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THE CEDARTOWN RECORD W, S. D. WIKLE & 00,, Proprietors. CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1S74. VOLUME I. NUMBER 3. THE RECORD. \V. S. U. "WIKLE .Sc. OO. TERMS OF 8UI(SC!IUmON. » hand, and with his portmanteau regarding her gravely. ".y® 8 * ye«.” ho ns id, “ I presume it is all safe enough. And I'll speak to the night-.watohninu, and give him n dol lar to take a particular look at this house. Well, good-by, Maggie, make things as neat as possible, for if they look dirty my wife may think the fur niture old, and want something nmv for the parlor.” And Mr. Van Nott de parted. "Yts, yes," said old Maggie, “no doubt she’ll have flue, extravagant ways. Poor master! What a pity lie should marry, after all—but old fools are the worst fools. A young thing of eight and forty, too, when he h is a sensible ser vant, sixty last January, that knows what belongs to good housekeepings. If he wanted to marry why didn’t he ask mo? I’d not have gone gallivant ing and spending. Ah, well, he’ll suf fer, not I !’’ Ami Maggie trotted away to begin her swooping and dusting. Hlio had said truly that thorn was no fear born with her, hut as iho night drew on she began to feel somewhat lonely. Her master's prosene a was strangely missed out of the great house, and there who something ghostly in the look of his empty ohnir when slit' peeped into the little hack office. “If I wna superstitions," she said to herself, “ I should think something dreadful was going to happen. I fool ohilly up and down my back, and keep thinking of funerals. I'll maki into her houshold. and had t was a loug distance to tho nearest house, nmsolf to her, and hud boon and even if they did not kill her, they accepted. And now, though both their would execute their purpoHo and rob economical souls revolted against it, I tho place boforo she returned. erosity offered h pted lorau 'ustom decreed a and a 1mm. they had decided to do it as possible. For •this brief tin Nott must leave bin business and his .i'’*' V ; ^>o had aimed at troubiosomo cats with SnwSi’ n * bo r° J? u * groat success more than once. If she rsation with his old servant standing | coxx \ t \ 80tmr0 these she felt safe. master," she sobbed, Iding of some sort, I where, ai: cheaply i “ Master looks natural," said Maggio mid, and tried to collect her thoughts. Mr. Van Nott’s revolvers were in the i'xt room, she knew, loaded, six shots enoh. Maggie could uso pistols. I’t get llro '.'" l ftfmi.l, Muggie r" .'le afraid said Maggie, no fear horn with me. As fo house, it’s the strongest fastened ever I was in. You say yourself there’s no lock a burglar could force, and I’m not the one to let tramps or the like in of my free will. Q ,d kuows the place will be safe enough when you oome back — us safe ns though there were n regiment of soldiers in it ; and I’ll have all bright for your new wife, Mr. Archibald." She called her master M- Archibald still, this old woman ; but she was the only one who still used his Christian name. He was n:i elderly man himself, and had few intimate friends, hospital ity not being ono of his virtues. He was rich, and there was much that was valuable in the house; more ready money, too, than most men keep about them ; but then it was as secure ns a bank vault—patent lock and regular alarms that tlrst sent a bullet into anv one who sought to enter by stealth, anil then rang a bell to wake the household, were attached to every door, and a fu rious watch-dog, that lived on raw meat was in the hack garden. The \ sn Nott mansion could have withstood asmge a^ ; a m uncut's n Rice. Air. Van Nott was a money-dealer. He had ways of accumulating property which weie mysteries to his neighbors and they were suspicious that the little hack nirlor, sacred to business, had even seen such lesser dealings as the loan of money on good watches, cash- mere eliaw.s, an.! diumomla of genteel i! if i"i two or three mortgages that lie hud height up had been rather oru- elly foreclosed ; and he won a hard landlord, and n had person to owe money to altogether. On the whole ho was,disliked in (ho place, and, rich a- h" was, would have found it hard to get a wife In his liking among his neighbors at Oakham, However, having resolved to marry again—there bad been a Airs Van Nott who died years before—he had sought out a wealthy widow of a pavmg disposition, who lived on a small farm some miles out of town, and hav ing already disinherited her daughter for espousing an estimable man of small means, and