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I lines t« the Memory of tUe lion. E.
A. NIaDet
I gj'jgone: Tlio noblo, true, and good, from earth
g,>i parsed away; and sorrow now hath spread
Ea "raven wing” athwart our spirit’s sky.
5fj how fclio hovers o’er his stately home t "
5i:rc now a low sad wail is heard, because
J, light within hath fled.—Her ebon plumes
is weaving too, within our “Halls of Stato,”
Ido'or that high judicial seat, where he
m oft hath sat, to mete out j ustice to
ha fellow mm.—And yet the scene is not
IB »!oom—Bright rays of lights are glist’ningon
fcaeacrod dome—whore he for two-score years,
Bis want to list to truths from lips divine.
E;w like r. guiding star, they seem to point
Hegticf-woru spirit to a brighter home,
gar, is this all of life ? where now are all
Hi joathfol dreams ?—The scintillations of
Hi; pains bright, in manhood’s prime, and thoughts
frofosnd. and precepts grave, of after years ?
Th:-y are i.ot gone; but like bis features, stamped
f: :r. his kindred, and engraven too,
teletters bright, upon “the page of time,”
is teach ortr children’s children how the great
A«i good, should livo and die—He's gone from
earth,
Xinorc he'll sit within la's “vine-clad porch,”
j£s silver leeks with laurel loaves entwined.
B:t while the world gave him the honors due,
El he possess the social virtues too ?
Were hi- Affections strong and deep ? Go ask
flic loved ones of his home, how ho bemoaned
ILi loved and lost! Was he benevolent ?
Gjtek the -uff’ring poor, who from him sought
Sal found relief.—5V’as ho true in friendship,
G.’acrons and kind ? Go ask bis clients
I-, ifrom whom ho neither asked,
.V r ir.iuhl a recomponso receive. Ho died
Xst as tho reckless dio, whoso warm life-blood
E;’f maddened by excess, goes rushing thro’
Zlieir veins, ’till suddenly the cord of life
It Hupp’d, and all is still. Tboir passions dark
Engraven on tho features pale, e’en while
Hey wait the coffin and the grave. But he
the laws of lifo and ho&lih had studied well;
And armed by these euro weapons of defense,
lie, well nigh reached his “three-score yoara and
ten.” . "~
ccreno and peaceful as the summer eve
>inka down to rest within tho arms of night
Ills “sun hath sot, behind a glorious west
Io rise again,' wo trust, where brighter orbs
Resplendent shine; while ho on earth will bo,
By friendship, love, and country “honored, wept,
S5.1 SUDg.” IiESOBE.
A Cipher Correspondence.
From a Visit to my Discontented Cousin. J
Tho story I am about to tell relates to on in
cident in the history of England which is but
little known, and which you will not' find in
books, but ono which noverlheleos, had a great
effect on her destinies.
About the beginning of this century, while
the revolutionary wars were raging, communi
cation in cipher was naturally v6ry ■ prevalent;
tnd ingenuity was taxed to tho utmost, on ono
hand to invent, and on the other to detect, the
medium used in secret correspondence. As a
rale tho decipherer had beaten tho cipherer;
md no known method was seenre of detection.
Ii conventional signs merely wore used, tho re
currence of tho different symbols gavo a key
easily- followed out. Some ingenious spirits
corresponded by reference to the pages and
lines of particular editions of particular books;
others by an agreed-on vocabulary. But these
last methods, although they might preserve tho
secret, disclosed, what -was often quite as dan
gerous, that there was a secret. I am abont u>
tel! yon of a plan which for long years was not
only undetected, but un6uspeoted.
It was at the time when the first Napoleon
had assembled his fleet and transports at Brest,
with the ostensible, nnd as is generally believed,
the real view of makinga descent on this island.
The greatest precautions were obsorved by this
government in regard to correspondence from
Franco, and an amount of espionage was prac
ticed at the post-office which left subsequent
performances in that livo far behind. The na
tional excitement was intense, and the political
departments of the government were adminis
tered with an iron sway.
My uncle. Sir George Trevor,-was, as all tho
world then knew, high in the Admiralty; and as
It was from him that I heard this anecdote, its
Veracity may of course be depended on.
The dispatches to and from the Admiralty
were tho subject of tho greatest vigilance, and
the most stringent regulations. The clerks
were not permitted to send or receive any let
ters which were not first submitted to tho chief
clerk; and it was believed that letters addressed
even to their private residences were frequently
opened at tho post-office.
At the time I speak of, tho chief clerk was
an elderly man of tho name of Parker, a wiz
ened, wiry, dapper individual, so imbued with
the offioial tincture of Whitehall that it had be
come second nature to him. He lived and
breathed and thought and slept solely for the
Admiralty, and knew no other ploasuro or care.
He was, withal, a genial and kindly soul, keen
and energetic in the affairs of his office, and in
all others a mere child.
He had assumed, as his private secretary, a
young fellow of tho name of Beaumont, who
was one of the most promising subordinates in
the establishment. Ho was a modest, unassum
ing man, very good-looking, with a countenance
and air suggestive of depression and melan
choly. He was evidently of good education,
and probably well-born also, for his manners
were easy, and indicated good breeding. Ho
vas a native of Jersey and had been introduced
tQ the notice of tho Admiralty authorities by
somo influential member of Parliament. He
was much liked iu the office, and discharged
its duties to perfection.
One morning Parker presented himself be
fore my uncle with a visage pale with woe, and
trembling with excitement.
“ Why, what is the matter, Parker? Has Bo-
^porte come?” ... '.
* He may have, for aught I know,” said Par-
“ Things are all wrong, Sir George 1”
“Whatis^rong?”
The letters are wrong. There is-a spy
among ns. I have known it for long; now I am
9uite sure; but I cannot find him out.”
Parker went on to explain that he had for
oome time suspected that some ono in the office
communicated their privato information and
dispatches outside. He had redoubled his pre
cautions; but, more than ever confirmed in his
suspicions, was entirely baffled in his endeavors
to detect tho culprit.'
“But, Parker,” Said my uncle, “ how do you
oomo to be snro that your secrets have trans
pired?”
