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t joss 8 ill. 0.1 have I thought, tonsils;, BT i0T, . ,h V And all 'ke i..r llthtiSt I htV. kaJ' Love-crowned,ilnc.SrstI taiwuXfoSSiT,,... That. If by cm.l F.uU r.S"Jl0rmr t mine, nor thin., f.r that can never be) I ne'er should bear thy vole, duloVt tVn.. .Nor kiss not clasp the. mornot all il"e r inpaniedaUllbyswwtHn.mMyn. T her l,d cry. "O eldest who hit power in bnn: again my darling to tor sirhtl A4 rom thoPast evoke cT, TMiJiba honr iutt blessed the day or rlorlfied tuil-M. I .cry not the Joyi a king my toast. jo ne'er possessed th. treasure I nan lost !" Harptro Mogailno. rarlstaiSuIn.llnr. A Paris letter to the Philadelphia T,U ,,,isays It is aa unfortunate fact on , irtunate for the travelling public at lame I jican that Americans arc usoally so ready . submit to the swindles and extortions of Parisian hotel-keepers. Of course it is not , aant, when the trunks are packed and : .- image is at the door, to be called upon ci a train in order to set right some uparatively trifling over-charge in the -t-rendercd bill, and so the amount is paid. .c J the hotel-keeper rejoices in his snccess mgucry. Occasionally my fellow-conn-men rebel, us in one instance that came i hit knowledge, where a lady, having , .ed a little ink on the carpet of her bed - o. found the price of a new carpet added .crbill In Tain did she call attention to Uet that tac spot was but a small one that the carpet was but a miserable'. -ii, threadbare concern, that could last t a short time longer at best. Iler host -. w insulting, and talked of the police , . and so the lady gaTc in and consented ijt. Hut the day she left the hotel she . Led quietly out, purchased a quart bot- .1 ink and, returning to her room, she gcd the carpets from end to end. "You i nut make turo carpets out of me," was -.mment to the exasperated hotel-keep- Hn another occasion, an American gen-ui-n was compelled to pay for a large ii trig-glass which bad a small crack in one .cr.the crack having existed when he . iged the room, but he, being unused to nes and wickedness of foreign inns, . i neicr thought of calling attention to it. ' I paid his till ithoot a word, but he shat- - i the mirror into minute fragments be--l he left the bouse. I Me worst form of swindle, however, is which is practiced upon persons who tarnished apartments in Paris. Many a b people, and especially French wo . make a comfortable living by hiring . tmcnts on long leases, furnishing them, i itcn renting them out to foreigners, i rice is always sufficiently high, being rai:y twice the rent of an unfurnished -tment of the same sire and stylo. One 1 think that such charges would cover rdinary wear and tear ot the furniture, m-h is not the idea of your Parisian - 'in i. On the contrary, wheneTer tenant is about to depart, a furniture rt, irnicd with an inventory, takes pos n i f the premise?. Every scratch, -i' or crack, eTery missing nail, or . lie chair-back is set down in the bill i rice Tarymg from one franc to six. ' ry piece of china that is nicked or de . no matter how slightly, must be paid - it its full retail Taluo. As the furniture i . . r perfectly new, and as the unwary .r,t seid'im or never thinks of baTing an nt .ry nf the cracks, holes, scratches and ; t-. t.iken when he or she moves in, the m- Ji Iccts are generally paid for some five - times over at the very least. Then the i;iii always receives 0 per cent on the irges o it is for his interest to tun up as i-gc a. lull as possible. The sums thus ex : -ted ary lroiu JCOO to $50, according to tleguncc of the furniture and the length Hue that the apartment has becen occj- : i 1 1 know of one instance where the : nent. by the terms of bis lease, was oblig t put ull the kitchen utensils in perfect r 1. r before leaving. He did so, and when . i amc to ttle, a bill of $10 for damages t the kitchen was rendered. "Whcroare . damages ?" he asked tho expert, in high ' iignatiun. That indiTidual sought high i luw in the perfectly-organized room for i '.ngle injured article. Finally, in a cor : - r he espied a small tin-dipper, somewhat ntand worn with uso. "There," he cried t-nimphantly, holding it up to the light. cry good,'' mado answer the American, !y . "1 paid 10 cents for that thing when I hrst came Lcre, and will replace it, if you . ke, at the Fame price." Ono lady, on .nog a furnished apartment, found in one rncr of her saloon a small table coTcred ith red cloth, so dirty and worn that she nt it up to a lumber room to get it out of the way. When she left sho wa forced to ray $0 for "soiling the table." As tho ui-cst of the American correspondence ihroad once remarked to mo "You may lure an unfurnished arartmcnt,furnish it, and live in it for two years , at the end of that time, if you take your furniture down to the ourt-yard, break it upand burn it, you will have spent less than by living in furnished ipartmcnts. A Feamtl Plunge. Ono of the pas sengers in the railroad car which plunged into the Naugatuck river in Connecticut, ..ist week, describes the terrible plight in which ho and his companions found them selves after the water had enveloped them. .V fearful jolting of the car, as it crossed t e switch, told us we were off the track. 1 he seats of our car were full, and the alley way crowded with those who had no scats, and a murmur of sudden fear filled the air the jolt began. A dozen or more grabbed v e liell-rupe and pulled, and a moment af t r i amc a crash of wheels through the floor. ' 1 jr car tipped oTer, and down we went, the i r died w ithiirieks that a momet after were smothered to deathly stillness by the burgling waters of the rirer that rushed in A cp about us. I was face-downwards when t a car landed on its side, with the waters a prumLscnou. heap of humanity and ' at ing debris about and around ts. Kc.liz- g f ally that we could not remain in such i i-iti in long with safety, we gather band i J knees beneath us for a struggle for life, i with one ficrco effort rose up through mass, where the elements were in better pe to breathe. Some one was on the top ii f the car, breaking in the windows as .ancc for egress, while one fellow, half r . t from fear, was trying to open the car . r in spite of the water, calling for some v ..utide to let go the door, as if they n holding him in. Nearly all were cry-;l-r help . and amidst the din we caught .i window-frame aboTe us, and with a lit I ( !p were soon on the top of the car, T'.u feet or more from the shore, with ' wis of passengers and others lookitg on . 1 trvmg to help us. Below us in tho were a dozen ladies floating about, ie with her face alono aboTe the wa 'r These and men with broken arms " i i ut, bleeding faces and hands sjoa helped out and crossed to ; liorc on a bridgo of rails. One lady i- taken through tho large hole broken r jIi the bottom of the car, and so, ono . und another, all were rescued and taken w ere they could be cared for and carried ' i.e Nono were killed, and so we gladly !t t! c car to its fate when wc saw the last ' r n -afe on shore. Another Weddlnt hi Telecraph. From th. Sn Micro Union. I sst evening Mr. W. II. Story of the Sig- i VrTicc. and Miss Clara E. Choate, i.u'itcr of I). Choate, Esq., of this city, u. ... t fimn Grant. Arizona, the formed in the presence of . .iTe ,',iriv in tho telecraph office in San I go. Miss Choate became engaged to tho itj worthy young gentleman with whom - i will make the journey of life, some time ig" As he is in the service of the Govern ment, and the operator of the telegraph sta t. m at (,:amp Grant, ho could not obtain Wc to mate so lonff a iourncy hither for i 'S wedding, and the young lady went out l urn in Arizona. But, arrived there, no i crgv c mid be had to perform the ceremo ny and in this exigency the plan of using ti legraph was decided upon. Its 'rnv !. .Tpnini the friends of the 'u v and friends of the bride gathered at t ia 7u mmrrnf Filth and li recti. There was a very large party of -ie and gentlemen. Abe omciaiing y cvaizn. tho Kcv. Jonathan L. Mann, of tho Metli, ,li,t Pnismnal Church, being present "J all l,ne in readiness, the following mes--P' was sent by the father of the bride ; W Dieco, April 24-8.30 P. M.-Greet-r.- t , fr;nHi t Camn Grant. W e are 'rajy to proceed with the ceremony. D. CllOATI, AND PiRIT The answer at once came back : r,v fi.vT April 21. To D. Choate Mil party We are ready. AV. II. Siort. J Clara E. Choati, Then Mr. BIythc, chief operator at tho Sn Diego office, at the instrument the t ,r l.a.n The iter. Mr. Mann rose and said that tuey were about to attend the marriage cer tmony of two friends C50 miles distant ; they r ...4 snoken standing "o far apart, but we could speak with the Wegraph wire audibly enough. Here followed the usual formula for the marriage serTicc, the questions and responsis wing lorwarded OTer tne wire. Numerous congratulatory messages were tten sent by the friends present, and appro bate replies received : in laci meic - uaFPJ wedding party, wuu m sy ciiM...rHm,rl,TT,ntfl nnd frond wishC9 USU' 1 to such occasions, notwithstanding the little distanc of C50 miles between the par ties. Anna Dickinson four stage dresses cost 49,000 in cash. If she fails as an actress it will inVn l,r Vnt eirhtv-seven Tears, workinr t C5 ner week, to Day for the dresses alone. VOL- XLIX. NEW Art Cr Illclsm. TOO JICOI SETERIir. ine other dav wliTI Tt ?;in, r a wper, wnicti we w 11 call Th, Bk w sitting in bis sanctum, writing an cditoral, a visitor entered. Takinc a scat, he said ily name is Brewer ; I am the painter of the alieirorieal nietnr. if 'The Ttnmi, r Truth, on exhibition down at Yclverton's ; I called. Col. B , to make some complaint about the criticism of the work which ap peared in your paper. Your critic seems to baTe misunderstofwl. wunou-W rtff the picture. For instance, hesavs I.t me quote the paragraph : wiuuuu iu tim ieit stanus si. Augustine with one foot on a wooden Indian which is lvinz upon the cronnd. VTliv thi artist decorated St. Augustine with a high hat and put his trousers inside his boots, u "y ue jinea tne saint s Dclt with naTy reTokcrs and tomahawks, has not been rc Tealed. It strikes us as being very ridicu lous.' "Now. Colonel, this seems tn mn in lio little too harsh. That figure docs not rerire- pent St. Augustine. It is meant for an alle gorical picture