Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 9, 1878, Page 12

co to the nefghbothood. The stortzs are told from the stand-point of the boy, so that he seems to be a fine OUR BOYS. and overbearing, ho Immediate representative of society, executes {ts judgments with the rod, which'azain Is an {nsult to the hizh-spirited youth, and_ovroduces on lis side, cither open war, or_a digoifled retreat to some distant re- glon. Here Is a story, for Instance, of a bo; who was left In chare of a country To amusc his lelsure he takes o trom the stock platform In front of the store. village characters, among them, an old maid, the parson, and the aquire, como to perform on this arcon for the amusement of the youth and one or two of his friends. trying to get up or get off the platform, the owner of the grocers returns and he and the squirc have a fight on the grass-plot over the question whether the grocer platform or not. shape of the tny's father. The conversation between these two, and the denouement may be worth quotine. In the soliloquy at the end there secms to be a reminiscence of Fisk. * said he, *4yon aro breaking my heart ncorrigibie condnet, ' dat s chowder-gag?" calmly Inquired Jim- ya slang!"* groaned hisfath- ol never reform 'm good enough now. " **Think of what you might be, a pattern boy, a—" Drass-bound angel, silver.plated cherab, litlle tin mieslonary on rollers,™ put in J parently in confd Actnally ras The Literature Which Is Furnished for Their Use, Andd Trashy, Sensational, Corrupt- ing, Abominable Stufr Xt Is, Prof. Bumner Points Ont the Duty of Parents in the Premises, 0L D the youtli and . @. Sumner in Seridner's Monthly for Morch, Few gentlemen, who have occasion to visit news-olflces, can have fafled to notice the perl- odical literature for bogs, which bas been grow- fog up during the last few years. in the number of these papers and magazines, and the appearance, from time to time, of new ones, which, to judge by the plctures, arc al- ways worse than the old, seem to fndicate that they find a wide market. Morcover, they appear not only among the idle and viclous hoys in great citics, but also among school-boys whoso reased his vwn cincsls in the Slang—slang. alwa; brought to bear on their children. of eocinl phenomena can pass with nealect facts of this kind,~so practical, and so imporeant in thelr possible effects on soclety. The writer was confirmed In the determina- ton to cxaming this literature, by happening to sbserve, lnst summer, the eagerness with iwhich tome of these papers were read, and the ap- sarent famillarity with which they were dls- «ussed by a number of Loys who scemed to be returning from boarding-school, belang to families which enjoy good social The number of copies exam- Ined for the present purpose was not large, but they were taken at random and from ail the different perfodicals to bo found. These periodicals fotector, " the D, n Indimmantly corrected **1don’t know anybody named Beltal." The descon made a horrified mouth, ** Will you never hearken in quletude and meek- ness of spirit to words of reproval and advice? Pop's name w haired Cincinnatl ham,” ** Darned sight rather listen to funny storles, " muttered Jimmy. *! Yon are hopeless, " aighed the deacon, *'and 11 have 1o chastise yon. " ** Dat means a week'a sorences, edl; then he chan; time, dad, and Jimmy reflect. ** Let mo off thia be the best boy you ever saw Stay In nights, stop chewing tobaceo, clean my teeth every morning, and welt the life out of anybody dat wont say their pt and go to charch overy day in the week, ' ‘The deacon nodded his head the wrong way. **You can’t play lhat on the old man again," he sald; **it's lost Its varnish, it's played out. Step m, hagly Jimmy stepped up. 1n n moment ne was stepping up more than ever, for the Deacon was peliing him all overwitha stont mwitch, which felt the reverse of apreeable. Tut finally he wvas released and crawled dolefully contain stories, songs, mock specches, and negro minstrel dialogues,— The literary material {s spiced to the and nothing clse. intenscly stupld, or e Tighest degreo " with scnsation, ‘The stories are avbout hunting, fornfa desperado isife, pirates, wild sca nd- highwaymen, crimes, and horrible accidents, horrors (torturcs and ries), wamvlers, practical vagabond boys, and the wild ated hova In great cities. Thero are no other storles. loguc is short, sharp, and continuous. broken by the minimum of description and by It is almost entircly in slang of thic most exageerated kind, and of every varioty, that ol the sea, of Callfornia, and of the Bow- 3 of negrocs, ** Dutchmen, s and_Indlans, to say notl score of the moust frcegular and yucstionable oc- cupationsever followed by men. When the storles cven nominally treat of scliool-life, they say ‘There is simply n suc- vesslon of practieal jokes, mischief, outrages, ssible feats, fighting, and hor- g about the business of school, any more than if the house in which the boys live were a suinmer boarding-nouse. #ational {ncldents in these stories areintroduced by force, apparently for the mere purpose of wraducing a highly apiced mixture. £chiool stories before us has o *local color? which is purely English, although the namnes are ‘The mixture is ridiculous in the ‘The hero is the son of a *countr pentleman of Ohlo, nnd comes to school wit! an old drunkard, *‘ex-butler” of the Ohio country gentleman, whom he alluws to joln him nt the trand Central Depot. ‘The scandalous old ruscal fs kept in the story, apoarently be- cause un old drunkard Is elthera good fustru- ment or ¢ood victim for practical jokes. Tho hero goes to ding with a lace, near the school, is called the * Priory.” While waiting_for dinner he gocs out for o He rescucs a girl from drowning, sends back to school for another euit of clothes, goes out agnin and takes o ride on & bison, is thrown off, strikes, in 1olling, o Professor, who s fortunately fat enough to hreak his fall, gocs to the “snake- house ™ with the Profcasor, {s fascinated by the rattle-snake, which cetsloose, seizes the reptile, and throws it away after it has bitten throuzh the Professor's trousers,—all before dinuer. All the teachers, of coursc, are sneaksand biack- fuards. In this same story, one of tho assistant tenchers (ushgr, hie ls callcd) gets drunk and ju. sults the Principal, whercupoa the latter holds 0 dirccts some of the boys ump, and throws water 0 lics helplessly drunk on the prass,—all of which Is enforced by o picture. There is not a decent good boy in the story., ‘There Is not cven tho old type of The sneaxs and bullles are The leroca are continually devising mischiof which is mean and cruel, but which s here represcoted as smort and tunny. They oll have a darc-devl) charace ter, and brave tho Principal’s rod o8 one of the smallest dangers ot Nfe. There {s a great deal of the traditional English brutality In” exagger- ated forms. Tho nearcst approach to anything respectable fs that afler another boy has been for mischic! done by the hero, ought to hove confessed, replics with the crushing rejoinder that then there would only bhave been”three flogged {ne o'l“m's, lflus !ll{,cl o|! g chaviur of dissle ‘This c:tm:mucl'ncx- ‘There are things nicer than golng to bed at 4 o'clockona bright, breezy fall day, and Jimmy 0 **This here 18 getting awful stal ed, rolling and tossing in s cot. smother mo with fish-cakes if | ingto run away, aod hoss town when come back 1o dis old vne- 'm a man, in & gold-band wagon with silver wheels and slx Maltess males a.drawe Probably the old man will he in the Poor- House then, swallerin shsdow Roup with iron spoon, and It will make him ceanky to think dat hedidn't used ter let mo ' Yankces, Chil- hing of thatof a b have f"’ own way and nothing of ackool-ife, % Yesy by golly, IIl give him