CONSIDERATION OP THE TARIFF,
pollnl)lltJ That Conffre Will Ad
journ oii or About tho 15tli of Next
Julyj
Wivsluiiptcn special: "Congress will not
be here Inter than tho lGth ot July," said
Consrctiiuiian Morrison when nskeil about
the probab'e timo of ntljournment. The
'business rI l-oth houses has shaped itself
sufllcicntl.v tjow to niako soinethinj like a
safe fon.'Cfis! of tho duration of the session
possible. Si mo of tho old members, and
amorR thrni Mr. Unndall, profess to believe,
that ;t will bo possiblo to ndjourn before
the first rf July, and others nr mnkinj
wild predictions of a session lusting until
'the middle of August, but tho snfest predic
tion BCi'int : to be that of Mr. Morrison. If
the opponents of tarilf leform nro desirous
of prcvmitirs nny debato and able to en
force tliuii niches by u majority vote, nil
jotirnnient may come about the timo Mr.
Iinndnll name, but if there is a tnriff dis
cussion it will take n pood two iveeks. Mr.
Morrison .'.Hows that much in his rli
nintee, but pays it will not be permit led to
go beyond that.
There if rensoti to believe that there will
be nn effort to prevent consideration of tho
tariff bill, imt sumo of the republicans say
they will ii "t join in Unit, as they want a
ilebnte. wms moio probable, however,
thnt tho jepublicntis will defer to the wishes
of the Kui.UnU faction in this matter, and
if Mr. Itundnll wants to make the fi!it at
tiio very btart to prevent the bill being
token up, t'.ie rlinmcs are tlio repunncnuH
will volu with him. Tho exact day when
the inotlo". will be mado to go into com
mittee of t.. whole to consider tho tariff
liill hiiH in t vet be-n fixed, but it will be
some time ::tt week. When this motion
i Hindi) the opposition will try to vote it
down if llicy want to prevent debate, but if
there in to he no effort to ward off discus
sion tin? opposition will wait until tho gen
eral debate is closed nud tho bill is taken
up by htctions. "Then n motion will be
made to itrikn.out tho enacting clause. II
that prevails the bill will bedcad, but if tlio
fidit jh made at tho start on tlio question
of coimidiinitiot), it can bo renowed every
ilnv ol the session.
It is aw yet impossible to say wholher the
oppowilioi) will lie nolo to control u major
itvolo. Thev seem perfectly confident,
and the uii.iw-es arc unquestionably in tlicii
favor, I'uv'ir, but tho wholo matter really
turtle on the course taken by tho Now York
delegation. Tho president, two cabinet
oIliccrH ai.d two nssistant secretaries are
New Yoilt men nndouahtto bo nhlc tocon
trol tho New York delegation. If they can
the tariff I'lll will bo passed. Iicther thoy
can in the nuestion of tho hour.
"I (Jo not think nny attempt will bemnde
to subject tlio tariff bill to tlio sumo test
applied to the last," says a prominent Now
York congressman. ''While wo unques
tionably have strength enough, republicans
standiu;; by ui, to stride out tho enacting
clause, that is not tiio programme. We
shall move to recommit tho bill, with in
jtructions to report, tlio administration
part of the same. 0( courso tho effect will
be tho same as striking out tlio enacting
clause, beiause Col. Morrison will never
represent s- ich a bill. lint this move, how-i-ver,
lio .-.ml ids frco trade committee will
have to take tho responsibility.
"TH; uncertainty is, therefore, not as to
the ultimate fate of this bill. It lies ia the
tnclicH ot the republicans. There aro in
dications that tho republicans desire and
are anxious to debato tho bill. If they do-
cide to do so they will vote against striking
out tho enacting clauso anil against ro-
committal, and tlio bill will thus como up
for disciiBMon. Tiio republicans want to
put tlio democratic majority on tho record,
especially in, regard to free wool, on which
they wish to have a tq'inro voto independ
ently of the rest of tlio bill. I think that
will'lio their principal object. Thus, you
see. tho bill mny bo disposed of in forty
minutoH, or may hung on for four to sir
weckti. '.There is where tho uncertainty is."
THT, E. & M. VICE PRESIDENT.
Wepovlf That Ho Will Sever Ills Con-m-etJoii
Wttli Uio Kouil Unfounded.