of Brute Force, and it has lis loot upon Inteliect Intellect, mind you ' and not a cigar-store Indian. It is a likeness of Captain Kidd. and 1 set it back to repre sent the fact that Brute Force bclonzed to the dark aces. How in thunder that man of yours ever got an idea that it was St. Augustine beats me." "It is singular," Colonel. "And now let me direct vonr attention to another paragraph. He says: e were astonished to notice that while Noah's ark eoes sailing in the remote dis- tance. there is, close to it, a cotton factory, the chimney of which is pouring out white smoke that covers the whole of the sky in mo picture, wnne tne aric seems to Do try ing to sail down that cbimncv. Now.thev didn't have cotton factories in those days , the thing do n't hang. The artist must have been Qrunk.' "Now. Colonel, this insinuation rains me. How would you like it, if vou painted a pic ture of the Tower of Babel, and somebody should come along and insist that it was the chimney ot a cotton factory, and that the clouds with which the skv is covered was smoke? Cotton factory 1 Your man certain ly cannot be familiar with the scriptures ; and when he talks about the ark sailing down that chimney ,hc forgets that the reason why it is standing on one end is that the water is so rough as to make it pitch. You know tho iiiDIe says that arks did pitch without and within. Now do n't it?" I think maybe it docs." replied tho Colonel. "But that's not tho worst ; I can stand it. But what do vou think of a man who cocs to criticising a work of art, and saTs now just listen to this : '"Un tho right is a boy who has his clothes off, and has apparently been in swimming and has been rescued by a big yellow dog just as he was about to drown. hat this has to do with the Triumph of Truth we do not know, but wc do know that the dog is twice as largo as the boy,and that he has the boy's head in bis mouth while the boy's bands are tied behind his back. Now for a boy to go in swimming with his hands tied, and for a dog to swallow his head so as to drag him out, appears to be the awfullest foolishness on earth.' "Colonel, you will probably be surprised to learn that Tour critic is here referring to a very beautiful study of a Christian martyr who has been thrown among the wild beasts of the arena, and who is engaged in being eaten by a lion. Ihe animal is not a yellow dog ; that human being has not been in swimming , and the reason that he is smaller than the lion is that I had to make him so in order to get bis bead into tho lion's mouth. Would you have me represent the lion as large as an elephant : ould you nave me paste a label on tho Christian martyr to in form the public that 'This is not a boy who has been treading water with his hands tied. ' Now look at the matter calmly. Is the Duyh encouraging art when it goes on in this man ner? Blame me if I think it is "' It certainly doesn't seem so.' Well, then, what do you say to this? What do you think of u critic who re marks - " 'But the most extraordinary thing in tho picture is the croup in the foreground An old lady with an iron coal-scuttle on h er head is handing some black pills to a ballet danc er dressed in pink tights, while another woman in a badly fitting chemise, stands by them brushing ofl the flies, with the branch of a tree, with a canary bird resting upon her shoulder and trying to sing at some small bovs who are seen in the other corner of the field. What this means wc haven't the re motest idea ; but we do know that the bal let dancer's legs have the knec-tans at the back of the joint, and that the canary bird looks more as if it wanted to cat the coal scuttle than if he desired to sing.' "This is too bad. Do vou know what that beautiful group represents? You'll hardly believe it, and yet, as true as I'm sit ting here, that old lady, as your idiot calls her, is Minerva, the Goddess of war, hand ing not pills, mind vou . pills ' why it's awful bandiDg cannon balls to the Goddess of LoTe as a token there shall be no more war. And the ngure in wnat nc cans wc chemise is the Genius of Liberty, holdipg out an olive branch with one band, while upon her shoulder rests an American eagle, screaming defiance at the enemies of bis country, who are seen fleeing in the distance. Canary bird ! small boys ! ballet girls 1 The man b crazy, sir ; stark, staring mad ! It is awful ! And now I want you to write up an explanation for me and publish it. This kind of thing exposes me to ucrision. n excites laughter. I can't stand it ; and, by George, I won't ' I'll sue you for libel. It hurts the sale of the picture." Then the colonel promised to make amends, and Mr. Brewer withdrew in a calmer mood. For the Hcalhcn. TUE SACRIFICES OF A WORmT VAX. Tim other dir. when the wind whistled sad-toned jigs around the battery, a little old man entered a saloon in that vicinity, and asked the barkeeper if he could leave some tracts there. "A whole carload if you want to," was the prompt reply, and the old man placed a package on a oeer taoie ana suw saiu "There 's!no nobler cause than the cause nflhc i heathen. We should all contribute a small share of our wordly wealth to shed the gospel light across the seas." A nair of boxinc-clovcs wero softly re posing on a table, and tho little old man felt of them and went on : 'It makes me sad to sec such sinful things lvinir around when the cost of one glove might save a dozen souls in Africa. Three, nr four of the bovs had dropped in and the saloon keeper winked at them and "Uo you want to earn cJ lul lua en ?" "Vprilv- I do." "Put on the cloves with me and knock me down, and I'll ante up ca-h enough to ,nmt whole reniment of African sin ners The cause is noble, the inducement great," mused the little old man. as uc loycu ,1'iih in. nvra. The ivits encouraeed him to go in, desir ing to see him knocked wrong end up, and he finally got of his overcoat with the ex- nloT,,linn It can t ue a sin ui uo m su- v. . . 1. r .V- ,n r.t the heathen." The ralnnnist meant to lift him over one of the tables at the first blow, but the blow trn warded on very nanusomeiy, anu mi; ItttlanM mnn clirhed . "Ah um ! The heathen walk in wicked ness and they have souls to be saved !" "Look out now !" cried the saloonist, as i rnt in ft left-hander. Verily I will, and I will give thee one in i.,n inr the heathen." I!., ctrnrt ft Ktarre-erinir blow, and the saloonist didn't feel quite so enthusiastic as on the start. He took the defensive, and i M I,. t all thou-nrk be could do. UC IHJUli ' - - . , nTh.t'a rninther for the ignorant minds the fur-oft shore !" sighed the little old man. as bo knocked tho saloonist against the wall. . , , . There wasn't any "science" about bim, but he struck to kill, and his arms were flying around like the spokes of a wagon i i "Don't crowd a feller," called out the saloonist, aa he was being driven back, and he got mad and put in hU hardest licks. Ho meant to smash the little man's nose as flat as a window-glass, but be could not do it, He got in two or three fair bits, and was i tn Turain his courage, when the aged stranger sorrowfully remarked : "My friend, the heathen call, and I cannot tarry much longer. Take this one, and I may broaden yodr views on the heathen question. KeceiTe this one in the spin tendered, and you may be sure the ga shall be a beacon-light as far as it will go. HedeliTered two sledge-hammer blows SERIES. VOL. XXII, right and left, and the saloonist got the last on the car as he dodged the first. He went over in beautiful style, and as he slowly re gaining his feet he felt in his vest pocket for the wager. "If you'll come around here to-night and do that again I'll double the money!" ho growled as he paid the wager. "Jly road points toward Bosting," softly replied the old man, "and I cannot tarry. Let us part friendly, for I only boxed for the heathen's sake. I gave to thee, thou hast given to the heathen, and now farewell '" A Lonesome Olo Neoro. There was a slight rumpus near the market early yes terday morning that escaped tho notice of the officer on duty. An old negro man, evidently from the country, was sitting in his wagon, apparently wrapped in deep thought. His hair was plentifully sprink led with gray, and he was carefully polish ing the gtassea of a pair of venerable-looking spectacles. Something in his appeal -ance attracted the attention of two neatly dressed mulatto boys, who, with cigars in their mouths, were sauntering leisurely by. " Here's old man Methuselah," remarked one, while tho other was singing, " Der was an old nigger an' his namo was Methu selm. When ho got old ho went to Jeru " But beforo the saddle-colored warbler could finish his ditty, tho object of bis sercnado had leaped from the wagon and seized him. The next moment the tuneful youth was wriggling on tho ground, while the old man was thumping him with a No. 13 brogan without regard to the musical pauses, and with such vigor as to IcaTO the impression on those within hearing that an army of spring carpet-beaters had suddenly begun operations. " Methuselum ain't had no such marrer in his leg like dis. is he?" queried the old man as he caTe the youth a final jar that sent him rolling out of reach. Scrambling to his feet the bruised boy, without answering the interrogatory, made up the street at apace that soon carried him out of sight. " I'm a lonesome nigger, I am," remark nil tin. nlll t.l.,in a. hn ntV.rl i,n ntd hat which bad fallen off his head during the ' thumping process. ' I'm lonesome by na tur, and when I gits mad my lonesomeness is de wus kinder d'sease. Dey ain't no twin niggers roun' here," he continued, giving a suggestive pull on the lappels of his coat, and casting a glance at those whose atten tion bad been attracted by the incident just related " dey ain't no twin niggers aroun' hero dat wants to keep me from bein' lone some is dey? Ef dey is jes' let him walk right out here in de sand, an I'll see ef I can't keep him comp'ny while my wind lasts." As there was no response to his somewhat sarcastic challenge, the aged negro mount ed his wagon again, and was soon engaged in enjoyinir his propensities for" lonesome ness." 1 Faogixg" at WesthixstxrScbool. For the edification of a more luxurious and less oppressed generation of fags, let me give a sample ol a day s work during tnis my period of servitude. i rose as