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Ffghting the Ashaatses In the Bush.
Bang. bang. hang, roll after roll Of smoke,
and all get into the strangeet, moot weird, and
visible sU enemies. 81 oar good MSa.ss. asome
tans) bold a. men need be, are wild also. They
fancy that they see In every bush foe. No
before them. than with Q wild shrek, "Pish,
Ashantee." and glaring eye, mp goes the Snider,
and that latest product of civilization in these
after volIey high into the air. Nothing wilder,
nothing more ungovernable by mortal man.
nothing more impossible to describe, than the
Houssa interpreter was shot in the first few mo-
nents. Hardly any communication was posi-
BILE between the offices and them, or but by q
stick sharply brought down before them at
times upon their kn1ckles. when their zeal for
the employ me Mt of the weapon had reached the
point OF utter Indifference to the object aimed
at. Who shall say all the risks that were run
that day BY officers or men from friendly shots
in that all-concealing bush? Whatever danger
there may have been from shots from the foe
a Leaf % nee IN seemns fenfoa Sy the
sible to judge whether the Ashantees had been
driven back or not, but at length, at all events,
it w was evident they had Yielded some what
Charters were able, on the cessation of the
rocket fire to enter the village of Essmen, no
one was in ii but little child, afterwards take
care of by one Of the officers 1t was about
half-past in the morning. A Gordon of SEN
tries was thrown round, and the weary force
biv0uacked and ate SUCH food as they had In
field outside the village, where some little
shade could be obtained from surrounding
bushes fifteen feet or more high. The village
had been set on fire. The flashes and explosions
ofthe powder stored In almost every house, aud
the blazing of the rum created a light and heat
that were perceptitle even under the blazing
sun. Nothing had been reno ved by the Ash an
tees, in the firm belief that it would be impossi-
BILE for white men to reach it. The heat was
now becoming every moment more intense, te-
ribie as it had been throughout all these opera
lions. In about an hour the march was
resumed. Scarcely had 1t commenced when
parties of Ashantees again made their presence
in the bush felt by firing on the column. They
were, however, Immediately driven back, and
shortly afterwards the march was again de-
layed for a short time in q village ruined in the
native war OF 1870. When again it was resumed
it may be judged with what relief all passed
along pathway shaded over by overarching
branches which partly broke the intense sever
ity of the sun. After march without incident,
the sea-beach was reached near Amquana
The village was found deserted, but the stores
of powder and rum had not been removed, and
the whole was soon blazing, spur ting, cracking,
and sending off bursts Of deep black smoke
which were, like those of Essaman, visible for
miles along the coast.-Correspoaden Of the
| London DutlV Necs.
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EON.Nvfha-

In Offering a slight contribution to compare
tive mythology, and to knowledge OF the Jap
anese people, We cannot do better than describe
the foS-myths which are such charac teristic
productions of Japan.
In japanese literature the fox is as standard
an element as is the fairy in our Aryan lore. In
the grave volumes of what calls itself history
and in the tiny novelette, and stOry-book for
children the exploits of the fox are described
his character portrayed and his evil influence
deprecated. In comic, serious, didactic, amor
Gus and moral literature the foxes appear in
every guise and in every condition in life; now
welding baleful power, and playing harmless
practical jokes, and rarely exerting benefi
cent influence. Picture books and the pictori-
al broadsides 90 common in japan represent the
seven ages of Reynard-his birth, boyhood,
marriage, prime, old age, death and burial,
with his tomb. The fox's courtship is favor
lite subject oil the popular artists. Beginning
with the gay and festive young Kitsune, or as
two lovely lady foxes, the melter Of his heart
and her maid. 1t passes up through all the stages
Of "stern parents" anxious m smmas, the we'd
ding, bridal wells. presents and welded bliss to
happy divorce or a good old age.
Again, the fox appears as troubler Of dOmes-
tic bliss. Many astory is told of a fox trans
wooed and won by q Japanese lover and mar
ritd. Husband and wife live happily together,
and children are born to bless their union. Sud-
denly things begin to go wrong The husband
begins to suspect the truth, and one day is thun.
derstruck at seeing his wife and all his children
turn into foxes and scamper away to disappear
In their holes among the tombs. l have heard
that their exists an illustrated book which rep
resent young man setting out on journey
and met by fox who appears as his tempter
throughout, Transforming himself into all man
Der of alluriDg and frightful shapes. Through
all these various forms of evil the youth man
ages to pas saNiy, sometimes by learning, some
times by fnesse, sometimes by courage, till,
becoming Buddhist priest, he secures victory
and rest by cutting off the fOx's head. The re-
semblance Of all this to the general outline of
Bunyan's immortal allegory needs no comment
From "Jopanese For Myth, "in Lippineotts Wag-
dEine for January, 1874.
