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They Two.
The .vesper bells were ringing sweet
In the sultry Summer weather,
tt’hen they climbed the mount with tired feet
To kneel and to pray together :
To kneel and to pray where the tender skies
Bent low to the pine trees’ sighing ;
With only heaven to hear their cries,
And heaven to make replying.
“Our hearts, O father! are one,” they said,
“ But we go two ways to-morrow :
And life will linger, and lovers will wed,
And what can we beg or borrow
Of earth or heaven to bridge the years—
Drearier tiian dreariest night is—
Lying between the Valley of Tears
And the city where fhy delight is ?’^
Over th-ir cold, cross'd palms alight
Struck sharp through a >al-black shadow ;
And silences not of the day nor night
And sweets not of moor nor meadow.
Folded them fast, whi’o a voice sung clear .
From tin; soul of the silvery arches :
“ They are true soldiers who feel no fear;
God knoweth how hard the march is!”
Only a dimming of patient eyes,
A smiling of lips that quiver,
And bine behind them the mountain lies—
Cue before them- the river.
Burdens for both of them—battles for each,
And the wild and the wearying weather ;
But—further away—a Paradise beach
And two ways winding together.
TOM’S STOBY.
Did you ever bear of my oriental ad
venture?- ’ said Tom, perching himself up
on the counting-house desk.
“ Your oriental adventure ?” asked Ned.
amazed.
“ Well, it’s worth hearing,” said Tom,
“if it did happen to me. It was when I
was in Damascus, a mere attache of a grave
diplomatic party, a boy of twentv, who
might as well have been left at home, I
suppose.
“ I should sav so.” ssH Ned. “When
yon heloneed to a diplomatic party, and
were in Damascus. You —well ?”
“ I was in a bazaar,” said Tom. “Eng
lishmen always hunt bazaars when they
are in Damascus.”
‘‘Oh.” said Nod. “do they?”
“ I had bought cigar cases and smoking
caps and tobacco bags, and all sorts of
things,” paid Tom. “I had slippers and
scarfs and a shawl for my mother, and a
gafment of red silk and gold thread of
which I did not know the name. And I
was buying a pipe of oriental style, with a
long stem, and a water bottle for the
smoke to pass through, when a great
putty bag of black silk which enveloped a
lady paused near me, and squatted down
before the shop of a young jewel merchant,
for the purpose of examining his bracelets.
“ Onlv the eyes of this figure were visi
ble. but they were blacker and more beau
tiful than those of any heroine of the
Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, and they
lit on roe once, twice, three times, and
sent a sensation through my heart to which
it was banpilv as yet a stranger.
“ Behind the figure stood the less care
fully yaded person of an old female servant.
Some crav hair struggled over a wrinkled
forehead, and the vail even revealed the
upper part of her high nose. She was the
guardian of the young beauty probably.
That it was a young beauty thus hid under
the silken balloon I had no doubt. It was
like an oriental tale.
“The jewel merchant was busy with his
wan s. The merchant, of hubble-bubbles
with his and my money. No one but the
old woman saw the beauty make me a lit
tle sigu with her exquisite hand : but she
did it. The sign seemed to say, ‘Wait.”
I waited.
“What I waited for I hardly knew. I
understood the customs of the country
well enough to be aware that I could nof
speak to this damsel, or be addressed by
her. in the open streets ; but T understood
ycung women well enough to know that,
something was in store for me in the way
of an adventure. Mv repertoire of gesture
is not large. No Englishman’s is. I nod
ded a ‘ Yes.’ It sufficed. As she went
awav, guarded by her old attendant, she
repeated the motion.
“ ‘ Wait,’ it said again.
“ ‘ Ye*,’ replied my nod.
“There was a coffee-house close at hand,
open to the street like all the other shops.
There, with mv hubble-bubblas in my
hand, 1 squatted on a cushion, and sipped
and smoked. I also ate something. It
may have been the conserve of pomegran
ates without pepper, of which we read in
the Arabian Nights, It was sweet: it
melted on the palate*, ft left behind a
delicious taste and fragrance. It was ori
ent lto the last degree.
‘Near me, one smoked something
stronger than tobacco—hasheesh perhaps
—that sent him, by and by, into a strange
sort of sleep, bis eyes half opened, his
hands dropped on their backs, half shut,
against, the cushions, the pipe still between
his lips.
“Within the coffee-shop, a story-teller
threw down a little flat basket for con
tributions, and began his narrative with,
‘ In the name of Allah !’
“It was about th genii; but I had lit
tle comprehension of the tale, my know
ledge of the language being so poor.
“ In its midst T saw a figure pass—pause
—make a sign to me.
“It was the old woman, the servant of
mv mysterious beauty. I flung a coin to
the story-teller, and followed her.
