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yf Vd jf EDWIN MARTIN, Proprietor. Devoted to Dome Interests and Culture. TWO DOLLARS A Yeartu Adva/.ef, | VOLUME IX. PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1879. * NUMBKR 2& the great god. Tjttl. boy, with unghing eye. Bright end bine ss yonder sky, JLrne, and I will teach you, lore, ' fbo HI* that lire* above, it l> God who made the earth, gave my darling birth, Sed who sees each sparrow fall, God who reign* great King of all. nod who send* the pleasant breeze. Sowing sweet through flowers and trees, “id Who gives yon ever? jo; ; God who love* you, little boy. He i* beautiful and bright, living in eternal light; Would you not, my little love, Like to live with him above? Ask Him. then, my child, to show. How to please Him hcie below; Ask Him grace and help to send; Pmv to Him, your kindest Friend. You must learn to read and look Often in Hi* Holy Book: There, my darling, you will Anil God 1* very good and kind. WHAT JOHN HARDING THOUGHT. BT MART GRACE HALPINE. "In some things women are so silly »nd ridiculous!” Here John Harding laid down the magazine article he had been reading, and which hid for its theme the appa rently inexhaustible one—the follies and shortcomings of the sex to which he had alluded. Mrs. Harding glanced up from the bow she was fashioning to the sol emn face of the speaker. "In some things? That is encoarag- ing, surely! I’ve known such quanti ties of men that were silly and ridicu lous in so many. What is it now, I wonder?” Loftily oblivious to the quiet sarcasm in these words, Mr. Harding contin ued: “Just look at the way they dress, for instance." "Oh!” ‘‘.Not only devoid of common sense, but of all artistic elegance and benu- ty.” "Beelly, John,” retorted Mrs. Hard ing, drawing ber needle through her work with so much energy as to snap the thread, “however silly womtji may be in your estimation, I think they know how and iu what style to dress.” "They might, I suppose,” was the cool response; “but that they don’t is very evident. Have you read: “Dress as it relates to Health and Beauty' in the last Monthly?” ‘No,” responded Mrs. Harding, with *toM of the head. “It was written by some man* I suppose.” "No matter who it was written by; it is sound sense, every word of it. I wish you would study that article, Mwy; it- would do you an immense deal of good, I don’t mean to say that you haven’t sense in a good many things, which surprises me all the more that you should show so little in the way you dress. Mrs. Harding’s cheeks grew still red der. "John "arding!” "There, now, Mary, don’t fly into a passion because I tell you the truth, and all for your own good. Just look at the trimming on the skirt of your drees, for instance; according to all ar tistic rule, the line should be unbro ken from the waist to the feet, and here it is cut up aud destroyed in half a doz en different places!” "Have you ever seen me in a dress whose skirt was entirely plain, or, as you term it, with the line unbroken from waist to feet?” "No; but I should be glad to do so.” "You would? Have yon any further complaint to make? If yon have, I beg that you won’t be at all backward about stating it.” ‘ *1 don’t mean to be. There’s the hat yon rear. That is what yon call it, I suppose, though for any use it per forms it might as well be called most anything else; a mass of ribbons, feath ers and flowers, piled up as high as possible, and worn upon the back of the head." “Anything further?” "Yes. Look at the way that the hair is worn by nine-tenths of the wo men—yours among ’em. Part of it in snarl on the forehead, and the rest braided and festooned at the back of the head.” "How v/ould yon have me arrange it?” . • "Why simply drawn back from the forehead and coiled low at the back of the head so as to preserve its classic outline, something the way it is in.that picture,” Mrs, Harding glanced at the picture o which her husband pointed, that of a yery lovely girl, with small, regular features, and whose wavy hair was loose ly knotted at the back. ‘Tes, I Bee. But I don’t think you aver saw ffry hair dressed in that stylo. "It wonl.l be an immense improve; meat if you would dress it so; you’d look like quite another person. ” "I think I should. But have you no further suggestions to make? Tour idsas are so original that they interest me.” "Not at present,” returned Mr. Hard ing, biting off the end of a cigar he in tended to light as soon as he got out on the steps. A few minutes later, he put his head hack into the room where his wife was Bitting: “I shall be around'with the ponies at three, Mary. Don’t keep me wait ing.” Mrs.