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From the Charteton Morcury.
Frasor, Tronholma & Co.
The ainounicemtelnt of tEi itspenisionl
of tini house vws receivveil dav before
ve: terlay by Messrs. John lFrazer &
Co , liere, and wo understand it was as
great a surprie to ihemi as tho telegraph
ic despatcies, Ib'islied in our yester
day Imiorning's Iaper, were a subject of
vs'onishinunt, and regret to our entire
comIn ItIIly.
Nothing is kinown a. to the liabilities
of t lie si-i!bi-d114li holuse., in -r)1 as to its
prosectsof btaiinga saliM6ient exten..
St'onl to enable it. to make 1ie Iiwst of
the arige stock of cotton know to be on
The firml in Calso.wme5wns
hms been.1 einelly 11,,"m-o t of oh
paatie of known rel-oibWly, will no
loubt. becoll tulirria.se hv the l iv.
pool suigension ; ut heir ii'iaviiest en.
gaiets haI-lilt l , 1.ad wo tiunder.
staid their present hj li aies are not
larg In propolrio to tb suppI e Inag
nitude of their business. Th e uitimate
p)osition, wo0 Shoub11 think, Im-Iisi. d10pend4
upon the evet m "Iivrol loortu-nn
naLely th hoso there is repIresen ted
by a gentleian ino'. ierely of' high in
tegrity, but of buiis caipacity ald
nerve eIIal Lo t le emergency
oinur some iy years this house has
stood' imongst, t.ie foremost mercantilo
houses of th Uniteid States ; and, al.
though, by the course of tiei, many of
its members have cbanged, the strong
ground of integrity, fidelity andl skill,
(I whiclh it, was oliginally Iilt, has
carried it tiirough ill ithe financial Col.
vilsions which diritig that period, have
.9hali- ithle i mercantile vorld of ileglatnd
and the I Tnited States ; and never was
it suppoled to posess higier eonents
of nereantilt! honor anid abilit y than
noiv preV ill. overlt its extlli ve intretISts.
Why the firm in Liveirpool suisp~ended
paymnilt?, we have no means ol tecouit
ing for, except ti e fall in the price of
c ottonti, Wit I hI failitre to obt ain ite bank.
ing fihisformerly extendled in Ljiv
(e.rpool. -1 is weull known. that carly
in Ithe seawon, t lino Bank of Englandl de
liberately adwpledl tho systemiatic policy
of refuisin g aecoinihodatiom.9, previoisly
;corded, to LhoC engaged in1 this trade.
The eI -cit lii hnbeei to pit. tho holders
of cottn in the power Ao the hivers ;
amll 1.t merchT11 s, Caetor, and11 1-lan110rs
of the South have, inl Li detpree'icd
pr-we of -octo, thr-oughoutl the0 Spring,
l'vt the imhlofi mtilhi'ncl f hlis g antt i
controlling instittion. The suspe;jnsion
of thi s hotis, we believ . it) bo only Hith
illis ration of facts which bei r heavilv
up1on its all. It, may e '.hat, rather than
iel! the cotton they holl at thle epressud
pioes, occasioneld by tias iuk poliy
and0 aggraviated by th paAing a ppre
hen!ios of wir in lropt il-, t he rtnr
in biverpool preferred, both on accountit
o f 1it hersa Its well a1s tieselves, to Ou.1
pend ptyment temporarily, aml hld the
cotton to e o thina Hlie hul amont, of ad
v~lnces-, accepytalnces-, &c. This wol
be it: awk ward ad pa infil alternative ;
bt, Iudir sitcl circuim tanles. the suis.
Wensionl W01uld inl no. considerale. do(.
gro affet, tie .resources of the (On
This great 1ouse seemae the chioi i f
not the only steady light hiiin itg amidst
tho mercantile gloom whiuh ritels upon
our city and laIld. W ith a f'ieelitng of
deep sadnese wi rcoirl iis sit p-nision,
yeL we cantnoct but lope thatle, mtideir thle
guidianco of t lie able an d Ihoniorale gen.'
t'iemnen who noiv rule its destinies, it
will again arise in all the ipluendor of its
f'ormrn i ut ntrpr'iso and use'fites I and55011
p~owert. If they had acted fromu mere
motiv~es of initerest, I hey might have
left its, ss ot hers hiave donie, aiiu1 gone
t o other Jaudy, to enjoiy tho a finene
Lthey. possessed. 1hut the~uy have' preferred
to1 st ay withi its in our ruin andi stive
again tLin redee t hethc comerc
cotr~y.
lu't~ :s.-Thei following sintgutlar st ate
menit was miade at a Late mee ting of the
A imericani Iustitute Farm'Lers' Club at
New York:
To prevent steetrs from jumipintg fences
clip oi'thie eyelashes oft the tinder lids
withI a patir of seissors, and( thec ability or
dispositin tojumtiitp is as5 ell'eetually de
strolyed ais Samnpsont's pawer was bhv-the
loss of hits hocks. The atintIa wil not
attemptht a fence until the eyelashes are
grownt again. Of this we are iniformied
by Samuel T1horne, te great, breeder of
Ditchess cttunty, whoii assured us that
hte had tested it upon a pair of very
breachy oxen. It was of great value to
imt, antd hie hopes it will be tried by
others.
