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i AIX) KXPHES'i MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1869. it N0TE3 FROM THE PEOPLE. Union, and that from that place it waa i'SE BDTFALO EXPRESS IXSVKAlfCE. where the building i made to burst out ot darknea into sudden light, but it was nevertheless very magnificflst, and the druggist, or aend three dollar and twenty-fire oenta to Dr. R.

V. Pierce, tfo. 395 Main atreet, Buffalo, New York, and get Dreux, of the French; whQ th German and Italian and Dutch schools are represented by Seebach, Schidoni, Ouarhinoy. Vandyke, Tan Maaa, and ether. A JAPANESE THEATRE.

ear like the note of an anriL What with her glowing face, brilliant recital, trenchant language and enthBBiastie devotion, the effect waa dramatic. Mrs. Calhoun js at all time a personable woman, but on this occasion she was brilliantly handsome. Her large black eye were lnminoris, ber lip softened to pathos, or curled with indignation. The oliv complexion, sometimes palid, waa warmed into beauty.

Her very band waa instinct with power, as, with quick gesture and erery nerve strung to the highest pitch, she informed the Court of her "personal know it, baa been awept away by the reactionary torrent. The same states that many of the most distinguished leaders of the opposition, among whom may be mentioned Judge Amos B. Johnston, a prominent member of the Mississippi bar, and one of tha warmest supporters of the late J. Dent, havo signified their in-tentiou Ui give their warm support to General Alcorn, for so long as he may act aa Governor of Mississippi, and that when the time arrives for bis election te the United States Senate, for the long term, they will offer no factious opposition to him. On all sides there is evidently a feeling of great confidence in General Alcorn.

The Republicans bare no fear that be will swerve at all from the consistent principles which be so promptly adopted on abandoning the "lost cause, while hia opponents recognize in him an honest, clear-beaded representative of the interests of Mmr'--aippi. The future prospects of the State appear very bright indeed, and no where in the South is the process of reconstruction and regeneration likely to be more thorough or the results more anoeeesfnL In nothing haa President Grant shown bis wisdom and transported on a wagon drawn by a four- horse team to Mr. No well' a farm. The circumstances connected with this part of the journey of the myateriona box and content, bar already been fully described. These circumstance were early connected vitn the giant, and in the absence of anv authentic explanation of the content and destination of the box, moat of the people laminar With them, in the region traversed, came to the conclusion that its content and purpose were exactly what these develop menta now snow.

AX ALL SO ED BEVKLATIOK BY HULL, THE QI UfT MAKER. It is stated to us that Mr. Hull haa al ready made a full relation of his part and complicity this imposition; that he justi fie what he has done by the necessity he felt at hi time of life to moke provision for his family, and that this expedient suggested itself to him. He is represented to us as stating that the sculpture waa done in Chicago, under hi personal direction, and that he nimseii was the model from which the figure was executed. The cost of procuring the block of gypsum, of fashioning it into a colossal statue, of transporting it, and of depositing it where it was buried, was twenty-two hundred dollars.

Four men are understoM to have accompanied the four horse team, andto have been engaged in the burial of the statue on Newell's farm. INVESTIGATIONS. The investigation of the matter is still being proaecuted. Tha route of the four-horse team from Union to Cardiff has been throughly (traced out, and every circum stance relating to the journey has been noted. One person, at ltast, of the nuni ber who have been searching for the clue to tha mystery, has gone to Fort Dodge, to ascertain all that is to be learned there of the antecedents of old gypsum." The present proprietors of the giant, who are held guiltless of any foreknowledge of the imposition, have sent an agent to that lo cality, to gather the facts.

THE ULPOHITIOJf seems definitely to account for theorigin of the remarkable object the so-called Car' diff stone giant which'has spread wonder throughout the country and interested not only the masses of the people but also men ol nigh scientihc position, urther lnves tigation will probably reveal all lhe detail of this very remarkable imposition. THE FA ItLA XV 1)1 YORCE. HOW IT WAS OBTAINED IV INDIANA, ON WHAT OR0UND3 AND UPON WHAT EVI DENCE. Correspondence of tho Cincinnati Commercial. Indianapolis, December 9, 1869.

Sometime in the month of August, 1869, Mrs. McFarland appeared in the town of Martinsville, and, calling upon Attorneys Harrison bhirley, maae known her resi dence in Morgan County, town of Moores-ville, and engaged their services to assut Messrs. Porter, Fishback Harrison in procuring her a divorce. Mrs. McFarland waa accompanied by her little son, -nd, as in the interview with Mr.

Porter, by her modest and self-sustained deportment made so favorable an impression that those gen' tlemeu undertook her case at once, and Mr. Shirley invited her to his house to dine. in the afternoon she returned to Moores- ville, but her petition was duly filed, and reads as follows: "State of Indiana, Morgan County, in com mon Pleas Court, October Term, 1809. "Abby S. McFarland vs.

Daniel VcFar land. Abby S. McFarland complains Of Daniel 3icl'arlaud, and says that on 14th day of December, she wairfnar- ned to the defendant, and from that time until tho term of her separation from hi as hereinafter mentioned, was ever to him faithful and dutiful wife. But she says that soon attr her man-iaire to the defend ant, he bejran to treat her with unkir.dnesa and neglect, and that his unkindness and neglect increased until said separation; that meanwhile, the defendant fell into intemperate habits, and spent a large part of his time at drinking places, and other places of low resort, and repeatedly returned to hia home stairec-riiic with intoxication luring baid last two years he led most of the time a life of idleness and vice, and contributed nothing toward the support of the petitioner and their children, and that herself and said children were during that time supported solely (by tho industry of the petitioner: that in consequence of such continued ill treatment and cruelty on the part of the defendant, and total neglect to make reasonable provision for their support she could not continue to lire with liini, but was compelled to separate from him. which she did on the 21st day of February, lo, since wmcn time tney have never lived together.

"And the petitioner says that there is no prospect whatever of any reconciliation be tween "na aeienaant; ana sne lur-ther says that she has been a resident of the State of Indiana more than one year previous to the tiling of this petition, and is now a resident of Morgan County, in said State. "Wherefore she prays an order dissolving the bands of matrimony existing between her and defendant, and for all other proper relief; and she also asks the custody of her two children by marriage; Percy S. McFarland, now aged abont ten years, Daniel W. McFarland, aged about rive years because said defendant is an unsuitable pernon to have the care or cm tody of said children, for the reasons afore said. "Porter, Harrison FiaiitACK, "Harrison Shirley, "Attorneys.

"Petition filed August 10, 1809." At 4 o'clock in the afternoon of October 14, the plaintiff arrived in Martinsvile, ac companicd by her father, Mr. Sage, of Charlestown, Massachusetts, and Mrs. Lucia P. Calhoun, of the New York Tr'June, They proceeded quietly to the Mason Houen and, after a conference with the plaintiff's attorneys, eat their supper, and between and 7 o'clock, assembled in the Judge'i room, in the courthouse. The hearing was irregular, as yon will observe, and as strict ly private as the lawVonld allow.

Besides Judge Woolen, there was present the plain-tiff, her father, friend and Martinsville at torneys, Mr. Hardwich, County Clerk, and his deputy, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. McXutt, the attorney appointed for the State in the ab sence of Mr. Sandifer, and half a dozen at torneys who had lounged in without any special interest in the place.

The plaintiff waa very plainly attired in a sun; of brown, and exhibited considerable emotion, but was evidently sustained by words of encouragement from her friend, Mrs. Calhoun. The first witness called in the case was Mr. Sage, who, instead of making a state ment, as desired, was eithernaturally taci turn, or indisposed to be communicative, for all of his testimony was elicited by ex emulation and cross-questioning. He was plainly disturbed by the part he was called upon to perform, and wished it was well over.

He was not deficient in judgment either, nor in affection, and in substance de Dosed That Daniel McFarland, when addressing his daughter, had represented that he was a lawyer from Madison, Wisconsin, but he (Sage) had never heard of McFarland hav ing any client. McFarland had also stated that he owned a tract ot land near ALvii son. but he (Sage again) did not think it could have been of much account, as when his daughter married McFarland and went out with him to live on the land, she was nearly starved. Here, when asked by the plaintiff' attorney if McFarland mistreated her. he replied: "Almost from the first of their marriage.

