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LITTLE ROCK, MEMPHIS AND NOR
FOLK

Within two weeks or less freight and
passenger trains Of the Memphis and
Ohio and Memphis and Little Rock
roads will be interchanged across the
Mississippi by transfer boats. Track
ways on the shores Of the river are per-
fected down to low water mark, and
will remain unaffected by the rise and
fall of the river. Meanwhile Mr.. Green
law spends his whole time in the low
lands ballasting the roadbed between
the Mississippi and st. Francis rivers.
When this task is done the Little Rock
road Twill become most profitable. It's
value is greatly enhanced by the early
completion Of the road from Richmond,
Virginia, to Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
By this means Memphis and Little
Rock secures the two shortest possible
routes from the Valley Of the Mississippi
to the Atlantic, and the wealth Of the
West viii surely follow these lines in
seeking access to Europe. There is a
difference, too, in the highest gradients
OF nifty feet to the mile in favor of this
route over the more northern lines.
Trade will not be diverted from the
Memphis and Little Rock road to any
other more northern route through 81. |
to New York or Baltimore. In
fact, wealth in its movements, likep
ulation, adhers to its original parallels
of latitude, and Norfolk, by the riches
of this and adjacent States, will be made
q magnificent commercial emporium.
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THE JEWISH VOTE.

Alate number ofthe EsrGelite says: at
is strange that Senator Wilson, in his
speeches, never refers to bis chaplain
bill, with which he gFaced the statutes
of the United States at the outbreak OF
the war. In his piety and patriotism,
the Senator then proposed a bill, and
pressed it through Congress in a hurry,
in which it vas enacted, that the regi-
ments should be given Christian chap
lains, and that al Jewish clergymen
should be excluded from those appoint
ments. Many of our readers must re-
collect the indignation which that bill
produced, and what trouble it gave to
Jewish soldiers to have it repealed, and
give them the benefit of a clergyman in
the field q hospital. Senator Wilson,
then most likely ignorant of the exist
ence Of Jews in this country, proposed
the unjust and unconstitutional law, but
knowing now that there are some Jews
somewhere, it is strange that he has not
how and why he came to
make that thunder, to expose his intol-
eranee and his disregard of constitution
al rights in SD blunt and undisguised a
manner. Somebody might ask him the
question, is a gentleman fit to be Vice
President Of the United States who does
not care for the constitutional rights of
ciizens?s
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ABOUT DRESS.

A writer in B5dcke0ood, in an article
devoted to I" Dress" says: "No French
woman has reached the hight of folly
and extravaganza in the line of dress
which has been reached by American
and Russian women, for whom more
work is done in France than for French
danes or demOiselles. The cost of some
Russian woman's gloves or stockings
would keep six families of weaver q
year. There are women at st. Peters
burg who think it quite o matter-Of-
course affair to pay the journey of their
favorite artist from the Boulevard, Paris,
to the Newsky Prospect, that they may
take their exact measur for a corset.
This reason why French fashions are
copied all over the world is because the
French woman knows how to dress.
Dress is her main pre-occupation in life;
in its adaptation she uses taste, tact and
eommon-sense Judgment. She under
stands shape, color, variety and fitness
as no other woman does; and ii is sell
dom that the true French oma drifts
into the r~owdyism of dress which has of
late years s~candalized the world. Then,
too, she knOwshow to put it on and wear
it. 1t is, when donned, a part of herself.
An English woman cannot plan a tasty,
elegant dress; she cannot make it; and
she cannot wear it well when it is
made.u
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The Howard Association of London
has Just issued for distribution at home
and abroad a succinct description Of the
principal features of that important
gathering. The Congress met, it win be
remembered, in the middle of Temple
Hall, and the pamphlet in question says
that the members Of the Congress were
mainly indebted for the use of the hall
to the good offices of Sir Thomas Cham
hers, NJ. P. 1t mentions that in this
hall, three hunderd years ago, Shake
speare read his " Mdsummer Nqhts
Dream, y in the presence of Queen Eliza
beth and her cOnrtiers; and in it also Sir
Francis Drake was feasted blythe bench
ers, on his return from his distant
voyages in regions until then unknown.
The opinion Of the Howard Association
is that probably no assembly ever gath
cred there Of more real importance than
the international Prison Congress.
which was attended by delegates from
the governments, OF Authorities, of tWen-
ty-three nations, including represent
tatives from India, Japan, Singapore
and Hong Kong in the farthest East;
from Chill and Brazil in the utmost
West, and also from Australia. More
than sixty delegates from the various
States Ofthe great American Union We're
present, and a large number from the
Continent.
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TIE ocroRER ELECTIONS.

