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A * The Beaufort Tribune. YOL. II.?NO. 41. BEAUFORT, S. C., AUGUST 30, 1876. $1.50 PER ANNUM. The Bride's Story. When I was bnt a oonntry lass, n >w fifteen years ago, I lived where llows the Ovororock through meadows wide and low ; There first, when skies were bending bhio and blossoms bowing free, I saw the ragged little boy that went to echool with me. Itis homespun coat was frayed and worn, with patches covered o'er, His hat?ah, such a hat as that was novor seen before. The boys and girls, when first he came, they shonted in their glee, And jeerod the ragged little boy who went to school with me. H is father was a laboring man, and mino wee highly born ; Oar peoplo held both him and his in great contempt and scorn ; They said I shonld not stoop to own a playmate such as he, The bright eyed, ragged little boy who went to school with me. Yet spite of all the jeers aroond from children better dressed, My heart went out to meet the heart that beat witbiu hie breast ; His look was fowl, his voico was low, and, strange as it may be, I loved the ragged little boy that went to school with me. For yoare they had forgotten him, but a hen again we met, His looks, his voice, his gentle ways, remained in memory yet; Tlioy saw Mono the man of mark, but I could otily see That bright eyed, ragged little boy that went to school with mo. Ho had romembered me, it seemed, as I remembered him, Nor time, nor honors, in his mind the cherished j.ast could dim ; Yotnig lovo had grown to older love, and so today ycu see I wod thj ragged hitlo boy who went to schoo^ with wc. BORN A CRIMINAL. T.ic Story of Connecticut's Most Awful Ciime. One of tlie most atrocious crimes ever perpetruti din this country in early days, and indeed ranking with the most horriblo over known in the United States, was the murder of the Mallory family, at Washington, Conn., about ten miles from the town of Litchfield, in the year 1780. In the month of December, 1779, a ragged, penniless, wandering stranger appealed to the charity of old Mr. Caleb Mallory, resident of the town of Washington, for a night's lodging and a meal of victuals. The person thus appealing was not over nineteen years old, and though large for his age, had a countenance that made him seem younger than he really was. In answer to Mr. Mai lory's questions, he said that his name was Bornett Davennort: that ho had not n. world, and that ho wan entirely friendleas and liomolefiB. The old man's kind heart was touched by thin tale of woe, ami he readily proffered the shelter of hia homo aa a homo for the young man jus long aa he might desire to avail himself of it, an oiler which Davenport promptly accepted. At this time Mr. Mallory and hia aged wife bad living with them threo orphan graudekildreji?two girls named Eunice and Eliza, and a boy named David?the offspring of Ouptain Eben M dlory, the old man's only son. who had been lost at Roa. Ilia kind entertainers were, of coarse, unaware that the one whom they thus accepted aa, temporarily ut least, a member of their family, was a born criminal ?one whoso instincts wore entirely peiverted to evil, and who had never, in his short life, given any sign of the possession of any moral perceptions whatever. Harnett Davenport had boeu born of parents who, if not actually oriminals themselves, were certainly u, wickedly indifferent as to whether their son beoamo one or not. They lived near New Haven, and from hie earliest youth Baruett, instead of attending school and reoeiving any moral training from his parents, was pormittcd to associate unrestrainedly with the worst boys of the town. Ho was from early years unprincipled, profane and impious. Before he was nine years old he was an expert in cursing and swearing, and an adept in mischief. At eleven years he begun to pilfer ; at thirteon ho stole money ; ai til teen ho entertained thoughts of murder, and rapidly waxed harder and bolder in wickedness. " Notwithstanding his eviljinstinots and'habits, he managed to behave pretty well for a oo.iplo of months, wbilo living with the Mallory family, aud quite won the kind hearts of the old folks, who could scarcely have treated him bettor had he been their own son. There is reason to believe, however, that daring this timo he was, with base ingratitude and diabolical cruelty, planning in his mind a most horrible orimo?nothing less than the slaughter of his benefactors, that he miglit possess himself of their most valuable offsets. On the night of February 8, 1780, Barnett Davenport deemed that the time had come for the