' Admiral Faragut.
"Tho Life of Admire Farragut," by
his sou, contains inuhy increstiug otters
written by tho great eonmander dunn
his naval oiiorations at Southern ports.
Extracts from the mosteharacteristio are
jSt'pnwtoM tflthe great figbt he
wrote to his wife:
' "Tho defeat of our army at Corinth ,
which I saw in the rebel papers, will
give us a much harder fight. Men are
easily djprf sso.l or elated by victory:
but as Going prepared for the defeat I
cjrtuinly am noi. "" - -- - ,
mi1l behalf defeated
-. narea ior ueiuuv -- --- .
. before he commenced. I hope for sue
I ueiore uo i-uuiui- - .
, cess; shall do all in my power to
it nil, I trilMt lO UOU IW K""
After the victory was won he wro
to:
"Anril 25. 1802 31 V UEAHAHT
VlFE
1 -A t ori4irrl that
can
scarcely write, and shall only tell
l.i , I. Aim krhtv Ood U
you
pre-
... a Hill Rliell 1
the
irve my iuu uiis" . l
.i i l.r Lnnu-n I Hhlll
re-
tun proporlv my thanks, as well ariose
of th. fleet, for His goodness and.ifcrcy.
' Ho has permitted mo to make a nolo for
my dour boy s mneruauce, "r
,s for
We
mv comiorc uuu whh "v "-'i,
. '. . ! j.1 1-; ll.il mill 11
inety
lost aooui wiiny .i... -
wounded., i ioi uu "- -r
, i ..l. u l..ii tu-n flervantt
es-
ere
capea, ou wid uiuU. ,
wounded. M took the city at mhdiun
i 1. .!:.,..- T nnvr TVlt-
to-dav. pucu vuuuiuiBiu -"'I
.1 . i i...,,.;nii nf 1H
nessed as wo U6ui" " i-----All
the beautiful steamers ami ships
Bell is well. Ho acted bis part
t n .ui:.tova liil their
in iuci. uii uj uiuwi - !
my adiliiation; which I will uotle
.,: .Minn T lint
i at
wore i.uuvttiiiui' o.."v... -
time to thank God and bk-ss J-0"
lioth.''
Later he writes:
nil the New Orlean
uipeis
icd to
abused me. but I am case-hard
olMlmt T .Inn 't read the paper
xcept
I was
nn about the wa;
I have done all I promised and ti
expected to do, so, thanks toGodl hope
T havA ncniiitted mvself to tho
itisfac
tion of my friends as well as my c
" .1 - 1 l. nt i
ntry."
li mi ned
iJeioro ine wai unmo
him exceedingly to think that li
ivor linA'rt tn lift his hand aeri
hould
:Ast tho
South, and in this letter his firs!
return
tred to
to tho city of Ins ciuiiiiioou is n
thus:
"It is a strange thought that li
,m hero
among my relatives, yet not
io has
dared to say, 'I am happy to
There is a reicu of terror in th
you.'
thioomed
city; but, although I am abuse
who wished to kill all the wo
children, I still see a feeling o
for me."
as ono
'ii and
espect
In a lirivate letter he gives frd
expres-
uinn tn his nliinioll of kecllllltr ill
gomg
vnuunla in a river like the Milissippi.
After tho passage of tho bat'ries at
Vicksbnrg he writes to his wife
"I was in my favorite stand, io miz-zen-rigging,
when all at once io Cap
tain of tho gun on the poop-deci wished
to tire at a battery which would require
him to point his gun near nu and re
quested me to get down, which did, to
avoid the concussion. I was o: y a mo
ment doing so, when the whole nizzen
rigging was cut away just al ive my
head! Although the shot w nld not
have struck me, I would have unibled
on deck. But, thank God, 1 escaped
with only a touch on tho head, lich did
not break tho skin, and has not iven mo
a thought since. The same shi cut the
halyards that hoisted my tia which
dropped to half-mast without 1. ing per
ceived by us. This circ nsUnco
caused the other vessels to th: k that I
was killed."
After his return to New Or ans ho
wrote to one in his confidence:
"Don't give yourself any u 'asiness
about any one trying to under ine me.
I can see as much as any one, it don't
choose to act upon it until ie time
comes. I fortify myself as well s I can,
and trust to my honesty for io rest.
Some will try to injure me, b 1 1 defy
them."