He waa either very kind or very hard on her. He would often drink too much liquor, and when he was in liquor he waa a madman, abusive and violent." hen asked to specily abuse and violence, he stated that under the influence of liquor McFarland could not sleep, and he would rave and storm and break the dishes and furniture. Hia daughter waa afraid of him and very Mnhappy, In about a year after her marriage ber husband brought her home and abandoned ber. lhia waa the first of two or three separations that occurred before the final one. Her oldest child wa born in her father's house.

It was after the birth of this sou that McFar land wrote the letter asking forgiveness for his faults, and begging her to live with nun anm. Th letter waa produced in court. and, without being evidence, the reading of it waa srranted by tha judge, it oore; probably, three page of letter paper, and abounded wits expreesion oi tenaernese. Its perusal awakened a sentiment of pity for the man, who acknowledged that hia passion for drink had made him brute toward the woman' he trusted and adopted. At the clou of hi testimony Mr.

Sage was cross-examined by the Attorney for the State, but hi statement were substan tially th sams sa above, end added weight to hi eridenoa. The butt witness called apon to testify this case, wa Mrs. Lucia D. Calhoun. Her statement occupied half an hour by the olock.

and wa given with rapid utterance, a Blew, ringing voice, tost strnsk on th STROXOER EVES TBA IT HEAVEX." To th Editor of the Expr: In the Allocution delivered by the Pope to the assembled council of bishops the telegraph makes him say that th Church need have no fear of it future for it waa "stronger even than heaven." From the garbled account which the toll-lie-graph usually give of affair of like character, it may be doubted if it was correct in this instance. But granting that it was, to disabuse the Protestant mind of any intentional blasphemy on the part of the Holy Father, it may be stated that the text "stronger than heaven" is not construed aa greater than any thing directly pertaining to Divinity, but greater than the saints and anels, inhabitant of heaven, who tnimiiter unto Christ. The Church claims to be the spouse of the Holy Ghost, the third person of the Trinity, and must necessarily, therefore, be greater than that which but minister to it, Hence the applicability of the word. C. THE TARIFF OS COAL.

To (As Erlifor of the Exprese The day before yesterday, Hon. Noah Davis, of Albion, introduced into the House of Representatives a bill to abolish all duties on coaL Thoa duties are 1.25 in gold on a ton of 2240 pound of bituminous ooalandahale that on coke and culm of coal is twenty-five per cent, md valorem, while the tax on all other coal is forty cents a ton. Th "other" coal is English, Welsh and Scotch cannel coaL consumed by Gas Companies, which out of apparent tender regard for those essential monopolies, is let into the country at a tax of fire per cent. ad valorem, while coke and culm and bituminous eoal, used for fuel, are heavily taxed. True, no anthracite coal is intro duoed from abroad; and no fears of competition in kind from abroad could have in duoed tho anthracite coal companies to favor these dutiea.

But all coals are alike aa far aa they supply the demand for fuel; and foreign coals of whatever kind com pet ing in our markets for fuel are taxed almost, if not quite, to prohibition. Whether intended or not, the effect is to make fuel scarce and high, and the poor therefore to sutler. lhe increased price paid for bard or soft coal in consequence benefits the wealthy monopolist at the expense of millions of consumers dependent on them for their supply. We hare become so accus tomed, as wood disappeared, to the use of hard coal in our families, for quite a period, that all lawful means should be adopwJ to enable us to obtain this absolute necessity. without encouraging the oppression of coal operators and railroad companies in league, As appears by statistics in Appleton's En cyclopaedia, that in 1854 the quality of coal of all kinds mined in Great Britain was 64,601,400 tons, the value of which at the mouth of the mines was or $1 Id a ton.

I he difference in the value of money in this and that county, and in creased price of commodities in consequence of excessive taxation, cannot account for the difference between that sum and 3 50 a ton now cnargea lie re. uy tho same authority, it will appear that in 1851 tho lowest estimate of the cost of a ton of coal at the mouth of the mines here, including in this the cost ol keeping the mine, cars and machinery in order, was about 65 cents, the highest rarely reached 1, and that up to that time anthracite coal was never sold at iew York at over $4 a ton. -Now, how ever, notwithstanding ail our increased and increasing facilities for transportation and mechanical improvements for manufactur ing and mining, it costs at the mines $3 50 to $3 75, and at 'ew York City $7, before the rise of S3 last Summer, not all of which sudden and arbitrary demand has yet been taken off. The advance of $3 last Summer at the mines was demanded all over the cjntry by agents of the coal operators and private dealer buying of them, and who notoriously are constantly raining and fall ing the price, as dictated by the companies, in every city and village ot the land, and the citizens have been compelled to pay as high as $10 50 here and now pay 50 to $9 00 a ton of 2000 pourds. Such a com bination of capital, engrossing the mines and avenues to and from them, as the coal and railroad companies now exhibit, holding the necessities of tho people as in a vice, is not a proper subject of protection against competition.

But, on the contrary, every advantage resulting from law should cease, AH praise, therefore, be given to Judge be giren to Davis in his efforts to abolish duties on coal. Citizen, THE CARDIFF GIAST. A NEW STOUY ABOUT THE STONE MAN HIS WKTHPLACE FOUND IN AN IOWA GYPSUM (iL AKRY -PROBABLE SOLUTION OF THE MYSTERY. From the Syracuse Journal. The following letter from Mr.

W. H. Slauson, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, to hia brother, Mr. S. H.

Slauson, of this city, relates to tho origin of the so-called Cardiff Giant. The writer is well known to us as a thoroughly reliable gentleman. He is widely known in the northern part of this county, having for many years resided in the town of Lysander. His statements are entitled to full credence: Foitr Dodos, Iowa, Dec. 4, 18C9.

'Dear Bhotukr: It is certainly very amusing to those living in Fort Dodge to read the many accounts and theories of the Cardiff Giant. There isn't scarcely a schoolboy in this place but what can give a solution of it. I will give you the facts aa they are, and you may draw your own conclusions Some time in June, 1868, Messrs. Hull, Jones Glass came to Fort Dodge, Iowa, and purchased one acre of land from one John McDermott, and from that land they quarried a block of gypsum eleven feet three inches long, three feet two inches wide, and eighteen inches thick. Tha estimated weight of that block of gypsum was nine thousand pounds.

It was hauled from here to Boone, a distance of forty miles there put into a box and shipped for Buffalo. But it never reached Buffalo in the crude state. It waa stoDDed in Chicago. and the sculptor's hand made from that iiltmtical stone the Cardiff riant. If you or your friends have any doubts aa to the correctness ol the statement, please give me directions to send you by express or omerwise, a oiocs.

oi gypsum from th same quarry and within three inches of the spot where the old fellow has lain for centuries. Yon may say to Mr. Gillett and Dr. Westoott that we here at Fort Dodge will furnish them a riant larger than the one they have there, and from the same kind of material, lor the same money mac tney paid for a portion of one. Now.

I believe, that there are any persona in Syracuse that are anxious to investigate or satisfy themselves as to what it is, they can do so by having soma of our rTDSum sent them. The statement that I bar mad is true as far as th buying of the land, and the getting of th stone, and it dimension and the ha aline to Boone and the shipping of it to Buffalo are concerned. What became of it after that is mere conjecture, of course, bat we axe well enough satisfied here that it went on to Mr. Newell's farm. Tha Mr.

Jones that came here and assisted in getting out the stone is a relative of Mr. New-all, ao wa are credibly informed. Their story was that they were going to take it to ew 1 or A tor a monument. This ron may show to Mr. Smith, the editor of the Journal, and to the owner of the giant.

W. H. Sursox. ADDITIONAL AND ISTERE3TINO. HOW THS CTFSUM GIANT WAS TRANSPORTED TO CARDIFF.

There baa been a good deal said about the mvrion "iron bound box" and "four hors team." Certain development, in connection with the statements made by nartiaa of Fort Dodxe, establish aatiafactorilT that thi box contained the Cardiff giant, which was conveyed by railroad to Union, Broome County, and theno by team to the place where it wa exhumed at Cardiff. Tat rnoir Bomm box oir the ratlxoao. Here are fact bsanntc upon una que- tion. On th 9th day ot ucsooer, isoo, aa iron bound box, about twelve feet long, waa raeeired at the Central Railroad Com pany's freight office in this city from Sus pension Bridge, its wwgns wa pound, and it purported to contain finished marble. is bootobb waa x.

