SUPPLEMENT TO THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR.

The Life of Man.

A Great Mutiny.

UI7VOLT OF FIFTEEN THOUSAND BRITISH SAILOES.

ATHEILLING CHAPTER OF HISTORY.

Twenty-six Men-of-Wae and a Thousand Mebchakt Vessels Seized by the mutineees.

Some historian has told us that when Peter the Great of Russia paid his visit to King Christian of Denmark, he was invited by the Dane to one of his castles ' which stood on the brink of a deep, wild gorge, into which it was impossible to jj, o k 'without a shudder. "While the monarchs were standing on the battle ments overlooking the chasm,their conver sation turned upon the systems of govern ment they represented, and the power they respectively wielded. Finally the Czar asked the Danish monarch if he would like to have an illustration of the un questioning obedience he exacted from his subjects, and was told thatthe illus tration would not be unwelcome. There upon the Czar called to his side an oflicer attached to his suite, pointed over the battlement into the terrible gulf below, and said, " Jump !'' The oflicer turned pale, looked wonderingly up at his sovereign, who only waved his hand and repeated in a more imperious tone, "Jump! sir, jump!" Without another word the unfortunate man sprang from the wall and was dashed to pieces on the rocks below, THE NAVAL SERVICE. Happily, the time is passed when subjects are called upon to attest their fidelity by such sacrifices; yet in the military and naval services of all civilised powers there is exacted almost as servile a compliance with authority, and almost as much self-abnegation, as the faithful but unfortunate attendant of Eussia's great monarch exhibited ; and in no ser vices in the world is this subordination more complete than in the British army and navy. The English soldier has long been regarded as a mere machine, servile in obedience and patient under injustice, meekly submitting to many wrongs, with out offering even a protest against the abuse of authority. Consequently the history of the British army and navy is wonderfully barren of exciting revolts, bloody mutinies, or troublesome insubor dination. A notable exception, however, is the great mutiny in Admiral Buckner's fleet, in 1797, an event which filled the king dom with consternation, threatened the * destruction of England's supremacy on the sea*, and to overturn the whole fabric of her naval power. THE GREAT MUTINY. Daring the year 1796 and the early part of 1797, the English sailors had been petitioning Parliament for certain reforms in connection with the naval service. The action of the authorities had been tardy, and the petitioners lost patience. The financial embarrassments of the nation led to great irregularities of pay, and still farther increased the discontent. Very little attention, however, was paid to the threats of the indignant sailors, and it was thought that the prompt punishment of the boldest growlers would quell the growing discontent. However, one fine day in May, 1797, the British nation was startled by a report that Admiral Buck ner's fleet, off the Nore, .had mutinied, and. that twenty-five ships of war were in fall possession of the mutineers. The movement was so sudden, and success so complete, that for a time the Government was completely paralyzed. There was no force at hand sufficient to quell the revolt, and for several days not even a show of resistance was attempted. THE INSURGENT ORGANISATION. Meanwhile the mutineers grew bolder, and proceeded to perfect their organisa tion. For the proper government of the "captured fleet a Congress was formed, composed of two delegates from each man-of-war and one from each gunboat. The affairs of each vessel were controlled hy a committee of twelve, chosen by the crew, The Congress selected a young sailor from Admiral Buckner's flagship, the Sandwich, for President and then drew up an address to the Government, which the deposed Admiral agreed to transmit to the British Admiralty. This document set forth that the petitioners were not disloyal, but acknowledged then, as ever,.their allegiance to the King ; that their attitude of apparent hostility was only an earnest effort on their part to ob tain justice, which being granted, they woiild instantly return to duty, and his Majesty would have no more loyal or faithful subjects. The reforms they asked Were as follows: First.—An increase of pay an increase of rations, both of which they claimed to tie inadequate. Becond.—A more equal division of prize money, giving the common sailor a reason able share of the spoils of war. Third.—A speedy adjustment of all arrears and more prompt payments in the future. Fourth.—Liberty to go more frequently on shore when not on duty, and less petty tyranny on shipboard. This paper was laid before the British Admiralty, and a brief note sent in reply stating that no intercourse whatever Would be held with them so long as they maintained their present insurgent atti tude, and that unconditional submission must precede negotiations. __ . EITFOBCING THEIE CLAIMS. While all this was transpiring the fleet W<>ff ?Sheerness, and the crews were daily on g h G re, where they paraded with ttuch g how and stirring music, carrying a m flag, the usual hue of insubordination.. Un the 22nd of May, however, troops were lent to Sheerness, and the mutineers were confined to their vessels. Here they soon grewi-restless, and the Government still retusinjg to enter into any negotiations *»n them, they resolved to enforce their i sema5 eman dB. Accordingly the mutinous aeet was put in fighting trim, and Kichard farw-president of the Congress, called J° the command, when they moved down f? the mouth of the Thames, formed in "^across the channel, and announced ,v. THE BLOCKADE OP LONDON. jf ° * British vessel was permitted to Wi_- city or depart from it, but a]l at «mptingit were seized and held in the H l6 of. Parker, to Whom his followers g. given the title of ' Admiral'; the ■■■""-■ W ftT essels were given a pass signed f l «e insurgent commander, J and thus

