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MEMPHIS.
nietI Under Indictment.

MEMPHIS, March 22.-Luke Paddon,
who murdered Ed. Burr at the French
Garden last summer, died in jail last night
of consumption.
The heaviest snow storm of the season
fell This morning.
Murderer Caught.
ST. LOUIS, March 22.-John O'Neill,
charged with aiding in the robbery and
murder of a man named Atchison some
wo miles from Memphis last January,
was arrested here to-day and left for Mem
phis this evening.
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nifcent watch chain by the officers Of tie
boat.
The Emma Floyd, from Cincinnati, is
expected tonight or tomorrow.
1t was reported in Louisville the other
day that the CameIa would probably be in
trOduced in the Upper Cumberland trade,
and that Capt. Milt Aiken and jim Elsby
could be secured as pilots. The report is
not believed, as the CaInelia is doing well
on the Tennessee river.
The Ella Hughes departs for the head of
the river this evening at ? o'clock, in com
mand of Capt. 5. ?. Mcclure, with w. s.
RnWman in the nffiPp
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CINCINNATI.
The southern RAILROAD.

CINCINNATI, March pa Frankfort
special to the Chronicle says the amend
ment to the Southern Railroad passed the
Senate by vote Of 10 to IA. 1t removes
all the restrictions and taxes upon the road
except the Holt amendment, which requires
q tov Y1pOn fraioht
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CAIRO, March 22.-ATived, Tyrone f-pm
Nashville at p. m. The river has fal'sn 8
inches. Weather cloudy. Thermo7neter
80.
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ELLA HUGHES,

Tor POINT ISABEL
e The fns light-drausht : -ai5FEsA, =
pnaaarlnnr SEaar,a- -----l----- -. =
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lila a LtIHE18,
S. P. MCGUIRE, Master, ". S. BOWMAN, Clerk
will leave as above on SATURDAY, the Sd
inst, 1T O'Clock Pm For freight OF passage ap-
ply on board or to g. II. Arthur & Co.
Agents mh22 %
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NASHVILLE And CAIRO PACKET Co


STEAMERS
Tyrone, John Lumsdea and Talisnans
ONE OF THESE FINE STEAMERS WILL
~ leave Nashville every
Monday, wednesday and FrIaay az A
O'Clock p. m.s
connecting with boats at Cairo for Saint I,Ouis,
Memphis, Napoleon, Yieksburg, Red River and
New Orleans, and also connecting with the ILL
nOis Central Railroad at Cairo for Chicaaa and
all points out in the Far West taking frN and
seeOnd-class passengers at very reduced rates.
First-clRss Tickets 20 the following points,
including State Rooms, without meals
10 81 LOUIS. ....--...s..-.sss-......S10 90
SauO-,. .s.-'.'s.. ...sss.-..s.-...... %
Aiehipnls..- ...........s...-......... Oe
BecOnd-eEass DcEeIs 70 the following
points;
10 81. LOUIS. s.......s................s6 &C
OaHV- ..s-s---.s ...s-s-s..-sssss..... u
meMpnls--. ...-..s-s....--s...s....s %
The JOHN LUMSDEN, Davis, Master, lesyegI
on Mondays. at Pm.
The TYRONE, Hartman, Master, leaves on
Wednesdays at 4 P, N.
The TALISMAN, Simms, Master, leaves on
Fridays at 4 P. ".
All Of the above Steamers are IN ina order
and have tine accommodations.
- The Steamer Tyrone is the same as a new
boat In every particular. She has new boilers
and her hull Is new one having been built en-
tirely new this last fan at Padueah, XIV ThersI
Is now plenty water in Cumberland river.
For freight or passage, apply On board or 10
Q. u. ARTHUR g Co.
~ and AZ Front street
dee4 HARRISON q SON.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-09-26

TO WHOM ASSESSED.
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The American Cardinal.

