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, THE WEEKLY wjk UNION THEE. j^ . ? ? i?M?>-?-? - -?" . ^Bf^X'ffitffiMP'Tfr-ffy *TN? gl.hnri LUi vssk. I k.._j :. ?:? Washington TJndkr Watkti. Washington, February 12 ?The Lnnj Bridge connection Washington with Vir ginia soil is fur the most part a causeway Which has modo it a dam for the Potoma< during the last few days. The waru wca'.her hud flooded the river, and the ic< gorge above and beluw Long Bridge ha: helped to swell the volnnte until early thii morning when tho ico began to break up The swollen waters of the Potomac pouroc ogaist the wall of masonry forming the bridgo across the Potomac, backing, the fiver around the poiot to whero the Wash ington Monument stands, and thenco across tho White House lot, filling up the lowci ground between Pennsylvania arenuo and Bouth Washington, for tho distance of o tnifo and a half. has been that all day long the lower portion of the broad avenuo from Tenth street west to tho Capitol gate baa literally been a canal, in which row boats, fiat boats and nil kinds of small water craft have been used to ferry people from their dwellings, places of business, and to und from sonic of the smaller hotels located on ^ tho south side of the avenue. Fully oneW half of this great business thoroughfare has been submerged and is likely to be submerged for several days. AH day long tho streets lending to the eveiiuc have boon thronged with pedestrains and vehi cles. A VENICE IN WASUINQTON. Senators and Representatives crowded 'the balcony in front of the Congressional library, watching tho wonderful sceno witnessed from this favorablo position. One part of Washington had beootno a new Venico. Along the streets where tho pavements were known to bo good horses wore driven, and in some localities it required an effort more than fording a stream to get safely across. Tho broad space covered by tho Botanical Garden at tho foot of the Capitol had becomo an artificial lake. Tho ?itc of tho Baltimoro and Potomac depot was sourrounded with water, the flood causing ail Dusin ess to be suspended. Street cars that were driven for awhile were abandoned on tho track. The great market 'house was isolated by the flood) and even the few dealers who attempted to open up busiucss on tho open sidewalk were finally compelled to abandon theirs temporary quarters. \ THEATRE CLOSED 11V"WATER ~ Think of a theatro in tho heartof Washington closed becauso it was impossible to get to it except in boats. And yet there wore piember8 of Congress who had the meanness to say that this great damaging overflow of the banks of the Potomac was a job got up by the advocates of a large appropriation for the Mississippi lliver, for while the Potomao was rising tho Houso was cigaged in discussing tho river and barbor bill. " ' ' DAMAGE. Tho damage caused by the flood is at A ^ rrt. ? ;prusuut puru uuujuuiuru. iuu guvcruiut'ui will be a heavy loser. The fish pond and all the apparutus used by tho Smithsonian .Institute bos botu destroyed und tho carp -scittcred to destruction. The basement of the main building occupied by tho census bureau is filled with water, though most of tho papers and records stored there were ro . auowad id anticipation of just what has happened. Tho stoani flro uiglnos worked all day trying to kocp down tho deluge in this building, but gavo it up aftor hours of ? oorvivo n? a bad job, it boing disoovored th? t it was praotioally throwing water ovor a rail fence. . . BROKEN BRIDGES. Tho principal loss to tbegovernmcBt will be the damage done to the bridges out of the city. Tbo frame work of the Long Bridge sit'the draw hiving been swept away railroad communication and postal coimccti.ius South will bo dclayod for some time on this account- To-night the only means of communication with Alexandria is via Aqaednot Bridge, abovo Georgetown, by Oonriers, Who hnvo to tako the summit Road On the Virginia sido to reach that place, and from thenoo there is telegraphic and rail communication. It would seem almost iocrcdiblo to those acquainted with tho topography of Wash iagton that the scenes described are roal< sad the damage dono here and in George* towa will aggregate hundreds of thousands of dollars. The sight of tho unfloished monument on a little island, the wa