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A-. B. RAOC A.L THE WORLD IS G-OVEED TOO ( LIS SVOL. 31.1 ALEXANDRIA, LA., WEDNESDAY JULY 9, 1876. NO 4 The Democrat. TERMS: tIIE DEMIOCIRAT is published Week. ly, at FOUR DOLLARS per annum Two DOLLARS AND FIFTY C0ENIS for six months, PAY AILE IN AD VANCE! No subscription taken f~o a less period thl'n Six months. joDVPRTISE AENTS inserted at the rate of ONE DOLLAR per square for the first insertion and FIFTY CENTS for bach subsequent one. EIGHIT lines or less, (nREVIER) coosti tate a square. 'bsTUARY Notices, MnMrriages, Public Meetings, Cards of thanks, etc., to be paid for as advertisemen'ts. Wg PRusoNAL CAirts, when admis thla, charged double the usual adver 4Iaine rates. MISCELLANEOUS. ,rs. E. -S. lTetherwick. S HI'Is OLD AND 'WELL-ESTAB. f lished firm, is still under full buri beestrinm, under the special charge and ..anagemnent of B. C. DVXE, and contices to expose for sale every " thing in the line of SII ii Al G 8OCEIIEIIS UOES, BOOTS, AIITS, CAPS, SLIPPERS, HARDWARE, SADDLERY, HARNESS, Also a complete stock of G'ont's, Ladies and Childrent's in fact a conmplete and well-shelved es tablishment, where any and all things can be bought cheap ,fo CAf'41I ONTLY! A full, enrcoplete and carefully selected stock just received and opened fr Spring andil Suninelt trade. The only 8TOCK OF E , F 313 IV V I. k 1 EL in all its branches in the town of Alexandria. Every one calling can be suited andt turned off pleaseld. DIVE US A CASH CALL AT ONCE. SUBSCRIBE FOR TIE 1DEMOCRAT ST. VINVCENT'S BOARDING SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES. CONDUCTED BY THE SISTERS OF CHARITY at DONALD. SONVILLE, LA. -TrHIS INSTITUTION IS LOCATED : in the above named healthful lit tle village, situated at the junction of the Mississippi River and the Bayou .Lafoarche. It is accessible at all casons of the year, both by railway and water. Parents will find for their daughters, in this Institution, all the facilities for a christian and refined education; the coarse of instruction being the same as tbht pursued at St. Joseph's Academy, .mmilttshbrg, Maryland, of which it is a branch. The buildings and grounds are spa tlous and commodious. In considera tion of the changed condition of tihe South, the terms have been reduced to nearly half price. 'The Academic year is divided into two Sessions of five months each4the SIt commencing the 1st of September, the 2nd on the slet of February. TERMS :-Payable in" advance. Board & Tuition including Washing, . Mending, Bed and Bedding, per - 8eioon.... ...............$ 75 00 Or Per Annum............. 150 (O Preach Language, per annum. 10 00 Tapestry, Painting &ce., Extra charges. ' slo at Professor's prices. Baoks and Stationery furnished at Crrent prices. , Wa For further particulars, reference EcR be made in person to the different ISstitutions of New Orleans, or by let - t to the Sisters at Dunaldeornville. 12-3om. THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE bliIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA SNaw ORLEANS, LA. Afords unsurpassed Hospital advan taes for the study of Medicine and 1 8Urgery, and for Practical Anatomy. Thm Regular Session will begin N.ovenher 13, 1876. Send for Circulars to i T. G. RICHARDSON, oetical, REFORM SONG. BY C. B. I, We crave your condescension, While we tell a thing or two About the thieving Rauicals And what we moan to do. Extravagance end corruptiou Have ruled as long enough; The people have taken the job in hand Ard they mean to ht :p rough. CHORUS: Then come, boys, come! Make haste to crowd the polls, The tide of reform, It rises and it rolls. The thieves and the ronmes Will have to hunt their holes When we vote, vote, vote the Democrats it With Belknap and with "Babcock This swindled land is done; With greedy Grant and slippery Schnecl And robing Robeson. We've done with all those rascals, And all their wicked ways, And it's quite too thin to try to push in With a man of straw or Hayes. III. We want to save the money. And pay the people's debt, And so bring greenbacks up to par, As good as gold, yoru bet. Eitravagrance anid corrruption We've tn" ru by the throat, And the righteous cause