turned her only son out of doors for equally pm !ent reasons, was not likely to bring any troublesome gen- And accordingly old Maggie shut her self into tlio snug kitchen, and lighting two caudles, drew a pot of tho strongest young hyson, and putting her foot close to the cooking stove, began to fool much raoro comfortable. The old clock ticked away on tho mantel, the hand) pointing to luilf-past eight. “ I’m going to bed at nine," said Maggie. “I’ve worked will to-day. Much thanks I’ll got for it, I doubt. What’s that?" d outside the door—a rating of wheels. Then rriont and the boll mug/ arringel'' cried Maggie; “has lie chnnged h» i mind and brought her Hut that can’t he, he’s not married yet." And taking ono of the candles she trotted to the door, but not before tin* bell had rung again. “ Who’s that ?’’ s jo cried, holding the door slightly ajar. “ A stranger," said a voice, “one who Inis something particular to say to you." “You'll have to wait for to morrow," said AI aggie. “You can’L como in to night." “ My good woman," said the stranger, "you are Margaret Black?" "That's my * lousokocpor foi very bad news “ Gracious Lird !” cried Maggie, but did not. open the door much wider -only enough to thrust her head out. " Don't mister. What is it?" in think of," said Nott traveled on There has been nn 3d AI aggie, letting " and hint on his He’s badly hurt .’s-dend," said the man. “ D.-nd, i’vg brought li ra home." Maggie sat down on a chair and began vo done what wo could," fluid . “The lady lie was to marry and her friemifl will bn down to-morrow. Meanwhile my instructions arc that you shall watch with him, and allow no Htrangers to enter the house. There are valuables here, I’m told, and Mr. Van Nott’s lawyer must, take possession of them, and seal them up beforo strang ers linve access to tho roorafl." “Oh! dear, dear,” cried old Maggie. "That it should como to this. Yes, I’ll watch alone. I'm not afraid, but—oh, dear !” Then she shrank bock and let two men carry a horrible coffin into the parlor. They came out with their hats off, and the other man held his also iu his hand. " I regret to leave you all alone in tho house," lie said. " I don’t mind that," said old Afag- gie, ‘blit it’s terrible, terrible.” "If you’d like mo to stay," Raid the and edged toward the back room. “ Poor, dear master ; " she lifted the desk-lid. She had them safe. She glided back to the front pari and sat down on a chair. Hlio turned up her sleeves and grasped a pistol each hand, and watched the coffin-lid quietly. In half an hour the lid stir red. A cautious hand crept up tho Ride. A wiry eye pooped out. It fell upon the armed figure and closed again. " You’d better," said Maggie to her self. Again tho head lifted up. This time Maggie sprang to hor foot. " You are fixed quite lmndy," she said coolly. " No ueed of laying you out if I tiro, and I oan aim first-rate, especially whon I’m afraid of ghosts, as Tho head bobbod down again. Mag gie re seated herself. Sb > knew this could not last long—that th to must ho a conflict before long. It was as sho supposed. A moment more and the eofllu was empty, and a forooious young fellow sat on its edge, and thus nil- dressed her : "Wo meant to do it all quiet," lie said, " and I don’t want to frighten old women. Just put them down." “ I’m not, frightened," said Maggie. " I’m coming to take them things away from yon," said the man. "Oome," said Alaggio. He advanced one stop. Hho took aim, and he d >dged, but a bullet, went through his left arm, and it dropped by his Hide. Furious with pain, ho dashed toward her. Hho flrod again, anil this time wounded him iu the right shoulder, Faint, nnd quite helpless, he (daggered against the wall. "There, you’ve dotio it, old woman,” he said. “Opontho dour and lot mo out. My game is tin." " Mine isn’t,” said old Maggie. “Got hack into your coffin again, or this timo I'll shoot you through tho heart." Tho burglar lookod piteously at her, but ho saw no morov in her face. He wont hack to tho eofllu and Iny down in it. Blood dropped from his wounds, and ho was growing pair. Maggio did not want to sen him di • boforo horoyoH, but fllio did not, ilaro go for aid. To leavo tho liottso boforo daybreak would bo to meet this man’s o impanious, and risk hor own life. Thero was nothing for it. but to piny Min surgeon herself, and in a little wliilo sho had stopped the blood and saved tho burglar's lifo. Moro than this—sho brought him a cup of tea, and fod him with it ns if ho kail been a baby. Nothing, however, could induce hor