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i aiAUa* 2« *••*... a Six moat hi, Three monthi... ■viaonm,! bats. __ .Jr....A. It n r Law DceliliM, L Aug potion who Ukoi a paper regular \f poitoflloe— whether direct'd to l* ■•iL another's, or whether he has mb- inM^pVWt^lMeiponiible for the amount, l.Tr a penon order* hli paper diioontinnod be trait p*y ill arrearage!, or the publieher taaw continn* to lead It nntll payment* ii Mde, and oolleet the whole amoon^wbether the paperii taken from the offlee or not, S. Th< to take poftoffioe, or retnovihg uncalled ’ for ie prime facie evidence of in- natiotnel fraud. THE FUTURE. > nt And watched the walking-beam eo alewljr oeatl- >«*, And thought how like our Ufa It le-eymbolle «t our fate* .jp For le It not of upe and dewna that life la moatty . mnaeT. *. J < For -fto haa ttfx upward gone without a downward !■ ; J r Aud while I watoned tia beam tha pumper (topped the well; daat ao ln Ufe-hoW toon the telre win oloae we lin ./ pe^ifottoU. How toon the afeam that drtrei the wbeeh will oome ‘no more for ua, Wbdo not know aor cannot learn, for it waa ever time. But when tfUa life haa ceased to be, are we attll ttko Will our engine change lie place, another hole to Will <*ny part of oe be moved to more prollflo Hells f And Will the fntnre be controlled by what the proa- ..lot yields? wai our ‘filter* bo assured la Bredford'a greasy i Or will It be a “wild-cal” well without a show of oil? Or will It be like yonder hole that long ago waa dug ? Abandoned, never more to yield, shut midway wHft . eplug? -ail <% Derr** ale )il TITE BUT™ W. N. BENNS, JAMES 0. RUSS. Editor,. TUtRE HE I.1<;IlT.” VOLUME VI. BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25. 1881. Subscription. *1.50 in Advance. NUMBER 4. witness. «K.vr/,E.wW btsoHVB.. .. When George Fnulkner oslled at Col. Dysart’s offlee and told him he wanted to many his Kitty, the ruined old Colonel turned in his wrath and bade him leave liis presence 1 ** We ain’t got down to that," said he *' and you have a mighty lot of aasuranoe to aSk for her." »} Yet Kitty waa only a little waif. Col Dysart had raised as a kind of waiting maid for his two daughters; she had been given no advantages in the way of education, but everybody in the house had made a pet and plaything Of Kitty, and she was as pretty as a wild rose— just the faintest oolor in her.oheeks gave .a slight suspicion of quadroon blood, bftt' hot beautiful brown hair was no, dbrHor than Fanny Dypart’^. Hpr form was lovely; her hands "and krdis studies for a sculptor, and Gentleman George, as Faulkner was called, had tried by •vfcry unfair means in hii power to woo and win her, tried and failod, and loving her all the more for her sweet strength of innocence he fortified "himself with some Virginia tanglefoot and walked op to the cannon’s mouth—in other words^ he* bluffed Abe Colonel, and 'demanded Kitty’s hand in marriage, •« " A loafer and boss thief," continued the irate Colonel, when Gentleman -George springs at:his throat like ft bull dog. “ Take that back 1" he shouted. ’* I’m no boss thief no mo’n’ yon are. Toko— it—back," an atbletio shake with every word. “ Well, well," gasped the choking Colonel, “taebbe you ain’t; but you’ll allow you’re a moonshiner and a gam- .Wei" \ u Oh," smiled Qentleman George, showing his handsome teeth—there was more than a suspicion of color in his blood—“ you gamble yourself, Colonel; that’s a gentlefnan’# game; what’s yon a-goin’ to do ’bout it ? and tlie law is too close on a little whisky, and revenoo l offieerp a mighty hard lot. EP that’s all. you’ve got again'|nef, moughfc as welt let me have the gal." “I’ll see yon first,” said [the Colonel, smartly, and the negotiations ended then anti there. Col. Dysart was of the old Virginia stock, a blue-blood gentleman, poor as a church mouse and, proud os Lucifer, liyiTig regally with open doors, while he uad anything, and maintaining a great family of dependents in as good style as he lived himself, white or black. Touch one of Col Dysart’s servants, and you touched him. He was a faithful steward while the estate lasted. That was why ho hat^d to give up Kitty. She most