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in srliunl Iay. , , f .1 fzhwl-ioOK byi1 ' '' LO Ml 19 SC. I T i rt -,''. mutot'mlt-Li '-i , . md hy raj oil" . v. t-J'iiflw, tha Ink iceJ 1; it jt-k-kauVs cire 1 : il1.-' ; ,. 1 -ea frosGoes 03 .t-w . I'-.lxtrV wjrasill, e;iTio, tun 'va lia&, ereeplu;: slow t-- a.-... H eat 'unsung oat t pl 111 . ' Limjearroa wiatr urn booce over it at p t ssumij , It up its wcsterr, witxi w pines aou low eave icy iixtimc. i 1 touohed the tanglM c M ji ctn-, And brown eye? lull a ntvinc, Of "oe who Still her eti dels j ed When all the ch-i wi-m Uuvia;. For near her Ukk1 the litt'e boy iler enildieh faror s otefl Hi" oap palled low a poo a tac hete pride and .-hira wre mlns'ed. Puahin with rort'e; feet the soow To nht and leJt. he lingered , - As rertlessly her tiny hanc The Uu-cfceal.d apron tinkered. U.i iw her lift her eyes, lie felt Tti soft band lifiot eareein::. And tieail the tremMe of her voice, Ai If a lault oonlesslDg. - 1 m forry that I fpolt the word, i hste to co above you, 1 the bi,wo eyes lower fell, " foetus, yoa see, I loreyuu"' fii 1 ! memory to a ijrej -haired man Tint FM-eet child fo la slx.wing. 1- rirl Th gratson her fftave 1 1 f xiy j oars been powinp ii 1 t- to learn in life's hard school II lew who pass above him ' 'i.eti their triumph aori his Ion, I ' c her Lccaust they lore him 1 J. V. FFkittttT. TIlE Usbfal tTiuther Uttle wave. I'poatliamot 116, Aftber oul to save, m: l IU toil and Rru m more little bet. To walk the daMr nad : T 1 ehoOM whm ten vmtim Tho narnm and the broad. T mors lHato 1 To work f ir coed or Ul . Two mor Uttle eye. Another little will. Aa.thcr hwt tn live. Reoelviag lore mfln , And o Uie fiaby oawie, A Ullage of joy and pais. From Llpptnoott'i lfaguic. CICK'HI-.BS. (Concluded.) In t!ie winter of 1833-9, 1 was engaged in j r -i v'uting a trigouometrical survey across tin' penioHiLt of Florida. Buwly occupied in tv fie! I from before Minrise each day iir. il ..ftcr sunset, I thought it cheaper, if wt s i amus.ng, t i employ a man to bring i. . lis jn. as well as the necessary chicken0, '."! and mutton. He kept me felly sup ;liei. bunting mice a week for deer, while !im lnys trapped partridges. I paid him, in1, own request, in salt pork and hard-tack (the latter food the Cracker ir intensely fond of), and supplied bim with powder, shot and to'ia--. This made ro veuijn, which was alwav in prim? order, cost me about four centi .i und. The 1 vs cliargcd, in the nam'' irulting medium, about three centa a itv for jartridger-. As for turkeys, Moecs a'.te"di.4 to th: part ol the business with jiy S'larrie's ride. He never had to go more tnan half a mile from cimp without finding and bagging one As my readers may sup e, m lived on the fat of the land. Per haps in these days of grinding taxation, wnen it is t.jroely legal lor a baby to be horn without a revenue stamp attached to it, .t m?y lie ol interest to kn-w the pricci paid lor the Hrticles conuu:rd at my mrss-table ilortn our snj :urn in thr land i-f the 'racket . 1 raid or !j i four cent? r. j mnd ; mutton, live f'cnts . eggs, six ccttti a do-n : chickens, .):! dollttr a dozen; cniMn, four cents a p i,iad . partridges, thirty-cigt't cents a doz en . milk, four cents a quart : batter, twelve cents a pound : a soft-shcllcj turtle weighing :ib jut ten pounds, a dollar. There w re four J us in mess, and our mcs-hiil, with all the ivive articles in plenty on our tabic, aen.;.ed about eight dollars each per mont'i . Another peculiarity ol the Florida Cracker, v.' en 1 knew Lim. was his indifference to in "71 mean actual money, not its equiv t.'...ii" He wanted " kind " when he traded, tin ! lie traded as sbaly an any Yankee. He w i '. '1 ' business with s ..- for bay or oat". co'n" or pork or bumblebee whisky, o' . best ol all, hnrd-tt-k. If you wem n t possessed of either of tb.- above ".rt.elcs. l.c vould trade with you for money. ' ut be evidi ntly did not knew much about t!.t He felt that he was treading on -:r mge ground, and scarcely knew how to f. r t.i-fect. In fact, he bad no use lor i' v Barter served all bis purposes. i trading for casb he would at one time the mo.-I exorbitant price upon an aiticle, tji at another as a aoaa so ridicoiouflly small a to impress tho uninitiated with the belie! tb.:i he was ' chamng." In elucidation of this peculiarity, 1 may :u;nt p at incident that occorred to one of mv otl.eer dontiT oir survey. In carrying .ur lir." t .ward the Gulf ol Mexico it was r,. .c-rv to cut long avenues through the w nJ- t lurta t!ic sides of the triangles ,v:i i-e iiiiiien-ij-s wc were todctcrmine. In ,! e c mrst ol the cutting an avenue would -.nK'timet. strike cultivated land, and tbe ;mp.i--iic negro would gravely march t .roi.gh a com or potato bcld, chopping i iwn trees and flooring " crops in rather mi alarming manner. Sometimes tbe avenue would shave a man's house, and shade trees would have to be sacrificed. Sometimes, nit rarelv. an orchard would 1. ravaged. It in needles to say that for all damage thus lone to property the government unhesitat inglv paid . and paid as it does not often do in ca!i. This fact did not, however, seem to be known to our Cracker friends who sojourned in the county of Starke. One day it happened that the line struck a "dead- enin' " belonging to an agrieuiturist ol mat fertile tract, and went first through his corn field (the corn being about three feet high), and then through a large and thrifty patch of sweet potatoes. The avenue was fifty feet wije the trees foil on all sides. What with the trampling of tbc negroes and the falling of the trees, it may lie readily sur mised' that there were not many corn or potat plants left uninjured through the length and breadth of that atomic. In the midst of that devastation the officer in charcc (a stalwart Kentuckian, now an able and eloquent clergyman) was sitting on the fence tmoking ana calmly surveying the havoc, when to him rode up a youth, bare as to the foet and legs, sunburnt as to the hair, but irate and determined as to the countenance. " Sec hyar, stranger," said he, " this byar won't do '" Won't it?" said I , lmperturba- ,y. Well, if it isn't straight, it's H 'e fault, fr he lined it." I don't know nothin' "bout lines, 'eept n.am allers sex she hex hera ; but this byar euttin' through folks's deedenin' an' sauish n' thar co'n an" taters hit w.m't do, an' we"te a goin' tu stop hit '" Who are?" Why, dad an' the neighbors, an' an an' inc." (Here be swelled out and 1 joked important.) " Dad's gone to n the i.v nnu- i epnt me over hvar to tell r men to make tracks 'fore wuss comes of While tbs boy was speaking quite a com n .ti jn was observed at the house, which I -t d about a quarter of a mils off, and eev ral l.,ng, lean, sunburnt fellows, each with 'n- rifle or dooble-barrekd gun across his rode up to tbc porch. Soon one of liem detached himself from tbc crowd and '!( slowly and with dignity toward tbe wt of destruction. As he eunc near, the ; mnisner said : ' V..M . dad. Now, then, you'll see, Krati;PT ' As soon aP horseman arrived within speaking dirtaniH. he reined op his horse, and in a e j! but earnest manner began his parlcv " Ni. up' ," " u'eii .' Inm Y Ullr -'..r iuus' stop hit rteiv uius', "tranger Mi un' the neighbors liez deter lurael tu nop p, ,t, an' we mean to d j hit." " Win." mid Y , "you don't mean :"ti'-' United Suites government, do VOU ' " I' n the United States government, trancer ' " said the indignant Cracker. " W hat do 1 keer for tbc United States gov ernnunt when my co'n en' tater-ratch i6 oti'arned ? Hit ain't no right bit ain't fur orcrment tu cum thru our deadenin', a-killin' of the crops an' a-loadin of tbc firld wif light'ud. an' a-givin' of us work fur a month to cm, an' not pajin' us a durn cnt. I'm a peaceable man. cap'n, but right is rieht. d n it!" A light suddenly illumined the bitbeito blank countenance of Y In a surprhed and indignant tone of voice be inquired who had Eaid that tbc nitcd States did not pay for damages done tc crop;' "Who? Why. J,m ' Barton" (a pot house poliucan of that neighborhood), ' ?n' an by, cap'n ' ToU don't mean to say you rfopiy?" ,lU"ri.4 th(J Cnetert quite confnsed in his eloeutinn. ' l!o? of course we do 'And Jim Dar ton s a lur; and you mny tell him s0, with tny complimenti. " " Stranger," said the Cracker, riding JjeetoY and speaking in a slow and impressive manner, do you tell inc that you intend joyin' me for my eu'n an' taters damaged bv this hvar JT....11' - - " Certainly, I do." " An' fur the labor hit'll 1 for me an' "rats to cut an roll them trees outen tho dcadtnin' WMWfw&Mii. i iPhips jr JsVJavjsV ayp I H ZaK I j VOL. XLIV. NEW SERIES VOL. XVII. BURLINGTON, VT., FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1G, 1870. NUMBER 25. j For answer, Y cocllj pointed t where I tho necroec, having CnisbnJ falling in the ! two CM, were now cutting tbc lugs into ' corjwood lengths and piling them outside ; This was by no means an isolated ca.c. of the fences (our invariable custom). i There were many Crackers as ignorant, 'Wa'a-1'" muttered the Cracker , though lew so rich. But wo may now hope "a-pilin' of 'cm up forme 1 An' you'll pay for bitter thing Although the poor Crack fur the damage?" ' er wax dragged into the waragainsthia will, "Certainly. I'll pay you now, it you'll , ho yet fought so as to gain for his bravery Kt a price on it," aid 1 : "o! euurw the admiratiun of the civil world. Tbevij- if tho price is reasonable. Cap'n," raid tbe Cracker, dismounting, " you're a man artcr my own heart ! Una us Tour han', lioss ! Cash down, eL ?" " Well, now," laid V , after the hand- i-bikiog liad been duly performed. " what Jioald you think tbc damage to your crop is worth 7" J " Dad " stroked his chin gravely. Appa rently an idea found it difficult to come through tbe top-dressing of dirt, bristles acd tobacco-jaice on his unshaven cheeks, fur he trantferred his attentions to his head. " A'a'al, now, cap'n," said he, reflect ively, " you tee ther's a pow'ful heap o' damage done ' Ther's hills o' co'n an' rows otwrs no i mean mils o taters an rows o' eo'n completely nomiwued an' not wuth a durn. Ther's the trouble o' snlitten' all i that thar wood. Wa'al, it's hard tu say." " Name your price," said Y . , "Wa'al, now," hesitating, "djn't be eloHe-fiated about it, cap'n. Kay now shmli you think jifty toils teas fii muck?" Had it been any one of tbe party except Y to whom this exorbitant charge was I made, a roar of laughter that would hare ended in a fight with the irate Cracker would unquestionably have followed this estimate of damages. Even tbc impertur bable Y confessed to me in confidence that he had never before been so tried, lie kept his countenance, however, and calmly replkd " Well, no ! 