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SATURDAY HORSING. FEBRUARY 14. 187 V
Arrival and Closing of the Mails.
Close. Arrive.
Northern mails, via) 8:30 a. m. 12:00 a. m.
Charleston, S. C ( 9;00 p. m. 3:50 p. M.
Macon, Columbus, At-)
lauta, Augusta, and - T:3O a. m. s:to p. m
Western States j
Florida and other mails,)
via Atlantic and Gulf j- 3:30 r. m. 8:40 A. M.
Railroad )
Office will be kept open until 7 o’clock r. m. for
delivery of mail matter.
Religious Notices.
The Rev. T. W. Dasher, of St. John's
Lutheran Church, Charleston, S. C., will
preach in the Lutheran Church in this city
on to-morrow (Sunday) morning and
evening.
There will be preaching in Trinity (Meth
odist) Church, St. James square, at half past
ten o’clock Sunday, by the Pastor Rev. H.
H. Parks: at half past" seven o’clock p. m.,
by Rev. A. M. Wynn. Sunday School at
three o’clock r. m. Pews always free.
Rev. Father Guillaume will preach In the
Catholic Cathedral of St. John the Baptist,
on Drayton street, every Sunday evening
at halt-past seven o’clock, for the special
benefit of the Germon speaking people of
the city, who are respectfully invited to at
t*nd.
Itnin.
It began to rain about two o'clock this
morning.
Forest City Loan Association.
At the meeting of the Forest City Loan
Association last evening, ten shares were
sold at sl2 50 and five shares at sl2, con
st! tuting the entire sales.
l*ers.>nai.
ltev. Dr. Dixon, whose address before
the Georgia Historical Society Thursday
evening we complete this morning, left on
the last train for his home in Augusta.
Vamosed.
We learn that “ doctor ” LeDuc, the
worse half of the fortune teller, recently
arrested on serious charges, has been re
leased from jail, and has shaken the dust
of our city from his feet.
Horse Reel.
Wo understand that Chief Russell pro
poses to ask the City Council for the privi
lege of a horse reel with six or eight hun
dred feet of hose, to be under the special
orders of the department, and to turn out
at all fires. No extra cost to the citv.
Foreign Exports.
Messrs. Holst & Fullarton yesterday
cleared the American ship Graham’s Polloy,
Captain Clapp, for Liverpool, with 2,133
bales upland cotton, weighing 1,001,061
pounds andjvalued at $145,371 55, and 1.873
white oak staves, valued at S4OO.
Ho ! for Greenwich.
By a slight deflection from the original
route, and with only an immaterial length
ening of the course, the Coast Line railroad
would touch the Schutzen Platz, and it is
thought this alteration will most probably
be made in the line rather than construct
a branch road to Greenwich, as lias been
mooted.
Roiuiinrdment.
A man named Bob Rowland had run up
a board bill while out of work, with a
landlady in Robertsville, and when re
quested to leave by her left, but got jolly
and went back about midnight, and shelled
ut the lionse and premises with bricks
and rocks. For this he now reposes In
iail by request of Magistrate Hart.
Arrival of Fruit.
Tlie schooner B. T. Crocker, Capt. Hard
ing arrived yesterday, from Kingston Ja
maica, with 40,000 oranges and 450
bunches bananas, consigned to Thompson
& Walter.
The schooner Frank Lucas, Captain
Hulsei also arrived yesterday from Savan
na-!a-Mar, with 60,000 oranges and 200
bunches bananas, consigned to Thompson
& Waiter.
Phoenix’s Ball.
The first grand military ball of the Phoe
nix Riflemen came ofl at Masonic Temple
last night, and was a most pleasant and
agreeable affair. We may truly say that
“fair ladies and brave men” were there, and
“chased the glowing hours with flying feet,”
The Zouaves themselves, and the numer
ous representatives of the other volunteers
of our city, made a splendid appearance on
the bail room floor in their martial attire,
and enjoyed themselves as much as they
looked soldierly and handsome.
Jul£C AT. B. F Cluing.
We learn from the Savannah papers that
Judge William Schley has resigned, or is
about to resign, his position as Judge of’
the Superior "Courts of the Eastern Circuit,
and also that the Bar of Savannah lias
joined in an unanimous request that Judge
W. I\. Fleming shall be his successor. We
hope’that Governor Smith will make the
appointment, in accordance with this re
commendation. Judge Fleming is a man of
unblemished public and private character,
and one of the ablest lawyers in Georgia.
Every citizen of the State will feel gratified
at tlie elevation of such a man to the
bench. —Chronicle and Sentinel.
The itfinstrels.
Another immense audience was in order
at the Theatre last night, nor was the en
tertainment any the less attractive or
amusing. The scene between Birch and
Backus, entitled “The Young Actors,” was
the most intensely ludricous afl'air that ever
provoked a smile. Two such men would
convert a regiment of hypochrondriacs’ in
short order. They unquestionably stand at
the head of their profession as genuine
masters of wit and humor. The singing of
Wambold, Ricardo, and the other members
of the company, was rendered additionally
attractive by an entire change of the pro
gramme, which embraced some of the
choicest gems of the song writer. This
afternoon the company will appear in a
matinee, and to-night they will give their
tinal performance in Savannah. Minstrelsy,
as we are wont to have it served to us, is
often commonplace, but the company now
under notice is so far above the average,
and so completely the embodiment of spark
ling wit, that our readers, one and all,
should not neglect to improve this last
chance to §ee it.
This superb corps give a |matinee this
afternoon and their last performance to
night.
Arrest-Frank Brown.
Night before last Captain Carnes received
a dispatch requesting him to look out for
one Frank Brown, who had left Savannah
that evening and would probably reach
Macon yesterday morning. The Captain
sent some of his officers to the train, but
they failed to find the party they were
seeking. Subsequently, however, Lieuten
ant Taylor found the name on the register
at Brown's Hotel, and saw also a person
that answered the description. He ap
proached the party and asked if his name
was Brown, and he at once answered that
it was not. and went immediately to the
register and entered another name. He
came so fully up to the description, how
ever, that Lieutenant Taylor felt justified
in taking him in custody, and he did so. As
soon as lie discovered that he was under
arrest the lellow. owned that his name
wa9 Brown, but could not understand why
he wa3 arrested. He said he owed some
board in Savannah, but apart from that he
had done nothing wrong. He was taken to
the imrraeks and the party in Savannah or
ilerialpis arrest was notified that he was
in custody. In response the officers were
directed to hold him until the arrival of a
bailin' with a criminal warrant. The bailiff
left Savannah last night, and will reach
Macon ihft morning, when Brown will be
turned over. The charge against him has
not been ascertained — M&'on Telegraph
and Messenger.
As mentioned in the last issue ot this
paper, officer Campbell left this city ihursg
day evening to escort Brown down, against
'whom a cheating and swindling warran.
has been issued by magistrate Bussell at
the instance of the proprietor ot McConnell s
European House, it being alleged that
Brown borrowed money and procured
credit for board in ttie wrong way. the
offiaer and his prisoner, the prize candy
man, wjjl doubtless reach the city this
morning.
T chi |era tii re.
, February 13,1874—7 a. m.. 58; 3 r. m., 09;
4:19 r. M., 68; 9r. m., 03; 10:44 I’. M., 03;
mem of day. 63: fain fall. 0.00 inches.
•February 13. 1873 -7 a. m , 50 ; 3 r. M., 63 :
-Pi tr. 64; 9P. M., 55 ; 10:44 P. M , >1;
mean of day, s*i; rain fall, 0.00 inches.
* ’ Jos. n. Masson.
Obs. Sig. Ser. U. S. A. I
“ THE COXTROVERST OF LOVE. ”
Annual Address Delivered Before
the Georgia Historical Society,
February 13, 1871-
BY KEV. J. DIXON, V. D., OF AUGUSTA, GEORGIA,
FOUNDED ON TUB STORY OF RUTII.
[COMPLETED FROM YESTERDAY’S EDITION.)
The effect of Ruth’s decisive words on Naomi
is told in these words: “When she saw that
she was steadfastly minded to gc with her, then
she left speaking to her.” Ruth was firm, con
stant, and Naomi yielded. And now the two
travellers pursue their journey; I sat two* for
Grpah has parted with them and returned to
her kindred. Doubtless they would travel
along, beguiling the Way by anticipations of the
future. Naomi's heart wouid throb with mingled
feelings as she retraced the road travelled by
her and her venerated dead some ten years
agonc. The sight of the city and familiar spots
quickens a crowd of painful memories. Those
who have returned to their native country and
childhood’s home, after prolonged absence,
know well what strange tli lights and tearful
emotions surge m the heart at every turn of the
way. But how we must sympathize witu Narnia
as we remember that site returns from a for
eign country, widowed, lonely, bereaved, seek
ing a shelter for her lonely head :
But what a picture we have of her reception !
“And it came to pass when they were come to
Bethlehem that all the city was moved about
them, and they said, ‘ls this Naomi What
excitement in a city abont a poor, widowed wo
man ! Ten years ago she left, but she is not
forgotten. The story of her battle with pover
ty and consequent emigration are well remem
bered. But what a change ! This bent form
and aspect of despair tell a pitiful tale. Time
and sorrow have wrought their cruel work.
Such troubles as lier’s leave terrible marks upon
a woman—wrinkles, grey hairs and feebleness
of body—and make her grow old fast. They
can hardlv believe their own eyes. “Is this
Naomi? Where is thy husband? Where are
thy sons ?” And she said : “Cad me not Naomi
(sweetness) ; call me .Mara (bitterness).” That
tells the whole story. Grief makes her almost*
fierce; the name she bears sounds llke-ironv..-
As yet the consolations .if time and God hive
not reached her spirit; her nervous system is
unstrung and sympathy often irritates. But the
storm of passion will subside, and by Ills own
wondrous healing process God will give her
wholeness again.