like his own, though he had picked her up in the highway a squalling 8- year-old, and ridden into the door-yard with the kicking child nnder his arm. He transferred her to the cook, thence she went to the housekeeper, by degrees ' she raached*Mts. Dysart, who made her an especial pet, as long as she lived, and, dying, bequeathed her to Fanny, her eldest daughter. The Dysart girls were good to her, but indifferent; Kitty missed some love very much, as she did good Mrs. Dysart, and her heart went out to the handsome fellow who smiled at her at barbecues, and met her at preacher’! meeting, and tried to entioe her off to clandestine trysts. That soupcon of African creole blood which Unshed hia cheek found its mate in hets; she had seen him laughing and talking with her young ladies—his fam ily waa as old and good as theirs—if it had crossed the color line somewhere, while she was a waif—a nobody. How good it was of him to love her I Biit, all the same, Kitty was wide awake, and, knew that, if she had neither blood nor birth t6 boost of, she had rep- ntatioq, and Gentleman George was known to bo wild, so she held her own and compelled him to ask for her duly in honorable marriage. Yon have heard what the Colonel .said, but when did , love ever fail in its undertakings t and who came to the. rescue but romantic Louise Dysart, the youngest daughter of the Colonel, whom Kitty had oonfided in, and she planned the whole thing— ad elopement, oairiage end pair, mar- riagu before * Justine aa4 btreelf m Then ihe went home and hoar her father storm I poned the year before we te Planters’ House, on the mountain, where we had made up a party for the season; and wo heard from Col. Dysart that Kitty had made a —— fool of herself, and he had sent Louise to a seminary North to get some sense in her head, and he’d be if he’d ever help that sly Kitty, not if she starved 1 And then we learned that he had inquired all along about tbem, and found put that Gentleman George waa very good to his little wife —that he had still eluded the excisemen, aud gambled, but otherwise conducted himself properly. Defrauding the Gov ernment was not muohof a crime there. The people had their own views about that. If Gentleman George did nothifig worse than disseminate the moonshiner’s whisky, without paying the taxes, he wouldn’t lose muoh in the respect of Che people. We had some curiosity to see this cliivalrie. Georgo and his Kitty, and Fhtety Dysart luid promised to take us toiheir mountain cabin, but somehow we never went, and had nearly forgotten the intention, when one day we stumbled in on them quite accidentally. We were looking for wild flowers in the mountains, and a storm came up so unexpectedly that wo hnrried into the first cabin we oamo to for shelter. A sick man was bolstered up in a chair, and one of the shyest, loveliest, most attractive girls I had ever seen was fanning him with an old palmetto hat. The room was hung with starched aud goffered muslin dresses, beautifully done np, aud an a rack above the door several rifles were hung. The sick man was the living image of Wilkos Booth, as I remembered, him—pale, statuesque features and dark curling hair, tlie embodiment of pictur esque- refinement and intellect. I never saw such devotion in any woman's face befoitius she gassed into his pale coun tenance to see if our entrance had startled him. She looked like the sister of Tasso, or Gertrude, bending over her Rudolph. I 1 4 Wo did not stay long, but we come away deeply in love with Kitty, and 'other distrustful of her sick husband, who was convalescing from an attack of mountain fever* We felt, that some thing was wrong and that Gentleman George must be very selfish to wear a fine gold watch, and a seal ring, and let IHtty take in washing from tho hotel, as she actually did; for we recognised those beautiful lauudried dresses. We felt that it was the old story of man’s selfish ness and woman’s devotion, but we mode ourselves agreeable, and drew the gentleman out. He talked well in spite of his vernacular, and ho read Bliaks- peare and Mrs. Augusta Evans, and gave us some quaint music on the banjo, and told us of his family and was rather proud of the drop of unleayea in hift blood. / , It matches Kitty,” he saidHaffgh- ingly; “ come hero, girl; give tlie folks some buttermilk and berries. Fly around, honey, or tbpy’ll think you’re worn out nursin’ me.