1 shouldn't think that a dollar was too ranch. But, as we are anx ious that tbe people should be satisfied, I'll give you a couple or dollars and call it square." So saying, be handed four half dollars to the astonished man. " By tbc Lord, stranger '" said that wor thy when he had satisfied himself that this munificence was real, " you're a right bower a full of acw, by gum ! Cum down to the pen it's no use, I won't take no denial cum rite down an' take a drink of old wum- juiee wif mean' the neighbors. An' you, Jack, ride your critter down thar, and take mine wif you. Me'n" the stranger'll foot it." So down Y had to go, and then ?nd j there imbibe villainous new whisky with some ten or a dozen of thin, sunburnt, tobacco-stained, reckless-looking fellows, who ' welcomed him most heartily after hearing 'dad's " story, and who would have as cool- ly shot him in two minutes if taey had been satisfied in their minds that be intended to trample on their rights. . As they parted, " dad " addressed Y . " Stranger." said he, ' every man in Starke conuty'e yer friend , an' if you want j help enny time, 1st Hen Padgett know. An' i if enny man ever sez in mv bearin' that the United States ain't tbc best of rutin's, that man's a-goin tu git his head bruk, or my 1 sinners " (stretching oat an arm where tho muscles looked like ropes. ai,d I've no doubt i - . 1 . .... j lelt uxe iron) " or my sinners nas lost tnar cunnin'." Tbe Cracker's language, a faint idea of which may be gathered from tbe f iregoing anecdotes, is of peculiar construction. He always ' reckons ;" calls tbe earth " the yeath," and ears " years;" utterly disregards the r in corn, and adds the letter h to the Er noun " it." His father is his dad," is mother his "mam." A friend in usually addressed as " hose." A turkey is a " tuck ey ;" a hornet, a " ho'nct." For our friend drops his r's as an Englishman bis A'ti, and puts them in where, according to popular prejudice, tbey do not bebng. A worm is a "worn." a flask is a "tickler." To go over a bill is to go " over the top :" a stone whether small or great a ' rock ;" and women are generally spoken of as " heifers." To these peculiarities of pronunciation and nomenclature add a sort of lazy brawl, and you may obtain some sort of a notion of the Cracker moon ot speeen. Tbe Cracker is independent in his ideas of dress or costume. A lelt bat o! a nondescript color, but once probahly white, a cotton shirt innocent of plaited bosom, starch or , washing, and a pair of homespun or ' hick ory ' trousers stock into his boots, or. more generallv, rolled up about half a foot above low-quartered brogans, and showing an expanse of dirty ankle, complete the attire of tbe man. Tbc woman wears a h imespun gown : 1 cannot posiitirely aver that she does not wear anytbiog else, bat, to the bert of my knowledge and belief, shf nit. Children wear anything or nothing. In fact, children among the Crackers have i but a poor chance. Nature has lier will , with them in so tar as a disregard of the appliances of art is concerned, but she docc not, after all, seem to be so good a mother as some of our modern philosophers would have us suppose. Only the hardiest of the children survive And no wonder. So soon as the infant has teeth to chew (if be does not die before they come), he is fed with fat 1 pork and creasy, leaden inscuit. in trutn -I :. l:--ta Alan . . 11 .;m ..n f.,i . ,f tiT1 not enough or them. Tbe poor baby is thus I earlv ramiliar with tne nanus ol nunsrer. io bo sure, huncer is a natural emotion, but one not easy to get a accustomed t . As a consequence of this difficulty the Cracker child eats dirt to satisfy the continual crav ings of his stomach. This unsatisfactory diet gives him a white-washy complexion, and a pleading, wistful look about tbe eyes (which seem to have lost whatever light they dan i Ttitr irmriilftrities r ii frpdini make Cracker children almost uniformly pot- bellied. Thus, it they live to manhood, it : : , k. .,n.;n.l tfmmli of thf..r constitutions than to the effects ol Nature s ic thc l niu ' v ' -nursing or any hygienic precautions taken by their parents.' If they do live, tbey grow to i The Fitibl .tit 1 be thin, wirv, itrong and enduring men. an address recently d. In with a strong appetite tor loar-nj. n, in. courting the girls and drinking whimy. The best proof 1 can adduce tb it they make good fighting men i the uet they composed the mass of the Confederal" army in our late rebelion. What kind of fighter they are. let those say who met them on the Peninsula, at Ant.ctan and (Jcttysl.uig. at Chantilly and Chattanooge . Tbe Cracker possesses the vu tuc ol hospi tality in a large degree. He will turn him self and bis wite out of thc single-poster to give it to his transient guest with such genu ine, whole muled gencropitv, ar.J will pres him to accept it with such an air of deep anxiety, that doubt as to cleanliness of theet nr! hesitation from fear of the amri U rlula- rtus vanish at once ; and one feels one's self obliged to sacrifice one's personal feelings on . tnc;r fatx to es. 'iangc with other countries tbe great altar of true courtesy and genuine Xheir prosperity was built on narrow foun hospitality. dations, and it fell. Our circumstances an ile is ab ivc all things, fond of a dance, different. Here is a republic of vast extent. Let him' get. a nigger tide'ler and plenty ol stretc' ing from the sea which bathes the baldface whisky, and give forth the news western u-t of Europe t . thnt i..di waih that be expects his friends, and men and girls es thc eastern shore ol Ash a n m of rcr vrill come from a circuit of twenty miles, tile plums, rich vallcv- . id ro'.h f .rests. And how he dances ! lean give no idea mountaies In with nine-, watercourses of it unless some cf mv readers have seen a whose sands arc gold, mighty rneis. railways fisbermsn's hop on the ceast of -Maine. In going firth from our great cities to every that case they will be able to form some point of thc compas". and covering an im enneention of the style and chaiacter of a incuse territory with their intersections, and Cracker dance Such shuffling and double I not a hindrance t commerce between city JhnHliroT such rn'ceon wings, such tortuous and city, or between sea and ie. or on our and d&TMw there exc-uted. ' great rivers, or on thc horde o. the States ,."i, ,t;rl. the favorite measures to the Arming our confederation Ih.s mighty rc- Swivellerian appellation of the mazy Inmv oi. Bion a man must get drunk in cX to br himself properly through such romance Xo sobcV man could master a performance it But what a contempt the Cracker has lor tbe rudiuian"!" When I was last a sojourner in the Und of Flowers a tracker who could read and write was considered an extraordinary creature a kind of woolly horso or two-headed calf. 1 once cime across a plantation, near the centre or the peninsu la of Florida, belonging to a man who was worth, at the lowest calculation, thirty thousand dollars. He bad twenty negroes, 1 - nil Urnn rtf 1.1II.H1 HaTihlAll in SU- urn" b" ""' - gar and indigo, and was growing richer every veer. He bad four sons ar.d two daughters. Thc family dressed exactly as when " dad had firtttcttled, lived in thesameone-storied, onc-roomed l.ig hut, were " hail-fellow-well. met" with their poorer neighbors, as they bad always been, and not a soul of them could even read. Tbe old man s n WllU Hie tWID -v . , a H '. i .1... i.;r.i,;Mrrti should be acnuain prcierrcu mm mc........ - ... ted with thc ureful arts of reading, wntins onthmct cal calculation, - ji noint tn.his fruitful fields and his lat can who dwelt ham uy . ana was t field,., and moving before the to bea miracle of learning ; ri on cc olirc groves and piled . believe, the agent did full juMice o , h s cm t of the trcv3 end docilo nc"TOCS, and say : married to a Miss Ellery. One of the groomr- I cum bvar stranger, wif a few bogs, . atn W1S uu 0n sen, sd the other was a broth n tAt an' the olo woman an' i cr 0f the bride. Tbe tito bridemids were tia some l peart 'thout .wndsaghteri. UL not teen eu.tom.ry in George, an we ive don e i Wj, , the EpUveopal eharch for widowers or widows to wLn I'mth. braUM 1 i much be .eSpa. to.coad hymen by grocms- ahca.l o'me : an' if they can"t git alonp 'thout roadin' an' writin , why, d nem' thev ort to eturrc ''' lim of tho'c political Ifhmaclites who. nith I nought to lose bat everything to gain in the struggle, thrust aside the counsel of the in ! telligentanls,)lwr-thinkingmenof theSouth, i ' nd plunged the country into a bloody war, i the poor white man bore him'clfas bravely ' on the field as hi- aristocratic officers. How I , much of misery that war brought to him , and his, who will ever know " How many a cabin in tlie lonely woodi was the scene of i patient waiting, long struggles of gaunt i poverty and agonizing suspense until the I fatal news came, tardily, but all too soon, i that told the suffering i'amily that their for- I mer protector was t j be theirs no more ! Who can toll the agony of desolation that ' has been the lot of many a poor, friendless 1 woman, widowed by the cruel hand of war, hose sole dependence f jr loud for the bun gry mouths around her wa-i the labor of her own toil-hardened hands? The mounds that crowd the cemeteries North and South, under which sleep so many thousands of C feder ate dead, could till sad histories enough to fill a volume. But thcue dark days will pasi away. Al though l'eare on her return brought not healing on her wings," yet, when nee th. old rancor of bitterness has worn away on one side, and the contemptible dcirc on the other to tread down and degrade a fallen enemy hns passed, then we shall sec a new era. The general diffusion of cheap education over the South will be the principal agent in effecting a change , contact with enterprising and intelligent men from the North will as sist ; and the removal of the old stigma, the mark of degradation imposed upon tbe Cracker by the old shveholding rule, will complete the change. He will awake from his old lethargy of apathy and ignorance. Amhition will be aroused when be sees bow superior in the agricultural art are hi new neighbor? (for I presuppose emigrati m from tboiorth). Self reliance, honest p-idc and independence will come when be sees men of his imn color, yet of respectability and greatly superier knowledge and resources, working in their field, not only without degradation, but with the high respect of all. I New heart to work, and hence new life, will 1 given to him. He will work with eager- i ncse be will send his children Ut who il ; 1 tney in their torn will impart knowledge to i th"ir offspring. Ignorance and brutisbness, ! poverty and laziness will See tbc land, and the next generation will know of the Cracker j of former days only what history shall tell i them. In !iis place will arise an intelligent, energetic, self-rcliantraeeof hardy workmen, j who will ti'.l their lands in peace and con- j tcntmcnt a rare of laborers proud of the ! product of their hands, whose sons may lead j armies or sit in legislative hall'i whose' proudest bocst will 1 that they are intclli- j gent freemen whose exertion" haie caused " the wilderness to blossjm like the rose." i In a word, the oligarchy has been do i stroved, and all its creatures must f illow it - . " II' TL ,. 