exeoation of his infernal purpose. He slept in a small room off the kitchen, at tho back of the house, while Mr. Mallory and his wife occupied tho front room on tho sooond floor, over the parlor. Tbo boy David, seven years old, had a bed iu a little bedroom adjoiniug the apartment of his grandparents, and his sisters were ;n the back room on the same floor. From this arrangement it will be readily seen that it must have been easy for Davenport to mako, unobsorvedly, all the preparations necessary, when the chosen time came, for the awfnl butchery he contemplated. At a little after midnight on the date stated, whilo there raged such a terrible storm that there was small danger of any person being abroad to hear any extraordinary noises which might arise in tho house, Burnett Davenport arose from his bed, dressed himself, and made ready for his crime. He had been for two days making a groat pile of pine shavings, in a shed outside the kitchen, under tho pretense of building a nico cupboard for Mrs. Mallory. Theso shavings ho now carried in and strewod about tho floor ol tho parlor, tho kitchen, and the diningroom that lay between them, and over them he poured a gallon of turpontine. Then putting on an old pair of over alls and n jacket to keep bin clothing from being slaiue'd witn blood, he armed himself with a great knotty club of green hickory wood, and ascended the stairs to the apartments where tho old folks slept. In those days locks noon inside doors were seldom used iu private houses, and the Mallory residence was no exception to the general rule of omission of such security. To enter the chamber of his benefactor, tho assassin had nothing to do but to raise a common latch. The light he carried awoke Mr. Mallory, aud, in surprise, ho turned and h: If nioso iu his bed, but had no time to utter a word, for in an instant the huge club, wielded by the sturdy villain, descended upon his head, cracking his skull like an egg Bhell. The old woman had been awakened tho same moment, and, before a second blow could bo aimed at her, gave one cry of terror. It was her last. The next instant she w is stretched by the side of her husband. To mako assurance doubly sure, the murderer's heavy club descended a^ain and again upon tho heads of tho old couple, dashing ont their brains, and finally he drove deep into tho throat of each the blade of a big carvii g knife which he had brought from the kitchen. At this moment ho heard the voice of little David calling from the next room. "Ginn'pa! Grau'pa! what is the m ittor ? What arc yon doing ?" As nearly as ho could, Davenport imitated the old man's tremulous, high pitched voice,calling in response: "Davy, boy, come hero," and planted himself close to tho door, with the dripping knife in his hand. A moment more, and the littlo fellow, with nothing on one ms uigntgowu, bounded into tho room, only to have bis throat clutched by the assassin's powerful hand as he crossed the threshold. When the lad hed been choked so that he could not ciy out, Davenport transferred his clutch to poor Davy's long brown ringlets, dragged his head back and with or.e slash of the keen knifecut his throat from ear to ear. Now all was still. Tho murderer, grasping again his club, walked on tiptoe to the door of the littl" girls' room and looked in. Thoyhad not awakened. Ho hesitated. TIicd, turning hack into the room whero his bloody work had hot u done, ho fastened the door upon the children, by bracing a chair nguinst it, so that not even a strong man could have opened it from the inside. Now he proceeded to gather tho booty for which he had done the horrid d? edis already stated. Out of an old chest he drew some pieces of solid silver pi ite. From a bureau drawer ho took ?40 in gold and silver. In the pockets ot the old couple he found a silver wotvh an>rahoiq twenty or thirty shillings in silver, xhe gold wedding rings, oi ee massive, hut now worn thin, he tore from the fingersof thedead. Thoroughly he searched the apartment, but this was all that ho could find worth carrying away. First he put tho plate in a pillow slip, and carried it ont into the. yi.rd, pocketed the other valuables, andthen proccoded to fire tho house. Rolling the corpses from tho bed upon the floor, ho tossed aside tho bloody feather bod upon which they had reposed, and fiom beneath drew two largo straw beds, tho contents of which he scuttered about the floor. Thon he drew into the center of the inflammahlo pilo some brands from the open fireplace, saw the straw Kiuciio, ami quickly run down to tho floor beneath, where in each room he touched