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SEP*. • . • *• >.'.• V.;-- oa* til ATHKI8T fool hattl BaM, " ThPTP Is no Ood !* •*.• VoCM! Who tight® •he morning B1fi| . $ Bd mfli him on hi* heavenly road, Mn,; • > Afornt brilliant course to run? « ,,, •, : %ho, when the radiant day ie done, * *- w<J*« forth the moon'* nocturnal lamp, Mda the pl*net», on* by one, ' i; Steal o'er the night vain aarfc and damp? • , $.!?>$ 2 %o God J Who gives the evening dewt ;v,KTa> faaniag bveese, the fortes SSSOWM? 'Si#0»o warms the spring morn's budding bough, »•' M "i And plants the summer's noontide flawer? ;:v lii ffho spreads in the autumnal bower r The fruit trees' mellow stores around, And sends the winter's toy power To invigorata-the exhausted gn t - Jfo (tad! Who makes the bird to wiryfc;-. - - » It* flight like arrow through the . t And gives the deer the power to spring t tn mnk triiiTririhmntlj J 1 'V Who formed Behomotli, huge and hjgfe, " . Ttiat at a draught the river drains, </'*'" ' And great Leviathan to lie, '> • • • : •5 like floating isle, on oeean plains? No Ood! Who warms the heart to heat** With thousand tcelings soft and a-weet, And promnta the aspiring soul to leave The earth we tread beneath our feet, And poar away on pinions fleet Beyond the accnea of mortal strife. With fair, ethereal forms to meet, . That tells us of the after life ? j:-;; God! Wli» fixed the solid ground (sf •nitlars strong that altar not ? Who Bpr»<«! the curtained skies around? Who doth the ocean bounds allot ? Who all things to perfection brought : On belew, fc heavsa above ? ' Cto aak the fool, of impious thought ,<•1 Wt& dares to say, "There its no God !" • HAKRY WINSOME. VowH«WonHlsKpaal«ts. aBiras THK nmrr-un nr rati «nHr- BOOM 'HBIJT W IUDOUIU nSS&^i fi SSSdm n'rni- ghiplUiui like those yOU read O* in. iiOV6i». There was nothing very wonderful about nim at all, in fa»jt. On shore, when he happened to go to a party or ball, he did not try to dance all the evening with the tallest and fairest for partners; he did not bnlly the blue-jackets and mil them duffers when in charge of a boat; and on board he merer shirked Ms work or " fudged" the sums the naval instructor gave him to work, and he never went on the side-list with the tooth-ache, and he didn't spend one-half of hip time at the masthead because he chose to spend the other half in playing tricks on his supe­ rior officers. Bml if Harry had nothing very brilliant about his character--and brilliancy, mind you, is a very dangerous thing for a naval midshipman to be pos­ sessed of--he had something that was . far .better: he had that plodding spirit so characteristic of the Saxon race, that in­ domitable perseverence which is insep­ arable from the true Englishman's na­ ture; and so, from the very moment Jlarry became a naval cadet and floated away from shore, perched upon his sea- chert., to join his ship, although not enamored of hie new profession Harry « meant to go on with it." No one likes the sea at first--there is so much to en­ dure, no rnxiclt to conquer; but these same hardships, when overcome natur­ ally make us love old ocean all the more. When Harry and his sea-cheefc were bundled--rather unceremoniously, it must be allowed--on board the gunboat Badger the first thought that occurred to him was that he had never seen such confusion in his life; for, although the vessel was under wiling orders, and in less than twelve touts would be south of the Needles, hardly Any of the stores had as yet been struck down, and the deck was a perfect litter. Harry wouldn't have known what to do if it hadn't been for his friend and servant fee eoxswain. That worthy sailor touched Mm on the shoulder and told him to go and report himself to the tall officer who was talk­ ing the quarter-deck. "That," added the coxswain, " is the oommander--not a stricter officer in the searvioe; t'other, the shortish gray-headed gentleman's the doctor, the kindest and best* hearted that ever breathed. Sheer off, master, they be looking this W«IJ "And so, youngster," said the com­ mander, who, to Harry's mind, couldn't haive been Very much shorter *li«n the funnel of his own ship, " you've thought proper to Join at last, have you f A fin© lot of Fsaoah leave you've takes: Poor Hany felt as if he had a pic -cushion in his throat, which he could neither get down nor up, and it was only '7X7 difficulty he restrained iue ieai.vi 1 "*J2» coamumdw*- wasn't war wr-- *04U , "So--ho!" hecon&KaoiV. 'going, to * ..' ajsty, hey 1 B^oapf- ap ht & '5$Mc~f !