“By the funds, Sir George. They answer to
the news as surely as the bell down stairs does
to tho bell-rope. I find them going up and
down as if they were ratting in the office," said
Parker, personifying the stock exchange for
the moment.
“Have all the letters to the clerks been ex
amined strictly.”
“Yes, I read them all myself.”
“Find nothing in them
“Mighty little. Some are from home and
some fromfriends,and most of them from sweet
hearts,” said Parker, twistiDg his face into a
grim smile; “and ram things they say jn them.”
“And the young men’s letters, are they rum,
too ?”
“They are more careful-like, as they know I
am to see them; bnt, Lord save yon, sir, they
are all stuff; not a ha’porth of harm in them.”
“This matter most be seen to,” said my uncle;
“I have had my own misgivings on tho same
subject. Bring mo all tho letters which come
to and are sent by the clerks for the next week.
There is no reason why yon should have all tho,
rum things to yourself.”
“So my uncle had the letters for a week, and
found them very much such as Parker had de
scribed them.
Tho suspicious symptoms increased; the
stock exchange responded more sensitively than
ever; bnt not the slightest ground for suspect
ing any one transpired. Hy uncle was be
wildered, and Parker was rapidly verging to in
sanity.
“It is certainly not the clerks,” said my nncle.
“There i3 no treason there,” said he, pushing
back the letters of the day. “By the way, how
does yonng Beaumont get on? She seems a
nice creature, that sister of his, to judge by her
letters.”
“He is the best hand in the office, a long
sight; and his sister is a very sweet, lady-like
creature. They are orphans, poor things; and
he supports her out of his salary. She called
at the office two months ago, and I gave him
leave to see her for a few minutes in my room.
Bnt he knew it was against the rales, and has
not seen her here again.”
“But what are we to do ?” said my uuole. “I
think I Will speak to the First Lord.”
So he spoke to the First Lord, who thought
the affair serious enough.”
“It must be in the letters,” said he.
“It cannot be in letters,” said my nncle.
“As you please,” said the chief; “bnt although
you cannot find it there, perhaps another can.
I would try an expert.” . f,
My uncle had no faith in, expert, or Bow
street runners, and mistrusted them. But he
could not refuse to try the experiment suggest
ed. So the most experienced decipherer in
'London was summoned into council, and to him
the letters of the day were secretly submitted.
He read them all very carefully, looked at
them in the light and looked at the light through
them. At last he put them all aside, exoeptiug
one frem Elinor Beaumont.
“Who is the lady who writes this ?” said the
taciturn man of skill, at last.
“A very sweet young woman,” said Parker,
smartly ; “sister of my private secretary.”
“Does she write often?”
“Yes; she is-his only correspondent, and
writes abont twice a week. '
“Where does she live?”
“She lives in Jersey, Beaumont told me.
Their father was in business there.”
“And does she always write about the same
kind of things—aunt’s rheumatism, picnics,
squires’ tea parties and the like ?”
“Much lie same, excepting when she speaks
of Beaumont himself.” .
“Hum!” said the expert.
“Well, 6ir,” said my uncle, who was rather
impatient of the man of skill’s pomposity, “and
what may ‘hum!’ mean? Have the young
woman and her aunt's rheumatism done tho
mischief?”
“Hum! She datc3 from Fleet street.”
“And why should she not date from Fleet
street, sir?”
“I should bo sorry to prevent her,” said the
unmoved philosopher. “Has this correspond
ence continued long ?”
“Oh, yes! a couple of years or so; but not
nearly so regularly as lately.”
“Forhow long, regularly?”
“About two months.”
That is about the time when you first sus
pected the betrayal of confidence ?”
“Really, my friend, if you can’t see further
into a mill-stone than that, you may give up the
profession,” said my uncle. “Take my word
for it, tho Beaumonts have nothing to do with
it. Rubbish 1”
“Hum!” And with that the man of skill
took his hat and departed, saying he would re
turn in two days. The two days, however, were
five before he came back, and ho wa3 again
closeted with my uncle and Parker, with whom
he had fallen into great disfavor.
“ Wants to make a job,” said the latter,
regular humbug.”
“Sir George,” said the regular humbug, “has
Mr. Beaumont a locked desk in hi? room ?”
“ Yes, sir” said Parker, “ho has.” -
“Have you a key which will open it?”
“I have—and what of it ?”
“ I wish, to have that desk opened without his
knowledge, and the contents brought to mo.”
“And on what pretense,” said my unde, “ do
you propose to put this insult on a man against
whom there is no reasonable ground for suspi
cion, and who has not been allowed to speak for
himself?”
“ There need be no insult, for he will .know
nothing of it; neither will any ono else.”
“I will not permit it, sir.”
Hum! Then I can do no more in the busi
ness.”
“But,” said Parker, whose official notions
made him unwilling to break off the negotia-
ions in this manner, “ what pretence have you
for doiDg this to Beaumont, and not to the other
clerks?” .
“ShallI tell you? There is no such person
as Elinor Beaumont,' and the address in Fleet
street is a notorious haunt of suspected for
eigners.”
‘‘Good gracious," said my undo, changing
color; “you don’t say that ?”
“It is the fact; bnt you will see the necessi
ty of being cautions and silent in the matter.
Detection hangs on a thread, os it stands, and
a whisper will break it. ”
“What do yon mean,” said Parker, “abont
Elinor Beaumont ? I have seen her.”
“There is no Elinor Beaumont in Jersey,
sent, and have ascertained the fact.”
“I am sure there is some mistake about all
this, which Beaumont can clear up. Let us
send for him.”
“If yon do, the game is up. I trust, in fact,
he does not know of. my visits.. We cannot bo
too cautions in these matters.”
“Pedantic ass! muttered my uncle; “bull
suppose wo had better give him his own way.
If you meet Parker and me here at seven to
night, we shall have this wonderful desk open
ed, and your great discoveries shall be made.”
They met again that evening. ^.-The desk was
opened by Parker, and a bundle of letters, care
fully packed up, all fromEiinor Beaumont, and
a quantity of circulars,, play-bills and.shop re
ceipts were handed; to the expert. ttt‘ j - •
That gentleman read throngh the letters, and
seemed much struck by the last. “Read that,”
said he,-handing it to my uncle. . As the letter
is important, I give it entire: .1 - ~
“126 Fleet StbeeT, Sept 24, 1803.
