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BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1876. MASONIC DIRECTORY. Clinton Lodge No. 3. F. A. M. W. H. FARKER. W.\ M.\ J. C. WOSMANSKY, Secretary. Meets 2d Monday in evory month. Hesperian ChapterNo.17,R.A.M. J. F. C. DuPRE. M.\ E.\ H\ P.\ J. D. CHALMERS, Recorder. Meets 3d Friday night in every mouth. DeSaossnre Council No. 16, R. & S, H. J. T. ROBERTSON'. T.\ III.'. M.\ JSO. G. EDWARDS. Recorder. Meets 1st Tuesday night in every mouth. DE. JOHN S. THOMPSON, DENTIST, Offers his professional services to the citizens of Abbeville and the surrounding country. Office?Over Citizens' Savings Bank, ABBEVILLE, S. C. CUNNINGHAM & TEMPLETON Have on hand a large ttock of Celts' Linen Boson Sits AT VERY LOW PRICE A large assortment of .Ladies' and Gents Merino Vests & Shirts, BOULEVARD SKIRTS, Silk Scarfs and Ties. GIVE TEEM A CALL. The Star Shirt! Having tried these Shirta, we can safely re conim&ud them for a good fitting aud durable Shirt. Collars, Linen and Paper, LATEST STYLES, With Cravats and Scarfs to Match. QUARLES & PERRIN^ Cottage Bedsteads! Two hundred Bedstead* ju*t received, war ranted all hard wood, at prices from $5 00 to $10.00. J. D. CHALMERS. Boots and Shoes! Our stock of BOOTS and SHOES is now complete, and at the Lowest Prices for CASH. Call early and get a bargain. DuPRE, GAMBRELL & CO. C. E. BRUCE, Boot and Shoe Maker, Over Parker & Perrin's Store, ABBEVILLE, 8. C., Dosires to say that he is fully prepar d to meet all demands the public may make 1 a his line. Ho keeps constantly on hand a large lot of the host ti'Vterial aud employs ouly the finest work men. He keeps a full stock of custom mad?* Boot* and Shoes, and guarantees the most entire satisfaction in every instance. M. GOLDSMITH. P. KIND. GOLDSMITH & KIND, FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS (?II(EN*IX IRON WORKS), COLUMBIA, . C. Minuf&cturere of Steam Engines of all sizes; H ir-e powers, Circular aud Muley 8aw Miils, (>ri?t a id Sugar Cane Mills, Flour Mil's. Orna mental House and Store Fronts, Iron R ulings, Agricul oral Implements, etc. Biass and Irou Castings of all kinds made to order on short notice, ana on tne most reasonable torni8. Also, manufacturers of Cotton Pres-es. S. B. NORRELL, HARNESS ana SADDLE MAKER, AT HIS OLD STAND Ovor Parker & Perrin's Drug Store, Hts a supply of Northern Harness Leather and other material for Making and Et-pairing daddies and Harness. CARPENTRY. The undersigned hereby gives notice that he is prepared to do all kinds of Carpenter's fort anfl B11M1. He also repairs Cotton Gins. Thrashers and Fans. A fall supply of Gin Material always on hand. Farmers are requested to bring their Gins up early in tho seat>ou to allow time to have them properly prepared. Also Agent for the Taylor Cotton Gin, the Brooks Cotton Press, and all kinds of llubber and Leather Belting. D. B. SMITH, Abbeville C. If., S, ('. Pauperism. in nr aV* o rrn rtifuri-innr f/\ f 1?q f?vrvrrfV? ! of the pauper population, deplores the I state of affairs that necessitates the es tablishment of soup houses and the j meeting of [public bodies to legislate upon the abatement of the tramp nui sanoo. The editor says: It would be too hard t.i say one word against charity in times like these, and we do not mean to say it. Something we owe to ourselves, especially the recol lection that Heaven loves the cheerful giver; and even careless giving is a pleasing form of self-indulgence. But a great, permanent public system of giving is another matter. A community hlfA /illfO mnaf V?i1i'at?a flia r-\ j yf I it 4 *ikV VUIO UiUOU 10X1C?C liiC J/UV1 j ["""J because it is a Christian community, ami partly because the constant presence of distress would be intolerable; but the nearer we can keep to the rule that those who can work and will not work, when work is provided, slml! not eat, tho less likely we shall be to have chronic pau perism to contend with in the future. The truth is, the American people, hav ing never had any occasion to study and investigate this subject, possess no fixed ideas about it. trhilo in everv other country melancholy necessity has re duced it to something like a science. Sooner or later, we shall bo compelled to do the same thiug, and now is a good time to give the problem a little thought. Some peoj le are rude enough to say to an editor whose writings is not very plain: "Always telegraph; never write ; we like your telegraph hand so much better than your writing hand." Milford, N. H., talks of contributing Jimmy Blanchard to the Centennial, to be exhibited with a picture of the young George Washington, as speci mens of two kinds of little boys raised in this country. TT> Lay Us Down to Sle?p. We laj us down to sleep, And leave to God the reet; Whether to wake weep, Or wake no more be beet. Why Tex our souls with care? The grave is oool and low ; Hare we found life so fair That we Bhould dread to go ? We've kissed love's sweet, red lips, And left them sweet and red. The rose the wild bee sips Blooms on when he is dead. Some faithful friends we've found, Bit those who lore us best, When we are under ground, Will laugh on with the reek No task have we begun J_>UU UIUC1 jiauuo \S*?UL *ma.o , No work beneath the sun For which we need to wake. Then hold us fast, sweet death, If so it eeemsth best To Him who gave ns breath That we should go to reftv. We lay ub down to sleep, Our weary eyes we close ; Whether to wake and weep, Or wake no more, He knows. ?Christian Union. THE MAIL-CARRIER. A STORY OF THE WINTER OF 1864. In tho frontier town of Nebraska lived tioun 1/ill toil. J.1UM juuuie Liau xeuiou into such a state of neglect and non use that it would scarcely have been recog nized by the old associates of its lawful owner, and even to him, I doubt not, would have sounded strangely. He was better known, particularly on the borders, as Captain Jack. After his own simple fashion he was a character with a history. His title he won gallantly, and wore easily. One day, in the Rocky mountains, a small party of miners, surrounded by an overpowering number of Indians, re treated into a canyon. For three days and mgnts, witn litue intermission, me combat continued. On the first day the leader of the gallant little band fell, and Dalton, then a youth, -was selected, on account of his cool, determined bravery, to carry on the defense. When relief came, he was found be hind an extemporized barricade, at the entrance of the canyon, his companions either dead or wounded, holding his post with a desperate courage which would have abated with death only. At the time I preseuted him to the reader he was fully fifty years old, but was fctill in his prime; tall and swarthy, no flesh to spare, plenty of bono and muscle and awkwardness, his head cov ered with a shock of sandy hair, flecked with gray, his beard shaggy, his fea tures angular. vt-a ii_ Ai- - ?i ? J t? j ! i>aturauy meuiuuiwu uuu iuuu ui quiet, lie sought a peaceful ending in a stormy career, and had, as he expressed it, "settled down." With his small earnings he bought a cottage, and for an avocation carried the mail between two little towns in Nebraska, some fifteen miles apart. The winter of 1864 is memorable for its severity. Accounts from all parts of the country added to the long list of the suffering death. Many perished with cold at their very thresholds, in the thoroughfares of cities, where