* Harding belonged to that large class of ladies whose attractions depend more or less upon their style of dress, and no one understood this more clear ly than she. She knew her strong and weak points, and how to bring out the one and conceal the other.. Por in stance, her features were rather irregu lar; she had fine eyes, hair and com plexion, but her forehead was especial ly out of proportion with the reat-of-—“I assdfiied it to please you—don’t her face, and the form wanting roundness of outline. But so skillfully were these defects remedied by the ad justment of the hair and dress that they were scarcely noticed, and she was considered by all who knew her— her husband not excepted—to be an attractive and very charming woman Mrs. Harding spent the greater part of the merning in the attic overhaul ing a chest that had belonged to her husband’s aunt; apparently well paid for her trouble by thajjaraaents fished out of its dark depths, and which she carried to her own room, Out -of one of these she fashioned a dress very sim ilar in style to the one foi which ber husband expressed so much admira tion. "I hate to disfigure myself so!” she thought, as the straight folds fell lankly around her tall, thin form, making it look still more thin and tall; "but noth ing else will cure John; and if he keeps on, he’ll drive me franticl” Then she proceeded to take down the heavy braids oi hair, and combing it smoothly from the forehead over the ear, arrangeed iu a pug low at the back of the head. "Goqd gracious! I jjidn’t think any thing could make me l»olt*go much like a fool!" ejaculated Mrs. Harding, as she noted the change it made In her appear ance* “Bat no matter; it’s only for once, and I guess I can stand it, if he can. Taking a round, flat hat, very much in vogne a few years ago, and whose only ornament was a ribbon around the crown, Mrs. Harding went down into the parlor. She did not have long to wait. Ten minutes later John came up to the door, iu an open phaeton, drawn by the well- matched grays that were the pride of his heart Banning up the steps be opened the door of the room where his wife sat. He stared at her a moment, in dumb amazement “Heaven and earth! Mary, is that youl I thought it was—I don’t know 'what! Wh«t have you been doing to yourself? "I have been trying to carry out the bints yon gave me this morning in re, gard to dress* I hope it suits you and that- you admire its effect?” "Well, no,” responded Mr. Harding, taking a critical survey of the odd-look ing figure before him, "I can’t say that- 1 do. To speak plainly, yon look like a fright.” “I must say, John,’’retorted his wife, with un injured air, “that you are very hard to suit and very unreasonable. I have spent the greater part of the morn ing in following the suggestions you gave me at breakfast, and still yon find fault. What is it now, I’d like to know? Here is the unbroken sweep of skirt; the classic outline of the head— I think that is what yon call it. And yon surely cannot say that this hat is too high, or that its elegant simplicity —I quote yonr own words—is destroy ed by the superabundance of feathers, flowers and ribbons.” Mr. Harding turned very red.” “That’s all nonsense, Mary. I had only three honrs at my disposal, and it’s now half-past three, I thought to find yon all ready,” "I shall be ready in half a minnte,” replied the wife, tying on her hat. Mr. Harding looked at her in horri fied astonishment. "Do you think that I am going to take yon out in snch a dress as that? Why yon look like on escaped luna tic!” Just here the doorsbell rang. "It’s Judge Howe," said Mr. Hard ing, as he listened to the voice, in reply to the servant who answered it. "He’s come expressly to see you, for pity’s sake, go np-stoirs and pat on something decent- I'wouldn't have him see yon in that dowdy thing for any considera tion!” "WilLyou promise—” “I’ll promise an j thing,” interposed Mr. Harding, drawing his wife towards the door which opened into the back parlor, and through which she disap peared just as their visitor was announc ed. In an almost incredibly short space of time Mrs. Harding entered the parlor where her husband and their gnest were seated, looking so different, that no one not intimately acquainted with her would have recognized her. Mr. Hr. Harding drew a long sigh of relief as he looked at the pretty, tas tily-attired woman of whom he bad of ten spoken to his old friend Judge Howe, and to whom he-was so prond to present her. In the gay and animated conversa tion that followed, and all the pleasant thoughts to which it gay* rise, he for- Sff \ t 't PARSON