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A HABO WINTER. Hail ! monarch of the leanest crown Bare seen save, with a gloomy frown, With ice for scepter, robe of snow. Thy throne the stream's arrested flow Stern tyrant ! whom tht hut 'Ding son Doth loathe to serve, by vapors don Begirt, a melancholy train, -5 O'er nature holding saddest relink. Lo ! of thy rigor birds make plaint, And all things neath thy burden faint. Nor cheered are they by message cold, In answer by thy north wind teld. The enry of thy gre-vtona sway, -Vrhen thou wonldst drive all hope away From nature, yearning to restoro To earth the bliss it knew before, When summer ruled- with empire mild. And autumn, still a ruddy child, Lay cradled mong the greenery Of whispYing grove and laden tree The brook that prattled to the air Of golden harvests, scenes as fair As poet rapt in fancy's maae Could scarce enshrine tn mortal lays, " Now rude and angry hurls along The hearers of his summer song The branch and leaf that once repaid His musio with their tender shade. And catching zephyr's honey'd tone. To his sweet tuning joined their own. Jr bound, perchance, in durance alow, Full faint he wends, and moaning low. Kit dirge he makes o'er freedom lost, ' In Joy of which he wanton tossed The falling blossoms on his wave, - For water-nymphs to catch and save. Now stript of his green bravery. In piteous plight the weary tree Is blown upon by mocking winds, Whom changed now he sighing finds From those gay playmates welcomed erst In glee by his young leaves when first They wove their merry brocae taught dance. And" broke their feathered ledgers trance, What time the eastern wave did gleam 'Neath fore-feet of the golden team. Not busy now with tender care, -For coming brood the birds prepare Their airy cradle, rocked unseen By Dryad hands behind the screen Of leafy curtains, where no eye Of mischief curious may pry. The thrush that erst with welling voire Made ail the tangled brake rejoice In echoes of his mellowed strain. To mope in silence now is fain ; Nor ever pipes from straining throat The varied wonders of his note. So bleak the scene, so sad the day. Too harsh. O winter, is thy away 1 Chamber' Journal. . SOBER AS A JUDGE. I don't care ? I say it, and I stick to it, anil, if it were necessary, I'd swear it on the biggest testament or prayer-book that was ever used for taking an oath upon in any court of justice in, the king; dom. You say it's all nonsense, that it was imagination, that I didn't see 'em ; but, in the name of all the wise men in the East, how the dickens can you know ? Yon can tell what you see, but that's no reason why you should be able to tell what I see. My eyes were never in your head any more than yours were in mine. So I say it again, and IH maintain it through thick and thin, round or solid, that I saw those two as plain as eyes could see them, and that they were there. This is how it was. Jack Bigley had just done walking his wards at Fawkesl's. His governor had come down stunning, bought him a share in an old country practice, and Jack was off to mend broken legs, liniment old women's rheu matics, and to take little strangers whom, as a matter of course, he would dig up with a golden shovel from under the large plantation of rose bushes in his back garden snugly in his coat-tail pocket to all the married couples in the district who. needed a supply. He was always a good fellow, was Jack ; and many'a the jolly night he's had in my room in Double street, Borough. Ill bet anybody a sovereign even money that there isn't a man living who could brew such good punch out of bad spirits as could Jack Dingley. Oh, the loo we've had, and the rubbers . we've played ; the oysters we've eaten, and the songs we've sung long after mid night t And when, of a morning, we've gone down to the hospital with a buz zing in the head and a sensation as of sick millstones going round and round, who could evrr contrive better than Jack a pleasant little pick-me-np in the dis pensary? one which really did pick you up, you know, stand you upon your feet, and set you going wound up tight for the remainder of the day. Jack took me by the sleeve one morn ing in bis last week, just before we were going into the theater, where old Bogus was going to perform his celebrated operation of removing a man's head without chloroform his operationf'you know, for turned brain and whispered : " To-night eight sharp tripe and onions." Of course I went, and was there to the minute. Tripe ! Yes, I should t.TiinTr there was tripe, and hot potatoes in their jackets ; four -great dishes of oysters fat little natives, mind you none of your shabby Scotchmen, sprawl ing all over a spongy shell. There was the biggest lobster I ever saw ; a splen did salad ; a whack of pickled' Bahnon ; and, just as I entered the room where the supper was spread out, the fellow from the pub round the corner was just putting a bright pewter pot of porter, with a head on it like a cauliflower, at every man's elbow for they were al ready seated seven, and a place left forme. : That was a supper the remains were not worth much and the noise we had made over it was only the overture to the play about to begin ; for no sooner was the table cleared than Jack's big spirit stand was fetched out ; a kettle of ' hot was singing on the hob ; the waiter brought in lemons and sugar, pipes and tobacco ; Jack put his cigar-box beside them ; and then, while we religiously set to work to fill the room with smoke, Jack slipped out into his bedroom, re turned with his wash-hand basin, which he swore was perfectly clean for the oc casion, andin it brewed the biggest jorum of punch I ever saw in my life. It waan t too big for us, for we went again and again, Jack's face beaming as he ladled out the steaming compound. And then the harmony ! Talk about making the welkin ring I You should have heard us make the glasses ring till