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YOL. lit. I . K. WTVNX, *. #. K WOW, JOHN H. MARTIN, JOHN . MTEWaBT. Wynne, BeWolf & Cos. PittiUtititr* mim! Proprietor*. DAILY, tin advance) per iimurn ..*-•> $7 iK> 44 *ix montb*, /.V 4 00 " three months 2 00 44 one m0nth................. 76 fTIKKLT, one jer. J 00 ? XJ (Shorter term# In proportion.) It AT EM OP iDVEItriNINti. Ofte 9|aare. one week....... V.s 3 00 One ftpuro, one month (Wo % m’i-* 8 ft o One Square, eix month* 38 00 Transient edvertiiemeut* SI.OO e square for each ineertion. Fifty per oent. additional in Local column. Liberal rates to larger advertisement*. WASHINGTON NKWS-. Clerk Adams Makes 8 Democratic Majority in the House. A BAD SHOWING FOR THE FREED MEN'S BANK: ANOTHBIi lUTTURNINO BOADEU REWARDED Washington, June 23. Rufus Campbell has been appointed Pen sion Agent at St. Louis. Clerk Adams has completed the roll for the next House, which shows a majority of eight full-fledged Dem ocrats. Garfield, Banks and Foster are counted out. The Freedman’s bank has enough, it claims, to pay a ten per cent, divi dend, but the expenfce of distribution would, in most cases, cover the' amount. There are twenty thousand I depositors of sums under five dollars, i to whom the fifty cents is thought of I no consequence. The Commissioners think they will ultimately be able 1 to pay fifty cents on the dollar. Senator Jones, of Nevada, one of j the silver Senators, is preparing the j report of the joint commission on 1 silver. He favors the double stand- 1 ard, and considers that the opinion ! of the Secretary of the Treasury is of no more binding force than that of any other individual. G. Wiley Wells, ex-member of Con gress from Mississippi, will be ap pointed Consul General to China. Washington, June 23.—Commodore Jno. R. Goldsborough is dead. Secretary Sherman has received a dispatch from a daughter Lewis Cass, j who married a German nobleman, \ directing a subscription of $50,000 in the four per cents. It is stated the Canadian Govern ment is moving for Sitting Bull’s ex pulsion from Canada. H'S presence inspires the Blackfoot Indians to turbulence. HAYES ON CIVIL SERVICE REFORM. Officials Hot to bj Politicians. NO iMCKIUm FOR PARTY PIR POHEX. Another Good New Departure. Executive Mansion, I Washington, Juye 221, 1877. f Sib— l desire to call your attention to the following paragraph in a letter addressed by me to the Secretary of the Treasury, on the conduct to be observed by officers of the General Government in relation to the elec tion: “No officer should be required or permitted to take part in'the man agement of political organizations, caucusses, conventions, or election campaigns. Their right to vote and to express their views on public questions, either orally or through the press, is not denied, provided it does not in terfere with the discharge of their official duties. No assessment for political purposes on officers or sub ordinates should be allowed.” This rule is applicable to every de partment of the Civil Service. It should be understood by every officer of the General Government that he is expected to conform his conduct to Its requirements. Very respectfully, R. B. Hayes. LOSSES OF BRITISH COJIP4JUFA BY THE ST. JOHNS FIBE. London, June 23. The Times’ financial article says, several Eng lish Insurance Companies lost heavi ly by the St. Johns fire. In one in stance the loss will be over $500,000, and the least that any single office will have to bear is over SIOO,OOO. The principal sufferers are the North British and Mercantile, Royal, Liver pool and London arid Globe, North ern Queen, and Commercial Union Companies. Another Bank Fallnre. Peoria, June 23.— The bank firm of Sidney Puisifer & Cos., closed their doors. Sidney Puisifer, whose prop erty it is to the amount of over a million dollars, printed a notiee on the doorof the bank expressing pro found sorrow for the suspension, and bis belief that the creditors would lose nothing, as his property is large and unincumbered. Woolner Bros., large distillers, have been borrowing heavily of the firm, and will doubtless also fail. The Turks made no sign of hinder ance at Ibrail. Two small camps are visible on the bights above Match in. The Russian force at Galatz and Ibrail is 40,000. A wide march on the Turkish side seperates the com battants at both places. New York, June 23.—A cable special says that a whole Jtussian corps are in Bulgaria. The Czar, with his staff, intends to cross to-day. London, June 23.—Various special dispatches point to tiie speedy re moval of Russian headquarters to alexandria iu Roumauia—probably on Sunday or Monday. Constantinople, June 23.