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VOLUME XXV.
"WISDOM. JUSTICE AN-D MODERATION.*’
ROME, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 27, 1871.
NEW SERIES-NO 38.
igsjgragggS^r
(Harpold & Hillyer,
are offering a large
And Beautiful Stock of
MADE CLOTHING,
may exhibition.
The exhibition for May will take place
on Tuesday next. The last one was a suc
cess. Wc have no doubt but wbat the
next one will be more largely attended, and
that a larger collection of fruits, vegetables
and flowers will be on exhibition than be-
fore. It will afford every citizen an oppor
tunity to sec and examine the different va
rieties and learn which is the best and
most profitable to cultivate, also the man
ner of cultivating them.
No one can attend those exhibitions who
desires light and knowledge on this sub
ject but what will learn something that
will be of profit to them. Come one come
all and do what you can.
Of these monthly exhibitions the Mari
etta Journal says:
These Monthly Fairs properly conducted
are calculated to bo of the most beneficial
results, they excite generous rivalry and
serve as a stimulus to our Agriculturists in
the improvement of their stock and farms.
Ideas are gathered here and disseminated
that are worth to the farmer and country
fully as much as that many dollars.
s or by tbe Single Garment, at prioes that
must suit the closest buyers.
I Shirts ana Drawers.
I lr ,>i filing Shirt is as ossensial to a man's
good fitting coat. We have arrgnge-
with ono of the best manufactures in N.
t Tewill take your measure, order your Shirts
Iii* to order, and guarantee satisfaction. We
ia stock a large assortment of White Shirts,
fsU Calico Shirts, Lisle thread and Gauze
I tiler Shirts
J uim‘3 Linen IlM'k’fs, Tie3 and Bows; Gent
|iii!e thread and British A Hose; Gent’s Collars,
nd Suspenders; Gent’s fin custom made
| He AND SHOES.
HATS, HATS!
lLarge Stock of Cloths Cassimers and Linens,
for Tants or Suits.
Feare Agents for
PRINCETON MANUFACTURING CO.,
Athens, Ga.,
i 1 »fJj as for the
GEORGIA MANUFACTURING CO..
Athens, Ga.
I jts Mills raako Shirting, Sheeting, Osnabergs,
r:;es. Plains, and Cotton Yarns, which we
jaictee as good us any other make in the
ia. All of which we sell by the PACKAGE,
i'.S:hdfa:ttirers prices.
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8 York Tribune, writes: “J. Ball, of
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B> r yi°yd County, Ga., is
LhEN PLEDGER, Cava Spring.
fli lSty.« m A ' MIZE > Cedar Town, Polk Co.
“tort,.
Land
CEDAR VALLEY
FOR SALE.
iHKsubsc,
from 1 u r : uor ^ s °u place, three-fourths ol
a*Uins 700 „„ :ir , ToWQ for sale. The place
l i,r Valiev ?! !o,“ s g? od land as there is in
y-ted ln n ,i''ff •*> the net profits, from th.
l,rs Per ln cotton, was forty-eight
«<M c'au 11' Tbe P !sce « admirsbly water-
S b0 diTidcd «th two or
" ■ I.-.. ;.There is an excellent two story
^■opuhT! f nme , r »o»». well finished—an
nJl Scr« fv 0 ,? out boilings, a good Gin
l»r re nt ?’ “, d , e, « hl or ni “» comfortable
pl T df any one is willing to pay
Irade. FAIR PEICE for G0 °I> LAND,
S''h arc k n 0 < 'r, 0 ,', balf . t he amount that lands,
Vdley 0 “otter, have recently sold for in
^ , 'l'23t»: lrtf HIRAM PHILLIPS.
Straw
and Shacks for Sale
T ~ AT ~
^tkia?* ALISON’S.
THE LATEST NEWS.
FOREIGN.
The Prussians are about to interpose in
the Paris troubles, and havesentan ultima
tum to tho Commune. They are approv
ing Paris and will attack it unless the Com
mune acceeds to their demands.
In the German Parliament, the question
of State Rights is likely to produce some
little wrangling. Quite a stormy debate
was before the Reichstag on the right of
members to enquire iuto the a-ts of the
government.
A magazine explosion in the avanue
Tracadera, on the n'.ght of the 17th, killed
600 persons.
The following is the conclusion of Grant's
Ku-Klux order from the war department.
“The President directs that whenever oc
casion shall arise, the regular forces of the
United States stationed in the vicinity of
any locality where offe»ces, described by
tho Act approved April 20lh. 1871, may
be committed, shall, in strict accordance
with the provisions of the said Act, be em
ployed by their commanding officers in as
sisting the authorized civil outhorities of
tho United States in making arrests of per
sons accused under tbe said Act, in preven
ting the rescue of persons arrrested for such
cause, in breaking up and dispercing bands
of disguised marauders and of armed organ
izations against the peace and quiet of the
lawful pursuits of the citizens in any State.
Whenever troops are employed in the
manner indicated in this order, the com
manding officer will, at the earliest oppor
tunity, make a full report of his oppera-
tions to the proper superior authority.”
Horace Greely is in New Orleans. He
made a speech before the American Union
Club night before last^in which he said.
“This is my first" visit to the South. I
came here with a heart devoted to the good
of all the people. They are not my ene
mies now who were six or eight years ago.
I bear hatred t> no one. He believed the
bast men should ocupy the best places, with
out any reference to bygones. The spirit
which necessitated the exclusion of some
men from tee ballot-box no longer exists.
