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I Stye flfcist tcgomau. runusucn EYERY SATURDAY MORKINQ, r "ML IP. BTJXjXj. U.VTCS OK ADVERTMI5G IX COIVt Or inch, first imsrtkn. S2 00 Eat mKtneat iavwUea, 1 00 orncu cotutx htuhijt. orroMTS TB OMUKT-Uul.E. v Kntra of Mubtcrlpllon lu Coin : uhYw. .' si m Six Months IS Ttree Month 1 M stnrls Uupiu lUas MttweWs kf struL ZuiasM O St hIbui, Xi ttiw yr Has. A4TrflUz ML psjsbie Ba. VOL 2. PENDLETON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, EEBRUAKY 3, 1877. NO. 18. TOR W(l"RTT tUa u si Saw pru. The Child-Violinkt. He liad played far his kri-iifV levee. He had played (or kcr led t ship's whim, Till the poor MtUe w as heavy. And the peer lHtle brain wouW swim. And the free crew peaked and cork. And the large cyf strained' and bright. And tbey takl, tee hue: "He U wear He fhaH reft fer, at least, to-night!" But at dawn, whro the Wrdi were waWio:;, At they wetched In the stteut roa, With the sound of a strained eerd breaking. A something snapped i the gteeni. Tki a striae: ef bit violoncello. And they heard him stir ia bit bed: "Make room far a tired Httle fetter. Kind Godr was the hut I bat he raid. ACsTtX DOBMI.V. A Star Behind the Clond. X matter hew dark the Bight, No matter hew Mack the deudi may he. Up in the shrouded ky. Hidden from wale his- eye. Glitter a star fer a& Silvery bright and dear. Out in the fields ef fadeless Mtt, Hcedlcfs ef dead and rate. Fearless fcf death and pais. Golden stars in their silent sphere Twinkle and born fer re. Summer and winter the same; Xe matter if stona-cloudf targe aud reit, Like wares em the frenzied sea; In heaves bright gallery Twinkle and slew, wkh a qeacbles fiaass These types ef the seed! No matter hew dark thy Use; No matter bew gloomy thy watch may he; 'Mhlserrew, and pa ha, sod care, Stftt watclang .bee everywhere Back of the curtain ef earthly strife Twinkles a star fer thee! Mad&me DeStael and Her AntagonteL The greatest ooraptiment ever paid by a man to a veman was that which Na poleon Bonaparte in the plenitude of his power, paid Madame De SsaeJ, ia exiling her from Paris. Here was a man, the greatest general of hie age, at the head of a warlike na tion, commanding an army of many hun dred thousand men, the arbiter of .Europe, and the lord of the world, except that part of it which could be reached and orerawed bj the English Navy; and here was a woman, then of no .great fortaae or celebrity, receiving everjxvening a circle of friends in a modest drawing-room at Paris. They were antagonists, those two! Both were foreigner he an Italian Cor sican, she a Swiss. The man was daz zling and intoxicating France, while using her fur perpo-es of bis own. The woman would sot be dazzled. In a city delirious, she kept her senses. In a company drunk, she remained soixr. Among a people dreaming, she was awake. And gifted as she was by nat&re with an excellent mind, a human heart, and an eloquent tongue, she bad power to waken and restore other minds. There was danger in such a woman. The conqueror felt it, and owned himsdf unable to cope with her by sending her to reside a hundred and twenty miles from Paris ! If she ventsred to approach nearer, he wrote with bis own hand (as wese&inhis published correspondence; an oroer to his chief of police to make her keep her distance. "That she-crow,' be styles her in one of these fierce notes. "That bird of evil omen," he calls ber ia another. In another he says, that her approach bodes mischief," sad he will not have heron French soil- In another, al luding to her father, M.Xekar, the banker and financier, he winds up ia angry or der by saying: "that foreign family liave done mucineX enongu already. flow honorable to this lady, the rancorous bos tility of such a mn in such a place. Banished from the city whicb she loved above all other place in the world, she flew to literature as a resource against the tedium of exile. f7orinriC,which contained the results of an Italian tour, made her famous, .iext, she turned her long rest dence in Germany to account by writing a work upon that country, whicb has since taken it place, as one of the classic of French literature. In its composition she most scroupulously avoided writing a sentence, a phrase, a word, an allusion which the police at Paris could cons tree in a sense hostile to the imperial govern xnent. Corinne had been allowed to ap pear: why not L AUanaaneT The manuscript being complete, she set it for publication to the house n Paris that had published her Gorinnt, some years before. A few days after a decree was made public to the eilcct that so wors could thenceforth be printed in France until it had been examined by censors. I notice in the Napoleon Corres pondence that the emperor scolded the minister of police fur employing in this decree the odious word caueurt, because it savored ol tbe tyranny of the Ifourbon kings. lie did not like the word, but events soon showed that he approved the thing. Tbe work was submitted to the cen sors, and the author came to a place ionj leagues jrom xaris xo msxe altera tions and read tbe proofs. The inanu script was read with the closest atten tion, but nothing was found objectiona ble in it except here and there a sentence or a phrase. To afford the reader an idea of the necessary timidity of despots, I will give a few sentences ordered to be suppressed. 