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f . . X VOU'MK IJ 31K. 311 Ll/S <;{{!<:AT SVKKl!H.| . __ I A l^lno Sciid-O/l' For \lio X<sv . TarilV Bill. .Mr. Mill's speech in the House of Representatives oti Tuesday last is nJmitted on all sides to have been a grand effort in every way worthy of the occasion and of the momentous issues involved. Aftor tin* introductory' suminary or of liis urjriuneiit, which was publishoil in '/'//? A View am/ ('ottrier yesterday, Mr. M ills proceeded in substnnco as follows: V; Every effort that had lipon made to brieg the war exactions of tlio Government down to a peace establishment had been resisted step bv j step, and every effort had been de- : fented. There had been a tax on railroads, but it was gone. It had not lived long after the war. It had j been a tax on wealth. It was said j to be oppressive to tax the wealthy. I There had been a tax on insurance ; companies It was gone. Th^e | had been a tax on express companies. It was gone. There had beer: a tax j on bank deposits and bank capital. Jt was gone. The >! b00,O0U,000 thai j had been paid by the wealth of the! country had been swept away and j the burden of taxation had been ( made heavier, as it had been loaded I upon the shoulders oT those who had j to support themselves and the Govern n int. M'as a tax of 3 percent! to be paid out of the pockets off manufacturers of blankets a weight more J enormous than a tax of 79 per cent! paid by the consumer on imported j and domestic products? V/as a tax of 3 per cent on incomes more oppressive than a cax 01 100 per cent on woman's ami children's dress goods? Yet all those taxes on wealth had gone, and the gentlemen of the minority boasted that thoy had reduced taxes to the amount of *>200,000,000, while the 1)' niocratic 'tarty had reduced it oi y a bagatelle. That was a sple.id' 1 column those gentlemen had erected. NO MO UK TANKS ON Till' HIT II. All tax on wealth had passed away, and all the burdens had been oast upon the shoulders of the laborhie" man. In 18S3 taxat'on had still further been reduced and this magnificent shaft which the party then in i power had erected to commemorate its legislative wisdom and the beneficence of its laws was crowned with the capstone, taking off the internal revenue tax on playing cards and putting a tax of 20 per cent on llibles. {Laughter. | The Democratic party had been trying to reduce taxation upon the necessities of life, and it was charged by the minority that it had not accomplished any reduction. That would be a gravo charge if the genflmiion wlm it ivftpn not miillv V.w... ....w ... ^ J of having prevented the Democrats from accomplishing my reduoMon. It (Tid not lie in their mouths to . charge the Democrats with failing to reduce taxation, when they had mustered their whole strength to strike out the enacting clause of the hills presented bv the Democrats. Twice thev had accomplished that and twDe they had refused even to consider the question of a reduction of taxation. HOW TIIK TARIFF1 11U UTS Til K FAR^ MRR, 15ut the greatest evil inflicted upon the people by excessive taxation on the consumers of the country was in the destruction of the values of ex* | ports. The great body of the ex-1 ports were agricultural products. From 75 to 80 per cent of tho ex - j ports were such products. The war, duties limited ?m[ ortation and that 1 ''f' *' iptdted importation. The surplus productions wore, ' therefore, thrr.vn upon the home! market. It became ovcr-suprdicd I and prices wont down. So it was j with tho people of K nope. Their' products were throvn upon their j homo markets and 'heir pi ices went flown lit 1880. nfter the lonir do- I ' f n -- I pression from 1873, pricos suddenly rose in Europe, and tiro result was that as prices rose the tariff went down and importations increased about %200,000 in one year. Exports also increased enormously. But it was insisted that if duties - were lower and foroign goods were imported, our people would bo turned out of employment and tho rates of wag^SniSSHUGk^is^f ' ' .