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The Beaufort Republican. A AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. OUR MOTTO IS?TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR. VOL. III. NO. 30. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1873. {B&?.YS?j Thy Roses. The splendor of thy roses fills The silence of my lonely room; Bat something in their besnty thrills More than the brightness of their bloom. Tis this: thy dear hand gathered them, And grouped their loveliness for me. In every rose whose leaves I kiss, The wonder of thy love I see. Two, rising fair above the rest, Together seem to breathe apart, And one of these, supremely blest, Lies on the other's royal heart. Oh, thus it is with thee and me : From all the crowded world apart, My all of life?love's ecstasy? . I only know it through thy heart. My rose of men. the lesser flower Cast not from out thy larger heart; Enough if in her waning hour. Sho may but perish where thou art. LENNOX RAY'S MISTAKE. Lennox Ray sprang from the train just as the June sunshine was dropping down the west in a flood of golden glory, * and the air was fragrant with the perfume of new mown hay and dewy with approaching twilight. "Well, this is rather purer than London air," sighed Lennox, drawing a deep breath of delight as he hastened up the green lane to the wide, old-fashioned farm house, carrying his valise in his hand. "I wonder if Mary got my note and is looking for me ? Hallo!" This last exclamation was drawn from Mr. Ray's lips by a big ripe cherry, which, descending from above him, came into sudden contact with his nose. He looked up, and there, perched like a great bird upon the boug:li of a cherrytree and looking down at him with dancing eyes and brillian t cheeks, was a young girl pretty and wilful enough to set a man crazy. "How do, Lennox? Come up and have some cherries!" was the mischievous greeting with saucy dimples playing about her white lips. "Mary! Is it possible?" exclaimed Lennox, sorenelv. "What ? that the cherries are ripe ? Yes, and splendid too. Have some?" , returned the nymph, coolly holding out a great ruby cluster. "Mary, will you come down from there ?" said Mr. Ray, not seeming to notice the cherries. "Yes, to be sure, now you've come, and 1 have had all the cherries I wanted." And while Mr. Ray looked on in stern disapproval the young witch swung herself lightly down from her perch and lit on the grass at her feet. "Now don't look so serious, Lennox, dear," she said, slipping her little hands into his with a coaxing motion. "I know it's torn-boyish to climb the cherry trees, but then it's such fun." "Mary, you should have been a boy," said Lennox." "I wish I had ! Then I wouldn't have everybody scolding me if I happened to move. No I don't either, for then you wouldn't have fallen in love with me. What made you, any way, my dear?" she said, with a fond glance and a ca-. ressing movement. "Because you are a sweet darling," answered Mr. Ray, melted in spite of himself. "But I do wish, Mary, you would leave off these boyish ways and be more dignified." " Like Miss Ishman ?" asked Mary. "Miss Ishman is a very superior woman, and it would not hurt you to copy her in some respects," said Lennox, coldly. The tears sprang into Mary's eyes at r his tone ; she loosened her arms from his, and, dropping down on the emerald grass at his feet, began to braid a bracelet of the long blades in silence, with a grieved expression about her sweet mouth which he did not see. "There!" cried Lennox, pettishly. "Now you look more like a five-yearold baby than a well-bred young lady. Mary threw away her bracelet and got up again. "I didn't mean to vex you. Shall we go in ?" she said, sadly. They went into the parlor, and Mr. Ray took a seat in the great armchair, while Mary flung open the window and dropped on her knees beside it, letting her glossy curls fall in a great shower on the window sill. " Now, don't do that!" exclaimed Mr. Ray, drawing a chair near his own. "Come here and sit down like a rational beinc." " I wish you would put up those flyaway curls and dress your hair as other young ladies do," said Mr. Ray. "And see here, Mary, I want to have a talk with you. You know I love you, but, in truth, my dear, my wife must have some of the elegance of refined society. Your mauners need polish, my dear." Mary reddened and her scarlet lip curled a little ; but she said nothing, "A few weeks in fashionable circles will be a great benefit to you, and I wish you to have the opportunity. In short, dear, I came down to tell you that my sister is making up a party to visit some watering place this summer, and she wishes you to be one of the number, and I wish you to accept the invitation, Mary." " Are you going ?" asked Mary. " Xo ; my practice will not allow it. But I shall see you several times. You will go ?" " Oh ! Lennox, don't make me !" sobbed Mary, hilling her face on his shoulders, as a vision of his stylish and hauKhty sister rose befoie her. " I don't want to go ! I hate fashionable society ! I don't want to be polished ! I'd rather stay here in the country, and not wear any bonnet, and climb cherry tree.