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OLD IRONSIDES,

Lately we noticed the fact that the frigate
Constitution was to be put into complete
repair by the Government, and stationed
at Philadelphia during the continuance of
the Centennial Exposition. We then briefly
mentioned the engagements in which she
had taken part during the war and the
noted victories she had won. The follow
ing notice of the most famous vessel of the
American Navy, contains many particulars
and incidents in her history that are entirely
new to large class of people, and will not
fail to prove interesting to our readers.
This celebrated vessel is third-rate sail
ing craft, her tonnage is little greater than
that of large coaster, and yet she is a
legacy from Preble, Hull, cambridge and
Stewart, which should be preserved as a
memento of early American history. 1t
was in 1907 that the Constitution was
launched from Boston yard, and she was
first under fire when, after wretched COM
promises on the part Of our Government,
the Algerine war of 1904 broke out, cul-
minating in the bombardment of Tripoli,
and resulted in lesson to the Algerine
pirates which they never forgot. 1t was
during her service in the Mediterranean
squadron that her extraordinary sailing
qualities were accidentally developed
Some repairs being necessary at the water
line forward, number of her guns were
shifted aft, and for some reason she got
under way before they were replaced. She
had always been good sailor, but when
trimmed by the stern " she went off like
a race horse, and ever afterwards her officers
took good care to preserve the proper angle
of inclination without shifting the battery.
Her lines to-day, as she stands shored-up"
in the Philadelphia dry-dock, are full of
beauty. to the appreciative eye; and al
though in the days of her glory many
attempts were made, by means of careful
measurements, to copy her model, no
builder, in the opinion of her admirers,
ever succeeded in producing her equal. In
the last war with England-and may it
always be the last!-our land and naval
forces were sometimes beaten, and some
times victorious. Taken altogether, the
amount of mutual damage inflicted was
not very unequal, but cold Ironsides," as
the crack ship of the navy was by this
time affectionately called, never suffered
defeat, and hardly ever met with serious
mishap. Locked yard-arm and yard arm
with the Guerrero, the smoke of battle
was so dense that when the ships drfted
apart her officers did not know that their
antagonist was sinking. In her three hours
engagement with the java, one of the finest
ships of the English navy, the Constitution
did not lose spar. When she fought and
captured the Cyane and the Lerant, mount
ing together fifty-six guns against her own
forty -four, she was able, after receiving the
surrender of one, to chase, overtake and
capture the other, all within two hours.
Throughout her history she has supported
the sailors superstitious belief in luck,
and the man who dares to sign the order
f,s-hn, er dos, .,-uction deserves to have his
name dishonoraib mentioned in her cpl
taph.
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A VENERABLE MARKsMAN.-An elderly
man named Beckwith, residing in one Of
the peninsula counties, went to Richmond,
Va, last Thursday, on business. He took
with him an old-fashioned flint-lock rifle to
have stock and lock put on. On the cars
he fell in conversation with party of three
gentlemen from Richmond, when one of
them, to test the reality of some of the ex-
traordinary feats of craftsmanship which
he boosted of, offered him ten dollars to
repeat some of them, to which the other
two added S. between them. The trial
came off in an old field half mile below
Rockets, and was witnessed by about
dozen persons. The old fiint-lock was fred
seven times and only once missed its aim.
The old gentleman, after making two shots
at small objects to get his hand steady, as
he said, handed his son potato and sta
toned him at fifty yards distance, holding
the potato between his thumb and fore-fin-
ger. The rifle cracked and the potato fell
cloven in three or four pieces. One of the
larger pieces was then thrown into the air,
the marksman keeping at the same dis
lance, and again the shot told. An inch
and ahalf auger was then produced, and
hole bored in the fence, behind which was
fastened piece of white paper. At the
distance of sixty yards the marksman sent
ball through the aperture, piercing the
paper. At the fourth shot from sixty
~, Iicfo ha Of nil xrh iob
the son was smoking, was crushed. At
the fifth shot copper cent was thrown
into the air and hit. The sixth and seventh
shots were delivered at blackened five
cent nickel piece thrown up by the son,
standing about thirty yards off. At the
first attempt the shot missed. The old
gentleman showed considerable mortifica-
tion, and laid the blame upon bystander,
ly. The next attempt, however, was
complete success. The old man declined
any further trials of his skill, and when
offered sum of money to repeat his first
feat of shooting a potato from his sons
hand, he refused, saying he did not care to
try such experiments unless his weapon
was freshly cleaned. The exhibition was
the more remarkable from the fact that the
marksman was an old man, at least fifty.
