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VOLUME XXXVI.]
M ILLEDGE VIL LE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 20, I860.
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Sales of Land, &e., bv Administrators, Executors or .
Guardians, are required by law to be held on the first |
Tuesday in the month ; between the hours of 10 in the j
forenoou and three in theatternonn, atthe Court house
in the county in which the property is situated.
Notice of these sales must be given in a public ga
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Notices for the sale of personal property must be
given in like manner 10 days previous to sale day. \
Notices to the debtors ana creditors of an estate |
must also be punished 40 days.
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for the full spare of three months—for compelling titles l
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CLEBl'RIB.
The following beautiful tribute to the memory
of our peerless Cleburne comes from the Dublin
Nation. He was of that people whose nationali
ty, crushed at home, asserts itself in furnishing the
rest of the world with statesmen and warriors.
It is meet that the Irish harp should mingle its
lament, with the notes of woe that go up from the
South for our fallen hero. These lines will awa
ken in every Southern heart the thrill which used
to answer to his name when in the day of deadly
conflict the heart stood still and the pulses ceased
their beat, until upon the wings ot the lightning
came the w<uds—Cleburne and victory. But in
the breasts of those who knew him and loved him,
who stood by his side in the front of battle, they
will arouse deeper and stronger <motions. His
generous soul, bis dauntless mien, his greaUheart
— womanly for tenderness, and lion-like lor cour
age—rise up before them, and eyes that bad wept
dry the fountain of tears fill again and again :
CLEBURNE.
How far and fast the autumn blast
Bears the dead leaves o’er the ground !
As fast and tar has the hand of war
Strewed our country’s brave around !
And their nameless graves are the ocean caves,
The forest and mountain glen,
Where the vultnre screams and the angry streams
Are hiding the bones of men !
And what anguish cries
From the South arise
For the brave ones fallen in vain !
While the victor North
Rmgs its peals forth
And exults in her broad domain !
As fires suppressed in Vesuvia's breast.
The latent fires of crime
In the human frame pulse on the same,
Till fanned by the storms of time ;
As the lava fold swept uncontrolled
W’here Pompeii s glory shone.
So the wakened rage of a Vandal age
When freedom is overthrown !
And we'il look in tears.
Through long, long years,
For the brightness shrouded o’er ;
But the golden rays
Ol her halcyon days
Shall return to the land no more !
Then fling to the horde their base award—
Their chief his triumphal crowu ;
Place vile deceit in the judgment seat
Where honor is trampled down ;
Give a paltry bribe to the hired scribe,
To the venal bard his fee;
But him who draws in a righteous cause.
A freeman’s sword, give me !
Though his bonea should bleach
On the sea washed beach;
Though bis grave be the lowly mound,
His name shall chime
Through the halls ot time,
And swell through the deep profound !
Ye brave ea masse, who fall, and pass
To the leaden halls of death,
There are palms for the few, but alas ! for you,
Not a leaf from the victor’s wreath !
But I sing for one whose glory shone,
Like a meteor, bright and grand,
going the case of Ogden vs. Sanders, Mr
Webster remarked, “Me municipal law is
the force of society, employed to compel the
performance of contracts. ” This force
consists of all the means provided by law,
to enable the promisee, without disturbing
the peace of society, to compel the per
formance. by a reluctant promisor, of bis
engagement. Thns understood it is clear
that the Legislature, if unrestrained,
would be capable of impairing or destroy
ing the obligation ; and it is precisely to
guard it, that the prohibition was inserted
in the Constitution.
The question then is presented, whether i ties
or uot this act against the intendmeni of siou,
the Constitution, impairs the obligation of
contracts. It provides “that there shall
be no levy or sale of pioperty of defend
ants in this State under any execution
founded on any judgment, order or decree,
ot any court heretofore, or hereafter, to
be rendered, upon, any contract or liability
made or incurred prior to the 1st of June,
makes that will the motive power of the
obligation, for by it the execution—the
final process—may be put in action.—
But, by legislation of this character, that
motive power is suspended—temporarily
abstracted from the obligation. Perpetual
injunction would destroy the obligation,
quo ad, the action of this State; and I
cannot resist the conclusion that tempora
ry injunction world impair it.
