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■8*1 QIIjc (Cutljbcrt Appeal. ELAM CURLSTIaN.) [JA8. P. BAWTILL, Proprietor*. Terms of subscription » Tliree month* |1 00 Six o nnths |3 00 On year $3 00 |^T I»v«ri*bljr in advakcb. |enH. '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. $l)c €utl)bcvt ^AppcaL KATKM OF ADVERTISING •. One dollar per square of ten line* for the first I* ■erlion, end HeTontj-fire Cents per equsre for eacli subeequent h)*ortion,n<Tt exceeding three. Ooenqnnro three month* ♦ fl W One equere one jeer 10 O') Fourlh of s column *ls months 00 00 llelfcolumn sis months 70 0*1 Or.e Column six mouths .100 (JI 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 .