The Montreal witness, 3 juin 1871, samedi 3 juin 1871

[" b- 9 COMMERCIAL REVIEW AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER.\u2014\u2014 = _ fr \u2014\u2014\u2014 \u2014 = TWENTY-SIXTN YEAR.f MONTREAL WEEXLY WITNE 8 per annum, MONTREAL CORRESPONDENCE.FRANCE.(From our French Correspondent) Pants, May | 3.FARIS SUMMONED TO SURRENDER.After fifty-five days of military weakness «nd political incapacity, Paris is summoned to surrender, or be taken by assault.Such are the last words of the ministerial programme, which will not suffer either discussion of its measures or interference with its resolutions.If men pluck up heart of grace to attempt an extrication of their country from the scourge of civil war, they are viewed as rebels.The intended Congress at Bordeaux, where delegates from the newly elected town- councils are to be invited to attend, aims at the consolidation of the Republic, the obtaining of full municipal liberty, and the discovery of à means to reconcile Paris and Versailles.In any other country but this, such a step would be hailed with Joy by the Government ; and more so, when it was heavily responsible for the disasters, But Versailles desires no conciliation; rather raze Paris to the last house than examine if her complaints are well-founded.She must first be casti- gated\u2014conquered.There is a glory to be won in subduing her\u2014in entering the capital over paths strewn with dead, THE PROPOSED BORDEAUX CONGRESS.The Government in prohibiting the meet ing at Bordeaux, showed that to assemble to promote peace ina crime, as to advocate it in the prese is treason.It founds its interdiction on the law of 1855 and 1834, which deprives town councils of the right to correspond with each other, or issue addresses ; and if ne- vessary, empowers to dissolve them.But the promoters, under lead of Gambetta, avail themselves of the law, also, which allows reunions to be held like & private dinner party, where each guest must deposit his letter of invitation in a basket outside the door for the police to examine and check, Will ministers prevent this\u2014a right they londly stood up for under the Empire?Will they bombard all the great cities and towns in France, if their municipalities support those who Inbor to solve the insurrection difficulty, by giving France either conquerors nor conquered?The press of the country is up in arms against this outrage upon free citizens, Thiers desires repression, not conciliation, THE QUARREL BETWEEN PARIS AND TRE GOVERNMENT, In hia summons to the Parisiana to surrender (80 lame and impotent has the docu.e Commune set it up honored it with a special edition), M.Thiers is neither true nor frank.He states Paris has all the municipal liberties of the great cities, and these as much as the small towns.But the latter can elect their own mayors ; the former cannot.Thia is not «quality for Paris, which, in addition, has other limitations as to raake her an exceptional exception.But why this row about the mayors?They are invested with the power of preventing any councillor from speaking, and of adjourning the meetings till the millennium if they please; and being creatures of the Government, perhape stran- gere to the locality, they will ever take their cue from bigh latitudes.PARIS ONLY DESIRES RIGHT OF SELF-GOVERNMENT.In demanding the right ofthe self-election of Mayors for herself and France, Paris has not proposed a proposition derogatory to national sovereignty, liberty and interests,\u201d as says Thiers.In promising pardon to 200,000 National Guards if they lay down their arme, and thirty sous a day, if they want it, till work turns up, the Chief of the nation shirks the whole question ; and this is why Paris refuses to \u201cemancipate herself from the tyrants she has submitted to since the 18th March,\u201d rather than open her gates to the « liberators\u201d from Versailles.Since that memorable day, M.Thivrs has only wished to see the Com.munc\u2014he forgot Paris ; and now when he remembers the city, it is to incite it to take up arms against the Commune.He bas no friends in P'aris\u2014none to give him either moral or material support.He has too much Republicanism on his lips, too little in his acts.Rochefort sums, up his proclamation, by parodying & well-known play scene\u20144 Sur- tender, Parisians ; or, if not, why, 7 shall be obliged to surrender.\u201d HER CAUNE MISREPRESENTED.Briefly, Paris has been very muvh vilified, and wilfully misrepresented, Above the bathon of her Commune, end the bombast of the Committee of Public Safety\u2014the machinery vf transition\u2014there are nearly a quarter of million of men ready to die to maintain the Republic, and secure local gelf.government for France, tn Paris.Kach day's resistance, every freighted ambulance, allows their ideas to strike root in the country.Paris, expecially, docs not desire a master who may one duy ture out to be her executioner.Bhe dors not want her finances ruled hy a Haussmann, who will not consult her, nor her citizons kept down by apies \u2018and e military police, or delivered over to the #upre- macy of tlu- demi-monde and ¢harlntans, She had no crime during her first sicge, and in the rame sense, bad none in this, her second.She wikhen to regain her position in the intellectual world\u2014to be no longer the capital of pleasure, and the caravansary for licentiousness.Khe hattlea to secure her own freedom, and protect her indust ial life, by herself guarding the onder essuntial to its de velopment, and controling the measures for ita cafoty.These aspirations the Commune can discredit and Versailles retard, but neither can destroy then, CHURCHES TURNAD INT® OLUN-ROOMS.Of all the extraordinary events that the .WITNESS (Semi-weekiy) 92 per annum.he fone Qe | lee prevent revolution has given birth to, none is more painful than the desecration of the churches by their conversion into a redex.vous for clubs.1 visited the Chapel of St, Michael, at Batignolles, à few evenings ago.The candelabras sustained petroleum lamp, and the high altar, deprived of its cross and all its ornaments, remained nearly in obscurity.\u2018The building was crowded, not a chair was vacant\u2014occupied by Nations) Guards, workmen in Llutses, women in bonnets or their hair, In the distance a sudden light would spring up~a smoker lighting his pipe.There was loud speaking, pushing, jokiug, expectoration.The president and two secretaries are clected ; before them ia the historic glass and decanter of water.without which no French reunion, from the National Assembly down, can take place.The president rings a bell\u2014the same which a few days before was used at the masses.He objected to any orator mounting the pulpit, because, having served bitherto for so many lies, it was unsuitable now for truths, The audience whisper, laugh and cough.The orator, nevertheless, enters the pulpit, combats the president's idea, and the use of the chaire is carried, nem.con.The president suggests that the statues and paintings be removed from the walls, as the women and children are too habituated to view them, and it is prudent to make them forget them.The sudience decide they ornament the walls, and are to remain.SAMPLES OF CLUB PROCEEDINGS, Before speaking, the orator sings the \u201c Mar- scillajse,\u201d the organ accompanying him.His stump is a denunciation of the beasts,\u201d cochons, of Versailles, and of the clergy, most miserable wretches, who for eighteen years have been praying for the massacreur of the Coup d Etat, and never oftered up one of their pasternosters for the Commune.The result of their \u201c masses\u201d was, that the devil at last gothis own at Sedan.There was an animation in the crowd, as if a vote of thanks was about being passed to the Prince of Darkness, but it was à preparation tostrike up \u201c Partant pour I'Allemagne,\u201d 8 witty satireon the familiar Imperiul Syrian air, The next orator spoke to the proposition for removing the remains of\u201c that great criminal, the First Na poleon,\u201d for interment beside the murderer Traupmann.The succeeding speaker proposed that Orsini's bones should be enshrined in the Pantheon, and both resolutions being unanimously voted, the andience and the organ struck up the ¢ Chant du Départ\u201d The minutes of the proceedings were then read out; they set forth that on such an evening in the month Floréal (May), year 79, of the He- public one and indivisible, the «Friends of Order\u201d held à meeting in the\u201c Michael Build- set be Ge of which drew.The idea of a club in à church was new.The same character applies to the re-unions in the other churches, occasionally varied with \u201clovely woman,\u201d for a speaker, and atooping to folly, THE PICPUS CONVENT SCANDAL, Some nuns, connected with the Convent Picpus, where three sisters were confined in cells, or cages, for years, as the Communal press state, and instruments of torture were discovered, have been sent to the Saint Lazare prison.In the Church of St.Laurent much excitement bus been created by the alleged finding of skeletons, which the popular mind holds were the victims of the priests.There ir no reason to believe there is any gravity in these charges, and the ex planations, so far, are very fair.But the hei polloi are 80 excited, that, in their frenzy, the unfortunate clergy may experience a mauvais quart d'heure.THE VENDOME COLUMN, Pending that, Paria is contributing all the refuse of her stables and cow-houses, as well as brushwood, to the Place Vendome, to break the fall of the doomed and ever coming down\u2019 Column.A curious \u201cmonument\u201d has been erected beside it, conkisting of & cross, with a rat hanging therefrom ; another rat lies extended at the base, and a third peeps half uncovered from a sack.A card tells us thee \u201canimals\u201d represent respectively Thiers, McMahon, and Ducrot ;\u2014the significance of the attitudes of the symbols I could not make out, STATE OF MATTERS IN THE CITY.There is another general stampede set in to quit the capital, so as to avoid the last act in the drama, Extra trains run, but still leave hundreds of women and children behind, Except foreigners, no men, no matter of what age, are allowed to leave, The old men are informed if (heir age prevents them from fighting, they can go and find out those who can.It is difficult to discover what part of the city is now safe.Passy and Auteuil, that were As calm ara Trappist monastery, send into the city their frightened, crying inhabitants, aa the enceinte is expected to be storm.d in this neighborhood.The # monater shops\" which still remain half open, are pasting large strips of paper across their plate-glase windows ; this process it is said will prevent their being fractured by the concussion of the artillery when firing fn the strevts, At present the housca are well shaken, though the Lig guns are in the distance ; it will be a terrible hurly-burly business when they speak before the ball doors.The tolacconiste\u2019 and wine shops are showing signs of closing\u2014the best evidence that we are in for « hard times.\u201d The principal employment visible, in addition to that of begging and street concerts, is the making of bags to contain carth for the barri- cadee.The women work like niggers at the buriness\u2014with love.General Bergeret has his headquartera at the Corps Leginlatif, and bas surpassed Bwift in hin \u201chints to servants.\u201d He found the bevy of charwemen were in communication with their sisters af the Palace of Versailles.Me collected his staff of \u201cold gals\u201d and told them that if they did not at once break off diplomatic relations with | * MONTREAL, SATURDAY, JUNE \u2014\u2014 (KNKHAL FAIDARUBE, who has been wet aside by the authorities, pos- #ibly for being too good & Republican, Las not only been elected first onthe list of the Municipal Council for his native town of Lille, but is also to be presented by the Department of the North with a stbecription sword of honor.He is an able man, but thrown overboard.As an example of the complete postal disorganisation in France, Ît has been found necessary to cstablish à postal sea-ser- vice between Boulogne sod Bordeaux, to connect Northern with Southern France.À VIVACIOUS XEWAPAPER, One of the suppressed journals has hit upon an ingenious means to expire according to law, and aurvive legally all the same.It was called Le Petit Journal.It strikes out the word Petit, leaving its space a significant blank, and reaping reward in an increased circulation.THE DEFEXDERS OF PARIS.The Alcazar, in the Champs Elysées, no well known for its concerts during summer, bas been «truck by a shell, # the curions cannot now advance in safety beyond the Place de la Concorde.Bands discomrse very excellent music near the ramparts-\u2014poasibly to keep u the spirits of the Nationd Guards, whose res work is on the eve of being decided.But there is no sign of their givin in, no agitation for submission.They fight the same, Changes and yuarrellings go on euch a dreadful rate in the councils that it really a tax on the memory to know \u201c who's who,\u2019from one day to another.Everyone desires to Le first-fiddle, to command rather than obey.der Rossel threatens to rogign in disgust.He is a terribly determined man, will stop at nothing ; if made Dic = he may be, the negligent, disobedient, hesitating will be executed without mercy.Mis severe organization might be gcod\u2014utght add to the cost of Thiere\u2019s victory, i CURTAIN RIBEN 0X LAST OF THE TRAGEDY.All outside defence be considered as practically ended on the of the Federals ; shells and cannon ball gio way to the firing of huge rockets, over two yards in length.But, 88 from the first, the battle must finish inside the city, where it sommenced.If the soldiers keep loyal, despite the terrible preparations for their destruction, hard fighting will in time bring them victory.As for the loyalty of the National Gnards to the Commune, this has also to be tested rudely, and if they are well handled, and have confidence in a leader, will die game, In any case, the curtain bas risen on the Jast act of the dreadful tragedy, which has had so many comic interludes.Whether Vefaailies or Paris be victorious, the causes of the.revelution must still be removed by the politioal and united sags.hele pooplega eo.pan, _\u2014 MANITOBA.(From Our Own Correspondent.) Keo Riven, May 8, 1871.CLOSE OF LEGISLATIVE SRSSION.The first session of the first Parliament of Manitoba closed on Wednesday last, May 3rd.His Excellency Governor Archibald drove down to the House, accompanied by several officers, and was recived at the entmnce by a guard of honor from the Ontario Battalion, after which the usual ceremonies at the prorogation of the Legishature were gone through, and the honorable members relieved from their labors.It was a very interesting event in the history of this country, and attracted quite a number ot spectators, both among the residents and strangers, of whom a great number are at present in the town and vicinity.A RARE EXAMPLE.The Government have followed the example set them by their Ottawa brethren, and although defeated in the House have decided to hold on to office for a while yet ; sothe crisis may be said to be aver for the present, and the ministry remains thorame as formerly.THR VOLONTEKRS.It seems to be decided now that those vol- untecrs who wish to return to Canada have to do so with the boats Ly way of the Winnipeg River The authorities are now engaging voyageurs t take the boats from here to Shelandowan, also a number of men to run the boats regularly between the North-West angle and that point, on the now Fort William Toute.On the Lake of the Woods route, quite a number of men are still at work.Numbers of both Battalions are still taking their discharge bere and settling down to their various occupations or taking claims in various parts of the country.Ou Saturday order war issued Battalion :\u2014 morning last the following hy Col.Jarvis to the Ontario FORT GARRY, April Sh, 1971, BATTALION MORNING ORDER.5 18,00 Men are warned thet the orderr for dinscharze on the at of May are pore mptory, with the exception chine service compuny, uid those wha wih to be faken home at the ublie expense; those Istter will lives to continue an her etofe.re in the rot viva of the euntey wid gerfurm miliary uty a url, if any gridoun kis uid metive ta continue the fore in Mani, toh foruny further poriué than the tat of May, an ot having taken thy ir din harge an wove: wil pet he ulluwea to leave che service tuntii tie foros ln th atly withdrawn.COMMERCIAL, Some balf-dosen commercial travellers from rome of the principal Canadien business houses are now here making sales to onr merchants, and arranging for keeping the trade in the Dominion, instead of allowing it to be diverted to the States, WHERE TRE NKW MOE PINCHES.\u2018The steamer « Belkirk\u201d is expected at Fort Garry on her second trip in a few days ; the \u201c International\u201d leaves on her firet trip for Georgetown to-day ; both expect full freights for sume time, although the new customs rules interfere somewhat with their trade i the const.ing laws in force in other parts of Canada, being strictly enforced here, 80 that they cannot carry goods or passengers as heretofore Versailles be would shoot every one of them then and there, without benefit of clergy.from one part of the Province to another, but only from an American port to one In Mani- 3, 1871.It is no won- P° = tobu.\"l'hexe strict rules are quite new in this country, and the people are quite unused to them, and no doubt are beginning to sigh for the good old times under the Company, when every man did pretty much as seemcd good in his own cyes, SMAUL-PUX DBCRRASING AT HASKATCHEWAN, Captain Macdonald of the Ontario Battalion, who was sent on a medical mission to the Saskatchewan, has just returned in good health and spirits, and reports the small-pox decreasing, although care in still requisite to prevent ita introduction into the Province through infected furs from that section.Asviss JUDICIOUS GARDENING.