The Weekly Sumter republican. (Americus, Ga.) 18??-1889, July 08, 1870, Image 1

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HANCOCK, GRAHAM & "Volume 17. • ofAdTtrtlilng, j^uar-. firnt insertion,. ............ .*1 00 • l. eul>*«»iuent insertion, .10 "sT«* Tf.n Lint* of Minion type, solid, c«.n#Si- tnte a a*iwr*' • AiUiTcrtwemuiW not contracted far wiU be 11 VlrCT^menW not .peaiying the length of lime for w Un-fa“° beineertodwHI be coo- -.ir.nod until oj<1* rwl ont and charged for accord ingly. . ... . AJrtrtwenit uta to ««ccupj fixed place* will be , harH 25 I** cent - %bart regular rate*. So.jcea in local column inserted for twenty per lino each insertion. A.MERICTJS, GEORGIA., g.iiantead Notice, $ 2 00 IjHtcnot Administration, 3 00 Lettere of Goardianahip, 4 3 00 Ism-re of Diamiaaion,... S 00 ApplicaUou for leave to aeH real estate,.. 5 00 sale of Ileal Estate, 5 00 Aotice to Debtor* and Croditora, 5 00 >1h rilTs Bale, (per levy) 4 to) Professional Cards. J. L.XO0MMM, Z3orxtlst, HAWKINS & BURKE. Attornoys n.t Ziawi America*, Georgia. Jno. D. CARTER, I’f TORH ST AT hkVf, Americas, Georgia. Ortlro in Americas Hotel building, corner of L«ni*r an<l College street*. may 18 tf. FORT & HOLLIS, ATT4RSRIS AT LAW, And Solicitors of Patents. Americas, Georgia. SAM. LUMPKIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Americas, Georgia. Will practice in all tlio courts of S. W. Ga. Ki-fi re, by permission, to Dr. Wm. A. Greene. OITICE: with M. Callaway, Ksq., in the Conrt- lloiirs. .Iun30, 1870. -ly SUNDAY MORNING IN BED, When the tiresome week is over, Wearied limbs then ask for rest; No grim task is then before you, So one but yourself to please. Bow delicious then the feeling ' N Tbst draws through tbs drowsy head. On a rest unbroke, unsnmmoncd, Sunday morning in the bed. And such fancies throng around yon, Half asleep and half awake, Dim defined yet all so pleasant— Fancies, like the dawn, opanue; Waking, dreams of love and fortune, Brighter far than can be said. Give a foretaste of Elysium, Sunday morning in the bed. And (he early sounds contrasting, Add atill more to the repose; Praise who will the early riser*, Sweeter still's the morning doze! Labor, bustle, care, all banished. And the only aonnd you dread Is tbo breakfast bell's rough clamor, ltouting-froui the Sunday’s bed. Poets sing of early morning, Healthful, activo. fresh and fair, Wh^efU-Mto)(ry<!s3KfY&si—** In tbo morning’s early air. Well, in week day’s let's admit it; Think how soon one’s life is sped; last the poor mortals joy unhindered, Sunday morning in the bed. JACK BROWN, A ttornoy at Liaw, AMERICUS, GA. *§. office in CoiJt House with Judge Stan- f- Til. 1 __ fe ‘* 16 tf - N. A. SMITH, Attorney at Law, W ILL practice in the Courts of Sumter and ^ adjoining Counties, and in Circuit Court of *»' Office on College street, next to ltepuhli- esn office. fob 25 tf. J. A. ANSLEY, Attomey-at'Law ialo and pvreha vesunuonof titles. A1 blanks always on hand. A. R. BROWN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, A meric us, Georgia. W ILL give prompt atteutiou to all business entrusted to hre care. nov2Gtf George W. Wooten, ATTOBNEV-AT-LAAV, Amorious, ■ • ■ Ga. Office-Cher R. T. Byrd's store. janlStf Ei B. AMOS, Attorney- at-Xiaw, AMERICUS, GA., TT71LL give prompt attention to professional J*, business in the different courtsof Sumter, . iffitey, Webster, Lee and adjoiningeountics. , Office with J. A. Analej, orer B. Emanuel A * n ’- juo a-tr GEORGE WJKIIIBROUGHr . „ ATTORNEY AT LAW, A ^bOvneral Agent for the sale and purchase a* efland inHoutbweat Georgia. Invcstigat- nig titles strictly adhered to. Will faithfully at- entrusted “ ’ * —- hurkville, Lee county, Ga. T. L. CLARKE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. iin]3 PREST0N, GE0R0IA. DR. WILLIflM fl7lBREENE7 AMEBICUS, GEORGIA. 0ONTIKUE8 to serve his friends of Amcricni ~ ami aurroundmg countrv in all the depart- t2t " "fins profeMwoo. anrlfrly Dr. J. B. HINKLE WOULD again tender his services (in all the #4 C _ of tbe Profession) to ths good Jy-iple of Amerieus and Sumter count!, and eo- *«b* liberal pit cottage S? u beatowed upon him. *** Special attention giten to Buruerv ..“‘^-'luarteraat the Drug M<„«„?VZ' y 7 w’joiSar It0 * ideac ® fronting that of Bey.' jl • Toruan^ j.. juns 8tf Dr. S. B. HAWKINS. nr OFFICE at Dr. Eidridge's Drug Store. OResidence near the Methodist Church. J*y serrices I again tender the good people of AJueneua ami country generally. Hr- W. D. COOPER, QETFJLS his profasaional services to the riti- 1. /*‘ r * "f Americce and surrounding country. , on tr to . V r,0 ‘‘°'Cooper. Office—Comer ' OU Bot.1 ^ nu j """'I' i"«1 Mr. n» n.n-old ., Collfga HiH. I)"" D. McLEOD, Ameri- Ca—Diaeaass of the Bye and Ear iiiiiri Li - ,r ‘* t fd. Chronic dieeaaee of Women t*£2^^* d **ap*cw*y- ProUpeus, An- inc*^ n and R * tr ^verakm cured by mechanical fKsSabssSjg V o T i C E lf Db. s. k. turner ,. t KiK'°,^ fil ’ I ", tI,e . ctmali « of Sumter . , ’ V - mf oro his friends and old patrons aheri‘L W locatcd , in Clinton villa, Alabama: ’* Prepared to treat aU dwearesttol before him, and more £553 ••-mxlee. ^ Yos _ ST l^™ lci » ^ sail the care, or you can r county. Chargea moderate. HAWKINS & GUEERY, Attorneys-at-Law, I WOULD NOT. I would not kias the sweetest Up Unless it kissed mo too; As well from tlie rosebud sip The morning's clear cold dew; Nor clasp a baud, tliough soft and warm, Unless it pressed my own; Td ratlier love the perfect form Carved ont of Parian stone. I will not worship eyes, tho’ bright And bcantiful they be, Unless they bend their living light Ou me—and only me; I would not love a form that Leaven Itself had stamped divine. If I but dreamed that lovo was given To other hearts than mine. Striking at the Root We have been trying by various meth ods to suppress what lma come to be call ed “the social evil.” The police have occasionally made active descents upon houses of questionable reputation and hav e made victims of tho ]>oor fallen fe male portions of humanity who find their wretched homes and degraded living therein. This is not tbo way to correct the mischief. Indeed, it is a" very cow- ardly way, to say the best of it, tio deal with the question—this hauling up of unhappy, women before police courts, thus adding to the private shame of their lives the public shame of a useless expo sure and a temporary punishment. It does no possible good in the way of cor rection, and yet this seems to be the ex tent of the appliances nsed by our police authorities. The grand jury of Cincinnati havo adopted a wiser course. They have struck at the root of the evil by in dicting a number of rich landlords for renting houses “for illicit purposes.”