protected, proceeded on their way. It was not long before the vessels held by Parker w.ere. enumerated by hundreds, and the metropolis was in a perfect frenzy of alarm. It was a new sensation for the British capital to be in a state of siege. But Government was still without the force necessary to compel respect for its authority ; it, however, firmly refused to hold any intercourse with the insurgents, leaving them to reflect during their in action on the terrible nature of the offence and the attitude of hostility they had as sumed against their country, the Parlia ment and the King. At this time the force of the insurgents was truly formid able, comprising not less than TWENTY-FOT7B SHIPS OF WAE,. Carrying, in the aggregate, nearly 1,000 guns, manned by fully 15,000 men ; and a short time after this they were joined by six frigates from the Tcxal, which had been sent home by Admiral Duncan for repairs. A s goon as they became aware of the reforms their shipmates were strugg ling for, they too hoisted the red flag and sent their officers on shore, with an address -demanding similar concessions. The London vessels which were detained soon formed a vast fleet, representing millions .upon millions of wealth. No violence was done to the property, but the determination was announced to hold the prizes until the Government should accede to their demands. To make sure that none should escape, the war vessels were formed into a hollow square, within which the prizes were taken, and the broadsides ci" the men-of-war turned upon them. Over 500 ships were thus guarded, THE HUTINEEES CIRCUMVENTED. Though the Government had not the means at hand to instantly crush out the mutiny, it was not entirely idle. Every buoy at the mouth of the Thames and along the coast was removod, and the insurgent vessels dared scarcely move a league from their anchorage for fear of grounding. This compelled them to in action and had a most depressing effect upon their spirits, Having nothing to do* but to reflect, they soon became exceed ingly nervous over the situation; they knew that the public opinion, the law and the power of the nation was against them, and that submission and punishment must inevitably come. Even the boldest com- Eicn^ed to weaken and cast about for some avenue whereby they might return to duty, THE BEGINNING OF THE END. The officers, who, though deprived of their arms and all command, had been re tained on board their respective ships, were , not slow in discovering this feeling, and gaveit every possible encouragement. The officers of the frigate Clyde were particu larly zealous in this, and perfected a plot with part of the crew, by which the vessel was seized on the 30th of May, the red flag oi the insurgents hauled down, and the insurgent fleet deserted. The vessel was fired upon and pursued for some distance, but finally escaped up the river. A few days after the St, Florenzo vras also car ried off by a combination of the officers with a portion of the crew, and was brought safely up to the London dock. The 4th of June was the King's birthday, and the insurgents showed their loyalty by firing salutes and giving repeated cheers for his majesty. DISINTEGRATION. On the sth of June another vessel with drew, and on the 6th Lord Northesk came on board the Sandwich, in response to an invitation from the insurgents, and Parker presented him a paper drawn up by the mutineers' Congress, setting forth the grievances and demanding redress. His lordship kindly but firmly refused to re ceive the paper, telling them that he had come hoping to carry back to his govern ment the news of their submission, but on no account could he treat with men in S mutiny against the laws, the country and tbe King. THE END. The final rejection of all offers of accom modation seems to have destroyed the last hope of the malcontents, and from that time, vessel-after vessel withdrew without objection and returned to their allegiance. On the 10th of June the hundreds of de tained merchnntmen were allowed to de part and such a fleet never entered port before by the same tide. From this mo ment the- disintegration was rapid, On the 12th only seven vessels were flying the red flag, and on the 16th every ship had been restored to the command of its proper officers, and the crews were glad to return to duty. Thus was this most remarkable mutiny inaugurated and maintained for four weeks, almost within sight of the turrets of Windsor, and for the first time in her history was the .Brit ish, metropolis blockaded. THE EINGLEADEB AEEESTED. Parker returned to his former position on the Sandwich, but on the 20th of June a file of soldiers from the fort at Sheerness came on board, and the insurgent chief was taken into custody. On the 24th a Uourt-martial was convened. Vice-Ad miral Sir Thos. Paisley presiding. Par ker conducted his own defence, and ac quitted himself with much ability. The line of argument he adopted was—that the situation he held was in a measure forced upon him; that he had only con sented to assume it in the hope of being able to restrain the men from excesses; that he had so restrained them ; owing to his stringent orders not a hundred pounds worth of property had been destroyed fay the mutineers; had he been disloyal, he said he might have taken the ships to sea or carried them into the enemies ports, for which a dazzling reward had been offered. He admitted that technically he might be guilty, but the purity of his purposes ought to furnish some pahation of his offence. But tne Government showed that he bad formally issued an order assuming command of the insurgent ships, that he had addressed the Govern ment in that capacity, and that as he had zone from ship to ship of the fleet he had been attended by his staff and received with cheers and all honors due to exalted rank, and after a brief deliberation he was sentenced to die at the yard-arm of the. Sandwich in presence of the whole fleet. his" dying declabations. When his doom was announced he stood up and said- " I shall submit to your sentence with all due respect, being confident of the innocence of my inten tions and that God will receive me^wi h favor, I sincerely hope that my dea h maybe the means of restoring tranquillity to the navy, and that those men who have been implicated in this business may be restored to their positions and again De come serviceable to their country, i

