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T'olume 2. POETBY. LITTLE ROSE. sho comes with fairy footsteps— , Softly their echoes fall— And her shadow plays like summer shade A cross the garden well. The golden light is dancing bright , ’Mid the mazes of her hair. And her fair young locks waiving free To the wooing of the Air. rtf Like a sportful fawn she boundelh So gleefully along; Asa wild young bird-she caroloth The burden of a song,,: The summer flowers are clustering thick Around her dancing feet, And on her cheeks the summer breeze Is breathing Soft arid sweet. The sunbeams seem to linger Above the holy head, And the "did flowers at her coining Their richest fragrance shed. ,AadOh ! how lovely light and fragrance Mingle m the life within; Oh I how fondly do they nestle Sound the soul that knows no sin. fene c'cmes— the spirit of onr childhood— A thing of mortal birth. Yet bearing still the breath of Heavon, i To redtjep her from earth. She cornea ip bright-robed innocence, . Unpo'icd.by blot or blight, And passeth, by our waytpard path) A gleam of angel light, r i • •’t i, j • Oh i blessed things aye children— The gifts of heavenly love ; They stand betwixt our world-hearts And better things abov^; They link us With.the, spirit world I3y purity and truth, And keep our hearts still fresh and young With the presence of the youth. — Blackwood's Magazine. I- MISCELLANY. r r— t-'-r -■■■ r ROGUES AND BEASTS. ■From Gen. D. H. Hill’s Southern Home.] ■ Grant made his brother-in law, a low jfellow, United States Minister to Copen hagen. The Danes socn found out that Sic American representative was a ruffian ■ml expressed their disgust at his co3rse ■ess anil bo Irish uess. Grant sent Sick les as United States Minister to Spain— a drunken debauchee and gambler, who lived with his adulterous wife after he Bad slain her paramour. lie. sent Gen. Behenck as Minister to England, and Jichenck used his offioial position to in lluce the English people to take stock in Ifae bogus Emma mine. Schenck has seen recalled by request of the British ■government, and is now on his way pome a detected felon. Grant made Bel knap Secretary of War, and his crony lias been exposed in selling places for money, has resigned and has been im peached. The ‘•Confederate House” is Investigating, with remorseless cruelty, the Attorney General, the Postmaster Sreneral and the Secretary of the Navy. Il'hese three rogues will eventually be Inn veiled and disgraced. Columbus De lano, the late Commissioner ot Internal Revenue, stepped oat of office through Grant’s connivance, in time to escape the penitentiary. So did Attorney General Williams the general Ku Klux hunter. I lint though Williams escaped the striped [jacket,he bears the stigma ot a nickname, uud will be known in history as “Lau daulet" Williams because he paid for his wife’s landaulet with government mouey. Time would tail us to speak ol Grant’s boon companion, Jim Fisk, the royster ing rogue who with Grant’s aid, ruined so many hundreds of “Black Friday.” Mrs. Ulysses made $6,000 by the wicked operation, though many were beggared and some driven into madness and sui cide. Jim and Uiysses fell out alter this partnership job aud Jiin always spoke Of him subsequently as the “national hog 1” Nor can we speak of Graiit e crony, Jay Gould, the sharper aud swind ler, whom he ulads government ftgent abroad after he (Gould) waS a Stench in the nostrils of the American peoole. We must pass tightly .over Other com panions of Ulysses j Boss Shepherd, the most shameful thief of the age ; confis dential Secretary Babcock, whom Grant Baved from the penitentiary by the whole power of the Executive exerted in his favor; Gen. HbWaid-„the pious philan thropist, who robbed poor negroes; Credit Mobilier Congressmen ; the offi cial rogues of the whisky ring, of Seneca atone contracts, of Pacific mail subsidies, &c., &c. If ulaety-nine out of a hun dred of Grant’s.appointees were sentenced to the penitentiary for life, more injustice would be done in the case of the hun dredth man than of the ninety and nine. So much tor the rogues. Now let us look at the beasts. Bishop Haven is prooably the most influential man in the most powerful denomination in the loyal North. He is a chronic and irre prtssible liar, and an outspoken advocate of miscegenation, Rev. U. B. Foi thing ham is another popular preacher among the loyalists and draws vast crowds of cultivated people to hear hitn. He teaches that prayer is vanity