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AV. “*4 KM i/a L K ,} Editors and Proprietors. It A R<MROLLE. 11Y EDGAR FAWCETT. H , j.,, |i,. s with the sheen on it H ~'fo hist look serene on it; m , in,l it- rim, in the gloaming din, the shades H | t |„> low hills lean on it. I ‘ ,s( sound the eharmlng quiet mars; H i'jiinv heaven is yearning for its stars! ■ , |Slr ., n ge, half-proud humility, ■ :i;: ill „|,?uo,.s tranquillity, H r t lounging sweet, at my flattered feet, in I ' vVitaosque immobility; | , J'thv bosom’s eliante superb repose v ; blood-red, VblSrct-petailed rose. ■ j. M . aflhtrut hair so billow-like lr „.i> ~f tliv form SO willow-like, from the red eaeheniirc folded im ■ ' ' ,1,-r its pale cheek pillow-like; I . urnippled lake, the gloom, the calm—all dower I with one imiierisliable hour! I , ),ow the pines loom towerwisc; i. tin. iiike-< dae howerwise; I ' -I n s wait still, ere they llock to fill the lieav enW meadows Howerwise. Hosier in the darkening west hums now, s,.me grand diamond on some swart queens iirow. \\i,love ' with tlie rich day failing so, \\ iithe slimmer sunset jailing so, j „ ,f/M always rent on the lustrous breast of the hike, forever .sailing so, , ~] 1,,.!, at langurous rapture’s utmost goal, ; , lightly sweep the lute-strings of my soul! fhsslless, ii skit's he thunderfull, if time iw plunderfull; i Kiily sure of the splendor pure in those fatliom |i-< eyes, and wonderful, y, .Kill would soar beyond all time, as soars im' iij’lcaping lark through dawn’s white corridors THE BEAUCHAMP TKAUEDY. flu- story of One of (lie Most I'ltmoiis jtiirdeisi ever I*erp*trateil in America. Cincinnati Commercial. Wi'.ixlering among the graves in the ivinctery at k rankfort, a correspondent it the Cincinnati Commercial found a .lark, Cray monument bearing the name Siloiimn 1. 8 harp. Ihe inscription . tes that he “ was assassinated while o,trialing the hand of hospitality, on the nine: <d Nov. 7, 1825, in the thirty itli year of his ago,” with the text ltd: “What thou knowest not now, lit til shalt know hereafter.” Col. Sharp was, in his day, one of the vrmio.it men of Kentucky. During the of James Madison he had served two terms in congress, at which linn' he was the room-mate and intimate friend of JOHN a CALHOUN, bio is said to have declared that Sharp -’’the oldest man of his ai.ee that had vi r crossed the mountains.” He had previously been several times elected to Kentucky legislature, and under '"'V. .vdair was attorney-general of the do. At the time of his death he had ttleil in Frankfort as a very successful ivyer, but had recently been again • " ted to the legislature as the cham !'!" of the “ relief party.” The “ relief” 'h "anti-relief” controversy, of which - dl not attempt to sketch a history, * been for some time agitating the " . and the tact that Col. Sharp was - irded as a chief exponent of the relief ? incut, and that the session of the J :!-latnre was to begin on the day foi ling his assassination, lent a jieculiar ‘■mpliasis to the excitement that followed. i!x' story ot his death, with its cause : ! u, l ds consequences, I have learned 'mm several cotemporary personal imms. But first let me say, fronting the capitol square in Frankfort, on its northern side, and only a few steps cast- W: ! ni from the Frankfort and Louisville railway, is a large, dark, red-colored ~ru’ k mansion, tliree stories in height, i.’ttcnding far back, with ample aecom ii'idations for the slave help of “the ?*od old times.” his house is perhaps sixty years old, w ‘ ,s Hie house of Col. Solomon P. iirji in iN2o. A few years previous, p,: ir l ) ' ia( l met a young lady named Ann hhza Cook, and IIK HAD SEDUCED HER. ; !° was a young lady of good family, of cultivation, with some literary tal- He met her at a party, I believe, "l it was under the excitement of the i : lll( . r an< l the wine j>erhaps, that Miss yielded herself to him. After her became known she had secluded :"' r>rlf , at home, but it seems that a * ; <wyer named Jeroboam O. Beau -1 ;, i s<) of respectable family, hap- C"r l to S0( ‘ i' er and, falling in love with ! succeeded in obtaining her promise ; 1 ' 'ome his wife on condition exacted p . T lie should kill Colonel Sharp. l! ' promise was made —the marriage '"'place. Some time —a year or two ■ Map s passed, and Sharp still re ' "Utcd alive. Perhaps the trouble nave passed and been forgotten, . !ii 't tin- seduction been mentioned as , " 1 character during the '"m political campaign in which he ut'elected to the legislature. On this ' V ' :,! ‘.'C being brought against him, Col. ' T treated it slightly and stated in 1'". '1 ;< ‘) it is said, that a certificate was in , ‘ ■ U' c that this child born of Miss IIAD A BLACK FACE. I,l|s added insult to the original injury, ;in, l the secret writing of Beauchamp’s noise came out "distinctly at his :, th. 1 he Sunday evening before the ncral assembly met, Beauchamp (who v "'i in another part of the state) en- U'l Frankfort, and, finding the hotels /" put up at the private house of a utlcman named Bcott, two or three 'lares south of Sharp’s residence. Late night he went around to the house in 'nidi Sharp resided—the large, old K which I have mentioned—and. go - to a side door (though others say it to the front door), he knocked. :l! p was awakened, and asked who was ,‘ m ‘- Beauchamp answered by giving name of one familiar to Sharp —in ■ tucr part of the state, where the latter ni " i'ly lived—but changing the second l! ' 1; il of this person’s name, saying •i'hn A. Covington,” and requesting ■’him at once on important business. 