The Sun (New York) Newspaper, December 30, 1868, Page 2

| WALL ACK 8-10 ‘comedy of joney. COOPER INSTITUT! "* March to to the Bea, BOWERY THEATRE: ‘Dovel, the Highways © man of 1606-31. Npnee TAMMANY Jan, 4 Dlght Bart Comedy, and Extravarants, erereway Ts LL—american ‘Lecture. CITY ASSEMBLY ROOMS, Washingson ¢t., Brooklyn ‘Deo, £0, Grant Hilliard Tournament. : A.B. CHCRCH, Thiriy-fret et. Dee. 9, Sanday ScWOOL Exhibition. ARMORY, Thirty cceond ef, between Sixth and Seventh Ave.=Dee. M, Grand Promenade Concert TNEATRE FRANC ATS—Geneviove do Brabant WOOD'S NUSEUM—Kenant; of, Phe Horn of « Dilev ma, Living and Wild Antine APOLLO HALL, cor, BrowAway aad 2h st nian Minst BNEDECOR'S ALT ngs. fap yorn emer Iter CALLERY, 74) Broadway=Painte teh and Tary ry day at M0 PM wosite Academy of Francalge, dath PRRA HOUSK<Le Chanson de Fortunto, and Les Bavarde, nev Nats = i, . The Sse Srv. ~ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBE! 1853, = ‘ Terms of the san. Darty,per year to mail enbseribers.... Lo RLY, per year inane Ten copies (9 one * vo Twenty copie to one «tire . ) Fifty copies to one aduress...., el WEEKLY per year. coos. 4 19 Twenty copies to one ate i a | Fifty copice to one * ia) | Diack | The Real Pinaneial Elixir. | While theorists aro disput over the merits of their fay romedios for the onlered fuances of the nation, the cultivators | Of tho eof and the Mardfeted mochanies of OUF great Manulneturing contros are quivily Dut surely Uringing us on toward the nttalu Mont of the desired end. What we all want Ss to pay the national debt end ratso oure Foncy up to par in tho estimation of the world; and this is being done, not by tolk | and legislation, and wiss ¢ Ir only devote himself tos ment, but by honest industry | | earnings fn h invest them in materials for the etill 1 eilicient creation of wealth, we should be rich enough to pay all the taxes needed sustain the national credit, to redecm our @reenbacks in gold, and to fund the rez ing debt at five per cont. er leas Awan illustration of « untry ean @o in tho way of production if ite people will Dut et thomeelves about it, we lave ouly to consider the cotton erop of the South for the Jast senvon. ‘The most cautious estimaters put it at 2,100,000 b while a more liberal allowance is 2,750,000 bales. ‘Taking the for ain: t this ¢ mer figures, and calling the value of each bale | €100, which is rather under than over the mark, and we have $250,000,000 from this source alone, Of course, much of the pro poods will Le required for the eupport of the plantation owners ond Lands, but noth like the whole a prroat deal of food ia raised by them, and clothing made, besides the cott: and it is entirely safe to soy that the net addition to the wealth of the rine South w there ar, ito in the ae ray rifon that the peoy y growing rich, Land ie ris. ing in value, commerce is active, and by a natural consequence political agitation ia pabslding. Hard work and good pay have a wonderfully quieting influence; and a man | with a round sum of moncy in the bank ean: | not roadily be induced to ev, ein echomes | of violene What is true of cotion fe also true, though to a less extent, of sugar, Tho sugar plantations this year have paid thelr owners | fabulous profiis, nnd next year no doubt Many more acres will be devoted to cane | rethis, All throngh the sugar | to be obeerved and the & Man there w rogion ¢ prosperit) to come Now, if th the country des and thre marks of renewed ns of Letter times still © joyfully hailed by all observers. result in visible in a prt of ated by four years of ws of a penco Dut little ars more better tan war, what may not be expected | re of that portion whieh all t enjoying the ndvants quict?) In fact, taking: the North and the Bouth together, we are sceumulating prop. erty at arate we scareely dream of ; and wa shall ero long find, to the discomfiture of the croakers, that our debt, funded as well as Goating, can, if we choose to put our bands Into our pockots deep enough, be paid off in fall without distress. Meanwhile it does no harm to disenss the Bnancial schemes proposed, if it were for no pther purpose than that of helptng the peo: ple to arrive st troe principles on the sub- ject. Only let them hold fast to th’s one vabstantial idea, that the true way for us to get out of debt is by industry and economy These constitute the ingredients of the real financial elixir, and overything else is quackery. @ time has been | es of undisturbed er The Tenure of Cilice Act. This act ought to be ropealod. gency under wh The exh ch it was posed is about to disappear. Wisely or unwisely, it was adopted ns one of a series of stringent meas ures to cireumperibe the wardness of a Chief Magistrate in whom Congress hod no confidence. Practically, its operations have dures, been worse than f It has tied up tl hands of both porties to th power, making it dim Man into an office, avd almost impossible to gota dishonest one out Prosident and the te in each other of a dead lock grasp the other by the t could compel his ante hold. ‘This low is at war with the genius o! Government, and the spirit letter, of the Conetitut must appoint to lies, * advice aud consent of the Senate,” fo far all isclear, But this act prevents the Presi dent from removing an incumbent with first invoking the like advice and consent Now, the text of the Constitution bestows no Buch power upon the Senate, nor was lt the Antention of the framers of thet iusirument to clothe it with the absolute veto over re: woyals which this law creates, We know nothing of the intentions of Gon. Grant in respect to appointments to Office. But we presume he will act upon the that no President can successfully pxedute the laws and carry out the adminis. trative policy on which he was elected, unless appoint lt to got an Loneet vit, if not the very n, The President Vy and with the t } the schools for this purp | tical Schoo}, our put the Constitution, appoint eubordinates who concur with him in sentiment, and freely re- move such ns do not, To deprive him of this power is revolutionizing the policy on this dubject which has beon pursned by every President since the adoption of the Consti- tution. If there were no grnver chjections to this power ito nd novel law, it ought to be rep because ite machinery is inconve- ‘ent, cumbersome, and impracticable. Itseon- tinued existence would involve the neeeksity of on almost perpetual session of the Senate, Certainly the attendances of that body in Washington daring the entire firet year the incoming Adm nistration would be in. sy ‘his alone ts reason enough for ite prompt repeal ‘Tus far ite operations have eff else than to thwart President whom nol keep in office a fet of mon whom everybody would rejoice to soe turned out. Let the law be repealed and the de of the pol statesman untied, 69 that he ean drive in onanlle, little wishee of an eccentric Jy ean trust, and to and