and folly, and that an inflexible God cannot be tnived by it. He is the same fellow who, assisted by Beecher, married the dyiug adulterer Richardson to his victim Mrs. McFarland. He himself then ut tered a prayer and thanked God lor what the two criminals had been to each oth er. He prayed too that a God ot infinite purity might enable these wretches ‘to realize how much they had been to each other.” Rev. Professor Swing has been preaching the old heathen mythology in Ohicargo. Prolessor Hopkins ot the Presbyterian Theological College, at Auburn, N. Y., teaches the candidates tor the ministry that Christ has abolish ed the Sabbath. ltev. Mr. Kalioch was driven out ot Massachusetts lor beastiai and unnatural crimes. He is a popula preach 3r now in Kansas, and was a Grant elector in 1872. What minister ou this continent has received so much flattery and admiration as has the beastly CONYERS, GEORGIA: THURSDAY, MARCH 33, 1876. Beecher? But if the testimony of more than a dozen of his most intimate friends and confidents can be believed, he is a promiscuous adulterer, a treacherous sneak, a foul slanderer of his benefactors, n black-hearted purjurer and a Heaven defying blasphemer. Certain it is, that he has done more than any man now liv ing to soil the Christian character and to pervert the great truths of the Gospel. Three religious papers, redolent with royalty and draped in mourning tor Southern sins, have had a vast circulation among the loyal masses of the North, and have exerted a mighty influence up on them. The publisher of one of these papers, Oliver Johnson, is, as it appeared in evidence on the .Beecher trial, an infi del of the humanitarian school and a dis believer in Christianity. He wrqte .to. Henl’T C. Bowen that it was impossible to portray in tho black colors the charac ter of Beecher, and yet lie: employed this Beecher as the editor of his paper, and espoused his cause in the famous adul tery trial. The editor of the second religions paper is the same Bowen. He seems to be a miserable cur from bis own Statements; he sat under Beecher’s ministry and received the cup of com munion at his hauds tor years after he knew, as he himself says, that his pastor had debauched many members of his flock. The i bird editor is the notorious Tilton, a free loveh in .the theoiy and practice,who sa uctioned his own wife’s dishonor and then black mailed her se ducer! Beecher wrote .for all three papers; the proprietors and publishets knowing all the tinie’, as they admit themselves, of his habitilhl licentious ness ! . , When the cel bratioii of impure rites was a part of the religion ef the heathen world, we doubt whether there \vas as much beas:iality among them as among ibe religious preachers, teachers and editors, who represent Beebherisin and Grantisin at the royal North. Thirty yeat s ago the abolition party rejected the Bible because its teachings did not accord with their views, and therybv the flood-gates were opened to let in all manner of roguery, blasphemy and uncleanness. A christianized peo ple, who reject the Bible, are necessarily more wicked that a heathen people. The worshippers of Mercury were not as thievish as are the worshippers of Graut ism. The worshippers ot Venus were not as impure as are the worshippers of Ueecherisiu. . BREAKING THE PRESIDENTIAL IDOLS. [Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.] The iconoclast is abroad in Washing ton to-day, breaking Presidential idols, and Bristow is marked as the uext vic tim. Blaine, Morton anl other aspi rants have registered an Oath in hell tliA* Bristow sha’l hot Smile Wlleh all Others are wdeping add gnashing their teeth. Men have beeii set to work to hum up his record before tie was appointed Sec retary of the Treasury. lie was a claim agent lawyer here. It is now alleged that the Secretary ct the Treasury, Mr. BriStow, (lie high toned, moral pressure statesman, the only one lett in the Republican pArty, has been al lowing cotton claims f:r SIBO,OOO, with undue haste. It is further asserted that BristOW gOt out ot this amount, a con tingent fee of $25,000- Bristow’s salary is SB,OOO per year. He drives blooded horses, has liveried servants, and a $2,000 carriage’, and has a china set iu his house imported, which cost $2,000. All this “Republican Simplicity” on SB,OOO a year When the committee on Crooked whisky gets thfbtigti with Bristow, he will not appeal in the role of such an ardent re former, aud will not be so eager to ruin men