&S " BE tiestj'IE ! "V#> M'I'ON, I'<lltoi>. i . <rn. ltOOr.HH. I *?t t?l Islirr. * es w juid b< reduce I. Nothing of the sor' w juld happen. We would import things which we could not produce cheaper in other countries than at home. We could now produce at least VH) per cent of all the manufactures consumed in this country cheaper at home than they could he produced anywhere in the world and transported here. It was said that a high tariff made high wages for labor: it was said that if the tariff wore reduced, wnges must bo reduced. It was said that if the value of the domestic product was increased, the manufacturer was enabled to pay higher wages. Unquestionably. Hut did ho doit? No. 1IIOII TAH1KK ? I.OW WAOSS. A high tarilf <lid not regulate wairos. Wages were regulated by demand and supply and the capacity of the laborer to do his work. jf a high tariff' regulated wages how was it that wages in different parts of the country wore different? How was it that wnires in different localities in the same Stale were different? The rate of wages in the cotton industry were lower in Rhode Island than in Pennsylvania, but in the iron industry wages were higher in Rhode Island than in Pennsylvania. It war; admitted by all that the rate of wages in this country was higher fhan in Prance or Germany, and yet Germany and Prance had protective tariffs to guard against the free labor of England. What made this high rate of wages in this country? It was coal and steam and ' luciruory. u wis ?n-^ ;igi-m ti:at m?ulo laboi nuiro valuable. ami a ing! alt of tiis wages meant low cost of Droducoon. Fifty years ago it reciuired live peiscns to make eight yards of coM^n e'otb in one day. Thoy got 20 cents a piece u day. The labor costs of cloth was cents yor yard. Counting 1100 working days in the year, the whole product of their > fi e cheap laborers was 2/00 yard, but when coal and tteum an i machinery were harnessed together to produce cloth, five persons could produce 140,000 yards a year. The labor cost of tho clotn was now 1.08 of a cent a yard. The wrges of labor instead of being $00 a year was $287. Tec old wages had to depart before the conquering march of high w^ges and steam machinery. It was not tho rate of wages that came into the market to contest for supremacy. It was the article that labor produced at a lower cost, than a rival article it would drive that rival out of the market. Increased productive power, high rate of wages, low cost of production, followed each other as night followed dav.? KNGI.AN I) DISTANCED IN TIIK HAC K. Tho fact that the rate of wages wjik hifrlmr in thi<5 nminfrv flum in r> ' " J England meant that England was distanced in the great industrial contest in which the United States had entered. IIo cited from a talde compiled by an English gentleman sent over to investigate the cotton industry of the United States, to show that in every caso the labor cost of cotton goods was lower here than in England. .Mr. Milikon, of Maine: If that is so, What harm does the tariff do? Mr. Mills: What good does it do? It enables you to make trusts and combinations and bools. [Applause on the Democraric side.] Mr. Mills tften proceeded to say that though the labor cost was lower and the rato oi wages higher here titan in England, yet England beat us because she produced goods at :i tota' cost lower than ours. It was not labor, it was material. Mr. Itanium, of Pennsylvania: Did I under tand tho ijeo .ieman to say that the cost of cotton goods in England was less than in this country ? Mr. Mills: The labor cost is pro duoed oound of prifit is lower here (ban in J?ngland, I ut the total cost fo.' i jH.erial an'1 everything i.i lower in England. Mr. kelley, of Pennsylvania, protested against the interruption. Mr. Mills: I don't. [Applause.] Mr. Kellcy: The gentleman is expounding his party doctrine, and theso interruptions are, in my judgment, impertinonce. Mr. Mills went on to state that the English gentlemen alluded to t P i VviaK jjp? ? / T v . W* " v t \ ... >. v> . 3 TO YC'JE "WOrRI} CONWA | by in< returned to his people and told their to fear nothing. "These people in the Tinted States,'' ho said, "wuile they beat us in labor, while they ean produce anything, hold to a high tariff on raw material. The cost of the material that enters into the manufacture is high and as lone- as they hold to a high tariff, you may go to sleep in security for Kngland holds the markets of the world." Mr. Mills then proceeded, with frequent citations from economic authors and from tabulated statements, to elucidate his argument that a high rate of wages in this country was not the result of the protective system. A SI I KINO II.I.fsi CATION, lie could not, he said, continue to tell the result of his investigations ! for want of time, but ho did wutTtyjjjl read a report from the coinmis^iq^H of labor, comparing the cost ning cotton yarn in Kngland o J n Alsace. In every single li|R?9Bk gl:w:d could \ 1 lower cost than Germany exported annually into ( trom ton to cloven million worth of cotton vnrn ovei i 20 per cent. Mow was that po^B&g I with the rate of w'nges so much fljjgjgj er in