1 : .1 . into ooiivion. mo i.mcw:r mil uiraffKrai and ' the place that knoweth him now shall know htm henceforth no more for ever." J. S. Ba4tnor.il. The Business Before Congress. Am ng the important bills which failed at the Us, session of Cunrc and are likely to orac up early in the present session, are the following A bill to unish polygamy. A full to encourage sbii-building. etc. A loll to cstaWip'i a Territorial govern ment in Alask.1. A bill 1 1 establish a postal telegraph sys tem in the I'nited State. A bill to establish a Board of Poi t War dens for the Port of New York. A resolution to regulate the hours of lalior throughout the United States. A bill to redni-e the rare of postage, and " abolish thefranking privilege A bill to reform the civil service of the United State. j Bills to admit as States in the Union the . Territories of Colorado and Xcw Mexico. i A bill ti mfce the importation of iatrni- t crams under labjr contracts unlawful A hill to make it a misdemeanor to fell 1 murmons of war to a foreign government to use against another friendly government. A bill to reflate the (iovernment print ing, and to do away with the publication of public documents for general distribution. A bill to aii the Kansas Pacific railway, , and uIkj one fvr tbc construction of tbe ' Memphis and Kl Pa-o and tbe Midiand Pad- ' fc railways. A bill" to relieve members of Congress from importunity, and to preserve the in- ; dependence ol the different department.-, of i the Government. A bill for an international copyright law, and a bill for tbe construction of an air-line ; railway Iwtwcen Washington and New York. Amomr the important bills which failed at the laK ession of Congress, and are like- '? to come up early m the approaching ses r, A bill to encourage telezraphic communi 1 cation witb foreign countries. Included in ! this hill are tbe proposals for a telegraphic ; cable between San Francisco and China and Japan, and also between a port in the Uni ted States and Belgium. Tliere are several bills to increase Ameri can commerce, among which is that of tbe Mediterranean and Oriental steamship avi- atwn L'omIn' T!.esc bills notlv pro; r, States mails traisi !.. lni;el i-l .1' l.i.r In ...I I,, re th. M cantile Library .Wutiun ol .t ork, William Ciillen Urjant humorously alluded to the ti'oc when New ork shall have dwindl-d to a fishing town, and hcnine di ks Into os I'arthage, us Tyre and ul. n, or us Corinth, ol oil: or shall have de.uyr.1 like An -tirdnn, emei'. or .cnoa, in u. ilern liiM-. He then punted out the ilifbrcrit 1).. . .-i who'i 'Me prosinty ! tl.i-c euies wh" built t th.'t o:.'wimh .Ne'A York stands None ol tints; cities said Mr. Uryaut, hai the same firm and durable b.isis ol commer cial pnaperity as our New York It wa their enter.risc in opening channels of trade . it wn" their conque-ts and coloniee which gave them their tenifi irarv prosperity, lhey hadni broad, well-pc ip!e 1 ngion around them, unil'r the same government with themselves, whose suiierubundance it was gi, nhte with an eneriretic population, is flanked with seaports, through whicn the products sent by us to other countries mus. pass, and through which the merchandise sent us in exchange must be received. They arc t.icrcrorc an indesiensable pirt of our national e.onomv. Their prosperity is necessary, inevitable, and will endure while our political organization remains as it now N. But ir it should come to pass that this fortunate order of things is broken up, if this great republic shoul 1 fall to pieces and be come divided into a gioup of independent ,n,monu-rci1rhs. each animated bv u narrow T 1 ... ..I tl,.. ofliprrf nnH U an liuoerai J . gh)MjJ u,Btruct lho channels or! S, . . ll ' , , j n,, 60 tortunatciy open over an our , ttorr, there are none of our great , exchange for whose ruturo piwper- ' u )me wmlU uu in0 a " , into a rapid decline ; , "jj like Ascalon, on the Palestine, once a harbor crowded fc ' , , MW it a desoIilte hth Anmnp ' ttio fni 50TEL FE.11BE IS THE WEDDISG LS. An unusual weJdin cccureJ tbe otber uy Tr n tv Church ch, New York Mr. Hlism cam- lurtoa. a widower of Worcester, Mats , was nieii lnlhridesnmN. A firet msnisgc is con aidertJ & lfgUituste occasion for rei.ciug and coaeequent auplaj, but u thought tiit theffc onJ nuptiala chould le ocnductnl with a due eoce cf the los? previously exj-crieuced Coc seqaently, tbe lest? ceremony the belter. .Report of thc Secretary of the Trea sury. The Secretary cf the Treasury states that the financial condition haa impioved during thepiet year. Receipt for the fiscal yeir en ling with June last, 8411205,477 ; expenditure for the same period, g;J0;,G53,56O ehowiag a surplus applicable to thc piyment of the public debt (including the amoutit pledged to the sinking fund by t he act of February S, 1 ,'J) t of S101 , Teeceipts fj-thp first quarter of the Frtiectyear, S115(HU,j;V ; estiaaated receipts fer the remalniogthree-uariers, &244,OOt),0)0; e-timated expenditures fr the aatne pertcfl, 2UC,600,00 The expenditurea f jr the firit quarter were Ni.-'jOJ,'! showing n balance applicable to the payment ot the public debt (including, however, lae amount payable on ac count of tbe sink'.cg fund), of Sr.",'-IH,:ilO. In eetiinitiLg the expend 'ture of the next fiscal year, the Secretary haa inclttJed t-l,-"00,nOO, properly chargeable tu cui rent revenue &3 an appropriation, under the asta of February J-i, 1MJJ, and Ju'y, l4?'', relating u the Finking funl The-e w.ll te reijaned alfo the sum of 4,b0jt',o I, being the amount anoweriog to the interest on the capital of the sinking fund, as represented on the books of the department. The Secretary estira-itf tbe receiptn fjr the jear eading June, 17, at ?.1L,4IV w i- : expen'li turea J,6," , accorJing to which there will be a iurpluf app ic'iMe to th" payment of the princifii1 f th' pub if debt, in addition to paymcn'- made on roust through the sinking tund, of ?H'7,77. Hi An analysis of the ex penditure develops fiutB tenJimr to rut:ain the :iin:on t!iat the haltiuce will be considerably larpT thin now appear from the foregoing ee tituve 1: may be 'eaj.-aably niticipated tht tb total reluciion cf tbe puMic lebt during the next fiscal year, including piycirnte oti account of sinking fund, will be aln st fifiy miU-cn dc! lars The war in Kurope hp rt-n lere-l it im practicmble to refund the national debt, as au thorized by an art provided July 1 1th. lTO A portion of the paper has been manufacture i and the preparation of the plates has been so far ad vanced that whenever a favorable opportunity arise tbe loan may be offered ani bonds deliver ed without delay. Inasmuch as war in Europe and cne)UP&t j demand for money makes it doubtful whether the ' 4 and 5 1-2 percent, baoin will betake:), it .seems to cue wiee to authorize the iwae f three hundred niil!ions additional bund, bearing in- ' tercet a. the rate of five pt-r cent. Tbc interest can be paid quarterly without inconvenience, and 1 the Secretary therefore respectfully recommends the loan act to be so modified, tht payment of interest may be made quarterly, instead of semi-annually. Should the recommendations 1 approveJ by Congress, it ii of grc.it importance that an act authorizing the changes be passed without delay. Complaints are made, that N-l-tional B'nk hilts are worn to such extent as o be no longer fir for circulation, aod as more ctw bonds are to be organized, the Secretary recom mends an appropriation be made, and authority given for the Usue of new bills upon such paper, and in such form aa may b designated by Secre tary of the Treasury. The Secretary aeks the attention f Congress to a bill prepared in the department andaubm:tted at the last session re lative t i the mints and the coinage syalem cf the country. It states with regard to the que' ion of the revival of Ammjin cemmercc, that with out undertaking to specify the meant by which it oouii be accompli.-hM. hi canni overstate thc importance of eu.-h hgUlition at will secure that revival. He rtcoatmends the increase of a permanent appropriation for the collection cf revenues from customs v tie sum of s-,KVKWi also alteration of the law a will proviie for one principal appraiser at each p rt where there are now two with equal powers. Tbc supervising architect of the Treasury, stitea that tht expen diture authorized by hv fur t V e -o-truction of the new Po,t-oIfijc in New or, will be inade quate unless the chiric'trr of the works is change! from the original da-icn It retns to be due to New York for general and apirent reasons, ami in consideration of thefaci thv the mo-te'.ig'Ue site has been secured ry the ccr poraticc, and in some degree at the expense if the city, that tbe building should not only he a fire-proof structure, but also of such detiga aul workmac-hip as to rank aci- ng the butt public buildings of tbe country. The Secretary renews the recam!ueccia.;on , appropriating for steamers, revenue cutters and marine hopita!, an I trans ferring David's taWnd from the War to the Trea sury liepartmeni. fjr marine hfpital. He calls attention to the inadequacy and mrualiry of iaharks of omcerr In his annual report of Le-jeiabcr Ut he ad vised a continuance of theexUting sytttem of tax ation Man essential condition 1 1 the success of the proposed loan. The circumstance that wir war declared between Trance an 1 Pro?-ii r:mul taseouly with the ptssxge of the loan b II, p'lt it oat ot the power cf the Department to make the negotiation. As bad been expected, the la-gc revenues, however, ,f govern uipnt e. utluuing without material abatement until t!.f present time, improved the credit of i.ic 'ountry and enabled toe Treasurer by weekly purchases to reduce the amount of rarpU- bui.ds oflVred for sale and contributed to depreciate the market Talneofgold. He aUo expresfnl opinion that the settltd policy of the country j,..u!u uontem plate a revenue sufficient to xuec: tbe ordinary expenses of the governnient, p;ty interest on tbe public debt and from twenty-five to fifty milaons of dollars of tbe pincipal annually. Thc ed action of the public debt aince the . !Hh cf June last hts been so great as to render cer tain the total reduction for the present fiscal year will exceed sixty trillions cf dollars. Hi says, in coocluaioo : Tbe financial prospect, although highly tvorMi is not such as to war rant important change in tbe revenue system at the present session, but should the result during the coming year meet his expotMicnw, it will be possible, at the December session ot tbe Forty tteoond Congress, to make a very material reduc tion in tbe revenue without impairing the ability of the Government t make satisfactory pay ments of tbe public debt. Report of the Secretary of 7ar. V asbix r.TOiv, Dec. h The aunual report of the Secretary of War shows the regular artm to be vuii'i 1 cf i,4S8 officers and 3l,f 70 enlitei in. . i 17- ' fbHom compose thete-i irt :...r i f i ivilrj . tht ti. t r Omenta of ait.iVij I the tti.u-iivL reg it'll!