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ed un to come ta the ho: wo went there afhd Tiad an interview with nim There wore two places 10 b filled—Inapector of Provisions and Clothing at Maro Inland Navy-Yard,' and the Purchasing. ]s‘aynmtn'r:. ‘nmca at ban Francisco, that v, d, :‘(:“—'D'm ynlnlllelll him you would like to go to that B it whe hin reply? A.—Well, ho anid that ~ho_recommended this man as the clerk; ho fntl- mated that whoever went thers would Lave to ro- tain him, Q.—Did he kay that in omany words? A.—Iam 0t ponitire, bt that ir the conclnelon we eame o, ‘both of us, ' Irald that if 1 went out there I ehonl: sppoint my own clerk Thad had experience enough in iaking another mnan's clerk, and would not do it Againt that ketticd the question; we bid him good. evening, snd that was the last X erer heard of It . WASBHINGTON GOSSIP. WEAD-IEAD TRIP TO THR CENTENNIAL—CON: GREISMEN AND® CORRESPONDENTS—AN IIATH REPRRSENTATIVE—PRESIDENTIAL INTRIOUES ~—TDRISTOW GAINING ANMONG TOE FEOPLE— TPARSON DROWNLOW 'Ol MONTON—DEMOCKAT- 10 MOVESTTIURMAN AND ALLEN—REN BUT- LER-=MASDNIC~—TIIR RACES—SOCIRTY MOVR- MENTS—-MRS, GQILLESUIE—EXIT FITZRUGH— ANUSEMENTS. Epecial Correspondence of The Tribune. Wasirsaroy, D. C,, May 14.—Can we not take from the New Testament o coguomen for this Capital, and call 1t * Golgoth, which ls, belng Interpreted, The Place of a Skull* + What other city conld havo furnished upwards of 3,000 dead-heads to nttend the opening exer- clscs of the Centennlall And who, besides the complaisant Col. Tom Bcott, would have fur- nished free transportation for this noble army, taking them by a circuitous route through tho tural districts of Penneylvania, becaueo the hanl-hearted Doston Directors of the Baltimore & Thiladelphia Road refused to “pss™ the free tralnsl Without this costly liberality, which enabled eo many to wisit Phlladelphin , Seott-free, the grand opening ceremonies would lave been deprived of the presence of nearly all of our Congressional Solous, with thelr retinue of hundreds of newapaper desd-beats, who were out in all their glory and shame. DBRAZEN-PACED WOMKN AND MENDICANT MEX, who had never been known to write a line for publication, swarmed by the handreds around Beott's agents, clamoring for the “open sesathe to the free tralns of cars. The semi-Aonthly correspondent of the Scowhegan Gladialor, the falr writer of society-letters for the Salt Luke Ladles* Mirror, the complier of clection-statistics for the Duluth Democratic Clarion, aud the Scn- ate reporter of the Pensacola Palladium of Lib- erty, with scores of other representatives of cqually well-known fournals, demanded and re- ceived the coveted bifh of pastebonrd. The man wwho sclls stale doughnuts and sonr beer fn the Dascinent of the Capltol was on hand; nor were alotof pretty Treasury clerkesses, whofrank the speeches of the Representatives who Keep them in office, forgbtten. Of course, the pralses of Col. Tom 8cott were in overy mouth; ond it now remains to be scen whetlier, next winter, when the electlons are over, he wiil Le gratefully remembered by the Congressmen and corre spondents aforegald, and his Southern Pacific bill put. through with commendable haste. 1f he Elue& not receive his desired lcgislation, after this lavish generosity, he wiil have goud rewson for denouncing thost who rode on his trains ns nn ungratefnl ect. The propricty of this Con- resslonal demand for expenslve courtesy on ol. Scotty, and of the a ufllnncu of it 13 for Tablic Opluton to declde. That [t whs uniblush- ingly dumanded and sceepted, I8 o mutter of record. THE DEAD-HEAD EXCURSIONISTS were a jovial set on thelr way to Philadplphia? Gen. Farnsworth, of Iilinols, was taken vut on the car-platform at several ‘l’vulmylvnum stop~ laces, and {ntroduced as Dom Pedro, fo reat dellght of the ascembled yeomen a¢ who had * worn the gray " folned heartily in tho chorus to **John Brown's Budys? while those who had *worn the blue’' vocally wished themselyes * Away Down South, in Dixie”! Lunch-buskets ‘anid whisky-bottles were generously passed around, nud overy ong nlppcan-(l to enjoy the trip, exeept the Hon. John Adams Xyman, of the Becond North Carolina District, to whum a Conductor sald; _* You wust go forward into the smoking-car. _We don’t allow no niggers In the Pullmans!” Fortunately, the brother-mem- Ders of tho dusky Congressian intersened, and the Conductor rotreated to his small closet to study the Clvil-Rights bilke I dow’t propose to attembt a description of the discomforts, extortions, and fatigues which this distinguislied }mrty experienced ut the Cen- tennlal Show, or of the hungry, tired, and cross #tate of mind {n which they returned. Just let Gen, Hawley como here again for an appropria- tion—Dut then it was go kind in Col. Bcott to pazs the party to Philladelphia and back. TIIZ 'RESIDANTIAL CALIKONS ere bolllug, and hubbling, and stewining. Not day ‘msncn but thut some rumor, or scandal, or £usplcelon {s thrown In, and stirred up, that soime candidate may be fnjurcd, and cousequently somie other candidate benefited, The Iast scli- sation fs the blackballing of Mr. Bristow at the Union League Club, in New Yarlg b&_n anobbish young sugur-refioer, to avenge & Treasury de- cision against him. To-nurrow Mr. Riddle's letter to Mr, Blaine {s to appear; and by Tucs- day there will be something to the disndvantage of” Mr. Conkling, ¢ suy. Those who ore Keeping slai of the rclotive chances of thu Republican candidates think that Mr, Conkling’s prospeets of leading on the scecond Tllot are good, espeelally if—as is intimated— the Morton strength s tirned over to him. But private citizens who come here from all parts of he Unfon agree that, amoug the people ln thuir respectlve loealities, BRISTOW 18 GAINING STRENGTH, with hero and there a crystallization which will tell ot Cinclunath, It is also certaln that the julluence’of the Administrution 1s belng exerted ngalnst Bristow, and in fayor of the mau who, {1y each locallty, is the leading anti-Bristow cans didate. Thns, in Boston the Custom-Ifouse peaple are for Blaine, In New York they are for oukling, and {o the Bouthern citics they ure for Morton. Wo have had a visit fromm Col. Brownlow, of ‘Tennessee, who eays that his father, the ex- Governor and ex-Senator, better known as Par- son Brownlow, will bea Julu;:nbo to the Repub- lican Convention at Cinclunati, and WILL DO ALL 11E CAN YOIt MORTON, He bas lived to*sce his.old opponent, Anly Johnson, in Lis grave; aud he still cherisbes e solcuting hostility to the Democratie party, He 1s missed from thie Sevute, where Le used to sit helpless for hours, after luving been arried Uke aclild to his curulo chair, unable to ralse a glas. of water to his llm-. or to vote sudibly, But his smooth, smnull, intelligent featuria were calm and Inflexible, while the concentrated auze of Ms clcar eyes dinplayed his sbsoluta fron will. No living American lias waged such viudictive and vituperutive politheal warfure, and forgivencss 13 to him unkyown, us he tramples ;cluuuuuly aud remorselessly upon u prostrate ve. TUE DEMOCHATIO WIRE-PULLERS are even more at sca than the Kepubllcan ananagers, and there are bitter feuds