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QUADRUPLE SHEET. 8VM0AT MORNING NOT. 38, IS89. ComTTiiintrmtect A Tariff for Revenue and Free Trade. It is obvious that for the last few ears the offices of this country have been administered in the interest of men who in the machinery of Government recognize nothing but an engine of self aggranditement.

The tunes oture into the sort of arguments witt fhrv an effectnaDv nhed Con gressmen and honorable Senators, and convinced them that the public good demanded that they should have a monopoly of certain great branches of trade. We have simply now to deal with the fact itself, and see what can be done to put the industry of the country on a fair footing and free commerce from, the trammels and obstructions which a vicious system of legislation has This privileged class are generally credited with a good degree of shrewdness in all matters affecting their own interests. Without canng to controvert the correctness of the general sentiment in this particular, we may remark that selfishness, like every other inordinate passion, often overleaps itself and defeats its own aims. This suggestion naturally suggests itself at the present time, when from all parts of the North and Northwest, notwithstanding that the year has been one of unusual frnitfulness and plenty, our ears are assailed with the most doleful complaints of the torpor and depression under which all the great interests of that favored region are superabundance of cattle, hogs and sheep, the farmer is scarcely able to keep his head above water, borne down, as he is, by taxation and debt. The merchant and the manufacturer necessarily share in the general depression, and if we may credit the statement of the New York Tribune, were it not for the irrepressible buoyancy of Southern agriculture, through which a profitable market is opened np to the Northern merchant and manufacturer, the financial condition of New York and New England would have been at the present moment as near a collapse as that of Illinois and Strange and anomalous as this condition of things must necessarily seem, its natural history is easily traced.

A fiscal policy conceived in the narrowest spirit of empericism and prompted by selfishness a system of taxation widen assumes the right of a wealthy cbque of manufacturers to lay the whole nation under tribute for their especial behoof is responsible for the whole of the mischief. The farmers and mechanics of the West have been made the dupes of such sages as Greeley, and such patriots as They have been so successfully manipulated by political conjurers of this ilk as to become persuaded that it is for their interest that they should pay two prices for all that they consume, so that only Pennsylvania ironmasters and New England manufacturers might pocket the difference. Tin are now reaping the reward of their folly and credulity, and we confess wc liave no tears to shed over, their sufferings. This is the only sort of logic, it would seem, by which they can be convinced of their own fatuity in upholding a system which discriminates against the mass of the people for the sake of enriching a small but pretentiouB class of traders. The annual amount to which the country is thus fleeced almost surpasses computation.

A war with Spain for the liberation of Cuba would be a far less costly affair. It'tends somewhat to shake our confidence in the wisdom of the masses, or in their capacity to deal even with the simplest problems of government and legislation, when we recall to mind the sort of reasoning by which thev have been swayed in giving in their adhesion to that disastrous policy which is now impoverishing the country and ruining its commerce. We well remember reading an article in the Trihnne. some Years airo. in which tne philosophic editor of that paper attemptea to prove man it must he a.

irreat savin cr to the neonle to have all the fabrics which they consume manufactured at home. This, indeed, it was admitted, could nnlv he hroncrht. about bv a nro tective fariff, Dy which the home foreigu competition, and might, of course, result in the people having to pay for those articles a higher price market. "But then it was shown that the ni ore of manufacture was the same here as in Europe, and that therefore to send the raw material to foreign lands and return it to this country in a manufactured state was ble and money, all of which might be saved by having the manufacturing process earned on here. The fact that the money cost of fabrics nius proaucea woma oe greater the consumer than it would be if the Were Urocnred from nhrruiH wfdfrhu nothing, it was alleged, against the argument for protection to home u.uuulaviuiee.