- I I'.fivrj . t u rtMi i. : : ., ' : rgiLt'CTh trtp :!i r i t euu- mtiatel w.vut u ti (- f Tin mo jL(i ai iri !" '-lii rn; i ii"t i I i t i i . t ' hit I Ly a i tdjn ! t f tit1 ; 'Lint .ii 1 : e rt rt shows a reductH.u l low the expenditure tu the yearelft,'i 70, of S IJ II Tliere is a d- ticien'y &I ab ut l.t.i; ihh). Sl.Mt.ifKi f this deficiency is occaMoneil by the fact that in i!ie et mate m"ie by th ar Depart pi-nt tor the year en lirr June 1" 1 , i. iai unt kw id clu led fur ci'itsim put p'-f 1 i usf of :he ba lanrr cf c! J appr pna'ion" 1 tevt 1 to le .ipphel ti the p:n tieut - f ixpense. t i the.urrect ea" , winch biHr.ce" were ren lerl unni !a' 'e by the ..ct ol Jiilv lith, ls7'1, t e-.nite oi military atiproprntions tor the jear ending June U'tth, 17J, is ,.-.;,'' ; rcluct.on belcw exprntl'turt-s of the prevmu year, s "I ,.."i'i.- an 1 I i1 iw tbe ! L-t apprunriitico t f 1 ,(7, if thi estimate ftr the next licl year the sum (f J.T-'' is alj new.t .ted ty the prohib tiv ti iha u-m t untxpt,ii'lel tlances tf f.rmr jtar?. T(u Serret iry myn r. u.tioi; fur rverv arm r 1 the set vie ha been oi rted on through ut the yt ir, ami suggests that Congress extci 1 thi" time la which the ('resident nay die cbaige hath pay and allowance efficrrs who may apply therefor ; compliraeatu the inanaztraent ai.l high t-tate uf discipl'oe -it Wvt IN int. and expresses sttisfcti ti at tbe progress made in tue river and harbor iuits The records if the Department 'iow the bjrn. m n.it . oal icd other t rattene!' of -. , ! persons. In addi-. tnn to those bui le 1 in tlir teventy-three national cemeteries, there .ire very many soldier interred :n private cemetenct near hospitals in 1 which they die'. Measures are m rap'd pc I gres? for csrrymg out the law which requ.res ! cemeteries to be properly !Lcloaed. lu reforecce to the rr.iusemeht fu- ohpra tion aid report of ptorniH by telegraph and 1 Kgcal report, he "ys its execu't"n thus tar has j been satisfactory, and it cmfiieotly believed the systematic uiens adopted to cirry out tliis , wise legfcUtion of Congress will result in bene- , - fits to commerce, which will amply justify an i appropriation a (equate to U accomplishments, j The Secretary pays -i pAbfiing tribute to the ', lite Mapr-General George II. 1 horns, and con cludes his report by asking that Congress at ita I next session w.H so legislate that the Secretary ' of War may make an appointment of a compe I tent person for the purr use of preparing for pub lication the ofiisial documents relating to the re I hellion and the upritiona "f the :i-my during j the war Tub Famine in ri.tf.-The correspond cut oftheN. Y. n'mJin Paris, writes underdae of Nov. 1ith . Uats have beun to appeir at market. They readily sell at 15 cents cash. Cats also are ou fait. The price is 00 cents. Tbe quotations are firm, with a decided upward teaJency. I saw a turkey sold thia morning fjr Slti, cold. I siw a rihbit (net a very large, fat oae) offered, for which S7 was refused; was asked; it would have fetched SI in ordinary times. Lard is 51 apouni. I effered 2 for an old chicken cock thismornine; the owner woulihearof nothing lees than 3. Eggs are Vj cents apiece. Yesterday morning at the Great Markets, the fishmongers, whose occupation has gone, have taken to eelltcg 4 borte beet'teaks1 and horw beef.' Tfcey yeeterdy afked 90 cents a pound for horse saassge, and 70 cents a pound fr horse blood puldiag Buyers were aa furious at this advance, they being numerous seized the sausages and blood puddinjs (both are acid in iatettices), and belabored the fishmongers about the face with them. Billing-gate in l'arla has aa foul a raouth as Billingsgate in London, and i elout arms. A fierce battle ensued, m wmca words and Hows, cpuneu, fis'jr, t ausages, ad blood-pud lings tlew thick: as canister thot A , wagen laden with blood-pud Jtnga came up at this coxenr. In a jiffy it was overturned, and ban i red? of people trampling unier f.-et the blood -pud dings. National Guards restored or der after a whi.e, but the uvirktt remained dot ed all dir. Laws of Vermont, Pauedat the fir$t Biennial &e$siontA . 1S70. An Act in addition to chtpter twenty-two cf the General Statutes, rel iting to Schools. i hereby enacted hy the General A'tn.My of the State of Vermont : Sec. 1. Any town in the State may, at its an- nual March meeting in 1871, or at any annual j March meeting thereafter, by vote, by a majority i of the voters present at any tuh meeting, abol- I ish the school district syetem in such town ; and the selectmen of each town shall insert an arti cle for that purpose m the warning for the an- i nual March meeting in 1871, and in the wa- u- mg fur any subsequent annual meeting, upon thc application of three legal voters in such town. Sec. 2 At any annual town meetiog at which the school dibtnots shall be abolished, an provid ed in section one of this act, tfce voters thereof shall elect either three or six school directors, citizens of such town to be called the loard of school directors, otiC-third of whom shall be elected tor the term of o&e year, one-third fur two jers, saw aUtMraw tor three years from tbe cloe of the school year as by kiT established Ani at every annual town me-tintr Hereafter there shall Iv elected one school director in towns having a board of three, and two school directors in towns t able to havc enti.rrft.IIPll towards a legiilative or having a board of hx. and the term of office of Uw.m4kiog lf0 Iy. It :m rerhips true that the all ecbool directors so electtd shall b three Ute WSs00 h,s Dl t fullT anered pablic expec yeers Irom the c oae of the who, year. ; ut on Wlll ,,e weU inJrtd if eAch JndTi. Stc ... The selectmen shall fill any vacancy jU)li mem?Hr has that quiet wnscioneM of do- signatiou, death or other disability, until thc next annual March meeting, when the town shall elect a director for the remainder of the unex pired term. And ill memliers of the ttoard of school directors, whether elected by the town or appointed hy the selectmen shall hold their effices until their suewssors shall be eletl the manner hereinbefore provide.! Sir. 1. Whenever any town shall vote to alwl ith school districts therein, in pursuance of sec tions one and twu of this .ict, all the school dis tricts in such town shaH, fro.n an I ifter the first day of April next suecee ling the day when such town shall vote to abjlith nchooi districts there in, cease tj ex'i-t, except for the purpuw of fully arranging and fettling up the pecuniary affiirs of said school districts" Tbe several ?ho. houses, and all property belonging to the m ?eral school districts in such town, shall U- .ppratsed by a commissioD consisting of three persons, to beaprjomtedbytheasabtantjudgwof , iv court for thc county in-which such town i situated, and the amount of such appraisal aball stand to the ere Jit of tbe several school districts respectively, to be adjusted, allowed and equal ized between such diatrtcta by applying such va luations upon tbe taxes thereafter to be assessed, under tbe provisions of this act, upon the grand list of the several school dL-triets ; an 1 ail such school bouses, and other property belonirng to said several school districts, shall thereafter pas to and become the property of such town, ?K .f. TbeBcardofSchoalDirectorishaU.cn or btfore the first day of April ineahyear, elect one of their number chfttrx, who shall be vested with all the powers and rabject to all the dutfe. now imposed upon town sup-rmteu- dents of common schools. snail receive men compensation for his services from the State Treasurer aa is provided by law for the compen sation of town superintendents, and ruchfurtaer sum as the town may vote htm to be pai 1 out of . the town treasury; and such towns as shall aiopt the provision! cf this act stall ut' thereafter elect a Town Superintendent cf common schoo'-, 1 aa now reouired by law. Sex-. . The Bwrd of School Directors shal', annually, on or before the first of April in each year, appoint a clerk, not one of their number, who shall keep a permanent record book, in which all the votte, orders and proceedings uf the Board sba't hy bim be recorded ; and who shall make sll tbe returns to tbe Town Cl.-rk now required by law ti be made by clerks of sctojl districts, sad shall receive the same c tn pensation therefor. Sn 7. Said Board of Scbooi Directors shall have tbe care aod custody of all the property belonging to the several public school? of such town, shall prescribe the number of schools, employ teachers and fix their compensation, have tbe management and control of all the pub lic schools in such town, examine and allow a'.! claims arising therefrom, andSww warrants for the payment of such claims upon the Town Treasurer, which warrants shall be pai 1 from the money hereinafter specified ; and said Board shall have and enjoy in general al! the powers and authcrity, and perform sll the duties, per taining to the office of pruiential committee aa 1 clerk ef aceiujl districts as uow provided by law. They may establish graded schools, aal p-ovi le for the instruction of the scholars in the aciencr and the higher branches of ft thorough education, and may establish tuch by-laws and regulation for the carrying out of thc powers a'uve men tioned aa a.e consistent with this act and the laws cf the State. They et-iU be sworn to th faithful discharge of their duties and shall re -ceive no compemmttcn for their services But the chairman of said board shall receive tbe compensation hereinbefore provided. Stc. 8. Tbe treasurer of such town shall kee a separate account of all monets appropriated for the use otsecoitt, wbicu moneys una.. ile, which money- ahall con- uf the United States) deposit siet of the income fund and cf the town school fund, and the income of any money or property do nated for the use of schools tn such town. and all moneys appropriated by the select, man of such town for tbe use of school? And such town treasurer shall pay, out of any moneys mentioned in this section, nil warrants drawn by said board of sobool directors fur the uk of sobocls. The selectmen of such town f-haU annually appropriate for the use of ols in such town a sum not exceeding ' amount which would W rall by ft tix i h y cute upon the 1 iHf ' the grmc-1 i.t c ! nil i i wn, and It" thsn tw.tit tiveoeuts u; n t n II lar. ii 1 the f e-'inen su--i urn i it annua ' t r th p'irp- - i let ay n - - ' i i I r j riat.r- ' n r le" than t weti v-ivi' J M-. utr xceel z ufty cents up i tli J. 