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ATLANTA, TUESDAY, MAY 27.
iy IYie Hysdnthc has become » father.
Coes Uu(la| MO Barter !
Tiia conundrum U being agitated. Hang
ing doea not Mop murder,bet it comet
to it than any experiment ever tried.
aetaalaa nctata.
That able piper, Tns Anaxxa Coxan-
tctios, in contrasting the condition of Geor
gia DOW with ita condition daring Radical
rale, draws a glowing picture, which we take
pleature In reproducing. Itsaji:
• • a • *
Much that la mid of the condition of Geor
gia may with truth be mid of Virginia. The
various departments of our Stale |
meat are in honest bands, and whilatthe
Legislature fell short of accomplishing
things hoped for, they failed to inflict any
damaging legislation upon the people. What
Virginia would have been by this time, bad
the Republican party been in power, we
tremble to think. As it is, we hare much to
hope for.—LftMurg Rep-Mican.
The French latllon.
Contrary to our expectation, President
Thiers is no longer President of the French
Republic, and Marshal McMahon is. Thiers
has weathered so many crises that we began
to think him invincible. But the pitcher
went occe too often to the wdL Thiers re
signed Just once too often.
nis defeat was a close share, however. The
vote stood 883 to 848 on the test question,
giving a majority of only fourteen against the
indomitable little fellow.
The election of McMahon, an Irish soldier
and a protege of the Deuapartes, is atoace
most extraordinary and a moat aignifleant
act. The spectacle of an Dish President
over the Fiench Republic is a strange one.
The ebetion by the aid of the Bonaparte
element of a General who won his spurs in
the service of Napoleon is ominous to the
Republic, and suggestive of better days for
the cxil d dynasty of the Bonaparte*.
The change appears to delight the French.
All changes do that This will comfort
Thkra In tb meantime, McMahon can en
joy the luxury on which Thiers has lived
inocb longer than ae bad reason to hope for
—power held by a tenure an brittle as to have
in it the fascination of the most precsriocs
* Wc"watch the nrxl turn of the wheel
curiously.
Trade Depressed.
The New York Bulletin maizes this candid
con'easina.
“The almost universal dullness, indeed we
may truthfully say depression, of business
this city la a matter of common notoriety
and. fudging from the complaints wc meet
with lo the pipers from other lections, '
may tie safety concluded that a similar slate
of things is more or leu general throughout
the country. It is not that there Is no de
mand for goods, nor yet, perhaps, that the ag
gregate sales of the season here thus far fallen
materially below the volume of previous
years; lull rather that the demand comes
slowly, that IxMincsa drags, that the wants
purchasers are not equal to the stocks pro
vided for them, that the interior is buying
later and more cautiously than usual, that
salea have to bo forced, that longer terms
havo to bo offered in order to induce sales,
and that collections with some sections am
so tardy as to suggest caution respecting
large class of second rate accounts. As
consequence or this condition of things, the
merchandise markets are weak, and the jot
ters, In order to effect rales, bsvo to sell
many goods at a positive loss. These are'
n» means the features of a healthy trade.'
The Bullet in ascribes this to defective
tanking. It rayn Congress must loosen
grasp on tbe Jwpks.
Csnsa-Xs. 38.
his week are 31,000 bales;
22,000 more than last year, and 8,000 lean
than two years since.
i receipts for next week will
be about 27,000 bales, compared with 13,000
last year and 36,000 the year before; and
the receipts at the interior towns 6,COO bales,
compared with 2,500 last year and 8,000 the
Ibis week bis been just as we
wrote, two months ago, it ns likely to be—
changeable and rainy. The thermometer has
avenged 81 degrees at noon; live days dear
wo days cloudy, warm and
raining, with heavy nine at night. This
week last year, the thermometer wsa 81 de-
four days dear and pleasant,
and three days cloudy and showery.
ut year, the thermometer was
37 degrees at noon; five days e'ear and pleas-
days doody and good rains.
The rains were general all over the Booth.
deed how very regular the re
ceipts keep along, each week, compared with
last year; bat one thing matt be taken into
i the pest three weeks the in
terior towns have decreased their stock
13jD03 bales, compueA with 1,000,
ciptsthisweek are but 1,000
estimate. Tbegulf ports show
they have fallen off, together,
40 per cent., compered with last week, whilst
Norfolk and New York have recreated the
iwa lha*. the interior depots of
ccreaslng their stocks by ship
ping their cotton with through bills of
lading direct to Europe via New York, as
b le received at Norfolk is
e for New York.
:ipta for the past three weeks
per cent more than last year
at u the receipts for the nrxt
■st year were steady 12,000
r, and we expect this year they
.tcsdily, the per cent, will be
Filtering Poetics.
This litlle gem wsa published in the New
Orleans Times. The Times says that
stricken youth in that office did them, though
warned that trouble would come of such in
flammable matter:
bdnga protege of
there weaec
that In their
Dd-DaB^Kwho
fear of a distarbaace is apprehended in
Faria
The people oa Sunday attended in great
re the Chantilly races, giving them
selves np to pleasures,and cuing little, seem
ingly, for politics.
re Hague; Minister of War. Gw-
do Cater ; Minister of Marine, Ad
miral D’Horasy; Minister of Public Instruc
tion and Worship, Bstthie; Minister of Pub
lie Works, DeMaeillgny; Minister cf Agri
culture and Commerce, Bouillerie.
No disorders have occurred in any portion
of the country inconsequence of the change
in the government Dispatches from all *ec-
• wire tsaim ijrss dowicatt.
throat nrdtmds.
AaSsll act kill tm mug
Bee rate Is pay. divinely llyusd
With Iks while wonder ot her 1
Her UUIe fort setre-s bruleo the flowws
That tna the twud whmaa they uoad;
Vet they wootd wake me If they reached
The gtsve where t wse tying ucad.
The next day somebody sent to lire editor
the lines, with the following attached, inti
mating plagiarism:
a cosrsasHW-BV sues cast.
‘T know another damsel
W Ith eyelids lowly writhed.
And so pale Is she
'ViXrjszx:ow.tata.-mdo
Iter hawda are aa while ae charily.
Asd her Tries Is low tad sweet,
Aad she raaaelh quick
1V> the stnfol aad sick.
Aad her asm Is Manual's
The hcokern sad heaved ta sytili
■the maketh straight aid whole
And I vital her have
Aad shea-ass tow,
Aad 1 love her with my seat”
The insinuated charge don’t apply in Ibis
cuso.
The TittHS rhymester baa beit Mas Csiy
two to one—or, in betting parlance, gone a
tin—better.
At the time of the meeting of the Associa
tion, at Amt ileus, Tire Constitution pub
lished by telegraph the important pert of the
proceedings. Wc bad proposed, however, to
giro a more extended account, but the meet-
ingiof the great Governors* Convention and
Pica Association at this point, have so ab
sorbed our time mod attention, that wc have
neglected to do so.
Utile else was done at Americas beyond
what was given to our readers. The in
creasing powtr and popularity of the
association was evidenced by the addition of
quite a number of new members. Some old
journals also had new representatives, and
one of them, the Mrnroo Advertiser, wu
present in the person of its new proprietor,
Mr. W. D. Stone, w bow aa unanimously voted
the handsomest member of the Press Asso
ciation, acd issageeial-hcartedandgenerous-
spirited m he is handsome; One newspaper
was expelled the association on account of
retaining the patent-outrile, and must con-
srqutntty be stricken from the exchange
lisl—the Fort Valley Mirror.
Tns CossTninion reporter returned from
Americas so full (in a number of senses) that
his account was cot the most explicit But
we inferred from it that Americas overflowed
with good things, end its coble lad its are u
clever as they are pretty. The general ver
dict appears to be that ibis meeting of the
Asecctaibut was by far ihe most enjoyable
one ever had. Wc do not like to acknowl
edge that, but can't help ourselves. Mr.
Hancock and his associates ot live Republi
can may rest assured that Ihe members oi
the press appreciate tbe r great and untiring
efforts to entertain them,and we congratulate
those gen: It men upon their great success.
The people of Ameiicus deserve oar g
tude for the noble, free ami generous mat
with which all the ci ixens, ladies and gentle
men, treated the pre-a fraternity. Even the
Court was adjourned for one day by dodge
Clarke lo accommodrate the Bar, whose m
tiers. Colonel Hawkitu, Colonel Goode, Solic
itor General Crisp, and others, exerted them
selves handsomely in behalf of their guests
Many were entertained at private bouse*, and
Tin Constitution's representative will long
remember the bospitaiityof Mr.and Mrs John
. Felder, whose beautiful little home. Mended
with the presence of a manly boy of fear
year* and bright eyed girl of six, is one of
those Edens that do more to convert old
bachelors from the errors of their way then
almost aught else on earth.
