Atchison Kansas Patriot from Atchison, Kansas • 2

ALFALFA. THE PISTOL. Summary of the El HIXEU MCXLX8. I God hath yoked to guilt her pale! THE FATIilOT. A TERRIBLE COflBAT.

Pennsylvania Farmer Yaaqulshed by as Army of Bats, tCarfll (Tcsn.) Bond. Mr. Jesse Laverty, of east Penns- A SACBEfl Clt AttXEL-HOUSE. Mas sens of Protestants at Worship la he City of Acapulco. TUB ACAPULCO MASSACRE.

New York; March 21. The Herald's Acapulco correspondent gives details of the terrible reli Aeqtataaees. Xadiea, let the names on your acquaintance list be Friends are too familiar. To them yon confide joxvc troubles, and so make them grow. You tell them your priyate affairs, which, ten to one, they, tell again, being so sorry for you.

You ask advice, and get it; and follow it, and suffer in consequence. Now, an acquaintance is quite a different thing. Acquaintances stay in the parlor, and never dream of entering your private room. You go to them with dress and hair all and talk weather, and gossip with great satisfaction to both. It is well to talk of the weather, and the fashions, and XII BLACK 11ILLS.DELTJSI03.

Capt. J. T. Cox, a frontiersman who has spent many years in tho gold fields of California and Colorado, wont out last year and thoroughly profcpected the Rlack nills region. In a conversation with a correspondent of lb Chicago Times bo said The whole excitement is a humbug of the biggest kind.

I'll tell you how the thing was first got up. Some time ago parties named Collins and Russell, who aro very prominent in it now, and who own a newspaper in Sioux City, commenced writing the thing up in their paper there. Then other papers took hold of it and did tho same thing, and finally tbo merchants and land-owners of Sioux City, Yankton began to see that a talk of this kind would bring pcoplu uji there in The consequence was that a regular organized scheme to get up tho gold excitement was set on foot, and Custer's expedition was tho consequence. Then when they found a littlo gold the whole thing was. in a blaze.

Gold! why hhouldn't they find gold it can be found all over there, but not in quantities larger than will barely pay wages. The thing is a humbug and a fraud, a deliberate manufactured scheme, and the only people who can make any money out of it are these transportation companies, as they choose to stylo themselves, that control tho travel, own all the food sent into the hill country, and -hold it at an enormous price, and in fact, clean out tho pockets and control patcnes. A great fire ia Osako, Japan, Feb. 7, destroyed 1,200 buildings, including temples and schools. Several lives were lost.

A fire in Yokohama on the Cth of February destroyed SCO Japanese houses. The foreign settlement was endangered, but escaped. Destructive fires are of almost night ly occurrence in Yeddo. Navigation is not expected to. pen on the tit.

Law recce before tbe 10th of May. The canals are solid in many places, and the ice on the St. Lawrence river is thick and firm. A fire at Montrose, Henry county. destroyed 12 business houses; leaving but two standing in the town.

The people are left with nothing to eat. The lose is estimated at from $40,000 to 50.000. James Brown waa hanged at Potts- ville. for tbe murder of Daniel S. Kreamer, bis wife, and her mother, and another Kreamer, on the night of February xirown was only 18 years old at tbe time of the mur der, and at the time of hie death be was John Mitchell ot Ireland is dead Tbe school bouse in the third ward of Nebraska City was destroyed by fire last night, it is tbe second time within a year: insurance, 87,000.

The interior department wilL as soon as possible, dispatch a competent geologist to examine tbe lilacs Hills country, and ascertain accurately its mineral wealth. The Equitable life insurance com pany, of New of which Augus tus Jr. Ball, deceased, was president, has failed. There is no money in the concern for its creditors. It was stated at Washington, by the friends of ex-Senator Chandler, that he had been tendered, and would probably accept, the mission to Russia.

Geo. II. Baker, recently appointed, it is said, is about to decline. An ice gorge has formed in the Del aware at iShoemaker'a, six mile abore tbe water gap, and extends back eighteen mils, to Dingman's. Tbe ice is piled from ten to fifteen feet high all tbe way, and much alarm ia felt along the valley at the prcbable consequences.

A telegram bas been received at Sheridan's headquarter, giving tbe surrender at Ft. Sill, of a portion of tbe Oucbhola band of Indians. This tribe ia perfectly wild and one of the most troublesomo in the southwest. The indications are that the whol tribe will come in. Gen.

Bntler bas written a letter addressed to ItobL Harlan, of Cincinnati, on the civil rights bill, in which the general says "The civil rights bill does not give any right to a colored man to go into a drinking saloon without the leave of tbe proprietor, and that tbe barber tbop ia a private business in which the law docs not interfere." Tbe New Orleans Times reports a a destructive tornado at DnarLita val ley on Friday, below Southland and Kais Point. The loss of life and destruction of property is very great. Mrs, James Adair and child arc among the killed. Houses were leveled to the ground, and ihe II a is point buildings, fences, mules, borses and cattle were scattered for Tbe track of the tornado waa 300 yards wide, and estimated for 15 miles long. Tbe cross examination of Bessie Turner yesterday as continued till tbe court adjourned, and the witness maintained her position, and reiterated ber statement without hesitation and without a trip.

She was hot pressed very bard, however, and there was no special effort made to confuse or embarrasa her. Aride from stating that she told tbe investigation committee last summer that Tilton bad twice attempted to ruin bcr, and that she was mistaken when she told the committee that on the occasion when Tilton carried her to bis room she awoke in bis arms, and correcting some other mistakes, there was nothing worthy of particular mention in the crof-s examination. A BKT1V4L TEAM. Fort Madiron, Iowa, March 13 K. A.

