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W.T. Editor, and Proprietor,.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
EAST.
A dispatch from the scene of the Mill
river disaster says the last two bodies have
been found, and the total loss of life is now
known to be 147. Some idea may be formed
of the terrific force of the rushing stream of
death by the statement that the fissure in the
ruined barrier shows that the flood must have
Btarted with a volume of 175 feet wide, and
35 feet deep.
New York is expet imenting in com
pulsory education. A law has just gone into
effect requiring the parents and guardians of
children between eight and fiiteen years of
age to give them annually at least fourteen
weeks of elementary instruction. Probably
the most practical feature of tho law is that
which forbids the employment at any labor of
children within tho above ages during tlie
time tho public schools are open.
WEST.
Northampton, Mass..lost nine bridges
nearly new by the mill dam flood.
Henri Rochefort, who was a passen
ger on the Mikado from Australia, has arrived
at San Francisco.
A Chicago packing house was burned
last week, consuming 500 live hogs and 1,000,-
000 pounds of dead—loss $70,000, distributed
among 40 companies.
The Rev. Daniel Swing, of Chicago,
has publicly an jounced his determination to
apply to the Chicago Presbytery for a letter of
dismissal from the ministry of the Presbyter
ian church. He will, however, remain as pas
tor or preacher for tho Fourth Presbyterian
church, in accordance with the expressed
wishes of the elders and leading members
thereof.
A Northampton, Mass,, dispatch says
there are now in Mill lliver valley twelve
hundred destitute and homeless people to
feed and clothe, not for one day only, but
nntil their future is decided upon, and must
have at least one hundred thousand dollars
for immediate use. The women as ususl ex
hibit more fortitude than the men, and in
stead of yielding to their sorrows put forth
praiseworthy effor s to improve their gei eral
condition.
At a meeting of the United States
Centennial commission at Philadelphia, a
financial statement was made showiug the
total subscription to be $4,405,200 : total ex
penses to May 1, including plan3 and work on
grounds, $144,712; and estimate of total cost of
buildings according to designs $8,750,000.
The report of the executive committee says :
“ Without the government aid which lias boen
requested it will bo impossible to render the
celebration creditable to the nation and worthy
of the occasion. The responsibility, there
fore, for success for the centennial exhibition
now clearly rests with congress."
One of the most remarkable sales of
blooded stock ever held in this country took
at Dexter Park, Chicago, last week, being that
of the celebrated Lindell herd of shorthorns,
belonging to Hon. W. G. Kiug, of Miune
ayuiiß. r** * A Q 1 Q jj
wore sold, the former aggregating sßol,olo*
and the latter $25,375, being an average of
$1 ,982 each for tho bulls. Bayers were pre
sent from every part of the United States,
from Canada, and one, Mr. Robbins, from
England, who made the most notable pur
chase of the day, that of the bull Duke of
Hillhurst, for which he paid $14,000. A large
number of the finest animals sold went to
New York, Kentucky, lowa, Illinois and Mis
souri.
At a recent meeting of workingmen
at Columbus, Ohio, resolutions were adopted
declaring in favor of the substitution of aibi
tration for strikes by a law which ensures
justice both to employer and employee; favor
ing the enactment of an equitable apprentice
law; for the enactment of a law to compel
chartered corporations to pay their employees
at letst once a month in full, and for a law
giving mechanics and laborers a first lien on
their works ; recognizing in the ballot box the
great agency through which their wrongs can
be redreseed, and the abrogation of all laws
that do not bear equally upon capital and la
bor; denouncing Supervising Architect Mul
let for extending the contract of parties who
do not observe the eight hour law, and de
nouncing the system of convict labor; favor
ing the establishment of co-operative shops
and stores by the industrial classes ; denounc
ing demagogues ; favoring cutting loose from
all political workingmen, and favoring a pro
tective tariff which will better protect the iron
interests of this countrv.
SOUTH.
The wheat crop is North Georgia
promises a very large yield.
Alligators five feet long are retailed
in Perry, Georgia, at a dollar apiece.
The moneyed men of Fort Pickens,
8. C., have ordered a cargo of eucalyptus trees
from Australia.
Gaines Chisholm, charged with the
murder of Penn Bedell, in Atlanta, Georgia,
has been acquitted.
Andy McLaughlin, a boy of fourteen,
killed his father with a rock, a few days since,
in Madison county, Ky.
Wm. Duke, who killed Thos. Parker,
in Butts county, Georgia, two years ago, has
been sent to the penitentiary for three years.
Mrs. Waeohter, proprietress of a beer
saloon at Memphis, suicided by hanging her
self from the transom of a door with a clothes
line.
Gov. Smith, of Georgia, has respited
nntil June 19, Henry Jackson, the negro who
was to have been hung in Leesburg last Fri
day.
Fred. Walcott, of Frankfort, Ky.,
went heme drunk and killed his mother with
a hatchet. He is in jail, but likely to be
lynched.
The schooner Phoenix capsized in a
whirlwind off Ship Channel Keys. Out of
seventeen pa-sengers five women and one man
were drowned.
The supreme court has decided that
quarantine fees, imposed by states, are un
constitutional, and the circuit court at New
Orleans has issued an order restraining the
board of health from collecting such fees.
Reports from Little Rock state that
nearly all of Baxter's forces have been re
turned to their homes, and quiet generally
reigns. The fortifications around the state
house are being levelled and matters put in
their old condition.
The legislature of Arkansas has ap
pointed committees looking toward the im
peachment of those state officers who sup
ported the pretensions of Mr. Brooks, and
the governor has modified the conditions of
martial law so far as to permit the execution
of civil arrests.
The mayor of New Orleans, in a letter
to a gentlemen in v\ ashiugton, says unless
the resources tor relief be increased to one
million dollars, many families must perish bv
famine. Even that sum will not more than
suffice to save the lives of the inundated (ill
the flood subsides and the overflowed lands
are again tillable.
It is said that a great deal of destitu
tion prevails in and around Chicot, Ark., on
account of the flood. The large planters are
suffering equally with the small farmers
Everything in the shape of chattel property
and provisions have been swept away, and un
less aid reaches them soon there will be sacri
fice of life from starvation.
A fatal affray occurred at Cherry
Creek, Pontotoc county, Miss., last ThureJay.
The parties engaged were Wm. Garner, Sim
McCoy, Bam Reeder. McCoy, Sr., Mark Miram
and Geo. McCoy. Firearms were freely used
and Wm. Gamer was shot and Miram was shot
three times, each wound, however, proving to
be slight. Wm McCoy, Sr., had his arm
broken, and Sim McCoy was slightly bruised.
All the combatapts had, before this terrib'e
THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS.
affair, been friendly toward each other, and in
fact were all related. No other cause is as
signed for the unfortunate and deadly colli
sion than that the parties were drunk at the
time.
Hon. Frank Morey, of New Orleans,
asks by telegraph from Washington, when is it
estimated the present supply of food or funds
will be exhausted at the present rate of dis
tribution. Gov. Kellogg replies : The relief
committee for Louisiana receive from the
government eight thousand rations daily and
distribute from thirty to forty thousand. The
funds from private contributions will be ex
hausted in fifteen days. Every effort is being
made by sending cotton seed, corn and rice to
the flowed districts to afford relief in the
shape of work and to discourage idleness;
but the necessities for help will last much
longer than the present resources.
A Denver, Texas, dispatch fays the
wheat crop of this region is now out of dan
ger, and will be the largest ever raised in
northern Texas. New wheat will be in maiket
here by the Ist of June. A large breadth of
land is planted in cottou, and looks finely.