It cost the railway companies 38,000.000
for trifling with the lives ofpisaengeralast
Jew.
tow had rainy weather, and
very heavy isins, ill over
iwiog region for four weeks,
(ions are the rains are not yet
rcc weeks the temperature wsa
neither cotton, grass nor
Id grow well, but for
: has been warm and wet
ather for all vegetation to grow
w. If the grars can In cleaned
>tton, and it is not too wet to
look as flue as possible, as there
good stands; but if the rain
continues amt tbc grass and weeds overrun
the cotton, it will very soon tic seriously
damsged, as it was in 1871 wben wc bad just
such weather iu May as wc arc having now.
then the rains cune of inter and heavier in
June. What will be tbccotirscof the weather
this June no one can tell.
The market in New Yntk has lieen quiet
and dull nil the week. Silts, 8.2-i? biles of
spots and 00,*fl9 bales of omiacls. The
sinreriusesaff.-cling the market that have
done so for s month past
The price of middlings have not change 1
in three weeks, sod tbc sale of contracts has
decrenseil 73,000 bales per week. This shows
extreme dullness, and alio shows that most
dealers are waiting for tome turn in the tide;
Wc nenr knew so lung a dull spell
but twicu In lltc spring of I860 there
but little change fur twelve weeks, up to last
of Msy; afur which, in consequence of
■mall stocks of American, the price rose five
cents.
In June of last year there was no change
from 261-4, for middlings, fur three weeks,
up to last of the month; after which, in con-
acqncccj of large flocks in Europe, (the stock
in Liverpool alone being 300,0C0 more than
the year before) tbc price fell rapidly five
con la a pound. What will be the course this
yesr, at the close of this dull spell, depends
entirely upon what the mass ot the dealers
think of the situation—smt they will be sure
to act in Ihe way that will be most to their
advantage. The stock in New York is now
about 15,000 bales less than last year, this
date. Spinners have taken from Liverpool
this week 39,000 bales of American, compared
with 30,000 same week last year.
The market iu Liverpool has been steady
this week with medium rales. Total sales
for trade and export 73,000 bales, against.
83,000 last week; decrease all American
Tbc cause ot this quieting off of the
market has been the sudden rise of interest
in England from roar to six per cent in two
weeks; caused by the panic and financial
convulsions in Austria, principally at
Vienna The fear ofasprcatl of this trouble,
to it would reach England, has caused a dull
ness in all trade; but the trouble is cow be
lieved to have blown over; and aa money is
easy again, loaning freely at five per cent
oa side of the Bank of England, it is believed
that institution will very soon reduce its rate
of interest; and if it dues so, it will have an
encouraging cfiect upen trade general,y.
There are nuw 2,5.000 biles of American
cotton afloat for Liverpool, of which 50,000
will be doe, and should be received there
next week.
For Ihe week ending may 16lb, the receipts
at Bombay were 5!,UU> boles; shipments to
Great Britain 30,000; to Continent 8,COO.
Gold is active in New York st 184 per
cent, and money cosy at five per cent per
Only half a
•ir barracks.
of the troops are now held in
IBR OF EIROPE-Ro. 1S
The Confusion of Tongncs.
The Belgian Newport.
Frontier Difficulties.
A GLIMPSE OF THE SCEWEBT.
i Charms of Belgium’s Capital.
MODERN BABEL.
icr G-ardons.
The Fantastic Fronts of Antwerp.
The Washington Gazette raja that the
race between cotton and grass grows excit
ing in this county.
The corn and cotton crops, we learn, are
promising in this county.
The Recorder thinks the odd, wet weather
affected the com and cotton crops in this
county, yet finds no reasons for farmers to be
Notwithstanding the continued aret weath
er. crops in this county continue to look quite
promising, especially com.
BETWSSS BOSS ASD KINGSTON.
The Rome Commerctal say*: On the line
of the Rome Railroad, between Rome and
Kingston, the cotton, com and clover oops
are looking remarkably welL
Planters, we learn, are busy cleaning their
cotton of the young grass. A very large
* is planted, and the crop will be large.
The Appeal rays: The farmers are now
complaining of crass The recent rains have
greatly retarded farming operations.
The GrcencsborolHenld, speaking of the
crops, says that corn and cotton crops are
good, although a little backward. But little
wheat sown, and but little will be made. The
oat crop is late and not very promising.
great, gaslit trees. They come with-their
familms, sweethearjfe and friends in the
quietest, pleasantest wsy. I shall have
much tnort to say of sooal enjoyment in
the open air when I get to the Vadcrtand,
We shall find it there in fall perfection. It
is only an hour's ran to
OUR SOCIETY.
;zt.z ATION.
Up the Cathedral Tower.
TENT CENTIMES.
The correspondent of the Chronicle and
Sentinel reporta that com and cotton in
Burke, though a little backward, it growing
t,fi finely, and the small grain, what there ta
of it, as being in a flourishing condition.
ri/OTD.
The Courier says of the wheat in Floyd
county that it is generally very poor. Com
snd cotton begin to grow nicely, and gener
ally farmers have good stand-. The cut
worms, however, are doing slight damige in
some localities
IJItCOLH.
A correspondent of the McDuffie Journal
rays the com crop in the above county h
looking remarkably well. Cotton is unusu
ally small, though the stand is excellent. The
wheat and oat crops are small, bat produce
fair -average. The farmers, generally, *
pi in ted entirely too largely of cotton.
In speaking of the crops the Timet and
Platoer statesjlhat cotton is coming up well,
and the farmers generally aa having good
stands Coro looks forward. The indications
are that a large cotton crop will be raised in
the county.
COWETA.
The Benoia Journal reports fine growing
weather, and com, cotton and other crops as
looking well and growlog rapidly. It the
seasons are favorable to crops, in abundant
yield may be expected.
orson AAD CKAWrOBD
The Bamesville Gazette bean good reports
as to crop prospects from these counties
Wheat promises an abundant yield. Splen
did stands of com and cotton, and farmers
well up with their work.
CHATTOOGA.
The Rome Courier, in speakine of the cot
ton anti com crops in Dirt Town Valley ,in the
above county, rays that they are in fine con
dition and never promised a better yield
The wheat crop (spoor. Clover is looking
well Oats will tom -out poorly. The
farmers are til up with their wok.
We now have the pleasure of numbering
uie firm of Ellison &, Co., Liv-
repooi, Eoglantl, among our exchanges
They publish a monthly cotton circular for
private cicutaiion, which contains a very 1st
amount of valuable statistics In their cL
color of May 8ib, which is now before us,
they ray, “It seems lo us that prices have
reached a very safe level; but wo do not
wish it to be inferred that we encourage the
expectation of an advance, unless we have
an immediate fatting iff in the American
receipts"
We will now give some of the reasons that
are given by the bulls and the bears why cot
ton abouid go up or down. The bulls argue
there is but one hundred thousand bales of
American cotton more to slock and afloat for
Liverpool than last year ibis lime. The price
is four cents a pound lower, and the consump
tion of American is thirty-live per cent,
greater. The tout stock is one hundred
thousand boles le-s. The profit of Manches
ter spinners is iwcuty per cvuL mure than
last year. Tbepticeul coal is declining and
will soon be comparatively low again.
Now the panic is over in Austria money
will loon he easy again. Exchange
is at a fair price in blew York, gold is high
and ruing, money is easy, and now, at last,
the receipts show exhaustion if supply at
several points. All these things, we giant;
but then, on the othtr hand, the bears urgut-
that there will be a plenty of American cot
ton, and another crop of possibly five mill
ions is growing; that the price is too high,
and will be lour cents a pound lower next
winter; that the dry goods trade in thi»
country is very dull, prices declining sit tbc
time; and what is most important, there is
no speculation, no life, in the cotton trade
anywhere—eitln-r in this country or in
Europe.
Fdll'RES.
We have nothing to add to what we have
written, snd will only refer our readers to
our last three numbers on the above sal jut.
FBAKCE.
M’MAHON’s TEXT.
Paris. May 26.—The text of McMahon*,
address wag, “I have been called through the
confidence of the National Assembly to in.
Presidency of the Republic. No immedii’i-
change will be made in the cxi-ting laws,
regulations snd institution I rely upon ma
terial order, and I emut upon you—upon
your vigilance and your patriotic assistance.*'
The scenes were extremely exciting-
in the National Assembly chamber,
pending the discussion which resnlicd
in the deposition of Thiers.