hJngland. Willi all her IHmSB labor, England's skilled. [hc.IHSS hand ook (dermar v's markets j|8g coinpollod her to build a wall her homes. The facts could io^HB I overthrown. What was it thati<^^9 vented us li'oni bocoinin;/ tic n-s^^H e^t manufacturing country in^B^ \\ ?rl tWo h\id n ? foreign inavktW N\ '? vore wedded, to a high tariff, and that made the cost of j o^uetious higher and drove t.s out of the , world's narkets. The greatest peo] pic cn the globe, the highest and , greatest diifusion of intelligence, utilizing tl-.e power of machinery be| yond in.v 6lher people; having cot| ton and *vo< I and hemp and llax and rich bc's of ore, are guilty of a sui( la! policv that closes the markets of the w, rid against us; that plnn ders the atriicc.llurists of one-half of tlieir earnings. [Appl auso. | li.NCOt: ItAOH COM M HIH'H. Instead of destroying our foreign commerce we should encourage it as we have our home commerce. Our prosperity was due to the intelligence of our labor and the unrestricted movement of our exchanges among 00,000,000 or our people at home. It was interchan&fo of $35,n 1 000,000,000 of internal commerce that made us a rich, prosperous and powerful people, and we hud grown so, not by the aid of restrictions on foreign commerce, but in spite of them. [Applauso.J Our wealth would have boon greater if we hr.d moiio of those restrictions, and let in things that could bo produced cheaper in other countries than they could be produced here. The policy which is now being pursued might for a while satisfy the demands of the capitalists, who had money in our factories, and they might build up combinations that seemed to spring up out of the earth. I fiut what was to become of the a| borer when they shut down thei: i (ires and turned their employees into the streets? What was to become of the cotton, wool and ores? Where were our markets? When our man1 ufacturos were stopped and the wheels were stilled and the fires were banked the laborer would go about tho streets seeking work and 1 finding none, and this was said to be ar American policy. That policy was American which ciings most closely to the fundamental principle of our Government, the principle of freedom. a.y aol'kal. to ktorilkh. He wished to show that tho tariff was not for tho 1 onefit of workingmen. Ho wished to do this by lig....... i... III*:. wi\i-n ?y 111 ?l l l 11 l <1 <' l ' l l til r* 1 imiii* selves. exhibiting tho total cost of tho product and tin* labor cost of tho tr ,ielos thev woro making. lie had put tho tariff table by t.h< side of those figures to see whether in tho little reduction tho committee asked in this bill it was going be yoml that pledge made- by tho l)em ocratic party that it would not re due? taxation so low as to ox pose la bor This " table showed tho tarif was not intended to benefit tho la borer; that tho benefits of tho tariff _ Jflf .A.3STXD ~X"OXTI5 Y, S. THURSDAY pass into pockets oi' the manufacturers iukI uevoi come to the pockets of the laborer. Continuing, lie* said | that it was asserted that Congress had intended to benefit the laborer by the tariff. It hail failed and not a dollar of the protection offered got i beyond tho manufacturer. lie, liowover, hired his labor at the lywost rate in the market. The committee had left in tho lull more than enough protection to pay for all labor and a bonus best let.. K<>lllUN<i tiik molt. Mr. Mills then went into the details of labor, citing flannel, sowing silk 'ins >od oil, bar iron, bessomer steel, moroceo skins, cloths, carpets, j wool suits, goblets, paints and other articles as exhibiting tho cost where t li^^jffl^BfcM-ge invariably greatly B^bor got beyond the* vtko up wealth, its beneficence laborer. It nieut to take a earn'mm III net ion in this i classes *raSM0j8S69HilBB^^r ''IV Other small ^WwUMMjjMM^Hj^Wieh. f'ouccntiaipt^nRHof tho country in: said he H^mBH^B^^Bviin'ii the v ir^^^^^ougli t was r t ai that the ' conimittoe could as!., it v. is a very inoderal bill, \et it would send comi fort and happiness into ill! tlio homes and bosoms of the poor laboring peopie of this country, and ho asked the House, in behalf of theso people, to consider their claims and help to re1 i duco the burdens that had boon load , I ed upon them. - o A I'sel'ul St. Keainrd Dog': Mrs. Ik N. Kd wards, of Clark county, Ga., has a St. Itenard dog that is a jewel in his way. lie is sent out to to the pasture every morning with the cattle, and returns with them safely every afternoon, j In milking ho keeps the calf otT, and when it is through.carries the pail to the house, lie works the treadmill by