His eye, however, is clear, bright gray.
His appearance is that of poor farmer.
The young man showed not the least
tremor or anxiety during the dangerous
experiment upon himself. The old man,
referring to his son, said, "Bob can shoot
Just as well as l CAM
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THE SNOW PLAINS OF CENTRAL ASIA.

The days pass-some in wild fierce storms
of snow and sleet, that howl around US as
though all the demons of the steppe were
up in arms, some in bright sunshine, whose
intolerable glare blinds us and blisters our
faces. From time to time we drive down
into darksome underground holes, hot and
reeking, hover around the steaming SAM
ovar, pouring down oceans of boiling tea :;
then out on the silent steppe again to con-
tinue the weary struggle. There are nights
when we awaken from half frozen sleep,
and remember we are in the heart of the
mysterious regions of Asia, and see moth
ing but the wide snowy steppe, silent and
ghostly in the spectral moonlight. For
miles and miles there is no human habita-
ton, but the burrow-like stations some
where far ahead, buried under the snow,
as though crushed into tlatness by the grim
uniformity above. There is something
strangely oppressive and awful in the
changeless monotony of these wide, snowy
plains, level as floor where for days and
weeks you see nothing but snow and sky;
where you are the moving center of a hori-
zon- bounded plain that seems to move with
you, and hang upon you, and weigh you
down like monstrous milestone. There
is the breadth and loneliness of the ocean
without its movement, the cold and icy
silence of the arctic regions, without the
glory of the arctic nights or the grandeur
of the arctic mounLains-the silent desola-
ton Of an unpeopled world. Those broad,
level, snowy plains, over which the icy
winds from Northern Siberia come rushing
down in furious blasts with an uninter-
rupted sweep Of a thousand miles, and
drive the snow about in whirlwinds that
60 scuddng over the plain like giant spec
tres; the short days Of sunshine, when the
glare on the snow dazzles and burns; the
long cold nights passed in a half frozen,
half-somnolent state, with the tired beasts
trudging YEARLY forward-I SILVER now at
Campaigning on the Orus, and the Fall of
hhiua. By f. A. MacGahan.
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The Catholic Church in the United States.

Bridgeport Standard reports that Bishop
Hughes in his address at the laying of the
corner stone of St. Mary's Church, on the
previous Sunday, used the following words:
"Pope Plus TX, sitting in his private
room, governs very large portion of the
world; millions of people, standing ready
to obey his slightest command"
This language, it will be seen, fully justi-
fies and confirms what Mr.. Gladstone stated.
The Methodist Aduocate-a journal seek
ing the good of humanity-gives transla-
ton of the oath of Cardinal, from the
original Latin, which was omitted from all
the reports of the installation of Cardinal
McCloskey, at New York. The text is
from copy furnished to Lord Palmerston,
Mr.. Gladstone's predecessor as Prime Min
lister. Let it be remembered, that Cardinal
McCloskey as an American citizen, COM
mences by swearing allegiance, not to his
country, but to an alien Potentate:
81, -, Cardinal of the Holy Roman
Church, do promise and swear, from this
time to my life's end, that will be faithful
and obedient unto St. Peter, the Holy
Apostolical Roman Church, and to our
most Holy Lord, the Pope, and his success
sors; that | will, by every
way and every means, strive to preserve,
augment, and advance the rights, privil-
eyes, the authority of the Holy Roman
Bishop, our Lord, the Pope, and his before
mentioned successors That
l will seek out and oppose [persecute and
fight against omni eonatu perseeuturin,
ct fmpugnaturia8 all heretics, schismatics,
against the name of our Lord, the Pope,
and his before, mentioned successors, with
every possible effort
1t will be observed, in passing, that this
remarkable document becomes more con-
spicuous by leaving out all rof esenc, f.,
God, the Eather,of all, and the Savior the
LHHTfeat Head of the Church on earth.
That the Pope, a foreign Potentate, strip
ped of his temporal power, for abundant
reasons, should be able to transform, on
Prince, owing allegiance to that Potentate,
and confer the title, with the garments
which are to distinguish him; that he should
be able to subject him to the terms of such
an oath, which transfers the allegiance of
that Prince, though disguised in the Cardi-
nal, and directs the labor of his life to the
interest of "our most Holy Lord, the
Pope Ought to fix the attention of men
who have the interests of their country at
heart and wish its prosperity The Republic.