—The Porte’s reply to Lord Derby’s note in reference to the Suez Canal was dispatched on the 21st inst. It is understood the Porte vccepts the principle of free navigation of the canal by neutrals, but, reserves the right of fighting an enemy’s vessel. Prince Cassatt, of Egypt, leaves for Varna to-day on board the Missre. The Sultan presented him yesterday with a sword of honor. London, June 23.—A telegram from Ibrail announces 0,000 Russians crossed the Danube from Gnlatz, The bridge constructed by tho Rus sians over the river at Ibrail is finish ed. The Turkish garrison at Mutchin has withdrawn. London, June 23. —The 2d edition of the Daily News has a dispatch from its correspondent at the Rus sian headquarters, at Ibrail, dated yesterday, which says the Russians crossed the Danube at Galatz in boats. They have taken the heights behind Zizila, near Matchin. The Turks are said to have abandoned Matchin. A sufficient number of Russians have crossed to establish themselves solidly. They are now entrenched. A Bucharest dispatch to the 2d edi tion of the Standard, says the Turks are destroying the line of railroad between Tcheruevona and Matchin. It is rumored that there are indica tions that the Turks will not defend the Dobrudsha. Ibrail, June 23.— The Russians, on landing on the Turkish bank of the Danube, pushed directly into the in terior behind the hills, gaining pos session of the heights commanding Matchin, after an obstinate fight with a body of Bashi Bazouks. The engagement lasted from daybreak until noon. The capture of Matchin is imminent. London, June 23i—A correspondent of the Times says that Suleiman Pa sha advances very slowly, the road being obstinately contested by the Montenegrins. No doubt he will succeed in getting through, but with very grave losses. According to the latest consular reports, he bad 22,000 regulars and from 5,000 to 8,000 irreg ulars, against whom Prince Nicholas’ cavalry oppose. The fighting isverjf sanguinary, but the Turks can only return now with danger, and will push forward regardless of losses. The Convent of Ostrok was buruod this morning. An attack is announced on two j points of the Southern frontier. The total number of Turkish forces : now operating against Montenegro is 60,000. A Beuter dispatch from Ragusa yesterday says, fighting near Ostrok ceased yesterday. The Montenegrins occupy an entrenched position, which prevents the advamte of Suleiman Pasha. Prince Nicholas, with an-: other corps, is entrenched at Oerova, | south of Ostrok. Ali Saib is expected to attack Dorn lograd to-morrow, with the object of effecting a junction with Suleiman Pasha. Should these operations succeed, both armies will march upon Cettinge, whiie Lieutenant- General Mehernet Ali will march down from Vasejevic to Cover their flanks. ! Till- TURLN UUltOPft . „■>■ a • - Russians Across Danube. | A > v , i j STRONG !N NUMBERS, AND ESTHEHCHW. 1 TtKKS REfITtING BEFORE THEM. | : v ’tee captdee of mitchih im , , MINEHT. *r -•• Turku Pushing the Moutrnrui ln*. London, June 23. — The Post's Bu charest dinpatoh says preparations for orosaing the Danube are com plete. An attemi>t i# pxpecteif lii a few nights. A special to the News from Ibrail says, all is ready. The bridge from Ibratl to the Turhlsh shore is comple ted. The bridge is between 700 und 800 yards. The Russians have also a large number of rafts and em ploy ail merchant vessels detained in port. Seven wooden sloops have beeu ironplated, armed with two guns and capacity for 200 men. The bridge is composed of huge planks held together by anchors from the Ibrail side. Five batteries for pro taction have been constructed on the Matchin side. The Russian force at Ibrail is 15,000. m Austrian troops have lined the Montenegrin frontier with u strong detachment to Budna and Cattlenoe. The Russians have material ready to bridge the Rivdr at Galatz COLUMBUS, (iA.. SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 24, 1877. AHrilhlitAfPgftuk la JTetucgpVlDa are returning-to. their country’s de fence. Constantinopi.b, June 23.—1 tls officially announced that the Turkish divisions operatic# from Ilnuego vina and Albania against Montene gro successfully C|ffeofsd a inaction at 9 o’clock this tuoruiug, and are now marching upon Cettlnge. London, June' 23. A Paris dis patch to the Tln\es says It Is stated that the steamer vonv,ying the gigantic Krup gun which was extjlb ited at Philadelphia to Russia has grounded near the island of Ohssel. The Daily Nines’ Plojestt dispatch confirms the re)ii>r| tfiit tilt' Gia ll d Duke Nicholas received the- English attache*. Col. Welleely very.brusque y. He put forth stipulation us a condition of his accompanying the army which must trammel him as an independent representative of Eng land. His freedom of action would be supervised strickly, and he wus warned that it was expected that be should not testify in an unfriendly spirit. Col. Wellesly remains at Bucharest, presumable awaiting in structions from home. THE WAR IN ASIA. Jluliktur I’a-lia Flglu In* (lit* Ilu-!iin- Constantinople, June 23..