of real reform Will gain the country's vote. IV. We don't care much for platforms, But show what we havedloue, And ask a chance to fish 'tip The work so well begun. The rogdes and thieves to puntish, To straighthen every still, And send the bloody shirt to the wash, And stop the Outrage mill. V. We want to rout tihe rascals, And bring the country back To justice and to honesty, The Democratic track Thus shall the times grow better, And plenty shall return, And labor's wheels shall whirl again, And the fiurnace tires shall burn. PLATFORM OF THE NATIONAL DEMIOCRATIC PARTY TWE, the Delegates of the Democrit.il Party, in National Convention assembled do here declare the administration of th, Fedrtra4 Government to he. in urgent neec of irmmnediate reform, do hereby enjoin up on the nominees of this Convention, amu of the Democratic party in each State, I zealous effort and co-op ration to thils end and do hereby appeal to, (Mr fellow-eitizen fT everly fiormr 0oli'tical couuectiou to un dertake with us this first and most press ing patriotic dutl . For the Democracy o the whole country we do hbre reaftirm is n Ithith in the permanency of the Federa Union; oar devotion to the Counstitetiom of tihe United States Wvith its alre:dmnent universally accepted as a final settleinen of the controversies that engendered civl :war. and we do here record our steadfas confidence in the perpetuity of republical self-government; in absolute acquiescence in the will of the majority, the vital prin ciple of republics; in the supt*eacy of thi civil over the military authority; in the total separation of Church and State fo the sake alike of civil and religious free dom; in the equality of all citizens before just laws of their own enactment; in the liberty of individual conduct unvexed bl sumptuary laws; in the faithful educatiot of the rising generationu that they maa preserve, enjoy and transmit these bee' cotnditions of humru happiness, and hope we behold the noblest products of a hin dred years of change.ful history' but whih upholding the bond of our Union ani great charter of those our rights, it be hooves a free people to practice also that eternal vigilance which is the price o: liberty. REFORM IS NECESSAkRY to rebuild and establish in the hearts oi the whole people of the Union, elever years ago happily rescued from the dan. ger of a corrupt centralism which, altel inflicting upon ten States the rapacity of carpet-hag tyrannies, has honeycombec the oDficera of the Federal Government it, self with incapacity, waste and fraud, itb fected States and municipalities with the contagion of misrule, avid locked fast the prosperity of all industrious people in the paralysis of hard times. Reform is neces sary to establish a sound cttrrency, testore the public credit, anl mnaintain the na tional honor. We denounce the failrme for these eleven years to make good the promise of the legal tender notes, which are a changing standard of value in the hands of the people, and the non payment of which is a disregard of the plighted faith of the nation. We denounce the improvidence which in eleven years of peace have taken from tile people in Fede. ral taxes, thirteen times the whole amount of the legal tender notes, and squandered four times this sum in useless expec:se without accumulating any re serve for their resumption. We denounce the financial imbecility and immorality of that party, which, during eleven years of peace, has made no advance toward resumption; that instead has obstructed resumption by wasting our resources and exhausting all our surplus income, and while annually professing to intend a speedy return to specie payments, has annually enacted fresh hinderance there= to. As such a hinderance we denounce the resumption clause of the act of 1876, and we here DEMAND ITS REPEAL. We demand a judicious system of prepara tion by public economies, by official re trechments and by wise finance which shall enable the nation to insure the whole world of its perfect ability and its perfect readiness to meet any of its prom ises at the call of the creditor entitled to payment. We believe such a system well devised, and, above all, entrtusted to com petent hands