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-' JANG. BY XOBA PKRBT. She came along the little tone Where all the bushes dripped with rain, And robins sang and sung again. Am if with sudden, sheer deliirht, - For each a world so fresh and bright, ' To awing and slug in day and niiiht. Bat, coming down the little lane, ".She did not hoed the robin's strain. Nor feel the sunshine after rain. A. little face with two brown eyof, A little form of tender size, 4UtUe head not very wise ; A little heart to match the hesd, A foolish little heart, that Med , At every foolish word was said. Bo, coming down the little lane I see her now, my little Jane Her foolish heart with foolish pain Vm aching, aching in her breast, . And all her pretty golden crest Was drooping as if sore opprest. And something, too, of anger's trace "Was on the fluaaed and frowning faoe. And in the footsteps' quickened pace. So swift she stept, so low she leant Her pretty head, on thought intent. She scarcely saw the way she went. Nor saw the long, slim shadow fall Across the little, low stone wall. As some one rose np slim and tall Soee np, and came to meet her there ; A youth, with something in his air That, at a g ance .revealed his share In all this foolish, girlish pain. This grief and snger and disdain, That rent the heart of little Jane. With hastier steps than hers he came. And in a niouicnt called her name ; .And in a moment, red aa name, cine blushed, and blnshed, and in her eyes A srcdden, soft and shy surprise )id suddenly and softly rise. - - What, you V she cried, " t thought they said Then sopped, and blushed a deeper red. And lifted up her drooping head, Shook back her lovely falling: hair. And arched her neck, and strove to wear . A nonchalant and scornful air. A moment thus they held apart, With lovers' love and town' act; " Then swift he caught her to his heart. 'What pleasure then was bora of pain. What sunshine after cloud and rain, As they forgave and kissed again 1 -'Twas April then ; he talked of May, And planned therein a wedding day ; She blushed, but scarcely said him nay. 1 "What pleasure now is mixed with pain. : ' As, looking down the little lane, A graybeard grown, I see again, Through twenty Aprils rain and mist. The little- sweetheart that I kissed. ' The little bride my folly missed I Uie ""OUR PEOPLE SENT ME." jua z.piua Tirom the History or Days or Joae, 168, at Pari. fTranElated from the Russian of Ivan Tnrgeniff for . Peterson's Journal. It came the fourth of the celebrated days of Jane, 1848, which are inscribed in blood lines on the tables of French . History. T 7 - 7 xl - , m. tueu nouse, long since destroyed, on the corner of line de la Paxx and Boulevard des Italiens From the beginning of June the air f smeu or. powder everybody felt the conflict inevitable; and after i.u interview Detween tlie delegates of the closed workshops with Marie, a member of the provisional government, who, in an address to them, had thought lessly pronounced . the word slave (esolaves), construed by them as a re proach or offense at once the question t issue was, not how. many days, but bow many hours remained before the inevitable impending conflict? "Est e pour aujourdhui ?' (Will it be to lay ?) was the sentence with which the people greeted one another each morn- " n a commence P (It has began!) SSune!8 Friday morning, tbi According to her words, a great barri cade was erected across the boulevard not.far from the gates of St. Denis. I . went there immediately. At first nothing particular could be poueed. he same crowds of people m front of the open cafes and stores, -the same endless procession of carriages i uuuuuuata uieiaoes seemed some- wnai more animated, the conversation 1UUU uuu, strange . to say merrier Z. was alL But the further 1 proceeded, the more changed the ' physiognomy of the boulevard. Fewer - -carriages were to. b met. the omnibuses disappeared entirely; the stores and - even the cafes were being locked hur- .7 " " auaauy Closed. X HQ i w r, v vi. iuo sucvio utjuame less. x?ut the windows in the houses were opened Vfm the basement to the top ; and near "these windows and on the thresholds of the doors were crowds of people, mostly women, children, servants and nurses ; -this multitude chattered, laughed, called -over to one another, turned their heads, waved their hands, as if ia readiness for a spectacle; a mindless, holiday curi osity seemed to seize all.' Bibbons of amerent colors, fichus, caps, white, ' pink and blue dresses intermingled and appeared varieeatod in the brio-Tit and rustled in the summer breeze like we leaves on tne numerous trees of freedom. " impossible that in five or ten minutes there will be riot, a shedding -of blood r thought!. "No place to . lmurina a va.js4w .... M. n - . O J v W. , isut suddenly, in ' the foreground, uio entire rxraievard in a zig zag manner projected the uneven line - uiree yaras in height. In the very midst of it. surrounded hv i.nrn!Avcit m - r i-ili ' ? - wmoroiaereo Banners, a little red flag . flaunted its sharp! ' omm2UB to,Dne- Some blotuers were seen from behind the ridge of heaped fE 5 1 &aohed nearer. aZUT3?1 ? the bi de was quite ' bon raen, not rnore, mi toS: wre not5 tlmf boulevards -iS22' blouse belted with aM.."18 0" t hi.nM, r,fr. j - wuiM3 . awora- - o "Mviou o" wine, as if . inwitim t-uciJi w coma R-nri - - by his side withVZXi V no"ier. ?ng voice. "Tivo thtt n;?,".1' 7 the rpubiTrr"r: Btod a tail, .wkvu.