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'IIS NEW YEAR.
To patrons ami friend* bore's a happy New
Year-
Hood wishes to all, a long lire and good cheer,
'Tin New Year ; we read it in each beaming face.
Where yesterday nothing bat care could wo
trace;
And new hopes arc springing, blight vision* ap
pear
Through rose-colored glasses, as dawns the New
Year.
And who would not hope when this fair land of
ours
With plenty o'erflow* spite of envious powers.
Though crowned-heads with evil design may de
ride,
Their envious shafts we shall e'er turn aiide.
While proud waves the banner by freedom un
furled
O'er thelmd that* a beacon to still light the
World,
Come in. happy New Year, come laden with
halm,
And bo Uiine the mfotao the wild fear* to calm,
In homea of oppression ouce smiling mid fair,
I>y war’s rnthlms hand mude all cheerh » nnd
bare;
The desolate hearthstones where orphans but
stay
To weep for the IrieriTls torn forever awrsv;
And ob! we’ll forget not, though happy and
S»J.
The loved ones departed sliieo last New Year's
day.
On that happy morning warm greeting they
gave,
Who nowr sleep all dreamlcw and cold in lh«
grave.
The fair blooming maiden, the youth in his
prime,
Lie w ithi n d like roses in rariy spring time.
The staUfraan who toiled that bis country might
b#
From each threatening danger and error re 1
freo,
Now rests from' Ills labors; yon marble will toll
That low In the silent land now "be (d.-ep* well - "
The beurt's deepest anguish nor tears can re
store ;
The loved and the lost ones will greet us no
inure.
Then pears to their tabes, and snered the tear
W e give to their naon'ry each happy New Year;
Though duo them Uiis tribute, and sad the re
frain,
We'll return to holiday greetings again :
Then welcome thou New Year, 'ho world U thy
Stage ;
Beenes pleasing to angels will thee oft engage,
Then sinlle on, for haply some green spot you’l|
aco
In th* desert world ere you too arc sot free.
Adieu to thee, old year, oft, oft will wo turn,
And view the dim vista where moulders thy
urn ;
There mem'ry will linger till lift's latest d ry,
Where, slowly receding, thy form fades away.
A long, long adieu I Wishing patrons and
friends
A right happy New Year,—our greeting lay ends.
FniotiTEt r. Accident To Hock-Walk
ers in San Francisco.—A shocking
catastrophe, which mnybe attended with
fatal results, occurred nt the Willows.
Miss Bosa Celeste, the well-kowr, funam
bulist, or rope-walker, wns advertised to
wheel a barrow with a tnnn numed Ken-
novan (the pedestrian) in it alongacuble
stretched from a high platform to the top
of the pavilion. It appears, thnl when tho
lime came for performing tho font, it was
found that Kennovan was distrustful of
Miss Celeste’s ability to wheel him across
in safety, had been nerving himself with
liouor. Miss Celeste declined to under
take the feat with a timid man j but as
tho audience, misunderstanding her ac
tion, jeered lice for her want of courage,
eho was stung into tho imprudence of at
tempting it.
Before Miss Celeste had gone ten feet
from tho platform, and when she was
twenty-two feet from the ground, her
companion in the barrow changed his
position. By tho nid of tho balancing
|*>lo nho hud nearly recovered tho shock
to her equilibrium, mid again essayed to
goon, when I ho Inolish man moved a
second time, and Celeste, Kormnvan and
the barow came to tho earth. Kennovan
was undermost, and, besides bruises
from tho full, ho was torribly munglud by
the iron w ork of the barrow, which tore
his ear from the socket, and lacerated tho
muscles of his neck. Ct lote clung to
her pole, and, one end of it striking tho
ground, broke her fall boft.ru it snapped,
nnd she struck on her elbow, breaking
it and her soulder-bone, but enving her
head, and thus cscapeing instantaneous
death. There nro cloubts respecting tho
fate cf both, on the medical attendants
cannot toll w hat internal injuries have
been received.
Convention or Colored Pxorj.r: at
Bastrop, Texas-—Tho Houston Tele
graph says the Convention of colored
people, recently held at Bastrop, was
very large— the procession nearly a mile
long, conducted with good order, with
tho assistance and sympathy of their
white friends, nnd tho action taken wjs
of the most commendable character.
They declared that the Southern people
were their true friends, and that tillage
of the soil, and not politics was their
business. Hon. Goo. W. Jones. Lieut.
Governor of the State, addressed them,
os did some of their own color. Tho
whole affair was significant, hopeful and
commendable. If the negroes were let
alone, with their old frionds to help them,
they would soon do well; their relations
to the whites would be amicable, and a
system of labor would soon be organized,
which would redound to the good if all
parties.
THE CUTHBERT APPEAL.
