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During November and December last, a legro by the name of Jerry Vaughn, from Mississippi. stayed among them, and sold them rights and receipts for working charms and performing miracles. To acquire the “card charm ” th1ee or more go to a grave, one kneels at the head and prays, one or more stands at the foot anu curse. the balancm dig down and get the bones and fill up the, grave again, the playing and cursing going on all the While. Then all join in a game of} cards on the grave, and all have acquired the ‘ “charm. ” They put the bones 1n a poke 01 string them, and wear them about the body, and, as they expressed it, “we have good luck.” They lick dust of human bones, and wet the tips of their fingeis while they handle or play cards, and have “good luck.’ 'l‘hey ."rub the cards against the bones about their body for “luck; ” and they swallow the dust for "y‘good luck” in any undertaking. Rumor has it that they said: “If a black man will take a dose of the dust of a white woman’s bones he can then charm any white woman and do as he pleases with her.“ We do not vouch for this, as the prisoners never men- tioned this charm to the Sheriff after they were put in jail, but they spoke freely of the others, and said that they did not see that they had any better “luck.” The crime committed by these unfortunate men, and the fact and manner of its discov- ery, are about as follows : One day last month a negro named Dock Poe, being sick and thinking he was about to die, unburthen- ed his conscience to his nurse. an old negro woman named Jude Dobbins, and named the above three as engaged in the crime, and told her that some of the human bones they had been operating with were about the house. Aunt Jude thinking that Poe would die, and being superstitiously alarmed communiâ€" cated her information to a white woman. The white people finding that several graves had been dug into, became excited and were threatening summary ven» geancc. Some prudent citizens obtained a warrant, and succeeded in arresting the three named above for violating graves. Poe being sick, they did not disturb him. The prisoners when arrested separately confessed the crime, and each told about the same story. Each was taken to the graves separately and each pointed out the graves they had opened. The prisoners were then taken before a magis- trate, who, upon their full confession, com« mitted them to jail. The citizens who had the matter in hand ad the greatest difficulty in protecting the risoners till they were lodged in jail, and for several days afterward the Sheriff and citi- zens of Vernon feared something like what has happened, but all seemed to have be- come quiet. The people afterward opened and examined the graves.. One in which a man had been buried for thirty-five years had been dug out to the bottom, and the decayed bones were mixed with the dirt to the top and some of them were found out of the grave. The negroes said they did not take any of them because they were too much decayed. The other was that of a Mrs. Tom Poe, who had been buried about two years. The left hand of the corpse had been pulled off at the wrist and was missing; the right arm had been pulled off at the shoulder, and was missing, and the corpse was mangled and turned about in the coffin. The lid had been merely laid back and the grave filled. The negrocs said they had taken away the hands. They all had bones about their persons, which they said were from Mrs. Poe’s hands. Thesebones are now in possession of Sherifl Lacy, and are said not to belong to the same human liand.;They said they had sold some of them. It is be- lieved that sewers/l other graves had been dug into. The graveyard where most of the digging had been done is at or near Poplar Spring Church. in the southwest corner of this county, and all the graves molested were the graves of white people. IRE CL ASSIGA L PROFE 8801K8lll P. Tfie cau’ae of ihié strange conduct as related by the negroes themselves, is as fol- lows : Coroner‘VV. T. Marler summoned a jury and held an inquest. Dr. \Villinm A. Brown examined the bodies in the presence of the jury, and made out a statement, in writing, of the nature and number of the wounds, and stated that they all came to their death by shot wounds. Thomas B. Nesmith, solicitor, summoned and examined before the jury every person from whom it was supposed that any testimony could be obtained, but no dis- covery was made as to who committed the crime. The citizens of Vernon met and pre- pared good plain coffins, and dressed the deed in neat suits and gave them decent burial. The colored people refused to aid,and seemed to have a superstitious fear of coming near the dead. Three Negro": Shot [or Violating Graves in Alubamaâ€"Voodoinm in the Southâ€"â€" lYlutilnling (‘orpses and Playing Cards liver the Rifle-cl Graves to Get 1! “(Hun-m." (From the Vernon (Alm) Clipper.) I On Sunday morning, July 16, about 1.30 o’clock, Sherifi' Lacy was called up 11y armed men, who demanded the keys vi the jail. \Vhen positively refused, they placed :1 guard at his door and told him not to come out, as they did not wish to hu1t him. They then proceeded to the jail, bloke open the doors and after hamnming the cage awhile, “ale 'heard calling, “Come out of there; conic out of there. "’ sevelal times. Then ten or t“ elve shots were heard, though mostly pistols. and the men, thought to be about thirty in num- ber, marched away. When they were gone Lindsey Portwood, Dudley Brothers and Wes- ley Richardson were found dead in the cage, and the door of the cage broken open. Thty had been committed ten days ago for violet ing graves. i'lurdm-anll Suicide Resulting (ram an Illicit Love Atfalr w Renuu-knble Vi- Inlily SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Aug. Qâ€"The family of Sebina Jilson, living near Shutesbury Centre, we1e alarmed about eight o clock last night by the sudden appearance of Jarvis Nelson Phelps, a young man of New York, son of the nearest neighbour who was bleeding £10111 sev- eral wounds in the chest. He declared that he had shot himself, and had but a few 111inv utes to live and that he had left the dead body of Sadie A Grover his former mistress andy the mother of hIS three- -yea1- -old child in the woods 9. short distance hack.Sea1ch proved that Phelps’ story was true. Phelps, who has a wife living, immerly lived with the Giovcr girl, who was scarcely nineteen quite p1etty, and modest' in appea1ance‘ until arrested for rb1gamy, and sent to jailfor a year. His sen- ence was