- 3 a t;j r v-ixBa ihops ! - And social 1" Near Viirri woman, in also with a awordelf:t!,'.;e?U1pped therein. She did thoughtful manner f&aZg'&ZJ! jjtct uuoa IDO Senna T o street, turned te tht L?08 he or six flaneur, mS jF&J!11 near the wal of the houlefrX .r nt.rinkf U. it ""u8 IXOm Whloh oowevard bei, to curve, where was, and fitSiSgLS Jouvm's glove factory Tcated of the windows Af6 busies closed. I was etiU mblT . olan r. l.i-L WtWlth- 'inentsof the preceding davs toe affair would take .S Nearer and nearer Vere heard the From morning the streets had rsVUB.QOU '" IHWito three-fold beat le rappel by whidh the National -Ouard was assembled. And, t oncT lowly swaying and stretching ' out like long blaok worm, appeared, about steps from the left aide of the barri cade, a column of citizen soldiers ; above it, like line sparkling needles, glistened the bayonets: the officers rode in advance. ' The column reached the opposite side of the boulevard, and, occupying it en tirely, wheeled in front of the barricade and halted, ever increasing in numbers and becoming more consolidated. Not withstanding the arrival of so many troops, everything became more still ; voices were lowered ; at rarer intervals resounded the former laugh ; it was as if a pall had fallen on every sound. An empty space between the line of the National Guard and the barricade was suddenly formed, over which light ly whirled two or three small eddies of dust, and, glancing, about, walked a little black-dappled dog. Suddenly from front or behind, from above or below, was heard a quick, hard sound, resembling rather the noise of a falling iron bar than of a shot, immediately followed by a strange, death-like still ness. All was silent in expectation it seemed that the air itself pricked up its ears then abruptly, above my very head, something hard cracked and shrieked, like quickly torn linen. i It was the volley of the insur gents bursting through the jalousies of the windows of the upper story of Jouvin's factory, occupied by them. My comrade flaneurs and I immediately hurried along the boulevard (I remem ber having had time to notice on the empty space in front, a creeping man, an ownerless cap with a scarlet pompon, and a black-dappled dog, covered with dust), running we. reached a small lane, and entered it. Oar company was soon enlarged by twenty others, among whom was a young man of about twenty, who had been wounded in the foot. On the boulevard behind us, the musketry roared incessantly. "We entered another street if I mistake not Rue de l'Eohi quier. At one end of it a low barricade was erected, and a lad of about twelve years of age jumped en its top, making wry mueo uu oranaisning a XUrKlsn sabre ; a fat .National Guardsman, whit as a sheet, ran by, stumbling and groaning at every step from the sleeve of his uniform dropped Bunnell uiouu, rrru x i 7 7 , auo irugeuy iiau Degnn its senous- nees was not to be doubted, although scarcely any one could foretell what di mensions it mi gut assume. x was not obliged to fight oh either side of the barricades : I returned kma The entire day passed in unspoakable anxiety, xne weatner was hot, suffo cating. I spent all day on the Boule vard des Italiens, which was crowded wun au sorts of people. The most in credible rumors circulated, immediate ly followed by others still more improb able. Toward night one fact was intusputawe : nearly one-half of Paris was in tne hands of the insurgents. barricades were erected AvprvsricM particularly on the left side of the Seine ; the armv occupied the fltratno ww?.. . - r 7 , . - t"""10 iuaorn struggle was at nana. .wexE day, from earlv morninc t.r aspect of the boulevard and the exter nal appearance of that part of Paris, not yet in possession of the insurgents, was changed as if by magic, i An order, is- .y vavaignac, tne cnief of the jrarisian army, forbade the citizens irom leavrnar their houaaa. Th t. C 7 .7 - " vruaru, jrarisian as well as pro vincial, from the sidewalks watched the houses selected as their headquarters ; vuc icKUiar armT. t-rarrtA niKii -rt-n-., on we Dattie-neld : foreigners, woman. children, old and infirm. -persons, were locked in their houses ; all the windows were ordered to be kept; wide open to pd"ui uuiuuscaae. xne streets were deserted. From time to time the mail omnibus-rolled along, or the carriage oi a pnysician, constantly stopped by oouhucib vu biiqw ms pass - or. -with rumbling noise, batteries hurried t t.ha place of conflict. Detachments of sol diers marched, adjutant or ordinarv rai. loped. It was a dreadful, anxious timn none but those who outlived it can fully comprehend it. It was certainly pain ful for the Frenchmen ; to imagine their native land, societv. hAinc Aa. stroyed ; but the anguish of a foreign er, sentenced to involuntarv inactivity, was, if not more terrible, at least more Harassing, Sultry heat ; no possibility of croini? ffllt t.liTWnrrh V. : J - - -- "e " WIUUUW9 unim peded pours tne burning stream : the sun ounds you; all occupation, read ing, writing, are out of the question. a- no iitico, tea itraes m a minute, re sound tne cannon shots ; from time to time is heard the burst of rifles, the vuiuuku duzz ox tne battle, xne streets are empty as a ball ground, tne burninr pavement-ntm-iao become. yeDow. the dustv. red-hot air i , . streams m me snnoeams. Alone tha sidewaJ&s stand the immovable figures of the National Guard there is not one solitary, vital sound. Deserted but one feels oppressed, as if in the grave or a prison. . Noon beholds a new spec- X 7 . . I'll ... - X iaoie ; niters wiw wounded and Killed appear. . Mere is carried bv a crav- haired man, with face white as the pil low on which rests his head ; this is a mortally wounded deputy Charbon nelle. Heads are silently bared before him but he does not see these, tokens of