— The grand jury, having no donbt ascer tained the fact that these property owners knew full well tho purposes for which their houses were to be employed, and having ascertained also that they receive double the rent for this class of houses, have indicted them as tho parties respon sible foi the vice festering within. As to how much of the responsibility rests up- op the owners who rent houses for such U3es in all our large cities, there can be very little doubt They do not hesitate to demoralize whole neighborhoods to gratify their avarice. It is worse than useless, therefore, to organize police raids ujxm the wretched inmates of these establishments while tho law permits the owners to hire them out with a knowl edge of what uses they are to be put to. Ignorance cannot be urged as a plea in defence, for the rent roll will show how more profitable the wages of sin are to the landlord than the income derived from houses engaged in legitimate busi ness. The Cincinnati grand jury have taken the right view of the subject in striking at the chief malefactors, and it would be well if their example were fol lowed in othercities, our own especially. —y. Y. Herald. Osa Once.—A shy little girl camo to Sabbath school. She was properly dress ed. A calico gown; a hat trimmed with faded green ribbon, slippers, not boots, thin slippers which looked as if some body had given them to her; small shawl on her shoulders. Mias Jones brought her in, and she was m Miss Jones' class. Miss Jones’ class were girls very nicely dressed. They hail feathers, and fresh ribbons’ and fashionable boots. Miss Jones’ class, too, knew each other.— Well, how did the receive the little stranger? Very glad of course, to wel come her to the Sabbath school, and their class too; because they had often heard how the Lord Jesus became poor for their sokes, and he left the poor among ns fo feed them and care for. Did they not receive her kindly? Not a bit When she sat down on the seat beside them they moved away. They glanced their eyes at her dress, then at each other, and laughed contemptuously. When she looked wistfully up to them for a look of kind ness they turned their faces another wav. All their conduct seeraed to say, “We are above you and, what business have 1you here I wonder?” Oh, was it not cruel? The litle girl never went again. Per haps she was driven from Sunday school forever. Let every person, great or small remember this, that all who laugh at the poor laugh at God; and he will not always be* mocked I assure yon. Written fbrtba Sunday Telegram. THE PATRICK HENRY. The Tint mnd Last Confederate Steamer In Confederate Waters. BY A HKXBXB OF THE CONFEDERATE NAVY. The “Patrick Henry,” a very beauti fully modeled aide-wheel steamer, of about fourteen hundred tens burthen, waacalled the “Yotktowa* be' war, and waa one of the line of running between Richmond a York; she was considered a fart boat and deserved the reputation. When the Commonwealth of Virginia seceded from the Union, thia re—el waa fortunately in Jsmee River; she was seized by the f&ste, and tbe Governor and Council determin ed to fit her out as a man-of-war. She was taken up to the wharf at % a suburb of Richmond, and the command conferred upon Commander John Ran dolph Tucker, an officer of the United States Navy, who had resigned his com mission in that service in 1 tbe secession ofhiawatiTo number of Mechanics from tbo Norfolk Navy Yard, commenced the necessary al terations, and in a few months the pas senger steamer “Yorktowu” was convert ed into tho very creditable man-of-war steamer “Patrick Henry,” of ten guns and one hundred and fifty officers and The vessel being properly equipped, proceeded down James river and took a position off Mulberry Island, on which point rested the right of the Army of the Peninsula under Magruder. It was a dull work laying at anchor, the officers rarely went on shore, the ves sel being kept always with banked fires and prepared to repel an attack, which might have been at any moment, the Fed eral batteries at Newport News and the guard vessels stationed there, the “ Con gress,” “Cumberland,” and several gun boats, being plainly in sight After a tune the monotony became so irksome that Commander Tucker took the “Patrick Henry” down the river, to within long range of the Federal squad ron, and opened on them, with thehope of inducing a gunboat to ascend the river; the challenge was not accepted however, and tho Federal* having moved a field battery of ruled guns up the the bonks of the river, and taken a secure position from which they opened an annoying fire, the “Patrick Henry” was steamed slowly back to her station off Mulberry Island. The Federal papers stated that in this little affair, which took place on Septem ber 13, 1861, the fire of the “ Patrick Henry ’ did considerable damage to the Frigate “Congress." About this time intelligence was re ceived that one or two of the Federal Gun boats came up the river every night on picket duty, and anchored about amil6 and a half above their squadron. Here was a chance; so on tho night of 1st of December, 1861, the “ Patrick Henry" again went down tho river, keeping a sharp look out for the expected picket boats. Not a sign of a vessel was seen, and when day broke there was the ene- my’s squadron and batteries looming up against the dawn, with all the gunboats quietly at anchor around the large ves sels. As the “Patrick Henry” could not have returned unseen, Commander Tucker i^d the broadside of