for execution, creating at no time an artificial scarcity of currency and at no tine alarming the public mind into a withdlrat al or that vaster machinery of credit by which 95 per cent. of all business transactions are performed-a system open, public and inspiring general confi dence would from the day of its adoption bring healing on its wings to all our har assed industry and set in motion the wheels of commerce, manufactures and the mechanical arts, restore employment to labor, and renew in all its national source the prosperity of the people. Re form is necessary in the sum and mode o Federal taxation, t', the end that capita may be set free from distress and labo lightly burdened. WE DENOUNCE THE FRESEINT TARIFF levied upon near;y four thousand articles as a masterpiece of injustice, inequalit; and false pretence. It yields adwindlifin not a yearly rising revenue; it has impov erished many industries to -subsidize r few; it prohibits imports that might pur chase thre products of American labot it has degraded Americam commerce fron the first to an inferior upon the high seas it has dnt down the sales of Americal 'manufactures at home and abroad, am d, depleted the returns of American agricul ture, an intorest followed by half ou. people; it costs 'the people five times mor than it proluces to the treasury, obstricti the processes of production and wastel the fruits of labor; it promotes fraud hur fosters smugglinlg, enriches dlishones officials and bankrupts honest merchants We demand that all custom house taxa ticn shall be only for revenue. ueform i necessary in the scale of public expenses it Federal, State and municipal. FEDERAL TAXATION HAS SWOLLEN from $16,000,000 gold in 1860 to $450,000, 000 currency in 1870; our aggregate taxa tion from $184,000,000 gold in 1860 tc $730,000,000 currency in 1870, or in one de cade from less thaw five dollars per head to nafme 'than eighteen dollars per head. H ince the peace the people have paid tc their tax gatherels more than thrice the sum of the national debt, and more that twice that sum for the Federal Govern. ment alone. We demund a vigorous fru gality in every department and frbtn every officer of the Government. Reform is ud cessary to put a Stop to the profligate waste of public lands and their diversion from actual settlers by the party in power, which has squandered two" hundred mil. lions of acres upon railroads alone, and out of 'more than twice that aggregate has disposed of less than a sixth directly to tillers of the soil. Reform is necessary to correct the 'OMISSIONS OF A REPUBLICAN CONGRESS, and the ertors of our treaties and our di p!lomacy which have stripped our fellow citizens of foreign birth and kindred race reerossing the Atlantic of the shield of American citizenship, and have exposed our brethren of the Pacific slope to the in cursions of a race not sprung from the same great parent stock-in fact now de nied by law citizenship through naturali zation, as being neither accnstomed to the tradition of a progressive civilization, or exercised in liberty under equal laws. We denounce the policy which thus dis cards the liberty loving German, and tol erates thie revival of the coolie trade in Mongolian women imported for immoral _ pnrpose s, and Mongolian men hired to pertfoirn servile labor contracts, and de matnd such mod 'ficatiin 'of the treaty with the Chinese Empire. or such legislation by Congress within a constitutional limi tation, as shall prevent the further imnpor tation or inmniigration (,f the Mongoliian a'irce. Reform is nvc.es~:'ry, and cant never hIe efle'ted butt by making it the control ling issue of the elections, and lifting it l above th th two false issues with which the office-holding class and the party in power d seek to smother it. The false issues with which they would enkindle sectarian w strife in respect to the public schools, of which the cstablishment and support be long exclusively to the several Sta-tes, and which the Democratic party has cherished fromt their foundation and resolved to maintain witlhut partiality or preference for any class, sect or creed, an withollut contributing from the treasury to any. u The false issue by