Lord Lyons, British Minister, was not
recent, being engaged in giving a dinner and
nerptkm in honor of Queen Victoria’s birth
day.
Many celebrated women of Napoleon's
S I well as of the Republic, occupied
nus places snd remained nnttl the
change waa consummated As soon
rathe vote was taken deposing of Thiers, rep
resreiUtives from different countries imme
diately left the chamber and telegraphed tbc
news to their respective governments. Thiers
rat a dose watcher of events, and constantly
using the exclamation, ** Oh Bicn Messieurs!"
Once be caused immense excitement,
when he raid (hey have spoken of
negotiations when it has occurred
to me that they only wanted the government
bfbe transferred to Paris, but the army would
net enter there. I have expelled them in or
der to prevent shedding streams of blood at
the expense of the army. II there is
a man who counts this effect—the effu
sion of blood—it is myself. 1 have faileo,
or rather wish to say we have fal.eu, far a
long time. I had hoped this detestable fac
tion, (the dose of the sentence was lost in a
tremendous uproar, which the beginning had
excited.) Again * did Thiers wake the
enthusiasm of his friends, whcn.charged with
A correspondent of the Gainesville Eagle
says: Cotton is at list get< lug up, and better
stands reported each day. Corn lain a grow
ing coudltkm and looks well. Wheat, where
there la any, is pushing up to maturity now
rap'dly, though the straw will be low and
the head short. The oat crop now bids fair
to yield wdl.
m
Coro and cotton growing finely. Crops
around Zebulon indeed promising. Wheat
promises to be an average yield.
The Albany Central City say»: We never
saw the crop prospects better than they are
now. Cora is looking fine, cotton seems to
he doing well, snd the general opinion among
the farmers is that we are deatined to have a
magnificent crop of both cotton snd com.
WHO*.
The Gnffin Star reports that the prospect
for com is better than it has been since the
war, bat that the cotton is small and bock
ward, and not a very good stand at that. The
wheat crop is not very good. Cob Ism bss
cotton on his plantation near Griffin with
two squares on a stalk.
TALBOT.
The Standard rays: That the standi of cot
ton are nncxcepuonaUy good; the plants
healthy and growing rapidly. Com never
better at this season, and gin a evidence of a
good yield. . The wheat crop generally in
ferior.
BARTOW.
The peach crop in this section promises to
be a plentiful one; The clover of this section
is looking finely, and the mowing season will
soon be upon our farmers. The wheat crop
—what there is of it-is looking very well,
abjat half a crop will be realized. There
are good stands of com snd cotton in this
section, but both backward.—CarterniUe
Standard and Express.
Uncle Bob Whatley, an old farmer of the
county above, reports to the Advertiser that
the cropa in the upper part of the county are
very promising. Wheat, oati£and com are
growing finely, and cotton louking well.
The LaG range Reporter reports the past
few days as having been splendid weather
for crops. The farmers buoyant and hope-
ful at prospects that all the crops will be bet
ter thin was anticipated.
M 'fC CUE
Tm- C-IitiutHU Sun says: Judging fn m
th- y i--i'I • f lost year, wr conclude that Mua
eager county the present season has pro
Jural ab 'Ui 3.801 bales of c-dton. With
favorable seasons we lUppote about as much
will be produced Ihe coming
WABBISOTOA.
The SandcrsvUle Herald, in speaking of
Uiecrops.uys: The wheal crop of the county
is looking welL Frequent showers give the
young crops of com snd cotton no time to
pause in their rapid growth. The cotton
plant is small, her the stand is good. Oneof
our successful pi -Men states that he has not
it co so promising a corn crop since the war
ss at the present lime.
BROOK*.
The Quitmao Banner save; We still have
encouraging ivpnv's from the crops in this
county. We have heard fr> m all sections of
the county within the last w*et In
sections there is a complaint ..fjo»
but no sennas hj try w ) et
now are that the weather is settled snd the
planters will soon h ; ve their crops In good
condition. \Vr ibink'tbr gie t mistake is too
much notion, not tnomtb own.
KAR1.T.
Fr -tu tin- News we leant that the present
oit crop in Ihiaman'y t»"ro- of I be beat ever
retncnitwrnt b» the oldest inhabitants. In
ten d >ts more tin- prh-cpal part of the crop
will be matured—’hm down goes the price
f corn, whereat »e ifl r jet Wecon-
linnetn have too nint h rata for the con
venience of planters i w. r mg their crops,
if nut fur ibegned of the ir -pa
■arms.
Ft- -m the Hamilton Visitor we team that
wheat l.s ka primming all over the c- only.
Only a small area sown. The corn crop is a
small one, ami is backward, but since the re
cent rain* if growing off finely. The oil crop
is flourirhing. and a larger amount than nmol
bos been sown. Cotton is looking bsdly.and
from the present indications, a foil crop is oat
of the question. The fruit crop generally
will be abundant.
ancaitit.a
The Conyers Examiner Mates that from
what it can learn from its friends in the
lined to wither and die, has now put oa
different look, and is growing off rsoidlt
Cotton is looking admirably well.
cheering to look at the growing crop* of
■min grain, which win toon produce abund
ant harvests.
for Tax Atlanta* Coxititutiox.
It was very early one smoky morning
when my kind fellow traveler walked down
to tiie Lndgate Hill station to witness my
departure for the strange lands and strange
tongues across the channel. The train
sped swiiUy away through the net work of
hedges, snd the pale green wheat fields of
the Southern counties; reaching Dover,
eighty-eight miles distant, in two hours
from theneart of London. Tho little four-
wheeled eras shook us up thoroughly ; and
I remember but tittle of the nervous jour
ney excepts gray flash of distant Canter
bury CathcdnL Perhaps my apprehen
sion of travel difficulties had something to
do with it; for I was full of them as I
walked the gyg plank that separated me
from every friend except the one that I
carried iu my pocket—my passport. The
perpendicular bars of the Belgian flag on
the boat did not lend ine assurance, nor did
the strange accents of the crew. I
about to write the experiences of a con
tinental wanderer who was, to all intents
and purposes,' both deaf and dumb. My
innocence of French or German increased
my misgivings as we approached tho Bel
gian shores. JTho sky was clear, tho air
cool, and the sea, for a wonder, as smooth
as s mill-pond, everything, in fact, was
lovely except the confusion of tongues.
It only takes about four hours to cross
the watery gulf that ties between the white
chalk cliffsoof Dover and the low confines
of Babel, and as we approach
OSTEKD
something peculiar appears on the sands—
long rows of white objects that a few min
utes sail puts on wheels, and transformi into
bathing machines, hundreds of them. Wc
are approaching tho Belgian Newport, as
the many hotels on the beach and the pretty
giria that watch us from the promenade
plainly show. We havo more urgent bus
iness, however, than the bathing or even
the pretty girls. A Belgian official has
Bumptiously and, contrary to our wishes,
come on board to proclaim, in Belgo-Saxon,
that all bsggag", whether booked or not,
must be examined. I opened iny bag, and
an officer spontaneously wrote a little Chi
nese on it, whereupon I advanced on tho
officials at the gang plank, and was repulsed;
in queer English they told mo to go below,
which I did in good order. I found an old
fellow down there whose suavity was fully
equal to the gilt lace .that adorned his
portly form, who first cast his weather eye
over my passport, and then presented me
with * little round certificate of goml con
duct, with which and my Chinese bag I
again charged the guarded pass that lay
between me and a restaurant alongside of
the pier. I marched at last to victory and
roast-beef, and soma other things that I
eat without asking any questions.