' wish further to say that the reforms the insurgents desired are eminently just, though I, 'with every other loyal citizen, regret the mode selected for their accomp lishment.' On the morning of the 30th of June the yellow flag, the sign*! of death, was hoisted on the Sandwich, The whole fleet was ranged around the death-ship, their crews piped to the forecastle, and at 9 o'clock the unhnppy prisoner was brought on deck. He was pale but com posed, and as he passed his messmates he said : " Good-by to you, boys. I sincerely hope my death may be deemed a sufficient atonement for you all." Just before the rope was adjusted he handed to an officer a letter to his wife and his will j conveying to her some property in Scot land ; after which he was hauled up and died almost without a struggle. A SAD EOMANCE. But there is a sad romance connected with this tragedy which is more interest ing than the tragedy itself. Parker's young wife resided in Scotland, and when she heard that the Sheerness fleet had mutinied under the lead of Richard Parker, she had no doubt that the insur gent chief. was her husband, and she instantly departed for London, believing his arrest was certain, and hoping to save him from the vengeance of the law. On her arrival in London she learned that her husband had been tried and con demned/ She hastened to a notary, paid a guinea for having a petition for a commutation properly prepared, and sought to present it to the king, was obliged to give it to a lord in waiting, who, on .learning for what purpose it was intended, coolly advised ber not to waste any more time or money in that effort, for no power on earth could save the BOLD MUTINEER. She then went with all possible haste to Sheerness, where she learned that her husband was to be hung at 9 o'clock the next morning. At an early hour she began to search for means to get on board the Sandwich, and it was nearly 9 before she succeeded. Then she was not per mitted to come within 200 yards, but was liear enough to see her husband as he cama on deck on his on his way to exe cution, She became wild with grief, and stretching out her hands cried,' Bichard ! Itichard !Oh ; my husband!' and fell senseless. The doomed man heard the wail, and said to one of the officers; ' There is my poor wife from Scotland ! Can I see her, if but for one moment ?' No reply was made, but the work of death was hurried forward, and in a few mo ments the unhappy man was beyond the reach of worldly sorrow. DEATH AND BUEIAL. On recovering from her long swoon the poor woman was informed of the sad termination, and also ledrned that the body had just been sent on shore for burial in the new Naval Cemetery. She hastened to the cemetery, but found the ceremony over and the gale locked, and she was refused admittance to the inside of the inclosure. Moved to desperation by a rumour that the surgeons would probably carry the body off that night for dissection, she determined to thwart tnem ; she waited around the cemetery until dark, when she climbed over the wall, and found the new-made grave, which proved exceedingly shallow. THE BODY EXHUMED. She was not long in scraping away the earth which covered the simple coffin, the lid of which was soon removed and she had the corpse in her arms. Her first intention was to stay by the grave and protect it from the threatened desecration ; but she now determined to remove the body altogether. Accordingly she com municated her purpose to two or three women whose acquaintance she had formed, and with their help the body was token from the grave, carried over the wall, put in a cart and started for London. She arrived there at 11 o'clock at night > but having no acquaintances in the city was compelled to take the body to a pub lic house. After much difficulty she suc ceeded in getting it to her room, and wept over it until morning. THE EXCITEMENT IN LONDON. ■ But her secret could no longer be kept ia such a place, and particularly as the news of the exhumation had been brought to the city by the express, and was the talk of the town. The fact was soon known, and the house was soon sur rounded by an immense crowd, anxious to look npon the body of the noted mutineer whose boldness and sincerity the populace now began to respect. The excitement hourly increased, the populace began to cheer the late mutineer and deride the authorities, when the Lord Mayor called upon Mrs. Parker, who was watching over her dead, and de manded to know what disposition she intended to make of the remains. The poor woman replied that she only wanted to give them a decent burial, and his Lordship promised that all necessary aid would be given to enable her to carry out her wish.

