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;. . ~ ... . .. -. -____________________ ________________ _____ _______ _________________ - ~ - - -~--~ .. Till-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. CI., JANUARY 8, 1881. VOL. IY~-NO. 161. A WINTER8IRMON. Thou dwellest in a warm and cheerful bomel '1hy root In vain the winter tempest lashes, While louselois wretches round thy mansion roam, On whose unsheltered Lead'tho torrent * splashes. Thy board Is loaded with the richest meato, O'er nhich thine eyes in sated languor wander; Many might live on what thy mastiff eats. Ur f( ast on fragments which thy servants equander. ''by linabs are nuffied foiom the Ilhire nig blast When flena thy lresid6 thou dost daily silly ; Many have saroe a rag about then cast. With which the froaty breezes toy and dally. Thou hast s( ft gwiles to greet tho kils of love When thy light step resounds witfiin the portal; &nc have no friend save Hit who dwells above, No oweet coninunion with a fellow 'iorlal. Thou sleepest soundly an thy ecatly bed. Lulled by the power of luxurica unnnun be red ; 8omre pilloiv on a stone an sching head, evei again to wake when they have slum beroi. Then think of those, who formed of kindred clay, Depend upon the doles thy bounty seat ter.-; Anad God will hear them'-for thj welfail pray They are His children, though in rages and Cutters. Disappointed. "Just three months ago to-day siuce she caine to Farnlands, and 1 verily believe I atu in love-liopelessly." But whether his passion were fraught with, or doomed to success or despair, Johu CliCord certainly looked like a "hope loss" lover thinking about Isabel Do Lurne. ills was a bright face, though not hand buie, and lighted by laughing blue eyes that the young lady never yet had satislac torily decided were in fun or earnest when their owner flashed their light upon her. John Clifford was twenty-six, and no faco had ever yet disturbed the even tenor of his way until this label Do Loirme had come to his nother's house, and won all hearts under the roof before a week. Only three nionths acquainted, and John Clifford could have sworn it seemed like so many years, such perfect friends they two had become, despite that tall, aristocratic blonde gentlormhu from Paris who sat next to Isabel at the table, and who frowned so audibly when' John would bend over her regal head and whispered something or other. And sitting'there, he had to smile with sulerb indillerence when he thought of this bonde gentleman, this Mr. Elmer whose admiration for his peerless Isabel was so patent. To be sure, Mr. Elmer and Isalgie had been carrying on a harmless little Ilirtation, off and on. But John hadn't said anything, for two good reasons; one was, he was not a de clared lover of Miss Dt Lorme, much' as he wouid have liked to be ; the othier hie had just as nilce a little time with Adilie 8un ,terland between times when he took a stroll only a couple of miles. lHe aind Addle had known each other ever sinee John could rememaber.. And then, ,with Addle t wo miles off, and Isabel consuantly before his eyes-with Addle, when-hd~ did see her, ui'lplabiest'of Smuslin tollets, demidishaabil/e, and isatbel flaahing before his eyes 1t9 such wvondfortsly bewitching dresses, it was. little wonder that lie grew to forgetting Addle 8unde .land's peach-bloom~ cheeks, hiah' lIke Apdnir gold, and eyes as dlark, but not so brilliant as !saibei Do Lormne's own. John CliffordI . was fast, forgottling her ; and that elegant ludy had won him whom she hard wanted for her' very own. Poor foolish lIttle Addie! but shie was only seventeen, and In love, else she would have risen up and met and vaanshied her foe; for her own weapons, her fenu nIne tact, beauty, wIt and grace, were sharp aind brlght as her enemoay's, only her eanemy was an expert in their use, and well, only justL the truest sivqetegt fjrl in the coun try was Addle. : Thei light 'werd arin 'and- -lnag brightly in Mrs. Clifford's parlor, and~ the little groups gathered together, were ura usually tilhnlned foi con vereaglou. It had been a delighatitl season,- and on the morrow their p~leasant party wouldl be broken up, hii all parobabflity flover' to meet again. -Mrs. Cliffofd's guieat \vita to leave hi theo mornilng. And yet John Clifford had not spoken. But to-aight wvhen he saw her, standing by the window, silent thioufghtful, .alone, so queenly lin her attitude of grace, lie suddeunly walked Into her piresenice, resolv ing to ask her to stary and be lisa wife, or' to go lis betrotlied bride. She turned, wvith a bright .smile, and hxeld out her hand. "1 believe I was certainly getting loaiely, Are you lonely, Mr. Olilford ?" She thawlied him a glance from her mad. hnt eyes as she spoke; dtnd with (lie handt John was stIll holding carelessly, butt with a matchless grace that dId not escape her lover's ardent, diring gaze, swept back a rich stray curl <fl her forehead. heow liquidly toilder her voice was I And Jpihn Clifford wondeted If his dear. tiny had created this oppiortunity for hla sspecial good, "You ask me if I am over -lonely," he said, in a low, murmurous tone that was intoxicating In its sweetness and proud strength, that grow passionate as he went on; '"as if I could be, when I have had you near me; as if I ever would be with you. Isabel, you