he&rfelt esteem ; his eyes are shut. xnere goes a crowd of prisoners, es corted by the Garde Mobile ; the latter are all young men, almost boys ; very little was expected from them.'butthey rougui un iions. some Dear on- tneir bayonets the bloody caps of their de ceased comrades or flowers thrown to them by women, out of the windows. "Vive-la Berrabliauei" exclaim on both sides of the boulevard the National Guard, laying a somewhat wild and gloomy stress on the last syllable "Vive la Mobi-i-ile I" The prisoners walk with downcast eyes, and as closo together as a flook of sheep; a very discordant crowd, eloomv : faces, manv men in rags, bareheaded : some having their hands tied. The cannonade does not stop. A uniform roar seems to per vade the air ; it havers over the city to gether with the smoke and heat. : Toward evening I could hear from my room, on the fourth floor, something new ; added to the former nnmarwrnU 1 -7 i i 7 . . ' -o ueicjiu otner .-SDftm and nar sounds short, crashing volleys. The people said that the prisoners were be ing executed in the mairies. And so for hours and honm Impossible to sleep even at night If you venture on' the. boulevard to reach the first street with the purpose of ob taining news, or even to breathe the fresh airyou are stopped at once and questioned; who are you, from whence, your residence, and the reason you are not in uniform ? On being told that vou are a foreigner, they eye you with sus picion and imperiously order you home. Once a National- Guardsman from the Province (who seem the most zealous) - tw uu arrest me at au hazards, on ooount of - my wearing a morning biouse. " You wear itn order tobi en rapport with the rebels." cried he. vorTT. yV Who can tell but what K a fcassian agent, and have gold serffi p,?,cktts foment our civil dis Slons 1 I proposed to have my Pockets examined, but this enraged him more. Bussian gold, Kussian agents, with many other equally ridiculous and improbable phantoms were the night mares at that period, and were held in awe by the excited populace. I again repeat this was a time of terror. Three days were spent on such men tal rack ; the fourth came (26th of June). The news from the conflict reached us quite regulaily, passing from the lips of one person to another along the streets. For example, we already knew that the Pantheon was B?in5ed' and ihe left side of the Seine i? v. Jy tne army ; that Qen- Beat was shot by the insurgents and Archbishop Affras mortally wounded, that only the Faubourg St. Antoine still resisted. I remember listening to the reading of the proclamation of Cavaignao, appeal ing for the last time to the patriotic feeling which still remained in the most hardened hearts. An ordinary, an huzzar officer, galloped along the boule vard, and, forming a circle as big as an apple, with the fingers of his right hand, exclaimed : " With such bullets they fire on us !" In the same house where I lodged, even on the same floor, lived the re nowned German poet G . I was acquainted with him. I called on him for the purpose of unburdening my thoughts to him, of escaping from my self, and the aching grief of idleness and isolation. On the morninsr after the 26th of he had J une I was sitting in his room- just finished his lunch, when suddenly the gar con entered with a disturbed countenance. " What do you want ? " A blouse wishes to see you, Mon sieur G ." "A blouse? What blouse?" " A man in a blouse, a workingman ; an old man inquires for citizen G . Will you admit him ?'' G and I exchanged looks. "Show him in," said he, after a pause. The garcon retired, repeating as if to himself : "A man in a blouse !" He was horrified. And was it long since when, after tne days of February, the blouse was the' most fashionable, proper, and safe dress? But, other times other morals ; at the epoch of the insurrection of June, the blouse in Paris became a stigma, a seal of Cain, ani excited a feeling of horror and ani mosity. -. The garcon returned and silently 1 plexed by these contradictions, beckoned to a man. following his stpna I - i iv. ' . . . Mr-1 w c iiue i: wie apartment : h it is the same how we remarked G you expect from so we resolved perish !" "But allow me," "What good could such a foolish revolution ?' " We had to perish, is it not the same now?" Me carefully wiped his lips. folded the napkin, thanked us, and rose from his chair. "Are you going?" exclaimed G " Yes, I must join our people. For what reason Bhould I remain here ? " But you will certainly be arrested on your way home, and perhaps, even shot I " Perhaps. But what is the diflfcr. ence ? While I live I must provide my family with bread, and how am I to obtain it ? If I am killed, our people win not aiiow my orphans to starve, Uood-bye, citizen I" " Give me your name, at least ! I must &now the name of one who has done so much for me." xhat is quite unnecessary. To tell the truth, what I did I have rrot done for your sake ; our people ordered it. uood-bve. The old man left escorted by the gar rrt i. - .... j.uai. very aay mat insurrection was definitely crashed. As soon as a free passage was made, G , guided by the address, found the woman who had given reiuge to his little boy. Her hus band and one of her sons were prison ers ; another son was killed on the bar ricade, a nephew was shot. She. W refused to accept any money, but point- '"8 wo giris, piayiug in the room, unuRmers oi ner dead son, she said : 1 1 t -r ... , . x am ever ODiicea to anir anv. thing for them, let your boy remember mem. xhe fate of the old man who visited G was unknown. It was impossi oie not to aamire nis deed, the uncon scious and almost sublime