He opposed disfranchisement, as it was no
longer a necessity. There would not have
been a Ku-Klux in the land now if there
had been general amnesty five years ago.;
it would have united the people and healed
the wounds produced by the war; for that
he had struggled, and the time was not far
distant when every American would have
his fair sayat the ballot box, andthe major
ity rule.”
And now when the old rascal gets back,
he will swear that the Ku Klux made him
talk so prettily.
The following nomination were sent to tho
Senate on t' e IStli.
Wm. A. Pile, Minister to Venezuela;
Willard Warner, of Alabama, Governor of
New Mexico; James R. Partrige, Mary
land, Minister to Brazil; Siegel, Collector
of Ninth New York; Commodore B. F.
Sands, Rear Admiral; Captain Reed Wor
den, Commodore; Capt. Stephen D. Treu-
chari, Commodore.
By them it will be seen that Alabama's
carpet hag, Senator Warner, has been provi
ded for, and it is now to be hoped that no
further opposition will he had to the seating
of Senator Goldthwait.
Negtocs are now making it quite profita
ble, traveling for the purpose of being eject
ed from the white cirs. In the United
States Court at Richmond on the ISth, Jas.
Simms, a colored member of the Georgia
Legislature, obtained a verdict for one
thousand eight hundred dollars damages
against the Richmond, Fredrickburg and
Potomac Railroad Company for ejecting
him from the white people’s cabin, of tho
steamer Key Port, between Washington
and Richmond.
If instead of putting the impudent
scoundrels off, a few bullets wore put in
their necks it would teach them a lesson of
manners and propriety that would put a
stop to such suits as the above.
ALABAMA NEWS.
The Taladega Mountain Home says:
The late heavy rains lave thrown the far
mers badly behind.”
Charley Gamble, a Talledega suffrage
slingcr and Pelham law adjuster ventila
ted his wife’s skull with an axe a few days
ago. He is now on his way (o San Do
mingo, and Pelham’s jury material is one
is.
Selma is complaining of dost.
Talladega is running a debating society.
The discussion last night was looked for
ward to with great interest.
Tue judge Didn’t See it.—Ben Plant
one of the rioters engaged in beating A J.
Baxter som .• time ago, offered t /plead guil
ty if Judge Saffold would agree to sentence
him to the shortest time prescribed by the
law. The Judge did not see proper to
thus compromise tbe claims of justice and
very properly decliued the plee.
Ben thinks that a jury will not do him
justice and moved for a change of venue.
His co-rioters are now being tried one of
whom, Charles West, wa3, sentenced to
the penetenliary for 20 years. A just sen
fence.
The Marietta Journal says;
Negro labor is becoming so unreliable,
that a few of out countymen are making
efforts to introduce into our’ county, Swe
dish immigrants.
The last Grand Jury of Taliaferro connty
“went for the District Court as follows:
We join heartily in sentiment with the
Grand Juries of many eountes in the State,
iu reprobating the action of the last Legis
lature iu forming a “District Court.” ~ I
is a political blister that is calculated to
draw the body of tho people to emaciation
and pain, while to the drawers fatness and
joy is promised in its administration to a
well known party power. - We trust the
next Legislature will repeal the act.
GEORGIA.
Ou Tuesday last Mis; I’racina Douprec,
of Athens, was married to a Mr. McCalla,
of South Carolina.
Hanleiter’s City Directory estimates the
amount of sales in Atlanta, daring the past
year, at twenty-five million dollars.
Tho Landcrdalc Orphans gave perform'
ances in Athens on Saturday night; Greens
boro Monday night; Madison Tuesday
night, and Covington Wednesday night.
The Savannah News says :
On Monday night, or ratter Tuesday
morning, about 1 o’clock, a German named
John Hogan, who works at a guano manu
factory near the city, on the Louisville
Road, was returning frem a visit to town,
where he bad been on husiness, when about,
a hundred yards beyond the canal bridge,
he was rushed upon by five negroes, who,
in the darkness of the night, knocked him
down, and to make sure against resistance,
beat him very severely afterward, robbin
him of about fifty dollars, all the money he
had abont him.
Beforo he became insensible, he recog
nized, in the darkness, two of the robbers
to he laborers at thb manufactory, and sup
posed that they were aware of his having
gone to the city intending to return, and
that he had moDcy about him.
Thu police were attracted to the spot, and
on their arrival they found the man in a
suffering condition. He was immediately
removed to the Barracks, and on yesterday
morning was taken to the luuse of some of
hi? friends ic the city, and medical aid pro
cured. No arrest or discovery of the rob
bers has yet been made.
The Chronicle & Sentinel says :
The trial of Bowen for bigamy will com
mence in Washington on the 23d of this
moi th. As our readers well know, lie lad
a trial last winter in one of his eases, and
the jury wa3 discharged because they were
unable to agree.
What tee result of tho next trial will
be no one can tell. He certainly, however,
will not be acquitted because there is a
scarcity of positive evidence of his guilt.—
Tho principal witnesses against him are
from Augusta, and they expect to !cavc for
Washington city on Saturday next. Among
the witnesses from Augusta are Chief of
Police, Christian; Judge Levy, Ordinary of
tho county; Seargont Hicks, of the Police
Force and Mrs. Bowen.
Professor W. W. Lumpkin, of Athens,
has been invited to deliver the literary ad
dress at the commencement exercises of the
Masonic Female College, at Covington, in
June.
Mr. Oscar Ulmer, who lives some 5 or C
miles from Savannah, was run over on Fri
day, near tint city, by the down day pas
senger train from Macon, and his legs
dreadfully mangled. Amputation was re
sorted to, but he died on the next day.