“My Dear Charles—Although we had an ad
verse wind all the way, we made without diffi
culty the port we were bound for. My aunt, in
spite of the weight of her fifty years, enjoyed
the trip much, and is ready to sail again. I
hope yon will think of sending ihe line .you
promised on the 25tb, and come yourself, a3 our
party is now much smaller, and we should en
joy the visit . , J
“When I was in London last week I saw our
cousin Harry, fresh from Windsor.-.Thereis
little change to be observed in him—notas
much as vou would expect -Come to us ouEn-J
day. . - Yours very afft., Eunob B.
My uncle read this out aloud from, beginning
to end, and then he said, “Doyou see anything
suspicions in that ? It seems to me very rnno-
«HtpA llt-may be. Was there anything else
in-the desk ?" ; said he, addressing Porker.
“Yon may go and look," growled the pote.nt-
Thc desk wag quite empty, with the exception
of two or three scraps of waste paper. On one
of these the expert pounced, and returned with
an air of elation to tho other room. Ho then
unfolded this scrap of paper and disclosed a
half-sheet, exactly tho size of the paper on
which Elinor Beaumont’s letters were written,
in whico oblong holes at intervals had been cut.'
He then placed this half-sheet over the letter,
and handed both, thus placed, to my uncle,
whose astonished eyes read the following words,
which tho holes left vMblo;
“Fleet wind-bound, Fifty sail of the line.
Twenty-five smaller. Should the wind change,
expect ns on Friday.”
“The devil 1 ” said my nnole; “and Nelssn
ordered off to the West Indies! ”
Then was there, as yon may suppose, hurry
ing and scurrying, and running and chasing,
and dispatching of government conrtiers, and
■semaphore telegraphs, and carrier pigeons, and
all th9 old-world means of communication then
in fashion. Tho key, thus obtained, disclosed •
the whole correspondence, which turned .out to
be a connected series of letters from the French
Government, smuggled into Jersey. The result
history knows; tho intended invasion was aban
doned, and Napoleon went elsewhere.
“But what put you on the scent ? ” asked my
nncle afterward, with many apologies to the ex
pert. . ....
“I suspected the trick from the first, although
it was a very good specimen'. The letters were
too innocent, and had too little point in them.
But they were done with admirable skill. Tho
grammar was Complete, and the little dots or
marks which bunglers use to guide them in
writing the words which are to be read,were en
tirely absent. Tho way in which tho deception
is effected i3 this. The correspondents, beforo
commencing, take a sheet of paper and cut
holes in it, which, of course, in two half sheets
exactly correspond. They each take one half-
sheet, and when a letter is to be written the
writer so arranges the words that those intended
to be read shall appear in the holes when tho
half-sheet is placed over the paper, which is of
the same size. "When hJs correspondent receives
the letter, Jhe places ho half-sheet over it, and
reads off the words, as you did. The difficulty,
which was so well conquered in this case, is to
make the sense run fluently, and to prevent any
visible break in the writing. "Without the half
sheet with the holes in it, no one can have tho
slightest clew to the realjneaning.
“My suspicions, once aroused, were confirm
ed by the inquiries which I made. The whole
story about tho sister was a fabrication. The
letters did come from Jersey, the answers went
to Fleet street, to the charge of very notorious
agents. Bat if our friend had not been fool
enough to leave his half sheet in his desk, we
might have groped in vain for the mystery.”
Beaumont disappeared that night, and was
never heard of again at the Admiralty. It tran
spired afterward that some accomplice had warn
ed him of the expert’s Visit to the AdmirdUy,
and his inquiries in Jersey. He had made an
attempt to get admittancetohis rooms, and was
scared by tho sounds he heard, and contrived to
escape to Franoe. The liaty who acted the sis
ter, and who visited the Admiralty, partly to
put the authorities off Aheir guard, and proba
bly, also, to interchange the key to the cipher,
was a Parisian celebrity, who, both before and
afterward, was renowned for her dariDg in po
litical intrigue.
GEORGIA CAPl 1ST STATE CONVENTION*
Compromise on tho Removal of Mercer
University. J I
OAETEESVnXE, MONDAY, April 24.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger : On Mon
day much miscellaneous business was attended
to, including tho various reports usually ren
dered. ■’ -■■■.
On the report upon the “Stato of Religion”
many interesting speeches were made.
The Executive Committee and Convention
Treasurer were re-elected.
In' regard to the removal of Mercer Universi
ty the report of the trustees of the University
and that of the special commission on removal
were referred to a special committee composed
of one from each association, of which Rev. F.
M. Haygood was elected chairman. That com
mittee reported favoring the past action of the
trustees and recommending the adoption of
their report, and that, in order to harmonize
the denomination on the subject of removal,
the buildings in Penfield be retained in posses
sion by the trustees who shall establish a school
of high grade to be called the “Mercer High
School,” under the sustenance of the faculty of
Mercer University, and as a feeder to that in
stitution— this on condition that litigation
ceases. Tho report of the special committee
was adopted unanimously, with the amendment
that no draft was to be made on the present
funds of the University to sustain the High
School, and the trustees were invited to enter
into negotiations again with the people of Pen-
field with a view to pnt a stop to all litigation.
It is hoped that this step will unite all the de
nomination in tho support of Mercer University.
It certainly renders its location at Macon sure
and permanent. Several hours were_ ooeup_ied
in discussing tho question, bnt no ill feeling
was aroused. It wa3 only necessary to come to
some common and well-defined Understanding,
for harmony to ensue.
I think it nfanecessary to give any other of
the reports, as not being particularly interest
ing to your readers.
The Convention will meet next year in the
city of Macon, and Dr. T. E. Skinner, of Co
lumbus, has been appointed to deliver the intro
ductory sermon. B.
Millais’ “Rngnenots.”
Your f av’rite picture rises up before mo,
Whene’er you play that tune,
I see two figures standing in a garden,
In the still August neon.
One is a girl's, with pleading face turned upward,
Wild with a great alarm;
Trembling with haste, she binds her broidered ker
chief
Abont the other’s arm,
Whose gaze is bent on her in tender pity,
Whose eyes look into hers.