Ho kept his eye upon tho evei s of the
war elsewhere, but was scepticaabout a
good many of the stories as ey first
came to hand. In the same 3tter he
says:
"The repulse of McClellanftt Rich
mond was a great blow to thy' Federal
cause. There is no doubt inmy mind
that they beat us at lying. Tl!y spread
reports that thev have a bunded thou
sand men, when they hve fifty
thousand. It makes me so aigry that I
have no patience. The office say they
don't believe anything. I cetainly be
lieve very little that comes in the shape
of reports. They keep everybody stirred
up. I mean to be whipped fr whip the
enemy, and not bo scared to ath."
In another, a fortnight lettr, he says:
"As to 'intervention,' I di't believe
in it, and if it does come, ym will find
the United States not so nsy a nut to
crack as they imagine. Ve have no
iread of 'rams or 'he goats' and if our
editors hoa less tho county would be
better off. Now they scare rverybody to
death."
The following lets us ino one of the
secrets of battle. It was w-itten by Ad
miral Porter to Farragut: 1
Do not, for God's sake, et the rebels
take you by boarding. Thef will try it
as sure as you are born. Tier line their
' vessels w ith,, cotton bales, which resist
shot perfectly. Let me leeommend a
cotton wad over your shci; thoroughly
saturated with turpentine, squeezed
nearly dry. I set fire to the tity of Vicks
bnrg in that way. i
During his sail past the batteries of
Port Hudson his only son was on board
with him, but Farragut refused fc let the
fleet surgeon bring the youth below.
The Admiral, he says, listeaed pa
'ontlv lint refilled:
No that will not do. It is true our
smi rhi. iii on board bv chance, and he
nnt in tha service: but beinc here he
will act as one of my aids, to assist in
. .1 - 1 V-aa1-
conveying my oraers aunng we uniue,
and we will Uust to Providenee and la
fnritm Am In aumrre.
In a letter written before Mobile he
aavs:
Vt ni.iter writes me a lonff letter, bee
ging me not to risk my life. How little
people know oi ine runt oi me. urayton
mule bis clerk stay below because he
tAnitff marriAii man All mv atAf?
Watson, McKinley and Brownefl were
in u exposed position on the poop deck,
but eacaped unhurt, while poor Hegin
bothoi waa killed. He vu a good man
and a toaa to unyion.
His idea of personal precautions in a
sea fight may be gained from a small cir
cumstance. "When the Hartford was
steaming up before tho Port Hudson bat
teries, aiid every eye was strained for tho
opening shot, his thoughts reverted to
his son, who Btood bofore him.
He had not time, says tho biographer,
to say much, but iu tho most affectionate
manner gave him some practical hints as
to the modo of using a tourniquet and
stanching a wound. Tukiug from bis
pocket a simple piece of hempen rojio
aliout a vard in length, to which was se
curely fastened at ono end a piece of
yood, he showed how quickly the rope
onld be passed around a wounded limb,
ind twisted tight by means tho piece of
iood, which acted as a lever.
His belief in will-power, and of the
nnu-or nf his own will in particular, was
as notable as it was justifiable.
Tho following shows that Farragut
had no ambition for tho Presidential
linnni-H thrpntpniiil him:
I suppose yon saw tho notico of me as
Jack the Giant-Killer, declaring that
when I had taken juoime tney woum
give me a suiteblo force to take Charles
ton, and then run me for President of
the United States. As if a man who has
toiled up tho ladder of life for fifty-two
.. 1 1. . . i HAnJ.i,n.i i . i. inn ,..11111.1 in
UHr, Mill! llliu irjii;m.-n mu .
Iiis profession, did not need a littlo rest.
.My own opinion is tuat n i surviveu
those ho engagements there is little
ilmilit flmt. a Pi-puiilontinl enmuaieu
would finish mo. After I have finished
my work I hopo to spend the remainder
of my days in peace and quiet with my
family on the banks of tho Hudson.
That this was not idle talk was proved
by his refusing the nomination of tho
l'tamnprntin nnrtv. The battle of Mobile
bay is graphically described. At ono
moment of tho fray the Brooklyn, one of
tho vessels of tho fleet, was seen to back
by the Admiral on board tho flagship
Hartford.
"What's the trouble?" was shouted
through the trumpet from tho flagship to
tho Brooklyn.
"Torpedoes!" was shouted back in
reply.
"Damn the torpedoes!" said Farragut.
"Pnnr IipIIh! flnntiiin Dravton. troohead.
Jouett, full speed!" and the Hartford
passed the iirooklyn, assumed tue ieau
of the line, and led the fleet to victory.
