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[PUBLISHED WEEKLY. YOL. L 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.