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Regular Roar lets received at Hensonghh* OUR MIN ISTKH'S ?ARRUGK. 1IY M1NN K MARY l.KIS. Miss Wilmer was nominally but see otid iu position at the M-Ladies Seminary She was, however, head and front, t Jenem lis?t mo in fnot, of thu> institution. Not one of the docon teach era ami assistants dared make a move without the approbation of Muri Wilmm Not that this lady was the superior of all in years und wisdom. Not that sne wai harsh or tyrannical; nor that sin was unucecasarily" fault finding and maroso. No: at all. On the contrary, she wat? naturally amiable and beloved. But flic was one of tllUSO born to rule. Slic bore about with her that commati ding yet winning presence tliut captivat cs the heart through deference of love Site uns gdod loikin-, if not hatrd<onio Iler'teatures we're delicate, with n cer tain tmftm-K*. nay, sweetnuvi of ex proa sinn, that utterly failed however, in the mastery over certain determined lines of contour and m uncle, that Bait] very p'ninlv upon that tHuallv placid fice ? iVrm Dim, ri nwn droit' Her preempt ions acre intuitively quick. Keen borscn^e of right an 1 wron^. ami her irgiird for justice infh xibi.'. The*, qualities rendered her peculiarly fitted iortho office .-he hold, that of Mentor fcn the bundled young ladies, Which hlie hid naturally fallen into aside fron bur criminal dignity of Professor of Higher* Mathematics Were there no infringement of rules, the *vho!e uuiully congregation oi girl were summered tn the liu'l, and .Miss Wtimer appointed to lecture them. Ha l a y nightly roQec i ms by hook or by c ook, bc*?u *mu<*".lcd into tlte model in-tiuitirn. 't o happened that M is Wilmer d o vered the law hroakuis. am! iMii-s Wiltiiir administrated rebukes and punishment. If one'* light at ten ?'olo.-i lind been hidden tomporuily und r a I ushel, instead of bun- souiTud into th i nrkucss ofubcdiuuce_thespi.it rapping* ou the diior wcrc'.tt once known to be llic K?Msj^sii'A' Wiltm;. ami !;??;? niirnHio'if" vcirc wc.ihl u urinur firmly Voting 1 dies, lights out instantly. V?oi will be reported ill the .ninrii'ng before the whole.echo d. (na sc'o:id ivsmr Kitce, _) ouY parents trill receive notice t.. ion ove you from this Institut ton.' Had Miiy other of flic twelve teat her? sp' k -n this repriimiod, it w< uld hu-.egniiu into I one car and out ol thVufWet. l*ut Miss ' W ilmer hat ing spokeu it. made it quite j different. She at lca-u, was rot in the habit of eating bur owu words. ?| The M-Ladies ry ihiifaiy was n Baptist School Everybody that hoi anwh ng tu du with it n.u-,1 be lhi| list even the matron ami ?tc Wardt'.?*! If. though neeeatdly Catholic friafi ?irl> sei* employed in the l_.itchen theii j In res were ?llcd hjoii as pw.Hi.de by memlcrs iff' the ?tssentiid faith The First Baptist Church of the city was next door to the Seminary buildings. U a>.s a cause of great grid" when or I."is were left for auy particular stuiL-ut to attend any other pi.n e of worship. Such a i>tie was looked upon as heretical and heathenihh. *?'r. Edward ('iley was the pastor o! tlita Baptist church, lie Was regarded with considerable interest by the girl* of the Seminary inatmiuuh as it was i knovn that he was eogaya 1 to imtrry j Miss Wilmer. Kv?ry new girl ilia: came to school, after having been todies* the sermon of Mr f'illpy upon her Hist Sdbnth, would be suiTouudjd hy a bevy of yv.ng Sunday d;eia_ all oagsr to t?-11 her that she need nut ajt her cup for the handsome young ministnr, for hu is on gagod to marry Mis* Wilmer, older thtti h ii self. Then the st.