- every day. " Mary, I'm surprised at this display of childishness ! I must insist upon more self-control," he said coolly. " But don't send me away ! don't Lennox !" she pleaded. " I must!" he returned, but more gently, soltened a little by her agitated eagerness. " It is for your good ; and you must consent to go. Will you ?" The supper bell rang ut that instant, and, anxious to escape before the rest of the family came in and saw her in tears, Mary hastily answered, " Yes, let me go, Lennox J" and ran out of the room and up-stairs to her own chamber. They were at supper before she came A. I down again, with smooth curls and no trace of tears, but with a bright light in her brown ejes and a firm look on her pretty face, and as she went through the hall out to the vine-shaded por;h where the tea-table was, she murmured, "Yes, I'll go ! And I'll teach you one lesson, Mr. Lennox Ray. See if I don't." It was Lennox Ray's intention to join his sister's party in July, but his law business prevented him. When Mary received the letter expressing his regrets she only smiled and said to herself, " All the better. I shall have time to learn my lesson more thoroughly by September, Mr. Lennox Ray." It was nearly the middle of September before Mr. Ray, heated, dusty and weary, entered his room in Scarborough Hotel, where his sister's party was stopping. ?? Hmi. lifflo Mnrv_" ho said as he made a careful toilet before goingdown stairs. " I am dying to see her, and I know she'll be glad to see me. A moment of her sweet naturalness will be quite refreshing after all th^se artificial women. They don't know I've come, so I'll just go down and surprise them." As he entered the apartment amid the flash of .jewels and rustle of silks and laces he met his sister Laura. " Lennox ! you here ?" she said, giving him two white hands." "Yes. Where's Mary ?" " She was on the terrace, talking to a French count a moment ago. Ah! there she is at the door." " Ah !" said Lennox, dropping Laura*6 hand and making his way toward the door. But it was difficult even when he drew near to see in the stylish, stately lady, whose hair was put over a monstrous i chignon, and whose lustrous robes swept over the floor for a yard, his own : little Mary of three months ago. ( Lennox strode up with scarce a glance at the bewhiskered dandy to whom she \ was chatting, and held out his hand with an eager exclamaton, " Mary !" i She made a sweeping courtesy and < languidly extended the tips of her fin- ] gers ; but not a muscle moved beyond ( what accorded with well bred indiffer- ( ence. ] "Ah ! good evening, Mr. Ray." "Oh, Mary, are you glad to see me?" said Lennox, feeling his heart chilled ' within him. "Oh, to be sure, Mr. Ray ; quite ] glad. Allow me to present Count de ] Beaurepaire. Mr. Ray, Monsieur." | Lennox hardly deigned a bow to | the Frenchman, and oll'ered his arm to < her. I " Thanks ; but the music is begin- i ning, and I promised to dance with Mr. < Blair" 1 " But afterward 1" 6aid Lennox, the j chill growing colder. i " Thanks again ; butl am engaged to ] Captain Thornton." < "When then?" demanded Lennox, ] with a jealous pang. < " Ah, really, mv enrd is so full that I I hardly know. 1 will try to spare you 1 n froH-7 unmpwliprs " with an indifferent ! glance. Lennox bent down, and 6poke with bitter reproach in his tone, " Good heavens, Mary ! What affectation s this ?" She favored him with a well-bred stare. " Pardon! I do not understand you." And taking the arm of her escort she walked away with the air of an empress. Lennox sought his sister. " Laura, how have you changed Mary so ?" he demanded. " Yes, she is changed ! greatly improved. Isn't she perfect ?" "Perfect? Rather too perfect to suit me." " To-morrow I shall see more of Mary !" he thought. ~ But to-morrow, and to-morrow, it was always the same, and "that elegant Miss Irving," as they styled her, was always in demand. She played the role of accomplished lady aud gay-lxearted coquette to perfection ; and poor Lennox, from the distance in which she kept him, looked on almost brokenhearted, varying between wcath, jealousy, pride and despair. " Marv," said he, one morning when he found her alone, " how long is this to last?" " ffnw lnnc is what to last?" asked ?J"' o ? -- Mary innocently. , ' How long are you going to remain the conventional creature you are ?" 44 I believe you wished me to come here to improve my manners, Mr. Ray; to acquire the e^gance of society?" | she said coldly. " But, Mary." 44 Your sister thinks I have been an apt pupil." " Yes, too apt; too apt entirely 1" cried Lennox. " Well, if you are not pleased with : the result of your own advice, I am not i to blame. You must excuse me, Mr. i Ray ; I am going to ride with Count de Beaurepaire." "And with her Bweetest, hollowest smile, she made a graceful gesture of adieu, and left him 6ick at heart, puzzled and disgusted. That afternoon, as Laura and Mary were about dressing for the evening, Lennox walked, unannounced, into Laura's little parlor, where they sat I alone. 