the sub. The songs and dialogues are almost all uttee- 1y stupld. The dinlogues depend for any in- terest they have on the most vapld kin negro minstrel buffoonery. The songs, witliout having anv distinct character, seem often to be calculuted to win spplagse from tramps and ‘The verse, of all before us, which has tho moat point toft, is the following. Whatthe requires no clucidation: 1oss Trweed e 8 man o His departura Jast winter caused a great row UIf courso wa all knew it was not But show me the man wha would not do tho same, When Sweeney, Genet and Dick Conuolly took o stg0d hire alone and made n zood gt He did wrong, but when poor men were greatly In need, The firat to anelet them was Willlam AL, Tweed. Thesc storfes are ‘not markedly profane, they are not obscene. ‘They represcat boy, tho time in tho rowdy type of drinking, The herocs arc citber swaggering, vulgar swells, of herofe but Im rorg, but nothi Americanized. Iked about now, entleman whos They are indeseri s 88 engaging afl stroll In the “Park.! i, vagabond mas: the” rowdy swell. assoclatiug with of tho storles'is nlways disreputable, The pro- ! persons of the criminal ‘who appear in the sto. The boy reader ccedings and methods and disreputabla cl; rics, are all described In abtains a theoretical and literary acqualntance with methods of froud and erime. drunkeunicss I8 represented in its disgrace and miserv, bul gencrally drinking fs represented a3 jolly and cutertalning, and there is no suggestion that boys who act as the boys In these storfes do aver have to pay any penalty ersons who are belkl croes and heroines of the nozzle, while b to work o garden on the asslstant, for it In after life. up to admiration are the bar.rooms, concert saloans, variety theatres, and negro minstrel troupes., sneaking good Lo} ull despleable § examined we may gencralize the [follow. ing fu regard to”the views of lite which these stories inculcate, and the code of morals and manners which they teach: The tlrst thing which » boy ought to acauire is physical strength for fighting purposes. The featsof strenzth performed by thess youngstere vith men and animials are ridiculous in the extreme, In repard to detalls the sup- osed code of English brutalit) 1n the stories which have t is always mixed with thecodeof the revolver, and {n many of the storles the latter is taught in its fuliness, wenerally carry rovolvers and use them at thelr discretion, Every youth who aspires to wanlinces ought to get and carry a revolver. A hoy ought to cheat the penurious father who docs not give him as much money as ho finds necessary, and ought to compel him to pay. A goud way to force him to pay liherally, and at the samo time to stop uriticising his son's habits, Is to find" out Lis own vices (ho always has some), and then to leyy blackmail but tho friend provalls. especiale nglish local color, Another type of hero very common in theso storles {8 tho city youth, son of a rich father, who does not give his sonssinuch pocket-mone B8 the latter considers sultable. tutes stinginess un the father’s it might e considered pardonal these young men drivk champagne everv day, treat the crowd gencrally when they drink, and plav billlards for §100 & game, The father, in his cluss of storics, I8 re vicluus and hypoeritical men of this clogs before us, the voung man is discovered ” in the Polico Court ence he Is remanded to the Tom by been arrested for collaring o bl policem: prevent hitm from overtuking a girl charged with pocket-plektug. He interfered becauso he e girl's face that she was lnno~ ingeated, for future develop- wwent In the story, that she was runulue away from fnsult, and that tho cry of *“stop thief was o get belp from the police and others to felze her. ‘The hero, who ts the son of o man worth $5,000,000, and who Is in prison under sssumed nome, futher's clerk and demands 81,000, saying that otherwise e will declare his real namo and dls- gruce his famlly, He gets the moncy, e then sends for “a notorlo whotn hu gives $500. With this sum his releasa rocured, Ho then atarts with his nitiate tne latter into life fn New Yy g0 to a thicves’ college, where fellow eroduated, vart cousista in taking pockets of a hanging tigure, to the garments of which bells are attached, ‘These youngsters art, althouch le, seeing that presented a8 g y plous. In the epcc Evcry boy, who docs not want to be * green " and “soft,” ought to_ “see the ele fine, manly youne follows are fatn! actors and singers at varicty-theatres, and the girl-waiters at concert-satoons, As to drinking, the bar-room code Is taught. The boys stop in at bar-rooms all alone the atreet, swallow drinks e rowdy grace on the treated, ond consider it in bo refused. The wood fellows meet every one on a footing of cquality—sbove all in o bar- Judged from tanding or leanlug with They treat and are Itiug to refuse or to Quiet home lifo is stupld and unmanly. Boy brought up In it never know the world or life, hard and to bow duwn to false doctrincs which parsous. and teachers, in leaguo with parents, bave invented against boys. ‘To becomen true man, o boy must break with respectabllity aud jolu tho vagabonds and the No fine young fellow, who knows Mfe, nced mind _the law, still icss are all stupid louts, and he has money, he can eustly find smart law- yers (sdvertiscent gratis) who can g prisun, and will dine with him at Del ‘e afterward, The sympathics of a man- 1y young fellow are with criminals agaiost the and Lie couceals crime when he can., ood or {ll bapuens to & you d always b gay. The only flls veical pain or lack of ‘monev. borne with gayety and fodif- l‘c‘rwuw, but should ot alter the philosopny of Astothe rod, Teachers and faithfully upto Solumon's futher flogs bis son, the true doctrine scems to be that thic son should run away and s i of adventure. When he docs this he bas no difiiculty fu finding friends, or I livin wits, so'that he makes money, lr‘lch and glorlous, to fud bis father in tie poor- us Tombs lwyer, to They havo to work things from the without causing y's tather is rich illustration fs iven, the Bowery to a o sustalns his character by his vulizar famillarity with the girl waiters, they hear o row In o slde strect, ‘They find o crowd collected watching {rom o third-story window, while her drunken Lusbaud beuts und cuts her bauds to make her fali, ‘Ihio biero solves this situation by drawing . his revolver and shooting the man, Lis compaunion withdraw unobacryed, furmer wards ofl the compliments of the latter bv saying modestly that ‘he could not besr to stand there and sce such a crowd looking on, aud not knowlug what to do, su he just did the proper thiug. Next day the hero, inecting the thleves’ college graduate in the corridor of the Fitth Avenue” lotel, ugrees to secelve and hold fur him any bouty bie mayscize in the bar- At ulght he aud bis friend vo toadisreputable maskea-ball, where the hero recopnizes bis father o disgulse nmong the dancers. Securingz u place in the same set, dur- pause u the dance ho spal his uivn face and his fatl moment. ‘This edifying iucideut full-pare fllustration, i yuestion, What d the artist put such o woman wha hangs it s not so casy to generalize, in these sturles, act recept. When a which he does. These periodicals seem to Le intended for 6 years of age, althuugh they oo of e 11 1 1t 18 fupossible, hat s0 0 wuch corruption ahould bhe sfloat and not exert some inllucuce. Wesay often treat of ol on of truth{ulocss makes utsl and vulgar faces on Iu this class of storles, fatbers and bous ule represcated us natural enewmics, an r the sou is that of susplei of hero who figus these stories 1y the yagubond Loy, the nervous cxeitement of rowing and seusational literature before us only with other literature of But what we bave said suillce: these papers potson