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" At Arlington.
UT JAMES B. BASDALL.
», broken column, reared in air,
To Hid "lio made onr country great,
ni Jmoat east its shadow where
£Ti-tims of a grand despair,
1 b long, long raak* of death, await
*Tbe hat lend trump, the Judgment-sun,
chich come for all, and, soon or late,
Will come for those at Arlington.
f-thatvast eepnlchre repose
Ike thousands reaped from every fray;
■.Benin blue who once uprose
5; tattle-front to smite their foes—
The Spartan bands who woro the gray.
He combat o’er, the death-bug done,
la summer blaze or winter snows,
Ihey keep their trace at Arlington.
tad, almost lost in myraid graves,
Of those who gained the unequal fight,
jjc mounds that bide Confederate braves,
(he reck not bow the North wind raves,
In dialing day or dimmest night,
O'er those who lost and those who won,
Ptstk holds no parley which was right—
Jehovah judges Arlington.
jhe dead had rest: the Dove of Peace
Rwded o'er both with equal wings.
Klotb had come that great surcease,
Re last omnipotent release
from all the world’e delirious stings—
To bugle deaf and signal-gun,
"hey slept like heroes of old Greece,
Beneath the glebe at Arlington.
Judin the spring’s benign tint reign,
The sweet May woke her harp of pines;
reaching her choir a thrilliDg strain
Of jubilee to land and main, .
ihi danced in emeralds down the lines—
toying largesse bright to none,
She saw no difference' in the signs
That told who slept at Arlington.
iho gave her grasses and her showers
To all alike who dreamed in dust;
Jer song-birds wove their dunty bowers
tat the jasmine buds and flowers,
And piped with an impartial trast;
Waifs of the air ana liberal sun,
Their guileless glees were kind and just
To friend and foe at Arlington.
ted 'mid tho generous spring there came
Scmo women of the land, who strove
ib make this funeral-field of fame
dad as the May-god’s altar-flame,
With rosy wreaths of mutual love;
Unmindful who had lost or won,
Ihey scorned the jargon of a name;
No North, no South, at Arlington!
Mween their pious thought and God
Stood files of men with brutal steel,
he garlands placed on “Rebel sod”
fere trampled in the common clod,
Todio beneath the hireling heel.
Facing this triumph of the Hun,
Our Smoky Ctesar gave no nod,
To keep the peace at Arlington.
Ishovah judged—abashing man—
For, in the vigils of tho night,
Elis mighty storm-avengers ran
Together in ono choral clan,
Rebuking wrong, rewarding right;
Plucking She wreaths from thosewho won,
Tlie tempest heaped them dewy bright
On Rebel graves at Arlington.
Jsd when tho morn came, yonng and fair,
Brimful of blushes ripo and red,
Knee-deep in sky-sent roees there,
Xiturc began her earliest prayer
Above triumphant Southern dead,
So, in the dark andln the snn,
Our eanse survives the tyrant's tread,
And sleeps to wake at Arlington!
be Loves of tbe Lower Animals.
Itke Duck to the Kangaroo,
Good gracious! how you hop!
r the fields and the water too,
• if yon never would stop! *
is a bore in this nasty pond, ,
nd 1 long to go ont in the world beyond;
«i I canid leap liko you 1”
“Itbe Duck to tbo Kangaroo.
bwe give me a ride on your back!"
the Duck to the Kangaroo.
■tad eit quite still and say nothing bat 'Quack!’
« whole of the long day through!
Jte'd go to tho Dee and tho Jelly Bo Lee
*» the land and over the sea.
•»» take me a ride, oh do!” •
M the Duck to tho Kangaroo. '
Kangaroo to tho Duck:
requires some little reflection;
5»pa on the whole it nught bring me luck,
there eoems but one obj oction,
*i> is, if you’ll let me speak so bold,
fur feet aro unpleasantly wet and cold,
would probably give mo tho Roo-
«iz!” said the Kangaroo.
jth* Duck, “As I sat on tbo rocks
«ve thought over that completely,
it bought four pair of worsted socks,
!“cu fit my web-feet neatly;
i«> keep ont the cold Tvs bought a cloak,
M every day a cigar Til smoke,
K> follow my own dear, true
We of a Kangaroo!”
[the Kangaroo. “I’m ready
G in the moonlight pale,
to balance me well, dear Duck, sit steady,
®d quite at the end of my tail!”
Wiy they went with a hop and a bound,
they boppod the whole world throe times
round;
I who eo happy, O who 1
a tbo Duck and tbe Kangaroo ?
Women Gamblers.
Die Kansas City News says: “A woman
tt through on the Kansas Paoifio train last
Sing, that was pointed ont to ns as one of
'telebrated female faro-bankers of Denver,
•was dressed tastily and quietly in a gray
**» traveling suit, with gloves and trimming
btto match: was of medium stature, well
ra *d, and not more than thirty-four or thirty-
1 Her face was not at all an unpleasant one,
^bave been very pretty, some time, ore so
tell-tale lines were drawn upon it; and
41 « most unusual in women of her class, the
Splexion was good. She was on her way
utfrom St. Louis, where she went, so our in-
9*#t stated, to place a young boy at school.
taro-bank at Denver has been in full blast
‘ aoruo time, and the two proprietors are reap-
? * rich harvest. No fights or disturbances
kind have ever occurred at their rooms,
rjbe women conduct the game with all the
hty of experienced professionals. Several
r® °t tho gambling fraternity were at the
gjsand seemed much interested in inquiring
ftjfctviTE, letter from, Paris brings to notice
2 a ° Q 3 ease of what is called the irony of his-
Great Exhibition of 1851 was sup-
V' ‘ " e the inauguration of a period of por-
W l* 1106 - A. large collection of French
-■Ata was sent to it by order of the National
toni y * -kfter the exhibition these samples
stored for the benefit of the curious, in the
Jz™*of tho conservatoire des Arts et Me-
tot. The directors of the museum and their
> and the sick and wounded (for whom
: • been prepared in the building), have
• .ring the latter portion of the siege upon
white bread, made out of the samples
* v '- mentioned.
Colton—The 1’ast, Present and Fa-
tore. I
The annexed communication contains some
interesting statements and reflections, and we
therefore publish it. We desire, however, to
caution onr readers against resting npon any
such proposed theory in regard to futnre prices.
