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A Reminiscence of Tror. nto mz scaomsT. Il wis the ninth year of the Trojan war AteJlonspuUstbcEt V lot of us were sitting by the shore ' Ts'JiJM-MiMas. Castor, and the rest s..ms whittling shingles and some stringing Lews, And cutting up our friends, and cutting up our foes. riiwn from the tent aho-.e there camea man. Who took a camp-stool or Tydides' side. H, toined our talk, and pointing to the pin unon the embera where onr pork was tried, saline would eat the onloni and the leeks. hut the Wed port was food not fit for Oreeks. LooV at the men ofThebes," he tald, "and tllen Took at those cowards In the plains below Vmo see how ox-like are the ox-fed men i Von see how sheepish mutton-caters grow. st.ck to this vegetable food of mlno ; Men who eat pork grant, root and sleep like swine.1 Some laulbel, and some grew mad, and some grew red . The pork was hissing , but his point was clear, st 11 no one answered him, till Nestor said, "One inference that 1 would draw Is here -. Von vegetarians, who thus ednca to us, Tim1 far have turned out very small politees." Old an J A'rw. The Filial Ttalance. O. et we trxut that somehow rood Vill he the nnal goal of 111, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Tvfect of doubt, and taints of blood. That nothing walks with aimless feet, That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cat as rubbish to the void, V, hen Uod hath made the pile complete ; That not a worm Has cloi en In vain. That not a moth of vain desire If shrlieled ina fruitless fire, or but subserves another's rain. l.ote Kntatiiftlrtl. Tt-fi were loitering alone 'N'eath the roof of evergreen. Propping now and then a word, W itli long pause set Wtweeii. Here are violets'." and lietlooled For the little purple flower ; Oli. how many I 1 could pluck IMh ni hands full In an hour ,M III- hclil out hit hands for ono, emit asking with his eyes, Awl nhc flucntd to find her own All to ready with replica. s ie lightly turned aside : Here is love entangled too '' Well, is that," ho gayly asked, Something ver3 rare and new" Jle ii trifling !" and the girl Felt at once her heart in thrall, 'lie shall see 1 will not ooroe. Fetch and carry at his call ' N hen he, pressing nearer, asked. Wt re ou ever tangled In It T" No. 1 think not. WTntergreen : 1 ran get it in a ruinate '' in that little aaiuute's space lie re oked bis little plsn ; Tisn't me," he sourly said, -L.ikel 'tls some other man '"' Walk-ng liack at set of sun, V hat was this had come between ! i ..-h one. sad and silent, thought or the Joy that might have been. When ho went away she laid The 3 oung iolets aside, Uut the lo. e entangled' threw From the window, open wide. Ah ' the flower she would not keep. Was the emblem of the thing ! L'-ve entangled mostly thrives lu the lover's early spring ! Itavard OlyKiem. m ii,nix(! ntri:s run otiii:ii. 1 declare, I'm almost di-euraged!" aued I'hilikins to his friend Smith. " It's n ithing but dig, dig, from morning till night, week in and week out, nothing gained by Ynii don't mean to nay, with vour wue-, that you don't lay hy anything' Ye I do. I think myself lucky when the year i- up if I m clear of debt." ' h , j oti have been working on good age- for more than fifteen years. You might to have snug little home-tend by thi, time." ' But I haven't ; and what is nioro I nev er expect to hate I hear that Jones has tnjpht the widow Carleton place." " Yes, and be got it at a bargain, too. With what improvements he can make at .dd hours, it will be worth doable what he paid " For un part I don't know how he did it he earns no more than 1, and he bos a ..irjrpr family." " Ah, myfriend.it isn't by what he earn-,, 'n.t by what he saves"' ' Well, 1 wouldn't be so mean and close iiited as he is to own a dozen liouses. Only la-t week I at-ked him to join our excursion which would only cost him one dollar and he said be couldn't afford it. For a man that can buy a fifteen hundred dollar boue that i- putting it rather strong, T should -ay.' " That's just tlie way he do, it." What 1 hv ving the expense ol the " By saing that nany more, that one dollar anil a good , with you. go the same way. A man must hate -ome pleasure." Yes, but was it -nch? By your own account, you were tired to death more so than if yon were working. You not only lo-t thai day, but was not fit for much the day follow ing. As for Jones being mean anil clo-e, I can't agree with you. His wife and children are alwavs well dres-ed and eared for . autt 1 ttatt- tmii,, 1 U 1 1 1 well supplied with ltoks and papers. ml when ljwrence was burned out, and a vuliserintion was started for his lienefit, lie put down five dollar . l'..it where are you 2 inc to now ?" Onl in Blatberem's a moment, just to net a glass of ale. lnu walk along; ill oertake vou " In a few minntes I'hilikins rejoiueil Smith, mil thev waited alonfftofiether. The latter notice.! the ends of two cigar- th.it I'hilikins bnd thmst into In- vest iwn'kpt. SiKin thev came in front of a fine looking building, evidently ju-t completed. I'hilikins surveveil it with an envious I. A. Tliat's Iflatucre-m'.s new houe; lie -jid, biting off the end of one of his ci- irtrs. " Yes, and yoa have helped to bcild it. -aid Smith. I'hilikins stared at his friend for a mo ment, without speaking. " I ? Whv, how do v.v.1 make that ..uf" Yoa tatronixa him. don't you?" Oh. my patronage don't nnwiEt t MlUl'h." " Don't it ? How many gUf-es of al do v.ia buy of him in a day ?" Not more than three on the average." We'll call it three, then, at ten cents n It amounts to thirtv cents, i iie- iiPte yo.t get your i igar-- there ? How many i da : "Not more tl-Jtn a coiile and ten cent . iio- at that." Tliat makes fifty cents, rifty cents a li amounts to thte'e dollars a we?k, and three dollars a week to one hundred and tiftv-six dollars a Tear." "- Well, I declare' I didn't sunpoe it w.uld amount to half that ?" said I'hilikins, a little -olierh . You forgot that it is the dimes that makes the dollars. By your own showing, what vou liaTe spent for tlie last ten years, for afe and cigar", if put out at interest, nould not onlv enabled you to buy the Carle tin place, but" left vou quite a surplus be--ides Now, do vou fcuppose what you hate Irank ami sniokell las done you any good 7 ' I don't think it basdone me any harm. Now don't von feel tliat spending an ,..,.,( ..rntonfvliketlmt.on what voa Mint d ito .m no barm, and what yoa know does you no good, is paying rather dear for your whittle 7 ... .. yvi.v .nn " retorted Pin iktn. lietu hntlv.flln'gingthestumpofhiscigaracro- the road' wouldn't you Utea ldy latve some t.iiiii-(fca " Mo-t certainly ; but I would liatc thera of the rational and enduring kind and sum roar vlfe ami fjniilv can rorticimtc in Now, vou were telling me the other clay that voa couldn't afford to take one trood family paper. Why, the amount you spend every week tor what does you more narm tuau " good, would pay for the sulwription a whole year. ' True enouirli. Marv I me to suliscrilie for the Village jlfper for the latt sir months. Tlien whv don't you do it? l!y what right do you denv her such an innocent and rational pleasure', while you expend a hun- drert low wnai n "':"" -elfi-h ratification ? Now, riulikins, take mvadtlce, and subscribe for it the first thing vou do, and hereafter let Ilhtherem build Ids own houses. It the next house voa build be for voarself." " There is a useful lesson to be drawn Trout the foregoing conversation, and whjc.i wns or actual occurrence. I am speaking to yoa, sir not to your next door neighbor, though perliaje, it may apply equally as well to him. Won't deny our families the simple and Innocent pleasures that make home such an attractive and happy place, or pull down the roof oer your own" head to build hou-cs for other people. Tue Jovs or Scir.ra. It is no secret to the world at large what joys fill the scientific mind when it has Ui-eotefed same micro-ccf-jiic in1 ct hitherto unknown, and to which it at once proceeds to attach a name out of all due projtortion to the site or the .importance qf the wrclchcd little object Bat all the joys of this kind hitherto exjricnced have been thrown into the shade by the ecstacy that filled the mind or the curator of the Brighton (Eng.) aquarium, a short time ago. He was watching a cluster of the grape-like eggs or the cutue-fi-h, when a young one " literally rushed into existenceZso sudden was ita exi-t from the egg ; and, as if to announce its safe deliverance, the babe cut tle instantly fired a sepia salute." Well, and then 7 " The cuttle has undoubtedly come VOL. XLVI. NEW SERIES,- VOL into the world after this fashion ever since he was first evoked from chaos, and it is rather late in tho day for the enthusiastic Curator to dessa-ili tlie pvpnt in soul-thrilling language, and to hope for im- luoriauiy on tne pages ot dull -philosophical records on the score of having seen the ino mentous circumstance for the firiti' time. There are possibly-more important things in the world than the birth of a cuttle-fisluhat fires a sepia salute to announce its safe deliv ery ; but evidently none of thee can mote the soal of the happy curator as that which has given him an experience which, like a thing or tieauty, will remain a joy forever 31 I'M CAT. AXIS llltAMATIC. Rutanstein's atipcarance at his first con cert in N"ew York is thus descrilied bv the New York Trilnme: "It would I impo-i-ibleto imagine liubcn fteindorifying himself with piano pyrotech nics, for he is not onlv a cennine rpvitrontinl artist, bat he is something more: he lias the true lire ol genius; and he is the only pianist ever heard inAmerienof ithnm that mnl.l lie said. In appearance he is somewhat rude and strange; in manner he is courteous vet abrupt. Ills stem Tartar fiice never lights with a smile. He puts away the humbug cf flowers nnd wreaths with a calm, undemon strative disregard, and sets himself to his wurit line a man whose whole heart is in his music, and to whom applause is nothing. Here is an episode in Lucca's carlv youth, in her own words. When I was sent to a boarding school 1 was not nine: I had previously been to a ihtv school, but as a rich man's child, and as such n one ever learned anything. 