which they seek to t light anew the dying embers of sectional bate between two kindre d peoples ontce t unnaturally estranged, but now reunited in one indivisible Republic and a common e destiny. REFORM IN CIVIL SERVICE, P Reform is necessary in the civil service. e Experience proves that efficient, econonmi r cal conduct of the governmental business i- is not possible if its civil service bI sub e jected to change at every election, and be e a ptrse offered at the ballot-box as a brief V reward of party zeal, instead of posts of a honot assigned for proved competeucy and V held for fidelity in the public employ. t That the dispensing of patronage should e neither he a tax upon the time of all our Spublic men, nor the instrumient of their e amblitiotn. Here again professions, falsi 1 tied in the performance, attest that the - party in puwer can work out no practical t or salutary reform. REFORM IN HIGH PLACES, Reform is necessary even more in. the higher grades of public service. Presi f dlet, Vice-President. Judges, Senators, R Iepresentatives, Cablinet officers - these - and all others in authority are the peo r ple's servants. Their offices are not a f private perquisite; they are a public I trust. When the annals of this Republic - proclaim the disgrace and censure of a Vice-President; a late Speaker of the BHouse of Representatives marketing his i ruling as a presiding officar; three 8ena Stors profiting secretly by their votes as Ilaw-makers; five chairmen of the leading Scomnmittees of the late Honso of Reprsen. - tatives exposed in jobblery a late Secreta I ry of the Treasury forcing balances in the I public accounts; a late Attorney-Geoneral Smisappropriating public funds; a Secreta Sry of the N'avy criiches or enriching t friends by percentages levied off the profits I of cotractors with his department; an Ambiassador to England concerned in a dtlshlonot-able speculation; the President's private Secretary barely escaping convic itoe, upon trial, for guilty complicity in frauds upon the revenue; a Secretary of War impeached for high crimes and con fcssed misdemeanors; the demonstration is complete that the first step must be the public choice of honest meu from another party lest the disease of one political organization upset thg whole body politic, and thereby making no change of men or party, we can get no change of measures and no reform. All these abuses, wrongs and crimes, the product of sixteen years of ascendancy of the Repunblican party, creote a necessity for reform confessed by the Republicans themselves. Bot their reformers are vo ted down in convention andt displaced from the Cabinet The party's tmass of honest votes is powerless to resist the eighty thousanr.tl office-holders, its leadOrs and guides. l2eform can only be had by a peacetfulcivic revolution. We demand a change of system, a chanie of administra tration, a change of parties, that we may have a Change of men. -DELIOHT UL little dog story from cultured Boston "A gentleman living at the Sonth End recently bonght a setter dog, and upon taking him home his little girl inquired what kind of a dog he was. Upon being fold that lihe was a "setter", she asked if hlie would have little dogs, No lie would not. She then replied that 'when a hen sets she has little chickens, and I don't see why a setter dog shouldn't have little dogs."' 'Carrying Elections by the Bayonet r We learn on responsible anthorit3 that an afrangement has een ecomple ted by which, a couple 'of months y hence, When the polifica' campaign gets hot in the Southwest, Lieutenani General Sheridan will take the active commatit of the troops there, with das headquarters at New 'Orleans. Thil , arrangement, as We are ass'iired, I ; made with the approbation of Sheri. o dan, Who enters heartily into the idesa '1 e must naturally relish the work o1 decisively drushdng the claos of citizens Swhom he on'ce 'd6tioudced as banditti because they would not look tainely or while the Louisiana carpet-baggers 1 stufftefthe ballot boxes with frandu t lent votes. lanrd tried to co'ver 'the ras cality with forged aifdavita. The interventidn by the bayonet in the Southern elections has been so em phatically reputdiated by the sobe~ sense of the 'cotn2r'y, that we 'clii hardly believe that Ghant's Adminis tration will dare to revive it; a'nd we should not credit the report did it ndt come to us from a very credible souri. lBut however this miay be, it ishtlwayli proper to declare that an a'temnpt to carry the reconstructed States foi the Republicans at the point of the bayo net will recoil upon the conspirators. They might succeed by force and fraud in securing two or three close States, but for every one thus obtain ed in the Sonth, they would lose two elsewhere.