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THE OEDARTOWJN RECORD. W. S. D. WIKLE & 00., Proprietors, CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1874. VOLUME I. NUMBER 11. NEWS OF THE WEEK. WEST. At the recent election in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, Indian territory, Coloman Colo was elected governor of the Choctaws, and Frank Overton, govomor of the Ohtckasaws. A report ooraes from Fort Sully that Indiana to the number of four thousand at tacked Cuatar'a expedition on the 15Lh and and were repulsed with heavy loss. Cuatar’a lose la reported at fifty killod and wounded. Tho cavalry at Rawlings, Wyoming, hare instructions to thoroughly scout tho Sweetwater, Powder aud Big Horn rivers and country to the southern extremity of tho Yel low Btono lake, and administer tho soveroot punishment possible to all Indians found out of their reservations. Much is expected of this expedition, wliioh is fluoly equipped and will bo in tho flold about threo months. A body of Shoshone Indians Join in the oxpe- dittos. The following telegram lias beeu re ceived by Gen. Ord from Fort Fettorman, Wyoming: “A Cheyenne half-breed from Powdor river roporte that at the council of Cheyenne and Araphooa it was docidod to ro- cail all hostile partlos from tho vicinity of the railroad, and return to tho agency ; that about two hundred lodgos of Choyonnos passed thirty-five miles north of this post Friday, on route to the agency; they wore very hungry and eating their horses. 1 sond this rumor for what it to worth." SOUTH. Tho bark Mermaid, from Now Lon don to New Orleans, is reported sunk, and tho captain and five of the crew woro drowned. H. D. Newoombe, president of tho Loniaville and Nashville railroad company, died at Lnuisvilleq on the 18th., of psralyvis. Old John Harper, owner of the ‘cele brated Longfellow, died at his residence, near Midway, Ky., on the 19Ui instant, leaving a Urge fortune. T. W, Gordon*, of Mississippi, col ored. superintendent of public instruction, sues the 8t. Louis Dispatch for ©60,000 dam ages. The Dispatch apologised on tlio second day for its offonsivo publication. A duel occurred in 8t. James parish, La., last weok, between Dr. diaries Gray and Deputy flboriff Prichard. They fought with revolvers, distance fifteen paces. Both foil at the third fire, and expired in n few miuntoo. There is now in Tennessee over 4,000 whito schools and over 800 colored schools, aud about 0,000 teachers. Of the number of toacbors fully 1,000 are colored, the colored teachers boing omployod wholly in colored schools, Anderson I*, rry, John Ross, Antone Maurice, James Williams and John 1, itertsor, associates in tho murdor of Elisha Eastwood, an old flat-boatman, on the ‘25tb or April last, were hung at Napoleon, Assumption parish, La., on tho 21st instant.] Telegrams from Monroo, Trenton, Farmorsvillo, Hhrovoport, Baton ltougo. La Canton, CofTooviUc. Camdon, Holly Springs, Durant, Natohess, Meridian, Mississippi, and points in TouuosHoe, Arkansas and Texas re port cotton and oorn crops suffering from long continued drouth. A Memphis dispatch says tho exces sive hot weather of the past week lias produ ced moro cases of sunstroke than were ever known before In this latitudo The board of health reports fourteen deaths from this cause. Reports from tho surrounding country stats that tho crops are suffering very mu h from drouth. Tho Courier Journal publishes re ports fiom correspondents in fifty counties of Keutucky, representing 76 per cent, of the crops of tho entire state, which indicate an unparalleled failuro of the tobacco crop in the aggregate. Tho estimate is deduced that the crop of 1874 will bo only 13 per cent, of the yield last year undor the most favorablo futnro conditions. A desperate shooting affray occurred last week on the Tonnossee sido of tho Mis sissippi river near Point Pleasant, in which Oapt. Albert Hall and a young man named Leerhaw wore killed. Goo Darnell was mor tally and Capt. Colo and two brothers named Coe, seriously wounded. Tlio affray grow out of rivalry botwoen Capt. Hall and Capt. Cole, who rim competing ferry boats at Point Ploas- ant, which culminated in a law suit. Capt. A. T. Butler, who was shot by a negro at Atlanta, (la, diod on tho 17th inat. The citizens wero so exasperated at tlio un provoked murder that several hundred of thorn armed themsolves aud marched to the Jail, whero the Murrell brothers woro con fined, took both of them out, and carried them to tho parade grounds. A Jury was im proved, when both Gabriel and Mike Mur rell asserted tbeir innocence. After three hours’ investigation on tho sworn testimony of eye-witnossos of the murder, Gabriel was taken back to jail, aud Mike shot to death. FOREIGN. Holland and Italy have recognized Spain. Tlio recognition of the Spanish repub lic by England, Franco and Austria, is offi cially promulgated. A dispatch from Gen. Mariones to the war office, reports that the carlists loHt 700 men in the engagement at Oteiza. The investigation into Bazaine’s es cape show that most of the guards wero in