tors almost laviug its vory base, was one ol the sttactioos from the south front of tht treasury building, from whieh position i strong boy could easily hare thrown a atom into the water. The stables of tho Presidcut, just tout) of the Uxooutirt Mansion, were within i abort distance of the enoroaohing flood, am near there where stands the old Van Nee mansion, which, in the earlier days of Wrsb ington, was a palatial residence, was agree basin of water big enough for a New Yorl bating rluk. South Washington, gooeral ly known as tho island, is now in very fac wholly separated from the othor part of th pity by .a rirer frpui thrse hundred to eigh u umrea wet wide. How long the flood will stay uo ooo cau tell, but thnt it is hero i and likely to reuiuin for several days no one oan doubt. g THE Ff.OOD AT OTIIKR rOINTP. j St Paul, Minn., Feb. 13.?Sioux City 3 rond is opon to St. James, but closed at tho ' western end. The other roads in southern ? Minnesota are reported as still choked with I immenso drifts. Many towns nre isolated , and there is sumo fear of the exhaustion of > tho supplies of food. A 8CEVE ON THE DELAWALK. | Hordcntown, N. J., Feb. 13.?Tho railI road tracks between Treuton and Hurling, ton City nra under water. Canal boats are lying ?o the tracks on the Treuton road.-? u ifcllu. iiiMiWaWiti^s uUirt itRj lwnntiiic i and Raritan Canal locks are partly under water. Thn n?.n.tnn ?i a-.i ?-? V.UIUXU UIIU X1UIUUJ Simp are inundated. The steam forgo ot Messrs. MacPherson, Willard & Co., near hero, has had its fires put out by the flood. As far as the eye can reach tho Pennsylvania shore is inondatcd. There is not much ice, but a heavy body of water is running. Since midnight the water has been on tho railroad bridge on tho main line between hero and New York, and 'ho bridge is in a perilous position. Twenty-seven cars, containing eight tons each, have been placed on it to hold it in position. The water is at the axles of tho wheels. BLOCKADED TRAINS?A COAL FAMINE. Council Jlluffs, Iowa, Feb. 13.?The severe snow storui of Friday and Saturday has completely isolated this city from the outside world, no trains having arrived or departed sinco Friday night, and all railroad travel has been abandoned. Trains which loft here Friday night were snowbound all day yestorday at a distance of from 100 to 200 miles from the city. The Chicago, Burlingtou and Quincy road attempted to start a train for Chicago last night with a gang of fifty men to shovel the snow. None of tho delayed trains were expected until this after uoon or MondayICE GORGES BREAKING. Binghampton, N. Y., Feb. 13.?Tho icegorge broko here yesterday carrying out bridco across the Susnuchauna. aud dam aging the covered wagou bridge. Another gorge is reported a few miles abovo here and more damage is feared when it breaks up. The water iu the Susquehanna is lower, but there is uiuch more ice to come. It is cold and freezing to-night. AN EFFECTUAL BLOCKADE. Milwaukee, Feb. 13.?Tho snow-blockado proves to bo general 'throughout the Northwest. There were no trains north or west up to midnight. All tho roads have large forces of men and snow-ploughs at work. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul line, except tho Northern Division, will start trains in the morning. This is considered the most effectual blockado ever known in Wisconsin. FLOOD AND STORM NOTES. ?au n r XT rt 1 1 no noou is BUDSiding in new uricnns, but thoro is terrible Buffering among the poor. Trains on tlm Chicago, St. Louis and New Orloons railroad cannot proceed further than Magnolia on account of a washout. The settlements at Pass Nanohal and Milncaburg have been abandoned on account of vhe flood. A torriblo euow-storm raged all day Saturday in the West and Northwest, and did not abate until night. Trains are blocked everywhere, and railroad travel impeded A mass-meeting is to bo held to-night in New Orleans to deviso ways and moans to avort the threatened disaster ot tho breaking of tho levees by the flood in tho Missis feippi. Some of the drifts of enow in Iowa arc highor tlinn the telegraph poles. A train at Mountain Luko, Iowa, has been blockaded in the snow ten days. Four hundred thousand bushels of grain for foreign shipment via New Orleans is . detained at St. Louis in conscquenco