who are his supporters. I lie facts stated above are In possession of the Sun correspondent, who dare not publish them, because that paper is backing Bris tow tor the Presidency. The facts given above come from a reliable source. THE LOUISIANA SENATOUSIIU*. A report comes to-night that Kellogg has determined to appoint Warmouth t j till the vacancy in the Senate. Pinch back is engaged in this movement, and is determined to give the Republicans all the trouble possible. EFFORT TO DEFEAT iMPEACHMEETI The Republicans in the House are moving by concerted programme td break down the impeachment of Belk nap. Blaine has fully recovered from the shook of last Week; and is exhaustiug his resources in the most desperate attempt to divert public sentiment from Beikriap exposures by dragging in the names ot prominent Democrats: The stories about Headricks, in particular, have been care fully traced up by leading Democrats, and they an sitislied that Blaine was the instigator of them. The feeiing against Blaine is grow ing very bitter among Democrats, and li£ is rapidly acquiring the status formerly occupied by Ben Butler. Men are now at work tracking Blaine, aud, although he has been adroit in covering up bis trail tor the last seven years, there are many things in bis career which will not bear close scrutiny, ’ibis is bound to come, aud it is not iuipossib'e that before the close of ibe a- ssion Blaine will be thoroughly disgraced, if not expelled from Gongress. Particulars can not now be given, but will be forthcoming m good time. It may not have been so, but tfhen tbe poet sang— How doth the busy B’s Improve each shining hour, it is supposed, iroin their industrious babits of rascality, that he referred to Babcock and Belknap. One ungrateful mau does an injury , o all who are wretched TURKISH RULES OF CONVERSATION. Conversation in Europe has beeti de scribed as a difeitn in an opera, in which the two persons engaged in it are ta’k ing to an imaginary third person, each recounting a tale of his own. “I say something and you say something else, and wo will agree to call il a conversa tion.” Now in Turkey there are certain forms or canons of conversation, any vio lation of which is considered an outrage, and the sum of which constitutes their code of politeness as applied to conver sation. I will enumerate these one by one. 1. Never to interrupt the speaker wheil he is talking. However long-winded or uninteresting his conversation may be to you, politeness requires that you should wait for his conclusion. You are not uu der any obligations to enter into conver sation with him at all j but if you do, it is an understood condition pf your con versational treaty that you should let him have his say,. .. , , 2. Never to diverge in the middle pi a conversation, from the main thread of a discourse into a collateral issue. The breach of this rule is considered, by a Turk as unpardonable rudeness. To drive a red herring, as it were, across the scent of conversation is, in his opinion, to oon<- found all thought and render all profita ble conversation impossible. This leads as a corollary. 8. To allow short but Bufticlent pause between the conclusions of a discussion on one subject and the entering on anew subject. 4. Never tell a person a thing he knows already. 5. Not to excuse one’s self when con victed of being in the wrong. How very seldom you hear in Europe, “Yes, I was in the wrong; lam sorry for it.” Bat in Turkey it is considered a violation of principle and and a breach of polite ness to refuse to be convicted ot error. The cailse of this difference lies in the charactei’ cf tlie twro races ; in the ab sence on the part of the Turk of petty vanity and distracting self-esteem. The proudest raec in the tYorid, they are en tirely exenipt from vanity. 6. When you have nothing to say hold your tongue. They never talk for the sake ot talking. Empty, idle jabbering is not an Ottoman practice. In Europe it is considered de riyueur to “say some thing,” whether that something is worth saying or not. Not so in Turkey ;to say something when yon have nothing to say, worth saying is considered there a degr.i dation to yourself and a rudeness to your neighbor. —Pull Mull Gazette. WOMEN WHO ARE EVER YOUNG. [Jennie June in Baltimore American.] Action is the secret of immortality, and how that women are entei'iiig the active fields, they will cease to beoonie old', they will remain young like men. There was a time when women only lived five years