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ESTABLISHED 1826.} BATES OP SUBSCRIPTION : pmvTsLKOBAPH-forono year — ,.$io 00 ii'wbvTsi.scbaph—fop»K months. 5 00 For jhortcr periods One Dollar per month. tiEOJWiA ^bmi*Wreilt TELCGBAPH-ono y£ar.. 4 00 orosoiA SiMt-WsEKLY Telegraph—six m’ths 2 00 Vijim 'IH HWH XELEORAPn—one year 3 00 jliSXOTH WECKI.T Tkligrapii—six months 1 50 *9" Payable alteays in advanee.‘ m SA jjoolc and Job Printing Ycatly executed at reasonable prices, r.fisiitaoco* by mail with Postmaster’s certificate a MACON, FRIDAY, 1PRIL 2, 1869. AVhftt they Do in a Convent- P, Cloisters opened to the Outer "World—A ;7.;; to the Content of the Sisters of Mercy— JU Life of a Xun—Interior View of a Con- r ml f r ., M Ac A'tir York Sun.] ••■\Vhnt are they doing in convents all the time ?" said a very intelligent Protestant gentle- jaan to ••I will and ont and tell you,” I replied. So, trne to my promise—I never break a rromise unless "'tis more honored in the breach ti»n in the observance"—I posted myself off t0 the Convent of the Sisters of Mercy,- at the oCTtr of Mulberry and Honston streets, and s«kingf°r Sister C., to whom I brought an in fliction, found no difficulty in obtaining ad mittance and an interview. jS INTERVIEW WITH AN' ASSISTANT SUPERIOR. When Sister, or rather Mother C., entered tic parlor—I ascertained afterwards that she ns the Assistant Superior—I was a little em- ’nassed, scarcely knowing how to frame my between my friend and myself, and r.c.nd np with the request: “Will yon let me c through your convent and report to my •nod?” PRAYER IN THE CONVENT CHAPEL. >ie smiled a sweet ascent, and telling-me I might at once, but as it was near twelve, ap- I posted the next day for my visit. I arose to •J* my leave, but taking my hand, she led me io the convent chapel, and, after a moment | hind in prayer, rose and explained the snb- jeds illustrated by the beautiful stained glass tT.thic windows. Then, conducting me to the Ur. she again urged my visit on the morrow. THE PALLOR OF THE CONVENT. who doubtless does much good and sacrifices Gen. Grant on the Tennre-of-Oflice much for the sake of others, if she conld see R . n .„, these cells, and learn all that I did on that after- r „ reepeai. noon, would exclaim, “Oh, how poor is my work! ' jeru (jrant bas made a very provoking di- how meagre my sacrifice of self, compared with lemma f °r the Radical Congress on the repeal ! . question. He explains it very clearly in the and uncarpeted, toft cSStertS from the w asbi ngton correspondence bed, precisely like those occupied by the girls in 1 tbe . ton Dai v Advertiser: die dormitories, one wooden chair and a crucifix President Grant speaks freely enough about Each cell is lighted by a small window. These . tenure-of-offiee act to persons who ask his cells are occupied but seven and half hours out views. Some gentlemen who were with him of tho twenty-four. In very many of the rooms ta , r . e6 ° r fou F days ago furnish the following, throughout the establishment were oratories for ''’I 110 ! 1 is believed to be a substantially correct prayer. Pictures adorned many of the walls, re P° rt of tho interview. He said: “I shnll and appropriate texts, mottoes and devices were execute all the laws made by Congress, found over tho doors cud along the corridors. and I mean to be just as faithful in executing ORATORY OF THE VIRGIN—THE SACRED HEART. I ^° n °*, P* ® S thoS ! 1 should Turn in rr frnm n. ,, , , Hke to have the tennre-of-office law repealed, turning nrom the cells, the nun led me to a for it stands r - - - - • - 1 ’ small niched oratoiy of the Virgin, where the HlongreLw forthentehi* t ^ 6 . sistcrs 18 8aid before retiring it I.sliall execute it the same as if I had signed A . ta P er , was burning before the it.” One of the gentlemen asked him if the law statue of the \ lrgin, and on each side of the Vir- was considered binding when the Senate w->s in " d80t ““ i C a?edl O t f b^4«^M 0r l t01 f[ ™ S another ’. ded ' i. “ Certainly; there is nothing in it which says icateoto the Sacred Heart It was appropriately it shall be in effect a part of the rear and not ornamented, and perfumed with the order of in