23 peaking of the rclorms in stituted by the Emperor Joseph of Aus tria, Madame de Stacl had ventured this terrible observation: "But after his desth, nothing remained of what he had established; since noth ing endures except what comes pro gressively." The first half of this sentence she was required to cut out. The reader will not be at a loss to guess why. It was jut four years alter that the French emiiirc.wliicli never seemed so strong as in 1810, proved the truth of the .latter half, which was allowed to stand. The sentence following excited the ire et tae cessors: 4A witty womnn has remarked that, of all places in the work, Paris is the ae where a person can best do witheut hap piness." The gcBtieman who marked this sen tence fer stiiinrcssion cmuliMfpfMleJ to give a reason for so doing. Under the reign of the cmtKmr, he saW, there was u . I I i - . .1 - .- uiucH najijHnc5 ai i-ans M&i no ooc need da without it. In dicon4s neu Frederick the Great, she satd, that a powerful man, so long as he lived, could hold together the Hio.-t discordant elements ; -'but at hi death they separate.' The lat phrax- was suppressed, the emperor having it taken an important step to jvrcvoot the ejmrati(.n of discordant eturnoat at hi death. !I had divorced Joiophiae and married Marie-L-xii-e. She doMOMoeed the partition ef Poland. and added this comment: "It can never he expected that si4ects thus obtained, will be faithful to the trickster who calls himself thotr sov orosgn. &appresed, of coarse. The fotwwwg also wt MMtmtarilv cut : "Good ta-te in literature is, ia some re- speets, like order under despotism; it ooseoras us to examine at what price it is purokaMttl.' The longest parage suppressed was oe ih wmoi sac raaioiaioeu iai s pcwK man should never retain 14s dace for an iataat, when he ooukl no longer hotel it with honor. Let Ma hut bcHu to negotiate riih oireurastancef, and alt i tost; fori here is no one who has not ctrcuautances. &ome men have a wife, children, nephews. Cor whom a fortune is necessary. Others need activity, oceupatioBf and poses I know not how wanv virtues, which all eonduee to the aecositv of havios a place, with mouev and power attached to it." This passage, Madaae De Stael reoorda, provoked the ceaors to extreme iil-humor. They said thot, if those remarks wore true, no man ooukl oMaiu, bot eves ask, a place. Dot with it all! The paragraph, bo never, that kMMled their highest indignation, was a little burst et ctoeuoacc which closed use book: "0, France! land of giorv ami of lore! if ever ert.hu4iaj should be extinguished upon thv soil if ever cold caleulatinu rboutd disme ef everythiur:, and reasou isg a'oae inspire contempt of peril hat would avail thv beauuful skr, thy geoiui so briitiaut, thv nature so atSeealt An active Mtetbeeace and a wise impet- uositv would lodeed render thee wirier of the world, hut thou would tt leave upon it only the trace of sand-torrents terrtfcte as the waves, arid as tbe desert! Thir, too, was suppressed. The pub lisher, having submitted to every exac tion of the censors, supposed it was sale to proceed. The work was put in type, and ten thousand copies wore printed Soddealy the printing oftce was sur roended'by sotdtcrs, and an otScor en tered, who a ant uuced tost he was or dered to destroy every copy. He obeyed the order, and, K is said, died il latsgu indoinsit. The spoiled sheets ere sold to a paper-maker, and the proceeds of the sale about oae huadred and twenty dollars wore brought to the pebtither: and this was the oaly compensation he ever received. The author, in the mean time, was ordered to leave France within twentv four hours. Twenty-four boar T It was the time allowed to conscripts to prepare for Having with her neUUer money nor vehicle, fee wrote to the min ister, asking for eight days. The nones' was iiranted: hot in granting it, the tniaisieref police iUed bis letter with polite lasolenee. lie told her Wat, in bis opinion, tbe air of France did not agree with ber, and that tbe French peonle were not reduced to seek for mod els among the people she bad held up to admiration in her work upon Oermany. He was sorrv for the publisher's loss; but "it was nU os9ible to let the work ap pear. At the same time, be forbade her to repair to any of the northern seaports. whence she could escape inf.ugiana. It cost ber nearly two years of effort before she succeeded in reaching England, so completely was Kapoleon master of the contraent. Alter the expulsion oi the tyrant she hastened to Pans, where she remained darifcg the Hundred Days unmolested. She spent tbe doling years of her bny life in Saitzerland, her native country, where she was secreteiy married to a vounc omcer. sac veiled tais second marnsge in secrecy because she was unwilling to change a name to which her works and ber persecutions had given celebrity. Her first mamagc to tbe Swedish