fill them ty and integrity which the Ty needs with the — The Senatorial ction. A Scnator of t) BH chosen by tho Legislature of New York on Tuesd We of January next. present orenpant of the office is tl D. Monaax, whose an will es 4th of March, 1869. ay, the pire As the Repablienns have a majority of th Legislature, the D tanre paying ¥ Nitlo attention to this election, When the moa they will vote for Gov, Brvatot , oa matter ‘of complin The Republicans, on the other hand, have plenty of en toa, and are alive to the im portance of t abject At tho western end of the Stat runaing Gov, Foxton, Mr. Por: Noam Davis, The claim that Fenator khould be selected from that re ad. There they are aM, and the on 3 vent sly urg ms to be, how. | ever, no clear disposition to concentrate npon cither of these distinguished gentlemen Goy. Fextos is pretty strong, Dat Jud dD perhaps stronger, though hi moving to this city tends to weaken him, So ean learn, he vever, neither Gov Davie has votes enongh to wave him from defeat, Even if they should | combine their supporters, we do not think that they would form am tyof the | publican members of the Legislature, | In tho enstern part of the Binte Qoy | Monosn is the principal, if not the only candidate. Mr. Gneeney might have junto the canvass with tho certainty of a | strong support, had he ween fit todo so; but | he has kept himself aloof, evidently pro- ferring the appointment of Minister to Eng: jJand, Mr. Mansnann O, Ronenrs is a favorite with many Republicans, who warwily admire his grent practical abilities, and his magnanimous, whole-souled charac- ter; but we presume that before the day of this election Mr, Konrnrs will have necepted the congenial post of Scerotary of the Navy in Gen, Grant's Cabinet, an office for which no man alive is better qualified ‘The two gentlemen of this city who might have competed for tho Senatorship being thas withdrawn from the contest, we con. chide that Gov, MowGan will be reélected ys nor Jade | ountry of their labor will be §100,000,000, , travellers recently returned from the without any difficulty. The truth fs, that the Republicans of the State generally ap prove his coureo in the Senate. He has grained thoir confidence as a wise and faithful representative, and they mean that he shall be retained in his office, Wo judge that hia majority in the caucus of the Republican members of the Legistature will not be leas than thirty, ‘ feats 4 The Trine, while Intely advo education of adults, paid « high compli «© im Boston, but en red those of this city ing the nent to tirely i; The eeientitic and art classes at the Cooper Institute, the Nua night schools, w i) are attended by grownup persons of both texcs, and ervecially the Eveuing High School wh ing from fiftec ed, ean certainly compare with any in Boston, and in ro- spoet to attendance are far superior, Ta addition | to these, which are entirely free, the classes at the Mercantile Library and Young Men's Chi tian Associations offer excellent facilities for edu cation at a moderate charge. On the w therefore, though much still remains to be don New York stands second to no American city in d to adult education, : epee An impressive illustration of the truth that violence always produces violence is afforded by the oath ef v ance which Lavna Reno is reported to have taken over the bodies of I brothers whom the Vigilance Committee of Sey- mour lately hanged in the jail at Now Albany, She is described ax a very beautiful girl, of wn- usual intellectual resource and strength of eho acter, and doubtless possesses much of the reck- less during which gave ber brothers such unenvi- able notoriety and brought them to such a la ment It is related thot at the faneral of her brothers the iu the erowd which had gathered together believed to be one of those who: over nine hundred pupils, ran to forty years of age, are instr aman whom eli had put so many members of her family to death Walking flereely seross the room, she denounced Liu ay one of the murderers of hey by bade Lim leave the house at once, or it would be for him, Hy departed without the wor Es Itis terrible to think of the change wrou,tit na person, when the thoughts become filled with the one absorbing idea of yengean It tronsfirms the tender human heart with its fury, and makes a mun or a woman into @ demon in sont, even thongh the eutw mblance r+ ds greater misfortune unaltered. No can toa human being than to be given over to of doing wrong to others because Wrong tous ome ry 1, 1869, there will be 9 in the earryi engrers and mails B of pal by the Cunard line between eenstown, Ireland, and Boston, A Cunard steamer will leave the former for the latier city every Wednesday There will be three steamers to carry the weekly mail, respectively on Saturdays, Wedn days, and Thursdays, two of doce yeeros b of the Cuperd line, and f the Taman, 0 C aird boat will go to I the otliers to New York, ‘There will no longe be any regular mail agents on board these steam ers, und the mails will be torted on the other side on the railroad ears between Dublin and Queenstown, By this arrangement we shall get the very lt Nine end correspondence, Registered vyceu the United States and Canada will be seduced from twenty to. fifteen cents on the Ist of January 1, as stated, and esty from the places | ro | 9 is to be | In Canada the re- | he can. within the Jong recogeived Limit of + gistoraed rate Gur domestic letters in ouly two cents, and we may Priviloge in this _ ithe of all, however, is to. r 1. This to consist of the long postage, and in operation the close of will probate bw next year, 1 sooner the better, ———a ‘That influential German journal, the New Yorker that “the friends of Hon- ace Grenier, Who formorlf spoke of him for Post- master Geteral, now prefet for him tho place of finistor to St, James's” “The Demokrat nics that in that important post “Mr. Greener will certainly not fail into the blunders of Keveay Jonxsox.”” ee - to say, has manifest ed itself on the part of some of the advocates of Women's Sutfiage in New England toward the jes who cluster around the Jevolution, becouse latter are snpposed to have a Presidential eans didate in the person of Mr. Grorar Fuawcrs Trai, To mect thia phase of the affair, Mes, Leevy Srose (Bi ackwent), who leads the New Eng: have brongit out the Dasret Prort, known to fame aa “the Traveller,” as a candidate on the Woman's Rights platform, in epposition to Mr. Teas. Mr. Peart opened the campaign at at Hoston Convention, and accompanied Stove from there to vidence, and thence of which cities he addressed sinstic Conventions which had 1 and his travel lousy, We Fe laud movement, semis t Honorabl Great American [the r Mrs, | to Concord, at the large and entl met to groet hi nig associates, Aa the Leeotution will doubtless continue to support Me. Tuarx, we presime the vooate, a rival journal about to be started in this Women's