A sad heart sung the following strain not
long ago :
“ Let thy gold be east in the furnace,
Thy red gold, precious and bright;
Do uot fear the hungry fire
With its caverns of burning light;
And thy gold shall return more precious*
Free from every spot and stain.
The gold must lie tried by the fire,
And the heart must be tried by pain. ’
“In the cruel fire of sorrow
Cast thy heart—do not faint or wail;
Let ihy hand be firm anil steady,
Do not let thy spirit quail.
But wait till the trial is over
And take thy heart again ;
For as gold must be.tried by the (ire,
So a heart must be tried by pain.’’
“ I shall know by the gleam and the glitter
Of the golden chain you wear,
By your heart’s calm strength in loving,
Of the fire they have had co bear.
Beat on, true heart, forever—
Shine bright, strong golden chain—
And bless the cleansing fire
And the furnace of living pain!”
“Weeping may endure for a night, but joy
comcth in the morning.” So sang the kiugly
poet of olden time, and human hearts have
everywhere re-echoed the same hopeful st aln.
For the darkest clouds that brood over life are
in due time lifted with the heavens and melt
away in summer glory.
“ Though stars in 3kies may disappear
And angry tempests gather,
The happy hour may soon be near
That brings us pleasant weather.
The weary night o’ care and grief
Hay ha’e a joyful morrow ;
So rtawuiug day lias brought relief—
Farewell, cur night o’ sorrow!"
Naomi and Ruth arrived in Bethlehem “in the
beginning of the barley harvest,” and that fact
determines their courSe. Pride dees not cause
Ruth to shrink from the necessities of tlieir po
sition ; she will go and work in the hot sun as a
poor gleaner and never murmur; poverty cannot
rob her of the sweetness of her character. The
law of Moses expressly secured to the poor the
right to glean m the harvest field. The scene
is poetical—the golden corn gently stirred by
the passing breeze, the swift cloud shadows
passing over it, the busy reapers singing at
their joyous work, the eager gleaners gathering
up tile scattered ears; and yonder, a little dis
tance from the rest, the beautiful solitary figure
of Rntli bending at her work from morning till
night. The narrative says: ‘ And her hap wai
to light on a part of the field belonging unto
Boaz. who was of the kindred of Klimelech.”
This was the crisis in iier history. The story
says it was a fortuuate incident, a curious coin
cidence. It happened, we say; i> was “her
hap.” Who doubts that God himself designed
the meeting? “There’s a divlDity that shapes
our ends, rough hew them how we will.” Mar
riages are made in heaven, says a proverb with
very questionable dogmatism ; especially ques
tionable, when we remember by what means
they are frequently brought about, and with
what ssd result- they are sometimes followed.
- nd now we shall introduce Boaz to his future.
wife. Entering the field his quick glance espies
a stranger, and he inquires •• whose damsel is! '
tint?” His curiosity is aroused, and he applies'
to i.is servants for information, who teli him
that •• it is the Moabitish damsel that came with
Naomi.” Ruth’s attention is suddenly arrested
by Boaz’s wfiee breaking the silence, “ Hearest
thou not my daughter? Go not to glean in
another field, neither go from hence but abide
here fast by my maidens; let thine eyes be on the
field that they do reap, and go thou after them.
Have I not charged the young men that they
shall not touch thee ? And when thou art
athirst, go unto the vessels and drink of that
which t ey voung men have drawn.” What a
gentleman this man Boaz was; how sensitive ;
how thoughtful and how delicate in his manner
of offering favors ? Little things reveal charac
ter ; trifles prove the true generosity,
sometimes, of a man’s nature, and con
trawise. Yon may give a loved
one a flower in such a way that
it shall mean, I wou and give you paradise if I
had it. Ruth “fell on her face and bowed herself
to the ground,” showing by that Eastern cus
tom how she was moved by liis kindness. She
has no vanity, no pride; she knows how to re
ceive a gift. Then Boaz prays for her: “The
Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward
be given thee of the Lord God of Israel under
whose wings thou art come to rest.” He had
heard all about her kindness to her mother-in
law. But Boaz does not content himself with
fine utterances; he gives substantial proof of
his sincerity. Some people will exhaust a whole
vocabulary of exuberant words; they never
get beyond word* to deeds. Boaz will not
offend Ruth by ma ing her feel her dependence,
and so with exquisite delicacy he practices a
little harmless deception—gives orders that she
is to glean among the sheaves, and unknown to
her, as if by accident, those who gathered the
sheaves were to drop handsful of grain for her
to glean. I like this pleasant bit of fiction. I
do not know whether Boaz knew what
was the matter with himself; the la
dies present know. Was it a case of love at
first sight ? Ido not Know; but I have heard of
such cases, and believe in them. Ruth has un
doubtedly Avon ihe heart of Boaz ; how did she
do it ? He was evidently too sensible a man to
be caught by art or strategem ; he could never
have been won by superficial qualities, with
mincing frivolous airs—these are the snares by
which you may catch a dandi/, whom Carling
calls “ a clothes wearing young man.” Bdk
what are dandies when they are caught? ®
young lady had better catch a cold and—go to
heaven 1 Boaz did not belong to that class of
men whom everybody knows as “nice” young
men; that mild and pleasing person who says
“oh. yes,” and “ah. Indeed,” with so much
vivacity—who is always so useful at parties,
who knows all about the wedding engagements
and the balls, who can tell you with singular
minuteness and particularity lady
wore at church on Sunday or the theatre the
night before. The young man—nice young man
—seldom lalks much, but he is “so nice,”
he has generally a moustache, in size like an
exaggerated eyebrow; brains in moderation
are not an absolute objection, but their posses
sion should be carefully hidden; ideas are fatal
to the supremacy of the dandy. One of the
nicest young men we ever knew lost forever his
proud proud re jos by the fatal accidental com
mission of a trought. It is impossible to de
scribe every character belonging to this class of
men. sometimes he is a prig, sometimes a
snob, and sometimes a cipher. In New Eng
land he is permitted to (ill the cavity where
brains should have been with a weak solution of
equal parts of Emerson and Cant; in New York
the nice young man who has any brains is re
quired to shroud their existence in profound
mysicry ; in Old England lie is
“A six foot suckling, mincing in his gait,
A fleeted, peevish, prim and delicate ”
ugly all over with affectation; in the South
well, you all know what he is as well as I do.
They "differ in different places and at different
times. Miss Giggleby’s nice young man
in no respect resembles Miss Snig
gersby's. The end and scope of his
existence it is not easy to define. The
the poet teils us “a thing of beauty is a joy for
ever”—and the nice young man is always a
tiling of beauty.
Let’s go on to Boaz. He saw Ruth’s virtue
and Kindness to a distressed molher-in-law ; it
was by her steady Industry, her sweet humility
and her gentle."loving disposition that Kutli
won him. Let her stand in this respect as an
esapiple to all maidens. It is worth our while
to notice when Ruth won the affection of Boaz,
it ivas in the harvest field. A hint surely of the
best place in which to estimate a woman's
value—in the midst of her daily occupations;
not in the bsll room or the music ball; not in
the excitements of a public holiday or a social
party: not on Sunday in the church; but in the
quiet routine of her daily ordinary life, where
she is most natural aud reveals her truest char
acter A young husband complained bitterly
0 f his wife to an old friend, who, knowing that
the uufortunateman had first met his life partner
at a scene of gaiety, caustically remarked: Well,
I’m nor surprised; you went to the wrong place to
get her.” There are many facilities and in
ducements for deception afforded by the struc
ture of modern society. We see our female
friends in the family drawing room, at parties,
, i>,- opera, in the street; but if that is all,
ii-w can'we know much about them? The
u i ' uorl lis in conspiracy to blindfold us;
. although he U your particular
.., c ■■ :ve voujthe slightest hint of his
i . V.Ji on—neither father nor mother
-i iVui-Vr a word about the endless trouble
tjiev have In controlling the daughter's temper.
We are obliged to take each other’s characters,
especially those of women, at second hand ; we
see through a glass darkly, and are unable, un
til we lead the object of oar affections to the
altar, to tell whether she has a decent temper
or a tender heart. The matrimonial lottery is
extremely hazardous ; yet men do occasionally
draw prizes. How can I know who meet my
intended only when she has wreathed her face
in smiles for my reception and entered the
parlor with that, pretty little rush of welcome
which is so bewitching, that as I pulled
the bell she was not scolding her little brother,
or possibly her own mother j and that, when I
have made my politest bow Hud Hie outer door
closes behind me, she will not return to the
same delightful employment ? And if she will
let loose her unruly tongue on a little boy and
on her own mother, what awful lashings may
not I expect when I become Her husband I
Young gentlemen, you have heard a certain
adage about buying a certain animal in a old
sack. It is a very vulgar comparison, but it is a
very opposite one. Again, how can I tell
when we are sitting on the piazza on a summer
evening, and she assures me she is so fond of
smoke, and begs me not to throw away my
cigar because she is there, that she is not
really half sick, and only sustaining herself by
reflecting on the suddenness with whi h she
■will put a stop to the nasty habit when we are
married (if we ever are)? And when lam de
livering passages from Shakespeare or Ten
nyson in my most musical and impassioned
manner, and she responds with feminine plau
dits of beautiful, and how lovely, what secu
rity have I that she is not boied and trying
hard not to yawn in my face ? I can safely an
swer none of these question, unless I have seen
her oftener and more familiarly than is common
among acquaintance or even friends of mar
riageable age and opposite sexes. The persons
of young ladies are as well fitted to deceive us
as their manners. No one for years past would
oe astonished or annoyed if told that the tresses
of his lady love were com osite. We are inured
to such artifices ; the falsities are not confined
to hair, and it is utterly imposible for me to tell
or even conjecture where the limits end. To
be sure one wouid hardlv like to procure a wife
on the recommendation of Piddy : and as theo
ries of any kind arc difficult to impress upon
men Who are in love* we can only add, there’s
no help for't; if yon arc contemplating matri
mony, young gentlemen, all we can do is—to
recomend you to the care of a kind Providence.
