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T-e, if he wa broken - w titn ounz, he will un- and -tup . thereby . .r liuib-, ur even life. , - tu u-e the word ti v - n -pceding. r to low- - , -poM take -nine other Jy, tnt , tcad .i , ul mean hut r.c L , tt -ti p , Hlld --t 'p , WINi. ' t , .winjL' lute Augu-t . i .1 wurm-. It i- au , t r ai. heetle-head 1 j -it t- rirp- where i t r it- uiu tt feed 1 and re- . .,th .f Autru-t i t -th .tnd hnc the a i- i ivy Poat of . 1 1 . .T-s. The i- 1 nil iiow takes T.il., There is , 1 1 H.i-hinj:,aDdIwin-v i t tire decays and - i' ut a-1 at as the u t A little manure, . .trrc uf that which i plenty to renovate an , w - J ra-- land, and five . - .:nie id' more would ' t. Cnuranl. -;.iit m itMilf, and is only Und contain- no lime, -Titueiit of the boil. It actt itr. in acid --ub-tanecs-, tnd ehurjinK inert vege-i- to ho hcnebciil to vee - .1 already are stronuly i i nue are not benefited by I; -liuuld he plowed and i . rate of 10 to 50 hu-bels i iin' to whether the land i. greater or 1ch degree - in -t benefitted by its u-e. l t irned over in the fall, w -ini produce a good crop - m tue next t-ea-on. Lime t rieaj, where there in a 1 1 Ji composed vegetable i-iuriou- to mix with rot- tendency is to caue the Int and c-cape into the UH-b.. -ruetho multiplication jetting to tc a conid v, rt, and it is said that, u 1 urpork factories hold t r nidnd will not want - tnd Yorkshire ham, i 'iintry- population be ti-haid-the drinking of .ii 1 port than the regions w int- i ould possibly fur- i unttrlein that are pro d as the genuine arti & t'Littr '1 he game has mmAn chee-e. maile of i t t. -mi the KnulNh mar-ie-iiiiported to New York, u. priet- t Anlomamac " ti -thing hut the real Ches w 1'ie interett is a very N w orklatc alone amount- 1 1 credited with another h nii uway the curculm - in -pet- , if we may be--r ut YalparaiM), bouth - iue vines be had pulled und -onie peach tree", he i urculii)-, which were trj, kit the-e trees. Fol ia, he found that tomato lUiurrem'p ol many wrts of .in infu-ion from the p. .tut. t-prmkled upon "-.ttf, drovo away all the -t 1 thcoi This is worth - m 5('iO (HtO.00. Miv - -i poor clerk in a hotel icht-oii, Kan., and here is hi a journal of that city of il K go M.h-Ki Idcr fell heir ,M -urling, amounting to 1 " ' " ' It seems that her mluttiir, on her mother a li mi an senator, had all his 'i t-on-i-tcd ol a a-t amount n and around the city of t- d to the J ioman empire on tin" concerned with Marc tt-rntilc a-siult on the body -r - wife wasal-sj uecu-ed . ht.t Marc Antony after-ua- nhove su-piciun, and m the matter. All the y i a's great-creat-grand-. h.i- e nfi-catcd upon the ''tiTL The detective af--i-'nwuh frenzied remorse ' t mfe-o ion, moved to I'oin M'.nthat ill-fated town i " ata-tmnhe which hololl 1 utl thi. prime of life. Dlt- di rus among the ruins - j ' l' ' ,llte-ionwas di.-covered, ,ri -ri-'at-i:reat-grandfatber 11 urV"a"atU A t'oicago lawyer.' 1 1 , r rJ'; ,ue Th Eawpe, htJard . ( -r. um-tance, and. by aid of detec - JD v m tbe erson uf -Mth-sa Rider Ukfn? i"rADduthw- T"e lawyer han ll lT 0,,lha ca on con- teaier t0.Vn' Of cour-e we V9?JL??11X' NEW SERIES. VOL. XXII. Ion- lift. Krrrjlioily wants to lite to be old. It is one of the Cr.t promises to men as a reward lor honoring the father and mother. The min bo lites to a prcat bed is considered fortunate, and in mot parts of the world is venerated, gray hair being a crown of honor. The iiuotiim is an interesting one i cwiy jicrMin . t.an one ny care preserve I his ouii age? and ii mj, there is second ' crowm; out i,f thi what kind of care I Hiliproerte life? There is a story told of iraieiitrs im were on a journey to j fitlur throtigh France. One ot them had I a tl.i..rv that by strict temperance in eat I ins ami dunking hie mij-ht be prolonged, while the other held that a rational indul- i-i'iire ar.d erj jyment of the aood things of i i ire tar mo-i lavorea conuitions tor ..nitv Onediythey came to a village i w In rr were two oM men, each in his hun Jnilih car. One of the travellers visited men! these natriarcbs- and his companion lilioothtr Kich returned. acltnowlcd"in! tl. at Lis theory was uroni: and his friend's , .-.irm t. iiic lir-t had been told hy bis i entcnarim that he had nrescrved his hfa by alwavs eating and drinking what best pleased his palate, and enjoying the pleasure-ol lite, while tbe second was told by the aged man whom ho visited that extreme simplicity ol diet and Irugalitv in his man ner (.fining had kept him in life and health. The story may be true or not ; it is not improbable. Care and moderation in all things doubtless tend to prolong life, but they do not ensure to Lim who practices them great age. An example often cited is that ol eornarit, a Venetian nobleman, horn in 1 lf7. and until be was 40 years old, intemperate in eating and drinking. His cors'ttution, naturally inlirm. was impair, cd, and from that time he observed strict rules of living, and so he lived on until he dud in his hundredth year. His temDcr ascc was not exactly in conformity with modern New Knglaud notions. He took rather more wine than solid lood, 11 ounces a day. did not expose himself to the heat of the son nor latigue himself, his chief labor being alter he was t-3 years old, when he wrote his Discourse on Temperate Liv ing." This is a littlo book hich has been translated mtj every written language and read by millions, and jctthecxm-uio length uf human lite has not been extended and the average increase is not greatly indebted to his rule-. 1'uMic sanitary regulations have done mure than prirato methods in preserving life. Sobnct is une ol tbe virtues which tend to' long ire, bat does not msuro it, Neither does tua.th L maro was himself an ex ample ut tin-., Ills natural constitution was inhrui and 1 .r the tir-t 40 jetrs of his lile he d: 1 not i.ur-e it. The experience of most who lime attained great age, confirms the staumrnt that robusi health is not es pecially favorable to long lile. A delicate cunstitut'on is .ilten mure lasting than the most robo-t 'I be pale and sickly boy may live to be a man ol extreme age, while the xuddy and robust youth is cut down in hi prime by s, mc acute disease or dies- sudden 13 on the approach ol old age. Health and muscularity aUi are not necessarily the possession uf the amc person. The men trained lor a prize hht, a boat raee, or anything requiring great muscular exertion, are not in a bgh state ol health. This is evident Irom the fact that a trillo upsets them. Tlure is hardly a loat race advertis ed but some one of the several of the crews has to find a saltstitute because be is ill from a slight matter which would be a trille to one in really guod health. The race ot life is not to the strong nor to the swift, and a recent writer in the Lamt-t, Dr. U.outbey, says that the three oldest persons he ever knew were women and were valetudina rians, and had been so lor most ot their lives. Nor arc tbe rulesof health the same tor all. C'ornaro'srulcs may have preserved him and might shurten the da)s ol another, ilicfa cakes and pastry and idleness are not usually considered to be greatly conducive to health, and yet we have known an in stance 01 a lady wtio existed fjr upwards of 90 years, whose principal diet wacornposcd ol tbe f. od mentioned and who scarcely took more cxerci-c than the removal from her bed to her chair and from her chair to her bed. Temperance and sobriety may be fa vorable to lung lile, but they do not ensure it even to the most robust and promising. Tho lite insurance officers a-k, as the most important question, ot an applicant for a policy, il his mother and father are living, and it m t. their ages at the time of deatn. 11 the parents are old or lived old, the ex pectation ot lile of the children is great. It the parents died uung then there is no great hupc that the children will live to a great ai:c. ll.e best surety to a long-lived lamily 1- to have descended from ancestors of great age. Lnlortunately this is not possible lor all, and so tbe next best thing is to lit c a good lile while it lasts, and by temperane'e and sobriety to make it as bealthlul and happy as possible, so as to transmit to po-tcriiy a better constitution than one inherits Iruiu his ancestors. Nets frum Manlrj The Alnean venture ot Tfn Jhia'd con tinues t i I' rewarded by distinguished suc cess. After a silence so prolonged that it was beginning to justify serious misgivings, letters Iniui Mr. Stanley have reached Ijon don, and an outline of the news they furnish has been published in the journal which sent him lorih on bis explorations. It will lie rememliertd that the la-t letter previous ly received Irotn him was that which was stained h the biood of M. Linant de llellu fonds, whom be met at the capital of King M'toa, on the shore of the Victoria Lake. Tin- was a little more than a year ago. Mr. Stanley w.i- then leaving M'tesa, who had received him so cordially, lor the camp of his tuny ut the southern end of the lake, thus completing its circumnavigation. lie then intended to traverse the intervening re gion to the Albert 1 .akc, crossing Spcke's track at right angles, to make a survey ol the second great lecder of the Nile, and then Ikddly plunge into the unknown territory to the westward. The death of M. Linant, the difficulties en countered by Col. Ciordon in reaching the northern extremity of the Albert Lake, and, tinally. the recent complete exploration ol that lake by M. lics-i ol (iordon's arty, without obtaining the least intelligence ot Stanley, were well calculated to excite grave doubts of the latter ' safety, lortunatcly sueh doubts have been dissipated as soon as formed. Trie intrepid traveler has reached the comparitivcly safe district of Vjiji, on Lake Tanganyika, is in excellent bealtn and and spirit-, and sends home another imjior tant contribution to the geography of Cen tral Alrica. The letters received and published in London are live in number, and con tain a narrative of Stanley's voyages, land journeys, and adventures Iroin June, ls'o, when he was la-t heard from, to April 110, lb-70, when he was within fifteen days' roareh of I jiji. The first, written July -J lf7o, gives an account of his voyage from .M'tesa "s capital to bis camp at tho southern end of Victoria Lake, near the Shimccyu Uiver. He not only encountered violent and dangerous storms, but he and bis party nar rowly escaped massacre at the bands ot the savage natives of llumbireh, a large island on the western side of the lake. The sec ond letter, written seventeen days later, de scribes his return, with bis w hole jiarty , to L'gauda (M'tesa 's kingdom), and the pun ishment inflicted on thesavagesol Humhrcli, by tbe way. An interval of five months cia-s lie-lore his third letter was written. During this period, by the friendly aid of M'tesa, who furnished fiim with a large es cort of Uganda sjiearinen, 1 c crossed the tns country to tbe Allien Lake, traversing the lolty, luountanious region of (lambara gara, which was only seen by S'peke in the distance. The latter estimated the latitude of the highest ak at 10,000 feet above the sea ; bol Stanley scaled the highlands di viding tho two great lakes, and there dis carded a new trilie of natives, of whom wo only learn, us yet, that they arc"palc-faced." This expression must not be taken too liter ally ; yet the discovery is ol very great inter est, in an ethnological point of view'. No dates are given of this journey, but Stanley apjiears to have reached the Albert Lake in Dccemlicr last, lie encamped on a large bay, or inlet, to which he gave the name of the l'rinccss Ileatricc, and after a short stay returned to Uganda without bav in made any navigation of tbe lake. This, fact probably explains why M. Gcssi, in April of this car, tailed to obtain any news ot Stanley's Visit. The letter describing the journey was dated from Kawanga, near .M'tcsaV capital, on the 19th of January last. Tho next news is from Kanfurra, a point not yet located on the maps, March 26. It is probably somewhere in the dominions of King Ilumanika, who showed such favor to S'pcke and Grant, for Stanley fpoke of hav ing explored the Kagccra Kiver, a western tributary of the Victoria, the lake called Windermere by Spckc, and the hot springs ofKaragwe. The fifth and last letter was the "4th of At.rU. Only thrct ncotbb ago, in the now familiar region of Uaj&nvczi, and within easy reacn 01 ine Uuiepert of Ljiji, on I-ake Tanganyika, .k. KtAnlev met Livingston. His intcn- tua wm to ncb the northern extremity of ti. iLa j tun cross to the southern end of tbft Albert XjMl3 thereby definitely et- tionS t.toIkMltb(antl still am- 'Ml i! "Ur Vamplrbm la Serbia. a horrible story of a tocng girl killed bv a vampire. In Serbia, as in ino-d Sclavonic countries, exists a popular beliefin vampires, dead folk who quit their craves at night to torment the living. The s-igns by which the vampire is known aTC the preservation of the body tor a long time alter it should nave decayed, the lluiditv of the blood and the suppleness of the limbs I'ro-pcr. Merimce.in the coun-e of his travels was the witne-ofa case of al leged vanipiriMii, which lie describes as fol lows In ISIti I was travelling on foot In Var- garazand chanced to "top at the little tillage f Varbo'-ka. My host was one Vuck Poglonovich, well-to-do or the region, a grxid fellow and sufficiently drunken. lib. wife was yet young and fair, and his daugh ter, i girl ot sixteen, charming. I would fain bate remained with lam ccral davs in order to -tudy the ruins in the neighbor hood, hut he would not rent me a room, in sisting that should I be hisguot, and as this involved holding my own with him at the w ine after dinner, the relation was not par ticularly pleasant. One evening the woman had left u about an hour and, to aoid being compelled to drink, I was singing to my host, when we were startled by the mo-t fearful cries from the sleeping apartment, which, a is the cus of the country, w.n occupied by the whole houholi iu common. Arming ourselves, wc hurried thither, and beheld a frightful sight the mother, pale and haggard, hold ing her still more pallid daughter, who was stretched on htr straw bed as if dead. The woman was shrieking, without pa u-e. A vampire ' a vampire ' My poor child is dead '' With great difiiculty wc record Khava to con-ciuu-uesh ; she had, she said seen the uniow otencd and a man, pale as ashes and wrapped in a w inding-shect had lluns himself uKn bcr, bitten her and striven to strangle. She was only able to shriek aloud w hen the p pectre tied, and she swooned aw ay, but she fancied that she bad recognized in its features those of a villager named Wiecznany, dead about a fortnight. There wa- a small red sot on her throat, but I did not known whether it might nut be a natural mark or the result of the bite of an incct during the girl's nightmare. When, how ever, I hazarded this conjecture the father rejected it sullenly the girl wept piteously, and wringing her hands and rocking toand lr, kept repeating . "Alas ' To die so young and before one's wedding-day ?" while the mother loaded me with reproaches, declar ing that she had herself seen the vampire and known it to be Wiecznany. I consider ed it, therefore, the pirt ot prudence to bo silent. All the amulets in ttic village were Mon hung round the sulTererV neck and her father took an oath that next day ho would dinnter the corpse of Wiecznany and burn it. Thus the night parsed in an excitement that nothing could allay. At daybreak next morning the rvholc vil lage was out, the men armed with muskets or hangers, the women bearing heated irons and the children sticks and stones. With crits oi rage against the dead man they all thronged to the graveyard, it was with difficulty that I could obtain and retain a pinion whence I could witness the cere mony of exhumation. It was slow, foras all i-trove to take part in it each interfered with the other, and not a few serious wounds would have Itcen indicted by pick or shovel had nut the Kiders ordered two men only to complete the work. At the moment that the shroud was unrolled a horrible cry fair ly raied my hair on end. It proceeded irom a woman Fy my side. 'It is a tauipire'" she shrieked "the worms have not eaten it1' and her word were taken up by a hun dred mouths. Twenty muskct-shots shat tered the head of tbe coTe to fragments while the father and relatives of Khava hacked the body savagely with their long knives, and the women dipped linen clothi in the red liquid that oozed lrom the wound- to apply to ttie sulIererV throat. The body was dragged from the grate and firmly tied to the trunk ot a pro all tree that had been cut down and prepared, then drawn to tbe houso ol l'oglonovtcu, where a pile ot lagot and straw had lecn erected. Fire was set to it, aDd the body tosfcd into the flames while the people yelling madly danced round the pyre. The abominable stench from the burning flch Mon compelled me to take refuge m the house. The house wa.s crowded with twtors, the men all puffing at their pipes, the women all speaking at once and overwhelming with questions the sick girl, who vat pile and stupefied, the blood-soaked bandages round her neck forming a ghastly contrast with her white, half-naked shoulders. Little by little the crowd diminished till we were lelt alone Khava grew more and more uneuy as night came on, and insisted that some one should watch by her bedside constantly. As her jkirents were worn out with fatigue and exiitement 1 otfered my services as nur.se, and they were accepted gratefully. I shall never forget the nights I spent by the bedside ul this unfortunate girl. The creaking it a hoard, tbe very murmur of the wind made her start and shudder. She could not fall into a doze without seeing visions of horror, and from time to time would waken w itn a fearful start and a cry of an guish. blic had had one horrible dream, and the village gossips bad succeeded in completing the rum of her mind by narrating to ber all the frightful stories ubout vam pires that they could remember or invent. Often as she lelt her eyes closing she would say to me, 'For (iod'rf sake do not sleep 1 Take my rosiry in one hand and your sabre in the other and watch over me !" Nor would she sleep sate with her two hands locked about my arm, locked so tightly that the convulsive grip of her fingers would leave livid marks in my ilesh. .Nuthing could dis tract her mind , sho was abjectly afraid of death, and believed that she must certainly perish. In a few days she .became shocking ly thin , her lis were colorless and livid ; her great black eves seemed larger and more brilliant , she was a pitiable thing to sec. I tried to imj rexs her imagination by feigning to believe as she did, but, unhaj pily, as I had at first derided her credulity, 1 could not easily gain her confidence. I told her, however, that I was possessed of a patent charm against evil spirits and that, if she desired it, I would pronounce it. At first her natural unselfishness and gentleness would not permit her to allow me to draw the wrath oi heaven on my.sclf, but, finally, the fear uf death overcame her scruples aud she implored me to try my spell. I pro nounced loudly and solemnly some lines of Itacine as invocation ;then, alter rubbing her neck, pretended to draw therefrom a small red ugate I had concealed between my fin gers, and assured her gravely that 1 had re moved the source uf her illness and that she was saved. Itut, with a sad smile, she said "You have deceived me; vou had that stone in a little casket ; I had seen itlwforc. You are not a magician.' Thus my ruscdid her more harm than good. From that moment she grew worse rapidly. On the night before her death she said to inc. "If 1 die it is my own fault. My lover (and she named one of tho young men of the village) wished me to elope with him but I would not and asked him to bring me a silver chain, llo went to Marcuska to bay me one, and it was then that the vamr ire came. After all, if I bad not been at the hou-c, it might have killed my mother, so perhaps it is all for the Iicst." Next day she made her father promise himself to cut her throat and open her veins after her death, that she might not a1o become a vampire ; she would have no other hand but his to commit upon ber conw-e these needless itrocitics. Then embracing her mother she desired her to take a rosary to the tomb ol a local hermit or saint, thereto sanctify it; then to bring it back to