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Poetry. BILL MASON'S BRIDE. Half u bow tin train time, itr. An' a fearful dark night, too. Take a look at the switch-lights. Ton, Ketch a stick when you're throc?h. On timer well, yea, I gnees so Left the las, .station all right She'll come round the curve a flym' BUI Mason cornea up to-ntsht Ton know Bill f Ho I He's engineer : Been on the road all bis llle I'll never forget the moroin' He married hia chuck of a wife. Twes the aommer the mill-hands struck Just off work, every one : They kicked up a row in the village And kijed old Donovan' eon. Sill hadn't been married mor'n an boor, Up coan a message from Kress Orderln' Bill to go up there And bring down the sight express. Be left hie gal in a hurry. And went up on number one. Thinking of nothing but Mary - - And the train he had to run. And Mary pat by the window To wait for the night express. And, sir, if ahe hadn't a' done ao bhe'd been a widow, I guess. For it must a' been nigh midnight When them mill-hands left the Ridge They come down the drunken devils 1 Tore up a rail from the bridge. Bat Mary heard 'em a workin'. And guessed there was sometbin' wrong And in less than fifteen minutes Bill's train it would be along 1 She couldn't a' come here to tell us, A mile It wouldn't a' done So she jest grabbed np a lantern And made for the bridge alone. Then down came the nhjht express, sir, ' And Bill was makin' her climb 1 But Mary held the lantern, A swingin' it all the time. Weill by Jove I BUI saw the signal, And be stopped the uigbt express. And he found his Mary crvin1 On the track, in ber weddin' drees; Cryin' an' laughin' for joy, sir. Ad' boldin' on to the light -Hello! here's the train good-bye, air, Bill Mason's on time to-night 1 Miscellaneous. A Detective's Story—All a Mistake. The Boston Traveller tells this storv Some years since a gentleman stopping at one of the hotels at Washington. f. C. (who upon this occasion wid be called Brown), sent a letter from the hotel to his wile in .New Yr.rk, containing f 50. The letter was not received, and Mr. Brown visited the Post Office Department to make a complaint. In due time a case was made out and placed in the hands of a well- known and experienced detective, whom, for this occasion, we will designate as beekem. After putting this and that to gether, Seekem came to the conclusion that the clerk of the hotel was the guilty party, and proceeded to demonstrate his convictions. With this object in view, he prepared a couple of decoys for the young man's benefit. Letters irom the hotel p Tnr7rcrA, h TW nmZ Jt" ing and afternoon, so Seekem first went to work on the morning mail, but his decoys turaeu up nil ngtlb. Seekem then started on another task. He gave about f 50 (bogus) to Mr. Brown and persuaded him to write to Mrs. Brown, enclosing the money, and leaTe the rest to nun. The letter was written in a very con spicuous place, at a dining table at the hotel, it being so arranged that no one should see him write the letter but the suspected individual, who was called upon to lurniBu paper ana an envelope. Mr. Brown remarked to the clerk that as Mrs. B. did not get his last remittance nenust send her some more, at the same time denouncing post offices in general, and the Washington offices in particular, where, ne said, he had no doubt his money had disappeared. The letters from the hotel were received at the Washington office, and there was no letter tor Mrs. rJrown of JTifth avenue, New York. Seekem was greatly elated. feeling sure that he had at last entrapped the suspected thief. Be went carefully through the Washington office, so as to make sure that there was no nrstake. The letter, however, could not be found. Seven o'clock that evening found Seekem at the hotel in consultation with the proprietor and Mr. Brown. It was determined to ar-1 rest the suspected Clerk at once. The ntwwwut , -.- i, , TT , i supposed culprit was called up. He da- rued all knowledge Of the aflair, and DeeKem was Compelled tO auanuOn the I .nothing - more was known about Brown's letter until three days afterwards, when Brown himself entered the Post Office m a very excited state of mind and inquired for Seekem said he must see him that it was of the utmost importance that he should see him at once. Brown's wife had been arrested in New York for passing counterfeit money, and was then field under f iu, 1J bonds lor examination. Tbe murder wag out and the hotel clerk was innocent! Something had to be done immediately for the lady, and that night Seekem left for New 1 ork, visited the United States Commissioner, explained matters, and pro- WUWiUlOi lUVWJI ICIGOO. MUH 1U1 blJO secret of this singular proceeding. On the afternoon in question, when the letter containing the bogus money was sent to Mrs. Brown, the clcrk'took a walk down m,Mil Um. HiHm a ,1 XT C. . U t3 the depot at about six o'clock, to see a mend on, taking what letters there were in the hotel box along with him, and dropped them in the postal car at the de- Jxt the train leaving at seven o'clock, llrs. Brown's letter went through to New York, and she subsequently went out shop ping. She tendered in payment a bogus $10 bill, and the storekeeper objecting:. she offered another, which was also de clined, the dry goods dealer informing her that both were counterfeit. Then she showed him the nmainder of the 30 that was sent to her, and he pronounced it all bad. Meantime a clerk had been dis patched for an officer, and Mrs. Brown was taken into custody. The lady protested in vain, ana was taken to a station-house, where a friend of Mr. Brown's gave ball for the wife's appearance for examination. The husband was then notified. I ot up up and me. I to A Curious Defect. A curious defect in our mental organ ism is a certain alow apprehension of what is before us, a partial paralysis of our per ceptive faculties, which, fortunately, only occurs at intervals, although it gives us, while it lasts, an appreciative taste of what i;iocy must be. A gentleman of high in telligence was reading an account of the Prussian campaign of 1866, and chanced upon this sentence: " The Prussians were misled by a pretended guide, and suffered severe losses in consequence." After reading this phrase through several times, he laid down, the paper and pondered awhile ; nothing coming of this medita tion, he called out to his wife in the next room, " Mary, did you Aver hear such a word as misled f pronouncing it as though it rhymed with "drizzled." "No," she replied : " Why do you ask T" " Because hare is an account in the paper which says, 'The .Prussians were misled by a pretended guide, and suered severe loies in consequence," and I cannot imagine what it ivipiinfl" " Nnr I ' how la ,t 1 6pelt" " Why, mrt-t-l-e d, or course." Muled, John, wiw-LKD : where are your senses." I was playing whist one evening with some visitors, when the door opened and my aunt made her appearance holding aloft a newspaper. " Young people, can you tell me what a bug-ler is?" she de manded in an earnest voice. " You mean bungler, dont you, aunt?" "No," she replied, with emphasis, " I have read the same notice in this paper every evening for two weeks, and 1 cannot imagine what it means. Listen : ' Wanted imme diatelyTwo good Buglers. Apply at Camp Lincoln?" "Buglers, aunt bu glers," shouted the young j people; and Aunt Jane retired into the shades of her apartment with dignity somewhat dimin ished. Lippineott' Magatine. ' A green hand in the milk business, who brought out a dealer in Springfield, Mass, found he did not have milk enough to go round to all the old circle of customers, And applied to the seller for relief, who gave him the following recipe for making ."milk," and assuring him that with this he would be "all right:" " Take three table spoonfuls of molasses, one and a