KT.iaau.aB

"O arfatd,"aba aaid, ‘*07 boy la dead I Aad if 7a raoM from 700 dart aaa, Bria« kaak..O «tad,~*K weaplna, .^d,

THE STOBT OP HAXTLE PERHT. Ttraatf-flaa yoaaa ago I *aa trarelintf {or my health'a aake, in the Horth of ' M

l.aod on a sold, dark, dumal

TOnhf or old I 00aid not tell, who alaohad been waiting at the cro~'--Wh«n I Aral aaw her aha wae eta ' 1 olaaped, looking down ter. Se wUdneea r' •>-

wluoh ahe atood. Bad deni j a light wae aeen • poaite aide, and I pointed ’^Thkak God, then 1” aaid t looking in the direction indie “la that the nanal aignal to late trarelera »" I inquired. •■ I beliere ao; I am a alranger here,’ waa the anawer, in a changed, almost enilon, tone of roioe. " That ia the {erry therirerr " Moat likely." ” * - c ‘ * *— ignoranoe, thongfa I D point, and intnded —an my^ atrango

" Lion Inn" at Kantle. ike “tion In waa the Bnt houae in the Tillage, a

e'rfjleSb

enough, bnt it looked a grateful shelter (nan the dark, lowering night, as * tamed the onrre of the lane, and ea_ thaliright red flro shining through the upper penes of e window only ha'* masked by the low wooden shatter b fore it, 'The host of the "Lion" r sponded to my summons at the door. Into the parlor I followed my guide. It wae a triangnlar-ahapod mom, with -

and ontatfetehed anna of the woman who had eroaaed the ferry with me. The bonnet ahe had worn waa lying at her feet, and her hair—it had been black once, bnt waa now thickly with gray—hnngtangladr-’—

oxer her outspread am»

d'all that had been E

lor, in the maidenhood of yeera

" Poor'woman 1 Do yon know herl " Nerar saw her before." "Did yon cross Nanlle Ferry t night, airV' asked tbs landlord, ahortly attar. " Tea, after some trouble to rouse the fen: man." " Ah ! he’s a qaecr my host. “I'd lay a watching you through long before he made n people^in the world than old Jacob I take it There warnt once a better men than Jacob Wiaford tide side Nentle." " Hay I ask

STAR

THE CAPE

YOLi Y.

CAPE MAY CITY, N. J., WED'NESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1873.

NQ. 42.

. end people de esy he's scraped together e tidy lot of aaoney, found hidden about thehouse in beeps." "la he not afraid of Udereef" "ThieToa in Nentle, sir I I nerer eerd of each e thing." I could not sleep after the narration--I was painfully wide-awake, end the net noise jarred upon my nerree and lade me restlou The woman at the jble wae a heaiKek from which I could hoi distract my gise. I felt that ahe V.s ■ esger listener, and that ill the world might possibly be able to add further details. This fancy took so strong a hold upon me, that 1 began to grow anxious for a sight of her white face again—for a -• * -‘-dying it in search of that . Jet had been her ntter min. Was it apeoulatire romance, or a stnnjeromddenoe ro^^ to my feet, — ■* the pipe frightened from the landI’s lip into the faodar, byenexclemai from the women, who had.eojong if I atop borer She had raised her heed from the trblo, on whioh ahe bad amitten her 'IFBSKSS&.nth,. shoot ?" exclaimed the landlord. "Dnloek your door, end let me be going on my way. I hare many milee to trmrel before sunrise.” Don’t yon hear the rain, Use?" said landlord. I'm e tramp, end rough weather a not frighten me. fre roughed it many yeera now, and Pm not afraid of eatehins cold end dying of it No such lack for one sick of life ee I am.” yon here had no mat,"I eng- " there is a small room npd I am snre our landlord will to defray—" it no man's eharity," aaid the woman, rudely, as she snatched her bonnet from the floor. “Unbar the door, end let me ont into tbe night Don't yon hear I must be gone ?" “OnI I don’t wish to keep yon against your will,” said the landlord, becoming warm in his tarn: “ only, aa you're had shelter here for hours, hare

