Opelousas CourierOPELOUSAS. . LOUISIANA.

LONGFELLOW'S LAST POEM1.

Mtr. Tongfellowj a poen, in the current Atlanticlonthii', is called a '"A hutch Pictlure." and de-scribes Simon Danz. a bold old bccanecr. who.ha'ving "singed the liuard of thte king of Spain,"and sold the d,.,n of.laen Is a s aye. to an Aigerinebuyer, has retired from active lbusiiess as a pirateto etnoy the wealth hte has won.

In his house by the Maese, with its roof of tiles,And weathercocks lying aloft in the air,'There are silver tankards of antique styles,Plunder of convent and castle, and piles

Of carpet rich and rare.

In his tulip garden there by the town,Overlooking the sluggish stream,

With his Moorish cap and dressing-gown'Ihe old sea captain, hale and brown,

Walks in a walking dream.

A smile in his grey mustachiolurksWhenever he thinks of the king of Spain,

And the listed tulips look like Turks,And the silent gardener ashe works

Is change. to the Dean of Jaen.

The windmills on the outermostVerge of the landscape in the haze,

' o him are towers on the Spanish coast,With whiskered sentinels at their post,

Though this is the river Maese.

iuat when the winter rains begin,lie sits and smokes by the blaziag brands,And old sea-faring men come in,Coat-bearded, gray, and wi:h double chin.

And rings upon their hands.

They sit there in the shadow and shineOf the flickering fire in the winter night;

Figures in color and designLike those by Rembrandt of the Rhine,

Htalf darkness and half light.

And they talk of their ventures, lost or won,A id their talk is ever and ever the same,

Wht'; they drink the red wineof Tarragon,Flot,, the cellar of some Spanish Don,

Or convent set on flame.

Footless,. at times, with heavy stridestHe paces nis parlor to and fro;

He is like a ship thatat anchor rides,And swings with the rising and falling tides,

And tugs at her anchor-tow.

Voices mysterious, far and near,Sound of the wind and sound of the sea,

Are calling and whisperingin his ear,"Simon Danz! Why stayest thou here?

tcme forth and follow me!"

Fo he thinks he shall take to the sea againFor one more cruise with his buccaneers,

To singe the beard of the king of Spain,And capture another dean of Jacn,

And sell him in Algiers.

MY FLIRTATION.

I had plenty of beaux when I wasyoung, and liked that very well. How-ever, I had heart enough at bottom, andwhen Stephen Lashley asked me tomarry him, in the end I consented,though I kept him in suspense along atfirst.

Neither Steve nor I were rich. Myfather had sufficient income to keep thefamily in a good style of living; but hesaved nothing, and I could expect noth-ing from him when I married. Stevehad just begun to practice'medicine, andwas s, ruggling as young doctors must.There was a pretty house just outsidethe town that Steve and I had our eyeon for a long time, and I had promised tobecome his wife as soon as he could callit his own.

By dint of such struggling and econ-omy as I never could have guessed, hehad put by enough for thefirst payment,and was plodding patiently on towardthe second and last.

I can see now what a selfish creatureI was, what a wretch, indeed, to pleasemyself with the flatteries of others whileSteve was working so faithfully for me.

That sounds as though I wasn't goingto marry Steve for love, but I was.

Our town was something of a fash-ionable resort for summer boarders; andmany of the people were in the habit oftaking boarders then. Father had al-ways objected to our doing so; but thissummer of which I speak he fell in witha stranger, as he was retur-nilg from along ride in the country, who havingshared his phaeton with him during thehomeward drive, succeeded in so in-gratiating himself with my father thathe allowed him to board with us.

The stranger was very much in myline--distinguished looking, possessingan eloquent pair of eyes,.nearly thecolor of my own, and having a vropen-sity to saying "pritty things" that wasjust delicious to a girl of my turn. Itwas such fun to draw him out, and then

g laugh at him; to pretend pleasure thenshyness; to invite and repulse in thesame breath. It was a genuine flirtation,as much so to him as to me.

Steve came often to see me, but hedid not see me alone, and he never stayedlate.

Steve's sister Marian and I were inti-mate, and spent much time together.Poor Steve enjoyed my visits to Marianmuch bettrr than he didaeeing l any-where else, and I liked it too, as muchbecause of seeing him as Marian. It wasthen aqniserable piece of heartlemsnes•for me to permit Mr. Fordyce, the"stranger," to accompany me thither,thus rading, as it were, my conquest,and te accomnplishmentsand attractionsof Steve's new rival, in the mest dis-agreeable manner possible.

Steve was good-natured, and kept thisdisappointment tohimself, butbe did notlike Mr. Fordyce, and he was quite alonein that. Everydady liked Mir. Fordyeebut Steve. He was an immensely popn-lar man in our small community, enter-ingas he did with such genuine sealinto all our interest. and bearing himselfgenially towards all.

When Parson Hammond, who livednearest to us, lost a valuable horse fromhis stable. and came over to our houseto me about * the thief, Mr.Fordye, thou hao just got homefrom a jaunt with somne friends whichket him almost of th night, insisted onbeing one of the puuing party, and,indeed, quite led It. It was the amewhen Mr; Dudevant's shop was brokenopen and robbed. Mr. Fordyee wentover and over the ground,and gaveshrewderguesses s to how the robberyhad been muanaged than sayee elseWhen other thefts of a similar arture,and also of lesser degree, continued tovex and puErle us fromltime to time, itwas Mr. ]~ordyee who insisted on severemeasures, prevailed on the authoritiesto olr large ewards for the apprehen-ioh tif the ondexs, and made-himself

so active in the matter as to win thegratitude of thewhole town.

