anaheim-gazette 1877-03-17

ANAHEIM VOL. 7. Remembered Days. I remember a morn behind the mills, When blackbirds sang, And sheep bells rang. Far off, and all things else were still, But the rising bream In the pictured stream, And the noise of water about the mill. I remembered a maid in her sweet youth, Whose gentle days, In village ways, Were passed in simple work of truth; The summer's day, Sped fast away In a dream of love, in a time of youth. I remember the spring in garb of green, The light heart glee That came to me. With the smile of my love at seventeen; Her laugh that went Like woodland scent To my soul—that time on the daisled green. And though I know the days are spent, That love was lost When came the frost At summer's close of my content; Yet some joy stays In winter days And bright its joyous complement. Career of a Daring Adventurer in New York. The card from Mr. Hiram Cranston, published in The World, and touching the swindling performance of Colonel H. B. Edinboro, claiming to be a special agent The daring of the man was as remarkable as was his long immunity from disclosure. He mingled freely and openly with ship owners, and made even a parade of his professed connection with the Turkish army, and his mission to the United States. He was among General Newton's most honored guests at the Hell Gate explosion. He was a prominent person at every scientific experiment in this vicinity, and his visits to Governor Winchester were quite frequent. The inventor of a torpedo boat now in the East River was persuaded into the belief that his invention would, through Colonel Edinboro's recommendation, be adopted by the Turkish Government, and some fear is expressed that the bogus agent may take advantage of the intimate knowledge he obtained of the peculiar features of this invention. The facility with which the man could fabricate falsehoods was only less remarkable than their inconsistency with his appearance and bearing; for he was not of the plausible kind, but strong-faced and reticent, wearing every feature which an honest man has the right to wear. His falsehoods were really masterly in character. On one occasion he represented that he had had a lengthy interview with General Sherman and President Grant at the Hoffman House, and that the President had announced to him there that he proposed visiting Turkey at the expiration of his term. It is understood that no such interview took place. He has publicly announced in many places that Senator Jones, of Nevada, had made him an offer of $25,000 a year to introduce a method of making artificial ice into India; and even went so far as to en- Shays' In these times of ling political events might not so deeply in the early morale life, when the bloody infant republic had haunted—when sheathed upon the foe—an armed rebellion stituted authority, shook the country, cumference. Toof. "Shays' Rebellion" miliar who cannot cumstandes. Daniel Shays has mission in the Pa Revolution, and has gallant soldier. Massachusetts, that was spent in that of Massachusetts Shays was not pivotal movements of the ing of a restless radical turn of mind a prompt and here were republicans plained that the social, and especial was too high; thus aristocratic; that tortioxide; that rudeness to be be was unnecessary; mandated the issue cient to meet the people, and that made a legal tenet. Career of a Daring Adventurer in New York. The card from Mr. Hiram Cranston, published in The World, and touching the swindling performance of Colonel H. B. Edinboro, claiming to be a special agent of the Turkish Government, created a genuine sensation among the many acquaintances of that person in this city. According to Mr. Cranston, Edinboro came to his hotel in September last, representing himself as an officer in the Turkish army, and sent to this country to examine into the torpedo service of the United States. Owing to various causes, he was allowed to remain in the hotel until two or three weeks ago, never having paid a dollar for board, when he disappeared, leaving not only a very large unpaid bill at the New York Hotel; but other debts of greater or less amount to various parties in New York and vicinity. The disclosure was, as said, a genuine surprise. "Edinboro Bey," as he called himself, and so had his cards engraved, was remarkably stalwart, soldierly and straightforward in bearing and address. He is a man of undoubted culture, and, if stories told of him are true, had a record as an unusually dashing officer in the Confederate Navy. According to his own story, corroborated somewhat by the testimony of other persons, he entered the service of the East India Company, when a mere boy, afterward served in the British navy, then in the navy of the late Confederacy, and afterward in Peru, Egypt and Turkey. It seems reasonably certain that he was for a time, at least, in the Turkish navy, but his representations at the time of his appearance in New York, last September, were undoubtedly false. Two gentlemen, now at the New York Hotel—Colonel Hiram Fuller, and Hon. Charles D. Poston, had been introduced to him in London, some months before, and when he arrived at the hotel, bringing with him several large trunks marked with the Turkish crescent and star, they introduced him in turn to Mr. Cranston. The hotel was crowded with guests, but a room was secured for him several days later, and there he remained until his disappearance. He was a man thoroughly calculated to deceive the most sceptical, and the very daring of his representations contributed to make the deception successful. In his assumed character as Turkish agent, he met many ship owners in South street, and to them he made several propositions looking to the charter of their vessels for the Turkish service. Captain Stead, of the steamer Professor Morse, was one of those deceived by his pretensions, and the acquaintance thus begun ripened into an intimacy of which Edinboro took frequent advantage. No one who knew the man will wonder that Captain Stead promptly responded to his requests for temporary loans; indeed, another gentleman said, yesterday, that he counted himself singularly fortunate in never having been approached by Edinboro with the face of the plaster case, faced and reticent, wearing every feature which an honest man has the right to wear. His falsehoods were really masterly in character. On one occasion he represented that he had had a lengthy interview with General Sherman and President Grant at