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THE A’LAN'A WEEKf.Y SUN. FOR THE WFEK ENDING NOVEMBER 27 1872.
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GEORGIA NEWS BREVITIES.
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Sun.
— The Carnival is
Savannah.
—The Seaport Appeal discusses Mu
nicipal elections.
—Brunswick is to have nnotberstean
saw mill.
—The Fall term of the Glynn Supe
rior Court opens on the 19tb.
—Savannah has sent some emigrant*-
to Liberia.
— The German volunteers of Savan-
na>- elect tbair officers to-day.
— Savannah has had a “manifesta
tion.”
- /he Harmonie Verein, of Bain-
b. e, are to nave a line ball.
— Several marriages on the tapis in
Bain bridge:.
— W. H Mingum, of Randolph coun
ty, has a 19} pound turhip.
— Two colored boys “sampled” some
Savannah cotton, and are now held in
ja»l for it.
—Francis Tbalarra, a Portuguese sail
or, was arrested in Savannah, and re
turned to his ship.
— Bainbridge is to have a grand ball
by the Harmonie Verein of that city od
Wednesday n glit.
— The Etna Iron Company have sold
800 tons of iron since l6t November—
^yielding the sum $40,000 net.
—Rome is jubilant at the fict that 2
bales of cotton shipped from that city,
took the 2daud31 premiums at the great
Cincinnati Exposition.
— Floyd county Court has adjourned
after a session of fifteen weeks—twenty
two criminal cases tried—thirteen con
victed.
We notice th»t the AtlanU Bcshti changed hand*
somewhat. Xlr. Stephens becomes sole proprietor
and political editor. Mr. J Henley Smith retires
*i.d Mr. Samuel A. Echols cornea In aa buslnea
manager ami associate editor. Our kindest vnehes
go w iu Mr. Smith In nia retirement, and cur warm
est congratulations *re tendered to the Incoming
U \Yhile we regret that The Sus was not with oar
people in the recent canvass against the tyrant that
overwhelmed Leo‘« ragged rebels at Appomattox
.nd bia present horde of followers—a« Mr. Stephens
,v s not with hta people in hesrt In tli- ir
sad struggle for 8oathem independenco—ret
sincerely trust that the people of tne
South may, before he dies. be “-«■’ -
do someuung to meet the approval of Mr. Ales
dcr H. Stephens, nd that he may have strength re
served to bo able to expreas hla sympathy lor his
people as heartUy aa Tn* bux baa most shaniBfoU.v
ridiculed them since Grant’s re-election.
The Southern people are a warm-hearted people.
The South has honored Mr. Stephens as she lias
Marriages.
—In Crawford county, Ga., November
7th, by the Rev. I. L. Avaut, Mr. Bai -
jamin A. Heartley to Miss Eliza J. Per
kins.
—On the 8th of November, by Rev.
R. A. Conner, in the Methodist Church
in Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga., Mr.
Wm. E. Hatcher, of Columbia county,
to Miss M. Fannie Conner, of tne former
place, and daughter of the officiating
minister.
— On Thursday, Mr. Wiliie Orme, ot
Millcdgeville, and Miss Snsie Heath, oi
Warreuton, were mairied, and departed
for the former place on the three o’clock
train. On Thursday succeeding, the
Rey. Joshua Parker* ami Miss Laura
Neal, also, joined hands and hearts, for
the weal or woe of the wedded state.
Deaths.
—At tho residence of Miss Julia Shrop
shire, in Jasper county, Ga., on the eve
ning of the 13ih mst. from inflamation
of the stomach and liver, Maj. Benjamin
Barron, of Jones county, in the 7Isi
year of his age.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
— Captain Baker of the Raieigh Senti
nel, is dead.
— Trains of cars from Little Rock to
Memphis are ferried across tLe river.
— An entire circus company has been
arrested in Arkansas for murder.
Jf — Rev. J. Mclnery, of McEweo Sta
tion, Tenn., died suddenly at that place,
recently.
— Mrs. W. H. Lewis, of Clarksville,
Tenn., has been burned to death. Ker
osene.
_—The temperance movement is spread
ing in Baltimore.
— A Shelby, Kentucky,, widow, “ fat,
fair and forty,” was married to a yoUDg
man the other day, at the muzzle of a re
volver.