Threo hours of dust and chattering
Frenchmen carried us to tho capital;
through Bruges and Ghent—tho latter a
handsome cotton town that aspires to rival
Manchester—and through a country that is
emphatically flat Tho green hedges that
lend such a charm to English scenery are
not here; the highways are unfcnccd, and
so are the railways; not an irch of soil is
wasted, and tho narrow strips of heavy
crops are grown right np to tho beaten
tracks. It is said that less than onc-thir-
tccntli of the whole country is unproduc
tire, and the number of people to the square
mile exceeds that of any other civilized na
tion. Grazing cattle wo only seen in the
charge of sshepherd; but the little, white
washed, red-roofed or thatched cottages nro
always in right, and so arc the straight
rows of the everlasting poplars that arc
more suggestive of geometry than of nature
or of landscape gardening. Add plenty of
compact tittle towns, and a few lazy wind
mills, and you have tho principal character
istics of the seaward section of the flat,
fruitful land that is wedged in between
Holland and France, between Germany and
the sea that sometime threatens to roll over
it. The flatness ceases as we approach
BRUSSELS,
which is situated on billowy ground. And
• very bright, light, pure white, clean and
cheerful town it is. I had vague recollec
tions of reading its praise in Scott and By
ron ; I bad heard it called a minaturc Paris;
I was sure that the Duchess of Richmond
gave a famous ball in the city on the eve
of Waterloo, wben “there was a sound of
revelry by night”—but all these did not
give mo an adequato conception of the
sweet city of the Belgians. It was a pleas
ant contrast to the dingy streets of brick
that I had jnst left behind me; and yet
nearly every houso in Brussels is built of
brick. They are thickly covered with
stucco that is printed white—not a glaring
brick in sight And so we shall find it all
over the Continent My landlord tells me
that the freshness of exteriors is enforced
by ordinance. There are no buildings in the
town of 165,000 people that “fill the be
holder with admiration"—to use a guide
book phrase; it is just a charming, elegant
city, that is not tarnished by tbc smoko of
coal; whose streets are not a whirl of
traffic; that manufactures gloves, lace and
other positive necessaries in the straggle of
life, and it seemed inexpressively quiet and
lovely alter my prolonged stay in the great
gathering-place of English souls.
I have not, however, left England en
tirely, for my landlord is an Englishman,
and my hotel is called tho “Prince of
Wale*.” I prefer to learn foreign ways
gradually, and yet I am about as well off,
linguistically, as most other people of the
tittle nation. The language of thp govern
ment and of polite circles is French ; but
the mass of the people, even of Brussels,
r ik either tho Flemish tongue which is
the Low Dutch order, or else the
Walloon language, which is second cousin
to the French. A flood of foreigners con
stantly deluges the interesting towns of
the dimioutive kingdom, and between them
all the jargon most be perplexing to the
oldest inhabitant, as well aa to the latest ar
rival from foreign parts. The tide of
English and American travel is so large
that the shop keepers are prepared for
them, and one rarely has any trouble in
buying all that he can pay for.
The Hotel de Villc, in the older part of
the city, is the most interesting building,
both in point of history and architecture.
The square in front of this ancient Town
Hall has been the scene of nearly every
movement in the history of Brabant It
was filled with Wellington’s soldiers be
fore they marched to the decisive field ten
miles sway; and there the people gathered
in the popular uprising that resulted in the
separation of Belgium from the Kingdom of
the Netherlands, snd its complete indepen
dence some^forty odd years ago.
As we walked np the Bne de la Made
leine (for all the streets bear the circumlo-
calory nomenclature of Francejwe will pass
on the right hand side, No. 87, in which the
ball was given that Byron celebrated in im
mortal song. The building is now used for
a club-house, and was undergoing extensive
repairs at the time of my visit. If we
keep on np the street, we will also come to
the handsome, densely-wcoded park, at one
end of which is the white house of the
and at the other, the white honse of
the Hug’s Parliament; and between them,
in the corners of the park, are gardens to
winch the people, even the elite, resort cn
mer nights to listen to delightful music
drink beer, wine, tea, etc, under the
ASTWEBF,
where I went next day, still retaining a
base at my English hostelry in Brussels.
A quaint town is Antwerp. If a desire ever
fills yonr bosom to sec the eccentric and
curious freaks of indent architecture, just
book for Antwerp. It’* there. I would
not h*Te said a word about the queer old
gabled houses—often six or seven stories
high—if they had not rounded the gables
in sneh a grotesque, fantastic manner. I
scarcely remember when the town was
founded, but in the sixteenth century its
walls contained 200,000 souls, or about the
double ita present population; although it
is still the sole seaport town of the king
dom except Ostend. It is on the Scheldt,
about sixty miles from the sea, and ita fine
docks are _ crowded with ships, abont
most of which lingers a perfume that flowed
from the oleaginous wells of Pennsylvania.
While I was on the quay I saw what is a
rare right in European towns—a drunken
man in the streets. Policemen brought
him across the river in a boat and tbc
quickly-gathered crowd palled him np the
high wall of lho pier with a rope, after he
had refused to go up the ladder. Many
people followed him to the police station,
which said plainer than words that such
scenes are not of frequent occurrence. His
subsequent history most be traced in the
Antwerp Police Gazette.
But 1 am wandering from the principal
“sight” of Antwerp—the beautiful gothic
Cathedral. After getting into, by mistake,
the elegant church of St. Jacques, in which
Rubens is buried, I got my eye on tho tall
graceful spire that has withstood the tem
pests of centuries, and whose ontward ap
pcarance is so frail that it resembles, at i
distance, lace-work, or the fanciful crea
tions of fairy builders. The Cathedral is
right among dirty tittle shops, somo of
which arc built against ita grand old front
My visit to tho interior was well-timed, for
I found Reubens masterpiece, the Descent
from tho Cross, ■unveiled. It ordinarily
takes a fee to rcmqge the cortain that was
over it when I returned an hour later. By
the by, one gets rathsr too much of Reubens
in Antwerp. His pictures are iu every
church; bis statuo confronts you-in the
market place; his furniture fills the muse
um ; you are advised to see his house, his
tomb, etc., until you feci that you are get
ting a larger doso of Rubens than your love
of art, or rather of a dead and gone artist,
demands.
The guide-book says that no one should
fail to go up the tower of the Cathedral,
which is one of the loftiest in the world.
There are 600 steps, two-thirds of which I
conquered before I reached a guide. I don’
suppose anybody would consider the view
front tho tower grand. It is land set on
edge, with deep riven valleys and towering
peaks, that is grand, and not absolute flat
ness stretching away to a level, misty hori
zon. In a clear air, it is said that one hun
dred and twenty-six spires can be counted,
and many towns, including Ghent and, of
course, Brussels. Just across the river
Flanders and Holland—a country that I
shall visit only from the elevated tower.
As we descend the excellent guide unlocks
a door to show us the keys that causo the
famous chime of forty bells to “ring out
tbeir delight”—a rude piano whose keys
must put the pianist's muscles into prime
pugilistic condition. Here occurred one of
those tittle mistakes that will happen to
the best regulated traveler. I wished to
pay the guide, who had been of service, the
usual fee, about an English six-pence ; and
1 had that morning received, in the way of
change at a shop, some pieces that looked
much like silver, with the largo figures “10”
on one side. I thought it must be about
what I ought to pay, and so I did. The
guide said nothing, which is the queerest
part of it all, for 1 gave him less than two
cents—10 centimes, or one-tenth of a franc,
F.
A Tilt at the Follies and Ftoibles
of Fashionable Feminity.
Bohemia va- Vaulty Fair, or
Society.
Xr TJ Xj TJ .
A Young Lady Jumps Tncuty-
Five Feet Into the Air.
A TRIPLE SOMERSAULT
At the first representation of “Azraci,
the ballet spectacle pantomime, at Nibio’
April 28th, the chief sensations were the
remarkably daring performances of tbc
famous acrobat, Lulu. The spectators ap
plauded the feats of Luln upon the serial
trapeze, and platform, but wero fairly
electrified by tho dextrous grace with which
tho agile gymnast demonstrated tho fcasi
bility of the triple somersault, making
three complete revolutions in the air be
fore alighting, and, above all, by the unique
exploit of bounding perpendicularly up
ward to a platform poised no less than
twenty-fivo feet above the level of the
arena. One moment Lulu is seen below,
calmly contemplating the carpeted plank
fixed at such a great height, and in a sec
ond, “swift as an arrow from a Tartar’s
bow," sho is visible on the flying bridge,
acknowledging the plaudits of the aston
ished audience.
So amazing is the feat, and so instanta
neous is its accomplishment, that the be
holder can at first hardly realize the con
ditions under which it has been achieved.
That the propulsion is derived lrom some
mechanical agency may be quickly imag
ined ; but whether this agency he frank y
revealed, as it was during Lulu’s engage
ment at the Cirquo de ITmperatrice, at
Paris, or cleverly concealed, as the Hoi-
born Amphitheatre, in London, it is impo:-
sihle to over-estimate lho exquisite nicety
of tho calculation of the upward move
ment, and the very accurate judgment of
tho proper time to be observed for leaping
forward in the course of the flight, so as
descend exactly in tho narrow platform.
It may disppoint the morbid curiosity of
those who gloat over the chances
of a fatal acccidcnt on the flying
trapeze, as Roman matrons used to watch
with fierce eagerness and down-turned
thumbs, the contests of the gladiators, or
as Spanish senoras gaze at bull-fights, but
it will reassure all who rightly regard ex
traordinary acrobatic feats as criminal in
proportion to tbeir peril, to be informed
that none of Lulu's rests are so dangerous
as they seem, the spring-net which spreads
widely beneath being in all cases sufficient
to protect her.
