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WATHRMAN thubsday mobning, AT PEEEY, GA DAVID HUNT. A STORY OF WESTERS' LIFE. terms. _ -Tear, , $2 50 Six Months, 1 50' i Months, 1 00 JSX MBS. ANN S. STEPHENS. The paper -spill be stopped at the expira tion of -the time paid tor, unless the sub- ption is previously renewed. If the address of a subscriber- is to be [ changed, we must have the old address as I well os the new one, to preyent mistake: Ho subscription received for a less period I than three months. Ho attention paid to anonymous commu nications, os we are responsible for every- ; in our reading columns. This rule is operative. Any one sending ns five new subscribers land $12 50, will receive the Home Joubsae tone year pbee.- Displnyed advertisements will be charged [according to the space they occupy. Alll advertisements should he marked for S ecified time, or they will be continued charged for until ordered out Advertisements inserted at intervale will i charged as new each insertion. 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Keep- yourself unceasingly before the' public; audit matters not what basineas jrou are engaged in, for, if inf;Jiignutly tutd jndurifriously pursued, a ibrlnnu will be the result”—Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine. “After I began to advertise my Ironware fi-eely,’ business increased -W:th amazing ra pidity. For ten years past I have spent '£30,000 yearly, to’lceep mv snpiri'or wires; before the public. Had I been tihSd in ad vertising, .1 sliould never lav. enosSg^eS my fortune of .0350,000.”—Si died Belton, jBirmiughftm. -‘■‘Ad.vcpfising, like Midgp-touch; turns jwej-yfeing to gold. By it your ftai-ing men .draw mill inns to their coffers!”,—Stuart tGlay. “ tVluit audacity is io love and boldness do war, the sMf&rifH&e of pr ii'ex's ini is to success in business.”— Henry iVa-.-d Beecher. “ The nowspapeni made Fisk.”—James Fisk, Jr. “Without, the aid .could have dune not -lions. I have the us -printer's ink. A -.IvertLil to business.”—E. T. Bar PO ETR Y. nr SIAIiGABET J. HBESTON. A little child, whose i-hytii/ns of laughter smoothed All household dissonance away—whose step Chapter II-—Continued David Hunt and his-companion had ridden hard in hopes of making .their' way through the" woods before the storm came on, bat. there was full six miles of forest cut only by the narrow and brokexuoad through which night travellers passed with some danger even in the best weather. But they had- scarcely cleared a third of their way when the rain began to fall in great heavy- drops, and the storm mus tered around them with terrible force. Tho -hoaszy. fonurhorses which they rode stumbled in the deep - - ruts ;; and became almost unmanagable as-the thunder came crashing peal'after peal over head, and the woods around seemed a-fire with lightning. Still the riders urged them forward, for the peril seemed equal if 'they returned-' or pursued their way home. “Great heavens! did you see that?” exclaimed Shay, -reining in Ins horse with a linn hand and pointing in the direction wheneo they had come. “I thought it had struck some where,” . replied Hunt, cheeking his. horse for a moment and looking back. “Ha, it is the old. tree at the cross roads. How the flames shoot up, it was as dry as .tinder._ Thank Heaven, while it burns we shall have light enough to heep our horses from break ing their knees' in the confounded mud holes. ” ‘tHearthfitf’ exclaimed Shaw, and his face..changedyn' the.red light. “Heavens and earth! it-is upon us —what .shall we do?” cried Hunt, wheeling his horse suddenly, and the light from the burning tree revealed luikface also white with terror as he rode back a few paces and drey,- up again, agitated and irresolute. “Wd may as well go f lor ward'. there is. nothing to choose. It-will be npoj; us long before we can clear the wood .either, way,” shouted. Shaw,, -looklijg back. “Lord prA-eiwe us! it will be an awful gust, and' Hannah is - alone! Hunt spoke loud and joined Sliaw ■as he uttered these words, but the noise of the elements u^HKiave over whelmed a band of ^.gapets, and no one heard him: Terrified into almost supeiuutrad exertion, the Viv.-o hoi-res plunged on, stumbling, leaping, and .Sbiiieffmtrs th*' storm like dfnnkJn* creatures. Thu riders spoke to each other again and again, shouted '-even, but the rushing wind 'swept away them voices, audh-qt' for the quick flashes of lightning which every^inataiit reveal d their pallid'faces - each - to the other they could not have kept together. Still the terrific storm was not upon them in its.full might. The thunder boomed and crashed overhead, Die giant frees were laced together through and through with fiery lightping! the wind was strong and high; but far “Shaw, are yOu hurt?