The Cfucr.go Mail says: "Tho Mail can
jay with f.ii.iost ponitivo assurance tliat
the nevKpaper reports to tho effect that
Mr. T. J. Totter, vice president and gen
jral manager of tlio Chicago, Ibirlington &
Quinry road is about to sever his connec
tion with that corporation to nccopt tlio
presidency of tlio "lieu Lino" rond, are
ivithout lor.ndation. Tho report that be
lias been tendered tho latter position is no
doubt true, but during tlio past llvo years
Mr. Totter lias had simiinr offers, some of
them being quite as important and tempt
ing 6i- far as salary and other inducements
nre ( nnccmed, as tho ono now made, all
of which were declined by him. Reports of
serious dissatisfaction on Potter's part
with tlio treatment bo lias received by his
mpeiioiH, and of discord existing in Uio
"Q" management nro idle gossip. It is im
possible to conduct U affairs of a great
corporation liko tho Chicago, Uurlington &
Quincy and always have harmony, but
those wiio know Potter well, know that ho
would not long retain a position whero his
tuboidinatfs were permitted to disregard
his authority. The Mail knows that tho
most pleasant relations exist between Pot
ter and President Perkins, and that tho
former bus tho confidence of the latter to
the vory fullest extent. Knowing theso
and other facts, tho Mail feels justified in
its Assertion Unit tho reports published
ure without substantial foundation."
True It 1 tic Bohemians.
N York dispatch: This afternoon an
niiti-unarchUt association of Dohemians,
500 strong, iimt in the National hotel, on
Fifth utreet. Speeches denouncing Ilerr
Most and liig followers nud the recent
nnanliist movement in tlio city, Chicago
and other place, were mado. During tho
progi es of tho meeting a number of Most'f
followers tutored the hall nnd tried to
'break up the meeting. A strong body of
jiolico came to the recue nud arrested the
disturber. Altera number of speeches hud
Iteen made, resolutions woro adopted de
nouncing the Chicago annrchlslii, ami do
elarinx it to b tho determination of the
fisMoiintion to obey and defend the laws
that protect lliom.nnd pledging themselvos
to do nil in their power to root out Most
aud hi followers, mid nil that may show
themiMlvc in the vicinity. At the close nl
the meeting it whs learned that Most nud n
nurobur of his follower w.-re in u saloon
close by, drinking beer. The police ontered
the aalnon, drove Most and his gang out
and arretted the place for violating the ex
fine law.
On the Apacho Trail.
A t)cr&tu was nweired at the war de
nftrtmrat on the morning of tit SOtli froir
Cn. ililee, datd Fort Hune-hula, May 18
tUftling that Lieut. Browo, I troops, Fourtt
cavalry, struck the Indians Sunday even
lug, the ICtli inut., capturing seven Win
cheater rllWs, ammunition, enddlfts and s
tew horse. The Indians Uten turned west
ward again. They are bIng followed bj
Xuwton'a and Hatfield's commands.
T1SSED BY THE SENATE.
flic I'cnlon IIIII (iom Tliroii"Ii tlio
Upper Ilouo orcongreiii.
Tlie full text ot tho pension bill as passed
on tho 20th by the scnatn is as follows:
l)o it enncted, etc.: That every person
who is specified in tho several classes of
inumoration in section JGt)3 ot the revised
ctatutcs ot tho United States and amend
ments thereto, who served in tho militnry
or naval service, as mentioned in said sec
tion, for tho period of three mouths during
tho war of tho rebellion nnd hns on honor
nblo dischargo therefrom, and who is or
shail beconio disabled from eny cause not
not tho result ot his own fault, nnd shnlt
bo dependent upon his own exertions tor
support or upon thecontributions of others
not legally bound thereto, shall, upon
milking duo proof of the facts, under such
regulation as shall or mny be prescribed by
tho proper authority, bo placed upon the
list of pensioners oi tho United btates and
bo entitled to receive a pension during tho
continuance ot such disability, and such
pension shall commence at tlio date of the
filing of tlio npjilication therefor. The
highest rnto of pension granted under this
section, winch shall bo for total incapacity
to perform any munucl labor, shall bo Si.' 1
per month, which is hereby made devisable
upon thnt basis lor any less degree of disa
bility, provided that no person entitled or
receiving!!!! invalid pension under the exist
ing laws or such ns may be hereafter en
acted granting pensions for disabilities coil'
traded in tho military or naval servico of
tlio United States in the lineof duty greater
than that provided for herein shall receivo
tho benefits of this act, but any applicant
for such nivalin pension having nn applica
tion therefor pending or shall hereafter file
his application for such pension may, by
declaration over ids signature at any time,
elect to prosecute his said claim under this
net or under tho general laws, and his pen
sion, when nllowed, if prosecuted under
this act, shall commenco from tho date of
sucii election, provided, further, thnt no
pension paid under nny law hereafter shall
bo rated at less than M per mouth.