The writer may bo perfectly candid and have no
desire to influence the market, and yet his opin.
ion may be totally unreliable and his sugges
tions delusive. With this introduction we think
no harm oan come of giving his communication
to our readers:
Editor Journal of Commerce : Mayl ask the
privilege of a small place in your columns to
express some views upon a subject of import
ance, directly to a large number of people .in
this country, and indirectly to the civilized
world. This request has not been sooner pre
ferred, because the writer had no wish to be
classed among those who avail themselves, of
press privileges for purposes of private gain.
But as the price of cotton has now nearly
reached a minimum neither of ua can be reason
ably accused of violating duty—L in expressing
nor you, in allowing your journal to become the
vehicle of my opinions.
The very gradual declinCin cotton since tho
opening of the present season is due principally
to the readiness shown by the English shippers
to take it freely at the prices current from day
to day. It i3 also partially due to a peculiar
condition of affairs among ourselves, and the
conflict of opinion arising therefrom. Early in
in the season, operators here arrayed themselves
into two parties. On one side were those who,
through interest or conviction, or both, oper
ated for a rise in prices, or for a steady market
at figures remunerative to the planters. On
the other, were the purely speculative—those
who, having no relations with planters—bought
and sold on their own account. And as a rule
the latter have believed in a declining market,
and operated accordingly. We all know now
to whom the victory belongs; but the ground
has been fought inch by inch; and planters
certainly havo no jast grounds of complaint
against those to whom their interests were in
trusted. Tho decline has been by sixteenths
and eighths; nowand again a steady market,
and sometimes even a rally. And during this
time the planters have availed themselves of
the opportunity of pushing off their crops at re
munerative prices—as tho receipts to date will
abundantly show.
Now that the result is no longer doubtful, it
well behooves us to take a glance at the situa
tion, and endeavor to mark out a. wise course
for the futnre.
That cheap cotton is a great desideratum to
the civilized world at large, perhaps no one will
deny; and that the working of Providence or
Nature is in tho direction of increasing the
comforts of mankind, has como to be a maxim
among economists. That those who in
this country are engaged in the production of
cotton should endeavor to impair the bounty of
Nature, by cramping production, is, to say the
least of it—anomalous. Yet wo find many who
advise such a course.
The late civil war so crippled production,
that prices had advanced ont of all reason; and
capital and labor, tempted by the prospective
reward, were largely diverted to increasing pro
duction. Now that production has reached, if
not exceeded all previous limits, and prices have
gone back toante helium figures—it becomes us
to inquire about the future. -
Many say that production this year will be
contracted by several causes; by the action of
tho planters, who will devoto more attention to
food raising; by the want of moans to buy
guano, mules, implements, pork, etc., through
the unwillingness of capitalists to moko ad
vances; by tho weather, which they say cannot
be expected to continue favorable for foar suc
cessive years, etc., etc. They therefore flatter
themselves that our crop this year will fall be
low 3,000,000 bales, and that consequently we
may look for a return to much higher prices
than those now prevailing. There is much force
in all this; but I have serious doubts about tho
correctness of some of the premises; and I
know that the conclusion, even if a correct one,
is not desirable. The history of cotton produc
tion for the few years previous to the war is full
of valuable information on this point. Cotton
planters did then what they, are likely to do
again, they proved that they possessed a trait
common to all human nature—when the price
per pound was reduced, they increased the num
ber of the pounds.
And in this connection, pomit me to remark
that the real test of the character of tho negroes
—slaves no longer—is now about to be applied.
Before the war, the white owner of both negroes
and plantation was the judge of the measure of
economy allowed by the income fromjiis crop.
He regulated not only his own expenses, but
those of his negroes, and their hours of labor.
Since the war, the negroes have been able by
half work to earn full subsistance. The high
price of cotton enabled them to obtainbetter re
turns for the same amount of labor, than per
haps any other peasantry in the world. As a
consequence we have found them very active in
polities; ‘fs’cieties” of all kinds were numerous
in each district; the half grown boys and girls
divided their time between the horn, spelling
books and the idleness so industriously circu
lated and inculcated by the “Bureau;!’ a lively
trade has flourished in ginger cakes, cheap
trumpery, “s’ciety” badges, cheap candy,
marbles, and whisky; then, too, the political,
religions and moral outcasts of our
northern society have reaped rich harvests from
the temporary prosperity of the new-mado
freedmen; our professional philanthropists have
cackled and crowed us almost deaf with their
self-laudations and “we-told-you-so’s”; while
those who looked below the surface have waited
and dreaded the condition of affairs which is
now at our doors. Whether or not the freed
men will accept tho situation in the right spirit
remains to bo seen. But it is certain that it
will require more labor and economy to live un
der present prices, than under those which have
prevailed since the war. And further, the eco
nomical producer of cotton is too certain of
abundant reward to allow ns to suppose for a
moment that other labor will not be forthcom
ing, should the negro not prove equal to the oc
casion. Let us hope that the example of their
former owners, in adapting their conduct to a
severe and sudden change.of circumstances, will
not be without its effect ; and that the teach
ings of the few earnest missionaries among them
may induce their minds to a proper apprecia
tion of their duty.
To return to the subject in hand. It is not
apparent to the writer, how, even with a 3,000,-
000 bale crop this year, we oan look for any
marked increase in price. Stocks have been,
and aro accumulating in India. Crops in Egypt
and South America are reported os promising
well. The consumption of our best customers
on continental Europe is seriously crippled.
European politicians openly admit their inabili
ty much longer to avoid war over the Eastern
question. And that some of these reasons, or
all of them, or others, are operating in the
same direction on the minds of others, is made
apparent by the course pursued by the spinners
of England. They probably look as closely af
ter their own interests as any other class of peo
ple in the world. And as a role they aot in
concert. No channel of information is closed
to them, no means left unemployed to procure
it. Among them we find cabinet ministers, for
eign ambassadors, members of parliament, etc.,
and perhaps no other industry in the world has
a greater proportion of its thinking members
traveling abroad, in one. capacity and another,
each contributing his quota to the general stock
of information. Now if they believed in high
er-prices, we would see them putting away heavy
stocks of raw and mannfaotnred goods for fu
ture use. On the contrary we find them work
ing barely enough spindles to supply their cur
rent trade, keeping their stocks of raw and
manufactured goods down to a minimum, and
; allowing the capital of the consignees of our
cotton in Liverpool and London, to bear the
burden of carrying it- It is fair therefore to
conclude that as a class,they believe in low prioea
in the immediate future.