Again, the judgmeut and execution
which are intended to be the consumma
tion, or end of the obligation, are lawful
subjects of traffic, are saleable commodi-
It is indisputable that the posses-
aud exercise by the Legislature of
suspending their operation, would “lessen
then value,” as such; and this brings such
legislation within another definition of
impairment, viz it “lessens the. value.”
If our Legislature may postpone for a
year, each subsequent one may do the
same.
Already have the judgments affected by
186/), provided the said defendant shall j this act, been suspended five years by
er When a subscriber finds a cross markon
his paper be will know that his subscription has w “' hig niime the tru of fam8 ,
expired, or is about to expire, and must be renew- ------- - -
ed if he wishes the paper continued.
gy We do not send receipts to new subscri
bers. If they receive the paper they may know
that we have received the money.
fy Subscribers wishing their papers changed
from one post-office to another must state the
name of the post-office trom which they wish it
changed.
COUNTING HOUSE CALENDAR, 1866,
And his blood to a generous land 1
The festive toast,
The soldiers boast.
The type ot martial age !
The foe of wrong,
The soul of song,
And the light of a future page !
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Spring Styles Something Novel in
Dress.—We may state, for the benefit
of such of our readers as like to be be
forehand in their information on fash
ions, that, in Europe, stripes prevai.
on all the thin materials which have as
yet been prepared. Not that the
spring dresses will be made up from
one piece of goods, the designation
whfcfc represents stripes of equal
width, but with three or four different
pieces, the groundwork of which is
similar, but the stripes are of different
widths- The skirts will be composed
of these different pieces, but the bodi
ces will be made of self-color, match
ing the groundwork of the skirt, and
they will be trimmed with the stripes.
Buff or nankeen color, as last spring,
will be fashionable for morning wear,
and the stripes will not be solid lines,
(either broad or narrow ;) but clusters
of fine lines, which are softer in effect
than when the lines are solid.
[Home Journal.
[Prom the L^aiaville Journal. J
Many a husband and father, who would
kill a fellow-man for lacerating the feel
ings of his family, lacerates them more
himself than all the world besides.
The Chicago Tribune say* , th ® 1
President has shown his hand. Let the
Tribune’s faction show its hand—but wash
it first.
The Chicago Tribune says that its
“spareribs are tickled.” We rather think
that they are protty severely poked.
A little thing is sometimes a great mat-
|tr. Yes; for instance the first bsby.
The base grow bold for power and gold,
The vain through fear of scorn ;
The brave wax strong in their hate of wrong ;
But he was a warrior born.
From his eagle glance and stern‘‘Advance !”
And his action, swift as thought,
The rank and file from his own fair isle
The courage electric caught.
As ihe whirlwind’s path
Shows its fiercest wrath
Through the forest’s lordliest pines,
So the deepest wave
Of the fallen brave
ToM wheie Cleburne crossed the lines.
On Richmond's plain his captive train
Outnumbered ihe host he led ;
And he won his stars on the field of Mars
Where the glorious Johnston bled !
T’was his to cope while a ray of hope
Illume'd his flag, and then
Twas Lis to die while that “flew* high’’
In the THn of chivalric men !
Nor a braver host can Erin boast,
For than he a more gallant knight,
Since the peerless Hugh
Crossed the Avon dbu,
And Bengal’s hosts a flight.
There were eyes afar that watched your star
As it rose with the ‘‘Southern Cross,”
There were hearts that bled when its course was
And Old Ireland felt your loss! [sped,
While her flowers shall blow, or her waters flow
Through Shanuon, Suir and Lee,
The patriot’s song shall roll along
T^teir winding waves for tbee !
And they’ll tell with pride
How Cleburne died
In the land of the “free and biave
How his sword of might
Was a beam of light.
