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The day, VIA its FaBdals dipped in dew,
Has passed through the event iIe = golden gates,
And single rtar 10 the coudless blue
For the rising moon in silence waits:
While the winds that sigh to the languid hours
lullaby breathe DER the folded flowers
The lilies nod TO the sound of the stream
That winds along with luling how,
And either awake or half a.dreau,
pass through the realms OF long ago;
While faces peer with many smile
From the bowers Of Inemoryis magical isle.
There are joys and sunshine, sorrows and tears,
That check the path of iife's April hours,
Aud a longing wish for the com ng years,
That hope wreathes with the fRirest flowers
There are friendships Ruileless-love a. bright
Aad pure the stars Ia the halls OF night.
There are ashen memories. bitter pain,
And buried hopes and broken vow,
And an aching heart by the restless main,
And the sea-breeze fsnuing pallid brow;
Aud wanderer on the shell lined shore
Listening for voices that speak no-Ecre.
There are passions strong and ambitions Wild,
And the fierce desire 10 stand in the van
OF the battle Of life-and The heart Of the chi
Is crushed in the breast Of the struggling man
Bat short the regrets and fcw are the tears,
That fall at the tomb Of the vanished years
There's quiet and peace and domestic love. 8.
Aud joys arising from faith and truth,
And lave noueistier'i'1ar. s-s-- -1-eEsr -.s.-,
Aud kisses of children on lips and cheek,
And the parents bliss which no tongue can speak
There are loved ones lost! There are little graves
In the distant dell, meath protecting trees,
Where the streamlef winds and the violet waves,
And the grasses sway to the signing breeze;
ana we mourn for the pressure Of tender lips,
And the light Of eyes darkened in deaths eclipse.
And thus a. the glow Of the daylight dies,
And the nights first look TO the earth Is cast
! gaze 'uesth those beautiful summer skies
At the pictures that hang in the hall Of the past
e)h, sorrow and JOY chsnt mingled lay
When to meInory's wildwood we wander away!
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Mamma" she said. 'you love me
very much, don't you o.
Certainly, replied Ruth " why do
you ask ?"
"I don't KNOW" answered the child,
'' except that it makes me very happy
to know that you love me 30 dearly"
Ruth pressed the little one nearer to
her heart.
"You love me b tier than any one in
the world p continued the child.
Ruth did not reply the color faded
and came to her cheeks as she looked
inquiringly into the ehild's face.
q Is it not 50, mamma ?" continued
Effie. You love me better than you
do papa, don't you ?" and she took her
step-mother's hand and looked into her
eyes.
Caleb Walker sa.. by breathless and
motionless.
Ruth hesitated for moment only
aud then she answered in low but dis
tinct tone
&" No, Efie, I do not. "
The next instant Caleb was on his
knees beside his wife
g My own, my darling :" he exclaim-
ed. now 1 feel that you are niue oVNr
pale brow"
And So, in truth she was. His cease
less tenderness and unwearied atten-
tions had won her heart, unknown even
to herself. From that time forward a
new Joy entered the hearts of Ruth and
her husband
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affair, been friendly toward. each orher, and in
fact were all related. No other cause is as
signed for the unfortunate and deadly COLI
sion than that the parties were drunk at tie
time.
Hon. Frank Morey, d New Orleans,
asks by telegraph from Washington, when is it
estimated the present supply of food or funds
win be exhausted at the present rate of dis
tribution. Gov. Kellogg replies The relief
committee for Louisiana recA Ave from the
government eight thousand ra4ons daily and
distribute from thirty to forty thousand. The
funds from private contributions viii be ex-
hausted in fifteen days. Every effort Is being
made by sending cotton seed. corn and rice to
the flowed districts to afford relief in the
shape of work and to discourage -idleness :
but the necessities for help viii last much
longer than the present resources
A Denver, Texas, dispatch Gays the
wheat crop of this region is now out Of dan
ger, and viii be the largest ever raised in
northern Texas New wheat VIII be in market
here By the 1st Of June. large breadth Of
land is planted in cotton, and LOOKS finely
Business is reviving all through Texas and an
While VII; The roads Are lined Sitl peapIe
IN wagons seeking new homes- The Texas
and Atlantic refrigerator company has added
various improvements to its slaughtering works
here, and is now killing one hundred beeves
daily and viii soon slaughter five hundred.
1t owns one hundred cars, built to transport
fresh beef TO st. Louis, Chicago New York,
and Baltimore, and viii send train-load daily
to these cities during the season.
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Large Tunnels.