In various churches of Europe there
may be seen suspended from the ceiling
large, faded scarlet hats, from which de-
pend tassels trayed and worn by time
and corrosion, covered with dust and
tensuted by moths. If the curious spec
tator observes more closely these decay
ing memorials, he will notice that they
hang over richly sculptured tombs, on
which are kneeling marble figures, whose
attitudes OF humility contract almost
sardonically with the coats OF arms, the
mitres and even the princely emblems
with which sepulchres are adorned.
Sometimes no carved tomb is visible,
but on the pavement lies well-worn
slab, with monumental brass upon it,
in whose unyielding outlines may be
traced the portrait of some pious prelate
long since dead the clasped hands and
priestly robes implying the sanctity
which attaches to the name of him who
lies sleeping in the crypt below.
Often these scarlet hats, worn and de-
cayed and moih-eaten, are almost inVisi-
BILE in the dark corners of family chapels,
or il gloomy Transcripts where the SUM-
IlgnL never IailS OuI III otHSi OaSSS IhOg J
hang in the full effulgence OF vast rose
windows, where the rich colors of the
painted glass impart their gay hues to
the tattered semblems OF ecclesiastical
rank. The cicerone points them out
with pride. "rhere," says he, sis the
hat of the cardinal who died two hun
dred years ago and notwithstanding
the sarcophagus on which lies arecumb'
ent effigy with its hard, marble face up
turned towards the light" here is bis
tomb"
Many, very many of the most earest,
ambitious men OF the Romish Church
reach the tomb, however, before they
wear the cardinals hat. 1t is, in fact,
only few who can aspire to that exalted
hierarchy. They owe the title and its
privileges to the grace of the reigning
pontiff. and the confirmation of his nom
ination by the Sacred College. AT the
present moment this body is composed
almost exclusively of Italians, and the
prominent churchmen of other nationali
ties. aided at times by government IN
fusnce. have of late been n:S'"s .he
pun :. -.-i.S aominations from else
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INDIAN IDOLS IN IowA.-The Dubuque
Timer says that, at the base Of what is known
as Capitola Bluff, seven miles from Lansing,
there is an Indian idol manufactured out of the
solid rock, which has stood there, no one can
tell how many centuries, but which must soon
be removed TO make room for the coming rail-
road At little distance, the idol resembles
huge bear reposing upon its launches The
strange and uncouth object is still held in the
utmost veneration by all Indians, and the va
rious bands, as they pass up and down the river,
invaribly stop and endeavoy to propitate the
idol with liberal presents of tobacco, strings Of
gaudy colored beads, pieces OF dried buffalo
tongue, etc. There it sits at the base of the
bluff, mute and solemn, looking out with ex.
pressionlcss eyes over the bosom of the mighty
river that murmers at its feet, never mourning,
never speaking, like another sphynx. The
ground whereon the idol reposes is wanted for
the road-bed and the silent, expressionless god,
whose brow has been bathed in the morning
sunlight of so many centuries, must fall But
a short distance from this is a smaller idol,
which has evidently been on the side of the
Bluff, but by some convulsion of nature was
overturned centuries ago, and pitched into the
river. During high water it is completely coy
ered, but in low water the head and part of the
body are distinctly visible.
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ASHTABULA, OHIO, SATURDAY, MARCH 0, 1872.

quor and where they smoke kind OF
tobacco which is almost free from nico.
tine, or the peculiar poison in tobacco.
On the other hand, insanity is frightfnlly
increasing in Europe, just in proportion
TO the increase in tie use of tobacco.
II appears that from 1880 to 1892 the
revenues from the import on tobacco in
France rose from fl, ,25O, 900 to es,s3s,.
333--a tremendous figure certainly 10
have disappeared from the pockets oil
the people into smoke. But hand in
hand with the increase in the consump.
tion OF tobacco, there appears to have
been during the same period an augmen.
:ation of the number of lunatics in
France frcm 5000 to $4,000, or rather
10000, If we take into account other
lunatics.
If one-tenth the alleged evils of to.
bacco smoking be facts, the entire hu-
man race must be seriously injured by
the "Indian weed !" for it appears that
the average annual consumption by the
whole human race OF 1000, ,000, 900 is at
least 20 ounces -four pounds six ounces)
per head, and the total quantity annually
consumed is 100000 tons, or 4,4sO ,OOO,-
600 pounds wight.
1t is, however, to the young that the
evil of smoking is likely to be the most
disastrous. Whatever benefit may be
derived from smoking in maturity and
old age, it is obvious that the young can
not need the fictitious aid of narcotic.
Parents should look to this, and prevent
the most deplorablc physical or moral
consequence OF the habit OF their child.
ren. Many young man dates the ruin
Of his health back to the first Whit OF
tobacco, which. ly dint OF the nauseous
practice, he was az length able to smoke,
in the foolish imitation of manhood.
That smoking must impair the digestion
and impair the nervous system of the
young seems certain, and that it may
lead to drunkenness or excess in drink is
more than probable, from the thirst which
it necessarily occas ons
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SELECT POETRY.
Aunt Tabitha.
ny OLIVER WENDELL HoLrss.

