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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 * • o«a tdoc-’-soi iotiiouf ban , io a to qii <o> q:i iiivi - - '- ■ - -- - —