1 know John W. Covington,” said '' -u p. deliberately opening the door and dancing into the open air and dark- ncv-. • . , Beauchamp at once lifted a mask which ‘‘t l Wore, saying: 1 h-n’t you know me, colonel ?” y.y God! it’s B —,” exclaimed Sharp, did not succeed in pronouncing his ’•jciny’s name Ixfore the latter struck ,!|,t "hh his left hand and , . stabbed iiim to the heart , ! l ; the right. Col. Sharp was found ', 0a ' 1 °n his doorstep. Beauchamp re lied to his lodging and left town early t H'.e morning, without being suspected, ' T'lieve. It is related that on approach es' bis home he conveyed to his wife the intelligence of the deed accomplished by waving his handkerchief aloft in the dis tance, Ihe death of Col. Sharp produced a profound sensation in Frankfort and throughout the state. The legislature offered $3,000 for the detection and ap prehension of the murderer. There was a disposition to make political capital out of the affair, too, I am told, and to make believe the assassination to have l>eon in the interest of the anti-relief party. One of the Frankfort editors of the time was darkly charged with acces sory knowledge—and some were not in disjKiscd, I believe, to have him arrested. It was through this editor, I have been told—l think the name was Darby—that Beauchamp was finally pointed out and arrested, Sharp’s family, it is said, show ing an indisposition to touch him and thus make hopelessly public the cause of his act. But Beauchamp was finallv brought tq trial, and SENTENC ED TO EE HUNG. During the interval between the sen tence and its execution, great efforts were made in his behalf, delegations of ladies dressed in mourning even going to the governor, and a son of the governor, Isaac B. Desha, was imprisoned at the time, convicted of a highway robbery near Mavsvillc. It was presumed young Desha would be pardoned —as lie "after ward was—and it was urged that the governor might do a gracious thing, lightening the selfish act of clemency by pardoning Beauchamp and his son to gether. But he was inflexible. Political revenge, perhaps, it is said, had to he gratified, The day of execution came. A short time before the hour designated, request was made by Beauchamp that his wife might be permitted to remain with him alone in his cell (it seems they were ten derly engaged to each other), for the purpose of their last leave-taking, and this privilege was granted. After a while, as the time fixed for execution was at hand, the officers entered the prison cell and found the wife dying with the wound of a penknife in her breast, and the husband himself also fatally stabbed. They had DETERMINED TO ELUDE THE LAW, and die together. But as the time for the execution had come, Beauchamp was taken in his dying condition out upon the scaffold and hung. The bodies of the husband and wife were removed to their home and buried together. Sub sequently this tragic romance of real life was made the basis of a novel which was largely bought up, it is said, by Sharp’s friends. Tutor, about eighteen years ago, a drama was written by John Sa vage, the Irish poet, founded on the Beau champ history, and was on the point of being produced at Louisville. “I was at the Louisville theatre that night, I remember,” a lady in Kentucky told me; “it was in 1858. The theatre was very full. I forgot the name of the play, hut it was understood that its inci dents were taken from the Beauchamp tragedy, and Avona Jones was to have the principal part. “The curtain was about to rise; every body was in expectation, when is was an nounced that a change of the programme had been determined upon, and the ‘Bride of Lammermoor,’ 1 believe —some thing, at least, from one of Walter Scott’s novels —\Vas played instead. Governor Morehead, it was understood, had come down on the evening train from Frank fort, just in time to prevent the play, offering a large sum of money on behalf of the Sharp family to have it withdrawn and not produced in Kentucky. There was great excitement; many insisting on leaving the theatre and having their admission money refunded, I remember.” Capturing a Prince. Once’ upon a time a little Egyptian girl attended a missionary school on the Isthmus of Suez. This little girl always learned her lessons well, and on exhibi tion days was always pointed out as the brightest scholar of all her comrades. One day an Indian prince came that way. He was returning to his native land with the corpse of his mother, who had died in England; where her son had been spending his youth acquiring a knowledge of English life, literature, and customs. His name was Maharajah Du leep Singh, and he was very, very rich. In fact, he was so rich, such a gentle- man, and so elegant in his social be havior that there were many of the great ladies of the court who would have deemed it an honor to have obtained his hand in marriage. Well, as we were saying, the prince came to the isthmus, and being detained there a few days waiting for a vessel, he strolled about the village, seeking to divert