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DVOTED TO0 POLITIC6, VRAUITY, VDUCATION AND fO THEGNRLITRSlFTI ONR BYtD. F. BRADLE & Co *. JUJP-Y PIKENS,RSD, -TH The Bengal Disaster. The Gazette of India contains th fol!owing minute of the Lioutenan Governor of Bengal, Sir Richard Tom pie, on the cyclone and storm way in the districti of Backergunge an Noacolly. In an area of some 3,000 squar miles out of 1,062,000 persons sud. denly throw into more or loss o danger, 215,000 must have porishod This, of course, is only an cstitpatc the exacet number cannot bo knowi yet awhile, perhaps never will b, known. We found in some village thirty percent. of the inhabitants lost in others fifty por cent., in somi even seventy per cent. There wa a severe cyclone in the bay of Bon gal on the night of the 31st October But it was not the wind which prove< so destructive, though that was bat enough; it was the storm wave, swool Ing along to a height of from ten fee to twenty foot, according to differon localities; in some places, whero it me with any rorstance, it mounted ovet highor than that. In the evening th< weather was a little windy and hazy and had boon somewhat hot; but th< people, a million or thoreabouts o souls, retired to rest approhondinj nothing. But before eleven o'clocl the wind' suddenly freshened, an< about midnight there arose a cry o "The water is on us," and a grca wave burst over the country severa foot high; it was followed by anothe wave, and again by a third, all thre, rushing rapidly south ward, the air am wind being chilly cold. The peopl, were thue caught up before they ha4 time to climb on their roofs, and weri lifted to the surface of the water, to gether with the beams and thatche of their cottagos. W hen tho storn burst there was an abundant rice crol ripening for the larvest-tho vel known deltaic rice crop whih is muel beyond the noods of local consunip tion, an quantities (measured bi thousan dOf tons annually) for ox portation to distant districts. A par + is lust, that in which the plant ha< not advanced beyond the stage 0 flowering, and a part is still safe, tha in which the grain had formed o begun to form, If oven one thirdi saved that would suffice for the popu listioni now on the land. The wealti lost almost entirely agricultural * crops or cattle. To this, howevoi there is one noticeable exception namely, Dowlutkhan, a rich tradin town, clean destroyed and valu abi records, 1t had eight thousand in habitants, one fourth of whomi per jshed, perhaps more. It may b asked, in conclusion, wvhother an~ protective means against such calam ities in future can be devised-an, embankments or the like? This quos tion will be duly considered; but a present I know not how to devis such safeguard, nor have I seen an one who can suggest anything. Th * area to be protected would be to great to be encompassed with pro tective works. If cmbankmonts bc came breached in such a storm, the would afterward do more harm tha good, for they would prevent or rotar tihe running off and the subsidence < the waters. Perhaps the people migh build perches for themselves on plat forms, on stilts, and the like; but th trees which invariably surround th homesteads serve this purpose admi rably, and it is to them that the s'ur Vivors mainly owe their escape. Keep your own counsoel. Nothin can be more injurious to your ow piece of mind than to have too man confidante. Yon- live in abject slav ery every dlay, as you are constanti fearing some of your numerous co~ fidanja will reveal a8ecret you woul not have anybody to know for tb world. .Judge HIoar onco said of a lawycr 'He has reached t6e superlative 0 lite; at first be sought to get on, an<1 then he sought to get honor, and nos lie is trying to got bonest.' And now the community had bet ter look out, or they will be lhor swaggled. The Story of a Child. New Year's night an infant chil t was found in a basket at the Centre ville depot, on the New Jersey Cen 1 tral Railroad, by Edward Marshal a traek walker, and by bimi, ike home. A eard inscribed "Marti Jenkens" fastened to the child f clothing led the old folks to believ that it might be their daughter child, she having eloped from thel home in Liverpool ; Englan< 3 with a itian named Jenkins. The were so strongly impressed witf th idea that they requested the