the Hoffman House, and that the President had announced to him there that he proposed visiting Turkey at the expiration of his term. It is understood that no such interview took place. He has publicly announced in many places that Senator Jones, of Nevada, had made him an offer of $25,000 a year to introduce a method of making artificial ice into India; and even went so far as to engage a competent civil engineer, at a salary of $5,000 a year, to assist him, and to provisionally secure a large steamer to transport the necessary supplies. Senator Jones says he never met the man but once—then for but a very short time, and that no such proposition was made or thought of. Meanwhile the luckless civil engineer had refused a desirable offer on a Western railroad in the faith of Edinboro's pretensions. Inquiry at the Turkish Consulate in this city made it evident that all of his pretenses were absolutely false, and it is a remarkable fact, that despite the publicity of his pretenses and the magnitude of his proposed operations, this is the first intelligence of him that has been received at the Turkish office. Hence the daring of the man may be estimated, for he must have felt that he was hourly on the brink of discovery, when preparations could not be made for escape. To add climax to his reckless disregard of consequences, he gave the dinner at Delmonico's—no one of his guests being aware of the disclosures at the New York Hotel; and even then made several startling statements as to certain plans for the future, which were to the peculiar advantage of the gentlemen present. This with the momentary probability of his arrest. It is told of him whether truly or one of the stories his own fertile brain produced—although with some facts to bear out its truth—that during the late war, he, with a few companions, captured a full-manned steamer, and after securing the treasure on board, escaped through the blockade into Wilmington Harbor. At this time he is said to have been duly commissioned as a Confederate officer. However this may be, those who knew him here unite in testifying to his extreme coolness and insensibility to fear—qualities rarely united with a genius for telling lies. It is conjectured that he has gone either to New Orleans or San Francisco. Destructive. The terrible habit of opium eating, to which so many unfortunates become victims, generally originates during illness, when it is taken to relieve pain. Some acquire it during great mental despondency; others from an inherited craving for it; and others still while trying to leave off drinking liquor. Its use is not a characteristic of any one class. The contracted pupil of the eye, the sallow countenance, the placid expression, the dreamy, distant look, which denote the opium enter are found in the workshop and the factory, as well as in the counting-room or the bounoir. Wealthy opium enters buy the drug through a trusted movement of the ingestion of a resilient radical turn of mind—a prompt and heart-wrenching republicanism plained that she cialis, and especially was too high; their aristocratic; that tortiopate; that r densome to be bawd was unnecessarily mandated the issue client to meet them people; and that made a legal tone mandated that they be removed from less aristocratic convened; and an discontent of this experience of in mind the law-more of it; but that an act whereby might be paid in. But the recuseful field. Bodies of these sessions of counties, and in 1786 Shays appear at Worcester and vented the holdle places. The Jail head of full twig he marched to Springfield; but gathered in suffice and under command they gave battle hosts to utter roar at State troop dismay, leaving wounded, of this field. On the follow-sued by an incarnation Lincoln, and them taken pris- caping northward of the State auth insurrection at offered to such arms and return which most of Fourteen of these were tried; and to death; but Daniel Shays re- where he died after 29th Shays' Rebellion ecdote in connexion relating: Late at night insurgents at Ovance upon tha flag of truce to that the bodies been killed should be sent met the flag; and to his comman senger as follow: "Present Genuents to Cap him that at tha him with five more than four quite dead; but attack him will engage to dead as he shi to make the deception successful. In its assumed character, as Turkish agent, he met many ship owners in South street, and to them he made several propositions looking to the charter of their vessels for the Turkish service. Captain Stead, of the steamer Professor Morse, was one of those deceived by his pretensions, and the acquaintance thus begun ripened into an intimacy of which Edinboro took frequent advantage. No one who knew the man will wonder that Captain Stead promptly responded to his requests for temporary loans; indeed, another gentleman said yesterday, that he count himself singularly fortunate in never having been approached by Edinboro with the same object, for he would undoubtedly have loaned him whatever in reason he might have asked. It is quite certain, although the victims are reticent as to the matter, that Edinboro secured considerable sums in this way from various parties. After he left New York Hotel, his baggage having been removed from his rooms by Mr. Cranstn—who had, by this time, been convinced that his guest was untrustworthy—he promised to return in a few days and liquidate his bill. It appears that he went up to New Haven and visited Colonel Winchester there. As it is well known, the Winchester Company have had large contracts for furnishing arms to the Turkish Government, and by whatever means or from whom he obtained the money, Edinbo.o had several thousand dollars in his possession when he returned to New York. This time he took rooms at the St. Omer Hotel in Sixth avenue, and intrusted to the proprietor three gold certificates for $1,000 each, besides several hundred dollars in currency. The same day he visited Mr. Edwards, agent of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, in Barclay street, and asked him to cash a draft for $600 in gold on Brown Brothers. Mr. Edwards did so, and handed him two $100 bills, $100 in $5 and $10 bills, $16 in notes of smaller denominations, and the balance, $800 in gold. He told Mr. Edwards that he was going to leave for London that afternoon on the steamer Denmark, adding that the ship possibly might not sail. His draft was afterward returned to Mr. Edwards from Brown