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A. MAJBtSCH ILK ) W. A. I tUKSl’MAlKj Kdllorsand Proprietors. Till- DA\KI:R’N IIIAKKN. O. W. HOICKS. The Banker's dinner is tho stateliest feast Tha town has heard of for a year at least. The starry lustres shed their broadest blaze; paruask an;l silror catch aDd spread the rays. The fl'turist’s triumph crown tne daintiest "spoil, tVon front the sea, tliolbreat, and the soil; The steaming hot-heuse yields its largest pines ; The sunless vaults unearth their oldest wines. * ❖ * * * < Of all that cMter round the genial board, >,}t one as the banquet’s lord. ****** \„th the merry tale and jovial song, tY jocund evening whirls itself along, -nil die last chorus shrieks its loud encore, And the white neckcloths vanish through the door. ( n savage word, the menials know its tone And slink away : the master stands alone. '• Well played, by breathe not what were best Unheard. His goblet shivers as he speads the word : •• If wine tolls truth —and so have said the wise— It makes me laugh to think lmw bandy lies, bankrupt to-morrow—millionaire to-day !” The iavee is over, now begins the play!” * * * * Hark ! the dec)) oath, the wail of frenzied woe! j,',st; ] os t to hope of heaven and peace below. He kept his secret, but the seed of crime uistsof itself in God’s appointed time. <1 # V * The moral market had the usual chills Of virtue suffering from protested bills. The white cravats, to friendship’s memory true, Sighed for the past, surveyed the future, too, Their sorrow breathed in one expressive line: “ Gave pleasant dinners; who has got hi* wine?” IX THE MORMON TABERNACLE. Tlic Children of llie Saint*--Orson lra(t liiilrctking tin* Saint*—lll* View* on 5 the Marriage (tiicstion. salt Lake Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette. You find the Tabernacle to be a large oblong room 250 feet long by 150 feet wide with a single, self-sustainging arch roof *!5 feet high, supported around the sides by 4(> sand-stone columns. It is capable of seating 8,000 persons, but having no heating apparatus, is used only in sum mer. In one end is the organ, second in size only to the Boston organ. It is :m instrument of rare sweetness and power, built by a Salt Lake saint. The large choir, of perhaps sixty voices, is placed immediately around the orgon, and in front are tiers of seats with chairs and desks in the center for the superior officers of the congregation, from the President down. In front of all is a long table, on which are placed the bread and water of the Communion service, which is admin istered every Sunday, water taking the place of wine. 5 hi the morning of our attendance, a children s gathering was held, preparatory to the observance of the great Mormon anniversaries, July 24, commemorating the “Landing of the Pilgrims” on the sand-bound shores of Salt Lake, twenty eight years ago. Some 3,000 children, or more, were present, belonging to the vari ous ward Sunday-schools, for the purpose of rehearsing their songs and declama tions. The delivery of the latter indica ted the influence of the theater rather than of the school, the articulation being generally far from perfect, and the pro nunciation faulty. The children kept excellent time and tune. The music and poetry were up to the machine average of Sunday-school verse and song. The latter-day element, of course, was promi nent, as in the following: Bless Brigham Young, we children pray, Thy chosen Twelve, in what they say; " Thy elders, priests, and teachers, too, Their labors bl< css in all they do. We :m> the children of the saints, < >f t hose, the after days, When God again has caused to shine Truth’s bright effulgent rays. His kingdom he is building up, To hear unbounded sway, That Zion may appear in all its glory. CHORUS. Hurrah ! hurrah! we’ll help the work along; ’Tis expected the children will perform a noble part, In rolling on the kingdom in its glory. How bright have been parental hopes About what we shall do In rolling on Jehovah’s work, And helping put it through. We’ll stem the tide of wickedness, That deluges the world, That Zion may appear in till its glory. Chorus—Hurrah, etc. We're heirs unto the priesthood, For in it we were lorn; By naught but vilest actions Can we be of it shorn. We’re of the fold of Jesus, His precious lambs are we, And ii we are pure-hearted, His face we soon shall see. Another hymn, entitled “The Standard of Zion,’’ was an adaptation of the “IStar Spangled Banner.” During the singing our eyes ranged over the mottoes painted on the panels in front of the gallery. One of these read— and it found a striking exemplification in the scenes before us—“ Utah’s best crop children.” Other mottoes are: “Our own mountain home;” “United we stand; divi ded we fall,” “Heirs of the priesthood;” "Brigham our leader and friend;” “The kingdom is ours;” “We thank thee, O God, for a prophet;” “Our martyred prophet.” After the service some of our party had a brief interview with Brigham Young, who is said to show signs of ad vancing age and debility, as might he ex pected of one seventy-four years old. SERVICE IX THE TABERNACLE. In the afternoon the regular public ser vice was held in the tabernacle. In Mor mondom no one preaches, except as he is moved by the Holy Ghost. He is un doubtedly the ablest living exponent of the theology and morals of the saints. He is of medium stature, sturdily and some what heavily built, with a large head, broad face, ruddy