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W.’a*. niH“(HALK,}* di<o " I—P^tor*. NEWS OF THE WEEK, EAST. A billiard match for 82,000 and the championship of the United States will be played in New York the last week of Decem ber. The reign of lawlessness in' the coal regions of Pennsylvania appears to be con tinually growing worse, caused perhaps by the fact that most of the perpetrators of the assaults and murders escape capture and pnn i shment. The creditors of Neil McCallum, leather merchant, of New York, who failed for 8280,000, have accepted thirty cents on the dollar. McCullum’s books show losses of over one hundred thousand dollars the past year, owing to the failure of shoe dealers in various parts of the country. The number of deaths in New York city from diptheria and membraneous croup during the last six weeks aggregates 333, of which 67 occurred within the week closing November 7, 54 of these being from diptheria and 13 from the kindred malady—croup. In its nature the disease is clearly epidemic, and large proportion of the cases, if not the ma jority, are due to unfavorable sanitary con ations. About one thousand families of the Mennonite sect are arriving, this fall, in Kan sas, where 150,(XX) acres of land have been taken up and paid for in cash for the site of the colony. They are all farmers who have yet made their appearance, although under the law of the sect every man is also master of a trade. They carry on most of their man ufactures and probably will not add much to the custom of the local trade. WEST. Gleason k Fell, dry goods merchants of San Francisco, have failed for $200,000. The strike by the coal miners of St, Clair county, Illinois, has terminated in their defeat. An auction sale of the Lick property, at San Francisco, donatod to pnblie uses, took placejreceutly, and aggregated nearly $2,000,- 000. The United States’ detectives have discovered—as they always do, too late—that the western states have been flooded with Bkillful counterfeits of national bank notes. The Illinois state Christian association is in session at Chicago. One of the main objects sought by this association is the over throw of secret societies, and a number of prominent opponents of Freo Masonry, and other secret organizations, are in attendance. A communication having been re ceived from the Cheyenne agency, in Dakota, to the effect that about sixty white men, min ers, are working in the Sioux reservation in the Black hills, Secretary Delano requests the war department to remove all such persons who may be found trespassing, that trouble with the Indiaus’mav be avoided. The census of the Indians belonging to the Red Cloud agency shows 9,3300ga11a11a Sioux and 3,000 Arapahoes and Cheyennes, besides some 900 Ogallallas, who are hunting on the Republican livtgr, and about 1,000 Meu necorjar and other northern Sioux, who ran away from the agency rather than be counted. All these Indians submitted to the census be ing taken only under the influence of hung* r aid bayonets. tßed’Cloud’s efforts to secure the census have had the effect of reducing the number of his personal adherents, from m iny thousands to barely 500. A dispatch from McClellan creek states the 200 Cheyennes, who recently en gaged Captain ,Farnsworth’s command of 25 men and were defeated, recently encountered 93 men of the United States cavalry and in fantry, in command of Lieut Frank D. Bald win, chief of scouts. After a fight, lasting some hours, they were driven from the field. The Indians lost their entire outfit and left be hind them two little white girls named Ger man, whose parents, brothor and older sister were massacred in Kansas, while the family were moving to Colorado. Two other sisters, aged thirteen and fifteen, aro still in the hands of the Indians. Fresh and picked troops have gone in pursuit of the retreating Indians, who are moving for the staked plains. SOUTH. Small-pox is epidemic at Brownsville, Texas. The yellow fever has disappeared ] from Pensacola. John Morrissey is going to establish a high-toned gambling hell at Jacksonville, Florida. A generat reduction of wages has taken place on the Bt. Louis and Southeastern railroad. Hon. A. H. Stephens is said to be in better health than for ten years, and weighs eighty pounds. Thos. Wagoner was shot and mortally wounded by another farmer named Cables, at Ilearfield point, Arkansas, last Saturday, dur ing a quarrel about some steel traps. A young lady by name of Bowling was killed by lightning at her residence in Greene county, Tenn., on Tuesday of last week. Other persons who were standing near her were not injured. The jury in the case of T. T. Brooks, president of the Merchants’ national bank of Petersburg, Va., rendered a verdict of guilty of embezzlement and false ontries. Sentence was reserved. Two droves of cattle, stolen by Mex ican thieves, were recently recaptured near Matamoras. The Mexican soldiers stationed along the Rio Grande say they have no or ders to interfere with cattle thieves. The Louisiana jockey club have ten dered the grand commandsi v of Louisiana a magnificent testimonial, to be awarded to the commandery showing the beat drill and dis play, at the coming conclave of the grand encampment of Knights Templar. Last year the Baitimare and Ohio railroad earned $14,047,090, its expenses be ing $9,416,650, leaving a clear profit of $5, 670,626. It has accumulate! a surplus fund of $32,144,160, being an excess over its entire mortgage indebtedness of $3,082,595. A proposition to fund the entire debt of the southern states has been made by a London syndicate, or company, known as the American bond funding and banking associa tion. Mr. J. J. Maokinnon, the representative of the association, is now traveling throngli the south, and lias opened negotiations with the governors of several states. The matter will be brought before the legisla! ures of these states at the sessions to be held this winter. In reference to the debt of Virginia, which amounts to about thirty million dollars, exclu sive of past-due and unpaid interost. and the one third alloted to \W Virginia as her fair share of the ante-beUlm indebtedness. Mr. Mackinnon has offered to fund in bonds' run ning ten years, and bearing four per cent, in terest in gold, or in bonds running twenty years, bearing five per cent interest in gold, the principal and interest to be paid only in London. The association prescribes, as one of the conditions of the contract it proposes to make with the state, that the money to pay the principal and interest of the new funded debt shall be derived from a fixed portion of the revenue, to be inviolably set apart for that purpose. Southern state bonds are said to be rising on account of this scheme of funding. A terrible storm occurred at Tuscum bia, Ala., on the night of the 23d, destroying one-third of the residences. Twelve persons were killed and many others injured. Mrs. William Winston, mother of the late ex-Gov. Winston, the wife and two children of Hon. J. B. Moore, senator from this district, and F. D. Hodgkins, Esq. editor of the Chronicle, with his wife and four children, were killed. The Catholic church, Deehler’s female insti tute, recently finished, many of the finest res idences.both of the flouring mills, and the THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS. most substantial brick dwellings in town were destroyed. Many poor families are without homes. A bridge on the Memphis and Charles ton railroad was destroyed, and the eastward bound train was precipitated into Spring creek. Fortunately, no one was killed. The engineer was badly burned. It will be several days be fore trains will ran through. The mayor appeals to Huntsville, Louisville, Nashville, Memphis, and adjoining towns in the follow ing terms: Nearly half our town is in ruins. Twelve persons have been killed and many wounded. A large number of families are entirely destitute. The tornado came from the southwest, passing northwest. Unless immediate aid can be extended to ns, much suffering will be the result. We appeal to the charity of a Christian public in behalf of the unfortunate. The regular lower