his mind from brooding upon the sorrow that had so recently befallen him. Attracted by a chance view of the interior of the mission school, it occurred to him to enter. Hav ing introduced himself to the teacher by one of his names that did not indicate what a dignitary he was, a little extem pore exhibition of the attainment? of the pupils was resolved upon. Of course the pet of the school was called upon to repeat a piece of poetry. This she did so prettily that the prince was charmed. The next day he came again, and asked the child, who was scarcely thirteen years old, to speak the piece once more. She did so, and the son of the sun fell desperately in love with her. When school was dismissed he told the teacher what a nobleman he was, and proposed to marry the little girl on his return from India, which would W in just six weeks from that date. In that interval ’the future princess was put through a course of instruction that almost dazed her. But she was an apt scholar, and when her royal betrothed came to claim her hand she was nicely Anglicized, and could manage a long dress quite grace ful lv. The course of this case of true love at first sight ran ever so smoothly, and they were married. The prince took his child-wife to London, bought- a grand palace, endowed her with all the mag nificent jewels he had inherited from his family, and gave her unlimited credit at the most fashionable milliners. And they are still living in England as happy as happy can be. The prince sends ten thousand dollars every year to the mis sionary school where he first saw his wife, who had proven worthy of him. It is a very pretty story, and all little girls who go to school can find a moral in it. They should always know their lessons thoroughly, and have a piece of poetry ; committed to memory, so that they may CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1575. be ready to captivate the first disguised grand duke that Wandei’s unawares into their school-room The Earliest Modern Newspapers. It seems that to Italy the world is indebted for the origin of the newspaper. Centuries before the Christian era, or, to give the precise date according to the best authorities, (391 B. C., it daily jour nal called the Acta Dhirna was published at Home. It was not in the form of the printed paper sheet that is nowadays left at every intelligent man’s door in the early morning; nor was it issued in copious editions and circulated among the subscribers for a stipulated consider ation. The Acta Diurna was a public enterprise, supported by government, and the few copies struck off in Latin script Upon white wooden tablets were hung at conspicuous points in the streets and the frequented places of the city, and gave to the curious passer-by the latest intelligence of current events. With the downfall of the western empire journal ism perished, and for upward of it thou sand dreary years was one of the lost and forgotten arts. By Italian genius it was finally revived again, and Venice was the scene of its second birth. There are now in the Magliabechia library of Florence thirty volumes of the oldest modern newspaper of which we have any knowledge. It was entitled Gazetta, as some say, from the word Gazzcra, signifying magpie or chatterer, and, according to others, from the name of the small coin for which the paper was sold. It was published at Venice once a month by order of the government, and continued to be written in script, even after printing had been invented. The hist number is dated in the sixteenth century. The earliest French journal, the Gazette de France, a newspaper still in existence, we believe, was edited by Benaudot, a physician in Paris. It appeared as a weekly, the in itial number being issued in April, 1(331. It was patronized by the king, Louis XIII., and contained at least one article penned by the royal hand. It also en joyed the support of Cardinal Richelieu. The British museum preserves some copies of a newspaper called the English Mercuric, and professing to have been printed under the authority of Queen Elizabeth in 1588. The titie of one of the numbers reads thus: “The English Mercuric, published by authoritie, for the prevention of false reports, imprinted by Christopher Barlur, her highness’s printer, No. 50.” In it is an account of the Spanish Armada, under the heading: “ A journall of what passed since the 21st of this month, between her majes tic’s fleet and that of Spayne, transmit ted by the Lord Highe Admiral to the hordes of Council.” But the papers were not published at the date and in the circumstances pretended. They have been proved to be clever forgeries execu ted about 176(3. In 1622, during the reign of James 1., a paper appeared un der the title of the London Weekly Cour ani. In 1643, in the time of the civil war, a variety of publications claiming unworthily the office and the name of news]taper were produced, but, in fact, the first genuine news journal published in England was established by Sir Roger L’Estrange, in 1665. It bore the name of the Public Intelligencer, and survived until the Ixtndon Gazette was trans ferred from Oxford to London, in Feb ruary, 1866. The first regular newspaper produced in the United States was the Boston News-Letter, which appeared April 24, 1704. In September, 1098, an enter prising