Mrs. Parker took up her residence near the place of burial, and for some years de rived a comfortable support from the small property left by her husband. But she was subsequently deprived of that by a decision of the Courts, which for some cause de clared her title invalid. She was therefore thrown upon her own resources ; partial blindness soon followed, incapacitating her for work, and she was ultimately compelled to go upon the streets ar.d solicit aid from the charitable. In 1806—forty years after her heroic struggle for the possession of her husband's bjdy—a communication in the London ' Times' called public attention to her necessities, and a fund of £500 was quickly raised to render her last years com fortable, the British monarch, William IV, himself contributing £50. The brave but unfortunate woman died in 1842.

Fact foe the Faculty.— Young Splint M.E.0.5., accounts for the smallness of his practice in this way. He has lost severa patients, he says, because his stanch Conserva tive principles never allow him to effect a Radical cure. . ' -..'... < A pair of tights.-r-Two drunkards. To keep warm. —Keep the furnace coaled. A ■woman lecturer says that man's inhuman ly to man oannot compare in severity with woman's " inhuwomanity " to woman. A barber once headed his advertisement with the following parody on'Goldsnaith :r*r 1 Man wants but little heard below/ : I ; Nor wants that little Igng.

The Golden Side.

There is many a rest on the road of life, If we only would stop to lake it; And many a (oho from the better land, If. the querulous .heart would wake it. To the sunny soul that is full of hope, And whose beautiful trust ne'er faileth, The grass is green and the flowers are bright, Though the wintry storm prevaileth. Eet'er to hope though the clowdshang low, And to keep the eyes ttill lifted: For the sweet blue sky will soon peep through, When the ominous clouds are rifted. There was never a night without a day, Nor an evening without a morniijg; Ar.d the darkest hour, the proverb goes, Is the hour before the dawning. There is many a gem in the path of life, Which we pass in our idle pleasure, That is richer far tlan the jewelled crown, Or the miser's hoarded treasure; It may be the love of a little child, Or a mother's prayer to Heaven, Or only a beggar's grateful thanks For a cup of cold water given. Better to weave in the web of life A bright and golden filling, And to do Clod's will with a ready heart, And hands that arc swift and willing, Than to snap the delicate silver threads Of our cuiious lives assunder ; A.nd then Hoav'n blame for the tangled ends, And sit to grieve and wonder.

Matrimony in America.

In ideal matrimony the husband and wife are not absorbed into each other by any means. They remain totally separate individuals, with their own aims, desires, and lovcb, bub blending as it were into one whenever* union is necessary. The wife in this marriage iB no slave or toy of her husband, but his equal, companion, friend, and adviser, inspirer, stimulator, and even agitator. Him she meets with open, frank eyes, rot in the tmrbarouß fashion of Western Europe abashed and sub missive ; and him she leads on to a higher and nobler life, not administering to his base material comforts and ease, but urging him ever onward and upward. The ideal husband, knowing her to be his equal in every respect, mental and moral, naturally regards her with the deeper veneration that sho is physically his inferior. This ideal condition, according to the account of many foreign observer?, ac tually exists somewhere in this country — where, we have never seen stated, but prob ably not in Connecticut, Indiana or Illinois. — The Galaxy.

A Danbury Spelling School.