Business is reviving all through Texas, and all
tho railroads are crowded with immigrants,
while the prairie roads are lined with people
iu wagons seeking new homes. Tlie Texas
and Atlantic refrigerator company has added
various improvements to its slaughtering works
here, and is now killing one hundred beeves
daily and will soon slaughter five hundred.
It owns one hundred cars, built to transport
fresh beef to St. Louis, Chicago, New York,
and Baltimore, and will send a train-road daily
to theee cities during the season.
FOREIGN.
Two more fights with Carlists are re
ported by Madrid with the usual Republican
success.
The King of the Sandwich Islands
favors a commercial treaty with the United
States, but deprecates annexation.
The three American students recently
drowned in Lake Geneva, Switzerland, were a
Mr. Grant, and two brothers named Wood
bery.
Ten persons have been arrested at
Cork, Ireland, on suspicion of being concerned
in tlie mysterious disappearance of arms from
the barracks.
Advices from Maderia state that vines
are in a satisfactory condition. Tlie Azores
newspapers deny the existence iu these islands
of a movement in favor of annexation to the
United States.
A special from Paris says a cabinet
has been formed. Its principal members are
Gaulard, Dccase and Lavergne, Grivart and
Ozanne, all of whom belong to the moderate
section of the right and right centre. The
object c 4 the new government is to conciliate
both centres iu order to carry the septennial
constitution through the assembly.
CONGRESSIONAL,
In the senate, on the 19th, resolutions
providing for the adjournment of congress ou
the 22d of June were agreed to without dis
cussion House bill for the benefit of occu
pying claimants on public lands was passed,
bill' be taf?Ai w n : p, n ? a(lo .that the civil rights
quorum was not present 'fhe^fi£?Sl lu ? I „
In the house, on the 19tli, the bill
to amend the custom laws, and to repeal the
system of moities to informers in t e customs
revenue cases, was taken up. The bill was
debated at length, and finally passed Bills
were passed to remove the poli i.'al disabilities
of Thomas Claiborne, of Tennessee, and
transferring the western to the middle judicial
district of Tennessee The executive com
mittee made a report in tlie Louisiana con
tested election case, that neither of the claim
ants. Pinchback or Sheridan, had presented
evidence to establish their right to a seat as a
representative at large, but that they should
have a right to take further testimony. Mr.
Lamar presented a minority report, that
Pincliback was not elected and ttiat Sheridan
was. Reports ordered printed and are to bo
called up hereafter An effort was made to
take up senate bill to adjourn sine die June
22d. but it w.s not taken up and the house
adjourned.
Iu the senate, on the 20th, the com
mittee on claims reported adversely on the bill
to provide for the settlement of claims of loyal
persons against the United States, accruing
during the rebellion, and for other purposes.
This bill proposes to confer a jurisdiction on
the court of claims, to determine the claims of
all citizens whe remained loyal, or who took
the oath prescribed by the president’s procla
mation of December 8, 1863, and further pro
poses to abolish the board of claims commis
sion. The committee also reported unfavorably
on the joint resolution directing the commis
sioners of claims to send to congress, without
delay, claims decided prior to April 1. 1874,
and it was indefinitely postponed Discus
sion of the civil rights bill was resumed, and
Messrs. Flanagan and Pratt spoke in its favor,
and Mr. Thurman in opposition.
In the house, on the 20th, senate reso
lution for final adjournment on the 22d of
June was concurred in The postoffice ap
propriation bill was considered, and au amend
ment permitting agricultural reports to be
transported free through the mails was adop
ted—llo to 48.
In the senate, on the 21at, considera
tion was resumed of tho civil rights bill.
Mr. Morton replied to the argument of Mr.
Thurman, made yesterday, and said the bill
was constitutional, and that congress had full
power to enforce the provisions of the four
teentli amendment to the constitution by ap
propriate legislation.
In the house, on the 21st, a petition
was presented from the Woman’s Temperance
Union, of Indianapolis, requesting congress
to amend the oath of office so that all officers
under the government shall be required to
abstain from the use of intoxicating drinks as
a beverage during their terms of office The
pension appropriation bill, which disposes of
$29,980,000, was taken up and pa-sed A
bill for the admission of New Mexico as a
state was adopted—l6o to 54.
In the senate, on the 22d, house bill
authorizing the president to issne army ra
tions and clothing to the destitute people on
the Tombigbee and Tennessee rivers was
passed The civil rights bill then came up
and was debated at length, but no vote was
reached.
In the house, on the 22<3, the com
mittee on war claims reported the claims al
lowed by the commissioner under the act of
March 3, 1871, numbering over one thousand
and aggregating $676,274. A motion was made’
to strike ont the item of $45,161 to Wm.
Bailey, of Rapids Parish. 1.a., for cotton
taken and destroyed, on the ground of disloy
alty, but it was lost and the bill passed....A
number of private bills passed, among them
one for the relief of widows and orphans of
soldiers murdered bv guerillas in Centralist,
Mo, in 1864.
In the senate, on the 23d, the debate
on the civil rights bill was continued. Various
amendments were proposed, but most of them
failed of adoption, and the bill finally paseed
in nearly the shape reported by the committee,
by a vote of 29 to 16
In the house, on the 23d, the bill
donating condemned caunon and canuon balls
to various posts of the grand army of the re
public for monumental purposes was passed.
Bills were reported and referred, allowing
a bounty of eight and one-third dollars per
month to soldiers during the late war, and
providing for grants of land to them, and to
provide for the gradual reduction of the army
of the United States, reducing the number of
cavalry regiments to nine, artillery to four,
and infantry to twenty A bill was passed
to constitute Montgomery. Alabama, a port of
delivery, with a deputy collector at $1,500.
In the senate, on the 25th, the bill to
incorporate the Texas Pacific railroad com
pany, and to ai l in the construction of the
road, was called up aud passed. The object
of the bill is to enable the company to execute
a mortgage ijpon tho completed portion of the
road A joint resolution was introduced and
referred, proposing the following as an amend
ment to the constitution: “If any state shall
fail to maintain a comraen school system, un
der which all jetsons between the ages of five
and eighteen years, not incapacitated for the
same, shall receive, free of charge, such ele
mentary education as congress may nrescribe,
congress shall have power to establish there
in such a system, and cause the same to be
maintained at the expense of such state.”.
| A bill was offered, directing the secretary of
j war to cause to be executed a survey of the
Susquehanna river, from Chesapeake Bay to
the New York state line, and from that line
through Seneca lake to the New York canal
and to Lake Ontario, with a view to ascertain
the practicability of steamboat navigation be
tween those points by dams, locks and canals.
... .Consideration was resumed of tho finance
bill, and after some discussion thereon the
senate adjourned to attend the funeral of Mr.
Mellish, late member of tlie house
In the house, on the 25th, bills were
introduced: Providing that a residence of
three years shall be sufficient to enable an
alien, a free white person, to become a citizen,
declaration to be made one year before admis
sion; for lire examination of Rome, Georgia,
as a site for a manufacturing arsenal; to re
fund the cotton tax; to repeal the law which
suspended payment to loyal masters for slaves
drafted and received as volunteers in military
service: declaring all corporations doing busi
ness in the state subject to the jurisdiction of
the state courts of that state; to establish
Atlanta, Ga., as a port of delivery; restoring
to the pension roil pensioners of the Mexicau
war - truck off for disloyalty Senate bill to
facilitate tho execution of, and to protect cer
tain public works of improvement at the mouth
of tire Mississiopi river, was passed The
death of David B. Mellish was announced.
Kemarks appropriate to the occasion were
made, and the house adjourned to attend the
funeral to-morrow.
