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THE GEORGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.
A half interest in Dexter, the trotting
horse, was sold on 3Ienday for $10,000.
J3?”Gcn. Beauregard sailed from Europe
lor America on the 10th.
QTHannilm! Hamlin, the recent Vice-
President, thinks he could get along by hang
ing tome dozen Southerners, if he were Presi
dent. That is moderate.
The Ncwhuryport Herald predicts
that Gen. Butler will be the radical candidate
for President in 1868, and Gen. Grant tbe
conservative candidate.
sr Tbo colored Baptists of tbe United
States have organized a General Missionary
Association, which recently met at Richmond.
The colored Baptists prefer separate denomi
national organization to a union with the
Northern or Southern Churches.
Attention is invited to the advertise
ment of the Lookout Mountain Institutions.—
The object ofthe founder of these Institutions
was to furnish males and females an opportu
nity to procure a good education at small
cost. The location is a fine one, the school
in charge of a gentleman highly spoken of.
and the rates of tuition very low.
tsr In the Texas Legislature, August 14
Mr. Jackson offered a resolution instructing
the Committee on Public Lands to inquire
into tbe expediency of donating three hun
dred and twenty acres to each Confederate
soldier, who, by reason of wounds received
in the late war, is incapacitated for labor, mid
to report by bill or otherwise. • It was adop
ted.
The India. Cotton Crop.—Advices from
India, via. England, predict that the cotton
crop of that country the present year will
show a material falling off as compared with
tbe year just closed, tbe inducements to plant,
so far as the price is concerned, not being so
groat, and the recent panic in England which
seriously disturbed money relations with In
dia in connection with cotton,acts os a check
to the free and unrestricted growth of the
staple.
Order in Liberty County.—E. Yu lee,
Agent of the Freed men’s Bureau in Libeity
county, writes to the Savannah Herald, deny
ing the report recently published, of a band
of Regulators in that county, He says that
no such a band exists there. There is, as in
all communities, here and there a man who
disregards law, and takes upon himself to re
dress grievances. He deems this statement
due to the good name of a county distinguish
cd for tbe good morals, intelligence and re
gard for law and order of its inhabitants.
Hon. Horace Maynard lias written a
letter to the Gallatin Examiner, in which lie
denies having made a speech at Mouse Creek,
or any where else, in favor of negro equality.
We are glad to hear it, both for Maynard’s
and Truth’s sake. And just here we beg to
enter our earnest protest against the fabrica
tion of falsehoods by the South empress,
against even such bad men as the Radicals,
thereby making the Southern people as mean
and faithless as tbe Radicals themselves.—
Nothing is made in the long run by misrep
resentations, and character is always lost.
Raymond follow* Bennett.
The New York Times,, says the Richmond
Dispatch, is a rare journal. Whilst it lias a
better reputation than the Herald, its editor
is no less a weather-cock than Bennett him
self. Raymond follows the lead of “tie
tliistlc-fed Scotch scoundrel’’ so far as tie
State elections arc concerned. Upon the i>*
suit of these depends the success of the Presi
dent's policy. Raymond, therefore, in refin
ing to support Hoffman, docs, in effect, refine
to sustain the restoration policy of the Presi
dent We were apprehensive that such would
be a sequence of the uncompromising spirit
evinced by the Democrats in the State Con
vention, though the provocation is insulli-
cient to justify the defection of the conserva
tive Republicans. Alter reciting the 'action
of the State Convention, and specifying the
particulars in which it was objectionable to
the Republicans, thcTimes announces its in
tentions in the following language:
“There arc thousands and tens of thous
ands of Republicans in this State who lo-jg
for tbe restoration of the Union, and who <b-
mand that it shall be effected by a loyal ad
herence to the letter and spirit of the Con
stitution, and by the admission to their scats
in Congress of loyal men from loyal States w I o
can take the oath prescribed bylaw. But
they will be quite likely to prefer takirg
their chances of securing this result from the
action of the Republican party, modified us it
may be by reflection and moderate counsels,
rather than seek it in the way marked out for
them by the Albany Democratic Convention.
Correspondence ef the Georgia Telegraph.
Letter from Washington.
Washington, Sept. 17, 1SGG,
In view of tbe certainty that the tnrill mea
sure will receive much of the attention of the
Congress at the ensuing ses-ion, the Secreta
ry of the Treasury is seeking through every
proper available channels all such informa
tion as will be pertinent to the question, so
as to enable him to embody in bis report all
facts which will assist Congress in the adjust
ment of that intricate question
There is to bo a special session of tbe Cab
inet to-morrow in advance of the regular day
ot meeting. Many matters of moment which
have been laid over, owing to the absence of
the President, require to be promptly consid
ered.
It is strongly intimated in those circles
where the most reliable facts are gleaned that
there is no more advancement towards a trial
of Jefferson Davis than existed last summer.
The administration are inclined (if the courts
fail to consider the case at the ensuing term)
to move more conspicuously than heretofore,
by extending to tlie distinguished respondent
a parole. The sentiment is gaining strength
that the trial never will come off
Among the many distinguished delegates
selected and to be present at tbe Soldiers’ and
Sailors’ Conservative Convention, at Cleve
land, Ohio, are Admiral Farragut and Gen’l.
John C. Fremont.
The gold in the Treasury at the close of
the week reached $2,800,000, with a receipt
daily ranging between two and three mil
lions. On first of November the interest on
Five-Twenties will absorb $24,000,000, and
on tbe first of January $10,000,000 will be
paid out for interest on the Ten-Forties. The
receipts will nearly, if not quite, provide for
this outlay, which will leave the vaults of the
Government still filled with near a hundred
millions of gold.
The sum of $700 have been paid over to
the conscience fund of tbe Treasury by a
Catholic priest of Baltimore, who stated that
lie had received it at the Confessional.