will not go and leave me desolate? Isabel, my own darling I my own beautiful darling!" Then, without waiting for an answer, satitlAd in that lie told her all lite heart, as it behoved hin to do. John Clifford caught her in his arms, hold her in a tight embrace, the while raining kisses he could not withhold on her splendid face, on her wavrn, quivering lips. . Then ie held her at arm's length and soiled down on her. "My own ! I kneo w had but to tell But e was shivering strangely. lie saw her mouth parted to speak, and he stopped suddenly. "'Mr. Clifford-oh, Mr. Cl.fford, I would give worlds to undo what you have done to unesay what. you lave said ! Oh, why hfts this terrible mistake occurred I Tell.ie what I have done to justify it" She was fairly walling out her piteous words, and he saw there was someething ye! to come. "'Tell ie," he retirned huskily. "What. ever it is I want to know. ' Buile sce4ejed to disregard his words. She walked ip and down the little room in restless distress. "How did I know you thought I was Miss Do Lornie? Eirerybody called me Isabel. John Clifford, I am Mrs. Do Lorne l Why didn't you know it ?" There was smothered tierceness in her voice ais she abruptly proclaimed it. lie stood several seconds stricken duib with tile newe. Then lie went up to her. "Forgive ine-i meant no harm. God is mny judge of that. And you, Mrs. Do Lormee, If you will mercifully forget it, I -I will try." lie bowed and left her to herself. lie went to the quiet of his roon, where he paced the floor all that long night, drinking to the very dregs the cup at hi lips. And the next morning, when he come down, Mrs. De Loreno had gone. The afternoon sun wits shining all over the green meadow land, and- tlittering in quivering beauty through thie swaying branches of tho horse chestnuts. John Clifford, three yeats older than he was the rmorning he set sail for America, lay back in the armchair, and looked about him as a man looks who feels glad to be at home again. -. - lie was smihng at his fond nother, whc was bustling around in restless delight. "Glad to get hone? Indeed I am mother ;- and what's -inore, I am going tc stay here--settle down, you know, for good." "If you'd only brought a wife horne with you. John," she said. His face clouded, thpn )ightenod.. "Bless u, r9ther mine, didn't, you know I've come to marry my little Addte? How is she mother I I am going up di rectly arter supper." Mrs Clifford gave a little start. "Johin I dear boy-didn't you get the ietter'? Why, Addle's been married tlh six months. My pocor John I" Shre ernme over and silently smcoothed hir averted head, knowing only half the u~n. speeakablo agony in ihis nole heart. O; "Married ?" he said at lenrgth, "'Wiho t niothrer ?" "A Mr. Do Lormie. It is thre queerest story, (lear'; but our isabel--you reemi ber' I-was a nmareried womnr, it seemes, and she (lied shortly after she left here." " lie camre hero the summer you went away, and lhe arnd Addle 8utherlarnd~ pladti a rratch of It." A common eneough story, t,>ld ire sine. plest, most parsseionlessq words, that Mers. Oliffor'd never dreamed were'tehrring aid cruelly pirobing a wouend tmat never liad healed, arid never wouild. And to dary 5ohne Clifford raises his lint to Mrs. De Lorme as she rides In her pha. ton, with a hand that never lens touched ai wo.man's clinging fingers uiude that night, anl lis face tells no tiales of his lonely life at Farmilands. :Ta teinsI edaty)Aemr Ott. 1br. Ifillt~e 6, Ine /dziPancc Medlicale, reconmends, en order to rernder cod liver oil tasteless, to mix a tablespoonful of it intimately vflth tho'yolk of an egg, :add a fey drops of esscep of ipepidonban hafatmleer of sugared water, so as to obtarn nq it du poe. By thrSineemes the tpstpe rnd chatrarcteristic odor of the oil aire dutlhrely coverddl, and the patents take it without thre slighetest gepugnance. , 2e. sidee, 'the oil, being thdts rendere~d thiseihle as tire warter im all its proportions, is inr as complete state of emulsion as tie fats at thec mlomrent they penetrarte the eheyle vessels, conispqently absoiptiont is better aissuredl. -lostoni pays out $2,300,000 anual~y for oysters. TheI favorito, day f'uri mairriargos inr P'ris is Saturday. -Josep~h 1lpklinson worte ''ll Coluembia" in .1798. -A coon club heis been organized at l ilinrgton, N. C. -Th'Ie Germarn Mormonms now leave an organ in Salt. Lake City'' -The re ar'e &l5,000 femeaies in New York city anrd 5!)0,000) males. 'Bisjmark lea-i for many years be lieved that lie wIll dIe i 1881. -Texas div es 1,000,000 head of eat-. tie to thre Northr West annueally, -The Jews lnave a tem ple. ini Chica go atih will soar 5,000 personls. -Inir~nentse' Day, December, 28, was for-merzly conesidored an triluoky day. A Picture Three Miles Long. Most of our readers have heard of, and many may have seen, Banvard's great "Panorama of the Mississippi." It is said that the author of this ihunmense work con ceived its idea and determined (in its exe cution when lie was at mere boy, during a trip across the Mississippi in a row-boat at sunset. The story of his after-life is a recoid of singular persistency and success in carrying out a boyish dream. When his father (lied, Jolm Banvard was left a poor, friendlcss lad, and ob tained employment with a drugglot. But so fond was lie of