the day broke, hurried on my clothes, brushed those of my master, clean ed several pairs of his shoes, went to the pump in Great Dean's yard for hard water fur his teeth, and to the cistern at Mother Grant s for soft water for his hands and face, passed tho rest of the time till eight in my own h&cty ablutions, or in conning over my morning school lesson. Kight to nine In schoof. Nine to ten Out for my breakfast, or rather for my master's breakfast. I had to hrinir ud his tea-things, to mako his toast. etc my own meal was a very hasty affair. len to twelve In school. Twelve to one In tho usher's correcting room preparing for afternoon lessons. line to two Winner in tho hall a sort oi roll-call absence a punishable offence, the food execrable. Two to fivo Evening school. Five to six Buying bread, butter, milk and eggs for the great man's tea. and pre paring that meal. Six to the lollowing morning Locked up at Mother Grant's till bed time; fagging of a miscellaneous character. I had borne this description of drudgery for about a fortnight, when, without weigh ing tho consequences remember, reader, that I was not nine years old I determined to strike work. Instead, therefore, of pre paring as usual, 1 slipped behind one of the maids into the coal cellar, and there lay vmlu lor a couple of hours. I was at length dragged out 01 my hiding placo and delivered over to tho fury of my tcaless master. He mado mo stand at attention, with my little fingers on tho seam of my trowsers, like a soldier at drill. He then felled me to the ground by a swinging buck horse on my right cheek. I rose up stupo Ccd, and was made to resnme my former position, and received a second floorer. I know not how often I underwent this or deal, but I remember going to bed with a racking headache and being unable to put in an appearance next morning at school. Lord AtUmarle't " Fifty Years of My Life." " Buelhcrse" tn Westminster lanznaze, moaci a blow on the check with an open liana. Then and Now. They nad not met for years. Unco, tney naa leanea over mo seii same girden gate, and sat side by side on the old-lasaioncd cair-eiotn soia, whisper ing those platitudes wmcn, young iotb makes of such breathless interest, while the kerosene lamp was turned down to tho faintest glimmer compatible with perleot propriety. He had said that ber image, and hers alone, could till the void which absence from her left in his heart; and when alter un utterable agonies of broken but impassion ed English he had said that he adored her, sho had gently reclined her head upon the home-starched shirt-bosom that creaked above his manly-breast, bo having, with great presence of mind, placed bis hand- kcrchiet thereon, in view oi possioie poma- tn. And then ho bad taken the assurance that she reciprocated his affection, from her own lips, and he remarks with a sad smile that her breath was faintly suggestive of fried onions eaten tho previous day , but in those heavenly gold-plated moments no tnougni that the odor of violets in spring was ex haled from her rosy lips. Ho went away to work ; they correspond ed until, from two letters a week, the cor respondence dwindled down to theexchange of a casual newspaper, and then silence. She finally married so did ue. And now that they have met, befcro bis heart had done beating, he saw that instead of the sweet girl with brown balranda lithe, willowy grace, which somehow no had dreamed ot encountering, thero stood a stout lady with a false front, who said : Well. James. I do declaro! How old you've growed an' how gray you bo." And ho replied, " Well, Hannah, I never should have known you. now stout you arc." Good Heaven, is that fat old woman the airl that I ithought I once lovod?" he whispered to nimseii as no turucu aay, while she murmured, halfaudibly,"Lemtue sec, wasn't Jim an I 'ngaged?" Boston , Commercial Bulletin. A Hesiirkadle jok Tracedv. The Ten nessee papers describo a remarkable love tragedy that took place in tho ullage of Fanuington, in that State .last week. About a year ago a young man named Hurt came to Farmingtou in search of employment, and being needy and destitute was kindly treated by a worthy family with whom his mother had formerly lived. After a lapse of several months it was discovered that a little lovo affair had sprung up between the young man and the youngest daughter of the family a beautiful and accomplished young lady whereupon ber father gavo Hurt his walk in papers, with peremptory orders not to come on his premises again. However, letters were passed and a few clandestine meetings were had. Finally tho young Mis sourian got a revolver, hired a horse and boldlv rode down the pike towards Farm ingtou. He told several persons on the way that he was going to "see his girl, and then and there kill himself; that if he could not live with her he would die with her." Ho arrived at the bouso at about 10 o'clock in the evening, hitched his horse at the gate and walked into the house. When he knocked at the door the mother of the girl, thinking it was the doctor some of the family being sick opened it, and was greeted with the words "Y'ou are the cause of and then came the report of a pistol. The mother thought Hurt shot at her. Her husband thereupon seized a double-barrelled shot-gun, loaded with bird shot, and, getting a glimpse of the intruder.who was still in the hall,fired upon him. Hurt then staggered out nrth hall and was found lying dead in the orchard, about one handred yards from the hmIU ltvu now seen that instead ot shooting at the mother he had shot himself in the right breast, ine lorce oi un suoi gun discharge was broken by his clothes, but twentv-three shot were extracted from his side. A would-be fashionable woman in the Yt nnder sentence for murder .has only one reaacst to make. She wants the shade of ber dress to maicu mc supc. a. w.uw silk would be appropriate. GOSSIP FOH Till: LADIES. Interlocutor : "Who's that showy woman who talks and laughs so loud.and digs people in the ribs?" Interlocutrix! "Oh i that's the Duchess of Bayswater. She was a Lady Gwendolen Beaumonier, you know." In terlocutor (with warmth) ; "Ah ! to be sure : that accounts for her well-bred case, her aristocratic simplicity of manner, her natural and straightforward " Interlocutrix (putting up her eyeglass) : "By the way, pardon me, I have unintentionally misinform ed you ; it's Mrs. JudL . js. She's the widow of an Alderman, and her father was a cheesemonger in the New Cut !" Interlocu tor : "Dear me ah-hum, cr-hum-ha ; that quite alters the case. She is very vulgar, I must say awful '" (N. B. It was tho Duchesa, after all). Punch. Mr. Buckle states that heman nature has changed very little in the last 3,000 years; but we do not remember any record of Roman Senator trying to account to bis wife for a light deposit of pearl-powder on the left shoulder of his toga on the ground that he had been playing checkers in a grist mill. The New York Mail telis young ladies how to arrange their hair in a fashionable stylo . Let it all down and comb it out. Then go up on the roof while tho wind plays tho very (whatever is appropriate) with it. Then catch up the back with a bow of ribbon, and allow tho front to stay as it is. "And you think, darling, you conld be content to share my bumble lot and live in a quiet way with love and me," queried the blissful lover, as ho looked fondly into her translucent blue eyes. " Why .yes", precious, you have no idea how economical I am. Pa gave me $100 last week to buy a new silk, and I saved enough out of it to purchase, four pair of six-buttoned kids "' Iho last heard ot that young man, his doctor bad ordered him to the Black Hills for his health. A Dubuque (Iowa) man visited his good old aunt, and extolled the good qualities of his young wife, concluding by telling the old lady that his wife had a wonderfully sweet voice, and a "mezzo soprano of extraordinary compass." The old aunt said, "Hcz she? Well now, yerauntJLucy used to be troubled with jest such a complaint, a long while ago, and sho used to put a mustard piaster to the soles of her feet and take catnip tea, and it gave her a sight of easiness. Jest have your wife try that, and I'm sure she will git better." A Carson (Nevada) lady was out trading at a dry goods store the other day, when she ran out of money, and asked the clerk to put the balance on the books. Ho cheerful ly Bgreed, and said he would send the bill to her husband. "You'd better send it to me," 6he said, as he figured up tho cost. "I've got a fcculiar husband. If that bill reads $11 for sugar, coffee and tea he'll give me the money without a word. If it reads for balance on dry goods. ho'U'seeyou in Jericho before he pays it. Make it out on groceries. It is my duty as a good wife to pander to his feelings." A young man in Western Wisconsin who was about to lie married the other day, suddenly remembered that he hadn't fed his horse, and the ceremony had to wait until the horse had been cared for. Ho explained that a good horse couldn't bo found every day, while thirteen different girls wanted to marry him. Two young ladies in the library were dis cussing a preference expressed by ono nf them for clean shaven men, when the other was heard to remark "I don't object to a man with a reasonable quantity ot hair on his face, but I wouldn't like to marry a buffalo robe." Mrs. Gitup of Davenport remarked to a neighbor the other day ; "My husband is the hardest man to reason with that ever lived. I had to smash up my china teapot and throw a milk pitcher through the look ing glass before I could make him promiso to take me to the Centennial." When Charlotte Cushman played Mrs. llalkr in a Southern city, many years ago, she was horror-struck in the last act at be holding two veritable littlo darkies led on the stage as her children. Tho audience did not manifest emotions cither of derision or displeasure. It is stated that snuff dipping has become an alarmingly prevalent vice among the women of Mississippi, and the physicians are becoming alarmed in regard to tho mat ter. An old Scotswoman .whose favorite son was in tho habit of swearing occasionally, was censured by her minister for not correcting him. "It's very wrong, minister," she admitted, "but ye maun aloo that it sets off conversation mightily." A physician replied to a lady querist who wished to