somebody in the next house hammered at the wall ; when, taking it for applause, we immediately sang b,"Bambling Dan," with the "Hal ha!" chorus, and the five " Hurrahs !" at the end of every verse. You mayn't know the song, but it is always sung with a full orchestral accompaniment poker, shovel and tongs teaspoons on the edges of glass es, and the chairman, of course, beating time with a hammer upon the mahogany - table. ,- . .. ; V : , : We had no sooner finished than there was a tapping on the wall on the other side, which of course meant "Encore!" so we sang it again with two extempor ized verses composed for the occasion by Jack Bigley. Directly after this there was a knock at the door, which opened, and a man said something about a noise; but as we all with one consent made a rush at him he fled, and we were allowed to enjoy our harmony in peace for the rest of the evening. It wasn't all singing, yon now. We had a game at cards, but it was voted slow; and Tom Burrows did the frog on the stone in the middle of the table, with a candle at each corner. Bob Bumrwns, too, did his balancing: tricks with three full tumblers of grog on cane-bottomed cliair balanced on hS chin witnout . spilling a drop. - He tried standing upon his head npen a quart decanter, and got on pretty well till Tom Burrows spirked . him in the ribs with the waxy end of a . pipe-stem, when he went over backward into the coal scuttle, and then wanted to fight Tom for half a sovereign. It was all over, though, directly, bless you; and they shook hands, and were the best of friends; when, to keep the game alive, Jack Bigley went and got a pint Guinness' stout bottle, cleared the table, and, putting the neck downward, sat on the bottom, and spun himself round. Bless you, it was beautiful. I never saw anything like it. His hands and legs flew out, and he went out like a teetotum or a top, till Tom Burrows must boil it by making believe the bottle was his peg, and wanting to take him up in a spoon. We were all too good-humored to quar rel, and we did have the jolliest night you ever knew. We had more singing, and when the song hadn't any chorus we made one a good rattling one, too and we encored one another two or three times over, and then began again. We never had the slightest idea of breaking up, and should have gone on until the milk came round if it had not been for Tom Burrows, who, from being the larkiost fellow of the whole lot, sud denly broke down and began to cry. it was no use slapping uuu ju ura back and trying to comfort , him he would keep on crying and talking about his mother, and saying if she only knew; till it upset Bob Kununins, who wiped one of his eyes, and said he liadn't been to"cliurch for nine Sundays. That spoiled it, you know, for Bob got worse than Tom 'Burrows, and would keep on saying that he meant to turn over a new' leaf. Then Tom Burrows came and called him brother, and they stood and shook one another's hands, and cried into the same pocket handker chief ; till Dick Wharton said he would go home now, and went and laid himself down under the table amongst the oyster shells, with a big lobster claw under the small of his back. I'm not quite sure about which way I went home, but I remember how nice and fresh the cool night air felt, and that nil the policemen were walking in pairs. I mention that last, you know, lest you should thing that I was in the slightest degree overcome. In fact, when I dropped my umbrella, and then when my hat fell off, as I stooped to pick it up, I remember what I said to the pair of policemen who were civil enough to pick them up ; and we chatted so that they walked home beside me ; and, as I'd got thick gloves on, they felt in my waist-coat pocket for me, and got out my latch-key, and opened the door. i Just to show you that I was perfectly correct. I'll mention what the pair of policemen said, and that was " Of course you can find your way up stairs, sir i" And they wouldn't have said that if I had been in that reprehensible state in which some young men return home from a bachelor's party. Ah I I recollect everything perfectly. How they had left no candlesticks forme in the proper place, and how something was left in the passage way for me to stumble over, and then the rug at the foot of the stairs was rucked up, and two stair-rods loose, so that three times over I was nearly stumbling up the stairs. " There's a light in my room," I re member saying. And that accounted, of course, for there being no candle left in the passage. So I smiled to myself, as I paused for a moment on the landing, and tried to hum over the chorus of "Rambling Das," just to amuse my landlady, and to let her know that I was back safe. But I was so out of breath that I forgot it, and turning the handle with my left hand my left hand because I held my umbrella in my right I walked in. You see, I am so perspicuous about all these little facte that it shows you I could not have dreamed or imagined what I saw. For there, with my. carnphine lamp on the table, the bottle of brandy and a jug of hot water, sat two skeletons in the easy chairs, one on each side of the fire. One of them was sitting looking at the fire, and evidently musing ; his right elbow rested on the table, and with Ins left hand he held a long clay pipe be tween his teeth, and puffed out a cloud of smoke. The other seemed in a rollick ing frame of mind as well as body, or rather bones, for he sat with his legs crossed and hanging on the arm of the easy chair ; one of my cigars was be tween his teeth alight, and he held up a glass of steaming brandy and water, as if about to drink my health, nodding at me as I came in. I was not frightened, not a bit of it ; for I'd known these skeletons for the last two years. They lived, when at home, in the second case on the right hand side as you went into the museum at Fawkes"; but how it was that they had taken it into their