complexion, long white heard; on the whole, a fair American rep resentative of the old- time patriarch. He stands speaking, with a side-long inclina tion of the head and an upward cast of the eye, jus though hiking aim at a squir rel with a shotgun. His voice is strong, manner ponderous, language plain and homely, style forcible rather thanelegant, direct rather than correct. His address was preceded by singing and a prayer from another brother, who prayed for the strangers present, that they might be led to see things as they are, and to report ac-cord-ing-ly, with a highly expressive syllabification and penultimate accentua tion of the last word. Brother Orson took for his text Matt, xjx., 3-9; and after a preliminary state ment that he had no knowledge of what fte was about to sav, but that he should speak as he was directed to speak, an nounced his theme to be marriage. He then proceeded to unfold the Mormon theory of this institution. It would be neither practicable nor profitable to give anything like a complete synopsis of this singular discourse. Suffice it to say, it "as an elaborate exposition and defence of spiritual marriage and polygamy. Since e anostolic age there has been no true religion in the world, until on April 6, 1830, the church was organized anew hv special revelation, with its apostles, rev elators, and prophets, just as the Chris tian Church was organized at the begin- ning. There can be no valid marriage unless celebrated by one specially author ized by God. All marriages before the divine revelation [to Joseph Smith] are invalid. True marriage is for eternity. Those not properly married cart only be angels, i. c., ministering servants hereaf ter. Those truly, i. e., Mormonically, married shall inherit thrones and be rulers of celestial kingdoms. Polygamy enlarges these kingdoms, and so gives man a higher position in Heaven. Polygamy, more over, makes provision for the souls of the departed, who are as yet imprisoned in Paradise. The men and women of to day can become baptized and married for the dead, and so secure their release from Paradise, and their establishment as gods or rulers of celestial kingdoms. And so on for quantity and for quality a strange medley, by turns forcible and feeble, shrewd and silly, biblical and blas phemous, amusing perhaps, but disgust ing beyond a doubt. And this, I felt, is Mormonism—fanaticism putrified into a fraud; religion reduced to the propagation of the race; solitary Bible texts exagger ated and perverted into a revelation of absurdities; and abominations, salvation by marriage; a Christianity, the corner stone of which is the sexual relation; a Mohammedan heaven, seen through a New Testament perspective with an Old Testament background. THE CONGREGATION AND CHOIR. The large congregation, which must have numbered nearly 4,000, the men oc cupying one-half of the house, the women the other, listened attentively, many of them admiringly. They seemed to believe this strange gospel—although how many of them, or how much of it, it would be hard to say; time will show. During the first half of the discourse the communion elements were adminis tered to the congregation. The bread having distributed, Apostle Pratt stop ped in the midst of his argument, prayer was offered by one of the brethern in con secration of the water, which was then distributed, the speaker resuming his dis course. The choir closed the service by singing Mozart’s Twelfth Mass Gloria in admirable style. Now, at least, one could worship and believe that after all heaven may be a place worth going to. “The Campaign.” I think the campaign lias opened. I am no politician myself, but I think so because a drunken man ran against me last night, and yelled : “ Rah for Thompson!” And he had scarcely staggered out of sight when another intoxicated individ ual came running around the corner and hoarsely inquired : “ Where’s the reptile that called our candidate a horse-thief?” Later in the evening several men halted in front of my house and thus addressed me as I slumbered : “ Come down here, you old gray-headed heathen, and give us money to buy pow der !” 1 didn’t go down, and they unhinged and carried off my gate, and broke down two shade-trees. As I said at the start, I don’t keep my self posted on politics, but I am con vinced that the campaign has opened; this is the way, if I remember rightly, that all campaigns have been opened for the last fifteen years. This morning while I was selecting a roast at the butcher’s, a man with red eyes and wicked face came up, slapped me on the hack, and as he twisted around so as to give me the full force of his tan yard breath he remarked: “ Gimme ver hand—less holler lor John son !” He seized my hand and shook me around and continued: “ I kin lick any human being who says a word agin Johnson !” “ Who’s Johnson ?” I asked, for really I did not remember of ever hearing or reading of him. “ Who’s Johnson ?” he echoed, gazing at me in astonishment and indignation, “ why, lie’s lived in your own ward for ten years!” “ I never met him.” “ Never did ? Why, lie keeps the big gest and best saloon in the ward !” “ Ah!” He looked at me for a moment in a puzzled way, not understanding what “ ah!” meant, and then he pulled off his coat and exclaimed: “ See here, maybe you are going to cut Johnson and vote for Spicer?” “ Maybe I am.” “ You are, eh ?” he yelled. “ You are going to cut Johnson off the reg’lar ticket and vote for that