know something of his experience in the matter of the tender passion "Well, I neter did know a man to die of love, certainly , but I have known a twelve stone man go down to nine stone fivo, under a disappointed passion, so that pretty nearly a quarter of bim may bo said to have per ished." Somebody asked a young lady the other evening if she didn't think the serial litera ture of tho country was at its best just now. She said she did, decidedly ; there were the loveliest patterns in Harper's Bazar she bad ever seen. A St. Louis woman says it is no worse to encircle a lady's waist with your arm in a ball-room than to hug your friend's sister on the back stairs. No worse ' Why, it is not as good ' A gentleman living not a thousand miles from Augusta, Mo., is in a very low condi tion, and will probably not survive many days. His affectionate wife, who has been on her annual house-cleaning raid, in tear fully speaking of the approaching dissolu tion of her dear husband, tenderly remarked to a friend "Oh! how I shall miss bim when I come to make soap this spring." A woman in Washington Territory kept her mouth open long enough upon a certain occasion last month to swallow a snake. Her husband betrayed a good deal of feeling in relating the little circumstance to his neighbors, and concluded his narrative with the remark : "Thero ain't nothin' hard hearted 'bout me, but hanged if I s'poscd I could feel enny sorrer for a snake." Edith- "Oh, dear' I am so tired'" Loving Husband . "What has fatigued you, my Pippctywippctv Poppet ?" Edith "Oh ' I have had to hold up my parasol all the time I was in the carriage!" Punch. Fashionable storo. Lady No. 1 "Hew dudoo.dear? How's yo r dog? D'yu get fond of him ?" Lady No. 2 : " Vcwy ; yah, vewy. Oimfawlyin love with him ; deah dog." The second night after her first husband died she sat by the open chamber window five hours waiting for the cat3 to begin fight ing in the back yard. She said . "This thing of going to sleep without a quarrel of some kind is so new that I can't stand it ! Let me alone till they begin ; then I can dozo oil gently "' Tue Oloest Woman is New E-nclanp. The New Haven Register claims to have dis covered the oldest woman inisew tngland, it not in the United states, in the person ol .Mrs Ira -Mead, who, according to rename re cords, the statements of friends and her own statement, was born in Greenwich, Conn., on August 18, li iO. In an upper room of the bouse Mrs. Mead has made ner home for more than five years, never having left it to go into adjoining rooms or to de scend to the floor below since her one-hundredth birthday. She takes prido in stating that she never has experienced a day of actual bodily sickness. Her eves, oi a light gray. are as bright as when she was but 1G, and she is able to see plainly without the aid of spectacles, t or a person who has passed her one hundred and fifth year, her memory is wonderfully rctcntive,and she can narrate events which happened when the grandpar ents of Greenwich residents were children. At times she is talkative, and will answer readi ly Questions put to her in regard to the past, Again, the threads of her memory seem to be broken, and the closest questioning by those most familiar fail to draw satisfactory answers. For many years she has been afflicted with an almost adder's deafness. She never saw Gen. Washington.though she was 13 years old when peace was declared, 22 when Washington was elected President, and 29 when he died ; but sho remembers distinctly when Washington passed through the village with his retinue. Mrs Mead remembers "Old Put." and says she often attended the church, when she was a child, the steps of which became famous in con- n . . , a PL nection witn rutman s oaring icai. one has passed ber long life, with the exception ef one year, satisfied to remain among her children and ner descendants. Miss Anthony says marriage is a luxury to men. We used to think so, bat we've modified onr views considerably. tsoston Post. BURLINGTON. VT., FRIDAY MORNING-, JUNE 2. 1876. Forced Labor tn Egypt Terrible Op.rnslon aaa Heartless Mauri. It is astonishing that the majority of Englishmen should imagine that a stop had been pot to this infamous system, when the very reverse is the case. The Egyptian Fellaheen and the poor generally are liablo to forced labor first, at the public works ajtcrm of very elastic meaning in a country where all things exist for the ruling despot such as railroad, the repair of dykes, the making of canals, the construction of bridges ; and secondly, on the estates and at tho sugar manufactories of the Khedive. For the first of these the people receive no payment, and keep themselves ; for the see ond they keep themselves for fifty days.'snd afterward occasionally receive a few dry, gritty rusks a day, and a small nominal pay ment, which, however, in many instance'1, and especiallyjin remote places, is either al together withheld or paid only in part. I' have the word of the European superinten dent of one of the largest of the Khedive's works that no payment has been made dur ing his term of office, a period of several years to any of the people employed. What takes place is this : Some hundreds of hands are wanted at one of the Khedive's estates or works. An order is issued. A steamer with soldiers on board is sent up the Nile, towing several huge barges of iron or wood. It anchors opposito a town or village, and soon hundreds of men, boys, and girls, many of tender age, are seen hurrying and being driven down to the river-bank, clutching such small bags of bread or fragments of rusk as tbey can collect in haste, and accom panied by their parents, friends, wives, and children, who rend the air with their shrill screams and lamentations, for they well know that many a dear face will never be seen again. Neither the only sons of wid ows or of blind and aged parents, nor the lathers nf helpless infants arc spared, ilie despot requires them tho bastinado and the prison are cost of refusal. The whole crowd are rapidly swept into the barge3, where, without regard to age or sex, they are pack ed together like herrings in a barrel. The steamer and the barges then start with their living freight, many ot whom will never re turn to their homes from the distant sugar or cotton estate to which they are conveyed. During the process of their beinj driven on board and during the voyage no more ac count is taken of tho occupantsof the barges than of brute beasts. Arrived at tho scene of their labors, an incessant mill-horse grind of toil ensues. There is no Friday rest, no moment's space allowed for recreation. Both sexes labor under the cyo of taskmakers armed with sticks,whips, konobashes, which are freely and needlessly applied to the often naked and at all events only one-shirtcd backs of thoso poor "free" laborers, whom the charity of England has not yet learned to pity, and whose brutal task-master-in- chict she has not yet learned to condemn. I have myself seen little, tender emaciated girls staggering under heavy loads of earth, who have been lashed each time tney asccnu ed the high bank at which they were at work, and even prodded in the naked breasts with sharp palm-sticks. I have seen them sinking upon the earth, fainting under their loads. No sort of shelter is provided for the-o unfortunates, though the nights of an Egyptian inter can be very cold, and a single shirt is their only garment. Many have not even this. Un the bitny noor oi the sugar factory, or on the tare stubby ground of the canc-EcId, where they ceac working, there they lie down to take their scanty rest, and arc succeeded on the instant by other gangs awakened to relieve them. Thus night and day, without intermission, the work goes on, and the cringing parasites of the littlo Egyptian Court, and thebaso crew of servile European speculators who prey upon the Khedive, and the Consuls Generals who love to speak smooth things, and Cook's tourists, and the reporters of English "dalics" lift up their hand.) in ful some admiration, and proclaim to the world that so many more jwands ol sugar uaTc been produced in Egypt in this than in the previous years. Ihese people lorgct to pro claim aUo bow much blood and that hu man blood has been expended in its refine ment and elaboration ! An EnglUb friend visiting one of the Khedive s sugar factories a few days ago observed a man at work load ed w ith immense iron chains. On inquir ing the reason, he was informed that the poor wretch bad been detected sucking a few inches of sugar-cane, and was accord ingly condemned to tcork ir. chains for fire days and mihts trithoul sletp, and without h ing allowed to stop to eat. Fortnightly !!' Religious Yacaries. Fresky notions in religion are not. it seems, confined to this country, although we have a Urge share of of religious ragarics. England has some maniacs in the religious line who cannot, we belieTe, be paralleled in America. Ihere are not onlv the " I'lumstead Peculiars," who will not employ physicians in illness. relying upon prayer and annointing with oil, but the L'hristadelphians, and the Jumpers, who esteem it heterodox to die. "So, sir," said one of their leaders, "wc have never given the undertaker a jib yet, and don't mean to." This sect is about ten years old, numbered thrco years ago two hundred, and, strange to tell, their faith at that date had not been tested by tho death of one of their members. When it is they will find a way out ot the dilemma, probably, as so many others have done, by spiritualizing the obnoxious fact. There arc still followers of Joanna South- cote in I-onJon, their faith undisturbed by the death or their crazy prophetess, whoso ridiculous pretensions arc transferred to old Mrs. Peacock, a woman almost sixty years of age. Ihe Christ whose birtn tney now ex pect is to be not a material but a spiritual infant, and Satan, whenever that event takes place, will be indicted and tried, not by a ury of his peers, but of saints, j The last theological freak of opinion that has come to notice is that of Mr. Ferdinand FitzGerald. who is cither the editor, or about to become so, of a periodical called the BiHe Earth. This gentleman not only believes the earth to be flit, with the sun,,a much smaller body, moviog round it at a distance of about four thousand miles, but ho considers it a