heads skulls, I mean to eome out and visit me, was a puzzler. So I stood looking at them, when the rollicking one actually began to chant be tween his teeth and, mind you, without dropping his cigar the chorus of " Ram bling Dan," finishing off by clanking his bony legs together, his phaianges rattling like castanets. ",Your health, old fellow," he said then. And removing his cigar, he drank a hearty draught of brandy and water. " I was frightened, I tell you ; and I was perfectly clear . in the head, I tell you ; for I was so surprised then that I remember looking down into the easy chair to see if there was a pool of brandy and water trickling down through the empty ribs. - But no I could see the sacrum and the upper bones of the pelvis, and they were quite dry. Absorbed, my boy, absorbed," he said, laughing ; and : it was a strange, harsh laugh. Now, then, Rattler, have a drink of this, " he said to his bony vis-a-vis. ' "'" ' , ' But the other skeleton only nodded his head slowly twice, and went on smoking, the wreaths curling up toward the ceil ing. , ;'- V; "Shut the door, old fellow," said the rollicking skeleton to me. "I don't want rheumatism in my bones, if you do in yours. That's right," he continued, as I complied. "Now come and ait down, and Til give a lecture on osteology; for you're horribly shaky about your bones. "Who told you?" I said, I deter mined to keep a bold face on the mat ter. ' I heard old Bogus abuse your artic ulation paper, and tell you that you'd I rat the patella in the wrong place. Ha ! 1a ! ha ! we hear a good deal, don't we, Rattler? The other skeleton nodded its head slowly again ; and this solemn, slow movement did give me something of a chill. As for the rollicking fellow, I didn't mind bft" a bit ; and to show him that I didn't, spirked him with the ferule of my umbrella in the same way that Rummins did Tom Burrows when he was standing on his head. " I say 1 " he said, " don't do that" -" Why not ? I said. ' What do you mean by coming and taking possession of a fellow's room?" " "Sposal'd got my thoracic viscera with me, and you'd abraded ; the surface of my lungs, or scratched my pleura ; you wouldn't have liked it, I know." " Well, perhaps not ; " I said, " but anyhow, I wish you'd go." " Don't hurry us," he said ; " we don't often get a night out. a Mix your self a glass." ; I did so, and lit a clay-pipe. But I didn't care for it ; so I j lit a cigar, and sat, smoked, and looked at them. ' " That's good brandy," said the rol licking skeleton, after another draught. " I say, what do you think j I died of t " .Hung i or burglary, x should say, or entering people's houses senoe." i in their ab- Get out," he saidJ. I had d. t. horribly. Take care of ! yourself don't you?" : i I " Not if I can help it," I said. And than I started, fori Rattler had gone. Now, I didn't see him go, and I know he didn't pass my chair. But he was gone, and there was an end of it. " It's a curious life, mine," said the rollicking skeleton, " wired together as I am. ' I'm glad of a change. A case bottle's all very well, but af glass case is too much of a good thing."! Then he leaned over toward me. in a curious, sneering fashion, laughing with his feet, if I may bo express the way in which he made them quiver ; and he annoyed me so that I said to him at last : " Pray keep still." " I would," he said, " but it's time to get up." i And he rose from the choir and walked into the wall, straight in, without a pause ; and somehow those (words of his made such an impression oij me that they seemed to hang in the air, and they were the very first I heard later on m the morning, when my hot water was brought to the door.; Ah ! you may say what you like, but if it's possible for two skeletons to get out of a case and come down several streets in the dead of night, and visit a medical student, those two Visited me. A Cool Burglary. The Bryan (Ohio) Democrat gives the following burglary story : For coolness, deliberation and audacity the burglary of Wertz Bros.' grocery, on Sunday morn ing is without parallel in the criminal history of the country. So deliberate and impudent was the transaction from beginning to end, that it seems like a huge joke. About 2 o'clock Sunday morning a gang of thieves,! variously es timated from five to eight in number, stole Andrew Smith's horse hitched him to S. C. Moore's bob-sled and then drove to the west side of Wertz Bros.' grocery, southwest comer of the public square An entrance into the grocery was easily effected through a side door. Once in side, the fire was smothered with salt, and the work of pillage began. Every draw er was ransacked and the cellar searched. Some change was taken from one of the drawers, and several hams lifted from a barrel in the cellar. Then, to cap the climax, the audacious rascals actually lifted and carried out an iron safe, weighing nearly 1,000 pounds. Once loaded, they attempted to start, but Smith's horse was too conscientious for the business, and refused to pull. Care fully placing him in the- stable, they went to David Gettle's stable, over half a mile away, got out his j dray horse, drove up through the heart of the village, hitched him to the bob, and away tliey went. They drove south On Lynn one square, then east on Maple, crossing Main, to near Allen, where; they halted, turned the horse adrift, and within ten rods of Mr. Bars tow's residence, delib erately cracked the safe by smashing the door to smithereens. . Alas,! for all their pains they found no lncrei-nothing but books and papers. Aside from the dam age to the safe, the loss was inconsidera ble. It is the impudence j of the trick that surprises and astounds everybody. They were heard crossing Main street between 2 and 3 o'clock. (The safe fell off the bobs twice en route, and the thieves carried cord wood and built up a tramway to aid in reloading. The safe was smashed within ten rods of where