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f; 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