completed about a year ago, since which he has been endeavouring to get her to live with him again. Hercontinual refusal and association with other men, it is supposed, prompted him to commit the c1ime.He fired four chambers of his revolver into the woman’ s heart, and then coolly reloaded and dischaiged seven barrels into his own heart. The autopsy confirms this story substantially. Phelps is stillliving and to all appearance the coolest man in town, but the doctors say he cannot recover. His victim is the daughter of A. J. Grover, a respectable farmer, of Turner’s Falls. DEAD MEN’S BONES FOR LUCK The Toronto Globe of this morning says :â€" We regret to learn that Mr. Warren has de- clined the offer of the Classical Professorship of University College made to him by the Minister of Education We are, however, happy to announce that the plane has been filled through the efforts of Hon. Mr. Mowat and Dr. Daniel Wilson, both of whom are now in England. Mr. Maurice Hutton, M. A., Professor of Classics in Firth College, Sheffield, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, is the new incumbent of the chair. He ob tained first-class honors at the Examination by Moderators, and also for his B. A. degree. The chair will undoubtedly be worthily filled, and we congratulate the Professors of Uniâ€" versity College on obtaining so distinguished a. colleague. â€"Scientists say thatâ€"one-fiflh of the human brnin is composed of phosphorus. A TE KRIBL 'l‘ KAGEIBY. WxNNIPEa, Aug. 1().â€"-Superintendent of Government railways Lynsky was recently summoned before chief Justice Wood to show cause why an injunction should not issue against him for running a ferry boat 1n con- nection with the Canadian Pacific railway 1n opposition to the regular licensed feriy boat. The injunction was granted, the Court iuling that the Provincial Government has jurisdic- tion over the Red River. A new lightship for the Dominion Govern- ment was launched here on Saturday. The vessel is to be used at the mouth of the Red River and Lake Winnipeg. The wounded boy was carried home by his companions more dead than alive. His leg was terribly lacerated, and the loss of blood was very severe. It was thought for a time that the limb could be saved, but mortifica- tion set in, and it was found necessary to amputate it just below the knee. The young man is now getting along very well, and will probably recover. The exciting question is, What was the strange animal, and where did it come from ? The young men only saw a part of its head, but from their description it is supposed to have been an alligator. How such an animal could have come so far north is a mystery, unless it is explained by an acci- dent which took place in the early part of the summer. Some time in May, as a train of freight cars were coming east, 8. link broke and a slight collision occurred, throwing a car into the stream at this point. The car con- tained general freight, and among other things a live alligator, about six feet long, which was on its way to the Philadelphia Zoological Garden. Nothing was afterward seen of the animal, and it was supposed that it was killed by the fall. But it must have escaped, and this was probably the animal that attacked young Sharp. People in the vicinity are in a great state of excitement, and will not let their children go near the stream, as they are afraid they will be eaten. Almost a constant watch has since been kept on the place by men armed with shot guns, who are determined to destroy the beast, but as yet it has failed to show itself.â€"-Altoona, Pm, Tribune. A special train with 300 labourers to work on the Pacific railway arrived yesterday and proceeded to it’srderstingtiog aqrqss fige lake. Wednesday, the 18ihflAugust, will be the civic holiday here. Mr, W. N. Forsyth, of the money order branch of the Post Olfice Department, is on a tour of inspection here, and is to open branches if found necessary. The steamer Dakota, well-known in con- nection with Red river transportation. was burned to the water’s edge last night at Pem- bina. LOSS, 310.000; no insurance. She plied between Grand Forks and the international boundary this season. The Bird’s-Eye band of Indians are reported to be in possession of the stores of the Indian Department at Duck Lake, They are 1,500 strong. Capt. Herchimer, on the road from Shoal Lake to Battleford, seized five ring- leaders and took them to Prince Albert, They left one wounded. Twenty of the mounted police had gone to quell the disturbance, but Capt. Herehimer turned them back in order to avoid an inevitable collision. Capt. Moore with five men has gone from Prince Albert privately to try and restore order. A strange and serious accident happened recently to a farmer’s boy, named Pennel Sharp, who lives in the county 9. short dis- tance beyond Cressen, along the line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The railroad crosses a small stream here, a branch of the Cone- maugh. In places it has deep holes, which are very good bathing places. Young Sharp and several companions, who had been out shooting woodceek, had gone in to bathe. As Sharp was swimming by himself, some dis- tance from the bank, his companions sudden- ly heard him give an agonizing scream and then disappear in the water. They saw that he had been caught by some black animal, which had one of his legs in its mouth,whero it was held firmly by a row of cruel white teeth. The animal carried the young man under the water, but reappeared in two or three minutes with Sharp in his jaws. He cried to his com- panions to shoot, but before a gun could be discharged he was pulled under the water again. About two minutes after he rose with the big black brute still clinging to his leg. :nd struck out for the opposite shore. Again he called upon his companions to shoot, but being afraid of hitting Sharp,no one discharg- ed his gun. At last he reached the bank and began climbing up its slippery side, when the animal, guided by a sudden impulse, gave a. jerk, which tore a great piece from the calf of Sharp’s leg, and slid with its mouthful of human flesh into the deep water, to reap- pear no more. Nlilitary lit-cords of the General: in Com numd a! the Front. General James Maurice Primrose received his commission in 1837. He was made a lieu- tenant in 1841, captain in 1848, major in 1855, lieutenant-colonel in 1857, colonel in 1862, and major-general in 1868. He served with the 43rd Light Infantry in the Kaflir war of 1851â€"3, accompanied the expedition to the Or- ange River sovereignty, and was present at the action of the Berea. He commanded the 43rd Light Infantry on its march from Banga- lore through Central India to Calpee in 1858, and through the various operations in Bun- delcund. Towards tke conclusion of the re- bellion he commanded one of the seven col- minus under Brigadier W'heeler, specially or- dered to clear a large district infested with rebel bands. The eomer Eatone of the new Louis Bridge was laid yesterday afternoon with Masonic honors. It was a civic half-holiday, and over two thousand people attended the cele- bration. IN ’l‘lllE JA‘VS OF AN ALLIGATOR Sir A. P. Phayre entered the army in 1828, was made a lieutenantin 1838, brevet-captain in 1843, captain in 1849, brevet-major in 1854, major in 1855, lieutenant-colonel in 1859, brevet-colonel in 1866, major-general in 1870, and lieutenant-general in 1877. General George Reynolds Scott Burrows re- ceived his commission as ensign in 1844. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in 1846, captain in 1856, major in 1862, lieuten- ant-colonel in 1864, and colonel in 1871. â€"It is somewhat remarkable that a steam- boat that never leaves the land should yet be crowded with passengers. Such, however, is the case of the “Minnehaha,” on Lake George. This “staunch and favorite” steamer ought to have been called “Prometheus,” for it is chained to a rock and the vultures from the great cities feed on it. The engine, boiler, etc.. have been taken away, and the “Minnehaha” is now a floating summer boarding-house. All the former berths are utilized as bedrooms, and the empty paddle- l)oxes make cool and comfortable parlor» chambers. A similar, but more private nautical boarding-house, is on the beach as Long Island. This is a wrecked vessel that lies high and dry on the sand. The members of the New York Tile Club swooped down upon the wreck and fitted it up for a summer resi- dence. Last year they decorated a canal boat ‘from Troy. Their doings were picturesquely recorded in Scribner, and it is to be hoped they will illustrate as nicely their present summer’s wreck-reation. VOL XXIII. WINNIPEG NOTES. ’I‘IIE AFGnAN WAR. “It was through an opening among the trees, as we approached the spot where the full view of the Falls was to burst upon us, that I caught this glimpse of the mighty mass of waters folding smoothly over the edge of the precipice, and so overwhelming was the notion it gave me of the awful spec- tacle I was approaching, that during the short interval that followed, imagination had far outrun the reality. My whole heart and soul ascended toward the Divinity in a, swell of devout admiratlon which I never before ex- perienced. 0h 1 bring the atheist here, and he cannot return an atheist. I pity the man who can coldly sit down to write a description of these ineflable wonders. Much more do I pity him who can submit them to the ad- measurement of gallons and yards. It is im- possible, by pen or pencil, to convey even a faint idea of their magnificence. Painting is lifeless ; and the most burning words of poetry have been lavished upon inferior and ordinary subjects. We must have new com- binations of language to describe the Falls of Niagara.” In robes of dusky geld last night, Until her tender glory puled Before the ruddy dawn of light. Love lay enshrined in bridal bowers, And kissed the sweets that come and g0 From mixoff fieldsâ€"4min all the flowers - That blow. How did love wake .9 The early beams Had pierced the roseleaf Where he slept, And, rising from his perfumed dreams, Into the dewy world he leapt, Singingâ€"soared upward into lightâ€"â€" ‘ For day is but a little pain, And then ’tis night with soft delight Again! ’ Be Love returned when twilight fell, And found his flowers dying, dead ; The queenly rose he loved so well Lay in his arms with drooping heed : ‘ Ah, Love 1‘ she cried, ‘ thy kisses burn ; But Death has chilled my lips before. If Love once flies he may return No more i’ " Anew cantata by Dr. Bridges, the " Bodicea, Queen of Iceni,” has been well received in London. We do not remember meeting with any Waiflet more charming than this from Tinsâ€" ley’s Magnnine. It is entitled“No More :” "Ho_w diq Lovg _sle§p ‘? "line swept} moon sailed Dr. Smiles is the most practical English writer of the present day. His works on “ Thrift,” “ Self Help” and. the like are the best in the English language. His ” Life of George Stephenson” is an invaluable work. It is said that he has made money, and that he built a house at Blackheath out of the pro- ceeds of his “ Self Help.” Edgar h‘awcett, the young American poet, is a native of New York, and began writing when he was only eight years of age. He is now thirty-three years old. Miss Néra Perri, author 9f “ After the Ball,” says that poem was her first. Originally it comprised only these two verses : " 411d Maud and Mgdge in robe}. of white, Kossuth's “Memoirs” do not meet. with much favor except in Hungary. The author is not only personal but rude in speaking of English statesmen. ‘FPencilled Fly Leaves” is the curious title of a book soon to be pubhshed from the pen of John James Piatt. In a fecentls' pubiiéhed life of Moore, the poet, the author quotes Moore’s account of his visit to Niagara. Falls, as follows : Speaking of “Brazil, the Amazons and the Coast,” a work by Mr. Herbert H. Smith, the Saturday Review says : “This big book on a big country is calculated to remove from Americans, of whom we take Mr. Smith to be one, the reproach of doing things in too great a hurry. Popularly they are supposed to sweep through a gallery of antiquities or to survey a continent with the rapidity of a. fire devouring one of their own prairies in the Far \Vest." “A Stranger in America,” writing his im~ pressions of a. tour threugh the United States, expressed great surprise to see people keep off the grass by simply being told to do so. The jirettiest nightgowns under the sun. Stockingless, slipperless, sit in the night, For the revel is done ; Sit and comb their beautiful hair, Those wonderful waves of brown and gold, Till the fire is out in the cham‘ er there, And the little bare feet are ooh ." By the advice of a friend she added to it, and sold it to the Atlantic Monthly. She tried another poem entitled “ Tying her bonnet under her chin,” which was a greater favorite with the public than the other, but the editor of the Atlantic declined to have anything to de with it. Col. Forney, of Philadelphia, is Writing a. life of Gen. Hancock, the Democratic candi- date for the Presidency of the United States. The 001. was a Democrat before the war, he- came