ot the floods and storms. The freshet in the lluppuhnnnock llivcr reached tho heighth of fifteen feet above the low-water mark. Some oribbing and - lumber belonging to tho contractor for the f river improvement were carried off, and I the steamboat warehouse was under water i to the socond story. Thero have been 3 neither mails nor through trains since Friday night. a r* *Ti d j suit unnryu ur aanvn v 4 i i ruvvft/nt/i i At Toledo, Ohio, the middle ground ia a under water. The water is three feet deep r in the Island-Houao Hotel and Union dot pot, cutting off oommunioation with Summit k atrect. U At Fredcrickaburg, Va , the wharvef it overflowed, and all eommUnioation with e Alexandria is cut off. t At Qtlnwo, III., the lower portion of the town is under water, nnd Families have beeu taken froui their homos in boots. Warren, Ohio, and New Philadelphia) Ohio, arc under water, and the Tuscaruwaa Valley is overflowed. Birmingham, Conn , is flooded, aud the people have moved out. Many of the mills at Pittsburg are flooded aud work stopped. East and South Ilurrisburg, Pa., were partially flooded by tho overflow of Paxton creeks yesterday. Many persons Wore obliged to move out, aud their houses could only be reached by boats. The dinger is apparently over. 8WKt'T A WAV. jLi.?ntrrcT~TUt o<.??.. T?uiii^i Tjwuy Railroad track, above Glendou, Pa. The Pennsylvania Railroad bridge at Toledo. The Canadian Southern Railroad bridge at Monroe, Mich. Three bridges over the West river, Connecticut ; also one at Union City. The flood of the nast few dnv? hna K??.. the most disastrous that ever visited the Juniata Valley, the loss in bridges to Huntingdon county alone being about $50,000. Two spans of the bridge at Alexandria, Deih 1 & Co.'s booui at the mouth of 1'iiystown Rraut-h, four road bridges over the branch, and the bridge at Newtown and Hamilton have bccu carried away, and the bridge at McVeytown partially destroyed. The Republicans and tiie South.? Mr. Aiken, of South Carolina, spoke words of soberness and truth when, after turning a point neatly upon the Republicans, he said the South would never again submit to such govcrruieuts as came near destroying their iutcrcsts iu 1872. Republicans will fiud it hard to answer his chargo that the white voto was as much suppressed iu 1872, as the negro vote appeared to be alter that time. Rut the most important statement made was when he said the Northern Republicans might again embroil the South, but whatever fate befell, however hard tho burden to b^ar, however long the contest, however painful nud destructive, the stronger would come out of it in tho end sucAmerican pooplo leavo their race problem /fhero it is, to tho people it most concerns, to thoso who best understand it, the two races will slowly work it out, and the result will bo right, and tho result just. We arc glad Mr. Aiken mado these remarks, because they arc strictly the truth, and it is now time that wo have no such prudence as requires suppression of the truth or silence concerning great interests. We have for some time argued, as Mr. Aiken argued, that the South can and will take care of it self, and in doing so the South will he guarding the best interests of tho whole country. It will wage no war, engage in no secession, seek no forcible settlement, but it will go straight-forward on the path of lawful resistance, growing in wealth, in population, finding daily new allies among tho capitalists and busiucss classes of the world, instructing the Northern people in their own interests and saving thcui, from their own ignorance of this issue?a learned ignorance more dangerous and destructive than all the illiteracy of the South. In this way, cmbroil the South as they will, tbey will only olog, while thoy will not with all their clogging retard th J wheels of material, intellectual and moral progress in the South.? Nashville American. ? ? Lki'HOSV in California.? It is Bait! that California ia becoming alarmed by tho fact that tho loathsomo diseaso of leprosy ia spreading from tho Chincso to their American neighbors. Chincso lepers have several time9 been sent back to China, but as tho disease was thought to bo pcculiur to Asiatics, no fear of oontagion was felt.? Hut it is no longer a matter of doubt that the shookiug scourge