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Telegraph and Messenger
MACON, JUNE G, 1871.
miai I* * Slate •flawrrtfUon?
Two montha ago Prosidoat Grant made pro*'
lamation, on-the authority of Governor Soott,
that South Carolina waa ha a atale of tasurreo-
Uon, In which the civil authority of the
was set at naught and defied. Vpcm «h« luform
atlon. the Fxe»24eaS read the Carolina in
Sargents an ted»*WMtk>» -»*d warning and pro
ceeded to toward l asted States troops there to
Buppteaa tho -atiUMerttoo.
Eat within a few days Governor Scott has
been to Washington—interviewed tho President
and notified him that after all no insurrection
exists in South Carolina. He has taken another
good look and can't find the insurrection. It
appears that an insurrection, is an affair which
nan easily hide out and become lost. It i3 like
8 needle in a haycock—hard to find, and yon
can’t be exactly certain whether it is there or
not. Now yon see it, and now yon don’t
In like manner every truly loil man knows it
.was extremely hard to discover when the war
ceased to exist It smonidered along for months
and months after all fighting had stopped and
every unlucky rebel had given up lil3 gun and
signed a capitulation. There had to be a judi
cial decision on the point, so hard was it to dis
cover when the change took place, though tho
Change was as great and' a3 sudden as that from
a thundersquall to bright skies.
So now we see that the Radicals are in con
8iderable doubt whether or not an insnrrection
exists in South Carolina. Wo wonder whether
the President and Gen. Soott would be in equal
perplexity to know whether they were having a
battle royal—a bont of fisticuffs—of bloody
noses and cracked crowm, or were taking
’leven o’clock lunch together.
Fate of tire Cotton Bearn,
The cotton shorts in New York are in a bad
case. They most ante up to the tune of a four
cents margin and worse a coming. What is to
become of those amiable gentlemen who have
sold futures deliverable in July, August, Sep
tember, October, November, and December
next, atrate3varying from 14$ to 14 cents?
What a long and melancholy road is before
them! It is like old Pilgrim’s progress through
the Valley of Humiliation or the Valley of the
Shadow of Death. It is said that some dozen
or more have already declined to prosecute the
journey—handed in their checks and gone into
liquidation.
We are Horry for t£e shorts; but still it would
be a blessing if something or other conld kill
off the swarm of flies which buzz about every
staple article of produce in the great American
markets and make nominal transactions of mil
lions, in which never a bale or barrel changes
hands, but which are all settled np by paying
or receiving margins. They are. the pest of
legitimate trade, and all their influence goes to
derange it They are simply gamblnro—as pure
ly gamblers as if they were playing at chnck-a-
Inck, poker or crack-loo. They are doing noth
ing valuable to society, and if they find they
irm accomplish nothing for themselves, they
may tom their attention to honest industry.
Who knows?
The Chinese Bnmuana—Mr. Low, the
American Minister to China, forwards very vo
luminous dispatches in reference to the course
of tho Celestial Government, towards the Chris
tian missionaries. It seems that the difficulties
are principally with the French Catholics, who
claim that their native courts shall, if accused
of crime, be tried by their consnlar court, and
not before the Chinese tribunals. The order
of the Chinese Government prohibits allfemales
from teaching, and is not specially aimed at the
Christian religion, though the actual situation
gives it a& exclusive practical bearing against
the Christian missionaries.
A Veto Governor.—Governor Hoffman has
vetoed upwards of a hundred bills passed by the
Legislature since that body adjourned. Hi3
practice is to file a list of the. bills with a brief
statement of his objections, witi.the Secretary
of State. The best tribute to the ability and
judgment of the Governor is, that nov one of
bis vetoes has ever be seriously attacked. c 0 v.
Hoffman is a man not only of high intellectna
ability, bnt his fearlessness, independence, in
tegrity and moral conragemake him a model
Governor.
The Harmonious in New York.—The morn
ing .telegrams disclose a slight tremor in New
York Radical politics. Schultz and Orton, head
the Grant faction of tho Radical party, while
the regulars are not in favor of hasty commit
tals. The former have led of in an attempt to
organize the party for the campaign, and the
latter have put in an energetic caveat, in which
they denounce the Grant faction as usurpers.
-There may be the germs of a very pretty quarrel
In that.
Costs oy Liw.—The Columbus Sun sighs over
tho vexatious cost3 of an old suit recently decid
ed in that city—Coleman vs. W. A. Ransom &
Co., in which an attempt was made to set aside
an assignment on an allegation that it was pro
cured by misrepresentation and fraud. The
case occupied five days in court at a cost to the
county of Si,000, and resulted in a verdict
against Coleman of §5,593 93. ‘
The Southern Claims Commissioners in ses
sion in 'Washington have published a list of
those who have declared under oath that they
remained loygl adhorents to the cause and the
Government of the United States during the
late war, and that they never yielded voluntary
support to the Confederate Government. Tho
list embraces 1,000 names, the greater number
of which belong to Virginia ana Georgia.
The Montgomery Advertiser says that Presi
dent Grant in his late proclamation does not use
the word “States," but alludes to them as “la.
calities.” No State 1b mentioned os such in a
proclamation that relates politically and geo
graphically to the States. He is as careful not
to use the word “State" as Napoleon was, be
fore the usurpation in France, to keep ont of
Bight the word “Republic.”
Ship Ashore.—The Tallahassee Floridian, of
Tuesday, learns that a large English ship, load
ed with Railroad iron, was driven on a reef in
East Pass a few days ago. lighters from St.
Harks and other points have gone to her relict
The cargo will likely be saved, bnt it Is thought
the ship is a total loss. Her destination was
not known. \ '
Hire, is Florida.—There was a hail-storm
lately at Archer, in Florida, in which the hail-
stoneB lay under the caves of the houses to the
depth of seven or eight inches. The Btonn
was less than half a mile in width.
Twenty-Four Swedes arrived at Quincy, Fla.,
laBt Friday. Theyexpressed themselves pleased
With the appearance of the country and did not
complain of the heat A polar bear does not
take the migration so calmly.
Lake Fxm, Minnessola, it is said, is infested
with a marine monster, between the size of an
elephant and a rhinoceros, which moves through
the water with great rapidity.
Tree planting in Nebraska is a regular de
partment of agricultural business. A compa
ny of Swedes have just ordered 12,000 cotton
wood trees for one of their farms.
Farts—More Signs or Trouble.