He often joined our social gatheringsad be t aM tlseIfe iof tbhesa. I was

aeendled i n h avigs his eucort sotd• the: rwaor was very

fieve aadt e hs words onthuesujeCt ; and becamuse it wasaownssal insi in suct a

adid; sad

mid miotebe wroag,

apologized for his part the next day, butI listened cooly and retained my anger.

I flirted with Mr. Fordyce more des-perately than ever after that, but theaffair had really lost all its relish for me.I went reckleesly on, my foolish coursetill Mr. Fordyce in so many words askedme to marry him. I do not know whatit was about the man that allr at oncestruck me as insincere. I knew that hedid not mean what he said; and yet hewore a very love-like air, and he wouldhave clasped and kissed me if I had notshrunk swiftly away.

I answered him, however, as though hehad spoken sincerely, and told him, whatI do not often acknowledge, I was en-gaged to Steve Lashley. No man likesto hear "No" from a woman's lips wheneven his petition is an idle ene. For thefrst time I saw Mr. Fordyce's face dis-torted with a sneer of mingled anger anddislike, and I knew that my poor Steve'sstrange feeling toward Mr. Fordyce wasreciprocated by that gentleman withequal intensity.

One night there was a party at Steve'sfather's. It was Martins birthday. Mr.Fordyce took me over about 8 o'clock.It was a gay party. We had dancing,which we do not always have, and themusic and supper were good. I dancedwith Steve several times, and, being ingood spirits, found it rather difficult tomaintain the distance I had lately adop-ted towards him. His eyes, toe, hadsuch a soft, tender light in them, andhis lips such brightness.

"Come into the garden a minute, Bell,"he whispered to meat the close of a dance;"I have something to say to you ;"-anafor the life of me I could not say no.

When we were in the bright moonlitgarden he stopped where a clump oflilac bushes hid us from the house, anddrew from his bosom a roll of notes.

"I shall finish paying for our house,to-morrow dear," he said in a voice thatexclusive happiness made tremulous. "Idrew the money from the bank to-day-twenty-five hundred dollars. Ah, howI have worked for this hour !"

I should have been harder than a mill-stone if I had not forgotten all my fool-ish anger at that moment, if I had notmelted rather from my coldness; for Iwas as glad as he was, and I dropped myhead on his shoulder there in the moon-light, and cried happy, happy, remorse-less tears.

"Steve," I said, "you shall let mekeep the money till morning. I shallthink I have dreamed if you don't."

Steve laughed, but let me have myway. Ah, what a foolish whim it was!Few women would have dared to takecharge of such a sum of money; andfewer men would have permitted them.But Steve knew it was as safe, to allcommon calculation, with me as withhimself.

As we turned toward-the house for asingle instant I thought I saw theshadow of a man across our path; but,looking back, I saw nothing but thelilac bushes tossing in the summer air.

"What's the matter ?" said Steve,noticing my backward gaze.

" I thought I saw the figure of a mancrossing the path," I replied.

"Nonsense !" said he; and we wereindoors.

Well, Steve and I were the happiestpair there that night.: and Mr. Fordycesaw, and could not quite keep his eyesfrom saying that he hated us both for it,or I lancied so.

The party broke up at twelve o'clock;that was late for us, and Mr.Fordyce,having brought methere, took me home.On the way he told me of another rob.bery that had taken place the night be-fore at one of the hotels. A person hadbeen robbed of five hundred dollars,which he had just received at the bank.Perhaps it was that story that made me,tired as I was, bestow some thought ona hiding place for Steve's money. Ipondered very seriously as I took downmy hair and arranged for the night; thenwith a laugh at my own ingenuity Itucked the roll of notes in my luxuranttresses, and drew a net over to hold allin place. I was asleep almost the instantmy head touched the pillow.

The United States Senate AfterMarch 4.

The election of Judge Davis to suc-ceed Logan enables the Republican tostate definitely the political complexionof the United States senateon the foruthday of march next, and nothing indicatesmore strikingly the wonderful victoryachievedlastfallby thedemocracy. Withseventy-five seats filled in the senate to-day the republicans have a majority ofseventeen, while with the entire seventy-six seats filled they will lawfully beentitled to but two majority on the fourthof March. What majority they willactually have depends, of course, to agreat degree upon the extent to whichthey can use the majority they will havein the portion of the senate holding overMarch 4, 1877, in seating the republicansreturned by the pretended legislature ofLouisiana and South Carolina, and deny-ing admission to democrats from otherstates. It will be interesting to note,however, the changes which will occurin the senate during the next six years,which covers the period of office for whichthe new class of senators have beenchosen. By adopting the phraseologyused in college catalogues and classifyingthe senators according to the years inwhich their terms expire, these changescan be easily marked.

The first changes in the composition ofthe senate occur on March 4, 1877, andwill be as follows:

CLASS OF 1877.Democrats. Republicans.

Alabama.....Goldthwaite Arkansas.........c..ClaytonDelaware.........Saulabury Colorado................ TellerGeorgia............Norwood Illinos ................. LoganKentucky......Stevenson Iowa..... ...... WrightN. Carolina ...... Ransom Kansas...............HarveyOregon..................Kelly Louisiana.............. WestTennes•ee............Cooper Maine..................BlaineWest Virginia........Davis Massachusetts... BoutwellVirginia............Johnston Michigan...............Ferry

Mississippi........... AlcornRecapitulation. Minnesota......... Windom

Democrats............... 9 Nebraska........ HitchcockRepublican.............17 New Hamp•hire...Crarin

- N.Jersey..Frelinghu raenTotal.................26 Rhode Island.....Anto y

c. Carolina......RobertsonTexas..............Hamilton

The names placed in italics indicatethe senators who have been re-elected.

To make the change more apparentthe result may be summarized in thisform:

SENATOas. 'Dem. Rep. Vac't Total.

lPresentt enate...... . 29 I 46 i 1.Class of 1877 ............... 9 17 .

Holdover 1877.......... 20 I 29 1 50

It will be seen that the republicansonly have a majority of nine in thatportion of the senate holding over March4,1877-so that a charge of five voteswill prevent them seating republicaninstead of democrats lawfully chosen.There is only the remotest possibility,therefore, that they will keep Bulterfrom South Carolina, Eustis and thedemocrat yet to be chosen in Louisiana,out of their seats. Eustis is entitled tohis seat now, and he will probably beadmitted as soon as thq presidentialdispute is settled, and certainly if thedecision of the arbitration commissionbe in Tilden's favor. In that event, thefifty senators who hold over will standtwenty-one democrats and twenty-ninerepublicans, a majority of only eight forthe republicans. Of the tweny-six newsenators, sixteen will be democrats,counting democrats from Louisiana andSouth Carolina; and the account will,therefore, stand thus:

Dem. Rep. Total.Hold over 1877 ..................21 29Casa of 1883..... ...... 16 10 24

27 39 7i

Of these seventy-six senators,the termsof twenty-four expire March 4, 1879, oftwenty-six March 4, 1881, and of the re-maining twenty-six March 4, 1883, aswill be seen by the following statements:

CLASS OF 1879.Democrats. Republicans.

Connecticut ..... Barnum Alabams........... penceGeorgia...........Gordon Arkansas............ DorseyK.ntuecky........McCreery California...........SargentLouisian..............Eutis Florikd..........C.. onnoverMaryland...... Dennis Illinois...............OglesbyMissouri............ ...Bog Indiana......... .....MortonN. Carolina.....Merrimon Iowa............ .....Allison

- Kammse.............IngallsRecapitulation. Nevada................Jones

Democrats................. N. Hampshire. WadleghRepublicans ..............1 New York ....... Cnkling

-- Ohio.................•hermanTotal.......................24 Oregon..............Mitbhell

Pennsylvania....Cameron8" Carolina......PattersonVermont ...........MorrillWisconsin............Howe

CLASS OF 1881.Democrats. Eepublicans.

Connecticut..........Eaton California.............BoothDelaware............Ba•ard Colorado............ChaffeeFlorida..................Jones Maine................ HamlinIndiana .......McDonald Massachusetts......DawesMaryland............ Whyte Michigan.....ChristiancyMissouri.......... Cockrill Minnsola.......MeMillanNew Jeraey.....Randolph Mississippi ............ BruceNew Yo, k.........Kernan Nebraska..........PaddockOhio............... 'hurman Nevada...............SharonPeansylvania.....Wallace Rhode Island....Burnsidelennessee............ailey Vermont.........Edmunds",au ......... e.......Maxey Wisconsin ..... .CameronVirginia .......... WithersWest Virginia.Hereford

RECAPITULATION.Democrats.............. ........... ..... ..... 14Pepublicanp .. ... ... 12

Total................................... .............. :

CLASS OF 1883.Democrats. Republicans.

Alabama ..... Morgan Colorado............... TelerArkansas..........Garland Iowa.............KirkwoodDelaware ........... 8aabury Kansas

nrgi o........... Hill M. ne.DHu....... aellnois...:...........D a Massachusetts....... Hoar

Kentucky .............Bek Michigan ............... FerryLouisiana Minnesota......... WisdomNorth Carolina...Raearo Nebraska..........SaundersMississippi......... Lamar New Hampshire.RollinsNew Jersey...McPnerson Rhode Island....Anl.hny)regon .............. GroverSouth Carolina.....RutlerTennemee ........... HarrisTexas....................CokeWest Virginia......DavisVirginia......... .J.dston

RECAPITULATION.Democrats......................... ............. 16epubilcans .................. ..... ........... 10

Total............................................................. 26

GENERAL BUMMARY.

SClasi f Class Class I7 9 '81 '83 t Total.

I eaiocrate....... 7 14 I6 37Republicans..... 17 12 10 39

Aggregate. 24 26 26 76

Nothing need be plainer than that therepublican majority of two will instantlyvanish when Tilden takes his seat, sothat his administration will begin with agood working majority in both branchesf congress, which will be greatly in-

ocreased after March. 4, 1879.-St. LouRepublican.

Eminent Counsel.The counsel employed to represent the

craes-of the rspective high contendingparties before the great court of arbitration are men of distinction, and yet the

harters of the gentlemen selected on thediferent sides ame in some sert typical ofthe ehamracter of the ases. On the dem-oeratic aide the ease will be in the handsofJere 8. Black, the ablest lawyer nowat the s•peme conrt, a democrat of theBuchanan school, and a keen, incisivereasoner apon facts as well as principle.

