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VOLUME XXVIII.
Beautiful leaves*
Fading beneath our passing feet,
Strewn npon lawn and lane and street,
Beautiful leaves!
Dyed with the hues of the sunset sky,
Falling in glory bo silently,
Beautiful leaves!
Never to freshen another Spring,
Never to know what the Summer may bring,
Beautiful leaves!
Withered beneath the frost and cold.
Soon to decay in the common mould,
Beautiful leaves!
So will the years that change your tint
Mark upon us their autumnal print,
Beautiful leaves!
So shall we fall from the tree of time,
Fade aa ye fade in a wintry clime,
Beautiful leaves!
But when the harvest of life is past,
And we wake in eternal Spring at last,
Beautiful leaves!
May IIo who paints your brilliant hue
Form of our lives a chaplot now
Of beatttiful leaves!
ROME, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING.
and
The decision will not
DuriiJ
283, and
ond Dis;
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r * deeeul
table, fj
» plaintifl
lot n__
Section,!
the losil
Plorecffl
tdair.eil
r tj point!
to salifti
> Distill
•li J. D|J
uni Jelt
Ragsdij
the new Episcopalian
’ pav tithe of mint, anise, and
felt iivdect the weightier mat-
i'„ -law. ‘-Ml.
, u ,tirt itas decided that if a
Ik-'mls money m her husband she
; , t it hack,
many v
f Willwlni's doctors urge liim to
‘ t.-i of die winter in Florence
|,„t die imperial invalid is
-out bach word to the managers
• du-trinl Exhibition at Newark
inx-mueli as it was them,” she
. ;li their enneert for $3000.
|(ariilinc Y. Price, widow of the
rjl Thomas L. Price, was mar
lin-hat her residence in Jeffer-
\|„.. tn Colonel James I?. Pierc,
i lrfo.ni>.
j.tnl.m Grocer reports a scarcity
n.arket of cloves, caused by a
v that .-wept over Zanzibar in
■Tl ami destroyed the whole of
crop.
iilM r :n]»i-it"r made the critic
Giarl"tU' Cushman was a
i arinss" instead of a “ heauti-
. ami the supply of free tickets
armuid that day.
a: ant of timber annually con-
i tin- form of toothpicks may ,be-
I tv tlio fact that a toothpick facto-
anton, Me., recently bought GOO
it Wood for making into toothpicks.
Ha Templeton, whose husband
: <: to aianler her hv shooting, in
r -n:i. street, -'utne weeks since, is
; ' ivcr from her wounds, and
v.itiioat attv sear lieintr left on
Treasurer of Wisconsin re-
m praeti.-r.lly out of debt,
vperonea to its educational
.p’ rr >. a:: ! to outsiders only
a Ittf. :■ sitin it is ready to
. pyki. an old chap who
ilanipsiiire the other day,
IMU lit eii'li. requested in his
o -should simtile mid shed
rsat his funeral, hut cover
! tl. n liiii'rv home to lindit
trials
Mi
lion of the .State Agri-
. held at Athens last
• College of Agriculture
ie Arts oli' red to have
■ ter ill,- benefit of the planters,
■•I tin- principal fertilizers
•t sale in fleorgia. This prop
's' accepted by the btate Agri-
■'oeiety. and it was made the
the secretary of the society to
-■ sample- of fertilizers, and to
same to the laboratory of the
lege, designated by numbers
'•d not hv tin- names under
iey are sold.
[' designation by numbers was
to satisfy the public that all
Tiuuig influence that any partic-
Bfifht be supposed to exert
- •"•1 "l the chemist would be
of The resolutions also pro
fit the relative commercial val-
■■ 1 lertilizers should be calculated
: ' fBu^tituents as shown by the
/. hns work, involving much
-•‘‘ scientific skill and accuracy,
Z' 1 v< '/"ntarily undertaken by
•i.e tull.ge lor the benefit of the
a lie ire especially for the ben-
o- ngnoultuntl community,
oil with interest to the
'■ nus work, and cun clearly see
i'j iiiay ri-Milt therefrom,
■" “"2 our tanners to purchase
' r '" ith a ch ar understanding of
" "a'rket value.—('hnmidc <md
of Mauu-
cture,! •« tlie Ohio Valley.
■ adjourned meeting of the iron
; : ; ' r - rs .° r Ohio Valley was
-'■/ /'. city on the pith inst., all
‘ ,!/ of Portsmouth,
'/""ton. Chattanooga
‘olf .. lCe '■ i”® represented.
'-'i- of tin- ineeting was to
•■'M ale of prices that they
. " ..“ 1 *or all skilled labor in
• .....i work. At a meeting on
'"■•ember last it was re-
• 1" per cent, more than
-feii prices, but the workmen
-;• • oiler, and at the meeting
.... V;.. ‘‘I'd- the following was
''■•men! iron manufacturers
/; ' -ilh v. Jield this day,
in Cincinnati, it
•■" w ithdraw their proposi-
; ..' Acn / ier Id. and from this
: •_.'••*• Pittsburgh sliding scale
;;; Z/ :. il1 skilled labor in forge
exeejit boiiingi, based
“t.urgb manufacturers’
.^“ictsol mm.
j’J’o- owine to
-'• rim.
previous en-
unebanged until
!_■ u'iVi 'd tlie Gaylord
‘ He /ii' "! 11 l! lin y, tlie secretary
inoZ r 5 " 8 to state that
N ul; “'Cis,.r= e l 1 , 011 PI 1 , toe part of
H’tfes hit,or 1L ’ Va 'lev to
if 1 ' 1 is to bn 11.Z , a '} y "li they
I^Wrgh ,,, ,n, ?./, t0 com pote with
“‘St cannot u CrS ’. and this ' he
tu accent i, 1 do uu * e ss laborers
, He ai i0 ' totver wages.
r n!;< l feelin,; r „/, thero was a deter-
'■tofwsnotto, the I’ art of manu-
1 the
. has been
Premises by the work
IDA DEL Z ON S.
