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A Useless Nobility. ITPEOFTHB TITLED FBENCHMAN OF TEB PRESENT DAT. M. le MarquistrouChainplason is a dis tinguished French nobleman who has got no work to do. It would be unnec essary to introduce him here were he not i tvpe of many other noblemen similarly irinstanced, and whose inutility in the social system is beginning to excite the concern of those who feel kindly to ward persons of high lineage. The Abbe Bongand, Vicar-General of the Diocese of Orleans, lately nttered a wail over the fact that the nobility no longer enter the priesthood; and now some Legitimist pa pers have been complaining that they fight shy of tho army and navy. As they do not practice at the bar, and regard both the medical and engineering pro fessions as infi'a dig. as, moreover, tho low tastes of universal suffrage in the matter of choosing candidates have ban ishod most of tliem from political life vrhat on earth do they do? How does M. de Champblason keep his hands and wits from rusting? Note that some no blemen do hold commissions in the land and sea forces, (though their titles have ceased to be printed in the army lists) , and that others are to be found in the judicature, the diplomatio service, and in certain Church canonries. A few more are manufacturers; and there is an authentic Marquis who, for the fun of the thing for ho is a rich man keeps a cafo near the Place des Invalides in Paris, and attends on his customers in person most affably. But, then, the roll of the French nobility is enormously long. It comprises more than 500 dukes, 6000 marquises, and counts more than can be numbered. It has representa tives in every city; its escutcheons shine on the panels of two out of every three carriages you meet in the smaller pro vincial towns, and it possesses no end of land in small strips just big enough to allow each holder to call himself a "ter ritorial proprietor." M. De Champbla son has a small estate, comprising a cou ple of farms and a chateau, with a lawn, kitchen-garden and orchard, which ho inhabits during the summer months, and a mansion in a country town, where he lives during the rest of the year. He calls his lawn a park, his or chard a wood, and his kitchen garden a plantation, thereby in creasing their importance in the public esteem; but he gets no electoral influence out of them, only fruit and vegetables enough to stock his table during a por tion of the twelve-month. At election tiroo M. De Champblason cannot com mand a vote beside his own, because he has never taken care to make himself popular, but rather affects to let it be known on all occasions that ho belongs to a caste of bipeds who have no affini ties with the present ago, and think the globe has gone out of its orbit sinco 1789. His very gardener and groom vote against him, and the peasantry will not even trust him with a seat in their Village Municipal Council. When the Marquis attends mass on Sundays ho walks in and out of church with his head erect, as if he were accomplishing an act of valor in an ago of religious persecu tions. Tho bumpkins bow as ho passes, but thev laugh at him in their sleeves, because M. le Marquis is a person who has forgotten the motto "Noblesse oblige," and is noithor generous nor gra cious nor sensible. He spouts a great deal among his cronies about the honor of Franco, and deplores that it should have fallen into Republican hands, but he himself has never done anything for his country beyond eating of its frnits. At present he talks dolefully about M. Jules Ferry's Education bill, which is to set up "godless schools;" and one would J think to hear him talk that he had devoted his whole life to the promotion -of popular teaching in connection with the Church. But he has never disbursed more than an occasional five franc piece toward this end; and ho grumbles liko a pagan when the Cure conies to him for a subscription, because, he says, the Church ought not to be always fleecing the faithful. M. de Champblason is stingy, and he leads a dismal life, because his policy is in irniK Tin mnnw bv small savinirs. In the town where he resides there is a TWi-Tr Xnliln." and he inhabits one of the most imposing mansions in it, hav ing a dowager tjouniess ior iu ueu-uwr neighbor, and two Barons over the way. PrwaAsstiirr fin income of about 1200 a vear, he might keep up some small state ii lie cnoose; uui n cunin uu i"" " spend money on anything but necessi ties; for. were he to do so, he fears that he should not be able to give his daughter a suitable dower, or to leave his son enough to live in idleness like himself. His father shaped his life according to the tame purpose, and so did his grandfather. There have been three generations of Champblasons who neither toiled nor apnn, and who staked their ambition