half tea spoonfuls of saleratus, and three quarts of rnilk to twenty-two quarts of water ; add three pints of this mixture to each twelve quart can of milk." to his our You and tne not X ness TT p city, have to on for are I the you as If all by lee, VOLUME I. McCONNELLSVILLE, 6HIO, FRIDAY, MAY DEPENDENT 19, 1871. NUMBER 7. THE NETHER SIDE OF NEW YORK. BY EDWARD CRAPSEY. There are a dozen adroit rascals in New York who do a prosperous business by acting upon the principle that a large share of the people only need motive and opportunity to become knaves. Of course these roguish cynics oiler the coveted chance with the end of making -fools in stead of knaves of the thousands of peo ple in all parts of the country who listen to their allurements. - - ...... No fraud is more transparent, successful. universal in its ramifications, or corrupt ing in its influence, than that known, for want of a better name, as the circular swindle. Worked from obscure garrets and cellars in New lork, it reaches every town and hamlet in the Union, to rob the credulous and tempt the weak-principled into crime. And no fraud ever made more rapid, but leas unnatural progress. Based upon a scoundrelly belief in the fact that very many men are in too great haste to be rich to scrutinize the means by which the end shall be obtained, it was not lone satisfied with the various mean devices to which it first had resort, but speedily reached perfection in this form (1 print irom a very well executed iitnograpnic letter, which many a simpleton undoubted ly takes to be a written letter prepared for him exclusively; : NEW YORK, March 1871. Beak Sib We wish to secure the services of smart and Intelligent agent in tout locality for effort I at least a Droat or siu.uuu per year, and. if shrewdly managed, will return a much larger amount, and this, too, without neglecting your regular Dnsiness. we nave Deen constantly en gaged for several months past in preparing plates ox uie i, re, to, ana tie u. B. greenoacas. Hav ing completed them, we are now prepared to fur nish the bills, of the different denominations, in any quantity desired, above t!A. These are, without any exception, the finest executed bills that were ever issued in this conntry, and cannot be detected even by the oldest experts; th.y are correctly nnmtierea; ine engraving cannot oe ex celled ; in facu, no expense or labornae been spared to bring the best talent the country could produce toe ,f,enfr,v,i?g nd p?"?g 10 "j? olir J861 !" fa ongumle, thus rendering it just as safe for you to pass them as if they came irom tne ireaettry jjepanmem." we nave them not on in packages, of fSCO. fl.OCS. 5.000 and 10,00. On account of the superior excellence of uiese mne. as weu as tne large expense in nnuginz mem to periecoon, we snail cnarge yon twenty five cents on the dollar for them, but in order fair ly to start you and to show you that we "mean Oujnji." we will send yon a package charging yon only five cents on the dollar, provided you will pay the balance (twenty cents on tne dollar) within fifteen days of receiving the package. Yon will be required to meet yonr bills promptly. Tbe first cost to you will be ti5 for 500, t60 for fl,0. flOu for f 2,1 CO, $250 for (5,000, and f500 for $10,000. When you order, be very particular to tend vovr Utter by erprte. for positively we will ill an order, that reaches ns through the post- nA3 ' . kin, I ... t . r... amnTinl. tkat h,M tuan forwarded this way, and we will run no risk here- aiier. The express is sure. safe, and expeditious, and tne money iorwaraea tnrougn it, is at our nsa. Seal your order, as lyou do any letter, and mark, outside, in large figures, value $51.0, and it will then be received and forwarded by the Express Company. It is always best to have a "caA re mittance," accompany yonr order, thus showing good faith on your part. Be very careful to dis tinctly state, tne amount ana aenommations yon wish, also your name and Poet-Office, with the county and State plainly and dearly written. You are one of three persons, in your State, that we addressed, and with these bills so artistically e lo cated, and the facilities we will give you, you are started at once upon the highway to fortune and aJRtience, You can rest assured of one thing, that yoa can never be wanting for funds, while yon are connected with as, and remain true. On receipt your order, we immediately write tnrougn tne Post-office to yon.- address stating the day we ship KCTpT T&kSe in such a way. that no o m sucn a way, mat no one wui ever suspect its nnre- A personal interview is always desirable. ana wouia oener suit us, ana mignt De to our wM- tmU adrantane. as you could then examine the money for yourself, and judge its quality, and the J wumu roiuu. r nsieniaiiv join, JAS. P. BAKER & Co., No. 150 Broadway, N. Y. City. P. 8. We mcsived so many letters, anting for samples, that w. have concluded we will, on re ceipt of f vuo try exprew, send sample of our is sue. V e have also fractional evrrtnry in 10c Sic 50c denominations, fully np to our standard anUxd. No one of these knaves is so poor as to have but one name; and besides being James r". Uafcer & uo., this lellow is a. IS. Walker dc (Jo., 206 Broadway: but he is poor indeed compared with some of his comrades, one of whom begins his litho graphic letter thus : Dbab Fniarro: While conversing with a een- tleman from toot locality recently, yon were named as a shrewd and reliable person, and one liaely to enter into a business the nature of which will bs explainel in this letter. At all events, be said, whether yoa go in or not, yoa would keep a still tongue, and would not expose He told me that under no circumstances must inform yon who recommended you; and as I claim to be a man of honor, I will never violate a pledge. 1 have on hand, and am constantly manu facturing large quantities of the best counterfeit money ever proaucea, in toe woria. There are five undivided parts of this sensitive man of honor, which are labelled respectively John F. Hamilton, No. 212 Broadway; Wm. J. Ferguson, 194 Broad way: Robert 1. Holland, 143 r ulton street ; Thomas W. Price, 89 Nassau street, and Wm. B. Logan, 15 Dutch street. Un der each name he offers perfect counter feits ot the f 3, $5 and $ 1U bills, and 50 cent stamps in unlimited quantities, and burdens his circular with constant reitera tions that he is a man of honor, anxious deal on the square with his customers. Another of the knaves starts out in this fashion : BELL & SON. 37 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. HtDkab Sra: We wish to secure the services a live gentleman to posh the business named the enclosed circular, and have been informed a friend, who knows yon well, that you are highly suitable te represent ns. -A we have had many dealings with that gentleman and know him be an upright and honorable man, any friend of will receive our utmost confidence, we there fore feel that there is no risk in confiding to you secret. . In this particular case he won't require cash in advance, and after making several alluring propositions, he winds up thus : We know yon will serve us faithfully and truly. cannot afford to deceive ns. State the amount denominations required. When you send the money, pleaee pay the txpree charge, and deduct amount irom ine principal to pay tne same. Whatever yoa do, don't write by mail, as we will claim or receive any letters from the post- office, bend only try expre, frrtpairl I Awaiting your early reply, .., . We are yours fraternally, BELL & SON. r? Take notice that bv remitting US to ns bv express, and ordering a 1,5(0 package, yoa will secure the agency for your Slate. tae reium uu io remma wa. This gentleman is contented to do busi with only the additional names of t Od . . J g 71 iWRrwHv :' j- Another operator, also capable of sub division, is the