Brothers, with the information that they knew no such man, and that he had not, nor ever had any funds with them. In the meantime, however, Edinboro entertained several friends at Delmonico's, paid his bill at the St. Omer, and securing his gold certificates, decamped. Nothing has been heard of him since, although so far as can be learned, he has not sailed upon any of the European steamers having this port. The terrible habit of opium eating, to which so many unfortunates become victims, generally originates during illness, when it is taken to relieve pain. Some acquire it during great mental despondency; others from an inherited craving for it, and others still while trying to leave off drinking liquor. Its use is not a characteristic of any one class. The contracted pupil of the eye, the sallow counterence, the placid expression, the dreamy, distant look, which denote the opium eater, are found in the workshop and the factory, as well as in the counting-room or the boundoir. Wealthy opium eaters buy the drug through a trusted agent, whose tongue is sealed by his pay; the poor usually buy their covertly, in the evening, usually saying that it is for some one else. Some try to conceal their purchase of the drug by buying in different stores, until almost the whole city has been gone over; others appear as regularly at the same place; Saturday evening, as the evening comes. The wish to conceal the habit is universal; and it is never taken, as liquors are drank, in a crowd and with merry-making. A grain of opium, or an eighth as much of morphine is a dose for a beginner; but the desire and ability to take it grows so rapidly that five and even ten grains of morphine are taken in a day, perhaps in three doses. Strange to say, many physicians are addicted to the habit, though fully aware of its terrible consequences. The high cost is one hindrance to its general use. Nevertheless, with a habit once formed, a man or woman will do anything to get opium that the most inveterate drunkard would do to get rum. Opium eating is more seductive than liquor drinking, and the confirmed opium eater can have scarcely a hope of escape from its power; the victim is in misery whenever he is not under the influence of the drag. It is said that there is an opium eater in a certain city who has fully counted the cost. He began to eat opium when about thirty-five years old; and finding a few years later, the habit firmly fastened upon him, determined that he could not live at the longest, more than thirty years. He was then taking half a grain a day. He figured out the amount that he would require in thirty years, allowing an increase of a quarter of a grain a year. He then made a deposit of money sufficient to supply him with his regular allowance during all those years; and now goes about continually under its influence, viewing life and the world in which he moves as if he saw them from the large end of an opera glass. Thus, for the sake of gratifying a depressed appetite, a life of uselessness is utterly wanted. MATRIMONIA me have some purchase a new "By-and-by" "That's what but how can money?" And that by one good turn was so success next week. "I want more new dress." "Well you me a bear last" "O, well, was only beehugging." It hit him got the money he left his pre business, says keep such a worth it." THE METTION has been done the Metta As it is simply and measure have the old probably to go tle over two something new when we buy one and one adopted in cellent to know behind all tha THE REVING in counsellaster said, "an open praat them,and su FACTION-programme." CIM GALE SUPPLEMENT. ANAHEIM, CAL., MARCH 17, 1877. Shays' Rebellion. In these times of wondrous and startling political events, such an eruption might not so deeply stir the nation; but in the early morning of our national life, when the blood and treasure of an infant republic had been well nigh exhausted—when the sword had just been sheathed upon the refiring of a foreign foe—an armed rebellion against the constituted authority was an event that shook the country from center to circumference. To many the simple fact of "Shays' Rebellion" will be familiar who cannot call to mind the circumstances. Daniel Shays had held a captain's commission in the Patriot army during the Revolution, and had been a brave and gallant soldier. If not a native of Massachusetts, the best part of his life was spent in that State, and in the State of Massachusetts was the rebellion. Shays was not prominent in the first movements of the malcontents, but being of a restless disposition, and a radical turn of mind, they found in him a prompt and hearty leader. The rebels were republicans run mad. They complained that the salary of the chief officials, and especially that of the governor, was too high; that the State Senate was aristocratic; that the lawyers were extortionate; that the taxes were too burdensome to be borne; and that money was unnecessarily scarce. They demanded the issue of paper money sufficient to meet the wants of the suffering people, and that this paper should be made a legal tender; and they also de- The Children at Bed-Time. Every parent who has been in the habit of reading or talking with the little ones after they are safely tucked in bed will bear witness to the value of this mode of influence. With the laying off of the clothes, the anger, worries and discontent of the day subside. With the brief season of prayer they fly still further into the background. And when the little form rests in its bed they seem to vanish out of sight. The heart is plastic to the touch of the loving father or mother. Now is the time to exert a molding power. At this hour the little ones listen with hushed attention to what is read to them. Hymns, the Scriptures, Bible stories are heard with close attention, until the reader's voice is stilled, or the hearers sink into gentle sleep. Or conversation may take place of reading. The will that was in a state of resistance an hour ago is now relaxed. The anger that blinded moral discernment has passed away. With open heart the child utters its confessions, and gladly receives the forgiving kiss. Plans for the morrow can be discussed, and duty can be made to put on an attractive form. Irritations can be looked at quietly, and admonitions to watchfulness may be dropped with soothing efficacy into the listening ear. And then how delightful the embrace with which the young arms clasp your neck, the intense "dear father," "dear