has established itself among tho white population. One physician iu San Franjisoo roports that sixteen wmto lepers ot Dotn scxos iiavo within a sliort time, applied to him for treatment, all of them being incurable. The very prcseuco of a leper id a source of danger owing to tho invisiblo emanations from his skin. The disease is heroditary, and marriago should be strictly forbidden to all who have the taint in their blood. Hard gn Bachelors and Widowers ?It would save a groat deal of embarrass moot, says Burdetto, and perhaps add t< their emoluments, if clergymon gcnerallj were to charge a fixed rate for marrying i couples?say $5 for the first offense, $1( ? for the second, $20 for the third, and so on - They might ovep issuo tickets as they do ii ; milk factories, with a reduction to person taking a quantity. In order to enoourag I lawful wedlock, thd job should be dono vor i oheaply to yojng couples, but the olerg should tslfO it out of widowers and old bachi i lors. i Tkxan Tbaokdy.?The &W4& Hyperion gives an account of a fatal roocotiotcr that reads like some of the burlesque* on life in Texas, where neighbors are 'represented as shotting eaeh ether in the un ret amiable spirit. The llr*pcrian * | stvJKan only too true : Sflt- Kelly, who resides in the vicinity of me Sabinal canon, ucar Wnrcsvillc. cauie into- Uvalde and surrendered to. Sheriff I'dttqreou, stating that he had killed, in cclf-dflfcnsc, the Kcv. J. A. J. Smith, on Wedtnsday, the 1'Jth ult. .M r. Kelly made the MWlowing statement in regard to the tnigvw : '-Souio one must have bceuspeakingwMr. Smith iu regard to his having giaiM-sheep on S nith's land, and he knows no Owtr cause would have led to the affair. Whdjg* Kelly first saw Smith the latter was ID httf>U'*t,y full"?'"mi ulu'.eo. This - -t^ainrataB^iw]P. Mm and Smith hud been wTfh them about two hours. Kelly then went uacn to see if" the sheep were going in the right direction of his home, and Smith was stili with theui. As Kelly was walking around the sheep Smith called to hint to 'hold on." They were then about oue hundred yards apart. Kelly then sat down by a small pecan tree and there waited for Smith, who drove up opposite within about ten feet of Kelly, stopped his horses, placed the reins over the dash board, saying : '"Good evening, Mr. Kelly," and picking up his Winchester, which was at his side on the buggy seat. At the same time Kelly arose and replied : ''Good morning. Parson Smith," raising his Winchester, which had been lying across his lap. Smith then fired, and Kelly answered ihc fire, there being a very brief interval between the shots of both parties. Smith fired one I i-ho! from It's Winchester, and jumped out | of his buggy, on the opposite side front Kelly, and fired another shot aorom the buggy, which Kelly dodged by dropping on his Scnecs. Kelly fired two shots front his Winchester, which got out of order at the second shot, and he drew his sis-shooter. Smith then fired between tho spokes of the hind wltoels of tho buggy at Kelly, who fired tv?icc through the spokes of tho saute wheels at Smith. Both then stepped buck to the rear of the buggy and met at point blank range, when Kelly fired a shot which took effect in Smith's breast or stomach, and as Smith stepped back several paces Kelly fired his last shot as Smith fell, tho shot taking effect in Smith's head. Both parties to the uulowurd affair enjoyed the respect and esteem of the community, and luive menns. Had not the uractico of car rying weapons been in vogue in thiss cction this difficulty would have been averted, the tpllllBlCTIS 1110, ana a KUIU- liciirvcu uitm, niiv ' never before had a difficulty in his lifo would not have had to take that lifo.? Galveston News. Butlkr and Conkmno.?The reccut address of Gen. Butler in the lTnitol States Senate on the ' Census Frauds," and his masterly vindication of South Carolina against Conkling, The Republican stump orator from New York, is only a handsome performance of duty by a valiant and able public servant. Gen. Walker, the Superintendent of the Census, had already officially exposed the slander that our census returns had been fraudulently made for political ends, and had shown that ccrla:n discrepcticics were due to the returns of 1870, taken under the Radical regime, rather