-ry would go on. ow Mr. Cilluy and Miss fVHfue'r ba.l grown up together from childlioud?he a poor boy, and *he fhd daughter of a dressmaker?how they lud struggled for an education she, by her mother's as i* tancc having far outstripped him, und gone to teaching, whiU he wn* put in the preparatory; how she had d.oa od poorly and lived cheaply giviu/ her earning* to holp Edward through ha div tiiog course, und how he bud been settled down two years over this church nnd they wore not married yet, to tho t-urj rife s.nd g< s-dp of everybody At.d Istterly it had b ten coulidetili ?!ly ro ported by these juvenile' busy bodit a that Iba M:SMi* WhitO, day seholaid. daughter* of Pr. White who was i're-i debt of the Institution as v. nil as do.icon of the rhnri'h, hnd been hesrd to ? i? thai thpif fathoi had uo f.ii'h th^t ltd 1 ^ n^ ' ? j wjtrd Cillry ever intended to tuurry M ih? Wilincr. Hut thi? idea was rother -conteJ by moot of the girl? nud itidig >antly didbeliered. What! Mr. (Jiiloy ?ho stuud up there in the pulpit from Slinday to Sunday, preaching the (Jus pel saying such eloquent things about being good and doing ri.-jbt, and miking tuuli lorfg, pious prnyars; and then piing ;ind bV'ukU'fr, h s word to our cxcellun" Miss Wiiun r! It was too incndiMo Too monstrously npoa'd to all (list child i*h fuilh in huniati nature? bat Btill ?iioio exulted faith in the chosen minister of (Jod! There cntuc n summer's Sunday when Mr. Cilley a place in the pulpit was supplied by a stranger. Our pastor, it was said, had gouo to the While Moun tains for the benefit uf h;s health, ile might be absent two or three weeks? perh'ipa a month, "For the benefit, of his health, sneered Carrie Brig?<?. "He look.nl (lie picture of health It in Miss Wiluier. who needs to take a trip. Why diJn't he marry her, ait J lako hor along. I won der if she furnished him lumay. 1 should l- ink hu would be ashamed to hold up his head until he h id piid her back eve y cent I should think it wuu d frotttud fuller him like a case oi niner." It was Carrie Briggs the high minded West lud an who spoke her true th >ught npou ovcry occasion. It wua the fourth morning after tha dopnrture olMr foil.ty. The great hall bell ratio; Hi, Ui u?-u?! call'lor s Sabbath m->rni g 1'reparations were h ?rr'md md thr uirls ?lle 1 in one after mother, less uiderly th in usual, full of curiosity as t> whul this summons might mean. Miss Wilmer was not at tin desk. In her place was Miss \Veth(ir?|>flon, the ili it.* , au 1 at present still nominal g versos* of thr s:h ?ol. Shu w.ui n -pin* uii.idun lady ui ti ly ynajrs, whoso dre s w:is usually of n deep blue, sometimes doited uvjr with greeu sprigs cviiunoil rove*, or yellow moons, whoi.t facii was plo ssurst t> !o ik upia ?!i i li.il mob a loving smile, such ro& etifiSk gsji fc; mli'jftf inifrtsi ?*ii titM <i y-? ?'?v,j?v hasclo'es We .ill loved Miss Wet her < ?poor.; could never deny us any thin;: ? she emil.l not say tio?b it she w.odd ter.d tfc tt? alias N\ iltii r. which dauic to be another form of n fu-al. On th s morning shusto id at hor p fit unusually slntcly and stern. Her. cheek. ?rlowcd wilh a deeper red. und her lips essnyod to sp ak, without ut fust emit ting any sound. At length, by a great effort at self-control, she said: "Voting 1 di< s: il.c teachers of thi iustiluliob will this moiiiiiig and here after attend M. (iiceu'a church, sec md Jiapti>t. It 1? ion- wUh Cut all thi> pupils do the same' 'Af, howevir, you hare most u )ou unexpired tt mis oi' pew n.nl, at tl?c First B iptU:, We *h-11 uoi lolbid \uU( attend me i i hete at prcsoil Hut as HOUjl as possible we desire aiol reijuc-t that our pu ils follow ho ?X ampics of ih ir im-ti uctors, and feeure pews at Mr. linen's. As to the reason b.r such a tour.