Those who have been planting as a specula
tion without the requisite experience, and with
out devoting to the business that care and econ-
omy so necessary to success, except daring
periods of inflated values, will either have to
mendtheir ways or betake themselves to other
pursuits. : Those who make planting cotton the
business of their lives will endeavor by economy
of resources, increased exertion, lower, rates of
wages, a judicious use of manures and striot at
tention to their business , to make up for low
prices, by increasing the amount they will have
for sale. And- it does seem to me that such a
course will be in the end more beneficial than
a pursuance of a loose way of doing things,
through expectations—delusive I fear—of are-
turn to high prioes.
If, in writing about cotton, I have, in this in
stance, avoided the usual concomitants of long
rows of figures, it is because I believe that mis
takes are sometimes made by those who view a
subject in the concrete, as well as by those who
consider in the abstract.
Your consent to publish this will be a guar
anty to me that it will be of use to somebody.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant^
New York, March 7, 1871. Viatob.
TERRIFIC HURRICANE AT ST. LOUIS.
Seven Persona Killed-—Railroad Repots
and Other Buildings Levelled—Or eat De
struction of Property.
St. Louis, March 8.—A' terrific hurricane
passed over a portion of East St. Louis between
2 and 3 o’clock this afternoon. The wind first
came from the squtheast, accompanied by a
brisk shower, but suddenly veered to the south
west, and came with a fury and foroe never be
fore witnessed in this latitude. It first struck
the elevator on the right bank of the river, and
took part of its root off, and passing in a due
northeast direction it totally demolished the
freight depot of the Sfc. Louis and Yandalia
Railroad, 800 feet long by 100 feet high, the
freight and passenger depot of toe Northeast
ern Railroad, two freight depots, a portion of
the passenger depot and ticket office, and the
large round house of the Chicago and Alton
Railroad,' the oar house, scale office, freight
office, and part of ono of toe freight
depots of the Ohio and Mississippi Road,
the freight and passenger depots of the
Toledo and Wabash Road, and a num
ber of dwelling-houses in toe vicinity. A
portion of the roof of the Terre Haute and In
dianapolis depot was blown off, and nearly all
theS&erricks and other appliances used in-the
construction of the bridge were tom from their
places and blown into the river. Everything
in fact within a space of from 200 to 300 yards
wide was actually tom to pieces. A train of
cars, including a thirty-ton locomotive, was
blown from the track and hurled about forty
feet into a slough.' Another train of thir
teen cars laden with grain, was over turned and
smashed, and one car was blown into the river.
A train coining in on the Terre Haute road,when
at Brooklyn, three miles north of East St. Lonis
was blown from the track, and about forty cars
standing on a side-track of the Toledo and Wa
bash and Chicago and Alton road, about nine
mile3 out, were overthrown. The round house
of tho Chicago and Alton road, after being
blown down, caught fire from an engine inside
and was burned. The engineer of the locomo
tive was burned to death.
The number of killed and wounded cannot be
stated to-night, but seven are known to be killed
and between thirty and forty seriously wounded,
some dangerously and a good many more slight
ly injured. It is believed a number of persons
are still buried beneath the ruins. The scene is
frightful. Houses are tom to fragments; others
are unroofed or upset, and still others aro car
ried bodily from their foundations. Scarcely a
building or tree or anything else within the
track of the storm is standing. The wreck and
rain is complete. The pecuniary losses are esti
mated as follows: The Chicago and Alton
Railroad, $500,000; Ohio and Mississippi, $200,-
000; Toledo and Wabash, $125,000; St. Louis
and Vandalia, $30,000; Southeastern, $30,000;
Wiggins Perry Company, $25,000. The steam
boats lying on tho eastern side of tho river aro
isly dai
Under tbe Staples.
BV lipOS A. BBOCK..
seriously damaged.
Sketches in Paris.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Times says:
Tho feeding of the population with British
bread and cheese is going on apace. I visited
the Bon Marche yesterday, and found M. Bou-
cicault and his whole establishment serving out
provisions to the delighted crowds. He was
assisted by about fifty of the young men and
women who in ordinary times attend to his
large establishments, and who, with white
aprons on, wore pouring flour, .biscuit, etc.,into
the outspread aprons or baskets of the appli
cants. In order to prevent too rapid crowding,
Mr. Boncicanlt has hit npon tho ingenions de
vice of having a barrel of wine and some bread
and cheese at the entrance. By atopping their
mouths he stops the impetuosity of the current,
and the queue comes along too busy munching
to press inconveniently. The number of per
sons fed daily at this one establishment amounts
to from 12,000 to 15,000.
It is difficult for an Englishman to go there
without receiving more private thanks than his
modesty or his feelings can bear. Ono old lady
bnrst into tears of gratitude as she seized my
hands, find the story of her two sons, wounded
and prisoners, and of her own privations, inters
spersed with expressions of thankfulness for
relief, was so touching as fairly' to drive me
back to the wine-bibbing, laughing crowd at the
entrance in order to recover my equanimity.
It was pleasant to see the radiant expressions
of the faces of tho young and old as, with load
ed aprons, they hied them home to the families
that wero expecting them.
At the great glass establishment of St. Louis,
in the Rue Paradis Poissonniere, the proprietor
purposes another, and most admirable system.
His object is to reach the “pautres lionteux
many of whom are persons inthe upper classes
of society. I know of an instance where a lady
is, at this moment, living on the charity of a
woman who was once her concierge,—these per
sons cannot be excited to coine and make queue
for hours in the streets, and to them are sent
wagon loads ofjparcels made np according to the
sizs of the family. Ten wagon loads, contain
ing 15,000 substantial meals, went off from
this establishment this morning. It is to be
remarked that all this distribution is to be un
dertaken gratuitously by wealthy and benevo
lent shopkeepers. ; "
All “Dressed in tbeir Sunday’s Best.”