Ambassador, liaron us staei- Holstcin occurred when she was twenty It was a marriage of convenience, not ol affection, and gave her little happiness. Her tombstone bears a curious inscrip tion: nic taxdbu qeinscrr quae xoqcam QUIEVTT. "Horc rests oae who never rested.1 She was among the very greatest of her sex. Connne, which has long been used in schools as a French reading-book, is not excellent, not even tolerable, ai a work of art; but ber writings abound in passages of admirable sense expressed in admirable words. Her book upon uer many, with all the suppressed pasages marked, was reprinted in Paris as re cently as 180" ; and about the same time was com plated the publication of the works of her antagonist, who held her in such well-grounded terror. About 20 miles from Xikko, China, an avenue of sugi, or cedar trees, begins, and with an occasional break where there is a village, it readies the whole distance to the shrine of J,Tcyas tiie longest avenue of shade in the world. These great trees are from five to seven feet in diameter at the base, and tower without a branch for fifty or i-izhty feet, and then lift their heads forty or fifty feet higher. They resemble the giants of the 1 osttnite. The trunks are faultlessly straight and the bark is deeply veined. There are about 30,000 trees on this avenue, and all of them were planted after the foundation of the forine, about years ago. The Arkansas Tragedy. The Iter. W. II. Methcny furnishes to th WttUra Mttkriut, published at Ment ions, Toon., the following particulars of the shooting of three Methodist miuitors at Fort Douglas, Arkaosas, a few days since, a brief stateuseat in rogaid to which has already beea publi4ed : "On our return front Conference, sev eral of us were the subjects of a very sad incident, the particulars of which I give you. It seem tbe United State Maisbats had been ory active for soate time ar resting parties for real, and ia some in stances, otbap, supposed violations of law, until a great many citizens bad be come considerably excited on tbe subject. Some parties bad resolved to reit the .authorities and rumor bad it that sixteen Marshals were expected ia that viciaity to execute the law. Iters. 11. Williams A. H. Williams, George liedger, and my self had croed B-hUsu 3Inuataia oa the morning of October SS, and come down oa Hurricane Creek abHSt noon. Broth ers A. II. Williams and iledger, young men, traveled together, and they were smc distance ahead. They arrived at Fort Douglas, oa Big !iaey, about f re o'clock in the afternoon. We had trav eled all day without feedhng, and tbe young men thought probably we would like to put up for tbe aiglet. Brother Williams went into a bou.e to make iu uiry for accomusodatioai, and Brother Itedger walked over to a shop ju it across tbe road from tbe h"e. The back part of tbe shop, toward tbe mountain, was all open. He bad been staadiag there but a few atautes wbea be was soot from the tsouatain. He fell upoa bis face and said, I am killed! Tbe owner of the shop, Mr. Wallace, was tbe oaly pervoa present or in the shop. He ran out to Brother Williams and told hern not to go, or try to go, to bis friend. Brother Wil liams tried to get other parties to help him bring Brother !iedger out of tbe shop, bet none would go. So Brother n illiams mounted bis horse to ride bacat and hurry nav self and bis father. Brother B. o illtams, to the sceae of carnage. Wbea we got so tbe shop we found Brother . P" J n Weeding, and, we Usoesgbt, neariy dying. Vt e put him oa a blanket aad earned aim to tbe bouse of 31 r. Wallace aad seat oaT immedialetv for a pbvseciaa. After we gut Brother Pledger as cnasiWuMy situ ated as we owe id. Brother B. Wdliaaa. myself, and two or tihree friends who bad cwme to our aid, went out hebiad a large tiee from the shop to consult about tac most judsooos course to pursue oortag the night and whale User tasking tbe brush men changed their lxnitioo, or bad others pasted across tbe creek. trues where ottser 1'teatsor was soot. BroUser 0. WilhaaM aad my self were shagled out. aad be was shot tlsrwucb tbe night side suit above tbe hip, aad I was shot ia tbe ngat ssde, oaly nreakiog the skta, but making a Tory sore place. I greatly fear that Brother Pledger s wound is mortal. Brother B. William has a very bad wound, but tbe doctor think be will re enver if his wouad is properly managed iewere certainly mistaken for LuHed SiaJes Marabals, and our canes aad um brellas, sees from tbe mouataic, were taken for guns. The w bole swagbherbvud te caned to be in deep sympathy with as and rendered us every asssstance ha tbeir powor to make as cmfirtaWe, and we left oar dear brethren with tbe doctor aad kied people there, with tbe pledge thai they would receive every needed assist ance until their f needs could reach them." Ciaaaadri GitUe. Wonderful Surgical Experiment. English surgical and pOTisoiocscal stu dents will and ia the Giettt oV IIfn Uavx interesting details of an oporatswu of gastroietnv, attended so far with suc cessful resells, wh, h bas beea performed at the Hospital de la i'itse, by Dr. or Beoil. The patient, a lad of