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Robertson to be colloctor of the port of New York when no vacancy exists in said office, and without other cause than to pay a personal political obligation, which obligation was created through the treachery of said nominee to the regular Republican organization in tho' State ; and that fee earnestly and confidently expicss the hjpo that the Legislature of tho State of New York will piomptly stamp its condemnation upon tho act by re-electing Senators Conkling and Piatt to the positions they hare felt called upon to resiga in the Senate. New York, May 18.?The Evening PoiI'm Albany special concerning matters in tho Legislate ture says: "Two papers ore in circulation today for signatures. The first paper in general terms agrees to stnnd by the President. The Cecoud commits the signers not to vote for Conkting, PlaU or any other candidate who will act hi opposition to the President. The papers are HOW receiving signatures. It is aaaert?J that they Will receive about fifty names. This afternoon petitions, letters and dispatebes by tho carload arc coming in protesting agninst the reelection of the ex-Senators." It is pretty well settled that the Senate will not agree to go into an election to fill the vacancies in tho United States Senate. Only twenty-seven names are necessary to de leat the election or Conkling and Piatt ; and it is said that over forty names have already been secured for the anti-Coukling pledge. Republicans Rejoicino.?-New York, May 18.?When the news of Judge Robertson's confirmation by the Senate as collector of the port of New York was received in the city this afternoon, the members of the republican Club of which Sheridan Shook is the president, fired a salute of one hundred guns in the City llnl! Park.. Salutes for Qarfield and Robertson.? <lred guns in honor of the President for nominating Robertson. Rochester, N. Y., May 18.?The news of the confirmation of Robertson and Merritt was celebrated here this evening by firing one hundred Runs. Hudson, N. Y., May 18.?The Administration Republicans here to-night fired a salute of one hundred guus in honor of Robertsun's confirmation. Petitions are being circulated against the re-election of Conkling and Piatt. YFaTertown, N. Y., May 18.?The Republicans held an enthusiastic meeting here to-night. Resolutions wore passed censuring Conkling find PlflJt. finil A 6 ? .??.ui.unm?iiviu, Tlio members of tho Legislature from this section wore asked to labor for the return of Senators in accord with the Administration. One hunJred guns were fired over Robcrisou's conUrination. Enthusiasm is the State Senate.?Albany, Slay 18.?At twenty miuutes of 2 o'clock, whilo the Senate was in committee of tho whole, a telegraph operator entered and handed Senator Robertson a telegram. A buzz of excitement ran around, and lusiness was suspended. The coraxiiittec rose and the Senato took a recess of five -^fzninutos, and Senator Woodin read aloud the following telegram : To ilon. Wra. II. Robertson : Your confirmation just made unanimous. Accept my congratulations. The wildest excitement ensued amid cheering aud clapping of hands. Mr. Sessions jumped upon his chair and gave three cheers for Robertson, whtle Mr. Husted who had come in from the Assembly also leaped upon a chair and aided in tho cheering. Mr. Loomis then called for three cheers for President Garfield which were givetv with a will. A General handshaking followed, amid whioh the Senate adicurned. Conklino's IlAHi-K.tni.~~Wa?hington, Thursday, May 19.?Speculation i* now being transferred to the eoutest which will shortly come off Ml All/airy. The New York. Legislature stands as follows : Senate, Republican 26, Democrat 8; House, Republican 81, Demoorat 47 ; Republican majority on joint ballot 51. The Independent, or anti-Conkling-machine Republicans, eontrol the majority of the surplus Republican totes. Therefore, if Conkling and Piatt are ywtmmed, the breach iu the ranks in Now York will tboe be greatly widened and the Stato come into the-hand* of the detnooracy at the next election. N?w York Republicans here regard the political situation as'exceedingly critioal.? With the immense patronage of the New York Customhouse in the