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OMfidS , - ■ - And Emma Eustace Was a beauty—such a beauty as only now ami then, here aud 1 there, burst upon the eyes of the woild.— All that the budding promise of ber glow- in" girlhood gave a lorecast of, was more ■ than realized in the radient glory of her womanhood. ' Ahd si c was as regal as she was iieauti- • ful. She accepted the homage society paid i her wondrous beauty as a Qneen accepts the homage of her leige subjects. She re- : ceived its compliments as her right, and she felt neither flattered nor grateful for their bestowal. Noue approached her but . to be dazzled and to admire, and yet, with . all tills power to charm, she was not a co quette. Accepting admiration as her due, she was yet careless of it, and made nc ef fort to extend the bounds of her sway.— Men called her cold and heartless; because she would not encourage their willful mad ness. Others called lier'proud, because she would not nnbend the fascinatior of her loveliness to court still more the popnlar adulation. It was only those who could read the secrets of her soul that could find anything in her nature that was lovely or good; and even this few were often embar rassed to understand and to reconcile its conflicting impulses. Hiram Lavender was one of this few, and yet Hiram Lavender had alway avoided Emma Eustace as a man would avoid a dangerous fascination. Me r .rely met her, and when he did it was by accident, and their interviews wsre marked by in un pleasant embarrassment. It may have been these circumstances that piqued Emma, and betrayed her into the haughty spirit that burst out when Hi ram offered to escort her and her mother into his mother’s house. “And I am sure, Hiram that no more sin cere wishers for your success will be left be hind you than Emma and I,” answered Mrs. Eustace. “I feel flattered by your kind wishes, Mrs. Eustace, and shall endeavor not to abuse them,” he replied, slightly re assured. “Mr. Hudson was with us yesterday, and he spoke so proudly of you, that wo were all quite enthused,” Mrs. Eustace said with a friendly gossip. Hiram blushed scarlet, ior with all his self-confidence, he was extremely sensi tive. “Mr. Hudson is very kind, and his par tial friendship has betrayed him into an undue estimate of my abilities.” “Mr. Hudson’s compliments are not idle —hisjudgment cannot be biased by par- tiallity,” answered Mrs. Eustace, with a kindly animation. “Then I am sure that I am very much obliged to Mr. Hudson for his good opin ion,” and Hiram began to unbend the shackles of his embarrassment, and to speak with clearness. Emma remained silent. The flushes of her recent chagrin still glowed upon her cheek. Mrs. Lavender came to her relief. “What new books have you, Emma ?” she asked with a delicate adroitness, to divert her thoughts. A disingenious simplicity was one of the sweetest traits of Emma’s character, and a sunshine of lelief gladdened her counte nance as she answered, “I have no new ones, but am reveling amid the beauties of the old. Madam Cot- ten's works are very interesting. The sto ry of her poor proscribed outcasts is told in such a pathetic tone that I cannot resist it.” “I admire your taste, Emma. The sim plicity and pathos of a work is far more af fecting to the good and the true than all the sensational heroics that can be writ ten.” “Oh, I cannot endure a sensational nov- el.” “The Waverly novels possess a rare com bination of the pathetic and the heroic.” “Admirable, but those in which the pa thetic predominate are destined to the most enduring interest. The sweet, patient itebecca, will haunt the mind, when the knight ol Ivanhoe, with a'l his goodness, will be thought of as the errant hero of a fitful dream.” And; unconsciously to her self, the impulsive girl became so enthused in her critique that she forgot the unpleas- aut episode that so embittered her spirits a few moments before: Mrs. Lavender was charmed with the di rection her well meaning efforts had taken, an.l she answered, “Aud the Heart of Mid Lothian will out live all the others.” “Yes. In my memory atleast,” she add ed, after a moment’s pause. “I am reading an elegant story, a serial now being published in Blackwood, It is called “Zaidee;” and I am sure you would like it," said Mrs. Lavender, not yet wil ling to entrust Emma with her own silent thoughts. “Tes, I too am reading it, and I do like it very much,” quickly answered Emma, seemingly as uuwilling to relapse to her self. And all this .chile Hiram Lavender was absently listening to Mrs. Eustace, and me chanically answering yes or no, when a pause in that lady’s breath would suggest to him the propriety of answering at all. At length a direct questiou prevened his monosyllabic answers, and aroused bin) t > the presence of bis visitor. “When do you go, Hiram ?” Emma too was attracted aud she looked into his face to catch the answer. “The precise day has not yet been fixed, but within a fortnight at the farthest,” he answered. “Oh, so soon; and you will find time in the interim to spend an evening with us ?” “I ought not to promise,” and his eyes 'Distinctively turned towards Emma. Her glance met his, and in that glanceall traces of the proud imperialism that insulted him at the carriago door were gone. “That is,” he stammered, “I fear that—that my time will be so occupied with—with my ar rangements, that I will hardly have the leisure.” “I shall hear no plea, sir. You must not slight your old friends thus. Mrs. Laven der shall ho be so ungrateful,” appealed Mrs. Eustace. “Not if I can control Kin,-’ answered the widow, with a smile; “and 1 think that I can venture to make an engagement for him,” she added, with a begging glance in bis face. Hiram bowed, and answered, “My time is yours, mother, only the few days already pledged to Mr. Muggleton—and Viola” he add d, with a slight lowering of bis tone. “And Viola;” a strangely musical name, as breathed ia that suppressed tone, and tho music floated in the brain of Emma Eustace for days and nights alter. “Then I shall transfer one evening to Mrs. Eustace, and she may determine the one,” returned Mis. Lavender. “Tuesday evenirg, then, sans cerenwnie —we shall expect you Tuesday evening.” And the candid tone of Mrs. Eustace be spoke her sincere gratification. _ “I shall esteem it an honor, as well as a great pleasnre, to wait upon you Tuesday evening," and Hiram bowed a rather awk ward bow first to Mrs. Eustace and then to Emma. “And Viola” was ail that Emma heard as she slightly drooped her head in return “Your piano is open, Mrs. Lavender, and your