'it t grai J lt 1 1 f u-h town, ami such t- wt. :i U tjirel u s' es tt-e m uot.t .'riM m - -t i eighty cf -.hat ter twent)-tvr. ul t.ie p stitutes AnJ the Ft i 'Cti.ieu of any towo nre heret y a . tVr ?td t" ley md ift any aliit -nat tax h'-om t fty Ct tits 'n the ! .liar that f'ull I e voU f r hool purp' Js at ariy armi.' tuir-i "nee' ig .n ii. i town It shall be the duty of such tjwn to pn.wJe and maictiin suitable school hfuses for the ac commodation of all the scbcjls in suchtiwn, and the locaiion, constructio.i and a.-ile of the same shall l-e unier the con'rot i f iiie Kotrd tf tchtril direuTnrs. Ir-n '.' 'I lie boaid uf scLtml direct r may re ceive stutlent" from other towns into their shni upon such t-rm" as they may deem rfper, an i any mi.neys receieI by then, from uth !nt shall be paid inti the school fund of such town. Sec. 10. In all cases of districts formed of the territory or inhabiUnts of two or more adjmning towL, one of which aJopts the provisions or thif act, the town adopting tho provisions shall tjnh wita take pofsession of the schtxil bouse ut such di-trict, when such school house MiiMmc ii situate in such town, ani of the schod appara tus, Und and other property uf such district ; and tbe selectmen of such town, and the select men of the adjoining town or town, shall forth with appraise such property, and shall deter mine what proportion tnereofis owned by t.ie inhabitants of such adjoining town or towns ; and in case tbe said seteial boarJs of selectmen hall net agree iu their said appraisal or appor tionment, the same hall be determined by th'te commifriaDerc, appointed by the assistant judge of the ocunty court of the county in which such towus are situated ; and in case said towns are situated in different counties, then the same shall be appraised and apportioned by five com missioners, three of whom shall be appointed by thc assistant judges of the county court of the county in which the town asking such com mis aon u situated, and two by the county court of , J.-C"S iiy T ., . , . of either of such towns. Such commiffiionet a ill receive the tame pay fortheirser.ioee.il is new provided l.y law for service of road com missioners, and shall, within ten days after such appraisal, file their reports in the town clerk's oQi2e of each of 6iid towns, and the expense of such commission sha'l be defrayed by the town asking tbe same. Stc. 11. It is hereby mile the duty of tbe assistant judges of tbe several county courts in . this State to appoiot the commissioner undtr the provisions of this act, upon the application of the selectmeu of any town a Jopting this act. Sec 12. Tbe town taking property of fran tkinal districts, as provided in this act, thill, within uixty days alter tueh appraisal of tb" selectmen, or the filing of the report of the com- miss'-oners, as provided in section ten of this act, py to tbe Treatnrer of such adjoining: town such amount as raay be appoitioncl to toe in hibitants of such town. Sfc 18. Theltoariof School Directors shill, at each annual meeting, make a report to tbe town of their proceeiicjrs for the last echcol year, , and present an exhibit cf all warrants drawn by them for tbe use of school. &cn. it. ints act &nan not apply t.i, anywise s.pa auy p ni ecioy. uisiric wnicn has been ircorporated py special act of ihe IisUtare unlets ncptca by sv vote cf two- thirds of the le.l voters therein ; nor to any district formed by the concurrent volea of ,wo ormorc adjoining town,, without the c.ncurrin2 votes of each of said towns consenting thereto. Approved, November Slt lbitt. f,T MrrT.rn'a I.itsit Puti. " n. tie essays which Professor Max Muller has just I f ' the fiffl'n ' ,ht '.' F"" opr''s " Col- I la .l .f-j i r a- n- 1 lege, noticing the excitement among their negh- I printed as tbe third volume of his " Chip, from t,rs. went over to see what was u, and learn a German Workshop" treats of Germin liters. I ing tbe cause of the agitation, went Into the hall, I ture. In this he says there is no country where so much interest in talten in tht litpratnre of Germanv aa in England, ani there ia no coun- try where the literature ef England is i) much appreciated as in Germany. Lcrd Ma:au1ays I History was not only translated in German, but I reprinted at Leipzig in the original, and it is j siiJ to have had a larger salo in Germany than j the work of any German historian. Biroa Humboldt and Baron Bunsen addressed their ' writings to tho Kagtiuh and American as much ' nj ro me uerman public. The novels or Dick- fns were expected witb the eame impatience at ' wipiiR ua Benin, as in IonJon. Ibe two great German classic. Schiller and Goethe. have found their most successful biographers in Car! yle and Lewes It is to be wished that 1'ro reifor Muller hai said something of the popu larity of German literature in tho United State The Late Legislature. .P!"IO:" Or THC VUJIONT FHE!. From tho Mont pelr Freaisra. For cer.tin reastna not cecersary to enumer ate, we canco: now comment upon tbe acts of the late Legislature, or speak of the members composing it w.th that full net a and freedom which perhaps, under other circumstances, ruiptt have been both desirable and profit ible We give UIow what tbe Fbck Press whoe editor was a uust ueful senator this session the next morning after tbe adjournment, raid of thc thing d'-ne and kft undone by tbe Legis lature The pre-s generally of the State hare not spo ken tf the r-t.ent Legislature and their acts with thf miivl m.il r.vDrdn.e chioK ii loracd ijtr- t es we!! an 1 hi.hfulty performed that i- said to make an.cnds t. r all lack of popular commends- ! tion an I pra "t Insoi ..-.-'tr. tie House of Representatives I wa. c: .(ru'ar'y . instituted. It s nor. so to I ,tlTeri i AE.taamniiTic wieirv, audi itemed to IIML Ir' MiMnP ill! rulriV IfiniMnldle keU outsider tSi .e-tain members delighted to make the b-earh a wide a possible between themtevfo ..n 1 brother members, unless their pet mia-.' wer. at tnce accepted It almo-t appeared u Li-ceary for certain ones to :n-tro-iuc-or tivrat'ts of leg'slation to insure a general p- u-iomc up n an I ruthless sUughter, if pSftible, i f - i h mtasures. The Hor-e was re t ive lest it !.yii!d be ac-.elited withU-ing un Ier lealerh p, or U ivmg a leider or leader", as prominent and t'u-ud !egifrlators are acme-t-mes termed ; an I jet the rtwerf the nog " wa" never so i:nbluh:2 ''y attempteti and shown in a Vermont LegrsUtare m it wa several times KStintt Thit 0 hU(t. hjm cme there- fn.ni :s only due to the ene""' yood common j sen, of member, that 'Mb r-rgs " found could I not be frit-htened or bullied into icuuiescence to their behests But this phase of the late House of Represent ti res is not a pleasai.t one to dwell upon The Senate was composed of gooi and s'rong men Wed jbtifit has been excelled iu th:s resje;t smv the -teasl'm f 1861 and lft6.i. Many of ib. Senators had just served in the lore- H ut . ar 1 have left in both Houses a re ord for . rry i particle of which they will ever have .-.T-1 n to blush or regret. We felt lhi vvp thunlf-i! fir a &nat ifav it v. Min-,v : ( f -,,.-, -n,.,, . MualW fo . -, . , -Ut , iViai the 3f.tl4tehury Register. The rWt I i ur biennial sesaito of the Legis la'ur 's psB". md the record f results is made up The erJi t of tbe people is that those re- sult are nr.. ett-torj, ta use theaiil'iest term p,ib Tbe ft'lcriY are more marked and important than the enar.rtienfi. The listing bill which pa-e! the !l)je, failed in the Senate, to the genera' diaappnotment an! mortification of the peip'e. .t , . ( T-tj ji the Yt-rganses Vermonter.) T: ou- wi a grea hurrying through of public bu'iiip-", a-i i lau-h needeil Iegtslaticn, c aimed, wi- lelt online The effort to equalize property valuv-an by seme acknowledged stan darJ, faiirl t Wcome a law Speaking of this the correepjn lent uf tbe Boston .lieerttter says : Our pre"snt system ia probably the worst in the U iii ted States Certainly it could not be made more unequal without the exercise of a deal of tales and ingcnuiti j. the St JohnaboryTlmrt Tms legislature puts us in mind of a remark to have been made uf Bayard Taylor by IW.. H.imbfil It. when asked his oninion of tha former" He has travetki more ud seen ten ban an- man 1 ver met " The last leinaUture wa af.er that orler. we think. It attempted more an 1 aecymp'isbel l?ss than any similar body of ir n Vermont ever called together. It done a great ninj things it ought not to have done, and ltf vnh-te many things it should have d .ae 1; b-.-al fsl the "grand lists of aVot half th- towns io the State town by town but did not pass any genertl lifting law, which it might, ceil i, woul 1 r should have done , consequently the appra'-alof 1?T, which the Few Pres says i tb" lat and worst ot record." stands for tat- year n t-re i From the Mane 1: ester Journal. Many til s i f a private nature were thus dia n 1 , f hi't all h:lU in rclat.nn tn taxittan and al.tlllg lhf grmcj iwt were reiecttd, also the btqs in rctv,on to thw Sut prieoi. and jiih-, and th? genera! railroavl law Tha- the more weighty matter we all rejected, and the State wi'l be cmpeile . c dra? along twj years more without the r ed reforms, nulef-s t&e Governor should a?e " en'! an fxtra seni", whuh is not im- i if. Tut'- or Cot rt ABUE ' LI LaT 1 tie :iip V OBJaa'Tiox- Erie. Pa., Despatch VvUhes for the trat'i of the following story Two friende we'll '1 them Tom and Dick went a few night- ine to call on a couple of damsels who re !e with tbe.r mother in tbe southern rv-t.oi) ut the c.ty. The old lady is tligfct 'y dei! ani ;h girts somewhat roguish The two griit.e."ua were graciously received by the old la i- wl tjruieJ a fifth in tbe social circle. Opi.nary be I time crae and the gentle men pr ters -It- leave.tne maid t-bowiog them to tbe dc - liut th s wa only a rose to get the til Is W ti b i The front door wa opened and f'lut an 1 th-1 gitls returned to the dining -loin, ani the tu teaus having been slipped urn ;he fn rt rarli r and lett there in the dark. It wi ti ,KieI, of course, that the slightly deat oil U ly would soon be iu the land of Nol, t ut the k a sudden whim to go and sit it tV par or t r a whi!