a. Republican, and. now goes over with Gen. Hancock to the ranks of the Demo- crats again. Tom Taylor, the dramatist and editor of London Punch, who died recently, wrote a flattering notice of the great actress, Mme. Modjeska just before his death. An expedition under the guidance of M. Charnay, a. French literary artist and er- cheeologist, has gone to Mexico, with the ob. ject of making a thorough and systematic investigation of the monuments of antiquity so abundant .in Central America. The de- tails of the operations of this exploration are to appear in the North American Review written by M. Charnay, and illustrated from photographs taken on the spot. The under- taking is an important one, and the cost is to be defrayed by Mr. Lorillard, of New York, and the French Government. The party will have the aid of an armed guard one hundred strong, when they arrive among the wild Marfas, and other warlike tribes. Ralph Waldo Emerson, the sage of Con- cord,and chief among American philosophers, it is said, keeps cows and sells milk. We should have thought that a man who has earned so much fame, and done so much to elevate the mental standard of his country during a long life, would are this have been raised above the anything but poetical occu- pation of cow‘ keeping. Miss Mulock, now Mrs. Craig, and author of some of the best works extantâ€"notably, “John Halifax, Genfleman"â€"has been visit- ing Rome with her husband, who is the editor of Macmillan’: Magazine. Mrs. Craig is said to be thoroughly English in apppear- anoe, not handsome, but has beautiful gray eyes, and dresses plainly. She resides a. few miles from London. Mrs. Langtry is no longer called the Jersey Lily ; society has given her another pet name â€"â€"-“The Amber Witch.” She is said to be lovelier than ever, and is gazed at in public as if she were a queen or a. prima donna. At the Atalanta fete, Where she wore a. gown of old-gold satin trimmed with shaded poppies, one old lady seated herself opposite the Amber Witch’s stall and deliberately taking out her opera-glasses stared at the famous beauiy for an hour. Judge Black writes from abroad that “Mr. Bradlaugh has great intellectual powers. and he looks it; in face and figure." The Judge adds that he is not so handsome as Mr. In. gersoll, “or nearly so brilliant a talker, but as a bold blasphemer he can beat his Ameri- can rival all hollow.” The editor of a newspaper out West having adopted phonetic spelling, received this cur- ious letter from an old subscriber, written on a postal card : “I hev tuk your paper for leven yeres, but if you kant spel enny better than you have been doin’ fur the 19,3 to munths you may jes stoppit.’_’ fibre is a time table issued in 1831 by the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, the first built and opened in England: OUR SPECIAL COLUMN. RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1880. â€"â€"Mr. Henry Leslie notes that the enorm- ous sum of $600,000 is annually paid out by the British Government for musical results in board and. denominational schools, and that these results are simply singing by ear, and that very much out of tune. He thinks the money utterly wasted, and proposes that at least a part of it should be used for the endowment of artistic musical educa- tion. Tuesday afternoon the steamer Corsican, of the Richelieu Line, left Toronto for Mon- treal with a full complement of passengers, amongst them being Mr. John H. Crawford. head bookâ€"keeper to Messrs. J as. MoCready & 00., wholesale and retail dry goods mer- chants, Eleventh street and Broadway, New York, and Mr. Thomas Alexander, of the same firm, who were on a tour through Canada. Two hours were passed by them and another gentleman in pleasant chat. in the course of which Mr. Alexander gave Mr. Crawford 3. Masonic badge to place on his watch chain. Mr. Crawford then expressed his intention of takings. stroll and proceeded alone to the hurricane deck where he was seen by two ladies to seat himself aft across the traffrail with his back to the water, and his legs dangling just above the deck. Sud- denly the boat gave a lurch, and he was pre- cipitated backwarks into the water. A cry of “ man overbord,” was raised, and the keeper of the book‘stall threw a chair overboard which the unfortunate man, struggling in the turbulent wake of the steamer, failed to seize. He swam nobly for some time, and suddenly was seen no more. The vessel was stopped and a boat was lowered,but too late to render assistance, the chair which had been thrown overboard, and the hat of the unfortunate gentleman, alone being visible. The boat cruised around for some time, and then returned to the steamer, which proceeded on her way. Mr. Alexander arrived in town last night. and stated to our reporter that there appeared to him to be some delay in stopping the vessel and lowering the boat, although he would be 'sorry to impute any blame to the officers of the vessel, as the suspense suffered by him might naturally cause time to seem much longer than it was. The deceased was twenty- seven years of age and single. Mr. Alexander has telegraphed to all the stations on Lake Ontario, between Toronto and Kingston, and the Richelieu Company has done likewise. A reward will be offered for the recovery of the body. The officers of the vessel. which is now in port, assert that all possible haste was exercised in stopping the vessel and lowering a boat. Mr. Alexandor did not wit- ness the accident. The Masonic badge worn by the deceased is a cross, with two swords, and hears the inscription, "Phoenix Chapter, Palestine Commandery, Lebanon Lodge,” and Mr. Alexander’s name. â€"Melbourne University is to admit ladies as students, except as regards the classes for medicine. â€"At :1 recent meeting of the Pennsylvania teachers Professor Morris, of the Westchester Normal School, said that he found that one of the abuses in the examinations in the Normal Schools was that the best students were bro- ken down by being compelled to prepare to be examined on all of the twenty-five studies at one time. Prof. Stahr, of Franklin and Mar- shall College, read at strong paper in advocacy of women as teachers, speaking of them as natural education. Particulars of the Death of a New York Tourlut on Lake Ontario. The Montreal Herald gives the following account of the drowning accident. near Port Darlingmn on Tuesday _19.st : â€"The Russian schoolmasters and educa- tional officials are to hold a conference at St. Petersburg next month. -â€"In the last examination for London Uni- versity ladies take five out of the first four- teen places, all of these attaining the num- ber of marks qualifying for prizes,and sixteen names out of eighty-five in honors are those of ladies. Twenty-four in the first class are also ladies, and only one lady is in the second class. Liverpool and Manchester Rail-Way. Time of departure, both From Liverpool and Manchester. First class, fare 55. Second class, fare 35. 