which the butter is churned, and is useful in domestic arrangements of the household in many ways, lint the faithful fellow is put to a more remarkable use than this. Mvory Rummer Ik? is shared, and his silken wool spun into yarn. Mrs. Edwards exhibits a table coyer four feet *) juaro that was made entirely from the hair of this dog. Six pounds of vool were obtained in this mannc last year, and the shearing time is nearly hero again. Strange to say, the'dog seems to like the loss of hi* w ol, and sports and gambols like a s?x months pup when the hair is short. * ? ? ? Hints to Housekeepers. A wart can bo removed by touching it several times a day with castor oii. Wfshi- g in cold water when ever n? ated " a frequent cause of disfiguring pimples. Fresh meat beginning to sour will sweety! ii placed out of doors in the over n;g"t. Blankets and furs put away well sprinkled with borax and done up air-tight will never be troubled with moths. The roughness which arises from expo ure to the air may be remedied I 1 by sponging tho face with equal parts of brandv and rose water. For |>r? i? 1 otii..tho growth of tho hair and oyebrows nothiin/ is hotter than l>n\ mm and quinine, in prop ti(?n of one pint (,<> one dram,, well rubbed into tho roots once a week. President, ('. II. Tabor, Foit Motto; Vice-Presidents First, (ion. Howe, Columbia; Second, John S. Ilr.ohson, Sumtor; Third, S. M. Orr, Anderson' Corresponding Secretary, J. [j. Dawson, Jr., Charleston; Ke-, I cording Secretary, W. Peyro Porche, ( Charleston; Troasnier, !!. VV. Do-, Sanssure, Charleston. A petrified block of oak, with the I r?uffii/ca ,.r ?v... i !?? no wi 11 iv n ac |.j i ?i 1111 jr rizmuu uil i it, was found >t few miles from Dal| ' las, Oregon, recently. , Opinion among thoso who have seen it is divided on the question whether it was hewn into snapo by a prehistoric inhabitant of the land or by sorr.o early pioneer from the oast. :rc: coi MAY 1888. Tin: LAST or Sl'MTKlfS m i;n |<\i|>? i ts?o, t>j Kunl; ?V W nautili '. It was a dreary day in January, 18-H), wIhmi at three o'clock in thoj aftornoon I arrived at Mr Leslie's plantation, with tw :> in miles of King's Mountain battle-ground i 11 South Carolina. I had traveled with a single horse and light wagon the rough road that skirted the foot of King's Mountain. The heavens were shrouded with clouds mid _ snow which had fallen during the night and mingled with mud more than fetlock deoj> hail jaded my horse. I explained to Mr. Leslie the ! object (d my journey, expressed a desire to visit the battle-ground of Kind's Mountain that afternoon, and asked him to show mo the way, it being only two miles from his house. "Your beast is tired," said Mr. Leslie. "I have two good saddle-j horses in tho stable." They were brought out. Wo i rode to the farmer's liold, among j wooded gravel hills viewed the to-' pography of that strange battle-1 ground, made two or three sketches,! and returned at twilight. Tho von- ! erablo William McKlwees. Mr. Leslie's father-in-law, had just arrived. | lie was a stout-built man. of medium! stature, v. !i.n an unmis'akable Scotch | face, flowing while hair, blue eves, and. though eighty-seven years old, seemed about as vigorous in mind i ami body its a hale .l.an at sixty, lie! was the last known survivor of Gen-1 era! Sumter'H famous partisan band in tho old War for Independence. His ratrinCmnces iormcd !io home! of lit*- cm. !"11?r*? conversation. "When a1 d whore did you join J Sumter';" i inquired. ".Just before Clinton took Charleston ..hi! Co.-i\vi.Ills began to >v rrun the .'t?.te i; South Car-i olinians were discouraged, and linn- j dreds took liritisli protection. Sum- i tor would not vield, but retired intoi North Carolina. I followed him. There ho gathered a littlo band of ! exiles and wo returned. Sumter j called for recruits. Very few camel until after we struck the camp of j Idthe wicked Tory Chris lluck on a| hot night in July. Wo killed tho I leader and scattered his followers to ' tho wind, lluck was a profane and profligate wretch. Ho hated L'resbyterians intensely, murdered one of j them while on his way to a place of worship on a Sunday with a liiblo in his hand, and burned a minister's house. When we struck lluck he had about two hundred mounted men. Our party numbered only one hundred and thirty all told. Timid men now took courage and joined | Sumter's standard. Governor ltut-1 lodge made him a brigadier, and I was commissioned a lieutenant.'