boyy! minds with views of 1alsu g to destroy all inanliness and all chatees of true success. How far they arc rcad by boys of good home line tuences we are, certauly are wi be eastly obtained, and casil: isa qufiulau for the true position fu ond srmed peace. tivipatesin that harm hi F pretevsions, to show that res largely In s in the streets ol a great city, In the Rocky Mountaius, or at some cleverness in sing- or veutriloquism, or acgro e, und Le gaios a precarious living while Tins vagabond hfe of adventure % uud enticiug, ises from varsbond lite o lite, that fs represented us success, towe life, on the other ban; all, aud {8 ouly referred to us stupld and below the ambition of 8 clever youth, ccunuy i sowe regular pursuit, ure never mentloned at all. not consist {n eves luzurious 1o wastiug wmoney, The ty) of the gambler, one day « suotber day rulved and (o misery, ‘There Is wuotber type of bov who sometites furuishes the bero of 4 story, but who also ¢ or leas in all of them, Thls is the msctuel,—the 50k 0f Loy Who 13 un fo- Sutetimes be bas life which are so bose unable to say. oin the reach of ail. 1s represented as futeresting wheu the bero concealed, and {t rents and teachers bow far Persons under those responsiblli- tles ought certaluly to know what the charac- ter of this Jiteruturs ———— A Brutal Affalr, Cheyenne (1Fy0.) Leader, A terrible bt occurred yesterday afternoon at tho cornerof Ferguson and 8i; Letween Crazy-Horse's suuaw sod 8 yuung bulls terrier. The “terner was brod frow Fort Laraule s day or fort it bad learved to despise Judians, aud always UzLt tuyin, Yeaterday, whew the dog ) 14 uot depicted at coerosity does penditure, but e seems Lo bethat stceuth strects, ught to this clty THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: fn {ts rambles about the town ran across Crazy-Horse's squaw, who has been in the ‘city about a vear, and s to be found at the corner named on sunny days, there was an Instant declaration of war by the canine. The beautiful Indian whiow was leaning ngainst a vost. Her back was turned to the dog and ho sprang ot her calves with fury. So unexpected was the attack, nnd so lightning-tike the mo- tious of the terrier, that he bit both limbs be- fore Mrs, Crazy-llorse could turn around. The owner of the dog, who loved Indiana less, If possible, than his dog, sceing that the squaw was nbout to Injure the dog. sprang upon her and grasped hoth lier arms, hohling them with vise-like cn¥ which defied her frantic efforts to get free. The teerier was busy, and for full fifteen minutes it was ailowed to tear and rend the bhelptess squaw, even springing into her face, biting one check and tearing off the under lip. ~ Satistled ot Iast, the palo face released the squaw, mouuted his horse, and, giving w shelll whistle, disappeared, followed by his dog, Dre. Preshaw and Tuttle dressed Mrs. Crazy-1lorse’s woutids, which, though severe, are ot cousid- ered dangerous, ———— '*RELIGIOUS " ADYERTISING. To the Editor of The Tribune. Cmioaao, March 8,—Iam a farmer. Ilivein Ironuots Coounty, 11)., near Clifton. I belleve in bell, and hanging, and Tur Cuicaco Tiin. uNE. My wife, previous to switching off with Beecher and 8wing, alded and abetted mein making hell asuncomfortable as possible. With thousands of others, I wish to express gratitude for the heavy blows you are dealing to the edit- ors of the religlous press for prostitute fug thelr columns and deceiving the pub- lle with swindling advertlsements. Tho patrons of the so-called religlous press are more susceptible of being duped thau the readers of sccular’ papers, conscquently tho Advance, the Northwestern Chrlstian Advocate, and the Alliance, scem to monopolize that class of advertising, f am a sufferer. 1 am sore on the subject. 1 have n family of six wio should have arrived at years of diseretion, My wife, [ think, has formed a copartnership with the entiro batch, and 18 tho active partner in re- mitting stamps and answering thele swindling advertisements, 1 think it safe to eay that tho entire egg and chicken product of my farm ‘whlcll 18 not a small onc) have been ahsorbed n the remission of stamps to these swindlers, Who but an ldiot or knave could countenance fn lils paper the Great Auglo-Bengalee Disinter- ested ** American Tea Importing House ' Why, you would think from these cireulars and advy tlsements that the proorictors were very “Cherryble Brothiers,” and that thelr * offices, docks, and warehouscs " oceupied acres of river- front, and that hundreds of worthy orphans were laboring night and putting up pound packzzes of {ragrant Engl breakfast tea to Ue sent to every part of the world at 40 cents ver pound. My wife, un inveterate tea-arinker, sent for ive pounda. 1t did not come. Asold as [ am, the tact s not disguised that deception was practiced upon me. We take two rellgious papers,—one hell, and one antl- hell. One of them-—I think it was the antl-hell ~—came to us one morning embellished with a wood-cut which purported to bo a likeness of a Rreat real-cstate philanthroplst. Fromn sketch of tho life of this philanthropist, one was led to Infer that, more than his rarc business qualifica- tlons and great wealth in lots, his trie heart and nobleness of nature to thousands, who received in value ten-fold for investments made with him. Lots which this perambulating savings bank was nlmost giving away were sald to bo elmrmlmfly located in a beautlful villaze, only 8 fow min- utes’ ride from Chicago, in the inidst of churches, echools, and academics, the rarcembellishmenta of nature completing the picture. The few lots, it was stated, remalning unsold would only be disposed of, If not taken at once, at an advance of 100 per cent. My wife argued 1ife was uncertain; I might die, and it would bo pleasant to sell the farin, and sottle down on ons of those beautitul lots, where the younger children would have such rare cducationnl advantages, and she would only be a f2w minutces’ nde from Prof, Swing's Church. She could make the back payments from the products of butter and cgas, "1 wos selfish and 1 bit. No time was to be lost. A dnelycolored map of the subdivis. fon of " modern “Eden' wns procurcd and I gelected and made tho flrst avments on twoof the lots. Some weeks agu visitea Chicaro to sel! my hows—sold them— put the money in iny vocket, felt good, and thought I would fnspect my ‘ugrtrq/. Fiiey minutes’ ride deposited mo at ¢ Eden.” ‘The culd drizzling rain did not add cheerful- ness to tho scene when the statlonagent poluted to, In the dim distance over a_ mile of slough land, the location of my lots. 1 felt as though I would not give iny cal(-pasture for tho cntire subdivision. 1 cannot do the subject Justice. Mark Tapiey would bave run * jolly.” If “*un Trisune will continue the good work of bringing the reliztous press up ton higher state of cultivation,~letting some go faliow forn senson or two,—the noxious wedds will be cx!lrfnle\l. and the ficld of religious journal- ism will produce crops benclicial, not detri- mental, to mankiud, ‘This done, Tus TribuNE will have accom- plished much, and, withuut the aid of chromos aud deceased lexicographers, continued and fue creased prosperity will Lo its reward, v 1T, cndeared bim —— THE RICHEST PRINCE, [Fyem the German,) Pralalng in poetlc speechea Each liis conntry over all, 8aL four worthy German Princes, Erat in Worms' Imperial Uall. ** Qlorious, " cried he of the Saxo; ** I my countey and her Que Bilver gllatens in her nountals Lrlgit tn many a deap ravine ¢1§ce mv land of blooming fullne Cried the Kurfuerst of ‘the Hhi *4@uldcn acres in the valleyd, Ua the mountalas noble wine!