"Vol. I,
Cu.1 hbert, G-eorgia, Friday, J an. 4, 1867.
No. lO
MISCELLANEOUS.
A WONDERFUL CLAIRVOYAHT-THE BLIND
GIRL OF MOUNT VERNON -SHE DESCRIBES
A MURDERER AND HlSjPLACB OF ABODE
-HE. IS ARRESTED AND BROUGHT TO
JUSIICE.
[From the St. Lonia Democrat.
That there area few persons gifted with
tho power of clairvoyance, no one who
has any faith in the doctrines of spiritual
ism will pretond to deny. The exact nn-
tore of this mysterious gift—whence it
eomes, nnd why it is possessed by so
few persons, we have never heard fully
explained. Swedenborg, wo know was
u clairvoyant of remarkable power, nnd
history tells us of seers nnd sages who
could uurnvol tho injsterios of tho future
and recall tho forgotton scenes of the
past. 1 n former times thero wero per
sons in the Highlands of Scotland who
were reputed to possess the gift of tho
“second sight,” und could foretell impor
tant events long before they transpired. ^
In all ayes und all countries of which his-! wns shot in tho bren>t, the contents of
tory gives any account thero were proph
ets, witches, wizards and fortune-tellers,
who doubtless were nothing inure nor
less than cluirvoynntn.
Nino tenths, if not all, of tho so-called
“fortune tellers,” clairvoyants, etc , of tho
prcse.it day, are sheer humbugs. They
are generally women of indifferent repu
tation, who sometimes acquire celebrity
A H0RIBLE THAOEDY.
Tho Notches Courier of tho Oth given
tho details ol tho trial nnd conviction by
a jury in the district court, holding sea-
sion in tho parish of Concordia, of n ne
gro charged with tho crimo of murder,
robbery and rape. The testimony was
in substance that, in August Inst, Jacob
Lundburg, with his wile, sor. of thirteen
years, nnd n daughter n year or so
younger, wns going down tho Mississip
pi river on a family boat (of the Hat boat
kind), near the Concordia shore, when
being about right miles below Vidnlin,
in the night time, ho was bailed to
laud. This ho did, bow of the boat in
shore.
Tho prisoner, who hailed from shore,
.then approached and asked for whisky.
Lundburg replied ho had none to sell,
but would givo him part of what he
had. Prison r made some answer, when
a gun was tired and Lnndsburg stagger
ed towards his wife and exclaimed, “Mn,
I’m shot,” foil, and shortly o.vpirod. lie
the gun having entered in ono body, mak
ing a large hole, and showing powder
marks where shot, as though tho gun
was very close to him when fired. Tho
prisoner, in u second or two thereafter
entered tho bout, and addressing the la
dy, Mrs. Lnnasburg, inquired, “ who
fired that gun.”
She called his attention to her hus-
and make money by taking advantage j band, nnd begged his assistance, which
of that innate feeling or cunoaity of su- ho promised, and then left tho boat, but
pernicious credulity which exists to-day returned in a few minutes thereafter with
us it did in the days of Sn'am witchcraft, \ n double barrel shot gun in his hand ; ho
only in a mildor and moro harmless form, pointed thu weapon at Mrs. L., ordered
Tho travelling female fortune-tollers j her to surrender everything on the boat,
are nearly all imposters, and could bo und "hand out tho greenbacks d <1
easily exposed by anyone who should quick,” or ho would send her "to h—11,
think it worth whi’e to take tho trouble i whero bo had n'rondy sent that d d
of meddling with them. The fortune- son of h,” pointing to the corpse of
tellers aud wthrupent of the city are gen-1 her husband. Mrs. L., distraught with
erally known to the police us carrying on j terror gave tip all she had, nnd tho prin-
a contraband trallic, and are mostly on oner then robbed the now dead body of
tho lists of “auspicious characters.” | effects on his person, nnd the children of
Wo have never with our own eyrs ■ some little chungethey had. Then curs-
Been any one.whom wo felt notified was ing, blaspheming, etc, and threatening
possessed of any extraordinary degree often with his pointed gun, lie sent the r" M iIerald '
of power ns a clairvoyant, but wo have children ashore, put out the light on the a n . OmInoi-h Pkrdiothim Th« 1..te
hoard of several miraculous prophecies boat, and with force nnd violence, within j ( ,rd Macaulay in May 1857 wrote to
veracity. | band, whoso heart a blood wns streaming
Aliout a mnntli ngo we mot with ail over tlio floor, tho hr,id (primmer) viola-
intelligent pbynicina from tho South, tad ll,o jiunuo of Mu. L, and thon
who related Homo lnnrvelloun otorieH fl od .
about u blind woman in Mt. Vernon, III. j Daylight brought neei»tnnce, II,o hor-
—Mih» Mary A. I.ucnoby namo-oBim-1 rid tragedy wnn fuitlifolly deooribed hy
|Jo luuophutioatod country girl, who | tho widow mid her litllo boo, „nd tin, ac
me! not even tho flhrowdnosB to turn her | eusod w.ib orresled nnd idontitiud. A few
A BLIGHT MISTAKE.