CONWAYS’S PLAN. got everything else; not so Mrs: Hard-1 ing. As soon as the door closed after i their visitor, she turned her langbing: _ , . .. . „ eyes full upon her husband’s face D ; Last evening the reporter saw Gen. “Now, John, let us have a fair and] Conw ^’ |g found him a quie^, deter- v w . t T , mined looking man, not inclined to be elear understanding: I want to suit you, ? -. , . , ,, •t -x . ^ % . U1 - wi • u t ‘ over communicative, but approachable, if it is a possible thing. Which ot these TU , i&i two styles of dressing do yon wish me to adopt?” "I shouldn’t suppose you’d ask' snch a question, Mary. Seeing yotr once in the peculiar costame yon assumed is quite enough for me, I assure yon.” forget that. “You failed in yonr object, then. To speak frankly, I didn’t suppose it pos sible for you to look so downright ugly in any thing.” “Yon are not over complimentary, laughed Mrs. Harding. “But no mat ter; if you’re satisfied, I am. Don’t look so crestfallen, John; you are not a bit more inconsistent than the rest of yonr sex who give ours so much sage advice in regard to matters they know nothing abont. If the wives and daughters of these modern Solomons should dress as they advise other peo pie’s wives and daughters to do, they wouldn’t be seen in the streets with them.”—New York Ledger. How the Bible Circulates. Very few people have any distinct idea in regard to the circulation of the Bible in the world in these Inter days. Probably not one in a hundred could make anything bnt the most vague guess if asked to state in numbers how many copies have been pnt in circula tion within the years of the present centnry. The English Printing Times gives the following figures: American Bible Society 33,000,000 British and Fcreign BibleSocicty 82,000,000 Scottish National Biblo Society 1,708,000 Hibernian BibleSocicty ...4,189,000 Danish*Bible Society 37,000 Swedish Bible S iciety 1,000,000 Norwegian Bible Society 250,0( 0 Bible Translation Society 3,200,000 Trinitarian Bible Society 1,200,000 German Bible Society 8,500,000 SwissBible Societies .........2,000,000 French Bible Societies 1,000,000 Netherlands Bible Societies ......1,287,000 Oth^r Societies, estimated.'. 3.000,000 147,481.000 If we include with the above* the is sues of the various missionary societies, and of private publishers, we shall have, perhaps, not less than 160,000,000 as the total for the centnry thus far. The figures are large enough to show that a great work is going on. Its im portance we can scarcely over-esiimate. Would it n>>t be well to offer special prayer at our misriouary prayer meet ings and at other times, that the bles sing of God may attend his own truil; thus sent out? His Fate- A New Otleans judge, riding in the cars recently, from a single glance at the conntcnancs of a lady by his side, imagined he knew her, and ventured to remark that the day was pleasant. She only answered ‘Yes.’ ‘Why do yon wear a veil? ‘Lest I attract attention. ‘It is a province of gentlemen to ad mire,’ replied the gallant man of law. ‘Not when they are married. ‘But I am not, Indeed! ‘Oh, no; I am-a bachelor. The lady quietly removed her veil and disclosed to the astonished magis trate the face of his mother-in law. He has been a raving maniac ever since. A French paper advocating the new divorce laws, offers the following as the marriage vdw of the future: “I sol emnly and sincerely promise to love you as long as you are lovable, to honor you as long as you are honorable, and to live with yon and cleave to yon as long as 70a are trathfol, faithful, and devo ted, in sickness and iD health, in sor row and in joy, in "poverty or riches, through good report and evil report, until death.” This, says the writer, is a reasonable vow to make, and ■ one quite possible to keep. When broken on either side, the merciful law of di vorce should afford prompt relief, and for the same reasons to either party, with full liberty to marry again. Grime divorces a man from the holy fellowship of the Church—why not from the sacred communion of matrimony? F-liziu- Frear, aged sixteen, plunged into the river at Wilkesbarre, Pennsyl; vania, Friday, but was rescued by a po liceman. She said her mother was in an insane asylum and she was without a home: that a life of shame had been urged upon her but she had steadily re sisted temptation, and in her condition of destitution preferred io die. Saturday afternoon, a violent thun der storm passed over Wilmington, Del aware^ Several houses were struck by lightning, which stnnned at least a doz en persons in different parts of the town. In two cases the parties did not recover