As for Lulu herself, in addition to the
novelty and surpassing skill of her per
formances, there is a mystery—a couple,
nay, a variety, of mysteries—ingeniously
attached to her and her pretty name. A
London newspaper asks, “Who is Lulu, to
begin with? Is she a princess in disguise,
a child of the desert, afugitive from tatam-
boul, or a Circassian maiden in exile? And,
as Artcmus Ward would have said, if not,
why not?” Then, again, what is Lulu?
We put the question guardedly, but it is
not to be denied that, while most accept her
as a beautiful girl, with the strength and
agility of a boy, others suggest the possi
bility of an exceptional boy, with the rosy
freshness of a girl. The point, we grant,
hardly admits of discussion, as tho majority
who have seen Lulu will admit, but we
mention it because it has been mentioned,
and because it is one of the elements which
conduce to the popularity of this marvelous
artiste. This popularity, however, scarcely
needs to be enhanced by any such dubious
mystery as that wherewith the late Theo-
phiic Gautier—with a pagan Greek spirit
which George Francis Train can appreciate
—enveloped the heroine of bis most artistic
and most immoral novel.
When Lulu astonished London with her
marvelous spring, which she first exhibited
iq Marseilles, in May, 1870, and afterward
in the principal cities on the Continent, our
London namesake said: “It is quite possi
ble that some folks, with a strong recollec
tion of faces, will identify in ’Lulu,’ of the
Holborn Amphitheater, that fair-haired
‘boy,’ who, as ‘El Nino Farini,’ used to as
tonish visitors at the Alhambra and Cre-
morne by a series of daring flights from bar
to bar in tho first trapeze outbreak of seven
years ago. It should, therefore, be dis
tinctly understood that there is no donbt
whatever of the perfect right Lain now has
to claim feminine privileges—though
whether the turning of a triple somersault
should be included among the ‘Rights cf
Women’ the profoundest philosophy of Mr.
Mill would scarcely enable ns to decide.”
Another London journal, Land and Water,
deduced from Lula’s exhibition a powerful
argument in favor of calisthenics: “As a
pure exhibition of gymnastics, Loin’s is
graceful and novel, andlt affords an oppor
tunity of calling attention to the want of
some practical improrement in the physical
education of young ladies.”
A Boston publishing houso have in press
and will shortly issue a book by Abba
Gould Woolson, entitled “Woman in Amer
ican Society,’’ in which we have presented
another instance of that hopeless war which
has been waged from the beginning of the
world, and will ho waged to the end of
time between theory and practice. Abba
Gould—(wo can’t say whether she is Miss
or Mrs.)—has very plainly a proper com-
S rcbcnsion and a duo appreciation of the
egeneracy of tho times and of her own
sex in particular. She is disgnsted of
conre with the vanities and foibles and fol
lies of tho fashionable woman, and while
there is little that is new and nothing espe
cially startling in what sho tells us shout
that hollow, artificial sort of existence .that
makes up the life of a society woman, and
very littlo chance of her accomplishing an
actual reform by this crasado which she
haffondertaken, just because what sho says
is true, it does us good to read her criticisms,
and even though the lesson taught bo an
old one, it is in a new dress, and it serves
at least to strengthen the resolution of
those who have the desire to avoid the
shoals and rocks of danger in the sea of
fashionable life. The annexed extracts
from advanced proof sheets are given as
random examples of the quality of the
book:
ORNAMENTAL YOUNG LADIES.
They are delightful little bodies, for the
most part; at peaco with all things about
them, and seeming to purr softly through
their sleepy existence like contented kittens.
Their idea of bliss is to rest on deep, silken
cushions, with plenty of dainties to cat,
warm coverings, and no need to bestir them
selves. Energy and labor they consider
very nice and useful and all that, for great,
rude men, who can do nothing else, and
who, by a wise provision of nature, were
sent into tho world to provido them with
comforts. That is what fathers and hus
bands and brothers are for. And they
themselves were made to braid Christmas
slippers, aud stitch cigar coses for gentle
men friends; to hem their liandkcrchiofs,
sing to them evenings, and otherwise to
wait gracefully upon mankind.
They arc quite content to go through the
world hedged about with mysteries, not the
least of which is politics, which they sup
pose to be a sort of black art, comprehen
sible only to elderly men, who >rc always
wrangling over it disagreeably and unac
countably, when they might, if they chose,
be telling the news, and saying pleasant
things. Another mystery is the recent dis
cussion about women, which they think is
somehow very ill-bred and unfortunate.
They have heard of dreadful, unladylike
creatures who go around to conventions in
bloomers, talking like men, and creating a
disturbance ; and they wonder that the po
lice do not tako care of them. For their
part they have all the rights they care for,
or know anything about; and so long as
gentlemen pick up their handkerchiefs gal
lantly, and say “Apres vous" blandly at
doorways, they see no need of quarreling
about birthrights.
GETTING HARRIED.
To the managing mamma, social gather
ings are chiefly voluble as instituted thea
tres of display for marriageable daughters;
since only thus cau personal fascinations
and engaging manners be displayed in the
presence of many attentive admirers. In
winter, therefore, sho accompanies her
sirens to evening parties, arraying them in
the most becoming attire tbit can be de
vised, no matter if health and decency be
set at naught; and every opportunity is
there taken for the exhibition of those ac
complishments which have cost so many
weary hours to gain, and which are only
serviceable to this end. The artist secs to
it that the picture he would sell is hung in
tho best light; and we cannot expect tho
mother to he less anxious for her treasured
darlings. When summer comes, sbo takes
to tho temporary centres of wealth and
fashion, to Newport and Saratoga, across
the mountains snd down to the sea; hawk
ing them about through every wife market,
and exhibiting their fine points, as a jockey
would those of a valuable horse. “Sold
singly to suit purchasers,’’ and “None but
wealthy parties need apply,” are written all
over their dress and conduct and the man
agement of their friends. This mother is
simply practical and self-sacrificing; sho
is employing the only means allowed her
to establish her daughters well in lire.
WOMAN’S RIGHT TO TROroSE.
Wo are amused, however, at the indig
nant protests that woman herself makes to
such a straightforward course. Sho can
never be so immodest, wc arc told; it is
foreign to her nature, and she will not thns
forfeit her self-respect
The assertion that her nature forbids it
would seem to lack support Queens are
women, with all the instincts of her sex;
and yet it is held eminently fitting that they
should propose to the ono below them in
rank whom they may elect to share their
throno. Victoria has told the world, with
out a blush of shame, how she offered her
self in all candor to tho German Albert.
and when her daughter, tho Princess Lou
isa, would wed tho son of Macalium More,
no one doubts that the first gracious ad
vances came from her. In society around
us, ladies possessed of largo estates do not
object to have it known that they tendered
the burden of its control to the husband of
their choice. It is not woman’s nature,
then, that forbids it; it is her position.
Not because she is a woman, but because
sho is an inferior, must she be sought and
not seek. Place her in circumstances
where she is plainly superior to her suitors,
and she is expected to make the proffer of
her heart and hand. Once render her then
equal with man in resources and public
recognition, as we wish her to be, and mat
rimonial propositions may proceed from
cither, as occasion sha’l decide.
THE WEDDINQ ORDEAL.
It is a terrible ordeal that the bride must
pass through before she comes into legal
posscsson of the object of her choice. The
world demands that she should prepare be
forehand an amount or clothing sufficient
to last for two years; and this must be of
elaborate make, all finished and on exhibi
tion before the one particular day. No
sooner does a young lady form intentions
of marriago than she buries herself from
the outer world, with an unlimited quantity
of cotton cloth ; and, intent on gussets and
seams, she has no thought for tbc duties of
her future life. Her happy leisure is gone;
small perplexities harass her soul; mental
culture is suspended; her health suffers ;
her beauty fades; but this wardrobe must
be planned, purchased and made under her
own eyes, if she dies for it. She emerges
on the wedding day from her chrysalis
state, fagged out and wasted. That she is
clothed and in her right mind,the same time,
is a marvel. From that morning the but
terfly delivers herself over to the mercy of
a staring public; and the scanning of her
attire becomes one of absorbing interests
of acquaintances for months. Then, does
any one think of her weariness in standing
still two mortal hours after the ceremony,
with a curious throng crowding before her,
whose hand-shakes she must return, and
to whose repeated congratulations she must
furnish fresh supplies ? A President, on
his reception day, knows something of it;
but even he is not the victim of an indis
criminate osculation from one-half his vis
itors. Since ail gentlemen, young and old,
handsome and repulsive, can exact this of
the bride, wc sec no reason why the ladies
who file up should not kiss the bridegroom,
and thus compel him to bear his share in
the duties for the time.
she Tsnishes slowly in perspective; bo
conversation is so absorbing that the female
participants do not improve every diver*
sion between eager rhapsodies or earnest
argument to ascertain whether their neigh*
hoi’s collar is real or imitation, and her
bonnet home mads or Parisian. In short,
all the interests of their lives, all their
trials snd perplexities, cluster about tho
immortal question, what shall I wear ?—
whose answer must be derided upon st least
twice each day.
cHARrrr fairs.