44 I thought I'd drop in and say goodbye before you went down stairs," said | he. 441 leave for London to-night." Laura elevated her eyebrows a little. 44 Sudden, isu't it ? But since j*ou OM 1<rr T will nrivA vmi RnmA mm. I < O - J ? missions." 44 You needn't. I shall only stay in ' town for a day." 44 Indeed! Where fire you going ?" 1 44 Oh, I don't know," was the savage ' reply. 1 Laura gave him a look of cool surprise. 1 44 At least, you will take a note to ' George for me." 1 44 Yes, if you get it ready," said he, 1 ungraciously. 44 Very well; I will write it now." Laura went to her room, and Lennox ' stood moodily at a window. Presently ' Mary, who had not spoken one word, 1 came and stood near him. 44 Are you really going away?" she 1 asked. * 44 Yes, I am," was the short answer. 44 And won't you tell me where ?" 441 don't know myself?neither know 1 nor care!" he growled. i She slipped her hand into his arm, with the old caressing movement he remembered so well, and spoke so gently, < using his name for the first time since . he came. "But, Lennox, dear, if you go away off somewhere, what shall i do ?" He turned suddenly and caught her to his heart. " Oh, Mary, Mary !" cried ho pas- j sionately, " if vou would only come , back to me and love me; if I could re- , cover my lost treasure I would not go j anywhere. Oh, my lost love, is it too \ late?" , She laid her face down against his j shoulder and asked, " Lennox, dear, ( tell me which you love best, the Mary you { used to know or the fashionable young ( lady you found here ?" , "Oh, Mary, darling !" he cried, clasp- , ing her closer, "I wouldn't give one t precious toss of your old brown curls , for all the fashionable young ladies in ( the world. I wouldn't give one careless c ring of your laugh for all the polished J Indies in society." t Mary laid her arms caressingly around | his neck, and said softly, "Then I f think you will have to take your old f Mary back again, and pet her and love ( her' as you used to do ; for I am sick t and tired of the fashionable young lady j as you can be, Lennox, dear." , And Lennox, passionately clasping ? her to him, begged to be forgiven, and j vowed he would not exchange his pre- x cious little wild rose for all the not- j house flowers in Christendom. "Laura!" Lennox called, tapping on ^ Laura's door a little later. f " Well," answered Laura. j "You needn't write your note. I j shan't go to town to-night." " Lennox, I never saw such a fellow to f fancies!" cried Laura. " Are you ^ crazy ?" r " No ; I have been, but I am coming t to my senses," said Lennox. Lennox and Mary have been sedate j married people several years, but I nev- r ?r heard that Lennox complained in the j least of his wife's want of convention- (llity, or even wished to pursue the ac- : juaintance of the fashionable young lady whom he met at Scarborough. - - ? \ A Love That Fifty Years Couldn't Kill, v Mr. William Hennessey and his bride, ^ formerly Miss Charity Princp, are the ^ recipients of much 6ocial attention in r 3t. Louis just now. Mr. Hennessey is ^ 30 years of age, and Miss Prince lingers :>n the sunny side of 78. The bride- v ^room until recently resided in Kentucky, where he owned a large furm, j well stocked, and he is now reputed to be worth $50,000. The bride had a sis- ^ ter Carrie, when she first met Mr. Hennessey, and to her is accorded the s bonor of causing the misery and almost s leath of the now happy Charity. Mr. ^ Hennessey first won the heart of Miss Charity, and was devoted to her until ^ the green-eyed monster in the shape of ^ the above-mentioned sister stepped ' between them. An open rupture was the result, which finally terminated in bis leading Carrie to the altar. William lived with Carrie, what some people term a happy life, for some fifty years. But the grim destroyer came for P Carrie a few months ago, and she passed vway. After having enjoyed for so long .j the happiness of married life, single ? blessedness to William was monotonous ind dreary. The old love for Charity , revived, and to her he wrote a long letter, asking her to forgive and forget the ? cruel part he had played. To this let- 1 ter she replied, without delay, assuring ^ liim that the old love for him had never 1 ceased to exist, and that 6he only waited , for him to come and make happy the ,, few remaining years of her existenco. The next train carried the light-hearted v William toward Liberty, Mo. The ? meeting was affecting in the extreme, ind many friends of the pair who were , present mingled tears over the happy . meeting. They were married without 11 ielay, and after the ceremony the bride n began to weep for joy, and kept it up !l the entire day. , g The Imitative Faculty of Monkeys, v The imitative faculty of mdbkeys b seems to exceed everything 6hort of hu- ? man. A sailor, having a number of fi woolen caps, &c., to dispose of among J*1 the natives, went on shore for that pur- a pose ; his way to a settlement lying P through a wood very plentifully in- n liabited by the species above mention- v cd, and it being at mid-day, he put a E