- Dick and Tom saw the (j! I ifiy Hj p'oicbmg wi'h a lamp, and their only i.cn t e'j pe cut off. Dick miie a dive i,.ti I i1 'i-e i!:t ttood out a few inches f th' wa 1 the framework wsa too low for h't.i u fa a 1 nr.ilt r an 1 Turn, finding no othr ' ic. an. 1 i.iin-Hlf .aon topof IHck. The old 11 set lite lan:n n tbe bureau, took up a book, an I -Vibe ately "eating herself on the lounge, terin tu :rH 1 1 he feelings of the two nico ouig men b. l-iod the lounge miy be imagined Turn wt m dretl i f iuimetiate detection, while Ibk Iiea-l i sniothermg, ai.d in a muffled voice, that o'ily the u! I lady s deafness prevented h(r t".ri ni not .inp, murah'ed to Tom, Knick the lounge u er, blow the lamp out, aod let's jump through tbe window,' and it is prcbablc tbe latter would have taken his advice, but fj the icterpoMt.on of the quick witted gir's At tvt, expecting the cat was out oftbebfig, they bad kept back, reaJy to take the sto-m ot' leproach tbey could not avoid ; but hearing do neife after the old lady entered, they went to ev" what had become cf the gallants. Two pair of h ots an 1 a foot or go of pantaloons were visible from the door, and the girls, mak ing seme commonp'ace remarks to their mother, went away laughing loudly. " Phancy the phelinke" of the chaps behind the lounge. But in few Bfooo'ls IVre ceme a ehout from the. wood thej, whore the girls then were, mjidj 1 their Urop had blown out, andatklDg mother" id Afkinir moihir' ftnJ a mt Uick his ng "n tnreitcai:.!;. ibo gaol old Ivlv wiped her specs an ! folded them awar, ami bid- diu? thc prb not to be frighttnel went off witn tLe lamp tu thwr aid. Instantly the boys bolted out the front d kt, anil it was well for them that lhey did, f r in less thin three minutes the old lady was seated or. tbe lounge tgVm peruses her book Slnsatio.s is a Catuouc Collzgc Aa Insane Ci-tchkk ATicurrs to SticcnTca Tn r:TS Ab.ut four o'clock yeslenlay after noon, say- the Cincinnati Commercial of Nov. a luw.brownl, repulsive-looling creatote entered tbe Jesuit College at the corner of Syca n-ore and Seventh etreets, just as cne cf tbe claests was 6 ing through the magnificent vesti bu'e, and wildiy brandishing a hatchet, declare! his intention to kill every priest in the house. The young men ani their boly guardians were ptnlc-siricKen lor a moment, but rallying as tbe man sprang iuto their midit chopping rieht and i-f, .,k ui. . r 'K . , H r0 .hrund"1 F,t 'o- and . . . . i.. v. oiujcuu UCIH LUiTir patchej for lbe ,,ice tu, . f bis arms, tbe ruBiAn drew t wo butcher tniT. i from Li, Wt anil tUtlrf the hsnJs nJ tKsnrt,,J.. ni7 t I nuUbSboldu MMrSl j ZXZ 1TI&X was, .gain made af.er the object, of his hate, I driving them before him like Aock of sheep' i "".'"ed in possession of the vestibule of tbe . Lollece for several minutes, nnlil ...t and, rushing upon the would-be priest-killer. I m him their nritaner. The man was disarm- I ?? M'J ?t cnatoly. Anthony Hook h his name. He is a butcher, about twenty-six years eld, not a confirmed lunatic, but onecf those dangerous pecnle who have 'spells." When questioned at the station hause concern ing his motives in storming the college, he at firbt said he went in to po&eess himself of a trunk cfgold that he had understood might be found in the hall by an adventurer bold enough to en ter ; and afterward "that he wa on his way home from work and thought he would just drop in and have a little fun with the priests." He succeeded in giving Father O'Neil a deep cut ia the flehhy part of hi left arm, in cutting one of Father Chambers fingers nearly oil, and in gitiog Brothers Foley and Monahan sundry gouges about the hands and bisk. None of the wounds are serious. Hotkl PaiusirEs Of all the parasites that infest the targe hotels in New York, says the New York Commercial .Mterttter, the pedicu ui medicui, resident in the hotels, is generally conceded by all who have had an opportunity of julging, tot the most destructive and ruinoua to the mind, body and purse cf it vicams. Within a short time there has come to oar notica many cares ofpersocs who hive fillen victims in the hands of the men we refer to, who are known oniy ai Hotel Doctors. Meet of these so- called doctors hare no standing with the bers or their own profession or in the community of dining with tbe jaeen and royal family." where tbey live. They derive their income en- i The Cabinet an 1 heralds are puzzling their had tirely from strangers, and tbey play fearlessly on over' the matter. Even witD tbe Marquin is the credulity and purses of their victim. Many i made a Duke. Inc prece-ie ice will remain the thrive by taking an expensive room it the hotel, , same, and the Pi-mow Lyu a, h;s wife, will and by small bribes to the servaatf, and tlm bold a place oily at th- bjtrn. of the list of promt?cto attend themfreeof expense, should j Duuheseet of ihe United KiDilm. Even the tbey be taken tick, manage to contrxl miny of matter of the dower ol the I'n-icea, which the the emplojesthat are ient for a physician by Cab 'net has settle i at io',(t with an anru guests at the hotel. The average nuwber of ity of er.".les befw-e tu-s irrave uuea- Sne" t"ng") at one or the large hotels will "nK frjm ,hrM 10 fi hundred Many of ths nuBber are dally tempted into more or less disei- Vxion Jnog their stay in the city, or may be taken ill, ani the morning after fniuwo vntu mrvt-a mrm iu "uoiaioa a uoci'T. ror thee little ferric, tbe victim are often fleeced of eoormcu fees by tbe Hotel Psdteu.li. Tbey are not indigenous to New York, but thrive in most localities, principally, however, within tbe large hotels They are vain, audieiout bombastic and conceited charlatan, and collecs tbeirexorbitant fee beaauje their tuls are only pre n ted at tbe moment of the victim's depar ture when it is too U'e r"djruas or resist the impoiitui WAR .NOTES. Since tbe wtr began "Uk-ifcs are said to have eeued in Paris and the Vurgae it empty. men 3hn. OlarJ emnluVR at Pari nn hnauiml t ftf Klii TZZl ,n i Am on g the atraatiuna of a Pria ne-tanr&nt is alcertised "a firat-class Dorre. formerly the! property of Count Lag-aoge " . A Ge-man writing from Men nais Let no- ! body expect to win the sympathi of these peo ple for generations to come. Tbey hve ua more intensely laan tbe French populate proper, and if Metx remains German only an iron ruie will bepoafible here Kvery f.rb?arance and mildness would ke misunderstood, ani good deeds would foil on stony ground." At least three thousand tJcrmnn provision col um are daily ocoapted in collecting everything eatable in the neighborhood of Pans, thottwh in- rerminaD.e prowwon columns are sent from toe , MQL He stands next fa. .'Coancr fr legal ac mlway stftUow at Wi.t and Nftnieuil. In ; qjiremcilt, ni iategritv. and when free from making reqniwitiom. thtr. are frequent ught. ! Jrofto c,, j, oncmmcnly social. E. with rrane rtreors. w stouKh:on, is a self-made man, and, accord- At Tours a recent aurora biremlia was regard- ; ing to common report, was brc tight up to a me ed by the people as a sure augury of the defeat j ehanical pursuit. lie haa been very successful of the Pruwian invader. No aurora boreal is had as a lawyer, and makes a specialty of parent been witDeesed since IS 17 It wa- then looked 1 eases He was the personal friend and counsel of upon as a portent of extraordinary events, and Capt. Ericsson, th: inventor if th: caloric as a matter of fact the reflation cf quick- ( engine, and builder of the firt monitor, ly followed. and at a inter date, be was engaged iu tver- As the London Timts correspondent at Ver- important Iniia rubber suit. His in sailles the other night was in be.1 reading a let- " te over 515' ,00O, anJ be spends ter, there was a cUnk of feel and ft tramp cf boots in the passage ou's de. A knock at the do-ir Come in ! In came an officer of land- wehr, followed by tbe Swiss mai j with a candle iu her hand. " I have cvne to warn y in," be said, very courteously, ia French, ' teat you must not approach the winiiw with u light, nor are you to exhibit candles in the window. If you went to tbe win low w ti a light you might be shot by tbe sentry below We must prevent ) aigunls being made." RiteU. deacnbing a visit to tbe hospital , Versailles, says "On- man was alive, with ' ball lodged in his bra n he haJ even been eonecioua ; another had the sile of his skull clean carried off by a abei , and a third, in a ! amrd all by himself was bat no. it wa t.v hor ! rible the man was ia muna, and Mr. Farley i od I hurrie-1 into the nrx ward, whence an or ! derly waa sent to keep watci and ward over tbe ! case. Tbe s-.mpenng swagger and feather ly daunting of some of tbest marshal in their talltt would be enough to i-ake a man who was merely nervous quite delir j " Coder tbe French Kmp -e the Zouaves were the idols or the army and the pe pie, but the l Breton klobi.es have taken their pW'e ia the , popuLar eate n under the K'ub'.ic, and are now ( regarded as he '-crack rrs Tbey are at present stat'ortel iu large n ambers ou'side tbe t walls of Pan.', and it is sai 1 tnat tber entertain ot profcund tnteu y for National Guards wit bin the Ap::a he 34w.(Hk who are ex pose" 1 tn n actual danger, b it live in compara tive comfi rt, inetead of " r ughiog it ' under PrusMan fire every day ftieae Moilen are brave, religious peiaant i u Bntrany, who fight for Frince, but at hea"t diia,e tbe present Paris Government. Paris is not ytt taken, r .it the pen wth wh'ch Count Bismarck s t sin te treaty r f peac? is already prepared. Herr Uifitnw, of Piorxhe'm, ha miouftctured out of maMe goll an imita tion of an ordinary atout p." ( t'i:ll. Tbe quill i itself ia polished, in order that i: may be more conven.eniiy nanuieti, nur me ea ner cioseiy re semblea a real quill, every firre 'eing repteent ed, while the back of the fe-tihcr s thu-kly siud lext with brilliant, and betjw t!:en. a c uf.r's cirottet and B.smarck's monogram are engraved. Be sidea the engraver and maker two goldsmiths were eogaged on it for five weeks. Tbe gold employed is of eighteen carat-, and that part in which tho brilliants are e of twenty-one carats. t TheruitA Chionvi i,Lotil l haa the fo' lowlng : " "-Vben the Ff eecth Kngale of Prus sian cavalry forced its way iti Versailles, 1-00 1 Girdea Mobile surrenderel. af'er a feeble resis , tanee Only one officer hn 1 i-'iit fifty men de fended themselves valiantly, u 1 ensconced them , lves in the Synagogue, situate! at the end of I the Boulevard Eugenie Havir btrncad! the , doors they fired fiom the wmi w- After half an hour's struggle the tro pers Micceedal in en 1 tering ihe temple Step by step 1iJ the French ! retreat, ughtrog ail the while, 'iLtil they came to the recess where tbe h ly ark rood. Through the firing tbe doors of the richly ornamented re ceptable were -.bittered v pi.vss. md the French ' officer ani some cf hie me t t . refuge in the 1 furthest part of the ark. ftV ' er, pierced by four bullets, fell d wn at tbe si le of the ark, hi 1 head resting on ooe of the -.'