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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1879)
Miutuern Wr Records. A reporter of the Star one morning dropped into the large building on Q street, corner of Twentiotli, where the official records of the Into war are being compiled. General Marcus J. Wright, uho is engaged in collecting the records of the Confederate aide, was found in his office. He said: "Very many of the most valuable official papers of the Con federate army were lost or destroyed in the general breakup and surrender. Our purpose is to get copies of all such panel's, and thus make complete tho official record of that side. Such of the papers as were preserved were obtained by the Government, and I ws appointed to procure duplicates of those that were "But how do you got these dupli cates?" "From the officers of the Confederate army. They preserved papers of every report, every official paper they sent to Riehmond.and many of them kept copies of every official letter they wrote." 'Do the ex-Confederate officers give their files up to you?" "Oh, yes. As a general rule they give them to us, but where any of them have papers they wish to keep they allow us to make copies of them, and we return the originals. General Joseph E. Johnston turned over to us his entire records, con taining all his reports, offioial lotters and reports of his subordinate officers. I Lave also all of General Pemberton's papers, and that gives us a complete record of the Vicksburg campaign as conducted on the Confederate side." "Did they turn over their, papers en tirely to the Government?" "Yes. We preserve the papers and they are accessible at all times to these gentlemen, if they should wish to see them or make copies. They give them to us very willingly, as it relieves them of the trouble and care of keeping them, and does not deprive them of any use they would wish to make of the papers. We take every precaution ogainst loss bv fire or otherwise of the papers we get. We have printed copies of each one made, and eighteen or twenty copies are dis tributed around omong 'as many of the departments and other Government buildings, so that in case of fire we are certain not to have them all destroyed." "Genoral, these records are to be pub lished by the Government, are they not?" "Yes, sir; that is what we are collect ing them for. Tho purpose of the Gov ernment is to make up a complete official history of both armies of the civil war. The Record for the year 1861, of both sides, will be ready for publication about the time Congress meets. The volume will be printed by the Government, as any other 'public document, and the usual number distributed among the de partments and members of Congress. Then the law provides that the work shall bo stereotyped, and sold to the public at the cost of printing, so that any one can obtain the work at comparatively littk cost." "Will the records of the two armies be printed separately?" "Yes; separately, and in consecutive volumes." "Will the records be edited?' "No, not at all; simply compiled so as present in the order in which they were issued, the official reports, letters.orders, etc., of the war. The compilation is in charge of Colonel R. N. Scott, of the Third Artillm-v. United States army, and a man better qualified for the work could not nave been seiecieu. "How long will it take to finish up the entire work?" "It will require several years more to complete the work for all the years of the . "Haven't you recently returned from a collecting tour in the south? "Yes, sir; I got back a few days ago, and I obtained a number of vVry valu oble papers. I first went to see General Joseph Wheeler, in Alabama, who com manded the cavalry in Bragg's army. He gave me his entire file of papers and re ports, covering the time from his entry Jnto the Confederate service until the close of the war. I next visited Indian Territory, and got a set of papers cover ing the military operations of the Con federates in what was callod the District of Indian Territory. The district was commanded by Generals Albert Pike, Maxey (now United States Sonator from Texas), and D. H. Cooper. These records are quite important. I also got all the official papers of Lieutenant GeneralR. S. Ewell (since dead), who held an important command in the Con federate army. I next visited General E. Kirby Smith, who commanded the Trans-Mississippi Department, and got his records. During the war his depart ment was for a long time pretty effeot ively cut oft from Richmond, ond the records there were incomplete as to his