The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 21, 1868.

INFIDEL LITERATURE.

The Pall Mall Gazette of Tuesday published
some rather severe comments on Archdeacon

Sinclair, who has recently delivered a charge
on the state -of religion among the Working
classes, and on the fearful increase of infidelity
during the last half century. The Pall Mall
Gazette objects, first, to the archdeacon's facts ;
and, secondly, to his method of applying a re-
medy to the evil. We will not stop at present
to consider the objection raised against the
remedy, beyond remarking that the Pall Mall
Gazette openly avows that it is impossible for
men to be intelligible on such a subject as
theology as now understood, or to make use of
" homely and masculine" language, unless they
hold homely and masculine doctrines. But
this cannot be, urges the Pall Mall Gazette,
until the fundamental problems of theology
have been solved, until its foundations have
been as securely laid as the foundations of
astronomy. " In so far as the want of religion
amongst the poor," it continues, " can be con-
nected in any way at all with the shortcomings
of the clergy of the Church of England, it is
due not to any fault on the part of the men,
but to the difficulties of their position, diffi-
culties which can never be overcome except
by a descent into fanaticism or an elevation to
a new sphere, of which at present we can catch
only occasional and doubtful glimpses." What
that new sphere may be of which the Pall
Mall Gazette itself " can only catch occasional
and doubtul glimpses," we cannot even under-
take to guess ; it is, however, self-evident that
is not Christianity with its homely and mas-
culine doctrines and its supernatural faith. But
this negation of the supernatural character of
religion among the intellectual classes, though
unaccompanied, as the Pall Mall Gazette justly
remarks, by " the coarseness and levity of anti-
Christian writers of the eighteenth century,"
reacts unfavourably on the working classes.
We are surprised to find the Pall Mall Gazette
in doubt as to the. existence, not only of prac-
tical heathenism, but of a widely circulated
infidel literature in the great cities of England.
It seems not to be in the least aware of the
extent and character of the writings which,
as Archdeacon Sinclair declares, are " issued
daily, monthly, and yearly from the press by
millions." The Pall Mall Gazette wishes, at
least, that " the archdeacon would mention
names." " There used some years ago," it
adds, "to be a small Secularist paper called
the Reasoner, but it has been given up for
several years, and its circulation was exceed-
ingly small." Has the Pall Mall Gazette, how-
ever, never heard of the National Reformer,
which, in spite of the objections of respectable
newsvendors to keep it on their counters, and
of the absolute refusal of many booksellers to
supply it, enjoys, nevertheless, a large circula-
tion? We wish we had space to quote at length
some pasaiges from the Rev. Dr. Vaughan's
thoughtful pamphlet on " Popular Education
in England, for we might then adduce evi-
dence in abun dance, both as to the character
and wide circulation of cheap publications, not
only, as the Pall Mall Gazette imagines, inde-
cent,' and pandering to a vulgar taste for hor-
rors, but aimed directly against Christian faith.
We will, however, " mention the names"—
as the Pall Mall Gazette doubts the existence
of this kind of popular literature—of some of
these atheistical and secularist tracts. One is
entitled " A Plea for Atheism." It says :
" God is an abstract word coined to designate
the hidden force of nature, or rather, it is a
mathematical point, having neither length,
breadth, nor thickness." Another tract, " Is
there a God?" has sold at the rate of a thousand
a month. Other tracts are : "Has Man a Soul?"
which has already gone through nine editions.
" Who was Jesus Christ ?" " Jesus, Shelley,
and Malthus." " The Bible; what it is: being
a Freethinker's Commentary." " God, Man,
and the Bible ; three nights' discussion with
the Rev. Dr. Baylee." " Christianity and Secu-
larism contrasted ; two nights' debate with
W. Hutchings, Esq., at Wigan." " Why do
Men starve ?" The " Baylee debate" has had
an extraordinarily large circulation ; and Mr.
Holyoake has sold nearly 50,000 of the "Logic
of Death "—a horrible work. " The sale of
such literature among the masses," says Dr.
Vaughan, " is rapidly increasing ; and the
mischief it works, like a poison in the soul, is
not to be estimated. We learn, not only from
abundant public evidence, but also from a
reliable private source—from a person who,
unfortunately for himself, has had for years
the best means of forming an accurate judg-
ment—that Atheism proper is certainly and
most decidedly rapidly increasing. I judge
this,' he says, especially from the applause
of the largest audiences, and my general cor-
respondence with English atheists,' &c. These
samples may suffice to give an idea of the food
which is being served out with untiring zeal
to tens and hundreds of thousands all over the
country."
If, as the Pall Mall Gazette observes, Mr.
Bradlaugh had, on account of his atheistical
views meeting with so little favour, to leave
the committee of the Reform Association, he,
nevertheless, finds such favour with the work-
ing men as to attract crowded audiences at
the secular halls. These lecture halls abound
in London and the more populous cities of
In face of advertisements such the country.
as the following few will agree with the Pall
Mall Gazette that, however bad cheap lectures
and publications may be, " they do not touch
upon religions subjects at all " :—" The Secu-
lar View of the Future," " The Lies of Reli-
gion," " The Prophet of Nazareth : an In-
quiry into the Character of Jesus Christ,"
" The Religion of Action," " Crimes of the
Bible God," " Secular Education for the
People," " Secularism and the Soul," " The
Festival of the Dead, or what we owe our
Ancestors."
" The greatest extensionoaf secularist views,"
says the writer to whom we have already
alluded, " appears to be in Lancashire and
Yorkshire, where large numbers may be found
in every town ; next, probably, in London ;
then in Newcastle and its neighbourhood ;
then in Glasgow; next in Northampton, where
the great popularity of extreme free-thinking
views is of recent date. To listen to such
lectures, audiences of 700 persons will meet in
the London halls, which are small. In North-
ampton the theatre, when hired for the pur-
pose, holds about 600. The attendances at
Huddersfield average 1,000; at Bradford, 600;
at Leeds rather less ; at Halifax, 800 ; at New-
castle, 800. At Liverpool, Birkenhead, Bir-
mingham, and other places the largest halls
obtainable for the purpose are filled."
Of course it is very unfair, as the Pall Mall
Gazette observes, to make a dead set against
the working classes, and to leave unnoticed
the state of religion among the rich. It is
abundantly evident that the State Church,
with all its appliances, its riches, power, and
influence, with its educated clergy, who, as the
Bishop of Oxford curiously remarked—backed
by the voice of the nation maintaining the
establishment--may, as they otherwise could-
not, boldly proclaim the Gospel in the face of
their betters, has utterly failed in attracting
the working classes ; but is it less evident that
Protestantism has failed to uphold Christian
faith in the intellectual classes ?
The Times, indeed, commenting ou Arch-
deacon Sinclair's account of the irreligion of.
the working classes and their absence from the
public services of religion, suggests that the
difference between them and the middle and
upper classes is more apparent than real ;
" for," says the Times, " attendance at church
is in a great degree a mere matter of social
custom. It is as much a fashion among certain
classes to go to church as to wear a particular
cut of clothes, and many of the working men
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feeling as the men of the middle and upper
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who have
power in England, and its influence still tends
to keep up an appearanceof respect for religion.
It is stronger in the Country than in town, and
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this explains why so many men who never go
to church in London never fail to put in an
appearance at church in the country. But,
after all, strong as social custom is, it is but
a slender thread on which the religion of the
country has to depend. Old customs are
giving way before our eyeS ; habits social, poli-
tical, and religious are changing with a rapidity
which the last generation never dreamt of. If
the Church of England, which has enjoyed
almost every earthly advantage for the last
two hundred years, is powerless to teach Chris-
tianity to the working classes, and depends
only on social custom for the attendance of
the men of the middle and upper classes at
its public worship, then surely are its days
numbered. Not only is its disestablishment
near at hand, but the failure of Protestantism
as a systpm of religion for the educated as well
as for the poor, will on that day, when social
custom yields to newer impulses and wider
sympathies, be manifest to the nation.—West-
minster Gazette.