her. I could not fail to admit this peasant's thoughtfulness in finding such a pretext to keep ber mother from witnessing her dying agonies. She took an amulet from her neck and gave it to me. "Keep it," she said ; "and may it do you more good than it has done to me." She then received the sacrament de voutly. Shortly thereafter ber breathing became more difficult and her eyes glazed. Suddenly she seized her father's arm and madeaneflort as if to cast herselt upon his breast; then ceased to live. Her sickness had lasted eleven days. A few hours later I had left the village behind me, consigning heartily to the devil, vampires-, and all who believe in them. Tuk Turks appear to bo waging war in a way that has not been known in any of tho recent wars of Europe. Ihey carry fire and sword all over tbe regions which they traverse The English papers were for time disinclined to believe the reports of their ravages in Bulgaria, but the evidence leaves no doubt of the truth of the worst of them. While waltzing on a barge on the Hud son rier, a few days since, a couple lost their balance and fell overboard. The man was rescued bat his partner was drowned. For the Free Prees and Times. Honor to "horn Honor U Due. BT RODNEY HOLLAND HOWARD. I remember hearing tho latcJ. Sallivan Adams, that noblest of nature's noblemen, upon the occasion of a town-meetinr called for the purposeof seeing what should bo done in regard to the ' Pioneer Mechan ic Shop," which had just beenlaidin ashes say that he was not one of these who be lieved that it was absolutely necessary to wait until man a was dead and decently buried, before we ven ure to accord to his virtues aud honorable deeds the cordial and emphatic recognition they deserve. The eloquent eulogist of that day U now himself in bis grave, while, tho eentlemau concerning whom this glowing panegyric was pronounced happily is still living reaping in a green old "age the honors of his long and eminently u-elul lile. It were hardly necc-Miry to state that the man hereby alluded to is Ilenrv Pearl Ilickok. IIo had been very active, iu fact first and foremost, in initiating tho Pioneer" en terprise, and accordingly came in naturally, upon the occasion ab jve referred to, for this deservedly honorable mention at tho hands of Burlington's most eloquent son. And here 1 may ba permitted to say that I well remember Mr. llickok's mkiDg a speech upon the occasion of the laying the corner stone of the original Pioneer Shop,in which he expatiated on the advantages to the com munity of introducing and encouraging manulacturing interests in our town. The fact that from that small net-egg have sprung all the varied and important industries that now make Burlington so considerable a manufacturing city, would seem to have confirmed abundantly the fore sight and practical wisdjm, while they al-o illustrate and commemorato the public spirit of, the man in whose brain this im portant enterprise first had its birth. Mr. Ilickok's relation tj this early, original j mechanical interest in Burlington has by j no means neen exceptional inms career. Nay, this were rather eminently character istic of him he always having had the pub lic welfare quite as much at heart as his own. No citizen of Burliogton, perhaps will bo iuoro pleasantly, gratefully remembered uy tno younger generations oi his tiaic, man Henry r. ilickok. uth the utmost 1 distinctness I recollect seeing him iniriy five years ago, drive by my old home un Dorset street, on his way to and from his possessions, consisting of broad acres, and grand old primeval woods in our neighbor hood. I shall always think cf and remem ber him also, in another connection, that of distributing, on behalf oi the corpora tion of the I'niveity, the parchments to tbe graduates on Commencement day. Of modes;, quiet, unissjming manners of a most genial and benevolent spirit, emi nently public spirited and patriotic, and thoroughly furnished unto every good word and work, not only does he present an ex ample, a chaneter, throughout all his lung career, which the youth ol Burlington may safely copy ; but " His life w9 gentle, and tbe eleirciitj aomiied m hitu tbttt .Mature mi'hi Hand up and tay tujli ins wu-ld This is a Mas ' But distinguished as they have been, Mr. II. hardly stands alone among thoo fathers of the town, who in their time, have reu derpd invaluable services to their day and generation. In fact, these very rcilections and remarks have been suggcted by a let ter iust received from an eminent, and, tkough still living, I may bo permitted to add, highly honored citizen of Burlington. It may be remembered I y some of your readers that at the closo of my recent cum municstton in your columns entitled, "My First Sjnday School Excursion," occurs the following sentence " All honor to tbo-e kind saul miny, if not most, of whom, I presume, are now in their graves who pn i f i. and so successfully car ried it out." 1 was not a little gratified, shortly alter the appearance uf tho afore said communication to receive the following letter: fiCRLIHUTtS VT , Jul Jt. I- o IHuRfclR -.1 have alwa read with intereu your eommuD cition m the Vih au Tims, hut Done with greater plejsure lhaii ur lat, f ntiUed "Uy i-m tuafl ay ixhuvl Excur sion " 1 ws, pcrm-t me to tay. at the t me to which m refer, buprrmtDJeat ot tbe village school, and originated and planned the excursion fur or achoul, and its rerl branch m districts outside v. the nlU'e altogether sutne five hundred strnj and, with the assutaace of a corp " eth-tenl teaehers, cairied itut. as you sav, suectj-rffuliy. Vou have awakeEed in my imnd totem very pleas ant recolieettcns eunntckd with my buudaj -Tho i labors ; also revired in my memory tbe name j f reveralrery excellnt kui; men and women with whom I hare been awocuted in church work. boiLe, no donbi, of thoce oennected w.th tbe or. cuion jou hare noticed, aJou intimate, are in their ravea. A few, however, are it 1 1'vm? here who eojoed the innocent recreat.ons o tUl day. It is exceedingly plea-nt to learn that so o.-l an impression was made on jonr then juunj and tender mind. Meantime it is iloubMes te sale to preeaiue that mot, if not all. who partcipatrd in that enterprise, were zs tatorably improaseU .is j ourself Very RespecUnliy and Fraiernally Voars. James M I am very happy to bo apprised to whom 1 am indebted ior that one grand gala day of my youth. How little, oitcn, do wo know tu whom we aro indebted fir some uf tbe pleasantrst occasions and for -ume of the best inspirations of our life. No ono can be aware, except, indeed, he have had experience in the matter, huw much of anxiety and caro and toil is in volved on the part uf a Sabbath-: cboul Su perintendent and his associates on the en gineering and successful prusecution of an extended excursion for a large school. !m great, truly, and mmifold are the-e weary ing cares-and labors that many are con stantly tempted to think that the benefits to be derived lro:u the same will hardly he worth the patu. It may be that bv the reading of my communication some falter ing teacner may bo encouraged to believe that such Sunday-school holiday excursions may pay alter all. Even the very youngest of his flick, though he may hardly remem ber whom to thank for it. may thereby re ceive itnpre-sions that will provo to him thereafter a joy forever " Meantime,who is the true, tho model citi zen and dis.-ipleV Is it not tho man who quietly, modestly, cheerfully sows beside all waters not knowing indeed, which shnll pro-pcr. whether this or that ; yet sweetly confident; serenely, hoDCfully as sured, that somehow, sometime, what be has scattered will be gathered as a rich har vest into somebody's boom? Are you an instructor of vouth; a patient Sunday schoolteacher; an earnest, devoted, self denying Sunday-school Superintendent? You may not conspicuously occupy tho con sideration ot the public ; your name and fame may not, indeed, be trumpeted through the newspapers. 9 Yet eternity alone can re veal either the magnitude or value of your services to mankind. Nay, ye arc the true builders. By processes as mild, genial and noiseless as the sunlight, you are contribu ting to put in the foundations of character that must be immortal, and exerting an in fluence that, though quito unpcrccivcd. is yet constantly entering into tho enlarging stature of young souls, to live with and bless them forever. All honor to ynu 1 Through the ble-sed ministry of your hearts and hands is built up the eternal kingdom of God. And to this honored rank the reader will readily rocognizo as belonging my respected correspondent above, tbe devoted and old-timo sundry school Superintendent to whom I was in debted lor " My First Sunday-school Ex cursion." Danvkrs Mass. II. II. II. The Way the Anglican Clergy Used to be Becruited. Mrs. Kemble, in her chapter of gossip for August, describes one of tho sons of William IV. and the actress Mrs. Jordan. Their children were called Fitz Clarenco (the king's title as prince being the duke of Clarence), and why Mrs. Kem ble shou Id make the name a blank, after sUting the connection itself, one docs not sec. This son was Ilev. A . F. C , and she describes the way he attended all her performances, the first season, the latter part of the time behind the scenes, though sho bad but a bowing aquaintancc w ith him. It was afterward improved, however, in this way : I encountered him, one evening, at a very gay ball given by the countess de S . Almost as soon as I came into the room, bo rushed at me, exclaiming : "Oh, do CJimo and dance with me, that's a dear good girl " The "dear good girl" bad not tho slightest objection. While dancing I was struck with the decidedly unrcverend tone of my partner's remarks. My amazement reached its climax when,seeing me exchange signs of amicable familiarity with some one across toe room, Mr. F. said : "Who him, are you nodding and smiling to? Oh, your lather. You are very fond of ain't vou?" To my enthusiastic reply in the affirmative,he said ; "Ah, yes ; just so. I dare say you are." And then followed an expression of his filial disrespect for the highest personage in the realm, of such a robust significance as fairly took away my breath. Surprised into a momentary doubt of my partner's sobriety, I could only say ; "Mr. F. C , if you do not change your style of conversation, I must sit down and leave you to finish the dance alone." He confounded himselfin repeated apolozies and entreaties that I would finish the dance with him, and went on eagerly to excuse himself by a short sketch of his life, telling me that he bad been trained a sailor, the navy being the career that be preferred above all others, but that, in consequence of tho death oi a BURLINGTON. VT., FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST 18. 