coast packet Em pire, Capt. Jungfrau, sunk to her texaa about 4 o’clock on the morning of the 17th, at her landing at the foot of Conte street, Now Or leans. Capt. Jungfrau states the Empire had only a fair cargo; was not overloaded, and that the guards were well abovo the water. At the time of her sinking he was awakened by a great noise, and in the confusion caught one of his children and swam with it to the shore. He saw his wife standing on the deck with the babe in her arms. As the boat went down she clung to the wheelhouse of the Bradley Johnson, which stood alongside, but the violent shock wrenched from her grasp her child, who fell in the water and was drowned. Capt. Jungfrau cannot tell how many passengers are lost, as the books are in the safe in the clerk's room. He thinks there were about thirty-fivo lost, among them four of his children. The following are the names, as far as known, of the missing and those be lieved to bo lost by the Empire disaster: Henry Jackson, Robert Carpenter, William Green, engineer, Mr. Maddox, all from Belair plantation; Mr. and Mrs. Kemper and two children, Mrs. Joseph, Point Louisiana ; Mr. Mazelle, Union plantation; Rose St. John, stewardess; Charles Ward and John Williams, cook boys. FOREIGN. Toe Chinese government lias ordered a large quantity of breech-loading rifles. An Arabic paper says : A force of Egyptians has captured Darfour, Africa, and killed the sultan. The polar exploring expedition, to be fitted out by the British government, will con sist of two steamers. Capt. Markham, of the royal navy, will command one. The expedi tion starts next May. In view of the arctic expedition, to be fitted out by the British government, Lady Franklin renews the offer of a reward of £lO,- 000 for the Recovery of the official records of Sir John Franklin’s expedition. Disraeli baa written a letter to Henry Rawlinson, announcing that the government, inconsequence of the representation fo the Royal Geographical Bociety and other learned bodies, has determined to organize a poplar exploring expedition, The Italian parliament was opened by Victor Emanuel in person. His speech re lited mainly to the reorganization of the fi nancial system of (he country and measures for the public safety. The king was warmly cheered. The Russian government has is ued another circular note to the European powers requesting to be informed of the points of the protocol signed at the Brussel’s conference, which they desire to be revised, amended or omitted. It is also suggested that another international conference be held next year. The object of the recent journey of the English bishops to Rome is to obtain permission to pursue an independent course, if the British government should seek to re strict the liberty of action of the Catholic clergy. They will represent to the pope that they wish to respect the laws of England, and cannot blindly accept such regulations as are imposed on continental bishops. Advices from Spain state that Ser rano will go north next month and expedite operations against the Carlists. The govern ment has exiled two generals and several civilians, partizans of Prince Alphonzo, son of ex-Queen Isabella. All congratulatory tele grams sent to Isabella on the occasion of tbe anniversary of her birthday, wherein* she was styled “ your majesty,” were stopped. A strict censorship over all dispatehes is still main tained. MISCELLANEOUS. The general missionary commitee of the Methodist Episcopal church appropriated $303,853 for foreign missions, at their meet ing in New York last week. Admiral Almy reports that the United States' steamer Saranac remains at Lapaz, Mexico, to protect American citizens and in terests. Many robberies and murders are be ing committed and the authorities are taking steps to arrest the culprits. The commissioner of agricnltnro says the demand for semi-tropical fruits for ex periments in the southern states is very great. The Chinese tea plant is especially in de mand, and many thousand young plants have been distributed the paet year. The president has directed a telegram to the governor of Texas, requesting him to delay the execution of the death sentence to Satanta until it can be satisfactorily ascer tained whether or not he has violated his pa role, the president believing the weight of evidence thus far in Sat&nU’a favor. The Poitsvillj Workingman, ■which is the official organ of the mining unions in Pennsylvania, says it is not true that faction squabbles between Irish and Welsh miners are frequent in the anthracite coal fields of Penn sylvania, nor that the Welshmen are non union workers. It affirms, on the contrary, that wherever there are unions tho Welsh and the Irish miners are equally strong union men. The second national bank of Law rence, Kansas, having failed to meet the calls of the redemption agency of the treasury department to reimburse the treasury for its notes redeemed, and its deposit of 5 per cent, being exhausted, Treasurer Spinner gives notice that on and after this date notes of that bank will be rejected when presented for redemption at the national bank redemption agency. Commissioner Douglass, of the internal revenue, reports the receipts of the last fiscal year at $102,614,747, or $2,644,747 in excess of his estimates. The estimate of the current fiscal year is $107,000,000. The receipts from distilled spirits for the fiscal year of 1874 were $49,444,090, a net decrease of $2,665,281. The production of spirits during the year was 69,- 572.062 taxable gallons. The seizures amoun ted in value to $476,362. The production of tobacco the last fiscal year was 118,548,619 pounds, an increase over the preceding year of 2.107,684 pounds. The number of cigars and cheroots on which taxes were collected was 1,886,697,408, or 79.662,852 in excess of the previous year. Under a congressional joint resolution of 1869, five citizens were appninted to ex amine into the condition of the Union and Central Pacific railways, who reported that about two million dollars would be necessary to supply the’ deficiencies of both roads Secretary Cox at that time directed the com missioners of the general land office to with hold from them one-half of the land grant as security for the supply of the deficiencies of the road. The reports of the commissioners, who recently examined the roads, say the Union Pacino has since that period expended $2,215,000, and the Central Pacific expended $5,500,000, in excess of the sum first named. The deficiencies haviug been supplied and the roads considered as complete, reports were submitted by the secretary of the interior to the president, who, on the recommendation of the secretary, has directed a revocation of the order of Secretary Cox, withholding pat ents for half of the lands, which will there fore be released to those companies. A VAGRANT. EY JOSEPHIKE POLLARD. I caBDOt chsek ray thought theso days, When tnceLße lingers in the air, Bnt with unwearied wing it s rays, I know nol how or where I know Dot where ih© blossoms hide 1 That thro*' ih*ir lores across its flight; How stars can fling their gates to wide. To give mj thought delight. There is no door close barred and sealed Where cowers suffering or sin, But will to touch or whisper yield, And let this vagrant in. It bears no passport, no parole, But free, aid carries -as the Sir, My thought despises al! control, And wanders everywhere. Its warrant from the throne of thrones; Its duty to the king of kings ; Through heights, and depths, and circling zones, y soars on seraph wings. 