from eighteen to twenty, three. Before that they were “chits;” after, they were talked of pityinglv, as “o'd maids.” Mm lied woiAeii were supposed to be on of the wdrld altogether, to have no in terest for any one but their husbands and their children, and with the natural per versity of human nature, when a woman ceases to have an interest for any other person than her husband, she quickly ceases to have an interest for him. The time has gone by when wjomen ceased to be interesting because they had passed girlhood. Womanhood is found to be as much richer, as much finer and more attractive when it is developed and employed as summer tliau spring, or mau hood than boyhood. “This is my last call,” remaiked a flip pant young gentleman to a young lady who was Soon to be married on a recent occasion, “i never call on married wo men or unmarried ladies after they have reached 25.” “You do well, sir,” gravely remarked an elder lady present. “At that age aud after marriage they begin to knew the Value of time aud do uot like to waste it.” Who Stop . td think whether George Elliot (Mrs. L wes) is young or old 1 Who cares for noted women until they are old, or at least until they have passed their youth, for it is their experience and the use to tVHicli they put it which makes lueni worth knowing. A TALL TENNESSEEMAN. There is living in Perry county, Ten riessee, savs the Somerville, Tednessee, Falcon, j'ames Horner, the Tennessee giant. At eighteen ha was a well-grown man,'six feet high and weighed 180 pounds. At twenty-one ho was six inches taller and weighed 210 pounds. Any growth after that Wds not noticed uutil he was twehty-fouf years old, and ihen only by the smallness of Ins clothes, and he then measured iu his stockings six feet nine inches. Since then—he is now thirty-one years of age—he has attained the height of seven feet nine inches, and is still growing, this being an increase of about two inches annual ly. Some years he grows rrfofe and some less, but this is his average. While he ought to weigh at least 300 pounds, he weighs only 233; lie is exclusively lank aud gaw‘<y, and possesses only one quality in a large degree, and that is his ability to walk: He thinks nothing of walking from horde to Linden, the coun ty seat, tWeiVe miles distant, aud back to dinner.' In file last number of the Internation al Review there appears an exceedingly able article on “The Old aud the New South.” It is from tne pen of Mr. John G. Ueed, of Union Point, Ga. Subscribe tor the Register. VICE PRESIDENT BRECKINRIDGE AM) HIS MOTHER. So much that was deserved has been written about tho lato John 0. Brcokin ridge, to whose name even Ins nflix of “Hon ” is superfluous, that there seems little that oan bo added to his immortal name. We venture, however, to give an incident, in the private lile of the statesman, hero, and scholar that, has never been in print. Mr. Breckinridge had a noble mother, one of the true Spar ta.i type, of whom Kontuoky has fur nished many, who m contests where vie torv or dath was involved, in which her •children were honorably engaged, had rather have seen them return upon their shield, 'ban without them. Well, one day, after honors hud clustered tniok and fast upon the brow of tho voung states man, and while lie was Vice-President ot the United States, he went “shopping’ in this city with his mother, ‘or whom he had a reverential love and a profound respect. They went to ties store and to 1 hat. The selection was finally made and wrapped up in a large bundle. With that maternal prerogative exercised in’ his glorious boyhood, she turned to the vice-President, and handing him the arti cles, said, “Here, John, t.ako this Dun die.” The, great man wfio in courtly dignity commanded listening Senates in times of turbulence and storm, with the gentle placidity of a girl took the bundle as di rected, r,(tying, “It is yours to coalman ! ; mine to obey,” Small as the circum stance was, no incident in the eventful life of Mr. Breckinridge more truly i’lus trates his greatness of soul ami mind, or more faithfully reveals the secret of his mighty success, than does this. Boys and youths will do well to bear it in mind, find emulate the example.—Lex ington Dispatch. THE EDGE OF A FEARFUL TRAGEDY. Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle. “Nellie, please state to the court how long you have lived in the house adjoin ing Craze." “Nellie, did you hear any loud noises in Craze's house on the night of thetlgth instant?” ‘‘Nellie, did you hear cries of fire, murder, water and police on tho night in question ?" “Nellie, tell all you know about tile character of Craze’s house." “Nellie, what is your occupation in this city ?” Those questions were sweetly ad dressed (o a fair but frail beauty by law yer Cowie during the trial of John Graze charged with keeping a disorderly house. “it the court please," remarked lawyer Stephens, “I object to Mr. Gowie ad dressing the witness m such a familiar manner. It bears evidence ot something behind it. The sweet, honeyed manner in which Mr. Cowie addresses the wit ness will cAu e lief to swear anything, l'lle fascination of his manner may o’er power lief an 1 contravene the ends of justice. If l were Mr. Gowie s wile 1 would look on the proceedings with sus picion, jealousy and rage." “The devil 1” quoth Gowie, and a sud den paleness overspread his face. “Mr. Stephens," he replied, “I allow no one to criticise my sty le of examining the witness. A careful regard for my lists i should keep you tram indulging in such witty utterances. The lust man who diaphragm 1 punctured lies urihonored and unsung in au outcast's grave. A disci’eet attitude on your part might pie serve you from a similar bad end.” “Let's go and wet up,” replied Ste phens. And they wetted. A , fearful tragedy Was thus aveited. A VERY IMPROPER FRACTION. Quitman Reporter.] We will call him Sammy—he goes to the Quitman academv, and is a boy of good, clear mind on many subjects, but fractions are bis especial aversion. Among other qualifications Sammy pose sesses a nose of large dimensions. Sandford’s class No. 2 is called up and fractions are discussed. “What is an improper fraction ?” “An improper fraction is one whose numerator is equal to, or exceeds its de nominator.” Now Sammy will get fractions mixed up, and tell him as often as you may, nu merator and denominator are all the alike to him. Finally the teacher became tired of telling Sammy the same tiling over and over again. “Look here, Sammy, this thing mutt be '.earned and 1 will give you anew rule —let your nose, be considered the nume. tor; do you undeerstand that?” “Oh, yes, sir.” “Let your mouth be considered the dividing line.” “Yes, sir.” “Then let your chin be eo nsidered the denominator and you will never forget the relative position of numerator add benominStor.” Little Albert, a ten year old of the same class, wbo was paying close atten tion to the teacher's remarks, immediate ly arose aud sad: “That would be an improper fraction, Wouldn’t it Mr.—?” “"This,” said Major Voyer, of Quebec, to a visitor, “is the pistol with which Prot. VarrCau shot himself accidently three years ago, and this is how he did it.” And Major Voyer proceeded to point the pistol just as Prof. VarreaU did, and the pistol proceeded to go oft' acci dentally just as Prof. Varreau’s pistol did, and Major Voyer proceeded' to die just as Prof. Varreiu did. The illustration was too complete. — Snow last Sunday night. HER MAJESTY'S WATCH. It wss manufactured in Paris for Queen Victoria and cost It strikes the hours and quarters. It is as beautiful as it is unique and oostlv. It; waspurpbased however of the maker, and carried to New York instead of Buckingham palace. Thereby hangs a talc. (Messrs. I'iflany it Cos., added a very expensive chain, linked, together with rubies and diamonds, to the witch, and tl\e whole property was bought by Mr. Ilulus Ingalls, then an assistant quartermaster at New York, poor con vivial, and presented to Mrs. Grant. The New York Sun of last Wednesday contains a lac simile of a memorandum .which accompanied the gift- The mem orandum was printed in New York on beautiful white satin. Ingalls had it printed in three colors that lie might se lect the one ho liked the best One of copies that, were not sent to Mrs., Grant is now in the possession of tho Sun. What was the result? Gen. Meigs, an upright ami faithful officer, was then at the head ot the quartermaster's de partment. Not long after Ingalls' costly pledge of friendship had gone to the white house, efforts began to be made to put Gen. Meigs on the shelf. He was finally ordered abroad on a tour of in spectiop, where he is at present, and In. galls was t' ausft rred to Washington and put in his place, which gave hint super vision of the e'lormous conttacts forjanny supplies. Rufus is one of those who are now on ti.e ragged edge o:t account of the investigations ordered by the pres ent “uo-nothing democratic” house of