Sec. 2. That in considering c'aims of
dependent parents tho fnct nud tho cause
of such and tlio fnct that tho soldier left
no widow or minor children having been
shown ns required by law, it shall bo
necessary only to show by competent unci
sufficient oridenco thnt such dependent
payent is without tlio present means of
comfortnblo support other than his or her
own manual labor, or contributions of
others not legally bound for his or lier sun
port, nnd such as may bo found to bo enti
tled to per month under tho existinu
nws, as modified by this section, shall re
leive in lieu thereof 12 per month from
end after tlio approval of this act.
Sec. 3. That in all applications under tho
general pension laws, including this net,
whoro it appears by record ovidenco that
tho applicant was regularly enlisted and
mustered into tho servico, that fnct shall
lio conclusive of soundness at tho timo of
his enlistment, except in enso of fraud.
Sec. -1. That no person shall lio entitled
to moro than one pension at tho same time
under any or nil laws ol tho United btates,
whether such pension shall have been nl
ready obtained or shall bo hereafter ob
tained unless thenct under which such pen
eion is claimed shall sjiccially so declare.
The bill nowgoos to tho house tor concui
rence.
NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES.
Wnsliington sjiccinl: Senator Van Wyck
nnd I'epresentatives Weaver and Dorsey
appeared before tlio houso commitcco on
tho Pacific railways for an hour to-dny and
were loud in favor of tho Van Wyck-Dorsoy
bill authorizing tho Union Pacific Kuilroud
company to build branch lines. Tho gen
tlemen created a good impression, and tho
situation is encouraging for a favorable re
port in tho house. Messrs. llartman, Yost
and Colpotzer were -present with tho com
mittee. Tho bill wns referred to a sub
committee composed of Messrs. Crisp,
Outhwaite, Ilnydcn, Webber and Dunn.
All except tho latter aro favorablo to tho
bill. 11ns sub-committee is tlio snmo winch
reported favorably tho Uni n Pacific fund
ing bill.
Tho sennto judiciary committeo has
about concluded tho investigation of tho
ehnrges preferred against Solicitor-General
Goodo, and it is thought ids nomination
will bo eventually confirmed. Tiio houso
appropriations committeo hns finished tho
consideration of tlio legislative, executive
nnd judiciary appropriations bill. Tho
itein that will probably attract most at
tention is that which makes appropriation
for civil service reform. All money re
quired for tlio commission is given, but a
provision attached requires that after tho
commissioners shall upon application of
tho head of a department for a clerk fur
nish him a list of all persons who havo
passed satisfactorily examination, from
whom ho mny select, instead of giving him
tho choice of but four eligibles. It is pro
vided also that tlio limit ns to ago ot ap
plicants must bo abrogated before the ap
propriation shall bo uvailublo.
Wnsliington special: Congress will un
doubtedly ndjourn within ten weeks. Tho
incisures which aro lelt over to tlio next
session are, in tlio very great bulk, tho snmo
as dcfealcd, so far as consideration is con
cerned. Tho prospects at this timo nro that
tho inter-state commerce, olcoinargerino,
appropriations, and privato bills, with tho
tariff, will tako up tlio rest of Uio session.
Tlio scopo of the real work yet to bo done
by this congress, it will bo observed, doo.i
not include tho navy reorganization, navy
reconstruction, bankruptcy, consular, la nil
forfeiture, Pacific railroad, and hundreds
of other bills oT moro or less public import
ance. It looks now us though a very largo
proportion of tho work of tlio committees
fully three-fourths of it is doomed -to
outright loss, waste.
Iloprosontativo Dorsey has formally laid
beforo tho houso committeo on Pacific rail
roads a petition signed by 33,000 Xo
brasknns asking for pnssngo of tho bill to
permit tlio Union Pacific railroad company
to ouiiu iiraucn lines. Mho committee was
much surprised nt tlio bulk of tho petition,
winch had a vcrj favorablo effect. Thobill
will bo reported to tho iiouuo on Tuosday
in nil probability, nud will bo favorably
recommended.
HoNovr Starches Shirts.
Now York Disnntth: It is now tho eon
ernl opinion, in both state and local po
litical circles, that ox-Aldorinan Fillgruff
will bo tho next ol tho alleged "boodle"
receivers to bo tried, and from high au-
tority it is learned that ox-Aldoriiuui
Willinm Kirk will be tho next to face the
bnr of justice. It is said tho evidence
against tho latter is completo and over
whelming, and that it will bo a question
of very short time when he will bo workinf
liehind his old associate, Jaehno. It is as
nerted that Kirk's shuro of tho "boodle"
has ltoeu traced.
