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House Cleaning.

"The saddest of the year,"

Of cleaning paint and scrubbing floors,

And scouring far and near.

Heaped in the corners of the room,

The ancient dirt lay quiet,

And spiders wove their webs secure

From fear, and din, and riot;

But now the carpets are all up,

And from the stair-case top

The mistress calls to man and maid

To wield the broom and mop.

Where are those rooms, those quiet rooms,

The house but now presented,

Wherein we dwelt, nor dreamed of dirt,

So cosy and contented ?

Alas! they’re turned all upside down,

That quiet suite of rooms,

With slops, and suds, and soap, and sand,

And tubs, and pails, and brooms;

Chairs, tables, stands, are standing round,

At sixes and at sevens,

While wife and housemaids fly about

Like meteors in the heavens.

The parlor and the chamber floor

Were cleaned a week ago,

The carpets shook, the windows washed,

As all the neighbors know

But still the SANCTUM had escaped

The table piled with books,

Pens, ink, and paper all about,

Peace in its very looks—

Till fell the women on them all,

As falls the plague on men,

And then they vanished all away

Books, papers, ink and pen.

And now, when comes the master home,

As come he must at nights,

To find all thing are “set to wrongs”

That they have “set to rights!”

When the sound of driving tasks is heard,

Though the house is far from still,

And the carpet women are on the stairs,

That harbinger of ill—

He looks for papers, books or bills

That all were there before,

And sighs to find them on the desk

Or in the drawer no more.

And then he grimly thinks of her

Who set this fuss afloat,

And wishes she were out at sea

In a very leaky boat;

He meets her at the parlor door,

With hair and cap awry,

With sleeves tucked up and broom in hand,

Defiance in her eye;

He feels quite small, and knows full well

There’s nothing to be said,

So holds his tongue and drinks his tea,

And sneaks away to bed.

American Politics.

Notwithstanding the praise we still hear of Mr. JOHNSON'S statesmanship, it has become increasingly evident of late that, so far from steering the vessel of State into the smoother waters that lay straight before him, he has "gradually re- versed the helm, and has been steering for the breakers. That those who on this side of the water most loudly sympathised with the Confederacy as loudly praise Mr. JOHNSON and applaud his policy ; that he has rallied to him all the old pro-Southern element in the South and the secession element in the South ; and that the loyal- ists of the South and those in the North who made sacrifices for the Union are nearly all against him, are facts which are significant of his present position, and strongly condemnatory of it.

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It must be clearly understood that the issue now before the country is not that which the friends of Mr. JOHNSON and many of our contemporaries here assume it to be. Of course the Philadelphia Con- ventionists follow Mr. JOHNSON in repre- senting the quarrel to be between himself and the "radicals," and in identifying the "radical" policy "with that adopted by Congress. But the "radical" policy, a- gainst which we have on many occasions protested, was as different from that adopted by Congress as "the people's" "Charter" was different from Mr. GLAD- STONE'S Reform Bill. Mr. THADDEUS STEVENS would have treated the Southern States as disorganized communities, would have governed them as territories, and af- ter a period would have admitted them as new States with new constitutions into the Federal Union. Mr. SUMNER would have required from them the enactment of universal negro suffrage and the renewal of all their constitutions in a thoroughly Republican sense. But this policy, which we are convinced would have been infini- tely wiser than that of Mr. JOHNSON, was never accepted by Congress. After long, but not too long inquiry and deliberation, Congress agreed upon a course which was the happy medium between the stern re- quirements and prolonged delays of the "radical" policy, and the yielding ease and inconsiderate haste with which Mr. JOHNSON would restore "the Union as "it was." The Reconstruction Committee sat for five months, inquired carefully and elaborately into all the conditions which could affect the question, and made a re- port on which the action of Congress was founded. It was Mr. JOHNSON'S duty to give this committee all the information on which his suggestions were based, and on which he had acted, but after six weeks of waiting all that the Committee could get was the authenticated copies of the constitutions of three of the States, some newspaper clippings as to the action of a fourth, and nothing at all about the other seven. Yet Mr. JOHNSON was in haste for Congress to register his decrees and re- store the Union in his way ; and those on this side who were raising their voices for all kinds of information, and seeking every pretext for delay in the mere am- endment of our representation, were just as loud in their denunciation of Congress for the inquiries it was making, the full information it was seeking, and the con- sequent delay it was creating in the re- construction of "a Federal Union after a civil war had rent it." In six months Mr. JOHNSON had made up his mind without information—-in five months Congress got all the information it needed, and pro- ceeded to legislate. And just at this point, as we showed at the time, was Mr. JOHN- SON'S opportunity. The "Radical" policy fell through. Congress, though asserting the unconstitutional character of Mr. JOHNSON'S assumption of reconstructive power, agreed to admit all that had been done, and to carry on the work [...] the point to which Mr. JOHNSON had brought it. It proposed that an amendment to the Constitution should be made guaranteeing the civil rights of the negroes, the public debt and the past legislation of the North, and redressing the inequality of represen- tation, which makes the Southern citizens weigh half as much again in the scale of the Constitution as a citizen of the North. Mr. JOHNSON'S friends supported this, the South were known to be willing to accept it, and the only comment made upon it, even by those who were hostile to it, was that it was a small result of so much la- bour. It was proposed that on the ratifi- cation of this amendment the Southern representatives should be admitted, and the Union, rendered safe by this simple redressal of a representative inequality, should be restored at once. That proposal was the test of Mr. JOHNSON'S statesman- ship and the touchstone of his sincerity. It contained nothing which he had not himself advocated, and nothing which North and South would not have agreed upon at once had Mr. JOHNSON joined with Congress in recommending it. But it was not needful that Congress should consult him in making the proposal, and it passed him over. Then it was that Mr. JOHNSON was found wanting. Had he put aside his personal pique, and thought only of his country, he would have taken the Congres- sional proposal as an olive branch, the South would have accepted it at his hands, the Northern States would have assembled their Legislatures in special session to ratify it, and by the time Congress ad- journed, not only Tennessee, but all the Southern States, excepting Texas, might have been enjoying the privilege of repre- sentation in Congress. But Mr. JOHNSON failed his country. At the moment when he could have done the Union essential service he chose to serve himself. An ill- tempered message was fulminated against the proposal of Congress, and the word went forth that the Union was not to be restored if it could not be restored in Mr. JOHNSON'S way. From that moment he threw himself into the arms of the South. Everywhere the old democracy, who would have closed the war by installing Mr. DA- VIS in Mr. LINCOLN'S place, rallied around a new leader, and the fight of Southern ascendancy was reopened on the field of Northern politics. The protests against "radicalism" are a blind—the ascription to Congress of all the blame of delay is a pretence; the real object of the movement which the Philadelphia Convention has sanctioned is the restoration of the South without the guarantees the Congressional proposal provides. The choice is not be- tween what Congress has talked and what the PRESIDENT has tried to do, but between what Congress has done and what Mr. JOHNSON has desired. The real issue is whether the constitution shall be amended so as to give equal civil rights to the freedmen and equal political representa- tion to the North with the South, or whether the old Union shall be restored with Southern preponderance and no pro- vision for the protection of the freedmen in their rights. Congress represents the policy of caution, and the wise healing its proposals would bring; Mr. JOHNSON re- presents a policy of concession which would give back to the South nearly all that the sacrifices of the war have pur- chased from it. Congress is for a lasting union founded on equal justice to both races and sections—-Mr. JOHNSON is for leaving the negro to his fate, and the North to its diminished share of Federal power. Congress would take precautions which are admitted to be wise and just before entering again into Federal alliance with those who have misused their power Mr. JOHNSON would have no real precau- tion taken, but would remarry the sun- dered sections in a hurry, leaving the North to repent at leisure. We are not, therefore, at all surprised that our con- temporaries who supported the South all through the war are loud in their support of Mr. JOHNSON now; but the same desire for the welfare of the great people who have sprung from the loins of England which decided our sympathy for the Northern cause, and made us rejoice in the Northern victory, determines our best hopes and wishes to the side of Congress, which really represents all the best inter- ests of human progress in the "reconstruc- tion" strife which is raging now.-—DAILY TIMES 10TH SEPT.