mnong the Caongressional supporters of the rival candidates. Tilden's fricnds made a spurt for him a week or s0 ngo, aud an wwsnouncement that by wus auxious to.donste one million dollars to the camp-chest, should he be nominated, rallied quite o honde of camp-followers to his support. ndeed, he han goud prospuects of securliyg the Maryland delegation to£t. Lunis, tuthe disgust of Beuator Piuckney Whyte, who had wunted a Western cundidate for President, with himselt a8 the Democratic cundidate for Vice-President, By an accident, Whyte uncartbed that warplot, Montigomery Hlulr, ya buving lontigated THden articles tu distunt newspapers, that they might be copled in Bultimore as * public opiulon,’ Marylund politiclana, of all parties, have becomng Beartlly sick of the Balrs, father and son, with thelr futrigues sud schemes, and Moutgomery fluds himself holsted with his own pcl&nt JUDGE THURMAN'S CUANCES are unquestionably improving, and be takes his suufl with inore zest than ho did & fortnight since, using his old red Landuny hundierchicf with such” stentorfan effect 38 Lo awuken Bcnator Geldthwalt, who penerally dores his time away, Thurman {s o man of declded ability, w{lhnlevel head, good diction, manly manners, somewhat dogmatic, but powerful fit nruunlu(gbdebuw. Great cllorts ure belng made by those Democrata who do ot funcy his views 200 tnancial questions to secure delegates frun Oldo o Bt. Louls for OLD ‘““PETTICOAT™ ALLEX, a8 he was called in the Harrlson campalen of 1840, fromm Lis havin, yen currency 1o un un- 1rue’ story that * O "Fippecanve " had been presented by an old lady ‘fu the Miami Valle with a flannel petticoat, to symbolize his luc of coursge. Allen was hers fu Cougress over forty years sgo, serving one term in cach House, was especiully remarkablo for bis sonorous volce, which gatued for ldm the sppel- Jatlon of “1he Oble Gong." He used to linug~ fue that be resembled l!zurry Clay In appearance, wmanner, sud style of speak! nxi. and ¢ven word a m:, long blue-broadcloth cloak, with s silver i dasy, fn baftation of that which the Great Cunwoper used to wrep uround his tall form §n culd weuther. But be possessed moue of the suuuy smilcs, or grocious wanners, or inelodious aworuls, -fik made Mr. Clay 80 bewltching, even to the sterner sex; and Nr. Crittenden ones gald that there wusss much dilfercnce be- tweenthelr volces as there waa between the sauslc of & flute and the blaste of a fog-horn, -Fpind i bkt At did in 1871 ot Baitimore, when it won the orrats making him utefut In heading off Thurman. Al s falr in politica and Jove. ' NUNLY BEN DUTLER 18 one of the quiet wntchers of the Presidential game, but thua far hio has done nothing but ex. press his preference for Morton, 1le has a good deal of law-practice, and_spoke for nn hour in the Jocal Conrt a day or two since, on A cage af- fecting the righta of certal butchers to markets atalls, 1t 1 eafct that, sthon alluelon was made to Hutler's more clrcumspect practice, at a din- ner-table where Judge Rockwood Hoar was prescnt, he replied: “Yes. Butler Lms reached llm superlative of life: he begnu by secking ta et on, then he soytght o get honor, and now rxc 1s trying to get honest.” . THE TEMPLARS AT PIULADELPIIA, Grand-Master John . Hopkins, who fs hare s the representative from the Plttsburg District of Pennsylvaniy, lias sclected Washington Com- mandery, No. 1, as his cscort and body-guard at the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar, They will go 1) atrong, with the fall Marine Baud, and will be in admirable drill. This Cm!x mandery was organized in 1825, it has conferrvt the orders of Knighthood on 0 Royal-Arch Musons, and {t hnson its rolls over mem- CENTENN Foreign Commissioners Indignant Over the Treatment of = Their Jurors. One Ticket, by Yrugal Manage- ment, Admitting » Doz« v, L cn Persons. ‘Wonderful Baby-Tenders to Bo Scen in the Women's Pavilion, YESTERDAY. AUENTEXNIAL SAPE. Spectal Dispateh to Fhe Tridune, PrrtAnzLruia, May 19.—The latest Centene nial novelty comes from New York, and it {s in the shape of an fron safe, and desizned to con- tafn memorial articles for tho edification of the next generation. Tie safe will contaln phote- graphs aud nutograpbs of all the prowminent oflicehulders in the country, and will be.Jocked up on the3ist day of December, not to bo open- ol for n'century. The closing up of the reposi- tory »ill be performed with approprinte ceree monies by I'resident Grant. It will then be conveyed to Woshington and placed under the rotundu of the Capitol. 000D ATTENDANCE, ‘The attendance to-day at, the Exporition was larger, owing to the pleasant weather. There were about 83,000 visitors, A LITTLE SHADDY. The forclgn Commlssioners have beeome dls- gusted at the slowness of the Centennlal Come- 1nfesion in appolnting the forelgn jurors. These Jifrors, It should _bo- stated, srecdiominated by thelr respective Governments, but, as they draw poy from the United Stutes for thetr serviecs, tlw?v have to be confirmed_as oflicials by the Unlted States Commission, Many of them are Terg now, but. lave recelved ho officiul notiflea- tlon as yet of their confirmation. "Fho forelgn Commlssloners held an iudignation meeting thia afternoon in the Britlsh Government Build= fug aud talked very atrongly about the shabby way in which thelr Jururs linve been treated. g CENTENNIAL JOTTINGS. DEADIMEADS AND REPEATRRS—THE GENTEN~ NIAL QUARDS AND TIEIR LARORS—THE WOMe EN'S PAVILION—~WIAT ONE FINE WORK OF VARIOUS KINDS. Special Correspondence of The Tribune. Pmravereiuts, Muy 10.—The Centennial Commisslon has found a new maro’s neat, It tins discovered that a great many persons hold- ug passes lave been using them to geti thelr friends fnto the grounds without the prop- cr contribution of 0 cents at the gates. This was partieulurly the case on {ho opening day, when passes were only looked at, and not punched or otherwiso marked. The holder hers. Columbia Commandery, No. 2, will nleo visit Philndeiphin durfug tho Grand’ Encampncnt, und expecta to preacnt as fine an_appearance 08 prize tor excellenpe tn drill . Eleven members of the present Congrees are | Kufghts Templar, sixteen are Royal-Arch Ma- sona, and upwands of thirty are Master-Masons, TIE NATIONAL JOCKEY CLUB hng rmll_v&:uuen‘up a spring-mecting, and there are alrcady over forty thoroughbred horses stabled on the course, which attract much ate tentlon a3 they ara excrelsed every mornl Among them are Kadi, n brothes ‘Tom Ochil- tree, and credited with the fastest timo for one mile on record; Spindrift, the best son of Bon- nle Scotland now on the turf; Tom ('Nelll, a fuil brother of Lomdon; and btler nupgs of note. On Tueadny nest there will be w stees plechase, over o course which will test the strength of the hidrses and thy courage of their ridera. “ SOCIRTY-MOVEMENTS, The presence of the Diplomatie Corps and others at Philadelphin, dnrlnfi the past week, Tias made the ety ruther dull; but the young puople have enjoyed several strawberry-feasts, Ht which there’ s earpet<lancing, with the lus- ¢lous berrfes and fee-croam for refreslunents, The 2th inst. {s the birthday of Que—I1 ln-q purdon, the Empress Victorin's birthday, ang there nre