effect the other part. It doe's not sav that lotto", b0 1T d ar ° nnd - So officeholders may bo removed auLjSreof plants takes up a part of the Executive during the time Congress is in workera ° 636 811 ’ unobtrusiva worshiping session, while strong cause is required for their suspension during the time Congress is not in Labor tor the Smth [We copy the following seculations from Forney’s Philadelphia Press otho 24th instant.] One of the problems of the ge, and one that will tend more to its recuperatfa, in the solving than anything else, is how to itroduce labor in the South.. It is an understoo proposition that supply is limited by demand, bt in this case the principle seems reversed, ancthe demand re mains unsupplied. It is a scalar fact to re gister, in relation to the Soufc-m States, that wmle there has been a demand here or half a century for unskilled labor, ted e. vital has backed that demandVyetIt h^^- -/been su£ ly°^fentdTn^ S amoMcemInt.^tTA^iM.' a consequence, no«Wh*andms- of Ann^ THE FINEST EOOH IN THE CONVENT. session. As a citizen the law is of no more con- Again I visited the room devoted to the fine ' sequence to me than to any other person, but as arts. 4 splendid cycloid Lindeinan piano stood President it will prevent me from removing on one side of the room, and an artist’s table many persons I think ought to be removed, and implements on the other. The walls were The President then mentioned by name the head adorned with beautiful paintings. Many of the °f one of the bureaus in. Washington, and con- sisters not only teach drawing, painting and mu- i tinued: “ I do not think he is a fit man for the sic, but find time to cultivate those arts. j place, and yet probably I could not make out a a wonderful VOLUME. i *' a ^ e iffliiwt him. If I knew as much about his One whose beaming artist eyes will long live goings as he himself does, I think I could; but, in my memory, was engaged in the medireval f 811 is, if I were to say to the Senate, 4 1 believe art of illumination. When one of her illumined be onght to be removed,’he and his friends— volumes, a beautiful convent register of tho ““l 16 Fas a good many—would begin directly names, parentage, time of dedication to God, ’ \° sacm ’ w Fy he ought not to be removed, and I etc., of all the sisterhood, was first opened be- i 9° no ^ ™ ow Fut the Senate would decide in his fore mv admiring eves. I tbonglif. tLn wro-l- favor. I havn’t anything in the world against Panctually at the hour appointed, I wasrtit the _ „„„ bjt. At the first touch of the bell-handle, it i the House of Mercy, wwil, and the lay sister in the vestibule the story told. ,-iustd me the parlor—a large and commodious : kid, comfortably furnished, but not modem ritbr in fnrniture or finish, for it was wanned ir» large, open grate, whose old-fashioned I ims appendages glowed with the brightness tht is only given by daily and constant care. — exquisite beauty and endless variety of the • designs. Every page was different, and all va- I . -*-Fere was some further talk about this par- nations of the mediaeval style of ornamentation i *- Icu l al ‘ bureau, and then one of the gentlemen and design. The sister who does this work va- P rese nt remarked that he hoped a certain per ries her occupation by teaching French in the ' son a * bead of a bureau in another depart- school, and also devotes some of her time to nie P* w°uld be removed. The President smiled *i" w r i and said, ‘’Well, now: only yesterday I had i s ° mo gentlemen here who begged me to keep And thus, my friend, did I fulfill mv promise 1 1“’ ^ t T U ’ T\ ? SVer hea F d b ’i fc and truthfully have I related how I found the : but 1 am convinced, inmates of a convent occupied. These observe- • that ! department is convrneed, tions, I trust, uiU meet your eyes, and their ; i l T onld ^be benefited by perusal will spare your patience, when next we FhinrrAf ? r an | b f re wbo ^ °P with meet, the infliction of a verbal account of 1 s admimstrarton. Some * «=«*. "wtM thay do in , ronym,." -S^lSSSiySSaSfS'K.'yfS Soon came Mother C., in the modest dress of T . ~ *** . ~ , dertake to put him out and put somebody else fc onlor. and. after some kindly