we will be misted by Lyman Trumbull,who has no superior as a clear-headedconstittaoal lawyer; Matt Carpenter,the brilliait but erratic lawyer of thenorthwet, wh ise one of the most cogent_manras at the bar, amasingly welltsla in # stitutional a, keen in logicam4aveMtiaana ;Jude sam.p-bell, bo hms been himel~ an anociate-

justice of the supreme court, and BenButler, whose peculiar powers and ex-cellent knowledge of the ins and outs ofLouisiana politics, of which he himselfwas in some .ort the founder, eminentlyfit him to cross-examine the Louisianareturning board. What Butler fails toextort from Wells, Kenner, Andersonand Casanave will probably net be worthknowing. This line of counsel showsplainly that the democrats intend topresent the law before the court in thestrongest shape, and sift the facts in theminutest manner. In a word, theymean business, and wish everybody toknow that they think they have a case,and intendt to present it in the best possi-ble form. On the other hand, the re-publican case is to be confided to Mr.William M. Evarts, the eminent coun-sel who led the forlorn hope to the de-fense of the late Henry Ward Beecherto Mr. Stoughton, of New York, whohas taken Edward Pierrepent's positionas the thick-and-thin advocate of Grant-ism in its last and first phases; and toMr. Bob Ingersoll, the corrupting sky-rocket of fly-up-the-creek republicanism,he whose flowers of oratory spring upfrom seeds borne to inaccessible shoreson the bubbles of bosh. In other words,the democrats mean to present theircase in a legal way, and the republicansin a rhetorical way. One side will taketo the supreme court; the other side willmagniloquize to the select audience ofconfederate X roads. One will hold upthe constitution; the other wrap itselfonce more in the bloody shirt.-BaltimnoreBulletin.

Pithy Political Points.This is a bad year for the apostles of

the bloody shirt. Boutwell, Logan,Hitchcock, Morton-where are they.-Pitt4burg Post.

The Louisiana situation is describedexactly in the old college song. "A boyhe had an auger, that bored two holes toonce."

When Morton declares "upon hishonor as a senator," then look for a cleanindorsement of some radical villainy. Itis certain to follow every time.-In-dianapolis Sentinel.

Simon Cameron asks, " What next?"Well, Simon, you could make your for-tune by walking along the Union Pacificrailroad and picking up the empty cans.-New York Herald.

"To-day," says Forney, "we compareOliver Perry Morton, of Indiana, toDaniel Webster of Massachusetts." You:may do it, Forney, and do it safely; forWebster is dead.-Chicago Times.

If the proposed settlement involveddishonor, or a humiliating surrender of aright or a principle, it could not beadopted. It involves neither. It is fairand right and ought to be sustained.-Boston Advertiser.

Morton fell off the fence yesterday inthe very middle of his speech, and peer-ing wistfully through a knot-hole, ex-claimed: " Great mercury ! was I overon that side last year?"-Brooklyn Air-gus.

The "compromise bill," so-called, pre-.sented in both houses of congress, is not acompromise at all, but simply proposes amethod to count the electoral voteswhichshall allay the popular excitement andquiet apprehension.-Boston Trans'rilt.

Nobody can say that Mr. Logan hasnot rendered his country an importantservice. He has staid away from thesenate in an emergency when his pres-ence would in all likelihood have beenan infernal nuisance.--Chicago Times.

Senator Sargent obiects to " bringingthe supreme court judges down to themuddy pool of politics." Of course Sar-gent doesn't want any clear water orclear sailing. His party has too longfed on ditch-water.-- Courier-Jonrnal.

It is now ascertained that of the fourjudges chosen on the commission of arbi-tration, but one is a republican--JudgeMiller. Judge Strong was called to thesupreme bench from the Pennsylvaniasupreme court, to which he had beenelected as a democrat.- Toledo Commer-cial.

'J he Circulation of the Blood.Physiology was destined to receive

more substantial contributions fromCesalpino than either botany or min-eralogy. The circulation of the blood,that is its passage from the right side ofthe heart across the lungs to the left side,had been known to Galen, who also knewthe arteries and veins in their ultimateramifications communicate with eachother across an "anostomosis" of minutevessels in every part of the body. Thisknowledge was vitiated by the hypothesisthat the blood passed from the right sideof the heart through the interveningseptum of the left, an hypothesis of whichJulius Caesar Arantius, of Bologna, ex-posed the absurdity. The next and finalstep in the discovery belongs, accordingto the Italian physiologists, to Cesalpino,who in 1569, demonstrated the passageof the blood fromithe arteries'to the v~ins,across the capilaries througl~out the sys-tem, and applied the term "circulation"to the perpetual movement of the blood"from the veins to the right side of theheart, from this to the lungs, from thelungs to the left side of the heart, andfrom this to the arteries." In 1593 hepublished the "Quistioni Mediche," inwhich he illustrated the circulation byconstricting any limb of the body With abandage, whereupon the vein swelled inthe interspace between its capilliaryorgan and the ligature, so that when cutwith-a lancet the black venous bloodflowed out; and after it the red arterialblood. "Cesalpino moreover" (says hisrecent apologist, Dr. Ceradina, of Genoa,to whom I am indebted for many of theabove mentioned facts), "recognized thatthe blood is contained at a higher pressure in the arteries than in the veins,and that in its passage from the former tothe latter the capilliary anastemoses in-terpose a greater or smaller obstacle ac-cording to the degree of their dilation."All these facts," continues Dr. Ceradini,"Cesalpino taught first from the chair ofmedicine at Pisa, and subsequently atRome, where he died in 1603. All thatwas left for Harvey to do was to strength-en Cesalpino's discovery by assigning tothe valves (of which Fabricio Di Ac-quapendente first pointed out the ex-istence) the function of opposing thecentrifugal movement of the blood. Infact, Harvey's merit really and onlyconsists in having successfully sustaineda struggle against the prejudice and ig-norance that impeded the acknowledge-ment of Cesalpine's discovery."

