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rnE PROSPECT.
A DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION,
Oar Democratic contemporaries of Augusta
are urging the immediate assembling of a
Democratic State Convention, to decide upon
a plan of harmonious and effective action in
the future. Wo quote as follows :
From the Con*titutionaIiit.\
“Whether we have lost or gained by the
late canvass, each one can determine for him
self. We trust that it has not weakened the
Democracy North and South. We further
trust that it has not built up and compacted
the Radical party in our midst. One thing,
however, we deem to bo a certainty, that
never before was there so much need of per
fect organization and active work. Let not
those who were so rabid to enter into the
recent contest grow despondent aud negli-
cxist. These rest mainly upon |
-tsntial foundations.
- t ,ii f c cl much more secure upon the I
prospects. Six months ago these!
LOVE’S BETRAYAL. [and—oh, dear lit is so bad for the teeth.” | Uttie white dove! half an hour lienee, 11 father was not reared a teetotaller • and
She made a little grimace, as .he snip-1 did not care whether I lived or died; though I was, and have no taste for li-
BY AMT RANDOLPH.
midst of unexampled pecuniary
anil apparently deepening politi-
•joe since tho war, lmvo there been that situation with rigid scrutiny, aud seek to re-
..f hope and confidence in tho future pair the damage to their shields and battlo
. . axes. Let them pluck up ten-fold spirit for
more valorous deeds. Let them assail the
enemy at all points and in all seasons. By
E ersistent and unflagging essays. Radicalism
as won on tho side of wrong; it will be an
j we U nigh hopeless. Tho whole I unutterable shame, a withering disgrace, if
mrticulary the Liverpool Cotton Democracy should fail to manifest an equally
... ii,o nm«t determined vigor in the championship of of
*. «re telling u that the great cotton right . As an of tb - g ^ for
inginterest of the Southern States was I the better understanding of all elements of
• of the past. The circulars of the I success, we propose, at the earliest practica-
~ .in,,ri,i us by figures, facts and argu- hie day, a State Democratic Convention,
t abundance of cotton could be , whi t c . b sha!1 h ? ve . tbc P ower ° f issuing “ dec-
! ‘ ,st ® , , , .. laration ot principles as a platform, and for
r«l abroad at much lower rates than it such other purposes of reorganization as the i
, grown by free labor in America; I occasion may demand.”
point of fact, they were largely over- I From tit Chronicle and Sentinel
ilready. I “To avoid tho possibility of distracted
11 e singular and entertaining read-1 counsels or antagonistic action on the part of
ut we our frieD ds, and to harmonize, mobilize and
- r.. *i,„ m rri,_ strengthen our own party, we arc clearly of
:ii r time nor space for them. The t ], e opinion that a Convention of the party,
recollect them to their Borrow, should be called at once. We have taken
liny were the offspring of honest the liberty to make this suggestion after con-
rof crafty speculation, tho result sultation with some of our more distinguished
the same. They took the cotton I S . tatC8meD ’ W,10 - fu . 1 ^ and cordially concur in
ped off the bit of wool with linv, pearl- now my life is precious beyond words to quor, I am not unable to see how a little
white teeth. Silingsby didn t know I me! I whiskv nnv be the last nhvsiml soli’e
“Is that really you, Gerald Silingsby ? I whether it would have afforded him the “Gerald! ” sho faltered, with a sudden possible to the miserable man whose feet
Just come in time, old fellow; I’m most satisfaction to kiss her or box her backward rush to face, neck, and brow, of press the edge of a consumptive’s grave
going down to Riker’s Glen, fishing, ears. I the blood which had but now curdled ‘It’s more than victuals to him sir/
Jones says there are some magnificent “^Inbel. icily around her heart. says poor Marv, her eyes filling with tears;
trout hiding away under the roots of ^es» Gerald, (in the meekest of ‘Nay, never struggle to get away, little ‘and how can I refuse him, and he so nigh
those old cedars. Come—it’s just one of tones.) ( lone, he murmured tenderly, “you have his end?’ °
