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A Tennessee Sadness-Free Love In High Life. (Correspondent Courir-Journal.) There has just come to my ears the rumor of a case in Murfreesboro, this State, which has put the entire com munity thereabouts in a fever of ex citement. It seems the teachings of the Free-lovers are not without fruits, even in such a well-regulated commu nity as Murfreesboro. A few years since Mr. John Beaseley, son of Chris topher Beascly, a wealthy and reputa ble fanner near Murfreesboro, was united in marriage to Miss Job, of the same neighborhood, a lady most re spectably connected. This couple liv ed together in the utmost harmony, three children being the fruits of the marriage, about whom clustered the most cherished hopes of the families of husband and wife. They moved in the highest circles of Middle Tennes see society, their inielligencc, wealth and family name serving as a passport ' everywhere. But into this Eden of happiness the serpent entered, and i those whose names but yesterday might < have stood against the world are now ( disgraced, heart-broken and miserable. ’ The husband, John Beaseley, had a | first cousin living in the neighborhood, ( Thomas Beoseley, who was a frequent ( visitor at the house of the former, and in whom the utmost confidence was reposed by all who knew him. That ' any improper liaison was going on be- 1 tween the wife of John Beaseley and 1 her husband’s cousin, Tom, no one ever suspected. But here, as elsewhere it seems that love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and, in this instance, a very impropei’ and disgusting char acter of the article, nt that. In an evil hour the wife yielded to the enticing words of her unlawful lover, end day before yesterday a most distressing de nouncoment occurred. The intimacy between the pair had grown to such a 1 pitch that Thomas Beaseley became, 1 all at ooce, bold in his villiany. Yes- i ft rdny morning, having arranged with Mrs. Beaseley previously, he rode to the gate of her’ husband’s residence, ; and throwing a small package in the front yard, passed on. The husband, happening to notice this maneuver, awaited further developments, ami saw his wife secure the bundle and retire with it to her room. In a few minutes he followed ami caught her 1 in the act of secreting a roll of green- . backs amounting to S3OO, and a note from li< r gay Lochinvar, arranging the ; details of their escape from the scenes of conjugal tyranny. What was ihe , trusting husband’s grief and madness, , when, on questioning the yon ng wife, whom he loved with the temlt rest de votion, lie was told t! at that she loved Tom Beaseley and intended to go with him, ‘’even to the end ot tile world. Ami she has thus far been as good as her word. The cousin soon returned, and open ' day bore off the beautii'ul yet wicked Helen, amid the grief and pistol shots of her outraged lord, none of the latter of which, however, unfortunately, took j < ft'e'-t. “I h»v< him ’ she prote>>ie.l ■■. and j whit iier he goos there will Igo. Am], j furthermore, while I admit you arc tin ■ father of our two elder children, the last <’m’ is his ami mine only, and him will we take with us.” Ami thus, in the bro: d day light, and in the eilized, sober :.ml eidigh etird vicinity nt Mur freesboro, did this wicked couple move j oft’ w hile all the good neighbors look- i cd on aghast nt the moving scene. No <>■•eio'.'eiice that hits ever happened, within the memory ot the oldest in habitant. has excited more utter aston ishment and indignation among the clever people of that pleasant and pros ; emus little city. They think, and properb. that the “end of the world” is coming when two of their most re putable and honored eitih'us thus delv t’m* law sos God and morality. I hey took a south bound train for parts un known night before last, leaving the families ot Messrs. Beaseley and Job ' m the deepest grief and mortification. ■L ■ . —-I ■■ TUK CObOUKU KMIUKATIOX. What is the matter with the North Car olina negiors? Almost every paper hum that State that we meet with gives accounts of the negroes leaving by scores tor the | more Southern States. Indeed in some I counties it is stated that farmers will be seriously embarrassed to get labor for their farms, hands being senico, and charging xecssive wages. This immigration of ne-I groes South, wo suppose, is in entire ac cordance with natural laws, and eventually the great body ol them will gradually find thoT way to the Gull Slates. 