The romantic incident of the Admiral's
being lashed to the mast has led to con
siderable controversy, says his son. Tho
liirtVirnncn of nniniou resulted from tho
fact tlmt Farragut did not remain long in
one position. While the fleet was enter
ing the bay "ho was iu the port main rig
cine, where ho was secured bv tho sig
nal quartermaster, as bofore mentioned.
But when the ram made Jier attaeK no
had returned to the deck, and when tho
Ifiu-tfnvil was nbont to ram the Tennes
see he took up his position iu the port
mizzen rigging, where, as ins nag-iieu-tenant
(now commander) . J. C. Watson,
says: 'I secured him by a lashing, passed
with my own hands, having first begged
him not to stand in such an exposed
iiltmn ' Tt wau rtn minnnimnn tliinc for
him to show activity of this kind, and
.1 Ml If- 1 l...
ine scnsioie precaution bui-muu uj mn
fleet captain, which he adopted, was an
afterthought."
A Romanco of the Military Service.
An old gentleman, bent with tho
woiyht of rnoro than throo score and
ten years, has recently been noticed
as one of tho habitues of the odico of
tho Secretary of War. This old gen
tleman, liko many others whoso faces
and forms aro familiar in official cir
cles, is seeking for justice. His caso
has tho savor ot romance, forty
threo years airo Lieutenant James
Sbauinburcr, ft young and dashing
Second Lieutenant of dragoons, was
stationed at Fort Pes Moines, Iowa,
where tho flourishing city ot that
name now Btands. Ilis lather lay
sic k unto death in New Orleans, and
tho young Lieutenant applied for
leavo of absence to visit his parent.
Leave was refused, and his tendered
catenation, with threo months' leavo
of absence, was thou accepted. Ho
went to Now Orleans and his lather
died shortly after. Before his threo
months leave had expired i'residcni
Jackson issued an order permitting
oflicers who had resigned with leavo
of absence yet unexpired, and who
clioso to do 60, to withdraw their re
signations on condition that they im
mediately rejoined tueir commands.
Lieutenant Shaumburg availed him
self of this order and rejoined his
command, which in tho meantime
had been ordered to tho scene ot too
Florida war. His name was sent to
the Senate for promotion, to bo First
Lieutenant in tho Secoud Dragoons.
In a very short time after this he was
greatly surprised to receive a noun
cation from tho War Department
that his resignation as First Lietiteu
ant was accepted. He wrote buck
explaining the circumstances, but
without avail, and lound nimseu
thrust out of the army. Ho imme
diately came to Washington, and for
he9e forty three years has appealed
successively to every President and
Secretary of War who has been in
office for redress. General Jackson,
after leaving the Presidency, wrote a
strong letter in favor of his reinstate
ment. President Jylcr, just as ne
was going out of office, issued an or
der reinstating him, which President
Polk revoked. Upon one occasion
thirty six Senators signed a petition
asking his reinstatement. General
Grant took much interest in his case,
but thought he ought to go to Con
eress. and Secretary McCrary has
advised him that now, after such a
lapse of time, Congress only has
power to give him the desired relief
General Ewell, of the Confederate
army, and Generals Kucker, Phil
Kearney, P. St. George Cooke and
Hunter, of the Union army, were
Second Lieutenant in the -becona
Regiment of Dragoons with Lieuten
ant Sbaumburg.
m
IWl Vierge, the wlebrated Parisian
iUmtrator, will probably visit thia
"a try oon.
AIL SORTS.
The best trade mark?.
The red rose is the fashionable flower.
Courtship is not to bo run by a rule of
three.
"Down in front" An incipient mus
tache. ' Pleasant quarters Twenty-fivo cent
pioces.
Queen Victoria's income is over $2,
000,000 a year.
When is a boat like a heap of show?
When it's a drift.
Old settlers The egg-shells thrown
out of the coffee-pot.
Prinoo Bismarck weai470 flosses or
decorations of all kinds.
The present Charles Dickens has the
social qualities of his famous father.
Ono tronblo sometimes makes us for
got a thousand miseries.
General Hooker was ono of tho hand
somest officers that over sat on a horse.
St. Louis Globe-lk-mxmt: Here lies a
girl as one forgotten, who lost her shapo
with the riso of cotton.
Joaquin Miller has hud his hair cut.
This is glorious news. No man with
short hair can writo poetry.
Socrctury John Sherman wears a kind
ofasnsp-you up and eatch-you-quick
curve on tho right hand side of his upper
lip.