Berlin ; and such a conviction might very
quickly lead to serious consequences. We may
then see much sooner than we imagine the
most violent adversaries of Prussia imploring
its protection with outstretched arms. In
this sense what is now taking place in Vienna
may be of immense importance for the rest of
Germany. Count Bismarck is perfectly right
when he says that the Liberals of the South
wish to be united with Prussia, whilst the
Conservatives are opposed to such a union.
In fact, the Conservatives will be the only
supporters of the South German Governments
if these Governments make up their minds to
preserve their independence. This is known
at Berlin, and Count, Bismarck has no hesita-
tion in avowing that the Conservatives were in
a majority in South Germany. The Liberals
reply, indeed, that this majority is composed
of the least intelligent part of the population;
but Count Bismarck does not care for this
distinction. He only values people as they
pay taxes and furnish soldiers. He knows that
in a constitutional country, the will—enlight-
ened or not—of the people ought to be pre-
ponderant, and that in imposing by means of
Parliamentary forms, the will of the minority
on the country, is the sure road to anarchy.
It is on this account that Count Bismarck treats
the Liberals with such disdain. After having
said that Prussia might, if it wished, make
concessions to the Conservatives or the reac-
tionists, as they are called, he hastened to add
that it could not do so to the Liberals without
sacrificing its main object; therefore, counting
the Liberals for nothing, he looked upon South
Germany am COnservative, and thus it. is that
he could say : Why do the South Germans
not wish to unite with us ? It is not because
they do not find us Liberal enough, but be-
cause they find we are too much so. The
Historisch-.Politische Blotter, in explaining this
paradox, says it is certain that the Prussian
Government is not Liberal in the ordinary ac-
ceptation of the word. Count Bitimarck does
not hesitate to avow it, and hence it is that
the Liberals of South Germany make it, at
least in appearance, an absolute condition of
their adherence that Prussia should become
Liberal. They want guarantees that unity
should not be brought about at the expense
of liberty ; that is to say, in reality, they want
to secure the absolute domination at Berlin
of the middle and professional classes, of which
their party is chiefly composed. The Prussian
Government does not yield to this Liberalism.
It was not Liberal ideas which gained the
battles of Bohemia. On the contrary, it was
those very ideas which, before the illumination
of Sadowa, prompted as many petitions against
the warlike policy of Count Bismarck as the
King of Prussia had soldiers under arms.
The only essential relationship between the
new policy of Prussia and Liberalism is the
contempt of e very right and of every law as
often as_ it is thought that they may be
violated without danger. On this score, it is
certain that the policy of Count Bismarck is
much too liberal for the Conservatives of South
Germany. The annexations of the North only
showed too well the close relationship which
exists between the recent policy of Prussia
and vulgar Liberalism. If the Southern States
were not annexed at the same time as Hanover,
Nassau, Electoral Hesse and Frankfort, it was
because of the fear of France ; this much, at
least, is proved and avowed.
The Liberals of South Germany seem bent
on driving the people into the arms of Prussia.
But the South Germans say that one despotism
is better than two, and since they know the
weight of Liberal despotism, they might well
prefer the despotism of Prussia. This is Count
Bismarck's hope, who cannot watch but with
pleasure the activity of Liberalism in the
South. The moment that the Conservatives
are more worried by Liberal despotism than
frightened by Prussian despotism, Prussia has
gained the day.
After stating that Austria declines hence-
forth:"
taking an active part in the affairs of
Germany, and that it is turning its attention
more and more towards the Magyars, and that
.it has abdicated its claims as a Catholic power,
the Historisch Politische Matter thus concludes
its remarks on the Bismarckian policy—" If
Prussia could obtain the continuance of peace,
it might meet the future without unquietude.
At Berlin everything is to be feared from a
war. We may envy the assurance with which
Count Bismarck refuses to make concessions
to South Germany. But who will answer for
it that, in its love for peace, Prussia will not
arrive at an understanding with France by
concessions which will make Prussia, indeed,
larger, but Germany smaller? This has already
happened at Luxemburg. The surrender of
North Schleswig, in conformity with the trea-
ties, will be a second step in the same direc-
tion. Thus it is that Prussian policy suffers the
penalty of its community of principles, and
of its alliance with Liberalism. If, after the
victory of Sadowa, regard had been paid to
existing and historic rights, there would have
been no need to have had recourse to the
treacherous and two-edged principle of nation-
alities. Germany would have remained united ;
every pretext for intervention would have been
taken away from the Emperor of the French,
and the article concerning North Schleswig
would have had no place in the treaty of
eace.”