On Monday, at Savannah, Gen. Henry
L. Benning was rc-admitted as a member
of the bar of the United States Circuit
Cjurt.
The Atlanta Constitution says : Judge
Hopkins, yesterday, sentenced Dr. Harri
son Westmoreland to tho penitentiary for
ten years. Dr. Westmoreland’s counsel
have moved for a new trial, and the Judge
has suspended the sentence until the mo
tion can be heard. Should a new trial be
refused, we learn from some of the counsel
that they intend to carry the case up to the
Supreme Court,
The Atlanta Constitution says ’ Last
night a brilliant wedding came off at Ath
ens. Hines M. Smith (son of Bill Arp) of
Rome, was united in marriage to Miss Sal-
lie Sparks, of Athens.
A. C. ’Hodgson, of Athens, has been
nominated as midshipman at the United
States Naval School at Annapolis, by Hon.
W. P. Price, M. C., from the Sixth Dis
trict, ou the recommendation of the Uni
versity of Atliens, as “the most meritorious
student iu the University.”
The farmers of Heard county are com
plaining of too much rain.
Of the proceedings of the Atlanta and Sa
vannah Railroad meeting, recently held in
Savannah, the News says :
A large and enthusiastic meeting of citi
zens assembled in the Theatre yesterday, to
consider the proposition ol taking a half mil
lion of dollars worth ot stock in the Atlanta
and Savannah Railroad. It will be reon by
reading our report of the proceedings pub
lished in this morning’s paper, that many of
our prominent citizens, large real estate own
ers, and others, participated actively in the
discussion of the subject. AU of the proba
ble advantages and disadvantages to Savan
nah were ably presented, and routes west
ward dosely compared.
The final result of the meeting was a de
termination to submit the matter to a vote of
the people, which is ordered to take place on
the 25th inst, when all of our citizens will
have an opportunity of passing upon the pro
jected enterprise, so far as Savannah is con
cerned. In the meantime let the intellgent
examine fully all the facts, and satisfy them
selves as to the feasibility of the proposition.
Cartersvillc is luxuriating in hchnrch scan
dal, and an archaeological wonderboth at the
same time. Of the latter the Standard says:
The latest sensation in Cartersville is an
image recently unearthed on the plantation of
Col. Lewis Tomlin, near this place, at what
is termed by oar citizens the Indian Mounds,
though so termed improperly, as the oldest
Indian disclaimed any knowledge of them,
their origin, or the object of them; conse
quently onr oldest citizens, nor anybody else
in this country knows anything of them. The
image, oi idol, or whatever it may be, is cer
tainly contemporaneous with the mounds, and
most havo teen an object of worship for those
to whom it belonged.’ It is about 18 inches
high, the body below the collar bone being
almost square, and poorly executed, as is the
whole thing, though bearing evidence of hav
ing been sculped with metalic instruments.
The head is shaped like that of a heathen
Chinese, or a child of the Asiatics. It is
scalped from what is commonly called soap
stone of a dark color, hearing upon the sides
jeharaeters of ciphers of a peculiar shape,
[painted or marked upon it with a substance
of some kind which age; have tailed to oblit
erate. There is a hole in the top of the cra
nium, also in the cars for the purpose, wc
suppose, of placing ornaments.
“TIIE WEE SMA> HOURS AYONT THE
TWAI.»
‘■Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark uafothoiucd eaves of ocean bear.’
No. VII.
TIME—1, .1. M.
Present—Mr. O'Riley, Wilhelm Von
Spcigle, Mr. Wrecker. Erin go Bragh
OU Grizzly, and the noble army of “dev
ils.”
Mr. Wrecker—The abrupt iuteiruption
of Erebus with his Pandemonium press din.
of our discourse, left us without a chance to
answer your argument; that the logical sc
qucnce of the theory that the test of right
ness is happiness, is a disbelief in the doe
trine of future towards, and of future pun
ishments. I cannot cooceive how yon can
arrive at any such conclusion.
Old Gr'zzly—I cannot well conceive how
I could arrive at any other. By measurin:
the actions of men by their natural merits,
you substitute the natural law for the mor
al—make them amenable to material con
sequences instead of moral responsibilities;
reward their well directed efforts with rich
es, prosperity and happiness in this life, in
stead of the martyr’s golden crown in tbe
life to come.
Mr. Wrecker—Pshaw ! I am surprised a*
you. I do no such thing. I bless them in
this world, it is true, as Abraham was bles
sed, with prosperity; as Jacob was bless-d
with his flocks and herds; as David was
blessed with his power, and as Solomon was
blessed with wisdom beyond all other men,
hut I do not deny to them tho far greater
blessing of the life everlasting. *
Old Grizzly—Aud think you it was for
their natural goodness (or rightness I believe
is the term you use) that they were thus
blessed; that all the prosperity of Abra
ham came of the rightness of his actions—
the good he did unto his fellow man; that
Jacob’s reward was the reward of right ac
tions—that the birth right he swindled his
brother out of, was made his fur any right
ness there was in the deed; that the sub
terfuge he employed to deceive his blind
father was so right in itself as to secure to
him the blessing intended for his more
honest hearted brother; that the kingly
power of David was to reward him for the
right it was destined that he should do, for
bo it remembered that when David was
fi r st led to Samuel, it was not known that
he had done any’hing that was so right as
to merit such a great reward. No, Mr.
Wrecke-, the motives of men are regulated
by their moral force, and their rightness
must be tested by a moral standard, and
not by a material prosperity. It does not
alwav follow thrt those who are right, arc
successful, or that those who are wrong aro
doomed to ignomiuous failure.