A little incident transpired in n family
circle un town tho other evening that is
too good to koep, nnd shall bo confided
to the readers of this pnper. Tho kitch
en of tho excellent family of which I
speak is presided over by a good looking
domestic whom wo will call Mary Ann,
she rojoiuing in tho attentive devotion of
a manly young male servant employed
by a neighboring family, named John.—
Now, such wore John’s relations with tho
fair Mary Ann—they woro "engaged,”
just like anybody's folks—that bo wns
in the habit of entering his inuinorutn'i
domain without tho formality of knock
ing. And bo it known that tho lord of
tho mansion had been absent several
days, nnd was expected homo by the
evening train. On that evening the mis
tress of the house sat in her boudoir
panting in expectation of the coming of
her husband. (Shortly she hoard, or
thought she did, bis familiar footstep at
the side door, (h s usual place of entry),
and dashing down thu stairs in the dark
ness she precipitated herself into his
urms. A loving, lingering kiss wns im
printed upon tho representative of tho
sterner sex. Ho nnswerel not, but
pressed her closer to his heaving bosom.
How long this thing wou'd have gone
on is not easy for us to say, had not an
adjoining door been thrown open by the
pretty Mary Ann with a light in her
hand, when what a sight was revonled to
all three 1 Mary saw her hmidsomo mis
tress in tho arms of her own lusty lover,
John ; tho mistress saw, not hor expoc-
tod spouBo, but Mary Ann’s young man:
and John—well ho wus bo dumfoundoa
(supposing that he was hugging Mary
Ann nil the timo) that ho couldn’t see
anything. In tho midst of the muddle
tho husband entered end tho tabloau vi
vant wan complete. Ho soon compre
hended tho affair, however, nnd had too
much good sense to scold his wife lor her
“carelessness,” or to keep so good a joke
to himself, but ho never imagined it
.would got into tho papers.—Cur. Bov
gift to a profitable account, nnd would
not accept of no moro than fifty cents for
imparting information of great pecuniary
value.
weeks only sutliced ere death released
from her mental and physical agony tho
victim of this demon, the widow of tho
murdered Landshurg. When the son
1 his girl had a local reputation ns n gavo in his testimony in tho court on tho
fortune-teller, and wns consulted by the trial, lie several times burst into tears,
farmers of the county in rognrd to lost; „„d wo question if on each of theso oc-
horses, cows, &o. Our informant wns n | casions there wns n dry eye in tho court,
stranger when he arrived ntMt. Vernon, j Of courso tho verdict was guilty of
und cariosity led him to call on the blind j murder ns charged, nnd wo believe any
aecress. She nt onoc described his oc- : jury of colored men would have ren
oiipution nnd habits, the place of his , <jered the suino verdict,
birth many little incidents of his boy-1
hood, and nlao described his father and | GENERAL JACKSON
(Ghent of hi. relatives. He related many „ 0 „ „„„ , Wel | do j romctnb or
roroaritttblo IUg» done Ibis girl nod (|l0li j wn(lcd opon Hni . He nt
tvn. a Arm believer in her supernatural j , horo ( a hi „ nnn chllir ‘_ I ran „„ thoo r d
° ,,'r , 11 .. | . I warrior’s face, with his snow white hair.
WelaiftliedattbeotitlttiBlaBticphysl. cven now . W etold him of the public
c an, and thought no more about tho d i„ tre »,_the raanufaoluora rninod-tho
blind fortuneteller of Mt. \ croon On I Bhrn „ dod in cnl w | liub were
yesterday wo heard another remarkable j b ,„,„ „ t „, 0 bcnd of t ' wo ' n ,y thousand
elroum.t.noe related of the eatue wo- men into Indonomioaoe Bqnarc. He
mao, and from the.character of tho gen- | hoard begged him to leave
tloman who related it, wo are constrain
ed
Juno, -r' “ u i '• i 11 , ,y”: DV | ho iIKJ not say
marshal in onsof tho count,ea of IbmoiB, our number, moro flery than the rest,
vaa lolled by it desperado named 1 l„l-; inllm „, m | lhal irtho bank true crushed
"P r a T .beijtrderor was arroeted, „ rebuilt.,,, might follow. Then the old
“ °r ^ l ;" 11 V n , ! h r man-I ran him y. I:
sutnofM.OIO. Before thb day or trial, . C om„r’ ho shouted in a two of
he fled from ll„, ooutjtry and could not I thondur, ns Ms cleneltod right hand
be found. Wat. J. Hopkllta, tho father ! raiicd „ bovoll |, W |,ltc ltait-H
1 for j - -
eman who related it, wo are conHtrnm-, tho depnHitH wbere lh ey wero-to uphold
• f ? 'V 1 n , ">« grad Hank <f iVdudcIpliia. Still
uno 1805, Cap! Hopkins, a provost bo dld „„ t „ Al '|, IBt ono(lf
ho expresses his ournest convictions in re-
Intion to tho future of tho United Stales,
lie said:
It is quite plain thntyour Government
will never bo ablo to restrain n distressed
nnd discontented majority. For with
you tlio majority in the government, nnd
has tho rich, who nro nlwnys a minority
absolutely nt its mercy.