To ask exorbitant prices for articles,
snd return no change to the purphascr; to
inaugurate all possible games of chance,
aad induce law-abiding people to take part;
to condemn plays and opens for theatres,
and then introduce them upon their own
hoards—in short to win money by any de
vice, provided it be done by respectable
people and for a good cause, is tho ungra
cious look which these well meant efforts
wear to lookers-on. Bat we mast sell oar
luge articles, they will tell us, and there is
no way but by raffling. Very well; we
should like oar neighbor’s silver plate;
suppose wo steel it, snd defend ourselves
by declaring that in no other manner could
it be obtained. Charities that are upheld
by illegal and immoral practices have s
A - . iT- Ta 2 — A - - iL.t
A BUNCH OF VIOLETS.
A STORY.
Marla Jourdan Westmoreland,
Author of “ ncart-Hangiy.” "Ctl*
Troop,” etc
Written expressly for Tux Atlasta Costrmmox.
questionable foundation. It is true that
the old adage, “Be just before you are gen
erous,” is a very inconvenient one to follow
sometimes; but wo doubt the propriety of
varying its injunction, snd reading it: Be
charitable before yon are honest Tho
blame of conducting fairs in this wsy is
due, wo must admit to the women. Gen
tlemen who assist them do so gallantly and
blindly, abandoning all right to private
judgment when they enter their service.
THE VINCENTIAN SOCIETY
OF
NORCROSS HIGH SCHOOL.
JOHN B. BSTEti.
TOE MANIA FOR CLOTHES.
That clothes, clothes, and nothing but
v'othes, should absorb the thought of the
greater portion of the feminine world at the
present time must be evident to all. If we
pass a group of ladies on the street, in any
city or town within knowledge, nine times
out of ten we shall catch a remark abont
their dress, past, present or prospective;
on every fairy day they throng the dry
goods stores, snd stand in mute, admiring
crowds before windows where the last
fashions are gorgeously displayed; and
when they return home they are beset by
a breathless circle of friends, eager to hear
if there is yet any news concerning the
coming shape for spring bonnets. . No soon
er are two ladies introduced than each
sweeps tite other from head to foot with a
glance as keen and scrutinizing as if she
were taking an inventory of her belongings
for an auction catalogue; no one turns her
back upon smiling friends, bnt they in
stantly pause to scan her in silence whi!«
Editors ( onMution : Last night, at 71-2
o'clock, the chapel room of tho Norcross
High School building waa filled to overflow
ing witlt one of the finest looking audlcndcs
rrr a s tuib’etl in Northeast Georgia.
The firat set in the scene was the advent of
the Gur.luiti.iu Society, one of tho fioest
looking b tdtis ut young men wo have ever
witness'd.
N"xt came the Vincentian Society, which
mtiuta ri twenty-two of Georgia’s most beau
tiful daughters. Their column was headed
by their I’resident and CoL J. B. Eties, the
orator fleet. Having assumed tbeir seats
upon the stage, the dashing black-eyed Miss
Alice Harrell, of Camming, was introduced.
She read an extract in the most admirable
stylo. But few can surpass her in enuncia
tion acd personation.
The modiat, unassuming Miss Nora Strick
land, of Duluth, read in an almost faultless
manner an eminently practical composition
on tho subject, “Talking.”
Next came the fsscinatiog Miss Eden
Thrasher, of Norcross. Her composition,
“Hidden FIowenaudGetns,”is*realbouquet
of rich original ideas, and the impressive
manner in which it was read delighltxl even
the liypercriticaL Then came the valedicto
rian, the graceful Miss Helena Jones, of
Norcro:s, in an inimitable style. She pre
sented a few “Random Shots,” which hit
nearly everybody a gentle tick.
Colonel J. B. Estes, ot Gainesville, was
then introduced. After happily thanking
the charming Vincentians for the honor con-
ferred upon him, he announced ashiisubject,
“Tho True Education of Woman."
Ilia discourse waa fu'lof thought, cl thi-d
in lho choicest language. His delivery is
sometimes calm snd smooth, and at others
towering in vcnemence, but always agreeable.
Then tho eloquent speaker concluded. The
entire audience felt that the young ladies had
made a happy selection. They certainly
made their exhibition a perfect success, and
won golden laurels for themselves.
Summary oi State Rexvs.
COLUMBUS.
Hulbctries are plentiful and blackberries
becoming so. At fifteen cents per pound
U will require 4,061 five hundred pound bales
of cotton for tbc guano which his been sold
by Columbus agents.—Sun.
CAMILLA.
During the present week wc have had gp
abundance of rain. Mr. J. A. Conway has
been elected Marshal of Camilla. The
whooping cough is plentiful in tbia county.
Enterprise.
sabdkbsvillk.
Messrs. Ebcnezer Brown and George Bangs
have been elected Marshal and Assistant
Marshal ot thiscity A fearful mortality
in this county among the chickens Mr.
John Mssfey accidentally shot himself in
the baud a day or two ago.—Herald.
LOUISVILLE.
We think tho proepect of conncclinj
Louitvillc with the Central Railroad by rat
never better than now. The proposition is
made by responsible parties to build the road
from tbc 1;G milo post on the Central to
Louisville, if Louisville wilt take stock
enough to bridge the Ogcechce.—Aetrs and
Farmer.
home.
The health of the city and county ta very
good. Colonel Pennington has moved all
nil forces back to the Memphis Branch Road,
and has commenced leveling up the bed of
Ihe road preparatory to laying down thecruss-
tieaamt iron.—Courier.
CABKOLLTOX.
Smith & Sullivan are putting up a new
cotton warehouse in our town. The, com
mencement exert iaea of Bourtmn College
will commence Sunday. July 6ib. Rev. W.
P. Harrison, of Atlnnta, will preach the
commencement sermon. Annual addrees of
A. W. Cox, Esq,of LaGrangc.—limes.
AUGUSTA.
O.i scc-unl of the dissolution of the co
partnership existing hetween John L Stock-
ton and F. M. White it becomes necessary to
suspend Ihe publication of the Constitution
alist. William Mittbel', a noted colored
man in Ihe cbmch circles of hit race in
Augusta, died on Friday.—CmsUtationatist
a tors a.
The work on the Northeastern Railroad
ta progressing rapidly. Tho Jefferson Road
will be built, too, which wilt be quickly
followed, if not preceded by the Madison
Road, and our little lity will be made to
blossom like the rose. The building fat
IheB.nlt of the University of Athena ta
about completed.—Northeast Georgian.
S.VANNAIL
Mr. J. G. Walts, of till city, walked off a
bridge on the Central Railroad across the
canal. Saturday night, and fell some eighteen
feet below, fracturing the right elbow, injur
ing ilia right hip, and tetioualy shocking bit
whole system.—EepuEiean.
■ Tbc Standing Committee of the Episcopal
Convention respectfully reports that they
have given their content to the consecration
of the Rev. John Gottlieb Auer, Aieiunaiy
Bishop elect, of Cape Palmas of Africa, and
of the Rev. William Hobart Hare, Mission
ary Bishop elect of Niobrara. They have
recommended for ordination to the Pr cst-
hoed the Rev. Alexander L Drysdale and for
ordination to the Diocanato, Hr. Robert C.
Foote and Wm. P. Kramer and Mr. Reverdy
Eatill. They have recommended Hr. Robert
Woodward Barnwell for admission aa candi
date for orders. They have also given their
consent to the election of an assistant Bishop
of the Diocese of North Carotins, on account
of the extent of said Dioct so.—Anrs.
TART T.
-There’s nothing half ao'swcct in life
Aa lore’s yotmg dream.”
A delicious tenor felt softly upon the
midnight air, and Hugh and I sat in the
back parlor listening breathlessly. It was
my last night in tho classic town of A
and as a delicate compliment aome of the
students came to serenade me. The song
was “Annio Laurie,” and by tho guitar ac
companiment and tho exquisite melody of
the voice, knew rw tho singer to be Fred
Trezvant—tho boon companion, the sworn
friend of Hngh Ellis, who sat clasping my
band, and to whom I had plighted my
troth. The tights were burning low—the
room was filled with the odor of flowers.