cap on his head, laying the others by I ais side, and determined upon a little g repose under the shade of a plantain w tree. To his utter astonishment, when s; lie awoke, from the specimen he had jiven his imitative observers of the use e }f his caps, he beheld a number of them o ipon the heads of the monkeys in the I irees round mm, wane tne wearers were i ? shattering in an unusual manner. Find-, R ng every attempt to regain them fruit-1 ? less, he at length, in a tit of rage and ; v lisappointment, and under the supposi- ' v ;ion tliat the one lie retained was not <1 worth taking away, Ac., pulled the same | 8 from his head, and throwing it upon j a die ground, exclaimed, "Here, confound you take it amongst ye!" which lie had c ao sooner done than, to his great stir- f' prise, the observant monkeys did the s mme?by which means lie regained the ? greatest part of his property. o 11 Premonitions. p s A Hartford man missed a train the I itlier night, and regretfully retired to ]j bed. During the night he thought that ]] lie was on the cars, and lookiug from the window, lie saw houses, barns, and c trees pass by in quick succession. Sud- y ilenly there was a crasl. and he was ter- J noiy wounuea. ne nwoKP ana iounun. ( t whs ft dream. Morning dawned. He | 0 urose and hurried to the ears, oppressed j r with a sense of something dreadful ' fibout to occur. He took the train aud 1; fell asleep. Suddenly he awoke, and c looking out of the window, there was c the same scene which had appeared to- r him the night before. The cars hur- g ried along at a wild rate, and he waited a for the crash. It did not come. The c train, as usual, arrived in safety, and the a ilreamer is now a confirmed skeptic upon c the subject of premonitions. c t All available troops are being sent to \ the Mexican frontier. Five thousand b troops are now there. Capt. Williams's Misery. Why the CorI Ram Short?A " too-confident" Commander?Fatal Disregard of Order*?-Second Officer MetcalP* Character?tinartennaster Thomas'* Pretension*?The Fate of the Women ?One Slore Body Recovered. In regard to the supply of coal on the Atlantic, Capt. Williams told a reporter that the Company had made a contract when coal was 25 shillings a ton to receive a full supply for a year, to be delivered when needed at the price igreed on. When the Atlantic left coal iad gone up to 30 shillings, and the mptain believes that the contractor, to save loss from the rise of coal, furnished a very inferior quality, probably that vhich had long been exposed to the air ind had lost its heating properties, beude being English coal, which is much nfcrior to Welsh coal. In answer to a piestion whether the officers considered 170 tons of coal, at 70 tons a day, a mfficient supply for the voyage, he6aid ,hey had no idea that they were going o burn 70 tons a day. The average conmmption has been, according to the piality of the coal, from 60 to 65 tons a lay; but that amount would not run oaoI woo half xirrvnrl anrl rnlf stone in heating quality. There vas "no complaint from the passengers ibout coming into Halifax. He had old them that they would have eight or line hours here, and they were glad of t, as they wanted to see the place. The captain feels intensely the severiy with which censure is passed on his ;onduct. During the conversation his eelings almost overcame him. "I have ost my profesBioff> I am ruined for ife,"liesaid. " What more can I sufer? If it were not for my> wife and hree little children at home I should lever have ljecn here ; I'd. have stuck o that vessel till the last, and then gone lown with her. The one thing that re>ukes me, which I cannot keep out of ay mind, which will remain with me as ong as I live, is that I was too confi- 1 lent?too confident. I thought I knew 1 ust where my vessel was. I thought I 1 cas a long way eastward from Sambro jight. Had the position of the preious day been one of uncertainty, there could have been greater blame, but we lad made it as certain as human judgaent and ingenuity can make it. The : lifi'erent observers^ind different instru- 1 aents all agreed, and the ship's posi- 1 ion was true to her length on the ocean 1 t noon. The papers that have charged ' ae with intemperance have done me i ;reat injustice. I promised Thomas 1 smay that not a drop of liquor should ross my lips on that vessel, aud never ' iroke that promise. Gentlemen would 1 ometimes come into my room and i moke and drink themselves and I would i ometimes bet with passengers on the * ?? *? ? ? j ay's run. n nicy wuii wiey iuun u lass of porter ; if I won I'd take a ' igar, but no liquor. The one thing J hat I regret is that I was too sure of my < ourse." i " Captain," I said, "if you had been 1 n deck would this accident have oc? urrod ?" 