Old, Union, Broome eonnty, 14. x. From the Central freight Acme, thi box waa transferred to the Syracuse and Bingham ton Bailroad, sod forwarded to its dee- tarn at Uim Xkes It ww tained on inquiry at the freight office ber. TSTS WACO ROUTE FROM TSSTOST TO CARDXEV. is also erideno that thi iron bonnd box wa delivered to Mr.

Hall at in adjunct ot thrilling muaio and good sing ing aaaea so tne success. Another novelty war also witnemed sub sequently in the same church. Those who went there at half -past seven had an oppor tunity of aeein penitent roing to conies sion. In on of the side aisles were two wire ecreeo, very like ordinary fire screens, simple brass standard with a piece of red cloth to separate the "priest from th person making bis confession. On of the screen also provided with a wooden partitio containing what looked like th pigeon-hole of a ticket office.

Behind thi acreen sat Mr. O'Neill, andfrom time to time four or rive person knelt. After they had been there a longer or shorter time, according to circumstances, they withdrew with the 'priest behind one of the pillars, but in few minutes returned to their seats in the church." CHAIRS. HEXRT WARD BEECH ER TO MR. BO If KIR.

From the Nr York Ledger Will you tell me, Mr. Bonner, your own opinion ot tne proper use of a chair? say uu it is a tiling to sit do v. a upon, will not meet the case. For bo is an otto man, a sofa, a stool, a rail fence, under me broad chestnut tree, in a hot Smu mer'a day; ao ia the edge of a bed, the door sill, and tor that matter, the floor itself ue knows little ol the luxury of position who has not curled up in a corner, or sat upon a lower stair, or crouched on th rtjor Ixf-ire a rousing tire in a bleak windj aay oi inter. I shall proceed to divide up chairs into Real Chairs, Abstract Chairs, Besting Chairs, and Hoc king Chairs.

1. ReaL or Working Chairs, are such are made plain and aimply for ordinary uses and not lor luxury. I hey 'should be strong tough, inot heavy, slightly saucer shaped in the spot where use dwells. Such chairs are proper for one's study table, for the dining table, or any other place where seri ous business is earnestly pursued. An Easy Chair in a study is an abomination.

Shall a man hope for any literary success who is undenayed and surrounded with all those soft appliances which provoke reverie and its next relative, sleep? Some people imagine that a scholar study should open to the fairest landscape, that he should be cosset tod with every luxunouaconvcniance. But a fair view from the student's window is a provocation to wandering thoughts, Inspiration! People have queer notions cf inspiration, it they think that a fairy scene outdoors will tend to concentrate a man thoughts indoors on his books Then as to ponderous Study Chairs, they are the extinguishers of thought. A man who would strike tire must have steel and flint, not felt and cotton about him. Good are they in their own place; they are featb er beds with a backbone in them. But who would think of studying from out of the deep abyss of a feather bed? no.

A working chair should hide its own beu-g, reminding the owner of its pres enco neither by pain nor pleasure. Itsbould seem, for the time being, only an extension ol ono a self, 2 Did you over see an Abstract C'iair Very likely. They sometimes require strong classes to bnnarthem into view. Ihev are no thin, so frail, so shadowy that one might call them the spectres of chairs. You shall see them in luxurious parlors, at odd nooks and angles.

So attenuated are they, so shadowy and unreal, that one might as well sit down upon a spider web. They seem to be placed among plump worldly chairs as a kind of menu nto mon. And if oaie vigorous-bottomed man shall 6it down upon them heartily, he shall find out what it is to sit upon a dream, and shall wake up upon the floor. chairs should be bung up on Bilken cords, or put under glass cases, like very line specimens of coral. But ten thousand blessings ne? cend upon him and his posterity who invented ic Ite'nj (Jltnrs.

i uese are friends iuy leisure Hours. When onco the outido door is shut, and I am ensconced the hospitable bosom of my great crim son chair, soft at the back, and yet not too soft soft on the sides, and yet, like discreet love, not too forward, but measur. ing what it gives back by the fervor of solicitation not too obsequious in the cushion, but maintaining its own rights with a graceful tenacity, which yields only to dignified pressure, what do I care for or March: Here is my tropics. All latitudes meet this semicircle. Here each season is tempered to a perpetual Spring.

Here, when work is done, you may without sleeping; and true dozing is the very cream of sleep. Here is the very paradise of newspaper reading. Here you can fool yourself to auy extent, and make yourself believe that you are meditating, examining yojirsclf, or reviewing the actions of the day. 4. I'enal Chair.

What are they Why, they are fashionable chairs of all sorts. French chairs in all sorts of colors. They are too awkward handle. Cunningly ronn-ted up in the middle, so that you slide off from the seat the moment you let go. If by any fate you stick and rest your whole weight upon tho instrument, oae leg gives way, or the back cracks, or the whole trap crimes down in a crash.

They ire a scoru- iul ttung, disdaining their proper business, and like an ill broker filly, they attempt throw anybody who sits upon them. Lucky is it for the makers of these instruments of torment that I am not their I would doom them to set on one of their own chairs for four mortal hours in a cold church, and listen to a sermon read by near sighted man wno nau lost hiw spec tacicg. 5. Rocking Chain Generous tribe of noble benefactors 1 To you all, of every decree, 1 make obeisance I Micrh, low wide, narrow, straight back, curved back ye are all welcome i he beauty that all true artists perceive in a curve, is nowhere else so admirably exhibited as in the curve of a rocker. Here is the motion of a billow without its seasickness.

Hera is motion without lalor indolent activity labor made luxurious. Ah, that old fathioned chair, broad bottomed, backed, well riobed in with round arms, splint woven, and filled with children one, two, three, as sure as I live and each one with a do'I and all cooing, and chattering, and rocking like mad, and yet, old nurse chair thou art faithful to thy trust No tears have ever been shed by thy procuring! A good rocking chair is almost an instru ment of music. It has a special note for various functions. When grandma sits knitting and swaying with the gentlest motion, the rockers keep up a low, contented purr, a sort of drowsy creak, that is given forth to no other one. When the old nervous gentleman gets in, the chair tunes up w'tb a sharp, jerking crack, as if a series of small torpedoes were going off.

Then when Aunt Sally, who is very fat and heavy, sits down, a long and melancholy whine issues from ths chair. But when only the children are in it the old rocking chair goes whicketty-whack, whitketty-whack in the most gleeaome manner. These sociable chair never come from modern builders. The moment a cabinetmaker has once touched a French chair his usefulness is over. Comfort forsake his fingers.

The old fashioned workmen who make old fashioned rocking chairs with strong joints, but joint with a tongue in it, are thesenot nature's workmen? Do they not keep up in their chairs the forest sounds? This very creak that, I now bear like the swinging of a bough pleading with the wind to let it alone and suffer it fall asleep. This sharp crackling I hare heard before, when frosts had screwed no every branch aad twig to it utmost tense ness. Creak on, old "Adironack!" I have an eai for your music Uthers may think harsh, but I hear the forest sounds. the shrill wind, tba hisa of Dent-nn waters drirn through fine fissure in the rock. 1 The friend that sent me an aboriirinal rocking-chair made with an auger and a ick-knif at the foot of one of the Adrionack Mountains, may herein perceive my opinion of it and learn also the name which I have bestowed upnn it.

A Miserly Art Collector. Lyman Allyn, the miser who died ia a hotel attic New Jersey worth nearly a million dollar, waa an art worshipper, it seems. About month ago th executrix of hi estate employed J. Harvey Youne. portrait painter, to examine and ca talogue the collection, which, according the opinion of Mr.

Bieratadt, could now be equalled at a lea expenditure than half a million of dollar. The picture are eooo to be brought to New Tork, not leas than ten freight ear will be aired to transport them. Ia the collection are pictures said to be uaqeestioned original by such artist a "sir Charles East-lake, Thomas La wren oa, Sir Joshua Bey-1 nolds, Sir Peter' Lely, Hogarth Meadow, Copley and Turner ot tne English school; Bucher, Lmbint, Mignard. sad De lu or of ur ths tna of euu now best nan back and MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1869. OFFICIAL PAPER OP TH1 OITT.