relief was on every side, strong men fell and wtre buried in the snow. A black year in the annals of the poor. One morning of that year, the ther mometer way down below zero, John Dalton, mounted on his faithful horse, received the mail. For five years, come and go, promptly to the minute, in good weather and also in bad, excepting only Sundays, he made his daily jour nev. He took the old familiar road, passed by bis humble home without appearing to notice it, and, as was his wont, stop ped on the summit of a knoll command ing the east front of the cottage, and only a few yards from it, for what In called his " blessing." At the window stood his wife with an infant in her arms, the wee thing waving its hands and smiliug. On either side were a little boy and girl, each mounted on a okair the better to get a last look at the father who was so dear to them. This was the good-bye that warmed tho man's blood, made his lips quiver with a smile, and sent him on his way rejoicing. Between its termiui the road had two distinctive features, about five miles apart, known as the Lono Tree ; the other was called Bacon's Run, a ravine bordered by a thin growth of stunted timber. On the lino of the road, or in proximity to it, there was no habitation or shelter for man or beast. The prairie was high and rolling. The tii>t part of the journey was made in the usual way. At halt-past two o'clock in the afternoon Dalton started on his return. He was not twenty yards away when he wns overtaken l>y the postmaster, who charged him to be dili gent in the delivery of a highly impor tant letter. At this time a change had taken place in the weather. A thick h?ze overspread the sun, paling it to the hue of silver; the wind had shifted to the northeast. These signs had not escaped Dalton's notice. The mou taineer, like the sailor, Boon learns that life itself often depends on the qniek recognition of the friendly warnings which nature gives tc (ho wayfarer. He scanned the narrow in C linri^nn on/I nrnn.1 liio n brisk trot. He reached Baeou's Ran. passed it, and mouLted to the level of j the prairie. From thin point, on a clear i day, the top of the Lone Tree could be i outlined, but now the clouds had be- j come so heavy nnd lowering, arid tin: j haze had so thickened, that objects war I at hand were indistinct. Melancholy, j fitful gusts came passing the traveler from all quarters, as if telling him to hasten. As he looked at the clouds his countenance wore an air of apprehen sion. He was not kept long in. a state of expectancv. A mot?, pure and white, came flutter ing down, buffeted by the wiud, now here, now there, uncertain where to go. It tivally sought refuge on Dalton's rurred coat. Others soon followed with hesitation, now stopping and ascending, as though to return to the home whence they came, but finally descending and seeking rest in obscure hiding places. These insignificant specks became larger, more numerous, bolder, took possession and covered all things with a garment of white. The situation was plain?a enow storm on the prairie was at hand. Dalton thought of the comfortable lit tle cottage by the roadside, and the dear oues it contained. One night in the mountains he had battled against the snow, and. out of ten companions, he waa tiie only survivor of that terrible ex perience. c The Hnow now raped with increasing power. The snowflakes were blown about in blinding myriads. All traces of the road, at best never very clearly defined, were covered. The biting wintry blasts went moaning by ; night came prematurely in a wall of darkneRs ; all was a wild waste for the sport of the element*. Dal too, unable to ere an fnch ahead, or to form the remotest idea what direc tion to take, let the reins fali on the horse's neck, leaving him unrestrained to take his way. The noble steed moved oonfldentlv on, plunging into that blackness and dark ness?the lonely, desolate unknown. Suddenly he stopped, with an abrupt ness which nearly threw the rider, who, reaching, touched what seemed to be the trunk of a tree. Extending his hand higher, he grasped what was certainly tne limb of a tree, and then all doubt disappeared. He was at the Lone Tree, only five miles from home and safety. Here, in deed, was hope, but not unalloyed. Two elements entered to vitiate it. One, the horse, seemed to be failing ; the other, the tree, was one hundred yards from the highway, a variation which showed that the faithful animal had so far erred, v.iYifar? tttVit? nnt a fnrthfvr variation in proportion as he lost strength and confidence. 'a he only solution was to move on. It might be at the bidding of chance ; still motion -was absolutely essential to prevent the blood from ooDgealing to the very heart. The rider found it was neceesary to make the horse feel the rein, to endeavor to impart confidence to him and to urge him forward. A long time elapsed?it seemed to Dalton many hours?but his only meas ure of time was his bodily and mental suffering. He endeavored to penetrate the darkness, straining his eyes to a painful tension, in the hope of seeing some friendly light or hearing some human sound?something to tell him he was not all alone. Fate was mocking him. The horse stood trembling with exhaustion, and could not ge another step. He tottered on,i ulmnnfc fall r?n hi'fi rider, who. risinc find staggering about in the deep snow, struck heavily against an upright ob ject. Could it be the signboard post which stood on the little knoll just east of his home? Oh, no I Horror more chilling than the wind and enow I It was the Lone Tree! All those terrible hours he had been moving in a circle! All this brave struggle had been for nothing. Here was a ci isis. One min ute of indecision, and the paralyzing cold would conquer; but early training and a noble nature decided. Faithful to the last, Dalton quickly took the mail-bag from the saddle, nerved him self for a final ellort, ana tnen went floundering in the snow to reach?wher ever his destiny would lead him. Time wore on. Strength and will were ebbing fast. In desperation the unfor tunate man endeavored to cry ont for help, but his indistinct utterances were forced back by the hissing, merciless wind. He was fast losing his mind. His steps were numbered. A lightness came over him. Was it a cruel mirage that trifled with him? Over the drift, through the night, shone the bright, cheerful b'ght of a fire, invitiDg him t-o comfort and home. Too late! He uttered a faint cry, then fell in the soft, yielding, deceptive snow. Tho ct/irm tposj flirt viotnr. Jane Dalton was a cherry, chubby, little woman. Of education she could not boast; books and figures wero to her udknown quantities. Her world was limited to the little town in which she lived, the capital being bounded by the white fence of her little cottage. But, withal she was of a humble nature, she knew how to love and fulfilled every duty as John Dalton's wife. Thrifty and tidy, she managed well the scauty means at her command, and kept the tins and children's faces shining. A happy wife and mother. At six o'clock of the day in q'inqtion evervthing was in readiness fur her good manvs return. The children in bed asleep', the easy shoes and warm coat near the blazing fire on the hearth, and supper prepared. It was time for his arrival, and he was usually very prompt. Yet he tarried. The change in the weather had not taken place unnoticed, but had