rumors that Bir Edward Thoriton (ne tends to give a ball at the British Legation, to which the Foroign Commlssioners at Philadel- phia will be invited. Dom Pedro was not at all accoptabla to the soclety people hiere, who didn't faucy his uncer- emonfous wiy of lromn?nho\n whife hiere. The Drazilian Minister, who had expected to have Iind the managemnent of a grand reception at the Arlington Hotel, is not happyi but the Empresa may come hero and atons for hier hus- band’s Incivility by her observance of etlquette. Speaking of the Empress, there has been some curfosity manifested here to know why sho was aclected to open TIH WOMAN'S CENTENNIAL PAVILION, when Mrs. Grant was on the ground, It was probab)y a freak of Mrs, Gillespie, the Arche 'veoon of the Womun's Centennfal Cotumittee, i . who fs the only absolute ruler on he would go through the gates; then he Centennial grounds, Even the mighty | Would retire to & preylously arrunged Director-General Gushorn lias tosuccumb tothe | spot In the fenee, and pass lls tick- imperlous nod with which she shakes her head | et through one of the numecrous dhnx»rrurlnul‘f, her cap-frills vibrating fn unison with her rapid utterances, Joe Hawley retires, the eloquence of Dr. Loring {s hushed, and the Finance Committee open their money-bags for her uses Nevertheless, she shoull have jn- vited Mrs, Grant to open the performances In the Womau's Pavilion. EXIT FITZIUGH. The gllant Doorkeeper of the ITouse, who 80 glowlngly portrayed s trlumphunt condi- tlon toa friond in Texus, wishes that he bad crevices, where his friend outside would get it. The friend would cnter as boldly as a donkey marching to a haystack; then, by the same pro- cess, the friend’s friend sould enter; then the felend’s frlend’s friend, and sv on up to the tenth or twentieth multiplication of that much abused and sbusing word. The money that ghould have gono into the Centennial treasury was then expended fn congratulntory fone ‘r‘lgr:‘:: :lfl,\llLKht l“l:u“’“ “:0 "Wfll"fib[m-‘: ’| Veor or other drinks, and the cause of tmnoruls n than old | Grant o with meme | 1t Wes fu overy way advanced. 1T 13 WHONG TO CUEAT (unless you ean honestly make something hy so doing), and it 8 doubly wrong to wusle the sub- stance thus obtaled In riotous living. It people will defraud, let"themn gise the proceeds thereot to the church, the inlssionary cause, or the poor, or, at any rate, make a fair “divyy*? with those charituble vnterpriscs. Binee ilio ugcnln;r day, ft has ngt becn 8o easy to get abead of the ?Inu-li\'upurs as on the great ovca- stony but st{ll there is n wnly of dolng It. Every compllmcmnr{ ticket fs now punched at the szntcs, 20 that it cannot bu'uscd ugaln the same doy. But, if the holder wants to go out und return agaln, ke can obtatu u cheek at the zates, and he ean do this gevernl times n the duy. Novw, there have been exhibitors and oth- ers who have sccured passes, and have them slipped away without ~going outside. The check would be pustied ~through a crevices {n the fence, and the walting friend would seeure it und enter. In muny places there I3 much more crevive than fence, 50 that the swindle Is not at ull difficult. The Commis- sfon thinks Lhat scveral thonsands of dollars which should be fn their coffers have thus been diverted from thelr proper courso, and they have taken means to stop thoe evil. They ¥ requirou man to go vutsido when he hus obtained hls eheck, and then ho may do with It whatever he liks ‘The cvll can- not bie nlfogether atopred, for the reason that man going vutslde varly fu the afternoon, wli out the Intentlon of returning, muy tuke u che and then give It wway, or sell it a reduced price. Of course we will all ndmit that It [s wrong to do this, but human nature Isn’t very hizh-toned uny way, und the tines were hard: There are mnny inen in this world, andinany who have zond to other worlds, who delight In “check- g their way through the ‘doos of a theatre, cireus, or lecture before the Y. AL C. A, anil then spending the money for something 1o Customs ot Milwaukce: Jaines McLean, Recelver | put into their mouthis to steafl away their bralus of Fublic Moncys &t Chillicathe, O.3 Hobort W. | {uto some othier act of dishonesty. Elstan, Postmuster at DuQueln, 11l . TUE CENTENNIAL UUARD! "‘mu"m" " [ ?‘0,“[“13 apcfihlxl p\_:l[lljwmun tu-ul c:‘tlllu ,‘aronflfnlu 5 ot of incapubiles. They were sclected with conedil- aiehs, Chlopan, ot i, Commiien o Wage and | bl b word il . Gt ent of this neasion of Congresa.at 4 g' ul expense, and they receive $2 o day each for ?-:!.n‘](!-fc.‘rmd. 0. 0F Eoner t 4 alklaciy dune thelr acrvices. Tiiey have about ns nuch idea The bill canfirming to Missourl all the Yands | of discipling a8 u troup of wild moukeys fn therein selected as wwuinp ond overlowed lsnda | Algerls, and are glorfously mefllcient. Bome of was passed. thew ure clyily and sowe are surly; they An effortvrae made to have ineerted in th ecord | ure fmproving somewiut In this respeci, ersonsl alinslon of Singleton to Gieneral Gar- | 1 lero 18 an quantity of chance feld on Wednestsy In_tho debate, which had boea i e e Beath T stricken out at tho Inatance of Lainar, feqaloing forprogruds.they juve beats Lo A motlon of 3r, Randall to lay the matler onthe | Polcemen (some of them aré worse beats than table was carried, policemen), and are expected to walk back and NAVAL BILL. orth after the old-fushioncd custom. Intheory, The Ilouke then went inte Commiltes of the | thisis wells the practlcs is, that two them, mveting a3 the end of their routes, will stop and talk an hour or ed, without so inuch ns troubling themselves shout thelr busincss, If there I8 o Jog or box at this meeting of the waters, St 1s apt to prolong the intervicw, os the two heroes prefer sitting to’ standing, and they ean bedt the best here ever known .ut sitting. Do not suppuee that all these men are worthless, as there are some good ones umong them., Hut the whole foree, s o foree, s ‘incomnpetent avd without discls ]-Hlx:n. Thty vtl\m hfix hel‘nllnd the i]»ml.'l:ll tetary of the Natyon Lis co-uperation with the | DOU6e 06 tho Vienna Bxpodition, of any other Cominittee, Thix Il minkes & padaction of by | 4pocial potice fu Europe. " Tho fact ls, tho class £4,250,000 an compared with the naval appro- | om which such a force 1s recrutted Las not the priutlous for the curront year, and he gave notlce | instinctive disclpliue ubout it that you would bers imploring offlees frum hlm; but now he is o humble, crest-fallen supplleant for con- tinnance n his position. He s another oxem- Lllhhulllun of the old proverb, *“Set a beggar on orscback, and he'll rido to the didsens.’ AMUSEMENTS. Those hard-working people, the Vokes family, have drawn good houses here flurlur: the week; hut next week both the theatres will'bo closed. Ou the 241, Miss Mary Anderson is to make her first nppearance here, at the National. An at- tempt hias been made to produce as a prodigy o clever Jittle chup named Shanuou; but it Wwos 100 thin,"” although the boy might please old- mald sunts by mounting a chalry and declalm= ing. “You'd scarco, expect one of my sgo to speak n public on the stage.” RacoNTZUIL. TIIE RECORD, BENATE. Wasimxeroy, May 19.