those sultry, sunless days that we shall be “Have you no heart at all ? confessed in my own ear that you love It is nine o’clock when wesav Vond-bv
Sure of a bite!” ’ . What a qu^t.on ,o «sk! mo; it i ? loo hie now .0 retract/ Como, to this poor gW B7theS g S eftli
GeraJd Silingsby, a tall, symmetrically- -Don t I keep a poodle, aid two doves, your hair is wet, your dress is drenched tallow candle that stands upon the win-
made young fellow, with brilliant hazel- and a cage full of canaries ? and don t I with dew and rain; let me lead your dow-sill, she will sit patiently stitching
brown eyes and clustering dark rings of p^p to kiss all the babies, and cry over you home again.” * boon after we arc gone. We shall be in
hair, looked with a sort of patronizing a “ the tales of misery and distress in the „And leave a fellow all by himself— our beds, asleep, and still Maty will be
toleration upon young Charley Wayte, as circulating library? ’ I much obliged to you! ” grumbled a wel-1 sitting there at work—the weary, dreary
he stood on the piazza steps, rejoicing in “Nonsense, Mabel! ^ His brow was known voice, as Mr. Charley Wayte came I work in which
a broad-brimmed hat and a redundancy I growing darker. Mabel’s eyelids drooped I scrambling up the steep bank. “I didn’t I “tho weary thread
of patent fishing-tackle. lower and lower. Apparently she was think you’d serve me such a mean trick, I A And w^ndtaTscam ia'ied." Cm
“Not to-day, Charley; it’s too warm, deriving intense satisfaction from their Gerald as to drop the line, after I’d got Her father asleep beside her- dead still-
Is your sister at home?” colloquy. _ it all disentangled so neatly—the best ness n ji a lxmt *her • the tallow ranrifo
“My sister! ” Wayte’s voice expressed “I have allowed myself to be trifled with tackle in the country, too! It’s all your I flickering feeblv with its lnn<l wiefc wlnVl,
the most unmitigated scorn. What were M on g enough, Mabel. One way or the fault, Mabel—hallo! what are you crying s h e hirdW" dares to snuff beennse tbit
all the tutors in creation, compare,! rvith «tter I "X ** «ded fa Ufa r ' ' S3
a day -afar. G.ca and a full baake, | ^ ^ ^ ^ fura .Lg»t' hU®.* “ g-J *?, a-aing hours crcepTag
ish you with a nice old fortune-teller, in a “A fright—what about? Girls are nl- L V r« ™ v S i • f anc f * ews ’ ] vit 1 beaY ^
£ JA Mr. ways gating frightened.” , * Sf ifE a
brimgf by. I And Clmrley marched homeward in hundred nan Hols in tho oitv Wt,
^hVstraGlftenld un LTlittle ^wffilowv * leaving Mr. Silingsby and i ooks w m%nd tliem without difficulty,
fionl-o Sif^s^i^niotion ’ J I t! .1 Ic * ure ’ ,• , - htlve looked, and I have found them.
, ... . pamm nag the hell I fagotto or- Mabd™ Zdro” ,£t a°gt!t ahl
I mg offer, and Charley Wayte went whist- ^ te^ ( and papa will be home m ten presided at the cosy tea-table. She had L ll0 haVe looked^n lowlife for some of
ling down the graveled walk, mentally mmutes - betrayed herself, and yet she did not care! mv tbomos T ‘mv t coo ’ ,.dUo
deciding thatJ'Silingsby was[getting to be 1 1 .^ ero , se ’5 u jp tl - v ra "? th !_ b ®! 1 ’ andb , ade |. The beautiful Bengal tiger has his mas- the satisfaction of knowing that I have
r. and Ma ael avte had founrl hers* j n some cases> guided the philanthropist
to his object.
Perhaps you think that it cannot be
j, gold-spotted trout ? “Yes— I
Mabel’s in the sitting-room, I believe; |
and there’s a lot of girls with her. Fool
ish, chatteriug things, all of ’em—I can’t |
make either head or tail of their talk. I
Come, old fellow—you can take your pole j
along, and I’ve got tackle for both ! ”
But Silingsby still resisted the tempt-
the recommendation. We believe that the
an awful muff about Mabel.’
Poor Gerald—he had better have ac
cepted Charley’s eager invitation, and
busied himself in the dense shadows of the
deep ravine called Riker’s Glen! For
sometimes it is better to be absent than
neglected!
SEWING GIRLS OF NEW YORK,
her good evening. Apparently the slen-1 ter, and Mabel Wayte had found hers!
der thread of his patience had given way
at last.
“Are you going, Gerald?”
“I am going, Mabel, and I shall not re-1
turn.”
He stood an
THEIR WORK AND THEIR EMPLOYERS.