Burnell. essisted by Mirs Lottie Moore, of Springfield. IIL, in tbe employ of tbe Iowa Sunday rcbool and Young Men's Christian associations, bss been holding union gospel-meetings for the past three days, at the Meihodat church. Services were held at all hours of tbe day. The ex ercises consisted of sermons, prayers.

nraise and exnerienea meetinpa. and bible readings. Numbers rose fur prsyirs, and great interest was taken by both saints and sinners. Some boys in Boston who bad been feading red bot dime novels until (bey ere pusiiiveij hi. willing to leare a lire buffalo or an uusealped Indian aayr whereon the continent, stole 4Q and after loading themselves down wiih guna, pistols and amunition, there start ed west, but were captured and takes bacx uome.

XTSTmiXL EXHtBITiOa- CO? AWT, AJPRIX 5th. Poa't 4c-jt (ar a load ef the IXDUS- raiAjLKXucstnox oompaXT. Doa't MBpwt It with a Lottery i War la aUadtaatthaeapital urrasUC is always ET e4 perch hOorm April Cth will marital pau to tha rawrth Scriaa lirawiaf a ha ha peblieUr ia tha CMt af Xew wa Meaear, Arm, SU, WTS. BOnD5ARES20Ecc ThlaLaaaia iaaaal aa a ant aad la aathorlatdhjapaaUl Aat-a tha lgUilarTa' thaatatacf aawTark. 4 CAPITAL PKpjiTTJXl, $10 0,000.

Cirealara girtaa faV axplaaatiem. win ha cat fra af charga, aa epplieatiOB. Vor aad fall laf armatl elSie-a" wttbaot delay, MQR GEN THAU, BRUNO it rmaeetal Ajaata, "i tf Park Saw. In Tark. eat OOa Drawer, SI, ts.

ay draft af Jar CSy Ka.laaar 1 Lathw, Ortir. tormenter, misery. iryant. a-Wfc Three witnesses in Lawreneeborg. Indiana, didn't know, what year tbisj is, and they were not allowed to tea- The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall baek to the bottom by their own coarseness.

Joa- bert. V- A law forbidding the payment of different salaries in the public schools on account of sex has just passed the legislature in California. -c The best way to play billiards is to sit ia high chair and make remarks, Decause men you are certain to win, however the balls may circulate. A Vermont clergyman stepped up to kiss tho woman he bad just made a bride, when she brought her hand down on his mouth and spoiled a forty dollar set of false teeth. Tbe point doesn't seem to as to be so much whether the constitution of the United States recognizes God, as that He recognizes the constitution.

Chicago Journal. "Vice President Wilson," ssys an exchange, "is having boils." This, then, is the reason he doesn't take his seat as president of the senate. Courier journal The president lias renominated Bill King's postmaster at Minneapolis; but Republicans telegraph over the country the statement that it was not done at Bill King's request A little chap who was teased the other day for kissing a young lady, got out of it by saying he was only "blow-ing her lips." He'll grow np to be a great diplomatist or newspaper mast- The fanners of this country now number 6,000.000, constituting nearly half the With their wives and children, they make up more than half of the 4U.UUU.0U0 or onr population. Prince Bismarck always was a wide awake man, bnt tbe trouble now Is that he is too wide awake and can not get to sleep when he wants to. His I brain, like the famous cork leg, wra't stop.

A French writer says that not one American in a hundred has a handsome chin. This is due to the fact that so many of our fellow citizens give nearlv all their time to the cultivation of cheek. If we would have powerful minds we must think; if we wonld have faithful hearts we must love; if we would have strong muscles we must labor. Tbese include all that is valu able in this life. A Dubuque boy was rather troubled for fear that be would not know his father when they both reached heaven, but his mother cased him by remark ing: "All you have to do is to look for an angel with a red nose on him.

The New York Herald hits the bull's eye plump when it says "Tbe most wearisome mess of worthless tittle-tattle ever inflicted on the patience ot a long-sunering public is presented in the trivial and prolix testimony of tbe minor witnesses in the iieecber trial." "Old Elephant Ears" is what the Washington reporters call Senator McCreery, of Kentucky, not because his ears are large, but because tbe top of bis bead is as bare of hair as an egg, while two mops of hair on either aide, like elephant's ears, hangover his own ears in a fantastio way. Western newspaper wags are making thrusts at Oen. Tracy arguments, None of them, however, believe in the immortality of the soul, and all of them would rather sit around a hot stove and chew tobacco than join our Brooklyn brotherhood of saints, and go aloft to glory. Brooklyn Argus. When a girl crops her front hair and pulls it down over her forehead like a Mexica mustang, and then ties a piece of red velvet around her neck, who can wonder at the number of pale faced young men that throw away their am bition and pass sleepless nights in try ing to raise down on tbeir upper lips An exchange begins a sentence thus; "Congressman-elect Thompson, who goes as the man 'who beat Butler, etc That a gentleman must be forced into history with his name linked to that of such a creature as Butler, is one of the saddest things witb which history has to do.

Cour ier Journal. Last week it was stated in a Ne York paper that Brooklyn society was about to be convulsed by some new and startling scandals, and during tbe two days succeeding that an nouncement more traveling traps wero sold in tbe city loan had been disposed of for a whole month pre vious. The Bhowmen are beginning to tell what big things in the balloon line they are going to do the coming sea son. One man is going to run a fleet of six balloons under Donaldson, and will "attempt" to eroas tbe Atlan tic in oue of them This form of ad. vertising is almost as ingenious as the periodical account of the escape of wild beasts.

A seventeefc-year old boy in Paris recently induced a companion of eleven years of sge to steal nine hundred francs in gold, and tben strangled him, threw Itim into the Seine, and then walked off with the money. He was sentenced to twenty years ia tbe gal leys, "having eaeaped tbe death pen. alty," we are told, account of his youth." New York Graphic: Mr. Beeeher yesterday expressed hie gratification at the honor conferred upon Cardinal Me- Ooakey, -and protested against' (be bigotry which objects to the progress oi tne uatnouc uaarea in tbi country. Those wo Catholic arymea can narouy neip recognising the re spect which the defendant has recently repeatedly expressed for tbe Roman Catholics and tbeir beloved church.