Ruth returns home from her day’s toil with
an unusual quantity of barley, much to the
astonishment of Naomi, who at once negins to
question her daughter-in-l-w. There is mu
tual confidence between them and Ruth tells
her all.
The next chapter opens with a piece of
match making, in which the proposal for mar
riage comes from the female side. Naomi with
her womanly perception understands the case
precisely; in a twinkling she comprehends the
situation. Boaz loves Ruth, she has no doubt
of it. So, at the proper time she advises Ruth
to visit Boaz on a cm tain night and ask him to
perform his obligations as her next kinsman
and marry her. Ruth obeys, visits him and re
ceives a solemn promise from Boaz that he
will do so, provided another whose duty it is
fails to perform i f .
TO understand all this it will be necessary to
to understand the old Jewish law which au
thorized or warranted so bold a step. To those
well informed on the subject there will ap
pear no impropriety in tlie conduct of the two
widows. But we cannot stop to explain it now;
the pious Naomi understood what she was do
ing, and Ruth, unaccustomed to the forms of
Be hlehem life* naturally followed the counsels
of tlie one she could fully trust, knowing they
must lie right and good.
“ Ruth made love to Boaz,” says some fastid
ious prude. Certainly she did—and what of it ?
Did you never do the same thing, not in the
same way, to be sure, not with so much open
candor, you know, but just as really? Ido not
openly and distinctly say in this public place
that many of our own wives and sweethearts
did actually make love first to us ; but this I
will affirm, that if actions speak louder than
words and if looks be more piercing than elo
quence, theu they are not all innocent.
My daughter, says Naomi, shall I not seek
rest for thee, that ir.'may be well with time ?” A
somewnat staining introduction, and I think I
see Ruth opening her beautiful large blue eyes
with questioning curio-ity. “Rest: Well with
me! Why, mother, am I not at rest—is it not
well with me?”—little dreaming that beneath
the word rest there lay the other word marri
age. This is Naomi’s conception of wedded
life. What a husband Klimelech must have
been to have taught her that! How beautiful
the idea, and yet how seldom realized if we are
to believe all we hear! For are we not. con
stantly to’.d that marriage is the real beginning
of troubles ? Domestic cares come, anxieties
accumulate, tempers are tried as never before,
disputes and bickerings arise and the beautiful
illusions of youth give place to the hard, stern
pitt UcaoDltles >f maturing life, and the an
gelic sweet heart turns to be a very unangelic
husband or wife. I suppose in some cases it is
so, and that it arises sometimes from hasty and
imprudent marriages, or from incompatibility
of disposition, or from want of self-restraint
and mutual forbearance, or from seeing too
much of each other and living in too close
proximity. This last, particular is the pro
nounced and emphatic opinion of Dr. Marigold,
who says of his spouse: “She wasn’t a bad
wife, but she had a temper. If she had parted
with that one article at a sacrifice, I wouldn’t
have swapped Her for any other woman in Eng
and. Not that I ever did swap her away, for we
li-eu :,!:e-lied, auu i.mtv.'a ■ thirteen
years. Now, my lords and ladies, and gentle
fffik all, I’ll let you into a secret, though yju
woa’Hielteve it. Thirteen years of temper in a
palace would try the worst of you, but thirteen
ye. vs of temper in a cart would try the best
oflymi. You arc kept so very close iu a >Sir,
yo/isee There’s thousands of coupl-s among
you getting on like sweet oil upon a whetstone
in houses five and six stories high, that would
go to the divorce court in a cart. Whether the
jolting makes it worse I don’t undertake to de
cide ; but iu a cart it does come home to you
and stick to you. Violence is so violent; ag
gravation in a cart is so aggravating! * * *
My dog knew as well when she was on the turn
as" I did ; before she broke out he would give a
howl and bolt. How he knew it was a mystery
to me; bat the sure and certain knowledge of
it would wake him up out of the souudest smep,
and he would give a howl and bolt. At such
times I wished I was him.”
It would afford at once a curious and mourn
ful study to examine and register the singular
matches wbicli are made in this world, down
from the union of two true and noble souls to
that of a couple of money bags. It would be
found that sometimes the bride and bridegroom
are two masked figures, tricked up and dis
guised so that it would he hard to say which is
most deceived in the other. Sometimes it is a
living creature united to a shadow; and have
you never known a man married to a doll? lie
chose her out and paid for her; what a sweet
face it is—what high bred calm! And then
again come tlie happy lovers two anil two; as
tiiey pass, the long white veils ot the brides
sweep along the gray aisles of the churches—
their ha qiiness lightens up the faces looking
ou. Theu perhaps some young girl comes,
bringing a bronchial wheeze; and it now and
then happens that a youth appears, lea-ling a
wig of false plaits, a set of artificial teeth, and
half a century of bones to the altar. The dis
parity is not so great as you might imagine;
there may be a heart still beating beneath all
the.-e adjustments, whfle tlie bridegroom, for
all his good looks, lias not one single drop of
warm blood in his body. So, good, bad and in
different, they pass their way. Sometimes it is
peace and good will who go hand iu hand ;
what does it matter if good will’s oeard is griz
zly and peace has crow’s feet round about her
loving eyes ? Sometimes it is pride and vain
glory that go sweeping along; they are a fine
looking couple as they sail by, and how they
iook to see their reflection in" the eyes of by
standers. Sometimes—and this is no strange
phenomenon—it is only the part of one of the
contracting parties that is united to the present
of the other; they find it out too late. But
when love, patience, God fearing unselfishness
are found, though anxieties may come, married
life is as much like heaven as mortals ever
know—as near heaven as mortals ever come,
down here.
Now, you may go over the other portions of
the conversation between Ruth aud Boaz, and
take them for what they are worth. Ruth has
acted in strict accordance with oriental custom,
and has done the wisest and best thing in
making this proposition of marriage, Boaz
thinks so, no doubt, and he knew best; and
though he replies to her with word3 of blessing
and praises her for making him the offer of
marriage instead of the other kinsman, and that
In a tone which seems to have a good deal of
vanity and self-congratulation in it, yet it would
be cruel to criticise his expressions. Lovers’
talk is seldom of the wisest; they do say foolish
things, and assuredly their words should not! e
expounded by unsympathetic commentators.
There was something in this case of love
making between Boaz aud Ruth that may bo
found in all lands and times. It seems to come
to young men as naturally as breathing or fancy
neckties. They had 'met in the harvest
field often: nothing had been said, but much
doubtless had been looked ; and a single glance
ot the eyes, a smile of tender meaning, a press
ure of dimpled hands, has sufficed to light in
many a manly heart a whole conflagration of
gallantries. Talk of their compliments to each
other! Why we all know that compliments are
the natural language of love-making; and Boaz
seems to have the art;of complimenting with
much grace and ease; aud as for Ruth, being a
woman, of course she liked it. Not every one,
to be sure, has the art of t elling flowerets with
grace and ease, of complimenting with subtlety
of look or gesture —the delicate reticence of
word; but then neither do all women require
or associate this refinement of Uattery, and
some sort of compliment most men can turn
and all women love. What is more natural, for
example, while Herbert and Angelina are pen
sively admiring the sunset from the beach,
than for Herbert <o whisper softly in
the attentive ear of Angelina that the glories
of the dying orb are far surpassed by certain
blushing cheeks he knows of; or later iu the
evening, under some clouded moon, to murmur
that Cynthia has veiled her face in envy at the
more dazzling brightness of certain eyes.
Things of this sort every man who is young
enough, and not absolutely barbarian, is capable
of, anil however much she may protest her de
testation of flattery, it won’t do, gentlemen ;
she likes it—she likes to hear that her cheeks
are fair and her eyes are bright, even through
the medium of such extravagant hyperbole.
This Is the way it usually begins; and what
avail the details of Its progress from the first
offering of a flower to that art oniztng period
(have any of you young gentlemen reached it ?
If not, yon know nothing about it); to that
agonizing period, I say, when the victim usual
ly sighs urofoundly, tries hard to imagine he is
in the deepest sorrow, neglects to shave hunself
for two days, and mutters unspeakable things be
tween his teeth. After a large expenditure of
rhetoric, time and money, he reaches the crisis
of his complaint. Everybody knew that it was
arrested, and nobody hurt; and what is most
wonderful to relate, In a few weeks he conies
to the conclusion that being in ' love is the most
delightful thing yon can possibly conceive.
Naomi had rightly estimated the energetic
aud business like character of Boaz, when she
declared “the man will not rest until be have
finished the thing this day.” It takes a woman
to read ail the s-gns when love is the question;
that is woman’s province, love not logic. The
morning no sooner dawns into day than he be
gins to make the necessary preparations for
his marriage to Ruth. There is one obstacle in
the way—
“ For the course of true love never yet ran
smooth.”