A REIGN OF TERROR IN TEXAS.
ftleilrnns anti Indians Robbing and
Murdering at Will.
A special from Brownsville of the
22d, says there is a terrible state of af
fairs there. Judge Doherty reports
less security for persons or property
between the Neuces and the Rio Grande
than heretofore. In Neuces and other
out counties Ihe ranches have been de
serted by all frontit rsmen. They will
send affidavits to Gen. Steele substan
tiating robberies and murders. They
ask for authority to organize and pro
tect themselves. The number of raid
ers is greater than previouslv. They
steal fewer cattle because there are
fewer to steal. The Mexicans have been
crossing cattle at Los Conchas for three
days, twenty-four miles above. They
have fired on eirizens from the Mexican
side. Judge Doherty has left for Rn
ceas this evening. He will try to pio
cure evidence to justify military action.
They have crossed over eight thousand.
The commander at Matamoras has been
asked to send a force to capture them,
We shall be forced to fight in self-de
fense. There is no safety for an Ameri
can outside of a town. They are de
termined to drive us out of the country.
Such is tho opinion of onr clearest men.
Later dispatches sa the condition of
things is gettiug worse. At a meeting
of citizens of Corpus Christi, a commit
tee of safety was appointed, will full
power to act throughout the county.
About one hundred and fifty signatures
were obtained of men pledging them
selves to maintain order. A telegram
was received from Gen. Meager, stating
that a company of cavalry would be
sent here immediately. An attack was
threatened on the jail Tuesday by fif
teen men from Meansville, but was irus
trated by the sheriff. Last night a detail
of twenty-five men was patrolling thecity
in anticipation of an attempt to release
the murderers. Threats are made free
ly by the Mexicans to burn and rob.
Seven hundred dollars were subscribed
last night for the capture of the other
on tho part of the state. On tho 9th
inst., a Mr. Smith, who lives about
twelve miles from Fort Davis, and a
ranche. was attacked by four Indians,
the lattei on foot, near his house, and
was slightly wounded. They stole ten
head of cattle, which were found after
ward killed a few miles from the ranche.
Tlie Fallacies of Fiaauce.
An English writer says in the Pall
Mall Gazette : Many political phenom
na of the modern democratic world have
shown that blunders and injustices be
long to no particular era or state of so
ciety ; and here we have the congress of
United States repeating that particular
fraud of feudal princes which even in
the middle ages had fallen into the low
est discredit. There is absolutely no
difference in principle between adulter
ating the metallic coinage and “infla
ting ” the paper circulation. The sole
distinction consists in the greater liabil
ity of the older piece of cheating to be
found out. A mediaeval gold coin had
its proper intrinsic value iu the market,
and the money-changer who melted
down a coin of some particular issue
and discovered that it was half made up
of copper, at once knew that the sover
eign had been swindling his subjects.
But the effects of adulterating a paper
currency have to be detected, not by
the scales or .the tests, but by some
slight labor of the brain. Asa bank
note is, to begin with, a piece of paper
which is absolutely without appreciable
value, a very superficial person may
conclude that any number of pieces of
valueless paper may be made valuable
by printing on them the same wor Is
which appear on the face of s redeem
able note. The difficulty, such as it is,
of seeing through this fallacy gives the
modern corrupter of money his sole ad
vantage over his execrated predecessor,
but both the act and its consequences
are identical in the two cases. The im
age and superscription of the monarch
lied in the older example ; the assertion
that “the United States promises to
pay ” is a lying assertion in the modern
instance.
A Philosophic Yiew of the Grange
Movement.
At the session of the social science
association at New York, a lengthy pa
per, by * William C. Flagg, of Illinois,
was read, on tlie farmers’ movement in
the west. After giving the history of
the movement and its effect upon po
litical parties, it concludes: “The
farmers’ movement meant primarily an
advancement in the intelligence and
ability of the tillers of the soil; second
ly, an unusual feeling of oppression and
distress, resulting from the mischievous
legislation of the country, and finally,
an effort to reform abuses and carry to a
more logical conclusion the principles
of our republican-democratic system.
It was a part of the universal upward
tendency of the manual workers of the
world, and was as irrepressible as the
progress of democracy on earth. It
foreshadowed the time when the cun
ning of the hand would be displaced
by the brain of the worker, ‘equal and
exact justice to all men;’ ‘all men are
oreated equal;’ ‘government derives its
just powers from the consent of the
governed ;’ whatsoever ye would that
men should do unto you, do ye even so
unto them.’ These were ali accepted
principles and must work out their logi
cal results. ”
Turf Statistics for IS"3.
From the compilations of the Tnrf,
Field and Farm, we condense the fol
lowing :
Thad. Stevens, by Langford, heads the
list, with winnings.] amounting to §28,-
425. Tom Bowlins, by Lexington, comes
next, with §27,150. Joe Daniels, by
Australian, third, with §14,255. No
other single horse reaches §B,OOO, and
only six others have over §5,000
Lexington heads the list of winning
sires with 23 winners to his credit; As
teroid has 19; imported Australian 16;
War Dance 14; Planet 13; Bonnie Scot
land 11; Lightning and Norfolk 10 each;
Jack Malone 8; Vandal 6; Kentucky,
Revolver, and Rebel 5 each; balance
scattered among 41 different sires.
The principal winning stables are as
follows ;
McDaniel A CoV stables have won.. $32,525
Geo. Treat A Co’s 31,772
H. P. McGrath's 30.750
August Belmont's 23,760
M.H. Sandford’e 15,665
Jos Donohue’s.. 13,705
J. F. Chamberlain's 12,980
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3. 1874.
LIFK LEAVES,
The day, vith its sandals dipped iu dew,
Has passed through the event jo’s golden gates,
And a single star iu the cloud lees blue
For the rising moon in silence waits;
While the winds that sigh to the languid hours
A lullaby breathe o’er the folded flowers.
The lilies nod to the sound of the stream
That winds along with lulling flow,
And either awake or half a-dream,
I pass through the realms of long ago ;
While faces peer with many A smile
From the bowers of memory’s magical isle.
There are joys and sunshine, sorrows and tears,
That check the path of life’s April hours,
And a longing wish for the com ng years,
That hope ever wreathes with the fairest flowers j
There are friendships guileless—love as bright
And pore as the stars in the halis of night.
There are ashen memories, bitter pain,
And buried hopes and a broken vow,
And an aching heart by the restless main,
And the sea-breeze fanning a pallid brow;
And a wanderer on the shell-lined shore
Listening for voices that speak no more.
There are passions strong and ambitious wild,
And the fierce desire to stand in the van
Of the battle of life—and the heart of the chi:d
Is crushed m the breast of the struggling Iran
But short the regrets and few are the tears,
That fall at the tomb of the vanished years.
There’s a quiet and peace and domestic love,
And jove arising from faith and truth,
And a love unquestioning, far above
The passionate dreaming* of ardent youth;
And kisses of children on lips and cheek,
And the parents’ bliss which no tongue can speak.
There are loved ones lost! There are little graves
In the distant dell, ’math protecting trees,
Where the streamlet winds and the violet waves,
And the grasses sway to the sighing breeze;
And we mourn for the pressure of tender lips.
And the light of eyes darkened in death’s eclipse.
And thus, as the glow of the daylight dies,
And the right’s first look to the earth is cast,
I gaze ’neath those beautiful summer skies.
At the pictures that hang in the hall of the past;
Oh, sorrow and joy chant a mingled lay
When to memory’s wildwood we wander away!
THE UNWILLING BRIDE.