The largest tunnels in the world have
been constructed in Germany, and most
of them for mining. The great tunnel
of Freiberg is "a miles long the Ernst
August, 49, miles; the Georg at Claus
thai, 1Of miles the one at ShemnItz,
81 miles: and the Mont Gents, n miles.
These are the principal works of the
kind in Europe.
In the United States there is the
Hoosac tunnel, in Massachusetts,, meas
uring 5 miles in length the Sutro, IN
Nevada, miles; the Sierra Madre,
which is to be II miles; and the San
Carlos and Union Pacific tunnels, which
are under q miles in length.
But all tunnels sink into lnslgnlhcance
compared withehat which 1t is proposed
to run under the Straits of Dover. In
yestigations into the nature of the strata
of rock lying between the Continent OF
Europe and the coast of England reveal
the fact that a deposit of clay extends
from the mouth of the Thames to Dun
kirk, on the northeast point OF France
This clay is from 500 TO 400 feet thick
and is both impermeable and homoge
neous. 1t therefore points out the lime
of its course as the most feasible route
for the proposed tunnel. The distance
however, is about so miles between th'
| two termini.
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FOR ETGN.

Two more fights with Carlists are re-
ported by Madrid with the usual Republican
success.
The King of the Sandwich Islands
favors commercial treaty wit the United
States, but deprecates annexation
The three American students recently
drowned in Lake Geneva, Switzerland were a
Mr.. Grant and two brothers named Wood
berry.
Ten persons have bees arrested at
Cork, ireland, on suspicion of being concerned
in the mysterious disappearance Of arms from
the barracks.
Advices from MADEIRA state that vines
are in q satisfactory condition. The Azores
newspapers deny the existence in these islands
Of movement in favor Of annexation to the
United States.
A special from Paris says g cabinet
has been formed. It's principal members are
Gaulard, Docase and Lavergne. Grivart and
Ozanne, all of whom belong to the moderate
section OF the right and right centre. The
object OF the new government Is to coneiIate
both centres in order 70 carry the septeA Apial
constitution through the assembly.
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The Fallacies OF Finance.

An English writer says In the Pail
Mall Gazette Many political phenom-
Ma of the modern democratic world have
shown hat blunders and injustices be
lOr to no particular era or state of So
ciety: and here we have the congress of
United States repeating that particular
fraud of feudal princes which even in
the middle ages had fallen into the low
est discredit. There is absolutely no
difference in principle between adulter-
ating the metallic coinage and d" infla-
ting the paper circulation. The sole
distinction consists in the greater liabil-
ity of the older piece of cheating to be
found out. A medieval gold coin had
its proper intrinsic value IN the market,
and the mOney-changer who melted
down coin of some particular issae
and discovered that it was half made up
of copper, at once knew that the sover-
eign had been swindling his subjects.
But the effects of adulterating a paper
currency have to be detected, not by
the scales or the tests. but by some
slight labor of the brain. As a bank
note is, to begin with, piece of paper
which is absolutely without appreciable
value, a very superficial person may
conclude that any number of pieces of
valueless paper may be made valuable
by printing on them the same wor Is
which appear on the face of redeem
able note. The difficulty, such as it Is,
Of seeing through this fallacy gives the
modern corrupter of money his sole ad-
vantage over his execrated predecessor,
but both the act and its consequences
are identical in tha Two cases. The i'm
age and superscription of thS monarch
lied in the older example tile assertion
that 8" the United States promises to
pay IS a lying assertion in the modern
instance
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POSTAGE BY THE POUND.
How NevspHpers WIN be Affected
the Proposed Change.