repori 3 ers who called in search of the fac 3 to mention it in their story, and t - say that their daughter would receiv a welcome home if she would retur to them), she being their only chi Chief WIhitney, of the Bayonne pc lice, learned of a probab-le case of ii fanticide, and in working it up leart ed that a poor, miserable womat living in a tenement house on Av enne D, Bayonne, had had an infat cliild until %-few days ago, but rc cently it had not been heard or seew f lie learned that the woman was M'rs. Jenkii,s, and on questionin ber about the fate of her child learne I furtlier that she had put it out in th f sniw in a basket on New Year' night. She told him hier story, hoi ishe had el )1pd from Liverpool, an -lived in New York with her hu band nitil about a year ago, who he took to drink because he coul not o) ain work, and then dOeerte, hier. She had four children, bi three had died, and the last ome wi born attor her husband's flight. Sh nearly starved after the birth of' l child, and was kept alive only 1) I tle clarily of her neigbora, as p almost as herself. Wheii she coul go out she could not find employ mneint, and by reason of ill health an scant food she could not nourish i cli l She knew from a lotter sh received from friends in Englan wherifbhr father was employed, an knouing his fondness fo' ch ildr'e -deterined to put lier' child in bi way. She watched him, anud know Sing when he would pass the depot a -Centreville she left the child joi where he would see it. She hid t see what became of it, and when L Spicked it up she ran away. She in o tended to commit suicide the follow - mug (lay, but her courage failed h( -on seeing the ice on the river, an 0 she wvent back to the tenement hous, She would scarcely believe the cli when lhe tild her that her fath< wanted her to come home again, bi cause lhe had been so much inconse at her' elopement. Finally shte con sented to go to her' father and re tuned hocme. W XONDERF'UL, IF TRLUE.-ThO Savar nah News tells the following Ceniter nial incident: A few days sinoo whilst somio cli d dron moere playing in tho old corm Stery, on South Broad street, ono thiem, in knocking around the gr'oun with his stick, suddenly caught sigh e of a bright, shiny object. On a] o proaching to pick it up, lio saw it wi a handsome gold ring, Hoe carried home to his mother', who, on inquil ing whero ho found it learnediC( thi it was near the sp)ot wher'e the r< mains of her anoostor's had repose: and that the oldost surviving womb< of the family was Colonel E. C. At derson, to whom tho r'ing was accord' ingly sent. On the insido of tho rin, in legible English text, was the il scription II, W. to E. C., 17G9-or hundred and eight years ago-Honr W ayne to Elizabeth Clifford, the rn being none other than the weddin : ring of' the grandmother of Colon. f Anderson. Th le remains wore rcmos ] ed1 from the old cemetery somoe tin , ago, and the ring was brought to th surface at tho disinterment unpoi . civd It is singular that the arin Sjshould have been found by one of th' child ren, the dendannne ofr fa mir. The Populatiou of the Globe. d The most trustworthy estimet - the number of people on the earth - for the year 1876, as- ftirnished - Uy: , Germtn etitisticians, is 1,423;91T,QOQ n This ipain ,increase of over twenty a seven millions of the . estimate -.of ' 1875, but the angmentation is not ' due entirely to the excess of 'birtls 1 over deaths, but largely to the ob r taining of tnore accurate infornation , regarding the popul&tian of rygi6s 5 hitherto little known, and.'.to more e perfect retiurns from other contries. Asia is still the home of the iha. e jority of te human race, after haviig o supplied offihoots from which have 0 sprung great Western peoples. A n bout: four'beventhe of the earth's I- population is Asiatic,, or 825,658,590; Europe comes next with over a fifth, or 309,178,300; Africa with abont a seventh, 1or 199,921,CO; Atnerica with less tian a sixteenth, or 85, - 519,800;- and finally Australia and I Polynasia with the very small frac tion of 4,748,600 people. Europe is '- the nost densoly popuflnted, having a 82 persons to the squre mile; Asia g comes next with 48 to the square d mile; Africa next with 17J and 0 America and Australia bring up the ' rear with 5j and 1j respectively. V There are 215 cities on