—In the Senate, after the introduction aud reference of several bills, aud the presentation of n number of petitions, legislative buslness wns suspended, and the Benate resumed eonsideration of the articles of impeachment againgt Willlamn 11 Belknap, late Secretary of War, with closed doors, At 4:45 the doors were roopencd, and lepgls- Iative bueiness resumed. ‘The Chair 1aid before the Senate 2 communk catfon from the Sccretary of the Tréasury, in- closing a report of the Director of the Mint, in answer to u Senato resolution showing tho an- yunl product of gold and siiver in the United Btates from 145 fo 1875, Inclusive, and an esti- miato of the product of other countrles, Ordered printed and to lo on the table. After a bricf cxecutive scssion adjourned Uil t0-morTow. CONFIIMATIONS. ‘The Scoate conlrined John Nasro, Collector of Whole, Mr. Clrmtr fn the chslr, ou the Naval Ap- propriation bill, and was addressed by Mr. Willin on the navy-yard syatem, and in favor of abolish- ing all the nary-yards except those of Mroaklyn, Norfolk, and Maro Island, Ar, Whitthorue, Chuirman of the Naval Commit- tee, nextaddressed the Commities In favor of the varions meanures of reform and economy reported from that Committee. Mr, Blunt, the member of the Committes on Approprintions who hax charge of the bill, cons gratulated the THouse on the fact that this meas- ura of ¢conumy ruet the sanctlon of every member of the Commitice, and he complimented the Sece that be would ask for atill furtler redoction inthe | find in he suuls class In Eufope. Tho bl frca and independens aly of the Amer- The Commitice tose, and the Houso took a re- | joun does not give the material for cens untll 7:30, the eventug sessfon to be for dee ready-made srny or police-squud, bute un the Naval .\Y{nruprlnllnll bill, with the understanding that a)l veneral debate on the bill shall be closed thle evening. und the work of disdpline {s more diflicult. But they are the best 1u the world when thor- onghly tratued to thelr duties, and 1 suppose the Céntenniad Guarda may be all right by the tline our Extibition comes to an end. TIE WOMEN'S DEPARTMBNT, I devoted n‘ym of yesterday afternoon to a visit to the Women's Pavidion. You know all ———— MUlers* Nutionnl Asnoctation. ‘Tho third aonual Conventlun of the Millers! Nutlonal Assoclativn will be held at the City of Milwuukee, Wik, commendug June 21, 1870, 1 ‘Ea Chumber of Comnmerce of Milwuukee and N h Y anid tho millers of the rcat” Nurtiiveat ave | Somsiodin’ bl wt el extended a cordlul fnvitatlun to the Assuciation | fijustration. Like all other purts of tho toliold fta Centenndul Couvention at Milwau- | Exyjbition, It Is not yet ready. Therg kee, and prepurations sre belng mads for o large and enthusinstic uleclll?{. !}imcn from all parts of the United Btates and Cunadus, frrespective of Btate or loval or- gaulzations, nre nvited to attend en musse; and the Milwsukee Commities of Arraugeinonts, und ths offlcers of the Association, will'du sl i thelr puwer to make the occasion 8 plessant and prolitable one to all. ‘The Plunkinton House has been dealgnated ns the grund heandquarters. Special urruugemnents huye been made for the entertafument of all in sttendunce st the Convention. Georar Baix, Prea'’t, 8t. Louls, Mo. Franx LrrrLe, Becreta Kataxizoo, Mich., May 20, 1876, - ure many vacaut spaces thul there are many ehow-cuses whose printipa tructions are the nothingness of thele {uterlor, Workmen are buay {n several localltics, und the ludles in change of the place are hunflng about fuan indelinlte sort of way, us though they have more un thelf hands thun they can'ttand to convenlently, State and natlonullnes are not druwn hiere very deflnitely, thoughthere hus been anattempt to put things from certabn countrivs Where they can be seen togetler, 1 hud exe pected nich—perhaps too mwnch— of the Wom- en's Pavillon; und so [ wus dissppolnted; bty nevertheless, I am giad to say thut the women Liave dune o great deal, and madean exc wllu;:lly creditable displuy, 'They promise to huve much wmore when 2l thelr goods ure in, und 1 ma huve something more 1o say of them In o wed or two, In the show-casey, ut present, there ty stare ut you, und T e A Cat In the Crlu Col. Btewurt Wortlcy, an En War, Mah offlcer, tells the following story of "a cat whove scquafntunce | & great desl of Juco ' und embroldery,— b mado duriog Uie Crimean war: the kind of work that has been the ** After tho French tyoops bad taken the Mal- E:l“vmw of foniulue tingers from time akofl I was sent futo It ou duty, aud found an memoriul, This work comes from ul) cow- trfes, *and from women n all ranks of 1ife; much of 1t is from thone who wroughit for i time, but much wmore, und the best part of i from women whote work s thelr meuns of lyellbood, Threo of the Y Iish Princessca—~Buatrice, Alkee, sl Helenuw— iave contributed to the Exhlbition; their work, good euml};h I its way, In nutllng extruordls uulwpry cat buyoueted through the fuot und pluned to the ground. ¥ took fier to iy teut; she wun carfully tended, and every morniuj taken o the dutor to Lave ber wound attended . Fouror five doys ulter 1 wes too £l one worndug W get up, wnd puss cune wud scratehed tomy tentduor, 1 took no notiee; but not lmy,f after the doctor cume to n{)llm mine woa 54 a wise cat, for she hud come o his tent and sut nury, and presume the Royal Jadles cannot quictly duwn lg:x ber foot W be examined und | uiGrd the ulmu necessury (o s thorough knowl- - ) Luve its usual nmi. Blis was watched to sce what she would do the wext worning; bus sha declined wusting her thne scrutebing 10F e, and went strulght to the doctor’s tent wnd scratched there. Bhe was o very affectionste edge of the uses of the wveedle. The Bulgian luces ure the best, 48 they come from profes- siunal wourkers; but there are somne speciincns of Americun work that givo s shurp competition the Brossels product, #We bave sumeiblvg here from Eoe il iver Lis gy ih o iy feflowiug n TUM HANDS OF TUN QUEKY, 1a"the gir ORI Mea, o Noyes ot Oblasas e lod mo 4, 5 . THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1876—'TWE LYE PAGE n ensé contathing some twenty-ive- or thirty etwlllnr‘zn tnade “by _Victorla " Regina. Most of - those that " I enw wera goodl § o few woull be open to crliicitn on the score of drawtug, and some of them on that of shading, But we don't often get any- thn‘:nt this sott from Royal albums, and i won't do to be too partienlar. One is reminded of Dr. dohnson's remark about the dog that dnneed on Wis hind legs, that it wasa vc? anr sort of dancing, and you wondered, not. that the Dbeast danced budly, but that ha danced at sl But plense dow't, send i copy of this puper to the Quten, or Tihny never be tnvited to dine nt lluuk{ughnm Talace or spead a week at Bol- moral. There fa n fine ot of artificial flowera from Braztl,—some of them made of feathers, Ifke the flowaors in the Brazilian Department fn ths Maln Dullding, Canadagends rome painted velvets that look vory pretty, and camnot be dis- tinguighed from emhroldery when you nre a f steps awny, Bwedon sends some. prei(y worl In flsti-acales and boness ond ft also serfds fizures of o group of peasants, which never falls to utirnet o crowd of spectators, A young man Is enpaged i pulling & flower to pleces, to as- certaln. whetlier Wis glrl loves Wm_ or not. She s looking over his shouldeys, quite a8 angions, probably, a8 lie s, to know what the fower will say. In the Jupanese aliow-cage there aro some fans and fire-sereens, und also somne embrokdered gar- tents of varlons kinds, There are also some spechuens of pafuting after the Orfental aty) but none of theln are’ more remarkable than'tl works of art. fn the Japancse sectlon fn the Matu Buildlng. 