long-haired Spi cer?” A policeman took the man away just as he was preparing to demonstrate the freedom of the American ballot-box, and I got my roast and went into the grocery. Old Mr. Lovejoy and old Mr. Arnold happened in at the same time. I knew they differed in politics, but also knew that both were good men, and had been friends for twenty years. “ Going to lie a hot campaign, I guess,” remarked Mr. Arnold, as he hunted fora match to light his pipe. “ Oh, I dun no,” replied Mr. Lovejoy, “ I think we’ll scoop you high and dry without much effort.” “You will, eh? I’ll wager that you are the sickest looking man in the county before snow flies.” “Guess not,” said Mr. Lovejoy in a nettled tone; “the people are tired of being robbed and plundered and bur dened and roasted at the stake, as it were, and they are rising in their might to hurl the villainous party from power.” “What party do you refer to, sir?” demanded Mr. Arnold. “Yours, sir,” replied Mr. Lovejoy. “ Then, sir, you are a dotard and a liar!” shouted Mr. Arnold. “And I’ll knock you down!” cried Air. Lovejoy; and they struck and kicked and fell over a barrel, and were separated only to vow eternal enmity. From now until the campaign is over I shall see such things every day. As I come home men will demand money of me to drink the health of this or that candidate; men will seize me and rush me into a saloon, and oblige me to swal low some villainous drink to show that I favor their candidate; men will throw brickbats :it me if I come up a back street to avoid them. If I rule on a street car I shall hear men abuse and malign every candidate on my party ticket; if I ride in the omnibus I shall hear men relate villainous lies about every candidate on the other ticket. CARTERS VJLLE, GEORGIA, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1575. The chances are that my butcher and grocer and tailor will fall out with me because 1 refuse to hurrah for their can didates, or because 1 can’t see that Saun ders is a liar, hypocrite, horse-thief, burg lar and jail breaker, while Morton has to wear an overcoat to hide his angelic wings. During the day I shall hear all these things down town, and when 1 come home to rest, and just as I am enjoyim my first nap, someone will ring niv’bell and want to know if I am on this or that ward or city committee. In leas than lialt an hour someone voting the other ticket will heave a rock against the door irom across the street to remind me of the error. of may ways. At midnight parties will come alone and hurrah for someone, and at daylight, the man who has been “laying wires” all night will wink at me as he goes along home. If I take any part in this campaign I must fold tickets and lay plans on Sundays, remain up the most of every night, drink with every man who asks me, treat every loafer encountered, lie about men whose characters are above reproach, and praise men who are not fit to asso ciate with heathens. I sometimes think that I won’t have anything to do with politics. Household Hints. If you have been picking or handling any acid fruit, and have stained your hands, wash them in clear water, wipe them lightly, and while they are yet moist strike a match and shut your hands around it so as to catch the smoke, and the stains will disappear. If you have stained your muslin or gingham dress, or your white pants with berries, before wetting with anything else pour boiling water through the stains, and they will disappear. Before fruit juice dries it can often be removed by cold water, using a sponge and towel if necessary. Rubbing ’the fingers with the inside of parings of apples will remove most of the stain caused by paring. Tubs and pails saturated with glycer ine will not shrink and dry up, the hoops will not fall off, and there will be no ne cessity for keeping these articles soaked. Butter tubs keep fresh and sweet, and can be used a second time. To clean and restore the elasticity of cane-chair bottoms: Turn the chair bottom upward and with hot water and a sponge w&sh the cane; work well, so that it is well soaked ; should it be dirty, use soap, let it dry well in the air, and it will be as tight and firm as new, pro vided none of the canes are broken. Match mats can be made of ordinary sandpaper, cut in circular and octagonal shapes, fastened upon pasteboard and bound with bright-colored braids, a ring attached to each, and the whole hung near the match-safe for use whenever a match is lighted. The unsightly marks that disfigure many walls may by this inexpensive and simple arrangement be entirely prevented. There should be one in. everv room in the house. Tricks of Speech. Nothing is easier to acquire, nothing more difficult to lose, than a trick of speech and manner; and nothing is more universal. If we look round among our friends and acquaintances we shall find scarcely one who has not his favorite word, his perpetual formula, his auto matic action, his unmeaning gestures — all tricks caught probably when young, and, by not being corrected then, next to impossible to abolish now. Who does not know the familiar “I say” as the preface to every remark? —and the still more familiar “you know” as the middle term of every sentence? Who, too, in these latter times, hos not suffered from the affliction of “awful” and “jolly” milestones in the path of speech inter spersed with even uglier and more obtru sive signs of folly and corrupt diction — milestones that are forever turning