It was ODVIOUS, tU6 Tribune continues, that the working up in a distant country of raw material produced in thk, must lead to a wasteful expenditure of labor as well as risk of loss that could only be covered by a heavy msurance fall of which would be avoided by having the cotton made up at home and to that extent a clear gain would be effected to the consumer of the manufactured product. It was, therefore evidently for the public advantage that we should maintain such a tariff as would exclude foreign commodities from competition with our domestic manufactures. This was the sort of twaddle that was accepted as profound reasoning by men who were predisposed to accept as true anything emanating from a Katlical source, and duly authenticated as part and parcel of the true iaith of loyalist. But as Western men are not sun ply idealists, but have also an eye to what is tangible and substantial, and as they had to be especially propitiated in this matter, the lure was held out to them of high prices for wool which the tariff, they asstused, would infallibly secure. Hut they now rind to their sorrow that the men they took to be statesmen were simply demagogues practicing on their gullibility, whose only aim was to pull the wool over the eyes of their dupes.

But as to the fleece of their pockets, they find that it will scarcely bring to day the cost jSfltamHT great interest which we should suppose to ne, at least, quite as essential to the national welfare, and as promotive of progress as manufactures can be we refer to the shipping interest is absolutely prostrated by the miserable policy which a venal and truculent Legislature has fastened upon the country. So much is this the case, that we observe that those interested in this branch of business have been making a move to procure from Congress, for the various materials employed in ship building, an entire exemption from taxa august body to legalize free trade in ship building. Our carrying trade is at this moment almost entirely in the nanus 01 foreigners, principally of the British. And the continuance of this state of things is inevitable so long as the present high tariff is maintained. But if free trade is essential to the nrosneritv of the shinning interest, it.

ag.BQ less so to that of agriculture. strated, had her voice been heard, ex perience is now most enectuatly teach me, to wit that a "protective'1 tariff, while it enhances the cost of all that an agricultural community consumes, actually brings down the price of all that it has to sell. President Grant is not given to much speakinsr, but he now and then lets fall a pithy saying that is worth preserving. It was at his inauguration, if we remember right, that he said that in his opinion the quickest and surest way of getting rid of a bad law was to have it rigorously enforced. And we are sate in affirming that the blind temerity which, in pushing protectionist principles to their extremest consequences, has demonstrated their pernicious character, will do more to discredit and explode the whole theory than could have been accomplished in ten times the time, so long as its advocates continued to act in a spirit of moderation and retained the guise of honest statesmanship.

It is consolatory, however, to be assured that the day is not far distant when, before the combined and vigorous onslaught of the South and the West, this whole fabric of corruption will fall, and a new concession to the demands of justice and the rights of the whole people be wrested from the grasp of our oppressors, inaugurating, let us hope, a more auspicious era than has ever yet dawned upon this South' era land. Paris Pencilings. Special Correspondence of the Picayune. Paris. October.

Iftfif). Brigadier Zorilla, (brother of the said the result of his mission will be that Mexico will send to Madrid Senor Bomero, a kinsman of the Mexican Minister of Finance as Minister, and Spain will send as her diplomatic representative to the Mexican capitol, Senor Arguerino. It is reported Senor Bomero will bring with hint a treaty of commerce between Spain and Mexico The inclement Weather has brought on an attack of the French Emperors old enemy, the rheumatism but he has not been so unwell as to require any physician except his usual medical attendant. The weather has been peculiarly try ing to the French Emperor for we have had two very severe snow storms ana tne temperature aas lauen quite low Prince Napoleon, who is said to be in Florence, has not quitted Paris Mons. Guizot is in Paris, but contrary to his usual custom he will not remain here during the winter he will spend it at his estate in Nor mandv, Val In 18 10, 21,000, 000 of nostnere stamos were sold in 1N54, 3,000,000 were sold last year, 450,000,000 were There is a very large hardware shop in the Rue St.

Denis, near the Seine, kept by Messrs. Allez Freres. Their clerks quarreled witli them and quittea me snop. in time, now ever, about half of the clerks foum to be taken back again, others became extremely anirrv. and recruit ing all their friends for allies, went to the shop to order the clerks who had returned to quit the shop.

Upon finding the latter refuse to obey, they at once assaulted them with every object they could lay hands on stove pipes, frying pans, kettles, irons, tongs, shovels and the like. The assailed and the owners of the shop gallantly defended themselves until the arrival of the police, when the ringleaders were arresieu Mons. ujcneiet is about to publish his memoirs Mons. Thiers is about to nublish his sneeches. It is said the French Government is on the eve of throwing the bai open to everybody.