representatives. They propose to know how he has supervised the contracts lor rmy snpp’ies. The Sun compares Grant's acceptance of the watch—for it wan practically giv en to him—with tho course ot President Buchanan. When a lady sent him a pair,of slipners he not only returned them, hut directed the messenger to wait and get a receipt from the giver, so lie might, have in his possession proof that they were sent hack. Customs in the White House have changed {since Raonaiian’s term. They do literally sit at the receipt of customs in that building now-a-days. G E.Y. SHERMAN'S IDEAS. Somebody Las interviewed General Sherman relative to a letter lot General B auregavd, which bore very heavily up on abuses on r/ie part of tho tforihevn leaders in conducting the war. Speak ing ot Smithern commanders ii>f proton, nonce, Sherman said he felt, kindly to ward all of them. At this point (lie bug aboo ot Ji ff Davis rises before the vision of the great Tecurnsoh, and causes him to express himself thus: “I do not know why it is that the Northern people hate him so, but they do, and will never get over their feeling in this respect. Davis did no worse than anybody else, but I suppose the people are houn l to have somebody to bate. For instance, tho Southern people bate General Butler about as bad or worse than the Northerners hate Davis. 1 sup pose the two sections, while determined to cultivate irif-iidly feelings among the people at large, require on which to expend the bate that will una voidably show itself at intervals. , As to tin' warlike charactrist I sof l e North and South, the General gives the following opinion: “Put the Northern anil Southern sol diers together and you have the strong est clement, in a military sense, that could be gotten together for any nation al purpose. As fighters, they would be invincible. The .Southerners are impet uous, and w ill fight quicker and fiercer, but they give out sooner; the Northern ers arc slower, but they stay longer; they have move endurance and tight steadier and more stubbornly. In fighting quali ties tlie South represents Fiance, and the North England. Put the two together and the devil couldn’t whip them. The law of the table is beauty—a res pect to the common soul ot all the guests. Everything is unseasonable which is private to two or three, or any portion of the company. Tact never vi olates for a moment this law ; never in trudes the orders of the house, the vicer of tho absent, ora tarifF of expenses; os professional privaces; as wo say, we never “talk shop” before company. Lovers abstain from caresses, anil ha ters from insults, whilst they sit in one parlor with common friends. Would we eodity the laws that should reign in household; anil whose daily trrrisgressiou annoys and mortifies us, md degrades our household life—wo must learn to adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. —lt alp/l Waldo Emerson. Mas. Belknap. —The unfortunate wif of the ex-Secretary says if she has sinned, others are guilty of double crimes. She further states that her case is of little importance compared with the situation ot the others. The names oi prominent men are threatened as having secured offices for the ir fri ends t 1 rough the influence of their presents and their money. Mrs. Belknap says that astounding facts will be brought to light if the committee are anxious for them, and that she is fat - from deserving the deep condemnation that has been heaped upon her by the public. VVe dare say Mrs. Belknap will have an opportunity of telling all she knows, unless guilty parties club together and make it worth her while to keep mum. Now is the time to subscribe for the Rockdale Reud ier, ISTumluer. 35. CURIOUS NOTIONS ABOUT THE DEAD. Tit a Russian tale a grandmother says to her granddaughter, who is threatened by a fiend : “0(t, dear tne, my poor un happy child ’ Go quickly to the pries', and ask him this tavor-—that if von die, your body sh ill not ho taken ou,t ihrou >h the doorway, hilt that the ground sh t ' be dug away front, the threshold, ! that you shall ho dragged oi!t thfOli the opening." This was originally the common mod i of proceeding among various natipns. Tho thought that, the Spirit rould only return by the name way that it went out ot the house, and in order to prevent its return, they took th. dead through an opening that could he afterwards eh>s, ri "I’’ The Tiski of Alaska always carry their dead out, through a hole at the hack of the hut, and then close up the