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JETTY BLINDNESS.

That there is nobody so blind as those who
will not see, ;" is an old adage, in confirmation
of which the opponents of the Eads jettIes
are supplying new evidence. At the South
Pass of the Mississippi river, where there
was eight feet depth of water a short time
ago, large vessels are daily passing out of the
river into the Gulf of Mexico, and from the
gulf into the river. Yet to-day, with this
broad, clear, evident. undeniable fact staring
them in the face, there are people cropping
about in blindness, totally unable to see that
the jetties are anything else than failure.
Even in Jobs time there were men who
CROPPED about in darkness at MONDAY, and
those men are mot all dead yet" These
living monuments of perverted wisdom can
not discover facts about the jetties that are
known TO every reader of the shipping news
in the papers; but they can plainly discover
facts that no one else is cognizant of, and
they know there is something about the jet
ties that is carefully kept out of sight. Know
ing as they are, do they know more than the
officers of the United States army, who have
been employed, in their official capacity, to
examine the Jetties again and again, for the
purpose of reporting to the government on
their condition, and supplying informa-
ton as a basis for the action of
congress? The gro2ers who scribble their
petty criticisms and their silly doubts can
offer nothing that can stand in competition
with the statements of officials who under.
stand the subject they are appointed to in
vestgate, and who investigate, not at desk,
with pen in hand, but on the spot, having
before their eyes and subject to the probing,
sounding and measuring of their instruments,
the jetties themselves, just as the hand of
their author has constructed them. A Pc
rusal OF the official reports OF these compe-
tent examiners has very different authority
to that of the cavilings and earnings of The
newspaper and pamphlet Carpet Knights
OF engineering science. If a channel is TWEEN
ty-two feet deep, they ask, how comes it to
pass that vessel drawing only twenty feet
gets aground in them? The fact that they
have done so is probably owing to the same
class of laundering as made the askers of
these questions assert while ago that no
Jetties could be constructed that would scour
out channel at all, and now the securing is
done, declare that the jetties are failure, al
though they have accomplished the very
thing these gropers in noontide light de-
clared was impossible. That one ship out Of
hundred or two that pass through the levees
blunders, Is no more an argument that the
jetties are failure than the fact that a ship
occasionally gets wrecked, through mistak-
ing its position, is a proof that the
compass by which the vessels course is regu-
lated is a failure. This objection, and its
futility as an establisher of the fact it is in
tended to support, is fair average specimen
OF the material relied upon to prove that the
jetties are failure. Compare this drivel
with the solid facts laid before congress and
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RituaIism I'm England.

Lord PenZance has sentenced the Rev.
Alexander Mackonochie, Of st. Adams, Hol-
born, to suspension from the benefce and
priesthood for three years He has been
warned repeatedly by the court of arches
that he was violating the public worship act,
but the extreme ritualistic services have been
continued IN defiance of ecclesiastical law
On May 18th the celebrant was clothed in
white vestments. which included the alb, the
chasuole, stole maniple and beretta. In the
center OF the back of the chasuble was beauti-
fully worked In silk a representation of the
cruci6xion. Two lighted and ten unlighted
candles were on the altar, the back of which
was completely covered with vases of very
beautiful flowers, and in front of which were
hung, suspended from the roof seven lighted
lamps. The service, had the Latin instead of
the English language been used in its cele-
bratIon. might have beer easily mistaken for
the mass Of the Roman church. Even at the
elevation OF the sacramental elements, the
congregation were reminded of the solemn
moment by the tolling Of the great bell of the
church. Previous to the sermon prayers were
asked for the repose Of departed soul, and
a good many Roman missals were in use
among the congregation. The dean of West
minister attended this service as a spectator,
taking his seat few rows from the chancel
rail. opposite painting of the Virgin and
Child, In front of which were unlighted
candles and vases of flowers, while under
meath was the eruciix which was recently
condemned by the Archdeacon of London.
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Phantasms OF the Brain.