The Mexican Minister, residing a few doors
from tbe War Secretary, opposite tbe Frank
lin Square, lias kept the Mexican flag unfurl
ed from a lofty staff over his residence since I Having passed my early youth in the cavalry,
liia return from the Wc9t. It elicits mncli I fanev 1 have maintained the tastes of an oiii-
speculation and comment. Such an affair is <*r and a gentleman, but I wither drink, play
^ ... , . .... ... I nor hunt. I never was m debt—I never kept
rare with foreigu diplomatists. mistresses—I like public amusements better
Persistent efforts, which show much prom- than drawing room life—I am fond of con-
ise of success, are being made to keep the Feni- certs, theatres, races, excursions and voyages,
an movement prominently before the coun- }. Pty the piano and the organ. I intend to
“ ,* .. .. . , ,. I live in Pans or the neighborhood, and shall
try, doubtless, with the view of pn m Ugl j iaTC n good establishment. As to the man-
political ends. Journals in tbe interest of I ngement of tbo household, I shall arrange
Radicalism are patting the organization on I with my wife for our mutual convenience. I
the hack, and counselling resistance to non- receive none but our common friends. I
I care little for high society and sumptuousliv-
trahty laws, or Federal authority,and warn ing ^though * y p 09 j tl0n as chamberlain
ing Canada that her days are numbered. I makes it necessary that I should sometimes
The adherents of the President, who are pay visits to ministers, ambassadors, ami great
for vigorously strengthening his eflorts to personages. I am altogether devoted to the
SI ,.pS»^.ubiH. r u, saanr
feel quite sanguine that he w ill now come up I j could not give up this habit, which bos lie-
to the necessary requisition, and lop off tbe I come a necessity, ns it was for my father bc-
in"rates and malignant enemies that are in- fore me, and nobody has ever yet blamed
oculating the countrv with tbe pestilential The greater part ot my fortune is
.. * , . ,. TT lodged in the Bank of France. I owe no man
virus of Radicalism, and retarding bis Hercu-1 an ything.
lean efforts to allay the foul revolutionary “Count Sigismond FestetitsdeTolxa,
spirit pervading the North. Some even go so J “Chamberlain to the Emperor of Austria.”
A Chapter on Paris Marriages.
THE STORY OP AN IMPERIAL CHAMBERLAIN
AND HIS BRIDE.
An odd story of French courtship mid
marriage lias lately come to light through le
gal proceedings in a Parisian court. The
(■(Uinti-'S do Tiilna. m e do Vilna, rippli--:! for
a divorce from her husband, Count Sigismond
Festetits de Tolna, one of the Emperor of
Austria’s chamberlains. From the statement
of counsel it appeared that the parties were
married at the mayoralty of the ninth Ar-
rondissement in Paris, July 30, 18C4. The
lady was nineteen years old—the husband
forty-two. She had nothing—lieliadalarge
fortune, besides his rank and position at tlio
Austrian court. He fell in love with her sud
denly at nn evening party at which be met lier
with her mother, Madame Laure Godefroy,
sometimes calling herself Godefroy de Vilna.
The circumstances of the courtship and sub
sequent marriage are amply explained by a
series of letters, which were produced in evi
dence.
TIIE SUITE FOR THE LADY’S HAND.
The following letter was sent to the young
lady’s mother by the Count, tbe next day af
ter the party:
“I desire to marry a young, virtuous or-
g ban, whose father and mother were of no-
le birth, whether belonging to tbe old or
newr nobility. I should like to know wheth
er she is in good health, and whether she
does not object to smoking. What are her
ordinary occupations ? Is she too religious}
How many relatives has she I Has she any in
Paris, and in what position are they f Does
she likepleasutc tours? Does she understand
housekeeping ? Is she gentle, good-tempered
economical, and regardless of frivolous luxu
ry. I have lost both father and mother; I
have a great many relations, but my wife will
be quite independent of my family, whom I
only visit in turn every five* or six years. My
father was of Hungarian origin. My mother
nee Countess de Sennage, belonged to a
French family which came from Lorraine,
reside at Boulognesur-Seine, Rue d’ Agues-
scau, No. 1.”
THE COUNT’S OCCUPATIONS.
On a separate sheet of paper the Count enu
mere ted what he called his ordinary occupa
tions
“ Ever since 1847 I have been in the babit
of traveling for pleasure and instruction in
various parts of the world, I am much oecu
pied with literary pursuits—I am proprietor
and director of a non-political journal (Le
Pelerin). I am a good Christian—I giveaway
a great deal in charity, but I never suffer any
one to dictate to me what I am to give.—
far as to suggest that tbo President should, I
as an effective mode of assisting in his noble |
work, arrest the mad career of the Brown-
low’s, Stevens’, Jack Hamilton’s and Beast I
THE MOTHER DEFINES HER POSITION.
The mother immediately answered this
letter in the following terms:
Monsieur le Comte: It you have not
t, „ ... • „ nrnnr v~ I changed your mind, and desire to become
Butler’s, who are in a migratory tour preach-1 more ° inti nj ate ]y acquainted with my dough-
ing revolt and resistance, iso such purpose I y 0U come to sec us either in Paris,
is, however, contemplated. It is much better or, better still, at Saint Germain, where I
to give such marplot’s plenty of rope, and have a cottage. But before things go further
they will soon choke themselves. il is “ ost tbat 9bould
J, . , , ,. .. ... me that no obstacle exists to the inamage
The aspersions and maledictions which L. ou p ro p 0Se either on the score of birth or
have been heaped upon the President by tbe I fortune. I believe you to be too much a gen-
ingrates feeding at the public crib, will not I tlexnan to desire uselessly to trouble the vir-
alf fall still-born. Such bitter personal raa- P in heart of a J^g^rl. My notary must
.. , ,. . , ,, .. have shown you my letter of the 13th. You
lignity and discourtesy as have clia.actenzed I i) a v e8eeD that my daughter has nothing
many of the class described, will be made n a t present, and that I cannot yet tell what ex
subject of special communication to the heads I pectations she may have for the future. Her
of departments, and a big squealing may be ,a,bcrhM hitherto taken care of lier; he is a
1 Air man of honor, and not likely to fail in his
soon expected from the losing head clique. duty. As to myself, my means are limited,
Potomac, j It is true, but I am perfectly independent—
T — I I have, on the ground of my narrow income,
TnE Great Plague of. London. The I i; VC( j ii a bittially away from Paris, where mas-
week ending the 10th of September, 16Co, ter9 are TeI y expensive, without being better
was that in which this memorable calamity t jj an those which I have always contrived to
reached its greatest destructiveness, for 'M find f or my daughter. I have received the
weighing the baby.
by ETHEL iw*.