liia caudle to the turpentiuo soaked sliuviDgs. In nu instant the whole house was ablaze. Before, howover, tho glaring light shining through tho windows of adjacent houses bad alurmed the neighbors, Barm tt Davenport had escaped in the d nkr.ess, oarrying with him the bag of silverware. Good as had been his arrangements for a conflagration, its progress was less speedy than ho doubtless hoped it would be. Tho walls of the house were of stone, and inside it was very solidly bnilt. Four young men who happened to be sitting np in a neighboring lionso were the first to arrive at the fire. The flames on the first floor were so furious that they could not dare to enter there, but they placed against a window on the second floor, wlicro the fire did not yel seemed to have rcaohed, a long, stoul pole?the ''well-sweep"?and two ol them, climbing up thereby, entered th( window. Tho loom into which thej thus came was that of the boy David, They fonud no one there. Then thej 1 uaflnca opon tlio door leading to the | room of tbo old folks, and amid th< burning straw and blazing furniture they i discovered the corpses of Mr. and Mrs. i Mallory and the lad. Two only of these they were able to rescue?the old man ami the boy?and these not without receiving severe burns. Then tho fast advancing flames drove them out. " They are all murdered I" cried one of tho young men from the window, sending a i thrill of horror through tho little crowd of neighbors already gathered below, i Tho bodies handed down seemed to i prove the truth of the avermont. Their ghastly wounds looked doubly horriblo I by the tierce glare of the flames. The dreadiul shock had the effect of temporal ily paralyzing tho energies of those who gathered about thoso frightful evidences of a crimo infinitely more terrible than anything the quiet little i town had ever known before, and no attempt was made for some minutes to check the fire. Those few minutes were f sufficient to put the flames beyond the possibility of control. Suddenly the noi3e of breaking glass and an agonized shriek resounded from tho ba^k part of the house. Tho crowd ran around there and saw at ono of tho windows tho face of the eldest of the two sisters. She was screaming for help with her head thrust out through the window sash, and the fire i already lighting up behind her. The i younger sister could Dot be seen. No ladder was obtainable, and the i " well-sweep," upon being brought around to this window, was found to be several feet too short, as the ground behind tho house was lower than in front. A ?11 - > ' ' - ckuiu ?.'! vujkib uiiiuu 10 me cnnu, "Jump out 1" "Jump out of tlio window !" lmt she appeared to bo too much terrified to "know what was paid to her. Men ran in n'.l directions seeking ladders or poles long enough to reach the child, but before any could bo found, the smoke overcame her, she sunk down out of sight, aud in a few minutes more the beams, having been burned through, the whole thaw was seen to sink down into the first story, which was by this time a hugo furnace, bearing the poor child with it, beyond all possibility of human aid. Suspicion at once fell upon Harnett Davenport. An intuition of his guilt seemed to pervade tho eutiro community. On the afternoon of tho next day a faimer, four miles from town, lonnd hidden in tho woods, near the bunks of a little ereek, the blood stained overalls and jacket. These he?not yet knowing of tho murder of tho Mallory family ?brought iuto Washington, deeming that his discovery would make a groat excitement, but on arriving there he learned of the- appalling events of the night before, and found himself the proprietor of but a second-class sensation. Peoplo werp not slow, however, to surmise the facts connecting the crime with these gory evidences of guilt. Some one remembered having heard Davenport speak once of living iu New Haven, and straightway swift riders were dispatched thither to encompass his avreHt should ho bo found there. Tho move was a wise one, for within live d iys thereafter, Harnett Davenport did, by a circuitous route, reach Now Haven, and there was found in tho company of an evil woman named Collier, with whom ho had formerly been acquainted. He was promptly arrested. The gold and silver money, the rings and the watch were found upon him, but tho plate was not, and it was indeed not known, as yet, that he hod it. Aft* r a fortnight's confinement in prison, however, when he was brought to realize with what horror everybody viewed his crime, and how ho was loathed as a monster, even by the vilest wretches, remorse overcame him, and