any of our first and wealthiest firms that
pay poor girls starvation prices for their
__ _ in instant, to give her the op-1 The sewing-girls of New York are of I W °up’ i. ® u t you are mistaken. H *uy
: Georgia. Without going into the I Central' Executive Commftte“o“has the“right' Miss Mabel Wayte sat demurely among I portunity to call him back to her side, if two classes—those who w>rk at home, |LT,
' - — 1 to call such a Convention, and wo invite the her young friends, engaged in an elaborate s ^ ie wished to do so; but she only stuck and those who work in rooms provided , ’,, ou a e nan ? e3 01 some 01 our
- - - pi<!M of «ofac<l worl, audapparciitiy a hcr 'vorslwl .iccille ruthlessly through the by their employers. He forme?eta b
great deal too busy to notice such a com- Patriarch Abraham’s nose, and folded her smaller than the latter. Where girls sew j f t j° b k stl . e e?s of the town
mon-place thing as a young man. savebv work, and so they parted. at home, it is generally aspecial necessity • , •,, ® P, „ , i ^ eet3 „ 01
the merest inclination of her head. She And Mabel gathered up her bright- that keeps them there. Theyiare cripples, d t , „ 0 out’t oh erwork ° bii^o!ne d av
had played with the ball of Gerald Silings- colored work, smging softly to herself, unable to^go out; or they have a bed- ; h g „ f u d , 5
by’s heart so long that when it came roll- Wlth a curious snnle dimpling her mouth, ridden father, mother, sister, or brether • ° nderneat]l „ disabled her S
ing to her feet, it was the most natural I “J wish I was a man,” said Miss Mabel, to look after. Arc you surprised? Many P^ iag ear^out’ no moi-e She Is
thing in the world to take no notice of it. half « loud - “ l k »ow I wouldn’t make U poor girl to whom life is a deathly J; ri led f f ife ifI t mistaken
Was he, then, a fool, to place it so utterly 3Uch » goose of myselffor the best woman struggle with starvation and cold, keeps g JV * ,. , . *
at her capricious mercy? I am not so I £at ever lived. Not return, indeed. U heart warm with such love as might win in ] ie ‘ r barren home and plies her'deft
certain of that. You could no more have He 11 be back again to-morrow morning, the plaudits of angels. I have known need j e j 10 \ ir on j 10Ur ]!,**].„ window She
helped falling in love with Mabel Wayte I dear! where did that provoking little I more than one case, m which was ex- is cspec ° ally skillful^ with embroidery,
than he, had you once been exposed to ball of pink floss roll to? And Abra- liibited the most wonderful abnegation One day there was sent to her i cloak to
the wondrous witchery of her melting bam s color won t be worth a pm without J^ glr1 ’ 8 be made and embroidered. It came from
eyes, the charm of her delicious blushes lt - . , • .' very lilt on the altarof filial affections. ;i well-known Broadway merchant and
and lingering, low-dropped words. There F,ftce » minutes later Squire Wayte One such case will tell you the story of , t J - , Jt
was something mesmeric about this slen-1 came in, stamping the wet off his boots, the whole. Ueven ty five dS for ft h^s colter The
der dark-orbed beauty that made men bow and rubbing Ins hands together. The case of a gentle Mary, who ekes stuff of which it was to be made was not
down at her coining like the Eastern “Why how dark it is! Where are out a miserable existence in Mulberry I rJiv-itlTfnlxran
worshippers of the sun—a something I y°ur lights, child? What a thunder-1street. llus is one of the vilest of the I • ^ ^
which woman marvelled at, and could ^? r . m ' ve have had. The
not understand. Her hair was black as ,5. lcke . r s p lea washed coiu^ovij »»aj. i -y- ^ f A ^ ueuig i d s i„. • Tbe'wnrV
night, with a purplish shine upon the The banks have been shelved in, they above Canal street. It is a dismal abode h , tb ^ dexterous sewineairl two
ripples that were gathered low in her 3 *.v•” £jr human beings, nevertheless, this for- 2le wSiks of^ unremitting
neck; her skin was dark, with a tender “The bridge in Riker s Glen ? ”. gotten rookery where Mary dwells. Let The tp S^s four doTlS"
peachy-bloom upon cither clieek, and lips Mabeldropped tho basket of work from us look in this girl s daily life a little. Aether tliS poor airl accepted the w^'
as scarlet as a dead-ripe nectarine—and her hand, bhe remembered with a sud- V) lth her needle alone she earns the . j , . j? \ i d ; d t
her eves, half-conccaled by the natural den start of unsyllahled fear that Gerald I money that pays for all they (herself and I onother did ’ ’
droop of their heavy, white lids, were full Silingsby had plunged in to the woods, her father who is dying with the con- 1 . d . come to tlie unan
of hidden, glimmering light,such as you * Ab,no ' t TOrv nnt.li tW. 1ml Isunintionl have nnrl verv little tl,«t ,a I . .i u99.
u>.a wo don’t believe there was an
i’tin cents left to our credit after
n* were paid. With the exception
.jin" employment and subsistence to
mould have made no difference to
i j pound had been produced, and
»e might have saved.
i:li present prices upon the receipts
:»lo:.e, tiie balance to credit would
.altar from five millions of dol-
i everybody feels and secs would
’f iiiilfeiencc in the account current
jkt. Ii would have made us all
. ly easy and comfortable. Every
v:!cl have been on a vastly different
•; done, is done. We look at the
else that all these ideas were sheer
•dal Southern Cotton is required and
ill Leman probability, command a
. Re idea of business men through-
■ustry is that tho price will bo fully
t—somewhere between fifteen
=7-five cents extremes.