The American Ladies

Mr. Mercer's party of 100 ladies, who are on their way to Washington Territo- ry, the uttermost north-west corner of the United States have been heard of. In March their steamship the Continental had got through the Straits of Magellan, passed into the South Pacific, and bade good-bye to the shores of Patagonia, when a little mistake occurred. The correspondent of the NEW YORK TIMES, on board, who dates from the port of Lota, and signs himself "Rod," writes:— "By some oversight the captain ran into a port that was blockaded by Spanish fleet (on paper, for not a man-of-war was in sight), and, after leisurely drop- ping anchor, went ashore. There he soon learnt his mistake, and, hurrying on board, weighed anchor and made all speed to get out. But just as we began to congratulate ourselves that we had es- caped we saw a large man-of-war bearing down upon us under full head of steam. We tried to run by, but were soon brought up by a peremptory shot across our bows. A Spanish officer immediately came on board, and spent a long time in close ex- amination of the ship's papers. We were decidedly a rich and novel prize, having besides our valuable cargo over 100 good looking marriageable young ladies on board ; but our captor was either very favorably impressed or happened to be in a very generously gallant mood, for he finally concluded to let us go. I fear some of the fair ladies were disappointed at the result. A voyage to Spain would have been so romantic! But to the rest of us it was great relief when our captor dipped her colors and allowed us to pro- ceed to sea. Our next stopping place will be San Francisco."—(TIMES, MAY 25.)

Heavy guns Vs. Turret
Ironclads.

Some weeks ago, a very interesting experiment was made at Spithead near Portsmouth on the Turret Ironclad, Her Majesty's Ship Royal Sovereign, under the order of the Board Admiralty. The experiment consisted of mounting a gun weighing twelve and a half tons on board the Frigate BELLEBOPHON and anchoring this vessel at a distance of two hundred yards from the Royal Sovereign. Two marks were painted on the turret of the Ironclad, and one a mere chalk line along the deck up to the base of the turret. The gun was loaded in the first instance, with a charge of forty three pounds of powder, and a conoidal headed steel shot weighing two hundred and forty six pounds. The shot struck the mark at the edge of the plating, next to the gun- port, broke away a jagged piece, twelve inches diameter from the outer, or 5½ inch armour plate, bent back and frac- tured the inner or 7¼ inch plate, bulged in the wooden backing and inner skin, and passed into the turret, smashing the wooden skeleton gun, mounted in lieu of the turret's gun, which had been remov- ed, into a thousand splinters, but falling on the floor of the turret two thirds broken up, and without doing any inter- ior damage to the turret.'

The second trial was from the same gun, in which the same charge of powder was used, but the steel shot was four pounds heavier, distance two hundred yards.

This shot struck the mark at the tur- ret's weakest part, at the junction of two plates, and drove in the broken pieces twelve inches into the backing, about twelve inches from the upper edge of the plate and turret. The shot turned upwards and remained lodged in the wooden backing behind the amour plate.

The third trial was considered a mag- nificent shot, striking on the chalk mark. The distance was diminished, it being in this instance only a hundred and sixty yards. Another conoidal headed steel shot weighing two hundred and fifty pounds, charge of powder forty three pounds were employed. The target mark was on the ship's deck, eight feet from the side of the turret, the angle of fire being nearly horizontal. This shot merely scored the deck and upper collar plating up to the face of the turret, where it "gouged" out a piece of the armour plating seventeen inches long by nine inches wide and three and a half inches in depth.

After all this hard battering, the turret rotated easily by the force of three men at the winches. In fact the mechanical principle of the turret remained in tact. It is like a rifleman standing in some secure central spot, from which he can deliver his fire in every direction, all round the compass.

The experiment was conducted under Captain Key C. B., of the EXCELLENT. There were a large number of Naval officers on board, including all the mem- bers of the Board of Admiralty. The result was considered to be entirely satis- factory, and Captain Cowper Coles, who was present received the compliments and general congratulations, of all pres- ent for his persistency in advocating the superiority of turret ships over every other kind of Vessel of War.—RANGOON TIMES.

Anthony P. Dostie.

The bloody tragedy just enacted in New Orleans is likely to prove a leading event in the history of reconstruction. The hand of the Great Organizer can be clearly seen in it; for it befalls at a mo- ment when some extraordinary develop- ment is requisite to lead men to discern distinctly the nature and operation of forces, and acknowledge the dangers to which the national cause is exposed.

When the Government had neglected its golden opportunity to determine the status of institutions at the South in ac- cordance with the will of the victorious nation, and had practically adjourned the settlement of all the underlying questions of the war to the tribunals of local con- flict, it was inevitable that sooner or later blood would flow, to give divine sanction and enlargement to the cause of the weak against the strong. A conspicuous exam- ple, like that which has now shocked the nation, may serve to draw the electric wrath from the threatening cloud of race and class prejudice, rapidly accumulated in Southern skies under the sunlight of executive clemency.

In the list of martyrs belonging to the reconstruction period the name standing at the head of this article appears in bold relief. In his history and work, Anthony P. Dostie represents the cause and the conflict of the nation.

Dr. Dostie, before the war, was a quiet, industrious, law-abiding citizen. During the war he expended, in charity and in promoting the cause of the nation, the hard earnings of his life-time. There is no evidence that he incited insurrection among the former slaves. They gave heed to his words, and he counseled the to maintain with moderation their per- sonal rights and the rights of freedom. Gen. Banks says of him, "I knew him well. No country ever gave birth to a more unselfish man, a truer patriot, or a more devoted friend of liberty." His fault, in the eyes of disloyal men, was that he stood firmly by the Government in its struggle with treason, and that he intensely loved popular liberty. His last breath was given to prayer that the good work might go on. His name will be cherished, in the better ages that are to come, with John Brown, Gordon, of Jamaica, and many others who dared to love the down-trodden, and who died that liberty might be established on the broad- est basis of human rights.—-N. Y. INDE- PENDENT.

Sights in Holland.

A Rotterdam correspondent of the Boston TRAVELER, writes:

Imagine a city where every other street is a dirty canal filled with barges, where half the front doors open into brooks, and the other half directly into the streets, which are paved with brick. Imagine everything, from street door signs to tree trunks, perfectly white and clean, with the exception of the water with which everything is washed. Imagine every- thing looking as if they had just been sent home from a laundry, nobody dirty or shiftless, or slovenly, and all the peasants hobbling about in huge wooden shoes of a hundred pounds burden (to use a nauti- cal phrase), with soles two inches thick. Imagine several hundred small hand carts, laden with fruits and vegetables, pulled by dogs who trot under the axletree while the seller holds the affair up by the han- dles in the rear. The horses are very few in number, and very queer looking beasts they are. In fact, they don't resemble horses at all, and are so thin and miser- able in their aspect, that I don't wonder at the peasants preferring the dogs in their places. All freight and heavy goods are transported by water, and consequen- tly there are but few wagons. Those few are heavy and awkward, and are fasten- ed to the horses by ropes. The streets are lined with shade trees, and many of the houses have beautiful gardens, with rivulets instead of flower beds, and shaded islands in the place of summer houses.

Dutch stalls, stables, barnyards, in fact everything that I have seen in Dutchland, is clean and fresh. In cow houses the animals tails are tied up to a hook in the ceiling that they may not get soiled by contact with the floor; and when they go out to pasture in the spring, they have a cloth tied round them, as little boys have bibs, to keep them nice and clean. Bugs and spiders stand no possible chance of existence in Holland. Every week the whole energy of the inhabitants is devot- ed to scrubbing and cleaning, and indeed the whole city retains a damp appearance all the week from the terrible drenching it gets on Saturday.