one who throws his hook thus baited: Ewnatu Friko : Being in want of a reliable agent in your State, I have selected you in prefer ence to many others, in consequence of your be ing recommended to me by a gentleman of this whote business is to drum up trade in the country for a large commercial house. - I already five agents at different points; but desiring push my business for the season, 1 have re solved to employ one or two more. I have now hand about $50, Win counterfeit H, H and (10 bills. I might as well represent them as genuine, it would require an expert banker to distin guish them from the notes issued at Washington. They are printed on first-clais bank-note paper, of the same size as the genuine, and are cor rectly numbered. The printing is incomparable. would not for the world send out a hill that it badly printed. He gives mich excellent advice to his gudgeon to the effect that " When yoa get bills ruffle them so as to make them look old. Don't pass too much upon one man at a time. Put a private mark on the bills, so that, should they come back on In the course of trade, you will know them. You can carry as much about you yon like, but do not exhibit too much. you follow these instructions I guaran tee that you will clear a large sum of good money in a short time. Endeavor to send communications by express. Do not, under any circumstances, send me a letter mail" This man of careful business habits is variously known as Joseph R. 82 Nassau street ; Horace Madden, 10 to of of Chatham street; George So rimers, Chatham street; Edward F. Dickinson, Maiden Lane, and John B. Forrest, Liberty street In addition to these operators doing bus- mess under several diriereni names, mere are a . few who, having not yet risen to this pre-eminence, are content to swin dle by a sincle cognomen. Among them is 8. Y. Adando & Co., No. GO Park Place, whose lithographic letter, covering three large pages, sets lortn tne mamiold excel lencies of his wares and the extreme rea sonabSeness of his rates. lie, too, is man of honor," trusting to the " honesty' bf his correspondent, and manifests in an extraordinary degree that whoiitorae dread of the Post Office, and great solicitude that money - shall be sent by express, which is prominent in the epistles of all the swindlers. C. E. Ben son & Co.. No. 176 Broadway, is a shrewd er knave than some of the others in many respects, for he boldly puts his letter into type and baits his nook lor tne most iool ish of very tiny gudgeons. After offering a package of SoOO lor a package 1 1,0 JO for S4), and one of 5,0U0 for $200, he says:., . On receipt of price In registered letter for either of these packages, we will send the goods by mail in registered package which is tbe only safe way oy mail, as there 1s then no cause lor tear whatever, or we will safely pack either size package and send by express, C. O. D. on receipt of a depsit of n tor so. i package, ft for no. z package, or for No. 3 package, the balance to be paid on re ceipt of package, and mark them in snch a way mat no one win suspect or Know Dut ourselves. We will give any information desired of ns at any time, but we suppose any one knows what to do wim money wnen uey get it. " William Cooper & Co. " who styles himself "dealers in fine stationery, 688 Broadway, has devised yet another method, by having all of his thousands of circulars actually written by hand, in which work, up to the time he, or rather his business, suddenly came to grief, he had eight men constantly employed, and. had so drilled them there was no perceptible difference in the chirography of his missives. He also enclosed a printed circular, with the assertion that very few are to be issued, which he begins with this alluring scrap ot secret history: When Congress authorized the present issue of greenoacKs, tne Treasury department executed plates of enormons cost and wonderful workman- snip, irom wnicn tne wnoie amount oi eurrenc authorized by Congress was to be printed, and i was ordered at tbe time that as toon as the whole amount had been printed the plates, some 100 in numDer, snouia oe taken irom tne i reaenry rant ing Department, conveyed to tbe navy yard and melted. Now, it so happened that the plates from which the 1, i and b dollar bills had been printed were not destroyed. How it was brought about, we as a matter of prudence, do not state. It is enough to know that the plates are still preserved nnin- j urea, ana we trust tneir whereabouts win never oe known except to us. He then proceeds to offer at fabulously low rates money in any desired quantity, surreptitiously printed from these plates, so miraculously saved from the fire. " Ruf us Stockton, stationer, wood, steel and copper engraver," 204 Broadway, is the pioneer title in the fraud, but now is so seldom seen a3 to be unworthy of further notice. H. Colter &' Co.. 195 Broadway, also does business in the usual way, and on a small scale, iast, but by no means least, is a rascal who is aware of the rescality of the other fellows, and advises his dupes of the tact thus : Express all your money to this address. McNau-t Co., Broadway. Dub Sib: Ton no doubt have some reluctance m engaging with us; perhaps yon have already re ceived from different parties in New York, who represent things highly colored, with a great mix ture of flattery, in respect to the goods they de sire to dispose of, and their extreme cheapness; tney unaccountably got hold or tbe way we do business, and as near as possible they try to imitate ns; they are flooding the country with cir culars, receiving money, and sending nothing in return: yon can see for yourselves: how can any one sell $1,0(0 worth of the goods for 110? They can't do it, and more, they wont do it. Wa have letters every day from parties they have gulled and caught. Now of two evils yon can choose tbe least: we have goods that no one ever has, so far, found fault with. Remember, we do this business with two names. One to write to and one to ex press all money to: make no mistake in address ing us if yon desire to do business and yourself justice, juiaress oy - man " your tetters to or to is the w be at of P. MAYBORN & Co., Box 216 Jersey City, N. J. Thus far I have used my space to pre sent all the names under which this knave ry is perpetrated, with enough of the dis tinguishing traits of each of the circulars to prevent all but those absolutely bent on lieing robbed from obeying the order of tbe last quoted, and expressing all their money to these rogues. It must next be shown how it is that these men can flood the country with these demoralizing cir culars with entire safety. This explana tion involves an expose ot a traud which is so transparent that this exposure ought to be unnecessary. Were there a little more sen?e and honesty in the people at large, it would be sufficient to say that these circulars are self-evident lies ; but this not being the case, it must be shown that these men really do not deal in counterfeit money. In that simple fact is not only their immunity, but their profit. To pro duce an imitation of the United States cur rency sufficiently exact to have a ready circulation is an operation not only requir ing the expenditure of much, time, labor, skill, and money, but involving more risk oi pumsnment tnan most men care to as sume. These cheap Johns of villainy have therefore hit upon an expedient which emauds a sain, ntue labor, and less money, besides being perfectly unob noxious to any crimes act which ever has been, or, perhaps, ever can be devised. When these knaves first began, they con ducted their business exclusively through the Post-Office, and at that time they were grimlyjocoee with their dupes as now, ior tney sent as tne counterteits the small photographic cards of the green backs lately so common, and which could be bought in