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Not the Coming Men.
From the Louisville courier.aourn

From the Louisville Courier-Journal,
Reference has been made by the tele-
graphic dispatches to the development of a
Thurman party in the South. Nothing
could be wider of the mark. There is no
likelihood of there being either a Thurman
party or a Hendricks party IN the South, or
anywhere else, between this and the next
Presidential campaign.
MIR. Thurman is man of sound LAWYER
like abilities and impressive appearance,
yet lacking address; unmagnetic, yet not of
sufficient intellectual stature to overcome
his natural GOODNESS. No party will ever
rally to him. Mr.. Hendricks is likewise
wanting in that sort of electricity which
inspires partisan zeal. Of less force and
culture than MIR. Thurman, he is of kindly
disposition, having opinions certainly, but
opinions colorless and vague. Both Thur
man and Hendricks, as Presidential possi-
billties, must fall between the two condi-
tions Of vigorous rascality and honest, we'll
balanced positivism which will presently
contend for mastery in American politics.
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Not Sufficiently Non-Resistant.

John D. Miles, the Indian Agent, is not
enough of a non-resistant to suit his Quaker
friends. Although a member of their So
ciety, and supposed, therefore, to be always
in favor of peaceabie measures, he sent a
dispatch to the War Department the other
day that sounded warlike. 1t advised the
immediate use of government troops as the
only effective means of quelling the out
break. As a result, the latest telegraphic
advices from Lawrence, Kansas, state that
the Executive Committee of Friends on
Indian Affairs in session at that place, have
adopted series of resolutions which say
that while great allowance is due Mr.. Miles
in consequences of the trying circumstances
in which he was placed, yet the tenor of his
dispatch shows that he is not sufficiently in
harmony with the principle on which work
among the Indians is based, and hence his
resignation of Office is kindly suggested.
Whether Mr.. Miles will see fit to accept the
gentle hint remains to be seen. Judging
from the spirit he manifested when his
scalp was threatened, he must be possessed
of sufficient combative ideas to enable him
to hold on to his office.
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Yard announces that he has an old and re-
liable bunion which he is desirous to ex-
change for more modern sort of barome-
ter that will not get so excited at every lit
tie shower that comes mp.
One evening, after a long and weary
march over the desert, Mahomet and his
followers pitched their tents for the night.
Said one Of the tired men, 81 viii loose my
camel and commit it to God" His master
overheard him and said, s'Frfend, tie thy
camel, and commit to God"
A balloon to hold Sc, 900 feet of gas, and
to be capable of carrying ten persons, is
now being constructed at Barnum's Hip
podrone, n. Y, for the use of Prof. Dom
aldson, in search OF the easterly current
which he believes will carry him to Europe.
We only wish he may succeed in the un-
dertaking.
AN expedition 70 be commanded by
Stanley, the Herd1des famous African cor
respondent, is now being fitted out in Eng
land, to complete the explorations left un-
finished by the death of Livingstone. The
expense Of the expedition will be jointly
borne by the Herald and London Daily Tel
egraph. The undertaking is a great one
and reflects credit upon the newspapers in
terested. Gr
i'm the lumber regions of Maine it is
the custom of the natives, attired in red
shirts and black broadrims, open at the top
for ventilation, to present themselves at the
door of circus, exhibit revolvers, and
want to know If "thems good? ?" If
''them y am not "good," a row ensues,
and the papers chronicle "a terrible slaught-
er of unoffending citizens by a marauding
band Of circus rowdies."
The printers alter Burns so as to make
can honest man the nobbSest work of God.
-Neo Yord Herald. And the editors alter
Pope's best and most quoted couplet,
wits feather a chiefs sod,
An honest mans the noblest work of God.
from the essay ON Man. to the works Of
Burns.--N. Y. Graphic.
And we fail to perceive any improvement
in the beauty of Pope's metaphor by the
Graphic's altering it from "a chiefs rod
to s'a chiefs sod, ? in that same couplet.
Cincinnati Enquirer Next to seeing
a fat woman sitting on the stoop of hel
vine-clad cottage. sewing patch on hel
husbands breeehes, and telling her neigh.
| Dor across the way what she would do il
she was Henry Ward Bcecher, there is nc
sight SO exhilarating III these times of finan.
cial distress as party of young men gath
cred on the green sward in front of board
ing house in the cool Of the evening, batting
with dextrous mallet the bounding spheres
through ferruginous loops as prescribed by
the immortal author Of the noble game Of
croquet.
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Singular Phenomenon.
From the Virginia New Enterprise.