'Ihe Massachusetts, the Vittshursg, and the Chneinnatl Schools of Design havy some excellent work; us cantiot go foto thom win detall without the risk of rouslng that peeuliarly-feminine qnality Kuown as envs (uo euvious man was ever heard of), Twon't fudulge fu particulars, The renl truth s, that, by the thuel got sround to " these thlngs, 1 was oo tired and too much In a hurry to give them nu}' more than o passing glanee, wnd, untll 1 haye looked at theso morw carefully, it onld Lo unjust for e to attempt any cotparlsons, Clncinuatt has” some good carving in black walnut furniture of varfous kinds, There {s n bedstead, which was carved by two younys fadies, und s lstory BOUDERA ON THE ROMANTIC, ‘They learned wood-carving as o pastime, when thelr father wns wealthy: now he lias lost his property, und they flud the occupatiun u goud onc to ussist them in supporting themselves. Thers are a parlororgan, al: in Dlack walnuty; o of the same wnterlal; and w in imitation of the antique. The metal hinges of this vab- inet are the work of women, and they are muts Just as well as men could muke thém. Thera are other things In black wal- nnt, “too numerous to mention,” s the advertiscments say; and thero fs o pretty hust In marble, n-&rrcsuntlng o glrl Nolding n dog fn her nrma. “Chere Is & palr of lice coveringa. for pillows, made by n jrirl 14 ‘Yuum old; and there Is a covered bedstead, with nce vovering for the bed, all made by o dmother for her grandeldld. They have fn 1 ‘pxulmcnt some fnces from Fayal, made from the fibre of the aloc; they have ~Tunisian curtaius and tablecovers; and they have En- glish, French, and Austrian work fu cone siderablo quantity, all from fair honds. There waro fnting-irons, and all sorts of things for laundry-work; and there are ma- chines for washing dishes, sconring knives, und dofme other Kinds of houschold duties, I wns led by onecaso which, I was told, contafned nothe ing of interest to the masculine eye; perliaps it was a eolleetion of machines for washing and dressing babies, teaching them not to cry, and behiave themeelves generally when bachelor rel- ntives are about, L will go thero some tine, nnd fnyestigate the conteuts of that mysterious LASC, ~ T W K. e MR. JONES' SUICIDE, The Iarticulnrs of & Molancloly Event Thilaielphis Butleddn, I1is name was not Alciblades Junes, butforthe snke of avolding scandul we will call him that. IIe Uves In a certuln town in Montgomery Cotu- tv. Bome thine ago he weord and lost n Miss Julia Bangs, Ile wus perfectly desperate over s defeat, and his friemls feared that some eyil consequences would ensue, Thelr npprebon- slons were realized, Jones ealled upon Peter Lnmb and nsked him f he hud 8 revolver, and Peter sald he had. Jones asked Lomb to lend it to bim, and Peter dil go. Then Jones - formed Peter that he had made up nls mind to commit sulelde. Ho suld that elnce Miss Bangs Dad dealt so unkindly with him he felt that +ifo ‘was nn insupportable burden, and he could tlnd relfef only in the tomb. He fntended to go down by the river shore. and there blow out his bralns und so end all this suffering and grief, and Did furwell to s world that bad grown durk to him. He sald that he mentloned the fact to Lumb in confldence beeause he wanted him to perform some little offices for bim when ho was gone, He intrusted to Lumb o sonnet entltitd #A Last Farewell” and adressed to Julin Bangs, This, he asked, should be delivered to Mise Bangs us soon o hls corpse was discovered, He sald 1t might excite a pang fu her bosun, and {nduce her to eherish bis memory, Then he ve Peter his wateh as o keepsuke, und hauded iim $40 with which lo desired Mr, Lamb to purchuso a tombstone. He sald he would prefer aplafu ono with his simple nume cut upon ity and ho wanted the funcrul to bo us unostentatious as possible, Leter prowmfsed to fulfill these commissions, and he xulfizuuu:d that he would fend Mr, Joues o bowlekuife with which he could slush himsell up If the pistal fatled’ ut the sutclde salid that he wouldl make sure worle with the revolyer, although be was much obliged for the offerdf the sume, 1o safd he would like Lunb to go ureund in the morning aud break the news us gendly as posible to hig uuhappy wotlier and?(o tefl her that his lust thought was of ber. But he partieulacly re- queeted that she would not put en mourning (or her errlug son. . Then Jia said thut the awful act would be per- fromed on the beach, just below the Gus' Works, und o wished Peter'to coine with some kind of a vehicle to bring the remuins home, If Julia came to the funcral she wos to have a seal fn the carrlage next to the heurse, und If she wante ed Lis hearth {4 wus th be given to her in aleohol. It beat ouly Sor her. ~Puter was to tell his employers ot the store that he parted with them with regret,” but, doubtless they would find some othier I»erwn more worthy of thelr confidence und esfeens e waid he didn't care where he wits burled, but let it be In some louely place, far frous the turmoll snd trouhle of the world, some pluce where the gruss grows green, and where the birds come to carol § the carly spring-time, T, Lamb asked him {f he prefered o deep or u shallow gruve; but Mr. Jonca sald it made very litte differance—when the spirit was gone, the” ruere uunhP Tay wua of littlo scount. He owed 7U cents for billlurds down at the saloon, and Lumb was Lo pay that out of the munc{ in bls huuds, and to request the clergyman not to. preach o Bermon ute the cemetery, Then he shouk huds with Peter, aud went mivay to lis uwtul doow, The next morning Mr, Lamb wrote to Julla, stupped i to tell thew at the store, and nearly kllfed Mrs, Junes with the intefligence, Then hie borrowed Cooley’s wagon, and, taking with liia the Coroner,” he drove out to the beach, Just Lelow the Gus Works, to fetch homo the mutdlated eorpse. When they reached the spot, the budy wus not there, and Peter sald he was very much afruld It Bad wushed away by the” flood-tide, B these drove up to Keyser's houre, uhout hulf o mile from the shore, to ulc If uny one of the folks there had hurd the fatad litof-shot or seen tho bidy, On goltg around ha wood-plls they saw Kuyser hol ding u terricr duuk' bucked close ‘up ufimml o log. The dog's wua Jylng across the log, sud snother man Lud the ux uplifted. A eceond luter the yx de- scended and cut the tall off dose to the dn}i. y und, while Keyser restrained the frantle anbmal the other it wnclicd the bleeding stump with caustle, As they Jet the dog go, Lumnb wes mwazed {0 see that the chioppes wis the wretche ed suidde, e was wwazed, but before he conlit unk any questions Alciblades steppod up to Lim and suld: “Hualishesh! Don't say anythin that matter, 1 thought better of The plstol looked so blamed dunzersus when T eucked 16 thaut [ chunged my mind, snd ewine over here 1o Keyser's 10 stuy all lxlg'hl. I'm golng to live Juat to eplte thut Bung girl" Then the Coroner st that he didn’t conalder he bad bren trented 1B gentleman, and bo hud half u notion tw glve Nr. Jones 8 pounding. Bt v.hcf ull drove hune in the waron, and, Juat ya s Joncs got dous hugging Alcibiade i letter was hunded i umwnnu;i the sonu he hud sent Julle. Bhe returned it, with tho remark that it was the swiulest slush she ever rewd, und thut she koew hie hadu't couruge cnough Lo kill lmsell. Thew Alefblades went buck to the store, and wus surprised to find thut his employers go Jittie cnouon as to dock Lim for hal fi'lhnnm What ho wunts uow s uscertaln if ho cannot compol Poter Lawb to Kive up the watch. nb says b hus too much respect for the metcory of Ly unfortunate fricnd to part with ll}:nl. ho'ts really sorry nuw that hu ordered that tomtatons. On the 1t of May Jones' bleedims hart bad beco g far stanched us to enabie hinto begin skinntsbing wound the, affections of 2 sl nawed Bulth, and, U;‘lm mlu;;-:nhhn. be thinks n:fiwmb.u; may . yed cows igtg play. Bupes il bave Adouihfa abous ity s about and THL TOWERS OF SILENCE. Ilve npdrt from tho rest &)t the comniunity, are, therofore, highty paid, . “Before they remove the body from tha houso whers the relatlves ara ndsshbled, funceal rmyen are reelted, antd the corpsc s exposed to he” gaze of ndufi regarded by the Parscesnd guered animal. his “Intter ceremony s ealled agdid. 3 “““Fhien the body, swnthed in n white shoet, Ia placed on a curveld metal trotgh, open at both ends, and the corpse-hearers, dressed in pure white gatinents, proceed with it toward | the towurs, They are followed by the mourncrs distance of ot legst 30 fect, In also dreseed in white, and cach couple jolned by holling n white handker. chief between themn, The particular funeral 1 witnessed was that of a child, When the 1wo carpse-bearers reached the path leading by a How the Followers of Zoroaster Dispose of Their Dead. ADeseription of the Funeral Customs of the l’m_'sccs at Bombay. London 1tmes, a Mr. Monfer Williums, Buden Professor of Sanskrit, writing under date Belvedere, Caleut- ty favors us''with the following highly fnter- esting aceount of swhat may be ealled, thongh the uxprvss'i'un scarcely npplics, the Parsce fl"%”p n:::filr‘::gu,w HL'I‘;'“ "“éi&n.f‘ l;'”m}“;“,‘;fi;: Cemetery ' In Hombay 2 turned back and entered one of the prayer At o time when the attention of the British | honsca. YThere,’ eald the Beeretary, ‘fhoy public i8 attracted ‘irreslstably towards the Queen's Indfan Emplre o short account of a visit I have lutely paid to the Parsce ‘Tower of Slleica’ may poasibly pe read with Interest. repeat certain Gathas, and pray that” the spirit of the deceased may be enfely transported u{n l.huI fourth tay nfber death to fts (nal resting uce, P Tha tawer sclected for the precent funcral Your columns huve proba) ll,v atready eontained | waos one fn which othier tembers of the 'sune A record of the Prinee of Whales' | fumily had before Leen Jabl. Two bearcrs vialt to the satme locality, and through apeud ll( ublocked the door, reverently conveyed the body of the child inta the +infetlor, and unaean by any one, lnid it uncovered In one ol the open &tonie receptncles nenrest the central well, " In two minutes they reappoared with the cinpty bler and white clothy and scarcely hit they cldsed the door when n dozer vultures awooped down npon the hmlp aud were rapldly followed by others. In five min- ntes more we saw the sutiated birds fly baclk and Inzily scttle down ngain upon the para- ot “They had left nothing behind but a skele- on. Meunwhile lhi hearers were seen Lo enter: 4 buflding shaped itke a huge barrel, leml. the Kindness of Siv Jamsetjes Jejeebhoy the very samc privileges of apoction which his Royal Eighness enj were aceorded to me. “Your~ renders are doubtless nware that the Parsces aro - descondants of the anclent Perstans who were expelled from Persia Ly the Molmnmedan conquerors, and who first rettled at Surat nbout 1,100 years ngo. Acconl- ing to the last consus they do not number more thun 70,000 souls, of Avhom ahout 50,000 arg found In the ' City of Bombny, but chielly in Guzerat and the Bombay Presi- dency. Though o mere drop in the ocean of 240,000,000 fnhabitunts, thioy forma most | as the Secretary informed ine, they chang; fnportant and influentlal body of tie, emu- | thelr clothes and washed themselves. lannF Europenns in energy and enterprise, | Shortly afterwards we saw them come rlvaling them In onlcucl' d Imitating them | out and deposit their cast-ufl funcral In muni' of Whelr iabits, Theie vernacular lon- &{ln\;{n s Guzorntl, but hearly every adult speake English with fluency, and * Enflish is .now taught in all thelr schools. Thelr beneyvolent Institution for ~the education "of At lenst inmemaounumne recoptable near at hand. Vot a thread Ieaves the garden, st b should carry defilement Into the city. Perfectly new fnmmnuuu supplied at each fnweral.” Ina ortnight, or at 1noet four weeks, the same l,ulxlln?'s aud girls Is in a noblebutlding, and 1s | bearcra teturn, and with gloved hmlu. and od management, Thele religion, implemonts reeembling tumfu luce the in its original purity by their | dry skelelom fin the central well. There prophict Zoroaster, and as propounded in the | the boues find thelr last resting-place, and there Zend-Avestn, 13 monothelstie, or, perhnps, | the dust of whole gencratlons of Parsees cott- rather pantlielstle, o spite of its philo~ | mingting is left undisturbed for centuies, soplifeal “dualism and In “spite of the af parent worship of fire and tlie cloments, regard- e ns visible repreeentations of the Deity, Its morality la summed up it threo precepts of two words “each,—* govd thoughts,” ‘ood words,’ ‘good deeds,'—of which tha Parsee is con- stantly remlnded h{ the triple coll of his white cotton girdle, In its orlzin the Parsea system fr allied to that of the Hindu Aryans,—as repre- sented fu the Vedn,—and has such in commnian with the more recent Brabinanism, - Nelther ro- ligion ean maoke progolytes. * A man must be born a Brahman or o Parsce; 1o power ean convert him fnto elther ono or the other, One notable pecullarity, howaever, dis- thuguishes Parscelsm, Notbing stmilar fo its funeral rites prevails among other nntions; though the practice of exposing bodies on the tops of rocks Is not unusual amoeng the Budd- hists of Bliotan. “The Dakhmas, or Parsce Towers of 8ilence, are crected fna t.',unlcu. on_the highest point of Malabar-hitl, n beautlful rising ground on ong slde of Black Bay, noted for the hungalows and com;zuuuds of the Buropean and wealthler In- habitants of Bombay seattered In every dirco- tion over its surface, The revolting sight of the gorged yaltures made mo turn my baek on the tuwers with (l<oncealed abhorrence, I asked the Becretary iow {t was possiblé to become recon- clled to auch o ussf His roply was_nearly In the tolluwln%on ¢ Our Prophet, Zoroaster, wlho lived 6,000 yedrs ngo, taught us to regur the clemonts