Bars tow and his family were sleeping. About 4 o'clock a young man, returning home from a protracted vinit to his girl, saw the party at work, but j hadn't suffi cient curiosity j to go over and see what they were working at. t The Host Remarkable of! Casualties. On Monday occurred in St. Louis county a casualty so singular in some of its features that no one would have be lieved beforehand that such a thing was possible. The subject was Mr. J. J. Kelly, nurseryman, who for the past twenty or twenty-five years has lived neai Webster, on the Pacific ' railroad. Mr. Kelly is a lare, heavy man, fifty-eight years of age. Yesterday he was riding in a light spring-wagon from Kirkwood to Webster, and to keep his feet warm had put a lot of hot bricks in the bottom of the wagon and covered them with straw. When about midway between Webster and Kirkwood the straw burst into a blaze and set fire to i the wagon. Mr. Kelly's aize and weight prevented him from getting out speedily, unless by the dangerous feat of jumping out, and he attempted to put out the names with out leaving the wagon, and in doing so his clothing caught fire. He then got out, and, singularly enough, instead of attending to putting the tire out on his own clothing, ran to the horse's head and seized the bridle to prevent his running away. He stood in that position, appa rently dumfounded, until) he was so burned that ; it is considered impossible for him to recover. One of his ears was actually burned off. A neighbor passing on tine road found him in that situation, and, after extinguishing his burning clothing, conveyed him to his home near Webster. It is supposed by some that the flames did not originate from the hot bricks, but from a burning match with which Mr. Kelly had probably lighted his pipe. St. Lmiia Republican. ,. A Parisian Confidence Han. A gay Parisian, who has been famed for his luxurious apartments and turn out and general high airs, has just come to grief and been sent to jail. . His name is Hyacinthe Anber. , He was in jail once before, but was pardoned out by Napoleon III., to whose dynasty he vowed eternal devotion.. Having a knowl edge of all the inns and outs of Paris life, he has contributed in various ways to the necessities of life at Chiselhurst since Sept. 4. Upon the occasion of the eighteenth birthday of the Prince Im perial several -' deputations 'went from Paris. One of them was charged to obtain the Prince's acceptance of a sword enriched with diamonds, upon the hilt of which would be engraved such words as " Sol-ferino,".- " Sevastopol," "Inkerman," and on the blade "Semper ubique fidelis." The order for-the sword was given to M. Langlon. But as Hyacinthe Auber found it more' convenient to keep the 150,000 francs which were to pay for the order in his own pocket, the sword was never finished ; and so nice was his adroitness that it was only after he had swindled the jeweler out lof 100,000 francs worth of parures that the latter handed him over to. the police. A physician stopped at the shop of a country apothecary, and inquired for a pharmacopoeia. ." Sir," said the apothe cary, " I know of no such farmer living about these parts." ;,.,JL USIQUE DEATH. , . Hoop Enters the Brain of a Drunken Man by Way of His Ear and Kills Him His Widow Recover Damages from the Liquor Sellers. Evansville (Ind.) letter to Chicago Inter-Ocean. A case very interesting to the advocates of temperance was decided in the Circuit Court of this county last week under the famous Baxter law. One of the clauses of this law provides that the widow of a man whose death has resulted from in toxicating beverages may recover damages from the parties who sold the liquor. The plaintiff to this suit was a German widow named Catherine Heilman, and the defendants two Germans named Stock and Krach. The circumstances of the case were about as follows : The deceased husband of Mrs. Heilman was a farmer in good circumstances. He resided in Scott township, about seven miles from this cityl While returning home one day from a trip to town he stopped at the grocery of the defend ants, where, it is alleged, intoxicating beverages were sold to him by a member of the firm. The result was that he be came hopelessly intoxicated, and was placed in his wagon by the defendants, and a neighbor hired to drive the team. Standing upright in the wagon was a barrel of salt that Heilman had pur chased in the city .and was taking home. While driving along the road, the night being dark, the wagon was driven over a log that lay in the road, causing it to jolt, and overturning the barrel of salt upon the prostrate form of Heilman. By some means or other a hoop became de tached from the barrel, and the end of it entered Heilman's ear. The constant jolting of the wagon only helped to drive it in deeper, and when they had reached Heilman's house it was found necessary to draw it forth by main force. Heil man lay in the wagon perfectly insensi ble from pain and loss of blood. He was carried into the hbnsa and placed in bed, from which he never rose alive, the wound causing his death in about a month after the occurrence. The widow was then thrown upon her own resources for a livelihood. The farm, with no one to look after it, soon became, valueless, and was sold at a sacrifice. ' By the advice of friends she brought suit against the par ties who had sold her husband the liquor, laying damages at $5,000. The case, while beinsr tried, attracted great atten tion, it being the first of the kind that has ever been tried in the State, and was considered in one way as a test case. After consuming three days in hearing the testimony and listening to the argu ments, the case was submitted to the jury, who returned a verdict giving the widow $325. The advocates of temper ance consider the verdict a victory to their cause. The Tollers of Age. Among those whom Gov. Tildeu in vited to attend the Bryant reception