/ f u £Q§B[» fry? 'krxeUf md&f make," **•• '• " "Excuse me, sir/' said the surgeon,who had entered the navy rather late in life, and* although twenty yean and over had elapsed mnoe he lew old Ireland, stall retained the slightest spice in the world of the brogue--" Excuse me, but I can- - not be mistaken, iMs is a grandson of my old and esteemed friend, Geii. Strath* bom. There's a drop of tht> iml blood in him, sir. Trust me, he'll make a sailor right enough." Dr. Fitzgerald s faije was very homely • - and deeply pitted with the small-pox, and as browa as an old boVain's, but Haxzy m that moment thought hie had never seen such a pleasant man in his life. ••rmsonyl spoke," said the oom­ mander, by no means angrily, as he poshed Harry over to the surgeon. ** Take him and make a sailor or loblolly boy of him, just as you please." The surgeon laughed. " Come along, me boy," he said, " and 111 show you jam: mess-mates, and a rough lot you'll ^ ; find them. Can you foight?" " I think I em," said Harry modestly; 4 "but I never tried." , r • ** Ha i ha!" laughed the eld doctor : •• *• nay good indeed. Capital!" | A long, low, dark room on one side of \ the steerage, lighted only by two small \ ports--this was the gun room. A table % ;A occupied nearly its entire space, leaving merely room, and no more, for the cush­ ioned lockers, which served for seats. The surgeon knocked and entered, dip­ ping his head as he did so, to allow a £u* gar's shoe to whistle harmlessly over "Ohl come away* .doctor," said a voice; " I thought it *M that beggarly steward; he has allowed Johnson to drfck mv mm again to-day. " Well," said the doctor, " you drink ^^SS^get a chance, air, or I would every Has that young griffin come The speaker was a tall* hpky, raw- boned youth, who »t in a earner with boflilMs on the table, a position he was justified by the rales of the mess in as- fuming, beeause both Capes. "Oh! dear, dear good old doctor I" cried a young fair-haired middy, jump­ ing up and throwing his arms caressing­ ly round the surgeon's neck. " I'm so glad you've oome." ,s What's in the wind aotar, young cub ?" asked the doctor. " Qb! logarithms, daddy, logarithms and'gebra; you'll do an equation for me, won't you I" " Not thin watch, my boy," said the surgeon; " ask your new messmate here." *' Can you do log's and 'gebt" This appeaiinfrlv to Harry. MIU try," aaidmrry ; and down sat the two together; away went the sur­ geon, and in less than five minutes the youngsters were as thick as thieves. Harry promised to do all his messmate's sums for him. "For you know," that youth explained, "I'm an awfully lazy beggar ; Lawson's my name--Lazy Law- son, the instructor calls me ; and can't he hit hard with the ruler! my word ! " Lawson aiso gave him a history of all his messmates, from the sub-lieutenant --who was quiet and allowed Hicks, the lanky youth and tyrant of the mess, to do as he liked--down to the young and inoffensive purser's clerk. Thus far, reader, perhaps you have thought my little hero green. He wasn't, howver. He was one of your quiet, considering English boys, who always think before they speak, who take things in at one glanoe, and who. no matter how soft they look,are not tobe imposed . $y< he bad been sound The ward-room officers soon found oat Harry's good qualities, and grew very fond of him.AiipemaUv the surgeon, who invited Harry to make use of Hia cabin every day to read or study in. Like most of his dam, tee doctor was a good sailor ; he cwmld, so to speak, box the compass, splioa a rope, steer the ship, or navigate her; and he often gave Harry what he tanned a " hitch " oat of a difficulty. Barry's life in the gun-room was rather a rough one, but he soon settled down to it; not that he followed in the footsteps of the oldsters, mind yon. He treated the steward politely, but he didn't pet him one moment and shy a boot at his head the next, neither did he bully bis own servant--and honest Dan Williams would have done anything for Mm. But Harry had to submit to be bullied a good deal himself. Hicks took his rum regularly ; Harry didn't mind. Hicks " borrowed," his pens, ink, and paper ; Harry had plenty,, The mildest name that ever Hicks called him was 'muff;" but even that didn't hurt Harry. H«rry didn 't search his Bible to find the proverbial five-pound note, but he searched it to find something far better, muff as he was ; and night and morning he knelt by the side of .his sea-chest, and he never felt a bit worse for it. Hairy had been at sea for three years, and every day