his vessel to the foe and opened with all the battery. The Feder al* were evidently taken by supprise, and it was some minutes before they replied to tho fire; they soon got to their guns, however; and the sun, asit rose,was greet ed with a roar of artillery that shook the windows in Norfolk, and roused the peo ple of that, then gay city, from their slumbers at a most inconvenient hour. TJ10 Federal fire was well directed, and one officer and several men were wounded on the “Pat” One gunboat used her her rifled guns with great pre cision, and so much did tho old Ruling Master of the “ Patrick Henry" a seaman of sixty winters, admire her skill, tl>nt he exclaimed : “Look at that dirty ugly looking craft yonder; well, when ever you see a puff of smoke go up from her look ont, for as sure as you are born there will be a shot smashing somewhere. ”■— The “Patrick Henry” continued the skirmish for an hour or more and then returned to her anchorage. In February, 1862, the ladies of Charles City, a county bordering on the James, desired to present to the “ Patrick Hen ry” a flag which they had made for her, as an evidence of their confidence in the vessel and their appreciation of the ser vices she had rendered them, by keeping marauding expeditions from ascending the river to pillage and destroy the famous old country seats that ore to be found on its banks. But the flag was destined never to be presented, such stirring times were at hand that the few hours necessary for the ceremony could not be spared; the iron clad “Virginia” was about to make an attack upon the Federal fortifications and squadron at Newport News, and the “ Patrick Henry” was to participate tho battle. A Specimen of Hifkhttm. A Western political stump-speaker de moliahes his opponent to this wise: Build a worm fence around winter's supply of summer weather; the clouds from the sky with a teaspoon; break a hurricane to a harness; ground sluice an earthquake; bake hell in an ice house; lasso an avalanche; put a diapper on the crater of an active volcano; have all the starts in a nail keg; hang the ooeaa on a grape vine to dry, pat tho sky to eoak in a gourd; unbuckle the belt of eternity;—and paste “To Let” on the son ana moon; bat never for a moment rir. delude yourself with thoidea that any ticket of your party can beat ours. Sun Btbokb.—It is surprising that when so simple a thing as a cabbage leaf stroke of the sun that so many become victims to it evoiy year* The hot mflkjjPUced ia ' The day before the attack was to be made, tbe “Patrick Henry” was moved down to Day’s Neck and an anchorage taken from which any vessel coming out from Norfolk could bo seen. The next day, the 8th of March, 1862, was clear, bright and placid. Ail eves were watching for the appearance of the “Vir ginia.” About one o’clock in the after noon she came steaming out from behind Grancy Island, attended by her satHlites, thegun-boate “Beauford” and “Raleigh.” Grand and strong, and confident, a Her cules of the waters, she moved strait upon the enemy. It was not necessary to call •‘all hands np anchor” on board tho “ Patrick Hen ry the anchor was raised with a run, under a full head of steam the vessel sped on her way to aid her powerful friend. The Con fed erato vessels in James river formed in a line ahead as they approach- at Newport News, the Patrick Henry, 10, Commander Tuck er, leading; next came the “Jamestown,” 2, Lentensnt Burney, and next the “Teaser,” 2, Lieutenant Webb. “The “Virginia" reached the scene of action mat; amid the iron hail which fell harm lessly on her, armor, she ran into and sunk the Cumberland. A hearty cheer from the Jamas river vessels greeted her soooess. but there was no time to give up to exultation, the longlineof the New port News, batteries were cloee at hand, and in order to reach the naval combat it was necenary to pass them. The guns of the “Fatriek Henry” we^.rtttrted for a range of eight hundred yards that being the distance at which the nOrts expected to pass the batteries. And now the hush which proceeds the shock of bat tle settled alike on Federal and Confed erate; glimpses could be caught of the sound came from them, lathe “Patrick ranged up abreast of the first bat- j delivered her fire, and the flash fber guns had hardly vanished when nek Henry” went over her gjms having been elevated for cf eight hundred yards, consequi was passing the batteries at leas distance, and to this circumstance be attributed her not haring-been sunk or disabled by them; the Federal* sup posed she would pass as far from them; as the channel would allow, and had ele vated their guns for that range; the ves- •rf posing closer than they thought ■he would, their shot, for the moat part, 1 paroed over her. She was struck, how ever, several times dnxing the passage; one Ami parted the crewofnumber three gTm, woaading two or three men, and faffing one; poor fellow, he was an 7 ble hero; his words as he fell, “never mind me bttys.” Haring passed the batteries with little damage, the “Patrick seme engaged in the thick of whilst the forward guns were j one enemy, the after ones were „ at another. The situation of the Confederate woodou vessels at this time seemed des perate. The Newport News batteries were on one side; on the other, ' were coming up from Old Point Comfort, and in front, the beach waa lined with field batteries and sharp-shooters. Fortunately for the Confederate wooden vessels the “Min nesota” “St Lrwrence,” and “Roanoke” grounded, and the smaller vessels which acoompmied them, warned by the fate of the “ Cumberland,” returned, nearly all of them, to Old Point The “Minneso ta,” however was near enough to take port in the action, and opened a heavy fire, after she ground, on tho Confederate squadron. About this time Flag Officer Buchanan hailed the “PatrickHenry”and directed Commander Tucker to bum the “ Con gress," which vessel had run ashore near the beach and struck her colors, The gunbovts “Beaufort,” “Raleigh," and “ Teaser” had attempted to bora her, but had been drived off by the heavy fire of the enemy. Tho pilots stated that there was a slioalnear tho “Congress,” and be tween that vessel and the “Patrick Hen ry,” over which the latter could not pass, Commander Tucker, therefone determin ed to approach the “ Congress” as near oal would permit, and then tu send his boats to board and bum her.