On the eighth Of next month the great
battle Of the campaign is to be fought
and won. On that day the State cam
paigns viii close in Iowa, Indiana, Ohio,
Nebraska and Pennsylvania. These
are the most important State elections
in the Presidential year. This is par
tieularly true of Indiana, Ohio and
Pennsylvania. In these three States,
therefore, there will be hard fighting,
and the result will be sure to have a de-
cided influence upon the national con-
test To illustrate how to lose a vote
may be IN State canvass, and then
how large the majority on one side may
be in the vote for President, let us look
at Indiana. In 1865, for Governor, the
vote Stood. Democratic, n hundred
and seventy thousand six hundred and
fourteen; Republican, n hundred and
seventy-one thousand five hundred and
seventy-fve; a majority for the latter Of
nine hundred and sixty-one only. In
November Grant carried the State by
nine thousand five hundred and seven
ty-twO majority. For the last ten years
the vote of the State has been as follOws:
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HOW HANS GOT EVEN.

Once on a time there lived q jOvial
Dutchman, whose name was Hans Won
Shrimpetifiel. He had a wife. He had
a little grocery where beer and such per-
sOnal property were sold. he gave
credit to a parcel of day customers and
kept his book with a piece OF white
chalk on the head-bOard Of the bed
stead.
One day Mrs. Shrimpetifiel, during a
neat fit. took upon herself to clean the
house and things. So she did, and she
cleaned the head-board, and with 0
and water settled the old mans ac-
counts by wiping away every chalk
mark.
Pretty soon, before long, the old ven
der of things, came into his house, and
saw what a ruin his frau had wrought.
Then he said:
"AIein Gott, Frau ShrimDetihel, what
for you make a ruined man Of me. I
guess mott You make wipe away an
dem names and figures what owe them
what's going to pay before they
get ready, and ] lose more as zWie hum
deTt dollary'
His frau left the room in fear and dis
gust. When she returned he had re-
covered the head-board with chalk
marks. Then she said:
Hans, you have made them all
don't it2v,
"WelL mein teaEer frau, / make the
all right, but L put down some
names as dem old fellers vOt you
wiped out.n
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LIFE IN a R~OLLING-MILL.