up, showing the successive distances to which good taste and refinement have receded in this hideous race after slang to which our youth is given. Then there are the people who perpetuate ejaculations; who say “Goodness!” as a mark of surprise, and “ Good gracious!” when surprise is si little mixed with reprobation; lower in the social scale it is “My word!” “ Pa tience!” “Did I ever!” and indifferently to all stations, “ You don’t say so!” or in a voice ofdeprecation, “ No!” and “Surely not!” To judge by voice and word, these ejaculatory people are always in a state of surprise. They go through the world in unending astonishment; and their appeals to their goodness and that indeterminate quantity called good gra cious lire incessant. In the generation that died with the fourth George the favorite ejaculations were “By Jove!” and “By George!” with excursions into the region of “Gad!” and “By jingo!” Before then we had the bluff and lusty squires who rejoiced in “ Odsbodikins” and “Zounds,” with other strange and uncouth oaths that were not meant to offend the hearers, but were simply tricks of speech caught by the speakers. So, indeed, is the habit of swearing and using bad words generally. It is emphatically a habit, a trick of speech, meaning for the most part no more than the “ Good ness!” and “Fatience!” of the milder folly. It occurred in Oshkosh. “ Will you do it?” she said, twisting one end of the strap around her hand and fetching him a “stinger” across the shoulders with the other. He squirmed and looked frantically at the keyhole of the door, as if he could crawl through it. “ Will you do it?” she said, aiming two or three at the calves of his legs, while he skipped around like a great north western grasshopper with the jim-gams. “ Will you do it?” she repeated, con centrating her energies for a terrific swoop, and dealing him a blinder over the eyebrows that made the cold per spiration start out of every pore in his body. “I will!” he roared in agony; and they were married. For some time past cotton cleverly treated by chemical and other proceases has been woven into goods which have all the appearance of silks, and which are sold as such, so perfect is their resem blance to the genuine article. An imita tion of merino is also made from cotton and extensively sold. A Bostox paper calls for two separate Heaven* —one for the good and the othir for the fair to medium. Oh, pshaw ! Less all go in together- A Real Indian •Romauee. The Louisville Courier-Journal tells this torv : Between Clarksville, Tenn.. and EdJyville, Ky., on the Cumberland river, there is a cavern which can only he entered by diving into the water, and which lias no other light than that re flected from the bottom of the river. It was accidentally discovered by a young Indian chief, while one day diving for Us gun, which he had dropped from his canoe into the river. The Indian youth who L Y-overed it, for along time kept the secret to himself, and would often resort to it in his lonely hours, where, by the aid of hi - flint and a piece of dry wood, he would kindle a fire and enjoy himself in looking at the magnificence of the scene as the light reflected back mil lions of beams from the numerous stalag mites and stalactites of gigantic size and fantastic forms. The cave was about fifty feet wide, and about the same in height. In the course of time this young son of the forest became enamored with a beautiful daughter of one of the back woodsmen in the settlement. The young chiefs name was Wallahalla and the girl’s name was Agnes Robertson. In those days the daughters of the backwoodsmen could swim, ride, and handle a gun with all the dexterity and skill of their fathers and brothers. Arriving at the place the lover disappeared beneath the surface of the water and the maiden quickly fol lowed him. Here he informed her she must remain as his prisoner until he gained the consent of her parents to their union. Wallahalla then departed to re turn soon after with dried venison and such articles as were necessary for her comfort. Returning to the settlement, Wallahalla found that the place had been attacked by the foe and the village burnt to the ground. The parents of Agnes mourned her as dead, or lingering in a eaptivitv to which 'death would be far preferable. The young chief was loudest in his lamentations over the lost girl, and at the war dance of his trifle swore the direst vengeance against her captors. All the male portion of the settlement, together with the friendly tribe to which the young chief Wallahalla* belonged, started in pursuit of the foe to rescue the girl. After a long and tedious march they came upon the enemy in the neigh borhood of where Metropolis city, 111., now stands. A furious battle was fought, in which the attacking party, headed by young Wallahalla, dealt death and de struction to their foe until the ammuni tion was exhausted. At this moment the enemy was reinforced, and the attack ing party was compelled to retire across the Ohio. The father of Agnes Robert son was almost crazed with grief at the loss of his beloved daughter. In his great agony he published to the troops the fol lowing announcement: “I, Andrew Robertson, will give to the rescuer of my daughter from the hands of the lowas her hand in marriage, 1,000 acres of land, 100 head of cattle and horses, 100 pounds of powder, and two rifles.” Andrew Rebertson. Twenty men, warriors and riflemen, among them Wallahalla, stepped