"Very few persons who ever knew
Ruth McTlwnin could easily forget her.
When I first met her, she was sixteen.
The mother of Ruth MoTlwain died
while she was an infant, and her father
remianded a widower for ten years, and
then married a lady who had a daugh
ter by her former husband. The sec
ond Mrs. Mcllwain was a woman of
plausible manners, but of a selfish and
artful disposition, and her daughter
Ellen resembled her exactly.
Jonas Mcllwain was one of % those
every day persons who have nothing
marked in their character, if vve except
only a great portion of obstinacy.
One day when Ruth had just entered
her seventeenth year, a gentleman
whom she had never seen before, came
to tea with the family. He was a wid
ower, about forty years of age, of good
figure and fine manners, but plain even
to ugliness. He was silent and reserved.
Ruth paid little attention to him, and
would have thought no more about him
had not her father sa ; d to her when he
was gone, “Well, Rath, what do you
think of Mr. Walker?”
“I think he is extremely]ugly,” re
plied his daughter.
“ Humph ! ” responded her father,
“that is unlucky, for he is to be your
husband.”
“My husband, father?” said Ruth,
raising her blue eyes and gaz'R-sr U( A
parent with a look astonishment.
“ Oh! you are jesting ; that is lmpossi
'oil,” answered Mr. Mcll
“ You will Had it very true. I
assure you I am serious. ”
“I will never marry him,” replied
Ruth, “ and I scarcely think he will de
sire an unwilling bride.”
“ But you will not be an unwilling
bride,” persisted her father.
“Don’t mistake me, father,” contin
ned Ruth firmly, but kindly. “In this
matter I must consult my feelings. I
cannot commit so great a siu.”
“Well, we shall see,’’coolly responded
Mr, Mcllwain, and the conversation
dropped.
Caleb Walker was a man of immense
wealth. In early life he had emigrated
to Louisiana, when the city of New Or
leans was scarcely more than a village,
and judiciously investing the means he
possessed, he amassed great weal to.
No man had a kinder or more sympa
thizing nature than Caleb Walker. He
was very charitable, but as he shrunk
from observation, and was so unobtru
sive, the knowledge of his benevolence
was almost invariably confined to him
self and the recipients of his bounty.
Mr. Walker continued his visits to
the Mcllwains, and Ruth made it a
point to keep out of his way as much
as possible. She had little difficulty in
doing this, as he paid no particular at
tention to her. She perceived, bow- |
ever, that her step-mother and sister I
were frequently closeted together, and
that their minds seemed always occu
pied with something that she could not
discover. They sometimes looked at
her in a peculiar manner.
One day, when she was alone with
Ellen, she said :
“What is it that occupies yoa and
mother so much ?”
Her step-sister answered with great
deliberation, “ The preparation for
yonr marriage, my dear.”
“ My marriage, sister ! With whom?”
“Your father certainly has informed
you that you are to marry Mr. Walker,”
replied Ellen, looking fixedly into
Ruth’s face.
“Oh ! yes, he said so,” replied
Ruth, “but I cannot believe he means
it.”
“ Why not?” asked Ellen, elevating
her eyebrows.
“Because,” replied Ruth, “it’s a
very summary way of disposing of my
affections, and I think I am entitled to
a say in the matt< r,”
Ellen Did her hand on Ruth’s shoul
der. “My dear,” she said, “ don’t be
silly. You certainly will marry Mr.
Caleb Walker. He is a gentleman of
immense wealth, and will make you an
excellent hnsband. Besides, be is
fond of you, though you will not give
him a chance of making you sensible of
the fact. There is not a. girl in the
community but what would dance at
your chance. lam sure I would.”
“Then take him,” said Ru'h.
“ But I can’t take him,” replied El
len ; “he don’t want me. Besides, my
dear, everything is settled in your case;
even your wedding wardrobe is pur
chased.”
Ruth took her step-sister by the
hand. “Is this true ?” she asked
solemnly.
“ It is true ?” replied the other.
Mr. Mcllwain, was absent in the
country. Ruth, therefore, went to her
step-mother, who listened to her sup
plications with a countenance as im
movable as stone.
“ I am surprised at this nonsense,”
she cried. “ I expected to find you a
reasonable girl. Are you going mad ?
Do you really know what you are re
fusing? This is preposterous. There
is scarcely a young lady in the country
who would refuse Mr/Walker. What
are your objections to him, prav ?”
“ I don’t love him,” sobbed Ruth.
“ Well, who said yon did ?’ cried her
step-mother. “But you can do so; you
will have plenty of time, and he is a
kind man and will teach you to do so.”
“ I will b? committing a sin if I
marry him. I won’t marry a man that
I scarcely know and do not love,” said
Ruth.
“Yon may alter yonr opinion,” re
plied Mrs. Mcllwain. “Itis to your
father you must say that.”
“ Will you not appeal to him for me?”
sobbed Ruth.
“No,” replied her step-mother sternly,
as she went out of the room.
Several days elapsed without Rath
seeing either her father or Mr. Walker,
when one bright morning, as she was
reclining upon her bed, her father en
tered the chamber, and commanded her
to prepare herself instantly to marry
Caleb Walker.
“ All is prepared,” he said harshly ;
" get up instantly and dress yourself.
Let me bear no murmur,”
At that moment a couple of servants
entered the apartment, bearing a num
ber of boxes, whilst Mr. Mcllwain
placed a magnificent necklace of pearls
upon the dressing-Cftae.
“There,” said he, “is a present from
your future husband.”
Half stupefied, Ruth attempted to
remonstrate.
“ Don’t speak,” said her father;
“marry Caleb Walker or leave my
house.”
He turned on his heel as he spoke,
and quitted his daughter’s presence.
Ovcrwhelmed'winh grief and despair,
the unhappy girl could not maintain
the resolution she expected to command
in the moment of her need. Passively
submitting to the fate that had over
taken her, she was docile under the
hands of the waiting maids, who began
to array her for the bridal.
During the performancs of the cere
mony she appeared more dead than
alive, and it was likely when Walker
saluted her as his bride, that she started
as if from a dream. They proceeded
direct from the church to the house of
the bridegroom, where p splendid din
ner awaited them. Rnth desired to be
conducted to her chamber, and locking
herself in, left Caleb Walker to enter
tain the bridal party as best he could.
In vain did her step-mother and sister
solicit admission. She refnsed to suffer
them to come into her presence. Sud
den indisposition served as a pretext for
her leaving the company, and her hns
band had presence of mind enough to
put the best face upon the matter.
WheD the guests had departed, Caleb
Walker ascended the stairs with a slow
step and thoughtful mien, and tapped
at his wife’s door.
“ Let me iD,” he said in a low tone.
“ I have something say to you that
will not displease you.”
Ruth opened the door, but averted
her eyes. Her husband divined what
was parsing through liSr mind. Seating
himself near her, he spoke in the tore
of a man whose soul is penetrated with
sorrow.
“Do not make yourself unhappy,”
he said. “ Hear me patiently. If I
tell you that I repent having married
you, you will not perhaps believe me ;
yet it is true. I was made to believe
by your father and step-mother, that
your affections were disengaged, and
that yon had no aversion to me—that
you would dispense witth those atten
tion? customary from a lover to his
betiothod, but which the difference of
our ages, and my consciousness that
nature had dealt hardly with me, ren
dered me averse from, offering. Too
late I have discovered the cruel decep
tion your father has practiced upon me.
Still it is in my power to render v”-*
fate less wretched than you o-*icipate.
Bear the name of my wife, command in
my house, dispose of me and my for
tune as you please. Before Heaven, I
promise you solemnly to live with you
only as a brother, until you can receive
me Husband of your choice.”