the earth d with a population of over 100,000; 29 of balf, a million or more, and nine n cities containing a million or more d inhabitants. Of these last four are d in China. Including Brooklyn with t New York, as we may rightfully do 5 for the purpose ot comparison, and u the greatest cities of the wuibl stand r in this order; London, 3,489,42S; y Paris, 1.851 792; New York, 1,535, r 722; Vienna, 1,091,999; Berlin, 1, d 044,000; Canton and three other Chinese cities, oie million each. New d York therefore takes its plaeo third r in the liet of the great citiesr without e counting our new Jersey overflow. d Though t.here are not at hand,sta -A d tisticsp~pon wbieb to base an accIraute n statement of the fact, yet it io the *s opinion of all observers of the condis - tion of civilized people that the aver Lt age longevity of the human race 'has tE increased within a hundred years. o such reports of the death rate as we e have got, to support that conclusiorn1 - and it is thoroughly proved that the - devastations of epidemic diseases are ~r not so great now as formely; while d the medical art steadily advances in 3. its mastery of the disorders of the. if humaivaystem and in its ability tc :r ward off' and check mal'idies which 3 threaten' human life. In England, d for instance, the death rate has de, -dcined.considerably during a quamnter of a century. There and elsewhere~ in Eurppe, as also in this country, the subject of public hygiene has r'eceiv ~ed great attention ot recent years Sand its-difiedities are being steadily overcamne. The~ probability is' Wai men now on thle average live longer than tlieir ancestors and in bet ter d average health, and that our decenm tdents will gain on us in those re ~. spects. 18 As to great citie, Newv York is it easily third. If it took in all its -children, it would press hard on Parie LL for thtesecond place, and beforo thc Snext century is reached, or belore it Ihas advanced far, will probably know r n superior except mnarvolous Lon. 'don. 'It is' worth nothing as an indicn tion of' the times that many of the leading savings banks in the West ern cities begin thme new year' with, an annountcemelnt of red(uc'd rates of ~interest. In Chicago, for instance, three of thme strongest -institutions~ Stherec have led the way, and the signs~ e there are that others will soon fol s.low. These banks her'etofore have g been paying depositors 6 per' cent. oe for their money. In thme future it yv will be 5. History Repeats Itself. Theb' foll6wing is 'from Wheeler's oistory of North. Carolina, volume 1, page 35: "Th,omaa Cary. was appoitited Do iputy Governo by Sir Nathaniel Johnston (1705). The Lords Pro prietors disapproved ef the choice, and directed their deputies to select one of their own number as Governor 61 North -Carolina. ' The deputies eWlected:G6vO. Cary, who was'0se lected q8 Dephty Gorernor, had been collector of the rents of tke Lords J'eoprietors, and had neglected to settle bis, ccounlts.. For a while he segmed to yield to the away of Glov4 er; but aided by his friends," (Grant and Chandler,) 'he seized the records of the province, and proclaimed himself Governor. The colony nw was a scene of arLarchy; the laws were suspended, and justice fled. The respectable portion of the colony adhered to Glover, while Cary poo8 essod the force,' (in command of General R.) 'A General Assembly vas called, which met at Captain 11Beckelfield's, on L'ttlo River, to de, cide this vexed question. Membeis appeared under writs of election issued by President Glover, while another set appeared under writs of election issued by President Cary. Glover and. Cary sat iu separate rooms with their respective councils. Great coufusion prevailed, and the partisans of Glover, irritated by the prosecutions from Cary and his ad herent1, songht refuge In Virginia. * * At thia period, Edward Ilyde arrived with the commission ot Lieu. tenant Govern.-, but Cary refused to yield. * * Ed ward Hyde, who was appointed Governor the next year, issued his proclamation, Jan uary, 1712, granting pardon to all the late insurgents, except Thomas Cary, John torter and three others.' Aid so Chamberlain was sent to Maine. *unr PIG FoR TnE~ SoUTH.