of those ttwee year* Hicks had had his ram ; but one day poor Williams was so ill that he oould hardly stand erect, and Hany did not hesitate to give him the rum that day. Crash! That was a blow, and Hicks was the giver, andpoor Harry lay stunned and bleeding upon the deck. But that same evening, on the orlop- deck, Harry took of his jacket, which Lazy Lawson held, and 4old Hicks to stand up like a uum„ I won't describe the fight. Suffice it to say that next day Hicks had to go on the su)k list, And he couldn't appear on duty for a whole week. But nobody pitied Hicks. And Harry's life in the gun-room was more pleasant after that CHAPTER THE SWXMTO--AT SAffE, When three years had passed away-- ami, oh, how quicklv years do fly in the navy!--Harry felt he liked the service. When five years had oome and gone he positively loved it, and wonldirt have changed places with a lord on shore. All this time Harry had never once been home, for when one commission was done he had volunteered for a second in the same station ; and not only he,, but hk dearest friend, Lazy Lawson, and his faithful servant, Dan Williams, had all effected an exchange into the corvette Vengeance, just newly out from Eng- •ira shi]K uod'f^V^y.|t»- A: . ,v 77777"' 7-.' • ' . Itou woaiti ii'> M©* # wtfgc? the bai&asM 'boy, who foue on board Ma ibt sMp ontop of his sea-chest, but a tail and handsome young man--still a little quiet- looking, and with a cast of care on his countenance, but with fair irrepressible hair that curled over his well-bronzed brow, and an eye that never feared to look you in the face. Heigho! " said Harry to his friend and chum on© Sunday morning; " I wonder if there will ever be any fighting to give a fellow a chanoe to win his epau­ lets." ««Epaulets, indeed!" replied lawson, who was still a middy ; "I only wish I oocld win my scales Mid a stripe, let alone epaulets. But I suppose I shall never be anything but Lazy Lawson. I envy yon Hacnr. How the dickens do you mans#0 it I " I just keep pegging afay," said Harry. " Mind, I'm not iealotas, Hany, but somehow I envy you." • « Why don't you keep pegging away as I do?" asked Harry simply. « Oh, hang work and grinding t*' said Lawson; "I can't do it, and there's an end. Besides, there's luck, you know. The nkipper never fell into the hands of the natives and gave me a ohanoe of saving his life. And I happened to be on leave when the sMp was on fire,' Williams told me, though, it wm quite a sight to see yon, all black and grimy, scuttling the decks with the carpenter's ax. But--by gum, Harry! I'll never forget the day you jumped overboard, in half a gale of wind, after poor Jo© Em- mett. It was so fanny; bemuse, when I saw you oome up and the broken water all round you frothy and bloody. I made sure the shark had you instead ef Joe; and you only brought up one-half of poor Ja*s after all--that was funny. Oh! you're a lucky, lucky beggar, Harry I" "And so would you be, Lawson, if you would only just make up your mind to keep peg " 84 Strange sail on the lee bow, sir!"-- this in stentorian tones from the man at the mast-head. It was a sight to see the bright gleam that now shone from Harry's eye and illuminated his whole faoe; it was a sight to see the alacrity with which, glass in hand, he shinned up the rigging; and it was a sight to see poor little Lazy Law- son stick his hands deep into his peg- top trowsers-pockets ana gaze upward after Mm. "Lucky--lucky beggar!" Said Law- son. Harry oame down almost as quickly as he had gone up, went below, and entered the commander's cabin, shortly after­ ward, the order was passed to let the men have dinner half an hour sooner; and even a novice could have told, from observing the unusually beaming faces of both men and officers, that something more than usual was in the wind* The sMp was kept away a few points in the direction of the strange vessel, which in less than an hour could be seen from the deck--a large three-masted ship, under every stitch of canvas she could carry, and Keeping well in toward the land. The vengeance rose and fell on the long smooth rollers of the Indian Ocean. Which of us has not seen or read of the beauty of this romantic sea; of its bright pellucid waters, beneath whose depths are spread gardens of marine flowers, of colors as bright as the hues of the rainbow; of the little coralline isles tkut dot its surface, green-fringed with waving palm-trees; of its blue skies, flecked with fleecy cloudlets; of ths strange sails that, birdlike, skim over its waters ; and of