Anybody may practice Law without examination or license. Doubtf id Cardinal Bonaparte is spoken of as likely to be made Archbishop of Lyons, with the the title of Primat des Gaules but the Archbishop of Sens is likely to dispute the former right to this title. He will found his claim upon Pope John VIII. bull, dated 876, granting tins title to the Archbishop of Sens. It is minored the Czar, fatigued with the weight of his absolute power, contemplates abdication in favor nf liis eldest son, now twenty five years spades, came out of a cigar shop the other dav.

smokincr a white nine. Bv Jove exclaimed a gamin, there aint a pipe what's a smokingitself, and 'tis the nine which ffmlnttr to make their appearance in Paris. The 15th October 130 boats, each containing 300.000 aoDles. reached Paris. 1000,000,000 apples are annually brought to Paris, and fetch on an average 2f.

the hundred Count de Beaumont having discovered in his wife's secretary letters from gentlemen, their wunmnn fVJcrwTa wliiel. ho thought too affectionate for his honor a nusoand, has been challenging hear that Prince Richard de Metter wh aaTJlmonS' the compromised of the ir TP" aJaUf5 ifc to 9e cradled in courts and trained in diplomacy, if one pan not write lettera, evc to gfLTsggl The duel was fought on an island in the Rldne. Prince de Metternich selected the sabie, wfuch wasmjudicious for he could better have defended himself with the small Dtiwu tnuiui ia muiw) man witu sabre (which is cut), but he was familiar with the sabre and not familiar with the small sword. Count de Beaumont, although accepting the sabre, used it as a small sword. After blows until he had mastered his manner of fiirhtincr.

Konnmnnt lunged rapidly and 'severed the arm of his adversary to the bone. The artery was cut ana Died profusely. The Prince's life was in some danger; Beaumont haa alrendv' fnnh fr duels and has several others for the next iew aayB. mere is at present such a passion for duelling now prevalent, a young fellow at Bordeaux, who plumes himself upon his skill with the small sword, hearing M. Paul de Cassagnac had fought another duel, sent him a challenge to fight to the death.

The latter lwo rari to in cline, saying he never fought unless uimgeu to uo so. vj A. For the Picayune. 1 "The Rearing of Children." There is no art which is so little, or so imperfectly understood, as the art of training children. Not through any lack of study, however, for I believe that parents in general are theorizere upon the subject to a very great extent.

Long before they have arrived at the station of father and mother, the idea has engrossed their attention their walks in life have led them where observation has taught that few children are reared properly. "Willfulness, petulance, a spirit of rebellion under restraint, and all things which go to make children disagreeable, they find to their heart's content, and they forthwith bestow upon the matter a vast deal of thought. They can readily perceive where the fault lies, and inwardly resolve that when the time comes they will show to the world what children should be. Time usually proves to them that theory and practice are words of entirely different meanings, and they find themselves in turn the war ning which others have leen to them. To a student of human nature, much interest is attached to the different comprehensions of the subject exhibited by parents in the training of children.

Some entertain as a pet idea that steruess ami severity are the surest roads to success in the management of the little ones, crushing out of the young heart the filial affections of childhood, gaining obedienee or submission (not love) through fear, and parting wider and wider the heart of parent and child. How pitiful How sad the thought that the spirit which should lie nurtured beneath the skies of affection's best love, cherished as something too sacred for the bestowal of one unkind thought should be there cut to the earth and trampled in the dust. Others, extremists of another kind, lavish upon their children affectionate tenderness and love to that extent that they become blind to the. faults of nature, and humored, petted and indulged the dear things result in perfect types of spoiled children, and of all things disagreeable upon earth, there is nothing much more so than a spoiled child. It may be true that: It int aU In brlnjrtni? np.

Thoush timi mav dim'a silver cap It wUl be sUver BtiU," And I doubt not that many parents usePthat bit of moral philosophy to console themselves for the evil results attendant upon their efforts to bring up a family." Like Topsy," tlieii children were not raised they growed." The theory that children should be an honor to their parents for the reason that they have been the cause care, trouble and anxiety, is a vicious one; as if children had a voice in their creation, and should be mad. responsible for the burden. I admit that such things should have certain weight; but a parent's love will accomplish what no other means can. A loving parent will be to a child a life long remembrance asweet collection and who that has felt a mothers love, but will echo these thoughts with energy, and hallow them with a tear. Farmers' Allminax, Josh Billings has just prepared a burlesque upon the old fashioned Farmers' Almanac, full of weather prognostications, family receipts, and moral advice to farmers, of New York, of course, is the publisher.

We make the following extracts from this work of 1870, which is stated to be tew years since leap year, and nine four years since the Amerikan people left Grate Brittain tew take care of herself, and started a snug little bizzines of theii own. which am instrukted tew state, is pay in well. Containing all that iz necessary for an Allminax, and a good deal When a rooster crows, he crows all A nu milk cow is stepmother tew evry man's baby. Fools are the whet stuns ov society. If a man habit got a well balanced head i like lew see him part his hair in the middle.

Flattery iz like colone water, to be melt ov, not swallered. Thare iz only one substitute tor the endearment of a sister, and that the endearment of sum other phel low's sister. He whom the good praze, and the wicked hate, ought tew be satisfied with biz reputashun. Men generally, when they whip a mule, sware, the mule remembers the swanng, but forgits the licking. About the hardest thing a phellow kan do is tew spark two girls at onst, and preserve a good average.

Going tew law iz like skinning a nu milk cow for her hide, and giving the beef tew the lawyers. The time tew be karef idlest iz when we hav a hand full ov trumps. Mother! The holy thoughts and ineniorys that cluster around this can never be so well expressed az in the calm utterance ov the name itself. The man who haz just found out that he kant afford tew burn green wood, haz taken hiz fust lesson in econemy. A lie is like a kat, it never ctuus to yu in a straight line.

The longe6t lived thing I know iz a nick nanie. Most men go through life az rivers go tew the sea.bi following the lay ov flie ground. EP 3907 bales of cotton were shipped Irom Crystal Springs, from Octo fForttie Pirone. Morrison Heady. THE BLIND AND DEAF POET.

To be deprived of hearing the sweet voices of friends and relatives, to have the soul forever shut to all harmony, is a sad affliction, and the seal of darkness upon the eyes is so appalling that life is bereft of nearly all its charms, wnat claims uas he upon our sympathy who yet lingers in the world surrounded by the "double night of darkness and silence;" whom the visitations of Providence hath bereft of both these means of communication with the outer world whose soul yet lingers in its tenement of clay to live upon itself. Were so awful an affliction to come with an individual into the world, he would pass through it without gathering a single idea, governed solely by animal iiistinct and were it to fall upon most of our race, they would relapse into a helplessness and stupidity only heightened by the memory of all the joys from winch they had been forever severed. The most entrancing of poems was the offspring of the bhnd Homer the gorgeous vision of the Illiad, in the glorious splendor of its outline and the matchless execution of its details was conceived by one to whom the rising sun brought no day. The sightless Milton, to whose gaze Heaven spread her glories, and hell revealed its terrors, sent forth Ids sweetest strain to light, from which he had been forever debarred. Beethoven was struck deaf in the midst of Ins heavenly melody that enrapt a listening world.

But it remained for America to produce the bard that should strike his harp to dai and silence" one who, though blind yet seeks Parnassus Morri The touching story of this man is worthy of a better pen. It is the most touching, perhaps, in the annals of literature. Born, some forty years ago, in Spencer county, Kentucky, of parents that were among those hardy pioneers that cleared away the forests of that proud State, he is the eldest and only survivor of three sons. The log house that clung to the side of a hill within a mile of Salt River, situated in an obscure neighborhood and an obscure county, was not, of course, the home of luxury, or even of comfort, and in those rude days the literary training of young Heady was not the best, tor hooks, newspapers and periodicals were eldom seen. When about nine years of age his father removed to a more commodious house some few miles away, and here the family reside to this day.