1 " Never, sir, never," he replied with < reat positiveness. " I had ordered my 1 oy to call me at 2:40, and bring me a 1 up of cocoa ; my intention was to take < he cocoa and smoke a cigar, and be > eady to go on deck when the officers ' ailed mo at 3, but they stopped the < oy, and did not call me till 10 or 15 1 linutes past 3. It was too late then," > e added mournfully. "It is incom- ' rehensible to me," he said, " why they < id not see the light nor the rocks. H < had been called at 3 we should have 1 een two or three miles further out. If < he night had been stormy or foggy it < rould not have occurred, for my officers j rould have called me quick enough. I i ad no reason to doubt the efficiency of > he second officer. On one occasion on 1 he outward passage, when the ship was 1 a a heavy gale, only going two miles 1 n hour, the air thick and rainy, we met i sailing vessel close to the steamer, 1 ove to under a mainsail and foresail, > goose wing.' It was impossible to j top or go around her, but instant action j ras required. '1 here are two telegraphs ' At- .1 i 3 the engineer, one near me seconu fficer and one near me, and both sprang 1 imultaneously to the telegraphs, and 1 ang for more steam. We shot ahead > nd passed her. From his acting just recisely as he did I judged he was a lan of resource who would do what I rould do under similar circumstances, low he lost his head on that occasion j cannot tell, but, poor fellow, he has I one ! If he had left the life-boat , 'hen I called him he would have been 1 aved too." i The evidence of Quartermaster Thomas xcited the scorn and indignation of the < ffieers, who pronounce it "humbug." j t is very evident, I think, that a very i irge discount must be made for exng- i eration. The captain, on whom this < vidence does not reflect, says that on a 1 essel where the gradations of rank ] rere so strongly marked, the idea of a j uartermaster leaving the wheel and i oiug to advise the second officer is i bsurd. " He was a pretty officer," said the < aptain ; "one of the first to look out ] or his own life. The man is simply i eeking notoriety. Third Officer Rrady nd Mr. Firth gave about the same J pinion of him. The fourth officer adjits that Thomas asked him if he should l ;o aloft, and that he told him it was too i oon. " What do you think of that?" 1 said to the captain. " I wish to God 1 ie had let him ; it could have done no inrin." The captain then gave a vivid and ireumstantial account of the wreck, vhich need not be repeated, for every letail in this history is only another ooth to the harrow. He is certain that i me of the women he carried up in the igging was Miss Scrvmser of New York, i ' S'ae was one of the most fascinating ndies I ever saw," he said ; " I had beome very much attached to her. She ame ami threw her arms around my ieck, and I carried her up in the rig.ing. My God, I can feel that woman's rms around me now. I only know of ine instance there of a husband's deerting his wife. It was the husband if the woman steerage passenger who lied in the rigging by Mr. Firth. She old him to gc, and he left her. He vas saved, and when he reached the ihore I saw him wave his hand to her. " In regard to the crew, there were many of them who were pretty hard Since the repeal of the act compelling every ship-owner to carry a certain num ber of boys for every ton's register tha he owns, the quality of seamen has de generated. Now, out of a crew of forfr men it is a lucky chance if you get 1( men who know a lead from a handspike It has been a crying shame the quality of seamen we have to take, but then are no others to be had. The men tba us?d to go to sea can make on shon three times the wages that they can bj going to sea. My vessel is no isolatec case. It is the same with every steamei going out of Liverpool. They woulc not be worth much in an emergency but at the wreck of the Atlantic thej could not do much. I have no complaint to make of their behavior." Capt. Williams thinks the baggage oi most of the saloon passengers will be saved, and he goes down to assist the wreckers. He will remain here doing what he can to aid Capt. Merritt, Throughout the investigation he ha; been entirely candid and taken no advantage through legal form or quibbles. He has no desire to shirk the fearful responsibility which he assumed and which still rests upon him. He if a broken down man. "My God 1" hf said as I left him, " it is horrible ! II all seems to me like a fearful nightmare." Poor man ! Can he ever be liarvrvir aorftin 9 ~e>?? Crashed in the Ice. Spring navigation on the Hudson river has its excitements if not its horrors. The propeller Nuhpa left Hudson foi Newiork with a load of freight and some thirty passengers. She crashed through the ice in safety, aud, though going slowly, passed through the obstructions with comparative case, nol having to stop once till she reached a point a little south of Barrytown at two o'clock *in the morning. At this houi all the passengers had retired to rest, several of thorn occupying berths in the cabin below the main deck and the balance in state rooms which lined the upper saloon. Suddenly the steamer came to a dead stop in the centre of a huge field of ice. Backing out she ran intc it again, but did not make much headway. The next time she went in, the ice broke away on each shore, and the action of the tide forced the heavy fields from the west and from the east against