The door ot Jaehne's cell at Sing Sinj
was locked at 0:110 last night, and the
prhjnnor slept until 5:30 this morning, lie
occupiM his cll alone, n privilege not
rIvoii to mnny convicts. At 0 o'clock he
(Inweed himself in his strip! eiiit nud fell
In with the rest of tho gang, who mnrohed
with the lock step to brekfiiHt. He ate
a pretty hearty menl of the prison fare.
He then marched to the laundry room,
where he went to work starching shirts.
Some Quotations From IFaw-i
tliorne.
In its latest "prize questions" the;
Literary News culls for n. rhoice of se
lections from Hawthorne. Tho list of
quotations presented for choico is so;
admirably niatlo up, that we insert it
here as a matter of literary interest:
1. "A maiden in her teens lias a cer
tain charm of halt blossom, and deli
cately folded leaves, and tender wom
anhood shielded by maidenly reserve."
2. "A picture, however "admirable
to tho painter's art, and wonderful
his power, requires of the spectator
a surrender of himself, in due propor
tion with the mil acta which has been
wrought. Like all revelations of the
better life, the adequate perception of
a great work of art demands a uifted
simplicity of vision." .Marble Faun.
3. "All bravo men love; for he only
is bravo wlio has alfections to ii.uht
for, whether in the daily battle of life
or physical contests."
-1. "An evil deed invests itself with
the character of doom." Scarlet Let
ter. 5. "lie true! He true! Tie true!
Show freely to the world, if not the
worst, yet some trait wliuieby the
worst may be inferred." Scarlet Let
ter. 0. "Christian faith is a era ml cathe
dral with divinely pictured windows.
Standing without, you see no glory,
nor possibly can imagine any; stand
ing within, every ray of light reveals a
harmony of unspeakable splendors."
Marble Faun.
7. "Could tho departed, whoever
ho may bo, return in a week after his
decease, he would invariably find him
self at a higher or a lower point than
ho had formerly occupied, on tho scale
of public appreciation."
8. "Could we know all tho vicissi
tudes of our fortunes, life would bo too
full of hopo and fear, exultation or
disappointment, to afford us a single
hour of true serenity." Twice Told
Tales.
9. "Death is so genuine a fact that
it excludes falsehood or betrays its
emptiness. It is a touch stouo that
proves the gold and dishonors the
baser metal." House of Seven Gables.
10. "Does it not a ratio a superin
tending Providence that, while view
less and unexpected events thrust
theniselvo continually athwart our
path, there should stiil bo regularity
enough in mortal life to render fore
sight even partially available?" Twice
Told Tales.
11. "Electricity! the demon, tho
angel, the mighty physical power, tho
all-pervading intelligence! Uy its
jneans, the woild of matter has be
conio a great nervo viabrating thou
sands of miles in a breathless point
of time. Tho round globo a vast
brain instinct with intelli
gence." Houso of Seven Gables.
12. "Kveiy crimo destroys moro
Kdens than our own." Marble Faun.
13. "Every human being, when
given over to the Devil, is suretohave
!the wizard mark upon him, in one
form or another." Hlithedalo lio
mance. 14. "From henceforth forever I
shall bo entitled to call tho sons of
toil my brethren, and shall know how
to sympathize with them, seeing chat
'I likewise havo risen at dawn and
borne tho fervor of tho mid day sun."
American Note Hooks..
If). "Ho meant to humbie Alice,
not to kill her; hut he had taken a
woman's delicate soul ipto h'is rude
gripe, to play with and she was
dead." llcu.se of Seven Gables.
10. "J, in whoso daily life you dis
cern the scantity of Enoch I, whose
footsteps, as you suppose, leavo a
gleam around my earthly track
I, who havo breathed the parting
prayers over your dying friends
1, your pastor, whom you rever
ence and trust, am utterly a pollution
unci a lie." Scarlet Letter.
17. "If I had an insupportable bur
den, if, for any cause, 1 woro bent up
on sacrificing every earthly hope as n
peaco offering toward heaven, I would
make tlio wide world mycell.andeood
deeds to mankind my prayer." Mar
bio Faun.
3 8. "Intellectual activity is incom
patible with any largo amount of bod-
jly exercise." Illithedalo liomnnco.
1U. "It contributes reatlv toward
a man's mortal and intellectual health
to bo brought into habits of coinnan-
ionship with individuals unliko him
self, who care little for his pursuits,
and whoso sphere and abilities he
must go out of himsel: to appreciate."
Scarlet Letter.