the peace that seems to hang forever • around it? For ever? Nay, not forever--for at night, when all is quiet, you can hear the ciy of the tortured slave in the dark woods that line its shores ; down among the flowers lurks the dreaded shark, the scorpion dwells on the coral islands, those strange ssjlg ww often pirate®, and at times the cyclone careers across its waters, and many a gallant ship and many a brave sailor lie beneath its waves. It was the rainy season. Instead of the bright blue sky usual in these lati­ tudes, the sky was overcast and of leaden hue, the forked lightning played inoes- santly on the surface of the water, while any wind there was came in sudden gusts and wild, and had hardly com© till it was gone again. The Vengeance was in chase, and every eye on board was strained watch­ ing the great three-master, still a long way ahead of them, for, although the Vengeance gained upon her in the lull, with every squall the strange ship seemed positively to fly over the waters. When, after a short twilight, night fell, dark and lowering, the Vengeance was still a long way astern, and the chase seemed all but lost. Down in the cap­ tain's cabin a council of war was held, at wMch Harry was the youngest officer. Jooma, the dark-skinned Arab inter­ preter, was talking as he entered. " I tell you what, sar," he was saying, excitedly, "you wrong! Dat sMp not go furder south; she cross the bar to­ night, land slaves to barracoon, and then clear ship for the inspection of British officers!" And Jooma bowed low, in mock ceremonv. to his audience. "Well, after all, captain," said the navigating-lieutenant, "I think old Jooma is right. • He talku like a book, and we are right off the Bangoona bar even now." " Then, by heavens!" cried the cap­ tain, " where she goes my boats can fol­ low." «< Hurrah to that, sar!" said Jooma. "But, mind," continued the captain, " old friend as you ares Jooma, I'll hang you if you've deceived us!" "Jooma live a long time yet, sar," said the Arab. It was midnight when the Vengeance oeased to steam, and cast anchor outside the Bangoona river in five fathoms of water. Midnight, and intensely dark. Five boats were called away, yet it seemed like madness to attempt to cross that dreaded bar to-night, where the rollers ran mountains high, and broke in foam on every side. " Whatever a man dares he can do," was the motto of Capt. Cameron, of H. M. S. Vengeance. Jooma's boat went first, the rest follow­ ing in Indian file, and all that even Jooma had to guide him was the con­ stant tum-tummiiig in the Indian village and the occasional quavering shriek of an Arab sentry. The boats are among the breakers. Jooma's light, like j* guiding' • star '̂feNew* ^ow4^ow/ .peetb, li-'.ldcn, .with the ru3e.'T^ i'ff it of *.•»« boat* Heaves! how thone mighty waves tumble and roar, and, like giaat jiion-.Lia of tho deep, kns their foaming manes ail around them! Only in the wake of Jooma's boat there is no broken water. Well he knows the passage. The last boat to pasa is Harry's. He is half-way through, when swiftly up behind comes a great curling wave. Harry sees the danger. " Lie on your oars, men t" he shouts; '̂steady!" The last word is drowned in the roar of breaking water. The boat is caught like a cork and hurled .swifter than arrow from Indian's bow full fifty yards sfec»rewftrd-Hshoreward and into smooth water--safe, but filled to &he very guawai© with water. As silent as ghosts glided the boats up the river. Suddenly a voice which seemed to come from the clouds: " Boat ahoy I ' Stand off or IH pdt a shot in you I " "Dar she is, Jooma exultingly. " Now, my lads, cried Captain Came­ ron, " you heard the threat! That's our prize. We've only got to take her. Mr. Lawson, sheer off a few yards with your boat, and keep the blue lights burning." A broad glare of ghastly light was the almost instant reply. "Tumble np, men!" shouted the captain. . " Hurmh!" What spirit there is in an English cheer, even from soldier-fksoats® But, ah! you should hear it as it comes from the lungs of our brave blue-jackets, when eager for the fray, when evecy pulse is bounding, and the foe is there before them. It surely was not men they fought with on the deck of that mave-sMp. Half naked they were, dusky-skinned, and slippery, with long hair and. wild eyes--men who fought with brandished spear and broadsword. They were the northern fighting Arabs, half pirates, half slavers. How fiercely they fought, how bitterlv they died, ana how terrible was the flgnt that raged under the