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PORT OOLBO RNE S. 8. Smadee. WORRY, Pa. Barlow A Son.

THE PATRONAGE NUISANCE. Although it improbable that tho mem-bora of Congress, in either Hon, are, prepared to direst themaelree wholly of the right to recommend or solicit an appoint" ment to oflio) from the administration, as Senator Trumbull has proposed to them to do, there would seem to be erery reason for beliering that a majority of them mast bare become thoroughly sijkened of the "enjoyment" of their customary privileges in that matter, conrinoed that the whole system of the dispensation of political patronage is a nuisance, and more than ready to rid themselves of it, as far as is practicable, by one proper measure. The system was invented and brought into play under the supposition that it would afford a great advantage to the politicians and the party controlling the employment of it. With the same idea it has boon insanely lung to, with a constant enlargement of its operation, during forty years, by party politicians, in whose purblind area the Dossession of "patronaire, or the ability to gire away offices, has appeared to be the most potent element of politic 1 power aao! influence. There never was a topider delusion, or one that more blindly Ignored all experience.

It is possible that in the early experiment of the when it was new in its working, when the offices distributed were omparatirely few, and before soramblinjr bad set in, through the spreading contagion of the fiver thirst for place it is possible that then a politician may bavu Strengthened himself by placing useful supporters in office, and that a party may bare gained some efficiency of working organisation in the same manner. But if that ever was the fact it belongs to the lonj, ago past. For twenty years, at least, the dispensation of patrol has been a nuisance and a damage to the pities and the politicians into whose hands it has iilDi growing more so with every "fresh deal, Aggravated by a constantly increasing scramble for the places dispensed. The power to distribute offices, however, is one so flattering to the self complacency of its possessors that, very naturally perhaps, they hare shut their eyes as long as possible to the penalties accompanying it, clinging hard to the delusion that they were gathering strength from the exercise of the patronizing privilege instead of digging pitfalls nnder their feet. But, at last, as we verily believe And hope, the real truth of the matter has become too glaring to remain ndiacovered by the blindest, even among mere politicians.

The experience of the last change of Administration, in the national government baa left no room for a doubt that the office-dividing system in party politioal management is as damaging to the interests which it was invented to serve aa it is vicious and pernicious in the higher view of public Interests. Where is the district in which the Bepublican party, as an organization, baa not been sensibly injured by the sore And bitter and frequently malignant feelings engendered by the distribution of offices within it nr3 th change of administration last Spring? Wheith8memberofConKre" who has not raised twenty -nemies against himself for every friend or suppC" t0 has aecmred by that exercise of "patroil8e which an evil custom baa attached to the responsibilities of his place Who has gained anything, in the political view--what nolitieiaa baa strengthened himself, or -A A -A to his capital." or forwarded bis future designs, by the manipulation of this patronage We look around ua in vain, at borne and abroad, for an exception to the anifona rule of damaging reeulta. Nor an the result otherwise, when, for erery morsel of patronage dispensed there re fifty applicants, with all their parwen-lar friend, to be offended and enraged by disappointment, for every one that is gratified and satisfied. Jhe mischief has nerer been so marked Wo1-although on the next occasion it will unqSioBblT be a great deal worse therefore we feel convinced that the members of the present Congress will be town to have come together quite generally awred of the delnaion that gift office are tramp eard in the game of politics very eemmonlr diaanaicd with the patronage bmamess altogether, ano! I- them prepared to rota it, to politicians and parties as a a eurae to the country. As reform of the system of publie service bAS long been nrged on the higher ground of public interests, very hopelessly.

So long aa, in the intrigue and wire-working of party politic, it was insanely fancied that Abe eager desires of office seekers and Iranian after place were potential passions to be profitably played with, nothing, we fear, oould bav shaken the prevailing eye-torn. But now, if we argue rightly aa to lb intelligence that is dawning upon the lAm of politicians concerning its real mis--fcirf themselves, there is good reason to bope fer some reform. TEE MISSISSIPPI ELECTION. Tbs) BepwkUo triumph in Miiippi, found to saensured by leas a me-Jltt than seen to nave altogether aKa calculations of the most san- SLTtnTpi. th.

StnU. whll. the rebel Demooraey with opond-tt of U. write, tt the Aato-ndmg iwUd and ke an eArinquaa-s ZIZJa damoraliaed mtmmJ in I SkB aifjr j-, aloon ftll ttokrts tod oi thrae bottles, tree'ot express onargt a 113-lw SPECIAL NOTICES. in Oct "CHERRT PECTORAL TROCHI For 0Ms, Oetujbe, Sore Throe! and Brt, ahltla.

None ao Qood, tone so Plea Bint, none Cure Qutak. KUSBT05 llVdaoSm 10 Aetor Houae, Tork. PsaracT sUxaooa. bears 'or Youaa. Men; a the evils of Self-enervation, with eartahi'Selp for the errine and unfortunate.

Bent In sealed hitler en velopes, free of eharg. Address, HOWARD AS- OvIATION, Box P. Philadelphia, Pa. SPECIAL NOTICES. Auoocx'a Poacs ititrtu eeem to pt the quality ot accumulating electricity and hat trttnf to the body, whereby the eiroulat on of th dood be comes equilued upon the parte where appi cans Inf pais ard morlrtd action to oease.

THE POKOUS PLaSTERS are flexible, and found of a (Teat help to I who hare weak backs, or pain in the side. Eap. tally are they valuable to those who have Beg-leoi i eoMa. Tney are often preventatives of Consomp; in; nay, they are believed to have loosened the rr i of this terrible affliction, and been mainly inatru sutal In effrc'ing a cure. In variable climstes thoy lould be worn on the beurt or between the ahnv lore, or oer the kidneys, by those who are ubj to take cold easily.

1) Jsrlrn BaTonavoa'i lliia Dtb. This splendid air Dye la the beet In the world the only true at, perfect Dye; harmless, reliable, instantaneous; disappointment bo ridiculous tints; remedt the 111 electa ot bad dyes; invigorates and leave; A Hair jft and beautiful black or, brown. St I by all Druggets and rertumers, and properly piled at the Wg factory, in Bond street, N. dt- To 0MU or lloaaas. Thousands of irsea die yearly from colic.

This need not be. Tobias' IIoms Lixixtvr will positively ot every oses, if given when fl.rt taken. The st it jnly one dollar. Erery owner ol a home should has bottle in his stable, ready for use. It la warrantee mperlor to anything else for the of CuU, Oalls, Swelling, Sore Throat, Sprains, Brul.ee, I Bores, etc.

This Llnim.nt Is no new remedy. as been used and approtvd of for twenty-two )e 4 by the Brut horsemen ia the oountry. Qlren in overdriven horse it acti like magic. Ordtrsar jmstaal- ly received from the rsclnir itablra of gl( jd for li. The celebrated Hi rain Woodruff, of tmtt, Unit, used It for years; Colonel Ihllo P.

Bu 1, of the Jerome Race Course haa given a eertiflc which can be seen at tho Uep stating that aft years trial it is the In the world. Ills add. Ford- nun, N. V. No otic once using it will evet je without f.

It iapjtup In Pint Bottles. 8. ibrtbi lrumrit! and baddlors throughout the I'ni 4i8iate. Ilot, 10 Hark Place, New Vork. 1 tiarlm Bottlbi) Pabaltsib.

this the proper 1 ue of the horrihle metallic hair dye. Worse than Vj (ate of Absa'um maybe the fatu of those ho them. One wholesome preparation for ohang-lnf ju hair to any desirable shade from brown to Jet Wlsi may fc procured everywhere, vis excelhior HAIBtfu After careful analysis, professor Chilton, te distln- srubihed chemist, has authorized the proprietar to de his behalf, that 11 contains nothing lelsterl-ous to health. Ho other hair dye In tha aid has the like g-usnvntrc. CURISTAWORO'S 1IAIR PRESERVATIVE, ai a Dressing, acta dyt-infr.

Try It. like a charm on thi after 1 srlm rarrARATOKT Mr dilation. The humsiv pstem, thn umt duiicata aud sots tire of ah created UHmrs, should Ije duly prepared to meet the shock r'a isloufd by a smldun rhante in terni erature he air. Even tl solid mrtali contract and expaid 11 Her the cold and heat so that if man were ecmpoijd Iron invead of frail tissues aid flSres, circulaCjn fluids and brittle 1 ssdous mst'er, frsme woifln proof Kint.t tho vli-ittiudf a of climate. Ai, It Is, It hchoc.vts every one, cpp-ctslly the Iyiblr, ti fortify the trail tenement rf mortslityaialnst the of too pre-cnt season.