for some hours. The General gained his title in the Fed eral service, and after the war resided in Louisiana several years, where, as President of the State Board of Educa tion, he says he became thoroughly well acquainted with tbe negro ques tion. He is now a citizen of New Jersey, “I came-out here,” he said to the re porter, “of the request of a gentlemen of means in the East who take a hu manitarian view of this negro emigra tion, and who desire to exercise their charity in some practical manner. At present matters have hardly taken defi nite form. Iu a few days I expect to have'an office and get plans in opera tiofi.” “You have information that the ne groes are denied transportation North? “Yes, sir. I have ascertained that since I came here. The steamboat companies refuse to bring these peo ple. They have been intimidated. The Southern white men threaten to take their business away from them if they cany the colored people North: and so they refuse to come. There can be no question of the right of these poor peo ple to go where they please, and if they want to come the gentlemen lam act ing for say they shall come.” “You propose to bring a boat down and bring them np, it is said?” “Yes; that is the proposition now. I have sent several telegrams, and shall know in a few honrs.” “Shall you start from St. Louis?l’ “Probably n6t. An Ohio river boat will, I think, be selected for the pur pose, and the start will be made over there.” “Do yon anticipate trouble—opposi tion from the whites in going down there on snch a mission?” General Conway answered this ques tion rather slowly and with a serious look. “No, I think not. It will be political death for them to attempt any interference with ns when we had the right entire ly on out side. Their lead ers will advise them surely and restrain them from it.” The General added, as if his real seutimeuts belied his words, “We shall go prepared, however, and if assailed shall defend ourselves.” •‘You mean to carry arms—muskets and cannon?” “Yes.” “Aud if fired into fire back?” “Yes; we shall be fully justified in such action. We shall have the law en tirely on our side. We shall have a picked crew of brave men. I appre hend there will be no difficulty in se curing all the force.we shall need.” “It is not a political matter,” he said, as if willing to argue the question. “It is a labor problem. The planters should pay these negroes for their work in money, weekly or monthly. The sjsti m of credit is all wrong. It keeps the negro in a bondage of debt, which is the next thing to si ,very. The ne groes themselves have seen for a lotg time that the relations between them selves and their old masters were not what they should be, and many have despaired of ever seeing then! righted, ’lhe txocns has been of slow growth, it has been looked forward to a long time. Even in 1868 the negroes formed their secret organizations and began to dis cuss this matter, many concluding that there, was no hope for them bat to leave the South.” “To what extent have you informa tion that negroes are on the river banks awaiting transportation?” Two colored men, whom I believe to be trustworthy, arrived here to-day- from Vidalia. When they left Natcli- there were seventy-five refugees who tried to come on the boat and of fered the money for their transporta tion. They were refused permission to come on board. I learn there ar two hundred at Yidalia, 300 at Good Hope, 500 at Butterwood bayon, 500 at Bass bayon, 250 at Bonant, 500 at two other landings, and 300 at New Carthage' There are also bodies of refugees in va rying numbers at many other places. Some of these people, despairing of obtaining transportation, have even started to walk northward.” ‘Have yon fixed any date for the de parture of yonr expedition kmthward?” “Not yet. Ishall.have to visit Cin cinnati first and shall await reports from the two Quaker gentlemen who left for the South this morning. I" an ticipate mnch good as the result of their visit—much in fact to both the negroes and the planters. They do not pro pose to encourage the exodus. Where it appears for the mutual advantage of the employer and employe that the colored people should remain, these gentlemen will act as mediators, and ad vise a continuance cf the relations there at least:until the present season is over. Bnt where tnese people have left the plantations and are bent upon coming North, it is proposed that they shall come. When I hear from these gentler General Conway said he had an ar rangement made by which considerable numbers of these negroes would be Eent to New York, Ohio and Wisconsin. He would commence sending