Chapter XXI.—Is a Maze. —
APhile the mischievous Ida was thus
leading her doughty knight into an in
tricacy of paths, cross roads and byways
that was soon to bewilder them both,
Kathleen and Gilbert were riding on ii i a
more sober, thoughtful pace. As th ey
rode from under the Porta Cavalleggien,
the low walled villas between which
their way wound presented a pleasing
picture, in the rosy flush of the rising
sun. It was a picture for silent enjoy
ment, and in silence they admired it
Farther on, the way became more
open, and the vista expanded into one
of more active interest The country
rolled before them into little hills and
hollows of enchanting contour, its light
and shadows checked with blue and
purple, the whole bathed iu a golden
flood of sunlight.
Then it was that Gilbert’s enthused
admiration could restrain itself no
longer, and stretching out his arm he
said,
“This is a region of enchantment.
Every feature of the landscape is a pic
ture in itself.”
“ Yes,” answered Kathleen, “ it seems
when I look upon it, as if 1 were under
the spell of a strange witchery—some
thing like a bewildered remembrance
of a happy dream—and I have to put
my hands to my eyes to realize that I
am awake. I lose my individuality,
and feel as if I were a part of the scene
—an atom, as it were, floating in the
purple air.”
“ Ah! one would have to be an egotist
indeed to think of self in all this ex
panse of classic beauty. See! with
what a graceful curve yon mountain
side bends down into the sweeping
plain; how perfect the contour 1 and
yet, as my eye follows the classic line
of beauty into the dimness of the pur
ple horizon, it seems as if I were reach
ing out my vision to peer down into
the dim ages of the past—not only
individuality is lost, hut time, and
place, and one becomes a gnome, grop
ing amid tlie tombs of tlie (Ansars!”
“Ah! I am glad you appreciate the
feeling. One must experience tlie sen
sation to understand it; and even then
it is indescribable. 1 know very well
wliat your words would express—but
till, to one who has never gazed upon
this scene and felt the subtle magnetism
of its associations, they would he mean
ingless.”
‘True; there is a psychology of
nature as well as of humanity. One
can feel its mysterious monitions—the
_ ulsations of the air—the eeried sigh
of the winds—the fretful moaning of
the sea—and they speak to tlie human
oul in language lucid in its simple
meaning, but inexpressible by mortal
tongue. It is that inexpressible, un-
definable soul-communion with the
beauty of this scene that we have both
so poorly tried to express.”
“ Yes; not only the beauty, hut the
historic associations that envelope it in
a haze of awful mystery. This same
scenery elsewhere would hardly impress
us so solemnly—I mean, divested of
tlie legendary interest which attaches
to everything we see here. One almost
fancies that one can feel the spirits of
tlie past moving in the air. Is it all a
conceit?”
“ I suppose it must be. Yon conia-
iliito. jogging along on his sleep} - ass,
docs not appear to he in communion
with them, if any there he — he, I
venture, is thinking of spirits of a far
more substantial kind.”
“ Oh, yes; I dare say he is. But that
does not establish anything. He is
quite as oblivious to the beauty of this
scene as he is unconscious to tlie pres
ence of the invisible host. Ask him
what it is he finds to admire here, and
lie will tell you with a stupid stare,
those little tufts of grass you see peer
ing out from under the drift of crum
bling weeds and leaves—they promise
food/ for his ass; the beauty of the
landscape is lost to his sight; may not
the monitions of the unseen he dead to
his soul?”
“Yes, you are right; it is only to
those who can hold communion with
tb.e soul of nature that she speaks in
audible tones.”
“ Your words remind me of our
American poet Bryant, whose soul is
attuned to the soltcst touches of nature.
He says,
* To Lim who in tlio love of Nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language.’ ”
“But this is Monte Mario rising to
our right, and our Arcadi opening be
fore us. See if you can recognize the
original of any of the Claudes we so
admired yesterday at the Doria. But
I imagine not; the wintry aspect lias
robbed them of the leally green with
which he touched them two hundred
years ago.”
They had now entered a vale, brancli-
...g oft’ into long grassy dells—linked
like a chain between low hills—spotted
here and there with slender trees, each
group arching into a haunt for the
shepherd. The first glance was one of
disappointment; hut as tlie mind came
to the relief of the sight, and began to
unwind its chain of classic associations,
the scene itself became transformed
into one of enchanting beauty.
Its faded bloom was revived —the
dry lank grasses became tuneful oaten
pipes, and one almost stopped to listen
to tlie pipers’ madrigal.
They had traversed two or three of
these dells, pausing every now and
again to localize some peculiar feature,
before they thought of their missing
companions. Their absence at first
startled Kathleen, who looked back
with a cry,
“ Oh. where is Miss Ida?”
The cry startled Gilbert, and he, too,
turned with an uneasy look down the
“I fear that some accident has.kte-
fallen them. Let us hasted back,” con
tinued Kathleen, turning her horse. ■
“No; I apprehend not They;,are
merely, loitering on the; way ; ; or per
haps—” Gilbert faltered.’ • . ^
: “Perhaps—what?” uneasily'
■Kathleen.