seventeen, had inadvertently swallowed a quaulitv of the solution of caustic potass. Tbs occurred in I ebrnary, aad M spite of tbe most skillful treatment, the cnNsstrictsnn at tbe sppcr oriace of the itoopbagus be came so complete that death from inant Una must inevitably have ensued without an operation, which was accordingly per formed on the Soth of July. The results wilt be seen from the mod teal bulletin of thv 10th September, which states that the patient is ia good health. remains up all day, 1 even helps the hospital assistants ia their work; he has almost as mucn strength aad energy as he had before the accident. His diet is composed of soups, fine-chopped meats mashed vegetables and dnnat, which arc iojected through a large otitic tube ia sertcd in the incision taade ia the stem ach. Under this treatment he gained upward of ten iieunds In weight between the 1 Sill of August and the l-l lb of Sep tember. At tbe moment of the injection of food a flow of saliva in the mouth is produced. tn the ejection of which a motion curious ly resembling the action nf chewing is reuiatked; be can distinguish between warm and cold substances but otherwise all are indifferent to him. It is stated this is the first time the operation has been successfully performed; tbe last time it was attempted, but unsuccessfully. was in 1840, by M. Scdillot, Professor of the faculty of Medicine of Mrasburg. ItowLANu Hill's Exuoktatios. For ten years Uowland Hill, the great preach cr, that singular mixture of wisdom, drollery and piety, was an itinerant, and his ministry was attended by vast crowds. Hit wit never deserted him, for on one occasion, preaching on Harapitead heath, some rain fdl, and he deliberately put on ins hat, saying: r.icuse my bat, friends but do not let the rain alarm y-u so much. hat would the condemned souls in To- phet, parched for it, give for asioglcdroi of this delightful rainf So, when he was reproved - for not preaching to the elect only, he asked some one "to have tbe good nes i to mark them with a bit of chalk, and then I'll talk to titem." Tuctii is immortal; the sword cannot pierce it, fire cannot consume it, prisons cannot incarcerate it, famine cannot starve it. Cooklnsr for Health. There is no more important branch of preventive medicine' than oxiklivt? Bad rooking may cause a dwindling of the rc. ruinatHMi of the IfWcr, awl de terioratioH of the morals. Gtid eookintr. oa the other liand, I accompanied by national prostteritv and domestic ldts. M says the promoters of tbe national training settooi of cookerv. who are un doubtedly right in the main, and are de serving of all imaginable success. sw, cooking is both an art ami a science. Fori its progress as an art we arc not greatly concerned, alib soghour trofeiea aouhl usMlouMediy aaHor in tiorket. should for art c-Mtkery goout of fosbs. EI-gnt" dishes are generally wbited sepulcbrrs. aad the forerunner of blue pills aad other disagreeable corrective. Tbe bulk of people live in big cities and if we were aked to name tbe most predwsaieatiat: cisarscterittic of our urban population, we s sold sav Myfep. Those who spend their days ia stark utlces, chambers, or eoosoltiug roomi, and keeptag their aosos everlastingly upon their respective grinalstones, seldom know that digestion sbcuid w ait upa appetite. liittserto thesr dinners bavenot been so skillfully iwepsred as to demami tbe least possible eaWrt from a jaded stomach . but let us hope that tbe national disgrace of ibdigestibility will no longer dim the brightness of our hospitality, and tbe number of patent medicines which are seed so largely in tbii country as aids to uHgeotioa will undergn a rapid dimi nution. Young Housekeepers. rraage year work sTssemitically; bv sod nog you wiU accomplish snore have tiase for visttiag. rtcerviag viilo, etc Of too woasea oboea e kaow, of eoual means aad time, oae arc jsnpUihos oae tbsrd more than tbe other never iieni ta a hurry, ber bouse is as neat as a psu, herself likenite. while tbe other bo sbalt we describe ber boasel Go ia a Kb me. every chair is full -Oh, my! excuse Use looks of tbe bouse, I am washing. bakier. and trrioir to tret some cVeajstew; done, and bad not lime to make the bed and rig up." Nu system bore, you mentally exclaim Better apportson each day with its proper tasks. As we urged you to be neat in your dress and house, be partscuiarty so ta arranging yoer ta We. km not neeessarv to avase toe aaost iinen, cbtaa or sdvor. of c jutsc. they are something to be desweai, and we do not uaderralue either thesr beautv or worth. bot with a tabse covered with aaoe abase doth, of course, neat stoneware ( httc aad peciVctly ptaias. good and wholesome food well conked, you can raise yourseit greatly in tbe esteem of a hungry man; no matter if you are not as band seme as van would like, vou will get bet ter ieeksng M Ms eves cverv day. Ke cbeorfut. Welcome your husband with not only a neat house aad parson, but a senile. Whatever aanoyancos the dsy away bare brought barn, try to banish ej tae'lorteg arts of which Mt makes you mistress. Dikectms rex Kalsomimsu. Buy tbe best bleached cine, if