to let him out of his eofllu. About ono or two o’clock sho heard steps outside, and knew that the other lmrglnrs were near, hut her stout heart never quailed. Hho trusted in tho bars nnd b;)I»s, and they did not betray her. Tho daylight found her sitting quiet ly beside her wounded hurglnr, and the milkman, bright and early, was tho am IrnHsador who summoned the officers of justice. When tho bridal party roturnod next day tho house was neat nnd tidv, and Mng'gic, in her best nlpaon, told tho nows in laconic fashion. “ Frightened !" sho said, in answer to the sympathetic ejiionlations of her new mistress. “ Frightonod ! Oh, no ! Fear wasn’t born in mo." Great Gun. -A N mnn. “ No,” Buid Alaggio. * living or dead folk. You can go.” Then she locked tho door and went into the parlor, and putting the oandlo on tho mantel, looked at the coffin through her tears. “He was good enough to me,” flho said ; “ poor Air. Archibald ! And this comes o ’ anting to marry at this timo of life, and gallivanting on railroads. I wonder whether he is chnnged much. I’ll take a look,” and Maggie crossed the mom and lifted the lid over tho faco of the inclosed body. " I’ll take a look." (die said to her self again. “I’m not afraid of dead folks.” In a minute moro Alaggio dropped the lid ugain, nnd retreated, shaking from head to foot. She had f-een within the coffin a face with its eyes shut, and with bandages about the lead, and the ghostly featur b of a clown in a circus, minus the red mouth. But it was a living face, well chalked, and not her master’s, anil Afaggio knew at once that she had been well hum bugged—that, the story of her master’s death was a lie, and that a burglar lay within the coffin, ready to spring upon ; which, her and bind her, or perhaps murder her at any m mite. H'le could of course open the door and try to escape ; but the accomplices of the mnn were doubtless outside. It Home progress has already been made in the royal English gnu factories at Woolwich arsenal in tho manufacture of tho experimental 80-ton gun, which is intended to furnish data lor the con st ruction of tho guns of tho Inflexible. Tho length of tho gun over all will ho 27 feet, tho bore being 24 feet long. Tho calibre will bo 14 inches, 15 inches, and IB niches successively, the gun be ing bored up after each series of experi ments. The 14-inch oilibro will take n projectile of 1,100 lb), firing a mnxi mum charge of about 190 lb) of special ly- manufactured powder; tho 15 inch will take a 1,400 lb shot and about 245 lb) of powder ; the 10-inch will throw a 1,050 lb shot, with about 300 lbs of pow der. Tho hfiavieHt gnu now in the ser vice, 12 35 tons (Woolwich Infant), can pierce 15 inches of iron at the muzzle ; the ranges at which tho projectiles for the 80 ton gun will perform tilts same feet will be—for tho 14-inoh shot, 3,300 yards ; for the 15 inch shot, 5.200 yards; and for tho IB-inch shot, B,GOO—nearly four miles. At a fighting range of 600 yards the Woolwich Infant will pene trate 14 inches of iron ; lmt the 80 ton gun, with a 11 inch calibre, will pierce about 17 inches; with the 15 inch, about i 18J inches ; and with tho 16 inch, about fear of | oq j nc heH. The maximum range at which shells could be thrown into a fortrefls will be—for the 12-inob, about 9,000 yards; 14 inch, 10,000 yards; 15 inch, 10,200 yards ; 16 inch, 10,300 yards, or eloHe upon six miles. Yorker tells of some niee front yards. He Bays: Couch, or kutoli, grass takes posses sion of tho Hiiperflcial stratum and ever- lafltingly splices and plaits its roots into indistructiole sinnet. It can not be rooted on' . In India and Persia, where every blade is scorched by tho blazing sun and hot winds of the dry season, horses and cattle arc fed on the succu lent roots. One rain shower coverfl the arid, baked, fissured plains with eraer ahl verdure." —A man who was seen coming out of a Texes newspaper office with a split nose, with one eye en 1 with one ear, explained to a policeman that be enter ed the office simply to inquire if the editor was in. " And he was in," the victim mournfully addel. The intellect has only ono failing, , is a very consid--rubTe one,—it has no conscience. Napoi on is the readiest iastance of ibis. If his heart had borne any pioportion to his brain, lie bad been one of the greatest men in all history.