Away from home the widest ques-
tons are asked about rolling-mil work
and wages. as the work all done by
machinery?n "Can l get ten dollars a
day in the mil?" "Is it very hot in
the furnaces" The work is not all
done by machinery, as many an aching
frame of bone and muscles can testify;
and the questiOner would probably not
get ten dollars a day, if he got no more
than he cOulC cam. An un~equivOcal
yesi dispOSes of the third inquiry, which
is construed into meaning the neighbOr-
hood, as well IS the inside Of u furnace.
The labor of most of the relling-mill
men, who work by the ton, begins in
the morning. Viewed in the light Of
other peoples hours, however, il begins
in the night. At four O'Clock they must
be up and doing, for at five, One-half of
the world being yet in bed, sharp
whistles viii be calling the rollers to
their tongs and hooks, and the iron
must be hot before that. During the
early part Of the day the heat,
though intense, is very patiently
borne with the body clothed; but
between twelve and three o'clock,
when rolls, furnaces and the iron all hiss
ing with the heat, the endurance of the
men is taxed TO the utmost. BY the time
the first named hour is struck, all sub
stances have become too hot for the
unaccustomeG to handle, and the air
about the furnaces and rolls is sitting.
Ninety-ive degrees in a shady Office is a
terrible infection to many, but here the
thermometer marks from one hundred
and twenty-five to one hundred and
thirty-6ye deErees of heat. Shirts driD-
ping with p~erypiratiOn are discarded, and
muscular development may be studied to
good advantage. PantalOons are wet
and steaming hotly, and even shoes
must occasionally be emptied of the
sweat that runs into them. Countenan-
ces begin to wear distressed appearances,
if the physical steam was telling Sc
verely upon even the toughest. 1t is
human to be- "bushed" on a hot day.
One look at The dozen stout men that
will be Frustrated in the last round or
two will convince any one that the lar
gest wages they may receive are well
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All beauty is falnest when passing away
gains new charm in its subtle decay
A radianoe7of touching fragidty given
To an that is fading-tO mark il for Heaven.
The suns latest beam IS M brightest he
His course is most splendid when nearest It's
close;
day. waning fast, OF lis end gives no sign.
saw the brief and bright hectic that wells Its
decline.
The forest has no summer charm that COM
With the fever-or glory il afterward wears,
With the hushes Of splendor in which It is
When ineendiary autumn his touch has APP
pHou.
But soon, smouldering ashes are all that pro-
Where il then lights to gold, where it kindIes
tbs Inc ara that consumes it that Brightens
And g stands in the blaze ofits own funeral
IN perfection Of beauty the rose meets its
And dies ia the fuIInessa and flush ofits bloom 4.
Inc frult ere the glow Ofits ripeness iso'er,
"Aen most Ialr 70 The eye, has decay attts
Alas forthe sunset alas for the trees!
not for these:
The stem has more promise, the rose has more
buds
is mern to thesky, there is spring to the
woods
Gut beauty more radiant We sadly deplOre,
men passes Ike these, and then DiOOmeth
NO more
More dear to our hearts, ana more glad to our
ewes,
nc blossoms of spring or the light oftho
skies.
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AT THE


! like the armadillo, I respect the kangaroo,
I'm nuts upon the monkeys, and adore the
cockatoO:
l believe there's latent talent in the wombat
and the stoat,
And think the -hippopotamus entitled to a
vote.
1 know not how, or wherefore, but, however
il may be,
The beaver Castor fber), has a nRmeless charm
for me;
I've met with true p%oliteness from the lynx;
and pom my soul,
l cannot speak too highly Of the common
Hankeem mole.
1 love TO watch the creatures, and to learn
their little games;
1 call thom from my fancy all the prettiest pet
names;
There's the camel, Humpty-Dumpty; Neck
or-NOthing, the giraffe;
Jolly Gnashi the old hyena, with his idiOtic
laugh.
I mark the restless motions of the more
ferOciOus lots
How the tigers sniff their place, anu leopards
change their spots.
l visit, too, the Ourly bear, and givemy wOnted
dole,
N. B.-The polar bear is not the bear that
climbs the pole
Then let US be To every beast a patron and a
friend;
Each tells his tale, each has his aim, as sure as
he's his end.
A lessons TO be learned from them, and man
himself may steal
new light nom the tapir, some impress
sion from the seal. London Fun.
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NEWS.

Rockport, Texas, is to have a factory
for canning turtles.
There are but four newspapers in Ken
lucky which use the "patent Outsides."
Horace Meek Of Jefferson county,
Tennessee, stuck a rusty nail in his foot
and died of lOekjaw.
a party of experienced California nil
ners is about to prospect the Bonner
mine in Carroll county, Georgia
The caterpillars, having destroyed the
cotton crops, are now driving the pick
ers out Of their cabins.
A. H. Stephens says Atlanta viii soon
be the first city on the south slope Of the
Alleghanies in wealth and population.
A bachelor of Woodford county, Ken
lucky, has been counting a lady for twen-
~ years, and still hopes that she viii re-
lent.
The City Council Of Perry, Georgia,
take offa dollar tax for every elm of wa
ter oak a citizen sets out in the
street.
In a certain locality ofHoustOn coun-
ty, Georgia, it is said to be the custom to
hand around dishes OF quinine pills in
stead Offruit.
Two OF the panthers that have been
disturbing the slumbers of the Mobile
police have been hunted out to Three
Mile creek and killed.
The Confederate soldiers belonging to
regiments from Middle Tennessee will
have a reunion in Bedford county the
middle of next month.
A negro in Camilla, Georgia, last
week, with his little pOcket-knife, OPEN
ed the already large mouth of q cOlOred
friend until it extended from ear to ear.
Travellers can now reach New Orleans
from Atlanta in twenty-seven hours
and forty-hve minutes, with only one
change of cars. These facilities are Of
twice daily.
A man in Greenup county, Kentucky,
finding a neighbOr pinned to the ground
by a tree that had fallenon his leg, lifted
It of. After the excitement was over
he and two others tried to lift the tree
again, but could not bulge it.
We hear of a country miss whose a-
fectiOns are at present confined TO three
young wolf, alizard and a rattle
snake. All young men in that section
should be made to pay a heavy poll tax
A Mr.. WhaIey Of Clayton, Georgia,
who had been indicted at the late ses-
zion of the Superior Court for seduction,
Iuashed the Indictment by cO~nsenting
% marry the pFOsecutrix. The judge
performed the ceremony in the court
DOM, in a very Impressive manner.
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GREELEY.
From the Picayune.l