Lady readers may be interested in the follow
ing account of the dresses worn by the royal
family at Queen Victoria’s last reception—the
description being famished by the Court News
man:
The Queen wore a black silk dress with, a
train trimmed with crape and jet, and a head
dress of pearls and diamonds over a long white
tulle veil Her Majesty also wore a pearl neck
lace and a diamond and pearl broach, with the
Riband and Star of the Order of the Garter, the
Orders of Victoria and Albert and Louise of
Prussia, and the Saxe-Coburg and Goto; Family
Order. ..
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales
wore a train of mauve satin trimmed with
ruches of the same and bows of violet velvet; a
petticoat of violet velvet, with ruches and bows
of mauve satin, and. a tunia of white Brussels
lace. Headdress—a tiara of diamonds, feathers
and veil. Ornaments—a corsage, necklace, and
earrings of pearls and diamonds. Orders—Vic
toria and Albert and the Danish Order.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Christian
wore a train and petticoat of pale gray satin, with
flounces and trimmings of Irish lace and bor
dered with swansdown. Headdress and orna
ments—feathers, pearls and diamonds. Orders
—Victoria and Albert, St Isabel, of. Portugal;
and the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Family Order.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Louise wore
a dress of rich white silk and a train of the
same trimmed with ruches of silk and fringe.
Headdress—a wreath of Narcissus with dia
monds. Orders—'Viotoria and Albert, St Isabel
and the Ooburg and Gotha Family Order.
A woman in Mississippi last season cultivated,
with the help of a mule, ten acres of oorn, ten
acres of wheat and ten acres of oats, making a blocks thre*
e’ear profit of $400. four inohes
Under the maples eat Jenny and I, *
Ever so many years ago; - -
Watching tho streamlet murmuring by, .
And gurgling a love-song in its now;
And fleecy clouds, in a phantom troop,
Scudded across the bright-blue sky,
While our hearts were weaving; in many a loop,
A mesh for the lives of Jenny and L
• XL
It seemed not strange that her tiny hand
Should nestle so trustingly fond in mine.
And her auburn ringlets’ gold-brown strand
My clumsy fingers like silk should twine:
And right it seemed that her bright young head
Should find a pillow upon my breast,
As the olouds, in gold and purple and red,
Sank royally down in the far-eff west,
nr.
For I that old, old story had told—
The Btory of anxious hopes and fears—
While over her ringlets’ dark-brown gold
Was falling a shower of pearly tears—
Tears that bung on her eyelids’ fringe
■ Like due on the fresh-bom buds of May—
-And her blushes deepened their roseate tinge,
As I tenderly kissed those tears away. -
iv.
Her heart was mine, though her .lips iefus-ri
To utter that longed-for syllable, "Yes;’"'
But musing she sighed, and sighing Bhe mused,
What meant her sighs and muaings—guess ?
But then we pledged by the streamlet’s flow,
As the stars peeped out from tho twilight sky,
Ever so many years
Ivor so many years ago,
Under the maples, Jenny and L
V. ,
Thore are frosty streaks in tho auburn hair
That I twined round my fingers years ago;
And the brow of my wife may be lesB fair
Than it seemed in that sunset’s ruddy glow;
But I know when I clasp her to my breast,
There’s awilder tin ill than in days gone by,
When the clouds sank royally down in the west,
As under the maples sat Jenny and I.
Applecon's Journal.
How Is That Tor High.
A few days since a waggish gentleman was
walking down Broadway, N. Y. When opposite
Trinity Church, whose spire top is five hundred
and sixty feet from the ground, he met a Ger
man, and the following dialogue ensued:
“Good morning, Schneider.”
“We gechts den.”
“Do you know what church that is?”
“Yaw, - does is der Drinity Church.”
“Yon see the steeple and that little cross,
w-a-a-a-y up there ?”
“Yaw. I saw him.”
“Well, how is that for high?”
The German looked pleased, scratched his
head and said:
Dot is good! Der best I hear deso six weeks,
yaw, dos ia very goot!”
The wag went his way, leaving the German
smiling, scratching his head, and gazing ab
stractedly at the little cross so high in toe air.
While tons standing, a smile on his face, a
friend came along, and he thought to give him
the same good thing, and have another laugh,
and said:
“Hollo, Fritz—how you vas, eh?”
“ Goot. How vas is going to be mit your
self?” -
“Goot all der vile. You know vat dash isht?”
“Yaw—dat am der Trinity; I- know dat
church more as a dozen years already once.”
“You see dem steeples, und der leetle cros3
on der top of dem steeples wa-a-a-a-y most into
der clouds?”
“Yaw I see der leetle cross.”
“You see him? Veil—I shust ask you, 7low
high is dot?”
Then he laughed, and laughed, while toe
other man replied:
“I don’t know; but what for you make so
much laugh?” .
“It’s der schoke—don’t you see him—der
schoke—ven 1 ask you how higJt is dot ?”
“No, I no see der schoke?”
“Veil, dot is funny. A man jnst told dot to
me,und I make laugh all der vile. Und you don’t
see der schoke?” I dinks you been bumming
oronnd all night, and yon oan see nothing!”
CLERKS OF COURTS ELIGIBLE.
An Important Decision by Congress.
iTat.t. op the House op Repbeseotattves,)
Washington, D. G., March 9,1871. >
Editor Constitution: I am addressed almost
daily by persons who held the office of Clerk of
the Court previous to the war, requesting to
have their disabilities removed. The question
of the disability of such persons has been adju
dicated favorably by the House, and I am now
persuaded that it is unnecessary to offer bills
looking to the removal of the disabilities of
those who were Clerks 6f Courts previous to
or.
In the case of Hon. A. M. Waddell, repre
senting the Third District of North Carolina,
the House of Representatives, at the beginning
of this session, settled the question whether
clerks of courts of law and equity in the South
came under the third section of the fourteenth
amendment Colonel Waddell was a Clerk and
Master of a court of equity in North Carolina
before the war, and afterwards a Lieutenant-Col
onel in the Confederate army.' When he came
to be sworn in, Mr. Maynard,- of Tennessee,
objected, and made an argument to show that
he was disqualified; but after a reply from Judge
Kelley, of Pennsylvania, (a leading Radioal,)
denying toe disqualification of Colonel Wad
dell, tl;e previous question was called, and he
was admitted by a large majority.