It is old that, after such proofs ofscientific acumen Cesalpino should havewritten seriouslyonwitchcralt; but suchis the fact. Some nuns of Piss werereputed to be possessed by demons, andthe archbishop of the diocese convokedthe theologians, philosophers, and phy-sicans of the university td investigatewhether the phenomena manifested bythe nuns proceeded from natural causes.Cesalpino's contribution to the subjectjudiciously refrained from denying theexistence of evil spirits. He said thatthese unseen aencies makes use of phy-sical means, dffusing a subtle poisonwhich causes fascination, enchantment,and other signs of demoniacal possession.These phenomena, however, can be curedby physical means like another disease;

though, he cautiously adds, religiousministrations will Zenhance tne efficacyof the remedial agent. In this recog-nition of the church Cesalpino betraysthe dread common to Galileo and ethercontemporary savans, of offending thespiritual authority; and, though he wasaccused of materialism and atheism byDr. Samuel Parker, archdeacon of Can-terbury, and the French physican,Taurel, he never lost the favor of theRome Curia. In fact, the cardinal whopresided over the press, in allowing himto publish his "De Metallicis," declaredthe treatise worthy of its author, "Chefu scnpre dliligenliSimono s8cqae dei dogmiperipatetiche" (who was always a verydiligent follower of the Aristotelian dog-mas). Another point worth noting inCesalpino's career is the fact that he waspast fifty when he began to write, andhe was eighty-four when he publishedhis last work, an appendix to his earliest("The Quistioni Peripatetiche"). Atthat age he died, leaving behind him aworld-wide reputation for versatility,sagacity, and learning.

The Moon and the Tides.As the moon revolves around the earth

from west to east, says professor Ran-dolph, she advances eastwardly in herorbit about thirteen degrees in everytwenty-four hours. Hence, when anypart of the earth in its revolution comesunder the part of the heavens where themoon was the evening before, the moonis not there, but has gone eastward thir-teen degrees, and, therefore, the earthmust turn on its axis as much longer asis necessary to bring that part againunder the moon, which requires gener-ally, not always, about fifty minutes.The same thing occurs the next eveningand the evening after, and thusthe moon rises most of the yearabout fifty minutes later each day.Now, as the tides are produced mainlyby the moon, it will at once beseen fromthis eastward movement and the laterrising each day why they must occurabout fifty minutes later each day.While the lunar tide is thus daily lag-ging, the solar tide occurs at the sametime. Hence these two tides alwaysbegin to separate after new moon, beingfurther apart each day, until they againcoincide at full moon, when there is, asalready stated, a higher tide than usual,called spring tide. Then again theyseparate, until new moon occurs, whenthey once more unite, producing anotherspring tide. It must not be supposedthat the whole body of the ocean to itsprofoundest depths is equally moved bythe tides. The tides are mainly super-ficial, and, except where the water isof moderate depth, the lowest parts areonly slightly disturbed, but to whatdepth the tidal current extends cannever perhaps be satisfactorily determ-ined.-- Washington Star.

Loss of Life from Fires in PublicBuildings.

Dr. J. M. Toner, of Washington, hascompiled a list of theatres, churches, andother public buildings which have beendestroyed by fire within the memory ofman. He goes back to the year 348 B.C., when the temple of Delphi was burned,and the year 336, when " the aspiringyouth" tired the " Ephesian dome. Thetable includes the following notable con-flagrations, with the dates of their occur-rence and the number of lives lost incertain cases: Church of St. Sophia,Constantinople, 532 A. D.; St. Paul's,London, ]137; St. Paul's and sixty oth-er churches, London, 1666; Drury Lanetheatre, London, 1672; the Flemishtheatre. Amsterdam, 1772, 700 lives;Trinity Church, New York, 1773; Sara-gossa theatre, 1778, 400 lives; the thea-tre at Mbntpelier, 1783, 500 lives; Lon-don bridge, 1812, 3,000 lives; Chestnutstreet theatre, Philadelphia, 1820; Parktheatre, New York, 1821; Bowery thea-tre, New York, 1828; theatre in Canton,China, 1845, 2,300 lives; Niblo's theatre,New York, 1846; church at Santiago,Chili, 1863, ever 2,000 lives; Niblo'sGarden, New York, 1872; Saragossatheatre, 1872, 600 lives; and the (Fifthavenue theater, New York, 1872. Thelatest repor! gave the number of thelost by the Brooklyn theatre fire at 284.-Boston Trancriplt.

The Stage and the Pulpit.Without entering any comparison with

other means for educating mankind toa higher standard of morality, it is im-possible to deny that the theater is apowerful lever for good or evil. Thetendency of the modern stage to melo-drama, to buffeonery, to indecency, cannot be too harshly condemned. BlackCrooks and blood-and-thunder dramas,with no moral, no idea, no sentiment,but appealing only to the eye or to themore sensuous emotions, are productiveof as much harm as the most bitter op-ponent of the stage can denounce againstit. In this category may also be in-cluded that peculiar species of dramaknown as the French school, wherein so-cial vices are depicted in attractive colors,and the sympathy of the auditor isaroused for the impure when clothed ina false sentimentality. This may be'candidly admitted without any reflectionupon the stage, or those who ,belong tothe actor's profession. Vice, unfortu-nately, is not confined to any one classor calling. The stage is no more respon-sible for having loose characters upon it,than is any other profession. No onedreams of condemning a whole class ofpersons because some fall by the wayside.If so, then from the very city from whichDr. Talmadge inveighs against the stagewould come the most flagrant attacksupon his own sacred calling.Trains Meeting at a Speed of Sixty