military operations. I found his files very incomplete, though. Colonel Richmond of McMinnville.Tenn., prom ised to send me the offiial files of General Leonidas Polk (Bishop Polk), who was killed during the war. These papers will cover some very important military movements. I hava many of the papers of General Beauregard, and he has promised me the remainder as soon as his book, now in press in New York.shall have been printed. He held, as you know, very high commands, and his files will cover some of the most important operations of the war. This winter 1 shall make a trip to New Orleans, Mobile and Memphis, where I will get papers ol interest from Ex-Confederate officers residing at those points. The printing of these is equivalent to the publication of an official history of the war. The re ports of battles from officers on both sides, and other official documents, will thus be preserved, and they will speak truthfully and impartially of the great events of the war. I had undertaken, on my own account, the collection of Con federate records, with the view ofpnb" lishing them, when Congress passed the act authorizing them to be eomP11-.. had procured very many valuable papers, and I immediately turned them over to the Adjutant-General of the army. Subsequently it was decided to appoint an ex-Confederate officer to col lict the papen of that side, and the position wastendered to me. - ington Star. "Don't yon mean to marry again. Dea con Jones'" asked Widow bimpkins. "No,- gledhe. Td rather lose what ribs We got than to take any more. Taxing Bachelors. The General Council of the Depart ment of the Rhone in France have just adopted a resolution calculated to win them world-wide fame, though adverse critics have variously characterized their proceedings as stupid, ridiculous and ex traordinary. But while this ultra-radi cal body are thus stigmatized by oppo nents of the "male persuasion, their resolution is likely to gain for them the good will of the ladies, and especially of tuoso ladies or matnrer years who are condomned to single blessedness through the shortsightedness, if not selfishness, of bachelorhood. The resolution w hich has gained for the Rhone General Coun cil this distinction is one adopted on the motion of M. Ferrer, and in favor of a substantial tax on mature celibates. Convinced that continence is alike un natural and impossible, that vows of cel ibacy promote immorality, and that a woman who brings up two children ren ders more service to the country than all convents, they aro in favor of deducting 25 per cent, from certain classes of bach elors, the product of this tax on celi bates to be applied to the relief of indi gent children. The Paris pnpers are disposed to doride the Rhone General Council. One evening journal exclaims: "The great citizens wlio vote those ab surdities are the elect of the second town in France." But the men who had the courage to vote for the tax on celibacy are not likely to be affected by the shafts of journalistic ridicule. It may be worth while to quote some of the terms of the resolution. "Considering, "says the Council, "that celibacy is contrary to nature and the ends of Providence, to be born, to bar children and to dio being the law imposed on all who exist that it is bachelors, military men, sailors, lawyers and men of all conditions who fill all tho States with corrupt opinions and evil morals; that churchmen, Trap pists, and all tho so-called higher world, are irremediably given up to debauchery and to shame, which is worse than death Resolved, The support of abandoned chil dren will be providod for by deduction of a quarter of the pay or pension of every employe or pensioner who is a bachelor and a resident in the depart ment of the Rhone, from the most mod est employe up to the highest official who belongs or has belonged to the army, magistracy, or any public administration whatsoever." If this has not the effoct of increasing the financial resources of the department, it may be expected to pro mote matrimonial desires among the bachelors of Lyons and other places in the district. A man who balances the blessings and disadvantages of married life will find a wonderful make-weight in the 25 per cent, of his pay condemned by the General Council. . Some cavaliers question the justice of condemning the celibates to support abandoned children as an unmeritod reflection upon the order, but then the Council declares that celibacy is "contrary to nature," ond that the children should be maintained bv the bachelors rather than by men who have to support legitimate