—answer me, ing a glance -through the it msihgthe body to life; he-' looked j clasping.tli°ir equally nude' little ones j li the former, hoaise withterrori |door, a&if amrions fotlhe'/ajpearaace ji thar to the right nor left, but with biting cold! [_ the fierce .storm. ‘ “Speak! do speak! I dare not ride on, the horse might tread you to death in the dark. Are you calling out?—- the storm is so loud I might not hear if you did—try,' try, the least shout will tell me where, you-are r’ Another Sash of lightning revealed Shaw’s horse, and with a shout of joy Hunt saw the figure of a man rise from fhe earth arid spnig.upbh his back.— •The next instant all was darkness again; but Hunt felt.the. horse of his companion-pressing close to his side'as the two animals urged their way, breast- to breast, through the abating storm. “Were you hurt?” shouted Hunt,- anxiously, feeling in the dark for his companion’s hand,, which hung mo tionless and dripping byhis sirie. "Z<o' no, ji limb swept me fi'om- 'the; saddle, that was .all!” “Thank God it was no worse!” ex claimed Hunt, in a voice which be spoke the hearty, gratitude which he felt, and, wringing the damp hand which he had seized; the good' man- uttered another fervent “thank God.” That instant a glare of lightning passed over them. Hunt sawstiie face of his companion, and liis warm fingers tightened on the hand they had en- locked. ‘ ‘How white—ho.w strange you look!” he said, powerfully agitated! “Shaw, own it, you are hurt, I hardly -know you- with thatfaee!” The hand which David held was wrung harshly Horn his grasp, and the reply which reachedj^iih, like- ell that had gone before, was broken and half drowned by the storm. “No no, it -is only -the lightriin My hqiv 4 e is lamed though. You must break the way -for us. ”' ’ 'As these words were uttered, the. speaker fell back and rode behind Hunt till a-light gleamed from a little window in the distance, like jj, star hi-avhig the stormy night to guide the wanderers home. “There, there Hannah is up and waiting fgr us,” cried ihe glad father, and, urging their horses on, the trav elers. dismounted at' the. cabin dboy. “The horses have had a tough- time' of it, ” said Hunt, shaking the - water .from his garments; “they must be fed first.” ‘ T will fake care of them, go in, go in, exclaimed his comsuinion,. holding- forth. the bag of money; “put tins away—I will cofrie buck in.a minute.” David took the money in blip Jnmd oak, softly, as if he was afraid of | shivering front th£ freezing air, yet \ cherry tree;” and then whipped him in: 30na- a:ici. Charles Bonaparte and Lsetitia las wife, respectable citizens of Ajaccio in Corsica, were the parents 'of eight children, one of whom became an em- peror and the greatest of modem-con--, auerois, three became kings, one a- queen, one rdigning fSovereign, und one a princess. This -unexampled- • suddenness of fortun? ppraug,nt is true i'irom Vie extraordinary genius one brother alone. But it is no‘t the itoss like blazes. tame' that the whole family w 'TO c&- This lesson was not lost upon the ^dowed-with for more than the ii”cl VCTt} fixed OH file sfrnfTfflo fftT life onrl cofefrr 4-rxTl rt# Voore -nocead nr» IrAw T\o/tomo o Jill, I remember, that made him fling! £ ifcring^es were fixed on the - dark off my hand so savagely; weR it may | fi?s^y(^id^ not on the gloomy- ob- not be much after all!” | he drew . and-lower so subdued that.it scarcely reached her j knees sunk in the ground,- and ear. [l^d about in flie mud andherbage, abouthaE-pasttweiveo’eloek,andwas “Father, ” she said at length, laying ! ; if in seach of something.- His hand aroused, lie -thinks, about half-past Shed fee blade of a knife, half- °ne,-hy cries of >^ave .my miild!-save her hand on his arm, “tell me," tall me j all! where is Isaac?”- “Out there with the horses, I tell you,” replied-.Hunt, shaking off tiie_ strange feelings prbdfteedby the blood upon his hand; and speaking out with his usual frankness. “ There, put awry the money in my chest, I had ■forgotten it.” •Setting, the bag of money .on a com er of the table; Hunt began to exam ined in. the earth. he grasped it. by ?? «M# r ^|,. fire!-fire!”-He sprang jinds, laughed a honible chokini -ugh as the blade shook in the maon- ghk “You will bear no evidence against ae now, old- friend,” he said; in aiee that fell upon the air so. strange , - oiitbf his bed and foiindTris.room full pouit, s2>rung to his feet wish a of smoke, so dense that it-was imiios- irp breath, and holding it before able to see Ms haiid before him. He in. clenched eagerly with both -hurriedly; put bn liis doth.es and gath ered a few other pieces of apparel in Ms hands, and as rapidly as- piossible made his escape from tlie hotel. He passed along tlie main passage on the third floor of the building and th.enee down what is known as tlie ladies’stair way. TMs passage was so densely filled with smoke as to make Jt neces sary for Mm to hold Ms breath as much ks.pqssiMe. from, his room