Hefty celebration. In Warwick. the other day, Mr. aad Mrs. Gardner Mills, aged respectively seventy and sixty eight years, and -weigh jog tf-spectively 17G and 204 pounds' brated tbeir golden wedding, tbe oc casion Doing made more weighty by tbe presence of five daughters eigbing respectively Z3, 235, 235.

217 aad 197 ponnda, aad two sons, one of whom turns the scale at 232, aad tbe other at 197 pounds. rorty-nine ex-members of the 43rd congress are lingering under tbe sbad-ewiof tftff eapUo)r' yaitipg for be white bouse door to open onttfrir importunities for fice. ''Anything, Mr. President, from tbe mission to the court of St. James to a United States eommissionership," tLey plead, and as every one of them voted for the force bill, and is willing to do all sorts of political dirty work, the president means to accommodate them.

Thirty-nine widows were ranged ia row of chairs, the ether day, Lx the county clerk's office of Yirgiaia, eity. Each had a burial certificate or some ether proof of the death of her hoe-band. They were of varied aspect, from the dimpled girl of 17, to the wrinkled matron of 70, making, preb- of viiows ever knowtv was to recover taxes wLUh kd beea fc-TToperiy ectetei, tie law wLLi jrst-t-stakclJ aeerttla crrrU To U9 Editor of The Vatriot: While the papers of Kansas are extolling the merits of alfalfa, it would bo well for your readers who propose procuring the seed for spring sowing, to know what it is. It is a very old grass under a new name. Among tbo ancient Romans whero it was highly prized, and also among the moderns in Europe, it has.

always been called "Medicago satira" is the botanical name, while the French call it "graud trefle." It was intro duced many years ago into the United States under the name of French clover, and Brazilian clover. Tbo Spaniard brought it to California under the name of alfalfa, which in Span ish means lucern. Many years ago tho writer purchased a few seed and cultivated the plants very carefully, but he did not continue his experiments ong enough to test tho merits of the grass. It is a leguminous plant having flowers like those of the garden pea, violet, yellow, and variegated. That having violet flower is considered best.

It is not adapted to wet soil, but is fond of a dry, loamy soil where its roots penetrate to a great depth, and, hcuco when well set no drouth can kill it. It takes two or three years to get well established, and will flourish on tho same ground eight or ten years. It grows to the height of two feet, but should be cut when only a foot high, while it is tender and succulent. It will yield from four to six crops a season, and in good ground a ton and a half of hay per acre. A fair test made side by side between lucern and red clover showed that lucern yielded doublo tho amount of hay.

The amount of nutriment is equal, if not superior to the latter, especially as a milk producer. Old Farmeb. EMPLOYMENT OF TEACHERS, To the Editor of the Patrfot. In the examination of applicants for positions in our city schools, the board of education is very strict as to their literary qualifications, but prob ably not more so than they ought to be. There are, however, other qualifications equally, if not more important, that are entirely overlooked.

I refer to aptness to teach, and a capacity of exercising a tender and affectionate discipline. A harsh disposition and a bad temper render a teacher hateful to her pupils, and disquali fies her both for governing and for advancing her scholars in learning; and if I am not mistaken this is one reason why parents so 'frequently complain of the little improvement of their children. sometimes teachers look too much to their salary, and as the money comes out of our pockets, the attention of tho board of education is invited to tho inquiry if there be not some teachers now in our city school who are destitute of the qualifications referred to, and whose removal would subserve the public good. Patron. Radicalism howls because Virginia has made petty larceny a penitentiary offense.

It is a blow, they say, at the freedom of the negro. But if our col ored brother will abstain from picking up things that don't belong to him, he will bo able to circumvent this snare to deprive him of life and liberty. Tho United States are to have a naval station somewhere in the Hawai ian group of islands to the exclusion of all other nations. Evidently wo are looking forward to the day when these islands in the will be annexed to tho United States. Old World Jottings.

Tho authorities of Jena university have issued stringent regulations for tho prevention and punishment rf duels. An exploring expedition will shortly leave Marseilles to mako researches into the depths and tho animal organ ization of tbo Mediterranean. The restoration of the Vendome column is now complete with the ex ception of the statue on the top. The boarding round the base was cleared away a week ago. Somo important discoveries of Ro man remains have late been made at South Shields near the mouth of Tyne, on tho supposed Bite of an ancient for tification.

They consist of a column twelve feet high and a number of Ro man coins and other things. It is reported that the Bonapartist commission has issued a circular in forming tho faithful throughout Franco that tho reason why Prince Louis did not come up No. 1 in his class at school was that he did not know sum ciuntly the English language. Tho English army, exclusive of non efficients in the reverse forces, is re turned this year at considerably under half a million. It comprises 161,000 volunteers, yeomanry cavalry, llb.UUU militia, and lSU.Sl regulars.

Of theso last there are 23,912 distrib uted through the colonies, 02,850 stationed in India, and 100,059 at home. No returns are give a of the l-number of native and colonial troops. It has been announced that the jewels belonging to Lady Dudley," re cently stolen at a railway station, have been recovered, and that the recovery was effected through the medium of an advertisement in which appeared the words "no questions asked. Much indignation has been aroused in consequence, and the corres pondent of the Manchester Guardiau says that legal proceedings with regard to the questionable advertisement are to be taken immediately. Correspondence on the subject is also pour Ing in to the newspapers.

Meanwhile it is not at all certain that the jewels are recoyered. Lord Dudley is silent on the matter. A Bonanza Slice Going East. A small slice of our bonanza, in the shape of one million dollars in silver bullion, will bo sent east to be coined at the Philadelphia mint during the month of April, our San 1 rancisco branch mint not having sufficient capacity to coin this amount (in addition to its ocner necessary Dusinesa as rasi as is desirable. Tbo bullion sent to Philadelphia ia to be eoioad into five and ten cent pieces.