mother," with which the "good night" is said. Parents, if you have not thus parted from your birdlings at the evening hour, you have something yet to learn of hopeful instruction—to experience of love's delights. General Custer's Successor. General Nelson A. Miles, who has of late taken General Custer's place as an Indian fighter, is a native of Massachusetts, and has had a remarkable career of advancement in the army. He was born in one of the upper towns of Worcester county. The second year of the war of the rebellion found him a clerk in a crockeryware store in Boston. He was but little more than 21 years of age, and had had no military experience. It was proposed to raise a company in the city of Roxbury for the regiment then being formed for United States Senator Wilson, and young Miles had an uncle who took considerable interest in its formation, with the view of making his nephew its Second Lieutenant. When the officers came to be chosen, he had some votes for First Lieutenant over another member, who felt he had a better right to that distinction. The Captain sided with this latter officer, and this made so much bad feeling that Lieutenant Miles left the company to join the staff of one of the Generals in the division. His advancement was astonishingly rapid, from that time out, and he had soon occasion to smile upon the petty bickering that put him in the way of it. He was often in fights, and won distinction constantly. At the battle of Chancellorsville this almost raw youth was thrown into a position in which he had command for some hours of a most important portion of the line. He held it with rare credit, but came out of the action severely wounded. This made him not only a General, but a very distinguished soldier, and attracted to him... movements of the malcontents, but being of a restless disposition, and a radical turn of mind, they found in him a prompt and hearty leader. The rebels were republicans run mad. They complained that the salary of the chief officials, and especially that of the governor, was too high; that the State Senate was aristocratic; that the lawyers were extortionate; that the taxes were too burdensome to be borne; and that money was unnecessarily scarce. They demanded the issue of paper money sufficient to meet the wants of the suffering people, and that this paper should be made a legal tender; and they also demanded that the General Court should be removed from Boston to some place less aristocratic. The General Court was convened, and an effort made to allay the discontent of the complainants. With the experience of worthless paper money in mind the law-makers would issue no more of it, but they went so far as to pass an act whereby certain arrears of taxes might be paid in produce. But the recusants would not be satisfied. Bodies of armed men interrupted the sessions of the courts in several counties, and in the month of December, 1786, Shays appeared with a large force, at Worcester and at Springfield, and prevented the holding of courts at those places. The January following, at the head of full two thousand armed men, he marched to capture the Arsenal in Springfield; but the State militia had gathered in sufficient force to stop them, and under command of Gen. Shepard they gave battle, and put the rebellious hosts to utter rout. At the first fire of the State troops the insurgents fled in dismay, leaving three dead, and one wounded, of their number, upon the field. On the following day they were pursued by an increased force under Gen. Lincoln, and nearly two hundred of them taken prisoners, the remainder escaping northward. The prompt action of the State authorities crushed out the insurrection at once. A free pardon was offered to such as would lay down their arms and return to their allegiance, of which most of them took advantage. Fourteen of the chief of the conspirators were tried, and convicted, and sentenced to death, but afterwards pardoned. Daniel Shays removed to Sparta, N.Y., where he died at an advanced age, September 29th, 1825. And that was "Shays' Rebellion." The following antecedent in connection therewith is worth relating: Late at night, after the repulse of the insurgents at Ordnance Hill, in their advance upon the Arsenal, Shays sent a flag of truce to Gen. Shepard requesting that the bodies of five of his men who had been killed in the late engagement should be sent to him. The officer who met the flag, and who presented the case to his commander, returned to the messenger as follows: "Present General Shepard's compliments to Captain Shays, and inform him that at this time he cannot furnish him with five dead rebels, he having no more than four, and one of those not quite dead; but if Capt Shays will please to attack him again, General Shepard will engage to furnish him with as many dead as he shall desire."—N.Y. Ledger Marmalade Scrime — Can you let movements of the malcontents, but being of a restless disposition, and a radical turn of mind, they found in him a prompt and hearty leader. The rebels were republicans run mad. They complained that the salary of the chief officials, and especially that of the governor, was too high; that the State Senate was aristocratic; that the lawyers were extortionate; that the taxes were too burdensome to be borne; and that money was unnecessarily scarce. They demanded the issue of paper money sufficient to meet the wants of the suffering people, and that this paper should be made a legal tender; and they also demanded that the General Court should be removed from Boston to some place less aristocratic. The General Court was convened, and an effort made to allay the discontent of the complainants. With the experience of worthless paper money in mind the law-makers would issue no more of it, but they went so far as to pass an act whereby certain arrears of taxes might be paid in produce. But the recusants would not be satisfied. Bodies of armed men interrupted the sessions of the courts in several counties, and in the month of December, 1786, Shays appeared with a large force, at Worcester and at Springfield, and prevented the holding of courts at those places. The January following, at the head of full two thousand armed men, he marched to capture the Arsenal in Springfield; but the State militia had gathered in sufficient force to stop them, and under command of Gen. Shepard they gave battle, and put the rebellious hosts to utter rout. At the first fire of the State troops the insurgents