"How- many pounds docs the baby weigh—
Baby, who caino but a month ago?
How many pounds from tbo crowning curl
To the rosy point of the restless toe ?”
Grandfather ties tho ’kerchief’s knot.
Tendorlv guides the swinging weight,
And carefully over his glasses peers
To read the record ’’Only eight.’’
Softly the echo goes around ;
Tho father laughs at tho tiny girl;
Tbe fair voung mother sings the words,
While the grandmother smoothes the golden
curl.
And stooping above the precious thing,
Nestles a kiss within n prayer,
Murmuring softly, “Little one,
Grandfather did not weigh you fair.”
No body weighed tho baby’s smile,
Or the love that came with tbe helpless one;
Nobody weighed tho threads of core
From which a woman’s life is spun.
No index tells the mighty worth
Of a little baby’s quiet breath—
A soft, unceasing metronome,
Patient and faithful uato death.
Nobody weighed the baby’s soul,
For here on earth no weights there be
That could avail; God only knows
Its value in eternity.
Only eight pounds to hold a soul,
That seeks no angel’s silver wing,
But shrines it in this human guise,
Within so fair and small a thing.
Oh, mother, laugh your merry note;
Be gay and glad, but don’t forget
From baby’s eyes looks out a soul
That claims*a home in Eden yob
Fighting the Devil.
One night at a late hour, Dr. Bentley was
disturbed at his studies by a rattling sound
among some wood, which, sawed and split,
bad been left by the teamster, the afternoon
previous, too late to be properly housed. He
arose, went cautiously to the window, and
saw a woman filling her apron with wood,
which she hastily carried away. He resumed
his seat, and commenced bis study. Shortly
after the same noise occurred; and on look
ing out a second time, lie saw a similar ope
ration ; the woman filling her "rcat apron to
the utmost capacity. When sne had gone,
he returned to his book, with a tender pity
in his heart for a destitution which sought
relief in this lonely, dreary, not to say sinful,
manner.
By and by he was startled by a heavy crash
of falling wood, and, hurrying up to the win
dow, beheld the poor woman casting the very
dust of the wood from her apron. He re
mained motionless, his gentle heart filled with
commiseration. She swiftly departed, and
joon returned, heavily laden with the wood,
which she threw on the pile as if it were the
“accursed thing.” •
The doctor’s compassion and curiosity were
now intensely excited. He followed her re
treating figure till he discovered her resi
dence, and thus ascertained who she was.—
What she was, was no mystery to him. The
last hour had shown him her virtue’s lofty
height. He called early the next morning on
Mr. B , the wood-dealer, and directed
him to send half a cord of his best wood,
sawed and split, to Mrs. , but by no
means to let her know from whom it came;
which was readily promised. Mr. B -’s
teamster, who happened to be within ear-shot,
though out of sight, was not so bound, and,
when he tipped the wood into the poor wid
ow’s yard, replied to her eager inquiry, who
had sent it, by relating the conversation he
had over heard.
I The conscience-stricken mother, feeling
that her sin and repentance, in the lonely
darkness of that midnight hour, were known
and understood by another heart beside Iter
own, hastened to the house of the benevolent
man, to express her gratitude and her sor
row, and with deep humility and bitterness,
told him the temptation to which her ex
treme poverty bad reduced her, of breaking
the eighth commandment.
“Though my house was dark and cold,
though my heart was wrung with anguish at
the sight of my poor, shivering little ones, I
could not keep it; my conscience wonld not
let me."
“Say no more, my dear madam,” said the
good man. “I saw you conquer tbe devil in
two fair fights.”
Bottled Ben.—The National Intelligencer
calls upon Gen. Butler to explain “how he
managed to get himself and army into tlmt
interesting position of which General Grant
speaks in his fatuous report, when he says
Gen. Butler was corked up tight, as if in n
bottle.”
newont do it, Mr. Intelligencer, so we will
explain the matter by relating a law tacts.—
It is a fact, that Mr. Hildreth, Ben’s brother-
in-law, was, at that time, engaged in sending
bacon, boots, shoes, sugar and coffee across
the lines to the Confederates at ilurfrces-
boro, N. C., which was transported to Rich
mond by the Petersburg and Weldon railroad,
for which cottou was received in exchange.—
Hundreds of people know this to be a fact.
Now we shall not say that the general was re
sponsible for this trade, any farther than
granting permits; nor shall we say that he
was interested in it himself, hut since it is a
fact that Petersburg was defended at that
time by a home guard of citizens, less than
five hundred strong, and that he did allow
himself to be “bottled up” at Bermuda Hun
dred, wc are under the impression that the
general’s brother-in-law reminded him of the
fact that if he, with his splendid army corps,
should defeat less than fire hundred of the
citizen defenders of Petersburg, he would cut
off the market fer “bacon,” and kill a big cot
ton trade. These facts may let our contem
porary into the secret, why General Butler al
lowed liimself to be “corked up tight, ns if in
a bottle.” And by looking on the map of
North Carolina, the Intelligencer may find a
very good reason in these facts, why this
“loyal” general did not take Fort Fisher.—
We are of the opinion, gathered from these
and other corresponding facts, that the brave
general had more “cotton” than “fight” on his
brain.—Norfolk Old Dominion.
Napoleon II.
AN INTERESTING HISTORICAL SKETCH.
Hints to Farmers.
Little Gris, tbe funny lecturer on Hun ka-
dora, perpetrates the following hints to far
mers, through the Cincinnati Tunes :
Wiiat IIoes to Use.—In planting or hoe
ing corn use the ordinary hoes in common
use. Neither India rubber hose nor cotton
hose would be of no account in a com field;
no more would one of Hoe’s eight-cylinder
presses.
How to Hold the Plow.—Don’t try to
hold it out at arm’s length. You can’t do it.
If you hain’t a plow of your own, get out an
attachment on your neighbor's who owes you.
Any Justice can tell you whether you can
hold it or not
TnE Best Time to Pct in Rye.—I asked
an old farmer what was the best time to put
in rye. He looked at his watch and replied:
“ This is about my hour!”
The rye was immediately put in. All sea
sons are tho same for putting in rye.
How to Keep Corn.—The best place to
keep corn is in a good com house, though
some prefer to keep it in their system—in the
juice. If they don’t keep com they keep
corn'd.
Fences and Fencing.—Good fencing is
essential on a farm. Get a good “ fencing-
master” to learn you. A rail fence is better
than an imaginary one. You can’t repair a
worm fence by taking vermifuge. Neither
can you cut good whitewash brushes out of
Inruth fences. 3Iintzer can tell-you that.
To Make Your Stables Warm in Win
ter.—Set fire to them.
To Drain Lands.—Drink whisky, and
spend all your time at the village tavern, This
will drain you of all your land in n very short
time.
Easy Way to Draw Saw Logs.—Draw
them with a crayon pencil. After a little
practice you will be able to draw tbo largest
kinds of saw logs with ease.
i been gradually gaining head num^,. of your newspaper which yon were
fes. Sorrow , and sadness sat enough to send me. Allow me to sav
Republicanism Gone—What Next I—
The Richmond Times asks tbe following per
tinent question:
Does any one recollect an instance fur
nished in liumaun experience of the prescrv
ation of a republican'form of government af
ter the consummation of such a revolution as
that which the Radicnls are inaugurating 1
All free nations have lost their liberties just
os wc are doing, through the machinations of
bad men and tbe corruptions flowing from
the misappropriation of the public treasure.
When our revenues were small and expend!
turcs limited, the struggle for the possession
of power was not of such a character as to
shako the foundations of the Government
and to break tbe peace of the country. But
now wc bavc an income which neither Greece
nor Rome, in all the plentitude of power and
tbe magnitude ot empire, ever collected from
their tributaries. And when “barbaric gold”
bad driven virtue and honor from their coun-
>ils; when their simple republics fell before
the sapping vices of conquest and wealth,
their governments were as hard to “ recon- w i[fch have been prepared by Stevens and
bad at this time
for several weeks, oonw.nnu sauuess enough w ...
upon every face, and though some hearts were j jhet I think the philosophy of proverbs re-
not yet overwhelmed, yet all looked deep- mar fc a biy We n handled. Receive, 31.2c Comte,
ly concerned, and as they saw it apparently “Laure Godefroy.
coming on, looked on themselves and tbeir ., . T 1 Q(M „
families as in the greatest danger, and Lon- Metz > June 20 * 1864 -
don might as well 0c said to bo all in tears. I the young lady speaks for herself.
The people used every precaution—when any A few days later, Mile. Laure de Vilna
one bought a joint of meat in market, he I wrote this letter to the candidate for her
would not take it ont of the butcher’s hand, hand:
but took it off the hooks himself. On the “ July 10,1864.
other hand, the butcher would not touch tlie “ I have long desired to write to you.—
money, but bavc it put into a pot full of vin- Mamma now allows me. I am liappy to tell
egar, which lie kept for that purpose. The I you that my views of life are altogether con-
buyers carried always small money to make tormable to yours. You like travel, so do I.
up any odd sum, that they might not take I should like to go on with my drawing and
any change. Sometimes a man or woman music, which are my greatest resources. Lit-
dropped down dead in the very market, nev- erature will have great charms for me when
or knowing that they bad the plague upon 11 shall be able to follow it more seriously,
them till the inward gangrene had affected You smoke; we will smoke as much as ever
tbeir vitals. you like. I am glad that you will receive
It is scarcely credible what dreadful cases our common friends; it would be very pain-
happened in particular families every day; ful to me to give up the people whom l have
people in the rage of their distemper, or in known from my infancy. I should bo very
the torment of their rnckings, which were in- glad to learn how to ride and swim. A*t
tolerable, running out distracted and often I present, I have but very sligbt notions of
times laying violent bonds on themselves.— cither of those exercises. I like the Emperor
Mothers murdering tbeir own children in as you do; he possesses niv entire admira-
their lunacy—some dying of mere grief—some I tion. As to the management of a household
of fright or surprise—others frightened into I have little experience indeed, but I have no
idiotcy—some into despair, and others into I doubt that with your valuable advice I shall
melancholy madness. Many ran naked into soon be able to do all you could wish; you
the streets, and it was a dangerous thing to [ are good, and therefore indulgent. I have,
touch them; they generally rau on til they alas! no marriage portion to bring you but
dropped down dead. the sweet hope of rendering you happy and
The number ot deaths in the week, ending my youth anti beauty. [The latter words,
the 19th of September, was upwards of ten which clash terribly with the assumed char-
thousand. The weather then began to change, actcr of the timid, blushing maiden, were,
and the air became cooled and purified by M. Lacliaud stated parenthetically, in a dif-
the equinoctial winds. It took a good part ferent handwriting from the rest of the letter,
of the winter to allay tlie infection entirely, and were added by the mother.] And now
and it was'only late in December that the I that serious matters are disposed of, will you
people who had fled began to crowd back to I do us the favor to come to dinner on Tues-
the metropolis!. [ day t Mamma expects you, nnd I wish you
It lias been calculated that considerably particularly to come. Wc shall be most de-
over 100,000 persons perished by this terrible i lighted to see you between us at our table.—
visitation. | Till then I trust in God and you.
—. ,,,rr .—;— , I Laure de Vilna.
gSgr”The various revolutionary schemes
. . Cound Sigismond accepted the invitation
others of the vindictive cast of Radicals for j dinner. Mile. Laure soon afterwards ac-
consideration at the next session may have cepted Count Sigismond’s invitation to be-
ttae effect of producing a commotion in the bis wife, the lioney-moon was spent
Republican party. The people of the North in traveling, nnd the winter of 18G4-5 was
could hardly submit to be dictated to by pa3S ,.d i n Algeria. Before the winter ended
men acting under the advice of Brownlow I began to snub Sigismond. He wrote
and others of tbe fire-and-swonl order of pa* J j ier mother, complaining of the shabby
tnots. ? re that Horace treatment be had received, and declaring that
Greeley, with ms theory of impartial suffrage I wife h*id put paint on her face to prerent
and universal amnesty, will make au issue h ; m f r0 m kissing lier, and tlmt the moment
with that class of men, who, while advocating s j IC u cn [ to bed she fell asleep directly, “with-
the former, are opposed in toto to amnesty to out thinking of cither God or her husband”
any extent. There will al>o be a very deci-1 Afterwards the unhappy couple went to Bou-
struct*’ as ours. They, too, had men like
President Johnson—wise and patriotic—who
essayed to check the downfall of truth
and virtue. But they battled in vain.
The virtue of Cato, the wisdom of Socrates,
the valor of Scipio nnd the eloquence of De
mosthenes and Cicero were vain to stop the
flood, which, when it once sets in, sweeps un
til the last landmark ot freedom disappears.
Detect,tut Accrni focilit ett, ted mom re quo-
dum, hie labor, hie oput ett! It is not hard
to lose liberty; but, when gone, who can re
call it 1 There is no.resurrection for the lost
institutions of a free people: and if the mas
se* of the North shall follow in the lead of
New England and the Radical false prophets
they will desert tbo platform on which tbeir .. _ . -,.
pvon I. ti.n , „ f I tlie steamer Fulton, is the Hon. M . Aapicr, had been completely taken m by them
forefathers stood, even as the Hebrews of old , J>rotlj£ , r ofLo „,^ it . n ]atc j, riUsU Minister' —
detl difference of opinion among the Repub
licans with regard to the question of im
peaching the President, which is now in
some ouarters loudly vaunted.
logne, where a child was born, but the quar
rel continued, and finally the husband began
to beat the wife, and then she sued for a di
vorce. Jules Fnvrc appeared for the defence,
and alleged that the mother and daughter
13?” Among the passengers who arrived at I both belonged to the demimonde, nnd tlmt
New York, on Wednesday, from Europe by I the too susceptable Austrian chamberlain
abandoned tbeir God, and, like them, tbey
will wander, perhaps, forty years in a wilder
ness of anarchy, blood and suffering, smitten
by the wrath of Hcavon for tbeir wickedness
and idolatry.
Tho court, not feeling itself able in the state
to the United States. He intends to settle ] ofthe evidence to decide between the parties
permanently in the United States as a furmer. ordered an inquiry, and in tbe meantime the
Novel nnd Grand Enterprise—Mngnificnnt
■ New Knee Track—Its Cost 83000,000
The North nnd South.
A letter from the Hon. John Forsyth to the
3Iobile Register, dated New York August 28,
we find the following very readable pant'
graphs:
I had n delightful day yesterday in a drive
through the suburbs of New York lor a dis
tance of ten or twelve miles, tlie object being
to visit an enterprise destined to become not
only a New York but a National institution
It is a new race couise beyond Harlem River
built on private property and at private ex
pense. 3Ir. Leonard Jerome, one ofthe mil
lionaires of the city, conceived the magnifi
cent project of a National Race-course, which
when finished will cost him $300,000. Some
idea of the grandeur of the plan may be had
from the statement that tbe principal stand
costs $70,000. The form of the track is a
naval one. It is in shape something like an
hour glass or a figure eight, the grand stand
and the judges lookout being in front of the
neck of the figure,so that when the horses are
half way round they are almost as near as
when starting. A valley swelling at both
ends, and surrounded by beautiful hills, cov-
ored with trees and green sward, seems to
have been made expressly for the shape. ■■
The stables are everything in the way ot
comfort and luxury that horse flesli could de
sire. The club proper consists of fifty mem
bers, 3Ir. Belmont being the principal or pre
siding steward. It is in the hands of the
first men of fashion nnd wealth, and will be
the rage ofthe ton of New York. The course
is to be inaugurated with a lour-milc race
and a purse of $10,000, on tbe 23d of Sep
tember, for which there are twenty-seven en
tries, among them “Asteroid,” “Kentucky,”
“ Fleetwing,” and their aristocratic compeers
of the turf. Does not this make the
mouths of our magnolia lovers of horse-flesh
water? Jlr. Jerome’s stables are already on
tbe ground, and 'others are arriving. The
enterprising proprietor nnd projector of this
enterpise, besides being one of the most ton-
ith men in town, a splendid whip, and a good
liver, is a big-hearted gentleman, and a true
American. He says Ills course is to he one of
tho elements ot reconstruction — a place
where the North and the South can meet to
learn each other's good, qualities, and .wipe
out, in generous emulation and social inter
course, tho asperities of the past.
A Doo on tiie Overland Route.—A cor
respondent of the Chicago Times, writing
from Sparta. Illinois, tells the following story
of a dog:
Some time ago a gentleman removed with
bis family from this county to California
across the plains, and was accompanied by a
dog that had been given him by a neighbor
shortly before be started. In due time tbe
man reached tbe land of gold, and settled
down in one of the beautiful valleys of that
country. The dog was not satisfied with his
new home. Ho was homesick.and lonely,
and often longed—ifwe are permitted to read
canine thoughts—to return to puppyliood.—
One morning his master missed him, nnd
never snw him again. Recently, however, lie
walked into his former master's yard, in his
country, ioot-soro and weary, having crossed
the plains from California here. The hair
was nearly all gone from his hide, and his
feet were worn nud bleeding. This is a true
tale, even if it is a dog tale.
13?” The monument to the memory of
Captain Colt, of pistol fame, is to be a splen
did pile. It is to be of Scotch granite, sixty
feet high, and will cost not far from tweuty-
firo thousand dollars.
Validitt of Deeds for Land Sold for
Confederate 3Ioxey—Important Decis
ion.—The Warrenton (Va.) Sentinel contains
the following report of an interesting and
important case:
Stewart and Palmer vs. Hanback. An ac
tion ot unlawful detainer.
This is an action instituted by the plain
tiffs to recover the possession of a tract of
land called "Waverlv, a mile and a halt from
this place. The trial of the case has engaged
the attention ot the Court for the last three
days, and tbe main point in the case was as
to the validity of a deed executed by R. 31.
Smith to the plaintiff^ in June, 1853, the con
sideration of which was Confederate money.
Hanback entered upon the possession of
the land in 1862, and held it as the tenant of
Smith. Smith sold and conveyed to the
plaintiffs, by the deed ot June, *1863. The
question of the deed was raised by the de
fendant’s counsel by a motion to exclude it
as evidence trom tbe jury, and was elaborate
ly argued by Messrs. Helm and Hunton, for
the defendant, and Messrs. Tucker and Shack
leford for the complainant—the Court over
ruled the motion to exclude, and allowed
the deed to go to the jury. The result of
this ruling settles the law, so far as this
Court is concerned, in favor of the validity
of the deeds for lands sold during the war
for Confederate money.
The jmy rendered a verdict for the plain
tiffs. We understand the case will be carried
up to the Court of Appeals.
3Iisers in New York City.—The N. Y.
Citizen thus refers to a numerous class in the
metropolis: It is not generally known that
New York, at the present time, contains a
large number of misers ns inveterate and de
graded as any on record, and if we had space
we could give a series of portraits of wealth
and avarice which would make the reader
shudder. Many of these misers are old busi
ness men who have withdrawn from active
life and still keep up their faded and
weather-stained signs, and beneath the garb
of trade ply tlieir money-saving habits.—
These men will be found sitting solitary in
dingy offices, filled with cobwebs and thick
witii the dust of years. 3Ioney borrowers
know where to go, and here these pale nnd
threadbare fossils receive the best securities
for their daily loans. Some of these half
starved wretches, whose trembling hands can
hardly sign a check, can draw for sums that
would shake a bank. One of the richest men
in the city is now to be found in just such a
dingy hole as we have described, where he
loans enormous sums daily. He was a mer
chant once, and his old sign is still up; and
inside all tilings remain as they were a half
century ago. He suffers daily tor the com
forts of life; but this is compensated for by
the pleasure of accumulation. “They come
to me to beg,” said the old man to an ac
quaintance, “and there's not a beggar in New
York that does not live as well as I do”—a
statement which was quite true.
£rt/”Thc deaths in Memphis last week
I were 175 --C0 of which were from cholera.
General Chamberlain, the Republican
hu-band is to pay four huudred francs a month 1 candidate for Governor, has received the
alimony, the wife having the custody of the I largest vote ever polled for any man in
child. 1 Mnine.
the Middle States in Danger.—Wen
dell Phillips, who is better posted in Radical
desigqs than anybody else, nnd who always
means something when he speaks, declared,
at the late Brownlow meeting in Boston, as
follows:
“ New England clnsps her right hand with
Texas and the Gulf States for impartial suf
frage. * * * The anvil and the ham
mer are agreed—let the 31iddle States take
warning."
The plain English of this is, that the Radi
cals of New England nnd the negroes of the
South intend to combine nnd dictate laws to
the rest of the States. We hope, with Phil
lips, that the Middle States trill “take warn
ing.” ^
Fast Time.—It is stated on good authori
ty tlmt the owners of Dexter had a bet of
$5,000 on Saturday's race in Chicago, that
lie would trot below 2:18, provided track and
day were favorable. As it had rained in
Chicago for the three previous days the bet
was oil* It is also stated tliat the owners are
Little :s generally known in America ot the
last years of Napoleon II., and the present
moment seems opportune to give ft sketch of
his brief and melancholy career.
Joseph Charles Francis Napoleon, King of
Rome, Duke of Reiclistadt, was born at Paris
on tlie 20th of 3rarcli, 1811. A11 the good
fairies seemed to have assembled around his
cradle, and all appeared to predict for him
honors, riches and power; not one intimated
a doubt of his future grandeur and lustre.'—
Yet. despite thehappy presages which accom
panied his birth, scarcely three years after lie
came into the world as the heir of Napoleon,
the young Prince left France on the 2d of
3Iay, 1814, never to return during life On
arriving in the dominions of his grandfather,
the Emperor of Austria, his title was sup
pressed, the name he bore was proscribed,
every fact in history which recalled the glory
ofliis father nnd the humiliation of his ene
mies was carefully concealed from the child’s
knowledge, and at seven years of age the son
of Napoleon became tbe Duke of Reiclistadt.
An Imperial decree, promulgated July 22,
1818 (the 22d of July was also the date of
his death), conferred upon him the title ot
an Austrian Duke, fixed his rank at the Court
of Vienna, the arms he was to bear, the hon
ors to which he was entitled, and the posi
tion he was to occupy as a member of the
Imperial family of Austria. No trace of Na
poleon was left, and the name itself was for
mally suppressed by the decree.
Afterward, as liegrew up and learned what
a hero had been his father, he suddenly awoke
as from a long slumber. When he read in
secret the story of Napoleon’s immortal cam
paigns, and comprehended tlie glory and
power to which the genius of his lather had
tained, it seemed, to him that he had all at
once entered another world, illuminated by
the history of gigantic exploits.
Then, despite those who surrounded him.
despite the incessant watch kept over him, he
determined to know all. He obtained nnd
eagerly devoured every work in which Na
poleon’s name was mentioned, ard finally,
when he realized how great hi3 father had
been, what humiliations had been heaped
upon him, how he had died a tortured pris
oner, tiie young Prince was fiiled with an im
mense hatred of those who had accomplished
the banished soldier's long martyrdom. His
indignation was also excited against the de
cree which deprived him of the name which
he justly regarded as the most glorious of
those he bore, and lie immediately and reso
lutely signified his intention to be called Na
poleon. Like his father, he was fond of the
profession of arms, but his tall, thin body
could not withstand the arduous exercises to
which he attempted to school himself. Ap
pointed Colonel of tho Gustavus Vasa Regi
ment, be assumed tlie active command, took
part in every fatiguing ceremony, in all
weather, and no matter how ill he was, or
how much his physicians remonstrated. His
dreams were ot glory. He studied tlie art of
war in the numberless descriptions of his
father’s battles, either reading them or in
ducing others to recount them to him,
with the map of Europe beneath his eyes.
He would never consent to lie down, ex
cept when feebleness absolutely forced him
to do so. He well knew that he must soon
die, but he had only one regret in leaving the
world, and that was to have done so little to
prove himself worthy to bear the name of
Napoleon.
I reinember having often seen, in America,
an engraving representing him grasping his
father's sword and lamenting his powerless
ness to wield tlie weapon which has so long
“made till Europe tremble.” The phrase at
tributed to him may be apochryphal, as re
gards the strict letter of the expression, but
that such were in reality his feelings, cannot
be doubted for an instant.
His mother, a woman whose heart seemed
insensible to any ennobling emotion, and who
had not the dignity to remain the-widow of
Napoleon—his mother wept at his bed-side,
when the fatal moment drew near.*
“ Mother! mother 1” lie whispered, “ I am
dying!”
It was the 22d of July, 1862, and these
were the last words of Napoleon II, expiring
in a murmur upon his lips, with his last
breath. Thus died the son of the Great Cap
tain, at the age of twenty-one years. Six
days after his death, on the 28th, a post mor
tem examination of the remains was made at
Schonbrunn. The following is an extract of
the medical report:
“The body completely emaciated; the
chest, in proportion to the body, long and
narrow; the sternum flattened; the neck
wasted.”
He was interred at Schonbrunn with
princely honors, and visitors to bis tomb, at
the present day, will see upon it a Latin in
scription, of which the following is a transla
tion :
To the eternal memory
Of Jos urn Charles Francis, Buko of Reiclistadt;
Son ot Napoleon, Emperor of the French,
And of Maria Louisa, Arch-Duchess of Austria;
Born at Paris, tho 20th of March, 1811,
Died at Schonbrunn, July 22d, 1832.
He had himself written an epitapli, which he
wished placed upon his tomb, but which
was rejected. It was brief nnd to the pur
pose:
Hero lies the Son of tho Great Napoleon!
He was born King of Rome,
He died an Austrian Colonel.'
An Inoffensive Colored M\n v r
ed without Provocation.—An .in.— 116 **-
inoffensive colored man named Char-
Rogers was standing on the side -walk
a party of roughs came np, one of Ji,, ***
named Charles Kelly—without protoc^
.-truck lum a staggering blow in the face^.v
Rogers started to get away f rom t)
when he was followed, kelly remarkin ( ,.!_ ,,
“There's the Mack -on of a b Z*
let’s give it to him.” a# *-‘
And he immediately plunged a knife
the body of the unfortunate man, inflietjr
wound which resulted in death on
evening. wia *J
The crowd of young ruffians were soon •
ter arrested nud locked up. It $ee nu ., V '
Rogers was wholly unacquainted" with *
one of the crowd that so suddenly and Jr'
cilessJv deprived him of life. ' mtT-
[N. York Tribune, 28tii
Such an occurrence as the aCove i n
Southern city would have been produced i’.
Greeley as evidence of tho “ barbarian
slavery,” and of Southern unfitness for re°
resentation in Congress. Tho New Orki"
riot furnished no such case of unproved
murder.
The War on Preacher*.
Satan and other Radicals just now seem
be waging an exterminating war upon tV
preachers in Missouri. Not content
putting them in prison, fining and indictin
them for expounding tho Word of God ttf
devils seem to have taken “a long p n ’i]!
strong pull, and pull altogether,” with a rfL
of getting rid of that class of criminals,-,
tirely. The shocking murder of the Rev
Air. Headlee has been followed, it appe*^
by other violent acts. In Grundy countv»
gang of Radical imps, a couple of Snndsi,
ago, drove the Rev. Joseph Devlin fromfe
pulpit, hursted percussion caps at him, ij
hooted him out of church, because he li*}
not taken the oath; and, for the same reason
a few days since, the Rev. 3Ir. Price, wia
on his way from DeKalb to Clinton countv
was followed by a number of outlaws, -wtfo
broke into a house where he was staying ov«
night, and so beaten with clubs and pistols
that the unoffending minister had to be co 8 .
veyed to his home, where a dispatch sajs, [*
now lies in a critical condition.
Gov. Fletcher, of course, never heart of
these things. He is the most ignorant nuj
in*3Iissouri, it would seem, in regard to tie
true condition of affairs in many jiarta ofthe
State, and, while the best men in it are ton*
shot down like dogs, dragged from the
cred desk, or bludgeoned on the highway bv
Radical scoundrels, he prates about the “ea*.
forcemeat of tbe laws” against men who have
no thought of violating them. Isn’t he t
sweet-scented Executive?—&t. Louis Rej-:-.
liean.
Wno is tiie Negro's Friend?—A few
days since a citizen of Richmond bavin? <*.
cas ion to visit Surry county, met with an ok
slave in a very destitute condition and almoj
naked. The negro told him that he had beo
working for an agent of the Freedmen’s Bn-
reau at four dollars per month and his food.
He had only received three dollars per mom;
and no rations. His former master went wifi
him to the man, and asked him if he was a
agent of tlie Bureau. The fellow very inso
lently replied: “Is that any ot your d— be-
siness?” The gentleman replied: “ItIs.sir.
This man was once my slave. I have alvap
t-eated him well, nnd don’t intend that k
shall be imposed upon now.” He then pro
duced the negro’s labor contract, drawn tp
in legal form, nnd made the man pay the w-
gro what was due him, about seventy dolhui
When he returned to Richmond he made
complaint of the affair to the authorities, ud
the agent has since been discharged.
■on
t?
A Very Grim Joke.—The New Tort
Evening Post pokes fun at B. F. Butler she
the following manner. If we could, fora
instant, believe the Post serious, we should
feel sure it wanted old Butler arrested lor
larceny. There must be quite a number of
capiases for him, both in Norfolk and 3’ev
Orleans:
“General Butler talks ot taking up arm;
again; but it would be much better if k
would go through the South, in company xitk
other men of like opinions witii himself, ud
address the people in favor of equal rigbu
and impartial suffrage. We shall undoubt
edly support any movement of that kind by
General Butler, and shall insist upon tk
maintenance of his right of free speech. ff»
hope the Southern loyalists will, when they
meet at Philadelphia next week, invite 0a
1 gutter and other prominent Republicans to
* ’’stump’ tlie Southern States in their -behalf:
we hear that they request tlie Republics
party to hold a grand mass convection in »n»
Southern citv. That is the best thing they
can now do,”
Appearance of the Sun from the North
Pole.
