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EPITOME OF NEWS. A Choice Collection of the latest News Greatly Condensed. WASHINGTON. The navy department in informed flint the Koiith Atlantic Hipiudrou hat} arrived at Rio* do Janeiro. Tho public d»»bt Btntoment issued from the treasury department Dee. 1 shows a decrease in tho dobt amounting to $4,809,572. Tho net. cash or surplus in tin* treasury today Is $40,240,187, or about 15.000,000 low than month j»go. National hank depositaries liolJ $J,372,«JKS o: government lundn. The gold turn] halnii'o remains practically un changed din ing ttio past month and now is *187 ,41)0,572, and tho silver fund balance has incroased $'{.250,000 during the month, and to-ilny nniomttH to $ 1.'i.54M.H09. Gov eritmeutrer«'i))(8 during November aggregat ed flO, 71(i,!)i7, or $2,250,000 more than during November, 18H8. CtiPtoniH receipts vero $1,250,000 and intornal revenue leeeipts $1,000,000 greater than in November ajeur ago. Assistant Attorney General Shields, of the ip*erior drpartment. has given tho eecretary of ti.e interior an opinion ns to the efliwtf of the Keveut(H*nth section ol tho net admitting tho new 8toten, which reft-ruto the art ofl841 ttlie original pre-emption aet), aud reptlllN the Hjune OH to the new HtutCM. lie holds lhaitulcmg the whole flection together, the intent not to repeal tho pre-emption lawn. but to tna!:e a irrnnt of inuJs in lieu of the fight portion of the act of 1841 .generally known IIB the internal improvement grant, •and to repeal that •cation as to the new states that the act of 1H41 wan carried into the revised Statutes and repealed in 1875 that if coi)£iciH had intended to repeal fhe pre emption tow* it could have done so by re pealing tin.' serlicnw of tho Uevised Statutes appertaining thereto, or by apt words HO de clining, and not iiy a repeal of tho old act of 1H41: and that the pre emptioulawsiio con tained the levied Statutes, except IIK to the internal iuiprovfmctit grants, ure still in force in the new states. PERSONAL MENTION. Senator Ingnlls of Kansas has reached tho coiu-luHon that, he would rather take his chanees on pet mg the appointment of rain* isterto Itr.PHa tr.an innkc another tight for the Kcnntr. CASUALTIES. The steamer Idaho, valued at $80,000 and with a valuable mrpo. was wrecked ueur Victoria, II. C. No lives Mere lost. Five buildings were destroyed by fire at Keyport, N. .1. Loss, $K0.0U0. Jacob Ijpy* eier was burned to death, aud his wj.e aud von were also badly {turned aud may die. The boiiicM of tho .our Boston limnen who were buried in the ruins of the recent- great firo have not yet been found. The Herald lias started a iund for the relief of their families. John Mndler and his wife nnd child were burned to death at Kingston, Out. Their liomo took fire and while ihe.v were trying to extinguish ttie flames their moans of escape was cut oft". The Loiler of ('.llhoun's cotton gin at Cot fax on ho Met id it plantation in Lousinna exploded, killing six men and two women nud injuring many others—all negroc*. A part of the boiler was blown ai.sty leet. Henry Z^ncr, a young man living near Mcriilaa Wi.j., was iimtuutly killed by falling from tho top of a loud of feed. He was seated crosswise ot the load and fell over backward, ctrikinirou the frozen ground on his head/ OII« hind wheel the wagon passed over him, crushing his skull and breaking his neck, so that deuth wan instuutnueous. The mother OL the young man WAS only buried A week iigo, nnd the double shock to his only sur viving sister is a very severe one Kmiu Pasria has met with a probably fatal accident. Iicing near sighted, he walked out of a window by mistake and fell on his head, fracturing his skull. He now lies at liaga inoyo in a critical condition. All tile doctors, except Stanley's physician, declare that i'min '8 injuries will prove latal. Stanley's physician is hopehil of ICmin's lie, but. un der tho most. favorable circumstances, the patient ruiiuol Im moved for at lcn*r the next ten days, A later dispatch from Bngu inoyo says that ICtnin misjudged the height ol it bn'cotiy parapet, overbalanced himself, and fell a distn:ee oi twenty JV'rt. When found his right eve was ciosetj and was issuing from his eurs. His body is terribly bruised. DOINGS OF THE WICKED. Cashier IVrrin, accused of tho Hurley bank robbery, is rearrested in civil proceedings brought by the express company. \V. W. Nhitiou of Youngstown Ohio, has conft'Sfcd to stealing £7,500 from the 1'nited states Kxprcss company seven years ago. I). I\ Mikescll, tho chief clerk, was accused of the crimc at the time ami driven immne. Chris Kroeger of Kansas City, a conductor •on tiie Missouri Pacific road, was probably fatally stabled by a man whom ho attempt ed to put ofT the train lor refusing to pay fare. Frank MncArthur, a young luw.ver of Washington, committed suicide by jumping from the limited express on the IVnniylvania road between Baltimore and Washington while the train was running at full speed. William Jackson, a chopper in a tic ramp near Boll on, Mo., had a tight with John Ityder, the camp cook. Kuch man was armed with an axe, nud the fight continued uutil both were fatally wounded. Mi*. Swiuton and Iwr son. Joshua Mann, the alleged conspirators in the Itobert Kay Hamiiton-Km Hamilton bogus bnb.v case, were discharged irorn custody on the recom mendation oi tho district attorney of New York. Mrs: itichie, sixty years of age, was found dead in a loom in Denver, with her face ••aten away by rats. She aud her son hud lx*en on a protineted t»piee, and it is thought she was murdered by him. Tl\. dead woman hud $20,000 iu tlie bank. The *on was arrested. Clarence J. Toot, cashier in the touted States express office in Grand llapids, Mich., is missing under very mysterious circum stances. All his personal effects wore left in his room including his money. Two pack ages from a firm or diamond brokers in Cin cinnati are the only things mUsing from the express office. Foul play is feared. Consternation has been produced among the trainmen on the New York & Pennsyl vania railway by the arrest of John Mcl'her eon, John Kinsinger and Charles K, Downs ou the charges of robbing freight cars in the trains on which they were employed and the issuing of warrants for many .others. The trial of Downs commenced at Marion, Ohio. Downs was a brakeinun on a local freight train and made a confession. He said tnat the first he knew of the thieving was on April 10 of last year. It is claimed a regular com mission business was done at Day ton by the *uspected men. Clothin&r, dressgoods, boots mid shoes, whisky ami nearly everything raftered. JefTC. McKenney, one of the leading crim inal lawyers of Milwaukoeand known all over Wisconsin, is lying nt home with a face beat frit to a pulp and suffering from other injuries that may result in his death at uny time. The place where McKenney was found was in the business center of the city, but afterdark it is deserted and uii.'rccjueiited. being near the chcmber of«on.mw«», wholesale houses and banks, which lo*o at dusk. McKenney was last seen in a saloon iu the opera bouse Imihling, where a performance was hcinggiv VII on the night iu ijtur.tion. His wounds were made rithei by a bludgeon, by brags knuckles, or by tlie heavily shod feet of one or more assaihiuts. Harry Carlton, alias "Happy Harry," the murderer of Policeman Breunan, was hanged at the tombs prison, New York. The proces sion to the gallows started ut 7:20 o'clock. Following the hangman came Sheriff Flank and UudersherifT Sexton. Then came Carl ton. He looked pule, but maintained that ftteady nerve which he all along displayed. When near tie gallows the sheriff und under sherilf stepped to one side ami Atkinson nt once adjusted the noose, pulled the ack cap over Carlton's head, gavcnsignul and the murderer oi Polieeiuaii Breunan swung into the air. A few convulsive twitche* nnd all was over.. The execution was as near per fection us such things can be. There was no eyidenceof bungling, and the sheriftexpressed himself us satisfied. ^ith one sweep of a large sharp butcher tin Bright almost decapitated his Pt'St their home near Galluten Mo- lie^mmnde an attack on hit wifef who es- maniacal age the murderer raoberi from the IIODB*, and attempted to kill John Bunk, a farm hand, who saved his life by flight. Bright then started to town, saying there were several of his enemies and ho would get even with them. The alarm was given nnd he stopped by the marshal, but instead giviug himself np he made an attack on ^officer with his knife and cut him badly I tho nrm. He then mnde a dash through