From the Virginia New Enterprise.
A gentleman from Washoe Valley tells as
that during the past week the fishin w ash
oe Lake have nearly all, ifnot all, died. On
the eastern shore of the lake is to be seen a
regular windrow nearly mile in length of
dead fish. They are Of al sizes, from the
smallest ininnow tofish hoyera foot nlength.
Far out over the waters DC the lake tile fisl.
are seen floating belly up. Already great
stencil arises from those that have been
driven ashore on the eastern shore of the
lake by the prevailing southwest winds.
The lake is fully three feet higher than ii
was last year at this time, and its waters
mover looked brighter or purer. No mills
about the lake are running tailines OF
chemicals into it, nor can AMI ytlling unusual
on delcterious Be discovered In or about it.
It is supposed that all the fish III the lake
are dead, as the pelicans, igulls, and other
6sh-eating fowls which have abounded
thereabouts, have suddenly Iaft. Day be-
fore yesterday not pelican or gullrpnain-
ed on Of about the lake. rrIle only explalia-
ton advanced BY any Of tie settlers Ii that
there lias been an eruption of some kind I'll
deleterio1s gas IioIn Till bottom of Tia
fS fS{fS
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New Design for Postal Cards.

At
II has been contemplated fol- some time
past to change the design of the present
postal card. A number Of specimens have
been submitted BIZ the Morgan Envelope
Company, tlle firm which has the contract
for printing the cards now in use, The
present card is considered unsuitable in
several respects. It is too sombre in color,
and the border is generally regarded too
heavy. The new card win be lighter in
color, probably very nearly white. The
printing and engraving win be executed IN
black ink, and the border win be narrower
and much neater in appearance. The
change has not yet been fully decitled upon
but ii ii safs to say that some alteration Id
the design of the present lloInely card will
be made. Washspaf0a STIR.
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POLITICAL NOTES.

It is stated that Dudley W. Adams, master
of the National Grange, wants to get into
Congress.
Goyernor Jewell will be the fourth Post
master General from Connecticut, and the
third from Hartford county.
The Southern Democratic newspapers do
not take kindly to the. Mosby- -Kemper
scheme for electing General Grant for
third term.
General Gordon says that he is very inti-
mate with Grant, and knows positively that
he is looking to reelection, 0bnt will only
run as peoples candidate" 8
Jones is creating quite sensation at
Long Branch That usually lively watering
place has been under " cloud" this season,
and Jones is its silver lining"
Senator Bogy has had a public dinner at
st. Louis, because he has neither lied nor
stolen. Amid all those mighty moral in
fiuences which avail to keep our public men
in the path of rectitude, none is more potent
than the prospect of a big free-lunch.
1t is stated that while the prospects of the
coming campaign in New Jersey render the
Goveinorsllip somewhat uncertain, the Re
publicans are likely to carry the Legislature
and choose United States Senator, prob
ably Mr.. RobesoH.
Mr.. James M. Ashley, formerly radical
Republican partisan, is mentioned as
possible Democratic candidate for Congress
in tho Sixth Ohio district, where the Repub-
licans are qualrelling. Ashley is not by
any means reformer, although he believes
in changes. He is as useful at home as
anywhere. IN. ". Post.
The impression appears to be gaming
ground that Butler, finding that he cannot
gain much by his profession of loye for
regular nominations, is ready to sbolt 3
and make an independent race for the
Governorship Of Massachusetts. He i,
however, feeling his way cautiously. y Is
probably too late for him to except much
favor from any party, old or new. Mr..
George M. Stearns, of Springfield, is now
prominently mentioned for the Democratic
nomination for Governor, as well as to sue
ceed Mr.. Dawes III Congress.
IL western raragaapller writes that
II. gzaccl,er scandal lights up the religious
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Scheme to Acquire Mexican Territory

