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E. A. WEBSTER. Editor and Proprietor. A Weekly Paper Devoted to Temperance, Literature and Politios. VOLUME I. NUMBER 52: TIMELY TOPICS. A ?ATuEU heroic act is that of Spain, dying of internecine struggles, to go into tlio market for a loan of $7,000,000 to indemnify Porto Ricins for tho loss ol their emancipated slaves. Tins yt How lever is at Pensacola, lt is uuusually early for this dreaded man ifestntioh. lu Eomo of the most de vastating yellow fever seasons tho dis ease hus not shown itself ou tho gulf co int until September. ~ TUE plague, -or P.I nek Death, has ?waked from its thirty years sleep in tho east, sud is reported to bo spreading with rapidity in Asia. About eighty live years ago, it desolated Russia, aud ono hundred and fifty years havo passed since it ravaged and almost depopu lated some parts of Europe, Fou young children New York is nt present ono of tlio deadliest cities ; nt no time do they thrive there overmuch, but hist week's mortality among them was exceptionally great. Under five years of age they died nt tho rate of eighty-six per diem, the main trouble being diarrhoeal disease. THE peat pilleo department has sent to tho department of justice tho naines of thirty-nine mail contractor;; who ure to bo prosecuted for failure to perform service after thoir bids wero accepted. The contracts were relct by tho gov ernment, and Ibo di flo ron co between lin? amount paid and tho bids, for tho thirty-nine routes, waa S117,<>K7, which is thc anionnt of damages claimed against the delinquent bidders. Tur. Germau minister of finance re ports a deficiency in the Budget for this year of ?5,000,000, and tho tax on beer iu to bc raised-a proceeding whioh will bo immensely unpopular in Germany, where everybody consumes largely of tho ruby liquid. Snob a largo deficiency as ?5,000,000 would seem singular, with thc millions which have been paid by Franco, wore it not apparent that Ger many has boon putting all lier rooney ?y r?ffi 1?r>f nvttVcj THE Boston Joni nal of Chemistry re grets that tho millers use. all their finest, soundest wheat for lino (lour, and tho poorest for Graham or brown broad, a general name given to mixtures of bran and spoiled dour. " What we need is good, sweet, whole wheat flour finely ground, and put up secure ly for family use, und any western mil ler who will give his earnest attention io furnishing such flour will realize a fortune speedily ; securing the roost nutritivo principles the Creator has stored up for man's food." THE substance of .Tno. D. Lice's con fession is that thirty Mormons, with the assistance of a large number of indians, decoyed emigrants from their entrench ment by a dag of truno ; that all were murdered except seventeen children ; that tho deed was done under orders of tho loaders of tho Mormon Church ; that ho took news of tho massacre to Brigham Young, wh i deplored the transaction, and said it would bring disaster upon tito Mormon people The statement of Lee, so far as known, only eoulirms proAiorts reports in regard to the massacre. SINCE tho first of June, wheat has advanced thirty-three, couts iu the Chicago market, li tho reports at, hand aro reliable, the wheat crop of Europe will bb almost an entire failure, and consequently tho demand upon our products will bo unprecedented. This will ensnro tho producer good paying prices for the products of los farm for at h.-aat a year to come. While Croat Britain and tho continent may sn O'er, tho poople of America will bo greatly benefited. Just when the advance iii prices will ccaso it would be hazardous to predict. TnE clerical newspapers in Franco speculate on tho causes of the great tlood with some asperity, lt appears that tho municipal council of Toulouse recently refused tb erect ii statue to "tho glorious and miraculous i?hep hordess of Pibrao," ?nd ono of the coun cilors said, "Wo pi of ur a fountain.'1 Whereupon the Gazette do Nimes now remarks, "Cod has fulfilled the wirb of Iheso honorable councilors and sent a fountain to tho capital of Un gundee which they little expected. Mad tho town voled tho required sum Divino Providence," sayo tho editor, "would never haye treated Toulouse so BO vorelv." T* is urdr**?*o-T1 ?FT* thc bishop of uiiartreH is ol tho fame opinion. THE committee appointed by Hi" Delaware TVuit Growr??