produced in her a kind of indefinite unea*ine.s8, a slight restlessness, and yet it had no particular importance in connection with the absence of her husband until the clock on the mantel struck seven. Then the wind whistling around the house corners, rattling the doors and shutters, and the snow beating so persistently against the window paneF, acquired a painful significance. Her. husband was out iu the storm, and might at that mo ment be perishing with cold on th? prairie. This dreadful thought transformed her whole being; the gonial expression of her face changed into a terrified look. She went to the window and drew wide the curtain that the bright firelight might shine out as a haven to guide him who was the light of her humble life. She paced to and fro, under a rapidly increasiug excitement. The weird sounds mad j by the storm messengers 'is t hey whirl* d by in tho fill Ailment of their mission made her start and trem ble. It had grown late, it was half-past light, and yet no tidings. She fell back iuto a chair and burst iuto tears; but this weakness was temporary only. She looked resolutely down into the tire and made her plan. It was a desjH-rate one, but love is more lesperate than hate. If John Dalton did not come by nine o'clock she would start out and find him. She took from the closet a pair of overshoos and a cloak for herself, a blanket and a flask of brandy for him she was going to seek. Her simple preparations completed, she stood wait mK It lucked a quarter of nine. There was a noise at the door, like knocks repeated by one who desired entrance. To Jane Dalton's overwrought senses it was the souud of a hand on the door knob. She rushed to the door to admit her hus band; she opened it to admit the howl ing blast which almost dashed her to the floor. Sadly disappointed, but still [ courageous, she returned to the place before the clock. j In live minutes more the time would be up. Her cloak and hood were on, and si e was ready for whatever God had in store for her. She watched the clock like one who waits for some supremo moment iu life. The wind seemed to be I roughly calling her. Then it lulled a few seconds and she heard n crv?a j moan?which seemed to freeze her j blood. ! Instantly she was out in the night, braving the storm. Where should Rlie I go? She could not tell. She went | blindly on. A sparrow does not fall without His knowledge. Her steps wore j guided ; her feet struck something I buried in the snow. It was the mail I bag. I uTUni, n^/i i'> :?.i ?a r.ii xuuua Mvu i nuo Liiru, uuu icu uu ! her knees at her husband's side. Quickly, almost fiercely, she snatched from his body the snow. She rubbed I his breast, sho chafed his wrists and ! hands. There waa an electricity of love ! in her touch which quickly restored warmth and life. John Dalton arose from that bed of death, saved by his wife. Together in the little home, by the bright fire, a heartfelt prayer, a kiss for the little ones, an embrace?yes, more than one for the wife, the supper fin ished. John Balton pressed his hand on his forehead, his face wore a troubled look, then he turned to Jane and said : " Wife, I almost forgob the mail; an important letter is in the bag, and must be delivered to-night." A tender voice replied : " No, John, to-morrow will do." What Mr. Beecher Says. After the prayer meeting at the Ply mouth lecture-room, the room being jammed, Mr. Beecher announced that the mutual council had fallen through, the other side haviDg declined. In the oourse of his remarks that evening Mr. Beecher Baid : I reoeived many letters which read as follows : " This is one of the things you ought not to touch; let it be smothered in the mud from which it came." Speak ing of the Woodhull scandal, an>l acting on their advice, I never wrote a letter on the subject, nor did I speak to any per son, not even to my own family, nor to any one, with the exception of * those in timately concerned by the trouble, Mr. Moulton and Mr. Tilton and their fami lies. I maintained ?-jtire silence, and I determined that I would not be a party to do that which I believed would be injurious to morals as it was false to the truth. But there was trcachery on the other side, and they did not want it kept silent, and there was soreness and out break following each other continually. For myself, while if I am before any tribunal or my country, jl win ten tne truth when questioned, I will not in any way help the diffusion of that which cannot but be mischievous, and so I am taunted in the newspapers with "Why don't you carry your disgusting stuff abroad ?" I have been bombarded ?severely assailed; but you are my witness that I have not been the one '.bat stirred in the mire. I am not a member of a party that is defending me. I am almost alone. I am a man that has been trumpeted up and down the la d as an abolitionist, when to be an aboli tionist was to be reproached. I have 6tood, with prejudices beating in upon me, known and read of all men; my ser mons published, my lecture-room talks printed, my family conversation reprat in the papers. I have been stripped bare, naked entirely, and stood in the very glare of publicity; and for the last fivfl vonrs nntlflr a nwssnre nnmece dented. I hpve been bunted by the women of tho slews and their paramours, hunted through the civil courts, hnuted by newspapers that have nothing else to do but to make common sewers of them selves for this slander. Now, I put the question to every honest mnn : IIow can a man stand under such circumstances if he is that guilty wretch that they say he is ? * * If over a timo comes when any considerable number of this church considers me to be wrong, don't wait; let me know. The sun shall not go down on the day which communicates the fact and find me pastor of this churclx. But so long as you stand I am strong. Still a Mother. She was charged with habitual drunk' ennesa. As she came forward to the bar of a St. Louis court she led by the hand a bright lookiDg boy about six years of ago. It took but a little time to convict the woman, as her own appearance was the strongest witness against her. Noticing the little boy,'the justice order ed an officer to take liim to the house of refuge. The poor mother heard the order and comprehended its import in an instant. Hardened as she was, the thought of being thus suddenly separa ted, certainly for many years, from the only creature for jwhom she entertained any affection was a terrible one, and she fell upon- her kuees and most abjectly prayed and begged that the boy bo not taken from her. Bleared, ragged and dirtv ns she was. the picture was all the raoro pitiful, and the efT.-ct of it was greatly intensified by the boy, who, sud denly comprehending -what wan pro Eosed, ran to her, threw his arm around er neck, and cried in a frightened man ner. The officer approached and the boy shrunk away, while the tears stream ed down the kneeliDg woman's face, as her supplications became most passion ate. Finally physical strength triumph ed, and the officer passed through the courtroom carrying the struggling and "tIuIu ammmu nf tlio UI'jriJLI^ ViJUIlVlj nmio UUW nviiviauio ?