1 soon found out howI3tter was the change. It was long before I could silence my childish heart, and put up nuietlv with all the humiliation's and slights to which I was subjected, although, nowcer, l managed to uo so. iiut 1 was destined to achieve a triumph even here About a year and a half elapsed, and an ex amination wa3 fast drawing near. F.very one el-e looked forward to it on the tiptoe of excitement, but I awaited it with perfect indifference. I knew very well that no ques tions would lie put to me. F.verv day a. master used to git e us lessons in tinging from twelve to alwut one. The reader nmt not imagine, however, that there was any regular course of in-truetion; the giris had to sing to a violin and were mcclianically drilled, like so many canary birds. Tlie lesson was attended by only "a few, because it had to lie paid for extra. " I was permitted to take part in it, not as a favor, for I was never to sing, but, in tl.o absence of a desk, I served to hold the music fur the others. Previous to the examination my schoolmates had a number of songs drilled into them, which songs they were to sing to the Ex aminer and the general public. I recollect this striking me at the time as indescribably absurd. The examination approached nearer and nearer. Wc were all admirably pre (lared. The mistress of the school, an old maid, got ready her best cap, which never failed to inspire us with a feeling of rever ential awe. At last, the grand day came. We liad all been ordered to wear a certain toilet, a command which placed my poor mother inastate of no slight embarrassment. As wo had been told, too, e put on the most solemn, anxious faces, and awaited, with lieating hearts, the course of events. Gradually the room was filled with parents, guardians, brothers and sisters, who, of course, brought with them a swann of friends and acquaintances. "He" only, the great, the deeply feared man, the Examiner, was still wanting. As a matter of cour. I was placed on the last bench, in order, as I was laughingly, and thereby consolingly, in formed, that f might look like a "big girl," though I was a bit of a thing liardly as tall as the bench on which I sat. Tlie examina tion went off tery well. I was called on once, at the very moment I was not thinking the lea-t orsueli a thing, ami lad just made jnvtJf as comfortable as lossible. OTcour-e I could not anwer a word. Indeed, I laid nrcely heard the que-tion. I quickly sat down again amid the derisive laughter of the other girls, while the mi-tress frowned seterely. The Examiner, however, put on a ino-t"knowing look, a- if he considered niv answer extremely clever. So things proceed ed very sati-factorily. When the examina tion was nearly over thoc girls rose who were to lie examined in singing. I was in ...1 .w-ll. l -.'- llt Kr the rnstUisst to the pre-ent, and, on looking np, beheld, two paces off, my mother, who, quite le nnd w ith tear- in her eyes, was gaiing at me re proacbrully. This" affected me more than deri-ion of the severity of ny teachers I felt a-hamcd. The thought, 'How can you make amends for your l.ult?" flashed through my brain like lightning. I had been told not to play the part of the desk dnring the examination. I was to sit still while the others were singing. Suddenly I thought, "You shall sing." I knew all the song-, by heart, but how was I to manage so as to lie allowed to sing one ? However, the idea of pleasing my mother did not permit run take account 01 anv onstacics. n ik-ii the signal for standing up was given, I rose too, and went forward w ith the others. The mistress cast a furious and, at the same time, a-tounded look at me. I did not oliscrve it. In order not to make a disturbance, nothing was said. When all the otaers had sung in turn, each her particular piece, the master was about to get up. liui tne lixainiucr, whom I had kept staring at throughout the proceedings, turned suddenly to me " ell, and what can vou sicg for as?" he asked. Anything," 1 answered boldly, "un indeed' Well, then, sing the last little song. 1 turneu up my iio-e somcnum, tho song was a very iiisigumtuui um , wanted to ting the "Ate Maria," which one cf the girfi, who was ill, liad learned. I took the music and sung it right to the end without a fault, and with so clear and bell-like a voice that most of tlioo present literally opened their eyes and mouths as wide as they could. At petite comes wun eating, we are told. When I had finished, I was exceedingly vexed that there were not at least ten verses more, l looseu muuu. My mother was smiling tlirougn uer iirs. JIv little girli-h, heart swelled high. I re collected the humiliations to which I had been snljected, and I resolved to take a bril liant revenge. Stepping forward, and cast in" one look more at my mother to gain cour ate, I begged the Examiner to let me sing something eise. He consented, and I chose the "Ave Maria," a simple, but indescnbali lv touching comjiosition, which I can never smtcven now without the tears coming into my" eves. I sung it but how? I do not know." All I recollect is that, when I liad finished, I felt the breath from a pair oflips, and warm drops on myforehead. It was the Examiner. "My dear, you have sung like a llllla OIT..1 " At Leipic, Mnie. Feschka-Leutncr has been serenaded and congratulated on the success achieved bv her at the Boston musi t iWfil A "maimificent silver lanret wreath was presented to the lady. Minnie Hauck, the prima donna, is in Milan, and will soon liatfie wife of an Italian nobleman. M.ripwitseb. a Russian with a magnificent tenor voice, is the latest musical sensation in Paris. A daughter of Tamlierlik, the tenor soon to marrvDr. Navier fialezowski, eminent European occuli-t, who effected the restoration of her sight after she had been stricken with -blindness. A :l.t 'Hans Von Bulow, the piani-t, is shortly to i tntpnilant of the Munich Court IK llUllllu-ivii . . i- r Theatre, by which title lie late- un- Kr....v officer at the Uourt. The following in-tanconf extraordinary i ro. ; enrded bv Tf London Era: "Miss Edith Challis, a well-known actress in Imdon and New York, while trailing some nttrntive to an old lady, who Ml ill on the journey and subsc quently did. I-ast week -Miss Chalks was grcatlv astoni-hed at receiving a letter from her executors, to the effect the kindness shown to the old lady had resulted in her being remembered in her will to the extent p Mir two thnnsHnd n year for life. In con-eouence of this she 'retires from the stare.' Madame Stella Ifcnhcur, a California -mn. who is nosscsi-ed with the idea that ,t, ,-, sin?, tried Italian opera in Berlin ttnd itmominiously failed. Cliica"D proposes to build un opera house ,rl,;cb is to cost a million. x - 1j ,nt Miss Annie Finkenstardt of Newport as one of hi best pupils. She has been studying abroad six years. lfred Batten, a well-known London traiedhn, died recently at St. Luke hospi SfNew York, of congestion of the lungs. The New Y"ork StadtTheatrehas been sold for the sum of $122,000. niece of Johann Strauss runs machine in a N'orth Easton, Jn a sewing lass., ixi f" Mari'o receives fifty thoorand dollars for his tour in America. XIX. Adelimvulihi has signed an engagement with MaaHceand Max Strakosch for the season of 1873-74 in America, and will ar rive in New York in September, 1873. She a sUtcr-ib-law cf Maurice Strakosch. "ls"03IA lTl'.JIi. -' A young married lady in New York wears a peculiar breast pin, which has excited ad miration, alt is apparently a beautiful enrv- jjng m some dark, glossy" stones of a lion's i heavily set in red gold. In reality it is Ihijront of a favorite meerscliaum belong ing to uer unsoand. He was an inveterate smoker, but to please her gave up the habit, and she wears this peculiar ornament as a trophy of her ictory. In the days when man was everything and woman nothing it was correct enough to say, " A person, whatever his lielief may lie, can do so and so." But as woman has forced her way up she has rebelled against the mascii lino possessive, and demands that we should use the phrase, " Whatever his or her be licr may be," a new word should lie equiva lent to " his or her ;" and " hiicr" has lieen suggested as a suitable one". A widow who has married and lot five husbands remarks : " Widowers never die or grief; although cru-hed to earth by their sorrow, like truth, they ri-e again and re wive." Tlie committee appointed by the Harvard College overseers toconsidernnd report on the admission of females to that institution re commended that no action lie taken on the sal ject at present. Miss Maggie Knight of Holyoke, Ma.