I seriously apprehend that you will, in
Home such so«m,ii ns I have described, do
things whirliwill prewnt prosperity from
returning; that you will act like a people
who should, in ii year of scarcity, devour
nil the seed corn, and thus make tho next
yearn yonr not of scarcity, but of absolute
famine.
Thero will ho, I fear, spoliation. Tho
spoliation will increase the d'stress. The
distress will produco fresh spoliation.
Thero is nothing to stop you. Your
Constitution is all suil nnd no anchor.
As I said beforo, when a society has cti-
torod on this downward progress, either
civilization or liberty must perish.—
Either sottio Cajsur or Nupoleon wi"
seizo tho reins of Government with
strong hand, or your republic will bo ns
fearfully plundered nnd laid waste by bar
barians in the twentieth century as the
Roman Empire wan in tho fifth, with tli'
difference:
. B. DISTRICT COURT AND CONFEDERATE
MONEY,
8omo misapprehension exists ns to tho
tenor of the decision of Judge Busteod,
last week, in relation to Confederate is
sues ns n consideration for contracts made
luring tho wnr.
Tho facts of the case before him, nnd
his decision, may bo stated as fol
lows :
Tlio defendants on a certain day, dur
ing tlio wnr, received from the plaintiff a
certain amount of Confederate Treasury
notes, nnd in consideration thereof, oxo
outod to the plaintiff a writton instru
ment, in substance ns follows :
“Koeeivod of (thu plaintiff) n specified
number of pounds of ginned cotton, this
day sold by ino.to tho plaintiff; and I
agree to keep said cotton fur the plain-
tiff nnd deliver to him when called for.
lie running all risks, oxcopt only that I
am to bo liable for any loss resulting
from my own nogligouco or mnlfoas
once.”
Thero was never at any timo any ac
tual delivery of cotton, by tho defendant
to the plaintiff.
Tlio plaintiff contends that although
there was no aetaal delivery, yet thero
was a sufficient construtivo delivery of
the co ton, to onlitlo the plaintiff'to tront
the contract ns nil extended contract.
Tho Court decided in tho case beforo
it—
1st. That tho consideration for tho
contract was illegal. In other words,
that Confederate Treasury notes wns an
illegal consideration for u contract mude
daring tho war.
2d. That whenever n pnr'y to such
contract wns forced to call on a United
States Court to givo him any aid in car
rying out such contract or recovering its
fruits, tho Court could not givo such
nid.
3d. That the plaintiff in Ibis ease wns
calling for aueh aid when he invoked the
doctrine of constructive delivery; for a
constructive delivery is a delivery inndo
out by the more judgments of tlio law,
upon the special facts, in the nbHonoo of
an actual delivery.
4th. That in the absence of an notunl
delivery, tho Court could not, by its mere
judgment, make out a delivery from
the terms Or ncoompnn'mouta of tho
contract which was before it.
It will bo observed that the court de
cided nothing as to a contract which hus
been completely executed in all respects
by the parties, although tho considera
tion for such contracts was Confederate
Treasury notes. A contract is com
plutely executed when all tlio terms of
it have been complied with by all thu
parties to it, and the purchase money lias
been paid, and there has buen actual do
livery and in accordance with tho con
tract.—Mont. Mail.
THR TUMBLE IN PRICES.
The New York San has an nrtiulo in
regard to tho recent declioo in prices,
which wo quote:
"It is certain that they cannot stand
tho pressure much longer. Already wo
hear that a fow wouk concerns lmvo top
pled over, and a number of others nro
almost upon tho verge of fuiluro. This
slate of things covers thu whole field of
speculation, from gold and stocks to pork
and beans. Coni, dry goods, groceries,
produco—In fact,everything in tho whole
sale market—is on tho downward road.