20. "It is a terriblo thouehfc that
our individual wrong-doing melts into
tho great mas j of human crimo and
makes us who dreamed onlv of our I
iituo separate sin mawes us guilty or
the whole." Marble Faun.
i.--!.. i -,. j.
21. "It is hard to die without one's
hamuness: to none moro so than niv-
self, whoso early resolution it had
been to partake largely oi tho joys of
life, but never to be burthoned with its
cares. Vain Philosophy!" Journal of
a Solitary Man.
2. "Love, whether nowlv born, or
aroused from a death liko slumber,
must always create a sunshine, filling
tho heart so full of radiance that ib
overflows upon the outward world.
Scarlot Letter.
23. ".Man must not disdain his
brotherhood, even with tho guiltiest,
since, though his hand bo clean, his
heart has surely boon poluted by tho
flitting phantoms of initiuity." Twico
Told Tales.
2-1. "No fountain so small, but
Heaven may be imaged in its bosom."
American Noto Hooks.
25. "No man who needs a monu
ment over ought to havo one."
20. "No summer ovor came back,
and no two suminersoveralike. Times
chango, and people change; and if our
hearts do not chango as raidily, so
much the worse for us." -Illithedalo
Homance.
27. "Often, in tv youngchild's idoas
and fancies, thore is something which
it roquirofl tho thought ol n lifotimo
to comprehend." Grondfather's
Chair.
2. "Perhaps, if wo could ponotrate
nature's secrets, wo should find that
what we call weeds aro more essential
to tho wall-boing of the world, than
tho most precious fruit or grain."
20. "Shame, Des-air, Solitude!
I These had been her teaThcrs stem
ind wild ones and they had made
herstroiigbut taught her much amiss."
-Scarlot Letter. "
30. "Simplicity increases in value
the longer wo can keop it, and the far
ther we can carry itonwartt into life."
Marble Faun. "
31. "Take need how thou deniest
to htm who. perchance, has not the
"ourogo to grasp it for himself the
bitter but wholesome cup that is now
presented to thv lips." Scarlet Let
ter. 32. "Tho angel and apostle of the
coming revelation must bo a woman
indeed, but lotty, pure and beautiful;
and wise, moreover, not through dusty
grief, but the ethereal medium of jov;
anil showing how sacred love should
make us happy." Scarlet Letter.
33. "The bands that were silken
once aro apt to become iron fetters
when we do ire to shako them oil."
Illithedalo Iiomance.
31. "The best of us being unfit to
die. what an inexpressible absurdity
to put the worst to dent h.'" American
Noto Hooks.
35. "The very ghosts of that mas
sive and stately" epoch havo so much
density that the actual people of to
day seem the thinner of tho two, and
stand more ghostlike by the arches
and cnlums, letting the rich sculpture
bo discerned through their ill-corn-p'leted
substance." Marble Faun.
30. "The wholoijuostionofeternity
is staked there, lfasingleoneof those
lwlpless little ones be lost tho whole
world is lost.'" Our Old Home.
37. "There is something more awful
in happiness than in sorrow, the latter
being earthly and finite, the former
composed of the substance and tex
ture of eternity, so that spirits still
embodied may' well tremble at it."
American Note Hooks.
38. "To the untrue man, the wholo
universo is false it shrinks to nothing
in his grasp. And he himself, in so far
'as he shows himself in a false light, be
comes a shadow, or indeed, ceases to
ex is t . " Sea rl e t Le 1 1 o r .
3S). "Wo have strongly within us
the sense of an undying principle, and
wo transfer that true senso to this life
and to tlio body, instead of interpret
ing it justly as the promise of spiritual
immortality. Septiniius Felton.
40. "Yet lam sensible of a groat
charm in this brightening moonlight;
and I love to watch how theday, tired
as it is, lags away reluctantly, and
(liates to be called yesterday so soon."
Houso of Seven Gables.
The Lust Pii vs of AVebstcr.
From a lioston Letter.
During my fivo years residence in
tho city of Doston I saw tho distin
guished state&man several times. I
heard hi. great speech in front of the
I'evero House. His voico rang out
liko a trumpet and In; was hoard dis
tinctly by the vast multitude that fill
ed the square .nnd crowded the streets
1 also heard him address the General
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in Faneuil Hall. The last
timo I saw him was a short time be
fore his death. I I.o was receiving tho
compliments and congratulations of
his iritnds in lioston. The city was
alive with visitors, the streets were
thronged and Mags waved from inast
and spire, roof, tree and window. In
strumental bands "discoursed sweet
music" and the great statesman rode
in his carriago through the immense
crowds of cheering friends, receiving
their homages hat inhandand bowing
right and lelt. A great change had
passed over him. lie had evidently
been a sulTorer a disappointed man.