he made u full confession, telling how the crimo was porpetrated?as it has been set forth?and making known tho spot in tho woods, a little to tho west and south of Litchfield, where he had buried the stolen plate, uud where it was soon recovered. He was held in jail at Litchfield, and there tried. Had he been taken to Washington and allowed to fall for a few miuutes into tho hands of tho infuriated people of that town, tho formality of a trial would nover liavo been necessary in his case, but they of Litchfield, while not less determined that ho should havo tho utmost puuishmeut, wore minded that it should be inflicted by due process of law. And so it was. He was tried, pleaded guilty, and was seDtenctd to bo hanged, and on tho first Friday in May, 1780, was hang'd at Litchfield, in the presence of a larger concourse of spectators than had ever before assembled to witness an execution in New England. English Hotels. uuiim ?. ucuuiugN, iu >i teuer 10 too World, describes the hotels aud lodging places of London. lie says that the hotels generally patronized by Americans nro Long's, Clnridgo's, Fenton's Miss Edword's, the Brunswick and the Lang ham; and that their bedrooms are I clone and ill-ventilated, the charges very high, aud the cooking in threo of them bad. A man and bis wife cannot live in them for less thun ?20 a week. Nowhere in Englntul can the comforts of the best > American hotels be had. "You cannot i wink without being eharged for it." As i to lodgings, " no one knows anything > about the perfection to which the art of i robbery naa been brought who has uot t passed through tho hopper of a Loudon ; lodging honso mill." The extra cliargos t usually amount to more than tho reguf lar price of tho roomH. Homo of the ) restaurants aro good and moderate in r prices. A new and large one furniflht h , a meal for three shillings and sixpence, r or about a dollar in our currency, eon> siating of soup, fish, two entreea, a joint ) and iocs, all of the host quality. A "Wonderful Cure. She came from Detroit, Micb., ami her great pride van being an invalid, i She lost no opportunity in stating that < she came to Minnesota to recuperate. ( She did not hesitato toenter into couver- l sation with any person she came in contact with, giving advice, climntological < or physiological, to invalids, and seeking the same from tlioee of robust con- i stitution. Her conversation was always ] prefaced with the introductory iuquiry, i so common to visitors : " Did you come ? here for your health?" She thus ad- ' dressed a stalwart, ruddy visaged young < man at tho dinner table of the Metro- 1 politau a few days since, and the follow- i ing conversation ensued : ] "Yes, madam, I camo hero probably the weakest person you ever saw. I had i no use of my limbs, in fact my bones i woro but little tougher than cartilages. 1 I Lad no intelligent control of a single 1 muscle, nor tlio uso of a single faculty." " Great hoavens!" exclaimed the astonished auditor, " and you lived ?" " I did, miss, although I was devoid of sight; was absolutely toothless, unable to urticulato a singlo word, and depended upon others for everything, being completely deprived of all power to help myself. I commenced to gain immediately upon my arrival, aud have scarcely experienced a sick day since ; hence 1 can conscientiously recommend the climate." "A wondeiful case!" said the lady, " but do you think your lungs were affected ?" "They were probably sound, but possessed of so little vitality that but for the most careful uursiug they must have ceased their fuuetious." "I hope you found kind friends, 6ir i" " Indeed, I did, madam ; it is to them afd the pure air of Minnesota that 1 owe my life. My father's family were with me, but unfortunately my mother w;>8 prostrated with a severe illness during the time of my prostration." "How sad I Pray, what was your diet and treatment?" " My diet was the simplest possible, consisting only of milk, that being the only food my system could bear. As for treatment, I depended entirely upon the life giving properties of Minnesota air, aud took no medicine except an occasional light narcotic when very restless. My improvement dated from my arrival. My limbs soon became stroug, my sight and voice came to mo slowly, and a full set of teeth, regular and firm, appeared. " llcmarkable, miraculous ! Surely, sir, you must havo been greatly reduced iu flesh?" " Madam, I weighed but nine ponuds. I woh born in Minnesota. Good day." A b'reat Blast. Gen. Newton says that the blasting .