matter concerning which heresy is dangerous. He proposes, however, to admit arguments in favor of the Newtonian system of astron omy into the columns of the Bible Earth, but can rclute them, n c bear oi the iiiuie Earth League, and doubt not that a goodly number of pious souls will adopt this ab surd theory as a most important article of their creed. It is our faith that there could not be a theory or dogma propounded so wild and prcjosterous that it would not bo defended with enthusiasm and in time form the nucleus of a sect, especially if a few Old Testament passages could be quoted in its support. CllARLOTE CcSIISIAN's EXPERIENCE OF NfCRO Infants. I once saw Miss Cushman in Kotzebue's dreary yet effective play, "The Strangers." We were talking about the performance when I called upon her the next morning, and sho told me that, in the early art ol her career, she was playing tne part in a certain theatre in the United States, when she was horror-struck at beholding two veritable little niggers led on to tho stage in that pathetic scene where Mrs. Haller is sup posed to embrace her own children. Itap jicars that the providing these little innocents was left to the care of the stago manager, who, failing at the last moment to procure white-skinned children, bridged over the emergency, as well as ho was able, by sub stituting darkies. As the audience did not manliest any emotion citocr ot derision or displeasure, but accepted the matter calm ly, and as a matter of course Miss Cushman smothered her feelings as best she might, and proceeded with the business of the scene. All went on well until the moment came when the children had to be led up the stage to tho arbor, there to wait in retirement un til they could be brought forward in the su preme crisis of the interview between Mrs. Ilaller and tho stranger ; but the instant they caught sight of the scenic arbor each of the children roared out, "Me won't be put in de calaboose ; me won't be put in de calaboose ! " The calaboose is the prison wherein the Boatman, in the Ethiopian Serenader's song, was "popp d when he lei nis "pas sion loose ;" and the children were not un acquainted with its durance vile. The scenic arbor bore an unfortunate resemblance to its external appearance ; and, as nothing could pacify the two little niggers, or stop their cries, yells and kicks, the green curtain bad to descend prematurely on this novel tableau and extraordinary denouement to "The Stranger." It is needless to add that, after this experience, whenever Miss Cushman performed Mrs. Ilaller in America, she made a proviso that she was to bo provided with white children, so that the pathos of tne scene might not be endangered. From 'Miss Cushman," iy CutUertBede, in Bel- gravta. A poor shoemaker at Niort, France, has a family of forty-fire children, eachot three wives paving porn u mm mvxn. From Xtw aid fhllaetliUa. FOURTH Or JULY IN NEW TORE LORD VANDI VILLE 1IXLL GATI WOMEN'S PRPAKTUXNT AT THE CENTENNIAL TDK " rOCRTU" IN miLAPELrniA AERIAL ILLUMINATION. New York, May 23, 1870. To the Editor of the Free Press aaa Times : Gotham will celebrate tho approaching rourm oi July upon a most extensive scale, generously " blaspheming tho expense," and going in' for a genuine jubilee. The City Fathers have not yet announced their programme, but "we. the people," have already taken hold of the matter, and the New York Centennial Committee has sounded the opening note of preparation. At the Fifth Avenue Hotel, a few evenings since, Thurlow Weed. Angnstus Schell, Gen. Franz Sigel. Dr. Kuppaner, Col. Rush Hawkins, Russell Sage, and other distin guished citizens, made patriotic speeches and appointed committees on pyrotechnics, both combustible and oratorical ; finances, printing, decorations, procession, etc.: took up subscriptions and generally marked out the main features of a gigantic glorifi cation. "Old Probs" is making special ar rangements with regard to the weather, and we shall doubtless see such a celebration as will cause all previous observances of the day to " pale their uneffeetual fires." Club men are making merry over a prac tical lessen in republican equality adminis tered yesterday to Lord Mjudeville, a scion ol British nobility, by an untcrrified Amer ican citizen of the maturo ago of twelve. The youngster was attracted by his lord ship's stunning get-up as a representative of the Coaching Club, and suggested that he would make a powerful attraction in Barnum's show. His lrato lordship struck the audacious and irreverent juvenile, who immediately showed fight. Sanguinary re sults were prevented by the bystanders, and his lordship came near making the ac quaintance of a Police Jnstico and obtain ing some enlarged ideas regarding Ameri can institutions. In anticipation of tho grand "blow out," when the Hell Gate explosion takes place, the residents of Astoria are getting into a state of great trepidation. Mindful of the late destruction occasioned in New Jersey by giant powder, the Astorians anticipate the final end of all things, as far as they are concerned, and " desirahlo residences" may bo bad at absurdiy low figures. Gen. Newton, who is engineering this little affair, thinks it will be no " great shakes" after all. He does not even think the shock will be felt upon the river banks, and in order to manifest his faith in tho dictum of science, announces his intention of standing within two hundred and fifty feet of the shaft when the great upheaval takes place. PmunELF-niA, May 21. Tho women's department is being gradu ally enriched with valuable contributions, and ere long will prove one of the most noteworthy features of the great exhibition. In many respects it is already a leading at traction, and wc have promise of numerous desirahlo additions to its art treasures. Miss Hosmcr, whoso fame as a sculptor is a matter of national pride, in a letter ad dressed some time since to Mrs. Gillespie, of the Woman's Centennial Committee, an nounces her intention of sending, among other works of art, a group of sculpture, which will occupy a space ot four and a halt by six feet in area, and eight feet in height, representing Emancipation, or "The Afri can Sibyl foreshadowing the freedom of her race." tho largest ideal statue yet executed by 'Miss Hosmcr. Thero will also be a copy of Lord Brown low's gates, which measnre ten feet in width by seventeen feet in height, and pre sent seventy-ono figures, representing the animal and vegetable kingdoms. In addi tion to the above, there will be a marble fountain, executed for a patron of art in San Francisco , together with bronze cop ies of some previous productions of ac knowledged merit. The natural expectation is that on the ap proaching Fourth of July the city of Phila delphia will present an extraordinary blaze of glory ; in fact, the intention is to extend the anniversary celebration over a period of soino two weeks, during which time un limited manifestations of patriotic exulta tion will be the order of the day- and night and in order to afford the American Eagle unobstructed opportunity to take a bird's eye view of tho scene, it is proposed to il luminate the entire city not by ordinary gas lights and tallow dips but by an aerial irradiation which will permeate every nook and cranny and bring every object of admi ration into bold relief. This grand schemo is to be effected by Mr. W. F. Schrocder, of aeronautic celebrity, who proposes to the Philadelphia City Fathers a plan of illuminating tho entire municipality by means of calcium lights and reflector", displayed from his " air ship," at an altitude of somo five or six hundred feet. The cost of tho operation would be less than one thousand dollars, and asido from tho question of economy, the novelty of the idea would be in appro priate keeping with tho countless wonders which fiscinato us at every turn in tho greatest exhibition which the world has cser seen. Whilo verbal descriptions of the great Exhibition are " thick as leaves in Yallom brosa," good pictorial representations are by no means equally common. The illus trated papers contain many creditable pro ductions, but in tho whole range of the en graver's art wo have seen nothing to surpass tho beautiful illustrations in Harpers lVfei ly. An efficient corps of artists and en gravers is maintained at the Exhibition, and all the mot attractive features of the grand display are promptly and accurately repre sented. As an evidence of newspaper en terprise this may be considered as of equal interest with the most attractive features of the great show itself, and parties living at a distance and unable to visit Philadelphia, should not fail to procure the successive numbers, and thereby preserve a complete record ot the Great Exhibition. Yours. Darix. Fitz-Herbert pe Perct. During tho war an officer in the Army of the Potomac was surprised on receiving a draft of men to fill up the gaps in the ranks to find that one of the names on the list was Fitz-Hcr-bert de Percy. Stil! greater was his aston ishment at the discovery that the owner of this aristocratic name was an Irishman of the Irishmen a man in whose features Nast wonid have delighted, and whose broad ac cent, as Brougham would phrase it. could only havo been made with a broad ax. "If it had been Michael, or Patrick, or Dennis, and Flaherty, O'Kourke or Hooligan, now." soliloquized the officer, "I could understand it, but Fitz-Herbert do Percy ! Never ; it is all a horrid dream 1 Say, now, my good fel low, don't let us have any moro joking. What is your name?" "Monaam, sor," re plied the recruit, steadily, "me naam is Fitz-Horborrrt de Porrrcy." Tho jiossession of this clearly impossible title exercised a dreadful fascination on all the officers of tho regiment, and numberless were tho attempts made to discover what the wearer's real name was and why he had adopted such an alias. All were baffled. Drunk or sober, to orders or entreaties, art fully pumped or abruptly questioned, ho made but one reply "Me naam is Fitz Horborrrt de Porrrcy." At last his term of service expired and he received his dis charge. "And now, DePcrcy," said his commanding officer, "you are out of the army, and whatever your real namo may be, or your reasons for abandoning it, can make no difference in your relations with me. What was it? Come now." "Capting," answered the