fled in dismay, leaving three dead, and one wounded, of their number, upon the field. On the following day they were pursued by an increased force under Gen. Lincoln, and nearly two hundred of them taken prisoners, the remainder escaping northward. The prompt action of the State authorities crushed out the insurrection at once. A free pardon was offered to such as would lay down their arms and return to their allegiance, of which most of them took advantage. Fourteen of the chief of the conspirators were tried, and convicted, and sentenced to death, but afterwards pardoned. Daniel Shays removed to Sparta, N.Y., where he died at an advanced age, September 29th, 1825. And that was "Shays' Rebellion." The following antecedent in connection therewith is worth relating: Late at night, after the repulse of the insurgents at Ordnance Hill, in their advance upon the Arsenal, Shays sent a flag of truce to Gen. Shepard requesting that the bodies of five of his men who had been killed in the late engagement should be sent to him. The officer who met the flag, and who presented the case to his commander, returned to the messenger as follows: "Present General Shepard's compliments to Captain Shays, and inform him that at this time he cannot furnish him with five dead rebels, he having no more than four, and one of those not quite dead; but if Capt Shays will please to attack him again, General Shepard will engage to furnish him with as many dead as he shall desire."—N.Y. Ledger Marmalade Scrime — Can you let plans for the morrow can be discussed, and duty can be made to put on an attractive form. Irritations can be looked at quietly, and admonitions to watchfulness may be drupped with soothing efficacy into the listening ear. And then how delightful the embrace with which the young arms clasp your neck, the intense "dear father," "dear mother," with which the "good night" is said. Parents, if you have not thus parted from your birdlings at the evening hour, you have something yet to learn of hopeful instruction—to experience of love's delights.—The Working Church. How to Clean a Sponge. Old sponges that have been employed for some time, and have become full of grease and dirt may be again used in the place of new ones. To clean a solution of permanganate potash in water is prepared of such a strength that it appears a wine color, and into this is the unserviceable sponge immersed, and allowed to remain in the liquid for some time. When taken out and squeezed it is next put into diluted muriac acid of ordinary commercial quality, being immersed and kept saturated therein some time as before. The most appropriate strength of this acid solution is about ten parts water to one part acid. The sponge is taken out after sufficient treatment, squeezed well to free it from the acid, and then washed well in good spring water. When taken out it will be found to be quite clean, to have again assumed its light color, and to be free from all foreign matter. Sponges treated in this way become like new. The main thing to be attended to in this plan of purifying sponge is to see that it is thoroughly saturated both by the permanganate and the acid solutions, which should be allowed ample time to soak through the masse; care must also be observed to wash the sponges thoroughly with plenty of water at the end of the operation. Baked Omelet — Boil half a pint of cream or rich milk; beat six eggs thoroughly—they will be nicer if the whites and yolks are beaten separately; have a deep dish hot and buttered; stir the beaten eggs with a little salt into the cream; put all quickly into the dish, and bake from five to ten minutes, depending upon the condition of the oven. It should be lightly browned and taken directly to the table in the dish. Plain Gravy — Mince an onion finely fried in butter to a dark brown color; then add three-quarters of a pint of stock pepper and salt to taste; a small piece of lean ham or bacon minced small; a little Worcester sauce; a sprig of thyme and one of parsley. Let it boil five minutes; put it by till wanted; and strain before serving. Graham Gems — One teacup of white flour, one pint of warm water, half cup of yeast; one tablespoonful of Indian meal; one tablespoonful molasses; one tea-poisonful of salt; as much Graham flour as can stirred into this mixture at night with a spoon; make over night; bake in muffin rings in the morning. Omnibus Horses in Paris. The omnibus horses of Paris are almost invariably animals of exceptional size and beauty, strong white and dapple-gray stallions, selected with great care in the markets of Normandy. Perche or Brittany. They are all well fed, carefully trained, and never overworked. Each omnibus has ten horses belonging to it. These ten horses go out every day. Thus during the fourteen hours' service,the horses are changed five times. Being thus carefully managed,the strength and speed endure long years of service. It is not uncommon to see horses that have been in the service of the company for fifteen years,and they are still capableof going through their daily task.Great care is taken not to overstrain their strength.At the foot of each ofthe hills that diversifythe surface ofthe streetsofParis (there are thirty-oneof these hills),an extra horse is alwaysin waitingto aidin draggingthe heavy vehicles upthe ascent.Nor isthe moral side,sоe speak.ofthe horses'training neglected.The pairs,sonce formed,andare never separated,saveinthecaseofaccidentor sicknessThey occupythe same stalland feedfromthesamemanger,dividedbya partitionintotwocompartmentsTheythisbecomealmostaunitingait,movementsandimpulses,andbeingalwaysdrivenbythesamecoachman,thegettounderstandperfectlyhiswordsandmotionsBythissystemthepowerfulintelligenceanddoityofthebeautifulandpowerfulanimalshavebecomealmostproverbial.Thecasewithwhichtheythreadthewaythroughthecrowdedstreetsencumberedwithve that the bodies of five of his men who had been killed in the late engagement should be sent to him. The officer who met the flag, and who presented the case to his commander, returned to the messenger as follows: "Present General Shepard's compliments to Captain Shays, and inform him that at this time he cannot furnish him with five dead rebels, he having no more than four, and one of those not quite dead; but if Capt Shays will please to attack him again, General Shepard will engage to furnish him with as many dead as he shall desire."—N. Y. Ledger. MATRIMONIAL SCENE.