™ **Glorlous cities, wealthy abbeys,” Louis of Lavaria cried, **Make iy laud rank with your conutries In great wealth, and alf bealdel™ Eberbard, he of the whiske Wurtemberg's beloved for Sald: **My country Las no cities, ‘Nor has mountatns silvee stored. **But, I prithee, well remember ‘That, {n forests lost, mayhap, 1can boldly Juy wy head down Safely in each sabject's lap I Then outerled the Saxon ruler, Of Bavurin, of the filne, *+ Whiakered Count, thou art the riched, Blessed fo that land of thine )" **iovx " BnusaKEn, NOON. As some cantented bird doth coo, Bha trilied of fond delight, The whilo s| read the clotli of white, And set the cups and plates for two, Bho leaned boyond the window-sily, And Jooked llonfl’lhn busy street, Apa letened for bia coming feet, The skies were calm, the wiuds were atill, **Olove, my love, why art thou late? ‘The keltle boils, the cloth i eadt The cluck points nearto nouy, " she sald. Ab, clock of time! ab, clock of fate! Bhe heard the noon's glad sounds of chear. ‘The whirl, the whish, the crash, the creak Of maddened wheels, the swiul shrick Of awe-struck meg, she did not hear, Sle lightly tripped about the room, And near the window, wherc biseyes LUs, i cach ulght, of what apples and clder we wished. Oun one veenslon, Henry Duralde, one of the meas, pro- posed tome fustead of Hlling the pitcher with unllcr to tap the dnmfiulm of native American Wwine. atter night, as we preferred it to clder, untif it wus enipty, A cousultation was hcid, and an usauimous oplnion expressed that sometbing hud to be dune, and that without delay, We brought into our confidence the old Uulbea ne- gro gardener, Mike, at 11 o'clock at _night, and snow six juclies deep on the ground, which res | leav suited {u bls assisting us, in consideration of a | wilg, quarter of a dollar cusli in haud, in taking the | ablaze with gold, ure the armoriul bel demijoln to town, some three wiles distant, and ¥ for 15 cents a gallon, got an old Dutchwman,who mads o precarious living by trading whisky at night with colored persons, to il up five gallons of tho same. On our return we smeared over sowe scalloe-wax, and, haviog cut a letter L frow the cad of & broow-stick, branded it, avd nluu{l it ouce more in the cellar where it be- longed. B Aight wrect it with a pleascd surpel Bhe placed & pot of fragrant Livow, Btrange, nervons steps wers Why grew her beart so b; 1d, 30 n A'be clock struck twelve—the novn bad come, Ab, nuon of tinie! ab, Boun uf fatel A flower-vase shallercd by the wall— A young face ey with awlul fear— A rigid shave—a covered bivr— A shadowed life—and tuat s all, Eita Wossiss, e Excitemsnt ina Church, D Telegravh in New York lerald, TRENTON, N, J., March 3. —The little Village of Hamiiton Square, about six miles from Lere, Las just undergons much cxeitement over ves currcuces which touk place 1o the Baptist Church last Eundl{ and to-doy, While the pastor, the Rev, W, WV, Case, a highly-estcemed keutleman, was dellvering o sermou 10 bis con- fiugmlluu ast Bunday, u marricd lady pamed ount suddenly urose and fn loud tones called bloi s “liar,” addlng that it would be better for biw to practics what L preached. Tho mostin- tense cxcitenent followed, sud bitter were the denuuciations the pastor, Durlog the whole week specutation ‘was rife s to what would bo doue with the re- fractory member. A meetlng was held, when ft was resolved not to allow ber to enter the edifice any wore. 'l'wdfiv the climsx was reached. Crowds ss. semnbled fu tront of the church, and svon after- ward Mrs, Mount came along und made a rush for the door. Bbe was stopped by a Corstable, 8 struggle cusued, and the excitement was (o tese. A United States Marsbal gave her tive miuutes ia which 1o leave, or ue would send ber to ail. 8he disrezarded the threat and firmly held her ground, Her husband after a while took her home, and peace was again restored. It fatho determination of the ChurchTrustees | Longworthi not to allow her inside tho edifice in the future, | see here. Now yon do av with very great care, Should you shakc It the very least bit you will but the husband says he wiil take her there spoil it. Now, Charlie, just sct it with the next Bunday, CURRENT GOSSIP. TIE BLOSSOM AND TIIE BIRD, A hawthorn-lossom on the snray Nodded and sighed, one sunny day, Ere June had yet nsunped the May, There camo a bird and perched betow, Ani mane the sweetest he dul know, T tell the flower he loved ler so. Vain was his song, Shohlushed, she sighed, Ttut to Wis sinzing ne'er replied, Whatever straln the songster tried, "Twas Autnmn, and & robin saw, Hung in the hedge, searlet baw; "T'waa dainty to his hungry maw. nal. Unmoved, the plaint of love prefery Tho red-breast was the tuneful bied. And often thun, as years succecd, The Idols of yonng dreams shall feed Lite's common wants and moanest need. Mapisox, Wis,, March 7, 1878, FISHING IN THE OKIOTSK BEA. The bark Starlight, of about 800 tons burden, started from San Franclsco for the Okhotsk Hea by way of Honolulu, Ionoluln was out of our cuurse, but we went there to take In o sup- ply of Kanakas to helpcatch the flsh. A Kenakn can Ue taught to fish as well asa white man, and ho deesn't put near go high avaluation upon his services, Passing to the morthward of the {slands of Japan and through the barrier formed by the Kuerile Group, we found oursclves In the Okhotsk Sea, and alter proceeding northward about 200 miles, we anchored off the Dbleak, fuhiospitable, harborless shores of Kamtchatak, The crew consisted of the Captain, Lvo mates, the splitter, cook, steward, four white fisher- men, and twenty-one Kanakas. Fishing isvar- | neor” ried on both from the vessel and In boats—in thebonts all thetime excent In atorins and dark- ness; from the ahios whenever the men have a minnte to sparo from thelr other duties. Our miniature flect (s composed of thirtcen dorles and two whalchoats, It s six Lells, 8 o’clock In the morning, day~ tight just streaming over tho barren and snow- patched hills which form tho coast line, a stitf, clillly breeze blowing, and o drizzling ruin fall~ ingr, altozether not ncomfurtable-looking morn- Ing. who, from his zalley, {s sending forth the fumes of coffee, Boon tha cook Informs the mate that breakfast s ready. The mate tumbles out of his bunk fnto his clothes, and hurries forward, shouting ns he Koes, rousc out, there, d’ve heari or your breakfasts h a few minutes cvery ane s dressed and almost awake. The whits' men go aft and catn the cabin: the Kanakas cat by themselves. lireak{ast is over In a few minutes, and every one go buots. The dorics are hoisted out cne by one, the man belonging to vach boat jumplng ™ in os she oes down, and being ready as scon as the bont touches the water to unhook the tackle and shove oll, A few moments suflice to get tho dories over the side, the whale-boats having already been lowered from the quarter-lavits, and the whole ficet of fiiteen out In a scmicircle ahead of tho ship, cach golng ita own course. Every doryman {s his own master whilo In his dory. Heean go whera he plenscs, anchor wlen he likes, and ahilft his mooringa agaln whenover ho feels ko it, the only thing Incumbent upon bim belng to catch finh. Gradually, ono after another, the boats anchor, and the men, standing upright in their dorfes, are sawing away on thelr Hnes, up and down, first one hand then the other, with unvarying regluarity, Suddenly oneline ls dropped aud the other is pulled fn g fathon at every haul. and almost linmediately two whito- bellled vodfish clisten and squirm as they aro yanked uver the gunwalo of the dory. Another HENRY CLAY To the Editor of the San Franelsco Dulletin : There were residing at Astland, the residence of Mr. Clay, near Lexington, in 1843 and 41, thres of his grandsons and inyself, attending tho classes of Transylyania University. Durlng the full of '48, Nicholas Longworth, of Clanclu- pat, scot to Mr. Clay a tive-gallon demijohu ot wine, scaled with ordinary