printer in Boston had undertaken to start a newspaper, hut the first edition was suppressed by the authorities, and only one copy is now known to exist. Fall Planting in the Flower Barden. If the southern flower gardener desires a good show of bloom next spring, he must plant during the present month or the next, according to the state of the weather and the condition of the soil, many seeds which the catalogues of the seedsmen will direct him to sow in the spring. Most of the perennials and bien nials, as well as some of the annuals, arc of this class. A few of the most desir able are snapdragon, ( Antirrinum ,) Col umbine, (Aquiligia,) Sweet Alyssum, Candy tuff, Caliopsis, Catchfly, Clarkia, Nemophilla, Petunia, Larkspur, Erysi mum, Link, Mourning Bride, ( Scabiosa ,) Stock, Holyhock, Sweet Pea, Mignonette, (in pots for winter blooming,) Gaillardia and Pansy. We may sow also, in pots of prepared soil, Calceolaria, Cineraria, Mimulus, and Chinese Primrose, for win ter blooming house plants. The seed should he sown in September, in pots prepared in the following manner: the pot to he half filled with drainage, over that, the rough sifting of the mold, and the surface covered with soil as fine as possible, half of which should he com posed of river sand. When prepared thus, it should be watered with a fine rose, immediately after which sow the seed carefully, Avitliout any covering of soil. The pots should then be placed under a close frame or hand-glass, in a shady part of the garden, no artificial heat being required. When the plants have made sufficient growth—say an inch —they must he transplanted into small pots filled with similar soil and kept as before; and they must afterwards be several times re-potted, as their growth may require more room. —Enrol Caro linian. Judging Houses. —The purchasers of horses for the French army always en deavor to obtain a first look at the ani mal when he is tranquil and in the sta ble, noting if the animal supports itself equally well on all its legs, and if one seems to yield, to especially examine it Attention is then directed to the large ness of the pupil of the eye, which ought to be more exposed to full light. After the animal has been led out of the stable the eye ought to he again examined ; ob serve has the pupil contracted —it not, the sight is feeble. Others, to test the -power of vision, feign to strike the lore head with the hand. It the hollow over the eyes be profound and temples gray, okl age is to he concluded. Wounds about the temples suggest attacks of staggers, and when the end of the nose presents’ circular scars, it may be con cluded that the horse has been twitched with a cord to insure his quietness while being shod, or having to submit to severe painful operations, —Journal of Agricvl iur%. HIS HONOR AND HI JAIL An Hour lit <l* (ViKrsil Million foot I ]. From the Detroit Free Fren. Bijah skulked into the corridor and returned with a melancholy man, whose shirt-collar hung by the last button, and who had evidently been rolled over and over in the road by the boss elephant of the last circus. “ Your cognomen is —?” inquired his honor. “ Shoseph,” replied the prisoner. “ And you workaa?” “ (>n a Sherman baper,” was the reply. “ Ah! yes. You are one of those af ternoon journalists who take items from the morning papers, change a name or two, and gobble them as original!” “ 1 dranslates,” replied the prisonei, in solemn tones. “ I understand. I’ve seen your trans lations frequently, and they are well done. Anybody who hadn’t read the other papers would think you had a hun dred tons of brain under your hat.” “ I gan’t help dot if I didn’t want to.” “ Well, I’m only giving you my indi vidual opinion. If I were you I’d write my own items or sit on a box and whit tle bar soap. It’s a fact that you were drunk last night, and what have you to say about it?” The prisoner wiped his nose in an ap pealing manner, and his honor continued: “It’s the first time, and I’ll let you go, but if you appear here again [’ll translate you and transport you, too. You are big enough to know how to be have yourself.” “ Whoop!” exclaimed a Toledo sailor as he was brought out. “Yes, ‘hooped’ for sixty days,” re plied the court, and Bijah went in for another. Henry Gibson came out with wild eye and nervous step, and as soon as he could secure a view of his honor’s good na tured face he feelingly remarked : “ I protest—l solemnly protest!” “ Don’t take on that way, Mr. Gibson,” soothingly replied the court, “ I will, sir—l will take on ! I pro test, sir.” “ Do you protest a draft, Mr. Gib son ?” “ No, sir; I protest against the out rage!” “ Didn’t you have sheets on your hod, Mr. Gibson, and didn’t they give you milk toast for breakfast?” “ I tell you I protest!” exclaimed the prisoner. “ Well, T would, too, if I’d been found drunk with my body jammed in between a sugar hogshead and a barrel of kero sene. There’s lots of law in this coun try, Mr. Gibson, but there’s no law to prevent you protesting from this time until Christmas.” “Sir! I want justice! said the pris oner; “I demand justice!” “ That’s a different thing, Mr. Gibson, and I’m happy to say that T can accom modate you. I find you guilty, and I sentence you to the house of correction for thirty da vs !” “ I pro—!” But Bijah pulled him in out of the soft, sad sunlight which streamed into the court-room. WANTED THOMAS. Bhe was a little hit of a woman with a big straw hat on, and she suddenly squeaked out: “Oh ! sir! I want to see Thomas, sir!” “ Well, look around you, and if you see him it will he all right.” “ Oh ! sir, lie isn’t here, sir,” she said, after glancing around. “What Thomas is it?” inquired the court. 