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Observation-Disclosures is the most dis
couraging and distressing disease man is
heir to. Americans are particularly subject
to this disease and its effects; such as sour
stomach, sick headache, habitual costive-
ness, heartburn, water brash, gaawing and
burning pains in the pit of the stomach,
coming up of the food, coated tongue, dis
agreeable taste in the mouth, impure blood
and all diseases of the Stomach and Liver.
Two doses of GREENS AUGUST FLOWER
will relieve you at once, and there positively
is not case in the United States it will
not cure. If you doubt this go to your
Druggist, II. Fl. Mitchell, Elkton, or E. B.
Frazer, Port Deposit, and get sample
bottle for 10 cents and try it. Regular size
rs cents.
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Our SUPPLY OF CoAL.-The supply of
coal in the United States is enough for the
whole world, which may be regarded as
comfortable prospect for posterity. And
to that great coal supply must be added
the reservoirs of petroleum, from which
enterprising Americans-sometimes not
very honestly-put fortunes into their own
pockets. The extent of the oil-bearing
region has not yet been ascertained but it
appears that in some places in Pennsylvania
lakes or rivers of petroleum exist at depth
of about eleven hundred feet. Bore hole
deep enough, and the oil flows out of itself
Some Of the wells, as they are called, flow
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I" 1t was time, not mademoiselle Marie,
that blanched it, ma petitei' says dear.
lovely Mrs. More, with her faded hand
upon her own gray curls."
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tB The young folks say, if I live until
l am gray will never use any but MooRR's
"Wlmipgtou City Soap" !
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A MOTHERS WoRTH.-Many a dis
couraged mother folds her bands at
night, and feels as if she had, after
all, done nothing, although she has
not spent al idle moment since she
rose. Is it nothing that your little
helpless children have had some n
to come to with all their childish
griefs' and joys? Is it nothing that
your husband feels safe" when he is
away at his business, because your
carfnl hands direct everything at
home? Is it nothing, when his bust
ness is over, that he has the blessed
refuge OF home, which you have that
day done your best to brighten and
refine? Oh, weary and faithful moth.
err you little know your power when
you say. 81 have done nothing. "
There is a book in which a fairer rec
ord than this is written over against
your name.
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filing. And now look upon the
begger on borseback-lbc pennies
wood,hauler-despisod thea, not for
bis poverty, but for lis gross weak
Besses and faults, coming ont in u
letter and splitting in tho face Of the
whole American people, and insult.
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which he - he HE - Ulysses S.
Grant uses-tho sacrifices he made in
becoming their Chief Magistrate !
Out upon the poor fool ! Who does
he imagine he is? Let the contempt
Of the whole great American people
he has IN insulted cover him count.
Jess fathoms deepl
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Aloat two b0afs later Guard Len
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with The hounds. when guard Easlase
happened 10 cross some distance o.
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fooistep be uttered a low cry and
BOUNDED - iiny on In the direction
Of Euslaee, Who was appriscd Of bis
danger BY a shout from Guard Len
nan. Eastace turned, drawing bis
revolver at the same time, and pull.
ed the trigger as he saw The hound
approaching him. The first shot took
effect, and the animal staggered and
fell, shot through the hoert. A few
seconds later and and he would prob.
ably have had bis fangs in the throat
Of the guard.
The Siberian bloodhound IA the
most powerful and ferocious, and
perhaps the most treacherous of the
canine family. lie never forgets an
abuse, and months or G en- years after
receiving an injury, will fly at the ag.
gresor. The convicts at the peniten-
tiafy are more afraid of these animals
than of the guards revolvers, and this
accounts for the keeping.of such beasts
at the institution. -[Philadelphia In,
quirer.
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Major William Allan, of Virginia,
recently deceased, soon alter the out,
break of the rebellion raised and
equipped an artillery battalion, which
he for some time commanded. Pri-
or to the war Major Allan was one
OF the w~salthiest men in Virginia.
owning eighteen hundred slaves. and
nearly forty thousand acres of the best
land in Eastern Virginia. He had
bis own railroads and engines on his
place, and sailed a splendidly appoint-
ed yacht, manned by his own people.