•jryour kindness, t&oogfa I wish to pay She began fumbling in

1 Are you going far t" I rentnred k^Baek to London. I’re walked from step, on tfc> faith *

printed on that fees. "Hewilldi-'" - v

_______

O^Tmy Ood, if he would only

ik ones more.” The money I”

_t wee the answer to her prayer—so quickly end suddenly answered, with the eyes distended and the disengaged

wildly at the air, stepped back and

Changed color. The wi

ither, it ia Jenny come beck, fon say one word to her? Will nako some sign? Tour own re money! They hare taken it

irhe ebook his heed end sighed. I repeated my question, and he shook hia head again. "Ask him, Sir, for merey’a aake f if he remembers hia daughter Jenny—she who broke hie heart r her request I pat the question, received for answer . the old Money had been next hie heart for twenty yeera. In hia dying hour he d to tore that beat on ell the , end'to find it hardest to part with at left But the women made one last, heart-rending apped^knd as the word “fattier" escaped her lips a third time, the dying men’s eyes light- —' up as with new life, and no made e movement with hia hand, aa if to ah her from him. "Back!” " No, no!" shrieked the women.

— shawl round —, —— : — for a moment aa if doubtful of her way. The landlord had not closed the door, end I wae looking at the strange woman who had rentnred forth in such rough weather when the clear, sharp report of a pistol rang suddenly through the air. Aa the landlord danght mo by the i and gave vent to an exclamation of prise, the woman flung np her ei and oame, with a wild scream, 1 “ The dream 1 the dream I Oh I my Ood, it’s trna at list, tad fas ia dared I I «aw it all a week ago vAlte hair dabbled with blood, an lying on hia face on the wet gran ride. Oh I la there no one here to help me?” she cried, wringing her v -~*- I arts about to assert that at there wee little reason for ha. meut, when there are* wailed faintly from the distanee a word that blanched all cheeks, mid paralysed ju '

" Harder .

An instant, end then the woman wea running down the lane bareheaded, her bonnet in the roadway, end the lend hod had ariaed a stick and hat from the paeaege, ei claiming, ’’ There’* nuaehlri abroad to-night Win yon fol-

low, Birr

I ran into the room for my hat, and than the landlord of the ” Linn " end I wea hastening down the lane after the —” who aped awiftly--*-'

her crouching at the b< end etatehiag at tha rid man's ha

Great Bala af Cattle.

At sunrise this manua& says e Hew lock Mills. N. X., correspondent, the -"in and stripes ware gj—*** u — :_J

enrols folds ever the cc after a erowfl of

seers began to arrive there, as etaer daring the peat taro day* for a Parer examination of this superb herd, noon all present were again invited partake of e bountiful lunch, »«fved up in greet variety in a large ball on the ground. This over, promptly at the time advertised—1 o'clock r, *.—Mr. Page, the auctioneer, calls-: the feeaanblage to take aeal* in the noomy oo-ered ampitheatre, end mounted hia staid in SSSirto^hEh StStabtafStaUd as offered to be sold, tor the purpose of displaying its fine prints infull to thoee sale began with the famous s tribe, Of what is usually the "Bates strain of blood, r of their

rely *1.000,

hundreds

again, to ask your — not so bad ; I nnnetrnally bac I; it fell from

blaeiwi

y, to UlTyon I r wee so wholly »t UB tbe

a crossing ieeto&ee

progenitont in England, who died upwards of twenty yeera since. There were eleven females of this tribe in Mr. Campbell's herd. The bidding wae rapid end spirited to a high degree, end they were struck off at tbe aatoandiag soma, respective^, of *6,700, *10,000, *15,000. *15,800, *15,000, *18,000, *86,000; *27,000, *80,000, *85,000, 840.000. The higheet price that .any female of this tribe ever sold at before waa *15,000, at e private sale lest summer, for a single one exported to Greet Britain. The Duke balls of this tribe offered

ei the sale were only three end they brought respect

*7,600 end *12;500.