**U mother could be plainly heard from the opposite side of the street. A Frenchman's English Advertisement. "Family Hotel, 4 lbs. Avenue de l'lmperatrice, near the Arc de Triomphe de l'Etolle. This establishment is situ ated in the finest position of Paris; and we have been able to say, without fear ing of a lie, that there is nowhere a greatest geographical situation. This establishment is in Paris, ten minutes no moro from the Centre, and surround ed by the stations of omnibus and rail way. The boarders are ablo to go, on foot, to the middle of Paris, without leaving the bitumen. This for tlio in side. The chief of the house is a shy, dainty mouthed one, it is to say, dear reader, that his table and wines are ex cellent, nothing to be wanted as regard to the comfort and luxury. The society is compounded of French and strangers men, they live in family <fe are pretty well talking. The conversation is often spirituous and amusing. After dining they are going in a pretty saloon con tiguous to the eating room, wlnre they are making any muHic. Sometimes the boarders are able to go to the the ater, without paying anything, this a kindness made by tho propriety. The apartments & rooms are elegantly newly adorned, opposite to the southwest? Moderate prices." A Model Wife. A popular essayist writes as follows : As I went up the new Massa road the other day I met a ragged, stont and rather dirty woman, with a large shallow basket on her head. In it lay her hus band, a large man, though, I think, a little abbreviated as to his legs. The woman asked alms. Talk of Diogtnes in bis tub ! How must the world look to a mail in a basket, riding about on bis wife's bead ? She put bira down beside the road, in the sun, and almost in dan ger of passing vehicles. I suppose the affectionate creature thought that if he got a new injury in this way bin value in the beggar market would be increased. This custom of carrying one's husband on the bend in a basket has something to recommend it, and is an exhibition of faith on the one hand and of devotion on the other that is seldom met with. It is at least a new commentary on the apostolic remark that tho man is the head of tLio woman. Opium Smoking'. Tho San Francisco Chronicle Bays that, in addition to the numerous opium smoking dens kept in that city for the Chinese alone, there are, within three blocks of the city hftll, eight opium smoking estAbliflhmentskc.pt by Chinese for the exclusive use of white men and women. These places are patronized not only by the vicious, but are i"w>rted to by young men and women of i ospeet able parentage ; and the habitues of these resorts inhalo the fumes of opium until a state of stupefaction iB produced. An ordinance has been passed prohibit ing opium smoking in dens bHt of courpo it is evaded. TOE DATS TO BE CELEBRATED. Important Events In the niatorjr mf th United htitei. While we are in all parts of the Unite* States preparing to celebrate the cen tcnnial of American independence, i will be well to bear in mind the principa battles by which that independence wa achieved. The battles began April 19 1775. They closed Oct. 19, 1781?si; years and six months. The British sen 134,000 soldiers and sailors to the war The colonists met them with 230,00( continentals and 50,000 militia. Thi British employed Indians and Hessians The colonies had for their allies th< Frenchmen. The leading battles of th< w/ir?thnse nartienlarlv worthy of cele bration?are Concord and Lexington Bunker Hill, Long Island, White Plains Trenton, Princeton, Bennington, Sara toga, Monmouth, King's mountain,Cow pens, Eutaw Springs, Yorktown. Thes< are of national interest. Many of th< others are especially local. The disposi tion is to celebrate them also?Tictoriei and defeats?to recall the deeds of oui ancestors, and have a good time gener ally. Our readers will do well to pre> serve the following list of revolutionary battles: Lexington (first skirmiih) April 19, 177i Ticonderoga Kay 10, 1771 Blinker Hill June 17, 177f Montreal (Ethan Allen taken).. .Sept. 25, 1771 8t. Johns DMeiged and captured. Nov. 3, 177i Great Bridge, Va Deo. 9, 177? Qaeboc (Montgomery killed) Deo. 31, 177C Moore's Creek Bridge February 27, 177( Boston (British fled) March 17, 177( Fort Sullivan, Charleston Jane 28,177f Long Island Augnat 27, 1776 Harlem Plains 8<pt?mber 16, 177( White Plains Oot'ober 28,177C Vnrt Wauhinctnn November 16. 177( Trenton December 27. 177f Princeton January 3, 177*3 Habbation July 7, 177*3 Bennington August 16, 177"! Brandy wine September 11, 177*J First battle BemisIleihhte, Sara..Sept. 19, 1771 Paoli ' Beptomber 20, 1777 Oermantown October 4. 1777 Fort Clinton ane Montgomery. October 6, 1777 Second battle at Bemis Heights.. .Oct. 7, 1777 Surrender of Burgoyne October 13, 1777 fort Mercer uciooerzz, im FortMiffin November?, 1771 Monmouth Jane 28, 1778 Wyoming July 4, 1778 Quaker Hill, 11.1 August 29, 1778 Savannah December 29, 1778 Kettle Creek, Qa February 14, 177S Brier Creek March 3, 177S Stony Ferry Ji:ne 20, 1773 Stony Point July 16, 1773 Haulub Hook Anguut 18,177S Chemung (Indiana) August 29, 1773 Savannah Auguot 9, 1773 CharleatowD(Burrtnder to Britidb)May 12, 178C Springfield June 2S, 178C Rocky Mount June 20, 178(] Hinging Hock Augunt 6, 178G f-ander'B Creek, near Camden.. August 16, 1780 King's Mountain October 7, 178C Fisli Dam Ford.Broad r.ver.November 28, 1780 lilackstocks November 20. 1780 Cowpeos January 17, 1781 Onilboro March 15, 17rtl Qjbkirk's Hill April i5, 1781 NiX'y six (beeieged May and Jtino ?, 1781 Augatta (besieged) May and June ?, 1781 Jawetftowa '.July 9, 1788 Eutaw Springs September 8,178) Yorktown (Cornwali-s' Hurrendor).Oct. 19, 1781 A Servian Conspiracy. A teleeram from Belgrade says that a plot had been discovered for the assas sination of Prince Milano-Obrenovitch, and that it hid so far extended as to menace an insurrection and perhaps a revolution. Energet:io measures were folr/ir. on/1 if moiT Iia in fimrv tn STirmrflSS utiixuj-i, c*xavt iv am ???w, x?x-_? tho popular outbreak and the attempt upon tho life of tbe prince. This is no new thing in tho history of Serbia, for several princes have been murdered. The life of the founder of the present dynasty was both tragic and romantic. Prince Milosch, the first Obrenovitcb, was a simple shepherd who enlisted as a soldier in tho insurrection against Otto man rule. Bt-iuga strong-minded young fellow, he soon became an officer, and his daring led to his appointment as commander-in-chief of the insurgent army. In this capacity, although a man of very limited education, lie showed both heroism and genius. He wasmaae n prince by the Skupochtijna of Servia, and began by assassinating his rival, lvirageorgievitch, in order to have the power. He used to boast of this murder in the most open manner, and never ap peared to have any conscientious scru ples abotit it. By turns he was execrated and adored by the people, overthrown aud restored to power, and ultimately died so popular that his descendants shared in his glory. He was succeeded by liis sou wlio was in turn assassinated hv a Karageorgievitch, ami then the young Milano-Obrenovitch was ejected to tho throne. There are several Kara georgievitch pretenders, and they are doubtless continually on the lookout for a chance to assassinate the prince, they regarding themselves as the owners of the throne by divine right. They speak of the Obrenovitch family as upstart parvenus, very much as Lonis XVIII. used to speak of " M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, general, commanding the armies of the king." Trying to Abdnct a Prince. One cannot but wonder, says Scrib nrr'a mno-nzitifi. whether