Our branch mint will commence shortly turning out tho new coin, tho twenty cent pieoe, which will soon be put in circulation. We may, therefore, look hopefully to a speedy abatement of the "bit" nuisance arising out of the difficulty of making proper change where ten cent purchaser aro made and twenty-five aid fifty cent pieces tendered ia aymetit. rancisco paper. Hell, aeoording to the Sentinel, a long distance from Milwaukee, bo much tho worse for the Milwaukeeans. Their traveling 'expenses will be the A Nephew of Jay hawking earns on Dies tin his Boots on.

Del Norte (Colorado) Taper. Our usually quiet and peaceable town was on last Monday mgnt tbe scene ot a fatal tragedy tbe first of which has occurred in our midst since the town was incorporated. It appers from tbe evidence of eye witnesses that about 9 o'clock of Monday evening Charles Jennisou and Thomas Chandler (more generally known as Buckskin Tom) met in Tom's saloon on Graud avanue. They commenced in a bantering but apparent ly friendly manner, to talk to each other about ui-king a horse race. After some little talk Jennbon stepped up to tbe bar and called for something to drink.

Tom followed, and said, 1 will join you." or words to that effect. Jennison then caught him by one le. and shoulder, and lifting him up Ian him on tbe floor upon his back. Tom caught hold of Jennison when the lat ter, taking bim by tbe ears several times, lifted up his head a few inch es, and then lowered it, strik ing it lightly on the floor. Thus far tbe parties did not ieem to be angry, but only indulging in rough sport.

1 be proprietor of the saloon, fearing, however, that if this continued trouble might ensue, told Jennison to let Tom up, which be immndiately did. When lorn arose to bis feet be said, "Charlie, you got the best of me then. Jennison instantly drew out a navy revolver, and throwing it behind the bar, said, "I have no advantage over you now," and pushed Tom baek againts a table, which prevented him from falling to the floor. As the latter raised up he fired in rapid succession from a navy revolver two shots before any of the five or six present could seize him. As he fired the sesond shot Mr.

Davis, proprietor of the house. grabbed bim and threw him violently towards the door, which be immediate ly opened and passed out. At tbe firing of the first shot Jennison placed both bands on his breast, and exclaim ed, "Tom, you've killed me." After blindly staggering for a few feet he fell upon the floor on his face, and af ter drawing a few breaths was dead. The ball had passed through his heart. The Increase of Postage.

V1T1 WW i wnen senator uamiin kindly un dertook to augment the profits of the express companies by smuggling an amendment into a bill during the hur ry of the last days of congress by which, without previous notice to the publio, the rates of postage on a large class ef mail matter were enormously increased, he probably failed to foresee what a storm of indignation it would arouse. It is a curions fact that tbo average American citizen wil! look upon dangerous legislation calcu lated to infringe upon tbe rights of States in which he has no particular intirest, or upon the passage of huge jobs by congress for the depletion of tbe treasury, with apparent equammi ty, and yet become immediately in dignaat, not to say ferocious, when a bill ii passed which directly affects his his own pockets, even though the amount of the imposition in the latter case may be comparatively trifling. If he is suddenly, and without a reasonable show of cause, compelled to pay eignt cents tor tne postage of a maga zine which he has been in the habit of sending to his mother-in-law every month, after reading it himself, when he has heretofore paid only four cents tor tbe same, publication, tbe parting with tbe extra tour cents will wrench his heartstrings worse than the discov ery that some ring thief in Washing ton has pocketed wbii comes out of general taxation. And this unnecessary and totally uucalled for measure of senator Hamlin, which doubles the rate of postage on a large class of matter, from present appear ances promises to excite more ill feel ing against congress than many far more serious erixrs made by the same body. Besides, its effects will be very disadvantageous to a large class of business men, suoh as book sellers, who do a heavy trade in snt plying orders bv mail, and it will be difficult to find any one, except thope wbo own stock in express companies, wno win not denounce tbe cbange in rates as a vexatious job carried .1 tnrougn congress irora improper mo tives.

The Right to Deposit Money. The portly president of the State national bank sauntered leisurely forth from bis private office in the direction of tbe front door. Arriving at th counter, he was confronted by a sfal wart son of Africa's sunny clime, who. judging from the stream water oozing irom nis garments, nau ueen standing at tne door in tbe rain for -several hours. "'Spose yer name is Williams is it?" "My name, sir, is Mr.

Wil liams." "Dat's what I axed you me'nt no harm; dis is de bank, de State bank, isn't it?" "Yes, sir. this is the State national bank. ''And de cibble rites is dun an passed. is it "The civil right bill is said to be the law of the land, sir." "Dat's what axed you, no harm meant and ain't cullud pussons got. as much rite to posit money Here as de white hey have the same privileges as tbe white people in that particular, sir." "Well, den, just take dis pile ober dar, and put it again my name on de (polling from hs side pocket about $300 in currency.

Like a at nsible man as he is, the president yielded to tbe majesty of tbe law, and took tbe money on deposit. A woman and a man went into part nership in tbe business of blackmailing recently in Louis, and got into trouble with their first effort. The plan was that the woman should set np as a clairvoyant fortune teller, secure servant girls as patrons, and get from them tbe secrets of wealthy famuie. Upon these clews the man was to work np strong eases and tben demand a large price for In pursuance of this scbeme tne son or a neb msn was selected as a victim, but he only turned" over the blackmailers to the police, remarking tha')e didn't "care a copper fc? tha exposure." M. Champion, a French chemist.

states that tbe beat developed by a given quantity of nitroglycerin, when exploded ia capable of exerting, converted into motion, a maximum en ergy folly fire times that produced by the explosion of tbe same amount of gunpowder, and three thousand times more than that caused through the combustion of an equal quantity of coal. A single quart of nitroglycerin, it is terted, has the potential energy ef o.Ovu none power, working during 1U hours. It remains to invent a machine i i i IB yujcB fi9 ingactu; orce can oe nar es4'an4iDplf6Jlef. a "The proportion of the married among the insane is smaller than thai of the unmarried." A man who has to scratch around aad make lhie for his wife aad 'eUrcs 'n coda's fce iinne he rc' IIY NEIJHOX ATCHISON, KAXSAS. Saturday, Uarch 27, 1ST.