the streets and chased everybody that came •might. As it«wos impossible for anyone fo tret nenr him. he wos shot as he was chas ing a lot of children and so badly wounded that he wns captured. Bright was released from an insane asylum recently as cured. James Shannon nnd Elmer Trimble were lodged in jail at Sioux City, Iowa, for the murder of James Duggcon near Sloan, Bad bood had existed between Shannon aud Bug geon for a year or more over property inter ests, their farms adjoining. While Buggoon and wife were driving along the highway. Shannon and Trimble emerged from the roadside, and with an oath Shannon lerel-d a shotgun at Buggeou and fired the charge, striking Ditggeon in the breast. Trimble tired a revolver at Mrs. Ditggeon. but ic.issed her. The nssnssins then inn, n-nd Duggeon followed them about sixty yards ana ell dead al'tertli-ingseveral shots from a revolver at them. Shannon nnd Trimble, about mid night, aroused Justice Hammond and gave themselves tip, clniming tho shooting of Buggeon was in sell-defense. The murdeiod mini was thirtyyenrs old and had been mar ried one year. Trimhlo was just released from the penitentiary, having served a term for attempted murder. FOREIGN FLASHES. Birmingham, Eng., has a strike of brass and iron bedstead workers. Two thousand are out. The steamer Idaho, from Alaska for Puget sound, was ashore ut Victoria, B.C. It is not known whether she can be floated or not«, The Austrian government has formally warned the government at Belgrade that Austriu will sever her relations with Soma unless the shumeless attacks of the Ser vian press upon Austriu are immediately stopped. Pro'. Zdeneeker, one of the lending Russian tnediculauthoritiee.declnres his belief that the influenza now prevalent in St. Petersburg is tho forerunner of cholera. Similar signs, he says, preceded the lust five cholera epidemics here. The steamship Gaelic, which urrived at San Francisco from China aud Japan brings hews that the American ship Chceseborough wns wrecked Oct. 110 by running on the rocks off the Sluehi-Iii-Hmnu, and nine or the crew were drowned. Tho ship was bound from llokodutc to Sun Fruncisco. Out of the crew of twenty-three four were saved. At the Brazilian legation in Washington It wns thought that Dom Pedro will establish his residence in France, but it is not believed that he will make uny prolonged stay in one place, the emperor having a penchant for travel. His winters, in nil probability, will be spent in Nice and Cannes, where ho bus many friends. Minister Ya|ente says he should not be surprised to see Dom Pedro make a visit to the Cnitad States if his health should improve, as he has warm at tachment. for this country uud has many friends here. The action brought by Mrs. John W. Mackay in London against the proprietors of tho Manchester Kxapmicr fur libel in publishing an nrtiele charging that prior to her marriage to Mr. M'jukay Mrs. MackAy wns washerwoman in Nevada 9ras settled l3* (lie defendants npologi*ingto the plaintiff tor publication of the article complained of ami paying tho costs of the .action. Tho do endants also agreed to pay a certain sum of money to somo charitable institution to bo elected Mrs., (iuckuy. MISCELLANEOUS. It is stated that a syndicate with head., quarters iu New To?k is negotiating to buy up all the largeco.tt.on mills of the country nnd place them under control .of one grout corporation. The undertaking will require a capital of $15,000,000. Knglish financiers are said to be inter ested in the project. An uttachinent was pluced in Cincinnati on $125,000 to $150,000 worth of jewelry in possession of Joseph Phillips, a traveling man for Stern & Stern, who made an as signment in New Tork recently. The attach m»nt wus paid and the stuff taken to Ken tucky and con ealed. It wns reported at the capltol that Jfjdgo Ibewer, Cuitcd Stutes circuit judge for Mis souri. Kansas, etc., would be appointed to the place on the 1'nitcd Statossupreme bench left, vacant by the death of Associate Justice Matthews. At the executive mansion it is said no a pointiuent will he made forrcvernl days. Justice Lawrence, in the New York supreu court chambers, declined to npprove the draft of a certificate pf Incorporation sub mitted to him by lending Pwhibjti.Qnists of the Cuitod States. Th scheme Wi^s to in corporate what should 1k known as the Pro hibition Trust Fund association, and its ob jects wore stated fo be "To secure the Pro. hihition and suppression bv law of the man ufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages aud to that end to hold in trust or the na tional Prohibition party property that it may receive or acquire, and pay the same or tho income thereof from time to time, ns the trustees oi the society may direct, to the treasurer of the national committee of said party, .or to such person as said committee may designate/' North Dakota Legislature. The legislature of Norlh Dakota got pver to business Dec, 4, a'ter the recess. In the senate the governor's tncssuiro by subjects was referred to proper committees. In tho house bills on railroads, warehouses and hail nsurances were introduced. Gov. Miller signed tKo first law of the new state. It transfers thejjut/,?* pf insurance commission er from the auditor to tb" ixis^rnncecommis sioner. The supreme court judges prepared a till that wusintroduced in the senate that fixes tho first term, second Tuesday iu Januury at Fargo, second term nt Bismarck, first Tuesday in Muy, and third term at Grand Forks, first Tuesday in October. The bill uHows the judges $800 annually for mileage and office rent. Dr. Pelyeu of thoneiiate introduced a bill that compels physicians to take out a license. A bill in the house compels the rail rouris to allow the building of elevators on right o? way for a nominal ground rental. The prohibition bilj must- pass by a two thirds note it it becomes operative before July 1. it is conceded thut it cannot pass the senate by that note and the liquor m#u can, therefore, hold out without license until July. 181*0, This will disappoint the prohi* bilionists and tickle the saloon men. THE MARKETS, Ttie Current Prices in the more Pro minent Markets. Wheat—No 2 red, 84%@S5c. elevator1 No. red, 75c.: No. 1 hard No. 1 Northern 02',4c. Itye Western, 55(&iitUVjr. Barley, Western, 50^(5c. corn, No. 2 42@42Vic.: Oats, No. 2 white, U0 W/if.i Mixed Western, 27@29Vic. Kggs, Western £$••*. Butter, Kfgin 28@28'4c. Western dairy, do. creamcry, 18@ 27c. CHICAGO. Cash quotations were as follows: Plour dull and unchanged: No. 2 spring wlieet, 40c No. 3 spring wheut. No. 2 red, 80c No. 2 corn, 31%@.*i4c No. 2 oats, 20:&(</. 20|/je No. 2 r.ve 44c No. 2 barley, 58c: No 1 flax seed, fl.ty.'IVst prime timothy seed, $1.20. Butter, fancy creamery 20fe27e. fine, 20@. 22c. finest datry 'Jl(£j4e. hue 15@10c. Kggs, 23 MINNEAPOLIS. W'heat, No. 1 hard, 7I)c. No. 1 northern, 77Va@78c., No. 2 northern, 7-'J©75c.: Floor, Patents in sacks to local deulers, $4.00(ft 4.80 patents tq phin, snek, car lots, 4.50@ 4.00 in barrels, $4.70^,4.80 delivered at New England points,$r».4(%6.50: Now York itPhllud sacks, $1.10@1.25 red dog, barrels, $1.35 ffl.r»0, Corp, No. 3 yellow, new, 28c. Outs, 2"$20V Barley Samples, 402)43c.. feed, 23@25e. ST. PAL'FC. Prices on incoming trains only Wheat No. 1 hard. 78c No. 1 Northern, 7CJ NO. 2 Northern, 72 Corn—No. 3, 2&@:i0r. Outs—No. 2 mixed, 1'jc: No. 2 white, 21 22c December, 2!c January, 21 Vic Mny 24c No. 3, ltl(&21c. Ilye—No. 2, 33c. Barley—No. 2, 4o *Np. 3, 35@45c. Ground Feed—$12.50. Corn Meal—Upbolt ed, $12.'0. Shorts—$7.75 Bran, $0.75. Malt, 05@70. Hay, No. 1 tiplaud. $7@H No. 1, $0.50@7 timothy, $H.50. Flax seed, No. 1, $1.27@1.27Va. Clover seed, $2.00(^3, Timothy seed, $1(4) 1.20. Kirss, fresh, $0(S:(K30 held, $5.70@0. Flour, Patents. $4.7o@r straight, $4.25® 4.50 linkers', $3.25^3.50 rye, $2.75@3.20: buckwheat, $4.75 ($5. Baiter. Creameries held at 15@18e fresh. 