How NeVvspHpers WIN be Affected by
the Proposed Change.
The subject of newspaper postage
and the practical inconveniences Of the
present system, have lately been under
discussion with the postal committee of
the house, who have decided to report
in favor of a radical change in the pres
ent mode of mailing and stamping. As
the matter stands at present, newspaper
pOstags can either be paid at the Office
of reception or delivery, and in this
way two systems are really at work,
which necessarily cOmplicates business,
and causes a loss of both time and
money. Under the present system, if
- receipt IA obtained; and thereafter the
| paperB vii pass through the mail with
out further trouble but in case it is
not prepaid, then postage must be col
lected at the Office Of delivery, either
quarterly in advance, or else Mt the reg
ular rate as each paper is delivered by
the carrie.
It is now proposed to abolish this
plan and charge entirely by weight, at
the rate of two cents a pound. Such
an arrangement, ii S. said, will be no
additional expense to the newspaper
publishers, while it will secure to the
government its entire revenue.
Outside of the large cities, not more
than one-third of the newspaper post
age is ever collected, owing to the man
ner in which country postmasters com
bine private lfsiness with their duties
to the goyerIhent. Thus, country
postmaster generally keeps q small
store, and if a good customer is in receipt
of a newspaper, he will not often press
his claim for postage at the possible
ri-k of iDiuring his other business. In
this manner, me government suffers
great loss that cannot be well remedied.
Under the system proposed, the rate of
two cents per pound is so low that pub
fishers will not be taxed any more than
at present, and the trouble of stamping
and preparing will be o3viated. The
bundle of papers, or in fact any printed
matter when delivered at the post-office,
viii be weighed, and the amount
charged against the paper. which will
be collected quarterly as heretofore.
The fact of a paper then being in the
mail viii be the best evidence that it is
paid for, and it will be delivered in any
part Of the United States without fur
ther Alarge or trouble. Or if news
papebdOes not wish to have an account
kept, book of stamps may be retained,
of which an amount equal to the weight
of mail matter delivered can be carcel- |
led by the clerk receiving the bundles.
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Cause of the Mississippi overflow.

cause OF the MISSISSIPPI OVernOW.
At recent meeting of the Chicago
Academy of Science, Ex-Governor Bross
OF that city read an elaborate paper on
the subject of the Mississippi inunda-
tions, IN which he argued that the over
flows which are now devastating so
large a portion of the finest cotton dis
tricts of Mississippi, Arkansas and Lou
lsiana, and nearly all the choice sugar
region of the latter state, find their
explanation not in n larger volume Of
water than usual poured into the lower
Mississippi from its tributaries, but in
the fact that the bed of the river is
gradually rising, thus lifting up its Wa
teTs to higher level, and causing them
to flow over the banks and levees which
once confined them. 10 support of this
view he declared that he had conversed
with many intelligent and observant
boatmen in St. Louis, who confidently
averred that se bed of the river is
gradually rising from the deposit of sei-
iment, Just as the river Po. in italy.
whose overfows are more frequent and
destructive than formerly, is lifting its
bed from the same cause This view Of
a very interesting subject is strength
ened by circumstances attending the re-
cent overflow. 1t is a noteworthy fact
that this recent overflow was not caused
nor accompanied by an unusual ,ris5
either IN the Missouri or upper Mis-
sissippi the floods came into the lower
river at and below Cairo, chiefly
from the Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee.
White, Arkansas and Red rivers and
the food in the Ohio lacked several feet
OF being as high as former years have
witnessed. Had the great streams above
Cairo, the Missouri and its tributaries,
aud the upper Mississippi, with its af
huents, participated in the rise, the
lower river would have been raised sew
eral feet higher than it was-a height
that would have carried it probably,
over nearly all the levees, and caused
the inundation of all the lowlands bor-
dering on 1t. That so great and de-
structive an overflow as that which took
*s----i.y 1.--.ls-'s' 1--t-------
into the river at and below Cairo, seems
to suggest decreased capacity of the
river channel to contain its waters, ow-
ing to the elevation of the bed. If this
theory be correct. some very interesting
questions present themselves How
long Is the process to go on ? If the
levees on its bank are TO be built higher
as its bed Is raised, to secure the coun-
try from inundatiOn, there viii come
time when the mighty river viii flow to
the sea like an aqueduct, through chan
nels Ii ted up above the plain. But
there is a limit 10 the work of raising
the levees the higher they are built
the weaker they become, and in a great
flood, in which all the upper rivers shall
participate, the levees would be carried
away, AMI the released water would
submerge the 10 8 regions in far more
destructive deluge than any we have
vet MihLasse I
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SOUTH

