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ealcl1, now he rsn to o.Eanizo and disctnllus =
mkn = OF natives, which ultimately grow
into o1st sd4 OF tum $500 to 5000, md rez-
1oflaSa FH1 msnt part in putting down tho
plete advert rer, for he MA found su1ong
theee VITO eut down 10 Central America on
walkers tGbuste1ing expedition. He sppear-
ed u China In 1859, and, being man Of great
coolness and bravery, ha soon distinguished
hilneeh n n taking Email village from the rob
e!s near shanghai This socceas iu1al.cd his
Any.
Two years after he w1s Killed Wills supc,in-
tending IN advance Of his troops. He was
succeeded by Buzgcvine, natu,alired Ameri-
csn, who sooo proved himself Incompetent,
pn ana T1s saperseded by Colonel Gordon, Of tho,
tits foIec, And tho allied French aad Eng1ish
facts, dzovo .ho Taipings bzek toward Esn-
koG. lher expeditions in other directions
a1so proved diaastrous- Nankiag was now
cios invested by &, 600 tmpcrialists, und tho
En- gant o. rsfDs1s Ts1s1g ~ was svds1 nos Yet
which he had chc1en for the capital Of bis
proposed empire, and while the Inhabitants OF
NAnk1n& we're 30 prcssed with hunger that
human 1esh was selling By tho catty, hs still
declared that HeAven had chosen him ruler Of
r-Get
Az dangers thickened around him and he be-
FEN ~ realize his situation, be became more
cruel o1de1ing my Of Ess people who were
found holding communication with tho enemy
% te fayed alive or pounded to death: Bat 1t
last, VIXEN Le lsd 10 longer d ny Of hops, hp
Tci*ont d himself; and lis Karorite wires buried
.he body u g-Fden near tbs palace.
Thus died tie n1n who had arisen from the
condition CT \ poor school teacher to be \
sup1eme sovereign ovrr millions If his coun-
tyntn, End whose ambition made him the
lirtct cause OF moro misery md moro blood
sEel than any other man in the history Of our
clltlL And como suppose near.y hundred
million people persisted during tho long
rcIiod Of fifteen ye9rs that the ll1pody tide Of
this mighty rebellion was sczging to and fro
over the most densely populated area Of our
globe.
On tho 18th Of April, 1864, one year before
cur waT ended, the mpc1ialists, by ap1inging
nine said to contain "a, Goo puunds Of pow
! der, made breach in the walls Of E.n1ing.
| Tho rebel General set fire to tho city, and tho
tawdry palaces Of the TAPPING Princes wero
souu in ashes.. The besicgea, numbering about
/ 20 eco, were put to the awotd, nnd tho few who
! escaped were oye1taken and despatched by
tho cAra11y.f
Ono rebel army stiu rernaincd near Suohow,
| but that was soon forced To retreat southwara
| In April, 1865, It appeared and took city
near Annoy, but there it WEE routed and scat
p. tered through the mountains between the
| provinces OF Fokien and kwaugtung, and thus
tho list vestige Of the most gigantic rebellion
| the world has ever seen WIS blotted out for
! nyqr-
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The IIouackccpcr's Tragedy.