— The lxuts were prepared for the service, with combustible materials, the boats’ crews and officers to command them held ready, whilst the vessel was steaming to the “ Congress.” This movement of the “Patrick Henry” placed her in the most imminent peril, she was brought under the continuous fire of three points; on her port quarter were the batteries of the Newport News, on her port bow were the field batteries and sharp shooters on the beach, and o: her starboard bow was the “ Minnesota. It soon became evident that no wooden vessel could long float under such a fire; several shots struck the hull, a pieco was shot out of the walking beam; ns sponge of the after gun was being serted in the piece, the handle was in two by a shot; half in prayer and half in despair at being miablo to perform his duty, the sponger exclaimed, “Oh Lord how is the guu to be sponged ?' Tho fate of the battle no doubt, in his opinion, depended on the proper spong ing of that particular gun; it must have been a great relief to him when the quar ter gunner of his division handed him a sparesponge. This state of things could not last long. A rifle shot from tho field batteries dene- trated the steam chest, the engine room and fire room were filled with steam, five or six of the fireman were scalded to engineer* were driven up on deck; and the engine stopped working. Tho vessel became enveloped in a cloud of escaped steam, and the enemy seeing that some disaster to the boiler had oc curred, increased his fire. At tho mo ment no one know what had happened, the general impression being that the boiler had exploded, and it is unmistaka ble evidence of the courage and discip line of tho crew that the fire from the vessel did not slacken, bat went as regu larly as before the incident. As tho ves sel was drifting to-wards the enemy, the jib was hoisted to pay her head around, and the steamer “Jamestown,” Lieuten ant Barney, gallantly came to her assis tance and towed her from her perilous situation. The engineers soon got one boiler to work, the other was so badly damaged that they were unable to repair it at the time, and with tho steam on one boiler alone the “Patrick Henry” return ed to the conflict. Night, however, soon closed in, and as, in the darkness, it was impossible to dis tinguish friend from foe, hostilities ceas ed. Daring the battle the shores of the Confederate side of the Roads were lined with spectators from Norfork and tho ad jacent country, and never, not even in si to days of t he gladiators, had an assem blage anch a spectacle performed before them. The night after the battle the Confed erate squadron anchored under SewaH’f Point, at the point of Norfork harbor. There was little time for sleep that night, ns the conflict was to be renewed the next morning, and it was necessary to make many repairs and preparations. About midnight a column of fire ascended in the darkness, followed by a ter rific explosion—the Federal frigate “Con gress, ,,r which had been on fire all the evening, had blown up, tbe fire having reached the magazine. At the first peep of dawn ou the 9th of March the Confederate squadron was underway, it having been determined to destroy the “ Minnesota,” that vessel l»e- ing still aground near Newport Nows.— As the daylight increased the “Minne sota” was discovered in her old position, but the “ Minnesota” was not the only thing to attract attention; close alongside of herthere lay a craft, the like of which a seaman’s eyes never rested on before, an immense shingle floating on the water with a gigantic cheese box rising from its centre; no sails, no wheels, no smokestack, no guns. What could it be? On board the “Patrick Henry” many were tho sur mises as to the strange craft; some thought it a water tank aent to supply the “Minnesota” with water; others were of tho opinion tliat it waa a floating msga- . enishing her exhausted stock of ammunition; a few visionary characters feebly intimated that- it might bo the “Monitor,” which the Northern papers lml * fin—titi a aVuvnf. fn* m I--/. u about for a long All doubts about tbo stranger wer< Boon dispelled. As tbe “Virginia’ sKsmed down npoo the-•Minneeotai 1 the cheese box and abingle steamed ont to mart her. It wnsindeed the --Uonuor" and then and then onmmenood the first combat that had erer taken place between iron-clnds. Tho “Patrick Henry” and the other -wooden vessels took little part in the events of tho day, except to ex change shots with tho “Monitor” at long aege, ar she paso^ during her msacon.- I ering with the “Virgina. At one-time 1 the “ Virginia” did not seem to move; g— Tehenmons were entertained that she UPfrgot aground or that some part of her machinery was damaged. Signal flags were run up on board of her, but the flags did not blow out clear; and it was some minutes before the signal officer of the 1IDAY, JULY 8, 1870. nek Henry” could make out the >e», at length he reported the signal * ** *rtUr as he could make it out, ■bled mv*propelier is.” No wooat-n l could nave floated twenty minutes r the fire that tho “ Virginia” was rgoing, bet if her propeller was dis- l it was neoessary to attempt to tow Krit to the cover of the Confederate ftiea; so the “Patrick Henry” and »tpwn started to moke the attempt; “P gone but a short distanoe when was seen to move and her r to turu. That evening the between the “ Virginia” and the . - jm- . Jr” having been a'drawn one, all the ‘Confederate vessels went Into the harbor of Norfolk. The “Patrick Henry” continued to render important service to the Confed erate States, until, on the night that Richmond was evacuated, she was blown up to prevent her falling into the of the Federate. She was the first and the last vessel that flew tho Confederate flag in the water* of Virginia. Hurra about Sleeping.