Though it led to an exile’s grave,
second article of the constitution of Geor
gia, is in these words : “Tlie Legislative,
Executive and Judicial departments shall
be confided to a separate body of magis
tracy. No person, or collection of persons,
being of one department, shall exercise any
power properly attached to either of the
others, except tn cases herein expressly ex
cepted.” It is to the latter sentence I
pertinently refer. The investigation and
determination of private rights the enforce
ment of contaacfs between individuals,
wheu one of the parties refuses compli
ance, and clearly powers properly belong
ing to the judicial department. Their ex
ercise is invoked by 6uit in court, which,
being instituted, is properly under the
control of that department, from the filing
of the petition to the return of final pro
cess, executed : when, for the purpose of
preventing wrong or oppression, or of do
ing full and complete justice in any case,
it becomes necessary to arrest the pro
ceeding ; whether before or after judg
ment, this can only be done by the writ of
injunction, and that issues properly out of
Chancery, which appertains exclusively
to the judicial department. What are
the rights upon which the bill under con
sideration acts I They are those which
have been asserted by suits in courts of
justice ; have been those investigated and
adjudicated, and which those courts are
proceeding to enforce by their final proces
ses, called executions. What action does
this bill propose upon them ? It does not,
The strength of the argument in favor I indeed, 6et them aside—annul them—but
of slay laws lies in the proposition, that 1 it suspends action under them for a speci-
final process is but a part of the remedy ■ lied time. What is this suspension but an
which must always be within the power of injunction of a judicial proceeding? The
the Legislature; otherwise it would be form of the writ used in the department
Were it so expressed, however impolite or ■ impossible to correct errors in jurispru- j to which the power properly belongs, is
unjust it might be, in any supposable case deuce or to improve the system as experi- not observed, but the precise end is at-
1 ence may develope its defects. The power tained—the injunction is as effectually
of the Legislature to modify remedies, ' imposed as if a writ in due form had ema
even at the cost of delay to suitors, then nated from the legislative source,
in court, must be conceded; but with two Let ns look a little more iu detail into
qualifications. { this matter. A writ called an execution
First, the intention most be bona fide to
change permanently, and to improve the
system. Secondly, this must always be
done, if possible, so as not to affect inju-
pay Or cause to be paid during each year
one-fourth of the amount of principal and
interest of such execution, or of the debt
or claim, on which such execution has
been or may be hereafter obtained, so that
the entire indebtedness, shall he paid in
four years from the first day of January
—the first instalment to he paid by the
first of January, 1SG7. and the fourth and
last by the first of January, 1870.” Any
officer levying or selling is made liable for
a tresspass. Here we remark that the
prohibition of the Constitution is not di
rected solely against the destruction of
the obligation. It is not that no State
pass any law destroying the obligation.—
such action. Upon principle, these sue
cessive postponements might as well he
continued a hundred years or through all
time.
The hundreth would be as valid as any
preceding one. But how, meantime,
fares the obligation 7 The consolation
offered to the promisee, and repeated to
successive generations of his posterity,
would be, that it flourished in a green old
age, its strength unimpaired by time.
to impair without destroying it, the Con
stitution could not be interposed as a bar
rier to such action. But it is explicitly
against impairment that the prohibition is
directed. The intention being negative,
uot positive—prohibitory, not mandatory,
the lesser interference is expressed, be
cause being included in the greater, its
prevention prevents both. Hence it ap
pears that something more was intended riously antecedent rights,
than to keep the obligation alive ; which
is all that cau be claimed for a stay law.