20^*24o extrn diary, 15@l8c medium, 10015c roll and print, fresh, 17Vmi8c: old^g^l2c Pitting stock. JEFF DAVIS DEAD, The Great Confederate Chief tain Passes Away at New Orleans. Sketch of His Life and Some Striking Incidents in His Career. NEW ORLEANS, Special—At 12:45 o'clock this morning Jcitcrson Davis, cx-president of the Confederate states, died at the resi dence of bis life-long friend, J. U, Payne. From the beginning of his fatal illness Mr. Davis had insisted that bis case wus nearly or quite hopeless, though the dread pain or fear of death never appeared to take the slightest bold upon bis spirits, which were brave and even buoyant from the beginning of his attack. In vain did the doctors strive to impress upon liini that Ids health was improving. He steadily in sisted that there was no improvement, but with Christian resignation be was content to accept whatever providcncc had in store for him. Only once did In* waver in his belief that hiseasesbowed no improvement, aud that was at un early hour yesterday morning, when be playfully remarked to Mr. Payne: "i am afrutd that I shall be compelled to agree with the doctors for once and admit that 1 am a little better." MISLEADING SYMPTOMS. All day long the favorable symptoms continued, and late in the afternoon, as late ns 4 o'clock, Mrs. Davis sent such a cheer ing message to Mrs. Stamps and Mr. niul Mrs. Furrar that they decided for the first time since Mr. Davis has been taken ill to attend the Frcnch opera. At 0 o'clock lust evening, without any us» signable cause, Mr. Davis was seized with /£rt£^So/v Davis. congcstivcchill which seemed to absolutely jcrush the vitality out of bis already en feebled laxly. So weak was be that the vio lence of the assault soon subsided for lack of vitality upon which to prey. From that moment to the moment bis death the history of ids case wus that of a gradual sinking. At" o'clock Mrs. Davis administered some medicine, but the ex jirc$ident declined to receive the whole dose. She urged upon him the necessity of taking the remainder, b^t putting it aside with the gentlest of gestures lie whispered: "Pray excuse inc." These were IMS LAST WORDS. (gradually he grew weaker and weaker, b.nt never lor un instant seemed to lose con sciousness. Lying peacefully ^pji /jis bed, and without a trace of)/:iin iu bis look, h'. remained for hours silently clasping and ten derly caressing his wile's hand with un daunted spirit he awaited the end. From the moment of the dread assault of the congestive chill those gathered around bis bed^tde who had been watchi ng and noting with painful i/iterot every change of symptom lor the juonth knew well that the drciid messenger was even nf the door. About lo: o'clock As.-oclate Justice Fennel- went to tin French opera bouse to call to Mr. Davis' bedside Mr. and Mrs. Farrar and Mrs. Stamps. As soon as the message readied them they hurried to the bedside of the dying ex-president. By )o'clock there were assembled in the jjcaib tliainbcr .Mrs. Davis, Doctors ('hail)c and JJi(:khum,' Associate Justice and Mrs. Feiiner, Mips Nannie Smith, grand nicer ot the dying. ex-prcsident, Mf. and Mrs. E. II. Farrar. Finding that Mr, Davis tva» lIllKATIIINO SO.MKWMAT IIKAVII.Y an he lay upon his back, the doctors as sisted him to turn upon bis right side. With bis check resting upon his right band like a sleeping infant, and with his left bund drooping across bis chest, lie lay for some liltccu minutes breathing softly but faintly. More and more feeble beeume bis respirations till they passed into silence and then the watchers knew that the father of the confederacy hud passed away. Despite the fact that the end hud come slowly and peacefully, and alter she had been face to face for hours with the dread reality, the blow fell with crush ing force upon the afllictcd widow. It is believed that the foundation of the ex-pres ident's last illness was malaria complicated jvitb acute bronchitis. Careful musing and skilled medical attention had mastered the latter, llut it is supposed that the con* gestivH ehiil, which was the immediate Otitic of deaih, was attributable to a return of the malaria. After death !j,i. hp.-e of the deceased, though looking slightly emaci ated, showed no trace of suffering, mole nearly resembling that of a peaceful sleeper than of the dead. HIS I.fFK. Jefferson Davis was bom on June 3, 1808, in Todd county, Kentucky. lie was edu Ciije/J at Transylvania college, Kentucky, ajid .wits appointed bv President Monroe a cad„'t in the military academy n.t West Point, whue he graduated in 1H2S. lie was in the army seven years, and he fought against the Indians in the Block Hawk war of JjtfJng. and against the Comanches and Pawnees in Jwvi. In l^tf he married a daughter of Zaehary Taylor, then a colonel in the army and aft erward president of the I'tdted State*, pavis became a cotton planter iu Missis.sip pi and spept several years in study in order to fit himself for public* life. In 1KL he was elected arepresentativeto congress and took a seat as a Democrat. He soon distinguished himself as a speaker ou military affairs, as well as upoii miscellaneous topics, lie served under his father-in-law in the Mexi tai) jvar as colonel ofthe Missis.-ippi volun teers. He participated in the storming Monterey and won distinction inthchattlcof Buena Vista. The war over, he was ap pointed, in August, 1847, to lill an unex pired term in the senate oi the 1'nited States, and in IMS he was elected senator for a full term. In Is"*) be was re-elected, jn September, 1S51, his famous contest with iiMirj.' & Foote for the governorship of Mississippi ocj.urrred. He was beaten by UUD votes, but be gaiued largely on his ticket, for, two mouths before, the 'i.'nion ists" had carried the state by a majority of 7,500. President Pierceappointed Duvissecretary of war, which position he held from 1853 to 1857. He proved himself an able adminis trator and introduced many reforms into the ariuy. It was lie who introduced the Minie ball and rifled muskets and pistols. He revised the army regulations, strength ened the frontier and sea coast defenses, and was the fir.vt to introduce the system of explorations in the western part of the continent lor geographical purposes and for determining the best route for railway to the Pad lie ppast. On retiring, be was re-elected to the /senate, \yhere he soon made bis mark as tiic Jeader of the Southern wing of the Demo cratic party. He was a candidate for the presidency in the Democratic conyctition which met in Dtfjo, and alter the election of Abraham Liucolu lie identified himself with the Southern movement which re sulted In the war of accession. It is needlcsMo go into the history of the camc the president of the Confederacy, for which his military training, as well as his political prominence, seemed to have fitted him above any of Ids Southern associates. Without showing any great genius, it must be coiteeded that he displayed more than average ability. The contest was kept up for four years, aud the South had its share of victory as well as of defeat. The North had every advantage. It controlled the sea, it had numbers, wealth and workshops. The South was at a disadvantage, except in tho extent of the country and the difficulty ol penetrating it, owing to the absence of roads. Had Jefferson Davis possessed any exceptional military capacity hecould have entered Washington after the lirst battle of Bull Run. So long as the armies were led aud ofiicered by lawyersand politicians, the war miscarried ou both sides. In an cient times the orators and rulers were trained to arms ami gained distinction in the field as well as in the forum. But it is a notable circumstance that neither in the Northern nor Southern armies did any law yer or politician achieve a success in active lield operations. When the contest closed almost every distinguished gcucral on cithei side wus found to have been a graduate ot West point. The life of Jefferson Davis since the war is soon told. He was captured by (Sen. J. II. Wilson and conveyed to Fortress Mon roe, where he was confined for two years. In 1807 be was admitted to bail, Horace tireeley, among others, being one of his bondsmen. He visited Kuropc iu 1808, and in December of that year a nolle prosequi was entered in his case and he was dis charged. He was also included iu the general amnesty of Dee. 25, 180s. The conduct of the American people toward Davis und the leading Confederates is the inost crcdilahlc chapter in its history. The triumph of the North was not followed by any unnecessary cruelty, such us marked the conduct of the French government utter the suppression of the commune. A good deal was said during the war about "hanging Jell' Davis on a sour apple tree," but he wus lell alone ami allowed to write hislifeund history without molestation, .lip lived on an islandin theGulf of Mexico liof. far from Mobile, and occupied the mansion bequeathed him by a lady who thought the ex-Confederate chief should not spend his old age in poverty. Nothing can be said against the moral character or personal habits of Jefferson Davh. lie was not a man to inspire a widespread affect ion. He was cold in temperament and austere in bis manners, but, on the whole, bore himself with dignity after bis retirement from the public scene. To show the spirit of the