os symbols of the Delty, Earth, fire, Water, he” sald, ought Abyer, under any ¢ cufstances, to be defilod by cu tact with pmr\:fylugf tesh. Naked, said,- we came into the world, and nak we ought to leive it. But the deeaying parti- cles of our bodies should be disaipated ns vapld- l‘y s possfble, and in gueh a way that nelihor Mother*Earth nor the beings shic supports should Le¢ contuminated in tho slightest degree. In fact, our Prophet wus the greatest of health ofticers, and, following his eqnitary lawy, we build our towceraon the tu{u of the hills, tbove all human labitations. We spare no expense {n constructing them of the hardest materials, and wo expuse our putres- cent bodies In open stone receptacles, resting 14 fect of eolid ;:'xrunlto, not necessarl- ly to be . cousume by vulturce, but to be dissipated 1o s spocdicsl. phssible ““The ganlon s appronched by a well-con- | mauner, and without the possibility of polluting structed private roud, all nceess towhich, except. | the enrtix ar contaminating a single lving Lelns to Parsees, Is barred by strong fron gates. Thanks to the unux![iulcut 8ir Bamsctjes, no obstueles fmpeded iy wdvance. The dwalling thercon, God Indeed sends the vul- tures, and, ny nanatter of fact, theso birds do thefr appointed work mueh more ox‘pmltuamly mussive _gates flew uvpen beforo me s if by | than millions of (nsccts would do if we com- nngie. I'drove m{:mly through n park-the ik« | mitted ofir bodles. to the ground. In closure, and found the_courteous Secrotary of the Parsee Punchayal, Mr, Nusserwainjeo y~ amjee, awalting my urrival at the entrance ?u the garden. He took me at once to the highest polutin the consecrated grround, and we stood together” on the terrace of tho largeat of the three Sagris, or Iouscs of Prayor, which overlook the five Towers of Silence. This principal Bugri contalus the sacred fire, which, whou ouce kindled and conscerated by solemun ecreinonlal, Is fed day and night with fuconse and fragrant sandal,” and never ox- tinguished, The view from this spot can searcely he surpassed by any {u the world, Do~ neath us lay the City of Bombay, partially bid- den by coconnut ;irnvun, wiith its beautiful bay and Tdrbor glittering {n the brilllant Décember light, ‘ond strotelied the magnifl- cent tanges “of the ghauts, while fnimedistely around us extended o gxmlon, such as can only be seen in tropleal countrles. No English no- bleman’s garden could bo better kuy ta o sanitaty point of view uolhiui cun be more porfect than our plan, Even the rain-water which washes onr xkeletons fs con- ducted by chanucls into plu-l!ylnfi charcoal, Herg in these five towera rest the Lones of all the Parsecs Llat have lved fn Bombay for the, last 200 years. Wo form o united bedy in life, and -we arc_ united in death. Even our lender, 8ir Jamsctiee, Jilkes to feel that when he dies he will be reduced to per- fect equality with the puorest and humblest of the Parsce compmmity.! * “Whon the Becretary had finlshed his de- fensc of the Towers of Sllenve, I vould not help thinking that howevce much such a s%' emn flmwi may shock our European feelihgs and ot onr own method of {nterment, II remarded rom 8 Parses polnt of view, mnr possibly be equally revolting to Parsce scnsibilitivs, ‘ Tlio exposure of the decaying bady to tho nssaults of fnnumerable worms inay have no ter- rors for us, because our survivors do not see the und no ruu could o justice to the glories of its fowar- assnllants; butlet it be borne in mind thut ng shrubs, cypresses, aud puling. It scomedtha | nefthor are the Parsco strvivors.permitted to yery Ideal, not unly of n place of sacred silence, of the Heaven-sont birdi, ‘but of peacelul rest. * But what are those flve dreular structuna which appear ut intervals rising mysterlously out of tho follage ! They are ulm%ly masses of ol mhaoury, wassivo enough to last fur cen- Took at. tho nwuoll Wn{ then, shoukl we be surprised if they pre- fer the more rapld to the tnore Hogering opéra- tlon? and which of the two aystems, they may rmunnh?' ask, Is moro defenslble on sanitary grounds turllua, lml\ti a(mtlw Ih‘nn m‘t black granite, —_———— and covered with white chunam, the pur- h o ity and smoothiicas of wWhich 170" dllired | * i woee il i This Countxy, The surveying party sent out to survey the Oketenokee Swamp report that it measures 142 miles [nclreumferchice, and, withi the slunosities, 180 mlles around. This yas formation, 80 milus loug and 17 miles wide, [s the largest swamp In the United States, It lles fn the southensiern rlnrt of Georgla, but purtly in north Floridu. cra 18 the Suwanca River, mado famous b; the Jiegro melody of the ** Old Folks at Home."" It traverses n luego section of upper Florlda, is bordered with valuable oypress and other tim- Yer, and emptles Into the gulf ot o polnt 18 1niea above Cedar Koys. Okefenokee Bwamp by patehes of black fungus-like Incrustalions, ‘Tawers thoy scarcely deserve to be calledy for the helght of each 1a quite out of praportion to Its diameter, The largest of tho five, bullt with such salld grunite that tIA cost of crection was threo Jacs of rupees, scemed about forty feet fn diuncter und not morg than twenty-fve fect in height. ‘Tho oldest and smallest of the five was eonstructed 24 years agzo, when the Puarasces first scttled in Sombay, and Is now only used by tho Modl fumnidly, whose forefathers built (L’. and here the bunes of many Kindred generatfons bre com- | yyag 'y, § fuageo M vy Blavi mingled. The next oldest was crected In 17! o fenerat TR i for sy claves, andothe other. fhres. Qunng the. shceecdieg | 1dlane huve lived there until recently, culll vating gardeps; and In the depths of the Jungles und forests are thousands of bears, amd 8 great inany Florida “tigera—the cougar, or Amnerlean panther, One curlous experiences of the surveyluge purty was to fud themselves at one timey jwhilo'{n the midst of a great ventury, A sixth tower stands quito apar frum tho others. It Is square In shap and only used for persons who have sufferc death for heinuus crimes. The boues of con- victed crimltals are never allowed to minglo Wwith those of the resf of the comnmunity, “But the strangest fenture in these strange, .‘.‘m;",?f ,‘,‘,‘,,:;mlf ufl‘,"fn:%‘ir'm;l;lhfbmim;;i? :{ ;xgmufl{lfi{ structures, 8o lucongruously. It | men existing before the {nd(mm‘," 15 nlso ro- LTI Wit prwetul - eypresses and | ported, Several skeletons were taken out of pulms, exquisite shrubs, and gorgeous flowers, remaina to by deseribed, ‘Though wholly dés- | ghe tmitdc? nrt;)rn:xmenl,lnu;l cvehnn the sluiplost — molding, the parapet of ench tower possesses an_ cxtriwrdiniry I:uplul;, which ln-u{nuy it “"r',:m:n();,l:: ;,)‘f,","bf“:‘:"" tracts and { atea the c.s It 8 8| An unusual marrago touk pinctin this clty mnlnfi lo,rmm'i not {ntcniuy, the purtics thereto boing Mr. Spendie o liviug vult Wright, Tormerly with Tootle &z Maul, and Miks oceaslon of my visit had settled themselves | Boss Roberts, dsughter of United States slde by sido hu perfect order and in & campleta | Deputy Collector Johiy Roberts. * The caremony eirele nround the parapets of the towmd vith acd at Mrs, Doolittle’s, y hem, but some crumbled as soon s exposed to toa whicre the yohniy their hewls pointed wardsy ainl g0 lazlly did | mun_boarded, u o was too il to be removed they - sit thero and g0 motlonless " whs | clsewhere. 