He oeased speaking, and Rat gazing at
her, awaiting her reply. The force of
truth is always irresistible. Ruth
dried her tears, and extended her hand
to him.
“ I accept your offer,” she said,
“ and thank you for your generosity : I
will try and repay yyur kindness. You
have a daughter, that child shall be my
care. But from this hour I will see my
father’s face no more. I forgive him
the wrong he has done me, but I can
never willingly behold his face. As to
my step-mother and her daughter, as
your wife, I forbid their presence for an
instsnt under this roof.”
“Your wishes shall be the law of my
house,” returned her husband ; “fear
not, you shall be implicitly obeyed.
Good-night,” and without* shaking
hands with her, or even looking at her,
Caleb Walker left his young wife alone,
and descended the stairs.
The following day she met him with
a cheerful countenance; and a few days
later his daughter, an interesting child
about four years old, was brought
home. Rutli was naturally a very af
fectionate woman. Estranged from her
nearest connections by tho base decep
tion they had practic and upon her, she
needed an object upon which to lavish
her tenderness, and soon found it in
little Effie, who became passionately
fond of her.
Time flew by, and Caleb Walker kept
his word strictly with his beautiful
wife. He did more ; he was incessant
in his endeavors to render her happy.
Two years passed away, with scarcely
any change in his domestic relations,
except perhaps that Ruth was more
confidential with him, and at ttmes
evinced more- tenderness towards him
than she had hitherto done. Effie was
her darling, and she appeared to love
the child with so strong and passionate
an attachment, that Mr. Walker often
marveled at it.
One day, early in spring, Caleb Wal
ker informed Rnth that he had taken a
country house for the summer. This
was welcome news to Ruth, and she be
gan to prepare for their removal. Three
weeks later, they were comfortably in
stalled in their country residence. It
was a moderately-sized farm house, hav
ing an abundance of shade trees and
fruit surrounding it, and Ruth began to
busy herself amoDg the plants and flow
ers as soon as the weather permitted.
The place was near enough to the city
to allow Caleb Walker to make daily
visits thereto, if he "had occasion to do
so.
It was in the month of July, the
weather was intensely warm, when one
morning Caleb Walker set out, for the
city, to be absent all day. Late in the
afternoon Ruth took Effie by the hand
and wandered into the adjacent wood to
seek for some roots she desired. So in
tent was she upon the object of her
st arch, that she did not observe the
heavens growing overcast until the storm
was nearly upon them. Then it was
that she, catchiug the child by the hand,
hurried onward, hoping to reach the
house before the rain fell.
She was yet a half-mile distant when
the storm burst upon them with all its
fury, and the raiD, descending in tor
rents, drenched her and the child to the
skin. She had passed beyond all shel
ter, and could find no place nearer than
her home where she could gain a refuge.
It therefore became a matter of sheer
necessity to go forward. When she ar
rived at her house, as might have been
expected, she was in a very exhausted
condition ; but Effie did not seem to be
much the worse for the accident, ?ave
her wet clothing. The first thing Mrs.
Walker did was to attend to the cMld,
and it was not until her step-daughter
had her clothing changed, that Ruth
pulled off her drenched garments.
The following morning Ruth was so
ill that she could not leave her bed, and
her husband immediately summoned a
physician. Two or three days more
and Ruth lay prostrate in bed with ty
phoid fever.
Days and nights Caleb Walker sat by
the bedside of his wife, who lay uncon
scious, her mind wandering, aDd a rag
iDg fever racking her frame. He would
not be satisfied with the attentions of
her nurses, but watched every move
ment she made. For a loDg time it wrs
doubtful whether she would recover.
But at last the disease took a favorable
turn, and she gradually begnn to mend.
But what a wreck she presented, when
contrasted with her former self 1 Her
first inquiries were for Effie, and when
the child was brought to her she hugged
her passionately to her emaciated form.
Daring the progress of her recovery,
she was one day lying on a conch be
side her hnsband, who bad been read
ing to amnse her. Effie was seat and near
and prattling a great deal. Mr. Walker
laid down his book and gazed at his
wife. Effie began to talk again,
“Mamma,” she said, “you love me
very much, don’t yon?”
“Certainly,”replied Ruth; “ why do
yon ask ?”
“ I don’t Know,” answered the child,
“ except that it makes me very happy
to know that you love me so dearly.”
Ruth pressed the little one nearer to
her heart,
“You love me better than any one in
the world ? ’ continued the child.
Ruth did not reply ; the color faded
and came to her cheeks as she looked
inquiringly into the child’s face.
“Is it not so, mamma?” continued
Effie. “ You love me better than you
do papa, don’t you ?” and she took her
step-mother’s hand and looked into her
eyes,
Caleb Walker sat] by breathless and
motionless.
Ruth hesitated for a moment only,
and then she answered in a low but dis
tinct tone—
“No, Effie, I do not.”
The next instant Caleb was on’ his
knees beside his wife.
“ My own, my darling !” he exclaim
ed, “ now I feei that you are mine own
indeed ;” and he fervently kissed her
pale brow.”
And so, in truth she was. Hii cease
less tenderness and unwearied atten
tions had won her heart, unknown even
to herself. From that time forward a
new joy entered the hearts of Ruth and
her husband.
Cause of the Mississippi Overflow.
At a recent meeting of the Cliioago
Academy of Science, ex-Governor Bross
of that city read an elaborate paper on
the subject of the Mississippi inunda
tions, in which he argued that the over
flows which are now devastating so
large a portion of the finest cotton dis
tricts of Mississippi, Arkansas and Lou
isiana, and nearly all the choice sugar
region of the latter state, find their
explanation not in a larger volume of
water than usual poured into the lower
Mississippi from its tributaries, but in
the fact that the bed of the river is
gradually rising, thus lifting up its wa
ters to a higher level, and causing them
to flow over the banks and levees which
once confined them. In support of this
view he declared that he had conversed
with many intelligent and observant
boatmen in St. Louis, who confidently
averred that the bed of the river is
gradually rising from the deposit of sed
iment, just as the river Po, in Italy,
whose overflows are more frequent and
destructive than formerly, is lifting its
bed from the same cause. This view of
a very interesting subject is strength
ened by circuniHton/p nt,t,end*vs' r ®*
- u*rnow, It is n noteworthy fact
that this recent overflow was not caused
nor accompanied by an unusual rise
either in the Missonri or upper Mis
sissippi ; the floods came into the lower
river at and below Cairo, chiefly
from the Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee,
White, Arkansas and Red rivers ; and
the flood in the Ohio lacked several feet
of being as high as former years have
witnessed. Had the great streams above
Cairo, the Missonri and its tributaries,
and the upper Mississippi, with its af
fluents, participated in the rise, the
lower river would have been raised sev
eral feet higher than it was—a height
that would have carried it probably,
over nearly all the levees, and caused
the inundation of all the lowlands bor
dering on it. That so great and de
structive an overflow as that which took
place should come from the compara
tively limited volumes of water poured
into the river at aud below Cairo, seems
to suggest a decreased capacity of the
river channel to contain its waters, ow
ing to the elevation of the bed. If this
theory be correct, some very interesting
questions present themselves : How
long is the process to go on ? If the
levees on its bank are to be built higher
as its bed is raised, to secure tho coun
try from inundation, there will come a
time when the mighty river will flow to
the sea like an aqueduct, through chan
nels li ted up above the plain. But
there is a limit 1o tho work of raising
the levees ; the higher they are built
the weaker they become, and in a great
flood, in which all the upper rivers shall
participate, the levees would be carried
away, and the released water would
submerge the lo v regions in a far more
destructive deluge than any wo have
yet witLesse 1.