A wholesome, strenirji-eup. plying vetrelable tome and alterative Is tha t(kir-tory medicine required, and among mujicinsi agents of this character, HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS stand supreme. In a career ot nearly a quarter of a century, tho preparation has not jr been equa led or approached, and iu fait are tyo i lanrer thin those of any half-dnsen articles, purporting- lo belong to the tamo chtas, that lias avor besi? advertised In this country. As a remedy and preventive of and all its complications. It iay be said to have lived down competition, and it.

be the standard specific of the Weiteni misers. A' course of this rental restorative at the coupes ce ment of Winter is the surest safririi.rd i Inst ai he complaint i which srucsuwl or 1 posure to enlrl. l(-lw COUUH, COLD OK XORK Tlj DAT aSJaw Requires immediate attei (, as VsYV7V neulect often results in an I trahls Lung Disease. BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TE0C5E8 will moit invariably give In relief. For BRONCTTTTIS, ASTHMA, OATA iRH CONSUMPTIVE AND THROAT DIoKAS J8, they have a soothing effect.

SINGERS AND PUW.IO ftPEAKERS use them to clear and strengthen the voice. Owlnirtothe good reputation and uonu'artti if tha Troches many worthless snd cheap lmitatlt) -s are offored, which are good for nothing. Be surf, -0 obtain the true BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCIIf 3. Sold everywhere. klAlrndae FAMILY HIPPLIES.

JUTTER, BUTTER. From the very best Dairies in Western Na- Tork sale at lb Last Seneca St. aio a wort- 01 choice amuy Urooeriee, HUBREI POI ER. FLOUR. MANUFACTURED AND FOR SALE THORNTON CHESTER, Sra NATIONAL MILLS, No.

fll Era st. IF YOUR FLOUR DOE 8 NOT SUIT. 5, TRY FRENCH DOYLE, FLOUR AMD Oa DEALERS MAIN aT.FF FURNITURE FOR EVERYBODY AT REDUCED PRICES. A vary larg aaeortmeat ot FURNITURE, CHAIRS, AND UPHOLSTERY G00IS ON HAND. Pamitor md) ia ordUr.

sW rprinf jtef Aaju t. Via trtlMin- K-W-F ISAAS D. WHITE, tST ATTORNEY. PRAGUE, A HTA swrnwwirrs aid cnTnunrrinv 8 PRAGUE. W.

H. FORBUBH. AT CT AT Has. 1, and Block. Mr.

Bpraaua nrmrmna. th. nraesisa at IW. brancAas Us Biulsssioa at Ke. I Weed's Most, F0RBTJ8H 4 HYATT, Solicitors ai aUtXKICAV AVS rOaUDOV FATZsrm Pasd's Block, ear.

Mam aad Swaa sea. Jay Hyatt. Attorney and OouMelior. H. fart ass, Mi Is and a sure to leave Says sad wmw ran Office aad BUFFALO FIllE INSURANCE COMPA'rr.

Formerly tb KFTTAL INSURANCE OOMPAJTT OF BUFFALO CHARTERED IN 1843. ASSETS AITC ART Wra. Levarina. Sea, S. 8.

JaweM, Teoe. F. Sean, Aae't See. J. JL Richmond, V.

OPFI0B 4S MAIN STREET. FISH, 0. B. AHMSTBONO, P. F18H FISH ARMSTRONG, GENERAL INSURANCE AGEN'Y (He So.

Mala Ot, BuSalo, T. LrV.HPOOL at LONDON at OLOHS INS. OO, INTERNATIONAL INS. HEW TORE. FIRMAN'S FUND IMS.

SAW RANCH SO ALBANY CTTT (FIRM At HAKIM) INS. PEOPLE'S FIKJI INS. WORCESTER, el A NORWICH FIRS INS. NORWICH, CONN. COUNTY HARIRI INS.

NEW HOC II EL LE. STATE FJfcK Ink. OLKVT.lAND, O. TRlVKltRS INH. HARTKORO, NKW YORK INH.

TO. N(W TOKB. BUFFALO CIT INSURANCE COMPANY, ma, 10 laii Stmt (' Ctutnl TTUrf CAPITAL- AND SURPLUS. OV.i OO.M Securely In rested in Oovenuvat Honda. Solicit FIRM AND LAKE IgURAVCE, DIRECTORS.

William O. FerfO, teorfa W. Tim," a. itaynoioa, Jamas Brayley, Rufus L. Hnwsrd, James N.

Hatthewa. O. P. Ramedell, S. O.

Harnum, Pascal P. Pratt, Thomas Brown, John Allun, James M. Hmilh, llrnry Martin, Peter Ferris, Adrian Root, Stephen O. Vusttn, Richard Br lyaaora, B. S.

Outhi William H. Oleany, L. K. Plimpton, O. J.

Hamlin, S. O. Cornell, Jamas H. Metcalfe, M. H.

Eamea, E. B. Smith, John Orclner, John II. Von lit. Thompson Harass.

WH. t. st. Attuu, iTeiiirna. O.

HENRY T. SMITH, Soeretarv. B. D. LACY, Aalstont Swore'tary.

jiFfi, rniK an makImai INSURANCE. INSURANCE HARTFORD, CONS, laeorpurated 1810. t2uiar pevnal. Pad up Capital L. J.

ItrirtfEK rrealdsnt, J. OOOuNOW, Sarretary. ASSETS January 1, V. at market value. Caen on hand and In foe gea (T a W'S ft 1 0 14 Morte bond UsmnK avCK a qa United Statae, But.

OHy Swo k' aud dkuiium till Total Claim 1 nit doe end unadjusted. 71 yiw.MS wn oo wmmm jmmu oo years HOME INSURANCE NEW HAVft CONN FIRE, HAKUVE AND CANAi (hsh Capital ..11,000,000 flOPl INSURANCE PUOVIDF, STCK, R. I. Oash Capital and Surplus 6 ROOKR WILLIAMS "INSURANCE OOMIANT I'KOVIDENCE, H. I.

Oash Capital and Surplus. P. DORR, Agent, T. Policies Issued affair ratus and loseea miwtptly ad Justod and paid at this offioe. O.Uce jfCtua Buildings, up stairs, oors Prima and Lloyd streets.

XTKA. LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, UAKTFOIO, CONN. Accumulated Capital yjn (rm Annual Income (ouoW Surplus above LKM)itl ijoou boo ALL POLICIES STRICTLY NON- The attention of the publlo le called te U)e nattering and sueenss of this C0i uu. u.4 liiimi VK, 1 A TUAVEi.Kirri nirutp. 18C9.

WINTER 1 Lit AUUAMihMKNT. lCWU. NORTHERN CENTRA RR. DIRECT ROUTE SOUTH TO BALTIMORE, WASHINGTON. PHILADELPHIA.

HARRUJbURO, WILLIAHSl'ORr AND ELM IRA. -a iTkrongh from Booheiter to P.aH.lmora without Change of Cars. 18G9. WINTER ARRANGEMENT, 1870. TAKINO EFFECT NOVEMBER it, lHei Tains southward leave Depot of New r.

Centri Railroad as follows: (s'lin A P. O.UU A. ill. Oanaudalgaa, 1 1 P. tapping at prinolpai stations, arriving at Elmlre at spu r.

IH.1A A. Baltlmuru, :00 A. M. Philadelphia, A. M.

A. llarrisburg, Washington, 2' fl Ar "VI" Krl Railway A Leaves krio Kailwit Iieixit (hun-lys excepted), un.l conneutinir st Klinira at :0 I'. arrivliiKal Villiinx)it, A. UarrtsliurK, Vt'f, A. Raltlmnro, A.

Vkasliinjrton. tt.it P. PhUadolnlua, :30 A. M. ll'fyftP IT VU Erle RallreoJ- Leave.

1 1 ill, BuSalo 11:20 p. leave El- A. arrive at willlaiu-ix rt I 46 A. M. lis rrisburo; f.30 Haltlui.ire, 7 CO tM WasB-inaion, F.