conversation, | . "‘ustice to t-onmy OHicer.s. in he'll rally against me all kinds of opposition, t-xrosiag kurself from being my cicerone, she j Editors Telegraph : For some time past we He and his friends would work among the Sen- inuodneedme to.another sister, who said she : have heard much murmuring among some of ators and might convince some of the" that I’m would lie my conductor through the house. And onr tax-payers, and many severe strictures upon a very bad man because I don’t he’s a very as we proceeded she gave me all the necessary i-the policy of onr Tax Collector*^ otner county good ni.ono i>-’ > got.” This remark [ iaiormati'*, seeming, with marvelous intuition, j officers for not receiving county scrip in pay. caused some laughter, during which the genria- to anticipate iny every enquiry. inent of coimty taxes. men rose to leave, one of them asking as he did TIE BORE or mercy—-hcndreds of young GIRLS ' . “Atfirst blush,” it does seem very hard that «Mf any nominations would be sent in that day. at work. i mdividnals who hold scrip cannot appropriate it -Nothing of consequence,” said the President: ., T . „, , . _ ., „ ! for county tax Still, this policy has its palliat- “I’m going to wait a few days and see what Con- nJln w« oJ. dt i < LS ba §fIi , fii ba i f eatures °f right and equity, and bears on gress does. If they repeal that law I’m ready make a good many nominations. If they repeal it we most go very carefully. I . . . .. , . , .. .... - I in this State owe debts which were contracted shall want to make some changes, but if I’m ' i r.r»Xn^ d ^? r ’^ erfeCt m 2 U - ltS S p ? ol ? t ' V186" and 1868, it seems just and proper that liable to be called in every case for charges and “ ( ov f r and nmnaged m all its de- | these old claims shonld be first liquidated. , specifications and evidence, I shall have to look * - i tb<3 - s , ls ‘ ers aud ,ay i S1 ? te Ju’ j®? 11 ' i Still, if Tax Collectors receive these claims over the field thoroughly before I begin.” ^ 8 we f re at w f ork “ tbe & Scl -1 indiscriminately, many of a late issue will be • a “P’rtments, all neat, silent, and orderly. j receive a, and if the assessments are not suffi- Female Clerks in Washington an immense laundry. dent to meet the liabilities of the county, then Hannah Tyler, a clerk in the Treasury De- A large laundry, where ten fhnngnud pieces ; 111680 old claim s will be staved off, and creditors partment, has written a slashing article to the washed at a time, dried by steam, and iron- i ^ bo Fave been waiting long for money due, and New York Independent, upon the subject of the ti offered employment to a part of these girls. I Host of this is plain work, but a great deal of lurching and Anting is also done, under the I «* of the sisters, and frequently their own fih- 1 ;Js perform the work, while acting as teachers i the new hands. These operatives and pen- |aiers are virtuous young giris, who have been : Mned from the streets. Very few of them rmed over twenty years of age, and three Ut- I ones, I observed too young to work, the I -Jlestof whom, little bright-eyed Mary Mc- IF-ddes, only three years old, ran np to tho “ sis- I " when we entered this juvenile department, I .:h tho happy confidence a child gives its |- ther. A REFUGE FOE POOR YOUNG GIRLS. I Whenever a virtuous poor young girl is out employment (those who have fallen from vir- J are sent to tbe “ Sisters of the Good Shep- I--n1.”) she has only to apply to the Sisters of l-ttey for protection, home and employment; l-:d whether she be Catholic or Protestant, Jew I : Gentile, she is received into their House of Here, under the eye of the Sisters, they 1 :c instructed and perfected in the branch of in- rtry to which they are best adapted, staying - : long as they choose, and furnished with a i»f, food and clothing. After proving them- I ’.vm efficient workers, if they prefer the House I (-Mercy to any other home, they are paid wages, l-'iey desire situations, the Sisters aid them in laming them, or send them to places in the I»«, many of these pensioners being emigrants IW from Europe. SEWERS AND SEWING MACHINES. I F other rooms I found many or these girls 17^1 sewing, some