the walls arc to be white or some tight tint) if dark, it U immaterial, so tbe gtue is cleai i, and esc ia the proportion of a quarter : a pound to esght pouanis of w Mtteg. Soak the gtue over night, ia the marairJg pour oaT she water, as it simply swells while soak- lag. Add fresh water, put ia a pail, and set that M a kettle of botstag water, nkes dissolved stir it into the waiting, addiasr enough water to make it, after Mixta, ol the same c-sntstoncv of c a white wash. It ovav he tinted any cash, and is applied with a whitewash brush. It the color is tubbed smooth ia a little wa ter and thea mixed with tbe wash, it will be more even. If tbe walls bare been previously whitewashed, scrape away all that will come off. and wash with a solu tion of while vitriol two ounces in a pail of water. Ifec vitriol will be dc- mpoed, forming zsac watte and pias ter of Parts, to which tbe Kalsotniac easily adheres. It is important to dissolve the glue tn a hot water bath, for if scotched by too great boat, its tenacity is impaired or destroyed. Washixo Fl-onels ok Lines. To whiten flannel made yellow by age, dis solve one and one-half pounds of white soap in fifty poands sett water, and also two-third ounces tptntsel ammonia, im merse tbe flannel, stir well fer a short time, and wash in pure water. Wbea black er navy blue linens are washed. soap should not be Used. Take instead two potatoes grated into teptd sett water after having them washed awl jiccirU), into which a tcatpooaftf! of ammonia has I en put. Wash the linens with tins ami rinse them in cold blue water. They will need no starch, and shoaid be dried and ironed on tbe wrong side. An infu sion of hay will keep tbe natural color in bun linens, and an infusion of bran will do the same for brown linens and prints. Coooasct Pcddixb. Grate the meat of one cocoanut. Hill very tine and sift through a coarse sieve, five Boston crack ers; mix this with the grated cjoaaaut, add a pint and a half of boiled milk and three lablcspoonfuta of butter jut soft ened enough to beat; or, instead, one pint of thick, sw-e-it cream. Bsat six eggs yelks and whites separately; add a cup if sugar; beat all well together, and bake tike a custard. Eaten hot or cold. To Cook Cold Meat. Put the meat into a chopping bowl, out it fine, season wiih salt, Ieper and a little onion; add half a pint of drawn butter. Fill a tin bread pan two thirds full; cover over with mashed potatoes winch lias been salted and has milk in it; lay bits of but ter over the top and set into an oven for fifteen or twenty minutes. Swekt Buuai). Parboil tha sweet breads and let them get cold, cut thein in pieces about an inch thick; put on salt, pepper and sage; then dip them in the yelk of eggs and fine bread crumbs. Fry them a light brown in boiling lard. Hud precipitate or red oxide of mer cury is not made by precipitation, but by heating the nitrate of mercury; when precipitated it has a yellowish color. Peace or War? It is a peculiarity of this long confusion ia Estern Europe, that every attempt at settlement is iatrrrupted by some new turn of fortune on one sble or the other, which necesltatH a new beginning. Wbea Serria and 3Ioalenegro were about to declare war, Turkey woo hi doubtless have contented to a peacefsl arrangement of tbediiiculty; but the Great Powers were not ia accord jost then. When Tcberaayir was driven back over tbe -ervtaa I roe Uer. and 1'nnce Jill an ap pealed for aa armistice, Turkey was in no ntood to graat it. Wbea tbe Powers per suaded her to cnuteat, Serris. re-caforcod by Itaiaa officers ami s'ddiers, and boptag anew for military success, became recalcitrant ; aad now wbea she sees ruin approach aad cries oace more for a suspension of warfare, the ewealioa What w ill be Te key 't aess wer I Will she use her opportunity and press on to Bel grade in spile of the certain botility of Kotsial Or will she halt, with victory in full view, aad accept deasaadt whicb mast be almost intolerable at such a lime I Tbe course nf Servia cannot fail to have all totaled from ber much d tbe aoa Stavic sympathy of Europe. Her mili tary campaign bas been a shameful lail ure from tbe btgisaisM The iacompe teaey of Gea. Tcneraajetf ba oaly been eqaaled by bis arrogstst prti statical . but, worse than this a race famous for des perate courage bat covered itself with a stigma of cowardice which it will take much blood to wash out. Every re ported victory, from tbe irtt, bat turned out to be a defeat : after advancing aaoa Xisch with boartfat prophecies the Ser vian army bas steadily fallen bsck, losiag one stroesg potttioa after anotber, until now, beaten ia mast aad ia detachments aad w bully deasoratued, all its reatain iagpower ( detente is lost Oa the other band. Turkey thwarted ia Bosnia aad the Heraegoviaa, bankrupt ia iaaace. and shaken by revolution aad double change of rulers bas fought with a skitL per sisteace, aad bravery very aaaiaai in ber reeeat ass lory. But for the Bulgarian atrocities ber present dehant attitude would provoke sdusiratiou, if not some decree of sympathy. The last crtsss hewerer or Kit abase of the prolonged emit will be speedily resolved. Tac abstention of the etb-r iTaropeoa Powers leases tie soUtioa ta the htads of Kovssa. and she bxs acted with the prtaaaet which the eaaergeecy domandi. Taeec can be ao longer a doubt that Keias policy it at last axed. She bas deiatteiy marked the bound tni hefWeea peace and war. aad imposed aa immediate cbotcc ueseaTrfcey. Her ul tuaatuan reached Csaitiatiaoplr oa Mon day, and tbe answer of the Parte must be given to-day at the latest. If it should be aatrawati re. there will be deiars aad comtaiseated nejotiatioas. with a possi sibtitty of souse temporary settliimint; if negative, there will be haoediate war. A, r. rWeear. How Tmaoosc Stevens EiBXtrat fa.. Many tears ago, when Taaddeos Mcvesss wias practictag lav M Lancatter. 