D~REAn1FULr ]IURILESQUE. ON \IARitAC,
ICi:)tioNY.---Georg' Fratni Train, in
a recetnt speecht in New York,~ said:
"Our modern marringe service shtoidu
read thius: Clergymnan -Will von tatke
this bron stone front, this carriigo 0and
spani, and1 these diamiionil5 for' thy wed.
ded husbndl? Yes.- jLautghiter.]
WVill you ta ke this untpaidl milli ner's bil,
this highl waterfall of foreigni hair, these
affcectat~tin, accomplishimetnts and feeblo
cons titinon for thv wieddled wilt,?
[lioud Launghiter.| Y'es. Then, whaIitt
mt:iinmtont hats jotted tog~et her let thIll
niext be-st mtain run away with so the first
divorce conrt may1) tear them assuntder.
A letter from Paris, speaking of tho
fashions, says, "ast for bomnets, they
conit itnue to ba ille de siiptini they'
are so qtueer', so smiall, and withIal so
ptret ty--a morue oramtet of lace tand
llow~ers, with floatintg strings olf laecc or
tulle, wich add a nlew chiarmu to a
youthlful head."
Eggs with iron shells will bie a fact
at the Patris Exposition. A flerhin
c is~t caused his lions to produco
themn by feeding themi ont a preparaltiont
in which iron -was mnado to take the
place of lime. The eggs will do for
transortaion, but hw about the
Tho Ants of Africa
Tuesday evmning last, M. Du (Ihail.
I delivered et the Cooper Institute,
Now York, tl;o first oft a series of loo.
tures on oqjuatorial Africa, the scon<
of his late exploration. Among iany
ourious things related by him, the fol.
lowing will strike the roader as vry
remarkable :
This ovoning timo forbids that I
should speak it any length of the
iatitral histo:-y of the country. Ii
those eq tuatorial forests thoro arc
found a vaist numiinber of ants-without
the hi wh iclh I got. aenmstomleil to inl
lingland (!aIughter)--some of whiel
aire s t erI'le to mn 4, ad evel to
beasts of 01h) a lils, froin their vone
mmi1101 I., i te, the ir fie ro to it per, and vo
acity, that. thoir pia (h is freely abhaIi
doied to them The no.4 remarka
ble and inost droaded of ill is the
l.ish ikonay. .lash i konay is the nanie
given it by the Bakalai. There are
two other varieties of Bashilconiy
besides tho black kind,
Theso black l.la.hikonny may be
vell called the lords of the forest. It
is the most voracious creature I. ever
met. It is tl dread of all living
aimimals, from tihe leopard to the
smallest insects. It is their habit to
march through tihe forests in a long,
regular line, a line about two inches
broad, 1141 often several miles inl
longth ; all along this liinc are larger
ants, who act as ollcors-stand out
side the raniks and keep this singular
army in order. If they come to a
place where there are no trees to shl
ter them from the still, whose heat
they cannot bear, they immediately
build an underground tunnel through
which the whole IrIy p1ass inl ColumIns
to tho forest beyond. When they
grow hunigry, as by a suddon com
mand, the long file spread itself
through the forest., advancing for
ward, atta'ing ud devoutrimg all liv
ing things with i fury that is quite
irresistible.
Tie elopimant and the gorilla fly be
fore thei ; the black 1men1 run awly
every aiminal that lives in their line
of march is chased. In an incredibly
shortspace of time those that are
Caught are overwielned, killed,
eaten, and only the bare skeleton re
mains. They seeim to tra vel day and
iight.. Many a time10 I have been
awvaken.d out ot Sleep and obliged to
rush iito he water to save iniyself
om tiem. W\hcen they eliter a houise
theyelea it or every living thing.
Cookroaches arC dev..ureud in an in
iaint. ; rats ar.d mic e sprini g around (lie
rooLi ill vainl. They will not touch
vegetable milatter, thus they aire very
ueuful, clearing the country of maniy
isects. Wlien on t heir n marielh the ill.
seet world 11ies before them, and I
have often had the approach of t
Blashikonny army heralded to me by
th is means.
Wherever they go they make a
clan sweep, evel as8ceindl ing to the top
of trees in pursu it of' their prey.
I'IIrix mnn ner of attack is an impett
Is leap, ilstaltly the strolg pincers
are fastenied, and they only let go
when tIe piece gives iwiy. At such
" t lie this little ilisect seems an imat
nd by a kind of' fultry which causes it to
diisregard Cntirely its own safety.