—Lowell. THE FEET. All About PriUI nocnrntloitf In tho Mood tlltl Dnytf II. t*J At a very early date the ait of decora ting the covering fox** tho foot bogn i to dovolon ; and the pretty foot of the fair scorned to have betrayed 1110 earliest susceptibility to pedal ornaments, al though tho use of those oraVdlishmonts was by no means confined to thorn, as we shall presently see. Homo, of tho earliest and most distinctly examples wo And in Jewish records. Tims, in Holomon’s Hong (7 chop., iv), the bride is thus addressed r "JIow brnutiftil nro thy feet with shoes (sandal*), O prinee’s daughter!" In the ease pf Judith of the Apocrypha, although her personal at I motions, the splendor of her attire, and other ornaments, may liavo Attracted the attention of the tierce Holofernes, the Assyrian general, ii wan her saudals that "ravished his eyes." (Judith, xvi chap., 9 v.) A passage in Isaiah gives us au idea of the ohnraoter of some of tho ornaments employed. " Haughty daughters of Zion walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet. The Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about tlioir foot.” Isaiah, olinp. ili, 1(1- 18 ) Tho flrst approach to a boot—and there was probably nothing of the kind prior to 509 II. 0.—was in the shape of a high stocking or greave, a piooo of leather affixed to tho front of tho shins as a protection from injury in war, by means of lenthern thongs or interlaced hands of leather. This protoot ion doubt- loss evoiUuntod in the elaborate feetal greaves which for mod nn important part, of tho armor of a later period. Tho transition of tho sandal to tho shoe is perhaps moro evident in tho seulpturcd remains of Persia than in any other of the dumb yet eloquont witnesses of an tiquity. Tiio bas-reliefs of Persepolis give many illustrations of tho style of boots snd shoes worn by the Persians in tho time of Darius nnd Xerxes -hotwee 521 B. O. aud 475 B. C. Ono of these is a sort of nnklo boot, half shoe, half Hunt 1 ul ; for what is termed tho "upper leather” is little moro than the straps of the sandals left much broader tlmu usu al, and fastened liy buttons along the top of the foot. This kind of shoo is represented ns having been worn by soldiers, the upper classes, aud attend ants around tho throne of tho king. Other specimens are completely and unequivocally shoes, tho ehuraeteris- ties of the saudsl being apparently en tirely aliHont. There are also among those sculptures several kinds of boots, ono of them being similar to t. 1 o throo- qunrtnr Wellington of ille present timo. A highly ornamental dross hoot adorned tho legs of n gnily-drensed youth do- pioto l on a Theban painting, aud sup posed to have belonged; to a country adjacent to Egypt, ft' is similar in form to tho drows of Wellington of the present century, and is a sample of tho boot decoration then prevailing. Trig- hirnmi, in his Monumenti. Ktrusehi, gives an engraving of a heal hen priest, taken from an mioiont Etruscan sculp ture, tho figure wearing a pair of top hoots exceedingly like those worn by the ditehors and fishermen of to-dav. The Etruscans were antecedent to tho Greeks aud Romans in civilization, so that this must bo very old, nlthoiigh not so nuniont as tho Theban painting just noticed. It is tolerably clear that, the slum de veloped into'tho boot, and that Orator IlnnHley’s celebrated method of making shoes lmd not boon thought of nt this early stage of the world’s history. Many of our readers will recollect tlio anec dote of tho great mob orator, who onoo, by a clever strategy, is said to have at tracted "tho greatest multitude of shoe makers over known to have boon assem- bled on ono neonsion ” at his oratory near Lincoln’s Inn Fields. He had an nounced a special discourse to shoemak ers, nnd in order to "draw" un audience, with the true genius of sensational ism, he declare 1 that ho could tench thorn a most expeditious way of making hIiooh. His method was simple hut conclusive, viz.: to cut off the tops of their boots. The ticket of admission on tlmt occasion bore the appropriate hut mocking motto —Omne run jus eontlncf. in sc minus (tho gieater contains the less). It is also sufficiently clear that iu a gronfc degrep modern fashion is hut an imitation—a moro or Iohh refined ono it may ho—of the other forms nnd fashions whose re cords arc to bn found on those ancient monuments. "History repoats itself " in the way of hoots ami shoos as with evervtliing else, nnd the hoots of mod ern day ’ find their earliestexemplars nn those striking sculptured memorials of nations whose sun of prosperity hns gone down forever, but who once occu pied tho proud placo in tho world of "first in arts as in arms." Tho great Persian monarch, Cyrus, was not only a warlike