With a deep meaning, though she cannot read it,
Hers are so dim with tears.
What are they saying in the sunny garden,
flowen
Iligli Dalles.
.. .Editors Telegraph and Messenger; A. little
bit of history, with which I have just become
acquainted, shows how high duties diminish the
comforts, employmnets and revenues of anation.
In tho year 1800 was accomplished a legislative
union between Great Britain and Ireland—one
of the stipulations being that the tariff of the
two countries should continue distinct for a
certain .number of years, at the expiration of
whioh they were to be -uniform. It is recorded
that when this time arrived a high duty on glass
and windows was being levied in England. To
extend so obnoxious a tax to Ireland .was more
than the ministers felt it safe to do, and their
only alterative was to repeal it altogether. The
good result with which thisact was attended is
A.lth summer flowers ab.ow. . ... now to be witnessed in the existence of chrys-
What gives the womans voice its pasraonate plead- palaces and of those glass conservatories
and nurseries which lend bo sweet a charm to
almost all of the hetter class of modem English
ing?
What makes the man’s eo low ?
“See, love!” she murmurs, “youehall wear my ker
chief, , •
It is the badgo I know, * >
And it will bear you safely throngh the conflict,;
If—if, indeod, you go 1
You will not wear it ? Will you not wear my ker-
, chief ?
Nay! Do not tell me why.
I will not listen! If you go without it,
You will go hence to die.
Hush 1 Do not answer! It is death, I tell you..
Indeed, I speak the truth. ,
You, standing there, so warm with life and. vigor,
So bright with health and youth;
Yon would go hence, out of the glowing sunshine,
Out of the garden’s bloom,
Out of the living, thinking, feeling present,
Into tho unknown gloom!”
Then ho makes answer: “Hush! oh, hush, my dar
ling!
Life is so sweet to me.
So full of hope, you need not bid mo guard it.
If such a thing might be!
If such a thing might be—bnt uof through false-
hood.
I could not edme to you:
I dare not stand hero, in your pure, sweet presence,
Knowing myself untrue.”
“It is no sin!” tho wild voice interrupts him.
“This is no open strife. .
Have you not often dreamt a nobler warfare
In which to spend your life ?”
Ob! for my sake—though hut for my sake—wear it!
Think what my lifo would bo, - -
If you, who gave it first true worth and moaning,
Were taken now from mo!
Think of the long, long days, so slowly passing!
Think of the endless years;
I am so young! Must I live cut my lifetime
With neither hopes nor fears ?”
He speaks again, in mournful tones and tender,
But with unswerving faith:
“Should not love make us braver, aye, and stronger,
Either for lifo or death ?
Ana life is hardest. Ob, my love 1 my treasure!
If I could bear your part
Of this groat sorrow, I would go to meet it
With an unshrinking heart.
Child! child! I little dreamt in that bright summer,
When first your lovo I sought,
Of all tho future store of woe and anguish
Which I, uuknowing, wrought.
But you’ll forgivomo?. Ye?, you will forgive me,
I know, when I am dead!
I would havo loved you—but words have scant
meaning. uJ .• r
L.J God lovo you more instead!” - •
Then there is silence in tho sunny garden,
Until, with falteiing tone,
She sobs, the while still clinging closer to him,
“Forgive me—go—my own!”
So human lovo, and faith by death unshaken,
• Mingle their glorious-psalm.
Albeit low, until the passionate pleading
Is hushed in deepest calm. f The Spectator*
How She Looks, etc.—The New York Sup
gives ns the following aocount of the personal
appearance and character of Mrs. Lanra Fair,
now on trial at San Francisco for killing Judge
A. F. Crittenden:
Mrs. Fair is said to bo one of the most facin-
ating women that ever destroyed the peace of
a family. She is above the ordinary height of
women, symmetrical In form, graceful in car
riage, and infatuating in manners and magnet
ism. Her hair is a dark chesnut, her eyes dark
brown, and her complexion as clear as that of a
child of three years. Her hands and feet are
small and elegantly moulded. With the excep
tion of her liaison with Crittenden, she was al
ways wary knd canning, and the terror of mar
ried women wherever she went. It was evident
to men of the world that, although she never
didantning which could call for rebuke, she
was a smouldering volcano, and not averse to a
warm flirtation. Men thronged around her
wherever die went, and women hated her with
inexpressible virulence. She had ihe entree to
the best society in Kentucky and New Orleans.
She is: not a thoroughbred, bat is vivacious,
sprightly, and inagnetio, and. when she entered
a salon or a ballXoom the gentlemen would de-
sert.other ladies to-gather around her and com
pete for her smiles and recognition. She had.
a mania for stook speculations, and an immense
gift for luring bankers and. merchants into her
schemes. Her temper is exceedingly violent,
and she has been known to break tho head of a
servant with a chair. She is fond of cham
pagne,, and sometimes takes too much of it at
dinner. In short, she is a beautiful, heartless,
fearless, terrible tigress, who loves and hates
like a wild beast, and is always ready to murder
anybody who crosses her passions.
The Volcaxo neab Sukd ay Islasd.—Captain
Fulver, of tho ship Onward, which arrived at
New Bedford on Thursday, reports passing
Sunday Island on the passage from Honolulu,
arid states that tho volcanic island near by was
three mile3 long and.'from three' to four hun
dred feet high. The air was so sulphurous that
ho did not venture within three or four miles,
but ho think? when the volcano becomes quiet
there will be a good harbor between-it and the
main island, where before there was only an
w ni open roadstead.' ^The island is in latitude 29
ate. And heled the way’ the expert following, south, longitude 1<8 west.
From Calliotm County.-; ...
Calhoun County, Ga., March 23, 1871.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger—Gents:
Vie are very quiet in this county. Freodmen
generally aro behaving themselves as well as
could be expected. Occasionally, however, wo
catch one pilfering some of the good things and
necessaries of life. On tho second day of our
Court (Superior) a gentleman came into town
having one as a prisoner. He halted with him
near tho Court-house, when a bystander asked
Ouffee what ho came to town for. He replied
that ho was brought there for “liftin’ corn.”
Several others were brought up and tried during
tho week for similar offenses.