He exhibited no unusual precocity while at school, and though never at the foot of his clar and often at the head, he yet read a great deal, devoting bis attention a most Lo do, to old rhymes, travels, tales of adventures and shipwreck, but intensely interested in Don Quixote. His remarkable physical iulirmities were not hereditary, his dcafne. being, in part, and his blindness whollv, When about three years of age, while nlavintr near some wood cnt lei a chip from the axe of one of the workmen dew in his left eye, which soon proved fatal to the sight, witliout, however, injuring tne other. When sixteen, while playing with a al blow in the right eye from the naked heel of his playmate, and vears nrevious to this sad accident he had received a heavy fall from his fusion on the head, affected his hearing. This injury was greatly aggravated by the use of ouiuine anrintrin termittent fever, and his deafness sensibly increased from year to year till the age of twenty hve, when he could no longer hear without the use ot an ear trumpet, and lie was snie ouentlv whollv denrived af thissense Alter the loss of his sight he became a pupu in tne nana institute ot Kentucky, where he remained a vear.

and then removed to the Ohio 'institute io; fourteen months longer. His fish education. He devoted much of his time to music, taking lessons on the violin, chironet, piano and organ, evincing considerable talent in this direction. After leaving school he went to Louisville, and attempted to teach the piano, and though Ins deafness was a great impediment to him he met with success; but his sense of hearing became so blunt that in the niii.srt.of two or three vears he was compelled to abandon this pursuit. Jii next etl'ort is the most pathetic in ident in his life.

Aware of the great fame of Milton, and acquainted with the outlines ot Paradise Lost through others, yet deprived of the pleasure of reading it as it had nevei been printed in the embossed form, to be read by the sense of touch, he conceive the plan of getting up such an edition, in which he succeeded through the generous subscription of the neighboring counties. It was the blind seeking communion with the blind of the past, and what heart could refuse assistance. What deep pleasure will his efforts instil into the minds of his fellow sufferers by this accession to the Blind Library, for until the'n not more than half a dozen standard works had appeared in the embossed form of printing. How many a sightless being will thrill with the heavenly visions, that were revealed only to him, whose eves were forever taken from eartnly had a nectdiar talent for simnle nar ration, Heady commenced his literary career with a juvenile story of Washington. Writing down the facts from memory, he discovered very soon that he was unable to review without the assistance of others.

After several months, by the help of a good locksmith, he got up a machine which punched the letters or characters and brought them tangibly before him. His book was finished in a year, and found a ready purchaser and publisher in Walker Wise, of Boston, who paid :) Jo for the copyright. It went through a third edition within a year, and copies to the number of 8000 were sold. Encouraged by his success, he next attempted a story of early life in Kentucky, which, when finished, lie sent to Boston in search of a pub Thc press was crowded at the time, and the book was objected to as too lengthy. Nothing daunted, he remodeled the storv, sbo: lening it by a hundred pages, and met with failure a second time.

Taking it in hand again he changed the plot and gave to the volume the tide or Big Black riru a seven times written dook. Meanwhile he had comnleted his juvenile History of Columbus," a wont or snout wu pages, wnicn ne also sent to Boston, but the publishers declined even so much as to look at it. Hfi npxt RnhmittAil it. to the fiHifcor of the New Eclectic Magazine, of Baltimore, who would perhaps have run it as a serial through the magazine, had it arrived in time. Upon this work he bestowed great pains, writing every chapter four times, and many of them as often as six times.

His writing machine by this time had begun to give way, so "he contrived a new one on a better plan, with which he can write six huudred words in twenty minutes. He says of this instrument: "One of my nieces has learned to use my new machine, and has rendered valuable service by copying old manuscripts for my revision, and choice bits of literature from Shakespeare, Coleridge, Whit tier, Longfellow and Hawthorne, for my reading." The invention of the machine, of itself shows a genius for mechanics; but Ie8ide8 this, he has lately appbled for a patent on a hydraulic machine designed to raise water from wells and cisterns. Of Heady's poems we can speak with some certainty, having read them. They have appeared from time to time in the Louisville Journal, the Eclectic Magazine, Little's Living Age and the Baltimore Episcopal Methodist, and have recently been published, in a neatly bound volume, under the title Seen and Heard," by Henry C. Turnbull, Baltimore recently reviewed in the Picayune.