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Despatches to the 26th March, received at San
Francisco from Idaho, tell how two mining com-
panies endeavoured to settle a difference. They
came to blows underground, and in the charge, J.
C. llolgate, of the Golden Chariot, was killed, and
Meyer Frank, of the Ida Elmore, was mortally
wounded, and has since died. It appears that three
companies are working the same ledge at different
points—the New York, Ida Elmore, and Golden
Chariot—and that the partition wall between the
Ida Elmore and Golden Chariot having been lately
cut through, the fact was made apparent that such
was the case. Each party determined not to be
ousted, hence the fight. The ledge is undoubtedly
ane of the richest in Owyhee, and has already
turned out considerable bullion. What the final
result will be can only be conjectured, but it is ap-
parent that more blood will be shed before it is
ended, as both parties have positions well fortified
within gunshot of the two mines, with 50 men
armed to the teeth on each side. Probably reflect-
ing on the consequences, and seeing that a fight might
end in annihilation, when the third company might
cut in and carry off the plunder, it is now expected
that an adjustment would take place. By later
intelligence we learn that on the 30th March, in
obedience to a proclamation from the Governor,
presented to the belligerents by the United States
Marshal, who told them it mnst be at once obeyed,
they agreed upon boundaries and disbanded their
forces. This was certainly a more sensible resolve
than to fight it out " on that line," the conclusion
formally arrived at, the Ida Elmore party prepar-
ing hose to eject hot steam and water on their an-
tagonists. The Golden Chariot is turning out some
of the richest ore, described as pure native silver,
held together as it were by leaves and threads of
gold. A writer states that in different places he
saw ore so rich that the gold and silver could be
detected by the light of a candle. The Ida Elmore
ore is of much the same quality, and so extraordi-
nary is the wealth of the ledges that one cannot be
surprised at the steps the miners have taken to
assert their claims. A new strike in the Oro Fine
is also stated to be all that fancy painted it, and the
lower drifts of the Potosi Mine is growing richer and
richer as the work deepens. In all the ore gold is
mixed with silver, but the silver greatly predominates.
chiefly in the form of black sulphurets, thoegh pure
native silver abounds, sometimes beautifully crystal-
lized. The Montana Post asserts that labour is
becoming scarce throughout the Basin, $7 a day
with a guarantee of employment all summer, are
freely offered, and this, it must be remembered, is
not in greenbacks, but in gold. Idaho, from all
accounts, is looking up. It is clear from the ac-
counts received from all the mining districts that
there will be. great activity this summer in develop-
ing the mines.
The daze at the outlet of the Humbolt Lake,