Let it be borne in mind that the obliga
tion of a contract is the force of law, com
pelling its i>erformance, nr giving satis
faction for its breach. This force has a
issues from the Inferior Court of Baldwin
county directed to the sheriff, command
ing him to make by levy and sale of the
property of C. D. one hundred dollars,
which A. B. lately in that court recovered
This act cannot be brought within either of him, and further that he return that
of them. First, it contemplates neither writ into court atthe next term, which
any. improvement nor any permanent means in law, that he return it executed,
change of the judicial system. Sections If the sheriff do not make the money as
3553 to 3557, and Section 336 of the required, he may at the return term of the
Revised Code regulate proceeding after writ be ruled and compelled to pay it
two-fold operation. First, it acts judicially, judgment in suits to enforce contracts.— himself, unless he can show good cause for
whereby the existence of the contract,
its breach and the mode of enforcement
are determined, all of which is expressed in 1
the judgment. Secondly, it acts minis
terially, wherein, under command in wri- j
ting, an officer of law, either transfers
certain specific property from the posses- i
sion of the promisor to that of the promisee, i
or converts into money, in a mode pre-1
scribed, such portion of the promisor’s j
property as wili satisfy the judgment, and j
delivers it to the possessee. This done,
It is obviously not the intention of the
General Assembly to make any change
in these further than to suspend them
for a time, in the class of casses described
in the act. No other course of proceeding
is substituted—judgments rendered for
special purposes are excepted—and none
that may hereafter be rendered on con
tracts made since the first day of June,
1865, are included in the stay. In such
cases therefore, the courses of the law will
be the same as heretofore. Secondly, if
his failure. This is the course of the law,
and this its end. Bat suppose when so
called on he should exhibit a writ, sued ont
of the Chancery side of the Superior
Court of Baldwin county, at the snit of C.-
D. commanding him to desist from levy
and sale, under that particular execution,
until the future order of the conrt; he
stands justified because he is enjoined.
One branch of the judicial department,
armed by law with the power, has arres
ted another, and no violence is done to the
the obligation of the contract is consurn- the change were permanent—if it contem- Constitution. But suppose, instead of
mated—its performance is enforced. plated just such a stay of execution, under exhibiting a writ of injunction from the
But if, when the judgment shall have judgments to be obtained, founded on con- Superior Court, he should exhibit an act
tracts made since the first day of June of the Legislature forbidding him to exe-
last, the office of sheriff is nevertheless cute within a year, any fi fa issued by
continued, and therefore all judgments any court. If he be executed, on what
founded on contracts heretofore made, ground ? Clearly that he was enjoined,
might he executed as well as in time past, , That the judicial injunction, in the one
and the obligation of the contract he un- case was in the exercise of “a power at-
affected ; but in point of fact the bill not tached” to the judicial department cannot
VETO OF THE STAY LAW.
Executive Department,
Milledgeville, March 6, 1866
To the Senate :
Having given serious consideration to
! “a bill to be entitled an act fo^the relief
of the people of Georgia, and to prevent
the levy and sale of property under cer
tain circumstances, and within a limited
period,” which originated in your body,
with more than ordinary anxiety, if pos
sible to concur with the General Assembly
in the propriety of its enactment, I am
constrained to return it without approval.
The Constitution of the United States
expressly ordains that "no State shall pass
any law impairing the obligation of con
tracts.”
The application of this provision to the
act under consideration involves two en
quiries :
First, What is meant by the obligation
of a contract 1 Secondly, What consti
tutes an impairment of it 1
A proper consideration of the subject
requires a distinction between a contract
and its obligation. The former is “an
agreement to do or not to do a particular
thing.” The latter is that which binds
the promisor to perform his agreement.—
We often speak of a moral obligation to
perform a promise, the sanction of which
is found in a pure and enlightened con
science. But it is evidently not this
which the Constitution was designed to
save from impairment, because it is simply
impossible for legislative action to.change
the dictate of conscience regarding any
antecedent duty which one person owes to
another.
We speak, also, of the legal obligation
of a contract, by which is meant the force
of law, compelling its performance or g» v *
iug an equivalent after its breach. In ***
been rendered, and the next step accord
ing to the law which creates the obliga
tion, is to issue this written authority (cal- j
led an execution,) without which the ,
judgment would he valueless, the State i
shall pass a law forbidding the issuance
for one year; or, if, after it shall have been
passed, the proper officer is forbidden to j
execute it, within a year, what effect has |
this legislation upon the obligation ?—j
We are told the effect is to suspend it, j
leaving it vitally untouched. True, by i _
the terms of the law, vitality remains, hut ; tem, for the permanent advantage of the
does this satisfy the Constitution ? Is body politic—that in truth it makes no rect collision between t(ie departments ?
there no diminution, no weakening, no I change in the system, but only withdraws The mandate issued by the judicial de
impairment of the law compelling per-1 for a time from a certain class of contracts partment was in strict Conformity with the
formance 1 , its obligatory operation. It is a tempo- laws of the State. Without repealing
Lexicographers tell us that to impair is j rary expedient, interposed between the those laws, without permanently curtail-
to "diminish toinjure to lessen in value.” , debtor and creditor for relief of the for- ing the powers of the courts, the legisla-
Suppose A brought a judgment against B ; mer. It postpones for one year absolutely tive department simply intervenes and for
—and 0 to obtain another against D, at
the 6ame time each founded on contract,
only affects them, but injuriously discrimi
nates against them.