connivance, and he left by an open door. The carlist chieftain Tristany has captured Loo Do Urgel sixty-seven miles southeast of Serada. The fighting was des- perato and losses heavy on both sides. An immense quantity of stores fell into the hands of the carlists. Threo socialist members of tho German Reichstag, Hazlmann, Rejuer and Hazon- clever, were tried at Berlin for attending meetings of the workmen’s society after it had been ordered by the police to discon tinue its gatherings. Hazenclevor was con victed and sentenced to two months impris onment. The United States consul at Swatow reports & wreck off the island of Nomoh, with tho probability that all on board were lost. Tho American bark Scotland is for many days overdue and the consul applied to the Chinese admiral for information. The admiral replied that there ha i been a storm, in which one hundred native boats and 300 lives were lost, nib had heard nothing of a foreign wreck. An European says that Italy seems to become moro hopelessly bankrupt*. Tho poo- plo aro sincerely loyal'to their king. Tho ministers aro almost pedantically attachod to tho English tlioory of a parliamentary gov ernment. Ho states that they ask nothing bet tor than to leavo tho chnrcli alone, but they have no broad and no spade. and they have Hoods, malaria, bandits aud paper money. Tho Old Catholic movement ia ex tending to southern Germany. In llavaris, at Liiubaohby, lUsliop Rgiiikonw has Just con secrated a new church, tho first building which tho Old Gatholics have erected in Ger many. It is stated tho Emporor William pro- Bontcd a quantity of metal from French guns captured in tho lato war, to bo cast into a bell. An Old Catholio community lias Just boon started at Stuttgart. Tho Swiss Times published Father HyacinthoV letter resigning tlio care of Go- nova to Comoro Do Etat. It is as follows; Attached from tlio very depths of my;iioart to the church in which I was baptised, whoso reform I wish for, but not its overthrow, con vinced besides, by oxporionoe now sufficiently lengthened, that the lil»oral Catholicism of (Ionova is neither liberal in politics nor Cath olio in religion, I have tlio liotio- to louder my resignation of my functions aa ci.ro of this city. Gen. Marohi, governor of tho island of Hants Marguorito, protests his in nocence of tho escapo of Razaino, and accuses Ool. Villotto, tlio marshal’s old-do- oamp, of having porrootod tlio plan to soonro his Right. Eight persons aro now In custody on suspicion of having aided Bazaine’s es cape. La Gazotto dos Trcbanaux says that ou tlio night of Mkrehal Bazaine’s escape, ono aoldior was twloo on guard, and each tirao a Jnilor engaged li|m in conversation, aud kept him in the sontry box. This jailer has boon arrostod. Marshal Buzuiuo 1ms written a lotter to tho minister of tlio interior, in which ho says : “ That noilber Colonol Villotto or any other of tlio prisoiiors in custody aro respon sible for my oscape from prison*?’ lie declares that lie bad no accomplices in tlio fort or olso- wliuro, except Ids wlfo and nephew. Tho marshal dencriboa how ho eluded tlio surveil- anoo of his Jailor, and in conclusion aays: ‘•Resenting tho humiliating prison regula tions, I folt justified in an attempt to rocovor my liberty. As I was not tried by my peers my aeutonco was illegal.”' Tho Mark Lano Express, London, in Us wookly roviow of broadstuffs market, lias the following. Bad weather lias prevailed throughout tlio past wook, but o.ir farmers liAvo kopt a sharp look out, and liavo secured their crop. There am no reports of spront- i.» H , though muni, who*I, u»M nackod in uoor condition in consnquonoo of high winds and low temperature. Tlio samo weather lias ruled on tlio continent. This will bring good samples to tlio front, id in tlio vain stock. There is lit tin clJfferon o in prices since last roport, although Ibo tondonoy is down ward. Franco is sending ba k hero cargoes shipped tlionco. Tho crops hero and in Franco are mostly sccurod, and ilio dopondonco of both countries on foreigners is materially los- aoned. Tlio lastost estimates put our crop at 7 per oentum below tho average. MISCELLANEOUS. A Washington dispatch states that Secretary Fish doclaros that tho story of the proposed cession of Porto Rico to Gannany is without foundation, and that tho alleged dispatches aro forgorios. Sixteen million dollars aro invented in silk factories in this country, employing 10,- 061 oporativos. Tnero is a whrlukago of 25 to 35 per cent, this year from tho amount of raw silks produced last year. John D. Miles, the Indian agent of tho Cheyennes, whose resignation is demand ed by tlio (Quaker commisionors because ho called for troops, says iie did no moro than any good citizen calling for tho police against burglars and murdorors. Tlio Freeman's Journal makes iho oh- sortion that Admiral Polo, lato Spanish mirim- tor to Washington, was recalled boecauso ho refused to sanction tho transfer of Porto Rico Island to Germany, in return for help to put down tlio carlist insurrection and tho rebellion in Cuba. Tho Journal publishes tho docu