man at the ex cited and exciting period following his withdrawal from the United States senate, we can do no better than to reproduce a speech by Davis at Chattanooga, Tenn., on his wny from Washington to Mississippi on the night of Jan. 22, IbOI. "The South," he said, "has bad a great wrong imposed upon it by the election oi Abraham l.incoln, an Illinois rail-splitter, to the presidency ofthe United States. Our only resource is to secede from the Union and establish a government lor ourselves" Calling on the people of Tennessee to go with the South, he pledged them that ho only wanted their strength aud in fluence, that the cotton states would pay the debt of iho War, and that Tennessee would not have a dollar to pay. Telling u.s that Mr. Buchanan was powerless, and could not protect us, that We must unite the Mouth in a solid body, inarch on their citic.s ami lay them in ashes, for iu that consisted their wealth ami strength, and that the wny to touch a Yan kee's soul was to strike his purse. The South bad the material—cotton was king. France and old Knglatid, be said, could liot do without it, and ,wuld be forced to side with the Soutli to keep their factories in operation and their people from starving. That thespin •Ues oi New Kngland would rust lor wllnt of otti/n :hu/."thc .Sojilb had the wealth, strength and tb power in realty tile liffj of the government. Calling on'the'JVn. tiessecnns to go with the South in this struggle, he eulogi/ed them for their courage, boasted of their deeds of daring on the til his of Mexico, saying tlint. lie knew full well the meaning of the click of their trusty riilc. In ties, associations, in terest and institutions Tennessee' was direetlv interested and ou.:hl to go with the So uh. He felt ratified, he-aid, that her people would not prove recreant to their trust. When the time came she would lock shields with her sister states and meet the vandal foe. As for himself, in the language of the great patriot, he would say, "Hive me lib erty, or give mc death." The election of Abraham l.ineuln and the party sustaining him was equivalent to a direct. Will* upon the South. Her peeuliar institutions were no hmger sale, and there was nothing left but to hijht. A* for himself he preferred death before dishonor. Mr'. Davis died lie had lived since the war -an unrepentant fMid, umUirs pnjjiica) disabilities weru never removed. |u bvif he publishod his history of ihu rebellion, A Hotel Burned at Pittsburg. PHTSIU no, Special.—The, Moiiongabela house, one of the oldest and best known hotels in the country burned to day. There were a number of narrow escapes, but the guests and employes all got out safely. Among the miraculous e-eapes was that of N. Underwood of Milwaukee. Underwood has his lace scorched and heard singed. The building destroyed covered an entire block and wns seven stoi ies in height. It was owned by Charles J. (.'large, Florence C. Miiler and the Cmssan heirs aud was valued by them, with the lot, at ^.VKi.uoo. The loss'will be less than .rl'Hi.000. The in surance is .f.l!i7,.r»ou. of which $|fin,ono is ou the building and on the stoek. Most of the guests lost all their personal j»rop crly Recognizing the New State. JVASMINOTON, Special Telegram, Mr. Huitobruiigh of J^Jfo'a was rec ognized to-day by the speaker by being named as a member of the committee on accounts. This standing committee is ap pointed at every session before the rules are adopted. The new states are being recog nized. JJepresciitative liuker of New York will no ifoubt be made chairman of the committee on territories. This is at the earnest request of Delegates Dubois and Carv. \yho are ny/iire that Dakeris favorable to tire admis-doji of these tcrriiorit:f. Mr. Dubois in the house and Senator Platt^ chairman of the committee on territories in the senate, will introduce bills simultane ously lor the admission of Idaho. Returned Too Sooi^. MnuiKi.i.. S. I)., Spcual Telegram, —Fred and Anton Jiv-penbach, two farm ers living eighteen miles south of here, were blasting a large boulder. They lighted the l'u-e ami ran oil'a little way and waited forthc explosion. There being none, th»y concluded the fu^e had gone out und re turned to tlie boulder, got on it and were ou the point' of digging "out the charge when it exploded, blowing a bole in An ton's kull from which he died and putting out one of Fred's eyi*s and so badly iniur intrthc other that if he recovers he'will blind. Mrs. Mackay*s Parrot. At Mrs. Mnckny'tf window in Duck inghain Palace gate is a wonderful green parrot, which attracts hun riretlH of people every day to hoar him talk, Bays the Shefliielil (Kng.) Tele graph, The crowd ou .Sunday wosspgre^t that the polioernau had to request the people to "move on." "Move on" echoes the parrot to the intense delight of tlie inob. "I*oIlyf what o'clock is it?'' nsked a man. The parrot, pretending to look nt the dock, cried out inunswer: "Hulf punt 5/' nnd he was right. Asked how his missus was: "Come over soon, all right," replied the mar velous bird. ''How old are you, Polly?" Don't know, how old are?* was the answer, which, of course provoked great merriment, in -.vhicli the parrot joined. Asked what day of the week it was, the wretch hopped about, ficreaming: "Sunday. Go to prayers. Ora pro nobis. Damn it," and fell intoapar oxy|m of laughter which was quite FOUL PLAY. A NOVEL. UYGSBGCDARLADT. CHAI'TEU XLVIt.—CONTINUED. Hint f-loud wan really thft smoke of the Springbok, which had mounted into nir eo thin that, it could rise no longer. The boat herself was many mile* to the northward, returning full of heavy hearts from a fruit less search. She came back in a higher parallel of latitude, intending alterward to etcer N. W. to Kanter Island. The life was gone out of the ship the father was deeply dejected, nud the crew could no longer feign tho ho|te they did uot feel. Having pursued the above course to within four huodied miles of Juan Fernandet, General Rolleston begged the captain to make boh! deviation to the S. W., and then sco if they could And nothing thorn before going to Faster Island. Captain Moreland was very uuwilllng to go to the S. W., the mora so as coal was get ting short. However, he hud not the heart to refuse General Holleston anything. There wns a northerly breeze. He had put the fires out, and, covering the ship with canvas, sailed three hundred miles 8. W. l)ut found nothing. Then he took in sail, got up steum nguiu, and away for Easter Island. The ship ran so fast that she hod got into lati tude ihirt.v-two by ten A. U. next morning. At lOh. l*»m. the dreamr monotony of this cruise was broken by the mun at the uinsl-hcud. "On deck there!'* "The schooner on our weather-bow!" "Well, what of her?" 4,She hue lulled." "Well, what o' thot?" "She has altered her course." 4,IIo\v in a it}* points?" "She WAS Hailing S. E., and now her head is N. K." "That is curious." General llollcntoii, who hsd come and list ened with a grain of hope, now sighed, and turned nwuy. The enptain explained kindly and the man was quite right to druw his captain's atten tion to the fact of tradiug-vessel altering her course. "There is eca-grninmnr. Gen eral. said lie: "and, when one seaman sees another violate it, lioconcludesthereissotne tea: ou or other. Now Jack, what d'ye make other?" I can't muke much ol her she don't seem to know her own mind, tliut is all. At t«*ii o'clock she wns bourn! for Valperaiso or tlie Island. Hut now she has coinu about nnd licntiug to windward." "Hound for Faster Island?" •'I tluuno." "Keep your eye on her." "Ay, ay, sir." Captain Mooreland told General Ilollinston that very few ships went to Easter Island, which lies in a lovely climate, hut, is a miser able place: and he was telling the General ilmt it is iuhahiticd by savages of a low order, who halt worship* therelica of masonry left by their more civilized predecessors, when .lack hmlcd the deck uguin. "Well," Miid the captain. "I think HIIC i* bound for the Springbok. The soldier icccived this conjecture with astonishment ami incredulity, not to he wondered at. Thesteuinhoat headed N. W. right in the Hind's e.v«. Sixteen miles ofT, at least, ship was nailing N. E. Xevert heiesK. iine confirmed the conjeeture the schooner, huviugniadc a short board due west, which wus as nenr UM she could lie to the wind. On this Captain Moreland laid the sleninbout'H head due north. This brought the vessels rapidly together. When they wcrcnhout two miles distant, the Mrnnger slackened sail and hove to, hoisting stars and ship's at her mizzen. The union jack went up theshrouds of tlmKprintf bok Hireetly, and she pursued her