There were various other tribes or

— Mr, Camp-

_ «««, ua of whioh after the Dncheaa is the Oxford strain, closely connected in blood with she former. The third Countess of Oxf brought *9,100. The other enin brought from *150 to *7,000 ea-h. The whole herd of one hundred i thirteen head waa disposed of in I hours, making the moot

„ - guilty

neael Ton believe it, yon will belie—" Bhe stopped, and her arm* fell heavily, rigidly to her iaide. Jacob Wiaford waa dead to all belief forever. Had ho died with the knowledge of his daughter's innocence of that one awful crime with whioh the world had charged her? or bed he passed from life to death in ignoranoe ? Ood knows! He had died '-"y at least, and with a calm

hia face that reminded "

the Jacob Wiaford of did data, before hit daughter stole away from him. Did it matter whether in that life suddenly ended, he knew all ? In the life beyond, do not all the mysteries of onr past' inanity vanish away, and all the don and cruel mistrusts roll beck from real? Thin ia my story, ladiea and gentlelon. I have little more to lay. The isaasins of Jacob Wiaford were traced, id hanged. Tbe money—a matter of

ShTnum r slier. The arrangements for the rod the oonduot of it throughout

not have been bettered.

event of rather a humorous kind took place daring the Bale, which called .--»v - loud shout and clapping of rom the crowd. Aa they were bidding on the 8th Dncheea of Geneva, ahe followed the herdsman quietly around the ring? displaying her fine points to the beet advantage; bnt ea the auctioneer reached the bid of *40,000 ahe suddenly stopped in h walk, menacingly throw np her head. ' ' being rated at so aatound- —_ , and began to back ont of the ring with all her might. It wae some time before they could bring her back, and it took three atout men to do it. The bidding again began upon her, and was finally run np to *40,600 at ' ' price ahe wee attack off, when role cow quietly followed her

harder to discover than the thieves, end passed away no one know* whither —no one ever know* where ell the money vaniahesl—end the daughter, Jenny, broke np suddenly beneath the •hook of that strange night, and buried in Nentle ohnreh-yard wil

ea In New York city, end la quite wealthy, being attended by e very solid end substantial class of people. Tbe accused ere the trustees of tbe church, end they have had a trial before a jury conaistuig of the entire church, end numbering fifteen hundred peopl is charged that the trnatoaa hav beaded needy *12,000. Both 4a church and the accused bed white attor

in it

4 been fairly tried

ferthe church oald, "Let all wko here the nrisoaere guilty stand np and Bay eo and then ait down, and then 'et those who believe them innocent stand np and sbmo. (Cries of " That's the ticket.") The pastor of the church who wee in the oh air modified the rale end ' if the ebnroh who

did, and to let those ised guilty ‘ ‘inrSee,—- — called Separately. —t many p “ majority ri... — •igm^that they believed the to mt - pastor then uronounoed ti of the a

Where the Grain Gere, the New Tork Cheap Traaspoi nee ting, one of the speakers as I The total product of the West has . .. eased from 8,000,000 bushels in 1850, 881,000,000 in 1870. You can see, in a moment, tn»t the transportation faoilities tor 800,000,000 wS not do for 881,000,000. The lake faciKtie* v — i’S' theTtaeaa waUa* There it: ' “ ' of New'

Tidings of a Bloody 8:

The LoTrirviHe Cburier-Jbumai deltas much space to account* of the Lvagea of the oholere in several Eanjoky town*. It shi: The greet cholera plague will long bo remembered by ell In this section. Probably in no place in the United Btetee has R proven so fatal as in the town of MUleraburg eight miles from Paris, on the M. and LTBailroed. HI. a^Set, prettyUtlla place, nestling down between the hffla, bounded on the south by Kingston, e branch of Licking River, the Hot of s Weeleyan College end Judge Savage a Female Institute. Its school* are fa-

ins throughout the S' '

sm it derive* its chic

boasts considerably of inhabitants, especially its handsome

ladies, and not altogether’

during the school season, assume*, business la done there, or was bei they got a railroad ; now they run to Paris to shop. A short tune previ outbreak of cholera they!

