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F. R. FI LUES, Editor. VOL. VII. Letter from Hon. «l. 61. l imiter. Atlanta, Ga.. July 29, 1^72. Col. F. R. Fit.T'ks : 9 Vmr s o . - I'ntil this mo ment 1 have had no time to my promise, that I would write to you. and now the time al lowed me is very brief. Our‘House meets at 9 a. m.. and adjourns at Ip. to. Tin u after a brief period for dinner, we are engaged at C m_ mittee work until f p m. And now the House meets at B.] ami holds until 10 J p. in. This j amount of work, together with the excessively 1 hot weather is miking many of the members sick. I think all will be l" adjourn at the end of the Constitutional period, and here a“*er tb< se who come hero will steer char of Sumfner Sessions. Well, yon see what we have been doing and ! are doing by the newspapers. Lai a lnoiiumiis j outrage has been perpetrated up< n a portion <>l \ the people of this Mate, and 1 may say t!.«‘ State collectively, and especially our own county, in • the way of a Congr«»i«.-aal redi trictirtg of the j State. This question was agitated early in the j Rosaion, and a committee of fourteen from the j House and seven from the Senate appointed to enquire into the propriety and expediency of: redistricting, and to report a plan. Fearing that ray county might be placed in a black Dis trict, I nought a place on this Committee; but! like “old Mr. Sugg's 7 ’ predestination It had all been fixed “aforeband.” 1 then notified the Coiumittee that I wanted a hearing before it. and l was promised this; but 1 never Could find out where they met until they had "agreed np‘*n j a report. I then only had time to tell thorn that. \ I should oppose their scheme. 1 could get no time to examine /lie map. but by following op Graham, who was appointed to (bast the bill, I did get the proposed arrangement of the Com-; mittee. With this and a copy’ of the L\ *S. On bus of 1870,1 went to my room, and between 6 o'clock p.m., of the 22<1, and 9 a. in. the next, morning, I went over the whole list of coumii got the population, white and black, ascertain' <1 j the majorities in <arh ever the ‘other, a: i found the Districts to stand as follows : First Hi- i Ft. j total population, 134,530- black majority Ffdit. Second, (including our own county . total popu lation, 124,3(10- black majority 10,3*20. Th id. total population, 116.759—81ack majority 8.7*21. Fourth, total population, 151.205 jority o.fiofi. Fifth, total population, 147.24*; White majority. 4.692. Sixth, total population, • 1*20,265- —Black majority’,*ll933. Seventh, to tal population, 117,612—White lunjori'y ( 372. Eighth, total population, 157,108 Black ma jority. 23,806. Ninth, total ]op dation, 132,079 White majority, 73,597. Philips, of Echols, had previously i : and ircd a bill so arranging the counties in «■ ch lI ■ • i1■ t . that every one had a white majoi i y. Thi plan put onr county in the Second, which 1 >!;<! not relish; still it was better than the abomlcjd.ii.n , proposed by this Committee as a-- b.-tit On the morning of the 23d this Committee made- i; report. Johnson, of Npaklng, m* v< dio 1 ■;y 11 ! report on the table, and print *2*D oq i. use of the House. I supported this imuion i■ ;• short speech. I thought the proposition vv;i- -o reasonable that it could not be refu-ed. But they voted it down. A member of the Commit tee moved to agree so the report and called n.<- previous question; I appealed to him to w ith draw’it—stated that it was an important bill, and one that materially am etod n:y cmditnents, and that H was unjust and illiberal to enfi. iv<* the gag law in any such way. But no would reach them. The previous question was sustained, arid the vote carrl Ito ay- ee to tie* report. I then took the ground that the pv* vi ous question w a exhausted in fV v which the Speaker sustained me. IE and ' i a was appealed from, but- bis ruling gusto 3 ’. I then got the floor and offered my amende: at m change the counties of Br. th -, 1. w. !