wax, and with & Jetter *L " that had the appearance of having been cut from a plece of rough wood. Charles, Mr, Clay's confidential coloredservant, wus requested to place the demijohn in a secure face fu the cellar, Mr. Clay gave us the vrivi- As usual hold family, includiug ourselves, prescat. Wu aat dowa t0 the table'at 3 o'clock, tomary at that time. After a longand sumptu- ous dinoer, during which time mavy wiues, wore discussed, Mr, Clay said: ¥ Gentlemen, { ' bave n;l abiding coutldence the day will soon coms when preduciug country of the world; and with your permission 1 will produce o sample of the Urst Awmericun wine vver wade, frow my ofd friend, Niholas Losguerth. Charlie, my boy, cau | talzod, SATURDAY. MARCH 9, 1878—TWELVE PAG from tha right-hand corner that ohn _of wine that cameo fr preatest case on the floor beslde me, ow, gent driuk stamding, to the health ol A MOMANCE, I the old mansion at Ashland, Among the many curl Cuantes Noote Unzaony, rarner of a nation’s wealth, Correspandence New York Sun. lects over the sides of the Dowl. remarkable feature of tho the bowl, fallowed by ‘other Thicre {s no one up yet but tho * Doctor," hoot * Now, thcn, rouse out, do you want handed Into your bunks?" In on deck, sheathed in ofl-cloths and sca canie pool, is not of the pleasantest, * Scencs™ 18 nothing compared with hi Loats 1s spread then, they should attend i dezyous. 8t. Londs Lepubdlican, dullty was bold enough to try his hand, made a pretty actress climb an‘apple-tree, ad not bad alr until the a3 1s holst- After subper there are a fow yarns of the pluce took charge of of tuls siwple-minded world. n golng through the most extraor They threw their corcasscs reckless mauner ond mxlm"yr to the two llttle hey reared themselves QuIrs, tart, of course, tion proves it.—Bufalo Krpress. never drink,! e of tho fisherman. i the direction from which masters i~ Punch, oy (triumphnmly)—"' Urasshopper!" put on with a serew-driver, AND AMERICAN | <ail him blessed. WINE, wreathed In poesy, except, & crowded Hreakfust Talle, smped & Co. after flulshing our' class studics wing to the cellar for magnificeuce of Orfental taste. The bod We did so, and continued to do so night 2 s pecullarity 48 that the whole of the AMahurajal tuust luxurfou: bungings of rich blue tabouret, solid silver, richly chased and gut, Highness' arms upou the glass. box can be removeed and the wheels bro e ? urehead, aad many of ls near frivu , at this dinoer Mr. Clay had bis house- JUVENILE TUEATRICALS. ) U8 Was Cuse London World, werica will prove to bo the grest wine- | theatricals, the scene weut thus: you go down in ihe cellar and bring W Cl om “Yes, sir.” (Ilold, Cha ’a nll right. Now, my good boy, take the rkscrew and extract the cork: don't shake it. ‘There, there, take it under your arm, easy (f y“uu please, and Just tip us a little all round, h iemcu, ‘we will, wllh(onr permission, our ol friend, Nicholna Longworth, the manufactirer of the first native wine ever made fn America.’ the wine touched thelr llps, Mr. Clay Jooked at | us bova, seated at one corner of the table, and with ihat stentorian volve that wns 8o peculiar to him when roused, cried *Boys1? We slipped from our seatr, through the side door, and ns we entered the cedar trees ont of sleht, heard #uch a shout from his guess us was never heard A NATURAT, WONDER IN NEVADA. Virginta Coty (Nev.) Lelter to Louisvlite Conrier-Jours fesof this State there The scatlet fruit was she that ’“‘fl"’l,c 18 perhaps none more singular than what fa d; anlled the ** Devil’s Punch-Bow)," found to the southward of here, some cighty-odd miles, 1t Is in u valley, like many to be found on the castern stope of the 8ierras, surrounded by the towering heights of this magolileent range, the The npproach to the Devil's Punch-Bowl s up an elevation or rounded hill of apparently g~ nicous formation, The orifice of the Bowl is near the apex af the hill, the rock of which pro- Ou looking futo the vesscl, at flrst the water has adork green appearniice, but, on locking for a while louger, it becomes transparent, and, throw- ing o stone into It, you can sce it sink into the water to unknown dcpth:. One water its Imincnse heat, being a hot sulphurous punch at all tines, Its heat has been tested In many ways. Oue waus puttinga snake intoit, which wus cooked In an instant, Another experiment oceurred here not long since. A pacty of Plute Indians were on o visit to this buwl, when vne of the bucks nvproached so near the cdge that a portion of the rock gave way, and ho was pre- cipitated to the caldron below. When he struck the water he waa sect to streteh out almost In- unnuf-. aml began to sink, Thoe next day, how- iis sealp bolled from his hiead, camd out at a warm spring some 500 yards from the base of ortions of the body, botled loose and cooked done, Thess springs, of which there are many, at n short distance from the bowl, are not as” hot as the water inthe bowl, ns is evidenced by ducks alighting In them in very cvold weather, aud us was demonstrated by a irfend of mine golng Into one, and almost ot gutting out again, l?' teason of the fact that when nto the pool ho found a thin crust of sod formed the rim of the pool, the water ex- tending indefinitely beneattt, and when bhe would cateh hold “of it to haul himself up, it would break and let him down agafn, Finally, by getting some ropesito him, he was pu! out, satistled with experlments in a strange pluce. The surface of the ground gives witnh your welght as you approach any ol vthese springs In the valley around this hot punch- bowl, but the sod Is such that it vrevents you frum gotng through, but the sensation In woing over o giving surface, over a bottomless vol- Another appropriatcness about thls vicinage 18 the great quantity of snakes that constantly dwell here, 1t scems to be the headquarters of continental snakedom. They are here in ell varleties, of all characters and slzes. *Beak and Jou's " Inke of snakes in “*Wild Wenlckm snake- ship's dominion around the Devil’s Punch-Bowl, tho original snake of them all, and (tting it is, 1s Majeaty’s ren- A MODERN MIRACLE EXPLODED. It I8 not a 200d age for miracles, and a specu- Iator in miracles in France has como out at the little end of nis miraculous horn. The creduli- ty of mankind cannot ve depcnded upon for curreut mory:ls, It is only the old, far-away, misty miracies that stand any chance ot all for bellef. The whola development of the modern world Is not abla to produco o single supernat- inatant the liue is rebalted and finding its way | wral Ylwnomcnnn that will bear nvestigation, 0gain to the bottom, whils the fisheérman fs,| Dut speedily bringing to the aurface the palr of flsh’ waiting for him on the other line. No more thought of raln now; off comes ollskin coat, aud with o whl the Hshermao buckles toto tnake the most of his chance, From side to side, poir and palr, for nearly two hours, up they come. ‘Then suddenly the fun stops. - No more bites, not even o nibble; all goue as quick- 1y as they camne, except the hundred and fifty odd thot found their way Into the dory. Tha mon fishing next to this lucky fellow, about twenty yards away on one side, got about lwlfi:uy: thu ono on the other sldo by a bite yet. At noon the ensign s holsted on the bark as a te French speculator In nlracles and cre- was robed n'hablliments that mizhtsectn appro- priate forthe Virgin Mary. He showed the wom- an up o treo to two little girls of & small town fn the department of Meuse, He convinced the little giris that it was the Virgin Mary. He pho- torraphied the Virgin up the tree. “The little girls epread the news of what they had seen through town. They bad beheld the Virgin Mary in her angelic rubes, smiling on them with her sainted face, ‘The vislon waa regarded as o miracle, The fleld