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tee r mm mil JAMES E. CHAMBERS, Editor FIBUSHDEVEBT SiTCBDAV AT PAINESVILLE. LAKE COUNTY, OHIO. WCounting Jloorn aud Publication OJice Utockwell Bouse lilock, Xo. 114 Main St. Yearly, bv nnu?o?t'??er...........$2,no Six Monti, by mail or Carrier......... 1,25 Three Months," bv mail or Carrier..... 73 )tjrJWii-liiaUue Ail cm urn I'aifmrtil i required. JOB DEPARTMENT. Book and Blnnk Work, Circular., Ir Heads, Hill Head, Cards and every lcs-rip...n or Mob Work, executed with dispatch and in inc neatest stylo or tho ait. Having an entire new ontflt of Types, Presses, and Machinery, together with force of comihs-t4-ut and skufull workmen, we feel that our fa rilitics are second to those of no other establish ment in the place. -..... CARKIEH'S ADDRESS TO THE VA TKOMi . OF THE 1A1..SVI1.IJE JUI'HKJtL, 1872. See the new-born year appearing, (n the breeze her warl.linss swell? Hark! the midnight bell, deep tolling, Sounds the old year's last farewell. Midnight lowers stranee wailing voice Moun around dim forms flit by Low complainings, mournful viius,- . Drink my spirit, drown my eye. Rising slow from murky darkness, " you glimmering shade appear! -Ah! I know thy mournful tokeus, -( at ttpiritof the partiug yearl . '-. s Tall her form, her long dark tresses On the night-wind Boat alonjt; -: " Wihf her bearinjf sad her wailin List and hear her parting song. It floated by on the passing breeze, . ... f - 'i'he mice of yean: - , It "Breathed o'er oceaa, it wandered tbroagh earth, . ' ' , t - , ,. It spoke of the time when worlds hnd birth, W hen the spirit of Ciod moved over the sea, VVImb eartit was only a thing--to be. A nil it sighed, as it passed ou that passing breeze, The voice of years. From ocean it eame on a murmuring wave. The voice of years; And It spoke of the time ere the birth of light; When earth -was hushed, 'neath tho ocean's - . might, .-.-.- -- : And the waters rolled, and the dashing roar Of the angered surge owned not yet the power, Which whispers in that murmuring wave . The voice ol years, -., , . From Heaven it came, on a beam of light, The voice of years : And it spoke of a (tod who reigned alone,. , W ho waked the stars, who lit the Sun? As it glanced o'er mountain, and river, and world, ' - It spoke of the good and the wonderful (tod ; A ml it nfhluiM.nil Ia uruis that ttodof Lllfht. a-. ., The voioe of yean, i :.'n J It howled in tha storm as it threatening pasted. The voice of years r - And it spoke of ruin, and tlercest might: Of angry fiends, and of things of night: But raging as o'er the arth it strode. I knelt and I prayed to the mere iful Uod, And uiethought it less angrily , howled as it passed, The voice of years. And it came from yon moss-grown rui gray, - ' ' The voice of rearer ' And it spoke of myself, and the years which . were irone. . . Of hopes h icq were bl iglited, and Joys ?rticlJ were nown; Of the wreck of so much . that was bright and wasfair; -.--. t And it made me sail, and I wept to hear. As it came from yon moss-grown ruin gray, . ,r , i The voice of years. , , .,, ; , .-, And It rose from the grave, with the song of ' death - - - - -...... . The voice of years: , i , , And I shuddered to hear the tale it toltL Of blighted youth, and hearts grown cold; And anguish and sorrow which crept to the grave,.: : To hide from the spoiler the wound which be gave And sadly it rose from that home of death; -! ' The voice of years., , Jlut again it passed on the passing breeze, The voice of years: And it spoke of a God, who watched us here, W bo heard the sigh, aud who saw the tear: And it spoke of merer, and not of woo; There was love and hope in its whispering low; And 1 listened to eatcb, on that passing breeze, ..i.i ... .. The voice of years, ,(, , . And it spoke of a pain which might not last, The voice of years: Ami it taught me to think, that the God who gave The breath of live, could wake from the grave; " And it taught me to see that this beuutiiul earth Was uot only made to give sorrow birth; And it whispered, that mercy must reigu at last, . -jt. . .,.. That voice of years., , And strangely methought, as it floated by, That voice of vearv Seemed fraught with a tone from some higher spnero; It whfsuered around me that God was near; lie spoke from the sunbeam; lie spoke from tlut wave: - . . lie spoke from the ruia; -He spoke from the grave; 'Twas the voice of God, as it floated by. , . That voice of years, r - Remorseless time! Fierce spirit of tho? glass and scythe! What . ljower . . C'anrtay him in his silent course, or melt His iron heart to pity. - ' To-day K've 'quite betimes a sullen sea, A ntinset still more drear: the chill sharp w Huddles tho sheep their wattled cotes behinii. And sti lus the Inst leaf from the brave old tree That erstwhile held its own. On this wide lea Fall's sudden-gloom, which clouds the shepherd's mind With coming storm; and now dense snow-flakes blind The day, and smother earth in cruel glee; Whiteness uow grows apace. Nature farewell ! Sleeu thv long snell-bouinl slumber! I will hie jrfe home with haste, and by the hearth will tell Alrasnhild's nightly wand'i'iugs to my boys, Or liensive start at 1 Hector's battle-cry; jlost prize we now sweet Fancy's simple Joys. ; HtHENCE AJIB WHtHE." 'J 1:1 1 : M 4 BY STOCKTON BATES. : . : I cane, I know not whence and go, I know not where; That genu from which we all do grow, '. i - Who can declarer i . s-. . :i A protoplasmic point in space Prom its own cells ' , Produced and reproduced the race, , Sjo science tells! , , This microscopic speck began, ': .- - . . And, thus evolved .. TIms yast wuuplexity, cal led man ;w t ( ; So, all is solved! We breathe, and live, and think, aud move This much I keM';1- -.: Anil needed science not to prove, But whence and to'.- 1 I ask of nature, learning, art. Whence this tiling-thought? All wiselv they confer apart, ; . And tell uie what? Ah! vain philosophers, ye search, I'.ut t-Hiinot llnd; The wizard with his rod of birch Is not mure blimU . . But when of mv own soul I ask, Though in this clod, , . , It says, as-twere an easy task, 2.. v - . . , "It came from Uod." And when I ask. Where is the goal? The sons of men Know not. ' But answers me, my soul, i ', "God takes again." THE WEAVER. BT VII. B. Bl RLIIOH. iieoseess1v tat- weaver. Time, Sitting lit his n. ystic loom, Keeus his arrowy shuttle flying fcvery thruwlanearseur dying:. , tii J Aud with melaui liolly chime, Very low aud saI withal, Sings his solemn madrigal As he weaves our thread of doom. 'Mortals!" tbiis he wctving sings, "Bright or dark the woh shall uo-m. As ye will it; all the tissues, mending in harmonious issues. Or discordant colorings. . Time the shuttle drives, hnt you - ; ivive to every thread its hue, And elect your destiny. od bestowed the shining warp. J' ill U With a origin a woo-, nd the whole shall glow divinely. A TO if wrougut ny anaeis unci the music of the harp; . d the btemtol vdors be Anil the Keeping evil things aloof; 'Knvv, Malice, Pride, and Hate, foulest progeny of Sin, 1 j-t not these the weft entangle Wit their blind and furious wrangle, Iarring vour diviner fate; ffut with love and deals of good He the web throughout enhued, -. And the Perfect shall ye win." Thus he slngeth very low, Sitting at his mystic loom, And his shuttle still is flying Thread bv thread anears our dying, tii-ows our shroud with every throw; And the hues of Hell or Heaven To each tread bv us are given. As he weaves our web of doom. BY GEORGE SAND. 8KCOND PART. COXTIXITKD. T will be what we win 10 maKe t in vou already doubt me. (M: timtyou may have reason to rear fpiK- m v violence ? 1 o you not know that if 1 should 'iiis! vou to sneu rh i.-ir. I should bi-ljeve myself unwor ' ii... . live Let us fcii-tfet the enemy ; l.u'ia nnf 1111011 the breach, Wneak t ,e uir. of vourself onlv. "Have I not "told yon all?" slue ans veied. "Io you not know who I am?" 