forward and tendered their services. The girl herself was a fortune to any man. The parent and his trusty friends, with the exception of those who were to go in pursuit of the lowas in search of Agnes Robertson, returned to the settlement on Little river, near the place now known as Cadiz, in Trigg county, Ky., to rebuild tlier huts and the stockade which the In dians had destroyed. Wallahalla separ ated himself from both parties, and by ji circuitous route wended his way to the cavern in search of his beloved Agnes, whom he found in almost a starving con dition. The full moon shone forth in all its splendor on the night of the 25th of May as they rose to the surface of the water and entered their canoe to return to the arms of the lovely Agne’s parents, and receive the reward and a blessing. Their advent into the settlement on the following morning was an occasion for great rejoicing. Feasting and dancing were the order for several weeks, and the young chief Wallahalla was the toast of the country for miles around. He was the recipient of presents of land, horses, cattle, skins, etc., to a larger extent than any man living since the foundation of the world. Of the nineteen men who stepped forward to offer their services to Andrew Robertson, not one returned to give in his experience, and the general impression existed at that time that they were either tomahawked or burnt at the stake. Wallahalla married and changed his name to Robertson. Many of his descendants lived in the neighborhood of what is now known as Crittenden county and Trigg county, Ky., till about the year 1818, when (hey removed to Eastern Georgia. How to Harvest Castor Beans. The Rural World says: As soon as the spikes begin to hurst open they must he cut off and thrown into boxes, and hauled to the popping-out place. The manner of gathering is to make a sleigh that will pass between the rows, having a box that will hold ten bushels, that being a load for an ordinary horse. One horse at tached to a sled on which a dry goods box is placed will answer. For twenty acres, three sleds, made of 2x6 stuff, wide enough to hold the largest sized dry goods box, will suffice. Care should he taken to gather up those that have popped out before a rain, as rain blackens them, and they will not sell as well. To prepare a place for them to pop out, select a clean, smooth, hard place on the prairie, sloping enough to cause rainwater to flow off freely, so that none will stand or lie dead; take sharp hoes and scalp off smooth all the grass on a space say 100 by 80 feet, for twenty acres. This should be swept off clean, leaving a level surface of hard ground. Then deposit your spikes, leaving a bor der uncovered of at least twenty feet all around, to catch those beans that jump outward when opening under a hot sun. About the second or third day they should be turned, to bring those at the bottom to the top. A steel garden rake is the best implement to use. About the fourth or fifth day they are nearly all out of the burs, and the haulm or straw, then greatly diminished in bulk, should he pitched on a pile to give them time for stragglers to leave it, and the beans being set free are found in the bot tom of the debris, can easily he raked clear of empty burs, and taken away preparatory to fanning. Any good fan ning machine will clean them, and when the vard is clean and solid very little eartli will go with them. After the beans begin to rijien the field should be gone over once or twice a week till frost. In hot, dry weather they ripen more rapidly than in cool, wet weather. Children can jierform this work, and a large family of children can not be more profitably employed than in taking care of a crop of castor beans. The work is all light. With a steady horse children may do all the work. THE MISSISSIPPI’S MOUTH. (•‘iioral Belief of the Knjfiiieer* In tle ('apt. IMan*. The Board of Engineers convened by Capt. Eads, with the approval of the President, for the purpose of considering his plans for the construction of a system of jetties at the South Pass of the Missis sippi river, resumed its session yesterday morning at the Fifth avenue hotel. Though the details of the plan upon which the jetties are to he constructed were fully examined and discussed, no action was taken except to recommend that the mattresses he laid in the river out to the depth of thirty feet of water. Mr. Whitcomb, secretary of the tjoard, stated yesterday that very little doubt was entertained of the success of Capt. Ead’s plan. Unless the construction of the jetties, he said, should develop some action of the waters in the river above and in the gulf, which can not be fore seen or calculated on, the jetty system will attain all that is neccessary to make the river navigable at its mouth. No engineer, who has given the subject the slightest consideration, entertains any doubt that by confining the river lie tween artificial walls the force of the currents thus produced will deepen the channel. The experience derived from other works of a similar character has satisfactorily settled this point. The chief difficulties that lay in the way of the jetty system are supposed to exits in the construction of works having suf ficient stability to withstand the action of the current of the river within and of the tides and gulf currents from without, and at the same time preventing the form ation of anew bar within too/hort a period. It is now generally addmitted by the