hands of the friends of the Administration it is not doubted that this' pow erful lever will be used to supplaot Conkling 's influence in the State. This will increase the bitterness between the Republican faotions, which is already now as relentless as that which characterised the division in the Democratic ranks last fall. 8ays a Republican Senator to* day on the National outlook : "Theserious complications which have arisen in the last few days and the effect of this Conkling quarrel on Nak tional politics oannot be over estimated. Unless somethieff turns un to heal this tarrihl* wound to the party, we hate nothing to look, forward to but defeat."?Neu>* and Cemritr. Sbbbmadb to W*. II. Rodbrtson.?Albany, May 19.?It waa announced j eater day afternoon that the Republican general committee, of which Thurlow Weed Barnes is president, would serenade Senator Robertson nt the Kcnmore Hotel, and although a heavy rain storm prevailed, nt about 9 o'clock a large concourse of people gathered nt the hotel to congratulate the newly-appointed collector of the port of New York.? The hotel was decorated with flags an 1 colored lanterns and the entire front was illuminated. The general committee and a large procession of citizens marched through the rain headed by a band. Inside the hotel a number of Senators and Assemblymen were collected. Senator Robertson appeared, and was introduced by Mr. Barnes in a highly eulogistic speech, which concluded as follows: "I have the plca^ure to present to you the Hon. William H. Robertson, by tho grace of nil that is good applause. He said : "Fellow-citizens, you bave como here to-night to congratulate ine upon the confirmation of my nomination as collector of the port of New York. Let me congratulate you, or rather tho country, upon the fact* that we have a President whoso intelligence, firmness and patriotism will protect the Constitution from every assault, coming from whatever quarter it may. 1 did not seek thecollcctorship nor did any one ask it for me. I visited neither Washington nor Mentor. I had no correspondence nor communication directly or indirectly with the President in regard to it. The bestowal of the office under such circumslauccs was exceedingly gratifying to mo." ?????? Fortune's Fiieaks.?It was a remarkable coincidence that at the moment the imposing ceremonies connected with the raising of a monument to Gen. Morgan at Spartanburg were in progress, an unsuccessful appeal in behalf of liia daatituto grout-granddaughter was mado to a cabinet officer by a justice of the Supreme Court, Miss Minnie Heard, the young lady in question, highly educated and refined, with a mother and sick sister dependent on her, has managed by a few scanty dollars picked up here and there by tcachi-ig, barely to keep the wolf from the door. r.nllorla !.? l.?o I...I K..1 .1?? ?-i ? "' V. ?J u.tv ?K?o Uiau UUi UllO pupil, IIIC UlUIgllltT of a justice of the Supreme Court. IIis sympathies were enlisted in her behalf, and ho secured her more profitable employment, but only of a temporary nature, and the young lady is now without any income. On the day of (he unveiling of the Morgan statue be went to the Treasury Department and made an earnest appeal to Secretary Wiudom to give her a position, but the secretary said that lie was unable to do anything for her. The President will be appealed to in her behalf, and It is sincerely to be hoped that he will respond. Yl'ltAT PoST.MASTKIl-OKNBnAL JaMF.H HAS 8AVEI>. TUfftiteUM HtfiiiiinmffiHiniilriii) ,pf Hit net annual saving in the cost or star route and steamboat mail service under tho administration of Postmaster General James : For the month of March, ?215,490; for the month of April, $81,531 ; for the month of May 1 to 13, $112,013; total, $112,031, This saving has been effected without iu any way crippling the service or curtailing its efficiency, and has been made on exact informat.on gathered by inspectors of the department, who have carefully examined the various routes. Much of the reduction is the result of tho labors of the commission sent to Memphis to investigate the river servico ramifying from that point. A very considerable additional reduction will be made on the 30th of June next, when useless service