Prentice Mulford, writing of Queen
Victoria's court ladies, says that their
faces are scraggy, sallow and blood
less. Rnfus Choatoonce said of Aaron Burr,
"he spared not a man in his malice,
woman in his lust, or God in his im
piety." Tho Empress of Austria has a large
riding school attach) i to her castle. She
loves to watch the training of viscions
horses.
In Westphalia apples and potatoes are
separately boilod, afterward drained and
then mushed together.with butter and
salt.
A party of burglars could find nothing
else to steal in an office in Kechester, and
they carried off a red-hot stove, flro
and all.
Secretary Sherman is quoted as say
ing that W. II. Vondorbilt and Mr. J.W.
Mackoy are the two richest mon in tho
country.
Mrs. 1). E. Smith, of Ligonier, Va.,
known as tho largest woman in the
South, died last we:k. Her weight was
610 pounds.
Gen. Grant admires Bonaparte's
genius, but hates his character; and
says that tho battlo of Waterloo was
faultlessly planned.
Mrs. Amy Harris, of Syracuse, the
widow of au English officer, has becomo
heiress of $1,000,000 by the death of her
former guardian in Quebec.
Don Cameron is building a $2.r0,000
onso at Washington. And the Widow
Oliver is madder than ever that sho isn't
the young man's stepmother.
Mrs. George Francis Train was found
dead in her bod at her mother's house in
New York ono morning last weok, tho
cause being paralysis of the heart. Sho
leaves a daughter.
Senator David Davis has written to the
Sergeant-at-arnis of tho Senate at Wash
ington requesting that a larger chair
than tho one ho tried to occupy in tho
chamber last session be made for him.
William Thompson, of Douglas
county has had five wives, and has just
married the sixth. It is, however, due
to the unfortunate man to state that he
has been totally blind for many years.
No, George Augustus "trousseau" is
not the French for trousers. It is the
French for more than you could learn
the names of in a month. Get married
and you will know more about it.
An Auburn girl while in conversation
with a young lady visitor tho other day,
eagerly inquired of the other if sho had
a bow. "No that is well there aro
several young gentle" "Oh, no; I
mean a bow to shoot with.'' "O! o-H!"
Scene in a restaurant. Two ladies
seated at a table. First lady to the
waiter: "Bring me un ice cream,
please." Second lady: "I'll have an
ice too." Waiter brings ice cream and
stewed oysters.
Who is the author of tho riddle on
cod? It wants polish, but it is clever
enough to make one surprised that it
is not more generally known. The
riddle, it will be observed, is given
double.
Never use fast wordp. It may not al
ways be agroeable. "How do you like
my boots, love?" exclaimed a youthful
bride. "Oh, they're immense, replied
tie partner of herj oys, and she had the
first matrimonial fainting away as tho
result.
The cirl who sings to an admiring
company in the front parlor, "You must
wake and call mo early, call me early,
mother dear," is tho sams creature w ho
expects her mother to make the fire, get
the milk, and bring nor oreaKiast up to
her room.
A vounor ladv of Moultre county sends
in a communication on some presumably
interesting topic, with tho request to
i iea3e prim u ii uui w mu. y m
hardly necessary to say that we hurl
back the base insinuation with scorn
also the communication. Chicago
Tribune.
A Bridgeport young lady says she
dreamed tho other night that she was en
eased to be married to Howell, the cham
pion pedestrian. The question arises as
to whether it was a six-days match, and
whether both contestants were to go as
they pleased.
A miner lighted a fuse at the bottom
of a Leadville shaft, cot into a bucket,
and shouted to the man at the top to
hoist. The rope broke when he had been
raised fifty feet, and let him fall. The
blast exploded and he was torn to pieces
in uie air.
"Is this the place," she asked, a she
wandered down on the barren sands,
"where a young lady a beautiful young
bvlj-feU in the water last season and
was rescued by a gallant young man
whom she afterward married? lie
looked at her carefully, estimated her at
square 47, with laise teem, mua wu.i,
"Yes ma'am, but I don't know to
wino."'
The Two Outsldes.
Tho clorieol-looking'gcntleman and tho
bearded lnmlerer were the only passen
gers on the Carson stag), seven hour
out, en route to Bixlie. They occupied
tho upper seat behind tho driver, ami
the tenor of their conversation indicated
that there was a slight misuudcrstund
ing between thorn a misunderstanding
that neither of them seemed capablo of
gathering up tho threads of a skein
that was momentarily becoming more
and nioro tangled as BOine new phase
of tho subject under discussion was
broached.