present board of engineers that Capt. Eads has obviated these difficul ties. Some members of the hoard believe that it will require over a century to form anew bar, while others, who do not think it will take so long, believe for at least twenty years the mouth of the river will he kept free from obstruction by the works now in progress. It is also the opinion of all the members of the com mission that the mattress system of build ing up the jetties will be successful. — New York Tribune. The Turning' Tide. Tt is noted as a significant fact that the southern and western merchants now crowding into New York for fall pur chases, almost universally take a more favorable view of affairs than they find existing in that city. The United States Economist says they all report that busi ness in their districts is active; that the crops are abundant, and that the plant ers and farmers are in a more favorable condition for supplying themselves with the commodities of which they stand in so much need. And they afford the best possible evidence of their views by pur chasing with a freedom and liberality that affords assurance of an active trade just as soon as the crops begin to move forward freely. An impression also lie gins to prevail that the less favorable con dition of affairs in the northern manu facturing states is more apparent than real. When the crops in the other parts of the country begin to move forward, orders will pour into the factories from all parts of the country to supply the demand for agricultural utensils, cloth ing, and household goods generally. The manufacturers as a rule were never in a better position to take advantage of any improvement that may take place in bus iness. In this connection the following remarks of the Economist indicates that northern manufacturers liegin to realize that “ protection ” is not without its drawbacks: It is a significant fact that the chief complaints of bad business come from what are known as “the protected in dustries,” those which enjoyed the high est bounty of the government now mak ing the most complaints, and in fact suf fering most severely. This is especially the case with the iron trade, which has been benefited to the amount of scores of millions of dollars a year by federal legislation. It exhibits least vitality and energy.— Nashville American. Darwin on Consanguineous Marriages. In a letter to the London Academy, George Darwin, son of the great scientist, says: My father has now been carrying on experiments for about nine years on the crossing of plants, and his results appear to him absolutely conclusive as to the advantages of cross fertilization to plants; although as the investigation is as yet unpublished, Mr. Huth, of course, could not Ik? aware of this. Now, all modern biological research points to the legiti maey of arguing by analogy between forms even as distinct as animals and plants, and accordingly the fair deduction to be made from this inquiry will be, that what is good or bad for plants is the same for mankind and animals. But this purely scientific point stands rather apart from what is in fact the main practical puestion at issue, viz.: Is consanguineous marriage, to the extent to which it is now practiced by civilized nations, detri mental, and is the detriment so great as to justify legislative interference? Mr. Huth himself must be forced to admit that it must be to some extent detri mental from the multiplication of identi cal pathological germs, and from the fact that no man knows with certainty until towards the end of life what ills may lie hidden in his edition of the family con stitution ; but by his work he makes a good case for the opinion that the evil seems thus far practically small, and that legislative interference is so far uncalled for; and this opinion my own recent in quiry confirms. This isn't a good season lor “catches” at the watering-places, and many nice girls are willing to take up with fieckled faced, imapove shed men. The Latest Fashions. > i A great many trousseaux are made in September for the weddings that take place later in the autumn. The new fabrics for wedding dresses are creamy white brocaded silks, or else white with the faintest pink tinge, covered with brocaded white roses. There are also verv rich white velvets with blocks and broken plaids of heavy pile, and also matelasse velvets with raised leaf and arabesque patterns. White rose brocaded silks in cream and in snow tints are $7 a yard; those with scroll and leaf pattern are $6. Some of these rich bridal dresses are made in princesse shape. They are quite plain as low down as the knee, hut below this they are richly flounced with plain gros grain and lace. Others are made with a long cuirass basque with sleeves of point lace, or else transparent sleeves of some kind. The cuirass has a jabot of lace straight down the back and down the front. The Lamballe fichu of lace or of the silk edged with lace trims other basques. White roses will be much worn mixed with orange blossoms for bridal parures. Anew way of arranging garlands on the tablier is shown in the engraving on our first page. ENGLISH WALKING JACKETS. Double-breasted English walking jack ets are made in large numbers for fall and winter wraps. The materials em ployed are Scotch Cheviots, diagonal cloths as finely twilled as vigogne, and other soft wool cloths. The trimmings are broad Titan braids, loosely woven, like Panama canvas, and buttons covered with this