course, '.nit gtadtiaiiy slackened her steaui. General Holleston walked the deck In great agitation, and now indulged in wild hopes, which Captain llorelaud thought it best to discourage at once. "Ah sir," lie said: *'don!t you run into the otherextniue, and imagine he had cofne oh' our business. It is at sea as It is ashore: if inni| goes out of his foiirsetnspcftktQ vnii, it is for hjs own unke, not yours, This Van. kee litiM got men viek with scurvy, and is come or lime-juice. Or his water Is out. Or —hullo, snvnges aboard." It wns too true. The schooner had car go of savages, mule and female the males were nearly naked, hut the females, strange to wiv, were dressed to the throat in ample robes, with broad und flowing skirts, and hud liite coronets ou their head. As soon i:sth' rchooiu hove to, lie fiddle had struck up, nud ihf» savages «t»re now dunclug in pm-tics of tour the men doing a sort of mon. key hornpipe it) quick puce, with their hands iienrly touching the ground the women, on the coutrnvy, er»ct queenly, swept about ill slow rhythm, with most graceful nnd coquet tihh movements of the arhii and hands, and bewitching Siuiles. I The steamboat came alongside, but uta cert i) in dist mice to avoid all rhnuce of colli sion nnd the crew clustered at tlie side and die. red the savages dancing. The poor General WHS forgotten at the merry sight. Presently a negro in" white cotton, with a face hhicker thnn Hie savages, stepped for ward and hoisted a board, on which was printed, very lurye, Altfi YOU, Having allowed tills a moment to sink In to the mind, he reversed the board, nnd showed these words, also printed large, TIIK Si'iuNoroK? There wns a thrilling murmur on board nud, after a pause of surprise, the question 1 was answered by a loud cheer and waving oi hats. The reply was perkily understood nb most, immediately a boat wns lowered bv some novel machinery, nnd pulled toward the steamer. There were two men in it: the I ip|ei and the negro. The skipper came up the side ofthe Springbok. He was loosely dressed in some light drab-colored stuff aud a hugestrnw hut amnn with along I'uritau icnl head, a nose inclined to be aquiline, a fuee bronze by weather and heat-, thin, reso lute lips, and a square chin, llut for certain breadth lietween bis keen grav eyes, which revealed more intellect than Cromwell's Ironsides were encumbered with.be might have passed for one of that hind-praying, harder hitting fraternity. lie came on deck, just touched his hut, as if to brush nwny fly,' and removing nri moiinous cigar fiotn III* mouth, said, "Wai. mi so till* is Hpringbok. Hpry little boat she is: how many kndts rtn ye get out of her now? Not that I am curious." "About twehe knots." "And when the stenm's off the bile, how many can you suil? Not that it is my busi ness?"' "Kiaht or nine. What Is your business?" "Hum! You have been over some water looking for that gal. Where do ye hail from a IV. c'oelety Islands. Did you board me to hear mc my catechism?" "No. I am not one of your prying sort Where nreye hound for now?" "I .'itn bound for Faster Island." "Have you heard anything of the gal?" '.No,'' "And when do yo •xpor' to go hnck to En» gland as wise ns yeeame?" "Never while the' ship can swim." cried Morebiii'l nni-illy, to hide his despondeuey from this stnmger. "And now it is my turn, I think. Whut schooner is this? by whoqi commanded, and wither "The -luliu lodd .IoK!iu'a Eiillaloye bound for ,Ilinn Gernandez with fhe raw materihl of civilization— look at the nrtnint skippin'— nud a printing press nn* that's ths iustru nient of civilization, I rather think." "Well, sir: uud why in Heaven's name did you chuugcyour course?" "Wul, 1 reckon 1 changed It—to tell you a lie." "To tell us a lie." "Ay: the darnedest etnrnnl lie that ever came out of man's mouth. Fuel, there's an unkuown island soinewhereabout. That's a kinder flourish beforehand. On that island there's ail Knglish gal wrecked," K\c!ninntions burst forth on every side ut this. Why. Cuunle," said the Yankee, soothing ly "don't 1 tell you it's buster? However, the lie is uotie o* mine. It's that oil cuss Skinflint set it afloat he is always poisoning these peaceful waters," Holleston asked eagerly who Skinflint was, and where lie could he found. Wal. he is a sorter sen Jaek of-albtrades, Martially cruising nTouf to buy ^tntis-—thrise lie buys of call it stealfnir.' Got a rMtfeWold utter, tnunned i»y hls'wtfennd fa^riiy/ They get coal mjrof me for fur. ipd self the coal nt double toy price they killWals' and' the skins uboard kill fish and salt aboard. Ye know when thutfamily Is at *eaA by the smell that |ervade* the nrlnjrdeea tnd heiulds their approach. Yesterday the air smelt a«ftl sol said to Vsspaslan. here: something a plsonlng the cerulean waves an' suecttmambientair., We hadn't sailed not Bftj miles more beforo we run ugin him. Their clothes were drying all about the rigging. Hails me, the varmint does. Ycsp aud I, we work the printing-press together, un* so order him to loowurd, not to tuint our Otnheitans, that stink of ileat home, but I had *em biled beforo I'd buy 'em, tin' now they're vilets. 4Wal now, Skinflint,' says I "I reckon you're come to bring me that har poon o1 mine you stole last time you wus nt my island?' 'I never saw your Inn poon,' says he, 'I want to know have you come across the Springbok?' \Mchhe I have.' says I 'why do you ask?' 'Got news for Iter,' says lie 'and can't find her nowhcrcs.' So then we set to and fenced a hit and this old varmint, to put me olVthe truth, told me the buster. A month u^ooriuore be wus boarded—by a duck. And this ynr duck hud a writing tied to his leg, und this yur writing snid an Knglish gal wu wrecked on un island, und put down the very longi tude. 'Show me thnt duck,' says I, tVouic.il. *|)'ye take its for tools?' snys he: 'we nte the duck for supper.' 'That was like c.' says 1: if au ungel brought your pardon down lYom heights celestial, you'd roast him. and sell his feathers for swan's-down tnebhc ye ulcthe writing? I know y* are a hungry lot.''The writing is in my cabin,' snys he. 'Show it nie.' says 1,'an' incbberil believe ye.' No. the cuss would only show it to the Springbok: 'There's a reward,' snys he. 'Wimt'H tho price of a soul aboard vour cutter?' 1 nsked him. 'Have you parted with yours, us you want to buy ouo?' says lie. 'Not onens would curry me right slick away to everlast ing blazes,'suys I, So then we said good morning, nnd he bore nwuy for Vnlpnruiso. Presently 1 saw your smoke, mitl that you would never overhaul old Htinkumalee on thnt track so I came about. Now I tell ye that old cuss knows where the gal is, and mehbegot her tied hand and I'nt in his cabin. An' I'm kinder sot on Knglish gals they put me in mind of butter aud honey. Why, iny schooner is nnmeil alter one. So now, Cunnle, chip on steatn for Valpnruiso. nnd you'll soou overhaul the old stink-pot: vou mny know him by the browu patch on liisjiheuil, the otitidy varmint. Pull out your purse nnd hind him to drop lying about ducks nnd geese, nnd tell the trntl'i hit knows where your gal is, I swan. Wal, ve needn't smother me." For by this time he wustheeeuter of a throng, all pushing uud driving no cntch his words. Cnptaiu Moreland begged him to step down into his cabin, nnd then* the General thunked him nith great warmth ami agita tion for his Immunity. "We will follow your advice at onre," he suhl. Is there anything 1 cnu offer you, without. olVense?" "Wul, drawled tho Ynukce," 1 gueys not. Iluslness nil' suuliinout won't mix nohow. Business took me to the Island, sent inu-nt brought me here. I'll take a shnke-hnnd all round nnd if y' have got live fowls to :-pnrc, I'll be obliged to you for couple. Ve s-e I'm colonizing that darned island: an' sow ing it with grain, nn'Otnhcitnus.an'niuucrs. Irishmen, an' all the cream o' creation: an' I'd lie glad ol couple o' Dorkitis tocrow Lite Inzy variuint up." This very modernte request wns heartilv complied with, nnd the acclamation and cheers of the crew followed this st ratiue char acter to his schooner, ut which his cyo glist ened and twinkled with quiet satisfaction, but he mnde it punt of honor uot to move a muscle. Before he could get under wnv, the Spring bok took circuit, und, passing within a hundred yards of him, fired a gnu to leeward by wny of compliment, set a cloud ofcativas. und tore through the watei at lid- highest speed. Outside the port of Valparaiso she fell in with Skinflint, and round him not quite so black ns he was painted Tin* obi fellow showed some pnrental feeling, produced tin ting at onco to General Holiest on, nul assur ed him a wearied