will be allowed to lapse, thus saving the one month's extra pay which would bo duo to contractors were the service to be discontinued at present. Tub ANii-MoxoroLY League on Stanley Matthews.?At a meeting of the Auti-Monopo ly League of Now York city, Saturday evening, a resolution was adopted denouncing the confirmation of Hon. Stanley Matthews as an associate justice of the Supreme Court tw n "signal and alarming proof of the purpose and the power of corporate monopolists, and of their purpose to pack the Supreme Conrt with judges who will reverse its decision in (ho Granger cases, affirming the right of the peoplo through their Legislatures to control corporations?of their power to secure the confirmation of their candidate in defiance of the popular will manifested through tlio press, aud against an almost unanimous report of the statesmen and lawyers of both parties constituting the Senate committee on the judiciary." ? ,? The Seventeen Years Locusts.?The latest censation in Goorgia is the appearance of locusts in various sections of the St&tn In mrtiilln fir.An. gin especially they are very numerous, and much speculation is indulged in as to the probablo result of the visitation. Immense numbers of them hare appeared in the swamps below Augusta. As yet the planters ore not appsehensive. .# Tennessee's Capital in Flames.?Nashville Mri) 17.?Robert Lowry's planing and turning mill was destroyed by fire last night. The loss is about $12,000; insurance light. A fire causing the loss of $500,000 occurred here at 10 o'clock this morning, taking in the Western Union Telegraph offics, in the Noel block, among the first buildings destroyed, and cutting ofT all communication by wire. Two Tbottkbs IiuRNKD.?Franklin, Tenn., May 18.?The Douglass stable was burned last night with fifteen horses, including Rhadamanthus and Enfield, two thoroughbred trotting stallions. Loss $16,000. No insurance. A celebrated German physician has advocated1 a new theory, and' that is that all food should be eaten raw, instead of being cooked; and' ho claims that if his instructions ar) ohrried out, and- meat and vegetables are eaten in their natural stato, there will bo no more sioknoss, and people will <lio of old age instead of disease. The thing looks feasible, but we should like to see the German doctor try his own theory on bologna aausngo, and have to ootck his dog. A PATRIOTIC PETITION. One of tho most uoteworlhy aud pa;riotic speeches at Governor Ilngood's reception at thoCowpeusCeutennial Wednesday evening, the 11th inst., was that iu response to tho toast to tho Thirteen Slates made by Gov-? ernor Jurvis, of North Carolina, whospoko of the centennials of the battles of King'6 Mountain and the Cowpens and the coming celebration at Yorktowu aud said, ,;As Yorktown was the end of the Revolution so may God in llis uicrey let it bo the end of strife iu this laud of ours, aud in Octobcrucxt let us leave it friends Wrever." The speech of State Senator Francis, of New Jersey, in response to the coast of "The Middle States," which was proposed by the IIou. George Johus one, of'Newberry, was also well received and loudly ap ajiuui. i7a 11 ifi morgan xayior, 01 me united States Army, who had journeyed all the way from Fort Leavenworth, Kausas, to take part in the festivities of the occasion, made a most graceful aud eloqueut rcspousc, as follows : Gentlemen?I appear before you in response to your call, although 1 feel painfully conscious that among the descendants here to-day there are uiany who ore better fitted thau I am to perform the task you have assigned me, but many years ago, when t first donucd blue coat aud bright buttons, I learned the habit of coming when called, and I have not yet gotten rid of it. I feel deeply touched by the vicarious honor which has been done me, in calling ; upon me to address you. I say vicarious honor, for I know full well that I owe the position in which I now find myself, not to any merit of my own, but to the fact that ' ouc hundred years ago there lived a man of the people, who by manly exertion, simpleminded devotion to duty, and natural eapa- ' bililies us a soldier, helped to raise the pedestal upon which this Nation stands to-day, and makes her voien hnnnt