cases, but all had either died

id bnt little wea thought _ attributed

eating, end drinking wat drained from a pond at the suburea of the town. Thuraday, Aug. ■ broke out with great violence m

ath end of the tot

creek, where the land waa 1. ’ principally inhabited by thi a There were aovoral deaths

or eight cases, but Saturday night they were all repented better, and — deaths or new cases. Sunday afterui it developed all at once in several part* of the affected district, and by 6 o'clock there were about eighteen ease* reported by phyaioiana, and some *ix or fight dead. Thi* news did not reach Pans

until Monday moraingjtad • not generally believed to be

when the 9i80 train arrived, bringing returns and a number of fugitives, doubt waa djcpHled. and -*— -

ng lady frorrt3here whe can: - (Mary Conner) was tni

ra at tne depot, and died ahortly afterward, a panic waa created, ee^ociall y

> attend onr fair. The Board of i waa called, and a counsel of phji held, to determine on the boat

of action, and they recommended the postponement of the fair. The Board of Dirootora of the fair was called, and resolved to postpone, until Oet 14. Monday evening another case

irted in Pari*, a negro from

' ■ ' d fatal. A

an the dreadful ttoiy of the maaof twonty thousand people in the Chinese city of Tali (Tali-fn) reached uter world, aome months ago, was a general expression of itvcredulity. 14 seems hardly possible that —*• a vast destruction of Ufe had been

About midnight “-'-g well o street, Detroit, waearo it by some one kicking • . his front door. He thonght it a queer way to come down upon a law-abiding citizen, but hadn't tome to study " lubject thoroughly before ' “

The Baker Expedltfw.

A correspondent with Baker in Afri*

Items of Interest,

n the value of money—Try to re now two Oranges in the

immanaer oi me eipcuiuou, Oondokoro,was only enabled

te take 300 mi .

with him.

One-half of tho men he stationed at Fatiko; with tho other 100 he arrived at Musindi, the residence of tho chief Eabrega, where bo intended establishing s sort of headquarters. Tho chief “i 'S.tTiS “1 go to war against Rionga, who had al-

Thi" refusal galled

id kill

tatoofHev

Ballard Smith, managing editor of the Lonitrille Couricr-Jmmal, ia not yet 15 yearn old. Arthur M. Prime, one of the wit--assee in the Kelsey ease, bee been indieted for perjury by the Grand Jury, A firm in St. Peter, Minn., have packed 100,000 pounds of butter this seaaon. most of which they will ship to California tad the Territories. A —— at the eirena in Brussels lifts a barrel of flour with hia teetti while hanging by hia feet from a bar suspended from tho ceiling. In Minnesota tho law compelling "sr-f s; stsSK Asylum has yielded *18,000 this year. Blackberries and raspberries should be shortened in as they grow largo and tall, for they will set more fruit, and they will not be broken off by high

to build.

young la

illera^urg, •

A Double Track Freight Bead. _l the cheap teansportation*meeting

ing New York, James W. Hus ted said : Tbe problem of cheap transportation ia the great problem of the hour. Its importance is felt throughout the length end breadth of this lend. It strikes the

the leboring man, tbe

he fanner. ^The^war and

wheels, except aa they ere oooaalonally blocked by a few money gamblers in

—* — along slowly, steadily,

, , internal revenue and tariff have adjusted themselves to th

' d thereia only one question i

. west which urges itself to ward, and that ^thi* question of cheap nate^from polities, and should be, except BO fer ee that word signifies statesmanship. I would first demand that e