duck hud come on board, und his wi hud detached the writintr. They took in coal: und then ran westward onco more, every heart beating high with (onttdent hope. aiAi'TCit xi.vnt. HKI.KV'S act was strange, nud demands a word of explanation. If she hud thought the steamboat wns a strange vesnd. she would have lighted the bontire: if i.hc had known her futlier was on board, she would huV^iighfed it with joy. Hut Hazel, whose every word now wus gospel, had said it was Arthur Wurdlaw in thnt boat, searching fat her. Mill, sos roug IN LTfH..t°/Tt hi* ,0 lighted. But, as she went, hcrcournircc6o!ed. und daiin her to his face. Could she dis allow liis clnitn? Gratitude woahl now be on his sid She was a girl that could show you at times she had a lather as well as a mother: but that evening she was nil woman. They met no more thai night. In the morning his fnce was haggard, nipl ghqwed a mental struggle but hcrswas phic. id uud ||iictly beaming, tor the very ]uns:n tliut she lind made a groat sacrifice. She wus one of that wort. And this difference between them was a foretaste. Hie tender conscience pin ked him sore. To see her sit heaming there, when, if he had done his own duty with his own hands she would be on her way to Kngland! Vet Ins re morse was dumb for, ifhepiveit vent, then he must *eern uugrutcftil to her for her sacrifice. Shesaw his deep uiid|sileiit compunction: a p. proved it secretly: snid nothing, but smiled, uud beamed, uud soothed. |{(. could not re sist this: nnd wild thrills of hope and jov Missed through him. visions of unbroken bliss 'urtroui the world. But this sweet- delirium was followod bv misgivings of'another kind. And hero she was at fault. What could they be? It wus the voiie of conscience telling him thuthc was really winning her love, once ia accessable: and, if so. was hound to tc|| her Ills whole story, and let her jnd^e between hiin und the world, before 1 ein.i• 1 intnoiv sacrifice for him. Hut it is hard to stop great happiness: harder to stop it and rain it. Kvery night, ns he lay alone, In- snid, "Tpmorrcw I will tell 'I nil, und make her the judge.' Hut in the morning her blight face crushed his nurpose by the Var ofclotnl ingit. His limbs got strong and his lean got weak: und they UH «1 to take walks, aad herheadcame near hi* shoii'dcr: and the path of duty began to be set thicker than ever with thorns nnd the path of love with primroses. One da.v she made him sit to her for his portrait nnd, under coye, of um«li ylHhUKittKM. told hiin his beard u«» godlike, and nothing la the world could e)tial it for beauty. Kite never saw but one nt all like it. poor Mr. SentonV but even that was very inferior to his: nnd then *d:e dismissed the sitter: "Poor thing," said she. ou are pale nnd tired." Audsliebe^au touscornnmeiitii: took her bracelets out of herh.tu. and picked pearls out of her walls, and made a coronet, under which her eyew (b^heil n{ ni-il.l t\ith snporlative beauty—conscious bentii bright ened by the sense being admired and looked at by the eye she desired lo please. She revered him Ho Jt: improved l.er :harnc(er, and she knew it. and often told ititn so, "Cull uie Hazclla," she said "make me liker you, still." One day lie entile suildenly through the jungle, and found her reading her praver book. He took it from her. not meaning to be rude, neither, but impiisitive. It was open at the tiiarriage-service, niid her cheeks were dyed scarlet. His heart panted, lie was a clergyman he could read that service over them both. Would it be a marriage? Not in Kngland but iu sorue countries it would. Why not in this? This was not in Kngland. He looked up. Her head wns averted she was downright distressed He was sorry ¥o hdve wmlc her blu»h: so he took her humraud kissed it tenderly, so tenderly that his heart seeineil to go iuio his lips. She thrilled uudcr it. ami le white brow sank uppn his uhoulder. I 1 An.', she is so tarnation 'cute, she is flying duels all over creation with a writing tied to th»ir legs, telling the tale, and setting down the tonKifuH There if that Isn't a buster, I lints* I niny peter jive1 to t»H another," '.GoU fiiusH you' sir tirleq tlie Ueneral, "Where is the island?" "What islnnd?" "The island where my child Is wrecked?" "What, ate you the gal's father?" said •Joshua, with a sudden touch of feeling. "I am. sir. I'iny withold nothing from me you know.'' Th« sky was ft vauli of purple wltlrL ing topaz blue the flaming macaws ming buzzed IK uppn ins utiounier, wash vauli of purple wltlikji flam T, in the center the sea, a l#aveiilv wntm nir breathed he iretil.Aodors: imilig macaws wheeled o\erhead hum ing-birds, more girgeous thiiti ativ yiuor. azzed round their heads, and nmaz«fl the re with delight, then coolei it with lisdeej, green of the jungle into which they li It was Paradise with sun Minlin^ «^\vn on it. and the occuu smiling up. and lu'Atr impregnated with love. Here they wercb\t |, content now to speud the rest oftheir duys "Theworld forgetting by the world forgot!' IIAf'TKK XI.IX. The Springbok arrive/.1 iu due course a mgtitud* 10:t deg. «'tl tnin but saw in island. This was dispiriting but still Ciiji tain Moreland }id not despair. He usket) General Holleston to examine th writing ciireftilly, hud tell hhu was ihe.t Mis Hollesto'n'ii handwriting. The Ger^eWil shapk Vis head hurf^wInUy. "No," said he ^ii's nothing like tay rh|hl': eon hi catch wild ducks and turu 'em in'tc nostmen would hit on the longitude some how utid he doesn't pretend to lie exact in tin* latitude." Upon this he ran northward 400 miles which took liim three duys for they stonned at night. No island. He than ran south oOO miles stopping at night. No island. Then he took the vessel zigzag. •lust be ore sunset, one lovely day, the tuau at the innst-hend sang out:— "On-deck there!" "Ilullo!" "Something in sight on our weuthor-how." "W hut is it?" "l.ooks like a mast. No. Don't know what it is." "Point." The sailor pointed with his finger. Captain Moreland ordered theship's course to be altered accordingly, lly this time General I'olie.Hton was on deck. The ship ran two miles on the new course: and all this time the topmau's glass was leveled, aud the crew eliuibed about the rigging all eyes und ears. At last the clear hail came down. "I can make it out now, sir," "Whut is it?" "It is palni'troe." Tho enptain jumped on a gun, and waved his hat grandly, aud instantly the vessel rang with a Itinty cheer and for once, sail ors gubhled like washer-women. They ran till they saw the island iu the moonlight, and the giant l*ulm, black, ami sculptured out of the violet sky then Gus set the lead going, und it warned them not to come too close. They aueborod off the west, coast. At daybreak they moved slowly on, still sounding us they went aud rounding the West Point, General Holleston saw written ou the guunoed rocks iu lurge letters: AN KNISI.ISII I.AIY WitlVKKP IIKItiS. IIASTI: T»I iii:it itKscft:. He and Moreland shook hands and how their eyes glistened! Presently there was a stranger inscription still upon the rocks—a rough outline of the island on un enormous scale, showing the const line, the reefs, the simllow water, uud the deep water. "Fuse her! Stop her!'' The captain studied this original chart with his glass, and crept slowly ou for the west passage. Hut. warned by thesoundiug# marked on the rpek, hedidtiomttempt logo through ihu passage, butcuineto an anchor, und low ered his tioat. The sniloi-N were ull on the qui vivetolnnd, but the enptain, to their Infinite surprise, told them only three persons would laud that morning— himself, his sou, aud General Holl eston. The fact is. this honest captain had got a inisgivini*-, founded on two or three sailors, one ol thcm uuiic| to her by eoine nautical ceremony, duly witnessed, hut. such as a mil itary ollicer ordistiactioii could hardly be expected to u| prove. He got into the boat in a curious state ot delight, dashed with un comfortable suspense and they rowed geully for iho west passage. As for General Holleston, now it was he ucch'd nil hisfortitiidc. Supposethelady was not Helen! After nil, thechnnre- wereagainst her hcin« there. Suppose she was dead and hurried in that island! Suppose that fatal disease, with which she had sailed, hud been accelerated by hardships, and Protidcnco permitted him only to receive her last sigh. 