The terrible tragedy of the Commune is no
sooner over than we sea that little or nothing
has been done to settle the grand problem of
government for Franco. The Thiers govern
ment is merely provisional, and has no bold on
the people. It was accepted, in the ontsst, as
a were temporary arrangement to subsist only
while the French people were in the act of do-
termining,iheirfuture destiny. v .
The Boardoanx and subsequently Versailles
National Assembly, was not elected as a Con
stituent Assembly to organize a government. It
was elected to moke a treaty of peaoe with Ger
many and to take the neoessary legal steps for
ascertaining the voice of tho French people in
reference to a permanent political organization.
An attempt was made to induce it to declare
itself a Constituent body, but the attempt failed-
This fact makes the revolt of the Commun
ists more atrocious and inexcusable. If they
were only dissatisfied with the Yersailtists, and
yet willing to abide by the will of France, they
had. bnt to wait a few weeks for the formal ex
pression of that will. But they were as hostile
to the will of the people as they were to the
Versailles govemm ent. Their movement was a
coup d'etat—a, usurpation—aimed to foist upon
France, by surprise and terror, a red-handed
tyranny which she never would have deliberate
ly sanctioned.
Their action only protracted the dotation of
the Theirs directory, and bnilt np for it a nega
tive popularity as achoioe of evils. Bnt no
sooner are the Communists gone, than all is at
sea again. Rspublicanism, it may be assumed,
after the bastard exhibition of it by the Com
mune, is odions. The Orleanists and the Le
gitimists seem to have come together on a
movement in favor of the Count do Cliambord—
the last scion of the Freneh Bourbons, bom after
tho assassination of his father, the Duke do Ber
ry, 1820, and grandson of Charles X, who was
driven from the throne by the revolution of
1S30. If this coalition has been formed, the
question rest3 between Count Chambord and a
restoration of the Empire, and no doubt the
straggle will be fierce. The sooner the National
Assembly declares for a plebiscitmh, the safer
and better for Franoe. Everything is now
afloat, and discord and danger will increase
until the question is finally settled.
The aquatic sports of our Savannah friends,
which promised to be interrupted by the falling
rain on Tuesday, were a splendid success after
alL The skies brightened and a spanking
breeze filled the sails of the contesting crafts,
and put them upon their metal. The start was
a good one, and the excitement of the specta
tors ran up to fever-heat. The Morning News
thus gives the result:
The'“Rainbow,” Captain Julian Myers, was
declared the winning boat of the second-class,
the “Eleanor,” though returning first, having
lost the race by an allowance of thirteen min
utes twenty seconds in favor of the “Rainbow,”
in measurement of canvass. The “Otelia,”
(fourth-class) Captain F. M. Cpx, won under
the same allowance, and the ‘‘May Forrest,'’
(fifth-doss) Captain T. W; McNisb, won, having
no competitor.
The second class boats started at 11:34, and
the oth9r classes at 11:39, running a course of
fourteen miles, seven miles towards Osrabaw
and returning. The following is the time and
canvass measurement of the winning boats and
yachts rounding the stadeboat:
Time. ... Measurement.
Eleanor ; 1:53? TC 1,823 square feet.
Rainbow .' 2:054 G53~"! “
Otelia 2:11 ,....459 i; :;v •?.
378.1 *,«•
Minnie..—..... 2:204 378$
Carrie 2:19* .. CIO
May Forest 2:22$ —
The End of the Commune.
Is it surprising that a faction whoso avowed
creed was no God, no Heaven, no Hell, no im
mortality, should have subsided in blood and
ignominy? Insensate wretches! they reduced
the “human form divine” to the level of the
brute; they profaned the temples of the Liv
ing God; they slaughtered the clergy; dethron
ed chastity and morals, obliterated the land
marks of caste and property, destroyed the
monuments of art and antiquity, and like vam
pires and hyenas, rioted in carnage and death.
Bnt vengeance swift and sure has overtaken
them, and every telegram brings the tidings of
the execution of hecatombs of these demoniac
miscreants.
Like dogs they are hnnted down and shot
npon tho streets and in their coverts, and their
festering corpses taint the atmosphere.
Nor does it seem the work of destruction will
be allowed to cease. Favre has telegraphed in
the name of the Government to the varions
powers, and demanded the extradition of the
fugitives, on the ground that they are not po
litical offenders, bnt malefactors and criminals
of the deepest dye. In consequence, Spain is
already seizing and imprisoning those who cross
her frontier, and other nations may follow the
example.
The annals of the old French revolution with
all its horrors, will pale before the enormities
which have been enacted during the past few
weeks.
And now read the moral which may be plainly
deduced from these frightful and chaotic scenes.
Briefly summed np, it is this:
When a nation ignores the cxlstenoe of the
Snpreme Being, and deliberately tramples un
der foot His laws and ordinances, when it gives
Ioo3e reign to the depraved passions and in
stincts of the natural man, when it dishonors
virlne, and elevates vice, the inevitable result
even from a human standpoint, 03 the disinteg
ration and utter rain, socially and morally, of
that people. Snrely even the infidel should re
spect the Christian religion, which incnloates
iustice, order, peace and good will among men.
A Peanut Famine.
ThbWorld says a peanutfamine is imminent.
North Carolina, instead of sending 20,000 bags
to market,m, £ ha did last season, sends only
2,000. Yirgini. jg short fifty per cent. The
crop in Africa is i* a vy, bnt it will take a long
time to receive shiyjients, and Africa does
things leisurely. The o^ res3 ^ great. There
is a corner In the market, t*a “peanuts is ris.”
The peanut bears are like t*, cotton shorts—
flat on'their backs—paws upp'nnost, clawing
at nothing, and at the same time < catching it."
We are sorry for the capitalists bnbarked in
the peanut trade—sorry for the yonngcritios of
the pit, who can’t prepare for the legitimate
drama at less than double cost for piannts.
The short snpply of peanuts from tie oldNorth
State might prejudice her charactei for good
order, if Virginia were not in the sime cate
gory. Bnt Virginia has failed also, wd now
what shall we say? Is free labor a n^thand
a humbug ? Is tho abolition of slaver; to be
the abolition of the great American peanu in
terest ? Alarming thought 1
Testimony from one of the Beeches Family.
A member of the Beecher family has just re
turned from a visit to the Souls, and she frank
ly gives to the Church Union an account of
what she has seen and heard. She declares, she
says, in all truthfulness, that from the time she
left home until her retnra to it, Bhe, and the
female friend who was with her, though trav
eling by themselves, “met everywhere, and
from all classes, only kindness and attention.”
Everything that courtesy oonld do to make their
journeying pleasant and comfortable was done.