-Black or slate colored pigs are frceest from skin diseases in hot climates. The choice is practically betweesi the Essex and Berkshires for males with which to improve thie native stock of hardy gr'ubbers of the root-or-die variety. Those who bave tried the former have been delighted at first, but afC ter afew years begin to recall with longiug lean hamrs and thin but solid and flavorous bac6n of the old race, hibrseo breed... The trouble with the Essex pigsju~ the South is that they are not active enoughm. They are not the eat-and-sleep, and wake-to-eat kind, and their grades are of course like .them. The side fa~t is snrperb, and so is the leaf lard, and so far the breed is all that could be desired; but'the hams and abionjders are too fak-ifo*: profit, anid ghs~ ham is not mar'bled with fatL like the Berkshires. Tlhe (the B3erks) are much more en terprising, mnore wide awaike, less easily controlled, but good $oragers. T2he gr'des are a wonderful improve meint upon~ the original stock, may be mnad very fat, and yet the pro portion between, fat and 'lean in the hamrs, shoulders and side pork or ,bP&on'is Buch as to develop and pre.. servo thme excellencies of t,he meat. The hams are large and rich, and jdg ith diffused fat. Becrkshmires are not quite so easily faittenmed whmein peuned. and systematically fe.d as theEssex grades, but they' will take znnuch better care of lhemselves in thme woods, and when penned for fattening may be finished off with half thme feed thme original "land liikes" would require.-American Agriculturist. L6Ap,year is past, anid a young follow. duen't feel so miany cold chills running up his spine, it lie hanppe:ns to he-left alone with an academy girl for a few t,tman; Alive in an Air Tight CoMa, The body of a man wilo went to California to ragain hi health, was recently shipped'hi a metalie coffin for his tbrmer home in the East.-. When the Central pacific train an rived at Ogden Junction the corpse was consigned to the Union Pacifi Express Company and placed under charge of express messenger Frank Burgess. While the t'rain was fi the western part of Nebraska, Mr, Hur-e gess heard sounds troin the coffin that led him to believe tiat the dead man had come to life. It was in the night, and he heard the sounds as he lay dozing and half asleep. Again the noise was hoard, and the attention of the messenger was Pivited to- the coffin, and the horrible possibility that the dead might be alive thrust itself upon the messenger so forcibly that lie called the attention of other emp>)yees to it, but after listening a moment, they merety l'aughed at him. The convietions oft the express mese aenger, however, were so strong that lie had heard moans from the oofflin, that lie had the case opened when the train made its next bait. The weather was very col'd and upon the inside of the glass plate of the coffin there had accumulated a thin film of frost, such as might have been dvepot. ited by the breath of a person con fined in such narrow quarters. The face was also drawn up against the glass plate, and other disturbances indicated life. While Burgess had no doubt that the man, though dead then, had been alive in. the outfin, the other employees explained the aecu mulation of frost on the glass at the natural exhalations of the dead body and the disturbances of t% corpso as due to the movements in the shipping. A private dispatch received from Chicago says that when the coffin ar. rived at its destination and was open ed, unmietakable proofs of' the teri ble truth were discovered. Th hands wore clinched, the lip bitten4 and the mouth filed with bloody froth. The man had been alive, and it was his moaning that had been heard but not recognized.-Omahma ileral d, Slander Never use a lady's n#ame in an fm proper place, at an Improper times or in mixed companry. Xever maBkQ nessertions abOnt her that you think untrue, or allusions that she herself would blush to hear. When you meet wit hi men who do not scruple to use a woman 's name in .a reckies, maniner, shun them; they are the very worst members of the commu nity; men lost to every sense of honor every feling of humanity. Many a good arid worthy woman's character has been forever ruined and her heart broken by a lie, manufactured by some villian and repeated where it should not have been, and In prcs~~ enco of those whose little jndgment could not deter them from circulatinmg the foul and bragging report. A slander