That the Huns und Vandals, and business of all kinds is almost at a
lf tl‘° nmrdarsd captain, soarchou wr i „i tb baycnots In voOr \
everul of t” 0 1 petitions—I mn ready
who ravaged tho llomnn Empire, cunio stand still. All classes of dealt:
from without, and that your Huns and who have stocks on hand nro alarm-
Vnnduls will have been engendered with- ed at this state of tho inmkot, but the
in your own country by your own institu- snooulutors who bought largo stocks in
tions. thu expectation of advancing prices
A Just OaiTtniiiil-A OHri'cspondBnt"’ bcn ," in ' l! r r Mt >»-.
of tho Presbyterian Index says: n I’"" 10 ,- . Hmv , ldn K " -l11 " lllBl ' ri !' 1
“I have lately read Dr Dabney's J.ifo K“ n “ r “ Imprefs'nn atneng merchants is
to I “come j \\ » «>™‘ '”*• “»« I ^ bfAed^lyTsK
hands instead of eemmendaliot, gtvan 1 “ „„ ™ r ' ai i7 v b „«,^
r,„. nil i 11,, yo»r notice of it. Its great value con- r ‘ , lllU0 IH no '! 0 . LV
f tho correctness of that conclusion.
the murderer throngh several of the i pstiHe'^ZiTtn"S's^ouSu"By I >°". r n , nli ™ t,f il ' ItB ««»> vulu “ 1 ...
, , , ,, , 8 -| e- , theUlernall with Bto peoplb at mv bat* ln .'i*'T 0 "; ‘V??" "['Tho aatami who have lusTbMn out
(ban country, but could not find him, ill-1 u .i lo , n vnlir 1 no ,. iiir , • llril . 1 tho South. It should bo in the hand of i, 110 , 7; un Wl, ° jusi oeon oui
though ho Hturcl.ed fyr more than a I aw , j vv n ^ - d .j 1 every ono of them ns a book to bo ijirougli the country report that trade in
V i- ; ,r i Ir. 11 , J 1 o round tho | / ,. , - , , , , 'the rural districts is nn dull asm the city,
j A Short timo ago Mr Hopkins | for its polities! loncliitigs’ but for’its pnr-1 8,,d tll "‘ merclianta there ban eta-
imlueed to eoUBtilt Miss I.ueus, who W?,en I think of that one man
deaertbnd the appenraueo ol the murder- [ illg Ul0r0 nt Wu „l,i„ K tno, battling
Itruynl ol the ehurnetor u’f u groat Chris- H° Moeks of goods. If this lie sn, what
Itiun and to teach them the value of re . |M tboro to enliven trade in tho city?—
er, and said he 'wns living in n billy conn- ib”i«w«:r"r"bou1£ nnd punie ro.ui'ia-' )'»""> "" aloment-yea, more, ns the! j"® tl "" k ‘ t "' t ll ' U ,0 " K ""
try ra'arsed tty many streams, and that „ d betrayed hv It,ore in whom he had''"‘"'I "f ''“"aeter. h was Jn. Icon's P» ndl "8«
^ lni «tod, assail, .J by .11 that the snake of ^ ', «»“»I l„7n it:
Friday 'nst sueeeoded in arresting the Kteroul , j „ nt “^“Vfrom Ih/puth in K, m ? de - , »«, “'«• vhe,isl.-d | mnindmmluJ'^i.wd"^ Uro
• M'lwh of Ills lloiut, though by death saved Sm.tl.nn. dm ft.tnnfnvlMlm.y
desenplmnoftho country imit|jcu( , ()n|J bi (, r ™ n hero before he booame n t.hml inn m-
was snr t tv d that Hopkins was enabled , hood ,„ u | d |,„ w |_ wbc „ f t | ljllk „f t h„t 1 duud. before lie ever led a charge in bat-
to dent,ry the place of 1'raraels ubo.a mmn ,,,„ cj bi , bnck „ iDBt lho tie. But it. red the religions element
ns being m Keynolds county .Missouri. niek „„ d [M | jis „ ra „ r „ r , ’ 1 |, 0 Uow I tonmko tom great, to in,ike bint ell that
In proceeded to that county, and on w |,ile lie utteredhio awful vow, “By » grout n ellnractor was capable,,! be
1'ridny Mst seceeeded m arresting tho E[eroul , f will not swerve from the path
mu,, for whom he had been so long in , , mvc cbMH>n j „„ 1Bt on „ fcBB t | ml ‘ lho
record of Greece end Ito,no-nay, the , , ,
proudest days of Cromwell and Nupolo- l’, 111 , n ! Jl ^ w ? not . bduno tut a kind
on—cannot furnish nn instance of a will 1 'ucideneo intends somo colopens,, ion
like that of Andrew Jackson's, when l,n f,r 1,18 tl >“ uo, ' nt rJi u "d /T u l,mt
| laced his life, soul and fume on the has.. ; ‘“ u ’, 0 ' 1,0 v , u,l ! e " f , G . h , n " t ' ,,n
sard of u die, for the people's welfare.- j to the whom youth nf the South."