6d. Seven o‘clock, morning. Eight o’clock, morning. Ten o'clock, morning. Half-pasttwo,aftemoon. One o’clock, Mternoon. Half-past four, afternoon. *3 For the convenience of merchants and others, the first class evening train 01 carriages does not leave Manchester on Tuesdays and Saturdays until half-past five o’clock. The joul- ney is usually accomplished by the first class carriages under two hours. In addition to the above trains it is intended shortly to add three or four more departures daily. The company have commenced carrying goods of all kinds on the Rail-way. January, 1831. â€"Insnector Stewart, of one of the English school districts, makes a complaint which might justly be repeated by many an Ameri can school ofliciah He says that schools are not now as successful as they once were in giving children that real education which is never wholly lost, and their inferiority, he believes is due to the neglect of the art of teaching ; the conversion of standards of ex- aminations into standards of organization ; and the ambitious multiplicity of subjects which teachers put in their time tables. â€"Dr. Frasier, the wise and eloquent Bishop of Manchester, made the other day, some well- deserved criticisms on the great fault of the American school system. He declared that his experience in this country had convinced him of the prejudicial efi‘ects resulting from the introduction of multifarious subjects; how children quitted school with an almost useless smattering of many subjects, but with com- plete and accurate knowledge of none. Now that knowledge was advancing so rapidly, it was difficult to fix a limit, but the question would have to be fought out sooner or later, and the earlier it was decided the better. He trusted the education of English boys and girls would be concentrated on a few subjects and not scattered over many. Thoughtful minds were beginning to inquire whether quality or quantity was best; whether it we! preferable that a large surface should be slightly scratched or a. smaller surface thoroughly cultivated. He did not desire to see the old curriculum materially changed; and, while admitting that in some respects it had been nrudently widened, he feared there was danger of running to extremes by includ- ing too many and varied subjects in the edu- cational programmeâ€"New York Tribune. â€"We have not noticed that those who want more of the public money distributed through the Pension Bureau have argued that such ac- tion would tend to increase good feeling be- tween thc people of the North and South. but there is some ground for such argument if the pensioners feel as the Boston man did who, upon getting his pension papers entit- ling him to $1,600 arrears. remarked, as he left the City Hall, “ By George, if I could meet the dastardly rebel that shot me I would treat him.” â€"Deau Stanley was not equal to the op- portunities when he performed the marriage ceremony of Prof. Tyndall. The Dean should have asked the groom: “ Do you take this anthropoid to be your lac-ordinate. to lovewith your nerve centers,to cherish with your whole cellular tissue, until a final molecular distur- bance shall resolve its organism into ita pri- mitive atoms 2’" 1180\"NED 0FF THE COKSICAN. NOTES 0N m'uUCA'rIoN. Within an hour the artillery were engaged, and a duel ensued which lasted for fourhours. Meanwhile our cavalry also had come up, and skirmished with the enemy’s horse, but it Colonel St. John’ s telegram means any- thing at all it would seem as if the latter fell back soon after our guns came seriously into action, for he tells us in one line that our cavahy was engaged at nine o’clock with that of the enemy, our guns occasionally firing, and in the next that ”till one p. m. the action was confined to artillery.” Whether the Wali’ s horsemen remained staunch or whether they deserted to the enemy we are not told. During the artillery duel the main body of the enemy came in sight, and rapidly traven sing the successive undulations which are characteristic of the Maiman valley. took up their position with great judgment, utilising their large force of artillery to cover their extended front, and holding their right and left flanks by large masses of cavalry. The centre of their line was composed entirely of regulars, seven regiments â€"no doubt with the old Cabuli battalion in the place of honor with two thousand horsemen covering the head of the valley on the right, and an equal number of Ghazis and the mounted irregulars upon the 1eft-â€"-a formidable reserve of both arms being formed up in the rear, and the artillery distributed in six batteries along the whole front. These guns were so well served that our superiorityiin weight of mental and rifling went for nothing. and our infantry had to be ordered to the front. OUR BREECH LOADEBS A'J.‘ ONCE BEGAN TO TELL against the inferior arms of the enemy; but that fact was apparent to Ayoub Khan and his generals as soon as to ourselves. for the regular cavalry on the enemy’s right, two thousand strong, were at once sent forward at the change to break in our left, while the Ghazis were let loose upon our front and right. Ayoub Khan would, therefore, seem to have had all his wits about him, for be ex- pended upon this first attack the enthusiasm of his irregular frantic-contingent, an enthu- siasm which, if restrained till some critical part of the engagement, might have resulted, as it has so often done in these Afghan fights in their fatally impeding and thwarting the manoeuvres of their own comrades of the regulars. In the present instance, however, the stalwart, fantical Alizais proved too strong for the native regimentsâ€"the lst Bombay Grenadiers and the 30th Jacobs’ Riflesâ€"which formed the first line of our advance, and they fell back in confusion upon the 66th, with such precipitation that the artillery had to abandon the two guns which had been in position on the front of our attack, and break- ing their own formation, threw the Berks regiment into disorder. The Ghazis. who by themselves outnumbered our total force, pressed impetuouslv forward upon that entan- gled mass while the main body of the enemy moved steadily