flimn.u... L.u cutiro world when she speaks for right and justice, and that in mo you see but an heir of that mau's name and blood. Yonder, in enduring brouzc, upon its pedestal of graus itc, stauds t ie counterfeit presentment of a typical American soldier, T1IBWAUONBR OF TUB ALI.EUUANIE3, wtio, rising from tho ranks of the people, became a brigadier-general in tho Continental army, aud the bronze of his statue or the grauitc of its pedestal is not more firm than were his determination aud coustaucy of purposo upon tho field of Cowpensaceutury ago. Upon that field ho fought aud conquered, aud 'tis here wo meet to-day to Uouur ki? tnotnory and that of tho gullont ' 'ffTp'fllirfirHH W rmtilf mill wii fi if' out his designs under him. Hut is this all ? No ! a thousand times no ! Our mission hero to-day is one larger than can be compassed by the existence of any one or any dozeu mcn^that ever lived. Here have wo met to-day to teach to the world that constancy of purpose, energy of execution and devotion i to duty and one's couutry are wider, higher, deeper aud more enduring than mouutaiu or valley or the everlasting sea. Time and the clemcuts may deface and mar tho beauty of our statue, and bronze and granite may fail to perpetuate the glory so fresh in all our minds to day, but built up iu the hearts of all those whoai I see : around mi is another monument?a memory, which shall be transmitted from father to son, till Time shall Lc no more. From father to son, down the long vista of years to come, I sco handed the principles to honor which wc hove met to-day, ami even as the nanio of Marathon is remembered and to day sends the blood tingling more briskly through the veins when it is mentioned, although evcu the dust of its heroes has gono into nothingness, so wbcu this monument shall have crumbled away will there be an undying monument in tho hearts and lives of tho descendants of thoso whom I see around mo. Let us sco that our children shall know the meaning of this tribute of a grateful people to lives rnado glorious by tho most elevated scutimcnts with which Divine Providence ever endowed sons of men?love of country, devotion to duty. llcro was no question of personal supremacy, hero no question of birth or birthplace amongst thoso whoso names adorn your column 1 No desire of personal larno i 1 caused anv difference between tlm h'nrhnr I * ? ?0-~? born subordinates in that llttlo command and their plebeian commander Morgan, but lookiog steadfastly on the twin guiding stars of country and duty, with their watchword "God and our nntivo land" imprinted deeply in their hearts, they with their scanty following gave battle to Turleton's troopers, THE. FLOW Kit OP TITE BRITISH ARMY, with a calm courago I hat hurled a shattered, routed uruiy from youdcr field and dealt a blow to lirilish supremacy that Yorktown did but fiuish I And oh ! gentlemen of the Thirteen Original States 1 countrymen nil ! I would, touight, recall to you tho fact that he whoso manly form sauds facing lhe scene of his great victory was a Jersey born Virginian, and that he pursued his steadfast purpose with equal vigor in whatever direction ho found his duty lay. Whether benoath the beetling blufls of Quebec, or on Stilwutcr's . glorious field, or here again in South Carolina, whatsoever his hands found to do, that l.? _:,I. -11 Li- iv -t Iiu uiu nun nil ills Ullgnt. OIIICO lllObO days, uiy countrymen, his spirit, hide by Mile I with thoso of Wayne and Suuitcr, Pickens : and Putnam, has looked-down- upon- thoir common country, for which they ha 1 all suffered so much, and seen it rent and bloeding i with internal strife. Hero, in South Curoi Una, were the descendants of the men who ; fought with him at Saratoga invadiug the i State that had given us a Sumter ana a Pio. kens, and the oaglos of the AJloghauies looked down from their eyries into the fair val'eya of Pennsylvania and wept to see the men of the Slates of Lighthorsc Harry Lee, Marion and Moultrie. as hostile invaders 1 iu the State whcri Muhlenberg was born. | It may bo said tint such things should not be touched upol on such an occasion? that they should ba forgotten ; but I say to you, not so. They should never be forgotten, but be rcmcuibtrcd, that their