1 here they will abide until the white wave rolls down upon thorn, when they will recede further South to the \\ est Indies and Mexico, and tinaiiy to the valley of the Amason, which it may bounder Providence their destiny to reclaim, Appcw/. No doubt this is a correct view of the matter, and that the colored population will atcaduy gravitate tvwaida thoac X-gietu of Central America where the thermal and social conditions are better suited to them —where they can escape frost and find an amalgamation of races which realizes to the full the “no distinction on account of color,’ which the Fifteenth Amendment holds up to him in mere hollow mockery. When slavery was abolished and the negro enfranchised, only two alternatives remained. One was perfect political a,.d social equality and amalgamation of races and colors, and the other was and must be, a separation and seggregation of the races. “Pul'tical equality,” so called, which the Radicals say is all they meant to secure by the constitutionai amendment, without that social equality, in which the negro shall find his color no bar to social intercourse and intermixture with the whites is a mere aggravation, calculated to inflame dissat isfaction, and deepen discontent every day. There can, in fact, be no true political equality without social equality. The hol low dogma of mere political equalit y finds its illustration every day in the so-called equal right of the negro to vote, with no equal right to ofhee and political position. The Radicals explained the position exactly last fall when they issued orders that no negroes should be nominated to Congress or other important official po.-itions. In carrying out their “equality” they put the negro under the most offensive ban for his color, and compelled him to submit to it. And so he ever must and will do in the United States, all the amendments to the contrary, notwithstanding. They, in point of fact, will practically arouse his resent ment by their transparent hollowness and falsi.y. And wherever the negro, in spite of ciacumstances, forces himself into poiiti cal position, the only result will be tointen- j sify his antagonism and resentments, Ly the ■ discovery that his political prominence , only exposes him all the more to social slights and insults. A natural instinct and sympathy, then will inevitably draw the negroes together into communities wherein the blacks largely predominate and control all social as well as political usages, or where, as in Central America, there is nothing but hybridism. Arkansas and the Southwestern States may, in the next few years stand for the first condition, and Mexico and points be yond ultimately for the second. Meanwhile the whites of the Southern I States must gradually settle the so-called “labor question by going to work them selves, and they are getting into that whole some way very fast. There is no spot on earth better fitted for white agricultural ■ labor than Georgia—where the climate is 1 so mild —products so valuable and nature pern.its comfortable labor in the field every month in the year. Any process which tends to homogenize our people and abate , the evil of discord between incongruous ' and uncongenial r.'v.cs must be an ultimate ’ blessing to the South, whatever may be j said about the temporary diminution of labor resulting from it. .Jacon TJ< graph. I Transit of Venus. The transit of \ cnu» across the sun, an event which happens upon the ciirhth day 1 of December, 1574, is a matter which has ' been so frequently mentioned within the past few weeks that readers in general cannot luil to be interested in it, and in I the arrangements now being made for its proper scientific observation in nearly every portion of the globe. Russia, Germany, , Austria, France, Italy and England have j made liberal appropriations for defraying tin' expenses ot the various seientfiiv expe ditions to be sent out, and Congress has lately appropriated $50,01)0 for carrying out i (he same purposes in the I nited Slates. — That sum will probably be doubled in order to make the arrangements for ob-ervation on this continent equal to those of the Eu ropean organizations, 'flic observations of the solar eclipse, two years ago, by Ameri can astronomers were universally acknowl edged to be equal in delicacy and value to ' any studies of the like phenomenon ever > made in Europe, ami the fruits of American researches by telescope and spectrum anal- | ' ysis are now large!