But this will be, as it now is, a common thing
for years to come, unless thero can be a great
change wrought in the position tho freedmea
occupy in this country. It will not do to leave
them to their own discretion, to work or not to
work as they please. There is no use in deny
ing it, they will not work without compulsion,
and compulsion, too, of no ordinary nature.
Hunger and nakodnefs will not compel them.
The thoughts of future sustenance will not an
swer, for not unlike the bruto, if they can only
enjoy the present they are content, and tho fu
ture is not thought of. No, sir, neither hunger
nor poverty nor nakedness nor prospects of fa-
• > • — . 1.^ 1 F fViniw nofn
residences. Tho diminished price of glass led
to a vast increase in its use, adding another in
stance in snpport of the fact that whenever tho
ocat of an article is cheapened its consumption
will be increased. New factories wero erect
ed. old industries stimulated, and fresh oneB
developed. Horticulture and floriculture re
ceived new life, and the norsing of exolio3 and
rare plants was encouraged, fit the increased
manufacture and use of glass, additional remu
nerative employment was afforded to thousands,
and such men as'Sir Joseph Paxton appeared
upon the theatre of the world. The simple act
of cheapening this one article of glass accom
plished these results. A high duty, by limiting
its use, would have withheld many comforts and
closed to the people a largo field of employment.
The benefit was immense to thoso immediately
concerned, bnt it extended much farther. The
purchasing power of that class of the popula
tion became larger; their wages found their
way into the pockets of the various trades and
professionsmore and better food, clothing,
and houses became neoessary, the preparation
of whioh gave a living to a still further number
of persons. On the occurrence of litigation or
sickness, the lawyer and doctor obtained addi
tional practice aniongst paying clients and pa
tients. As a consequence, more clerks and med-
icino were required. The minister of the Gos
pel preached to a better clad congregation, and
found the Sunday collections augmented. . In
the increased trade and traffic, the banker and
the hotel keeper profited. The merchant bo-
camo wealthier,pud by his heavy freight pay
ments enriohed the railway shareholder. The
schools were better fitted, to the advantage of
civilization and of the school-master, and the
general revenue of tho country made larger.
Difficult indeed is it to discover where the ram
ifications ended. '
It i3 curious and instructive to trace tho effect
of the reduction of the duty on imy article.—
When a low tax permitted sugar to be sold In
England at six cents per pound, tho sale in
creased to such an extent that a positive:.gain
to the. revenue accrued. Cheap sugar enabled
the people at large to indulge in more comfort
in the way of puddings, cakes, candies,* beor,
wine and thoso sober drinks tea and coffee.
Then industries arose, amongst which was the
manufacture of Sootch batter or marmalade, at
ton cents a quart pot. Raspberries, gooseber
ries, currants, eto., wero preserved to a marvel
lous extent, and not allowed to rot as two*thiids
of our peach crop aro. Trade and the labor
market received new life, and-the people at
large were happier and more prosperous in a
fuller circulation of God’s gifts. A similar re
sult followed tho reduction bt the duty on tea
and other articles. Would that our intelligent
clergy would sift this question! It touches
peaco and good will on earth; it effects Chris
tianity. I will say no more than that the records
of the past point ont clearly and unmistakably,
that low duties act on the body politic in the
same manner as does that medical treatment on
tho human economy which, by the promotion
of the circulation of tho blood, removes conges
tions and obstructions, and imparts health, vig
or and ease to every funotion thereof.
1 - Yours respectfully,
Vancouver.
Macon, Ga., April 20,1871.
ffliat a Lady Has to Say. ,
Quitman County, April 15.1871,
Editors Telegraph and Messenger : “ Some
aro bom great, some achieve greatness, and
some havo greatness thrust upon them.” The
query with me is this: Has greatness been
thrust upon me, an inoffensive feminine, sim
ply because I dared to oritioise the sentence
passed by a judicial assembly ?- Or did the ac
complished editors of a paper, noted for the
acumen of its opinions, merely intend a gentle
rebuke for tho woman who attempted a subject
so much beyond her powers ? If it is necessary
to be earnest, I assure you, Messrs. Editors that
I am a decided feminine, who does not take
snuff, nor wear spectacles, and is not too old to
blush. I am not at all strong-minded neither—
don’t believe in universal suffrage, as set" forth
by the high priestess of the sisterhood, Susan
B. Anthony; don’t even take advantages of the
privileges of leap year to frighten some poor
bachelor into taking care of me, and changing
that name, which you seem to doubt being my
nor poverty uui - —- own legitimate cognomon-would not strenu-
ture starvation, nor a knowledge of their natu- ously object to exchanging it for a more ansto-
ral idferiority to tho white3 will compel them to cratic pauedonym, if that would insure recog-
work. What, then, will ? Echo answers, what ?
“I can see but one little ray of hope,"
If tho whites would awake to their own interest
and work for it and for the negroes, too, we
might finally succeed in forcing him to his duty.
No man ought to employ one unless ho could
show a written recommendation both of charac
ter and steadiness for labor.
But instead of this, we scarcely ever ask them
anything abont their ability, who they have
nition of any article from my pen,
As to that objectionable article—the time for
its publication is past. ’Twonld scarcely an
swer the purpose originally intended.
When the glorioug old Democracy of Georgia
triumphs over the infamous ruins of the pres
ent regime, then Captain Garrard’s friends may
hope to see him released from an imprisonment,
unjust, as it is cruel. -. Geoegia.
(Note.—Our correspondent is informed that
labored for, what they left former hirers for, or,
indeed, anything else, such is our anxiety to
obtain labor.
This is all wrong, and as long as persisted in
we shall never make tho negro a reBable labor
er. But how to remedy this is more than I pro
tend to be able to tell, and it must be left to the
wiser ones of the world.
However, I think and hope that the low price
of cotton will lessen the anxiety of farmers
somewhat to employ so mnch labor, sb it will
not require all the labor to make provisions for
the country. Much is being said and written
of the great folly of planting so much cotton to
the hand, of tho great importance of raising
provision crops, and to cease being dependent
on the West for our bacon and. corn; bnt noth
ing that may be said or written'nor all the
warnings given will have that lasting beneficial
effeot that next fall’s price of cotton will have,
unless I greatly err in my. judgment. Deprived
of the means to even commence a -crop, mules
all sold by the sheriff, cotton gone to pay liens
the article wa3 “objectionable” only becan30
unaccompanied by her real name. That rule
we must enforce.—Edhoes Tel. and Mess.)