thau to those of last. year. Yet Conkling had never modified his iuuendo of the unfairness and fraudulence of the count.? What had Butler to do but to show him up ? Or rather, what had he to do but lot the facts of the case make their own showing? We would like to quote hugely from our noble Senntor's able speech. We can only condense a few statements of it to show how unnecessary are the gratuitous charges of '-stagnation" and "steady declino" ia our material interests: "Notwithstanding a loss within the past two decades of 8350,000,000 in actual cash values, and notwithstanding when, four years ago the State Government was roscued from the hand of tho spoliator, the credit of the State was a by-word and a reproach, yet to day her securities are commanding from 0 to 10 per a. .l i ol. . cent, prumium on incir par vaiue. one has increased tho product of her principal stapio 130 per cent, in ten yoars, namely, in 1870 sho made 220,000 bales of cotton, whito the crop of the past year is estimated at 516,000 bales. Her manufactories have within ten years moro than doubled iu capacity. Read the following tabic : 1880. 1870. Per.ct. inc. Looms 1,770 745 138 Spindles 92,788 34,940 16(3 Hales used 38,099 9,514 248 Hands employed,... 2,195 1.123 90 What is Whiskey Rrinqino ?? "What is whiskey bringing ?" asked a dealer, of that articlo one day. He meant to ask, how much is it selling for ? A gentleman who hoard tho remark took it in a different sense frcm that. "What is whiskey bringing?' do yon ask ??I'll tell you. It is bringing men to prison and to the gallows, nnd it is bringing women to poverty aud want." Th'.'ra uovor was n truer answer than > this. r It is estimated that it sends to prison \ every year one hundred thousand mon and ) womon. Twenty thousand children aro sent tc a the poor house annually by drink, s Three hundred murders are caused bj o intemperanoo overy year, y Two hundred thousand ohilJren are mad< y orphans every year by this droadful evil ) and sixty five thousand are killed by intern peranee every year in this country. Tiik Lord's Prayer.?When the elder j Booth was residing in Baltimore, a pious, urbane old gentleman ?>t" that city, hearing of his groat power of elocution, one day invited him to dinner, although aiwaysdeprecating the stage and all theatrical perform nnces. A large con patty cat down at the table, and on returning to the drawing room one of them naked Bo ?th, as a special favor to thorn all. to repeat the Lord's prayer.? lie signified bis willingness to gratify them, and all eyes were fixed upon him. He slowly and reverently arose from bis chair, trembling with the burden of two great conceptions. He bad to realize the character, attributes aud presence of the Ali Vutuji tie was to aiiitrcss. lie naavir I . ' transform himself into n poor sinning, slumbling, benighted, needy supplicant, offering homage, asking bread, pardon, light and guidance. Says one of the company who was present: "It was wouderfu! to watch the play ofetnotionswhich convulsed his coun | tenuuee. He bctfainc deadly pale, and his < turned trembling upward, were wet with eyes ] tears. As yet be had not spoken. The ? silence could he ful*.; it had become abso- J lutely painful, uutil at last the spell was , broken as if by an eleotrio shock, as his | rich toned voice syllabled forth. "Our j Father, which arc in Heaven," etc , with a ' pathos and fervid solemnity which thrilled ' all hearts. lie finished; the silence con- , tinned"; not a voice was heard, not a uius- 1 clc moved in his rapt audience, until, from 1 A remain vf v\>v* I Win, U SllUQllU'l 8UU ^ was heard, and the old gentleman, (tho j host) slopped forward with streaming eyes t and tottering fmmo and seized Booth by r tho hand. "Sir," said ho in broken ac- c cents, "you linvo afforded mo a pleasure for a which my wholo future life will feel grato- ^ ful. I am an old uiun, and every day from v boyhood to the present time, I have repeated o the Lord's prayer; but I never hoard it be- 1 fore, never !" "You aro right,' replied ^ Booth ; to read that prayer as it should he a read, caused me tho severest study and la- s bor for thirty ycarj, and I aui far from sat- o isfied with my rendering of that wonderful F production." Hardly one person in ten thousand ccmnrehendM how nn?