The fortunes of war had verv much
Impaired bis possessions, and, save
gone land, he died yi;hot estate.
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LOUD PREACHING.-In one Of the
lectures before the Yale College the
illogical students, the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher was asked whether he
thought a man could succeed, by ac-
ton and increased emphasis, in. work.
ing himself up to a feeling of genuine
enthusiasm. He replied in q parable
as follows "In regard TO that |
will mention a circumstance that oc
CURED TO my father. | recollect his
coming homo in Boston one Sunday,
when | was a small boy, saying how
glad he was 10 get home, away from
the church I; and he added, ut seems
TO m | never made a worse sermon
than | did this morning" Why,
father, said | Il never heard you
preach so loud in all my life. That
is the way, said he, l always haIloo
when | haven't anything to say"
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"You wiring my BOSOM" said a de.
spairing Baltimore lover to a coquett.
ish girl whom he had long sought in
marriage. His burst of grief dec;d-
ed her. and. putting out her hand, she
softly murmured, "Well ! ring my Eng.
er, If you viii be the happier for it /;
| will vex you no longer.
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A very pretty Sunday school song
is the n entitled, Put your armor
on, my boys" There is, however, a
young lady in u town who doesn't
like to hear it. She says it sounds
like "Put your arm around me boys"
and 1t always makes her feel lone,
some.
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The chairman of vigilance cons
mittee who was instructed to duck
an obnoxious citizen, thus reported
to his constituents "We took the
thief down to the river, made a hole
in the ice and proceeded TO duck him :,
but he slipped out oil our hands and
hid under the ice. All our efforts
to entice him to come out failed, and
he has now had his start some hours"
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A clergyman being much pressed
by a lady of his acquaintance to
preach a sermon the first Sunday after
her marriage, complied, and chose the
following passage In the PsIams as
his text "And there shall be abuhd,
aDce of peace-while The moon endur-
eth"
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Old Lady (who sleeps badly:
Now, Mary, If should want to light
my candle. are the matches there?,-
Mary. Yes, maam, there's one.' Old
One ! why, if II misses fire, or
won't light'-Mary: oh, divil a fear
it ma'am. Sure | thried it,
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The lead in lead pencils is Rot lead
at all, though it is called black lead.
The weight, if nothing else, tells you
that. 1t is a mineral called graphite,
from the Greek word to write, and is
more nearly related to coal than lead.
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"A Minnesota paper made a young
poetess say /: "Oh, for a heart full of
sweet yearlings!" The poetess wrote
to the editor, declaring that she wrote
" yearningsl !" and that the printer
who set it up "yearlings'' was a calf.
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VALUABLE BAY 81. LOUIS PROPERTY
FOR SALE.

q SALE.
One Of the most elegant, comfortable aud
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STAR OFFICE.
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To DEALERS IN Iron TIES,
Planters and country Merchants generally,
Gentl9mens
We most sincerely tender our thanks
for your very LIBERAL support and patronage of
The celebrated ARROW TIE and here
bv des re to advise you that we are now pre-
pared to meet the demands of all our patrons re.
CURING the vol known irrepressible ARROW
ItF, and other open " side shot, F." Cotton Ties.
having on hand the largest stock ever held
throughout the cotton States, which we author
ize sold in any quantity under full guarantee as
us regards qualify, aud at the lowest market
rates, by our agents in the following cities
New Orleans, La. Mobile. IA.
Memphis. Tenn. Montgomery, Ala
Louisville Ky. Atlanta Ga,
It. Louis, Mo. Macon, Ga.
Galveston, Texas. Savannah, Ga.
Charleston. s. e. Wilmington N. C.
Petersburg. Va. Norfolk, Va.
Baltimore, Md. New York.
Very respectfully,
~. sy'. RGyae ~ Co.,
GENERAL AGENTS.
sepl23m Late Bartlett Il Rayne.
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ladd, IS of which under fence. 10 acres
cleared. Good Dwelling lframel house, with
1 rooms, verandah on 3 sides. all necessary OUT.
buildings an orchard of 100 peach. apple aud
pear trees, and a variety of other fruit, a large
scuppemonq al Dor, well of fine water, an ex.
eellent garden spot near a church and flourish.
ing Academy in an active business place and
desirable neighborhood, At Moss Point, four
miles from East Pascagoula Depot,
Inquire of STAR OFFICE.
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A son of Brigham Young GRADUATE
ed at West Point this year..