} - quoted and praised j by the highest scientific authorities a broad. The general reader, we opine, has a very vngue and indefinite idea of the particular I results which are expected to be attained by the proposed expeditions, and how they are to subserve the interests of science in so rematkahlb a degree. Ihe direct object aimed at, of course, is to determine the exact distance ot the sun from the earth. This knowledge secured, the astronomer lu. Ids in his hands a key which unlocks the mysteries of the visible heavens and enables 1 him to calculate the distance from planet j to planet as accurately ns the surveyor can measure the shortest and atraightest line of road. ’ ‘ It will be eight years before the next transit of Venus occurs, after which impa tient astronomers will be compelled to wait until the dawning of the twenty-first centu ry, or the year A. D, 2004. The approach ing opportunity is, therefore, too valuable to be lost, and a consciousness of the fact seems so pervade the entire scientific world. If the present ai rangements a - c carried into effect, nothing save some universal and un precedented disturbance of the elements can prevent full and perfect success from being attained, and the grandest astronom ical triumph of the age achieved. — Boston Globe. The Gem of the Jli’.</ and Soldier's Friend, published at Chicago, contains an “Abolitioncr’s Reflections on the Situation in Louisiana,” which scarce ly comes up to the “trooly toil!” stan dared. These refloctions run into rhyme as well as reason. They open thus: Eight and sixty colored gents, sitting in a row, Five and twenty white men, busy “eat ing crow:” AVarmouth on the anxious seat, and Pinchback in the chair, How is that fo.t high, my boys ? Uncle Sam don’t care. After going through the startling facts of the situation, the poet, Frank Myrtle, concludes as follows: The next old battle, when it comes, will be a big one too, ,Twont be between the Gray boys, and those who wore the Blue, The blacks will run the good old ship, and we will rebels be, So buckle on your armor boys, and keep your country free. AVe’ve been an abolitioncr, we know what t tis we s ty, AV<l’ve f<night for all these colored chaps that they might have their pay, But now the tarnal cusses think be kase we made ’em free, That they can put the lash on us, and raise the Jubilee. Chicago, Dec. 27, 1872. - The Value of Time. When the Roman Emperor said “I have lost a day,” he uttered a sadder truth than if he had exclaimed, “I have lost a king dom!” Napoleon said that the reason why he beat, the Austrians was (hat they; did not know the value of five minutes. At I the celebrated battle of Rivola, the conflict seemed on the point of being decided against him. lie saw the critical state or affairs, and in.-tanfly took his resolution. lie dis patched a flag to the Austrian headquarters with proposals for an armistice. I’he un- ! wary Austrians fell into the sm.re; for a i few minutes the thunder of battle was : hushed. Napoleon seized the precious moments, and while amusing the enemy i with mock negotiations, re arranged hit ' line of battle, changed his front, ami in a few minutes was ready to change the farce ! of a discussion Lr the stern arbitration of i arms. The splendid victory of Rivola was I the result. The great moral victories and ; defeats of the world often turn on fivemin i utes. Men loiter, time Hies, and all the I great interests of lite are speeding on with ' the sure and blent tread of destiny. . General Butler Reminded of Some thing.— As General Duller, the valiant bombardier of | ast belligerent scenes, was ■ passing through the conidorof the House : of Representatives Ihursday afternoon, he was accosted by .Mrs. Bowen, of South ! Carolina, a Pettigrew’ by birth, who had | stood by her husband in his various troubles: “General,” raid she, “can I say a word to you “Madame,” responded the bombardier, i in a loud, gruff tone, “I have always made it a rule never to speak to a woman in the capitol.” “And I,” retorted Mrs. Bowen, in a shrill, clear voice, “have always made it a rule never to speak to a man that 1 knew was not a gentleman. I regret that 1 have departed from it in the present case.’’ Exit the bombardier very red in the face. -.Veto IbrA- Jl. raid. Profanity. Some who would not swear by ti e name of God, think nothing of swearing “By ! George,” or “By Jingo,” or by something I else. Others will cry out “good gracious,” ‘ or “mercy on me,” and the like. Such nre : the beginning of swearing, and they are to profane swearing what acorns are to oaks. Our Savior said, when on earth, “Let I your communication be yea, yea ; nay, nay; for whatsoever i- nrorc than this cometh of evil.” This means that we should use , plain language. David had a short praver 'to this }>oiDt: “Set a watch, 0 Lord, be fore my mouth ; and keep the door of my •’ lips.” ■■ - ic* • ” • 1 ,l,l “ In a stretch of 8)5 miles on the Tex as Pacific railroad there will be but six bridges. Peoples Friend Job Office' i i i I i i i. i i i L 1 I II il ! I 1 |: I . - ■“* . -x - j iPA?