down had ’4pken Ms thoughts. ’All was to ike parlor-flob^'lwo stories^ below. ,, , , , , At the tune he left his room the fire \ T- . [ke murderer had been was buisting.into the rooms at the eh- frighte d by his own voice, and slunk trance of the passage below Mm. As away \j h Ms face- still turned back he passed through the hall he cried toward ie body, though he Hid never hra, _ bangediipon. and bluest open , , - several doors and aroused the inmates, once lo md upon it. Ou0 pf tHuse he ascwtiline d was ^ Anot >r horse was tied in a hoEow, pied by G. A. Slisfiter, Esq., Supeiin- searcef twentyqiaces down from the tendent of Public Printing, who in road, ti ough ail the hurricane,- and form ^ tis tliat 1x0 owes the saving of Ms *->«-« ii-ji.- jj • -i- i life to Mr. Alfriend* Mi-. A.-lost Ms • , . IP _ . --ii-i tli : ghtmng firing. Ms eyes he jjBnuy valued at"%t2.500; pictnres val- coines in; ne 13 urippuig wet, I can had-sti d without wincing; but now ued at §300, and aU Ms clothing, tha t ,Rj aw his master coming heavily !Chb aeAkii outside. coward pm ha began to paw the Bind. It was sometime after the first cry with If hoof, and gave-a faint neigh, of fire in the building before there was The mi - parted Ms lips, and tried to alarm outside—in fact- John Cooly f i -•. -' -, , ,, , . . , who came down the street about this check f is manifestation of loy, but - - „- v- ■ , . • . - J - . • - • - . tune.and -went into a restaurant near the worts died m ins husky throat, by, inf arms ns that he could see no and me nting with difficulty he rode sign of a fire in the .direction, of 'the away, 1 int and wavering to and fro Spotswood although he heard the cry. j • ■, .. Subsequently he came out with John , Jackson, the proprietor of the r-estau- [to coxtixtjei) et ouE xext.’J xaiit, and found that the Spotewood -was on fire. He does not think fif teen minutes elapsed before the entire they were in. Hanfiali took up the bag with a shud der, for the canvas had' a red stain .upon it; she placed it in the chest pointed put by her father,, and gave Mm the. key with a foree'd smile, which looked ghastly onlips so pallid as hers had become. “Come’now, biistle about aiul gpt some dry clothes ready- against Shaw tell you,”- said Hunt with renewed cheerfulness, “but .first bring ,iae a basin of water to wash my Vthere on earth can, this have- come from?” he muttered; while laying Ms hands in,.the basin, and once more Ms face took an anxious expression. - Hannah had already.!, prepared dry armenfs both for her father and his guest. Hunt went into Ms own little bed-room, and came out dry and com fortable. Still Shaw did not appear. Hannah seated herself, at the table, broke the corn bread 7 and poured out a cnj> of tea; Hunt took the cup, set it down untasted;; and, leaning his elbows on the table,- waited for his companion to come in. At last -he started up and. went, to the door; a horse was standing near,'‘with a saddle on and his-bridle dragging along the ••wet-grass.- It.was M3 own horse.— The:old man started axitrintAthe rain caught the horse aridded him' toward- the stable, where he expected to find Shaw. All was stiff in tha log stable, the Spot, was open, but no living- thing stirred within. Hunt shouted aloud, again-and; again; he went into the house Jov a lantern, anil .searched everywhere for hip friend; Hannah followed Min in silence, the tears run- Snmii ; of tha Spottswaod Hotel in Fncimond- — From he Eichmond 'WMg, 2Gth inst] Eich fond, prenm; but humiliated brave,! at sorrow stricken; beautiful, yet evel clad in mourning, it seems hap nolyet reached the dregs .of her cup ofpittemess. - Not alone did the i a . . - -ijt^'grofiud with their steam engines great f -o of April; - 60, sv\ r eep away in othgj,apparatus, but owing- to the a siuglJ morning the earnings of lives fact tha^the pings were frozen, found indcsti ously sfient in the accumula- difficulty in procuringvy-ater with their tion ol weiilth and competency and a bcup‘omed dispatch. Despite the leav||hose, Mtherfo comfortable, leather, however, wMch turned water hou^li ss, and in.: many eases p^my- on, but found that to Save the Spots- less, pi t it has been followed by many wood was a useless task and that the and ju! h quickly succeeding disasters, Grant buildings were doomed. The .-ind puffed the hitch- stung with fhe niag down her pale face, and oj»press- Ixuj fern I d abraifiM.^l.-.rtft anxiety su-b as bad never when the light.fell on biiji Through filled hei>iie:irt before. IF was all 5T vain; no yoiee answered' the anxious shout of David HisEt Once he lieald alnglfilw- Jfat-iritt anxiety through filled iierMeartf® ihe door and led the horses away with out answering Hunt, who shouted after Min to hurry back, for Hannah -was waiting with supper on the table. ? 