• - Echols to the Ist, the 'county of Burl, fr mi] Ist to the Bih, the counties of Madison and Frank lin from the 9th to the Bth, and the co.mtie- of Green and Oglethorpe from the -th to the I !>. This plan would have given the Ist a whin- r . jority of 1 758: would have "reduced the black majority in th" Bth to 21,399; left a white map'ci ty in the 9th of C 0,997, and have only increased the black majority in the 2d to 11.519. But Cm* Speaker ruled the amendment out of order, and a vote was taken upon the passage of the bill and it declared passed. I then gave notice that 1 should move to reconsider, and immediately a motion was mode to transmit forthwith to the Senate. I protested against this, and the .Speak er ruled as it proposed to finally dispose of the bill, I had a right to be beard upon the mei ils. Mi intent were the friends of this measure to gag those who opposed it, that they re orted to tin unheard-of, and indecent haste, to force th*- bill through. When it was decided that I was entitled lobe heard, in my feeble way I endeav-: ored to show up the measure in all its enormity. ! •But to no purpose. The thing wa - “cut and dried, 7 ’ and was forced through by their over powering and reckless majority. You will ex- I case me. sir, for the seeming egotism in the nar j ration of the history of this measure. 1 only wanted to show-that our people were forced out of the District to which they legitimately be longed, to which they were bound by ties geo graphical, of interest and tradition, and cram ined into a Radical District against their wishes, and in the face of the firm protest and the strong est opposition thaH w sable to offer. And I now register a vow. that I will never cease my eff orts in the Legislature, and out of it, until Brooks connfy is placed back in the Ist District, unless her people should will differently. A determined effort L being made to defeat the bill in the Senate. Nichols of the 3d and Lester of the Ist are making a fnanly and gallant fight against it, and Heaven g ant that they may suc ceed better than I did. But I scarcely dare to hope. Infinitely better would it have been to bare let the old Districts remain as they weiF, and have elected two Congressmen from the State at large. Then six Democrats in'Con gress wouid have been sore; in all probability seven, and perhaps eight. N w. Heaven only know- bow it may be. In the 2nd, we certainly stand a bad chance. 'S'c §?Mti I But I have made this communication longer j than I intended already, and have not topched i on a matter of great interest, to our people and 1 to the .State at large. I mean the extension of the Atlantic £ Gulf railroad to Pollard, thus! putting us in direct communication with Mobile I and New Orleans. Tt l can find time from my duties I will make this the subject of another | letter. i \ ery truly yours, •I.V-. It. IIINTER. P. S. Youjiavc seen Tim t our eloquent and ; ; gifted county man, ('apt. 11. G. Turner, has ! been placed on the electoral ticket for the Ist; | District. This action I know our people will | approve. 11. Gov. Smith'. Getter of Acceptance. Atlanta (!a . .Tilly 29, 1572. ; JI-v rs.Jrt.m- .1/. MMnj, Julian Hurt-1 ri hy, Urn. E Simmons*. Ira I!. Foster, ) Humid Ailvn, Committee : Gi .nti.'mi n- : 1 have the honor to ae f now ledge the receipt t 1 your column- j uiciitinti of the 24iti inst , informing me that the .State D’inecratie Convention nail liOmiiiatml me unanimously as theirj candidate for the oOice of Governor. I For tnis great |.tutor, U cannot com mand language in which to express my j gratitude. The unanimity and heiirti- i il ls with which the nomination win made add another t* the many nldiga- | lines already resting open me to Helve! with all p ssibl.' zeal and faithfulness a j people wlm have foie it'd aid trusted' me. The risolutions adopted by the Con vention have been carefuDv cons dereil, j and 1 take pleasure in slating that the) principles therein enunciated meet with I my warm approval. The re-affirmance ul “the unchangeable doctiine that this) is a Hnii n i I Si ales, and that ti e hide- . slrnctihility < I U'C