-c. I u;u grieved to nay ?" und Miss Wetheispoon's lips quiver ed, and her v??j-e trembled ?"tin t -h paster Ol the Fir?t Baptist has proved himself unworthy the high regard in which we held hiui, und rs no long? i deserving our esteem ur respu^t. Tlnis who accompany u> to Mr. tiiocu'.-s will at li e UJ poiptud hour, take their p'nee? in the Second Ilnll where lliCj will l?c ice! by the teachers, you are escustfdV Y"ii may be sure it rv..S tint more rti.irl half h in In ore before ihc n-ysterj 1)1 thin bond shod was htuavol.ed And oh, the an.ithems as oj those hundred schu"l girls ugainst Mr ('illey'. How h s ears must hiive burned '. 1 lie wicked, ungrateful man ! To go and marry another woman, uo i leave poor Mi-s Wilmer in t.ho lureh, kithotl si much us snying n word ! and hu u luiuistur of the church! A pretty minister, iudecd ? A wolf in sheep-s riot hing I A snake in the grn&s ! Hi hud Molen ihu livery ol heavcu to serve fttSo devil tu 1 S-hak-pcar, Miltou, Byroti, I slid a whoL host of p .ets were brought no re\|tiiai(iuu to give him his duo in ! vittipeiativQ epithets. Could t la e verbal missiles, tlyiug hut from those | hundred tongues, petnliad in theii oourre, they would h.ivc ?tomd (o death tho erring objuet ?d' their n'luk. '11 he Sanctimonious hypocrite !' e.ri. d Carrie Brig^a. fur one, ahull go I uud hear him preach to duv. i w ml to j nun if ho looks any didcieut since aolliug himself to ?. atuu. And whcQ ho couiu^ out, with \f\? wife uri Iiis arm, I will met him i the vestibule, and a^k him if he in H.'^diamed uj himself." 'Carrie 'iri^g-s ? V >u wont do an}' euch thing, .cried hall'a dozen voces. 'But I i a?d who will go with mc as n wilucjsV. Wo hatibofire all d;;lircl ourselves ready to qjt the First Raptist. 'I wi'l.Wd.iid K-lleit Luwtou, (Carrie's most int iiJ.o friend. We qoMt oxpcclnd Carrie to be s> good as _mr word, for she was a daunt less girl, ?E?irishi'ig scoru and con tempt 'or injitsti? and wrong. It waevFbcrcfore with oonsidersrablo curiosity lu\t alter our return trotn our new phuT of worship, we gathered around C;?ric, to icaru of her mission. She railid hor hands in depreoatioo. 'Oh, fj'wis, y >u may call mo coward, anyihing,#fII the munoi you please, but tho trutlT.is when I saw that uu::el in pink :.nd fvhitc. the must beautiful litt!.' i hurub tjat ever the sun shone upon? I eouldnT uo; 1 couldn't. She lcanid upon hi!!| arm so trustiugly, *he looked so Hwec %-M;d inuoccutjnth her beauti Off* fid bli|^4VW ? how could I Ml ike hor with n, d^by upbraiding that man '{ 1 aluJosC^rgute him us I looked at her ?she K^ght win an augcl. I'oor little j woman i ''{ don't envy her?J pity her. Aud Mi* Wilmer U s great deal better j off, it eoold only know it. When j my h>v( '*jilt* me, 1 hupe I shall not. be j so fouli as to cry over it. I hope, rather, ? shall have sen so. enough to thank Iwavetl for having looked out , fur ute better tbau I uuuld look out (or >tyself. :-*But who would have thought of it ib- a minister uf the Baptist church lt; And everybody thought Mr. Cilly us&pcrfuotinu itself! But now he has shos?Rj lytf cltiveo foot. Well?well ? tin sp tech is bundled." I will nuly add that tho 'nine d y uundor.-. subsided into an uld story : that apihi^istb for Mr. Cilley started uj Lere und there; that his luvely young bride ' muk ail hearts by storm, as pro bably ;e -had his OWo, and that by do Ai^e came back io'.o ? -fkWrt^ >>.:..*. [ l.L p'a.c, and that by and by, when Miss Wether >poon was gone from earth, and Mi>s Wiliiicr from ihu 1 :i.-tilu i.-ii, wy ue.vtr MiuW whither, the pupil* o! the .