Mr. Wrecker—Then you do not believe
with Beatham, that the greatest happiness
of the greatest number is the practical test
of right or wrong, both in laws and in
morals.
Old Grizzly—I do not; neither in laws,
aud still less in morals. It is a heresy as
false in politics as that most damnable of all
political heresies, the vox Dei voxjKpuli.—
According to that test, you would take the
wealth, (or prosperity which you defined
in our last, as happiness) which is now con
fined to the few, and distribute it among
the many; you would tear down the high
places in society that a broad platform
might he erected, upon which the rag, tag
and bob-tail, could kick up their heels in
one grand and universal jollification. It is
but the incipient stage of the Ejalitie mad
ness that is now destroying Paris; and, were
Jeremy Bcntham alive to-day, and in Paris,
he would bo tugging at the ropes, side by
side with Rochefort, to overturn the col
umn in the Place Vendomc.
Erin go Bragh—And in morals it is no
less a heresy than in politics—it is a reviv
al of the Pagan oracnlar judgement of n
cause by its success—the vidrix causa Deis
placut; sed victa Catoni, whereby Lucan
made Caosar right and Cato wrong—Caesar
right because Caesar was successful—Cato
wrong, because Cato was not successful, al
though the victa cattsa, represented in the
fortunes of Cato, was sanctioned by all the
human virtues. ’ «
Old Grizzly—True; and not only Pagan
philosophers have thnB«djndged tbe right
ness of a cause, or a nation, hat modern and
Christian philosophers, and even theolo
gians, have adopted the same standard, and
argued that the downfall of a great cau3e
was a proof that that cause ought not to
have been perpetrated. Even Milton, with
all his high-toned and liberal morality, was
ready to rejoice over the downfall of roy
alty, because in the success of the pnritan-
ical hypocrites, he saw a manifesto of the
approval of Heaven.
Mr. O’Riley—No ho did’nt though.—
Milton was a Radical himself, and the suc
cess of his party accorded so well with his
own wishes that it begat the thought (sac-
riligions as it was) that Heaven favored the
revolutionists because they were right.
Old Grizzly—I grant that Milton’s po
litical views may havo biased his moral
judgement, bat I am quite sure that he was
sincere in his professions, and what he pub
licly enunciated, he secretly believed, but
it was for a greater than Milton to put forth
the true doctrine—even the Master him
self—the founder of onr faith. The whole
teachings of Christ—the entire doctrine of
the New Testament, go to prove that there
is no immediate connection between the
practical and material consequences of an
action, and the Divine ordinaden ot favor.
It rains upon the unjust as well as npon the
just. It is a cruel argument and unjust, to
presume that a mao had been guilty of
some heinous offence against morality be
cause he was stricken, like Job of old,
from head to foot, with diseasorTo suppose
that the forked lightning, as it startles the
noonday heavens with its deafening thunder
seeks only the harsh and the vicious, npon
which Li explode its wrath. That a railway
train, plunging' with a rushing fury into a
death-gaping chasm, was guided by a right-
eons it stinct, in its coarse of destruction,
that k might crash beneath its wreck. the
gnilty heads of those whose crimes had sin
gled them cut, and called npon them this
visitadoa ol God’s just vengeance. And
yet this is the legitimate resnll Of your the
ory—the ultimate conclusion to which its
logical discussion will carry it.
Mr. Wrecker—I do not bold with yon
there. I still iasist npon the truism that,
to be useful is to be right.
Old Grizzly—I understand what yon
mean. Yon mean that it is right to be use
ful, and that by usefnl, you mean condu
cive to. the general happiness of mankind.
Mr. Wrecker—That is precisely what I
mean.
Old Grizzly—And I am willing to sup
pose that that is what Bentham meant—
what Hume, Paley. D’Alembert,Ohastel-
lux, Briscot aud Dumont meant, and what
Mill now means; b it that is not what their
arguments le-id to. We all esteem it to be
onr doty to be tisefnl, and we may intend
to be useful, but circumstances over which
we have no control, may intervene and com
pletely prostiate onr intentions. The trou
ble with yonr. philosophy is that you at
tempt to connect too intimately the materi
al and the moral—to judge by the material
effect, and not by the moral intention; and
besides, yonr standard of usefulness is al
together too high. To be consistent with
it yon cannot reeognize any end as worthy,
but that which would felicitate tho condi
tion of man. Yon can see no moral beantv
in human character, distinct from actual
results or material actions, l’onr dntytoyour
self is made subordinate to yonr dutyto your
neighbor. Your responsibilities to God
are set aside by yonr responsibilities to so
ciety. To be useful, to be successful, to be
happy, is the chief end of yonr argument,
Whci to be right, be honest, be earnest
and true, ought to be tbe acme of man’s
moral aspirations.
Mr. O’Riley—The time is np, gentlemen,
we will have to defer the discussion until
next week, when 1 think I will havo to
take np the cudgel in behalf of Mr.
Wrecker. I pjannnot see how yo-i can make
it wrong to be useful.
Old Grizzly—Nor can I suffer you, Mr.
O’Riley, to rest nnder the impression that
I attempt any such thing. It is right to he
usefnl, hot it does not follow that not to be
useful is not to be right. There are many
things which are right in themselves, and
yet neither in the practical or moral are
they useful.
Yon Speigle—The galley is ready.
Urdus starts his rumlling, and the dis
cussion is hushed.
Col. Stewart’s Reply to Jadjc Wright-
lie takes a “Bird’s Eye View” of the Sit
uation, and tells wbat is the matter with
Hannah.