Lippard, j Is a Hunny,—A curious wedding is
*7 *’* reported to have taken place some dnyB
A colored cook expecting company of; B i Dte near Buy Oily, Michigan, which
her own kind, was nt a loss how to cn- rends like this : It »cems that a father
tertniu her friends Her mistress said :
"Folly, vou must make un apology.” —
“Isa ! Missus, bow can I make it ? I
i, no butler, no
hardly think that tho long
financial crash is at hand, but it
to deny that thero are many
signs p inting strongly in that direo-
Bavmo.vd on tiik C’iusis.—“Wocan toll
tho South Homftlhing moro. Unices the
Sunday with hia prisoner in charge, and
wiU, doubtless have tho satisfaction of
seeing him oxpiato his crime on tho gal
lows.
Wo nro informed that Miss Lucas is
infallible in her predictions of the result
of law suits, and one otnur citizens, .Mr.
William Ochsncr, residing on Seventh
street, between C'crro mid Grutiott, ha*
recently gone lo Mt. Vernon to consult
lu»r about an important suit in which he
is interested, if she says ho will win
his cose, he will fight it through; if oth
erwise, ho will compromise on tho best
terms lie cun.
If these stories of this wonderful
clairvoyant are true, some of our spiritu
alists should invito her to come to St.
Louis and convince the skeptics of the
city that, notwithstanding tho huinbug-
gery of Church and others, there is truth
iu cluirvoyunco.
Why are people of short mcmor.es nec
essarily covetous ? tfecaiise they’re
always for getting something.
got no apples,
nutliu to make it \vid.’ r
A hTRANoe bctBNTiric F act—For
somo time past thero has been a discus
sion of a theory that life is greatly pro
longed by sleeping with tho head to the
North. This theory, according to tho
Gold Bill (California) news, finds con
firmation in tho strange fact that the
most of those American politician* who
fo, - years part huve hud their heals to
the South uic now quite dead.
lost his wife* by death, mid that said wife
died early in tho morning. Tho father
not appreciate being left alone in the
world, nnd ere his wife's eyes Imd closed
in tho sleep that knows no waking,
ho determined to marry again. Hitch
ing up his team lie takes hi* servant girl
and goes to Bay City to buy garments
for the death. While there he married
the girl nud returned to his home the
same night with his second wife, so by
actual count lie wns not a widower twelve
hours. Tho new wife appeared at tho
funeral next day in deep black, nnd was
one of the principal mourner* over- the
body of the first wife.
Soul hern Legislatures the fate of existing
governmental organizations at the South
may bo considered fixed. Wo indulge
in no menace. We essay no abstract
argument, nnd lay claim to no exclusive
information. But there is a fact which
the South cannot too quickly compre
hend, and that is, that in tho ubsence of
u bottlcmeiit based upon the proposed
Amendment, Congresa will affirm the
ten itorial existence of tho Soudi, legis
late out of official being its present func
tionaries mid machinery of government,
and provide for tho organization of Terri-
toi icH on a plan suited to the emergency.
Are tho Southern people prepared for
this alternative ?—A. Y. Timet.
lf tho Southern people aro, tlio North
ern people nro not prepared for it, or
they ought not to be. When they con
sent that Congress may so grossly usurp
power ns to legislate a State into a Terri
tory, they will have abandoned Hepubli-
enn government, mid liko a subdued and
abject people, accept tho destruction of
their government and the establishment
of a despotism over them.
THE IRON CROWN.
General Monobren hhr been instruct
ed to apply to tlio Court of Vienna for
the restitution of tho iron crown of Lom
bardy, which tho Austrians removed from
the sanctuary of the Cathedral of Monza
ut tho timo of their retreat from Lombar
dy nfter the bnt'lo of Magenta, in 1869.
1 ho Italians, it is well known, when they
crossed the Ticino under Charles Albert,
cloven years before nnd drove Rndotxky
from Milan, had Monza nnd the iron
crown nt their discretion; but that iron
crown of Alboin,— thut circlet hammered
out of tho nails of tho Crucifixion, agree
ably to tradition, nnd at all events that
undeniablo relict of so many centuries
—n diadem laid suenossivoly on so many
hemic brows, from Charlemagne t»tho
First Napoleon,—was looked upon by
the Italians us something too sacred to
bo touched by profane hands, nnd was
left by them on tho spot whero it wns
first laid by Queen Theodolind full
thirtuun hundred years ago, not to be
moved from its shrine till it was wanted
for the consecration ol tlio man, whoever
ho might be, who should have tho good
fortune to restoro tho old kingdom of
tho Longobards. Tho Austrians could
not, of courso, be actuated by such scru
ples. The Emperor Francis Joseph
continued, often Villufranen mid Zurich,
to style himself ICing of Lombardo-Veno-
tiu, and Allmin’s sacred circlet was re
moved to Vienna with a feeling akin to
that of the Moor of Africa, who treas
ures up tho door-key of the house which
was his forefathers’ homo at Grenndu
foul hundred years ngo. The hard les
sons of experience, nnd tho difficulties of
hor present position, must have greatly
softened tho heart of Austria, and inspir
ed her with more generous feelings.