-co ?1 >.i:it again to the l'r-t Baptist, as ihoo;,h its pas'or hud p ver do?c a wrong. Such is the way ul lh?. world But 1. a? one who Lived Miss Wilmer, am old-faihioiud enough to believe that those who sutler wrong in this World, uS well as th.se whu do the wrong, shall meet w ith ju-stica and judgment iu th : wurld tu come. 11 - mmm> [f A Uuiuorus Speech? Our readers will (!o< btles gt^c u c'redtt for Having kept nur columns clear ol politics Among all our exchange* there is none so entirely u-eless to us as the Co i ;n ss u ml C! lube. On looking over a copy a few d y* since WO found a speech of our old friend S. S. Cox, formerly of Ohio, now of Now York elty, uvropot of the Commissioner of Agriculture, which we have been in ducud to publish to show how a joke may be mad- to defeat a serious and useful purpose. We do not approve the jihes ami .-n era* which certain news papers arc Constantly directing against the Department of Av?ii -niton*. Wo decid it a Very valuable branch of the 11 overdue it, aid capable of confer ring g'cit benefit-t on agriculture if a lc.j'iitcly Biistaiuol by Congress : ~ Fm iii ft#o7 Jfomc. Mil, Cll.m km an ? I tlii .k there is a gu d deal of undeserved reproach cist Qu the nnblo Department pi" Agriculture. Tho gentlemen from Illinois ^Mr, l-'uroswoith) undertook to say that the present Commissioner of Agriculture kept a rn Iu took the seeds sent to him from ull parts of the world [Laughter] Other members say ho boards and live* in our Patent OiT.ce free of cxponce. I recollect when the Commissioner of Agrculturo used to niako butter for the Presidential Man sion. Tho.-o wore unctuous and happy days. [L?Ughiet ] I remember WS)I| th it a fpruicr ComtuUsiojior raised strawberries for the Presidential Matt aion. It is a put of the business of that bJiciq. [Laughter.] Thcro is no I question pf i.s eotisiitutioiiality. [Laugh tor 1 It seems wo are now to luve in the Agricultural Bureau a niiurot^uopiit ' In fact it is a p ut uf our qcw Uurcm ciatic system. Ntiiig iu the microscope, that we may .*ec the ins.ciivofoits aui ii als which are preying upou and anhoy | irg this useful bureau. I am amazed i (not the House does Dot appreciate' these reports on agriculture. The Com iiiipsloTicf, 'on the very first psge of his report, tells us that the "segrated char acter of the rural populatkiu has been has been such us Jo forbid that concen tration of ideas and consultation *of views which are common to all other professions and occupations!" This is a peciei of "unabridg d dic tionary" language: whi h (ills the {.hilo logical und analytical mini with won der. J>ut look ut the end ! The la*<i page of tire teport advises us that we Uf?y save ?1.(11)0,000 by dispensing with fencing! Let ui be advised ami even do better i>ispeosu with bar? s. stables ami bouses, and then wo will be th er ful nud happy. 1 admire economy ? based on a concentration of rural iduus. Again, I turn to the Commissionera re- j port of Nr.vcti.her, 1S71. I real from' page sixty nine. It is the report of the entomologist and curator ! God help us to a faithful loxieou. Wj have hut tnide a bureau of the microscope. My friend fr >m Indiana (Mr. llolmao) (ippoEesQ it ; und I never oppose him. What is this bureau? It i?, in fact, the bureau of bugs. I deny that entomology as a science docs not include all bugs, humbugs not excluded. [Laughter] Tho Com uUiionor siys ? that bugs are not insignificant insects, as they are generally ami erroneously called. 'Hut, sir. they are bugs. Now, I always supposed etitomulugy did refer to bugs. [Laughter.] The Counuiss iouur gives the v. rious nioitos of find iug these bugs out. He tell you of the tcJijHHia utrox, which I hope m\ fiieuds from Ohio, (Mr. Gal field,) who is now going awny from my seat, after instruct ing nie iu Latin, will be able to explain to the House. [Laughter.] There are vaiion other bugs inferred to. \Y.c have the caJopfeniu frmurrepnim, ami the ctiltlptcnui iprcftis. and tftc xutpotfa pemn*.tla\ Bod llfn hn 7 ;o, .