SIr. Editor—Since Judge Wright
Las taken the liberty to use my name, in
connection with the subject of the lease of
the Slate Road, I beg leave to state that I
am not responsible for any errors that may
have been committed in leasing the Road
to Brown & Co.—that I endorse no wrong,
fraud, trick nor scheme, that has or may
have been employed to swindle the State;
and that, so far as any discovery of wrong
may bo made, I shall not hesitate encourage
every legitimate means within my power to
protect the State and the people against it.
The lease of the Road is said to have
been made in conformity with an act of the
Legislature, which authorized tbe letting
of the Road to the highest bidder. Bids
were made, and theresnlt was : A contract
was entered into between the State of Geor
gia on the one part, and Joseph E. Brown
and others on the other part, to run for a
term of twenty years. It was a contract
to all intents and purposes; and legally
binding npon the parties until fraud in the
transaction is made to appear; and, even
then, the coarts will have to decide the case
—the Legislature having no power what
ever to sit in judgement on the validity of
such contracts.
From my knowledge of machinery and
its management, to make it successful, 1
would not give mere than $25,000 per
month for the State Road; and I so wrote
to J. R Wallace, of Atlanta, who is one of
tbe Scago-Blodgett Company, warning him
as a friend, to avoid a snit against Brown
& Co., to take the lease ont of their hands.
I pointed ont to him the immense expendi
tures that would have to be made to rebuild
bridges, to repair the Road, and to famish
new equipments, and I told him that it
would require the most consumate skill and
perseverance in management to pay even
$25,000 per month.
The present management is paying in
that som, and I believe will be able to con
tinue paying promptly that amount, which
sums np three hundred thousand dollars per
year, and which, we may rest assnred, is
more money than would accrae to the State
from Judge Wright’s programme of allow
ing the politicians of the next Legislature,
by a revolutionary act, to “recapture the
Road,” and ran it again by political over
seers.
I am for the lease as it is, unless fraud
can be made to appear in the transaction. If
fraudulently obtained, I am in favor of an
action being brought that our courts may
set it aside.
Bat tbe Judge wants to go, to the Legis
lature himself; and he wants to he Gover
nor. He has made two unsuccessful efforts
to get me off the track. The second attempt
that direction came with the pies'that
he was the only man that could heat Scott.
The Judge wants to go to the legislature
so he can there electioneer for himself for
Governor, and he wants to he Governor so
he can “recapture the State-Road’ and
show us by his superior management that he
can make it a hig paying thing. - Now, from
my knowledge of the Judge’s mechanical
skill, I would not entrust him with the run
ning gear, of a dock’s nest.
J. A. Stewart.
The good people of Griffin were so re
joiced at the removal from their midst
Col. C. C. Peeples, that they gave a jollifi
cation banquet on the event.
Press Dispatches.—The increased rates
of the Telegraphic assessment to the Cou
rier and Commercial makes it imperative
npon us to decline them, and in concert
with the Commercial, we shall discontinue
onr telegraphic reports. In lien of them
we shall give a summary of the news, care
fully compiled from onr exohanges, and
flatter ourselves that we ean give a column
of more interesting matter than is usually
found under the telegraphic head.
Monthly Exhibition.—The Agricul
tural Association have their next exhibi
tion on Tuesday, the 23rd inst. It is a
free exhibition at the Hall of the Society,
in the rear of the Telegraph office, and all
persons, whether members of the Associa
tion or not, are invited to bring in sample
of rare flowers, vegetables, grains, fruits
or other products of the Farm and Garden.
Also, rare specimens of mechanical ingenu
ity. Articles will be received up to 10
o’clock of that day.
This is the way, according to the Fair-
bault Leader, they do the handsome in
Minnesoto. That sheet describes a fash
ionable wedding, and says: “After the cer
emony the friends presented the happy
bride with one dozen beautiful oranges, one
dozen fine lemons, five pounds of new Sge
fire pounds splendid assorted candies ancl
six cans of fresh oysters.”
German story writers are abont to flood the
world with war novels.
An extensive fish story is related of
vessel in the Baltic sea. The bark Provi
dence, from Hartlepool, lately sprang a
leak, and all bands were forced to work at
the pumps until they were utterly exhaus
ted Their hope of saving the vessel or even
their own lives had almost gone, when the
leak suddenly stopped. After the port was
reached and the cargo discharged, a search
was made, and it was found that a knot in
one of the planks had been forced ont, hat
the hole was tightly plugged by the body of
a fish.
OUR NOVEIm
CHAP. VI.
Andy Johnson will again tell how ho rose son
going our.
Afloat upon the rough tide of life. The
buoyant boat of youth floating high and
lightly, catching tbe swell of every tittle
wave, and scadding hither and thither, be
fore every passing breeze, how greatly in
need of some strong hand at the rodder,
stands every boy. To give shape and di
rection to the horning aims; firmness and
decision to the plastic character; those who
have never felt the want of a father’s in
flnence can never know it.
Alone, not to' wrestle with the harsh
cares of life—to meet and overcome its
wants; to eke ont the pittance of a subsis
tence; no, not these;‘bnt to forecast their
destiny; to shape their future; to grasp its
opportunities, and to resist its temptations
—what an aching isolation; a miserable sol
itude; a terrible seclusion, it is to be cat
off from the penetrating ken; the encourag
ing smile and the strengthening approba
tion of a father’s love. And this fatherless
isolation was Hirams’. A mother, gentle
and goed, could breathe into his heart the
rarity of her own sweet son]—could instill
nts his nature the softness and the good
ness that shown so brightly in her own
blameless life; but bis opening manhood re
quired something more; a destiny had to be
shaped; a life mapped ont. His mother’s
gentle teachings could fit Marion the strug
gle; could sustain him on - the dreary read;
coaid lighten his cares and sustain Ms spir
its, bat it conld not develope his manhood.