-[N. Y. Son. Democratic Reform. Congress has, since 186;, tmdertalten to govern too much; it has entered within the domain of the individual States to regulate our indtmst'ries, our education, our sitting-down trd 'up rising. as the Supreme Court haes re peatedly declared; it has diverted public attention and interest from the local capitals 'of the leveral States to the Government a't Washington, as, like Paris for France, the centre of all power and good. Reform demands that all this be promptly and peremp torily changed. Congress and the Republican party have encouraged a disposition on the part of scheming jobbers and corrupt monopolists to turn to Washington for assistance in projects nut within the pi'ovinces of the Federal Government, and which would be condemned by each State Legislature. Reform re quires that Washington shall be resolutely prohibited from dealing with things not exclusively national, aed which the several Status rat bette handle. 'the events of the War and its tonse-. quent demoralization; the cost of lit ing, togiether with the extraltghA'e and reckless speculation inspired by an irredeemable paper mon'ey, And long continnmnco l hnational power in the hands of on6 party, hare debauched and deadened the publi' ooisecience to a degree which is only adequately expressed by Grantism. Reform de mands an elevated public and private tone; a feeling t hat public ofilc is a solemn trust and not a per'onal perquisite, and a quickened pb1iteael consciene. Into every department of the Nattotr al Government, foreign and domestic, have crept ignorance, idleness, extrav agance, and consequent incompetency, hb.rgely on account of the interference of an irresronsible, Senate and House with the appointi~g pow'or, aid a cowardly snarendet by the Executive of its constitutional prerogatives. Re form demands that there be a com plete and radical change in the lxetu tiee office, and that the House of Representatives resolutely keep its Democratic hand on the pa r s e strings. T'he fombling efforts at reform made by Republicans in the interest of Bris tow looked only at suth national ob jects, and found hope and heart in the droings and exposures of a Demooratic Iouse, and it will be the first great business of the assembled convention at St. Louis to take up and carry on this sentiment ot Democratic reform, born in the elections ot 1874 and ap jiied by the House of Representatives during the present session. Devotion to such a work and leaders therein are not limited to the East.--[New York World. An ACCIDENTAL CANDtDATE.-In a speech to his neighbors at Fremont, on Saturday, Mr. Hayes confessed himself an accidetnt aod unfit to fill the position assigned him by the Cincinnati Convention. "It is a very great responsibility," he said, "a re sponsibility which I know very well I am not able to perform.'1 And he added, with equal candor, "it was not by reason of ability or talents that I was chosen. Ithere were accidents and contingencies that caused the result." Such candor is tommendable. In this case it happily reflects the general belief, There being no dis position among intelligent people to doubt the perbet accuracy of Mr. Hayes' estimate of his own capacity, the only wonder Is that he does not promptly act upon his convictions and get out of the way. If he himself believes in what be uttered, that would be the only logical Soaurse for him to take.--[Chicago Times. A FABL.