(To the Editor of the Witness.) Nig, \u2014 Please allow me à place in the columns of your journal, (whose devotion to rural pursuits descrves all praise), to mention the success obtained in raising vegetablea in a small space, by a gentleman who resides within the limits of this city, This gentleman laid off a strip of ground, fifteen by twenty-five feet, on which, in April, 1870, he sowed Karly Peas (Daniel O'Rourke's) with spinach and radishes between the rows.He soon after sct out lettuce plants around the plot.By the 10th June he had peas, spinach, radishes and lettuce on his table ; and during the whole of the remaining part of that month he had a sufficient quantity of all those vegetables to supply his family, consisting, with servants, of about ten rsons, Then, in the first week of July, when later specivs were coming up in other parts of the garden, he cleared off the spot and laid it down to celery, which yielded an abunaant and excellent crop, lasting until mid-winter.Thus a smail plot of 15 x 25 feet actually produced last year, In this Canada of ours, five crops of vegutables.The garden occupied by the Rentleman in question does not cover much more than half an acre, and yet, at a small expense, he produces vegetables of almost all kinds, and melons, sufficient for the supply of bis family, together with a fair quantity of small fruits and apples, Yours, ke.MonTIcULTORIST.Montreal, May, 1871.A DELIGETFUL SUMMER RETREAT- (To the Editor or the Witness.) Si\u2014Those who want a healthy place to reside in for the summer months, convenient of access to the city, reasonable in price, and having the advantage without the noise and discomfort of a hotel, will find the Feller Institute, at Longueuil, under charge of Miss Joute, the best I know of.I went through ea, painted and parered, and 18 fresh and clean.The splendid double galleries on both sides of the house afford tine views; anda garden attached, and large yard, add to the advantages for families.It is, without exception, the finest building for the purpose in Longucuil of stone, three stories high, in a healthy locality, and clean.J Lelieve Miss Joutc's terms are only $5a week for resident boarders ; less for children.B.THE CENSUS ENUMERATORS.(To the Editor of the Witness.) SIR\u2014I bave no doubt but your valuable pe per reaches the Parliament Boiidiugs in Ottawa, and is read and scanned over by our Crown advisers there.; valeacent.DAILY WITNESS, 93 per annum, smoke and stiphur.1 went back to tus men snd found most of them asleep.I remember nothing farther, STATEMANT OF THE SMALLCOMBES.From Edward's house | went to the bome of the Smallcombes ; four ot the finly were in the mine, and the father Iay desl, while the three kons were lively and almost con- The explanations given by these three sons are very cleus and interesting.Each of them talked in his turn.This is their statement : Thomas saw the smoke about two hundred fe :t from the fuot of the shaft : ut 2.30 I went to look for Thomas Crehan, and saw him go up the shaft just as I reached it; I went back to look for father, un\u2018 met him aad my brothers going towards the foot ; we tied to get there, but the fire was too hot aod the smoke Loo thick ; we then went back to the east gungway and assisted the men to build a barricade across the gangway ; we built it of culm and stone, and some of the men stripped themuelves of their clothing to put in the crevices ; it took us an hour and a half to putup the wall; all the men in the mines were assisting us as far as their feelings would allow them ; many of them were overcome with grict, and could not work ; Martin Couney, vighteen years old, dicd in balf an hour after the barricade was built ; he died of & broken heart; the three men found on the outside tried to get into the enclosure, Lut were suffocated in the attempt, two of the men on the outside were doing sentinel duty, watching the current of air at the foot of the shaft; the air went upward after the first half hour, and continued so for two hours, so we opened the door ; Kubert and Thomas bad just been relieved when Andrew Morgan, and Hiram Morgan, and Hiram Curtis went there, and must have fallen under der the influence of choke-damp, but we could not say why they did not come back to us At 7:30 we held à prayer-mectiux.Some were cursing and others singing hymns.We sang this verse : Before Jehovah's swfal thrane, Ye nations bar with sucre x.Kivw that the Lord is Ged me, He cas create and he destroy.Many were crying, and one little boy, James Jones, cried out, \u201cI shall never sec my dear mother again!\u201d Many were giving up at once, while others tried to cher them, We had 4 GOOD PRAYER MEETIXS.Many earnest prayers were made by Welsh and English miners, and géveral Irirhmen prayed to the Virgin Mary to come in and save them.We continued to pray and sing until our voices gave out.About 9 o'clock we be- gn to prepare ourselves for the worst.The black damp was creeping upon us.We bo- came dixsy, and weak in the knees, and fell dpwn near the water, rubbing our nostrils, 'wouth, temples, and ayviide.We alee Soit & load on our stomachs.Father and we three got together, and the last we knew of him he was alive.Our father and William R.Davis started the idea of the barricade, We bad no shoveis, and thercfore had to carry culm in onr hats, Little James Jones caniied culm in his cap All the while he was crying about his mother.Sometimes we thought we would be rescued, and at other times we thought not.Father prayed for hi« family above ground, and when he ccared praying he told us he was ready to die.Hc was on hix knees when death overtook him.When the smoke became too much for us we got over the wall, and Martin Cooney tried, but was too weak, and tell down insensible.There was another For this reason, with your permission, I will make it the channci to ask those worthies i why it is that the census enumcrators are not paid, though their books were sent in to the | Commissioners before the first instant, and the time of fifteen days for revision ix also, over?The inference to be drawn is that the : Commissioners are paid four dollars per day, and being business men, find so many inaccu.| racies in the schedules that the time must be prolonged, thereby increasing the number of days which, when multiptied by four, expisins the milk in the cocoanut.Enumerator.| [We have had several complaints of à similar nature.If the work ia completed, of course the cnumerators should be paid at once.\u2014Kp.Wir.] THE PITTSTON COAL MINE DIS ASTER, (From N.Y.World's Special Correspondent.) INTERVIEW WITH THR SAVED.At four o'clock this afternoon I repaired to the honse of Thomas Edwards and his son George, two of the men who had been within the gates of diath, Neither of them had suffered much, and both were able to converse frecly.The following is the conversation which took place :\u2014 Reporter\u2014tieorge, I want you to relate as far as you can remember the events of the last twenty-four hour: how you feltin the minca and what occurred there ?Quorge\u2014 We went into the mines this morning at 6.At 2 we were preparing to come out.Upon approaching the foot 1 noticed some burning timbers falling down, and the truth came on mind that the shaft was on fire, and that we would all be shut in as they wore at Avondale.The carriage above came down with o crash, and we ran Lack along the east Rangway.Robert Smallcombe gave the first warhing.After we got back about two hundred feet we commenced building « wall across the gangway to keep away the smoke.One of the men, John Burroughs, wrote on this barricade, \u201c We are all inside here,\" and after we got inside we encouraged cach other, held a praycr-meeting, and prepared for the woret, Few ofour men were calm.At6 o'clock some of them began toslecp.I tried to wake them, but they would no sooner wake than they would tall asleep again.1 opened the door and went towards the ebaft, but was nearly overcome with the \"we were nearly_enffocated man lying dead at my feet.We felt very thankful that we could not hear the rcreams of the women from the top, ae that would have added to our anguish.The following is froma the N.Y.Times correspondent -\u2014Martin Cox, one of the miners who was taken out of the mine alive, makes the following statement :\u2014 \u201cThe first intimation we had of the fire was à sound through the mine as if there was an explosion of gas.An English miner said There ira fire.We were then working about fifty yards from the bottom of the shaft, on the west side, 1 then ran to the bottom of the shaft and saw the fire coming down ; Tan back to my comrades and told them : We are all lost ; the shaft is on fire.We were seven in all We then man to the fout of the shaft, and burning timbers were coming down ; threw on water tu put out the fire, and the smoke became so intense that Dense volumes came down the shaft and filled the place, We then ran over to the west side, in the direction of the river bridge, down the slope, and got in at the door with eloven others, making cighi altogether.In that place the smoke came in ipon ur so badly that we gathered up 8 pob vf fine stuff from the track and plastered up the cracks of the door, and also stufl.d coals in the holes, which stopped the amoke for some time.We now had time for thought and reflection.No one expected to acc daylight again, and said it was a accond Avon- dale.We all mang hymns and pray.d, calling upon God in his mercy to rave us, as we all felt dovmed and beyond human aid We ran back and forth through the gangway for fresh aie.At 31 pm.Patrick Farley fell and groancd twice, and was found dead when the men came in the place after (he fire.I then went over to the wet wide for my coat to help to stop out the smoke.as we would all Le snffocated very soon.The men then passed me carrying lack their com.rads who were dying in their arme, More men were outside the doors, crying out in distress and_anguish-\u2014calling upon God for rafuty And succor.None expected to come out alive.The mules were kicking and neighing.A boy told hin father with & horrible oath to stop praying and crying, we will come out safe; and if we must die, lt ua die like men.The father and son both came outalive.At half-past 7 pm.I became insensible, and remained so until T was brought out by my brother Robert, about 8 o'clock on Sunday morning.\u201d © £ \u201c Cotemporary Press._ THE MONTREAL WITNESS.back to bis home, and this Lucretia Borgia, seeing him mest with a kiss his wife and chit.dren at the depot, und take his seat with them ou the ferryboat, and fecling that he was Juxa 3, 1871, him at Mulbourne.There, he says, Le got ment.The double failure drove the Thiers employment on a sheep farm adopted thy Government to Versailles, followed by the name of Thomas Castro, and after a while : hisses of the city he could not rule.Then married.| came the long period of inaction, and that ous animal, snd, vo far as disposition could relieve Lim from responsibility, he was not strictly responsible for his acts.The mes surement of Ruloffs head around at the eye- A DIVISION AMONG THE BISHOPS.(From the Journal de Quebec.) We published, the day before yeatorday, the circular that Mouseigucurof Three Rivers addressed to his clergy.One may casily perceive in reading it (hat if it is not more precise in teems than that of the Bishop of Montreal, it is ut leant more definitive, and we would even say more agressive, if we dared to nse \u2018h language of à document cmacativg from ishop.lt in as if Monseigueur of Three Riverssaid in us many words to the Archbishop of Quebec and the Bishops of St.| Hyacinthe and Rimouski: 4 Yon have spoken, 1 speak now ; you Lave condemned, and | approve.\u201d This conflict of authorities is, perhaps, a prerogative; but it is none the leas, for the Catholic community, a lamentable scandal, which cannot fail to bave fatal consequences ! to authority.We may humbly and sadly ask : if these difficultier, it difficulties there be, could not have been better regulated, like everything else which regards the Church, by the Bishops themselves formulating and promulgating decrees for the government of the faithful, as the sole expression of their undivided will, and, conseguentdy, more imposing and more authoritative ?In the actual state of Che question, five Bishops out of xix have spoken.Of these five, three, among whom is the Metropolitan, have declared to their clergy, and through them to the faithful, that the programme which is now making so much conlusion, hus been tormulatcd outside of all action of the epis- cupate, which alone could give it value.They also recommended to their clergy to listen to the only voice which had a right to speak upon the general questions raised by the pro- yramme, that is to say, the Provincial Council.The other two Bishops, annulling in fact the decisions of the fourth Council of Quebec, and condemning at the same time the three first Bishops, approve the authors of the programme, recommend them to the admiration and gratitude of their flocks, and make it a duty to follow their advice, at the risk of disobedience, and of being gravely wanting in their obligations as Catholics, It is» spectacle without precedent in Ca- nada\u2014a spectacle dixconmging eyond all conception to our population, who are unaccus- tom d to it, and who, on the contrary, have voustantiy n told in the Catechism, from the pulpit, and everywhere, that there ix but «ne doctrine, one teaching, and one authority, Are we on the brink of a schism ?Awful to think of! If we are, whose is the fault, and who will have to bear the terrille responsi- tility 7 Mgr.of Three Rivers has himself admitted, witha candor which twlongs to his ~vred character, but which is entirely for- \u2018un to the press which he recommends ns to Hsten to, that no Catholic writer Jas yet denied the prerogatives of the Church in so far as reganls its government, Why then such a& tempest?Why so many scandale; and must we prononnce those terrible words of the Savior of the world, © Woe to thore by whom the scandal cometh,\u201d expecially wl n this scandal is not neeeseary, and the Hesired object may be more caxily secured by prudence and the good will of all ?Ah! if the most humble individual must render An account to God of all hix acts, and especially of the scandal which they may cause around him, what must be the formidable responsibility of Bishops giving, like Mgr.of Montreal and Mur.of Three Rivers, the sad example we have jnst mentioned?For us, humble Catholics who ask only to lelicvi-and to obey, it in the abyss, it ix the bottomless gulf, with its unfathomable mysteries and its unspeakable inquictudes.(From L Even ment.) The approbation given to the Catholic pro.grammy by the Bishop of Three Rivers is more complete still, if possible, than that published Ly Mgr.of Montreal, Tlie so-called religious press could certainly desire nothing further ; Lut we believe it world be going too far to say that it expected anything less.It appears to us now more than probable that the programme has Leen prep-red under the direct inspiration of the two prelates, who do not hesitate to recommend it to the country in terius 60 furmal.Our people then find themselves placed under the unbappy alternative of displeasing two bislops, or of disobeying three.Itappears to us that no efforts should have been spared to avoid placiug the people in such a position, and thus constituting public opinion a tri- Lunal to decide the questions which divide the chiefs of the episcopate, Since Mgrs, of Montreal and Three Rivers could not induce a majority of their colleagues to hold their views, human wisdom and religious intevest should have counselled them to delay the promulgation of their particular ideas.Hut they have judged otherwise, and nothing is now left to the country but to pronounce for or against the programme.A FOUL FAIR.(From Zion's Herald), breaking away from her toils, shot him dead.He could bave hardly been killed at à more opportunu time for him He was where Hum- let did uot wish his uncle to be in that dread article, at Lis prayers, or jn the next best position, at kis post of duty, He had gotten the mastery over the fiend, sad she killed him.At hier trial she used every art, money, accomplishments of dress and person, feigned ingastity and sickness, pleas of free love and its obligations, but the jury found her guilty of murderin the first degree, and served her right, as will the sheritt that bangs her.The Tribune wisely admonishes the free-lovers of this natural fruit of their va Stephen Pearl Audrews, Mrs, Stuntou, Woodhull, aud heaps of such frec-lovers, ure only strengthen ing harlots\u2019 hearts for seduction, and their hands for murder, The San Francisco jury conforms to the universal law of human instinct and Divine justice, aud recognizes, as all Jaws and juries ultimately must, if any laws are to stand, or society is to abide, that nothing in society is 80 supreme as the rights of married people to those to whom they are marned, No separation, if refused by either party, no adultery, no free love is to find a foothold in human feelings, even if they do intrude them selves into corrupt human law.Whom God hath jeined together, man will not approve of being put asander.Any violent attempt to break up this unity will be punished by so- civty, and every violent attempt to prevent its being broken up, be approved.Man cannot, date not approve of this generation of vipers that now crawl through ro many of thie free-religious and free-love journals, that write and Liss in spiritual seances, and sometimes even get upon respectable platforms, Says one of the shrewdest of our thinkers: \u201cSociety would be ruined should laws agninst property and marriage be overthrown.But they can never be overthrown.Nay, they can never be disturbed, except superficially, and for « moment\u201d Society struggles like the stomach with arsenic, till it conquers or dies.Dic it will not, till the race ends; and 80 these foul Fairs, male or female, hung or unhung, will only disturb its surface, and destroy themaclves, without permanently affecting the human race.AMERICA SEEN WITH ENGLISH EYES.The London Times devotes a column and a half of editorial to answering 8 correspondent who axks why America is so unfavorably re- Karded in England.The Times denies that our nation appears to English eyes in 30 bad a light ae the correspondent assumes ; but says if his question were, * Why should America be looked upon by so many of your journals and statesiuen as a blustering, whimeical, uncertain Power, whose men in authority have no sincere political emotion Lut hatred of England 7\"\u2014it would fairly represent a popular English view of the Union.And the Times accounts for sucha view by saying, « Because this is the mask the Union puta on in its foreign relations.\u201d À nation-it goes on to say\u2014is represented to foreigners by its press and its politicians.Our coining and uning the phrase « spread -eagleism,\u201d in quoted as evidence that we are not ourselves unconscious of a quality closely akin to bluster: As for the charge that our foreign policy is \u201c whimsical and uncertain,\u201d it instances that Mr.Reverdy Johnson, after a unanimous confirmation hy the Scnate as minister to England, negotiated a treaty that ¢ obtained all and more than all he and those who appointed him thought he could obtain\u201d\u2014and that this treaty was rejected by & vote almost hs ununimous as the vote approving his mission.The English conception of hostile feeling on the part of Amcricans, is explained Ly the fact that cur politicians so constantly play on the national antipathies ofthe Irish, and their utterances are taken on the other side of the water 8s sober carnest, \u201c We shall not,\u201d rays the Times, \u201cconfound the American nation with General Butler,\u201d when be tries to make hostility to England a Republican war-cry.But what, it asks, do Englishmen naturally feel on hearing that our House of Representa~ tives has by vote welcomed to the country U'Donovan Rossaand bis associates, \u201cconvicted rebels against a friendly government ;\u201d and that these men have lwen received at the White House?In a word, we are told thay our nation constantly docs itself injustice, showing only its worse side, in dealing with foreign nations, «It ix more than probable,\" it is added, \u201c that we [the English} are open to a similar accusation.