“She went on for a long while, until J
began to think that she would neve' speak
tome; but at last she paused under the
sundew of the blank white-plaster walls ol
a house in a quiet part of the city, and
suddenly letting down a long wisp of gray
hair, took from it a letter- a little crooked
thingwritten on bright paper,and drenched
With perfume.
“I to’e it open. It was written in
queer English.
“‘ Ia little English know.’ it began.
‘My mother she English. Most beauti
ful ! I wait for you. Come.’ ”
‘‘When she said ‘most beautiful.’ did
she meant you?'" 1 asked Dick, in amaze.
“ Yes,”sa'd Tom, “of course.”
“What do the gentlemen look like
* there?” asked Dick.
“ ‘ Wbc-re shall I go ?’ I asked of the old
woman.
“She beckoned. Again 1 followed.
We walked on, she going befoie, I follow
ing, nutil she paused before a white-plas
tered wall, in which wa a narrow door.
Unlocking this, she motioned me to enter,
and almost treading on my heels in her
haste, instantly slipped in after me and re
locked it.
“ l found myself in the most beautiful
garden imagination can depict. A fountain
played :n the center, and flowers of the
most gorgeous colors bloomed in the splen
did vases and urns that surrounded it.
Beyond it was a rose arbor. Obeying the
old woman’s motions, I entered the door of
this fragrant retreat.
“On the instant, two beautiful arms
were cast about my neck, and a voice like
that, of a nightingale softly breathed these
words :
“ ‘ Oh, how long I have waited for you,
joy of my soul!’
“It was the girl whom T had seen at
the bazaar. I knew .her eyes and her
hands at once, and I knew also that I had
met my fate. I loved her on the instant
as weli as she seemed to love me.”
“ Brother,” said Dick.
“ I can’t make you understand that deli
cious emotion,” said Tom sighing. “There
we sat together, talking as lovers who had
been parted lor years. She slipped a ring
upon my finger. I gave her one from
mine. I vowed to bear her away to the
land where lovers weie not the slaves they
were there, and she promised to meet me
at the little garden gate at midnight, when
in disguise. I would convey her to a place
of safety, procure the protection of our
counsul, with whotp I was intimately ac
quainted, and marry her that very night.”
“ Going it fast,’’ said Dick.
Tom sighed.
“ Suddenly, as we sat there.” said he,
“ the old woman rushed into the arbor.
Sbe whispered a word to my beautiful
lady-love, who wrung her hands in terror.”
“* Flv for your life !’ she said.
“If Allah spates my life, I will meet
you at the gate at midnight. If uot, adieu
until we meet in Paradise.”
“ Then the old woman seized me by the
arm, hurried me to the gate, pushed me
out. and locked it behind me.
“The garden vanished. I saw my love
no more. I sat bewildered upon a rough
stone bench. It had been like a story of
the Arabian Nights thus far. How would
it end ? I knew 7 not.
“ Don’t ask me what I did with myself
during the remaining hours of the day. L
know nothing of them.
“ At midnight I sat upon the stone
bench again, clad in a coarse oriental dress,
but. with a pistol hidden beneath it. I
had resolved rather to die than to allow
her to be'tom from me. It was love at
first sight that I felt, but years could not
have made it stronger.
“ I waited. The moon arose round and
yellow in the sky. The feathery heads
of the date palms seemed to nod to me.
A strange bird uttered a shrill cry. A
dog barked. I heard steps within the
garden, and shrank back into the shadow.
They were not the steps of women. As
[ listened the gate opened, and four black
slaves, bearing a burden, emerged theie
from. As the moonlight fell upon them, I
saw that they held the sides of a great
sack.
“They marched away toward the river.
As I watched them, dreading I knew not
what, the old woman, with her hair dis
hevelled, rushed out of the garden, and
wringing her hands, pointed after them.
“‘ Wuat has happened ?’ I shrieked.
“ She threw into my hands a little note,
the counterpart of the one I had received
that day.
“I tore it open and read these words:
“ ‘ Adieu ! the Caliph has discovered all.
I was his wife. The fate of an unfaithful
wif: in this land is to be sewed up in a bag
of lime, and cast into the river. Adieu,
forever. Naida.
“ With a wild shriek T rushed after the
retreating slave®, and—awoke.”
“Eh?” said Ned; “awoke?”
“ Yes,” said Tom. “ That was when I
was down xrith that bad fever three years
ago, and Sam. had been showing me a
Turkish pipe, and my black haired cousin
Belle had read me to Goep with the
‘ Howadji in Syria;’ and out of'these three
tilings, an oriental pipe, a pretty burnette
and an exquisite book, my adventure in
Damascus with the beautiful maiden was
born.”