--A vulture's brood1 While their mother was. absent lobbying, re ceived with much alarm the Announce mernt that on the seventh ballot there had been a Stampede from the Bnuz zard, ending in the nomination of the Tom-tit as a Compromise Candidate. On her return, they comtluzlicated to her their Fears. "Pshaw; my chil dren" responded the wise old Bird of Prey, putting her talon to her Beak, "we shall be none the worse. If it had been the Eagle we migbt have been interfered with, but we can run tbhe Tom-tit. I myself shball immedi ately take the stump in his Bebalf." Moral-"When in the Eonomy' of Providence this Land was to be puri fled of Slavery."--[N. Y. World. t. Fashion Notes, y Tie6 tnew hats, which are vei e' origindl in style, and introduced f, h country *ecar, are known as tl maconri s and the auverguat. TI e one is 1l black, with black velv s bosre ahd :ia thick ruche Of black lai aib afl ound. The other is of Le; ihoin straw, and has a wide vely a. string passing over the crown, wil of a large tuit of flowers placed undo tithe brit at the back. in Nets for the hair are again eodit rB into vogue. Artificial flowers arc aucfih'at1~ used both on bonnets and for heaw dresses. Silk and lisle-thread gloves in gria it and ecru, some with puffs at ti ' wrist, are in fashion for the mstribn i days. b. A bn'v fashion, set by Mlle. Bett dna Rothschild, for wearing the br e dal veil, g$'ves, in place of the ord +- nar'y i'il of square tulle, a sort + d lace thawl, which is placed fborwat 1 or the fqrehead, a a Mari'a Stuart an arrangement infinitely mor o becoming than the esual squal veil. Shawls of all sorts appear t be slowly coming into fav( a again. d Bows and headings to ifonces at T lined with strongly contrastin colors. d Simple bonnets of coars s'tral e are much ornamented with ano, gaute. I Late Paris bonnets are many c s them showing a ruche of tall or Valenciennes lace in place of flob y ers under the front. Among popular modes of halt dressing is the simple one of coml e ing the hair all to the back, morel; parting it in, tro't, pl'ating it ii three, and wearing it either in on a long loop or in a coil at the nape c the neck. r One of the most 'ashotiable fichu is made like a usall three-cornerei shawl, and is double. z[any of the 'll-dress toilets ar copies from dresses Wia6t at th I close of Louis XVI's reign. Double-breasted a n d diagoti 8 fronts are much seen on importer V dresses. Polonaises incre'se i1 complica i~ 'ons and grow in ~'avo:. 1 Widows do not wear veils on th. occision of a second marriage, bu - trim the hair, instead, witl floWeetla. Elderly ladt s find guipure ltc s shawls among the handsome wrap provided for their Wear. L Guipure net is still preferred fo " lace polonaises. Gray camel's halt costumesd trim f med with silvered braid. For evening dresses a new trim wing of. richly embroidere< wide silk galloons in ligh colors. Long White soarfs of crepe lishl are now worn as neckties foi mourning. White muslin dresses, wrough' with strse, leeres and dots, are th4 fancy rows '1hete is nothing new in the fash ion of infants' clothes. Dark myrtle-green parasols; lIor dered with green-shaded ebeks plumes, are ouanted with the Parn ladies' driving parasols. THE CONSTIkUTIONAL Ax3E nil. MENTs.-At the last session of the Legislature an act was passed prO pbosing the submission of five consti tutional amendments to the Vote o; the people. The proposed amendmenits are as folIows, to-wit: 1. tlmiting the appropriation foi expenses of the General Assembli to $175;000, and fixing thle per dien at $5, and mileage at 20 cent, per milte. 2. Atlending Atticle 6d of the Constitution with tefereuiie tb the signing and promulgation of acts o the Legisleture by the governor, re quiring them to be done withi: twenty days after the idjournmen' of the Gtieeral Assembly. 8. Pririding for the abolition o the Parish Courts, and fhirig the salaries of listrict Judges at $400( per annum; 4. Taking tflay all fees of offic from the Auditor, Treasurer, Attor ney-General' and District tttorneye and limiting their compensation te their salari¶. 