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MACON. TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1871
GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING
Cottag* and Hall.
v to ber sowing-work dropped down,
I «Lf*Ub bsir in a tanglod shower
I %*!, roses kissed by the sun, so brown,
Disney est in her bower-
with work and book;
iP? TT. hire that crossed her girlish gown
if-fune as the flaxen flower,
htfle heart, it beat and beat,
JfiJZcrk shook on her knee,
r!rthe golden combs are not so sweet
^obwSer'toonghteof Alexis.
I honso there stood
A ?W Leti her eyes for hours—
.JoWgelow, bid under the enow
nriJienv and bean-vine flowers.
held ber all day long,
^Vtherettberdiatiff bont,
,&»««*thread of song
wol. in her sweet content,
jaVUio Blotter of young Alexis.
ind J*«ey tnrned thing in and ont,
,, faoiieh maids will do,
g£t could the song be aU about ?
yet well enough she knew
Thatarbile the fingers drew the wool
»« fine as fine conJd be,
Ot .loring mother-heart was full
Of ber boy gone to soa-
Her blue-eyed boy. her pnde and joy,
On the cold and cruel sea—
Her dal ling boy, Alexis.
tad beyond the good, green piece of wood,
ind the field of flowers so gay,
■gong its ancient oaks there stood,
With gables high and gray,
i lofty ball, where mistress of all
gje might dance the night away,
ind as the eat and sewed her seam
In the garden bower that day
ilibe from ecam and alike from dream
Her truant thoughts would stray;
ft would be so fine like a lady to shine,
ind to dance the night away!
iid ob, and alas for Alexis 1
ind suns have risen aud suns gone down
On cberiy and bean-vino bowers,
ltd the tangled curls o’er the eyes dove-brown
Ibey fall no more in showers;
Sor are there bars in the homespun gown
Ajtlue as the flaxen flowers.
Ay, winter wind and winter rain
Hare beaten away the bowers,
And little Janey is Lady Jane,
Aud dances away the hours!
Hiidens she hath to play and sing.
And bor mother’s honse and land
Could never buy the Jeweled ring
She weara on ber July hand—
The band that is false to Alexis!
Ab. bright were the sweet young cheeks and eyes,
And the silken gown was gay,
men first to the hall as mistress of all
She came on berweediog-day.
“Sow where, my bride,” says the groom in pride,
‘•Sow where will your chamber be ?"
Aud from wall to wall she praises all,
Bat chooses the one by the sea!
Aud the suns they rise and the suns they set,
But ehe rarely sees their gleam,
Tor often her eyes with tears are wet,
And the sewing-work is unfinished yet,
And so is the girlish dream.
Tor when her ladies gird at her,
And her loid is cold and stem,
Old memories in her heart must stir.
And she cannot choose but mourn
Per the gentle boy, Alexia 1
And always, when the dance is done,
And her weary feet are free,
She sits in hor chamber all a'one
At the window next the sea,
And combs her ehieing tresses down
By the light of the fading stars,
And maybe thinks of ber homespun gown
With the pretty flax-flower bars.
For when the foam of wintry gales
Buns white along the bine,
Bearing the rattle of stiffened sails.
She trembles through and through,
And maybe thinks of Alexis.
\tiy Alice Carg, in Harper's Magazine for March.
Alice Cary’s Sweetest Poem.
No apology is needed at this time for reproducing
(be following exquisite lines by the lamented Alice
Cuy— linos, which, in the judgment of so compe
tent a critic as Edgar A. Poe, deserve to rank among
tbs very finest contributions to tho poetic literature
of this country:
Of all the beautiful pictures
That hang on Memory’s wall,
Is one of a dim old forest.
That seemetb best of all;
Not for its gnarled oaks olden,
Dark with the mistletoe;
Nor for tho violets golden
That eprinkle the vale below;
Not for the milk white lillies •
That lean from the fragrant hedge,
Coquetting all day with the sunbeams,
Ana stealing their golden edge;
Not for tho vines on the upland
Where the bright, red berries rest;
Nor the pinks, nor the pale, eweet cowslip,
It eoemeth to me the nest.
I once had a little brother
With eyes that were dark and deep—
In the lap of that olden forest
He iietb in peace asleep;
light as tho down of the thistle,
Free as the winds that blow.
We roved there the beautiful Summers,
The Summers of long ago;
But his feet on the hills grew weary,
And one of tho Autnmn eves
I made for my little brother
A bed of the yellow leaves.
8weetly his pale arms folded
My neck in a meek embrace,
As the light of immortal beauty
Silently covered his face;'
And when tho arrows of sunset
Lodged in the tree-tops bright
He fell, in his saint-like beauty,
Asleep by the gates of light.
Therefore, of all tho pictures
That hang on Memory’s wall,
The one of tho dim old forest
Seemethbestof all.
’TIs BntA Little Faded Flower.
BT BEQUEST.
'Tia but a little faded flower,
But oh! how fondly dear,
'Twill bring you back one golden hour
Through many a weary year;
I would not to the world impart
The secret of its power,
But deep within my inmost heart,
I keep my faded flower.
Where is the heart that doth not keep,
Within its inmost core,
Some fond remembrance, hidden deep,
Of days that are no moro ?
Who hath not loved some trifling thing
More prized than jewels rare?
A faded flower, & broken ring,
A tress of golden hair.
Suez Canal,—Wo have been favored with a
letter from a corespondent, giving ns his expe
rience of the Snez Canal, which he recently
Pissed through. He says its great want is in
creased width. There is not much fear of the
depth of water decreasing if tho channel is
carefolly attended to by dredging vessels.
Twenty-three feet was the least depth of water
found during our correspondent's passage, and
ifi some places there was twenty-seven feet. It
is doubtful if the canal will be of advantage to
steamers of small power, but vessels of larger
Power that can contend against the monsoon
will be able to obtain remunerative freights.
The item of coal is very serious.
[London and China Telegraph.
The new German Empire, with Alsace and
Lorraine, will contain 40,148,209 inhabitants,
sad Franco, without those provinces, will have
80,528,643 inhabitants. United Germany will
be tho second nation in Europe In point of pop
ulation. Russia alono leading it. The larger
part of Russia, however, is inhabited by a half-
civilized people, and it may be fairly stated that
Germany, numerically speaking, is at the head
of civilized nations. The census of I860 will
advance the United States to that position.