like may never recur. Let ui use tho recollection of them to fortify us iiitlie certainty of a resolution that they shlll never occur again, but that the lesson that shall bo handed down from generation to generation shall be that inscribcdupon dur columns, One People, no North uo South, so East, no West, a common interest, ONE COUNTRY, ONE DESTINY. Let us make of this monument, and of other like monuments, not objects of local pride, jyUhfii "f'^aakiUrirLet us not i iKm' III . was fforn our city, or our State," but let us . all, irrespective of the latitude and long- i itud# of the places of our birth, shake \ hands together and say, "This was our couu- | tryumn." ( L<ifc us teach our children to be loo large < for ntything smaller than a nation to hold j thcun Let us teach them to be too large nationally to be contiucd within any imagi- ; nary lines of county, township, or State, but 1 to loo| for tho limits of their nationality 1 only to those natural boundaries, which the j God of Nature has set as the frontier of our \ domain. Let us teach them to say not "I t am of-this State or of that," not "I am a s Northerner, a Southerner, from the Last or j from the West, but with head erect and | glowing eye to proclaim uuto the world, "I I am a citizen of the Uuited States." 1 Let this bo the Icssou which our column 1 shall teach, aud this done, oh ! my friends, old Daniel Morgan, "wagoner, warrior, pa- j triot," whoso part in ull this pouip that fills j the circuit of the summer hills, is that his | grave is greeu?old Daniel Morgan, with j Washington aud Howard and Pickens, will 1 look down from heaven's battlements upon 1 a country greater and grauder than their . brightest dreams e'er pictured, and loci that 1 dead they have wou a greater and more cn- 1 during victory than they wou on the field of 1 Uowpcns a hundred years ago. I ( Reverie of the Female Editor.? Miss Eva C. Kinne/, on taking the edit)- ' rial chair of the Ellis, Kansas, Headlight," writes iu the following light-headed way : "IIow glad we arc we've got to be an editor at last. We always thought wc knew | just how to run a paper, and uow we've got such a splendid chance. "We'll show those stupid men exactly how it ought to be done. You won't catch*? us gotting iuto any fusses, or rows or anything. No, iudeed, we'll use tact,and tact, jU t'lu pifnotpuf enliig m ?mining a paper. "Wc won't meddle in politics, and that will save the trouble with politicians, aud we'll never swear?no, never. For the life of us we can't see the use of swearing in a printing office. It don't make typo set itself-up; it don't create items?unless you happou to hit somebody with a club and have to pay the costs?aud it don't pick up [ pie half so quick as fiugersdo. Y'et the editors all think they can't run u paper with out it; but we'll show 'cm. "We're so glad we're an editor, and we're going to make such lots of money ; wo won't spend it all for beer and cigars either. No, indeed: we'll be benevolent and do good with it. We'll give lots to the missionary society?make presents to all our friends? buy books and flowers for the poor, aud? oh yes! maybe we'll build a church and endow a cottage, and havo our name painted on ono of the windows, with a design.? Yes. of course wo must have a design ou the window. Let's sec, a pair of scissors aud a paste-pot would be appropriate, would it not ? Or a boy with a rollor?but then roller boys always have dirty faces, and the artist wouldn't want to paint dirt, would he ? "It's such fun to be tan editor! Think of the sweet revenge we'll take when we stuff tho products of some aspiring gcuiua into the waste basket. And then with ' what an exquisite thrill of pleasure we'll take our pen nud write the author a polite note, telling hiin we would fcave been delighted to publish his excellent article if we only had room, and wonldu't ho like to subscribe ' for our pipor, Of get us up a club? Ah, ' we've had experience. That's the way tho incu editors used to do by us when we were 'only a writer.' And sweeter still will be our revenge on those editors themselves, who used to crush our budding gcuius with their cruelly polito sarcasms. Thoro's that < horrid old bear of tho Hay City Sentinel, when he published