-,, recently Talented a square-liottomed log for the ne fit grocers and others, and now she lias still further incrca-ed the value of her invention by inventing a machine for folding bags, by which two girls can make 30,0011 log- per day. Somebody says there should lie a woman in every firm of "architects, to Kvik after the clo-cts. When you build your house, you may tell the contractor, until you arc black intheface, " Wewillhavcaclo-etthcre." Ho will not put one there until he has seen madame, and, ten to one, when he lias seen her, the clo-et will go elsewhere. In the Vnited States Di-trict Court of Utah, lately, Phccbc Cozicns on motion of Governor Woods, was admitted to the bar. Ansddrc-s ofwelcomc was delivered by Judge McKcan, and hearty congratulations of mem bers of the profession were extended to her. Miss Snow, daughter of the Territorial At torney General, was also admitted. The Crown Trinccss Victoria of Prussia has offered a prize of $.S,000 for the host es say on advancing the material pro-perity of workingwomen. There were no competitors at an Illinois fair for a premium of j;10 offered to the old est maiden lady who would state her age. One of the Japane-e girls pursuing an education at Georgetown, 1). C, has greatly imiaired her eyesight by excessive study, anil will return to Japan. A western damsel has framed her breach of promi-e verdict as a warning to tritiers. In the examination of political economy at the university of Iiondon, this year, for the scholarship "rounded by P.icaldo,"the emi nent political economist, four young men and four young ladies contested. The prize was awarded to Mi- Orne, sUtcr of Mrs. Dr. Masson. The wealthiest woman i'i England, in point of real estate, is the Honorable Mrs. Meynell Ingram, widow about 21 years of age. She is the daughter of Lord Halifax, and married two years ago Mr. Hugo Mey nell Ingram of Templo Newsam, in Yort shireand Hoar Cros- in Stafford-hire, who at his death bequeathed to her $2-j0,000 a year in land alisofutely. She lias no children. Speculation L already rife a- to the man on w hom her second choice will fall. Eugli-h oSiciaLs projuise to introduce a large numler of female clerks into the po-t-ofBees, whereat the gentlemen in the offices are so ungnllant as to hold indignation meet ings nnd prote-t again-t the action of the authorities Women require more sleep, it is said, than men. Blifkins disputes this, as he says the last sound he hears of nights is the oice of Mrs. 1!. in her nocturnal lecture, and the first in the morning U her matutinal a Jmftn mmi. A California agriealtuml society offer premium- to unmarried girls w ho will prejore plain dinners, not to exceed four dollars in cost. A committee is appointed to examine the tabid, and test tlie viands not an un pleasant ta-k. JlUi Cave, of Ware (England), governed, recovered 4,000 from a young farmer, who firomi-ed to marry her, and induced her to cave a profitable situation. Mi-s Julia Thomas, for some jears, a St. Louis liellc, lau taken the black veil at a Charleston, South Carolina convent. A young lady of wealthy jarentage and superior intellectual culture, Miss Agnes Cooper by name, lias devoted her talents to professional larceny in St. Louis. Mrs. Tator. the first female lawyer on the Pacific coast, lias been refused admission to tho bar of Santa Cruz, Cal. A voun? lady las successfully lia'sed the requisite examination and been admitted a member of the Freshman class of the Maine State College of Agriculture and the Mo chanic Arts. The public sen ice at Washington is lie- coming ery civil. The Springfield Reyubtt cm tells a'pleasant story of a young lady lormeny a scuooi teacnerin opringucm, woo lately "rot a clerkship in the Treasury I)e- partmcnt wun a salary oi ,i,sw. aiu-re were eleven vacancies at the time and forty or fifty applicants, including two women All were nut throuirh the same examination beforo the Civil Service Board, and the two ladies were amonz thesuccessfulcomrctitors. They had the same ot.nortunitv. the same test" and now have the same salary for the same service with men. Ihisisjust. Mrs. Howe writes to the Women's Jour nal as follows about suffrage in England I have found English society, so far as concerns woman dnided into small s-nois and as-ociations of workers. The suffrage women in Enirlaud arc not numerous. 1 ney are cenerally people of acute mind and of practicca mit-nett. iuui (" public estimation is one of much respect Yet it leaves much to bo de-ircd in the way or a large and sympathetic co-operation in all works that arc truly womanly. Looking at home, I find the case not otherwi-e. Tho number of women interested in obtaining enfTran-e is much lamer with us than in En; land. But a great and genial union for the nrnmotioa of womanly objects exists as little with us as with our trans-Atlantic relatives Our suffrage organization does represent a liTtter swejn of endeavor and interest than the very restricted area of the English wo man suffragists. But the great fear of the popular results of suffrage among us keep far rroui us many who, "or our sake and their own, should lie laboring with us. It should be remembered that tlnjee who seek to attain suffrage for women ere not stranwrs to any reform which seeks to bet ter the condition of the sex. Industrial and proressional training, .high culture both or intellect and of conscience, all of these are desiderata more or le-s involved in the new reading of womanhood which makes tho wo man the judge of her own attitude and posi tion in the State. Ihvsefhe suffrage work ers forgotten one of tho-c points ? Have they not argued and plead for them ? Y et some in this country would assume that the word suffrage,' instead of opening these doors of improtemcnt, would close them by pos ligl tulating a less in-tcad of a htenmcnt." Litton Delvklso in Noaw-AY. The Bey. Gideon Draper writes to the New York Methodist a humorous account of his exper iences in Nonvay. He says: In accordance with a previous invitation, we repair to the inrsonate to partake of a formal dinner in honor of the bishop. Tlie Norwegian flag is flyin- from the flag staff, and a regret is ex pressed by the host tliat he has not the beau tiful American flag to unfurl by its side. The eatechists and officers of the church, and a few other guests, all of whom are gentle men gather around the table, and a good Norwegian dinner is served, introduced by fU, pudding, with the accompanying side di-hes. Many toasts are drank, among which merica and its representatives are not forgotten. After which dinner, coffee and pipes, and subsequently bottles containing divers kinds or beverages, among which I was surmised to find one temperance drink. Good, pure water abounds, it was true, but I had never yet seen a Norwegian drinking it. The preacher took his spirits in the vestry after his labors, the bishop his, and wine, nnd nunch were in abundance. This drinking of everything but water is here universal and incessant, aiie iomi iiusn nence society has in Norway an open, but I BURLINGTON, fear, a dicouragirg field. The bishop toast ed the young candidates who had just finish ed their theological studies. It required some stretch or imagination to fancy BUhop Janes taking his grog after his pulpit labors, and then toasting in the wine cup those whom he ordained to the sacred ministry. But customs differ in different countries. The Ccntllll) or Callus;. There was a time and that time was not countless ages ago when to manife-t a decided taste for the goj. I things of the table was considered as" a mi k of human deprav ity, only less in degree u a decided taste for tic bottle. To really like to eat your meals, and to say that you "did, was lad enough; but to ho particular about the dishes that you eat, to have an especial fiincy for dainty ways of cooking food and a special liking for certain things, was dreadful indeed, for then you were an epicure ; and what was an epi cure but a sensuous, contemptible creature, degraded to the level of the beasts? "And yet beasts ore not generally particular in re gard to the way that their food is pre- pared.J E-pccially did this idea pretail among women, and the would-lie-gentccl cirl picked a little food here and there as daintily as a bird, although her young, healthy appetite was calling tor loou so ciamorpusiy, mat sue would be obliged to pay sly tisits to the pan try between meals. Wc do not talk so much about epicures in theso days, we are all more or Ies epicures that is, we all want oar food more delicately prepared nnd more daintily served than did the people of the time to which we have re ferred. But still the idea seems to linger in many minds', and, again, particularly in the feminine mind, that to eat very little is a highly genteel thing. They associate light eating with a delicate, refined organization and an intellectual and spiritual nature, while hearty eating suggests to them gross nes and vulgarity. Many a cirl comes to the table without thinking what she wants to eat, or caring anything about it. Sho is not hungry she has had no pleasant anticipations of a favor ite dish and she tells this with great com placency, as if it were some special grace touchsafed to her. She sit, her soun. nib bles her cracker, plays with her coffee, eats a slice or cake, and looks on with a sort or wondering pity while her companions take their soup, ft.li, roast beef, and vegetables with a hearty reli-.li, and enjoy the de-sert. She imagines that others are thinking. Wliat cross creatures are these'" and "What a delicate lovely being is that"' But, in tact, people are thinking, it they think about it at all, of the thin blood tha't runs through I.er veins, ol the tair hut sick-ly-hued skin, cf the weak muscles and flab by limbs and feeble strength and contracted life, as com pored with the rich blood, full pulses,springingteph,well-det eloped frames, and the wide prospect of usefulness of l.er more fortunate sisters of the healthy appe tites. Docs she suppose that tea, crackers, candiesand cakes will build up Tor her eitheran intellectual or physical nature that is worth a straw? It is a well attested Tact that great brain workers are generally very hearty caters. That early mismanagement, under eating, had food, and various other causes, do make many women so dy.-jicptic that they cannot partake of anything stronger than oatmeal, crackers, bran bread, etc., is too true, Imt it is a thing to grieve over and not to glory in, and let no one affect orjcultirate such an ap- Cetite under the impression that it makes er appear particularly genteel, lady-like, ami interesting. I'l'llltlCTT ."VOTl'.s. A lot ing swain in Maine dedicated a nap kin ring "To mv almost wife." A li-ping lady lad tlie intrepidity the other day to describe a camphor box a.