The ancients believed that at the point
where mans rule and power over the forces
of the world ended, there destiny began; and
if a ship was wrecked at sea, or if a country
was devastated by an epidemic, as such Ca
tastrophes were clearly not brought about by
mans wishes or desires, they thought that
they could only be caused by some mysterious
superhuman power who meddled with, and
ruled over human affairs. We cannot, GER
tainly, be surprised that such should have
been the views and opinions of persons who
were ignorant of the fact that storm or an
epidemic is but q natural effect resulting
from natural causes, and that its occurrence
is governed by laws as certain and invariable
as that of gravitation. In country where
there were supposed to be gods of the sea and
gods of the woods, rulers of the winds and
deities of the rivers, there manifestly was but
little room In which mans free will could as
sert itself. But now, since we know that we
have in truth only to contend with natural
forces, and those, too, OF constant and
uniform character, we can, by studying
their laws, render them subservient to
our wishes, and make them become
our ministers, instead of allowing
them to be our masters. The electric cur
rent, which, in the form of lightning was
once the fiery sword of an angry deity, has
now become the willing messenger OF man,
and carries his commands to the uttermost
parts of the earth. Thus one of the most
marvellous and fearful instruments of desti
ny, as it appeared to the inhabitants of Rome
and Athens, some twenty centuries ago, has
in these later days lost much of its terrible
character; and to the great disgust of Jupi-
ter and the other lords of Olympus, little Mr..
Dillettante az his scientific seances can give
you as much lightning as you wish. The
fancy and imagination are more powerful
and less subject to the dictates of reason in
the night than they are in the daytime; the
land of darkness may be considered as their
proper and natural habitat; and like bats,
they are most busy when the sun has left US.
Ignorance is land of darkness, and when
mortals had not the remotest idea of what
was the cause or nature of an eclipse, and
when they knew LESS than nothing" about
electricity, it is hardly matter to be Won
dered at that, as knowledge had omitted TO
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For the Sunday Appeal
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
MAGGIE E. CARNEY.

Alone by the river, cTumbling and gray
Where the whirls and eddies the lIvelOng day
Play hide and seek among the reeds
And grasses tall and thick rank weeds
With work all done. and folded hands,
And untold years, the old mill stands
Still the ivy clings to the moss-groyn wall.
Still the woodland echoes the cuckoO's call
As when child, In the long ago,
climb'd the steps TO hear the flow
of the river, the murmuT low
Of waves mid the rocks; then the silver snray
Kiss'd the mould ring sides as IL does TODAY
Here's the old mill-wheel. but its busy hum
Is stllPd, and the owls, as they go and come,
Fit in and out with a dismal boot
Fast by the shore is the little boat;
Many q time on summer night,
When the full moon dimmed the pale stars light
In childish glee and careless hands,
We pushed 1t where the treach'rous sands
Were thick and deep, and laughed to think
How near we we're to dangers brink
Then merily sped o'erfhe foaming stream.
All! life was sweet and pleasant dream,
In the days that are gone, forever fed,
Like voices OF friends forgotten and dead.
And just in sight. where the waves are still,
Stands the old schOOl-hOuse below the hill;
Beneath an elm, on the rivers brink,
Where the kline at eve come down TO drink.
But the masters voice is heard no more,
Nor shout of boys and glrlS at the door
Floats out on the breeze at set of sun.
OH many there are whose work is done
Who were foremost then with laugh and Jest
Rave pass'd the shadOwy vale of rest.
They early tired and in the night
CrOss'd DER the river out of sight;
Out OF our mortal sight evermore,
To watch by the dawn of another shore,
For the weary feet that will trembling come
Some day at last to our Fathers home
They all shall pass, those passionate days
OF summer, these yelled in autumn's haze,
Some golden some darkened from the light,
some creeping slowly onward to the night
SPRINGS, May, 1873.
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Photographs of Fashionable People.