* rwnvcnfiotl to confer with the steamship comp mit ri in regard to the shipment of pouches lo liverpool have reported thal l imy called upon tho authorities of tho American steamship company, sud they favored tlie project. Tho company would allow the growers to lit up tho steeraj? for? ward cabin . with their r?frig?rai OIN, which can bo done with five hundred dollars for each vessel. This portion of the ship" would hold 25,000 or .'50,000 baskets; and a compartment immed? diately underneath could he tilted up which " would carry 0,000 additional. They would charge the growers for the shipment of this amount ol ""fruit ir? Liverpool about two thousand dollars,' and give them tho privilege of Bending out nil agent freo td charge with each consignment. THK duly returns to tho department of agriculture shows that the acreage in corn is about tinco per cent, greater than last year. New England has in creased her acreage about eleven per cent, and tho,Pacific states about ono per cent. All tho great corn growing regions have increased acreage-Mul ch: stab;s two per cent., South Atlantic stales Unco per cent. Gulf states, in land southern states, twelve per cent., states north of Ohio seven, west of the Mississippi fourteen per cent. Thc condition bf thc crop is below an aver age in the Now England and South At lantic states. Tho minimum condition, eighty-two orr cent., being in liked 0 Island, Florida and Alabama aro also below tho average, but other Gulf states and inland tituithcru Mates arc about the maxim;.in, 11.2 in Mississippi. All other stabs except .Missouri, I (Bl are below tho average, the minimum eighty-two being in Wisconsin. THAT most insuficiahlo of all idiots, tho practical joker, does not always escape on earth tho wrath that is laid up for him. 'Ibero lived and taught school in St. James pnrish, Louisiana, recently, a man by tho nanto ot' Bow den, a well-meaning person, but itf ? lie ted with that peculiar sense of humor which is sure to get somebody or other into trouble sooner or later. One of his most successful jokes was thai ol ttiopiayjng auvcrcismg oms printed in imitation of greenbacks, and offering io bet hundreds anti thousands of dollars with people who didn't know that ho was fooling. Thc tiber day an offensive smell coming from an out house led to a search for thc cause, and tho corpse of Bowden was fonud beneath tho lloor and under a covering of com husks, where it was rapidly decaying. A Swedish plantation hand, who had seen him displaying his imita tion bills, bad mistaken him for a per son of largo aud available means, and had murdered him for his money. The Swede is now a fugitive/and he feels doubly tho weight of Ibo joke, for lie got no money, and the Governor har. offered 81,000 for his arrest. Proi-\ "DONALDSON, the aeronaut, who has been traveling in company with Itanium's Hippodrome, and making bal loon ascensions after tho conclusion of tho afternoon performances, made his second trip frum Chicago on thc I5ib, accompanied by Mr, Newton S. Grim wood, a reporter of the Chicago Journal. After ascending into the air tho balloon took a northeasterly course, sailing over tho hike in Ibo direction of Mus kegon, Mich. About seven o'clock in tho evening it was sighted by a schooner about t hirt y miles oort beast of Chicago, at which time the balloon was skim ming the surface ol the biko. The Bchooner followed after it until it was Observed to rise suddenly into tho air, when tho chase* was given up. A vory severe gale occurred on tho lake about midnight, and, as no further tid ings had been received in Chicago from tho balloon or its occupants up to the morning of tho 17th, grave apprehen sions were felt for their safety, lt was tho (minion of experts that tho balloon could not possibly have reached the Michigan shore before tho sb.rm burst upon it, and that tho aeronauts per ished in tho lake. J? is said by soma j that tho balloon was a rotten, patchell I up affair, -An Englishman-tra vol ed, of course -relates that an American gentleman who had at au early age COHO the over land route to California, told him tin's : We crossed tho sandhills near tho Beche of thc ludian mail robbery and massacre of 185?, wherein the driver und con ductor perished, and also all thv> pas sengers but ono. Bul this must, have been a mistake, for at different tunes afterward on tho Pacific coast, I was perwvattU 7 aotpinbjtod with one hundred and thirty-threo or four people who were/ wouuded during that massacre and bardy escaped willi their lives; There- was rio'doubt of tho truth of it, ; I hail it from their own lips. And ouo of tho parties told mri , that ln> kept coming across arrow hou in his system for nearly '.