soldier, hut a connoisseur in tho art of dross. Ho was neoustomod to wear purplo and white robes, and to encase his foot and legs in yellow buskins. If a man was unfortunate enough to possess tho dignity of high staturo, ho recom mended that ho should wear a suit of buskin or stocking, between tho sole of which and the bottom of the foot some substance might bo inserted to give an increased hight to tlio wearer. A simi lar method of increasing their hight ppenrs to have obtained among women iso, for Xenophon, in his f/foonomic*, mentions the wife of Isehomuchus as wearing high shoos for that purpose. In tho toxbs of ancient Egypt, women’s shoes have been discovered that dis tinctly have this object in view, for they are formed of a stout solo of wood, to which is affixed four round props— really a sort of foot-stool, only flxod to tho feet, raising the wearer’ a foot in hight. The Phrygian bonnet, which the goddess Miborvn is sometimes rep resented as wearing, is a characteristic head-dress which finds a fitting coun terpart in tho Phrygian boot. This article was worn very high, had four long flaps or streamers at the top (con sisting of the leg-skins of animals whose skins had been used for body clothing), and were Inced up in front. —Tho fashionable girl of the period now takes her Hewing machine wilii her when she goes to the watering-pi no. s, for thore she will get " ideas” whiob tho machinewill work out. Thewisovir- gin keeps her dress goods in tho piece until she sees how the rival McFlimsy has hor summer toilet made ; and this makes the rival McFlimsy "awfully mad," for if thore is ono thing she hates moro than another, it is to have her clothe) copied, A Ohicngo Hotel. Tho following is a translation of nn nrtielo in a Berlin paper, which will convey au idea of the Gorman estimates of tho coming American hotel: "Tho latest Amorioau progress in building will bo tho ‘ mammoth hotel,’ soon to ho oreotod in Chicago. This enormous hotel is to liavo a frontage of throe English miles long, nnd a depth of six miles ; tho height, of seventy-seven stories, will measure 3,480 feet from t he ground-floor to tlio roof. Tho hotel will liavo no stairs, but live hundred balloons will always be ready to take visitors up to their rooms. No room- waiters are to he employed, lmt visitors will he servod by n newly pntontod an- tonintio, put up in ovory bed-room, who will do all shaving, iliampooing, etc., to tlio guests l»y a very simplo and in genious moohanUm. Hupposing the guest reouires hot water, tho automat iu will bo ablo to oalHlown stairs : " A bucket of water up to room number one million throe thousand ono hun dred and sovon." and tlio water will ho up iu seven seconds by a patented eleva tor. Half an hour boforo table d'hote, "iiHtond of tho ringing of bolls, a uun (24-poutidor) will bo flrod on onoli floor to call tho guests to get icady for their meals. Tlio tabloa in tho dining rooms will monsnro four miles enoh, attoud- anoo to Un performed by twelve waiters on horsolmOk on either sido of tho table. Music during table. (Vhote will be played - -gratis-by eight bands of sqvnnty-snVen inon onoli. For tho convenience of vis itors a railway will bo built on onoli floor as well uh telegraph offices. The prioo for ono hod-room will he from $1 to 810. The cost of this building is estimated to bo 8080,000.000. Tho ^l»ilhird room will contain 900 American, U 4^V.) French, and 1 English table, and, most of tlio visitors expooted to be Amorioans, tho billiard room will be fitted out with a spittoon of 100 foot in oiroumforonoe." A Puzzlo for tho Scientists. At the house of a colored woman by tho name of Mag Blut.boy, on tho corner of Tenth and Wooster stroots, there reside a colored man and his wife by the name of Fisher, who are tho parents of a girl oliild baout nine mouths old who ia certainly ono of tho greatest curiosi ties of Iho human spemea that wo have ever hoard or read of. Ex-Polioomnn William II. Harris, who visited the houso on Sunday, and oxnminod the child, informs us that its skin is per fectly white, although its parents are both of a dark ginger calm complexion. Its form and features are perfect 'up to 1 the bridge of its nose, t he chin, mouth and nasal organ being not only well formed, but really handsoino ill their symmetry and general appearance ; but, commencing with tho eyes, tho fneo and head lias the appearance of an animal, moro resembling a white hoar thnu any thing else of the animal species our in formant could call to mind. Tim hair is of a whitish color, nnd