>K h, iu a rpnvc ou oiuipiu. niui prajcr 01 nan) ] sufficiently illustrates the truth of the IJible, and stamps upon it the seal of divinity.? Alliance. Except the place and the "pious, urbane old gentleman," the above is truo. ft occurred in Philadelphia, at n dinner parly given by the lamented Adam Wnldic, Publisher of "Waldic's Select Circulating Librnny," Our dear departed Father wns present and when a boy, we havcoften heard him give a very similar description of that remarkable scene.?[Editoh Union Timks.] The Upas Tree.?It is one of the curious facts in the history of delusions that even scientific men once had an unquestioning faith in the deadly influence of the Upas Tree on living things within its range. Dr. French, an eminent surgeon in the service of the East India Company, first described the tree and its destructive power in < "Pcnnock'B Outlines of tho Globe," pub- | lished at the close of tho last century. As he gave the account from his observation it seemed eelitled to a greater weight. He said I saw it myself, the sole individual of species, standing alone in a scene of solitary horror in the middle of a naked, blasted plain, surrounded by n circle of mountains, tho whole area of which is covered with the skeletons of birds, beasts, and men.? Not a vestigo of vegetable life is to be seen within the contaminated atmosphere and even the fishes die in the water. Mr. Darwin, the distinguished botanist accepted tho theory as secientific fact and in his "llotauio Garden" exercised a little poetic license making tho mhsina penetrate over ten leagues square, nnd destroy the eagle iu the air or the liou on the plain. ^ A more careful investigation of facts has found the tree to be perfectly harmless, aud that tho destructive power is due alone to fumes of sulphate and carbonic acid gas coming from volcanicopenings in the region. There is a famous "Valley poison" at the foot of the volcano Pupandaging, in Java, whero scientific travelers have found a great number of dead unimals of various kinds, as dogs, cats, tigers, rhiuocerosscs, squirrels, birds, and snakes. The soft parts of tho animals, as the skins and muscles and hair and feathers are preserved, while the bones nsiimkln ntwl rliannnAAF Mn liuitttr (Itinrv ta V/IUUIUIV/ UUU IIIOUp|ICtil< *'V ? IIIQ ?IIIII^ in found in tho vicinity save tho Upas Tree, and it is not surprisng that superstitious notious of its malarious power should have been widespread. Hut tho true causo of death in this cane is very obvious, as there tire many crcvioes nud openings in the side of tho mountains from whieh carbonic acid gas and sulphurous fumes are emitted in grcnt quantities It was these omissions by which the older Pliny nnd his companions were suffocated, at tho time of the dostruction of Herculancuui, though they were I miles from Vesuvius. ? The Marital Relations.?Tho Geor' giu Supreme Court is moved to say iu a recent decision : '*fn taking a wife a man r does not put himself under an overseer.? A husband left free to govern in his own s family is the most useful to all concerned. A subjugated husband is a loss pleasing and less energetic member of society than * ouo who keeps his true place, yet knows how to temper authority with affection." < v A IIoHHiur.k Story.?Owingsvillc, l\y.. Fcbruory 8.?-One of the most horrible accidents that ever happened wistho hornine of George lMoratt, an aged bacheb r, about 70 years old, who lived in this County with his sister, .Mrs. Goodpaslcr, about five utiles froiii this city. For several tnonths the lady, Mrs. Gnodpasicr. has been paraIited and unable to leave her bed, or oven turn over with) lit assistance, while her brother, Mr. l'ierratt, was old. feeble and crippled.? Cast Thursday night Mr. I'icratt had got teu in his wood for the night and morning and was about t<> retire, lie picked up a hack log to put it on the fire, an 1 in so doing h ll with it, and was unable to rise or get out of the fire. Mrs. Goodpaster. saw him fall, but owing to h< r infirmities wan unable to do anything toward relieving him or til ?otn uny i?I ???