—"Can you let me have some money this morning to purchase a new bonnet, my dear?" "By-and-by, love." "That's what you always say, my love, but how can I buy and buy without money?" And that brought the money, just as one good turn deserves another. Her wit was so successful that she tried it again next week. "I want money, my dear, to buy a new dress." Well, you can't have it; you called me a bear last night," said the husband. "O, well, dear, you know that was only because you are so fond of hugging." It hit him just right again, and she got the money and something extra, as he left his pretty wife and hurried off to business, saying, "It takes a fortune to keep such a wife as you are—but it's worth it." THE METRIC SYSTEM.—An association has been formed in Boston to introduce the Metric weights and measures. As it is simply reducing all our weight and measure tables to decimals, and we have the old English system, which is probably the most inconvenient, it is only a question of time, and the sooner we adopt it the better. The unit is not difficult to get ab. A kilogram is a little over two pounds, and a tonnean something nearer a ton than we get when we buy coal. A meter is about one and one-tenth yards. It is generally adopted in Europe, and it would be excellent to know that for once we are not behind all the rest of mankind. The Rev. Henry Ward Becher, speaking in connection of the Brooklyn disaster, said, "Place two thousand people in an open prairie and start a panic among them, and some are sure to be injured." PACIOR.—Departure from our pet programme. GRAHAM GEMS.—One teacup of white flour, one pint of warm water, half cup of yeast, one tablespoonful of Indian meal, one tablespoonful molasses, one ten-poisonful of salt; as much Graham flour as can be stirred into this mixture at night with a spoon; make over night; bake in muffin rings in the morning. BREAD SAUCE.—Pour half a pint of boiling milk on a teacupful of fine bread crumbs, add a small onion stuck with three cloves, a small blade of mace, a few peppercorns, and salt to taste; let the sauce simmer five minutes, add a small piece of fresh butter, and at the time of serving remove the onion and mace. ROAST PARTRIAGE.—Pick, draw, singe, and truss, placing a slice of bacon over the breast of each bird. Roast at a moderate fire, removing the bacon a few minutes before the birds are done. Serve with plain gravy and bread sauce in a boat. COOKED FISH.—Take pieces of fish, well freed from skin and bone, and put them into a saucepan with a piece of butter, pepper, salt, a little minced parsley, and the juice of half a lemon; toss over the fire until quite hot, and serve within a wall of boiled potato. SORE MOUTH.—For sore mouths, either in human beings or animals, no application is equal to tannin, which should always be kept in the house for that purpose. A little of the powder sprinkled on the inflamed or sore spots will cure almost immediately. CURE FOR A COUGH.—A patient, who for nearly three months could not pass a night in quiet, without large doses of landanum, has been cured of a most harassing cough by such boiled in milk. BURNS.—The following is said to be an excellent remedy for a burn: Take a tart apple and simmer in lard until it forms a salve; it will heal a burn quickly, and always without a scar. RHEUMATISM.—For rheumatism a large piece of flannel, well sprinkled with sulphur, and wrapped about the part affected, will prove a remedy as effective as it is simple. CURE FOR HICCOVON.—Hold both the patient's wrists tightly, and it will stop the hic cough immediately. speak of the horses' training neglected. The pairs once formed are never separated, save in the case of accident or sickness. They occupy the same stall and feed from the same manger, divided by a partition into two compartments. They thus become almost a unit in gait movements and impulses, and being always driven by the same coachman they get to understand perfectly his words and motions. By this system the powerful intelligence and docility of these beautiful and powerful animals have become almost proverbial. The ease with which they thread their way through the crowded streets, encumbered with vehicles, thronged with foot passengers, and in many instances, scarcely wider than one of our narrow alleys, and the readiness with which they stop at a word, and at another start again, are simply marvellous. Next to the petted carriage horses of the rich, the omnibus horses of Paris are certainly among the most favored of the equine tribe. A KING'S HARDships.—Shakspeare's "Soliloquy of Henry IV." has been greatly admired. The weary King, burdened with the cares of state, and unable to sleep gives expression to his envy of the condition of those subjects who, with no anxieties to disturb them, were wrapped in slumber. Many kings have doubtless had similar thoughts. The King of Hanover, a half century ago, brother of George IV. of England, expressed great surprise at the happy life of Leopold, King of Belgium. He could not understand how his neighbor and relative was so contented, and found time for so many pleasant employments. As for himself, he had little leisure and less enjoyment. His judgment of the hard life of a monarch was stated in these vigorous words: "I find, and firmly believe, the work of a king to be harder than that of any coal-heaver." A GOOD RULE.—It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend. Seeds thus sown by the wayside often bring forth abundant harvest. MR. THEODORE THOMAS's unavoidable failure to give his promised concert at Watertown has caused a poet of that town to burst into this pathetic strain: "O, Thomas! O, Thomas! Why did you stay from us? And not keep your promus?" GAZETTE. NO. 22 Mr. Suecessor. A. Miles, who has of Custer's place as an native of Massatica a remarkable career in the army. He was upper towns of Worford second year of the war found him a clerk store in Boston. He than 21 years of age, military experience. It use a company in the regiment then United States Senator Miles had an uncle valuable interest in its review of making his Lieutenant. When he be chosen, he had Lieutenant over an officer felt he had a better section. The Captain better officer, and this feeling that Lieune company to join the Generals in the placement was astonishthat time out, and he to smile upon the put him in the way in fights, and won easily. At the battle of almost raw youth position, in which he some hours of a most of the line. He held but came out of