Ad- | city, will bring ont Mr. Paar, We venture to beg the wouen of New York and land to cease their controveray (if they | nid pass tho fight over to their respees | identiol fivorites, And we arn Mr he has never been regarded coach, if he hopes to get ahoad of ttle | ican Traveller in the race of 1872, he | | y isa bigceror power th Turke n her enemies to enjoy the same | 7HKe PRESENT LORD oMANCELLOR OF | sUDD. IRELAND, EX DrATN OF UNM ATOVATUS N, DICKENS, OF CHICAGO, —— “a . Mr. Justice O'Hagan, who has been appointed | The Coroner's Jnry Find a Verdict of Lord Chancellor of Ireland by Mr. Gladstone, ts the first Roman Catholic who ever held that position, while Earl Spencer, who fs brother to the celebrated Suicide. From the Chicago Tribune, Dec. M. Mra. Dickens, widow of the late Augustus N. Father Ignating, i the firet Catholic who bax ocey- | Dickens, and sister-in-law to Charles Dickens, the Pied the viecregal ehair in Dublin Castle since the days of the Geraidines— Rine itera eegwerton cone board ‘The Bowtie T Thomas O'Hagan was born tn Belfast, mereial capital of Ulster, tm the year 1910, ent t* cone the come | West Side. Mra, Dickens did not well-known vovelist, was found dead in her bed on Christmas Day, at her residence, 668 North Clark fireet, In this city, She and her children were in- vited to « party, given on Chrlstmas Eve, by Mra. Lawrence, cousin to her husbant, who lives on the go herself, but sent her chitdren, and the following note, explaining Hequently 58 years old, His first iterary efforts were | her absence: made as editor of the Newry Bramtner, with whith paper he kept up his connection while attending his terms and preparing for admission to the bar, He was married when very young to tho eldest daughter of the erlebrated Counselor Teeting, who took #0 | Paling umersy prominent apart in the proceedings of the United Tviehmen of 08 Mr. O'Hacan was called to the Iiish bar 1n 1896, and selected the Northenst Cirevit fs tho ficld of his future profersional labore, The tcmi-annual aveizen of this circuit commenced at Drogheda, in tae county Louth, and termfnated then at Curriekferger, tn the connty Antrim, Tt comprised the counties of Louth, Monaghan, Ar marl, Down, and Antrim. Tom O'Hagan, a8 he was familiarly termed @ man Of elegant extertor, har being effeminate, manly without being In Presence was dignified and his manners fascinating 5 his skin wos rolt and delicately white, displaying at the rame timen tinge of strong health. His mouth was well formed, his Ile finely ent, bat xnficiently large to mdieate great firmness of purpose ander eer: taln cont neles, Tlie nose was straight, and formed between the Grecian and Roman type; the nostrils were full and beautifully ehisctied, the fore. head Jofty, the hend ovaletaped, the tre type of the frond old cranium of a Celtte ehteftain, with all the y balanced, He had dark betr and foll, Wine, liquid eyes, beamtng with the Hight of etoe quence, and tlowed by the genial glow of benevo- Tntellect was stamped nnmistakably upon thot brow, and fn thoee eyes the Nght of genius Drightly ehone, To ree him ee if by some od nire aud 4 nda Tener. foreo; to kuow him was to ade Tor O'Fa when, withont any ‘ peenulary wealth, he entered apon his I earecr want us to give her credit fur, She is the best | guiety.two yenra ago, und traversed @ hanet | fighter on tho continent—not except the | Circuit In search of That what Vroweh— hos powerful standing and reserve | might be termed a Protestant one: there were not armiva, She is “sick '? as the politicians | more than half ad. zen Catuolle attorneys within its ‘would have us bell and sho has always shown | boends; and it was npon them the barristers Ler health whenever it has come to blows, Ree | pended mainly for their brtefs, With the exeeption merobor how whe whipped the Russians in b CE Lai ean gts arltetlpel hice rer ha'tle, when they dared to cross the Pruth | Wolle barrister on the circuit, and obtalned ¢ af 3 | Jantor busines# of the Catholi€ Nuzants, Tom and invade the Mrineipalitic | + father of the hte Thora Devin Retlty, was % a av attorney, and gave Mim whatever prac. | Te has fecquontly been said that the people | tice ve could command tn conncetion with that | of this country do altogether too much work | county, ae well asa share of hie Dublin businows j with their , preelve figures have | (ho Four Courts, He was also patronized by | been given " fact. De. Pangea, inthe | that eminent and fearless ndvocate and profound } last Su lecture delivered by bin | lawyer, the late Robert Holmes, who was brother. 145, theo The sa'a Nethel, brings tho | Si-law of Tobert Emmet, and who never accepted a \ chalian wl aiwhere rome sort of eal. | Mor from the T wernment—sot even the ivanlattais de onthe subject, He aid; | mPty Donor of a” silk gown. Old mee mortes, Lapa, recollections of ‘Teeling vmanean do head work falthfaily for more than four or or mix hours,, It thattine ines. | and Emmet, and hie partiality for rising J eceded, vii the piunptio:t ied eff. and the tan | and winging genius, attached him to the acco he ran elec meen, thin Over ROE a haceand | plished and handsome young lawyer who had ten | deciors, clergymen, and mercuanty, who lave Work: | added to the roll of the Northeast bar, Io re }« * drop mended him as bisjaniorin whatever ca \ the worked t if down, « broke hin “lon to seventy, the hours wday. At Ii Vigorous exercixen to ict ws possible, and wore in tie Couns he evuthined one of ty try. Dr, Parxen is no mere theorist, but a physt- 0 of long aud extensive 5 and if what says is the truth, there are few literary and professional men and artists who do not trans. gress the limits of their physical powers, And what shall be said of requiring children to. wtudy tix, eight, and ton hours a day, as is often done in our public schools? ae The hearty enthusiasm whieh everywhere hoils the return of Geo, Fraxcts TRaty to his own, his native laud, proves the truth of our judgment If, instead had come id have | ction in the | | | in urging him to come home long ago, of getting here the lust of Decomber, b | three mouths before, we fancy the | been a different retarn from the ¢ Vitth District, As itis, Winters Extoesa Ronry. sow iv about to retire from Congress wo , Teaving be hind him no one to speak iu behalf of the Irish Republic; but if the gallant Trai were there in | his place, there would be @ voice there for Free ont and t like the acta the thunder of « Fenians, which would rin 1, and swell like | cans Splaining the arrest of Mr. | his own share in its peculiar fen. | Jaws Fisk, Jr. commits the blunder of sp of th tloman int J tompt, The fact that Mr, Hownes has t many years editor of the most powerful | ers in the United States is of itself a of the sneers with which Mr, Fisk attompis to aseail him; but if any fur: th cin required of the esteem in whieh he ix everywhere held, ft may be found in the names of the gentlemen who have justinvited him to a public dinver, asa mode of testifying their respect for his character as @ man and his course as an independent editor, This invitation fsnigued by Gov, Burtoce, Gov, Crartin, Gov, In | Townrs, w tures, Mr (lor ¢ ms of con- of on nowspay suMciont refutation Barks, Mr. J, 1, Motusy, Peren Hanvey, Gronoe 8, Mittann, Coances G, Greene, Josiam Quixey, Gen, Cuanuas Devens, Mr. R, H. Dawa, Jr.