“No More Intelligent Woman Ever
IiiTed.”
The Citizen has this bit of fun—is it one of
Mr. Roosevelt’s Congressional experiences?
“That old fellow,"said aDemoeratic member
of Congress, referring to one of his opponents
who is no great favorite generally, “is not so
bad after all; there is something good abont
him, and Ms daughter is a charming girl. I
was appointed on a Committee to examine the
coal deposit of the Eastern slope of the Alle-
ghanies, and we stopped at his house. ■ We
arrived sooner than was expected, and he had
not come in; but his daughter was there and
received us. She i3 one .of the brightest girls
I ever saw. Her father being away,' she
A German Democrat trying to find
ont what the Intelligent men of
tlie South want—Who is Colonel
Lamar ?
„ welcomed ns at once, and was so pleasant that
and leins still not folly paid off, com levied on > we felt at.home before we had been in the house
to complete the payment, then nothing more
need be said or written to stop us from planting
two-tMrd3 of onr lands in cotton. Then wo can
look back and plainly see our folly, then we
will wish we had heeded the warnings of onr
friends, and not persisted in an error so palpa
ble. I am not a prophet nor tho son of a
prophet, but if we get more than ten cents for
cotton next fall, or for the next crop, I will
agreei to prophesy no more on the subject. But
enough unless it was belter.
I am yours truly, eto., j ->■
. . : * Calhoun. .
Mb. Ah Gin, a Chinaman in San Franrtaco,
shot Mr. Ah Sam, another, for being too relent
lessly attentive to Madame Gin, and then gave
Mmself up. When interviewed by a reporter,-,
ho said“Me dam good wan. Ah Sam ho too
muchee heathen Chi ue °. No likee; too pecu-
lial. My wife he flo likum, too; but me lik
llum allee same. Melican man do so allee time,
andmakfio b’lieve clazy.” : , •
ten minutes. She is just one of the please
antest, most intellectual women in the country.
Of course she had to do the honors, and invite^
ns into a back-room, and there was the “ D “-
set ont with brandy, rum, whisky, water,
sugar, lemons, gum Byrup, iee, everything
that was needed. I -tell y on r*- moia intelligent
woman ever lived. Not — thing was forgotten;
she had remembe 1 —* everything. She is one
of the most his^y educated and most thorough
ly refined women in the worle. She asked us
to ait down and entertain ourselves till jher
fAtner came in; just to help ourselves; that
everything was on the table and at our service.
'And so it was; there was not the least thing
forgotten. All that could be wanted was pro
vided. Oh, there is no doubt about it; sheisa
most charming girl, and-her father is not a bad
fellow after aur
WE learn, say3 the Nashville Union and
Amerioan, that after the 1st of dune, passen
gers will bo carried from Nashville.to Elyton,
by the way of Chattanooga, in thirteen hours,
which may be shortened a little-if neoessary;
From. Chas. ReemeUn's Letters to the Cincinnati
Commercial.) ' ' . .. j
He is the son of a prominent public man of
Georgia, (iu former times) and nephew of Gen.
Lamar, one of . the deliverers of Texas from
Mexican bondage. The Colonel emigrated earl
lyfrom Georgia to Mississippi, and soon ob
tained a Mgh position in its politics^ was elect
ed to Congress, served several terms, bnt re*
agned, as he said modeBtly, “to restudy law,,
and to bo really fit t-obe.a public man.” He
accepted the Professorship of law, from a be
lief “that educating jurists was a much better
service to a country than to deliver orations in
Congress.” • r . _
When the war broke out he raised a regiment
though a Unionist if Union could havo been
bad and true constitutional liberty with it. He
entered afterward the diplomatic service of the
Confederation, and returned to find Ms house
bnrhed by'Federal troops over his wife’s head.
“I regretted only that they did not save my li
brary, "was Ms remark, as ho stood upon the
ruins of Ms old homo. Ha has been tendered
a removal of hi3 disabilities by several of the
most prominent Republicans who served with
him .in Congress, bnt declined to receive as
grace, that ho could accept only as simple ins
tate.
The reader will see from this imperfect sketch
that Col. Lamar is one of the very Mghest typo
of Southern men. He is as pure morally as
Calhoun, as scientific a devotee ns Jefferson,
and as warm in Ms patriotism as [Jackson. His
wife is a daughter of the late Judge Longstroet,
the fieryest and yet moat liberal of Southern
tMnkers.
“Well, I have told you—and you may publish
it if you please—that I^.fo’r one, and all the
truer Southern men with me, do not want polit
ical power. We shrink from tho very thought
of a party being placed in power that is, as a
party, to redress our or anybody’s grievances.
To me, Democrat a3 I am on principle, your
suggestion that the South needs freedom ifrom
the national party wMch claims to represent it,
before it needs anything else, is no obnoxious
thought; it is a genial light which I welcome.
“I assure you we want nothing buji to be re
lieved of impending oppression, and'we oppose
Grant and his party chiefly because it accuses
us falsely of ulterior purposes. We have failed
—and fear will ever fail to disabuse their minds
of tho lie which they repeat; that wo are lawless
and disloyal. The Republican party is the one
that forces on U3 the status of partisans. In
reality, wo aro not political party men. We
never wanted, and do not want now, a national,
ization of our sectional questions. It is hair
rowing to. our souls that thinas look sloH h-a
sought to ho reinstated as a party. The Ro-'
publicans have placed us in that dilemma. We
would avoid it. Do you not see how busily we
are providing subsistence, repairing and mend
ing our property, and how reluctantly we bring
our issues before tho general public ? Relieve
us of the oppression of malicious, hostile legis-;
lation. It arises out of misconception with some,*
bnt out of political malice and misrepresenta- 1
tion with most Republicans. I say, before God
and my good wife here: We havo no turbulent
spirits in the South whom we cannot, of our
selves, control.” -:
“Have you not thought of some propositions
that would be accepted a3a complete guarantee
against reaction by honest Northern Repub
licans? „
“I have, and it is this: We do not believe it
right that, under the circumstances, controlling
power should be either with the whites or blacks.