Nevada, had broken, overflowing the banks below.
Governor Fall is building a mill, which he expects
to complete by the 15th May (yesterday), working
20 stamps. The Montezum% smelting works at the
end of March shipped 3,7771 b. of fine bullion. For
the week ending March 31st Wells, Fargo, and Co.
shipped from their offices in Austin, Nevada, and
Gold Hill, 6,680 pounds of assayed bullion, valued
at $214,733 79. The mining companies in that
vicinity are progressing very favourably. Many
that had hitherto done but little work are being
developed. The exprt of ore is rapidly increasing,
and the season promises to be very favourable.
Many miners who contemplated going to Sweet-
water have given up the intention. All the local
journals write hopefully of their prospects, antici-
pating a great future. The Reese River Reveille
says :—" The Titnoke, in Lander Ilia, is produc-
ing extraordinary ore from its deepest workings.
The assay of the pulp of two tons which have
just been reduced at the Manhattan Mill gave
a yield of silver exceeding one thousand dollars
per ton. The Florida mine, which never looked
so well as at present, either as regards the
quality of its ore or the appearance and size of its
vein, will produce a fine lot of bullion for the
month of February. It has sent 70 tons of ore
to Murphy's California Mill for reduction, which
will be completed on Monday next, the average yield
of which will exceed poo of silver, coin valuation
per ton. This fine ore was extracted from the
lowest level, which is 400 feet on the incline. Some
ore from the Murphy mine, of the Twin River Com-
pany, was amalgamated in the mill of the company
a few days slice, after roasting in the Stetefeldc
chloridiziug furnace. The bullion was found to be
880 fine; whil© the proportion of gold was about
six times greater than in the same ore roasted in
reverberatory furnaces."
RICH ORE FROM WHITE PlNE.—Specimens of
singular-looking ore have been brought into the city
from the White Pine district and deposited at the
office of Boalt and Stetefeldt for assaying. It was
most unlikely-looking stuff to yield silver, and ap-
peared to be mere breccia of quartz and slate. Of
two specimens assayed the yield was as follows :
No. 1, $1,737 75c. ; No. 2, $657 09c. The ore was
obtained from the Hidden Treasure ledge, which
developes immense masses of it. It is imbedded
between slate and limestone, and it had been cut
through 15 feet without reaching the upper wall.
Miners on the ground pronounced the queer stuff
worthless, and several bets were made that it con-
tained only very little silver. The large buttons
produced from half ounces of the pulp astonished
even the assayers.