'The Rev. L. I, Britt; pastor of the thelr wholo 1fen, that, except for Firat Mcthodlat Chiurch, performed theceremony, thelr colur, they ml%l(ab have been carved out of tho stonework., So snuch for the external uspect of the celebrated Towers of Stlence, Atter they have been once conseerated by solemn veremondes no one except the corpe- Legrers §8 wllowed to enter; nor fs uny one, not even o Vurseo High Priest, permitted to ap- proach within 30 icet of tho Jmmediate pre- cluets, An exuet model of the interfor was, Mr. Wright has becn falling in health very rnpldli;]o Inte, and the physictiuns here huviog given him up, Lis futher, CIL Wright, who fa & inerchant tatlor In New York City, urrlved lierg on Baturday last to take hiw sun home to dic of consumption. Miss Roberts, to whom young Wright has long been afltanced, declded to ru cast with her dying lover, and give him alt the tara and uttantion that ber Jove cotld prompt ligwever, shiown to e, in hls d{vln # ours, and the botter thenable her % lmug}!nu a rouud columnn or massive cylinder | o caro for him, aht declded to havé themarrage 2 or 14 fuat high, und ut leaat 40 feet in diame- | ceremony performed beforo the journey to New ter, buttt throughout of salld stone, cxcept §n | York was undertaken, While wedding wus the centre, where u well five or aix fect acros | sad In its attendunt circumstances, 1t was 'fxgm- :Xc‘fl:mm;gwn cluan t.:lxx:ln :nx;fi‘l;m ‘\]!m;: '-l:: cnmlh it r‘fi“i tlie great eheurn:‘llx:cus manifested i s 5 Co right ungles to ecach other, terminated byithe ke In taling up lier Jutior gt laye ————— Thoe Two Webstors. Whon Mr, Wobster vislted Englund, after ho had attained fame enough to procede him, an by holes “fllled with charpon), Round the uppe®surfaco of this solid alreular cyliuder, and completely hiding the fngerlor from view s a stone parapoty 10 or 13 fect In lclght, This It 1s which, when viewed from the uuummnp cars | 7.rd Broughawm. That eminent Briton recelved to form oy plecs with the solid tlones | Gur Danel'with such coolness thut he was gind \V?‘Yik' ;Wl &1"&’] ) 1"“‘1 Ity hofovered | to get away und back to'bis room. The friend :pém.-fci."fi"r":'mw fve, /l,;;“wegl:“ flgg who had taken biin ut onco returncd to Lord ol the solid stone column by dlvl«.\ur nto sevens Usgay! Im batte amt anger, “ My lord, how could you' behave with such unseetnly rugeness and discourtesy to so great u hn?'cr und stutesman ¥ It was insulting to him, aud haos filled me with mortitication.” “ Why, what on cartl have I done, and whom have 1 been rude to 17 *To Danlel Webster, of the Benato of the Unijted Blutes.,” “tireat Jupiter, what ablunder | T thought d(y-two eompartments, or open receptacles, ra- aftattng Hke the spokes of o wheel from the central well, sud sreadged In thres concentrio riugs, separated from cuch other by norraw ridges ot nlmu? which arg nfimorcd to, nct oa channels lor conveying all molsture from tho recoptacles into the well and {nto the lower drulos, It should be noted, by the by, that the number ‘8' s emblematical of Zorouster's threa wrcetui’ and the number '.','f_‘,fdu'u‘:.:,’fy‘:.’:mw:’fi{f&:fi‘;f:‘flfl:’gfi d.‘fi‘_nu o ll‘fi Z:fix:)x;flfi.‘c“ of his Yasua,~g portion of th’x‘h:r! the gn:su L‘Immcll‘i)ll' quickly liun c&“llp % meriean Bonatyr, an ther tastes ¥ Each cltcla of open stano cofling 1a dividad | [ Suierent denatgn sl laving oibes, e fro e Aay [ Lutia o that there | o royal night of tt.—Edilor's Drauer in Marper's 0 Ly Jreuly pathways, . the instencireling tho contral "oy and_ thesa | Aeyaseforduns three pathwuys ure cropsed by unother pathway, . A Nurrow Ficape. conducting frum e solltury door whis lts Danbury News, the corpse-beurers from the Interlor. “In tha | One aof the citizcns of Danhur{ who had just outermust cirele of the stone cottlus are pluced | roturncd from the West, waa tol \lug In Merdill's the bodies of ales, in the mbddls thoss of fo- of & narrow escapo ho rum a tars tnules, and fu the inner and smallust circle, near- p rocor %blc Iliml- 1o was croasing & long railroad eat the well, thosy of children, .« - | on foot, when hie was surpriscd to see s locomo- " While ] wus engaged with the Bocretary fn | tive coming nround u curve, and tearing tpwards examining the mudel, a sudden etir among the | him at a Cerrific @peed. The bridze was too nurrow |do allow of afipwlfigmm mlh-, un;} he did not dare to jump 1 ¢ yawning abypy below, Ins mw‘o lml(nok In th3 lh.uafiou u’nd yrmed his plan of ac o started on n quick run towards tha oncoming locomotive,snd when within o fow feot of it he concentrated all vultures mude us ralso our beada. At lsiat hundred birds collected round one of tho towers begun to show symptoms of ex- clmnenh while others swooped down frotn nelghboring trees. ‘The cause of this sud- deu abundunment of their "‘prevlau- l&z’uhy WDs see ba B rovealed iteclt, A fune: Lis nerve and musclo into one um;rrvz and leaped spprouchiug. However distant the house of » | straight up in ths alr. The fearful mouster deceased n, and whether he be rich or | shot underhiin,and ho camslown ou the bridge, pour, high or low in rank, his body is always | saved from death, bat serouly shaken u ‘Lb_v corred o the tuwers by the otficlul corpses | the descent. ‘There wusumomcut of deepetloncy beurers, culled Nosssalar, who- form a distinet m&m tho clusy of this narration, Then ung of ehass, fi'fl muurners walking behind. the mwmlnpnn slghed aud shut uphia knifo, udd 5 urity o iR R AE e - Ovarian Tamr DR, RADVAT'S RENEDIES I ANOV. Al ; AT A DS VAR Bg, ovae ANN ARIOR, Dec. 77, 173, DIt RA D' ¥ “I:IT"VSE,:.‘S::.A::’X T:fl“:llfl‘l H:A’l::::llclll!fl“d-l make i i At Otartan Tamae fn , eln for ten yenr | bered et wnynlrxm’:fi it nd OLNErt Wil hout any bepes a1 grow{ng nt Fpldity thiat T ool § e trfond 3t i lnlluu’t{lu ety sty Y tadwny's § A LU 1l 1ot amuch faith tn ' them, nr-!ll:t:rnlmrm'lllrl)rll‘lll'll:s s sfter much irchused slx hottios of the Rerolves i1 o butties of the Helets 1 woc sl T 1sed tliesy apparent beneit. | 1 determ o orn. '} inad Gibelvo o poitic oF tho bieant eI of Hie i, wrd twa oxeyor i Berora they g 1, gene | ha st Lwenty-fve po i h e tintt] J wi 1 was entirely fnn"' Aure thay Euglish gentlemun took him one doy to sce A * What's the uso of : Firti 1 continued ‘““’3" 'I"PAE:I‘( ) cured. 1 Lok the' mi mmomghn, an during that (e fogt mf\;y-llv‘: %3?{]‘{; uuk Ehiren doren Battlos o tign letler, sin aix boxenof te "|‘I"n€ :“::m" el al porrorily welly and my hieart it taloa 4 1hia ters by my dedp afiletion, O fraditude snd your woudsrtil madloino, € fecl dechly fidebreg Aoty prayer ot (¢ tnay b on iich of & Wcningg otheraax iU has been to e, igneiy MIS. B, C. DINNINg, o Mra. Bibhins, who makes the aboya corttficate, It h Rermah for widm 1 requeated yoit 16 von. mediine 1 Juoe, 1876, The medicines ahove stated wero boggay of me, with tic exceyition of wHAt was weat to foe Fon Lanny soy ise ber statement I3 correatwittou L quatincation” (Slned L, 8. 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