_ “ Perhaps they have been foolish’,
like myself and Ida; were the , other 1
morning. Oh, M’lle McConnell! can
you ever forgive my rudeness?”,
“Yes, yes';-Tit : was nothing.- But
come on, welflapst find Miss Ida,” she
answered, whipping on her mare, and
forgetful of. herself in. her uneasiness
for her friend/’ r ", j i
They galloped over a mile withoht
seeing anything of the truants; and
Gilbert himself began to,feel alarmed.
A hill on the Left overlooked the
“ Wait here a few moments, and I
will ride to the crest of the hill,, and
perhaps I may see them.” ; • . .
“Yes, I will ride with you.” -And
they turned'and charged up’the hiR. 1 .
A magnificent view lay before them.
The Campagna^to the Tiber, beyondj
and up■ it to .the; brown: Walla 6f the
city, lay plainly in view.
With' quick, eyes they scanned —
over. Keenly each moving object was
scrutinized. At length a glad cry burst
from Kathleen’s lips.
“I see ihem yonder 1 They are
beyond the- villa. . See, how wildly
they are galloping!”
“Ah, yes; 1 see—-now they draw u;
—and now they have turned and oi
again. What can they mean? See!
there they go. Oh! I see, they .are
confused—they have lost the way—-and
are galloping wildly about .There
they go, over the same ground again.
Why don’t the fool halt a moment for
thought, or get a guide ? We must go
to them, M’lle McConnell.”
“Yes, yes; come on. Do you see
that tower directly beyond them ? We
will mark that and ride to it. They
are in a line with it Oh, I know Miss
Ida is frightened 1”
“ It is amusing to watch them. But
there—Ida lias lialted, and Noltrieb
gallops on alone. Oh, I know—he
is thoroughly bewildered. I do hope
Ida will remain where she is untiT we
can reach her.”, . ’ , •,.••.
“ Oh! I know a path that will carry
us directly to her. Only follow me,
and in five minutes we will relieve
her.” . m •■
Gilbert kept well by her side, and
soon they were on tlie plain, sweeping
at a break-neck pace through the cross
lane.
Ida, exhausted first with laughter at
Eugene’s bewilderment, and then her
own fright when she herself, with their
intricate turnings, became conscious
of the toils into which" they were wind
ing themselves, had finally drawn up
her mare and resolved to go no farther.
Eugene, forgetful of her’ continued his
round, and had thrice completed the
identical circuit—spurring and pulling
and rushing like a cycione — when
Kathleen and Gilbert came galloping
up.
With a glad cry Ida turned to meet
them. And then, between laughter
and crying, she could hardly speak her
relief. Eugene now saw them, and
with a half glad half sheepish laugh
lie too rode up.
“ Oil, Miss Ida! M. Noltrieb! what
has happened. How came you here ?”
cried Kathleen.
Ida looked at Eugene. He colored,
hung His head, hut could not speak.
Oli, Kitty! let me tell you. The
banditti rushed upon us, and wc had
to flee for our lives, and in our flight
we became confused in all these lanes
and cross lanes; and here we have
been galloping around and around like
spotted clowns in a circus, for two
mortal hours, and the good Peter only
knows what would have become of us
if you had not come!”
“ The banditti, Miss Ida? surely you
mistake. There are no banditti.”
“Oh yes, there are—you ask Eu
gene,” and Ida appeared so thoroughly
earnest that Eugene was reassured.
‘‘Yes, indeed there were. That
Picami, or Pokeno—with his villanous
cut-throats—made a dash at us, and
being unarmed, we had to retreat.”
“Nonsense!” said Kathleen. “M.
Gilbert, to-day is Mardi Gras. We are
the victims of Miss Ida’s merry hu
mor. Well, I am glad that it is only
a joke, for I was really frightened.”
Gilliert did not at all relish the joke,
and Eugene was quick to understand
as much. With the best apology that
he could make, he begged their pardon
for the trouble he had put them to.
“ I see, Eugene, we are in disgrace.
IN ever wimi, .. - -i.in behind,
and make mouths at them,” cnecTlaa,
as they turned towards the city—
Gilbert and Kathleen leading the
way; “and after all, they were as
badly put out as we were. But wasn’t
it silly in us, Eugene, to get lost so, and
ride round tlie same square over and
over again ?”
Eugene felt that the time had come
for him to reassert his self assurance.
“To those who cannot understand
such things, it may appear silly; but it
is not really silly, it is perfectly natural.
It is a peculiar hallucination to which
anyone who is bewildered in his reck
oning is subject. You know when: your
head is giddy it goes round and round,
I have frequently been subject to . this
strange bewilderment. I remember
once, I was out on the prairies, on a
little scout after the Comanches. I
woke up one morning and had lost my
reckoning. Well, I mounted at once
and struck out, and traveled on and on
and on—without seeing anyone. I be
gan to get a little uneasy, until at last
I struck the fresh track of a horse. I
followed it on with a better spirit, until
after awhile I began to get uneasv
again, when,I came up with two fresh
tracks. This encouraged me, and I
spurred on as hard as I could to over-
take them, but I could see no one as
far ahead as my sight could reach. I
begin to fail again, just «r tap to catch
a new hopo as I came up with another
track. I followed on, and after an hour
I found another track. I kept on and
on and on, every hour commg up to a
fresh track, until at last the trail began
to be "beaten down as, plainly aa a path-
I followed it all day v and although
it got plainer and plainer every hour,
yet it brought me nowhere. Evening
came on, and I saw that I would have
supplied with
,tp ; the length of- his lariat -t iflkpt
Midi, and’ awoke next booming ready
for the 'path again.‘ . .I folhmed it.-on tb
and on, qptil.late in toe -d:
saw the flutter .of two Comaifi
.knots bn little 1 J ihblF*tq J
jNow'/thfech afe I: WU,
ride, and’a&Btious aa t
end.of that iiWerpiinal _
not" resist" the agflt of these
went for theth m double-quick. ”*'T l fie]y
saw me coming, and with 1 a whoop they
daahed away,A: "I fulled-on after them-
until I gained tlie crest of the little hill,
said that the;Preach company are
fohuild ai new steamer to replace
de’Havie..