AT SEA IN A CYCLONE.
• A Christmas of PerlL
In a recent number of Good Words for the
Young, there is quite a vivid description, writ
ten by a lady contributor, of a scene of peril In
the Indian Ocean. We make the following ex-
tracts:
The ship was always very quiet between the
services on Sundays. In the afternoon there
was a class for the ohildren, and in the evening
a third service was held inthe forecastle for fho
sailors. Thu3 the time glided on into weeks,
and weeks into months, before the early days of
December found ns steaming out of the open
roadstead of Madras. We had only arrived at
few hours before, but the surf was running so
high that no one attempted to land, except
those whose journey ended there. Our captain
was anxious to be off and away to sea again, for
the barometer was falling every moment, and.
these shores are most dangerous in bad weather.
Never hare I seen such a wonderful sunset as
made tho western heavens glorious that evening.
No pictnre that was ever painted, no words that
exist, can show it to you. It was impossible to
look at it without a feeling of awe as well- as ad
miration. Great banks of clouds lay piled in
crimson and purple masses along the horizon,
every here and there was a wide rift in their
glowing depths, beyond which lay a calm, lovely
glimpse of what one felt must be heaven, with
its floor of a clear dazriing blue, melting away
into a wonderful pale green tint, impossible to
describe. The shape of these cloud-Alps changed
as we gazed, from a lofty mountain range into
a battlementod city, with spires and minarets
and domes, rising behind the a;rial walls. Then
spectre forms of knights and men-at-arms
loomed like phantom giants out of the lurid
fleecy mass, and we held our breath at what
looked like the reflectionof a fierce battle in the
sky, changing in its turn into strange shapes of
monsters, compared with which the gigantic
animals which inhabited the world before the
flood must have been harmless pets!
I remember feeling half provoked with the
captain, and, indeed, with all the officers of the
ship, for not sharing in my enthusiasm; they
looked, it is true, at the splendid changing tints
which were reflectedover half the sky, but their
glances showed no admiration, nothiugbnt anx
iety, and I heard one sailor say, “It’s the illest
sight that ever I did see; there’s a blow brew
ing there, or I’m a lubber.” But it seemed a9
if they were wrong in their foreboding, for we
had a dull clondy day on the morrow. Yet there
was a heavy, oppressive feeling in the atmos
phere, and the waves heaved restlessly; tho ba
rometer fell lower and lower, and more anxious
grew the looks which were cast up aloft, and all
around the wide horrizon. Sunset brought yet
more glowing orange and scarlet to mingle with
the purple and crimson tints, repeated over the
steadily-increasing bank of clonds to the north
west. Our eyes were so dazzled by the coloring,
wo could hardly look at it for more than a mo
ment at a time. About midnight both the wind
and the sea rose, but when I came on deck after
breakfast, I was quite surprised to see the
preparations for bad weather wiuoh were going
on in every direction. To use a nautical ex
pression, things were being “made snug,” and
the carpenter was busy fastening down hatch
ways, by nailing sails and tarpaulins securely
over them. Up aloft every sail was furled, and
the upper yards were lowered; the ship was
scudding along under steam, aud there was an
indescribably angry look in both sea and sky.
As for the waves, they looked as if they were
mado of mud instead of water, and the sky
matched them exactly. Another thing which
struck me unpleasantly was that, instead of the
beautiful boundless vault of bluo heavens, with
a light cloud flecking it here andthero, to which
we had so long been accustomed, there weighed
down and enfolded ns a dense thick mist,
which was neither rain nor cloud; it seemed os
if the sky was sinking down and crushing U3.
Through this vapor wejcould hardly discern any
thing. As the day wore on, we heard minute
guns firing on our starboard quarter, telling of
some ship in dire distress, but we had enough
to do to take care of ourselves, for, although
wo seemed to have been working hard at our
preparations for many honrs, the storm was
upon ns, or rather we had steamed into it, be
fore we were half ready.
There is something very exhilarating in such
a scene, and the excitement is intense ; but in
this cyclone it was very different, just like the
contrast between blows in play and in earnest
Here the waves hit the ship hard, vicious
thumps, as ifjthey hated her and longed to crush
her to pieces; she, poor thing, groaned and la
bored heavily, going down, down into a gloomy,
dun-colored abyss of water, where she shivered
and shuddered straining every timber, creaking
at every plank, as if she really could not manage
to get np again, and intended to give in andset-
tle quietly at the bottom of theses; then when
she had wearily dragged herself up to the top of
a huge wave, it was only to plunge into another
water-valley, and so on. Every now and then,
a great body of water would fall heavily on the
deck, but so thick aud murky was tho atmos
phere that we could not see it coming. A wall
of some dun-colored vapory substance loomed
over us, but whether it was air or water no one
could tell, until it flooded us. Up to this point,
however, I don’t believe there was any reason
for thinking hopelessly of our condition; but by
the third day things began to look very bad, and
the captain and sailore wore gloomy and anxious
face. My last few. honrs on deck, before I
went below were so disastrous that I had no
wish to disobey orders, and venture out of the
saloon agaain. 5 ,
To begin at the beginning, however: When
breakfast time came on this dreary third day,
there was no breakfast! All night the sea had
been breaking heavily over that part of the shjp
where the cook’s “galley” or kitchen stood, and
it was fonnd impossible to keep the fire alight
for five minutes; we had some dry biscuits
given to us, and those who liked it might have
claret, bnt I thought this last a very poor substi
tute for my nice refreshing cup of tea or coffee;
so just before I went on deck, I discovered a
tiny little bit of a cake of preserved soup, and
I gave it to one of the stewards, with a lamp
heated by spirit of wine, and asked him to make
me a basin of soup. As soon as I appeared on
deck I was led to my own chair, which was se
curely lashed in a safe place, aud there I was
comfortably established, but I had to bo fasten
ed into it like a baby with a rope around my
waist. There seemed, even to my ignorant eyes,
a great change for the worse since the evening
before. The ship was laboring much more heav
ily, and lurching fearfully; the sea was whipped
to a froth all around us; the heavy curtain of
dun mist clung closer to us, shutting out every
thing at a few yards-distance; from time to
time, as the squalls caught us and sent us over
on our beam ends, I could hear the wind lite
rally shrieking, with a sound as distinct as a
railway whistle, only more like a scream.