—Dr. Hall thinks that good sleeping depends some- wfert on tho condition of tho sleeper when ho retires. . The stomach should be in S ood condition, not overloaded with un- igested food. In cold or damp weather the feet should be warmed a few min utes, and all anxious thought and cares should be dismissed. The bed for you and middle-aged people should be a hi or hair mattress, but a dean feather-bed is best for old persons. The feet and lower limbs should be warmly covered, so as to draw the blood from the head and prevent dreaming. It is best to lie on the right side, os that aids rather impedes digestion, but in no caso sleep on the back. Rut under no circumstan ces should two persons save mother and infant—sleep together in the same bed, or even in the same room. Dr. Hall brings together a number of reasons why this very common practice should be done away with. It is inaolicato. It de stroys privacy. It weakens self respect It is injurious to health in that two per sons consume more air than an ordinary chamber holds, or than good ventilation will supply, while the difference in the temperment and electrical conditions of almost any two persons render it exceed ingly improper for them to occupy tho same bed. Many a child lias wilted and waned and finally died from no other cause than sleeping with midlo-agod or old persons. Tho animals heard together, but human lieings should have each his own room and bed. The great thing, however, is to be supplied with a plenty of pure air through the night. A grown person breathes about eighteen hogsheads of air in eight hours’ sleep. Every breath somewhat vitiates all the in the room, as a drop of ink discol- all the water in a glass, and unless air is constantly renewed by proper ventilation, it soon becomes impure unfit to breathe, if not utterly poisoned. Death consequence of breathing bad air is t an unosunl occurrence, but hundreds of persons have had their health impair ed, their strength wasted and their lives shortened, by sleeping in a closed appart- ment. There should be free and abun dant circulation of pare air through tho chamber, in order to sleep and to get rest and refreshment from the sleep; and standing water, articles of clothing, brashes, and even a carpet, should be rigdly excluded from the* cl amber—the latter article in particular, as it collects and holds the fine particles of dust which the air gathers np and deposits in the sleeper's lungs. In order to sleep well it is best to retire regularly at an early hour, and sleep until we wake; but in no caso a second nap after the morning wak ing, and in no case sleep more than ten minntes in the day time when well. The system will very soon take all tho sleep it wants in the night, and the sleep wiU bo sweet and refreshing. It does not ways plans the work of the day before getting out of bed. Perhaps this is one reason why he is able to do so much. A Protestaxt “Schema.”—The basis of agreement of the debates in the forth coming Evangelical Alliance in New York, will be the same as that of the original society in London, adopted in 1846: 1. The divine inspiration, authority, and efficiency of tho Holy Scriptures. 2. The right and duty of private judg ment in the interpretation of the Holy Scriptures. 3. The Unity of the Godhead and the trinity of the persons therein. 4. The utter depravity of human nature in consequence of the fall. 5. The incarnation of the Son of God, His work of atonement for sins of man kind, and His mediatorial intercession and reign. G. The justification of the sinner by faith alone. 7. Tho work of the Holy Spirit in the justification of tho sinner. 8. Tho immortality of the soul, the resumption of the body, the judgment of the world by onr Lord Jesus Christ, with the eternal blessedness of the righteous and the eternal punishment of the wicked. The divine institution of the Chris tian ministry, tho obligation and per petuity of the ordinances of baptism and the Lord’s supper. It being, however distinctly declared that this brief summary is not to be re garded in any formal or ecclesiastical sene, as a creed or confession, nor the adoption of it as involving an assumption of the right authoritatively to define the limits of Christian brotherhood, but simply os an indication of tbe class of persons whom it is de arable to embrace within the Alliance. The Southern Side cf “Lothair.” Thoao who have not read Mr. Disraeli's famous novel may perhaps bo surprised to hear bis opinion on Southerns, and that he has put some strong allusions to them, or rather to the American charac ter in Lothair (OoL Campain) who is a souther man in the mouth of “tho Duke.” The latter say* of Col. Campain: “Well, he has tlie consolation of having suffered in a good cause. I shall be happy to make his acquaintance. I look upon an American gentleman, with a luge estate in the South ns a real aristocrat, and whether he goto his rents, or whatever his return* may be, or may not, I should al ways treat him with respect.” In anoth er place, he says of Col. Campain; “Yon know he is a gentleman:- he is not- a Yankee. People make the greatest mis takes about these things, fie is a gen- tleman of the South: They have no property left but land, and I am told his territory immense. * * v * It is not unlikely lie may have dost his estate now, butjhat makes no difference to me. I treat him and all southern gentie- as our fathers treated -the emigrant nobility of France. ”— Courier-Journal. —The crops in England are looking badly. There is no “bloom uponT*’ rye," but only upon the rye drinl Meanwhile the farmers are making wiy faces. Life and Death. BEAUTIFUL SKETCH HY CHARLES DICKENS. There ni once a ehild, and he strolled about a good deal, thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was a child too, and his constant companion. These too used to wonder all day long. They wondered at the beauty of flowers; they wondered at the heigtn and depth of the bright water; they wondered at the goodness and power of God, who made the lovely world. They used to say to one another some times, “supposing all the children of the Mirth were to die, would the flowers and