sketching the likenesses of those about him on the walls with chalk or coal, that his master told him lie made better likenesses than pills; so poor John lost his situation. le then tried other plans, and met with many disappointments. Finally lie ob tained enough money to begin his great work. Ile bought a small skiff, and set off alone on his perilous adventure. le travoled thousands of miles, crossing the Mississippi backwards and forwards to secure the best pohits for matking his sketches. All day long lie went on sketch Ing, and when the sun was about to set lie either shot wild fowi on the river, or haul ing the little boat ashore, went into the woods, with his rifle, to shoot game. After cooking ahd eating Ils supper, he turned lils boat over on the ground, and crept under It, rolling himself up In i blanket to sleep for the night, safe from the falling dews and prowling animals. SometeIRs for weeks together lie never spoke to a human being. In this manner he went on sketching for more than four hundred days before the necessary draw ings were finished, and then he set to work in good earnest to paint the picture. lie had only made suetches in his wan derIngs. After these were completed, there were colors and canvas to be bought, and a large wooden building to be erected, for he determined to paint them on one piece of canvas, and thus make a pano rama. When it was finished it covered three miles of canvass, and represented a range of scunery three thousand miles in extent; and that all this magnificent work was executed by a poor, fatherless, moneylesi lad, ought to make- us ashamed of giving up any undertaking worth pursuing, nerely because it would cost.us some troubl e. AP tlrette lmai. Down upon the ice of the Red River o tle North, below the walls of Fort Garry there began in the latter part of Decembet a dog-sledge journey which supplies mail matter to at least one-sixth of the Westerm Continent. The isolated position of th< many posts at the Hudson's Bay Company and the wide and trackless wastes separa ting them from all means of communicatiou with the outside world, and even with enca other, by any of the ordinary channels o intercourse, necessitste certain methods o mail transport peculiar to this country alone The boat brigades of the summer carry a mail in addition to their freight; but in the long winters, when the wuters are locket up in ice and the plains covered with snow leaving scarcely a landmark discernible by which the (lay's course may be steered other appliances take the place of plani bottoms and sturdy oaranien. Every year, atout the 10th of December, when the landscape is clothed in its winter raiment of white, and the rivers and laket are covered with thick ice. there otarts fron Fort Uarry, bound north, the accunulatiou of mail matter known as the Great North ern Packet. Through its agency commi nication is had with every post in the ter ritory. Tll; ap)liances for the carriage o this importaa packet. are snow shoes an< sledges. The latter, generally four in nuni ber, are dr-awn by dogs, of which there ar< four to each sledge, amdi in whose trapping considerable taste and ornamient are dis played. Tiheir drivers, one to each sledge Jilihy clad for runng alongside theii trains, arec shied with snmow shoes. Eacd alternate siedge is loaded with whitefish al p~rovisioni for the dlogs up-in the Journey every animal receiving a single tian at tin termintion of the dlay's travel-and pemi mican and tea for thme drivers. 'There is bound upon each of the remamn. ing sledlges a pair of Stoutly constructet boxes, measuring abont three feet in lengtil b~y eighteen inches an width and fourtee: inches ini depth. These wooden mail bags when properly p~ackedl, contain an astonmsh. ing amount of p~rinted and written matter. Tl'ese recep~taeles being secured upon th< sledges, the par~ity sets forth upon its iong journey, the dlogs runnmng ait ai regular trol Iroms morning till night, iind the dtriverI accomplanying thiem on foot, at the rate oi about forty mniles a day. The route take; is generally that followed by the boat bri. gad(es im the stunmifer-, Shortened whienevei practicable by crossing points of land Jut tiiig out int'> the lakes, and striking over land from benud to bend of thle rivers. Jiu the ice forums the general roadlway, and th whole length of Lake Winmipeg is travers. edto JNorway hlouse at Its northern extreim, Ity.' TIhis post constitutes what may be called a general distributing ofllce--the en tire packet being overhauled and repacked, so as to sep~arate matter going North anc West, fromn that going eastward towar iUnasons's Bay. Tha~ latter is consignedl t< a brneh packet iruin to connect with thn uirst carriers, and b~rinlging with it the aa from York 'actory In the .bay. After of. feeting an exchanige the runners separate returniing immediately .to their respectiv staiting p~oinits. A new set of packet becarers now trave froma Norwvay Ilouse, carryinig the greal mail for the Nor'th anid WVest to Fort Carl -ton-the chnef centre of the winter panckel airangements-nwa r the eastern extremit3 of the great, Saiskatecwani Valley, a dia tance of about, seven hundred miles. whier4 tlhe procese of unpacking aud redistribuiom agaiiu takes place, matter (directed Lo ti< N1orth being now scdparated f rom that go