simplicity with which he accomplished it. It was evident that even the thought did not 7 r - lit . . . x - cross nis mina, mat ne nad done any- 11.1 i 7. .... . mug extraordinary ; mat ne had sac rificed himself. And it was also impos sible not to admire those men who sent him ; who m the very heat and fury of a df sperate battle could find time to think of the angnish of a perfect stran ger, and a bourge-oise at that. Men like those, it is true, twenty-two vears after ward set Paris on fire and shot the hos tages, out one wno Knows, at least a little, the human heart wiH rot be per opera- van indeed a blouse a ragged, spotted blouse. His pantaloons and stockings were patched and covered with duct, a red rag encased his neck and his head was covered with a mass of gray-ish-biack hair, matted and covering his very eyebrows. From under his hair projected a long, aquiline nose, and peeped small, oldish and inflamed, dim eyes. Sunken cheeks, wrinkles on his face as deep as scars, a large, crooked mouth, unshaven beard, red, dirty hands, and that peculiar bending of the spine indicative of the pressure of pro longed, overtaxing work. xnere was no doubt that in our vras- ence stood one of the numerous labor ers, hungry and unknown, with whom the lower la vers of civilized soniatjaa abound. " Which of vou is citizen G 9" r.n asked, with a hoarae voice. " I am G ." answered the German poet, but not without fusion. You are expectiner vonr son with his nurse from Berlin ?" " Yes, indeed. I am. But how diil you know it ? He left Berlin four days ago. but I presumed " . " Ytur boy arrived vesterdnv : Vint. a the railroad depot at St. Denis is in the hands of the people fat t.hpso words the garcon almost jumped with far), and as it was impossible to send him here, he was intrusted to one of our women on tbis paper is written her address and I was deputed by our regiment to come here and tell you about the matter, so that you would not worry. His nurse is with him the lodging is good they both will have sufficient food, and are out of danger. When the trouble is over you can ob tain him this paper contains the di rections. Good-bye. citizen." The old man turned to the door. "Wait, wait!" exnlaimpd " don't go away." ' The old man stooped, hnt dil nnt mm nis lace to us, G to satisfy a person The old " Is it possible." conf irm " that you came here merely me concerning my son me, entirely unknown to von?" uitui raisea nis head. "Tees. Our people sent me. " " For this purpose alone ?" "Yes." vt threw UP his handa "Tint t- KiOa S Sake 1 do not -nruaitiWIir n.uci.uu nay. j. uo not see now in the were world you could reach this house I You must surely have been stopped on everv Xes." They asked you where vou going, and for what purpose ?" Yes. They examined mv handn tn ZM t t 1 . , - ooo it. imey uiu not pear traces of gun powaer. une of the officers, whom I met, tnreatened to shoot me.' was paralvzed with aAtnniari. ment ; the garcon also opened his eyes widely. "Oest trop fort!" nnnon anion 1V 1 u: ir , UUI U(IB, WIXlg pSJO. vtuik uo, oiuzen, said tne mes senger, distinctly, as if resolved to leave at once. ,1 rushed to prevent him. Don't go wait give me an onpor. tuniry to thank you- " ; He commenced to examine his pock ets. The old man warded him eff with his large, stiff ! hand. Don't trouble yourself, citizen ; I will not receive money." , " Then, at least, allow me to invite you to lunch if not, to a glass of wine to something " "J. will not refuse, ejaculated the old man after a short silence. . "It is almost two days since I have tasted food.":.. -: ordered the garcon to prepare lunch immediately, and meanwhile in vited his guest to take a seat. ; The lat ter sat heavily down upon the chair. placed both palms on his knees, and, cast his eves down. G began to question him, but the man answered unwillingly and in a sulky tone. It was obvious that he wag very much fatigued, and besides, the society of a bourgeoise was , not pleasant to him. . At lunch, however, he became more animated. At first he ate and drank with avidity, and aitor- ward commenced to talk. t "In February ' id he "we prom ised the provisional government to wait three months ; that time ha elapsed, and the need is still as great, even more O. y The provisional crnvmmant has cheated us ; promised mnAri-m fnl- filled , nothine. - It has nothing whatever for the workingmen. we nave spent our money, no work: is V ,,e f9JEi11.d and business affairs are dull. This is the rennhlin I nen Confederate Money W,as Easy. Money was so easily got, and its value was so utterly uncertain, that we were never able to determine what was a fair price for anything. We felinto the habit of paying whatever wasaked, knowing that to-morrow we shouldhave to pay more. Speculation became, the easiest and surest thing imaginable, xhe speculator saw no risks of floss. t ' 1 . . , ,. . "'"j atuiiief,oi mercnanoise rose in value every day, and to buy anything viua wees auu sen it next was to make an enormous profit quite as a matter of course. So uncertain were prices, or ratner so constantly did they tend up- wo.ru, uiaii wuen a cargo oi cadet gray cloths was brouht into Charleston once, an officer in my battery, attending mo saw, was a Die to secure enough of the cloth to make two suits of clothes, without any expense whatever, merely "j ojiecuiauHg upon an immediate au t Vance. lie became thn nnrfrnusi- . of certain con- auction, of a cae of the goods, and 'had iiv liiiiictuty, as soon as the sale was over, in finding a merchant who 'was glad to take his bargain ofi his hands, 3iuK uim me ciom ne wanted as a premium. The officer could