William the Fonrth of England ever learned that a plot was laid for his abduction during his visit to New York in the spring of 1782, during the Revolutionary war. The prince was a young and reckless midshipman, given to flirtation, and to the inebriation which found vent in wrenchiDg ofl door knobs ; and it prob ably never occurred to him that in his person the " rebels " would And a host ago wo'th having. The project origi nated with Colonel Matthias Ogden of the Jersey line, and the intention was to surprise the prince and his commissioned guardian, Admiro.1 Digbv, at their quarters in the city mansion of (ierarilus Beekman on Hanover square. Two ofli cers and thirty-nine men were to aid Colonel Ogden in his enterprise. Em barking on a rainy night in whaleboats, they were to laud in New York near the Beekman mansion, force the doors of the house, capture the admiral and prince, and convey them to their boats. The plan was approved by Washington, but it does not appear that any decided attempt was made to carry it out. In some manner, the apprehensions of the Brit ish leaders were excited for the safetj of the prince, and every precaution wa; takeu against a surprise. Had it nol been fof this warning, the boldness oi tho plau appears likely to have insured its success. Snubbing a Snob. Mr. Donald G. Mitchell had an amus ing encounter with a snobbish Yale stu dent recently. A correspondent of th( Springfield Republican gives it as fol lows : A Yale student, riding out to cal lately on tho charming bevy of daugh t^rs that cheer_the heart and home oi the farmer of JSiigewood, lounci a mat dressed in rough clothes at work neai the entrance of the place. " Hero, olc fellow, hold my horse," cried Yalensian "Are the ladies at home?" said he, af the person addressed took hold of th< animal, as the rider dismounted. " No, sir; yon will not Hod them at home,' said the supposed gardener. " Well then, here's a dime for you," saic Yalensian, remounting. The money waj declined, and the student* rode awaj away utterly ignorant of the reason whj he did not find the ladies in, which h< afterward suspected, when he learnec that his conversation had been with th< i author-farmer himself. THE UNITED STATES ARMY. e Same Interesting Fl*nrei-?Where Ibe Troops are Stationed?Coat of the Tarl j ou. Branches. An article in an exchange argues j against the redaction of the army, on ? I the ground that the saving would not be , B so great as is popularly supposed, while a reduction in the present force would f ' necessitate an abandonment of a large * number of frontier posts already insuffi ciently garrisoned, and deprive our } pioneer population of the protection in dispensable to the growth of a most im portant portion of the oountry. The , ' adjutant general reports that by the , " latest returns the army of thn United States contained 25,910 men, 21,748 of . ' J _ J I w wnom WOIO UlClUUtJU ill mo uunvo luiw of caValry, artillery, and infantry. The cost of this force 7M as folloira: Cavalry 410.567,280 Artillery 3,486,000 Infantry 9,224.664 Indian eoouts 165.080 Miscellaneous 234,370 Total ......123,667,294 The other expense of the military es tablishment were: Arsenal* and fortification* $1,242,166 Staff 2,629,954 Engineer corps 3G4,44<3 Ordnance corps 1,097,434 Military acadomy 402,561 Total $5,636,560 Besides this the following items of the civil administration are included in the military budget: Signal service $694,953 River and harbor works 7,227,250 War department 1,219,237 Miap.Allanenns 2,185,663 Total $11,326,803 The troops arc at present stationed as follows: On the Pacific coast 1,078 On the Northern frontier 2,709 On the Atlantic coast 1,953 On the Qnlf coast 187 On tho Mexioin frontier 2,335 In the Western interior 10,902 In the Southern interior 2,584 Total 21,748 Eighteen thousand five hundred and forty-five men, or eighty-five per cent, of this force, are stationed in the military divisions of the Missouri and the Pa cific, which include the State of Illinois, east of the Mississippi, and all of the United States west of the Mississippi (excepting the States of Louisiana and Arkansas) from Behring's straits on tho north to the Mexican frontier on the south. This force is distributed at 129 posts, an average of 128 men to a post. In the South are 1,859 men and nineteen posts, and in tho forts on the Atlantic coast 2,044 men at twenty posts, an average of a hundred men to a pof-t. A reduction of seventeen per cent, in this force, by the disbaudment of two cavalry, one artillery, and five infantry regi merits, would effect a savin# of from three to four millions of dollars, or less than ten per cent, of the sum included in tho military budget. Uslnj Newspapers as Catspaws. The New York Herald has the fol lowing well-timed remarks on r. subject interesting to all publishers of news papers : Oue of the commonest incidents of newspaper life is the receipt of ; om muuications urging tha editor to make attacks for which the writer who prompts them is unwilling to bo respon sible. Wo are always glad to receive information or statements of fact from any authentic source, but we cannot con imfvnmflnt r\f ooarmUvq nn 3CLi b IU kJKJ bUC lU'.bi umvuv v* mwwmvuw vm public or private persous to gratify the malico or hostility of people who shrink from the responsibility of their own acts and try to shelter themselves behind our columns. Every man who is publicly attacked has a right to know who are his accusers. When facts are privately submitted to us in the expectation that wo will employ our own judgment as to the use to be made of them, we treat them as matters of confidence, and wculd never think of exposing the writer. If we think fit to make them grouuds of criticism or assault on indi viduals the responsibility is entirely ours in courts of justice and the court of public opinion. But when, instead of oommunicatiug facts foi us to judge of and U5ie, a writer prepares articles for us to publish and expects us to make at tacks on individuals and shield him from consequences, he asks more than we are willing to grant. Ho should have cour age erough to expose his own name and back up his own quarrel. Old Time Prophecies. When an event has ]ust nappeneu, or is pretty certain to soon happen, there is never any lack of rhymed pro phecies of the fact, which lay claim to an antiquity of several hundred years. The late.-t one is an anent Turkey, and is dated 1853. It eaye: In tnico two hundred jeara the b?ar ' Tb a crescent shall assail, Bat, if the cock and ball unite, The bear shall not prevail. But look ! in twioe ten years again, Lot Iflam know ana rear, The oroes shall wax?the oreaoent wane, Grow pale and disappear. The " twice ten years" comes to an end ntsxt spring. If the Turk is driven across the Bosphorus then, and if the prophecy can be proved to be entitled to the date it bears?