violin also, Hiram—will you favor us with some tnusio," asked Mrs. Eustace, with a glance at the instruments. Mrs. Lavender aud Hiram frankly com plied with the -request, and the fine old Scotch reel of “Tcllochgorum" filled tho air with a refreshing melody. This was followed by “Twas within a mile of ■ Edinboro Town,” sang in Mrs. Lavender’s sweetest spirit, when Hiram's soul, moved and melted by the charm, turned to Emma with unaffected warmth, and said, “Miss Emma, sing Annie Lanrie for me, I have never hoard it s-iug so.well since you saug it years ago.” Mrs. Lavender arose from the piano, aud Emma, with a radiant grace, took her place. “You will accompany me?” she requested Ilitam bowed and adjusted his violin; and then /hat sad, sweet strain, which is said to have moved the strong veterans of the A1 ina to tears, floated like a living, breathing perfume through the room. The deep hush of the moment that fol lowed was the happiest tribute that could have been paid to the performance. It was broken by Emma, who raised her eyes to Hiram and said, “I believe you are partial altogether to Scottish music, or, you once were/’* she added, remembering, with a slight bitter ness, that it had been more than one year sincehehad spokeen to her upon that, or any other subject. “Yes, I still like it best of al 1 ," be an swered. “It may be, however,” he added, “that its simplicity enables me to more readily master it than the more difficult Ital ian and German schools.” ‘And there are some exquisite gems to be found in Mozart in Webber, and Men delssohn,” she said with a quiet deference.” “It would be an impertinent egotism in me to deny that, or even attempt a criticism of their wondrous works. The musical world is ringing with their Io Peons, and if I cannot swell the chorus with my faint praise, I shall not stop my ears to the glad huzzah. A slightly cynical tone colored the sin cerity of this remark, and grated harshly upon Emma’s sensitive ear. “I venture, however, to say that the only enduring (and by enduring I mean living in the hearts of the pure and good) parts of their works will be those which are the most simple and touching. The softness of the solemn strain, upon which the “drinking song” in “Lucretia Borgia” floats, will be hum- ed by ages unborn; when the wild fire; the tragic energy, the grand diapason of the opera will be unheard and undreamed of.” Emma thought, “strange, my own senti ments, and had I spoken, those would have been my own words,” but she silently cogi tated the coincidence and spoke not. “It is only applying to music, Miss Em ma,” he continued, “the same principle that you apply to works of fiction, and is measuring its beauty by the same standard by which you measure the beautiful and the true in a novel The Drinking Song in the opera of Lucretia Borgia, and the Anvil Chorus in La Trouvatore, are to these works the same sweet refreshing and redeeming oasis of the desert, that yon find the gentle character of Rebecca, the Jewess, to be in the stormy story of Ivanhoe; and, indeed,” be continued after a moments silence, “the same principle is applicable to all kin dred works of art. Painting finds its most enduring monuments in the simple and touching. It is said that the drooping sor row of Corregio’s Magdalene haunts the mind for days and years after one behjlds it, while one can contemplate the lofty mien of some mail-clad warrior without even be stowing a second thought upon it. And so, too, of Statuary; the soft repose of the Ve nus Medicis, and the passive grace of the Apo’lo Belviderr, sinks into the soul to rise up in after years, as the mind yearns for the things it knew in other days, while the eollossal Statue of Peter the Great excites only a momentary interest akin, more to wonder than admiration. Even in the Luocoon where the terrible energy of human despair is so faithfully fixed in marble, its greatest virtue is found in the tooching ap peal depicted upon the faces of the boys as hey turn their straining e cs upon their father.” Emma listened with a pleased interest, for in the i ind Hue eyes of the speaker she caught a music as rich as that which hung upon his words. - Mrs. Eustace also leaned forward to gath er in each word. Andean you not apply the same prin ciple to woiks of nature, as well as works of art?” she asked. Yes,” he answered; “indeed it is from nature first that I draw the principle. The simple the gentle, and the beautiful in na ture enters first and deepest into the heart. The modest Violet, the dewy Daisy, the sim ple Anemone, and the half opening Rose are dear to us all, because they are all simple, lovely and modest. And fuither," he added, it applies with equal truth to human char acter. The enduring charm of human ex cellence is found in the gentle, the modest, the sweet instead of the brilliant, the im perious and the grand.” As Hiram Lavender said this his gaze uniutenticnally sought the face of Emma. A crimson flush suffused its love’iness, and her eye flashed a defiant repudiation of what she esteemed a direct and cruel thrust at her own proud nature. Hiram perceived his mistake, or rather, the misconstruction that Emma placed upon his motives, and would have gladly recalled the words. A moment's embarrassing silence ensued, when, at a motion of impatience from Em ma, Mrs. Eustace arose to go. Hiram escoited them to the carriage, and as the driver closed the door Mrs Eus tace said: ■Remember next Friday evening; we shall expect you.” Hiram bowed his acknowledgments and returned to the house feeling extremely ill at ease, aud reproaching himself for, he knew not what. I fea-, Hiram, that you violated Em ma’s feelings. She is extremely sensitive, and the world, you know, calls her impe rious and proud,” said Mrs Lavender when they wee seated alone together. And she is imperious and proud,” deci dedly answered Hiram. “No, Hiram, you do not understand Em ma,” remonstrated his mother. “She has a beauty radiant enough to dizzy the head of a less sensible girl, and sne has been petted enough by her father to have made her imperijus and proud, but for all that, she has a good heart—a true heart,” she added by way of emphasis. I confess, mother, that I do not under stand her character," Hiram answered after moments thought. “But, then, she is nothing to me,” be continued with a slight ring of bitterness in his tone. No, nothing to you, Hiram,” and Mrs. Lavender dropped her voice, “and because of that you ought not to judge her so harsh- ly.” “I have not judged her, mother,” replied Hiram, “nor did I once think of her when I contrasted the pure and gentle in human character, with the proud and haughty.” 