>;.. n years I niter tho massacre, TO HUPE. o ?opp : No nu ?ri-, I imploro, Di reive lor Illili I Hilly believe lliee ; l-'or 1 I:now tl>:it Mic llaNo will follow . .ti lim airy wav "f Mic HAVBIIOW, Ylinl UK? llrifl Miall lie where the lily blown Amt :!;. i? hann froto the fleto ol the f e, O Hope !-nw inure ! Oljopcl . !!. nu in- yet awhile : Deceive ni" ami 1 will believe lute. Though I know that th? Hahn must follow Oil Hie airy way of the nwallow. Th.il tie-illili must lie where the lily Illowa-. Ami the icicle bani: from Hie Btoni o? lite rone, () Hope!-once more! -Juli'I V'llur Ohcucif. "MOUNTAIN MEADOW MASSACRE, Tt'MtinioHii ElirilM th* Finit ll,,,/ ,V //,, Triol ll' "- ihr lim. I,,,- ir,is l'l",in,,I nu,I Ejrer.&trd. Al i ho opening of tho trial of tho Mormons implicated-in the Mountain Mondow massacre, nt Beaver, Utah, Robert Kaya testified IIB follows : Oamo to Utah October 2, 1857, through I Mountain Moa lows saw piles of bodies of woman and children, piled promis cuously ; there were sixty or seventy bodies ; the children wero from two months old to twelve years ; the smaller wero torn by wolves and crows; some of tho bodies wero shot. Home had tueir throats cut, some stabbed, and all were torn bv wolves excopt 'Ono woman, who laid a little way otV, and appeared as if asleep, a ba]I bolo in her loft sido; it appeared tho bodies were dead fifteen days; sovoii of na saw it. I'iles of men's bodies were further on; didn't go to seo them; no clothing on tho bodies, except ono sock on the leg of one nian; nono were scalped. Assa'tel Bennett called: Was flt tho Meadows December, 1857; saw tho bones there; horriblo sight; skeletons of women aud children; curls, long (rosses hair, dried blood; child ron 1.0 to 12 years; some skulls had flesh dried on; Ibo bodies had been covered up ; wolves ovidoutly dug them up Phillip Liuger Smith, a d?fendent, of San Bornnuiii, California, called : Pros ecution entered nolle prosequi ns to himself. Lived in Cedar city from 1852 to 1857; Was at the mnssncro in September, 1857 ; beard of tho cm- ! ?grants oomiug. Tho people wero for bidden to trndo with them ; felt bad about it ; saw a few of I hem at Cedar ; heard rumors of trouble S inlay. It was tho custom to have meetings of tho proBirlent and council; bishop and council and high council. The matter tame up for discussion as to their de struction. Haight, Iligboe, Morrill, .viten, 1111 UH, inysoii ault 01 nut.. . ?? thorn. Some bret horn opposer! their destruction. I did. Haight jumped np aud broke up the meeting. I asked what would be tho consequences of such nu net. Then Height got mad. The Indians were to destroy them. On Monday, Higbee, White and T met ; same subject again. 1 opposed thc de struction. Haight relented, ami told White and T to go ahead and tell the peoplo tho emigrants should go through safe. Wo did so, and on the rond we met John 1). TJCO. WO told wiicre we were going, and lid replied I have something to say about that matter ; we passed the emigrantwat Iron Springs; next morning we passed them again ; ns wo carno back they had twenty or thirty wagons ; over a hundred people, old men, middle aged mon, old wo men, middlo aged women, youths and children ; near home 1 met Ira Allen ; he said the emigrants' doom WPS sealed, tho die cast for de struction ; three dava after ITiiight sent for nib, anti said orders had como from camp ; didn't get. ulong, wanted rein forcements; that ho had bren to Prowin, and got further orders from Colono1. W. H. Dame to ti nish the massacre-, to do- I coy and span; only smnll children who could not toll the tale. I went off, met J Allen, our first runner, and others. Ftigbeo Haid : you aro ordered out, armed and equi oped; so I went; Hop kins, Higbee, doini Willis and Sam Purdy went along; had two baggage waggons ; pot to Hampton's rancho in tho night, three miles from emigrants; there met Tjeo and others from tho gen eral camp, whore tho largest number of mon wero ; theil found the emigrants not all killed. Bateman or lino went out with a white Hag. A mau from tho emigrants met them. Leo and a man set down oil the gra^s and had a talk ; don't know what t hey