I am too much a jurist not to know that where
there aro two parties in interest neither one has
the right to enforce his own desires at pleasure,
and it has seemed so to me, therefore, that the
facts being as they are, it wonld be wise to so
arrange the political organism as to give- one
House of the Legislature and ono Governor to
the blacks, another of both to the whites. It is
the Roman tribunal veto, or if you please, the
Polish Liberum veto, in a new, aiid, as I think,
better form.”. •' •
“Are you aware,” I askad, “now that Mr. A.-
H. Stephens holds similar views, only his ideas
coincide more with those of modern German
jurists, who believe all per capita appointment-
of political power to be modern political bar
barism ?” -
“No, I was not awaie of it; nor did I know
that the question has been mooted in Germany.
I think my-suggestion, leaving the per capita
apportionment as a basis, bnt taking it from
the power of arbitrary law-making, removes
the objections. And now, good night,” added
the Colonel, verynear midnight; “we will talk
further in the morning.”
And we did, and ‘ right 'glad am I of the in
terchange of views whioh we had'together.' It
proves that the old adage is true in this case, as
in many others, to-wit: That the; ehief causes
of estrangement arise'from the fact that one-
half of manMnd is under erroneous apprehen
sion of the purposes of the other half.
Tlie British Census.
A London dispatch of the 10 th, in tho Herald,
says the footing up will show a large increase
of population in the principal cities of England.
The excess of births over deaths in tho United
Kingdom was more than 1,000 a day. In Eng
land it was above 250,000 a year; in Scotland,
above 40,000; in Ireland, estimated at nearly
70,000. ' Notwithstanding the large emigration
to distant parts of the world the number of the
resident population of the United Kingdom
never in any year of thi3 century' failed to in
crease until the period of the Irish famine and.
the months of the great emigration which fol
lowed. Then for five years there was a constant
decrease. In the middle of the year lotfl the
resident’population of the United Ringdom was
ostimated at 28,002,094: M1851 it had fallen to
27,393,337. Atikat moment the tide turned,
but it was not until 1856 that tho number
reached 28,000,000 again. The rate of increase,
after allowing for emigration, amounted in
i8G8, to about 200,000 a year. The Registrar-
General estimated the resident population of
the United Kingdom as follows : In the middle
of the year 1807,17,184,902; 1817, 19,814,027;
1827, 22,872,049; 1837, 25,650,426; 1847, 27,-
972,537; 1857, 28,188,280; 1867, 30,157,239.
There was no reason to suppose that in Great
Britain the population deoreased in any year ot
this period; but in Ireland the Mghest r® £
population ever made was in 1845, u*®a *t was
estimated at 8,295,031; thepoput-aon remain
ing in Ireland has ever since *52,, cre ,^ 8rn 8*
and in the middle of the
was 5,656,962, a o£ 2,788,099 in the
twenty-two yea— Tha emigration from the
United Kip3^ om £n fifty-two years to 1868 ex
ceeded *000,000. “
Coquettes and Flirts.
“Are they not one and tho same?” we hear
people inquire/ ' ‘"/TV 1 ”
No; sir. Nb;'m ad am ;°there is a3mu'oh : dif
ference between a flirt and ooquotte, as between
a professional gambler and a chance card player
in a parlor game.
In both the weapons employed may be the
same, bnt a broad sea of difference lies between
them. A ooqnedtekasiimjSly the besom deplain
upon her.- For it she smiles or frowns, is silent
or loquacious, tender or witty, and has little
thought of any results beyond a temporary grat
ification of vanity. She is born with a d6sire
to appear at her best in the eyes of every myw
she meets, and the rapid intuition to compre
hend and address herself to. the' strength
and weakness of their characters. Her nature
is to charms to be admired- Sometimes she-in
spires a very Inconvenient passion, but that is
quite out of her programme, if programme she
ever has, for her spontaneous art of pleasing.
A coquette is not unfeeling by any means.
The tenderest-hearted and most susceptible of
womankind aro found in her ranks. But she
could no'more give up her little arts of pleasing
than chaqgo the colors of her eyes, with WMch
she discourses so eloquently.
We don’t mean to say that a women might not
be hotter employed than in this indiscriminate
pleasing, but it is a need of some natures. A
need as imperative in its peculiar expression as
the need of smiles for j'oy or tears for grief.-
Flirts belong to a different order. The sim
ple expression confer desjliurettes, from which
the word is derived,- gives no idea of -the real
nature of this disgrace to womanhood. There
is always avkst amount of cool calculation about
a flirt. No general on the day of battle ever re
viewed his forces and ground with more care,
and thought out hi9 combinations with more
solicitude, than the flirt while arranging her
programme of conquest. Here a little coyness,
there a certain freedom. A look must say this,
a word imply that. Tho prey is-Snared sys
tematically. Not a heart throb more or less
daring tbe little game where she holds the win
ning cards, unless of triumph at the grand
finale. • - -
Of course it is well understood that a flirt has
not a spark of womanly delicacy. She is a
natural ( liar, and will look up in the eyes of
twenty men in quick succession with tho same
tenderness, and press as many hands, tilth (ji®
same warmth. " In fact, she will not hesitata to
hesitate to engage herself to several, in order to \
give greater pain to her coup de grace,,...
Her shallow,nature, never .deeply Stirred,
finds ploasuro xrFIho pain she can-inflict; -Its
sensuous side is gratified by tho language of a
passion she cannot feel, anil her love of power
finds delicious aliment in the homage ot the men
she deceives. ; *
Fortunately forJintaan nature, however, the
victims of a flirt soon find comfort Some weak
headed individuals, perhaps, take to the-dagger,
tho cord, or tho dark flowing-river, but-then
they would have quenched their vital spark'for
any cross in life. As- a general rule, however,
a man remembering the arts used to entrap
Mm, the falsehood and meanness of the snarer,
is rather disposed to thank the saints at his es
cape.