The wheat crop IN North Georgia
promises a very large yield.
Alligators five feet long are retaiIed
in Perry, Georgia, at a dollar apiece.
The moneyed men of Fort Pickens,
S. c., have ordered cargo OF eucalyptus trees
from Australia.
Gaines Chisholm, charged with the
murder of Penn BedeH, in Atlanta, Georgia,
has been acquitted.
Andy Mclaughlin, boy of fourteen,
killed his father with rock, a few DAYS since,
in Madison county, Ky.
VIM. Duke, who killed Thos. Parker,
p Butts county, Georgia, two years ago, has
Seen sent to the penitentiary for three years.
Mrs. Waechter, proprietress of beer
saloon at Memphis, suicided by hanging her
self from the transo9a Of door with clothes
line.
Gov. Smith, of Georgia, has respited
until June 10, Henry Jackson, the negro who
was to have been hung in Leesburg last Fri
day.
Fred. Walcott, of Frankfort, Ky.,
went home drunk and killed his mother with
hatchet. He is in jail, but likely to be
lynched.
whirlwind of Ship Channel KEYS Out of
seventeen passengers five women and one man
were drowned.
The supreme court has decided that
quarantine fees, imposed by states, are un-
constitutional, and the circuit court at New
Orleans has issued an order restraining the
board OF health from collecting such fees.
Reports from Little Rock state that
nearly all OF Baxter's forces have been re-
turned to their hoE-es, and quiet generally
Geigns. The Notifications around the state
Aouse are being levelled and matters put in
their old condition.
The legislature of Arkansas has ap-
pointed committees looking toward the i'm
peachmeut of those state officers who sup
ported the pretensions of Mr.. Brooks, and
the governor has modified the conditions of
martial law so far as to permit the execution
OF civil arrests.
The mayor of New Orleans, in a letter
to a gentlemen in Washington, says unless
the resources for relief be increased to one
million dollars, many families must perish BY
famine. Even that sum will not more than
suffice to save the lives of the inundated till
the food subsidies and the overfowed lands
are again tillable
1t is said that great deal of destitu-
ton prevails in and around Chicot, Ark, on
account Of the food. The large planters are
suffering equally with the small farmers,
Everything in the shape Of chattel property
and provisions have been swept away, and un-
less aid reaches them soon there will be sacri-
fee of life from starvation
A fatal affray occurred at Cherry
Greek, Pontotoc county, Miss, last Thursday.
The parties engaged were VIM. Garner, Sim
Mccoy, Sam Reeder, Mccoy, Sr., Mark Miriam
and Geo. Mccoy Firearms were freely used
and VIM Garner was shot and Miriam vas shot
three times, each wound however, proving to
be slight. VIM Mccoy, sr., had his arm
broken, and Sim Mccoy was slightly bruised
All the combataDts bad, before this terrible
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Obedience in Children.

Unauestioning obedience we must
demand from tie child for her own
safety. It may often be question OF
life and death whether the little girl
runs when she is called, or throws
away something which she has in her
hand instead of putting it into her
mouth. But has not this habit OF obe-
dieucs a higher office than this 1t IS
the first yielding of the unframed will
TO rightfnl authority, and as such has
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
EAST.


A dispatch from the scene of the Mill
river disaster says the last two bodies have
been found, and tho total loss of life is now
known to be 147. Some idea may be formed
of the terrific force OF the rushing stream Of
death by the statement that the fissure in the
ruined barrier shows that the food must have
started with volume of It's feet wide, and
35 feet deep.
New York is experimenting in COM
pnlsory education. A law has just gone into
effect requiring the parents and guardians of
children between eight and fifteen years of
age to give them annually at least fourteen
weeks ct elementary instruction. Probably
the most practical feature OF tho law is that
which forbids the employment at any labor OF
children within the above ages during the
time the public schools are open.
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Turf Statistics for 1873.