An impromptu spelling school was inaugurated in Merrill's grocery, Saturday evening. A young man who, last winter, aided Mr. Conch in the management of the North Centre school, conducted the class. The first word he gave out was Indian. The first man said, 'I-n, in, d-i-n din —Indin.' The teacher shook his head. ' "Well, I declare, I thought I had it,' said the speller, with keen disappointment; but he picked up when the second man started, and eyed him with consider able anxiety. The next man, with desperate earnestness, said, ' i-n in, d-e, de, inde, u-n, vn —Indeun.' Then he sighed, and gazed anxiously at the teacher, while an old party at the cud of the bench, who was watching tho efforts with derisive arausemen , turned the quid in his mouth and said : ' You ain't in a rod on't; but go on ; let's sum more try.' The teacher told the second speller he also had failed, whereupon he sighed again. Then the third man took hold. He squared himself upon his seat, and holding up one finger, ticked off the letters, with becoming solemnity, as follows : ' I-n, in, d-d-d-a da, mda — i-n, in—lndain.' The old party on the end of the bench, who had been on the precipice of a laugh while this effort was being put forth, snickered right out in a loud guffaw at its conclusion. ' Well, that's a spell for you, I mus' say.' And then he Jaughed again. The speller said .nothing, but he grew very red in the face when his failure , was announced, and cast a baleful glance at the old party, whose turn had now come, and who said: ' Tou people should keep away from Oheo, you should. And now I'll tackle that little word,' and he smiled all over his face, while his eyes twink- j led with merriment, and looking side ways from one to the other, he rapidly spelled: . j • I-n in, g-i-n, Ingin.' His smile deepened into a broad grin as he watched the chagrin flush to the countenances of the other spellers, who ■ had been misled all the time on a wrong pronunciation of the word. He was . grinning with all his might when the teacher said : . 1 You ain't got the right word.' • WJi-ah-ot ?' and he bore down on the brazen-faced young man a look calculated to freeze him to the bone. ' Indian is the word. 'There is no such word as Ingin,' said the teacher. 1 Oh, there isn't, hey ? (sarcastically) You know of course. You know 'all about it, you pimply—' ' But my dear sir, I—' /You needn't apologise to me.' shouted the old party, stamping the floor with his cane. ' Who be you, any way, putting on, your airs about me ? I could twist your scrawny neck off of you in two minutes, you white-livered puppy, you. 7 'But, my dear sir, let me ex -' 'It tisn't Ingin, is it ?' ground out the old chap between his teeth. ' It's somethin' else, I suppose. Oh, yes ! you know, oi course. And a nice one you are with your eddication. Why don't your mother send back them apples she borrowed a month ago ?' and he looked around the store with a triumphant glare of sarcasm. . ~*But just hear me—— ', ''■' *

'Hear you! "Who are you, any way ? W "hat's your father ; when's he drawed a sober breath. I'd like to know ? An' whero's your smart brother Ben ? In pris'n somewhere, I'll be bound. Oh, I know }'er hull family like a book. And a wuss lot than they are can't be found in this neighborhood, and you just put that in your pipe and smoke it, you egregious ass. Talk to one about spellin,' and the old man, stamping his cane again, stalked passionately out of the store 'lhe lesson was then postponed.— Danbury News.

Jim Fenton on the Parable of the Ten Talents,

'I don't know nothin' 'bout it,' said Jim, at the conclusion' ' but ifc seems to me the man was a little rough on the feller with one talent. Twas a mighty small capital to start with, an' he didn't give 'im any chance tJ try it over; but what bothers me most is about the man's trav'lin' into a fur country. They hadn't no chance to talk with 'im about it, and git his notions. It stan's to reason that the feller with one talent would think his master was stingy, and be riled over it.' ' You must remember, Jim, that all he needed was to ask for wisdom in order to receive it,' said Mr, Benedict.

•Ho ; the man that travelled into a fur country stan's for the Almighty, and he'd got out o' the way. He'd jest gin these fellers his capital, and quit, and left 'em to go ifc alone. They couldn't go arter 'im, and he couldn't'a'hearn a word they said. He did what he thought was all right, and didn't want to be bothered. I never think about prayin' till I git into a tight place. It sian's to reason that the Lore don't want people comin* to him to do things that "they can do theirselves. I shouldn't pray for breath ; I sh'd jest hist the •win der. If I wanted a bucket o' water, I sh'd go for it. If a man's got common sense, and a pair o' hands, he hain't no business to be bofherin' other folks till he gits into what he can't git out of. When he's squeezed, then, in cours.e he'll squeal. It seems to me that ifc makes a sort of a spooney of a man to be always askin' for what he can't git if he tries. If the fel ler that only had one talent had brushed round, he could 'a' made a spec on it, an' had somethin' to show fur it, but he jest hid it. I don't stan' up for him. I think he was meaner nor pusly not to make the best on't, but ho didn't need to pray for sense,.for the man didn't want 'im to use no more nor his nateral stock, an' he knowed if he used that, he'd be all right.'