—From the Wilmington, N. C., Star,
we learn that among tho curiosities on
exhibition at the North Carolina State
Fair, was a piece of lace from the ruffle
of au immediate ancestor of the Ron!-
hacs, of Hillsboro, worn at the first in
auguration ball of George Washington.
Another curiosity was a silver elephant,
surmounted by u card receiver, curionsly
formed ont of a turtle snell and couch,
fouud on tho beach near Wilmington,
and exhibted by Mrs. R. Shields, ot
Richmond, Va. Mrs. Shields is now 76
years old, and certifies that this interest
ing relic was presented to Blucher by
Frederick William of Prussia, in 1812,
aud was afterward given to Mrs. Shields’
father, who was a friend of Blucher.
AROUND TEXAS.
— Texas Penitentiary has 900 convicts.
— A postoffice at Dennison.
■—The International Railroad is now
within 28 miles of Tyler.
— Texas ships a great deal of cotton to
St. Louis.
— Ou the 30th, 160 emigrants passed
through Galveston for the interior.
— Sherman has voted $48,000 in bonds
to the Texas Pacific Railroad. .
— The cattle supply of Texas is falling
short.
—The remains of the late Gon. Ma-
gruder are to bo removed from Houston
to Galveston.
—The Galveston iVeiasjwantsImmigra
tion Clubs in every county.
— Trains on the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas Railroad will be running by the
28th. J
honored few o* her «cmi, hut, in the opimon of
many, ho hta no; borne with them as bo should
have done. He has not always sympathized with
them in their miafor’.ucea to that extent that they
““Sr^St the people—aud they were
willing and obedient atndems-that secession was
right and f junded upon correct and honorable prin-
oinles. They did notaelect Au time or opportuuity,
but they made a desperate 6501 * w carry out the
principles that he had inculcat d—and he turned
nis hand against them. We do not aay, or intend to
initmate, that he aided or abetted the enemy
against them, but no did not support tho can&e that
his liie-time teachings had led tho people of tho
south to eaponse aa their own with that heartiness
hat would hare borno up and streHKhtentd the
ha d- at the helm of State, as well as the soldiers in
the field. . ,,
i, our more recent struggle against centralism
Air. Stephens but acten over the pait that ne played
iu tho late war. For instance, ho gave this counsel
to tho people: . , ..
•• Leitheio bo no crimination cr recrimination on
account of a'-ta of other days. .
- Uo canvassing of past conduct. Great disasters
are upon us and upon the whole country; ana, with
out inquiring how these originated, or at whoso door
the lault should oe laid, let us now, as common
snarer* of common misfortunes, on all occasions
consult only the beat means, tu.d»r the circumstan
ces as wo find them, to secure tho best ends towards
future amelioration.
• Let old issues, old questions, old differences and
old feuds be regarded as fossils of an another epoch.
They belong to what may hereafter be considered
i s the Silurian period of our history.
-Let an intrio's, by whatever distinctive name
neretoforo styiod,rally in ail sections everywhere
to the Buppoit of him, be he who he mays who beard
!»•* at- - aid with Constitutional Union emblazoned
•n its folds.” *
,i. am uie people acted upon b<s advice; again
luilowed bis leschi gs. This time to be more sure,
hey even went bo far as to sel- ct his time and op
portunity, and had they talten Judge Davis (Repub
lican) at Cincinnati, instead of Horace Greeley, he
would even have gotten his man. In this one item,
uowever, they failed to fill the measure ol Mr. Ste
phens'demand. Tne Democratic party, aud espe
cially the representatives of the south, with a
uuauiimity unparalelled, accepted Mr. Greeley
at Baltimore. He was not Mr Stephens' man,
however, as wo said, aud again he wont against his
people. Well, we failed as betore, but we tell Mr.
Stephens that while ihe glory o- his *‘I tol you
»o ” when enjoyed at the helpless humiliation ol
uia people, may give him some eclat among the
weather-wise aud far-seeing he would live gieouer
in the heat ts of his own countrymen, ana his mem
ory in coming time be dearer to the people of thb
South who have most honored him should he be
more charitable towards those of his own section,
aud adopt as his motto: *• My people—right or wrong,
my people," or that oiher more beautiful, more Ba
rren oue: “ Thy people shall be my people, thy God
my God. Where Uiov goest I vrill go, where thou diest
1 will die, and there will I be buried.”