hole wi'h the greatest care. The Hottentotsbreak un opening through the side of their hut for the same purpose, mid (lie S anvsy, not content with this, having taken the dead body cut, hurry at hill speed round to the other side of the house. Another strange oustopi in Russ : a is this: When a person mi fiefs a very lin gering death, in order to render his departure more easy, they let a black dog by a cord down through tho root over the dying person's head. They regard a black dog art the rml lem ol the human spirit, andithoir action is intond- and to show tile departing spirit w' icli way to go. • The Chinese and tlie North American Indians have also the idea that the Spirit always leaves through the roof, suppps ing that tho life must depart iu the samo way that it came—from above. In ancient Home, a person who had. boon believed to be dead could only bo j permitted to return through tho roof. lln Get many, the general belief is that the soul departs through the window, j When a person dies, the window of tho room is at once thrown open, and some, times a oup of water is plaood on the sill, for the refreshment of the spirit as | it enters upon its “long journey." —"T . W.i't it ! ali.kd.—Col. Lumigan was a Florida planter, wealthy and hospita ble. Toward the poor he was always kind, and even the shilllcss lie would not tgriv coldly away. A man who bad often been tho object of bis bounty was named I Jake Hartruff. Jake was a squatter in the woods, whore lie had a log cabin and !:i Biuntl olvurln/r. Upon thin him} ho I sometimes raised corn, and with his gun lie captured game. Of the game ho ato j flush, arid the skins lie traded for whisky, j Long before the winter was over he was ! sure to be oqt of coin, in which emer gency he would bring hi? bag to tho Colonel for a supply, which ,was general ly furnished. Once upon a tinjo Jack Came with his bag very early in the sea son—in fact, winter had just set in. “Why, how's this, Jake?" demanded Finiiigan. “Seems to me you are rather early in your call for corn/’ “Well, Colonel, fact is my crop failed this yer season.” “Failed ! How is that? I thought this had been au uncommonly good season fur corn." ‘‘Yans; I s'pose it has, Colonel. But y'soe I forgot to plant," * 1 Why Fltun Oit.iNt was Sunt West— No authentic explanation of the sudden and unexpected departure of Col. Fred Grant tor the plains has yet been ob tained, but that there was a very import ant reason will nndoubted'y appear in due time. The fact that all the real es tate operations of the President and the family aie about to be investigated, may have something to do with this hasty de parture of the young man for t he frontier. The investigation of the real estate nool which is now going on will not stop short of some highly important disclosures, and among the things likely to be shown is that Fred, (inint received a large sum of money fiom Boss Shepherd! . which he put into real estate. This is understood to have been ostensibly a gitt by Boss Shepherd, and it is furthermore behoved that it was this kind of an obligation which has attached the President so firm ly to the late Governor of the District of Columbia. THE MINISTER’S WIPE. Uuder tlm head of • “Tho Minister’s Wile,” the London Jlaptist Magazine lids tlie following hit of pleasant satire : “The minister's wife ought to bo se lected by a committee of the church. She should l> warranted never to have fieadaelie, or neuralgia ; she should have nerves of wire and sinews of iron ; sho should never be tired nor sleepy, and should lie everybody's cheerful drudge: she should be cheerful, intellectual, pious and domesticated ; she should be able to keep her husband’s house, darn his stock ings, make his shirts, coqk his dinner, light, his fire, and copy his sermons; sho should keep up the stylo of a lady on the wages of a day laborer, and bo al - ways at leisure for ‘good work, anil ready to roceivo morning calls; .sho should be secretary to tlje Band of Hope, the Dorcas Society, and the Home Mis sion ; site should conduct Bible classes and mothers’ meetings; should mlko clothing for tho poor and gruel for the sick t and finally, she should bo pleased witli everybody and everything, and never desire and reward beyond the satisfaction of having done her own duty and other people’s loo.” “That’s goingjtoo far,” as tho Boston man, said when his wife ran awaw to San Francisco with another man. Mr. John 11. James gives $5,000 an ti' ally to the “-onfot Adsnta,