The English Sparrow Indicted.
It has become the fashion of late to
coddle the English sparrow and en
courage its propagation because of its
supposed value as an insect destroyer.
A writer in the Canada Farmer, how
ever, brings a list of terrible indictments
against the russet-clad 1 ittle biped, which,
if true, will make ns rue the day it was
imported from England. Everybody
who knows the history of the tribe, he
says, knows them to be most audacious
thieves and robbers, and I have yet to
learn that they have one redeeming
trait in their character. These active
and unsparing thieves commence their
depredations with the gardener, in the
spring by stealing the seed from tho
beds, aud ripping them up as they be
gin to sprout. Owing to this, peas have
sometimes to be sown two or three times
over. As soon as the currant and goose
berry bushes begin to blossom, the spar
row may be seen actively engaged, not
destroying insects, ns some innocent
people believe, but enjoying the luxury
of fruit in embryo, and destroying as
much in one meal as would produce a
quart or two when ripe. Green peas
are a great treat to them, and they claim
most of the early crop. Not contented
with a fair share, they seem to take a
malicious pleasure in destroying about
ten times the quantity they eat. The
farmer has a still more serious charge.
He has to employ boys to prevent them
from stealing the seed grain when scat
tered in the land, and as soon as grain
is formed in the ear, acare-crows have
to be placed in the lields. boys again
brought into requisition, with rattles,
to keep them off the standing crops, and
in spite of all precautionary measures,
they can not be prevented from doing
an immense deal of harm, as a small
flock will soon destroy an acre of wheat,
or any other grain.
Large Tunnels.
The largest tunnels in the world have
been constructed in Germany, and most
of them for mining. The great tunnel
of Freiberg is 24 miles long ; the Ernst-
August, 134 miles ; the Georg at Claus
thal, lOf miles ; the one at Shemnitz,
9} miles ; and the MontCenis, miles.
These are the principal works of the
kind in Europe.
In the United States there is the
Hoosac tunne , in Massachusetts, meas
uring 5 miles in length ; the Sutro, in
Nevada, 4 miles; the Sierra Madre,
which is to be 12 miles; and the San
Carlos and Union Pacific tunnels, which
are under 24 miles in length.
Bat all tunnels sink into insignificance
compared with that which it is proposed
to run under the Straits of Dover. In
vestigations into the nature of the strata
of rock lying between the Continent of
Europe and the coast of England reveal
the fact that a deposit of clay extends
from the mouth of the Thames to Dun
kirk, on the northeast point of France.
This clay is from 500 to 400 feet thick,
and is both impermeable and homoge
neous. It therefore points out the line
of its course as the most feasible route
for the proposed tunnel. The distance,
however, is about 80 miles between the
two termini.
The Worcester Presß speaks of a con
temporary who hires a small boy to
comein at intervals with a step-ladder
and dust off the tops of his ears.
CIYIL RIGHTS.
Full Tell of Ihe Senate Supplemental
Bill.
The civil rights bill, as it passed the
senate, reads as follows ;
Section 1. That All citizens and other
persons within the jurisdiction of the
United States shall be entitled to the
full and etjual enjoyment of the accom
modations, advantages, facilities and
privileges of inns, public donvevances
on land or water, theaters and other
places of amusement, and also of com
mon schools and public institntions of
learning cr benevolence supported in
whole or part by general taxation, and
of cemeteries so supplied, and also in
stitutions known as industrial colleges
endowed by the United States, subject
to the conditions and limitations estab
lished by law and applicable alike to
citizens of every race and color, regard
less of any previous condition of servi
tude.
Sec. 2. That any person who shall vi
olate the foregoing section by denying
to any person entitled to its benefits,
except for reasons by law applicable to
cit'zsns of every race and color and re
gardless of any previous condition of
servitude, the full enjoyment of any
accommodations, advantages, facilities
or privileges in said section enumera
ted, or inciting such denial, shall, for
every such offense, forfeit ard pay the
sum of five hundred dollars to the per
son aggrieved thereby, to be recovered
in action on the case, with full costs,
and shall also be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined not less than one
thousand dollars,or shall be imprisoned
not more than one year; provided, that
the party so aggrieved shall not recover
more than one penalty ; and if the of
fense is a refusal of burial, the penalty
may be recovered by the heirs at Iqw
of the person whose body has been re
fused burial; and provided further,
that all persons may elect to sue for the
penalty aforesaid, or to proceed under
their rights at common law and the
state statutes, and having so elected to
proceed in the one mode or the other,
their right to proceed in the other ju
risdiction shall be barred ; but this pro
viso shall not apply to criminal
ceedings either under this act o r the
criminal law of the state.
Sec. 3. That the district and circuit
courts of the United States shall have,
exclusively of the courts of the several
states, cognizance of all crimes aud of
fences against and violations of the pro
visions of this,-*’ an,f acholls P en '
altv pte— I, J the preceding section may
x.o prosecuted in the territorial, district
or circuit courts of the United States,
wherever the defendant may be found,
without regard to the other party, and
district attorneys, and marshals and
deputy marshals of the United States
and commissioners appointed by the
circuit and territorial courts of the Uir
ted States with powers of arresting and
imprisonment and bailing offenders
against the laws of the United States,
are hereby specially authorized and re
quired to institute proceedings against
every person who shall violate the pro
visions of this act and cause him to be
arrested and imprisoned or bailed as
the case may be, for trial before such
court of the United States or territorial
court as by law has cognizance of the
offense, except in respect of the right of
action accruing to the person aggrieved;
and such district attorneys shall cause
such proceedings to be prosecuted to
their termination us in other cases; pro
vided that nothing contained in this
section shall be construed to deny or
defeat the civil action accruing to any
person by reason of this act or otherwise.
Sec. 4. That no citizen, providing he
meet all the other qualifications which !
are or may be prescribed by law, shall ;
be disqualified for grand or petit juror
in any court of the United Slates or !
of a state, on account of race, color,
or previous condition of gervitude, and
any officer or other person, charged with
any duty in the Feleclion ot summoning
of jurors, who shall exclude or fail to
summon any citizen for the cause afore
said, shall be deemed guilty of a mis
demeanor, and fined not more than one
thousand dollars.
Sec. 5. That all cases arising under
the provisions of this act in the courts
of the United States, shall be review
able by the supreme court of the United
States," without regard to the sum in
controversy, under the same provisions
and regulations as are now provided by
law for the review of other causes in
said court.
The following is the vote by which
the bill finally passed :
Yeas Alcorn, Allison, Boutwell,
Buckingham, Conkling, Edwards, Flan
igan, Frelinghuysen, Hamlin, Harvey,
Howe, Ingalls,"Mitchell, Morrill, of
Vermont, Oglesby. Patterson, Pease,
Pratt, Ramsey, Robinson, Sargent,
Scott, Spenc r, S ewart, Wadleigh,
Washburn, West, Windom, and Wright
—29.
Nays—Bogy, Boreman, Carpenter,
Cooper, Davis, Hager, Hamilton, of
Md., Johnston, Kelley, Lewis, Mc-
Crcery, Merrimon, Norwood, Ransom,
Saulsbury and Stockton —16.
Messrs. Morton, Cameron, Hitchcock,
Chandler, Ferry, of Michigan, Sherman
and Logan, who would have voted for
the bill, were paired with Messrs.
Stevenson, Thurman, Tipton, Bayard,
Dennis, Goldthwaite and Gordon, who
would have voted against it.
The Carob Tree.