them to their destinations within a short time. —St. Louis Times, MoylS. QAIIFOKNIA’S NEW CONSTITU TION. A Y onng Gir*s Ian! Assassin. As a specimen of the work that is be ing done by and for the Bussian Vehm- gericht, we will cite the fate which overtook young Bairascheffsky in Mos cow recently, The victim is believed to have fallen under ban on suspicion that he had made compromising disclo sures to the authorities, ever an un pardonable crime in the eye of secret law. M. Bairascheffsky was twenty-two years of age, and the son of very wealthy parents. He came from Wilna in Western Bussia, and was studying at- the school of technology in Mos cow. On the night of doom he attended an evening party at the house of M. Bartynsky. A little after nine o’clock a young lady of exceeding beauty came to the door, asked to see the hostess, and was ushered into the drawing-room. She scrutinized the company for a mo ment, walked towards young Bairas- sclieffeky, drew a revolver from her pocket and shot him through the head. He fell dead at ber feet. The murder ess offered neither resistance nor ex planation* She gave up her revolver and declared that she "accepted her fate.” All that conld be drawn from her in regard to the deed was that it had been planned long beforehand. She is de scribed as M’lle Katchka. nineteen years of age. and a resident of Orenburg, on the border of Asia. The police ascer tained that she had gone from Oren burg to St.. Petersburg, and from St. Petersburg bad been sent to Moscow; that she had walked straight from the railroad depot to the scene of assassina tion. Thus evidently she had carried out the bloody instructions given ber without the slightest hesitation or fal tering. “Respectable Bogues.” — Several times within the last few months re spectable ladies have been arrested in dry goods stores in New York charged with shop-lifting. Their actions were suspicions and the private detectives took them in. This was unfortunate, and the papers have been very severe on the stupid shop-keepers. Still, very few, not in the business, have any idea to what an alarming extent the dry goods man is preyed upon by the seemingly respectable thief. Last week two well dressed young ladies called at the silk counter at Stewart’s, in New York. The floor-walker was convinced that they were shop-lifters. On being followed and charged with theft, one with a large cloak gave np a roll con taining seventy-six yards of silk, which she had managed to hide while the oth er talked to the clerk. Way a Letter Don’t Go. "Well Robert, how mnch did yonr [ menih e ^ stahls ofa2airsth ° n tLe pig weigh?” "It didn’t weigh as mnch; date of tlie expedition will be fixed np as I expected and I always thought it: on. We shall make no secret of it.” The Cincinnati Saturday Night pub lishes the following reasons why a let ter don’t go. Because you forgot to address it. Because you forgot to stamp it. Because yon forgot to write the town or state on the envelope. Because yon don’t write the number and street plainly. Because yon didn’t put three cents on the letter for every half ounce or fractional part thereof. Because yon cut an envelope Btamp and pasted it on your letter Because you used internal revenue stamps instead of postage stamps. Because you nsetit, old out of date stamps. Because you'used a foreign stamp. Because you wrote the address so badly that no one conld read it. Because yon wrote the address on the top of the envelope and it was sure ly obliterated by the posi-office dating, rec jiving and canceling stamps. And because yon put your letter in a blank envelope, and sealed it and for warded it to—the dead-letetter office, where thousands upon thousands of val uable letters are daily destroyed, be cause the peopleware either careless or ignorant of the postal laws. California has recently adopted anew constitution, which the Savannah Morn ing News says is an innovation on all previons forms of organic law designed for the government of civilized commn nities. It revolutionizes, ail the previ ously established relations of property. It aims to expel the Chinese by making their employment a punitive offense. It alters the jury system, by substitu- the Scotch plan for the English. It restricts the Legislature, the Represen tatives of the people, to a line of par ticular actions, within the radius circle It makes wars upon “corporations” ot all sorts, and holds the associative prim pie in abhorrence as the fountain of all the evils of society. It remodels the State Judiciary, and attempts to meas ure the efficiency of decisions by the decree of haste with which they are to