'Sure enough supper was on the 4a- bie—ii cake of rich coru-brcad, warm from the fire—a young chicken nicely broiled, and. a saneer.of goidc-n butter somctliijig like the quid--. ‘ tramp of a Kept tiinc to the fight meas; of lit-r heart; 4: d<rwn iii the forest came a stiff indr Whose irolic-naiuro claimed a 11 kuHlriabJnp . _ Witli jit-lii:!, jubiliint. things to- piteously terriolo .sound. Thew.-iirlv/ind wa Moaniug, held in tiie gntsp oi mortal jiaiu. The sportive look ffieij out >vi'.hiu. her eyes, The quip .jqiou her tongue, the niiKlitul- qiup jii>on ness From the j’oung voice, ns tjie sunshiny path, Where tlaucod with her the Jairy-looted hours, Darkened beneath the siniden shadow that c;une ^talking between her and fife’s new-risen sun. 3he raised a troubled glance: lather?” * What is it, And he made answer: ‘ ‘Only a messenger “Whom Ihc dear. Lotd hath skit to call you, Sweet, Away from all things sa.d, jp a fiir land Where it is always heantifiil summer-time.” Startled^ about fee stooping neck she clung With passionate burnt of childlike uiicoritrol: “Go with-.me, fitther,- foy i am afciid;!- 1 I shiver at the creeping of the iliirk; I tremble 1 ! Xet mo hold vour dear, warm hand; O father ... not clone! Why even here Abpnt this pretty world J have not ventured To walk untonded— . “Little trembler, no,— Xou shall not go untended, Christ himself Has travelled the. pathway through, apd made it bright; - ' ’- k ■ , And now He leaves .the seraph-songs alitfioj To come iind.hold my lender baby's hand: And just outside the dhskir-bgbme call it. ■ death)— * ■ *» waits to b Aid watches for yowattfe'gate: We’ve talked about righi 0 fUm: i so close, You will not be afraid?’’. j- The Closed as if weighted by too heavy a And in a silence, solemn and str—- J She lay as grappling with a inn tered Her fitfle powers. But when again, she Upon her &feer her full eyes, the fear Had vanished, end the radiant look of joy •Two ladies in coining up from, file dark-north, hear ing onward with a fierce, fnsMng rortr, and’crushing down the mighty forest in its path-j-on and on it cainafEkh a mighty ocean heaving loose from its foundation,-?. And now Jj was upon them! The two 'horses stood stiff .quaking with terror,' their riders cast- themsglves forward upon the sMveriug beasts, clung to their dripping necks, apd they too were motionless. - On it came,'gathering new strength and terror. The hoarse winds, the thunder, and the noise gf giaut trees uprooted like reeds .and clashed to the earth, mingled together and deafened the very Heavens. ' The air lvas black with crouds of mangled foliage—great limhs of tress,- jmisses of loose. Ieaves--vines twisted asunder and saplings torn up by the roots. went rushing by. Tke * wind now scattered them abroad—now drove 'them together in Messes. The light ning.shot its fiery through and through: tlfem, phd-hhe rain; miiigled witli-ii; all not with the soft irilliiag sweetness of, waMrfdrops that|a!I ggstiy from the clouds, but blent with.afftheturbulent elements that.made Hie night horrible. Still the horses grofrched thqir limbs together and buried thgif hoofs deep ill the carth,. and ihe riders cliing- to them awe-stricken and -briritjfiess—«ff' at once the ground, begin to heave under fli_em. Tha earth tom up aIf.aroaad^-a,gye>it oak, whose ! roots' were tangled-under the so;} far the road, fell crashing them. The. maddened horses forward—the outer - hrandies falling tree almost brushed” thi ieats! and ftbRngB";. tong If^ruaoss.the rood j ;!s ; vvhere ihey ma for 1 jj a ^ peep an iiistah't before. The horse which David Hunt roefe daared iiorso. down in tfes wffods; the sound lasted but an instant,'iind both father and daughter wont into the house, filled with trouble and consternation. . The whirlwind went by; the rain just from the churn stood' tcm,pfcgly- ceased, and ijMgwjgti died- moaning, ready on the snow-white table-cMth., amid the torn iciffage; the filocr. came There was prctly Hannah,, her Chheks all rosy with thehoat/iioiuing W stream, of sparkling hof water, from the clumsy kettio into a litthi britaunia 'tea-pot,' bhliered with long use, but bright as. silver, which had been standing-on tlie hearth at least two hours with the lid -tcmi>tingly- Ihrown-bnck an'd ready to receive the water, - that -kept siri^ng away in the kettle, at .any moment. “So you have come—-I thought it 1 was you,”' ex-gliiimed Hannali;-closing fhe lid of .the. tea-pot, and going up to her'fathor,!her sweet face ..sparkling with gratified joy, slie. finug lier arms around the ojd man’e neak and kissed Ms wet cheek. - “Have you been much, frightened, darling?” said the old man, tenderly ■taking her RMd in his. -“Oh^ycs, Toryjaudi till I heard you coming. I was so -afraid ggif you would get hurt in the wooffa I- have been crying here all alone lialf the evening, arid yet it seemed as if .pH would turn out well, aad so it- has— here you are, but Isaac, he did not lei yonyosie back alone?” “Oh, no—ho ■ is turning, put-the, horses-rtat a trep feff; <dofe by us and he got- a foil—nothing to talk of though,” added the kind man,, ob- serving’that-thc cheek of his danghtcr turned pale, ■ ' . “Yen are sefre no onejshnrt?” said Hannah; in. a low voice, winding her fingers around the’ huge hand which was clasping them. -* ' “Yes, yes, what is tlie inatter— ivhaFaila your-hand? - Yen are not afraid of a/ffitlc water, arc you?”