Here, then, is plenary evidence that it
is not one of those great reformatory meas
ures, designed to improve the judicial sys-
possihly he denied. Then how can it be
maintained that the imposition of the leg
islative injunction, in the other case,
would be conformable to the provisions of
the Constitution I have’quoted. Is it not
manifest that such legislation produces di
and both according to the getieral law. |
whence the obligation of contracts springs,
capable of immediate execution. Then
suppose the Legislature to intervene and
enact that the former shall not be executed
and for four conditionally the full perfor- bids the minsterial officer obeying the ju
mauce of all the contracts entered into dicial mandate. It was for the express
before the first ot June last, and in my purpose of preventing such conflict this
opinion as flagrantly violates the Consti- provision was inserted in the Constitution,
tution as it affected contracts running to There is another objection to the bill
maturity, by postponing the day of pay- which I cannot pass over in silence. It
rnent one, or four years, beyond that fix- classifies contracts and discriminates be-
within one year, leaving the latter un- ; ©d by the terms ot eacli. 1 tween the classes, injuriously to oue .of
touched, would there then be no diffierenco i The courte of reasoning adopted, ihe them, or rather to the parties interested .in
in the relative strength of the two obliga- , principles affirmed, and the rules of con- ^ their enforcement. Contracts made prior
tions 1 A man iu paralysis has vitality | sfruction applied to this clause of the to the first day of June, 1865, constitute
as positive as has he in good health ; yet j Constitution by the Supreme Court of the one class, those made subsequently, anotb-
it is impaired. So A’s judgment has an | United States in severel cases, seem to j er. To the former only in the stay of exe*
obligation, but it is paralyzed, “weakened” me to lend to the conclusion, although iu j cation, under it, applied. If 6eperate
"diminished,” by the temporary loss of'none of them were the Legislative acts | judgments should be obtained in the
its active quality, and, therefore impaired.! reviewed identical in their provisions with ! month of January 1867, the one found-
In executory contracts, time is always : this. These I shall simply state without I ed on a contract entered into before the
an important element. It wUl pro \ quotitfg from them. They are bturges vs. | first day of June I860, and the other on
bably be conceded that it would b’b un- j Browningshield, 4th W heaton, 122; Green
constitutional for the G.eneral Assembly J vs. Biddle, 8th Wheaton, 1 ; Ogden
to enact that no promissory notes hereto-1 Sanders, 12th, Wheaton, 213; B101
fore made, and to mature on the first day j as. Kinzee, I. Howard, 311; McCraken
of January, 1867, shall he considered due, j vs. Hayward 2 ; Howard, 608.
and payable before the first day of Janu- j In these cases, stay laws are, bj way
1868. If this he so it is difficult to [ of illustration, more than once referred
to as violating this clause of the Constitu
tion. In the first, Chief Justice Marshall,
who bore a part in the proceedings lor the
Constitution, expresses the opinion that
the passing of such law6 was one of the
chief causes which induced the insertion
a contract made after the last mentioned
day, even though they were based upon
ary,
perceive how the constitutionality of the
act. can be maintained. If the day of
payment may not be postponed before
maturity by legislative action, it would
seem “a fortiori, that it may uot be, after
maturity ; or, rather, that the contract
may not be thrown back into immaturity, | of this clause. Judge Parsons, at page
and a new day of payment appointed by! 703, of the 2d volume of his authoritative
snch action. Pursuing the line of argu
ment, the right of the promisee does not
lose it* character or contract by the in
stitution of a suit, nor by the rendition of
a judgment to enforce it. That character
abides, and to it the constitutional guaranty
adheres until it is either extingnisbed by
performance or smothered by a statute of
repose. Indeed, this act specially refers
to contracts in judgment and to their
dates. Hence I conclude the Legislature
has no more power to appoint a new and
distant day of payment after suit com
menced or judgment rendered, than be
fore. In all other respects the promissee’s
condition is considered better after judg
ment ; why worse in this ? Before judg
ment it is impotent to compel immemate
performance of tho contract. The Judgment
treatise on contracts, affirms the proposition
as established by authority, that “an ex
emption of property from attachment (by
which is meant levy) or a subjection of it
to a stay law or appraisement \&w, impairs
the obligation of the contractHe adds :
“Such a statute can be enforced only as
to contracts made subsequently to the
law.”