1876. brother, he had been literally taken from on board ship, and, in spite of the utmost re luctance on bis part, compelled to go into the church. "Don't you think it's a hard case?" reiterated he, as I still found it difficult to express my opinion either of him or of bis "case," both appearing to me equally deplorable. At length 1 suggested that, since he bad adopted the sacred calling, perhaps it would be better if be conformed to it at least by outward decency of language and decorum of demeanor. To this he as si i ted, adding, with a sigh, "But, you sec, s ue people have a natural turn for religion ; uu have, for instance, I'm sure; but you sec I have not." This nppcarcd to me incontrovertible. Presently, after a pause, ho aked me if I would write a sermon for him, which tribute to my talent for preach ing, of which he had just undergone a sam ple, sent me into fits of laughter, though I replied with some indignation, "Certainly not ; I am not a proper person to write sermons, and you ought to write your own "Yes," said he, with rather touch ing humility, "but you sec I can't not good ones, at least. Vm sure you could, und I wish you would write one for me ; Mrs. N has" This statement termina ted the singular conversation, which had been the accompaniment to a qu.Jrille. The vicar of Maple Durham is dead ; bad he lived, he would doubtless have become a bishop ; bis family had already furnished its contingent to the army and niry in Lord K. and Lord A. F. C , and the living of Maple Durham had to be filled and be provived for ; and, whenever the virtues of the established church system arc under discussion, I try to forget this, and one or two similar instances I have known of its vices as it existed in those days. Our 1orl Itllrr. THE WEATHER THE CHINESE IV NEW VORk ID LIT ICS DUOLATIOV Ol THE CITY" V AN PEKltILT AND HIS SCHEMES Ll'Sl.NESS. New York, August Stb, 1STG. To the Editor of tbe Free 1tcm and Times . The weather has moderated slight- iy and it is once more possible to sleep. Nevertheless it is yet too hot for either com fort or health Tho heated term has been the most terrible ever known, and has swelled tho mortuary lit to a decree that is absolutely frightful. Children have perish ed by the thousands, and almot an equally large number of adults have succumbed ti the more than torrid hcit. One woman in Bixter street has as-ntcd in preparing 131 children for burial. Here let me say that there has been scarcely an instance of a death from among the ranks of the temper ate. The men who have avoided the uc s of alcoholic drinks, when sun-truck almost in variably recovered, and when recovered were as good as new. But w hen a w hikey or beer drinker went dow n it was generally down for good, and it is a matter of fact that the drinking classes were an hundred fold more liable to be.struck than the tem perate. The temperance people may make what uc of this they please, but ail the city physicians will vouch for its truth. IIINAUEN are invading New York in lane numbers. There are now 3,000 here, and with them their opium dens and jjss-houscs. They are just a filthy, just as industrious and just as harmless here as in San Francisco, and follow the same occupations. They wash, mako cigars and keep street stands pay their debts, save some money, and gaui blo and srauke the best of their earnings away. They inhabit Baxter street here. They have only one joso-houseas yet, though another one ot larger dimensions and more aristocratic in style, is in contemplation. As the gnt colony in an Francfsco i sending oil colonics Eastward all the time, it is very probable that in a few ears the territory in and about Baxter street, will be very like Djpunt treet in San Francisco, and that m New York the religion of Con fucius and the Chinese theatre and Chinca amusements and customs will have estab lished themselves firmly. Let them come they are harmless, industrious and honest people, who will work and never want office. There is some comfort in that. political. A- Have and hi- character are becoming he'Pr undtr-t od, the intelligent Democra cy ure growing very cold toward tbe mulatto ticket made at St Loui. I he truth is half the decent Denmcracy of New York di.n t want filden elected in any event. They kn.iw him to be tricky and unreliable, and they lcel c .nfident that in thecaot his election the aresotdout. He prole- . to be a hard-monr , resumption iiiv., aud why he don't come out and av - , m-tiad of paltering with Miiuim tl t.dnck-,ind fixing up delaratiot .ti.it ,mun nothing. puzzles them, and tbev let 1 trtat thty arc -old in him. Everybody knows w hire li ayes stands on all these quetion, and no one will vote in the dark voting for him. lil den is one of those exceedingly acute, small men who overreach themselves llo has no honesty himself, and docs not believe that any one else ha-. Ifo acts upon the theory that all men are as dishunest as himself, ex cept the simplctjns and he very largely overestimates the dimensions uf tbe Utter class. He i- foolih enough to suppose that tbe rank and file of tbe Democracy will ac cept any quibble for the sake of success, and he is paltering with them in thit way Hayes will carry the State uf New York as ?ure as fate. Think, my readers of a man who is nominated on a platform cxprcmg the views oi a great pirty,on a great ques tion, w bo has to have two conferences w ith his associate, aud four ses-ion of a com mittee to decide as to what he does believe, and as to what he intends to do in case ot his election ' v vmieruilt is determined not to die till ho has his four track road completed through to Chicago, and possibly farther west, and has demon strated tho superiority ot rail over all other means of transportation. Even during his illness he has pushed tns warehouses and his other improvements in the terminal facili ties of his roads, with a view to saving the grain tradt to tho citv, which is being di verted to Biltiiuore, Fniltdelphia and Bos. ton. He has during his illness received builders, contractors, mechanics and rail road officials, every day, and when ho was too weak to speak ho made them under stand what he wanted by writing or signs, lie will do business as long as he has breath, and w ill be felt as long us there is life in him. He is a fearful card-placr, always ptaving for money, and tba stakes must be high enough to make it worth while to play. Curious stones arc told of his card playing, some of which are doubtless true. He is as merciless at poker or point euchre as he is in business, and woe be to the poor or carolcss pla3er who falls into his hand. It is business with him, and he pursues tho gamejut as eagerly as he doc,, his roil busi ness. As thecba-e in England was account ed as minmturo war, so gentlemanly gamb ling with Yanderbilt is tho next thing to business, and be follows it with as much zest. Now that Drew is gone, Yanderbilt and Jay Oould are the only railroad mag nates left, and it is not probable that thty will ever lock horns again. Tho old vete ran has too much to do to perfect tho rail roads he now controls, and Jay (fould's in terests and bis do not conflict. DESOLATION The citv is almost abandoned The rich fl-ni from tho terrible heat to their villas at Newport, and to tbe cool shades uf Sirato ga ; tho-o in moderate circumstances are at the thousind and ono sea-side places, and up in the mountains; tho artists and Btl.e mians aro up North where they can keep cool, und live very cheaply, and oily tho poor, and tho unfortunate business men w bo cannot get away, are in tbe city. Tne theatres are closed, as are all places of amusement, the stores aro empty, and the hotels aro like Sahara in their stillness. The only trade there is comes frum the Cen tennial folk who arc passing bickward and forward through the city, und they leave very little money here. Those going want it all to see the big show with, and when they return they want to get homo as quick ly a possible? And New York lies inert, baked, still and discouraged. Let us hope there will bo a revival with the cool breezes of September. HL'siNEsS is still wretchedly dull .and failures were more frequent this week than last, and of rather larger dimensions. The strong ones will survive and bo stronger for the cleaning they have gone through, but tho weak houses will inevitably go under. The man who was worth $1.000. 000, four years ago is to-day worth sl-ij,000, and he might as well make up bw mind to it, and take it cheerfully. The bottom is out, and it is out fairly. We are getting over the war now. Yours, Alton Win- d- you walk sj crooked, J.ihn? said Mrs. Henry, with serdstio intonation, as her husband cams in. ' Boots tiijht, my dear." "Humph ! it tne boots are half as tight as you, John, they'll be quite willing to 0 to bed with you and 1 rather think they will." " There's a jal for you,1' muttered John, as he fdruggled up stairs. Cau't fool her (hie). Geah che knows whera them - bootsh goin to sleep." Cincinnati Times, The Campaign. A ROUSING KEfCCLICAN MEETING ADDRESS EY EDWIN W. STOL'CHTON, OF NEW YORK AN IMMENSE GATHERING AND A STIRRING SrEECU. The Republican rally at City Hall, Thursday night, was attended bv an immense audi ence and can not fail to have an excellent effect on tho campaign. Floor and galler ies were crowded and many remained stand ing through tho evening, and tbe enthusi asm was unbounded. The platform was occupied by tho orator of tbe evening, the Hon. Edwin W. Stoughton. of New York. Hon. Daniel Bobarts President of the Hayes and Wheeler Campaign Club. Col. Lc Grand B. Cannon, Hon. John N. lomc roy and Gen. George W. Grandcy. Mr. Stoughton's address was universally characterized as one of the best ever beard in this city. The orator's imposing person al presence and iino delivery commanded rcspccttul attention ; and his eloquence, wit an4 humor, and unanswerable logic combined to render tho address one of raro interest and unusual effectiveness. Mr. Stoughton, after being introduced by Mr. Boberts, spoke somewhat as follows Mr. MnnKhtmi) Aililr-, Fcllow-L'itizkns cf VERMONT 1 thank you for tho kind welcome with which you bare greeted me tbid evening. My only regret u that tbe zen tleman mentioned to be associated with me in not here. 1 teel at homo amon? u, lor I am a Ver inonter born. I lovo i:n hoi. 1 Joy o its moun tains, 1 love its valIo6, I love Its streams. I atu prcud ol its men (ipplauav and I tru-a that the retuit ol tbe coming election will nr.t tend to lesten that pride. 