. 5 Ew turned to the. light and looked earnestiy at the. fingers her Rither had' been- clasping: they were crimson with-bloodir.t^p^^" &££'■ -x—mv father, youare. hurt, and md-ragg&yuxd hanwed np aqifr'had been with the stor 1a—on the shfltterecl trees—the herbage broken arid soiled, and heaped together in ridges on the places it had beautified token the sun I went down. Like a Christiaa soril in New York were talking 1 the tree first, and w as plub^ng on in about the spairows and their, n^fnil ness in ridding the city of the canker- worms, wMch used to be such a nub sauce. One said that the noisy chirp ing of sparrows early, when she want-: ike .darkness, when a sharp cry cut to his ear, even through the storm.- Hunt grasped the bridle- with lu-th hU strong hands, and, putting forth his strength, wheeled his horse round. ed to sleep, was as great an evil as the 1 for Shaw was stiff 1;chunk A flash of Worms; the other disagreed. Just then i lightning revealed his home without a q gentleman came in and was appealed rider; Shaw was upon the ground—a to: “Mr. A , which do you think.; black mass that might be a heaw limb the worst—sparrows or worms?” He j of the falling tree, or a k immediately answered: “I don’tknow,; stooping over him, was betrayed I never had sparrows.” ! an instant and all was blaek ng,,,,, eager to ffing a.iuanfto of charily over the ruin which sin has made, that peaceful moon wove a veil of misty silver amid the^devastation- which, but- for it, would have been dreary indeed. But- there was one object lyingin the cart-road deep in the forest, wMchthe ; pure moonbeams but rendered more horrible. It was g human form, flung like a slaughtered animal across the trunk of-the oak wMch Hunt had seen uprooted' but an hoai- before. The lax limbs were entangled in a bough wMek was broken, 1,'ent-' and crushed by their weight; the free was turned upward, wMte, cold | and ghiistly, among a mass of leaves, matted to gether -by tlie dark- stream wMch trickled heavily down from Fhe'body upon them. . _ : There were none of thosa'peasant sounds of dropping waterwMcii would was on fire, and perished iii going out in the firmament once more, smil ing, Eke the eye of an unconscious -The wonder is, -under the ciremnstan- , . . . .. - ,, diffil, ^mfiio avild.scene below. Itjces-so rapidly did the flames gam ErasmsJ*Doss washed^ lookc-dto-qinly ‘upon the earth, toyri headway—that many others were not Miss Cbrneli% the. housekeeper of the Spotswood. She was a'native of New York,/ l Samuel W. Eobiuson. burned to death. And this is the Christmas to wMch we have looked with pleasing.anticipa- rions; this is the feast for wMch our people, ati masse, were .preparing Sat urday with such cMMlike eamestness and enthusiasm. Instead of mirth, festiyily arid friendly congratulations, we .now have death,- suffering ■ and mourning, instead of anthems of prajge and songs of joy, that “To us a child of hope is bom, To us a son is given,” the! cypress takes the place of the cedar and the ivy, and lamentations struggle for life and safely to tell of the events of this terrible-morning, in wMekHiey lived an age in a few mo ments. ’ ME. EDWAED JI.'aI.FEIEXd’s STATEilEXT. Mr. Edward 5£ Alfiiend occupied room Np 39 in the’hoteL He retired Years passed on, the boy became a mari,. and still as he pettifogged it in the Police-Courts, the words of Ms sire rang through his brain,, and urged Mm on to new deeds of chicanery , and “smartness” nntil as the rebellkm broke ant he sewed about four pounds amount of ettesgy and ability- Some of this, again, has -been tranSTFiried to thefr cMKren. XU 4hc Iwiso^-®* grandchildren to diaries «Kd laetiihw, one lias revived the. splendors—and the misfortunes, too of the first em pire; eight or nine of themhave becoinu building was hi a blaze, the flames reaching with a resistless grasp for the. tated by the.wiipl, which was blowing, in that,■direction. /leipi; FIRE. EjGIKES, ETC. . Ijly'iMs time the firemen were on of brass things arid gold lace on Ms ’ authors ofrrcpnte—two boSig- each in coat and s^-sac^rfngly volunteered his own line, of gtoat distinction; while - in none of them has there ever ap peared an appesaunee of weakness, or folly .in the direction. It is only a hundred years, since the first of them —Joseph—was lxim: and only tea years since the youngest of them— Jerome—died: IVitiiiu the compiiss' of a single life, they have governed France twice, e;K.