9 Oh! I dunno!” “ Is it Thomas Jefferson ?” “ Deed, sir, hut I can’t tell!” “Or Thomas Jones, Brown, Fmith, Perkins, De Fancy, Bt. Clair or Wither spoon?” “ None o’ them, sir—it’s Thomas.” “ Well, your Thomas is far, far away, it seems, and now let’s proceed to ask and answer other questions. Let, me in quire if there is the remotest suspicion in your mind that you were intoxicated last evening ?” “ Oh! I can’t go on till I see Thomas!” she Availed. “ And Thomas, oh! where is he?” “ That’s Avhat 1 dunno.” “ Well, I can’t keep this case open all summer to please Thomas, John or Joe. You will have to plead.” “ 1 plead for Thomas,” she answered. “ Guilty, or not guilty ?” “ Oh! sir, call for Thomas, sir !” “ Madame Bliss, I can’t have any more fooling around. Ido not know this Thomas. I do not knoAV his abiding place. He may he a wild Arab, a howl ing Turk, a bearded Russian or an Amer ican with his hair parted in the centre for aught 1 know. We must dispose of this case.” “Thomas! oh! my Thomas!” she called as she faced the audience. “He answereth not, Mrs. Bliss, and now I desire to know Avhy you kicked down the line fence between you and your neighbor, and threw slops at her?” “ Oh ! sir, if Thomas was only here!” “ I wish he Avas —I’d send him up with you. I make your sentence sixty days, and if you ever find Thomas please send me his photograph.” Bijah adjourned the court, tenderly placed the prisoners in the buggy, and the boys came out of the alley and sing : Blio’s a wocjiin.s; for her Thomas, And Tom, oh! when* is he? If he was any sort of feller He’d come and solace she. Tlie Traffic in Italian Children. The Paris correspondent of the Lor,don Times, speaking of the abominable traffic in Italian children, says: Attention has often been drawn in the Times to the lamentable practice of leg ging exercised by .children trained in the trade. This question has been re-ojiened by a circular addressed by the “ Soc ete Italienne de Bienfaisanee” of Paris to corresponding institu Lions throughoutthe world. The following facts will, I think, convince every one that the suppression of this social pest would lx? a really phil anthropic Avork in southern Italy. In a naturally very rich province of the Ba silicata the greater portion of the inhab itants make a regular trade of organ grinding and begging, and theflee come those bands of children avlio have made their country notorious throughout Eu rope and even America. Five or six communes are especially distinguished for their immigrants —namely, Marsico- Vetese, Copicto, LaureUzano, Calvello, Ricciniico and Yiggiano. This immi gration, Which Was facilitated by the formcf Neapolitan goVcrtifiiCnt, doubt less with the object of getting rid of a turbulent population,still continues with the same activity. The custom of lag ging from town to town by means of children has given rise to a traffic which is openly practiced in a lid evch tolerated by the authorities of every country. Every ycut several hundreds of children of every age and sex leave their homes under the guidance of individuals who call themselves their parents, or padrones. In reality these men are nothing but slave masters; the children are let, sold, or confided to them by virtue of contracts signed by two parties, who consider them so binding that they sometimes call for the assistance of consuls abroad to en force their conditions. These agreements generally hand over the children for a fixed period at so much a year or for a sum to be paid before hand. These bands of children begin by begging all through Italy. Following the Corniche road they come to Nice and Marseilles. Very few come into France by sea, as at Marseilles the disembark ation of beggars is guarded against. When they have no passports they cross the Alps by Briancon. On the frontier the children are often re-sold to persons living in Paris or other large cities, and their conductors after delivering up their hu man merchandise return to the Basili cata in search of others. In Paris the children are huddled pell-mell, hoys and girls, into lodgings near the Place Man ner t and the Pantheon. When they are out begging their masters often follow them to watch their receipts, but most generally the eldest child takes posses sion of the money, the padrone prefer ring to spend his time in low taverns. The smallest children are considered the best workers, and are most in demand, because they excite most compassion from the public. Begging lasts from morning till night, the children obtain ing their food from the charity of others. In the evening they return to their lodg ings to give up the proceeds of the day, but if the receipts are had they often beg late into the night to avoid ill treatment. Some of them are sent into the suburbs, more especially on fete days in the sum mer. They wait outside the stations for the trains, singing a barbarous mixture of patriotic and obscene songs. When one of them is