That they evince poetic genius good critics have declared that they have more than ordinary brilliancy of imagination and deep pathos, is admitted by nearly all who have read them. Though deprived so early of the sense of hearing, he has a remarkable sweetness of rythm, and his sentences are harmonious to the last degree, while his language is almost faultless. A Short Sermon on Misplaced harity, five tliotifcond dollar of cliarlt' so univer know that there are thousands ot hundreds in our midst so destitute they will suffer for want of warmth and the necessities of life subscriptions are going the rounds to raise funds for the purchase of household articles to make comfortable a minister whose salary is rive thousand dollars. How many of our merchants who appear to be doing a prosperous business would not willingly take five thousand dollars as their respective profits How many are there in this city who work hard from early morn until 9 or 10 o'clock at night, and often in the wee small hours who are considered well off" because they receive a salary of three or four thousand dollars Then to the question Should a man whose compensation for his time and labor is five thousand dollars a year be considered an object of charity merely because he is a minister Is it Chris tian dutv for him to nernnt such sub scriptions to be taken up or receive them, when there are probably in his parish many to whom a small donation would be a god send? Is it Christian chturity or a deed of credit for a man to subscribe ten or twenty dollars to such there I are so many miserable wretches immediately around us to whom the eift off a dollar would le bread and happiness foi a If is certainly a ueiiunnnzea age ot cnnstianity wnen business men of practical sense dis nlav such a limited knowledge of the meaning of christian charity as to subscribe twenty live dollars to add to the comfort of a man who, at the same time, is as wealthy as himsell, and probably the same day refuse a dime to the poor cripple beggar who, although called a professional, is de serving of charity from the mere fact that he can cam his bread from no othe: source. Let the man who gives twenty five dollars to a subscription simp inrpugn a sense oi uonor, oe cause a neighbor merchant or friend piescnts the list, give a dime to every loor nipple he meets say he meets ty Ave dollars would there not be more ratification in knowing that he had given enough to ten persons to month than to have bestowed it where charity was no; the object.

If sions to make their minister a present as a token of their love and esteem for him, well enough but, where the miuister receives from them a salary unon which anv man could live, not only iu comfort but in luxury, it is a nooi mannestation oi tneir esteem mini as an intellectual and christian man to go from door to door with a subscription list tor ins oenent, making him appear as an object of charity. arv of two thousand dollars with a family to support whose pride would not be hurt, or even insulted, if his take up a subscription of money for If the money collected iu this wa; be invested in articles of use ant given to the minister as a present he tion doing him justice in the eyes of nis welfare? All who think a mo ment will answer no. When these articles are given to the minister he ot course is not told that the money with which they were purchased was asked from strangers as charity, fo no man who is rich in tne knowledge of riirht and Christian faith as to hold the position of rector of one of our hu srest and most intellectual nanshes, would, with his eyes open, permit his pt ople make him the object of their The' riter's object has not been to anything that has been done, but to give, in simpryconsirucieu sentences, honest facts, and show manv how unintentionally they are guilty in misplacing tneir cnaruy. '5? A safetv car wheal, which claimed, will prevent railroad accidents, lias recently been exhibited in New l.orK. me invention is reported as attached to either end.

These wheels dow siaes oi tne ran, but tuey rail. The bevel of the wheol is such that when a car is oQ tho track the outer not leave the trade so lone as ther: rails. Capt. Hall's Adventures in the Arctic Regions. Cincinnati Km fairer.

Nor. A verv laree audience, greeted CaDt. Hall at Pike's last evening, on the occasion of this, his first lecture among bis old friends and acquaintances since his return from the Arctic regions. The house was better filled than it has been our pleasure to see on the occasion of the delivery of any lecture here for some time, and tne attention given io me iwwuw was such as evinced an earnest desire for a more intimate knowledge of this great unknown world, which Capt. Hall has traversed, and through whose indomitable perseverance.

coupieu with a laudable curiosity anu manly courage, to say nothing of his humane promptings, the people of the present and all future time can not but be indebted. R. M. Bishop, lnirouucea uapt. waii to ine ience.

who snontan'eouslv an planded at the mention of the name. Cant. Hall then nroooeded to snve. a detailed history of his travels. He said he had arrived in this couutry but a few weeks, but during these few weeks he felt all the time as one that had given a grand leap, as it were, from the frigid and almost lifeless regions of the North to tliislightning moming world.