"When I was there," the clerical
gentleman was remarking, "tho vino
yard was in a deplorable state."
"Tho vineyard!" interrupted his
boarded companion.
"Yes; tho Lord's vineyard, I mean;
tho weeds were "
"Hold on a minute, stranger," ex
claimed the other, hitching in his seat,
and turning so as to face his compan
ion "hold ycr bosses. I ain't much
on this parable palaver, an' I come
mighty near giving ye tho lie on thet
vineyard bizziness, cause, ye see, there
uin I no sech 'itliin tivo niilo o' tho
camp. Maybe there's a few down to
Salt Lake, but nobody was ever fool
enough o' speculating in vineyards
round my neighborhood. But it s all
right now; l'v cottoned to tho light o'
tho case, an' I'm drawin' my sights on
to Lord's vineyards."
"As t was saying," resumed tho oth
er "outside," "I found the field of
labor in a deplorable condition. Tho
weeds had long since choked the
wheat, and tares were flourishing with
a luxuriance that might well sadden the
heart of tho husbandman. Human sac
rifices were frequeut in the interior,
and barborous executions for tho most
trivial offenses were of weekly occur
rence along tho coast. I attended ono
of those executions, and if I oinnot too
tedious in my narration I will relate
tho circumstances in connection with
tho horrible affair. Aro you agreeable?"
"Go ahead, ol' man, I'm listonin'. I
liko to hear a man tell a good
one while he's ut it," ami tho bearded
passenger hitched back to his former
position and asked tho driver for "a
chaw o' that nigger hour."
"Well, it appears that tho unfortunate
man was condemned to death for pouch
ing on the King's preserves. Thev hud
adjudged him guilty, and sentenced him
to bo beheaded, and a moro pitiable
wrotch it has never been my misfortnno
to contemplate as ho passed out of tho
prison into the open court where he was
to be executed. He was made to kneel
and bend his no k, after which the ex
ecutioner dipped, his hand in a tub of
wuter, and, drawing his middle and fore
finger through tho sand upon which tho
doomed man was kneeling, applied them
to tho naked neck of the shivering
wretch, leaving a broad and distinct
mark at which to strike. Ho then raised
liis great double-edged sword, and with
one blow the head fell from tho trunk,
while tho great stream of blood crim
soned tho sand."
The clerical gentleman paused in as
tonishment. His fellow-passengor was
staring at him with a strange expression
upon his sun-browned features, which
the narrator at first imagined was the re
sult of intenso interest, but which ho
gradually observed was produced by a
disgusting disbelief in the statements
which ho had just been making. Ho cut
himself short for the purposo of allow
ing his hearer an opportunity of reliev
ing his overcharged mind, knowing full
well that if he did not the bearded man
would explode, and render tho situation
decidedly unploasunt, to say the least.
The man of tho border mado a great
effort to control himself, add in a tono
plainly indicating that ho forced a calm
ness ho was far from feeling, simply to
"clinch" tho man who sat bosido him,
and prove to the grinning driver that no
man could with impunity "put up a josh
on him."
"That's tho frozen truth, is it, stran-
trer?"he asked.
"Everv word I have uttered is tho
truth. I witnessed tho sickening spec
tacle in the broad glare of a tropical sun,
and I did not loso a singlo movement iu
the barbarous tragedy," answered tho
other "outsido.
"What's vour lino?" abruptly asked
the man with a heard.
"My profession?"
"The same."
"I am an evangelist a missionary."
"Oh, you'ro a preacher, eh?"
"A minister of the gospel yes."
"What shop?"
"Shop?"
"Yes: which track are ye travelin'
how's yer baggage checked?"
"I don t believe 1 understand you.
"No? Well, what church are yon
swearin' by?"
"I am a Baptist.
"Good enough; Baptist goes. You
say you was on tno missionary racnn
we'eu vou saw all this?"
"I was eneaccd in tho task of attempt
ing to convert the heathen from blind
ness, and teaching him the path he
should follow to obtain everlasting
glory."
"Heathen is good. too. but wait a
minute, an' I'll tackle a remark. What I
want to know, was you givin tnose
heathens, ez you call 'em, the true biz-
ness on the ten eommun ments:
"I was inculcating the divine law
which Moses received amid the thunders
of Sinai."
"Kerrect: on' maybe ye give 'em the
bizness about liftin' a man we'en he calls
ve a liar?"
"I did not counsel violence under any
pretext whatever; on the other hand,
brneht them that fiehtinir was sinful."