was A. T. Stewart, who replied by a polite note. He could not spare the time. In fact, Stewart has not been in Albany since he attended as a lobbyist, in order to prevent the Broadway railway. Stew art is 74, and being the owner of many millions, might indulge in an easy mode of life, but such is not his disposition. This leads me to observe that New York contains a remarkable group of laborious old men -toilers con a more amateurs of work, whese zest of life would be lost without the daily task. In addition to i Stewart, there is Moses Taylor, who is nearly oi uie same age. rie is irresi dent of the City Bank, and is worth $5,000,000, but his application to busi ness is of an unremitting character. Commodore Vanderbilt, at 80, "may be found daily at his office. This is not in the Grand Union Depot (his place there being supplied by bis son William), but is next to his residence in Fourth street, a quiet and retired spot suited to a calcu lator. The front room is occupied by a clerk, and in the rear office the Commo dore receives special visitors, and goes through his daily duty. His library of . railway reports is well read, and he has books of calculations upon transportation, and all the minutiae of his realm, which are thoroughly studied, fit he omitted this, he Would soon sink into dotage. William B. Astor, who is more than ?0, visits the land office every day, and keeps a clear view of his immense estate, although its principal care is in the hands of his son, John Jacob. George Law and Daniel Drew are now 76, and yet attend to their usual engagements. Peter Cooper is 81, and yet calls himself a business man, and has a private office in the institution which he founded, where he carries on daily routine. Ed ward Mathews, 75, is eager for tenants to occupy his suites of offices near Wall street. Charles O'Conor, at 78, is still in legal practice, though he objects to going before a jury. These meat work in obedience to the law of nature which makes industry essential to the greatest amount of happiness. I may add that all our millionaires (except a few who in herited wealth) are over CO. Our oldest working pastor is four years younger than Bryant. I refer to Stephen H. Tyng, rector of St. George's Church, who is 75. He still retains his power to a remarkable degree, and is able to satis fy the tastes of a critical congregation. In his day of fullness Rector Tyng was a model of. pulpit eloquence. He has now the mildness, but not the chill, of old age, but what he has lost in fire " is gained in love. The next of our ministry in point of years is Ver milye, of the Reformed Dutch Church, who is Tyng's junior by only three years. To these is to be added the once brilliant Samuel H. Cox, who, though nearly 84, still occasionally appears in pulpit service. -JVew York Cor. Cincin nati Gazette.. Disease. The Nornstown jxerata tells this little story for physicians : Mr. Bunnell was sick abed when his son William, 15 years of age, read about a book entitled " The Influence of Musio on Disease," in which, it was stated, the writer explained what diseases it was necessary to fiddle at, what to play the flute over, and what to treat to the acoordeon once every two hours and so forth. William meditated awhile, and then concluded ha would try a dose of fiddle on his parent So he procured that instrument, took a posi tion in the sick chamber, and com menced to tune up. , The fiddle only possessed two strings,' and even William mentally confessed, as he scraped away, that the musio emitted was not equal to Theodore Thomas' orchestra ; but he couldn't help thinking how much cheap-, er and simpler the "music cure" was than to pay a doctor a dollar a visit and swallow a lot of awful medicine. Mr. Bunnell ; was dozing ? when his well meaning son commenced waking wild strains, and at the first sound the sick man clutched the air convulsively with his right hand evidently dreaming that he heard cats growling in the back yard, and instinctively reached for a brick, or a bootjack, or a something that way. William played wrfil much earnestness, and before he had fiddled half through " Mulligan G tsar da " his father had raised himself to a sitting posture, without a rest for his back. Thus encouraged, William slid off into " It will never do to give it np so," and Mr. Bunnell now swung his left leg out of bed and gazed painfully at his son. a William was de lighted at his success in raising the old man, and pitched into "The Last Rose of Summer' with renewed energy, rush ing through the air without once going back to pick up dropped notes and things. And " The Last Rose of Sum mer" was the last of William. The in fluence of musio upon Mr. Bunnell's ail ment was marvelous. It seemed to im bue him with new life and strength, for just as William was about to saw out " Pop Goes the Weasel," his "pop" popped out of bed, wrenched the violin from his son's hands, splintered it over his head, and with his right foot lifted him out of the room in the most hurried and emdhatio manner on record. It is a question now which recovers first Mr. Bunnell or his son. The doctor thinks the chances are in favor of father. . ' Political Memoranda. The St. Louis Republican calls him " Amos" Cameron. The New York Graphic tliinks the next Senate will be remarkable only for the men who are not there. - Wheeler, of the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Company, is a promi nent Democrat in Connecticut. The Hon. Scott Wike, Congressman elect from the Quincy (111.) district, in tends making an extended tour of the Southern States. Aniy Johnson will meet in the Senate only one member who voted against his impeachment Senator McCreery, of Kentucky. ,, - The Democratic gubernatural slate in Ohio for next fall is made out. For Gov ernor, William Allen ; for Lieutenant Governor, S. F. Carey. Thtjblow Weed has given the Tennes see Legislature a new name. He says "the whirligig of time has returned Andy Johnson to tlio Senate." Senator-elect Eaton, of Connecticut, writes a Hartf f ord correspondent, will be a prominent figure in the next Congress. He is a bitter opponent, a rabid party man, and a thorough believer in the Dem ocratic party. He will say " salt" when he means salt, and not attempt to pass it off as sugar. The Albany Tue reminds us that while Virginia used to be called the " mother of Presidents," New York is earning the title of the mother of Sena tors. The newly elected Senators from Michigan, Nebraska and Wisconsin Messrs. Christiancy, Paddock and Cam eron were all born in New York. The Milwaukee Wisconsin says : "In reply to the numerous reports here and elsewhere which are in circulation rela tive to the probability that Senator Car penter will leave the State and reside in New York or Washington, we can speak from authority when we say that he has ' no such intention, and that he does not, in any event, propose to leave Milwaukee to practice law elsewhere, or accept any office which may be tendered him in the gift of the President. He intends to re main in this State for the purpose of showing to his friends that he will stand by them as they have stood by him, and will leave the future to determine whether he is worthy of that generous confidence they have reposed in him. The Idyl of the Streets. She was a stout, florid woman, remark ably stout and florid, but she was richly dressed, and as she came down ; Olive street the manner in which she curled her lip and turned up her nose at women whom she passed more plainly appar eled was frequwat, and painful, and free, as the poet expresses it. Stie was lead ing a poodle by a ribbon why is it that fat, florid women always wear a poodle? and the dog was a marvel in its kind. It was very snaall and very vicious, snap ping at the feet of pedestrians, and its diminutive and homely body covered with frowzy wool, was almost concealed by an elaborate blanket, which left only head and legs and tail exposed. And so they came sailing down Olive street, fat, aristocratic woman and small, aristocrat ic dog, and they were perfectly satafied with themselves, though no one else might be. But tempora mutamtur, et nos inut&mur in ifliK, and sometimes the chftngo occurs with depressing sudden ness. Some careless shop-keeper had thrown a pail of water upon the sidewalk the night before, and the bitter cold had transformed the water into a surface hard as adamant, smooth as the highway to perdition. She came along with the stately tread adapted to her style, but she did not Bee the sidewalk in its icy guile. Her double chin was elevated far too Jiighly, and her eyes too full of a placid and contemplative inner consciousness to" admit of noting things terrestrial. Like a Span ish galleon of the olden time sue came still sailing on until she touched the ice patch. How shall one paint the trans formation scene ? Two pudgy feet pawed frantically the glistemng surface, then shot swiftly ' forward as the body they supported Started started back. There was a fierce rush downward of waving arms and (f ros grai and seal skin and adipose tissue, and the earth absolutely shook with the concussion ? Slowly and painfully the stately female rose and glanced about her, but the dog : oh, where was he ? There he lay, but what a spectacle! Come to the bridal chamber, Death ; come in consumption's ghastly form, the earthquake's shock, the ocean's storm, et cetera, but do not come to a small dog in the shape of two hundred and twenty-five pounds of solid female flesh, if you want to hear him give a single yelp I Urusned beneatn a mass of quivering humanity! Truly in the midst of life we are in death ! ' There he lay, the aristocratic poodle, and though he covered ground enough for a good sixed fighting . dog,' yon ' might have passed him through a crack in a door. So late a wonder among pets, he was now better fitted for a book-mark in a family Bible I ' And the stately woman sobbed asthmatically and hired a boy to carry home the corpse, and the tragedy was ended. & Louin Republican. , Twenty years ago- on Saturday, Feb. 10, 1855 Vice-President Wilson took his seat jn the United States Senate as the successor of Edward Everett, ; The Sen ate then occupied the Old Chamber, now the United States Supreme Court room. Of the sixty-one other gentlemen who occupied seats in the Senate at that time, thirty-seven have passed away, and of the twenty-four who survive, the only one now in the Senate is Hannibal TTa-mlin, of Maine. The latter has not, however, served continuously as a Senator, having meanwhile served as Vice-President, as Governor of Maine, and as Collector of the Port of Boston. Mr. Wilson has kept an autograph album, in which he has secured the signatures of all with whom he has sat in the Senate, accom panied by all the dates of their births. The signatures now number 260, embrac ing many of the greatest and some of the worst of the public men of this eventful generation. , . THE CONFEDERATE TREASURE. A Doubtful story from a California Paper. When the Confederate army under Gen. Lee was forced back from the trenches at Petersburg by the Federal army, President Davis humedlv ordered about fourteen millions of dollars, the property of the banks of Virginia and of the Confederate States, to be placed on trains at Richmond and sent South, in tending to convey it to the trans-Missis sippi Department, if possible, there to make a final stand.. The treasure was carried down to Charlotte, N. C, where the railroad ended. At this place it was decided to leave the money belonging to the banks of Virginia, in keeping of their officers. The rest of the money, belong ing to the Confederate States, was placed in wagons, and the retreat continued. The brigades of Gens. Basil Duke and Vanghn, who had succeeded in escaping from Fast Tennessee, and had arrived at Charlotte