\u201d Acvepting these statements as a fair presentation of a widely prevalent view in England, we have a goud illustration of the vase with which two nations become alienated through mutual misunderstanding.The Times fully admits that the impression which it describes, although a vatural one, does not just! y repre sent the character of vur nation.And it would be very caay to show how similar false views of England gain currency in this country.Thin fatal facility of misunderstanding, due to imperfect knowledge, is at the root of half the wars that plague the world, The Treaty Mrs.Laura Fair, another of the Samaritan Women s0 common to-day in America, has lntely fed the prurient taste in her triad for the murder of à lawyer in San Francisco, Mr.A.P.Crittenden, Both belonged to the first families of the South, She had married four times before she saw Mr.Crittenden, He fell in love with her because she shot lier fourth \u201c husband\u201d for dering to hoist the Stars and Stripea over ber hotel in Virginia City, Nevada.Down came the flag, and the \u201c husband\u201d with it, Mr, Crittenden wan a great criminal lawyer and rebel.He defended the False Fair, (for she clung to the name of one of her former Southern husbands, though « married\u201d to this wretched loyalint), and the jury acquitted her with honors, Then went Mr, Crittenden down before her wiles.She « mar- tied\u201d another man, making five of that sort.He s000 was induced, under the tender suggestion of the revolver, to avow himself a criminal, and to give his innocent * wife\u201d a claim fur divorce.Crittendon, nephew of the Senator, à man of parts and of family, was tossed on the tempest of passion and obligation, At last, after much Infamy on his part, his all-enduring wife had won him partially ounces, of Washington offers a golden opportunity for wiping out the old grudges whose bitternesa has been largely due to such misconatructions, and starting upon relations alike honorable and friendly \u2014 fieecher's Christian (nion.RULOFF IN THE HANDS OF THE DOCTORS, SIZE AND NATURE OF M4 BRAIN.(From the Binghamton Republican.) RulofPs brain, which was carefully examined this morning, weighed 59 ounces, being of or ten ounces heavier than the aversge weight.The heaviest brain ever weighed was that of Cuvier, the Fronch naturalist, which is given by some aulhoritics at 65 ounces, and by some at 64 ounces.of Daniel Webster (partly estimatid on account of a portion leing destroyed by disease) weighed 64 ounces, The brain The brain of Dr.Abercrombie of Scotland weighed 63 The lower (brute) portion ol Ruloffs brain and the mechanical powers were unusually large.The upper portion of the brain, which directs the higher moral and religions sentiments, was very deficient, In the formation of the brain, Ruloff was a furoci- brows (supra orbital) was 24} inches.The skull was probably the thickest etur known.In no place was it Jess than three-cighths of an inch in thickness, sad in most places it was half an inch thick.The usual thickness of o wan's skull is less than one-fourth of an inch, Rulots head wna opened in the usual way, by parting the scalp over the top of the head, from one car to the other, and sawing off the top.The surgeons who performed the operation say it required three-quarters of an hour to saw around the skull, and before it was completed they began to think the head was all skull With the protection of a skull half an inch thick, and à scalp of the thickness and toughness of & rhinoceros rind, the man of geven marders was provided with a nutural helmet that would have defied the force of any pistol bullet, If be had been in Mirick's place, the bullet would have made only a slight wound ; and had he been provided with & cutiæ vera «qual to bis scalp, bis défensive armor against bullets would have been as complete as a cost of mail.The cords in Ruloffs neck were as heavy and strong as those of an ox, and from his formation, one wonid almost suppose that he was protected against death by the gallows ax well as from injury to his head.Ruloffs body was larger than it was supposed to be by casual observers.\u2018The Sherif ascertained when he took the measure of the prisoner for 4 coffin to bury him in, that he was five feet ten inches in height, and measured ty inches across his shoulders.When in good condition Lis weight was about 175 pounds.It is vesy weil known that Ruloffs grave was open- «d three difierent times, last Friday night, by different parties who wanted to obtain his Lead.Une of these parties was from A lbany ana twice the body was disinterred by persons living in Binghamton.One company would no sooner cover up the body, which all found headless, and leave it, than another company would come and go through the same operation.It is now known that the head was never buried with the body, but was legally obtained before the burial, by the surgeons who have possession of it.The hair and beard were shaved off close, and an excellent impression in plaster was taken of the whole head.The brain is now undergoing a hardening process, and when that is completed, an impression will be taken of it entire, and then it will be parted, the different parts weighed, and impressions made of the several section, THE TICHBORNE ESTATE CASE.(London Correspondence of the N.F.Times.) The Tichborne case which is now before the Court of Queen's Bench, is certainly as strange and romantic a story, however viewed, as any to be found in sensational fiction, The prologue introduces us to an eccentric, ili-match- ed household, composed of Sir James Tich- borne, gruff and violent and dissipated, always drinking, and often drunk ; his flighty, sentimental, balf-Fremch wife, (she bad an English father and 8 Freuch mother, and had been born, bred and spent most of ber life in France ;) the eldest son, who bas all his father's boorishness and his mother's way.£- wardness, and who, between the two parents, finds his home.as he calls it, \u201ca hell upon earth.\u201d Lady Tichborne, completely under the influence of the priests, handed the boy over to them for education, He began life under the Jesuits at 8t.Omer, passed next to the military college at Sandhurst, got à commission in a dragoon regiment, the Carabi- neers, served with his corps at Dublin and elsewhere, but soon took a disgust both at the profession and the company among which he wasthrown.The society of gentlemen repelled him.He liked to booze and smoke with his inferiors, His brother officers laughed at the young fellow\u2019s Lalf-French, balf- English jargon, for French was then his more familiar tongue, and reprobated hislow tastes and loose companions.He sold his commis sion and started to set life and seek adventure in South America.From Havre he sailed in March.1853, to Valparaiso, pushed inland to Santiago, where his body servant, a man named Moore, was taken ill; then net off alone on a purposeless ramble hither and thither, turned up at Rio, and in April, 1854, embarked dead drunk in the \u201c Blanche\u201d bound for New York.From that day to thix the \u201c Blanche\u201d has never beets heard of One of ber boats was found bottom uppermost, but no passenger or sailor who was on board (except it be Sir Roger, the present claimant,) hax ever reappeared on earth.It was asumed that the vessel had gone down ataca, the underwriters paid the insurance, Roger's will (for before lcaving Europe he had made a will was proved, and the old baronet, Sir James, dying roun alter, Sir Alfred, the second won, succeeded to the title and criates, SIR ALFRED'S DEATH, Now beging the second part of the story.Sir Alfred did not long enjoy bis inheritance He dicdin 1866, and shortly after, in the same year, an heir was born, who is the actual pon.sensor of the property and rank.Meanwhile old Lady Tichborne, refusing to believe that her eldest son was dead, bad been advertising in all kinds of English, colonial and forcign papers, and ou thu death of the second son redoubled the activity of her search, In the beginning ol 1866, a men appeared who declan red himself the long-lost Roger, and was accepted as such by the lady whom he claimed as mother, Lady Tichbome did not long survive, but to the hour of her death she maintained her faith in the identity of the roturned prodigal, allowed him £3000 a year, sad snpported, by advice and advances, the legal steps be prooveded to take tp annert hia rights.The rest of the family for the most part repudiated the new comer, and pronounced him an impostor.The claimant's account of bimæclf since he waa last seen reeling drunk on board the ill-fated \u201cBlanche,\u201d at Rio, in that the vessel sank, but not until after the passengers and crew bad got into a couple of buats ; that the boats soon parted company, but the one in which he was fell fa with an American vessel, which took the party to Melbourne.Roger was three days and two nights at ava in the small boat, and nearly three months on board the ship which landed ) charred ruins of Paris plead 7 THE CLAIMANT'S RETURN.In 1866 he heard for the first time of his father's death, and hurried back to England.| On behalf of the child of four years old, who has hitherto been recognized an the baronet, | it is contended that the claimant is no other | than Arthur Orton, a Wapping butcher, who had worked his way out to Valparaiso before ; the mast, knew the South American \"ground ; over which # Bir Roger\u201d professes to have travelled, and falling in with some old servants , of the Tichborne family in Australia, picked up from them suit t information to pass himself off as the missing baronet, Since his | return to England he bas also won over Moore, ; the mau who accompanied the real Sir Roger from Havre to Valparaiso, It te certainly remarkable that of all those who ssiled with him from Rio in the « Blanche,\u201d the claimant should he the only one who has ever reappear | ed; that he should have married and settled in Australia without communicating in any way with his family : and that he should s0 long have delayed his return to claim the title and estate.But the mont staggering part of the case is the personal differences between the claimant and the Roger who went away in 1854, It in admitted by his own counsel that, at the fatter period, Roger Tieh- borne wun slight in figure, with fair snd ra ther lank hair, and light-colored eyes, The present \u201cSir Roger\u201d is of broad and bulky frume,with crisp, black Lair.Another remarkable dixcrepancy is that the Roger who went away spoke French better than he spoke Eng- lish\u2014French was, indeed, literally his mother tongue\u2014but the Roger who has now turned up doesn't know a syllable of the language, On the other hand, however, the claimant evidently knows & good deal (however learned) about the Tichborne family and estates, and is sworn to as the real Roger by several relu- tives and old friends ofthe house.There is one test he offers to submit himself to, which keeps up the romantic nature of the narrative.Roger, before he quitte the country, packed up a number of documents in a sealed parcel which he left with Mr.Gosford, the steward of the Tichborne estates, with instructions to open it only in the event of his death, and the claimant offers to etate the contents of that parcel in order to prove his identity AFTER THE COMMUNE, WHAT.(From N.F.Tribune, 29th.) The despatches which we publish this morning announce the entire defeat of the Paris insurgents.M.Thicra and his troops are in possession of 60 much of the city as still remains, and if any struggles continue they are the hopeless efforts of a few bundred Communists barricaded in à corner, to whom despair has lent & bideous sort of conrage.There can be no doubt that the Commune, as & military or political force, bas ceased to exist.Possibly it is too soon to sum up its records or write its epitaph, but it is difficult to believe that the remutest age will remem- Ler it without a shudder, or the most impartial historian modify the passionats condemnation which all the world has already pronounced on its acts.Mr.Frederic Harrison, in The Fortnightly Beview, is, wo believe, the only known writer who has found an explanation for the Commune, or discovered any mcthod in its madness.Bat the dreadful work of the last week destroys the only value which might have belonged to the passionate rhapsody of the Pusitivist speculator.The better the idea out of which the Commune sprung, the worse fur the world.An idea that bas found cxpositors like Pyat and Rigault and that eculisted Dombroweki and Cluseret in its defense, has little chance of being accepted hereafter by honest men.Paris had a right to muui.ipal self-government, no doubt, but the only possible apology tor the Imperial vupression against which the great city protested, his been supplied by the mudmen who made ber the offer of liberty.The social questions which the Commune sought to raise have been press ing for a settlement for years past They never bad so great a chance for fair consideration as within the past twelvemonths.It is probable the Commune has postponed them for half & cencury.Bocial reorganizations have come before now through convulsions and great agunies, but they come in spite of disorders, and not Ly help of them.The September massacres made Republicanism impossible in France, The Lurbaritics of the Commune have undone the score of reformers, and closed the car of Europe to every demand for avcial readjustments, If the overthrow of the Vendome Column was meant as & protust against the military spirit, in behalf of what new doctrine of good-will do the But the death of the Commune is only the beginning of the end.M.Thicrs is master of Paris today, and being master, his difticultics are still ail before him.The Versailles @o- vernment has never been popular even with the Parisians to whom the Commune was most cxlious.Before it quitted Bordeanx, it Lai contrived to outrage the sensibilities of the vainest population in the world, Every shopkecper on the Boulevards felt himself humiliated at being governed from & provincial city, and the vote of the Assembly to adjonrn to Vursaillen instead of Paria was resented as a wanton affront.For all this M.Thiers was held responsible.He had not been thorongisly popular in f'aris even when Paris chose him ss one of her deputies in the Corps Léglslatif, If wan not Thiein whom they loved, so much as Napoleon whom they hated, and in the samo way it waa the fierce hostility of Paris to the rulers who surrendered the city to the Prussians that led them to welcome any successors.When the Excentive whom the Bordoaux Assembly had chosen had established itaclfin the capital, I'aris all at once found itecif divided into two hostile camps, Paris in rags sat scowling from the Buttes Montmartre, while Paris in broadcloth implored M.Thiurs either to govern or give way tosomebody who would.He did neither.The inmurgents might have been dispersed without ditticulty during the first week or fortnight.They might have been beaten even after a month's delay, had M.Thiers known how to weary show of invapacity and foar, while the inaurrection grew duily stronger, and the Commune organised itself and intrenched the city, und throughout which the contempt of the Purisians for M.Thicrs darkened day by day ino hate.His bombardment of the city followed, and Paris saw with indignation her lawful rulers batiering down what her ene.mics had spared, From the day when the shells began falling about the Arc de Triomphe, the anger against M.Thicrs was as stroug among his old partisans as among his old opponents.What must it be to-day, when the city lies in ruins solely because the chief who ought to have saved her was un- cqual to the work ?That is the immediate difficulty of the sit uation.It is not possible to believe that M.* Thiers can long continue at the bead of this Government.It is equally difficult to name 4 successor under whom the Government could be casricd on in ita present shape, If we are to regard the existing Government as permanent in form, we shall look about in vain for an Executive whose claims to popular confidence could inspire any hope of success.To put & weak man or an uulmown man in M.Thicr's place is to encourage the intrigues of Orleanists, of Bourbons, and of Imp.-rialiuts alike.There are no means of forming an opinion on the probable chances of vithor, nor iy it certain that society may not finda savior who should prove ncither an imbecile nor a tyrant, But be must be & sanguine man indeed who can discover in the circumstances of to-day much ground for belicving that the Republic is likely to prove stronger than all its oppunents together, A MANIA FOR MURDER\u2014A WHOLESALE SLAYER OF BABIES, The Pall Mall Gazette gives the following particulars of an extraordinary and shocking caxe which has come before one of the London police courts :\u2014 Mc Willianf Beer is a dealer in unre- dermed pledges at 58 Newington-Butts, Loudon.He had & servant in his employ named Agnes Norman, aged 15 years, Oo Good Friday, Beer and his wife went out to spend the evening, leaving their three young children in the care of the servant.On returning home they found one of the babies lying on the floor by its Redside undressed, and another dead between the bedstead and the wall.It had evidently died from suffocation.