The IIouackccpcr.a Tragedy.
One dag, rs wandered, heard a complaining,
,a and 3a say poSr woman tae picture s, Of go14
And this n vas ner wall Is she welded her broom;
40. life Is q toll, and love Is trouble,
And beauty will fade, and riches viii dec.
And pleasures they dw1ndlc, and prices they
double.
And nothing il what could wish IT to be.
Thesss 10 % much u sonins goes o shirs:
There's nothing that pays for the time you waste
There's noshing that lasts u. but trouble and
SIN March It Ia mud; It's blush In December;
The midsummer breezes arc loaded with dust;
In fall the leaves litter; Ia mugy September
The wallpaper ruts and the cand1esttcs rust
"rnerc arc worms In the cherries. and a.uss In the
And ants tn lie sugar, and mice In the pics,
The rubbish Of spiders no mortal supposes,
And ravaglng roachts, ind damaging dies
"1ts 6weeptng It air, and It's dusti1g at seven;
It's vlctuals at eight, and It's dish - at nine;
It's potting md panulng from ten to eleven;
We scarcs break our fast ere we plan how 70
dine.
"wtth grease and with g1tmc, from corner to
Forever Il WI, and forever a1e,.,
No rest for day, lest the enemy entet-
spend my whole life IN struggle With dirt
Last night, In my dream, Lwas stationed forever
On = Little bare Isle In the midst Of the sea;
Ny one chance Of Life IVES q ceaseless ensleaYor
TO sweep on the waves ere they swept on poor
nc.
] "Atas! TWAS no drcam-agaln henoldit
1y1ctd, nm helpless my fate to avert"
| She rolled down her sleeves; her bprun she
folded;
Then t1iu down and died, and was buried In dirt
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lin could BE- distinetly hoard. The old senus
man ptaJed mna& farvanuy that the Lord would
shake 0s company orer hi, and p1s step b
h0t hos-ga ard hora>ha;r squeaking. lhs
noxt morning, nhcn he was pzoachng ffom The
text He that beIieveth not ahall b. damned" :"
tho boys put some mimBtnnh under ths b.ck-
los in tho fireplace. End wcro waiting % tip
too to see tho result. Whom tho sfduvi1 WAS
ptTopdhe oy tho knowing oucs, tho preacher
yuu repent and bo converted you viii BE-
damned, and, with his strong ro:oe zaiscd to
'tH highest pitch, and with stamp Of Lis foot
on tho aoor, aud bringing his ast down upon
the Judge's deal, be roared out ".SinneTs,
dlnI yoH sDleu heu p"
, 1870-03-20
lndtnn Geographical Names.

As portion Of the forthcoming second vol
Collections, its President, Mr. ]. Hammond
TrumbulI, h.s printed monograph on tho
composition Of tho Indian geographical names.
1t is chapter OF great philologi import anee.
and it has popular Interest,", in that il dispcln H
BONG sentimental cr1ors- Under the definition
that it il tho characteristic Of proper nAmc
na,nea in tie aboriginal lsnguagas Of Arnosic..
EFctJ Indian name must not only have .
meaning, r. but bc 20 framed IS TO convey it
With precision; and whenever, By phonetic
change, It loses its power OF self-interPre-
tatlon; 1t must be discarded In the In
o4n language every name described tho To-
cality TO which Il wu aM1ad. eornetirnes to-
posEaphica1ly, Sometimes historically. pre-
, 1870-03-20
AN IRISH ELECTION.