man, "I will not desavc ycz. Fitz-Horborrt de Porrrcy was not me raal naam. That sor, I conshaled for family raisons." "I understand, I understand," said tho officer, eagerly ; "and your true name is ?" "Me raal naam, sor, "answered the soldier, "mo raal naam is not Fitz- Ilorborrrt de Porrcy, it is Fitz-Clarence de .ilontmorenshy." Verpi's War or Dealino with Autoobafu Collectors. Possibly he may have grown proud as be has become rich, for Signor Verdi is one the lords of the land in Italy and possesses large estates at Bassctto, near Parma. There he occupies his leisure in farming, and must be often soothed to hear that his music has passed into the folk-lore of the peasantry of his birthplace. Verdi is an early riser. Ho may be seen walking about with hisbat off and breasting tho wind long beforo most jopIe arc out of bed. Ue breakfasts at ten and sits down to study on his piano almost immediately afterwards. His personal appearance is that of si vigor ous middle-aged man who is in the prime of life. He has regular features, dark blue ptps full of spirit and fire, abundant hair just turning gray, a face without a wrinkle, and a nervous, well-knit ngure,maoe to sup port activity without fatigue. He is gentle tempered and courteous to musicians, and the orchestra who have been playing under his Inspiration for the last fortnight at the Parisian Opera House narrate many pleas ant anecdotes of his urbanity and goodrees : Knt it is said, with truth or'without it. that he is rather petulant to strangers, and that when nnseasonablydisturbed by younj; ladies fnr ftiitivrrAnha nr rihotOCTanhs. he insists OD nftTinir 1 sterling from the wives tad daughters of simple citizens, and 2 ster ling from lauiesoi quality. iui3imj goes to the poor presumably of Busetto, and I hope it does them good. ZW Daily ftews. Heat's Btatie or Itkas Allei at Washlectoi. ITS RICirTION BT C0NCRES3. At the evening session of the House of Representatives, May 18th, Hon. George W. Uendee, of the Third Congressional Dis trict of Vermont, offered the following reso lution : Rtielvid irtkt StHatt and HouMr of Rtpreitnta tivti, f Ae Senate concurring. That th. thanks 01 this ConaTM. be p relented to the tiov.rnor and Ibroush htm to the popl. of th. 8tate of Vermont, for th. auto, ot Ethan Allan, whos. nam. Is so honorabl jr ldentlAed with oar revolutionary history; that this work of art Ls accepted in the nam. of the nation and assigned a place In the old hall of th. House of RenrsMnttsivee alreadT set aside br Conrress for th. statues of eminent citizens, and thata copy of inn resolution, signea oy in. rresiaent oi too sen ate and tb Speaker ofth. Hons, of Representatives, be transmitted to the Governor of the citato ol Ver mont. Mr. Uendee followed with an interesting historical speech, mentioning the principal events in Vermont's early struggles, and in tho revolutionary period, describing Ethan Allen's connection with thoso stir ring times snd giving a sketch of his event ful life. The facta so narrated are so famil iar to most of our readers that we need not copy this portion of Mr. Uendee's speech. The closing portion was as follows : Mr. Speaker, we of to-day know each other by being associated together officially snd socially. We judge tho world and the times and the great men of the age by what we observe and know, and we judge with commendable accuracy ; out as to menot the heroic age, we must appeal to history. Allen was of that age. and irom its his tory we are iustified in saying that he was one of the pioneers of liberty and manfully wielded his powers and weapons in hew ing the way for tho progress, happiness. and independence of theso United States. He helped to found the colonies from which the States sprang and to plant in their soil the scions from which has grown this great country with its institutions, its prosperity. and its model free government. les. Mr. speaker. Vermont honors tho name of Ethan Allen, by placing bis statue in the Old Hall of this Capitol, which, to day, floats the flag of a free and united country, for which he fought and under which he led his little band of " Green Mountain Boys " to victory. In that hall among others are the statues of Washing ton, ureene, Itoger imams, Ldncoin, Sherman, Trumbull, and Winthrop. the fathers and defenders of this magnificent republic, and now Vermont contributes to that group a fit companion, a monumental representation of one whoso memory and deeds it will ever cherish with that endur ing regard and affection whieh has no com mon limit. Allen was a man of spirit, power, indom itable will and courage, and yet was kind. just, and remarkable for his anxiety and ettorts lor any in trouble, lie was a terrible foe to traitors, and his hatred for those who would abridge tho rights and liberty of the American citizen had no limit ; and let mo say that Vermont has a love for the name ot r.than Allen which approaches near to reverence. Her sons o! to-oay par take of the same sentiment, patriotism, and courago which filled the breast ef Ethan Allen, and the Government which he fought to create the Green Mountain Boys of to day, if need be, will fight to protect and perpetuate. He taught a lesson and lived a life which has been read and reread until every true Vermonter is led to exclaim. Let no man speak in oi tman Alien. Mr. Speaker. Colonel Allen fought for a principle the equality of a'l men before IUQ laws, fi ilu uis cupairjuis uo ucifjcu bj secure and make fast that principle, and to establish that independence in this broad land, which has been recognized by all gov ernments for a full century. Yes. air, Ethan Allen was present at our national birth, of wbicn this is tne centennial year.ano every Vermonter, yes, every American citizen, will recognize the appropriateness of the timo sought by my people to make this pre sentation of his statue to this great Govern ment. One hundred years ago Allen was one of Vermont's most honored and de voted citizens, and at that time was giving his manly and heroic services for her pro tection, with a faithfulness, with a zeal, and with an unselfi-h patriotism known only to that age. When Allen was fighting to establish a free government, and togiie it the ensign of liberty, the " stars and stripes," little did he mink that in less than a century the grandson and great-grandsons of the men who fought by his side would .strike at the life of his and the.r country, and ignominiously trail that ensign in the dut. Ue did not once think. Sir, that any generation that should follow bis of Amer ican birth could produce a people that would, without cause, attempt to destroy the noble work of their fathers ; but such is hiatory. And I may be pardoned for say ing here, I think (as the historian has long since truthfully recorded), that tho Green Mountain Boys of 1661 carried into the battles, for tbo preservation ot the Union, the same spirit, the same courage, tbo same faith in a just Providence, and the same patriotism that did the Green Mountain Boys of 1776 into the Revolutionary war for the creation of this magnificent and per manent free government, snd the establish ment of liberty throughout our entire domain. Mr. Speaker, the reen hills and rich valleys of Vermont are to-day inhabited by men and women, whose sires and grandsires were the original settlers and pioneers ot the New Hampshire grants, and I might say many of them are the dirtct descendants of the historic Allen family. And what are tbey? I answer, an intelligent, industrious, sober, honest, and brave people, who know but ono allegiance, that to tneir native country; but one flag, that the " stars and stripes," and but one God.and that the Gjd of their fathers. Mr. Speaker, on the 14th of May. 1778, Congress recognized Colonel Allen's ser vices, and honored him bypassing a. resolu tion, granting bim a brevet commission of lieutenant-colonel in reward of his fortitude, firmness, and zeal in the cause of his country, and now let the American Congress honor his memory and that of the Green Mounuin Boys, who stood side by side with him in the country's peril, by the unanimous adop tion of this resolution. Col. C. H. Joyce, of the First District, followed with a sketch of Allen's life and services, going over substantially the same ground as Mr. Heodee. He closed as fol lows . In the wealth and abundance of Ver mont's great names and glowing examples I can but feel that the selection made by the people oi my State of the men to represent them in that mute but eloquent group is peculiarly apt and fortunate. Whilo Ktban Allen nobly represented one extreme of Ver mont character and reputation, Jacob Col lamer as fully and worthily represented the other; and together the; embodied and com bined the patriotism, learning, culture, dar ing, intelligence, pluck, advancement, and civilization of the people of that State dur ing tho first century of their political ex istence. The statuo is certainly one of the boIJe-t designs snd finest specimens of art produced by American genius and skill. It repre sents the hero at the moment when, standing upon the stair-caso with his left arm thrown across his breast and bis right hand grasp ing bis huge blade, he announced to the astonished and affrighted Laplace tho high authority by which he demanded tho imme diate surrender of the fort. The people of Vermont prize this statue, not only because it is a true and vivid representation of their early champion snd patron saint, but be cause it was conceived and executed by one of her own talented and worthy sons. 