The legroes relate t hat criminlis,
by whlihel t hey generally) mnean wi...
I rds, havo~Csomiie timelts been c exosed on
the paithm of' th li ash ikonn y aniits, tied
toi a tree so they iniight not escap le,
tnd thlen were dlevoulred to thle bones.
They arc largrer than anlts we have ini
Amer'ica. Th'le iuimb her of' oni of their
ilrnyies is so gr'eat~ thait (one does not
l ike to ontet' into' calenlat(ions, but I
limt seenL)il a cointitinnoinsI le passineg at
I goo d speed a partenla h ph llice tor
wvelvye hours. So yo1u~l um~ mgine1
iow muany miiill ious~ the re mally have
been.
JLa martino is a billIIianimt r'omancer,
r fine prot, anl in~d iferenit hi istor'ian, a
first rate feuilletoniste, anid t he v'ery
prince of beggars. ill 18-18 it. wouild
eem he hand ani incomei of a bont 210,
[tO0 francs. he sale of thle homie..
stead~ at Milly, andt the trIansferCl of' a
valuable vinecyar'd, brought him1 a iiiil
l ion of francs. liis '"Voyage en
Drint"' brought him 400,000 francs;
'eJotcelyni" 500,000 frnles ; thle ''11is
toir e's f Gi rond ilns,'' 25),t000 franes.
lie received in 18.19, frmomn the sal e ot'
SSS, and other sources, niot less than
i million friancs. Th'le sale of the
ompleto edition of his works t ransfers
him 2,5'00,000 francs. But why eon
tinue this catalogue ? These are only
i f'ew of the utany sources from which
money flowed annually in streams in to
aur poect's coffers, but all in vain.
Tlhio said eofl'ers were vei'y leaky.
Them Corps Leg islautif has recenitly
gran ted him 500,000 francs as a na
tional recompense ; but this is a mere
irop in the bucket. IIis debts are
maid to be stupendous, Ie needs a
guiard(ian. The /henig />'ost says
'A man~ wvhio thiniks that Ossian is the~
qual of Danto and thle superior of
Ilomluer', would seemu ipsefhet:> nnfit to
be trusted withi the nmanagenment of
property or the transaction of' busi
Coleridge wvas descanting, in the
pCronlonc of Charles LambI, upnibl then
r'elativo appearance of the oyster'. "It
isn't handsomne, Coleridge," satid
Lamb ; "but it lias thle advantage of
youl in one thing." "W~hat is that l'"
quer'icd (Coleridge, who, as every one
knowus, wias an (ixhautstless talker. It
knows when to shut his mot, was
tihe reply.
Three dogs in the neighmborhlood of
Kenton, Ohio, a few days ago, killed
forty shooep, worth from $4 to $5 per
head. To test the guiilt of one of tihe
dogs, lie wvas takeni into a dootor's of
flce, ehloroform admi inistored, an
opening 11nad(o and lisa stomache exam.
iied. Wool being foutha ini that or
gall, they conoluded not to sew him up
ain.i
Iiight to build a road from Cohinnbia to
Augu-sta, they' "'list so exercise th.,
biht as nut t violate th rights of oth.
irs.
awre ' a lies not inoroly to
ilj ri(s by propri ty, but inchides injuries
to rigits. (.Jeffries vs. Williams, 5 Ex
choqpawr 597 )
It (2:i11,o hedemd tihat the right to
?0 the, keep1 tip and1 emlo a railrond(
fromn Claules~tonl to I :1bnburg is exci-.
:iein the Suth Car'Aliai l t i lroad
Cou II an11y.
Nomt'r whence they derived it.
thr-y have it. T:. excilus-Ive rigin.1 at
kachr-i. to ar.y foot of thr* tric(. Oth
erillti.4 fllows. : that althoughl ad!
it telly h i tta(ttI IubOw nort, Ciritetr a
rir! A:: A toi I ', she mighit catrter a
jlii om A to 131. and 1roi 11 Lo C, ami
id) indiretcily what sho could not do
d1i rev,1IV. The ecuhionl demlonstrates
the failryv of thle reasoniln'g.
N 1 oiter. how Short tho distaice a
Im4d1d nuid comlet ing road tLverses, to
Ib:l f': nut it destroys tibo exclusive
fpnvih-ge.
The distaneo simply measures I he
Im/11rm11ir if, d.utiage.
'IV. Rta could tot grant. a, charter
for a roal front Green ville to I llaihurg.
Call the Coimbia antd A.uigustit Con
imny, without any authority under
their charter, do that, which Ile StLatU
could not give 1 Iitiei po wer to do 7
Ur1ler tleir ciarter their power is
sinply to construct, a road from Coluin.