arrested he is provisionally detained, and notice is given to the Ital ian consul. The padrone, however, gen erally arrives first, asserts his claim, and the child is nearly always given up to him. A Neapolitan physician states that of one hundred children of both sexes who leave their country only twenty re turn, thirty establish themselves abroad, and fifty fall victims to illness, privation and cruel treatment. Fifty is, indeed, a heavy mortality. FALSE ECONOMY. TCistaUcM I’ooplr llnkt* in si 3lidirc<’t<‘<l Propensity (iir Kavin^. Scribners’s Monthly for August. Wc know a, very industrious and ami able little housewife out west who lias a taste for darning stockings. She can put as neat a patch upon a stocking as ever you saw, the threads of cotton as regular as fish-netting, and as straight as an “only direct railway route;” and the whole so smoothly done that you hardly know which is the original and which the darn. Indeed, her jovial neighbor who livesjust across the alley says those darns never wear out. She says that Mrs. Hamilton’s stockings arc like the human system— the material is renewed every seven years. And the neighbor, being in good circum stances, and having nothing else to do, has calculated the total expense of mend ing these stockings after the first thor ough overhauling, as expressed in cotton, needles, and candles, and finds that it would have kept Mrs. Hamilton’s family in the best balbrigans or British hose, in stead of the inferior quality which she had bought for their cheapness. In this estimate no account was taken of the time employed in the mending. Mrs. Hamilton has said that her labor was her capital, and it hardly seemed fair to count that in. Our informant says, however, that her Joe heard Clint Hamilton say the other day that, somehow, that last batch of doughnuts wouldn’t go down. We know another worthy and well meaning young woman in New York, whose limited salary as private tutor has for several years supported a chivalrous old soldier of the last two wars, whom the last one left impoverished and unpen sioned in Alabama. It was her custom —heaven knows she thought it her duty— to walk up to her work, twenty blocks, through the slush and snow of last win ter, in order to save the fares bv the street ears. She would, perhaps, have reasoned, between coughs, that health w is capital. People whose resources are small fre quently make the mistake of supposing that what is of immediate and market able value is of more importance tl a 1 health or education, and they begin a course of economy by cutting away their pleasures; money spent in recreation comes to be regarded as a dead waste. While a Thomas concert or a day up the Hudson would let in enough music or sunshine to drive away the whimsevs and the doctor for a month to come, this mistaken notion of economy cuts off the only way of escape from the grindstone and pill box. The first necessity of a business man is diversion; and, so long as it does not lecome laborious, the more absorbing his diversion, the better. Be tween the utility of the beautiful and the beautiful of fhe useful there is no room to institute a comparison. in some people economy takes the form of investment for income. These are the support of the mock-auction shop and the second-hand book-store. Mrs. Toodles, with her door-plate, has a congener in the seedy young bibliophile who thinks he has found a bargain in the “annual report of the deaf and dumb insane asy lum for blind inebriates,” or the “ History of the Christian missions among the bare legged Indians.” Other people cling to an old garment as to an old friend; and after it has be come as shiny as a suit of medieval arm or, rebind and patch, and clean it an ex pense greatly disproportionate to its worth. This is only another and a longer road to prodigality. After all, the principle of economy is not so much self-sacrifice as discretion, and a little bit of good sense will often * evade t he necessity of heroism. JEFFERSON DAVIS. ,4-i {niorrsflits: AildHst from (hr Kt-Clilfl tain—VaciiMiH CnwlMt* of National Intvr *•( tonrlMil I tMiii. Jefferson Davis delivered an address at the Agricultural fair, at Desoto, Me— souri on the Bth inst., according to the programme. There was a great crowd present from Jefferson and the adjoining counties, and quite a number of the most prominent citizens of all political senti ments. Mr. Davis was well received, but no notable demonstration was made on the oeeassion. He opened his speech by ex presssing much pleasure in meeting (he people of a section of country with which he was well acquainted many years ago, and felt rejoiced at its growth and prosperity. He came, he said, not to discuss these questions which vex the mind and dis turb the harmony which prevail among the people. If there arc any who still en tertain feelings of malice, or cherish bit terness on account of the past, let us withdraw from such. He declared what ever might he the machinations of ]H>li tieians, whatever the views of policy and designs of State craft might desire to consummate in regard to the future, the people of the great Mississippi valley are one, and must always remain one ]xa>ple in interest, in destiny and in social forms and material progress. No man, no course of policy, no deep designs of am bitious