Philadelphia 6:10 P. M. Bleeping ear from Buffalo to F.lmlra. FROM NIAGARA FALLS LEAVES SOt.TmARD 7" 10 A it. HI from Depot of N.

Y. t'tn'raj Hail-mad. Leave Rochester at P. Cananlelkua 4:46 P. arriving M.

Elmira, P. al. 12 6 F. HarrUbuiy, A. Haiti-more, 8:00 A Wealilng-ton, 12:46 P.

Philadelphia, 0:80 A. id. Pasaeiurers by this route will save botl time and expense over thn route via Now York cltyj Ask tor tloke.s si cnanilaiua and Elmira. For irj .1 tba prine pal tloket offices. Shi pen, of freight will Snd It to vnelr vlrantaa to set 1 freight by tins route to iJaHunore, nhla ad all points south.

Freight In fug car load car ed tbiough the above points without broaklna; ror Information In reference to freight address) SjenareJ Western Freight Agent. A. R. F1SK, Gen. lupt.

Uarrlsbirg, Pa M. SCITERMERHORN, Oenoral Western Freight AganfL Cor Washington and Exchange Ruff ato. ED. S. YOUNG, Uon.l'Wr Agent, RaHlmnre.

Md. 1869. 1870. W1NTEU ARRANGEMENT. GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY FOR LONDON OODERICir.

SAGINAW, PORT BARN! DETROIT. ALRT AN, K.I.EDO CINCINNATI, GRAND RAI'IU) CUiCAOO, MILWAUKEE. Jeaesnlle, Madison. La Cmese, Pratne Chlou. Omaha, Cheyenne, Haa Franciico, JS.

Joseph, ht. Louis, St. Paul. AND ALL PRINCIPAL TOl.VTS IN THE WEST SOUTH AND NORTHWEST. Three Express Trains leave Erie Street Dutw Buf falo, (Sundays exorpted).

Mew York On r.i time which la twenty minutes faster thaa Buffalo time aa follows: tr'Ki A IT -MORNING EXPRKCH Amv- i.tfJ Xim JJl.llig at Ht atforri at 11 1 dn Ood-rieh 4:00 Tirortfj Ramie Milwaukee Junction 'p I. trolt June ton 4 Detroit 6:00 30 a connecting alth trains tor all puint Wtl, Ninth South. Ifl.ffiP If -DAY EXPREHS-Atrlvlrg IZ'fiXJ L. ill. Stratford 6J m.

L.md.,n at IA uoetlon 10:00 m. Detroit Junction Ik. uwmnrn jv m. namia m. Mi w.uk.

trolt 10:80 m. Ckiero 0.00 a connecutig with trains tor all point, beyond. O'lfiP Strat-VitlUI, Jl, tcrd and intermediate stations. O'lfl EXPRKHS-Afrivhig at OKI 1 ill. fctraUord, at 1.00 a m.

London a m. Hernia t.M a J.u.-tl, tm Ie' roll Junction 8:06 am. Detroit tr a m.Chl- eavo 8:10 connecting with train, for polute We, RDIUI SOU BOUtn. Trains from Detroit ara doe tn Buffalo ao, toll Wight Express 4:00 A. M.

Morning IS P. M- Aecotnmodaton. Day Eprea J6 P. Superb Sleeping Cars on all Night Trstoe. New Palace HleeninsT Care run.

dnl'v from Port Huron to Chicuru, In orju action with train. from Buffalo EJeirant Refreshment Rooms at Etraiftrd and fcaggage char ked throucb to all prtndnal noinU West. I'asserurers leaving Buffa'o tor the West tLnu'd ha purchase tickets via Grand Trunk Stall way, oe bad tb Company's Office, No. 16 Erie MuSelo. C.

1. BRTDOitS, H. Wret0r T- -Gen. Agt. O.

T. Mortresl. Agent Q. T. Railway fc uffaln.

NovewiherlM'fft k)( GREAT WESTERN RAILtfOAD. Oaaad after Mondav-Kovamher IS Lass iri tl BoSalo (H. T. C. Depot, Erie St.) dally, Sas ewpted, at :00 a.

as, P- aa. tor Soanesistoa Bridge, eosuweting vns wmisss nsr sssaminsDu i orosno, iDOon. rwtvona. Both well. LETKOIT, CUiCAOO, MIL.

WAITERS and ail point. Wee. PnllBaaa's sixteen-wheeled False Sleet- Cars on all sight train. Throuarh TkkaUaan oa eMalnad at th. of tb New Tork Central Depot, Erie aVert, atOattswal OiSce.

Burner Mai and aVxuhuure aUnatow House Block. Trabas arrive at BuSalo 7:4 a. Ba. aad a. B.

and AU p. a. seagu 7Taia leave, nspenaioa tariagw --Muurara alta) a IlA e. av, tat Detvort, Chicago fkMu. Ia atAlAX)LKa O.

W. andD.St;. TsTOS. SWTWTARD, THOS. BELL.

W'SVJf. A M. naaeiisoai, w. w. lwtmlt.

Ml. JAMES CBABXTok, kU inarUaVjent, HainUta0a. THE WAT THE MUUC tTACE ATPFAR3 IS TOKOHAUA. When the father of a family undertakes to mouige in tne diversion of the theatre, aay th writer, it is anit a aerioua bnsi- neaa, for ths performance nerer oeesaa from morning until night. Three or four days are frequently required for the completion of the more important piece.

So they start ae iur a picnic, pytmaea wrtA tood, saki and pipes, and stick it out with wonderful per. severance. My friend and I started abont 9 P. and secured our ticket at a house across the way, laid tickets being oblong strips ox wood, not nniike key tags, with character written unon them. Passing beneath a huge pictorial represen tation of the more exciting acenea to be piayeo, we were conducted to the seat of honor, which are in the gallery.

Fruit and cake were brought, and an interpreter ex plained the performance, while I took men tal note of the house. It ia very large, lighted only at the stage by smoky tallow candles, which are tended by "supes." The stage appeaxsto be roomy, although not deep and when the acene shifts, revolves bodily like the turn table of a locomotive. A nar row platform runs through the audience. not unlike that which the magioiana use in their prestidigitatorial feats, and by means of this actors come and go. Three very savage diainioa were sitting in ferocious state in the centre, while to the left knelt the father of a prisoner just captured who begged for his life.

The prisoner's wife, an engaging young lady, with gilded lips a 1 il i i uu uiaijiaueu wru, occasionally put in her plea; but both were met by the stern demand for "three hundred viae" aa the price of ransom. To tne right were vener able individuals, who played the part of chorus in the old Greek plays, and com mented on events as tbey transpired. Presently the prisoner wa brought in. Evidently ke had undergone hard treatment. for his beard was grown and his face waa pallid, lie waa tossed unceremoniously on one aide.

This proved an argument too convincing for the old man's avarice; so the young lady proceeded to go for the money, lighted by a servant, who held a candle before her at the end of. a long pole, while he walked respectfully iu the rear. Ixits of talk went on all the whue among the diamios. who appeared to be particularly savage fel lows, al when the wife returned with the money the result of their consultation appeared. The 300 rias (about $350) were taken, and the old man informed that only by paying them had his life been spared, for the audacity he displayed in thus beard ing the lion in his own den would certainly have been otherwise punished with death.

So, with peals of savage laughter at their own successful sharp practice, the free boot ing lords pointed to him the way out again, keeping the prisoner for punihm3nt or future extortion. So bitter waa the old man's disappointment that he grew Reaper. ato, and gave them a very frank bit of his mind, but was interrupted in his tirade by being bound hand and foot and thrown down on his face in tho middle of tho floor. A stuffed elligy had been substituted for his son, and was laid on top of him, corded all over with tho ropes which bound him. Every thing being thus arranged, the diamio in the center look a sword from an attendant, had water poured on the blade, spat on his hands and rolled up his sleeves, he tried his weapon by blows in the air.

brandishing it to one side and to the other with a grea'j deal of unnecessary stamping and snorting, and dually after the audience had sutlicientlv admired his skill in getting ready, straddled his legs apart and cut down on the prostrate bodies. The npiier one fell aoart. cut two through the middle, but the old man was much astonished to dud himself unhurt. At this feat there was mnoh laugh ter on tho part of two diamios, who went out. Rather tired of the long meaningless dialogues, we followed their example, what I havo deEcnbed occupying rather more than two hours.