Although no decision has yet been arrived at
in regard to Postmasters, it is the opinion of
many leading Republicans that they are not dis
qualified under tho fourteenth amendment. >
Yours, eto, W. P. Pbioe.
A eomantio incident, showing the power of
an earnest love to overcome toe most formida
ble difficulties, is reported in the. Colorado
papers. A Chicago youth fell in love with a
Colorado maid, whose father was ao opposed to
the proceedings that he drove-toe young man
from his house with wrath and a revolver.
Upon this the earnest youth had the stem pa
rent arrested for threatening his life; and when
the old gentleman was safely locked up, by the
judicious use of a ten-dollar bill, -he induced
the same Justice, of the Peace who had impris
oned the father to marry him to the; daughter.
This done, toe old man was brought up for .trial,-
when he concluded to swap forgiveness with his
enterprising son-in-law,- who thereupon mag
nanimously withdrew his complaint
A raw days ago a farmer near South Hamp
ton, Conn., sold a horse for $250, and on going
home put the money in its plaoe, a dilapidated
drawer in an old bureau. His place for matches
was the samo drawer. A few days afterward,
after using the whetstone, he threw it into its
place, the aforesaid drawer. A few minutes
later he saw smoke comiDg from the drawer.
On a hasty examination he found that the whet
stone, as he threw it down, had ignited the
matches, and the matches had set fire to the
greenbacks, and the greenbacks bad bnraed to
ashes. Moral—Have a separate place for
matches, whetstones and greenbacks.
A Thibstt Vermonter hitched his horse to
a freight car standing on a side strack while he
proceeded leisurely toward a neighboring saloon
in quest of “tanglefoot.” Meantime the freight
train moved on, and when the Vermonter re
turned his team was missing. Proceeding np
the track he came to a wrecked wagon, a wheel
here, a spoke there, and soon after stumbled
upon the poor horse quite dead, the animal
having been choked to death ere toe halter
parted.
A Wtt.t.tam Couuege student who went to
Pittsburg on a “spark,” the other dsy, had oc
casion to get a check cashed at the bank, but
the cashier didn't know him, and demanded
identification. He bethought himself of tho
mark on his underclothing, and triumphantly
unbuttoned his. doat, only. to disdose in plsin
letters, on the band of his shirt, the name of
:• ’ Foreign Motes. • 1 : '
BBEPABXP FOB TBE TELEOEAPH AOT MESSZNOEB.
Since the war has ended, the reports by cable, :
having lost that stirring interest formerly At
tached to them, have grown insignificant Order
is slowly returning in Paris, and, upon the
whole, the' situation of France is more promis
ing than it was a week ago. The dangefn of
civil war are passing away, and Thiers seems
a fair trial. It augurs well for the new admin
istration that there are no bombastic and loqua
cious demagogues like Victor Hugo, Blanc,
Pyat, or even Gambetta, to be found in the
councils of the nation. The fall of the latter one
has indeed been accomplished with astonishing
ease, and it is surprising how suddenly this re
markable man,'whose character and motives aro
not apparent yet, has arisen and disappeared
again like the ephemereal lustre of an ignis
fatuus.
The French press console the people with the
prospect of a ooming revenge, and it is daily
asserted that no Government oan maintain it
self a single day that does not forthwith proceed
to prepare for an early resumption of the war.
At the lowest estimate, however, Franoe will
require twenty years to recover suffloiantiy for
a war of revenge ; but in the meantime essen
tial changes may occur in the national charac
ter of toe people. The army, as it was hitherto
recruited, constituted an almost separate body
in tbe State, which was hired and expected to
fight for French glory; and the ruling classes
of the nation looked upon it nearly in the same
light as the Romans would the gladiators when
they tore each other in the bloodstained arena
to satisfy their masters' thirst for exciting com
bats. Fifty years had. elapsed, since a conquer
or’s foot had trodden French soil; the misery
inflicted by the allied armies was forgotten ;
and after the French troops, elated with victory,
had re-entered Paris from the Algerian, Rus
sian and Italian wars aznid the applause of the
nation, France had grown accustomed to see
only the glittering side of remorseless war. It
is no wonder, then, that public opinion deemed
a German war to be merely a brilliant military
speotaolo which would be closed by a great tri
umphal entry of the French into the Prussian
capital. But all things are changed sinse, and
the overshadowing influence of France is irre
coverably lost. 'When-Napoleon resolved on the
fatal declaration of war, he counted, at least,
upon a friendly neutrality op the part of the
South German States, while the reports of his
political agents hinted at a revolution in Han
over to throw off the Prussian yoke. Now Ger
many, politically, has become one whole, rep
resenting a mighty confederation of States of
over forty million inhabitants, which, the pas
sions of the moment having died away, .the
French will not be so anxious to challenge for
another combat. Moreover, the strongholds of
Metz and Strasbourg, which so greatly facilita
ted a French, inroad,'are in German keeping.
Bat the greatest change in the sentiments of the
people may be worked by the reorganization of
the army.
The Prussian system having proved so effi
cient the French will probably introduce com
pulsory military service without the choice of
any substitutes. Thus the wealthy merchant,
knowing that his son has to faoe first the ene
my’s bullets will be less apt to grow enthusias
tic over military glory, nor will the journalist
treat a war with a neighboring nation as a' mere
military “promenade” if he has to shoulder tho
musket himself. The nation which loves war
for glory’s sake betrays still very savage in
stincts despite all vaunted culture, and it will
be well for the French if, gradually, they will
thus forget their inordinate love for xnilitaxy
glory.
Friedrich Gerstaecker, the wellknown author
of many novels and books of travel, writes to
the Cologne Gazette as follows concerning the
sentiments of the population of Alsaoe. and
Lorraine: “I witnessed,” he says, “the last day
of the. siege of Strasbnrg, Which city has suf
fered terribly, but when coming from France I
visited Strasbourg again, after having seen the
unspeakable min and desolation which are fill
ing that unhappy though overbearing country,
a few streets and walls destroyed left me per
fectly unmoved. The .desolation is too great to
appreciate it in its details. Repeated conver
sations with Strashurgers have convinced me
that all gifts we are now lavishing upon Alsaoe
and Lorraine are perfectly thrown away; in
fact, nothing is here so ill bestowed as our Ger
man good-naturedness. We have reoonqnered
the land by the force of arms, but, on the other
hand, we must not look for its love or sympa
thies. For the'presefit Alsatians amfLothring-
ians still hate its with all their soul and heart,
because they have the firm conviction that we
commenced tho war'just as wantonly as did Na
poleon himself. The Emperor wanted the Rhine
they say, while yon longed for Alsaoe, and it
would be a vain and impossible task to dissuade
them from this opinion.”.