For the past five years he had been associated with those whom we call savages, the Esquimaux, and it was not exnected that he would even make an approach to the standard of what a lecture ought to be. Capt. Hall then narrated how to the Arctic region. In 18.38 and 1839, while McClintock was prosecuting a search for Sir John Franklin he con ceived a plan of co operating with bringing intelligence that he had trSt Tfin.r iat Franklin's men had. in the course of their cruise, vis ited this land, and tnat tney mignt possibly be living there.

When Franklin left, in 1855, for that region, it was not known whether the Atlantic was connected with the 1'aeihc or not. At nreiwnt, he Raid there were, one mil lion one hundred and thirty thousand miles of territory, the glorious gift of God, that was not known, and he, for one. was ashamed to own it. The document found by McClintock hand marsrin of it bavins been eaten away by rust. McClintock.

Crozier's men, besides many relics of interest Capt. Hall was not satisfied with the result of MeClintock's journey, and so he resolved to devote his life to the cause of humanity by rescuing some of the survivors of that ill fated expedition. So, in 1800, Capt. Hall started for King William's Land. In his lecture the Captain nointed out the route, taken bv him.

and recounted the hardshins which beset him on every hand. In this voyage Lapt. nan maue tne import ant discovery mat rrooriBner straits, as heretofore known, were a myth, but that iu reality that body of water was a ide bay. In consequence of the wrecking of his expedition boat, Capt. Hall was obUged to remain at this point two years, before he could get an opportunity to proceed upon bis still determined voyage to King William's Land.

During this time, however, he was not idle. He made explorations of the bay Frobrisher's,) and learned many of the traditions of the Esquimaux. He found where Martin Frobrisher had landed some three hundred years before and attempted to erect a fort. He also collected a lot of relics and sent them to the British Government through the al Geographical Society'. He also determined the fate of five of Fro brisher's men.

The full history of this voyage has been published by the Harper of New York. A "it bout being able to reach King William's Land, Capt. Hall returned home in the fall of and, learn ing that the rebellion had broken out, ottered his services to President Lincoln, through Salmon P. Chase, who had befriended him, to go in pursuit "I the rebel Alabama, but his offer Wi not accepted, and feeling that there was a certainty of crushing out the rebellion without his services, he i mined to continue on las mission. Accordingly, in bM, in the spring of the year, with his he for King William's Laud.

i it ij getting near Reprdse Bay, he learned from a band ot Esquimaux something concerning the survivors oi Sir John. He learned that Croxier and some three or four men had sur ed. and the last seen of them thev were making their way southward to ward their own country. Capt. Hall was compelled to winter among these tribes during the whiter.

They suffered greatly for the want of provisions. As an instance of the unselfishness of the Esquimaux, Capt. Hall related that during the winter while they had no provisions they had plenty of old, carefully picked bones. One day Tuk oo li too, known in Knghsh by the name Hannah, was reading Old Mother Hubbard she came to the passage where the doleful story is told that the old dame had no bone give to her dog. Stopping suddenly, aud with a tear stealing down hei cluck, she said: "Was that not too bad No bene foi the poor dog.

If he were only here we would give him some of these." During the time that Cant. Hall was so pressed for food, all but two lamilies of the Esquimaux deserted him bill when he soon after became successful in obtaining a supply of provisions, they were glad enough to return to him. In the spring of 18U5 Capt. Hall started for Kepidse Bay, accompanied onlv by Esquimaux. He succeeded in reaching that point, but was unable to uach King William's Land, his objective noint.

until the spring of 1 868. While at Repulse Bay lie deter and was accompanied by great privation to himself and his Esquimaux. Even the dogs were affected by the privations. Many of them, falling iu their tracks, were instantly devoured by those which were left. On reaching his destination he found a village of two 'hundred inhabitants, avEo expressed great joy at seeing ldm, and desired to be taken back with him.

By reason of being ten davs behind the appointed time of Ins return, Capt. Hall was unable to obtain some men who had been promised to him from a whaling vessel to go to King William's Laud. Capt. Hall gave quite a detailed account of his trip to King William's Land, and the results of hisrsearches on Ridley's Island, near where was found one of the shim belonging to Capt. Franklin's expedition.