the bounded. This made general, but a very disand attracted to him The Trial of Baxter. The trial of Baxter, the Nonconformist, supplies an admirable specimen of the fashion in which a criminal case was conducted under these respectable auspices in the year 1685. When the trial came on, a crowd of those who loved and honored Baxter filled the court. Two Whig barristers of great note, Pollexfen and Wallop, appeared for the defendant. Pollexfen had scarce begun his address to the jury, when the Chief Justice broke forth: "Pollexfen, I know you well. I will set a mark upon you. You are the patron of the faction. This is an old rogue, a schismatica knave, a hypocritical villain. He hates the Liturgy. He would have nothing but long-winded cant without book;" and then his Lordship cast up his eyes, clasped his hands, and began to sing through his nose in imitation of what he supposed to be the Baxter style of praying: "Lord, we are thy people, thy peculiar people, thy dear people." Pollexfen gently reminded the court that his late majesty had thought Baxter deserving of a bishopric. "And what ailed the old blockhead, then," cried Jeffreys, "that he did not take it?" His fury now rose to madness. He called Baxter a dog, and swore that it would be no more than justice to whip such a villain through the whole city. Baxter himself attempted to put in a word, but the Chief Justice joined all exposulation in a torrent of ribaldry and invective, mingled with scraps of Hudibras. "My Lord," said the old man; "I have been much blamed by Dissenters for speaking Domestic Habits of the Swedes. These settlements consist of two or perhaps four houses, with the necessary out-buildings, and seemed generally inhabited by the several members of the same family. Some of them have existed a considerable time, and are occupied now by the grandchildren or great-grandchildren of the original settlers. Originally the Government granted free gifts of land, but they have now ceased to do this, and the number of the settlers does not appear to be receiving many additions from outside. The houses usually consist of two or more large rooms on the ground-floor with lofts above, and vast chimney-hearths in one corner, in which the logs of pine, some two or three feet in length, are piled upright when a fire is wanted; being lit, they burn up in a few minutes into a roaring fire which gives out an intense heat. The family live chiefly in the kitchen, and this and the guest-chamber are about twenty or thirty foot square, and furnished with a kind of sofa-bedstead which pulls out so as to afford a sleeping accommodation of about five feet six inches by three feet. The kitchen itself is not overclean, nor are the personal habits of the people without reproach in this respect; yet the guest-chamber, the linen, and the crockery, leave nothing to be desired. The houses are surrounded by a small clearing where the settlers cultivate for their own consumption sufficient oats and other grain, hay, and potatoes. They sow their corn in June, and so rapid is the growth under the influence of the lengthened days that they reap the harvest in six or seven weeks afterward, and sometimes get two crops in their short the company to join the Generals in the placement was astonishthat time out, and he to put him in the way in fights, and won fully. At the battle of has almost raw youth position in which he come hours of a most of the line. He held but came out of the bounded. This made general, but a very disand attracted to him the regular army offidied to be possessed of a military command a reputation sector man in the volunteer when the war endeded to take charge of the latter was the moner, which brought over the nation. A he was married at the of General Sherman. He favor him in every man of fine physical unusual endowment of if he is as successians as he has been in experience, he is desconqueror. There is ence in Massachusetts man, without influence so high.—Hartford Horses in Paris. Horses of Paris are alnimals of exceptional, strong, white and magnets of Normandy. They are all well used, and never overminibus has ten horses. These ten horses go thus, during the fourdevice, the horses are. Being thus careful, strength and speed enjoyed service. It is not horses that have been the company for fifteen the still capable of going any task. Great care is restrain their strength. each of the hills that face of the streets of thirty-one of these hills), is always in waiting to the heavy vehicles up is the moral side, so to horses' training neglected. formed, are never septhe case of accident or occupy the same stall. The same manger, divided into two compartments, are almost a unit in gait, impulses, and being alsame coachman, they had perfectly his words. this system the powerand doability of these powerful animals have beterbial. The case with their way through the encumbered with vepeople." Pollexfen gently reminded the court that his late majesty had thought Baxter deserving of a bishoprie. "And what ailed the old blackhead, then," cried Jeffreys, "that he did not take it?" His fury now rose to madness. He called Baxter a dog, and swore that it would be no more than justice to whip such a villain through the whole city. Baxter himself attempted to put in a word, but the Chief Justice joined all expostulation in a torrent of ribaldry and invective, mingled with scraps of Hudibras. "My Lord," said the old man; "I have been much blamed by Dissenters for speaking disrespectfully of bishops." "Baxter for bishops," cried the Judge. "That's a merry conceit, indeed. I know what you mean by bishops—rascals like yourself, Kidderminster bishops—factious, sniveling Presbyterians." Again Baxter essayed to speak, and again Jeffreys below: "Richard, Richard, dost thou think we will let thee poison the court? Richard, thou art an old knave. Thou hast written books enough to load a cart, and every book as full of sedition as an egg is full of meat. By the grace of God I'll look after thue. I see a great number of your brotherhood waiting to know what will befall their mighty Don. But, by the grace of Almighty God, I will crush you all." The noise of weeping was heard from those who surrounded Baxter. "Sniveling knaves!" said the Judge. Envy. The moment a man achieves success there's always somebody at hand to tell how poor, how obscure, how "no account" he used to be, and to express wonder and astonishment that he should ever have "amounted to anything." The