not nonsi. bly have paid for the case of goods, but there was nothing surer than that he could sell again at an advance the mo ment the auctioneer's hammer fell on the last lot of cloths. J. am sometimes asked at what time prices attained their highest point in the Confederacy, and 1 find that mem ory fails to answer the question satis factorily. They were about as high as they could be in the fall of 1863, and I should be disposed to fix upon that as xl a. ; i- a i i ue iime wnen tne climax was reached, out for my consciousness that the law of constant appreciation was a fixed one throughout the war. The financial con dition got steadily worse to the end. I believe the highest price, relatively, I ever saw paid, was for a pair of boots. A cavalry officer, enterin? a little coun try store, found there one pair of boots whieh fitted him. He inquired the price. "Two hundred dollars," said the merchant. A five hundred dollar oiii was onered, but the merchant, hav ing no smaller bills, could not change - .never mina, said the cavalier, "ill take the. boots anyhow. Keep the change ; I never let a little matter of three hundred dollars stand in the way f a trade. ' That was on the day before Lee's surrender, but it would not have been an impossible occurrence at any time during the preceding year. The money was of so little value that we parted wiu giauiy wnenever it would pur- B anytnmg at aii desirable. 1 cheer- fully paid hve dollars for a little salt. at Petersburg, in August. 1864. and be ing thirsty drank my last two dollars in a half pint of cider. A Rebel's MecoU tectums. Current Paragraphs, ' Two centuries ago, last month, since Milton died. ( . Ex-Qttken Isabella 'has been reduced to 184 nightgowns. A woman in Berlin, Germany, has forty-nine children. The new army bill in France increases the army to 930,000 men. An Iowa father of seventy-five au tumns is gladdened by a 12 -pound scion. Emigrants reoeived at Castle Garden since January 1, 1874, 131,322. The chandelier for the new house in Paris will cost $3,000. Ijonpon expects to have 250,000,000 people before she stops growing. The law-abiding Bostonians have violated the building law 1,010 times this year. According: to the military survey of the Bussian empire, the monarchy ex tends over 400,227 geographical miles, or ohe-sixth of the inhabited globe. John. Aucen, of Pierpont Manor, Jefferson county, N. Y., has just been elected Justice of the Peace by the Bepublicans for the thirteenth term of four. years each. Squire Allen is 82 years cf age. American cities pay roundly not to have their streets poorly cleaned. Paris receives $130,000 a year for the privi lege from contractors, who manufacture the refuse into compost and sell it for $600,000 a clear profit ot $380,000. William Moran, of the Philadelphia Sunday Chronicle, was convicted a few days ago of a singular libel upon George E. Hall, member of the Common Coun cil. He charged Hall with picking the pocket of a marble statue of -George Washington. It is stated as probable that one of the Paris theatres will adopt the rule of closing the doors as soon as the curtain rise3 and keeping them rigorously closed while the curtain is up, so that late comers may hot interfere with the comfort of all who are seated betimes. In the great " hop district " of tew York comprising the counties of Her kimer, Madison, Montgomery, Oneida, OtsegVj, and Schoharie not more than 4,000 bales of tbis season's hops are now held. The price from first hands ranges from 36 to 45 cents. Brewers are now pretty well stocked up. Roch ester Y.) Union. Georgb xVabab, whose death, in Pennsylvania, at the age of 107 years, we reported last week, left 816 descend ants. His father, when 95 years old, married, a woman of 30, who thought she would worry him out, perhaps ; but he proved to be like Joey Bag stock, old and tough, and outlived her. dying at the green old age of 111 years. A Tennessee paper celebrates the achievements of the " best, man in the county." In a single day, last spring, she dug six pounds of ginseng, captured and killed two rattlesnakes with eleven and thirteen rattles, and gave birth to twins. But she can't do it everv dav. Rattlesnakes, not to mention twins, are not to be had more than once or twice a week. Mb. Bancroft continues to drive his inexorable quill with vigor. He rises at 6, lights his fire, and works until summoned to breakfast at 8. After breakfast he resumes his labors until 1, when he stops for the dav. and nsuallv takes a ride on horseback, followed bv a "constitutional" walk of two or three miles. ' The eveniners he devotes to so cial enjoyment. Coiner Baboock. of the United States Mint, San Francisco, Deo. 12, delivered to superintendent jja Gran ere the sum of $860,000 in double eagles. This is the largest day s work ever performed by any mint m the United States. In the tnree days, terminating with Satnr dey, the mint has turned out $1,600,000, tne largest amount of coinage ever run m tne same period.. Mrs. Joaquin MililEB has written drama founded upon the incidents of her chequered life. Joaouin is a char- acter in the play ; so is Mrs. Jo ; so are many living " Oregon characters." of note. Climax of Act I. : "My marriage wim Joaquin ; uo. ot Act 11.: "His departure, and Myself standing on that lonely rock, watchinjr the receding i of Scurrilous Postal-Cards. Did Mr. Moses Chamberlain, nf 1ST aw York, receive the full penalty provided uj law ior ma onense. ne wonid mn. iiempiate imprisonment lor x4U years, uu pay a ox.e oi u,uuu. 