•king at our own experience since
that we can produce Cotton
labor. It may bo and is, I the same press will ovcrcome all personal ob-
an uphill business; but iu the j cc tious, and give that action a cordial sup-
the difficulties will dimin- port, and not acquiese with a protest, and
of se lf-interest will tend to thus paralyze the power of the party and
mutual accommodation. They c hill its spirit, as it has done in the past
i u inform both the employers As regards the day of holding a State
fed, and we predict with confi- Convention, we can see no special occasion
- the value of freed labor will in- f or aD y hot haste in the matter. One will
proportion of tho unemployed have to be called after the adjournment of
N ino prognosticate the reverse, the New York Convention, should we be per-
liey are in error. The price of I mitted to take part in the Presidential elec-
tmd the requisitions of the tion—say abouttbe middle of July—and the
jKct to food and household nc- | p eo pj c C jm hardly be induecd to attend more
than one in a season. In the meantime, we fccl
sure the Executive Committee will give due
attention to all matters that may be brought
before them, and take all necessary steps for
^ return to prosperous days ? I uniting and inspiring the people in any par-
• • . t.s arid commotions may upset j ticular course of action that may be deemed
uli miy thing like public order, p rotno tive of tho great objects and ends of
t» recuperate with a fair degree of | t i, e
" hen an industrious white farmer,
Ins own labor, can produce bis
to seven hundred dollars worth | Tlie Southern Recorder says there are near
attention of the Democratic press to the sub
ject, and ask for an expression of opinion
from them on the expediency of such a call.”
In response to this proposition, we feci
authorized to say that the Central Executive
Committee will be called together at an early
day—probably directly after the result oftbe
impeachment trial shall be made known—
and that when together they will give a care
ful consideration to every proposition that
may be brought before them looking to a
further consolidation and strengthening of
the party in the State.
We agree decidedly with our Augusta
friends that a State Convention should be
called, if only for the purpose of organizing
the party iu their section of the State, a duty
whose sad neglect has caused us a most mor
tifying defeat, and brought inexpressible
humiliation upon the whole State. When
the call shall be issued, we hope tho
Augusta press will be diligent to hold
up to its people the disastrous consequences
of their past indifference and inaction; and
when the Convention and its duly authorized
agents shall take action in future, we. hope
enragecl Wliat business had a miserable
needle girl to want to live ? He cursed
lier for her. perfidy in daring to leave
him for a better place. “Will you please
to pay me ? ’ murmured the terrified girl,
who could not bear to lose the little sum
he owed heij. ‘Yes, d—d you,’ said he,
IJI pay you/ and he kicked her down
stairs.
I could give a hundred just such eases,
if there were any need. The evil is not
confined to sowing-girl employers. Papier
employed a girl at making paper-boxes a
year and a half, and kept'back bits of her
pay till it amounted to fifty dollars—then
denied he owed it. Bonbon’employed a
girl at cutting and packing fig-paste, for
two cents a pound, but paid her only one
cent. “You’re making too much money,”
said the brute. Gebuhrer is a brush-
maker, who cheats every girl who works
for him ; here is the record of a party of
ten girls, each of whom he owes some pal
try sum—four dollars, seven dollars, ten
dollars—which, however, has an almost
inconceivable value to them. Here is a
fan-maker, there a gaiter-maker, yonder
hair-dresser and wig-maker—they make
no inconsiderable profit yearly by their
skill in manipulating poor girls, getting-
work done for nothing, or next to nothing!
[.Putnam’s Monthly. °
DR. LHINGSTONE.
ETTER FROM THE GREAT AFBICAN EXPLO
RER.
will certainly augment. But j
sitliv development. It is all right |
: not lie discouraged.
upon these conditions, should I
sometimes see in deep, translucent pools,
half over-grown by water-lilies and tan
gled rushes. Minnie Aubray had at one
time horrified her companions by declar
ing that Mabel Wayto’s eyes were like
the party.
Tlie State Convicts to be Hired Out.
taking the verv path that led sumption) have—and very little that is. i . , ,.
through the Glen. She knew that it was Put a few questions to Mary; you have S " erable , ar g" mcDt ? f tbe mea ' vbo bire
dark even in the open landscape, how earned the right she feels, by the trifles N^ 1 , f ir ,° a ietC P ric ^> o wit, that there
much more gloomy iu the tangled shad- you have brought her—trifles to us, hut \ T ea ^ 10 . nee . ie and ' v !
ows of the Glen! ° • all, what valuethey possess to her! ^ hey d <>it at such pric^ because they need it.