Whatever do and whatever say,
Aunt Tabitha tells me that isn't the way;
When she was girl forty summers ago,
Aunt Tabi tha tells me they never did 50.
Dear Aunt II only could take her advice
But like my own way, and find it SO nice
And besides l forget half the things / am
told;
But they all will come back to me-when l
am old.
II youth passes by, it may happen, no doubt,
He may chance to look in as | chance to look
out;
She would never endure an impertincnt stare ;
1t is horrid, she says, and must not sit there.
A walk in the moonlight. has pleasures, 1
own,
But II isn't quite safe TO be safe walking alone,
SO take IA lads urm-just for safety, you
know
But Aunt Tabitha tells me they didn't do SO.
How wicked we are, aud how good they were
They kept at arms length those detestable
What an era OF virtue she lived in--but stay
Were the men all such rogues in Aunt Tab-
lha's duy
If the men were SO wicked I'll ask my papa
How he dared to propose 10 my darling ma
ma;
Was he like the rest of them Goodness Who
knoWsy
And what shall say, if wretch should pro-
poser
l am thinking if Aunt knew so little of sin,
What wonder Aunt Tabilhas aunt must
have been
And her grand-aunt-it scares mellow
shOckingly sad
That We girls ol to-day are 30 frightfully bad !!
A martyr will save us, and nothing else can;
Let HE perish-io rescue some mrctched young
mani
Though when to the altar victim TO,
Aunt Tabilha II tell me she Eever did sol
Atlantic Ao,,thlv for March,
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No BONES IN THE OCEAN.-Mr. Jeffery
has established the fact that bones disap-
pear in the ocean. BY dredging it is
common to bring up teeth, but rarely
ever bone of any kind these, how
ever compact, dissolve, if exposed to
the action of the water but little time.
On the contrary, teetb-which are not
bones any more than whales are tish-re-
sist the destroying effect of the sea-wa-
ter indefinitely. 1t is, therefore, pow
ertul solvent. Still the popular opinion
it that it is brine. If such were the case,
the bottom of all seas would, long ago,
have been Swallowed by immense ac-
eumulation of carcases and produces OF
the vegetable kingdom constantly float
ing into them.
Dentine, the peculiar material of which
teeth are formed, and enamel covering
them, offering extraordinary resistance
to those che agencies which resolve
other animal remains into nothingness.
Mnuads in the west, tumuli in Europe
and Asia, which are believed 10 antedate
sacred history for thousands OF years,
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FRANKLiN's WIFE.-To promote her
husbands interest, she attended in his
little shop, where she bought rags, sewed
pamphlets, folded newspapers, and sold
the Jew articles in which he dealt, such
as ink, papers, lampblack, blanks, and
other stationery. AT the same time she
was an excellent housekeeper, and be-
sides being economical herself, taught
her somewhat careless, disorderly hus-
band TO be economical also Sometimes,
Franklin was clothed from head to foot
in garments which his wife had both
woven and made, and tor long time
she performed all the work of the house
without the assistance of servant.
Nevertheless, she knew how to be
liberal at proper times. Franklin tells
us that tor some years after his marriage,
his breakfast was bread and milk, which
they ate out Of a two-penny earthen YES
sci, with a pewter spoon ; but one morn
ing, on going down to breakfast, he
found upon the table beautiful China
bowl, from which his bread and milk
was steaming, with silver spoon by its
side which had cost sum equal i'll our
currency to $40. When he expressed his
astouishment at this unwonted splendor,
Mrs. Franklin only remarked that she
thought her husband deserved a silver
spoon and China bowl as much as any
of his neighbors.
Franklin prospered in his business un-
til he became the most famous editor
and fourishing printer in America, which
gave him the pleasure of relieving his
wife from the cares of business, and en-
abled him to provide for her spacious
and we'll furnished abode. She adorned
a high station as well as she had borne
a lowly one, and presided at her hus
bands liberal table as gracefully as when
he ate bis breakfast of bread and milk
from two-penny bowl.
I'arto,s's Life of Franklin
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explained bis views to the comnandant
A howitzer was selected and strapped
upon an ambulance mule, with the mus.
zle pointed toward the tail. When they
had secured the gun, and loaded it with
ball cartridge, they led that calm and
steadfast mule out on the bluff, and set
up target in the middle of the river 10
practice at.
The rear Of the mule was turned to-
ward the target, and be was backed
gently up TO the edge Of the bluff. The
officers stood around in semi-circle,
while the major went up and inserted a
time-fuse in the toUch-hole Of the how
itzer. When the fuse was ready, the
major lit it and retired. In minute or
two, the hitherto unruffled mule
heard the fizzing back there on his neck.
and it made him uneasy. He reached
his head around to ascertain what was
going on, and, as lie did so, his body
turned and the bowitzer began to sweep
around the horizon. The mule at last
became excited, and his curiosity grew
more and more intense, and in a second
or two he was standing with four legs
in a bunch, making six revolutions a
minute, and the howitzer understand,
threatening sudden death to every man
within half mile. The commandant
was observed to climb suddenly mp a
tree; the lieutenants were seen sliding
over the bluff into the river, as if they
didn't care at all about the high price of
uniforms; the adjutant made good time
toward the fort the sergcnt began to
throw up breastworks with his bayonet,
and the major rolled over the ground
and groaned. In two or three minutes
there was a puff of smoke, dull thud,
aud the mule-oh, where was ne? A
solitary jackass might have been seen
turning successive back somersaults over
the bluff, only TO rest at an anchor, final.
IL, with his howitzer at the bottom ot
the river, while the ball went off toward
the fort, hit the chimney in the majors
quarters, ratified the adobe bricks down
into the parlor and frightened the ma.
jor's wife into commissions. They do not
allude to it now, and no report Of the
results of the experiment was ever seht
to the war department..
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A. T. STEWARDS PALAcE-Stewart's
marble building, on Fifth avenue, which
he has erected for house, is approach
ing completion. 1t is nearly flushed,
and will be ready for occupancy early in
the spring. 1t is, without question, the
most superb private residence in the
country. 1t has cost three millions,
without the furniture. The most cele-
brated artists have been three years in
trcscoing the ceilings. The trescoes are
unequaled, except those i'll the Prince AL
bert ballroom at Buckingham Palace.
The style of the building has been
adopted, because Stewart intends to DO
nate it to the city tor gallery when he
gets through with it. 1t is a sepulchral
place, with its stone floors and stone
stairs, nay, requiring fire in summer
and winter to keep 1t ha6itable. Mrs.
Stewards room is an exception. The
wood work on her suite alone cost SI6,-
900. Every room has carpet imported
and made to fit, and the color of each
room is different. The doors are solid
rosewood with silver trimmings, and it
cost 5000 to hang each door in the parlor.
The picture gallery is complete. Several
of the pictures cost over $4,000. The
two most celebrated are "The Prodigal
Son" and "The New England Thanks
giving Dinner" The water works are
marvels of elegance and of ingenious
contrivance. Alter The parlors, the two
most celebrated rooms in the house are
"Gen. Grants room," which is fitted up
with great elegance, for Mr.. Stewart and
the President are great friends /; then
comes the servants parlor." That is
fitted up more gorgeously than any gen
tIeman's parlor in the city. Curtains
mirrors, imported carpets, elegant chairs
covered with red leather, and pictures
adorn the room, Huge ranges, and
every conceivable modern convenience
can be found in the kitchen. The doors
are barred against visitors generally, and
the house when done is not to be put OIL
exhibition.
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The Organ Blower.
~ OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.