our sweet littlo poem ubout "Birdie," instead of remarking on tho smoothness of the measure, or pathos of its seutimeut, ho intimated that we'd been sighing for a lover. It wasn't true a bit; but ah ! little did that rash man think we woro one day to bo his peer. "Uli, dear ! it's getting late, and another column of typo to go up, no copy ready, and all thcso advertisements behind timo? but it's lots of fun to be an editor." Tub Dyinq Bkokkii.? A clergyman stood by the bedsido of a dying broker and said to him : "My friend, thoro arc only two roads for you to chooso. Ooo is narrow, contracted, thorny ; but it leads above. The other is wide, broad, pleasaut, flowery; but it leads to death." "Don't talk to mo about k choice between your broad-guage and narrow-gaugo roads, answered the broker : "why, they'll bo consolidated in less than ? week, and then you'ro all right if yon hold stock in eithor."?AT Y. Star. A ofuel miss: "There's my hand I" ho exclaimed in a moment of oournge and candor, "and my heart ia in it." She glanced at tho empty palui extended toward her, and wiokodiy replied : "Just as I supposed; joa/vo got no heart." w<> THE HUNTEB'3 SIORT. He was a noble specimen of the original iiuutor and miner. "Six foot one, without lis stockings," he said; broad chest and .boulders, au arm like a sledge hammer, ?nd a queer little gray eye that could see a leer ii the bush a quarter of a mile away; >uo of those restless, waudcriug spirits, loomed to walk the width of the earth, and preparing the way for coming civilization, then pushing on for tnoro "elbow room." He took the first pack train into Yoscuiite ; die g#ld fever carried him to Australia ; he sought for diamonds in Brazil; prospected the Andes ; then cause back to California to drive ox teams across the plains,'^fighting Indians for a pastime. lie drove cattle in the mountains, took contracts lor keeping the camps in meat, and so on. I threw myself dowu on ablaukct, tired; ' that comfortable ,' tired feeling that cou.es iffcr a long day's tramp, and makes rest so sweet. "Well," said he, as hcagaiu poured the frying pan full of batter, "you got away with that old bruiu at last, didn't you ?" 1 !?ad come across au old bear and her two jubs, and she gave me considerable trouble, lodging around the rocks, a id my uiagasine almost emptied before she fell. "Well, 1 laughed as I seed you, a pcckin' ind do'Igin' round thai rock, and it reminded ne of a lectle skrimmagc I bad once. I was un in Idaho a nrnsnneiin' Tlmrn r - ? r K * # * "w,w "w" ibout eighteen of us. Ouo night we wus ivaked up by the yell of the Injuns, and he arrers flyiu' thick as hail. 1 should ?ay, all Jbut three of us, they wus fairly linued to the grouud. We took to the irush, and they run off nearly all our lorscs. In the uioruiu' we took the rest, and sweariu' vengeance, started on .he trail. ' Well, one moruiii' we cum on them, just it day-light, iu a big canyon. They wus ill dismountul, and a lot of squaws wus lioldin their horses while they wus niakin' a ford across the stream. Tlicy didn't seem to bo cxpcctiu' us, and the roariu* of the torrent kept them I'soui heariti' us. Wo scattered, and took our positious. Only fiftecu of us, while they wus morc'n a hundred, besides the squaws. I got on the right, behind a big boulder, like the one you wus behind to day, and soon the hoys opened 5ro. At the crack of our guus tlicy gave 1 yell, aud broke across the stream, loaviu' i dozen dead down by the squaws. "I drawed ou the old chief hut uiy Wiuehestcr snapped. I pulled agin, aud r.gin it snapped. By this time they wus hid behind the rocks on the other side, and the sharp shooting began. I guess a half a dozen got their eves ou uie, and seeing 1 didn't slioot, turned their artillery ou me, IIow the arrers flew ! My rock wasn't big enough to cover uie from their scattered fire, a > I'd dodge aim way oniy to ace au arrcar whiz past uie that way. "Fur uigh three hours this went on. If I wus ever near beiu' rubbed out, 1 wus then. Look hero how they vaccinated me," and ho held up his thuuiblcss right hand; "an, look here," he raised bis heavy mustache, showiug a scar on his upper lip; "an' look here," as he unbuttoned his blouse, aud uncovered a great scam across