on bringing up a haughty and indolent progeny, marrying their daughters on wnnd business principles to men who tould show pmny for penny as much Honey as these young ladies had in their dot, and educating their sons in such ttyle as to make them incompetent to tarn their own bread. The present Mar quis's marriage was quite an exciting bargain, which had to be haggled about between notaries, and which was more than once on the point of coming to naught because of some obstinate aunts in Mnlmiit.11o'fi hiiIa who declined to state how much they were going to leave uieir neice in their wins, so mat uic poor ?onld not be appraised. Mme. De- ''liftirrnhkiinn ranift straight out of the invent to be married, and she is a pat- .:r : k Itlamaloafl aji in !orals, cold, dignified, not charitable in pcech or deed, but very moineny toward her own children, and fearfully i - ...... ... i en about their interest. ne nas omj a -.V. : 1 7 An nnt want m OTP i'w otherwise there would not be enough Honey to divide between them, xier Uily occupation is to attend to the 'tfr husband yawni over the Union in lus arm-chair "or iroes to his club. She loe mil An Vnov tnarlrptinfr hprttfdf that onld be too bourgeois; but she knows . . .1 1 t .11 -..i:l.la .nl ' cfnume uxe tbiuo vi mil cuhjicb, ui Itired for purchase, with not apenny if ...1 .1. . . -1 n wait ti B IUU U DUO fWT "' fV-,- f. . .1 Al- S lie lien in me course oi uie Ftaetimea lending hand to make the sauces, she can watch that there is no waste. Meantime, the Marquis keeps the key of his cellar, fetches up the necessary number of bottles every morn ing, and when he gets a new barrel in he bottles the wine in person, with a lauda ble care to see that the groom who assists him takes no furtive snacks. Bot tling days are as field days to this "descendant of the Crusaders," and supply him with something like healthy work for once in a war. His other days of labor are those three or four at most when he goes out in September to look out with a gun for the half dozen rabbits on his estate; and again, the dnys when he gives a dinner in honor of the marriage of some cousin. As such dinners constitute a family duty, he en deavors to manage things on as thrifty a scale as possiblo, and is not prodigal as bourgeois folks are. He thinks it enough to make his guests eat out of very old China and drink out of crystal glasses, which Madame washes next morning with her own patrician hands for fear of breakages. As he is no giver of hospitality, so does he accept none, except now and then from persons of his own rank and as littlo inclined toward dinner-giving as himself. Sometimes he goes to spend an evening with the Dowager Countess next door, and plays a rubber with her for centime points along with the two Barons over the way. Betweon deals they talk scandal about the Government functionaries of the de partment Prefect-General, Publio Pros ecutor, etc., and laugh at tho audacity of these up-starts in sending them, the nobles, invitations to their vulgar junk etings. Tho Marquis has a story to tell of a friend of his who, being once be guiled into a prefectorial ball, was made to dance in a quadrille with the daugh ter of his own boot-maker, who hap pened to bo a Municipal Councilor. Even at the club the Marquis and his brother nobles take care not to mix with Government officers or with the pluto crats of the town. They would have a club for themselves if they could afford it; as it is, they do their utmost to show all the other members of the " cercle " that no sociability is to be expected of them. The formality of balloting has had to be abolished in many provincial clubs because of the reckless way iu which the local nobles " pilled " the low lier bourgeois, and in those clubs where members are admitted on simple pre sentation the bourgeois, of course, re vongo themselves for the taboo put on them by tho aristocrats by saying a good deal that is unpleasant to the latter un der tliQ form of political chat. Iu fact, provincial nobles liko M. De Champbla son have onlr themselves to thank if they are looked upon with feelings the reverse of respectful. They and their opinions enjoy no prestige; aud they have so far compassed their wish to re main isolated that nobody courts their society or enjoys it if brought into it bv accident. The French nobility would, perhaps, do well to consider these things if they wish to avoid being utterly left out of account as factors, either in poli tics or society. Pull Mall Gazette, The Buckeye State. A correspon dent of the Marietta, Ohio, Reqinler, con tributes this interesting little chapter of history: "The first settlement in Ohio was made at Marietta, at tho Junction of the Muskingum with tho Ohio, by a body of New England emigrants, forming u part of the Ohio company,an incorporated