5. Reducing the Governor's salar] to $6000. The contrast Between Them. ry Among the candidates before tli or Cincinnati Convention, Benjamin E le Bristow atoEe hbad any claim. to t ie considered a practical reformer. IH et. had illustrated his faith in refori ce by good wor'ks, instead'of loud pr< g fession. flis kcts were familiar I et the w!bte 'bun'try,'and they extorte th the highest pzfise. ThejConventio er supported hidt 'Wih far less tha half the vote ýwve% to Blaine, thte 1g under C'harges of corruption i Coir gress, which his own letters estal ¶y lished. a- At St. L,66ds :Ov. Tilden 'iv pressed for the nomination, upon th ry strength of his services in smashin be the breed and canal flings and i er reducing the 'taxes. The Convex tion recogniked hi't -i b x0f6rmer i ,i in the broadest saene, 'nd nominate 'i- himn for that reason. leform bs th li text of the platform, and the candi of date irh stands upon it pe'rsonifie rd the principle. -- the two Convcntios s'ta is 'a e wide apart on tbts issue as do th re House of Representatives and th Senate in regard to retrenchment o to the public expenditures. Hayes re )r presents nothing but the negativ compromise of hostile factions. A re a great crisis, whel ~tatesmanshi, ig experience and wisd6in are demander to rescue the country froth the ruin w ous results bf Grantism, h'b is a pas w sive instrument in the hands of cor rapt leaders, 'without capacity o )f power of self-assertion to do right te, even if disposed to act it that diree r- tion. On the other hand, Gov. Til den is a positiVb force th feform, i r leader able to inaugurate and to ex x ecute it on the grandest scale, inde y pendent, courageous, clear-headed n cool and determined upon a line o Le policy which imnst hot only bring re )f liefto the suffering interests, bu will restore the government to iti Is ancient purity and simplicity. Worn d he President to-day, Gind only for thi rest of Grant's expiring term, hi e would economize sixty or seventj e millions of dollars, raise the public credit, revive confidence, and make di every i'tizen once proud of his coun d try. The people will see in the actioe i- of the two Conventions the points o contrast between the two partts. e Under Ihayes, the present system o it plunder would be inevitably perpetu b ate'd, because it is the life of the par ty and the nourishment of its lead e ers. Under Tilden, the Rings would a be crushed, public stealing would bi stopped, and refOre *ould be a real r ity.--[N. Y. Sun. Ax HInsTORxc CLoc.-#John E. Bl. liott, of Clinton, has presented to the Memorial Hall of Hamilton College an historical clock, which Charlie Lamb might hatte hircterized as "ratherish old.' It has timed al least 245 years, and is still a good timekeeper. It was brought fromi England by Rev.' John Elliott, "the apostle to the Indians, who landed i, SBoston from the ship Mtry Lyon, November 3, 1631." It was handed down as a family inheritance from -him to his son, Joseph Elliot, whe was graduated from Ikarvard College l. 1658; from Joseph to his son ~a red Elliot; from Jared to his son John Elliott; from John to his son Edward Elliott; fromi Edward to hi. - sonJohn E. Elliott, of Clinton, the e sixth in descent front "the spostle - to the Indians!" This old clodc - faithfully marked off the hours f months and years which the mi.i sionary Elliot devoted to the trans s lationof the Bible into the Indiat language. Before this ttltnslation r could be made or even begun, it wai Snecessary to redune the rude oral di Salect of the natives to the form of a [ written language. The work was completed in 1668, and publislled al e Canibridge, Miassachdsettg.; Only 6( e copies df the work are now in exis ,fj tence. The last one that *as solh brought $1,186. T'he only livinj o man that Can read it is J. ItamamOn t Trumbull, of Hartford, Connecticut • -IT is said that if a man is tbail e ing for health aftid enjjbftent, fou Smiles a iialur is the bestgait. Thi may bm tinue as regards health; bu e for enjoymett. e ttuthettrber on night when it tWk us four hours t hwaik a mile. It happened, howeve o thathe old folks Iql gone to caml meeting, and she Ial the night ke, and as far'as hebltb was concernec Y we dtdn't really care if it took al thight.