*imj !e.c. and the \t'1r',p*?lht frjft)ist&\\ the eojtinpfyjni J mucronata, aud the plnUlin iimLipruelhi. [iireat -Laughter.] ? Tluro are f .r the cmiiiii >:i mind. FLuiighlur,] Kducu lion form" it. Now these reports havo b on publi-hod ;'.t'n grc:t expense, and this iiif-rmatioa is; of cour.-e intcud.-d lor the com umu penpl.'.. I hope the g ntlcnieu will bo able to explain to tlw llouoo what all these things are. [I.sughter] Lot there be annotations go out with these fepurtn. Mr. Clmir niati. I would not be so pirtirulsr in this remark able nomenclature Lad we not b e t advised to day by the houoiablc goutlaiuati (Mt. (Jarfieldj that it was the duty of the Federal (JovemtiKnt, by its function of educator, to inform the common miner He thought we should, by Federal ait'hority and money, diffuse knowledge amoug uieu. 1 thuroture boldly ask, where docs he get power to interpret to plain ami hi m st people the ruloptenus snrrtus of Chlor ? [Laugh ter.] Who shall determine, by Federal tests, tl.e length of wing of the raloptrnus /etlittrrebr?ni ? [Laughter.] I n.ay admit, for nuke >f argument, that tho learned and fresh men (tow thu South may tell its why the tzaul'ra* simplex is an mthoptcrus insect, but why do you invoke Federal powers to aid iu this microsropio wurk ? Thceu j aro rct'oudiie thought-) and illu.(rations We have in (his agricultural bo-A reference made to vutjous other rucon dite things. I hope this harcau wil not be discouraged in its work. Wo have here on one page?as you see? what seems a hydraulic ram ; au I then on another, in niagnifijoul wood and type, the picture and description of the merino ram '"Piet?t >r." (See page 1S7 ) These arc | ut in the m< Bt extraordinary lel.aio-i. [Laughter ") Look all through this hook. Look at the pictures of these bugs. Look at Muse pictures ol tho juHijipid aeries. Here wc have tho fun ipr.il t-j'Oti f, L und withiu a blighted j I Hap leaf; und the mt/feli m and other funpaid forms found on the liber of a tree having the "yc lows." [Luughter.] New, it is very evident when we send these out we ought to nend out .U thu sunup time an interpretation of thorn lor the benefit of the 0 ;unp :.i peopbv [Laughter ] W hat hnve the peoplo douo that they should bo crucified by sueh public reports? And while we are meditating ab .ut the itcw microscope bureau, \ w aild i' *f-'^e??"?*es*? .'*1? ? like to take one more 'glance at th? book. Where, oh ! where am t to find the* proportion* of 'the <?hest>r WhiW sow\'' called Mnry ? [Oedt laughter] Ofly one. year old! Bring on your microscopic bureau. Observe the length of that inquisitive snout and tho com. pound curl of thnt tail. [Laughter.] Sec tho lengthening lusciouaness of those lacteal glands ! [LaughtOr] liut her name it is Mary ! la therd at tann who ever loved a Matw 7 f Laughter.] Lot hi in construe our beloved Coastitu tion. Perhaps there 'is some one here attach, il to the Constitution and to education will reproach mo for not mentioning the e afthuffln reJ/oaum, or the pntotor of Beck. [Laughter.] Will the Scotch member from Kentucky please explain this melodious terrniudL ngy whicti boars his name? [Laughter.] Mr. Chairman, I have only rise er for tho purple of having the House under stand the ustotiUhing effect of those agriru'tural reports, not only upon the pooplu iu the country, but the people io the city. 1 acknowledge that the effacfc is different necording lo locality. 