Two women—one an invalid—were regarded
as having a «pecial claim upon people’s eare and
politeness. Wanted by these personal expo*
riences, she pertinently asks whether “it is well
to talk of the continuance of Southern bitter
ness, and animosity, 'and secret «omity, when
two unprotected Northern women o>n pana
through the States jnst emerging fiom yearsof
war, and throngh those places where the deadly
strife wa3 fiercest, not only without molesta
tion, bnt with sympathy and assistance at every
step?” .. '• ..
Axotheb.—Alonzo Napier, from. Tennessee,
Is the name of the new negro cadet that is to
bo thrust into West Point in June. He has
been educated at Howard’s school, at Washing
ton, and is said to possess more than tho nsna
share of insolence and hatred, of white people
that characterizes the pupils of that school.
The white cadets bad better begin to lay in a
snpply of helmets to save- their skulls from be
ing broken by Ibe water dipper when they hap-
pen to come between the wind and Napier’s
nobility. . ., •. > ; i
A Kansas billiard-table is thus described:
“First, in the middle of the floor, was a large
goods box, on which was laid about a wagon load
of sandstone, covered with about eight yards of
blue jean3. For pockets they had old boots,
about No. 10; for cues they csc-d old broken
hoe handles: boiled egg3 for balls, and to count
this lovely game they used dried apples on a
clothes-line.”
The yachts came In amid very enthusiastic
applause, and the crews of the winning boats
were the recipients pf much well-earned con
gratulation. The race throughout was satisfac
tory, and not a fault was found with tho regula
tions, which is a well-meritod tribute in favor
of.the gentlemen having matters in charge.
Two races wore arranged for Wednesday be
tween shell boats and canoes, for the first of
which there were five entries, and for the other
four. Both to oome off in tho afternoon. The
Regatta is the sensation of the hour.
The good people of Savannah are justly ex
ercised at the folly of. upturning the soil at tiffs
season,of the year, by the authorities, in the
construction of new sewers, drains, eto. Ex
perience has shown, that this is the prolific
source of malarial diseases in hot climates, and
a visit from yellow Jack may be. the conso-
qnenee.. . » ... • o ■
The notorious burglar, Frank Winslow, cs
caped from the barracks on Tuesday, and is
again at large. .
Important Decision.—In the case of Wm. N.
Marsh et aL vs. Wm. H. Burroughs and others,
stockholders of the Merchants and Planters
Bank of Savannah, Judge. Joseph T*. Bradley, of
the United States Snpreme Court, decided in
favor of the complainants. The 'amount in
volved was §435,000, and the Court orders exe
cutions to issue against each of the defendants.
The News, commenting upon the affair, says:
It will be perceived that a very important
point in the decision turns npon the political
status of the Stato of Georgia at the time of the
adoption of the Constitution of 18G8, dictated
by Congress. The t Judge considers “this a
political question, in which the courts must
follow the aotion of the political department of
the Government,” for the all-sufficient reason,
that “to adopt any other course would be to
Introduce the greatest confusion.” This is a
new rale in equity practice, and maybe ac
cepted as the only possible explanation of tiffs
very remarkable decision.
The Early County Hews is in ec3tacies over
the fact, that the Southwestern Railroad exten
sion from Albany to Blakely is a foregone con-
olnsion—money raised, papers signed and the
work soon to begin.
The Wheat Crop.—The Atlanta New Era
states that old farmers from several counties
adjacent to that city, give quite favorable re
ports of the wheat crop, which will make a very
tolerable yield despite current statements.
The house of Mr. Bettis, on Peter’s street,
wa3 struck by lightning on Tuesday, and a lady
slightly shocked.
On the 31st instant, President J. E. Brown
paid into the State Treasury §25,000 as the May
rental of the Western and Atlantio Railroad.
Hon. Dunlap Soott.—A dispatch to the Con
stitution dated May 31st has the following con
cerning the late election: “Scott’s majority,
so far a3 heard from, is four hundred and six
(400), and four favorable distriots yet to hear
from. Rome gives him two hundred majority.
Much rejoicing and considerable excitement.”
H. M. Law, Esq., addressed a fair house in
Rome on Tuesday evening, and was announced
to speak in Atlanta Thursday, Jane 1st
The Presbyterian Church at Forsyth was re
organized by Rev. John Jones, after service
last Sabbath morning. Wm. M. Anderson and
W. It. Carmichael were elected elders, and A.
H. Sneed, Deacon. Twenty or thirty members
were enrolled.
The Nownan People’s Defender says money
in that community is exceedingly scaroA, bnt
some men are trying to grind it ont of the neigh
bors in the. mill of the Justice’s Court This
mill is said to grind rapidly bnt not snrely.
The Athens Banner gives the following coun
sel in an editorial, npon the course of Adams
and Vallandighain:
To those of our fellow-citizens who are anx
ious to have their views incorporated in the na
tional platform, we wonld again repeat—“ Keep
cool—go slow!” It matters not how correct
soever your notions may be, the deoree has
gone forth—and it is irreversible as the decrees
of fate—that the Northern and WeBtem Demo
crats, in order to achieve success, must con
struct the platform and plaoe sensible men npon
it. - The platform may not suit yon—it may not
meet our views—but this much we may safely
promise: Democratic success on any platform,
or on no platform, is greatly preferable to four
years more of Radical misrule, tyranny and op
pression.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch states that the
cotton receipts of that town from September to
date foot np about 12,000 bales; on hand, 121
baiea.. Guano receipts, 556 tons; showing a
falling oiuearly 1000 tons from last season.
The Stanawff gives an account of a Cotton
Factory meeting at Gartersvilie, at which Judge
Parrott presided, ana on motion of Gen. W. T.
Wofford, books of subscription were opened.
The meeting adjourned to the 3d os June:
The Atlanta Son has this paragraph: *
Attention, Kc-klux!—Three hundred Yam.
kee soldiers will pa S3 here to-night,-on their way
to Columbia, S. C. They have eleven car loads
of horses and three or four of baggage. They
will come by the State Road train.
What it Costs to Open a Letter.—On the
25th Inst., John Harper, Wm. Bowman and Al
fred Davis, of Carroll county, Ohio, were
brought to Cleveland, Ohio, at the instanoe of
special agent O. F. Baldwin, of the Post-office
Department, charged with opening a letter ad
dressed to JameB Noland, of Mineral Pointy
OWo. It seemed by the evidence that Harper,
who is * constable for Carroll county, had a
warrant for Nolan’s father, who was charged
with poisoning a boree belonging to Bowman,
for the puipose of ascertaining oia man Nolan’s
whereabouts. Harper demanded the letter ad-
dressed to the son, whereupon the postmaster
and himself proceeded to open-'and riadtbe
same, Bowman being an r abettor. All three
were held by United States Commissioner White
In the sum of $1,000 each, to answer at the Oc
tober term of the United States'Distriot Court.