lug West,. Trho runners who come dlowr from thie Baskatchewan, i the West, atu those from Norway [louse, whore jouirneo I have Just traced, there await the arriva of the outward-hound express from the ex treme Wester-n districts, strictly so calleda being those of Mackenzie itiver and Atha baska. When the runners coming I rona theie three directibne have met and ex changed burdens, the last grand lin1k in the opeCration is completed. Thie mall for th< West returns; the Norway House men re traice their steps eastward; while the We'al Northern Packet journeys op In charge oi the mna who have come to moot It fronm th< remte actic regions to which it is consign The runners In charge of the mail pack ets are generally half-breeds, whosecapaci tv for rapid travelling has been tested. They are not unimportant men, either in their own eyes or in the eyed of other peo ple. But, with the exception of physical endurance requisite to the maintenance of a steady tiot for days at a time, their ne cessary qualifications are not many. In travelling they skirt the shores of the wa tercourses, selecting camping places for the night on some sheltered thicket, or under the lee of some projecting bank, to escape the fierce winds which sweep over the level prairies. The snow is scraped away from a space sufliciently large to admit of a huge fire and the spreading down of blan kets by means of a snow shoe used as a shovel. Dry wood is collected in large quantities, the pemndian and tea served, the sledges turned up to ward off the blasts and the rnnnera, wrapped in a few blan kets, retire fot the nightl The warmth of fire and blankets is augmented by the vital heat of the dogs, occupying the bed with masters. Before daybreak they are awake, and with a furthereonsumption of pemnmi can and tea the day's travel begins. They pass through strange scenes upon their journeys-withered woods, through which the winds howl and shriek shrilly, and endless level expanses of suow, the glare of whose unsullied whiteness blinds the traveller. The solitude-of the vast re gion is unbroken, save-when the dog sledge with its peal of silver bells In wutzr, or the swiftly-passing boat brigade, resonant with the songs of the summer voyagw'ir8, intrudes with its momentary variation on the shriek of the all-penetrating wind, the ripple of the stream, the roar of the thun der-toned waterfall, or the howl of the wild beasts of the forests-the undisturbed pos session of the Indian hunter and his prey. From the morning when the packet left the olilice at Fort Garry to the evening when the solitary dog-train-last of nany-lrags the same packet, now seduced to a timy bundle, into the enclosure of La Pierre's Rouse, more than one hundred nights have ben passed in the great Northern forest; more than three thousand miles have been traversed; a score of diff.rent dog trains have hauled the packet, sending off branch dog packets to the right and left. It was mid-winter when it started; it arrives just as the sunshine of mid-1ay is beginning to carry a faint whisper of coming spring to the valleys of the Upper Yucon. Origin of tne Maerino Sheep, As the ancient Greeks had no cotton nor silk and very little linen, and as sheep's wool was the principal texture from which their clothes were made, they took pecu liar care to cultivate with especial care such breeds of sheep as produced very fine wool. Such breeds were those of the Greek city of Tarentum, situated on the Tarentne Gulf. In order to improve the fne quality of the wool still more, the sheep were covered with clothes in cold weather, as itwas foind by experience that exposurer to cold made the wool coarser. Thus clothing these sheep from generation to generation resulted in a very delicate breed with exceedingly ilne wool, according to the law established by Darwin in regard to selection and adaptation to ex terior conditions. This product of Greek industry was transmitted by them to the Itomans, whose great agricultural author, Colunella, states that his uncle in Spain crossed the Tarentine sheep with rams im ported from Africa, and ob'ained a strong or breed, combimng the whiteness of fleece of the father with the fineness of the fleece of the mother, and having obtained such results the race was perpetuated. The ab aence of other fine textures made these Spanish sheep so valuable that in the be ginning of our era they were sold in Rome for *1,000 in gold a head, an enormous price for those times, when money had muh oe auethnno.When the Hararins nvaed tal thsesheep were all extermninated, while the greater p~ortion of the iiman possessions were laid waste. But in the less accessible mountains of Spain the Moors preserved the breed, and it is to them that miodern Spain owes the merino sheep, which are the direct de IscLndants of this cross breed of the Greek and~ African ancestors referred to. It is a valuable inheritance, too, which that coun try owg to the combied Greek, Rosnanu, and~ Moorishm civilization, and of which our California wool..growers also earna the ad vantages, by the prosperlty of this breed of sheep, wvhich was there a few years ago. The Mlnynower Ot:i'rds1 in NLine. "Mayflowver Guards this way," shouted a small hoy at TIhird avenue and Eighth street, New York. He wvore a rced shirt and glazed hat, and tinsel stripes