1 now represent a city, though by some misap prehension In the la?t campaign th? people of New York Stntc outside of our grand metropolis voted for ma to reprrv seilt them . I fell short in t'lo country. [Laughter ] To be sure I carridd thjt city by some twenty-five thousaud I Though I may rJdt, owing to misappre hension, be with you next Congress [Laughter.] I must refer to the effect of these reports on the city. The effect upon the wicked city of 1'hiladclphia, which net od so badly in the lata election, [laughter.] is especially notable. 1 re fer to it for the purpose' of calling the attention of my friend from Philadelphia (Mr. Kdloy to the dreadful consequen ces he imposed upon his constituents ia sendi I1' those reports into tho heart of Philadelphia. Head very slowly, Mr. Co rk, tho extract I send an from the STtttifty Dt'*prtt,h, of Philadelphia, lowing the direful eff.-ets of thev ? r. i'dc ta^ftft!. [Tbe Clerk real <t-tn rfyftre -) aa follows 'We owe rur tharP:?? lo Judge Kel'.dy for the lares: h.vnt Office report. Wc iliendy hav: sVfWn hundred of those iiit r sting v- luocs in our lhtle libr try, Rdi they hnvc been read aril reread so many tiiiic.-i that we know evevy page of theiii by heart. This new volune came o; p vtunclj rind gestefrdly ou Chris* tr as niornitig, nod that digHt wo gather ed our little family around the fire nnd r ad ii through to them. The affecting ta'c, entitl.d "Tmprovomcrtt in Monkey WrcoelieH,' s-emed to touch every hdnrl [laughter.] mid when we came to the climax of tho little story abont ?Raver sibl' Pia Boards,' there was riot a dry eye between the frone door and the stable. r_Lnughtur] During the read ing of the .piteous narrative, '(.turn Washers for Curriago A,xlest' the whole family gave exprassidu to boisterouH omoti n, and the hired girl was so much excited that lost hor presence of mind nnuV- went around to her mother's inadvertiiutly with six p muds of sugar and luttur-kettle full of flour, aud came home lit midnight intoxicated. [Laugh ter ] Wc can never .sufficiently fhank Judge Kclley for the innocent enj ty. ment thus furnished us. The memory of tint happy evening will linger in our miudt very much iouger than that hired girl ever lingers when she lights on * lot of suhstance which she thinks wiil suit the constitdtiod of hor tged Jpur o-.t." [Croat laughter ] ? Prusid uit Grant is not a 1 lie to I to I conversational chaff, but he occasionally nmu-e.1 himself at tho expense of hit Democratic frituds. At the Whita House reception a few days agb a New York City representative stood near the PreaiJeut watching tbe douse crowd Mir ging along. "Mr. President," aaid tea, "this crowd increases every weak. I his in getting to be a great country." Yus laid the president smiling; "we are beoouiing a great people and now that tbe Detuocratio party is crushed there ii nothing to obstruct our nations! progrcsss "But," taid tbe Congressmen, "tho poet says that truth crushed to earth will rise ugaiu." ' Very trua," replied the Presi dent; "only 1 fail te seo the relembdtuoo ( etween truth sndthe Democratic party. - i i a <?? sann ' Mr\ -JotitSs has long been wanting to \ isit t i r ecu wood Cemetery, and in early she fnys to her husbaud; ''You hat? never vet tak u tut te Greenwood ;, "No. da-.-r," he replied; ?'thtYa a plees rel b ?ve yet h id eoly in justiriaatiou. I?*; rM'w' teastj ra*?* o4 v?ivjt ei?;? tViskey Did thin for me [t i "** * '??eru! *til tnm ehfeee] taw i tt?. ?-,?? dlvalf ??4?~ f/ A~ .^-1.