The case excites considerable interest. -■ !
New Yobs Cotton Mabset.—The Commer
cial and Financial Chronicle of Friday remarks
that the upward movement in the cotton market
has been due in part to the improvement at
Liverpool, in part also to the efforts of the
shorts to cover their outstanding contracts due
this month, but has found its chief support In
the growing belief that ootton is cheap, that it
has touched bottom, and that the little remnant
of the crop can be easily held, and in case of a
recurrence of bad weather at the South can be
put npon the market at higher prices.
Washington, June 1.—President Grant and
family are gone. Previous to their departure,
.George Bancroft, Minister to the German Em
pire, also Wm. H. Bausons, of Texas, Commis
sioner to the Centennial Celebration at Phila
delphia, also Geo.W. Wood, Collector of the
First Texas District, fififf Alei'H. WaHaoe,
Collector Ftfth Texas District, were commis
sioned. . . J» ' - ' ’• ’
_^The Secretary of tho Treasury has concluded
to make no present change in tho Mobile col-
Iectorship. — J x - - - - * ~
Louisville, June —A tremendous rain has
fallen in Southern Kentncky#TheJKnoxvilIe
Road was washed and suffered immense damage-
St. Louis, June 1.—The Circuit Court Ins
granted an injunction restraining the manager
and agents of the Missouri Stateu’EoKeryjrfrom
selling tickets. v 'JL
A letter from Jaoksonboro, Kxns, EaySBb'ii
on the 18th of May a bond of. one Eundriea In
dians attacked Warner’s train, 20 ioile3 from
there, and killed seven men Belonging to tm
train and wounding one. Gen.: Sherman, who
was at Fort Richardson a*f the. time, ordered
four companies*! cavaliy in pursuit, with In
structions to drive the Indians to Fort Sill,' say
ing, if he found they were Fort Sill Indians^ he
wonld stop In® an trade in that quarter.
- New Yobx, Jane 1.—It is understood, that
Geo. H. Munford takes the place of George
Walker, as one of the Vice-Presidents .of the
WeBtem Union Telegraph Company.
The Special Committee of the Union Repub
lican General Committee has issued a manifesto
to the Republicans of Now York, in whloh they
state that Jackson S. Schultz and Wm. Orton,
have oalled on the Republican? of our pity to
reorganize the party. Tho Special Committee
advises-the Republicans of New York not to
take part nor lot in this factional movement,
adding that the regular organization, with
Horace Greeley at its head, will not disband at
the command of any usurping State Committee
or other unauthorized body.
New Yobs, June 1.—The wedding of Arthur
B. McGinnis, a merchant of New Orleans, to
the daughter of Wm. M. Tweed was largely at
tended. The presents .amonnied to §700,000.
London, June 1.—The Times’ special from
Paris says the Versailles troops are not now as
popular as when they entered Fori9, because of
the severe measures taken by them against the
population. A large number of Frenchmen and
foreigners are returning to Paris to resume com
mercial and manufacturing operations. A dis
patch from St. Denis to-day says two regiments
of guards have returned to Germany, and their
places are supplied by other troops.
Rumors of agitation and a Carlist rising in
Spain are officially contradicted. The Times
has a dispatch from Bombay that Herat fell into
the hands of Yakoob Khan throngh treaohery,
and the Governor was killed.
Washington, Juno 1.—The debt statement
Bhows a deorease of nearly §4,500,000; coin in
the Treasury, §89,750,000; currency, over
§8,750,000. The Treasurer has decided Jay
Cooke & Co.’s offer for §130,000,000 of the new
lean. Terms of offer unknown.
Judge Miller, Collector of Customs at Mobile,
returns home to-night. He retains hi3 place,
over which there has been a desperate struggle.
In the Bowen case, Judge Olin derided the
New York record conld be attacked: First, for
fraud; second, for want of jurisdiction. David
N. Cooper, an expert, swore there were erasures
under Chris. C. and Frances, and S. B. Cush
ing. The witness found several other erasures,
but no attempt to conceal arson. Herrick pro
dneed files of his paper (the Atlas); found no
such advertisement as a notice of C. O. Bowen
to Francis Bowen. Referee of court swore that
no such case was referred to him in 1855, nor
was there any such case in Jndge Barrett’s
docket.
The negroes were turbulent to-day, threaten
ing to prevent laborers from working at a dol
lar and a quarter per day. They hold a meeting
to-night. Danger is apprehended to-morrow.
The negroes want two dollars and eight hoars a
day.-
The following cose was before theConrtof
Claims to-day: Louisa Medway, an English
woman, sojourning in North Carolina daring
the war, had cotton seized and sold. She proved
her loyalty, having famished supplies to Union;
troops and otherwise treated them kindly. Bat
towards the close of the war she wrote a letter
to Mr. Davis, in which she expressed in warm
terms her loyalty to him, with a view, it is snp
posed to procure his assistance in getting ont of
the country. This letter was among the cap
tured Confederate archives, and defeated her
claim! Jndge Feck dissented. Tho Cpnrt has
adjourned to November.
The Snb-Ontrage Committee met to-day.
Several responses were received from the South
in answer to the Committee’s ciroalar. Exam
ination of witnesses commences to-morrow.
Abont thirty are summoned. It is its intention
to take a general view of affairs South and re
port to the fall Committee in September.
There was an immense bit orderly negro
meeting at Union League Hall to consider the
strike, whioh appears quite general. A com
mittee was appointed to confer with the board of
public works, and a mass meeting being called
for Monday night to hear the report of-this ao.
tion partially dispells apprehensions ot turbu
lence to-morrow. 3?...
New Yobs, June 1.—The- members of the
Cotton Exchange met to-day, and decided to
close the Exchange at 2 p. m. daring the sum
mer months. The committee appointed at last
meeting to nominate officers for the ensuing
year reported, for president—Steven D. Har
rison; vice-president, Jno. '.W. Earle'; treas
urer, Arthqr R. Graves, and a -fall board of
managers. An opposition ticket ticket has
been pnt forward, with J. F. Wenman for presi
dent, and a full board of managers.
Columbus, O., Jane 1.—In the Democratic
State Convention a committee of one from eaoh
distriot, (inriuding Vallandigham from thelhird)
on resolutions, were appointed. A motion to
exclude the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
ments from the committee’s consideration was
tabled. JohnT. McKinney was elected tempo
rary chairman of tho convention.