From the compilations of the Turf,
Field and Farm, we condense the fol-
lowing:
Thad. Stevens, by Langford, heads the
list, with winnings amounting to S2S,-
425 Tom Bowling, by Lexington, comes
next, with S27,15 Joe Daniels, by
Australian, third, with S14255. No
other single horse reaches SS. 900, and
only six others have over S., 900
Lexington heads the list of winning
sires with % winners to his credit; As
teroid has 10; imported Australian 16;
War Dance IA; Planet 13; Bonnie Scot
land IL; lightning and Norfolk 10 each;
Jack Malone 8; Vandal 6; Kentucky,
Revolver, and Rebel each; balance
scattered among Al different sires.
The principal winning stables are as
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an immense significance. Tho mother
who cannot train her daughters and
sons to obedienes we're better cbildless,
for she is but giving to her country ele-
meuts of weakness, not elements of
strength. She is furnishing future in
mates for iails, penitentiaries, and pris-
ons, and putting arms into the hands Of
the enemies Il law and order.-JIiss
4. G RracketN
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The market value of these wines is
estimated at S14, 100000. When it is
considered that the above results have
been obtained within the short period
of ten years, it may safely be anticipa-
ted that the production of wine will,
within some years, become an impor-
tant element of national wealth.
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MISS lIf.sTi1it, l3uANiI1,rv, ilup nonN
to Tennyson a wild daisy picked frsm
Poe's grave. The package was tied
with a white satin ribbon, upon which
was written, "The only blossom from
the nameless and neglected grave of
Edgar Allen Poe, 1874" 1t was the
only flower to be found on or near tho
desolate place.
New ENGLAND is still ahead of Geor-
Qia in large cotton dividends. In Fall
river the earnings of some mills have
been enormous, as dividends OF 100 per
cent. in one year and mill stock multi
plying in valne ten times might indi-
cate. On the other hand, there are
many manufacturers in New England
who might as well have had their mills
closed last winter.
DONALD CAMERON, an early teacher IN
Indiana. died at Madison recently. lie
was teaching at the time war was de-
clared against Mexico, and was informed
of IL bv one of the scholars. He arose
and said "Boys, there was never q
war in which there was not Cameron,
and / am determined this shall be no
exception, school is dismissed untn
Mexico is conquered Putting on bis
hat, he left the house, enlisted, and
served under Colonel James ii. Lane TO
the close of the war.
The French census OF 1872 shows n
loss of population since 1866 OF nearly
1000, 900 souls. The cession OF Alsace
and Lorraine accounts for the greater
part of this loss but after this deduc-
tion is made it remains true that FRANCS
has lost in ak years nearly 1OO,OOO IN
habitants. This loss is not due 70 tne
destruction of life by war, for it has
fallen upon women more heavily than
upon men. The new census points 10
the conclusion that the population OF
France is decreasing because OF the IN
frequency OF births. Whether the re-
moter causes that lead to this lnire,
ouency of births car be reached ana
overcome remains to be seen.
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CUBAN planters who have been driven
from the island by the existing troubles
are emigrating to Southern Texas,
where the country between the Sabine
river and the Rio Grande has been
found to be we'll suited for the culture
of the sugar-cane. 1t is probable that
in time Texas may become large pro-
ducer of sugar, as there is an extensive
tract of country adapted to the growth
of tl8 cane. The present annual pro-
duction is from $4,000 to $4,000 hogs
heads
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No earnest thinker is a plagiarist
pure and simple. He will never borrow
from others that which be has not al
ready, more or less, thought out for
himself. Charles Kingsley.
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Our Native Wine Production.

The annual production of native wines,
in round numbers, is estimated at 49,,
OOO. 900 gallons. The different states
show the following:
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THE Worcester Press speaks of con-
temporary who hires small boy to
comein at intervals with step-ladder
and dust off the tops of his ears.