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A BAND OF MASKED MsN PLUMBER A
HoUsR.-EleveD masked robbers on Monday
night gained entrance to the house Of Mr.. j.
Enmet, at Pelham, near New Rochelle, NY,
handcuffed the family and ransaeked the house
Drawers, bureaus and desks were broken open,
ard failing to obtain the key OF the safe, where
they supposed money was to be found, the rob-
beers attempted to blow it up. They were able,
after working three hours and q half, to max e
a hole three inches in diameter, and through
this they removed the few valuables IL con-
tanned. Taking such plate, jeweiry and money
as they could lind, and some articles Of clothing
they left the house about six O'Clock Tuesday
morning. The value of the articles stolen does
not exceed $50. As coon as the Emmets were
able to free themselves the alarm was given,
and quite large party started In search OF the
robbers. Tracing them to the shore, they found
q number OF boats tied to the pier, which 1t is
believed belonged to them. The tide having
fallen, these were fast in the mud, and the OWE
ers had been obliged to make their return trip
along the shore. For some distance they were
easily traced by numerous articles dropped q
Of no value. A negro upon Peter Van Court
landte place stated that h. saw q number Of
men paGs about " O'Clock, but beyond this Z o
trace was found.
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TESTING MKDIuM.-There is a gentleman
in BiDghampton who desired a communication
from his deceased uncle, and recently took
measures, as he hoped, to secure one. He
bought folding slate, fastened it to-
gether with screws and sealinR-wax, so that
no mortal hand could impose upon him by
writing on the inside, and went to New
York, where he presented himself to DIR. b. =,
a famous medium. The doctor and the
Binghamton gentleman seated themselves BY a
table, the uncle gave his consent to the inter-
view, and the slate was passed under the table
TO the shade of the old gentleman, who was low
ly minded, and preferred to sit at the feet Of the
medium. pencil was heard scribling over the
slate, and in due time 1t was handed back. As
the inscription was supposed to be on the in
side. the document remained sealed until the
Binghamton gentleman arrived home, and was
in the presence Of his family. Then he found
that his precautions had been effectual, and
that no mortal hand, or any other hand, had
written in his slate. 1t Is not because he enter
tains any hard feeling toward his uncle now
that he proposes TO break off corresponding
with him, but 1t is because he does not like
the postal system between bis gncle's country
and this.--Binghamt0a Republicans.
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CARBoLIo ACID Not DIsINrKcrANT.-The
Southern cities that have suffered from yellow
fever, or been threatened with it, this fall have
of course, resorted to q profuse use of disinfec-
tants. Principal among those used has been
aibolic acid, which. according to popular con-
sent, Is the most effective Of all the remedies
O. ainst infection. Now, however, Prof. Coch-
ran, of the Alabama Medical College, writes
long letter to the Mobile Register, In which the
efficacy of carbolic acid is questioned-nay,
more, condemned as being conducive to the
spread Of disease rather than its suppression.
The Professor says, after watching the effects OF
its use in the hospitals OF Mobile and New
Orleans: Not only do the facts and examples
adduced in proof fail to establish the efficacy OF
carbOlic acid as prophylactic against yellow
fever. but without any violence, and without
any 'sophistical Interpretation, they 90 very far
toward the establishment of the suspicion that
its influence has been the very reverse of pro
phylactic; that If 1t has not contributed to in
crease the extension OF the disease 1t has at least
added to its maligLity and increased the NOR
tality to fearful ratio. The experiment has
been made, and it has failed; 80 it is due to
the cause of truth and sanitary e zee, and the
interests of the public health herr Ter, that no
false and misleading estimate of what 1t has &C.
complish edshould be allowed to fasten itself on
the public mind.
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A HORRIBLE DEATH occurred to . young un-
married man, laborer, named Murphy, Who
Was In the employ Of Spang, Chalfant & Co.,
proprietors Of the Isabells Furnace, in the
wss his duty 70 put the metal into the furnace,
and to do this IL was necessary for him to stand
upon platform elevated some distance from
the ground floor. While he and . companion
were In the oct Of putting some material into
the furnace some part of the stack gave way,
and young Murphy fell In, and before he could
be rescued was burned to Q crisp. When taken
out he WIS horribly mutilated corpse.