-' "You were engaged in some stirn ring evonts afterward," 1 said. "Indeed I was. We struck liritisli and Tory parties here and there so unexpectedly and sharply that j (Jornwullis declared Sumter was his greatest plaguo in tno Carolinas. , Before the cud July ourjof little army J numbered about six hundred and was i daily increasing. Sumter felt strong and he determined to attack a lirit i t ? ish and Tory force about two riun| drod and fifty strong, at Rocky Mount, a ii'tle west of the Catawba. 1 hey occupied log-horses at the foot of tho slope, which were surrounded jfly abafw, as tlio French call it ?a row of felied trees laid brush-end forward. Wo had r.o cannon, so we got to the top of the hill, filled an old wagon with dry brush and straw, fired it, and sent tho hissing massj | down tljosh pe against the houses, j I T?ho British, seeing their peril, hois-1 i ted a white flag. At that in. ment a i shower of ra n put out tho fire, and 1 the little garrison defied us. Wo could do "loth jig, so we withdrew,! j crossed Ok Catawba and pushed on toward Hanging Hock." "What caused your defeat hero?" I asked. sir!" said the old soldier I ornphaticallj'. "Rum, the deadliest enemy of mankind. You see, we had whipped the British and Tories j completely and sent them running I 1 like frightened doors, leaving their j | camp and all behind. Their camp I was tempting, and our men, instead j of pursuing, engaged in plundering.! They drank freely of the liquors found in the officers' quarters. Our rusrrrK'Y-." | K I .."lO !?? ? A 11 mi in. | Force became disordered, ami when tho liritish rallied and returned two- < thirds of our men were too drunk to do duty. With about two hundred . men our brave leader charged upon the enemy, but seeing i reinforeo- i < inent for them coming,* were rented 1 with some prisoners and booty." "Vou were hard pushed at Fish- i ino t reek," I remarked. i "Indeed, we were surprised i badly surprised." "I thought Sumter was always | wide awake," I said. "So he was, hut 'accidents will happen in the best of families/ you know. Sumter had been sent by ( ates to intercept a I>ritish escort from Ninety-six. We captured more than forty toigons loaded with j clothing and stores, and were returning to the Wateroe when we beard of the defeat of (iatos near Camden. So we went up the river about forty miles and halted for needed rest near the mouth of Fishing Creek. Wo did not dream that an enemy was near. At noon, on a hot August day, while our arms wore stacked, I the horses were grazum. and more r> D7 than half the men were asleep under the trees, the fiery Tnrleton with his cavalry dashed among us, seized arms and ' orses, killed about one hundred and fifty of our men, and made three hundred prisoners. Sumter, who scorned never to sleep, seeing Irs men slaughtered and dispersed, sprang upon his big white horse, and closely followed by myself and a drummer-boy with his drum, both on a bay mare, fled into North Carolina, n.oi slopped until wo readied Charlotte. We made a sorry figure when we rode into the village. Sumter was without ft Imt, I without a coat, ami the drumniorbov. sittinir astride lineiml miv fmil J >-? I only a shirt on, having just conio out >' the crook, whore ho had been bathing. Our horses wore without saddles." "What then?" 1 asked. "Action! Only Marion was then in the Held with Whigs in South Carolina. Sumter went immediately to the upper country, where a few of his men who had escaped joined him, and tnanv volunteers Hocked to his standard. We were then all motin ted and were soon joined by other pnrtif?s. We had an opportunity presently to show Tarleton that Americans could strike heavy blows as well as British. Late in November he chased us. We had encamped at Black-stocks, on the Tygor River, in Union District, where Tarleton overtook us with a part of his force. We fought desperately, and nt dusk wo set Tarleton and his men running for lib? and liberty, leaving about two hui ?lr?v! of hisj men on the field, nearly one hundred of them dead." "I have hoard there were many bravo women in that region," I observed. "Bravo! NVhv they helped the cnuso almost as much as the men! There were Grace and Rachel Martin, Mrs. Dilhtnd, Dicey I.ang.'