"Kerrect again, stranger; yer workin'
'round to my side o' the shanty, an' I
(ruess I'll fetch ye into camp purty soon
Ye told 'em lying wasnt a squar
"I told them that a liar could not
hope to be saved."
"Tol' 'em a liar couldn t hope to be
saved? You sawthet duck git down on
his marrer bones?"
"I saw the criminal kneel down
yes H
"Ye saw the other ith a two-edged
word made mnd, an plaster the back o'
the 'doomed wretch's neck?"
"I did."
"Ye saw the sword-sharp chop his
head off?"
"Yes." T
"ST.traneer. look here. I reckon I ve
got you tighter'n a Mexican cinch. I'm
thinkin' you've tangled yourself up in
yer own lariat. What year was you out
thar, anyhow?"
..J . . . . 1 T
"I went out in 1871; nut, my irionu, i
inin't. nn wlmt vnn nrA endeavoring to
accomplish by this question and cross-
question.
"I'll show ye nfoiv I git through 'ith
ve. I'm lu'nin' to move to this yer
driver o' this yer stu(,re thet yon can't
showdown theliaud yerclaimin yo hold.
i m goiu to snow tnui yer givm mo u
game."
"I don't understand you, sir."
"No? Well, s'poho I give ye dead away
on tho sword racket, fust? S'poso I was
to say thet ther' ain't nothin' bigger'n a
sixtecnt-iuch bowio in the hull camp?
S'pose I was to come down to cases, un'
said ye lied about thet mud bizness?
S'poso I was to bring proof thet no man
in tho camp ever lied his cabesa cut oil'
below the ears? S pose I was to bring a
hundred men to back ine in the statement
thet hangiu' was all the go, w'en it was a
vigilante racket, an' thet nobody ever
died out thar 'ceptiu' from hot lend au'
col' steel? S'po.M3 I was to do all this,
what kind of a gamo would yo gi' mo
then? I tell ye, stranger, I've Wen thar,
an' I'm posted, I am. I'm the best
posted man this side o' Denver, au' ye
can't play it vrry low down on me,
much!"
"Do you doubt my word, sir?"
"No, I don't doubt yer word; but ef
ye'd put a little more solid stuff into
what yer savin" I'd bo more likely to
tako s'tock iii ycr yarns."
"Aly friend, 1 fear you aro attempting
to beguile mo. I fear that you aro im
posing upon a stranger in a strange land,
lam not accustomed to your peculiar
manners and customs; and you should
not tako advantage of me in this abrupt
and unceremonious way."
"I thought yo 'lowed yo'd been thar."
"Where?"
"In Shyann."
"Cheyenne! Not at all. I never saw
tho pluco. I thought you understood
from the first that I was a missionary to
Siam."
"What ! S'utmt Well, T swear, I take
it all back, stranger; I throw up my
hand. Shako, stranger, an' we'll call it
squar'. Shyann Siam. Thoytfosound
alike, don't they?"
London rruvliulallsm.
A keen observer onco remarked that no
man who always lived in Loudon could
could ever writo a really good novel "he
would not see enough of life." The
epigram, purudoxieul as it soenis, has as
much truth in it as most other paradoxes.
People who live in London aro neces
sarily thrown in contact with such a per
petually moving mass of human beings
that they havo no timo to know anything
of each individually. If a man really
wishes to study lil'o and character, ho
must migrate ' to somo quint country
town, where he can moot the sumo per
sons seven days in every week, and learn
a little more about them than can bo de
rived from more casual observation of
outward habits and peculiarities. In
deed, tho tendency to provincialism is
stronger and more enacting in London
than iu any other part of Great Britain.
It has more plausibility in its favor, and
therefore it succeeds in entrapping oven
those wido-mimlod poisons who would
elsewhere manage to riso superior to
prejudice. In proportion to the real
magnitude of the p'.uch and its interests,
tho tendency to idcutify it with tho uni
verso grows stronger and stronger. To
tho provincialism thus inevitably thrust
upon his soul tho average middlo-class
Londonor naturally succumbs. His
whole life has been spent in tho groat
overgrown city, and ho has been taught
from his childhood upward to despise
tho country and country peoplo as in
ferior places and persons, beyond the
pale of legitimate civilization. Ho has
never Inien subjected to thoso healthy
counteracting influences; which prevent
tho landed classes and the cultivated
section vt society from falling into the
same pitfall. Wealthy proprietors spend
half tho year in London, and loarn that
London is capablo of teaching them
superiority to merely local English feel
ing, and u healthy intercourse with the
1.1 in politics, literature.