The scene at the Waterford nomination, On
February p ia reported in the Eng1iah papers
as unparalleled in violence. From N account
Of it IN the Cork Examiner we take fow
choice paaaagcs- Mr. Be1nal Osborne, the
weIEknown EnG}ishnan, appeared sgslnst Mr.
Smyth, an 1rishman, AZ . candidate for the
sufr1ges Of Waterford. In the courBe Of the
hubbub, Sir Henry Da11on, rising to propose
Mr. 6myth, said:
Gointing to Mr.. Osborne), to tear away the
mask Of the hypocnte, lLoud cheers. I
election has been brought about By gross
treachery-by the basest perjury thst was erer
brought ont At an election in this country;
The treachc1y waa Of the basest character. It
was The t1eache15 Of man who ought to be
the last to expose any secrets that he received
from his client 3r. Wall, who IVES law agent
in 1868, went to the Law agent OF Mr., Osborne,
and betrayed his client to MI. osborne's agent
In reply to some Interruptions by sIr. Oa-
borne, Sir Henry went on to Bay;
brand you as an abettor Of perjury and
treachcry. fGrcat excitement aud ceascless
urroar al over the court Ho who takes
advantage Of perjury and Hcachcry becomes
himself traitor and pe,1prer., & font Ian, Ian
Will disgust. You arc second edition Of
Jeremy Diddler. Mr. osborne-poor, old
man.1 You tried many constituencies in
Eng1and, bnt they would not have you
They found you out and Kicked Tou over.
They will DO tic same for you in Waterford.
Mr. Osborne, after having regretted that tho
contest should degenerate into abuse, proceed
ed to ask his hearers:
What have you been entertained with to-
day? Why, you heard your lste member, the
Daronet Of tho Melbourne Administration,
emptied the slop-pal Of bis vocabulary upon
me-[ [intcnac urroar, continued all through the
speech land leave you to say whether tho
man, who las used Ruch language to-dSy, vas
a proper representative for your city? dis
miss him ns scold,- old woman, only fit
there,-{pointing to E solitary female in the
gallery, who had for some time heen
putting out her tongue to tho spoakcr),
PITY the sorruws Of poor old man,
Whose bribery has brought him TO this court
Intense uproar and some 1.uShter.l Why,
gentlemen, he has been b1ibing for forty
years. He las corrupted tho frcemen, and now
! Judge let him OF too easy. Ha ought to have
been convicted OF personal bribery. Look At
| his hard swearing, gentlemen, and whom ho
dnres to abperse me hurl back his alAnder
h with contempt in his teeth, it he has any
Laughter and unnitigated uproaE.l You nov
| er we're admitted to society, and you uevez
| win be.
Sir Il. Barron. You aro Jeremy Diddler.
MI. Osborne. AN told my friend here, the
old, original donkey
one. --
Nj. Osbo1nc. ThAt have not contributed
1 to the Waterford charities. Well, there is one
charity 1,Ave never contributed to and nevel
/ will contribute to-7ke Waterford Setcs. Thai
is charity for distressed WidowB and broken
down ]. p.'s. Laughter and continued up
| NJ os,n+,o nm ,ron3 rTTnrtfuc anf
, 1870-03-20

The latest statistics OF the Baptist churches
throughout the country give 1a,ol1 churches,
s.Ce5 ministe1s, and LII, ,ess members The
'iCampbel1ite Bap.ists clain membership
throughout the world Of -, 5oo persons. Tbs
ehuSrhea. @ les ]. III ministers, and &C, ,eei members.
Thero aro about 1000 negro bsptist churches
IN Tie South, having m avcrage membership
Of go Tho lows Baptsts nunber about
2o, COO. This u = gain Of 1900 oye1 lxas year,
, 1870-03-20

BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Oh! she waa maid OF laughing eye,
And ehe lived In g1tret cold and high;
And he K1s thrtAdbaEe WhlsEered beau,
and be lived In cellar damp And low.
Bux the rosy boy Of the che1ub wing
HaA many Ahaff II his slender string,
And the youth below and the maid Abosa
Were touched with the flashing darH OF love.
And she wunld wake from her troubled sleep,
Ger his tender blllet-douT TO weep;
or stand ilke a statue bright and 1air,
And RaIe on lock Of his bright, red hill.
And he who was 80 t111 and proud,
With his step so nIm md his laugh 50 loud,
Fills beard grew long aud hts fAce grew thin,
And he pinned in solitude over bis gin.
But one soft night IN the month Of June,
As she !ay In the Light OF clUudless moou,
4 voice came floating soft and elear
To the startled mal1cn't listening ear.
Oh. then nom her CFea6og couch she sprung,
And her tangled t5csses back she dung,
she locked from the window far below,
And he stood beneath, her whlakerrd beau
She dld 1ot sta1s with foolish froWn,
But paeked her trunk 8nd sc1mpefFd down,
Au1 there WAS her lover tail and tue,
In hts thteadbare coat Of the brightest blue.
The star that rose IN the evening shade
Locked sadly duwn Oh weeping maid;
The snp that canc In his morning pride
Shed golden Light oe1 laughing bride.
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Tho Youth and tho mf11strcnn.
Trunsldted }run1 the German af Goethe for The Chi
ou9o Tribune.