1 What canst thou bring from yon fair height, What bring me from the deepening sea 7 What gather for thy own delight That is not wealth to me ? PER LINA’S LAST CHANCE. “This,” said Mrs. Oeffarlv, “this is the last time, Perlina Milkin. the very last iime. I’ve spent enough upon you since your ma died, and I took charge of you, to marry six girls who had their senses about them. I’ve dressed you like a Christmas doll, and I’ve sent yon to the most fashionable places to board in summer, and here yon are, feur-and twenty, and not so much as engaged. It’s perfectly disgusting, Perlina; and what I have to say is, if yon don’t set tle your affairs this summer, I’ll give you no more chances. I expect to die in the poor-house as it is. Why, I was married at seventeen, and your ma at eighteen, and your Aunt Delight, about the plainest little critter I ever saw, wasn’t but just sixteen. What’s the use of advantages—and vou have looks, Perliaa—if you don’t make use of ’em?” “ I’m sure I don’t knew what you expect me to do. I can’t very well propose to any one,” said Perlina, ready to cry. “I do everything I can, and they make love to me, I’m sure, and they say all sorts of things. If they don’t pop the question, how can I make them; there, now; I suppose you waited until Uncle Gafferlv asked yon to have him before you said you would.” “Your Uncle Gafferly would have committed suicide if I had refused him,” said Aunt Gafferly, “ You may not believe it now, but I was a beauty in my youtb. As for what you can do, you ought to know; but what I say is this : come home engaged, or I’ll stop all this useless extrava gance. I’ve crammed your trunk to the tune of five hundred dollars, and yon are going to Saratoga with the Kero sene New body’s; and if yon can’t do it now, I’ll give it up for a bad job.” With which speech she inflicted on her niece’s cheek that matter of course peck which female friends chose to call a kiss, and bade her good-bye. And despite her new warbrobe, her big Sara toga trunk, the prospective summer gavety, and the ohaperonage of Mrs. Kerosene Newbcdy, poor Perlina cried a good deal in the hired carriage which conveyed her to the boat. “ What was she to do ?” To marry might have been easy, but to marry money—and that was what she was expected to do—was a harder task. Aunt Gafferly was a good business woman, and would not be likely to •spend any more money upon an unsale able article ; and Perlina shivered at the prospect before her. if this Bum. mer's campaign should prove a failure. On the whole she looked so ill when she arrived at Saratoga, that her mirror told her that her best plan would be to retire early, and to take as much beauty sleep as possible, in view of any eligible gentleman that might put in an appear ance next day. Fresh as a rose, and dressed in her becoming morning dress, Perlina took her seat at the breakfast table next morning, and nestled close to Mrs. Kerosene Newbody in the most bewitch ing manner. The lady, an ample matron, with a loud voice greeted her affectionately, and at once introduced her to two gen tlemen who were her neighbors. “Mr. Kolt, Miss Milkin, Miss Milkin, Mr. Downhill. A.ll old friends of mine. Charmed to make you know each other,” and then devoted herself to breakfast, and left those who preferred it to wa te time on conversation. And so Miss Milkin, having the field to herself, made eves at both hernew acquaintances, and elirewedly noted amidst her infantile gigglings and dimplings that both were smitten. They were of the age for ar rows. Edmond Kolt was a youth of nineteen, and Hiram Downhill was at least sixty-five. Asa general thing men from twenty-five to thirty ditto absorb tbe attention of the ladies, and youths and old gentlemen are in the minority. Never before had Mr. Kolt had Bach bewitching attention offered him. And a9 for old Downhill, his memory brought back some* dove-like glances such as those Miss Milkin showered upon him, from the long-vanished years of his youth, but not many. To cut a loDg story short. Miss Milkin having discovered that Mr. Kolt was very rich and an orphan, and that Mr. Downhill was a very wealthy bachelor, at once set her cap for both gentlemen, resolving to accept the one who pro posed first. She loved neither. A girl with her views, who had made a rush into the matrimonial market with but one stipulation—that the man she married should have money—was scarcely likely to have a heart. A husband meant to her easy circumstances, freedom from her Aunt Gafferly’s incessant “nag ging,” liberty to flirt as much as she chose with ineligibles, who were often very interesting, and freedom from the dread of being an old maid. Mrs. Newbody, who was, on the whole, a good-natured woman, willing to see her friends well settled, furthered the . affair to the best of her ability. There were walks, rides, drives, chat ting in cosy corners, and at last a pro posal. It came from Mr. Kolt. Youth is hasty, age Blow. Mr. Downhill was jnst making up hifi mind to do it, when Mr. Kolt did it. And Miss Milkin said “ yes,” and would have fallen into his arms but that they were in full sight of an old lady who had j ast leveled her opera glass full at them from a window. “Yes.” Perlina had answered, and young Kolt had blushed rosy-red, and “hissoul,” like that of Gloroina, in the Wild Irish Girl, presumably went ‘ on a gig to heaven,” for the band was playing delightful dances for their edi fication ; and afterward, when they had had supper, Berlins locked herself into her room and wrote to her AuntGafierly. Her letter ended thus : So you see I’m engaged, and you can’t twit me any longer. I don’t suppose poor Kolt will ever set the river on fire, but he’s a good natured fellow, and I can just twist him about my finger. And remember you are bound to give me a handsome wedding-dress, and have always promised me poor ma’s pearls the day I married. Your affectionate niece, PERLINA. Mrs. Gafferly signified her approval by return of pest, and Perlina’s mind was at rest. It did not trouble her much that in less than a week a tele gram summoned him to the city. She could use the fast-fading days of free dom better than with an engaged lover at her side, and she certainly made 1 the most of them. She plunged into flirta tion in a way that f rigthened even Mrs. Kerosene Newbody, and was happier than she ever had been since her search for a husband commenced. As for poor Mr. Downhill, she quite snubbed him, now that she had no views con cerning him. Meanwhile the absent Kolt wrote love-letters, and she an swered them. “Never shall I forget my feelings when yon went out to ride with old CARTERS VTLLF-. GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1874. Downhill,” he said, in one of these. “I really thought for awhile that you liked him.” And to this she replied : “ How could you fancy that I should like a superannuated old; creature like that. I only took a little notice of him out of pity.” Poor Perlina ! Life is certainly very much check* red. One morning Mrs. Newbody opened a New York paper, and having glaDced down the column of marriages and deaths, gave a faint shriek, and looked at Perlina in a terri fied way. Perlina snatched the paper and saw this record; “Suddenly, on the —th, Edmund Kolt.” Eamond Kolt—there was no doubt of it. Mrs. Newbody looked at Perlina, expecting to see her faint. To her sur prise, the young iady, though very se rious, was quite calm. “ Poor fellow,” she said, “I’m very sorry. Do be quiet, dear Mrs. New body ! Don’t let’s have a soene. No one knows wo were engaged, and yon needn’t tell ’em. I don’t want my sea son spoiled.” Then she arose and went to her room, cried a little, bathed her face, used some pearl-powder on her nose, and went down stairs to charm Mr. Down hill by beaming upon him and asking him how he could be so dreadful and neglect her so. In a word, now that the old love was gone, she “ took on with the new,” and in a week Mr. Downhill had proposed, and was accepted. And the astonished Mrs. Gafferly received an account of the situation, which greatly surprised her. Old Mr. Downhill was rather more obstinate than even Mr. Kolt had been. He asserted his rights, and insisted upon the open wearing of the engage ment ring. There was no more flirtation for Miss Milkin, and every one knew what had occurred. She wore a diamond ring of great value on her finger, and was guarded by her old bean from morning until night. He even wrote her several notes in the intervals, between their parting at midnight and meeting at nine in the morning, and in one of them he referred to her flirtation with yonng Kolt. Miss Milkin was one of those unlucky victims to love of letter-writing, who can never resist putting things down in black and white. She wrote this