Ruth’s next kinsman had the first claim upon
her* would he press it? Early in the morning
he takes his seat at the “city gate,” that is at
the place where the public affairs of the ci y
are discussed. 11c had not long waited when
Ruth's next kinsman approached. Before wit
nesses—ten men, ciders of the city—Boaz pro
ceeds frankly to state the case. You will find
on reading tlilg part of the story that Ruth’s
first kinsman had a keen eye to his own inter
est. The rift of the speech that broke his
silence is very small, but through it we can
discern the man’s sordid nature. He was eager
to accept the duty when it seemed all gain, but
lie was more eager to renounce it when he dis
covered that it might involve unremunerative
cost; and so, to the delight of Boaz, he transfers
his rights in the usual formal way. Boaz has
now a legal right to marry Ruth. Was there
ever a happier man ? Surely there is no little
jov in his heart as he sees the prize almost
within his reach. But would it be right to
dwell on a lover’s raptures ? You might think
me personal, if any present here have ever
passed through a time of similar suspense,
when the lady’s parent’s consent was to be ob
tained or some other obstacle wa3 to be over
come, your experience will aid your imagina
tion of the condition and state of mind of Boaz
at that time.
And now we reach that most exciting point
when the two are fail ly engaged. In tills case
we have been able to learn how the thing was
done, when, where and how the proposal was
made and accepted. There is, perhaps, no mat
ter of universal interest about wh ch so little i9
known as about proposals. This is all the
more singular, seeing that the materials for
knowledge ought to be so very abundant.
Nearly every man who arrives at years of inde
tcreiion proposes ouco iu his life, anil some
much oftener. It follows that if there Were
anything like an enlightened and generous de
sire to promote the cause of this particular
science, it would soon take high rank among
those to which is conceded the flattering title
of exact. Having once obtained our science
of proposing, we [could then proceed
to construct the art of proposing, and could
lay down with unerring accuracy fixed rules
for the guidance of mankind. It 13 quite clear
from the vague ideas which prevail on these
points and from the melancholy mishaps which
daily befall adventurers in the art, that we are
far from having attained so desirable a con
summation. Indeed it is not too much to say
that the unhappy being who still has to propose,
is just as badly off as if nobody had ever pro
posed before him. It would be vain for him to
seek instruction before venturing on the awful
expedition. Abyssinia is not a more dark and
unknown land than this one which countless
thousands have trodden one after another
with varied fortunes but with like taciturnity.
The fact is, we fear, that proposing is regarded
as so disagreeable ail episode in a man’s career,
that there exists a silent but thoroughly well
understood and universal conspiracy to sup
press the particulars and hush the matter up
altogether.
oue evening you perceive by unmistakable
signs that a man has completely lo9t his senses,
and in unclassic language is termed spooney i
tlie next day you hear he is “ engaged.” What
has occurred in the interval? Nouody knows,
no one can tell. Something has taken place, it
is quite clear, since there is no effect without a
cause; and in this case a most interesting and
portentous effect has been brought about, but
how ? What did he say—ivhat did he do—how
did he go about it ? We eudeavor to pierce the
mystery In vain! universal darkness covers
all—“ darkness there an i nothing more.” The
chrysalis of an hour ago is now a full fledged
butterfly, yet no one saw the wings expand,
and no one can explain to us the process by
which they did so. No doubt the end is so
gloriou.f that it would justify any means to
confess it.
A great writer has pathetically de
scribed the last days of a man under sen
tence of death. He has found appropriate
expression for everv phase of tlie protracted
agony with character.stic richness and vari
ety of language. It does not require the elo
quence of a first rate writer to impress upon us
the fact that it is very unpleasant to expect to
be hanged. Every man's imaginations is suf
ficient to realize some of the unpleasant conse
quences of such a state of mind; for though
the number of persons who have encountered
this particular experience is inconsiderable,
most of us have gone through something more
or less analogous—we have been significantly
told to wait after school, or we have been or
dered by our father to go into the study or the
bed room when he would attend to us, or we
have sat in the chair or a dentist, or we have
been engaged to be married. These and many
other situations varying in the instrinsic pain
or pleasure of the anticipated result, have thus
much in common—they are all states of abnor
mal suspense. The nerves are kept
in a state of equal tension by
the uncomfortable feeling that we are in for it,
whatever it may turn out to be. The first
impression is simple ; it resembles that felt by
a man who has just slipped upon the side of a
mountain and knows that ne is inevitably going
to the bottom—ho has net time to rilin’ vke'.fisr
he will fall upon snow or rocks, whether he will
have merely a pleasant slide or be dashed into
a thousand fragments.
If. then, we may venture to conjecture tlie
frame of mind in which Boaz and Ruth entered
up >n this matrimonial engagement, we should
say that it was the sense of startled suspense
iu which every other emotion was for the mo
ment absorbed, ff’hey feel as Guy Fawkes would
have felt after lighting the train of gunpowder,
that they have done something which they pro
bably may never repeat in a life time. To do
any justice to tlie compiica’ed and vary
ing frame of mind into which even an
average lover may be thrown in the
course of a few days would require the pen of
an angel; it would involve a condensation of a
large fraction of all the poetry that has ever
been written in the world, and no small part of
the cynical criticism by which it has been op
posed.
Our story draw’s to a close. We have fol
lowed the charming tale through much variety
of experience. Both Naomi and Ruth have
have had abundance of sorrow’, but now
brighter prospects dawn upon their lives. The
trials which befell them have ennobled and
sanctified their uatures. The process of their
culture was painful, but the fruit is precious
and beautiful. Many a pleasant-morsel of the
bread ot life is found under thj cold snows of
worthy privatlou and scorn ; many a beautiful
gem is picked up in Hie secret recess' ~ of the
dark cares of sorrow and trouble.
I)o not cheat thy heart and tell her
Grief will pass away;
Hope for fairer times in future,
And forget to-day.
Tell her, if you will, that sorrow
Need not come in vain ;
Tell her the lessons taught her
Far outweigh the pain.
Bid her not seek other pleasures,
Turn to other things ;
Rather nurae her caged sorrow
Till the captive sings.
Bid her with a strong clasp hold her
By her dusky wings,
Listening for the murmured blessing
Sorrow always brings.
There is no description given of the joyous
and momentous event of Ruth's wedding. That
brilliant Journalist Jenkins, had not yet glad
dened the worid by his presence; so that we
are not furnished with a list of the beauties
that attended and danced at the wedding, the
blonde, the brunette and the between—we are
not told who was the most elegantly attired
lady on the occasion.
There is no eulogium of millinery 1 It was as
much superior to some modern weddings ,as
reality is superior to show. Loveemade all the
feast. The cornheap of Boaz was chaff and his
money dross to this. They loved—is not that
enough ? Oh happy, thrice happy state 1 Such
love as theirs would make the richest marriage
music echoing the grand psalms of heaven.
May your desire, ladies aud gentlemen, find
true expression in words like these •
“And may our love ne’er be a trailing robe
’To clog our feet along our heavenward way,
But a warm garment for onr daily use.
Marriage is but for earth, but holy love
Will live in heaven, bet us ever strive
To grow mope like to God, for God is love.”
Thus ends our familiar narration and exposi
tion of this delightful story—this lovely paint
ing of Hebrew domastic life. We have only
touched it; but it is a flower that has lost none
of its swx-etincss by our handling a frlut
from the tree of knowledge’which nmstt ever
sleep iu bloom.
We have mingled in familiar intercourse with
three of the most amiable and upright charac
ters whose virtues are recorded in the Bible,
and the familiarity, I trust, has enhanced our
admiration and deepened our love. Recalling
their actions, let us, in the midst of onr domes
tic duties unil business, strive to imitate their
endurance, their faith, their benevolence, their
chastity, ami their affection. Thetr lives were
grand by the only grandeur recognised by God
grand by their purity, grand by the r self-sacri
fice, grand by their devotion to each other,
grand by tho simplicity of their trust in God !
Naomi, the unjelflsh, the wise, the tender
hearted mother; Boaz, tho generous, upright
aud intelligent gentleman and husband; Ruth,
the obedient, chaste, faithful, industrious and
loving daughter and wife—three names that we
honor, three eharaetere the memory of whose
deeds we will fondly cherish, reproducing their
virtues iu onr own lives, knowing that
—“The religious actions of the just
Smell sweet in death and blossom in the dust.'’
CUT COURT OT SAVANNAH.
lion. TV. S. Chisholm, Presiding.
The following cases were continued: A.
Barrett & Cos. vs. A. 8. Alden, John Ryan,
claimant; Wm. Swoll vs. Henry Roggen
tine, rent, two cases; A. E. Madsmen vs. P.
Whalen, Jacob Cohen vs. S. Katzenberry,
W. W. Daniel vs. Paul Pritchard, attach
ments.
In the attachment case of S. S. Miller vs.
S. R. Collini, the Jury returned a general
verdict for the plaintiff, but found the
property attached homestead and not sub
ject.
The jury were discharged and court ad
journed i i Tuesday, the 17th inst., on which
day ihe docket for' Monday will be called,
Tuesday's a* 1 “'tied cases becoming those foj
Wednesday, and so on.
LENT. i
Pastoral Letter of Bishop Becl with,
Episcopal Dioeese of Georj;
EPigroPAT, Residence, ‘ )
Savannah, February 15, 1874 (
Brethren of the Clergy and lAity :
“The outward fast of the body," says
the Homily, is-so fast before God except
it be accompanied with the inured fast
which is a mourning and lamentation
of the heart.” The Lenten Fast is intended
only|as a means, under God, of spiritual
growth. Abstinence from meats, or the
substitution of one kind of meat for another
is in itself, a matter of utter indifference.
If it be used as a means of bringing the
flesh into the spirit, it is good ; if it be used
as a practice meritorious in itself it is sin.
Fasting as a fpiritaal exercise intended,
with God’s help to enable a man to with
stand temptation, to resist evil and to do
good, must extend to the entire man : He
must fast as lie has sinned. “If,” says St.