- a mothoieum. Out W-t. wlitn a lazv man is seen at work they ay he is meddling with industry. A man in We-t Chester. Penn., lias liad sime milk tons made twelve feet lung by four feet wide. A We-temer wImi went fiir a doctor i- picturesqcelv said to have lit out into -pace like an antefope. Augusta. Ga.. lias products! a rattle-rake six-feet long Rnd adorned with fifteen rattles and a button. TTrv it- Is " iwHfBfT.' eacctf MR drusR- mrrs, we mean, are lery thick, is the solilo quy or a hard pres-ed local scribe. Allentown, IV. has a society called the Knights of the Mntic Chain, who parade the streets arrayed in white and black rnl.es and earning torehe-. A centenarian cannilsil named Tarain.who distinctly rememliered how some ir Captain Look's crew tasted uneooLed, died recently in New Zealand. A "common scold" in Dunkirk, N. Y"., lias been fined 10, undcra tcry old but un repealed statute. No doubt the husband found great sati-faction in tying the fine. An Elmira paper says "Borneo was a self- made elephant. He came to this country without a dollar in his trunk, took Greeley's advice, went West, nnd did worth $10,000" A stranger who occupied the pulpit in a Bapti-t church near Utica, on a recent Sun-1 day, during the first prayer leaned heavily on the de-k in front of him, which proved to 1 not fa-tened as it should I. Suddenly the devout raised their eyes at a startling crash, and beheld the desk", the Bible, the hymn-book, a vase of flowers, and an empty goblet strewn upon the floor, while amid the pile floundered the officiating clergyman. Fortunately he was unhurt, and after order was restored proceeded with the sen ice. Chicago i about to run another tunnel under Lake Michigan, in order to increa-e its water supply. Beer is gradually supplanting whl-ky a- a boverage in Great Britain. A negro in Savannah was imprisoned for five days in the City Jail fir stealing two qnarts'or com. An enterprising soap maker, in New York daubed tlie nicks all the way up the Hudson with the appeal, "Use "Smith's Snap;" whereupon his rival, the still more enter prising Jones, after much cogitation, started his whitewa-her up the liver to append to each or Mr. Smith's appeals; " If you can't getJonfti'." A newly-married woman, of genteel ap pearance.'went into a furniture-shop a few days since, und inquired for a "family fruit liasket." She was shown a large cradle, which was just what sho wanted. Sunday fetes fir the children of Paris are numerous at this season of the year. On a recent occasion of the kind, no less than 10,000 were taken to the country by the diilerent railroads. "Tho Angels in the Panorama Business," is the heading given by the Chicago Timrs to its description ol the niirora-.reau-. Woxdeeivl" Reamhatiov. A most won derful instance of rennimation is just now exciting the attention of tho people of Que bec city. The Mercury, to which we are in elebted'for the particulars, says A young lady or this city, Mile. B e, aged IC.and who was on the point or lieing married, was lately seized with a severe attack or typhoid fever, and on Tue-dav evening sank so low as to have been considered dead. According to custom the room was put in funeral order, and tho undertaker sent for, when, lo ! jut as ho wns drawing his measure frnra his pocket to calculate the length of the coffin, to his utfer amazement the supposed dead girl sat up erect in her lied. With great presence of mind he threw a handkerchief over her eyes to prevent her seeing the change hcr liedroom had undergone, till the parents removed the extra lights and hang ing around ; soon afterwards the girl asked for fowl, of which she partook more heartily than before, and she is since doing well. Tut; Girls hut Men Lovx. Hi Perkins being sworn to preach the gos pel at Saratoga, spoke as follows, and if H knows anything, knows that he produced at much effect as if he had not uttered a won". 11 No, my hearers, men admire style; hut they fall in love with beauty. A beautifhl arm. or a sweet mouth filled with pearls wEI catch a man's heart quicker than all cifin style in the world. (Voice hear, hear. No man ever fell in love with false hair and pnnnier, even if it were twenty feet high nnd mado out of six hundred newspapers. The girl's original back was good enough for Phidias and Canova. A pannier wtould not improve the Venus di Milo or Florentine Venus de Medici. So much hair disgusts a neat man. It is not sweet, and swi etness and neatness about a woman catch a man quicker than anything ehe. (Cheers by the fellows.) Why bear down the hed, like Atlas, with a ponderous globe? The fellows discount all this humbuggery. (Voioas-you bet.) They get through the pannj-js, false hair, eeweaws, and fall in loye i ith the girl herself, or they don't fall in Ion at all. (Voice Just so. VT., FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25, 1872. From the London Spectator. Climate asi rbjsluiir. The notion that man flourishes best in a temperate clinic survives all evidence to vhe contrary, and will be repeated with perfect coolness by the man who lias just informed you that the two most perfect or earthly climates, the Tasmanian, which is the Eng lish climate etherialized, and theCalifiirnian, which is the Greek climate cooled, produce the two feeblest races of mankind. The na tive Tasmanian and the Digger Indian are wit the Veddah the lowest specimens of hun.inity hitherto observed. So far as the very imperfect evidence attainable Will prove, the physical qualities, strength, size.courage, and perhaps industry we doubt if that is a physical quality, but it is counted as one are independent of climate altogether, and pecially independent of the thermometer. The bigge-t and strongest race of earth, the Nubian of the Upper Nile, flourishes in a heat which alino-t lioiled Werne, the travel ler who lias mo-t carefully ob-cned his won derful uiuseular development ; and can live and grow fat in stoke-rooms from which the most powerful Englishmen arc carried out fainting and half dead. Kai-er William's Pomeranians are scarcely the equals or these men in physique, and are not when they choose more steadily industrious. A hii mal or Constantinople or Cairo would carry a railway porter cm his shoulders and all Ins luggage" besides, and a Bengalee Ixatman would row a Iindon waterman, as far as en durance is concerned, into an aplcctic fit. The Bengalee is weak and the Pcgaun is not brave, but the Malay, liorn under precise'iy the same condition-," the very conditions to w hich Macanlay attributed the effeminacy of tho Bengalees, lias the courage of a ferret, the activity or a monkey, ond the endurance of a thorough-bred horse. Some day or other, when we reign in Cairo, Engli-hmen will officer an army of Arabs, men bred in a desert where the sun seems to hate human beings and pur-ue them with a kind of con scious pitilessness, and then Asia will know enc-e more why the Moor secmod to the mail ed knights of "France nnd Spain so terrible an enemy. Few human beings are so power ed as the Par-ees, who-e wre-tlers defeat picked men from the Briti-h army, and they have dwelt for ages in a climate to which that or Italy is cold, and for two centuries in Western India ; ami none are so industrious as the Chine-e of the South, the men cf those steaming superheated Deltas vv here the earth being water, the men. on the popular theory, should lie women. The Peruvian is a soft'ereature, but his climate is cooler than that or the regions in l"anama and Guiana, where the bravest and fiercest or almrigines, the Carib, still maintains his hereditary free dom. Out of the "softly enervating cli mate," as we Northerns deem it, of Central Italy came the sternest, brave-t, and most cfllcient human Wing tliat ever walked tho world, the fighting Roman patrician, who, after a thousand jears of heat, and luxury, and sated voluptousne-t-, was still the most rormidable officer with whom an enemy could come in contact ; and he was outdone in courago by the men who swarmed up frow the blazing -lopes ir Palestine ami the fierce heat or Idamca to defend the Holy City. The Scotch and the Swedes are coufc-edly manly people, able to toil, and to battle, anil to endure ; but they are not manlier, or braver, or more enduring than the planters bred in those sweltering nceswanlps of South Carolina, or the hot " larrens" of Georgia, or tho hotter lagoon- and morasres and flood ed jungles of Louisiana, where upon all ac cepted conditions men ought to degenerate into cowards. The Delawarn-, bred in a temperate climate, were not braver than the Seminoles of Florida, or so brave as their far away kinsfolk the Caribs or Panama ; and the Negro transported Out or the tropics di ttnetly loses nerve. Wothinktbat heatdemor alizes", but when Spain anticipated Great Britain ami conquered and colonized a cen tinent.when three hundred SpanUh ruffians led by a brutal pig-jobl- Jramplod down a semi-civilized empire with millions e.r inliab itants, Spain was as hot as it is now . We speak or the exceptional prolific-he, of the Anglo-Saxon, wlio is now sending an army or 100,000 men a year to people Ameriei and the Southern Continent, anil never Teels the lo-s; but w ho peopled India and Southern China, and the Southern shore ot the Medi terranean, and Spani-h America, except races) who mast lave lived Tor ages under the mm? It was not under hard gray weather tias t tlx Taasjfa of (h Sun rose is IUall.ec, or ibc iiiiIiimisi BTThiiii "in lln" Ooli-'uin . moaanMntsjilI of them of human industry as well as of human skill and domineering energy. Grant that the work was done by -laves, it is not by the TeeUe tliat -lave-- are held in slavery. But that forte whiih is the cati-e of pro gress, that energy which i- always advanc ing, is peculiar to the jeople of the hardy, but temperate climes. Is it? Is England hotter to the pea-ant than to the proprietor, and how much has the pftwint changed since villenagcwus abolished? Was Greece cool er while Athens rell? If our civilization goes on forever advancing, there may lie evi dence that climate is a conditioner progress ; but where is the proof tint it will go on long er than the Chine-e, which mn-t hare ad vanced steadily Tor centuries, and Is now stationary or rctrogrado? or tlian that or Egypt, or than that or Upper India, where well-known arts have utterly died cat ? It may or course advance continuously, but it is a pure assumption that it will, that there is any element of progress in the Northern elimates which the Southern do not pos-ess, any source of force in the hard gray weather which there is not in the heat ot Asia, or in the eternal sumtter or the- Mediterranean border lands. Even the more recondite ex planation so rrequeiitlv offered to explain the apparent progns or tlie North and the ap parent stereotyping or the South, that wher