'The sculptor's chisel cannot delineate his qualities of mind and heart," or pro duce that voice which, amid gloom and de spair, echoed from Maine to Georgia as it called the men ot the Green Mountains to arms in the cause of freedom and indepen dence, but it will, at least, "remind the ob server of one whose life was made illustrious by distinguished services rendered in the dark day which ushered our nation into being." Vermont presents this noble iffijy other son ss worthy the companionship of the most illustrious dead by which it will be snrrnnnded. and as ber neb offering to tbo nation's sacred treasure. In the name of that gallant people we bring it here and place it beside those of the men who knew snd trusted him in the dark snd bloody days of the republic. The spirits of heroes snd statesmen welcome him to that august nresenee. and the bronze snd marble lips greet bios ss he steps forth to take his place among that immortal band. It it well that they should be placed here in the nation's capitol, in the very center of the strength snd majesty oi tne repuoiie ana in tne nan whieh has so often echoed the voices of the ablest orators snd statesmen in the land The simple ceremonies we perform to-day will soon be) forgotten snd those who en gage in them will soon psss swsy, bat the hero we honor snd the principles his mar ble is intended to commemorate will live forever. In comiog years it will be the Mecca, snd oar children will gather there to renew their loyalty snd gain fresh cour age snd s new inspiration for the high snd sacred duties of life; there tbey will recount the dssds of heroic valor of Allen snd bis brave sass, sad in that minted presence re kindle tbs holy tres of liberty snd patriot Ins which Bsshtd forth on the 10th ot May, 1775, st Old Ti. What Vermont heart shall ever crow so osllous ss not to warm when as tMhold it? What Aiirlesn will not be strsegthsnsd whsn tts ty stall rest open NUMBER 49. it? And as we stand in that consecrated hall and look upon that towering andma- josuc lorm ana tnose mat surround lt.uod grant mat it may always inspire us with tbo same love oflibertv. devntlnn dntv. snd contempt of danger in tbetaase olright nuRu uave cnsarineu me name oi r.tnan Allen in the hearts of the American people and placed his statue in the nation's niche oi lame. Mr. Uendee I move the previous ques tion on the adoption of the resolution The previous question wa seconded and the main question ordered; and under the operation thereof the concurrent resolution was unanimously adopted. TKJirEit.tsci: coi.i:.m.. C0irRICTtDTTHlW0HIN'sTEIirZKAIClU.SIO!l. THEN AND NOW. Personal experience is often a costly thing, and is apt to come too late. A glance back into the history of the past will often help ns more than we anticipated in un derstanding the problems of tho present hour. The common experience of our race is a dear-bought treasure which we cannot too highly value. Probably no beverage ever invented by man is able to impart half the pure enjoy ment that a cup of cold water can give to ono who is really thirsty. Who that re members his childhood cannot recall the moment of supreme enjoyment when bis lips met the cool stream, how he returned to it again and again with such s senso of satisfaction and delight ns no other draught has ever been able to afford? For all this, men have seldom been satisfied with water as their sole beverage. Manifold forms of drink, some of them harmless, somo more or less injurious, some, alas ' of most fa tally poisonous qualities, have been in use by the various races of men from time im memorial. Some of the earliest records of human history are contained in the Bible. Bever ages of several kinds are alluded to in its pages, as if in common use among tho peo ple of the various countries there mention ed. On inquiry wc learn that some of these drinks were intoxicating, while some of them were not so, and we find very good reason to believe that the more harmless drinks were in common uuc, and were the most highly esteemed. One of these was made by boiling the juice of the grape till it was as thick as honey. It was then seal ed up in leathern bottles, and put asido for future use. uben used it was diluted with many parts of water. Tho wines of Arca dia, so says Aristotle, were so thick that tbey had to be scraped from the hottlts, and were then diluted with twenty parts ol water. 'Ibis beverage was in use. not only in Palestine, but in Greece and Italy. An other favorite drick was the fresh juice ot tne grape newly pressed Irom the cluster, and for this purpose great pain? were taken to preserve the grapes from decay in cool storehouses, where they could be kept, by some art unknown to us, lor a long time. This last was a kingly beverage in Egypt in the time of Joseph, as we learn from the story of 1'haroah s chief butler and baker. These nnintoxicating drinks were called wines as well as those which were fermented. The people of southern lands crave cool ing and relressic: drinks, rather than those which are hot and exciting, and so we find ibat those rich syrups, as wo should call them, made of thejuiee of fruit, were in great request, as they seem to be even in the present day, especially among the Mo hammedans, whose religion strictly forbids the use of intoxicating linuor. But drunkenness existed, notwithstanding. Fer mented drinks were known in the earliest times, and to how great an extent they were in use we cannot tell. The Bible con tains an abundance of warnings against them. We are told plainly enough that iue and " new wine" take away tbo heart, that at the last it biteth like a ser pent and stingeth like an adder, and some of the curses pronounced upon desperately wicked men borrow their most terrible imagery from tho effects of the intoxicating cup. the ricw testament contains the fearful warning that no drunkard shall in herit the kingdom of God. Hut when we hear strong drink spoken of in the Bible, wo know that a very differ ent thing is meant from the strong liquors of the present day. The process by which these are made had not then been discover ed. The strongest wines that can be ob tained by mere fermentation " has at the most some eleven per cent of absolute alco hol " "This is as high a proportion of al cohol as can be produced by the Latural fermentation of the grape juice, and, there fore, it becomes the standard of the highest strength uf natural wines. All alcohol cuntained in wines beyond this proportion must have been produced by distillation as spirit, and baro then been added to the wino in that state." Even till very recent times the popular beverages were such as would now be generally esteemed weak and poor, by men in the habit ol usiag wine at all. f he chemist Newman, who is es teemed a careful and competent analyst, made out a list of the wines in use during the last century, in which the strength of many of them is given. The Uurgundy, for example, contained only 5 per cent, ot alcohol, and was weaker than tho stronger beers of the present day. Sherry contain ed not more than " per cent, ot alcohol, and the strongest wine quoted had only i more alcohol than the sherry. Tho latter, under the name of sack, was FalstalTs fa vorite drink, and bo was displeased at find ing lime in it. This was said to occasion the gout, but worse things than lime are put in now-a-days. Adulteration in the sense in which we now know it was impossible in ancient times, lor the worst substances used for this purpose were then unknown, while the idea of using them, to make money, in this way, out of the vital forces ot deceived and cheated men, seems to have waited the nineteenth century for its development. We have something to be proud of in this our centennial year, but somethings, too, to make us bow our heads in bitter shame. Many were the evils which sprang from the misuse uf fermented liqaors, previous to the century which is now closing, but toey were as nothing compared with what has resulted Irom the introduction of ardent spirits into common use which took place in the latter part of the last century, a change for which, it is to be lea red, our onn country must bear a heavy share of the responsibility. It is the state of things which has thus been orougni auoui mat has pressed the necessity of reform upon the minds of.tliougbtfut persons who love their country and their race; who, while thev behold the present mi-ery of millions of our felloH-beings, occasioned by this deadly curse, seem to seo all the laircst hopes ut the future obscured and over whelmed by the dark folds of its doom. It is this stato of things, new in the world's history, that has rendered the use uf even the mildest intoxicants no longer sale, sup posing that it ever was, for a vast numtier uf men who inherit, ur have acquired as the effect of these intliming drinks, a taste which can easily become an uncontrollable appetite, and which, when sleeping, needs only the slightest suggestion to rouse it into lull ana rcsisuesssireugiu. ii is tnis waicu renders it impossible, or next to impossible, to know what one is drinking, and so makes all that can be slid of the harmless nature of pure wines inapplicable to tho state of the case, especially in our own country. It is this that makes it question able whether, even if such wines were with in the reach of a few. and those few were sure of using them with safety, they ought not to abstain from their use, knowing now great is the force of example, and that its effect will be, in this case, to encourage in others the use ol what is unquestionably pernicious. Every hope of uplifting tho degraded, and strengthening the weak, moral sense of ignorant men, till they are fit to take possession of the high inheri tance God has prepared lor all ; every en prise in behalf of the poor, the wretched. the inheritors ot mo evil oi past genera tions, finds itself face to face with this ter rible barrier to improvement. Can any one who professes to love God and their neigh bor hold back their hands from fighting for the defeat and overthrow of this ene my of the race, with all the energy with which men delend themselves and others from the destruction of property, liberty and life? It is thus that truly benevolent persons must now look upon the question, snd it Is thus that they will look upon it more snd more, as the facts become more and more evident, ror tbe Christian heart, wherever it beats, is merciful and self forgetting. It is friendly to the light, snd when that light is found, there is s readi ness to act by it. Tbe cause of human brotherhood is s growing cause, end one that is sure to triumph. The whole in spiring motive of this campaign is, snd ever has been, love, snd even tnose wno sre setting themselves in the wsy of its success sre not so much objects of hostility as of solicitude, ssolicitude unwelcome, in deed, fur the present, but that may yet be ac knowledged to have been most just, snd most needful. The Dartmouth base ball club defeated . i , ,-- j tv. .