—Intelli gcuce received to-day announces that Muhktar Pasha has" been engaged since Thursday with the Russian army at Tatkahodga, between Kho rasauand Deltbaba. The battle was proceeding all day yesterday—result unknown/ NEW YOUIv. OOV. HAMPTON—JEWISH SYNAGOGUES ON THE SELIGMAN AFFAIR. New York, June 23.—At the New York Hotel this morning, a large number of distinguished citizens paid their respects to Gov. Wade Hampton. The steamer Lamerique, of the French Tratis-Atlautic Line, after be ing thoroughly overhauled and re fitted, left Iladock to-day for Ply mouth and France, with between 140 and 150 passengers. All tile Jewish synagogues in the city were this morning filled to unu sual extent,Aubeing anticipated the Rabbi’s would have.someUiing to say concerning the subject of controver sy between Judge llenry Hilton and Mr. Soligmau. In most of the syna gogues the subject was not touched. The exceptions were the congrega tions of Rethel, Lexington avenue und Fjfty-rifib st., Temple Emanuel, Fifth avenue and Fojtv-third st,, and BUearitß Israel No. 5 West Nine teenth st. The pastors of the sepa rate churches declared that the im portance of jthe subject had beoD greatly magnified, and that no groat principle was involved. The whole subject being simply a personal con troversy between two individuals. ATTEMPT TO ROB A TRAIN. capture of a maxis. Toledo, June 25. —An attempt was made last night to rob the express car of the Ltike Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad. Shortly after the train left Lowell, Ind., the car was entered by four men, who accos ted the messenger and were about to bind him, when they were confront ed by a force of officers and express men, headed by Chief of Police Hand of this city, who had been noti fied that the attempt wus to be made to rob a ear, and Hand concealed himself and men in the car. A short but most desperate struggle ensued, resulting in the capture of the entire band, who were brought to this city and lodged in jail. They are all young men, residents of Noble coun ty, Indiana. The train was not stopped, nor any of the passengers aware that anything unusual had oc curred during the trip. FU4NCK. Jane 23.—The vote in the Senate for the dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies, being foreseen, has caused little sensation, and is discussed by the morning papers with great calmness. Tho ; Deputies passed yesterday a supplementary naval vote of nearly six millions of frauc-s for armaments necessitated by events in the East. TELEGRAPHIC SUDIABI. Toledo, O. —There was a slight frost in this vicinity last night. Patbbson, N. J.—The Bilk weavers’ strike continues. Soleliac’s weavers, who demanded two per cent, increase were to-day locked out until they will aeeept twenty per cent, reduc* tion. Memphis—'Tfrfe affthage to the cot-' fpu crop on Arkansas river by the flood is estimated at from 20,000 to 30,000 bales. A Cane nf Hydrophobia. Pottsvillf,, June 23.—A hydropho bia case at Mahoney City attracts much attdtifi&n. ‘ Mr. Foster, the victim, stlli living*, when oflfred water or ice, is seized with convul sions and suffers dreadfully. He was bitten seven months ago by a pet terrier. JACK'S FORTUNE. Once there was an overgrown emperor who sat on a great white stone on a hot day, with bare feel and soiled trousers, looking with longing eyes down the road and sigh ing so loudly’ as to scare all the toads from the roailsple,,which, just here, was fringed with tangle 4 grass, yellow from drouth, and over-grown mullen stalks whose fuixy leaves sheltered alarge family of "lady bugs” when they were at home. Strange position and situation for an em peror. but this was an emperor of the Alex ander Selkirk school—"a monarch of alt he surveyed.’’ He was alone in the world, and his world was u strip of pasture and woodland, a stretch of marsh, and a dark green rim, out lined against the unclouded blue of a July day. A long time ago this monarch had seen a sailor—a great raw-boned fellow in a glazed hat and overalls, who told him that the world only began beyond the dark rim of trees, and that great oak-ribbed ships were always sailing away to other lands on the big water, which was ever and ever so much bigger than Squire Higden’s pond, whereunto Jackey drove the cows morning and night, for a cool wetting in the limpid water. But, of course, this the sailor had made up out of whole doth, as Squire Higden’s house-keeper would have said; he had told Jackey an unconceivable lot of lies front the beginning. Nevertheless, the more Jackey dwelt upon the marvellous story the more likely he thought it, and at last, sick of dri ving cows, putting up bars, doing chores and sleeping in a dismal