Bernard, “the appetite alone lias sined, let
it alone fast, and it suffleeth; but if the
other members also have sinned why should
not they sutler? Let the eye which hath
robbed the soul fast; let the ear, hand,
tongue and the soul fast. Let the eye fast
from curious sights and wantonness of
every kind, that, thoroughly humbled, that
which wandered at will in sin may now be
restrained in penitence. Let the* -wicked
itching ear last from tales and rumors, and
everything that is idle and tendeth not
unto salvation. Let tlie tongue fast-from
slander murmurings and from useless, vain,
abusive words. Let the hand fast from
idle signs, anil from every work which is
not commanded; and beyond all let the
soul fast from vices and from its own will,
for without this kind of fasting all other
things are disproved of the Lord.
“What advantage is it,” says St. Chrysos
tom, "if ri.o tAyc kept the fast without
mending ouf-raorals ? If another say, I
have fasted the whole Lent; say thou, 1
had an enemy-gnil I am reconciled to him ;
! had a cORt-cVT- of revelling and I have left
it off; I washed to swearing ana I have
broken the r ;l habit. It is of no advan
tage to fast Hour fasting do not produce
such fruits as these.” “Let no one,” says
he, “place his" confidence in fasting only if
he continue inhis sins without reforming.
If we would order our lives soberly and lav
out our spare hours upon spiritual things,
we should not need the help of fasting;
but because human nature is negligent
and gives itself either to ease and pleas
ure, therefore our kind Lord as a compas
sionate father, hath found out this great
medicine of fasting for us that we should
abridge ourselves in our pleasures and
transfer our care of secular tilings to works
of a spiritual nature.”
The season “f Lent is now upon us,
therefore as tlie ambassador of Christ,
bearing His commission to speak to you in
His behalf, I beseech you so to use this
Lenten fast that, God blessing it as His in
strument, you may continually mortify your
evil and corrupt affections, and daily pro
ceed in all virtue and godliness of living.
For yoilr own good, and for the sake of
your example abstain from worldly amuse
ments, such a* theatres, balls, private par
ties, novel redoing, etc.: these things inter
fere with the earnestness of spiritual devo
tions, tempt others to ungodliness, and
bring reproach upon the church
The Catechism teaches us that tlie bene
fits which we ijjceive from partaking of the
Lord’s Supperjire the strengthening and re
freshing of dir souls by the body and
olood of Christ as our bodies are by the
bread and wiuf.” The more earnestly you
labor to conqukr your sins of word, thought
and deed, the More necessary to you will
become the st fcugthening and refreshing of
your souls ly the body and blood of
Christ. Use every opportunity, therefore,
of receiving the holy sacramcnt’lest strength
fail and the Mill faint. Twice each day
God’s church ’.fill be opened that we may
assemble in His presence to confess our
sins to Him, of hear His holy word, to pray
for forgiveness for the past and strength for
the future, ,s and to praise and
bless His holy name. I beseech you neglect
not the asiemtiing of yourselves together
as the mannn’ of some is ! I know there
are many ivho Vor various reasons may not
be able to meet God’s people in tlie house
of God. To such let me say one word.
When you lieiir tlie church bells ringing
remember it is a call to prayer; if you can
not go to publif prayer, still you can pray !
In your countmg rooms, on the wharves,
wherever you may be and whatever may be
your engagements, you can lift your soul
to God, confers your sins to Him, implore
pardon, iimJeAk'for strength and guidance,
thm tfifc Lenten service
everywhere! “ Pray without ceasing.”
“Pure religion and undefiled before God
and the Father is this—to visit the father
less in their affliction, and to keep himself
unspotted from the world.” May the
Blessed Master so bless to you this holy
season that those in affliction may call you
blessed, and that those who speak evil of
you, as of evil-doers, may be ashamed in
that they falsely accuse your good conver
sation in Christ,
Believe me affectionately, your Bishop in
Christ and Ills Church,
Joiin W. Beckwith,
Bishop of Georgia.
Oglethorpe Fire Company.
At an extra meeting of the Oglethorpe
Fire Company, held last night, President
Philip M. Russell presented his resignation
as follows, which was read and accepted :
Savannah, February 13, 1874.
To the Officers and Members of the
Oglethorpe Fire Company No 1:
Gentlemen:— My election to the position
of Chief Engineer of the department ren
ders it necessary that I should tender to you
this as my resignation as President of your
company,' and in doing so I cannot but ex
press to you the earnest solicitude I ever
have felt and shall ever feel for the
prosperity of your time honored organi
zation, and my warm and earnest attach
ment personally. Believing that I could
contribute to the general good of the cause
of firemen, and yielding obedience to the
wishes of friends, are the motives which
induced me to accept the position of chief.
1 beg to assure you that my feelings are
with yon, and that whilst still retaining my
membership in your company I should crave
no greater honor than that of always com
manding jour good wishes and support.
Again expressing my high admiration for
you and yours collectively and individually,
i am, with great respect, your friend,
Philip M. Russell.
The following resolution, presented by
Foreman Newman, was unanimously
adopted:
Resolved, That in accepting the resigna
tion of President Russell, this company de
sires to tender him their thanks for the
faithful manner in which lie has discharged
his duties as their commanding ollicer, he
having always received the unanimous
vote of the members of his company wheu
ever his name has been mentioned for
president.
Mr. Peter Donelan, Chairman of the Com
mittee on the Anniversary, reported all ar
rangements perfected for the appropriate
celebration of the twenty-seventh anniver
sary of the cornpanv on tiie 30th instant, at
a collation and social gathering in Fireman's
Hall. The Screven Hose, the Russell Hose,
and the Marshall Hose Companies will be
present as guests on the occasion, and a
delegation from eacli fire- organization of
the department, together with the Mayor
and Aldermen of the city, will be invited.
Mr. Frank Campbell was elected a mem
ber of the company.
Carnival and Bal Masque.
On Monday the grand carnival, under the
auspices of the Savannah Schutzen Gesell
schaft, will make the city happy, and the
bal masque in the evening protract the
festivities into the “wee sma’ hours.”
Fine costumes, two brass bands, an un
precedented number of maskers, aud per
fect organization, bid fair to render the
occasion the most brilliant that ever
aroused Savannah.
If the weather is unfavorable, the carnival
and bal masque will be postponed for a
day; but will ultimately come off in superb
style unless we have a repetition of the
forty days’ and forty nights’"diversion.
Nervous Debility.
A depressed, irritable state of mind : a weak
nervous, exhausted feeling; no energy or ani
mation ; confused head, weak memory, orten
with debilitating, involuntary discharges. The
consequence of excesses, mental overwork or
Indiscretions. This nervous debility finds a
sovereign cure iu Humphrey’s Homceopathic
Specific, No. 23. It tones up the system, arrests
discharges, dispels tiie mental gloom and de
spondency, aud rejuvenates the entire sytein.
V is perfectly harmless and always efficient.
Price $5, for a package of five boxes aud a large
$2 vial of powder, which is important in old, se
rious cases; dr *t per single box. Sold by all
druggists, or sent by mail on receipt of price.
Address Humphrey’s Specific Homoeopathic
Medicine Cos., No. 562 Broadway, N. Y.
jan24-eodl,y
Panic prices at P. Macomber & Co.’s,
deol6-tf Clothing Emporium.
Collars and Neck Ties, Newspapers r.nd Ma
azines, can be found at Molina’s Ci gsi Mo
corner Bull and S'ate streets. dec2o-s tiivoD
Great reduction for CASH in Gentlemen’s
Furnishing floods at
deelO-tf P. Macomber & Co.’s.
THE ARAXDOXMEXT OF THE
SCHOOXER COMEG YS.
Arrival of (lie Captain and Crew nl
this Fort.
We mentioned a few days since that the
schooner F. C. Comegys, which vessel was
sunk at New Smyrna, Fla., had been suc
cessfully raised, but had to lie abandoned
by the steamer Godfrey Keebler, which bad
her in tow proceeding to Jacksonville.
Yesterday morning the captain and crew
arrived from Fernandina on the steamer
Lizzie Baker, and we are indebted to tlie
captain for the following facts in connection
with the loss of the vessel ■
On the 31st of January succeeded in
raising tlie schooner, and on February 7th
left New Synirna iu tow of the steamer
Godfrey Keebler, for Jacksonville, where it
was his intention to have tlie vessel re
paired. Passed out of Musquito Inlet about
Ip.m of the same day. On that night at
12 o’clock, took the gale, being in heavy
squalls, whicli continued with heavy cross
seas. The pumps could not be worked ou
account of tlie heavy rolling. At 5 o’clock
a. m., it became necessary to abandon the
schooner. All the apparatus used in raising
the vessel was aboard, and consequently
were lost, except tlie diving apparatus,
which was aboard the steamer. The Kee
bler made for St. Augustine, which port
she reached at two o’clock next day, where
she laid ail day, and then left for*Fernan
dina, where they embarked on board the
steamer Lizzie Baker, bound for this port.
The captain desires to return his sincere
thanks to Captain Shrouds, of the steamer
Godfrey Keebler, and Captain Laßose, of
the Lizzie Baker, for the many acts of kind
ness to himself and crew.
THE LATE STORM.
Every vessel which readies port reports
the recent storm as one of the most-vio
lent that lias prevailed along the South
Atlantic coast recently. Captain Simmons,
of the schooner Annie Bliss, from Belfast,
Maine, which vessel arrived yesterday
represents it as of fearful charac
ter, and although he lias traversed
the sea in all latitudes, during an
experience of twenty-two years service he
has never seen one to equal it. He had to
lay to for thirty-six hours, and during that
time his vessel lay on her broadside, and
it tvas next to impossible for any one aboard
to keep their feet. The storm was accom
panied by a hail which came down heavily,
His vessel, however, rode through the en
tire tompest without any damage whatever.