# 11 _ TT II . win; ui iuo uuiuiui ui mo nen vmie ex- li cavntious in Now York harbor will prob- o ably tako placo abont the middle of Sop- k teiuber. It will require about 50,000 u pounds of explosives to do tho work, a The materials used will bo uitro glycer- & iue, reud rock and dynamite, according to the nature of the rock to be blasted. Instead of placing tho explosives in several large masse?, it is to bo scattered j over the rock in small charges. Holes y have been drilled in the rock columns n that support the roof, the number vary- 0 ing according to the height of the col- ^ umn. These are to bo charged with tho explosives, and then it is to bo exploded 4 by means of electricity. The blowing c up is to bo done in threo sections, and r the effect will bo to crnmblo tho pillars .. and allow the roof to sink in. c Tho great opinion that tho whole mass j is to be hurled into the air at one grand r blast is erroneous. Beyond a few beau- . tit'ul jets of water shot into the air, and ( perhaps a few pieces of rock, hurled \ above the surface of tho water, nothing j( will he seen. When all is prepared, the E water is to be let in ami the chambers c tilled, thus forming what is called in eu- ? gineering parlance *' a wet tamp." t The water will confine tho forco of the t mum rous blasts, and enable them to act r with greater force. After the explosion E it will bo necessary to do considerable a dredging in tho way of hauling out *. pieces of rock. This will take several j months, but will probably be completed , by next spring. Tho persons operating t the blast will occupy a position 300 or t 400 feet away. ^ Tho improvements will deenm the . channel about thirty feet, ami allow of i the passage of the lorgof-t vofscIs, where c Ik fore only crafts of high draft could ? go. It is expected that the ocean steam- f ore will take this route, as it is shorter < than the Sandy Hook route l?y about < oighteen hours. * Power of Co-operation in Animals. t Au energetic scientific goutlemnu in ^ England recently gavo a lecture to u pro- * via rial audience ou the power of co-op- ^ oration in animals. Ho took as liis ex- j amples the bee, the beuver, nud the buffalo. His audience were much j pleased, and the elderly country clergy- j, mnu with whom he wan staying seemed r especially delighted. But it is not easy ^ to realize to the mind the horror which t came into the breast of tho scientific ( gentleman when, sitting in the count y j church to listen to a sermon from his host, he heard that good man illustrate the wonderful wisdom of Providence l?y ] representing tho bee, the beaver and the r buffalo as all three working tog* ther in t some foreign land in harmonious and ? systematic combination. e The useless waste of money on wed- f dings un?l funerals calls for reform. 1 Extravagance makes young men dread f marriage and death. t Agriculture in Great Britain. The New York Sun iu an article on the subject Rays the agricultural resources 01 of the British islands are curiously un- a] demited in this country. Accustomed to regard ourselves as tho purveyor of al England, we take for granted that her tl own production of meat and brcodstuffs is considerable ; and there is, moreover, n< in impression in the minds of many ol persons that her soil is not subdivided in easily working farms, but is mainly d engrossed by largo estates. It may be re worth whilo to show how decisively these b, current notions are contradicted by the facts ; and for that purpose we avail our- o selves of a report on agriculture lately d< published by tho British board of trade, oj With the exception of Russia and France, no country in Europe has so tt many acres under cultivation as the hi united kingdom. Of plowed land and st meadow sho can show twice as much as Buugary, four times as much as Sweden lo ind Norway, a lifth more than Spain, bi ind a sixth more than Prussia, although tl ;ach of the States named has a larger, p< ind some a vastly larger, superficies, tc ft is well to ponder the significance of cc .his fuct, /or it explains why England otig anterior to her commercial and b< manufacturing expansion was a rich and b< powerful nation. And here we may w mint out that the mistaken opinion re- p< ipecting tho distribution of her soil has gi irisen from Iho confounding of arable si jriMi rmunvoViln From thn, total surface of the British th stands, which exclusive of lakes and at ivers comprises seventy-six millions of w] icre->, must bo deducted almost two- ar levenths for woodland and pasturage, tb coors, game preserves and parks; and pi his fraction of territory undoubtedly is controlled by a relatively small number )f