garret with bats and spiders, Jackey had determined to set off and see for himself He had heard of giants in his time, and he almost felt like one,sitting on a stone at the first station of his journey, tired, footsore and very hungry, surrounded by catterpil lars and field beetles, who were working away as contentedly as if nothing unusual had happened. And if one looks at it in the proper light, an affair like this great under taking of Jackey’s was a mere bagatelle in deed to the grave matters which occuptfli the beetles. One of this giant’s days was a full year to them, and whereas he was to live a thousand years, they might be ground un der foot at any moment, and crushed into a long eternity. So you see that an affair of life and death, and a desperate struggle to provide enough to eat for a large and in creasing family was of much more impor tance than Jackey’s going out into the world. Though it had been bad policy in any bee tle then to have hinted as much, considering the humor he was in. The musical blast of a dinner-horn awoke Jackey from a miserable reverie, which had hung his head between his knees, and, for getting his various determinations, in dis may at the thought of the severe “taking down” which awaited him up at the white house for not being on hand to draw the water and hew the wood incidental to this time of day, Jackey, got up wearily, looked almost despairingly at the dark line which shut him in, ami turned his face once more toward the old thankless life, the dusty bars, the thirsty cn\vs, aful the clatter of a harsh tongue, which took care never to give him peace, until the last rickety stair had creak ed tinder him, and he and the spiders were again busy weaving, ue his airy dreams and they their useless webs. This was a wonderlu! day after all. In ihe mar ain g Jack had fully made up his mind to go into the pond to its very heart, and there drown himself, where the glossy leaves of the lilies would cover his despised head forever Then he had thought to go Ant hrto the world and seek his fortune. Now, he had come back to the only home he knew, aud found his fortune waiting for him there Oh, the life—the life out of books, and as we all live it, is truly a very strange thing. i Jackey had come back at noon, but his stony ears heard nothing of Aiinf Bettie s sound berating; he had not minded being shoved, and called lazy bones and told to “go along,” and served a dinner of tragmenta oil a tin p!arter at the back of the house under a spreading catalpa tree He ate the dinner humbly, wiped his mouth only once with the back of hi* hand, and, suddenly realizing that he was old enough to konw a great many things, be made up his mind to learn some of them at once, or else beat out his brains. But one thing waa very clear to him —he was for ever done witn the old, ignorant, down trod den hoy. He waa lo be called Jack now, and ihe dark rm had narrowed and dwin dled down until it shut in Squire Higden’s great white house, with the well-sweep and garden lull of homely flowers, the dovecote he had made, and the rambling old piazza covered with Virginia creepers and blush roses. He discovered all in a moment, a fact which has come home to most of us— that the world is where contentment chains the heart. Oh, what are desert sands, turrets, towers or ships,or seas to suph of us as are safely harbored in a loving heart? Still less do any ol these things count when we feel that, on all the earth, there is not that thing which lives but in the mem ory of our smile. Jack fetched home the cows through the back pasture, and sleeking down the stub born black lock* with an unpracticed hand, wore that afternoon his best clothes, which were ill-kept in the extreme, although it was but Friday. Aunt Bettie, who wore the tucking comb which had adorned the marriage coiffure ol her tndther, and a smart grey gown, declared (hat the “bound boy had madness in bis eye, and was going clean daft." However tins may have been, it was certain that the new Jack obeyed like a Christian, and was as unlike the old Jack as it is possible to con ceive the same youth to have been. Thrown very early upon his own resour ces, Jack had known what it was to starve body arid soul. It is dreadful enough to lie down to steep on poverty's bed cf straw with an unsatisfied appetite, but how much more tryrible is tb situation; and how tnueb-har der to bear when the craving heart and brain are endnrmg the bitter pangs of starvation! Jack was not strictly a bound boy, but his hard fate had one day cast him at Squire Higdon's door, and' here he had remained earning what he ate as a dog might, hunting partridges, whose bones he was to pick The fortune which Jack had found when he retureed home at noon was a young girl so beautiful, so,fipe, so much like a picture a% to have