Boston, signalized
ton to_ take
ting his
phblii
When—hell .and scissors! (I-beg your
.pardon Migg Idaby-lj, found myself in
the very jaw? of ope hundred ’of the
rascally redskins!?’
“ Ghil-horrible!
Eugene?”
'Ifll T V.o.1 r,,
What, did you do.
t ; t .... .
Oh, I had not time to consider what
to do, but was just fixing to dash in
among them pell-mell, when their chief
gave a yell and started, bawling at
every step, ‘Echittduste—Echittduke!’
The others caught it up as a sound , of
terror, and away they went,., not even
giving.me a chance fo bag a single one
,qf'tKem?’ - . ’ ';;• " r - ; i*_'y 7.
Miraculous! Whai so- frightened
them?” .rmi;
“ Oh, tlie chief—old Bushy Tail, rec-
^•nized nqe,-and .he-was struck wild
with terror. Echitulusd, you see, is my
Indian name, and it" was ihe sound of
that which sent a- terror to their craven
hearts.” ::: " ■• 1
“Oh, my! and. did you find your
way back to the path again ? : ”
“Oh, that is it! The diversion broke
the spell, and I recovered my reckoning
at once. And' would-you believe it,
Miss Ida—that path 1 had been follow
ing was pnly a circuit, in which I had
been travelling, and every blessed track
in it was made by my own.horse!”
_ “ Oh, that was wonderful! And
since you have told. it, I remember
having read somewhere of the circum
stance.”
“Yes, somehow or other.it got out,
and the whole world was full of the
story. But few know that I was the
hero of it I have told it to several
myself, but would you think it, Miss
Ida? there are but few who believe a
word of it.”
“Oh, how rude! the unbelieving
wretches!” 1
And this was to be the last of timi 1
Roman rides. • * ■
XTo be continued
Gpsslp About Wives of Public Hen.
lYife. is the- mile; stone which the
traveller never passes. She goes before
to quicken his pursuit, and if she lags
behind she must-be carried. As public
career isOa-rac§, dove arid wife are a
great part attfae training, the enconriter,
anfl toe Many a brilliant man,
like Sammy Cox,', stories a lady of
thoughtful. enppur^gement, who will-; worse, until* the -wax Governor of
ingly surrenders her fortune to give j popular Senator, the man
then toe had bome-him:
him a career, and .then submits to the
loss of rrrtfth "Of his sheiety and to the
acquaintance of many people of no
congeniality, for the same purpose.
Again, there are women, like .Mrs.
Sprague, who seem created on purpose
to diminish their husbands, not by an
unhappy emulation, or by greatly su
perior attainments, but by that buoy
ancy of address and spirits which in a
social capital make their impressions
so easily, while the more absorbed
husband passes at half his worth and
tlie bright wife at double her talent.
Other women, like Mrs. Garfield, are
too good, motherly, and unconscious of
self and social arrogance to change one
hair’s breadth from the path of domes
tic duty, and so arc lost to the giddy
E recession, which will never relax its
old upon a servitor, but preys upon
each new arrival for a winter and
plucks her as winter plucks the pea
fowl. Some women drive their hus
bands up to the breach of ashamedness,
like a certain cabinet officer’s wife, of
whom it is currently said, “ She is a
very prominent candidate for the chief
justiceship.”
Others die young and fond, like Mrs.
Belknap, who spent some of her latest
hours of pain and conscious dying
telling her husband what articles in his
lodgings belonged to him, and urging
him to remember, for toe sake of that
dear comfort she wished to give him,
when he should be lonely in his widower
home.— Washinylon Letter to Xeio York
Graphic.
The New York Tribune, in an article
relative to toe amnesty bill introduced
by Mr. Maynard, concludes as follows:
Within toe last few weeks two im
pressive incidents have shown how use
less and absurd were those out of date
precautions. One was tlie letter of
Gen. Forrest to Gen. Sherman, offering
to raise a diversion of cavalry for war
- :u ~ and Sherman’s endorse
ment that he would trust rorreat
fight as well for us as he did against ns.
The other was a word coming from
a man who honored us all in his way
of dying, Captain Fry, of the yirginiue.
WWte he was lying under an illegal
sentence of speedy death; when he had
bade farewell to the world and made
his peace with God; this- manly rebel
still thought of the coun&y; that h-ad
conquered and refused to forgive him,
abridged by proscription. The carpet
bag policy is ruinous to the country.
Let Louisiana govern herself. Her
prosperity is that of the whole coun
try.”
It is wretchedly narrow and not al
together honest policy which lias kept
3 ien of this sort so long under the ban
f proscription. This one at least took
a noble revenge in doing honor to the
American name when he died. There
are thousands of such, and we do not
think they are any more dangerous to
public peace or morals than Mr. Casey
or Judge Durcll.
rand appears-io be, O-must be con-
lidertdojf merit:byto Jgv*r|^o£ irdajj§.
• •, „$ri-— b*i •**■.-*?