The flirt unmarried is bad enough but a mar
ried-free lance is beyond the pale. An Ethiop
could as soon change Ms color a,s marriage
purge from a woman’s heart tho last of power
and excitement wMch filled up tho measure of
her days. Tho woman who trod the , earth a
living lie can find nothing in the marriage bond
to cleanse ber heart, nothing in the name of
wife or.toother to inspire nohle aims and purify
her life. Magdalens may repent and grow pure
through tears and faith, bnt the women who,
keeping within the bounds of .deoorum, allure
men by falsehood and simulation,' are as littte
likely to change their tone of ihonght and life
as the besotted dram-drinker, who needs a oer-
tain amount of stimulation to keep up the dis
eased circulation ho calls life. Of course the
day comes when the flirt censes to attraot. Time
and old age rob her of her most effective wea
pons—not of the nature which propelled them.
She will intriguer to the last, and flirt for her
daughters, if Eho has them, or she may turn
deiote, and flirt with the church. Anything at
any time of life, whioh requires duplicity and
double-dealing, tortuous paths and lust of pow
er, find her fit agent.—N. O. limes.
One of the latest California crops is tarantu
las. They are raised in Calaveras county, and
sold, with their wonderful cells, to Eastern
tourists as curiosities. The cells are from three
to eighteen inohes deep, with a water-proof lin
ing, coated over with a substance looking like
chamois skin, but as fine as velvet, with a door
t»r lid wMch they close after them when they go
The distance from Nashville to Mobile, by tho in.- "When rearing their young they latch it,
wav of Ohattanooga and Meridian, ia 581 miles, bolt it, and* then seal it perfectly ^^^r-ughfej
and the time will be reduced to twenty-eight They increase about one hundred and fifty fold
hours/ ' U ' .- annutdly. "
A Goon Example Followed.—A new Pea
body has arisen in England, with the difference
that he has not at-present revealed-his name;
Some time ago a gentleman stated that he was
prepared to expend £150,000 in the erection of
a lunatio asylum for the benefit of the lower and
middle class. He is now proceeding to carry
ont that purpose, and has publicly intimated
that he is prepared to devote to public and use
ful purposes a sum equal to that given by Mr.
Peabody, so soon as he can satisfy himself as to
the best means of effeoting this, so as to do the
greatest public good.—Baltimore Sun.
A New Orleans man, who Bunk a well in the
rear of Ms factory the other day, found, when
he had readied the depth of forty-six feet, that
there was a sudden and very powerful flow of
gas from it. Tho Republican tells his subse
quent proceedings thus:
“He immediately, closed the pipe, thinking
to ntlize this gas for illuminating purposes, but
found the pressure too great, when the idea
struck him to direct it into tbe boiler of one of
uis engines, and experiment with it in making
Bteam. 1 But no sooner had the connection been
made than the engine.fcegan to run entirely by
the pressure of the gas acting upon the piston
at a pressure , of twelve pounds to the square
inch; and so it continued all day yesterday,
giving no sign of exhaustion.”
' PLYHOTnn UECItBE ROOK
Use and Meaning of tire lord’s Sapper.
Mr. Bseoherrcommenced his lecture room
talk last evening by. saying that he wished to
answer a few questions upon the subject of the
Lord’s supper. You will remember that this
was a very simple, tender service that took
place the night before the betrayal of our Lord,
when He and His disciples met to oelebrate the
passover, the moBt conspicuous of the three
great festivals of the Jews. They wero all Jews
in feelmg as well as in nationality. Onr Master
worshipped according to the customs of TTi’a
own people and seemed to be especially fond of
the passover. At the close of the paschal sup
per Jesus took the unleavened bread and gave
to each of the disciples a piece as represen
tative of the event that was to take place—
His body broken,- in tho same way He took the
wine oup that had already been used in the
passover supper. It was simply giving
A new significance xo emblems
already used. It will be perceived that onr
Master did not institute ..this ceremony, but
grafted it upon a service that pre-existed. It
is in evidence that tho early Christians, long
before they were an organized church, were
accustomed to repeat this supper every night;
the earliest Christian families were accustomed
to conclude every uioaI by taking the bread and
wine in remembrance of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Afterwards the service was repeated weekly,
anA when greater numbers of Christians gath
ered together some were appointed to Berve,
though at first each one partook as at
anordinaBy meal.
It was two hundred years beforo this servioe
began to be a sacrament, before it became
“awful” and “solemn.” Tbe resurrection of
Christ threw such a joyful light over His death
that the meetings of the disciples were tri
umphantly glad; and unquestionably this "was
a service of great cheer. Afterwards came the
corruptions of the Church, and men surrounded
the sacrament with various ceremonies. Now
it wa3 tho medium by wMch blessings were
communicated; the laity were permitted to par
take only of the bread; then tbe bread and wine
were declared to te
‘ the vest Body and blood ....
of Christ. It began by being simply a servioe
of love, of memory. This was the precise
meaning that the Master attached to it, “Do
tMs in remembrance of me.” TMs is all, and
it is enough. It was meant to keep up the ten
der personal relation between Christ and Hia
disciples. The principle is very familiar.—
When we part with friends we give them some
token, asking them to remember, os as they
look at it The-bread and wine.is poor ana
mute ; the significance is in the heart; it is the
sign of our tender, loving memory of Christ
This token of love to our Lord is not the
of Church or officer—it belongs to ev
P ri
You
that loves the Lord Jesus Christ
C*.. - fV — r get; esse
WHAT BBEPABAJTON IS NEEDED
for the Lord’s Supper? Well, suppose your
mother died on the 10th of May. You all loved
her, and you, her children, agreed to meet ev
ery 10th of May to talk about her and remem
ber her love,'what preparation would you need
if you had any hearts—if you were alive? If
a man longs to tell the Saviour by some exter
nal sign that he loves Mm, that is preparation
enough. But what does the Apostle mean by
- eating and d busking damnation”
when we eat unworthily ? Simply that we bm
condemned (the original meaning of the word
damnation) if we make this sacred servioe an
occasion for sinioerty. The Apostle was rebuk
ing men who turned the rapper into a debauch.
Let no man come to the naoruoent unless he
has drawings of heart, unless he loros the Sa
viour and wants to tay so. As to worthiness,
no one is good enough in one sense ; but, in
another sense, all who feel that they need Christ
are good enough. Onr relation to Christ is that
of one who is sick to tho physician, and ou
best preparation ia to feel our heed of Mm
St isonn * •
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