^^^. , I The Chicago TCvehing" Toi as follows upon the execution Driver on Friday, who murdered hat * wife in a drunken fit: rite tQm s* Driver lea A Very .cxaJ which the sermons will be made. He said to those- who accompanied the scaffold : "Whiskey did this ft* me.'' Not a murder, not a ffacae ot%Wf sort, lias ever occurred in this a^afsvAUfc I had not its inspiration, neat j^regaaf^ in the same cause. This hssbeen illnav trutcd within the past fortnight in t**> most emphatic manner. The murderer* in the jail arc testimonies ro' iteWMs*- ' Driver's wdfd? i "Whiskey did me," might be plaeed permsrjjjsilj|< the Cook county scaffold, and the truth Of the cpilca never be questioned, Ms matter whose the dead body beneath it. 1 lie graves o r Patrick and James '\W Veigh, out in Calvert Cemetery, rrj flaV' aartj'o menace, and officer Koch, it to* have occasion to use a cru'eh, tti%lttr#9| the aauie thereon with his penknife), ?Jff it is doubtful whether that, if he wot been in a saloon himself the ni tho McVeigh double tragedy j.e"e* ana^4 need have conflicted with ?ach other (*> mutual anl fatal injtlryi ;"*Tt? ??*J **>i* But tho pulr/its may pnach on Hat text left by Driver. The pre** 4k\$F p unt to tli.t illnstrationscf the gei?stkl1' truth he uttered in his personal coneWil?" ttatiou. Wise and good Sad virtfeealaV people will bcraoriD *the dlsgtaee tt)$fk9' city, thfi degradation to that if creature, man, and the deplorable of tho children orphaned by Iks latij man. The rn*fian class Will Iff ihrrtsfat ?nud interested for Sri hour, and t9tffk^. f\ff that brief period frjtn the pursuit of crime, "for the Weariest and most setanf* ed worldly life that age, ache, penury, imprisotuetit, can lay on nature is "a> paradise to what we fear of death.' id a trcoal tha excitement, like t' aliziog, wili have been ignored* world is not to be reformed by a pair ef "hanging3; Driver will rot to hindif? honored grave, da Judge Gray well *atd: ' The wjrtiig uttered by huijttisae> aHar trial an 1 his scaffold will like the voices of an ugly dream.' Shiill >r<? Meet Afi?W. . ? ? t lent e*vrge?fc iwTion fiiir il T'.c fnlloviing Is fiaid to be on# ef mast brilliant articles rffltttf* sr* laV* lamented Georgo D. Pi entice. "The fiat of nature is in Thera is no appeil for relief frorst great law which dooms its to dtfft. Qtiuriah and fade as tho leaves of forest end the flowers thai b loo at wither in d djy have no frailer upon life than tho mightiest that evor shook the earth with his stops. Generations of-mcn wpl and disappear as tho grass and titudeth.it throng tho world to ekifc will disappear as the footsteps 4u fljq* shore. Men seldom think of the event of death until the ehaelsjgf orpw their own patttwiy, hidlttf fts*g| their eyes tile faces of loved one* |l|)eeg liviug smile was the sunlight of tJudf existence. Death is tho antago?bl ?f lifo and the cold thought of tha\ taflafl^ the skeleton of all, feasts. We fctJBp want to go through the , J^Nafc a!though its dark passage may ipe?*> paradiso; we do not want to lay down the damp grate, even with .sStaPftrtlt bed fellows. In tho beautiful loo, the hopo of Immortality so de^ejaV ly uttered by the death devdiMtf <$f|jfe Suds deop response in every theqgjkSfljl soul- When about to yield his young exie tenee as a sacrifice to fate, hie CieattMlkB) asks if they should meet again, to' he replies:?'I have asked that question of the hills that loan ?of the clear streams that ?of tho stars among wheel ItM jgff azure my raised spirit has walked r? glory. All were dumb, bat a* I JMI> upon thy living face, I feel that eWf? is something in tile' hrve that through its beauty that cannot perish. We shall' meet ftgeft maotha. * ? - m mtm iv- - Thin party (to street urchin). ' what do ynu supposa that doffe log me for ?" The yuuuglHet etat? * knowing look at him andreadilyVMs>: ?'Guess he takes you for a hone!" ^lias Lyons, of Newark, afeet %*# \ brains out because she was b,ard with ktraogevs. We wondered why more hoarder* e?isaW% ' c ?mm it ::uicidc,