A Chinese Custom. —A most curious
Chinese custom is that of releasing spirits
of the departed from hell. If a medium
reports to the survivors of any one de
ceased that their relative is gone to the
regions of everlasting punishment, it at
once becomes their bonnden duty to re
ease him from his pains. With this
object certain priests are consulted, who
provide five common earthen tiles, which
are placed on the ground, one in the
center and four at the corners ; in the
midst are placed a number of images of
persons cut out of paper, and some mock
money—the tiles represent hell, aud the
paper images a portion of its occupants.
Each priest then takes a kind of staff in
his hand, and they solemnly walk round
repeating formulas, and after a time the
mock money is set fire to, and the in
stant it is consumed each tile is broken
by blows from the staves, and each priest
seizes and rushes off with as many of the
paper figures as he can grasp, the attend
ants beating gongs and firing crackers to
frighten the devil away, should he at
tempt to follow them. After this bur
gularious effort on the part of the priests,
the relatives are quite satisfied that the
departed one is out of limbo, or if he
isn’t, that’s his lookout, as they have
done all they can.
Suppose a Case. —Suppose some cold
morning you should go into a neighbor’s
house and find hnn busy at work on his
windows, scratching away, and should
ask him what he was up to, and he
should reply: “Why, I am trying to
remove the frost; but as fast as I get it
off one square it comes on another,”
would you not say, “ Why, man, let
your windows alone, and kindle your
fire, and the frost will soon come off. ”
And have you not seen people who try
to break off their bad habits, one after
another, without avail ? Well, they are
like the man who tried to scratch the
frost from his windows. Let the fire of
love of God and men, kindled at the
altar ot prayer, burn in their hearts, and
bad habits will soon melt away.—Sclioal
day Visitor.
SAVANNAH, GA.,
President Grant’s Record.
Hon. William D. Kelley, in his let
ter accept in : the Republican nouiina
tion for re-election to Congress from
the Fourth District of Pennsylvania,
pre.-ents a concise statement of some
of the jgreat. reforms instituted and suc
cessfully carried through by President
Grant. He says:
To the record of General Grant I
need not refer The American citizen
who is not familiar with it is ignorant
of the most thrilling chapters in the
military history of his country. Nor
will the history of President Grant’s
first term be less memorable. Indeed,
I can recall no administration with
which, in its efforts to reduce the pat
ronage and personal power of the Gov
ernment and to secure the prosperity
and lessen the Durdens of the people,
it does not compare most favorably.
To appreciate the services it has ren
dered the Southern States by surpas
sing anarchy and restoring thei” rights
to outraged “ earpet-baggers,” “ scala
wags” and colored citizens in the
Caroiinas, Tennessee, Missisipi and
elsewhere, one lias but to study the
condition of Southern society, the
temper and purposes of its dominant
as reported by General now Sen
ator Carl Schurz.to'President Johnson
who had commissioned him to inves
tigate these subjects and report there
on, and to contrast the averments of
his report with *he temper that per
mitted a fail election to proceed quiet
ly last moil? h in every county of North
Carolina. Without force or violence
the President has broken up the mili
tary organization known as the Ku
Klux. and secured to every citizen of
each State the ability to enjoy all the
privileges and immunities pertainable
to American citizenship in eveiy
State. Wnat great and munificent
results he has thus produced, the re
port. of Gen. Sehurz and the files of the
New York Tribune for the first half of
August, 1872, considered togethei,
abundantly show. Security and order
now prevail throughout the South,
and, borrowing my words from the
speech of Senator Sehurz made in th£
Senate on the 19th of April, 1870. I say
to the Liberal Republicans,as the mal
contents style themselves, “ Show me
the dungeon in wh ch a single man
languishes fur political offenses: show
me the gallows upoii which a single
one expiated his crime of treason ;
show me the exiles in foreign countries
who r ight not at this very moment
return unmolested to their homes.
Where are they?” No man can tell,
for in enforcing the laws the President
has but to quote the Senator again,
“ fulfilled his duty to protect the con
querors in the South against the evil
spirit of the conquered.”
To illustrate tiie desire of the Presi
dent to lessen the patronage of the
Government and purge it of tempta
tion to corrupt practices,reference need
be had to but two branches of the ser
vice, viz., those of Indian Affairs and
Internal Revenue. Has not the term
Indian agency ever beeji the synonym
of peculation and fraud?. aiyl have not
the corruptions of the Indium Bureau
been from time immemorial a stench
in the nostrils of the nation? That
such has been the case no well inform
ed man will have the temerity to deny.