\u2018The theory of the parents was that the servant girl had kitled it, and they Introduced evidence at the coroner's inyuest to support theft theory, which they had gathercd, subsequent to the death of their child, from those in whose employ the servant girl had previously been, While at one place & friend of the mistress came there with her baby to make a visit, put the child on the bed, and soon after it was found dead.At the same place three dogs, 8 cat, a parrot, a number of gold fish, and nearly a dozen fancy birds were found dead at different times without apparent cause.At another place she brought home a child she had been taking out on the street in = state of insensibility, and said that it had fallen out of her arma.The infant recovered, but in a few weeks after she brought it back from another airing dead.In another family a boy seven years old awoke with a choking sensation, and afterward told his father that the girl had placed her hand over his mouth.and then given him money not to say anything about it ; and in the same family several domestic animals dicd suddenly.In another situation, a child in her care was found ingen- sible in bed, and when it recovered, evinced areat terror at the sight of the girl.Again in her career, she locked a child up in a wardrobe, took it out and put it to Led, and soon after it was found dead.The Coroner did not consider the evidence strong enough to bold the girl for the murder of the Beer childrgn, but the parents instituted proceedings againat her at the Lambert Pulice Court, charging her with th.wilful murder of their child.The case was heard on April 28th, when Mr.Beer testified :\u2014 \u201cOn Good Friday afternoon my wife and I left our tbree children in charge of the prisoner, They were ail in perfect health when we left.About a quarter to twelve o'clock at night we returned, \u2018The prison was then apparently aslecp in a chair in the parlor.In a few moments I heard violent screaming, 1 went up-stairs, and upon going into the bedroom I found the second eldest child had falleu out of bed, I picked him up and placed him in bed.Upon turning round to my own bed I expected to find the dev ccasedawnke.I found her withher head upon the mattress and her legs at the back.There were no clothes over her.She was lying upon hur back.I caught hold of her legs and then found she was quite dead.À doctor was sent for, and shortly after Mr.Williams arrived and pronounced that the child had been dead about two hours.T asked prisoner when rhe last saw it alive, and she said when she placed it in the centre of the bed at half-past ten o'clock.On the following Tuesday my cat and canary died.\u201d The prisoner, who throughout the proceedings treated the matter very quictly, declined to say anything, She was remandud for further evidence, WENDELL PHILLIPS ON THE A.[ ON SITUA (From a Speech at the recent Anniversary of 84 Reform League.) When T was in Washington about two months ago, I had it from an authority inside the Ku-Klox-Klan\u2014one who had a right to Apesk\u2014that their organisation was so perfect, there could not be ono crime committed in any single Southern Blate, where, if the Government trusted to its punishment by the tribunal of a jury, that organisation, a secret association, was uot powerful enough to pack the jury and secure an acquittal.Bo that thislargely-spread and doeply-rooted secret organisation (like the Musons of thirty years ago) can utterly defeat and defy civil war.And the moral which attach his own troops to him, or bad Vinoy shown ordinary «kill in planning his move.thesg repentant lips drew for me, from his own actuél experience, was: \u201cIf you can do nothing _Juns 3, 1871.with us except by a Judge on & bench and twelve jurymen ina box, the cffort is abso- tutely contemptible.We can sweep the States in utter defiance of the State Government, if that is the aim of your method,\u201d Now I believe that you will find that the evidence before the Senate Committee amply wmpports these statements, and that unless President Grant has made up his mind to stretch the lorg arm of his new power into the centre of the Rebel States, and strangle this rebellion ofassussins, he will never have success; and when Î say that J am only repeating the utterances of the counsellor who stunds nearest to the right band of the President, Iam only repeating what the man says whose oppor- tupitics are the largest to investigate the facts ~whose political insight is the keenest to dis cover them ; that if Congress had adjourned without giving Gen.Grant even the limited power which be has to-day, and had left us to meet the 1st day of December as we stood on the tet day of March, there never would bave been a Republican successor to Gen.Grant in the White House.Now I want tien.Grant to go down into Georgia and South Caroling, and not arrest two men, such as the telegraph told ue were arrested the other day, of disreputable character.I want him to go down and arrcet some ex-General, who counts his acres Ly thousand, numbers his wealth by millions, und stands possessed of the loving ad.mirstion of baif the South.I want him to track bim to bis lair in this nest of assassins, and arrest at midnight, try him before daylight, and bang him before the sun is an hour high.When this is done you will never hear of the Ku-Klux again\u2014except in the nursery le- geud.But ifthis is not done that power will enter the White House, and you will bave the war to fight over again.The question is now whether we shall havea Democratic President \u2014whether we shall have another reverse like Andrew Johnson\u2014whether we shall see the wave of Northern influence, industry, national progress go on, or sce it checked and turned backward.But in the end the people will triumph.Thirty millions of men will yet carry the Swrs and Stripes down to the Gulf and plant them there! and if the South ever docs rise again to oppose then, lines of distinction will not ba recognized.They - will stopat no State lines and no considerations of privilege, They will keep the South under the heel of à military despotism until every white man over twenty years of age is in his grave, .Mrs.Mott is opposed to war and force, and therefore she thinks, and thinks logically, that I am wrong in urging the execution of à single man at the South.Bat the South is to me exactly what a horse used to be to Rarcy.1 would ne more reason with it than he would with a horse.Rarey's method was first to convince the horse that you could control him\u2014then conciliate him.If you reverse the process and try conciliation first, he mistakes it for cowardice.Bo does the brute in South Carolina.You try to conciliate, and the South thinks it weakness, You must first convince that half brute half man, the South Carolinian\u2014the typical South Carolinian and the typical Georgian-\u2014that you can hold him, that you can take him by brute force, and veutralize his whole power, and when you have once done that, it Is exactly like Rarey\u2019s process.The moment the borse gave up, he was as kind as a kitten.What I want Grant to do is to take aleaf out of Rarey's hook, and teach the South from it.SECRETARY SEWARD'S VISIT To BOMBAY.By the departing mail steamer Mr.Seward takes leave of Bombay and India, and also bids farewell to Asia, Mr.Seward, having seen India under pleasing circumstances, is inclined to take 8 somewhat optimist view of our affairs, as when he remarked that \u201cit cane not be long before we shall be relieved of the necessity of maintaining an Indian army to hold these possessions, and a European army to watch the Indian one.\u201d We believe that many things relating to the British hold on India have been made plain to Mr.Seward, which neither he norjany other American could understand without actual observation and contact with our best-informed.For lack of 3 better term, he usually speaks of our admiuistration as the \u201cpro-consular system ;\u201d but be recognizes as blended with that tbe distinctively reasonable British element, tempered as it is by the better traditions of the old Company, which secure at ouce wise conservatism and cautions progress, When in the Punjab, Mr.Seward is said to hase asked 8 district officer how it was that a population once so turbulent, even under their own chiefs, were content to live in quiet under British rule.The officer is said to have replied to the following effect : \u201c Where à native prince takes six rupees, we take two.Out of this district I pay £100,000 to Government every year; the adjoining one to the south is just the sama size, but its native chief manages to vet £600,000 out of it.Even supp sing that we were to resume all the rent-free lands which wo have granted for loyal service or for other political reasons, we should only be able to raise £150,000, according to our system from this district.The cultivators know perfectly well that it they were living even under & good Sikh ruler, they wonld buve to pay three times as much money to him, for they see what goes on under a Sikh ruler a few miles off on the other side of the boundary line.They prefer to pay leas and to accept out rule.\u2019 Mr.Beward is Maid to have been «0 atruck by this answer, that he visited the native State to see for himself, He was most hoepitalily entertained by the chief; but he urned to British territory with the conviction that where tho Indian husbandman pays two rupees under British rule he would pay a native prince si Times of India, April 22, REUNITED PRESBYTERIAN ANSEMRBLY.Cricaao, May 26.\u2014In the Presbyterian Assembly, to-day, among uther business, permission was granted J.M.Wilson, Kaq, to address the bwdy on the subject of Mansa for Churches, The recommendations contained in the report of the Committee on Manses were taken up, and adopted.The report of the- Standing Committee on Foreign Missions, the order of the day, was taken up and read.The mission year of the Board ended April 20, 1870, with a debt of $44,601 90.By the noble efforts of a few friends, this debt was in a grest measure THE MONTREAL WITNESS.provided for before the last General Assembly adjourned, so that the Board enters on the duties of the year now completed virtually free from debt, besides having at their disposal the sum ro quired, according to the estimates, for the whole support of missions in India, Bis, aud Japan to the Lut of October, a few months in advance.The re- cripta from all.sources for the year ending April 30, 1871, have been $330,550 39 ; the expenditures, $373,801 16 ; leaving à balunce against the Board of $43,252 77.This unex- preted result way be owing in part to the transition state of some of the churches; in part to the depressed state of business in some parts of the country, and impart to the nuwm- ber of objects which have present urgent ap- prals to the benevolence of our Christian people.Five thousaud copies of pamphlets and 68,500 copies of our newspaper are now published.In expectation of enlarged sympathy aud liberality of the church, the Board bas prepared its estimates and its plans for the coming year, approximating $385,000 for its different missions, which with the debt calls for $428,000.This makes noaliowance for any ex- extraordinary call that lay arise, or any special work that may be undertaken during the year, and as the missions are constituted, new developments are constantly taking place that necessitate outlays that cannot be provided for in the estimates The sum of $450,000 will be needed to maintain the work on its present basis in a healthy state, If the Board responds to the increasing demands of the different missions for speedy cnlarge- ment, and meets these and the new necessities that belong to such advance in the way of building, &c., $50,000 more should be appropriated by the Church.In the afternoon session the consideration of the report on Foreign Missions was resumed.Mr.Shedd, missionary from Persia, gave some interesting details of the progress of the good work in that country, where there are now three organized Presbyteries, with about 50 preachers and 80 congregations, A resolution was adopted indorsing the Indian policy of Gen.Grant.The report on Foreign Missions was also adopted, with several recommendations to the different churches under the care of the Assembly, GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.\u2014 The Queen, it is stated, intends to settle the estate of Balmoral upon the Princess Louisa.It is a delightful spot on the beautiful banks of the Dee, and as it adjoins the ample domains of the Duke of Argyle will be peculiarly acceptable to the lately-wodded couple.\u2014 Ledger.ExTRAORDINARY Broem AT Barn\u2014 A most violent storm of rain, bail, and lightning visited Bath on Saturday night.The rain descended in torrents, causing the Avon to overflow its banks in the lower districts, especially at Salford, where whole tracts of land were laid under water.The storm was accompanied by a similar phenomenon to that of the previous Sunday, myriads of smail annelidi, enclosed in patches of gelatinous substance, falling with the rain and covering the ground.These have been microscopically examined, and show, under a powerful lens, animals with barrel-formed bodies, the motion in the viscera of which is perfectly visible, with locust-shap- ed heads bearing long antennæ, and with pectoral and caudal fin-like feet.They are each an inch and à halflong, and scientific men, on inspecting them, pronounce them to be marine insects, probably caught up into the clouds by a waterspout in the Bristol Channel, \u2014Glusgow oat.Pay, &c., Or THE ARMY.\u2014A War Office return shows the estimated charge or expense of a private soldicr, including pay, beer money, clothing, &c., and a duc allowance for medical attendance and maintenance of barracks, In the Househuld Calvalry the total amounts to a guines a weck per man ; Cavalry of the Line, 158.9d.; Royal Horse Artillery, 17s.; Royal Artillery, Field, 15s.lod.; Royal Artillery, Garrison, 15s.8}d.; Royal Engineers, 11.18.Td,; Royal Engineer Train, 18a.Foot Guards, 14s.Gd.; Infantry of the Line, 13s, 6d.In addition to these emoluments, a soldier has the opportunity to cam rewards for skill in rifle, sword, and lance practice, 3s.a year, and the Artillery are now to bave rewards for practice in gunnery.There are also additional allowances of fuel and barrack accommodation for the 7 per cent.of the, rank and file allowed to be married.Short service has been contemplated in the preparation of this return, aud, therefore, no sum has been added as representing the value of pension earned.News or Da.LiviNastoNe.\u2014At the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society of London, on the night of the sth inst, Sir Henry Rawlinson read & lutter from Lord Enfield, transmitting, by the request of Lord Granville, a letter from Dr.Kirk, the British Consul at Zanzibar.The really important letter, however, was one from the Arab officer who was sent up by Dr.Rirk from Zanzibar to Ujiji in September last.In October that officer receive ed a letter from Dr.Livingstone, which we bave already published That letter was of considerable interest on various accounts, for it stated that a lutter ha been received from the Doctor, wha at that tine was only twenty-tive days\u2019 journey from Ujiji, and it further ahow- ed that Ahmed Sherecf was so interested in the matter that, though he had only received the letter on the 10th of November, before the 15th he had despatched twelve men with supplies.A remarkable expressionin a recond letter about the caravan with which Dr.Livingstone intended returning to Ujiji in April of the present year, showed that their arrangements were to remain five monthe longer at Manakoso , and then come on quietly to the coast.It did not, however, follow that Dr.Livingstone would wait five months need.leskly at Ujiji.The supplics sent him would reach about December 18, so that if he wished to return at once he could leave Manakoso by the end of the month.By the end of the next month he could reach Ujiji, and if he rame on at once he might reach the coast in three months more, so that at the present moment be might, by using the utmost expedition, have reached the coast.Sir Henry Rawlinson, however, suggested the probability that Liv- ingatone, who was quite at home in the wilds of Africa, if he had not solved the problem of whether the watershed of the country drained into the Congo or into the Albert Nyanza, other year before be returned.AMERICAN NEWS.column, charity in North Caroline.ren alike.yeur.by several families, \u2014 Twi more New York dalics und onc | weekly buve been added to the Mortuary It was about three yours ugo that Mark Pomeroy, of the La Crosse Democrat, started à daily issue of his paper in this city.\u2014 They refuse to accept education wx a Teachers employed under the Peabody Trust have been warned to desist from their noble work, although they educate white and colored child- \u2014 The relapsing fever bas again made its appearance ju Philadelphis, but the Board of Health hope by cuergetic action to prevent its becoming epidemic to the extent it did last The disease has appeared among the poorcet clans of people and ix houses occupied \u2014 The caterpillar plague in Mississippi and Tenncisee is becoming 8 very serious affair.After relating several stoppages of the rail.lanche states that a small lake some seven miles border in countless numbers, are driven cideut of the season.Carre crevasse were owing to the more than ferers themselves, appears, it is none the less true that owners ken levee deliberately cut down the barrier tion, to facilitate the carting of wood and transportation of sugar, now necessary to secure the decree.Furthermore, the offence on which the plea is based must bea ground for divorce in the State where it was committed.This needed change in a notoriously loose code will remove the inducements heretofore held out to those who desired to dissolve their mariage tie, to gain a temporary residence in the State.What courts will the divorce hunters next seek ?\u2014 Mr.Sampson expresses himself as well pleased with his Chinese shoemakers.They never stike on account of wages, and he has experivnced no trouble with them whatsoever.Captain Hervey, after a six months\u2019 experiment with Chinese in his laundry at Belleville, N.J., appears to be well enough satisfied with them to increase his force to 100.He says they do not work as rapidly as girls.The latter, if they labor steadily, can reslize $60 a month, \u2014 The selection of Secretary Fish to represent this Government in the Geneva Conference under the Treaty of Washington will command the approval of those best informed and the entire satisfaction of the Country, Itis no secret that he has long sought escape from the irksome confinement of his present post ; and now that the end crowns his work in the negotiations with Great Britain, he can retire gracefully and with bigh honor.\u2014 Tribune.\u2014 The success of the new Indian contract system secms assured.Among the bidders for turnishing supplies are some of the leading merchants of the country, and the result is that the contracts, instead of being confined to a few favorites inside the \u201c Indian ring\u201d who have furnished inferior goods at extravagant prices, are divided among first-class merchants in the various cities, whose reputation is of more value to them than all the profits they could make from any contract.\u2014N.F.Independent.: \u2014 It is noteworthy, the number of tunnels bridges, etc., that are projected or are being actually constructed.In about four years\u2019 time we shall have a bridge over the East River, and in ten years we shall doubtless have another spanning the North River.A double tunnel more than 8,000 fect long and, cighteen fect in diameter is soon to be begun under the river at Detroit.The Fort Wayne, Pennsylvania and Northern Central Railroad have projected a tunnel 7,400 feet in length $2,250,000.