Slates, of their rights, | and of their equality with each ntl er, is i • n indispensulde part of our political i system,” is a pletlgt! on the part of the) t hmvenlion that the Democracy ol Genr aia will continue to adhere to the prin ciples of the cm stilutional government. These great fundamental principles of j our Federal system should never he for- 1 gotten or abandoned. And yet, to use) 'the language of one of the resolutions, I) (ally "recognize the exigencies of the, times which suggested ami secured the nomination by the Democratie party at i Ibiltinioro, of Horace Greeley and 11. j Gralz Brtnvi), ns candidates for i’resi dent and Vice President of the United Flutes, ami regard their election as con ductive to the preservation of the lights of the States, It. local self- govei inneiil, uil the protection el the individual lib erty nl the citizen.” It would he iincandid in me not to say j that I should I tve been glad if this exi gency hid not been upon us. The pow er of i anting the candidati s, however, was -pecifu-Hllv lodged by the party in) ) the N lional Convention. That enliven lion, like a court of the last resort, is ) tier highest party tribunal in the land,' and t cynnd it there is no other oc fiirth i er appeal, without going outs'de of the' 'patty. This latter course I cannot a d"pt. I cannot separate myself from i ii y eivu pe p'p. Nay, more: I would s: 'ini by them, even when in the wrong, j ! rather than give flic enemies of good j g- v< n mend my countenance and sup The N’afi ml (Vmvcnfi- n having ri-m i ina!! and eamtid.itcs for the Piesidnucy and i Vice. Presidency, and tho State Coiivcn. | j lion laving r< cognized and accepted peie' candidates, 1 shall riot permit my ! self to call in question either the ws dom ami patriotism which directed tie ) choice made by the one, or the accept ance and end' is'-ment accordi and to the, ot er. The Democratic party, wifh.Giee ! ley and Drown as its candidates, is infi ) nite y pteh ruble, in my jiifl j inent, to any other political organization in the it: entry. 1 shall g.vc to the Dali ini ae ‘nominees, therefore, mj earnest zealous) HUpp' 11, la lieving that in their election j ; the cause of honesty and c.■ iiklittitional I government w I! achieve a triumph over i fraud, cm I upturn and usurpali an I may add that since my accession to i office, 1 have had but little time to be stow upon national ali'aiis. IVo have a! , great work before ns here in Georgia, 1 sufficient t) engage the best efforts of j | every patriot in the State, and ! have j , given my hand itud In art to that work, i To complete tills work successfully, it i« i ecessary that we preserve the integrity ! f ttie Democratic party t.ere at home. It is necessary that we be united and ; I zealous, and forbearing, slow to condemn I cur brethren, nr to magnify diflereuct-s • upon matters us minor concern. If w< : f+mt ptirsue this course, Die good work j j we have in hand wiil have been finished j jat no distant day. Alt amwnile let us I tape that the great and powerful party to which we belong, will he enabled, ! with the aid of liberal •& and patriotic men j from otliei political organizations, to ac complish the sane beneficent revolution in our national affairs that we have al ! i< ady < fleeted hero in Georgia. With tlie iiigliest appreciation of the honor conferred upon me, and with many thanks for the kind tenns employed by you in cunmuiiicatiiig the action of the ) Convention, I accept the nomination, with a pledge that, if elects and, I shall, to j th- best of my ability, discharge lliedn ties of the great tiust placed in mv bands by a confiding peep e. Very truly, James AI. Smith. N w is the time to advertise in tie Banxes. HERE SHALE THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY FEAR AND UNERIBED BY CATN. QUITMAN, GEO., AUGUST 9, 1872. ACROSS THE TRACK. r.Y 1 KANTES lIEItsIIAW BADEN’. 