New Yosx, June 1.—Hon. John McLeod
Murphy died to-day of paralysis, aged 44
years.
Baltimore, Jane 1.—Detective Froadfdter
was fatally shot, while preventing Thos. Good
rich from shooting his brother, Washington
Goodrich. , . ! .. .
Paris, June l.—The French journals are
greatly divided in sentiment as to the future of
the country. The Opinion, Bleu, Publio Polit
ique, Siecle and Constitutionel, favor the con
tinuance of the Bepublio. The Temps, National
and Pa’rie, are very guarded in their comments
npon tba situation. The Opinion thinks the
withdrawal of Thiers would be equivalent to
revolution. The Steele says Thiers is as ener
getic against the Bonapoitista as the Reds. The
Figaro fayora monarchy. McMahon’s authori
zation is requested for the opening of theatres.
The sales of newspapers in the streets are pro
hibited. The Siecle was seized tM« morning.'
Executions have oeased. .The prisoners no won
trial at Versailles and in the barricades in Paris
MMtoMflfct «wjeoaiaO .kJuzMA ih
London, Jane l.—The Standard of this after
noon contains a dispatch from Versailles an
nouncing the resignation of Favre. Two more
members of the Commune, Frankill and Fon
taine, have been arrested. Marquis Gabriao
goes to Berlin on the 3d instant as French Am
bassador. Interdiction npon ingress to and
egress from Paris will be removed from the 3d
instant.
Nashville, Jane 1.—The Democratic State
Executive Committee met to-day and adopted
resolutions declaring their acceptance, in good
frith, of the issues of the war, with all the late
amendments to the Constitution, and their ac>
quiescence in them as the supreme law of the
the land, and also declaring their approval of
the late Democratic Congressional address.
At a meeting of the editors of the Democratic
press, held this afternoon, the action of the
Committee was unanimously endorsed.
SanFbancisco, June 1.—The late cool and
cloffci^weather, with slight rains, has had' an
immense beneficial effect on the crops, in Cen-
triU and Northern California. It is now esti
mated that there will be at least 100,000 tons of
whe at fo^ Exportation; of ; thia year’s .crop, and
fullyse cargoes oflh&old crop-, are available
for exphation.
The British Colombia papers are greatly ex
cited over the • prospaq^ of the loss of the
island of San Juan—going so far as to advise
theJBritigii Goverameat to neize it and hold it
by force.
Joseph Lerrilz, seaman of the British steam
tug Princess Louisa, wrecked in the:Straits.of
Magellan, has arrived henc on a sailing vessel.
He reports all the rest of the crew killed or
made prisoners.
Louisville, Jnne 1.—A fire this afternoon
destroyed four stores in the bloric occupied by
Echsch & Hydes’ extensive bagging and rope
factory. Loss $80,000 ; partially insured. It
is supposed the fire was'caused by spontaneous
combustion or friotion of hemp passing through
thepicker. ' r 'di
Memphis, June 1.—Gloomy reports of the
crops have been received from Pulaski, White,
Woodruff and-. Jackson .counties, Arkansas.
Owing to incessant-rains and lato frost, the
stand of cotton is very- poor and many plants;
tionshave been plowed-np and planted with
Presbyterian GvneraT7~r
We oopy the following f rom
fifth days’ proceedings of th e
sembly at Huntsville, Ala.: . ener »l ^
The Committee on Bills an* rw,
to the General Assembly? 3 0Tert &ie3 rep,;*
over-tube’ Ko v-tt
Is it nght to baptize a nerson U
from the delirium of feverffs ^ h( ! 3ei ^
who, immediately before 'bftrf! S
dehnnm, professed faith in ChiffiSi
be baptized ? In other wor ’
baptize an unconscious
means of grace and cannot
state of anysgul “ ex opera
Rev. J. M P. O-ts, of Committee
matic Benevolence, reported as f 0 £L 05
REPORT ON SYSTEMATIC -JUr °" 3:
The Committee on Syste^ 0 ^-"'
beg leave to present (ha follcvin^ r ^ j' rjie -»
Of the fifty-five Presbvtotia J^''
the Assembly, resorts from only
Knnn nloAflr) In nn* n_ r
■t:a*:Rtf -n r *v rro r
The trial of Yerger for the killing .of Colonel
Crane is progressing in Jackson, Miss. De
fendant’s counsel made & motion to dismiss on
acoonnt of former jeopardy is trial by. a mili
tary commission, which was overruled on the
ground that such trial was unconstitutional.
New Yobs, June 1.—The steamer Hausa,
from Bremen, wa3 in collision at 2:30 yesterday
morning, with a Norwegian Bark, Rhea, from
Rotterdam, for New York. The Rhea sunk,
and Captain Anderson and seven sailors were
drowned. Both mateB and five seamen were
saved. m t . -
London, Jane 1.-—Prince Napoleon has writ-,
ten a letter to M. Favre, censoring men who
proclaimed decleanoe of the Emperor, and
formed the Government of the 4th of Septem
ber, and demanding of the existing authority a
plebiscite, for the determination oft the future
of France, i ’
It is now positively announced that General
Lefto will go to St. Petersbnrg in the capacity
of French Ambassador.
The Times of to-day, while admitting it is
hard for Canadians to yield their fisheries to
Americans without the advantage of reciprocity
in trade, expresses the earnest hope that Can
ada will loyally ratify the treaty of Washington.
Bonaparte’s Domestic Lift.
German Translation for the Chicago Times. J
Napoleon became acquainted with the guide
of his destiny and the friend of his life, the
widowed Countess Josephine de Beanharnais,
nceTasoher de la Fagerie, in the salon of Hons.
Chateau-Renand. In spite of earlier events,
the young Bonaparte played a very important
character in the brilliant assemblies at the
house of Gen. Barr as. The handsome viconn-
teas, “a fairy woven of laoe and gauze,” spoke
to him several times in her large-hearted way in
pity for the manner in which he had been neg
lected, and, in very gratitude, the young hero
fell dead in love with her. The vicountess
could not have been more astonished than at
tho offer of marriage which he made to her, and
she wished to deoline the overture at once, re
garding him as “intolerably ambitions,” and
saying that “he smelt too much of the cloth
and boots.” BntBarras wished to make the
genius of the young Bonaparte serve him, and
indaoed the unprotected widow to give him a
favorable hearing. His words—“ The marriage
with M’me Beanharnais will give this obscure
little general a name in the world”—strike us
asveryrifiioulons now, when no one is inter
ested in M’me Beanharnais except as she was
connected with Napoleon. Josephine’s friends
(M’me Tallieu, tho fashion queen of that time,
M’me Chateau-Renand, and the later Dnohess
d’Abrantes, the loquacious M’lle de Permon)
followed their womanly instinots of match
making and brought all their influence to bear
in favor of tho obscure general. Still, she
heritated a long time before giving the final
"yes, - ’because
SHE FEARED HIM'. - *■'
“I am frightened,” she writes to one of her
lady friends, “at the power whioh Bonaparte
wields over those around him. His searching
look is full of riddles, and he even lords it over
the directory. Just think how he could make a
woman tremble. Even that which should please
me most—the hotness of his passion for me—,
is jnst what makes me hesitate; my youthful
days are alreadypaat, and the question is wheth
er I shall be able to retain this tenderness of af
fection, which, with him, is more like the out
break of a vulcan.”