men could ever dissever them. In all the future they would surely stand together. The great river bound them together by ties stronger than any poli ties could ever present, and they must he united. He then spoke at considerable length upon the vast agricultural resources of the country, and the future development of the commerce of the Mississippi val ley, and its great advantages and import ance to the nation, and predicted the time would soon come, when fleets of iron barges would float down the mighty Mississippi, bearing a commerce greater than that of the whole world. He advocated the building of a univer sity which would serve to confer highest education upon ihe young men of the valley. The great population which must soon swarm this region, will lead according to the status which they main tain in mental culture. He urged the necessity of direct trade with Europe, and asserted specie resumption was im practicable until our exports exceed our imports. He declared congress had no authority to declare that specie payments should resume at a certain day, and that in the present condition of the country more currency is needed. The speech was frequently applauded and seemed at least to give satisfaction to all his hearers. Napoleonic Intrigues in France. The Empress Eugenie and her son are receiving a small and select party at their castle of Arenenberg, where they are passing the holidays. The party comprises several journalists, and the Empress is doing all she can to win back her way in popularity. It is now pretty generally understood that the Napoleons took away with them in one shape or another about $80,000,- 000, and that they have since spent a greater part of this money in political intrigues far their restoration. They have maintained, and are probably stiil maintaining, wholly or in part, about forty newspapers in France and other countries; but their funds have lately been running short, and they are now trying to do whatsoever is to be done by condescension instead of hard cash. M. Paul de Cassagnac, the champion of the fallen Empire, is also particularly court ed both for his pen and his sword. But the exercise of the latter has been re cently circumscribed, because two journ alists attached to the editorial department of the Republique Francaise, M. Gam betta’s paper, pass all their days in prac tising fencing, for the avowed purpose of taking M. Paul’s life. A few of the older adherents of the Napoleons gath ered around the widowed Empress and her son on the 15th inst., and the young Prince addressed them with considerable tact and political ability. He said: “Should the French people some day re call me to power 1 will force all honest men to rally round the Empire by eras ing from the French language the words ‘exile’ and ‘proscription.’ If it could only be known what lessons I have learned from the past, what resolutions I have drawn from experience of the events which passed under ray own eves, it would be seen how well I understand that 1 must only look backward for ex ample and* teaching, but not for objects of vengeance and bitterness. A great people is not eo be governed by hatred and revenge.” These are brave words, full of fair promise, and it is only to be hoped that the Prince will act up to his principles should he ever have a chance of doing so. John Bright’s Sarcasms. John Bright has long been regarded as one of the most eloquent speakers in the English house of commons. But it is not so well known that bis power of sarcasm is almost unrivaled. When provoked by the taunts of opposition to use this weap on, which lie does but seldom, bis retorts are overwhelming. Quite recently he replied to some of the torv party, who had been finding fault with measures of Mr. Gladstone. He said: “These gen tlemen must find fault; it is their nature; if they had Veen in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Com mandments as a harrassing piece of leg islation.” But his sharpest sarcasms have been against members of the nobil ity. When boasts had been made of the antiquity of a prominent family, that their ancestors came over with the con queror, his reply was prompt, “1 never heard that th<w did anything else.” A noble lord once said, on occasion of Mr. Bright’s sickness, that Providence was punishing him fora mis-use of talents by inflicting a disease of the brain. The sarcasm of the rejoinder was terrific when Mr. Bright resumed his seat, “It may be so; but, in any case, it will lx? some consolation to the friends of the noble lord to know that the disease is one which even Providence could not inflict upon him.” * A Disputatious Man. —“ Why, it is as plain as that two and two make four.” “ But I deny that, too; for 2 and 2 1 nuke 22.” VOL. 16—NO. 3i. SAYINGS AND DOINGS. Hemptttjps is the name of a rivet in Washington territory. Forof. rules the world, and always will. When it's not force of arms, it’s force of mind— or money. Finally the French republicans have got a nickname for the Prince imierial. They call him “ Invasion I\ .” An Irishman, lieing told that the price of bread was lowered, exclaimed : “1 his is the first time that I ever rejoiced in the fall of my lxst friend.” Appropriateness is absolutely neces sary to secure neatness in dress. Colors and forms and modes, in themselves graceful and