1 Tt is no use, mother, not a bit of use Ito try. Y' ii might as well attempt to siitch and chain the wind in its wittiest ! course, as to stay Abner MarUlcy in his. I Better let him alone. ■ ‘Don’t talk so, husband. T must, in deed I must. His mother would have tried to save inv boy, in the same situa tion, I know. It may bens von say, ! bnt I’ll try all Die same; and ii l foil— : no, no, 1 most not fail; I can’t ’boar to use that word Well, I'll do my duty, ) and trust to Ood for tlie result,” answer icd Ruth Mild, as pile wiped away the tears that st lie gently down her sweet ) motherly face. i ‘Yon don't think of tlie dangers to our own boy. If you bring him here, Kutb, God o ly knows where it might 'end Yu forget.’ And Abel Mild glanced with an anx'ons eye through the) | open door into the next room, where sat la little maiden, the miniture picture of ! her mother—fairer and fresher in celor- ) ; ing though. ‘Oh, Abel! that child, little more than Ia bnby F | 'ln her sixteenth year, and he hand-I ! some enough to make a girl forget motli er, father and the whole world, for him. I* m’t do it, mother. It is a hereditary ) sin, from father to son. Would you see your child the wife ol u drunkard?’ A shiver, a littlo cry of terror, at and for j a moment the sweet face paled. She, ' in s fated, and Able Mild thought he had ! ) triumphed ‘N i God will spare nte that, I trust,) , I know. And so 1 will tmst Him—aye,) j‘even though lie slay me.’ ‘And offer your own lamb to the suc rifiecF Abel said, in a lone that told the | daik forebodings that possessed his , spil it. i Again she fullered, and leant, with her head hurried in her hands, ns if pray ) iag. Again her eyes were looking into At el’s, clear, and showing no doubts in . her heart, ‘lie kuowetb my heart —its weakness and strength. He will not try me lie yoiid my power to lmar. If you live me able, Abel, say no more. Never he j lore, in the two ty years of niir married j life, have I murmured against vonr will. Now I feel that I urn doing His,’ she said, r lining her eyes upward . There was an expression on her face ■more beautiful than Al« 1 had ever seen, even in tie sc when he though! tin re wa- I I not as lovely a face in the world—an ex nression so holt*, so trusting, that. Abel went up to her, drew her head on his I b aim, and kissing her, said: ‘JI i v He you trust bless and toward I J von, liutb, mv dear, good little wife.) ‘ Forget what I've said, and go vonr way, | ivler has i ver !>■ oil the right one.’ ‘Thank yen Able, you have made me. ; happ er. And now I will go. He leaves i his i ffico at three o’clock, dines at four; ;if I start now, I will be there just, the j ) light time. He will have finished, and ) be in his room.’ Aimer Mark-ley, ns Abel Mild had said,; , was hand : one ci nngli to win the heart of any woman. lie was silting* in Ids' i room, as Until In pe.l to find him. Ami : ) when lie jump and to welcome her, .she thought of her husband's words. ‘Wh it an unexpected pleasure, Mrs. M iifl!’ he s iid . placing her in the com for-; table ot air I non which he had just risen. ; 'Yes? I'm glf-d to find you disen-) gaged. I have another pleasure await ■! ling you. Fee! [looking over my Irens ) arcs I found this, ami have brought it i for you—to give yon, il you wish.’ i She belt! toward him a little velvet case, which he hastened to take ami | open. Both Mild at.xioiis'y watched bis face while gazed cn the miniature he hold. ‘My mother! Is it? Yes, I know itF Oil, thank yon. dear M's. Mild. How) very, very bountiful! But I cat not re member her thus. Here her eyes are S ' ; laughing, her lips ready to break into I -mile . I’m glad to have this to look j at; for always, when thinking of her, I I Can only ea I up a fare, beautiful enough, j ) but oh! satJl— liei eyes looking as tlm' they had shed t-coins of tearm And she) once looked liKO lies?’ •Yes. my boy. She sat for that in her i wedding dross, a week before she be- ‘ ( nine your father’s wife. I was her biide's maid. She was the merriest j girl in the village when your father won) | her from us, and carried her ofT to the I j city to live.” ‘Mrs. Ml'd’—he turned his eyes from) 1 the beautiful picture to hers, and asked | I—'what 1 —'what changed my mother so terribly? ■Was my father not kind?’ • She hesitated. “Tell me—all. I remember nothing! :of father. I have been told I was only j ‘ live yours old when lie died. Was it his ! !death— ‘No, no; but—’ ‘Speak freely, Mrs. Mild.’ ‘May I? Well it was tlie mariner of vonr father’s death which broke her heart; bat it had been terribly wounded before', Abner. Sho was a drunkard’s wife.’ Tim good woman’s voice had sunk so low, he had to lean forward to catch the ■ words; and th* n started back with a wounded cry, which caused her to say: ‘l’ve hurt you. Forgive me.’ 'Yis.yes. But go on. Tel! me all. •fay it as you choos-,’ fie Slid, sinking I nek intp 11is chair, and Covering Ids lace with one hand, the other still hold ing his mother's pic! me. She talked on, picturing to him in gi upliie colors the y* nng bride leaving j them, so happy, so trusting; of the first : "Inprise and mortification; the dreadful feais when she was no longer surprised; I then the suffering all iihme—she could cm lido that sorrow Io n me; of hope on ! timing her heart again when she wateh , <'d for It.e ‘‘little one’s coming.” j The reformation \vliieli brought for a brief time such holy happiness, as over the little one's-- the baby boy's—cradle she stood with him again—again to he disappointed On and on to the violent | death she told him, and theft lliitli Mild I pleaded as inly a mother can plead. And then she finished by saying: ‘Yes, my boy, the last titqp we met, she held you in her arms, and pressing her pale lips to yours, she said:’ ‘Oh, Rnih, il I could take m.v darling with me, I would gladly, gladly close j my eyes to earth! Bnt if I leave him, | ) shall 1 ever find him again? Will he i | come? —o God, will my boy come to me ) up there?’ Ruth Mild's \< ice was trembling, ) scarcely audible, as she repeated the dy- I iug mother's words, j Abner's Imsom was conv'ttlscd with emotion. He did not- try to conceal it, as lie subbed forth: “Yes, yes, mother, with God’s help [ w ill come to you/ liutb Mild bad conquered. Abner Mark ley became one of her household In every wuv s'io endeavored to hold I him firm. Lillie Alice, with her dove j like eycH, was a source of deep and pure ; j pleasure to the youn£ man. She was so different from every other girl lie knew—ho gentle, no arilem and child like. Hours that used to be spent in drinking and club-rot-ms were passed | reading' to her, telling cf tlie wonders of the old world, over wl icli he had trav elled, or in singing with her. Those wero happy evenings to all. Hat her Mild forgot h ; s feuis, ns he waidied the young folks and listeired t" the beautiful music they made—Alice at the piano, Ahner with his flute, and the old man’s second self, young Abel, with his violin. A year passed thus, bring'-! ing Abner, as he felt, nearer to mother The lengm sos many with tlreii* dark ■ }hed»ctions had ceased, aid those who had 11 usted pronounced Abner Murldey I saved. “1 wish I could excuse myself from j this party to night/ Abner said. And j little Allie asked: | 'Must you go'/ I “I think ho. I ditl not intend to. I’d! j made up my mind to send an excuse, but j i the Judge came into n»y room this after | noon and insisted. You know lie ;» our j chief, and it is ft resp. et due him to ae- j ! cept his invitation: but 1 will not fiiay! j long. There are sumo prottv wild fel- j | lows going -•determined tj» hav ,* a Mime/ j j us they say; but I’ll slip from them, and 1 hasten hack home to you, mv little dove | eyed darling Allie here. Ht up for me: i 1 have something to tel! you, and nemo ! • thing to b<’g for/ Im whispered* And i then, as .she stood in tho <1 or, he said: I i 'Tin re. run in out of the cold. 1 must .' i l»c lu’-ue car fui of you. Stop a moment, j K 'Ps in*-, A Hie!’ j Sin* drew, back, Ife knew that her j ! checks were crimsoned, although it wa ' ! too dai k to s- e. ‘Motlur will no I care; kiss me, darling, j 1 will tfil her all tomorrow. Tnank | | you/ Now run in/’ he said* ! And she darted off to shed a few hap Ipv tears, and watch and wait lor l*is ! j coining. ! ‘God bleflH her! I wonder if mother in j ; watching over us to night? i wish she : were alive, to know my darling,’ A bin ) j I said, as tho door closed on AI lie’s. rc~ j ! treating form. I it was a brilliant Ibv ng that gather led in the saloon of Judge Armstead. 