(he latter may be the harder task of the two?the coin cidence of fancy and fact will be quite remarkable. But in all probability the verses were written after the Anglo French alliance against Russia in 1853> and is dated to suit. Why lie FaYorcd It. Sonator Gordon, of Georgia, gives hie reasons for advocating the United Stutes Centennial appropriation. He agrees with Senator Bayard that it is both constitu tional and sanctioned by numerous pre cedents. He has expressed himself very freely and earnestly for the bill on the following grounds: Firnt, because no section is fo deeply interested in the proper celebration and re-establishmpnt of the principles of 1776 and in the restoration of good will in the country as the South; secondly, becauso the pro posed appropriation would cost ouly about three and a half cents per capita in the United States; thirdly, that Penn sylvania has paid four and a half mil lions of the live millions, already ex pended, aud that it would bo unjust to ' ' ?1 XI. - mnke tiiat otate pay more, wuerctui wu appropriation by Congress would per ' feet the national character of the cele 1 bration; fourthly, that the foreign na r tions having accepted the invitations to I come, the reputation of the government is involved in perfecting the arrange ments, and on this account he would regret to see the South vote against the bill. Discipline.?Strict discipline prevails on the Japaneso corvette Tsukuba, ar rived at San Francisco. When a mes senger from Mare island boarded her with a dispatch from the captain, two marines jammed him up against the bul wark, and holding their loaded muskets to his head, kept him there until an officer released him. DOWN IN THE COAL MINES. ["he Great Anthracite Coal Trade of Penn sylvania?It* Beginning, KWe, and Pro gress? Hovr the Mines are ltnn. Faw among those who have never dsited the mines of Pennsylvania can magine the wild, weird picture of deso ation on every side of these bleak Qountains of the anthracite coal coun ry. Stretched away on either side and oiling their tops with the silvery clouds ,re the aged hilb and rocks, brown, bar en, and black; and away down below, tearly two thousand feet in the bowels if tho earth, where the misty rays of ha minAra' lomn nlnrtA liorVif. nn f.hnan ilackened cuts and avenues, the sights re a hundred fold more dreary and pic uresque. Here in Schuylkill, Lehigh, and ad orning counties is the great anthracite oal wealth of the United States. Its rade has developed to an annual pro uct of twenty-millions of tons, and as k has doubled within the laat ten years, b is fair to presamo that in ten years lore the country will consume forty lillions of tons. Wyoming hard coal was first burned 1 1768. Lehigh coal was the first to Balize a commercial value in Eastern l larkets?consequently that coal nearly 1 lways leads the quotations. It is a con- < jcture whether Lehigh or Schuylkill tone coal, for actual consumption, was ? arnislied first. Benjamin Bannan, who c 3r a long period of busy years Was the i ;ading mind in these regions, and who i 'as known as "Old Probability," said ( aat Schuylkill coal was first taken to t larket. Nicho. Allen, a hunter, first 1 tumbled upon the black diamonds, near i troad mountain, Schuylkill county, in 1 790. He made a fire one night on the 1 ills, and when lie woke up in the morn ig a mass of fiery rock startled him. Hen never made a penny on it, and was fterward drowned. In 1800, William Morris, then of Port larbon, Schuylkill county, carted a agon load of coal to Philadelphia, a istance of seventy miles. The Quakers pould not buy his black rocks, and the aal trado was knocked flat. Along the ime route that wagon took seventy-six ears ago, over 5,000,000 tons of coal re now shipped by railroad every year. 11812, Col. George Shoemaker, living bout one mile from there, loaded nine agons and went to Philadelphia, where e was denounced as a kna^a and a joundrel. His coal was unsold, and he jturned m disgust, xo-aay mere are lillions of dollars made on that same ind of fuel. The first discovery of coal on the Le igh was in the Mauch Chunk or Bear tountain, nine miles west of Mauch hunk. Philip Ginter, a poor hunter, credited as the person who first dis jvered it in 1791. In the following sar the Lfchigh coal company was >rmed. Robert Morris, the celebrated nancier, was the leading member. vuai wao auuuuuui} uiiuiug tuoji uuu ie great question was, what should they o with it ? It was in a mountainous :gion, surrounded by unbroken forests Qly traversed by Indians and hunters, hiladelphia, the nearest market, was Q6 hundred miles away. Samples were irried around in saddle bags. In 1803 ley floated coal down the Lehigh and )elaware rivers on arks. Six arks were rat started, but only two reached mar et. It proved worthless, and was sub )quently used to spall streets. The oublo waa they did not know how to urn it. In 1814, however, coal sold in 'ew York and Philadelphia at ?21 per >n. The secret of burning it was dis jvered by accident. In 1820, 365 tons jached market, sold for $8.50 per ton, id Lehigh hipment to-day stands as be first year's product of the American ithracite coal trade. It is interesting as well as amusing to sar tlio story of liow coal burning ^rop ties were discovered. Iu 1812 Col. fhite, of the Fairinount nail and iron orkf, Philadelphia, was very anxious to lcceed in burning this coal. His men >ent one whole forenoon in trying to ;nite it and raise a heat in one of their Lrnace3. They tried every way but the ght way. They raked it, poked it, irred it up, and blew blasts of air upon [C OUUUUC bUlUU^U U|;CU iiiiuuw nt all to no purpose. Those black >cks would not burn, and when the inner hour arrived the men slammed tut the furnace doors in disgust. When ley returned, however, they were as mished. The furnace doors were red 3t, and everything in danger of being elted. They never had seen another ichheat. "Let it alone" ever after ards was the recipe for burning hard >al, and its stock went up. In 1825 le beliuylkiu coal traue nrsc openea oy c inal from Pottsville to Philadelphia. j 1 that year 6,500 tons were sent down, E id in 1875 the Philadelphia and Read- e ig company alonn mined and sent to c larket over 3,000,000 tons. This cor- a oration i3 one of the five that have the r itire control of the anthracite trade, i id they own at least one-third of all the ^ >al lands in Pennsylvania. The other ( >ur corporations take theirs to New j ork by rail. c In traversing the many iron highways c ! the regions, the traveler is astonnded a the enormous investments of capital, c [illions upon millioim of dollars are re- g resented, and thousands of men and . c )ys at the mines and a little world of j c usy people in nearly all branches of 11 ado gain a livelihood in the various | f o A Ar?r1 f.Vm I n nea nun iuwijo aujw^uv, ^uv? jw vuw ithraeite basins of Pennsylvania re resent but a spot in the coal area of the mntry, only 470 square miles of an iracite in a total of 206,939. But its due is greater than the entiro area of ituminous coal, and the fact that New ork, Philadelphia, Boston, and all ther leading cities in the East and ortheast, and Canada, have the great it source of their productive power in lese hills of Pennsylvania, and that the itire population of the above sections raw most of their supplies of fuel '"""in nnfl mnaf nniitinno to RfV ULil UrilUV) UUV4 U1UUV XSWTJ-t v? ?w v.r, ill always attach superior importanco ) the anthraoitecoal fields of this State. Your correspondent descended the eep shaft at East Norwegian, known as I le East shaft, Wadesville, a short dis- n ince from this place. It is operated by \ le Philadelphia and Reading coal and \ on company. The car went down 1,128 1 iet to Orchard vein. The shaft leads r own still further, a distance of 1,569 a ;et from thi surface, to Primroso vein f wliite ash coal, and 1,954 feet clown :om the surface is the Mammoth vein. . tunnel from