1 le did not receive tin nominnt ion for
tho presidency, which hohoped to win.
inttier hait scored linn m a poem
called I'Ichabod." Wendell Phillips
had criticised his courso in congress in
a sharp speech, anil political editors
had called mm beloro tho bar ol pub
lie sentiment. When he died Tlieo
do re Parker delivered it splendid dis
courso, in which the most magnificent
American statesman was dulv hon
ored and honestly complimented.
His last words were, "I still live."
He lives in tho memory of survivors,
who saw him and who heard his mar
velous eloquence. Ho lives in tho his
tory that records his great achieve
ments as a lawyer, as a statesman
and as a logical debater. He lives in
works of art on canvas, in marbleand
in bronze. Ho lives in tho printed
speeches ..nut nave been published anil
scattered ovor tho land broadcast as
the grass in tho meadows. Naturo
dots not duplicate her greatest men in
a single century, perhaps never. Wo
may safely conclude that America will
not havo another Webster. "Wo
shall never look upon his like again."
This great man had faults, ho mado
mistakes, ho was human, although ho
was called the "god-like," but 1 have
no inclination now to make a lecord
oi his mistakes and misadventures.
Even tho sun has spots, but it is a
groat light, a brilliant luminary shin
ing upon the evil and tho good.
A Jtoyal Printer.
Prom Tho Pnll Mall Gazette.
It is not generally known that Prin:o
Ludwig of Uattenberg, son of Prince
Alexander of I Iesse, ia a practical print
er. Liko most of tho princes of tho
Prussian Koyal house, who have been
taught eithcran art ora trade, Prince
Ludwig of Uattenberg was early called
upon to choose a calling, and hischoico
fell upon tho art of Guttenberg. In
the palace of his father tho Princo has
a printing office completely fitted up
for ordinary printing nnd book-work.
Princo Ludwig prides himsolf on his
ability to compote with compositors
and printers who follow typography
for a livelihood. What is still moro
interesting is that the Princess, tho el
dost daughter of the (it and Duke of
Hesse, is a printer, too, and that, the
high-born pair work regularly togeth
er at tho case. The latent work which
has come from Prince Ludwig of Hat
tenborg's prow is a volume of notes on
travels written by the Prince's sister,
tho Countess of Erbiich-Schoiiborg-Tho
book is said to bo "xccuto l in a
thoroughly printor-like way.
Journeyiusr Down the Ohio- tu
1 7J).J.
From M. t Muster's Hist on-of tlio People
of tli' l nit.il States.
Yet a journey down tho river was
quite as hazardous as on tho day
when the first white man entered tho
valley. If thy traveler were a settlor
coining from tho east with his family
and goods-, ho would repair to Pitts
burgiay in a stock of powdorand ball,
purchas e provisions for a month, and
secure two rudest ructures which pass
ed by the name of boats. In tho long
keel boat ho would place his wife, his
children, and such strangers as had
been waiting at Fort Pitt for a chance
to travel ineompuny. In tho fiat-boat
or the ark, would be the cattle and tlio
store. The keel-boat wns hast ily and
clumsily made. The hold was shallow,
the cabin was low. Ovor the stem
projected a huge oar which, mounted
on a swivel, was called a swoop, and
performed all the duties of a rudder.
The ark was of rough plank intended
to be used for building at some settle
ment whore saw-mills wcrescaroo. Tho
shape was rectangular. Tho widt h was
l."i loot the length was forty. In this
craft, if the water wore high and
swift, if they did not become entangled
in the branches of overhanging tree's,
if tho current did not drive them on
an island or dfisl, them against the
bank in a bond, if the sawyers and
planters were skillfuly avoided, and
if no fog eonipoltad the boatmen to lio
to ind make fast to a tree, it "vas
possiblo to drilt from Pittsburg to
Wheeling in twelve hours. Wheeling
was a place of r0 log andframe houses,
boasted of a stockade, and in troub
lous times of a garrison of lotl troops,
llelow it, near the Muskingum, was
Marietta. In the ollicial language of
the time it wan described as being in
the territory ot the 1'nited States
northwest of the river Ohio, llut the
phrase w.is too long for tho boatmen
and settlers, and as they expressed it,
Marietta was on the Indian side of the
Ohio. Two hundred wooden houses
of boat-plunks or of logs mado up the
town. The inhabitants wore la.y and
given to drink, cultivated l.ttlo land,
and lived cliiclly em venison, wild tur
keys and bread made of Indian corn.