the Nuhpa, holding her as if in a vise, and cutting a hole, all of two feet square, in her hull, just astern of midships on the starboard side. The passengers were told the boat was sinking, and hurried on deck, and the women and children were ordered into a boat, as the propeller was sinking. Through some misunderstanding the bow was lowered much faster than the stern, and suddenly the tackling broke and the boat with its occupants fell to the water, one or two of the lalies and one child being hurled into the river. This created a wild scene, and it was feared several would be drowned. Fortunate the boat on the port side had already been lowered, and into it sprang two or three of the crew, who pulled it to the starboard side, where the women were fast drowning. After superhuman sxertion on the part of the crew the women were rescued. In a few moments ill had got into the boats, and now the -?11 oat inn nf reaeliincr land in safety was i serious one. A few of the more courageous us soon as heavy ice was reached, jtepped from the boat on it and groped their way ashore, dragging a boat over the ice along with them. Another party started to do the same thing, taking the ladies with them, one of the men carrying a long joist. When within ibont one hundred feet of the shore the ce in front of them suddenly cracked uid moved, leaving a chasm ten feet tvide directly in their pathway. This was a new danger, and again the unfortunate passengers were panic-stricken, uid one of the ladies fainted. The man with a joist threw it across the chasm, md, taking the swooning lady in his irms, walked across the water on the joist, reaching the shore in safety. The oalance followed, and all except one nan got across nicely. He fell in up to his neck, but got out 'gain all right. It was a narrow escape for the passengers uid crew. The boat, of course, sank. The Chinese Labor Experiment. The New York Bulletin has some very interesting developments relative to the failure of the Oriental workmen in New Jersey, which will disappoint the believers in the coming millenium of Chiaese labor. . < 4. in spue Ol nis apparnii, uuuni; jording to this testimony) he manifests i lamentable proclivity for the highest svages going, and to check this tendency % system of isolation and seclusion from outside influences is necessary. Intelligent white men are disgusted at their keenness in making a bargain and the growing difficulty of overreaching them is a matter of general complaint. The meek, almond-eyed strangers who were lately ghul to work for little or nothing, demand the highest wages when they have learned the trade. But there is this difference between them and other workmen. If their demands are refused they do not sit down and starve in idleness. They generally start on their own accoun< next door to their old employer, and draw off his customers by underselling him in his own specialty. * ? He is apt to be excessively fond of smoking opium, and, lik* his betters, gets lazy, and disposed tc take his " day ofl'" as oiten as possible. TT *- 4a o /lo/rroo ntnl nt; is tivuriuiuuo, vwf iv < uvg. w, m..m is by no moans a model of honesty. Many of the force at Belleville have deserted ; nor have they gone away emptj handed, having left debts to quite large sums behind them ; even, in some cases, haviug borrowed money from their fellow countrymen, which lius not been repaid. Convicts Perished.?Some days age the schooner Lark sailed from Sac Diego, Cal., forEusendas. Among the passengers were six convicted murderers, to be taken to La Paz, Lower California. The bodies of the felons have been found washed ashore, and chained together. Pieces of a wreck have beer picked up near where the bodies were discovered, and it is inferred that the vessel was lost with all hands. The Ludicrous in Patents. The amount of misapplied talents engaged on inventions that can never be in used is as wonderful as it is prolific, and there is a ludicrous element in at many of the patents, and more of the applications, which is well worth investigation. We extract from the Patent Office an account of some of these, that show more genius than common-sense, m' and have produced more laughter than profit. th A gentleman applied for a patent for Ai heating canals by steam, bo that boating could go on in winter as well as in ti( summer. The officer decided that this tri invention was worthy of protection, and tit gave him his patent. Another applied for a combination of clock and bed, so ingeniously contrived te* that, when the clock struck, the bottom ? of the bed dropped out. He claimed that this plan would probably awake the sleepers. Speaking of combination, he must ?.fl have come from Missouri or Kansas c" who asked for a patent combination of cannon and plough. For this purpose mi ho filed three applications, making the pr elongated handles of the plough hollow 00 so as to form two cannons. These were to be kept loaded till the guerrillas cu were after him ; the cannons were to be go fired, the guerrillas shot down, and m< ' i the farmer to go on his ploughing way < rejoicing. ftQ And he, too, must have came from on the borders who asked for a patent of a ^ combination of trunk and house. The " trunk was made with triple sides, mov- . ing up and down. Doing duty all day j" in guarding clothes, when night came J on, and no cabin near, the goods were bu 1 to be taken out, the triple wall elevated ' 1 into one, and the benighted traveler eai safely housed. of ' Another asked for a patent for the in- ha 1 vention of the generation of steam by [ boring a hole in the ground till he fli; reached the waters that are boiled by pe 1 the eternal fires of earth. He set forth, gu 1 among the advantages of his plan, that mi ' there would be no danger of explosions, ' no expense for fuel, no necessity for en! gineers ? all of which statements are co 1 undoubtedly true. Ik 1 It must have been a relative of this Bfi, " last g'-ntleman, and one equally ac1 quainted with the laws that govern , 1 the hidden heart of this planet, who ap1 plied for a patent for boring the earth nP 1 for artesian wells for purposes of irri- 8 gation. He gravely set forth that he had made the discovery that quicksilver 1 was heavier than common earth. He to therefore proposed to start a hole, and an empty into it a little mercury. By the tn laws of nature that mercury would be bo sure to work its way downward till it struck water, and the water would then mi be sure to work its way upward till it ba struck air. ui< All of these gentlemen paid $35 each go for their patent papers, and some of , them even more than this sum. 8o . thev must have aDnlicd in sob er earnest. *' ; * " *_* mi ha Burned to Death. wi Mr. Henry Peters, a farmer, lived in ^a a comfortable log house in Gross Point, Mich. His family consisted of a wife inj and four daughters, the eldest of the pr< latter being only fifteen years of age. ve On Friday evening, in company with his en wife, he went to ft neighbor's house to an attend a "barn "raising," a meeting 1 which combines industry and pleasure, p0 leaving these four girls at heme. The ]{< night was spent very pleasantly, and wc Mr. Peters and hi3 wife remained until oa a late hour, little thinking what a ter- ca! rible fate had fallen upon their child- i ren- no When they returned home they found, * 0, where their house had been, a heap of nft blackened ruins. Their oldest daugh- tjJ( ter, who, after anxious searching, was ^ found in the neighborhood almost dead with fright and seriously burned, told them that at about eleven o'clock at nVl night, after all the children had been a.u abed and asleep for some time, she wus tie awakened by a great heat, and, opeuiug tra her eyes, discovered the bed and the wa room enveloped in flames. She sprang j from the bed, dragging one of her sis- Yo ters with her, and made her way through cal the smoke and flames as best she could, tin to the nearest window. o'c Before she reached the window her rifi younger sister fainted with pain and he: terror, and she was unable to save her. I i She clung to the clothing of her dying jjv sister, which, in her efforts to drag her j8 I e j.1? ImiiQO U'OTP ,?1, I ruin UIt5 IllUUC-flUCIupvu uvuuv, | ?,, torn from her body. She leaped out of fUi the window blinded and exhausted, and ]al could only stand horror-stricken outside | jie as the pitiless tongues of flume lapped ; . up the dry timbers of the house, and I made an impassable barrier to her re- I { turn. The three children were burned almost to a cinder, scarcely enough of ^ their bodies remaining to identify them wj from the rest of the debris. j P" Novel Horse Pro ector. ! Pr It is a common thing in our cities to pj, ; protect the heads of draft horses with a ,,f 11 bonnet or cushion to keep oil' the blaze ]ia of the sun. But a Dublin projector f0] j proposes to extend a similar protection | be 1 over the entire animal. He makes a HU frame of wood, whalebone, iron rods or i,G other flexible but strong material, and 1 },a ' this he places over the horse, a few frt 1 inches above him, the frame being sup- j 1 ported either by attachment to the liar- I 1 ness or to the thills of the vehicle. ; ' Upon this frame ho stretches a sheet of j j " canvass, oiled cloth or sheet rubber, 1 1 which forms a complete pent house to j ( 1 to keep off either rain or sun. The rpj space between the animal and the cov^ ering permits a free passage of air j)f)' which aids transpiration and helps to rj,j ' keep the animal cool. The principle, j as far as this is concerned, is similar to ^ ! that of the odd, oval shaped hats worn v ' by men in the East Indies from time TI'aoo /mmnrion a liorlif. liiiuieuiuimi. IUWC ?? 1 frame of bamboo slips encircling the forehead and sustaining a covering lined with cork an inch above, and out in of contact with the head. The alight 1 rustling of the breeze through one's ! hair is said to be very refreshing, and on quite possibly a horse furnished with ?P " one of the new "protectors" may coin- J" 1 cide with this experience during hot "a I summer days. er i ?