\u2014 Am.Paper.years ago, tend for this prize with a single vessel only \u2014a decision which will greatly increase the \u2014 The suspension of Dr.Lanahan as As- the unpleasant quarral among its officials which has so scriously disturbed the Methodist | ¢ Church.religion, reason nlone, commend itself to these Christian gentlemen.\u2014 fbid, New You Pouice\u2014The officer who pa member of the Ring.The Judge on the | bench, unless in his case the people have had creattire of the same power.The man who picks your pocket in tho street, and the Cape tain who sits quietly at his dusk while the in a panel-housc, are both men of + infiucnce,\u201d It Is the power of this \u201cinfluence\u201d which \u2014dead laws.The hope of corrupt protection, the prospect of final im unity, gives nerve an confidence to the midnight burglar, to the ruffian of the sidewalk, the keeper of the |t bagnio and the gambling hell.It ia from ¢ way trains by the iusects, the Memphis Ava- Tusarv.\u2014The Gazette's Ottawa Correspondent May 30 vays:\u2014 With reference to the Treaty from Memphis is literally swarming with ca- of Washington I have reason to Lelicve thas terpillars, which, having crowded around its Sir Julin À McUonald docs not considwe that he is in & position to enter into public discuss- into the water by the vast armies in the rear.ion or explanation concerning it until it bas This phenomenon is the most remarkable in- [been ratified in England, when he will | cease tu be an Imperial Commissioner, and \u2014 There seems no ressonable doubt that |00t until then.Meanwhile tue people of ; .; .t Canada may rest satisfied with the assurance the terrible devastations caused by the Bonnet that the reservation of the fishery articles for er the approbation of our Legislature is nota thoughtless practices of ater of the our mere formal one, and that itis quite open to the P Parliament of the Dominion to deal with these : articles in such a mauner as it thinks is most of plantations along the line of the now bro- likely to be advantageous to the people of this ; Ai .country.Neither the Government of Canada between their landsand swift and sure destruc- as & whole, nor Sir Jubn A.McDonald as the first Minister, are committed to the treaty, .nd they bav R rekerve cm 1 c \u2014 Indiana has modified her divorce laws so selves the ene ot most compte dap \"heard ; and in a convenient saloon, which did that a three years\u2019 residence in the State is action in the matter.\u201d to pass under Baltimore.Another tunnel of le street Police Stati d handed 3,400 feet is proposed, to extend under the the Ureu eletartor \u201cThe officer in same city, the two enterprizes to cout about of the station reported the circumstances of & The worst of these disagrcements |if, in an institution mainly supported by a lies in the fact that once carried into the |tax on British shipping, a poor unfortunate courts, as this had been, they inevitably bring | Englishiaan, while shorn of hin strength, did discredit, not on the litigants merely, but on ! not receive that attention to which his help the Church too, and conscquently scandalise |lesances, not to speak of human sympathy, en n Any compromise which avoids [titled him, We recommend the case to the publicity in those matters shou'd, for this attention of the St.George's Socie ty, who will ! the subject are correct or not, troln the street owes Lis position to some | Our contemporary, the Gazette, says that under the amended aystera of procedure in this dis- me trict every day that the Court does not sit ia spirit to disregard the Boss's bidding, in à lan enquête day\u2014that is to say, a day on which parties may proceed with the examination of witnesses in their respective cases.This rule A has worked smonthiy enough thus far, with thieves ia his precinct are doing the same ong exception.The days on which judgments are pronounced sre excluded under the new role from heing enguéte days, because the Court breeds those most noxious of social poisons sits for the purpose of rendering jndgmenta, But, unlike the other sittings of the Court, which are fixed for certain days, the time of rendering judgment is each month fixed by might, when he received bis \u2018supplies, prose.the fou) fountain vf misrute that this ureudfut cute the necessary geograpbical rescarches before returning, in which case it might be an- deluge of crime has come upon ns, All at (tempts to cure the cffccts wili be unavailing until we have attacked and vanquished the prolitic cause.\u2014X.¥.Tribune.DOMINIUN NEWS.ExTracts from (lobes correspondence :\u2014 Ottawa \u2014The reuson given berc for Sir John A.Macdonald's expected opposition to the Washington Treaty is that the members of the Cabinet are all against it.DuBrugge, who bas arrived, reports that the voice of the cous- try is unanimously against it.Sir Jobo wn.not, of course, separate himself from his colleagues aud breuk up the Government.Itis therefore said that he will simply submit that portion of the treaty requiring ratification by Canada, and lct Parlisment des! with the matter ad it may see fit.This is the programme talked of in official circles, Pursu- lag his usual policy, no doubt, Sir John will await developments.Itis fully understood bere thus he bas muzzled the organs, and refuses to give any explanation to the country.This shows the quandary Le is in.Tur Dosiniox CAmISET AND THE WAsHINOTUN MantromA EstimATES axp \u2014\u2014 The estimates of the Province of Manitoba for | the year ending 31st December, 1871, have been published.The total cost for legislative purposes amounts to $11,285, hut to this must Le added $2,400, being an additional indemnity of $100 each to twenty-four members of the Assembly, which they fought for with great pertinacity.Mileage only amounts to | $100, and incidental expenses about $200, i The seven members of the Legislative Caun- } cil receive $1,400, and their mileage is put | down at $30.The Speaker of the latter body ; receives only $500, while the Assembly is li- | beral to their Speaker to the extent of $200 more.The Attorney-General, Provincial Se.| cretary, and Treasurer receive a salary of 2,000 cach : the Minister of Public Works $1,600, and the Private Secretary to the Lieut- Governor ; $1,000.The sum of $12,000 in placed for the repairs and construction ot roads and bridges, and $8000 are voted to | bridge the Assiniboine; the maintenance of the police costs $13,800, and $6,000 go to the support of common schools, and printing and poor relief are placed at $2,000 each, The total amount of expenditure, counting in various miscellaneous items, is $79,585.Against this the financiers of the new Province place a set-off in the shape of assets.The interest on $472,000 at five per cent.gives $23,504 : allowance for Government support, $30,000 : subsidy from Dominion Government, at 80 cents per bead on 17,000 persons, $13,600 ; and licenses for spirituous liquors, $13,015, \u2014 making inall $80,220.Tux Latg Jox Wonma.n.\u2014This member of the prize ring, who died last week in Quebec, resided in Montreal for nearly two years previous, and his name was frequently before the public in various connections, The fol- towing particulars of his death, we take from Quebec Chronicle of yesterday :\u2014 Mr.Wormald was removed in a state of delirium to the Marine Hospital, about the 20th instant, and was duly received, under the certificate ofa medical gentleman of the city, asa patient.Be ing a man of great physical strength, the officials met with considerable opposition in their attempts to restrain him, but after seve ral efforts suceeded in binding the athlete with cords.While in this helplees condition, and in a state of semi-nudity, he was driven to The officer in command the case to his Chief, who, knowing the re- death.We should be sorry, very sorry indeed, doubtless ascertain whether the rumors upon JUDICIAL IRRRGCLARITIES AT IlONTRRAL\u2014 he judges to sult thelr convenience, and he notice given the bar is very short, fence 3 ais» à ditticuiey which will be bos ex plained by stating what wok place on Monday and \u2018Tuesday.The usual time for rendering judgments in the Huperior Court is the last day of the mouth, which was Wedaenday (to-day), and it was cx pect that Munday snd Tuesday, being duys out ul term, would be available furenquéte Bat ou Monday, when atturneys were in readiness with their witnesses, it was announced that the Court would render som: judg uty, an announcement which had the effect under the law of preventing any case from proceeding, unless by consent of both parties.\u2018This was awkward enough ; but to the suprise of the bar, when the Court was «pened, it was im.medistely adjourned to the 30, Tuesday, On Tuesday, only one judge pronounced judgments, und the Court was further adjourned till she 316t.Three of the raost uscfal ene quite days were thus abstracted from the few wkich remain befure the lung vacation.We are aware that some diseppointment was felt »y the bar, and not without reason.The sending away of witnesses who have been sub- panad, sud are in attendsuce, is one of the things which clients ase slow to comprehend, sod they are disposed to cast the blame on their counsel, and the law in general.The remedy seems to be to have à day certain for judgments, or to render them as opportunity occurs dunug the days of term, [For tbe Wirxasa.* LIFE\u201d IN MONTREAL.PART H, Ax ! vas not accustomed to very late hours, I was anxious to go home.But my friends would uot hear of this.Go home at that hour! Why, they had only commenced the evening.Most decidedly not.Who wax game for a drink?and \u201cwe can run down cast for a game of billiards.\u201d The drink and billiards proposition was gaily acceded to.No dissentient voice was its Sunday bueiness upon somewlat open- faced principles, the money was spent.Open.faced principles! A policeman was at his beat at the door, which was open ; the everyday passage led to an oystervounter, bebind which stood a red-faced Frenchman, The } main-doors opening on the saloon were closud.but a side onc, which opened into à dark recess, gave access through a passage-way which led to the bar.Our cheerful frivud seemed to know the way of uld, for he passed straight forward, with the rest of us in his wake, and after some fumbling for the inner-door handle, we found ourselves in the midst of à crowd of lvud-talking, smoking and drinking young, middle-aged and elderly men.Two bar-ten- ders were rushing about, having their hands full of business; and à cashicr, who was seated in & box at the end of the counter, rattled in the change at a good rate, The gathering here was select.Merchants and well-to-do tradesmen predominated, with & sprinkling of Look-keepers sad upper-clerks.1 notiveu two or three professional men, Who were imbibing pretty freely, but there was no intoxication visible, though Insurance remarked that one or two uf bis own friends were « pretty well sprung.\u201d The crowd became gradually larger.aud we concluded that it was about time to go \u201c down east,\u201d and kee about billiards.One backed out ; he would not go because he had to be up early in the morning.No persuasion could move him ; # business was business, and a spree was a spree, and he had enough of the last to half spoil him fur the first.\u201d su he said.and started home, I went with my companions, though I was tired and sick.They hailed a hack, and we were rapidly driven to some quiet back strees in the Quebec suburbs, where there was scarcely a light.Getting out of the back, Insurance oprned 8 wicket in a gate, and telling us to \u201c kecp on the plank,\u201d went along.We found ourselves in a large clean yard, in which were 8 number of sleighs and buggics, and, from the large stables, I judged that we were in alivery yard.Insurance pressed on, and ascended a tlight of steps which led to a gallery.Knocking ata door, the question, * Who's there 7° was asked; when Insurance, through the key-hole, made some explanations which must have been considered as satisfactory, for the door was opened by a middle-aged French- Canadian woman, in & white niglit-cap and red tlannel jacket.She looked as if she had just got out of bed, but when going out an hour later, J again saw the identical cotton nightcap, And concluded that the unprepossessing \u2014 When Mr.Ashbury, the English yachts- |moval of à patient from a public institution garb wus a blind to deceive the police in the man, was in this country he claimed that |such as the Marine Hospital, without certifi- event of a visit.his vessel was not required to race the whole cate, to be contrary to all rules, obtained an American yacht fleet in order to recover the order from one of the attending physicians to Queen's cup won by the \u201cAmerica\u201d twenty take him back.This re-admission to the hos- The New York Yacht Club has pital was at first stontly opposed upon the now conceded this claim, and the \u201cLivonia\u201d ground that Wormald was a most powerful Mr.Ashbury\u2019s new yacht, will therefore, cou- man, dificult to control, and therefore dangerous to the nurses ; but the illegality of - ï these objections being apparent, be was once interest inthe coming regattas\u2014N.F.Tri more allowed in, where he remained up to the bune, moment of his death.Ot his anbsequent illness and treatment we did not hear, but it is sociate Agent of the Book Concern revives reported that the cords with which he was bound were pever removed, not even after Not much was to be seen on entering.An ordinary tidy French-Canadian kitchen, lis up by & commen coal-vil lamp, a baby aslecp in a cradlv, and a kettle singing on a covking- stove.The baby and the wearer of the nightcap were the sole occupants of the room, \u201cThere were à few friends in thie inner room,\u201d the lady said in French; and © would we walk in, Alphonse was there also,\u201d and she winked.We walked in, and saw the friends, ot whom 1 was not acquainted with oue There were two rather common billiard-talles in the room, which was romewhat cheaply furnished A tall handsome Frencliman wis the proprietor, and with much politeness he welcomed Insurance and one of the others, and after we were iutroduced he informed us :hat we could have ane of the tables.A party of four was made up, and the play commenced.No money was played for, but the usnal custom of the lorer paving for the hire of the table, and the liquor consumed, was adhered to, My experience of billiards was extensive: and with my partner 1 managed, after an hour's play, to come off victorious, and the whole of un came out slightly incbristed.The liquor in this place was kept unl voli, und was charged for at a considerable advance upon city rates.We left shortly afterwards, and | was driven home.My feclings on reaching my bed-room were none of the most satisfactory; for while I had often, in the old country, gone into a tavern on the Sabbath, I did not do so with a knowledge that I was contravening any law.1 felt that I had been breaking the Sabbath, end bad in addition added meanness to my offence.And it is not at all remarkable that my usual prayers were left unsaid on this occasion.But time soon hardencd me, asmy readurs will shortly discover.| 4 TERMS OF THE \u201cWii DAILY WITNESS.45 per annum MONTREAL WITNESS (Somi-Weekiy).2 \" WUEKLY WITNKSS.or Cash \\nvarindiy io advance, and nil letters muet be vost-paid., Che JOUN DOUGAHL & HON, Sates Sires, Great Bt.Jutttes streêt, = Montreal, Q.Witness, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1871.THE LESSONS OF PARKIN Whilst nothing but abhorrence can be felt for the principles which the Communists are said to hold, and for many of the sets of which they have been guilty, equal abhorrence must also be felt for the massacring without mercy of all Communists who tell into the hands of the Versailles troops during the fighting in Paris, and more ¢specially for the wholesale executions which have been taking place since the unconditional surrender of the last Communist troops and strongholds, These, if the accounts are true, 80 far exceed even the Reign of Terror in horror that they «an be compared to nothing but the wholesale poiitical butcheries of China and Japan.In fact, with all her boasted civilization, France is cvidently not a whit in advance of those nations in disregard for human life, and in tiger-like propensities.There can be no greater provocations in the French civil war to retaliation than were furnished by Andersonville and Bellisle in the American civil war; and yct only one man war executed in America atter the close of the war, for the murder of many thousands, in the coldest of cold blood, by starvation, exposure and cruelty ; whilst Paris continues for days after the close of the war to be a per- tect Aceldama, We cannot divest ourselves of the idea that the sccues recently enacted in Paris by the Versaillists are another St.Bartholomew, in so far as that they sprung from religious fanaticism.True, there are the following differences :\u20141st.The massacred Communists gave very great provocation, whilst the Muguenots pave none\u2014at all «vents, at the time.2nd.The Communists are massacred after à conflict, whilst the Protestants were invit:d to Paris in the Guise of friendship, and surprised and massacred in their beds, suspecting no danger.ird.The Communists are atheists, whilst the Hupruenots were evangelical Christians, \u2014 These are great differences as respects the massacred, but the massacrers are, we apprehend, in the later instance instigated to their deeds of blood by & similar religions, or rather superstitious, fanaticism to that which hounded on the murderers of the Huguenots.Une reason for this supposition is that the Versailica troops were gencrally from the country, whose population ia confesscdly under the control of the priests : and the murder by the Communists of priests and nuns must have iofuriatel such soldiers Leyond measure.However that may be, the thirst of the Versaillists for blood will tell fearfully against them, and against France, in the opinion of civilized nations, just as the terrible outrages of the Communists told against all concerned in them.It is to be hope] that Bismarck will hold a tight band over such human wolves tili they are weakened by the payment of the uttermost farthing of the indemnity.One other thought strikes us in this connection.It in evident that the teachings of the priests of Rome produce people incapable of self-government ; and that,whether they accept those teachings or are driven by them to the opposite extreme of atheism\u2014which ia evidently a rebound from the blarphe- mous assumptions of thePope and Jesuits\u2014 the only truly respectable and well-be- haved element of the pcople of France appears to be the Protestants ; and the sooner the whole nation copics Protestants by taking to common-school education and study of the Bible the better, these being the only certain remedies for the awful state of things which has just astounded and shocked the world.DECAY IN NEW ENGLAND.The cessation of agricultural growth in New England, also the failure of increase in its American population proper, has been observed for nearly 8 quarter of a century.In Vermont, according to the census, there hax been a small increase of population during the Inst decade ; but during the previous ten years the population was almost stationary, doubtless owing to the great emigration westward.The increase during the last decade was probably owing to the influx ofa foreign element, amongst which the Canadian figures pretty largely.TH lntely the Eastern States had not been adopted to any groat extent as a permanent abode for agricultural immigrants.The ares under cultivation hax, however, increased in Vermont latterly, but though the yield of some crops has incressed, that of many of them haa boon stationary, whilst those of rye THE MONTR EAL WITNESS sud maple sugar bave llen off.