be rendered. As for the transporta tion interests, it prohibits these compa- neis from issneing Lee pusses, and they can only utter excursion and com mutation tickets under especial regul ations. It ordains that no discrimina tions in charges or facilities for trans portation shall be made by the rail road or other transportation company between places or persons, or in the fa cilities for the transportation of the same classes of freight or passengers within the state, or coming from or going to any other State. Persons and property transported over any railroad, or by any other transpoitation- compa ny or individual, shall be delivered at any station, landing, or port, at char ges not exceeding the charges for the transportation of persons or property of the same class, in the same direction, to any moro distant station, port or landing, A'Sta'te board of railroad com missioners is provided to enforce these impossible regulations, aud they are given autocratic powers. They may send for petsons and papers, adminis ter oaths, take testimony; ann punish for contempt in the same manner as conrts of record, and may call upon the regular coarts to enforce their decis ions, The.regulations of this new con stitution in regard to taxation aie upon the infiuitesmol plan— every separate object songht to be taxed, in the place of a general and rational plan of taxa tion; “fiat” property is assumed to be one of the sonrees of revenne, and, in fact, this Instrument flies in the face of every precedent which has hitherto been regarded in the construction of organic laws for the States. Naturally mnch bitterness is felt by the defeated party, bnt as the dispatches indicate ers ithe a determination to make the best of what is believed to be an unfor tunate issue of an important ques tion.” It is thought that some of the provis ions of the new constitution will not stand the test of a decisson ol the Uni ted States Snpreme Court. It is be lieved that the sweeping proscription of the Chinese will at once attract the at tention of the Federal Government, which is in lioror bound to secure to that class of persons the same rights and communities that are guaranteed by treaty to Americans in China. The communists of Ne.w York and Chicago are in ecstncies over the tri- nmph of the Kearueyites, and were to bold mass meeting yesterday the express their satisfaction at the adoption of the new constiution. CITY OF BENARES. What a singular spot is this sacred city of the Hindoos! From all parts of In dia pious Hindoos come to spetid their last daymnd die, sure of thus obtaining their pecuilar form of salvation. All daylong, froni the earliest dawn till sunset, thousands cf people bathe oh the steps of the ghauts, which ran along the river’s bank for nearly two miles, id the sure and certain hope that by such abulition their sins are washed Clfeati John Bbown, the royal and imperial flunkey of her majesty the qneen of England, has again stepped into pub lic notice. As the qneen arrived in Paris.frcm Clierbougg, daring her re cent jonrney to the continent, she slip ped and fell as she alighted from her railway carriage. Lord Lyons, the the British minister essayed to catch her, but recoiled from the blow which the somewhat compact and heavy body oi the qneen gave him. He reeled and swayed wildly for a moment, and the qneen of Great Britain and Ireland, em press of India, and her Britannic maj esty’s embassador to the court of France would inevitably gone sprawling, had not the trusty John Brown roshed to the resene and seized and supported them both. Gladstone is the only English ex-pre mier living. wouldn’t. Congressman Carlisle’s star is in the In lhe conversation which followe ascendant, Progress At Jerusalem- Recent letter writers tell ns that there are more signs of business and social activity at Jerusalem now than at any time since the days when it was the cap ital of Israel’s king. In and about the city many new buildings are going np and this naturally calls for an increase oi agricultural and "manufacturing in terest in the neighborhood, ’i he nnm- her of workers is growing and the idlers ore pnshed to the wall—as they shonld be. This result is due not to the efforts of our co-religionists in Palestine and their friends in other countries but to the ac tivity of Russia and Germany as anti quarians and colonists. Russia espe cially seems bent upon colonizing in ti e Holy Land, probably with a view to a supposed ponderating influence on the part of England. The czar looks with a jealous eye on that por tion of the world, and quietly encour ages a religious fanaticism on the part of the Greek Church in that direction. The lower classestin Bussia are igno rant and superstitious—and the same may be said o£ mauy of the wealthier aud more aristocratic inhabitants of that country. Their adorations of cer tain localities in Jerusalem is blind but it is real and a large expenditure of money in the way of pilgrimages and shrines is a natural consequence. This tends, of course, towards building up business interest and the people of Pal estine will gather the harvest of gold that will follow.