!, whieh bad j fdlen to the ground hk-w ti ' 1 ed with balls. The syoagogu itself a al t cuircly des troyed ' i Pitiful aa is the ca" of Fruoee and Germany j from an agricultural point of view, it would be I incdculably worse, says the Pall Mall (iaz'ite, j if the women hvi not been trair ed to do much I of the farm work which in England devolve on I men alone. Every tourist io Rhineland and the south of France his noticed, nd leplorei, tbe ; extent to which female labor is there employed not only for the lighte- tasks of weeding and , hoeing, as with us, but for ploughing, reaping. and all the more important nrancnee oi nusaaud- ' ry. e cow see mas sucn a com--mi oi imngs 1 renders the country far better able to sustain the rOirem(nts of war thn othrwife it coold be With u tbe taJJtn ilfmnn.1 on to !r?e n pro- . portion 01 our m.ie popaiaiiou .uum iiimoit suspend all azncultarl ocerstioite ; for Fteim allhoughitreJacesthenamberofhandnp!oji, throw" tho work mote than eter upon too men ' e notice these faeU, the CazttU auis. Irom no I desire to see tbc womm of Englao I converted into 'rm JruJee ; but merely to thow that soil, climate, and social habits abroal hate combined i wila to render southern countries les I Jrndn' uPn D'e 'r lnlD " " c"e t wunuv. 1 Is Yocb Hair Dir. At a delegate election held in Woodbury, N. J., prior to the list elec tion, thc colored citizen), bavini; a rnsjority ia one of the dtvhions.elected one of their own raae as a representative to the Republican convention. ' He was a preacher familiarly known as Daddy , Gimes.', This action wis unexpected, ani not very ralatiblc to bis white confreres. After tbe nominations had Wn ma le, oae of the dele gates rather jeeriogly calle-1 on Bally Orimt for a speech. The old man roe, f nouely and with Derfect decorum, and eaid " " Thar was a bal man I knowed who would swar, an cheat. an- lie. an' steal, an' get drank; " ' w f", 1Uf MU m,m I Lord come to him, an changed his Heart ; an ?H'"jt:i: iit, in inB nrpr. jivi m- ne evue v. iuu water, be began to ling and ehout. Hallelujah ! Hallelujih ! Glory to (Jod ! AH my sins is ..1.M awav ! An he kent on shoutm' till one of de sitters stanfin by laid her hen ! on his 1 bead, an she said 'Why. orolbrr. your har ''1'''', No"' S'' 1 f?V,t' V I fW" , ,,,' "" v I V,.. drr 7et " r "I'i'K'u !' 'V. had m. 1, a ,fc .,, .. . f wide apnlica- I 'rv ' tion. Jocesaustic FAjeiUAairr. Th Union TtlcjrapK refers to Garibaldi as " Old Joe," and the Pall Mall Uuze'te in Ua Moments on journalistic familiarity in seneial. anj this in particular, says : Sentimental familiarity, which is now becoming character itic of Enlihmen, and is taking the place of that rauchnra- which our grandfathers acquired the reputation of bears, dates apparently Irom the first visit of f.taiopeau terenalers to this country about tbe year 1M6. Their touching melodies gave a tone to our expression of feeling it has never lost, and which has since grown upon us wonderfully. There wasa beautiful -ng euog by theoriginal bones in that year, which still lingers in the memories of many 'Md Jce kicking op be- I We " II i. . l- . r . . . ' ninJ ini before. Taller gala a kicking upbehind owjoe.- more unea nreatne the satire gvnial spirit aa that evinced by the Telegraph when it cannot refrain from even c tiling Garibaldi Joseph. 1 A Difficult Poist or Etijcette. The royal I roayl to matrimoay appears more difficult than tbe ordiaa-y route. It having been settle! that Victoria's youngest daughter shall marry the young Mart-uis of Lorn iuatea 1 of some frumpy German princeling, the question is raised wheth er the bride will descen 1 to the rank of her bug- band, or whether he will in some way be raised toward her e-evatiou. It ia a question of eti quette whether the Marquis ot Lorn, after hu marriage, will be received as one of hb life's family, or, on stated days, be allowed, in the Unruitre of the " Court Cuvular th hnnnr ticn; e.nd the on!y way oi.t ot the difiiTulty n Toy ordinance which wI 6x the social poet. .on of thr tiUBs cu-'pi" 'i' a sitijfact ry manee-. VY.C mipumitu't. ..f tlioSprmjiieM Republican Some of the Prominent New York Lawyers. Ttureare jVut thiriy-hv. Ii and red Uayere doiog busmete tn the New ork courts, who may be divided into three claasi", according to agj and "xr-rience Fir"-, there are the Vetera net who have gt.ned al1 the hf-noitt .nl promts possible in the protest i id, but who are opireaed with years, and ha-e ret.r. ( fr-mi ao'.ve practice Of these, ( Kir'ea 'Tcnni.r an 1 Jamts W. G erard are type. The c- is low pt h s "seventieth , year, &i.d i the akrowlclce I N-st r (-rtht: New i Yrk 1 .r ; rf unimpeachfth.e iiitepri y. ac the highest -ibi''ty. He it uow i torn en in cuarr, and has retired t-n bn aU earn1! laurel? j Gerarl, wh sj with ir-iw1 tr. m practice, a fhert ' tta-e i.nce, wa ce.ebr-r' I t,-a co'.-plimentary (tmner -ixen by the whole bar.fcejpn bis profr- , vet be st.H tains his ftcolties unimpaire1 Dvid Dudley Field, though hardly old enr uh to be called a veteran, is one of the ablest Itw- er m -?ew ,0' ani D ur We lT9t F15 tice. Hut receip's as counsel fur the Erie nnl- i road company alone, are understood to have ex 1 eeeded l'ix0O in a single year, and bis rego i lar income is enormous. William M Evarta has a national reputation, 1 and his appointment to b? attorney geierai of t the Ccited States was a well-deserved compli ment to his legal abilities. His personal ap pear nee ia meat peculiar. He very tall, and ae-ms s thin as a rail, a mere backbone arith a brain a'tachel. H s man ier is quiet and plea- " lQ tbc QC9t Inanrwos manner, tie baa an elegant house on Fifth avenue. wb-re he gives magiii Seen: entertaiuments. to which several times each year, the judges and lea-ltng members- of tbe bar are merited The house is kept witb great display, includirg liveried servants and other features, Bnd remji Is one of European state. The second elas of lawyers con: tins men like the late GrenviI.e T.Jencks, a ho fully carried out Webster's maxim, live well, wjrk bard, and die pr." Among this class are Sewsrd. Blatchfbrd ani Gri-wolJ, Barrett, Briosmaid X Barrett, Beebe a Donahue, Martin & Smith, and Brown, Hall Yanderrxol Thee are men ot capacity, and have a large nradice, wib in come rang.ng as b'gh as $l',')ft' and over. The third clasa of lawyer-, referr'n-: so'eyto ftger, coneists cf men i.ke Josej 'i H. CLoate. John E. Parsone, W. E. Curtis. George Ticknor Curtie, A R. Lawrence, J. fc Burr 1 . tlridg f Ge-ry, Liher R. Marsh, all tf wirnm arere puta le ard car'e. and are not ttix'd up with puta aru cariar e. and are not mixed up witu tV sc.n Ja'- whici have Hiegrace.1 tbe bar in lae years. Toey have . ... me. of trom ten to . fiftv tusaoi dlllar. 1 hi real estate lawvers .n.v.r aeeu -n enurt. confine ibemseW whollv to otuce basmtas su h as driaing wins, title.. ,mve. incin. ct, . which is I very prcfitn 'e Mann .v Pir-oc Wetsaore X B.jrie. Dewitt L'nderh 11 v I -hoe tier, are among the leading firms in this 1 ne. and make , f oil M.t.iHto upward re- ve.r. lne men who control the bulk cf thr pay me boat.es in our' courts are Brown, Ha i .v Vat. lerpool .H Bartlett, Jreph H. Coleman and Ira btfer, the last tim ben.g spec.al troege- of Judge B.rTj'r 1 ; I P Ingram, Jr , tira'i Nathan and t T tu t F.el.ii., who. tn..ugh n t r-feciily re- i markable t - legal attainnett', it lavorites of the ring an-1 tbe corrupt judge, i are. con sequently, lec'ed as cn'iueel iu inany suit be fore these julget. Thtir ir.ctmes run from twenty-five to fifty iho-isan 1 " ra Besides ( the-e lawyers. "Ailham M. Iwe-I, dr. A. J. Smith, Kufus F Amlew and tthei-, are eoa- i stantly nppointe-i as reterets an-i receiver of, property, and are making sm kl! foi ianea ia this ( wiy yearly. Tbe legal e large ' f ft referee is three ! liars a tr-np-. bu' tbi u. jt to charge ' any price they please j The mrt important ca-' : t'ie c: tmtnal practice in our courts a-e i lucf d by four lawyer, who rank to at out the t .i wing order : John Graham. Henry I. C.irin, Charles S. Spencer an I "A . F. H we lne fir.-t ts a brother of the late David Grah ne "t the ao'est cri minal lawyers that ever live!, an i s himsef a man of reat Uler.', pariieultr'y a- j sjreaker lief ire a fury John Graham i iv a wonderful Command if language, aud when made ai.gry which I- o'Vn the cie. owig to r-5" teraper.aai high seri of his on 'iiirnuy, he bitterly per sonal and defaraatry, as wi sIk n through the McFarland tria' Hts nm-ala a-e far f on irre proahable,and hish'gh tloan iHresalout vir tue and wt men at the above tr at. consequently, sounlei very absurdl- to tVse vho knew jd thing of his persons! h.-tonr Ho h very stroi-g and l sid to be one if thi bet boxers m :be city, w uoh may account for hi- tugnastry and eagerness to whip every cne win btfers with h m He once gave -J G. U.r.nettit acunJ t tra.in. and Moce then Graham'? name h w never ap.ear el in the H-r tl - Dar ng :re whole vt the McFarland trial, he ws me. t. ced simply aa "the counsel for the .1 ferniam.' Henry L Clinton is much more wpecMMe than bh pro fessional colleagues : In' a lirze pract-ee, an i is a prominent 'ocal p ituuto. King a It-a-le- of theyouog demecracj Ctarhy -penevr, ae r it commonly oalle.!, ! an a.Me rtpuhjican pol--tic.an. but is perteci'y uiion:p'ib u-. He :s v.ry smar, and' is an ex e!' : rf hand p iker, full of energy, goo! niuiel. w.ry i-d ap a a retort. W.V ilowe is a leatnrg spec.incn of aTuabe l.wi.r an.) h. iIk wor' fc.ir.1 of rnizitna! trr tise. Heie .hii-i. "ut. w. I the soe . a: I s Fik. whn 1 r re.i nili'en in looe pui-.l". as in weariee lnmorii, nil l."ki like K"' fighter. Hi 'IS" "PP ! In! TornM on Ctnter street, an i is co.ercl hy haire riuu jipne Iu attract ciirl Howe is a for.te ol the rinz, anil hence ta-.iif Wfll with Hi 1 jo e iurtice.. Tbe pen"ee of cor.Jaotin n or.lir.irj u t Ic ua.vi lots ecort are pr"y diht. ,ml, sav for five th..aMuJ Uo:., wnicn is the averste amount, there !! he, p- re- tiiner, varyinR from S-Vl u .VX sccrd-nt ti. the counsel einploycl In (riet cites iov !im: t.t ;niere:s, tta tetamng fres baie tec en n- mous ; five, ten, and twenty thousand dollars 1 Leiss: oramiry mtmu. - j placed tn the calendar there are jury and sheriff r.. ... k- 1 ;,K HMim fi.r sffi.Itt.. ml ires iu ucjupi, - -". . : . .v.. .... K.;n . trie,!, ihere are Wltners chirges of fifty cents a dj. These amount in all to f.om to S5i for disburseutenls which, if tbe case is won, are paid by tbe loiDt tarlj. who has also to pay an allowance given hy the court on the amoun t of tbe judgment. Th's laet is always tbe perqutsiie of the coutsel, who, in addition, charges fi r bis terviws from three hundred upward, according to cireums'snee. It is not professions! to have ccnspiOTOus oeJifes, or to adertiss like mercantile men. Their otlice rents do not exceed S12-0 on the aversee. whl.c the salaries of law clerks are mierawy low. ani , tfery promiceot lawyer ta, seeral stuleats 1 who do a great deal -Twor xar xue t"p" r w kv- are their pnneipal ei- are their principal ex apiece, so that tl. x&te:.t.