ever the sun'hzs great jiovYer nature dispi rits or crushes man, fails to produce entire conviction in our minds. Why did she not crush man in l"ypt, with its" secular civili zation, or in Bagdad, or in Benares, when those cities wtro built, as we'l as now ? Na ture was just the same when man built tho-e flvintr arches in Cambodia, or dug the water courses of the Babylonian plain, as it is now, when the rtcH who won those victories have rsisKil avrav. It is where nature is haish. we ate t!d. that man rises by inces sant endeavor t his highest powers, bat na ture was no hatder to the Julii tlian to the modern Colinias, while it was a great deal harder to the Picts, who did nothing, than to the Lotlian farmers, who do so very much. Tliat some law correlating progress, or what we call jrogrcss, with material conditions exists, lsipossilile or proouble, hut it is not discoverer vet, and when di-coeml, will nrobablylbe found an exceedingly weak one, tho. true jource of difference boing moral or intcllectiiil, or most probable of all, de pcndentVm that faculty of which we know as yet si extremely Utile, the faculty which separotttman by'an impassable line from every oiner creature, tne uicuiiv oi inieueci ual aoTamlalion. If wo could once be cer tain tint there areniceswhopot-se-tithisiiiin-finite-ic.al nuantitv. or in limited ouantitv. or in excessively different degrees, we should know t liy Tasmanians die, why the Chine-e stop, aad" why the Teutonic mind, thickest and sir west ot all the greater minds, is mas tering the world. At present, all we know is tint Tasmania, the improved England of the ?Juth, bred n singularly feeble Negrito ; that civilization grew fir-t, and probably l.iitd longest, in a hot, steamy, swampy, terti-tropical valley ; and that most or tne satage races, such as the Red Indians, the Britons, anil the Swiss lake-dwellers, have dvvlt Tor couutleiss ages under the climatic auditions which the Teuton, in his extreme Sirpri-o to find himself at the top of the torld, now cpiotes as those which favor pro gressive civilization. The Grocxp Bcrmno Up. Fort Pil low's Burrr Banks Bcrvivc A SrnTERtu NEors Coxflacration-. One of the strangest of phenomena of the times is reported to us from the sight or old Fort Pillow, sixty miles above this city. It is no more nor le-s tlian that the bluffUink or the river, which ri-es fifty or sixty rcet above the water level, is on fire, and for the past several weeks has been steadily buminglike a volcano for a di-tance of several hundred yards along the cast side of the riieron a line tenor twelve feet above the water level. At night a lurid flame or blaze of fire rises from the side of the bluff to a height or two or three feet, which then spreads into smoke and passes on over the summit cf the hill, distributing itseir with the atmosphere and floating away skyward. The steamer CWe. on her last trip, passed by the place in broad daylight and at a time- wnen a light wind Mew rom lue --"""-i " rying the smoke towards the Arkansas shore and covering the river withn thick haze almost like fog. What strange combustible fnmoitintt ommwusi Hie river bluff of the old fort, or what first set it on nre, to cum aner . . ... the fashion described, is one of the mos his voice was harsh , No names wero spoken, marvelous events of the times, and puzzles ; unil each was rtderreel to by number. ''Nnm th twrnlit r.f the vicinity no little. Wc I limine" was called, and from this it was fchall seek to be farther informed upon this inferred that there were about that number wonderful phenomenon with nolittle curiosi- j of men engaged. Some of them were appa ty Mimvh'u (Tenn.) Arala'de, Sept. rexitly men of considerable education and of o-j" r 1 genueraanly manners. When they were Tne nutrrrord (X. T.) Bsnli Bobor ry. (ATE Or THE BOLDEST AXO HOST SrCCESSITL RX3OT3IE? OS RECORD. $500,000 STOLEN-. We ffimpile from the Troy papers, the fiillowing particulars or the daring bank robbery in Waterford on Sunday ijight. The Saratoga County Bank, does business in a two story brick building in Waterford, N. Y. The first story is used for banking purposes, and the remainder is occupied by the cashier, I). M. Van Hoveril'crg and family, which consi-ts cf his wife, two daughters about eighteen years of age and one son eight years old. At 1 o'clock Monday morning Ann Dris- coll, the servant who slept in the basement, was awakened by two men. They were standing over her one holding a dark lantern in hi hand and the other nointing a revolv er at her head, and threatening by all that was norniiie to till her instantly U she dared utter tho least outcry, they commenced to bind her w rits anil limbs. She was then questioned as to the location or the sleeping apartments or the fiimily, and the numlier of persons it comprised. She gave them trutniui answers, except that m the nope ot frightening the men, suppo-ing tliat there were but two, she said that Mr. Van Hovcn licrg's brother was one cf the inmates cf the building. At this one of the ruffians brought his revolver clo-e to the head of the terrified woman, and told her that she lied, for the gentleman mentioned by her had not been in the house since tho previous Sunday. ".'his was the truth, and judging from this and from other incident the inference isthat tho robbers were a- intimately acquainted with the internal arrangements a- the in mates thcm.-elvc-. Tho two men hastily slipped a pair of handcuffs ovcrthc woman's wrists, and tear ing her underclothing into strips, made it into gags which they applied. Then she was ordered to remain quiet on penalty r in-tant death ir she da red to move or attempt to make a now. Tlie men and their eonrederates, to tlie numbcr.it is believed orseven. thenproceed ed up stairs to the doors of the sleeping apartments cf Mr. van Hovenberg ani family. The inmates were all a-!ecp. The oor leading into the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Van Hovcnbcrg was forced open with a ehi-el or bar. Mr-. Van Hovenbcrg was the fir-t to awaken, and when she opened her eyes a ma-ked man was standing over her. one hand tightly clutching her throat. and holding in tho cthernrevolver which he pointed at her head, sao pieaueu tor ner life, and perfect -ecuritv waspromi-ed to her in the event of her following instructions. She looked about and saw another in.in.ma-k-ed as theotlier.w ith his hand on her ha-bond's throat. When Mr. Van Hovenbcrg awoke he comprehended the situation at a glance, and shouted for help. Instantly he was throttled and silenced. Then hi.- Iimhs wero tied together with tar rest rope, nis wri-ts secured with handcuffs, and a piece crmu.-lin crammed into his mouth. When nil the inmates or tho building had linen thus disno-ed or Mr. Van Hovenbcrg was ordered to get up, his limbs laving first been set free, then in his night clothes he was ordered to accompany the roblw-rs down stairs into the tanking room. " Do not kill him he is all I liavc got, pleaded his wife. "He won't be hurt, only he must obey orders," was the reply. Saven men accompanied the bound man down stair-. lwo men were left to take care of the family. The-e men led the young ladies into their parent's room and placet! them in bed beside their mother, and then going to the clo-et where the little lioy had been placed, they brought him nut and nut him alongside of them. One of them walked up and down the hall and peered out the front door. The ether, with an audacity that recalls the achievements of Claade Duval, reclined upon a lounge and enteral into conversation with the ladies. On hi- ide the conversation was carried on with a po liteness that indicated he was a well bred robber. Mr- n llovenberg asked him what he and hi- confederates intended to do. " Well, miu know our object we are after money,' said he with nonchalance. " Can I do am thing to make you moroeom fortable?" he queried, and then, proceeded to sunplj her with pillows. Are jou cold? he a-ked. and a lilieral snnnlv of quilts from the other lied- was furnished. Then this polite rascal made a tour of the room, inspecting pictures antl helping bun self to-a pur- of money. "This is a nice watch ou have here, but don't be alarmed, I wonV take it, Mac vailUL tasasais yomt jsw- j rlrr, bkit I want jresfr "BMWsuari Wieare the ?" " I have no ernmvatls," rcplM Mrs. Van Hovmbenr. " Oh, tm'i not Kwr," urged the ImIow, with a csBab, " Yes, we are pooTj" replied tie llMry. The ioiite individual then left (is com panion to take care of the ladies while he proceeded to the bo -emeu t. He -oon re turned, accompanied by the servant. Then without any ado he commenced to tear up the sheets of the bed which the ladies oceu pird. "Look here, what are you tearing up in mother's nice sheets tor?" a-ked Sarah Van llovenberg. " If you want old rags I can get you some." " We usually help our-elyes to what we want." was the reply. With the strips made of the torn sheets the work ofgaggingMrs. Van lloven berg, her daughters and the servant was commenced. In the meantime the little boy was lifted ont of lied. " What are vou tv fog us up for, and what do you intend to do with my little son?" inquired Mrs. Van Hovcnlierg of the Cheterhldian burglar. " We are doing what is neeosnry for our own protection ; nobody will bo hurt." After tho gagging procews had lieen com pleted the room was deserted by the rohtier-, who took the little boy w ith' them. Thus an hour it seemed an age to the terrified mother and her children pas-ed away. IV THE BANK. Cashier Van llovenberg was led into the liank room. AVith horrible oaths and im precations upon his head ir he di-obeyed orders.be was commanded to unlock the vault door. He pretended to have forgotten the combination and made -cores of exeasas, to secure delay, in the vain hope that as sistance would come lieforo ho was compell ed to expose to the thieves the valuable cm tents or the vault. At last the patience or the robliers gave out. Some or them whis pered " kill the if he don't open it right away." All thi- time his arms were secured lie-hind him, and three men two armed with revolvers and one with a dag ger and