Dean Stanley seems 70 have recovered from
the long and threatening illness from which
he suffered during all the first part of the
spring, and Is none the worse for II, / hope.
l have not met him since | came back, but
recent photograph, hanging in a shop win
dow In the Strand, makes him look an older
man, though with the same singular charm
of face, marked by culture and refinement In
every line of it.
| may stop to remark that what used to be
called the sanctihes of private life no longer
exist for the photographer or the photograph
vender. 1t used to be thought odd to see
portraits OF princesses of the royal family ell
bowling celebrities of the demi-monde. The
demi- monde has lately had to contend with
the monde in general, and Of the highest
social rank. Photographs of most Of the
women famous this season for beauty may
not only be seen, but bought.
The New York belle may compare her
charms with those of her English rivals if she
likes to send an order for them. The Countess
of Dudley, the Duchess of Manchester, the
Marchioness of Butte, the Duchess of Norfolk
(who does not compete for the prize of mere
good looks, Mrs. CORVALLIS West, Mrs.
S'oane Stanley, Mrs. Langtry, Lady Gladys
Herbert, the Countess of Leicester, are all
there; some of them in half dozen different
poses, of which more than one are OF high
ly theatrical kind
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furnish the universe for them with
facts and realities. they allowed
imagination to supply the de-
ficiency with the first fictions and fancies that
presented themselves. The world was to
them a tabHIa raSd, and they wrote upon 1t
whatever they thought it. Besiies these two
causes of fatalism, namely, the existence of
will and the transcendant power and vastness
of the universe compared with man, there
is a third TO which we may hare refer, and
that is the existence, or seeming ex-
istence in the world of what we are pleased to
call chance" Strictly speaking, there is no
such thing as ''chance," for nothing takes
place without there being some cause of its
occurrence, although in many cases that cause
may, owing to its remoteness or minuteness,
be concealed from our view. Nevertheless.
whenever an event happens of the cause of
which they are entirely ignorant, men are
wont to assume thatit has come to pass with
out being caused at all, or, as they term it,
by chance"
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POLITICAL ASSASSINAIIONS.
A Thirty Years' Record In Europe and
America OF Attempts on the
Lives OF Rulers.

1848-November &c The life of the Duke
Of Modena was attempted.
1S49-June 2l.-ihe crown prince of Prus-
STA was attacked at Minden.
1851-May 22.-Sefeloque, workman, shot
at Frederick William ", king of Prussia,
and broke his forearm.
1S50-June 28.-Robert Pate, an ex-leu-
tenant in the army, attempted to assassnate
Queen Victoria.
I852-September 24.-An Internal machine
was found at Marseilles, with which it had
been intended to destroy Napoleon III.
1S53-February lS.-Emperor Francis Jo-
seph, of Austria, was grievously wounded in
the head while walking on the ramparts at
Vienna, by Hungarian tailor named Lib
zens.
1853-April 16.-An attempt on the life of
Victor Emmanuel was reported to the Italian
chamber.
1853-July 5.-An attempt was made to
kill Napoleon III, as he was entering the
Opera Comique.
1854-March 20.-Ferdinand Charless III,
Duke of Parma, was killed by an unknown
man, who stabbed him in the abdomen.
1853-April 28-Napoleon III was fred at
in the Champs Elysees by Giovanni Piaueri.
1856-Apnl 28.-Raymond Fuestes was ar
rested in the act of firing ON Isabella, queen
of Spain.
1856-December 8.-Agesilas Milano, a
soldier, stabbed Ferdinand III of Naples with
his bayonet.
1857-August 7.-Naroleon III again.
Bartoletti, Glbaldi and Grille were sentenced
to death for comingffrom London to assassin
ate him.
1S58-January 14.-Napoleon III, for the
fifth time. Orsinl and his associates threw
Illuminating bombs at him as he was on his
way to the opera.
186I-July IA King William, of Prus-
STA, was for the first time shot at by Oscar
Becker, student at Baden Baden. Becker
fired twice at him, but missed him.
l862-December l6.-A student named
Dosslos fired pistol at Queen Amalia, of
Greece princess of Oldenburg), at Athens.
1863-Decembe A-Four more conspira-
tors from London against the life of Napo-
leon Ill were arrested IN Paris.
1865-April 14.-President Lincoln was
shot 10y J. Wilkes Booth.
1866-Aprl GA Russian named Kavara-
solotf attempted Gar Alexander's life at st.
Petersburg He was foiled by a peasant,
who was ennobled for the deed
1867-The cars life was again attempted
during the great exposition, at a review in
the Boi de Boulogne at Paris.
186S-June 10.-Prince Michael. of Servia,
was killed by the brothers Radwarowitch
1S61-The life of Amadeus, then newly
king Of Spain, was attempted.
72-August.-Colonel Gutierrez assassin
ated President Balta, of the republic of
Peru.
1873-January President Moroles, of
Bolivia, was assassinated.
1875-August.-Pres Garcia Maeno,
of Ecuador, was assassinated.
1877-June, President Gill, of Paraguay,
was assassinated by Commander Molas
187S-May 1.-The Emperor William, of
Germany, was shot at again, this time by
Emile Henri Max Hoedel, alias Lehman,
the socialist. Lehman, it will be remem-
bered, fired three shots at the emperor, who
was returning from drive with the grand
duchess, of Baden, but missed him.
To this list we must now add third at
tempt on the life of the Emper William, at
Berlin
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FRIGHTFUL CATASTROPHE
- S,oaI Mine Explosion Causes the
Death OF Near Two Hundred and
Fifty Men-Tbe Cause OF the
Explosion Unknown.