“He will not know that tho bridge is represent two good weeks of toil to the , " 1 , , sa * , . a P ain °/ lc
the sleepy orbs of’the beautiful, cruel I gol V' - T bo “jf 8 ll5 s fooling and he p° or gj rl -of such toi!, pray God, as y 0 ur|
Bengal tiger they had seen in the menn- “ashed in pieces! was the wild fear that J daughter and mine may never know!
gericonce! Mabel had laughed, but she rose . U P to llcr lj rain. _ “Oh, Gerald, ‘What rent do you pay for this room,
had visibly shuddered too. And perhaps j Gerald ! hut perhaps it is not too late to I Mary ?
there was some resemblance. save yet.” ‘b our dollars a month, sir.’
Gerald Silingsby thought those trivo- Aud before the astonished Squire could I hat is a little more than thirteen cents
lous girls would never go. They stayed I venture a word ot question or remon-1 a day, you v\ ill observe.
to lunch one of those dainty lunches I strance, Mabel had fluttered out into the ‘What do you get for making such a
that Miss Wayte’s..house-keeper knew so twilight, and vanished! shirt as that ? ’
well how to get up—iced claret, chocolate I Down through the lovely glen-path, I ‘Six cents; sir.’ * , , „ I fectlv welcome to ston * there’s a di
frothing in its tiny cups, biscuit-sand-1 heedless ^of tlie sharp stones that^cutj What. You make a whole shirt for I waut whereone gets’it. Why, I’
friend, he replied good-naturedly, ‘My
dear fellow, what are you talking about ?
You forget that those girls must have
work. They are thankful enough to get
what I pay them. You men, who want
to set the World right in a day, don’t
know what you are doing, half the time.
If any girl that works for me wants to
stop working at those prices, she’s per-
dozen
m a
philanthropist myself, in one sense.
Piero is no need of suffer- three hundred convicts in the Georgia Peni
rt 7- tentiary, mostly negroes, and that the number
‘1 political prospects, the results ; s increasing so rapidly that there will be
should satisfy the white J neither room nor work for them. It adds:
Wc arc gratified to learn that Wm. A.
Fort, Esq., of Rome, is about to hire of the
State one hundred colored, to be put to
work on the Alabama and Dalton Railroad.
. , , This we thiuk an advantageous move for the
l disappointed, but that docs Stat0) and would | )C g i ad to see all farmed
rent deal. If the people out in like manner. Alabama puisucs this
policy, and saves much expense to the State.
If not kept constantly employed and made
work, they are heavy expense, costing it
about $110 each per annum. Those above
referred to are to bo clothed and provisioned
nnd kept securely. Tho State will realize
from tho 100, upwards of $2000—instead of
hiring ut an expense. We doubt not bnt
that it would be good policy for the whole
to be hired out to the highest bidder under
proper guarantees—which would save at least
$80,000 to tbe State annually.
Why should they not be employed to com
plete tbe Augusta Railroad from this city to
Macon ? Certainly & good opportunity offers
to have it done. There will then bo no fur
ther difficulty about railroad schedules.
We coinmend the matter to the conside-
i that they can, if they will |
. maintain influence enough
• to secure the general ends of I
ml. Politicians may be cm-
in the fruits of their industry,
maintained, it will make no
’ <: ( e to them whether Coisar or
: Governor. We want tranquility
" With these nnd a steady and
■ ' ‘tion to a judicious agriculture,
-SJt.mly expect to improve our
-U
n to thrive ourselves, we
’ to immigration the pow-
• -t of a prosperous example.
% invite a guest to an empty
it with luxury and ubun-
; ''ill be sure to accept a seat
thrive, and she will thrive tho
"' is help those who help them-
k‘® that hath shall be given,
'We abundance.
‘- T Of iiatioks in Macon.—Tbe
-In
wiches,° and pound cake, cut in thin, through her dainty kid slippers—reckless six cents.’
golden slices, with china saucers of cream, briars that caught at her garments, I Yes, sir, and furnish the thread. n I 6rin d the noor girls * Thev’d starve if I
heaped high with great, scarlet strawber- and showers of moisture that descended not this almost stagger credulity ? d y u > t j ye ’ em AW)rk> Keep your indifu
ries, whose fragrance filled the room. Doni dripping b°agh and tangled under- But there is truth m this girl s face; it is . for those scamps that cheat the
Mabel was a litfle epicure in everything growth-Mabel tfajte hurried on, with impossible to disbelieve her. It, however, “iris out- the city’s
-an artist in the merest details of every- beating heart and face that was alternate- my reader is incredulous I can assure him J n * j 1 , \ “ . f >j £ . J
■ ~ - - ' ly flushed and colorless. It she should that Mary does not tell a talsehood ;I UO rrn ‘ . x c ' at f 1 ?’ A.
be too late! know that this price is paid by some of n0 "\ of your argument is, that
And then it rose up before her like tlie the most ‘respectable’ firms in New York. -\° U ta vC a< , van -J? g ? n ® cessitie3
blank wastes of a dreary desert—wliat ‘Can’t you get work to do at higher P he P 00r g ,rb H she did not need your
life would be without the faithful love prices?’ ° I wo . rk 80 c badI y Y ou would pay better
and worship of Gerald Silingsby ? Sometimes, sir. But these folks are P llecs - Suppose you could sell girls
— - x - - °- J - - - i« ■■ ■’ - *• 'fingers tor gold. Suppose a girl was
day life. And after lunch Gerald was
pressed into the service to read poetry to
them, sufficiently capacious to silence
them effectually, until he wished Byron
and all the rest at the bottom of the Red
Sea, or any other body of water.