unlimited quantities for a fraction of a penny each. But the United States Government speedily tired of being partner to this fraud, and Without much law to back it up, but with great moral and popular justifies! ion, it seized the let ters coming to the New York Post Office for the counterfeit men, and returned the money contained in them to the senders. But in the end, the only effect of this res olute attempt to break up the swindle was put the schemers to the tronbleand ex pense of getting np new lithographs, which bristle with such as this one it and but cast of this and is in say of The exact stand tell gold made DON'T BY MAIL—SEND ONLY BY EXPRESS, CHARGES PREPAID. Their own letters, of course, wentbv mail, as before, and, being in plain en velopes, were unknown and unchecked. By the aid of directories, commercial lists. and advertisements in newspapers, they obtained lists of names of persons in all the important a ties and towns, while, by some means, those of men unknown beyond the narrow confines of obscure hamlets were also on their lists. It was this part of their scheme which involves the most labor and adroitness, for having obtained their lists they had nothing to do but mail their lithographs, and sit down with their pockets wide open to catch the golden re flux. It is impossible to say what nronortion the hundreds of thousands of circulars they issued had the desired effect Some the recipients tossed them contemptu ously away, others were indignant, and in- itantlv mailed tnem to the JNew York Su perintendent of Police, with the idea that they were putting him on the trail of a hitherto unknown villainy, and demand ing in most peremptory terms the instant incarceration of the scoundrels that had dared to tempt them. But maoy read in secret, as commanded, and permitted the golden vision thus Ekililully raised to shut out reason and conscience until they at last ventured a little way into tne new t,l uorado by sending for the smallest quan tity of bogus money mentioned in the cir cular. In the early days of the fraud, when the Post Office was the medium of such to the in . is and the a of very its 1. communication between two knaves, the victim knave sent his good money after the bad. and watted impatiently for the re ceipt or nis purchase f and he still traits, for the circular swindler could write letters, but made it a rule never to reply to any. Since the closing of the nails against the business, the metropolitan outlaw nas still remained superior to late and his bucolic brot her. The business be ing done .by express, two methods are adopted, the nr.-t being lor the victim to send his money with his order as before, in which case he gets precisely what h did iu the mail days. But the more se ductive and general way is to have the order come unaccompanied by any money, v. hereupon the " queer1 is " forwarded C. O. D. by express, packed in small boxes so as to defy detection." Every business man can see without further explanation how easily the fraud is managed. The box is. duly sent, and on this point the opera tors fully deserve all their encomiums on themselves for promptitude.--'-When it arrives at its destination the intending knave, who has already cast upa thousand times the profits he is to secure by cheat ing hia friends and neighbors, is equally prompt to demand it, and of course must pay all charges, including the price of the " queer," before delivery. Having obtained his treasure, he steals off to a secret place to examine it, having done which he finds he is the possessor of a small and exceed ingly flimsy box filled with saw-dust and little scraps of old iron, to give weight. tne wnoie tiling worth upon a liberal cal culation perhaps a small fraction of a cent The remainder of his natural life will probably be spent in pouting forth silent anatnemas upon tne knaves who have out witted him. But he must take very good care that his wrath is silent, for there never comes a moment when he can bleat his sorrows in the public ear. He may be as stupid a dolt as ever tell a prey to tte sharper, but yet has sense enough to known that his is only a case of the bitar very savagely bitten, and that so far as in tention is concernd he is many degrees more depraved than his city confederate. His mind was fully made up to do all in his power to commit the meanest of all crimes, by uttering counterfeit money whereas the city rascal had never intended to do anything more or worse than swindle the scoundrel who intended to commit that mean offense. He knows further. that fnr him to ask the return of his money irom me tempter is only to subject him self to derision, for he can make no leinl demand, and these fellows have never been known to make any restitution, except upon the urgent solicitation of a Sheriff Aiarsnai. Therefore the poor bitten rogue must nurse his anguish in secret; his money has cone to the does, and he has only to mention the fact to throw his reputation after it An average of fifty of these circulars returned every day to Superintendent Kelso, as they had been for many months nis predecessors in office. They come from all parts of the Union, and in nearly every case the sender. sunDosine- he is dealing with a traud which is what it pur ports to be, believes that he is giving the first clue to a nest of counterfeiters which invaluable to the authorities. Every writer calls upon the superintendent in most positive terms to stoD the villainy punish the villains ; some even going ine lengtn or advising now they may discovered and entrapped by the law. Very many receive the assertions of the circulars as literal truth, and some are in dignant thereat All of the letters returning circulars go once to the waste-basket at Mr. Kelso's feet, for the reason that none of them are the slightest use and teJ him nothing that he did not already know. In fact every intelligent police officer has long Known ail anout tnese swindlers, except how to baffle them. Their names and haunts are matters of police record ; but Kelso, like Kennedy and Jourdan before him, is powerless to interfere with them. They offer indeed to commit a crime, bat really commit none except that of obtain money by trick and device; but no can afford to come forward and prove to they are entirely safe. They abso lutely refuse to do business except by the express, and therefore the extreme but ef fective method of placing policemen be fore their doors to warn away the unwary cannot be adopted in their case, as it has been in those of mock auctions, panel houses, and places of similar peril. The United States axe equally powerless to in terfere; for it is perfectly well known these fellows have no counterfeit money, their arrest would only be time and trouble thrown away. There is no case upon record where any of these knaves were brought to justice. It is amazing that by so bold a device as a dozen men in the earrets of New brk can swindle thousands all over the land out of at least $200,000 per annum ; it is true. Let me hope that this plain narration of perfectly well authenticated facts will help to create a public senti ment which will compel every recipient of tnese counterfeit circulars to promptly them into the fire. By the creation this sentiment, and in no other way, can scandal be removed from the American people, and these hundred of thousands of dollars saved from these knaves. Compared with this particular fraud the circular swindles are annoyance rather than dangers. Of late the most virulent the meanest of these smaller swindles that of " J. P. Williams & Co., sole manufacturers of aluminum gold jewelry the United States. Office and show rooms 561 Broadway," whose particular variety is embodied in an advertisement found in nearly all rural newspapers, offering for tZ each their great eureka aluminum gold watches, of which they : . . ... The watch we imarantee to be the best and cheapest timekeeper that is now m use in any part the globe. Tbe works are in donme cat-es, ladies' and -'ents' size, and are beautifully chased. cases are made of the metal now so widely known in Europe as aluminum gold. It has the color of gvbt tckich U altcay rtiaine ; It will the test of the strongest acids; no one can it irom goia only Dy its weignt, tne aluminum being one-fourth lighter. Tbe works are all by machinery, the ame as the well-known American watch. We pack tbe watch safely in a box and send it by mail to anv part of the States on receipt of $3.50; fifty cents for packing and postage. A key is sent free with watch. Money should be sent by Foet Office money order or in a registered letter. The victims of this knavery deserve sympathy rather than censure. To the average uncultured intellect a good time piece in cases as good as gold is a desira ble possibility at (3, and in sending the money to the swindlers who advertise articles they intend and do no wrong the community. Thousands do send money, and either get nothing whatever return or a small toy watch which can be bought anywhere for five cents. This fact so perfectly well known that in many cases where the thing is sent by express u. 11., tbe express agents kindly teu the cousignee the true character of the pack age, and advise its return to the shipper unopened. Sometimes this sensible advice acted upon, but instances are not rare where faith has triumphed over reason. the box taken and paid for, in spite of warning. If J. F. Williams & Co. at tempted to do a city trade upon the princi ple that governs their out-of-town busi they wwild find themselves in jail as consequence of their first transaction. Protected by the non-residence of their victims, they snap their fingers in the face the law, and, I presume, are getting rich fast Very similar to this scheme, in purpose and results, is that of James iiarton fc Co., 599 Broadway, just insti tuted, which is called the " Spanish Poli cy," and seems to be a lottery, offering prizes ranging in value from f -5 to $10, 000. Circulars are now being sent all over the country, with each one of which are cuuwcu cigiituen cnec&s uac uus: :T ri IS C HECK "will ' be put' 'in the : : Wheel as soon as received and paid: :for; the owner thereof will be law-: :fully entitled to whatever Prize it: :maydraw. : A'o : The number selected by yon: : shoo Id be put down in piain figures: : in the space above. : . : JAM lis T. BARTON CO. : These checks, it is said, are placed in the wheel, and we are told " the drawings take place daily in the large rotunda in the rear oi our office, at three o clock p. m., m the presence of the purchasers of checks." The laws of New York prohibiting lotter ies are rigidly enforced, and it auy such drawing took place everybody concerned in it would be immediately prose cuted criminally. Hut this tact is not gen erally known, and James T. Barton & Co. .are flourishing by reason of large sales of tnese wonniess bits oi paper at lorry cents eacn. There are scores of such schemes as this, differing only in the names attached, but they are unworthy ot further description. Out of the more legitimate lotteries has come another swindle, illustrated by such lellows as IS. U. l ravers, .Nassau street, who declare in circulars that " Fortune knocks once at every man's door," and proceed at once to do the knocking on be half of Fortune in this most boisterous fashion: "Having long been connected with the Royal Havana Lottery, which draws every Saturday, and knowing that the true way to increase business is to have a nice prize of f 1,000 or $2,000 in the hands of some good person who will make it known, I have decided to offer you the chance, and if yoa will send me S7, the price oi the ticket so that 1 can ac count for it as being really sold, I will send yon one that will draw a handsome prize in the next drawing after h taring from you. After its receipt I shall expect you to show the money to all your friends, telling them where you bought the ticket, and by that means buna up a large busi ness in that section. Answer soon." Very many do answer soon, and the knaves, who of course buy no tickets in the Havana Lottery or any other, live very cosily on the dollars that flow to them for that purpose. i nave ennumerated only a lew ot tne almost innumerable smaller swindles so common in New York, every one of which is ODcrated through the mails or express companies, but I have told enough to jus tify this general statement; a circular promising an inordinately large return on an investment is a prima facie fraud. That the primeval law, " in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread," cannot be evad ed by New York sharpers, is a truth that cannot be too soon or too thoroughly learned by the world. Instead of seeking these sudden riches, let the rural coveters of fortune remember that the product of nothing is always nothing, and profits of roguery will be vastly lessened. When ever one of these short cuts to fortune is opened to them by circular letter from New York, let them be not like ruined Wolsey, and remember too late that "Corruption wins not more than honesty. —The Galaxy. The Joint High Commission Treaty. WASHINGTON, May 8. The following will appear in the Wash ington 2ational Republican to-morrow morning, it is an authoritative omciai statement of the results ot the labors oi the Joint High Commission: The treaty is to be Known as tne xreaty of Washington for the adjustment of claims for injury alleged by the United States on account of the escape of Con federate cruisers from British ports, and the depredations committed by those ves sels during the late rebellion in this coun- -i A tribunal ot arbitration is constituted, to consist of five arbitrators one ap pointed by the United States, one by Great Britain, and the other three each by a designated sovereign state of Europe or America. The treaty establishes special rules of neutral duty and obligation in addition to the generally-received public law, which rules, although not admitted by the British Uommissioners to cave been in iorce ai the time, are yet, it is agreed, to retroact and to govern the decisions of the arbitra tion. This tribunal may either award dam ages in detail er in gross, at its discretion. or it may refer this duty to a board of as sessors sitting in the United States, which also shall repoit from time to time, with payment to be made accordingly. The British Government frankly ex presses its regret for the occurrence of the incidents complained ot by tne united States for adjudication. For all other claims by citizens of the United States against Great Britain, and by citizens of Great Britain against tbe United States during tbe same period tliat is, from April 13, 1861, to April 9, 1805, an ordinary mixed commission is pro vided, to sit at Washington, with an um pire to be nominated, if necessary, by a designated friendly power. This limita tion of time is material in substance, for it confines reclamation against the United States to the incident of actual war. It is accomoanied. also, with a declara tion, on the part of the British Commis sioners, to the enect of excluding claims on account of slave property. Great Britain does not recognize tne claims of her subjects for the seizure of cotton in cases where they took up their abode in the South, as thev became sub ject to the contingencies of war. In regard to the fisheries, in addition to the liberties already secured to them by the treaty of 1818, fishermen of the United States shall have liberty to take sea fish on tie sea coast and shores, and in the bays, harbors and creeks of the provinces of Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Bruns wick, and the colony of Prince Edward's Island, and