Im to Auuita. There is no authori ty
Ci% to(it ihei t) construct theirroas oite
Ie iteyIn, ad they deflect from the
loper route in so duing. They can ex
-rit Ihier fill elirtered rights without
ich nudr I the igt s of othrs. iry
<hrieti to inifriing.
Ti dirrct roitc muvay be imtoro costly
t. iiw orrtset. E~ pe:irice ba shrw in
that mI the end (he li most direc-t. ii tho
in11) einm;leil rote. Bil, te miles
ilo ofgr al.ror lesconit eandI( enter!
!I. lie' I Midel to I1, witS a ii t er to
IW mo irwd bfoe nuSbQin the wrk.
Thr w 1 noii ob1itiorn Ipn th()m
ito fi' d t,bi riod, but there is aill
) nA to violate tIe t i if
! w h I r l in g c :a I - o f th erO C h a rle S
eir 1 ilvm m th11141 \Warr n 1 lidg
(I I P t rt) roth crioirtios wVr.
uiterrd forr the saim purpose with
a h''tiMle iivgr., a i d by the same
I ' a -:. No exhive' privih-'g
wer' :'ui-d to Ilh fir. corpo:iuin,
atnd iOw yTiwo as whietherti t e Itu,
by% 1 the ir rAt. o power id so dives.
t, hrfof fir soveroignty 1u,"(1wl
ii . 'i jrct trattler ias to <h-r'fiive hier oif
e'..' (of o t'aitin.; vPmu I i to
I! inlt as there was no conchrluive
r : lre therei'o are. Thoro the
Conlst'1 Wa:3 hLOIween the0 conflicting.
ai:rIrnr lwr t he contest, i.; bettwieent a
rt ciI-raltiol with a elrarter atithlorizing
1hw r.an from (itanitcovillo to Iftllnblurl
-ItIu1l a comopauly having Ito athora1.y,
I-) VWo trulet, a road from11 (11ranlitevil to
labrg, be'tween aL Charter1 ad a T
pans, ad the coimlon law doct rine .ip..
phe'; with itsi fidl force. 1:3 llaukstonie"
Cntitliarieg, 2119 ; Yard ivs. lVord 2
Sr riunders, 1 ' I I .i.zzy, is. Field, 2
Croimpton. Ai n & laR-coe, 432. The
Irlingon Maiket, J 01. & Fii:, 513;
0 h ibhns IN, Ogden, 4 Joln C(h . 150 ;
Tuniik Co., VS. Millr, 5 John Ch.,
I I1.: Stalk 1w. Mclowil, I Nutt & Me.,
:18i ]
I f ' te (Cohimiti andt .l .nugtusta Comnpa.
iy cou' mld niot build thIt road f'rom Gran
it vlle to H attuurg, withi a char'ter
a lutorizig it, a i futri', they cant 1)I
dor it wiithounil s'tieh atholriity,
It i5 alb-gJ, by~ theO defendranis, tht.
wV evr lmay be the ri gh: o)1 the comi
plnit itis, tireyI hiave been't foe, by Iaches
aw! la pae of t ime.
f', ia as fte pjected roaid frioim
(irniteridle to 1llambhurig is coneeriied,
thi.. obijcetioin nmy be att. oice disiposed
f. 'Thtt road, to fa tais wio arie infoum
i, tief m ,L delnitely loented--e'irtmn.
lyi noworki las bteen donto uporn it,. and
we 1 are' mnluena:ble to te cha rge of [tn
seemli y fiaste ra te than to thatt of
lachues. Nor is tLhere anyt mtuch hetter
Iihtomut for thle chargo of iaches wvithI
refe!rentce to tite test of the road.
A s yet. no' damage htas acerned to the
'Theire is tillly a possibilty~ of' ditmatnge.
No righit orf action has yet actruted at,
it w; andt it is somtwhlat, anhomialouts to
to hohuul tim~t t bhough~ stfuiit. time) haIS
no01t'ichjpsted to give' a legal right of'
aet on, thle eqtuitable righit of' actiont is
barred by Ilapso of' timei. The better
dmoctrin e, we atppirehtel, is that eqit y
follhowns thre law, antd baris hiiun whIo Is
ba rredl at law. [Story, Equity Juris
prudent'lce. 8ec. 1520, notes.] The real
T wtio is: li(no the (ohulmbla and Au
giusta Conmpanty thre right to btuild their
road ? If thiey have, thue South Caroli
nai l iroad Comipatit ny mut siubmi tns
bestI they' mayit to theo copetition. II
bhey itmve notn, then they have made a
gravi mi Ois take it em barkingt thieirtfundts
m1 ain .!n'gal uindertakiing. It waat ther'
dutty to herVe as~certainelId their rights
be~f'ro t hey exptunded thecir mone~y, dfj
the av iye bee(11ntmist akent as to lie:ir
riiht , t hey murst , li ke ot her msetn, hetar
tihe bturen of thirt miistakes. .llow
ev' r iincent, thieir miitake, they can
not ad1 the court to shuft the burden
ofC thenir error's from I temselvues to tihe
Sorthi 'tu Caoina {iuilrtoad Uoimpany.
hi;matn fr'omi l'itts-ylvantiai informns us
thuat ,iinty otf the idattirat' are !ucttin
iut their planits, antd tht. 0 greatt dean
hans been'i planted thIiis weeck. (One
g:enutleminut alone hais planited 150,O0
bill ;L and othiers nearly an eqlual
numberi~i. We aret told of' thtree large'
lant tr ltwho wizll cult ivate this season
500)tt,000 plautts. [I 'mants of what ?]