. , doefels'tessk railroad shrnild be built iffkir had many, funny from the City of New York to the Far outsider*. Wien the West; and that double track should be .V- * *— 'relght exclusively ; eon-

amxesively to through freight. It should be r *—-*• controlled and managed —

should interfere wita

10 society, re with ft*

road oan be built, end must be nd will be built I Already yon beer rom the farm era of the West that voles whioh in trumpet tones snnounoes ' the monopolists oan no longer e ont of existence; that their' on frenght, which have rendered the prodnete of the sail ee — v - liands shell oeeee I And only the echo of the volei

regular stampede now u luntry people and visitors, ^i ^away o- *-* *-

town depopulated and everything closed up.” Tho fugitives still oontinued to come into Paris, and there was strong talk of establishing a quarantine hospital for them for fear they would in foci ns. New orders were promulgated by the Board of Health, and the sea set to work cleaning np and api lime and copperas around generally. From Tuesday—tho first appearance of the disease—to the next Tuesday evening, there were forty deaths ; this in n small settlement of about 500 people. — " I physicians wore soon ox-

tad several of onr doctor

n to assist them. They reported if almost' impossible to relieve those stricken with the disease ; when attacked, almost every case proved fatal, the usual remedies haring no effr -• - them. The disease abated som on Toeeday night, bnt five new and tour deaths were reported - iy evening, and up to this wme reday noon) there have been, aa as wo can tell, about filty-five is, about forty of them dying since Sunday morning last, being mostly colored and Irish. A few noble persons, principally men of families, did noble

night Some young men

did all In their power to alleviate the anflering. Their name*

may not be known outside diate circle of frienda, but displayed aa true heroism i they bed periled their Uvi bloody field. There were affecting scenes witnessed

*- of sorrow—in one family in par- ; Tho husband had been dead ’oral hours, and no one to lay him One child was lying deed on the bed, and another had the fatal disease. The mother wee standing between U corpses doing what eke could to relie tbe suffering, end wae the onlv one lei — ‘her family all died—fathr

brothers, and siaters—except

oMhT Erie’c __ e way in which this railroad or

is young girl abont twelve ;

CMeagoitoet

further than the .o . thought proper. In this state ol tag be sent an order to Or—- * ding him from ruing a o whioh hi* servant had befo

The high ground shelving the a of Belt Lake is ooveredvrith li. They are oelled a wide. They dart over the ground like lightning. A dragon fly oonld berely beet them in speed. They are of a doll gray eolotL end their me sparkle like drops of dew. .The Indianioatahthem with atickac 1 like the handle of a oene, and eat i When e Pinto sees e swift he ex his stick, and by a dexterous twist of the wrist spin, the lizard in tbe err. 'etching him in hia hand aa he comes a. The fieeh of these Boards redee the meet of a bullfrog, and are aaid to be even rooredejfdoua.

I don't repeat this story by casting any reflection. Aa the low told the atory, it would seem to apply that he was ell right, end hia wife all wrong,—anfi in hia ease it might have been ao—for Hangman isaglonoaa old fellow, after all,—bnt as a rale of life ire know that the shoe of discontent will fit the men ea often ee t! The men who are contented ere n very plenty,—the man who ia reedy — acknowledge that he has gained enongh of this world's goods is the — rather than the rule. , Old Beagman is one of the wealthiest farmers in the Oonneotieot Valley.' Hie home ia a place of woloomo er comfort to ell hia friend*, end it pleasant to alt beneath hie vine end ne talking one day abont the re end habits of aoeiety—al m the old

livared — When I first came here to eettle, fiveail d-forty year* ego, I told my wife I meant to be rich—I would not rest until " omld say I was a rich man. She, Ln, practical soul, declared that if had enough to make her oomforte she ahoufibe satisfied. I went at rk and cleared my land. I worked hard for forty yeera. ad* beams rich. I am rich enough. My children are well manied. and all have good home*. Bnt my wife—eh 1—«A« isn't comfortable yd f' Hh ITUs Helped Him. Abont ton days since some excitement isa crested ic the eastern snbntba of Memphis, by the arrest of J. E. White, a jnomineB— —, — a few day*

seen specific

chmrgoB for similar offsoce* were made public. He waa committed for tnal without bail. A few days after hia wife