body presided over by General Rufus Putnam of Massachusetts, assisted by a board of directors, composed of gentle men of integrity and marked ability. General Putnam was a cousin of the revo lutionary hero, Israel Putnam. The com pany had purcliused from the old Congress a largo body in the southeastern part of the territory, and the mouth of the Mus kingum was selected as the site of the first settlement. During the winter of 1787-8 the first installment of the com pany's emigrants, numbering forty-three men, were journeying by wagon train from New Eneland to Pittsburg. In con sequence of tlie impassable condition of the roads over tno mountains, causeu uy heavv snow-falls, the wagons wero aban doned, and by pack-horses the company reached Sumreirs erry, thirty nines above Pittsburg, in tho latter part of March. Here tho entrants found a craft somewhat resembling a common llatboat. but with a roof and raking bow, so thai it could be used in ascending as well as descending the stream, lhis craft was named tho Mayflower. They had also one flatboat and three large barge canoes. On this insignificant flatboat forty, eight men, the germ of the .State of Ohio, with its millions of population, its vast stores of wealth, and its eminent position in our sisterhood of States, em barked far their destination. After floating a few days without any marked incident, about noon on the 7th of April, 178S, the settlers landed on the site of the present city of Marietta. Two of them immediately took each his own axe, each wishing to cut the first tree. Neither of them knew the species of the tree selected by him. One attacked a a beach, which, being a hard wood, the process of felling was slow. The other sebcted a buckeye, which, being soft, soon came to the ground. And thus, it is affirmed by a family tradition, which, during nineteen years, has not been con tradicted by any history, or denied, Ohio came to be called the Buckeye State. The successful competitor in this little contest was Captain Daniel Davis, of Killingly, Windham county, Conn. He was my grandfather, who, with a somewhat numerous family, spent five years in a Private or neigh boring fortification, called ort Frye, which was located where the town oflteverlv, Washington county, O., now stands. With his eldest two sons he participated in the perils of Indian war fare, with which the settlers were har rassed until after General Wayne's vic tory oer the savages of the Northwest in August, 1791." The Good Horse-The Tipst Rats. A friend of mine is employed on a farm near Toranto, Ontario, where a horse be longing to the wife of the farmer is never intiired to work, but is allowed to live the life of a gentleman, for the following reason: borne years ago the above mentioned fell off a plank bridge into a stream where the water was deep. The horse, which f-.i; in a fild rime bv. ran to tbe spot and held her up with bis teeth till assistance arnvm, mu v,wvj r- her life. Was tni reason or instinct? Again, a gentleman engaged in the busi ness of distilling at Cincinnati has more than once told me tbat tbe rat in hu dis tillery are in tbe habit of drinking any spirit spilt on the ground or left in open vessels, and that tbey often become, in consequence, so tip7 that they can not run, and are easily taken by band. Which U thia? Aafure. X Ride o 8afetjVlve. "Jimmy Carr came to America in 1835," says me Cincinnati M.niuirer, -una tooa up liis abode in this city soon afterward. Liking the country, he settled hero to work at his business or macninesi ana engineer, and was always a good citizen and a faithful employe. He was rather old to begin the profession of arms when the war beoan. but he did the next best thiiii?. he went into the navy, enlisting as assistant engineer on the steamer Qtumof .. .... - n . . . 1 i .!!..!. 1... .1 1 nett, aireigut uoa wnicu nuu ueeu bought of the Government and altered into a "ram" here in Cincinnati. The vessel, which was under the command of Captain Elliot, was ordered bouth, nnd it was at the battle of Memphis that Jimmy Carr met with this particular adventure, which mado him a hero in as peculiar a manner as ever a hero gained the title. We give the tale as he tells it : " 'It was on tho Gth of June,' said Jimmy, 'that Memphis was taken. I re member it well, for it was a hot day, and I was in a hot place, too, I can tell you. The fleet was laying five miles above Memphis, nnd the Queen was a volunteer that morning. Early in the day we got orders to move toward the rebel butteries, but had no sooner got in range than the 'Johnnies' opened tiro upon us. Our captain called on Curtis, the first en gineer, to let loose, and he did, und we were soon streaming down the river. " 'We weren't long under way until we had one hundred and fifty pounds of steam on, and still