-h time with improve ments'in the material recources of the coimtry, quite clisiiroportioued to the length of the reign and the diffi culties they have encountered. They have formed alliances, with the noblest houses in Europe. They have been— for good arid for evil—perpetually in the months of men. They have fallen hopelessly, and have risen unexpect edly. They have had disastrous re verses, and splendid success. They have been alternately the sport and the spoiled children of Fortune. was. soon 'after appointed to a com mand at New Orleans where he struck a death-blow to the rebellion ■ by ap propriating all the spoons'and. other small wares of the rebels, thereby cutting off their soup and greatly en- riching himself; afterwards getting a little job at Dutch Gap and distinguish ing himself at Big Bethek - -Anungrateful country at the close of the war refused to make him President but shoved him into Congress, where lie stiffarepiains, an unmitigated nui sance and an example to rising youths. > . . MORAIi. ' '‘Virtue is its owri reward, ” “Go thou aridHo likewise.” The author is not altogether clenr as to what the moral points; whether to emulate the old man or Benjamin, but he has the satisfaction of knowing that the intelligent reader may pay Ms money and take Ms choice. Tee Esd. then. 'Then came more, fires,, then mates of the hotel as they appeared at the groit Capitol- disaster, with its 'the windows. Citizens, among them long list of killed and wounded, then Mi'. Eobt. Scammel, Mr. Shields,- a the mighty .flood of last fall, wMch son-bf,policeman 1 Shields, John Jack- ... „ . SOn, colored;andothersequaffyiJsac- came upon ns as if the very mountains five whose names were not fuluishe'd rtrfr ,j& - v .j. orirdevoted eapitdL . And, now, the Hie up^er slsrie3 by sheets—and their last and riot the least sad, is the bum- co °fe ess a rid bravery saved lives wMch ing of Spotswood Hotel, and with it a must ^ have been ° <il g WISO lo ^- bl|ick of splendid buildings on our w .she kkowk ehijEd. r ii 10 -mi i . v-j Wedo not believe that, even alter e thoroughfare and ra thc yeiy nearly twenty-four houisbad elapsefe iiaut of tlie city. We would tliat we tlxat tlie number of persons wlio lost- cqalcl stop liere and prdceed to estir tlieir lives is known. It is certain,- tlie great loss of dollars and kp wever > itot the following were all cintS, but we cannot, for five more «Ms temble CMistmas Ca- Ifves’hve afready known to have been Samuel Bines, aged abont -tMrty, arid others injured, to what ex- was a native of Caswell county, N. O’ teritwenrenotable yetto determine He got down stairs while the building The Thing Explained. In passing the mouth of a lane-last night, we overheard two old darkies discussing the political situation, and especially B.east Butler’s bill for “general amnesty.” Friday—-“Sam, what you call -dis dam-nasty bill de buekra be talkin’ ’bout so much? Is dey gwine to’duce de niggers to slab’ry agin?” Sam—“Wly, nigger, you don’t read de papers, does you? You clean out de secret, all hollow. 'Why, dat dam- nasty bill’s a cute thing. Massa Butler fix urn up just, ’bout right, and it’s got nnffin to do wid niggers. De rebels, is wot he’s arter. You see dem what fit in de war, and was’sjiec- table ’fore it cum, is sorter tied down and niggers and de carpet-baggers gits all de offices.—Now, dese ’spectable rebels want to be let up, and dey’s been knockin’ at de doors ob Congress format dey calls a pardun, which means forgibness for de ugly fitin’ dey gib de Yankees. De Yanlcecs sav aff right, but Butler inus’ draw de bill, and call um dam-nasty, and I rcekon de rebels will tliink it dam- nasty, suro enuff, for it- ties down more’nitlets up, and de more ’spec- table dey is de tighter dey is tied. Now, you know wliat de dam-nasty biff am. Gi’ me a chaw of tobacker.”—Sauai- uah Republican. rama completes the list of victims, as far as ascertained. TEE INJURED. Mr. Clarke, .one of the hotel stew ards, leaped from a third story win-! dow, and. was smiously injured. H e fractured his tMgh and ankle. Mr. C. B. Luck was quite-painfully burned; and Mr, Schaffter slightly. F. N. Green, clerk in the office of Su pervisor Fresbuy, was‘slightly hint by -are bome'from house to house, and f&Mng of glass, sorrow from heart to heart. a faiaii reap. tee oniGEi OF the Enas. During the -fire, an unknown man About fifteen minutes past -1 o’clock Maped from the upper story, and as he on Sunday morning, Patrick Byrd,! a reached the ground a wall fell tqjon colored office/ervant at.the Spotswood Mm, crushing him instantly' to death. Hotel, .comer' -of Eighth arid Main Captain Huffman, of'the Petersbnrg streets, was proceeding to wake np the Eailroad, reaped from a window, and female servants, -whose duty it was sustained no injury, thus early to scour-the hotel,- when, The loss of property by this fire was .on reaching, the' passage