Tho Youth and tho mf1tstrcntns
7runsldted from the German u Goethe for The ca
eu9o Tribune.
Youth:
Where wilt thou, ltnptd brooklet, Cow
Thus blithe and gaJ1
Thou hasteneth the world TO know
So far nway,-
What dost thou In the valley seek7
1pray thee list to me and speak.
Brook;
oJouth! brpoklet once was,
And am NO more,-
no loi.erer now through fragrant grass,
AB once before
Ny current hastes toward yonder MIL,
Where It's whirling buckets Ill.
Toutn:
Thy wavcless surface, swift and smooth,
That turns its wheel
Can scarce dream OF The pain youth
Peztorcc must feel
Does yet the mIllers daughter look
In thy clear mirror, gentle brook7
Brook:
Her shutters open In the morn,
When She with grace
NrnH hlthcF Nghtly o'er the lA1n,
To bathe her face.
Her bosom Is 30 full and white,
Ny steaming vapor vet1s the sight
youth:
Can she this placid stream innAne,
Wlth loves Light torchl
Who then can ardent mortals blaTc,
When tried q much!
Follow he must increasingly,
Who may but once her beauty eee.
Brook:
Then upon th. wheels me huri
With eager spring;
And all the noisy paddles Hhirt
In r1ot1nE:
For when the miil the maiden tends,
She to the stream fresh power 1endA
Youth:
poor brookl and tlcst thou suffer pain,
That others feel.
Flow onward then, nor heed again
Her 1aughters peal
Iet canst thou hardly now advance,
Withheld thus By her magic glance.
Brook:
Slowly, indeed, my WY wind,
When her dec
Slowly the meadow brakes ind,
Once Bought with Rlee;
Had the power 70 choose my way,
Iwould return and ever 6faJ.
Youth.
Comrade, whom fortune hither brtnys
That we may grteve-
That my fond car thy musmurtngs
Nay yet receive
Flow quickly down the meadow Aopc4,
And tell her Ill her lovers hopes
TxSHE
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English Literary Activity.

The literary activity OF Englard during tta
past year has been something enormons-
The Publishers cirrular gives tte following
summary Of new books, new editions. and
books Of American Importation, which appesred
IN England in 1853, with the mouths Of issue--
periodical pressure on the literary market:
, 1870-03-20

Ths Congregational Church IN Thon.a:ca,
Me-, recently amended their hy~laVs "a fox
lows: And avey mercber. MIA and falna4e.
IN good standing, present 1t any husints%
meeting, shaA ba entitled r. yota-"
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Tpt8G. .I<-<~A AT~A|
I kn11 .

These books ne classified Rs fo1lowa:
TheOcEJ-- ...--k
fsiueatlon, philosophy and classical literature. I
.Iurs nite wurks
Novels and other works Of ucdon..-.... i
EW--....--..--+....-- -+-.----.-....-...-.-. !
Prhtteal and scclal economy and trade and
TtaT books and bound volumes OF seriats.-..-
Arts and sciences, and nne 1T books. s......... s
Travel and geographical research. ....-.-.....-
History aod biography. J....-..--..-.---...--...
Poetry and the drama .........-...-....-.....~
Medicine aud dsuryety....---..-...--
miscellaneous. neutrality-suspicious..
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The staf that rose IN the evening shade
Looked sadly down Oh weeping maid;
The snn that catnc In his morning pride
Shed golden Light o'r laughing bride.
, 1870-03-20