From the Picayune.l
When Greeley, the printer, will be in
the chair, be will justify cur expecta-
tons and show himself the best type
of President.
He will drive out of Office the'coJumns
of corrupt employees, as honesty will be
his only guide.
His conduct will serve as a good copy,
to be followed close.
Matter of interest viii always call his
attention.
He Will change the rules Of the present
administration, and will substitute gold
coins for paper.
He will plain dorm all difficulties
which can arise with other nations.
Our form of government will be solid
under his hands, and will give a good
impression among foreign nations, who
viii be convinced that the American
people a be governed without the use
of lead.
He will not approve any act imposing
heavy taxation.
No blank page will be found in the
story Of his administration.
At his Inauguration he will have a
chase alongside ofhim, and at the White
House no change win be made in the
furniture.
He will require of an applicant a proof
OF honesty and capacity, by which he
will carefully reUiSe himself.
And in the composition of his cabinet
he viii have no Stag character.
Ladies dresses will be more elaborate
~ trimmed than eYer this winter,
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JOSH BILLINGS ON BABIES.

Babys i luv with all mi heart, they
are my sweetmeats; they warm up m.
blood like a jim sling; they krawl into
me and nestle by the side Of mai soul
like a kitten under a cOokstOve.
L hav Iaized babys miself, and knC
what am talking about.
[ haY got grandchildren, and thew are
wuss than the fust krOp tew riot amung
the feelings.
If i could hav mi way, would change
all the human beings now on the face Ov
the earth back into babys at once, and
keep them thare, and make this foot
stool grand nursery; but what i
would do for wet muses. i don't knO, nor
i don't care.
L would like tew hay fifteen babys now
on mi lap, and mi lap amt the handyest
lap in the world for babys neither.
Mi lap IL long enuf, but not the widest
kind Nv a lap.
1 am a good deal ov a man, butt kOn-
sist of length principally, and when i
make a lap ov miself, it liz not a mat
trass, but more like a couple ov rails
with a jint in them.
l can hold more babys in mi lap at
once than any mar in Amerika, without
splitting one, but it hurts the babys.
[ never saw a baby in mi life that /
didn't want tew kiss; am wuss than an
old maid in this Fespekt.
1 hav seen babys that i have refused
to kiss until they had been wasn't; but
the baby want tew blame for this,
neither was i.
Thare are folks in this world who say
they don't Inv babys, but you kan de
pend upon ii, when they war babyssum-
boldly luved them.
Babys luv me, too. [ kan take them
out of their mothers arms Just az easy
as i kan an unhedged bird out of hiz
nest. They luv me because / luv them.
And here let me say, for the comfort
and consolation Ov ali mothers, that
they see me on the cars or on
the steamboats, out on a job, they need
not hesitate a minute tew drop a clean,
fat baby into my lap; i win hold it and
kiss it, and be thankful besides.
Perhaps there il people who don't en-
Wy me all this, but it IL n Ov the sharp
cut, well-defined joys of mi life, mi luv
for babys and their luv for me.
Perhaps there IL people who call it a
weakness. don't care what they call
it, bring on the babys. UnkIe Josh haz
a kind word and a kiss for the
L luv babys for the truth there il in
them, i amt afraid there kiss will be-
me-, there liz no frauds, ded beats
nor cOunterfeits amung them.
1 wish i was a baby mot only once
nore) but forevermoTe.
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line leaving this valley