Food, therefore, was scarce and dear;
nor was it always that the owner ol
a few bushels of "red potatoes" or a
half-dozen barrels of Hour could bo in
duced to part with ono even for
money. Many a Hat-boat man
who stopped at tho placo to buy
food went disappointed away. Stiil
farther down the river, and just oppo
sito tho Little Kanawha, la Belle Pre.
Fifteen miles beyond was auothor
cluster of cabins; but thenco to tho
mouth of the Grout ICunuwhu the
country was a forest of "sugar-trees"
and sycamores. All day long (locks
of wild turkeys littered the trees over
head, and at times a bear or an oik
might ho seen swimming theriver. At
night tho woods on every hand re
sounded with tho bark of wolves.
Then was it that the lonely emigrants
were tormented by all manner of fears.
To go on in tho darkness was to ex
pose tho boat, to being caught upon a
planter or stranded upon an island.
To tie fast to the bank was, in all like
lihood, to become a mark for Indian
bullets beforo day. If the dread of be
ing wrecked overcame tho dread of be
ing shot, tho lires were put out, the
sides of tho cabin protected with
blankets and beds, and, while some
tried to sleep within, ol hers stood up
on tho deck, ax in hand, ready to cut
tho ropes at the first sound of the ap
proaching foe.
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A Suniouii Belle.
The author of "In tho Western Pa
cilic" thus describes a young woman
whom ho mot at a ball given in a
Chinaman's houso at Samoa: It was
attended chiefly by white men and
half-castes, but a few native women
woro there, gorgeous in silk dresses. I
must say the supper provided for us
was excellent. I devoted myself for
the greater part of tho evening to a
beautiful half-caste lady, who was
most elegantly arrayed in a long silk
night-gown, and a straw hat which sha
never took off. Hut in this happy
land she ran no risk of exciting un
flattering remarks upon her con
duct, as might havo been the case
at home. 1 behove most of tho men
there chose their partners for tho even
ing and took no others a very sensi
bio procedinu, as 1 thought. My part
nor at once rushed into conversation
in broken English. ".My name Mar
tha. What your numo'" Sho was diu
satisfied with my first name; but no
cepted tho second on being told that
my friends never addressed mo by it.
Sho said it would bo agreeable to
know rati by a name which sho could
consider her own property. "Come',"
I thought, "this is making tho run
ning." Her next remark was a start
ler. "Oh, dear!" she said "give mo a
glass of him" (rum). Though a uov
erugo seldom seen at balls, thoChinoso
host knew tho tasto of his guests, and
ruin wns provided in ample quanti
ties. Martha scorned to enjoy hors,
and she proposed a walk inthogardeii
aftonv ivd; but first she mado mo take
a sip out of her glass. Martha bailee
tion, real or assumed (I fear the latter),
now took a dilfurent turn. On reach
ing the garden sho seemed not so much
affected by tho romantic nature ol
tho situation as by a desire to annox
my shirt studs. "I beg of you your
studs," she said. "Vory bad manner
gentleman refuse lady." 1 thought so,
too, and handed them ovor to her,
when they woro stowed away in a
most business-like manner in the
night-gown. 1 thought mysolf justi
find, after this, in making the conven
tional remark, "I suppono you like
balls?" She replied promptly, "Yes,
No liko dance; like talk; gentleinai:
make me present." 1 congratulated
myself on having no further article
of valuenbout mo. Martha was clear
ly not a girl for pennitaMS youuo:
sons. Hut she had not finished yet.
far from it. My straw hat, it seemed,
fitted her exactly; and, calmly re
marking that it was a flue night and
no fewr of lain, she appropriated
timt aiso.
WiMM Ml
A "GciitkMiian."
A young Englishman, while visiting
the 1'riited States, said to a lady, "But
you have not many gentlemen in this
country, you know." "What do you
mean by the word 'gentleman'?" ask
ed tho lady, feathering her arrow.
"Why. those who live without doing
nnything, you know," answered the
young man, thinking it strange that
an intelligent lady should ask for n
definition of "gentleman." "Ah! I
see," replied the lady, with asmile;
"we havo many such, but hero we call
them tramps.''
Yet tho young Englishman was sim
ply uttering what ho thought a truism.
He hatl been educated to look upon a
gentleman as a man who, according
to lllackst one's definition of the term,
could live idly and without manual
labor, and bearing tho port, charge,
and countenance of a gentleman."
It is not many years ago sinco sin
gular notions prevailed in Great Brit
ain as to gentility. Even now, tho
House of Lords is practically closed to
a. doctor or a tradesman, and "so
ciety" does not smile upon nny person
who makes money by buyingorselling
the staples of tho country.