'I will not do you tho injustice to think that you did, but Emma evidently appro priated the parrallel aud blushed scarlet un der it,” answered the widow. “1 am sorry that I said it, and could 1, with propriety, apologise for my seeming rudeness, I would be glad to do so,” Hiram replied with a perplexed air. “No, it is best let alone,” advised the mother. “Emma has too much sense to th'nk long of the matter.” And she might havi added, that after the first repellant scorn, Emma had too much magn&n ; mity to care at all for the matter. “I will endeavor to be more prudont in future,” he said by way of compromising his embarrassment. “I am too harsh in my convictions to please society,” he added in an explanatory tone, “and am always of fending when I am not understood. I can never please-the ladies,” and with an impra tient jerk of the bead he continued, “the lees I see of them, the better for my repu tation for gallantry.” “You understand the female character less than yon suppose they understand yon, Hiram,” answered his mother. “Women are not so fastidiously sensitive as you ima gine them to be, and a brnsk earnestness in men is what they most admire. T mean all true women do," and Mis Lavender’s cheeks glowed with a tr :e woman’s pride. - “Then I do not understand them,” an swered Hiram, “and, least of all, Emma,” he added reflectively. But why he thus particularized Emma. Hira n’s own heart wondered. “And Viola,” whispered Emma to her own dark thoughts, as Bhe lounged back iu the carriage cushions, but why she whis pered it, Emma’s heart could not under stand; The organism of the soul is so delicate that its chords can be touched by the faint est shadow of events, as the sensitive strings of an Eolian harp are touched by the un seen and unfelt fingers-; and it may have been the monitions of the unseen—the flit ting shadows of coming events, strikin upon the sensitive soul-chords of Emma, that caused her heart to whisper the words again and again; or it may have been that in the words, the imperious beauty first re alized the truth that Viola was no longer thu little child we last saw her, but was now a blooming girl, whose modest braoty and quiet manners would soon open out u; on the social skies of Fairfield. And what if Viola was soon to ste; into society?—and what if hers were the enduring charms of bnman excellence? —why should Emma cere? Not, ccitaiuly, for anything she cared for Hiram Lavender, for i she knew one feeling for him different from that she felt towards other men, it was a feeling of con straint, if not aversion. Nor was she jeal ous of the gentle beauty of Viola, for Em ma rose high above the dignity of a petty rivalry With rat affectation, she felt too secure in her own peerless domain to suf fer one jealous fear to invade it3 plcasancc. And yet, “and Viola” floating upon the softened tones of Hiram’s voice kept ring ing in her ears, hushing out all else that Were musical beside. Mrs. Eustace was too busied with her owu thou hts to Dotice the abstraction of Emma, and the carriage rolled home in silence. At home, in her own room, Emma re called the scene, and only for a moment did she dwell with a frown upon niram’s words. “The most enduring charms of human ex cellence, is formed in the gentle, the mod est, the sweet, instead of the brilliant, the imperious and the grand,” she murmurred to herself, “but perhaps he did cot mean it,” she softened, “and yet why did he turn to me as he said it ?” she asked herself with a quiver of doubt—“not surely to re proach me for my pride? for he ought to know that I am not proud; but 1 am not humble as I should be, and the world thinks that I am really proud; yet, why does it think it? because of my petted wealth —because of my father’s lands and slaves? or is it because 1 despise the flattery ol men?” and the indignant blood again moun- ed to her cheek. No, Emma, it was not that—but because of all these and more; because of your ra dient beauty, your queenly air, your haugh ty mien, which, all unconsciously to your self, shown resplendcntly around your eve ry motion, and colored your every action. “And yet Hiram is right,” she contin ued thinking. “It is the sweet and gentle, rather than the radient and grand, that is most lovely and most endaring. I wish that he did not think me proud,” and Em ma unconsciously appealed to her deeper anu most sacred heart; “But why ?” she asked; “need I care, tic is nothing to me.” But an unquiet flutter of her soul told Em ma that the confession was hardly an hon est one. The Rome Courier FRIDAY MORNING. May. 26. A National Convention of colored citi zens of the United States is to be held in St. Louis ou the 22d of September next, to take in codsideratiou what is necessary to be done to educate the masses of the color ed people up to the full bight of their duty as American citizens. Therailroad companies of Louisville Ky., have agteed that it is useless to try to resist or evade the enforcement by the United States authorities of the claim of the ne groes to ride iu the street cars, and decid- it is best to avoid serious collisions by open ing the cars to them. This effects the bu siness of the roads considerably, many white people, and ladies especially prefer ring to walk. How few men can say what Hans Christion Anderson has recorded. “My life is a lovely story, happy and fall of inci dent. The history of my life will say to the world what it says to me—there is a living God who directs all things for the best.” The other night, as Edwin Booth, as Richelieu, had finished the lines, “France, my mistress, my wedded wife, who shall pro claim divorce ’twixt thee anl me?’ a deep voice from the audicuce answered, “Chica go.” There was great consequent “lafture and applaws.” The American Medical Association, as its annual meeting last week in SanFran- cisco, after a very exciting discussion, in definitely postponed, by a vote of SO to 25, a proposition in the following words: “Noth ing in this constitution shall be so con strued as to prevent delegates from colleges in which women are taught and graduated iu medicine, and hospitials ia which medi cal women giadnatcs attend, from being re ceived into this Association.” Another resolntion proposing “that the American Medical Associatieu acknowledges the right of its members to meet in consultation the graduates and teachers of Women’s Medi cal Colleges, provided the code of ethics of the Association is observed,” was also in definitely postponed. Williamson’s system of steam canal tow age by road engines