** He moved A square of stone in the hearth with his stick, and brought out a jug with a corn-cob stopper; we all tasted tho illicit whisky and he put it book, saying: You’ll not inform if you’re Kit’s friends, and they’ll never take me alive 1" Kitty shuddered and turned palo, but we knew this was all mock heroism. A pretty still in the mountain side was npt likely to bo interfered with by snmmer visitors, but the paling cheek of the lovely young wife showed that she was ever fearful of danger, and she followed to the door to ask us in a sweet im ploring way not to mention to GoL Dysart’s family that she did the fine starching and ironing for the hotel via- “George is proud,” sho said, “and so is the kunnel. I never washed there, and I needn’t go to now, but he’s had the mountain fevah. Pore boy 1 it’s took him down so 1" Her voioe was soft and flntelike; we promised what she asked, as her hus band called petulantly : “ Kit! doan’t stand gnbblin thar I the fevah’s on again! ” Our next venture was of another sort: There was a quarrel between some dis tillers and the exciseman, and Ool. Dy sart went as peacemaker between them and collected a moiety of the tax money. He called at Kitty’s on the way up the mountain, and left word that he wonld be back the next day at noon and would cat dinner with her. Her husband waa well now, and that morning he took his rifle and went out “after game," he said. Kitty begged him not to inter fere with any of the excisemen, and he promised he wonld not, and he left her with a careless kiss. Fanny and Louise Dysart got up the idQ9 of a picnio to meet their father, visit Kitty and spend a day in ths mountains at the same time. There were no dresses hung in Kitty’s cabin, though her hands had goffered the ruf fles on Fanny’s crisp lawn and Louise’s organdy, through the medium of the head waiter at the hotel, but they un ceremoniously asked her to admire the work. They ohaffed her about bei hanAeme husband, and wondered where he was, and declared laughingly they % would not have come if they had not ex-- pected to ole site. Ool. Dysart was late, and the picnickers' bad their feast spread order the mountain pines and Kitty mode a dmrmteg hostess, but she was anxious, and seemed watching and listening, At last Ool. Dysart came riding slowly, and with his bridle-nrra hanging by his tide, broken by a rifle-ball I The girls sobbed and olnng to him, and teked a thousand questions, htrf Kifty helped him off hie hors^gqfc life house, and, with the help of others of the party, band aged up the broken aim. Then the Colonel talked with white lips and set teeth. “The highwaymen 1 It was tlie money they wanted, and thej meant to shoot me like a dog, ' Ipur <0 Aram Bet oil one man. Masked -Mke tkitvus every mothers’ son of ’em ! Well, I settled the account of one of ’em; grilled him thru and thru so he’ll never knew [home during spring cleaning! m^uua ATTOrnt MS FOR TUE TBOUQUTFWL. it mnstaota dreads the short oignr. M There’s maujdRlip between tha pul pit and the ehurch door. A aliver in your hand is worse than fl,000 m hand of your friend. l^rer build castles in the heir. They are ever liable to be overthrown. Put a rioh man on mule-back and the mule will throw him just as quickly as he would a beggar. Least said the sooner the deadlock is ended. Piety is often butanes-deep. You can’t make a portmonnaisout of a two-legged calf. Bangs cover a multitude of wrinkles. Like the dog in the manger, the nose is above kissing and is always ready to interfere with the kissing of others. When the Bpring bonnet oomes into (he ^louse, monoy flies out of the pookot- book. Oh, that mine ^nemy had been at wlmt hurt him i A mean sneakin’ cow ard ! Hallo, Kitty 1 blood makes you sipk, hey ?’’ For Kitty had dropped like a shot biid at his feet. It Was tho blood," ahd said, and she soon came round and helped us to got off, a silent terrified party, for oven on outlaw’s death is a shadow on one’s soul, but we all felt that the Colonel had (lono tlie country a service. These outrages had been frequent of late. We hated to leave Kitty alone, but she said Georito Would bo tight back, and wo loft her watching the winding mountain roa<l anxious for a first glimpse of his loved face. THE tooY.X/fAMILr (if*RtJfiHtA. It may bo a platitude, writes G. A. Suln, to remark that illustrious rank, an income of a greet many thousands of roublos a year j a fihe house to Hvfc - in, a French cook and plenty of servants, and the breast of your coat all covered with stars a*nl crosses, do not necessarily of themselves Confer on humanity the thing called happiness j but it is expedient to remember this truism in view of tho opiniotl that those adorn np states of ex istence mord monotonous, more useless, and indeed more generally deplorable tliuu those of the male members of tlie imperial family in Russia. The Grand Duchesses are more fortunate, They have, at least, the chalice of marrying foreign potentates, of escaping from his Imperial Majesty’s jail-r-in which liis Imperial lilajcsty himself is the chief prisoner— of conversing with free people, nhd-bf breathing free air. But here arc these young, middle-aged aud elderl, imperial gentlemen, forming a caste apart, as isolated and comparatively as numerous as the imperial casto of the Yellow Girdle in Oliina, condemned to pass tlieir liveH, buttoned and buckled and strapped up in the tiglit-litting uni- forrns, and to wear helmets or forage caps on their heads. They were dressed in uniform when they were children: they live iu uniform, and when they .die they will be buried in uniform. Eucb. adult one of them is mured up in a pal ace of his own as big as a barrack, where he keeps, or is rather kept, in safe cus tody by a swarming retinue of aides-de- camp, cqueries, moitros d’kotel, grooms and lacqueys, and tho wages of this army of pgraaites added to the revenue ap portioned to their Highnesses from a civil list of 10,000,000 of roubles a year, but which is practically unlimited, go far to ward eating np the fat of tho land, ami grinding the faoe of the miserable mou- iik even to the bone. THE SMALL BOY'S EXPLANATION, Angelica had invited her “ best young man" to the ovening meal. Everything had passed off harmoniously until An gelica’s 7-year-old brother broke tho blissful silence by exclaiming : “Oh, mal yer oughter seen Mr. Lighted the other night, when he called to take Angie to the drill; he looked so nioe, sittin’ ’long side of her with his arm “ Fred I" screamed the maiden, whose face began to assume the color of a well- done crab—quiokly placing her hand over tho boy’s mouth. “ Yer onghter seen him," continued the persistent informant after gaining his breath, and the embarrassed girl hand was removed ; “ he had his arm— “ Freddie 1" shouted the mother, os i her frantic attempt to reach tho boy’s auricular appendage she upset the con tents of the teapot in Mr. Lighted’s iap, making numerous Prussian war maps over his new lavender pantaloons. “I was just goin’ to say," the half- friglitened boy pleaded, between a cry and an injured whine, “he had liis “Yon boy!” thundered the father, “away to the wood-shed." And the boy made for the nearest exit, exclaiming *s he waltzed, “I was only goiu’ to say Mr. Lighted had his army clo lies on, and HI leave it to him if he didn’t" And the boy was permitted to return, and the remainder of the meal was spunk in explanations from the family in regard to tho number of times Freddie had t» be “ talked to” f*ir using liis fingers for n ladle. A cigarette in the mouth shows whioh way the money goes. Lonesome is whom handsome does. The ifcan who pleads his own case is nnnved of lawyers. Thi man who saves 6 cents by walk ing giv>s 10 to the shoemaker. Kiss aid let kiss. It is a dhort layin’ that has no turn in The boot-tree is known by its boot. The scissors has two blades, crying Steal, steal." Whoso diggeth a pit should bo oast out of tho family cirole. All that blisters is not good medioine. A feast is good as enough. He most have a big spoon that must cat ice-cream with a young lady. Honest ten furnishes ito own grounds. Of two women, ehooso the one that will have you. The beauty is not so bright as she is painted. Two in a tirade seldom agree. Speech is cheap, but votes are what tell A womau after his own heart is what plcoseth tlie man. Money is the principal thing; there fore get money; and with all the gettings get it well invested. A soft answer turneth the stomach. The coal-hole goeth before destruc tion, and a banana skin before a fall. A bald head is a fly’s paradise. The race is not to the swift, but to the pool-seller. A short-time note soon goes to pro test.