- ? ? .?. !J WUJ good. At las%^*4>y almost superhuman of*- lorts, she got out of bed to her brother, who was then dead, nud pulled hiui out of tho fire nud on tho hearth, and in some way got back to and into bed : but unnn rr..n\nr, -J--.. ? I c I sho was so completely exhausted that she was utterly unable to turn over, and happening to get in so that she faced the jorpao lying on the hearth, she was compelled to lie in that position until 11 o'clock yesterday morning. Nothing was known of he horrible death in this household or tho crrible night of untold torluro the agedsiscr had been compelled tc pas? in the house perfectly helpless, until her son, Sant Goodlaster, who lives about a mile distant, hnvng done his chores, walked ovor, little Ircamiug of the sight that would meet his (yes. When he stepped into the door tho nost horrible and blood curdling seem met lis view ; his mother lying with wide discn ted and wild looking eyes riveted on her ?I I -.1 , I l_ j a . ?IV|<|1?|1 111 rout of the dying embers, stiff and stark n death, badly burned, and with hia ejru* orn out, his nose, cheeks, cars, hands and icck horribly mutilated and eaten by tho als. Mrs. (joodpaster is aouio yoars uioro .dvauced than her brother, and being compiled to pass such a fearful night has so hocked her system that sho now lies in ? ery critical condition, and oven if sho reovers her usual infirm health it is hardly hought sho can wholly rccovor her mind, rhich seoms about goue. She remained ensible long enough to tell her eon all bout the death of her brother, and said lie thought ho was seized with a fit of applcxy, or something of the kind whilo licking up the wood, and was dead when hn oil over. jcaguc^ti^YiuLlin to (lay a letter from Mr. Darnell was read in which he says: "Afer full consideration and consultation I tavc decided it to bo my duty to remain in I'arliament and iu Ireland during the pros:nt crisis. If wo are worthy of the occalion here the Americin people and tho [rish nation in America will givo us projortior.atc sympathy and practical help, vhile tho slightest flinching or roaction in [rcland will produce disastrous results in Vuicrica. Tho expelled Irish motnbcrrt lavo almost unanimously decided to remain n their places in Parliament and offer ovory csistancc that the forms of the House will permit to the coercion aud arms bills, henco he coup d'etat of tho passage of the gagging resolutions is most encouraging. I can also bo of some use during the passage of the Land bill in pointing out in what res* pcct it may fall short of a final scttlomcut. Two courses were given to the Irish party, cither to retire iu a body from the House AnnAitn/lA ?/% nAnol ! ? .lArtto ?t I J 11 itllUUUUUU IU IllUtl tv IJOtl l> 11 v- 1110 l> II (1 U nothing remained but sullen acquicsoencc or an appeal to force in opposition to that force which is used against us, or else a steadfast attempt to deepen and widen tliu agitation by appealing to the great masses of England and Scotland against tho tcrritoriulisui and shopocracy which dominate Parliament. The last alternative has many elements of hope. There is nothing in tho Coercion bill to compel the Irish to modify their attitudo ot open organization and passive resistance. Tho government doubtless relies much on tho intimidation produced by the fir9t arrests, which would probably be widely scattered, but not numerous.?The future of Ireland probably for generations depends upon the tenant farmers remaining firm in tbeir refusal to pay unjust rcnls and to take evicted farms. If they waver tlioy will provo that they arc only fit ' for slavery." Tyhkk Skkn wiibn Forty Mimes at fit't Hoa r\f aiii* river rkiliitt* tvlwt iimv >il V..*. vr. ...... . from below lust night, reports th;it yestcr., (lay while off Tybee, twenty miles from shore, from the deck of his vosscl he could sco tho Ocean Houso and all the buildings on tho sea front ns distinctly ns though ho was only a half mile off the beach lie thinks tho houses could be seen with the same distinctness forty uflles off shore. This optical delusion is very frequent on this coast. Mirage can off en bo seen by those visiting Tybee in summer, the lighthouse and other prominent objects on tho island looming fur above tho borison as the steamer rounds tho point of Elba Island.? Savannah Ne.wt. ????. _ Mrs. Litcrmore is lecturing on "How Shall We 1 leach the Hoys ?" This question can ncvor bo satisfactorily answered until every snloon has a telephono.