The Humbolt Register, March 7, says--" The
Essex Mill is about ready for ore. On the evening
of the 29th of February the shrill voice of its
whistle could be heard for miles around. The first
business for this mill is the reduction of one hun-
dred and fifty tons of ore from the Monroe mine,
after which it will be kept busy on the Essex and
Empire mines." Our readers may probably not be
aware that the Empire and Essex are extensions of
the Tallulah lodes. There are four companies
there established ; three of the claims more or less
developed, while the fourth, lying between the
Tallulah and Empire, belongs to the Humbolt Silver
Mining Company, now offered in the London market.
A London paper, professing to be a guardian of in-
vestors, appears to think that Nevada is a populous.
city ! not far from San Francisco, and that if the
mine was what the proprietors represent it, any
amount could be there raised to develope the lodes.
The Empire and the Essex have been developed,
the Tallulah was offered in London, but the
owners considered it too valuable to sacrifice
on the terms only then obtainable here, so it was
withdrawn. The Empire and Essex each extend
1,200 feet, while the claim of the Humbolt is 1,465.
The Guardian has not the faintest idea of the wealth
of the State of Nevada, and we dare say is as ig-
norant of the fact that money can only be obtained
even on the best security at the rate of 3 per cent.
per month. That the lodes are worth an outlay of
capital even on such terms, in the opinion of the
people of Nevada, is clear from their action, and
to say that a mine is worth working in Nevada is
simply to say it is immensely rich. M. C. Vincent,
Esq., Fellow of the Royal Geological Society of
London, has just returned from Nevada, and has
published a report, to which we will hereafter al-
lude, of the Belmont Silver Mining Company. The
property is almost within the town of Belmont,
with 13 acres in the central part. Mr. Vincent says,
" I have examined many of the principal silver and
other mineral regions of the world, and have seen
none more free, probably not so free from adverse
considerations as this." Aside from the almost unpre-
cedented merits of the deposits, he goes on to enume-
rate circumstances which tend to give so great a value
to the property, concluding " that it could scarcely
be surpassed in real attractiveness." This is the
opinion of a gentleman alike qualified scientifically
and practically to form one, and is the result of a
close personal inspection of Nevada, not years ago,
nor mouths ago, but a few weeks back. The Daily
Colorado Herald writes :—" Our silver works were
unable to begin operations until late in the season
last year. They were small and imperfectly con-
structed. There was a want of capital and a want
of experience, yet we produced over four thou-
sand pounds of silver. This year we begin early,
with works of increased capacity, with enlarged ex-
perience and greater confidence. We will turn out
enough silver this year to pay for all the bad invest-
ments and mismanagements of the past. We will
more than double our present monthly shipments of
bullion before the summer is over. There is a better
opportunity to invest in silver property now, on
reasonable terms, than ever before, because there
need be no hazard about it. A piece of property
can be tested on a legitimate working basis,
and its real value ascertained." The Montana
Gazette says Mr. Paddock, Recorder of El
Dorado Bar, has shown us a splendid specimen of
ruby sapphire, weighing over six carats. Weis
the largest specimen of stone yet found on this
famous bar, and is of great value. Several other
specimens of sapphire have been found and tested ;
one of them, of bluish colour, is highly prized by
lapidaries, being used for cutting and polishing
other diamonds."