Miles an Hour.The two trains, propelled with -ll the

speed possible, met in a cutting tily feethigh, at a few yards from the entrance ofa tunnel, and in a spot where the linedescribes a curve so share that it is notpossible to see more than one hundredfeet ahead. The two engines, weighingsome eighty tons each, literally pene-trated each other about three feet, be-coming as it were, riveted together. Thetenders were, on the other hand, so upsetthat one of the stokers was subsequentlyfound buried under the coal. Propelledby a joint impetus of upwards of sixtymiles an hour, the carriages, naturallymuch lighter than the engines, continuedtheir headlong route, mounting over thelocomotives, and forming a huge pile ofwreck, or shattering into a thousandsplinters, which I cannot compare toanything better than what might be im-agined had the whole been hurled downa deep mountain precipice. I myselfsaw half the roof of one of the carriages,not to speak of fragments, in the adjacentfield, fifty feet above the level of therails, while pieces of planks strewed theslope of the cutting. Both the engine.drivers, the two stokers and the twoguards perished in this collision. Sometravelers who had already suffered in thecollision at Montereau a few hours b>fere, were again wounded or contused.Mr. Matheys, of London, and his servantwere killed in the most frightful mannerpossible, and in the other train a travelerresiding at Macon. Mr. Hume and Sir- Stewart escaped death by a true mir-acle. The former had a laceration of the

foot, and the latter had his thigh broken.A sprightly young American namedTorcey had his thigh in a like mannerfractured; and when I left I understoodthat the surgeons of Aix les-Bains, wherehe was conveyed, feared lest it should benecessary to make an operation. Onepoor woman was found with her headsevered clean from her body, and pre-sented such a ghastly spectacle that theman who found her was perfectly over-come. A little girl wandered about Aixalone, her mother having had both herlegs cut off. The guard at the tail of thetrain, sitting in his box, on seeing thecatastrophe in all its details, at once losthis mind, and on being questioned by aperson at the station of Aix, where hewas taken, began to dance and sing.Poor fellow, he was put into the madasylum at Chamberry. Numerous pas-sengers were most seriously wounded,and those who had simple contusions re-ceived the most violent nervous shock,besides a sort of concussion of the in-testines, predisposing to inflammation;they also complained greatly of pains inthe head.

SPECIE PAYMENT.

Message from the President-If Currencyand Col. Should Reach Equal Val-

em. It Way Become Advisableto Direct Resumption.

The following is the president's message tocongress on the subject of specie payments:To the senate and house of representatives:

By an act of congress, approved January14, 1875, to prove for the resumption of spe-cie payments, the 1st of January, 1879, isfixed as the date when such resumption isto begin. It may not be desirable to fix anearlier date when it shall become obligatoryupon the govern'ment to redeem its out-standing legal tender notes in coin, on pre-sentation; but it is certainly most desirable,and will provide most beneficial to every pe-cuniary interest of the country, to hasten theday when the paper circulation of the coan-try and good coin shall have equal value, itmight become advisable to authorize, or di-rect the resumption.

I believe the time has come when, by asimple act of the legislative branch of thegovernmient; this most desirable result canbe attained. I am strengthened in this viewby the course trade has taken in the last twoyears, and by the strength of the credit ofthe United States at home and abroad.

For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876,the exports of the United States exceededthe imports by $120,213,102, but our exportsinclude $40,569,621 of specie and bullion inexcess of imports of the same commoditiesfor six months of the present fiscal year.From July 1, 1876, to January 1, 1877, theexcess of exports over imports amounted to$10,544,869, and the imports of specie andbullion ex seeded exports of precious metalsby $6,192,147 in the same time. The actualexcess of exports over imports for sixI months, exclusive of specie and bullion,amounted to $113,737,040, showing for thetime being the accumulation of specie andbullion in the country amounting to morethan $6,000,000, in addition to the naturalproduct of these metals for the same period,a total increase of gold and silver for sixmonths not far short of $60,000,000. It isvery evident that unless this great increaseof precious metals can be utilized at homein such a way as to make it in some mannerremunerative to holders, it must seek a for-eign market as surely as would any otherproduct of the soil or manufactory. Anylegislation which will keep coin and bullionat home will, in my judgment, soon bringabout practical resumption, and will add thecoin of the country to the circulating me-dium, thus securing a healthy inflation ofsound currency, to the great advantage ofevery legitimate business interest. The actto provide for the resumption of speciepayments authorized the secretary ot thetreasury to issue bonds of either ot the de-scriptions named in the act of congress ap-proved July 4, 1870, entitled "An act to au-thorize the refunding of the national debt"for not less than par in gold. With the pre.sent value of 4, per cent. bonds in themarkets of the world, they could be ex-changed at par for gold, thus strengtheningthe treasury to meet the final resumption,and keep the excess of coin over the demandpending its permanent use as a circulatingmedium at home. All that would be re-quired would be to reduce the volume of thelegal tender notes in eircuh tion. To ac-complish this I would suggest an act author-izing the secretary of the treasury to issuefour per cent. bonds with forty years to runbefore maturity, to be exchanged for legaltender note4 whenever presented in sumsof $60 or any multiple thereof, the wholeamount of such bonds, however, not to ex-ceed $250,000,000. To increase the home de-mand for such bonds I would recommendthat they be available for deposit in theUnited States treasury for banking purposesunder the various provisions of the law re-lating to national banks. I would suggestfurther that the national banks be requiredto retain a certain part of the coin interestreceived by them from bonds deposited withthe treasury to secure their circulation. Iwould also recommend the repeal of thethird section of the joint resolution for theissue of silver coin, approved July 22, 1876,limiting subsidiary coin and fractional cur-rency to $50,000,000. I am satisfied that ifcongress will enact some such law as will ac-complish the end suggested they will give re.lierf to the country instantaneousin its effectand for which they will receive the gratitudeof the whole people. U. S. GRANT.