takeii his breath for a moment, Tbere never lived a man so ignorant as not 10 be able to understand and appreciate fe male loveliness. Tiie uncultured, inexperi enced'man is very apt to exaggerate the *^ er nothing beyond the cartn. earthly to the polished man of the world—but rhe beauty is a revelation Jo him. Jack had heard of such women, but he had never thought to see one He dropped the bucket be was taking into rHe barb yard and stood stolilly staring at the white vision behind the blush roses. The shy brown eyes met hts for a second, and then a quick faint color came to ihe white Woolen ye not slow to accept homage wfiereVer it is to be found. This girl bronght up in the gay world of which ihe boy only dreamed,'felt, in a vague way, her power over him. A wave of hot blod flowed on the brown hair on her temples, and a smile of some thing akin to scorn crept into her face. She had made a conquest of a cow boy! She felt that she must seem like an angel to him in her costly clothes, with her slen der, jeweled hands, and her sea-shell com plexion. if he had been a puny fellow in that garb, she should have despised him lor looking at her but adoring strength, as she did, she only saw the bare, brawny arm, with iis muscles showing like cord through the tawny *km. Aunt Bettie appeared at the kitchen door, in a check apron, shielding her eyes from the sun. “What are you loitering there, for, Jackey! You do beat all creation tor laziness." A spasm of pain flitted across the dark face at this drgredation before her. She leaned over the trellises in a pret’y coquettish way, holding a rose in her hand, pointing to a tangled mass ot honeysuckles growing on the top of a dead ash tree in the yard. “Jack, do you think you could bring a ladder and get me those beautilul blossoms! Those al the very top, I mean.” Jack shut his teeth hard in time to keep his heart from flying out ol his mouth, and his Read spun like a lop lot a moment. “I do not need a ladder,” and he ascended to the coveted blossoms, with one hand, ta king care to break the most choice, which he gave the girl with shaking fingers. She to.-sed the rose out among the weeds and went away then. Jack slept that night with the outcast rose next his heart, a9 the girl did not doubt but that he would, when she threw it away. Yet, girls are innocent creatures, and it ; s continually being said how pitiful it is that men ensnaif them by tricks and wires. Deceit against cunning. Jack awoke at daylight to find the rose limp and miserably faded. The pigeons were fluttering about his window and call ing loudly for breakfast. He looked at him self in a piece of cracked looking-glass he had secretly carried tip the night before Then he threw the withered rose over the purple necks of the pigeons, and hated him self bitterly. He led the birds, and lost his own breakfast from pottering about among the currants. He found two things among ihe currants. The poor little rose was one, the other was a dull, intolerable pain in his breast, which he knew not how to medicine. The experience of loving and hating came together with Jack. Next to himself—perhaps before himself —he hated the elegant gentleman who came down from the city in kid gloves to boat and ride with Eleanor. Jack thought this the most beautiful name in all the world, but everything about her was delightful, except Mr Harburton. Jack contemplated a murder whenever he looked at Mr. Harburtons delicate white throat. To strangle him would have been a small affair. Thus passed away the first sweet summer of his liie- All had been drea. y winter be fore; but we can never know how dear a clove-bud is until we love. Jack had developed now into a man, bul his ignominious duties remained the same, and oh, what hopeless days, what despairing nights, those were when he first realized the misery of ins condition! She must despise him —she so beautiful, so rich—the heiress to all Squire Higden’s lands; an angel, whose lot in Lite was to be so far removed from him; a son of toil and dependence. Jack's wretchedness sprang most from his feeling of inferiority, if he could once stand on an equal footing with other men he might tell her all, and could better bear re jection. But to be ignored and looked upon as an animal incapable of feeling like a man! Then he swore to be a man tor her sake. It would be something to know she had made him one, even if he lost her forever. One day, late in the summer, ne brought around the horses, as usual, lor Eleanor and her escort. Eleanor stood lashing her blue habit fret lully with her w hip on ihe porch .where the roses had lived and died. “Jack, I shall not ride the dapple to day. You may saddle Rifle for me.” “But Rifle is not fit for you to ride. You cannot hold him—" •‘I am ihe best judge of that. Bring him, I say " Rifle