'I shall never know you well enough l,i'u iron flu I llliOht." "I do not esteem wn'self so highly. PMMESVILLE - -x t A VOLUME I. know that I aiu just and sincere, that is all, I have not lxen heroic up to the present time. That Is what you wish to know, is it not? You think that I have suffered because of my sacrifice, ami you claim the eonjesbioi of some stej-et grief Immolated to this poor Montroger-." "Well, yes. I ought to know all now. Your life Is mine; 1 wish to be wound ed by all that has wounded you, that I nay know the suffering and the cure, is it true, then,' that you have never as pired to love?" ' " "Ididhotsav that. I have often had that dream; 1 have aspired to love, but I have not loved : I was shut up in s circle which was hardly ever-changed You know all the men . whom I see ; those whom you nave not known were just the same. I do not know if it is an effect of tlie time that we live in, but ev erybody 13 like everybody, else. AH ed ucation has the same result;' all individ uals think aud speak the same. They believe in nothing; they have nothing la reveal. One can 110 longer learn love in th uew oooksit , ill 110 longer there1 11 is a supersuuun gone out 01 iasuiou, and the heroes of the old books perhaps no longer exist, !A--'Vonng girl must compose her own ideal. It ivbe only the expression of what she is herself She sees it as the reflection of her own thought, and, when that thought is only mist and fantasy, the first puppet that lunies. i$ ui prince' vnanruiig, oi.ner lairy tale. Those who have more mark ed ambitions do not try to represent to themselves the their husbands. fate and character of I ; i Thev dream of. the 1 strong box and the wedding presents, j mat which appears to them in a ray orimue juoutroger, a pity mm, 1 aimusi. glory is an establishment and a house, love him ; I will conciliate his character. 1 do not pretend to have bad any sub- I will be patient ; I will wait till he be lime dreams; but in a sincere and earn- comes just. Sec! half of the miracle Is est spirit like mine, I could not admit! that the companion of my choice should I not be my equal ju affection and loyalty, 1: might, perhaps, have met htm in a wi- der circle; and one more often renewed by the stir of the world ; but my pride I or my distrust, perhaps also my indo-1 lence, would have prevented me from going on a search for him, like an Amer-1 ican miss, even it 1 nivd not lelt oound by yow. That vow which weighs upon my conscience has annoyed me, but it I has preserved 111 e. They make . ine suf fer a little when they reproach me for my I supposed determination. I have coh-1 tracted a habit of smiling at it and giv-1 ing no explanation. , A single real grief I gives me a pang at heart, ana that is when I see children in the arms of their mothers; aud it waa.to save myself from too ardertt a dream of maternity,' that I was tin willing to take any Child exclu sively to myself. In, short, what will explain to you the victory of my good humor over some passing moments of I imiiaticncg is, that I have for a long time believed, my , sacrifice to, be only provisional, and have had occasion twen- ty times to say to myself, He will marry and then I will think of myself. .' I. will only think of it when that time comes. In the meantime, since I have many of the elements of happiness, I will try tb pro- nt oy them and not be ungrateuu to those noble . heart that love hie, : and form about me a temperate and healthy atmospiiere, in which my soul feels no symptoms- of decay. I am like the great plants 01 ieustrie. The shade ot many trees is healthy for me, the great heat of our plains would have killed me. Jet me remain In the valley, where the wild flowers unfold themselves and grow without the sunshine or the storm. That Is what I was when your aunt, after hav ing spoken much to ine of you, introdu ced you to me. xou found me gay, aud you seemed very much astonished at t I wcjuuwtuui jirui ftiivcijr n it ssumtjr ,v uiuii i I 'understand. But do not interrupt yourself. You have gone so far as to I permit me to adore you; will you not! tell me hotf I was able to overcome that dread which you had of all display of I feeling-and ot aH too eager curiosity Vr' "You have hot overcome it." Ilold ! 1 1 have a calm ifaou from ' habit, hue Inex perience a feverish agitation In speaking to you, ami, at the same time that my hands are burning, my shoulders are Icy I cold. What would you have? I know nothing of great emotions, nothing of love, nothing of anything. And then, 1 believe that I have no right to answer you before we have exhausted the great question. let us see: suppose that 1 love you, that 1 am not afraid ot your youth; and that ifehare the absolute con fidence that your aunt has in yon. sup pose, moreover, that, in accordance with I the laws of trankness and delicacy, 1 ex ' I .1 . : . . ... ..if ... ..... ... . . . plain iiiy;ii ia, muni! gei , Hid yuu iimi already revolted at the idea that it would lie- necessary tor me to have lus perniuv slon to accept you?"- k x v "les, lam furious, at in spite ot myself; bntl recognize that ifHs an un just and savage sentiment. I will con quer it." ou understand that 1 cannot Inan- n-netirn nil pm nf linru, mill liluarttr tkv breaking the Tu-dcl' an&iVffteiid, who has been till nrfw-treated-tvii so much kindness. That lie has abused it. is too certain; but it is my .fault,, I thought that I would - llnd rhNii esteem aud his attachment compensations which have failed me. The 'sublime folly' of the sacrifice was not 'necessarily committed for friendship's sake, lie could answer me that 1 made this sacrillce to the mem ory ot the beloved dead, and 1 contess that 1 would be dismayed by this argu ment, it seems to me, on the day that 1 should trample under foot the suffering of Montroger, that the soul of my father. which is reconciled to me, would cry out that I was separating myself from it, and inflicting upon it a second death." , 1 suuiutu iuu snail speaiv tuu.uii- troger." Suppose, now, that Montroger be comes desperate, and will not submit?" "But. 'sdeath! what right "Ah ! take eare "now - you are jealous of him! It seems ,to ma that at the hot- torn 01 this wrath mere is a suspicion : I Do hot tell me of it; never tell me of it! Doubt would kill me!" 'No," I cried, kissing her'' feetV!"h0, I do not doubt ! If that happens to me, drive me' away, and forget me. I can not give myself up to a worse 1 punish ment : but tell me why this man should revolt against your is he, then, a iooir" "He has a weak, mind ; his powerful I and incomplete organization presents all kinds ot contrasts, lie is good, humane, and tender, at the same time that he is vain, selfish, and vindictive. , Yes, all that is in him. His is a stronsr nature which has its good and evil instincts heaped coufusedly together iiL. a brain that lacksu,tlie . keystono of, reason. He might be, either chivalrous or , absurd, menu or generous. 1 God knows k; he will be '' 'And you aro unwilling to haye me kill him?' 'iif.-OUmiA j j 'If you kill him, we never ooiild sec each other again. Do you, prefer, your iiirte to yonr lover- "Well! lie will kill me; so be it: 1 will let myself he slain by him at your feet f but he sliall-see me there and my destinx will be ccoinplisledf'.'.'iiti "And miner do you not care for tuatr "Yours! nothing In it will-be chang ed. My love: .will not ., hare profaned you ; it will be one more aaerllico which you win nave inane to friendship, anil your glory will not sutler by it." "Ah, so!" she cried, with a movement of anger which made her resplendent from head to toot. "And how, then, do you speak to me? Do you not see, then, that 1 love vou (" This magic word put to night all tho phantoms that beset me, and the image of Montroger was dispelled like an atom in the rays ot the sun. 1 saw It clear! v ; I knew well that she loved me! I would have watted will! confidence and yet with dread until she should have dared to confess it to ine; but to heat her pro claim it wilh engergy, and to see her be- x.-oiiiu tratisiigured. become a woman, und,er the HPi-liic ' slHck 01 passion, 11 was enough Iff mako ! me wild. '.I wept for joy upon her knees. Sfe was thuil FAMILY PAPER, PAIKESVIIXE, LAKE COUNTY, OHIO, SATURDAY, JANUARY der.struck at her defeat; and reproached me for having hurried her forward more quickly than she wished. "You have wounded and irritated me," she said, weeping. .-You spoke to me as to a heartless coquette. My soul rebel led against it, aud now you see me dis- arirnKr"neTore-ytu. ijo much, howeveri- to uiv not trust too f weakness. A woman used to self-control hits returns of strength which are neither capricious nor treacherous. I should never liave to blush at having let you read my heart, for, if I recover and veil myself, yon will know well that it is to preserve you from the dangers which surround me. Yon love me, you love me much; I am sure of It. If 1 never belong to you, and that is possible, it will be a consolation for me to have neither misunderstood nor reDulsed " you. ' By saying this to you quietly, I should certainly have ren dered 'your sacrifice less difficult, and the recollection of these days of tender ness would have continued to he dear to you; but you nave neen carried away, I have been carried away; jnow, you see, if It is necessary for us to separate, I shall sutler as much as you, ana I shall not have succeeded in giviug you cour age."