beautiful, can liecome un graceful and ridiculous simply through inappropriateness. The “owners of Niagara Falls,” the “ Porter family,” form the permanent aristocracv of the place, and the prop erty is entailed, as in England, so that the eldest son is a sort of young lord. The Scotchmen, in order to escape de feat, left the country the day before the American team arrived. It is the first time a Scotchman has ever tailed to come to the “scratch.” “Is he anything, anyhow?” said one young lady to another a$ they prom enaded Laramie street, and discussed a nice young man. “Oh yes,” replied the other, “lie’s something; lie’s an awful big fool.” In a recent scandal case in Smith county, Kansas, a lady witness declined to answer a question, and the attorney demanded her reason. “ Because it is not tit to tell decent jx*ople. “< b well, 7 said the lawyer, “just walk up here and whisper it to the judge.” A little girl went to a neighbor s house one day, and saw some apple par ings on the table. After sitting awhile, she said, “ I smell apples.” “ Yes,’ the lady of the house replied, “ I guess you smell these apple parings on the plate. ’ “No, no,” said she, “’taint them; I smell whole apples.” The following notice of a death in the columns of a eotemporary is somewhat uncertain : “Maria S., wife of John tSt., aged eighty years, triie lived with her husband fifty years, and died in the con fident hope of a better life.” The average yield of corn-cobs is 7.62 parts of carbonate of potash in 1,000 parts of the cobs, which is nearly twice as much as is furnished by the In st spec imens of wood. The corn crop ot thirf country will supply 15,400,000,000 Its. cobs, from which 115,500,000 Its. ol }xt ash might lx* made. The most appalling case of deafness that we ever came across outside ot an asylum was that of an old lady who lives just across the street from the navy yard. The other day they fired a salute of twenty-one guns. The old lady was ob served to start and listen as the last guir was fired, and then exclaimed, “ Comer in!” A candle 13,000 feet distant shines with a light 20,000 times more brilliant than do some nebulae. Yet the constitu tion of these nebulae has been determ ined. They are found to consist of hydrogen and nitrogen. M c know the nature of worlds situated at a distance inconceivable. And the relative ages of tiie stars we know. The white stars are the hottest and youngest. The yellow stars, including the sun, are older; while ;he colored stars are not so hot, and are stilt older. Herr Ernst von Ban pel, the sculp tor of the Herman monument, is thus descriltcd by a corrcsjiondent of the I .on don News: “As to the maker of this monument, you must imagine a white bearded hermit, but without the hood and gown, standing in the doorway of this hut, as I saw him yesterday. A most remarkable life is Ernst von Ban del’s. He is now 7f> years old, and he has spent 37 years of the l*est part of his life on the erection of the monument to Hermann the Cheruscan. lie was born at Ansbaeh on the 17th of May, 180 b, and is by birth a Prussian. When but 19 years’of age he put on paper his idea of a monument to Hermann. A correspondent of the Scientific American writes as follows: Those who arc fond of investigations with the mi croscope will find a beautiful object in the head of a parlor match. Htrike the match and blow it out as soon as the head has fused sufficiently to cause pro tuberances to form on it; on the part of the head which took fire first will be found a white, spongy formation, which, under the microscope, and with a bright light upon it, has the appearance of dia monds, crystals, snow, frost, ice, silver, and jet, no two matches giving the same combination or arrangement. Pig Meat for Cities. —The Buffalo Live Stock Journal says that more than half of the swine sold for London con sumers is than a year old, and weighs less than 200 pounds to the carcass. Abundant experience has proved that the second 100 pounds added to the weight of a hog cost loss than the third ]OO pounds. Young meat is produced cheajH*r per lxmnd than old meat; and being more tender and juicy is preferred in cities. This enables farmers to turn tlieir money and crops often when no animal is sold over ten months’ old. Short horns owe their great popularity to the fact that they will make good beef when from 20 to 24 months old. A writer in a California newspaper says: About half a mile over a moun tain from Bartlett Springs, there is what is called the Gas Springs. This is prob ably the greatest curiosity of the moun tains. r J lie water is ice-cold, but bub bling and foaming as if it boiled, and the greatest wonder i* the inevitable de struction of life produced by inhaling the gas. No living thing is to be found within a circle of one hundred yards of the spring. The very birds, if they hap pen to fly over it, drop dead. We exper imented pth a lizard on its destructive properties, by holding it a few feet above the water. It stretched dead in two minutes. It will kill a human being in twenty minutes. We stood over it about five minutes, when a dull, heavy, aching sensation crept over us, and our eves began to swim. The gas which escapes here is of the rankest kind of carbonic, hence its sure destruction of life; also of quenching of flames instantaneously.