ments, and says Admiral Poio will not say thcro is ono word mistranslated. Up to lost week tho amount of cir culation withdrawn by national banks by de positors of legal tenders, is greater than tho amount issuod sinco tho passage of tho now law bv about ©1,000,000, thus working a con traction of currency to that extent. A major ity of tho banks thus withdrawing their circu lation aro located In tho south and west. The Vesper Hell. To tho traveler in South America, tho Btriking of tho vesper bell exercises a potent charm. As the usage requires every one to halt, no matter where he may be, at tho lirst 'stroke of tho boll, to interrupt his conversation, no matter how important, and listen without stir ring to the conclusion of the chime, the singularity of a whole population sur prized in a moment as it comeH and goes, held in a state of petrification, and paralyzed as if by an encounter, may be imagined. On every sido you see gestures interrupted, mouths iialf open for tho arrested remarks, smiles lingering or passing into an expression of prayer. You would fancy them a na tion of statues. A town in South America, at tho Angelas, resembles the city in the “Arabian Nights,” whose in habitants wero turned into stones. The magician here is tho bell ringer. But hardly has the vibration censed when a universal murmur arises from these thousands of oppressed lungs. Hand meets hand, questions seek answer, con versations resume their course; horses feel the loosened bridle, and paw the ground; dogs bark, and babies cry; the mothers chatter. The accidental turns thus given to conversation arc many. Grd. Morin has just exhibited before the French academy, a bottle contain ing eight kilogrammes of osmium, the most poisonous metal known. “ This is enough,” he exclaimed, “ to poison the universe” as one millogramme of osmi um, diffused thrugh one hundred cubic metres of air, renders it irrespirable.” Wo really feel very uncomfortable, and should like to know what the general intends doing with that bottle. Ti ara that trickle down tier eye*, They do not fall to earth and dry; They near like au K elH to ttie *kt«-H, And like the angel* cauiu t die. For oh ! our immortality Flowa through each tear, Bounds In each nigh. fail— Of all— Tho tears our eye* Blind never know And deeper titan the teara that How. Kaeh night, upmi earth's (lower* boh And every night our tear#' of wj/* To keep’hi gloom and make moro fni THE GOBLIN ItKCOltD. While Man, as well tho lettered i lettered, is attracted by rayst the educated ono ridicules tho extrava gance and the unchecked wildness of the ignorant brother in his persistent chase after phantoms, he must confess that tho same ghost is playing wanton with his own senses. I have often boon induood to investi gate delusions, although convinced that f whs hunting a shadow, if not a silly olioat. To dissipate all ideas in one’s mind of goblins, haunted houses, and weird noises has required more philos ophy than has yet boon accepted. Aud so wo must admit that if there is not clovoruess in a mystery there is that in it which fascinates in spite of n better judgment, and carries tho of polioi be yond tho control of reason, while they listen with eager ears and excited brains. Tarrying at a friend’s house, I was informed that there was an unoccupied dwollingiu tho neighborhood frequented by unseen spirits. It interested me, and I shortly discovered that his sister was anxious and oven willing to visit, it. I offered myself as an escort and pro tector, and was accepted. Tho ' milling was called tho Rod wood munition, for merly tho property of an old, arlsto- oratio family of the district. Thu lost inmates woro two elderly ladies, sisters of tho Redwood lineage. For years they had utterly refused communication wit.ii the world, and woro charitably rated ns eccentric. Their wants were supplied by a slave of tho butoiler, who potsed, nt. regular hours, all tho uocosHiirica of life through tho gato of tho yard, and at each time found the money and other orders. They hud bet n allowed their unsocial whims through tho indulgence of a kind eo lu ll} unity and the esprit do corps of the Redwoods until dread oircumstnnocs broko tho living olttiin. Tho rector of the parish, while passing ono morning, was attracted by moans from tho som ber house, and forcing an ontranco found tho oldest sister in dying ugonies and the other hurriedly pacing the apartment in a state of frenzy. The result was death of the olio and the re moval of the other by distant relatives. Such was tho history given to me by Miss E. Sho added : “I liavo such a strnngo desire to visit this mansion, however foolish it may bo.” The dwolling was large, and in its glory must, have boon as famous for its grandeur us it was popular for its enter tainments when Oof. Redwood with his princely welcome was its oourt lord. Now tho walls chimneys fallen, the and its aspect dnsolnti slightest troraor in tin pauion as wo pushed into its silencc- Tho mold of neglect, tho bat, tho spi der in her magnificent festoons, tattered window-hangings, and general decay