Goy Haight of California pocketed and killed
sixty hills of the late Legislature in that State, among
them those for the promotion of silk culture and beet sugar
making.
Wilkes's Spirit affords the following items :—Obituary.
—The celebrated Abyssinian stranger, known here as the
Cynocephalus, whose reflective face and equestrian grace
were the theme of universal admiration and applause, has
passed away. The disease which thus cruelly cut short
the dazzling career of this bright ennament of " the pro-
fession " was inflammation of the lungs, superind iced by
exposure attendant upon an unremitting devotion to pro-
fessional duties. He expired on Saturday last, with more
than Christian resignation, in the arms of his beloved
friend and trainer, Monsieur Olivier, whose agony of soul
at the dissolution of his friend and his own financial
prospects was harrowing in the extreme. The almost con-
temporaneous demise of two of the greatest of modern
Abyssinians—King Theodore and the Cynocephalus —in
opposite quarters of the globe, is a singular phase of the
theory of chance.
Lucille Western is in Syracuse. Maggie Mitchell and
James Collier are in Chicago. Theatricals in Salt Lake
are flourishing. Providence, Rhode Island, has got the
"White Fawn" badly. The gross receipte of places of
amusement in Chicago for the month of March were :—Ar-
lington's Minstrels, $4,621; D uprez and Benedict's Minstrels
$1,522 75; M'Vicker's Theatre, $ll,BBl 75 ; Opera House,
$59,110 55; Wood's Museum, $9,873 10 ; South American
Museum, $268 40 ; Tom Thumb, $3,011 90; Hess, C. D.
and Co., $14,527 09 ; German Theatre, $1,306 05. Louisa
Gross, professionally known as De Vernon, has sued for a
divorce from her husband, William Uross, an actor for-
merly in Wood's Museum in Chicago. Chanfrae is in
Chicago. Lotta the Marchioness is in Cincinnati. Mr.
and Mrs. Billy Florence have sail d for England, Ireland,
and Wales. Fanny Morant secedes from Wallack's next
season, and marches under the banner of Booth. Dickens
gave M. P. Wild, his tieket agent, a check for $l5O as a
mark of respect and gratitude. Mr. Wild intends to pre-
serve the document unchanged as an autographic memento
of his distinguished friend. Ethiopian delineators and
circus attractions monopolize the amusement world of New
Orleans.

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All receive with satisfaction the announcement, that in
consequence of the Reduction in Duty, Hornintan s Pure
Teas are sold Bd. per pound Cheaper. 2,500 Authorised
Agents—Confectioners in Lentiou and Chemists in the
proviuces—supply florniman's Tea only in Packets.

SETH GREEN'S PISCICULTURE IN TB.

UNITED STATES.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

The American Fishery Commissioners have
issued a report regarding fish in the United States.
It is shown that the supply is decreasing both in
the rivers and on the coast, and that the remedy
lies in artificial breeding. Seth Green, of Mum-
ford, Rochester, New York, who has induced the
commissioners to try experiments on a gigantic
scale, believes that the lakes and streams of the
United States may be so stocked with all kinds of
fish that " the people won't be able to catch 'em
out if they try." Of the eggs hatched. but one is
spoiled in every thousand, and those who know what
the destruction is when the fish are left iu a natura
state to spawn may imagine the swing. The com-
missioners say that the ponds for trout breedinz
ought to be five, of an 'acre each, which would
be sufficient to rear a million fish. The secret con-
sists in feeding the young till able to feed them-
,selves, and protecting them from becoming the
prey of otter fish. Sath Green has been most
successful in shad, and we learn tliat the inte-
resting experiments in shad-culture which were
begun at Holyoke, Massachusetts, last year, will
be resumed shortly under his personal inspection.
The following letter in Wilkes's Spirit, of May 2,
gives an amusing account of a couple of green-horns,
at the Mtimford Ponds :—llnving occasion to spend
a short time in the Flour City, I cast about for
some amusement, and was told that Seth-Green's
trout ponds were only about an hour distant by
rail ; and as I had about every other kind of sport
bt.t fly fishing, and never had had time and oppor-
tunity till now to try that, I procured a letter of
introduction from a leading citizen to Seth Green,
requesting him to show us every attention in his
power; and so, in
.company with my partner
Harry, jumped on the 10 o'clock train, and soon
found ourselves at Caledonia. After reading the

letter, Seth asked us if we understood the art of
casting the fly, and being answered in the negative,
he produced an elegant Hornbeck rod, presented to
him by Mr. Dexter, of Boston, and proceeded to
give us lessons. He then took us in his boat and
paddled us a few rods up a brook, where we could
see trout of all sizes and in vast numbers. We asked
him if we could fish, and he said, " Oh, yes ; fish as
much as you please ; you cannot catch any. Harry
wondered why, and askel him if they would not rise,
or if Green could catch any. He answered that he