decorated his trouser legs. lie stoodi at the head of an irregular line of boys waving a woodien sword. is comrades were resplendecnt in redl and white shirts, and were armed with old canmpaigii torches that had outlived their usefu'iiess. "Get into lkne, Jimmy, " called the leader, giving one of his sqluad an admonitory pokc in the rear, "Lemmo alone, camn'it yer, ' growled the insub~ordinate privamte, who was bent upon displaying his uniform to sonie small girls on the curhbonie. "'Fall In, fall in," shouted their captain. Thei ''Guards" fell In by foiurs. Those who hiad no torches restedl their hands on their comrades' shoulders. In the rear marched their standaInrdi-bearer, wholm b.)re a small gaudlily-painted target bearing the name of the compjany. Thle youthful miusician at the head wiped his nose with the bhick of his hand and placed a small tin pipe In his amoutth. He lew till he was red mn the face, and at lat evoked a dismal toot. "F'orward, hurry up, there I" scamled the captain, and the squad marched up the avenue. SimIlar comprameos weie scattered all along Third avenue. Sonmc bore National flairs, while others dis played thle harp and and the shamrock of Irlamnd. iBoys who failed to find red shirts took off their coats and shivered for the sake of applearance in white. Occasionally the dilgnity of the "Rangers" or "Lbight Guard" was marred by the sudden dlescent of an enraged woman, who fell upon cap. lain or private with shrill remInders of household duties and led the unfortunate youth oiT by the ear. It was noticeahle that the various companies invariably halted an suggestive nearness to cake or candy shops. -Prussia arid Nvrt~h German $tatew have 11,087 brewerles. I-Nearly a million dollasa are in the An Indian Pythias. Ephraim Webster is said to have been the first white man, who sought a perma. nent residence in Onondaga county, and passed most of his thne among the ied men of his day. Force of circumstances brought him to Onondaga, and soon after he had located there a young brave of the Cayuga nation one morning presented himself be fore the chiefs of the Onondagas and Mr. Webster, while sitting at the door of the council-house. Tih young man sidd: "I have come to dwell among you and your people, if you will permit. I have left forever the hotue of my father and the hearth of my mother. I seek a home with you; my nane is Mantinoah, deny me not.* "Mantinoah, you are welcome here,'' said the aged chief Ka-whick-do-ta; "sit down aunong us. Be our son, we will be to you a father; you can hunt and fish with our young men, and tread the war path with the braves of our nation ; you shall be honored as you deserve." Nearly two years passed and Mantinoah was apparently contented and happy. He was the flrst in the chase, nost active in the dance, and the loudest in the song. His ever-pleasant and ovon manner won for him the friendship of Webster, and therefore it was that where one was, there was the other also. Webster was surprised one bright mornig by Mautinoak saying: "I must leave your peaceful valley soon forever. I go toward the setting sut ; I have a vow to perform. My nation and my friends know Mantinoah will be true. My friend, I desire you to go with me." Webster consented, and preparation was made for the journey. They left Onon daga valley together, and, after a walk of three or four days, taking their journey leisurely, hunting and fishing by the way, they arrived at an eminence near Manti noah's village. "Ilere," said Mantinoah, "let us rest let us invoke the Great Spirit to grant us strength to pass triumphantly through the scenes of this day. Ilere," said he, "we will eat, amd here foi the last time will smoke the pipe of peace and friendship to gether." After a repast of broiled venison and bread, the pipe was passed from one to the other in regular succession, and the silence was broken by Mantinoah saying: "A little more than two years have elapsed since, in my native village near to us, in a burst of passion, I slew my bosom friend and chosen companion. The chiefs of my nation declared me guilty of my friend's blood, and decreed I must suffer death. It was then I sought your nation; it was then I won your friendship. Te nearest of kin to him I siew, acccrding to our custom, was to become my executioner. My ox ecution was deferred two full years, dur ing which time I was condemned to banish ment from any nation. I vowed to return. The time of two lull years expires this (lay, when the setting sun sinks behind the top mast branch of yonder tree. Beneath the broad branches of this venerable oak, where we now stand, at the foot of this ancient rock, against which we now lean, I stand prepared to receive my doom. My friend, we have had iany a cheerful sport Loge ther; our joys have not been circum scribed, our griefs have been few; look not so sad now, but let new joys arouse you to happiness. When you return to the Onondagas bear witness that Mantinoah died like a true brave of the Cayugas; that he trembled not at the approach of death, like the coward paleface, nor sited tears like a woman. My friend, take my belt, my knife, ny hunting-pouch, my horn, and rile ; accept them as nementoes of our friendship ; I shall need them no longer; a rew moments and the avenger will be here; the Great Spirit calls; I am