like the wool of a sheep. Its eyes nro round aud piercing, resembling those of a mink, aud revolve in their sockets in a very peculiar manner. They cannot hear the light of a lamp or candle, aud are iiifllantly dosed when ono is brought, iu m, and arc only kept open in tho day time, when tho room is somowhat darkened. It has no eyebrows, and the r u peculiar formation, iu no par ticular resembling tho eyo of a human being. Tt is very timid, and whon any approaches it has tho appeuranee aud notions of a rabbit startled from its lere is a flue field lor Mioho who make human naturo in its various forms ond peculiarities an object of study nnd analysis. A Spiritualistic Mnrriago. Tn New Albany, last weok, a marriage deoid'olly out of the UHiial order was celebrated between Mr. Gardner Knapp and Miss La Mira P. Hobbs, daughter of Dr. Seth Hobbs, nil of that oity. Whon the (-nests were bidden and all assembled, the following writ ten agreement was read and subscribed to by tho bridal party, no other cere mony being performed. The parties thereto nro, wo believe, spiritualistic, aud tho marriage was according to cer tain tenets of that belief : frionda and Icllow-e.ltIzcns, Ladies and Gentlemen: We, Gardner Knapp nnd La Mira P. Hobbs, b liuviug that our hearts and souls are already mntrimouully united, appear boforo yon now, thus publicly to celebrate tho consummation of our W« hold tlio opinion tlint neither church nor ststo has any niorut ur «<^m table right to interfere with, or any just, claim to bj consulted in reference to the arrangements that our spontaneous sentiments and sympathies have prompted us to inako. Therefore, in non-conformity to, and disregarding the rules and regulations in such oases made and provided by what is called society, wo adopt such form and ceremony as in our judgments d consciences seem most just and proper. And now, in the presence of these witnesses nnd our invisible spirit friends assembled, wo proclaim, and pub lisli nnd doolnro ourselves husband and wffe; and may God and tho uugel-world add their blessings. An Old Timo Boat Itom. A writer for tho Pittsburg Chronicle tells of nn ingenious device fixed on one of tho early western stoumboat/i to pre vent attacks by the Indians : In the year 1818, Maj >r H. II. Long* was in charge of a detachment of Uni ted States topographical engineers, de- tfiled for tho purpose of ranking the first exploration of the sources of the Missouri. To carry out this project the steamer, " Western Engineer,” a little fellow of thirty tons, was constructed in this city uudor tho supervision of Muj. Long. Mr. George Evans was engineer of this craft, and by Mnj. Long’s ordej there was constructed a singular device to prevent tho dusky warriors of the unexplored west from boarding tho " Western Engineer.” A steam pipe along forward, until it ronchml tlio how spirt (in tlioso early days tho position of the prosuut jnokstaff was ocoupicd by a small "bowspirt.") Hero the pipe wai curled up nml fashioned into the simili hide of a serpent, from whoso opon jaws George Evauw, in tlio engine room could cnitso to issue an appalling, shrieking blast of steam Riiflloiont. to cause tho most hardy Indian bravo to flee in terror. John 0. Calhoun that timo necretary of war, and this steamer, with o nnpnuion drafts, tho "Expedition" and " Ii)dopondedoo. M ascended tlio Missouri to Council Blufts, being, of course, the first, boats that readied t hat, point.. "DE FERVISIONS, JOSIAR.” A sapiout-loolcing Fayetteville darkey, oscillating botwoon twenty and twenty live suminors, overtook an old negro on tho street, tho other day, nnd wedging him in a fouoo corner, pro- needed to acquaint him with ull tlio gorgeous provisions of tho civil lights bill. Young Africa imparted to old Africa a fund of valuable information, " thusly : ” " Well, Unole Billy, Sumner’s swivel rights bill has passed the sonata ob do United Statos widout a murmur." " Is dat ho, Jbsiar ?’’ "Jess so, Uncle Billy. And say, Uuolo Billy, wo colored pitBSons isgwine to seo whoso pervisions in in tho pot. Wo’s gwino to bo allowed to rido free on do railroad, smoko in do ladies’ oar, and put our foot on do percussions of do seats whonobor wo pleaso 1" " Is dat so, Josiar?" " Jess so, Undo Billy, And sny, Undo Billy, wo’s gwino to bn allowed to stop at do hotels and net at tlio head oh do table, mid hub do biggest, slices ob do oliiokou, aud lay around iu do parlor and spit, on do Gurnets, and mnlco the white trash hustle demselvos and wait on us without grumbling; and whonobor do boss of do coneorn shoves a bill nt us, we’ll hub him sent, to Washington aud obscured in do pleni potentiary.” ) dat t , Joi r?" Undo Billy, And say, Undo Billy, wo’s gwino to bo allowed to go to do white schools, and set. up on do platform wid do teachers and learn gohography, triggermnnometry, gohoin- iny, Dutch, French, Choctaw,’algebray, rheumatics, do rule ob trlco and ilo diarrhea." "Good God I is dat. so, Josiar ?” "Jobs so, Unde Billy. And nay, Uncle Billy, wo’s gwino to bo allowed to bo buried in ifulio coffins wid lookin’ glasses on do lop ob doui, and doy ill hub to carry un on a hearse to do grabs yard and bury us on to” !! white folks, so when do flay ifw^Miurection am arrived and do angel Gabriol como tootin’ along, he’ll sing out tnn his trumpet, ‘All ob you oolorod common rise fust!’ Aud say, Undo Billy, do pervisions ob dat bill—” " What’s dat you say ’bout pom's- ions, Josiar V” " Well, Undo Billy, as I was gwino on to state, do pervisions of dat bill—” "Stop right dar, Josiar. You say dar’s pervisions in dat bill?" ‘‘Jess so, Undo Billy. Do porvis- is oh do bill—” ‘Htop right dar, Josiar. Ef dar’s pervisions iu dat hill, I want a sack ob flour dis berry miuit. Dam do smokin’ in do Indies’ oar, and do gohography, and io Latin, and do italic coffins ! 1 want lepervision. Josiar. Day’s all doro is in do bill wtiff a cent.—Fai/ettevlUe. (7win.) /express. Bills Which Go Ovor to tho Next Session. Among tlio bills which go ovor till the next session are the following : tho reliof of owners aud pur chasers of land sold for diroot taxes in the insurrectionary states. Amending the ninth seotion of the sot approved July 13, I860, concerning deposits in savings banks. # To establish nml maintain a national savings depository as a hrauch of the postoflloo. To incorporate tlio Southern Trans continental railroad company. Granting to railroads in the territories tho right of way through the public lands of the United Htates. Providing for tho eonstriiotion of tho Portlaud, Dallas and Halt Lake railroad, and for the performance of all govern mnnt services free of chargo. To enable the central branch of tlio Union Pacific railroad company to sub mit its claim against tho United Htates under tho existing laws to the decision of tho supremo court. Amoudatory of the olvil rights law. To authorize tho organization of na tional banks without a circulation. To estttVAinW U»« lurriinry of Pembina, id provide a government tneroror. Providing for postal telegraph. Providing for the resumption of specie pay mo* t and for free banking. Amoudatory of the tariff and internal revenue liws. This bill failed in con sequence of the disagreeing votos on the amend ineuts. tho admission of New Mexico and Colorado as states. Repealing tlio pre-emption and amen datory of tho liomestea 1 laws. To protect navigable waters of tho United Htates from injury and ohstrua- House bill for tho reorganization of the army. Tho houso bill to equalize bonntios. Tho bill granting pensions to nil sol diers of the war of 1812, and their widows and children. For the eonstriiotion and repairs of Mississippi river levees. The McCrary bill regulating charges for railroad transportation. Tho senate bills for the abolition of compulsory pilotage, and to authorize the organiz ition of national hanks with out circulation. All the land grant bills, and many hundred bills for tho relief of individuals. --Mrs. Wynkoop, a strong-minded woman, has opened u renl estate office iu Chicago, and not. one >r :,o Chicago pupers Ins dar d to Call it a hon-coop. —A Baltimore bride, according to a reporter, wore callu lilies iu hor Lair. H^ven oalla lilies in a neat cluster on the top of a lady’s head would look well. FACTS AND FANCIES. —Patiouoo and gentleness nro powor. —Leit/h Hunt. —Dollars aud souse do not uoocHsari- ly 1 ravel togothor, —Thore is not a daily nowspaper iu the state of Florida. —Epitaph for a oaunibnl—Ono who loved Ida follow-mou. —A Minnesota granger has tliroo thousand acres of henna. —The host rofraiu for driukiug songs —refrain from them altogothor. —Dr. Ilayes measured an iceberg that got aground in water nearly half a mile iu depth. —"Taxes," said Dean Hwift, "nro tho inevitable oouBcquonoos of boiug too fond of g.ory.” —Ho that is ungratofnl has no guilt but out); all other crimos may pass for virtues in him.— Youdff, —A Brooklyn gill has just rejected a suitor because liis arm wnBirt long enough to go round her. —All tho difference—A thiof running away is a scamp, but tho polioomau’s chase after him is a scamper. —Ilo who saddens at t hought, of idlo- noHH cannot he idle, and lie’s awako who thinks himself asleep.