families. An English Daiby Show. If tho cheese did not wear the stars and stripes to as great an extent as it might, the cnte Yankee inventions for dairy farms did. From a "cow-milker promoter," a neat little moral and mechanical influoncer on the reserved lactary obstinacy of an ob structive Aldorney, to the "hen per suader" of a Cochin, there is everything dairy-like at this show that the land of the West can proudly exhibit. A Mary land churnalas, no dairymaid with it I a Goshen golden pyramid of butter, and a verbose, nasal-twanged expositor of "How we git it;" a WestcheRtor and Buf falo cheese press, with a slab-sided and drawling patentee, and all the forms of dairy farming automatically and prosper ously are here. Can it not be an event of the milkman of the future that ho sup plies England with the "pure?" Milk in this country is a vile sham at a fearful figure. It is all "skim" with a thick, creamy prico. A man who has brought his matured mind down to milk says this kingdom produces $l,(i00,000,000 gallons, or 440 gallons for 3,700,000 cows per an num. And this is for dairy purposes. One-eighth is used for rearing calves, the rest is used in making cheese produce to the extent of 50,000 tons, or, if into butter, one-half that tonnage. Really two-thirds of the milk is used for the ta ble, puro and simple, if it be so. The real cheese product here is, say, 120,000 tons, and butter, 90,000 tons per annum. It is needless to say that this is no within one-half of the supply equal to the demand. America sends here on an average 50,000 tons of cheese, oud Can ada, France, etc., fully 60,000 tons per annum. The imported butter here is valued at $39,000,000 per annum. The exported British cheese and butter does not amount to one cent in value. Thus it can be seen that England pays the sum of 89,000,000 per annum for cheese and butter. Is that "quite the cheese' for John Bull the beefy. Talk about turn ing England into pasture land after that. I don't know that this show presents anything that would be a "wrinkle to votir American dairy farmer, either from the horn of a cow of Kerry breed, or a churn of Buckingham structure. I am told that America can out-beef, out cheese and out-milk all creation! To say more, who can and who would? Modesty forbids. English Corr. Baltimore Sun. Pbcsino Rabphekbies. Till within a few years no horticulturist has ques tioned the propriety of cutting off close to the ground the canes of raspberries that have produced a crop of fruit. While most advocated removing the canes as soon as the berries were gath ered, a few recommended a delay in pruning till winter or the following Kg Those who advocated late pVuning held that the leaves on the canes which have produced fruit are useful in the formation of sap, which goes to nour sh the roots of the bushes. At present he belief is general among the intelh gent fruit-growers, that the aooner the old canes are cut out the better it will be fnr those that remain. It is now ac toowleed that the vitality of the cane. exhausted in producing a crop of berries, and that their presence among e canes that are to bear fruit the fol lowing year, is a great disadvantage. The ollcanes are likfly to crowd the young onea. and to cause them to grow in bad fnrm. . The editor of the Paris (Texas) Banner pronounced Lawyer wa"" - """"Ti ruffian, and Mr.Bonner at once proceeded "prUthe truth of the aertion. SHULY.MULLY. "Well, Philena," said Uncle Job to his wife, "are you going to see sister Hop- "I do' know whether I will or not. Sometimes I think I will, and then again I think I won't. There's ft good deal to do to-day and it looks like rain." "I don't think 'twill rain," said Uncle Job, plastering his chin with lather. 'Mavbe it won't, Job, but it looks a little like it kinder grayish like. Still, we might take the nnibrell, and maybe I'd better go. But I'm most 'fraid Mary Ann can't do all there is to do." "Hurrv and make up your mind, Fhi lena," callod Job after her, as she slowly retreated kitchenward, taking down her back hair as she went. "Mary Ann says she can get along with Sally's help, and I do' know but I'd go if I thought I shouldn't have couip'ny this afternoon, and it didn't look so doubtsome about rain" leisurely drag ging the comb through hor hair. "Mother, what dress will you wear?" called cut Mary Ann. 