But who ever knew the course of true
love to run according to rule and pluin-
me£?
Filially they scattered away, one by
one, and Gerald and Mabel were alone
together in the room, where golden bars
of sunset-light played fitfully on the mat
ting, and wet leaves of the ivy without,
shook bright showers down at ervery stir
of the wind. For there had been a mag
nificent thunderstorm, with driving sheets
of rain and sudden gusts of wind and
fiery arrows cleaning the’ purple-black
heavens, and much pretty terror among
the assembled guests—except Mabel—Ma
bel never was afraid of thunder.
Alone together! The moment, had
come to which Gerald had feverishly
looked' forward all day, and' now, how
unsatisfactory it was. Had ever lover
a more capricious, provoking, little mis
tress than Mabel was? She would uot
might starve, you know! ’ ‘Pooh, that’s
nonsense! ‘No, it is only putting the
case figuratively. These girls sell you
their health, their very lives; sometimes
they grow weary of that, and prefer to
sell their chastity.’
Of course, the rascals that cheat the
ration Of Provisional Governor Ruger and understand. She had played with his
W C. Anderson, as worthy their early con- ! hcnrt as Ae beautiful Bengal tiger might
In addition to the above, we find the iol- ! have sported with a trembling, wounded
lowing Hem in tho Atlanta Intelligencer, or} ^ cruel! ” he cried pas .
The yeaterday, showing that the bargain has been , . J “ a j K1 .
... . ... in S perfected and tho convlcU delivered: ! ^Sh/lookcd up, with the sleeping, glim-
tie missionary intelligence: Penitentiary Convict*.—The Georgia Rail- , l - v half-closed, an electric flash
^ ■ \s s- stsitsss ■ .tsr h “
CSwSS H£S SMSI |
to Bclma, Alabama. Considerable curiosity , and a blue,” she murmured, thougfitiuiiy,
was manifested by our colored population to ; with her head on one side,
know what all the stripped jackets, chains, , “Mabel,” ejaculated Silingsby, “I will
aud G. P. on the pants meant. j ] )e answered.”
pair took possession of her heart, but the me plenty of work, aud I never have to
next instant it was supplanted by a ray wait; so I don’t look around for better,
of hope. I can’t afford to take risk, sir; so many
"Charley 1 thank Heaven, there is will cheat us.’
Charley! * He will hasten ou—he will Respectability is a good thing, you see.
warn Gerald! ” Let me whisper a few other prices to you,
How thankful she felt in her heart for which respectability pays its poor girls...
the piscatory niauia which kept " her Fifteen or twenty cents for making a linen P 001 ’ g llds out of their earnings are a lar
brother so late beside the sunless pools coat, complete; sixty-two cents per dozen grea ter evil than the respectable dealers
beneath the tangled cedar trees! She for making men’s heavy overalls; one | wbooMyP?}’ starvation prices. Thevare
would never laugh at Charley again for I dollar a dozen for making flannel shirts,
his devotion to trout fishing, she thought Figures are usually very humdrum af-
as she hurried on. fail's, but what a story they tell here!
“Don’t start, Charley, it is only I,” she These last prices I did not get from Mary,
faltered, breathless and agitated, as she I got them, in the first place, from a be-
thieves. In many cases they are as no
torious for their practices as any well-
known thief whose face is in the rogues’
gallery. Some of them openly boast of
their success iu this most villainous of
SJC’JSM 2 S. gulden JU* lad, wfa rfiW and g>*JTSKS*
to withhold a little of the girl’s pay from
week to week, on a pica of being “short,”
and, when a handsome aggregate has been
reached, to boldly deny the debt. An-
i > lunch and school
' 'hshwi. Two years ago there
uo ' for blacks; now 2500 have
i° r l at ti out of a black popula-
•. "hero are fifteen Northern
Nonaries at this station.