The San Francisco Commercial Herald Of
July 9th says: every important information
has reached us from what we deem an au-
thentic source, to the effect that overtures
have been made by the Mexican Govern
ment to that of the United States to cede all
the territory Of the former lying north of a
line of latitude drawn from the mouth of
the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean, and
that the matter will engross the attention
of Congress at It's next session, with tile
greatest probability Of it's acceptance.
What are to be the considerations for this
cession of territory we are not informed,
and it is likely that the point has not yet
been settled. One thing is positive; a num-.
Der of our heaviest capitalists and bold
operators have very recently been actively
in pursuit of mines lying in the territory to
be ceded. Several in Lower California have
already changed hands, and mining engin-
eers have been dispatched to Sonora and
Chihuahua. It is evident to us that much
commotion exists about this matter in GER
tain circles, and that there is good founda-
tion for the report. By this arrangement
the United States will acquire Nueva Leon,
Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora, Lower Cali
fornia, and portions of Sinaloa and Dur
ango.'
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Why it is Necessary to Employ Law
yers.

A merchantin New York stopped in front
of furniture store on his way to dinner to
look at a bedroom set worth $50, and re-
mar ked to the dealer that he admired it
very much, and asked if $50 was the lowest
price, which was found to be the case.
The merchant went home and mentioned
the fact to his wife. On his return home
again at night, he found the bedroom set
had been put up at his house in his absence,
his wife supposing he had sent it as sur
prise. But he denied ever having bought
it. 5r.f
It occurred to him that q lawyer might
be of some service, and he remembered
needy little fellow down town, whom he
called on and stated his case. The lawyer
said every well !; keep the goods and leave
it with me.'' Not long after, summons
was served on the merchant for the price of
the set this he took to the lawyer and
asked him what else should he have to do
noW.. B s4g M sas
"oh, nothing, said the attorney, sleave
it all to me. 8iasla.
But don't you want to retain me as a
witness ?0 asl bs6g ssai s33
no, leave it all to me. E
Trial day came and passed, and the mer-
chant, nota little anxious, called to learn
the result, asking his legal friend how it
come out. .gs3s
lg.3s s"'4An right, " said young Blackstone ssall
right ; the furniture is yours"
"But what have to pay for it s''
Nothing -.
How can that be ?''
Easy enough he put one witness on the
stand to swear you bought the goods, I adj
lmitted it. then put two witnesses on the
stand to swear they saw the sale, but saw
you pay eighty dollars cash for it. or course
I won. =
This was conclusive
A PRACTICAL JoKE.-In the Western
State the Democratic party had for twenty
years been in the habit of holding its nom
mating conventions Mt the house Of Mr..
H Recently, he happened, for the
first time, 70 be in when they had finished
their business and heard a delegate move
that this convention adjourn sine die. Z
4 Sine d;ef said Mr. H to person
standing near; " where's that?''
Why, that's away in the northern part
Of the county, !, said the neighbor.
6 Hold On, if you please, Mr.. Chair
man = said the landlord with great en-
phasis and eanestness, ahold on sir; I'd
like to be heard on that question / have
kept a public house now for more than
twenty years. / am poor man. have:
always belonged to the party and never
split Id my life. This il the most central
location in The county, and it is where We
always met. i've never had nor asked for
any Office, and have worked day and night
Tor THE parts; and now 4 think sir, Ii ii CON-
temptahle 70 adjourn this convention way
up to S;as Dic, sas S
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POE TRY
A SIGNIFICANT POEM.

On the 1st of Of November, 1871, when Mr.. Tito
as full of anxiety in regard to this matter he wro
lie following lines, and they have a singular intere
ow:
SIR MARMADUKEs MUSINGS
BY THEODORE Triton.
won noble fame,
But, with sudden frown,
The people sIsatched my crown,
And in the mre trod down
My lofty name.
bore bounteous purse,
And beggars by the way
Then blessed me day by day;
But ], grown poor as they,
Have now ther curse.
gained what men call friends,
But now their love is hate;
And have learned, too late,
How mated minds unmate
And friendship ends.
clasped a woman's breast,
AS if her heart knew,
Or fancied, would be true,
Who proyed-alas she too
False like the rest.
now am all bereft--
As when some tower doth fall
With battlements and wall
And gate and bridge and all
And nothing left.
But account it worth
All pangs of fair hopes crossed
All loves and honors lost
To gam the heavens at cost
OF losing EARTH
So lest be inclined
To render Ill for i'll
Henceforth in me instill,
OGod, sweet goodwill
To all mankind.
SLEEPY Hollow, Nov. /, 1871.
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TOPICS OF THE TIMES.