The early entrance of Luxemburg into the
German empire is much discussed in toe Ger
man papers.' If we admit the justice of strate
gical reasons, Germany, requires that duchy to
hold German Lorraine. According to the
Cologne Gazette “the Zollverein is indispen
sable to Luxemburg, and yet she cannot remain
a member without joining the German empire.
Sooner or later she most choose between leaving
thq Zollverein and .incorporation with Prussia,
and it may be as well to prefer the latter altern
ative at once.” • • ’
A recent order of toe King of Prussia has
made a very painful impression in Germany.
Whenever a Prussian officer of the rank of cap
tain upwards wishes to marry, he is obliged to
apply for a special royal license, whioh is never
withheld if the applicant can famish proof that
his fortune is large enough to support his fam
ily in a manner corresponding'to his station.
At the outbreak of the Franco-German war a
great number of officers, before leaving for the
battlefield from which so many should never re
turn, were anxious to bestow their names upon
their betrothed, and there being no time left to
wait for the Royal license, the marriage cere
mony was performed without this formality.
Now, tho war being closed, the King suddenly
issued a decree declaring all suoh marriages
null and void, thus branding with infamy the
wives and children of those who aided to place
the Imperial Crown on his brow. Whether the
King has acted on his own impulse or under
the influence of his military surroundings, he
has certainly committed a lamentable mistake.
If the young officers carried away by the great
national current and under the pieesnre of ex
traordinary circumstances, committed the par
donable offenseof violating an antiquated royal
prerogative, they might have been tried and
punished according to military law, but to de
clare innocent wives concubines and their chil
dren bastaida, is a revolting blunder. The
Fortsohrittspartei and the Gatholio faction of
the Prussian Landtag, appreciating the unspeak
able wrong, have brought in a bill providing
that such marriages may be legalised by a sub
sequent royal lioense, which proposition has
passed without’opposition. In tjhe meantime
William the First, by the graoe of God, see>»a
to have learned to see the decree in its proper
hideousneas, for the Spenersche Zeitu^g reports
from an official source that the ia willing
to give his sanction to the Dill above referred
to; and this with tho mote readiness as in none
of the cases with wLtch his Majesty has as yet
been mode aoqnainted, there are any special
reasons why a subsequent authorization Bhould
be refused.
The energetic language and warlike prepara
tions of the Cabinet of Florence have brought
the Bey of Tunis to submission. He has fully
conceded the demands of tho Italian Govern
ment which < was already preparing 1o send a
powerful iron-clad squadron to Africa. Hie Ro
man question will long continue an inexhausti
ble source of trouble to the Italian Government.
A secret reDgious society called “the Catholic
Crusade,” has been discovered in Rome. The
occasion.
The New Orleans ice factory runs six ma
chines, each oosting $25,000 in gold, and freezes
sixteen tons of iee daily. The water is pumped
from the Mississippi, purified, and frozen into
blocks three inohes thick and twelve by twenty-
tnarea. Ei *
his chum, who had lent him the garment for the V ’ of the aa)oci&tion were found in the
monastery of Saint Sabins, with ■ Pater Vtemn-
telii, who admitted that the foundation of suoh
a societp with a public, emblem had been eon,
template!; but he asserted that despite its
warlike name, the purposes of the associations
were of a peaceful nature, prayer. praise and „ - _
alms being only the arms of the “Catholic mill- gle-—Oh, that waa baby s.i
tia.” Nineteen deputies have laid a bill before
the Italian Parliament proposing to abolish the
order of the society of Jesus.
According to.' the.'.‘Imperial” tho provisional
elections in Spain have resulted in a complete
victory of the Government, hardly six deputies
of the opposition having been elected. The
Duke of Mohtpenrier has been banished from the
country for refusing to take the military path
of allegiance to Amadeo. The members of the
Government who took a prominent part in the
election of the King, seem to be proscribed by
political opponents, who are planning their mi
farious plans in night abcLdarkness. Prim has
already fallen by the assassin’s Hand. And the
very day his mortal remains wore conveyed to
the Atochachuroh,his widowreccived an anony
mous letter, reading tons: i “We.are completely:
satisfied with ont work;: and intend to continue
in the same road.’ ! That this letter contained
no empty threat has been proved by a murder
ous attack on Zorilla, who bore a conspicuous
share in the election of the Italian; though
seven shots were fired at him, he escaped un
hurt. The murderers, owing to the darkness,
succeeded in defeating all pursuits. What an
unhappy country where political antagonists are
removed by dagger and bullet! Jaeno.
-gliox ro C.— <»»» nj algbfWna s r
A Woml?rfijl I'lieuomeuon.
Eromthe A/iddletown CPa.yiPr<nts7Y' . ', ' ' “ ‘ ‘ ’
The neighborhood of the Midland tunnel,
about 8 miles from Middletown, has been in a
state of exoitement for several days pash Mys-
terious explosions .qcourred in toe tunnel on
Wednesday, and the laborers have refused to
work since. About three months ago, when
driving the heading in the tunnel, there occur
red for a time a number ol similar,explosions,
at intervals of one or two days, bat which were
so slight that the attention of tho publio was
not attracted by them. The. phenomenon ceas
ed entirely until February 2d, when, without the
usual warning noise which has accompanied, all
previous eruptions, a sudden explosion took
place, the report of which was as loud as that
of a large load of nitro-glycerine,
A mass of rock stretching down toe whole
width of the tunnel, about fifteen feet high,
was thrown out. Six of toe workmon and toe
foreman wero thrown a distance of twenty feet
down the breach. They were considerably
bruised and scratched, but no lives were lost or
bones broken. '> Explosions of less intensity
have been constantly taking place since that
time, and it has been found necessary to board
up the entrance to the tunnel to keep back the
eager throng of carious people. The rooks are
thrown down from the rojf and raised on the
breast. A noise like that occasioned by tearing a
heavy piece of cloth is first heard. This tearing
lasts from a quarter to a half minute, and then
come the final explosions of varying intensity.