sen tence in her reply: “You naughty, naughty goose. How could I care for a stripling like that! Poor fellow !he was very nice; but only a boy, you know. ” And when she had written that, she thought how much more managea ble the “ boy” was, and how much jol lier it was to run about with him than to sit in a corner with old Mr. Downhill, who was always afraid of catching cold, and who would not let her dance because he could not. Still he was rich and she was engaged at last, after all. One evening she walked the piazza with her betrothed, leaning on his arm in the most confiding manner. The evening train was in, and people were waiting for the stages to bring the new people up to the door. Someone was seen waving a white handkerchief—a young man with very red cheeks—and then someone called out, “Why, it’s Kolt, alive and well.” For there had been much lamentation over the poor fellow. And as he sprung out of the crowded vehicle, they rushed toward him to shake hands, and tell him that lo V>©en dcao. “Death in the papaw, you know, ol feliab,” said one exquisite. “ Weally vewv cuyons how death could be in the papaw when you wasn’t dead, you know.” “It was poor grandfather. I was named after him, you know. I never thought what people would think. I—” Then he turned pale, and hurried into the house, fearing that the awful news bad killed his poor Perlina. Miss Milkin was in the parlor. She had fled on his approach, and was really quite faint, and Mr. Downhill had gone for a glass 'of water. Every one else was out of doors, and the young fellow rushed toward her. “My dearest love !” he whispered, “ my darling ! you did not think I was dead ?” “Yes I did !” gasped Perlina. He bent over her and caught her bauds, and pressed them to his lips. “ Oh, I couldn’t die and leave you !” he said. “I—” But here a hand came down upon his shoulder, and a thin voice breathed in his er : “Young man. I’m very glad to see you restored as it were from the grave, but I can’t allow such liberties with the ladv who is going to marry me.” Mr. Downhill had returned with the glass of water. Perlina, not knowing what to do, had refuge in tears and silence. The gen tlemen grew furious, and finally walked away with each other, with “pistols for two and coffee for four” in their faces. But this is eighteen hundred and seven ty-four, and much is thought of docu mentary evidence. Iu a retired spot where they could not be overheard, tbe hapless Perlina’s letters were produced. Poor little Kolt read with the bitter agony of youth the woman’s denial of her love for, and engagement to him, written a week after his supposed death, and old Downhill gave a groan over an other bnried hope as he read the lines on which he was set down as a super annuated creature only taken notice of ont of pity. After this the two gentlemen shook hands. They had no quarrels with each other now. Neither of them want ed to marry Perlina Milkin. She re ceived two little notes that evening tell ing her so. That was last summer. This year Perlina did not go to Saratoga at all, and Mrs. Gafferly having dismissed her chambermaid, it is a matter of wonder to the neighbors who the person with a green barege veil on her head who rubs the windows can be. It is barely possi ble that this is Perlina. Mrs. Gafferly is a woman of her word, and she con siders her niece’s chance of matrimony quite over. The Growth of Commerce. According to a statistical authority, the eleven leading commercial nations of the globe —namely, Great Britain, the United States. France, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Russia, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Sweden—have nearly doubled their commerce in less than two decades. The total foreign commerce of these eleven countries, in 1855, was $4,241,700,000; in 1865 the total foreign oommeree of these coun tries was $9,276,000,000. This shows an increase of 118.5 per cent. The pop ulation in the same countries in 1855 was 271,443,000; in 1872 it was 311,620,- 000. Increase in seventeen years, 14.8 per cent. Foreign commerce per capita of population, 1855, $15.62; in 1874, $29.76. Increase per capita in seven teen years, $14.14, or 90 per cent. The same authority observes that, while these representative nations have been increasing in population faster than the average of the world, the growth of ac cumulation has exceeded it, but attrib utes this growth mainly to the applica tion of steam to machinery in various forms, and facilitated the division of labor, and in numerous other ways has made each laborer stand for a greatly enhanced amount of production. The truth of Gen. Sherman’s com plaint that the American soldier is over worked, is touchingly confirmed by a recent picture of the o’erlabored victim marching against the Indians, with one hand grasping his trusty rifle and the other -holding on to his unreliable scalp. A CAREER OF CRIME. The Perpetrator o* Fourteen Murders Killed by a Spanish Gambler. New York World’s Mazatlsn (Mexico) letter. An Englishman named Tom Adams, who for the past eight or ten years has owned a low tavern and dance house in this place, and gained general notoriety as a desperate character, died on the 15th instant from the effects of a pistol shot received in a fight several months ago. Just before his death, when as sured that his doom was inevitable, he sent for Capt. Yerplank, the American commercial agent at this port, and inti mated that he had some important dis closures to make, which ho desired should be given publicity in the east ern states. Capt. Yerplank; having con sented to comply with his wishes aaid take down whatever statements he had to make in writing, the dying man un burdened his conscience by confessing himself guilty of fourteen murders, all but one of which had been committed in the United States and Canada. Adams commenced his narrative by stat ing that his proper nafbe was George Worley, and that he was a native of Manchester, England. He commenced his career of crime by murdering the second mate of the American ship Cul tivator, in the Liverpool docks, about the year 1854. After this deed he went to and ro*ed about through those provinces for two years in pursuit of robbery. In the year 1855, at which time he was known by the name of Or ton, he was engaged as a sailor on the lakes. While lying in the American port of Oswego ho murdered a man, whom ho understood to be a painter, by throwing him over a bridge. He met his victim in a drinking saloon, where he went to collect a bill of the proprietor, and followed him until the opportunity was favorable, when he struck-him down with a slung shot, and disposed of the body in the way men tioned. After this Adams returned to Canada, and assumed the name of Townsend. With two accomplices he commenced a campaign of robbery, and perpetrated four murders in the country west of Toronto, ending with the killing of a sheriff a few milea west of Niagara river. That country then became too warm for him, in consequence of the offerings of large rewards for his arrest, and he escaped on board a schooner passing through the Canadian canal to the American port of Toledo. From this port he went to Chicago, and committed three murders in that place during the same summer. One of his victims was a captain of a vessel, whom he followed from the St. Charles saloon ; another was a German saloon-keeper, whom he killed in his bed at night, in his place of business, which was situated near a railroad depot, and the third was some man unknown to him, whom he mur dered after leaving a brothel. After theso crimes he was arrested in Chicago, tried and convicted of a burglary, and served a term of three years in the Illi nois state prison. On obtaining his re lease Adams went to New York, where he remained about one year, during which time he committed two murders, both of his victims in that city being men unknown to him. One was a coun tryman whom he enticed to the out skirts of the city and obtained about two thousand dollars on his body. After leaving New York he was engaged in a series of robberies through the southern states. He returned to Baltimore and murdered a