* ~trr ' • M \ ' ■ _irr l' I [1 I I I ! • i i 1 ■ i ■ ! ! ► To Good Ttrn/dars : lie uill in a jiic days be prepared to eve s cute all orders for Good Templars Job Fruiting at short notice and on reasonable terms —tc ill you encourage the cause by you gaironagc. Address, A. B. S. Moseley, Publisher PEOPLE'S FRIEND, ROME, GA. ! THE EIRE THAT OLD NICK B. ILT. ? We find in an exchange the following [capital imitation of the style of “The House that Jack Built,” and wish it might be. come a household favorite: Intemperance—This is the fire that old I Nick built. i Moderate Drinking—This the fuel that feeds the fire that Old Nick built. Rum Selling—This is the axe that cuts the wood that feeds the fire that Old Nick built. Love of Money—This is tho stone that grinds the axe that cutsthejvood that feeds the fire that Old Nick built. Public Opinion—-This is the sledge with its face of steel that batters the stone that grinds the axe that cuts the wood that feeds the fire that Old Nick built. A Temperance Meeting—This is one of the blows we quietly deal to fashion the sledge with its face of steel that batters the stone that grinds the axe that cuts the wood that feeds the fire that Oid N ck built. Temperance Pledge—This is the smith that works with a will to give force to blows that we quietly deal to fashion the . sledge with its face of steel that batters the stone that grinds the axe that cuts the wood that feeds the fire that Oid Nick built. Eternal Truth—This is the spirit so gentle and still that nerves the smith to work with a will to give force to the blows that we quietly deal to fashion the sledge with its face of steel that batters the stone that grinds the axe that cuts the wood that feeds the fire that Old Nick built. Tho lessees have been running the West ern and Atlantic Railroad over two years with almo.t total exemption from accidents until recently a broken rail threw a sleep ing car from the track, an i last Saturday an up freight train, by neglect of rules, ran upon time of another train, which was up on its own regular schedule, of course re sulting in a collision, which considerably damaged the engines and several freight cars. All who are blamable will be dis charged from service of the company— the only penalty teat it can ii A ct. — ('onstitution. A man by the name of Sudors, who was put in jail in Preston, a few months ago, fir bvating his wife, died of pneumonia, in his cell, on Friday night.—A few days ago a discussion, on the subject of religion, took place between the two wife murderers, Spain, a white man, and la tty Smith, col ored, who are confined in jail in Preston. The discussion waxed warm for a while, when Spain, not liking the views uttered by Smith, became enraged, and seizing hold of him, gave him a severe beating, inflicting a number of dangerous wounds on his person. It is thought that Smith will die from the effects of his beating.— Uepublicau. We have reports from die North of ter rible storms of snow accompanied by loud thunder and vivid lightening. It is not to be wondered at. The atmosphere certain ly required purifying. Wc doubt, how ever, the efficacy of this effort of nature to relieve itself. We fear nothing less than Gabriel’s Trump, or an earthquake, at least, will make a serious impression. [Richmond Whig. 'rhe New York Commercial (Radical) says: “The hitherto inexplicable pighcad edness of Uncle Sam, in clinging to enr present snobby and expensive system of Ministers Plenipotentiary abroad, is at la.-L shown to have been most charitably in spired by the wish to accommodate eminent citizens who do not think there is anybody in tins country good enough to marry thcic daughters. Cakeist Inscrrection against the King of the Spaniards appears to be carried on with considerable vigor. The move ment has produced a serious interruption !ui the mail, railway and telegraphic com munication with France. French reports speak of some severe fighting between n surgents and royalists, with a claim of vic tory for the Bourbonists. Probable Bankruptcy of the Union Pacific. —It is the talk in Washington in private but well informed circles tha» a pool is now being fbimtd, in which the Central Pacific Railroad is the leading figure, to buy up the Union Pacific Railroad in case of its going into binkruptcy. It is also charged that the latter event is probable from interested motives. The sale would be made by the trustees under the first mort gage bonds, and it is believed that thesale would not realize over $ 15,000;000- I It is belived that when fall reports can be obtained, it will be found that nearly five hundred (ersons lost lives in Minneso during the recent snow storms.