1 lcok upon this election as in some rc?cu, the most important in my day. I have not uf late, lecn in tbe habit or uiin-Jins iu iviiuv.,. in iuq wuicu ii'aueu in toe election ul Ilarrnon, m I sin, Umz in harmony with tho principles of the win party, I d,d what I could to promote h:a elect on. From that time until I was called upon, a f dajs mnce, to pre side ov-r a ratihcation meeting in rew York, I have inide onlv one political speech. 1 come here uunfcjsin; my faults hut, with (j.mTs help, 1 w.ll partially atone ior them in tbe ensuing canrass. I propose to prent, to-niht, a few general con iMeratiuus, bistMl cd a few leading facta, why we should tote for the Republican ticket and carry out tbe work that part bai been so lonx eodtxl in consummatmi. You aro to iletennine whetner the lejielalhe and executive department.- tbe government .ire to t twined in ihe bands ul thie men who fought aamtt )u :n the Held whether the men who fou'ht aiinn wa m the iit-iti rxoi representatives of them but the identical men ire to Control tbe legislative and executive June- tions of the gi vernment tor the next lour j ears. There are to-day in the Hou?e of Kepre-entatives wiiuij-tnreo i-eiiiocraui :rom tne boutnern Mates hixtv -three adddeH tu eighty -three nukes a major ity of that IU u-v. but -three of these men wero in the Confederate army. I: you elect Tuden and Uendnek-x. do yon n t put :n the puwr oi those woo fou.ht you .n iheneUJ, the uukingaod the ex ecu turn ol tne laws ' Are you prepjreo v do this Let us consider what leialutiuu intulve, and whether they are the men to entru-t t tu. After the rebellion there was a Ur-enatonal debt and the freedom and rights and .nr lege . cit xenshipoftour millions ol -les. I tie iiii-t mi porta n l legilatnm tno e.in.ng Congress will ban. to deal wtta is that connected with tne do in am the rights ol tbe colored r.ue an citixenn of the United autes Are you ready to turn over to th'e who fought you in the field t!ut legislation wh-eb is ti determine what shah U the civil ri 'bid of he colored race' Are tnoe nh. t...iri.t .,n.r you aueh men as to wami.t you m turning er tun cuimc vwvii'i i" me mere ea ul ttieir Jegis'aton one :s tne loruier ice-I're-.deLt of tbe Confederate fetalis. II ,i ago illustrate the lien ol tuuse men u to t. e ciril rights olttie colored rjee The speaker then read extracts trom a Kpe i, ,f Aleiande- 11. Mephens, delivered in Jl.relj, t-i, to tut- iffect thit ihe Southern 4jrern-atrut wk founded n the idea that the negro it the 141111 o' the white man and thal.un ac.unt ul bdnn iheouo..- s.tedoctrine, a gradual disintegration of the tNoiih would easne, and continue. Tluui liud. in Jlu mercy. In cam in-g out tne trincMl- m .tcrnai justice, tbe circer-atone the lon.ederacy cruui- Diea away, ana tne oji i LIn eudures, ml d tud. strcnier than ever. ipp.-u-x ' iu team trum this the news ui the men wb would di m nate in tbe national legislature in theev.nt a Leui--cralic victory tttut do we learn iroj tlie llaui burgmaaaacrv .n bvuth Carolina herj t.wc.i ored men were interrupted on the d.-eet 1 two young menand alter sume -'Lterration -ri,u them the nay. were brousbt te!ore a ust .e o. tho peace, taken away, hunted down aui Lot .n c . d t Mood' wniwa the cause the outrage It a warning to colored men that .: th- ea pc d ihe rights of c.t'zenvhip, bearing arxs or toting, they might know wnat to expect. And l.-rerour 1 ham terlain sent a temperate and adm rat-.e leitor to the President in wtifh he m l u,e L-jru. m of the outrage was simply to int ui Jul- the negroes j mwiD iiwuuofluieni vi tueir rignu and to 1 r..e them U agree with tbe view of tneir as.i lant.. isut it is auggested that ttii eu' joct sriou.d not be referred to it is "Haunting tii b.ot-iy u rt ' Who ttibted the nat un while it s.ipf Vn e bands defiled th pure gtruient o. ihe njt u with the bud f her cbdlren ' 1 hey may e- . uut damii-d spot " but uit a., the pe-:ume- of Ar-iby can wah out the bU.t on the h.nd ihu di-1 it. AppUuie I rem em ler years a to fie common expression. ftleed.ug kaiir." an ex pieioo of contempt and deru.on. I knew pers on ally and well v. tary. the Third ltu'r.t c liovernr.r, I th nk. who wa ett t Hana -toe Urn two returning ljato ug tne ta-k they were sent to terform tioiern.r tieary sa d to me tliat the Tribune was aeu-ttl ..i xaggerat t.g liie tri'Ubie. but that it never t- A ne lit. truth as h discovered. And ssi I tea y mj a th- ngU tbera are a imtil ooinpuat o i.utuUr tbe enormit e at the fc.ut:i, tnere are u.h t. terr' y tbe Colored peip. aud at fie n i elect o n fyou will find wry lew voting, except n ompu. sion. 1 do nut a cue tbe wdh Nutli. Hut h w many men of resolution and fixed purp. -e lil -t rrit re Ut take the Mouth out .,. 11 . t . n - na iiiu wll o: tbe major t " The n.eiit iin-u are und them The latter w.ii ni t'. ui..e thex- I I selves much alut the xi?n!i p 1 : me cU re-i 1 beuplv. mr wih tbe molerate bunt il wn toe i - i I 1 nt men A gw-l de ,! ol crue.ty and wn nt w,,l 1 I te tM.erated !.r th purp. so;en-ur ug ucees ' !he Ntuthern men late. 11 1 ji i'oo:ede'ate J ' army now mCungre-a rule the u. ij - i o: that iKdiy It pruftiHN to be an n iu : t.Kly. lint r we insoect ti record wt w t!- i.iat bate beo -utroduced lor tbe hetietit ' th e whu fought againet you, that gie thi.n 111. re tlnu twj thuunand m llionsof doars. ii 1. have )een in troduced to repay the tax afse-il 11. the iive boldmir Mate tor the conduct of the war and t re fund uie cttfn tax, sxty-eigtit tni 1 ..r ot dol lars. One hundred and :rty bil. havi- teen -n-trodufeii to give varum. Southern ni-tut ns up wards ot one and one-taif mill cm ... n.Urs. on the theory that they were depo lel : that am. unt during the war. There is a b It t pay 0 1 en o: tbe L'nited btates for the ue of propi rty scoped by the army . and ne to pay the peop.e ttie booth Ittrail prifptrty taaeu for tbe up t ot the army while 11 was in the slae-n..id ng ftite-. ih you suppoeetbat any otthe-e ) ,1s w u.d. , aU, be vetoed by Tuden. t: elec:i.l I knew Tilden and have known b -n r.-twent-five years. 1 know hid h u r tmTi! wait. What was his hi lory a the pen ex I t lie war lie refused to sign a ca I lof a tir.-n uu-et.uf It d.dnTt suit him t-i be aMt ated 111 -i.!i a i-dM with Kepublican. At a iu.in: ' tin lr . New Yon, caile"! to ra.se money to perm t its mimed member iu go to the ar, T .dt-n wa- not one who attended or sutisrr.bed. In IVhruary. a soe ety was organ ted in New loik for tee diDuion ol usexul pol tical knowledge " '1 ..den was a member otth s society and o: iu executive committee ll object was the d tnut n o! puh licttlofis showing tbe buss ugtoi -laery and lint eiery great war measure was um-ut tut.ona . Tiiden was a delegate to the I'h-oago content 'n of and a iueiutcr of the eoiniu itee on rei u tioiiH, receiving, as such, a resoiut on urging tne appointment of a rommtttee. cona.pt ng oi one Irom each bfate to roiuast Lincoln to -uitendtoe dratt. A prominent plank f th p t: -no de clared the war a lailure and tint pe.uo and hir mony and union utut be vecureu by older moan. All ihToufh the war. by act, deed, wor.I or gi:t dd Tildeu do aught but d-.MV-ura-gv tt.- ciu ou which depended the exis.nue o: tiie natuj. Mp-vlau-e I T.lden's letter of acceptance is an txtrardmary affair. It is there stated that the amend men' to the constitut'on are accepted nil a" tuti-factory and tbe settlement ought to haruiou s every dy. li it true that the amendment are .n ptett ny at! 1 l.d IlendriCK aecet tneui 1 A tbe foutbern btates accept them And yet we are tod m ii a let' ter t .at their acceptance it UDiwrul. Are you prepared to place in the hands ot sui-b a rutin and m-jfi a Congress not only powerjoier tbe civil rights oi the colored race but also to uko irm the treas ury the vast rums 1 have mentions! ' The h--ue is upon us. 'u doubt Vermont will g a lirgema j .ruy :or the Itepubucan ticket, and il she dt-e it will hate -real influence on N-w York. Uhen Tilden wai engaged, in the jutrioiic work ot issuing useful political knowledge, training dis couraging resolutions and a teaming the fortune which t suppose be '? mw exin-ndtng in reforming tbe country iughter), what was Hayes about A modest genticmau, aUtut thlrty-T.ine years ot age, with a lovedand loving family about him. he lelt his home for the ariuy. There, to 'ay the letst, he did not fail in the discharge of any duty. Ti id fu sion, and they were j.raettcm of a ery peculiar ! aicu sura as in my reputable memoers 01 mv pr lesion decline to enter on "wrerking railroad, a process wlrch air. fitoughtou described at nine length. Tuden made himself neb. He re mained at home, breathing bis copperhead Fentlments. The speaker then re id (lovernor Hayes's lamous letter, in which ho declared that the inin who would leave the army at -uh a time to go home and electioneer for Cm grew ought Xo scalped, which wa received with enthusiastic applau-e. He continuid Men differ. Tilden would have thought a man 1 ughi to he scilped for golngto the war. I do not pek in jest, tor 1 know th man I am sorry to say. Nowietu consider Ti den as a reformer. I will read a passage from tbe cuto of h'f tet:er-a iort of pray er.'ul remembrance of w but he had been about. ILaughter All have rend the letter with the ahil.ty to declare uion their oath tint they do not understand it The passage is as follows ' Kducated tn t tie 11 ef that it is the first duty of thecttiien of the Kepublid to take his ialr allot ment of