of the holy appls tree was closed in, and n chapel was crected on the ground. Thousands of pilgrims visited the slanal for tho bouta to ud aboard to diuncr. | appletree, und Lought plictographis of tho Each boat goes ou tha stdo to which it belongs, and the flsh aro thrown from tho dory to the vesgel's deck aud counted as they goin. After dinuer, off they go ed llurk supper, which will probably be about 8 o'vlock. of flshing or whaling adventures, aud thon It 18 time to turn in, Once ju o while something varles the mo- wotony. It was pretty well nlong in the season, and the whales, walruses, sea-llons, and scals were beglnning to move south. Two of tho dories were being pulled along, when sudde 1y the occupants found themselves surrouns «d by sea-lons, The huge auimals fmmed H ately begs nary antics. about In a dangerous cockle-shell boats. slmost upright In the water, and glared with their red oves fnto the boats; then threw them- sclves backward with snapping Juws, and with a cry which wus something between a bark and a growl, They dived under the bLoats only to appear on the other slde and repeat the per- formance. Then they disappeared as mys- terlously as they had comy Fou 1s the chief annoyal He hears_the fog-horn or bell on board the vesscl, and pulls tho sound appears tocome, Agaln he heors the deep buom of tho big hornon board tho vessel, this time tn a new dircction, Ile alters his course agaln, and pulls on u stralght hne as ticar us he con guess. Suddenly the fog scalcs, und there fs the bark away astern of him, and there 18 he pullivg stralpht away from hier, Three of our dories were lost ance In @ fog, and we heard nothing from them. Thev found their wuy nshore away up the coast, and re- ress. malned there until they could return to the i bark, The bark remafued n the sea until Uctover, having arrived in May, and in tue six monthis werc eaught 140,000 (ishe irgin as sho was sven by the girls. Finally " the clergy discovered o solution to the mystery, and a clew to the miracle-worker, and warnes tho creduluus people to be foolod no more. The trick was discovered. ‘The actress was well kuown, aod her face and the face of the Virgin corresponded, The speculatur was seutenced to Imurisonment fur three ?'eurl, and the Sherlft the holy apple-tree and lts hallowed surroundings, The littlo cirls wero, of courre, funovent of intentlon to de- celve, and the actzess s playing other roles tlan saintship, and laughing ot tho gullibility ‘Whom did the pastry cook marry? His sweet A communication to this paper begins, “T had no Ides,™ cte, The rest of the communica- The fact Is revealed by the Savannah Times that * In the bright Lexington of Kentucky theie’a no such word as * No, I thauk you; I Ethel—* What shall we do, dear? It's quite too dark Lo seo colors at Madame Aldegundu's,” Mabel (bright hlm;l)—“ Suppose we du the old Kansas Teachor—' Where does sli our grain produce go tof"” Boy—* It gocs into the hop- Y,er." ‘Teacher—** flopper] ™ What hopper{"! Du ‘Challlu saw an African chiof with an Amcrican corset buckled around each bare leg, and Du Chaillu wasn't man enough to reseut |ll:u {usult to the American natlon,.—Detrolt F'ree An Ohlo man hiss invented a button which is Now let him juvent @ buttonhole into which 1t shall be buttoned with a plle-driver, and mankind will rise up and Every emotion of the human leart has heen rhaps, tho feeling of Joyous complacency that coumes to aman whea be tlnds he bas dodged the conductor fu strect-car, aud got the startofo soulless monopoly to the cxtent of a nickel— A SILVER STATE CARRIAGE, A Calcutta paper says it has rarely seen any- thing In manufactures fu that city so worthy of notice as a state carriage which Messrs, Steuart ave just bullt for his Highuess the Maharajuli of Jheend. It is ono of the most remarkable outcomes of the blending of the skill, workmanship, and solid durabllity of Westeru productions with the urnnu.-l:nd luulv“y’ may described us ® state obacton, with c\eu-h- box aud bind rumblo all fitted with hoods, of gracelul design and very lignt and elegant fn appearauce, but thv vaneling, moldings, Iron-work, springe, wheels, and pole are covered with mussive silver plates, while the splushboard and wings are lterally sulid plates of the preclous metal, the whole enriched with leaves of lotus flowers and pepul 150 of sllver richly chased and Leavily lle on the centre of the pauels, also rings of The luterior §s fitted fn the manner with cushlors and edged with broad rich veiyet lace, beavily embroldered with pure gold. The lamps (four in vumber) are of nd bhear ‘the carriage bhas been Ingenlously desigued with a double under-{rawe, so thal, whcn the Maharajah may Buring the fall of 1844, when thero was every | tancy to bandlo tus ribbons himself, the co lndication that Ar. Clay would be elected vmf: deut, bo gave a dinner “party to Tom Corw alust ber for buving insulted | Charl much closer together, There Is over 25, tulabs welght of pure sllver on the carrlage. Children’s theatricals should bave parental supervision. At some country-house the other Jday, where the childreo bad some afteruvon Enter s Knigot-Crusader, after ten years' abscuce at the war, ©See, deur,” by says to his wife,— “ sy the hooors aud decorations 1 bave at- “Thrics welcome. my lord " guswercd hia ting spouse. * Look " holding upacurtaing showling her ten dolls, the smallest in the cra- dle,—~*"look! J, too, have not been dle ——— CURRENT OPINION. It Mr, Wheeler is really **tired out,” ho ought to have arest; but party divielons in the .United Staten Senate aro too close to justify the Vice:Ureaident In_ going tront-fishing of aquirrel- hunting. —Columbus (0.) Journal (Zep.)s President 1aycs said, in his Bennington, Vi, apeech, **Pablic opinton In this couniry is law." The Preefaent spoke more wisely than he knew. ' Pubiic opinlun * backed the Silver hill and 1t *Yis law,"—Springfeld (JU1.) Journul (lep.)e I think nino men out of ten in this Stale wauld to-day prefer Iayes as Prestilent fo Tilden. At the Cotton Exchange, where [ meet the repre- sentative business men of the elty, § am sure the sentiment fa almost nnanimous that Hayes is the tietter man of the two, snd, if Mr. Tilden and his friends expect to have'ald anid comfort from this end of the line, they can take 1t oat in exticclancy, —New Urleans Leller lo T'roy Hudgel (itep.), It 18 related that, whon a recent caller nt White ifouse remarked on the haste of Con- 8 In pasaing the Silver bill over the veto, the Fresident replted, ** Yes, it was indecent hastel" This reminds us' of the ‘story of celebrated En- giishman wiho waa belng convoyed to Tyburn in one of the pecullar go-carta of the perioa, neated fpon a collin, end who casually remarked to the drlver of his cliecrful conveyanice, ** Drive slowers 1his d—d eart hnen'tany aprings. — Washington (1. ) Logt (Demn.)s The continuance of the row about tho “*free coinage' of sllver In Congress should be discountenanced. It t» notorious that the free- colnage feature of the Sllver bl was utterly de. feated In the Senate, and wonld be again defeated. Time is fooled awny, therefore, In talk about it. Then the Silver Inw glves the minta full employ- ment, and Secretary Sherman s pledged to pive it air plny, Tne country wil) not forgivo the fin- practtcuble ncitators, who aro making a noise he- cause they are fund of thelr own voices, and anx- fous abavo all 1o use the wind power that Naturs bas bestowed to make themselven conspicuons,— Cineinnatl Commercial (Ind. Rep.). Mr. Hayes had to break with his own Btate stall points in taking his position on this fasue. 