—in short, by fifty of the most prominent citi- zeus of Boston, including men of every shade of political opinion, In his reply declining the dinner, Mr, Bowres speaks of the functions of the press in the following language : ‘he corruptions in polities Jncas atlainy have become off within the last few years; and th ‘orruptions In d startling security in property, T know Itt# o.ten erude $a its my Wanton mid careers in ity comment jt vite tank will be corre with tea stl compared with ite futare, Anerica fo now but im ity feeble tnfanty ;—Dut w« (0 four at present trom its good | from Its subsers tency, from its indifference, fear ty ¢ yprosceation and loss of } . | position of ra cour aye utenee and Integelly of pupled with pression of truth ublic | ovations, and pari he feat FO DE moet en rent with aegreo rockleseness IfWwe ave cousnl Qualities in. vig velse, The press of to-day should bo what weil describ s it, a drend {ul mostif with aecent co heen for. sheep in wolves’ clothing, and for certain’ otper aniiaals in li bkindy vather than the crouching spaniel, be for iood from cvery quarter, licking the hand that Aiswraces It, aud Only milly protesting against out. Tuges upon iiself aid the community it ts set to Kuard “My own observation ts that the pross rarely does | Injurico to a thorougaly hon st man or cause, It | shay De deceived with Vegard to a private individual, misrepresent hitn for 9 thie ; Dut with reference 1 wid Meusures, Its knowledge is th \ Lcomplety than that of wuy other agency poortny can be, aad 1 Know that it withholds un | Justy Yo th c hundred. times, where It tpeaks wrously one dividual,” is as true as it ix judicious; and what te the journal conducted by Mr. Bowes every day ilustrates the principles go clearly Laid down in this letter, a A Vowr rom rue Weat,—1 have used a Wheeler & Wilson Sowing Machine for thirteen years constantly, in dressinuking, cloak making, light ‘nd heavy work, ‘Tbe machine hay not rested a mouth during the time, and never had any repairs at 11, L would not exchange i for any machine, and I ave exsiniued alt, Mrs, KM, BARLOW, Bane Mla, conmnnity scems at tance to L Ue sucerosfil display and. ropetit Het vied le every prineiole of fale deating wil in rity, and put the control of government and. value of many kinds of property at the merey of po- Wieal adventurers and ruthiess stock gamblers, 0) | press y ems to be the best ff nek the only in. surument with which Honest men can ficht these | enemosoforder and integrity in government and | | instonta of Quee | pry ¢ | toot retolned, and thus aided In introdaeln In a vhort thue toan extensive and lucrative pra allover thecireuit, He made his way ripilly and steadily to the front rank of his profession ; was called to the liner bar, received a rile gown—tho we and was appointed As- 1 Tar for the county of Longford 1 156 Dan, O'Connell, son of the grect Liberator, resigned his seat in Parliament as meniber for the borough of Tralvein the county Kerry, in consid: eration of having recived a eelonial appointment, Mr. O'lacan, who was Solicit General under Lord Paliacrston’s second adininistt fon tn 1800, and At- torney-Genceal In 1961, was elected to Mil the vacant feat, Ho distinguished himself as a debater in Par- Hament, and took w prominent part in carrying hrongh some Important law reforms, In March, he was cleveted co the beneh, and Oiled the vu on Blows by the He was also called in os ® meniber of the Privy Council, He triod some of the ¥ {eoners during the recent commissions, and rkable for the fulrness of his decisions and the leniency of his Gisposition toward those againot whom his duty axa Jute compelled him to put the law Iu force, Ths conduct aforded @ pleasing eon trast to the vindletive and remorseloss of Juitge Keogh, who was severo without m and pounced upon his plnioned vietims with great sanebip Mr, O'Mogon always devoted himself assttnonsly to the duties of his profession, and took very. little yort fu polities, Althonth he wna @ ereat friend ond favorite of =~ O'Connell's, he took no netion in the Repeal movement, and only made one xpeceh in Conciliation Hall, in 1813, when peal declared hiwseif fo tional re f thet and announced bimacif as a Fed: favorable to the sitting of the Imperial Por. London, Dublin, and Edinburgh every a ac ‘To wet as a eriminal Jud was naturally distayteful to him, His disposition was too gentle to be engag a in pronouneing the irrevocable and often of the law, From this trkeome duty Le is now vently relieved. ——- Henry Ward Boechor Yelling at his Horse and then Kissing Chm, Prom the New Yo. k Letger. Does not moral justics require that there should be some green pasture land hereafter for good horves? Say, old fimily horses, that have brouglit upa whole fumily of their master’s ebiidren, and never run away in their lives? Doctors’ horses, that stand unisitebed, hours, day and might, never know- ing the post or tence, while the work of intended humanity goes on? Poor men's poor horses, that everybody Inughs nt on earth, and that yet give all their feeble power to keep thetr poor thaster con fortable? Onmibus horses, that are jerked ond pull- ed, licked and kicked, ground up by inches on hard, siding pavements, overloaded and based? Horses that died for thelr’ country on the fleld of battle, oF Wore out their constitutions: carrying their noble enerals through field and flood, withont once Minch. ing from the hardest duty’ Or my horse, my old Charley, the first horse that evor T owned : of racing #tock, Mrve, raw-boned, too fery for wody'a dei Ving Dut wy own, and is docile to my volee as wy child wast? We were crossing the prairies more than twenty- five years axe other horse by his side, aud in the carrhige wite, cousin, and ehild, ‘The row had been thrown up for thirty rods on elther site of a low rail bridge, dross @ sluggish nt the ditch © either olde, tull of water, prevented any turning of the road ir'once you got upon it, Lait get on it fore Peaw that the soll was the atiffest, creasiest of Dive ely, and tat it was wet with recent rains, My bors W the trouble before Tdid, He wor nervous and troublet, ‘There was reason,” Inthe iniddle of awiie ainie, With no house within six or Reven milles, and a wily chikiren behint you, no fences hor wood where, Mt etuck, jou could get's kever to t alt Ron: peru I spoke gently, crowing at exch second a little more | ewnest. Every HIM of tueit oot polled out of the sueking mud sounded We neared