, Bobbery and Stvlft BetrlbnUoii,
>ms, Dec. 13.—-A special dii-
. v toe-Oww^fit^
that information was rec
terday that a fatmef li'
bridgp, Salina courityi seld a -lot of hogs
in totoon-"VYedneadayyrneareingrifcaie 7
for about one thousand <foUars, and that
while returning home, he .was overtaken
by five men headed, by a notorious despe
rado named Tom Stanton, .who.shot and
killed him and'robbed toe body.
j Shortly after 1 toe tragedy,’ a gentleman
livingnear by discovered the body in toe
road, mid hearing an;angry altercation in
an ajaoent thicket, he-aomjjrehended toe
situation at once. He.."quietly raised a
party ofihis neighbors—captured three of
the aurderefs—hung them to a tree and
then stalled' pa. pursuit of two others, but
at last accounts it was not known wheth
er they had been capfiired-
Troir the SpringGsld Reporter.
Dick Yde*—'A Great Radical TJgbr gone
out.’ • •. -
So plor_ Dick Yates is gone. The
snare ishroken at last and toe sorely
bruised, and wounded is escaped. A
dozenrjfcars siace, Diok Yates • was one
of the tiring men of toe West A
~~ _ "ow, kindly in heart
and manner, wellritocked with brain,
possessed rlso qf a good, voice,, a keen
sense oftoumor and- no -little personal
magnetism, there seemed!every reason
to predict for him qn exceptionally
succes3fifl and brfiliaqt career. - - -
There"was every reatonbut one; like
so manV fellows before him, Dick Yates
“drankA-rfirst moderately, then often-
cr and more, toenrta-sapefaefion dr-de
lirium. IJe made more tonn one des
perate struggle to free hiinselfj but toe
net of fate—to borjow-fromtoischy 1 us^—
was around him. Whether it was
hereditary taint or disease,-or merely a
weak yill and a strong , appetite, he
drank on. Men began to speak of him
as “drunken-Dick Yates.” His infirm
ity beezmq.matter of public gossip and
seandttov
ten Important [Detliira lb Bankruptcy.
The JBhpretab Chart i at ^Washington
has rendered-toe; following important
decision:. . ” ‘ * . . ”•
! Wilton, as>iee in -bunkiraptcy of
Yanderhoff Bfos., w. : CIty -Bank;’ of St.
Paul. There was a certificate of divi-
lion few. ftei circuit -PQBri, /qrjffinner
ink, suffered their entire.
r'toUeseize’d.bhexecntipn
ndant, obtained
iem by the bank, and thus, as'
nudnlently preferred toe bank
fver their, other creditors, against too
*3 of the bankrupt act, and the
ought to have toe proceeds of
ie Sale ou execution" applied on toe
— of all the creditors. On these
oriuf‘%
which the cour. r , r ..
certified to this court for answer:
First,'"Whether ornot'an intenton the
part of toe firm tt> stiffsrtoeir property
tobe taken on execution with intent to
give n "preference to toe bank, or wito
intent to defeat or’ delay, the operation
of the bankrupt actj can be inferred
from the fact stated.
Second, whether under the fact toe
bank in their proceedings, had reasona
ble cause to believe that a fraud on toe
bankrupt act was intended by the firm,
qnd third, whether under the circum!
stances, toe bank obtained by the Ie'
and execution, a valid lien on the goo
as against the assignees in bankruptcy.
In. their opinion the. court say that
something more than toe passive non-
resistance of- an insolvent debtor or reg
ular judicial proceedings in which a
judgment and execution are had when
toe debt is due and without a just de
fense to the action, is necessary to show
a preferment of a creditor, or a purpose
to'defeat or delay toe operation bf toe
bankrupt act That toe fact that toe
debtor under such circumstances does
not file a petition in bankruptcy, is not
sufficient evidence of such preference
or desire to defeat the operation of the
apt; that though the judgment creditor
in such a case may know the insolvent
condition of toe debtor, his levy and
seizure "are not void under the circum
stances, nor any violation of toe bank
rupt law; that a lien thus obtained by
' "m will not be displaced by subse-
lent proceedings in bankruptcy against
e debtor, though within four months
' the filing of toe bill.
These propositions require the ques
tions certified to be answered; toe first
"No in the negative and toe third in
e affirmative. This decision over
ties or largely qualifies what was said
7 Mr. Justice Clifford, in delivering toe
linion of the court in Buchanan vs.
tito, at the last term.
Fruit Ci Itore.
of hungering after Cuba for
the purpose of'getting cheap sugar, at'
the cost of a very dear war, the people
of tins country had' better fo6k at' home
and develop what they- Solaviflhly pos
sess.. -To tftjs end of home development
and toe introduction of cheap tropical
fftri^i/toe' -BiScayng •—
known as Fort Dallas, dad Si!
.Florida, has been ■ pur-
leaves, will alienate rather than attract
, mmm many who are in sympathy, with his
7;~n-3 ti.rjwi .evangelical- viewi' It'is' upontoat
m Apathy, in fact, that he must'inraHy
rad. If thatfe iHiulesu pronounced
so practically, effective that evO
popuh
for whom his friends had eherished
hopes of even higher perferment, was
dismissed in disgrace from the service
•of toe people whose confidence he had
abused, whose patience he-, had ex-
Imustcd.j j w-g
Of his life since then, -we-know too
little to speak'; it is possibly—though
hardly probable, -we fear—that at' last
he reformed and retrieved ‘himself.
The pity of it, the pity, of it! God for
bid that we should say a harsh word
beside this open grave—nor assume to
judge or condemn. \Ve havejrat recited
this painful history wantonly, bpt from
a motive, and with a hope, and for an
end. The Republican is very, widely
read by young men, in the colleges
and elsewhere. ’ ceil*- -
It was thinking of them that we be
gan this article; it is thinking of them
that we close it. He was a man who
eemed to have everything in his favor
—eloquence, popularity, proved hon
esty and patriotism, toe momentum of
past achievement and service,!.toe
prestige of high office, troops of’iri(nds.