Like the well filled haversack of the sol
dier, it conld cheer tho inner man, bnt it
could not direct the inarch, or dictate the
campaign. It needed a father’s energy and
father’s encouragement todo that; and feel
rag tbe want of such a father, Hiram Lav
ender felt the sorest want that ever bowed
an orphan’s heait.
Bnt, notwithstanding this unmcasnrable
want, the life of Hiram was not withont
its promise, or withont its aim. Nor was it
altogether withont direction. Mr. Middle-
ton Mnggleton was a true friend. A father
conld hardly have felt a more ardent inter
est in the destiny of Ms own son, than that
kindly hearted man felt in the destiny of
his portege. Bat the trouble was not there*
It is not from the lack of a proper sympa
thy in others, so much as the want of con
fidence in one’s own self, that influences
one for good or for evil. Hiram eagerly
drank in the kindness of his benefactor,
and while his heart blessed him for bis
goodness, he yet wanted that perfect confi
dence and faith in his judgement that one
most have before the soul can give itself np
to another’s direction.
President Hudson was not so demonstra
tive in bis kindness; nor indeed so enthusi
astic in his regard as Mr. Middleton Mug-
gleton, bnt yet he was a firm and gracious
friend, and his advice and guidance sup
plied, as far q&another can supply, the ad
vice and the guidance of a father.
With two such friends as these, Hiram
would hare been lacking in that which con
stitutes the honest character, niot to have
profited by their kindness, and to have im
bibed something of their hopes and their
plans for his own future.
And he did profit by them, and in their
plans he entered with a boyish enthusiasm.
The material servioe he rendered Mr. Mid-
dleten Mnggleton was considerable, and
went far towards repaying Mm, so far as a
material return conld repay such q debt,
for the trouble and expense he bestowed
npon him.
To Mrs. Middleton Mnggleton he became
as a son—iu fact, from the very moment,
Mr. Middleton Mnggleton became his ideal
father; she had made him in her heart her
ideal son, and the quiet, .motherly interest
Mrs. Lavender felt in his happiness, was
none the more earnest than the interest of
Mrs. Middleton Mnggleton. She watched
Ms expanding powers with a glowing pride,
and as the boyish features began to give
place to the harder marks of maifhood/and
the boy to whom she used to stoop to stroke
his curly head, straightened up to a tall man,
up to whose face she bad to. tiptoe to kiss,
her motherly heart grew warmer, towards,
and her motherly love was thrown the
stronger around Mm.
And Mr. Middleton Muggleton too, re
joiced in the strengthening of Hiram’s man
hood, and as he stood before'him in all the
beauty of a manly proportion, his eye rest
ed as proudly upon Mm as if he were the
his flesh, instead of the child of his
from the Taylor's bench to theFresidency. at
Nashville, on the 27th.
eonl.
And the interest he felt in the boy had
not abated one jot, now that the boy was
standing, «ith foot upraised, ready to plaee
it do yd firmly upon the shores of manhood,
but it had rather strengthened, as one’s in
terest in the work of his hands increases as
the work progresses to completion. Not un
til the fruition of one’s hopes are held iu
their grasp, and their promised aroma per
fumes tbe soul, does one begin to feel the
first feint emotions of satiety creep in tbe
heart and loise the tender chords that have
so long and so lovingly entwined around its
.idol. Not until the ideal beanty has, by
1 the practical touch of time and actuality,
been transmuted to the real, do the prom
ised joys of pursuit prove Dead Sea apples
of possession.
And the fond hopes that Mr. Middleton
Mnggleton had bnilded npon Hiram were
not yet ready for realization, and the Ely-
s'an fields of fancy were not withont
prince to walk them.
Tbe flight of time, seemingly slow and
leaden to those who sorrow may know, and
impatient to those whose brightest joys lie
jost beyond the borrow, is yet surprising
to any one who will pause for a moment
and tarn his eyes backward adown the far
reaching vistas of the pest. As we behold
its corridors strewn with the wreck of our
sunniest years; the tresses of hair; the rib
bons she nsed to wear; broken rings; the
monogram lantern that recalls the even
ing 8 .
“When I wa3 young as you are young.
And hearts were broke and iutoa were strung.
And love lights in the casements hang.”
When wc catch the hum ol its migh
ty voices—re echoing “snatches of songs
that nobody sings; the whole past comes
rashing npon ns with snch an overpowering
presence that we can scarcely realize that
all these scenes and emotions were the
work of years, instead of short and flitting
hoars.
Bnt yet they arc so. Day by day the
months creep along, and youth succeeds to
age. Yes, warm-blooded, hot-headed, im-
ralsive youth puts on the softness of man-
tootf, and soon, through his veins begin to
oreep the chilly tide of age. And the life
of Hiram thus glided t>y, and when we are
next brought face to face with Mm, he is a
man —a man in years, and a more than
man in feeling; lor the moral life of his
manhood began, while other men’s were bnt
the epitome of boyish fancies and boyish
pleasures. Hiram was a handsome man—
not yonr precious little, pretty man, whom
the ladies all love, and caress as they love,
and caress their pretty little poodles—bnt
a handsome man; handsome because the
well formed features reflected the light of
an earnest, noble sonl within. His figure
was tall and commanding,—etch limb and
muscle displaying a perfect development.