onward in their support» Account of the Great Ballle in Which Gen. Bun-ow- wns Defeatedâ€"Fright- lul llavoc Among the Anglo-Indian ForceIâ€"A lehl‘ot Carnage. BATTLE OF RUSH- I-NAKEUD. Early on the morning of Tuesday, the 27th, says the London Telegraph, Colonel St. John, political officer with the Oandehar force, re- ceived information that the advanced guard of the enemy had occupied Madman, about three miles from Kush i-Nakhud, where Gen. Burrows was encamped. The General, on hearing this, at once gave the order to ad- vance against the enemy, and at about eight o’clock our cavalry, the 3rd Bombay, and two squadrons of the 3rd Scinde Horseâ€"with horse artilleryâ€"about 200 men of E. B. Bat- teryâ€"pushed on to the head of the valley. Here the enemy’s cavalry cam in sight, feel- ing their way westward along the slopes of the hills. We then read that, “after a severe fight in the enclosed ground, General Burrows suc- ceeded in extricating the infantry, and brought them into line of retreat ”â€"a re- markable sentence which scarcely admits of translation. It would appear, however, that our: troops took up positions for themselves in the square walled enclosure about eighty yards each way, with walls twenty feet in height,” which had hitherto served us for a baggage and animal “laager,” and. that, the enemy entering with them, a severe fight en- sued, which resulted in A DESPERATE BAND-TO-KAND FIGHT occupied, it would appear,more than an hour, our troops falling back, however, stubbornly, all the time, until, at three o’clock, they lound themselves against the camp on the Candahar road from which they had started in the morning with the whole strength of the enemy pressing them hotly, and completely cut off from their artillery and cavalry. and again compelled to retreat. Meanwhile, the ncn-combatantsâ€"Colonel St. John does not give a. word of explanation as to the safety of any of these two, or perhaps three thousand unarmed menâ€"were streaming along the road, trying, poor faithful creatures, to save our baggage and the animals, and with this stream of fugitives was soon mingled the remnant of our infantry brigade. There are two reads from Oandahar to Girishk. the lower, which goes by Bale Khan, being “the main road” mentioned in the tele- gram. ~ It is waterless throughout. The fugi- tives, however, seem to have been driven by some fatal instinct of panic to select it for their flight. and all the efforts of their oflicers to turn them from the lower road to the upper proved unavailing. The telegram as- serts that “the majority” of the casualties on the retreat “appear to have occurred from men falling from thirst and exhaustion”â€"-a supposition which will hardly bear comment when we think of the nine thousand Afghans in close. pursuit, and three thousand Herati horsemen riding through and through the flying masses, cutting them down till their sword arms tired after thirty miles of pursuit and massacre. All that afternoon and even- ing, and fl ALL THROUGH THE LONG NIGHT TEE AFGHANB CBASED TEE FUGITIVES ; and the soldiers who have returned with their lives into Candahar probably owe their safety to the fact that their pursuere spent their strength upon their defenceless non-combatant comrades, and that so much of their flight was by night. To within ten miles of Gen. Primrose’s camp did these fierce horsemen hunt our men. along a. road beset not only with death by sword and bullet, but terrible as the desert that it skirts from an utter want of water. Where, meanwhile, was the cavalry and artillery? They were not with the infantry; for before three o'clock on Tuesday they were, we are told, "cut ofl" from the foot. But we next hear of them on the Argsndhabâ€"just forty miles from the scene of the last stand of the infantryâ€"which they reached at seven on Wednesday morning, rushing to the stream to shake their thirst, and then to horse again and ofi down through the smiling valley on to the plain of Uandahar. _ “Nearly all our ammunition,” we are told, was lostâ€"the remnant saved being, we pre- sume, the cartridges which the fugitives car- ried about them with the eleven hundred rifles of the dead men, two nine-pounder guns and all our baggage and military atoren. OUR MEN BEING AGAIN OVER-POWERED THE AFGHAN WAR. AN ABTILLEBY D UEL. Such is Colonel St. John‘s sketch of that disastrous Tuesday’s work, and we may be sure it is not drawn in darker lines than was necessary, In conclusion, he tells us that General Primrose was preparing “fora siege,” and that the Dourani inhabitants of the city had been driven out from the walls by their fellow-citizens. CHAMAN GHOKI’A BRITISH OUTPOST. Just about half-way between Quetta and Candahar there is a high range, the Khoja, lying right across the line of all advance from one pomt to the other. The chiei route across this is the Khojak pass, which connects the Pishin valley, lying on the Quetta side of it, with the Chaman plain, which lies on the Candahar side. On each slope of the pass we have a camp. That is to say, as you go up the pass from the Pishin side, you come, at a dangerously ugly point of the road, where two ways join. upon a camp, and at the crest of the pass you find there are outposts from this camp perched as sentinels on the two most commanding points. This is “the Khojak” post. Proceeding on your way you cross over the crest of the pass and descend the other slope of it, and, just where it debouchcs upon the Chaman plain, you find,on the right hand, a very respectable little fort. This is the much-talked of “Chaman Ohauki,” or Chaman post. It is a nut which the hill- men will find very hard indeed to crack, for not only is the little place a citadel in minia- ture, but its site is one of natural strength. It is to this point, the Chaman Fort, that the outposts on the road between it and Candahar were called in by Gen. Phayre. THE GARBISON AT KHELAT-I-GHXLZAIâ€"A BIEGE BELIEF. The fears generally expressed about the garrison at Khelat~i-Ghilzai seem to us un- founded, says -the London Times. If they have sufficient provisionsthereis little ground for alarm, for the present garrison is stronger in total numbers and in Europeans than that commanded by Capt. Craigie in 1842. In November, 1841, Capt. Craigie, with a body of infantry and 43 European art1llerymen, entered the fort. Shortly after his arrival, some 300 Sepoys of the 43rd Bengal Native Infantry were added, making the garrison nearly 1,000 strong, The fortifica- tions of the place had been little more than commenced when Captain Craigie entered it; indeed, along