his shoulders "L have another remembrancer an the calf of my leg, an' if uiy shoe wus alf I'd show you about a half of a big toe. "The busiucss was gutin' serious, and 1 saw my only chauce ol gittin' my carcass aut of there wus by my gun ; so 1 took out my knife, and removed the lock, while the flint wus a knocking fire out o' the rock all round me. I found the trouble ; a little stick had run in h >sidcs the firiu' pin as 1 rid through the brush. I screwed her together agiu, au' when I put her to my face, she sung out sharp and clear, and au Injun left his rock. I tell you I wasn't Ions: out now, for they got bold, thiukiu' I couldn't shoot, and exposed themselves. "When the game was up, an' we came down to tho lord, it was a sickcniu' sight. About sixty squaws and Injuns lay along the stream. As I cauio down the canyou I seed a sight I can't fogct. A-young pappoosc, not moro'u lour or five years old, a hanain' nn n rlnn<l ennnw O - - WJ* gathered 'round, and when wc got near, it ruu toward us, and as wc tried to touch it, would kick, an' bite, an' scratch like a young bear?then ruu an' fling itself down on the breast of the dead Sijuaw, au* howl an' cry. The hoys' blood wus up, and one of thcui, raisin' his pistol, yelled : "Shoot the young rod varmint; he'll soon be on the war-path a shootin' arrers." "I aint pious, nor nothin, Parson, but there wus somcthiu' got in u>y throat that nearly choked mo, and I looked at that young red skin a moan in' on the breast of its mother, and I just stepped before thcunraised pistol, saying : 'Touch him if you daro ; have you forgot you had a mother once !' The boys laughed at amy airnestncss, an' finally let mo huvo uiy way. I went toward tho little critter, but he fought like a young tiger; an' it wus a good while aforo I could tamo him down enough to handle him. "What to do with him was a puzzle. I couldn't bear to leave hiui thcro to die, so when we'd got the hurscs I put him on afore mc, an' wo started back. The first day he would not cat anything, an' I could hardly handle him ; but the second be got as tame as a dog, and would cuddle up close to uio at night; and when we camped he'd follow jno about, sometimes jabbcrin' and cryin', in a way that mado my head ache. Nouo of tho rest could touch him. The boys would laugh at mc an' ask if I was goin' to 'dopt him. "When wo got a 'most back, ono day I saw hidiu' behind some rocks three old oroues of squaws, that had been left because they couldn't travel. So I took him to then*, an' when [ left him ho howled an' cried agio as modo the tears come to my eyes? for, some-how* my heart got kind o' sot on tho little thing, and' I-tell you what, Parson, talk ? you ploafio, therc'ffsomothin' human boat the Injun arter all." ?? THE BAD EXPERIENCE OF A SAMPLE OF " THE LARGE MAJORITY. Many men lost big money hero last week, aud a low men won thousands. It was a bad week on (he "knowing ones," take thcur all in all, and a good week for a favored few. One uiau in Middle Tennessee left for homo last night happy in the possession of 87,000 won during the week ; another man took iu 81,500, a S'-atc Scuator S2.20U, and a well-known horse traiuer 85.300,? On the losing side can bo uicntiouc 1 a thoroughbred sport par iug with 813,500; another devotee of the race track short 87,500, a Nashville merchant 8-1.000, and u .'UMiMijjjji tunuii [iKiiuur nun 01 ins next year's crop. A talented and promising youug uiau from a well kuowu town in Tennessee cauio here Ticsday. His ardent desire from youth was a trip to Europe.? liy economy and energy he had accumulated about $000 to make the trip, and had made all arrangements to sail from New York the latter part of this month. He came hero with about fifty dollars, aud concluded to go to the races. Ho went, bet his money on the wrong horse and lost. That rrght,at the Maxwell, he got a "poiutcr"?a dead thing?on the winuing horse. He garo a c'-.cck for S250 and bought pools. Ho felt confident of more than doubling his money the next day, and then he would uot bet any more, aud the money won would enable him to extend his trip in Europe' through Italy. His favorite lost, "only beateu by?sir, a half a nose." He got) stuck, badly, demoralizingly stuck-. Ho" gave another