science and art. But they spend the
other half of tho year in tho country or
abroad, learning tho complimentary
lnuMnn uliiidi the sedentary Londoner
never learns that England consists of
hill and dale and cornfield and pasture,
u mnii n a nf Htrpi't.H and clubs and ware
houses; that life is not entirely confined
to cities, and far less to ono city, how-
imnnrtimt II 11 .1 1 1 1 lit. tUltlirfl Still
CVll llimiliuu.
exists side by side with'man, even in our
industrial Unglunmtsoii. juoro vuiuuuio
even than tho widening influence of that
glimpse cf continental lifo which our
wealthier clusses securo as a rule, once
in every year or so. Tho provincialism
of London gets broken down by the
Boulevards, the Chomps Elysoes, the
Theater Francais, though wo can hardly
flutw nnrwlvoH that the provincialism of
Paris or Vienua will receive a similar
blow from tho Strand, the Park, the
Royal Academy or Drury lane pan
tomime. London Jleriew.
T.iunnp rn.rxHo cis the Zulu Wak.
Tliulirm Colnnso. who has been through
out a steadfast opponent of the Zulu war,
.... . i . i it.
as impolitic and uncalled ior.proiests iiie
deposition and deportation oi tue Airwuu
King Cetewayo. Ho styles the descrip
tion given of Cetewayo by Sir Hurtle
Frere a "malignant representation," and
points to the loyalty of the Zulu chiefs
und people to their King as inoonsiHtent
with the theory that they have been liv
ing nnder an intolerable, cruel and bar
barous rule. To the remark that these
Zulus betrayed his hiding place he re
plies that when five prisoners were
flogged to extort the secret, they would
not divulge it, and it was only when they
were deceived by hearing the sound of
cannon, and told that two of their
associates had been blown to pieces from
the mouth of it, that one of the prisoners
told where Cetewayo was hidden. The
Bishop reprobates the conduct of Cete
wayo's consort when carrying him a
...;..nar n r.rt Dnnforil in refusing
UIMUIIl.1 w - " ' - '
him meat when he asked for it, but ply
ing him with rum. The division of
Znluland into separate parcels, under
to lead to anarchy ; and as to the apiioint
nient of John Dunn (white man) to a
xtiioftiiini-Y fin iiatr "it iii ntterlv con
demned by all right-thinking people ot
if i . r .. l -
auu. no BtlggeKis mat wneju,
after some months' imprisonment, be re
stored to his sovereignty, with powers
duly limited, under a British resident,
who should be an English gentleman of
character and ability.
Area of the American Will Pfsture.
The following statement from official
sources is calculated to give our readers
an idea of the magnitudo of pasture land
area in the southorn and western ior
tions of our States and Territories. An
imaginative man may havo a presage of
a magnificent future for our stock inter
ests liy reading it:
The urea of tho States south of the
lin-of IVrtiv.lvnnia nnd the Ohio river
in , , .. ,'i 'hi.OOP acres, of whioh
ih...M.'l iu.iuius, or 21 1,000,000
u.-i '... . . mori ..iun iiiie-fourtb of
tin- i i .. in i mil) cultivated.