'.“I stated that while in 1802
s-iaouri but 38 ministers, and
ill' ! bt ' Methodist Church,
v”* ministers,and 20,000 mem-
'•-crease of about 4,000 a year,
“Oh, lam so glad I have found you! hand, day after day, all her time, in en-
Hasten to the Glen bridge—quick! it is deavoring to better the condition of the
washed away, papa says, and—and poor girls of New York. But I got them,
Gerald has gone home that way, aud lib in the second place, from the employers
willed be killed! Oil, Charley! why themselves. By going to them, pencil in
don’t you start ? ” hand, and desiring the cheerful little par-
With all the strength of her little ticulars for publication? Hardly! I, . - , - . .
hands, she endeavored to drag him up sent my office-boy out iu search of work for through the eoui since the c-.stab-
from his lazily reclining postal an imaginary ‘sister,’ and to inquire what ?* tbe “Working-woman’s pro-
'“He will b - dashed in pieces—he will I would be paid her. Having-inquired, I tootive union, v, Inch makes a business of
die, and never know bow dearly I love and got bis answer, it is needless to say I standing between these poor girls and
him! I know I have been cruel to him, that James concluded his sister could live I t icir °PP rcs 3ors m various ways. cr
Charley-you have told me so a score of without taking in sewitla • I are a P air . ? f cascs l n P? int > gathered from
times—but I love him, and he will be So you see that, in order merely to pay
killed! Oh, Clmrley, Charley, for my I her rent, Mary must make two shirts
sake, hasten to his rescue! ” I day? That being done, she must make
Her passionate outcry died away into more to meet her other expenses. She
A letter was received in Edinburgh from
Dr. Livingstone, by a friend of the celebra
ted traveller. The following are extracts:
Country of the Ciitpeta, )
November 10, 1800. \
It has been quite impossible to send a let -
ter coastwise ever since wo left the Rovuma.
The Arab slave-traders take to their heels as
soon as they hear that the English are on the
road. I am a perfect bugbear to them. Eight
parties thus skedaddled, and last of all my
Johanna men, frightened out of their wits by
stories told them by a member of the ninth
party who had been plundered of his slaves,
walked off and left me to face the terrible
Mazitu with nine Nassick boys.
The fear which tho English name has struck
into the souls of the slave-traders has thus
been an inconvenience. I could not go
round the north end of the lake for fear that
my Johanna men, at sight of danger, would
do there what they actually did at the south
ern end, and the owners of two dhows on the
lake kept them out of sight, lest I should
burn them as slavers, and I could not cross in
the middle. Round the southern end, we
got up Kirk’s range, and among Mangarja
not yet made slave-sellers. This was a gn at
treat, for, like all who have not been con
taminated by that blight, they were very
kind, and, having been worried enough by
unwilling Sepoys and cowardly Johanna
men, I followed my bent by easy marches
among friendly, generous peopie, to whom I
tried to impart some new ideas in return for
their hospitality. The country is elevated, .
and the climate cool.
One of the wonders told of us in successive
villages was that we slept without fires. The
boys having blankets did not need fire, while
the inhabitants, being scantily clad, Lave
their huts plastered inside and out, and even
the roofs, to make themselves comfortable!
Our progress since has been slow from other
and less agreeable causes. Some parts have'
been denuded of food by marauding Mazitu
or Zulus; we have been fain to avoid these
and gone zigzag. Once we nearly walked
into the hands of a party, and several times
we have been detained by rumors of the ene
my in front. January, 18G7—I mention sev
eral causes of delay. I must add the rainy
season is more potent than all, except hunger.
In passing through the Babisa country°we
found that food was not to be had. The
Babisa are great slave-traders and have, in
consequence, little industry. This seems to
be the cause of their having no food to spare.
The rains, too, are more copious than I
ever saw them anywhere in Africa; but we
shall get ou in time. February 1—I am in
Beinba or Lobemba, and at tlie chief man’s
place, which has three stockades around it,
and a deep dry ditch round the inner one.
lie seems a fine fellow, and gave us a cow to
slaughter on our arrival yesterday. TVe are
going to hold a Christmas feast off it to-mor
row, as I promised the boys a blow out when
we came to a place of plenty. We have had
precious bard times; aud I would not com
plain it it had not been gnawing hunger for
many a day, and our bones sticking through
as if they would burst tbe skin. When we
were in a part where game abounded I filled
the pot with a first-rate rifle given me by
Captain Fraser; but elsewhere wc bad but
very short rations of a species of millet called
‘macre,’ which jiasses the stomach almost un
changed.
The sorest grief of all was the loss of the
medicine box which your friend at Apothe
caries’ Hall so kindly fitted up. All other
things I divided among the bundles, so that
if one or two were lost we should not be ren
dered destitute of such articles; but this I
gave to a steady boy, and trusted him. He
exchanged tor a march with two volunteers,
who behaved remarkably well, till at last
hungry marches through dripping forests,
cold, hungry nights, and fatiguing days,
overcame their virtue, and they made off
with ‘Steady’s’ load—all his clothes, our
plates, dishes, much of our powder, and two
guns, nud it was impossible to track them
after the first drenching shower, which fell
immediately after they left us. The forests
are so dense and leafy that one cannot see
fifty yards on any side.