Hugh’s heart beat close to mine—as he
leaned over me, his breath seemed to touch
my check, and I was happy as an angel
in heaven—for I loved and was beloved.
Tho moment was ono of ocstacy—one of
unuttered bliss—for there is nothing in
after-life—no success, however brilliant—
not even tho homage of the world itself—
that can compare to the happiness the heart
iccls in its first realization of “love’s young
dream.”
Commencement Day wat over—tho stu
dents had returned to their homes for the
vacation—the gay crowd had dispersed, but
still I lingered. Wherefore? It was
Hugh's home. I could not say that I re
mained in that bracing air for my health,
for unfortunately my health was perfect.
So I said I disliked a crowd, and would
wait until tho crowd had gone. At length
I could plead this excuse no longer, and so
I [said each day, “I will go to-morrow.” But
when the morrow came, and Hugh said:
“Do not go,” I yielded to his importunities,
and tho desires of my own heart, and re
mained. Finally, however, a letter from
my mother, who was in delicate health,
settled the much vexed question of going,
’and, sustained by a courage which was
born of necessity, I appointed a day for
my departure.
Hugh was silent when I told him I was
going, and what I felt was expressed in
tears.
It was past midnight—tho scrcnaders
wero gone—I was to leave at five, and still
wo sat in a kind of blissful torture—bliss
ful, bccauso wo were together—tortured,
because wc were parting. At length the
silence was broken, and Hugh's Toice was
full of agony as he released my hand and
said:
“Nellie, I believe Trezvant loves you!”
At first I said nothing, for I was silenced
with surprise, and he said again:
“I swear 1 believo it! Why do you not
answer me ?”
Because what you say is so absurd that
it needs no denial, and besides, you do not
believe a word of it 1”
“I fear it !” he said tremblingly, “hat I
hope it is not so, for dearly as I lovo him,
should he. ever dare to como between you
and me, I'll kill him
Tbc last words were uttered with such
determination that I shuddered, for I knew
if tho hour ever camo in which he realized
his fears, that that same hour would bring
death to his victim. With a strong effort
at self-control, anti thinking it would be
better to treat the matter lightly, I replied
laughingly:
‘•Why do you torture yourself with such
ungrounded suspicions, and mar these last
moments with such needless fears ?”
The dim twilight in which
sat failed to conceal the penetrating look
which he turned upon tnc, as he said:
“Nellie—ho wean you jest—how can you
laugh, when my heart is on fire with jeal
ousy? "
Realizing with these words how unhappy
he was, X hurried to say:
“ Hugh—if I thought it would give you
a moment’s pain for me to receive Fred.
Trezvant, I would never speak to him
again!”
“ But you’d write to him 1 ’’ was his
quick retort, “for yon haTC promised to,”
and I knew by his quick breath
ing and his general air of excitement, that
he felt what he said—
“ Not If it will make you unhappy,” I
answered, and folding me to his heart, ho
kissed away my tears, as ho whispered:
“ Forgive me, darting—I did not mean
to be unkind, but I cannot bear to bear
another man boast of the privileges allowed
him by the woman to whom I am engaged.
But forgive mo. ’darling, and if you love me,
and me alone, wear this bunch of violets in
tho morning,” and with these words, he
took a cluster of theso exquisite flowers
Bee-Kseplnr.
From the Chtcego Iatcr-Occan.1
Beo-kceping, though puisncd by aome aa a
special business and by others as a pastime,
is essentially ono of the economies ot tho
farm, and in tho Old World a farm would
hardly he thought completely stocked with
out a few hives. In this country bee-keep
ing by ordinary farming formers ta the ex
ception rather thin the rule. Indeed it ta
looked upon by not a few as a sort ot weak
ness, a spectra or hobby-riding, when a far
mer takes to keeping beta.
Now, wc believo in what ta called “ mixed
husbandry.” The tendency ta too much to
go Into one particular line of things. A few
,-esra ago the minis waa for wheat growing,
because wheat was the great cash article (it
the productive market The rage in this
Auiintrr hat Itm n Inn mtirYi fnr mm
Sontb Carolina Rows*
Joyner’s Hotel, Columbia, has been sold for
$33,<K».
Anderson county purchased 2,500 tons of
guano the present season.
Colonel D. Wyatt Aiken is to lecture in
North Carolina for the purposed introducing
granges of the Patrons of Husbandry.
The Langley Mannfsctnrlng Company have
recently received from a Chicago boos ‘ an
order for 1/200 bales of the superior cotton
goods manufactured by them.
Judge It. B. Carpenter will deliver the an
nual oration before the literary societies of
the Bomb Carolina University oa the 23th of
June nex*.
P. A. Eichelbeigcr, of Edgefield, mn active
and prominent politician on the Republican
side, died recently.
Mr. Alexander Payne, an old citizen of
Greenville, died on Thursday task
Greek and Good Looks nr Women.—The
State superintendent of the Minnesota schools
recently received a letter asking his help in
securing “a first-class woman to take charge
of a high schooL” “She must be tb!e,” add
the letter, “to teach Latin and Greek; she
moat have age, good looks, and experience.
She will have charge ot one hundred pupils.”
To which the superintendent with grave
Irony replied: “I know of no lady who can
fill yonr bDL A good looking woman who
can teach Greek and Latin, and run a high
school of one hundred pupils, cannot be found.
Good looking women never study Greek."
from his button-hole, and pinned them
my corsage. “ I forgot to say that mother
sent them to you with her love and bless
ing, and that in tho same message she
begged yon would love her son, even as he
loves yon. But I must tear myself away,
Nellie, for it is now past one. I will call
for you at a quarter before five—till then
adieu, sweet one, and may God bless yon.’ 1
. With these words, he kissed mo passion
ately and rushed from the house, whilo I
sat down in bewilderment to think over the
conversation of tho last few momenta.
Suddenly, though, I remembered that I bad
not packed a single article, and going has
tily to my chamber, I began this unpleas
ant duty. To say that the room was in a
perfect state of chaos, would but feebly
express the confusion which reigned within
those four walls, and with a heavy heart, I
mechanically placed the thousand and one
articles of female attire in the open trunks
that were watting to rcccivo their precious
freight' The tssk finished, f threw myself
upon lho bed to snatch a few minutes of
sleep, but my restless slumbers were soon
broken by a furious ring at the bell. In
stantly I recognized Hugh’s voice in tho
hall below—a few seconds later the por
ter bore my tranks from the room, and as I
stood before tho mirror, Hugh called me,
saying:
“ Hurry, Nellie, or you’ll be left.'
Kissing my aunt and cousins a hasty
“ good-bye,” I rushed down the stairs and
out into the early summer dawn without a
look behind. I did not trust myself to
speak, and as we drove rapidly in the di
rection of the depot the tears trickled
down my cheeks, snd Hugh pressed my
hand in silence. Wo were late—the last
whistlo had given the parting signal, and
while Hugh went to check my baggage,
Fred.Trezvant leaned upon the window-sill,
and I thanked him in the most eloquent
terms for the exquisite serenade. lie dis
claimed any part in the performance, and
as Hugh joined us, he was saying:
“ But you’ll not forget your promise to
answer my letters.’’ Instantly a scowl
passed over Hugh’s face, and as he banded
me my checks, he said:
“You do not wear my violets. You do
not love me.”
Pressing my hand to my breast-pin, 1
found the souvenir was missing,
and as tho train moved rapidly on, I
exchanged one parting glance with Hugh.
“ Heavens! how could I have forgotten
them, when I bare thought of nothing
eke? ”
But it was now too late for regret or
apologies. In that one long, lingering look
I saw that his blue eyes were filled with
tears, the briny drops ran down my cheeks,
and drawing my veil, I resigned myself
to fate and misery.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
ty The Fort Wayne (Ind.) Sentinel very
tersely snd elegantly says of a late railroad
accident: “He wu asleep, firmlr clasped in
the arms of both Morpheas and Somntu, and
was only awakened by the glorious light that
shone from the judgment seat in the world
beyond the river.” Now,if the Sentinel will
only tell us if the man wu much hurt or not,
our anxiety will be relieved.
Paints from the Press.
The New Orleans Facaynne says that
Lawrence Bairettwill soon quit the stage for
the din it try.
The Fredericksburg Herald says: That
although Stonewall Jackson probably never
fought a dart, that IJeutenant T. J. Jack-
son, when a lieutenant In the United States
service, in 1846 or 1847, in Mexico, wua
second in a duel between two brother offi-
xs.