TLo Now York legislature is not of tho opinion that it ought to enact a special law to enable Mrs. Tilton to fulfill her promise to lie to save Ucochcr. Tho civil rights till has encouraged a burljr negro boy attending school at to knock down his teacher, on account of a difference of opinion on soma educational point. i -j The way to get a nomination on the llepublican ticket this taring is to (jet your friends threaten to go over to tbo opposition if you are not nominated. This plan is working with eminent swecss.

Tho Chicago Kvcuing Journal says: "When you write of the new senator from Michigan, spell his name Cbris-tianey. ISut when you speak of him pronounce his name as if spelled Crcstyoncy. Dr. W. W.

Cochrane would make an efficient and creditable major. He is a gentleman of ability and largely interested in the city's prosperity. The Democratic convention will con-(ti ler the matter. It is paid that President Grant and ex-President Andy Johnwm accidentally met on l't-niipvlvariia avenuo the other day, and neither had tho politeness speak. From this it will bo inferred that tho tjucKtion about that lie charged (J rant with telling has not been settled between them.

It ii sad. Senators Ingalls ami Harvey voted for tho bounty bill. Tho men who fought tinder tho United States flag will thank them. Gen. (Jordan, tho rebel senator, voted against it, as did Katon, of Connecticut.

This vote only shows how thoso old rebels feel toward union men. -Burlington Patriot. And (5 rant vetoed tho bill, thus sustaining Gordon and Katon. Now taunt him with showing "how an old rebel feels toward union men." Tho newspapors aro full of accounts of troubles between whites and blacks growing out of the civil rights bill, Tho practical workings of tho measure aro about us predicted when first brought to tho attention of congress. Tho New York Herald sensibly says: "The mischievous naturo of the bill is in its tendency to provoko and per-petuato social prejudices, which, left to themselves, might either die out entirely or becomo considerably weakened in eourso of time.

Special legislation in such cases can never bo productive ef goo If it is money that Ira C. Patkcr wants he has been placed in a position to gratify his wishes. Tho western district of Arkansas has bcon a "bonanza" fur Kcpublican spoilsmen. It was in that district that the old mar-filial realized over a quarter of a mil lion of dollars in six months, and all who havo held tho position havo becomo independently rich. It is sup-poiiblu that Mr.

l'arkcr will improve bis opportunities so that when Mr. Grant steps down and out of tbo presidency ho will havo no further uso for a public office. Tho excitement in western Texas is very great over tho veto by Gov. Coko of tho compromise bill passed by the loL'itdaturc to pivo the International railroad company a bond subsidy set tlement of its claims against tho State, which were based on a grant of bonds contained in its original charter. The of sectional prejudice existing against tho western part of tho State which would be benefitted through the construction of tho road among the citi-aens of eastern ar.d central Texas, and It is discussed as a sectional question The feeling upon this subject is so strongjthat public meetings havo been called to promote a movement in the western counties for the division of the State, 'and the formation of a new commonwealth, to be called Western Tccna.

Linn county has onco more located its county scat at Mound City. Since Tin Patriot began to observe things in Kansas the people of Linn county have bad no end', of troubla about the county seat. It was first at Mound City; then it wont to LaCygne; then it was voted to Farmer City; then it went back to La Cyghe; then Pleasanton came up and carried it down to that towu; now Mound City comes to the front ami once more holds tho coveted prize. All these removals have cost no little money and have engendered much bad feeling, while the substantial, tax-paying citizens paid the bills and gained no profits. Well might the latter cry, "Giro us a rest.

Tho knot of high-toned loaders who shoved Mr. Rohr off the track for mayor are in trouble. When they porsuaded Lira to sign that littlo card of withdrawal, and induced him to say that his private business would not pormit his holding the office, they cbuoklod with glee, thinking the thing was all fixed and smoothed over. But thoir efforts were too attenuated, and tho friends of Mr. Kohr took up the natter and thundered so vigorously and persistently that the wire workers have backed down and stepped out.

Tho defection of so vcral, hundred" voters to the Democratic ticket was too horrible to contemplate. Rather than that, Mr. Kchr may be the Republican nominee. So tbo process of helving every other Republican candidate goes on, and Mr. Rohr will have no opposition in tho convention.

None of the roat, has put his declination on lest, like Mr. Rohr, he might be upon tore-tonal St it, if his friend should get zi tbinUa to bolt. boro, living near Booser's mill, was lately, very much annoyed by rats, which earned off bis and made sad work with his corn in his crib, and tben inraded his granary and com menced destroying a bin of wheat. Mr. on examination, found there was but one place where they got in.

He thereupon resolved to kill the rats by an artibco well wortby of tbe cause. He strewed corn meal liberally on tbe floor of the granary, and about oue hour later he nailed the hole shut. be then called his dog (a Spanish ter rier), and armed with a club, went forth to battle. Now the door to the granary is fastened with a long wooden bitch extending full across the door, and can only be opened from tbe outside, and Mr. on entering the granary, drew the door shut and beard the latch fall.

He then thought the enemy was his, but this was an error, for the rats were more numerous than he expect ed, and hnding no way of escape, at tacked both Mr. L. and his dog with great fury. Mr. L.

laid on his blows hard and fast, and one blow, aimed at a rat, unfortunately hit the dog on tbe bead and killed bim. Mr. being thus deprived of bis faithful ally would have fled, but eould not. He then commenced calling for help, tho rats meanwhile kept skir mishing around his legs, ran up his body, bit bis hands, and one bolder than the rest bit bis nose. It is im-.

possible to say what the result of this unequal contest would have been, had not a passing neighbor, attracted by tbe noise and went to the relief of Mr. who presented a shocking spectacle, bis face and bands bloody, and bis clothes torn into shreds. Mr. L. being washed and rehabilita ted, tat down to reflect, when he luck ily hit on a better plan of warfare.