Capt. Simmons reports passing, about
thirty miles northeast of Martin’s industry
light, a bark, name unknown, dismasted,
steering for Charleston He also passed a
lot of wrecked stuff, together with a medi
cine chest, which lie endeavored to secure
but failed. This stuff had the appearance
of being in the water but a short time.
St. Valentine’* Bay.
The striking of the hour of last midnight,
though the actual, we opine, was not as
practically effective an ushering in of St.
Valentine’s Day as tlie opening of the post
office will prove this morning. The merry
duty has in our time and country been as
signed to Uncle Sam, and the old gentle
man’s servants and carriers are destined
to-day to receive, stamp, distribute and
deliver the tender notes, funny missives
and good-humored correspondence (with
the “reciprocity all on one side”) which the
whims, notion? and fancies of all classes
may perchance inflictupon friends, acquaint
ance and strangers this anniversary.
St. Valentine was a priest of Rome, who
,was martyred in the third century of the
’Christian era, having been first beaten
with clubs and then beheaded. The
greater part ot’ his remains is said
to be preserved in the Church of St.
Praxedes, in the Eternal City, where
a gate, now the I’orta de l’opolo was for
merly called from him Porta Valentini.
The saint himself seems to have had nothing
to do with the origin of the peculiar ob
servances whicli marked the day of old and
are dimly perpetuated in these later times,
the ancient observances themselves having
been engrafted upon a custom that obtained
during the feasts in honor of Pan and
Juno that occurred in this month. At these
feasts among tlie Romans, amidst a variety
of ceremonies, tlie names of young women
were put into a box from -which they were
drawn by tlie men as chance directed ; and
the pastors of tlie early Christian church,
who by every possible means endeavored to
eradicate the vestiges of Pagan supersti
tions and chiefly by some commutations of
their forms, substituted in this par
ticular instance the names of certain
saints for those of the women, and
St. Valentine’s day, falling about the
middle of February, was chosen for
celebrating this new feast, it should seem,
however, that it was utterly impossible to
extirpate altogether any ceremony to whicli
the common people had "been much accus
tomed; and, as suggested, accordingly tlie
outline of the ancient heathen ceremonies
was preserved by some adaptation to tlie
Christian system. It is easy to suppose that
this practice of choosing mates would grad
ually become mutual between the sexes,
and’that all persons so chosen would be
called Valentines from the day of the cere
mony.
On the eve of St. Valentine’s Day, says
Misson, a learned traveller in the early part
of the last century, the young folks iu Eng
land and Scotland, by a very ancient cus
tom, celebrate a little festival. An equal
number of maids and bachelors get to
gether, each write true or some feigned
name upon separate billets which they roll
up and draw by way of lots, the
maid taking the men’s billets while the men
the maids’ ; so that each of the young men
lights upon a girl that lie calls his valentine ,
and each of tiie girls upon a young man
whom she calls hers. By this means each
has two valentines; but the man sticks
faster to the valentine that has fallen to
him than to the valentine to whom he lias
fallen. Fortune having thus divided the
company into so many couples, the valen
tines give balls and treats to their mistrsses,
wear their billets several days during the
festival upon their bosoms or sleeves, and
this little sport often ends in love.
The customs of the day have, however,
degenerated from these marked obser
vances, quizes through the mails being the
general order of the occasion with an occa
sional present from one frined to another,
or from a lover, actual or would be, to Ills
lady fair or bonny lass.
The Social World.
Yesterday morning in the Episcopal
church Miss Laura Y., the beautiful daugh
ter of Mr. R. P. Spencer, formerly of Colum
bus, was married to Mr. Clarence Con
nerat, of Savannah. Rev. IV. C. Hunter,
rector of the Columbus parish, officiated.
An elegant reception was subsequently
given at the residence of Mr, J, Rhodes
Browne. The happy pair left on the after
noon train for their future home, Savau
nah. —Columbus Paper.
The Ship Kyerson.
In yesterday’s issue we published a dis
patch from Key West announcing the fact
that the above named vessel had gone ashore
on Hillsboro bar, on the Florida coast, and
that a tng had left Key West to render as
sistance. It will be remembered that the
Ryerson touched off Tybee last week and
was ordered to proceed to New Orleans,
whither she was bound when she went
ashore. No further particulars have been
received from the vessel.
Health's Sliiclii and Protection.
Health is universally admitted to be the
most desirable of earthly blessings, yet it is
jeoparded as recklessly as if it were of no
Value at all. Thousands Mho are compelled
by their occupations and pursuits to breath
unwholesome air, to expose themselves to
violent alternations of heat and cold, and to
brave oilier evils inimical to health and life,
utterly neglect to fortify themselves against
the dangers i inch surround them by a proper
course of tonic treatment. For many years
it lias been a public fact, undenied even by
tiie martinets of tiie medical profession,
that Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is the
best antidote to malaria and the finest ac
climating medicine in existence. In fever
aud ague districts, in tropical and other
regions visited by epidemics, and indeecLin
ail localities where the conditions are un
favorable to health, this famous vegetable
invlgorant aud alterative lias been found a
potent safeguard even to feeble constitu
tions and fraglic frames; while as a cure
for indigestion, biliousness and all kindred
complaints it is confessedly without a
rival. feblS-d&wlw
Ogeceliec Fccwhcf.
The complaint has struck the Ogeechee,
which was so booming yesterday that a
friend said that in its neighborhood nothing
was visible but sky and water.
"latest" styles in Business and Dress Suits,
selling at panic prices at
deem-tf P. Macomber & Co.’s.
Frank Molina lias a very fine stock of Cigars
on hand, and offers them at a very low prices
Clive him a call, and get a box for your, or yofir
riend's Christmas. dec2o-suwed&fri
DRIFIIXG OX THE TIDE.
—Judge Schley denied the motion for a
new trial in the Nolan case, and we pre
sume it goes up to the Supreme Court.
—Twenty-seven civil suits were entered
by Magistrate Hart yesterday.
—The freshet in the river lias proved of
advantage to timber men, several large
rafts having been floatod down on it.
—Magistrate Marsh sent the steward of a
steamer to the lockup for kicking up a row
in a restaurant.
—The mate of the schooner Jennie Stout,
lying at the Central wharf, was before
Magistrate Russell under a warant for try
ing to break the head of a sailor named
Charles Itemer, witli a belaying pin. Tlie
tar’s forehead was seriously damaged by
the attention.
—The twenty-seventh anniversary of the
Oglethorpe Fire Company takes place on
tlie 29th instant. Champagne corks will
please prepare to pop.
—Mr. John Sullivan was thrown from the
seat of his wagon about 9 o’clock a. m. yes
terday on the Bay, striking on the back of
his head and shoulders and badly bruising
the former member and his hand. Tlie seat
turned unexpectedly.
—A country cousin on the look out for a
velocipede, walked into Theus’ jewelry
store and said: “Mister, got any of them
three wheel vehicles what you have to paw
with both feet fur to mek ’em go long’ ”
—The city took charge of George Sulli
van, a “boy iu blue” with too heavy a cargo
of tlie rosey, and guided the wanderer back
to his commanding officer. He is now
representing two soldiers upon the question
of duty.
—The mate of the bark Scotland, who
has been forty-five years at sea, was before
magistrate Berrien" for beating the carpen
ter of the vessel.
—The steamship America from Balti
more, arrived on yesterday. Captain Bil
lups reports pleasant weather the entire
passage.
—Steamer Lizzie Baker, Captain Laßose
from Florida, arrived yesterday. The
Baker encountered the storm in Romney
marsh on her passage down, and had to lay
to until the weather moderated. The
Baker will leave for Florida on Wednes
day next at her usual hour.
Frank is always at his post, where he well
comes any customers, either to buy or look
at his goods. dec2o-suwedAfrl
Musical.
New stock I’ianos just in and coming by every
steamer. Selling cheaper than ever for cash or
on short time.
The favorite Piano of the South is the Knabe.
Magnificent in tone, and good for a lifetime of
constant use. The best musicians use and en
dorse them. Sola on the most favorable terms.
Churches, Schools, Lodges or Musicians desi
ring the best reed organ made will buy the Ma
son A Hamlin. Elegant new styles. Just re
ceived. Only $75, *llO, $125, $l3O, $145, sl7sand
$250. Double Reed Organs, 5 stops, in new style
cases, only $125. Sold by monthly payments, or
rented with privilege of purchase.
A large invoice of the popular Southern Gem
Pianos, New and improved ty, octavo scale,
now on the way, and to he received in a few
days. No better piano ever sold for the meney.
The latest publication in Sheet Music or Music
Books always on hand. New Music received
da ly. Music ordered for customers at once if
not in stock.
Two Hundred First Class Pianos and Organs
for sale by small monthly payments. Every
family in the South can be supplied in this way
if desired. We never refuse a long time sale to
good parties.
Elegant and substantial Pianos for $275, $290,
S3OO, $325 and $350.
Violins, Guitars, Accordeons, Strings, Cor
nets, Drums, Jewsharps, and every kind of mu
sical instrument always on hand. Quick sales
and small profits, is our rule.
Ludden A Bates,
feb7-tf Mozart Hall Block.
Burnett’s, Wilbor’s, Marvin’s, Hege
man s, and other Cod Liver Oil, at Fowke
& Strong’s, corner Bull and Perry street
lane tf
TEA! C. <fc- S. LED LIE, ITIEA !
EA! removed to 11 'BA !
EA ! 173 CONGRESS STREET, IEA !