ready; Mantinoah fears not to die; farewell." As soon as the brave Indian had flnished, Webster 'remonstrated with him, but, in vain he urged im to escape the conse quences. A short sidenice ensued, when a yell was heard in the dastanice, to which the Uaiyumga respondled. A single Indian ap proached aiid took Mantinoah by the hanid. tie, too, had beeni lis friend, but the law of the savage couldi not be broken. After nmutual salutations and expressions of kindness, the avenger adidressedi himn: "Al~amiinoah,, you have slain imy brother; our laws declare me avenger and your ex eutiloner. Your time is comte ; death is at hand ; prepare to meet himn. lie stead fast, be jirm ; aund may the Great, 8pirit sustain you. Upon this Mantinoalh gracefully elevated his nianly fomi, carefully baared his broad bosoma, cahnly laid his armi across his mtan ly breast; not a muscle moved not a breath was 4card. TI'nere lie stood, ready for thme voluntary sacrilice, immiioVabjle as adamant. Accompanied by a (lieaig yell, the bright tomahlawk of the atveinger glistened in tne fading light; its keen edge sank decep into the braii of his victim. Thec thirsty earth drank the life-biood of Mantinoah, and lie sank, without a gronn, a lifeless corpse before his friend. Instantly, as if by miagic, a host of savages appieared ; the mournful song of (death reechoed through the forest; the gloomy diance of the dead moved in melancholy soleninity around the corpse of the departed; the low, guttural mioan p~ecuhar to the savage murmured thbrough the trees, and all wmas still. Tlhey sihenitly surveyed the scene, when slowly in groups, ia pairs, anid singly, the wit, nesses of this iarilhng scene retired. A iranago Visitor, A deeided sensation was recently created in Ne~w York, by the adlvenit in that, city of a lHombay maehant-prince, Mr. Esoo falvyiHiptala by name, together with his four wives, Vageerbal, Allah Jiundi, T hahjah and Omadabal-al I of themi in charge of a 111th woman named Bhioonbai, and a enuch, Abdolalla Esmnaijee. in ad ditioni to these were several other persons, in the capacity of servants. The names of tie attenidants are not easy to p~ronounie, but as given to the reporters are GJoolam.. hooran, Oonmerkhian, Yagax, Railagor, I mamn,Khogooila, Jlallyay, Moorbarak and Zuibrung. 'They all wore either a turban or a med fez, wi black tassel depending, and were for ilhe niost part dressed in half E~uiropean- costunie, but their master, the mcehiant-prince, was attired, with the ex. epltion of is niether garmients, in true Oriental style of splendor. Undier a loose overcoat, which was carelessly thrown open, could be seen a long garment of paile pink, p~endlmg to the knees, on which was worked a mnass of gold embroidery in a bewilderment of fantastic shapes. 'the merchant says his sole object in coiming to this country lasto kmprove hil mind by t~ravel aud obser..,..m Gambler's Fortune*. The two gambling houses, which were most frequently visited by Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, were George Beers', corner of University Place and Thirteenth street, and Dancer's, at No. 8 Barclay street, N. Y. Beers and Dancers are both dead, and their gambling houses belong to the past. George Beers died about four years ago, leaving a handsome widow and three young children, and a fortune of about $300,000. The property cmsists of tho building on the corner opposite Tiffany's, a brown stone house on Eleventh street, a very valuable property onl Sixth avenue, near Twenty-eisrhth street, and a splendid country residence, with large and beauti. fully cultivated grounds at Ishp, Long Island. Beers niae the most of his money during the war, and at the corner of Uni versity Place and Thirteenth street, where Cornelius .J. visited. And right lively company was found there during the flush times of the war and some years after ward. George Beers, however, was o f a very (uiet and gentle disposition. T here was such an air of well-bred repose in his man ner, aid an apparent contentment with lile lot in life, that one would think to look at his hanlsome face, and note the expres sion which usually rested there, that the world had properly appreciated huin, in having contributed a goodly portion of its labor and t i'r. for his comfort and happi ness. A g eat many of his patrons were Wall and Bioad street men, beside a cer tam class of young bloods. There were but few strangers or out-of-town people who visited there. There was, therefore, to a certain extent, an exclusive caste of the people who frequented Heers'. Beers was an epicure, and his elegantly set table, with its beautiful and exquisitely cooked viands, was one (of the chief at tractions of his house. The style of cook ing combined the daintiness of the French, with the plenitude and liberality of the English or American. lie studied the tastes of his patrons, both as to their favor - ite dishes and their choice of wines aid cigars. From the stress which Cornelius J., in his evidence, lays upon the expen sive hospitality with which ie entertained guests at his residence in this city, it is evident that lie was fond of displaying lila taste in the culitiary art, while ostensibly he merely did it in order to miintain the honor of the Vanderbilt family. lossessing such a cultivated gastro nonne taste, and a