1'a he was m ployed to dtfeml two beak oaTtcers who had heea lalscSo for coa- spttucy, tbey ha via used tbe funds of tbe bank ia tpecaUattoa. All tbe legal taieat of i'Mlaiifiphtc aad surrouudtag counties had been easgaged to aott la the prose ce boa. Wbea tbe trial was oponed. Mr. ateveas rose, aad, aaalresstag the cmrt. said, "If K please your boaors presumii there are diaereat deriiat of guilt at tached to the prtsnuers my clients. I move tbey atay be tried separately. Tne judge coeo-jlted for a few moments with Ms nMCtatos wsk, coo'eolioj. tbe mo tsoa wt sjranteat and so rueurded. Watt ing some time for Mr. Steveat to go oa. the ya4gu, at last becasutine; knpatieat. satd tmpeluwitly, I n-oeoJ, Mr. Stevens, pr cesd. We are witMsg for you, sir." Steeoat ru-e deltberalely, and, looking around tbe court nan 'for a moment. said, Dtd your boaors ever bear of oae man besng tried for coesi piracy I" Then waving bsa baml to bis clients be said. You can go bouse; you can go bouse.' And they did go house. The jury were discharged and the court adjourned. And for this piece of legal ttratetry Tssad b levees received 5,9&). ttkimrt VCLAR Words. A dittiaguiihed an tbor S'ivs: I resolved when I was s child. never te ue a word watch I ouhi not pronounce before mv mother without of fending her. He kept hit res.dutioa and became a pure-minhd, noble, honored gentleman. His rule and example arc worthy of imitation. Boy s readily learn a class nf low, vulgar words and expressions which are never heard in respectable circles. The ut ml care on tbe part of parents will scarcely prevent it. Of course we can not think of girts being so much exposed to the peril. We cannot imagine a de cent girl using words she would not give utterance to before her father and mother. Such vulgarity is thought bj some boys to be "smart, the "next thing to swear ing." aad yet "not so wicked. But it is a habit which leads te profanity, and tilts the mi ml with evil thoughts. It vulgar ilea and degrades the soul, aad prearca the way for many of the ros ami fearful sins which now corrupt society. Young reader! keep your mouth free from impurity ami yssnr "tongue from evil, for "out ot the abundance of the heart the mouth spoakelh. Election Bets. Prof. swing takes a very gloomy view of betting in the last number of the JitVuifir, and, caking on behalf of that Urge class who are actus tonied to lose, it is easy to sympathize with him. But It is hard to believe that the "new hat" won on a bet"conie down over tbe eyes of the winner's soul,' as the professor says it does. More likely it at lects unfavorably the vision of the other follow who has lost. Even tho prolific imagination of Dinte never conceived ! of a lost sohI with andectlon-batjtmmetl down over his eyes. Iu all seriousness. however, the professor is right. Bcttic, is a bad business. DesrisE no one; for everyone knows something which tbou knowctt not. American Social Life. In aa article summarizing and com menting utf m the special letters bi the IsHtdou TitMt from the Centennial, the Saturday IUtine ay: 'Another feet are of American eharacter is the fusty .and reatlestpursHitof peronal prominence or notoriety. 1 nere wing no formal distinction nf ranks in the repub. lie, we see every human being there striv- ' at lite great end of existence ta petk bis head at much at he can above hi neighbor's. There is no countrv which is so lroka up into sets and clique, each scheming to find something to give it a pretext for a "coag aa indt- vidu d tuperiority. Tons it appear., that amHsg the watering blare Gape May look down on Atlantic Citr. that Cne Mar is looked down oa by Liosr liranch. aad that Saratoga thiekt ibeif decidedly above L-sag Branch, while Newport, oa the strength of its b'ac bwoi auaraes to be aa ariitocratic eyrie perched altogether ab-sve the rust of the world. It is much the same ia or Jiatry society. New York professes contempt f-sr Bnton priggish nest. Bsttou retaliates on New York with seavn of 'thoddv.' and twits Paiia- ddphia with provincialism And so it goes an through every grade aad section of community. The quiet otxtrpttioa of a settled and ac Vnowl edged posltsoa with which the nccupint it coateat is scarcely known in that land of freedom. There it i room for everybody to aspire, and every- body does so! The easiest platform to mount upon ia seek a state of