Mr. S epheuB makes an admirable adviser; he
plans uioai skillfully, but when the hotu lor battle
approaches he retires under cover of a me. e tech
nicality. He urges his principles and policies with
a vim, and then deiioerately gets (t beh nd the revo
lution ,' a u leaves his dupt s to the consequences
when too late to recover themselves—maiming
meanwhile that Au advice on this or that point (im
material as regards principle) had not been followed
or “this would not nave been so.”
The fact is, Mr. Stephens’ advice has been too
c os' ly followed. In one instance we failed to select
his time, and in another his man, bat his principles
■and teachings—tne lar mure important matters in
i.scussion—were in both instances acted upon—and
in both iussauces bis mistake proved our misfor-
tune. Under the circumstances, it would have been
manly lor Mr. Stephens to have cast in his all with
us—as it was his war—and to nave triumphed or
go- o down with his .wu people.
But “the past is past,” and we have no quarrel to
nuke with sir. Stephens now. “ Let us watch the
present aud the future.”
J aflg« Darkly, of Fort Worth, had a
difficulty with a school-master, in which
the latter was shot in the left side.
~A. Miss Rogers was killed by a Miss
Malone near Goliad, by carelessly hand
ling a derringer.
—•A woman jumped off the Galveston
bridge to get out of the way of an ap
proaching train and was drowned.
— Mrs. J. D. Walker was recently
found dead, with Her throat cut, near
Fayette.
— N. Watkins, of Grayson county,
raised 94 bushels ccrn to the acre last
season.
Eiorlda Items.
j ar< . J^sonvillo is afflicted with burg-
1-l.
In VermC,
the first W«U
day.
- -p^i: j °* fl rrests have been made
in Florida under the Enforcement Act.
0t i' S \ P * er » Marianna,
traa entered by a burglar, and $100 worth
of goods stolen. No clue.
—The house of Washington Thomp
son, at Welaunee, Jefferson county, was
fired into on the night of the 7th. ‘
—The residence of Abijah Gilbert, in
4ugasiine, was entered by abnrglar.
gpooontered the rogue, snd
sued. Th$ burglar, )sult—but
We clip the above from tne Augusta,
Georgia Chronicle and Sentinel ol the 17 th
instant. In that paper it purports to be
taken from the Some, Ga. Commercial.
As it is given a conspicuous place in
oar cotempcrary of Augusta, without
cjmment or oissent, we presume it was
intended to be sent forth with at least
the quasi indorsement of that journal
We know not by wnom the article
w. s written; and this is a matter of
perfect indifference to na We give it
to our readers that they may
ba informed of the nature of tho as
s lulttj made upon us by leading Greeley
Journals of the State, to weaken and
destroy our influence with the honest
masses of the people of the State, in
our warning to them against the dan
gerous aud ruinous tendency of the doc
trit.es of those leaders who are strivin:
to commit tne Democracy of Georgia to
the mischievously, centralizing principles
of their late Radical Chief.
Whether the writer of the above arti
cle or his endorsers, quasi or otherwise,
have “no quarrel to make with Mr.
Stephens” or not, is a matter “Mr,
Stephens” wJl not now stop to consider
but if the writer or his endorsers to any
extent, expect that "Mr. Stephens” will
let such wanton attacks upon him, to
pass without due notice and public re
buke, they certainly know quite as little
of the man, as thev seem to know of the ;
facts upon which they make their ar
raignment of him before the public.
Conld anything be more wanton, more
unfounded, more un;rue, or more un
just than to charge upon Mr. Stephens,
the late war between the States, and its
direfnl ealanrties? Conld anything be
more untrue and unjust, than to call it
“his war T*
If anything possibly could be more
wanton, more unfounded, more untrut,
or more unjust, it is the further charge
in tho same article, that “secession” was
resorted to by the people of the South,
in compliance with the teachings and
counsels of Mr. Stephens; and that af
ter they “had made a desperate effort to
carry ont the principles inculcated by
biro, he turned his hand against them.’
If there is any one trath established in
the history of this country, it is that
“ secession” was not resorted to in pur
suance of any teaching, advice or coun
sel of Mr. Stephens. Whether a wise or
unwise measure he most assuredly was
in no way responsible for it. It is true
he did admit its rightfnlness, if the peo
ple of the several States, in their sov
ereign character, should reserfc to it, and
declared that he would, in case the peo
ple of his State should so resort to it,
bow in submission to their sovereign
will—that iu that event their can.se would
be his amuse—and that their fortune
should be
a.Hu>..iu Wito to tne people ot Ueurgiu, entreating
them not to make the experiment! This
experiment, however, they did make—
not in pursuance of the advice of Mr.