leading to the immense, of. wMch the insurance com- diriing-rpom, on the next floor above panies bear a large proportion, the. office, he discovered ari -unusual’ ■ > 0 c siuoke, and a rapid mvestigatioir dis- EENJASHN T. BtlTLEB. closed-to him that it proceeded- from - the pantry, a wooden .connection be- Benjamin Franklin Butler, the hero tween the kitchen and dining^rooni, 'of this sketch was bom. in. the year to It can, be sustained by former mem bers of the Eadical party, who no longer v act witli it. *'■ ' He can be impeached for conspiring the State out of the Union, for browbeating and bnilyirig the jieo- ple by means of the United States soldiers, for perverting and misappro- " e revenues of the State, for >f its bonds illegally and ex pending- the money in afl sorts of manner not authorised, by law,in ke ep ing a large number of irresponsible vagabonds around' Mrn under the guise of clerks and paying them sala ries put. pf the State Treasury, fm: al- Eriowles. the night'clerk, of Ki'g ppn- was siredhy a Bevolutionaiy ancestor th® State Boad to be run as a elusions. Both thereupon hurried to end bom by a ContinentaL-dani. Hfo ' “cTirtm.! —.. -rt the pantry, forced the door, and found early-days Were spent ;dn: peace'arid fimteven in this short time the smoke ~ ' arid flames hath inerecseS'’ so A rapidly that the former was issuing in every direction. To give the alann .of fire ShaQBuIloeh be Impeached? JL F'ra7n -the Albany Ahws.J The election news from every county in the State indicates that, the Radi cal party has been well nigh annihilated In every direction the.glorious tidings come that the people have spoken, and their voice is in condemnation of that party wMch has usurped our liberties and- made the most extraordinary ef forts to bankrupt the State. The ghiu news leaps down from the mountains, it comes .up from the plains, it swells upon every gale. Even our little boys rejoic.e at the near termination of the ride of that infomons band of scalawags carpet-baggers, convicts and slaves, who have for two years , past revelled in the halls of our Legislature, polluted -our Courts of justice, and stolen the revenues of the State. One more step is necessary in or der to completely strike off the sWkfog of Georgia: arid that is. the impeach ment of Bullock. Iri;the first place, he was never elec ted Governor of Georgia. ; Gen. Gor don’s actualjnajprity was 7.213 votes. Ample, proof to establish this- fact,is now the haridapf Judge E. G. Cabiness. But- the testimony neednot rest here. JOHN T. HOFFMAN. ■ This gallant young American, the present Governor of New York, has ev idently the. inside track to the next Presidency. AH eyes are turned to him as the Democratic nomin ce, and if entered for the nice he is not apt to be beaten. The enemy have never yet failed to bite the dnst under the weight pf Ms stalwart arm. Success seems to crown nH Ms aspirations: Indeed, fortune seldom fails to smile on such men as Hoffman. Few men possess more to commend them to popular favor and esteem. To fine abilities he unites a dauntless courage, a spotless character, arid the energy of a tornado in all he undertakes' Among all the Politicians of the North, we believe he is the only one whose personal character has never been assailed.—The Badicals, them selves,-like and praise the man, and the elections show that many of them vote for Mm, despite his uncomprom ising Democracy. The Badicals have long sinee lost their entire political stock in trado except Grant’s military ;lory, and that overshadowed and blurred by an imbecile civil adminis tration, in anything like a fair fight, Hoffman would rout them in five- sixths of the States of the Union. A general amnesty would aHow the South to pnt second on the ticket some one of her great practical minds _—such as Jenkins, or Johnson of Georgia—in wliich event a political ground-sweH would convnlse and elec- trify.tliis whole section of the Union. —Savannah Republibanr. 'wHl not teHme,” ahe. exclaimed, trim- smiting his way through the -mud, - in".toward Mm and^holdihg, upfMfrigave .another sluggish sonsd tqi the hand. “Oh. father, haw .could you i still night. _It. grew slower and more deny it? See, your sleeve is spotted, , iaborious as the- jaded horse drew near, your hand is wet with it; toil me, tell i and stopped altoge: have foHowea a storm in ‘ the forestland '.fownipg with tiie'latter: ao-Ii. He 1492 at. Geneva, near Kenrieboak, for the winds had’sweat the rain'aww I at ° nee ! corded that the house was SpMn, of poor bufc honest pareri^ ., i ... A. .. . ... _ I On fi’*2-m that Quarter .and haitilvTP- whose gray hairs he succeeded in ... ^ bringing hr sorrow-to the grave, "fle; was aH around?