., r -. "You will not suffer, Ave will not sepa rafeV weTvnr"notrCttOiince each' other; it is inirossUlev.I UOl not - kuow-- what miracle will intervene to reconcile your seruples and your pure and saintly rea son with yonr liberty and my happiness; but that miracle will take place. Do hot regret, theiu having intoxicated one with joy,. : for 1 vou. have 1 11 1 used uew strength into me, and now 1 no longer already accomplished, since you have no longer anytning to tear irom me against Jiini ; ami it is yon, it Is a word from you, wnicn wotks mis prouigy. ne who is loved by you can no longer be a muui anu gloomy man use otiiers. 1 our love gives ngnt ami laiin. "Are you quite sure.' - sue answereu, offering me her hand. "Can you swear that you will not repent of what you have just said?" "I wish," I answered, "that -uontro- ger were here for a moment! lou would see that 1 am capaoie 01 snaKing hands with him , with frankness, as I kiss yours with worship, abjuring all re bellious feelings and all despite." - 1 had hardly given utterance to this promise, when old Auslem entered to say to Mile. Merquem: "M. the Count de Montroger asks if Mademoiselle can give him audience." : Celie trembled, but answered without hesitation, "Immediately." The major domo went out. , ,, . . "This is a real, conn de theatre," she said to me; "we shall see now if you will really keepyour word !" 'Yes, you shall see it in spite of the unpleasantness of the surprise. Must I leave hun alone with you t" "Certainly, tor he is very obedient to my customs, and if he asks an audience of me. that is the pass-word in the house of one who does not receive visits, he must have something particular to say to ne." - Houtroger was .introduced. In spite of his great familiarity with the world, he was quite ltsconcerteu at untiing me with Celie. The grave Ausclm, who never spoke a useless word, had not ad vised him 01 my presence. The good humor with which I offered him my hand restored his self possess- iou. He had a new teeling or bewilder- 1 v$i,e was at first struck only by the pos ment. however, at the sierlit of the "Treat I cil.nirw nf lur ibimrliiers's marriaire with vases, whose plumes of verdure seemed to wave den a nee at 111 111. lie unuersioou nothing oi il; out bo iioticenoio a cnauge iu the general appearance of the apart ment made him uneasy, and he could not refrain from looking inquisitively at Mile. Merquem, who pretended not to notice it, and made iiaste to bring film back to the object of his visit. "This is a day of business, it would seem," she said to him. "I have finished witli that Of niv dear neighbor, Mine, de Blossay, and am now at you - service;" then ad- dressing herself to me :. "You will report to your aunt that her wishes are com ma'nds, aud as you go by the beach you will tell William that I expect to gee him in an hour." I withdrew debating on this unexpect ed order. I thought I saw a hidden sense in it, and that it meant for ine to wait on the beach till she should come to give me an account of her interview with Montroger. ' 1 was quite discomfited by this un lucky appearance, and was not without uneasiness as to the object of his visit; but if fate had decided to hasten events it was my part to . await,, them firmly. jVVas I not the vhappiest being on the earth, aud if in an hour my rival, cling ing to the feet of Celie, should come to blowout mv brains, what cause had 1 to complain ? Such is the ardor of the joyof Tove iii the time of youth that I felt transported with enthusiasm at the idea of paying witli my life for the moments of intoxication that 1 had 111st spent at the " feet of niv beloved godmother. ' . I had to make an effort to refrain from throwing myself into Steplien's arms and crying out that I was the king of the world. Jievertfietess he saw the ra diance of my face, and said, , smiling "Come, it seems that tiring are going Well'": ,. .:-.!. ii..: 'Very well indeed,' mv : friend ; the uneasiness of the morning is quite gone, and as to our tears in connection with Rio Negro, they were unfounded. She laughs at all that he could say; she lias had a' very -comic letter from him. And as I had need of some relief for my feelings aud some excitement, I gave him : from memory some phrases of that remarkable epistle, with shouts of laugh ter. Stephen never laughed, but he condescended to smile, and made me re peat some burlesque expressions which ie wished to give, as a specimen of the kind, to a friend of his who wrote farces i When he saw that he was 110 longer necessary to me, he turned to his work, aud, to lie prepared for any emergency, I wandered over the barren shore with out going far from the painter, who had served me as a pretext for beiug there, and without losing sight ol the staircase of the cliff. 1 did not wait an hour, sly queen appeared, smiling aud resolute. We en tered together into a grotto hollowed out by the waves at the foot of the rock, which was carpeted with velvety moss ot the color ot hyacinth. He has no suspicion, she said to me. "He has just informed me of a strange fancy. He says that he is in love with your cousin Ernestine." lteatiyi jaay heaven mess the pro ject!". - - ' . " - ' tint it is impossible: And young Thorotiaisf" 'ft'liv Im vi lint. xot. nntAi'Oil lutrt nnv serious engagement. "But the children eu love each other." "No." , "How; they do not?'.' : "Did you not notice then, the last evening at your house, how Emma made up to Ernestine's lover and how Ernes tine, In revenge " "Exactly, but that is only child's play : at bottom " "At bottom the children of this age do not love." ' "That is sad ! So you .believe that Montroger did not merely dream that Ernestine wished to please him 5"' "He did not dream It. Ernestine knows that he is very rich ; she is as am bitious as any one; and beside, the triumph of consoling your victim! for she is vain beside." :- "Good Heavens! I was wrong, then, to dissuade Montroger trom lus idea: " "That mistake must be remedied as quickly as possible. - Ho . must lie writ ten to, he must be brought back, he must be told that vou were mistaken. We must see my aunt; we must " 'First, you yourself must depart! Yes, do not start ! You must iro ami - l spend a fortnight where you please, but DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, SCIENCE, without any one's knowing where you are. Do yoit not see that the crisis is al ready come, and that it must not be avoided ? Either Montroger is deceiv ing me and anuounees a new plan of marriage in order to try me once more, because he suspects the truth, or he is at fast sincere anil may cteciue in lavor 01 Ernestine, if wounded vanity ocs not bnug huu back to me. 111 tne nrst case, 1 must come to an explanation with him, and reduce his ridiculous jealousy to si lence by telling him that I have made a choice, and summoning him, in the name of honor and of reason, to approve it. That explanation may be stormy, 1 cannot tell; but, haying nothing to fear myself from his vengeance, 1 wish to remove vou from it. Oh! do not re sist! Yon have promised me happiness, you must not begin by making me die of anxiety. In the second case, I must en courage his project about Ernestine with great prudence, nut without having re course to hyiKK-risv. 1 on cannot asu me to force myself to lie twice, for I just told an outright lie in your presence and one more after you went out. - I was afraid for you, and told a complete lie; 1 explained your visit as a little repay ment from vonr aunt, to whom 1 had in deed lent some money to complete the purchase of Ia Flantier; but 1 reit so mortified at being reduced to play the part of an acensed school girl I who am so unused to such a thing that I made a vow never to expose myself to it again. 1 do not wish to see you again oeiore tne iay in wnicn 1 can say openiy mat 1 love yon You know very well that with that word that you may send me to the end of the world ; but do not send me too far!" "Will you go wnere 1 ten you logo.'- "Yes. Is it near?" "It is about a dozen leagues from here, at Yport, an oasis that bathers and tour ists have not yet discovered ; the most charming place on the coast. There are only fishers there. You will wait my orders there." "I will go." 