He went and borrowed twelve eats, which with his own mad fifteen; these he in tbe evening shut np in bis granary with the rats, and tho next morning he found, on examination, ten dead cats, one blind one, and two with one eye apiece. The remaining two were unhurt, and by actual count he found one hundred and nineteen dead rats; of the dead dog there was nothing left but tbe bones and hair, tbe rats doubt less having eaten him while Mr. L. was hunting eats. Gen.

Jabal Early and the Scalawag The following characteristic inci dent is told of Qen. Early in a recent Richmond Va. letter to the Louis ville (Ky.) Ledger: Gen. Jubal Early is in this city, attending the supremo court of ap peals, in which be practices. A few days since he and Col.

Fleury were in Gerot's saloon, when in walked Rush Burgess, S. internal revenue col lector, lately deteated tor congress, together with Hon. J. Ambler Smith, by ex-Governor Walker, and who re cently shot a negro burglar under cir cumstances which caused the jury of inquest to return a verdict of "com mendable homicide. lie at once approached Gen.

Early and bis companion, offering cigars, which they ae cepted, supposing him to be an old comrade in arms. "General," said Rush, "you don't seem to know me: "No," replid the general. "I do not recollect you." "Well. I am Rush Burgess!" "Are you 'thai scalawag?" replied the general, in his emphatic drawl. "I am Rush Burgess, sir," replied Hush, flushing as red sb a turkey-cock; "but you should not speak of me in that way." "Sir," said the old general, with that expression of scorn and contempt in tone, look and gesture in which he has no equal, "your impudence in ad-dressinggentlemen deserves much worse and, had I known you, I would not have received your cigar," and he tossed it from him with loathing, and turned away.

Burgess made some remark to Col. Fleury about the general's age, when tne old uero returned. 'Sir," said he, "I am old enough to know what I ant saying, and I am young enough to stand up to it!" "inen, sir, cried Iurge6s, "our acquaintance ends here." "Xiudt! eicldiiiicd the general, "by heaven, sir, it has never begun!" A Ureat Farmi-r in (Jrorgi From tha Atlanta Beral I Culonel Lee Jordan owns and cul tivates 20.000 sores, the original cost of which was $450,000. He has SuO laborers, but is gradually adopting the tenant system. He raises twice as much eoru as he needs.

Six overseers superintend the plantations, and raise from 1,400 to 2,000 bales of cotton. No fertilizers are used, as Colonel Jor- don believes them to be productive of caterpillars, formerly be spent 1 000 per annum in guanos and phcs pbates, but now makes his own manure. H. Coleman does the practice of tbe plantations on tbe following plan lie assesses each head of a family $3 a year, whether he is sick or not; and thus, by taxing each man lightly, is made burdensome on none. He is a good physician, and says it is tbe healthiest country he ever saw.

Only two adults died last year oat of over a thousand souls. Tbe preaching is dose en the a here is a negro preacher on a $3,000 salary, who rides about the country in his two horse buggy, as fat as a bishop, and as happy as a prince. He charges $3 a head for dealing oik salvation the year around, and, with a membership of never gets less than per annum out of tbe place. He is a Republican, but sticks to the gospel with a fervor that only such a salary could inspire. -v Some remarkable feats of skill were recently performed at Be pal, in India, by the Sikh -eavalry.

A sheep was suspended a sort of a gibbet, and the men were to ri Capt. Buller, the conrmndnt fif t-hjs Central India Horse, divided the sheep in one single out; bat altbo' nearly one hundred outs wre made at another careass by the men at various times, not one succeeded in severing it. Capt. Boiler was destined to perform tbe coup de grace, which be did in fine style, and the lower end of the carcass dropped in one single cut with his peculiarly shaped Sikh ccimitar. After this another very dexterous feat which is eommon to the Sikhs, was performed.

This consists in throwing circular shaped steel quoits et anything. The old ikhs throw these quoits with 'and have been known to decspitsle sjeors fjf'tfa night without inakins thff noise. Thev generally throw wm their left hand, and the quoits wbirls a as awf al speed with as straight and precise a course as a bullet A New York correspondent aavs you eao always tell yonaj bob de-seendirv from the Crt ef Eoe- tea, ty lis tivi? tie crl cf Lis gious massacre in that town on tbe night cf January bth. Kev. Mr.

Hutchison, pastor of the Presbyterian congregation of the City of Mexico, was invited to Acapulco last year, by a lawyer named Procapio Diaz and others, to organize a new congregation the nucleus of which already existed already nearly a year. Finding no suitable substitute, Hutchison came down in December, and took temporary charge of tbe new church. About 90 persons were found desirous of embra cing the new doctrine, and an old vacant Catholic church was rented, and on tbe 21th of January was opened in due form, Hutchison preaching twice that day. Daring the previous month THREATS HAD BEEN THROWN OCT by the adherents of Catholicity against their religious opponents. The former claim to have been systematically in suited by the Protestants, who had a small newspaper organ.

The latter energetically deny having done any thing more than fairly discuss sectarian dogmas. A prayer meeting was held by Uutahineon on the evening ot the 2otb, and a similar gathering agreed en for the following evening. This meeting was held, but Hutchinson was ill and unable to be present. THE PROTESTANT OUUROH has only two doors, both opening on the street, one was closed, and the other 'that nearer to the lower open. In front of the door, between it and the street, an umbrageous tree grows.