Cable yards of rock are broken to fragments.
These phenomena have been observed in toe
west end of the tunnel in a stretch of about 50
feet. From the impossibility of obtaining di
rect observations, all attempts at explaining tho
cause of these eruptions must only be theoret
ical. The explosions appear to come from a
talcose schist, which Seems as if injected into
the sandstone in dykes about two feet thick.
The breaking seems to bhgin at the point where
the workman drilh It is the opinion of too en
gineer that the explosions may be consequent
on water penetrating the rock, causing expan
sion of tho particles. There is, however, no
excess of water in these parts, £n many cases
the explosions seem to come from toe interior
of the rock, which is not only broken but shat
tered. The workmen were driven ont of the
tunnel on "Wednesday, and were afraid to enter
again. They will resume their work as soon as
the eruptions cease, and it becomes safe in the
tunnel. The matter is of more interest to the
scientific world .than to.'railroad, companies.
The work on the tunnel will only be hindered a
few days. - '
No Ilope lor the Sanlo Domingo An
nexation .Measure.
Ly. telegraph to the Tribune. '
Washington, March 9.—It is now agreed, on
all hands, that there is no longer any hope for
the success of Santo Domingo annexation pro
ject. Its friends abandoned some time since
tho idea-of bringing annexation about by the
passage of a joint resolution, following the pre
cedent made in the case of the a^jnissioivof
Texas. They found that theTJemocrats would*
vote in a body against the proposition in any
shape, and that so great a number of Republi
cans would take the same course, including sev
eral of the oldest and most prominent members,
that it was hopeless to expect to get a majority
vote. The only other course remaining is to
accomplish the annexation by the ratification of
a treaty by the Senate; which requires a two-
thirds vote of that body. ^Tha Senate is com
posed of. seventy-four members, so that it,will
take fifty votes to constitute two-thirds. The Re
publican strength is 57, and the Democratic is 17.
All toe Democratic Senators except Mr. Blair
are opposed to annexation.' It will therefore
only be necessary that nine Republicans shall
vote with the sixteen Democrats to defeat the
confirmation of the annexation treaty, and more
than that number declare in positive terms that
they are opposed to annexation in any form,
and that they will vote against it from first to
last, their opposition being intensified by the
action of the caucus to-day. It is not certain
that all of the twentv-ono Senators who opposed
the removal of Mr. Sumner from his chairman
ship will oppose annexation, bnt all bat five or
six make no secret of their opposition. The
plan of the annexationists has heretofore been
to bring the treaty before the Senate, convened
in special executive session, after tho adjourn
ment of Congress, when .no adverse influence
could be brought to bear from the House, and
when its confirmaition, they thought, could be
insured. Then, that annexation might bo con
sidered to b4 fully accomplished *n the long in;
terim before toe December session, troops were
to be sent to occupy the island. It was thus in
tended to oarry the matter so far that it would
be impossible to recede, and the House would
be forced to vote the appropriation. To-day
there are few people so sanguine as to. think
there is now any possibility of success in the
first step of this plan.
Senator r Harlan’s Mew Apportion*
i.\ _ raent Bill* .
The Apportionment bill introduced in the
Senate by Mr. Harlan provides that after March
3, IS73, the House of Representatives shall
consist of 280 members, apportioned as follows:
Maine
Massachusetts.,
Rhode Island.
Connecticut
New York».»...iM
New Jersey
Pennsylvania...—
Delaware.—
Maryland «...
Virginia
North Carolina,...
South Carolina,
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi.
Louisiana
.. 5
Ohio
....16
.. 2
.. 2
Tennessee
... 9
..n
...12
... 2
Rlinois—...........
...18
... 4
MU*onri.,
...12
..32
Arkansas
... 4
... 7
Michigan.....;
... 9
..26
Florida
... 1
.. 1
Texas. 6
... 6
Jowa...
... 9
.. 9
Wisconsin
... 3
.. 8
California.
... 4
.. 5
Minnesota
3
.. 0
.. 7
Oregon
Kansas..'
.... 1'
:.. 3
.. C
West Virginia,,....
... 3
.. 5
Nebraska..;
... 1
Any new State admitted shall be entitied to a
Representative or Representatives, in addition
to the 280 named in the bilL The following
States shall be entitled to additional members of
Hia Forty-second Congress, to be eleoted on a
general ticket at a general election daring 1871,
if there be one, and if not a special election
shall be'Colled: New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Georgia, Texas, 'Wisconsin, and Kansas, two
each; Missouri, Miohican *‘“'1
each; Massachusetts, New. York, Maryland,
Virginia, North Carolina, Soutii Carolina, Ala
bama, Mississippi, California and Minnesota,
one each, and Illinois four.
Mamma—What is baby crying for, Maggie?
Maggie—I don’t know. Mamma—And what
areuoti looking so indignant about? Maggie—
That nasty,'greedy dog’s been and took and
eaten my ’punge cake! . Mamma—Why, I*»W
yon eating a sponge oake a minute ago! Mag-
COMMENTS OF THE RADICAL PRE80
ON SUMNER’S DISGRACE.
Blind as Owls at Midday-A Step Fr*o|M
■iiS-Crt J wlUiHisetUer. ; fifth/-
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.\ ; „ a . . ■.
It is not easy to comprehend the policy of .
the leaders of the Republican’party at Wash
ington. They seem to have determined to set
altogether independently of the country, end to
commit toe moat outrageous sots in utter defi
ance of publio opinion. Blind aa owls et mid
day to the requirements of the conn try, they
have seen the Forty-second Congress filled with
new members triumphantly elected to oppose
the infamous and demoralizing system of espi
onage called the income tax, and not only have
these leaders refused to repeal this obnoxious
excise, but all others under which industry and
commerce stagger as well. They have clung to -
their idols against every form of remonstranoe
and entreaty, and are still blind to their own
interests and the country’s welfare, although
they see how their course of proceeding is un
dermining both and throwing power into
the hands of the opposition. They have thus
disgusted their adherents and made them in
different and Gallons Republicans. Now they
propose at. one blow to array the whole of New
England, and intelligent, honorable Republi
cans everywhere against their party by deposing
Mr. ^Sumner tram the chairmanship of the
Committee of Foreign Relations. The object
is to disgrace him in the eyes of his conn-
try and of the world, for his reputation
is, as a statesman and leader, cosmopolitan.