is soon propagated, and tbo smallest thing derogatory to a wo man's character will fly on the wings of the wind and magnify as it eirou. lates, until its monstrous weight crushes the poor unconscious victim. Respect thme name of woman. Your mother and sisters are women, and as you would have their Lair name untarnished, and their lives unembit.. tered by t he slanderer's bitter tongue, heed t he ill your words may bring upon the mother, the sister or the wife of some fellow creature. A darky who was stopping to wash his hands in a creek, didn't nos tice the Peculiar action of a goat jnst behind him, so when he scrambled out of the water and was askeod bow it hamppenaed, he answered: 'I dunino 'zackly; bu 'p)eared as of de0 shoro kinder h'isted and frowed ume.' National Capitol. The corn or stone of the capitol was laid by Washington, on the 18th day of Semptember, 1793. The building was opened for the meeting of Con gress November 17th, 1800. En largement and new dome completed in 1867. The edifice fronts the cast, is 751 foot long, 348 Feet wide, and covers 31 acres; c<urt-yards, 31 acres; in all, 7 acres. The predoiminant material of the exterior is white mar ble. The dome is of cast iron, 135J feet in largest diaieter, and 287J foot high, surmounted by a statue of Liberty 194 feet high. The interior of the dome forms a remarkable cir cular chamber or rotunda, 96 feet in diametor, 180 feet high. One thou Band gas jets, flashed by electricity, illuminate the interior by nigl)t. The walls of the rotunda are adorned with historical paintings by eminent artists. The Senate Chamber, House of Representatives, Supremo Court rooms, and other apartments, are 3pl cndidly decorated. The halls are lined with )(lished marbles from every State in the Union. Frescoes, paint inga and Bculptures abound. The front porticoes are supported by one hundred Corinthian columns of white marble. T'he cost of the build ing was $13,000,000. TiE S(UTHERN DRY GOODs TRADE. -We had occasion in a communi cation at the opening of tho fall sea son to refer to the brightened proa.. pects for a healthy trade for the bu siness season now closing. We re gret that. the "election muddle" has had the effect to seriously interfere with the fulfillment of these hop)es. More especially has this been the case in the trado with the South; all branches of manufactures have na turally looked to this quarter as a large market for their products, and unquestionably the demand from it has grown with the development of their home intorests since the close of the war. But the disturbcd condi tioni of Sonuthern finances has led our merchants to pursuo a most conser vat ivo' policy in extending their lines of Southe~i rncdits, and now the uncertainty of their political future has for present almost completely paralyzed the trade. This is seen in the p)reparation - being made for a late spring business. Lines of goods strictly adapted for the Southern markets are in light supply, and staples for which the first demandl comes from the South are, much short of their usual showings, manufac turers preferring to awauit the West ern and home demand beforo putting on their full force. ish paor publish8 the fullowing ex tract of a letter writ ten to a friend by Mr. Carlyle: "A good sort of a man is Darwin, and wvell moaning, but with very li4tle intellect. A h1, it's a sad, a terrible thing to see nigh a wholo generation of mon and women, p)rofesing to be cultivated, looking around ini a puIrb)ined fashion and finding no god in this universe. I suppose it is a react ion from the reign of cant and hollow pretence, p)rofessing to belicve what in fact thbey do not believe. And this is wvhat we have got to. All things from frog Sp)awn; the gospel oft dirt the ordjer of the daiy. Th'le older I grow-and Inow stand upon the brink of eter nity-the more cornes back to mec the sentence ini the cateclisi~m, whmich learned when a chil, and the fuller and( deeper its mean inmg hecomies, "W hat is t he chief end of mani? To glor ity God and en jo y himi foreover.'' No Lsospel of dirt, teaching that men01 have descendled from frogs throngh mvonkoys., canI ever' se that aside." 'Bright * of my xis10ce! give mne ai: Mal said a printer to 2 his sweet heart. She made a at hi,m antd plaunted heri R7j" be'tween his 2 aOt whieb nli$n (3 x xx