
You must not allow your wife and chil
dren to occupy much of your valuable
time and thoughts.
You must never permit the fascinations
of friendship to inveigle you into making
loans, however small.
You must abandon all other ambitions
or purposes, and finally—
You must be prepared to sacrifice ease
and all fanciful notions you may have
about tastes and luxuries and enjoyments
daring most, if not all, of your natural
life.
If you think the game is worth tho
candle—you can die rich—some of you
can.—The Critic.
Lord Chesterfield says that the Duke
of Newcastle lost half an hour in the
morning and spent the whole day run
ning after it. This is a true expression
of the career of a busy but inefficient
man. He is always driven, always in a
hurry, always late, and always with defi
ciencies to be made up, is very likely to
be always a failure. It is well known
that the responsibilities of society are
best and most easily discharged by those
who estimate the value of small portions
of time, who do things strictly in their
proper season and place, and provide
against contingencies, and distribute their
day in reference to what is as well as to
what may be required of them.
Lightning Lifts a Hogshead.—A vio
lent rain storm came up on 'Thursday
evening of last week, during which there
was one tremendous flash of lightning
and a rattling peal of thunder. A negro
in the old State Bank lot betook himself,
when the rain commenced to pour down,
to the interior of an old hogshead lying
on its side, and was doubtless congratu
lating himself on his cosey thelter, when
a flash came. It raised the hogshead,
man and all, about four feet from the
ground, and set it up on end.—Fayette
Gazette.
The entire Jewish population in this
country is estimated at two hundred and
fifty thousand, ar d the value of all the
synagogues and congregational property
at less than six millions of dollars. There
are three hundred and forty-one congre
gations.