Succeeding Administrations beheld
the evil, but iacked the courage to
a rat pie with so influential a branch of
the patronage, or with so compact,
wealthy, and potent a political agency
as the ring of Indian contractors and
igents. Not "so-was it with President
Grant, He fears no human power so
much as he doestlie sting of conscience
which, in his case, is sure to follow a
dereliction from, duty. In his earliest
manhood, while serving as a Lieuten
ant in the wilds of Oregon, he saw the
wrongs which have been habitually
inflicted upon the Indians by those to
whose care they have been confided
by the Government, and became con
vinced that they too were men, who
could he brought within the pale of
society if they were treated with hu
manity and governed with justice-
Whether these impressions were rea
sonable or utopian, and whether n w
that he is president, the young Lieu
tenant is not, regardless of patronage
giving the Indian the benefit of them,
we or Pennsylvania may learn from
Felix Brunot, William Welsh and
George H. Stuart. If the assurance of
these gentlemen will not satisfy our
doubts, we may appeal to the many
religious denominations whose agents,
designated in compliance with the
President’s request, are to be found on
almost every reservation, and who are
training thousands of adult Indians in
the arts of husbandry and housewifery.
What admiiaVde arguments for Grant’s
re-election weretlieappcalsin Philadel
phia and New York of Red Cloud and
Spotted Tail f'-r schools for the chil
dren of their tribes and churches lor
their people. Grant’s Indian policy is
a success which must lead to the aboli
tion, at an early day, of the Indian
Bureau, with all its patronageand coj
ruptions, and the absorption into the
political people of the country of the
scattered remains of the once savage
tribes who occupied it. In offering this
assurance, I am not oblivious of the
fact that Cochise and his band of law
less Apaches, who will not respect the
treaties made by the chiefs of their
tribes, are, by their ourages, courting
condign punishment. But this does not
militate against ny assertion, unless
the existence of the gang of which
Mara and Dougherty have been the
sanguinary agents proves that Ameri
can civilization is a failure.
On the 4th of March, 18G9. when
Grant was inaugurated, there were in
the employ of the office of Internal
Revenues 6,277 persona, and the cost
of assessing and collecting this branch
of the revenue for the precoeding
twelve months had been $7,592,477.72.
Has he as president attempted to retain
the power the continuance of this
branch of the service would give him?
Neither Summer nor Sehurz has had
the effrontery to charge him with this
for in each annual message he has ex
pressed his desire for the rapid reduc
tion of internal taxes, and the earliest
practicable abolition of the whole sys
tem of tuxatiou which requires the
collector and assessbr to dog the steps
of the citizen. Treating with derision
the teachings of those who would
maintain this burdensome and inquisi
torial system of taxes in order to re
heve the foreigner who would compete
in our markets with the productions
of our own labor from paying anything
for the privilege, he has persistently
urged the maintenance of duties on
foreign manufactures and the repeatjof
internal taxes. .Fortunately the niu
joiity of Congress has been in accord
with him on this point, and the inter
nal tax system totters to its fall. I
OUR OOTTTST , T^.^r j^raHEAtt.-
haveno hesitation in
it will be abolished before
tion of President Grant’s
On the Ist of January, 1872,
than three years from his
th number of employes in thjHHHK
had been reduced from 6,277 tjflgjjjjjgp
and, by the act of June last, tfawMMVl
ber will be reduced fifty per t&jfimmfc*
tween the first of October and |HHp
of the year.
The strict accountability ■'W&fflk
the Administration has held, Rfpwv
ployes is proven by mauy
facts. Thus, under Mr.
spirit tax of $2 per gallon yieid^O
Boutwell taxes amounting
five cents per gallon yieldedis42,3£&M
per annum. I have not thg ngn<|ff§fr
but I am confident
general denay&Aaidratim; *?
with whj<si- H .
ernmeut have been collsetetHnSL-J
dently with the repeal of so tnany pro
ductive internal taxes an<\t,be transfer
to the free list of tea, coffee, spices,
gums, and many other articles, the
duties on which took from the people
about $50,000,000 per annum, our na
tional currency and our bonds have
steadily appreciated in value, and our
debt has been reduced at the rate of
$100,000,000 per annum, ft is now
about three years and five months
since President Grant was inaugurated
and in that brief period his faithful
administration lias reduced our annual
interest account $22,000,000, of which
■520,000,000 was extinguished by the
p i.ymeut of bonds, and $2,000,000 by the
exchange of six per cent, bonds for those
t-bearing but ffte per cent. These aston
ishing results prove the unexampled
prosperity of the country, and admonish
us to avoid change. How they must
impress the statesmen and capitalists of
other countries may be inferred from a
remark submitted to Parlimr ut by Mr.
Gladstone, Chancellor of the Exchequer,
on the 2nd of June,lß7l. It had been
proposed to relieve the overburdened
laborers of.the British Islands by reclu
ing the duties on tea, coffee and sugar.