This loss, with all our medicine, fell on
my heart like a sentence of death by fever, as
was the case with poor Bishop Mackenzie ;
, . . «< A nd then an olive-nroen ” sighed Ma- a low hysterical sob; her hands fell pow- has fuel to buy—and a pul of coal costs
t£?“Hon. John A. Logan, Commander-in - f , „„ £* ’ erless by her side; but she resolved, with her fifteen cents. She has food to buy—
Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, » . • » hist like ill other set teeth, that she would not be a weak but she eats very little, her father still
X fa- 'ididAtai SS fool *»a foiof »««y »» »”>• otter She tonSfaud -..of^ytad
;."mes R CV . Mr. Miller from | ^“oV^trewing^with lowers or otherwise j wa s some little expression in the last pat- m«ht have done. | for over a year, she tells us. W hat then,
* m . 1110 onb member oi j decorat j n g the graves of their comrades, tera Gerald, please hand mq tlie scis- • “Mabel.
who fell during tho war. Ho says that it is | >. j Surely that W* . .
Ilia wish to inaugurate this observance_wtth j Podr Gerald ruthlessly withheld the voice—it was a deeper, more tremulous | milk or sugar, at night—provided slie lia-s
- <ar . ■ —only
*WT ttnrc b. 80 far as I know, in
* mid Western Florida. In
J >*tus wo have seven organ-
ltd .. n g the white), over 100
~ * Tt n churches.
sugar crop promises
' v 1 ® J'rid, it is anticipated,
^gshcads.
______ does she eat? Bread and potatoes, prin-
Surely that was not Charley’s boyish I cipally; she drinks a cup of tea, without
jjee—it was a deeper, more tremulous milk or sugar, at night—provided she has
■ trom me iiiuo caibuucu ■■—■■I accent! it was. not Charley’s figure that any, which she frequently has not. She
V^. .hill not talk of worsted-work rose in the dim, purple-sliadowed twilight, has also to buy (I am not painting fancy
•nd scissors untile you give me some dfi- and folded her weak form in its close pictures; lam stating facts, which aro
Efr-Mrs. andMiss Spotted Tail are board- 1 ” 3 h strong embrace. . not regukted by any rules knowm to our
in -Tt a Cheyenne hotel. Their regular ration n ,f TP ’,' r , iave to bite my threads “Mabel, my treasure 1 my brave-harted | experience) ‘a trifle ot whisky. Mary s
ofsiup at dinner is sixteen plater. aiu.ua ,
the hope that it will be kept up from year to ! • f rom the little extended hand,
year, while a survivor of the war remains to j scissors irom I ^ worsted . w
honor the memory of Ins departed comrades.
other plan is, to charge that the work bat I shall try native remedies, trusting Him
i A • • a ii on,-™ 4^1 who has led me liitlicr to help me still. We
brought in is not well < « • m-e tel- ] lave |j een lno3 tly on elevated land, between
lows have been repeatedly brought to 80 oo and 5000 feet above the sea. I think we
are now on the water-slied for which I was
to seek. Wc are 4,500 feet abovethe sea level,
and will begin to descend when we go. This
may be put down as IQ deg. 10 min. south
latitude, and.iongitude 31 deg. 50 min. 2 sec.
We found a party of blrck half-caste Arab
slaves here, and one promises to take letters
to Zanzibar, but they give me only half a day
to write.
I shall send what I can, and hope they will
bo as good as their word. Wc have not had
a single difficulty with the people, but we
have been very slow. Eight miles a day is a
good march for us, leaded as the boys are,
and we Lave often been obliged to go zigzag,
as I mentioned. Blessings on you all. Love
to Mrs.——. From yours, ever effectionately,
David Livingstone.
the record-books of this society.
Sansame gave a poor girl a piece of
tw elve yards of bead-work to do, requir
ing her to deposit a dollar before taking
it away. .She did it, and returned it,
whereupon he declared she had spoiled it,
aud refused to pay .her a cent for her la
bor. Not only that, but he kept lieT dol
lar deposit. In proof that she had not
spoiled it, she offerred to pay the scamp
for the material, and take the work her
self; but he would not do that.
Betenoir employed a poor girl at finish
ing pantaloons, paying her a beggarly
price.
Personal.—Dr. Jesse Boring, who fills a
chair in the Faculty of the Atlanta Medical
College, has arrived in this city. We con-
—~ ... —. - gratulate the people of Atlanta upon his re-
Of course, the poor thing, when turn, and hope his stay here will be perma-
she had a better chance t;o work for fetter nent. He is an ornament to any community
pay, grasped eagerly at it.' Betenoir was in which he resides.—Atlanta Hew Era.