There are, I concede, cases supporting,
the opposite conclusion, but I think they
are sustained neither by the weight of au
thority nor by the force of logic.
Our own constitution a has clause similar
to|that quoted from the Constitution of the
United States. But it is not alone, this
duplicate prohibition which, in my opin
ion, precludes legislation of this character.
The first clause of the first section of the
Bronson; considerations equally meritorious, the
stay of law would attach to the former,
and n«>t to the latter. I am utterly at a
loss to conjecture upon what principle,
consistent with equal justice, this discrimi
nation is founded. Indeed it would seem
that if any discrimination were made, it
should be in favor of that class of credi
tors, a very large majority of whom have
already been subjected to five of these
legislative injunctions, successively enac
ted, and so linked, as to compose a chain,
extending over as many years. The ei
der creditor is tied qd and the juror left
untramelled; nay more, thejudgment credi
tor of five or more years standing is ar
rested, whilst to the simple contract credi
tor of yesterday, the highway to full and
compulsory performance is left open. It
may be said.lhat whenever a junior exe
cution, not stayed by the proposed law,
shall by levy and sale cause money to be
made, the older executions are not retain
ed from being interposed to claim it. But
this can scarcely be intended, for in that
event, the law must fail to give the prom
ised relief. Under any circumstances,
this could ouly occur wher§ there were
judgments of both classes against the same
debtor, and the suggestion therefore does
not relieve the measure from the alleged
discrimination. Even in those casts' the
debtor would be under a strong tempta
tion to apply his means to the satisfaction
of the junior judgment, reserving for the
senior only the annual instalment necessary
to keep him in fetters, and thus the dis
crimination would still operate injurious-
, 7-
I take no pleasure in the performance
of this duty. Always reluctant to disa
gree with the General Assembly, I can
truly say this disagreement is painful in
the extreme. I have abundant sympathy
for the suffering people of Georgia, and iu
the desire of the General Assembly to al
leviate their sufferings. But on entering
this office I took at the threshold, in pres
ence of you all a solemn oath to preserve,
protect and defend the Constitution of the
United States, and of the State of Geor
gia; and this I must do, as I, not as oth
ers understand those instruments. If I
doubted I would give the measure the ben
efit ot the doubt and leave its constitu
tionality to the courts ; but, not donbiiug,
I must dissent as 1 regard my oath. Upon
such subjects, men equally earnest in
search of trnth, and equally nprigbt, and
fair, in their habits of thought, are proue
to differ. Whenever such difference oc
curs, it becomes each party to extend to
the other the meed of upright intention.
I have done what I conceive to be my
duty, and if after reconsideration, which
I respectfully invite, a constitutional ma
jority of the General Assembly should ad
here to the measure, I shall indulge the
hepe that no detriment will come to the
State, either from its seemingly unequal
practical operation or from its imputed vi
olation of the fundamental law.
|SignedJ Charles J. Jenkins,
Governor.
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Ab«ai False 4‘alrea.
The following from the Round Table of March
3rd, will be read with interest by our bachelor
friend*.