Still Napoleon oonquerred her prejudices by
prayers and persistence, and the civil marriage
contract was finished on March 9, 1796. In
certain circles r Josephine was much blamed for
this marriage; she was frequently called the'
“ci-devast vlcomtesse” in ridicule; on one oc
casion, & certain marquis refused to take a seat
near her at a ball, because, as he said, she had
“bartered away her misfortunehe could hot
forgive her, because she did not mourn her first
husband, who had been guillotined, like a Ro
man Empress, all her life long. But for Napo
leon this marriage with-the distinguished lady
was a - * a*ji . t to walc . • .
MIGHTY LEVER OF HIS SUCCESS.
Her talent and her knowledge of hnman na
ture pointed the way for the young adventurer.
He had scarcely been first oonsui without her
help. She became indispensable in his great
ness—for in France Intrigue must always prop
np merit—and, in addition to this, ahe was tho
sum of a true wife, a. tender and self-saorificing
friepd. v .
There is scarcely a single beautiful, wifely
quality which Josephine did not possess; her
amiability has beooma proverbial—she was
never known to say anything unpleasant to any
one; she never drew tears. ■ She softened tho
hardness of her husband; she secured amnesty
for the exiles and freedom for the conctamneo,
and Bhe made friend* out of his very enemiea.
She had an understanding and appreciation of
literature and art, and a lively sense for all that
was beautiful. She was partionlarly partial to
flowers. She transplanted the first camelia from
her home In the Antilles to Europe, and also in
troduced that peculiar poetioal bird, the black
swan, among ns.
NAPOLEONS LETTER* TO JOSEPHINE.
The letters whioh Gen. Bonaparte wrote to
his bride from Italy breathed forth the greatest
passion.
“Wife—dream, torment, bliss of-myBonl,”
he wrote, “thy letters were cold—they have not
the pulse-beat of the sonl. Thou lovest every
thing more than nfe; thou dost not, on my ac
count, forego the first representation of a new
play in the theatre, nor give np thy dinner with
the Barrases to write to me. Hast thou not a
little bit of love, one drop of that great amiabil-
ity which overflows from thy heart, for me—
thy husband ? lenvy Fortune (her favorite eat)
thy caresses!’’.
On one occasion he sent to her from the seat
of war this pretty acknowledgment: “While I
am winning battles, yon are winning hearts for
me at home 1”
This love of Napoleon’s, however, had the
shadowy side of a terrible jealousy. He set
spies npon hi* wife in the persons of his adju
tants and secretaries, and made even her ooacb-
man and servants watch her. Her exeess of
love frequently led him dose to that very step
which he actually took twelve years later, under
the inflaenee of an opposite feeling. He threat
ened separation on several different occasions.
“I will destroy the whole set of ourly-heads and
blonde dandies that flatter yon—yes, I will have
an eclat, an open breaob, a legal separation!”
writes the jealous Napoleon. Once he had his
wife’s things brought together .in the porter’s
lodge, and made her own domestics refuse her
an entrance into his cabinet; and it was only
very reluctantly, in response to the prayers of
his stepchildren, Eugene and Hortense Bean-
bawmig, that he consented to take her to his
arms again. As a pledge of peaoe, after some
such, scene as this, he sent her the first Turkish
shawl which was ever brought to Europe. It
pleased Josephine so well that she ordered 15Q
more of-them before the close of her career.
EXTBAVAOANOX AND AVARICE.
Napoleon also tyrannized over the poor Jose -
phino with his avarice. She understood_per*.
fectly how to dress herself well and toqplay the
part of Empress with brilliancy, but she natiu-
ally needed a large amount of money to do this.
The proud and rich Emperor stormed and
famed over the large millinery bills, as might a
poor bourgeoise who was fearful of being
brought to ruin by an extravagant wife. Still
he gave her the command to appear at the court
receptions so as “to sMne through her beauty
and the brilliancy of her toilet. . .-If ber dress
did not happen to suit him he wonld empty his
InVatnruS nwr ft; bn wonld BendhigcrefHlnasB to
prison instead of paying them. On one occa- been placed" in our hacdi and ^ ae ^
sion of his rage, a bill for three hundred hats are so imDerfeet that m sen
in one month having been presented to him, he
smashed a costly vase and a magnificent coffee
service, which were, together, folly worth tho
entire sum demanded of him. .He’.blamed
especially her extravagance in the restoration of
Malmaison, that magnificent repository of the
greatest French culture, which French cannon
tiaa recently destroyed. The walls of Malmai*
son wore hong with Gobelin tapestry made by
the hand of Josephine herself; in the hot
house she cultivated a thousand varieties of the
Bonapartea speeiosa, a wonderful South- Ameri
can plant, so named in honor of the Emperor
by the botanist Faliaot.
No stranger ever dared enter Napoleon’s
work-room; she herself cleaned the dost from
his clothes, which were spread about over the
ohaira—her “relics,” she oalled them. On his
writing desk lay a historical work, opened at
the very place where he had left off. It is re
markable that Napoleon; spent the font days
after the battle of Waterloo*—perhaps the most
bitter of all his life—at Malmaison. From hero
he went to Rochefort to giye himself np to the
English. What may he not. have found in these
halls, where the footprints of his once dearly
beloved wife were still impressed, and through
winch her sighs still echoed ? That wife who
had been his good angel, to whom his cruelty
had given tlia death blow, and who still could
nnl mrrfrfl his TYilefnrfml»- 1 ■'- ■
are so : imperfeet that we canclihn.if 50
information.from them. From ivf° T1 ‘’ Uib »
not survive his misfortune.
THE SEPARATION.