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A HUSBANDS GHosT.-For wife to De driven
from home by her husband Is nothing uncom-
mon, but the husband who does 1t Ia generally
q live one. Mrs. Sherman, Of Buffalo, has, it is
said, been obliged to leave her residence by the
unwelcome visits of her dead spouse. Mr.. b.
f. Sherman was agent of the American express
company, and died from apoplexy. He had oc-
cupied comfortable apartments over the Office
and the company permitted the widow to retain
them. One evening Mrs. Sherman was startled
10 hear the footsteps of her hush and the stairs
He walked invisibly into the room, sat upon the
bed and pulled of his invisible boots. She
didn't wait, but fled; but after making mp her
mind that her imagination had cOnjured up the
scare, she returned to her room. The next eve
ming the same thing was repeated, and the men
in the house plainly heard the footsteps of the
departed man on the stairs. Friends who were
his sitting on the bed and pulling OF his boots.
Mrs. Sherman has gone else where to sleep.
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ONE MORNING not long ago, Mr.. Samuel
Shaw: "Susan, get up and kindle Q FIRE." "Get
up and kindle it YOURSELF" said Susan. "No,
dsmphi DO" said Samuel. And then they
thirty SIX hours longer. At the expiration OF
that time, Susan craWled out in search Of mess
a I,anua
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Peabody's paper on Fires in American cities,
in the International Review for January, takes
the ground that the general adoption Of the in
surance system has weakened the feeling Of
alarm about nre, and has lessened the DISPOSE
ton to take precautions. People do not really
mean to defraud the companies, but they feel 20
much easier about their property that they in
sensibly neglect precautions which they would
have taken II they were their own insurers
Insurance. renders people careless who could not
AND Wcrid not Tor world be deliberate crimi-
naD. Ire renult however, Is the same as IL
lives cylinder shelter Of an adequate insurance
policy many persons contentedly leave their
buildings or heating apparatus In what they
needed repairs. Il am insured, there i no
need Of haste u often said and much oftener
thouRhtr
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D0The Albino children who have been ex-
hibited around the country so often, were
drowned in Kansas last week.
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4 test case u said 10 BE preparing in Chi
cago, IN which man 10 charged with refusing
consequence, sndAnsering the lives and health
Of his neighbors.
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n|"Are you a burglar. sir? m M. do NOT
come in, as am ali Alone" said a Somervilie
lMass servant girl. when q man called, the
other day.
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BANKERS.

NATi0EAL BANK OF THE RyPUBLIO,
~ UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY,
Southwest cor. 18th and sta W ashi ngton, D. q,
Collections made on all parts Of the Unied States,
PROMPT attention given 20 all business before the
Departments Of The Government. Capital, SaD,0p:
sGrplns fgnd, Slo,DQ. FITZHUGH O0YLE,
ShAs. bkADLkf, Cashier. IOctH-t1 Pref-
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VI No. els SEVENTH STREET,
OPPOSITE TIE Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
Bask hours: q. m. TO- .. m. Saturdays, open
Until D. m, 70 receive deposits only.
Interest paid on deposits. OoIlectisns made, and
JOHN HITZ, President, A. ERERLY, " Presr
WF.MATTlhGLf,s Bee ,O.E. PRENTfSs, 0ashr.
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A Murder by Indians.

A most horrible outrage occurred near Camp
Supply, about sixty miles FIR m Fort Dodge, one
day last week, that for brutality and cruelty
has not been equaled since the days of Craw-
ford and the early Indian troubles. The perpe-
traitors OF the fendish act were Kiowas, who,
for some time past, have been causing consid-
cradle trouble in and around their reservation.
From A. G. Hanback,, route agent on the
AtchisOn, Topeka and Santa Fe road, we gath
seems that party Of English tourists arrived
at Camp Supply a few DAYS ago for the purpose
OF engaging in buffalo hunt. At Camp Sup
ply they purchased a complete outfit necessary
to carry on the hunt for several days, and hired
wagon and team, with boy seventeen wears
old as driqer. After being out several days
the boy hack to the town for another supply,
expecting that he would easily make the
trip in three or four days at furthest,
the distance being about thirty miles.
The allotted time had passed, and day longer,
and the hunters, becoming uneasy at his ex-
tended absence, started back for Camp supply
Here nothing had been seen or heard of him
since the departure OF the party. A party of
hunters and scouts was Immediately organized
and set out in search of him, taking the trail
towards the hunting grounds. The second day
out they suddenly came upon the boy. He had
been captured by band Of Kiowas, the wagon
taken apart and piled in a heap, the boy tied
to the stack, and probably burned alive. He
had also been scslped by the brutal towards,
and his charred remains left on the ground
with all the proof of how the devilish act had
been committed. The horses, Of course, were
stolen.