'Well, I dor know which I'd better wear. Which do you think I'd better?" "Your brown alpaca, of course." "I would if I thought it wouldn't rain, but if it should rain it would spot it, I'm 'fraid. I reckon I'll wear the black one. It's a little faded and bracked, but if it should rain it won't hurt it." "Come, come, Philena," cried Job, "hurry up! I'm going out to harness the mare. "I am hurrying as fast as lean," twist ing up her hair. "Mary Ann, you may take down my brown dress, while I chi nje my shoes; though, come to think on't, maybe I'd bettor wear these, for if it should rain i d hate to get the others wet. Still, these don't look hardly suit able to wear with the brown dress. Per haps I'd better wear the black one. You may take down the black one, Mary Ann. These shoes are too shabby to wear with the brown one. Maybe 1 d better take them off. Come and' see what you think of them, Mary Ann." "Chance them quickly, mother, and put on the brown dress. Father s hitch ing the mare to the buggy now." "Is he? Well, I'll take another look to raa if T think its likelv to rain, and if I think it ain't why I'll wear the brown one. It don't look as much like it as it did, but then you can't tell much about it this time of year. But I guess I'll risk it, and wear the brown one. Got me a pair of stockings, Mary Ann." WLarn qm tlinv mntliorV" "In the bureau drawer, I guess. Look there first." "Which ono? Theyare not in the first one. "Well, then look in all of them, and if they ain't there, look in the basket under the bed." "Here they are under tho bureau, but there's holes in them." "Is there? Well. I meant to have them mended Saturday, but I didn't get to it." "Philena ! Philona 1" callod Job. "Yes. I'm almost ready. Mary Ann, take a needle and darn up tho holes in my stockings, will you ? No, you needn't either. Tho buttons are half of 'em off mv boots I meant to have sewed 'em on yesterday, but I forgot it. I'll wear those I've got on, for I shouldn't be surprised if it did rain." "Here's your dress, mother; do put it on. Father won't wait much longer." "Oh, I can't wear the brown dress with theso shoes; bring the black one; it's good enough for such a day as this, for I'll bet anything 'twill rain." "Philena Marier Mathews ! voice from somewhere outside I ain't agoing to wait for you more'n four hours longer." "I'll be there in a minute, Job. Mary Ann, look in tho closet for tho nmbrell. Goodlordy! there's hardly a hook an' eye on this dress, but I guess I can pin it up so 'twill do. I ought to have put some on, but I didn't get timo. Mary Ann, do hurry 'round and get mo a pin or two." "I can't find the umbrella" in smoth ered accents from the closet. "Can't you ? Woll, run out and ask your father if he won't go to tho barn and look for it. I let George Washing ton take it to play circus with I don't supppose I ought to, but he cried for it, so I let him have it." "Father, Father !" who had more to endure than his namesake did in his boiliest time "mother wants you to go to tho barn and look for the umbrella." "Darn the old umbrella. Twont rain in a week" clambering to tho ground. "Tell your mother if she ain't ready time I get back I won't wait another" but Mary Ann had gone. "I do declare, Mary Ann, I'm a good mind not to go now. I know it will rain and I shall come back sopping wet, and shall get such a cold." "I can't find theumbrell; 'taint there, said Job. "Come along ! You don't want it." "Job Mathews ! I'm not going to stir one step without it. It will rain cats and dogs." "I'm going." . "No, you ain't. Tie my bonnet quick, Mary Ann. There goes the string. Never mind I'll hold it on. The wind don t blow much. There's a pin on your waist, give it to me, quick!" . " Phi-le-na-a I Are you ever a-commg 7 I'll be dog-gened if I'll wait much longer!" , , ., "Just a minute, Job. Oh, here s the umbrella, right under the sofa. Im coming now, quick's I find my gloves. All right. Here I be, Jo Mary Ann ! he's gone !" Western Jlural. MIOCT ITEMS. rn.. -ifo nf Senator" Edmunds will remain in Carlsbad during the coming winter. a-., -.mot TVr.1ia.1rv is to receive the decoration of the Grand Cross of the Order of the Uatn. T-;1 RtAfcHi Minister Foster is mak ing a tonr of Mexico, and is meeting with marneu aiienuuu. Senator Hill has abandoned the hope of reconciling the Democratic factions in New York and gone home. Governor Simpson, of South Carolina, nd Holliday, of Virginia, who have been visiting Philadelphia, have returned home. The relation of the Czar of Russia and his wife is that of armed neutrality. The live as far apart as possible and never meet if it can be avoided. The "Homing Instinct" la rijreou. One of the most striking powers possessed l,y animals is that of finding their way home from a great distance; and over a road with which they are snj posed