blue uncertain light! For fully half an hour, with clash and shout and cry and moan, the battle continued, then all was still save for the groans of the wounded. Harry had fought as only young Eng­ lishmen can and always do fight, and sar, Captain!" cried when it was all over he dropped at>par ently lifeless on the deck. It was his ftrst fight, remember--he ha4 fainted with excitement and fatigue." It seemed a very long night to be alone with the dead and wounded, for both mden had severely. At last, however, morning broke ; the sun leapt up out of the sea, red and fiery, shimir!r,r;iig over the w&tsrs m » cwxtaiB. of crimson. There was still the barracoon on shore to capture, and the slaves, who had all been landed, to liberate, and Capt. Cam­ eron lost no time in setting about it. The wounded and dead were sent over the bar to the ship, and then a landing was effected on the edge of a mangrove for­ est, and honest Jooma found a path wMch conducted them straight to the Indian village. Sailors, perhaps, do not look very soldier-like on shore, but nev­ ertheless they can do their work, as wit­ ness Line.Crimea, Here, however, an unexpected difficulty arose. The village was surrounded b^la high wooden padi- sade, and as they were wondering how to get over a pattering fire of musketry was opened on them and several men dropped. "Let us pitch each other over! here goes, I'm first!" cried Hany Win­ some. " Harrah t" and in five minutes, readere there wasn't one men-Jack Rt the wrong side of the palisade ex­ cept poor Dan Williams, who happened to be last, and had nobody to pitch him over, and what do you think he did ? Why, lay down and cried for vex­ ation. The Somali Indians and Arabs made a stout resistance, and for hotus the fight was hand to hand, from one burning house to another. * * *'• Bade again on board the Vengeance. An awning is spread amidships, and un­ der it hangs many a poor fellow in his hammock, and among them Harry, who was grievously wounded in the late fray. * * * Steaming onward at full speed through the Indian ocean, Bombay was reached at last, • When Harry was aole to get about a bit in a palanquin and was feeling as if he had got a new lease of life, one day Capt. Cameron came on shore with a packet of letters. All Harry's letters were paper but one--it was his commission as lieuten­ ant. Harry Winsome had won his epaulets. When Harry read it his eyes sparkled, and the old pincushion came back again, and for a moment he thought he must make a fool of himself, but he didn't. Harry is home again, and holding his mother in his arms. Home! Oh, read­ er ! it is worth while going abroad for a few years, if only to know the meaning of that one word, Home. "I tell you,"said Qen. Strathburn (Harry's un^le), iimi, peace or war, there is no better career in the world for a boy of spirit than the brave old English navy." The General is right.-- Cassell's Magazine. The Millionaires of America. The New York World draws some en­ tertaining comparisons between New York and California millionaires and the methods by which, their wealth has been obtained. Vanderbilt is now the sole survivor of the three New Yorkers whose fortunes ranked with the great fortunes of the world. All this great wealth was the result of hard work, sa­ gacity and economy, steadfastly con­ tinued during a long series of years. MOT can any of the great centers of civ- ilization--London. Paris, Berlin, or Vienna--furnish the names of three men who have, unaided, achieved such enor­ mous fortunes in the short space of a life. The realization of such excep­ tional conditions for all manner of com­ mercial and industrial enterprises here in the eastern States during the remain­ ing years of the century cannot bo hoped for again. But over the mountains, on the shores of the Pacific, where untold wealth lies dormant in the bowels of the earth, only requiring the ingenuity and labor of man to bring it forth, there is opened a field few the rapid accumu- o?';̂ ea!ri L-Js Iblrav wish VH with California millionaires, some o£ whom are already among the rich 3 aou of tko world. Senator Sbiron, Ei mam yet-..in the privic ef life, .is re-' pitted, to be worth $40/000,000. His colleague,. Jones, of Nevada, is esti­ mated at $30,000,000. O'Briey , Mackay and F&kr all went to California without money OF friends. It is estimated that each partner of this firm is to-day in the enjoyment of an income of over $1,000.