Unsuroe thie wic'ks of' yourt kerosene
hn ip-n ar'o brigo enoutgh to till thle
Itu..es, othlerw ise, whelin the oil gets
low, the tire mtay run down insido the
intmp, igito the gas and prtodutce an
.~mk -kA A A X
Obituary,
Sit ARiniI1iALD ALISON.
The cable brings us intelligence o
the death of tle celebrated Instorian
Sir Archibald Alison. In tho world o
letters, in the early part of the present
century, there was nono so colet)ratue
as lie. 1His writings, graceful and able.
were seized with avidity by the Eng
lish and American reading public, and
the labors of his maturer years prove ol
invahiable service to the btudent of Eu
ropean history. He was born at Ken
ley, Decemiber, 29, 1792, his fatier, u
Seoelh divinle, having" before him creat
Pd for himself a name as the mbor 01
"lason Taste," niapearg inl thle
1l'linhmryht Review. .E' hi nted at, the
U Ii versit f lnbrg, Ie adoited thie
law ror a professioni in 181-1, aid, hav
inig Iraveled considerably over 'i )rope,
he was, inm 1823, appoiteid to the hlon
orablo position of Advocate Galeneral.
lroiii this post. he rose graduially, distiln.
gu'ishing himself for it keen, enere
lawyer, nd in 1828 lie becmi a iem
her of Ie Crowi (Counci Il. ou r years
lat-r I was appoit.ed Sheri of o Ian.
atrkshir-e, anii oflice Which is, in Scotlaiid,
the hightst jdilicial station next to ihe
bnichi. In the ,amie year lie puIb slisheI
his firit vork-a railier dry one-"The
Fl ilneiples of Criminal faaw," an i a year
later a companion vohtie from his pen
appeared, "'The Practice of the Crimi.
nul lmw." By these two works his
repitation as a writer was established,
and so much wore they e(steemed that.
they became siaidard nuthorities with
fle bar of Scotla'id. lie now t urned
his attoLntion to the great work with
which his inmo wi0l a!wvays be associa
ted. 'The first volume of "The I listor.
of Eura pe" appeared in 1833, and the
sucpr~ssivo years. 'T'lis work achieved
an inmense success. It ran through a
large number of editions in England, was
reprinted in th is couity, and translated
iiito renich, Grma, and even Arabic
and 11inloostanuue. This well known
work is one ofh Ilie most remarkabhle his
torical composit ions in existence. The
in formation contained in it, imust have
t1aken a ha rge number of years in its
compilatioi, anl a considmerable charm
attaches to it from its entire reliability.
Sometimesa the auth'or allows himself to
be biased by his high Tory prinviples,
hut these occasions are few, and IIIe
work is probabiy thei most unprejtidieil
that may be found. To those who have
seen it, the clearness of' tle style and
brilliancy of theideas centained in it,
must have beeni apparent., aiid the latei
vOliles to the timo of tho assertions of
Louis Napoleon are characterizeil bv a
conscientious accuracy and unbiased
criticism.
The othber works of Sir Archibald
Alison are his "lrinciples of Populhtion''
aid "I ife of the lUnko of Marlborough."
[i 1851 Ie was elected Rector of the
Glascow University. and a -o after the
founition of Lie Drby-Dis-, .eli Cabi.
iet, was created a Baronet, I Iis death
forms a gap in the literary world dificult.
of tilling up).
A Man-Wolf.
Rev. Dr. Butler, the well known mis
sionaty in Indin, recently reAtirned to
ilis country. lie makes the following
stateenit of a remarkable case:
In 1839 a British soldier, while bear
iig a dispatch from one magiste
anot'he inte iigdoim of Oiude, passed
an nfrquetedravine, w~here hsaa
imkof' woinves, atad with them a human
beiing, evidently one of their comnpany.
immied iately Lu ring back ho reported
tie circums aince ti) the mag'istra to for
whomm lie *ias t raveling. T1hie latter
Coirtltwitht mustered a number of Coolies
andut went to the place. The p~ack of
wolves tied a shiort distancie and sought
refw.ge in a sort of deni or cave. Begin.
niog to dig, the party soon discovered
thme feet of the wild man and dlrawinio
hui n forth, cneceeded in bi iuling and ear
rymiig hiim to the town. Dlr. Butler
tins ein lim i often since, andie says li
is evideiitly a miani. amid at mthe time of
his ciipture appiaremntly abhout twenty.
four years of ag:.