'All these misgivings crowded on him the moment he drew so near the object which had looked all brightness so long as it was unat tainable. He sat paleaud brave, in the boat but his doubts und fears were greater thuu his hope. They ronndeil Telegraph Point, aud in a moment Paradise Hav burst ou thetn. It was half-tide. They beached the boat, nud General Ibdleston landed. Captain Moreland grasped his hand, nnd said, "Call UH if it is all right." General Holleston returneif the pressure of that honest hand, aud inarched up the beach just us if he was going into uetion. Heeumc tothc boat. It.wasnn awning, over the stern, nnd was clearly used ns a nice ing place. A series of wooded pipes send ing ou uprights led from this up to the cliff. The pipes were in la mere sections of thesa* go-tree with theso pithdriven out. As tide was maid estlv a tube of communication. the impulse in all civilized (ieneinl Holleston followed it until he came to a sort of veranda will, a cave opening on jjent. up the hill us honestly intending to jt: he entered the euve, and dazzled bV fight the bonfire ns Hazel intended it to he im mnKt unexpe-ted hcaufy. lie scfmp'd to he in a gigdntic iinut)|us Hoot nud side*. rugs were in a corner: he rushed in. ami felt them nil over with trembling hutids. They were MOW be on HI'I,. I,* W.-II K"",l still wuni, I lioi.-li HIH' litnl l»ri. IHT bi'd rami. W li.it a nlmili I.. Ail nil- li.it twtm.- !,„• ]],. willl Hn».|! tort II thnt ti.- fori or why tin- Mm,nlm„l. "SI,,, is ulivv! SI* i, „|ir,'" fm-o.f niijriiiKli. tjuit .lr,i!rt,'...| ,n,.ii n-..-if Ti,..,, r„ hu km*, nm'l fliiinki-.l (I...I. hrr li..,irlmriMKs.' An,I „.|i ,t 1 rv t,, hi,„ from „l,ov.-: 1,J mil 'in one wny: she and Hazel w«»nld l-.tv the I land ill Arthur's shit*. What a voyn for all three! Shestooil lransti.ve«| byslmnie her whole body blushed at what she saw coming. Then once more Hazel's face rose hi ore her: poor crippled llugcl, her hero nud her patient. She sat down and sighed, nnd could no more light the tire tlinn she Mihl huvc put. it out if unothci- had litihteil it. looked ti as he knelt, and theie was a •cmale flifnf,. dressed iu white, stretching out its hands as ii it would fly down to him. Its eves gleameti he knew tliem nil that way off. lie stretched out. his hands ns eloipieutlv, and then he got up to meet her but tin stout. soldier's limbs were stiller than of old nud he got up so slowly, that, ere he could take a step, there came flying to him, with little! screams and inarticulate cries, no living' skeleton, nor consumptive yonng ludjr. hu a grultd creature/tannvjl hyiv ftipf there, i-osy as the ii»v»pi. uipl fijlf i.f lusty vigor a body of all health, strength, und beuuty. a soul nil love. She flung herself all over him in a moment, with cries of love unspeakuble und then it wno my durlig,my durhnu II. my mvii, 'iwn! Hit, hu. ba, ha! O, O, o, O! Is it ou? is it? can it? Papa! papa!" then little convulsive handspattinc him,nnd 'celiii^ his I curd and shoulders then a sud den hail of violent kisses ou his head, his eyes, his arms, his hands, his knees. Then a siout soldier, broken down by ihis, nud sob bing for joy. ", my child! My flesh and blood! O. (I!" Then nil manhood melted away except paternity: and a father turned mother, and clinging, kissing, and rocking to and fro with his child, and both crying for joy as if their h'-nt ts would burst. A sight for angels to look down Qt bud its josce. Hut whut mof-tal pen could paint it? [TO I*B CONTINUKO.] The Lights in the Window. A pnir of worthies tliut unod to practice before tlio Washington liaj\ PIIRIIRCII in Kivinp "utraw" l)I\i| Mini in other WMVK sr.uui'in^ ilie relonsi' ot pi-isoners for a KIIIUII I-onHitlemtioii. Tlii-.y rented room which formerly liml lieen 11 drug store, not fur from the police court, ami kept li-rlit liurniiifr tlicronll ni^ht for^ljotfeue.lii ol lute "arrests" who l||i( ht wish to obtniii linil rntlu'r thnn upend the nifht in tho police station. The dnijr^ist. who hud occupied the place before them lind failed to remove th„ blue ami yellow liottleH frum the win dow. Oneni^ht two lawyers pass in- up the street saw the light. "Whose place is this'.'" asked one of t. hem. Smith & .Tones felonies cviiu JIOUIMICCI at all hours of tlie night,'' was the reply.—Cor. X. Y. Tribune. Earns His Tax. Westtiardiner boastsof a dog that earns enough to pay hispoll tax. lie is a big mastiff and does bigchurn ing every week, thechui-n being fitteit un wilh a sort oi threshing machine I rendle on which the dog walks. The most rem^rVable part of the trans action in that the dog enjoys tin busi ness so well or has such a sense of re sponsibility that no inducement can entice liim from the work during 1hh( nesalipurs.—Fairlipldj (Me) journal, The Rewards of Talent. Old Mr. Ilazeed—They do say that Hill Smartly has done real veli play .ictin' since lie went to New York, an' lives iu great style. Mr. Hummer—Yes, upon liim when 1 wtiadown there. Old Mr. Ilazeed—And don't he live away, way up? Mr. Hummer—Ves about thirteen stores.—Drake's Magazine. But it is All night. Thatpinn^wkich was "curried nine, miles.on the,.lohusto,wn,(lo1cil" is now •in exhihitioy. at about 500 places, al though oniy forty pianos yen1owned in the town at the time of tlie disaster. a a to or no one cun^ object un housand. TWO GREAT CITIES. Bqnalor and Tilth in Athras and (Jon itantinople. They in Hot Such Attractive Places Some People Boppoee—Specially Diiagree able Featurei of Constantinople—View of an Old Traveler. Nature has showered every blessing on tho capital of tlio Turk which she had in her gift. There is not a more entrancing spot in the universe than tho Golden Horn anil its shores, saya a writer in tlio (.'hic-igo llerald. It is not, so with Alliens. Approach the present capital of litilu (ii-oecu from whichever side you will, come up from tho I'irieus, tho harbor or from the interior of Attica, tho landscape in which tlio city lies is desolato, roelc strowed and mifortilo. And the city itself—well, there are a few tolerably hutidsnme streets, thero is a line builil Injf serving as tho royal palace, and tho pretty HipiarcH. l!ut that is all. 'Ihe two principal streets are far from attractive, and ninety-nine ontof every one hundred houses are unspeakably homely, with no attempt at architect ure—small, bare and ramshackle. Thero are no sidewalks, most of the streets are unpaved, and while it is true that Alliens is not as muddy and filthy as mo-it oriental towns, owing lo its rocky, ilry soil and tho favorable climate, it is still lnueh more lilthj- mid muddy than any town in this country. Add to this the dust, blinding and stinging, forever driven about before the winds tho whiilo under a broiling sun and a smell of rancid olive oil— from tlio open air cooking -pervading the air ami hanging over the town like pall, and you have just about a truth ful sketch of what Athens is liko on a day like this.'' Hut 'oustantinople!1'' "All, yes. Well, if you conjure up before your memory the. picture of ('hi engo just after tlie big lire, with smukc begrimed ruins every where and an air of general disorder, recklo-isnoss and conTusion. and if you add to this about 5'm per cent more of sticky mud and 10M times more of rolling refuse, gaibage and tilth than there ever was at any time on our streets, not forget ting to plump down in every block and alley a score each of ravenous, growl ing, lighting, wollish-lnoking curs, which refuse to stir and let you pass, you'll have a faint idea of what, (.'ou stantinople is. The fact i^, a man can not imagine what at eui-fnrsaken nlace 'onstanliuople is until husoes it with his own eyes. Hogs animal. Those are the two main features of it. Sewers iu the middle of the street, open and with a greenish scum on the tup ol (ho ill-smelling contents: ULI sidewalks in the town no.ne of the streets paved with cobble stones, hut most of them having nothing but the original mii'l knee-deep iu places and anklo-ileep everywhere else be,\ps of all sorts of refuse lying in the street, with, every Utile while, t.onle cj tlwonly scaven ger. tho town has, the world-famed savage dogs, tho mangv curs of the size of a timber wolf, howiiug by night and growling and lighting by da.v, sleeping in the sun iu the middle of the roadway, .wi uhliging all font passengers luiM out of their way or blop uver them. Imagine a labyrinth of narrow, winding lanes, many not wide enough for four inea to walk abreast, and then imagine droves of cattle, horses will, carcasses of slaughtered .