on the tow-path of the canal, was tried at Albany on Thursday, in the presence of Canal Commissioners Wright and Chapman and several engi neers, and gave entire satisfaection. Three boats were towed at the rate of three miles an hour. The Navy department has ordered the following Board ot Visitors to mttend the annual examination at the Navy School at Annapolis. Mil.: Vice-Admiral Stephen 0. Rowan (President), Commodore J. J. Al- my, Medical Inspector R. T. McConn, Pay- Inspector A. H. Gilman, and Chief-Engi- ncer Stephen D. Hibbet. A resolution amending the Massachusetts State Constitution to confer suffrage cn wo men has been defeated in the Massachu setts House by a vote of 68 to 68. The Senate rejected the bill to regulate the hours of labor in factories by a large ma jority. The wheat prospects in the western coun ties of North Carolina are excellent, says the Newborn Republican and Courier. The University of Kentucky has pur chased Ashland, the home of Henry Clay, for $30,000. The Raleigh Telegram says the fishing season along the North Carolinn coast and eastern rivers has been the most extraordi nary known for years. Col. J. Lucius Davis, a graduate ot West Point, who fought through the Me r lean war, and commaded the 10th Virginia cav alry in the late war, is dead. Tho Atlanta aud Agricultural Associa tion will hold their Fair for the present year from 10th to 20th, inclusive, of Octo ber next. The Committee on Premiums and Classes ore preparing for publication their premium list, and will havo it ready for distribution about the 1st of J one. A FEW RAILROAD FIGURES. The anxiety aud presisteucy of the dis organizers in lugging in the lease of the State Road—as an issue in the present canvass makes it necessary that the voters of Floyd county shonld have before them all the facts and figures in the case, that they might intelligently make up their decis- sious upon the matter. We therefore give a few figures, which are taken from the of ficial records of the State and can be relied- npon. The State Road has neen in operation twenty years. During that twenty years, its expenses have exceeded its recti; Is, $2, 000,000, including the S500,000 demand ed and actually necessary to put the road in order. The prosperous admin’stration of Joe Brown to which the opponeotsof the lease point so triumphantly as a standard of the worth and the profits of the road, raised the opperations of the road frorq a bare paying up to a profitable basis. But dur ing the four most profitable years of his ad ministration before the war, its net profits were only 81,140,000. Contrast this $1,- 140,000 of tho triumphant Brown adminis tration with the net profits that are secured to the State by the lease and what havo we? The lease brings to tde State $300,- 000 per annum, this multiplied by 4 gives the sum of $1,200,000. Now figure it ont for your selves and what do you have. The sum of $60,000 in favor of the lease. And yet you are told that Pilate aud He rod killed Christ, and Joe Browu and Ben Hill muidercd the State Read. Sixty thousand dollars over the most profitable time of aoy state administration is not a very bad kill. But contrast it with the twenty years of its operation and what have we? These twenty years cost the State the sum of $2- 000,000. Set that down, $2,000,000. Now figure up what the State will real ize by the lease—S300,000 per annum for twenty years, amounts to $G,000,000. Set that down—$6,000,000. Now to this add the interest that ac crued upou the first payments, amounting, in all to 4,000,000, which $4,000,000 you may add to the $6,000,000 principal, and you have the sum of $10,000,000. Now put all these figures together and what have you?—$10,000,000 gain by the lease, 2,000,000 loss by the political management. Making in all the magnifi cent sum of S12,000,000 in favor of the lease. Theories and sentiment may ho excel lent things to tickle the popular mind with, but facts and figures do not lie. STATE AID TO RAILROADS—IVILL IT PAY? There seems tc be a misapprehension in the minds of many, in reference to lending the aid of the State to building Railroads. Many think the State is liable, and with out any security, for every bond it endorses for the building of Railroads. If such were the case, the credit ol the State would be iu great peril, but fortunately it is not so. The Constitution of Georgia, which the Governor, who has to issue and sign all Railroad bonds, and who has to take an oath to support and carry out the Constitu tion, says: “Nor shall the credit o'" the State be granted or loaned to aid any com pany without a provision that the whole property of the company shall be bound for the security of the State prior to any other debt or lein, except to laborers; nor to any company in which there is not already an equal amount invested by private persons.” This is the very language ol the Constitu tion of Georgia. So it will be seen that belorc a single bond cau be issued to any Railroad, that private individuals must have actuallypaid in to such road, out of their oicn jnchets, an amount equal to the sum they ask the State to endorse for said road, aud in addition to this, must give the State the first mortgage, not only on the road, but upon “the whole property of the company” as security to the State against any loss. To illlustrate, take the road chartered by the last Legislature, to run from Rome to Columbus,Ga. The bill, aud the clause of the Constitu tion above quoted, provides that after pri vate individuals have built and equipped twenty miles of the road, that the State may endorse the bonds of the road eqnal to the amount actually expended in build ing and equipping the first twenty miles; the money raised on this endorsement to be expended on the next twenty miles of the road. Say it takes two hundred and fifty thousand dollars from the pockets of pri vate individuals to grade and equip twenty mils? of the road, the Governor can then issue State aid bonds for tho amount of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to aid in building the next twenty miles; and when the forty miles are completed, the State has a lein superior to all others, on the whole road, and the whole property of the company! So, unless the Governor com mits perjury and issues bonds unlawfully, the State cau lose nothing by this policy of State aid We know of no road that would net sell for half it would cost to grade and equip it under anything like pro per management. While this is so, we were glad to see our immediate representatives, Scott and Bol linger, in the last Legislature, through great caution, opposed with vigor tho granting of State aid to all roads, except those they felt confident woold aid in developing the material resources of the State,—aid in in creasing in value all her taxable property, and place her credit beyond peradventure. They voted to lend the credit of the State to a few meritorious roads only, and we ap prove their course. The Macon Te’egraph & Messenger in nocently asks “Where is Beast Butler?”