'x'here are one or two tnaintr natural reasons vhv the penalty should be mitigated, and it probably will, but in order that young men of Mr. Chamberlain's peculiar views oi decency and ntness may be warned in time to avoid similar conse quences, perhaps his offense deserves a passing notice. Mr. Chamberlain, being wi ui money, wrote a sonrninna letter to Mr. Van Valkenburg on a postal card. The recipient, being of a hard, unsympathetic, disposition, placed the omoers of the government on Mr. Cham berlain s track, and secured his arrest and indictment. The case was tried in the United States Cirouit Court despite the defense that only the post office clerks saw the contents of th cards, and were bound to secrecy, Mr. Chamberlain was convicted of tw-nAinc fourteen of these aereeable effnninnn through the mails. The arreatest 7- i . iui oaou onense ib ten veara' im prisonment and a fine of $5,000, and the least, one year's imprisonment and 8100 fine. ; This is the first trial in New York under the law makintr it a Crime in SA-nrl scurrilous postal-cards through the mails. Mr. Chamberlain may not liv to serve out his full term, but it must be infinitely consoling to think of him self as a frightful w amine to hlanV. mailers who try to make Uncle Sam an accessory. , , AiiXOK Stephens is growiner anitA corpulent. . He now fills , out several of his oid wriniues, and oniy one of his I knee joints squeaks for want of grease when he walks. He weighs sixty-seven pounds, eight ounces, and seventeen drachms, apothecary s weight. A iiiBEii suit in Lowell involves the question of how much publicity is given, in the eyes of the law, to matter written on a postal card and sent through the mail. The defendant wrote a letter to the plaintiff on a pos tal card, accusinor him of foreerv. and his defense is that, as the postoffice clerks are enjoined to secrecy, there was no more of a publication than if the matter hud been sent in. a sealed letter. An illustration of the poor-debtor laws i Massachusetts is found in the imprisonment of a man for debt in one of the jails near Boston. He placed .777. " . ... ... - - - au nis property at the disposal of his creditors, but for some reason was not allowed to take the poor debtor's oath. and is now denied almost all communi cation with his friends, is forbidden the use of newspapers, and is obliged to march daily with . the prisoners who have committed great crimes. Angora, generally celebrated for oats. is a town of Asiatic Turkey, 215 miles from Constantinople. It contains the ruins of ancient Byzancian architecture and Greek and Roman relics, . and is also celebrated for the long-haired camel-goat. Just at present Angora is n great distress, being upon the point of starvation. The Sultan of Turkey. a monarch not generally credited with charity to his subjects, has contributed $100,000 for the relief of its inhabitants an act which greatly redounds to his oredit. - n d-j;..-. - - ,( , , A Reformed Prlze-Flghter. -The London Times says : " Bendi- go," formerly a well-known prize fighter and 'champion of England,' de livered a religious address recently to a crowded audience at the London Cabmen's Mission Hall at King's Cross. Mr. John Dupee, the superintendent of the mission, a former . companion of Bendigo at Nottingham, conducted the services. Tu reporters state that Bendigo, who is now 63 years of age. stands aa straight as a dart.' and hi address is described as 'simple, though coarse, lie said ne was the youngest of twenty-one children, and, his father dying when he was 13, he was placed in the workhouse. He began fighting when he was 16 years of age, and gave it up when he was 40. Two years ago, after spending his time alternately in police cells, the prize ring and the public nouse, ne was converted as if by a miracle. Ever since he had been the happiest man alive, and he should be happier still if he could only read the Bible for himself." "HOSTILE MEETING." An Aflatr of Honor Between Two Chival rous Alotilla.ns. A Mobile telegram to an Atlanta paper gives the appended particulars of one of those pleasant little pistol affairs for which that locality has be come famous : There was a hostile meeting between two well-known gentlemen of this city yesterday noon, a little way from Grand Bay, but in the State of Mississippi. The gentlemen were Mr. A. H. Tardy, the insurance agent, and Dr. Benjamin D. Lay, the .actuary of the Grangers' Life and Health Insurance Company. The origin, as we understand, arose from a letter from this city to a promi nent Northern insurance journal, over the signature of "X. Y. Z.," making some comments upon the new company with which Dr. Lay is connected. On Monday Dr. Lay met Mr. Tardy and asked him if he was the author of a communication signed "X.Y. Z.,"in the Spectator. Mr. Tardy said he was, whereupon Dr. Lay-slapped his face. A few words passed between them, and then Mr. Tardy sent to Dr. Lay a written message, demanding satisfac tion for the insult, and referring to Col. James Williams as authorized to make- any necessary arrangements. The message was answered, granting any satisfaction demanded, and refer ring to Capt. P. M. Murphy as author ized, on the part of Dr. Lay, to ar range matters. The result was the choice of' dueling-pistols, the meeting to be out of the State, the distance ten paces, and the time Wednesday noon. Mr. Tardy and his friends left on Tues day night, and repaired to Grand Bay, and Dr. Lay and his friends left on Wednesday morning for the same place. The parties met, as by agreement, and took carriages and drove until they were over the line and in Mississippi. As it was agreed upon fcr noon as the time, there was no choice for position. The distance was measured off, the antagonists