southeast corner enters the beautiful
and fertile valley of Toluea and draws
the trade of Monca, a city Of thirty thou
sand inhabitants. TOluca Valley sends
four hundred and fifty thousand head
of hogs annually to Mexico, which by
the last official census, 1870, is a city Of
two hundred and forty thousand in
habitants.
1.-THE line reaching the city Of Mexico
will connect with the Mexican (and
Vera CRUZ railway, which will be
finished to this city by the close of this
year.
with the construction of the line we
have reeonnoitered, and that hence to
Vera Cruz, the most populous portion Of
Mexico will be opened for the first
time to commerce hitherto almost for
hidden by the cost and slowness of
transportation even in the dry season,
and quite so in the rainy season.
General Rosecrans has only to await
the action of Congress at the coming
session in September, which, with the
present enlightened Presidentdd interim
Mr.. LerdO, will doubtless do all that is
necessary to assure u capitalists Of the
national good viii and of the safety Of
investments in this great work.
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THACKERAY As A SNOWMAN.

Years ago, when Thackeray was de-
ivering his lectures on "The Georges
and the " English Wits and Humorists''
to large audiences in a Southern city, he
asked q distinguished literary man what
chance of success there would be in a
certain other city not many miles away.
81 really don't know, Mr.. Thackeray,n
was thereby. "Inever succeeded there.
But L am nobody, and you are a great
gun; it seems to me you ought to sue
coed anywhere. Still, 1 cannot con-
scientiOusiy advise you to make the at
tempt; you might possibly fail. and lay
the blame on me.n After some reflec-
ton, he added; Perhaps if you were
% make a special lecture, compounded
of the best and most diverting parts of
two or more of your series, you might
draw a tolerably good house. But wiz
not guarantee anything
Thackeray thought the matter over,
accepted the suggeitiOn, made up the
compound lecture, .&vertised. .'billed
the town" and went over.
On his return his friends met him at
the ears, and, after the usual greeting,
said, "Well, sir, how did you make
Out9'
"OhD said Thackeray merriIy, al
have been playing the mountebank for
s%ixpence."
What do you mean by that2N
"The night, you know, was a wretch
ed one; the audience was thin, not above
fifty or sixty persons, and u more quiet
and absolutely sober set j neYer attempt
ed to entertain. [ did my best, but so
profound was their respcet-their awe,
II raaVr uuEr-nf mo 4hgH not "a rnnrwrrrr.
of applause, not a ghost of q smile,
escaped them. SOlemnly, sincerely,
piOusly they stared at me. / do believe
they thought / was preaching a funeral
sermon. At the close of the lecture /
fully expected a committee to ONE fOr-
ward and request a copy of my obituary
on the Georges for publication in the
morning paper, and I felt disappointed
that the dOOrkeeper did not stop me as
[ went out to put Grape on my arm and
a weeper on my hat. 1t vas truly a
and refreshing season.
''The next morning. after paying my
Advertising bills and the hotel charges,
I found L had cleared enough to pay my
fare to this place, and five dollars
over. CONCENTRATING myself on this
fact / strobe ~jubilantly down to the
1AeAAAOnf anu "a III LIZ " VI 1N-EEL6 !
IN the train when I felt myself touched
On the back. Turning around, | beheld
a small man with the aspect of a turn
key, who, in no complimentary terms.
made inquiry, Amt you a man by the
name of Thackeray%
"'That is my name, sir
a. Well, didn't you give a show here
last night@
why, yes, I think it was decidedly
4 " show.''f
80 Well, thar's a law inthis town that
my man that gives a show has got TO
)ay five dollars license for a-givin' Nv
he show, and you didn't pay no licenses
md Pm the sargent Nv this town, and
lere's the bill, and you got to pay it
)efore you kin get to git in them keers.'
"This was too good. handed the
ierce little sergeant the five dollars,
,aid my railroad fair out of my own
and So" concluded Thackeray
With a jolly laugh, Il played the
n~ountebank for siXpence, and upon my
lonOr 1 enjoyed it.'