Devoutest Of my Sunday friends,
The patient organ blower bends
! see his figure sink and rise,
(forgive me, heaven my wandering eyes n
n moment lost the next half SEEN
Ills head above the scanty screen,
Still measuring out his deep salaams
through quavering hymns and painting psalms.
No priest that prays in gilded stole,
10 save rich mans mortgaged soul
no sister fresh from holy vows,
80 humbly stoops so meekly bows;
lis large obeisance puts to shame
The proudest genunecting dame,
Whose Easter bonnet low descends
with all the grace devotion lends.
o brother with the supple spine,
How much we owe those bows of thinei
without thine arm to lend the breeze
How vain the finger on the keys
Though all unmatched the players skill
ihose thousand thrOats were dumb and still;
AnOtbers art may shape the tone,
Tue breath that fills ii is thine own.
Six days silent Mammon waits
Behind his temples folded gates;
But when the seventh days sunshine falls
Inc rainboWd windows on the walls
lie breathes, he sings, he shouts, he fills
The quayering air with rapturous thrills;
The roof resounds, the pillars shake,
And all the slumbering echoes wake
The Preacher from the bible.text
with weary words my soul has yexed
Some stranger, tumbling far stray
10 hnd the lesson for the day.
lie tells us truths too plainly true,
And reads the service all askeW-
Wby-why the-mischef-cant he lock
Beforehand i'll the service-boeki
But thou, with decent mien and face,
Art always ready in thy place;
| Thy strenuous blast whate'er the tune,
As steady as the strong monsoon;
hy only dread leathcTy creek,
Or small residual extra squeak,
TO send along the shadowy asles
sunlit wave Of dmpled smiles.
Not all the preaching my friend,
Comes from the church's pulpit end
Not all that bend the knee and bow
Yield service half SO true as thou!
One single task performed Alright
With slender Skill but all thy might,
Where honest labor does its best,
And leaves the player all the rest
This many -diapasoned maze,
Through which the breath OF being strays,
whose music makes our earth divine,
Has work for mortal hands like mine
Ny duty lies before me. Lo,
the lever there Take hold and bowl
And He whose hand is on the keys
viii play the tune as He shall please
January Old and Net0.
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Tobacco's Work.