LONDON, June An explosion in a coal
PIT at Haydock, to day, shook the earth for
miles around. The first explorer descended
the shaft almost Immediately, and others fol-
lowed. Ten men were rescued alive and sent
TO the surface. One died almost Immediate
", and the others suffered much from fire.
damp. Eight other men are alive and have
taken refuge in a working of the mine. Two
hundred and thlrty-two are dead. The ex-
plorers state that they found bodies decapi-
tated, reduced to shapeless masses, and some
o. them blown to pieces. 1t is expected that
the coIpses will be brought up by midnight.
A large crowd of men, women and children
surround the mouth of the PIT. The cause of
the explosion is unknown, as blasting with a
naked light is prohibited. A later dispatch
says the number OF men in the pit at the
time is variousiy estimated at from two hun
bred to two hundred and fifly. Several have
been brought up badly injured. The larger
proportion are believed to be killed, but it is
impossible to explore the mine, in conse-
oueace of fre-damp.
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A RarmecIde Feast.

A Barmecide feast for the benefit of the
poor was prepared by the young people of a
Congregational church in San Francisco on
Nav Odd. A table was set with elegant
plate, silver and glass, bat although there
was everything to look at, there was nothing
to eat. The guests were not expected to go
through the motions of eating and to pay
compliments to the hosts, as was done IN the
I,,obio,, Nigbts. In another room there was
a table laden with delicacies, and some of the
prettiest maidens in the city stood by to serve
and hirt, and take in silver for charlty's sake.
The ladies who arranged the feast for the eye
and the fast for the stomach prattled about
the italian Barmecides of the ninth century,
who were famed for their splendid banquets,
and who, when reverses came, relinquished
all their goods except their elegant plate. and
went on loading their tables with costly dishes,
although their larder was empty. This was
a pretty Barmecide legend, but no better than
the BARRIERS tale in the Thousand and One
NiQhks.
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the government by the army engineers. Cen
eral Humphreys. at the head of them, claims
that, in 1852. in his reports, and especially in
his physics and hydraulics OF the Mississippi
river, hes demonstrated that, by the use of
jstties the channels at the mouth of the river
may be deepenej. The carpers against the
jetties allege that bar is forming in front of
them. Captain Brown, in his last report, in
August, shows by his maps that the water
has deepened in front of the jetties, and has
done so by the action of the stream issuing
from them. The impetus of the jetty stream
has deepened the spot where the bar was al
legged to be to the amount of one foot four
inches. A section of thirty acres was nearly
four feet deeper in 1877 than it had been In
1876. The commission of engineers who ex-
amined the jetties when the twenty-five feet
depth was obtained, reported: 1--WE find that
where, two and half years ago, there was a
bar at the mouth of South pass of over two
miles in extent, the measure is now
twenty two feet. Over about a half a
mile. where there was but eight feet
of water, a wide and deep channel of twenty
two feet now exists. What lis all the carping
at a writers desk, by persons who never saw
the jettl9s, when put beside this plain, dem
onstrated fact, proclaimed by responsible
and competent officers, who ascertained it by
actual measurement Of the channel that was
formerly eight feet deep and is now twenty
two feet deep? The fact is that Captain
Eads has accomplished 4 wonderful work,
and has done it by means so simple, and on
principles SO ingeniously applied, that nar-
row souls envy his success, and malicious
spirits seek to depreciate and belittle what
is too great in Its simplicity for their small
capacities to comprehend. Now Captain
Eads mas shown them how the Mississippi
can be made to oxcavate its own channel,
these wise ones after the fact see nothing re-
markable in it. There were people once who
saw nothing remarkable about making an
egg stand on its end, but that was not their
view of the case until Christopher Columbus
showed them how the feat was done.
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Brave Kate Southern" another arraigns
Governor Colquitt before the bar of public
opinion for "condemning this noble woman
to a punishment that Is worse than DEATH"
He demands for her full pardon. Another
says: Every true husband IN Georgia should
admire Mrs. Kate Southern-the woman who
knew her rights and had the courage to main
tain them" Some go so far as to say that
Kate Southern's crime would have made a
hero of a man, and cite instances which sab
stanhate the assertion. This sentiment is
becoming widespread IN the State, and the
ladies IN all the cities are taking the lead In
circulating petitions for full pardon, and are
giving the case this cOlor-that the law has
unreasonably punished a woman when a man
would have come out of a similar trouble
with freedom ami ecldt Under pressure of
the continued, ard still increasing excite
ment, it Is cODidenually expected that the
governor will soon extend 10 Kate Southern
full pardon and release. linen. and not till
then. " II the moral sense Of Georgia be
satisfied
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a RrRcinua Idnl