Mr. Gladstone opposed the measure,and
appealing to the patriotism of the peo
! pie, made an exhibit of the rapidity
with which the national debt and the
consequent interest account were bung
reduced. This exhibit, for a compari
son to which he challenged the annals of
the world, were as follows :
“Having, therefore, shown that Ihere
are excellent reasons why, taking the
nation in corporate capacity as a
whole, we should go on paying oft the
national debt, and having also shown
that there are good and substantial rea
sons why we should not wholly relieve
the working classes from taxation. I
should now like, if the House will allow
me, to say a few words on another
aspect of the subject, on which I have
collected some statistics, which, I am
persuaded, will be found to be not with
, out interest, and the effect of which will
be to exhibit the tfeost remarkable evi
dence of naaioual fj .•nspes&y vthfch the
world ever saw. For this pnfpose I take
the three periods in the present century
—1825, 1850, and 1870-1 —and apply
certain tests of public prosperity to these
different periods. The total amount of
funded and unfunded debt was in 1825,
£80.9,831.468; in 1850, £787,029.162. aud
in 1879-1, £737,400,237. The total pay
ments for interest, Ac . of debt, includ
ing terminable annuities were, in 1825,
only ten years after the war was over,
£30.205,268; in 1850, £28,207,583,and in
1870-1, £26,826.436. Bo that, at this
period, when we are invited to stop our
t oayment of debt and apply the money
to the reduction of taxation or to the
service of the year, we are actually pay
ing nearly £4,000,000 annually less for
the charge of the debt than in 1825.”
I have taken the liberty of italicising
a ! few words the bettor to emphasize the
contrast between the results of forty-five
years thus triumph a ltly presented and
those of forty one months of President
Grant’s Administration. If the reduc
tion cf the British debt $339,906,155,
and her interest account $20,000,000, in
forty-five years, exhibits “ the most re
markable evidence of national prosperity
which the world ever saw,” what must be
the measure of our prosperity, as attest
ed by the fact that, with constantly
diminishing taxation, Grant’s Adminis
tration has in forty-one months reduced
the debt $330,226,350, and the interest
account $22,000,000. In view of these
exhibits the American people may well
give heed to the adage, “Let well
enough alone.”
There are other points upon which 1
would gladly write, but my letter is al
ready too long. Let me, therefore, in
conclusion, again express my thanks to
the people who have so often honored
me with their confidence, and congratn
late them and you upon the .happy
results of the elections in Oregon, North
Carolina, Yermont and Maine.
Yours very truly,
William D. Kelley.
Greeley ami the Soldiers.
The following address tells its own
story :
Headquarters Veterans’ National )
Com., Fifth Avenue Hotel, >-
New Yoke City, Sep. 25, 1872. )
To the Soldiers and Sailors who served in
the Union Army and Navy during the
late War:
Comrades : We, your representatives,
met in Pittsburgh and adopted a series
of resolutions which yon have already
seen. You have discovered that we ex
pressed sentiments which are entertain
ed almost unanimously by the veterans
of the country. In view of the fact that
Mr. Greeley has charged us with the
desire to engender feelings of hate to
ward the survivors of those who were in
armed rebellion against the government,
we desire to reiterate our wish that all
differences may be obliterated, with this
one single condition, that under no cir
cumstances will we support a man for
Chief Magistrate of the nation who, in
the hour of his country’s greatest danger,
did not appreciate the situation, and by
words and acts, step forward to its de
fence.
“ We deny that one single word, either
in the speeches or the platform of that
Convention, justifies Mr. Greeley in the
remarks which he uttered at. Pittsburgh;
and his entire lack ol' courtesy toward
the soldiers aud sailors who assembled
there, serves to confirm us in the opinion
! that he is quite unlit to be trusted in
! any position where loyality to his govern
raen t, a just regard for the feelings of
fliers, a®B An abnegation of self is re
iuired. We believe he will live long
hough, to regret the slanderous utter
nces he 'fnadn on that occasion.
“ Ifc -4tiiv remains for us <td impress
E>pon you" the great importance of the
sues which are presented to you, and
tV urge tliatsyon will organize through
iut the jff tire country in harmony with
She, regqiar Republican organizations,
MW <Vr all in your jiower to re-elect Gen
eral Grant chief executive of' the gov-
four years more, and there
by complete the great work you began
3p 1861.
j ; “A. E. Buknsibb, Chairman.
“ L. J3. Dudley. Secretary. ”,
Peace and Reconciliation.
• Mr. Greeley has returned to New York
mtly satisfied with.the speeches he
wholesome ToTUc fqr the Democratio^j^g
It is with pain we confess that his
speeches are quite sufficient, without any
further evidence, to prove that he is about
the last, prominent man in the conntrv
who ought to be elected President. The
burden of them is “peace and harmony,”
a formula intended to tickle the South,
and not to be recommended by Mr. Gree
ley without a complete reversal of all that
he has said and written prior to this fnnnv
year. He dwells with mock pathos of
the Ru-Klux laws, vet he is the v_. y man
who boasted less than a year ago, (Oct.
6, 1871,) that he had urged these enact
ments “much oftener and more zealously
than the President or anyone else.”