placed, and the dread question asked, " Gentlemen, are you ready? Fire ! one, two, three." At the word one, a sharp report was heard. Tardy's pistol fell from his hand, he clasped his breast convulsively, and fell a corpse. Dr. Lay returned to the city immediately, and was met on Gov ernment street by a gentleman who, -not knowing the duel had taken place, jokingly asked the doctor whom he was going to shoot ? Bursting into tears. he exclaimed, " My God I don't ask me anything about it. Eentucky Diversion. Another fatal shooting affray occurred xu hub county yesterday, in which two men were killed and one mortally wounded. Cornishville was the seat of war this time. The following are the particulars, so far as can be ascertained t present, as related by friends of the deceased, who came to town this morn ing to telegraph to the police at Louis ville, Frankfort and Lebanon to be on the alert and proceed to arrest Herring on eigne : In the forenoon Isaiah Gabhert and a man by the name of Daniels had some controversy about a dog. Gabhert shot Daniels through the leg. Joe Davenport, a constable, caupht Gab hert and that difficulty ended there. In the afternoon, Joe Davenport went to arrest Gabhert. Upon the approach of the constable and his posso, some one miormed Crabber t, when he. in company with a man by the name of nerring, leit uabhert s house, ap proacmng the posse. Garland Daveii port, the brother of the constable, caught Gabhert's pistol, when the con stable struck Gabhert with a large iron shovel, almost knocking the top of his head off. Herring immediately shot the constable through the body, killing mm instantly. ine younger .Daven port caught Herring, and in the scuffle Herring shot him almost in the same identical place where his brother, the constable, was shot, only on the op posite side of his body. Both of the Davenports are dead, and Herring fled the country. Gabhert is living at home, and is thought to be in a very critical condition. Daniels' wound is only a flesh-wound, and is not thought to be dangerous. Much excitement prevails in that vi entity, but no arrests have been made as yet. Harrodsbura (Ku.) Corre spondence Louisville Courier-Journal. A Kew system of Destroying Bank : Aotes. A new (system has. been adopted for me destruction ot the national bank notes redeemed by the Comptroller of me currency, heretofore it has been the custom at Washington to destroy tne notes oy nre, thus wasting a large quantity oi material from which the bank notes are made. Workmen are now engaged at the national capital in erecting machinery for the purpose of reducing tne notes to pulp, and by a chemical process extracting from the pulp all impurities that it may have acquired in printinsr. circulation, etc. In this manner the United States bonds and spoiled note Bheets have been treated for some time past, and a large amount of valuable material has thus been saved. The destruction of circu lating national bank notes by fire has peea bo large that it was deemed advis able to try the same system with them. and it is expected to realize a larce vtiA fyv, 1 &1 j :i i v tsAwuw. JLMAV uip IdlUB Bisvtru wiu agtun be made over into new bank notes, eta The Comptroller of. the Currency has also adopted a plan of numbering every uuw oi issue witn tne designation nam ber of the specific national bank by wmon it was issued, in order to expe dite tne sorting of such notes when re deemed by the Comptroller. The clerks in the Comptroller's office at Washington have no occasion now to read the name of the bank from the note, but can sort them numerically. without the possibility of charging the notes of one bank to the account of an other. It is expected that a large sav ing will be effected by this system, as well as preventing errors through a similarity of the notes. New York Tribune. . . , , A gentleman in a Western city sit ting in a pew with a lady with whom he had formerly been on terms of in timate acquaintance, banded her a Bible with a pin stuck through the following verse: "And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another." After reading it she stuck the pin through the fol lowing verse, and handed the book back to him : " Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink ; but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full." ; Mention is made o a turkey in East Haitford. Conn.: who was observed on a fence with tears in his eyes studying an almanac and reckoning on a is toes how long it was to Thanksgiving. He is since dead and dressed and degla tioned and digested, i Weary of Life. Washington, P.O. (Dee. 27), Cor. Chicago Tribnue.f The Rev. J. M. Cooms. pastor of the Western Presbyterian Church of this ity, committed suicide here this morn ng under extraordinary circumstances. A Sunday paper contained the following paragraph : "For many months the store of a prominent bookseller has been visited by a man well on in years, and neatly dressed, after the fashion of a minister of the'gospeL He would walk (round the store, examining books, reading passages, but never making a purchase. Lately our stationer has missed books, and all attempts to find how they were takenfailed, until yester day, when the clerical-looking gentle man was discovered to be the klepto maniac. He was standing in the store quietly reading a book be had taken, when a customer entered, upon whom the proprietor turned to wait. The instant his back was turned the gospel gentleman left the store. The stationer immediately followed him, and, coming up, asked what he did with that book. The reverend gentleman turned paleg and with the exclama tion : For God's Bake, don't