prostitute in that city. Sub sequently he committed a murder in Louisville and one in Memphis, but of the names of his victims he had no knowledge. Adams left New Orleans about the time of the war and went to Vera Cruz. From thence ho went to the city of Mexioo, and came to Mazatlan about ten years ago. Since his sojourn here he was widely known and generally feared, his place being one of the most notorious rendezvous of desperate char acters on the coast. He finally met his fate at the hands of a Spanish gambler, named Gonzales, in a drunken quarrel over a throw of dice. He leaves between fifteen and eighteen thousand dollars, in cash or its equivalent, as the result of his career of atrocious crime, which he has willed to a sister, supposed to be his ouly living relative, who resides at Sheffield, England. The legatee needs to be devoid of any superstitious scru ples to receive and enjoy such a blood clotted legacy. The Care of Babies. A baby is a very tender thing, people say ; but most of them are very far from knowing how tender. Imagine how nervous you are in certain states— when recovering from illness, say, when the fall of a book or the slam of a door makes you quiver and feel faint, as if someone gave you a blow. That is the way a young baby feels at its best. A puff of wind will set it gasping, its little breath blown quite away. A noise makes it shiver, a change of summer air makes it turn death cold. A baby is the most nervous of beings, and the tortures it suffers in going to sleep and being wakened by careless founds when jnst “droppingoff” are only compar able to the same experience of an older person during an acute nervous head ache. Young babies ought to pass the first months of their lives in the coun try, for its stillness no less than its fresh air. Bnt where silence is not to be commanded, baby may be socthed by folding a soft napkin, wet in warmish water, lightly over the top of its head, its eyes and ears. It is the best way to put nervous babies to sleep. I have tried it hundreds of times for a child so irritable that paregoric and soothing syrup only made it wider awake. A fine towel would be wet and laid over its head, the ends twisted a little till it made a sort of skull-cap, and though baby sometimes fought against being blindfolded in this way, five minutes usually sent him off into deep and bliss ful slumber. The compress cooled the little feverish brain, deadened sound in his ears, and shut out everything that took his attention, so that sleep took him unaware. Teething babies find this very comforting ; for their heads are always hot, and there is fevered beating in the arteries each side. Secretary Stanton’s Death. What Jerry Blaok has darkly hinted is now boldly stated in some of the papers, that Secretary Stanton hastened his death, during the last days of his desponding illness, by a partially suc cessful attempt to cut his own throat. It was one of his customs, runs the now extraordinary revelation, to be shaved at home, an 1 the duty was performed by a oolored barber who came regularly for the purpose. In Mr. Stanton’s pri vate apartment stood an improvised shaving chair, and to this the trusty valet would go at the appointed time to perform his duty. Mr. Stanton had been apparently failing in health for a week, and had become so despondent as to almost excite fears of an aberration of the mind. On the evening of the 23d of December the colored valet called to shave Stanton. They were left alone in the private apartment, and Stanton took his seat in the chair. The barber had partially finished his task, and, laying the razor on a little table beside Stanton, stepped across the room for some water. A movement startled him. and he turned just in time to see the glistening steel flash by the bared throat, leaving a streak in its wake. Rushing to the side of Stanton, the barber caught the razor before another stroke could 1 e made. He called for help, and in a few moments there were at the bedside the surgeon-general, a few trusty attaches of the government, and one or two members of the family. The work had been done, however, and the life current reached. At three o’clock, next morning, Stanton was dead. How well f ’ue secret of his dea h Las been kepi, those who read this may know. —Springfield Jiepttblican. THE GERMAN PREMIER. Some CurLu* Stories Aliolit Bismarck's Mode of Lite, Habits, etc. Loudon Cor. New York Graphic. From almost every quarter I hear the most extraordinary stories about affairs in Germany. Borne of these stories have for their theme the madness of Prince Bismarck, and they represent him as be ing very mad indeed. If half of these stories aro half true, (he great chancel lor should be locked up in au insane asylum. The three people in all Ger many who are not afraid of this mad man are the empress, the crowu prince and his wife—they detest him ; all the rest of Germany is shaking in its shoes at the thought of what he may do next. The old nobility, the middle-clause, the shop keepers, the artists and the? literary people all feel that their lib erty and freedom are dependent on the whims of this terrible madman. His own employes tremble when they hear his voice; they never get a kiud word from him, and be is fond of cutting down the it salary or even stopping it altogether. The newspaper editors all live in mortal dread of him. The gen eral opinion in Berlin is that Bismarck’s head has been turned. Borne of (hem say that he is drunk with power: others that he keeps himself drunk with cham pagne and beer. Ho is subject to extra ordinary bursts of fury; when these are upon him he respects neither age, nor sex, nor station. He was always violent or given to violence ; but when he gets into a rage now—and this hap pens several times a day—his anger waxes to frenzy. Even the female mem bers of his family shrink from him when he is in these moods, and tremble when they hear his voice, as the wretch ed wife of a drunken Lancashire oollier trembles when she hears him coming home. For very deoency’s sake I re frain from repeating some of the stories which I have heard about Prince Bis marck within the last few days. But I may quote what was said of him by a well-known writer in ©no of the most respectable of English journals a day or two ago i “They say at Berlin that the man's head has beoome affected by unbridled authority, and that he bursts out in sulphurous storms of fury of late for no intelligible cause. He was always a violent man, bnt now he rages like a lunatic bull in a china shop, bellowing till the whole world resounds about nothing. There used to bo an under current of humor in his fierce jokes ; now he has grown morose, and broods on schemes of vengeance. He wants to have another war in France, and has been trying for the last two years to find a pretext for sending fire and sword again upon a light-hearted and loveable people. He wants to destroy the inde pendence of Denmark, but is here met by a mild no; wants also to 1 ake further possession of Bavaria, but finds the musical monarch resolved to keep out of a soi ape. Austria is so submissive t*, and Russia so sure of him, that he can manage no serious dispute with either of them, nnd is obliged to stand howling quite motionless, even when checkmated bv those powers. England, also, is very discreet, and no materials for a riot can be found anywhere but in Spain and Japan, where he oan only strike blows in the air, having no tangi ble enemies. This is probably why he has turned his attention to Count Arnim. He must have somebody to fight aDd worry. Count Arnim could be seized by the throat as well as another count, and he was seized. * * * It is a fury which respects neither the honor of gentlemen nor the happiness of ladies and ohildren. The very bed rooms of Countess Armin and her moth er have been searched within the last few days by polioemeu, and her hus band is put in solitary confinement without a trial. There must be a speedy end to this kind of thing, and, let us trust, also, an end to Prince Bismarck, with whom there must inevitably also be an end of that mysterious Russian agent and prompter concealed under the