some hundred yards there was neither ditch nor parapet. Captain Craigie set his men to work, and soon the fort be- came fairly defensible. There was wheat, but no mills, and animal food was scarce. Mills were, however, constructed after many failures, and when the neighboring villagers, under pressure from the insurgent chiefs, left off bringing in food, sorties were made to carry off sheep. Every sort of hardship, the worst being extreme cold, was borne with the most admirable cheerfulness by all ranks. Though obliged to be always on the watch against surprise, only a little desultory fight- ing took place till the spring, when some Ghilzai chiefs took up a position close to the fortress, drawing gradually nearer, and daily increasing the strength of their force. To- wards the middle of May the besiegers began to construct trenches all around the place, working at them only during the night. By the 20th the circuit was completed, and the nearest works were within 250 yards of the enceinte. They were loop-holed and very judiciously constructed and arranged. 0n the 24th oi May the garrison saw through their telescopes that some of the enemy were practising escalading at a distant fort. This intelligence put Captain Craigie on his guard, and he made every preparation to receive the assault which he saw was im- minent. Sure enough, in the intense dark- ness preceding the dawn of the 2lst of May the enemy attacked in dense masses, and having, by means of sealing ladders, crossed the dlteh, strove gallantly to get over the parapet or through the embrasures. Sword in hand they continued the struggle for nearly half an hour, at the end of which time day broke, and the enemy, accepting their failurey. retired, carrying off many of their dead and wounded. They left, hoywever, 104 corpses close to the enceime. and a few days later it was ascertained that they had lost in killed and mortally wounded 400 men. The num- ber of the assailants was about 6,000. On the 29th of May Colonel Wymer arrived with a, brigade to carry off the little garrison who had so stoutly held thelr post for nearly seven months. The total distance from Cabul to Candahar is 316 miles, or 27 marches. The march would occupy nearly five weeks, and the colâ€" umn will have to cut 011' all connection with Cabul. Before the end of the month General Phayre will have relieved General Primrose, whereas Sit Frederick Roberts cannot be ex- pected to reach Candahar before the 9th of September. On the latter date also a column detached by General Phayre would reach Khelat-i-Ghilzai. This column would be anticipated by nine days by Sir Frederick Roberts’ division. Unless, therefore, Khelat- i-Ghilzai is in a very critical condition. there is no reason for sending Sir Frederick Roberts to its relief, and there are many good argu- ments against such a measure. There' Is really no reason for supposing that the garri- sons of Candahar and Khelat-i-Ghilzai will be unable to hold out for another six weeks, if necessary. If they cannot, they are very in- ferior to their predecessors on the same theatre of war 40 years ago. Of course, we assume that ordinary foresight has been shown in laying in a good stock of provisions. The New York Graphic takes up this line of discussion: “Man’s apparel, as well as women’s, is open to improvement. His regu- lar everyday attire is not a free, unfettered working dress. It is too stiff. There’s too much starch and pastebosrd for comfort or free play of limb. Any dress impeding the working of any part of the body is directly unhealthful. The proof that man’s dress is to some extent a shackle is the feet and custom that if there’s anything to do demanding muscular exercise, he must pull off not only his coat but his collar, crsvst and sometimes shirt. Our pedestrians, our base bell players, our polo players, our yeehtsmen on duty, all in order to do their best are obliged to strip themselves of portions of their conventional attire. If this be necessary for the fullest muscular exertion of a. few hours. why is it not equally necessary for that of any hour? How much weakness and disease may be in- directly developed by clogs to physical exer- tion, by undue pressure and bandaging, by cramped feet and necks, by everything which fetters motion and respiration? -â€"Mabe1 : “Give us a. cake, auntie. I know you’ve got one in your basket.” Auntie £9.11 early riser) : “No, dear, they are roses 've been gathering. and they wouldn‘t like being given to a. little girl.who gets up so late in the morning.” Mabel : “Go on. auntie, they wouldn’t mind; they lays in their bed all day, when they gets 9. chance and nobody don’t pick them.” â€"'l‘he committee onpolitioal economy of the Limekiln Club “ feel to say dat de pusson who can’t go to a circus an’ keep 6.9 good from mixin’ up wid de bad an’ hurtin’ his gineral systen, had better be done up in a. soft rug an’ laid away what de mice can’t nibble him.” The report was accepted as the mfimont of the club. WHOLE NO. 1,156.~N0, 13. Gen THE RELIEF OF CANDHAB. [VIEN’S DRESS. 1 The tessellated floors of several rooms of a Roman villa have been recently discovered at 1 Morton’s Farm, about half way between Brading and Sandown. The floor of the principal room, which is about sixteen feet square, presents a most curious and interest- ing mosaic pavement in several compart- ments. In the centre in a circular com. partment, is a head of Dionysius, in his most youthful form, with flowing hair ; by his side is a thyrsus. In one of the compartments is a most curious scene, which will doubtless give rise to much conjecture. 