passion for cards, it was no wonder Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, shouh h-ive frequented George Beers' house. The story of his having at fit there, after an umiusually heavy loss at faro, may or may not be true. Many men as good as he have done worse than fall over in a swoon or tit, after fully realiz.ig the ruIn they have brought on themselves through their own folly, and nave placed pistols at theii heads and blown their brains out. Now, about Dancers', at No. 8 Barclay street, Cornelius J. says he played there in the (lay time. Ay, it was a down-town game, and many a iman has walked in there feelig pretty solid, w.th his pocket book stuffed with greenbacks, till old Dancers got hold of him, and pretty soon he danced without the nusic of a couple of nickles to keep time for hun. A stylish old fellow was Dancers, and lie would rather play backgaunnn than faro at y day in the week. fhere was a big capital in that faro batik, and it had the reputation of being square. The highest players in the city "played open" and "coppered" their "pyramids" on its "lay-out." Cornelius J. usually called for a stack of reds as lie took his seat next to the cue keeper. lie was very fond of playing in the "pot," that is, taking in the six, seven and eight. Ile usually did this till it camtle to a "'case, " anid then he put down his pile either open or copp~lered. If lie lost lie would somie times dIrop back to a pihl of whites, and as these did no~t cost huut $10 lhe could bet ter afford to wait till his turn of luck came; anmd then he would hustle thle game pretty lively till it got down to the last turn, when lie systematically called it bo0th ways fromi the lowest card. Wuell, old D~ancer "'passed In his checks, " as the gamblers say, a few years ago, aind left a big pile of bonds and money to his wife, and daughter, both of whom have sin1ce died, also ; the dauighter being of a religions turn of mind lef t all her father's illegitimate gains to the churches and benevolent institutions, trusting. dloubt less, in the efliceacy of the good it would thereby accomplish, as in sonie measure to palliate the wrongs which her father had inflicted upoii society. But her uncle and seone djistant relatives put in a claim to the Suirrogate for a share ofl the propjerty, andl it was amicably compromised between themi a few weeks ago, and thus the mat ter was settled. Warfare biy NIgtat. The forward march of all sciences (duir lug the present century has not been confined to the useful ini peace, but the dei structive in war has also receivedf so much attention that lethal weapons of all kInds have attained a pitch of perfection most uinpleasant for those who arc called oii to confront them, Thel armas of precision which are noiw in use, combined with the largely increased~ sIze of the armieos which mnodern warfare dlemandls, makes the de struction of life ini the fIeld so great that the list of killed auid wound~edl after a die. astrous day frequently foots up a total which would have represented a very re spiectable army a huindred years ago. Nor does there seem to be a pauise in the con stant evolution of the lethal powers of nature. As fast as a ship is built or a for tillcation devised capiable of resisting the inipact of the missiles of existing artillery, heavIer guns are producedi, and in the race destruction keeps full p~ace with p~reserva tion. Where this constant, advance will end none can forsee. TJhero muitst be a point, reach( d me omer or latter on or e sh o o: the other at which imiprovemenit canm go no further and at this polntwar must cease, having kihled itself. Mleanwhile new ap plances in warfare are constantly enlistmng the attention of the civilized world, andi the latest is that which will,lflit lie brought to the expected p~erfection, turn night luto (lay for belligerent pumposes. Th'lis is the application of electric lhght to mIlitary operations and from on account given by the Pall Mfali Gazette of a number of ex periments recently conducted at, Meta by a committee of engineers and ofilcers ap pointed by the German Government for the purpose, it would seem that the prac ticability of such application ls full denm ontrated. The School Teaeer Who "Board. Round," The district school is not yet an entirely bygone institution. Whoa we say district school we do not intend to speak of that three-storied institution that now stands on an eminence, sporting a cupola, and per haps a flag-staff, as we see It In so many thriving Now England towns. 