Under the shade of this tree and at either side of the door, watching the proceedings within the church, the as sassins, numbering some 35 or 40 men, took their stand. Procapio Dial had addressed the congregation in place of tbe absent minister, and they were singing a hymn when eight or ten of the cutthroats outside entered, and. dividing among themselves, occupied stands netr either side of tbe puipit WITHOUT ANT SIGN OF WARXINO whatever, these incarnate devils bared their murderous machets and commenced an indiscriminate slaughter of the peaceful inmates of tbe church not entirely indiscriminate, for tbe leader of the murderers ana one of bis men marked out Diaz as their special victim. A couple of machete blows were aimed at his head, which, if received in full force, must have terminated his existence. As it happened, he had sufficient presence of mind to dodge his head behind the pulpit, and a portion of the board was cut through before the weapon reached its mark.

He drew a pistol and tried to fire, but his assailants were too quick for him, and the leader inflicted a ghastly gash in his pistol hand. While this was passing, THE nXROIC WIPE OP DIAZ Picked up a chair, rushed upon one of her husband's would-be murderers, pinned him to the wall, and by main force wrenched his machete from his bloody hands. With this she defended herself, and hastened to the aid of Diaz. Perceiving a favorable opportunity she said to her husband: "Now fire." He did so, and fatally shot the leader. Within tbe churoh a bloody and MURDEROUS HAND TO-HAND rlGIIT Was waged for six or eight minutes.

The machete was wielded with fearful effect, human flesh cut and gashed like bullock meat, while blood streamed in torrents over the floor, now encumbered by dying or wounded men and women. Ten or a dozen shots were fired, a few from the assailed, some of whom had revolvers. At the commencement of the -onslaught those who were near the door attempted to escape. That was a fatal mistake, for as the affrighted worshippers gained tho street, they were DELIBERATELY CUT DOWN by ambushed ruffians stationed on bo'h sides of the door outside. In this way the American citizen, Henry Morris, met his death.

His head was nearly severed from his body by a matchete blow, and his chest cut open at a single stroke. He and two other men and a woman wero killed outright, and 11 wounded more or less severely, of whom several have since diod. Morris was a colored man, from Boston. He leaves a wife and several children. The massacre commenced about 10 minutes after o'clock, and lasted only six or eight minutes.

THE ACTION OF THIS AUTHORITIES. The first news which the authorities had of it was from a wounded man, called Juan El Negro, who made his way to the plaza and drug store, where he was met by Maj. Francisco Mejia, commander of a few federal troops stationed about Acapulco. Mejia ati once started on a run to toe scene or action, somo 400 yards off, and a few minutes later the town police, followed soon after by tbe federal troops from the castle, were on the ground. More than five minutes could not have elapsed from the closing of tbo battle to the time when the authorities reached their posts.

As usual in such cases the police and their allies CAME TOO LATE. bey got to the fatal held only in time to pick np the dead and wodnded, but not early enough to arrest an the spot or follow up any ono who oonld be immediately recognized as a partici pant in the dreadful tragedy. One of the assassins, who was desperately wounded and could not get out of the way, was taken in custody and placed in close connnement. 11 is deposition was taken, in which, of course, it ap peared be ngured as a spectator only. A cousIb of other wounded men wero apprehended, bat as nobody appeared to mfihcate them, tbe prssecnion may be looked upon as abandoned.

The credit of Bant county was plei- ged, Tuesday by a majority vot of about 500, to aid the Colorado and New Mexico railroad to the extent of $150,000, This insures two things first, the immediate construction of 56 miles of railroad between Granada and west Las Animas; and, secondly, tho completion of the rail connection between Pueblo and the western terminus of tho Atchison, Topeka and Santa re railroad Denver loth. The humming-bird of Brazil is threatened with extermination," and the subject of it has been deemed of sufficient fyf tie bareness Buruett ContU to mak tha cause of tho beUfa! Eitde chatterer her own. The passion tor Bstog tbese birds and their feathers as head orna ments has become universal in Europe, consignment of one house alone serving to show the extent to which the limited region of conn try! inhetsifii them is ravaged. In Minnesota wood is oriytrp dol lars at the but then it UXm cord of wood to vara cse cf a rl the last new novel, and all that now and then. You forget your personal grievances of which everyone has plenty for awhile.

When Mrs. A. has been "sitting up Tor Al fred until one o'clock the night before," it is better that her ac- quaintence, Mrs. B. should call man ner menu iane.

one would tell Jane that Alfred's conduct was dreadful, and that she should go home to ma if he went on. But Mrs. asks, "How is Mr. A-v ana JUrs. A.

says, "Very well, thank you. And Mrs. B. says, UI do hope we shall see you at our house together some evening soon." And -Mrs A. says, "We ahall take a great deal pleasure in coming.

And then comes the thought, how dreadful it would be to be talked about by acquaintances! And so acquaintances are good lor you. They are led into the midst of family luncheons. They do not see shabby morning gowns and cnmping-pms. Ihey are a fine sedative for all sorts of ag onies, in their company we try to look our best, behave our nicest, put our best foot foremost, and exhibit the best, and not the worst qualities of our re latives. Be a Maa er a Mease.

Ine nopeiessness of accomplishing any great undertaking without a proper amount or that quality which the world is plea sed to designate as "plucK, could not be better illustrated than following fable, which is said to be ot reman origin: poor mouse living in a house of a famous magician was kept in such continual distress by its fear of prowling eats, that the necromancer pitying its suffer ings turned it into a cat Im mediately it began to display the greatest fear of dogs, and the kind hearted wizard con verted it into a dog; but no soon er had it assumed proper canine proportions than it began to be in great fear of tigers. The magician was now wearied witl. his futile he chang ed the timid creature to mouse again, exclaiming as he did so, uAs you have only the heart of a mouse, it is imposible to help you by giving you the body of a noble animaL" It is just so with a timid man! He may be invested with ample prerogatives; and placed in positions where men of stout souls would make their mnuen ces felt, but having only the "heart of a mouse," his deed will never leave an impression on the age in which he lives. Taxation ot Bachelors. Bachelors will have a tough time of it in Tennessee, should a bill pass that has been introduc ed in the legislature of that state.