Tbe opportunities for mental cnltnre bad
not been lost upon him, and he had jnst
graduated with the highest honora. The
choice of a profession had been hesitatingly
made. Iu this matter it was that he so sadly
needed the advise of a father. Mr. Mid
dleton Mugglcton designed him for the law.
Mrs. Middleton Mnggleton’s ambition sym
pathised with her husband's. President
ludson had discovered in him a rare tal
ent for mathematics and practical science;
aud as president Hudson’s talent lay in the
same direction, he spared no pains to devel
ope and encourage his taste for facts and
figures.
“There is no profession more honorable,
and none more profitable—that is is, more
profitable, per se, than that of civil engin
eering. It opens a field for the rarest dis
play of genins, and though it may take
centuries to produce a Wren, a Vanban,
and a Brunei, yet its annals are rich with
illnstricns names.”
President Hudson 1 hod not then heard of
the fame of M. Lesseps. For the star of
M. Lesseps had hot yet burst ont npon
the world.
“Yon, Hiram,” he continued, “have a
taste for snch tilings, and your talent is
preeminently adapted to the profession, and
when the inclination and talent of a man
both point to the same object, he is certain
to succeed.”
“I am glad Mr. Hudson that you so read
ily approve my choice. If Mr. Middleton
Mnggleton could only be induced to accede
to your views, and would favor, with his ap
proval, my desire to enter at once upon my
profession, I would feel a great relief. I
owe too much to Mm to lightly regard his
wishes, or to disappoint his plars—plans
which I know he has cherished out of
his own pore goodness and kindness toward
me.”
“And what does Mr. Middleton Muggle-
ton wish you to do?”
“He wishes me to enter Harvard at once
and complete my law coarse.”
“And were.you so inclined, the opportu
nity would-be a splendid one,” answered
president Hudson, after a moments study.
“It is certainly very kind in Mr. Moggle-
ton to thns offer it yon.”
“Yes, it is very kind; and his excellent
wife is equally anxions that I should go.”
“Kind people, Hiram; dear good hearted
people are the Moggleton’a,' and the Pres-
dent nodded hk head two or thiee times
reflective approbation.
“Oh, yes, they are very kind,” answered
Hiram; “not such another family in the
world I ” and Hiram rose up at once into,
the son-light of gratitnde. “All that pa
rents, or sisters could be to me, they have
been ; and all that a grateful son can do to
repay them, can never discharge the debt
of love that I owe to them; and it is this,
sir, thdt.se distresses me. I know how
mach Mr. Mnggleton has set his heart upon
making a lawyer of me, and while I cannot
reconcile my own convictions to the dis-*
tasteful profession, I cannot bear the idea
of opposing his wishes.”
Have you ever stated your wishes to
him?” asked president Hudson, after a
mental debato with himself, evidenced by
sundry solemn shakes of his frosty head.
“I havo not; the subject is so painful to
me, that I really have not the courage to
broach it to him.”
Then I must see him myself, and tell
him what I think about it,” generously an
swered the president.
“It would be a great relief to me, sir,”
answered Hiram, with a sigh of gratitude.
“And yonr mother?” asked the President,
how is sue inclined?”
“She is eqoally poised between the views
of Mr. Mnggleton, or xather, Mrs. Mnggle
ton (whose kindness towards her and to me
has won her most perfect confidence) and
my own.”
Your mother’s opinion is worth a great
deal, Hiram.”
•Oh, yes, I know it,” quickly answered
Hiram, “her opinion is worth all else in
this world beside; and were she to decide
that I should accede to Mr. Mnggleton’s
plans, I should hash my own inclinations
and do all that I conld to realize their gen
erous hopes.”
“I hope she will not so decide," answer- -
ed the president, “for, in that event, I, loo,
wonld have to yield my convictions, and
instead cf mastering and utilizing the pow
ers and secrets of nature, I would turn yo*
over to the grovelling quirks and tricks of
the law."
~^“And yet
and hath its glories, no less renowned than
art; and there is much in it to relieve hu
manity of its dreary stains.”
“Yes, there fa much id its theory that is
noble, bnt in its practice it fa absolutely
despicable,” azd the worthy president prew
savage. dint u remembered the legal
technicality by which his mother had be- a
so foully wronged too bititer'y to venture
upon a defence of a profession by which
she was wronged, and so the president had
time to continue:
“Its practice fa cold, harsh, selfish, and
dishonest, and a man’s distinction and suc
cess in it depend altogether upon his skill
in perverting facts and destroying jnstice.’’
“Mr. Mnggleton. thinks differently,"
answered Hiram, “and sorely Mr. BInggle-
ton can’t bo so far wrong.”
“Is[cak of the profession, not as Mr.
Mnggleton sees it—not perhaps as it ought
to be—but as it fa every day practiced,
when it fa followed rirnply as an avocation
by which to earn money; when a man’s
bread and meat fa dependent upon it, hu
loses, in the contemplation of his fee, that
sense of j istice which a purer code of mor
als would only sanction."
“It has its temptations, doubtless,” an
swered Hiram, “and to overcome them as
they are often ovetcome, would be a tri-
npb in the profession that any man might v
well be proud oi ”
“Yes, bnt the surest way to icsfat tempta
tion fa to avoid it. Never place yourself
in a condition that will require the strength
of your moral courage to sustain yon; lor.
Hiram, no ne can say to himself, ‘I know
how strong I am/ no man can say to Mb pas
sions, ‘thus far and no farther,’ for man's
moral strength is not his own.”