Moreover, he is the man who put forward
the following very positive opinion on the
6th of May, 1871: :
“We hold that the President would
have been unfaithful to his trn=t, and
would have had the blood of innocent
martyrs to equal rights on his head had
He’ not sought legislation. The Ku-Klux
act and the President’s action under them
will harm no one who keeps the peace,
obeys the laws, and respects the rights of
others. Our only fear is that it cannot
so inforced as to crush out the villain
ies at which it is aimed.”
Mr Greeley ti ied, in his recent speeches,
to keep tip a greater show of consistency
with reference to the doctrine of seces
sion. He declared (Nov. 9, 1860), that if
“the Cotton States shall decide that they
can do better out of the Union than iq it,
we insist on letting them go in peace
and so again he said, “If ever seven or
eight States send agents to Washington
to say, ‘We want to go out. of the Union,’
we shall feel constrained bv our devotion
to human liberty to say ‘Let them go.’ ”
There is no beating about the hush in
these expressions. The first, of the above
passages Mr. deliberately re
printed in his ‘nJistory of the American
Conflict.” Mrl Greeley goes as far to
vindicate the right of secession as Jeff
Davis cou’d do. At Pittsburg, during his
recent tour," he practically re-affirmed
these views. He said: “And now, to
day, if the nation where to be imperiled,
and there were just two modes of saving
it, to trust to the chances of civil war, or
to the chances of a free vote for the.
Southern people, I would very greatly
prefer to take the latter chance rather
than the former..” This.is but an echo of
the endless talk we heard on the Southern
question before the war. Suppose in the
case Mr, Greeley imagines, the vote was
for secession ? What course would Mr.
Greeley take then ?
It js, hpweyer, when Mr. Greeley came
to the shaking hands and chasm business
that his Hitty became most wild and heart
rending. 'He could not bear to see an ex
soldier anywhere on his route, The
Soldiers’ convention at Pittsburg he de
nounced as" having been brought together
“for the single purpo e of rekindling the
bitterness and hatred, the animosities and
antipathies, the fears and exultations of
civil war”—-a studied insult to the soldiers
who met in that Convention, and who, as
we have before insisted, have as much
right to meet together to exchange their
opinions as any other body of men in the
country. Wherever Mr. Greeley went
his heart was wrung bv reflections on the
cruelty, the implacability, the revengeful
passions of the North. As for the Ku-
Kluxoutrages at the South, he could see
“excuses and provocations for them” —a
startling ’admission for a man in Mr.
Greeley’s position to make, Probably he
has adapted the views of some of his
newspaper supporters,, that the negro
gives great “provocation” to the white
man by persisting in Jiving at all, and af
fords a perpetual “excuse” for outrages in
daring to have an opinion of his own.
Tt was by one of these ionrnals (now con
fidently predicting a Greeley victory in
Pennsylvania) that Mr. Frederick Drug
lass was recently dubbed a “culiud pus
son,” and rebuked for his impertinence
in presuming to address an audience of
free men. Certain it is that Mr. Greeley
frankly admits the possibility of his hav
ing been altogether wrong in attacking
slavery. He said at Jeffersonville, Inch,
(Sept. 23 :) “I was, in the days of slavery,
an enemy of slavery, because I thought
slavery inconsistent witli the rights, the
dignity, the highest well being of free
labor. That might have been a mistake !"
This was about the last heresy advocated
by Mr. Greeley in former years which lie
had not recanted, and he left Indiana
without a thread of his former political
garments hanging to him. Re started
out afresh into this wicked world, like a
sheep just shorn, to continue his melan
choly hleatings on the subject of peace
and reconciliation.
A Knowino BkEFP.— -In a slaughter
house in one of Pnr cities, a pet sheep
has been trained so that, on the arrival
of a fresh flock this sheep goes out
meekly to meet the new comers, and
then, taking the lead, makes directly for
the slaughter pen the poor dupes follow
ing. The decoy sheep then slips out by
a secret door, and repeats the operation
an arrival of the next victims. She saves
much labor of driving to her owner and
her own mutton, but she destroys all the
romance of the lamb character.
A country merchant went to Chioago
a few days ago to purchase a bill of
goods. The last that was heard of him
he was In his room, surrounded by seven
teen drummers, who had craw led through
the transom, while imp energetic reporter
was below stairs pumping the clerk for
the nge of the unfortunate man, and the
probable eireuinstauaea of his family.
Manufactures of the United States.