fact that he has amounted to something—that he has proved himself a success—seems to make some of his acquaintances feel that they have been robbed in a manner, and that by so much as he had risen above them in position or influence, by so much they are dwarfed. Men who have groped blindly to find a fitting place for the exercise of their talents, find it, and with it come naturally appreciation, money, influence, prosperity. Can their good fortune cause anything but rejoicing in a magnanimous and noble mind? There are very few men of note before the public who have not fought their way up through poverty, obscurity, disaster, and countless oppositions of adverse circumstances. In fact, almost everybody "that is anybody" has had to fight for his crown, and when he gets it, shouldn't everybody rejoice with him? Doubtless there's many and many around diamond that is never polished and set, but lies buried in mountain gulches, covered with mud. Many a "mute, inglorious Milton" sleeps in quiet country churchyards; but the world is flashing with light from diamonds that are set, ringing with melody from Miltons that are not mute. One thing is certain: the man or woman who is occupied in picking to pieces the crown lawfully won by a successful neighbor is not likely ever to wear one; for the time thus spent is worse than wasted, and the disposition that can find pleasure in employment so ignominious and degrading can never find those aspirations, labors and tools congenial which bring de- When the Powers resolved on meeting in Conference, neither England, France, Germany, Italy nor Austria wonted war. Germany had no interests sufficiently important or immediate; France was neither willing nor able; Italy was in the same condition; and as for England, her policy might be not to make war against Turkey. It was the same with Austria, who might indeed have resisted the opinion of Hungary, who was pressing her to make war for Turkey. Thus, of the six conferring Powers five would or could not make war; and these Powers had no other means of acting on the Porte but by a moral pressure. Since then everybody knows what has passed. All know what disappointment Russia experienced. She mobilized her troops. Once more people have perceived that at present, as it was twenty-five years ago, Russia is the paradise of prevaricating contractors, who build splendid hotels in the most elegant quarters of Paris on the profits of the stores they did not supply to the Russian Army. Once more it has been seen that the Russian arsenals wanted cannon, and the cannon wanted powder; that the army was badly clad, badly fed, and badly armed; that the Emperor Nicholas, if he again inspected the mobilized troops, would return to his tomb, killed by dismay at having thought that his whole army resembled his superb specimens that were paraded before him in the grand reviews which were his passion. Turkey knows all this. She knows that the European Powers only wish to exert pressure upon her by the threat of Russia. She knows that Russia will only be formidable and prepared some years hence,and her diplomatists now say,what one of them said to me five days ago: "And if we refuse what will follow! Will they leave us face to face with Russia!" Popular Science Monthly. How to Succeed—If your seat is hard to sit upon, stand up. If a rock rises up before you, roll it away or climb over it. If you want money, earn it. If you want confidence, prove yourself worthy of it. It takes longer to skin an elephant than a mouse, but the skin is worth something. Do not be content with doing what another has done—surpass it. Deserve success, and it will come. The boy was not born a man. The sun does not rise like a rocket, or go down like a bullet fired from a gun; slowly and surely it makes its round, and never tires. It is as easy to be a leader as a wheel-horse. If the job will be long, the pay will be greater. If the task be hard, the more competent you must be to do it. Navy Yards and Arsenals—The navy yards of the United States are at Port-mouth, N.H.; Boston, Mass.; New York; Philadelphia; Washington; Norfolk; Va.; Pensacola, Fla.; Mars Island, Cal. The United States arsenals are at Springfield, Mass.; Pittsburg, Pa.; Augusta, Ga.; Baton Rouge, La.; Benicia, Cal.; Vergennes, Vt.; Charleston, S.C.; Columbus, Ohio; Dearbornville, Mich.; Old Point Comfort, Va.; Fort Union, N.M.; Philadelphia, Pa.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Augusta, Me.; Fort Leavenworth, Ks.; Mount Vernon, Ala.; New York city; Pikesville, Md.; Rock Island, Ill.; Rome, N.Y.; St. Louis, Mo.; San Antonio, Texas; Vancouver, W.T.; Washington, D.C.; Watertown, Mass.; West Troy, N.Y. The Alexandria Gazette says that the influence of the whipping-post as a punishment for petty crimes has been so beneficial in Virginia that its use has spread to nearly every county in the State. Mr. Bayard Taylor, writing of animal nature in the Atlantic, tells this story of a parrot owned by a friend in Chicago: When the great fire was raging, its owner saw that she could rescue nothing except what she instantly took in her hands. There were two objects, equally dear, the parrot and the old family Bible, and she could take but one. After a moment of hesitation she seized the Bible, and was hastening away when the parrot cried out in a loud and solemn voice, "Good Lord, deliver us!" No human being could have been deaf to such an appeal; the precious Bible was sacrificed and the bird saved. He was otherwise a clever bird. In the home to which he was taken there were among other visitors a gentleman rather noted for volubility. When the parrot first heard him it listened in silence for some time, then to the amazement of all present it said very emphatically, "You talk too much!" The gentleman, at first embarrassed, presently resumed his interrupted discourse. Thereupon the parrot laid his head on one side, gave an indescribably comical and contemptuous "H'm—m!" and added, "There he goes again!" The other day some of the boys induced a young man from Pilat Creek to take hold of the handles of a galvanic battery. As it puckered him up he roared, "Jiminy Criminay," let up! Who ever heard of a thing that could make you taste grass persimmons with your hands before?" It seems that the long-talked-of monument to Gen. Robert E. Lee is to be an accomplished fact after all. The treasurer of the monumental fund reports that he has on hand in cash and estimated assets about $15,000.