In the countries surrounding the Med
iterranean sea, there grows a species of
the Seguminosie, or Pea family, which
is remarkable for its fertility and value.
It is called the Carob tree, and also St.
John’s bread, from the ancient tradition
that its fruit was meant by the “locusts”
on which John the Baptist fed in the
wilderness. The Carob ( Ceratonia &il
iqua) is near of kin to our locust tree,
both belonging to the same natural or
der. In size and manner of growth, it
resembles the apple tree, but its leaves
aro pinnate and evergreen. Its fruit is
a brown, leathery pod, 4—B inches long,
containing a numbi-r of shining brown
seeds, imbedded in a sweet, mealy, nu
tritious pulp. The seeds are bitter and
worthless, but the pulp forms an im
portant article of diet among the poorer
classes of the countries where the tree
grows. The Moors and Arabs make
great use of it. By the latter it is man
ufactured into a preserve like tamarinds.
In Spain, and other countries in tb“
south of Europe, the pods are held in
hieh esteem as food for horses. They
have been extensively imported into
Great Britain as a substitute for oil
cake. It is said that they have an im
proving effect upon the human voice,
and that singers often make use of them
to purify and sweeten their tones. The
trees are wonderfully productive, single
specimens yielding sometimes from 800
to 900 pods. The Carob is too tender
for the climate of Britain, but an effort
has been made to introduce it into the
United States, and its culture in the
north of India has been urged as a safe
guard against famine. It is supposed
that the “ husks” referred to in the par
able of the prodigal son were the pods
of the Carob tree.
Obedience in Children.
Unquestioning obedience we must
demand from the child for her own
safety. It may often be a question of
life and death whether the little girl
runs when she is called, or throws
away something which she has in her
hand instead of patting it into her
mouth. Bat has not this habit of obe
dience a higher office than this ? It is
the first yielding of the untrained will
to rightful aqthority, and as such has
an immense significance. The mother
who cannot train her daughters and
sons to obedience were better ch id ess,
for she is but giving to her country ele
ments of weakness, not element*, of
strength. She is furnishing future in
mates for jails, penitentiaries, and pris
ons, and putting aims into the hands of
the enemies of law and order. —.Uiss
A. C. Brackett.
POSTAGE BT THE POI ND.
Holt' KeWipapcrs Will be Affected by
the (AfrpflMd Change.
The subject of newspaper postage
and the practical inconveniences of the
present system, have lately been under
discussion with the postal committee of
the house, who have decided to report
in favor of a radical chaDge in the pres
ent mode of mailing and stamping. As
tho matter stands at present, newsp iper
postage can either be paid at the office
of reception or delivery, and in this
way two systems are really at work,
which necessarily complicates busii ess,
and causes a loss of both time and
money, Under the present system, if a
paper is prepaid by the publisl ers,
a receipt is obtained, and thereafter the
papers will pass threugh the mail with
out further trouble ; but in case it is
not prepaid, then postage must be col
lected at the ofice of delivery, either
quarterly in advance, or else at the reg
ular rate as each paper is delivered by
the carrie*.
It is now proposed to abolish this
plan and charge entirely by weight, at
the rate of two cents a pound. Such
an arrangement, it Is said, will be no
additional expense to the newspaj>er
publishers, while it will secure to the
government its entire revenue.
Outside of the large cities, not more
than one-third of the newspaper post
age is ever collected, owing to the man
ner in which country postmasters com
bine private business with their dut e
to the government. Thus, a oountry
postmaster generally keev? a smill
store, and if a goodc r, 7* um ® r i* iu receipt
of a newspap*"'’ will not often press
his cla{~. ro . r postage at the possible
injuring his other business. In
..uis manuer, the government suffers
great loss that cannot be well remedied.
Under the system proposed, the rate of
two cents per pound is so low that pub
lishers will not be taxed any more than
at present, and the trouble of stamping
and prepaying will be obviated. Tb e
bundle of papers, or in fact any printed
matter when delivered at the post-office,
will be weighed, and the amount
charged against the paper, which w:ll
be collected quarterly as heretofore.
The fact of a paper then being in the
mail will be the best evidence that it is
paid for, and it will be delivered in ai y
part of the United States without fur
ther charge or trouble. Or if a news
paper does not wish to have an account
kept, a book of stamps may be retained,
of which an amount equal to the weight
of mail matter delivered can be canoe 1-
led by the clerk receiving the bundles.
Lord Chesterfield on Prohibition.
The following is an extract from s
speech made in the house of lords by
Lord Chesterfield, about the year 1749:
Luxury, my lords, is to be taxed, but
vice prohibited, let the difficulty in the
law be what it will. Would you lay a
tax on a breach of the ten command
ments? Would not such a tax be
wicked and scandalous? Would it not
imply an indulgence to all those w 10
could pay the tax ? Vice, my lords, is
not properly to be taxed, but sup
pressed; and heavy taxes are sometimes
the only means by which that suppres
sion can be obtained. Luxury, or that
which is only pernicious by its exce.ss,
though not strictly unlawful, may be
made more difficult. But the use of
those things which are simply hurtful
in their own nature and in every tie- j
gree, is to be prohibited. None, uy
lords, ever heard, in any nation, of a
tax upon theft or adultery, because a
tax implies a license granted for the use
of that which is taxed, to all that sre
willing to pay for it. Drunkenness, nay
lords, is universally, and in all circum
stances, an evil, and therefore ought not
to be taxed, but punished. The noble
lord has been pleased kindly to inform
us that the trade of distilling is very
extensive, that it employs great num
bers, and that they have arrived at ex
quisite skill; and therefore the trade
of distilling is not to be discouraged !
Once more, my lords, allow me to won
der at the different conceptions of dif
ferent understanding#. It appears to
me that, since the spirit which the dis
tillers produce is allowed to enfeeble
the limbs, vitiate the bl od, pervert the
heart, and obscure the intellect, the
number of distillers should be no argu
ment in their favor ; for I never heard
that a law against theft was repealed nr
delayed because thieves were numerous.
It appears to me, my lords, that really
if so formidable a body are confederate
against the virtue or the lives of tin ir
fellow-citizens, it is time to put an end
to the havoc, aud to interpose, whilst it
is yet in our power to stop the destruc
tion. So little, my lords, am I affect jd
with the merit of that wonderful skill
which distillers are said to have attain! and,
that it is, in my opinion, no faculty of
great use to mankind to prepare pala* a
ble poison ; nor shall I ever contribute
my interest for the reprieve of a mur
derer because he has, by long practice,
obtained great dexterity in his trade. If
their liquors are so delicious that peo
ple are tempted to their own destruc
tion, let us at least, my lords, secure
them from their fatal draught, by bunt
ing the vials that contain them. Let us
crush at once theee artists in human
slaughter, who have reconciled their
oountrymen to sickness and ruin, ard
spread over the pitfalls of debaucheiy
such a bait as cannot be resisted.
Our Native Wine Production.
The annual production of native wines,
in round numbers, is estimated at 29,-
000,000 gallons. The different statis
show the following:
California 5,000.000 Maryland. 25,000
Ohio 3,500,000 8. Carolina 25,010
New York ... .3,000.000 Alabama 20,000
Missouri 2,500.000 Connecticut 20.000
Illinois 2.500,000 Mississippi 15,( 00
Pennsylvania.2.ooo,ooo Tennessee 15,C00
lowa 400.000 Arkansas 15,(00
Kentucky 300,000 Georgia 15,(00
Kansas 200.000 Louisiana 10,(00
Indiana 150.000 Delaware 5,(00
N. Carolina... 40.000 Dis. Columbia... 5,(00
Michigan 40.000 Massachusetts... 5.(00
West Virginia. 35.000 Nebraska 5,(00
Virginia 30.000 Oregon 5,(00
Texas 30.000 Wash. Territory. 5,(00
New Mexico.. 30.000 Other States and
New Jersey... 25 000 Territories 5,t00
Wisconsin 25.000
The market value of these wines is
estimated at $14,000,000. When it is
considered that the above Jesuits have
been obtained within the short peri ad
of ten years, it may safely be anticipa
ted that tho production of wine will,
within some years, become an impor
tant element of national wealth.