' But we are told to pray, Jim,' said Mr. Balfour, ' and assured that it is plea sant to the Lord to receive our petitions. We are even told to pray for our daily bread.'

1 Well it can't mean jest that, fur the fel ler that don't work fort don't git it, an' he hadn't oughter git it. If he don't lift his hands, but jest sets with his mouth open, he gets mostly flies. The old birds, with a nest full o' howlin' young ones, might go on, I s'pose, pickin' up grasshoppers till the cows come home, an' feedin' 'em, but they don't. They jest poke 'em out o' the nest; an' lam 'em to fly an' pick up their own livin'; and that's what makes birds of 'em. They pray mighty hard fur their daily bread, I tell ye, aud the way the old birds answer is jest to poke 'em out, and let 'em slide. I don't see many prayin' folks, an' I don't see many folks anyway ; but I have a consait that a fel ler can pray so much an' do so little, that he" won't be nobody. He'll jest grow weaker an' weaker all the time.'

Lassoing a Porker,

The Effect of Reading one of Mayne Heid's Novels.

I itEMEHBER him as a very thin boy, with light hair. His principal fault was that he was too easily influenced. He gained certain hazy and indistinct ideas in regard to lassoing wild horses by reading one of Mayne J-ieid's books. His name was " Ned " Strong. His proposed method of lassoing a wild horse was as follows :—First, he would mount a noble, well-trained steed, with a rope twelve feet long in his hand. This rope would have a noose in one end of it, and, after a long chase upon a foaming charger, he would at last throw that noose over the head of a wild horse, and so have him fast —lassoed. So he bought twelve feet of clothes-line and began to practice at lassoing by throwing the noose over a horse-post ten feet off. In a week he could lasso a horse-post every time. Having heard that the pen was mightier than the sword, he went out into the pig-pen and practised lassoing the pigs. By the end of an other week he could catch a pig on the run every time. At this time JN ed was only fourteen years old. He weighed eighty seven pounds. One day he^aw an enormous porker rooting on the village "green." Ned tied the lasso tightly to his wrist, and thea he determined to lasso that porker or perish in the attempt. As the reader will soon see, he came near perishing, for.no sooner did the creature feel the noose drop over its neck than it started for the open country with a speed that was entirely beyond Ned's control. Ned pulled, back as hard as he could, but he might as well have tried to stop the momentum of an ox. The rope was so securely tied to his wrist that he could not release himself, and it was entirely impossible for him to cut the rope, as he was prating along at a high rate of speed. He was taking long., involuntary Steps—very long in deed. It was a forced run. The porker dragged Ned through a mud puddle, and then made for a swamp, evidently terror-stricken, and laboring under the. delusion that ISfed was a tin can; However, the rope finally slipped from his wrist, and he landed wrong side up in a slough of

soft mud. The porker kept on with, a terror-stricken eye, and is probably going yet. An eighty-seven pound man cannot lasso a four huudred pound hog. with out coming to the conclusion that he has mistaken his calling.

Civil Rights Resisted.