Victor Emmanuel is no longer designa
ted by the Vienna cabinet aa “ King of
Sardinia,” nor urejtho army nnd fleet so
lately confronting tlio imperial foroo.i
with honor, if not with success, called
“ tho Piedmontose ” in Austrian Bullc-
tino. Thut crown which was withheld
in I860, when Lombardy wns coded
with perhaps nn arriere pentee of ro-con-
qaest, may well bn given up now, when
the loss of all Italy is looked upon us an
actual gaiu to her late masters. As a
moro museum curiosity it would bo of an
groat value to Austria ; ns a nntionnl
emblem it is n jewel of the groatost prico
to Italy.
What we hnvo said of tho iron crown
applies equally to tho treasures of art and
antiquity of which tlio Austrians wero
lately described as stripping tho archives,
churches, museums and arsenals of Ve
nice. Tlio coats of nrms of tho old
doges, the ambassadors’ reports, and
other documents of n purely local impor
tance would bo more trash to tho Aus-
trian, but would leave the Venetian very
poor indeed. Her books and pictures
nnd parchments nro tho inalienable prop
erty, tho household gods of tho Queon
of tho Adriatic; tlioy constitute the
chief pride of that wise conservative
government which formes in tho middle
ages tho connecting link between nnoient
Home and modern England; and they
may servo one day to vindicate tho mem
ory of 8t. Mark’s Hopublfe,
IMMORTALITY OF LOVE.
I never saw a man who did not lie-
liovo in tho immortality of love, when
following tho body of u loved ono to the
grave. J lmvo seen men under other cir
cumstances, that did not believo in it, but
I never saw a man that when he stood
looking upon the form of one that ho
really loved, stretched out for buriul, did
not revolt from saying, "It has nil coino
to that; tho hours of sweet companion
ship; tho wondrous interlacing* of trop
ical souls; tiie joys; the hopos the trusts;
the unultorublo yearnings—they ull lie,”
No man can stand and Took in a coffin
upon a fellow creature, and remember
the (laming intelligence, tho blossoming
love, the whole range of divine faculties,
which so lately animated that cold clay,
and say, “Theso have all collapsed and
gone.” No person can witness lho last
sad ceremonials which nro performed
over tlio remains of a human being—tho
sealing down of an qnopenable lid ; tho
following ot tho rumbling procession to
tho place of burial; tho letting down of
tho dust into dust; the fulling of tho
earth down upon tho hollow collin, with
those sounds that aro worse than thun
der ; and tho placing of tlio green sod
over the grave—no person unlm-s ho be
a boast, enn witness these things nnd
turn away and sav, "I hnvo buried my
wife; I hnvo buried my child; I have
buried my sister, my brother, my love.”
God forbid that wo should bury any
thing. There is no earth that can touch
my child. J would fight my little breath
mid strength away before I would per
mit uny clod to touch them. The jewel
has dropped out of tho casket, and 1
have buried tho casket—not the jewel.
And you may reason, you may say whnt
you please, you may curry tlio case bo-
fore tho supreme court of my under
standing, but there is something higher
than reason, mid something back ot tho
understanding. All that is within mo
revolts at the decision nnd spurns it and
says: “You must try heart cases before
the heurt. Wo will not believe but there
is life somewhere else; we will not be
lieve that life is buried bore ; mid thu
soul goes out und cries, liko n child lost
in the woods, to find itself in this strange
world, raying, “Where am 1 ? und who
shall guide mo, that long and yearn and
roach upward V”—Betehcr't Boy a l Truth.
Why talk about not deeping n wink,
when people iu their sleep never sink.
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HUMOROUS.
An advertisement says: “Wanted, fi
female who has a knowledge of fitting
boots oCn good moral character.”
A Indy asked ii pupil nt n public school,
“What was the sin of the I’hnrisees ? ,f
Eating camels, niarm,” quickly replied
the child. She Imd road that the Phar
isees “strained at gnats and swallowed
camels.”
Legal.—Why is a Iinvyef tho most ill-
used man in our social system ? Because,
though he may drive his own enrringo,
ho must draw tho conveyances of other
people.