When a person is sick, an announcement to that effect is put up outside the door, and changed like a bulletin as the disease progresses or is checked.

In walking about this morning, I saw several men walking very rapidly, with enormous three-cornered black hats on, short black coats covered with ribbons, small clothes and black socks. They car- ried in their hands blank edged paper, covered with writing. The hideous hired mourners of England are ugly enough, but these outdo them. They were all hat and ribbons, and I have just found out that they are the death announcers, and that it is their cheerful business in life to continually call upon the friends of any one deceased and usher in the mournful tidings, with an invitation to the funeral.

Cause and Effect.

It is painful to read the accounts of the New Orleans riot in which forty Un- ionists, from the best in the State alike to the humblest, were foully murdered, without feelings of indignation and shame at the relation in which Mr. Johnson stands to the matter. Whether, with his knowledge, he could have anticipated any such result we cannot say. In charity we will hope not. But it is still true that, as plainly as effect obeys cause, did the outbreak follow the disgraceful despatch- es from the White House to Mayor Mon- roe. Mad and reckless rebels charged the gun to which Mr. Johnson applied the match. Nor has any subsequent ac- tion of his indicated that he was greatly astonished or greatly grieved at this whole- sale murder of loyal men. The assembl- ing of the Convention may have been un- wise, but it had a right to assemble, as much as Mr. Johnson's friends have to gather at Philadelphia next week, and the Federal arm should have protected it.

Meanwhile how false are all the as- sumptions on which the President's policy is based; that the South has accepted the situation in good faith and yields to it a loyal submission. Not in the spirit of the New Orleans massacre do men do works meet for repentance.—Lo. Co. News.

Bangkok Recorder.

On Public Ways.

The following article copied from VATTEL'S LAWS OF NATIONS is, if we mistake not, appropriate and in season for the consideration of the Siamese government at the present time. The government has taken a grand step in the line of internal improvement in giving permission to an English com- pany to construct a Telegraph line from Barmah to Bangkok. This line we confidently expect will be of great service to Siam in less than three years, and will become increasingly so perpetually. But it can never con- vey any thing that is material. Siam is in distressing need of ways that men can travel, and ride their horses and drive their teams upon. While the rivers and canals are, and must ever continue to be the chief thorough- fares over the plains of Siam they ne- ver can satisfy the wants of an en- lightened and civilized nation.

Young Siam ever means to be ex- pected as a civilized nation, she must give immediate attention to the con- struction of good roads. A great des- titution of such facilities for traveling is a certain sign of barbarism. While His Majesty has made a praise-worthy beginning in civilizing Bangkok by causing several comfortable streets to be made, there is yet scarcely a good carriage road in this great metropolis of 400,000 souls. The street Charon Kroong comes the nearest to it: but a carriage can run but a little way on it before it comes to a dead halt at a canal which has no bridge that can be traversed by a wheel carriage. The original plan was to have that street merge into a road that should not end short of Paknam, and that all the bridges should be suitable for wheel carriages. Why has the government become slack and stopped the work ere one third of the road has been completed? This great city needs many more good streets like two or three we have noticed within the walls, streets leading out into the country in many directions, inviting the citi- zens to seek horses and carriages, and find wholesome recreation on land in exchange oftentimes for the monoto- nous and indolent mode of riding in boats. Boat-riding would be much more pleasant than it is, if the tide would always favor both going and coming, but such favors are few and far between. We beg to repeat it, though it be the third or fourth time, that Western Bangkok is to this day in the depths of barbarism in regard to streets. There is really a distress- ing need of a street of the same size and extent of Charon Kroong. We hope government will forthwith de- termine upon having one made, and show that it hath power to accom- plish it. We trust the road to T'achcon will be made however much the nobles and lords along its line may oppose it.

But it strikes us that no new road is so much needed at the present time as one from Rahaang to Cheangmai, where now there are only footpaths for Elephants, who have to travel them ten days to reach the Laos capital. The way by the river in ascending from that place requires full a month of hard polling to make the city, and is attend- ed with great difficulties and dangers in passing over the falls in the moun- tain gorges. We have learned from well informed Laos princes, who have recently left this city on their journey homeward, that there are no serious obstacles in the way of making even a rail road from Ra- haang to Cheangmai. If so, then cer- tainly a carriage road could be made with comparatively little expense. We regard it of the first importance to the welfare of both the Siamese and Cheangmai governments that greater facilities of intercourse be opened between the two countries than now exist. They need by every means to be brought nearer to each other. And a good road where we have named would reduce the separation of six weeks to about four. We would pray the government to take this matter into serious consideration, for that great, rich, and beautiful Laos coun- try is becoming too important in the estimation of the world to remain any longer so inaccessible to her Suza- rain. Siamese as well as Europeans in- terested in the Teak trade of the vast Laosian forests going and coming on that business, call loudly for a good road from Rahaang to Cheangmai.

Of the care of the public ways

The utility of highways, bridges, canals, and, in a word, of all safe and commodious ways of communication, cannot be doubted. They facilitate the trade between one place and ano- ther, and render the conveyance of merchandize less expensive, as well as more certain and easy. The merchants are enabled to sell at a better price, and to obtain the preference; an at- traction is held out to foreigners, whose merchandizes are carried through the country, and diffuse wealth in all the places through which they pass. France and Holland feel the happy consequences of this from daily experience.

One of the principal things that ought to employ the attention of the government with respect to the wel- fare of the public in general, and of trade in particular, must then relate to the highways, canals, &c. in which nothing ought to be neglected to make them safe and commodious. France is one of those states where this duty to the public is discharged with the greatest attention and magnificence. Numerous paroles everywhere watch over the safety of travelers; magnifi- cent roads, bridges, and canals, facili- tate the communication between one province and another;—Lewis XIV. joined the two seas by a work worthy of the Romans.

The whole nation ought, doubtless, to contribute to such useful undertak- ings. When therefore the laying out and repairing of highways, bridges, and canals, would be too great a bur- then on the ordinary revenues of the state, the government may oblige the people to labor at them, or to contri- bute to the expence. The peasants, in some of the provinces of France, have been heard to murmur at the la- bors imposed upon them for the con- struction of roads; but experience had no sooner made them sensible of their true interest, than they blessed the authors of the undertaking.

The construction and preservation of all these works, being attended by great expense, the nation may very justly oblige all those to contribute to them, who receive advantage from their use. This is the legitimate ori- gin of the right of toll. It is just that a traveler, and especially a merchant, who receives advantage from a bridge, a canal, or a road, in his own passage, and in the more commodious convey- ance of his merchandize, should help to defray the expenses of these useful establishments, by a moderate contri- bution, and if the state thinks proper to exempt the citizen from paying it, she is under no obligation to gratify strangers in this particular.

But a law so just in its origin fre- quently degenerates into great abuses. There are countries where no care is taken of the highways, and where ne- vertheless considerable tolls are exac- ted. A lord of a manor, who happens to possess a strip of land terminating on a river, there established a toll, though he is not at a farthing's ex- pense at keeping up the navigation of the river, and rendering it convenient. This is a manifest extortion, and an infringement of the natural rights of mankind. For the division of lands, and their becoming private property, can never deprive any man of the right of passage, when not the least injury is done to the person through whose territory he passes. Every man in- herits this right from nature, and can- not justly be forced to purchase it.

But the arbitrary or customary law of nations at present tolerates this abuse, where it is not carried to such an excess as to destroy commerce. People do not, however, submit with- out difficulty, except in the case of those tolls which are established by ancient usage; and the imposition of new ones is often the source of dispu- tes. The swiss formerly made war on the Dukes of Milan, on account of some oppressions of this nature. This right of toll is also further abused, when the passenger is obliged to con- tribute too much, and what bears no proportion to the expenses of preserv- ing these public passages.

At present, to avoid all difficulty and oppression, nations settle these points by treaties.