You can have no idea of how awful it was,
and I confess to feeling thoroughly frightened,
but still, when I chanced to turn my head and
saw my faithful little steward, coming carefully
and steadily along tho deck towards me, and I
took comfort at the thought of my nice soup.
It was some time before he reached me, I
cannot imagine how he contrived to keep his
footing, and also to carry the basin, for I con
stantly saw the sailors creeping along on all-
fours as the quickest and easiest way of getting
about When the steward reached me, he held
on very tightly to a friendly belaying-pin, put
tho soup basin, with its lid on, carefully down
upon my lap, and shouted out some directions
to me, not one word of which could be heard,
although the man was quite close to me. Ho
put his hands up to his mouth like a trumpet
and bellowed a sentence in my ear, of which I
heard the one word, “spoon,” so as there was
no spoon, I thought he was apologizing for not
haying brought one, and nodded and smiled, as
much as to ssy, “never mindthen, as I was
desperately hungry. I lifted my precious basin
up to my lips, and when it was quite close to
them, I took off the cover; there was a delicious
smell of soup, and I felt a sharp bum on my
nose—that was all! The soup had been blown
clean out of the basin, which was as dry and
empty as if it bad jast been washed, and there
was no more soup to be had. The poor little
steward had been trying to caution me against
tiffs very misfortune, but I could not hear him.
JH. | an order
he bellowed it through his speaking trumpet,
and even then it could be hardly heard if the
sailors were a few yards off. He came up to me
ana shouted in my ear, “Youhad better go below,
ana don t come up here again.” I was Tery humble
and wretohed, so I nodded, bnt I thought to my
self “How am I to get down?” I can't untie my
self, aud if I eould, how is It possible to craw
to the top of the companion-ladder ? However,
the waves soon Battled that question for me, by
breaking once more over the ship, tearing my
chair away from its lashings, and floating it
and me, a long day on the deck. At one time I
thought I should have been washed overboard,
and so did those who saw me, but fortunately,
at tho most critioal moment, tho water ran out
of the scuppers, and the ebair and I dropped
heavily down on the deck. I saw two or three
sailors coming toward me as well as they could,
but they had quite enough to do, poor fellows,
without looking after lady-passengers, sol man
aged to creep out of my many shawl-wraps, and
crawled to the head of the companion ladder, and
so down to my cabin, where I lay on a mattress
on the floor, feeling extremelyjmiserable. I was
wet through, and it was quite impossible to get
any dry things out of my boxes, for they were
jammed up in a corner nnder the berth, and
fastened in by a board to keep them from slid
ing out of their places, i felt a violent pain in
my chest, and no wonder, for the pin of my
brooch had been driven about half an inch into
it, and then broken off; a painful business it
was to get that piece of pin out!
At last, Christmas day dawned upon us, but
what a contrast to our previous happy ones, for
which we all felt we had not been half thankful
enough! I thought if my own dear boys could
have seen their mother’s situation, how shocked
they would have been. I piotured them to my
self in their lovely English oonntryhome, think
ing and talking of me on that day, and saying,
“Mamma is safe on shore now.” Andthere was
I, and some three hundred souls besides, tossing
about in a water logged vessel, without masts,
without a rudder, steering by some sort of rude
contrivance, with broken pngines, and with the
pumps going day and night to keep ns afloat.
The sky had not cleared for one brief instant
during all these weary days, to allow ns t6 take
an observation and find out where we were, and
we could not see a yard before us. The gale
showed signs of abating, or we were blundering
out of its circlo; but the sea was running moun
tains high. AU through the day and night we
could hoar the hoarse cry of “Breakers ahead!”
or else “Breakers on the starboard bow,” ac
cording to the way we helplessly turned, hoping
to find the way out of our difficulties. We could
now hear the shouts of the sailors, for the wind
was moderating a good deal, though the weather
was just as thick. Our provisions were running
very short; for many days the supply of biscuit
had been exhausted, and we were thankful lor
whatever odds and ends the purser and his assist
ants could fish np out of the storeroom, but as
that was half fuU of water, almost everything in
it was spoiled.
Christmas day was sad enough and dismal
enough, but Christmas night was worse. Ever
since the beginning of tho storm no one has
been able to sleep, on account of the incessant
uproar of the winds and waves, to which was
added an equally terrible creaking and straining
of the vessel’s timbers. Mingled with these
sounds were shouts, screams, and at first con
stant crashing of glass and china; hut very soon
that came to an end, for the last of our plates
and dishes were reduced to fragments, only fit to
be thrown overboard. Everthing was in the
same state as usual—that is, we were in hourly
expectation of the ship either foundering or go
ing to pieces on a rock; and yet many of us
were dozing, quite worn out with nearly a fort
night of sleeplessness, excitement, hunger and
misery:
I was lying on a mattress on my- cabin floor,
and in that next to mine were a lady and her
two grown-up daughters. They had been very
quiet and composed all through these tying
days, and I often congratulated myself on hav
ing such good neighbors. It was therefore, the
more alarming to hear on Christmas night the
most piercing shrieks from their cabin, preceded
however, by a crashing sound. I felt sure there
was something really the matter, and sprang np
tolrytoget their assistance. Before I could
make my way from my cabin to theirs, the
screams had been supplemented by wild yells
from the rest of the prssengers, who shouted
out every concievable variety of bad, not to say
impossible, news. “We’ve struck on a rock.”
“There’s a hole in Mrs. C.’s cabin, and all the
water is coming.” “The ship is breaking up,”
etc. I saw tho most excited gentlemen climb
ing up on the cuddy table, and trying to pry
open tho skylight, so as to escape to the deck;
fortunately they did not succeed in their absurd
attemps, or we should have had the next sea
down upon us, to add to our misery. Others
W6re struggling and fighting towards the com
panion-ladder, to gat up that way.
Amid all this din I reached poor Mrs. C.’s
cabin, where the doctor had already arrived.