rising. Curtis detailed me to look after the boilers we had four w hich were on deck-and I went off to my post. The first thing I noticed was that the safety-valve wasn't weighed heavy enough for tho extra pressure, and the steam escaped. I couldn't see any thing lying around to weigh it down but a large lump of coal. I lifted thut on to the lever, but it was no use, as it was tumbled off in a minute or two. By this time we must have hud fully two hundred pounds of steam on, and on looking out I saw the robol gunbout, the General LovkU, steaming up and firing ut us. We had no guns aboard, and only eleven sharpshooters, and the shot was flying around us pretty lively. I knew it was the Captain's intention to try to sink the Lovell, and I saw that it would never do to allow the steam to escape as it was doing. I had to think quick there was nothing near that I could weigh down the valve with, but I was bound not to be beat, and I just got astride of the lover myself and sat down on it. It was pretty hot, but I stuck it out. I looked out and the Lovell was only a couple of hundred yards off. She stopped to round to, but tho Queen was too quick for her, and with a rush we were into her, just astern of the wheel, and almost went clear through her. I was so excited that 1 never took my eyes offherwhen we were coming up, and just bore my weight down on the lever, never thinking to hold on to anything. When we struck, tho shock was so terri blo it knocked me head over heels over the boilers. Curtis was watching me, and thought I was killed, nnd halloed out : There goes poor Jimmy ? ' but I wasn't gone. I was stunned for a minute, but jumped up and climbed over the boiloiV and straddled tho lever again, this time taking a good hold.' " The ioicHsnnk in about five minutes, hut we had hardly time to get clear of her before another rebel cruft, the Beauregard, Bteamed up towards us. We treated her tho same way as we treated the Lovell, but this time I kept my seat and clung on for dear life, and the shock didn't knock mo off. Soon after the Queen, having nothing more to do, drew out from the fight, aud I got down from my perch. I felt a littlo sore, and had a few burns for it was a hot place I was in but that was all the worse I was for the adven ture.' " President Grew at Dinner. The French President recently entertained at dinner the Prince and Princess of Wales. M. Grevy, says a foreign journal. " bad no English order to wear iu compliment to the Prince of Wales, who is a grand cor don of tho Legion of Honor. The Presi dent represented very well the dignity of tho French Republic. In the parlance of the Elizabethian period, the Chief of the Executive is a most worshipful person. His manners are quiet and grave, and an undercurrent of good nature and of humoristic perception keeps his pride, which is inordinate but not aggressive, from assuming the form of hauteur. While the Prince and Princess of Wales were treated with the respect due to their rank and representative character, no courtly ceremonial was attempted. Nor was there uny display of underbred 'inde pendence,' or the ' we-ore-as-good-as-you ' sentiment. M. Grevy and his wife went to the vestibulo to receive their royl guests and to conduct them to the drawing-room. The Princess of Wales woro a black gauze robe, brightened up here and there with dia monds, and a diamond aigrette in her hair. She would not probably have dressed so much had she not agreed to appear after dinner in the President's box at the opera. Things were timed to enable the Prince to paw), after coffee was handed round, half an hour in the smoking-room. In the drawing-room, while the gentlemen were enjoying their cigars and chatting, tho ladies fell into groups. Tiiey again all took scats. 'I like that,' said an American ex-Secretary of Legation, who has been talking to me about English royalty breaking out in this fresh place. 'La Mart-cliale had a con temptible way of behaving toward princely guests. I was never in all my lite so disgusted as one evening at the Elysee, when that mountain of loo?e Uebh, tuecn Isabella, was there. My wife was within six weeks of being ill, and was tired. She naturally sat down. The Merechale espied her, and sent an aid-decamp to say that in the presence of a sovereign it was not admissible for any one but a crowned bead to be sealed.' " Gen. Gonrko, Governor of St. Peters burg, is a very practical man. He re ceived a letter which said Le would le poisoned. Not at all alarmed, he sent for his cook, and thus addressed that per sonage : " You soe this letter. Read it. Very well. Now keep in mind, the first time I get the colic I will Lang yon." No sales of pictures are made in the French Halon. If a visitor wishes to buy nwork Le communicates directly with the artist. The London Royal Academy's custom