.lon and scores of others in that lonely country left at home by the men in arms, and they performed their part ; in the contest nobly, 1 assure you. j Gra#; and Rachel were the young wives of two sons of the Widow Martin of Ninety-six District, who wore in Greene's army. These young women wero with their mother-in-law. One evening they wore I informed that*a British courier, with two guards, would pass that way with important dispatches for a Briti >h post beyond. They put on their husbands' clothes, provided themselves with arir.s, and lay in am bus I) by the side of the wood. Date in the evening the courier and his escort, came along, when the young women suddenly sprang hefore thorn prosentod their weapons and bade the travelers surrender with their papers. Utterly surprised, they obeyed and were paroled. Returned they stopped at Mrs. Martin's and craved accommodation for the night. I On being asked why they had returned so soon they said they hail been made prisoners by two lads and showed their parole. The young women allowed their captive guests to depart the next morning in ignorance that their captors had entertained thorn. Tho dispatches were sent to Greone's." 4 \ * * NUMBER 12<7 u\Vlx> was Dicey I .nn^ston?'JI injuired. "A i(irl as hravo and patriotic as loan of Aor, and not so old- -only fifteen or sixteen. She was the Juojrhter of a Whig in Laurens District, whoso son was in my company in Sumter's army. She was contin I .. I l f . winy ^omii^ vuniuoie lniormauon iibout tho movements of the Tories nnd jri\-it??r it to tho Whigs. At one timo she heard that ('unningham and his 4Hloody Scout* '-ere about to attairVc a settlement in \ hieh her near relatives resided; she determined to givo them warning. Leaving her home at near midnight, she sped through swamps and thickets and across running streams until she reached the Tvger Jltivcr. It was swollen, renderingjthe ford dangerous. She pushed into the river in tho darkness, and in the channel, neck deep, she became confused. Hut sho gained the shore, gave tho warning, and when tho scout came tho inhabitants had lied to a place of safety. "One. day sho was captured bv some Tories and ordered to givo some informally about n Whig neighborhood from wld<'h she had come. She positively refused. The leader, placing a pi*! >' at her !>r< est. said, "Tell, or you shall die in your tracks.' "Dicey snatched oil a long kerchief which covered Iter neck and said, U4Shoot me if you dare!' "lie was vb nit to fire, when a il.. l * 11 i ijtiiiiljiilllUII til row up III. i IIIIIIO niHI saved tho bravo girl's life. I might lull yo a hundred stories of tho eu- x lions of our bravo women, but it is getting Into." "Toll mo, 1 ts**,1' 1 grid; "where were \ou at tho bnttlo <?f Kind's Mountain ?" "In it," lio promptly replied. "1 was at iiomo on furlough and volunteered to resist Ferguson and his Tories. We met hi in amon g tho gravel hills von saw to-day. No was kille 1 and a largo portion of his men were made prisoners. You saw the stone that marks tno spot where Ferguson fell and was huried, did you not?" "Yos," I repliod, Mn*d made tliis sketch of it," handing him my draw ing. "On that limb," said Mr. McKlwoes, pointing to one on the tree nearest the memorial stone in the sketch, "I saw ten Tories hung. They were a murd* . ous gang and deserved their fate." "Did you see Sumter after tho war?" 1 inquired. "Often, lie died only about twon ty yours "go, when he was almost a hundred years old. 1 was at> his homo, South Moui.t near Camden." Turning to a grandchild, Mr. Mc hi 1 woes said, '-It's nine o'clock; please hand mo the liible." He read a short.chapter, then a hymn was sung, and ho concluded the simple family worship with a most impressive prayer 1 hade the venerable man good | night with feelings of gratitude for a | rich entertainmen' 5 UkNSO.N J. i.OSHt.N'U, LI,. 1). The elephant Gypsy, in winter tpiarters in Chicago, has died of ;? broken heart, her companion, an elk, having died the previous week and Gypsy becoming inconsolable. Some of the shepherds in the mountains of Hulgaria live for ten and fifteen years attending their flocks, and never knowing what it is to sleep in a oqusq or to enjoy any of the comforts or civilization. One of the raro curiosities in the dead letter office museum at V. ashi.w.ir... It, .. I. ? t ih^k'h, in u diicci ui piiri'iimtuu oil which is pinned tho Lord's prayer in fifty-four languages. It is said to be a duplicate of a parchment which hang# in St. Peter's Pome. C. U ]). Kelley, who is now living in San Francisco, is tho solo survivor | of Sam Houston's famous spy company in the Texan war of 1835. He carried tho tidings of the massacre of New Orleans, and from thence to New York. lie was born in 180*3, and is now in his eighty-sixth year. A singular accident occurred in I Sussex, Fngland. A fox huntress was out with the fox hounds, when her horse picked up a flint rock in . his fore foot, and while galloping throw it back with such force against the shank of tho hind leg that the hone was broken just above the fet| lock, and the animal hatL to be dej stroyod. * ' ?