The Bangkok Lottery.

The great Lottery establishment of Bangkok is located within the city walls a little distance from Tapankán.

It has been in operation from about the middle of the last reign, having been introduced from China. The game consists in staking any amount of money you please to any one of thirty-four letters of the Siamese al- phabet which you fancy will be a lucky one. These thirty-four letters are written on as many small blocks of wood—one on each. On the opposite side of each block is written a Chinese character which answers to its Siamese letter. One of these blocks is selected by the master of the game sometime before break of day, and hung up in a bag in his office daily. Another is selected and hung up in the same way sometime before the close of each day. The former is taken out of its conceal- ment at an appointed hour every morning and the latter every evening. Whoever has staked money for the morning game must have his certifi- cate of the same presented at the time of the drawing out of the morning let- ter, and whoever has staked for the evening game must be ready in the same way for it. If, for example, one has staked a Tical to a certain letter, and that letter be the one taken from the bag and the one he has had written in his sealed certificate of the act, he draws thirty-fold of the amount he staked, and pays one of it to the lottery agent who received the stake and wrote the certificate. It is the business of the agent to present to the mas- ter the money staked, and a copy of the certificate which he gave the person who staked the money. The agent gets for his pay 7½ cents for every 5 ticals of stakes which he hands over to the master. The least sum allowed to be staked at a time is five p, equal to one-tenth of a 7½ cents. The more common stake, is one tical. Monied men often stake 20, 30, 40, 50 ticals or more. Should the letter attached to a stake of 50 ticals corres- pond with the letter drawn out of the bag at the lottery it will draw thirty- fold that amount, and the agent would be entitled to 500 ticals of the same.

It is estimated that there are more than a thousand of these lottery agents located in the city and its suburbs. They are found seated at the corners of nearly all the streets and lanes, and all along the chief thoroughfares, do- ing their utmost to induce men, wo- men, and children to stake their mo- ney for a prize. Chinese agents write the certificates with the Chinese cha- racter and the Siamese with Siamese letters.

This is a perpetual operation, hav- ing no Sabbath of rest and scarcely any time for sleep. Every lottery agent and enticer is of course interes- ted in getting as great an amount of stakes as possible. Because occasion- ally one of them gets forty or fifty Tio- als a day all others are stimulated with the hope that they may have the same good luck over and above their regular pay for every 5 ticals paid into the lottery. Hence there is never any want of volunteer agents; and all who volunteer are of course accepted as they are never paid any thing for their labor that does not go directly to swell the gains of the lot- tery. Failures in drawing seldom stop the adventurer from trying it again and again until he has not ano- ther of that he can command for the game. The agents are kept under much the same exhausting excitement until poverty stares them in the face and compels them to seek some other business. Thus are vast multi- tudes of this city and to a great ex- tent in the city, for a distance of ten or fifteen miles kept under conti- nual and corroding excitement, which in 19 cases out of twenty, at the least, is utterly fruit-less tending perpetually to poverty, slavery, and madness.

The daily receipts at the lottery office are said to be from 50 to 60 changes—-Ticals 4,000 and Ticals 4,800. If we take the smaller sum as the aver- age it would be equal to Ticals 1,460,000 annually. Of this sum the government must have one-tenth that is Ticals 146,- 000. This revenue although great has not the weight of a feather in the scale of good, when compared with the evils which the collecting of it from the people produces. It is as it were blood drawn from the vitals of the body po- litic, and weakness, and disease, and ulceration, and mortification given in exchange for it.

Royal Polygamy.

In reply to an article we had in our last issue save one, on the expediency of His Majesty the king's breaking up his great harem, and abolishing po-

lygamy in his own family, he has sent us a verbal message to the purport, that when we will stop the princes and noblemen from offering their daughters to him as concubines, then he will stop receiving any more women in this ca- pacity. In other words he would have us and the public understand that he does not feel that he should bear the chief responsibility in this matter, but that it belongs to the nobles and lords who urge their daughters upon him, by the force of custom handed down scores of generations which he feels himself impotent to stem. Thus does the king prove himself to be a true son of Adam who cast the blame of eating the for- bidden fruit upon mother Eve, and she in her turn upon the devil. We have no doubt that His Satanic Majesty is the prime mover in this violation of the 7th commandment which is the di- vine and admiral arrangement for the propogation of the human species and for the consequent fruitfulness and hap- piness of man in this life.

But while the king can prove that his nobles and lords have importuned him to recieve their prettiest daugh- ters into the relation of concubines that each might such have the honor of being a father-in-law to the king and the hope of having grandchildren by them, who shall be known and hon- ored as the sons and daughters of His Majesty, can it be possible that he so- riously flatters himself that he has therefore in any sense been justified in yielding to their importunities? Had he not power to decline such off- ers! If we have been correctly inform- ed he has rejected many such 'simply because he did not wish his family to become half as large as that of his half brother's the late king. If he had power to limit the expansion of his family to a number a little short of an hundred concubines, and thus to refuse three offers of beautiful women to his brother's one, could he not have refused ninety nine others?

Our mother Eve made out a strong plea in justification of her act of diso- bedience. The devil had promised her very great exaltation and power by it, even divine knowledge of good and e- vil. Could His Majesty have been more powerfully tempted? He would give us to think that had he refused to accept of the daughters that were off- ered him, he would have consequently incurred the displeasure of his nobility. and rendered himself liable of a sum- mary expulsion from the throne. If this were really his state of mind, he must have felt himself miserably weak although seated on the throne of the Prabats. Such dependence on the pleasure of his subjects can scarcely find a parallel among all the nations of this world. Queen Elizabeth of Eng- land felt that she had power, even in the childhood of that nation, to reject all proposals made to her that she should have a royal Consort. But the king of Siam has felt himself too weak to say no to any one of the scores of pretty girls that have been offered him. The truth is His Majesty would honor him- self more by frankly acknowledging that he has from the beginning "loved many women" and that this is the sole reason why he has so many in his ha- rem, than he does by pleading his im- potency in resisting the abominable custom.

But since the king has thus plunged himself into this accursed polygamy, which God once "winked at" it is true but "now commands men every where to repent" of it, how shall he get out of it.? As it is a great sin committed in probation there must be some way by which he can repent and forsake it. The question how, is a great one as it has to deal with a polygamy of monstrous dimensions and gigantic power. We feel it to be our duty to give our views on the question, and will therefore venture to do so.

The first step is for His Majesty to determine that he will now stop add- ing any more to the great number he has. It is rumoured that the king has his eye upon another princess of the highest rank with a view of constitu- ting her a Queen Consort. Now con- sidering that he is full three score and three years of age, that he has already scores of concubines and about four score sons and daughters, with several Chowfahs among them, and hence eli- gible to the highest posts of honor in the kingdom, this rumour seems to be too monstrous to be credited. But the truth is there is scarcely anything too monstrous for the royal polygamy of Siam to bring forth.

In the second place, it strikes us that if we were in such a predicament as His Majesty, and possessed the light we now do, we would say to all our concubines, that we now see their relation to us involves both them, and us in deep guilt in the sight of our ma- ker and judge—-that he commands us to repent of it aud forsake it-—that hence we dare not have it continued any longer—that we will guarantee them a comfortable support through life,—-and that they must now cease to be any part of our family. But in regard to the children by them, we shall continue to account them as our own, and protect and love and honor them as much as if their moth- ers had not been divorced from us. This would indeed be a heart rending work, but not more so than the holy and righteous law of the most High God requires in such a case. It would indeed be like plucking out the eye, which the Son of God taught must be done with darling sins. It would be no more severe than the prophet Ezra required of the one hundred and eight rulers, nobles, and priests and others of Israel who “had taken strange wives and had children by them.”