According to the statements of DR..
Rubio, the number of lunatics is much
greater in the northern countries, where
the consumption of spilituous liquors
and the use of tobacco is much greater
than in southera countries where the
people are very sober, and small smokers.
According to Mr.. Moreau, not single
case of paralysis is seen in Asia minor,
where there is no abuse of alcoholic Ii
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Mule ARTILLERY.
JOHN PHGNfx.

Out in certains Western fort some
time ago, the major conceived the idea
that artillery might be used effectively
in fighting with the Indians by dispens-
ing with gun carriages and fastening the
cannon upon the bacl'" ID muies. So he
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where. Twenty.iour vacancies exist in
the cardinals. Plus TX. has, during his
long pontifcate, created very large
number Of cardinals, Of whom forty-one
have died.
1t is reported that the new cardinals
will he selected from the priesthood or
episcopate Of Germany, Austria and
Portugal; and it is intimated that the
list will include one American. This
distinction, so highly priced by the &C.
clesiastics of the Roman Catholic
Church, has been several times held be.
fore the eyes Of men prominent in the
American branch OF the church. 1t was
intended, it is ayerred, for Archbishop
Hughes, and would certainly have been
conferred on Archbishop Spalding had
not death, less dilatory than Plus TX,
claimed these men. 1t is the cardinals in
the Sacred College who elect the Pope, q
the Italians who wear the scarlet hat are
ever opposed to the nomination Of for
eigners TO share that honor with them.
In the present case, however, it is be-
lieved that the Pope will yield to outside
influence, and select among his new car
clnals men from northern nations.
Now that Archbishop Spalding is
dead, it is difficult to say who is the
American ecclesiastic designed for the
cardinals rank. The Archbishop Of
New York, as ruling over the most inn
portant diocese i'll the country, may re-
ceive the honor ; and the names of I}ish-
op Lynch and Bishop Bayley have also
been mentioned IN this connection. But
it should be remembered that there are
many prelates in Mexico and in South
America who are eligible to the honor,
and to one of them it may be awarded,
The present pontiff is man of marvel
lous memory, which years have not i'm
paired. He knows the names, at least.
of the occupants of all the episcopal sees
throughout the world. From early as
sociations he takes special interest in
the South American bishops, and it is
highly probable that in the distribution
of ecclesiastical honors he will remember
them.
OF the vast numbers of cardinals who
for centuries past have worn the gor-
geous purple robes and the sapphire ring
of their office and lorded it with maoni-
ficent grandeur over their subordinates.
comparatively few stand forth promi-
nen!ly i'll the light of history. When
one mentions Pole and Wolsey and Rich
elieu and Mazarin, the list OF those
whose fame is worldwide is exhausted
In the ranks of literature and theology
there are, however, many great names !;
while to speak, OF Mezzotanti is 10 recall,
perhaps, the greatest linguist the world
has known. Antonelli stands forth to-
day as the type OF the modern political
cardinal--a "A man who, in years gone by,
when the terrors OF the church were
really feared, might have been Richie
lieu. Yet, as a general thing, the cata-
logue of great cardinals is not commen-
surate with the list of insignificant ones.
Perhaps 1t is reserved for the coming
American cardinal to shed iustre on the
office; and in years to come, the verger
of the Fifth avenue cathedral may point
out to the curious tourist a decaying
scarlet hat, pendent from the fretted
nave, as an interesting memorial of
man who in his day and genertion did
the church some service.