&...r orting library will be worth 9,"w0, ' V . of WlUwm Curtis Noye., which wa. ... , said to be the finest in the couniry, w.s .am at S3) ,001. Ajotuxr Dfih CiwarnswE OooBiCEa. -Joseph L Flare captured, on Tuesday .fter noon.iear the Wheat "u"f.lb.-J K. B., whi'e swimming in the river, a fine doe deer which came acro-s from Canada This is Z ibW deer which has been taken ia the St. Lawrence, near this city, within a fortnihL The fire, in the woods Last summer in the Otu wa country, drove them in this direction, and "e, o Uk to th, river to escape tbsnji efthe hunter -Orgh jMfol, T),c. Ctk. Ccrrcspondense Free Press and Times. Our Washington Letter. WasnwoToy, D. C , Dec C. I Editor Free Pre$s $ Times: ! The opening of the third sesiion ef tfceforty- firtt Congress yesterday, attracted to the Capi tol a crowd of eager spectators, though the oe- casion promited nothing cut cf the ordinary routine, beyond swearing in a few newly elected members and the reading of the President's Met sage. Nothing could have been more charm ing than the day. The skies were at their brightest, and the temperature was just at that point one would wish it to remain always. By eleven o'clock, the galleries of both the Re presentatives Hall and the Senate Chamber were comfortably filled, and before noon densely packed. The lathes usually assert their claim to the pcrtion of the galleries set apart for their especial accommodation, and yeiterday was no exception to this rule. A large numher of Am erican citizens of African descent were present in expectation of the swearing in of Mr. Rainy, the colored member elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the enforced resignation of B. F Whrttsaore of South Carolina. In this, how ever, they were doomed to disappointment, as he f tiled to make his appearance. In the di pi ora i tic gallery of the Senate sit Mrs, Grant, Mrs. Colfax, ani Mrs. Seaat r Pomeroy. Mr. Thornton, tfce British minis ter, with E i -Secretary Borie, occupied the next seat in front. The lwt hour of the forenoon was occupied with friendly greetings among the members and the floor of either House presented an animated scene. The Democrat; fcea are visibly short ened in view of their recent successes We my look for the utmost good nature ou their part now that they perceive a faint prospect of vic tory in the future. Their rallying cry is evi dently to be free trade," and it may prove a more potent one than we protectionists care to contemplate. At VI o'clock both bodies were promptly called to order. The House of Representatives was becomingly decorous during the opening prayer, but imme diately upon its coacloion resolved itself into a first claaa Bbel, by way of reiwertio; ita claim to be the fioittest legislative body in existence. Tbe credentials of three- nw members were presented, two ot whom after some little opposi tion, were sworn in by the Speaker and admitted to seat. Opposition was ma le to tbe admission of Mr. Duke, the newly elected lemocratic member from Virginia, but after some debate wa with drawn, and he was declared entitled to the seat, hut w is.not present to be sworn. AbuJt half past one o'clock, tbe President's Message was received and reaJ. It appeared fc give very general satisfaction to the Republic meirbeni retSSTLVl!-! . AVE5CK. Cunerei .at its list session, parsed an aci proviiiugfur repairing Pennsylvania Avenue. an I the work now in progress. Lumber of every description is lying in heaps on the completed portions and in every other available spot, w bile fumes from fc e cauldrons of boiling pitch pervade the atmosphe- This n ist be exceedingly gra teful 1 1 he lungs of consumptives, if there is aay curative virtue in the concentrated es fcense of p:ne. Most peup'e, however, prefer t inha'e it in a simpler an 1 milder form, in the for ests Toere has been m re or less change in the grade fif the avenue throjghout the entire dis tance f.-cm the e-: Capitol gate to the Treasu r, . tie eitariog a central re-setting o;" curb sliipes tul relaying ot si ie walks. This seems to have been very alroitlj timvl so aa to be at it height yeaterlay Perhaps it was the wnest roevtble arrangement Certainly nothing would ci m-i'ij'e more towards spiking tbe guns cf the Capital n cverr , than such displays of energy ua the part of the cit-it-n of Washington It u really ie'reahing after t-ry year of comparative ly sound slumber, an 1 o elate-1 are the people over ibis 'atest aeh.evmnt th . it i seriously proposed to celebrate the completion cf the work by a grand carnival This justly excites considerable riJiculj fr -m the preee of neighboring cities. Yours, A Casadkas Ktspostti to ni Mesa.l The Toronto Globe m a long editorial on the President's message, says, with respert to the it Lawrence, that the river cannot even be reached by the shipping or the United States without passing through a canal cut in Cana dian territory, and that to throw open ttie can an to American shipping without some equivalent would be a little tt-o icuch for President G ant to ask. As to (he fisheries, tbe GU-e soy Don it nor occur to the Preatdect thit tu cms down upon Canada with his threats an 1 bluster is the autipr.J of c urage H iw w .t il-a he s gdng, by bis acts, to recounts aa et-jal ap I iedependeur piwer tb c m! author? known as the Dominion of Cana la. of wi,ch, as his lan guage imo les. he has nu -i- smcwie-'e ' The construc'io of the treary of HI is f rtheUo r ed Stite oad Great Britt-n to settle. In the maintenvije cf the trMty f,r the rihta ani priserrntYn of tbe fisher e, hogiand with Cic ada ba a looci n inte'ett tf President Grart c iLot i-e the false ponti. n in which b has plae-1 h mself, it ma be hoped that Congress will dt? ver it fur hici He may exclude Cana dian TtiVs from his . .rti and try by any other petty means to harass us lhat game was tried when the reciprocity treaty was repealeI, and we have finven ever strive , il all ante ps tion Bu if he hs ''h oi his ml, and d -not want cou-re. he w.'j pu all sbipa fn iu tn Cri'ieh pors, tbe unard aii i fnman efto ers incladel, in the f.ie ea:e iry. Preadent Grant may not be equal ai i "I and libers' viewa of ctx1 is -r, u".- ancts requr', but hla wdi u not i n.-: -: and h j.d "atigb , , 1 bat Jjf-dy moat . er .d 0 s mteresK , These p v at on i . the removal . n r.it ..:-., all ,,rttr9 for t ra-h i (us interes of r by unscrupul.us r"J ldr-. H d all n.U of t:ween the powern th.- shiiM set t W.d n example of ami y ar,d peace ; and it certain that, m thus paying hx mage to a higher principle, the pecuniary gain both Canada ' and tbe United States wuld be tievood ail cal- ' t cula'ioe. Snocciaa TarATUXjrr or the IsaM Dr. r Foot? f Kiddktuwn, lrange county, . .., making an energetie efiVt to securethe estahthment of a Homeeopathio Insice Asiluo ,t tAt j,, jj-j description of the treatment of the lunatics in tbe peer hocse f that county reveals a mot horrible and - ckeaiog condition of arf lire, diagraeeful to "ar cm tation Lcke I up in cells where no iihr or air can enter, ex Copt between the bar of a grated door, witro-i' chairs, beds, or even ttraw up n which ts rest, with stench almost sail eat.rig. tl.ee poor crea tores, oaw of them frm ft'iuies of tfce highes' respeetai'ity, were left to th t- ravings leu human i'i og" I'lowing in their filth ; D' water t wash wiin. m etia.entne t" r the WALt-. u. nature, fed upn the crt: f-e, through hole in the door ; Kft tie--, rtel. forwkeu, wal ing to die." This i- a h rni picture, tbe Troy Times, out i 5:ead of it bein f! a regards Orange county, it cm uad.ubtelly b applied with equal truthfulnews t many t -poor houses of the State. Kligaxt da. The Vermont Central car warks at 3'. Albans juot now present a eceie i busy life, wbwh plainly indicaUs the grown g pn-rity of the road forming the line. We emV ed an opp"rtuniy to viait them last wer k, anlwfre pleased to oheerv- evleace of unusual ac'tvit) io all departmer3 even pasienger -l I tirv bggige car e f.-t approaching c tnp'et" u. and wn! sooo r turc-l out to make ti om for more new w -rk i 'n-uf thc f-ner, jat fr n th? hands of the pa L'ers, w a mas er puce of railway archi-tut-- K ru-s n twtlre wheels, h a rnis-d r "f new dv p. and the mride finish of our nati.c black wl jut at I the a'noit mow-ah-te Hungarian ash, teau Li.'al'v wrought an I carvel, firms a contra-r rf marvel.iu4 nchners. Mi!lea Pa'e't Plat f, u." w.dhereaft-r b atlae I'd to paerg r ci-- I embraces tu improvement for Hr'f sWkln.g, ani hoi Is th ew- so cloely together, vshie in mo.ion, t" to -e Mer impossiVe ae-1-.lerifs fn m foll.ng between thru. Tw bigy and mail ear for ufe on the Western Di!-in are reci viog the fioihmg -rroi.ee, ard will re out in a few day. In them the mail apa-tmems ocuny te centre an! are "Uplil with cun rfiiBn,'f. hrfo'nre tinsnowa to agents ( n 'hie njiite. The manarrs of the Central pr pa. o or expense in provwini: r vu "j.- xc :u :.tJaf.ons, and tbi la ; h- bad ..s oa' nai etf. -t in pitting theirs m lne f-" nrk if the popular roaJa of tha country -(.' J'.. r fiii fariae!e g.rls in iVu ar extmielj d. aNcned wilh eo. Troviu :. r . nler ni; v. ui g men in the National fJui-l to f rtn par! o' ice al!jing regiments. A airl a'n.. sl out uf l.er teens said to her fvher Jislt.'.y " li I cr-eiou-, f ither if ill the y. ung men a-e -ei t t . the battle-field and are ki!M. whom ehal, ive marrv'" He replied. Mj l.rling. it is !-er t. tip K young men .h-,n .,11 married men 1 don't think so O .1 mirmJ men ki w w at marriage is . they ba.e ha . en ugh ef i- : m youn- men's turn to be ma-nejl ; "hen thej, git Ic be okl marnet men ami there i war lhey w . be -rat to the fight." " ow J - husband, if you bl cne To 1 should, pa. if I were en old marri-d win - I'aris Cur. .V. I'. " II- . . . nusoarw, Jerome Hopkins, tbe well known Sew musician, played in St. liartbolcriew's liu cb, the other Sunday, and didn't enjoy the teifjim ance. He gives the organ .n which be rnrf. ID el the following firet rate notice, in a letter to tie trustees cf tbe church : Tour old orgin is vitbwit doubt one of the moat wretched marhine- of the name to be .uu.l anywhere It rallies, it wheeie-. it sousK it snueak', it snorts, it grunts. I groans and growls, it blows like a Csh hem. puffs like a locomotive, it thumps, it whimpers, snitfes atd whines, it blows like a cow. neighs like a horse, and braj. like an ass, and yet yen wonder that the music is unsatisfactory. New Orleans is to have a cooking school 'or tbe instruction of Jtucg ladies. A girl" cf the age of fifty-two is amaag the students of Michigan University. As a set off to the woman's right movements , Boston milliners are emplojing male seam stresses. Two yonng litis were recently admitted ss members of the Typographical Unitn of Kansas City. Mo.