\"The number of shevp, horses, swine, work oxen, aud other cattle has fallen off too, in some cases by a large percentage.The increased ares of higher priced farm lands is stated to produce less of all the essential elements of agricultural wealth, This is a bad sign.But the most intelligent farmers have vither gone to the West or died out, whilst many of the homesteads are occupied by à poor class of foreign tenants, who pay high rents for comparatively exhausted lands, and who, from want of capital, cannot buy stock, and generally, from sheer necessity, follow an exhaustive and hand to mouth mode of culture, The size of these farms is gradually getting sualler ; the style of farming is deteriorating, and the yicid for labor expended ixannually getting less, Such farmers, even at seasons when they are in great need of help, cannot afford to pay labor- ere fair wages, and yet secur: a profit to themselves, Thus wages are low, though the price of provisions is high; and à non-resident proprietary is continually raising the rent of their leasehold farme, till agricultural New England is beginning to sink into a state of things from which Ireland is just emerging.\u2018The evil of thin state of things tends to aggravate itself, Young men and boys escape from the country to the large towns, creating a still greater scarcity of farming belp, for which the miscrable holders of tenant farms cannot afford adequately to pay.The present artificial protection afforded to the industries of the towns by raising the rate of the workmen's wages therein, strengthens the allurement of the city at the expense of the country.It will thus be seen that the condition of the cultivators of the soil in much of New England and the Province of Queber is becoming assimilated, though for quite opposite rea sons.Against the poverty-stricken tenant.farmer in the oue case may be ret the impoverished proprietor in the other, whose farm, by continued subdivision, has been becoming small by degrees and (not) beantifully less.Both of them till an ungrateful, because exhausted soil, and those whom they naturally look to for aid to force an unwilling crop, leave them for the better-paying city labor, orto farm more fruitful acres in the West, A RECENT GERMAN PREDICTIQN.The rector of the University of Berlin, Dubois-Reymond, a descendant of one of those expatriated French Huguenots to whom Germany owes so much, and one of the most renowned scientists of the day, in & speech shortly after the declaration of war by France against Prussia, made use of language which the events ot the last few months have strangely justified, Confident in the success of German arms, he says : \u201cWe shall triumph, because the nation which we have to combat has but the outside show of strength.France suffers from a cancer which wastes and undermines her ; the activity which she now displays is that of discase ; it is the excitement of fever and will be succeeded by a profound prostration, to which we shall oppose the youthful cacrgics of & nation, enthusiastic, energetically resolved to sacrifice its blood, its treasure,\u2014cverything\u2014to maintain its independence.\u201d Lamenting the degeneracy of the race of hia forefathers, he cries : ¢ What has this once generous French nation become ! A corsair on the high seas, disguising itself to prey on defenceless trading ships; a flaming pile in the midst of peaceful harvest ficlds, a volcano always ready to discharge its burning lava * * * without speaking of the systematic corruption of public morality which it propagates far and wide\u201d « Europe,\u201d he exclaims, \u201ccannot exterminate this people, but it may well chance that France will be punished io a manner still more terrible, and that its people, like malefactors banished from civilized society, will, in their despair, turn their arma against each other, until at length their homicidal strife ended, the Gallo Roman race, subjugated by the cunning of its priesthood, shell go down into the abyss in which Spain bas already fallen 1\" We translate the above from a weckly Parisian journal, /es Mondes, of March 16, in which the editor denounces, in no measured terms, the author of the already half-fulfilled prediction, and promises a full reply in his next number,\u2014the publication of which, however, seems to have been interrupted by the «homicidal strife\u201d which so soon succeeded, and has culminated in the horrors of the past week.THE NEXT DUTY OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT, Now that Paris has fallen, and the inrurrec- tion is being washed away in the life-blood of ite leaders and adherents, the next serious task for the Government will be the satisfaction of the German conquerors, who have been all the time calmly awaiting the course of events in the forts to the northward of the city.By the definitive treaty of peace, concluded st Frankfort, aud ratified by the French Assembly, the total cash indemnity to be paid by France to Germany was fixed at five mi} lisrds of francs, and the terms of payment ar strictly defined.In explanation of this sub ject we give the following passages from a speech delivered by Prince Bismarck before the Geraun Diet on the provisions of the Peace treaty here referred to \u201cThe payment of the firet half milliard (500,000,000) francs will have to take place within thirty days of the fall of Paris.It is | Bettled that the unly payment to be accepted must be in specie, or notes of safe banks\u2014 such as the English, the Duteb, the Prussian and the Belginn\u2014or in first-class bills of exe change : that is to say, those only which are ax goud as ready cash; if, contrary to expectation, any of these should not be good, the deficiency is not to affect us.The second payment af 1,000,000,000 of france las to Le made in the corse of the year\u2014ly the 1st of De if may memory ducs not deccive me.Not until the wcond payment has becn made\u2014that ix to sy, not until one-and-a-half millinrds have been paid\u2014are we bound to evacuate the fortifications of Paris \u2014(Bravo.) \u2018lo my regret, (his condition was an indispensable measure of prudence, in view of the vicissitudes to which the internal affairs of the country might be still exposed if we retired too soon from the metropolis.Difficult as i\u20ac was for the French plenipotentiaries to agree to this condition, I have thought it right to insist upon it.The fourth half-millinrd is to be paid by the 1st of May instead of by the end of next year, In reference to the last three milliards, the conditions of the preliminary peace remain in force; they are completely to Le paid off by the ist of March, 1874, and whatever may be paid before then will be allowed for in the iuterest which France lias to pay for these three milliards.ch Government is convinced that it cau satisfy the obligations within the time appointed.\u201d To mcet these payments will be a task heavy enough for any goverument that may exist in France, impoverished as she is by her own civil war, and the excesses of the Commune in the destruction of valuable public buildings and other property.Besides, the conqueror remains at the gates of her capital till one and a half milliards are paid ; and in view of the pang that French pride will suffer from a continuance ofthis, it is to be supposed the nation will endeavor to abridge the period of Prussian occupation of the forts as much as possilile.In regard to commercial relations Bismarck said :\u2014 Another very difficult question was that of the commercial relations.The French Government seems to wish to dissolve the commercial treaties which it has contracted, and not to renew that which was made with us.Franceis of opinion that the increased income which she requires may be largely promoted by increased duties.In my opinion, it does not do in the international relations between two great peoples to make a commercial treaty a condition gained by war, a condition laid upon the sovereignty of a great people and the limitation of their legislative rights, I have therefore limited myself to the demand that jn futures we should mutually treat on the principle of the most favored nations.This principle is practically accepted.We have, therefore, arranged that the nations in respect of which we arc to be treated on an equal footing with the most favored are England Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, and Kussis.The question of the adjustment of the frontier has been left partly open, and it appears from the following that a further anncxation of territory in which German is spoken will possibly take place \u2014 .The trontier question was submitted to a new discussion, in 60 far as it remained open \u2014namely, the settling of the rayon of Belfort.Arcording to the strict meaning of the word, we were justified in understanding by rayon what our official language understands by it, and what in French is described by the expression rayon administratif des servitudes mili- taéres\u2014that is to say, à distance of 960 metres from the outermost line of fortification.It was, however, beyond doubt that so strict an explanation of the word was not intended at our discussion ; but neither was intended that explanation which was brought forward by France at Brussels, and we have, therefore, come to the understanding that the radius of the territory of Belfort shall be formed by the distance at which that fortress would have been scparated from the frontier if the original frontier at Belfort had still separated Alsace from the next French department ; in other words, from four to five kilometres.Beyond this no frontier bas been definitively fixed.It would, however, be desirable for ua to acquire several communes on the northern frontier, near Thionville, in which German is either solely or chiefly spoken.The French ministers declare it to be impossible for them to consent that communes which have hitherto been French should cease to be so.They were thercfore ready to accept another rectification of Che French frontier near Belfort, but without any equivalent.I have therefore proposed, and the proposition has been accepted, that this point, as they will not accept the responsibility for it, shall be left to \u2018the ratifying Assembly.I have proposed & further cession of territory before Bulfort in the event of the French reigning to us the parishes in question in the ncighborh of Thionville\u2014 from the Luxemburg frontier, at Redange, as far a8 à point near Moyœuvre.The Railways in Alsace and Lorraine are to be bought from the French Company, and the proceeding, as stated by Bismarck, looks fair :\u2014 We have becn under the necessity of acquiring, tor acertain sum, the railways in Alsace and Lorraine which belonged to the Che- mio de Fer de l'Est, as it would not do to leave this company\u2014still chiefly French, and having only sbout a quarter of its property in these provinces\u2014in possession of the concession ; And a« we, if we had not come to terms, should have been obliged to expropriate the company-\u2014in which case, 88 we should have been both plaintiff and judge, the question of depreciation of value would have been, to say the least, undesirable.1t is to be hoped the French people and Government, getting free of all revolutionary madness, will now calmly set themselves to the task of getting rid of the foreign intruder, and recuperating their exhausted means.France has still abundant resources, which may be developed by an intelligent and peaceable population ; und a few years of steady industry would retrieve her position.Un the other hund, Ly & continuance in ways of disorder and civil embroihnent, she witl run a serious rink of being at last, like Poland, wiped out from the Map of Eurupe.DEPARTMENT OF PRACTICAL SCIENCE, McGILL UNIVERSITY.The announcement of this new department is now before the public.The staf includes nine names, providing for the subjects of Geology aud Palvontology, Meteorology, Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Metallurgy, Practical Chemistry, Assaying and Mining, English, French and German, The Chair of Engineering is to Le filled before the beginning of the session.The subjects above referred to are arranged in three separate courses, viz :\u2014Civil Engineering, Mining Engineering, aud Practical Chemistry and Assaying, The student may take any of these, either alone, or aloug with the studies for the Degree of Arts.Thu following statement is extracted from the announcement ;\u2014 \u201cThe advantages offered in this department may be stated as follows.Students may enter on passing au examination in Bathe- matics and English, and may proceed to take a three yearn course in Practical Science.In the Junior year the studies will be the same for alt, and will include Mathematics, Chemistry, English, French and German, Drawing and the use of measuring inatruments.Students who have already acquired the training given in the Junior year, may enter in the Middle year.Iu the Middte and S«nior years the Students may distribute themselves over three courses of study\u2014one leading to Civil Engineering and Surveying, another to Mining and Mining Enginecring, another to Practical Chemistry and Assaying.In cach of these, beside the special subjects, there will be studies in Mathematics, Physical Science, Natural Science, and Modern Languages : and appropriate Degrees will be given on examination at the termination of the several courses.In addition to this, students who enter on the Ordinary Matriculation Examination in Arte, and who pursue the full course for two years and pass the Intermediate Examinations, may obtain exemptions enabling them to take one of the courses in Practical Science, while proceeding to the Degree of B.A.Partial or Occasional Students who desire instruction for « short time in some particular branch of study, will also be admitted, \u201cIt is hoped that these varied and eminently practical educational facilities will be taken advantage of by large classes of students.The fees have been fixed at a very moderate rate in comparison with similar schools abroad.\u201d It should be added that the University is enabled to enter into this most useful work by the liberality of à few public spirited gentlemen, who have given special donations to this department.A Reavire Rom War\u2014It is à relict after 80 many weeks\u2014we may say .months\u2014when almost every morning brought a fresh tale of blood, to have to record no new horror from Pafis, nor from France.The storm has blown itself out, and the embers arc becoming black, put it must be many a day before the work of ruin in the capital is repaired, if, indeed, in some respects, it is not irreparable.The immense sums annually spent in Paris by wealthy foreign visitors must for à while ncar- ly cease, for that city will be like a scarcely convalescent beauty who has been switten with some sore sickness that has withered more than half her charms.Happily, nature has within bersclf her own powers of restoration, The devastated ficlds will again smile under the influences of spring snd summer, and the country districts may not long suffer from the immediate ravages of war, It is curious, too, to sce how Alesce and Lorraine, with true German philosophic temperament, are beginning to bow to the inevitable.A Bill is before the German Parliament, giving to those Provinces a separate political existence ; and the principal men of the country have had a meeting at Strasburg, asking that Alsace and Lorraine be represented in both the Upper and Lower German legislative assemblies ; and also in à provincial assembly em powered todeal with local matters.Minor concessions are asked for, and may, or may not, be granted, since some of them go to perpetuate the Gallicism acquired through French occupation during a couple of centuries.Is sr Hermsy ?\u2014If adherence to the doctrine of the Catholic programme, which claime for the Church absolute authority in political matters, be considered a test of à good Catholic, as the Bishops of Montreal and Three Rivers distinctly affirm, then the Journal ds Quebec has fallen into heresy Speaking of this feature of the programme, the Journal says : # This doctrine of supremacy has been promulgated at different times by tho authors of the programme, under the pretence that all authority comes from God, and that the religious society Is superior in its object to the civil society.For our part, ns the two so- cleties coming from the same author, have diminct objecte, attributes and duties, we June 3, 1871.maintain, until proof to the contrary, that the members of tho clergy have nothing to do, except as simple citizens, with questions of a purely civil and political uature,.Na turally, où account of their character and the coutidence reposed in them, they ars able to exert 4 noble influence npon the opinions of the electoral body, but thin influence is purely personal, and proceeds from no obligatory authority Maruiaurion \u2014History docs repeat itso.In the days of Fouquier-Tiaville, of the First Revolution, that redoubtable public prosecutor sent his victims to the guillotine in batches.The Versaillists, ar friends of order, are now doing the same\u2014executiog the Communistein batches of fifty and a hundred \u2018This cannot last long ; but a fearful atonement is evidently being exacted from the over- throwers ofthe Vendome Column, the destroy- cra of public buildings, the throwers of petroleum shells, and the murderers of so-called hostages.The present Paris iv a scene of blood, not only rivalling, but surpassing in horror its sanguinary sulf during the Reign of Terror, Judgment is evidently being done without being tempered with mercy.Tue Pors 1s Hion Gues.