Primrose will be dug astward toward the Mammoth vein till : meet3 it on its upward course. This imarkablo shaft passes through rich eins, which together represent a thick ess of solid coal of sixty-four feet! One undred millions of tons is the csti iated capacity of this bonanza alono, 11 within one hundred miles of tide rater. Imagine an immense black shedding way up on the mountain side. Leading mm frnm ifc is another sheddinc ex ending to another building alongsido of i lateral railroad. Then there is an en- i ine house, an officc, a small village scat ered here and there, a long lino of coal ars, a powerful locomotive, miners and ailroaders. Everything is black, ;rimy, and dusty. Approaching a col iery, the heavy groaning of the power- i ul engine can bo heard as it labors to mmp the water up from tho depths. Dhe empty cars descend ou one side of he shaft and go up on tho other, loaded vith large lumps of coal. From the uouth of the mine it is dumped into the breaker, where it is maae into a] marketable sizes. On its journey to th shute8 below at the tracks, alld whil it is being crushed, a large number o boys, black with dust, piok out the slate bone, and other impurities. Thee* boyi are smart and can tell the difference be tween slate and coal readily. Strangers are rarely taken down ai important shaft, particularly when a col liery is in active operation. Away dowi in "the damp, dangerous and blue! avenues of the interior, the miner anc his men are at work. The shaft is wel wooded, and the car is let down by ? wire rope uncoiling from a mammotl drum. At the bottom, gangways, wel wooded, run hither and thither. Rail road tracks run along, and the cars art Jitner propelled by gravity or are arawr to the shaft by mules that went dowc with good eyes, bat are now totally 9lind. The animals live in the bowele jf the earth entirely. The miners, who ire Scotch, Welsh, and Irish principally, irork upon an established price basis. Fnere is danger all about a mine, the leadly gas explosion, falls of coal, areaking of machinery, and many other ihings that cause a chill of horror to :reep over a stranger, and a cold sweat areaks on his brow as he contemplates lis situation fifteen hundred feet below iaylight. Colliery machinery must be simple ind powerful. They have the heavies* )f engines. Two hundred horse-power vill lift ten tons five hundred feet a ninute, providing the balancing power >r the weight of the load going down on he other side is one-third. Many col ieries cost as high as 8200,000. The sumps are always ui worn, uuiouug nuxu .00 to 500 gallons of -water a minute.? Vcu> York Sun. The Story of a Bride. The bride in question, while yet c blooming and energetic widow, metwitb m elderly gentleman of eighty years oi ige, and an indefinite quantity of bonds md stock certificates. In spite of the >pposition of his family, she convinced 11m that it was his duty to marry the ;rusting and ingenuous woman who had avished upon him her priceless and ex JCi icuucu uucuuiuuo. No sooner was the marriage ceremonj jnded than the happy bride directed he] lusbabd to run back to his house and )ring his bonds and mortgages, so thai .hey might begin to enjoy a happj loneymoon. The husband went, but at loon as he had entered his house he was leized by his relatives and safely locked lp. He had made a will in their favor, aid they had no intention of allowing it o be unmade by a new and unwelcome rife. His prolonged absence disturbed he bride, who sent a carriage to hasten tis return; but the carriage came back impty, and the driver's mind was too Qucli confused by strong language, iroken crockery, and pails of -water to xplain the reason why his presentation if a written order to " deliver to bearer me (1) elderly bridegroom " had given ise to so much vigorous discussion. Che bride at once comprehended the rue state of affairs. She armed herself vith a pistol and a stout servant and itormed her husband's prison. The jattle was short but fierce. From hia emote dungeon, the imprisoned hus jand could be heard cheering on the as sailants, but there were too many bolts m the front door, too many determined naiden sisters, and too much available trockery in the house to render its cap ure possible by the assaulting column. Che bride was beaten back, after per orming prodigies of valor with a lone )ole against the pnrlor windows, aud sh* las since appealed to the law for assist .nee. A suit for the forcible theft of o aluable husband, whoso photograph is mnexed to the complaint, and marked 1 Schedule A," is now pending, and it emains to be seen whether a Massachu etts court recognizes the right of prop erty in husbands, or whether it looks ipon them as force natarce, and hence ucapable of being made the subject of ,n action for trover and conversion. Might have been Wealthy. If in A. D. 1, reader, you had put one ent out at compound interest, it would s wo all know, have doubled at the end f twelve years. At the end of twenty ix years it would have been four centa -of thirty-six years, eight cents. Now, ontinuing this process, we find that in 20 years any sum put out at compound -i. i. ?-n i?~ i nnn fr>u LllltlA UfjU Will liuro 1UU> Ajuw W.V., r the one cent havo become ?10. In 20 years more, or A. D. 210, the 810 Qcreasing 1,000 fold would have equaled ilO.OOO. Then, for every 120 years we aust add three ciphers, or, say in the -ear 600, A. D., the sum would be ten nillions taken one million times, or inough to give every one of our 40,000, 100 inhabitants a fortune of a quarter of , million dollars each. The increase iow becomes stupendous, and to handle t at all we must take the value in pounds reight, and finally cubic feet of gold. 3old is worth in round numbers $200 a >ound. There are about twenty pounds if gold to every pound of water in n rabic foot. A cubic foot of water weighs ixty-five pounds, about; gold conse [uently 1,300 pounds per foot, valued at 1200,000?say one-quarter of a million lollars, or to the million dollars'go fwur mbic feet of gold. At the end of six lundred years, then, we should have rom one cent in the beginning 40,000, 100 feet of solid gold. Continuing this >rocess, wo must soon use cubic miles o rmi'f. nrwl finnllv. wa reach the tupeudous result that in the year 1900, L D., one cent put out at compound in terest would have increased to a sphere if gold whose center being placed at he center of the snn would extond be ond the path of the earth around that ?ody, in all directions, and necessarily s far above and below the plane of the arth's revolution. If you had not teglected the cent you would have been omparatively well off to-day. i PninAiic > of Modern Life. A woman?not very young, but very >retty?au Americaa belle who, through . series of ill-fortunes, became de >endent upon her rela'ives and friends, vas two years since in Spain with some adies who had invited her to go to Eu ope with them; and thero she became icquaiutod with an attache of the Eug ish consulate in the town where they vere spending some weeks. The ladies oft her in a foreign country without neans to return to her native land. She old her story to tho young diplomat. 