expose me publicly,' brought forth the stolen book from under his coat." That clergyman . was J. M. Cooms. This morning his congregation at the fash ionable West End assembled at the usual time. The hour for services came, but the pastor was absent. A messenger was dispatched to his apart ment, 'xhe door was barred. The messenger forced the door to find the dead body of Cooms in his ohamber, with his throat bo terribly oct that the 1 7 1 . - .7 1 7 ' ueau was nearly severed irom uio uouy. The messenger, horror-strioken, an nounced the fact to the congregation. Subsequent inquiry discloses the fol lowing facts : Cooms has been an hon ored and successful clergymen for a quarter of a century, at first in the Methodist, and lately in the Presby terian denomination. Cooms' wife for some years has been insane. The calamity has at times clouded his mind. There were no children. . For some weeks the old family maid-servant has noticed that Cooms was unusually de pressed and exhibited symptoms similar to those which were manifested in the early stages of Mrs. Cooms' insanity. This morning, for the first time in very many years, Cooms ordered all the Sun day papers purchased and brought to him before church. The papers were found in his room carefully examined. the one containing the above paragraph bad last been read, and lay on top as if this paragraph had been oarefully read.. The suicide, according to the account of time, must have speedily followed the reading. There was so much 7 7 7 ... ... metnoa, nowever, in tne madness that a considerable quantity of government bonds were found carefully arranged -upon the table near the fatal newspaper. The clergyman was a man of property. fllA 4.1l7V7at. 7T7 n a inf wif 1 torn ayw n .1 the work was thoroaghly done. A Man Who Wasn't Elated Over Be coming a Millionaire. We stated yesterday, on the authority of a street- rumor, that an uncle of Michael Hopran. of West Troy, died re cently in Pennsylvania, leaving coal lands valued at $5,000,000, to a portion of which Michael is heir. The rumor was correct. Forty years ago Michael Hogan, then 21 years of aire, and an. uncle, the only survivors of . a once numerous family, came to this country and adopted it as their own. MichaeL a hard-working, industrious vounir man. finally took up his residence in West x'roy. The uncle went to Pottsville. Pa., or that vicinity, and, after labor ing a number of years, purchased with his earnings a larere tract of land. Michael also saved money, and in the course of time laid by enough to start himself in the grocery business, in which it can be truthfully said he has prospered. The venture of his uncle turned out to be a most profitable one. The lands purchased by him were found to contain abundance ef coal, and by judicious management he gradually in- . creuseu mi eartniy store until at the- days ago, he was worth about $5,000 000. Last week Michael received in formation from an attorney thai his uncle, with whom he had not communi cated for sixteen vears. had died, and that he was his only survivincr her. Michael'was not at all elated at this an nouncement, and appeared rather sorrv in fact that such good fortune had come to him. He was getting old, he said, and would not want bo much money ; besides he had enontrh for himself, wife and daughter, and the possession of the immense amount mentioned above would - only bring trouble and disgrace upon his family eventually, as vounir people nowadays did not know how to Bpend money. Troy (JV. Y.) Times. Little Girl Kindles, a Fire With f 1,100 in Greenbacks. H. Grote keena a saloon and boardinv honse at 193 Second street, and, to all appearance, is doing a good and pros perous business. He is a thrifty indi vidual, and is given to operating some what in stock-horses. He doesn't keep, as a usual thing, any vast amount of money abont the house. Day before yesterday,, having a note against him that was rapidly approaching maturity, he obtained something over $1,100 with which to satisfy it. Wrapping up thia oomiortable sum in an old newspaper, he stowed the bundle away in a bureau drawer, and where he intended to let it remain until it was wanted to liquidate the claim against him. In his family is a vounir crrl. a sister. of his wife, named Melia Merclink, a Dngnt little lass about 9 years of age. A part of 'Mfllia'n duties is the kindlincr of the matntinal fire, and vesterdair morning, as usual, she was the first one stirring in the bouse. Not havins enough inammable material handy, she remembered the roll of paper in the drawer, and, getting it out, put it in the stove, where she Boon had a beautiful fire in full blast. When the master of the establishment arose he missed Lis money, and a little inquiry demon. etrated the fact that that $1,100 had gone " where,!' in the elegant language ot the late lamented James Fisk. Jr.. the woodbina twineth." The state nf the atmosphere in that boarding-house Inn V 4.x 1 JM.i!nA (K.n Jn. 1 " The fire was immediately extinguished, but as it had been under headway for ' at least two hours, the stove was aa empty of money as a reporter's pocket- sook. jiiiwauKee rvtsoonstn. Another cremation ceremony hax been successfully performed in Dres den, in the same oven in which the body the of wife of Sir Charles Dilke was lately consumed. No clergyman could be found to peform the burial cere mony, and a brief and impressive Bpeech was delivered by a layman. The cremation was . perfectly suocessf uL with nothing to offend the senses!: Tha impregnable logic of, the arguments of the oremationists is strengthening the movement in favor of this mode of dis posing of the dead.