This is the end he has done with his
career. It seems to us that th&e is
something rather sobering in toe^e6-
tacle.
Dues It Pay!
The late Rev. Leland Howard, of
.utland, Yt, in toe faithful discharge
* his. pastoral duties, took occasion
ite often to urge, personally, on one
•hisrireartrsrun attention to religion.
At length toe repeated conversation
became so distasteful that, in an iritated
manner, he repelled all further ad
vances by declaring most emphatically
toat if he ever took toat liberaty again
he would never pay another cent to
ward his salary.
With no fear of loss in this respect,
but with a wisdom often born of love,
hie forebore all further personal conver
sation when they met, but he would
him on the shoulder and simply
“ Docs it pay ?”
Time went on, and the good, faithful
pastor, crowned with years and honors
of a long and useful life, went through
the gate of death to be with Christ
But his words remained like a nail fas
tened by toe Master of assemblies; and
toe man whose salvation he so often
sought to secure became a Christain.
Then he told what feelings that brief
question produced. He said,
“ I had rather he had said the whole
than to ask the question, 1 Does it pay?’
And O,” said he, “ if he were only liv
ing now, that I could tell him so, what
a privilege it would be!”
Communism—Internationalists in Council.
A mass meeting of workmen, tyfder
toe auspices of toe Intem&tionaliMs,
was held in New York on the 1-lth
inst, in toe Cooper Institute. As early
as 7.30. E. M. the hall was crowded in
every part Several hundred women
were present Telegrams from Cleve
land and Chicago were read, wishing
success to the meeting. 'Around the
platform were numerous mottoes, such
as “ We demand a suspension of rent
for three months;” “ The General that
commands this army is general dis
tress;” “When workingmen.begin to
think; monopoly begins to tremble,”
and others equally significant in char
acter.
a nauuum nas uircuuuea enumer
ating toe high salaries paid officials,
and demanding ntr more salaries over
five thousand dollars. .The number of .
Merciful Justice.
The widow Crepin was a washer wo
man at Vanves (Department of toe
Shine). Her husband had died during
toe Commune; she had but one child
left of ten, a boy six years of age. These
losses had reduced her to a state of ner
vous depression. She was constantly
ip dred of losing her employment, and,
indeed, having been seized wito illness,
r4n into debt, and at length was told
by her landlord, to whom she owed
three quarters’ rent, that she must leave
her lodging.
She then resolved to put an end to
hgr own life and toat of the child, and,
hkving dressed herself and toe little boy
in their best clothes, lighted two bra-
mi mmm mC aliavoorJj down Trilll iko
child and awaited death. The; little
fellow died in toe middle of the night,
but toe mother could not die. When
HVV U1UUSUUU UUUiUO. .JLUC UUU1WW Ul , v , . .,
homeless men and -women in the city -V 56 * oun “ 8 “ e T™ 3 alon e ia the
is given at 10,000; those-in station
houses 7500 per week,, anil out'of
eleven trades unions, 20,250 men are
idle, and only 5950 employed. It is
also stated that there are 180,000 skilled
. _ . workmen idle in this State and 110,000 . . . , ,
and in a letter to the- President said: of all Classes in toe city, and 38,0(XJ to®?’, to*™ 'by the horror of her
“My field of usefulness lias been workmen earning only an average of positio n i let them in r and showed them
* £3.44 per week.
Annual Convention of Farmer*’ Associa-
r. tlou.
The second annual Convention of tlie
Illinois Farmers’ Association convened
at Decatur yesterday.
The president of the association de
livered ! toe address, reviewing the,
growth of the society and its result to
toe members. At toe first meeting,
ope year ago, only forty counties were
represented. Now, every one of one
’hundred and two counties in toe State
had their clubs, and in a majority of
cases toe farmers carried their ticket at
.the last election.
jThe House committee oh expendi
tures, of public bqjldings propose an
Investigation of the doings of Supef*
visor Mullet. ' •
An address
the Government _ r
trial classes. . When" tlie Government
fails in that duty it should be set - aside
or overthrown. John Halbert read a
preamble and resolution, among which
were: • - • — "
Whereas, We'wish to aVold afiJOntr,
rage on person or property of any, and
deprecate violence and injustice in any
form, and we only demand toe neces
saries of life for ourselves and families,
not as objects of charity, but as law
abiding citizens whose right is to.de-
mand these of toe Government which
we liave always supported;
Rejoiced, That we will in this, our
time of need, supply ourselves and our
families with proper shelter'and neces
saries of lifej -aud. We irillf send our
bills for toe same to toe city treasury
to be liquidated, until such time as we
shall obtain work and gay.for all our
work; that we demand work now and
pay for work, and ahotitiorTof toe con
tract system; that, to .prevent money
tried for
jury
the corpse of her son.
was read on tlie duly oft J'l ie u ^PPy, W0I P?“ was trie,
nt to protect the indue; murder of toe child, but the _ .
— ■ - ■ • ■ - were so overcome with'.pity for her suf
ferings 'that, forgetful of- their raisoti
d'etre, they acquitted her, in absolute
disregard of the patent, fact that she
had taken her son’s life. rr *' : " -—n - -*
graduated taxation, which shkll prevent
any man or meh from-being able to
lock up our circalatiBgimediifrn.. -
The resolutions Avere adopted, after
which a number of addresses were
made and toe meeting adjourned.
world she lit more charcoal, and now
felt confident of approaching release;
* ' it hour after hour passed by, and’she
11 ’lived, She kept toe neighbors
— on the plea of illness for thirty-
nirs after toe child’s death, and
i; worn out -by : the horror of her
. This verdict
is described, by a French journal as
“ meftifuFjustice.’’