to be unacquainted. It has long been a question whether we aro to attri bute these remarkablo performances to a purciy intuitive jMiroeption by tho ani mal of the direction and the practicable route to ltis homo, or whether thev are the results of a conscious study of tho situation, and a definite carrying out of well-judged plans. Probably tho most prominent example of this wonberful power is the case of homing pigeons. These pigeons are very strong of wing, and their intelligence is cultivated to a high degree; for their peculiar "gift" has teen made use of since "time whoreof tho memory of man runneth not to the contrary." Tho principle of heredity, therefore, now acts with much force; nevertheless, each young bird must be subjected to severe trainiug in order to fit it for those arduous temptations which annually take place among first-rate birds. As soon as the fledgling is fairly strong on its wings, it is taken a few miles from the cote and released. It rises into tho air, looks about it and starts straight away for homo. There is no mystery about this at at all when it has attained the height of a few yards tho bird can seek its cote, and full of that strong love of home whioh is so characteristic of its wild ancestors, the blue-rocks, it hastens back to tho society of its mates. The next day tho triul-distanco is doubled, the third day is still further increased, until in a few weeks it will return from a distance of seventy miles, which is all that a bird-of-tho year is "fit" tJ do; and two years old, will leturn from 200 miles, long distances being left to more mntnre birds. But all this training must be in a continuous direction; if tho first lesson was toward tho east, sub sequent lessons must also be; nor can tho added distance each time exceed a certain limit, for thou, after this way and that, and failing to recognize any landmark, the bird will simply come back to where it was thrown up. Moreover, it must always be clear weuther. Homing pigeons will make no attempt to start in a fog, or if they do get away, a hundred chances to one they will be lost. Nor do they travel at night, but settlo down at dusk and renew their journey in tho morning. When snow disguises tho landscape, also, many pigeons go astray. None of theso circumstances seri ously hampers tho semi-annual migra tions of swallows or geese. They journey at night as well as by duy, straight over vast bodies of water and flat deserts, true to the north or south. Homing pigeons fly northward or southward, east or west, equally well, and it is evidont their course is quidod only by observation. Watch ono tossed. On strong pinions it mounts straight up into the air a hun dred feet. Then it begins to sweep around in groat eh clou, rising higher and higher, until if the locality is seventy five or a hundred miles beyond where it has ever been before it will go almost out of sight. Thon suddenly you will seo it strike off upon a straight course, and that course is homeward. But take the same bird thoro a second timo and nono of theso aorial evolutions will occur its time is too pressing, its homesick ness too intense for that; instantly it will turn its face toward its owner's dove vota.Hieribner for November. Fkeakb of Fobtunk. Great freaks of fortuno seldom strike thrice in tho samo place. Last spring Farmer Harper, of Midway, Kentucky, exhibited, with par donable prido, to ono of our correspond ents, two bay stallions filled with fire of Flying Childors. "There," said ho, "are the only two horses in this world from one stablo that have run a mile in 1:40, and that fellow (pointing to Ten Broeck) did it inside o .1:40." Tho other horse was Longfellow. Successively, within a short period of timo, they had boon tho phenomenal wonders that drew applause from the quartarstrcteh. At the late meeting in Louisville, the great Ameri can stallion stako for threo-ycar-olds, one mile and threo quarters, was run. Twolve racers, from fifty-one nomina tions made by prominent breeders of the Southwest, laced the judges. Among the tried ones were Bucktie, Aureolas, and Good Night. Tho keen critics of the turf placed their faith and money on Bucktie and Aureolas for tho first and second places. Farmer Harper had two sons of Longfollow in tho string, Irish King and Jils Johnson. Few saw their "pints," as the old farmer calls the run ning qualities of his colts; and none accorded them a place in the race. A tremendous struggle ensued, and there was great consternation on the quarter utruh-h when Irish Kintr bounded under the wire in the astonishing timo of 3:05,'i , equal to the Dost on record, wiui Jils Johnson second. Neither Bucktie nor Aureolas captured a place. Tho farmer had struck a triple of victories, either one of which the careful rich Lnuuiara won Id have riven a king's ran som to have won. Mr. Harper is known as a careless, easy, old man, paying no attention to theoretical experiments. .if - f.n-m Iknva tsh riilft Ins matrh- Bliuwajuo ' - y - less horses over fields of stumps after the cows, and along dusty roads to the coun ts mtnra and nostoffice. He follows a slack system of training. Ktil! tho fickle goddess percnes iuku uu m miuh orange and red. It is one of tho marvels of horse breeding. The Louisville race has a strange sequel. It seems that, although Mr. Harper entered both colts ; i.; nun namn lie had given Irish King, when a yearling, to his colored trainer. The trainer ciaimou me bnt Mr. Harjer refused to surrender, .;.,,r l.ot .Til Johnson had been pulled inVder to allow Irish King to win. The trainer has taken this novel case into court, and tnrfracnj look for the result withexceeding interest. The Archduchess Christine will be married in silver cloth.embroidered with sparkling white jet. Included in her trousseau is a costume of embossed vol vet and opal-covered satin, trimmed with fringe of small pearls and silver lace. Patrick: "And Biddy, darlint, they've been telling me there's too many of us in the wnrruld. Now Biddy, if you an' me get the praste to make n two wan, troth, won't there be wan the less?" Matrimony U a holy institution. Not only does it unite a man to hi best friends but it f urnishea a good living for thousands of divorce lawyers. ALL SORTS OF ITEMS. Selfishness will eat into our spiritual joy like canker. There is no place so secret where there are no temptations. No wise man ever wished to be younger. Jonathan Swift. The time to save money is when every body else is sending it. Experience is a torch lighted in tho embers of our own delusions. To-morrow is the day on which lazy folks work and fools reform. In temptations and affliction man is proved how much ho hath profited. It is out of life's darkest clouds that sonio of life's sweetest consolations come. Tho Utes object to being civilized, and the white men on tho border object to be ing Utelizod. Boston Conner. "What have yon to remark about my singing?" asked an irate vocalist. "Noth ing," replied a spectator; "it is not re markable." Congress will bo asked to vote $5000 to mark the grave of Daniel Morgan, the hero of tho Cowpcns. His grave is iu Mount Hobrou Cemetery, Winchester, Virginia. Albany Journal: It turns out that General Joe Hawley wrote "Beautiful Snow." For Mark Twain himself lias said it. The exposure has cast a gloom over tho eutire State of Connecticut. It is understood that tho Hartford tburant will ask Mr. Hawley to resign. "Oh," said tho afllcted wife, woeping over his remains, "ho said he would take off tho flannels anyway, and tho poor man, he little thought how soon ho would go to the place where flannels are never needed." Bridget; (to caller): "Will yo kapo still a minit whilo I look at ye?" "No, misses haint to homo. . She told mo if a woman come with a wart on tho end of red uoso to say she want to homo, and there's no mistaking that wart." A Ijohanon lmner says a rooster in that place daily lays an egg. This is some thing for the liens to crow over, but the rooster ought to bo ashamed of himself. tie might advocate tho rights of the femalo sex without usurping them. Mr Edward Compton, tho leading man in Miss Neilson's company, is a son of one of tho old English school of come dians. It is to bo hoped ha is an im provement im the gifted Barnes who sup ported tho fair Adelaide on tho occasion of her Western tour. The Moouish Tea-pot. There is a good deal of coffeo imbibed by tho lower classes of citizens, in small coffee-houses not frequented by tho elite of Moorish societv. Almonds are occasionally roasted and eround with tho berries, and tho mixture is sometimes soentod with rose-water. In the towns, too, the water- sellor s boll seems to tmklo incessantly, as with goatskin water-bag he peranbn ltttos tho dusty streets in quest of thirsty customers. Milk, especially sour milk, is tho pet "quoncher" of tho country folk. But groon tea is, if not the national, certainly the favorite bovorage of the higher classes, who to a man pre fer tho perilous stimulation of Hyson to the gentlo exhilaration of Pekoe, Cougu or Souchong. Most woll-to-do natives toko tea both before and after tho last threo meals of the duy; so the reader will iio prepared to believe