talked. Lice went with tho mau into tho intrenchmc-ntn. After some honro they came out and the emigrants came out, with their wounded in wagons ahead. The wounded were (hose hurt in the three days proviens fight, Next caine the wmen, next the men. As the emigrants came up tho men halted, nilli tho women on foot and chil dren and wounded went on abend with .lohn I). Leo. The soldiers had to be all ready to shoot nt the word. When thu word halt came the soldiers (ired. I fired oneo; don't know if I killed a man ; not all killed at tho first liro. Saw tho women afterward dead, with their throats cut. I Baw, as I carno nj? to them, a mun kill a young girl. The men worn mnrched in double file first, then thrown in single tile, with tho sol diers along side. The emigrants wero congratulating themselves on their safety from the Indians. At last .lohn M Fligbeo came and ordered my squad to five. Lee. like th? rest, had tiren rms, No emigrants were allowed to escape ; saw r-oidiors on hornes to lake on wine tlioso who ran ; saw a man run ; uaw Bill .start on a horso and kill him, and a wouiided niau beg for life. Higbee cut hin throat. 1 was told to gather up the lift lo children. I went, and saw 11 woman running toward tho men, crying, " .">iv husband, my husband ! " A soldier shot her in the back, and she i fell dead. _ --- A bolbi ni Saratoga wears diamonds i on her siiocs, Post Oflice Points. Tin* following Into rulings by tho pi stodico department in regard h> mail matter will bo found of interest tri every ono engaged in morc:uitilo piir Hllitfl Wben packages of merchandise or sam pi es of merchandise aro wrapped so tts h> prevent t-xnnunution, or have uuy writing upon thom except thc nd dross, it is 1,ie duty of lim postmaster lo ralo thom vp with letter postage, to ho col lected on delivery. Samples may bo mark. 1 in, pencil,or ink with letters or tiguri-n by which they aro to bo dis tinge hod in a descriptive letter or in voice (each separately) without subject ing t' i package lo letter postage. Au ult! ress may la; written on a cir cular. Snr. ney other writing thereon except- tho mern correction of a typo grap- leal error, would render it sub ject I let 1er postage. It i;> tho duty of n postmaster when mail matter is sent to his oflice through mist a lie, to forward il lo its destination. Hoi lc manuscript, when so wrap]?od us to dmit. ol' examin?t ion, is charge able -nth prepayment of postago ut rates of third-class maller, viz: one cen? au om cu or fraction thereof, limited to four i .uuuls in weight. Paper with writing on it, should uot bo UP? d ns wrappers for newspapers. as this would subject the packages to lotter posta; 1% To ."id?tin regular subscribers b> re.? onivo newspapers free ol' postage, thoy must tesidu in the county where uucli paper? are printed and published. Mai. matter iuclosed in sealed en velop; . with the corners notched, is subj or: to letter rates of postago. A postmaster is required to examine all prirttcd matter, or third-class ni at tor, pussiti ? through his oflice, lo rico that it, is charged with proper rates of postage and to doteut fraud. Mall?n- contained in a : "tiled envelope notched nt tho com or ? cannot bo satisfactorily ex amined without destroying tho wrapper. Prepaid letters must bo forwarded from ( no post?nico to another at the re quest if thc party addressed without additional charge of postage ; but let ters hiiying been once delivered accord ing to 'heir address require postage at tim pr paid rate when returned to the ofiieo J .r forwarding. Pacl ages containing liquids, or any other .'.attcr liable to dofaco or destroy thc ci i.tents of tho mails, or huit the persci\ of auy ouo comieoted with the servie,!- should bo excluded from the mail:- '".''t, scaled packages doprsitod in postage, iu tho absence of any positive, knowledge of their contents, forwarded to their destination. Unsealed circulars deposited in a lottor-carrier oflice for local delivery through the box or general delivery, or by carriers, aro subject to a postage "f ?liii cent each circular, to be prepaid by stump affixed. L. and ll., page (il, sec. 90. Burning of a Russian Town- 200 Lives Lost. A Petersburg letter to tho London Standard says : The bro which dost roved the town of Morsehniisk began about I o'clock in tho afternoon in ono of the fauburgs, at a distance of nearly half n mile from the town proper, and within a