Will His Majesty still think that this is an unreasonable and im- possible requirement? It was not so, it seems, with the viceroy of Egypt. The king of Siam did not account it unreasonable in Buddhism to require him to divorce his first and only wife that he might enter the priesthood. He would not consider it unreasona- ble in Buddhism to require him to divorce every concubine he has, and even his queen if he had one, for the sake of obtaining the state of eternal unconsciousness called Nippán. How much more reasonable then is it in Christianity to require him to abolish polygamy for the sake of the ever- lasting favor of God in the enjoy- ment of Eternal life?

LOCAL.

His Majesty's temple visitation in this city began on the 9th inst. and were closed on the 19th. In the course of these 11 days he worshipped the im- age of Buddha and gave yellow robes and other gifts to the priests in about forty wats. The other 70 or 80 temples within the city will all, as we suppose, have similar gifts carried to them by others, if that has not already been done, as this is the season for such honor to be conferred upon them. Those of them that have been dedi- cated to the king, will have some prince of high rank visit them in the name of the king, and such as have not thus the claim of royalty will not be neg- lected by their friends in regard to their annual gifts.

We learn that His Majesty has distinguished some of the royal tem- ples by presenting the priests with money as well as the clerical robes, and that to some he gave 20 Ticals and some 40.

Princes, nobles, lords and people are now-a-days all awake early and late in carrying the kat'ins, that is the yellow clerical robes, to the several temples of their choice, and each company ap- pears to account it a very important part of the ceremony to make a great noise about it, in sounding trumpets, beating drums, rattling cymbals and shouting that all may take knowledge of them that they are faithful to Budd- ha and to his priesthood.—

His Excellency Chow Phya Kala- home the Prime minister left this city on the 17th for a pleasure excursion to the North with a large retinue, all being conveyed in oar-barges. He is expected to return on the 26th inst. It is understood that he is deputized by the king to visit the royal temples in several distant cities in the name of His Majesty.

There appears now to be a greater amount of water in the Menam than at any previous time this year, al- though the rains have ceased for near- ly a month, and we are enjoying the most delightful weather. In this we have a little of the experience of the inhabitants of lower Egypt. The wonder has ever been, whence comes the water in the times of the overflow- ings of the Nile, since no rain falls there, and the river has no tributaries for more than a thousand miles. The solution of the rising of our river overflowing her banks now, is that the great abundance of rain water hurrying at the North in its downward flow has but just now reached us, and that compara- tively but little of it has evaporated since it fell.

We are credibly informed, that the four immense spars of timber designed for the main pillars of the royal pro- mane or canopy for the obsequies of His Majesty the late 2nd King of Siam, who deceased more than 10 months since, have been lost in the Gulf of Siam. The circumstances of the accident as related to us are,— that one of His Majesty's steamers had them in tow bringing them from the Siamese coast on the gulf, and getting out of coal and wood on certain soundings a few miles from the Bar, managed to anchor the raft and came into Paknum for fuel. On going back for the spars they were not to be found,—the strong north- wind having sent them adrift. This occurred some four weeks ago, and steamers and sail-boats, not a few, have been sent out by the Siamese government in search of them: but all in vain.

Captain Ross on his way up the Gulf about three weeks since, reports that he saw what he now thinks must have been those spars, about 20 miles South of the anchorage. One of his officers seeing them ahead at the dis- tance of several miles took them to be land and cried out Land ho! The captain was quite startled to think that he was so much out of his reckoning, as to meet land so unex- pectedly. The lead was cast and show- ed 20 fathoms of water. The ship was allowed cautiously to approach nearer, and when within a half a mile sheered off to avoid collision. It was then concluded that the land had turned into a great mass of flood wood, and no more was thought of it until arrival in port.

There appears to be little probabil- ity that the spars will be found, and consequently the obsequies of the late 2nd King will have to be post- poned many months. It was ar- ranged to have the ceremonies come off sometime in the month of March next.

A company of Karens have recently arrived from British Burmah with let- ters, as we learn, from some British functionary to H. B. M's. Consul in this city, seeking redress for the Karens for the capture of an elephant from the latter by a Siamese party on the borders of Burmah and Siam. It ap- pears that the Karens bring good evi- dence of having seen the elephant in the possession of the Siamese. The beast is thought to be worth about Ticals 400.

The 2nd Royal fire works on the ri- ver began last evening and will be com- pleted to morrow evening. The full moon now riding in great splendor in the cloudless heavens is quite too light for these little taper exhibitions of hu- man royalty. It is quite exhilarating to glide up and down the river these cool evenings. The strong moon-light shining on the trees and houses gives them quite the look of being covered with frost.

We learn that the Siamese steamer yatch Arrow burst her boiler several days since somewhere near the mouth of Meklong river; but strange to re- late, no person was seriously injured by the accident. It is said that one man was thrown overboord, but being a swimmer, as nearly all the Siamese are, he got aboard again shortly without in- jury. Several persons were slightly scalded and otherwise wounded. It appears that the steam guage of the boiler had got out of repair and hence deceived the engineer so that he fired up beyond the endurance of the boil- er.

It is quite remarkable that this is the first accident of the kind that the Siamese have had since the introduc- tion of steam power nine years ago. They have had several narrow escapes by which their engineers have had a little warning. It is to be hoped that this occurrence will put them more on their guard, not in the reduction of their speed by any means, for that is always moderate enough, but in re- guard to keeping their engines in good repair.

The last Buddh. Gaudama.

Various writers who have taken up the subject of the last Buddh, have written the name as Gautemah, which is incor- rect, because it does not convey the idea which the correct vernacular orthography does. The closing syllables are Da-ma which signify sacred or Holy. The learn- ed Bishop Bigandet has accepted the or- thography followed by all persons, who have any knowledge of the Burmese lang- uage, and in this respect, is in conformity with all the ancient writers among the Burmese.

Gaudama was a great historical charac- ter. The Hindoos consider this personage to have been one of the incarnations of Vishnu, but there appears to be a discrep- ancy of about five hundred years in the Hindoo and Buddhist accounts of the ap- pearance of this heathen god. The Gauda- ma of Buddhist writers appeared in the world about five hundred years anterior to the birth of Christ.

As mentioned in a former notice of the excellent work, entitled, "The Life and Legend of Gaudama," the Right Reverend Bishop Bigandet translates into English, from a work which is itself a translation. Most of the ancient books relating to the last Buddh were written in Pali, which holds precisely the same relation to the Buddhist scriptures, as Hebrew does to the Bible of Christians. It is doubtful wheth- er Pali was ever anything more, than a learned or dead language among the Bur- mese. But from Pali the Life and Legend of Gaudama was translated into the ver- nacular of this country. The Burmese trans- lator who was a believer in this form of faith, thus commences his work.

"I adore Buddha, who has gloriously emerged from the bottomless whirlpool of endless existences, who has extinguished the burning fire of anger and other pas- sions; who opened and illuminated the fathomless abyss of dark ignorance, and who is the greatest and most excellent of all beings."

"I adore the law which the most excellent Buddha has published, which is infinitely high and incomparably profound and ex- ceedingly acceptable and most earnestly wished for by Nats and men, capable to wipe off the stains of concupiscence and is immutable."

"I adore the assembly of the perfect, of the pure and illustrious Arihas in their eight sublime states, who have overcome all the passions that torment other mortals, by eradicating the very root of concupis- cence, and who are famous above all other beings."

"I undertake to translate from the Pali text, the history of our most excellent Patara from the period he left Tavatsa the fourth abode of Nats to the time he entered into the state of Nêrûban."

The vernacular translator thus makes a brief confession of his faith, with a view of showing his qualification for the task he undertakes. "It is his intention not to give "the worthy Bishop, remarks in a foot note in reference to the translator, "the history of Buddh during the count-less existences that have preceded the last one, when he obtained the supreme intelli- gence." The narrative was to commence from the time Gaudama was at Tavatsa or the joyful abode of the Nats, and to be continued up to the period of his attain- ing Neibban, or annihilation."