the islands adiacent witnout being restricted to any distance from the shore, with permission to land upon such coasts, shores and islands, and also upon the Magdalen Islands for the pur pose of drying their nets and curing their fish subject, of course, in this respect, to local rights and private property ; and the same liberty is granted to British subjects on eastern seacosts and snores oi me United States north of the 39th parallel of latitude. This liberty is not to include on either side the shellfish or salmon and shad fisheries, or other fisheries in the rivers and mouths of rivers. It is further agreed that fish-oil and fish of all kinds, except the fish of inland lakes and their rivers, and except nan preserved in oil, tne produce of the fisheries of the United states, or of the Dominion of Canada, or of Prince Edward's Island, shall be ad mitted into each country, respectively, tree of duty. The nnvilegeB thus conceded to the United States are. obviously, most import ant ones. It is asserted by the British Gov- ernmenv, out nut aunutieu uy me c uitcu y that the privileges accorded to citi- jiS of the United States are of greater value than those accorded to tho subjects of Great Britain, and, to prevent or avoid controversy on this point, it was agreed that a mixed commission, with an umpire to be appointed by a designated friendly power, shall determine whether any com pensation for such alleged excess of priv ileges, and, if so, how much ought to be paid by the United States. Next come various questions of naviga tion and commercial transit, which are dis posed of by declaring the navigation of the river St. Lawrence and the rivers Yucan, a at of a a if Porcupine and 8lilline forever free, and open to citizens or subjects of both coun tries by providing for the equal use of the Welland, St Lawrence, and other canals in the Dominion, on one hand, and of Lake Michigan and the St Clair Flats and Canal on the other; by providing for the free transit of merchandise to and fro. as well in the British Possessions as in the United States, and abolishing the pro visional export duty on American lumber in tne river st joiin. All these provisions concerning the fish eries and commercial transit are, of course, made contingent upon their being ap proved by the Congress of the Lntted State, the British Parliament the Parlia ment of Canada, and the Legislature of fnnce Edwards Island. By these va rious stipulations all privileges of fishery, navigation and transit accorded to the United States by the treaty of 1854 are once more obtained, and in a better form and without the burdensome conditions of that treaty in the matter of reciprocal importations. Of the pending subjects of controversy between the governments, there remains to be considered the ques tion of the northwestern boundary line. It is to be remembered that the line of the treaty of 1846 runs by the middle channel, which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island ; but several such channels exist Great Bntian contends that the channel of that treaty is the Rosario Straits, and the United States that it is the Canal De Haro, the two channels being separated by the island of San Juan. this question having once been reported on by a mixed commission, that for the survey of the line, the United States are not to refer it- to another sucn commis sion ; nor has it been deemed convenient even though such tribunal be appointed by a friendly sovereign power instead of tins, it has been agreed by tne present treaty to submit the question directly to a neutral power, and the Emperor oi uer many has been selected for that purpose. The Government of the United States has in its hands much documentary evidence in support of its pretentions not hereto fore made use of, and on that as well as on other grounds is confident of the better reason on its side for the cession to the United States of the possession of the island of San Juan. Such are the outlines of the provissions of the present treaty, and such are some of the considerations wnich have commend ed it to the approbation of the President MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Sky-light Stars. A Noticb of a Pkal Lightning. "Capital" Sport Money-hunting. Thk End or a Casdlb To give light NewNaxe fob Tight Boots Corn cribs. The Teetotaler's Paradise The Temperate Zone. Ik what color should a secret be kept? In violet The average price of a good horse in Los Angeles, California, is iio. Hartford. Conn, claims to be the wealthiest city of its size in the United Stat a. In what circumstances is a woman that wears stays? Straightened circum stances. If" you would lay in a supply of old wine, be sure and make it out of elderber ries. Choir singers in New York this year command high salaries. First-class solo ists easily get $1,000. Insure your life in the Mutual Life, of Chicago, to the amount your tarm is mort gaged for. Two of the proof-readers on the Lon don Time are lawyers, who look out for anything libelous. TriERB landed in . Canada last year 06,019 immigrants, of whom 42,000 after wards left for the United States. The President of the oldest Life Insur ance Company in New York is insured in the Washington Life. A maw has got so deep into debt that not one of his creditors has been able to see him for months. An advertiser in one of the papers says he has a cottage to let, containing eight rooms and an acre of land. A desk at which Benjamin Franklin is said to have learned to write, was sold at auction in Newport, R. L, the other day, for ten cents. Don't let your cattle stray; they often wander to the most mysterious places ; we once saw a cow-hide in a shoemakers shop. A TOtJNO lady who was perfectly thun derstruck at hearing of her friend's en gagement, has since been provided with a lightning-rod. . " Grandma," said a shrewd child, " do you want some candy?" "Yes, dear, I should like some." " Then if youTl buy some, 111 give you half," said Polly. " Well, what is it that causes the salt ness of the water of the ocean?" inquired teacher of a bright little boy. "The codfish," replied the little original. Josh Billings says flies have a big ap petight for getting into things; they are the fust at the dinner table, and alwuz take soup, and don't leave until the cloth is re moved. About the year 1685 the Legislature of Pennsylvania passed a resolution that "no member thereof should come to the House barefoot or eat his bread and cheese on the steps." A young man says that there may have been such a thing as real true love in old times, but that now the notion is entirely obsolete ; and if you ask a young lady naw-a days to share your lot, she immedi ately wants to know how large that "lot" is. " Does the train start this evening at 35 minutes past 6, as usual ? asked an elderly lady of a railroad employe. " No ; it leaves 25 minutes to 7," was the reply. " Dear me, dear me, ho v they do change these trains I" " Tell me, angelic host, ye messengers love, shall swindled printers here below have no redress above?" The shining angel band replied : " To us is knowledge given ; delinquents on the printer's books can never enter Heaven." There is a story going the rounds that boarding-house keeper died and left all her property to a young man just because he never complained about the hash and things. It is evident that the item is pub lished at the instigation of boarding-house keepers, who think young men will take warning, and quit complaining in hopes of being remembered. John Hatfield, who died in Troy, N. Y., few days ago, was the first maker of In citer matches in this country. He cut them out one by one with his jack-knife. The chemical composition necessary to in sure combustion was prepared by him, the ingredients at that time being known in America only to himself. This was in 