1 i /timer Mark ley was a universal favorite, i and all welcomed him warmly* ! That party Wa» dee '!< dly the party of | the season. The rnuflic grand, the so; ~ j i per ji |-i*ifeet hiioc-s How the wine • park ' ll!* Ands jne of the women’s ; eyes (brightened, Fin sorry to t'II, as ; they sipped the tempting glass, j irkley forgot foi the time tin ! lime the dove-like eyes of Allie, hs ho j looked into fin* bright, flashing ones n| a j girl whoso itdiuenco ho had known be- : t fore. And when she held to him a glass j of chanmaigne, saying: i “How can 3011 resist? take it,’ he re* .j, 1 it’*!: . ; | ‘I ofil'd resist the wine, but not yen. ; 1 And it from her, iJriiinoJ the | , gluKS—aiiutlii r unci another. The hours passed on. allie watched j and waited. i Not tint il ho hud placed his tempter In her caniage did Abner start for home, and thou lie had his souses sufficient to j know he Could nut teturn to A file as lie j 1 was. In the K r:i y lipht of morning when lit tle .-Jlic*', wi'Siy with watching, had fal i lon to sleep with her pale face against the window, there came a slow, heavy . tread -along the pavement. The dooi heli aroused her from a frightful dream, j She started, Confused ai.J terrified, to 1 , listen. ) Strange voiees reached her ear, talk ing in awed tones. She sped on to the passage to catch the words: ‘Found d-sd on the trick ’ ! 'Down lln‘ steps, with ii wild cry, ni and lie. i side the bier she led; her arms chisped I about, the dead —her dead - she cried; •N'i, no, net dead I Ahner, speak to | .Hie, your .l!lie. See; I've waited for V'itt as yon hade me. winter! yfbtier! I' ll! er, has lie htiiited?' inning her hire with an appealing' lonok, toward her fa ther, who shaking his head sorrowfully, tried to take her away. “Dead!" ahe cried, in a. lone that j brought tears to the rough men's eyes, ami they turned off as .dtiel Mild lifted' hi.« child awuv and placed her in her mother's arms. ‘I do wish \ro had not had wino last night,’ saiil Mrs. Armstead the next morning, while sipping her eeff'ee. 1 \\ l. v, not?'a-ked her husband. ‘\\ by, did yon not notice young Mark ley tim'd considerable, and felt the effects too? Aon know lie had given it. up for a year. \ oil remember I suggested we should dispense with it.’ 11 Noti8"use 1 Giro tip n social distent for the sake of one fellow who is too weak to resist! 1 shall never do it.’ “Mother!” exclaimed Fred Armstead, rushing in—“ Mother. Aimer Markiey is dead!—found dead across the railroad ! track. Concussion if the brain, they •say." Concussion of the brain, they say! Can that decision of the physicians bring j relief to the conscience of those who placed the wine before him, or of hers who held it, to his lips? It could not to mine. There would he a constant, end - less whisper of "murdered” in my ear, sinking to the very depth of my heart. I would sooner he the stricken lillle Al -or Ahner, cold and dead, than he either of tl c hospitable ' hosts who, for the sake of one soil l , could not give up a social custom, or the vain girl whose thoughtlessness or indifference, to say the least, won him to death. The VV iduw Kopy.