is to have a sale clerk in the rooms daring the exhibition. Onr Na tional Academy does likewise. A Michigan lady writes, with rare truth : " Under great sorrow or any great trial we ran be calm and brave, bnt it is the thousand and one little vexations of daily life that start the fret, and we fret nntil we hardly realize or measure how much." Southern Women. The Richmond, Va., Mate, in a recent issue says; -pho reported remark of Mr. Jefferson Davis, at a press meeting in Mississippi, that he had novcr yet 60011 i.'i " r'onxtrneted Southern wo man, has been the eauso of a great deal more discussion than its importance entitled it to, or the author had the remotest i,Ua it would call forth when, in a spirit of quiet humor, ho gave it utterance. We ftn know hero what the ex-President of tho Confederacy meant, and how very harmless was tho expres sion, properly understood and inter preted in iu true spirit. But even construing it as it has been by our ene mies at the North, and allowing it tho widest latitude from their standpoint, it is, after all, hut negative. But, given its most lilioral meaning, what does the remark of tha ex-Presi- dent amount to, and how far was it correct Are there no reconstructed women in the South ? We know there are, and very many, too; in fact, a largo majority of them are thoroughly recon structed, and accept as fully the situa tion ns nino-tenths of tho men do; but not in the senso of being changed in their sentiments as to the righteousness of the eauso in support of which their husbands, brothers, sons or fathers fought, and for which so many of them died. Tho women of the South find no difficulty in reconcilinir their dutv to their country now with their devotion to ana loving remembranco of tho cause to which they freely gavo their most pre cious jewols, nnd, whilo all perhaps teach their children to honor the memory of their fathers by upholding tho justice of the quarrel in which they engaged and by revering tho eauso for which they ion, yet tiiey do not consider that in so instructing they wrong the restored Union to which they owo nnd acknowl edge duty and allegiance; and surely that woman would scarcely bo held a good mother among any pooplo who should impress upon her children that their duty to their country involved tho terri ble alternative oi cursing the memory of their fathers. That our Southern women are very reasonably reconstructed, Mr. Davis could havo found sufficient evi dence had ho sought it by passing through tho country nnd mingling pro miscuously with tho people. Our Northern friends may restrain their anger against tlus terrible army of South ern womon. Wo can assure thorn they are not conspiring to overthrow tho Union, plotting a new rebellion, or raising up children to revongo the wrongs of the South. Nothing of the sort; but, like truo women, are busyiug themselves wholly about tho happinoss of their homes, husbands and children, hiking very little part in tho discussion of the political questions of the day." Tub Secret. "Hard times ! "wo hear it on all sides, and at all times, until we are sick and tired of the "old, old song." Hut what is the cause of "hard times." This question is easily answered. Wo want luuusinous and energetic men men who work at anything that is hon orable, in n'hich thero s money to bo made. Truo, we have some men in our midst who are industrious and energetic. but unfortunately not enough of them to mako this highly favored country "blos som us the rose," as it surely would do with the right sort of energy, go-a-hend-ativenoss and elbow greese. Tho trouble with tins and all other countries is, that we have too many of thut class thut are content to eke out a miserable existence "hand-to-mouth" drones on society to make the country prosperous and self sustaining. Steady employment is just us certain to bring prosperity ns tho sun rises in the east. Most of our bad luck, us it is called, can be traced to our own doors. Through our idleness we have brought poverty, not only to ourselves but to our families. We should work more and idle less, remcmbring that in the coarse of an ordinary lifetime, thou sands of dollars are lost on account of loss of time. If a man succeeds in this life lie must put in full time. A BnuiiiT Boy's Haity Thought. The Hartford correspondent of the Springfield Rejnddimn says: "There was a pretty bright thought of one of the Pattersons, who, when employed somo years since as a lad in an office in New York, was sent to present a bill to a shaky concern, with orders to collect it at nil buzzards. After much urging, the heud of the debtor house gavo him a check for $100, the amount of the bill. Hurrying to the bank at which it was payable, the lad presented tho check only to be told, 'Not enough hinds to meet it. 