a few days before, were placed under the orders of Gen. John C. Breck inridge to act as an escort to the treas ure, . and the command proceeded South until Greensboro, Washington county, Ga., was reached. At this point information was received that the Federal General, Wilson, had captured Macon, a few miles distant, and in the line of retreat to the trans-Mississippi Depart ment. The news soon got among the men. They became demoralized, and a rush was made for the wagons containing the treasure. It was speedily divided up among them, the officers being unable to restrain the men. Among the lucky ones were two soldiers belonging to Company B, Third Tennessee mounted infantry, of Vaughn's brigade, from Monroe coun ty, Tenn. One of them was named Al bert Stevens, and the other we will rail J. T. Jones. They had cliarge ot a wagon containing 150,000 in gold; and when the panic spread among the soldiers, and the cry was "sauve qui peut," they retained their presence of mind, and drove off in the woods, where they divided the money, making some $75,000 apiece, and separated, Stevens taking his to Ins home in Tennessee, where he buried it, confiding its biding place to Ids mother, a very old lady. Finding that it would be dangerous for him to remain in Tennessee, owing to the unsettled condition of things there, the people being equally divided on the question of the war, he went to Georgia, wLere he found Jones, who had bought a small place and was quietly waiting until it woidd be safe for 1dm to return home. Stevens staid awhile with Jones, and then went off to another part of Georgia to visit some relatives. Before going, however, he informed Jones about the hiding place of his money and his mothers knowledge of its whereabouts. As soon as Stevens was gone Jones mounted Ids horse and made a bee-line for Tennessee, to the place where Stevens lived. Arriving there he presented his comrade's mother with a forged letter, purporting to come from her son, direct ing her to deliver the money to Jones, which the old lady did. Jones then started direct for California. Arriving here he purchased a large tract of land in Mendocino county, land being very low at that time, and has since amassed a large fortune in addition to his ill-gotten gains, and is now highly respected and a member of the church. Ia the course of time Stevens, having ascertained that it would be safe, started for tome, possibly dreaming of a future life of ease and comfort on some blue grs8 farm, raising fat cattle and blooded horses, this being your average ILentuck ian's or TeiinesRaah's idea of aa earthly paradise. On reaching home he soon found out his loss. Buckling on his re volver, he soured the entire South and West in search of his faithless friend, vowing to shoot him. en sight and only recently ascertained his whereabouts. He is now in correspondence with a promi nent lawyer of tkis city, and an attempt will shortly be made to bring Jones to account through the courts. San JPraM cisco Examiner. Her Hxsbond's Isrtter. A middle-aged woman had a letter handed her at the general delivery in the Post-office yesterday, and aiie sat down on a window- ill and read iL Her interest was intense fixmi the start,' and she spoke up and said ; " He calls ate his little darling ; that's good!" I After reading a few more lines she i said : j "And he Misses my society so much !" Half way down the page she spoke again : "And he falls me his sunbeam his guardian angL" She climl-d up on the sill a little fur- i ther. turned the letter over, and mused : "And he's lost three pounds of flesh I worrying over my healtli. He's just a i dear, loving old "darling, that's what he ) is!" ' She reached the top of the fourth page i and exclaimed : f. " What ! going to Flint, eh ?" i ' Further down she growled : "And he met that red-neaaeU widow Kernshaw on the cars, eh i 111 see about that. He probably didn't tell her he was married !" " She got down to the " P.-S.," glanced over a couple of linos, and then yelled right out : ' " Not coming home until next week ! Trains snowed in ! Great press of busi- nena f T'll haa whether li A inn't nnmtnff ' Bub, where's the telegraph office f" And she ran across the street and sent him a dispatch winch made the opera tor's hair stand up as he received and read it. 7-Vce lrcx. A Snow Writer. Yesterday, while some negro steamboatmen were being paid off, the clerk inquired of each one as he came up to sign the payroll, "Will you write your name or make an X?" Tha first one said he could write his name, and the pen was handed him. He looked at the pen, scrutinized the pay roll, and hesitated so long that the clerk poked him up. " Let's sec," mused the darkey, as hp looked 1 up- at the clock; "it's now 10 o'clock, and I've got to meet a feller at the City Hall at noon;' I guess I won't write my name, but IH put down an X. Detroit Free Pre. -. According to the Memphis Appeal a queer marriage " took placo at Jasper, Term., the other day. The bridegroom, Mr. Martin, had attained his seventy sixth year, while the bride was a blush ing girl of only thirteen. To add to the charms of the little, modest maiden, the threescore and sixteen gave his bride $3,000 as a marriage gift. . The aggregate of imports and exports with the United States upon the part of Great Britain, during the past year, amounted to 105,000,000, or one-sixth of Britain's whole aggregate trado . with all the world, or nearly twice as mnch as she has with France, which comes first after tha United States. now the head of the family, re trtrning from his ' club " through the sharp midnight air, gently rolls his sleeping spouse over to the cold side of the bed, and sinks softly into the vacated spot with a sigh of thankfulness. All Sorts ' Miss Kkllogg is said' to b cJeoriiiffr $2,500 per week for her share in EnglisW-. opera. .;.-,.'. ',"7: '.'