To contemplate this wrong is to condemn
it, and its excuse is so narrow, bigoted, and sub
servient as to the clothe it with everlasting re
proach. Mr. Sumner’s sole offenoe is, that be
is not in harmony with the President regarding
the annexation of Santo Domingo. Upon this
pretence one of tho truest statesmen the coun
try has ever had is to be disgraced and New
England insulted. The country does not want
Santo Domingo. It wants no outlying territory
that will require hundreds of millions to put
and maintain in a state of defence. It does not
want to buy a«debased, half-civilized race of
people, sunk to the lips in toe vioes, sloth apd *
degradation of a far tropioal climate. It does
not want to buy a revolution under color of buy
ing an island. If, in addition to keeping up the
present burden of taxation, the Republican lead
ers intend to go still further into expenses rd^.'
quiring more taxes, as the purchase of Santo
Domingo will do, they are making too huge a ’
mistake—one from which they cannot reoover.
The only chance that tho Republican party has
to win in the coming Presidential contest is to
harmonize all its present disorganized: factions,
to reduce taxation, and to make some sign that
it regards, in some remote degree, the real in
terests of the country. If, however, it adopts
the contrary course, and creates new factions,
increases taxation by needless purchases of bar
barous islands, and continues to disregard the
popular will, it will, two years hence, be swept
ont of existence by its wiser rival.'
A DELIBERATE INSULT.
From the Philadelphia Press] \t
However considered, the removal of Senator
Sumner from the chairmanship of Foreign Re
lations is something 'more than a blunder. - ‘It
will certainly not help the Santo Domingo
scheme; Many Repnblioans, the Press among
them, have favored that project, but have not
thonght less of Mr. Sumner for opposing' it.
That was his right as an independent statesman,
and to punish him for it is a deliberate insult to
the hundreds of thousands who honor his char
acter and his caroor. Can the Republican party
afford to do this thing ? Can a Republican cau
cus which allowed men to oit in its cohncils who
voted to acquit Andrew Johnson, jostify his
wrath npon Charles Sumner for exercising Ms
privilege in differing with tho administration
on one measure ? Santo Domingo can never be
made a' test in the Republican party, and ought
not to be. But if it is determined to makeit so, -
the poorest way to begin the wretched business
is to strike down the great man who led the Re
publican hosts when thousands who proudly en
roll themselves among them were either Demo
crats or doubters. The managers in this verv .
bad proceeding will realize, that their party will
be even more outraged by this sacrifice than the
Democracy in the case of Douglas. We hope
the rash act will be reconsidered at onoe.
A STEP PR AUGHT WITH MISCHIEF.
From the Boston Transcript.]
: It is a step fraught with misohief to the dom
inant party. Senator Sumner, with all his pe
culiarities, represents a vast body of Republican
voters in ail parts of the Union. They know hia
ability and culture, and believe that ho has sin
gularly maintained his integrity under all cir
cumstances. They further regard him as one.
who fearlessly subjects every publio measure
to the touchstone of principle. From his place
in the United States Senate his views aro heard
with greater respect and consideration by the
country than those of almost any of his col
leagues. They aro deemed the utteraaoes of a
statesman of ripe experience, enlarged under
standing and noble impulses. Is it wise or
quite safe for the administration to declara tor
to the knife against such a champion,* sustained
by the influence of a powerful constituency
reaching ffir beyond toe State he directly rep
resents ? The removal of Mr. Stunner would be
taken as an attempt to punish him for Ms op
position to Santo Domingo annexation, or raw
er os an effort to discipline him for his inde
pendent discussion of that question. Could the
administration be placed in a.'more.nnfortnnate
attitude than of being engaged in an endeavor
to stifle all proper and legitimate criticism of its
measures ? His deposal will be the severest blow
the Republican party has experienced since it
gained the national ascendanov.
Immigration in 1870.—The total number of
immigrants arriving in this country,with intent
to remain daring toe year, ending December
31,1870,4s reported from toe Department of
State aa 280,278, whereof Great Britain famish- *
ed 145,384, or brer half, toe Irish Immigration
not being reported separately; Germany, 88,-
546, leas than one-third; Sweden and Norway,
14,133; and China comes fourth, sending ua
11,553. Canada sends but 240, which contra
dicts the current belief of a large influx into
the States from that effete Dominion. New
York first reoeived 224,688; Massachusetts,
24,217; California, 12,748 (these being toe Chi
nese' no doubt); and Maryland three-fourths of
all the rest—a tendency of immigration that
has not heretofore been generally known.—
World.
A young man, whose moustache is visible by
the aid of a microscope, was the viotim of mis
placed confidence a short time ago. He had
been particularly sweet on a very yonng lady,
and had previously paid her several visits. The
girl’s parents, thinking both too young tobe-
gin keeping company with each other, gave
them a gentle hint to that effect—first, by call
ing toe girl ont of the room and sanding her to
bed; and second, by the -lady of the hones
bringing into the room a huge suoe of bread and :
butter; with molasses attachment, and saying to
tho youth in her kindest manner, “There, Bob
by, take this and go home; it ia a long way,
and your mother will be anxious.”
A oobbespootent who visited Little Rook with
a view of studying Arkansas politics, got him
self into an awkward sorape on his anfivaL He
approaolied ft xa*n ftixd ft&ked him i* hd fM
a member of tbe Legislature. “A what ?” said
he, in astonishment, “a member of the Legis
lature, Sir? 'No, by G—d; I’m an honest man.’*
“I don’t donbt that, air, bnt I mistook you for
a member. No insult was • intended, ^ I only
wanted a little information as to what non? tw
Legislature met.” . “ X don’t know anything
about the G—d d—d Legislature; I’m a gentle- -
man.” 1 Vfc .
Dismissing the Dbummebs.—The Sun ssyfl:
Many New York merchants are thinking of
dispensing with drummers or traveling agents,of
whom not fewer than 25,000, it is sald, are sent
from this city alone, whose salaries, commia-
sions, and traveling expenses amount, in to*
aggregate, to between, fifty and sixty millions
dollars a year. ; .vj«
Yea, dbun through the papers at onrH&tath
the expense.