“I know every rook on tho const,” said
nn Irish pilot. At that moment the ship
struck, wlion he exclaimed, “And thut’s
ono of them.”
Arabian Courtship.—An Arabian
having btoiight a blush to n maiden's
cheek by the earnestness of hi* gaze, said
to her, "My looks have planted roses in
your cheeks; why forbid me to gather
them ? The law permits b in whtrsawir
to reap a harvest.”
To Newspaper Contributors.—-Don't
send n munuskript, unless yon kali rend it
yourself, uftor it gits dry.
Don’t write only on one ov the ninnu-
skript, mid don’t write mulch unto that.
Tho highest market price paid for aw
ful rnlerode smashes, and elopementit
with another man’s wife.
Wo pay, nul tho way up hill, from 1 O'
cents tew one dollar for conlnbuehuiir-,
nckordiag tew heft.
Aul settlements made promptly at the
end ov the next cnsuuiog year.
No notis will be took (from this date -
hereufterwnrd) ov letters that hain’t got
a postage stamp onto them.
Sarah Duchese, of Marlborough, was
accustomed to make an muiiial feast, to
which she invited all her relation*. At
ono of theso family meetings she drank
their health, adding, "What a glorious
sight it is to see such n number of branch
es nourishing from ono root! ’ But ob
serving Jack Spencer laugh, insisted oil
knowing what oeoasionod his mirth, and
promised to forgive him, bo it what it
would. “Why, then, Madam,” said he,
“I was thinking how muuh moro the
branches would flourish if tho root were
under ground.”
Things Unknown.—Tho young wo
man whoso waist has ever been encom
passed by an arm of tho sen.
Tho cow that lias calves on her leg*.
The person that was ever fell for by
the heart of an oak.
Tho vocalist who can lay claim io har
ing over been listened to by un ear of corn.
The man who has ever been pushed
by a shoulder of mutton.
Tho individual who wus over seen by
the eye of a potato.
Anybody unlucky enough to be
abused by tlio mouth of any river.
Amr' icans Abroad.—Artemus Ward's
landlord nt tho Green Lion,* London,
lms u new lodger, who claimed to be an
American. Bays tho landlord, rubbio
his hot fnao with n red handkorcher:
" Is tho strange bein’ u American ?”
“ lie is ”
» A Gen’rul V f
“ No.”
“ A Colonial P
“ No.”
" A Mnger ?”
“ Not n Major. ”
“ A Capting 7”
“ Ho is not. ”
“ Loftenant 7”
“ Not oven thut. ”
“ Thon,” said tho lun'lurd of tho Greerr,
Lion, “you aro deceived! lie is no
country man of yours.”
" Why not?" 1 said.
“ I will tell yon, sir,” said IheJan’lord.
“My son-in-law is etuploped in n banking '
house where cvYy American us come to
these shores goes to git his drafts ciihIiI,
lie says that not one Tina arrived on those
shores during the last 18 umatlis as
wasn’t a Gen’rnl, a Colonial, u Mjtjer a
Capting, or a Lellurmnt \ This man, a*
I suid afore, hus deceived yof Hu’* a
impostuprl”
1 reeled into a chair. F< r a n iuita'I
wns speechless. At length I murmured ;
“Alars ! J fear it is too troo! Even
I was q Capting of tho Hume Gards."
“ To be sure,” suid tlio iau’iurd ; “ you
all do it, over there.”
A. Ward on Traitors.—Artemus
Ward in n letter to ‘Punch’ dcrcrilitig Ii'ih
vi*it to the Tower of London, thus speaks
of traitors :
Warden took us in charge, und showed
us tho “Trater’s Gate,” the nr mar* and
things. The Traitors’* Gate m wide
enough to admit about twenty trailers
abrest, I should judge ; but beyond this
couldn’t see that it was superior to the
gates in gon’ral. Truiteis, I w ill Imre
remark, are n unfortnit class of people.—
If they wasn’t they would'! be trailers.
They conspire to break up a country—
they fail, A. they’re traitors. They bust
her, und they become statesmen and
heroes.
Take tho case of (Hooter, afterward*
Old Dick the Threw, who mn bo Hem nt
the Tower on horseback, ill a heavy tin
overcoat—tuko Mr. Gloster'* case. Mr.
G. was n conspirator of tho basest dy« r
and had h* failed be would have been
hung on a sour apple-'roe. But Mr. G,
succeeded,nnd became great. Ho was
slowed by Colonel Richmond, but ho
lives in history, nnd his equeetrain figgor
may be seen daily for six pence, In con
junction with other cm’nent persona ua4
no extra charge for the Wuidoa's ublo
nnd beautiful I octal 1 .