rolling pin in his hands were standing c'n to him. Still anxious to secure delay he turned to tho men and said : " I can't unlock the door with Ho llands behind me." The handcuffs were slipped from his wrists, and he was again commanded to proceed with his work. After ' dodges." Aliandoning all hone of relier -Mr. van llovcnwrg then opened the vault doors, and with two revolvers pointed at his head was compelled to stand by and witness the thieves white they ransacked the eon tents thereof Before any or the plunder was removed from tho liank Mr. Van Hovenlierg, after he had obeyed a command to unlock the tront deior, was ordered to proceed up stair. He was taken into an apartment adjoining that which his wife and children occupied, and bound and gagged in the securest possible manner, men thirty or lorty tin boxes con taining liond- and stocks belonging to pri vate parties were carried out ofthe vault and placed upon the floor or the counting room. All or these loxes wero broken open and their contents placed in a heap. Several cast iron boxes resisted siiccessrully their violence, and the-o with the liomls nnd stocks taken from the other loxes, were, when tho thieves were ready to depart, car ried out cToors and placed in a wagon w hich was waiting lor them. The burglars then nuietlv drove awav their plunder. The inmates did not hear their departure and all remained quiet for some time all except sarali, who struggled until she removed the tarred ropes Willi which she had been bound. Then she lean ed from the lcd and searched the different rooms until she found her father, who was tied to a bad. Sho relea-ed him, and he securing a revolver, proceed to the street door, discharged several barrels cf the weapon with his wrists still confined in the handcuus. this brought assista-ce. THE GANG. The burglars were well trained in their calling. Every man had his part to do, and did it perlectly. some ot them wore white masks, made like skull caps with openings for the ears, eyes and mouth. One of the men who were with the women, occupied part of his time in making gags, which he did in the most skillfull manner, and hung them in regular order over the towel racic. Ice other watcn er recklessly passed to and fro in the room and kept watch from the window. The leader seems to have been recognizen uy all the membersof the family. After he had robbed the safe, he returned up stairs and gave his personal attention to securing and gagging the family. He is described hy one of the girls ns a large, ugly man. When she was asked why sho judged he was ugly, she , uan-Kn. nni sou I . . , .. . . - m,nncr disagreeal o anu about to tie Mr. Van Hovenberjg to the bed, one of them said " Herc.that isn't the way you want to lie," and immediately took hold of him and placed him in a better position. The man that was set to watch the ladies, after making his gags, reclined in a lazy, self-posscsscel, Lord Dundreary style and conversed with them in the most engaging manner possible. Finding that thev were lying in uneasy positions he fixed their pillows. He covered the two girls who hail been placed on top of the betf quilts, with quilts taken from another lied. Seeing a pear in the room, he politely offered to one of them. In fact the ladies all bear witness to the gentlemanly manners of their unwel come guests. They say that not a single blasphemous wortl was used by the men in their pre-ence. HOW TnEY COT IN . The basement windows are protected by iron liars, which were found marked by muddy feet. One of the parlor windows, not being secured by any catch, was easily cpencd, and all the gang entered it without difficulty. Then to separate and proceed, some into the basement to bind the servant,' and others up-stairs to burst open the doors of Mr. and Mrs. Van" Hovenberg's room,into w hich they entered with a whoop, were portions of an arranged plan. The thieves must have made a great deal ofnoi-e, but the night was inclement, the rain was de-cending, and the streets empty. THE LOSS. is estimated at 500,000 ; it may go higher; it cannot bemuch less. Theofilcers were not accquainted with the contentsorall thebox es rilled. One lady was very crrefiil to make a list or all thenumbers or her bonds, but un fortunately she deposited the list in the box? Wallace Smith of Meclianiesville had $5,000 in bonds stolen, and the Cashier ofthe Mer chants'and Mechanics' Bank ofAlbanv loses .$20,000. Thelossto the estate cf J.M.King is?3l,000,mostly inbonils. Mrs. J. B.Enos had $5,000 carried off, and many others lo-e amouts ranging from $3,000 to $-25,000. The lioncUare supposed to lie mostly reg- i-teredt and are not negotiable. Some or: the railroad stocks can be di-pood of easily by the thieves, although, according to the late-t judicial decision, they can lie claimed by the legitimate owners at any time. The robbery has deprived many persons of all they had on earth. The lo- cf the bank was $9,5110 in cash, and J'OJ.OOOin collater al -ecuritie-. SIR. VAN HOVENBERCi's STATEMENT. The burglars Iiauled me cut oHied. There were two great strong men. One on each sidcorme held a revekir at the sideormy head and bid me make no noise. They took me down stairs to the lank vault an'd told me to open it or they would blow my brains out. I faltered and httsitated as long as I dared, and finally went to work at tlie lock to open it. They had my hands in handcuffs behind my back, and made me work at the lock in that way. I spent about an hour in delay ing them in this way. hoping .some one would come by the bank on the street and give the alarm. They had men stationed outside the lank at all points to give them warning ol the approach or any body. Every little while one of tlie men from out side would come in and say, " aint that (foul name) got that hick open yet. We had better blow his brant, out and end him." Then they told me if I did not hurry that they wcnld kill me and blow up tee safe. The only excuse I could make them was that I could not do anything with my hands fas tened behind me. Then they loosened the caffs from one of ray hands and told me "be quick and open that lock " I spent about twenty minutes more in delay and -when I found it was useless to resist any longer I opened the lock. They then placed the handcuffs on my hands and remained there till they had completed the robbing cf the safe. They had dark lanterns and dirk knives ami" every utensil for the thorough pursuit ofthe villian's calling. After they got through they took me up stairs ami placed me in a bedroom alone by myself, vv here I only remained about a minute" The lust of their footsteps had not died ont in the lutll when I got up and took the revolver with my hands still behind lne and went downstairs. My daughter Sarah had slip ped the ruff from her hand and she cut the rope which bound my teet. the men were in the hou-e about three hours. It was near I o'clock when they left. via.-, v an novEN berg's tvtement. Tlie fir-t I heard was a loud knock at civ room door. I did not know what to make of it. In another minute the room was full of men. One of them came to the hed-ide and took hold of mv hu.-horJ and hauled Ms est. I bagged them to "pure his life. Tary said tbqr would not harm him but we KSSRP ftlU. After thev took him out lfcyaaif wit looking around the yatcru-tacm atcl me where my dra WCrfc. IsaU 1 ditl not have any .that we wereaif ndor in thehou.. He said bp did not believe it. He took up my watch from the dressing table and looW at it. I asked him what timeitwas. He replied one o'clock. He said he would not take the watch, that TnEV CAME THEEE ob SOXEY and money thsy would hav c. He laid down on the sota and placed a pillow under his head. Then I said to him, "You are one of the scoundrels w ho robbed the BalUton hank." He said he was on the canal anil did not know anything about the affair. Daring this time f asked for my iLm.hters ami they were broughl in and placed in the bed with me anil my little boy about ten years of age. We did not have anv gags in - i. . . i - .: .- - I7. .1 uut inuuiii.- ai mis iiuii-. r-ion mil lime hoy began to cry and make a noi-e. One of the men down in the halt heard him and said to someone nar him, "Go ami cut that (fuol name) throat and stop his noi-e." The man came up ami took the lsw out or lied. I pleaded with him not to hurt him. He said ho would not He took him away and placed him in a dark clothes press and cov ered him up with lied clothes and clc-csl tho door on him, and then went down stairs again to where the men were at work on the safe. I nsked one cf the men how he got into thehouse.and he said it made no difference to me; they got in and were there for money and would get it before they left the honse. During this time some of the men were in the hail, some in the room and one was lying on tho sofa, but be soon got up and placed his p How on the floor in the dwrway. He wanted to know what time my mil "man came along, and I told him alsiut half-pa-t ;ven in the morning. He told me that I knew I was King to him when I said that. Another a-k"eil me when my lu tolicr came. I told him we did have the butcher come to the house ; we had to Co to tho market for our meat. After they liad got all through down stairs they came up miu cuiuntencctl vo gag us. How tho gags were made. One sat down em tho sida or the bed and delilicrately tore the sheet into strips, tied knots on the strips and mado gags which they put into our mouths. 