things is money or the show of money; and thus Americas ambtttos btc xnttt mualv axed on iu acoutsition. Peraam. boeever. whit it most waariag to tbe Amoricin character, or at least to its peace of mied and happiness it self-con hdeace and self respect. It may be thought at frit sight that the Amertcans are of a conceited and coa id eat aature; bot the extreme sea- stttreaest which thev display is regard to almost erery kind of criuoim sbowt that Usey arc not at heart thoroughly at ease as to their own preteatioas. It is hardly possible to sav aaytbsag to Amer icans about their ctsntry without jarrieg oa some tender potnt. They cannot bear to tse told of their faults ? imart umler any tbiag like praise as if it were aa aj less ottos of sepeneritv. Tbey are in ciined to pride themsdres oa their seaxc of humor, tnl oc this particular point their sense of humor is verv dull. The sort of banter aad caricature wbeckpeo pieof other nation, iro ia their owa faith ia them -elves, onlv laugh at. Keens Us iro- tale an Amencan exce,ive4y. He it like a man with a raw tkia te whoca a midge is torture. Even Mr. Lowell oace lathed oat ia a pimphtet Oa a ceruia Cnsde- sceesstoa ia Frcegners aad threateaed Loglaad wtth war as a psai Aetna t, not for hostile acu, bet for her atrs of pat roaage toward America. Every scastMe ersoa recognizes that the L nsted J-tale are a great people ia their war, but they are not beyond the teach of crusctsm Tbey arc what the coadiriaat of their ex eacu bare made tbeaa. They have hitherto eaioved the material pro pari iv watch lay at thetr hands ia the reueuicui of a vast and virgin terrteiry; but tbey bave not adraaced with ejxi socees ia other directions nor' perhaps eoabl it be exnected tnat they thostd do so, cotsstit ertng She peculiar character ef tbe spu- laUou, and the wort: uev bail laBedute- ly ta de. Aneolotrs of Dr. Parr. Dr. Samuel Parr was a frank, eccentric Korttsbr&aa. noted for bit great learawag. Some one asked btca whom he considered the nest Greek scholar in Eoropc -Tne first Grecian scholar hving, answered Dr. Parr, "is Person; the third is Dr. Barney; I leave you to guess who is the seessud. D trine the trial of Warren Hastings i- poached for crimes committed while governor of India. Dr. Parr was oace ha company with Barke, Fox and Sheri dan, the three managers of the impeach ment. The three memorable speeches erery sehstol-boy has declaimed parts of them had just been delivered by these great orators in support of the charges.; lr. rrr gave his opinion ot the speeches of Fox and Sheridsa, railing censure with praie. I-ut said nothing of liarke speech. Barke paced the room for some time, in evident expectation of bearing from his learned friend; but Dr. Parr re mained liteut. At latv Burke, who was somewhat vain, said : "i ou have made an able com ni eat en the speeches of mv two friends with acute, jeiiciou and eloquent impartial ity; but as you say nothing upon my tpeech en the subject, I condude you are too delicate to meet me with mere praise. aad that you could nut discover any faults in It, "Not so, Edmund," replied the doctor. "Your speech was oppressed by epithet. di'locatcd by parenthesis aad debilitated by ampbnettion. The cmiciin, though expressed in the peculiar style of the dav, known as Johnsonese, was c-irrect, and set forth the fauits ef Barke s gre&t speech. A cocrrnT gentleman was in the habit of cntertaiuiug his fnends almost weekly. and discovered that regularly some small article of plate was missing, a cantor-top, a salt-sifcxin, a napkin-ring, or something of the kind. He suspxded his servant.-, and to make sure, one night when the guests had assembled, he said: "I tell you w hat J Let's do without servants to night and waitun ourselves! The odd suggestion was greeted with applause and (icals of laughter. The servants were turned out; the meal was seasoned with sparkling sallies at the expense of the clumsiness of this or thatgues, and wheu they had all gone the host took stock, and discovered that two-thirds of the spoons had gone too. Frtnc Paper. Oxi: hundred years ago the cheapest English liible in this country cost not less than two dollars, aud sixty years ago the price was little less, and the styles and sizes of the books were poorly fitted for circulation. Now tbe Bible is the cheapest of books aud oft very form that necessity, convenience aad taste may demand. An A need ite of Gea. Jackson. When General Jackson was a candidate for the Presidency ia 1S33, not only did the party opposed to him abuse him for his public acts, which if wteoastitutioaal or violent, were a kgitiasate subject nf reprobation, but they defamed theebarxev ternf hie wife. Onone occasion a newt paper published ia Nashville was Istd apou the General's table. He glanced over it, and bis eye foil upoa aa arttete ia which the ebsracter of 3I. Jackson was violently assailed. So soon as be read it he seat for his traity old servant Duaweodie. s sddle my horse,' said he U him ia a whisper, aad put my holsters oa him." Mrs. Jackson watched bins, and though she beard not a word, she thought she sew mischief in hi