AImu u.ui;-i. ..... of i n' entire area may
b.t ,....)'" !n us. agriculturally; tin
remainder, ain't deducting likes and
rivers, roads, ami town sites, and
a very small area of sand and
rock washes, is productive of plant
growths in great variety. Tho forest
hinds of this broad belt aro estimated to
aggregate 270,000,000 of acres, or 47 per
cout f tho whole area. A large propor
tion of theso forests are f 'ne. notably
those of the belt of 100 to 2(K miles from
tho coast, open to sun and air, compara
tively free from undergrowth interfering
with natural grasses which ubonnd in
variety und quantity according to thodo
greo of fertility of the soil. The south
orn country is four times as largo as
France; it 'is ten times as large
as Great Britain; it includes soils vary
ing from the Krunutio to tho latest allu
vial; it is favored with a variety in cli
mate, rosulting from a range of tifteen
degrees of latitude and 00(H) feot of elo
vution. Making liberal deductions for
cultivated lands, water, town sites and
wastes, tho uncultivated lands will reach
au aggregate of not loss tbah ;i',;,IKI0,0(K)
acres, nearly (ii) por cent of the area; and
of this, after throwing out of considera
tion forests of deciduous trees yielding no
pasturage worthy of note, the area of
wild pastnrago a portion in the west of
prairie, a part on tho mountains of
glades, the line lauds and old fields, somo
very good, und much comparatively
poor amounts to i!IU,(MK),0(M acres, or
forty-live jier cent, of the whole southern
area. This is equal to the area of Franco
and Prussia together, with a better cli
mate and more fertilo soil, producing
grasses thut are unused sufllcient to pro
duce more than all the wools Americana
nan wear. It is a great mistake to show
that this section is not suited to groan
growing. The most exacting labor and
greatest uxpeuso in all the processes of
cotton culture are incident to tho do
struotion of grasses. Again, from Mcx- '
ico to the British possessions, from tho
Missouri river to tho Pacific ocean, there
is an area of 1,021,000,000 of acres-not
including Alaska which have been for
years tho homo of countless numbers of
tho buffalo, of tho antolopo, and on the
higher elevations of mountain sheep and
gouts. At so high a latitude as the
plains of Laramie, 7000 feet, tho pastur
age is a wonder of freshness ami abund
ance. Like un inland" sea of emerald,
the rango stretches from horizon to hori
zon, relieved only by struggling patches,
of motley color o'f bovine herds, or whit
specks of scarcely distinguishable flocks.
The mountain districts of Wyoming con
stitute one of tho finest grazing districts
in the world. Nutrioious grasses arc
kept fresh by tho water of u multitude of
mountain streams, and tho rainfall is
great. Even in tho northern latitudes
largo Hocks of shocp and cattle often
puss tho winter with no other feed than
tlio uncut grass of the plains and val
leys, while the price of the lcst quality
of hay is merely nominal. In fact there
is quite as much risk from prairie fires,
to the grazing herds, as from the storms
of winter.
A Dhfescb oi" Red Haib. An admiror
of red hair, who has it himsolf, glorifloe
that iityle thus: "Throughout croation
nature appears to delight in rod. It pre
dominates in the pleasure of the imagina
tion, for whutovor is beautiful, agree
able, or sublimo partakes of rod. The
rainbow, the rose, and tho churming lip
und cheek of beauty's self, tha sun, the
source of heat ami light, are all red; as
is also the fire, the mighty autocrat of
the universe Tho most brilliant flowers,
tho most delicious fruits, the orango, the
apple and the peach are red. Through
the animal kingdom red predominatos.aa
in tho king of beasts, the lion. But go
fnrther: Adam, the first of mankind, was
red. Tho greatest of Grecians, Jupiter,
Apollo and Vulcan, were crimson
Samson, whose strength was gigantic,
derived his power from his red hair, and .
tho destiny of the empire of Athens de
pended upon the red hair of Nissus.
Queen Elizabeth had rod hair; so had
Spencer and Shakspeare. Milton is an
other instance of the proof of my propo
sition. Also Defoe, the suthor oi the
world-renowned story, 'Hobinson
Crusoe.' Lafayette had rod hair,
li.iiifinm-trt'a linir WOH of this Color.
Artemus Ward had red hair; so have the
Bed Indians, or else why so named.
Tue Advance in Paper in thk East.
Tho extended drouth through the coun
try, both east and west, has borne heav
ily upon the manufacturers of paper.
Many of the mills have been obliged to
close, und all of them have run on short
time. Tho result of it is that paper has
advanced 'A'Ay, per cent., and it is diffi
cult to get it at that. Some of the large
dailies are in great trouble, not knowftig
where their supply is to cmie from. Pa
per dealers too aro in consternation, un
uble to till their orders, and picking up
all tho odd lots and tAg ends they can
lay their hands on. This, following so
soon upon a glutted' market, is phenom
enal. Paper has sld down as low as 5,
...... .is.nn1 Tt ia ti aw wnrtli M1
cents, and none to be bad at that. It is-
not likely that, this condition oi anairs
will Wt prv lone. As soon as the
streams fill ftp the mills will start again.
and the dimcuity wm ue ODTiaieu.
Peoria (In.) Journal.
Base ball definitions: The right field
the field of duty. A base hit a blow
be' the belt. A dead ball dancing
without music. A good catch one of
the Rothschild girls. Put out on the
first the man who gets April foolod.
Never reaches the second the man who
refuses to fight a duel. The champion
pitcher the pitcher that goes often to
the fountain and remains unbroken.
Secret kindness done to your fellow
creatures ia as beautifal as secret in
juries are detestable. To be invUibly
good is as god like as to invisibly evil
is diabolical.