Stephens, but under the delusive plati
tudes and assurances of Mr. Greeley
and the ‘end, perhaps, of the very
writer of this article and his* indorsers,
who now have the unblushing face to
charge its disastrous results and ruinous
consequences upon Mr. Stephens, his
«teachings and counsels !’’
Well does Mr. Stephens now most Bad
ly remember the taunts he then received
from that class to which this writer and
his indorsers belong-, that he was less
Southern in sentiment and sympathy
than even Mr. Greeley. Is not this add
ing injury to injury? Nay, more; could
anything be more wanton, unfounded,
unt rue or unjust than that the people of
the South and her soldiers, when led by
others into secession aud the war that
followed,did not receive every sympathy
and aid it was in the power cf Mr. Ste
phens to jendr?
We Lave as little disposition to “quar
rel” with this writer or his indorsers, as
with any other person or persons; but
such reckless personal attacks upon us,
and such flagrant outrages upon the
truth of history, shall not be permitted
to go forth without that explicit and em
phatic repulsion and refutation which
they deserve.
Other points in this most ex raordina-
ry article merit special attention. “In our
more recent struggle against centralism,
says this writer, “Mr. Stephens, but acted
over the part he played in the late war 1”
“ Recent struggle against Ce tralis n.
That is “a struggle” to elect Mr. Grteley to
the Presidency upon a platform exhibit
ing, as we have again and again shown
the completest embodiment of the prin
ciples of a consolidated centralized Em
pire ever before presented in as few
words.
This writer and his indorsers who had
the face to charge Mr. Stephens with
the “war,” and to say that they “follow
ed him into it,” with qfiiteas much inso
lent audacity, here proclaim that in
voting for Mr. Greeley, they did but fol
low the counsils of Mr. Stephens.
The charge is attempted to be sns
tained by a quotation from his speech iu
1866, in which he urged that patriots
everywhere “should rally to the support
of him, be he who he may, who bears
the standard of constitutional Uni- n ear
blazoned on its folds.” But, iu t!
name of commrn sense, is there any thing
more notorious than that Mr. Greeley
would not rally under any such stand
ar.l ? that he refused to act ou t! at pro
gramme? that he opposed the res'ora
tioa of “aconstitutional Union?
he insisted that ten States of the Union
should be put under military rule, and so
held by bayonets, until they should re
model their constitutions to thd liking of
the “central authority,” according to
his and their views of the “ solemn con
stitutional obligation” resting upon
them, to maintain the equal rights of ail
the inhabitants of these ten States ?
Was the late effort j>f the writer
this article and his indorsers to sustain
Mr. Greelev in his principles ami policy
“a struggle against Centralism?" Was
it not an attempt to establish it in its
most odious forms? Was this “following
the counsel of Mr. Stephens” in 1866,
or at any other period of his life ? Could
recklessness in defamation go further
tnan to make such a statement ? Was
not the advice and counsel of Mr. Ste
phens in that very speech, and at all
times, to ally with no party, or man,
whose principles were at war with the
Constitutional Union of our Fathers?
Has not Mr. Greeley’s principles been so
at war ever siuceithat speech was made
down to the present day, as they had
ever been before ?
Is this bare assertion, or is it fact ? Is
it fiction or is it truth ? Will this writer,
or any of his indorsers, venture to gain
say it or deny it ?
But, further on, this writer, in speak
ing of Mr. Greeley being the candidate
of the Democratic party, and the course
of Mr. Stephens in regard to it, says :
at
of
Banco, held tneso Reconstruction usur
pations to be unconstitutional, if he
should be nominated on such a platform
asttited,) imply in the remotest degree
that, he would support Mr. Greeley, who
not only held these usurpations to be
proper, but had denounced Judge Davis
for his decisions referred to ? Did it
imply even that he agreed to support Mr.
Greeley, or Judge Davis, or any man
upon a platform which sanctioned these
monstrous outrages upon the rights of
the States and of the people ? What a
desperate resort, therefore, have these
Greeleyite leaders to make, who attempt
thus to hide their shame in their igno
minious defeat by saying that in sup
porting Mr. Greel&y they ‘‘acted upon
the advice and followed the teachings of
Mr. Stephens ?