The father of Gaudama was King Thoke- dan-thana, and his mother was Manlau Mayah. The spelling in English of Bur- mese names rests wholly on personal taste. There is no fixed standard to guide. The sound is given and then letters are used to bring it as near as possible to the original.

The worthy Bishop thus describes the Birth of Buddha in a forest.

"The time of her approaching confine- ment being close at hand the princess soli- cited from her husband King Taoke-dau- thana leave to go to the country of Dewah amongst her friends and relatives. As soon as her request was made known, the King ordered that the whole extent of the road between Kapilawot and Dewah should be perfectly level and lined on both sides with plantain trees, and adorned with the finest ornaments. Jars full of the purest water were to be deposited all along the road at short intervals. A chair of gold was made ready for conveying the Queen. A thousand noblemen, attended by an innumerable retinue were directed to accompany her during the journey. Between the two countries an immense forest of lofty Engyin trees extends at a great distance. As soon as the cortège reached it, the five water lilies shot forth spontaneously from the stem and main branches of each. In- numerable birds of all kinds by their melodious tunes filled the air with the most ravishing music. Trees similar in beauty to those growing in the seats of the Nats, apparently sensible of the incarnated Buddha, seemed to share in the universal joy."

This is truly a graphic description of the commencement of the royal journey and shows the descriptive powers possessed by the excellent Bishop. The meagre work of rendering word for-word would make it a most dry and uninviting production. Continuing the narrative, the Bishop proceeds.

"On beholding this wonderful appear- ance of all the lofty trees of the forest, the queen felt a desire to approach nearer and enjoy the marvellous sight, offered to her astonished regards. Her noble attendants led her forth with a short distance into the forest. Main seated on her couch, along with her sister Patsapaty desired her at- tendants to have it moved closer to an Engyin tree [Shorea robusta] which she pointed out. Her wishes were immediate- ly complied with. She then rose gently on her couch, her left hand round the neck of her sister, supported her in a standing position with the right hand she tried to reach and break a small branch which she wanted to carry away. On that very in- stant as the slender rattan heated by fire bursts down its tender head, all the bran-

ches lowered their extremities offering themselves as it were to the hand of the Queen, who unhesitatingly seized and broke the extremity of one of the young boughs. By virtue of a certain power in- herent in her dignity on a sudden all the winds blew gently through the forest. The attendants having desired all the peo- ple to withdraw to a distance, disposed curtains all round the place, on which the queen was standing. Whilst she was in that position, admiring the slender bough she held in her hands the moment of her confinement happened and she was deliver- ed of a son.

“Four chief Brahmas received the new born infant on a golden net work and placed him in the presence of the happy mother, saying “Give yourself up O Queen to joy and rejoicing. Here is the precious and wonderful fruit of your womb.”

“From the hands of the four chief Brah- mas four chief of Nats received the bless- ed child, whom they handed over to men, who placed him on a beautiful white cloth. But to the astonishment of all he freed himself from the hand of those attending upon him, and stood in a firm and erect position on the ground. Casting then a glance towards the east, more than one thousand worlds appeared like a perfectly levelled plain. All the Nats inhabiting those worlds made offerings of flowers and perfumes, exclaiming with exultation:— “An exalted personage has made his ap- pearance, who can ever be compared to him? Who has equalled him? He is in- deed the most excellent of all beings. Paraloung looked again towards the three other directions. Lifting up his eyes above and then lowering them down, he saw there was no being equal to him. Conscious of his superiority, he jumped over a distance of seven lengths of a foot in a northern direction exclaiming:—“Tals is my last birth there shall be no other state of existence. I am the greatest of all beings.”

He then began to walk steadily in the same direction. A chief of Brahmas held over his head the white umbrella. A Nat carried the golden fan. Other nats held in their hands the golden sword, the golden slippers, the cope set with the rarest pre- cious stones and other royal insignia.” Gaudama as thus described was not only able to use his limbs but his mental facul- ties from the first moments of his exis- tence. But of course no belief would be placed in him without some such super- natural gifts being ascribed to him.

What is singular about this personage is, that during his life time, there was nothing written down concerning his his- tory his teachings or his laws. They ap- pear to have been handed down by tradi- tion only from one generation to another, and to have been written out by his fol- lowers some two or three hundred years after his death. Though the present system of Buddhism is attributed to this particular person called Gaudama, yet it is very evident that he had little or nothing to do with it. The writers of the system were perfectly safe in ascribing it to a teacher, who had lived over two hundred years be- fore them. No test could then be deman- ded of its supernatural character. These might have been asked, when the teacher lived, who is said to be its author, but as the books were written at a long period afterwards, the real inventors of it might well escape the proof required, by attribut- ing the good or evil of it, to one who had long since passed away.—RANGOON TIMES.

French Neatness.

It is quite certain that unless you go into the very haunts of vice, where mis- ery is born and bred, you will never see any of Paris. The boot black, from the peculiar nature of his occupation, ap- pears to be on less familiar terms with soap and water than any other of the human family, and in England and Amer- ica holds his rags and dirt as preroga- tives. But the Paris boot-black, is al- ways a man; he is always clad in uni- form, generally of a blue plush, and any lady might shake hands with him with- out gloves and without fear. His box is very large, and he carries a camp stool, which supersedes the necessity of balan- cing on one leg during the process of polishing. When asked what is due them, they invariably reply 'what you please.' The fee is about five cents, but I tried one once with a one cent piece, to see how much sincerity there was in his 'what you please.' Off came his hat,—down went his bow,—and you might have supposed from his 'merci, monsieur,' that I had given him a franc.

The workmen also have a uniform, or rather they all dress alike, with white pants and blue blouses. Instead of our poor tatardemallions, in flattering rags of every hue, vests wrong side out, grandfather's coats on small boys, sho[?]ing and over-grown boots, one sees in the French laborers a respectable and really picturesque company. I think there must be some law against rags, for the very beggars wear the same white pants, and blue frocks, cheap and coarse, but decent looking until utterly worn out. The withered women who sell jimeracks at street corners, and even the fat fishmongers in the greasy stalls, look fresh and blooming in their starched white caps and clean calicoes. The very herrings seem graceful under their touch, though they had arms like Amazons. It was wonderful to see into what a garden the vegetable market could be transformed, merely by the arrangement of carrots and cabbages. Workmen, fishmongers, beggars and all has flowers. You are constantly saying, 'this is theat- rical,' 'this is like ideal stage life where everybody is romantic.' 'Is it possible that these are real men and women, or is it all a dream that bewilders me?' Then you walk through the garden of the Tuilleries again where hundreds of wom- en have brought their knitting and their families to pass the day under the shade of the trees. There the rich and poor children play together, but there is no squabbling, nor rolling in the dirt, no screams of delight or of fear. You can- not believe your ears when you hear one small tot say to another, 'C'est pas gen- til,' and observe the instantaneous effect produced by those five words.—CORRES- PONDENCE BOSTON TRAVELER.

America.

The Chicago Tribune supplies the follow- ing singular matrimonial story:—The Hon. Oudau Browne were re-married a short time since at New Haven. They were first married nearly a quarter of a century ago, lived happily for some time, and became parents of two sons, now grown up. Trouble came and they were divorced. Mr. Browne married again, and after liv- ing with his second wife for a number of years was divorced from her. He finally renewed the acquaintance of his first wife, and the result was that he has now led her to the altar for the second time!

Scientific.

The pasture grounds of the Himalayas are for the most at low elevations, but, in Thibet the sheep graze in summer as high as 18,000 to 16,349 feet. The greatest mountain height visited by man is 22,259 feet, attained by the Brothers Schlagint- wiet on the thanks of the Ibi Gamin, while one of the stations of the Trigonometrical Survey, at which observations were taken by Mr. Johnson, was more than 21,000 feet high. The highest balloon ascent, Messrs. Glaisher and Coxwell, is suppos- ed to have been nearly 40,000 feet.