The catptured creature at first vio
lenttly resisted the atItempt to puit eloth
mg' uponi him, but after a while ceased
to teari the gamriment. 11 , is now kent
ba gentlemman in the cit~y of JThahje
VTaniiIore, somoi eighti h'undred mites
wvest of Calcutta. \Vhlen first. takenI lie
was unmwillimig to eat anythming bit, rra w
meat, aind hias niever been able to speak
or miiko anmy approximation to a knowl.
edge of the alphabet. If any' omne looks
earnestly or shasrphy at, him, Ie express.
'es his annoyance by a half uittered grunt
itmmediately turning awvay and settling
np)onI his hatnches in a corner of the
ruom, or lies down. HeI eats his food
off' t~bo grotund ; and al- hioiigh evident),
a human being is in habits a wol, with
the instincts of that beast. '
T1his is certainly an anomalous fiact in
natural history, although it is said that,
four sitmilar instaiices iare known to have
occturred in Iiidia, preemitig thme same
genieral facts. Wolves abond itt India,
where the iinhabitants live wvholly in- the
cities atid villages ; anid at the approach
ofntight all persons emnployedl in the
opeii counttry ret ire to these einsm era of
houses or huiB, aiid thiese moviti and
ferocious aninmals find free range. It
frequently hamppens that a wvolt ste'als
into a house anid carries ofTra child. So
frequently is this the case that in the
schebules [furnished for recording the
inort ality in easch place, one column is
headed, "Carrned cfr by wolves."
Dr. utler's theory of this strango
case is that a she-wvolf probably carried
oWl this person whien hie was an infamit,
but that. before site devoured her prey,
the chil instiiitively scarched for food.
IBeginnling to draw its nourishmenit, it
awoke in the wolf' the maternal instinct
wvhich led to the preservation of its
life, ,and thus th13- boy lived and
grew.
"Is them follows alive now 2" said
an utrobtin. to his teachier. "Whiat
follows do you mean, dear ?" "WVhiy,
PuadLuke, and Deuteronomy,
Remarkablo Wedding.
The Dayton (Ohio) J'uirnal is rcspon.
f sible For the followingr Story
IJuesday morning at coiplo appeared
r in the Probato Court and domanded a
marriage license. When the moment
arrived for paying the fee the man was
backing out, but tio woman said lie
shouldn't do that, "not by any means,"
and she paid for the license. Tio coup.
h, soon afterward appeared at Justice
Turner's ofllce, and the woman mado
known herIi "intentions." The unusual
appearance of tie "happy couple" at
iracted unusual attention, and a large
crowd was soon gathered there to See
the solemn ceriemonles. Whenl t h
Couple vere asked to stiand up and face
the muic, the, groom0 a1 : in tried
to back out ; and tie bride seeing-, there
was no other way for it, remarked that
le'd got, to stand it, and there was lo
nw-a talkinig about it.. She cauiglt, hold
of the dloubti ing Thiomia and sqjmmluared
him up1before tlw judti*ic, with the or
ler for him to ",ail iii !" Jsit then the
qumiere :arose as to w nhere 1he fee for* t.h11
I I)m ofi the hliilenni''a kinot, was to OMle
frot1. The limat saiid he couldn't stand
hO exi ons'. Tho wOii an asserted1I
that she hid paid fot' thle license, :ami
the i1m should pay for. tie amarying.
Ifi! protested thatt, he would'nt, and that
he'd go to Cincinnali to work. Tth
wornan canight him as he wias slipping
away from the matrimonial noose, threw
him down oil the floor, and, taki-ig some
moneyv from his pockets, she deliberately
paid the Justice his fee, and then, hohl
ing on to her "feller," the knot was tied
in diue Corm. All the while the bride
was munching peanuts, and when the
ceremnoily was concluded tho floor was
littered with the shells. The brido sit
luted her husbaindI with "Tom, you're a
liar!" Congt.ratulat idionii to the happy
couple were itirly showered down, .and
were characterized more for tir robuis
ticity than for their delicacy; and l.h1o
brilen am ad room It. "the presence" in
a condition of johllity whicht foretold a
boisterous honey ioon. W het last. seen
the ammble spouse shoved her lord into
the gut ter at the crnler of J effersonl and
Second stroets.
One of the stranmmgest wairs of the
day is the sibjoined letter from
l'rohst, writteni only two days before
his execution. The Philadelphia
/iuW I'ulli I uihes it, for the first. t i :in
Pit .tiniA, June 6, 186G.
"A good dream.