The first harsh word between hnsband and
wife are apt to be the first drops, which after
ward swell into-the avalanche of quarrels and
criminations. Soon Napoleon scolded, not only
about Josephine’s extravagance, bnt abont all
.other disagreeable circumstances, even the
’weather. He always made her feel his bad
humor; that powerful element discovered in
his love wa3 changed into despotism and self
ishness. He forced her into the duties of eti
quette at the cost of her personal freedom and
health. While he himself would refuse to at
tend, he wonld compel her to use all her strength
to be present at the brilliant entertainments
given in his honor. On one occasion he actual
ly dragged the sick Empress ont of bed, forced
her to dress herself, and to make her appear
ance in full toilet at a ball. It was in conse
quenee of tiffs barbarism that Josephine after
ward suffered from an. ugly cutaneous disease,
Napoleon’s divorce from his wife.rem&ins a
black spot in his life, from whatever side it
may be regarded. It wa3 a wicked and un
necessary piece of business. When the separa
tion had been decided npon in council, the Em
peror himself undertook to communicate it to
the unhappy Josephine. Ho dined with her
just once more, and the most painful scene
ensued after the meaL Josephine tells of it
herself, in the following words:
“ After the coffee had been servi
3ent the servant away, and I remained alone
with him. My God, what a look he had ! His
whole body trembled, and terror a track to my
heart. Ho took my hand, hud it npon ms
breast, and then spoke these words: ‘My
Josephine, you know how much I have loved
yon. I have you alone to thank for the happi
ness of my life, bnt my destiny is stronger
than my will. I must even sacrifice my greatest
affection in favor of France.’ ‘No more,’ I
still had the power to cry out. I knew what it
meant; I had expeoted it, and yet the blow
was fatal. Suddenly T felt that I wonld grow
mad from grief, everything swam about me,
and I fell faintly to the groand.”
HARK TWAIN.
The Old-Time Express or the Great Plains.'
From Mark Twain’s Forthcoming Book.]
However, in a little while, all interest was
taken np in stretching onr necks and watching
f'nr fh« “nnnv .fhfl flAAf. moccATtc*ai» vrlin
for the “pony rider”—the fleet messenger who
sped across the continent from St. Joe to Sacra
mento, carrying letters nineteen hundred miles
in eight days. Think of that for perishable
horse and hnman flesh and blood to do! The
pony rider was usually a little bit of a man brim
fall of spirit and endurance. No matter what
time of day or night the watch came on, and no
matter whether it wa3 winter or summer, or
whether his “beat” was a level, straight road or.
a crazy trail over mountain crags and precipices,
or whether it led throngh peaceful regions or
regions that swarmed with hostile Indian?, he
must be always ready to leap into the saddle
and be off like the wind. There wa3 no idling
time for a pony-rider on duty. Ho rode forty
miles without
stopping, by daylight, moonlight,
starlight, or through the blackness of darkness,
just as it happened. Ha rode a splendid horse
that was bora for a raoer, and fed and lodged
like a gentleman, kept huff at his utmost speed-
for ton miles, and then, as he came crashingnp
to the station, where stood two men holding a
fresh, impatient steed, the transfer of rider and
mailbag was made in a twinkling of an eye, and
away flew the eager pair, and were ont of sight
before the spectators oonld get hardly the ghost
of a look. Both rider and horse were “flying
light” The rider’s dress was thin and fitted
close; he wore s “roundabout'’ and a “skull
cap,” and lucked his pantaloons into his boot
tops, like a race rider. He carried no arms—he
carried nothing that was not absolutely neces
sary, for even his postage on his literary freight
was worth two dollars an ounce, He got bnt
little frivolous correspondence to carry; his bag
had business letters in it mostly. His horse was
stripped of all unnecessary weight too. He wore
a Rule wafer of a racing saddle, and no visible
blanket. He wore tight shoes, or none at all.
The little fat mail pockets, strapped under the
rider’s thighs, would each hold abont the hulk
of a child’s primer. They held many and many
an important business chapter and newspaper
letter. JBat these were on paper as aiiy and thin
as gold leaf nearly, and thus bulk and weight
were economized. The stage coach traveled
about a hundred to a hundred and twenty-five
miles a day (twenty-four hours) the pony-rider
abant two hundred and fifty. There were about
eighty pony riders in saddle all the time, night
and day, stretohlng in a long, scattering pro
cession from Missouri to California—forty flying
eastward and forty toward the West, and amon g
them, making four hundred gallant horses earn
ing a stirring livelihood, and see a deal of scene
ry every day in the year.
We had had a consuming desire from the be-
gianing to see a pony-rider, but somehow or
other all that passed us, and all that met ns,
managed to streak by in the night, and so we
only heard a whiz and a hail, and the swift
phantom of the desert was gone before we oonld
get onr heads ont of the windows. Bnt now we
were expecting one along every moment, and
would we him in broad daylight. Presently the
driver exolaims:
“Here becomes!”
Every neck is stretohed farther, and every
eye strained wider. Away across the endless
dead level of the prairie a black speck appears
against the sky, and it is plain that it moves.
Well, I should think so! In a seoond or two it
becomes a horse and rider, rising and falling—
sweeping toward us nearer and neaTer, and the
clatter of the hoofs comes faintly to the ear—
another instant a whoop and a hurrah from our
upper deck, a wave of thw rider’s hend^ but no
reply, and man and horse burst past our excited
faces, and go winging away tike a belated frag-
meat of a storm! -. - . ..j - r.,?
So sadden is it all, and so like* flash of un
real fanoy, that, bnt for the flake of white foam
left quivering and perishing on a small mail
sack, after the vision had flashed by siMto.
peared, we might have doubted whether we had
seen any actual horse and man at all, may be.
Thebe has been a baby show ih St. Louis.