-1 v. - toe ss idusuv i s . nun iu a-- -- Windsor on Ssturdsy. by s score of 31 to 13. The match game of foot ball between WO 1arUUUUSU BUJ ... a.wBuwuH, on Saturday .was won by the sophomores in .1 il.kiL.M, !m. 1 ninntH. turev Hniut iuuu3 , ..w.v - - A mm saloon near lbs Ssst rit .xeava ttona. N.w York, baa tta sign "Hc41 Gste' over its door. Kightly natasd. POLITIC!. Six Republican State Conventions were held, on Wednesday, to choose delegates to the National Convention at Cincinnati. Nebraska instructed her delegates to vote for Mr. Blaine. Minnesota expressed a similar preference by resolution, but did not instruct. Nine of her ten delegates are said to be Blaine men. The Illinois and Kansas delegates are reported almost unanimous for Mr. Blaine ; they were not instructed. One third of the New Hampshire delegation are for Mr. Bristow, tho rest for Blaine. The Miosnnri Titt.mlmn L, MtS n e.m.l - - ...... .u,.ulwl, ,1 . ...... .MU as follows . For Blaine, 14 ; Morton, 12 ; iirisiow, j ; uonkling, i. The New York State committee ot colored men Tuesday indorsed Conkling for tho residency. It is said that Senator Booth will tako no public notice of bis nomination for the vice- presidency by the greenback convention. lie ls reported to bo in favor of Bristow, and hopes to be able to act with the Republicans in this campaign. We guess there will be no difficulty about that. Grecn Clay Smith, of Kentucky, tho ' prohibition" candidate for the presidency. saw some service in tho Union army, at the beginning of the last war. In 1SC3 he was elected to Congress as a Republican. He was subsequently appointed Governor of Montana territory. Subsequently he be came a Baptist preacher. Mr. Clay was not a Prohibitionist while in Congrcssind we have never heard of him as an active Pro hibitionist. But be accepts the nomination. Just now. Senator Bavard seems ta be ahead of all the other Democratic candidates for nomination at St. Louis. He has all along been the favorite candidate of tbe Southern wingof the party ; and as Tilden's chances decline, Bayard gains with the Northern Democrats. Mr. Thurman is reported confident that three-fourths of tho Ohio delegates to St. Louis are for him, although pledged to vote for his uncle, " Risc-l'p- illiam-AIlcn." Thurman is being punished on account of his inaction during the last Congressional campaign, when be was ab-ent from Ohio during most of the time. Of course, tho indorsement by tho Ohio Democrats of the venerable William Allen. loaded with seventy-three years, will not count a straw's weight at St. Louis. His name is simply used as the only means o f breaking down his nephew, Judge Thur man. It is not because of any hostility toward .Mr. Blaine, or prejudico in favor of Bristow, that we would like to sec the latter bead the ticket (as lor that, wc would rathcrsee Wil liam A. Wheeler in the presidential chair than cither of them), but because the signs ot tho times point to sure success with the Kentucky reformer, and to a doubtful con flict with any other candidate. Montpelier Freeman. The World is perfectly accurate in saving that the friends uf Senator Conkling con fidently expect that ho will be nominated at Cincinnati. We have never known any set of experienced politicians who seemed so certain of accomplishing their purpose. iVou Yorl Sun. The same Senate which held the nomina tion of Mr. Dana under consideration for two weeks or more, and then rejected it, con firmed Doa Cameron without the customary lormality ot a relcrcnee to a committee, this was not a first-class way to help the Bepub Iican party at the present crisis. Hartford Courant. Wc do not undertake to say that Mr. Washburnc is the veritable " dark horse," but wc are willing to stake our reputation for political intelligence on the opinion that he is the hardest candidate to beat that the Republicans could put in the field. iVeio York Herald.' President Hopkins told the Reform Con ference that he had never before attended a political gathering. The confesssion will probably do him good, but how can be ex cuse himself for neglect of duty so long. i ravctler. The Aberdeen (Miss.) Fjammer, whose politics need not here be mentioned, says, in peaking of the murderous outrage at Lou hatta. la. : " The man that shot Twitchell will never be di-evcred; for, if known, ho will not lc betrayed by a people who aro compelled by the strong arm of the Na tional Government to bend the knee to a horde of scoundrels, or else kill off the scoundrels as the only alternative left them." It may be laid down as a general rule that the distinguished Senators on either de of the chamber are not brimming over with affection tor thoir distinguished party associates. This does not apply to the can didates alone. It is an open secret that Mr. Ldmnnds. for instance, will be very resign ed if something'unplcasant happens to Mr Morton, next month, and that he won't cry his eyes out over any little disappointment that may befall Mr. Conkling. Springfield KepuUican. Tho New York Times thus sums up tho trength of the gentleman from Maine The solid detentions of liro States, coaotlnz for 90 votes, are tnus virtually pledred to Mr.BUloe; Irom other ten btales wno bar. already held con ventions be Is secure or 107 votes; three Territories ive him six votes, and as Iuwa. Kansas, and Min nesota, azzresatiu,r 4- votes, ar. ztnerally con ceded to him, we find that eighteen states and three Territories site Mr. Bliino a certain stren lb on tho first or second ballot of JLi votes. Thero really seems to ba nothing very extravagant in the claim made by Mr. lilalne's friends that he will start with a strength of nearly 300 votes. Those wbu believe that Mr. Blaine hardly fulfills the re quisites of the ideal Presidential candidate bad better frankly recognize his undoubted strength. Of course, if history repeats itself, the strongest candidate on the openin- ballots of a Presidential Convention is foreduomel to defeat, but it would hardly be safe at the present time to trust im plicitly to historical aneio-ies. The Springfield Republican was about the last paper we expected to see praising Sena tor Conkling. But it is the Repullican which says of him . Prsomllv. he la not a bad man or a corrupt man lie has not been mixed up In doubtful enterprises and speculations. He has not teen band-in-irlore with notorious lobbyists. He has not used his public trust to put money in his private purse, lie has the Instincts and habits of a gentleman as Judge Altred Conklinir's son coulm't well help bavin?, liis administration would doubtless leive much to be desired. But in tone and surroundings itwonld be a great improvement upon the admin istratton of which he has been, for these seven years past, tho stoutest p'Har. Thero Is very little chance of bis bein? nominatod practically none at all. If nominated, there would be nocbanoeof his election. v hat with the ranklln? resentment ofiiov. Dix's friends and tbe unconcealed aversion of the tieorirfl W. Curtis, Ellis 11. Huberts, Union -Lea iue Club sort ol Republicans, tho odds would bo heavily against his carryin? his own btate. Cut we do not know any good reason for setting' him down as a less available candidate than Mr. Blaine or Mr. M.rtoni and he is certainly a much more presentable candidate As between him and either of toeso distinguished gentlemen, we are standing and bein; counted or Kwcoe Cuuknng every time. Tue Untortcnate Arrant or 31ns Din gle's IIiREn Gisu Full details of the un tortunato affair of Mrs. Diogle's hired girl I . ..... mt, , liKt lint pmi'j'rh Is natu uo. j " -T known to warrant the statement that a more lamcutable accident has rarely occur red in St. Louis. Mrs. Dingle lives in a .:..u.,... Rdninn .tre imps into S.S. cietyagood deal and drcs.-es well, and, as a matter or course, iue uireu ui imnoitn her mistress as far as possible in the atten tion she pays to personal adornment Mrs. Dingle appeared in a pull-back tho other morning, with a bustle, which attracted the hired girl's admiration, and as it was Thursday, and she would have the afternoon to go out in, she resolved to appear in a bustle like that of her mistress at all haz ards. Sho went at once to constructing the h.F.I.Mu hut fnnni irreat difficulty in making the bustle in its out lines lollow tne depressions auu tjutoiu tions of the one she was imitating until the happy thought occurred to her to util ize tho clothes line in giving form to the ob stinate protuberance. She went out and took the clothes line diwn and ascertained subsequently by winding the coil of rope up loosely that it mado tho perfection of stuffing for the bustle, springy, undulating Bi.rv.lhfpn ff.1t and ana uiiauio. uuo j - s halt of rope in all. and was perfectly sat- - n , -. i i l t, 1 AAlnj.lr in thn lsnea Wlia ner wuia. - - v afternoon she started out for a promenade and to keep an engagement with her young; man. a street car driver, at present outui bu-iness. The hired girl didn t take a treet ear, but walked down town, reeling that after taking so much pains, she was too fine a figure of a woman not ta show herself. She enjoyed the walk immensely until she had nearly reached Franklin ave nue, when sho feltailight twitch m tho rear. She turned but didn't notice any thing. Around the corner, though, sho heard a boy calling ont " sassin.gers ! .and anotherone across tho street yelled s'x! She went on her way with scorn, when sho felt the twitch again, anu. luuaius this timo sho saw something. She saw a .. . - I...L.nnll ihnHim. smalt rope rescuing io " . er, and Irom the manner in which it moved she knew that a ooy mast mm ... . omer cnuui ift. ;"" z , in her bustle had become loosened atone end snd the boys tad got noia ot it ; 4" knew tney naan i go " ---conld feel it paying out like hoso from a reel. At first she nearly fainted away, anu then she started to run, out tueu no use. The bo,s played her as a fisher man would a trout, and showed a great deal 'of science, keeping a moderately taut line but running aiong near (" hired girt to prevent oo ""--- thotactue. aney ". . . VJ C.A somewhere, probably, but hat -he had la exhibition in front of a hardware storo rtfrth she daiud for a street and went home again, one -umU herjonns-manwiiha flat b"Ue.na"" lo of h5 cwthes-line. had left bersbso uUly without sny style whstever. When ,h. ml horn. sh. had a high fsver. and it waala ber dslirina, that Dingle all th. tlrtsil of th. Uf oarrnos.-s. oi Ripvllica.