- 000 » yew. The Big Bonanza aione is computed to contain a mass ©f gold and silver vtdued at $300,00©,CMXL and yields at present over $2,500,000 a month. The fabulous sums whick are here regu­ larly extracted from the earth every four weeks remind one of the fairy tales of old. The Consolidated Virginia npne produoes $8,000,000 a month, while it is estimated by those experts now oil the ground that the total produot of the " Comstook " for the present year will exceed $75,000,000. With such exam- Sles as these before us we may oonfi-ently look for the great fortunes of the future among the merchants and traders of California. K» uum MMJ JDUtOK CUlIn, VP pondent is a Millersburg mai sent out to the Black Hills by t ft* Mammoth Engine at the Centennial. The Corliss engine at the Centennial is ill cis described : It weighs 800 tons ; will drive eight miles of shafting ; has a fly-wheel 30 feet in diam ter and weigh­ ing 70 tons ; is of 1,400 horse power ; has 2 walking-beams, weighing 22 tons each; 2 40-inch cylinders, a 10-feet stroke, a craate shaft 19 inches in diame­ ter and 12 feet in hngth ; connecting- rods 24 feet in lenguh, and piston-rods 6| inches in diameter. The platform on which it rests is 55 feet in diameter and composed of polished iron plates, resting upon brick foundations that extend far down into the earth. The height from the floor to the top of the walking-beams is 89 feet. Mr. Corliss is the inventor, patentee, builder, and owner, having had it erected lor the double purpose of exhibition and furnishing motive power, wMch wall be supplied gratuit­ ously, but only for the purpose of exhib­ iting machinery »u operation, no ma­ chinery being allowiedtorun longer than is necessary for th»lt purpose, except by permission from thmcMef of the bureau. Qt the 8 lines of Ahaffcing (4 on emeh. side of the transept)W will have a speed of 120 revolutionsA^er minute and 1 of 240. LIGHT OH A DARK 8UBJEC T Ww Truth About the Blaefc HlllW<t«U the Boja to Btsy at Ho<h«." [From the Cleveland Herald.] At last we have received a genuine let­ ter from the Black Hills, OUT oorres- man who Was _ „ »company at Scrsston, » s., to asoetam the exact facts. His letter is dated at Ouster City, on French creek, wMch he says has 833 houses built or under construction. Eight of these are frame and the re* mainder of hewed logs, about ten feet high and roofed with poles laid close covered with dirt about a foot deep. About 3,000 persons are on tMs creek, which m a valley about a quarter of a mile wide, with a small, winding stream having scarcely a perceptible current, sometimes above and sometimes under ground. The bed rock of the valley is about twenty feet beneath the surface. At the top of the soil the finest par­ ticles of gold are found, but nothing more until the bed rock is reached, and then from " color" up to one dol. lar, by scraping the root The yield is more frequently the tenth part of a cent than over. Nothing has yet been discovered that will pay the miner's board. There is a good' deal of mica rock. Three sawmilk have been built but no market can be found for the lumber, which is offered at twenty- five dollars per thousand for pine lum­ ber. The logs will average twenty inches and cat two twelve-feet logs to the tree. Hill City, on Spring creek, has 120 log or pole houses, of wMch about a score are finished, and the remainder abandoned after the sides were up. Only about thirty persons remain in the place, and not a dozen miners are making their board. A large amount of work was begun and abandoned. The bed rock is about thirty-two feet wide, with but lit­ tle gold. Cassel, Rosewood, Deadwood nad WMtewood creeks and Bear Gulch --streams running north some hundred and fifty miles--have all been thoughly prospected, and but little gold found, or diggings that will pay a miner's board. No snow exists to interfere with min­ ing. Timber on the hills is of a bettor quality than in the valleys. The hills, instead of being a regular chain of snow-capped mountains, appear like a knot or snarl of detached and twisted elevations. Some break forth and run along a valley for about a mile, when the hills close in and the water disap­ pears. Few valleys have water on tne surface. He says there are hundreds in the hillsj " hardy and stout, with willing hands to work, who are begging to work for their board. It is heart-rend­ ing to meet old and tried miners, with from five to fifteen years' experience, who have spent from six to eight months in the hills and have not made enough Wji buy »* L'tUl Ut boowl io wv/ VCU iiii'dli feet." He believes there are good quartz leads and