In IS lo, a man named ICelley sued
a Mr. Young for a racing cup and stake
which ho refused to give up. ICelley
had ridden his own horse inaracoand
won it, but the prizes had been award
ed to Lieut. Young, of Her Majesty's
regiment, whoso horse came insecond.
One of the conditions of the race was
that the horses should bo ridden by
gentlemen, and it was claimed that as
Young was a gentleman and Kelley
was not, therefore Young deserved tho
prizes.
On tho trial Kelley proved that ho
"lived idly and without manual la
bor," and boro "tho port, charge and
counteance of a gentleman," anel
should therefore be considered a gen
tleman, according to Blackstono's
definition of the word.
The other side proved that the Mar
chioness of Clanricarde did not visit
at Mr. Kelley's, though living within
a short distance of his house, and that,
therefore, "society" ditl not recognize
Mr. Kelley as a gentleman.
Ono witness, having eleclared on
oath that ho did not consider Mr.
Kelloy a gentleman, was asked, on his
cross-examination, to define the mean
ing of tho word.
"A gentleman is a person whoso
father was agenttamau, "answered tho
witness.
"So that if Mr. Kelley's hither was
a peasant," asked the counsel, "Mr.
Kelley would bo a peasant still, no
matter what amount of wealth or
education ho possessed?"
"Precisely so, sir."
"Is a barber a gentleman?"
"Most certainly not."
"Did you over hear of Sir Edward
Sugdon. tho present Lord Chancellor
of Ireland?"
"Oh yi's; frequently. His father, I
am told, wiis a barber."
"Is tho Lord Chancellor a gentle
man?" "Most certainly not," and the wit
ness went down, amid loud laughter.
Tho jury's verdict pronounced Mr.
Kelley a "gentleman," and gave him
tho silver cup, stakes anil costs.
Justice leather Than Law.
lion: IVrley Poore in tho Iloiitou l'mil-jet.
Mr. Webster used sometimes to read
tho conclusion of a chargo by Judge
Dudley, a trader and a farmer, amau
uscriut copy of which ho had formany
years in his desk. It was a treat to
hear him read it in pure and undeliled
English, ns it doubtless camo from
Judge Dudley's lips: ' 'You havo heard,
gentlemen of the jury, what has been
said in this caso by tho lawyers, tho
rascals! but, no, I will not abuso thorn.
It is their business to make a good
caiiHo for their clients; they aro puiel
for it, and they havo done in this case
well enough, but you and I, gentlemen,
havosoniethingelso to consider. They
talk of law. Why, gentlemen, it is not
law that wo want, but justice. Thoy
would govern us by the common law
of England. Trust mo, gentlemen,
common sense is a much safer guard
for us; tho common sense of Kaymond,
Epping, Exeter, and tho other towns
which havo sent us hero to try this
caso between two of our neighbors.
A clear head and an honest heart aro
worth moro than all tho law of all tho
lawyers. Thero was ono good thing
said at the bar. It was from ono
Shakespeare, an English player, I be
lieve. No matter, it is good enough
almost to bo in the Bible. It is this:
'IJo just, and fear not.' It is our bus
iness to dojustico botween thnparties,
not by any quirks of tho law out of
Coko or Blackstono, books that I havo
never read and never will, but bycom
mou sense and by common honesty,
as between man nud man. That is
our business, and the curso of God is
upon us if we neglect, orovade,or turn
asido from it. And now, Mr. Sheriff,
tako out tho jury, ami you, Mr. Fore
man do not keep us waiting with idlo
talk, of which thero has been too much
already about matters which havo
nothing to do witii tho merits of tho
ca?o. Give us an honest verdict, of
which, as plain, common sense men,
you need not bo ashamed."
AlJijr Gap.
Mnrtihflehl Lettor in UcHast (Me,) Journal.
It was ono of tho noblest traits of
Dar.iel Webster's character that ho
never treated tho men who worked for
him as menials. For Porter Wright
ho always entertained tho highest ro
gard, aim ho was his constant com
panion in all his fishing and hunting
excursions. Probably no man living
knows so much about tho inner lifo of
Webster, of his habits, customs one!
disposition as Mr. Wright. Wo found
tho old man chopping wood, and on
learning my errand )io replied in cheery
tones: "Lome m, como in. An, yea.
Mr. Webster wns a grand good man
and a jovial companion. His death
left a gap in MarBhlleldthat can noveii
bo filled!'' It didn't seem to occur to
his hone3t soul that thodeath of Web
ster left a gap that extended from
Aiaiiio to tlio uoiuon unto.