—Boston Transcript. ADORED BY DOG a, I please myself with tlijf thought ihat every man is, or may be iMip.wiU,*cen ter, round which many kinds of uffcction press with gently sustaining forces. Let as not underrate the love yfhioli rises up to us from below, bathing our feet in warmth; Only love, of animals, and that ot olildreu yjhilo they ure still quite young, is absolutely free from criti cism. AIL our contemporaries criticise ud; even our wives do in their hearts and r sons in their adolescence. The man his family lives in a glass case, and con pot quite withdraw himself. He is surrounded by iflore affection than tho bachelor, bat he incurs in a minor de gree that amenability to criticism which is the penalty of a prime minister. The critiokm may not be openly expressed, but as soon as he aots independently of the family opinion about his dqtieti 'he feels that it is there. l£Vexce6dingly salutary, no <l"ubt; it keeps us In the path of duty and dignity,; it saves us from many obberratidftli. ~ Arid- still, upon the whole, we know ourselves to be such lamentably in^tfect characters that we long for an afbetion altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has ao- oorded this to ub in tho uncritidal canine attachment. Women love us in their own exalted ideals, amjjo live up to the ideal standard is somotifbes rather more than we ore altogether able; to manage ; children in their teens find out how olnmsy and ignorant we are and do not quite unwaerve.!ty'x*eqpne| us, but our dogs adore us without a suspicion of our short-comings.—PfiMp OUbert Hamer- A BAs ft INBULT. It doesn't always do to oredik people with over-sensitivtihess. - The otber day one of our “ risifc^ joung pianists ’’ was giving his opinion^ the vulgarity and meanness display (4 by. oar goldfish aris tocracy. “ Why/ 1 rfaidbe, “for instance, not long ago I *>ia invited to attend a musicale at tho house ^f. Qld Pullbags, on Nob Hill Ol rtmree I played a good deal to entertain the company, and when I left old B., as be shook .bands, slipped into my hand a $20 gold piece.” “ Why, the tli ick- skinned old hog I ’’ said tlie audience, indignantly, “What did you do?" “Why, you just bet I got even with him. I haughtily threw the money on the floor and left, after first exchang ing the coin for a counterfeit twenty I happened to have in my pocket just. theUf—don’t yon see ? ” “Capital idea; served the old vulgarian right.” “Yes, it was a huge idea, but the trouble was that hi8 twenty turned out to be a coun terfeit, too."—San Francisco Post. A QVZBT BOAMOnrO-rroUMM. “I have oqsm *• answer to your ad- rwtisem^ot for board, " said a nervous oM rndy toap«rts*MB of 13, as the latter ' 'fihowad her into a partyr of all the com forts of a home establishment on Henry street “ But I won’t oome hare nnle your house is perfectly quiet, bow re* member that" “Quiet! well, you may smile," replied Miss. “ That noise you here now is the dentist iu the basement, pulling out tooth, but hell get it out, if it takee him a month. How muoh oan you afford to pay?” I think I hear some sue up-stairs shouting,” raid the old lady. That’s only a young lawyer prao. tioing a oase. You’ll get need to him. Nobody liked it at first, but wa’vs all got used to it aud don’t mind it now a Got any children ? We don’t take children, because eur babies fight ’em ‘ No, I haven’t. Who’s that yelling in the next room ?” “ That's the landlord trying to collect the rent. You know pa is very deaf, aud you’ve got to howl at him. You’ll have to pay in advance if you oome here.” “ Good gracious I What’s that ?” ejac ulated the old lady, as a furious diu swept through the lower regions. “ I guess the cook is driving grandma out of the kitchen with the olothespole. She often does that. Have you got much baggage ?’ “Sakoa alive 1 Somebody is being murdered up-ataire I Who is it ? “Oh ! that’s a literary fellow on the top floor. Whenever he writes anything he squeals like a pig. But he generally writes at night, and you needn’t pay any attention to him." “What are your terms?—good heaven, the roof has fallen in 1” “No, it hasn’t; that’s a college pro fessor, and that’s the way he goes up and down stairs. If you listen you may hear him break his neck I Gan you give any references? Anybody know [you f’ “ Certainly ; if I—was that a gun ?" “I guess so. My cousin has got u prairie down cellar where he huuts In dians and buffuloes and things. Borne, times he’s a road agent, ani then he robs us on the stairs. We always allow for it in the bo aid, so it evens up. Got any money of your own"? “ Nevor mind whether I have or not; I don’t think I wont a room here, any way. Let me out, please." “ Couldn't let you have one, anyhow;” retorted Miss, preparing to slide down the balustrade. “ There’s only one emp ty one, and tbat’s too high-priced for you; besides, you don’t wear very good slothes, and we prefer not to have you around.” And down tlie slide she went with a whiz-z, while the old lady pat tered off after another home-like house. —Brooklyn Eagle. PLEkaANfRZBM Ha who fling* his pills away v to die another day. Thb Oleve^M Leader thinks America has not enough navy to bad! | “ How did you find your unele, <) | ny ?” “ In a^fc-pie order/ that?*’ “Crusty." A KooLiBZJC man is one who, wh has ten minutes to spare, goes and 1 era somebody who hasn’t. It is terribly embarrassing fcrf * to town from a fishing excursion I there is not a fish in the market. Thu man who was “ waiting for a thing to turn up” was rewarded | he stepped on the edge of a barrel 1 iNQumnto duffer asks: AACKaON AND CALUOUN, At the close of the session-of Congress, March 4, 1831, a stiff quarrel broke out ! of liquor will a man get drunk on qd between Gen. Juckson and John C. Cal- , cat ?” Tho kind ho can get hold of t houn. It originated in this wise: II ■ “And, O Edward," said the j will be recollected by those who Lavs ( was going to leave behind him, read an account of Gen. Jaokson's cam- i every stopping place be sure and i paign against tlie Beni moles in 1818 tbid , thou go ahead. ” they —ere Indians who came ont of Flor- Coxoxdrcm for the skeptic: If t ida, then belonging to Spain, murdered citizens on oar frontiers and Committed depredations on their property. The Spanish offieers, instead of restraining these Indians, furnished them with sup plies, thus making themselves parties to the outrages perpetrated. Gen. Jackson, believing that he was author ised by the law of nations, a secret act of Congress, and an order from tha Gov ernment at Washington Yo conduct the w ** the quick reply, “as soon as| campaign as be thought best, marched married.” no devil, ns yon assert, who the father of flies? Several bald-lJ ed men impatiently await yonr replj Tii man who doea not lora Win a, woman and aoug Bay not havo aa good a Him, Bat hall U*ra Hr* tlmaa aa long. “Don’t you think,” said a hi mildly rebuking his wife, “ that i are possessed by the devil?” into Florida, took possession of Bt Marks, Pensacola and Ban Augustine, and soon put an and to the war. Im mediately thereafter a letter from Wash ington was published in a Nashville pa per stating that William H. Crawford had proposed in Monroe’s Cabinet to have Gen. Jackson punished in some form for his procedings in Florida, and that Mr. Calhoun had defonded him. Gen. Jackson believed thia statement, and the consequence was that he was very inimical to Crawford and very friendly to Calhoun. At lost Mr. Craw- I THU POBK-LOTBB’a DAMKNT. Idansottot ▲ lasd pig's asst, i TbeagX bo* ot cr **4 of Moss* Far, oh, I fair. From whst I hear. That horrid trlchinotfsl A fat woman of Corinth, Mis#., < 1 ash-bark tea to make skipped for the better land j hours ahead of a lean woman \ | eating gum-arabio to make her 1 Thu oritio who did not “minf ■tope” introduced some