This is but upon a par with another
statement in the same article that “Thb
Sun has most 3teadily ridiculed the peo
ple since Grant’s re-eleetion.” Thb Sun
has indulged in no ridicule of the peo
ple. It has exposed the “blunder,” or
“wickedness” ot those “trusted leaders”
of the people, who have brought such
misfortunes upon them, and the country;
out it is utterly untrue that it has in
dnlged iu any spirit of ridicule as thus
charged upon it. Nor shall these “lead
ers” find secure shelter to themselves,
from this just exposure, under any such
discreditable subterfuge.
Whether Mr. Stephens’ sympathies
have ever been wanting towards the peo
pie of Georgia, or the people of the
Southern States—“in weal or in woe”—
his life and conduct can answer. His acts
and deeds are upon record—all he aBks
is that these shall not be misrepresented
or perverted. These will show that he
considers it the highest duty, often, of
any one in public position, and the
highest evidence of real sympathy, to
speak tine things to the people, rather
than those that are untrue, however much
more agreeable the latter may
be to them. It is a source of
pleasure to him to go with them
when in the right, but never in the
wrong 1 No temptations of honors, or
office, or its emoluments could ever
induce him either to flatter the people or
to withhold from them the expression of
his judgment upon these errors, when he
believed these errors, if persisted in,
wou’d lead to their ruin! Their God
shall be his God so long as their God is
the true God; but when they leave the
true altar, and erect an altar to Baal iu
its stead, either in religion or politics,
his knee will never bow to it.
If, therefore, the people of Georgia,
wnose welfare, rights, interests, honor
and glory it has been Mr. Stephens’
pleasure and pride so long to serve, and
maintain, shall see fit to follow the lead
oi Ibis writer and his indorsers in their
espousal of the doctrines o f Mr. Greeley
and the Cincinnati-Baltimore-Flatform.
If they are prepared to say to Mr.Greeley
“ Where thou goest, ue will go; where
thou diest, we will die; and there will we
bebu'ied.”
Mr. Stephens in frankness says to
them, that however patiently he has and
shall share with them the misfortunes
which the principles of Mr. Greeley’s Plat
form has brought upon them and him,
yet another much more apt Scriptural
injunction, to-wit: “ Thou shalt not fol
low a multitude to do evil”—will, if
nothing else, prevent him from
snaring wi*h them the quiet of their last
resting place ! A. H. S.
About Women,
"Again tho people eo ed upon his advice—again
followed bis teachings. This time, to be more
they even went so Ur as to select his time and op
portunity. ana had the, taken Judge Davis (Repub
lican) at Cincinna i instead ot Horace Greeley, h;
would even have gotten his man. In this one item,
however, ihey failed to fill tne measure of his do
wand.”
This statement, in its amazing disre
gard of truth, is almost without a par
allel among the most reckless assertions
in the most demoralized times of any
age or country.
When did Mr. Stephens ever “advise”
or “teach” the Democracy to go to the
late Cincinnati Convention, for their
candidates? When did he ever “de
mand” of them to nominate Judge
Davis ? Is it not as well known as that
Mr. Stephens edits The Sun; that he
advised, entreated, and literally urged
tiro Democracy to nominate condidates of
their own party, and upon a platform of
principles “departing” in no essential
from their ancient creed and faith ? Is
it not utterly untrue that he ever made
any “demand” for any man or for any
platform, and insisted upon nothing ex
cept ^hat there should be no " departure’*
from the essential principles of the Party;
and no approval or sanction of those
gross usurpations of power which had
brought such ruin upon the people of
the Southern States ?
Did his professed willingness, for the
his fortune in tho re-1 -ake of unity and harmony, to support
it is equally true that fudge Davis, even a Republican as he
fnest appeal of his life! -fas, (who
CROSS QUESTIONS.
Laying the Corner Stone of Norcross
High School.
On Saturday last au interesting event,
to the citizens of the thriving village of
Norcross, occurred. The corner stone
of a High School was laid, with the
usual impressive Masonic ceremonies,
Col. R. D. Winn officiating.
Eloquent and practical addresses were
made by Col. S. J. Winn and Hon. H.