proprietors. If we turn, howevor, to p< he ground under cultivation, we find ot he number of farms in Englund, Wales, te aid Scotland computed for the year ,875 at 550,000. These aro graduated ex is follows: Small farms of fifty acres or th ess, average farms containing from ca iity to three hundrod acres, and large of arms exceeding the last namod figure; th aid it appears that seventy per cent, of, he whole numlior belongs to the first of iat< gory, twenty-seven per cent, to the th econd, and only three per cent, to the tri a-t. As regards tho respective areas ccupicd by the three classes, we may Bti et down in round numbers the aggre- te: ;ate of arable land at twenty-four mil- Pf ions of acres for England, two and ^ Free-fourths millions for Wales, and tb bur and a half millions for Scotland. STow, of theso totals tho soace covered >3' small farms represents, following the irdor of the countries named, fifteen, weuty-three, and fourteen per cent.; arms of average size absorb fifty-six, hi; ixty eight, and fifty-eight per cent.; an rliile only twentv-nino per cent, in Inglnnd, nine in Wales, and twonty- kn hree iu Scotland are comprised in the th irger holdings. In short, three-fourths rei f tho area belongs to farms of three illn(1 rfil onrna ai* luua* n**a ?.JJ wwivv w? ivyoo J uuu ruur tuu iUUU UU mder tillage ia Great Britain is qnito pa s minutely subdivided as in the United >tates. wi Church Kevenues. no There is no established church in I10 France. All religions are equal by law, JUI >nt only Catholics, Protestants andJcwb m< re paid out of the public treasury. Out Pr if 36,000,000 as many as ninety-eight 8? nr cent, (over 35,000,000) are Oath- he ilifjs. X here are 581,000 Protestants, mJ 9,429 Jews, and 84,000 members of di itlier religions denominations. The an- "5 inal State payments are: To Catholic (relates and clergy, $8,301,659; Catholic 8" hnrches, seminaries, etc., $2,041,080; mi hotestant clergy, $283,000; Jewish Wf abbis, $37,800; Protestant and Jowish ro (laces of worship, $16,000; making a otal of $10,679,720. In England and th Vales, with a population of one-third ass than that of France, tlio total aninal revenue of the bishops and other rn loigy amounts to $18,960,425, which is da ,lmi-st double whut is paid iu France to *n lie clergy of all denominations. The *n liirercuce is that in Franco this payuent is made out of the tax-raised pay- ha nent of the nation, while in England 1?' lid Wales it comes from property and ve at ings as secure to the clergy as their iHidcd estates are to the nobility and 00 ;entry. Moreover, nearly one-half of he people of England and Wales, who 001 lo not belong tot ho Established church, *? roluutarily support their "spiritual pas- on ors and masters," as in the United ?? states, by pew rents, fees and voluntary sontnbntions. The British archbishop 801 md bishops roceivo princely annual in- P? ioraes. For examplo, the archbishop of ?' Canterbury, $75,000; his grace of York, re' 550,000; the bishop of London, $50,000, 7e ind tlio bishop of Durham, $-10,000. 'b Each of the other twenty-six bishops re- be (t-ives on the average about $25,000 a 88 nnr, with a rent- freo "palace" and *b pounds in the conntry and a flue man- 'b lion in London for residence dnring the an ix months of the Parliamentary session 'r< n each year, archbishops and bishops ftn it.t ing in the Upper IIouso as spiritual be ?rds. Just now the see of St. Albaus las been created and a proposed bishop io of Cornwall is on tlio tapis. After hat about a dozen more sees will bo es- Pr ablished. 80 the temporalities of the 00 Ihurch of England flourish exceed"gly. ? John Mangovnn, a farmer of North to Sasthopo, Canada, came home from of narkt t and going to his room cat his el hront with a razor. He then went to hi mother room where his father was and ei ilapped him on tho back, when the old hi nan turned around and was horrified to w< ice his son with a frightful gash in his JK reck. A neighbor who was there throat it 1 handful of feathers into the ont and tc ituuohed the flow of blood. si Thoughts for Saturday Night. If we look upon life aa a gift of days, ne at a time, alf its duties can be done, !l its hardens borne. *'Two things," said Mohammed, "I ahor ; the learned in his infidelities, 10 fool in his devotions." Tho thing which an active mind most pedn is a purpose and direotion worthy F its activity. God gives food to every bird, bat he ocs not bring it to the nest; in like tanner he gives us our daily breed, but y means of our daily work. Pride is an extravagant opinion of our ira worthiness ; vanity