'ilow much is tbe account short?' was tho boy's quick retort. 'Seven dollars,' said the toller. It acked but a minute or two of three o'clock, and the teller was about to closo the door on tho bov when the lutter sud denly pulled out seven dollars from his ow n pocket, an pushing it over with a deposit check said: 'Put that to the credit of & Co., tho parties who had given the check. The teller did so, when the lad at once presented the check for $100, and draw ing the full amount thereof went back to his employers Iu triumph. But,HS heputs it,' A Co., who failed tho very next day, were hopping mad when they found that they hud no funds in the bank." in Areommoilated Passenger. . The other day, says the New Haven Legifter, an Irishman evidently not long a resident of this country.walked up to the ticket office in the Union depot aud said to A Merman States: "(iive me a ticket for Easthampton." "Massachusetts or Connecticut? " asked the gcniul dispenser of pasteboards. "Naythur ; I want a ticket to East hampton." "1 understand, but there are Easthamp tons in both this State and Massachu MPtt " exclaimed Mr. States. "Bedad, an is that so ? Which one does it cost the most to go to 7 asked the ion nf Erin's Isle. .Massachusetts," answered Mr State. "Well. then, be the powers, I'll take the i rheaneHt one!" i - . The traveler was accommodated witn a ticket to Easthampton, Connecticut, and he got aboard the Air Line train appa rently quite happy. Here's a nieo question for the debating societies : Which had yon rather b, an heir of Anneke Jans or the man who sne peeds to the claimanMiip left vacant by the death of Prince Napoleon? The yonng ecntleman who spoke so eloquently at his common vroent of clas sical reading will to-day pull oat a yel-low-bmked dime novel an i abandon him self to the dtdijhU of a wild border life. A Few of Russia's f lagucn. Tho war with Turkey being nt last closed, and the Asiatic plaguo, one of its consequences, suppressed, nihilism ia now terrorizing the heart of the empire and leaving it an open question whethor tho near future of Russia is to be red " Republican or Cossack." At tho same time, from a dozen different quarters. come accounts of terrible destitution and suffering caused by tho burning of tow ers and cities, apparently tho work of revolutionary incendiaries, and tho Ar menian journal Mtciak reports that tho grasshoppers are devastating the Cau casus. " Both banks of the Kura river aro covered with them, from Jelissawet poi to Terter on one side, and on tho oth er to Akstafa. Vegetation is entirely destroyed, and starvation stares tho in habitants in the face. Breadstuff's havo risen from 80 roiierks to one ruble 00 conecks per pood. (Tho Russian silver ruble is divided into 1(X) copecks and is worth about 73 cents of American monev. and the pood is equal to iiti pounds) . Auothor journal, published iu Titlis, says that the truck of tho Poti-Tillis rail road was so thickly covered with grass hoppers on tho second of May that a train was brought to a stop and for some time could not proceed. Hie destruction of a number of cities by fire, although greatly aided by drouths, is probably the work of tho de structive propaganda. The Vico Gover nor of Peru telegraphs from Irbit that three tires had occurred in that place, tho first consuming 158 houses, tho sec ond 41 aud tho third three; tho Mayor of Irbit telegraphs that all threo fires "ai doubtless of incendiary origin." In Orenburg, flro broko out a fourth timo; Uralsk, containing 17,500 inhabitants, shaved tho fate of Orenburg, and a dis patch from Pctropaulovski, in southwes tern hiiicna, recently announced that soveral quarters of that city wero on fire. Tho Czar is meanwhile recreating at Livndia. Notwithstanding tho serious outlook in nearly all arts of old Russia, the territory acquired by tho dismember ment of Poland remains quiet. " Order reigns in Warsaw," and although tho military force seems prepared for any emergency, business proceeds with its usual briskness, and no disturbance is apprehended. But a strict surveillance of all strangers is observed, and travel ers' passes are carefully inspected, whereas a few mouths ago tho bribing oi Russian officers was considered an easier and cheaper way of journeying to and from Warsaw than tho procuring of a passport. In spito of all tho trouble, presont nnd pi-ospoetivo in Russia, a considerable emigration from Germany to Russian Poland is in progress. Eight hundred German factory workmen arrived at Lodz last month, a largo number of arti sans havo settled in tho Government of Kalisch, and other arrivals aro expected. On tho other hand, tho harsh passport regulations threaten to deprivo several of tho larger cities of Russia of a largo part of their population. In Odessa a lack of female servants is already felt, although the city's