'Immediately?" "Ah, good Heavens;" "Come, promise to obey me !" "I promise." "Ah, well! thanks; count on me." "So I leave von alone, without help, abandoned to the weariness of a painful struggle; and while you repose, your happiness perhaps, threatened, I am to sit with folded arms, I who would wish to carry you across the abyss !" "Their will be no abyss for me to cross when you are no longer here. 1 have no fear m vself of Montroger's fits of passion ; it is not in my presence that he will dare to give himself up to tnem. ay remain ing, you paralyze me, you destroy me!" " 1 go. "Go first and embrace your aunt ; tell her all." "All?" "Absolutely all. I wish it." I tore myself from the grotto and was twenty times on the point of returning. It was all I could do to keep from reen tering it, when at the moment of my de liirture I saw Celie, lighted up by the purple reflection of the wet walls, slim and many colored like a fantastic nymph, shivering like the seaweed whose long ribbons were "entwined about her feet. She sent me a maternal kiss from the ends of her fingers, crying out, "God keep you, my godson !" I fled without thinking of going to say good by to Ste phen. 1 solaced mysell ny outpouring an my jov aj grief into the heart of my aunt, Montroger. She had a high opinion of i,j, .and. in spite of what Mile. JMer- quern suspected 111 his character, sue would not be alarmed by it either ior Ernestine's future or mine. Celie sees him only ou the dark side,' she said. "I understand that; she has suffered so much formerly oil lus ac count; but now he is calmed by age. Beside, even if he had a great many faults, 1 should still prefer linn tor my daughter to that young man who conies from among financiers, a condition of life that is very jiositivc,, and who be longs to the generation of modern empti ness. , 1 hud too much wit iu huu; 1 am afraid that he does not love. Montroger has furnished proofs. He has loved sel fishly, I admit, but that is always a kind ot loving: anything is better titan noth- ng. 1 will, Uien. do my liest to forward so good a chance, if it presents itself. I shall miss your advice and our evening conversation very much, but Celie is ifraid for vou. and that brings me over. Go . immediately, . and have patience. You are loyally loved, I answer for it." "Cruel aunt! 011 knew my happi ness and concealed it from me!" :. . And you, Sir Nephew, did you con fide your love to me ! " 1 ou guessed it easily enough." 'I saw it, : and was filled witli hope. for that ot . Celie was partly my work Without ine, she would have needed vearsto knew you. Thanks to me, she was as well acquainted witli you before your arrival as I was. She hail only to see vou, aud your face was like the signa ture of your portrait.' Stop, I am going to confide a treasure to you; these are the letters that she has writteu to me since she knew you. Promise me to read them only at Yport. They will give you courage to wait, they will make you feel that a man can suffer and lan guish a long tune without complaint when it is tor the love 01 so perfect a wo man." I set out in the beginning of the night, aloue and on foot, unknown to Ernes tine and the servants ot the house. It was arranged with my aunt that I should be supposed to have received a letter from Paris, and that 1 had walked to the rail road., 1 was dressed in a stout and rus tic costume, after the manner of Stephen; and 1 walked with my bag on my shoul ders as far as to decamp without stop ping. Then 1 took some hour s rest u id after having made a last very short stop, was at Yport about noon. As soon as I had engaged a lodging, aud laid tside my burden, I went down to the beach to look lor a lonely corner where I could read the precious letters that my aunt had entrusted to me. The first lace that 1 saw was that ot Stephen "You look astonished," said he; "and I am almost as much amazed as you ; but the little admiral commanded, aud obeyed without winking. This is what she said to me yesterday, on the beach o IjA Cauiclle. 'lour trieud departs im mediately, at my request, tor reasons which he will tell you. and which con cern me, lie is going to spend S Jine day at x port. TO BK CONTINUKD.J GKOWM6 OLD. BY T. W. BROWN. It seems but a summer sines we look ed forward with eager hopes to the coin ug years. And now we are looking sad ly back. Not that the dream has passed hut that it lias been of no more worth to those around us. As the glowing hoiiei aud ambition of early life pass away ; as friend alter triend departs and the stronger ties which hold us here are bro ken, our lile seems but a bubble, glanc ing for a moment in the light, and then broken, and not ft ripple left on the stream. Forty years once seemed a long and weary pilgrimage to tread. It now seems hut a step. And vet along til way are broken shrines where a t lions and hopes have wasted into ashes; foot prints sacred under their drifting dust green mounds, whose grass is fresh with the watering ot tears; shadows, even which we would not forget. AVe will garner the Miiishine of those years, and with chastened step and hopes, push o toward the evening whose signal light will soon be seen swinging w here the waters .ire still, and the storms never beat. ANECDOTES .OF PVUX1C JHEA. BY COL. J. W. FORNEY, NO. XLIX. No member of the Geneva Conference, raised under the treaty of Washington to adjust questions arising out of that convention, will attract more notice than the senior counsel of the American member, Caleb dishing, of Massachus etts. Horn 011 the 17th of January, 1300, and therefore on the verge of seventy two, he is, for his years, one of the most vigorous intellects in the world. His long career.tof more than half a century has been singularly varied. A graduate of Harvard College in 1817, subsequent ly a tutor of mathematics and natural philosophy, he studied law at Cambridge and settled at Newburyport, still his Massachusetts residence, to practice the profession which he formally entered in 1822. In 1823-6 he served in the Legisla ture of that State, in 1829 visited Europe, publishing, on his return, "Reminiscen ces of Spain," a delightful book, and a profound review ot the Revolution iu France. He was also one of the favorite writers of the old Xorth American Jla tietc. In 1S33-4 he was again elected to the Legislature, and was a Representa tive in Congress from 1835 to 1813. Ap jioiuted by President Tyler commissioner to China,"he negotiated an important treaty. On his return in 1846, he was again elected to the State Legislature. In 117 he was chosen colonel of volun teers in the Mexican war, and was after wards made brigadier general by Presi dent Polk. In 1830 he was elected for the fifth time to the State Legislature, and, in 1851, made a justice of the Su preme Court of Massachusetts. When President Pierce was elected,Caleb dish ing was made his attorney general, and at the end of his term he returned to Massachusetts and was again elected to the Legislature. He was President of the Democratic Charleston Convention in 1860, to nominate a President, and in July, 1866, was appointed by Andrew Johnson one of the three commissioners to codify and revise the laws of the Uni ted States. When he accepted the post of American counsellor before the Geneva Conference under the treaty of Washington lie was the advocate of the Mexican Government before the Uni ted States aud Mexican Claims Commis sion. Few men living can point to such an experience few are better qualified by varied acquirements and personal ai- ress to cope with tne ripe and inorongu statesman sent by Great Britai 11 to Geneva. General dishing was. for a long tune. one of the ablest of the whig leaders, aud supported Harrison and Tyler, who were elected in 1840, and when, after the death of Harrison, Vice-President Tyler de serted the Whigs, dishing aud lienry A. Wise, and one or two more, .constituted what was called the Tyler Guard in the House. After that lie gradually changed his course arid become as prominent a leader of the Democrats. At present, with out any s,iecial party proclivities hav ing readied what Mr. Sumner calls the 'Philosophic Age" he devotes himself to law ami literature. It is not denied that he is frequently employed at the De partment of State, and no doubt by other departments, in the preparation of im portant papers. 