— He thinks that worthy’s claims to roguery are about to be rivaled by a sneak thief that entered a negro church in that city, and stole the sacrimental service. Never fear for Bntler. Wo venture that there is. an understanding between the two. Butler is the King of rogues, and there is not so much as a rin stolen in all the Uni ted States without his approval. Tho Chicago Common Council has or dered that the tax levied on the grave of Senator Donglas he paid ont of the general fond, and the sale of the ground stopped. ItiL'Cr, BOSTEED’S CHAlter; TO the GRAND JURY. Below we publish the charge of United States District Judge, Richard Bus teed, to the Grand Jury of the District Court for North Alabama. Ic is a complete refuta tion ol the Ku Klux stories that bare so unjustly prejudicial to the public mied against that splendid section. It gives the lie direct to Grant, Morton, and those mis erable revolutionists who have sought these alleged disorders as a pretext to invest the President with the powers of a dictator. We earnestly commend thecharge of this Federal, and carpet-bag officer, to the con sideration of onr Northern readers, beg ging them to remember that this District is the reported het-bsd of Ku Kluxism and votes almost solidly Democratic. Will our spirited little Radical friend, the Bay City, Michigan, Journal, do us the favor to pub lish it. It would give its readers a far bet ter idea of the truth than two columns ot its editor’s bitter conjectures : Huntsville, May 16. Tbe Hon. Richard Busteed delivered the following charge to the Grand Jury : Mr. Foreman and Gentlemen : You have been summoned to yonr pres ent duty by the ordinarily recurring de mands of that part of the public system of laws which comes within tho jurisdiction of the national courts. It gives me unfeigned satislaction to he able to announce that there is hut a single case of alleged offence to he brought to your notice, a case in which a party is charged with robbing the mail.-. This state of facts is exceedingly gratify ing, when wc consider thata whole year has elapsed since the erapanneling ot the last Grand Jury, for the United States, in this District. No better evidence of the gen eral good order which prevails in this com munity, and no stronger proof of loyalty to the government, need or can be fur nished, than is given by their obedience to the laws. This is especially true, where the laws are believed by them to savor oi par tiality, harshness or vindictiveness. Fealty to statutes that are repugnant to one’s own idea of what is just, exalts obedience into a virtue of the v ry first order, and entitles the citizen to tbe extremest and teudereft consideration of the government. It is dne to the people of this Judicial District, and to the entire country that the Federal Court should expres? itself on this subject, with emphasis and candor. It is its duty always, on the one hand to warn against offences, and so endeavor to hinder their commission; and, on the other hand, to commend obedience, and so to encourago the well-doer. Let us take courage in the hope that we have inaugurated the period which shall witness all the States of our be loved country fraternal in fact, as well as in name, am! when there shall he neither fair pretext nor actual necessity for the pas sage of any law of Congress intended to suppress locafc irregularities, or offenses against the rights of citizens of the Re public at large. 'Jiet it be onr individual care and pride to add permanence, nnd strength to free institutions, and to vindi cate the capacity of the American people to bear tbe restraints imposed upou them selves by their own laws. We shall thus confound the enemies of liberal govern ments, and strengthen, throughout the world the hands of those who struggle in their behalf. I suppose that most of you arc practical ly acquainted with what pertains to your present service, and that it is not necessary for me to do more than, in a general way, remind yon in this respect. Yonr foreman is authorized to administer oaths to witnes ses, and compel their attendance. Twelve of you must concur in finding an indict ment, and every trne bill must be endorsed by your foreman, and then returned into court. Your deliberations are to be had in secret, and you are to maintain the secresy of yonr jury room inviolate. The District Attorney is your adviser upon all questions- of a legal character, has the right of access to your chamber, end should conduct the examination of witnesses before you, but when you deliberate or vote, you must be by yourselves. The responsibility of placing a man upon trial before a jury ot the country is one of the utmost gravity. It should never ho done, cxeept upon such evidence of proba ble guilt as you would be willing to act up on in a matteraffecting your own dearest in terests, and such as satisfies yonr reasonable belief that crime has occurred. Y’on are by do means to take it for granted that an of fense has been in fact committed, because it is charged. Recollect that yonr office is one of inquiry, and that the legal presump tion of innocence attaches to every transac tion, until that presumption is overcome by the verdict of a petit jury. On this point I cannot do better than to quote from a charge reccnMy delivered to a grand jury in Memphis Tennessee, by the Hon. H. H. Emmons, the United States Circuit Judge fer the Sixth Judicial Dis trict. He says : “In a ruling with testimuny rightfully before yon, reason as you would if you de sired to learn the truth in aay serious af fair concerning the highest interests of your business or your families. The anxiety you would feel, and the common sense you would employ, in such circumstances, should characterize your labors as jurymen. Bear in miod, gentlemen, the purport of the oath you have just taken. For beauty of iormule, for solemnity and precision of statement, for exact discrimination of what yon are to perform, is unrivaled in concep tion and in language. Yon would do well to con it over and over until its every es sence permeates yonr every thought. Let me, in conclusion of these remarks repeat it in your -hearing : “You do swear that you will diligently inquire, and troo pre sentment make, of all snch articles, mat ters and things, as shall be given you in charge, or otherwise come to your knowl edge, touching the present service; the counsel of the United Staler; yonr fellows, and yonr own, you shall keep secret; yoa shall present no one fer envy, hatred or malice; nor shall yon leave any one unpre- sented for fear, favor, affection, hope of rc- ward orgaiD, but shall present all things truly, as they come to your knowledge, ac cording to the best of your understanding. So help you God.” The ejal troubles in Penns Ivania have happily been adjusted, and lull work was to have been recommenced yesterday Better late than never, bat it is too late to benefit the shivering poor who through the dreary cold of March and April were freezing for the want of fuel. Desecration.