verses | The poem published thia ford determined to correct the false im- composed by an esteemed frienJ pression made on Gen. Jackson’s mind. He wrote a letter to John Forsyth, then a Senator from Georgia, and asked him to show it to Gen. Jackson. In this let ter he said that it was Mr. Calhoun, and not himself, that mads the proposition complained of. Thia information great ly surprised the General and completely I changed her mind since, obanged hU holing, tow.rd Mr. 0.1- j Ema0B wu „ ola „ d s , hora. A correspondence between the | 5 Qne morning Band. Mid to partie. cn.ued and then open war. Mr. , „ j won . t , 0Te u yon do has lain in liis grave many years i own amusement" Thu man who said, “ A womd change her mind on any subjej twenty-four hours" has been ered. Ten year* ago hi* wifel nonneed him a- fool, and ahe J Calhoun issued an address to the people , of the United States, in which he | charged that it was a plot gotten up by | Mr. Van Buron to injure him. The evi- I deuoe did not support the charge. The result of it all was that Mr. Yan Buren i resigned his seat in the Cabinet, and l , ., . was at once followed by every member i of it, save the Post master General, soon appoiuted Minister to Spain. Ing- j love I said, “ Yon most not say so. not love you if you don’t body.” Borah replied, “ Well, God did not hear me. He is high, and I guess He is a little A clergyman lost his hat liomo I shabbier one, which was left in of it. Next day tho hat waa rel ham, Branch and Berrien were friends ! fbo penitent appropnator, to Mr. Calbouo, and, of oourae, thej 1 'TU never toko . mimrtor, had to go ont. Van Bnrcn was appoint ed a Minister to England, and Eatoi> Governor of Florida. Callioun himself, the next year, resigned tha Vice Presi dency, and was elected a Senator. TUB UNKNOWN FUTURE. What is before me? What is before you? Wo do not know, and thore is no one of whom we can ask the question with liopo of reply. There are many things which we dread, some which we fear greatly; but we are well aware that our hopes may never be realized and that our fears may prove groundless. That whioh we nevei hoped may glad- 3ii us, that whioh we never dreaded ar fall upon us, after all. The babe in his cradle yonder is a rid dle* not to be read even by his mother. Bho fbrxyiB her plans for him os she rocks the; aradle : with her slender foot. He is to be a statesulhn or a clergyman, a merchant or a soldier. She plays with her dreams of his future just as she blew bubbles in her childhood, and as those bubbles burst-so may these bright fan cies of hen. Or, haply, even greater things may be in store for him than she has thought of; for though some one who was destined for the ohuroh by bis mother has, doubtless, died a felon’s death, another, whose parents only hoped that ha should work at his father's honest trade, has coma to be a ruler in the land. The great poets were not poets in their oradlea. The whole list of peoplo whose name* are known to all the world gave no sign of future greatness in their cra dles. They cried for pap and for tin* moon just like all the babes who lived and died without being or doing any thing particular. But, oh, the fate that may be before any babel before you, before me. Oh, the brightness or the darkness behind the curtain that veils our future and that of those we love I Do the angels know all ? Is it written, or only to be writ- ton ? Far one thing let us all be thankful: that we do not know and that there is no means of knowing the life that we may live, or the death that we must die, or the fate that lies before the ohildren for whom we build our bonny air castles.