- [ orwich Bullectin. Sote S o aid Seme Come. he The debit on the sttee 'of Xirs. EI. Annie Browne it'ich 'is linked in the bo re uia gchAii f ihllight with the re le tire'iient to t~e 'Convent of the Sa mn cred lieart of Miss Jeanneitte Ben. o- nett, sister of Mr. James Gordoa to Bennett bf the 1r York" Heialds. ed. Six yearsj ter o ago the Convent )n of tf' Stcred Heart, at Manhattan. an ille, 'had under its pe6tectlon i ntAim hn ber of lovely girls wh6se fate since n- they left the guidance of the good b- Sisters have b'een so varred and in. terestitig AtAT - it its worth wliili' t6 as point them out. These young girle. we were Miss Jeannette Bennett, Miss Ig Nellie Murphy, dhughter of the Ex. in Collect6r of the Port bf New York; a- Miss Kate Yastlgs, diughter rofthe in editor ofthe'Cominercial Advertiser; ed Miss Emmaa Shelly, a sister of the is hotel keliper, r. 'Charles Shelly; i Miss A -nnie owne, ~i6w Mrs. Fitch; 's the Misset itolTlkay, 'daughters .of ben Hb6liday, ihd the Misses IdA is and Gabrielle Greely, daughters of ie the late $orace reely.. ie A fairer company of yong Womati of hood never went out into the wodtl e- from the quiet cloisters of the Sa re cred Heart. Most of them have fili Lt ed their mission and married, and; p, htYdt appy wondef, "thavei 13 histo .d ries," but their posltidns aid 1acas 1- differ vridely, Heverthelesk.. Mist 5- l[arphy, a {ae blonde, a yeir ago r- wedded Senor de Rivas,- a wealthy ir Cuban, and her wedding, which took t, place in St. Stephen's Chrchb, was 3- one of the iibst billitaat eVO ts. i, 1- brilliant season. Miss Ida Greely a married Colonel Nicholas Smith; c- with less pol ~ h'c'iretouths'b pier e- haps, but no less Ipptness.in plight 1, Ing her troth. Miss Polly Holliday )f wedded the Count de Pourtalee, and - died while she was yet net much it more than a bride. Miss Shelly as married an Italian, and. went 'with ,e him to his estates In "Mexico, anti ,e Miss Hastings and Miss 'Gabrelte e Gireely a~s aloe "fancy tfree." And y now comes the strange contrast in .e the lies bt these schoolmates. The :e same week that finds Miss Bennett t. retiring to her postelate sees Mrs; Fitch stepping before the brilliant n footlights. Sa'o in considering on6 f life-such as that of the lamented - Desolee, who, if she had not been an f actress wotld !atVe been a nuu-on6 I- could scarcely conceive a greater con ,- trast than that afforded by these tWd lives that wereo nece guided by thd c sasie saintly hands,. There is one e similarity in both, ,however; boiti he ing agreat deal to their offcial career While on the faith she loves Miss Bennett bestows a princely fortune; I- ls. Fituh endows the professlont e she has chosen with virtue, talent and grace.-[New Cork Correspon. e deuce Washington Capital. t Titz-x 4A A I,-A E -."iA.Among a our Uncle Baiidei'L lhiithy qualflieo o tions we may rekokn his expert and e graceful htrsemanship. As he trots a up the aVetbi th the t~ool of thi eve , ning or pranees al6ng the bttilevards; d his fine bearing in the saddle it the o stbjtctofgeneral admiration. Wiiei n he criies to canter around the hall a circle that leads to the steps of the .White Ihouse, the equestrian staftue Sof Atdi~tw Jacksotl 11i blush with o envy at his proflaincy aS t bkvalier. - -[New York Sun. --A woman in Suffolk, England, Slately madean extraordinary attempt k to kill her self. First she went iut6 I, ithe back yard, platid half a pound of I- gun~Idod in a circle around her and -set firb to it. As this did her no harm; n she got a pound canister, piut it In a a bucket, and, holding her head over it, setfire to the pow*it. An nouthouse was blown to pletee, Bilt saite was only horsl gbout the ficb. Then she stabs' bed hetself with a shoeiutker's knife, Sbut not fattity, and tllbu thb neighbors camb and took charge of her. 0 --TuE fifth annual sale of tIu d Preaknesa yearlings, at the Northli g Elkhorn Stud Farm, near Lexington; d Kyo, tok place tban the 29th of June. I. Thirtden oults and thirty-seven flllte were sbld, the colts aviriiging $917, G 5i and the fillies $581.78, and the r totia sales ~52,0S5.0 0 t -Goeoinot Hayes must hldie feij Sde!tghtfnl)j when he read thati a egro deltitb ho assisted in bis nOminiiotfo at Cieintabati dk dtk 6 igtuestion "Is r dji man Hlyev we*v¢ nominated dat 2 one who sold cadetsehip." d, -TRn Beedher harem at Broptktj' [lI. has just fixed its Ehlie morumon's satadr iat $2000(hjotv year.