sanitary condition is greatly improved by tho exodus of its lowest classes. Charkoff has lost 10,000 of its 100,000 inhabitants. Jivrlin tetter in Aew i ork JAH tuiuj ljt. Cavern of the Mound Builders. A roccnt dispatch to tho Pioneer-Pre announces tho discovery of a remarkable cave on tho farm of David Samuels, ten miles from La Crosse. Tho cavo is !10 feet long, 13 feet wido and about 8 feet high. Abovo tho quarry-sand, which lias evidently drifted in and covered tho floor to tho depth of threo to six feet; upon tho walls aro very rude carvings representing men, animals, arms and implements, and somo appear to bo hieroglyphics. One picture represents men, with bows and arrows, shooting animals, throe buffaloes and one rabbit. Anothor represents three animals which, if largo, must havo been liko tho hippo potamus; anothor appears to represent a mastodon; on another picturo a mooso is quite plainly delineated. There aro eight representations tnat are canoos, much carved, or hammocks, which they most resemble. Ono sketch of a man is very plain; tho figure wears a kind of chaplet or crown, and wus probably chief of his tribe or clan. There are many fragments of picturos, where tho rock had decomposed. Tho rock is a coarso, ft. white sandstone. On ono sido of the cave is a space about two feet high ani two and a half feet in length, made into tho wall. Above aro the upper frag ments of pictures, and liolow aro lower fragments, showing that they wore mado when tho rock was entire. From tho depth to which decompositions reached .i . i u. : in tills (iry uuu uum cuvuru, him mm;ini- tion must bo quite ancient. If the carv ing mentioned really represents the mas todon, tho work must have been done by mound builders. The accumulated sand noeds to bo re moved to got a full view, and possibly human remains may bo found. The en trance to the cave hud evidently lieen covered by a land slide, there being left open only a small hole, where traps have long been set for coons. Tho large num ber of these animals that wero caught led to tho belief that tho space inhabited by them must be largo, and investiga tion led to the discovery of tho cave. Over the entrance, since the landslide, a poplar tree, eighteen inches in diameter, has grown, which shows conclusively that the cave has not been occupied by human beings for more than a century, " You've been to the salon ?" " Ever since the oocninff." "What have yon seen?" "Foulard is much worn and much gendarme blue. In short, many fantastic costumes "But the pic tures I" " Oh, I'll go again to see them." At iwont fiinrv dress ball in Lomloj a crusader in armor was so well made np, and sat so still that " Atlas" topped on him with Lis knuckles to find out whetlu r he was real. He proved to be living, and forgiving. - There was a case not a very long time since where it became necessary to draw a eork, and the only one present of a large party having a pocket corkscrew was a clergyman. He remarked that he used it to open ink-bottles. The New Jersey mosquitoes went into nncm a few niflitsuro and nbanimonslT rmolved tliat the President might veto all their bills if he could. fetus ('unat baL. There is in this city a Mexican by the name of Francisco Alvaren, now residing on East street, west of the Hun Pedro, who bus frequently told a story about two runaway negroes, a man and a woman, eating up a third member of their party. Alvares was with a train which brought the two cannibals back to Sun Antonio. Many persons have doubted the truth of the tale told by Alvares, but It is never theless truo, as there are ninny persons living who wero here at tho time, by whom the facts are remembered. John C. French, now one of our wealthiest and most resjiected citizens, wns master of tho train which found the surviving man and woman and returned them to this city. The details of the shocking story lire also preserved in print, and are found pub lished in the Western Texan, San Antonio paper of thut day, tinder date of March 20, 1H.)1. The following is what tho Western Texan said about it: "Several gentlemen a short distance in advance of the train which had just ar rived from El Paso encountered a nartv of rnuaway negroes at the Limpio Spring on tho other sido of tbe Pecos river. v noil discovered there wero but two of tlm tiptvrnfta uliir.. on. I limit ......... 