is an inordinate csire that others should share that pinion. If there be any good in thee, believe iat there is much more in others. It urteth the most of all to prefer thydf even to one. Philosophy is a bully that talks very ud when the danger is at a distance, at the moment she is hard pressed by le enemy she. is not to be found at her ost, but leaves the brunt of the battle i bo borne by her humbler but steadier unrado, religion. When we have only a little we should i satisfied, for this reason, that thoso _'ml enjoy aunnaance wno are oonientea ith the least, and so that the pains of ivcrty are removed, simple fare can ve a relish equal to the most ezpenve luxuries. There is a Russian proverb which says iat misfortune is next door to stupidity, ul it will be generally found that men lio are constantly lamenting their luck e only reaping the consequenoe of eir own neglect, mismanagement, im 'evidence or want of application. One of the almost numberless aditituges of goodness is that it blinds its >6sessor to many of those faults in hers which could not fail to be dected in the morally defective. A coniousnees of unworthiness renders us ceedingly quick sighted in discerning o vices of our neighbors; as persons n easily discover others in the symptoms those u is eases beneath which they emselves have suffered. Without the proper and sober estimate men, we have neither prudenoe in c affairs of life nor toleration for coniry opinions?we tempt the cheater d then condemn him?we believe so rongly in our faith that we would sendee dissentient as heretics. It is exrienoe alone that teaches as that he ;o is discreet is seldom betrayed, and at out of the opinions that we coniinn spring often the actions that we [mire. The Railroad Business Overdone. 4 At Long Branch, says Oath, in one of 3 letters, with a railroad man of fair thority, I remarked : " Pullman has three residences that I iow of, here and in Chicago, and at a Thousand Isles of the St. Lawuce.' '' He will want to ?6t them all together one smaii 10c oeiore many years rs," paid the auditor. Why, do you think the railroads 11 throw off on him ?" " Yes, their diminishing business will t permit of any Buch incubus. It is rd times with all railroads. They are at beginning to meet questions of mount bluntly, and this Mr. Go wen, esident of the Beading railroad, >es to the core of the question when > says that too much competition has ido it well nigh impossible to earn vidends. That had already been said ' Mr. Dovereanx of the Oolumbus and eveland railroad. The open lakes and i lines of rail to the West gives too neli outlet for the crops. Before the a it wo had single tracks on every railail ; now Vauderbilt has four, Soott roe or four, Garrett two or three, and e Eric, und Chesapeake and Ohio are io in the ileld, with the Grand Trunk .nking all around to the North. Low Us are a necessity of such an abun,uco of communications. Passengers America now pay the cheapest fares the world. Ten dollars for excursion iketa from New York to Cincinnati and ok ! The closest eoonomy must folw such prices. Tho Pullman cars art. ry heavy, and mash np the road beds ; ey bring no revenue to the hauling mpany, which must also keep them in pair. They oost from $17,000 to $50,ft aiiio/in an/1 twoi/vli /? /%**> v* wum nvigu uvui vnoup^wutd fifty tons, while ordinary cars weigh ly twenty tons. The Erio railroad ran e Pullman oar wliioh cost 452,000? 0 Orange Oounty by name. Every rnteh of that cabinet work ooet your cketbook to repair it. Now, the imlk the Pullman cars will require to be built very noon; they run about eight arn, and then, such is their condition, oy must bo wholly rebuilt. There are tween two thousand" and four thound of them, perhaps. The capital of e company is, say, $12,000,000. When at construction account is made up, d tho railroad companies proceed to jt about repairing o her people's oars d carrying extravagant ".riders," the iy day will be over. African Superstition. Tho king of Dahomy has invoked the otect'on of his godsagaioet the British inmA^AVo'a aVti no A a l?i? a# >ing so ia somewhat curious, it may row some light on the character of o African native in its pristine purity doscribe the prooeea. An imitation a ship in wood, executed in the moat ementary ideas of naval architecture, is been placed on a mound, and about ght hundred or nine.hand red native* ive been paraded before it. drink as then administered to eaoh man, and, wording to his attitude after imbibing, to chief priest decided whether he waa ? be sold as a slave or offered up as a ictiQoo to appease the gods.