A Sagacious Horse. The Bangor (Me.) Whig tells the fol lowing story illustrating ths " of a horse owned in that State Frank Lane, who lives on a near Vinalhaven, baa a span 0 horses whieh he uses on his h i*So boat A"few daring the absence of Mr. Lane, one of tho horaoa backed into a well abont 12 feet deep. Hia mate immediately atarted tor tbe houae of a neighbor, - ' icighing and other way* — ■ ••--Uhoatf * * ttieiv | m and evidently

neighbon became satisfied that i thing unusual had taken place, followed the horse to the well, and after a little delay gathered a foroe and resened hia mate from hia uncomfortable position. To their astonishment, the horae had received no injuries worth mentioning. Upon hia return, Mr. Lane had occasion to go down after paesengera, and Concluded to harness the hone whieh met with no accident into a single wagon, and give the othMhorae^o^iortanity haTTo'started than the horse's mate pise—d. himself by his aide, end Lis place down end book, end thi repeated several time*, when Mr. Lane uded to harness them both and let in fntnrc work together in doable

_ butcher made Senator r . irate offer of *12 ‘ ' of five months, on » sale last week. The butcher wee smilingly informed that the mal was on the auction list, end could have tho opportunity of pure ing her when she came to the bl That worthy individual was perfectly vi—Tim, Mtoniahmer' lied hia pet Kentucky, lot *87,000. tea* of Oneida, and the "golden calf” of the sale. Another " tSfofwl

piuiicr to him, and had the — — „. . Stating. She we* arrested. There ia the way with pleeaing and contented aOmethW of the old daw ofACalnde sensations. This email monster has DnSlSl Jack Shephard e£mt th* been sentenced to detonlion in e re-

ittaeked di lok, five have died. In tho fatal caei e rapidity of the onset, the short di tion of tho affection, and the violent of the symptoms, have been remarkei It waa imported by ships arriving from infected part* in Germany. Montivilliera and Harflenr and the suburbs have been equally affected by the epidemic, • • ’-‘-Us are wanting. The disease dm —- appeared in Boncn, w! cording to a medical journal 25th of August there had been ‘ r cases, with thirty-nine deaths, two hospitals." In Hangary and Tranayli

official accounts. 60,000 peopl " d of it Vienna is said — nt already 200,000 florins in improvthe drainage, but, notwithstanding, 38 persona were attacked from tho h of July to the 21*t of Angnak and 929 died. Accounts from Germany state that on the 24th and 2Sth of August 197 persons wore takan ill at Magdeburg, of whom 117 died. In Munich, of 407 tacked np to the present, 164 died; Konigsberg, 146 died out of 815. In ottiu, 45 were taken ill and 86 died. In many other towns there were nnmerrictims." Home Mule. fanner in thi* county, aay* the Newberry (a 0.) -Progresrtie ripe, haa a mule so awfully contrary that he can do nothing with it Put him iu haranditia hard to aay whieh way

Probably the most singular temper ia that of * little ten-year-old girl In Frenee. who lately *z ’ king premeditation boned her v to the sound because (— not knowing her les-

had not been raptured, fee wife had watched fora good opportunity, until carried the reroltaa’inolraod in her at last ah* set the thatch on ffroetC

'olock in the morning, end ra

„ _irs the Khar,de will lie reduced alir ' It ia greatly preferablr

. . Ds.. gi' terrible description We are now passing through an aw outgo. Yellow fever haa oomo, a te some awful black pall has thrown s folds sbont ns, spreadin^fright 'noarlydepopulatod by stampede an ' oknoas. There baa been, as near aa . in aaoortain, up to date, abont sixt deaths, and there are still a great nun traick. , .... There ia one awful eharacter.ati about the sickness, and that is, no on attacked ae yet haa recovered. On day you hear of a ease doing aa well I could be expected, the next thing - orpee ia awaiting the hearse. In point jf malignant fatality it surpasses yellow * u

pears ‘

and he appears to done; bnt tty to it him, and he will all of a sudden _ . every way, straight out straddle bug, with all four legs at once. Aa to eaung, he will eat anything from bis feed trough up to * wooden eaddle. The owner took * notion to have him ■hod, but he kicked out the blacksmith ‘ and returned home. The owner to kill him aome time beck, ao ho tied hia ears with * trace chain rode him for six consecutive days nights as ' •—*--- •* * " him self 1 in the effort, s ried np stairs fo bed, . lief wee that the mule would night, hot to his astonishment the next ——ling he found that the mule had jdto death sChoster hog weighing 800 pound*, bit a piece ont of hi* bone's shoulder, rat np eaddle, blanket ' bridle, tore down tho fence, and ■piurging about morddeviliah than r, to find something else meaner t*

"S;.