few hoi.rs the whole towu, over an extout of Ovo Vorsts, was a prey of the llamos in all directions, causing (hem to overlap all the open Rquares and even tho river. As Ibo lire grew the wind becamo n tempest, and enormous planks and sheets of iron, torn from the falling houses, were hurled as big!? as the sec ond story of houses still standing, ('uses of goods allowed to float, along tho river wore burned on the water. Some of the pupers ot" tho publi . olticos have been found nt a distance of sixty verst.. from tho town, and Ibo glow of tho lire lighted up ibo horizon to n dis" tuneo of ninety versts. Tho Oro spared about a hundred wooden bouses nt one end of the. town, l-nit of the brick build ings hardly lon have escaped. All tho public edifices, with Ihoexcep Mon of the school and several of thu churches, havo been destroyed. The destruction of property hus been entire. Many of the inhabitants trusted to cel lars and vaults, but they nea riv nil fell in. As tho fire spread, furniture and other effects were removed to gardens and other open spaces, bul in vain ; Us? llames soon reached tnom and reduced all to ashes. Only ono of thc. corn de pots was saved. It is calculated that I,OD.) buildings have boen burned, and thal, the loss cannot, bo less than 5,000,000 roubles. About 200 lives wero lost, and several thousand persons were wounded. Succor, in the shape of provisions, clothes, ?md money, was instantly for warded from Ta n ibo IT, Kie/.an, mid other places, to the unfortunate citizen:! o? Morschan.sk, literally wandering about tho woods or sheltering under caris, having lost, everything, ucl ibu number of tho homeless and destitute exceeded 10,000. Thron days after tho tiro t In corporation of the town petitioned tho Rovernmeut for a loau of 3,000,000 roubles, to bo redeemed in thirty days. ENGLAND'S NEW RIVAL. f?apiti /), i./../'in-ni fl ('ull in Mum ,',ullin' in /if! in. The manufacture (d' ec!lou is rapidly increasing in British India, and ns con siderable nrolits aro realized, tho ton doney is toward continued invcslniouts and the extension of this great indus try. It is now manifest. Mint, Mnuobos tor lias lost its formel control of tin eastern mark-ls. In the singlo prcsi doncy of Bombay {hero nm twenty-live cotton mills in tull operation, working 000,000 spindles and 7,Omi looms. The spindles produce, about U'.d.OOO ponndfl of colton ihr omi a day, of which about 50,0(1!) i ii muds aro used to product) cloth. These mills aro oh icily in tho Bombay Island, whore a new spuming mill, just opened by a wealthy Hiudoo, timi working 25,000 spindles, makes it total ?f seventeen working mills. Op country there arc several others ono at Surat, two ut Broach, two at Ahmeda bad. ono at eTttlgaum, one in tho native state of Bhownuggcr, and one at Ma dras. Extensions arc also rapidly going forward. Eight t xtensions arc in course of construction at Bombay, chiefly on share capital, and these will provide ut least for thc working bf 10,000 more spindles and I,<M5 looms'. The machine ry is always of thu very newest and most approved construction, and no efforts arc spared on thc part of the indian producers to entibie their ?roods to eom poto uceessfidlv with the choicest pro duct-nf foreign manufacture-United Stales F.cjmoinixt, An Incident of the Floods. Writing of thc disasters of the iti itudntions iii Fraucc, a correspondent says; At St. (,'yprioti, the suburb of Toulouse, which suffrrod MI severely, ?Mi M uti rc tte, a well-known sculptor who re sided then-, bu; who hail his atelier in ?h?- town, was at work in the latter, when he >vas informed of tho risk to wliieh bia family, whom ho had left in the Faubourg, were exposed. He im mediately hastened home, and begnn lo pack up iiis valuables and prepare to retreat, willi his wife, two Rills, bight anti niue year ; nid, and a little boy in his mother's anns. Brit tho Hood had bren too quick for them. Tn less than a quarter of au hour it had risen more th in four feet, and their house was sur rounded before they were aware of it. As tho water rose higher and higher they moved from stage to statue, until ? In y reached tho roof aloug with other families who lind taken refuge then-. Tims they stood,, tho father holding his two little ?iris by the hand, tho mother carrying her boy, till darkness set in, tlie flood still rising, ami tin; houses around them ?iving away before it one af ter tho other with fearful crash. At last their own house beean lo tottei and crack, and give other signs that ii wan no longer ti safe place of refuge. Another house no some little distauci off seemed tootler a stouter resistance, un i one nf their party, who was a goo? swimtni r, threw himself info tho water, and by great effort succeeded in climb iug on lo the. other roof. Unfortunately, in taking his spring from Unit on willoi down Aime. Rimtrotte, with h.