The excitement in and around Fort Dodge is
intense, aud the old hunters and trappers in
that vicinity say that, If the government does
not infict summary punishment upon the in
carnate tiends, trey will take the matter into
their own hands and commence a war of exter-
mination.
Col. Bristol, in command at the fort, say. he
has the 9th infantry and two companies of cav
airy IN readiness, and only awaiting orders from
the War department. The Kiowas have about
1000 warriors on their reservation.-AGinSoR
(kdnSds) Champion, Dec. IL.
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NEW ExPREss LINE VIA CANAL,
PHIi tAeE5R 3 ALLXANpRiA, Va, WASH

SAILING DAYS.
From Pier 4, North wharyes Phil
fHnssIBp hS, WEDNESDAY MES and SAT sE
N From ~ wsteg stree, Georsete~n. ID. O., TUES
This line connects At Philsdeiphia with "Clydes
New England State. 10 wharfage IN Boston by
this line G.F; HYDE, Agent fer d. Of U.
tSLbf W, Phiisdelphia.
WALDO A. PEARCE, 80 Congress street ,Eosson
ders left at General once, COS Pennsylvanis ave-
nue., or at the steamer wharf viii be promptly at
tended 70. apd-tr
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small posss s.nsd ~ Richm c6es holders Of
Confederate war have instituted q suit IN the
circuit court to compel the city to provide for
the payment Of the same. A suit Of this chsr-
acter was two or three years ago carried up to
the U. 8. supreme court, and decided In favor Of
the city, but recent decisions Of high tribunals
have led this sutton to hope now for favorable
result. 1t Is said ten suits of this kind will
soon be commenced. Richmond Enquirer.
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PROHIBITION A FAILURR.-Geo. B. Rich
mond Of New Bedford, Mass, has been nomi-
mated for ono Of the state police commissioners
In place Of Martin Griffip, resigned. In con-
~ am now fully convincedlthat the prohibitory
law as 1t 10 now stands on the statute books Is
detrimental to the cause of temperance, and
that It leads to corruption and ineff Cheney"
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NIKRoHANTs LINE OF STEAMSHIP
WASHINGTON And NEW YORK.
EUNARp LINE.

CoNAhh LiSESor,o .
With the view q diminishing the euaro>- o. cofft-
zion, the Steamers u this Line will, hencefoFfh,
take specified course for all seasons o. the year
On the Outward Passage from y ueeH-to~a 20 New
York or Boston, crossing Meridian of % NJ q Let
or nothing 70 the north ofS.
On the Homevsrd Passage, crossing the Meridian
ofo ct q Lat, or nothing 20 the north Of q. Iyissm
THE BRITISH AND NORTH AMERICAN
ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIPS,
BSTFEEN NEW FORK AND LIrERPo0L,
CALLING AT CORK HARBoR.
Quo. -...--.,Wed, pSs' 81 s.m.ris--.s.s, jan. :
CalsbrfA-- Wed, Jan. Hecla -. sat Dec lC
alssrls.-.--- Med. Jan. u oh mpus Sat, Jan, "
JAWS WE'D, Jan. = Parthis--.sat, Jan 81
And e'ery fo'iSSxins wkpskspAI ana sAruR-
sengers.
R,rKs or PAssAsK.-osbin, ESQ. 600, and siN
Tickets 70 Paris, sls, gold. additional sf<ok
keturn tickets on favorable terms
eteerage, SO, currency.
eteeraee tickets from Liverpool and Queensscvn,
snd All parts OF Europe, at lowest rstes. Through
bills OF ls6lng given 20 Belfast, Glasgow, Havre,
antwerp, and other points the Continent and for
nedfferrsnean ports. Fer freight and cabin pas-
sage, arpy at the mpsnys once, No. Bowling
Sreen; for storage passage, ct No. III Broadway.
OHks. O. FRkNKLYN, Agent, New Yors,
OTIS bIGkL0w, Agent, Once. 6As ID street
novB-n northwest, Washington, ID. o.
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0Alexander the Small Is what yenomous
~etttrn paper calls Mr.. Stephens.
sS-In Oshkosh a mar has hsst TO 70 to prison
Tor two sesrsfo merely killing his wife.
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TEE LITTLE Soul WAS BETTER OYF.-The
Hartford Times has this item: Mr.. Francis
Hale, Of this city, wishes it understood that he
was divorced from his wife last April. She was
allowed the care Of the youngest child. On
Tuesday he went to New Britain, where the
woman was living, having heard that the child
had broken Its leg. He found that IL had died
four weeks ago, the woman's present husban 1
refusing to allow her to notify him.