—The saeriligious work of tho Paris devils still progresses. The offi cers of the Commune have seized all the valuab'e and sacred articles in the Church of the Trinity, and will deal similarly with nil the other churches. What a .-plendid chance it is for Butler. Metre Dame Dis Victoris has been sacked, and the demoli tion of the famous Chapel of tt-c Expiation has already commenced. How long will these furious demons he permitted to spread their unholy work—oh, how long ? 'fhoJLa'Grange Reporter says: “Tho Rome Courier spells it decrepid more than once in the same article.” Of o u'rsc wo did, we were quoting the words t.f the “fee ble and decrepid lunatic”of the Cominer- tial, and as he applied the term to his own case, we supposed that he had aright to spell it as he pleased. THE NORTH,AND SOUTH RAILROAD. From the Heard county News wo tnke the following accouut of the railroad meet ing recently held in Franklin. By it it will be seen that the people are in cal nest-, TheNcw.- also protests against the nar row guagfe humbug. AVe commend tc the News the two excellent articles recently published in the Courier upon this sub ject. Persuant to previous call, a meeting of the citizens of Heard county was held in the Courthouse on Saturday, the 13th inst. to take into consideration the raising of funds to aid in the survey of the North and South Railroad. The meeting was or ganized by calling our Corporator, W. M. K. Watts, to the chair, and appointirg M. M. Barron, Secretary. The Chairman briefly stated the object of the meeting, satisfactorily explaining the main points coouected with the enterprise. On motion, D. Oliver, Esq., was called npon for an address, who responded in an interesting speech—stating that the para mount consideration is, to secure the Road by every fair means; depicting the sad cose dition of other points which selfishly refus ed to extend aid to railroads; and. with oth er appropriate arguments, set forth the ma ny advantages which would accrue to the citizens of Heard co., and the whole coun- try. Col. Beall was also called upou, who ad- dressel the meeting iu a well-timed aud ap propriate speech, giving interesting facts and figures regarding the present cost of getting goods and provisions to onr county, and contrasting these prices with what would be the result if wc had a railroad, etc. Remarks were also made by the Chair, man and Dr. G. IV. l’cddy, urging the vast importance of prompt action in tbe matter. After the arguments were closed the sum of $415,00 was subscribed to aid in the sur vey On motion, a committee was appointed, consisting of two from each district, to so licit subscriptions for the survey. Also, a committee of 15 to meet the surveying party at the lower line of Heard county. On motion, the editor of the News was requested to publish the proceedings of the meeting. Adjourned, to rc-assemble on the 1-t Tujsday iu next month. W. M. K. WATTS, Ch’ D . M. M. Barron, See’y. TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD. There are growing in Trenton, N. J., two cork trees raised from acorns sent ont from Washington a few years ago by the patent office. There are others in North Carolina and Florida. Rural South Carolinian. The proprietor of this paper, the Jack sonville Rcpnblican; hasjone growing from the same set of acorns. Ho had two trees, hnt one died in transplanting. The one now living, is standing in the flower garden near the pavement. It looks on first sight, like an oak. We hope Brother Grant will bring or send a twig from the free he has growing to the next exhibition which will come off on the 4th Tuesday in June next. The TEnu.iNTEPEC Canal.—Captain Schurfeldt, of tho Tehuantepec Canal sur vey, has arrived at Washington, and re ports the feasibility of the enterprise. He suggests the supply of water from a source never before thought of, but what that source is the dispatches do not tell. Per haps he expects to to tap the moon. In ter-oceanic communication through the con tinent w;nld tc the triumph of the century, hnt we have no faith in government enter prise to affect it. That thing is all a shame less humbug. If M. Lesseps could be in duced to give the matter bis attention, and be was to pronounce it feasible, we would then regard it as possible. Or, if Maury, proscribed and despised as he is by our government, was to say it could be done, then would we believe it. But these gov ernment humbugs only care to be favorably noticed, and to make fat jobs, and hence their reports only look to that end. Rochefort.—This arch-fiend ofRepub- lieanism has been caught at last, or at least so says the London dispatches; and it is to ho hoped that the cause of a common hu manity will be rid of one of its deadliest curses. He was arrested while attempting to escape from the Commune, tho whirlwind of whose passions he has been so busily arousing. Doomed.— l he Archbishop of Paris has been selected by the Commune for execu tion as a hostage. They have also doomed the Abbes Degurre Croze to the same fate. The Bloody Ku Klox.—Horace Gree ley, the venerable agricultural philosopher, and bellows blower cf the Tribane, is on the hunt of the Ku Klux. He has ram- sacked Louisiana with a fruitless search and is cow in Texas. He calls upon the ghostly spirits to come, but they come not. Wc suppose that be will have to come to Rome aud find Bullock’s lying correspon dent (if that dirty little dog can be found) before he can get his savage eye upon the midnight marauders. A little girl, Katie, daughter of Mr. J. H. Otto, of Macon, was drowned iu a tub of water ou the 19th inst. It being near the ^rcakfast. hour, the members of tbe household were engaged in their domestic affairs while the little child was playing abont the yard, as was its usual custom, bat being missed iu a few moments, a servant was directed to a3certaia its whereabouts, when, to the horrible astonishment of all, its little lifeless body was found in a wash- tub about half filled with water. Westminister Review for April.