EA ! Lippman’s Block. m EA 1
nov29-tf
If you stop in at Molina’s, corner Bull and
State streets, vou ar* sure to be suited with any
thing in the Cigar, Tobacco, or Fancy line, in
rice or quality. dec2o-suwed&fri
Y’ou can get all brands of Chewing and Smok;
ing Tobaccos from Frank Molina, Agent, as
low as anywhere in the city. Drop In and see
Dim. dec2o-suwedAfri
Make Hay While the Sun Shines.
Go at once and get a ticket in the Fourth
Grand Gift Concert at Louisville, as but a few
are left. A. Fernandez A Bro.,
febs-eSunMarl Agents for Savannah.
MARINE NEWS,
POUT OF SAVANNAH.
Saturday, February 14, 1574.
Arrived Yesterday.
Steamship America, Billups, Baltimore, J B
West & Cos .......
Brig Waverly, Liverpool, in ballast, Master.
Schooner B T Crocker, Harding, Kingston,
Jamaika, fruit to Thompson & Walter.
Schooner Annie Bliss, Simmons, Belfast, Me,
hay and plaster to Jos A Roberts A Cos
Schooner Frank Luca3, Savanna-la-Mar, fruit
to Thompson A Walter.
Schooner Carrie Heyer, Poland, New York,
guano to Central Railroad.
Steamer City Point, R F Scott, Jacksonvdle,
Branard A Robertson.
Off, bound in, two square-riggers.
Cleared Yesterday.
Am ship Grahams Polley, Clapp, Liverpool,
Holst A Fullarton.
Bark Sarah, , Matanzas.
Schooner Sarah Woods, Campbell, Jackson
ville, in ballast, Jos A Roberts A Cos.
Schooner Loretto Fish, Young, Bath, Me, T L
Kinsey.
Mailed Yesterday.
Sliit> Lady Dufferin, Charleston.
Ship Botfialwood, Liverpool.
Schooner G VV Jewett, Portland.
Schooner Helen Rommel, Mosquilo Inlet,
Florida.
Departed Yesterday.
Steamer Katie, Augusta.
Steamer City Point, Charleston.
iffeinurauha-
Spoken, by the steamship America, which ar
rived yesterday, on the 12th, twenty-five miles
southward of Frying Pan Shoals, at 6 r M, schr
Willie Luce, bound ; wished to be reported.
[By Telegraph.]
New York. February 13.— Arrived, Caledo
nia, Western Metropolis, City of Dallas, Can
ada, Algeria, India, ElleD, S Terry, Newbern,
Manhattan, Charleston.
Arrived out, Sarbruck, Linda, W II Prentice,
Jason, B ssle Parker, Abysinia, Italy, Anglia,
Castelia, Donan.
[Bv Mail.]
At Liverpool, 24th lilt, Vick A Mebane, nail,
Feruandina. ~
Jan 27, 10.55 A. m.—The Sick and Mebane, ar
rived here Irom Fernandina, experienced heavy
weather Jan to, aud put in'o Fayal 12th with
loss of deck lead, water, and sundry other
1 Cleared at Liverpool 24th, Hatfield, Churchill,
Tybee.
Off Dartmouth 22d, Margaret S Ward, from
Hamburg, for Savannah.
Arrived at Falmouth 24tli, Stephen Davol,
Huntlev. Savannah, anil sld 27tli for Antwerp.
rut into Portland 24th, Ida Lilly, Otis, from
Rotterdam for Savannah.
Sailed from Waterford, 24th, Queen of Hearts,
O’Neill, Savannah.
Gerbark Industrie, Hilkeu, from Savannah,
arrived at Falmouth, Eng, oth.
Ship Screamer, Young, for lybee, cleared at
Genoa Jau 22. ,
Bark Neuva Buenaventura (bp), Chevorna,
Savannah, arrived at Barcelona Jan 27.
Bark Car! Georg, Stover, from Savannah, at
Bremerliaven Jan 23.
Liverpool-Off Beil Buoy , Jan 22, John Har
vey, Brown, Liverpool for Tybee.
At Loudon 26th, Osprey, Biddle, Bull River.
At Boston 10th, sclir Mary E Thompson,
Brunswick, Ga,
Receipts.
Per steamer City Point, from Jacksonville -
4 bales upland and 31 bales sea Island cotton.
Per steamer Lizzie Baker, from Palatka, Ac
-90 baits sea island cutton, 9 bales upland cotton,
22 bales hides, 256 loose hides, 3 bbls syrup, 2
bbls hardware, 147 pkgs mdse.
Fer Central Railroad, February 13.—1,761 bales
cotton, 120 sacks flour, 136 bbls flour, 9 boxes
mdse, 11 bbls whiskey, 9 bbls pork, o hhds
shoulders, 1 bundle trees, 129 sacks corn, 120
sacks oats, 3 boxes lightning rods, 1 mule, 1
bale feathers, 31 empty btrls, 2 bales hides, 11
boxes tobacco, 12 bales domestics, 70 sacks cot
ton seed, 1 car lumber, 4 cars stock.
Per Adantic and Gulf Railroad, February 18.—
320 bales cotton, 17 cars lumber, 13 cars wood,
and mils .
Per Savannah and Charleston Railroad, Feb.
13.—219 bil. -s upland cotton, 1,359 sacks guano,
tobacco ami muse, etc.
Kxpwrls.
Per Am ship Grahams Polley, for Liverpool—
-2,133 bales upland cotton, 1.872 white oak staves.
Per schooner Loretto Fish, for Bata, Me—
-275,000 teet lumber.
per steamer City Point, for Charlcsto—2l
bales sea island cotton.
Passengers.
Per steamer Lizzie Baker, from Palctka, Ac—
W M Crane. J McKenna, D Simons, Captain F s
Hubbard. J Duboise, Mrs Whorstman, Captain
R PMcCants, R P Farmer, Mr Bridges I, Bour
nes, Mrs Hopkins, Mrs Hernandez, Mr A 1,
Richardson.
Imports.
Per schooner B T Crocker, from Kingston.
Jamaica,—4o,ooo oranges, 4£o bunches bammas
"Per schooner Frank Luces, Stvanna-la-Mn ’
60,00) oranges and 200 hunches bananas.
Consignees.
Per steamship America, from Baltimore
G W Align, C VV Anderson & Cos, N B Brown O
Butler A Cos, Blitch A M, Bernhard A 17, Clag
liorn & C, J M Cooper & Cos, Gleason A Cos
Cooper A McA, J Cohen, T J Dunbar & Cos,
Fretwell A N, Florida Steamers, 8 Guckenhei
mer. Clias Green, J E Gaudry, M Helmber, J It
I Hattawanger, T Henderson. II llalligan, CV
Hutchins, G M Heidt A Cos, Holcombe, H & Cos
Haynes & Bro, J Hogan A Cos, M Krauss, Lipp
man A Bro, John Lyons, Ludden A Bates, R <;
Levy, F M M.yrell A Cos, ,J A Mercicr.H T Minor,
Morrel & M, Wm McFall. II Meyer & Bro, J A
Meyer, J B Remoin, Mrs T Reilly, II Suiter, sir
Lizzie Baker, Simmons & Cos, J Sautina, Thomp
son & w, Triest & 11, Upper Steam Rice Mill, T
West, D Woisbin, C It Agent. Bolsliaw & S, F
W Cornwell, Bell, S & Cos, G II Cummings, D B
Huff, Crawford & L, G Friedenherg, Wm Hone,
Herbert A W, J B Hernandez, Mrs J E John
ston, Lawton, H & Cos, Minis A Son, W Roans,.)
L Smith, Solomon Bro3, E D Smyth, J Sullivan,
P Tuberdy, C A Vosulghr, Williams, Weeds.*
Cos, Weed’s Sewing Machine Cos, T West.
Per steamer Lizzie Baker, from Palatka, &c
H Myers & Bros, Cmtra! it It Agent, Tison*
Gord, J L Villalonga, Holcombe, II <t Cos, s
Guckenheimer, a & G R R Agent, D Y Dane?,
Duncan & J, L Saveries, Goodman & Mvers, c .v
5 Ledlie, Anderson’s Sons, Weed & C, Wm M
Davidson, Gomm & L, U Bennett, New York
Steamer, Colding & Turner, Lawton, Hart A- Cos.
Per Central Railroad—Blitch & M, A J Miller
6 Cos, Alexander A R, Beli, S & Cos, Bernard A
R, Triest A IJ, W C Mathews, Henry Carling,
C W Anderson A Cos, chas A Beinkampen, Ja
cob Lippman A Bro, Henry Hooks, M Y Hender-
Son, II Mever A Bro, p II Hone, J 'r Simmons,
Claghorn A C, Champion A F, Lalhrop A Cos,
A A G R R, W G Ronal, .las M Donald, March
Holmes, Weeds A O, Mitdiel McCliney.lnman, s
A Cos, Williams A Cos, W II Woods A Cos, J N
Lis lit foot, Chas Green, Son 4 Cos, W B Wood
bridge, Farley, P A Cos, Khoop, II A Cos, Flanna
gan. A A Cos, Groover, S A Cos, Wilder A Cos, Sor
rell Bros, Bates A Comer, Holst A F, J w La
throf A Cos, J W Walker, Moffat A TANARUS, Miller A
Cos, A S Hartridge, D L Roberts A Cos, Weslow
A Cos, L Quilmartm A Cos, Lawton, H A Cos.