care and trouble in tuMic allurr. I hive lor forty years as a pnvatecttixon ml filled that duty. 1 hough occupied in an unuual degree dunng all that period with the con-era ol govern ment, 1 have never exercised tho habit ofiflicial life." Fortunate people' 1 think be never will' "When, a y ear and a half ago, 1 entered upon my present trusf.lt was murder to consummate teform to which I had already devoted several of the ti tears ofmy life.' Several ol Ihe ift years of his life' What was the ttosctool in which he was ed ucated? Tammany Halt : associate profeswrs, Tweed and aweeny. lteform to wh chiliad al ready dented several of tbe bet years o: my life' but down to 1370 -all through tbe war ami long after be was the intimate co-actor, the confiden tial friend aud associate rf tbe men lnave jut named. I asked to-day of one of tbe most respect able and eminent citixons of Hurllnnton, Us great personal racnfice were Involved in a pledge given ny Tilden, and a creat personal sacrifice were in volvol in a pledge given by Tweed, whose plclgo wculd you lake T A voice "Tweed's.' Tweed's. (Applause. Cant, by oct;, tecret ve ness all these fill up to a full roundness the charac ter of the mm whose fr.ends, if he his any. or his followers, if lie has no Irkns, have placed lm name leforo the Amer.cm people for the first aud most honorable tflice in the world. It was not when tbe frauds in ew York city were losing piled moun tain high that Tilden was heard from. lie was a co-aclur with tho perpetrators tf the frauds and the object was to carry tbe New York elect too. Ho mnst bare shut his eyts as cloxeas In tbe sleep of death n't to know what was go.ngon. It was not until Tilden found that Tweed ana bweeny had no very.higb estimate of his value didn't need hi in any longer that he ft-uod out about tbe ecnool where he had been studying reform to long. It was not until after the exposures by tbe Times and other newspapers that pioceedings were tegua against Tweed and others. W o then lound Tilden assoolatod with O'Conor aLd others tn the prosecution of tbeM thieves Suppose that in Burlington some ottcUls worecangbt stealing publicmoney andadistin,uian 91 lawyer was called in to prosecute them. Wh t tf be should say that because be was concerned tn iBe prtieecutloa of fraud be ought to be called a reformer! Isn't this Tllflen'a cim t And isn't that about all tnat yoaj remember parUcularly faior- T.ld found Tdden- agents w.nt to St, Lout,. Theronhey .und a Urge number of delegates who did not believo In the speedy payment of the national ueot inu wao Deiievta mat me iTeeno-cissooum be doubled and the banks blotted out. 1 hey framed a nlstform to init both the hird-mnnav and the soft-money men. Tllden is somewhat a master cf worus. men of no principlti or oonvicuocs fre quently substitute words for both. They said to iue naru-money men, nere a nepuoucan fow eminent who said la 1S75, let Uera be resumption on or before January 1st. 1879. The bard-money men considered the acta, hindrance to resumDUon; the soft-money men wished to strike out the date. That platform la a rlcketty thin. Mothers, how ever, aro said to love their rlckettr offenrin-best. sometimes, and perhaps it Is so with the Iramers oi in io pii-uorm. As to Tllden's letter of acceptance You have political principles suidin ou in one direction or another. Suppose you have an office tendered you. It would not take you lon to fire your reaom for accepting or rejecting 1L litre we nave ao mcunauon oi nve weeai. Tne canaiaaies had a conference at Saratoga. It was desirable that there inoald be a union of sentiment oo the currency and the national debt. Got. Tilden sari "The proper time for resumption Is the time when wieo preparations shall hare ripened perfect ability to accomplish the object with certainty and eise that will inspire conodence and enouurase the re vivin of business.' May not the millennium poa- ioiy come oeiore toaican Happen under a Demo cratic adminitratIonl When you want to jet at iuo uuauciai news ot iuaa ana tnose oi lien dricks read both letters. You will then retlrt la confusion. Tilden speaks as though It was the fault of the Republican party that we hare so large a national debt. I am free to say that If the Democratic par ty ret into power the men who dominate and cirry Tillen in the hollow or their bands we shall have repudiation, abnegation or the rights of the colored race, and the fastening upon os of hnndre-1 of millions of dollars. IV hen the artat war came UDonns the leader or the Democratic parry, Uo Cbanan, said that be was powerless to coerce a state Into submission by force powerless to deal with tbe retellloo with military force. If any t outbern State called for aid be was powerless, so it continued until Lincoln took tbe chair occupied by the man of whom Tflden wasan earnest disciple. A d bt of about Ure thousand millions was incurred In the conduct of thew.r, of whica abjut three fitbshas been Daid and abont tn-fifth rm.tn L unpaid. To its payment tbe national honor is pieugea ana nonest men will ice that it Is faiuful Jy carried out. (Applause.) You will see to it that repudiation does n.t obstruct tbe coDiuxmaticn of this honest purpose -that those do not get into power who will say, 'This Is not oar debt.' Congress must legislate and the executive mnst act. Tne constitutional amendments simply command the government to co Us doty. Will those who fought against you in the Geld take overmuch trouble to see that tbe debt la paid! If we have contracted a lare oebt unJer Repub lican rule, bad as some say it is, tber eis something to (.iTitet it. In IsCd the wealin of this country was lb ioo.tsw.ouij in lsro it wss $a,otS,Ouo,iu it hav.ng neatly doubled ih the decatie. In hCu. I d m value to $l,sft,oo -,Ui; la 1370, to l,a,ux),- mo man u idem rei products or tms couatry amount- OO. li iheeouncrv min-T When the advocates of Tild-n and Hendricks at tack the leaders or the Ke publican party who have glorified Its existence, and when the-o attacks are uirtcted at a man w do, when Tilden was engaged iu printing reona to dlicourage tb people and the govrnmnt,wM engajre'l in the war.dgntmgfor his country ho will be uefended and tbe party will ba delended. (Prolonged apptause.J There are spoa on the tun, there aro faulta everywhere-, but. thank Uod, a great heart bas etaten along all Unugh the c .u-itry and bn-ught us where we now are honor ed all through the earth and where not honored, eared. On takinc bis scat Mr. Sioughton re ceived prolonged and enthusiastic applause. Hon. W. G. Sbaw moved that thi thanks uf the meeting be returnei to tbe spatter tor his able, intructtvo and eloquent ad drcs', and the motion was carried u ua ru inously . Gen. Grandcy was loudly called for. but gracefully excused himsjlt from speaking Tnrcc rousini cheers were then given lor IIaes and Wheeler, and three (which fiir ly shook the buildiof) for the oratorot the evening, alter which the mectinif adiouru ed. Mention should not ba omitted of the Hayes and Wheeler Glee Club, who sani$ some campaign orjrrH in an admirable man ner, greatly adding to the pleasure of the mrttiuc- Llgbt and Shade, si trials Qturjt isn civ from all socrcu. Th" nightingale sang to the rose ThtLUih ttie nve.ong night. Till her hue frem a ruby red Turned wan and white. All night it rose and felt That silvery strain. And the heart of th rod nue throbbed With divmet pain 1 " O Loe, O Iive !" It ran;, 1 Ure but thee " Thou art queen of all flowers, he sing, ' And quren of me' O Lve my Love" he said, Before the dawn, Ihe ro-eon its stalk hung dead. The bud was gone, Jltee Miijki. news ritou vrxico. The military situation in Mexico, at the latest advice-, is unchanged. Tnree new republics were urgauized last Tuodij', but a new lot of insurgent." tiol two of the presidents before they were inaugurated and the third one declared bim-elf dictator im mediately alter takini the oath of office, and wa hortly alter war Js assj.siuited by the members of his ctbinet, who divided the country up into republics enough fo no round, and ordered new elections on the huropetn plan, with-only one candidate anJ oppc-Mtion tickets. Uurltngton DI'COtKiGINC. . . . . . l ii rr. A Hctn.it JOUth til thirtttn sold filty pounds tf old iron and a piece of lead pipe a J.-a,,0 anJ neeived enouirb tiionev to carry out bis lonjr-cheri-bed idea of tablishiog a weekly newspaper which. should represent ttie interests ui every section of Michigan. He was willing to commence low di wn and work up, and be established an ilfico in the cellar ol hi father's house, purchased two quirt of pi," hired his Mter as an apprentice, and wurk was begun on his tirst number. Ihe loy hil an idea that an independent journal would pn best, and his fir-: edition, which consisted ut ieven copie of a htet about as larjje as nn envelope, was devoted to items ut a personal nature. It was rather a family hheet, also, sccn of the eight items in it beiO hits at his father and mother, und the lone one was a bit ut adtli'tf to bis school teacher. While he was out hunting up advertising; and soliciting subscribers bis lather laid tne type away to shoot cats with, his mother kindled toe lire with the wooden press, and when the editor aud proprietor it turned be was iven a woodshed interview and then wed Jed to the haudteot a lawn mower. He wa yesterday hullerin'' over the alley Ictice to one of bis Iriend thit tie couldn't tc crushed out nor frightened olf the track li no bloodthirsty mob, but tbe prispeet ior a new piper is dubious. Detroit Free Vrrst. JOIlAMK irETST!ltCS. A joun man. Lorn of poor but hotit-l pari ut-, went to m-o his sweetheart uti Thursday uight. Her ouDiitst brutbtr, durio-: tbe priuipini; int;rval," enter tained the beau as follows: iis Kiyn hes kuiii ttr shake you, she is!" " Ah'" exclaimed the astonished jounj man Yes, .ho is ; she's not you down on tie slate tor a Krun bounce, she has ! 'Wby, how ! ' Weil, now, ther ain't no use for jou to chaw dictionary 'bout it ncether, 'cause ther ain't no discount on si- the's a he ole gal when sho starts!' " My goodness rac !' 