name of Herr Bucher.” Business Still Improving. The present condition of business in New York city and through the whole country is decidedly better than it has been for some months past. There can be no question that a decided improve ment has been established within the last few weeks, both in confidence and in the volume of transactions. This is demonstrated by the general activity in the various forwarding and trans j ortation routes. The near approach of the close of navigation is hurrying merchants from the interior to com plete their winter purchases. And on this point it is satisfactory to know that the accounts aro favorable. Orders cautiously given in the early part of the season have been generally doubled, and in numerous cases triplicated. And it speaks well for the condition of aflairs in the interior that remittances at this time of the year were never so satisfac tory. In spite of all drawbacks it is not improbable that the average of tran sactions for the current half year may finally compare favorably with corres ponding periods in former years. The accounts from the west and south oontinue to be enoouraging. A vast amount of money is being distributed for the movement of the hog crop, which causes a healthy advance in bank rates in Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville and other oities. This money finds its way into the farmers’ hands, and thence, as a matter of course, to the country stores, until it finally returns to the great financial centres. Nearly all the western and southern papers speak of in creased business activity and the pros pects of a good winter trade. The lum ber interests seem to be more particu larly depressed. From the New England manufactur ing districts the acoounts are hopeful. The short time movement in the cotton trade still continues, but it will leave the business in a better position than before, and more free from embarrass ments of every kind. Taken as a whole, then, business is better and manifests better signs of still further improvement all over the coun try. Of course, due allowance is to be made for the season. It will soon be annual “settling up” time, and firms will begin to prepare for this in various wavs, which will render money more difficult to obtain, but without directly affecting general business. — United States Economist. Our hard times have reached China. In that country the demand for silk worm eggs is so much smaller than usual that there is great distress through out the country. So, if one’s resources are shortened on this side of the world, his numerous daughters buy fewer silks, and the manufacturer makes fewer calls for his raw material, and so it goes from point to point, and the last ripple of onr panic is felt, perhaps, in the middle of the Chinese empire. The Jews excluded bachelors from as semblies of the people, the Spartans from the theatres, the Romans from the witness stand, the early Christians from public functions, and the ancient Ger mans and Swiss from the privilege of disposing by will of all their property, which reverted to the state. Served them right. FACTS ABOUT nAY FEYER. Nature cf the Ofscate -Ih Causes and Cure. Dr. Beard read a paper last week be fore the American Public Health associ ation on the subject of hay fever. The following is an interesting synopsis of information obtained by addressing competent persons in all sections of the country i Hay fever is a complex and not a sim pie disease, as has been generally sup posed. Tbe first element of the disease is a nervo-billious temperament, or, at least, a temperament, in which the ner vons element predominates. Hay fever patients are the class of patients sub ject to other nervous diseases. The 1 second factor in this disease is heat fol lowing cold. The heat of hot climates does not seem to afifc as a oause, but the heat of temperate climates following the cold weather. The disease is found only in that belt Where there are ex tremes of temperature. Third—Vari ous exciting causes, twenty or more in number, such as perfume of flowers, dust, in door and out door, fresh hay, old bay. bright sunlight, gaslight, close confined air, smoke, cinders, hulling of corn, Roman wormwood, sneeze weed, over exertion, etc. In order to get up a case of hay fever, two bf these three factors, certainly the first tvo are nec essary. The exciting causes are named under the third head, and have been re garded as the disease, hence the name hay fever, peach cold, rose cold, etc. One might as well call a sick headache a sausage headache, because it may be at times caused by eating sausages. The majority of the patients afflicted with hay fever who are reported to me are of American birth. Dr. Jacobi, of New York, whose experience and prac tice among the better class of Germans are v i y large, says that he has never known a case of hay fever among Ger mans in this Country. I suspect that among the foreign population not born in thi, country hay fever is compara tively rare; just as among the same classes nervous diseases of all kinds are comparatively rare. After a pereon has once been attacked he seems to be for all his life liable to be again attacked. Now and then a person may go over a year without the disease, out this is rare. Sometimes the disease increases in severity with years, and sometimes diminishes. A majority of my patients have tried the local application of the solution of quinine, as recommended by Helmholtz, and they report that it does little or no good. Among the regions which hay fever patients visit with benefit, I may men tion the White Mountains and the ocean everywhere, at least in cold climes ; for those who take sea voyages almost never suffer while at sea, but may be attacked as soon as they land. A trip to Europe, the Adirondack region, and the island of Mackinaw is very highly recom mended by Borne. Dr. Dennison, of Denver, Col., sends me a pamphlet which reports that some cases of hay fever have been cured by a residence in that locality, Like other nervous dis eases, it is powerfnlly under the influ ence of the mind. The striking perio dicity of the disease, coming on as it doesj in a certain case, at precisely the same day or honr, is probably the result in part of expectation of the patient that, it will come then. The plan of treatment that I would suggest for hay fever, is as follows : First, to prevent the disease. As early as March or April the patient should begin to take a coiuse of nerve tonic treatment. I would recommend it to be arsenic, phosphorus in its various forms, ood liver oil, iodoform and electricity, especially the methods cf general gal vanization and general faridization. When the disease appears the great de pendence must be on local treatment, combined with general tonic treatment. My friend, Dr. W. F. Hutchison, of Providence, had a case this year which he broke up by central galvanization. I relieved decidedly one case and some what relieved another by local galvani zation externally. Tbe remedies should be used thoroughly. The great trouble with thoie who galvanize themselves is that they do not completely and thor oughly bring the remedies to act upon all the sinuous and tortuous liniDg membrane of the nasal passages. Parental Interference. We all know how it fared with the bean that, after being planted, was dng up every morning to see if it had begun to grow, and which, after having made a brave struggle for life and got its head above ground, was declared out of order, and ruthlessly pulled up and turned upside down. Much of our in terference with children is no less im pertinent, and in its results no less mis chievous. Nature abhors meddling ;to reverent co-operation she yields her happiest results; bnt she will nol be diverted from her purpose by your homilies, nor submit her plans for your revision. Handmaiden of the great architect, she never loses sight of the original intention. If you thwart her, it is at yom peril, and she leaves on your hands the work yon have spoiled. The child in his normal condition is an embodied interrogation. He cannot wait Jor the eyes alone to report the objects about him ; every fiuger-tip