P. Bell, member elect to Congress from
the Ninth District. Complimentary al
lusions were made by both speakers to
the energy and enterprise of the
people of Norcross, and congratulations
were tendered them for having secured
the services 'of Professor Vincent. Of
the latter. Col. Bell says: “I have seen
the Professor tested,long and thoroughly;
I know him well, and unhesitatingly guar
antee his capacity and energy, his disci
pline, tact and fidelity.”
It was then announced that, owing to
the cold weather, the citizens had aban
doned the idea of a basket dinner, and
cordially invited those present to visit
their hospitable homes—a request of
which many took advautage, while others
sought solace in the “yaHer-leggedohick-
ens” of consin John Thrasher.
—A great many young ladies made
their little bets on election.
—Never marry a woman till you know
where her dress ends and her soul be
gins.
■It is said that iron is a good tonic
for debilitated yonng ladies. This may
be so, but ironing is a better one.
—By a recent law in New Hampshire
a woman divorced from her husband can
again assume her maiden name.
Hudibras calls matrimony a perverse
fever, beginning with heat and ending
with frost.
— Woman ought to do all she can to
make this earth a paradise for man, as it
was all her fault he lost the other.
— The wife of Jack Grant, late Rep
resentative from Polk county in the
Oregon Legislature, last year shot aud
trapped 358 squirrels.
— It has been ascertained that all tlie
French nouns representing work and
luxury are masculine, while tne seven
oapital sins are feminine.
— A gentleman in a Boston horse-car
was heard to remark that he knew up
ward of fifty native Americans who had
Tartars for wives.
— It is now claimed that the architee
of the great Chinese wall was a woman;
but a woman wouldn’t do anything to
keep the men out in that, way.”
•—Albert Mellen, an old St. Louisian,
was married in Massachusetts last week
to Miss Fannie L. Gardner. It is emi
nently proper for this Gardner to devote
her energies to raising Mellens.
—Two Peterboro, Canada West, ladies
belonging to the Churoh of England,
are conducting a general store, the profits
of which are to be given to the church.
They are doing a thriving business.
—In Marseilles, France, recently, a
young girl named Irma Gras, a very
handsome brunette, assassinated her
lover because he refused to buy her a
gold watch. To the general astonish
ment of the court and audience, the jury
acquitted her.
—Daniel Webster once said: “There
is nothing upon this earth that can com
pare with the faithful attachment of a
wife; no creature who, for the object of
her love, is so indomitable, so per? ever-
ing, so ready to suffer and die.” That is
so, Daniol.
— A man recently broke off a marriage
because the lady did not possess goo
conversational powers. A wicked friend
commenting on the fact says: “He pugh«
to have married Ler, and then refused
her a new bounet, to have developed hei
power of talk.”
—At the recent wedding of Lady Mary
Fitzwilliam with the Hon. Hugh Bos-
cawen, au ancient and curious custom,
peculiar to Yorkshire, was observed. As
the bridegroom was quitting Wentworth
House, a kettle of boiling water was
poured on the steps. The theory is that
before the water dries up, another mar
riage is sure to be agreed upon.
There are a few knowing lovers iu the
world, after all. One of them, finding
that the girl of his heart cast her eyes
favorably upon another, who liked the
idea ever so much, didn’t get mad am-
pitch into either party, neither did he
swallow poison nor prate about hi« wast
ed affections; but he got his rival into
a quiet corner and offered to give him
teu pounds to withhold his attentions
The rival consented. Now the girl
wonders why it is that that h«
doesn’t drop in once in a while
and talk to her as in the days of yore.
—The unmarried ladies of the Moquis
tribe of Indians of Arizonia are a curi
osity to us outside heathens. They wear
their hair in such a romantic style tha-
there is no danger of a fellow mistaking
one for a married womau. As soon
they are marriageable, they do their hair
upon each side of the head, something
in the shape of two great wings, or as it
most reminds one of the wheels of a pro
peller. The dear creatures look as if they
were just ready to fly. As soon as they
enter the holy bands of matrimony, they
drop their wings, and then their hair
bangs in long rolls by the side of their
head.