-.keep strapped to their backs, niul,-a and donkeys wilh va5t huriions, all passing through them. All this will give you but a faint notion ofCoiiitaiitinoplo. Of courseStambonl, the purely'I ui-kish town, ^s tho worst iu a\l tb\'.se, vespei'ts. The thorough fares hear no names, and the only means to lind your way without a guide is lo inipiire from mosque to mosijiie uud from bazar to bazar. ••Hut are there not many line build ings in Staniboul?" asked the oriental enthusiast. -No. not inan\.. '.tn-re are a few, probably, a ucoi-o of tileal altogether, including the sultan's palaces. There Is the Top Kapu Serai, or the Old Serai, a complex of buildings and grounds, some of which are line, but which was part it1.!iy destroyed by lire years ago, aud which at present is used mainly as a :sl icnort for sunoranualed harem beauties. Then there is the Sublime i'orte. Sublime I'orle! Pshaw! The Turks call it ISabi Ali (Uaiuof All) or Pasha Kapussi (llonr of tho Pashas). It is the. building in which the ollices of the grand vizier und of the ministers of the interior and of foreign atl'airs are local ed. It is a building which (s iwnai-ka ble for nothing but lino white marble gate y.-jiii i.i, impudent Turkish in scription iu gilt letters, and for the past associations with Turkish gran dour. I 111' (irceli elm relies, s,v.iugogues, tiiio moslcm convents, ten Catholic churches and it few Kn glish and Herman protostant churches and their spii»s, cupolas and minarets stand out beautifully, like a foiv-st of inasis In a sea of houses, when one is viewing tlie city from the Hosphorus. Hut when ou shore and seeing thoeo houses of worship in all tUoirshabhiness and buried rig^t iu.d loft ia the midst of thosf, siiiatf buildings, they are not own noticed. A BUDDING EDISON. A Connecticut Bov Qlvos a Free Ba^tcAcn Ascension. "What will that l'urgcy boy da next?" is tho question at Stafford Springs. Conn., write-i a Sun corre spou.ient. V'o.ung l'urgoy is budding inventor. Ho attended the Stafford Springs fair recently aud saw a man undertake to make an ascension In a hot-air in'latid halioon, but the gas bag failed to go up. The 1 id went homo convinccd th it he could rig up an ap par.jjM^|u^^|jiiUdusue u.first, \w [THE PIONEER EXPRE8S JOB DEPARTMENT.. ti oomplete, and well (applied wltk MM ititt of lyp®. Our PRLOM are low IN •latent with a IcdUmato tmrtim. Bunrtea ito.. which enables ne to do all ot commercial printtnc, both claia and mental, on ebon notice. We keep on hand atoll Une of Legal Blanks wilh paper. Then ho tied cords to tho /ubric, and, gathering tho tstrin^s to gether, puckered it into something- that Wiis iilto ii balloon. He didn't havo & basket that ho could hitch to tho llyinsr machine to steady it with, but he had an idoa of what would be a feasiblo it In or to in into the bag ho constructed a littlo underground furnaco, in the way the Stafford fair aeronaut had done, built a lire in it, and conducted tho heated air ihence through a stovepipe joint into tho balloon. Tho ba^ tilled baauMful ly, and soon be^fan to svvav, and wabblo and betray a willing ambition to cut tho cord that bound and soar away to tlio distant Stafford hills. Young l'urgoy hail invited littlo Georgia Hshor to be proseni at the ascension, and when tlie time came for the bag to bo olT the youthful aeronaut brolco tho news geully to (ioorjie. that he was down on tho bills to bo the isJcet, ho must be tied to the ballon and go up with it to keep it steady. Tho young ster remonstrate 1 feebly against soar ing, but the condition of tho air bag in dicated that no linie was to be lost, and tho l'urgery boy hitohed him to tho balloon iu a jilTy. and thuasconfiou began nt once. Tiic balloon shot away like a rocket, and up a'-jove tho house tops it soaru-1 while the village of StatVord Springs ga/.od heavvovvar.l and Wondered as it, behold a big dingy colored bag wabbling and ducking in the air seventy-live foot from the ground, and attachei toils bottom end a small boy ki rkiug and frying and yelling I'.iitly. What the soaring bag was. whither it was bound, and what would become of tho Fisher boy not one of t/io startle 1 spectators was cool enough to conjueture. liut Tear for tho safety of little Weorgie soon give pi act* iu the breahts of the witnesses to feeling of relief as they saw the domes tic balloon sw .y for a mo:nont or two iu mtd-air and then slowly flutter downward .unl softly drop tlie, seared urchin on the stops uf tiie Methodist church. Staltord Springs at iiist nourished resentment against the I'urg.jy boy, but it finally concluded that all's weli that ends woll. and it is possible ho may hired to make th Stafford Spring.* fair ascension himself next year. MARY'S PUP, Itb Trnsic Fate, Which Resulted in a Change of Namo. Mary hnd a little brute, as fat as it could wiuMJe, and everywhere thai Mary si-oot this littlo pup would toddle. It tagged her d»nvn tlie sLrcct one dny^ cio.se up behind her buggy: tb. h«w it loved to run away, this naughty little puggv. 'Twas always doing something wrong when Mary turned her back iiud all the time lie seenivd to long to walk liie railroad track. One day. when Mary was at church, this frisky little seamu tlmught lie would leave h»-r iu the lurch and and play the trump. So down upon tile ties lie il'ibls th.» tni' S tlie poov tramps use, till worn out on tlio track he squa! JIIHI drops into a snooze. Ilt\ last asleep, did not observe—ah, i-ad indeed the i-tory tho fust expii'ss come round tlie curve thai, pup went up to glory. There came along a butcher man who oner.! had loved that pup, and with a hru.^li and big dust pan he MVept that poor dog up. Next Wednesday Mary gut him back ho did not look th«' samo he would not comu wlien rrhe called "Jaek!" --Bologna was his name. Atehi.v.m «lobc\ It Is Easy Then. It beat* diMi«'e how somo men preach And vry pious sliak'j the head. When age pats sia beyond their reaclt And ouch dosin? f«»r wnunr is dead! Whun sia im i«'iiu'«'r is delight., *Tis easy then to do what's rigliU --VuuiiL'stown 'i'ele^ram. The Was Sick. We had forty minutes to wait at tho dr.po in St. Thorn is, says a New York Sun writer, and everybody was taking it easy, when a yt»un/ man from the? farm, who was drawn there out of curiosity, perhaps, walked up to a well dressed man who was pacing up and down, and liegau: "Say, isn't your name French?'7 "It is, sir, tho reply. ou were running a show in IiulTafo last March?" '•Knotty.'1 "Well, was there. I went in. Vou had a big sign out saying y.xi had hodag on exhibition. ISein' as I had never seen one I paid my quarter, but it was an infernal swindle. There wa* 110 It.V far the larger number of bouses are mere -J»'ii.Ues, constructed iu hap hazard fashion out of smoke-begriuied stones or worin-eateu wood. The vs I sea of those ignoble houses i* marked by crooked lanes ami this monotony is broken li-^io and there by stretch.:s of ruins, old and modern, many of them slill dating from the taiiing of tl ii i.lty by the Turkish cowpi.i-ruio I In !, and iu those the !ii.k-.-al and the owl dwell oeuxjfully together. In the narrow streets the cooks are eternally at \v.u4f on their kabobs -broiled luls of mutton llanked with cl\u.uli» of tallow, and the I odor with thai of rancid olive oil per vades the air all through tlie. town. True, there are -.."ii "1 mosques iu Constantinople, hodag there!*' **Ah! I remember. He was sick for a few ilays.M "Well, I want that fpiarter [Kick, or I'll take it out of your hide! When I go iu lo se»* a ho.lag tho animal has oat to be there or the money comes ba k.*' ••Quite right, my friend,11 calmly re plied the other. "Vou happened to hit us wheu our hodag was stek, but we jjave you a far greater curiosity in hi* stead.*1 "What wns it?"1 •''lhoexii. Hain't you see him/*' **I saw a sign over a door, but I didn't see no animal.'1 ••Well, if you didn't oi»en the door it wasn't my fault. The exit was thero to be seen and everybody who saw hint said he beat four hodags roiled into one." "Is that so?" Well, I was in too nu'.cli of a hurry, I guess, ami if I havo hurt your feelings I beg your oardon. An exit isn't a In»Jag, but if you wore doing tho best you could 1 have noth ing to say." OLD JONES' PHILOSOPHY. Modesty is a good rudder but a bad engine. Liukin* may toaeli a boy to dance, but not to do sums. Vou may get learuiu' at school, but sense comes nal'rul or not at all. You just bring a couple of littlo quarrels into your family an' they'll breed like aparvows. Don't gt» back on your friends when jronVo in luck, nor give away your umberel just because the sun shines. Vou cnn*t always judge a man by tho blood he's got. I'orn bread an* whisky comes from tho same family. A runaway hoss is worse'n a run away wife, because it sometimes takes you with it. Sometimes w'en a man seems to Io havin1 the worst luck he's only getting ready to oome out* like a log from a saw-mill, worth double price. Don't send a fox to tend geese or c^t to skim milk, unless they have a od renutatlon for boa