tlie water and the sky be sorry ?” They believed they would be sorry. For, say they, the buds are the children of the flower*, and the little playful streams that n bol down the hillsides are the chil- i of the waters; and the smallest bright specks playing at hide and seek in the sky all night, mnst surely be the children of the stars, and they would be all grieved to see their playmates, the children of men, no more. was larger and more beautiful they thought, than all the others, and every night they watched for it, standing hand in hand at the window. Whosoev er saw it first cried out, “I see the star 1” And often they cried out both together, knowing so well when it would rise, and where. So they grew to be such friends with it that before lying down in their beds, they looked out once again to bid it good night; and when they were turning around to sleep they would sav. “God bless the star /” But while she was still very young, oh, venr, very young, the sister dropped, and came to be so weak that she could no longer stand in the window at night; and then the child looked sadly on by himself, and when ho saw the star, turned round to the patient, pale faceon the bed: “ I see the star!” and then a smile wonld come upon his face, and a little weak voice used to say : “God bless my broth er and the star!” And so the time came all too soon, when the child looked out all alone, and when there was no face on the bed; and when there was a little grave among the graves, not there before ; and when the star made long rays down toward him, as '-i saw it through his tears. Now, these rays were bright, and they emed to make such a beautiful, shining way from earth to heaven, that, when the child went to his solitary bed, he dreamed about the star; and dreamed that, lying where he was, ho saw a train of people taken up that shining road by angels. And the star opening, showed him a great world of light; where many more such angels waited to receive them. And these angel*, who were waiting, turned their beaming eyes upon the peo ple who were carried up into the star; and some came out from the long rows which they stood and fell upon the people’s necks and kissed them tenderly, and went away with them down avenues of light, and were so happy in their com pany that, lying in tho bed, he wept for ut there were many angels who did not go with them, and among them one ho knew. The patient face that had once lain upon tlie bed was glorified and radiant, but his heart found ont his sister among all tho host. Hissister’s angel lingered near the en trance of the star, and said to the leader among those who had brought the people thither— “ Is my brother come ?” And he said, “No.” She was taming hopefully away when the child stretched out his arms and said— “Oh, sister, I am here, Take mo 1” And then she turned her beaming eyes upon him, and it wns night; and the sto* was shining into his room, making long rays down toward him as he saw it through his tear. From that hour forth the child looked out upon the star as on tho home he was to go to, when his time should come, and he thought ho did not belong to earth alone, but to the star, too, because of his sister’s angel gone before. There was a baby bom to be a brother to the child and while he was so little that he had never yet spoke a word, he stretched his tiny form out on the bed and died. Again the child dreamed of the opened star, and of the company of angels, and train of people; and all tho rows of angels, with their beaming eyes all turned upon those people's faces. Said his sister’s angel to the leader: “Is my brother come ?” And he said, “Not that one, butanoth- And the child beheld his brother’s angel in her arms, he cried, “ Oh, sister, I am here ! Take me!” And she turned and smiled upon him, and the star was shining. He grew to be a young man, and was busy at his book when an old servant came to him and said : “ Thy mother is nc more. I bring her blessing on her darling son.” Again at night he saw tl««* and all that former company. S>*i«i Lis sister’s angel to the leader. “Is my brother come ?’ : Anil he said. “ Thy mother.” A mighty cry of joy wont forth through all the stars because the mother was re united to her two children. And ho stretched out his arms and cried: “Oh, mother, sister and brother, 1 am here! Take me I" And they answered. “Not yet,” and the star was shining. He grew to be a man whoso hair was turning gray* and ho was setting in his chair by the fireside, heavy with grief, and with his face bedewed with tears, when the star opened once again. Said his sister’s angel, to tho leader, “Is my brother come ?” And he said, “Nay, but his maiden daughter.” And the man who had been a child saw his daughter, newly lost to hin, a celestial creature among those three, and he said, “My daughter’s head is on my mother’s neck, and at her feet there is the baby of old time, and can bear the parting from her, God be praised !” And the star was shining. Thus the child camo to be an old and his once smooth face was wrinkled, and his steps were slow and feeble, and his back waa bent. And one night as he lay upon his bed, his children standing around him, he cried as he had cried so long ago: “I seethe star I” They whispered tfrone another, “Hein dying.” And he smd, “I am. My age is falling from me like a garment, and I move toward the star as a child. -And O, my Father, now I thank Thee that it lias so often opened to receive those to await e r . And the star was shining; and it shines upon his grave. The Boot in the Bed. Miss Lydia White had two lovers. Tom Green and Willie Jones. Both: were good-looking, well-to-do young mechanics, and both loved her devotedly, if their own vehement asser tions could be credited. Lydia was in' something of a dilemma ' concerning them. She had no particular preferonoe for either of them, but she wanted to be mar ried some time, and Mr. White was open ed to long courtships, and . Aunt Jane kept assuring her that her bed and table linen would get yellow with being packed away in the bureau so long; and sho also took frequent