\u2014The massacre of sixty thousand of the detestable athiests ot Paris, and the continued executions of all who favored them, together with the triumph ot the monarchical Assembly of Versailles and of the army of the provinces, have inspired His Holincea Pius IX.with new hopes; and, Russia-like, he is cssaying to tear the Italian guarantees to tatters, and reinstate himself in the estates of St, Peter.Tux CatooLic PROGRAMME ADOPTED Iv THX County or L'Assourtion.\u2014Le Nouveau Monde has an account of the meeting last Sunday at l'Epiphanie, County of l'Assomptioo, at which it says, the Catholic programme was adopted by the 1,200 persons who were present.Several of the new lights from Montreal addressed the assembly ; and the following rese- lutions were unanimously adopted :\u2014 \u201cThat the uty of Representatives in to uooord wu, the Church the full and entire liberty which belongs to it, by seour ng (1 somo of our laws the chaogse: which the Bishops may judie neocssary nnd demand **\u2018T'hat the electors of this county vorht not and will nut mocord their suffrages but tw men who will ledge themselves to be guided ontirely by the ishops in these questiyna.\u201d M.Onulphe Pelletier, the ministerial candidate, declared that he adopted thess resolutions, and that they were bis programme.He was disposed to favor all measures which might come before the House tending to the liberty and triumph of religion, and if the Church of this country found it just sad reasonable to demand some improvements ot amendments to several of the existing laws, he would support them by his vote.M.Alexandre Archambault, who is, it would seem, anotber candidate,\u2014buat upon this point the Monde is not clear,\u2014avowed himself a sincere Catholic, but was unwilling to bind himself toany party or any man, He woald follow his own conscience, guided by religious principles and material interests.-Sroru SrovaLLiNe \u2014The American Bignal Department at Washington has been very accurate in its forecasting of storms and other atmonpheric disturbances, but it failed to foretell the thunder-storm which passed over this region on Tuesday sfternoon, and hence acroes Lake Champlain and the centre of the State of New York.The last weather dispatch predicted threatening weather south and east of Tennessee, from Illinois castward to the Atlantic.This, says the Gazette, ia the very radiug which this storm from the northward flew yesterday, The defect, however, is so clearly due to the want of a comparatively remote chain of northern stations, such ag we now propose, through the Department of Marine and Fisheries, to establish throughout Canada in connection with the Signal Department at Washington, that it may well be excused if the Storm King for once broke through an unguarded portion of the frontier, and, unheralded, announced his turbulent approach.\u2014 An extra of the Quebec Official Gasstte of Saturday contains a proclamation summoning the Legislative Assembly of the Proviace to meet at Quebec, on Wedncaday, the 2nd day of August next, « 1) Aurore publishes a letter from Otter Lake, P.Q, wherein eight French-Canadian men and women formally announce thei withdrawal from the Catholic Church.They were baptized on the 11th of May by Rev.T Riendeau, of Ste.Mariede Mounoir.\u2014 Three more of the rescued miners at the Pittston colliery accident have died, making twenty deaths in all, and it is probable that many more will yet succumb.A coroner's jury is sitting, from which it appears that there was an open viplation of the Ventilation Act.\u2014 In reference to the complained of law stamp deficiency, which has been occasioned we are told, by the impossibility of getting the stamps in time from New York, we would ask, why cannot these stamps be engraved in Montreal 7 Both the ordinary bank-notes, and the socalled shinplasters are, if we mistake not, executed here.\u2014 The result, if Canada should adopt a free-trade policy, may be divined from the threat of war by the United Biatos against Mexico, it the latter do not abolish the Zona Libre, i.e., a free belt of Mexican territory adjoining the American frontier.Such a belt, as an evident inducement and accommodation to smuggling, is, however, more offensive than the adoption of tres trade over the whole country. June 3.1871.«= Our jetwr trom Paris on first page is in- tonsely interesting, showing how the honest Republican working-men of that city, who sought nothing but the right of self.government for it, and d.liverauce from the tyranny and scandals of fmperial and priestly rule were disgraced and befooled Ly thelr own leaders and doomed to destruction by Thivre sud the Versailles Government.\u2014The palmy days of the prize-ring are over, \u2018The bruisers can find no rest for the soles of their feet.The fight between Mace and Co- burn was broken in upon by the authorities, and these roughs, and the rowdies who accom panied them, were driven from our soil ; and now two other prize-fighters in the States have been apprehended, tricd and sentenced to the Penitentiary.This shows a wonder.fut and gratifylng change for the better.When the prise-ring shall have become only a sort of wicket-gate Lo the Peniteutiary, there will be but few who will cater it ; fur confinement and labor are what, above all things, these pugnacious pummellers of each other detest.\u2014 The Versaillist:, now that they have the upper hand, seem to be revelling in a carnival of blood.Cluseret, the Communist Minister of War, has been shot, and Rochefort has been tried bya court-martial and probably exc- cuted.The condemnation to death of these individuals need excite no special surprise ; but the wholesale massacres continue, and it is hard to believe that some other motive than mere political fury and a sense of treason fs not the main incentive to these barbarities.No sooner does one act of vengeance scem to bave wiped out a former wrong, than, in the very act of retribution pushed to much frightful extremes, there is created a debt for which the other side will deem it a duty to demand payment with compound interest in a like coin of blood.WASHINGTON Y.M.C.A.CONVENTION.(From a Correspondent.) Wasmivorox May 25, 1871.APPOINTMENT OF STANDING COMMITTEES.This morning the Convention was called to order at 9.30, when the standing committees were appointed, on each of which I found the name of at least one Canadian delegate, and the Chairmanship of the Committee on Associations is held by a Montreal delegate, Mr.D.Bentley.ADDRESH FROM GOOD TEMPLARS.The following communication was received : BALTIMORE, May 24, 1971.To the International Convention of the Young Men's Christian Associations of the United States ena British Provinces \u2014 The Right Worthy Grand e of the Independent Order of Good T4 hy 4 Pom plars.now in pension inl hi city, ve appoint e undersigned à comm con vey fralgmnal grootinge and salutations, und to speak ors of early STmpeiby and sheer in your Christina work.Werre ençaged with you in the great work for God and bumanity \u2014 ourm 3 special work, end yours more genersl\u2014each dependent upon the other, and bath alike dependent upon the fuvor of our blessed Lord and Muster.Representing, as we do, nearly four hundred thou.eand pledged temperance workers In the United Hiates, British Provinces, and Great Britain, where the Order In gaining steady udvance and success, we bespeak your prayers on vur beball, and bid you Godspeed while we give you our hearty nssurances of ©o-operation in every effort to ave our young men to thegood of the world and the Glory of God.Signed by the Committee.Three prominent membera of the Convention were appointed to draft a reply to this document.TOPICS OF DISCUSSION.For the information of your readers, I would eay that the arrangements connected with these International Conventions, in so far as they refer to the topics for discussion, &c., are carried out under the direction of an Executive Committee now located at New York, which Committee is represented in each State or Province by a corresponding member elected annually by the Convention.For the present Convention six topics were chosen, to be opencd by a speech frum some carnest practical worker who should Le selected by the Committee.The honor ut opening onc of those subjects, \u201c BECULAR INSTRUCTION\u2014 what place shall it occupy in the work of our Associations?\" was assigned to the worthy Pre- aident of the Montreal Association, and as your readers will doubtless feel interested in the subject assigned to Canada, I give the following condensed report of Mr.Claxton's address :\u2014 When the question is asked as te what is the duty of any particular socicty or associn- tion with reference to any field of action, the first point to be determined is, what isthe constitution, and what the objects of the Bo.eiety?In the present case thie is scttled by the name of the associations referred to.The: are, first, Christian Associations ; and, secondly, Young Men's Christian Associations.In the first capacity their field of action lies in promoting Christ's cause in the world ; and in the second, it ie their special function to advance that cause among and by the agency of young men.He then entered into an examination of the character and worth of secular instruction, showing its value as placing Cristiana in a better position for the reception and communication of the Gospel; but ssid that it was necessary that we should be competent to sift the pure and unadulterated truth from the chaff and dust of superatition, that our words should be seasoned with the salt of true knowledge, and that we should be prepared to make every kind of learning tributary to the glory of our Maxter's throne, God in His just and wise providence has set Himaelf to prove, by the logic of facts, that « Godliness has the promise of the life that now is, a8 well as of that which is to come,\u201d and it is our duty and privilege to sid in this great lexson by doing our part to show that in all tbe business of lif, and in all that promotes the welfure of men and nations, the Christian is more efficient tban other men, and this without injury to his moral purity or spiritual life.From these considerations it is adduced thet Christian men and Christian associations should take a firm hold of the science THE MONTREAL WITNESS, and literature vf the hour, sud Use it in the highest degree for the highest purposes.À further conclusion is that the Christian man in the Christian association can have no time for mere amusement, In some cases | there may be need to devote time to the exercise of the body for the preservation vf its health, but «ven this may be utilized.The bodily exercine of our Divine Muster was taken in* going about doing good.\u201d If there are schools aud colleges and scicn- | tific socictivs and public librairies, it ix not necessary that we should interfere with their work, Tt iu sufficient that we should take the benefit of it.ft is necessary, however, | that indirectly, and as individuals, we should encourage and promote it, and should look on these institutions as in their way and degrees helpful.It is a law of Christian work that what others can do aa well, or better, | we need not meddle with, [t is also & law of + Christian work that so mich as may be possibile ; we should takean interest in and aid all things which tend to good, though distinct from our organization.Lastly, we should always be jealous of that which pleads merely * attractiveness.\u201d The admission of this ples is usually a fatal admission of the want of real | value in our «direct work, either absolutely or relatively to the workers, or those worked for.' This philosophy is well understood by the! practical man of the world, and was well un.| derstood by the earliest and most successful! missionaries of the Gospel, who would know nothing except \u201c Jesus Christ, and Him crucified,\u201d and were ready, in so far as self-sacrifice was concerne d, to become all things to alt men.The discussion of this topic was taken up with great vigor, and occupied one hour, after © which Professor Hopkins, President of Williams ' College, opened the subject\u2014 \u201c MODERN SCEPTICISM,\u201d and I can assure you that while it was excellent in its way, still the subject was not more ably handled than when Professor MeVicar opened the same at our Rooms in Montreal, NEE-NCTCH-IN, At the close of the debate the President introduced to the audience a young Indian, who rejoices in the name of Nee-Nutch-In.He is afive-year old apecimen of the Arrapahoe tribe, and is being educated by the U.S.Government, At 3 o'clock the Convention adjourned.Wasauvoton, May 27.THE WELCOME MEETING, With reference to the welcome meeting and to the enthusiastic manner in which the great audience joined in singing \u201cGod Save the Queen,\u201d I may mention that after singing a general cry was made for a response from Rev.Dr.Douglas, who, although totally unprepared to speak, came forward and, in his well known impressive manner, said he concurred in offering his thanks for the magnifi, cent spirit in which the audience had joined in giving utterance to the epirit of that hymn, He said that it was gratifying to him to see his brethren present, and that he felt that it was this kind of intercourse between the Christian people of the two nations that was marking the inanguration of à grand em of cordiality, good will, fraternity and brotherly love between the Christian people of the two great Protestant nations ofthe world, and which would make its a -vent on all mankind, and have an effect for good until the remotest ages of the world, Then turning to President Grant he said :\u2014 \u201cMr, President, \u2014I will only add that yours is the glory of having given victory to this great nation, and thus consecrating for ever- morethe Continent to justice and frecdom.But we, this night, bind around your brow the fadeless [laurels of a higher glory\u2014the glory uot of war but of peace.By the acceptance of the treaty of concord during your administration you proclaim to the world that a Christian diplomacy, founded in honor, may, and will yet, forever obviate the necessity of war, and give at last prace as the benediction of the race and the heritage of nature\u2019 But to return to the sessions of the Convention.The evening session (May 25th) opened at 7.30, when the question, \u201c aov's WORD, AND HOW BHALL IT BE BTUMIRD,\u201d was opened by 8 clergyman of Nova 8eotia, and the dvbate thereupon was ably suatain- ed.Some believed in commentaries, maps, &c.; while one member was of the opinion that all commentaries should be cast axide, but this elicited strong and hearty disapprobation, and the man who thought that all the earnest research and prayerfully consecrated talent of past centurics could be dispensed with, soon learned that he stood alone in bis opinion.MR.HODDER OF LONDON.At the close ot the discussion Gencral Fiske introduced Mr.Hodder, of London, who bad just arrived.In his introduction, refer- ving to the flags of Great Britain and the United States draped together over the platform, Le said that the twining together of these flags had a new siguificance, and \u201c may God grant that they shall never be borne against cach other in the smoke and flame of battle.\u201d Loud cheers received the, sentiment, the audience rising and waving\u2019 hats an handkerchicts to accept it.Mr.Hodder's address was short, and of a somewhat humorous nature, but interesting.VISIT TO THE WHITE HOUSE, During the early session of the Convention An invitation had been extended to the dute- gas to visit the President, and at 9.30 pm, at the conclusion of the exercises just referred to, the Convention procerded in & body to the White House to pay their respects.They left the church in æ procession consisting of over 2,000 persons, and passed through in line three or four abreast and entered the East Room.The President entered, leaning on the arm of George H.Stuart, Esq., and took his position in the centre of the south part of the room.Mrs Grant and Misa Nellie, the Postmanter-General and Mrs Creswell, ex-Bcnator Drake, General O.O.Howard, and others, followed and occupied places near the President.Mr.George H.Sluart, in introducing the Convention, said he had much plessure in presenting to the President of the United Btates the President of the International Convention of the Young Men's Christian Association of the United States and British | pucke Mr, Wanamaker, tie President of Loc Cone vention, having been received by the President, said on the part of the members, that they had great pleasure in accepting the Presidents invitation to visit him.They should have gunc away with regret if the opportunity had not been afforded them of paying their respects to him.They bad among them representatives from Great Britain, and he pot lave pleasure iu introducing wll to im, Mr.Wanamaker first presented Mr, Maclean of Halifax, the President of the lust Convention, and then followed all the delegates and their friends, the President shaking hands with each.A large number of the members were accompanied by their wives, who were also presented to the President.All the rooms on the first floor of the house were thrown open, and the visitors passed through them, The throng was immense, and it took nearly two hours tor all to pass through.PRIDAY'& SESSION.The session of Fridgy morning was oc- cupicd principally in discussing the report of the Executive Committee, and in calling the roll of Association for subscriptions to the several publications issued by that body.PECUNIARY MATTERS, During the discussion, upon the request of the Exveutive Committee for a grant of $5,000, with which to firmly establish the Association Monthly, General Fiske (the © Sunday-school General,\u201d as he is called) said :\u2014 \u201cWe have had a pice debate, and now let Us get the money.(Laughter) There has been a good deal of clapping of hands this morning, and now let us clap our bands in our k (Laughter.) 1 knew a member of our urcb, an old man whom we called * Isaac, who had a peculiar song he used to close his cyes and sing\u2014 * Fly abroad, Oh mighty Uospel © especially when the subscription.box came round.One day a member went up to him, and put the box right under his nose, saying : \u2018Now, Isaac, you ueed not sing, for I'll wait till you get through ; and how do you expect the gospel to «fly abroad,\u201d when you never give anything towardsit?