By the bill, "bachelorism" is declared a privilege, and every male inhabitant over 30 years age, of sound mind and good bodily health, who shall remain unmarried after the first of May, 1875, is required to pay a tax of 10 each annually, the money so collected to be appro priated to school purposes in the county where collected. It is made the duty of the revenue assesors to obtain, for purposes of taxation, full descriptive list of each bachelor in his district, given his age, complex ion. height, and the color ol hair and eyes. Carrying manners to excess is not a common fault, nor is it very reprehensible; but a little girl in a neigboring town rather overdid politness recently when, returning from an errand she de Jivered herself of her message thus; Aunt, the lady whom you wished me to see cannot do your washing JVednesday, as she has already accepted an invitation to wash on that day. ATOttttg.

man to one of those humbugs in the east that advertise: "How to make money easy, fast, and honestly," and re ceived this reply: "First, borrow 810,000 on ten years time at ten der cent.a year, loan it out at 4 per cent a month, and get your self appointed chairman of a grasshopper aid committee and you have a sure thing of it." Iresy la the aadwka bleeds. Tbe banishment of lepers is rigor ously carried out ia the Sandwich Is- ands. There was a recent official search for persons affected with the incurable malady, many having been secreted by their relatives. flandreds were found and pnt into a vessel for transportation to tbe leper village to be kept there until tbey d- Their amuies gatnerea en tne oeecn ana ex- preseipg their gnef in loud Umente-Mons. A talented half brsod, celled Bill Bgadale, baa long beld a igb place ia the regard of tbe 8aadwius Islanders.

He is aa orator of great natural power, a leader ia the district of Hilo, and a man ef notoriously bad morals. He discovered that be was leprous, although tbe indications were so slight that be bad notice, aad at once gave himself np to the authorities. A pro session of natives, -singing and carrying flowers, ee eerted him to the vessel which was to take him and the others to tbeir living graves. He made a speech to the assembly, argiag submission to the measures for, eradicating leprosy by end erpessing his hatred efmiaaariUV IfsVearmaa is gei5T to food that rrrtr3 xi'Jb tirrs Le i to the destinies of all those who are unfortunate enouch to believo all this rubbish, and get into their clutches. I tell you the merehants and certain newspaper men and tho railroad people are all in 'co-harmony" with each other, and Sioux City, Iiismark, and Yankton are all interested in the ring.

and are making loads of money out of it, while, for most ot the thousanas that might go there, they would either have to foot it back or stanve. llALrVaiLLIOJillOLLAUS. Tho levy for State taxes made by tbo legislature is for five mills on tho dollar, as follows: "For current expenses, four mills on tho dollar; for the payment of interest, four-fifths of one mill on the dollar; for the sinking fund, one-fifth of ono mill en the dollar." This is about half a million of dollars for tho current expenses of the State goyernment. It cuts up well in salaries, perquisites, and plunder. Rut with a surplus of one hundred thousand dollars in the treasury, there is not a dollar for the thousands of our destitute citizens, who are only saved from death by starvation by the bounty of liberal men and women of other States.

Half a million dollars in extrava gant and prodigal appropriations to political partizans, but not a dollar for starving women and children That's Republicanism in Kansas. ANOTHLIt ItEBUKE. The Standard of Chicago, tho leading Baptist paper of the northwest, has tho following merited rcbuko of the stony hearted majority of the late legislature: Can it bo possible We sec it stated that tho Kansas legislature has finally adjourned without making any appropriation or devising any relief for its oD.O'.IO sufferers from tbo grasshopper plaguo And this, too, when there is money in tho treasury. We are glad that friends havo been found in other States whoso sympathies and generous donations have flowed abundantly to thoso whoso plaintive appeal to their own legislature was heard in vain. This should only doublo tho diligence of tho workers in this field of m'ulortuno and destitution, for without seed or the money to buy it, theso thousands will havo no harvests, and their prospects will bo gloomy indeed.

Help in money and articles of utility should bo continually sent forward till tho harvest hymns arc sung over their onco waste places. Is tho United States really a country in which a man may worship God according to his conscience, or not worship God at all, and politically be at war with bis fellows? Two recent eccurrcnces seem to answer tho question adversely. Comment has already been made upon tho action of the North Carolina legislature, which expelled a member becauso he did not believe in the "Almighty described in the constitution of the Stato. More recently a Philadelphia judge has refused an application for naturali zation papers on the solo ground that tho applicant had no religious belief. The party was eligible in every re spect, but tho judge indorsed upon the petition, ''Refused on account of be ing an infidel.

AY here the court found its warrant for such a decision docs not appear. The Republican administration has pent several hundred millions of dol lars on the navy. We will let Admiral Porter tell tho result. In his offi cial report "to "coneress he says: "Of our forty-eight iron clads, thirty-one can never be of the least use, either in peace or war. unless sunk as obstacles to channels." So there is twenty millions of dollars thrown away.

Of tho ninety-nine wooden vessels, only thirty-nine are of any account, and not one of them could oope with a foreign vessel of equal size. Tho mills in the great lumber region of tho Saginaw valley have an aggre gate annual capacity of about 1,500 million feet, and the amount of capital invested is not less than 00,000. Within a quarter of a century, unless immediate and extensive planting is resorted to, there will not bo good timber" within reaching distance of navigable waters. i -1 at One hundred and ninety-four mil lions of dollars is what it costs to run the government lor a year, ibis is exclusive of the interest on tbo publio debt. In Democratic days it used to post tixty millions.

A Republican paper quotes from Hamlet tho averment that: "Your tanner last you nine year." This may bo true; but it does not follow that a tanner will last through three terms of four years each. Whan lha nairroMi of cfi frfn-i a again desire to see Grant they should take a small present of some kind to rp tiers. tketrLIto greater..