had mischief in his eye, and Jack felt him tremble as he held out his hand for Eleanor to step on. Two hours later he was wandering down the rough and rocky road near tne boundary ol the Higden lands when his ear caught the sound ol horse's liet in quick regular thuds. which meant a runaway He knew that it was that black devil, Rifle, and that he would kill Miss Charden if he was not slopped at rhis poiut, as the road grew more dangerous at every step. Willi a white face but with a determina tion born of love and despair, Jack threw himself into the road. On came the black horse like fury, his feet striking fire from I'ne white stones, his mane floating behind like a cloud of smoke. Jack threw up his arms, shouted once, and catching the reins with a grip ol iron, held on like only a man can who freely gives up his life for another. Poor fellow! Ihe first blow from Rifle’s foot knocked him senseless, and he was un conscious of the rest. He felt like a man hanging between two worlds in a gray void: but his last thought was one of gladness. He could at least die tor her. Jack was terribly injured, and the fields were shorn and the meadows bare and brown when he could look out of his window again and wateli the busy pigeons picking and flut tering in the October sunshine. Everybody had been very kind to him, but he realized that he was sorry they had not let him die in his trouble, when ke knew the least about it. Miss Charden, who had sustained slight injuries, had asked after him daily and tap ping timidly on his door had come to know if she could see him. “She was going away on the next day and she should love to thank him for what he had done. She should have been killed if he had not flung himself between her and death. ’ Going away! Being trampled upon by a legion ol wild horses would have been no pam compared to that of hearing this news. And yet, he had never even dreamed that it would not be so. “How could you do it, Jack?” She fluttered over him—like a mother pigeon, laying a coo!, white hand on his head “When we don’t want to live any longer, such things come easy,” he said stolidly. “And why should you not want to live any longer—so young and so strong?” She must not know how weak he was, and Jack turned his face to the wall. “I am sure you would want to live if yon knew how grateful I am, Jack." “Grateful!” Between scorn and strong ag ony. “How grateful? You can thank me, of course, but you would not grieve all the same if I were lying here dead But don't mind me. Miss Charden. Why should you grieve for such as l?” “i hope I am not a heartless woman,” she said humbly, with tears in her voice. 1 I should grieve to see any one hurt in my behalf.” “Oh." If only ,nw he could have shut his eyes, and ku|t, them fastened down for ever: then theie fame a pause. “You doubt rny 1 gratitude—l hope toevince it sofne day. It may be in my pow er to re. pay you—" “Would you do it!” Jack fumed upon her fiercely. •J believe I should do anything you asked me— you sailed my life." Now she was not looking at him; but at the hare, weather stained walls, and the cracked glass. Ue seized her hand —held it a moment— then let it fall on the counterpane. “No; 1 feel that I am not fit to toucli you, and ask you nothing. I am not villain eiruugh to take edvantage of you. 1 ask no. thing of you bul th*t you will sometimes think of me.” "How could I help it! I know all that you would say. Jack; you rg not teamed, you are not a gentleman as the wartd goes; tnd you are poor; but all that matters mu at all. You lack only money, and I have that.” Like a miserable idiot he blundered again: “And do you think to repay me in mo ney!'’ . “Oh, Jack. Jack! Can’t you see!—” Jack juto with a vengeance, and held Elea nor with the same grip he had used on Rifle until she was breathless. Then he tell into a dead faint, from which he woke to find love, wealth, anew life and Ihe great world which had come to him there under the homely ratters, where the pigeons were fighting and clamoring for iood. It there is to be a fortune it will come in time, like the first day of Spring—before we know it. — St. Louis Republican. A PROFESSIONAL RAT-CATCHKIL HOW HE OPERATES. Bt. Louis Times.] Richard Toner, a professional rat catcher of considerable notoriety in New York city, arrived in He. Louis yesterday, anu has taken a contract to rid the Lindell House of rats. He is accompanied by one assistant, and has a thoroughly iraiued ferret. Mr. Toner says rats begin to breed at the age of three months, und once every month threafter produce a litter of thirteen ; but the number of the lit ter never varies, and is always com poseed of twelve males and one fe male; if the number of females were as great a9 males, rats would become a plague that ail the terriers and rat catchers in the country could