braid. Black is the prevailing color. They cost from sls to $lB. SILKS. The novelties in fall silks are now dis played on counters of retail stores, and some idea of their prices is obtained. One of the most tasteiul novelties is natte silk in loosely-matted tresses woven in basket checks. This is meant for over dresses to lie used with velvet or plain gross grain, and cost $4.50 a yard. It comes in all the dark stylish shades for suits, such as myrtle green, prune, seal brown, slate blue, gray, navy blue and black. Moyen age brocaded silks or sin gle color, blue, green or brown, are also shown for parts of suits. They measure twenty-four inches and eost $3.50 a yard. The winter gros grains are exceedingly soft and of medium fine reps. They are to be made up in connection with plain and figured velvets and with natte silks; hence merchants have imjmrted in shades to match the handsome novelties just de scribed. At every large house the an nouncement is made that myrtle green, seal brown and slate blue will be the leading colors. Prices range lower than those of last season. Dress silks begin as low as $1.50 a yard, in new colors as well as black, and increase to $5 or SO. For $3 and even less can be bought hand some gros grains for costumes. Trim ming silks in all the rich park shades are $1.35 a yard. Striped silks for parts of costumes, black with a colored stripe, can lie bought for 75 cents a yard in qualities that formerly sold for sl. Hand-woven black silks are highly commended by reliable merchants. They are spun and woven entirely by hand instead of by the powerloom. They are richly repped lustrous blue-black silks, very soft and finely finished ; and as this softness and lustre are in the silk itself, they are not lost hv usage. They are imported in four different grades, and sold for $2, $2.50, $3 and $3.50 a yard. They are said to wear better than any other silks. Those at $3 are as rich anil lustrous as many silks sold for $4 or $5 a yard. ENGLISH PRINTS AND CAMBRICS. English calicoes are in the plaid pat terns so popular in wool stuffs. They come in blocks, cross-bars and in bias plaids as well as m plain ones. Shaded brown plaids, black barred with violet, blue barred with black or with white, and black plaided with gold are the best patterns. These colors are also shown in irregular stripes. Price 28 cents. The soft-finished cambrics imitate twilled Cheviots, and have diagonal strips and plaids. Blue, brown and gray are the prevailing colors. Navy blue grounds are barred with white in Greek key pat tern. The slate blues are also pretty. These goods are a yard wide, and cost 28 cents. They ere being made up with side-plaited basques, or else with loose basques. They nave long round over skirts plainly hemmed, or else bordered with a stripe of calico. The lower skirt may also be quite plain, but one gathered flounce does not detract from the neat style appropriate for such dresses. Read Your Country’s History. In the action of Lundy’s Lane a Colo nel O’Neil (General, he came tocallhim self,) got a scratch on his leg. The wound was a matter of great joy, and he nursed it through after days,growing lamer with every year, that the memory of his bravery might Ik? ever near him. Gradu ally, from sheer pondering over his stories he grew to think that the success of the battle was largely owing to his services. One day, late in his life, as he sat nurs ing his leg and pondering over the glories past, a young man, visiting the family ♦hr the first time, approached and sym pathetically remarked, “ Lame General?” “ Yes, sir,” after a pause, with inexpres sible solemnity, “I am lame.” “Been riding, sir?,’ “No,” with a rebuking sternness, “I have not been riding.’’ “Ah! slipjx'd on the ice, General, and hurt your leg?” “No, sir,” with actual ferocity. “Perhaps you have sprained your ankle, sir?” With a painful slow ness the old man lifted his pet leg in both hands, set it carefully on the floor, rose slowly from his chair, and looking down upon the unfortunate youth with a stare of mingled wonder, pity and wrath, burst forth in the sumlimity of rage, “Go read the history of your country, you puppy!” Figures tell us that-agriculture is the leading interest in the country; that forty-five per cent, of our population are engaged in agricultural pursuits—more than one-half larger than those who are engaged in manufactures and the leading trades; more than four times larger than those engaged in merchandise, and nearly ten times larger than those engaged in he professions. Prof. Tyndall now takes the ground that Ham was an Indian instead of a negro. Anybody can take any ground he wants to these'days. VOL. 16--NO. 40. USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. Fifteen thousand dollars is thy con tract price for the new bronze statu® which the city of Providence is about erecting to Roger Williams. There is a Maine man who has pre served a document emanating from a justice of the peace, to this effect: “Hancock, ss. Novr 11th 1809. Then personally appeared Ibrook Eddy of Ed dington, and acknowledged myself guilty of having uttered two profane oaths on this day, and has paid a fine for th® same as the law directs to me.” It is the London Telegraph which f>uts forth this slander upon American >abies: “ The transatlantic infant has a peculiar mode of crying in a series of sharp, spasmodic yelpc, very different from the soetenuto howl of the British bantling, and with intonation