The London Times says that there ta great
danger of America degenerating into a
foorth-clssa nation like Bpain.
The wife of a Louisville lawyer made a
bustle ot some important legil documents,
and court had to adjourn until she could go
horn* and return them in proper shape.
western country has been too much for corn.
Whin Merino sheep were bringing fancy
prices, everybody wu craxy about them.
Not long since the runt passion wu for hops.
Just now, perhaps, the Inclination seta toward
stock raising and dairying.
Bnt we contend that the wiser plan ta Us
pursue a mucellaneous, general system of
arming, except in thou cases in which tome
pccularity of soil or locati'-n dictates a
specialty. Farmers should avoid u much u
possible putting all into a single venture.
They should try ail expedients to increase
their gains, and If one source of profit fails
another will succeed. Nor sbtu’d they de
spise little, for, sect rJtng to the old proverb,
“many a litlle makes a mickle ”
Bce-kecping well deserves a place among
the lesser industries of the farm. Aa it (s
wise to keep poultry »o pick up the wute
grain and stray seeds, so is it wise to keep
x-cs to gather the nectar ot orchard blos
soms, and wild flowers that would otherwise
go to waste. It costa bat tittle more to make
a start in bee-keeping than it does in poultry-
keeplug, and season fur season wc wilt match
the bee* against the chickens, with large odds
in favor of the bee*.
Bee-keeping used lo be a very crude affair.
It wu earned on with gums or straw hives,
inside of which everything wu falaeiy fixed
and all a realm of mystery. The bee* were
left pretty much to themsclvra until the close
ot the hooey season, when they were brutally
smothered with bii-nstone funus, and the
colony being thus cxtinninalid, its store*
were appro; rialcd to the use and luxury of
the owner, b ow wc have the moveable
frame Live, which gives the keeper access tie
the interior of the colony, perfect oontrnh
over it, and liberty to take the turpius honey
without killing the bees. With this form of
hive, the loss of swarms by their going off to
the woods can be prevented, queens can be
given to stocks that become destitnteof them
snd weak colonies can be strengthened by
giving them comb, bees or honey.
The invention of lho honey extractor, or,
u some American apiarians preler to call it,
the melipult, ta another great srp in advance.
By use of this contrivance tire jidd of hooey
in a single season can often bo doubled, and
even trebled. Bat the application of centrifa-
gnl force, the honey is thrown out of tho
comb almost to tbc hut drop, and on replacing
the empty combs in tho hive lire hem, u in
doty bound, at once proceed to refill them.
Often when they wholly rw|i-tul work, mad
will not putadropot hooey intoaMiri-lnsbox,
though there is plenty ot it in t>.r It dd, they
will replace the honey of wturh lire extractor
or mcitpuli his deprived Ih m I lie reason
of this is obvious. Instinct re u ires them to
fill the body oi a hive with a store of sweet,
but when that ta done their ti k ta i
plishcd, and they are not covetous tike I
who goes on laboriously acctnmitating even
after he has enough. They have not only a
craving instinct, but an instinct oi satisfac
tion. The well filed hive appeals to this
latter instinct. They know how to “ rest
and be thankful.” Take away a portion of
tbeir stores aud the craving instinct come*
into play again, and drives (hem forth as
busy workers to the deldi fnr fresh supplies.
Another modern improvement in apicul
ture ta the importation and breeding of su
perior bees. Bees, like larger . lock, deterio
rate by in-and-in breeding, anti may be im
proved by crosses. There arc inferior and
superior L-rccdsof trees, ju.I as there of poul
try, swim-,-beep,caUleaml horse. Fora few
years p.vsi Italian bees have been largely im
ported, and thought It may an in an extrava
gant thing to give $7 or $6 for a queen bee—
a littlo insect about an inch lone,
it ta no mote so than to give one hundred
dollars for a raperior boll calf or ram Iamb.
Tbc Italian exuss has greatly improved com
mon black trees by giving them “a dash of
fresh blood," asstoek-t renters would express
it, and by imparting to them desirable quali
ties. The Italians are a hardier race; busier
than “ the little busy bee” we have known
from childhood; more prolific; more beauti
ful in appearance, and lets inc incd to oling.
Under the crude appliance of old-time bee-
keepcia it wsa fairly a remunerative businrs*.
“Bee profits” have figured ia the balance
sheets cf old-world farming side try ride with
“poultry profits," from time immemorial.
Much more, then, ta it worthy of attention
with the aid of modern improvements.
Further progress m iv reasonably be ex
pected. b’cicnce snd skill are busy experi
menting, and many wise beads ore thinking
out the subject in its various aspects. It ta
therefore only natural to expect that before
many yean, apiscullure will take a much
higher rank than it now doea among rural in
dustries. Honey and beeswax are marketable
articles for which there ta a well-nigh limitless
demand, which, tike that of fruit, f
with the supply. Honey forage ta a
everywhere. In wooded localities the maple,
which, when tapped, yields tire sweet sap
which we b ill into suzar furnishes turner ia
its earlier blossoms In swamp icgionstbcro
are varioui plants i - u supply bee food with
the first opening <4 -pring.
The willow yreh- - pollen, proooUs, and
someaay horny, v or early wild fi iwrnacd
fruit blooms give be bees something to do;
snd when white o-otr spangles the fields
and roadsides, the Harvest field is ail in its
glory. The late a slurs, golden-rods, snd
buckwheat protract tbc hooey season into
thefalL The brea sre the best farm laborers
we can have, ins-much as they work for
nothing and board themselves
The chief trouble with beginners in bee
keeping ta that they will not go to tire alight
extrenec and small trouble Deccatnry to get
informed on lire subject. They liny a hive
of bees, after which they know nothing, ex
cept that tbc bees can sting, and that their
honey ta nice, and then leave them to tako
care of itself. It ta needles to siy that thit
iso very foolish course to adopt. Whst
wonder that only failure and tore are the
result?
It would be the same in sheep raising, dai
rying, or any other tine of farmiog. While,
therefore, we advise the farmer to make bee
keeping oao of tire many lines of industrial
pursuit, we qualify Ure advice by urging that
it be by no means entered into without seek-
tog information in regard to it This can
easily be obtained from books oa spiral tare,
and from bee j turn sis
Wn.iT Conobess Coots.—Members of
Congress, within a little more than ten years,
voted three increases of pay to themselves
Before the war the compensation wu eight
dollars per day fur tire actual days or Ure ces
sion ; it was then raised to 43,0 o per annum;
in 1860 it was increased to $~>,U00, snd re
cently to $7,010. We desire to note this sin
gular coincidence about all these proposi
tions for increase; they were all introduced
aud [passed in the “odd year"—that ta to
say, a year in which there was no Congres
sional erections held—a year which ta
always the polrical death of a great many
men, being that in which a Congress always
termioalea They have never dared to do
this thing when Urey were about lo face Ure
people in a general campaign, st the dose of
a long sesai m. hot have always taken the
advantage of the fact that a year and a half
would intervene between tire passage of i ‘
an act and tbeir arconotability to the people,
to do it at the close o-a short sessioa. This
makes these measures cowardly as well sa
selfish —South*:stem Telegram
tar La Tagiioni’s face ta round rather
than oval; there are few wrinkles In the Cor
ners of her pleasant, placid gray era ; none
at all on her smooth forehead. Her hair,
worn in plaits at the aide, and covered with
black lace at the back of tbc bead, ta dark
iron gray; her tech are good, aud Ibe ex
pression of her delicately shaped month de
notes benevolence and amiability. Her
voice is soft and low, and there was some
thing pretty in her attempts to speak Eagliah
with a gentleman who waa enthusiastic in
telling her bow ho adored her thirty yean
*«r. Acre Par*
As jssrs slipsiS 1 foa*4 ssyralf
Advanced in Ilfs to be.
Asd ladlag ao rwalt fMat mgr.
De Marian
Mrs. Margaret Leigh, ot Macon, died on
FriJay task
Mi-j Mary SbeiKcy, of Rome, died May
21st.
Mrs. E'tzs Harris, of Morgan county, died
a few daya ago.
Near Ramesvillc, on Sunday last, Hr. U. P.
Thorntcn.
Mrs. Riley Turner, of Meriwether county,
died on Monday task
c^;>? l «Tss p “"’ 01 WMhinstoa
Mr. Alfred Corsey, of Waiiington county,
died one day last week.
Mr. Thomas FtU, formerly or Columbus,
but recently ot Memphis, died cn Thursday
task
Mrs. John Flonraoj, of Columbus, died
May 26th.