that tho consump tion of green tea in Morocco is larger in proportion to tho number of its popula tionsay 7,000,000 than in any othor conntrv. Tho tea eiiuipairo usually con- .. i.t 1. ....... l..l. ,....!. .! BISMS III a UIlUK viunn WUJ, vmuutttwij chased, whereon are placed tiny glass tmv irhiHB tumblers and a small metal pear-shaped tea-pot, in which is put half a handful of HyBon, with sufficient loaf sugar and boiling water to muKe a nun syrup, often flavored, in liou of cream, with marjoram ilowers, orange blossoms, citron loaves and blooms, wormwood, or ambergris. To see a Moor calmly sip a dozen or moro tumblerfuls of tho scald ing and siokly-swoet infusion at one sit ting, is a sight calculated to inspire tho European spectator with a profound admiartion of tho adamantine natnro of native norvos and gullets. Tinsley ' Magazine. . A WouiM Willi KkKIIKKI) AlINKHTY. Homo of the "advanced" French journals have lately giyon proof of thoir innate capacity for lioro-worship by extolling to the skies the civic virtues and moral excellences of a female luminary of tho Commune hitherto unknown to famo. This lady has recently lieen amnestied by the President of the Republic, but from hor lofty naturo the puling senti ment of gratitude is conspicuous by its absence, if we may judge hor character by a letter she has addressed to that august functionary upon the snbject of her pardon. Condemnod in 1871 to transportation to a fortified place, Louise Michel was imprisoned for two yeors in Auberive, and was thenco conveyed to Numea. There she founded a school, in which she taught her own peculiar theo ries, physical and ethical, to the children of her fellow-convicts. An interesting feature in her cnrriculura of study was a brand-now catechism, in which she ex ercised her pupils daily. It commenced as follows: "Who created yon? Nature." When the commutation of hor sentence was announced to her, she commented upon that act of grace in those remarka ble terms: "I have eroeted in my heart a Paris and a France after my own taste. But as this France of mine does not as yet exist, I prefer to remain hore among the savages. My hour is not yet come. I am proud, ami do not choose to incur the reproach of moral weakness in the endurance of my exile. I know that Paris takes a deep interest in me, and that the Government would be delighted Anil 1.1 it iliw-nvftr the least blemish in my character." A martyr to ber convictions, Louise Michel, onerea iroeuom auu io turn to the real France which, perliaos fortunately for Euroi. differs so widely from the France created by her fervid imagination, choose to remain in a inal colony and to inculcate her peculiar doc trines upon the rising generation of Numeans. On the whole, we opine Uiat our vivacious neighbors may reasonably congratulate themselves upon her selec tion of Numea as a place of residence, and upon the circumstance that their na tive country does not come np to her I'nnM nnffht to lie m OT der that ita moral condition should justify her in returning to ita shores. London ielcgrapu, uciooer m. Tiie Farmrr and Ilia Money. King Frederick of Prussia, when he was out riding one day, saw an old farmer who was ploughing his field and singing cheerfully over his work. "You must bo well off, old man," cried the King. "Does this aero belong to you on whioh you so industriously labor?" "No, sir," replied the man, who of course had no idea he was speaking to the King; "I am not so rich as that; I plough for wages." "How much do you earn each day?" asked tho King. "Eight groschen," returned the man. That would be about twetity cents of our money. "That is very little," suid tho King; "can you get olong with that?" "Get along! yes, indeed, and have something left over." "How do you manage?" "Well," said tho fanner, smiling, "I tell yon. Two groschen are for myself and wife; with two I pay my debts, and two I give away for the Lord's sake." "This is a iiivstory which I cannot solve," said tho King, "Then I must solve it for yon," said the farmer. "I have wo old parents at home, who kept and cored for mo when I wus young and weak, and needed care. Now that they aro old and weak, I am glad to keep and care for them. This is my debt, and it takes two groschen a day to pay it. Two moro I spend on my children's schooling. It they am living when thoir mother and I aro old, they will keep us and pay hack what I lend. Then with my last two groschen I suj) port my two sick sisters who cannot sup port themselves. Of course I am not compelled to irive them the money, but I do it for the Lord's sake." "Well