Per Atlantic and Gulf Railroad—Forwarding
Agent, M Gain, II It Beck, J Oliver, Stearn A s,
T Tanner, G G Wilson, Gomm A L, Mrs E J
Thomas, WAR Mclntire, W Jones. II Meyer A
Bro, W M Davidson, Holcombe, H A Cos, Gen
eral Freight Agent, Solomon Bros, J s Tyson, M
TANARUS, D C Bacon, Lathrop A Cos, C It R Agt, J S
Claghorn, JAW Rutherford, J J McDonough,
Coffins A Cos, Kirksey A S, J Duncan. JAOo,
Tison A Fordon, Anderson’s Sons, J L Villa
longa. Miller A Cos, Knoop, II A Cos, Farley. 1’ A
Cos, Order Starr A Kuan, Guiimartin A Cos,
Groover, S A Cos, II Mever A C, J F Brown, K M
Oppenheimer, J W Lathrop A Cos, Flannagan, A
A Cos, Hopkins A W, Inman, Swan A Cos, W B
Woodbrklge, C C Hardwick, D L Roberts A Cos,
Cooper A McA.
Per Savannah and Charleston Railroad.—
Forwarding Agent, C E, J W Walker, Inman, S
A Cos, F W Siihs A Cos, Williams A Crane, J L
Villalonga.
List of Vessels Up, Cleared and
Nailed lor ’J’liis l*ort.
STEAMSIIirS.
Wilhelm, Rose, Calais Jan IS.
SHITS.
Queen of Hearts (Br), O’Neal,Waterford,sld Jan
24.
Armstrong, Bryan, Liverpool, fid Dec 2d.
Mohongo, Bradley, Londonderry, sailed Oct. is.
Minerva, Olsen, Londonderry, at Glasgow
Nov 19.
Southern Chief, Higgins, Antwerp, sld Dec 2.
Lillian, Nicholson, Rotterdam, cld Dec 11.
Themis, Antwerp, Deal, sailed Jan 11.
Mary Jane, Archibald, Liverpool, sailed Dec 2S.
Jas A Richard, Walsh, Havre, sld Jan 3.
Ankuthor, Henrickson, from Havre, at Ports
mouth Jan 21.
Expounder, Crocker, Liverpool, sld Jan 21.
Bertaux, (Br), Davies, Liverpool, sld Jan 22.
Universe, (Br), Jones, Liverpool, sld Jim 22.
John Harvey, Brown, Liverpool sld Jan 22.
Colorado (Br), Perry, Havre, cld Jan 7.
C E Jayne, Hawkins, Havre, sld Jan c.
Helen Campbell, Brooks, Dublin, cld Jan 12.
Sappho, Hughes, Dublin, cld Jan 14.
L B Glllchrest, Emerson, sld Liverpool Jan 22.
Golden Rule, old Liverpool Jan 15.
Phemx, Phelan, cld Liverpool Jan 15.
Missouri, West, cld London Jan 15.
Sarah B Cann, Eldrldge, sld from Portianl
Jan 22.
E U Duval, Progress, from Antwerp, sld
from Portland Roads Jan 22.
Hendnka, Fishbeck, at Bristol Jan 10.
Aimo (Russ), Bremer, cld Rotterdam Oct 29.
C B Hazeltine, Gilkey, sld Liverpool Jan 10.
Chloe (Br), Cook, cld Havre Jau 10.
City of Montreal, Mudgett, cld Genoa Jan 2.
Friga, Crawford, sld Havre Dec 20.
Gold Hunter, Freeman, sld Liverpool, Deo 12.
Home (lir), otiuretnll, at CireenocVc Jan 7.
Mereator (Br), Kelteistein, Liverpool Dec 28.
Robena, Daggett, cld Have Jan 7.
Harlingen, DeJonge, Uolingen Jan S,
Capella (Nor), Voss, Liverpool Feb 3.
Florella, Mcars, Havre, sld Jan 21.
Aurora, Crosby, ent out at Liverpool Jan 23.
Putnam (homeward bound), Havre, sld Jan 22.
Hartlield, Churchill, Liverpool, cld Jan 24.
Margagret, S Ward, off Darmouth, Jan 22.
Screamer, Young, Genoa, cld Jan 22.
BARKS.
Alexandra, Farlam, Maryport, sld Dec 2.
Bertha, (N G), Schwarz, Hamburg, sld Dec 9.
Emillie, (Get), Muhrer, Liverpool, sld Jan 29.
Patna, (Br), Evans, London, sld Oct 29, for San
tander and Savannah.
Regulus, (Nor), Ilolte, Rotterdam, sld Nov 26 for
for New Orleans or Savannah.
Sultan, Shields, sld Nov 15.
G B Doane, Corning, Liverpool, ent, out Dec 12.
New Brunswick, Larsen, Liverpool, old Dec 12.
Chas F Elwell, Liverpool, sld Dec 24.
Sea, Bonner, Cork- sld Dec 23.
Paul Friedrich Pogge, ohle, Antwerp, srd Dec to.
Limpio, Hoyer, Liverpool, sld Dec 30.
Aurelia, Cote, Belfast, sld Dec 15.
Alliance, Tlrorsen, Liverpool, old Deo IS.
Richard aud Agnes, OldenbArg, Liverpool,
Bemnard, cld Jan 8.
Lyman Cann, Antwerp, sailed Deo 24.
Somerville, Smith, Havre, sailed Dec 25.
Atlantic, Elllngsen, Glasgow, sailed Dec 30.
Rene, Liverpool, entered out Dec 80.
John Campbell, Liverpool, sailed Jan 22.
Malleville, Patten, Liverpool, sailed Jan 11.
Maria, Liverpool, sai ed Jau 17.
Mizpah, Antwerp, sailed Jan 14.
Mora, (Br), Harvey, sailed from Montevideo De
cember 24. ....
Kate Cann, (Br), sailed from Falmouth Jan 12.
Gutenberg, Noble, Bremen, sld Jan 7.
Olbero, Alberts, Bremi rhaven, cld Jan S.
Ida Lily, Otis, Deal, sailed Jan 11.
Gimso, Fleetwood, sailed Jan 10.
Ajax, Apenues, Havre, sld Jan 2.
Brothers, Jenkins, Gravesend, sld Jan 10.
Runer, Brrickson, Deal for Liverpool, sld Jau 13.
Ada (Br), Havre uec 26.
Alamo (Ger), Bruderhausen, Bremen Dec 30.
Alcede (Sw), Uarstrom, Dublin Jan 7.
Auguste (Ger) Minderborg, sld Liverpool Jan 22.
Auguste (N G), Von Harden, Havre Jan 7.
Belihaven (Nor), Goebel, Loudon Dec 12
Carl Minnaes (Nor),llalvorsen,at Gloucester Jau
Champion (Br), Scott, Bremen Dec 31.
Delta (Br), Brown, Liverpool Dee 31.
E H Duval (Br), Rogers, Antwerp Dec 30.
Helen Campbell (Bij, Brooks, Dublin Jan 13.
J B Duffus (Br), Killam, Liverpool Jau 23.
Kobe (Nor), Taralseu, London Jan 9.
Maggie Chapman (Br), O’Neill, Hamburg Dec 20.
Mary A Marshall (Br),. Tucker, at Gloucestei
Jan 14.
Nalesund (Ger). at Montevideo Oct s.
Ocean Express (Br), Crowell, Havre Jan to.
Sandermander (Nor), Larsen, London Jan 10.
Sappho (Br), Hughes, Dublin Jan 14.
Jitauia (Nor), Jausen, Havre Dec 30.
Waverly (Br), Prella, Liverpool Dec 20.
Weser (Ger), Rotterdam Jan 18.
Wild Hunter (Howatt), Havre Jau 10.
Yarmouth (Br), Brown, Buenos Ayres Dec 5.
Sastrene, Favn, Bristol, sld Jau 21.
Sarah M Smith, Reynolds, sld Liverpool Jau 30.
August Adolph, Liverpool, sld Jan 25.
Matilde (Sp), Trius, Havana, cld Jan 27.
Stormy Petrel (Bij, Dwyer, Liverpool Fell 4.
Caravan, Waefaellar, Liverpool, sld Feb 6.
BRIGS.
Torkeusjoid (Nor), Olsen, Liverpool Jan 8.
Loreto (Sp), Miagos, Cienfuegos Jan 29.
BCHOONERS.
A J Bentley, New York, up Dec 13.
Seth M Smith, Marshall, St John’s, .s B, sld De
cember 19.
Hartstene, Dunham, Liverpool, Dec 2.
V’L Burroughs, Nichols, Liverpool, sld Jan 12,
Kate C Rankin, Rankin, Boston, cld Jan 9.
N F Sawyer, , Portland, at Boston Jau
Carrie Heyer, Polard, Providence, sld Jan 24.
Enchantress, up at New York Jan 39
Annie Tibbetts, Curtis. Orient, L I, Jan 21.
J B Marshall, at New York Feb 4.
Lulu (new), at New York Feb 4.
Sunny South (tern), New York cld Feb 5.
Gamma, Guptill, Orient, L >, Jau 24.
J W Vanuatuan, Sharp, at New \ork Jan . .
Orvie V Drisco (new), at New V ork, Jan 9.
Maggie Mulvey, up at New York Feb 9.
COOKING STOVES
THE
SOITHEBN lllfilt Wllllr STOVf \
BY THE J. L. M 'l l lUU Wolfl
are warranted to give satisfaction.
Have on hand quite a variety o'
COOKINC; STOVES,
t ) sell at prices to suit the tines. C-i'l .'id ■ \
emiue my stock before purchasing.
COKMACK HOPKIIS.S,
febll-tf No. 167 Broughton street._
BEEF AND POKK.
nVVENTY 111’!.'. EXTR k MESS
B 10 bids. Fulton Mario : Fri-.'KF :
50 bills. Mess and Prime M.vs T rill',.
For sale by
JAMES F. BROWN & CO
I dec7 No. 87 Bay street