—[Hebrew Leader. Why is an auctioneer like old Fa- th er Time? Because he is forever goin g aud forever gone. k? s'-M|Sl§ away. It is an extraordinary sight to set iti a boat and qnietly drift with the stream alongside the whole length of this great city, and watch the bathers who fill up almost the entire line. Men and womefi ore thus piously engaged, and the usual plan is to bring down a plain white robe which they deposit on the stone steps, whilst they descend into thC wa ter in their robe, and there perform tlie necessary abolitions. Whilst the bathers stand up to their waists in water, dev notedly folding their hands in prayer, or shedding offer ings of leaves into the running stream from large baskets, the priests are sqriat- ing on the shore by scores, each under an enormous umbrella of plated bamboo' some ten or.twelve feet in diameter; fihrf each with a continually-increasing heap’ of small coin presented by the bathers —piesented for what purpose we do not know. One of tbe ghauts is called the "burn ing ghauts.” where are stacked great piles of wood, and where the boats jorf see coming down the riTer with enor mous stacks of wood upon them unlialc^ their burdens. Here, in the midst of tbe bathers, the dead are Aurnt by thCf sorrowing friends. The body is brought 1 down lashed upon a small band-bier.* If a man, it is wound tightly in whiter robes, so every part is covens#/ if a woman, the robes are red. The body is plunged in the stream; and then left lying in the water half snbmerged, while the friends bnild the' funeral pyre. When the pyre is half’ built, the body is laid on, and tfi’Cff more wood, and then tbe torch is ap-‘ plied, and the smoke of the hunting- soon pours forth in thick, murky vol umes. When the wood is burned, all the parts of the body that are left no-* consumed are thrown into the Ganges,- down which they float till the birds and! fishes finish what the firs has left tin- done, This cremation gees on daily and during one short visit before breakfast we saw six funeral fire3 lit bnt did not feel called upon to watch the several pyres; This strange city in the religions eap^ ital of the Hindoos, and stands on the' left bank of the sacred river Ganges,- nearly fonr hundred miles from Calient-' ts. Benares stands on high ground! by a steep ascent from the river sider the series of steps being the ghants to 1 which we have already referred. Above there rise the palaces, the - mosques, towers, and temples, present ing a grand appearance from the river.- Bat once you pass and enter the townv where 200,000 people are crowded, the" cabins of drit d mud and narrow streets repel yon. One of the strangest sights in the c’ty is the Doorgh Khond, orTemple of the Saored Monkeys; where swarms of largo yellow apes hover, carefully tended by’ the Brahmins: The city is not altogether Hindoo aa? there is not less than three hundred Mo-" hammedan morqnes. The Hindoos believe that tlie city was* built at the creation of world, which- is claiming a pretty good old uge;- Retributive Justice, A clear case of retributive justice of the specially providential sort is report- el in Sheffield, England. A gang of burglars bad ineffectually tried to break- in a pawnbroker’s shop, by door and window. One of the number at length ascended to the roof and proposed to- go down the chimney and let the others in. Hejdescended the cnimney till the floes forked— one branch going into the pawn broker’s shop, and the other into- an adjoining bake house. He was with-" in six feet of the fire place of one house and the bake oven of the other, and he- - 6tack. He could neither get down tho narrow fluea nor ascend . the smooth walls of the chimney. In the morning the people came and built fires. The noise the burglar made was not under stood for some time, and not until at tention was called to the fact that the fines did not draw properly. When the burglar was hauled up cut of the chimney he was dead roasted. The chimney app » noti New York after the A seventy,two hour pon Saturday evening with Noille in tbe lea< five hundred miles, with with fonr linndred— 1 to his credit. _ m