Mrs. Leonowens, the Siamese govern
ess, whose narrations of personal expe
rience in the East have proved an at
tractive feature in the Atlantic, lectured
in New York a few nights since on her
personal experience in Siam. She said
that in a certain mining district of the
country ’he young men and unmarried
women were miners, the old and feeble
were bellows-bloweis, the middle-aged
men assisted at the forge, and the wo
men who were rearing children, used the
sledges. The sledges were of from seven
to ten pounds in weight; the woik was
done un^er tbe blazing sun, and yet
there were admiraDle physical develop
ment, real beauty, and the utmost care
of children and devotion to husbands.
Spring Yale Institute, Randolph
County.—Prof. J. R. Drake, an expe
rienced and popular teacher, who has
had charge of Bear Creek Academy
daring the past year, has boen engaged
as President of Spring Yale Institnte, in
Randolph county, and will take charge
of the same on the first of the ensuing
year.
There is something pathetic in
the last wish of the German Prince Al
bert, that he might be buried by his
peasant-wife, instead of in the Royal
Crypt, which proves that even in Princes
the heart will assert itself, and xefuse to
be bonnd by the cold chain of formalism.
Long may the name of the noble n»»n be
cnenshed when the Prince is forgottoa I
— Anstralia and New Zealand have
now about five million of horned cattle
had on the Supreme Court 4 and fifty millions of aheep.
Fenonsla.
Oh, tMlmo! bast thou ever been
Where circumambient lodestars a a5 h
Where leaps the solid lightning fl a *h •
Where sombre palls illumes the actne
Mid quivering cliffs ol hippocrene
Where evanescent whiilwindB creep
Whoie headlong torrents pau.e to dresm
And wash their waiscots in iha
While v tures unrepenant weep. Slream »
And echoes in French bedsteads Bleop ?
Yes, tell me hast then seen on high
The armor plated frigates soar,
While comets eat upon the shore?
For if thou ssys’t a my reply
Is simply that thou tel s a-misstatement
COUSIN SALLY DILLARD.
A Story that ilicst not Die.
“Cousin Sally Dillard” was written u
Hamilton C. Jones, of North Caroli n 7
—Brigadiers General A. H. Terry or
E. R. S. Canby will probably be selected
by the President to till ihe Major-Gen
eralship, made vacant by the death of
Gen. Meade.
—Ool. Thomas A. Scott is looking to
ward the United States Senate from
Pennsylvania, and will race with the pre
sent inoumbent, Simon Cameron.
—Judge Settle, of North Carolina, is
to settle his disappointment in failing to
get to Congress from that State, by se
curing a seat on the bench of the U. S.
Supreme Court—it is said.
—It is rumored that Mr. William M.
Evarts, the eminent lawyer, is to succeed
Mr. Fish in the Cabinet as Secretary of
State.
—Amadeus, King oi the Spaniards, lies
sick with a cold.
—Gen. Z. B. Vance will most likely
ba elected United States Senator from
North Carolina this week.
—Mansard was the architect of Louis
Quatorze. Boston will re-employ him.
— A tract of pine land in tne north
part of Kent county, Micb., was rej
cently sold for $14,625—over $75 per
acre.
—Mr. Elmsley, of Montcaim, raised this
year from nineteen acres of pine stump
land 700 bushels of wheat.
— In the single item of wheat, the
product of Iowa in 1850, was 1,500,000
aahala, and in 1870 it swelled to 20,-
0,000., «***^*Hte*B;
nearly half a century ago, and the puffi
can enjoy a hearty laugh over its exant
site ridiculousness at least once a yeaT
It purports to be a report of tne testim^
nv of a witness in a case before one of
tbe courts of that State, and is as
lows:
A beardless disciple of Themis rises
and thus addresses the court: “Mavit
please your worship and you gentlemen
of the jury, since it has been my fortune
(good or bad, I will not say,) to exercise
m legal disquisition, it has never befaL
len me to be obliged to prosecute so
direfnlly marked an assault A more
willful, violent and dangerous battery
aud finally a more diabolical breach of
tbe peace, has seldom ever happened in
a civilized country, and I dare say it
seldom has been your duty to pass upon
one so shocking to benevolent feelings
as this which took place over at Cap\
Rice’s, in this couuty; but you will hear
from the witnesses.”
The witnesses being sworn, two or
three were examined and deposed: One
<aid that he heard the noise, but did not
see the fight; another that he saw tee
row, but did not know who struck first-
another that he was very druuk and
couldn’t say anything about the skritn-
mage.
.Lawyer Chops.—I am sorry, gentle-
m«-n, to have occupied your time with
the stupidity o r the witnesses examined.