- an ) No man can improve in any company an ) for which he has not respect enough to w< be under some degree of restraint. fo: Items of Interest. Journalism is making rapid progress Japan. The Carlists have shot sixty prisoners Berga, Spain. Texas is supplying the northern mar* its with mutton. A Utica girl of fourteen years is the other of two children. There are 139 vessels now crossing e Atlantic ocean between Europe ana nerica. The French Committee on Capitula>ns has decided to proceed with the ial of Marshal Bazaine by court-mar* A New Orleans paper made a horrible )ril fool joke on the distorted and rribly beaten body of B. Bass Elscaritte. The farmers' organization of Iowa has iminated a ticket of its own for State leers, and the farmers promise to ?ct it. A recent lumberman's circular estiites the number of railroad ties in esent use in the United States at 150,0,000. A building in Middletown, Connectit, fell, burying a large number of perns in the ruins, and killing or injuring jst of them. Six or eight letters mailed ip 1869 d 1870 were recently found on a car the St. Paul and Pacilic Railroad at was being repaired^ Arkansas newspaper correspondents the Legislature make assertions and ck 'em up by saying: "I've got six illets which says it's so." The celebrated Mike Walsh had onoe id that he would rather be President the United States at a dollar and a " If a day than carry a hod for that. The worst instance of heartless tring is gettingnpdnns on enameled par r, with an embossed monogram, the perseription being in a delicate felle hand. An eastern clergyman suggested, Suny, to some young "ladies" in his ngregation that they should vacate eir seats rather than interrupt the rvices by talking. A Dubuque testator formally gave, vised, and beqneathed his wearing parel to his wife, for the reason that e had been accustomed to wear 'em iring her married life. "> A woman in Spain latelv gave birth a nnnsolidateu twin with two heads d four legs proceeding from a single ink. One of the beads -was stillborn, it the other lived two hours. A girl of thirteen recently brought to irket at Americus, Go., if 500 pound le of cotton, the result of her own unled labor, from the ploughing of the il to the picking and ginning. The proprietor of a haunted house in lanta, Go., offers it rent-free for one mth to any one who wishes to try it, ving hitherto failed to find a tenant io would stay in it longer than five ysA Danbury man who has been visit- j in a place where the cemetery was ovided with many private vaults, is ry much pleased with the idea, as it ables a man to visit his own grave d weep. The following notice was recently sted on the premises of a very ricn mtucky farmer: "If any man's or >man's cows or oxens gits in these here ts, his or her tail will be cut off as the se may be." Hie question of opening the Japanese rts to all foreigners hinges on the edition that they will submit to the tive laws. One system, based upon e Code Napoleon, has been rejected the. Mikado. A. Michigan editor has learned how to oid the pangs of hunger. He bought elastic rope of a health-lift man and d it around hiB waist, giving it an ex, twist now and then, when the attack s a severe one. A young ladv, in some " Advice to uiig Men," tells them that when they .1 upon a young lady in the evening >y should not stay later than ten lock?from which we infer that the :ht young man has never called upon r. A Parisian philosopher has just deered the following testament: " It my will that any one of my relatives 10 shall presume to shed tears at my icrul shall be disinherited. He who ighu most heartily shall be the sole ir. rhe Montgomery Advertiser, speaker of the cotton crop for this seuson, ys: "The money paid for it in its raw ite will not fall fur short of S^O.OOO,I). Of this sum about 8^5,000,000 11 have gone to speculators and first rchasers, leaving ?205,000,000 to the oducers. A citizen of Boston last November iced ?1.000 in the hands of the Chief Police, to be loaned to wcyking girls ving persons dependent upon tLem r support. The sums loaned are to kept twenty years without interest, d no security but the word of the rrower is required. About fifty girls ve thus far been aided in this way >m the fund. Here is how an auctioneer's dialect is trpu in " Scrope.orthe Lost Library," Old and New : " Half-a-dollar, lialfollarfttdollafadollafadollafadollathat's il now, give more '{ ye want it ! Halflollar five-eights three-quarters? tree-quarters I'm bid?will you say a liar for this standard work octarvo st edition harf morocker extry? tree-quarters I'm bid. three-quarters 11 ye give any more ? Three-quarters, ree-quart thee-quartthee-quart-theeawt-thee-quawt one dollar shall I ve?" Ex-Governor Berry, of New Hampire, built a tannery at Bristol, N. H., 1826. It took twelve barrels of cider d one barrel of rum to build it and ree extra gallons to put the ridge-pole .. The result was there was so much irit infused-into the undertaking that . culminated in a fight, and one man d his leg broken. Upon this, Govnor B. formed a temperance society H ior,g the employees of the tan-yar^^^^^^J^| has kept it up ever since. 5 think, the first temperanc^^^^^^^^^^^H nned in the State of