is pressed into the service and made to convey tidiDgs to the eager intelligence. The little creature is overwhelmed with impressions, stunned by the music of the spheres, blinded by excess of light. His g -eatest need iB a wise and tender interpreter; someone to walk beside him and explain the significance of what he sees and hears, to distinguish between the important and the unim portant, the high and the low, the near and the far. Do we realize what we are doing when we sit stolid and dumb un der a child’s questions, allowing the keen intelligence to be blunted against our indifference, the glowing enthusi asm to be damped by our apathy, the buoyant hope crippled by onr unbelief? Having eyes we see not, having ears we hear not, and standing before the great wonder-book of God’s universe, we watch the turning of its leaves with scarcely an emotion. Verily, we need to be taught of the child. What cue is, determines his possessions, and whether the child shall be beggar or prinoe depends upon the training of his faculties and the education that he receives. —Celia Burleigh. Wind and W ind Instruments. The force requisite to drive the music out of the various wind instruments in most frequent use has lately been scien tifically gauged, and the result can not bnt seriously diminish the sympathy with which unenlightened audiences have heretofore entertained for the full-cheeked performers upon tho trum pet, the bombardon, the bassoon, and the rest. The enphoninm and the bom bardon are the easiest of all to sound upon low notes, and the clarinet is the hardest, next to it being the trumpet and the bassoon; bnt the hardest to sound on the high notes is the eupho nium, then comes the bombardon, cor net, trumpet, horn, bassoon, oboe, and last of all the clarinet, which is not half so hard to sound a high Dote as a low one with. .None of them requires as much effort as a sneeze or cough, and the theory of lung injury from this sort of work is a mistake. As for the sweet, or the terrible sounds, “ a breath can make them as a breath has made,” and the man on the stage who empties his lungs into the trumpet, and occasionally pauses to empty the trumpet, too, is not having as hard a time after all as the one in the audience who puts his energies into a sneeze, nor does that one begin to rival tho naan who wants to sneeze, bnt doesn’t dare. He is the true subject for pity. Science can cot measure the silent efforts that he pnts forth. Intellectual Cincinnati. Doun Piatt gives the following Dotes on Cincinnati in a letter to the Wash ington Capital : “ Cincinnati enjoys probably the most refined, cultivated society known to the country. We should write unknown, for it ia so ex clusive that it almost disappears from popular knowledge. The stranger vis iting here would never suspect that under the heavy oloud of coal-smoke and soot, hid in mansions where the darkened fronts resemble coal-mines, there exists a culture that is as rare ;ts it is priceless. To the favored guest who is permitted to pass the exclusive front door there appears a dazzling ar ray of luxury and art in the finish aid furnish of these elegant abodes. We say luxury and art, when indeed the words are synonyms. The finish at and furniture are artistic, for while the rarest paintings grace the walls, and in every nook, recess, and corner appear statues and statuettes, there is not a chair, sofa, or table that has not in it self expressive and artistic significance. The conversation turns generally on art, soienoe, and literature. When a Cin cinnati belle indulges in such worldly frivolity as dancing, she may be said to move through the graceful mazes with bookcases under her arms, for she car ries in her bosom and pockets learned works in Greek and Latin, and during the pauses necessary to that pleasing exercise she takes out a volume and reads. Strange to say, the fathers of these families, with half a dozen ex ceptions, are all tradespeople. Cin cinnati pays more of the internal rev enue than all of New England, save Massachusetts. The citizens were am azed to learn this fact. Their studies had not yet reached so late a period, being for the last twenty years in tho dark ages. This revenue is derived from whisky, ale, and tobacco. Cin cinnati is the cradle of art. Mullett, the famous architect, and William Pow ell, the great historical house painter, although both natives of Great Britain, were rocked in this cradle. Probably they were rocked too much. Excessive rocking a Idles th© brain. Native ar tists are spoiled through too muoh pat ronage. Orders are given in great, abundance and th© paintings paid for in advance. This absurd practice ruins the artist. He waxes fat and kicks in stead of painting. Cincinnati has a fountain and a Haller. The fonntair is a present from Mr. Probasco—Haller is a gift from Divine Providence. The fountain plays dirty water over certain groups of German citizens done it bronze. Haller*sells blacking and dis oourseth philosophically. The foun tain has an esplanade, consumptive trees, is surrounded by retail shops, and the air is redolent of decayed fish, old olothes, and coal-dust. Citizens sit about the esplanade and read "Cincin nati, past and present.” The intellectnal atmosphere of Cincinnati is so refined that one breathes with difficulty. We leave to-morrow.” Life Without Sentiment. There was no sentiment whatever about Mark Kaller of Augusta county, Ya. There was no sentiment in his courtship, none in his marriage and none iu his married life. He lived without it. He had some property and a house and he wanted a house keeper. He paid an agent §25 to get him a wife. He married her without a word of love-making, and put her in his house, and went on with his life. The couple were entirely ooDgenial and exceedingly harmonious in one respect —both loved whisky and they drank a great deal of it. They never quarrel ed over the bottle, and life flowed smoothly on. They drank as much as they oould and got drunk together, and went to sleep when they were sleepy, and it was nobody’s business. They got old together in Old Virginia. od6 day they had some distance to walk on a public highway. Old Mark tramped ahead with his cane and the old woman trudged along behind smok ing her pipe. There was a good long distance between them as the woman was fat and wheezy, and waddled with difficulty. By some means her cloth ing caught on fire, and she was burned to death there in the public road. Two gentlemen came along on horseback, and saw the roasted woman. They es pied a man, just disappearing in the distance. One of them rode ahead and, overtaking the old man, informed him of the occurrence. Mark expressed neither sentiment nor emotion, but with a grunt turned around and re traced his Bteps. There lay his wife, so charred and disfigured as scarcely to be recognized. Mark hobbled np to the body, and giving it a punch yith his stick, said: “Humph, I told her she’d better leave her pipe at home. Now, what’ll I do for a housekeeper?” This was the only thing like a senti ment he ever uttered in his life. Old Mark Kaller is dead now, bnt his type still lives in a good many men who hobble through life without the color of sentiment. The Boston Kindergarten. Froebel, the founder of the kinder garten system of educating the young, maintained that doing should precede thinking, and in carrying out his scheme he found a sure way to attract and re tain the child’s attention by associating all instruction with the use of the bands. Several attempts have been made to transplant the system to the United States, but, with the exceptions in New York, Boston and St. Louis, it has not flourished. The Boston school is under the charge of Miss Lucy H. Symonds. The ages of the pnpilß range from three to seven years. One sees the eyes busy in carrying to the mind clear image of natural sur roundings ; the fingers acquiring skill in expressing by material forms the con ception thus wrought in the mind; and the dawning of inventive powers. The children find in the different occupa tions and plays scoj>e for expressing every thought and wish of their hearts. The chief occupations are weaving strips of paper in and out in tasteful patterns; sewing upon cards with colored woods (the children chose their own colors, under the guidance oi the teacher, who seeks always to cultivate good taste); building with cubes or oblongs; mak ing pictures with planes, and laying fancied outlines with little sticks ; and, approaching nearer to the abstract, drawing upon slates ; making furniture and other symmetrical figures with sticks and peas; molding figures in clay. The kindergarten system teaches children to use the tips of their fingers instead of the whole hand. Visitor (after having asked all the other oonvicts regarding misdeeds and punishment inflicted)—Well, Collins, what are you in for ? Collins—Becanse I can’t get out. V, —I mean of what were you convicted ? C. —Frying ice. V.