1 have heard him at a dinner table conversing iu French,Spau ish, English aud Italian. His style of speaking is exceedingly fasciuating. Some eighteen years ago I was present at an oratorical combat between him aud Jefterson Davis, at Newark, N. J.,where President Piece halted on his way to the opening of the Crystal Palace at New York. They were well matched. Davis had the reputation of being 011c of the most graceful of the Southern debaters, but he found more than an equal iu the Massachusetts dialcctitian. As a new s paper writer he is unsurpassed. While I was one of the editors of the National Democratic organ during Pierce's ad ministration, Attorney General Cushing, although deeply immersed, in the busi ness ot lus department, hardly let a day pass without sending me an editorial on some subject, aud lie frequently aided ine on the Washington uiiromcie. lie was at home on finance, 011 law, and esT pecially on foreign questions. In oeie ty he is delightful. Excellent in conver sation, his reminiscences are original and graphic. It is very interesting to sit aud hear htm talk 01 the characters of the past without hatred or prejudice. A man ot larste wealth, inherited aud self-earned, a widower without children, fond of labor, ot matcfifess excelfence as a practitioner iu the Supreme Court of the L lilted States, he is also a great stu dent devouring every new book as it comes out. novels inclusive, and remein- berinz everything he reads. His health is good, his activity remarkable, ins nan- it temoerate. invited everywhere 111 Washiiiirton "lie is the ornament of every circle, and it is not goiug too far to say that, gracious, polite, and agreeable ns all educated Englishmen are especially those reared 111 high lite among his as sociates in the Geneva mission he will be one of the most popular. I could run this anecdote of Caleb Cushing into sev eral columns, but I will close my hasty tribute to a remarkable man, with an ex tract from one of his speeches in 18.tb, while he was a Whig member ot the House of Representatives, as a specimen of his style. Iu all that has been writ ten against the enemies ot the union nothing finer can be found. I commend it to the especial consideration of his old friend Mr. Jefterson Davis.- I pray to God, if in the decree of His Providence ne may nave any mercy 111 store for me, not to suffer ine to behold the hour of its dissolution t its glorv ex tinct; the banner ot its pride rent and tramnled in the dust; its nationality a moral of history ; Its grandeur a lustrous vision of the morning slumber vanished ; its liberty a disembodied spirit, brooding like the genius ot tne past amid tne pros trate monuments of its old magnificence. To linn that shall compass or plot tne dis solution of the Union. I would apply language resembling what I remember to have seem of an old anathema: Wher ever fire burns or water runs; wherever ship floats or land is tilled ; wherever the skies vault themselves or the lark carols to the dawn, or sun shines, or greens in its rays; wherever God is wor shinned iu temnlesor heard in thunder wherever man is honored or woman lov ed there, from henceforth and forever, shalLthcre be to him 110 part or lot iu the honor 01 man or (lie love 01 woman lxion's revolving wheel, the overman tling cup of which Tantalus may not slake his unquenchable thirst: the in satiate vulture kuawi-g at the immortal heart of Prometheus ; the rebel giants writings in the volcanic fires of ..Etna are hut faint types of his doom." 'I'lIU SOCIAL. UL.ASS. 1'lie Custom of Urilikiiiir Iu Eiir- Tlie social habit of drink.ng as prac ticed in the different Enroiieau conntres have marked effect 011 the character of their peoples, and largely influence their morality. In England the tap-room, or common rouin where men of all ranks and degrees iu life may assemble and in dulge in drinking, is a feature belonging to that division ol Ureat Britain exclu sively. Aud it was the same with re gard to the bar rooni, where tippling could be done over the counter althoiigl that very democratic piivelegc was most iv confined to London and the larger cities, and not iu the country districts. so far as the sale of spirituous liquors is concerned. At all English inns and houses of less pretension, beer has alway been sold over the tap, tor the reason that beer has always been looked on as part of the food of the English laborer a nine ijun non at diiinei and supper, at least, and a good thing to take at. all times. Larliorers and working men, 1111 married and not householders, go to the country inn, "Jerry shop," or ale-house JOUR AGRICULTURE, to take their meals, and find that temp tation exists at any time, but more par ticularly in the eveniugs, to linger over their potations. With young men it be comes a habit to do so, and that custom clings to them through life with sad ef fect on their domestic comfort and hap piness. In the larger towns and cities the tap-rooin habits also greatly militate against such as are calculated to make home eujoments pleasurable, and to rob the people of the possession of those finer feelings which always have best, practical expression and effect within the domes tic precincts. Social drinking habits are the bane of domestic comfort in Kngland, and the greatest enemy to tite moral and intellectual character of the people. There can be no real improvement so long as they exist as they now do. In Ireland, as a general thing, drink ing is less a habit with the mass of peo ple and more a thing of impulse. Its facilities are no doubt sufficient, but there are fewer temptations associated with them than in Eugland. The peo ple of Ireland are much more domestic ally inclined than those 011 the opposite shores, and only the election, the fair, the dance, the rattle, the wedding or the funeral bring them into social drinking contact away from-the family fireside. Small business affairs, to be sure, do re quire to be wetted down a good deal too much, but on the whole the drinking habits, ami their required facilities, are racch more creditable to Pady than to John Bull, and Pady's moral character as a drinking man stands higher accord ingly. To '-meet with a friend and for love'knock him liown," while nnder the influence of potheen, may be held to be rather striking in the way of sociality, but the good can be said of it that it is about the worst feature of Pat's inclina tion to imbibe excepting only the pov erty and rags which it losters, and the ignorance ami misery it creates and en tails. Among the Scotch what we call the bar-room is a thing wholly unknown, or if at all in existence iu any of the larger cities and towns, it is a fugitive tiling. Nobody who pretends to any. vestige of character thinks of taking . a solitary drink over a counter; accordingly the bar-room style is not in request.: If two or three thirsty souls meet 011 the street, they will club their vagrant "bawbees" to buy a gill of whiskey, aud have their own private room in a public house to drink it in. There are no promiscuous meetings of jolly souls who tempt each other to make a night of it 'mid "songs and clatter," but the two or three sober Sawneys will sit and "tipple o' the barle bree," and hold douce conversation over some question of religion, politics, sci ence, or business interest, with solemn gravity, and refute to be injerferred with by company. The smiling laud lady has frequently to plead in vain for the privilege of seating a few more of such imbibing philosophers at the same table ; for so loug as Sawnev's gill stands there so long does he consider himself master of the apartment, and entitled to boose whoshall be its sharers, or declare who shall not be his companions. Iu the country it is the same; under the muse ot business, to settle, much drink ing takes place thus exclusively without much danger through its public exam ples. But domestic drinking habits are the great evil iu Scotland. It requires very little aggravation to impel the set ting down the bottle of whiskey aud the bread and cheese when a visitor calls; aud, what is a very unhappy feature of this culpable hospitality, the visitor must nil his glass and must drink it to the dregs unless he desires openly to insult lus entertainer 011 his own ncartnstoue. This custom is very apt, after a stranger calls upon a tew friends, to lay the fouu dation of a headache but yet the griev ous rules of friendship and hospitality demand this sacrifice. The people of Scotland are eminently! social, and simple iu their modes of soei- ibility. "Kockuigs" as they are called ire neighborhood visits paid to fami lies, to which music and whisky are lib erally carried and used. : Song, dance and drain