as though it were prematurely striving to recite the Declaration of Independence with its mouth full of peanuts and pop-corn.” There is a megatherium in the Detroit Museum. Its stomach must have been about the size of a beer-vat, and a cor respondent of the Graphic dosen’t under stand how it could possibly have satis fied itself with ants. Unscientific minds are always criticizing everything that they do not comprehend. Undoubtedly the megatherium used to spell his ants with a“u” and found it very easy to live on them. A man of kindly nature is apt to pro vide for the comfortable old age of a horse that has long carried him, and would be grieved to sell such an animal to a poor master for mean work and mis erable treatment. Poverty may force consent; but a certain gratitude is felt for old and faithful service; still more where there is personal affection, as in a dog. But when there is no personal re lation it would seem that our rights over animal life are increased by certain do mesticity. If bv defending sheep we cause their numiters to increase, our right to take the lives which would not have existed without your cares appear* greater than in the case ot wild animals wholly independent of. France Learning to Sfoot. —Th* international rifle matches of England, America, Switzerland and Belgium have at last roused France to a perception of the importance of reviving and extending among Frenchmen the knowledge and use of arms. The French Societe au Tir, or shooting club, which meets in the house of the Club des Officers, in the Rue de Bellechasse, at Paris, is now organizing shooting-matches for Franee on the prin ciple of those which have long been so popular in Switzerland and in Belgium. One great source of the inefficiency of the vast but hasty levies made by France after Sedan in the late terrible war was the absolute ignorance of the use of fire arms which prevailed to an incredible ex tent among the new recruits, both from the cities and from the rural districts. A Famous Armorer. —Andre de Far rara was the most famous armorer of modern times. He first came into note in the Highlands of Scotland. It is said he was the only person who could forge armor that would resist the Sheffield ar row heads, or make swords that would vie with tne best w-eapons of Toledo and Milan. He is supposed to have learned his art in the Italian city whence he was called, to have, practiced it in secrecy among the Highland hills, as his genuine blades were all marked with a crown. Before his time no man in Great Britain could temper a sword in such a way that the point should touch the hilt and spring back uninjured. He is said to have worked in a dark cellar, the better to en able him to perceive the effect of the heat upon the metal, and to watch the nicety ot the tempering, as well as possibly to serve as a screen to his secret method of working. Many of his blades, with new basket hilts, are to l>e found in the Scot tish regiments of the present day. The Smugglers of Upper-tendom.— Last week the new and stringent regula tions adopted by the Treasury Depart ment for the examination of the baggage of passengers arriving at Atlantic port* went into effect. Every article in every trunk and box is taken out and over hauled. Miss Flora McFlimsey, and all the other McFlimsevs, are required to make oath as to the foreign market value of each article. The custom-house offi cers then attach the amount of duty to the items in the list. The examination is very strict, and the disgust of both ladies and gentlemen, especially the for mer, at the vulgar exhibition and ap praisement of their finery, is said to be something ludicrous. .Sometime® passen gers are compelled to pay from SSOO to several thousand dollars duty. Of course, this is all according to law, but a great government which resorts to expedients of this kind cannot be complimented on its fiscal simplicity. But it is chiefly to the class of persons who now feel the ter ror of the screw, that the existence pf the present odious tariff is due, and if they now complain they will receive little sympathy. A Colossal Image. —ln a “Jaunt in Japan,” by Mr. Bassett, of the United States Navy, we find the following ac count of a statue of Buddha: Threading the narrow streets our guide led us up a deep wooded ravine by a broad, leafy path. Suddenly there burst upon our view one of the most remarkable works of man that it has been my fortune to see. Securely embowered in the tall trees, in sight of the waves of the Pacific, is erected an enormous statue in bronze of Buddha, the Japanese divinity. It is in a sitting pos ture, with the arms resting in the lap in front, and is fifty feet in height from the stone platform, to which a flight of nine stone steps leads. Around the head are rows of enormous cockle-shells, exempli fving the tradition that these animals sheltered the divinity from the heat of the sun. As an art expression of the ideal, the execution is wonderful. The typical state of eomple rest and contem plation, which all good Buddhists hope to attain, is well suggested in the majes tic repose of this colossal statue. Of all the wonderful works of this curious peo ple, this is the most remarkable. To get an idea of its comparative size, we climbed the front of the image and stood in the palms of the hands. The tallest of our party was hardly longer than the thumb of the hand exposed to view! From this station we could see the bay four mile awav.