0, no I These are graded schools, with the prima ries in the basement and successive stages of brain development above. The teacher who presides over the destinies of these severid departments is called head master, and perhaps boards at a hotel. But the genuine district school, whose aignificauce comes Iown frot remote generations, is another affair. Its master is a pedagog-ie, and lie does not put up anywhere, but "boards round." The temple of knowl. cage of which lie is the priest usually stands upon the bleakest hill-top In the community, because it is healthy% The cracks still admIt the chilly winds, though the committee-man promises to attend to it when his wood pile is up; and so master and children shiver on through school hours. At their close tho social duties of the former begin. He is not merely ful filling the terns of his contract so far as replenishing the inner man is concerned, , but he is also becoming acquainted with the parents of those he is called upon to instruct. The luxuries of rural life are spread before him. Butchering day pre. cedes him at each new place of entertain ment. At one hospitable home he gets sausages in Inks; at another sausages in sacks, anid still again sausages in jars, so that he certairdy cannot domplaiu of a lack of variety. At every minute afte'r 9 o'clock in the evening the host's yawn subtends a larger angle, until the guess takes the hint and asks to be shown to is room. Here again is luxury and distine ion. Thu frigidity of the imnnaculate sheets, the oider and hollow echoes of the apartment tell him that perhaps that spare cianiber has seen the roses fade, the frosts gather and the snow fall without being profaned by a snore. Then lie tumbles into four feet of feathers and dreams that he is a prince being smothered by the or ders of a cruel and covetous uncle. rite district schoolmaster's season is now about at Its zeulth. le Is able to tell how ht likes it, and If he is shrewd lie is gaining deeper lessons in hunian nature and cur tain phases of life than the lessons his scholars are gaining from their books. AmaericanizIngr London. The opening of the new hotel in Tratfal gar Sqjuiire 'narksone stage in what is called Americanization In London. Our cousins tell us that we have not succeeded in de veloping the genuine article; but we have certainly made it good many steps in that direction. Whether the change is or is not an linprovement, may be settled by those wise persons who have made up their minds as to the true signinicanee of modern pro gross. It is curious to remark that the al teration in the character of English itn" was almost the sole case In which even Mucauley eculd not preserve hh entire coiplacency when comparng our own time wl.h that of our ancestors. le .tries to reconcile himself to the admission of oue relative inferiority by the doubtful con sideration that rood inns mean bad roads. "It is evident,' he says, "that, all dther circumstances being supposed equal, inns will be best where tue means of locomiotion are worst." In the seventeenth vontury a traveler required twelve or thirteen inals aud flve or six nights' lodgings between York and London. Now he ilnishes his journey between breakfast and dinner, and his imeals (if the word "nical" be not dis honored by applying it to suck miscollaue ous feeding) during the wretched ten mit. utes fur ruieshinunt. Toe argunent wati hardly bear investigation as it is stated--. "oether circumistances" will certainly not be equri twhen locomotion beomes easier. limplro'.ed meanis of traveling imiplies an increased numnber of travelers ; It, means ini this particullar case that whole classed which used to be sedentary have become movable, and thiat those who move, move ten times as often as before. If people make fewer stoppages between Loundon and York, tnere catn be no doubt that Lhe number of people In want of a lodging somiewhere las in creased at much greater rate thian the total p)opulation. If the old road-side ina Ia die serted, the inns In the great centers have dione much more than simpily to ab Iorb the custom of their predlecessors-they have iapped new sources of demand. *Ureang tlae Sea. Tlhe expression "to pour oil on the troubledl waters'is generamy regarded as a mietaphor or figure of speech, illustrating tihe action of seime persuasive peacemaker, softening the angry p~assions of contendingI disputants. On the other hand, mollify- ' hig influonc of oleagnous liquids ulton the waves was long ago demonstrated as a scientific fact, and the equinoctial gales would probably have been kept in subjec thon ere no0w, en thme high seas, but for the uncertainty of the weather and the esti mated expense of the oiling an area even as limited as the Bay of iscaay. It would aippeair, however, that a gentleanan of Perth hasW solved this problemi of economy as aip. ipliedf to grensiug the sea, and that in the future sips) may carry with them at a comn paratively trifling cost, a suilicient anmount of oil to nullify the rigor of the fIercest cyclone. A Northern contemporary states that a series of experimehts have lately takeni place Ia the North H arbor, Peter. head, with the most satisfactory result. of oil andi saink themi to the bottom of the harbor while time gale was blowing. P're sently the oii was released and tioaitinlg to the top of the raging billows, Nilhled thiem as5 if by a miracle. As a consequence of this experiment, it is thought in the Deigh borhood of Perth that oil cann be laid on conmtiniuously by pipes to the bars of all ex posed harbors, so gs to enabld veosb6i to gain port In safety in the mildst of the ftost violent hurricanes. 'The invention would be invaluable if applied to the Chapnel passage In dirty weather. Day by din we are taught that there are no bounds t the conquests of science over nature, aundpow that we canm oil out the ugly wrjable's of the storamy ocean we need not 4dspir of being able, sooner or later, to wMtsi the North Pole with otherwise waste st~am, and fertilize the Great Desert by artifndiat irrigation. - --Thme pubil de of M r iooh la$ 000,000. -here are 8,000 rola