are iu order- at all such meet ings, which are common all through the fall, winter and spring seasons iu the rural districts; The "Kern" or harvest home festival is always an event wliere the usquebaugh has 'its prominence, as well as at the plowing match, the cattle show, the fair, the town races, weddings, christenings and funerals. He was, not long ago, considered a very oor person indeed, or a niggard, if he had money, who had not whisky, rum and brandy, and at least one description of wine, sep arately served round in wine-glasses at a funeral; but recent improvement nas partly banished this custom, through which the minister even has been Known to get drunk, aud in that condition con veyed home, singing a bacchanalian chant very unbecoming his cloth. The moral effects 01 these habits can not of course, be good, and it is more than certain that they greatly interfere with the reputation ot ttie scotch in oth er particulars, such as industry and fru gality, stand hrst-class. But these habits do not include the debasement which proceeds from beer-sogging and solitary tippling iu England; and if it were not that statistics speak rather unhandsomely concerning results of the affections in the "Land o' cakes" which results have other incentives than tho whiskj'-bottle Sawney, with all his fondness for the so cial cup, could stand higher than lie now does, although he is nearly at the head of the moral class among the nationalities. SELF APPRECIATION. 'BY HEXRYWARD BEECHER. - When persons are under the influence ot wine, nothing is more irequent than boisterous boasting, and of this when men come to their sober senses they are often heartily ashamed. This is the case with many men in their normal and ev- ery-day condition. "'Think not extra well ot yourselves, but think 111 accord ance with facts, soberly and reasonably These words assume that men should have some opinions of their own worth. They are to exercise sobriety of reasou It is to be understood that the elements of determiug manhood are moral. Men ought not to be ignorant of their quali ties. It is impossible not to have some opinion of one's self. What if we should attempt to be ignorant of our bodies? What if we should disclaim all knowl edge of the physical not know whether we are asleep or awake, hungry or sat tied, tall or short, quick or slow? It is just as impossible uot to know about the inward structure. . A man cannot escape some Knowledge of himself. There be those who say the best way to think of one's self, is not to think at all. There are dangers 011 the side of examination but the truth is uot to be set aside for 11 self composed or pretentious humility For a man to declare himself the mean est aud the lowest altogether, is unwor thy, because this Is to set at naught all truin. There can be no aspiration, no genuine spiritual culture without some idea ot what Is being done; aud until Men throw aside partial and false est I mates they cannot tell what thev most iced. It is not neeessarv for a man to carry self-consciousness with him all the time. The measurements of feeling are to be avoided. There be men who feel as if they were princes ; they walk sneering ly; go gliding down the stream witli heads erect and souls untouched. Many judge themselves hy the clfect producing Iower, This leaves the largor part of the human mind uiisurveyed. finch regard themselves as factors in society bust ness men, literary men, men of genius ami capacity, isklll is a mother that a man ought not to be ashamed of. It Is right iu a way to lie proud of skill. It is not nec essary a man who stands second to none at the bar shouldn't know whether he is good lawyer or not. He does know. If a man thinks faster than his partner, has a more delicate and appreciative sense ol truth, is he bound to pretend he does not know it? Must Homer say, "1 cannot NAI AND GENERAL NEWS. 6, 1872. sing," or Milton, "I speak iu homely number." We never laugh at any one who says "I am six feet high," but then let a man say "I can think quickly," what then? We allow a man to form an estimate of ids physical qualities but not of the moral. Men mistake by selecting for judgment the best things in the best words. They sometimes enter into a morbid analysis ot themselves, in conse quence of some billions reaction, and rate themselves as worse than dogs, but this is not common. There are very few men who have the nerve and knowledge to take a thread of thought, and following it carefully study out their own selfish ness. Very few will say to themselves "I am tricky." "I am deceitful," "I am overbearing." Very few have the cour age to investigate the morbid anatomy of their appetites. No man can estimate himself aright till he can look ills faults straight in the face and draw their pic tures. A man may be strong and not gentle, powerful but not winning. Here is a man possessed of an irascible plung ing conscience, whose chief delight is in stating hard facts his strokes are harsh and constant, like the strokes of the tri hammer against the anvil. Where is meekness, gentleness, love, sweetness? He makes no account of these' qualities; his business is to hustle men into up braiding? and torments of conscience. Characters dressed for inspection are like the barrels of apples sent to market the fair on the top and all sorts in the middle. The worst of it is that men deceive themselves with these face qual ities. If there is a speck in a man's char acter it is turned round inside and hid den from the world. I do not say a man should put on his worst face, but I say let ns have the truth: Man as a sympa thetic whole is scarcely ever thought of. One must consider his value to his fel low men. It is not enough that he be stronger than his neighbor not enough that he be more intellectual, or of more marked development socially. When a man comes to die there is nothing he can take with him but his manhood all the rest is baggage.1 ' In the light of snch thoughts as these we come to an under standing of that passage, where we are told the last shall be first, and the first last. How many who stand high in business, in society, will be obliged to step down from their lofty pinnacles, and give place to those despised by them those far, far beneath them iu the so cial and intellectual scale. We often think we are strong because we have power over our fellow men. Enjoyment at the expense of another's happiness is demenial. If one carries himself as a fox, wolf, lion or eagle, is he a man ? Has he measured manhood? Has he sounded the deptli of his spiritual na ture? Such "are dead in trespasses and sin." - . AIWAYS A HYPOCRITE. BY II C. PAHSOXS. Yes, that is the cry; he has sinned and lalleii, and you now say, "he was always a hypocrite." . . 1 do not ;believc it. I cannot believe that through all the years iu which lie professed to follow Christ, he was a trait or to his Master. I pity the heart that can readily credit such a bile. ' The poor old inati lias sinned and fal len; God pity him, for man's sympathy is full of scorn, How eagerly they whis per, the sad story, and gloat over the shameful details, as though a brother's fall was a cause for rejoicing ! The an gels, the pure angels, weep while frail 111011 looks 011 with scorn. True, they close the tile with ."I pity him," yet their sympathy goes no further and they add, "bntl believe that he was always a hypocrite." Is not this present shame enough, that all the good of his past life should be counted as. naught, or as the cuniiigact- 112 ot a continued villain ? "Always a hvnocrite!" David fell. Solomon sinned, . and Peter denied his Master thrice; yet who will say these were "always hypocrites?" 