A Ccmiosm.—There is e singnl cariosity in e lake in Vermont, eonah ing of one hundred and fifty acre* land floating on the surfsee of the i ter. The tract is covered with on berriee, end there are tree* fifteen fi high. When the water ia raised lowered at the dam of the pond t island riara and falls with it .

poors

-ts fatal grip n u ia stiff and ate

persons at first dropped d«*d

in tho ettcela before reaching ah These cases, however, have been We have organized a Howard Assoeia-

’ are doing a good deal of good, night tb--t the removal of the cr raft baa considerable tc epidemic. Nnraea and p

ie State ia the beat since all the other crops are irmern are consequently * at this attempt to inthe already heavy charges made by these roads. The Evening B'isoonsln of 'the 12th ins' ~ tho now tariff ia i 16th of September, ------- •ho additional charge on a car-load ot^ rheat; this ia -nearly two cents par ushel. Wo expect that this change rill be to diminiah three cents per bushel the value of the wheat remaining in the granaries of the farmers of the West One consideration the railway abonld not overlook—we know - imething of the eentiment of the peo!e of this State, end of the men who •o likely to give direction to publio lairs after the November election, and -o aay deliberately that if tho proposed freight increase i* earned ont, a pro rata freight bill will puss at the next session of tho Legislature and become a law, and that the present exemption of railway property from taxation will bo abolished, or the licenses raised from •' -ee to six per cent on-iheir gross ropt*. We state this now for the beneof the Eastern shareholders who Ota itrol the Eastern directors,"

English Corn.

When an American visits Europe, d particularly England, whir" resemhlann

A Foreign Fire Department

•'Storting ont early in tbe morning.'' writes a correapondent from Mayenoe. " I was fortunate enough to witness a parade of the Fire Department To

accustomed to our peradee at home rme a comical exhibition. First came impany of soldier* or policemen to

ir the way; then a band of twentyfive musicians; then three hose carriages, abont half the size of our package carte, each drawn by two men; then a dimiqutivo section, also drawn by two men ; then the grand engine, drawn by four men, followed by eight firemen in uniform ; then another bend of twentyfive musician*, and another set of apparatus followed bv the ladder and hook Show that I bad ever teen. I am quite anre that two of onr fire engine horae* oonld have pulled the whole parede, music, end all end equally anre that the

isny points of resemblance to hie own country, he cannot help being enrprised at the want of many things to whioh hie palate or hia sight bad been acouatomed. For example, it ia doubtful whether, in the British Island*, h* can find at anyaeaaon a single (talk of Indian corn. The climate ia not stilted

to that cereal, and even if it grew there, ■

it is doubtful whether Indian meal wolnd be adopted as food for any portion of the population. Hors, when com is mentioned, the grain of

speaks of corn. Hence, when the taxes on food were imposed by virtue of acta of Parliament, generally known ae “ the Horn lews," wheat berley and oat*

i the grain thus taxed, what we a as com being known only by e in England. Strictly speaking,

— German word “ kora " mean* any sort of edible grain; bnt ordinary use, whioh gives the title to jaaixe in America, and to wheat in England, give* it to oats in Sootland, end to bar-

ley in Ireland.

The following i* the section in the platform of the Massachusetts Bepubtican Co riven lion relaltve to transportation ; - Betol policy wl —"-roads that toe raw material, loou. ooal of the West and South shall be exchanged at the least possible coat for the manufactures of New England, interesting the whole oonntty, i* vital to the industrial of Maaeanhu sells ; thal the power vested by the Constitution in Congress to regulate commerce between thTltate. includes jurisdiction over thi* greet subject, aad that we cell upon Oongree* end our State Legislature to ao ei