BY EnEllAhmen and Americana.
About two months after the capture Of Nan.
king, \ Tipping force landed on the north bank
OF the langtse, and, cutting clear Of any base,
king. They pursued noHlNestctly aad then
= anonheastc1ly course, and in si1 weeks hAd
arrived 10 within 100 niles Of the capital
There they we're repulsed BY strong force Of
Manchus, sided b 500 Mongo.s, who were
tue nonads and who hsd been summoned in
from beyond the Great Wall By the Emperor sz
/ last resort
Coming from the southern paEt OF the en-
pire, Hhere hoSses Are seldom rsed, tbs Tai
pings were unable to cope with those born
hotsemen, othctwise they would probably have
taken the capital and ended the Manchu dy-
nasty. Finding themselves henrned in On al
sides, they despatched couriers to Naning de-
mandiug rGiuforcements and An auxiliary march
ed from NanGnK to their 1chef. This bold md
daring expedition is one OF the most reuA1ka-
hle recorded in history. and especially 50 Il ve
consider the unenterprising spirit which chAr-
acseHzes the Chinese mind
At the time that this comparatively email
force Was Obliged TO send for suocor, it hAd
marched, By its lgzlg ruute, between 800
and l,iL0 miles. After tho arrival OF re-
Meantime. powerful expeditions from Eanhug
assembled the Ya1gtse and recsptured Wuchan6,
which Esa also subsequently, taken third
lime.
After arriving Ut Ntnking. hung seems TO
have entirely clanged his mode Of Life. He
thought from his past wonderful success th1t
the whole eupire was within his grasp, and,
instead Of enHJcticaly carving on bis con
quests, he withdrew from public aHairs, and
passed his days in his haren, instead Of prov
ing equal to the great opportunity be had ulAae
for hirns ELF.
Dissensioua soou arose, and two Of the five
Princes that had set out with him from kwaug
81 were found guilty Of conspiHng against him
and wern beheaded- Theso causaa turned the
whole tide Of fortune against the Taipings, b1.
in 1850 they broke out 1t kankns, where they
hsd already been besicSed by tho 1mpe1ialiAts
and marched toward the Sea coAst, taking IN
their march the luxurious city Of Soochox.
The walls around this city were only ten mica
locg. but it had four immense suburbs, the
one Of the west side stretching away for ten
mlee. Throughout the empire Soochow en-
joycd An unriyalled reputation for its an
cient and modern buildings OF marble, its Gra:,-
ito bridges, and weN-built canAls, and espa-
cially Tor its beautiful women The Tiplnss
also captured The lasge cities OF Hangchow and
hrngpo, md even Shanghai Was twice su-
rounded
This lAst movement WIS \ most fatal ono tor
the Taipings, because II 1nsde foreigners cp-
pose them At Shanghai, Hazd, native Of
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Modern -Paragraphing.

That was a bitter joke of the man in New
Jersey who put a quantity of jalap in some beer
his friend was about to drink. The funeral was
very generally attended. -Enchdnge.
We don't know who originated the above
manner of stating a fatal occurrence, but it seems
to be quite generally followed by newspaper par
agraphers. 1t is a delicate way of putting it, and
reads much better than when one says: He
died amid the most excruciating agonies." We
get the whole story, and our sensibilities are not
shocked.
The new style of paragraphing affords a fine
field for the exercise of ingenuity in conveying the
intelligence that the man died. Variety, freshness,
and a cheerful, not to say vivacious Righteousness
might be mingled with the briefest notices of
fatal casualties that otherwise might be utterly
neglected by the reader, or very briefly glanced
at. As, for instance, the following: A man in
New Hampshire, the other day, ate Is dozen raw
oysters on a wager. The silver trimmings ON his
coffin cost S12.35.
A young man in Louisville examined a key of
damaged gunpowder with a red-hot poker, to see
if it was good. 1t is believed by his friends that
he has gone to Europe, although a man has found
some human bones, and a piece of shirt tail,
about 20 miles from Louisville.
John Smith, in Nebraska, said he could handle
a rattlesnake the same as a snake-charmer The
ichurlishness of the undertaken in demanding pay
N advance delayed the funeral four days.
A circus rider, in Texas, tried to turn three
somersaults on horseback, the other day. The
manager sent back to New Orleans for another
somersault man.
A man in New Jersey couldn't wait for the
cars to get to the depot, and jumped off. His
widow sued his insurance company.
Few men would attempt to dry dampened gun
powder in a kitchen stove. A man in Canada
did. His afflicted family would be glad of any
information as to his whereabouts.
In Massachusetts, the other day, a man thought
he could cross the track in advance of a locolno-
tive. The services at the grave were very i'm
pressive.
A man warned his wife in New Orleans not to
light the fire with kerosene. She didn't heed the
warning. Her clothes fit his second wife remarka-
bly, well.
junction not to skate ON the river as the ice was
thin. His mother didn't have to cook for 80
many as she formerly did.-PrinterS Circular.
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The Position of France.