(Laughter) And, brethren, how do you expect these associations are to \u2018tly abroad\u2019 without any wings\u2014with- out any money 7\" (Applause.) THE GOOD TEMPLARS.At this etage it was Rexolved :\u2014That the (irand Lodge of Good Templars of the United Stutes mud British Provinces, now in this city, be invited to seats on the Quor of the house, und thelr officers be requested to lake seats un the platform.In accordance with this, the officers were accommodated on the platform, after which & recess of half an hour was taken for refreshments, an abundant supply of which is provided euch day by the Washington Association.Wasgrxarox, May 27th, HOW TO RAISE MONEY, The Friday afternoon session of the Convention was occupied in discussing the topic \u201c Money for our Associations\u2014how shall it be raised ?' The topic (opened by the President of the Convention) was ably discussed, and the general opinion was that the subscription plan (already carried out by our Montreal Association) was decidedly the best.At the same time it was strongly urged that associations should at all times perform to the utmost all duties devolving on thera; and show by a genuine earnestness, that they were deserving of the pecuniary assistance asked for, and that a dead, lifeless association cannot expect, and docs no deserve, to be sustained, any more than a dead, fruitless tree can be considered worthy of care by the gardener.THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION.At the conclusion of the debate the discussion of the temperance question was taken up, and wap opened in an able speech by a delegate from Philadelphia, who subsequently introduced the following resolutions :\u2014 Whereus we believe the sale and une of intoxicating liquora an 8 beverage to be à hefnous sin, and the pre itest_obatacle to nations In the progressuf Chris- Mestre.Thatanan association of Chrisilan your men the cause of temperance ls à legilimate part oi our dark, wand that in\u2019 proportion te the magnitude and bulwark of Katan does it demand the vigor vf youth and the earnestness of our {hristianity.Mesotued, That the grent heart of the Y.M.CA.in In ymuathy with every proper eflurt being put forth tor the promotion of Wmperunce; thai we encouinge icmpersnce orgsnizations where they exist, and we prompt 40 organize them where they do not exist: that we agitate tt In our churches: that we talk, live und vote for (1.and In every way consistent with our workan Christian associations work fortl.(Applause.| These were referred to the Committee an Resolutions, to be reported on before the close of the Convention, BATURDAY'S SESSION.The session of Saturday morning was occupied in the dixcussion of à spucial topic\u2014 \u201c Obstacles in the way of organizing and maintaining Young Men's Christian Associations.\u201d During the session, Senator Wilson was introduced and received with great applause.I send you the following brief report of his address which was delivered with great earnestness :\u2014 ADDRESS BY BENATOR WILBON.The orgunization whose delegate I am here to-day, 1 am glad to say, is comparatively in a state of prosperity.It is doing a good work.One reason why it is doing & good work is that we have à few active, organizing men who work ali the time, and we louk to Jesus as the leader, and not to any eminent men, there or elsewhere.(Applause) There is another reason : we never get in debt.(Ap- pause.) I regard that as one of the prominent causes that injure associations.We raise our moncy before we # end it.I regret, sir, that duties elsewhere have prevented my attending this Convention and listening to your deliberations.I regard these Young Men's Christian Associations in our country as one of the great hopes of our land.(Applause.) I believe it carries the banners of the pro- gresa and redemption of our country.(Applause.) Buch an opportunity for labor was never given to young men on earth, We have a greatand magnificent country to save,a grand country to lead, We have an emancipated race to natruct.(Applause) We bave what is left of the aborigines of our country to save and to Christianize if we can, and we have « great work to do in our cities.The blood that stains the streets of Paris to-day, the moans that go up on the air, the flames that are devouring, teach us that ln great civilised cities and communities there may be a barbarous and aa class of men under the very light of modern civilization, Let us Provinces, who would present to bim, individually, the members of the Convention, feel that anywhere and everywhere we have a great work to do.I rejoice to read this MOrLILE List resviutions were introduced here in favor of the great cause of temperance, (Applause) After forty years of experience As & temperance mun it is my conviction, increasing, growing every day, that drunken.hess stands more in your way of progress than anything else, and that it stands @Tuss the path of Christian progress in our country.1 am glad thut you look at it.Work tor it, labor for it.God in His providence will bless you.Look to Christ as the Jcader, not to wen of wealth, men of social and political position.Often the man of wealth is too much absorbed to labor for Christ, and too often the public men of the country are #0 engaged in public duties or the ambitions aud strifca of life that they have little left for the sacred und boly cause of Christ on earths.Take Christ as your leader, young men, and remember that lle is a leader greater than any that carth can give, Conscerate yourselves to His service, work fur His cause at all times und on all occasions, and lift puor fallen humanity toward the skies [Applatee.] MISCKLLANKOUS BUSINESS, the report of the Committee on Resolutions occupied a great portion of the time, and the evening was devoted to the discussion of the topic, * Young men in business\u2014what are their temptations, und how shall they resist them ?\" This was opened in & most cloquent address by Hon.8.8.Fisher, of Cincinnati.PLACE OF NEXT CONVENTION.During the session the place of meeting for next Convention was settled upon ; Loweli, Maus, being unanimously chosen.BTATIATICS OF ATTENDANCE.This Convention has been more largely attended than any heretofore held.The records of the Cumwittee on Entertainment show that the actual number of delegates reported to the Entertainment Committee, and furnished with accommodations in the homes of our citizens, were 601.Additional homes at the disporal of the Committee, 140.Total pum.ber of accommodations offered, 741.Probable number quartered at hotels and at houses of corresponding members in attendance, 941.May 29.A WELL-OCCUPIED SABBATI.Yesterday (Sabbath) was a gala day to the Christian public of this city, Every conceivable place where a religious meeting would be likely to succeed was made available by the delegates, and scores of open-air meetings took place in various parts of the city.The pulpits of the several churches were occupied by prominent members of the Convention, while the Sablath-schools were in turn visited and addressed.I can assure you that it was somewhat difficult to decide where to go or what to do, s0 great were the attractions offered.1 finally decided to attend THR METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, and listen to addresses by Gen.Howard and others.This church is the one attended by President Graut, and is therefore the fashionable one.It is a beautiful building internally, but its external sppear- ance is not so fine as would be expected.The building on this occasion was crowded to its utmost capacity, and the volume of sound which emanated from the thousands of voices present was truly grand in effect.The addresses were pointed, practical and eamest.and were listened to with great interest.During the excreises, the choir sang a pice entitled © Jesus of Nazareth passeth by ;\u201d and 1 have never listened to the rendering of any piece of music which so solemnly aiected me a8 did this, and I think that the introduction of some of these favorite airs into the services of our churches could not fail to be productive of great good.THE SUNDAY -SCHOOL, Prior to entering the public meeting we visited the Sabbath-school of the church, and I really wish some of our city architects and our church trustees would visit Washington and take a lesson from the school-rooms there, No dingy basement with low ceilings and hastily swept floor, &c.with cumbrous wooden benches, but a well-lighted, carpeted and ventilated room, with & beautiful fountain playing in the centre of the same, cheering with the music of ita falling waters, the hearts and cyes of those who arc induced to attend.It was truly, delightful to visit the place and look upon the happy faces there gathered, At this place our respected President, Mr.Claxton, addressed a few words to the children, and it afforded us personally mich pleasure to hear his voice, as during the greater part of our gathering he has been contined to his room by severe indisposition.In the afternoon I attended the ANNUAL GATHERING of the Baptist Sabbath-schools, which was held in a very large aud beautiful church near the hotel, and which I was informed has been erected solely at the expense of one Christian gentleman.The church was crowded with happy children.The singing was detight- ful and the speeches good.TUE FAREWELL MEETING was held in the evening in the Congregational church, and it was Ly far the best, most spiritual and instructive of the whole scriva, Addresses were given Ly My.Hodder, of London, England, Gen.Howard, Rev.Mr Gates, of Nova Scotia, and the President of the Convention; and Mr.Thano Milier sang several beautiful hymne, after which the President declared the Convention adjourned, and the delegates joinud hande, when there arose to Heaven one united song of thanksgiving and praise, thus closing a most delightfal scason of Christian intercourse, 1 have in these letters but briefly touched upon the leading points of the Convention, and have avoided all extraneous matter, 1 shall, however, in my next.give you a sketch of my impressions of the city and its buildings, also an account of our visit (by invitation of Governor Cooke) to Alexandria, Virginis, and to the tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon.8.PoutTicAL.\u2014It has been determined to bring forward G.L.Goodhue, eq, of Danville, as à candidate for the representation of Rich- mond and Wolfe in the Quebec Assembly.personal friends not under control of commit- j tee, 200.Estimated number of delegates and 5 SUMMARY OF TELE EUHOPRAN, The slaughter of the Insurgents Ly the Versailles troops has Leen fearful, The system of denunciatlon was revived apd parties \u201c denounced\u201d as Communists were instantly seized and slot.The Archives of the International Society have been dicover.ed, and also other documents compromising the depurtments\u2014 Summary exccutions of insurgent prisoners prevail, and awful mass eres are said to continue at the barricades and in the Rue Kochuart, In one ditch the wounded people found in it were buricd alive, and continued to groun and shrick all night, \u2014\u2014The authorities have collected in Paris 272,000 ritlex- \u2014\u2014Gen.Clu the Commune Minister of War, bus executed, and Rochefort has been condemued to die \u2014r AH is now quiet, but it is g-uvrally felt that the Government i two weak to last \u2014 The Count de Chambord has insucd à manifesto, And the fusion of Legitimists and 10r- leanists with regard tw it is said to be com.The closiug hour was.spent in hearing re.| Plete\u2014The Court Martial bas ordered the ports from small associations, la tie afternvon : use of tlie mitrailleuse in case of wholesale executions, \u2014\u2014Large numbers of Frenchmen and forcignersare returning to Paris to resume their commercial and wantfncturing opera tions.\u2014\u2014Humors of agitation und a Caclist rising in Spuiu are officially contradicted.The French journals ate greatly divided in sentiment &6 to the future of the country.The Opinion, Rien Publique.Politique, Siecke, and Constitutionnel favor the continuance of the Republic.The Temps, National, and Patrie are very guarded in their comments upon the situation.\u2018The Opinion thinks the withdrawal of Thiers would be equivalent to revolution, The Siecle days Thiers is as energetic against Bonaparte as the Reds.The Figaro favors monarchy.\u2014\u2014Prince Napoleon demands of the existing authorities a plcbacite, and censures the men who proclaimed the dechcance of the Emperor.\u2014\u2014Tle London Times admits that it ix hard for the Canadians to yield their fisheries to the Americans without the advantages of reciprocity iu trade, but hopes that Canada will ratify the treaty.AMERICAN.Decoration Day was almost universally ob served with appropriate ceremonies throughout the United States\u2014\u2014In the Court of General Sessions at New York, Judge Bedford sentenced Wm.McNevins, the marderer of Edward Hines, to be hanged on the 14th July, Hot weather prevails in the States, and there has been a heavy rain and thunder storm at Cincinnati, the city recviving much damage from water.\u2014\u2014A Pittston special says the correct number in the mine at the time the breaker was discovered to be on fire was 59 ; 22 of these were taken out before the works were burned down, 17 more were taken outof the pit dead, and 4 have died since.The steamer \u201c Hansa,\u201d from Bremen, collided on Thursday morning with the bark « Rhea,\u201d from Rotterdam for N.Y.The % Rhea\u201d sunk, and the captain and 7 sailors were drowned.\u2014 There has been a terrific storm on the upper Hudson River, which bas done much damage to the growing crops.A fire at Mobile, Ala, has destroyed property to the amount of $300,000.The extensive railroad and car mill of J.Braydon & Co, at New Albany, Ind, covering three acres, was burnt on Thursday ; loss $200,000.\u2014\u2014It is stated that Gen.Sickles, the American Minister at Madrid, bas been instructed by telegraph to notify the Spanish Government that the estates belonging to American citizens in Cuba, which have been sequestrated, must immediately be returned to their owners, and the demages of their sequestration must Le paid, or that warlike measures will be at once st on foot by the American Government.The order to Gen.Sickles was to give the Spanish Government one week in which to make its answer DOMINION.A heavy storm on Tuesday afternoon an- roofed buildings and overturned bams at Coteau Station.and did much other damage.\u2014\u2014Numerour fires are raging along the line of the Brockville and Ottawa Railway.The Railway Company had & large quantity of fence rails destroyed this week.\u2014\u2014 At Quebec the guns are being removed from the batteries to be replaced by the latest improved pieces.\u2014\u2014The Prince Edward Island Government advertise for tenders for the construction of à R.R.from Givorgetown to Cascampec\u2014distance 120 mites, 3 ft 6 in gauge.\u2014The Halifax crew, appointed for the forthcoming boat race, have begun to take daily tmining on the barbor, and arrangements for the aquatic carnival are taking a definite shape.Clifton Cottage.Windsor, the former residence of \u2018Sam Slick,\u201d has been sold at auction for $13,000.The S.8.« Huron\u201d caught fire early on Friday morning in Lock No.2, on the Beau- harnois Canal, near Melocheville She was burned to waters edge.One deck hand is wissing.\u2014\u2014A nurse is in custody at Cacouna on charge of having poisoned a child \u2014\u2014The workmen cmployed at the new building for the Parliamentary Library, have struck for higher wages Three boys named Henry Hogarth, John Richards, aud John Bull were drowned while bathing at Toronto, the two former in the River Dou aud the latter in the Bay.\u2014 A number of war-xhips are lying in H x harbor \u2014\u2014A despatch from Gaspé announces the fall of snow there on the 27th and weather as cold as in December, It was announced that the Canadian Postal Cards would be imted on Friday morning simultansonsls at the princip+] Post-officen in the Dominion.\u2014\u2014\u2014Qovernment supporters at Ottawa say the passing of the treaty by the Dominion Parliament will be made a Cabinet question, and insist that Government will be able to carry it through the House.IrrersationaL Rowixe Marca.\u2014The English professional crew selected to row agninst the \u201cParis Crew\u201d of St, John, N.B.in Angus, are aa followa : Jas.Renforth, (stroke), Newcastle; Robt, Chambers, Wallsend : John Bright, Newcaatle ; and Henry Kelley, Putney, with James Percy, of Newcastle, as odd man.\u2014 Commodore Selfridge is dissatisfied with the result of the recent survey on the Isthmus, and has oracred another one to be msde, The difficultice in the way of that canal project seem to be insurmountable.The topographi- si obstacles, and the wretched climate combine to tax human energy and ingenuity to the utmost, \u201cFamily Reading KNOCKING.BY MRS, (Suggested by Hunt's picture of the + Light of the World.\") Behold ! 1 stand at the door and knock, Knocking, knocking, ever knocking, Who is there ?; \u201cTis a pilgrim, strange and kingly, Never euch was sevn before ; Ah! sweet soul, for such « wonder, Undo the door, No! that door is hard to open ; | Hinges rusty, latch is broken, Bid Him go.Wherefore with that knocking dreary.Scare the sleep from ole so weary?Say him\u2014no! Knocking, knocking, ever knocking, What! Stil} there ?0, sweet woul! but ence behold Him, With the glory-crowned hair : And those yen so strange and tender, Waiting there : Upen ! Open ! Once behold Him, Hiw so fair! Ah?that door! Why wilt thou vex me, Coming ever to perplex me?For the key is stifly rusty, And the bolt is clogged and dusty : Many fingered ivy rine, Seals it fast with twist and twine : Weeds of years and years before, Choke the passage of that door.Knocking, knocking! What! Still knocking?He still there ?What's the hour ?the night is waning, In my heart a drear complaining, And a chilly, sad unrest.Ah, this knocking, it disturbs me; Scares my sleep with dreams unblest ! Give me rest! Rest! ah, rest.Hest, dear soul, He longs to give thee; Thou hast only dreamed of pleasure, Dreamed of gifts and golden treasure: Dreamed of jewels in thy keeping, Waked to weariness of weeping ; Open to thy soul onc lover, And thy night of dreams is over : The true gifts He brings have seeming More than all thy faded dreaming ! Did she opun ?Doth she?Will she\u201d So, as wondering we behold, Growe the picture to a sign, Press\u2019d upon your soul and mince For in cvery breast that liveth Is that strange mysterious door : The forsaken and betangled, Ivy-gnarled and weed bejangled, Dusty, rusty and forgotten ; There the pierced hand still knocketh, And with ever patient watching, With the sad eyes true and tender, With the glory-crowned hair, Still à God is waiting there.aTowE ONE UNGUARDED MOMENT.It was the close of a busy April day.Toa wother's car spring has other voices than those of Lirds and brooks.The call of blossom and bud is often lost in the louder calls within the home.1 closed the sewing-machine, and folded the little unfinished garments with a tired sigh, and went for a good-night kiss to the children, who had just gone to bed, As each white- whed figure sat up to fold my neck with