Executive Mansion, Feb. 3, 1877.The secretary of the treasury says he has

sufficient silver to meet legitimate demands,and declines to re-exchange United Statesnotes for silver brought to the departmentin sums varyihg from $10 to $500.

UMICLE REMU8S' REVIVAL r rT"'.N

I.Oh! whar will w, go w'en de great day Comes.Wid de blowin' uv do trumpets an' de banugt' nv

deldrumns?How many po' hinners '11 be cotched out late,An' tine nc latch to de golden' gate ?

No use fer ter wait 'twell to-morr, rLD sun mnus'n set on yo' aerrer,Sin's es sharp ez a ibamlroo brier-Oh, Lord ! fetch the mao'ners up higher'

II.W'eu de nashuns or de eart in a stalnin' all aroun'Who's gwine ter be choosen for tor war de Glorycrown ?Who's agwino fer ter stan' stifl kneed an' Iol'An' answer to dere name at de callio' uv de roll

You better come now ef you comnl'-(tle Satan is lotmoeans a hummrn'--Dle wheels uv distrucehun Is a bummi, -.CG, come along, sinners of you cornln'.

III.De song uv sa'vation Is a mighty sweet song,An' de Paradise win' blow fur an' blow strongAn' Aberham's buzzum is saf' an' it's wide.An' dat's de place whar de sinners oughter hide

No use tobe stoppin' an' a lookin',Ef yoa fool wid ratan you'll get took in.You'll hang on de edge an' get shook In.Ef you keep on a stoppin' an' a lookin'.

IV.De time is right now an' dishere's de place--Let de salvashun sun shine wqiar' in yo' face,Fight de battle of de Lord, fight soon and fight ,ateAn' you'U allera fine a latch on de goldin' gate '

No use fer ter wait 'twell to morrer--I-e sun mus'n't set on yo' sorrer.Sin's ez sharp ez a bamboo brier-Ax de Lord fer ter fetch you up higher.

-Atlanta Cnrstfitit.

FACI'S AND FANCIES.

WHENEVER a lot of men undertake tocrowd women out of a legitimate callingthey make St. Paul responsible for it.

CAPTAIN BURNABY was asked by hisTurcoman guide which an Englismanlikes best, his horse or his wife, but theauthor answered diplomatically, "-Thatdepends on the woman."

THE Moors, after occupying Spainover seven hundred years, and making itduring the middle ages the home of agri-culture, as other arts and sciences, wereexpelled in 1492, the same year Colum-bus discovered the new world.

AMroNG the most recently discoveredpopulation of savages, the cannibals ofNew Ireland, in the South seas, there isa custom which requires that a chief'sdaughter shall Je kept in a cage withinher father's hote until her introductioninto society. The cage scarcely gives herroom to move, and she cannot leave itduring anypart of the day. though she isallowed to take a stroll with near rela-tives after nightfall.

A WRITER in Fraser's Magazine sayseyeglasses ought never to magnify much,but merely show the objects clear andexactly as they are. Every person oughtto be able to read with their spectaclesat :he same distance that he was accus-tomed when his sight was unimpared.Pebbles are preferred on accout of theirI clearness, never becoming dull frommoisture, but they are dearer. To testtrue eye-glasses hold them obliquely overprint, when, if the glass is correct, theletters will preserve their true character.

THE artistic scene painter may nowpack up his pots and brushes and learnanother trade. Theatrical managers nolonger have need of him. Science,the magic lantern, photography, andoxyhydrogen lights have extinguishedthem. By these appliances some of theLondon theatres are producing theirscenery. A blank curtain at one end ofthe theatre, a man slidinga bit of a'pic-ture in a grooveatthe other, and temples,prisons, landscapes, dungeons, cities, ordark glens for murder, beautiful brookbanks for love making chase eachother across the stage like the phanta-sies of a dream. Worse even than this,the parties on the stage who have nopart but that of simply putting in anappearance-the armies, the ghosts, thestreet lounger, the walking but not thetalking wentlemen-may in time all besupplanted by shadows. A little sinfulventriloquism thrown in, and even thesecould be made to perform small partseffectively. A simple stage, six or sevengood stock actors, one g, od ventriloquist,a grst-class hand organ for the orcnestra,a spectroscope, and we have the principleadjuncts of the coming theatre.

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What Will Surprise an Indian.The Indian has actual and common

experience of many articles of civilizedmanufacture, the simplest of which is asentirely beyond his comprehension as themost complicated. He would be a sim-pie exclamation-point did he show sur-prise at everything new to him, or whichhe does not understand. He goes to theother extreme, and rarely shows or feelssurprise at anything. He visits thestates, looks unmoved at the steamboatand locomotive. People call it stoicism.They forget that to his ignorance theproduction of a glass bottle is as inscru-table as the thunder. A peice of gaudycalico is a marvel; a common mirror amiracle. He knows nothing of the com-parative difficulties of invention andI manufacture, and to him the mechanismof a locomotive is not in any way morematter of surprise than that of a wheel-barrow. When things in their owldailyexperience are performed in what to themis a rermarkable way, they do express themost profound astonishment. I haveseen several hundreds of Indians, eagerand excited, following from one telegraphpole to another a repairer, whose legswere encased in climbing boots. Whenhe walked easily, foot over foot, up thepole, their surprise and delight foundvent in the most vociferous expressionsof applause and admiration. A whitelady mounted on a side-saddle, in whatto the Indian woman would be almostan impossible position, would excitemore surprise and admiration than woulda Hoe printing press in full operation.-" The Hu nting Groun.rd of the GreatT t.t."