1 hey al-o tied our feet with cord rope. They first rolled some of the turn sheet around our ankles so the cord would notcutthem. After all this had been done they closed all the room doors and went out. Shortly after thev came into the room and took Mr. VanhoTenberg out. One cf them asked me for the revolver. I told him I did not know where it was. He said: "Yoa did not get a chance to use it, did vim ?" After they got through rifling the lank they came up to the men in the hall and all went out. l'hey had not been irone over n minnts or two lifnm T heard Mr. Yanhovenberg trying to get out ofbodinthe next room. 1 called to him tho liest I could to lie still or they would murder him. I soon heard him go down stairs to alarm the neighbors. My daugh ter, Sarah, cut the strings which bound my leet ; l tie nanuculls had to be tiled on. SUSS SARAH VAXIIOVENIIERI.'S STATEMENT. I sleep in a room alone. The first I heard was a load noise. I thought I was dream ing. When 1 came to my sen-c-ri there were two men in the room liesfde my bed. One of them placed his hand over my mouth, the other placed the steel handcuffs onmy hands after he put my hand, liehind me. They let me remain whero I was at fir-t and finally took me into my mother'-room and placed me iitthebed with her. I then remained quiet and they did not harm me. After the man placed the gag in my mouth having first placed it in the pitcher cf water on the table, he patted me gently on the cheek.and told not to la frightened. My mother said she was sick and he said that was " too thin." He took one ofthe cuffsoff her hands and mado her lie down. She had been sitting up in bed before. When they left the room I slipped my hand out of one of thohandcuffsand got a knife and cut the ropes which were on my feet and all the ropes from the feet of all the others in the bou-e. We understand that the creditors of the Vermont Central railroad are suWribing liberally to the new loan. A large number of them coma forward yesterday and set down their names in sums varying from $5000 to $25,000. Tho confidence or the community In the road and in it ability to pay In the future evidently is on the in creasj, from the large orders for the pur chase of stocks and bonds in the hands of brokers and from the advance in prices to day. The first mortgage 7s closed at 5G to CO, the 2ds at 14 to 10, the Vermont and Canada stock at C3 (bid), and the OgJcns burg at 72 to 75. Boston .Jctrtiser, Oct. 1. jSTTJIMBER, 17. Tire DtATn or "Faxxt Fern-," occurred at New Y'ork on Thur-day.and was a sur prise to the public, though her friends have long known the feeble state of her health. Sho was born at Portland, Me., in 191 1, being a sister orN. P. Willis. The father" of Sara Payson Willis, was founder of the Puritan Jiecorder, a religions journal pub-li-hed in Boston, and ofthe Youth's Com panion, printed in the same city. The mother of the Willis children, Nathaniel, Bichard and Jane, is described as a large brained, great-hearted wonun of most lov able character. When Sara was yet a child her family removed to Boston, where she passed all her carlv years. She was educat ed at Hartford. Ct., by Miss Catherine Beecher, and was recognized as a clever young lady, high-spiritedand eccentric, and addieatcd to mischievous and comical e-ca- Iiades. While yet young, and soon after caving school, she married Charles Eldridge orBoston. Alter the birth or three children she was left a widow and in somewhat em barrassed circumstances. Of these straits came her first literary venture, and in 1811 she offered an es-ay signed " Fanny Fern " to one of the literary weeklies of Boston. It was accepted, and acceptable, for the great reading public immediately demanded more, and " xanny Fern " grew into fame and favor. The-e leaflets were gathered into a volume with the title cf "Fern Leates" and had a great sale, no Ie-s than 75,000 copies of the book having been sold. "Little Ferns for Fanny's Little Friends," her next book, had a fair sale, and-a second series of the s" Leaves," reached a very large edition. In 1951. her first novel " Buth Hall," appeared ; it was not a genial book, and over its family revelations and allusion-a generous charity draws a veil of forgetful nes-. "Kose Clarke," publi-hed in 1957, was a more sunny work, and commanded a wider circle of readers than even the unhap py notoriety of its predecessor had attract ed. The-e two novels were the only ones which "Fanny rern" ever published ; they provoked much criticism, and .were read by thou-anas who sought m their pages the same grace and vivacity which had been the charm of her less pretentious writings. In 195G she was married to James Parton, the brilliant and effective historical writer ami e.-v-ayi-t. Since her marriage her publi-hed writings have not been voluminous, but their character has been considerably modi fied and improved, compared with those of her earlier career. She was "a good hater." and her pen. gentle ami mild enough when pursuing congenial themes, was pointed and galling when engaged in the chasti-ement of vice, cant, or snobbery. She had a fierce hatred for every sort of hy-pocri-y, and, with the inevitable tendency of one who pursues thesesubjects with per tinacity, she sometimes drifted into extrav agance and uncharitableness. As a writer ot brief sketches and essays for the weekly press she excelled ; and in the production of these she was indomitable in industry, fertile in resource,and boundless in patience. She has shown her struggling sisterhood what woman can do with the pen ; for, in spite of numberless obstacles, she won her self a place in current literature, a generous iiicume, auu man) nvnesi menus anu aumi- rers. Her life was not always sonny ; but its closing years were unclouded save by bodily ills ; and, after a long, busy wrestle witblife's problems, she sleeps well at last. Harvard College having refused even to consider the que-tion of admitting women to its courses of study on an equal footing with men. is endeavoring to make some lit tle amends for its cruelty by volunteering to examine as many ladies as choose to -ubmit to theordeal, giving them such certificates of scholar-hip as they may de-erve They must acquire their learning elsewhere ; but if it prove to be genuine Harvard will give the seal nf her august approval. This is surely a long progressive step ; and ir ' the girls'" accept it in the spirit tlmt common sense would seem to dictate they may make the irregular sheep-kin as valuable in time as the regular ope. The plan which hasjut been adopted by the board oroverseers, is to go into operation at once, and tlie fir-t ex aminations will bo made next Jnne. They are to be conducted under the auspices of an as-ociation of women, who are to pay the incidental expen-es but thecollegeauthor itieslay down the requirements, appoint the examiners, and give certificates of merit. This system of examination has been in u-e in Cambridge university, England, for none fifteen years, and all rejiorts concerning its results are in the highest degree favorable. The lies in ess Issri The .Verfi Ameri can Htrint fiiOeaativ contain a weD ewn sMcrtsl article: upon psikveal issaes. It re gards the decisive objection to Mr.' Gree ley's elect ion to be that it woaM involve reaction in relation to rex detraction and the security of all those great results which havo been liought by the blood and treasure of the country. One extract places Mr. Greeley before the business men ofthe country in a prettyclear, if not a favoralde light ." Mr. Greeley is the firm of our Pre-iden-tial candidates to give a public pledge as to to the manner in which he shall dl-tribute the offices and reward his supporters at thi polls. It is understood, therefore, that his inauguration will be the signal for a gener al revolution among the fifty thousand office-holders under the government ; and in the midst of that hurly-burly, who will re member "competitive examinations," un less it be some applicant for place successful and happy enough to indulge in the bc-t joke of the season ? Neither can such a prcb-peet be regarded as favorable to the na tional finances. In the first place it would involve a change, amino change is wanted, least of all one to be inaugurated by a Presi dent who believes that a card tacked upon the treasury doors would accomplish tho in stant resumption cf specie payments, by making the gold in the treasury which he also thinks ought to be sold off convertible into five or six times the same amount of paper money ; who has in his train repudia tiontsts on the one hand, and on the other those who advocate the payment of pen sions to rebel soldiers and even compensa tion for the loss of slaves, and who think they see the way for approaching such schemes through so-called revenue measures. which Mr. Greeley has disabled himself Irom resisting by renouncing the u-e oi tne veto. Party leaders have liecome a cheap com moditym the public estimation. The time wa-when in the bolt orsuchcoaspicuous party men as Sumner, Trumbull, Greeley and Brown, Schurz, Fenton, Curtin, Mc- Clure and Forney, from their regular party nominations, they would have overthrown the ticket ; but now the party leader in bolting may whistle for his followers, but he will wlil-fle in vain. We have in this and other cities numerous politicians, each with his band of followers, more or less : hut he is as much their servant as they ar? his clan uers. and they all signify nothing i groat national campaign. It is one of the les-ons of these late elections that our most conspicuous party leaders are greatly mis taken in undertaking a new departure upon the presumption that the world will follow them : that thev are the masters and not the servants of the people. As it was with Webster so it is with Sumner in Mas sachu-etts in attempting a political revolu tion upon ins own account, -is ii wu- ttuu others liefore them so it is now in Penn sylvania with Curtin, McClure and Forney, in assuming to make their personal griev ances or dL-litjes superior to the leading puh- i: .! Ct- t- S' 1 IT 1.1 lie qiir-uoiis Ol me tiaj . .t. j. jitruta. HeTTBLICAX llALLV AT CnATEACCAV List evening the people of C'hateaugay, N. Y. had a large and enthusiastic meeting in Cantwell Hall, which was packed to its ut most capacity. -Many ladies were present, and a considerable number of Democrats. Chatcaugav is a Democratic town, but only two Kepubllcans have gone over to ureeley whilc so many Democrats have shown an in terest in Bepublicanism that there is hope this year of redeeming the town. A special train run up from Malone, and delegations were in from some of the surrounding towns. Fireworks and illuminations testi fied the wideawakespintof the Bepublicans. Stirring campaign songs were sung by glee