The tabulation of the statistics of man
ufactures of the United States for the year
gnding June 1, 1876, as retained at the
ninth census, has just been completed at
the Qensus Office: fhe number bt estab
lisbroents is 252,148; number of steam
engines, 40,191, with a horse power of 1,-
215,711; nilmber of Water-wheels, 51,017
with a horse-power of 1 130,416. The
average number of hands employed diking
the year was 2.053,988 y pf whom 1.615,-
594 were males above sixteen years of age,
323.763 females above fifteen, and 114,626
children and growth. The amount of
capital invested was $2,118,257,059, of
wages paid $575,621,598. The value of
was $2,488,291,952, of
852 820 from
Connecticut, $178,570 from Dakota, $16,-
791,382 from Delaware, $9,292,173 from
the District of Columbia, $4 685,403 from
Florida, $93L19(M15 from Georgia, sl,-
047,625 from Idaho, $205,620,672 from
Illinois, $108,617,278 from Indiana, $46,-
534.322 from lowa, $11,775,823 from Kan
sas, $54,625,809 from Kentucky, $24,161,-
605 from Louisiana, $79,497,521 from
Maine, 76,593,613 from Maryland, $503, -
912,568 from Massachusetts, 118,394,676
from Michigan, 23,110,700 from Minnesota,
8.154,758 from Mississippi, 200,213,429
from Missouri, 2,494,511 from Montana,
5,738,511 from Nebraska, 15 870,539 from
Nevada, 71,038,249 from New Hampshire,
1G9,237,722 from New Jersey 1.489,868
from New Mexico, 785,194,651 from New
York, 1,921,327 from North Carolina,
269.713,613 lrom Ohio, 6,877,354 from
Oregon, 712,187,941 from Pennsylvania.
111,481,354 from Rhode Island, 985,898
from South Carolina, 34,362,626 from Ten
nessee, 11,517,302 from Texas, 2,3*43,019
rom Utah, 32,184,606 from Yermont, 38,-
364.322 from Virginia, 2,851 052 from
Washington Territory, 24,118,051 from
West Virginia, 77,214,326 from Wisconsin,
765,424 from Wyoming.
A New SejJse. —When passing along a
street I can distinguish shops from private
houses, and even point out the doors and
windows, &c., and. this whether the doors
be shut or open. When a window con
sists of one entire sheet of glass, it is more
difficult to discover than one composed of
a number of small panes. From this it
would appear that a glass is a bad conduc
tor of sensation, or at any rate of the sensa
tion specially connected with this sense.
When objects below the face* re perceived,
the sensation seems to comt in an oblique
line from the object to the upper part of
the face. While walking with a friend in
Forest Lane, Stratford, I said, pointing to
a tierce which sppuiated the road from a
field, “ Those rails are not quite as high
as my shoulder.” He looked at them
aud said they were higher. We, however,
measured, and found them about three
inches lower than my shoulder. At the
time of making this observation I was
about four feet from the rails. Certainly
in this instance facial perception was more
accurate than sight. When the lower
part of a fence is brickwork, and the up
per part rails, the fact can be detected,
aud the line where the two meet easily
perceived. Irregularities in height aud
projections, and indentations in walls, can
also be discovered. A similar sense be
longs to some part of the animal creation,
and especially to bats, which have boon
known to fly about a room without strik
ing against anything after the cruel ex
periment lias been made of extracting
their eyes.- -Levy's Blindness and the Blind.
Goon for this Date Only. —The
Railway ticket agents are bothering their
brains over the question whether passen
gers may “lay over” and resume their
journey at pleasure, or whether, when
they have once quitted the cars, they have
forfeited their tickets for the remainder
of their journey. The courts have already
decided that a man who buys a ticket, as
it were between Boston and New York,
has the undoubted right to stop at any
place on the road and to resume his jour
ney at his leisure, without buying another
ticket. The legend, “Good for this date
only,” has no value in the eyes of any
save railway officials, and the law has de
cided that any action taken by conductors
with a view to enforcing the implied con
tract is illegal. There the matter should
he allowed to rest, The public are satis
fied so to leave it, and the railway com
panies ought not to complain. If a man
buy a ticket fpr Boston, and the company
receive the money for it, there is no rea
son why they should refuse to carry him
thither, or why they should wisli to force
him to do it to suit their convenience
instead oi his own.
Indians. —The Pi-Ute Indians are a
practical people. One of their medicine
men said that when he died, if the Indians
would cut him to pieces the pieces would
unite again immediately, and he wonld
ascend into the heavens in a oloud of
smoke. This was too much for Indian
curiosity to stand, and a bystander dis
patched the doctor with a blow of his
knife. The body was then cut to pieces,
but, much to the disgust, of all present,the
remains of the poor wretch refused to
move, and were left on the ground as food
for the wolves.
®2,00 PER ANNUM.
Brevities.
; It is proposed to tax dogs in Selma,
Mx.’trrpny the city debt.
A cow has been poisoned by eating
ipeacli leaves in Alexandria.
In/the district of Ruhr, Belgium, not
oug illiterate miner can he found.
The rinde l pest has appeared among
the cattle in Lincolnshire, England.
A man is not like a chicken ; the older
be/gats, the tenderer he becomes. All
tne youngladies please note !