not keep down. He began operations at the Lindell, last night, in the presence of half a dozen persons. He urmed himself with a dark lantern, a gunny bag, and a peculiarly constructed pair of tongs or nippers. The tongs are about two and a half feet long, and have handles like shears. Mr. Toner gave the bag to his assistant, aud took the dark lautern in his left hand and the tonge in bis right. Equipped in this manner, he crept aboUL the cellars among barrels amt boxes, aud every now aud then seized a rat with the tongs. The assistant., who kept right at his heels, instautly opened the mouth of the bag and the rat was dropped into it, the process of capture not occupying over ten seeOuds. He says that when he throws the strong light from the lantern upon a rut it does Dot run, but simply turns so as to prevent the light from shining in its eyes. As it turns there is no difficulty in seizing it with the tongs. Mr. Toner did not make any use of his ferret until about. 1 o’clock, when everything was quiet in the house. He first went all over tne premises, examining the rat holes to familia rize bitnseif with the rats’ “run wavs.” He says the rats have certain holes to run through when they are frightened, and that an experienced rat-catcher can soon learn how these Doles lead. After acquiring this knowledge he sent his ferret into a rat hole and stationed himself at the other eud of the hole. For instance, ne found a rat hole in the pantry and traced its course down into the cellar, wtiere it came out in some corner. He started the ferret inro the hole up-stairs aud stationed himself below with his tongs; the ferret pushed his way along the turnings of the hole and drove the rats ahead of him. As the rats ran from the hole in the cel lar, Toner picked them up with his tongs aud dropped them into his bag. Toner owned the largest rat pit in New York. A Desperate Murderer Captured. We learn from Mr. Courtney, dep uty sheriff of DeSoto parish, that on last Monday or Tuesday he arrested William Lungley, a very desperate character, who is wanted in Texas for many high-handed outrages he has committed in that State. He murdered his last victim in Lee coun ty, where he was well kuown and feared as a bad man aud a remarka bly good shot with either pistol or rifle. For some time he was confined in the county jail of Lee, but subse quently made his escape and fled to Louisiana, settling in DeSoto parish, where he has been living quietly aud peaceably for nearly two years under the assumed name of Jackson. The sheriff of Lee county learning of Lungley’s whereabouts wrote to the sheriff of DeSoto parish giving a full description of the man and the crime he had last committed, and cautioned him to use every precau tion for his capture as ho or some of the j>oßne might possibly lose their lives. Soon everything was quietly and systematically arranged for Uls capture. Mr. Ootirtney and a small posse went into the neighborhood of where their man was living and be fore he was aware of what was going on they suddenly came upon him in the field plowing and unarmed, tak ing him completely by surprise. Lungley immediately realized what was up aud and seeing that he had no possible chaace of escape, gracefully surrendered, saying, “Gentlemen, I know what you want; you arc after William Lungleyr I atn the man.” Mr. Ootittrley informed him that he had guessed correctly, and produced the warrant for his arrest. Lungley, after being well secured, said be might as well make a clean breast of it, as it would be the last of him when he reached Texas, and confessed to the killing of thirty two men, and said he came near killing a man two (lavs before his arrest and wished he had clone it., as it would have saved him from being captured. Doting his residence in DeSoto parish he conducted himself in most quiet and gentlemanly manner, and none of his neighbors for a mo NO. 150 inent suspooted him of being the bloodthirsty villain that he Is. After Lungley’s delivery to the sheriff of Texas, he ipvited Mr. Courtney and his posse to come and see bun bunged.— Shrevcpwt Times, 17 IK. uon 1 LOT A TICKET. bit 1 p. MtTT.roKD. * A few'years ago, when the Pacific Railroad was anew thing, I happen ed to he at a place then called Mud Cat Htation, on the abdve mentioned road, one hundred and forty miles from Denver, and with the biggest kind of a scrape on my hands. Now, when I tell you that it was eleven o’clock ut night, .that I had a posi tive and important engagement at Denver in the "morning, that, the train would be due in half an hour, aud that I did not have a single cent In my pocket, the delicacy of my situation wilt be seen at once. Not taken the least aback by the sombre aspect of affairs, I sat by the sickly light of a sputtering candle, in the waiting room, diligently read