some few placer dig­ gings, but to take it as a whole he thinks there will be twenty dollars spent for every dollar taken out. The result of his experience has been the disbanding of his company and a report to those who sent him that they had better stay home. The writer gives an unfavorable re­ port of the attitude of the Indians. He says he helped to bury two men that were killed by the Indians on the Chey­ enne route. Our correspondent dined with a prospector, and two days after- • ward his dinner companion was shot by Indians and his wagon and harness burned. The traveler, ^hen he goes into camp, begins by throwing up rifle- pits for defense. Five men from La- mars, Iowa, were attacked, and after two hours fight, in which they were all wounded, were compelled to leave their wagons with $8,400 worth of goods and 1,500 cartridges in the hands of the Indians. Two men sitting on their mules)in Deadwood creek were shotl down by Indians, and one on Casse creek. Ouster's expedition is ' looked upon as the cause of all the trouble. Everything is very high in the hills, and the Indians threaten to out off all fur­ ther supplies and then drive out the The conclusion of the tetter is brief &nd to the point. We commend it to the39 who indulge in drcumti o£ uhould- ori ig t-'oir piciia and digging out -a ior- tune in the Blacks Hills--" Tell the boys to stay at home." DON'T DRINK TO-NIGHT. I left xny mother at the door, ^fatate* by her aide, ^ ̂ n,et with oomradea Wr-- And themoon brooghtont fer'lighL whiapered rae'fViZ- Dont a*lnk, my boy, to-night. I *P *12S o.TT'JVa. mrv (pray, pw--*- ' i ohl thoae words are with m«t And will cot paaa away. face. With goodaeaa, radiant light. And hew h®r words ring in mrim. Dont drink, my boy, My mother i§ now resting aweet the graveyard on the hill; But her kind word* come back to ««« And haunt my memory still • I've oiteii, often paaaed the cna. Oh! thea my heart was right Because I've heard the warning words-- Dont drink, my boy, to-nigbt, I've now passed down the road of Ufe, And soon my race is run; A mother's warning Hatese ̂to, An immortal crown is won. Oh, mothers, with your blessed ; Look on. your boys so bright, "And say, as you alone can say-- • Don't drinx, my boy, to-night. . Theee worde will prove a warnte*, when In the thorny path of life, tThe boy ie in the teiixpfcer's vriles. An* warring to tho itrifo, .• tlliy words will stop the morning nip. And revelry at night, , By whlapes tog back a mother's TOtoa-- - ' Dont drink, my boy, w-nlght ' * -V :- .-•j'" •' "Sjtejf • J Women will be Women. There were many spirit-stirring inci­ dents in the session of the oentennial suffrage sisters on yesterday. Nothing, for instance, could have exceeded the effect apoa the audience of Miss Antho­ ny's noble forbearance when she de­ clared that, for her part, she would counsel no mob violence on the part of the women in the assertion of their rights; rather than that, she would will­ ingly work and wait for justice for another hundred years Squally effect­ ive, though possibly a trifle inconsist­ ent, was tne generous concession of the sisters to the tyrant man, when, after exhausting the resources of the feminine vosabulary of villification upon his de­ fenseless head, they politely borrowed his hat to pass around for contributions. MiAnthony might have used her centennial sun-bonnet for. the oocasion, or gathered the " stamps " in her apron; but to show that the gentle spirit of for­ giveness still reigns in the bosoms of the suffragists, and that they love whom they chasten, they just seized upon the most oonvenient piece of masculine head-gear and permitted t^e tyrant to help fill it for them.--Chicago Timet, A Whole Family Drowned. A recent dispatoh from Port Jervis, N. Y., says; "At about 10:30 a. m., to-day, while Orson Boyd of Reed's Greek was fording the Delaware river at Fisher's Eddy, one of his horses stum­ bled and pulled his mate down with him. By fchiw accident the wagon was over­ thrown, and Mr. Boyd and his entire family, consisting of Mrs. Boyd and three chil<ireB$ were pitched into the river and drowned. The body of Mrs. Boyd has been found, and none of the others had been recovered up to 7:80 p. m. Out, of the horses swam ashore, but the other was drowned. Boyd and his wife had been to Fisher's to transact some business connected with the sale of some of his property at their home, and it is supposed that they had oonaider able money with them." Pith and Poir.t. AHASTT man never wants woe. TbifijEs light as hair are