AN EPISODE IN" NEW OKLEANS

" So totj have broken up your circus; how did that happen ? ;>

"Well, sir, all of us boys had got leave to have our circus in the yard. We had a door-keeper at the alley gate, and charged two pins a ticket, but we didngt allow no dead-heads; only if a nurse brought a baby we didn't charge for the baby. All of us was blacked, some sung, some played on the bones, some were horses, and I was clown." "You must have made a nice clown.'' " I did that; all the boys said I was bully. Then we had a dog that could stand on his hind feet and march like a soldier, and he jumped through the hoop too. The house —that in, the yard—was crowded, and we struck two papers of pins every time. We got better and better, plenty of growed up people come, and we was making a first-rate season, you bet." " Why did you quit ? Did you quarrel among yourselves ?" " Oh, no; we was all friends and divided the pins equal. We didn't have no stars to take all and leare us to pay for the candles. No, sir." " What was the matter, then ?" " Well, sir, I'll tell you. You know Atmt Marget? J^o of course you don't. Well, she's a big, fat colored woman, with five or six ragged and dirty little children. She lives in a gallery room and could look down if she wanted to ; but she wasn't satisfied with a gallery seat, leastwise her chil , dren wasn't. They come around and tried to get into the circus with the | white people, through the old bagging, you know, we had on one side. "Well, the door-keeper asked them ten pins; but that was only an excuse you knovv', and they didn't have any ten pins, and so they had to go away. But Aunt Margaret she heard all from the gallery, and she came down in the greatest rage. She says,' What you mean, you white trash, by 'fusin to let my chillun into you show? I'm good as you, and dey is as good as you; and de law is made for dem as well as for you, an' you ain't so pitched white yourselves, for you has gone and blacked your face to ekalize yourself with a nigger1'" "We said we wasn't gtfin' to let no colored persons in without they paid up ten pins at the door. Then Aunt Margaret came down from the gallery and put her hands on her hips, just so. fche said, 'Look, a here white boys, is you gwine to let my chillun in ? I'm livin' here, I pays my rent an' you is on my primissis, and Pm titled to se all dat comes into dis yard. I'm on the free liss, I am, an' dese chillun is too. Now, I just want to know if they can come in on the free liss or no. I ask you once.' We got mad and said we would't allow no nigger 3, without they went up to the gallery. Then she says,' I ask you twice.' One of the riders cursed her, and one of the horses threw an oyster shell at her head, the says, £I ask you three times,' but she didn't wait for an answer. She just run at the bagging that was propped up. She knocked over the box and scattered the pins. She stuck her|old woolly head through the papered hoop that was just ready for the dog, and in less then three minutes she had broke up everything and ruined our dressing room and al our properties. We pitched into her, of course, and her little barkey. The horses and riders and the clown, and the dog barked and run around, and some of the people helped us; but she made a bully fight, though we tore off a heap of her clothes, and she fell back .fighting and abusing us, and screaming for the police and the soldiers, and her children screamed too. We didn't mean to hurt them bad, you know, but we were real mad, I tell you that. So she got back on the gallery, and the children got there too, and when we saw her coming out with a bucket of slop, we fell back into the alley, for we didn't want our clothes ruined. So we all came away; but if the boys catch her or any of her brats around we'll give 'em fits for breaking up our circus." " Uan't you have it some Jwhere else?" :" "We haven't got anythingjto havelit with, without it's us and the dog. But we'll put it up again; but there shan't no niggers come in, not for a hundred pins. They would ruin any show." "But I saw you playing marbles with a darkey the other day." " Why of course, we couldif t make up the game without him-; besides, he had a pocket full of alleys that we wanted to win of him. But a circus is very different."— New Orleans Republi can. .-- ':•:: '■::'-: ':■"■:■[ '

An Oethodos CoNGßEeuTiow.—'How is your church, getting on?' asked a friend of a rigorous- Scotchman, ■who had separated in turn from the Kirk, the Free Church, the United Presbyterian, and several lesser bodies. 'Pretty weel. There's nobody be • longs to it now but my brother and myself and I'm nae sure of Sandy's soundness.' A captain in the navy, on meeting a friend as he landed, boasted that he had left his whole ship's company the happiest fellows in the world. ' How so ?' asked his friend, ' Why I have just flogged seventeen, and they are happy it is over; and all the test are happy that they, have egcaped.'

Our life is but a pupp ;t show, Men raeie mechanic factors, And rich aud poor, tni high and low, Involuntary actors. Clowns, courtiers, statesmen, serfs and kings, The wicked and the pious, We all are tvork'd by secret springs, And move as others ply us.

And yet vain man ; he deems his course Is by himself decided; Because he cannot see the force By which bis mind is guided ; But soon or later he 'will see That, like his wooden brothers, He's ever been aud still must be, A puppet ruled by others. Just mark the maid of seyenteen, When first the gentle dreamer, Uunconcions what llio mood may mean, Peck love's delicious tromor ; What secret power unknown before, Can thus so sweetly sway her? She's bub a puppet, nothing more, And Cupid is the player. .. Observe yon alderman so grand, How shrewdly nnd how neatly His wife, the young coquette, has plann'd To rule the man completely! Perhaps n spark of jealous fire Within the puppet lingers, I^only know the moving'wire, Is held in Madam's fiugers.

And so it is with all mankind, The womankind befool us, We're only puppets deaf aud blind, And herb the heart to rule us ; We laugh and cry and work and play, According to her fancies ; What e'er the lady's whim may say, Just so the puppet dances. —A. M; N. Hobson Street.

Flashes of Fun.