The truth was bad enough, without these falsa
reports of evil Mrs. 0. managed to wedge herself
into her berth by pillows, preferring that to a
mattress on the floor; above her sleepiDg-place
was a heavy Bort of locker, about the size and
shape of half a chest of drawers; this was se
cured by large iron clamp’s to the side of tho
ship, but the incessant rolling and straining had
so loosened its fastenings that onelnrch heavier
than the others opened tho planks wide enough
to allow the great screws and nails to give way,
and the heavy mass fell down, bnt the ship was
keeling over so much that, instead of falling on
Mrs. C., who was just beneath it, the locker only
struck her one blow as it rolled over on the floor.
That blow, however, shattered her arm, besides
breaking her collar-bone in two places. It was
her daughters’ shrieks we had heard, for the
poor lady herself was quite insensible. The
doctor was nearly in despair; here was a most
critical and delicate surgical operation to b e per
formed in almost total darkness,and with no pos
sibility of keeping steady for two minutes. He was
a skillful little man, however, and up to any emer
gency, so he issued his orders in a very decisive
manner. First, he turned all the idlers out of the
cabin,laylnghispatient on amattressonthefloor;
tnenhesaid to one of the daughters, “breakup
that box for splints,” pointing to a woodon cap
box. Turning to me he cried, “Tear up something
for bandages." Hooked around; there was ab
solutely nothing which would do for the purpose,
until my eyes fell upon a bluo ribbon-trimming
on a dress; it was just the thing we wanted—
the right width, and strong as well as soft. So
I set to work, rather roughly, I am afraid, and
ripped and tore away until I. had collected an
immense quantity. His next order to me
sounded perfectly simple, bnt oh, it was so dif
ficult! “Hold a lantern steadly, for me to see
what I am doing.” I felt the deepest despair,
bnt seated myself close to him, clutching tight
hold of the berth with one hand, and holding
up the lantern as steadily as I could with the
other; but,in spite of all my efforts, eveiy
lurch of the ship dashed the lantern against his
head, and he said rather crossly, “That'll never
do. Try standing.” I managed to soramble
on my feet, and threw my arm round a pillar—
which was what the Irish call “convenient"—
and held the lantern out in that position.
Worse and worse; my feet were swung from
under me, and no efforts conld keep my arm
round the pillar; so I let go for a second, to
try and better my place. Imagina my horror
when I fonnd myself flung violently on both
doctor and patient! My lantern was a perfect
will o'-tho-wisp—now here, now there, as I was
dashed about from one side of the cabin to the
other; and the absurd part was, that I kept
feebly apologizing all the time, though I bad
hardly any breath left. We have often laughed
at that scene since, though it was tragical
enough at that time. I am sure you will he
glad to hear the poor lady got on very well;
hut I must hurry to the conclusion of my story.
The next evening, just as we were making up
our minds for . another night of darkness and
discomfort, we heard above the roar of the sea
the report of a gun close by. We answered it
by sending up a blue light, to show where we
were, and in a few moments the stately hull of
a splendid large ship loomed out of thefog close
to us. All night she kept near, blowing her
steam whistle and letting off blue lights. We
[From Hit London Society, January number.
; From the Battlefield.
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OOOD snOBT.
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Are you watching forme, darling—are you looking
out forme? -
burned one regularly every-hour, andfihi.soon
as the day dawned she fired rockets witHMope
attached to the stick, until we managetrEo get
hold of one, when she took ns in tow, and on
the fourth day after Christmas we entered the
Hooghly in the wake of our big friend.*—
We had no masts, and looked the waterlogged ... . T v_ ,
wreck we were. This ship had been sent W coming by the path along
out to look for us, and there was another ~
vessel cruising in the South Channel.(we
were found by the Hesperus in the North
Channel) on the same charitable errand. The
whole population of Calontta seemed to have
turned out on the river’s bonk to. look at us as
we made our lop-sided way up Garden Beach;
the last lurch had shifted the coal and cargo, and
we were weighed down almost to the water’s
edge on one side. Every passenger had to jje-
wail the loss of his luggage, for if it was hot
pounded into little bits, the boxes were full of
bilge water. My own clothes looked as if they
had been packed in ink, and were utterly ruined;
but we were all so glad to escape with our lives,
that we did not fret abont our possessions. On
the Sunday after our arrival there waj a special
servioe in the .Cathedral, windfall the rescued
crew and paS^tfgers attended, ahd'Vory thank
ful we feltj especially as it was ascertained that
many ships had been loBt in that very Cyclone in
the Bay, and that of all these then due at Calcut
ta, ours was the only one which had reached its
destination. *
Masquerade in Eatonton.
Eatonton, March 3,1871.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Thinking
you would like to hear what is going on at your
old home, I will give you an account of the
“Masquerade” given here on the 1st instant,
can truly say it was the grandest array of man
ners, costume, deportment, eto., ever witnessed
in an up-country village. I would here remark
that the whole party were indebted to the abil
ity, zeal and perseverance of Dr. N. mid Lady,
and Miss A. R., for the success of this affair.
Everything was admirably arranged, the young
folks, in fine spirits, and “all went merry as a
marriage bell.'’
The doors were open, an din glided “Aurora,"
in the person of Miss 0. D., with golden ring
lets, and looking as if she had been touched by
the Rosy fingers of “the Dawn.” Miss A. A.,
as beautiful as Haidee, personated “A Greek
Girl,” and her rich, becoming costume only
heightened her charms......Miss M. H., as “Gip-
sey Queen,” looked bewitching, and, having
much vivacity and humor, sustained herself ad
mirably. The modest little Violet, MissT. T.,
as “Titania,” acted her part to the life. Her
sylph-like form, hor graceful movements, and
her light, airy dress, made her a real “Fairy
Queen,” and sent many a quiver to the hearts
of wandering lovers The dark-eyed Houri,
Miss K. H., as “La Belle France,” looked daz
zling, and I think put a spell on the dashing Zou
ave Miss P. R., as “MissFloraMcFlimsey,”
was anadmirableseleotion and well sustained
Miss M. M. personated Diana, and fasoinated
all by her charming manners Miss T. It.,
with her glorious and bright little eyes, was a
pretty “Scotch Lassie,” who danced the “High
land Fling” so gracefully Miss ,H. M., as a
“Nymph of the Sea," was exquisitely and taste
fully dressed Miss A. R.j a young lady of
much native intellect and high cultivation, ap
peared as “Queen Bess,” and sustained the
character to the life Miss B. P., S3 “Queen
of,Hearts,” was very attractive. There were but
few more lovely than this interesting young lady
......Miss F. A. represented “Raindrop.” Her
costume wa3 beautiful beyond description, re
minding one of a sea of crystals, with a mi na
ture rainbow peeping ont,—the whole forming
a brilliant illusion ...,.Mis3 S. P. personated
“Queen Anne,” and and looked magnificent,
being a very stylish and queenly person
Miss G. J. represented ‘‘Hope,” and the copy,
if possible, far excelled the original. Her cos
tume was unique and elegant, displaying her
fine figure to gTeat advantage. She was, indeed,
a star of attraction Miss 0. L. appeared as
“Cinderella” at the ball Miss E. B. was in
“Turkish” costume Miss L. B. represented
an “Indian Princess.” Miss V., in the char
acter of “Night,” attracted much attention by
her brilliant costume Miss L. W. and Mr.