44 Socstz she jgues uut with you an trumps 'round jess as lonesome as some old mar ried cow, and w Jen jer treats it ain't ter riutuiu' but cheap olesody water uternickle a quart f' lac jouDi man sighed and reached lor a lin- She mz sho wants a feller that's cot sum still about him an kin set up a square ijk al tjr his al when he takes ber a galla vantin. she djtn! Ihe ourj man rummaged for his hand ktichuf " I tell jtr wut it is, bo-s, my sis ain't no slouch, an' wheu she gits a crank in her bed, dad stz she unnds it uv nor our ole rickelty collce-mitl. She's goin ler yer an she'll tell all the other gals ter shoot tne mier, an trjtv bit they'll do it, 'cause they can't nu back 011 si not much Tne outig man was climbing don the Iruiit steps. J dst then ms en tired and Johnnie ex plained bow he had gil the uie du-out a (11 wabble But Johiinie'stipinion, since hisdaJdy let go ut tutu, is that if he had been ittiog liult during ttic performance he wuuld now bo sore in a different locality. Atlanta Constitution. M.CBO MEETING UVMS. Several times they burst out in tbe songs they had leirned at camp-meetings away utf in thctijuth. Queer, udd tunes tbt-y were, and tho words posscs-tfd a peculiar charm to the white people present. Here is a speci men : Why don't you do as Peter did, A-walatng on tbe seat lie throwM both arms above his bead. Crying, iool Lord, remember me." Then remember the rich and remain ber the poor. And reuieinber the bond and tbe tree. And when ytuaiedune icmeubering around, Tneu, got-! ird, roaiember me. If I could stand where Moses stood. And view the landscape o'er, I'd throw these less as last as 1 could And I'd go lor tbe milk-white shore. Then remember the rich and remember tbe poor. Add remember tbe bond and the free. And wheu you viedore remembering around. Then, S" Lord, remember me. Chicago Trthu. aNCILS FACES. We never aw a rral angel, aod don't know buw tar an upright lile and a pure cou-eienco may tend to give a man's lace an angelic t-XMre ton, but we always had an idea that tho peculiar and conflicting emotion -bat gather un ihe brow uf a man who has just taken live anti-bilious pills and can't get one ui them past bis palate, wuuld be u sweet thing tu carvo uo bis ouiDatone, in .?S0jK terror Burlington att-m-fijyt. NUMBER 8. A Political Mnrdrr In MhMvlppI. A correspondent of the Xcw York Times, writing after a tour through the State of Mississippi, tells the following story William P. Haifa was a man of potlcM cnaracter. ut singularly mild and moilen wvc manners, he was beloved by the colored pcopie ana rcsj-ectcd by all the unprejudiced whites. He was not a fighting man. He did not go to Mississippi for omcc, but to raise cotton ana corn. Mx years ago lasi Kebruary,bc leased a plantation near Auburn, in Hinds county. Alter Mr. and Mrs. Hafla and their children had lived there, quietly working, never " interfering " in txlitics. the owners of the land called on them and asked them whether they were friends of the white man or the mircr. lie said fa any noncst northern man would have said to such a question) that he was a friend to every ono who was worthy of lncndhip, whether white or black. Wc understand you, they said, 'you arc a friend of the niggers." Alter the interview he was threatened more than once. The colored people oon after nominated him for justice of the peace. Gov. Alcorn made the ap pointment, and refused to eject him when tne jjemoeratic leaders asked that he should be removed, on the ground that no North ern man should come down and rule them. The maioritv of the reonle the black' desired his appointment, and no one of cither color could cvmplain of his character. He served out his' term uf two years. He wa. renominated and again elected. The local Democratic leaders then 4waitcd" on him, took him out of the house, and Iahed him without mercy with a cowhide ; and when Ms wife be-oucbs them for mercv and clung to him, one ot the 'ufBans who was a joint owner of the plantation, threw her off so violently that she was laid up for a month frum the injury she received. She has never to this day lully recovered from the shock. Mr. HjITi remained. He was threatened again ; bis boy was shot at ; bis own life was put repeatedly in peril. He disarmed one would-be aaiD, a member of ono of the families in the district. After these occurrences both Mr. HaC.t and bis wife taught colored schools. As the blacks tru-ted them tiny had influence oter their votes. This was the bead and front of their olTcndin,. T!-ey alo taught the blacks in Suriday-sctul The ku-kiux were suppressed, and there wa.- peace io Mississippi until last Summer ,w hen tne cam paign ot intimidation and asas ma turn was inaugurated. Hound to carry the brate at any cost a Uist made everywhere apd openly thcfiteof Mr. IlaCU wa settled. He would not leave. He could rot be driven off. He must die. And m-w 1 asu!e to let the widow speak. "We wcrearonscd by the larking d our do furiously on the morning ot cpu'iur 0 I hollered, who is there? and no answer. 1 repeated it and there wo no answer. And then Mr. Ilaffa got up a!id saiJ, Who is there? They said, 'Wc will let you know who is there,' or something to that effect And I said, 'My fod ' they have the yard full of men. I presume there were lifty to seventy-five men barricading the whole of the house. And they bad not only armed themelvps with one or two weapon-, but they bad, some of them, half a dozen. They bad them buckled around them, be-4dc- the musket that they carried. They tried to unfasten the door to get in, but I put my foot letwccn the dor and the sill, and kept the door closed. My daughter heljied me. Fin-ling they could not get in they finally took one of the fence rail and broke the door down and jurt of the furni ture. And wc were hollering all the time. Murder! murder.' No one came to our as sistance. They could hear me holler 'Mur der' fur about two miles, as tbe neighbor, told nc afterwards. Finally MueIy. the agent of the binger sewing machine, came up to rue and choked me and held a revolver ch-e t my head. 'iVfore he choked me I s.tiJ "I am not afraid it you choke me and spare my Jiu ! tahd that is all. Mosdy slid to me when j I called his name several times, s.n , r j I had a nursing baby thn. and it was lying un the bed -screaming. Alter I was choked j so that I could not holler any lunger, my daughter came, aud she left me and went oer to her father. Tbe men outside broke a shutter of the window and fird at Mr. Haffa, and my little boy told mc yesterday he said lie wuuld take oath any timt? that it wa Jimmv Whitehead who: fired one uf the shots at Mr. Hath, and iid. Whitehead, owner of tbe land that we rent-! cd. He bad ihrcateQeJ Mr. Haifa's life sev eral times, and the children knew of it. They fired twice, and I went to bim, and he i asked mc to take him to the bed . sj my ; daughter and I asi.ted hiui to the bed. We had no light ; it wi-. utter darkne-s. there, and says he to mc, 'Mamma, I want water. As f.H,n as I could get a light I gate him water and laid him down and ran out for assi-tanee. I sent my little boy over to some colored people, and they came rush ing over. 'Finally fiid Whitehead came along and refused to let tne have a physiciin. lie si id it was no use, that he wouli die, anyhow. Mr. Haifa said 'Mamma. I am going to die; and be asked (iod to have mercy on bis soul, aud he laid hi head on my shoul der and expired. After the colored people had laid him away I said to Sid. Whitehead . Mofcley is the one that choked mc, and he bad a revolver at my bead;' and Sid. White head said, Vou know Mr. Mosclcy wa not here. I said, 'Yes, Mr; lie was ' ivd. U hitehead spoke out that I had to recall those words tor the sake of my life. They made me recall them, ami s.iy it was not him. They caiuc there together, and sat np the first night Whitehead and two or three other gentlemen aid they did nothingbut use prufanc language ull the time, and abuse the Northern pcvt.Ie. They siM that they were fully armed now, and ready for war at any time, and that tbey could not rule over them or do as thy pleased with them. They would not allow me to have a comn lor him at all. Col. (iriflin, formerly United States- Senator here at least so they told mc became and said- "Mrs. Ilafia, I re gret this very much. Says be, '1 cannot get any CifSn for you, for they won't allow it Do you want to know anything about the other men that were assassinated the same day ? She was told to go on with her sad story. "Well, this was September G, 1S75. After Mr. HaOa, wasgone. the colored people who were there said: Wc have lost our Kst friend. I would like to see any one cvinc to my bouse and kill me in as brutal a manmr as they did the "xjuirc The name of the people who said this was Stevens. HU wile said, I must go home. He says, to hex. Yes, you had better go home, for I will be the next one' Mr. Whitehead said ; 'Dole, you better be careful bow you talk, or the men will be after you. So about three o'clock these men came Lick to see if Mr. Hiila was gone, and they were looking like hungry wolves the most fiendish looking men I ever saw; They said Any colored people secreted about your premte here? Siy- I, Xo sir. There was nuUnly iu the house then but my children and Mr. Hatla's corpse. I said : 'There is nobody here ; but you are privileged to come in and examine the premises and look up the chimney. Two of them alighted and came :u and looked around and said that was all they wanted to know. They went over to thtc colored 1 tuple: house and took the Stcvcnscs father and ton out aud stood thmona stump and shot them and killed them instantly. Tbey did not give them any warning any more than they dilMr. Haifa, when they came in the hou-e and took them out. They eaid they bad a large day's work on hand, and that they bad to com mence early, and during that day they per petrated a number of murders. They were after Senator Caldwell. But I don't know whether they got bim at that time or not Tbe Stev erases were Republican leader-., and co was Caldwell, who was brutally murder ed some time afterward. Mr. Whitehead then gave me 10 days notice to leave, and so tbe colored jople harbored me. Mr. 11 all a was buried iu a rude oox, ana yet the white people and my son wentalong. lie was just wrapped up in a sheet they would not allow it any other way. Vr. Whitehead said I mast leave that we wc e looked on as spies here. The