The man who was driien to distraction had to walk back. ' I hate to bear people talk behind one's back,' as the robber said when the constable called, 'Stop thief!' A barrister observed to a learned brother in court, the other day, that the wearing of whiskers was 'unprofessional. ' Sight,' re: plied hia friend, ' a lawyer cannot be too barefaced.' What is the difference between water and time ? —Water finds its own level, while time levels everything else. A blacksmith brought up hh son, to whom he was very severe, to his trade. One day tho old man was trying to harden a cold chisel, which he had made of foreign steel, but he could not succeed. 'Horsewhip it father,' exclaimed the young one; 'ifthat will not harden it, I don't know what will.' Mrs. Dobbs, upon being summoned to 'court as a witness, asked her husband what; she should say if the lawyers inquired her age. ' Say, madam ?' replied her husband, ' why, tell them you have not yet reached the yeara of discretion.' An Irishman attending the University of Edinburgh waited upon one of the most cele brated teachers o£ the German flute, desiring to know on what terms lie would give him a few lessons. The flute-player informed him that he generally charged two, guineas forth^ first mouth, and one for the second. 'Then sure,' replied the cunning Hibernian, ' I'll come in the second month.' Seemons and Salutations. A good ser mon is like a kiss —it requires but two heads and a little application. 'Oh ! Nanny, wilt thou gang, wi' me ?' as the fellow said when he was trying to steal the goat. The amusing performances of some of the lucky .Australian diggers, who never possessed property before, are scarcely credible. The best story we have heard is of a digger who came down with £700, and paid a man Bs. a day as his companion to spend it. A Good Shot. Two passengers coming down the Mississipi in a steamboat, were amusing themselves with shooting birds on shore from the deck. Some sporting con verse ensued. One remarked that he would turn his back to no man in killing racoons— that he had repeatedly shot fifty a day. ' What o' that, said a Kentuckian, I make nothing of killing a hundred 'coon a day, ordinary luck.' 'Do you know Captain Scott of our State ?' asked a Tonnessean bystander, ' he, now, is something like a shot. A hun dred 'coon ! why he never pints at one with out hitting him. He never misses, and the 'coon knew it. T'other day he levelled at an old 'un, in a high tree ; the varmint looked at him a minute, and then bawled out, ' Halloo, Cap'n Scott! is that you?' 'Yes,'waßthd reply. 'Well, pray don't shoot, I'll come down to you—l'll give in—l'm dead beat.'' A scholar of Dr. Bushby's coming into the parlour where the doctor had laid a fine bunch of grapes for his own eating, teok it up. and said aloud, ' I publish the banns between these grapes and ray mouth; if any one knows any just cause or impediment why these two should not be joined together, let them now declare it.' The doctor being in, the next room, overheard all that was said, and coming into school, he ordered the boy who had eaten his grapes to be taken up, or as they called it, horsed on another boy's back; but before he proceeded to the ÜBual discipline, he cried out aloud, as the delin quent had done ; I publish the banns between my rod and this boy's breech, if any one knows any just cause or impediment why these two should not be joined together, let them declare it.' 'I forbid the banns,'cried the boy. ' Why so ?' said the doctor. *' Be cause the parties are not agreed,'replied the boy, which answer so pleased the doctor, who loved to find any readiness of wit in his scholars, that he ordered the boy to be set down. CotraTiNa m Russii. —Courting has all the zest of extreme difficulty surrounding it. At a ball, the papas and mammas attend their daughters, watching them with unceasing vigilance.: A young gentleman approaches, selects his partuer and whirls away in the Mazurka. Its rapid violent exercise doeßn't permit the whispering of those sweet phrases which make half the attraction of our Ameri can waltzing. Fancy this, now; ' M-hy-dar hiling Nehellie ; I-am-so-ha-apy to be ne-near yo-hou!' delivered in spasmodic panting, while the fair one, with her whole energies concentrated on her steps, would gasp out a suitable reply. Touching, isn't it ? Making love that way would be objectionable, and as soon as the dance is over mademoiselle must be conducted back, to her chaperon. A veteran says that, although his clerks are very talkative during the day, they are always ready to shut up at night. . In response to an inquiry, 'How shall 1 keep my husband at home in the evenings ? the reply is made, 'Take a club and try to drive him oat.' When the crowded omnibus drives up to a fine three-story mansion, one of the young women, getting out invariably and artlessly remarks, ' Home at last!' An impudent adventurer having married en heiress, a wit remarked that the bridegroom'! brass was outshone by the bride's tin, .. .