done, my man," cried the King, as ho finished; "now I am going to give joa something to guess. Have you ever seen me before?" "No," said tho farmer. "In less than ttvo minutes you shall seo mo fifty times, and carry in your pocket fifty of my likenesses.' "Hub is indeed a riddio wiiicu i can not solve," said the farmer. "Then I will Bolve it for yon," said tho Kins: and with that ho put his hand in his pocket and pulling out fifty gold pieces, placed them in tho hand of the farmer. "The coin is genuine," said the King; for it comeB from our Iiord God. and I am his paymaster. I bid you farewell." And ho rodo on, leaving tho old man overwhelmed with surprise and delight at tho singular interview. rillNl'E GOBTCHAKOKF AND TIIE KaIHKII. Among tho many persons of note at Baden. Baden, Prince Gortchakoff.who is livincr next to the Eniporor. attracts tho greatest attention. The Russian Chancellor, whoso bitter altercation wan his Ocrman oolloague, ouco his liost friend, now forms the chief topio of con versation in political circles, has been re cruiting his health at Wildhod during tho summer, where Count Sehouvaloff, Baron Onbril, and other loading Russian .1.'..1..i.ifiua iviirn iitnviniT Tllfl (llllin- UU'lUlimvinw " ' ' " J ' 1 n ' " cellor has quite recovered and is suffi ciently strong enough to carry ou a wordy strifo with Prince Bismarck. In taking up his quarters at Baden-Baden the wily statesman seems to hope that he may sueeood in casting discredit on Prmco Bismarck by exposing to the Gor man Emperor his hostlo machinations. Prince Bismarck, having tho ntmoHt ven eration for his sovereign and highly valuing tho estimation in which ho is hold by him, is said to bo a little alarmed at tho contiuuod insinuations diroeted at him by Prince Gortehakoff. Apprised that the latter charged him with the want of support grauted to the Russian pleni potantarioa in the Berlin Congress, hritmn liiumari'k had bv moans' of tllO North Gortmm (hurtle categorically con trml ii-teil t.lmiu insinuations and and publicly laid bare the defects of Prince (lortchakoli s iioiicy. ronnnowiy ior Russia as woll as Germany tho firm ship of the Emperors excludes any possi- lllllty 01 Hie personal roiuunv ui hid vw r'luiiiKi.llnra nnrliuui extending to a Con- oral conflict. So long as Kaiser yilliam and the Czar Alexanderrenkin tuoir scep ters wo noed not fear the outbreak of a Rnsso-German war a contingency that can only arise after their death. In or .im. tn im fiirnarmpil niriiiiiBt tho eventu ality of a Franco-German alliance, on whoso conclusion rrineo itoruimsuu seems to bo bent.tho Gorman Chancellor, never at a loss to gain his end, has de cided on a chosen eaimna wiui Aumrm ir..nn..w l. wl,i..1i Im nift dictate the iim. j . - j peace of Europe. Berlin Letter. Gold in the Sub-Tbkasuby. There are nearly ono hundred and thirty million of dollars of coin, ete, in tlin IT M aub-trnasnrv of this city, most of it in geld. To many people these fig- ures are uecwouiy vrgue, uui to wo i i.ir.Lnr ilmv hava an immense meaning. The very bnlk of all this coin and bullion is impressive, and suggests at raw qneBtion of how many carta would be required to take it away. The care of it, also, has ita very impressive side. A single day's business at this thegroatest sub-treasury in the country greater than a half dozen others is, esjiecially in those "booming" times, simply tre mendous. Thus, yesterday, the receipts in this single building were 1747,000, while the payments were Sl.WHJ.fllS. The currency ballance was $1:1,453,177, and the coin ballanco220,737,OMt. Near ly one hundred and thirty million of dol lars in that one clasio and yet rather modest looking building on the corner of Nassau and Wall stroeta, and is it so much wonder that the authorities, know ing that such figures would at last come to be really pondered, put up recently their strong iron gratings in tho solid masonry? To-day the volume of busi ness is very large, but so systematic is the great transaction that there is very little bustle. The presont great reserve in the sub-treasury here is regarded by the business men as showing the real tide of prosperity upon which we hsvo entered, exchange being so much m our favor and the foreign demand for our products, esjiecially grain, being so great. N. Y. Telegram. Bo careful when yon have your infant christened to give the clergyman the correct name. An Elmyra baby whose parent, intended it to be 'called Josephine, retired from the baptismal font as William Henry. Little Bdly felt Tery mad about it, bnt the mischief has since been rectified.