— New York Ledger. HO IF THE 1C OT USC 111 IDS GAINEL THE lit NAME AND FORTUNE. If tlie doctrino that honesty is the best policy needed any confirmation, tho his tory of tlie Rothschild family ought to afford it. The founder of tho line, Meyei Amschel, or Anselm, was born in the Jew’s quarter at Frankfort-ou-the-Main, in 1743. His parents died when-ho was 11 yeiu's old. He becuuio peddler, aU-arouud worker, and finally clerk to a small banker aud money-changer in Han over. In 1772 he had saved a little capi tal, so ho returned to Frankfort aud set up a money-changing shop with a red sign over tho door. That red paint- smeared hoard became tho godfather ol tho richest family oil the face of tho earth. From simple Meyer Anselm, tho young Jow came to be culled Meyer Ansulm Rothschild, or red sign or shield. He collected ancient and rare coins, and among tho amateurs who bought of him was tho Landgrave, afterward the Elec tor, William of Hesse, tho blood-peddling scoundrel who sold his subjects to En gland to be killed in America during tho Revolution. The Landgrave look a fancy to Meyer Anselm and rnndo iiim his agent. When Napoleon overran Europe, Will iam of Hesse was driven from his state*, und left all the monoy ho could gather together in the hands of Anselm, his agent. It amounted to 4250,000. Money in those days returned 12 or even 20 per cent, on good security. Anselm lout it, and turned it over aud over again. The war went on. Tho battle of Lcipsio was fought, and Napoleon and his army were hurled across the Rhine. The Landgrave of Hesse then returned to Uis states. A few days after, tho oldest son of Meyer Anselm presented himself at court and handed over to the Land grave the three millions of florinB which were the principal and interest of tlie treasure hi* father had taken care of. The Landgrave looked upon the restored money ea a windfall Iu his exultation he knighted young Rothaohild at pnee. “Such honesty,"his Highness exclaimed, “ had never been known in tho world.” At tho Congress of Vienna, where ho went shortly after, he could talk of noth ing else than the h meaty of the Roths childs. He made thorn the fashionable bankers of Europe, which they remain to thia day. “ Mr husband is a brute,” declared Mme. X. to an intimate friend tho other day, “ Why, my dear, what’s the mat ter now? ” “ He found fault with a lit. “ Did you read that poem in last tie vivacity of mino yesterday, and I night’s paper?”asked Smith. “ReadI” j threw a candle-stick at his head; then exclaimedPuffington; “no, sir; I never ; w hst do yon suppose ho did ?” “I don’t rend poetry. I write it 1” “ Oil, 1 said Smith, demurely. “You congratulated.” who! hatl You can’t imagine wliat queer j I’ve had running through my hffl since I put that hat on.” DYSPEPSIA AND BUPERSTIM The Russians aro by no moan* I peptio a race as Americans, fJ have more physical labor and less! to employ tho services of cookl there are subjects of tho Czar evj over-oat, and suffer in cousequf other mortals do. They ore, not inclined to blame themselves| tacks of dyspepsia, but think 1 such attacks do trouble thorny! to the presence of a snake in acli. It is currently believed reptile is very fond of raspberJ anil leave its hiding place wl gees or smells them. So the > goes into the bath-room (when l to be oared), some raspbe; fetched and strewed on hot tho room, over which the i with open month to facilitate t of the serpent. Bhould it not I nppearauoe, charms or incantal resorted to, and oontinued till| tient feels better, when the an posed to have left his temp unobserved. Surely the son reason is reached* by a ] believe in snah an absurdity, havo relations in countries wei —people who are equally nn what te the real cause of dyi what its enre,^ FAOU-HA1M. In the British navy c may wear •11 th# Uoe-hmir th.y I but m the except on f<| rice, beard* are t tho continsntal ai tions aro in foroo, aro more liberal, and du month tho Minister of War 1 general order to the much aa he. hears that j beards have been prohibited! remind all commanding .c a Ministerial decision of in the army, may wear just as they please. In are rigorously prohibited n mustache, and the same i lending restaurants in gentleman lately got 111 ] ilace in one of thes£ J but, though very loved his nmatsoh bettor t declined the plane.* Horne Toon, one day asked by tho masti why a certain vetu governs lar clause. Ho answered:| know.” “That is imp master. “ I knowiMH but obstinate." J0H sistod, and the i tho punishment, rulo of gryunar wh ject, and %ome know." “Why, he stood before the A know that very well; to Im ' mirror, so that I conin’ t throw the oth- 1 a3k for the rule; er. The bwto but I yon. denial