H. E. were the observed of all observers,—
both having much wit and humor, highly did
they sustain their part3 as “Country Cousins.”
The disguise was perfect, aud their inimitable
aoting drew down bursts of applause from the
whole house. Mr. H. E. has much dramatic
talent, and would make a star aotor on the stage.
We must now proceed to the gentlemen,
where we fonnd the costumes of almost all na
tions, both ancient and modern. I cannot par
ticularize or go into minutim, for fear of making
this artiole too lengthy, bat will give a few that
were striking in appearance, not meaning, of
coarse, that aU did not look well Dr. B.
highly sustained himself in the character of
“Earl of Leicester.” Mr. T. H. appeared in
the costume of a Turkish Sultan.......Mr. G.
looked dashing as an English Jockey Master
D. was beautifully dressed as a Page of Mary
Queen of Scots The fascinating Mr. L. M.
appeared as “Richard Coeur de Leon.” His
costume was elegant, and well did he play his
part Mr. M. J., as “Romeo,” sustained him
self admirably, but I think he showed such a
preference for the young Grecian, the fair
“Juliet” must have been jealous, had she been
present Mr. W. L. was a life-like represent
ation of “John Chinaman.”......Mr. L. W. per
sonated. “Barbot”—decidedly the handsomest
costume in the room, and well adapted to his
style of person Mr. H. A. looked very hand
some as “ Fra Diavolo,” and would doubtless
have captivated many pretty lassies, had they
any hope of changing him from a baohelor to a
loving Benedict Mr. J. A. attracted much
attention in the costume of a Zouave.
The foregoing will give you some faint idea
of our Masquerade; there were many other
characters we do not now recollect. Suffice it
to say, there was sen admirable adaptation of
costume to character, and the taste and skill of
Miss N. were visible in all the minutiae. It
was decidedly one of the most agreeable parties
we have ever attended. Everything was life,
harmony, beauty, brilliancy. Music wood the
devotees of Terpsichore most invitingly, and
they “tripped it on the light fantastie toe,” un
til the “wee small hours of night.”
After the unmasking, we had an opportunity
of admiring this galaxy of beanty, and wb ven
ture to assert, it has never been equalled; for
old Eatonton is justly celebrated for its pretiy
girls.
In conclusion we mnst not forget to mention
the considerate kindness of Mr. E. R. and lady,
and many thanks are due them for the use of
their large rooms, for’thia entertainment.
Yours, etc., V.
The members of the High Commission fire
getting at the Alabama claims by regular ap
proaches in the genuine old-fashioned diplo
matic style. Tuesday evening Sir Edward
Thornton opened fire from the British lines by
having the Commissioners to dinner at his
mansion. On Wednesday evening Don Hamil
ton Fish returned tho shot on the part of the
United States by entertaining them at his festive
board. On Saturday evening Earl De Grey will
reply in behalf of John Bull by giving a dinner
that will knock Fish all to pieces. As there are
seven more commissioners, the presumption is
that the engagement will run through the next
two weeks. Then probably a brief truoe will bo
proclaimed, and the Commissioners will call for
tho bills and fall to business.—New York Sun.
Degeadation.—At a recent convention of the
negroes of Tennessee, their Committee on Edu
cation declared: -
Your committee can see no hope for the gen
eral education of the ohildren of our race in
Tennessee, unless it be established and adopted
by the General Government. Each colored cit
izen cannot bnt feel degraded so long as he is
forced by local authorities to separate sohools,
often the most unfit in character and purpose.
It is remarkable that any race of men should
feel “degraded” by association with Itself.
Sly.love 1 with golden tresses and ever-varying
cheek, : -
And the welcome in your glances which your shy
lips seldom speak.
I can close mine eyes and see you in the mellow
evening gleam,
Your earnest face uplighted by some pure and hap
py dream;
By the chiming ocean billows in the radiance Of the
west, trait-[j
Those busy fingers] folded for a little while At zest:
Ah 1 I see you looking downward at the slender
golden ring, ...
With a quick, faint blush—you prize it, the foolish
worthless thing! •
You are thinking of the Mss that dared prees your
fingers, dear,
I have never touched your lips yet, and I am lying
hero
On tho field of a lost battle, all, save dead and dying,
gone:
A cold slow rain is falling, and the night is drawing
on, . .
Our flag, deep stained with crimson, is wrapped
about my arm, ' '
I have saved it with my life-blood through this hat-
tie-day’s alarm.
My passion has been silent; we have only been true
friends,
Thank Heaven we were not lovers! since this is
how it ends—
I know your heart is tender, and has given both
prayers and tears
To your well beloved companion, your friend of
early’years.
May they turn to you in blessings—may my darling
never know.
A single tear more bitter than those for me which
flow!
* . • •
Who will tell her of my fate? Iam dying here
alone.
So yearning for one tender look, ono gentle, pitying
tone!
I thought to bring back honor,’and lay it at your
feet;- • cl
I thought to win a glorious name, and whisper,
“Share it sweet!”—
Batdying eyes see clearly; lneverwon your heart—
Well, better eo, far better—it is easy now to part!
There are many moaning round me, but my wounds
have ceased to pain;
I hardly hear the night wind, or feel the chilling
rain.
They will find me here to-morrow, and bdry me
where I lie
In a nameless grave, without a prayer—and I am
young to cue.
But it must be so, my darling; if you were by my
side
You must kiss me a “good night”—the last beforel
died.