opportunities of remarking that “none ofher girls ever was single after they had reached the age of eighteen; no, not a minit!” And as Lydia counted her years four more than eighteen, of course this latter insinuation of Aunt JaneVcut deeply. . Lydia turned the matter over seriously in her own mind, and argued it with her self pro and eon, which she should take, Green or Jones. some degree romantic, Number 20. POKPEII AHD VESUVIUS. marrying a second Napoleon as to cour age; in fart if there was any quality that she especially admired in a man, it was bravery. When she said anything about this the hearing of Tom or Willie, they beg ged her to put them to the test—they wonld joyfully die for her if she stood in need of such a sacrifice, they assured her over and over again. On Sunday evening, as was indeed fre quently the case, Jones and Green both happened to call at Lydia's about the same time. Lydia went out of the room abont nine •’clock on pretense of bringing a book of engravings, but shortly returned in great perturbation. “Whatis it? What is the matter?” cried tho two lovers in eager chorus. “Oh, dear me!” sighed Lydia, “such a dreadful, dreadful thing! Who could have thought it in onr peaceful commu nity ! Oh,. Mr. Jones, Mr. Green ! Yon cannot think how glad—how relieved I am that you are here. I should be fright ened to death were it otherwise J” and she clang first to one and then the other with confidence perfectly infatuating. “ Tell us what, is it. !’-* cried Green. “Enlighten ns as to the cause of this emotion,” said Jones who had been to the Chicken Valley Academy two “quar ters.” ‘Oh, you sro both so brave!” cried Lydia admiringly—“I feci ns if I were protected by an armv.” Green drew himself up to his full height, which was just five feet, and it mnst be confessed that beside the Herculean Jones, lie looked liko a Bantam rooster beside a Shanghae. “ Command me !” said Green, “only let me do your bidding !” “Ask my existence,” said Jones, “ »nd it shall be given as free ns tho streams to sounding ocean.” " Hush T’cried Lydia, “ don’t speak so loud! He might hear yon, and take the alarm and kill ns before you had a chance to capture him.” “He ? who? wlmt ” demanded Jones a tragic whisper. “Hush! for pitty sake,” said Lydia, e is up stairs in the spare room ! under the bed ! Father had a hundred dollars paid him yesterday for a cow, and this is tho plan to rob the house. I saw his boots stick from the counterpane.” “Good heavenR !” cried Green, getting behind Jones. “And such big boots, too,’’said Lydia —“ twelves, I am sure J” “Tom ! Oh, Willie ! protect me!” cried Lydia, pathetically, and they both pro tested that they would shield her with the last drop of their blood. “Then go up stairs and seize the vil lain,” said Lydia. “ You had better go first,” said Jones, ‘I don’t know the way.” “Nor I” said Green, “and you’re the liggest; it belongs to you to lead on.” “I will show you the way,” ^oid Ly dia. And the two gallant young men reluc tantly followed her up stairs. She opened the door of the spore chamber, softly, and they saw the boots very distinctly; a most extremely dirty pair of cowhides, which looked as though their owner had traveled through twenty miles of swamp, and mode no acquaintance with rugs or scrapers afterward. “ A—mighty big man he must be, with such a pair of feet,” said Jones. “Hadn’t we better coil your father end Mr. Berry the hired man ?” “I think we had,” said Green timidly. ‘ ‘I don’t,” said Lydia decidedly. ‘.‘See! I believe the boot* are moving. Oh, goodness me.” And as she screamed, Jones and Green simultaneously made a rush for the cham ber door. Jones stumbled over a wash- stand and went headlong to the foot of the stairs, wash-stand and all. And Ly dia, by clinging to the skirts of Jjfr. Green’s coat, kept him from following bis “ What the duce is to pay here ?” asked Jack Bexrj, appearing on the scene in his shirt and trowsers, and his curly light hair standing out all over his head like tlie bristle* on a lamp chimney brush. Lydia pointed to the boots. • “Don't touch him,” whined Green, “he may have a pistol or something about him, and hurt somebody.” “Yon chicken-livered whelp,” cried Berry. “You’re afraid toseo what’s be hind the boots, are ye ? “Wall, I’ll show you !” And Berry seized the frightful objects and gave a pull so strong that he went over backward on the floor with a boot in either hand. “Jupiter !” ho cried, “I never saw any boots ccme off so easy as that are. Let's see the feet.” Add curing under the bed he lifted the counterpane and displayed— nothing. “ Bat where is the owner of the boots ?” cried he, scratching tho bruise on his "'■“’e, and lookin'” Here!** said — ,‘ T “ th f. and here I have been hearing this drattlod noise for the last ten minutes, and thinking there was a fire over to the corner. But not A sign of my boots could I find. Who put ’em there, Leddy?” But Lydia was bathing Berry’s nose. Jones had sense enough to see that they were de trop. And they took their departure without any very elaborate farewells. - ‘By jinks,” said Green to Jones, on - home. _ 'T’ye got an idea; its thurj o f a girl put them purpose to try “ Of conrse she did, " said Jones, c ly;wpmenai$as deceitfolgstheA A VISIT To THE OLD FOMTEHiAN household THE rONTDiUED EXCAVATIONS. Pompeii, at tlie base of Vesuvius, struggles again for life! Sweep back two thousand years, reader, and stand with me on the vast remains of ah ancient city, whoso streets, theatres and temples lie- gin to revise- in - graoeful ruins. From tire tangled mass beneath the lava, volu minous art, strewn amid the courts and thenrne of that once proud city, breath ing existence in the haughtiest age of the Roman empire, rise* reanimated.