—Don’t the warden never take your irons off? C.—No; he’s afraid I’ll take cold if he does. V.—How long were you sentenced for? C.—Ninety nine days only. V.—(Sympathetically) —Ah ! ninety-nine diys ! Why, your sentence will soon expire, and yon’ll be free again, won’t yon? C.—Well, not so very soon either. V.--Why, how’s that ? Ninety days isn’t long ( C.—(slightly closing left optic)—Well, yon see, boss—they’re all Christinas days! VOL. 15-NO. 49. SAYINGS AND DOINGS. Sppoier has been treasurer fourteen years. Pebu has more dogs than any other country of its size. Hence the Penman bark. The Detroit Free Press has just dis covered that a bald-headed man never raises his hat to a lady. Yon Abntm has no traditional ground for loving the Napoleon family. Five of his father’s eleven brothers fell at Waterloo. Whejt we see a young man that spends all he earns we are inclines to. suspect that he does not always earn all he spends. Every German steamer arriving in New Yoik brings not less than a thou sand canary-birds, but our mocking birds are not Jealous. Bomb of the students at eastern col leges can board themselves for thirty five cents per week, but they don’t fee like tearing around much. The annual product of American watches, notwithstanding the dull timep, exceeds 200,000, and the capital invested reaches $5,000,000. Colorado started oollege a few weeks ago, and up to date its inmates consist of one woman, tTiree Indians, a buffalo calf and a professor of botany. Decwnihg a Kisa— Said the master to Mary, sweet-lipped las=. As shs stood in her place at the head of her “Yon can. my dear, decline ‘a kiss’no doubt t “ I can," she replied, with a blush and a pout. And a glance to the master’s heart deeply there shot, “ But, sir, if you please, I would much rattier not.” Tee highest prize in a Chinese lottery is twenty-nine cents, and the man who draws it has his name in the papers and is looked upon as a heap of R fel low. Mme. Pozzom, the new prima donna in Paris, is said to have “the divinest arms and shoulders.” Added to which there is a sort of “vocal peaches-and cream” quality about her singing. Dio Lewis has been heard from again. He says that codfish gravy is the best food for despondent persons, as it im parts cheerfulness. Pass the codfish gravy. When a Peoria youth goes to spark a girl he finds the old lady in one corner of the room, the old man in another, and a dog under the melodeon, and he is required to speak up like an orat' r. Rev. Mb. Osbobne of speak ing at a recent meeting of the National Holiness association, urged the people t© seek salvation “ from tobacco, from croquet, and from Freemasonry.” The Paris Journal says that ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain, is about to sell her diamonds, • stimated at s value of twelve millions of francs. They will be disposed of by auction in London. Some old letters have been discovered which go to show that William Penn used to sell whisky to the Indians and rob them while they were drunk. From what we have seen of Mr. Penn we can’t believe it. Chance. He comes not! Yea, he someth! Wherefore wait At casemate or at door hie 6tep to greet. Thou tbiuk’st perchance to catch him at the gate And etay the passing of his rapid feet. Yet are thou sure the chambers are all meet, In order set to serve his royal state ? The banquet laid, the crown above the seat, Fresh rushes strewn, and all thinge adequate.' He comes not ? Yea, be cometh—needetb not Thy watching and thy waiting. He seeks ’ thee, As surely as the mountain stream the sea. He cometh—nor hath e’er one life forgot. But when he neareth, saying: “ Here am I! ’ Shall he find all things fit, or pass thee by ? Dyikq the other day, a Georgia man took hie wife’s hand and said : “ Susan, you’ve been a good wife ! We’ve lived together thirty-two years, and I never found a button eff my shirt! I’ll speak a good word for you as soon as I git thar!” UoASTPun Texas sheet: “We know some men who can take their pint a day, and some who take their quart, but to find a man whose standard is as high as a gallon is rare. Sherman has a man who boasts of chambering that quantity.” The changes in styles for gentlemen’s clothing are eas ly noted, viz.: Coats are much longer ; pantaloons are larger and straight, without “ spring ” at the foot; vests are invariably of the material of the coat; black and very dark gray English goods are used. Moutke is reported as having said that “the introduction of breech-load ers has demoralized all the armies in Europe except the German and Eng lish.” His view of the case'seems to have relation to the fact that the rapid consnmption of ammunition booh leaves the cartridge-boxes empty, and the troops of the two nations mentioned are the only ones that can be kept quiet under the circumstances. The papers" get a good deal of adver tising by keeping this item before their readers: “A family in Florida lost their little boy, and advertised for him. That very af fcprnoon an alligator crawled ap out of the swamp and died on she front door-step. In his stomach vas found a handful of red hair, some bone buttons, a pair of boot heels, a glass alley, a pair of check pants, and a oaper collar. The advertisement did it.” Faces which are lacking in harmony will generally be found to fail in due proportion because the month and ohin fail to support the upper part of the face. Good foreheads) and eyes are more common among Americans than good mouths and chins, though the i ashion of wearing the beard obscures t his in men. The upper face -the head, brow, and eyes—shows the intelligence snd nature of a man ; the lowest part of the mouth and chin gives the meas ure of his strength, his practical or ac t aired ability and temper. The Russian correspondent of the London Echo gives some information as to the tea fair at Nijni Novgorod, re marking that more than 60,000 chests of fne tea have arrived there this season from China, and have fetched their owners from five to ten roubles profit per chest. On common teas, however, t aere has been a loss. The Russian tea merchants go to Nijni only to buy su perior sorts of tea, as it appears they get the infeiior sorts straight from Lon don via St. Petersburg and the Baltic ports. Thebe was at one time in the city of liondon a library society which met p eriodically to read selections of prose or poetry, each member being com pelled, under the penalty of a fine, ti discover and amend the errors of tie reader who preceded him. On a certain occasion one of the verses of tie “Maid of Athens” had been ren dered si well that, when it came to the r ext member’s turn to read, he, per plexed and desperate, exclaimed, “It appears to me, gentlemen, that the last r ?ader pronounced the word ‘ die* as if tie ‘ i ’ was not dotted.” Pbof, Lyman, of .Yale oollege, thinks t lat there is no deception in the opera t ons of Brown, the mind-reader, bnt gives no satisfactory explanation of the phenomena. He simply calls them a sirt of mental telegraphy, and says t lat a man physically strong and having tie power of mental concentration is tle best; sort of person to operate with. I gown has performed some of his feats v hile oonnected with another man merely by a copper wire, and with a good degree of success, though- the re-, salts were not so striking as when there v as direct contact of flesh with flesh,