— We have the Wcstminister for April. It is up to its former excellence; and, with the exception of one or two grave errors in its article npon “The American Republic,” we arc delighted with it. The openi ig sen tence in this article says “The material power displayed by the American Republic during the late civil war, and the magna nimity and moral grandeur exhibited at its close, etc.” Wo cannot appreciate the mor al grandeur, lot the magnanimity, but, on the other hand, wc have received nothing but a churlish and niggarly treatment from the government. Wc shall notice this paper more at length when leisure permits, and will only give the following table of contents of the Review: Aristophane; The American Republic— Its Strength and Weakness; Thomas Hood; Battles in the Chnreh; Public School Teaching; France, the Jesuits, and the Ti entsin Massacre; Ste. Benve; Army Organ- Ration; Contemporary Literature; Theology and Philosophy; Politics, Sociology, Voy ages and Travels; Science; History and Bi ography; Belles Lettres. A fourteen year old girl in Cincinnati cowhided a young loafer who had made re marks about her. Bullock Feels Rich. The malignant cunning, and political trickery of the charlatan whom the misfor tunes of our country have placed ov t r ns, cannot be measured. The regular course of its mendacity flows on. reeking with cor ruption and smelling hiah to heart n with its infamy, hpi it requires an occasional strain lant from the cruel tyrants at Washington to heave it up iu all its astounding aud alarming proportions. Like the Mcoulde: iag fires ot a volcano, the poisonous gases that exude can tell of the hal ful elements within; bnt it requires tbe wrathful throe of the fire giant withm to send from its flaming month the pent up lava of its ha tred. The malignant si al of the tyrant at Wash ington has oeen moved to action, and in obedience to its erne] mandates, this petty creature of accidental power; Rufus B. Bullock, lias darned up the ordinary course of the stream of his meanness, aud has flooded the State with its reeki shameless venom. This flood of slanderous spite waspunred upon our community by the Commercial his advertising organ of this city, on the morn'iDg of the 23d iDst, ia a column proc Isolation, averring and specifying six.een different cases of Ku Klux outrages, and offering in the aggregate the sum of two hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars —assuming that each of the parties con sisted of ten men—as rewards for the ap prehension of the parties. \Ye will give so much of his specifica tions as refer to parties in this and Chattoo ga counties. After the usual bombastic preamble, this fellow proceeds to say : “I do hereby issue this myjproclamation offering a reward of five thousand dollars for the arrest, with evidence to convict, of any one pe:soo, and oue thousand dollars for each additional person, being of the dis guised party, or band, or clan, engaged in either of the lawless proceedings hereinaf ter recited, to-wit: Who on, or about the night of the 18th of February last, came to the house of colored man named Dan Jack Foster, in tbe county of Floyd, aud after beating and maltreating, and otherwise misusitg the said Foster, did then and there take from him such articles of small value as he had about his cabin. Who on the same night visited the house of a colored man named Hilliard JobnsoD in said county of Floyd, and did then ard there abuse and maltreat the said John son. Who, on the same night, came to the house of a colored man named Anderson Fcullain, in said connty of Floyd, snd did then and there take from him his gnu, and did then, and there commit an outrage up on the person of the wife of tho said An derson Ponllain. Who, on the same night, came to the house of a colored man named Patrick, in the said county of Floyd, aud did then and there take from him his gun and otheT ar tides of value. Who, on the same night, came to the house of a white man named Zebe Walker, in said connty of Floyd, and did then and there compel! him to stand ont in the cold for a considerable length of time without his clothing. Who on or abont the night of the 21st of February last came to the callaboose or *• p F0RD " jail at Trion Factory, in Chattooga connty, and did then and there forcibly release a culprit from confinement thcrem. Who on or abont the night of tho 4th of February last came to the plantation of Mr. Robert Foster, in said connty of Chat tooga, and did then and there murder colored man named Squire Ellerson. Who on or about the same time came to the plantation of Hon. Wesley Shropshire, in said county of Chattooga, and did then and there tear down and destroy a school house. and threaten to hang a colored girl who was the teacher of said school, and did then and there cruelly beat and maltreat a colored man who was charged with having built the said school house.” Of these charges it is unnecessary to speak with tbe exception of the mnrder of Squire Ellerson, an accouut of which was given in the Courier at the time. They are all either false in tuto, or grossly ma; nified. Ellerson was murdered by a party on the night of the 4th of February. He was a Democrat—had been solicited by a gang tbe night before to join a party to hunt and kill the Ku Klux, and because of his refusal he supposed that he was killed. We published an account of the nnfortnnate af fair at the time, bat because Ellerson was a Democrat, our law-loving Governor with held any offer of reward until four months after; and now that- his master demands a batch of Ku Klux outrages, signed with tho official seal of the State, this miserable thing come? in with the murder of a colored mao, to give a force to his slanderous ar ray of petty outrages. The grinning corpse of tho poor negro is dragged from its grave and held up, side by side, with the poor, shivering Zebe Walker, whom his cruel tormentors made “stand ont in the cold.” The affair of the school house, on the plantation of Eon. Wesley Shropshire, was unfortunate to those who know nothing of the facts, whioh are these : In the splen did Dirt Town Valley there is a prosperous Female Academy—an institution built up with great care and pride, by the elegant people of that community. This Academy stands near the lands of this same lion, Wesley Shropshire, a man who has strange ly repudiated the honor of his family, and gone, like Ephraim of old, “a whoring after Radical gods.” It apperrs that, being pos sessed of this Radical itching, the hands of this same Eon. Wesley Shropshire were tamed against his old friends and neigh bors, and in order to break down the Acad emy, he gave a plot of land as close to it as he eonld, for the purpose of erecting a ne gro school. It was to protect their cherished Acad emy that the parties referred to by Bol lock, and for which the magnificent reward of ten thousand dollars is offered, destroyed the school house, and whipped the negro who built it, leaving a note at the same time for Hon. Wesley Shropshire, that if he persistedtin his designs to establish a negro school in that close proximity to the Academy, that they would visit him next No objection to his negro school anywhere else.