■ - ‘ ■ — ■ «■ —~
The Yoz de Cuba shows that the
prolonged 'resistance of Cartagena is
draining the resources of Spain and
weakening her power. Castelar is not
strong enough now to oppose exactions
of foreign governments, which nearly
all tend to the destruction of Cuba;
and the longer his declining power is re
spected and obeyed in Cuba, the great
er is the'probability that toe object’ of
these foreign demands will be accom
plished. . .
The youth"O’Conner,,who, some time
ago, tried to frighten Queen Victoria
into signing a pardon-for toe Fmian
convicts, is< now in Ausitalia. The
Queen interested ’hertelf in Mm, short;’
ened his term, of imprisonment, and,
when he was released, had him fitted
out and Bent away from JSngjan'd.' , .
He consumes his time with attention
to some clerical dtities and composing
letters in veipe, 'expressing his gratitodet
tropical -pro-
bient waters
teem’wito the'rifim delicious fish, oys
ters,'-clams,' crabs,' shrimp, turtle, tenra-
>m, and all'toe. luscious spoils bf the
t^jeer, wSTd-^rimn ducJiaiflibirds"
without number'inhabit the forests
around about it It is, in fact, a Para
dise for toe tourist, toe sportsman and
toe lover of nature. Florida if the land
of wonders, a mine of surprises, slow
ing with a beauty which is half Span-:
ish and half Seminole. But it is not as
a hunting or fishing ground, or merely
as an ornamental El Dorado, that toe
Augusta company concluded to btiy.
toe domain.
They saw money in it It was com
paratively cheap. It only needed the
touch of Midas—ready cash—to be
come a profitable Eden. The men of
cash have invested, after careful ex
ploration, and are now about to make
further outlays in’ order to get back
what they have ventured. To accom
plish this they are now ready to grow
fruit and sell it Take this calculation
on banana culture alone:
ESTIMATED PROFITS OF 1000 BASAXA
PLANTS COVERING ONE ACRE.
1000 bunches bananas, 50c. each—$500
3000 new banana plants, 30c 900
$1400
Expenditures.
Paid for 1000 plants, 30c. each $300
Paid for labor, eta, 1 acre 100
$400
Total product, $1400; total expendi
tures, $400; net profits, $1000.
There is a singular fact connected
wito the banana. It is this:
Fruit is gathered from toe parent
stalk when ten or eleven months old.
When the stalk is cut there is always a
young sprout, two-thirds toe height of
the parent plant, which bears three
months later.
We have no doubt that Florida can
he made the garden of America. Our
Augusta company deserves credit for
inaugurating so admirable an enter-
rise, and the cautious and unromantic
usiness men' engaged in it know no
such word as fail.—AvmiMa Constitution-
(diet. — ~ —i-i .4 \. ...
From the New Orleans Times.
A Colored Millionaire.
Men whose taxes foot up from 81000
to S10,000 each year can get two per
cent per month for it, or use it in even
more lucrative ways, while the interest
on their taxes is nothing in comparison.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars are
retained in this way. A notable in
stance of this practice is the case of a
colored millionaire who has dodged
paying his taxes until now they amount
to nearly $100,000, due to toe city and
State.
This man is a character foraromance.
He is so abstemious that he may be
called a miser. He disdains rest, and
with wonderful activity works on in a
small and obscure one story house, re
mote from tlie business portion of toe
city. This building is his office and
his home. It is dingy and dilapidated
on tlie outside. Within a kind of lobby,
partitioned off from toe main room, is
the miser’s office. A desk full of
pigeon holes crammed with papers, an
iron safe and a chair or two, constitute
the only furniture. Beyond are the
rooms where he lives with his mother,
a woman almost 100 years old.
Yet tills man, so unpretentious in his
business surroundings, has nearly a
hundred tenements scattered all over
the city, which bring him any any
where from $20 to $300 each per month.
He owns over 250 different properties,
estimated to be worth at least $700,000,
besides bonds and cash to a large
amount. This man, however, never
pays any taxes except when he disposes
of a piece of property, and then only
on toat property.
In the Sheriff’s office are tax writs
against him, dating back twelve years,
and to some of them are attached as
much as six yards of foolscap, filled
throughout wito closely written descrip
tions of his property. The reason for
avoiding his annual taxes is a specula
tive one. The city charges him 10 per
cent. On the -money, which he nev
er loans, except on mortgage, he can
make from 18 to 24 per cent. Every
tenth year also, the taxes of one year
are wiped out by proscription.
Is England at Uer Old Game t
The Courier-Journal says it is evident
that England is anxious for us to get into
a roiv with Spain, and the advice of the
English press ought not fo precipitate
us into the conflict The truth is, some
British subjects were executed, and the
demands of that country for reparation
would be more readily conceded by Spain
if she were engaged in a war with the
United States than at present.
Besides, England could sell both bellig
erents arms and munitions. She would
not only secure the recognition of her
claims for damages in the Virginius af
fair, but she could look on gleefully at
the spectacle of two republics destroying
each other, and her manufacturers coula
make money of both while they are on
their way to despotism and the devil.
That would be nice, indeed.
Baltimore will soon have to yield
her reputation as the Monumental City
to Washington, where they are arranging
for placing in. position toe monster
monument of YV’infield Scott, to be
unveiled in January, and statues and
'monuments commemorative of Farra-
gut, Rawlins, and Thomas, are to come
within the year. The five granite blocks
forming tiie base of the Scott-monu
ment, weigh three hundred and twenty
tons.. The Mexican ^Veterans are tblie
i he guard of honor at tod dedication.