the bridge, The rod. grow he mud more tenactons, For a second Charley seen.ed to despair, ‘he black horve by his side was for giving up, Trosein my seat with aye ria Charley like Breath on ec wn my whip en . Iman instant righty leaps wuseles lay add the st ts and cords along jerk by Jerk, carriage oll dragged by the terrible eu Chale), till the bridge was t the roalt on. the other sd a once more gained! Did 1 hot bless the ox whose Hide made Ust harvess? Did 1 not bless the wen Who putin those stout stitches? Did T not dan and shout, ond caress old Charley—yes, kiss him, Did We not ull get out, women and enildren, hin and praise hin, and did he not, lke + Hw Was, yet trembling ull over with excite ent, receive our gratulations with proud fytelli pence? Charley wax sold, on my removal, to a tab Teter; somebody stole bi and sold him to t10 In dians, [don't know what ever beeame of him. 2 should know bin among ten thousand, Do you think that be ts entirely put out? If horses don't have another chanee tp a land of tener grasa and infinite outs, then 1 think we oug! t to treat them w deal better thin we doin this world HENRY WAKD BEECHER, The oly. Aw nd black cosines het, and cros and pi pr esc EYE Tun Fiawsine Companion, —This enterprising weekly ts rapidly growing in popularity, and is pressing forward into the front rank with its older und Detter established rivals, ‘The initial number for the new year contains the opening chapters of » local romance, entitied * Poor Nell; or, Myeuries hin was to be attracted to | cessity, | ature be stood about five fect nive ; his | Dicken | two bottles: fom Which goes to show eithor that her mind Ww | ning on the ‘Or that, as st | pine so. witch, to wequaint Heracit | bite prope: { ‘ Che Inquest on night, whica resulted In a verdict that dee to her doata by an overdose of morphing, ad | tered by herseli Wlile in a state or mental aberration, | tebod low prac discarded tne | Mas faunsly 4) 5 why shi the moon by inght him, hus furnisied te | eubjectofe Chrimtinas story Gat in pathos and all the el sad and sorrowlul tule, eanuot Le tuuit one oF produced by Dickens himself, Teas comforting, however, to know that Mis, Dickens tint her ehildren were not dependent upon the mortal Ohutles. Mix, Lawrence, lig cousin, sates that before he ot Bogtand for this countey be yro's to Ler that the arrangements made by bw agente | would prevent his visiting Chicago, and usserts that | the presence of is brother's humily dtd nut dever “Dean Borne: After wi yon yesterday somehod Heveltme oC ay pntne And He eyntente, The nifur Wored we eo that ‘concehdod not Lo aecent jeu Invitation for myself, bat to ‘the ebitd youre gee ther fg to the cor f festivitior, keep them all nigit; bat be eure ant th {a early In the morning, as we are anticl Witte alaner t eri. ‘he euildren went to the party with light hearin ged, enjoral thenisclver to the typ of thee ‘be Vhen the (iu and frotic had ended, it was found too lave for them to go liome, so Mra. Lawrence kept thom wall the next morning, She then placed them on tho cars, and they reached the hwase about noon, Going to the door they knocked, but no anger was returned. Supposing their mother was at Mre, Dar nard’s, neat door, they went in and asked { Who in return asket them if their mother one over to Mrs, 1 SI war she ot Mrs, Ho home, After furt Meet, Mr, house by rising a window, at then opened the front door, Mrs, Barni euiidven entere fe going dircetly to Where she fonid her in bed, her he restiag on one hand, the other Lying on the eonnter- mnie. Mer fice wis eomposed aud Avital nm £ sho were in a deep sieep, and co it proved—that fhe wat in the eleep that knows no wakin rs found the body quite waria and De. ite, Was at o nine ed fe extinet, aod that evn ver dose of morputne, Ky ide of the bed ware found two butter, of them nearly (ull of morphing, and the olen cmpty. An_ empty wine glass in Which traces of morplilie Were dikecrnih the bottles We tt eight montis Mrs, Dickena hae beon in the habit of taklag morphine tow bay the Pain of severe attack® OF nearale, to while ane was | vviclim. On Coristint Evo she'told Mes Burrard that her Atock of morphine was nearly exbansted, aid, requested her to get her a supply wt the drux ta. Mea. Barnard did ko, ‘This accounts for d by the bedside, one of which was t umn pudding were in the honse, © small peow urred on Wedne preyed 4 her f ave provuced mei ug letter explains Uo mat> wy pur hie eontato +t nny) \ wanie or any sunlier vineURy } for in person by yo ubligedy | 2 HA behxs. | To the President of the Tuid National Bask, Chicago. ‘This letter snows that she was not m pecuni: Mistress, and ths piated in person, the certificate oF only a smad amount It Is known that back a reading a work on morpt ‘Vie mental wierrition was presi had been siudying tue Work On morphine, which tay OF may not be w violent presimption ‘The decesed was born tn Engi 1@ thir nine years azo, Her tather was Mr. Puithps, @ pri tusnent London solteitor, und ber brot a 4 move in respectable fociety in E She warried Angustuy Dickens, and with tuis country, and to tis ety, abous Wien death made her’ witow laren depending opon her, pun the Lounty of her futher and brothera, slic received the m came to twelve yours her ehiidven ri —two boys and a nly little lad of twelve; Adrian, of ei Aimy, a preity an nf tix. They are now doubly 0 ely Uiey have some kind friends in e Wak nO hick Of WoIvuly #yurpae won tntelligs futeresting girl e y hy and kind help tn Wie house of mourning yester- day. Fair and nimble fingers kewed quickly to pre- pare for the tun were taxen care of at the hv they will remalu until arrangements are mide tor their ure, tis believed that eventually they will be feut (0 big thelr guciesy ther meat of Kin, Who have a natural elatin upon them, may uavs an Oy portunity of practising henevolene Mrs. Dickens was & Woon Of sorrow and ace qua-nted with ¢ 1084 0f her husband the cold neglect of @ famous relative almost broken tir spirite, MV a great name, Her d That it “dows, Charles Deekeas” tr heigotens the hiteres write a Corie! Vir trom visiting this eit y. Benevolent Miles who ‘ardently admire Dekons | 118 works, have called upon ils sinvee-sn-iaw 10 | iron Were actually on want, Hy. an ered to | n. Airs, Lawvene wus otters “ax entirely une Of Lhoin eriled ae charge or the chil A recorded #8 jurpertine: Mrs, Auguetas During the time that Charles Dickens was in this country, it was Druited about that he bad a sister: in-law living in Chicago, of who.n hy took no bend, and to Whose support he had never during the life- time of his brother, Mr. Aucustus N. Dickens, mor sinew his death, which occurred twelve mouths aco Inst fall, contributed a single dine, Waatever may have been the cause of estrangement, if any, be- tween Mr, Charles Dickens and his brotier, we do not know aud have no right to inquire, It is certain thut Mr, Augustus always