eagerbr aeieed upon by a bald-headed man. DEBP thinkers--visitors in a coil mine, thinking if they will get out alive. _ Now that we have the bright silver in circulation, let no one go to " stocking'* it up. THK flower born to rise unseen is the flour which rises in the baking-pan dur­ ing the night. ACCORDING to the poet, " Morn awakMI the world," but, according to other good authorities, a baby with colic does it. LAVATEB thought that your real self iff an average somewhere between the opiflh ions of your enemies and your friends,, IT is said the stomachs of persons liv­ ing on the sea-coast, where oysters and clams are abundant, rise and fail with the tide. ^" A ROIOBH lictor," said Bates, whose historical information comes by detail on the fly, "a Roman lictor! Well I s'pose she deserved it. No one but the Roman knows." It takes a servant twice as long to bang the stove and scuttle, while putting coal on the grate ̂ if yon are trying to talk to somebody than if you are not. He does it for revenge. AM undertaker at Providence didn't know whether a subject was dead or in a fit. He bo&ed him up to settle the question, but the man kicked his OUT AND THOII IBOZVD SHE 111^^1', ECONOMY is a good thing to have around the house, but the police of Rochester are making it sad for the man who beefed his sick cow when told that she would never see another sun rise,. "BBOTHBB, why don't you ask the stranger to pray?" "Because," re­ provingly observed the deacon, " this ain't no place for practical jokes. That man's the president of a gas company.*" AN auctioneer, disposing of same arti­ cles, and complaining of the lowness of the price, said: "Gentlemen, if I sell any more at that money 111 get my head in my hancL" Whereupon a weaver present observed, " It'll no burden ye, my man; it's gey lioht." ,| ; WE passed the window the other even­ ing, and they were having a little family jar. She called him " an old fool," and he called her "a teakettle." "You're a teakettle," he roared, vehemently; "you'll sing pleasantly one minute ana boil over the next." We didn't stay to hear more. IT is an edifying spectacle to see a oartman calmly smoking Ms pipe on the top of a load of household goods, his feet quietly reposing on the finest paint ing, or the new clock, while the head of the family sneaks along the fence with a market basket on his arm filled with old china uad &a -silver <%>dons. v' v ^ T«e following is an inscription -on grave stone in the old burying ground . at South .uenms, Mass.: Of seven SOBS whom the Lord to his father gai* He was ih<b ihird who found a watery grave ; When fifteen days had passed this ciroumstanoe 00- curred, Hia body waa fonnd and deoently Interred. Porjrfios are full of tricks, Of politics beware; A good stout spade ne'er yet betMyed The nisa who uaed It fair. --Louisville Commercial. No toud can be too harsh for that wretohed man who, being married the other day, put the wedding ling into hm mouth when the servioe began, that he might find it at the proper moment. The moment arrived, The mfetste? tu*>» tioned for the ring. The trembling bridegroom gave an obedient start, a sudden gulp, and the ring had disap­ peared down Ms unlucky throat. A POB*SM©ioth (N. H.,) young nan,' who was inconsiderate enough to "come in" after he had escorted a girl home from prayer-meeting the other Sunday evening, was obliged to stop to family prayers, which oame on very soon, butL when the pious householder prayed thai "the young man who, for the time be­ ing, is one of our number, may be di­ rected toward his Father's house," he took his hat and left without oeremony. IT was a hard-fisted son of toil who entered a dry goods store on Woodward avenue yesterday and inquired: "What's the figure on calico now?" "About seven oents," replied a clerk. " Too high--too high--she'll never stand that," mused the farmer. " We've a very large stock to select from," put in the clerk. "Yes, I suppose so, but I won't invest. My wife wanted me to get her a calico dress with a small figger ,. on it, but that figger is altogether too large 1Detroit Free Prem. OtHnged Her Hind. Olarenof Smith, of Cincinnati, $13,000 in United States bonds and a del sire to marry Mary Kenning. The young woman engaged nerself to him, and to further rid himself of anxiety he gave her the bonds to care for until they should become husband and wife. A few days ago she astounded him by say­ ing that she hmd ehanged her mind about marrying. Nor . would she return Ma property. A Jawsuit baa been com­ menced. eSft: