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LOUISVILLE. JEFFERSON COUNTY. GA., FEBRUARY 17, 1870.
FQjKTBI.
PHILOSOPHY.
There’s many a trouble
Would break like a bubble,
And into the waters of Lethe depart,
Did not we rehearse it,
And tenderly nurse it,
And give it a permanent place in the
heart.
There’s knany a sorrow
Would vanish to morrow
AVere we not unwilling to furnish the
wiugs,
So sadly intruding
And quietly brooding,
It hatches out all sorts of horrible
things.
llow welcome the seeming
Of looks that are beaming.
Whether one’s wealthy or whether one’s
poor?
Eyes bright as berry.
Cheeks red as cherry,
The groan and the curse and the heart
ache can cure.
Resolved to be merry,
All worry to ferry,
Across the famed waters that bid us
forget,
And not longer be tearful
But happy and cheerful,
We feel life has much that’s worth liv
ing for yet.
CORRESPOMBBICE
UUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Vindicating tiie Almanac—Tariff.
Tl NKE 111 NG — S WEET CII ABIT Y
The Cooks’ Bali.—“Trasip
Tramp !”—Bose Mich
el —New Books.
[ From Our Own Correspondent ].
New York, Feb. 11, 1870.
Editors News Y Farmer: —lt’s on us
at last, all we want of it. The cars
this morning are few and over-loaded,
and drawn by four steaming horses.
Pedestrians look like Santa Clauses, or
like Arctic explorers at the very least.
The leafless branches are heavy with a
clinging mass, and those round brown
sancy sparrows eternally hopping about
Union Square look like so many flics in
a pan of milk. Thousands of men and
hoys who for months have been slink
ing idly about the streets have suddenly
straightened up, put on n:i air of im
portance. and armed with all conceiva
ble weapon*, shovels, brooms, boards,
and even shutters, are at this moment
manfully fighting the enemy out into
the gutters. The sleigh-bolls jingle ex
pectantly from their nails on the stable
wails—the snow has come and the
shame of the Winter is taken away.
Not everybody likes snow for its own
sake, but L guess few are sorry to see
the fleecy masses which hardly prove
the correctness of the almanac—for real
ly the joke was being carried almost
too far, and a precedent being set for
eccentrics on the part of the weather
clerk which, if allowed to continue,
might eventually damage this old globe
in which, as our only support until we
become ghosts, we naturally feel con
siderable interest. We also read this
morning that the ica harvest has begun
up the river, so that the dreadful scarc
ity of “cock tail timber” next summer
will probably be avoided.
The annual Charity Ball, under the
auspices of the ladies of New York,
came off on Tuesday evening at the
Academy of music, and in spite of
hard times was one of the most bril
liant and successful since the inaugu
ration of the series. The hall decora
tions were elegant, but according to the
rules of the Association, severely sim
ple. In the matter of dresses and jew
elry, however, no such restrictions ex
ist, and the well-filled floor was abso
lutely dazzling the whole night through.
The Committee of Management, num
bering over two hundred, comprised the
cream of society, and the guests includ
ed well-nigh everyone of any social im
portance from Mayor Wickham down.
The proceeds, which must be excep
tionally large, will afford timely aid
to the poor in ti e increased severity
of the weather.
On tiie succeeding evening occurred
another entertainment which although
pitched at a lower key, socially speak
ing, was hardly less note-worthy. This
was the tenth annual ball of the French
Cooks, on the banquet tables of which
were displayed marvels of i-heir profes
sional skill which went far to establish
the claim of eookery to a place among
the fine arts-. Among the table orna
ments were a vase of richly-colored
flowers, so delicate that they trembled
on their stems, and formed entirely of
sugar; an admirably modelled statue of
“Greece,” foijr loot in hoigt, and made
of appropriate material; a group of
“Washington and his Generals” in ice
cream, and a pastry chariot occupied by
two lobsters, and drawn by magnificent
swans made of whipped lard, sailing
over tossing waves of pars Ic ;* and
mashed potato. The architects, c these
wonderful designs were the chG. cooks
of our prominent hotels.
The full extent of Mr. Morrison’s
new Tariff Bill lias appeared, together
with the comments of various promi
nent New York merchants and impor
ters, interviewed for the purpose. The
weight of their testimony is, that the
bill is well considered and commenda
ble, and that its effect would be to both
1 simplify the importing business, and
to stimulate American manufacturers.
The opinion that it will pass the House
also prevails.
A startling, but extremely improba
ble story is the one which now reaches
us from Washington, to the effect that
it is the Spaniards themselves, who keep
the Cuban insurgents supplied with
arms, etc., in order to prolong the in
surrection, and prevent the abolition of
slavery.
It is difficult for the average intellect
to comprehend how ti e prolongation of
a hopeless conflict* ctMd’ effect the de
sired result, and besides, the acting of
the beligereuts, if acting it be, is al
most too natural.
That new animal whose existence in
one form or another has long been
known, but whose classification has but
recently been accomplished by the cre
ation of the name ‘ tramp,” has become
alarmingly numerous, and is reaching a
higli degree of development. The spe
cies as qommonly met with in the rural
districts, seem to be a cross between
the pig, the sloth, and the wolf. That
there is also a little of the fox blood,
in certain individuals at least, is shown
by their late performance in Washing
ton, where live of them were arrested
for stepping up to the doors of Con
gress, calling out individual members
and by representing themselves as
hard-up constituents, endeavoring to
extract small loans from our national
Legislators. If this sort of develop
ment goes on, and there is any reliance
to be placed on Darwin, who knows but
this strange biped may “evolute” into
man, with whom this last exploit would
indicate-its close connection?
The Titiens Opera Season has proved
a great success. Nillson herself hardly
drew larger or more enthusiastic audi
ences, and the Academy on an opera
night has been a sight to gladden the
managereal ej r e.3 and warm the mana
gereal heart. The prima donna whose
concert performances were rather coldly
praised by the newspaper critics, a few
weeks since, has fairly taken those
gentry off their feet by her renditions
of opera, and, warmed their pens into
writing big adjectives about her dra
matic force.
Aside from the opera the leading
amusements remain the same, with no
immediate prospect of change. “Rose
Michel,” which proves itself one of the
successes of the deca'ic, is running
with unabated attendance at the Union
Square, whose managers, Messrs. Shook
& ILilracr, show r their appreciation of
popular favor by increasing the strength
and attractiveness of tiie play. The
furore created by this remarkable work
tempted the publishers of the N. Y.
Weekly to lay violent hands upon the
story an 1 make thereof a serial for
their publication, Messrs. Shook &
Palmer, who own the exclusive right
to the work, have enjoined its further
publication.
The Grand Conservatory of Music,
under the direction of Mr. Ernest
Ebcrhard, has grown wonderfully in
popular favor. Its entertainments
every Wednesday evening, are now
considered the most classical of any
series given in the city, and are well
worth the attention they receive.
Miss Youge’s new book, “My A1
cides,” published by Macmillan & Go.,
is just out, and is the slrongest novel
of the year so far,
“Mrs. Limber’s Raffle,” publ'shed by
the Appletons, is a bright, sharp little
story aimed at lotteries in general, and
church fair raffles in particular. Its
moral, while well sugar-coated, is very
evident,
It seems that the United States ha
not got a monopoly of the Barnum ge
nius. A. dispatch from Berlin informs
us that an enterprising adventurer has
secured the clock-work of Thomasson's
dynamite infernal machine, and propos
es to display its horrors among the fly
gobbling constituency of rural Germany
at so many yrosuken par head. It looks
as though a Yankee occasionally got
born in some foreign country by mis
stake. Radik,
IimMIMS.
A LEAP YEAR THADIEDY.
They stool together iu the entry be
neath the hall lamp.
“Then, Henry,” she sail in a low
voice, wherein were lien lei determi
nation, melancholy and love, “you re
fuse my suit? ”
“Vos, Ella,” he replied, in accents
that were Ann, though the speakers
voice was firm. "I admire you ; 1 will
be a brother to you, and watch with
pride your course through life, and if
ever trouble should befall you there will
ut least be one friend to whom you can
come for succor ; but I can never, never
bo your husband/'
'‘lt is not because I am poor, Henry?
For, oh, if that were all, I could toil
gladly from morn till night for you,
and strive and win a home for you,
humble it might be, bat our own.”
“ft is useless to attempt to in
duce me to change my determination.
Though L am but a poor, weak man, 1
can never, never change :ny mind.”
“Then cruel young man, so fair, and
yet so false, farewell. To-morrow you
will see my mangled remains on the
lecture platform, and know that it has
been your work. But it will be too
late," and clasping him to her bosom
in a wild embrace, she fled into the out
er darkness.
Winslow having gone back on sooth
ing syrup will take consolation in a lit-
Holland.
A CURE FOR FOLLY.
ONE OF THE ROMANCES IN REAL METRO
POLITAN LIFE —A HUSBAND RE
CLAIMED.
A lady about fifty years of age, the
wife of a well known New York merch
ant, was invited by a distinguished
physician to call at his office at 11 o’-
clock on a given day. She went down
and found the doctor with her has ban l.
lie was the physician of the family.—
lie informed her that lie Bad a very
disagreeable duty to perform. It was
that her husband was entirely alienated
from her, and would live with her no
more. He would provide for her, give
her a comfortable home and mainten
ance, and with that she must be content.
The blow felled her to the floor. She
was taken home a maniac, and weeks
passed before she recovered her reason.
Her home was broken up, and she
moved into her new quarters provided
by her husband. It was evident that
the husband had formed an attachment
for another woman. He bought the
house that he proposed to give her, and
furnished it ellegautly from saloon to
attic. He promised to give a bill of
safe of all the personal effects in the
mansion; The man lavished on this
woman heavy sums of money, lie
bought her the best silks and satins,
sable furs, and sacks, and footed all
the bills she ran up at Stewart’s. She
passed as a rich widow from Virginia,
receive ! letters from pretended rela
tives about a fortune she was coming
into by and by, and with these papers
secured large sums of money. The
merchant drew heavily on his firm, and
was threatened with bankruptcy.
Getting an inkling of what was go
ing on, the wive consulted a detective,
lie advised her to commence a suit
against her husband, which she refused
to do. “1 don’t want money,” she said.
“I want my husband. If he could
'know what I know, the charm would
be broken, and ho would return to His
home a penitent man.” The detective
visited the house and had an interview
with the woman, and secured one of
the best rooms for alo Iger. That lo 1-
dger was the detective’s own man, who
was to gather up the little facts that
would appear in the management of the
concern.
fie visited the merchant in his store,
and made an appointment to ride out
with him the next day about five miles,
to look at a flue coupe horse, which lie
was desirions of purchasing for his fe
male companion. Instead of finding
the horse, he was brought face to face
with his wife, whom lie had not seen
in months. The interview could not be
averted. The black record of the wo
man’s character an and crime was laid be
fore him. lie saw how his money went,
and what sort of an establishment he
was supporting, and how ho was the
laughing stock of his associates. His
infatuation ended, and he resolved to
return to town, denounce the woman
and forsake her. He proposed to get
the property back that the woman
claimed as her own. A little scheme
was laid that turned out to be an emi
nent success. The woman wanted a
few hundred do’lars for her sister, to he
paid through her sister’s husband. .She
wanted a set of diamonds for Christmas
and a coupe for lady’s day at New
Year’s. A note was dspatched, under
the directions of the detective, asking
her to meet her friend at a well-known
trysting-plaoe the next day at 11 to de
cide upon these gifts desired. She was
to remain from 11 to I, in ease buiiness
should detain the merchant. Promptly
on time she left in her coach, and had
hardly turned tinned the corner before
wagons drove up, an lin an hour the
house was stripped from the basement
to t.e attic. At 2 o’clock the woman
of the mansion returned. The colored
woman wrung her hands in despair, the
shield of the detective hiving kept her
quiet. He ordered the woman oif the
steps and turned the key. saying, as he
walked away : “Don’t annoy that man ;
don’t go near his store; write him no
notes. If you do [ will arrest you for
past crimes and send you to tiie island.”
The merchant and his wife are now
living cosily in their old homestead.
DEATH OF A STATESMAN.
BHVISBDY JOIIXSOX KOUSD DKAD.
Reverdy Johnson, the distinguished
statesman and jurist, was found dead
this evening at 8:15 m the grounds sur
rounding thoExe mtive Mansion at An
apolis. Mr. Johnson was the guest of
Gov. Carrol and dined this afternoon
with other gentlemen at the Etaoutive
Mansion. He was found dead in the
yarl by a ser/ant. —Ex.
Nobly Said. —After the adjournment
ofthe Mississippi Legislature on Ge.i
eral Lee's birthday a subscription was
taken up in behalf of the proposed
statue of Lee, when over three hundred
dollar was realized. Senator Furlong,
a former Federal officer, in handing in
his contribution (fifty dollars) said :
“As one who wore the blue and fought
for four years in the army that opposed
General Itobt. E. Lee, I am glad to
have an opportunity ot cotributing my
mite towards the erection of a monu
ment to the memory of one of the great
est military chieftains, bravest soldiers
aud purest Christian gentleman that
this or any other age or country ever
produced, and one of whom aIL true
Americans ought to feel prou l.”
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ONE OF EVGENIES MATCHES.
THE ROMANTIC STORY OF A COUUTESS—
THE WIFE Of] TWO HUSBANDS.
J.'ho Empress Eugenie, the match
maker ol two hemispheres, persuaded
Countess valentine do Chimay, beauti
ful, good and rich, to marry the I’riuco
de Baauffremonf, handsome, bad and
poor. The only two points on which
the two agree 1 were good looks and
youth. This proved insufficient to keep
the tcpgetliur. The prince went on
the Mexican expedition; the princess
staid at home, led a spotless life, and
wrote him long letters, which lie did
not take the trouble to answer. When
ha returned she went to Brest to meet
him. But he had already started for
Baris. She pursued him there only to
find that lie had left for his chateau. —
lie wrote thence his first letter to her
after an absence of two year3, it was
composed of these words:
Madame—What have you done with
my shirts? I don't find a them in the ar
mored
When the two met in Paris, it was
only to separate. The prince began a
scandalous life. The princess sued for
a separation. It took her seven years to
gain it. The French law does not rec
ognize divorce, that neither party
could legally marry again, even after
the separation de corps had been de
creed. But meanwhile the princess had
fallen in love with Prince George Bibes
co. and was bound to marry him. Hav
ing the will, she found the way. She
moved to Dresden and had herself nat
uralized as a Saxon. Then sh3 got an
absolute divorce from the Dresden court
j There was no obstacle to her civil inar
; riage, outside of France. But a religi
ons obstacle remained. The Catholis
| church repudiates divorce. The pope
would not sanction a remarriage. The
i Princess de Beautfremont received the
| new3 calmly, abjured romauism forth
with, an l became a member of the
! Greek church. The Greek Driest at
Dresden, a native Russian, baptised’
I her and,said he woul l perform the mar
jriage service for her, provided the Eui
jperoroftho Russians would give his
| consent. Everything was legal as far
|as Russian laws and Greek Catholic
j rules ware concerned. The religious
marriage was promptly performed iu
| Dresden and the civil marriage followed
it at the Waliachian legation in Paris.
And yet the l’riucess Bibesoo is still
the I’rineess Beautfremont in Franco.
French law an i Catholic law give her
on; hiib.nl; the Greek church an i
the rest of Europe give her another.—
She is the wife of two different men.
Her position in France is unique.
She is liable for prosecution for biga
my, an l can be, it is said, extradited
fro.n any other civilized country to
which she may flee. Her first two chil
dren can be taken posession of by her
first husband, even if they wish to
remain with their m itiier. If she has
any children by her second marriage
they will be known legally by the name
of Beautfremont, not Bibesco. If the
courts should grant them the latter
name, it would make them illegitimate,
and incapable of inheriting any part
of their mother's i;n uense fortune.
Finally, if Madam ii. B. should ever
decide to go back to the first B. the
secoal will be helpless. So this wife,
in France, lias the choice of two hus
bands. Possibly pollyandry is intro
ducal upon the soil of Europe.
II )W TO JUT) T/I A TJ WN.
The JeTerson City (Mo.) Journal
t.l s this:
About a week ago, a gentleman from
Tennessee, representing a capital of
§20,000, in search of a location in
which to engage in business gave us a
call, and after stating his mission.
“West,” asked to look at our paper.—
Wo handed him the Morning Journal.
To our surprise, he did dot stop to read
our newsy “pick-ups,” or our attractive
editorial page but he turne 1 to the ad
vertisements and commenced going
over tiie space.
“Well,” sai 1 he, 1 inking up from the
paper, “Is that all r Is that the business
of this town?”
“Oh, no,” sai l we, “there is the Tri
bune with a few advertisements that
do not appear in the Journal.”
He then counted two additional lo
cal advertisements in the Tribune, and
again looked up and remarked j
“And this is all, is it? Why you
have not got near as much of a town as
l thought you had.”
And then we explained to him that
wo had a great many business men who
do not advertise. “They are nut busi
ness men to hurt,” was his answer.
We could not contradict him, ami we
were powerless to vindicate the claims
of the city.
He left us, saying if he had time he
would look around, but thought this no
place for him.
This is one instance, and a fact.
We know some town with from sixty
to one hundred business houses of one
sort or other, which judged by the above
just rule, would make a very poor show
ing indeed before strangers. Intelli
gent men often come into our office to
examine newspapers from different
towns to see whether it would be desi
rable to locate there. They invariably
decide against such as make a small
show in advertising.
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Eugenie is looking thin aud pale.
The burden of maternal duty lias press-j
cd upon lior with Unusual weight ever
since the Prince Imperial began to raise'
„ mustache. '
NO. 41.
A CASE OF FILIAL DEVOTION.
Much of the current gossip of the day
about town turns upon executions,
hanging baes and hemp matineen Ap
ropos of this subject, Judge Borden
tells this story, which he vouches for as
true and which will bear repeating. A
few years shut the Judge was presiding
over the trial of a man charged with
murder by the use of poison. The trial
took place at a small town not far from
Fort Wayne. The jury had boon out
some time, and as the evidence was
very conclusive against the defendant,
the general impression was that the ju
ry would find him guilty and affix the
deatli penalty. While the twelve good
and lawful men were deliberating upon
the verdict, a lad, about fifteen years
of age, called upon Judge Borden at his
hotel, when the following conversation
ensued :
“You are Judge Borden, aren’t vou,-
sir?”
“Yes, my son ; what do you want?”
“Well, my name is —;1 am the
son of the man who is being tried for
murder.” ,
“Aha, and what can I do for you?”
“Won’t you have control of my fath
er’s body after he is hung?”
“Well, my soil, why do you think
your father is going to be hung?”
“Because every one says ho ounfit to
be.”
“Do you think he ought to?”
“No, sir, I don’t. But if lie is, and I
guess he will be, I want you to give ms
the bo ly.”
“Well,” said the Judge, touched with
this apparen instance of filial devotion,
“what will you do with the body if you
get it?”
“Why, sir. two doctors in this town
are going to give me S4O for it.
The Judge wilted and the lad retired,
satisfied that he had gained his point.
COMMENTS m ON “DAD."
Yesterday afternoon two strangers
were walking up and down the Detroit
and Milwaukee depo„ to pass the time
away, were attracted to a locomotive
standing on the rails, and as they walk -
e 1 around it, one of them remarked :
“It was one these fellows tb.at killed
in;’’ old dad.”
“Is that so?” replied the other.
“Yes, busted him in nine or tcnjpiec
es—l never thinking of it without tears
coining.”
He sighed and went on.
“Dal was walking on the track
when she busted him. The engineer
said he reimbursed bis lever, Flowed
his whistle, and done all he could to
save the old man, who was trotting
along with his hea l down, but nothing
could warn. This ’ere cowcatcher pick.--
e l him up and tossed him forty feet
high, and he turne i over three times,
and he corns down in a corn field.”
“Aul lie was dead?” asked the
other.
“Dead! Well I should say he was.
Every rib was broke, his skull was stove
in, one leg gone, and he was the worse
looking man you ever saw. I shall nev
er iorget the day when they brought
him home. There was mother weeping
in the corner, sister Julia up by him on
the bed, and I had run the funeral
business though I was that near gone
that I couldn’t keep nothing on my
stomach but injnn porridge.”
“It was a sad tiling,” replied the
other.
“You bet it was,” continued the son ;
“au l the newspapers come out and said
tlfat dail was a blame fool for walking
on the track—them were the very words
in the papers.”
“They were?”
“Yes, them were tin* words, and I
tell you they stuck us bad. Dad might
have been reckless but ha was no fool.
He had a good heart, and was powerful
on poetry and figures.
lie wiped his eyes on the palm of his
hand, and he and his companion move l
away.
A NEW YEAR’S DIARY.
A large number of young men of
Detroit purchased diaries for 187 G, and
took up their pencils with a firm determi
nation to keep track of every day in
the year. Every young man should
keep a diary. When he is old and gray
his grand-children will fish it out of the
rag bag and find it more valuable than
gold or silver. There is no set style of
jotting down thoughts and events, but
perhaps it may be well to give tiie re
cord of 1875 as taken from the pocket
diary of an average young man:
‘Jan. I—Went to see my girl. Shall
leave oif swearing, drinking, euchre,
smoking, chewing, being out nights,
betting, going to the opera, and shall
try to save §IO,OOO this year.’
‘Jan. 7—Went to see my girl. Lost
a box of cigars somewhere.’
‘Feb. I—Won §25 betting on a dog
fight. That’s the way to scoop ’em.
Am trying to get along on fifteen cigars
per day. Went to seo my girl. Sho
says I shouldn’t swear.’
‘April 21)—Went to seo ray girl.
Nothing new.’
‘July 4—This is the glorious Fourth.’
‘Sept. I—Went to see my girl.’
‘Nov. 11—Glorious weather. Went
to see my girl.’
‘Dec. I—This is the first of Decem
ber.’
‘Dec. 25—This is Christmas.’
‘Doc. 81—This is tho last day ui the
year. I must commence to-morrow to
save money and break otf my bad hall- ■
its. Went to see my girl last night, ami
made her happy by telling her that I
was going to save S 10.000 next yoai-’^