eyes. The General went out after a few tniaates, when the biok up the paper aad aatlertod every thing. Site ran out ta the couth gate if tbe yard of the Hermitage, by which the General would bave to pass. She had not beea there more than a few teosads before the General rode up with a enunte aanceof a maslsBaa. She placed her self before his horse, aad cried net 0. Geacral, don't ga to NashvMe! Let that poor editor lire. Let that pear editor lire. -Lt me aloae T he replied; bow came you to know what I am go- log forr aae asHvwered, "I saw it alt in this paper after you went out; put Bp your horse aad go back." He replied furiously, "But I will go get oat of ray way P Instead of doing that she graspeti has bridle with both hand. He cried ia her, -I say, let go my horse; IU have ait heart's blood the rillaia that reviles my wife shall not live. She grasped tbe ream bet the tighter, and begaa to exeosralaie with aim, say ing that the was the oae wise ought te be angry, but that sac forgave ber fvcriecstors from the bottom of ber hearr, and prayed for them that be should forgive, if be had hoped to be forgives. At latr, by ber reasoning, ber eeuouiet and tears, she so worked upon her beubaad that he seeased moUsSed to a certain extent. She wound ap by sayio-" -No, General, you shall not like the life of eves my reviler yoe dare not da it, Ssr it is writ ten. Veagenace is mine, I will repsr, saith the 1srdr The irou-nerved hero gave way before tbe earnest pleading; of hit bstwved wife, aad replied: I yield So yew; but had it aot beea for you, aad tac wools of the Almighty, the wretch should sot bare Lived a. An American Gyp.y Story. I was eeife? young whoa I reoaeved my irst lesion ia Cjrraae-tailing. Far the irtt season I was oaly to soil sorsnees for juaaag girl. I was at jtnige theo. aad say aaost about love 3hecu. After wards I was allowed tat test aaybedy. If I eousd lay my bassa oa aaytaing wucta havtag I eoutd do so, but it was no awsste ess of aaybody where I gat it. I was never asiTed where I got things. I wJ pteajgd a: ttsg idea of fcssllag feftgoes aad tied very well at the nainesm. I pecked ap twU, and before the Stat season dosed i knew bow So road busxaa alters very welt, aad cotUd road character to! erauty. 1 wilt aot say mack about steal ing, for I aa juhsmest. Soene of our wiagouts have false etSouas so that when ever the camp was searched aotasseocid be found. It the ohaccrs oame they were given full privilege to soareh alt aratcud, lad in thts wy utey were ted to believe, many itencs, that we were really Msaoecet. Tbere as no truth at alt ia tonoae-teMtag. We said ju: what came sato oar nssstis. One Bene a yoeeg man la Tennessee come to me nod tusu me hrgo to a cer tain house aad tadoec a..joung girt to bare her tortaac toad. He told me what to say. He was in lave w itfa. her and. wanted to marry ber. I thtdcTstoSi Litu, aad carried oat my part very weH. I sang her a soag about tao voaog lorcr, and the bountiful girt gut as wnite as saow, thea red. and tbea gave me eve dotlars. So coutd welt arford it. 1 got tea dotUrs from the mas. lie had beea stiscarded, but before we left the piaoe, 3Inrfreoboro, I thiefc it waa, I saw the pair out dvtncr. There's nay amount of trickery like tfaia among tbe gypsies. I liked tac We at first, it was tree and romantic; hut Sanity 1 tired of it, because 1 wiu ill-treated. I always wanted to keep up my appearance, whtca made some of the other wouica jealous. Thev commenced to spread evil reports about me, and said Hut I was guilty ef crime that I had fought hard to over come and exsape. BosUtesa got bad, and ail my money was either Ksat er stoics, from the wagoa. It was not easy to make my escape, for the men watched wecloeiy; but I managed-it at last. Talk about women beiu drudges aainog decent white jwopte, ttiat's uolningl Women who are cvmtscltcd to lead Wan dering lives in tht country are couiperled to lie, cheat, steal and commit almuatt any crime to obtain money. There am plenty of wemea who are situated the same as I was aad w bo are buI litini for a good chance to gtt oil. Tne returning Kugtuh polar expedi tion report an advance toward the uorth lic of about one hundred mites beyond Halt's fur the rest point. Toe Oueu Polar Sea seen by Kane is no more iu iu places a coutiuuous sheet of ice ranging in thickness from seveuty-fira to one hundred aad titty feet. DjuuiIcss the waters about the wile have been free from ice at limes in the past, but are not so now. Toe up heaved aud tilted rictds of ice render further northern progress impossible, even were tbe cold teas de structive of human life than it is. Geog rapher now know all that can be kaowu of those grim wastes. Tuey are destltuto of life. Tuey are aileut except wbea under a storm of wind, or wheu a glacier topples over from its xw n weighr, and wwkeas the echoes Mm cliffs and chasms of ice No more witTTever be knows, because there is nothing else to know. It is time that the era of polar expedi tions came to an end. Of all the pioaaoiua uit we jug, of all the pleasure we cujr, we carry no more out of this world, than out oi" a drtaaa.