With healthy people the influence of height upon the system generally begins to be seriously perceptible at about 16,000 feet, the complaints produced by diminish- ed pressure being 'headache, difficulty of respiration, and affection of the lungs, the latter even proceeding so far as to occas- ion blood-spitting, want of appetite and even sickness, muscular weakness, and a general depression and lowness of spirits."

Don't Do It.

Don't speak that unkind word, and thus make sad the heart of another. Speak gently; 'tis better.

Don't make the burden of another heavier, when it is in your power to lighten the same. Keep in good humor; anger is a waste of vitality.

No man and no boy does his best except when cheerful. A light heart makes nimble hands and keeps the body healthy and free. Don't let others say that you are selfish and only care for yourself.

Don't neglect that precious soul committed to your charge, remember it must live forever!

Don't waste the Sabbath : its hours are too valuable.

Don't turn away from the Bible ; it is the book by which you will be judged.

Don't speak against christians; re- member their faults will not save you.

Don't live for the world; remember the endless future.

Preaching Like Old Hundred.

On one occasion, when Dr. Taylor preaching at Worcester, a gentleman of the congregation, who had been, as he saw, a most attentive listener, stop- ped after the service, and offering him his hand, thanked him with great ear- nestness, saying, 'Your preaching sounded like the tune of Old Hundred. 'It was the best compliment I ever received,' said the doctor. 'The preacher who has the depth and sa- credness and power to move the mul- titude which that honored tune has, ought to be grateful to his master.' Yes, we need rich thoughts and ear- nest devotion. -Rhetorical flourishes, the superficial and showy may captivate at first, but they will not last. Preach as near as you can to Old Hundred. That tune wears.

THE HOME PAPERS, state, that in addition to providing the finest fleet of transports hitherto built for the convey- ance of troops to and from the East, a commodious hospital will be erected at Suez, for the reception of invalid soldiers requiring rest and medical treatment af- ter the passage from India, and before undertaking the run across the desert; and if, on arriving at Alexandria, any should be found too ill to embark imme- diately, arrangements have already been concluded with the authorities of a for- eign hospital in that city for their re- ception.

Turn Brams, of the air and to sustain thee; the beasts of the fields die to nour- ish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee; our stomachs are their common sepulchre, with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up; how full of death is the life of momentary man.—-QuARLES.

"MY DEAR MURPHY." Said an Irish- man to his friend, "why did you betray the secret I told you?" "Is it betraying you call it? Sure, when I found I wasn't able to keep it myself, didn't I do well to tell it to somebody that could?"

A FRENCH, comic paper, APROPOS of the needle gun, says a weapon has been invented which fires twenty balls a min- ute and has a musical box in the butt, thus doing away with the necessity of regimental bands.

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON, has just subscribed ten thousand francs towards the erection of a monument to Joan of Arc, and the restoration of the Donjon tower at Rouen where she was tortured.

NATURE.—-Bids me love myself, and hate all that hurt me ; reason bids me love my friends, and hate those who en- vy me; religion bids me love all and hate none. Nature showeth care, reason wit, religion love. Nature may induce me, reason persuade me, but religion shall rule me. I will hearken to nature in much, to reason in more, to religion in all.—-WARWICK.

AN AMERICAN PAPER SAYS:—-"The Em- peror Maximilian's European despatch for the Atlantic cable, to his wife in France, cost 15,364 dols. in gold, and was nearly 700 words in cipher."

IT is stated that £20,000 has been pro- mised by a lady to Mr. C. H. Spurgeon to found an orphanage in connection with the Metropolitan Tabernacle.

THE Queens of England and Madagascar have concluded a treaty of alliance. Its chief provisions are as follows:—-the treaty declares that British subjects in the dom- inions of her Majesty the Queen of Mada- gascar shall be allowed freely to exercise and teach the Christian religion and to erect and maintain suitable places of worship, to be recognised as the property of the Queen of Madagascar, who shall permit them to be applied for ever to the special purposes for which they shall have been built. Full religious liberty is also granted by the Queen of Madagascar to all her own subjects. The Queen of Madagas- car further engages that British subjects shall, equally with her own subjects, enjoy within her dominions full and complete protection and security for themselves and property, and that a British Resident shall be received in her capital.

THE NEWS of the sudden and fatal ac- cident which befel the Bishop of Calcutta at Kooshtea, reached Calcutta by telegram on Saturday evening, and throughout the following Sunday there were many sorrow- ful enquiries as to the particulars. It appears that the Bishop had just returned to Kooshtea from an educational tour in Assam, and after consecrating the new cemetery at that place, was returning on board the Government yacht RHOTAN when he fell off the plank connecting it with the shore. He was never seen again and every attempt to recover the body has been in vain. Rarely has a public event in India been so generally regarded as a national calamity.

DR. ANDERSON'S report on Chinchona cultivation at Darjeeling shows that 70,960 cuttings were made during last August—a number far exceeding that obtained in any previous month. The total number of plants was thus raised to 379,202, of which 34,134 were in permanent planta- tions. About 9 acres of land were planted during the month.

PLASTER FOR LICE.—-Jon. Nichols, of Honesdale, Pa., says that applications of powdered plaster of Paris have been found effectual in killing lice on domestic animals. This virtue of gypsum was discovered accidentally.

PRESERVATION OF EGGS.-—Put eggs in- to a cask, and then fill with tallow, warm- ed so as to run, and, being protected from the action of the air by the mass of tallow, they will keep fresh any length of time, and are so preserved at sea without difficulty.

NEW USE OF FLAX SEED.-—An Eng- lish paper reports a new substance that has the properties of India rubber, that has lately been made from linseed oil, by oxydising it until it is solidified into a resinous substance. It is called Linoleum.

FIFTEEN quarts of milk generally make one pound of butter.

THE great affliction of Burmah is the cattle disease. Thousands of buffaloes and oxen, which are so necessary to aid the cultivators in ploughing their fields and in treading out the grain are swept away every year as by a scourge of des- truction. The Arakan Division however has suffered less in this respect than Pegu. It is hoped that the recent investigation which has been made into this cattle mur- rain and the professional advice which has been freely tendered to the people in their own vernacular tongue will be at- tended with the happiest effects in the fu- ture, in assuaging this great evil of Bur- mah.

Colonial Comparison.

The total charge of France for her twelve colonies, Martinique, Guadaloo- upe, Reunion, the penal settlement of Guyana, Senegal, Gold Coast, Saint Pier- re and Miquelon, St. Mary of Madagas- car, Mayotte, Thaiti, Novelle Caledonie and India was £948,228. Algeria and Cochin China are not classed as colonies. India, that is to say Pondicherry and Mahe, cost only, for their civil and mili- tary government, 543,580 frs., or 21,743l. Our forty English colonies cost England £5,509,465, while India not only pays all her own expenses, but is a remunerative field for capital, pays the holders of East India Stock, and above all affords a satisfactory career for our middle clas- ses, who take out of India a good deal of money year, though it must not be forgotten that by their energy and skill they create a vast deal more wealth than they abstract.

How to Keep out the Moths.

A good old lady gave the best receipt to her niece, whom she found one day examin- ing her wardrobe. It had been copied from an old-fashioned book, and was this: "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal." The application of this ancient receipt is very simple: Look over the wardrobe, and bring out all that can be spared,—-blankets and shawls, coats and cloaks,—-and send them to the poor in time; let the widow of the destitute have them before the moths have begun their inroads. "He that hath two coats let him impart to him that hath none." This will do more to keep out moths than all the cedar closets, or snuff and camphor, in the world; and will be likely, if done in a Christian, generous spirit, to secure the blessing of Him that maketh rich, and doubly sweeten what is left.—-N. Y. Obs.

Devastation.