-? » k. —- n -•
The great powers have assured Pres
ident Castelar toat they will recognize
toe republic when the Cariagehiah in-
which we cn
era in toe religions life of the
and be powerf31y*TeIt _ among other
denominations.” . —
The CongregalionoRsl, after gi ving {he
names of toe principal supp6rtezAbf<
Dr. Cummins, says:, ... ',
“Not everything; but agrgat deal, de-
tnds on what toese men are made of,
shat their reebrd Is, Whattoeir motives
are. If they are men of -principle, not
changelings, if "they arc" men whose
work in the world is readly fo lift up
Christ and not themselves, and whose
hearts is in that-work; if they are men
wfiotare willing to go forth to Christ
without the camp, bearing his re
proach,” and have strength to go and
stay * if they are men who have count
i id'well the cost of this step and who
lake it out of fealty to conscience,
then they are wortoy of a following,
and will have it”
The Observer, in an article written by
the Rev. S. Irenaras-Prime, who was
present at toe meeting for organization
at Association Hall, bears high testi
mony to the serious view of toe move
ment taken by Dr. Cummins and his
adherents. “There was,” he writes,
“ no self-sufficiency nor human ambi
tion apparent The whole proceed-
ing/was that of humble, prayerful, con
scientious men, who were not seeking
their own advancement, nor the ap
plause of men, but the honor of God
only. In the case of the bishop, there
was positive sacrifice of place, power,
salary and friends. He is poor in this
world’s goods, arid goes out in faith, for
conscience sake. Such a man is always
respected whether men shake their .
heads at him or not”
The Presbyterian Banner, after re
marking toat “ there is scarcely a cler
gyman or layman of recognized ability
and influence, who has openly com
mitted himself to this movement,” de
clares toat the Episcopal bishops are
at their wits end to know what to do
with Dr. Cummins, and thinks that
“altogether the bishops are fit subject
for no inconsiderable degree of Chris
tian commiseration at this moment
from toe 1 sects,’ as they term other de
nominations.”
The Churchman had recently an ar-
ticle on Bishop Cummins, of whom it
speaks as “toe fallen Bishop.” “In
these days of religious liberty and the
rights of conscience,” says toe Observer,
“ it seems to us that such a term is not
toe one for a Christian journal to apply
fo a good man who retires from a posi
tion of honor and usefulness because he
is constrained by a sense of duty.”
, The Christian Union (the Rev. Henry
Ward Beesher’s paper) deems the atti
tude of the High Church party toward
toe new movement undignified and
proscriptive, -and tirinkwriiat -thwpro-
nuneiamento of the senior bishop de
claring toat any episcopal acf of Bishop
Cummins will be null and void, will
probably fail of its object, since it is
P ronounced-on episcopal authority to
e without warrant of ecclesiastical’law.
The editor adds:
“ )Vhat strength the movement may
hereafter draw to itself from the elder
church, or from other sources, remains
to be seen. Of the wisdom or unwisdom
of the step which Bishop Cummins and
friends have taken we do not presume to
judge. Their right to form a new church
in accordance with their own convictions,
will he generally admitted; and if with
out antagonism or unwholesome contro
versy, they proceed to do the work of
Christain church in a Christian spirit,
they will have the earnest sympathy and
good wishes of all earnest evangelical
Christains. The new church certainly
offers a middle ground betwen Ritualistic
Episcopacy and the non-prelatical or
thodox denominations, and may therefore
meet the wants large numbers of peo
ple who desire to form religious associa
tions in more entire consonance with their
feelings and convictions.”
The Roman Catholic papers pay no at
tention to the new “ Reformed Church.”
The Index, which claims to be the spe
cial organ of “Colored Free Thought,”
observes of the new church :
“ Its platform of principles breathes a
larger liberality towards fellow Christians
of other denominations than the Episco
pal Church is disposed to entertain, and
so far in sympathy with the spirit and
aim of the late Evangelical Alliance.
We welcome these new come-onters, and
hope that they will find the air of a
greater freedom from sectarian restraint
wholesome and agreeable to their lungs.”
Hr. Lamar's Historical Recollections ami
Views.
To the E iitor ol the New York Son.
You have been pleased to publish
in your paper of the 9th inst, a letter
written by me on the 13th of April,
1861, as a matter of history.
That period was very fruitful in his
torical events, and I feel assnred that
you will not refuse to record for the
future historian another incident that
occurred about that. time. .
I have some very distinct recollec
tions of a certain organization known
as “ The Billy Wilsom Regiment,” that
was composed, tevery man of them,
from the colonel’to the lowest private,
of convicts from the penitentiary of
this State, men whom neither the laws
of God nor man conld restrain-from
crime but within the walls of a prison.
This was the first regiment armed and
equipped for war upon an unoffending
people.
They were lauded and encouraged
by the politicians; they paraded the
streets wito the honors usually (»id to
volunteer patriots in the, service of
their country, and they were egged on
by ministers of the Gospel, so called;
and on one occasion, at least, they were
assembled in Tammany Hall, and were
made to kneel down and take the most
horrible oaths against Southern people;
and their worthy colonel exhibited a
gold watch and told them “ there were
many thousands such down South, and
all they had to do was to take them.”
Had the sentiments of my letter pre-
vailed at the North there would nave
been no war, and a tenth of its cost
-would have made every stove a free
man, more than a million of lives
wotold have been saved, we should have
continued a happy and prosperous
people, pfotected by a constitution in
all ite vigor,- in all our rights of person
and property, and without danger of
arrest and imprisonment—except by
legal process, and for crimes and mis
demeanors—ond "with the;assurance of
a fato open and speedy triaL. .
G. B. Lasiah.