10 ioveil Xllir, JJlUjJUncil lu iici, auu Uiigj became eng.iged; but ho sent her home, us ho could not thou marry her. Sho had faith in hira, and month? oiled by, tho poor girl having retired tc ive upon the charity of some relative: n Central New York. At lust the diplo nat came, bringing magnificent gift! from his relatives, among the highest o the English nobility, to his brido. II< bad been in South America, and fron there home during this cruel vraiting t< get leave of absence. They waited but i fow days, sho sending no cards to he ci. (hvant friends; they hurried awa; to speud th$ honeymoon in Paris. A friend just from Paris tells how th heroine of this little story is to remai; there, her husband having become con nected with the English embassy in tha city, and that Mrs. G. is tho America! belle and tho pet of Lord Lyons' ek gant establishment. Lord Lyons is bachelor, and Mrs. G. plays tho part c hostess to his guests. J Items of Interest. 0 Q Be contented with what yon have un f til you see a chance of getting more. ? Seeing is not believing. There are 3 many men you can see, and yet oanno t - believe. ! A beautiful seven inch centipede will . be one of Texas' contributions to the j centennial. it ib expected mui wc toicuuu v. France this year will exceed ?100,000, 000 sterling, and be nearly ?i,000,000 in excess of the estimates. Another insect, called the' twister, has attacked the vineyards in Lombardy, and is said to be far irore destructive than the renowned phyloxera. A father in Bradford county, Pa., ninety years of age, boxed his son's ears onromW fnr oVinnirKT his wife. Tho boy } AW* 0 , is about sixty years of age. A girl, one of a bridal party of tour ists, was recently blown off the highest , cliff of the Giant's Causeway in Ireland, and, of course, instantly killed. The supper at a Knights of Pythias ball in Sedalia, Mo., was not ready at the appointed time, and the hungry members stoned the caterer to death. Inebriated gentleman who has fallen down stairs to another who offers to help him up : 11 Wharzeuse slobber in' round a fella' ? I alius come down stairs that way'" The high price which is charged for gas, and its often poor quality, are bringing kerosene into favor more and more. Many shops even in iarg?, uuiea are lighted bj kerosene. Mayor Lewis, of New Haven, while making his New Year's calls, wa3 shut in a door as to his coat tails in such a man ner that he could not reach the bell pull, and had to remain in that un pleasant predicament till the next callcr arrived. A Stratford school teacher got the boys down on him by takiug their apples away from them when they had them around during school time, and eating them himself, but ho looks at them very carefully since he ate one charged with red pepper. When two young Chinamen, now being educated in a Lowell factory, made ap plication the other day for permission to cut off their pigtails, for fear of their catching in the machinery, the request had to be first forwarded to the authori ties in China. When Senator Sharon's daughter was married, the bishop who performed the ceremony was compensated with a check for ?5,000. Recently a gentleman of New York gave the clergyman who per formed the marriage ceremony $2,000 in new bank notes. Brigham Young has prohibited his wives and daughters from taking part iu round dancing. The prophet has also decreed that all balls and parties given in the ward schoolhouses shall begin at one o'clock in the afternoon and close at ten o'clock in the evening. Paisley, near Glasgow, is probably the greatest thread manufacturing cen ter in the world, its exports of sewing cottons for last year amounting to near 8,000,000. The United States is the lu?st customer, taking Inst year 2,314,000 pounds, valued at $2,450,000. * A Western correspondent h; a inter viewed young Joe Smith, son of the Mor mon prophet. Young Joe is described as broad-shouldered, good-looking and forty-throe. He is opposed to poly gamy, but says the Mormons of Utah will not give it up without a fight. A bill is to bo introduced into the Wis consin Legislature providing a sevoro punishment for proprietors of intelli gence offices when detected in the ne farious occupation of sending young girls to disreputable houses under pre text of furnishing them employment. An English funny paper says it is not generally known that a very appropriate coverifier for the bed of a river may bo I made out of the sheets of water which I abound in tho adjacent meadows. The , best way is to wait till the;** are frozen I over, and then cut them up with a pair j of skates. Kissare, an Indian chief, believed to i have been one hundred year* old, died J recently in Washington Territory. Ho i belonged to the Cowlitz tribe, which has dwindled, in twenty years, from about a 1,000 persons to thirty-three, whisky and smallpox having mainly done the work. According to Hassel, the numerical value of tho various important religions of the world may be estimated thus : Christians of all denominations, 120,000, 000; Jews, nearly 4,000,000; Moham medans, 552,000,000; followers of the val-irrirm 111 000 000* T?nd UlUilLUaU > dhists, 315,000,000. A conditional contract has been en ' tered into by the officers of the Pough keepsie bridge company for the con ' struction of the great bridge across the 1 Hudson. The price is stated to be a ' little over 83,000,000, of which 81.000, 000 in cash haa to be raised and paid before the work commences. Webster Oity, says the Burlington Hawheye, rejoices in a local novelist who is publishing her earliest efforts in the local papers. " Elfida, behold the mune. "The mune, me lord ?" " Ay, mune; whitherfore dostest thou echoest me?" " Good, me lord, I echoest no body." " Then, thank Heavon, wo are saved." Lord Grey is uneasy because the 290, ; 000 men whom ho supposes England > could at once put into the field do not I include a sufficient proportion of trained ' soldiers ; while the Loudon Times seeks ! to quiet his alarm by the remark that a ; militia force of 120,000 men cannot be \ entirely worthless, even as regards ac tive operation. The strictness of church "government : in old Puritan times seems like down ! right tyranny in these days of religions I liberty. In the record book of an old J Connecticut church (1702) appears the I Oil In win a ''For makiiiD' a noise in church, Ana Bolton, spinster, is to sit three Sundays in the poor pew and pay a line of five shillings." Milwaukee papers give this society j news: The lovely and accomplished j Mrs. Crooked Bourbon was the admira ! tion of all the indictod guests at the 11 fancy ball last night. She wore 20,000 | I gallons of the tiuest point lace, sent by her husband whoa he tie \ to Europe and , | forfeited his bail bonds, and a set of diamonds valued at twenty-five gangers I and inspectors. i The first newspaper, says Figaro, > j which appeared in Lngiand, was pub ? | lished at the time of the threatened . j Spanish invasion in I58S. It was i sued ? by the government for I lie reason, as f stated, "that this publication is tho > surest means of making the truth known to the people, and of contending against ) the sin of lying and exaggerations of i calnmny." r I A newspaper is a window through f I which men look out on all that is goiijg I on in the world; without a newspaper, a >! man is shut iu a small room, and knows t [ little or nothing of what is happening J outside of himself. In our day, tho ;' newspapers keep pace with history and i record it. A newspaper will keep a sen sible man in sympathy with the world's current history. It is an infolding en cyclopedia, an unbound book forever issuing and never finished.