“The Secretary of the New York Chamber of Commerce,” says the Hong- kong Daily Press, “has compiled a complete table of all the vessels destroy- ed by privateers during the American Rebellion, comprising also the value of cargo and vessel, date of capture and destruction, and all items of interest connected therewith. The captured prop- erty is found to be of the value of $25, 500,000, of which $20,000,000, was ut- terly destroyed. The rest were chiefly bonded. The number of piratical ves- sels engaged in this devastation was, viz; steamers 14; barks 5; brigs 1; schooners 5; total 25.

The number and classes of vessels destroyed were; steamers 4; ships 61; barks 74; brigs 35; schooners 61; total 235; tonnage 103,032.

The ALABAMA captured 2 steamers, 34 ships, 22 barks, 5 brigs, 6 schooners; value including cargoes, $9,700,000.

The FLORIDA captured 1 steamer, 10 ships, 10 barks, 8 brigs, and 7 schooners. These with their cargoes were valued at $5,464,000.

The SHENANDOAH captured 10 ships, 25 barks, 1 brig, and 2 schooners, valued with cargoes at $2,888,000.

Sensation in France.

We have only to read the French press to ascertain how deep and wide spread a sensation has been produced in the minds of the French people, or perhaps in the minds of those who write for them, by the Prussian victories. M. Foresade re- minds us of our alarmists at home. France is able to bring 700,000 men in- to the field, on a few days notice, yet it is discovered that the country is defence- less, virtually without an army. The sudden vault of Prussia to the rank of a first rate military power is viewed with jealousy and almost with apprehension. The wilder spirits discourse of immedi- ate war, and already snift the coming carnage. We rejoice to believe that the Emperor does not share in these pas- sionate illusions. He has given no rea- son for supposing that he is envious of the success of Prussia, or that he sees in it any danger for France. He knows that France is too strong to have the re- motest cause of apprehension. Twice as populous as Prussia, more than equal in numbers to the whole of Germany, with one of the most numerous and best disciplined armies in the world, what can France have to fear? Moreover the movement in Germany is in harmony with the Emperor's most cherished poli- cy. He sees that there can be no lasting peace in Europe save upon the basis of satisfied nationalities. He aims at sup- pressing revolutions abroad by extingui- shing the materials that breed them. This is one explanation of the sagacious and statesman-like policy which he has pursued in dealing with Italy. His poli- cy has been completely triumphant there: one volcano has become extinct; why should he object to another undergoing the same fate? The prospects of his dynasty are linked with the prosperity of France and the repose of Europe; we believe he is at heart desirous of promoting both these interests, and in that case he may well regard with acquiescence, if not with complacency, the immense stride which has been taken under the auspices of Prussia towards the pacification of Germany.—SINGAPORE DAILY NEWS.

How Ministers are Bored.

A gentleman living in a house that had previously been occupied by a popu- lar clergyman, at Rochester, N. Y., was so constantly bored by all sorts of trave- ling agents and other bores, that he posted a card on his door, addressed "to all whom it may concern," running thus:—-

"Dr._____ does not live here. He has moved away, and will not occupy this house again till May 15, 1867. In con- sequence of this, the present incumbent has decided to suspend the free list. No books, maps, pictures, stationery or re- cipes of any kind wanted. No history of the rebellion, whether written by Greeley or Jeff. Davis. Have no desire to put my name in any subscription book in order that it may be used for influence. Have no old clothes except those I am now wearing, and the customs of modern society are unfortunately such that I can- not dispense with them. Have no cold pieces, for we cannot get money enough to purchase at one time more than we can eat at one meal, consequently pro- prietors of boarding houses will have to look elsewhere for supplies. This house will not be kept as a hotel and warm meals at all hours will not be furnished. Have not a spear of hay in the barn, nor a single oat, and have not taken care of horses since I drove on the canal, which means that we have no room for horses or donkeys either. Have no vacant rooms or beds to spare for agents, elders, beg- gars, sponges, leeches, professional bores, seedy students. soldiers. sailors, negroes, freemen's, aid society agents, rebels or abolitionists, even though ministers in neighboring towns and cities have told them to be sure and call here. No money to spare for any of the above in- dividuals or enterprises which they re- present, even though it be for the lauda- ble object of furnishing unborn African children with red flannel night caps and fine-tooth combs. In a word, the minis- ter don't live here now, and "old things have passed away, and all are become new."—-Lo. Co. News.

Another Atlantic Cable.

Wonders never cease. The successful laying of the Atlantic Cable, which is now keeping us in hourly communication with all parts of the Old World, has been succeeded by what strikes us with even more of admiration, the recovery of the cable which was lost in mid-ocean a year ago, and the immediate transmission of the intelligence of its recovery to the American shore by the way of Ireland, through both the old and the new cables.

This is an achievement of science and skill which reflects the highest credit upon those who have accomplished the work. It is certainly a marvel, even in this age of marvels, that simply by re- taining the bearings, in latitude and longitude, of the spot where the cable was lost, a vessel should be able to re- turn to it, pick it up from the bottom of the sea at the depth of two miles, and immediately resume communication with the shore.

One very important result of this a- chievement is the demonstration of the fact that the cable is uninjured by lying in the depths of the ocean for a year. If this was the case with the old one much more may we depend on the permanence of the cable, which has been prepared with far greater care and precaution a- gainst injury.

Generals at Work.

One of our leaders is now in charge of a machine for patent pumping; another is building a railway through the oil country. One of the first soldiers of the Army of the Potomac is in the pistol business; another keeps a retail grocery store; while one of Sherman's most trusted lieutenants is a claim-agent. One major-general prints a weekly journal in Baltimore. Some of our officers have drifted into Congress; others are on their way to distant courts, to represent the honor of a nation they did so much to sustain. These starred and belted gent- lemen go down from the command of co- horts, to become agents, and partners, and dealers, perhaps, with the orderly who stood before their tents, or the pri- vate who held their stirrup. So with the generals of the rebellion. The greatest of them all is now a teacher of mathema- tics in a university. Sherman's great antagonists are in the express and rail- road business. The once dreaded Beaure- gard will sell you a ticket from New Or- leans to Jackson; and if you want to send a couple of hams to a friend in Richmond, Joe Johnson, once comman- der of great armies, will carry them for you.—-TRIBUNE.

The Soul Made Visible.

Every one knows that in every human face there is an impalpable, immaterial something, which we call “expression,” which seems to be, as it were, “the soul made visible.” Where minds live in the region of pure thoughts and happy emo- tions, the felicities and sanctities of the inner temple shine out through the mor- tal tenement, and play over it like lam- bent flame. On the other hand, no man can lead a gormandizing, sordid, or licen- tious life and still wear a countenance hallowed and sanctified jwith a halo of peace and joy. Around such great manu- facturing towns as Birmingham in Eng- land, or Pittsburgh in this country, where bituminous coal is used, you will find the roses in the flowerbeds and the strawber- ries defiled by a foul deposite from a thousand chimneys. Thus do obscene, profane and irreverent men scatter their grime and stench upon the innocence and beauty around them, but most deep- ly and fully upon themselves.—-HORACE MANN.

To be thought perfectly HAPPY pride often makes itself perfectly MISERABLE.

Conversion without conviction is no bet- ter than conviction without conversion.

Manners may exist without morals, but MORALS never should be without MANNERS.

Principle that cannot bear the heaviest pressure of temptation is ROTTEN at the heart.

Every step toward Heaven is a struggle with and victory over SELF, the WORLD, and HELL.

He who in prayer wants little or nothing is usually the one who takes time to pray for everything and something more.

A GENEROUS man will place the bene- fits he confers beneath his foot—those he receives, nearest his heart.

PRIDE breakfasts with Plenty, dines with Poverty, and suppes with Infamy.

-—Why was the giant Goliath very much astonished when David hit him with a stone? Such a thing had never entered his head before.

—-A shell burst near an Irishman in the trenches, when surveying the frag- ments, he exclaimed, “Be jabers! them’s the fellows to tackle yer ear!”

—-Never trust a man for the vehem- ence of his asservations, whose bare word you would not trust; a knave will make no more of swearing to a falsehood, than of affirming it.