To n person standing at the North pole,
the sun appears to sweep horizontally around
the sky every twenty-four hours, without any
perceptible variation during its circuit in its
distance from the horizon. On the 21st June
it is twenty-three degrees and thiity-eight
minutes above the hcrizan—a little moie
than one fourth of the distance to the zenith
the highest point that it ever reaches. From
this altitude it slowly descends, its track be
ing represented by a spiral or screw with a
very fine thread; and in the course of three
'nontbs it worms its way down to the horizon,
which it reaches on the 23d of September.—
On this day it sweeps around the sky, with
its face half hidden below the icy sea. It
still continues to descend, and after it lias en
tirely disappeared it is still so near the horizon
that it carries a bright twilight around the
heavens in its daily circuit. As the sun sinks
lower and lower, this twilight grows gradu
ally fainter and fainter till it fades away.—
On the 20th of December the sun is twenty-
three degrees and thirty-eight minutes below
the horizon, and this is the midnight of the
dark winter of the pole. From tins date the
sun begins to ascend, and after a tirao bis re
turn is heralded by a faint dawn, which cir
cles slowly around the horizon, completing
its circle every twenty four hours. This dawn
grows gradually brighter, and on tUc aoui or
March the peaks are gilded with the first lev
el rays of the six months’ day. The bringer
of this long day continues to wind his spiral
way upward till he reaches his highest place
on the 21st June, and liis annual course is
completed.
The Immortal 3[ilroy.—One day during
the hard wiuter of 18G3, n .Miss Arnold ap
plied to General Milroy, then in command at
Winchester, for a permit to forage for her
cow, whose milk was the chief support of the
family. “Are you loyal!” asked the Gen
eral. “Yes,” she replied. He began to write ' 3 ‘
the permit—“to the United States 1” “To
the Confederacy, of course,” “Then I shall
give you no permit. This infamous rebellion
must'be crushed.” “Well,” said she, “if you
can crush it by starving John Arnold's old
cow, go it.”
Deef Soundings.—Sidney E. Morse, of
New York, lias just patented a curious philo
sophical instrument, which is called a bath-
ready to put up $50,0)0, not less, od Is of onll -' ter - You throw it overboard with its
three to giYC,that Dexter will trot below SfclB- appendages, in the ocean, where water is
and if allowed a running horse alongside, will! d “P- Tt 8° es dow » >‘ ke • »bot, and
trot the mile in two minutes.-W. T. Timer. as soon us it touches the bottom lt turns and
t comes back to tlie surface. You pick it up
Prentice any* t lat the trouble with | and the true depth of the water where it struck
the Mulatto Convention at Philadelphia was I the bottom is seen on the scale of the barom-
that h had the Bottt. The disease was just j eter, just as you see the degree of heat on the
suited to the victim. scale of a thermometer.
A Man his own Grandfather.—A Euro
pean friend of mine related the following
story: I married a widow, who had a grown
daughter. My farther visited our house vaj
often, fell in love with my step-daughter, and
married her. So Either became my son-in-h*
and my step-daughter my mother, becan*
she was my lather's wife. Some time after
wards my wife got a son—he was my father's
brother-in-law, and my uncle for he was tk
brother of my step mother.
My father's wife i.e. my step -daughter, hw
also a son, lie was of course my brother, and
in the meantime my grandchild, for he ws
the son of my daughter.
3Iy wife was my grandmother, because fie
was my mother's mother. I was my wife j
husband and grandchild at the same time-
And as the husband of a person’s grandmoth
er ishis grandfather. I was my own grandfath
er.—Not Ifaren Register.
Little Deeds of Kindness.—Each of*
thousand acts of love cost very little of itsell.
and, yet, when viewed together, who can «-
timate their velues? Tho child whosego®'-
offices are always ready when wanted to r®
up stairs and down, to* get chips or rock tit
cradle, to run an errand and back, with*
cheerful look and a pleasant temper, hsj J
reward along with such good duties. U»
little girl cannot take her grandfather on
lap as he takes her on his, she can get tie
slippers or put away tho- book, or gectJ
comb bis thin locks; and whether shetb'"-*
of it or not, these little kindnesses that co D <
from a loving heart, arc the sumbeams tbs*
lighten up a dark nnd woeful world.
Good Sense.—It will preserve us from«®
aoriotunesa; it will lead us to distingiu-- 1 ^
eumstances; will keep us from looking
visionarv perfection, nnd make us see thu.^
in their prujjcr li s bt. It will lo*U
dispositions, peculiarities, accommodation--
to weigh consequences, to determine wba*fj
observe, and what to pass by; when
It will produce good manners, keep us ;r u"
taking freedoms and handling things ronJT
ly; will never agitate claims of sapenon u
but teaches us to submit ourselves one to s-
ctlier. Good sense will lead persons t°r®
gard tlieir own duties, rather than to it**®
mend those of others.
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How to Get Rid of Ants.—A lsdyn' 0 - 1 '
Some ten years ago, I went to my clofd.v
t a sponge cuke, end found it covered
ose little pests, the red ants. Not kn° w “3
liat io do with it, I laid it down on an
walnut table close by, and_ in less tim® . {
it has taken me to write this, the ants let*,
cake and table. I immediately took tn<> ^
and put walnut shelves in niv closets,
since that time there has not been an '
seen.
tiie telegraph.
With Anglo-American telegram charge-’*
Ills field of profits brave Cyrus enlarges.
From Arpy Bay to the Irish station. ;
A guinea per minute is Field's (i-fy-J 4
Xoc York .Sunc.c-j -•
JSf” Mme. Jerome Patterson Bonapart-:
Baltimore, is writing her memoirs.