check for ?iJ00 and again went to the track. He ar>ked the opiuions of all the knowing ones, all the wise oucs, all the horse jockeys, all the newspaper reporters, and all the wise looking ex-contrabands. Thcu he went to the pools and, fccliug certain that he had the right horse this time, he put tho remainder of hisEuropcau money on "Long Taw." Long' Taw was a good horse, aud I believe is still a good horse, if they do say he broke down at Nashville. But no matter how good ahorse Long Taw may be he did uot pass his nose under the string first, and lost the race. My T. and P. friend groaued and ordered tlio hnckman to drive liini to towu or hell, he didu't carc which. The hackman did, though, and drove him to the Maxwell.? He slowly alighted from the carriage, dragged himself to the bar and drank hu'f a glass of braudy. That did not help him,, but ho thought it would. It made matters worse. He borrowed fifty dollars and went to the ''Seuate" to try to retrieve his lost fortune ou kiug faro. He struck the beast* at the wrong time. It was ugly and had been scratching all who catnc near hisgrecucage that day. The visitor bought a stack of reds at a cost of $23. The coal black eyes of tho tiger glistened as be placed the money iu his little drawer. The player split his ohips, placing half on the nine and' tire other half ou the four. They wero botli double cards. A fricud iu the game remarked : "Why ilou't you pity the cases more ?" but he made uo reply. The lour split and the long, shapely hand of the dealer (there was no diamond ou the little finger) reached forth and took half of the chips. The player "pressed" the nine spot bet with the ether half, and the next turn was niuc king. T-he voracious jaws of tho beast took in the chips. "I bet you twentyfivo 011 the nine,'' hissed the player. Turn after turn and no action. Fiua'ly it was a turn and a call. Au ace, six-and nine remained in tho box. The player took-up* his bet, placed half of it on the ace ami called it to the ace from the other two cards with the rcmaiudcr. The turn clinic ace nine. "D?11 my fool soul !" was the maddened remark of the unlucky gamester ashe turned and quitted the lair. Our friend: was frantic by this time by his losses. IIo cursed tho raoes,- faro banks, Nashville, everythingnud everybody, and took auothcr glass of brandy, lie then borrowed $50more from a McMinvillc friend and got upa gauic of poker. Of course lie lost, and f met him iu tho lobby of tho Maxwell last, night, looking pale, haggard'and wretched* Ho will go home to-morrow a sadder, but perhaps a wiser man. This is a true story. but it is nothing now. Incidents like the abovo occur daily, hundreds of them.? Gambling id an incurable disease, and may 1 bo blanked if I don't think nearly all the people in the world hive got it?uicn, WO: men and children. So let the vice go 011 iu.sinj The young nnd old go play ;! For some must lose while others win? Thus gambles the world away ! But our young and talented friend will not see "Venice nnd die" this Summer. Ho must go with me to West Baden Springs, iu Indiana, it I can get hiui a pass, or ho uiay be ablo to spend a fo f days at Crnb Orchard or Grayson'. I feel sorry for him, but can't assist him, for I hitvo not yet recovered from the election iu Indiana last Fall.?Nashville Cor. Louisville Cctorier* Journal,' _ An Insane Kiss.?Ouedayn beautiful woman was driving in tbu Straud in n very low and very clcgaut coup. The street was blockaded for a moment, and tho noble lady put her head out to urge the eoach? man to drive on. Just at tho instaut a> stalwart coal heaver was going by on tho sidewalk, and finding himself face to faco with her found no other mcthud.of express* ing his admiration than, to seize her. facebetween his two hands and kiss her. The coal heaver was arrested ; ho was takcu before a magistrate whore, as many bo supposed, the lady demanded his condign punishment. ''Well, what do 1 care for all tho punishment in the world !" cried the culprit, ardently. "I've kissed the handsomest woman in tho threo kingdoms!" Whereupon the anger of the fair lady was ap pcttHfd as ii t>y a spell, and tnruing to tho loapHtratc ahe said ooaxiogly : "Oh, ploase let this poor mau go; he is insane, Me!