spoke in the most aflee- tiouate and reverential manner of hiv great brotuer, aud was foud of telling anecdotes both of his cour- age, generosity, and loving kiminess when ho was a boy, at school, and also of is talent and bravery in tho cause of opyreesed people when he was young man. “Nobody knew my brother better than 1 did,” he ovo eald to the preseut writer, ‘and a better hearted fellow never lived, He was always so, and couldn't help If any act of oppression came to his knowledge—if any Workman md been Wronged or any poor gov noss had been deentved and lil-treated by bloated fish people—he was sure to come down upon them in some article, story, or brilliant sketch of codfish so. ciety, We were separated early,” ho said, ‘and I went to the Crimea as a trader; but I never lost tight of him, nor he of me; and his letters to me ways full of counsel, admonition, and bro- ly affection.” We reiate this fact as a set-off to the elunder that Charles never took any tuterest in Lis brother or his brother's fuuwtly, but that, on the contrary, they were enemies, It was not #0, had been separated a long time, but were not the worse friends on thataccount, As to the story of Mrs, Dickens's poverty, there was not a word of | trath fu tt, Certain papers tri@@ to annoy Mr, Charles Dickens, or, meanty going in On thelr own account, to ‘enge themselves and their country upon bi for is Anverican Notes,” written long ago, and heart und sincerely repented of, set it afloat that after ie death of Mr. Augustua his wife and family were in the extremest poverty, and that Charles, who wa making bis scores of thousands of dollars, never w. kind and just enough to send her even a shitiin alleviate ber want and wretehedness, Tile was a gratuitous and most wieked fdeehvod, aud often made Mrs, Augustus Dickens very unhappy, a8 being untrue so fu as her poverty wus concerned, Brest wrong done to the name and character of her Kreat brother-in-law, the povelat, Mrs, Die Was never, during her Chicago residcnee, in want, but lived ina beautitul Gothie house, ber owa pro: perty, and was amply provided fur by her father, who Way a rich Eoghisiman, and died awhile ago, and by 0 ens an tocome de from her own estate, During the lifetime of Mr, Augustus Dickens be held a respoasi- ble situation tu the land of of the grout Liluots Central Rullrond, from which he reeeived a modest but sufficient salary to supply the needs of his house- hold, It may bo interesting to know that he re: cetved this appointment through his brother Char'es's Influence with Richard Cobden, who was a lirge holder of shares in that princely and munificent line, It was as much a8 Mre. Dickens could do to re strain herself from contradicting the mean, low, and of New York Life,” which promises to be deeply | vulgar slanders of tho press upon Mr, Charles interesting, Moo advertisement Dickens. '» commetion wit) hex mame and family, ‘To dhow the ntter groundiessness of the slanders spoken of e, we may say what we know, that when Dickens heard of Charles's intended visit t0 the United States, she wrote inviting him to make lier house his home, Charles repiied kindly enough, and promised to do eo if he went Wee! which, however, he added, was extremely doubtful. Now, Mrs. D. would hardly have invited « man like Charles D., even though he were her brother-in-law, to take up his abode with her If he had not had a decent house to offer him. The truth is, that she had a very handsome house—as we eald—very hand. somely furnished, and provided always with laxarles as well as necessaries, Mrs. Dickens was very fond of her hasband, who died of consumption, and since bis death has been fnbject to low and derponding moods, She was what one would call a handsome woman, of a fine person, ond an tive fieo aud tnanners; but she had during the summer often expressed her dread of the coming winter, and it# long, tonely evenings, which the would have to # alone in ber great house, This, and other things were the eauses of her melancholy emcit Bent her children out of tha way to en) ata Christmas party, and on the bleteod Christmas day when they returned home they found their poor | mother acorpe, I! Is «aid that her deat’ was occas sloned by an overdose of morphine, but a righd ex amination should be mate of the body. But the poor httle elildren, what of them? ——— A SHORT WAY WITH HUSBANDS, Marscittom, the Pall Matt Gavette, A series of crimes has just beon bronght to light At Marsetlios which recalls the old stories of mediaval it NY, and the Aqua Tofans. Al the Shh of A flower girt named Ange? q at in the present year @ Jonrtan while «elling her bonquets In the Cours Saint Louis Was aveosted by aateange woman, who iiquited for another - quet weller named Mictte Marino. When it was fonind that Mivite was pot inh tomed place the womin gave An or her which k to herself, mained dose, Ta of atl Uda, Mie two order tte wast Wiinene | empty, and the ether, the same Sir. Burnard pure 16 for polson to chased, was nearly ful, showing that but Hive ot tt | Kit Marine: ieee came had been used, Te would sewn that he took too | accede to her requost It + enou mue hy mistake. It iw not gencroliy | Rnd then Metis ees t { beliew 4 suicide, as whe had mile | Cue Joy ainoen Yai every preparation tor Cristinas dingy a | vas "tn the sidesoard ready for roustit hte etardtin ee alte erie siete oa oer Tis startling annowneemont was duly comm cated by Angelique Jourdan jo Mictte Murino; the girl in turn recounted $t to her husband, Barliciemy Marino,» journeyman mason, Fr: sin the Woman Who lad aldressed Jourda ‘one Covell rdivarily known a4 Ponny Lomberte, a fortune-tefler and novorions bad elaracter, doye had been pesident in Mareeilles only for a. few months, He was cman of about forty-stx years of age, and had lately beon e'ensed from Liv at Toulon, At first he tool up his qua berinthe Rue St. Antoine, a firect which ran throwsh of the worst and least known districts of the old town, Later, however, he contrived to pass tle necessary examination, ‘and thongh still tly k old room, was eettled, as a herb. n the Ku wing What fort Of persone these were, Bar Mario was somewhat alarmed at his wife's tress ers in wehutths but. recently become a wid tioned her on the subject of her aca Joye and Lambert, Hor replies were Rictory that Marino ‘etermined to sltt the matt Himself, “Accordingly, he betook himscif te shop. He had heerd «hough from bis wile Ville to understand his man, and that he was Mme. Ville’s lover that he had only done his warke by Nis business to get rit of Mme. Marne J Ville hart been disposed of, Upon that, dy fixedly ut bit visitor, and sald, * Are you “Certainly Lam a man,” rejoink the other, shontda't be Nera: but't don't wish that Iny wite shonid be bnogled with and tortured as M. Ville ye thereupon declared that that #upid bus entirely the fualt of th n Lambert who, In truth, was a mere having no real’ kr at