1 ...w .. . wv u M..VV, HIIU till nCIU 111 state of misery uimost impossible to be described. They hud been entirely w ith out food for ten days, nnd had been forced, to save themselves from actual starvation, to kill their companion, which act they nun perpetrated on the morning or the tiny on which they were discovered. Thoy had strippod his bones of every par ticle of meat which could be obtained, and after having satisfied their hunger with this revolting food, wore, when cap tured, in the act of broiling and preparing the remainder to servo them in their on ward inarch toward Mexico. Without doubt, they would have perished hud they not beon disi-ovo'ed at the time they were, as they wero still L'OO miles from the Rio Grande, without any means of killing game, and in a most emaciated condi tion. Tho two that were taken, one a boy, calling himself Henry, und the other a girl, Melindu, were brought in with his train, and will bo confined in Sun Anto nio until some intelligence is received from thoir owner or owners. Thoy give the following account of themselves: They say that all three belonged to the sumo owner, Charles Owens, who livea near nony !-prings, In .Marshall county, Mississippi, from whom thoy escaped more than a year ago, and have been on their way towards Mexico evor since that time, lue name of the boy who was killed wns Morgan. They wero all young . negroes, apparently not more than 22 years old. After striking the El Paso I l .1 l ...i. .1 luiiu, iiirjr Mciivuu mini bunluuuiiuu Lucy could from the hides of oxen which had died, and beon left on tho road, by the several trains which have heretofore made that trip. Finding that it was impossible to support lite in that manner, they had conversed several times upon tho question of drawing lots for their lives, to see upon whom tho fate should fall of being sacrificed to support the other two. This projoct, howevor, was not nssonted to. The boy Morgan then threatened to make sure of the first nportuiiity. und kill Henry unawares. Henry, however, proved to bo the more autious of the two. nnd availing himsolf of the first opportunity when Morgan was asleep, he cut his throat, and made use of the body us above described. We huvo ' heard of instances of misery similar to the above happening on tho ocean, but this is the first instance within our recol lection upon land, where human beings were compelled to devour each other to save themselves from death by sturvu- tion. ' Ann 4tomrt. lexat. hxnret. The Lost Ilavcrsuck. "The bravest are tho tendorest Tho loving aro the during." Of all tho men that sorvod under the SUrs nnd Stripes during tho war of the Rebellion, none were more thoroughly in earnest or moro truly loyal to the Union than those recruited in Western Virginia. The war was terribly real to them. Not one but had a brother, a friend or a neighbor on the other sido, with whom ho had fought out tho ques tion in words long before arms wero taken up. They felt that it wuh a per sonal quarrel. They wero terrible fel lows to tight, although inghtiuuy lax in discipliuo. Thoir officers those that woro wise took them for what they wero, appreciated their fighting quali ties, and soon ceased to worry about their lack of discipline What mattered it if thoy were not exact in matters of salutes to their superiors ? They were irompt to obey when duty called, as irave as lions in the fuco of the enemy, and kindness itself to those who under stood aud appreciated them. Ono day, a command mado np mainly of rough bnt manly follows of this sort had a fight with tho enemy, and captured a largo number of prisoners. Thut night captives and captors bivouacked on the battle field, and the noxt day began meir march to tho rear, whero the prisoners were to be handed over for shipment North. Towards noon a robel officer beckoned to his sido the major com manding tho escort, "Last night," ho said, "whilo I was asleep, my haversack was stolen. I know what war is, and I accept its fortuno, good or bad. That haversack contained several things that I valno one that I prize as I do my life tho portrait of a lady." And then glan cing back at the rough cavalrymen, he added sorrowfully, "I suppose there is small chance of getting it again." "I'll sec, said the major. 1 he command was marching "by fours." In four linos word was passed from Iront to rear, eacu man communicating with the comrade noxt behind him. Within ten minutes a sergeant rode np to tho major and handed him a package. The major took it to the prisoner. "Open this," he said. There was tho portrait, uninjured, and with it a bundle of letters, upon which the owner had written a request that it should De destroyed unopened in the event of his death. The seal was nnbroken. tk. riminiii'A Wt uva ' "In her two seasons here, Mme. Modjeska at the time he was uxen np reauy a penum u nnt.lrUiiii nvntn SiL i m m t after all ex penses paid . Nota pennyof this would Ka Via, I . I, x not been nlaced in the bands of a man, who, knowing the de sire of the American public ior sensation, k;. .u nn a mi ml v sensational IJI.IICU Mil nw. basis, and humbugged the people to the top of their bent." Our happiness does not consist fn be ing without passions, but in having 'con trol over them. No man can be free unlet be governs himself.