1= friends, almost to & man, are pronounced advo- cates of the silver lunncy. Mr, Stanley Matthews in the Senate, and Mesars, Cox and Foster fn the Iouse, stand frmly on tlie silver side, dMurat Halstead 1s an incarnalion of the Big Lonanza, The only Oblo pohiticlans of any, tote who supnor the Prealdent In his nction are Mr, darfield in the House and Secretary Sherman in the Cabinet, Yot for all the wisdom and prudence with which lis mexsage so abounded, the President might as well have whistied down the wind.—Zoston lferuld (Anti-Stlver Ind. ). ‘The effect of the pnssage of the bill over the veto uf Mr. Tinyes will, In our oplnion, be ex- ccllent. It will loosen the urlp of ihe Money- Power from the throat of the people. It will tend torestore confidence, and confidence fs as neces- sory fu the exchanves between man and man as money, It {s avictory of those who believe Inn wiser, broadee, and more libera) systein of finance, 1t will give th'neoplo th wse of all the means in the Union to provide for the vust load of public debt, Inn very fow montha 1t will - cause fegal- tender notes to'past at par with wold and wilver, and wo bellove it will cauro tho silver notes to pans :;) a l;nl" premium, — Vieksburq (Mies.) Herald em.). Grent Britaln's immense debt of £775,- 873,713 18 hield ot home. 1t bears an nnnusl inter- est of £27,700,000 (8118, 000, 000), which sum s distributed among the people. Th nual Interest on our puhlie debl [» abont 800,000,000, nearly all eent avroad for the Lenchit of torelgn holders of United tatos bunds, 'Thid 1a & verpetual deain on the country's reources, Ilow much better 1t would 1F thin vast sum wera kept amung the people nt home! Bul the bonids will not be sent back, Even i the **D2-cent dollae" eatchword amounted lo anything, the honds would still prove a mors val- uablo lony-time investuient than any first-class }1;1}; b securities,—Memphia (Zenn,) Avalanche nd. ), We have no occasion to bo specially merciful toward the veta mo of tho Prcsident, but wo are nono the lees Impressed with the little- ness of splrit and Indeconcy of purpose that lend the New York Tridun¢ to so_violently assail htm, Ile merely did what the Zribune dlctated, and that paper shiould have stuod firmily h{ him, If the veto mevanye was weak, ‘a8 at ieast as ablo os many of the Tribune’s tirad 1t acema ora and more s if the 7ridune were bolng muado the vehiclo of Jay Gould's spite. 1o 1a fighting to clheat the (lovernment out of its advances (o the Pacific Ilullmudl.ilnml I nnuun‘ml[ using tho ?‘;}nhu;u torerve his purpose.—Piltaburg Guzelle en. ). AChestor (Pa.) correspondent says : ** You may pass your ninety-two-cent dollar aronnd from ship-carpenter back to him again to sult your theo. ry, but, unfortunately, the workingman goes straight to the grocer, who will charze him elght centy extra for coffee, ote, Wl tho workingman's Waes be increased 1o a dollar and elght center” Unfortunately for this melancholy theory, but for- tinately for the workingman, tha wrocer docs not churge any more for colfee whun patd In silver than in graenbacks; sud he wittnot, But, if one fuolish ‘man sliould churgo clf’“ centy more for the coffee, let the cuuning workingman pay him in five-cent nickel plocev. ‘Thero §s only niusteen conte worth of metal In bwenty of thew, which pas, legally, for n doliar, Now, let the workingman buy his dollare’ worth of coffeo and wu{ for it with twenty five-cent nickels, putting the odd cighty-one cents in his pockett We charge nothing for this Ingentous scheme, and, according 10 uwur correspondent's l&ll‘?)ll Is really feasible.—New Yors Uraphic nd. ). It has been suggested in some quarters that the Fecretary of the Treasury should issue as fow of these colns as possivle, and that he shoutd %o construe the bill as, it possible, to defeat its purposc. Wo trust that he will do nothing of the kind, Fvidently a Isrge majurity of the poople Lehove, howevor mlataken they may be, that there inin the freo ssuo of wilver a sovercign cure for all the ills from which we nuw sulfor. It s ovident that they are now Ina frame of mind in which notniug but expericnce will teach thom. If the fsenoof silver is what they have been taught to believo that it s, the sooner there is o full supply of it the better for all, f they are mistaken in thelr bellof, tho sconer thoy are conviuced of that fact tho better, The ~Seccretary of tho ‘I'reasury should therefore fsans much silver as the mints can tun out, hould pa it out, nat merely in meuts, but in exact proportion as a1l conaist of sllver should bo at blv moment ]mv tho {nterest on the public debt In silver. Uy following thia pulicy he will bo sble to rutain the yold coin surplus now In the Treowury for a lunger tioio than i€ he hoards the silver nud for a yens ur s0 pays the Intercst on the debt wholly in gold coing (he advantage of fe taining is gold would ve that, iu case the country should discover that a mis bad been made by remonetizing sllver, the Treasury would be in & better pusition with & conslderalo stock of gold on hend than iF it had none, or If jis coln balance was allor uearly all allver. 1t ia now for the perma- nent Interest of the whule country that sliver shall be put to the practical teat, under the most favira. ble conditions possible,~ANew York Evening Post (Anti-Sitver Rep.). ) Washington’s Day in Ohnrleston was a time when the people were gathered together, and when counsel and exhortatiun for tliese present days might be fitly linked with the lcssons of the life of Washington, Two addresses delivered on Friday produced a marked {mpi Gowan, wilh ma: ly eloquence, eration, conclilation, forbearance, and the repros- alon of sectionaltém, This was the task of Wash. inglon when Independence was won; It is the o3 the iampluts and Wctiow: nuw that Kouth Carolina fs 1 Freedom comes to us b charged with responsiullitles, und, 3 (lowan pointed vut, the people must both preach snd practice liberaity and justice if they would re- tuin tho liberty they have puined, Tha same thought runs throuvhout Guy. ilampton’s brief addrees. Noonu will eay that Hamplon s an alarmlst. When he warna the people that the cuming State election will be **the crisls o ¢ istory of the State, ™ wo know ihat he welghs big vords, 'flo peril, aa Gov. Mampton explained, lies in hearkeuing to reactionary extremiste, Gov. Hampton said: **If youallow the extreme men of the Htate to take fuuu n of it, wure e the aun will rise, it will rise upon your faf ure.” This ia & solemn truth, 8 necessary warn. g, We have seon that ** by doing justice to all, by recogniziug the rights of all," we “cau curry the State. In uoother WAy, on 6o oiher platform, could, of , 1he Demucrats expect (o ve suc- b te wl‘l) lv!,ulmln‘thn hnud-olue; own peaple for & yuasier of & century to come, i We whlls o thu Batrow path of right. There 1o og werlous danger if the peuple be truu to themselve: Bad fsith of any kind, with our own citizens with otiers, will divintegrate the Democracy sud cost us the Btate.—CAurleston (8. C.) News und Courier (em.). Itis & year to-day since Bfr. Haycs was {osugurated President, and, In accordsuce wilh time-bonosed custom, addreesed Lo the country & statemsent of tho molives and principles which sbould gulde bim in bis Administration. . . Mr, Hayes' trestment of the Southern question may be constdered with reference tothe twu aims which he set before bimself. Ooe was local selt-government for the Southern State from Federal futer- vention; the other wat rights of all citizens unde Brat has been accom l(lhnl,lnmmnrfl‘.