* Their action is to be regretted, bnt it can be excused; and public sentiment says that tbe greatest error was in whipping the negro instead of Eon. Wesley Shropshire. Tho importance given to the other out rages committed in Floyd and Chattooga, is despicable, end if those trumped up in the other portions of the State are of the same character, it shows with whatingenn- ity a cowardly tyrant can make “much ado abont nothing.” But the :jrant at WasM hts requisition upon our Slat, r M ** The Ku Klux hm mast on which to operate, and our p" -5 ** ernorwasonlyteo^^^Co,. nu:t y .a lying, 3nd his , ruek , v.cney to Radicalism both atoL W tv e are nut surprised at him hut r must our people think of* paDe ' 7. Wl * t» be Democratic,andbattlCr that gives countenance and to tho circulation of such •' ■ Beae »t lainotious, by publish*..ihiljj ment or disapproval, even tl-nu^ it ' 0 ”' per annum fordoing it. 1 “Dudfsi i onlj A Lucky FALL.-j 0 h n recovered the sum of$lo 0 fio New Orleans and ChatW-a ^ Company, for damages snstaineilhS through an opening through the Co^ dvmtic'ei; : ‘ v 7 s " iei J'»*.-h. 1 in -oc.it i -. lc , :cr p|, ot „„ r h ^ ? f voted a.liLir- r |.. r hi, **£ F T “**- afterwards her hr.,tl„-r f.-nnil it , T 1 * of a billiard s-tioon, decorated with a ot mustache.-and an immense segar artistf pin. cally done with ; What a Distinguished Man - our Nominee.—One 0 f the guished statesu c:i •'ID ftp Diost detiu. m Georgia, an d one , t . has the confidence of the Democrat. 0 thts State, and of the United who has filled high offices of 'its, and trust—Star* and Federal—said a few days a „ 0 “the defeat of Scott of Floyd would bit,- a shout of joy from every radical, mill way and carpelbayger, in Georgia.”’ Let all Democrats, therefore, who patbize with the aforesaid, vote j.L Scott. " J SPAN LiixiES.-The J1 con Tele-rapt, says Liliutn Auratum. i s the hotanied name ot one of the most beautilul tribute of the floral Kingdom, and, as its name in. dicates,, is a golden liily of mammoth pro- portions. The one exbibite 1 to us ,,, grown by Mr. Milne, from a bnlb imported directly from Japen,-and, in our estimation, it far exceeds anything of the kind we et’ cr saw.. Affairs in Mexico do cot seem t„ b in a much more lovely pickle than the; are in the blessed Union. Jaurez and Leri) the rival candidates lor the Presideocj, are applying the grease with lavish hands, each to carry his poiDt. Jaurez has his hand in the public fat geard, while Lerdo has a fin; supply of hisowD,and so the “greasers are having a slick time of it. Whoever wins will have to fight. ORDINARY’S NOTICE. A, LL Executors, Administrators and Guardi ans who are liable to make return?, are faertlj required to do so by the first Monday in July, 1871, in terms of tbe law in such case made and provided, or'if not complied with by that date, a rule Nisi will then be taken to know thecaase of snch neglect. H. J. JOHNSON, Ordinary. may25wtd FORD & GLOVER. NEW GROCERY —AND— Commission House, NO. 7, BROAD STREET, (Lower end of Shorter ElocV.) ROME, . - - - - GEORGIA, A lull line of Groceries and Family supplies constantly on hand. Cotton and all sorts of country produce bought and sold. Consip- its and orders solicited. may23U-w6m Clover & Grass Seed Gatherer. PAUL DISMUKES, Patentee and Manufacturer, GALLATIN, TENS. J PROPOSE to sell theSUte anl OocntjEifbt this Machine, or Single Machine. It bom- pie in its construction, drawn by two Horn and will gather the seed of Eight Acres per di» of Clover, Blue Grass, Herds Gras3 or Bsrley* Blue Grass will yield from 4 to S bushels per acre. Clover will yield from 2 to 4 bushels per acre. This Machine does not injure the Cloreror Grass in gathering. By its use we will be exporters instead of im* porters of Seeds. . It is only necessary to see the JIaehuie, to know that it will be all that is proposed fordm it can be seen that the firm of PAVL DK- MITKES A Co., Gallatin, Tenn. oi addressed bj letter. MR. PAUL DISMUKES, Gallatin, Ten: Dear Sir.-** have seen your Clover and Grass Seed Gatherer at work in the field* and wc prononsw n t best Machine ever invented to keep Mosey We are satisfied that it will gather fro® ***** to eight acres per day, and take them c above the leaves of the Clover. R G. Gillispie, I. W. Ham-*, E. T. Bush, T. II. Arnold, Jno. F. Gillispie. J. C. Vertrees, I. N. Guthrie, J«. Gnthne, - R. W. Bennett, B. F. J*®* 10 ®' I. N. Newkirk, Xhos. Flann^’ Dr. B. W. Hall, Wm. Bake, ot Pa* A. a Franklin, T.Bojer* Ball* PejtoB. Me Paul Dismukks:—Bear Sir,--1 nre in stating that one of your Seoi ^ was used on my Clover field last laU ^ for which I received one third of seed g» ^ With my portion I sowed 40 acres, encugli left to sow 15 or 20 mim have come up and as good a stand as 1 , No work ever done on mjr . P Gn,IJ3H£ *S-P*tent right of the States Alabama for sale by M. Dvriasst, J T'J~-The above Machines for sole DJ - McDonal J, Rome, Ga. mayl6tw-wtf Chancery and Sale. ERSUANT to a decree in United Sutes District Co"*;. 1fo J“tii-ouiaj' District of Georgia, will be sold it e £*rt between the legal hour, ol sale, bom" ^jtj, Honse door in tbecitTofRom^FI^^^d ing or lou ot lana Humuei.- 779, in tho third district and fourth sec Terms cssb. , „ Also at the same time “lP“'f’{f e orfi»*' traton sale, persuant to sa order of th« k(i9 r,ol Floyd wunt,.for the benefit and creditors, lot of land number ^ third district and fourth section, ssaai*^,. ber 117, in the 10th district and foorU ^ SrcLtro^rhfif^mcni^ TiU. retained as scemitv ^ may25td of W. IT- —- GEORGIA, Polk County. \V HEREAS John If. Key las . » i Z/fi Alii* A® yy HEREAS John il. w jj; o»»° eeafmhto be and appesr ntmyo® 1 ^ y nj hand W officii ^ they haTB, ted. mny25w30d