surrounded us. Wo could almost, im agine tho gibbering of uneasy spirits at, our bold intrusion as wo passed from room to room. Yet tho stillness of a charnel house only prevailed. “I have heard," whispered Miss E., “that there is an old desk, or cabinet, which has never been removed. It would bo so novel and romantic to find it and search for relics, perhaps treas ure.” But no room contained it. “ Tho attic !” she exclaimed. “ Dare you go up and oxploro?” “If you do not wish to accompany me anil liavo the courage to remain alone,” was tho reply. “ Oh, then, go! But ” her voice trembled. “Yes! go quickly and talk to me constantly. I will not go tip, but I must know about it.” I ascended the creaking flight and had informed Miss E. that 1 was busy at tho discovered drawers, when a scream from below startled me, into nervousness. It was from Miss E., and instantly I was at her side. “ I have lmd such a fright!” sho said, while the soft rose-like hue which danced in her cheeks gave way to ex treme pallor. “ An apna—” “ Hush !” she whispered, with a fin ger to her mouth. “ I know I am fool ish, but I distinctly heard—thcro! Did you not hear that ?—there !” It was even so! I heard footsteps ! “Keep your courage,” I replied. Tho noise of steps grew more distinct, and a fair head 1 ell heavily on my shoulder. Sometimes it happens that a bright, courageous idea takes the place of wan ing hope and fearful uncertainty, acting as a pendulum to the giddy brain anti the shattered nerve. Such relief eame to my rescue, rendered as I was, hors do combat, and Miss E. to support. Angry as I was, from the forco of cir cumstances, I laughed ! Looking up wildly, then inquisitively, Miss E. sprung from me, exclaiming : “ What is it then ? I was frightened, and you are crnel to make light of it !” A dileraina I certainly was in. Ap pearances were against me, but my heart was not hard. I had laughed from thorough exasperation, for I was helpless. Could I have floated away cracked, tho ndows broken, I detected the of my com, with my charge l could then re turn and defy all.tho imps aud goblins over exorcised, and toptuo tho wretched, moldy, ghostly old shell into utter ruins. It was at this crisis that a large, wooly bond, with protruding eyes, a display of ivory, and a breadth of lip, appeared at, tho door. "You black scoundrel!” I yellod. " do you know how you have frightened Mi s E. ?” “ i lorry, mass a ! 1’so right sorry.” “ Never mind, Sam,” interrupted MIbb E., “ my wits have returned. I am sp glad it is you.” It was her favoritoser vant. Wo were to hasten back to nooompauy a party to Anemone vale, a beautiful spot beyond the town limits. I wasuot sorry : neither did Mis* E. rogrot iho ohnugo, nor tho nssuranoo that the gob lins of tho Redwood mansion wero not now likely to molest, us. “But did you find anything?” sho engorly asked. “ Wait and see !’’ was juy answer. The breeze was fresh in Ameuono Yale, lovely in its oarpiit of tho soft flower which gave it its name. “ There is a tint of mustiucsB about it, and nn ancient look," remarked my friend, as he unrolled a mnmisaript 1 handed him. “ Well, thcro might bo,” ropliod his sister. “ It is snatched from the haunts of goblina—but let ns hoar it! ” A piece of paper fluttered to tho ground, ns tho pages wore unrolled. It read : “November 10, 1870. Will this sheet ever mold V It is pleasant to hope that it may bo rood when tho writor is incorporated with mold. Read my story and loam to guard tho heart and control tho passions, R. H." Heating oursolvcB upon a bank of wild flowers t he mauusoript was begun. “ An eye fot nu eye. A tooth for a tooth—Holy. I am an'invalid, waiting for life's thread to snap, Tho present is a mixture of hope, memory, the futnro, and rnnlity. Hopo results in disappointment; tlio futnro is vogtio, while reality is fruition. Imagination is false, for it garnishos barren bills with verdure ; transforms a face of ugli ness to one of beauty ; makes a miserly relative a generous donor; pictures yourself more perfect than the whir pars of conscience, and onuses the honeful heart sadness. I will not deal with it. Wlmt T write is reality. Failing health pushed mo into travel. It is hard to iiid adieu to tho old gables and the arched gatowny, in doubt that one may see them again, not from ago, not from the necessity of a long absence, but from tho curtain ty that you are chased their heads but mutter hope. “ I had boon upon the road several days In fore anything of interest aroused me from my depression. Panning a dwelling, whoso neat appearance at tracted my attention, the notes of a peculiarly plaintive song attracted mo. I first ruined my horse and then, dis mounting, I. followed a winding walk, adorned on either sido with simple flower.*, to tho open door. I had been noticed and was mot by a young man who cordially bade mo enter. “ * Wo were singing a song T learned at sea, of which my sister is quito fond, but wo shall bo glad for ail interrup tion.’ It was the introduction of an import sequence, and tho story which “Frank Luveudor, tho father of my host and narrator, became, in tho early years of his marriage, entangled in wild dissipation with a neighbor’s son, Dick Thoi eoklo until the murder of a wealthy pinntor in tho township made their flight nec essary, and lioithor hnd over returned. The exertions of justice proved futile, and with the lapse of years the suppo sition gathered strength that by Homo other means retribution had come upon the fugitives,” My friend, who had boon reading tho manuscript, exclaimed: “I well re member, my grandfather onco related this very tale to me. His description of Lavender was that of a very hand some man, of fine figure and of a pro- possessing air. f cannot recull the de tails, but tho son and daughter here spoken of wero very fortunate in in heriting a largo estate quite strangely. My old sire made u moral, and, while upon his knee and staring into his wrinkles, I was warned from evil com pany and tho haunt s of tho enemy.” Tho manuscript was resumed : “There is no silver in my locks— and never will be. Tlio worm lias his mortgage upon thorn and ho is already uftor a foreclosure. Recorded pharma- eopenia 1ms uot sufficient knowledge to deter the grim bearer of tho hour-glass. Ho knows it, and so do I. For months L have been absent from the gables. I have returned, patched up merely. (fa id faciendum ?” A f this point the manuscript had evi dently been laid away, for tlio remain der was traced in a different ink and by a feebler hand. It opens again with the sumo quaint pinipgs. “Lifohas queer findings. Tho ono who interests you to-day is gone to morrow an i forever, while the partner of an old life-game turns up suddenly to confront you with tedious memories ofteuor that with agreeable recollec tions. Earnest yoarnings nre rarely re alized, hut they have been onco with me. The candor of ray host, Lavender, and his sad experience created nn in terest and a sympathy which was, yenrs later, revived intensely. I was again compelled to seek the north, and had fixed a temporary abode in one of tlio pleasant villages in an eastern state. Among tho few acquaintances I formed was that, of an eminent judge, who wuf> at that time presiding at the trial of a wretch committed for arson and mur der. IIo was particularly noticeable, commanding in person—a deep, rich voice, a fine dark eye, and hair sprinkled with silver. He lived in elegant style, as I can nttest, at his place called Man- rove Hull, without a wife, and child less. Hla card read, Poinset Telfair. “ At thef* breakfast table, tho last day of the exciting trial, I was agreeably surprised to recognizo my old friend Lavender. Ho had just arrived in quest of a tarrying place for the season. Cir cumstances at once determined him to remain with mo. The pending case at the court-house, in which I hnd become much interested, was tho topic ot dis course, und Lavender was induced to be present with me at its conclusion. “ Aa wo seated ourselves among tho ngor spectators, Judgo Telfair passed in with elastic stop, an air df calm dig nity, admirable in ripe manhood. Lav- ader whispered enthusiastically—wlint lord !’ “The oftso was given to tho jurors aud they had returned, giving ns their rordiofc* mnrder in the Aval degree I Tho prisoner will stand I” said the judgo. 'It is a solemn charge, tho sentonpo of death! None should re- ooivo it but. tho atrociously guilty. Just, and righteous laws have been enacted to prevont convicted felons oven from iuequitablo decisions. Tho boRollt of these laws has boon your olaim and privilege. Weary days* have boon oon- snmodli\ Jihict unwoloomo duty of find ing you beyond tho mercy of man, and now it is incumbent upon mo to make this iludiug foarfully exacting. Boforo T pronounce tho dread seutenoo, lot mo urge your most serious attoution to the awful fate that awaits you and for wlmt crime? In tho dead of night, whou iu- uoconoo sleeps and nouo bub tho plot ter of evil seeks work, you (ntorud a harmless household and sent nn un suspecting soul swiftly to tho judg ment, applying tho torch to cover tho horrid deed. You aro soon to stand bo foro au offended Deity, with stains of blood so tloej) that none but Almighty God can wash them out. Lot your time bo improved in rooonoillation with that being you have so desperately mocked 1’ “An awful stillness shut down upon that oiowdod room. Yet upon tlio faoo of tho prisoner was a villainous eueor, and struggling in his eyes woro tho blackest passions I ovor saw (lushed upon man. His tooth woro firmly set and bin hands gripod tho rails no hard that his very nails wero dark with his huso blood. “ * But the Hontpuco 1 “ ‘You, Philip Wing, will ho tnkon to tho prison, and ou Friday tho seventh day of September, between tho hours of eight and twelve, will bo hung by the nook until you aro dead, and may God have moroy on your soul 1’ “'And may He condemn yours!' screamed tho wretch, pointing his fin ger directly at tho judgo. 'Ay, yours, Frank Lavondor 1 Do you remember Dick Perry, now? Ha! 1ml a mur lor- or for a judge 1’ “Through the ugh tho athletic frame of tho judge a violent tremor was disceruablo. Fulling heavily ovor in hiH volvot olmir, his arm hung listlessly, and Ins face grew black. 