Close readers of the St. Louis papers, it
may be fairly presumed, know all about
the celebration of the St. Louis bridge.
This belief is induced by the fact that the
Republican published Sd columns of matter
on the subject, with 23-line head, the
Times 90 columns with 27-line head, and
the Democrat Is columns of small type,
with a 21-line head.
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial says:
The various government Bureaus are
generally adopting q machine which prints
all letters instead of writing them, and
which can print it is claimed, faster than q
person can write. A clerk in the Postoffice
Department has written fifty-six words per
minute with this machine.
The late Chicago fire burned over an area
of about fifteen squares extent. The build
ings that were burned were mostly ..of the
poorer class, and it is those people who are
really the heaviests sufferers. The total loss
is estimated by the Chicago Times to be
about 100000, with an insurance Of
about so, 100000 Four churches, four ho-
tells, and seven public buildings, including
the Post-office, were burned.
Lord John Russell is at present serenely
padding through his eighty-second year.
He is a little, shrivelled-up old fellow, with
disposition as sweet as as rancid hazle-
nut, and an uneonquerable passion for
broad-rimmed hats and red bandanna
pocket handkerehiefs. Ten years ago it
was one of the sensations of the House to
hear this surprising manikin sneeze. He
seemed to concentrate himself, as it were,
for gigantic effort, would be bent nearly
double by the force of the explosion, and
would then dive down into the flaming
banner of red silk, from which, after sever
al minutes obscuration, he emerged with a
countenancc as vivid as the back of a scald-
ed lobster. The late Lord Clarendon is re-
ported TO have once said: "When Lord
John takes snuff the consequences bring
down the House,"
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Things Generally.
BY MAX ADELER.

The fact that Watts hymns have been
translated into the Choctaw language and
have become favorites with the braves, is
perhaps not generally known, but is never
the less fact. 1t is very affecting to think
of noble red man sitting upon fence and
singing, ''How doth the little busy bee,"
while he watches his wife carrying home
couple of bushels of potatoes upon each
shoulder, and wondering if he couldn't swap
that squaw for jug of robust rum. And
it is even more touching to imagine the
dusky son of the forest chanting, II want
to be an angel" while he dances around a
white man who is pinned to the ground with
a stake between his ribs and a bonfire on
his bosom. There is something majestic
about the Indian. He not only has poet
ic and musical language, he not only spulns
idolatry, but he has immortal longings and
a weakness for snatching other peoples
hair.
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MARR1ED.--In Tucson, Arizona, July
1874, by Governor A. P. K. Stafford, Mi
John Wasson and Miss Harriet New

Ell DUIIOU. = - 2
Mr.. Wasson was one of the founders OF
the AvaI0ache, and is now editor and pro-
prietor of the Tucson (Arizona) Citizen,
and also eyor-General of that Terrific
ry. The temperature is 1900 in the shade
down there, and when that is augmented
by the caloric of IIymen's torch, it must be
the next thing to cremation. However,
brother Wasson,
We wish You many joys aud boys
And girls to climb yonr knee s.
Aud prosperous trip in your bridal ship
Ger life's tempestuous sea.
-1arahe9 dnnLGncLe. w - - .-Et - N
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Texas Cattle.