GLEANINGS. Antidotes for tobacco are frequently prescribed. Coffee, it is said, will neutralize the eflucts of the nicotine, the government tasters in France and the Turks freely usiLg it for that purpose. Thn free use of ruit is also iuiclily recommended. Total abstinence from the use of the weed is bet tor thaa either.

lienry Ward Beecher. from hia nawlv assumed tripod as editor of tho Chritian Lnion, proclaims that tha nrmwr tl.inrr fnr iuo lountr men Christian Association, is to allow ladv 1 iiiciuii juiii. ne is airaiil mat thn an ua new buiMing of that association will K-corne merely a Club House, if women are xcluded. A wee laddie was brought before ona of the (Glasgow bailies, who, afterM-eading ira a lecture, asaea: "Where did vou earn so much wickedness "Do vou ken the pump in Glassford street "So." re. plied the bailie.

"Weol, then, do you ken the pump in llrigsate "Yes. Burr." was tho reply. "Wct-l, then, you may gang mere ana pump as long a you like, for 1 in nangea it you pump inc-" lhe etern portion of Michigan will soon become noted for its fruit culture. From 12,000 to 13,000 acres of land in that portion of the is now devoted to the business, Thirty-five thousand fruit trees were plunted in the vicinity of Manistee last year, and it is predicted that sixty tuouaanu wui oe planted during the coming year. A literary gentleman, wishing to be undisturbed one day, instructed hi Irish servant to admit no one, and if any one should inquire for him, to give them an equivocal answer.

Night came, and the gentleman proceeded to interrogate Fat as to his callers. "Uid anyone "Yes. sir, wan gintleman." "What did he "He axed was yer honor in." "Well, what yu k-" uuu: cure, i gave Dim a qmnkle answer 31st." "How was that? "I axed him was his grandmother monkey!" A Frenchman by will left his property to his wife on condition that she should put over us grave a stone with this maenp- uuu: Here lies Adf Iphe Who died at the Aire of Tears, In the Possession of all his Teelh. lhanks to the Hentlfrire Wuh of the House of A Co. No.

street. Ten Francs a Bottle. Two or Three Colds in succession will. with many constitutions, securely establish the seeds of Consumption in the system, thus converting what was oritrinallr a sim ple curable affection into one generally 1 fatal. While ordinary prudence, therefore, makes it the business of every one to take care 01 a old until it is cot nd of.

intelli gent experience fortunately present remedy in Dr. D. Jayne's ExDectorant. thoroughly adaDted to remnVA anMtdilv mil Coughs and Cold, and one equally effective mo primary stage ot Consumption, Asthma and Bronchitis. Sold tv all luruggists.

Pcritt VaRsrs Poison There is much difference between Phalon's Yitalia Salvation for the Hair and the filth. charged hair darknera, aa between th Pool Bethsada, that an angel stirred, and ftrer breeding mod Dond. The Yitalia i. a crystalline fluid, without a single impurity uuiiusi property, sua we naturalness of hade it impart to grey hair is nn- equaueo. 113-lw 110 Lisfenard New Yore, October 13, 18C7.

Dbar Sir It ia with much pleasure 1 say to you tnat 1 consider the Plan tation Hitters of untold value. In the fall 1867 I waa taken with chill and fawn with the most severe pain in my cheat and neaa. it waa wita great difficulty that I couia nreathe. My lung were greatly dis tressed, bdq mere waa aerere pain in mr right aide, by apella. I could hardly get up iroiu my Dea.

1 caxiea a doctor, who attended me all Winter without the least ben- About the first of August I com- .) nt wine glass fall three tunee a day and hare uava IS BBOBe Ot tS Ume buos. ami I am well and strong, able to do all my own wura smi me oar 01 large IBZmly. Yours, 80SAir Wiuo. Maonolia Watir. Superior to the imported German Cokxrne.

and sold at I me price. 1131 A moat perfect regulator of the whole human system is found in Dr. Piere' Alterative Extract or Golden Medical Dis covery, it care female waaxneaa, wank and all irregularitie. It is greet restorative tonic, and nerve force generator, nance in all case 01 nervous or general debility, nothing can eaual it, gold by lor BY W. ledge oi tne piainun.

Mrs. Calhoun I shall net attempt to give her statement vei-fxith Mr. Calhoun formed Mrs. MeFarland'a acquaintance through the medium of a communication that lady sent to tha Trhunt. The ac quaintance ripen! riaodahip which continued until Mi VKaHand, driven by poverty from pillar to post, waa lost sight of.

1 bey met, accidentally, on the street, and Mrs. Calhoun, generous friend that she was, followed her up to a squalid abode in Amity street. She pressed some money upon Mrs. Mcr arland for immediate neces s'ties, and soon procured her employment. It was while Mrs.

McFarland occupied this miserable abode that Mrs. Calhoun became an involuntary witness of Mr. McParland's cruelty. She saw him coming home, stag. genne with intoxication, and ran up stairs to tell his wife.

Before she oould make her escape he entered the room, and, seeing his wife sitting up in bed (she had been very sick) engaged in writing, be made a rush toward her, and snatched the paper from her. He followed tbia by knocking over tee cnaurs and stand, and breaking au the crockery ne could lay his hands upon, in the midst of which innocent diversion he suddenly discovered the presence of Mrs. Calhoun. It did not have the effect of so bering him, but from that date he became her enemy. She had never seen him strike hia wife, but she asked the honorable Judge if any woman with the ke turned in the lock was safe with such a man.

She testified further that McFarland had not supported hia wife, and that she, with others, encouraged Mrs. McFarland to attempt dramatic readings. She had also sustained her efforts on the stage, which. brought to an untoward end by the first attempted assassination of Mr. Richardson, were succeeded by litertry efforts.

In and through all Mrs. MeFarland'a eventful ca reer ar a wife and as petitioner for divorce, Mrs. Calhoun proclaimed her a true and pure woman, whose cause she felt it ac honor to espouse. In the enumeration of her wrongs sLe unfolded misery Mrs. arland had not the heart to confess.

"In unhappy marriages the deepest wrongs are those which admit of no complaint." This is one of the eloquent passages with which Mrs. Calhoun's statement closed. She was submitted to a brief examination. His Honor took the case under advisement, and the Court adjourned. The next day, October 15, Mrs.

McFarland, her father, and a friend, departed from Martinsville on the early train, and have been seen thero no more. Whether before their departure they had the satis faction cf beholding the subjoined docu ment of that date, I tun unable to say. "October 14, 1809. "Come acain the plaintiff, by her at torneys aforesaid, and the Court being duly advised, finds for the plaintiff, and grants a it is therefore ordered and ad judged by the Court, that the bonds matrimony heretofore existing between the parties be set amde and held for naught And it is further ordered by the Court that the ptaiiitili have the custody of the youngest child, Daniel W. McFarland; and it is further ordered and adjudged by the Court, that plaintiff recover of defendant her coot herein expended.

"liecord signed tobcr 15, lsoO. W. Woolkn, Judge." The above completes tho record of the McFarland divorce. Tho reader can form his own conclusions. It my not be im proper to add that the plaintiff paid the and I would call attention to the early date of Mr.

McFarland' mistreatment of hi wife, as thown by the evidence of her quaint i.nd reBpectablo father, as, aido, to tiie fjet that iu none of the evi- i.Lce is there anything to indicate that Mr. McFarland was, or had even been either a rich or prosperous man. That IfltW was submitted to the Juilce. mho. when the case was returned it to Mr.

Saze. MEN-OF-WAR. SOME BIG SHITS THVr jKE BUILDING FOR JullN The keel of one of the typical first class British war ships for the future has just been laid at Portsmouth. She bears the auggestive title of Devastation, and along with her consort, the Thunderer, to be shortly commenced, will take precedence of all the existing grades in the British navy, iier length is "a foet, her extreme breadth feet, mean draft 2t feet, and tons burden 4400, old measurement. Ihe is to bo by engiuus of 8iKJ horse power, and her estimated f.pt-cd is set down at 1 "2 i knots per hour.