-,;*ftjiYu 1? her arms, and although the former was laid hold of and rescued, the child was carried away by thc Hood, and perished before the eyes of its lather, who could nely just save his fainting wife. By Rood luck, in the bonso to which their companion lind escaped a roll of calice twenty-live yards hui;1; was found. On one end o! this an iron was tied, and, after many attempts, swung across, am; a communication thus opened with thc other house, The two littie girls wort successfully made fast to the end of tin roll and dragged through the water Mme. Mauretto was next tied to it am had also nearly gained tho other roof when tho strength of I luise who sup ported her failed, and she fell bael into tho water. For a moment sin seemed lost, but her husband, throw ing himself in, in his tnrn, and swim nong to lier, supported her until a fresl effort could bo made above, wheo boil were eventually hoisted up. Tho nigh was passed in cold and wc*, expectiu) death almost h. airly, lint the house re sistcd, and by morning the. water liai Tallen suflieiently to enable tho parly t wade ashore. Rather a. Tough Suukc Kig'?t, hut Good Story. A few days since, whiie a young ma nf the vicinity of Middlo Grove, whoi we shall designate as .leemos, wu shrubbing in f he field, he ran upon black snake in a cluster of bushes, ?un calling his dog Zip, set him after til snake. While he was intently watehin tho progress of thc light between h Kiinkeship and his favorite canine, sonn thing behind tonk him ''whack" up? the neat of his trousers, and titrniii quickly, he discovered to his horror tremendous horse-racer, full six fee! j length, with i>c id erect, hissing tongi; and glariug oyes, curling himself in tl fullest attitude ?ur butilo, and bc-foi ilconies could comprehend tho terrill character of thc situation, "whack" tl snake took him again. He then look? for a tree, but there was none to climb for it stick, but there was none at ham Ile Hu n (trew his jack-knife, with ti determination of selling his lifo i dearly ns possible, and tho mont i ?-rr i i > buttle between tuan and snake then o curred that ha- ever transpired iii the bi tory of Monroe county. Tho snake-v very slroug and active, and, cnrlii himself around one of his victim's lee, lie stuck his terribie fangn into hi with marvelous rapidity, tightening h hold and erawliug lip all tho time, will .benns plied bis jack-knife with rapidity never equaled by tho savai Modoc! The baako was getting tl licsl ?>f il, iuid had twisted himself t nearly to .Teenies' fore, ami was abo to coil his slimy length about hit* en climbing antagonist's nwan-liko throi when Zip, tho faithful servant, havi finished snake INC. I, came yelping the rescue, and, taking in ai a glan tho hazardous position of Hu* mash ho sprang and grappled ?!.<- monster the neck, and held on with a vioe-li grip until Jeomes, by tho uso of 1 knife, extricated himself from his ti rible pr?dit lamont. and from au nntirtn nnd premature grave. The snake \i killed, ?od iii . ?ru dy dog was tho li preserver o? his uuisTor.--?VO?M i i'a rh Af'/., ? \pjical. FACTS AND FAJOLES. -Tho ooi?ee-pluuters of Ceylon .110 threatened with pecuniary ruin, (ho rata hnviug seized their plantations, grasshopper style. Nor. brinn rthlo tb import American mush', they aro trying 10 frighten oil' tho invaders with the* tom-tom, a homo instrument. -There in an Kugliah caper which tiiiuks that in ease of war the chief food producing nations, by combining against, Rnglund, could conquer her without ruin? :i shot or landing .. soldier by .simply declining to deal with ber. .-Tho old superstitious iden that tho hand nf a dead mun ian talisman ngninst (?vii, once preval ont among south om no groes, Hennis nol tn hiivo died oitfi. A vault iu Greenville, Miss., wnp reoeutly broken opon and a hand eui from a corpse. - On ono of the bridges of Pari? a baby sprang ont of ifs mother's arms and foil in tito river, and tho mother jumped after il, but could not swim. Another woman jumped iri who could .swim and brought out both. Tho! mother was half drowned mid tho baby was dead. -Some of tho clergymen in Kentucky proposo to liane; slates ni tho church vestibules, so that young ludios on en tonug, cnn register lu.