1 do not know this poor old man tlioiiirh I have seen him often, as he served iu the church of God; and uow when the story 01 ins sname is on every tongue, my heart bleeds U) think of him ns. disgraced and deserted, he hides iu the solitude of his home, moauingan 1 weeping impotent re morse tor the sin which has stain ned the Cain-mark on his brow. God help thee. brother; and iu thine agony find room for gratitude, Unit though thy sinful, er ring brethren cast thee oil", God, the pure, the almighty, heeds thy repentance, and will forgive thy siu. "For I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to re pentance." And you who join In this hiss, which pierces the lacerated heart, pause and look at yourself, What has kept you from falling? Perhaps vou were not tempted. Then thank God for that, aud strive to help those who were. Or beiui? tempted, you lied to the creat Source of strength, ana found rpower to resist. Ihen be grateful, and assist those of weaker faith, Proud Pharisee.disnlse not thv brother Look deeply into the recesses of thine heart, and mark well the points of weak ness, which, if attacked in an unguarded hour,might prove vulnevabe;and humble thyself iu the dust, thanking God, not that thou are "not as other men" but that he has supported thy weakness, and guarded thee from "the sin which doth so easily beset us." And ye, young lambs of the flock. who in your innocent purity, can scarcely be lieve that such iniquity abounds, aud penetrates e en into the church of Jesus, while tears and prayer are fervently of fered for the sinning and sufierinz.nestle closely to the Miepherd's bosom, and en treat that he will "lead us not into temp tation, but deliver us trom evil. TITLE OF DICKENS' NOVELS. Ail ingenious romance reader lias con cocted the following Dickensy : "Oliver Twist," who had some "Hard Times" In the "Battle of Life," and hav ing been saved from "The Wreck of the Golden Mary" by "Our Mutual Friend "Nicholas Nicklebv." had lust finished reading "A Tale ot 'Two Cities" to "Mar tin Chnzzlewit," during which time "The Cricket on the Hearth" had been chirping merrily, while "The Chimes" from the adjacent church were heard, when "Sjeven Poor Travelers" com menced to sing a "Christmas Carol." "Baruahy Rudge," then arrived from the "Old Curiosity Shop" with some "Pictures from Italy" and "Sketches by Boss" to show "Little Dorrit," who was busy with the "Pickwick Papers;" When "David loppcrneld," who had been taking "American Notes," entered and informed the company that the "Great Expectations" of "Dombey & hon" regarding "Alrs.l.irrlper's Ix-gacv had not been realized, and that he had seeu "Boots at the Hollytree Inn" taking "(somebody's Luggage" to "Mrs, Ijrri- Iter's Lodgings," in a street that has "No nioronalitai e," opposite "Bleak House,' where the "Haunted Man," who had just given one ot "Dr. -Marigold's Pre scriptious" to an "Uncommercial Trav eler," was brooding over "Tho Mystery OI i!AlWllt ijroou. ' The Chicago Society of tho New Jeru salem are to rebuild thejr burned church in a new location, 011 the southeast cor ner ot Prairie avenue and Ecghteenth street. A school class at Johnstown. Wiscon sin, is iu a condition of uncertainty re garding the component parts of chalk At an examination last week, one of them thought it was made of snow; another was of the opinion that the ingredients were- milk and water, while a third in sisted that it was uothiug else than pet rified Dutch cheese. Numlier three was sent to the h?ad. The class takes up as tronomy next term. NUMBER 2G. CK1JIES A0 CASUALTIES. James "Miller, grocer, at Nashville, suicided 011 Christmas. ' :Edward Helsel, a farmer residing near Bourbon, Indiana, while intoxicated on Monday, fell from his wagon upon a sharp stick, which iwnetrated his brain, producing instant death. Two children, a Imy and girl, named Meyers, were run oyer in the southeast ern part of Torre Haute, ou Monday evening by a runaway team. The girl was instantly killed, and the boy badly injured. ' " At Macon, Georgia, during a pyrotech nical display 011 Christmas night a fire ball was thrown into a store ou Cherry street, which ignited a large stock of tire works and an explosion which followed set lire to the building and burned nut fourstores. Loss about $60,000. A boy named Albert Fields, about seventeen years old, was drowned iu the Muskingum River, at Marquette, OliioJ nearly opposite the Congregational Church, on Sunday afternoon, about three o'clock, while the funeral services of three loys, drowned on Thursday, were in progress in the same church. Fields was playing on the ice. His body was recovered. : A terrible accident occurred on the Cincinnati and Indianapolis Junction Railroad, four miles cast, of Morristown, Indiana. The train leaving Cincinnati at seven o'clock, was thrown from the track by a ; broken rail. ' Conductor Fleoner and Engineer Hamilton were instantly killed. The fireman and twelve or fifteen passengers are reported seriously injured. On Monday morning, at New "Paris, Ohio, a man named Charles Wilcox was assaulted hy an assassin,letweeu one and two o'clock, at the corner of Main and Washington streets, while on his way home, by some one secreted behind a corner. Several shots were fired. One ball lodged in the hip, producing a very serious wound. The'doctors so far have been unable to extract the ball. Young Wilcox has no idea who did the coward ly act. The affair lias caused consider able excitement, and if the bushwhacker should be caught he would be roughly dealt with. On Saturday 'night the train lound north 011 the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Minnesota Railroad broke through a bridge over Shell Rock river at llockford station, Iowa, precipitatlug the engine, caboose, baggage car and one coach a distance of twenty-five feit. James Judd, engineer, Bartlett, brakesman and Robert Whete, fireman, were instantly killed. Nouse, baggage man, bad a lea: broken and the express messenger was seriously, but it is thought, not danger ously injured. Sergeons were at once sent from Cedar Rapids to the relief ami returned to that place buuday with the dead and wounded. Among the stories that arc now afloat concerning his royal highness, it is said that while he was resting aud dining at the Massasoit House, Spriugtleld Massa chusetts, the lobbies of the house were crowded witli some of the fairest and most eurious of the fair sex of Spring field, who were peeping through doors aud cracks iu order, if possible, to catch a glimpse of "this noblest Russian of them all," and when the Grand Duke came to take his leave and thank the landlord, he added, as the culmination of his praise, but with a slight twinkle in his eye, "and I certainly never saw a ho tel wnere there were so many very pret ty chambermaids." A very distressing accident occurred at Wellsville, Ohio, on Monday, at about nair-past one o clock. Two boys, named Layfatte Bennett, and Partington, while skating just below the wharf boat, broke through the ice, and both were drowned. Partington, who was about eight years of age, and who resides in Wellsville, nrst broke through the ice. iSanuctt, who resides iu East Liverpool, and who was about eighteen years of age. In en deavoring to rascue Purtington from a watery grave, was also dragged under. Every eitort was inadcljy the citizens to rescue them from drowning, but all was unavailable. Bennett was found about half an hour after he was drowned, and taken to his home in East Liverpool. Partington's body was found alxmt five o'clock. Further particulars are received of the lynching of two desperadoes near Sen eca, Neashacounty, Missouri, last week. Itappears that Louis Swimm, and anoth er desperado known as "Texas Joe, "alias "Buchsnire," induced a uerman, named Henry halestnan, to go two miles from Prairie City to get some whiskey they had secreted. After getting out of town they assaulted him with clubs and left him tor dead, after robbing him of $2, and a watch. Salesman recovered suffi ciently to crawl hack to town and report a 11 airs, swinim was arrested in JSeneca bv the vigilcnce committee, and Buck skin was subsequently captured after be ing shot three tunes. Both hung upon a tree. Before their execut ion Buckskin confessed having murdered eleven men during the past year, and the total liooty obtained being only $i)0. A man named M. D. Pierce, who, it seems, was round dead in ins room at Union Hotel, in St. I-ouis, -witli a pistol shot wound in the left breast, and a pistol lying on the floor. A letter to the landlord of the hotel was found 011 the table,. which says: "Do as you please with my remains, but my wish is that you would take my effects and hy their sale realize enough to get me covered up under the snow and frost. My effects will exceed all expenditures, for all I want is a box and a hole. I am Sheriff of Fon-du-Lac county, Wisconsin, and I want to be buried before vou communi cate with my friends. My reason for this is the business of nobody but my self." Another letter addressed to lils deputy, Robert dngrove, desires the lat ter to settle his affairs as best he can, and to do all for his wife and babies that is possible. A letter from his wife refers to some matters from which it is infer red that Pierce was in pecuniary troub les, in consequence of which he may have left home. Only sixty cents were found among his