- But that siiaH cur- -------- • • - - rent of blood,. wMling . slowly- down over the - dieriehed ~ huritingrfrock, 4 wMeh himg arpimd the hody,’through the crashed latveCip the earth, -drop by drop, feff. qpoa the sweet air with Hag^sh and .horrid monotony, stiff, the moonbeams smiled upon the scene as they bad smiled uponthe blossom ing turf the night before. The smothered hoofrfiill of a horse, me. / 1 uprooted oak. - 'A man, whose ■ looked, sharp and kaggarcl.in a. fierce, unsteady blow with a stick hP 1 be= gathered up from the yayaide, which 1 not hurt ; sent the poor animal tearing down : branches of t erashad to the sleeping occupariis of the hotel Haded off-a lot o; quietude dnriijg which *0 deported wse. For pardoning notorioas J liimsglf ..with detoram and virtue, rete - v . 0 wonderfrd in one so- -young. At the Tes - murderers out of peidten- eariy age.of teymi his . venerable sire ! ali d saving them from the gal- •Hint!” exclaimed Hunt, going close to the light, where he examined of his linen coat and his ndin a state wildei-ment; “Mat! no, ut where did this come cheek became a shade 00k-the. drops from hip H- Tlie lere was water as wefias and the horse plunged, with clanking hand—and an expres- stiiTnps and loose bridle, deep into the and anxiety stole over forest. - * rt ; ,lied away, the horseman crept toward ’ era, was the work of a irioment, but it was not-rapid enough, with- tdl their desr perate haste, to arouse afl. the deep Hewers who were dztesming;. imsori«a- ous that a merciless enemy -was threat ening their lives with.ai'prni-of death at the mere thought of which we shud der and grow, heart sick. .TEE WlriD AliAElI THROUGHOUT THE Hoimri. ' "" ’ Frantic men, wbirieri and cMldren wei second hand hriteheti- Tins the.aric^- j - to f ” r rewards tral Butlerwith teais in his Q?es, pre-;l"^ lel1 rt w®s necessaiy.; It is a riofori- sented to Baajateinr saying, “now my j Ons fact that he rarely ever offered a up ' reward for a negro who'had murdered son distinguish yourrelf. w o ^ m a . w ^ that lot.of oyenwjo^ at tlie Htch^nr' , , ./ door, before your iaother tans ? j “.white man, orforawMfc man who hide!”. t - * ha^ killed another, if the former was a Tee Banner Counties.—The follow ing comities may justly be called the banner counties of the State: | In Telfair the Badicals received only thirteenfvotes. The Democratic majenty is 486. In Irwin the Demo crats received 400 votes, the Eadical3 none; Appling gives the Democats a majority of 425—the Radicals not re ceiving a single vote;. Coffee county gives a clear Democratic majority of 500, without a dissenting vote. —rt - Grant’s !Sajt Domingo Jon—His Tbiumth Ovee Sumner.—There was great.rejoicing among:Grant’s ft-fouds at the WMte. House on Thursday morning after the passage of Morton’s resolution for the appointment of three commissioners to San Domingo. Sarit- ner, by Ms denunciafions of the Pres ident, has arrayed a force opposition against him who threaten Ms removal from the Committee on Foreign Eola tions. Morton’s resolution is yet to pass the House: General Banks wiH be their champion. Then the commis sion will be named, (Fred. Douglass as one) and go to Dominica. The programme now seems - to be to make a new treaty of annex ation for the consideration of the Senate, for the reason that the cannot make their trip on in time for the'pres- .. ; and it i^agfeed that the Democratic strengh in the Forty-sec ond House no mere propositiori to an nex Dominica by joint resolution can succeed. So the administration falls on another treaty. . .? w. *' got into a rough-rxid-tnmhle fight at school and was bitten in the forehead. “Boy,” said his father at night, “did I net fell yen that I wonlil •r yon got to lighting again?” ’t in a fight, sir: I hit myself 1 "Take care, hoy, a orte for you. Hew c*ari in the forehead?” a chair.” leaped from- tMrir beds at .this- cxy^pi fire, to which was tffided the <xy of murder, and a^ceuet foffo^ed- of panfe-striakefi, uman beings, c-tuled from aers at such :in oour night-by the. cry of fire an townward.;a litde, rush of smoke into thc-ir bed-roems.— ■'i that all could have been arons- his dad who was rit it was ordered otherwi.-ic*.— | branch of the prostrate ’ chid only m night-dothes, and tell a thousand lies, tlren cut do rtAjfc, ^ ..j’ ■: -.,rt ’l..^ the deeds of this man eon went; all law, contrary to Ms oath of , ~- 1 -' arid.in usurpation of the liberties of Georgia. My only object 11, * announce that so soon as the | tine assembles, tMs man mush ask after the Short, who gout. “Ah, dr,” ‘he sufic-r worse limn ’ars frigtfully, l"scp| poser” “Alas, sir, it is the only he Etas leit.” ception r the Radical party is dead. Let the Legislature strike hiia down and complete the work. And in doing ^onnd a man at work in a f so let it exclaim in the Language of you see that birdv” ho • Bichard— . «, T ' ’ “H there be ene spark of life left, * y siuea: isawthei Down, down to hell, and say I sent vou - saw them fly too; an there, * j flew so well they flew away , Dunhibk. j meat.