'At last!’ he gasped, while a purple stream gushed from nostril and mouth. " * Gone first I’ again yellod tho pris- oner^Htill nt mitring wjlh outstrofohotj features. ‘And dead first. * Hu I ha !' “ Beside tho dead judgo there was another carried from that room insen sible. It was tho son, tho inheritor of the judge’s wealth and of Mangrove hall I” Shadows w< re oroeping down Anom- ono vale ns my frinnu finished tho man uscript. “ I have no doubt R. S. is tho nuolo of tho weird sisters of tho Redwood mansion,” ho added. Thcro is a dilap idated headstonn in Jt. John’s 'oilmen- yard hearing this inscription : “Rich ard Htaploy, obit Ootobor 10,1701, while recruiting his health at Ht. Thomas, Wost indies, ictat thirty-eight years.” Why Iho South Failed. In his address at tho lato commence- mont of tho University of Georgia, Gen. John B. Gordon incidentally made tho following allusion to tho war, and the failure of tho southern oauso. Ho said : “Aud just hero I am tempted to break tho throad of my argumont to make a remark which I think ought to bo made in this connection. If. is this : That their civilization and those institu tions, whatever may ho said of their evils, woro also tho sources from which sprung the matchless prowess und self- sacrifice exhibited by tho south in tho Into war. And as I have introduced this subject, lot mo add also that I meuti no mimic rogrot whon I deplore the efforts to jib co tho responsibility of our failure at tho door of this or flint man, or upon this or that oauso. Tho truth i u , wo liavo failed boeauHO it impossible to succeed; and if, with all tho experience of both sides, wo had the war to fight over agniu, wo should accomplish no more; nor has any other race, undor like circumstances, over complishod mo muoh iu the past, can ever accomplish so much in tlio fu ture. What is it yjii ought to have done that was loft undone? You did all that human hands could accomplish, hitman intellect suggest, human skill devise, or human hearts endure. And you yielded at last only to overwhelm ing calamities, to crushing impossibili ties, to tho decrees of a destiny as in exorable as death—-to resist wliicli you •brought public and private economy, public aud private dovotedness and unitedness,skill, intellect, courage, will, energy, sacrifices, prayers, churches, states, manhood und womanhood; en during suffering, struggling with a faith, a heroism and martial spirit un exampled in history and lustrous in de feat. Custer’s Gold Discoveries. It is possible that tho roport of gold discoveries by Gen. Ouster’s commnnd may presently stimulate a new gold fe ver among tho adventurous classes of tho west. They need to bear in mind two or threo tilings. First of all, as Mr. Greoloy used to put it, statistics demonstrate that, on tho average, more money has boon made in proportion to those engaged in tho work by men dig ging potatoes than by men digging gold. Then the country is covered by Indian olaims, and although these aro not likely to stand against a determined invasion of gold diggers, they arc pret ty certain to ho wiped out only in a good deal of blood. Old gold minors have less faith now iu surface diggings, aud it must bo remembered that only surfaco diggings will bo possible in the new region for some time to come. And, finally, it is fortunate that the now Eldorado appears to bo attractive for other reasons than because of its gold. If the emigrants will only take plows as well as picks, the country will bo tho bettor off for their movement.— Nev) York Tribune. SAM HOUSTON. ■ 11(1 ItCHlRIKUl vninomlilii of ‘ hui Tho truo story of Sara Houston's res ignation of the governorship of Tonnes soo, and his joining tho Ohorokoo Indi ans in Arkansas, 1ms uover yet boon published, and when I hoard it a fow days since from tho lips of a gray-lmirod resident of Nashville who hnd boon the warm personal friend of tho boro of Sau Jacinto, I made a mental note of it for tho benefit of tho Times readers. You boo,” said tho old gontlomnu roforrod to, "Houston and I woro om ployod iu a store together at Kingston, East Tennessee, whon wo woro boys. That was about 1812. Tho next year ho enlisted ns a privato in tho army and murohed oft to tho Crook war. IIo was soon made an onsign, aud was the first, to scale tho works at. tho battle of tho Horse-t hoe, when ho was shot twice in tho right arm. Ho oamo homo and Anally got well, and was appointed sub-agent to tho Cherokee Indians, but ho soon got into a quarrel with Calhoun, then secretary of war, and was removed. Thou ho oamo to Nashvillo in 1818, Ho bognn to study law with Judgo Trlmblo, and in Hix months' time was admitted to tlio bar. At tho first session of tho legisla ture after ho was olootod attorney gen eral of tho stato, over Frauds B. Fogg, who was ono of tho most, prominent and HOholarly law.s ers iu tho stato. " Ho was thou snnt to oongroas, wlioro ho vrim a warm Jackson man; and whilo thoro ho hod a difficulty with John T. Irwin, and whon they both oamo back to