We trust, however, that no falling off will be
observed, iu consequence ot its perusal, iu the
number of sacrifices at Hymen’s altai:
During several weeks of the past winter a busy
business was done by the corset manufactories in
the production of artificial calves. And by calves
we mean just what the anatomists mean when they
speak of the lower extremities- We do not know
whose ingenuity devised them, nor when they
were first introduced, nor, indeed, the method of
their construction. But that they were a very
popular article of apparel with young ladies, and
especially tbose who made dashing displays ou
skates, we have abundant reason to believe. In
fact, several of the prominent corset-makers de
voted all their energies to the fabrication of these
rare bits of anatomy; and, notwithstanding the
very rapid production, the supply fell short of the
demand. Of course, a deal of care was taken lest
any prying masculine eyes should penetrate the
mystery, and give publicity to the newly created
market; for this would have a very injurious effect
upon the sale of the article, and the tantalizing
delusion would have been far less pleasing. But
the fact of its existence was soon and easily trans
mitted by a sort of maidenly legerdemain, aud all
who were desirous of making sensations by mar
vellous perfection of form knew very well where
to supply their sweet selves with patent calves
This may be an announcement altogether un
welcome to those ambitious young gentlemen
who at street corners, from club windows, and in
the bewildering maze of the skating “carnival,”
have felt their hearts throb with delicious titila-
tions of delight at spectacles which kindly art has
quite willingly placed at their disposal. It can
hardly fail to be a disappointment to such to learn
that for a very trifling consideration they might
have procured the abounding source of their hap
piness, and that, too, in very portable and endur
ing shape, by a visit to almost any ladies’ furn
ishing store. And if discomfiture should chance
to lead to rage, it muy be that an inquiring spirit
would discover yet othir remarkable devices for
lend.ng enchantment still more alluring as con
cerns the “human form divine.” But if they are
wise they will be satisfied with* but one revela
tion, and will hereafter devote themselves to stu
dies less deceptive and far more profitable. If,
however, it is a satisfaction to them to continue
the investigation, horrible as the idea may seem,
we should counsel an early visit to one of the very
numerous stores consecrated to the anatomy of
fashion, which is nothing more nor less the
sculpture of cords, wire and cotton.
It would doubtless be a matter of interest to
the innocent pub.ic to know who the ladies may
be that patronize these entrancing little toy*
which call forth the ogling glances of so many
admiring spectators. This is a secret which only
the corset dealers and ladies’ bureaus cau reveal.
We learn, however, that they have been very
popular with the so-called “upper circles,” and it
ia their surprising success with this class that haa
led to an unuaal mania for skating during the
past season. The ponds have been thronged with
young ladies as never before, aud not until this
writing has the mystery been fully revealed. In
■act. the 1 age of the season haa been these adjusta
ble calves, nor has the demand fallen off very ma
terially with the passing away of the skating
season. They are worn by the most fashionable,
if not the most respectable, in the daily prome
nade and at the weekly socia< Gathering, and, in
tact, almost everywhere. Very nice joung men
stand behind countera all day long and sell them
to very nice young ladies in size to suit. So it
makes little difference how cadaverona or ill sha-
pen one may be, even nuture is undone by the
devices of art. What, with an investment or two
in false hair, a false bust, plumbers in the cheeks,
and the now thoronghouly introduced patent
calves, the most awkward in shape and unattract
ive in general appearance may become really
“charming.” Who does not say that the world
moves 7
It is not easy to predict whither these things
will lead ua As there is no limit to human in
genuity, so it is probable that there will be no lim
it to the devices which will be used for filling out
the defects of nature, and for adding artificial
charms to comparatively uninviting personal fea
tures. Noses will be arched, booked, or straigh
tened ; to have artificial eyee, teeth and nair will
be considered a desideratum, and most of all
young ladies will be made up in greater part at the
furnishing store and the milliners. And so will
love become a farce and society a sham. Until
that time we can only say, for the happiness of
all concerned, “Beware of false calves I”
The Near York Herald says, all specu
lations concerning Cabinet changes may
aa well be abandoned at once, for months
to come at least,
To the stricken toother, the couch
whereon her child lies dead ia a lone is
land of thought surrounded by a solemn
sea of silence.
i CHAflCE FOR ILL!
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getic men, with or without capita! are wanted by
tho Southern Business Agency of Barnes *t
Brice, Boston, Mass. Send your names and good
mercantile references to ns, Box 748 Boston P. O.
None bat active parties need apply. As to who
we are, we refer to the editoia of this paper. «Aa
honorable and profitable agency is guaranteed.
Auctioneers and others desiring consignments
are requested to tend us their names, location, Ac,