-''. v. '' 'Ik some of the new styles tbpre is no change. Poor relative are cat the BamT a? last year. Tbb value of coal produced annually' from all sources of England is estimatea. at $620,000,000. It is rumored that the Herald eats&Mah ment will issue an illustrated daily to rival the Graphic " A Minnesota main, who ' pTopbocietTt mild weather for January, was foxmdt frozen to death in bed. Wit Is (he number of wise men so small T Because to be stupid's so easy that's all. How to be contented Look at tlies bole in Jones' coat sleeve, and then at th neat patch on your own. - Yalk has turned out two hundred Con gressmen. Fathers, think of this, tvnd send your sons to Harvard. 'I came off with flying colors, as the painter said when he fell from the laddcer with a pallette on his thumb. Mil. Sherman has introduced into th New York Legislature a bill regulating; the time for fishing throughout the Ktateu Hob & Co. of New York, have a school room in their factory, and compel their apprentices to spend two hoars a day in study. 1 Tub fine of $5,000 imposed upon thi sender of a scurrillous postal card ixr New York the other day ought to serve a as a lesson the world over. . Last week six vessels; arrived at Balti more from Rio Janeiro, bringing 28.00D bags of coffee, containing 3,$24,O0G pounds, valued at $900,000. TirjJEM, Bryant, Dix, Booth, JWmsoiv. Hendricks anil Sheridan havo fall beau mentioned as possible runner is the great political Derby of 1876. f In presiding over the Maine Consti tutional Qommis8ion, Hon. Edward Kent, occupies the same chair in which luMag , as Governor of the State thirty five yeara ago. " It is proposed to increase the dog tax in England from Be, which it is now, to 10s. The object of the increase is to re duce the present number of useless brutes. Rev. Robkht Laikd Coujcek, who is-. now preaching at Leicester, England,, writes that his health is entirely recov ered, and that he will return to Americnu in June. Vaaquzz, the California bandit, luaWi been convicted of thirty -seven murdeTR. . I( punished for each offense it would tak about seven hours for him to strangle at twelve minutes a hang. I sever could believe that providence sent a few men into the world, .jeady -booted and spurred to ride, and millions - ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. Richard liumbold, when ontkoGmaffoid,-, 1685. Mrs. Ei.t,! who flattered tiie Russian Czar's nephew out of his diamonds Ned X -Buntline, Mark Twain, A,. J. Butler -Ben's brotherand George Butler, hi t nephew, were all residents at one tixne of T A Hannibal, Mo. A mam and his wife both: eloped from i Kearney City, Neb., on th same night a . short time ago, each leaving a note for -the other, saying they had. gone for -good: "Two sool .with but a single thought,'' etc r It is estimated by a New York paper that ; the average cow yields only 7,000 gallons . . of pure milk. Let's see 7,000 gallon of milk 14,000 gallons of water 200 pounds of whiting-well, call it 22,000 gallons altogether. At Nantes, in France, .the Davenport Brothers gave their usual exhibition, but ": the knots were tied by an old sailor. -The result was bob. as usual ; instead oi.? five minutes those knots amused the i spirits for just half, an hour. In the first week of December there were 94,999 paupers, indoor and outdoor,, relieved in London; the second week,.,. 95,879; the third week, 90,557; ' the fourth week, !357r am addition to. the- list during December of 2,35Sb A man accomplished the journey from.' Brighton, Cat. to Sacramento, the other day, in a liand-car propelled by the wind.. -In the absence of a sail, he unfolded hisv ears and made the trip in about fifteen,, minutes. Distance, eight miles. Evf.r friend and admirer of the poet.' Whittier will be sorry to hear of the great feebleness of his health this winter. Never strong, the inclemency of thin season haa told hardly upon him, and h immediate friends are extremely anxione. about him. t Mr. Petkr BicKEi, .of, Milwaukee, not knowing a bank I wherein he could safely deposit his money, deposited $278 in lusv coai bin. When he went for it he fount! some one had , been there while be wajB away. The servant girl admitted that . she did it with her little scuttle. , Nid Vosit used to travel around. Colo rado with a performing bear, bnt a greato -change came one day last week, and nov the bear travels around alone, thinkinw ! over old timcw. nrul nmuinnolU i . ; 7 ' . j j.iiiuj. "6"" hot I JJlulg BIJUUUI UltOUKXItt. his bowels. Ned is inside that bear. N. Mdller, a member of the Rosoiatfe expedition to Siberia, has made a tre mendous discovery, and has communi cated it forthwith with great nrenxa Btantiiility to the St. Petersburg (leors.lj-. cal Society. It ia that the "North Ita2fe is not an isolated point, but a territory of a certain extent. And he thinka 1 is going to explore it, It is a coincidence that Angus Can-. eron, the new Senator from Wisconsin to succeed Matt Carpenter, was bom in tltti-. same town as ex-Senator DoolitUe, wlteaon Mr. Carpenter succeeded. He pracfid i his profession at Buffalo for several' years, but, through dissipation, became very mnch reduced though he was recognized as having rw-I siderable leesd abilitv. Rmnnvinn Buffalo to La Crosse, in 1857, la trned. over a new leaf, and, after tilling, aeveraX pnbhc offices, was sent to, th lWiU ture, and was- elected! Speaker in 1867, Cnhaa Spseol&tsoo. A Havana eorxespondent says : Th epecnlabve propensity here is aomelhiurr wonderful. Gold may, open at SiViE nf?u.bo "6 the afternoon ckv at 104. Ten, fifteen or twenty per onnt is a mere bagafceUeeither np or clown, and is caused by anything or noUxLa' mav be said to be a Cuban symjW, makes his atipearance with a nh. luce, wnispers oonfithngly to a framed! uuu ugam Barnes, . is tne innoennt cstjsT, of a rise of perhaps 13 per wr.- i out comes one of their, exeer ! "7" "newspaper,- fcrvnJlfM um it w ruaeiea . tinrty r W Miey, presto-: Tb aCl