— Charles VV. Helm, in the course of his speech last Monday', after contrasting the Cincinnati Liberal platform with the Radical platform made at Philadelphia, said he would support, Greeley, whom everybody recognized as an honest tna i, if Grant stood on the same platform with himjajid the speak er gave point, to his declaration hr re lating in his inimitable way the follow ing anecdote : The widow Rody, the owner of two white tioi'cs and a little hotm stead, lived in Western Missouri. She did alio flier house and farm work, and, notwithstan ding she stood six feet in her moccasins, never wore more than seven yards of| calico, \\ hen she went to mill with her! grist on one of her mules, she never rode on a side saddle. Curing the late ‘'un pleasantness” a noted guerilla, named i Jettison, raided down on her premises;! and when she returned from the spring! she found her two mules had taken such \ a liking to the guerilla as to follow him ! into his carnp. Getting on tiieir track! she followed it until warned by bayonets | presented to her bosom that s! e c> ttld 1 not see the chi, sos the gang. Brushing these .side she made a bee-lino liir his : tent. S' 6 soon appeal' and in his pies once, and there wan that expression in her eye which said as plainly as words! that she was not to bo trilled with. Jen nison looked up, and being evidently j annoyed, a led her business. She replied, 'Soo here. Jettison, i wm t ntv mules. ’ 'How do yon know I’ve got your! mules? said lie, ‘Because I seed 'em under the hill,’ j ‘Well, oh! woman, before yon can gel j them you mu t tel' inoyonr politics’ j ‘1 haint got no politics, Jettison, and I j want my mules.’ ‘l'lmt answer will not do. T mast first know your principles, or on what, platform you stand.’ Drawing herself tip proudly to a tow- j ering height, the old indy said; 'I don’t j know what yor mean by my flatform, ! Jettison, and 1 Haint- got no ptineiples;! but I can tell yon this, / m agin all deal in'. I want, my mules.’ The speaker added that it was nerd- 1 'ess to say she got her males; and that when more than two hundred millions ol property li. longing to rfoutbern people could hit tracked into the carpet-ling I camp, protected bylhc bayonets of Grant, that the widow Roily’s declaration agin all steal in’ was a very proper platform : lor Southern men to stand upon in the | present political contest. — Warren lon Index. A F.vut.t:.— A certain rabbi had two ; sons, whom he and his wife tenderly' loved. Duty obliged the. rabbi to take a journey to a distant country. During his absence bis two promising sons sick ened and died. The grief-stricken tnotli- ! er laid them out on their bed, drew the curtain, and waited anxiously fflr her husband who came at night. How arc my beys? was Ii is first question. Let me see them. Stay a wli'le, said his wife. lam in great trouble. Some years age a fiiond lent me acme jewels. I took great care of them, and at last began to prize them as my own. Since your my , friend has called for them, Stun, I did not like to part with them. Snail I give them tip? Wife! what a strange request is this; give them tip, anu that instantly, this very night. Shew me the jewels. She took the rabbi to their bed, drew aside the curtain, and said,: Husband, there are the jewels. Th- rabbi hawed bi? h -.d, and vmp>, |A2. a 0 nor Annum NO. 32 U’iilow-Itiiriiiiiu ill Htiglitml. A death lately occurred in Brighton, England, of a character heretofore un known on English soil. A woman im molated hersi If open the altar of nffoc ! lion lor hot deceased husband, under the most, peculiar circumstances. MoscS •j Spinom V'ti, a very wealthy merchant, during Ms many mercantile expeditions visited Malabar. Hero he fell in love with a native woman and married her in the presence of the British consul. At the end of six uniitlm after (ha marriage I e took his wife to England and into his home at Brighton. The young wife clung to all the customs of ! her native land, and refused most per -istenly to he converted to the English I Church She had a kind of a temple built on her husband's estate in the conn try and went into it every day to offer up her devotions according to the rites of her faith. At length her husband died. Tee widow appeared to suffer the most iiitenaj agony of soul. She looked upon the corpse, and threw hcr relf upon the Ilf. less form of her husband with a terrible frenzy of despair. She wrenched out her li air, tore her clothes . and disfigoted her beautiful features I with her nails. On the evening after ! the fan 'nil of her husband she disap- I I’caivd. Aftei throe days' unsuccessful search for her, tho