There were about a hundred children entered
for the prizes, among them being what the re
porter describes as a bevy of “ triplets.” The
first prize was awarded to the “son of Ben
Walker, the pawnbroker,” who is field to be a
“healthy chub,” four months old, and weighing
thirty-seven pounds. Another baby which re
ceived the thud premium, “ has the look of a
sage and the eyes of a poet,” so that we may
expeot to see him cut a figure in the world by
and by.' None of the female infanta were lucky
enough to get a prize.
twenty-five Presbyteries, from wl;l r6ports *
any satisfactory statistics, n kii
lowing items: ' One «
objects ordered by the General
hundred and'fifty-font to fonrVtv,” 1 ’ 0Ce
hundred and sixty-seven to three 25’» 0! «
hundred and thirty-fivato two nf a Q| CCs
lunched and thMy-two to none anat7J
proportion of the non-conwLi. E 5* Sh
is nearly one-half SWSSsa?
churchesm these Presbyteries 01
have reports, contoiningMy B i»i 5 f,“
tics and* from more KSSSfe**
byterie3 we have no eatwfectorv
do not believo that the reporia inotir cost ^
churches have done 'for ftTobieds
benevolence last year: became <w G ' a6aI
than half of the Presbyteries J?
in onr hands do .not contain fullSnaaS
tory statistics. While wa believe tbf.f
dutches have done much better Ikia^*
been sent np; yet we are afraid that faetuL
we have no satisfactory reports from
half of onr Presbytenes, and the fart-a (2
stated in the majority of the reports
have, that many of. the churches fail to wm
their Presbyteries reports of what they
ing for systematic benevolence, indicate tS
there is an alarming and deplorable donwl
negligence in many or the Presbyteries ^
churobes in regard to this mo3t important m
ter. Therefore, we would recommend that lb
all their churches full statistical reports of trta
they (the churohes) have done during ths eede
siastical year for the various objects of t*ceai
benevolence to be sentnp to their Bpring meet
ings ; and, in order to facilitate this duty toth
churches, that the Stated Clerks of Presbjteiw
be recommended to furnish to allifceir resp«
live churches blanks on which to mii« said re
ports.
2. That all our Presbyteries be emcsllm
ommsnded and enjoined to give, at their lea
stated meeting, earnest attention and a tin.
ongh examination to the vital subject clEjsfem-
atic benevolence in all its bearings.
3. That the Presbyteries earnestly recoa-
mend all their respective pastors, stitid ap
plies and missionaries to give freqHsj u-
s tractions to their churches as to their duty in
thi3 matter, which is not only of prime aja-
tones to the progress, but even indispensable
to the continued life and permanent eristew*
of the Church. - r
4. That the Presbyteries earnestly recoa-
mend, and solemnly enjoin upon all tha
Church sessions to afford to the people in cvey
congregation an opportunity to contribute to
each and all of the objects for whioh oolicetioa
are ordered by the General Assembly. Kj.
port adopted.
A Solemn Meeting.
The Pittston miners say: At 7: JO wa held i
prayer-meeting. Some were cursing and other-
singing hymns. We sang this verse:
Before Jehovah’s tv, lal throne,
Ye nations bow vrith eacred Joy:
Know that the Lord » Gel alone,
He can create and he ieatacy.
Many were crying, and one little boy, Jama
Jones, cried out, “I shall neves aee my da-
mother again. ’ ’ Many were giving np at onot
while others tried to cheer thro. lYe ted
A GOOD PRAYER-MEETING.
Many earnest prayers were made by Welsh
and English miners, and several fcima
prayed to the Virgin Maty to come csdaii
them. We continued to pray and si:’m-
oor voices gave out About 9 o’clock we tegu
to prepare ourselves for the worst. IbeUrt
damp was creeping upon us. We became sin;,
and weak in the knees, and fell donas®
the water, • rubbing onr nostrils, wsS,
temples and eyelids. We also felt a load m or
stomachs. - Father: and we three got together,
and the last we knew of him he waaalive. Oa
father and William R. Davis started the *
the barricade. -We had no shovels, and ttm-
fore had to .carry culm in our hats. little Jaws
Jones carried culm in his cap. All the whua he
was crying abont his mother. Scnebn?3 w
thought we would be rescued, and at ottes toa
we thought not. Father prayed for his fffii-J
above ground; and when he ceased pn.r-fl--
told Q3 he was ready to die. Ha was onhiasr-*
when death overtook him. When the so*
became too much foru3we got over thejn
and Martin Cooney tried, but wastooueflhCJ
fell insensible. There was another mM*!^
dead at my feet. We felt very thankful tbitw
conld not hear the screams of the women mp
the top, as that wonld have added to onr aigR-i
A HOYAE IRISHMAN.
He Nonplusses tho True Bint**
A very amusing anecdote is. ... „
man who happened to be in Paris a
ago, while three crowned heads cf •
there, on ayislt to his Imperial ^
ukon. ' ' ’ * '
These distinguished person! wem*
Emperors of Russia and Austria asa
. U III ijh rwrjj 111 JA Lio b A 8 ilUvl .A ti J t * . i -II
of Prussia. One day, having thro™ ^
state ceremonial, they determined » ,
sights of tho beautiful city on tho beme,‘
their own delectation, and for that pmpo» |
resolved to go inoog., so as not to
by the people. However, in
Paris they went astray, apd i mee ^§ 8 fibe £
manSy-lookiog.person, who tapped i^wcnH
Irishman, they politely asked iuf *
kindlv direct them to the Palau Bo^
aincuy uirecc iaem ro u» -v* ^
and that I will, my boys, ,ir e nuei
time taking a mental photegraphof
were conducted I
was about bidding them ft*
was. “ Well," rejoined theta guide, i
ask you who you LJn^LlvE vea be-
you, perhaps you will tell mo «q»s
After some farther parleying, one ^
Alexander, and they call me Czir.OTi^
of all the Rrissias.” “Indeed,
rogueish twinkle in the cornerotlj^y
an.incredulous nod of tho head (s* a yj,)
say, “Thisboy i3up to
dmight I make bowld loss .. Tnuph.
‘And might ^ — "r«mcis jow"
me flower?” “They oall me Eran ^
and the Emperor of Austna. ^ ^
to make your aoqnamtanoe, Fram^-J^
says the Irishman, who thinking n«' U
in his despairing efforts to get me e ju
he conceived, but of any of them, ‘r
thelhird one, aadsald:' ‘‘Whoareyoo- ^
call me Frederick William, and lx
Prussia.” They then reminded .y- !e i
promised to tell them who ho v-ja, ^
some hesitation, and a mysterious a- oonl t.
denoe, Pat, putting Ms-hand i°
whispered, Vi am the Emperor o.
don't tell anybody.”
„ i; r .! . --yrr
Was this Senator Gen. gt
An honorable, grave- Senator, -
recess, paid a visit to his married as
bright-eyed. little grandson, s ®^JLhiad>*
anxious to parade his spelling ,hT.ltss®-
tingulshed grandfather, asked him ’
The following was the result!
Senator—Spell president r
Boy—P-r-e, pre; s-i, s-i;
Definition— A man who takes prescot
SlS-What ? What’s that ?
Boy—Well, isn’t Gen. Grant 1
does he not take presents. sit ‘
Senator (to his soB-m-law)-^^
cannot see me use of instructing chu
yean old in peff 08 - . , ;nk fbe?e
knowrieti often the truth. • a
flnltiou of the