ing. In the midst of the sentences, however, now and then asense of my situation would rush over my mind, disappearing as some new feature of the story would excite increased in terest. The train dashed up. I carefully marked my place, anu sauntered out to see what would turn up. I knew not a single soul to whom I could ap ply for a loan, aDd had not even a watch or revolver on which to obtain the sum requisite to carry me to Den ver. I was in trouble-that is, you would have been in trouble; but I, being used to dilemmas of this na ture, felt myself fully equal to the occasion. Time flew. I had but five minutes left, and was not a step further out of the difficulty than 1 was an hour before. I nerved myself up to the crisis, walked over to the restaurant and looked in. A dozen men—some of them railway employes—were seated round the tables eating. I turned, and went back toward the train, looked in at a window in one of the cars, and saw my victim. I knew he was my victim, for I felt it in my bones; yet I didn’t know what I was going to do to him, but I had a presentiment, I may cal) it, that he was the man to help me out of my difficulty. I knew him well, al though I felt certain that he did not know me. He was a noted preacher of Den ver ; aud I knew at once that he was not a man with a full knowledge of the world—of Hs "ways that are dark, and its tricks that are vain.” Still musing over the difficulty, I walked back to the restaurant again. I saw a conductor’s cup, with a guilt band, lying on the window-sill, and I seized it. I knew the reverend was short sighted. I slipped my hat under my coat, placed the cap oa my head, seized a lantern and sprang for the car. I rushed frantically in and shouted — “Tickets!” The old gentleman was reading a book. He looked round, then pushed his spectacles a little higher on his nose, and exclaimed: “Dear raw! I had quite forgotten.” Then he handed me his ticket, which I coolly pocketted, and was moving a way, when the old geutle mun said : “This is anew r.ule, to take tickets at starting, isn’t it 7” “Yes, sir,” I replied touching my cap; “only just come in force, sir.” “Oh 1” he eaid, coughed, and began rending his book again. Rustling out, to the restaurant, I hurriedly deposited the cap aud lantern, then called for a tup of coffee and a buseuit, and began eating Voraciously. The train-men arose and went out, the bell for star ting rang, aud the conductor cried out. “ All aboard 1” I dashed down the cup of coffee, rushed our on the platform, sprung lor the rrnin, and was just iu time to suing myself in. I found myself in the car with my victim, and m> first point was to see if he recognized me. With this ob ject. I took a si at near him and be gan a conversation, To my remarks he would reply blandly, and with a look on his fact 1 of suon perfect in nocence, f hat I felt satisfied that I was unrecognized. Suddenly the door opened, and the conductor appeared. He was anew man on this part of the line, and I saw at once a strange resemblance to myself. "Tickets, gentlemen.” I gave him mine; but the clergy man looked him blandly in the face aud said : “It’s all right; I gave my ticket to you before we started, you know..’ The man lookod surprised, and a cloud gathered on his brow, but he quietly remarked: “You are mistaken, my friend. Ticket—and hurry up, please.” “I tell you I have no ticket. I gave it up.” “Money, then.” Slowly, and with tiie air of one deeply injured, the clergyman drew forth his pocket-book and counted out the fare. “There,” said he, "I hope you are satisfied ; you have ticket aud money both.” . "It’s all right,” said the man coolly, and went on with a look on his face that said as plain as words—“this road won’t stand dead-beats.” “A nice chance for a legal difficul ty,” I remarked to the preacher, after we were left alone. “Yes,” said he, “and I’ll see about it. too—see if I don’t:” 1 We reached Denver safely, and of course I sent the amount to the rev erend gentleman the next day. - sharp Fracttee. The crowd of Radical office-seekers who have been vainly busy of late in trving to defeat the reappointment of W: L. Clarke, Internal Reveuue Ooileo'or for Georgia, are said to have stuffed the pigeon holes of the Treasury Department with. hQgus let ters from men of straw, falsely rep resented to be living in various counties of tho State, audit is upon these documents that’Harris in the Atlanta Independent founds his in sinuations and * charges against Clarke. That is sharp practice - Clarke is one of the few Federal offi cers in this State, who has gained the good opinion of the people, and the reputation of an honest and fathftil. as well as an aeeotntno at ing public officer. His enemies show what they are when they fry to hunt him (town with bucket letters. —Tefe grah & Messenger.