— Exquisite moral paintings, in the roofless chambers, aa fresh and plain as if they* had been executed yesterday, disinterred from their long banal, mirror the lux- ariousneeeanddebeeenen’of Pompeiian life A perfect facinaiion creeps over the wondering visitor, when standing at the bottom of the market place, he looks up the silent afreets, through the rained temple* of Jnpiter and Isis, over broken places with exposed sane tones, to Mount Vesuvius in tfio peaceful distance. It is like a dream, You have but little heed of time, and no. understanding of its flight. The strange scene grown melan choly in it* sensation, when we ramble on passing relic* of human inhabitation and life—the stone rim of the exhausted well worn by tho backet rope; the carriage wheel in tho narrow streets, the places for drinking-vessels on the marble counter of tho wino shop; the Amphono, in pri vate cellars, hundreds of years ago put away; the miller’s and his oven, where for two thousand years lay his last bak ing; the liouso of Diomedes, where skel etons were found huddled together near the door, as if attempting to escape, shrunken inside to scanty bones, and hardened with ashes—are scenes of this ghostly city, awfully impressive and solemn. Moving on, baths, amphitheatres and temples, where the gods were wont to be worshipped by the priest, dimly show the revelry of pleasure, the pursuit of games, and the superstitious adoration of that elysian ago. Perhaps the dim vista of imagination becomes paramount to that reality, when looking upon tho neigh boring grounds, wo reflect that house up- house, palace upon palac<v templo np- templc, monument upon'monument, are still. lying underneath tho quiet growth,and that their untold wealth of art, classic stories, mythological fable*, con ceits of cupids theatrical rehearsal*, po etic recitations, artistically told in colors, and tlie mysteries of antiquity, are - wait ing to lie turned up to the light of day. Sitting upon a fragment of stone, cover ed with ancient mooes, where the sleepy lizard crept, and the nimble grasshopper 8kipt, I watched tho slow excavation of a room, and saw burst into light for tho first time since tlie fearful eruption tho teriel grace of the Prompeiian dancing girls, with dazzling brilliancy of color, as beautiful as though the arteat had that moment put his finishing touch upon hem. Imperial Rome proudly points to the dignity of her Forum; the colossal grandeur of her Coliseum; the magni ficence of the remains of eminence and power of her Christian civilization; to the wide Campania with utiles of aque ducts stretching to Tivoli itself, with Hadrian’s massive villa, here the emperor gathered his spoils of travel and feasted poets, philosophers and statesmen. But this vast scene, linked by memories of study and sacred in the recollections of scholastic pedantries, is not more im pressive than the awful sublimity of “this city of the dead.” Vesuvius, in its fury, burst the earth and buried the city in its bowels, and not left a single trace, the solitudo would not have been less solemn. It is a curiosity to trace hero the melted lava, penetrated into every nook and corner, entered tombs and forced the ashes of the dead from the funeral urns; crawled into the eyes and mouths of tbe living like hot lead pouring into a mould. Layer upon layer os perfect on though the hand of genius systematically placed them there, mark the different deposits of eruptions—in some places as solid ns marble. Tho. work of excavation goes on daily; the ’ :1s, boys, men and women carry away > debris, and hunting for precious articles often find rings, jewelry end coins or delicate mosaic works. Every erect or fallen column, every mark of that aw ful calastrophe, suggests to our mind the horror of that honr when “day was turn ed into night and light into darkness.” The delicious breeze of tho south, trtftw over the gulf of centuries, lifts the cloud olsmokehimging oyer.the fatal destroyer - ' at anytime to send Morrissey’s Gambling Palace at Sara toga^ A correspondent thus VnteB; John Morrissey’s new house at Haraio- gate said to be by far the most gorgeous house for play on tho continent. The main floor is divided into three rooms, two of which are devoted to play and one for dining. The fitting* np for the rooms are simply magnificent The- floors are covered with scarlet and white velvet tapestry. The fafrtiture, sideboards; oor • nines, mantle and mirror frames are French chevol, inlaid with .gold. The cartoins are silk and damask, Tho mon ogram “ J. M.” flames out on all sides.— Oyer the massive mirrors’ are Carved tigers* heads, wide open to devour, an emblem of the tiger persona will fight within the walls. The chandelier* ore gold guilt, and the brackets are burnish ed in the aame style. - On tho saloon floor there are one; hundred and twenty- five lights, and two hundred and seventy in all the house. Private staircases lead to rooms aloft, and these; rooms; on the * two stories nhovo the pork** ‘ are gor- sly fitted, up for gopetp. The lower fa for fa kifahec, win* ceDar, v larn- dry and for dofae*’ house cost, ninety _tji , _ lotnearisQwnsdby achnroh. ' would not-sell, bqt the grounu » rontea to Morrissey .for-fan years, at one ihbus- and dollar* a yen?, to give room and light for the ofab house, S&" Twenty-seven miliums, of francs won on one. be(! Tho Duke of Hamilton is : the luclty mortal. Mo win* twenty francs on each vote above.six millions given far the Emperor, in theplebiscitum from the members of Ufa Jocky Club.— The bet was as follows: Tho Duke topay to the members of the dub two look to every yoto under six millions, and to re ceive one louis, for every vote above that number. (An^hawon. - —A lady wants to know why Hymen is represented with a torch? Perhaps it is to throw a light upon those little imper- fertUdl ||22 to. ^I-A Portland darkey called at a drag store for a “sottler powder.” The seiditzwas duly prepared, and its use explained, -but he drank the two solutions separately. When tho boiling fluid form ed trem Uia noao and month, ho yelled: “My stomach’s bast, I can’t lito a ~ " ,’’ and bolted from the store. »«. The World says-. The hid gloTO is about to cease from jts mission as tho emblem of aristocracy, on account-of' defect in pj&eo. Very excellent kids are now sold in Paris] at thirty cents a pair, and on Broadway they ore marked as low as fifty cents. The market is abso- *:ed, and even the present ha iL .