Cub an planters who have been driven
from the island by the existing troubles
are emigrating to Southern Texas,
where the country between the Sabine
river and the Rio Grande has been
found to be well suited for the culture
of the sngar-cane. It is probable that
in time Texas may become a large p *o
duoer of sugar, as there is an extens ve
tract of oountry adapted to the grow th
of the cane. The present annual pro
duction is from 12,900 to 15,000 hojjs
heads. _
No earnest thinker is a plagiarist
pure and simple. He will never bomw
from others that which lie has not al
ready, more or less, thought out lor
hioaeelf. —Charles Kingsley.
VOL. 15—NO. 23.
SAYINGS A Nil DOINGS.
Youth iB gcnins.— Disraeli.
Public opinion iB a second conscience.
Alger.
The two colors which are indiscerna
ble are invisible green and blindman’a
bnff. /isj
There is one town in Connecticut
that is not afraid of the measles. It’s
Hadd&m.
Husbands and wives in Illinois, under
the new law, may bring civil suits
against each other.
The subject of cream-ation, says the
Graphic, might with propriety be dis
cussed during the berrying season.
Colorado prefers cross-eyed women,
as they have better facilities for per
ceiving the approach of Indians.
"If the wicked flourish and then suf
fer, be not discouraged. They are fat
ted for destruction ; thou art dieted for
heal ih. — Fuller.
Thomas Thumb and wife have set out
on their annual farewell tour around
the country, and will wind up the show
business in about twenty years more.
Women are fast becoming familiar
with politics. We have heard of a wo
man who believes so thoroughly in in
flation that she blows her husband up
three times a day.
Getting up in the night to give the
baby a dose of soothing syrup is not
what one cares about, but it’s hitting a
fellow’s nose on the half-open door that
corrugates his feelings.
The Mobile Register asks: “Whv
should not the federal government build
and keep up the levees on the Missis
sippi river, as well as build breakwaters
on the Atlantic ocean ?”
A darkey gives the following reason
why the c lored race is superior to the
white : All men are made of clay, and,
like the meerschaum pipe, they are
more valuable when highly colored.
A small Aberdeen child, being asked
by her Sunday school teacher, What
did the Israelites do after they crossed
the Red sea ? answered, I do not know,
ma’am ; but perhaps they dried them
selves.
The Rev. Adirondack Murray says he
doesn’t believe in horse-racing, but if
any fellow comes dashing up behind
with the expectation of passing him on
the road, he will find himself most
—nably mistaken.
She lives in Douglas county, Oregon;
has been mameii eight times, has eight
living husbands, and resides with none
of them. Her daughter, aged twenty
three, with energetic emulation, has dis
posed of three husbands.
Dawn.—
There i* a solemn stillness in the air:
The moon attended by a single star
Shines high in placid ether: eastward far
Along the horizon's edge, there is a glare
Of orange brilliance, aud above it fair
And paly blue the sky, without a bir
Of streaky cloud the' pure expanse to mar,
Is tinctured with the coming splendor. There!
The fulgent head springs, and a million rays
Dazzle ; my study-room is charmed with light,
A golden picture of its window plays
On the green book-case, and a shadowy wight
Behind me sits, and. as I turn my gaze.
Mocks all my motions like an elfish sprite.
Charles Augustus, who was married
to the daughter of very honest but
som*what impecunious parents just
after ihe panic, says he did not find it
half hard to get married as he did to
get th>:furniture.
A Boon millionaire offered a man
two dolfrs and a half the other day for
stoppiuj a runaway team aDd saving
the life A bin dauahter. He can’t hope
to bes miTionaire long it y-- |g nst
to sqiandn his money in that
Amelina Patti, the fair Marquis of
Cam, is said to be growing enormously
fat. Several cabinet councils have been
held at St. Petersburg about it, and the
czar offers a liberal reward for the dis
covery of any means to thin her out.
To arrive at perfection, a man should
have very sincere friends or inveterate
enemies ; because he would be made
sensible of his good or ill conduct,
either by the een ures of the one or
the admonitions of the other. — Dio
genes.
A St. Louis lawyer asked a witness in
court, •' Did you ever know Mr. Suther
land to go back on a bargain ?” The
opposing counsel objected to the ques
tion on the ground that it was not gram
matical, and the judge sustained the
objection.
An engineer on the Western North
Carolina railroad shouted to a crowd of
rustics, who had gathered to see the
first train of cars come in, “ Put down
your umbrellas! yoa’ll scare the engine
off the track !” The umbrellas were
lowered at once.
If you suppress the exorbitant love
of pleasure and money, idle curiosity,
iniqnituons pursuits and wanton mirth,
what a stillness there weuld be in the
great cities ! The necessaries of life
do not occasion at most a third part of
the hurry. —Bruy ere.
Writers of every age have endeav
ored to show that pleasure is in us and
not in the object offered for our amuse
ment. If the soul be happily disposed,
everything becomes capable of afford
ing entertainment, and distress will al
most want a name.— Goldsmith.
A RETtßixa Virginia editor says : “ I
have never been horse-whip ped, revol
vered, knifed, kicsed, licked, bricked,
pummeled or cussed for any thing I have
said, written or done or left undone as
an editor, and in ceasing to be one I am
filled with a melancholy sadness.”
A Missouri clergyman stopped his
discourse to cut off a liberal piece of
plug tobacco for his mouth, and when
one of his hearers reproved him, the
preacher started for Kansas, where the
folks aren’t so particular, and where
pine tobacco and patriotism go hand in
hand.
Confirmed old toper "soliloquizes :
“ They say whisky is a curse. And
they sav brandy is a curse. And they
tay tobacco is another curse. Well, I
wish all those curses would come home
to roost, and roost low, at that, so as I
could pull ’em down whenever I want
ed ’em.”
Miss Lester, of Baltimore, has sent
to Tennyson a wild daisy picked from
Poe’s grave. The package was tied
with a white satin ribbon, upon which
was written, “ The only blossom from
the nameless and neplected grave of
Edgar Allen Poe, 1874.” It was the
only flower to be found on or near the
desolate place.
Donald Cameron, an early teacher in
Indiana, died at Madison recently. Ha
was teaching at the time war was de
clared against Mexioo, and was informed
of it by one of the scholars. He aroe
and said: “Boys, there was never a
war in which there was not a Cameron,
and I am determined this shall be no
exception, school is dismissed until
Mexioo is conquered.” Patting on his
i hat, he left the house, enlisted, and
served under Colonel James H. Lane to
the close of the war.
The French census of 1872 shows a
loss of population since 1866 of nearly
2,000,000 souls. The cession of Alsace
and Lorraine accounts for the greater
part of this loss; but after this deduc
tion is made it remains true that France
has lost in six years nearly 400,000 in
habitants. This loss is net due to the
destruction of life by war, for it has
fallen upon women more heavily than
upon men. The new census points to
the conclusion that the population of
France is decreasing because of the in
frequency of births. Whether the re
moter causes that lead to this infre
qnency of births can be reached and
overcome remains to be seen.