1836. Constancy. A young British officer in India, who was shockingly mutilated and disfigured in battle, after mature reflection requested a comrade to write to his be trothed in England, and release her from the bridal engagement Her noble reply was worthy of a true woman . " Tell him there is enough of his body left to con tain his soul, I shall hold him to his en gagement" Lok ago Spallanzani discovered that bats which had their eyes put out were able, nevertheless, when allowed to fly about in a room, to avoid threads stretched across it This faculty he attributed to some highly developed sense of touch pos sessed by the wing. Dr. Scholl has re peated these experiments; but for the put ting out of the eyes he has substituted the less painful method of covering them with sticking-plaster. He has kept bats, thus treated, for a year alive in his room, and has confirmed Spel lan rani's results. The agent of the Central Railroad Company, at Seneca Falls, has in his pos session a picture of the first train of cars run in the United States. It was an ex cursion from Albany to Schenectady, in 1831, and on the Mohawk & Hudson Rail road. The body of the cars was made of the style of th e stage-coaches in use at that time, and of those who participated in the excursion but one of the number is alive to-day. That one is Thurlow Weed. . A curious and beautiful effect was pro duced by one of the ice-making machines built lately in Philadelphia. This was a cake of manufactured ice, in the center of which, completely enclosed by the trans lucent material, was a bouquet of fresh nowers. Every leaf and nower was per fectly visible, while the brilliancy of the colors was enhanced by the refraction through the ice. This specimen ot sum mer entombed by winter was produced by the Care-ammonia process, a i rench in vention, under which these machines are operated. A good story is told in tho Hartford Couranl, of a young couple who wanted to hear Dickens read : they could hardly afford it, but screwed up their extrava gance to the necessary pitch. As they had concluded to invest they bethought them selves of a poorer family near by, who were suffering from lack of work. So they gave up Dickens, and gave the price of the two tickets to their impoverished neighbors. The poor couple took the money, bought tickets with it, and attend ed the readings. They had a good time going, and tne otners enjoyed an approv ing conscience until the next day. A singular character, Isaac Nye, known as the " Hermit of Champlain," died recently at Burlington, Vt Fifty years ago he was a merchant in that place, and over thirty years since he closed the shutters of his store, which, it is said, were never opened afterward. In this store he had lived the life of a hermit although he possessed sufficient property to enable nun to exist comfortably. The goods in the place when closed remained and molded upon the shelves ; he would sell none of them. He was laid out, by his own request upon the counter of the old store. His age is supposed to have been nearly eighty years, xie was unmar ried ; latterly rarely spoke unless spoken to ; attended no gatherings of his lellow- men. except funerals, at which he was a trequent visitor. When Ezekiel Webster (Daniel's brother) was in full practice at the bar he was employed to defend the will of Roger rerKina, ot llopkinton. The physician made affidavit that the testator was struck with death when he signed his wilL Mr. Webster subjected his testimony to a most searching examination, showing, by quot ing medical authorities, that doctors disa gree as to the precise moment when a dy ing man is struck by death, some affirm ing that it is at the commencement of the fatal disease, others at its climax; and others still affirm that we begin to die as soon as we are born, " 1 should iiKe to know," said Mr. Sullivan, the opposing council, "what doctor maintains that theory?" "Dr. Watts," said Mr. Web ster, with great display : - The moment we begin to live. We ail begin to die.1 The reply convulsed the court and audi ence with laughter. Mental Powers of Animals. The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and mis ery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as puppies, Kittens and lambs, wnen playing togetner like our own children. Even insects piny togeiher, as has been described by P. lluber, who saw ants chasing and pre tending to bite each other, like so many puppies. Ir is a well-established fact that the lower animals are excited by the same emotions as ourselves. Terror acts in the same manner on them as on us, causing the muscles to tremble, the heart to palpi tate, and the hair to stand on end. Sus picion, the offspring of fear, is eminently characteristic of most wild animals. Cour age and timidity are extremely variable qualities in the individuals of the same species, as is plainly seen in dogs. We see maternal anecuon exhibited in the most trifling details. Thus Rengger observed an American monkey carefully driving away the flies which plagued her infant, and JJuvancci saw a by lo bate wash ing the faces of her young on'S in a stream. So intense is the grief of female monkeys for the loss of their young, that it invariably caused the death of. certain kinds kept under confinement by isrehm in North Africa. Orphan monkeys were always adopted and carefully guarded by ne other monkeys, both male and lemaio. One female baboon had so capacious a heart that she not only adopted young monkeys of other species, but stole young dogs and cats, which she continually ear ned about An adopted kitten scratched this affectionate baboon, who certainly had a sharp intellect ; for she was much aston ished at being scratched, and immediately examined the kitten's feet, and without more ado bit off the claws. As Whewell has remarked, " Who that reads the touch ing instances of maternal affection related so often of the women of all nations, and of the females of all animals, can doubt that the principle of action is the same in the two cases? Most of the more complex emotions are common to the higher animals and our selves. Every one has seen how jealous a dog is of his master's affection, if lavished on any other creature ; the same lact is observed with monkeys. This shows that animals not only love, but have the desire to be loved. Animals manifestly leel emu lation. They love approbation or praise: and a dog carrying a basket for his master exhibits, in a high degree, self-complacency and pride. A great dog scorns the snarl of a little dog, and this may be called magnanimity. Several observers have stated that monkeys certainly dislike be ing laughed at; and they sometimes in vent imaginary offenses. In the Zoological Gardens there was a baboon who always got into a furious rage when his keeper got out a letter or book and read it aloud to him. Hardly any faculty is more important for the intellectual progress of man than the power of attention. Animals clearly manliest this power, as when a cat watches by a hole and prepares to spring on its prey. Wild animal sometimes become so absorbed when thus engaged that they may be earily approached. Mr. Bartleit has famished a curious proof how variable this faculty is in monkeys. A man who trains monkeys to act used to purchase com mon kinds from the Zoological Society at the price of five pounds for each : but he offered to give double the price if he might keen three or four of thera a few days in order to select from. When asked how he could possibly so soon learn whether a particular monkey would turn out a good actor, he answered that it all depended on their power of attention. If, wnen he was talking and explaining any thing to a monkey, its attention was easily distracted, as by a fly on the wall or other trifling object, the case was hopeless. If he tried by punishment to