"In lkio Iight, from tihe 2d to the
3d of June, I had a good dream,
h icI gave ie great joy. .1 camle)( in
to the house where the family Ii vCd
which I have mui rd ered, I met tiemn
altogether ; all the eight persols sit
ting it the table, and wheu I opene-d
the door they all arose from the table,
and all 1look liaids withitie and rocciv
ed ie withthe greatest Joy anId love,and
asked where 1 caime from and where 1.
had stayed so long. And they asked
11e if I would not. stay with then ;
they would give te all I wanteI if I
would only stay with themut. I have
seen all tle cight personis standing be
fore time as if alive ; even the little
baby I saw in its miother's lap, and it
r.cogn ized me, and it smoiled and
gave ie its little hand to shake, and
then [ got awake.
W'Xritten b~y mmyself.
"A NsoN PROnsT."
Cosscuriiou.- A revolutiontary
sold ier was runnitig for Congress, and
his opponent was a yottng matn who llad
"ntever boen to the wars," and it w~as
the custom of old Revolutionary to
toll the htardshtips lhe had endured.
Said hli:
"Fellow-citizens, I have fought and
bled for myu country. hiIth lped to
whip the Brit ishi andl Taiains. I1
have slept on thte fieldi of' battle with
itoothe ceoveriing tha tn thle cainopiy of'
heaveit. 1 have walked over' thte fr'o
zen groutnd till ever'y footstep was
manrk ed withb blond.
Just about this time, one of thme
sovereigns who had become greatly in
te'rested int his talhe oif sutffer'ing, walk..
ed upl in front of' the speaketr, wviped
the t eat's from his eyes with the ex
tiremity of' his coait tail, and interrutpt
ed hiiim with:
"Didju vou say youi hazd font the Brtit.
isht ad thle Iinj ins T'
'Yes, sir.'
'Did you say you had slept on t.1
grotud while serving your .- ry
without any kivor P
'I did.'
'Did you s our feet kivere8 the
groumnd you wu lked over with blood ?'
'~xreplied the speaker, exulting
ly 'V
'Well, then,' said the tearful sov
ei'oign, as Ito gave a sign of fearful
emotion, 'I guess I'll vote for' tho
tother fellow, for I be blamed if you
ain't done enough for your country'
writer ini the WVisconisin F"armer ilius.
ra tes thle pr'ofitabhleness oif whecat raisine
in Alinsota by a sinigle extgpiple..
hioutr ot' fivo years ago lie purghased a
piece of prairie land ini Sharon, Mfinno.
sota, whtich was thought, to bo nearly
worn out, Ott whlich he last year raised
mighteeni bushiel~s of wheat to the acre.
Ont accounmt of the grain sproitting aiter'
being cuit, some thirty butshels of light
whetit wvere thrown out by the threshing
machines; b~esidesq -about aln aci'e was
dest royed by cattle before hiarvest, otheor
wisei thte yield would have beemn twenity
bushels per acr'e. The! price of I le land
was $i atn acre, bimng $1 38 for t wentty.
three acres, tho field in qtuestion. TIhe
mtarketab~le wheat, aumoumnting to sonme
hiroo hiunudred amid seventty bushels,
was sold at the averago price of $1 40)
per)C bushel, realiinig $,518. 'A11 oxpen.
sesC, iincludiig seed, amuntted to some
*$190, *322 renmainuig,beinig more than
twvice the amnounlt paid for it realized out
of ono crop. a .
"I'll take the responsIbility," as
Jonks said whoenlio held out his arms
for the biby.
4
Ilorriblo Story.
A sHIP OF InA'riu FLOATS INTO A PoRT
OF IiS siir.TLAND ISLANDS.
Since the time when the Ancient
Mariner told the terrible tilo of tio
curse laden ihlip, with her crew of
ghastly corpscs,ino more tirill iig story
of tho sea has been related than that
of the whole ship Diana, that recently
drifted into one of the Shietland Is
land s.
A year ago she left the Sietlinds (I
a whaling voyage to the Arctie re
gionis, having Oi board Iirfty itie.
From that timeo nothing mr ;
heard of her. The friends of tho lso
on board became alarmed. aoty
was raised and premiums offered to
til) first vessel tha t woild britg t id inigs
of the imissiing sht ip, blit all to no avull.
Llope was ahnost abanadonted.
On the 2d of April, the people neiar
liona's Voc, in one of the Sh i cal
Isles, wore startlel at se n ia... ab
ly wreck i' a ship sailing into die lar
bor.
Battered aind ico-crushed, sa1ilstand
cordage cit, alway, boats anli Spars Cut
up i far ueIl in t t terrifie Arctic win
ter, he r decks clvretd wiith dead and
dying, he lost l)iana sailel in like a
shn ip from Dead ma t's Laid. Fifty
min1 sailed out of, Lerwick inl her, on,
a, bright May morning, last year. All
of the fift.y caie back on her on tie 2d
of' A pril, this year ; the same, yet how
different !