“Only convince Mr. Mnggleton that the
paths of glory lie through other fields than
those spread open by Blackstone and Chi*! ,
and I will feel a load of embarrassment
lolled from my mind.”
“That I will try,” answered president
Hudson.
But the task wa3 not an easy one.—
Mr. Middleton Mnggleton drank ton
deeply from the gushing springs, and had
roamed too fondly amidrt those flowery
fields, to lightly tarn from them He had
listened too often to the rich, sih-ery
voice of Hiram's eloquence, as it filled the
College Hall, and had mounted upon that
voice too high in the regioosofearthly tame
to readily agree to have that voice
hashed in the gloom of some mountain tun
nel.
“Oh no let Hiram take hfa course at
Harvard, and' then, while drinking in the
enobling sentiments of its theory, he wonld
be so imlned with its moral prin *iplcs, as
to be able to resist the grovelling influences
of its practice. And, besides,” he added,
seeing that the President was hesitating for
an answer, “Hiram fa yet young, and a
coarse at Harvard will do him good, even
if, after all, he should not like the law." ,
The President conld not well contravene
this latter argument, and so he contented
himself by saying:
“Well, well, yon must have yonr own
way, but I am sure that Hiram Lavender
will never make a great lawyer.”
“If he does qot, I shall have lost all iaith
in hnman promise," answered Mr. Middle-
ton Mnggleton.
And thus it was again decided, bnt not
with the 'same cordial unanimity as before,
between the eralicand excentiic Mr. Mid
dleton Mnggleton and the sober, staid and
reverend President Hudson, that Hiram
was to adopt the law as a profession, and
preparations were immediately set about for
lfa departure to Connecticut.
A slight reversion of fortune bad mate
rially improved the widow’s condition. Ono
honest man had been found, who, after
years of reverses, bad been enabled to re
pay a debt lor which the Lavender t state,
as surity, had been responsible, and hail
mid; and with this timely assistance, Sirs,
[lavender had purchased her a neat cottag .-
of her owd, and had enough yet remaining
to provide for her frugal needs.
Content with its bumble pretentions, she
devoted her taste to its adornment with fair
and fragrant flowers. Music, too, was add
ed to her resources of homo enjoyments,
and a sweet toned, bntcleap piano, graced
her little pirlor. This she touched with
a skillful hand; and Hiram’s violin added,
produced a “concord of sweet sounds” that
would have honored the stateliest halls in
the land The prospect of Hiram had been
triumphantly imparted to her by Mr Mid
dleton MnggletoD, himself, and Hiram per
ceived that she so hopefnlly caught it op,
forbore to chill her enthusiasm by interpos
ing even a doubtful regret
“I only reget to give you up so long.”
she said to Mm one evening as she ha-l
paused from the busy work of preparation.
“I will write often, mother,” he tenderly-
answered.
“Yes. yon most write often; but you are
a man now, and I most not expect to bare
you alway with me,” she added, after a
moments silence.
“A man to the great unfeeling world,
mother,” he replied, with hfa sonl welling
np in hfa words; “but a child still to you—
yes, a little child,” and he stooped hfa head
and kissed hfa mother.
“There now, my foolish fondness over
comes me, but it has passed now,” she said,
after a moment’s emotion. Come, we will
have some music; get your violin.”
Hiram readily obeyed, bnt before they
and arranged their music. Dolly, Mrs. Lav-
- der’s negro maid, entered the room to
hanounce that a carriage was at tbe door,
en Hiram stepped forward to receive tho
visitors, and with a flashed surprise, ho
saw Mrs. and Miss Eustaes descend from
the carriage.
Mrs. Eostace saluted Mm with a matron
ly grace, while Emma’s imperious glance,
told hfa heart that the meeting. with him
was unexpected. “Mother," she said with
an abrupt decision, “I will drive on, and
call for you on my return,” and she turned
to re-enter ths carriage.
“Emma,” and a pained expression mount
ed to the brow of Mrs. Eostace, ‘‘Emma
yonr respects are due Mrs. Lavender—sra
her a moment, and then yon can go.” .
Hiram's pride was angered, and for a
moment he forgot hfa natural shyness, “M y
mother can readily excuse Miss Emma, if
she fa so hurried to go,” he answered.
“I will do no snch thing. Yon can go
yourself, but Emma must come in,” broke
in the sweet voice of Mrs. Lavender, as
she made her appearance, and greeted the
ladies—as ladies have such a tantalizing
way of greeting each other—with a kiss-—
not in this instance a Judas ki.--a—but a
kiss of sincere and warm affection, and be
fore they conld reply, she ushered them in
to the room.
A cosy little box of a room it was, jnst
large enough to be pleasant, and simpld
enough to be homelike.
But the embarrassment of Hiram and
of Emma was too great to be soothed by tbe
isant offices of tbe widow, aud as soon as
sense of propriety would admit, Hiram
excused himself, and offered to retire.
But : to this Mrst Eustace interposed a
remonstrance.
“No, Hiram, I cannot excuse you; *us
true tbe pleasure of meeting yon at homo
was an unexpected one, but I esteem is
nono the less happy for that; and besides,
were I to release you this evening, I fear
that I should not have another opportunity
of enjoying yonr society soon, for I learn
that you are preparing to leave us."
__ Hiram stammered a reply so incoherent
as to be lost to any meaning, and Mrs. Lav
ender had to answer for him.
“Yes, he leaves us sjon, but be would
hardly be so ungrateful as to go away wi L-
out paying hfa respect to yon and to Em
ma," she added with a slight smile os giro
turned to the proud beauty.