0n the left is a human figure, dressed in atunic, with a cook’s head, and, instead of feet, claws with a spur. He stands in presence of a small house, raised high. with a ladder up to it. On the right side are two winged animals, whether chimaerae or dogs or tigers is doubt- ful. At the first glance this cocksheaded figure and these winged animals suggest a Gnostic and Mithraic origin. It can not, how- ever, be the Gnostic god Abraxas. as his char- acteristics were, besides the cook’s head, ser- pent’s legs, a lorica, and a shield. In the more probable view it is a jeu d’esprit and nothing deeper. like the caricature scenes, frequent in the Pompeiian wall-paintings, viz, a bird in a smock-frock like a farmer, watch- ing two cats at play, the fowl-house in the background. The picture is interesting from its deviating from the hackneyed lists of sub- jects generally taken for that purpose. In another compartment is a youthful figure holding a trident in his hand, as if raised in the act of striking a figure which crouches be¢ fore him. This figure is doubtless a gladiator termed retian‘us, who usually carried a three pointed lance, called Widens, and a net which he endeavors to throw over his ad- versary, and then attack him with the trident when he was entangled. The other compart- ments are greatly injured, and very little of them can be made out. The pavement is composed of rather coarse tesserse of only three colors â€"black, white and red. The black and white are made of stone, while the red are made of brick. Numbers of bones and oyster shells were found over the pave- ment in excavating this room. On part of the floor were heaps of ashes. as if fires had been lighted on the pavement, which bears evident marks of having sufiered from fire. The state of the floor, like that of the villa at Caris- brooke, and other Roman buildings generally throughout England, indicates the barbarism which prevailed after the departure of the Romans. Traces of the occupation of asavage people are frequently found ; fires have been kindled on the beautiful tessellated floors; the bones of sheep, deer and various other animals strewn about the rooms speak very clearly of the coarse repasts which succeeded the refined banquets of the countrymen oi Lucullus and Apicius. Some coarse pottery has been found, but only one piece of painted pottery has been discovered. Portions of wall- painting also occur, one fragment bearing a little hi1d nicely painted. The room with the mosaic pavement is surrounded by other rooms with a rude kind of tessellated pave- ment. the walls of which, about a foot high, are still remaining. A coin of Gallienus was discovered, which would fix the date of the villa at about 263 A. D. On the reverse is a stag with the word Diana. A great number of different animals are found on the small bronze series of his reign, being such as were sacred to the various divinities sought to be propitiated on account of the fearful pestiâ€" lence which raged throughout the Roman Empire during his reign. The remembrance which the traveller has of Sweden is to a considerable extent of a morose character. As I sit by the fire and recall the days I wandered through that northern land. there rise before me, in a vague way, apparently endless miles of white rocky ground, and forests of dark pine trees, varied only by great sheets of waterâ€"a fourth part of Sweden, be it observed, is under water. It is the most sombre portion of Scandi- navia, wanting the grand mountain ranges of Norway and the open green fields of Den- mark. But there are two things which stand out in recollection as bright and cheerful. The happy, lively peasantry, and beautiful Stockholm. The people are vivacious and pleasure loving like the French. If they wore blue blouses and cut their hair short as a scrubbing brush, and drank red wine, they might pass for children of fair Provence. As it is, their locks are long, their dress rough homespun, and their drink is of the strong- est. But they are a joyous, kindly, courteous folk, fond of social gatherings, a dance around a May-pole, a marriage, or a market. ! They- are hospitable to the stranger withal, and when he crosses the threshold of farm or cottage he is a stranger no longer ; a people full of hilarity and good humor whom it is pleasant to remember. But it is worth while going all the way to that far off corner of Europe just to see Stock. holm, as one looks at it for the first time from the Baltic ; worth all the tossing on the terrible North Sea, and the days pent up on shipboard in poky cabins, or on land in musty, fusty hotels. When the little asth- metic steamer that has carried you from Gotâ€" tenborg through long canals and across broad lakes. and bv narrow tortuous channels among wooded islands, turns a point, Stock- holm comes suddenly into viewâ€"â€"a bright. chaste, beautiful city, “kissed,"- to quote a rapturous guide-book, ”on the one cheek by the ripples of the lake, on the other saluted by the billows of the sea,” the lake being the Malar Lake, and the sea the Baltic. Indeed, I don’t know that any capital of Europe is more picturesque than this of Sweden ; not “the grey metropolis of the North,” nor Con~ stantinople on the Golden Horn, nor Berne with her girdle oi snow-clad mountains. Stockholm rises from the water embosomed in woods of pine and ash and birch, with a background of grey hills. She sits on her seven islands like a queen.-â€"Dr. J. G. Leec,in Good Words. A RGIVIAN VILLA IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT. Of course it would not be a. bad thing for a. person to have a few wagon-loads of 20-eent pieces, but it is generally admitted that the coin is a. nuisance in our silver circulation. The Toronto Telegram hits the matter 03 in the following language :â€" If there were a Society for the Suppression of Profanity in existence it would find good work to do in having the Canadian 20 cent piece, which so closely resembles the 26 cent piece, withdrawn from circulation. It is difficult to tell What those who are responsi- ble for the resemblance in the two coins were thinking of, unless the intention was to cell in the 20 cent issue. The enormous turpi- tude of the 20 cent piece, and the amount of profanity for which it is primarily respon- sible, make either its withdrawal or e radical change in its architecture imperstively neces- sary. If its edges were nicked like a buzz saw, so that its possessor could not posibly be deluded into exaggerated ideas of its value, the awful tendency of our best citizens to profane outbursts might be checked, if not altogether removed. As it is, there is no end of trouble with it. and every time the possessor of one of these pieces offers to pay for anything he is blendly assured that it is only 20 cents, as if he were suspected of being a confidence operator whose whole life was spent in shov- ing off 20 cent pieces for quarters. â€"If you lose your breath don’t run to catch it ; you can catch it sooner by standing still. -â€"The Baroness Burdett-Coutts onee found a street Arab who did not know there was a. God. She told him God was a spirit, and that He was everywhere. “Is He in this room ?” asked the boy. “ Yes,” said the Baroness. “Is He in the street?” “ Yes," as before. And then a. dangerous gleam came into the gemin‘e eye as he asked : -‘ Is He in our back yard ?" “Yes,” unhesitat- ingly answered the Baroness, but the boy at once most rudely rejoined: “ It’s a. darned lie, for we ain’t got no back yard” A SILVER NCISANCE. SWEDEN.