that directly had been called in, he finished him off ina he Little white pow: all appearance on tits pon t with Joye at Mme. Ville’s on an early day; and went back to his mistress to teil Ler that he knew all, nnd that any attempt st con- cealment would be useless, Tn great alurin she con= feraes that rhe did kill her husband; adding that rhe tad first obtained poison from Limberte, but finding that too slow in tts operation, she hall re~ course to Joye and his white powder.” Mme. Ville | avowed also that her intention was to kit Marino's wife, and then to have poisoned him alvo if he re- fuged to morry her. Next day this precions palr went Into the country toa small house belonging to Mime. Ville, On the Way Marino spoke of Hie probable consequences of murdering bis wife, exhilitog head, The lidy, however, enden him by declaring that er know not always fo thnt, Salvage ond A of their hy in that woy and had never b the vew for it, At this Marino eeemed to take heart, tnd nu more Was eald, ext day Joye went to Mme. Ville's honse, taking with him powder and herbs—areentous acid dnd bev Jadonsa, He gave Marino some of eae, only etipue Jating that Ma hould not make tec of them in Marseilles fi#elf, ‘To tis eo WeOn Foie dity ussented, explaluang s ehortiy golog with his wife ts her native ¥ he contd do the business conven tly the Tut ineteud of leaving Murseiies he went: stra to the Pol Ofice, and denounced Salvazo ond Gabriel as well reas and her ace mphiees, Lamberte wud Nine. Ville, who ts deseribed as by nome: handsome woman, foriy yours abl, wis t man whohad risen from the position of a vet he had aceamnlated ni cand relred from business. felt dealt in porcelain. wa had Nved qu y with her hy eve these terrible events with Miring, She appenrs t ve bad #oue sispl ciom that his eff parely of a merce Kind, and tn ave ut Wheiler {twas 0 not she applied to Fenny Lamiert F capacit fortnneteller, Laruberte, followiug tits Usual prac tice of her Uribe, toils Mine, Ville what she thinks willbe al fo her, airing that according to the cords, wo bs iar more attached to her than is M, Ville.’ From this point the eouversation at dif freut times creeps gradually im a certain direc. tion unt one or other of the best way to secure Mi Vilie was (0 remove M. Ville Agreement was made to consummate that end, and wily in 1868 Fanny Lamberte faruished the poison with wine, Mme. Ville to practive upon her them Fu geste Uhiat atte i Lusban Jatter, who liad: previously Leon in good health, is taken seri the wife ear ber operations: hat on 0 casion she ncarly poisoned her servant aud ae well us her husband, M, Ville, who believed bis wife all the time to be devotedly attached to hit, rew worse ond worse, anda Dr, Martin wos sent’ He conceives suspicions, and avoth r physician ia called in, They agree as lo the symptoms, but Mme. Ville fe now so rautious that they ure uvlable to verify their However, Dr. Martin Glarins the poisoner, and she dewsts fur a time. M Ville grew But atthe end of Maret he acain falls iil, and after much eulloring dies on the 19th of May, leaving all his property to his wife, For his services ou tls occasion, Joye received about 8,000 francs, He had supplied the strong pol- fon through Latberte, I took neurly tive months of stow polsouing to kill the unfortunate M. Ville; but Kone Sulvago had been far more expeditious in the treatmentof her husband, dean Salvaco—a rough, drunken fellow, ‘Toward the close of the year 1867,'he tell il], am fine got tired oF nursing him. | Accordingly, she one sulied Fanny Lamberie, and the result ef the con Fultation was that Jean Sulvago dicd within a fow days Ti was at Lamberto's of February. thit Rosine Salvage Mi her the manver The third ease was alt others, Joseplune nd coudded to either of the Dugnet was the natural daaghier Fa woman nawch Marie Dye, who lett ber to bi brought up at the founding buspital. She was ta- ken thence bya well-to-do couple, M. und Mune, dino So almirable wan her conduct that she prige left by a ehari- {ible person to be given to the Dest papil brought up Gt any of the pubic instituions of Marreilies, S Was Hol only good, but bevutifuls and it w not Jong before & husband was found lor her in the per sono aciever mechanic pained Gacriel, Aiter time they Jef the Sunong and tier husbud fooust Ishiy pluced her bebind a small drinking bar, Of couise, Uh compan OUNE Wile Was at once thrown tuto bad Jer mother ond a woman Biayol, bot of the most Gissolute charscier, got access to her; and besides she iaund a iover uf whou she fancied’ her Felt andl 1, Jos: plinealso become cager to know bert aver to bier by some es Ol Joye os & gr ‘at in fort He. propese 5 bu to pa tine, The idea fh bus twenty r to give way, aud f not only to seoty rich out of the way at th same Young giri—she Was F mother persusde its hal a wax c tstitiees Un yok sug burnt at the the Ving unity. AC dength her scruples Piayol Wits ay & Ko-between, and fe from Joye, Te is.ail over is bist of July, Gabriel is dead om the Sth of August, wile tonded blue wi greatest aitection, «nd was rewarded by @ will mace in her own favor just before hor lusvand’s Joye’s nervices this time were valued ut 100 1 Wn and a Dill for 400 franes, On the post more examination large quanutcs of arsenic Were found in both the bodies of Salvage and Gabriel, Dut an Ville’s Body no. traces were exhibiied, Joye's room an the Ruy St, Autoine wis d scuvered to be tull of polsons of the worst de> scription, ‘two of tao women, Dye Aght doy and Playo}, were acqnit- ted; Gabriel and Vile, Lambert aud Jove, were sen tenved to hard labor for like, and tue widow, Salvago, to hard labor for 49 years, ee Amenican Instirere Lecreues.—The sixth of the successful course of scientist ivctures before the American Tnstitute wil! be delivered this evening, at Steinway Hall, by Prof. Hall, the distinguisted Sta Geologist, on The Evolution of the North Ameri. ‘can Vontinet ' AUN DPAMS. ee —Minncsota has paid this year # State bounty on 1,100 wolf scalps. —The Seymour Regulators are called the “ Reno-vators.”” —Junctionopolis is the name of a newly estab. lished atation on the Paci(lé Railroad tn Utah. =If Queen Victoria lives as long as her grand. father, George TIT, her reign will extend into the next centary. Anthony Trollope says that popular educa tion is neither #0 high nor 60 advanced in England ay in the United States, —In Adams county, Til, having « voting popu- lation of ten thousand, ninety-six divorces have been granted within a mouth. —A method of sewing boote and shooa with conper wire instead of the common thread hae beer patented, —There is talk of a velocipede “ tournament’ at Rensselaer Park, near Troy, N. ¥., next Septem ber, =—Paul de Cassagnac, editor of the Parie Puys, haw already fought upward of sixty duels, and lag been wonnded in only four of then, =A Leipsick dealer in, autographs makes libe- raloffers for autograph lolters