A new moonstone has been discovered in
Japan. In Seki, place frequented by trav-
elers on their way to Ise, there is a stone
figure OF Buddha which has stood there for
ages past. thas ever been believed by the
inhabitants of the district that a magical ra-
dance proceeded from one of the ears of the
image, which was, in consequence, an object
OF devout worship. Some native philosopher,
hearing OF this strange story, and anxious to
discover its origin, made pilgrimage to the
miraculous statue, and on closely examining
the ear found Embedded in the lobe of it a
crystal substance, which, on further exami-
nation, turned out to be diamond On the
result of the examination being made known,
the people of the district became greatly ex-
cited, some wanting to take it out and sell it,
and others protesting against such prOfana-
ton. Application was accordingly made to
the local authorities for guard to prevent
the stealing of the jewel, and the precious
image is now guarded night and day.
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Victor Hugo a Snnniard-

Victor Hugo has made present of the pen
with which he wrote the History Of a Crime
to Senior Romer-Ortiz, to be placed IN his
museum. In the letter which accompanied
the present occurred this paragraph: 'tWhen
was child | was Spanish; now am a
man and French, but Spanish STILL" This
poetic license may perhaps be explained by
the fact that Victor Hugo was born in tie old
Spanish town of Besancon. His father served
with distinction In Spain during the empire,
and was offered the title of prince by King
Joseph on the condition of renouncing his
nationality. The general refused. A short
time ago, abiding to the fact, Victor Hugo,
according to the GGulOiS, remarked: eff my
father had accepted, Victor Hugo would not
be living. Perhaps there might have been
on the other side of the Pyrenees Spanish
poet, but In the nineteenth century what is a
poet who is not French?''
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A Chicago Tribune special from st. Louis
says: at is reported here that there is more
than prospect of getting the present Indi-
annapolis club to transfer themselves to st.
Louis. Negotiations have been going on for
some days, and the parties in charge of them
said to- day that there was not much doubt of
their success. 1t Is alleged that the club was
hired too early last season, and that many of
the salaries are entirely too high and the sum
total entirely too large for such city as In
dlanapolis. The team has not earned It's way
so far, and the prospect of a considerable
deficit Is not pleasant. 1t is hoped that this
may be avoided by taking the nine to a larger
city and one that has not been surfeited this
season. The matter is to be promoted by Mr..
Fowler and Others of the Brown Stocking