The NJ. Y. Times, which has been notoriously
{" a French paper > ever since the Inauguration OF
the present hostilities between France and Prussia
has completely changed it's front on the secret
treaty as a pivot. The Times says:
1.-THE disclosure of this conspiracy changes the
aspect of the whole struggle. The attitude of
Prussia, it is true, is not affected by it, but
France occupies a position which threatens her
with a disaster immeasurably greater than any
she has sustained since Waterloo. While pre-
tending to be acting in good faith with the Eng
lish Government, Napoleon is revealed in the act
of contriving a coup detat for a parallel to which
we must 90 back to the early days of his rule.
Belgium seemed so secure that no one of late
years has believed in the renewal of French ag-
erosion. Yet, at the moment the Emperor Ma
poleon has undertaken the gigantic task of sub
conceivable baseness, to set England at his throat.
Henceforth 1t is no longer an issue between the
North German Confederation and France.
The power which Napoleon most breads now
stands behind Prussia with her sword drawn. 1t
is scarcely possible to imagine any loop-hole by
which the Emperor can escape from the net he
has spun around himself. His objects in waging
war against Prussia were at least debateable.
Count Bismarck policy has often been such, as
we have pointed out of late, to cast suspicion on a
great cause. But there can be no two opinions
with regard to the attempt made by France to
entiee Prussia into a crime which would have had
counterpart since the partition of Poland.
France seems doomed to defeat in the awful strug-
gle which she has taken upon herself, and she
viii have to thank the Emperor for the humilia-
ton. IF Prussia can beat her single-handed,
there may be no outside interference. IT she
cannot, it is quite clear that the English fleet and
armies will go to her support, and when
that happens the days of NapOleon's rule are
numbered
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The Seat of the War.

Bazaine's army is for the present monopolizing
attention, and seems likely first to be engaged in
a great battle. The entire French force now
within q circle of $50 miles of the Prussian
frontier numbers eight corps, which may be esti-
mated at 90 1000 men each, or 400 600 in all. Of
these, McMahon had on the 3lst of July, one
corps at Strasbourg, on the Rhine. There was
another corps in reserve, under Canrobert at
Chalons, and one under Douay at Belfort, about
sixty miles south of Strasbourg, watching the
Prussians who are threatening to pass the Rhine
at Mulhausen. The Eighth corps was at army
headquarters. The present headquarters of the
Emperor are at Metz, but Chalons on the Scan is
probably the position of the Eighth corps. The
Second corps is at st. Avolt, the Third at Metz,
the Fourth at ThionyilIe, the Fifth at Bitsch.
This last place Is In supporting distance by rail-
way of either Strasbourg or Metz. The destruc-
ton of the viaduct at Bitsch recently by a party
of Prussian engineers cuts off the communication
between that place and Strasbourg, and leaves
Bazaine's army in a measure isolated. Yet there
are 200 900 of them in close supporting distance
facing toward Saarbruck, Saarlouis and Treves:
and here the French appear from present indica-
tons to be forcing a battle, while the Prussians
are endeavoring to prevent any further concentra-
ton of the French in the direction of the Saar
and Moselle. The Prussians and BaVarians are
rapidly concentrating behind Saarbruck, with
their headquarters at Neuenkerchen, ten miles
off, where railways from Baden, Bavaria, the
Main, and the upper and lower Rhine center,
with a double-track road leading to the front on
the Saar. TIL reported situation on each side in
this part of the field indicates that a great battle
is imminent somewhere in the neighborhood of
Forbach or Saarlouis. places all sit
uated close together.-U Union, August 9Th.