Nashville Irwin challenged him, send ing his challenge by a noted desperado of St. Louis who had killod several men. Ho was not considered a gentle man, and Houstou wouldn’t ;tnlco n ohnllougo through him. Gou. White hoard this aud made some remarks about Houston, which led to a duel be tween Houston aud Whito, iu wliioh Whito was seriously wouudod. "This addod to tho popularity of Houston, and ho was olootod governor of tho stato in 1827. Ho had suooodcd Governor Oarroll, who was a very popu lar man, and who was spokou of prom inently as a candidate for ro-oleotion. Houston was afraid of him, and iu or der to somiro his own ro-elcotion to con gress in oaso Oarroll boat hi in for gover nor, began, to strengthen himself polit ically, niul in order to carry out this sobomo married, in January, 1829, a lady belonging to a vory influential family at Gallatin, thirty miles north of Nashville. Sho was a vory liund- somo, brilliant yimug lady, and at tracted groat attention whorevor sho went, which exasperated Houston, who was of a morose, jealous disposition. I used to seo him frequently aud know that ho hud married puioly through pcdilioul reasons, and soon saw that his domestic life was an unhappy ono. " Ono Saturday iu April I met him nt a big burboouo just west of tho city, wlioro ho and Carroll botli made speeches. I saw that tho fooling of that crowd was all in his favor, and told him so, which caused him to bo iu tho very best of spirits, and whilo in that mood wo separated. Monday morning I called at tlio Nashville inn, whero ho and his wifo hnd boon boarding sinco thoir marriage, but I was refused ad mittance to his room. I persisted, however, and was finally urimittod by Shelby. I found Houston lying on tho hod with his faoo covered up, and, in answer to my astonished inquiries, Dr. Sholby told me that Mrs. Houston’s fathor had oomo down from Gallntin for her tho day boforo, nud that sho lmd loft her husband and returned to tho homo of her childhood. " Said I, "General what’s this I hoar?” " Said ho, ‘I’m a ruined man ; I'm ruined man 1” " I told him ho owed it to his friondu to give some explanation for his ooiuluot, and asked him why ho aud his wifo sep arated, to wliioh ho replied that ho hadn’t a word to say against his wifo— that bIio was a high-minded, virtuous lady. “Ho then said that ho alouo was to blamo ; that ho had decided to oxilo himself among the Ohorokoo Indians, and that ho wanted mo to enrry liis res ignation as governor to tho soorotury of stato. This 1 emphatically refused to do, at first, but nt his earnest solicita tion and that of Dr. Shelby, I finally consented. “ Tho next morning, Houston, Sholby and I went aboard a steamboat, Hous ton being disguised so chat no ono ro cognized him. Wo bado him good-bye, and ho wont down tho Cumberland. Ho told mo aftorward that lie got ns far at Napoleon, Ark., without being recog nized, and in that case, ho hogged tho man to say nothing about mooting him. He wont on to Fort Smith, wlioro ho joinod a Ohorokoo by tho name of Jul ly, whom ho had boon familiar with while iio was agent for tho tribe, assumed tho Indian dress, painted his face, and could not ho distinguished from thorn. “A fow years afterward lie passed through Nashville, with a delegation of Indians, on his way to Washington. I recognized him, but wouldn’t speak to him. Tho fact is, his friends here con sidered ho hod disgraced them, and wore disgusted 'with him. While in Nashville ho wont with his dolcgation and called on Gen. Jackson at tho Her- mitage.” “Aud how did Jackson treat him ?” I asked. “I don’t know, but I suppose he treated him all right, as they Jmd been great friends. Aftor reaching Washing ton, I know ho whipped a member of congress by the name of Stansberry for saying something disrespectful of Jook- “ After-this, wo heard nothing more of Houston until just boforo tho Mexi can war, when wo heard that ho hod gone to San Augustine to practice law. You know his connection with tho Mex ican war, probably, as well as I do.” “ Ho married again, I believe ?” “ Yes. His wifo got u divorce, and he married a Mobile lady, and sho made a man of him. They visited Nashville together, and J. went with them to seo Jackson at tho Hermitage, twelve miles from tho city. His first wifo married again, oud is now living near Nashville, unless sho lias died recently.