Farewell! God shield you. dearest! and some
times tbink of me
As you sit in your sunny window beside the spark
ling sea.
Sly Dream. ’
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: I am a
pedagogue by profession; but lately I have had
such a dream, that I am almost in the mind to
relinquish my unquestionable right to wield the
sceptre of authority, in my sphere, dear as it
maybe to my pride. Every one, doubtless, has
a taint of superstition in his character. I ac
knowledge mine,—hence, my resolution since
my dream. Formerly, everything in ascholas-
tic direction, aocording to Democratic notions,
“ran quiet as the bfooks” on a sweet spring
morning; no visions of committees, of trustees,
etc., flashed through one’s mind, nor across his
optics. But not long since, on a certain night,
I overhauled a paper in which was published,
in toto, the late school law, and, thinking my
self intimately concerned in its ultimate en
forcement, concluded I would read it. Since
then, aU has not been well. I read, and read,
and kept reading until I finished it, determined
to peruse it again, which I did, more than once,
with the same result, until districts,sub districts,
commissioners, and so on, ran through my mind
in one confused mass.
In this state of perplexity; I dropped off to
sleep. Is it strange that my dreams were no less
confused than were my waking ideas?
In dreamland, I had resumed my business
as teaoher, and was progressing as well as whole
some discipline and obedient pupils always in
sure, when there came from my patrons the
advice that perhaps it would be well, in view of
the publio school law, recently enacted, to.pro
ceed to the appointed place, and be examined.
Attentive always (when.it suits me) to the will
of my employers, I went, when, lo! who was
there to examine my papers, but a parcel of
imps, black as Egyptian darkness, with a white
commissioner of their election, almost as ignor
ant as they, to head them.
To a number of questions, the like of which,
for absurdity, was never before dreamed of, I
gave guesses as answers,—hit them Beemingly,
as I got my licence,- and inarched off home.
Often in dreams, in a single night, one
passes over the events of an infinitely longer
period of time. Bo it was with mo. Me
thought the year passed away as others be
fore it, with the important exception that
the nogro trustees, presiding over the dis
trict in which I was professionally looated, too
diligently exercised the duty of overlooking the
progress of my sohooL Once a week, and some
times oftener, did they obtrude themselves upon
our notice, notwithstanding the hints - which
were persistently administered, that their watch
ful care might be well dispensed with. At first we
came out boldly and told them that their visits
would not be tolerated, but it seemed that they
had been instructed particularly upon this point
of their duty, and were determined not to neg-
lectit; so we were compelled to submit to their
unwelcome presence.
At length came round pay day. I’d forgotten
to say that mine was a school so situated that
students from four militia districts. put in an
appearance, which caused me considerable in
convenience, as will be seen directly. For nine
was not a school taught for a salary, but. one
taken “upon its merits,” consequently I had to
present iny accounts for collection to the County
Commissioner, through the agency of the trus
tees of the several districts. My accounts were
made ont, and I toddled off to hunt up these
latter whom, by dint of oontinued perseverance,
I at last found and presented to them the ac
counts.
But these were not aU my troubles yet. The
money raised from the rent of the State road,
liquor tax, eto., was only about half enough to
pay for the schools, and a direct ad valorem tax
was resorted to. Old bachelors who npver
thought of educating a child of their own, with
many a groan, paid in their dimes to educate
those of other people, and were served rigW' -
they should have wedded. But old w^who
long ago had eduoated their youngestchild,
wore not free. This was opi' r ' 0! ®i ve * "hat.a
complaint ensued 1 and the consequence was a
general declaration, th»cthe law was not adapted
to the country; that the old system waa better,
that hundreds of ft. fas. were issued; that I
became alarmed for my pecuniary welfare ana
awoke before I got my pay, and thenoonduaed
that the next Legislature, being Democrauo,
would modify the present plan of publio edu
cation, or oonstruct a hew one altogether. But
in the meantime, thinking of the probability of
my dream coming to pass, I straightway went
and persuaded three of my white neighbors,
trustees, not to resign their positions, as they
asserted they would, -but to hold on, notwith
standing vexatious work, no pay and a possible
*mm — CiQUETEUB.
“Motheb,” said a four-year-old, “what sea
son of the year was it when A da in and Eve were
in the Garden of Eden?” “I don’t know, my
dear, unless it was summer—a perpetual sum
mer.” “Ob, no, mamma, it must have been in
the fall, for you know apples were ripe.”
.Railroad Sleeting In Dooly.
tti'i jtoiYisnha, Ga., March 6th, 187L* •
Editors Telegraph and Messenger ; In pur
suance to a previously published notice a large
and entertaining meeting of the citizens of
Dooly county, representing the wealth end in
fluence of her population, wee held in Yienna
on Saturday, 4 th ultimo, to promote the inter
ests of a railroad speculation in contemplation
from Americas to Hawkinsvtll*, to ran through
Dooly county,'and through oi! near, the county
town. . - o f-; - . • ~ 7r
Upon motion Dr. 8. B. Stovall waa called to
preside over the proceedings of the meeting,
and A. J. Gone selected to act as Secretary. ‘
Upon motion of Judge John H. Woodward
OoL Joseph Armstrong who, in company with.
Major Maxwell and Captain Law, civil engi
neers, had come from Albany to be present
at the meeting, was solicited to explain the ob
ject of the meeting. He oompUed in- an argu- J
□tentative and eloquent discussion of the indis
pensable importance of arailroadthrougbDooly
county; and having, while representing this
county in the Legislature, secured by his activ
ity and talents the passage «>f an act incorpora
ting the Americas and Hawkinsville Railroad,
in which State aid was granted said road to the
amount of $12,000 per mile, his speech was
listened to with marked attention and interest.
OoL Armstrong, though now a non-resident of
our oounty, has manifested a very great inter
est in this railroad undertaking, and has done
his former fellow-citizens an invaluable 3ervioe,
who trill certainly owe him a great debt of grat
itude if the enterprise should be crowned with
suooess.
OoL Armstrong next Introduced Major Max
well, and that gentleman entertained us at
length, he being perfectly conversant with such
things. His remarks were replete with interest
and highly instructive and important. When
he had done Jadge John H. Woodward moved
that a committee of nine persons be appointed
by the Chair—three at Hawkinsville, three at
Americas and three at Yienna—to open books
for subscription audsolicit the same as provided
in the charter, which was unanimously adopted.