The Kansas City Journal Of Commerce
has an interesting article ON the cattle trade
from which we learn that the Texas drive
for this year is not near SO large as last, but
the quality of the cattle is much better.
The whole number of the drive is 155, 900.
and the distribution in Kansas is about
at Cofeyville, 10000 at Wichita, 5000 at
Great Bend and other neighboring points
on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe R. R.,
$4,000 at Ellsworth and $4,000 at Wilson,
Bunker Hill and Russell. These will be
shipped this fall and, the remainder Of the
drive, about $4,000, will be absorbed on
the frontier in filling Indian contracts.
! EBesides these there are about 100, OOOh head
of wintered Texas cattle in Kansas, which
will find their way into market this season.
Of these about $4,000 are along the line of
the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston
Railroad, 10000 on the Atchison, Topeka
and sSanta Fe Railroad, and $4,000 on the
Kansas Pacific.
In addition to these there are at least 35,-
900 or 10000 head of cattle in Colorado,
which have heretofore been kept out of
market by the large number Of, Texas cattle
offering, but which is expected will be
marketed this fall.
A DEAD TowN.-On the south side banks
of the noble and picturesque Rappahannock,
about thirty miles below the historic town
of Fredericksburg, Immediately opposite the
time-honored village of Port Royal, is the
little town of Port Conway. There is moth
ing in the appearance of the place itself to
attract the attention of tie..visitor and, if
its history were generally known, so full is
it of historic interest to the people of the
State thatfits visitors would no doubt be
numbered by hundreds. In the colonial
days of this once prosperous g Old Common
wealth, :" Port Conway was town of nc
little Importance and, although never
densely populated, nor covering q large
area of country, its Importance as an i'm
porting and exporting mart, was felt moi
only in this State, but abroad. In later
years its history is made Of greater interest
to us by reason of it being the birthplace ol
that illustrious statesman, James Madison.
The town was founded by Catlett Conway,
the maternal grandfather of Mr.. Madison,
after whom it was named. None of the old
citizens are now living, and but few houses
are standing. The house in which the great
statesman was born has long since crumbled
into dust, and the ground on which it stood
is now used by it's owner as clover field
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---A western raragaapler writes that
she Beccher scandal lights up the religious
Ornament Of Brooklyn with q lnrid glare. =
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KATE sPRAGUE.
Her Misfortunes and Reverses.

There is none more missed from Washing
ton, says recent letter. than Mrs. Sprague,
whose gentle, graceful manners made her
beautiful, aristocratic face eagerly welcomed
by the fashionable frequentcrs of our
Vanity Fair" The sorrows that came to
her were felt by all, and no woman has ever
descended SO gracefully from the dizzy
height of fortune as she; called in the hey
day of her prosperity the queen of American
Society, she is iii her adyersity still aqueen.
When the order was issued by the Holts of
New York for the seizure of Senator
Sprague's property, Of course the family
residence was taken. Mrs. Sprague, with
her charming children, gathered up her
personal belongings in the shape of pictures,
statuary, &C., and moved to Edgewood, the
late residence of her lamented father, and
there in great seclusion she lives Her
luxurious carriage has given place to a little
rockaway, and her retinue Of servants re-
duced tofour. We saw her the other evening
at q charitable entertainment. She wore
deep mourning; her face was pallid and
careworn; her smile was just as sunny and
her voice was just as chcery as when there
WAS natb;no b,,t neaca and wealth al,o,,t
her.
Several rsars had como and oc,,o ooo,, -
ne fraio1+ad with memories and oar,,Ie
bnt we ratainad IN e,,r mind . v;v;d ,,;ot,,,.a
Of Mrs. snrao,,e rs we saw her standino in
the nort;co at tbe White Ho,1se one ayaning
giyine the bou FOR the retn,n Of her
car,.;aoa to the driver Sba ,r,so o,, +lo ,,,,,
of her l,onored father. in whom was conferred
her fondest love and widest ambition. and
was draned in 4 robe fashioned of soft
shimmerinc silk. over which fell foa,nino
waves Of priceless lace. And there were
Jewels abo,,t her throat. and amid tho s,,nnv
tresses Of her bonn;e brown hair was =
diamond star. She was the observed oe al,
observers, as she passed in the brilliant
gaslight through the door Of the White
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salfe.' pas as iof s"eise''h:s IN the nor,
close rooms OF 2 fashionable summer hotel,
won't submit to it, His wife and
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:" She was not smart, she WAS not fair,
But hearts with grief for her are swellin';
And empty stands her little chair
She died of eatin' watermclin.n
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On the 1st of Of November, 1871, when Mr.. T1lton
full of anxiety in regard to this matter he wrote
he following lines and they have singular interest
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oEER LODGE, MONTANA.