-Nash ville Cor, Chicago Times. ages MAYINGS AND DOINGS. oNTBMroiunY dofinos tho waltz as fgiug set to inusio.” Tlio defini tion is now, if the idea is not. Man, says a moralist, is a pendulum liotweon a smilo and a tear—with a strong loaniug for “smiles.” Ool* Eokhton, in tho house of Com mons, said philanthropy is so energetic that “it requires a good deal of inllu- ouoo nowadays to get lmugod.” * Is them tho common dog sasHago ?” inquirod a vonertiblo looking lady, oh sho surveyed a bunch of bananas ovor her Bpootaolos tho other day. Indianapolis women nro relating lit- tle rominiHoonoos of how tlioy used to romp with lloury Ward Booaher. “But, sir,” tlioy add, “ I was vory young!" Great efforts are boing made to in duce Liszt to visit this country. Ouo manager offered him l,00(),000f. for ouo season, but tho Abbate politely declined. A German at Terra Haute, Ind., sold last year, 1(1,000 pounds of grapoB raised on hind, which, tlio samo season, would not lmvo produood 00 busliols of corn. I shall awaken in lioavou,” wroto a Boston girl boforo taking arsouio. But she took too muoh for a death doso, and awoko with a Btomaoh-pump down her throat.” going—I know I am,” said a dying Mississippiau, “and I boliave I’d go easier if Jim would got down the fiddle and play 'Sore bool Salloy’ onoo moro.” Jim did. A Western postmaster writes to tho postmaster-general “that hell will bo full of country postmasters li.'foro long if they do not gotmoro pay than is nl- lowod this oftloo.” An account of a fire in England fur- nishoH a valuablo hint to voluntcor lire departments. “Tho London Scottish as tho first regiment ou tlio alert, liav- g no trousers to put on, aud tho fire us soon extinguished.” Batitino cloaks, which aro to bo put i dry whon loaviug tho water, and worn across tho boaoh to conceal tho moist figure, aro made of Turkish towel ing, trimmed with oriental braiding, and out loose and vory long. California is trying tho oxporiment inpulBory education. Between the of eight and fourteen children must attend some school at least two- thirds of tho school yoar. A fow ox- oeptions aro mado in spooial oiroum- staucoB. Tub whole police foroo of Jefferson, Texas, were recently nrrainged boforo tho Mayor of that thriving city on tho charge of vagrancy. Tlio charges woro preferrod by tho families of the polioo- mon on tho ground that tlio oftloors had no visiblo means of support, ns they had roooivod but $12 from the oity iu tho last five months. Our Treasures.— Nothing Ih our own; wo’hold our nloosuroa Just a liUln while, oro tlioy aro Hod ; Ono hy ouo lifo rolm uh of our troiurarot; Nothing Is our own oxoopt our (load. Tlioy aro ours, and hold iu faithful hooping. Hafo forovor, all tlioy took away. Tool life can novor nth- Hint nlonping, Oruol timo can novor hoIzo that proy. The hose at Kissingon, occupied hy Iron” Prince, ns tho German stylo him now, is distinguished y seven bombs’ wliioh it reoeived from the Prussians in 1800, and which wore loft immured iu it. A poasaut of tho environs, to whom tho Prince, incog nito, showed tho proper way of mowing moadows, has, since tho thing got abroad, refused largo sums offered for tho sytho wliioh tho Ohauoollor exem plified his praotioal knowledge of farm- iug. The Niairr olerk of a Burlington ho tel was startled about 11 o’clock the other night by tho following conversa tion, nt a time whon ho supposed he was alone in tho office: “Oomo along, yon hoodlum, lot’s go up Btnirs." "Go nothin’,” was the gruff roj ly, "lot’s wait till the midnignt train comes in ; thero’s nothing you can got bloed out of in tho house now.” And tho nrarizod and horrified olerk could soo nobody in tho room oxoopt two old gray mosqui toes, dozing on a Saratoga trunk. The Best Things.—• * Tho Hweotont songs aro Uioho That fow mon ovor hear And no mou ovor sing. Tho clonrost sides aro Uioho That farthest off appear To birds of.strongoBt wing. Tlio doaront loves aro those That no man can oomo noar With ills bent following. Here, now, is a bit of fresoeing that is quite fresh. A uegro woman living near Carlisle, Kentucky, for tho last forty years—Jano Young, black as the ace of spades—began about four years ago to ohuugo color, and gradually grow whito, until sho bleached out to a tolerably fair oomplexiou. Within a fow weeks past hor original blaok color commenced return, showing itself in jet black spots at different places on her faoo. Mon who understand about out- iclo nro looking over the old lady’s fea tures to seo what they can make out of it. The Columbus Enquirer, haviug com pleted its inquiry into tho state of local social science, presents tho 'ollowing report, which is as vividly drawn as ono of Doro’s pictures: "A sorry sight it is to soo a spike team, consisting of a skeleton steer and a skinny, blind mule, with a rope harness, und a squint-eyed driver, huuling a barrel of now whiskey over poor ronds, on a hermaphrodite wagon, into a farming district whero the people are in debt, and the children forced to praotice scant attire by day and hungry sleeping by night.” It may seem strange, bnt it is never theless true, that alcohol, regularly ap plied to a thrifty farmer’s stomach, will removo tlio boards from his fence, let cattle into his crops, kill his fruit trees, mortgage his farm, and sow his fields with wild oats and thistles, fit will take the paint off his buildings, break the glass out of the windows, and fill them with rags. It will take the gloss from his clothes and polish from his manners, subdue his reason, arouse his passions, bring sorrow and disgrace upon his family, and topple him into a drunkard’s grave. It will do this to tho artisan and tho oapitalist, the matron and the maidon, as woll as to the farmer; for its in deadly enmity to the human r&oe, acohol is no respeoter of persons, papers f by sever