clubs from Malone and Burke, and the ad dresses of the evening were by Col. W. G. Vcazey cntutland, and Albert ClarkeofSt. Albans. Col. Veazey's address was, w e be lieve, at once the fairest, most logical, stir ring and eloquent speech to which we have listened during the campaign, and it was re ceived with an attention and growing in terest which amounted to enthusiasm liefore the close. A vote of tlianks was given to the speakers and rousing cheers for Grant and Wilson and General Dix. Cliateaugay is the battle field of Franklin county. Other meetings are to be held there by both par ties. Ave expect to hear a favorable account in November. Si. Albans Messenger, Oct. 127. The Trill" rajs General Banks sees no cau-e for discouragement in the recent elec tions. We believe the General still insists that the Red River expedition was a success Traveller. A Mother' Wish. What sweet thing can I wish for yoa, my pet, Wbo sleep and n ha I now not of tnis beam so fair, Finn; by tne mellow moon, about to set, la thronzh the dark room on your joUen hair ? What street thin; can I wish ! That yoa may gala Praise- from the world tur beauty's precious dowsr, Yet keep your womanhood without a stain. Chaste as the white heart of a lotus-Bower f Or that this liaby hand, so careless new. Shall some da r comfort many a slater's pain, Lored ol the sufierer's pale- and aehins brow As the dry! daisy Iotcs the summer rain r)r thill I wish that from sad depths of s'n Your voice may summon, pitllul yet bold. The many that lie desolate therein. Colder themselves because the wcrU Is cold t Ah, yes, theso wishes wonld bo well ; and yet, Sximehow while Ilnerinx to watch you here. The tyrannous mother-lore makes me forget All else but that you are divinely dear ! And 1 can merely wish, my cold-halred elf. That, though harsh cares assail yoa bv-aod-by, Yen may bare some wee tlsrlinx like yourself To watch anl tore as willinxly as 1 ! Edjar Fanrcttt. Watching for Papa. Hhe always stood upon the steps, Jut by the cottage door. Waiting to kiaa me, when I came blich nlht home from the store. Her eyes were like the glorious stars, Uaneing in heaven's own blue ; --Papai" she'd call, like a woe bird, Ts lootla' out for you." Alas : how sadly do cur liras Change as we onward roam : For now, no birdie votee calls out To bill me welcome home. No little arms stretch out to me, No bine eyes, dancing bright. Are peeping from the eettaredoor, When I come hem at ntsit. An4 yet, il comfort me ti think That when I'm ealled away From aeeeea below, to theae of bright AadeTerLutinzdsr, A little aagel at the gate. With eyes divinely blue. Will calf with hinlfe voice. Tips. t't leotln'oat for yea." Commutation Money. Editor Free Press i Thoea-. Your Montpelier correspondent, in speak ing ofthe proposition to refund commuta tion money paid by drafted men, calls the proposition "mitis and senseless." Althoagh the proposition may be deemed impraeticable,a moment's reflection will show tint it is funded not only in. good sense but -mlistantlal justice. When the first draft came in ISC3 many paid the commutation to theD'oyerriment for the purpose of seenring others in their place, but when substsvaent drafts were im minent the very men who liad been drafted a-d who commuted out of their own pockets alone, were obliged to a-t-ist in paying much larger amounts to procure substitutes to shield their fellow townsmen from being drafted. How then can it lie sai. that simple jus tice upon the ground of reciprocity and equal taxation would not now require the latter class to bear their proportion of th bard id the former ? Eqcitt. The case due- not seem to us altogether as clear as to our correspondent. We content ourselves for to-day in giving the following different view or the -ubject, given by "a drafted man," in the Rutland Herald: Editor Rutland Herald I -ee by tho pro ceedings of the Legislature that some of the drafted nien 'an still pressing their claims against the State for the payment of the commutation money. Why a di-tinction is made between tho-e who paid three hundred dollars to the United Suites and those who furnished substitutes at a much greater ex pense, it is difficult to understand. Ifeither party lias am claim, it is the party that fur nished the substitute. Bat it seems to me that a simple statement of the case is all that is necessary t show that there is not the slightest foundation npon which to base a claim. Every able bodied man between certain ages is required by all governments to per form military duty, and in caseof rebellion, insurrection or invasion, the government has a right to inist upon their personal service. I think thi- principle will not be denied. Now for a simple statement of facts. Daring the late rebellion the government, from time to time, called for volunteer3,and to encourage recruiting, offered bounty and increased pa , and this State aUo raid seven dollars per month in addition, linallytbe exigencies of the government made ncces- i -sr a resort to dratr instead ot insist ing upon rww service, hy tne dratted man or hi- -ub-litute the law permitted him topav ihrep hundred dollars commuta tion money. Thi- provi-ien in the law was intended a- a mitigation of the hardships imposed, a- it saved drafted men from the exorbitant demands of -ubstitute brokers. Any man drafted had the choice r three al ternatives, viz pers.n.il -service, procur ing a -uVtitut.- nr paving commutation money. But it i--aidth.it men mortgaged their homes to raise the money, and that they paid taxes to raise bounties. In answer to the fir-t statement, it i- sufficient to say that they could have entered the service, and probably would have d.me so had they not tbrraght they could make more money by staying'at home. SoHiers who volunteered early in tlie war were also compelled to pay taxes to raise bounties, while they served vrithomt t he high bounties paid towards the eiote ef ttsa war. In n event have drafted men any legal or equitable eiattt against the St l. Il they hcive any esaisn nt all, which I deny, it is again-! the- Uaited State-. un tue tateauoru to pa tne- i-ianu . n matter of charity? 1 think no one will denv that both those who fumi-hed sab-titutes, and tho-e who paid commuta tion money, stand npon equal tooting, lo oota wouiu require neurit scvcii.uuu Iral and fifty thousand dollars, or simplv to refund the rommatation money would require five hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Tue Lvw oi To hie Mauks. Masoxic SvmfolsCaxnot hk I'-tn.-l'pona recent ap peal from the decision of the Examiner of Trade-marks, the following highly interest ing deei-ion was given by the acting com missioner, Capt. J. M. Thaeher, in a case involving the -use of Masonic sjmbolsasa trader-mark In the matter of the application of John F. Tolle.for the registration of trade-marks: Applicant is a manufacturer and vender of flour in the city or St. Louis, Mo. He has two e-tabli-hments upon streets, and he seeks to register as trade-marks, to be used upon the barrels containing his dour, the words. "Cherry Street Mills," in one case, and ".Market Street Mills.' in the other, combined respectivelj with a well known Masonic emblem, the square and compass. The Acting Commissi jner decides that in view of the universality of Masonry, the mystic tie that binds all nations in one com mon fraternity, and the unchangeable characteristics of emblems appeal ing with the same force to the brotherhood in all parts or the earth it is impossible to divest these sym bols, or at least this particular symbol, per haps the best known of all, of its ordinary signification wherever displayed, either as nnabitrary charaeteror otberwi-e. It will be universally understood or misunderstood as having a Masonic significance, therefore as a traile-mark must constantly work de ception. Commissioner Tbacher adds . I am clearly of the opinion, therefore, that the proposed eombinationscannot prop erly subserve the ends of a trade-mark. Among Masons, with whom this token has a moral significance, its use in that capaci ty would undoubtedly lie regarded asabasa prostitution of it to mercenary purposes, while with others its mystic force woul J often dissipate its virtues as a trade mark and, perhaps, in some instances plicothe article it appeared upon under a lan. 'Then, if these trade-marks could be sanc tioned tber would tend to defeat the funda mental object of the trade-mark law, which is an cft-hoat ofthe aneienf'law merchant," and like that.designed to advance trade and mannfaetnres. The deei-ion of the Examiner of Trademark- must beallnned. Who Lost ? Several gentlemen who made liets that Indiana would go republican de sire to know whether they have last or won, as two republican Congressmen at large have been electfsl, and probably a demo cratic Governor, all on a general ticket. As the wager is equivalent to betting upon the nominal strength cf tho two parties, wa should -ay that if the aggregate Tote of either Congressman exceeded the total vote of Hendricks the State went republican, and t-ice versa. The eine-tion is open for debate. Boston Journal. Wiieiie is Geneoai. Banks ? When Gn. Banks first bobbed over to Grceleyism it was stated that he would address the merchants of New York upon the financial condition ofthe country, including probably some hints regarding the value of Cuban bonds. The time for delivering the address was post poned, and as yet the day has not been fixed upon for its delivery. It is a pity that Mr. Banks should not have an opportunity to enlighten the country upon so important a "subject. Boston Journal. A lady, who aswrts that her opinion is based npon a close oleservance, says that men, as a rule, regard their wives as angels for just two months, namely a month be fore marrying her, and a month after bury in g her. Two milliners, who hated each other as only rival milliners can hate, started for Europe, each flattering herself that the oth er was ignorant of her intention, and found themselves the occupants of the same state room on the steamer. The way they avoid ed each other was a study. for a philosopher.