effects. A Mrs.Glagier.andher daughter Lillic lived iu the family of Mr. Levi S. Van Etten, at Huguenot, N. Y. As the fam ily sat down to breakfast Sunday morn-1 ing, the lUtlcgirl having been leftiu the sitting room, they were startled by pierc ing screams. Mr. Van Etten aud Mrs. Glagier ran at once to the sitting room, and discovered the child envchi)cl in flames, aud an English bull dog, belong-1 ing to Mr. Nan Etten, tearing her burn ing garments off her with his paws and teeth. He had already taken over half of her clothing off, an'd it is the opinion of Mr. Van Etten that had he boon left alone he would have saved the little girl's life, . But Mrs, Ulagier, crazed at tho sight, rushed forward and chispcd her child to her bosom, and held her close thus battling the efforts which the faithful dog made, although singed and burned dreadfully himself, to tear off the burning clothing. Mrs. Glagier could not Iks made to 'release her child until her own clothing was on lire iu many places, when tho two were torn apart, and the flames upon the mother extinguished by the dog tearing off the clothing, as he hud endeavored to do for the child. The little girl was burned al most toa crisp, and lingered in the most intense agony until 2 o'clock Saturday morning. Mrs. Glagier is terribly burned, aud lies iu a critical condition. The dog that exhibited more than hu man sagacity in its efforts to save the child, had lieen her constant companion, having been raised with her, and taught to watch over her. Since the burial of the child occurred, he wander from room to room as if searching fur her, uttering a plaintive whine epiHasive of his grief. He takes 11a rood, and it Is believed he wlj pine todeaAh. ADVERTISING IIATKH. srxOE. 1 1 w. I 8 w. I 8 w. I 3 in. I 6 m. 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A Louisville do;; is a "medium." Paris lias fifty-seven newspapers. The "Parepa Sausage-Cutter" is in the market. . i! Irreverent Connecticut youths smoke ill church. . . Who is now the wickedest, man in. New York? , Languid Washington belles take sugar pills at parties. '.".'.' Mr. Brennan of New-Orleans laud anum, stotnacii-pmnp. The most dangerous kind of a bat that flies at night is a brick bat. Some one wants ex-Governor Hares of Ohio for the next Presideut. . ,. i The Spiritualist's motto : What's the odds so long as you're rappy! : . Mr. Mustard of Virginia lost all his ' strength by a fall from a horse. . .. The American youth of tender , age , now guzzle "Alexis Ginger Ale." A Georgia jury rendered a verdict of Guilty of voluntary manslaughter.'" '' Aiv Iowa horse,' in trying to scratch his head with his hind foot, broke his neck.. ,- i . The book to which reference Is most frequently made nowadays the pocket- book. A Western parent has named four daughters May, .Tuliia, Julya and Au gusta, i .i Whv is nn niicnir hole, when lknreil ton deep, like a man in the water? Because it Is over-bored. Olive Logan is going to intrust her happiness to one of the despised male sex next Christmas. The Chicago Common Councilman fire calling one another liars with their for mer nonchalance. ,. , : , ', Alexis wore no orders but Goneral Dix received him on the Marv Powell with a deckoration. Kaiser Bill has ytlouly ordered the Sunday military parade to be held here-' after on Wednesday. An Indiana woman committed suicide because her husband persisted in attend- ' ing a spelling school. - An Oswegan partook of fifteen glasses of gin one evening, and was. found drowned the next day. Which can smell a rat the quickest the man who knows the most, or the man who has the most nose? ; : Just for the fun of the thing, we should like to see a stuttering woman, or a Quaker with a woadeu leg. Our Western civilizatiou is gradually overshadowing all nations. Japan has just seen its first base ball match. In a picture of the Nativity, by Raph ael, he has introduced a shepherd play ing ou an instrument like a bagpipe. I Those jolly fellows of Valence, Franco, who follow the cheerful business of pall bearing have struck for higher wages. Mrs. Sarah Norton thinks a woman with the right of suffrage would lie as miserable as as man liable to liear children.- ! i ;':.- A Pennsylvania jury found two men "not guilty" in spite, of their plea of "guilty." The jury couldn't believe their word. " The Daily Record of Topekn, Kansas, after about fmr years' publication, has suspended. In liis farewell address, the editor says: , , . , ;- . , i The City Investigating Committee, af ter mature deliberation, have decided that Chicago was burned liecanse Chica go was burned. He that marries for beauty alone, is like a buyer of cheap furniture the var-. nish that caught the eye will not endure the fire-side blaze. ' There is reason in all things." Some jierson was asked why B stood before C? "Because a man must B before lie can C," was the reply. G. J. Whyte Melville has written a novel commencing, "Jiark and stern, their weird beauty, lower the sad brows of the Queen of Hell." A hungry gentleman ordered"' "every thing ou the ltill of fare" at a Syracuse hotel, and was shortly astonished to lie hold approaching him fourteen waiters iu single tile, itcariug 1,024 dishes. -A man from San Francisco, who had not heard of the Chicago lire, arived there last week. After looking at the ruins he turned to a stranger and asked, "How long did the earthquake last, old sport?." ; Having satisfied themselves of their comatability by a probationary partner ship of four years' duration, an Indiana couple recently called on a justice of the peace and had the agreement made more binding. : The following conundrum is just as new now as ever it was: What is the difference lietween the Emperor of Rus sia and a beggar? The one issues inani- festoesand the other manifests toes with out his shoes. Men are not attracted by highly polish ed women, so much as by truly" natural and artless women women suRlcientl y edneated to speak and write accurately, and suHlcieiitly -childish not to despise common things. An Indianess, discovering that her marriage ceremony had been illegally performed, fourteen years ago, has com menced a suit against her husband for services reudereel hint as an employee during that period. A rural editor has last all faith in the luck of horse shoes. He nailed one over his door recently, and that morning there came by mail three duns and seven "stops" and a mai: called with a revolver to ask "who wrote that article?" A damsel of some forty years has com menced a breach of promise suit at Ak ron, Ohio, against a prominent coal mer chant of that town, placing the damages at $25,000. She "hauled him over the coals," after studying of "Coke ujkhi Littleton." An interesting nursemaid of Grass Valley amused the children by lowering a little six-year old girl to the bottom of a dry weil some sixty feet deep. The little one played around the bottom, and was hauled up in safety, and, being de lighted with her exploit, informed her parents, who forthwith directed the nursemaid "to let well alone." This is a description of a terribli In fant in Feutress comity, Teuu.: "Tho prodigy is only three' years old, anil weighs seventy-five pounds, has as much beard as a twenty-year old, his feet are eight inches long, though small for one of his build; he is fond of the society of girls, but the hova Ira detests. His voice is coarse, and his tits of ltassiou are ter rific." The conclusions that 1 draw from my editorial exiicrieucc is that independent journalism in Kansas is not a brilliant success, especially at tho capital. I would advise no young man to enter the editorial profession. If he does so, and exiHJcts to make a living by it, if he has no higher motive, I would advise him to avoid Uie luxury of independence; to cringe at the feet of iKiwor; to always help the strong and kick the weak; to avoid indulging iu any oniuiou where resulu are doubtful; and thus avoid the misfortunes of F. P. Bakkk. Hungry youug men In Fort Wayne, Ind., do uot starve to death. A party of tliem recently ordered and ate a large dinner at a restaurant, and when It was finished each insisted on paying for th whole. Taking Uie good humored wai ter into their consultation il was finally decided that the waiter should he bliinU folded and the Hint one of fhein that ho caught hold pay the bill. The youths lhei quietly dopai tod and in alKiut'tltWn minutes the waiter sprang tipiut the pro prietor tf the resfauvaul who was just returning from, an errand. The waiter has gome ou a foreign mission.