of Gen, Grant and other American colebrilles, —A citizen of Monterey, Cal., refused (0 ro. cclve @ telegraphle despated from a neighboring town beenase the stnatipox wae raging there, =The proprietors of the Paris Avenir have loat $200,000 Fince ite estabtistement, principally from | flues Imposed for press offences. =" You would not t me for twonty?" said } anice gtrl to her partner, white danct | fogs what woul y better, for A he, Michel Chevalier avd Henri Baudrillart, the two eminent French poll! fea! economists, are at work pon a book om the Gaanclal eflairs of the United States, —We learn from dhe Beant that a blessed;revival ty in progress in the First Puptlet Chureh in 8 Nod. We don't know of any plueo where a revival in nore needed, A fine estate of hundr i Va, was recently sold £3,000, which was lers than ball the y smiprovements, Meyerbeor's widow f ters we fn few oven: rm “For rant Chronicle, fifteen 1 acres in avetion of the collecting all the let aby her illustrioas Wasbund, for the par pore of padlishing his “Correspondence with his ¥r which Is to be issued tu four or five volumes fhronghout the Northwest the muehrate have not and other ¢ 1 their houses wiih feathe tn fine graee. mforts, and therefore old trap . Who count mach on the prophetic Instincte © rate, progn sticate a mfld end open winter, —The police of Milwaukee lately broke up a gong of boys, A from twelve to fourteen years, counceted with ome of the best funulles in the elty, Who bad fitted up a former hog-pen for quariers, and passed their evenings ploylng card#, drinking whis | key, sud pinoking lack pipow, Eleven bogs were apprel nded One evening cngaged in this pre coclous a Ipatl | Gentlew ida candidate in the far West,after hoving given h wet on the * Gon. stitution,” the * Monroe Doctrin and such lke tople aticmen,""and he put his Land on the | region of his heart, "these are any. eeutiir the senthaer », of Houcst man—aye, a on ext porlt en aud fellow-eldzens, g Paris, where he ed bya Commitice of the Association of net Authors, On tho evening of the second day after his arrival the Autlors’ Assoclation gave a arée In his honor, at which Pant Féval read bie new translation of “Enoch Arden," and Louts Ratts bonne, the trarsiutor of Longfellow's poums, pre sented a golden laurel wreath to Tennyson, —A man from the couutry was accosted by a Chicago juvenile with the usual question; “ Black your boots, sirt’ “No. “Black ‘em for five “No. do ‘em for nothing!" © AML Hg hopeful set about von ‘Then, ture is work with 1 one boot tn bright, #hining up bis face to the biackec he gravely announced: “Now, you'll have to give mew iter to do th ber.” —Two citizens of Pennsylvania have invented a enow inching machine fi } Failroad tracks, It fs sliapiy an engino boiler pl in a car w atenderon top of the boiler, Fron the boiler a pipe leads down to within a few lnehes of the road-Led, and is perforated with sinall holes te Permit the jets of steam to act on the snow wit'e the machine being pusl railway car drawn by hor —The late Archbi to Bomerset How Dame?" condition, removing the snow frow ed by a locomotive or elt) of Canterbury to excente a (cud, went “What Longley," & tald the cocknoy clerk | swered the pret Goto —" (@p anmen Vionabte to curs polite), rejolued tue clerk; aué some explanation was neccasuy Vefore it became evident that the oMeial had merely aspimited the designating letter of the department (arranged alphabetically) to whieh he wished to direct Dr. Longley, —The following is put forth as the programme of Napoleow LiL, to secure the Laporial throne (0 hie font A few days previous to the gencrul elvetions in June next, Napoleon's to a sto ln favor of his fon, aud this abdication is to be ratified by a pdlbis cite, This move, it is thought by the Imperialist, would bring out a very full yote in the country die tricts, and it would not only be ratified by an over wheitning majority, but would also secure the eleo tion of the Goverament candidates in all the clos aud doubtiul districts, —The Rey, Jolin Black, of the Red River Relie! Committes, reports that (here are there 434 farailic comprising 2,912 persons, who are in absolute want, and must receive assistance or starve, In addition there are several hundred others who will need a sistouce before spring. ‘The buffalo hunters arg re turning empty-handed, the Asxbing is a failure, and o! rabbits, usually very plentiful in winter, not one it tobescen, He asks for 4,000 barrels of four and other supplies ty preserve the lives of these unfor- tunate peopl —The excavations of the Emporium Roma nam at Rome, under the direction of Baron Visconti, are constantly bringing to light new treasures of art. Tete impossible to give an idea of the nomber of vlocks of rare marble of every color found fn this quarry of antiquities, which has surprised those whe entertained the largest conceptions of the magnift cence of ancient Rome, Abeuly a suMeclent quan tity is uncovered to adorn a city and coneteret tie fugades of several hundred palaces, und every day adds to the heap ~-Six Smiths, bi and thereabouts, k Northampton bri Bmith, the own thers, of Middlefield, Mass., I their several rival pigs of the recently, and Mr. Lawrence rt uty paid tho supper previously agreed upon xs the stakes to be forfeited by “the hindermost” In this ynee for fatiess, ‘Thit emaliest porker kicked te beam at Ove hundred pounds, and the lergest titled six huntred cighty-four, Lawrence's Louse was beautifully deco rated on the oceaion of the supper, und fly of bis Aith and kin partook of iis Lospitality. —During the great rush of travel to California the Panama and San Francisco stoamers wore atwaye On one vcesslon, hye a eurre sponde of travellers, Dent on the yume of old ete 1 Me broad stomneh of a very enger, aslovp on the cabin fluor, in Hic The vleeyer svored on fur Keveral Lonra, unconscious of bis persoval utility, natit one of the party became suddenly excited dnd brought his hand down upon the * table’ With fearful cm plitls, when the astonlshed stranger opexed hie eyes, saw What was golug ov, and sald: © All right, boys—go on with the gome; buthadu't I beiter ture over #” —A singular accident occurred at Kenvebunk, Mo, on Saturday night, A young man gamed Bian was on a visit there, placed as usual a load) ver onder bis pillow when retiving to bed Upon awakening the next morning he venwried to his roomate that he folt faint, and asked fora ging of water, ‘The water was brought, and his beet low gMr. Henry Bean, noticed some biood upon the pillow, On examination ft was found t) at one cham, ber of the revolver had veen discharged during the night, and the ball passing through the pillow had grazed Mr. Dranley’s temple, tuflicting a severe wound, ond lodged in the plastering overliead, It ia thought the young man may recover, tiough there iw danger of the inflammation from the Wound causing Aerangemant of the breim,