Ten men, of whom. the captain was
one, htv stiil'ened corpses on the deck ;
thirty-ive lay helplessly sick, and
some dlying ; two ratained suilicient
strength to ercep aloft, and the other
three crawled feebly about the deck.
T'lhe ship was boarded by the island
ers, and, as they cli mnbed over th lhul
wrks the man at the wheel f'ainteal
from excitement ; one of the sick ien
died as he lay, Ihis deati being an-.
iiouiieed by the i fllow oceipait of' his
birtl feebly Imoa ning: "Take awav
this dead inan." ( Ot tle bridge i'f
tle vessel lay the itody ofte cap ta inI,
ms it had Iain four months, with ninea
of his shilmtnates by his side, all le
ecntly laid out by tioiase who expected
soon to.ltare their fate.
'he survivors coiId not hear to sink
lite bodies t their omrades into the
sea, but kept thmli so that, whent tle
last itli died the fated ship that 1 had
beetn their Cominilt imlie should bo
their connnon tonab. ,THe surgeon of
the ship worked faitlhf.ully to the hst,
lwt Cold, liniiger, scurvy and dyseite
ry were two mitehi for iin. Tie brave
old captain was the first victim, and
died blessig his menta. Thn ite olters
fel, ole by onte, tii the ship was
teiantel oily by the dhmil anl tte dy
iM. Ote night moro at sea woulal laavo
left the Diana a floating cofint. Notonto
of the li'ty would have lived to tell tie
ghastly tale.
Nh(ms llis P'OSm'ON-l'The "Fait
Contributor,'' while at, Nashvill, re
cently, was reqtested to define his po
sition on polities, wlich lie did in a
letter to "atolm 11appy," of the Nash
Ville /Banner, as follows :
"I am aware of the necessi ty of
knowingL( just where a mm stnuids in
these times which try mtten' 'sols
as wiell as the uplper Ileat her'.a ao
gin with, T attm anold Henrtmy Claty
Whig, of the lFol k Sc'hool . I believ'c
in the I ard'~ Ciudar latform of' 1810,
d urinhg whtich I. east a soittewitmt color
cel vote faor Jackson. I voted against
the assassintIioni of incolni. I 'avoi'- *
ed thea Maime Imnw until they fihei on
our' flag, together with our flag-stones,
wh'len I went in foi' a vigorouts pr'ose
entionm of peace. [ am in ftav'or oaf wo.
mana's right s, if it is a good-looking
womtan tand site writes to mec. I don't
know much about thie Monroe lDoc
trinia, andl ats for horse (loctoring, I1
don~t't, know aniythaing at all,
wouldn't vote to olige a Mormon to
have mtore thtan one wife and amnop
pousedl to init roducing cholera into the
terr'itor'ier. 1 go int fot' a tax on wat
terfallIs, and am willinug to allow el'
nonus representation in (tongria' a I .to
htasis of' paopul ation. Fita' I "
favort of al low ig the . gro) to v'ote ini
thte South-it is t ... o'nly way to mtko
P-'V 1n"o JosiH BtI,.tNt'.
I unmant naiture is thto samno all over
Ito world, 'ccipt in New Eniglanxd, anid
hotri' it is 'cord in to circumstaneos."
"Rumn is good ini its place, and Itll
is the place for it."
"If I had ta boy wh~o din't lie ntuff
to suit me, I wvold set him to tendinig a
retail dlry goods store."
"Whetn a foll owv gets to gain diown
htill, it dus settm as thlo' oveiryth ini
haid been groased fotr th aeokashun."
"lie whio kan ware a shirt a w
week anid keoep it klheani, ain't fit ori
enntythinrg else.
"I never knu a fool who hadn't a
good voice."
"''Thieves hunt in couples, but a
liar' hits nto aecomitplice."'
"(live tho devilo his diue, r'eads weoll
neumf' in priovot'b ; but, by frienid, wht
will becotmo of mue anmd y'ou if this ar
rantgemtent iz car'ried out?1"
A lady in P'aris i'ecently gatve a
conceit at liar hiouse. "Do. you like
lossinti P' sai1 die to oneo of btor e
guests. "Rtossini ? indeed I do ; ho
is mty favorito comp~oser."' "Are youa
fta miliar wi th h is Barlher (of Seville)?''
'"Oh, dent', nto,'" was the reply ; "I al..
ways shatve mtyself."~
A stranger itt a pr'inting oflice ask
ed tho youngest atppirenttice what his
rule of' puntuaiti wats. 'I set uip its
long as I can hold( my breath, then J
make a comma ; wheti I galp, I insert
a setmi-coloni ; and when I wanit a chiaw
of tobacco, I mtako a pairaigratph.,
A pearson asked an Ir'ishmtian why ho
wore his stockintgs wrong side outwatrd.
"liocatuiS," said ito "there's a hole oiu
the otheor side,"