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are also very delicious, and are made in all re-
spects like the above, substituting the flesh OF
Holsters for an equal amount of the chicken
meat and the green ana white fat coral or roe
for the sweet bread and crumbs.
Excellent croquettes are also made of any
kind of domestic or wild fowl, lamb veal or any
firm fleshed fish. But the daintiest of all, the
croquetts par excellence, is the chicken cro-
quette. Germantown Teleqrdpk,
, 1873-10-28
A Womn,.-I,rcncEaor In Losail.,r.

London Correspondents CthctnaQti Commercial.
Bpl0Efng OF women remtllB nlB to Hny that
on faHt Sunday eyoning Miss Frances Power
Cobbe made hor first appearance III q London
pulpit. Miss Cobbo must be known to most Of
your readers M tho author Of various works Of
high excellence, tho most important boiug her
"1heory of 1ntuitiye Morals" That work
was much admired by Theodore Parker, md it
Icd to correspondence botweon tho famous
Boston proaoEor md 1liaH Cobbo, who after
ward odltod parlsor'a works In this country.
Hiss uobhe belonged to au Irish family Of
high position, and aho Ia porhnps tho first
lady III thib country Of high position md
literary ability who ever took her place outside
horsoff simple TAoiat, Miss Cobbe made d
deep Impression on tho religious world, aud Tor
a time was regarded as III tho vanguard Of
horcsy. hut tho rapid march Of her followers
has gono past tor, and Rhe had to sock her allios
III tho rationRllsto school Of which JHtnes Mar
tinoau IL chlof. Up to to tho period when Mr.
Martineau wau compelled by ill-hoalth to resign
Ills pulpit, MiBB Cobbe was rogular attendant
On his eloquent lninlBtratlons. and she may NOW
bo regarded as at to lohd Of tho - Conservative
ThoiBts" Tho pulpit in which slo appeared
last Sunday was that Of small Unitarian MIS-
sion IN ono OF tho poorest parts Of London
CorkenWell-apd lor sermon was directed to tho
ignorant OF TINT region, whom sl,o aimed to per-
Bllade that tho Supreme Being Ia not tho Police
man Of tho UnlyorHo, which, they may hayo bo-
lleyod him to DO, but q God OF Love. Miss
Oobbe waa listened to with interest but her
many friends preHent had to conclude that she ID
hardly likely to do 30 much good in tile pulpit aa
ghe e1erta through tho sparkling editorials
which she writes daily III tho Echo,
, 1873-10-28

stst11 ti,a4 IT, G,.1 IT" .u!n"pPlu7MT H1u TT II
a,s5en tnat tne o1ark estate ana Messra bchell
a!'d nannoe shonla eesnmo tug load th9maesyeB,
WI mn,pa suey MORO oplieed 70 10. Another story
Ic!atng to tho Lake shoro loan waa to tho effect
tnns tne Conmouoro Bafu that ho hat! not fil-
nnsFoa ;, tnns oohEaslon pnt no would settle 1t IN
n!s own ,', , May. 10 propobod to gtvo, not tho
tnn, c%rt, III. hls hotes' secured W Harlem W. At
'tnroo, ~, ahI nlno months anu doolnrod TINT
no o, woula aaVo tha1 amount or 'lonoy out Of mo
saa sSaaa'angs ,t o. the dIaKe snoro company curing
s,o so h91s g., yxo yoas ~ ~ nnsistco howover thns no
sIiouia ne HeouIoa lor advances mndo III Btook
, 1873-10-28
tion was made known, tho Republican papers Of
the Slate, with fow exceptions, j :.


HEARTILY nE1o1CED.
Thoy rol1ahod It exceedingly, and predicted
that tho tlsastor attending tho movement liz tho
rnont popt1ons county of., tho State would dotor
farmers in other looalltios from modelling In
politicH. Two or tl,roc tays theroaftor, the med,
dleeomo farmers Of Atc'liHon County met, and
put In nomination tic1sot embracing the naneH
Of tic beat mon in that county. Tho farmers
ate gradually coming to tho J., losi at tl'at ~ tho ne:
viii tic task M which tho agricultural classics havo
engaged to perform.
Regarding tho
Of tho Farmers movement In Kansas, thero is
no way now Of definitely estimating It, but
think fully ono-half the nlombors Of tho House
Of Representatives Of tho ne1t Legislature will
pledged to tho protection Of tho industrial
clasaes from Che abuRas and encroaohments Of
monopolios; but the majority Of such 81 mombore
not na dfysn is, %a'n away by he pa1tyas
LoNa RANGE.