It aris s, gentlemen, altogether from li
misapprehension on my part. Had I
known as I do, that I had a witness who
was acquainted witu all the circum
stances of the case, and who was able to
mike himself understood to the coart
a id jury, I should not have irespassedso
long ou your patience. Come forword,
Mr. Harris, and be sworn.
So forward comes the witness, a fat.
chuffy old man, a “leotle” corned, and
took his oath with an air.
Chops.—Harris, we wish you to tell us
about the rios that happened the other
day at Captain Rice’s, and as a good deal
of time bus already been wasted in cir-
•umlocution, we wish you to be com*
penduous, ufc tho same time as explicit
as possible.
Chops.—This is intolerable. May it
picase the court, I move that the prisoc-
er be committed for contempt. He
seems to be trifling with the court.
Court—Witness, you are before a court
of justice, and unless you behave youi*
sell in a more becoming manner yoo
will be sent to jail; so begin and
me what you know about the fight
Rice’s.
Witness—Well, gentlemen, Capt. Bp
he gin a treat, and cousin Sally Dillard--'
Coart—(After deliberating.) Mr. At
torney, the court is of the opinion tn»‘
we may save time by letting the witness
go on in his own way. Proceed,
Harris, with your story, but stick to tafl
point.
Witness—Yes, gentlemen. Well, Q*|£
Rice, he gin a treat, and cousin Sail.
Dillard come over to our house and ax#
me if my wife she moutn’t go ? I
Harris—Aazackly, (giving the lawyer
» kuowiug wink,- at the same time clear
ing his throat), Capf. Rice heginatreat,
and c&nsia Sallv Dillard she comes over
o my nouse and axed me if my wife sho
moutn’t go ? I told cousin Saily Dillard
my wife was poorly being as nowshehad
a touch of meumatism in the hip, and
the big swamp was up in the road, there
■■aving been a great deal of rain lately,
but howsoever, as it wns she, cousin
Sally Dillurd, my wife she mont go,
Well cousin Sally Dillard then axed me
if Hose he moutu’t go ? I told cousin
Sally Dillard that he was the foreman of
the crap, and the crap was smartly in the
grass, but howsoever, as it was she,
cousin Sally Dillard, Mose he mout go.
Chops.—Iu the name of common sense,
Mr. Karris, what do you mean by this
rigmarole?
Witness.—Captain Rice begin a treat,
and cousin Sally Dillard, she came over
to my house and axed me if my wife she
moutu’o go? and I told cousin Sally Dil
lard—
Chops.—Stop, if you please; we don’t
want to hear about your cousin Solly Dil
lard or your wife; tell us about the fight
at Rice’s.
Witness.—Well, I will, sir, if you’ll let
me.
Chops.—Well, sir, go on.
Witness.—Well, sir, Captain Rice he
giu a trear, and cousin Sally Dillard she
c *me over to my house and axea me ii
my wife she moutu’t go—
Chops.—Here it is again. Witness
please to stop.
Witness.—Well, sir, what do yon
want ? .
Chops.—We want to know about the
figh:; and you must net proceed in this
impertinent story. Do you know any
thing about tne matter betore tbe
court ?
Witness.—To besurel do.
Caops —Well, go on, tnen, and tell it,
and nothing else.
Wiiuess.—Well, Captain Rice, he gin
a treat.—
/■
cousin Sally Diilard that my wiie
she
was poorly, being as how she had t*-
rheumatics in her hip; and thebigswanip
was up; howsoever, as it was she, cou^
Sally Dillard, my wife she moot g®’
Well, cousin Sally Dillard then axea &
if Mose he moutn’t go. I told c ° Ui
Sally Dillard as how Mose was the fir
man of the crap, and the crap *
smartly iu grass, but bowse®*:,
as it was she, cousin Sally Dn“®*l
Mose he mout go. So they goes on J
gether, Mose, my wife and cousin o
Dillard, and they come to the big swa p, |
and it was up as I was telling J 0U, JLj
being as how there was a big log aC ,
the big swamp, consin Sally Dillar^ ,
Mose, like geuteel folks, they walked
l ’g, but my wife, like a durned ,
hoisted her coats and waded throngp'
Chops—Heavens and earth, tins
bad; but go on. ^
Witness— FVeil, that's nil I Jcnow a
the fight.