She will be able to carry 1G0O tons of coal, sufficient for a three weeks' cruise. She is to be con -stnicted on the genuine turret principle, without any attempt to unite, by the addition of masts and sails, the characterise tics of two aisuuct varieties oi nubiug thi pa. Being, then, neither adauted for cruiser nor kuai'didiip, she is simply Hoatinz battery of enormous power. Jh will carry two turrets, and oa each will be mounted two thirty-ton guns, capable of throwing shot of six hundred pound weight. Her sidea are to be composed of teak and iron of nearly three feet in thick ncss.

constituting an armor plating which is intended to make her the most impene trablc ship of any navy, while her arma ment is claimed as the heaviest yet at tempted. Owing to the absence ot any work aloft, a crew of two hundred and Sfty men will, it is said, be sufficient to work her. She is to cost $1,450, (MX) in gold. RITUALISM. XOVEL SCEXE JS AS EPIJCOrAL CHCRCH.

A singular scene in connection with the "iwelvc Dave Mission took place at ht Albans Church, in Holbom, London, last month. Some days previously it had been announced that, as a closing ceremony, those who desire to do so might renew their baptismal rows, and for this purpose the "Book of the Mission" contained a special form of service, compiled from the Prayer Book. As this strange ceremony was new to the Church of England, many strangers were present to witness it, and the scene is thus described: The Eev. S. W.

O'Neill, of the Society of St, John, at Cowley, was the officiating minister. At the close of the evening service he preached a short sermon on the joys of heaven. When the sermon waa ended the preacher announced that instead of the customary address the four or five hundred people who occupied the nave of the church, and who had assembled there for the purpose, would perform the great ceremony of the evening. They would severally be provided with candles, previ ously blessed at the altar, and while each held hia candle lighted he would go through the service, and they would close the ceremony with a procession round the church. He defended the blessing of the candles upon scriptural grounds, and said that, so stroDg ly did the clergy at that church feel the importance of such a ceremony that the vest ments and acted things used in the conduct of their service were all formally blessed.

The reason why he asked them to light their candles was to remind them that when ther were baptized thev received in the sacrament the light of the Holy Spirit. At the end of the service they might take home all that remained of their candle, and burn it at the hour of their death. 'The reverend gentlemen then retired to the altar, before which were placed two large trays of long wax tapers, and, after he had prayed over them, some attendants lighted one at the altar, and the remainder were distributed among tne penitents who took part in the aarvioe. From the one candle ignited in the channel, which waa all ablaze with light, the remainder were lighted a they passed from band to hand. These novel element of an English service were plain, thin dips, and would probably be described in the trade a twelve-inch twenties; at least auch they appeared to one more accustomed to using candle than to making them.

Afier the jnging of a hymn the service began. At th end of the closing prayer Mr. Q'Niell. who had returned to the pulpit after be bad bleeaed the candles, again stood before the altar, and was arrayed in magnificent bro caded cope. A procession wa then formed down the centre aisle, and, with incense, banners and candle, three hundred and fifty women and nearly two hundred men saareheaVi round the church.

It was work of some dirfienltr to marshal them, to avoid con fusion but experience baa mad th St. Albans people proficient in this duty. Aa spectacle it wa not equal to tnat well knows Eastern seremony ia th Greek is to it in the to not and req hia integrity more remarkably than in dis countenancing the fraudulent brother-in- law-Dent movement. THE COAL TRADE. In the New York Herald of Friday we find some interesting statistics indicating the production and supply of anthracite.eoal for the present year, as compared with last.

The following is given as a correct and complete statement of the number of tons carried over the several railroads and canals which discharge the product of the mines in the fire (treat anthracite basins Schuyl lull, Wyoming, Lackawanna, Shamokin and Iehigh: lues. Philadelphia and Reading R. R. i.ora.iso Schuylkill (canal) Wln.eif LrhiKb Valley K. iseo.

1,010,481 040 S3 uettij-n ana tsuquciinne it. K. 474.MI 10,140 4W.A7U -'c en ton (rel n) Delaware and Hu It. H. .1,,278 Hem nylvania Coal Transur- tattoli 811, I) utwareand If ml on 1,670, 'Hil 4hatnoklo Trsadatoa (region) 81,470 nhort Mountain' (revion) 111,115 l.ykens Va ley ('cyion) 81.6W X1.4U' 90 WXJ 74,06 lluntlnKtun a liruadlop (region) oming (reifton) ''i'lianistwu (oolliert) S48.M44 1W6.808 1,740,000 178 4)7 Lackawanna (baitiu).

Total "KMilmated. .14,818,62 The statistics of this rear are only for eleven months, and when those of December are added it seems probable that the supply of 1869 will be found to exceed that of 1808. In the Schuykill basin it is calcu lated that the production of the present year exceeds that of the last by 600,000 tons. In some of the others it has fallen short. The difference, on the whole, be twecn the two years is not likely to be much either way.

It is calculated that the delivery to New York City during the year has been about 4,000,000 tons, and to Philadelphia about 3,000,000 tons, those two cities absorbing nearly half of the total product. It is reportfd from Washington that the Senate Judiciary Committee have agreed on a bill, which will be presented to-day, for the regulation of affairs in Georgia. It is jaid to embody substantially the View of the case sot forth by the President in hie annual message. The Governor of the State will be empowered to convene the members originally elected to the Legislature, and have that body organize, compelling all the members elect to take the oath proscribed by the Reconstruction laws, and allowing no one to take a seat who is not eligible under the third clause of the Four-teonth Amendment. This will give to the "ilored people all the rights belonging to them he CivU Kihu biU nd in 911 future elections In a Sute' wil1 comPel the ex-Kebela either to elec.

wno eligible for offioe, or forfeit their right to representation. The course pursued by tho Democracy of Georgia, and the bad faith sinco shown by the Democracy of Tonnes sec, have had a marked effect on the Republicans in Congress, and there is a determination to act with Georgia, Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas, in such a manner that equal rights to all will be secured beyond the slightest shadow of a doubt. Tub projected ship canal, to be cut through the Isthmus of North Holland, will facilitate the communication between Amsterdam and the North Sea, so that this famous commercial city will be changed into a seaport. Two piers, each 5000 feet long, are now building, running out into the sea so as to form a harbor of refuge, embracing an area of 7200 acres. About 3000 feet inland will be the basin, which is to form the entrance to the canal.

It will be twenty-six feet deep and 197 feet wide, exceeding the dimensions of the Suez Canal. The Amsterdam Canal will be carried through the midst of a sheet of water, or inland lake, the Wyker Meer, which will be dammed up along with the river, and afterwards pumped dry and converted into naature land. The cost of these extensive work V)U amount to 910,800,000, and tho new channel will be completed in 187C. Th Springfield (Massachusetts) Republi-tan says that tobacco is selling in that vicinity at twenty-five cents for entire lota, and that one extensive buyer there predicts a monster "crash" in the next two years, on account of the increase of the supply over the demand. He rates the annual consumption in the whole oountry at 40,000 oases, exclusive of Virginia and Kentucky raising, done up for plugs.

This year's crop he put at 80,000 cases, and there are 10,000 oases of old tobacco in the oountry, making 100,000 caaea, or 60,000 above the demand. Ths fire in th United States during November, and involving loue of $20,000 and upward, gira an aggregate loa of $2,650,000, being $266,000 leas than during November, 1868. Th largest fire were the government stores at Fort Sully, Dako ta, loss stores at Jackson, Michi ean, seventeen stores at Green ville, Alabama, factories at Chi- gHo, rolling mills at Baltimore, $100,000, and wholesale grocery store at The total losee by f- tC. fW eleven month of 1869 amount to $36,384,000. Tub Enalish holder of Confederate bonds seemed to have arrived at conclu sion relative to their property very differ ent from that which is entertained here.

The New York Timet learns that the prices of the rebel bonds bare "considerably im proved" in value in anticipation of the settlement of the Alabama claim. And that many Englishmen bare quietly looked np their Confederate under the idea that some day or other they will turn out to be a'good thing." The Bull is a queer Ho. NBLSon Tirr, one of the Georgia Congressmen, recommend that th Legislature, making virtue of naceaaity, raster th expelled negro to their seats and ratify th Fifteenth Amendment, sad thereby "remove the pretext for th interference of Congress in th government of the SenAible, but late. v.w iimm Jiatss B. Blake was unanimously nomi- LgAed for Mayor of Woroaeter, Mass fP-blic.

Convention on Friday. Bjtled for Mayor of Woroester, by.