servants bethought tl cmselves ol looking in Iter temple, and had a prosentim''ut that something tea t ildo luid happened to her. /They did not lid tlio woman, hut they found it heap of ashes still smoking, and the smell of burned flesh. She had evidently built her funeral pyre and immolated hers.dl l!.erc"ti. I poll searching among the ashes they found portions of human ft mams, which, together with the pecu liar odor emitted, satisfied them of the fate of the poor woman. This is proba bly the only incident of tho kind that ever happened in England. “Tfio Oldest of Oiv ili/.ationsJ* Some investigators, who have given much study to the antiquities, traditions, old books, and probable geological his buy of Mexico and Central America, be-* liovu Hint the first civilizations the world ever saw, appeared in the part of Am* cient Art,erica, or was immediately con nected with it. They, hold that the hu man race first rose to civilized lile in Anvrica, which is, geologically, tho old-* | nt of the continents ; and that, ages ago, i the p rt i. >ti of Hits coot in- tit on which the first civilize; s appeared was sunk be* oath the waters of tho Atlantic Ocean. Hsnally the ingulfing of this portion of the land is supp. sed to have been effect ed by some tremendous convulsion of nature; and ti ere is an a; peal to recol lect I.ais of such a catastrophe, said to> have been pr served in the old hooks of G.-iitral America, ami also iu those of Egypt, tr. tit which Solon received an account of tho lost Alahl'tis. According to this liypothes's, the \ mu ieaii continent forme! ly extended from Mexico, Central America, and New Grenada far into tin 1 Atlantic Ocean to— "nr,l Europe and Africa, Covering all the space now occupied by the Garibian i, th" Gulf of Mexico, and tho West ' India 1 and going far beyond Hcm toward the east and northeast. This lost portion of the continent was the Atal , : t i a ol which the old annals of E ypt l id - ■ much in tho time of Solon, ham from Plato; and it Win tho ; i:;;. | x .it , f ihe first human civiliza ti:,■~ which, alter tho great cataclysm, was renewed and perpetuated in the re ;i"11 where we now trace tile mysterious remains <J ancient times. tVimf f;> do 3ij :i rase of Sunstroke- Now that the nature >.f the disease is known, the method of treatment becomes most obvious, and we learn not merely what to do, hut ’also what tint to 'do. Ah heat hi the cause of the symptoms, common Reuse points to the abstraction of (lie Imat in some way as Hie mode of euro. And here again vivisection comes into play. I have taken an animal, cum* at se, paralyz ’d by heat, apparently dy ing, and p’tinged and into a bucket of cold water. Ti e temperature of the snfierer at otic, > rapidly fell until it reached the inninul point, and just in proportion that of the water in the bucket rose. As tho animal cooled, its resp rations became more regu'ar, the unsteady whirl of tho heart was stilled, by-ntid-hy the eyelids wi re lifted, and out Irom tfie glassy cyo came the beams of new life, if the pe riod of iincnnsciotisuess had been short, the animal was in a few hours appa rently ns well as ever; if long, the ani mal would reg, ver sufficiently to recog nize its surroundings and to struggle lor ! release, hut when allowed to escape, tho i paralyzed limbs and the slow, imperfect progi ■ •.- sinti indicated the profound inju ry tlm nervous system had received, and in a few hours the animal would be lead. Toothache. — For the benefit- of those who may need a httle consultation, wo publish the following from a correspon dence of au exchange: li any of our readers suffer from taotb ;ii.'!ii', ur tieuialgi- affections arising from teeth, in any state of decay, they may ,■ xp, i iei.ee rehef instantaneous and p, r— eminent, b> saturating a small bit of mean cotton or wool with a strong' solu tion of ammonia, and applying it imme diately to tho affected tooth The pleas ing contrast instants, eoitsly produced sometimes n fit. of laughter although a on,in, el lief re extreme suffering pre -1 \ ailed.