In pursuance of said, motion the chair ap
pointed the following gentlemen: 0. 0. Kib-
bee, A. 0. Fate and N. W. Collier of Hawkins
ville, W. R. Stansell and A. S. Cutts of Am
ericas, and Elijah Butts, Jno. H. Woodward
and Jos. Forbes of Yienna. The whole meet^
ing passed off harmoniously and happily with
the prospect of a railroad brighter than ever
before. The following resolutions were unani
mously adopted:
Resolved 1st, That, the 1st Tuesday in April
next be appointed for our next meeting, when
we hope to have a still larger attendance.
Resolved 2d, That the proceedings of this
meeting be published in the Macon Telegraph
and Messenger. On motion the meeting ad
journed.
A. J. Cose, S. B. Stovall,
Secretary. Chairman.
Words for Women to Fonder.
There is such a wide field open to the world
of women, wherein they may excel, if they
have the talent, and choose to devote time,
thought, and labor to the task, says a sagacious
writer in London Society, that we are surpris
ed women should wish to extend it. No road
that a woman of tender and noble nature should
desire to tread is closed against her. As a poet,
a painter, a sculptor, an author, or even as an
astronomer, she may march into the field side
by side with men, and lead, too, if she can; she
may distance them in the race, and win the suc
cess they have missed, and men will give her
the meed of praise ungrudgingly; bnt when an
army of British matrons or maids (who have
been long in waiting”) throw aside their own
privileges and storm the rights of men, they
must not be surprised it they occasionally meet
with a repulse. If they will throw down and
trample upon the feminine flag, (which has
waved over their mothers and grandmothers
for generations), and hoist the masculine colors,
they cannot expeot to march unassailed beneath
the illegitimate . banner. When men are
attacked they will naturally stand on the
defensive, not only from the impulse of the pug
nacious, manly nature, but from the respeot
they feel for their invaders. Most men have
mothers, wives, daughters, perhaps sisters,
whom they hold in high esteem, or affectionate
regard, and they would fain place all women on
the same high level; but when the gentle' sex
ceases to be gentle, and rushes forth into the
highways and byways, like a modem Bellona,
fighting her road and elbowing her way into the
haunts of men, menacing them with her tongue,
or lashing them with a goosequill, she loses the
respect of the one sex, and earns the oecsure of
the other. We are, however, thankful to find
that the army of he-women is languishing for
want of recruits; many have deserted from its
ranks; others, whose lives are empty for lack
of employment, which they have not the energy
to seek in their own sphere, are half inclined to
enrol themselves, bnt they are’afraid, and draw
back to watch and wait to see how the movement
works.
There seems to be small cause for the great
dissatisfaction some women feel at the position
which has been assigned to them in the scheme
of creation. In no age have they been more
powerful than they are at the present time.
There are few passages in the lives of men in
which a woman has not a quiet voices a voice
which Bpeaks to a man’s ear at his own fireside,
which reaohes the man’s heart, and gives an trn-
aeen color to his thoughts, a guiding rein to his
actions. Ten oiianooa lo one if she were to
trumpet her sentiments abroad, or circulate
them through the publio press, or utter them
from a publio platform to the ears of a thou
sand men, they would fall like seed on barren
ground, the harvest would be nil, and the world
be none the better for her influence.
Home is essentially the woman’s true doinins
ion, and it is no petty, narrow stole. It stretohet
far away from her ow»* threshold, into tho grea-
world of men bojond. She is the presiding ge
nius of the fireside, where men expeot to find
■rrormth, comfort and companionship when the
day’s work is over. She is, or should be, as God
made her—the bosom friend and companion-of
her husband. She must necessarily have a great
influence over his life, and through him over all
that come within his sphere of action. Asa
mottier, too, her influence is unbounded; it is
from her teaching, her training and example,
that the mind receives its first impetus. She
trains her sons for the world’s work; the fruit
of their manhood is generally the result of the
seed she has sown during the days of their
childhood; and the silver thread she puts into
the child's hand is often his best guide through
all the dajs to come. Men grow old and grey,
and forget many things long before Use battle of
life is over; but fragmentary snatches of the
old home days are dearly remembered, and the
mother’s words are treasured up until the end,
and influence the»* more orless long, long after
all other influences have died away. Even Fal-
stafr, the facetious old reprobate, iu his last
hour are'told, “babbled o’ green fields.’
How Milledgevliie was Csptored.
The virtuous Kilpatrick, in a recent lecture
at Ohioago on Sherman’s march to the sea,
the following statement, which we give
for what it is worth. That “good Union man”
fared about right, though, we think:
Milledgeville was not captured by the army,
but by the bummers, who .took possession of it
five hours in advance of the leading regiment.
The rebel mayor, accompanied by lawyers, doc
tors, deacons, and the good men and tho bad
men of tho city, came out with a flag of truoe to
receive the bummers. Gne man read a dis
course he had prepared for the occasion, setting
forth what history ought say of the surrimaerof
Milledgeville and the conduot of the Yankee
troops. The chief bummer promised all sorts
of protection to private property. One North-
em man, who had lived there a long time, said
he had always been a good Union man and
loved the old flag, etc. The bummerlooked at
him for a moment and then,said: Dry up, dry
□o - It don’t make no difference to me what you
are’; have you got a watch ?’ r The gentleman
was obliged to give up his watch, kill his chlo-
kens, and prepare a “rum old .dinner” for the
Tb« Democratic r*rty and Three
$ 0 |l2pi_- { £ %■. Amendment*.
The Louisville Courier-Journal, repaying to
the New York Times, deelareo, with proper
emphasis, that that paper misreports the tapta
and misrepresents the sentiment* of the Demo
cratic party with reference to the issue* of 187S.
The ideas of the Courier-Journal are so nearly
in aocord with our own, and, as we are assured,
with those of the large majority of the Demo
cratic party North and South that we rapnduee
them. Says that paper:
The Democratic.perty declares that the Thir
teenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amcndmenta
to the Goriatitution of the Ue^ed Stritas wwre
wioked and arc of dangerous tendency, that
they were carried by ooercion and fraud, and
that most of the evils that now befcet the Coun
try proceed directly from them or tab machin
ery crested by them. The Democratic party
makes this assertion in or£er iq acquit itself of
all accountability^. and to plaoe, the responsibil
ity where it belongs. The facts embraced in
the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Amendments have
already gone into operation in snob* a 'fooMZ a*
to render them practically irreversible this rids
of another revolution. The Thirteenth Amend
ment made the negro a freeman, and no one
wants to remand him to servitude. The Dem
ocratic party would not attempt this if it could.