‘omplde!y, and beyoud reversal, by means whic sud do ot svprove, but which. from the avowed standpolnt of the Prestdent, could not bolw‘ldv\l, Thu Prestdent, after wuch tncuuse- r Lt dates for Gtate uilicers look possession of { 1aces (o which wa believe they had naright. Tha fawicus ule of the miority 1 not what Americans generally undentaud as vé)f-goverument: but uo one will deuy that fu turs caso it fv Jocal puvern- ment witeoUy Federal duterfercnce. As W Prestdent dld_not see hin way cloar troops in position, we can only say done his daty as he saw if, ‘a diferent matter. . . dence that Mr. 1layen hias ‘ucceeded in d In the South any public_sontiment in fav nal Fignta. which would. reai A political campalgn In whiy publican party shonld be revived should Iry to act with it. to arouse nuch & rentiment by tho policy o hie selection of Mr, Ke for liis Cabiner, intimacy with men iike fiamnton and Go: Tf he hiad_succeeded, 1t woul reat trlumphs but thore le not. the t he has done an the Democrats In their posit I3 The canweqnen W can fies Hiio e fon. —New York —— CREMATION AMONG THE MORMONS, To the Editor of The Tribune, KaArAMAZ00, Mich.,, March 6,—The fol) private letter from a Mormon Etder on tion can hardly fail to aronse general Interest; SaLT Lage tiry, thut T must tell you whnt n S0 fur It wiieks hike a charm agrate saving of Tomb Stones, and the wiy was no partikulat abont their EpitafTal It en ool was safd about une of the wimmen o ‘omb Stone, then all the rest wae ravin ma it was onolesant for the mant Buat now every Klder has & Krema 1f eany of his fammiil Just laye in five or alx corda of wor wates to ree how its coming ont, did was when § burnt’ up off quite sudden, and when T gane, 1 hureled out 1o Are up 4 Jim—the Krematln man~for 1t praktlsed kand todo it rite, Th st ordur Jim giv was to Iie wouldn't hav, wimmen sent off, round and lookin® on, ‘twant na They wan provoked at this, and begi kry about leavin' **dear Sadle, " a4 the: reo the Krematin goin' on, think everyihing under Hevven shy and they not know ail sbout 1t. But i was furm, and 1 Wngyons and londed 'em in, for {he couniry, and thes wimmin_yon eyver sce. them wagions us dignifid never even sayin' ** Uoued pyo’ goin® off fur all day. 1t worried ‘e, oald bo gofn' o #otont fonr Lamber and atarted ‘am o y were the maddest lot of ‘They klimbed np Into i alately an could be; altho they way 18Ted and sA1d_ ** wimmin wy o t by mie snd be e wwent to work. heen out in_the uld cows d evverything went lovely, Tio wood v nd made s red-hot o wee ennybody burn np nicer than Sadie did, Thut Just an we was most_{hro, and 1 had gons Intn the house for the Urn, Jim herd congh and a gigzle from np around 1he roof, Tookin' up, there was them twenty-fonr wim around the cow-ahed and kimb and was peekin® thro the cracke! The smoke was ponrin' n ey'd get over | had the Krematin mi id almost stranglint o) ta it they cunl at'em, but it didn't do enny good, lanely got the start of nlm. 'y helped rake up the asshesand get . She madu a nice big 1ot of asshes, and we set thy Urn on the Parlor Mantet Plece, linca and pasted on It: willin® to enffoka *deal dle " So I called ‘om and wrote thesy Sakred d 10 was kremated Fol oe. Since then lessle has died and been kromated will deskribe the masheen in the next, L ldn't leave tho asshes 3am! ‘mad this worning d”the Urns down and scattercd the seshen all over the floor, and now Bessle and Nadia i all mized up and 1 can't tell which fs which, What would you do? Shelf if T was you, h t the word, and this heart, whichly Ing forebodings, shall teiumph In hlles; The hinve of all 1ts doubtings forsaking, Bhall troth e the uromise of love In & kiss. O smile thon, my loved one, I caro mot how Istnt) On him who doth worship each motion of thine; will recelve radianily or, 80 sweetly divine. And love, in ita jo; ‘The sign of thy Ogive me, 1 pray thee, one glance of affection, To recompense thase [ havo glven to thee: 'will cause the long-prayed-for s tiou Of hupe to the throne of my heart, and to me. Oglve me, I pray thee, although It be telvial, A loken to Lell'that for me, 1n thy b Remaineth of vamsline rove a survival; The gt from sy preseace shall never depart, 11 ward, or a smile, or a vlanco uf affection, Or token of fricndehlo, yoa have not for e, For unca pinco (hy vitiless pride m suvjection, e tho nleasure of Usnking of thes, ——— 'MOST_ANY DAY, We may cavll at the ftness Of thie i1ls that fulluw men; Stranve o'crshadowings we witness, Quito veyond onr mortal ken Thaugh, *mid striving und repining, Clouds may gather dun We can fint the wilver lut *Slust uny day, Every soul some goy) {a secking, Tingea with sapphlire of the wky; Every hieart vome tr; Where the Howerliig gurdes Who Never Smiles. Surinafifeld (Mass,) Republican, Gov, Rice {s gfkcd to pandon one O'Dounell, of Milthury, from Charlestown, and a gentle: man who recently visited the State Prison thus tells his story: * Gentlemen, sald the Warden, 1 want to birinic before you' one_of the most remnarkable cascs in tho prison, *thie man who never swiles,’ and 1 wish beforo ho comes in to tell you bis story. Hesecmsto be & man of more than ordinary abillty, Letter class Irish clitizens, who owued s turing villages, where ne rosided with iy faw- {ly of grown-up sous and daughters, ull perina loyed and n comfortable clreua e old wan had a fine garden ou which he bestowed lis lelsuro-hours, In 3 art of which was t scems that tho v In the nelghburhoud had a habit of trespassing on the vld nan's garden, until he had determined on getting tid of them by firing his gun to frighten them One nizht, hearlng sone one In bis garden, hie took down his gun, and, getting - liud he hedee, fired into the garden, as ho clalus, without alm or secing any une to alm at, Lut the report of the gun alarmed the nelehbors, who, on rushing fnto the garden, found the lifeless body of a young girl shot throush the Loart, The old man, when told what he bal done, was struck duinb, sentenced to imprisonment for lfe. now been here for ten years, and his face has Lecome as marble; there Is no hope; nothl: but the sad remembrance of that dread! night, In Jreland thev have o superstition among the young girls that whoever un Hal: Joween shall place a cabbage over the door will man that enters the doot proved, was the errand of the voung girl lu the old man's garr But Instead” of & weddiog she fouud® o was arrested 8 murry the first youn, —— Splders Travellng Around the World. At a recent meeting of the Phitadclphia Acad: emv of Sciences, the IKev, Dr, M tributed an intercsting cssay on spiders, (o Narotes vewstorius, 13 dlstributed, ation |o form or color, all arout From cublnet specimens, b zoing westward) from the extremd mit of this continent to the ex'rems fle has found the ling western voast of Africa. of distribution to coincide with the Lelt ol northern trade winds. mizrated from point to polut by throwing out ue threads and susoending themselves 0 as to be carried by Lhe wind, beew able to prosecute the inquiry, there Is 8 cor- line of distribution for these spiders s swept by the ds. “The theory needs turther factsas to thupreltll'm or absence of these insects on islauds fu the ucean before it can be tully secepted: i ver it way help to determlue the opeu questivus a3 to wlssiog contincots, since it cannot be llll‘i posed Lbat thie spiders could cross wide spaced ol —— A Bl for Christlan flusband. A hing fllx{fl’e‘l“l‘x‘:’fifixg leuerg?:um the Dead-Letter O Ita thinks the sphlers Ba fur as he bas who reccired 8 fice lately bear: fac-simile of the autograph of Mr. Assistaut Postuaster General, was 50 struck vy his eminently Christ: fan mgoature that ehe’ felt acquaint addressed a letle Adatazen, at the Dead-Letter Oftice," I alter 8 few preliminarics, she couls and her sister * would Jike to ud some U tian .o to marry.’” rhaps you woul Of goud Christlan young wen to corre # Please excuse me for writio: to you, but 1 feit more Ac than others Living far ol liviug A Siogle life we now wish to scttledous. Hazen has uot yet made a. uaintance amon men belug lmited. apoolutment, by bersons baviu; acterbitica, will be received for & few i i :.g D‘.mlhu‘u. t 5 3 wGood Chrlstias F Applicatious fof