make an inat tentive monkey act it turned sulky. On the other hand, a monkey which carefully attended to him could always be trained. I Youths' Department. THE CHICKEN'S MISTAKE. BY PHOEBE CARY. umi Asked leave to go on the water; Where she saw a dnck with her brood at play Swimming and iplaahiDg about her. Indeed, she began to peep and err. When her mother wouldn't let her, " If the ducks can swim there, why cant I; Are they any bigger or beuerf Then tbe old hen answered : a Listea to me, . And hash your foolish talking. Jnst look at yonr feet, and yon wTfl see They were only mart for walking." Bot cbicky wishfully eyed the brook. And diant half believe her. For she seemed to say, by a knowing look, "each stories couldn't deceive her." And as her mother was scratching tbe ground. She muttered, lower and lower, I know I can go there and not be drowned. And so I think I'll show her." Then she made a plunge, where the stream waa deep. And saw too late ber blonder; For she hadn't hardly time to peep Till her foolish head went under. And now I hope her fate will show The child mv storv readimr. That those who are older sometimes know. n hat yoa will do well in neeamg. That each content in his place should dwell. And envy not bis Drotner; And any part that Is acted well ' Is just aa gooa as anower. For we all have oar proper sphere below. And this is a truth worth knowing. Ton will come to grief if yoa try to go Where yoa never were made for going r DUNCES. Fishes Ames entered Harvard at the age of twelve, and Edward Everett at thirteen; Bishop lleber translated rhaar into English at seven; Anna Seward books ot raradise uoex. at nine and Lord Brougham wrote on philosophy at eighteen. But all eminent men have not been re markable for early attainments. Some of the grandest sprits that the world has ever known men whose works and memory are enduring werelregarded in youth as dunces. They flowered late, but bore the rarest fruit It is somewhat discouraging for a boy of moderate abilities, who aims to do his best, to be told that others accomplished in childhood what he can do only by hard study in the best years of his youth. But such a boy should not relax his efforts. He will succeed, if he gives his heart and mind to the work. That distinguished teacher, Dr. Arnold, of Rugby, after speaking of those who zealously cultivate inferior powers of mind, said of such a pupil, " I would stand to that man hat in hand." He once spoke sharply to a dull boy, who replied, "Why do you speak angrily, sir? In deed, I am doing the best I can." Dr. Arnold said he never so felt a rebuke in his life. Sir Isaac Newton waa a pronounced dunce in his early school days. He stood low in his classes, and seemed to have no relish for his study. One day the " bright boy " of the school gave him a kick in his stomach, which caused him severe pain. The insult stung young Newton to the quick, and he resolved to make himself felt and respected by improved scholar ship. He applied himself resolutely to study, and ere long stood in his classes above the boy who had kicked him, and ulimately became the first scholar in the school. Newton owed his pre-eminence in his philosophical studies m ore to perseverence and application than to any marvelous natural endowments. Oliver Goldsmith, than whom no boy could appear more stupid, was the butt of of ridicule at schooL A school dame, after wonderful patience and perseverence. tanght him the alphabet a thing which she deemed creditable to her skill, and which she lived to mention with pride when her pupil became famous. He made no progress in the exact studies, but liked history and Latin poetry. He was a sore trial to his ambitious ' mother, who made many frtritlea? elforta . to auicken his wits by her sharp words. His relatives, teachers and schoolmates all told him that he was fool, which verdict he did not dispute, but took good humor edly. Even when he had produced the "Traveler" an eminent critic said to a friend, " Sir, I do believe that Goldsmith wrote that poem, and that, let' me tell you, is believing a great deal." Sir Walter Scott was a dull boy, and, wnen attending tne university at xxiin burgh, he went by the name of "The ureat .blockhead." hut ne wasted no time on trifles, and, in pursuing a study that he loved, as, for example, history or the classics, he was persevering and meth odical. He was one of those whose, knowledge on a subject that interested, him increased until it lay like a great volume in his mind. When Walter Scott began to make use of that knowledge, society gave him another name, somewhat different from the Edinburgh appellation, It was " The Great Magician." Ilntton. the antiouanan. whose knowl edge of books was deemed remarkable, was slow to learn when a boy. He was sent to school to a certain Mr. Meat ' He thus tells hia exnerience: "Mt master took occasion to beat my head against the wall, holding it by the hair, but he could never beat any learning into it." Dhendan lound n nara io acquire uia elements of learning. His mother deemed it her duty to inform hia teacher that he was not bright to learn like other boys. Adam Clarke was pronounced by his father to be " a grievous dunce," and Dr. Chalmers was pronounced by his teacher as an " incorrigible" one. Chatterton was dismissed from school by his master, who, finding himself unable to teacn mm ajr thiag In a satisfactory manner, settled h that the boy was a " fooL" TWhers are ant to become impatient over dull scholars, and to predict of them that they will never come to any thing. Snf h nr.rtt11wi.fnr nronhesies ought to dis courage no scholar who tries to do well. A certain Edinburgh professor once pro nounced upon a student this severe opin ion : " Dunce you are, and dunce yon will ever remain." That student was fair Wal ter Scott If a dull hov feels an inspiration stimnz within to do something worthy in litera ture, or science, or art, let him set his face as a flint towards his object Let him be patient, hopeful and sell-reliant, unmovea by laughter, undiscouraged by evil proph esies. "The slow. Stfll process of the rain, distflline down The great sweat of the sea, is never seen In the consummate spectacle flashed forth, A snow-hued arch npon the clonds of heaven; 8o never saes the world those energies. Strong effort and long patience, which have stirred In 'ctt obscurity, and slowly heaved- In darkness on. till sadden glory springs like rainbow." -The Youth's Companion. A Dreadful Cheat. Some vears aeo a book, by writers of high repute, was published in London, en titled "Seven Tales by Seven Authors," and the leading point in one of them was that a mercenary motner persuauea ner dying husliand, who is nearly bankrupt. to make a will, whose contents are at his death duly bruited abroad, leaving each oi his daughters $150,000, with the view, of course, of their attractirg attention from men bent on matrimony. A rut some thing resembling this has lately been played at Nottingham, England. An ec centric old gentleman, unmarried, and re puted to be very rich, recently made his - - - . m r. f AAA a. tl 41 wilL lie bequeatned iiu.uuu to me ueu eral Hospital, and a like sum to the Socie ty for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. To one relative he left 1,000, and legacies to the amount of o0 were numerous. The total amount be queathed amounted to 45,000. The ex pectant legatees were very ui'i" fn their thank a Presents of wine, game. and other good things were sent in profu sion. The old gentleman was courted by more than one lady whose early youth was pa'sed. He died at the age of eighty-four a few days since, and the friend at whose house he breathed his last honored his re mains with an expensive funeral. This friend had also the melancholy satisfaction of paying the expenses, for the testator died considerably in debt