colored eo ple harbored me until I got a conveyance to take me to tbe depot. They disarmed all tbe colored people through the county there took their arms from them and would not allow them to have any ; and before I left the depot tbey made the colored people break up their (Republican) clubs, and very one of them joined the Democrat clubs thev compelled them to do so at the peril of th'eir lives. I bad no money ; I was obliged to IeaTe everything ; I had not even a change of clothing." She said no more. Pullbacxj, corsets, money, and habitual drunkards continue to get tighter end tighter. Written for the Free Press and Time. Alberta, BT MRS. W, w. THOWJLS. "Oraeefal the summer blossoms. Tender as the wooing dove 1 Blamber sweetly on our bosoms JrairAlberta.cMld of love So8 n, the dark eye's beam in -Thnliing all the days with pride, la our gladness never dre&mm-" Angels walked so close beside. Low they whispered. "Sweet Alberta ! Bt-on;g we clasped thee, but in vain, For the pearl-ates, slowly opening, Lett oar spirits filled with pain. And we saw our winsome baby 'Mid the tears that fitted the boors. Laid to rest in dreamless slumber Low amid the xarden flowers. Oh, we miss the precious birdlinx That bath soared away from sight, Though blithe Toices waken music llouud our heme-nsat day and ni;bt fa thy cradlln arms. Alberta. Thy bn;ht head no more shall lie, JJot thy sweet voice cleaves the sunshine. Throned within the bendinjskr. Sweetly calling from earth's dair Ti a fair Eternal Uhore. W here weM clasp thee, child or beauty. Claim thco ours foreTermore Writtan for the Free Press and rimes. SoiiC for ISTli. BT MRS. W. W. TUQXAS. bp.rit of Freedom repeat thou our giory To the far nations waiie surs are unfurleJ. blest with a humled j ears : haloed In story ; "tiu-u uicc,iuequeea or tne world. Hark to the voice of thy children's deration ' liolJVn the day that from trial hath ceme ! Peitos rer-oundmgfrui shore and lr-xn ocean. usuertneurtn-Louro: x.rerty s home! leaving the shadows to bask in the surshlce. nu. uu ti ;u i4uey or giei. ji d tbeciiiarechoof UethlehemV um-.c. ia-u gtveit ten ens gool-wOI t - aii mea 1 .a U.y beauty thoa lUsde-t a ri-i.n:cd. Horn? of the tmI mm and trn o- 1.- Tni w th thy rest are the weary "an...rited. .imi ia my ooraera tne Dwna nun set irec. North axd South, East and West, weddei forever. vui miv my uwh-toh, u . oasen ay lear; Peril and sorrow shall gather, ah, rwtcr. iioj.nies to twine tne uaa tentury'd bier! BrvrIy the race was rua; nolile the victory ; Pare be thy banners is. sunlight unfurled ; Land that we honor! cur glad voices ntae thee. crow na witn aruadrea tears bopeot the world 1 roepect uotn, Jiiddieury, v u The Duty ofTrrmoct nrpnbllrans. In the State of Vermont. whi;h lias been epubl'can by a deci-ive mawiitv ever since the organization ot tne Republican party, the principal danger in the pending cam paign is that the voters will estimate their political duties too lightly, resting content the assurance that tho State insure any way, and it can make little difference a to the size of the vote. Not even the Xcw York World arithmetic man, wo believe, ias any hopes of ermont, and no Demo- ratic politician is sanguine enough tosnp- tKw-e that the election can even be made rea sonably clrc. With the result of the elec tion tnus conceded beforehand, on all sides. ie ermont Republican,- may easily suffer em-clve to tail into an apathetic condi- n,ana to make the canvass dull aad pint s Sj far irom this, tLcv ouht to con- ider tbat it is not enough to carry the tate bv the aecu-toinei majority, to elect their State ticket and to put the usual large Republican majority into the Legislature. The effect of the election will be felt this ear far beyond the limits of the State. A the election occurs on the first Tuesday in September it will exert an important in tluence on tbe elections which follow in iber States ; and a great deal of significance ill attach to the -iiecf the Republican ma jority, as indicative either of apathyorenthu- lasru with regard to national issues. Ihe ermont Republicans therefore, should re member that they are not fighting a merely eai contest, tbe result ol whi2h isdiscount- in advance, but tbat their votes will te a very important way upon the graver and more momentous contest which engages e nation at large. T .e i-oint which we have in v'cw may be easily illustrated by compann'r ermont ith New Hampshire. New Hamp-hire is uncertain a state, politically, as Vermont sure, and con-cqucutly both parties make trenuous elfortto get out a tuu vote, loe pulation of Vermont, according to the census of 170. is 3.10,551, that of New atnpshire Ls 3 It ,300; assuming that the proportion of voters is the same in each, the vote of Vermont, if it were once fully t to the polls, sbouli be larger than that New Hampshire, but what do we find? At the lat (SubernatorUl election in New atnpshire, in 17' the ajurc-atc vote was 0,It7 ; while at the last liubematorial lection in Vermont, in 174, the aggregate vote was only 40,b.'J. In other words. New Hampshire, a State of smaller population than Vermont, polled nearly twice as many votes. Very nearly tbe same proportion Ls olservab!e in other recent election in the two states thus Vermont, in 172. cast M,- ) votes, andmlS0, 4j.42j, while New Hamrhire, in 171 cat 71,b93, in 1S73 i and in lbi2, ti5,y.J. lhce fig ures- sqow that, at the lat J.'re:ucntiai election, Vermont was so far aroused as to toll from 13.0U0 to I4HK more votes than the election lie tore or after ; but even then ber vote wa- 10.000 les than that rown by ber next neighbor. New Hamp- ire. These facts ought to csjagc the attention Vermont Repu'dicans. Tne ctnvass now progress, and which has len opened vcrv favorably , ooght to be pnr-ecutci .a an ag- ;res.sivc manner, and the earned -r. should srinuia c slurp :-.nd dcenc lcgtra mid he b.:d to na: .mal as vrc'.l a S::ite ues, and the Rcrublic-iii majont should rolled up ace trdinjly. The cr.notit epublicans are lortun-tc in b it '.v iirtcv ceptlonal comicees on their Stat, ticket ; and they are thoroughly in syoipatliy with tbe Issues involved in tbe election uf Haves and Wheeler. We shall expect them tbere- lurc not merclv to give their old iusiiiuncu ajority for the Republican ticket, but to take measures for bringing every vote possi ble, and so pile up an aggregate so large and -k hearty as to give strength ar.U encourage ment to the Republicans ef other States- who have a more difficult task before them. Boston Journal. Reunion of the 1'rrT. Family-. The descendants of the lato lament Peck ad a reunion at the old homestead, at 1'ris- 1, Conn., near the Rapti-t church, better uownas"the lioruam I'ecs place, on e "21 inst. Tho branch of tho Vecc fam- 1 descended from Lament Peck and Rachel racy, numbered Lrj.oz which number rc still living. Of the lOo. filty were resent at the reunion, wuicli wa-, to taoso attendance, a most enjoyable and plcas- aut affair in every way. Ino only ono of the second generation present was .Mrs. Rachel Russfll, ot Rtootmnirton. 111., tho other survivor of that generation. Mr. New man Peck, 01 hxcei"iur, t tsconsin, being iiible to be present. Tne third, fourth nd tilth generations were present in force. me coming irom Vermont, others irom Illinois and New York State in order to be uttendatiee. Tne inurninir was passed in social way, and at tour o'clock a dinner as served on the lawn, to which it is pcr aps unnecessary to sav fail justice was one. Alter tbe spread, Joian -- 1 vck cad a sketch of tho family which he bad ircnarcd. and followed this bv reaiiintr a very detailed account uf the history ot the 'ecic lamily irom its ongicator, ueacon 'aul I tck. to t"io last j:eneration. un this lamily sketch was given a very inter esting and entertaining account ot the early ttlcment ot Bristol, and tne cnaracter. torus and habits ut tho m habitants of e town, when the writer was a boy and a oung man. Astnoautnor is uvcrcignty ears of age and is pos-esssd of a really cnderlul memory, tno site ten was ut a rv mteresttnir nature, and cavo many utious incidents ot the lives ot tho Pecks of a hundred 3 ears ago. Among them is be rather romantic mciacnt 01 tno ruar- Vo ot Lament Peek and Rachel Iracy hich he descniKH as 1011 ws : Rachel Tracy was teaching school .n tie bool di-tnet in which the oli Peck houso I then situated. hile tho school was srsion, there was given one evening a -trty or lull at the old Priest Wildman use. -My Lucie Josim was preeni, anu uritig the evening, while the young peo- e were copying trjeuiscivc, no spoaeto iss Tracy and said, " Rachel Tracy, will you have Ment ' a name that father cnt by among nis acquaintances. les, nd she. He then asked Lament if he would have Rachel Tracy. He said" Yes. ebulon Peck. Jr.. a justice ol tbe peace being-proem, immediately called upon to ncrtorm the marriau ceremony, which he then and there did. This union was a source of great joy and camfort to Lament father ar.d mother, with whom they lived tho old home, until his parents aiea. A frr th reading of this family hisrory. remarks were made by Prof. Iracy Peck. f Cornell University, as a representative 01 Tracy Peck, son ot Lamsnt ; Prof. Henry S. Pratt, husband of Miry Peck, the oniy representative ot tbe lie James liurmm Peck ; Jonathan Pcck.son ot tee U:e Cap tain Richvrd Peck, and Charles Uromon, ot Watcrbury, hu-ban'ot Rachel Peck, daugh ter of Tracy Peck. Mr. James Peck, or Uurlington, Vermont, a son ot Herman Peck, the or y representative of that branch of tholami.v present, read a letter from his father, and also madd some reuiarks appro priate to the occasion. The formal exfrciscM of the reunion closed wuh tho hinging or Auld Lang Syne, and tho Duxolosv, -tic ReT. Irenus Atkins, a long-time iattmato iriend of the Peck family pronouncing tf.o benediction. . The evening was devoted U social inter course and an examiuation ot a collection ol curiosities which, belonged in tbe family, and which comprised not only old manu scripts, letters and deeds, bat old furniture, ailserware, wearing apparel, watche. jew elry and bouathold and farmios utensils. The reunion was in every way a success, and all in attendance, felt that it was good ta be ther Hartford Evening Post i