Hard Upon the New York tiamblers.The outlook for gamblers in New

York city is unfavorable. The period oftheir new tribulation may be short, butit promises threateningly for them atthe outlet. The keepers of a faro gameclose to Madison square, a section of thecity where most of the heavy gamblingis done, went from judge G ildersieeve'scourt last Monday to the penitentiaryfor six months. The significance of thisis that heretofore convicted gamblers ofthat class have simply been fined. Thejudge intimated, too, that longer termswould be imposed in future cases. Be-sides, the grand jury has prepared astatute for the legislature to pass, mak-ing pool selling a misdemeanor; andeucha law, enforced, would stop most of thesportmen's fun at the horse races.

Pretentions Pests of the Period.Our expendit.tres must be made more

productive; the dignity of labor musthave more recognition, and the gentilityof various counterfeits of work ratherless. The country yields enough for all,and we must learn to make all earn theirshare of its abundant wealth. The ablebodied tramp who lives on the earningsof honest toil is no more of a social pestthan some more pretentious members ofsociety, who live by various ingeniousdevices for levying toil on capital andlabor. A good many such have foundtheir nat u ral level of late, in our progresstoward sound business method; manymore gamblers, speculators and superflu-',us middlemen must fall by the way.-New York Thmes.

I ought to have s ept soundly anddreamed happy dreams, but I did not.Some counter influence seemed to rufflemy slumbers and I awoke.

Some one was in my room. I knew itas well as though I could see, and theroom was too dark for that. There wasno sound either, but for all that I knewI was not alone. I tried to scream, toraise my voice. I was frozen with ter-tor. I never thought once of the money,or robbers, or anything that I know of.I was only frightened so that I could notmove hand or foot, or make a noise. Idrn't know;but Istopped;breathing. I canremember yet how cold I felt, thoughthenight was warm.

Saddenly, without the warning of abreath I was conscious that a hand wascreeping steadily about my pillow.

I did not think of money even then.as terror had stolen my senses, so now itbrought smine of them back. I gave onescream antsprang from the bed, or triedto. Two strong hands dropped me; afirm hand held me, while the other handvainly sought to loose myhair. The net,more obstinate than nets usually are,would not come off probably because, inhis hurry, my. mysterious assailant wasunconscious of its pliant meshes. Hepulled my hair in his awkward astemptshorribly. The pain was like a spur tome. As his arm- lay acroesmy arms, Ibent my head swiftly, and fastened myteeth upon it with a vicious snap thatonly a woman in my situation wouldhave been capable of.

The unexpectedness. of the attackdissolved my bonds. With an audibleoath he let me go, and I darted awaywith winged feet, and met father in thepassage. Of course I fainted then andthere; and by the time anybody got in-to the room my robber had made goodhis escape.

Alas, however, he -should not have al-lowed himself to swear, above all, to awoman of such acute ears as I ad. Ihad heard the voice, and I kne~iit be-longed to Mr. Fordyce.

Father fairly turned pale when I toldhim; but he cautioned me not to betraythat I suspected any one present, and hetook Steve's money under his acharge. Wtb t•atbreakfast. Isldbavenrad thatMr. ordyce had made hisae e te•boutthesmelmeas the rest

the whommy Wom my , cesms hadaroused, and in themost atudl manner.He came down to breakfast now, smiling,and just interested enough in my adven-ture.

Father went -'away into town afterbreakfast, and Mr. Fordyee sat in thegarden and smoked. The offlees whocame to arrest him stole upon him frommhe bek way and send ed hiimbefore he

thought of resistance.It was a pla•a case. y found

prootenough of robberies he een atthe bottom of halle, bid away in histrunksd be ned thm at last, withmlflu nonchalance turning back his

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A Game with Living Chessmen.Most persons who have any acquain-

tance with the literature of chess haveheard of the games said to have beenplayed in the "middle ages with livingchessmen. Lord Lytton recently re-vived this amusement in India. Duringhis visit to Mooltan, last month, his lord-ship, after receiving and replying to anaddress from the municipality of thecity, engaged, we are told, "in a novelgame of chess with Co!. Millet. Thechess board, if such a term may be al-lowed to a carpet of red and white calicowith checkers a yard square, having beenspread in front of the hall, chessmen,men and boys, dressed in opposing redand white uniforms appropriate to thevarious pieces, were marched in and tooktheir places. Then by word of commandeach piece moved to the square indicated,and a very lively game ensued, ending inan easy victory for the viceroy. Anemperor of Morocco who once indulgedin a similar amusement is said to haveadded a terrible realism to the game bycausing all the pieces taken during itsprogress to be beheaded.

A Monopoly to be Feared.Under the above heading a corres-

pondent of the Scientific American says:The monopoly to be feared by farmers isthe brains of other professions. Whilethe farmers number 6,000,000 in thiscoun-try, there are only about 41,000 lawyersyet one of our best writers on politicaleconomy says that he can select one hun-dred lawyers, wh exert more influencein public affairs, than all the farmers puttogether. The same is true to only aslightly less degree of manufacturersandtransportation companies. Yes, theyhave a monopoly of brains. Farmersourselves, we are sorry to confess it, butconfess it we must. Who control theaffairsofnine-tenthsofour country towns?Usually the second-rate lawyers, otherprofessions and trades at the "center."Yet, it they but awoke to it, the farmerstoo might do a little of the public think-ing. The first step in the uplifting ofthis class to a place of power in societyis to place its men and women on thesame plane, intellectually as the others.In education is the farmer's bulwarkagainst encroachments and usurpation ofpower by the few over the many.