He narrated many interesting facts in relation to the people, the climate and the country of that northern part of the globe. Mark Twain in Hayti. Arrived at my hotel, I asked tha small colored boy what I owed him for carrying mv valise. Nine hund'd dollars, sah." I fainted. When I came to, a number of people were about me, applying restoratives, and doing what else they could to help me.

The soulless colored boy was standing there, cold and serene. How much did you say, boy Nine hund'd dollars, sah reg'lar price, sah." I appealed to the bystanders for protection. An old gentleman of noble countenance and commanding presence, said the boy was right ho was charging only the usual rate. I looked at the other faces. They all mutely endorsed the venerable conspirator's statement.

I sadly handed the boy a thousand dollar bill. He walked off. I was stupefied with amazement. I said, what does this meant There's a hundred dollar change coming tome." True," the old party said, "but it is not the custom to regard a trifle like that." Stunned and dizzy, I hurried to my room and threw myself on the bed. almost satisfied that I had lost my reason.

I applied tests. I repeated the multiplication table without making a mistake. It was plain my comprehension of numbers was unimpaired. I repeated "The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck" without a blunder. It was plain my memory was sound.

I read one of Mrs. Browning's poems, and clearly understood some of it. It was plain that my intellectual faculties were in a condition of even unusual vigor. Then, what in the world was tile matter Had I not suddenly developed a monomania? a crazmess about nloney only I wandered round the town for tnree nours, as crazy as a loon per fectly desperate. It was plain enough to me now that I haagone crazy on the subject of money.

How I "had ever come to do such a thins is a to do such a thing is a mystery, for I had always been a sort of spendthrift, a man who had never how, and so I said to myself that by this time Cliarley must have bought all the things we wanted, and got the bills to the hotel. I would go and pay them. I would see if this dismal hallucination was in force. When I arrived, I told the landlord to make out his bill and add the tradesmen's bill to it, and give it to me as quickly as possible. I sat down to wait a smothering volcano of anxiety and impatience for if my mind was not straight by this time, I dreaded that my madness might increase under my distress and drive me to commit some fearful crime.

I shuddered presently when I thought I felt a desire creeping through jne to spring on a decrepit old man near me and throttle him. I moved away and turned my back, and then I covertly threw my pocket knife out of the window. Now the bill came. I read thus I translate: bill, an folio wb 6 bunches 12 pineapples claret 22,000 2 baskets champagne. Two hundred and ninety five thousand four hundred dollars.

I read this bill over deliberately six or seven times, and never said a word. Then I said I would step out and get a breath of fresh air. 1 got it the breath of fresh air. I walked gently around the corner, whistling unconcernedly. And then 1 glanced back, and seeing nobody watching me, sauntered toward the American packet ship at the rate of about ten or eleven miles an hour.

I picked up Charley on the way. He hid letween decks a couple of hours, till the vessel was out of the sight of land, and the cigars and things the landlord had them. I trust ne has them yet. We have parted to meet no more. I have seen enough of Hayti.

I never did take much interest in Hayti, anyhow. Mark Twain. f. S. I understand it all now.

I have been talking with the Captain. It's very simple when one comprehends it. The fact is, the war has been raging so longihat Haytien credit is about dead, and the treasury sapped Very dry. Therefore one dollar in gold will buy eighteen hundred to two thousand dollars worth of Haytien greenbacks, according to the tenor of the current war news. I wish I had my valise back.

SnfflOoSxpreM. Au exchange says, we are anxious to obtain the services of a very large maa tg attend to; the following kind of per iue Dene vol erjL gonneman wno i vindictive and oowardlv sneak who wants to abuse some citizen editorially, to gratify his own personal 8PThe sly and stingy sneak who wants to get a half column pan' on his business inserted as an item of Keaeral interest." The sanctum bore who takes liberties with ail loose manuscripts and cau't take a hint to leave. The fellow who want to know whether we are a candidate for several offices. The patent medicine agent who ex hibits spurious contracts from other papers when he wants to "Jew down where thev cannot make $fn0 a d.iv. 1 ili at region one industrious fellow made siu.OOO in a week, aud lost it in o.e nml, at the gaming ibie.

Another uimii savn 'I bad $17,000 in Mondav in and w)u Sa'urday night came, I.