supposed he could catch a hundred, but we could not.
Very indignant, and supposing he was joking us,
we determined to catch some of those trout if we
stayed a week ; so he told his son to take his rod,
and go with us and let us fish the Hornbeck, being
too precious to be entrusted with greenhorns. We
had but one rod between us, and each in turn tried
his hand and got several rises, but never a fish.
After trying patiently some hours, we spied Green
peeping around the corner of the house and laugh-
ing at us. Seeing that we saw him, he called out,
" Spit on your bait," and then brought out his own
rod and hooked and landed several trout from under
our very noses. Harry determined to try fresh
tactics—procured some worms and caught several
little fellows, of which sportsmanlike proceeding I
warned him I should notify the Spirit, but he kept
on calling out " IVorins ahead" at each rise, and
laughing at me for not being able to catch any with
my fly. Finally, finding it was no go, I, with
Seth's permission, cast the fly in one of his little
pools, where four or five thousand great big trout
were kept, and then I had sport. Harry joined
me, and in a few minutes we had eight and a half
pounds of splendid trout. These breeding ponds
have often been described in your paper, but it
was a great treat to see thirty or forty thousand
large trout in a space a few feet square, and see
their eager jumping when being fed with chopped
liver, and how they would actually jump into the
tin pan which Seth held down to the edge of the
water ; and one huge trout actually grabbed a big
iron spoon that Seth held down with some liver
in it, taking the whole bowl -in his mouth and
almost carrying it away with him. Here we also
saw nearly half a million young trout of different
ages, and were shown the entire system of breed-
ing. The writer, Harkaway, was back in Rochester
by the evening, and he carried his trout to the
little hotel, the Congress Hall, where he and several
friends had a hearty supper.

AIWNG TIIE SHAKERS.—Amcng the rules posted
in the office of a hotel in a Shaker village in New Hamp-
shire is the following: —" Married persons tarrying with
us over night aro respectfully notified that each sex occuPY
separate sleeping apartments while they remaiu." Some
time sine,: a newly married couple, on a little bridal trip,
visited the Shakers. The evening was spent in talk; bed
time came —and the couple ware invited to sleep. They
passed out of the office, up stairs, there saw two sober-
faced Shakers, a "brother" and " sister," each with a
candle. "Man to the left !" said the brother, and into a
room he escorted the bridegroom. " Woman to the
right!" as quietly said the sister, and into a separate rooin
the bride was ushered—the newly-made man and wife
separating without even a good-night kiss.
In the interim of the House sessions, General
SLhenck is busily at work on the Tax Bill, and will repoli
it for action and consileration at an early day, and for his
labours on this important and intricate subject, while 1116
fellow Representatives are recreating at home or dawdling
attendance on the Impeachment trial, he deserves the re-
ward of a faithful servant. Other matters of consequence
also await decision, but the result of the Impeachment
trial will determine the character, even move decisively
than the time, of the future legislation.
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Births.
FARQUHAR—On the 18th inst., at Carlogie, Aberdeenshire,
the wife of Admiral Farquhar, of a son.
SCOTT On the 18th inst., at Wouldham Court, Mrs. Jo
ll°
Scott, of a daughter. ire
TALBOT —On the 19th inst., at 43, Camden-square, the vc
of Augustus Blaquiere Talbot, Esq., of a son.
Marriages.
Nest
Bnowx—Woon—On tho 16th inst., at St. Luke's,
Holloway, William Henry Brown, Esq., of Fenc"%-est
street and Denmark-hill, to Sarah Elizabeth, el-
daughter of the late Francis Wood, Esq. rfte
DRAKE —BATEmAN -On the 19th inst., at St.
Church, Joshua Drake, of Oxford-street, andof
pace, Streatham,
ace, Streatham, third sou of Thomas Drake, '7OO,
Park Lodge, Peckham-rye, Surrey, to Harr:et J 621,
youngest daughter of William Bateman, Esq., ef
Fitzroy-square, London.

Deaths.
CIIETWODE— On the 18th inst., at Leamington, 1"f:ill!
Chetwode, daughter of the late Sir John and 1,3""
Chetwode, of Oakley, Staffordshire, aged 71. ncler
JONES—bn the 19th lust., Mr. Geo. Jones, of 24, kilc)-
ley-street, Islington, aed 67. BOO'
MUSKERRY— On the 19th inst., in London, the Bight -
Lord Muskerry. T,A.OOr
SUNDERLA:SD—On the 16th inst., at London-road,
ter, Thomas Sunderland, Esq., aged 50.

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