: Bears are causing a great deal of trou
ble among the Wisconsin farmers. They
jarp getting numerous and bold.
, Coal is higher now in London than it
has been before for forty years. In
1851 the price was about one half what
it is now,
A St. Louis rat recently made a com
fortable bed out of one thoosand five
Ijiundred dollars government six per
Mjjjjfr bonds.
animals fifty-five thousand doltaFS.
A Nevada paper tells-of a herd of stock
cattle, numbering 4,600, which passed
through a town out there bound to Cali
fornia, having been driven from Texas.
If you desire to measure an exact acre,
within a square, you must form a square
of 209 feet on each side. An acre con
tains 4,840 square yards, and a square
mile contains 640 square acres.
Since the occupation of Metz by the
German troops the emigration from that
place has been so heavy and continuous
that the population is now said to be
but one-third of what it was before the
war.
Papa—“l’m sorry to hear, my dear
boy, you have failed again in obtain
ing a prize this quarter. You must be
very wooden-headed.” Dear Boy—“ Yes,
pa, I’m afraid I’m a chip of the old
block.”
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
lias decided that certificates of naturali
zation issued by the United States or
State courts are not such certificates as
require stamps under the Internal Rev
enue laws, and are therefore exempt
fiom the stamp tax.
When John Adams was ninety years of
age he was asked how he kept the vigor
of his faculties up to that age. He re
plied : “By constantly mploying them.
The wind of an old man is like an old
horse ; if you would get any work out of
it you must work it all the time. ”
In the United States District Court at
Boston, Horace S. Russell retracted the
plea of not guilty aud pleaded guilty to
abstracting letters from the Charleston
Post-office. He was sentenced to two
years’s imprisonment in jail at Northamp
ton. The amount embezzled in this case
was only sl2.
The national debts of the principal
nations of the earth, we believe, now
rank about as follows : The United
States, $2,453,559,000 ; England, $3,758-
420,000 ; France, $2,613,600,000; Russia,
$1,280,600,000; Austria, $1,210,000,000;
Italy, $1,094,040.000; Spain, $793,760-
000 ; Prussia, $325,560,000; Canada,
$72,600,000 ; Switzerland, $774,400.
A man walks per hour, 3 miles; a
horse trots, per hour, 7 miles ; a horse
runs, per hour, 20 miles ; a steamboat
rims, per hour, 18 miles ; a vesse sails,
per hour, 10 miles ; rivers rim. slow,
per hour, 4 miles ; rivers run, rapid,
per hour, 7 miles ; an ordinary wind
blows, per hour, 7 miles ; a storm movt s,
per hour, 86 miles ; a lmVrieane moves,
per hour, 80 miles ; a rifle-ball moves,
per hour, 1,000 miles; sound moves,
per hour, 743 miles; light flies, per
hour, 192,000 miles; electricity moves,
per hour, 288,000 miles.
Fisn.—Mr. Livingstone, a Government
Commissioner, is engaged in California in
taking and packing Salmon spawn for the
purpose of stocking rivers in the Atlantic
States. He is now on the McCloud River
at a point of about 25 miles above its
confluence with Pitt River, in Shasta
county. He takes from 50.000 to 100,000
salmon spawn a day. The salmon are
very abundant at this point and in all the
larger affluents of the Sacramento River.
The salmon .are easily caught and
“stripped,” and some are returned to the
river, a few being retained for food. The
eggs are placed in boxes or vats, the wood
of which has fiist been charred so that
the water may not be tainted by the
boards. The eggs are kept in these vats
tor several days, with clearwater running
over them, during which time such as are
worthless are separated and thrown away
and the remainder are carefully packed in
layers of wet moss, boxed and otherwise
made ready for shipment.
The Baldwin Apple. —Not. more than
one in ten of those who enjoy the supe
rior flavor of the Baldwin apple, knows
from whence it originated. For the en
lightenment of tlie ignorant nine, we
will inform them that this peculiar
species of fruit came from a seedling
planted bv Josiali Pearce, Esq., of tlie
town of Baldwin, Ale. From this stock
innumerable grafts have extended the
fruit far and wide; but from a well
known law of extension, the Baldwin
apple is rarely found in perfection when
far removed from the place where it
originated. In Maine, the color, texture,
aroma, and solidity of the apple leave
nothing to desire, being in truth so de
licious, that it migb, have been akin to
the one said to have brought difficulty
upon our mother Eve. In other locali
ties, where the soil, climate, or culture
may have proved unfriendly, what is
called the Baldwin apple may often be
found a total failure, being puffy, insipid,
and subject to early decay.
Francis Vinton, D. D., Assistant
Rector of Trinity parish, and official g
minister at Trinity Church N.!*Y., (lit and
at his residence on Brooklyngß eight#
after a lingering illness.
no. 35.