—Keats. To make a dog add, multiply, or subtract, tio up ono of his paws nnd ho will put down throe and carry ono. —Men spend tlioir lives in tho servieo of their passions instead of employing tlioir passions iu tho sorvioo of thoir lives. —Our thoughts nro opoohs in our lives ; ull else is but as a journal of tho winds that blow while wo nro lioro— Thore.au. —As nn oxouro for rejecting a widow er, a fair young damsol informed a friond that sho did not want a "warmed ovor” man, —Ill this oountry there is a doctor to ovory 018 of tho population, wliilo in Franco and England thore is only one to every 2,000. —Another sure indication of tho ap proach of tlio croquet season—Indies ordering gaiters a Couple of sizes too small for them. —^Inviolable fidelity, goad humor, and complacency of temper ontlivo all tho charms of a lino face, nnd inako the (loony of it invisible. —A Btindify-Sohool scholar being ask- oil what became of men who deceive tlioir fellow-men, promptly exclaimed, "They go to Europe.” —" For a yonug woman to begin to pick lint off a young man’s oont collar” is said to bo tlio flrst symptom that tho young man is in porll. —Ouc thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys tho»pirjp nal natnru wVinuoh n** tflflpeatfthW walf- ishnoss.—Georpe Me Donald. —An Illinois boy rubbod arsenic on his tooth so that ho could bite his fa- thor in tlio log and dose him when tho old mau lmnlod him ovor his knee. —"If a naughty girl should hurt you, like a good girl, you would forgive her, wouldn’t you?”. "Yes, inarm,” Hho replied, "if I oouldu’t catch hor.” —A Maud Muller laughod heartily at a young haymaker whon tho yollow jackets got up hisnankoon trousers, but when they got up her’n it wasn’t so funny. —" Pleaso, sir,” said a littlo girl who was sweeping a crossing for a living, "you have given mo a bud ponny.” " Never mind, little girl, you may keep it for your honesty.” —Honest thinkers arc always stealing from enoh other. Our minds are full of waifs and ostrays which wo think nro our own. Innocent plagiarism turns up everywhere.—Jlolmes, —It. is a law of nature that faint hearted men should bo tho fruit of luxurious oountrios, for wo never find that tho same soil produces delicacies and heroes.—Herodotus. —The umiablo is tho voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which ox- cites it in others ; or tho art of pleasing is to seem pleased.—Hazlitt. —A Now York state editor, who has boon on an excursion to Alabama, with a company of journalists, puls "Lou isville uguiust tho world for tobacco, whisky and pretty women.” —Public opinion cannot do for virtue what it does for vice. It is the ossenco of virtuo to look ab ve opinion. Vice is consistent with, and very often strength ened by, entire subserviency to it. —No, sir, yon are wrong. Tlio Falls of Bt. Anthony wore not named after Susan B. Anthony. They are supposed to bo 2,000 years old, wliilo she isn’t a day ovor two hundred. —All mv own experience of lifo teach es mo the coniouiin. lint Uia. fear. Tho phrase "profound cunning has always seemed to mo a contradiction in terms. I never know a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or, on some points, diseased.—Mrs. Jameson. —No ono (savo hotel keepers) cau have any conception of tho profit'made out of bridal parties at Niagara. Harsh is too full of love to oat and " Foder- wick” partakes sparingly, wliilo embar rassment predominates. Every meal is morel y "lookod at” by tho simpletons, wliilo board at tho rate of $-1.50 por day goes right along. —Tweed still draws well. A few days ago ho was brought into a Now York court as a witness. The World says: "There was a crowd iu waiting, which pressed around tho carriage as he alighted, nnd followed him as ho wns conducted to tho court room. He took a scat near the jury-box, and during the trial of two or three other cases before Unit in which lie was to bo u witness was called, ho was the object of great interest to tho continual stream of peo ple who walkod in to look at him and then filed out ugaiu. Mr. Tweed is very little changed since tho timo of his trial and conviction, and seems to bo in fine physical condition. His hair and whiskers have grown a shade lighter, nnd his face is sliirLtiv thinned, tlio ugh his oounteniiuce is as Hushed au 1 his eyes are as bright as over. He wore a w> ito necktie, as usal, but the famous diamond studs were not in his sliirt- boiom.” v.rr'