-ir mimes, rims Having a prronf; expense for providing scuts in tho vestibule for young men, and making a great deal of waiting un necessary. -"James Brown," ol ?St. Giles, Lon don,: claims to bo reckoned among tho nc bio band of vivisectionists, Iiis trade being the catching of cats and "skin ning 'em hlivo;" "The simple- fact is," ho saye, "I f,v.i an honest, living by skinning oats, nnd because .shins taken from tho live cats aro north sixpence apiece muru than those taken from tho animal whoo dead T skin tlio calai alive wiitin vor I can." -If thoro is a manufacturing city on this continent which might bo nailed tho Manchester of America, it is Lowell, Mi^s. There are daily em ployed nearly eicjhrceu f,hou!?and opera tives in I ho various mills, The capital stock of the several corporations is over 810,000,000, while tho total valua tion would foot un six times sixtceu millions. In many instances tho origi nal stockholders have, perhaps, moro than doubled their investments by mag nificent dividends ; and it is a notable fae*- thai even in ibesc depressed times pbraX?Gmi 0? not ??r??::,^.r'.^T^ -This is what, a bank cashier win o to Washington when ho wanted "reg istered bonds" : "J may not have ex pressed myself properly, not knowing much about this business of swopping bonds, bul my intentions are puro and innocent. I wish to have these bonds in such a condition thai when burglars om< to my room nf midnight, put a pistol to my head, twist my nose, take, me by the ear, h ad mc to my bunk, compel mo bi Hillock my safe, lean cont?mplale ?he, removal of my bouda with a smile that is child-like atnl bland." -Tile work ot excavating tue arena of the coliseum at T?ome, has been sus pended f-iuce May, as it cannot bo pro ceeded with uni 11 Hie discovery of tho duct or cantil used by Ibo old Kornaus to chain oil' tlio water collecting from thoadjacou! slopes. Tlio cann! lias been t raced in us starting point near I ho ruins, and in ils passapre through tho forum, lending into tim Cloaca Maxima; but its intermediate course hus yet tobo unearthed, which operation, together with its proper cleaning and repairs, will be a job of some diOieulty, timo and expense. Tn tho meantime the excava tion in tho coliseum already m ft do, will have io be kept dry, or as free fron: water as possible, in order that the foundation of the building may not bo seriously damaged. -A popular theatrical manager says he lias been IMO montis of keeping be tween two ami threo hundred young ladies off the stage within tho space of five years. "One reason was," said he, " because they Inul no talent, and an other was because I knew that before they had been in tho profession many weeks they would bo henrtdy sick and tired of ii. Tho lifo Of au ador is a hard one. People come." said ho, Onnd seo tlu<> ador walking around thu stage, sneaking ? few linos, dressed in mag nificent* clothes, and winning the ap plause of < iie mult.ilmic. ' Tfow de lightful!' they exclaim. 'Nothing iii thc world to do but lo dress well and look pretty.' They do not know what a don's life il ia. And traveling through tho country i's the huidos! work of all. Oui till twelve a ntl ono o'clock at night, ami but of bed by four or live in tho morning io lake "an carly Irs in to tho nest town. Sometimes they do ubt get to bcd at all." THAT SAVED HIM.-It has been gen erally supposed thal ? bald head wu? of no account, oven to tho owner, bul Vicksburg .uanda up and remarks lo ti:e contrary. The other d?iy :i residen! of thu; city went up -'o Thompson's J adu lo got ? shot at lin- big alligator, and while eating lt cold bito in the shade, ii man jumped over the lenee, presented Ah o?d anny musket ni bin head and cried out : "Stranger, uhkiver yev hoad ! ' The Vicksburger was dumbfounded, b;;t u?.ftdo haste to nun..vc hia ?nit lind exhibit a pate which nh?no like i ne wo polished pilpaw. ." .. , " Stranger, that sayos ye continued tho urtu, IIB he Hh?uhh rrd I, i musket ; " I though: .ye. ivy.? tho it I m .eb a ped dler who chrirged my 'v1,r.?11".v' " ''V ..cnts f ?r ?i te.'-tain. ; t which hast? : gol 11 darned picture bi ?; !"