The Fifteenth Amendment makes the negro a
voter. But this provision has become a part of
most of the State constitutions, and, therefore,
if the Amendment were rescinded, negro suf
frage would not be abolished. Bo no Demo
cratic authority proposes that as an issue. The
objectionable features of the Fourteenth
Amendment can be wiped out by set of Con
gress, and the Democratic party proposes this
universal amnesty as its first measure of justice
to the South. As evil influences, the three
amendments have done their worst. That wont
and its consequences must be made plain bathe
people. They are none of our doing. We hot
only fought them, but predicted how they would
work. We assail them how to establish the cor
rectness of our position. We simply seek to put
the cap where it fits—a very necessary thing in
political and in legal affairs. , '
All this Frank Blair has made plain. enough.
Bnt .the New York Times refuses to understand
it and elaborately misstates it. To our mind it
is essential that the oase should be fairly made
np and we are prepared for it. The three
amendments certainly form a part of the oon-
duot of the Radicals. That conduot is certainly
the thing we are to examine and discuss. How
does this involve revolution ? We accuse the
Radioals of squandering the public moneys. Is
this revolution'? We accuse them of corrupting
the publio service. Is this revolution ? We ao-
cuse them of separating the peace-seeking peo
ple of the two sections. Is this revolution?
We accuse them of violence and fraud in respeot
to the ratification of three constitutional amend
ments, and we hold thisnp as proof of their ca
pacity and intention to do evil and as a reason
why they should be (Deprived of the. power.
How can you make revolution put of this ?
But the New York Times declares that behind
it all there is a lurking purpose of -revolution,
and that we do not represent oar party. On
point we can only point to the facts as as they
are visible to the naked eye. When we laid
down the points contained in the present
artiole six months ago .there were but two
Democratio papers of character that pretended
to dispute them, and they did so, as we think,
under a misapprehension of the case. But,
whether they did or not, no respectable
element disputes them now. General Blair
has pnt them forcibly, .and the Democratic
press is daily doing the same thing. The Demo
cratio Congressmen a year ago refused to stultify
themselves by indorsing the amendments.
They had fought them and they were now go
ing back on their record. But because we re
fuse to indorse a thing does not imply that we
mean to destroy it. We may dispute the jus
tice of a legal decision without Tn«n-nfng to
break the law.
The New York Tribune says that in making
a noise about reconstruction we are barking at
empty rat-hole. Precisely; and we have two
very distinct objects in view; wo want to take
care that that same old rat doesn’t come ont
any moro, and we.want to provide against' any
other rat-holes of that description.; • ■- -
oslw t *i " : -
From Washington County.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger : Spring, in
beautiful roseate hues, sits enthroned upon the
brow of nearly every incoming day—inviting
the agriculturist and horticulturist to the fields
and orchard yards, making ready, under the’
genial Bun, for the seeds and the plants. But
all departments of farm interest are muoh be
hind. The occasional trample of . midnight
horsemen, uniformed in dark robes—bent on
unknown deeds of frightful and horrible out
rage—has ruffled the peace in the best circles
of the community and disturbed the equilibrium
of the laboring class no little. These things
will not suroease. until governmental offioers
having wise heads hold tho reins in equity, as
they used to in the days of our fathers. We had
a veritable band of Eu-Elux brought into Ban-
dersville on Saturday—five freedmen, who at
tempted to Eu-Elox another freedman for big
amy : a more summary prooess than the case of
the United States Senator, and yet less deserv
ing punishment. A little jailing such midnight
prowlers will do good. Once they get their
“hand in” and taste blood, they might beat the
whites at the Ku-Kluxing (as charged by the
liaaicais). on: wneu »naii inis reign of terror
cease. Are we never to have moral force and
power in our courts, and crime nnbiasly ferreted
ont and speedily punished.
Loving lasses are beginning to lean upon
their lovers’ arms as if they wanted towed,
hereabouts,'and some squire or parson may soon
expect perquisites for that privilege. Poor
creatures! they can’t be content without trouble.
Your worthy paper has a fine circulation
through our oounty; but it might beof profit to
pnsh its superior claims occasionally with a
traveling agent __ 131 Aqbioola.
.. The Peace of Europe.'
That very intelligent paper, the Journal of
Qommerce, is very dispondent about peace pros
pects in Europe. Says the Journal:
The war with Denmark led to the Austro-
Prusslan war; that war, by arousing French
jealousy of Frossia, led to the Franco-German
war; and to what war will that lead in turn?
Such is the question that men are beginning to
ask. For it is apparent to all that the chain of
destruction is not yet complete, but that links
in its dreadful sequence remain to. be forged.
The conclusion of peace between. Germany and
Franoe leaves nothing settled, except that Prus
sia wears, for the present, the belt, so danger
ous to its possessor, of the champion power of
Europe. She. won it by hard fighting; and
hard fighting alone can keep it for her. Franoe
hates her with an immeasurable intensity
of passion, and she will- watch her first op
portunity to break the hollow truoe which men
call peace. Austria nurses her wrath and bides
her time. England chafes under the impotence
resulting from her exoessive devotion - to com
mercial pursuits, and has gone into training to
appear again in the arena as the stubborn Brit
ish gladiator of old. Between England, Franoe
and Austria exists a community of sentiment,
toward Prussia, and that is a compound of hate,
reveDge and suspicion as to her future designs.
Either one of them is overmatched by her
mighly antagonist-the new German empire—
but how if they were allied ? Such ac alliance
is not wholly improbable at some future day.
How soon it may come depends on the course
hereafter pursued by Germany, and also on the
recuperative energy displayed by France.
bummer, wh
i latter ransacked the house, for twenty-five cents.
Mr. Henry Dickens, a son of the novelist, is
giving readings in London.
Rome, before its occupation by the Italians,
had two newspaper^; now it has twenty.
In London workmen are carried on the rail
roads ten miles once a day each way for a week