at machines, whicli they I a*-t»aght to manage, learning every variety of | Paia tewing and beautiful embroidery. SO SECTARIAN—THE KITCHEN. Jd 1 ® Sundays and the regular holidays of the '■MicL these girls, accompanied by the sisters, ^*°ttirch; but those who are not Catholics obliged to conform to the church cere- rjtees. «nd no persuasions are ever used to in- ■f'tteia to become Catholics. dormitories where the girls sleep were seat, though plainly furnished, and i [ t . I j* 5sivel Jf eac F girl occupying a small bed (Jj® to the kitchen I penetrated, and the Basils here showed that the prevailing 12r tS r nded ln tbl8 as ln every other depart- joj 1 sawthe immense batch of bread pro- all these busy workers, I £-"-»ers beside, for this ii I tea-rent.” *** “OTHER superior’s BENEVOLENCE—THE I I»J V SCHOOL. «iown a little room, roughly and plain- where the Mother Superior daily, I bands > dispenses soup, bread and I Ftai 0 J bo very poorest of the poor. I t-'l} industrial department I was con- I 1110 schooF It was the hour for dis- I and P art of the young students were 1^^. Those who were present rose fit ^ politeness upon my entrance, their I'd&Wnjt} faces beaming with intelligence I teatthl a , r °f study. I was also informed I -- academy of tho convent, on Fifty-first I * certain of the sisters went daily to nf? 81 ?, nc F larger, and had a fuller attend- popfls than the one I saw here. and other is not all they “do in , *«4»? r0cee ? ed 10 tF° other apartments, I Sbi, 1 1 B.cntle conductress how many sisters I ft* 111 tFe convent. “Forty-eight” was women achieve all I have seen: 66 school in Fifty-first street,” I ex- Dh' and a great deal more,” she an»- cumw" e6t “Every morning a Sartor are sent out to visit the sick, the I V their ? Uotifled by the clergy and others I ^ Ro to ar0 . needed, and certain i? 118 mominir P moM - F rom 5 o’clock I' ° F tlb , Falf-past 9 at night, we are 1 (? Ia platW “I 688 ea 6agpd in devotion or beint, 0 ^ ^ about IFirty minutes after °c»ng given to recreation.” 01:1X8 09 TBZ SUNS. 2^ #oor of reached the upper and H“ nvent ? ere ** “«ns. How many a benevolent lady, UTtBEB OF SISTERS IN THE CONVENT. that without one per centum interest, must still female derks in Washington. She says “the wait—wait for easier times—wait until more fa- ° J vored ones are served. This is an evil which j 11118868 of women at the present time employed has borne heavily upon the people in days past, in the departments are not possessed of veiy and well merited Legislative attention. Still, it ~ received none until a few months past. No land-marks were mapped out: and one man said who should, and who shonld not be paid, without regard to date, brilliant clerical abilities. On the contrary, very many of them have scarcely education enough to tell the day of the week by a count ing-house calendar; and they owe their ap Tjpon tho basis that debts should be paid ac- pointments and continuance in office to their cording to priority, is predicated the policy ^ advantages .” which now guides the action of our county of- 1 _ _ , facials. j Then Hannah goes on to charge that ‘the Be this basis sound or rotten,be the policy cor- departments are filled with females—crowded, reefc or false, it is inaugurated by the Legislature I may say, with those who serve the Govern- and is now the kw of the land. We beg leave to mentia no other wav except to embarass tho call the attention of those who murmur at this ,^ state of affairs, and cast the burden of their re- P abllc officlals ln tho <F*charge of their duties, proach upon Tax Collectors, Ordinaries and oth- I could furnish the names of scores of women er county officials, to the following act of the vvho do not perform an hour’s work per diem General Assembly of Georgia-. for the Government: notineveryinstancebe- “Section 1. Be enacted, etc., That all orders , , - , upon the county Treasurers of this State, shall, 681186 the y ar ® unwilling, but because they do after being signed by the proper authority, be not have the work—there being too many en- entered in a book of record kept for that purpose gaged in the same labor. In the office of the and duly numbered, and that they shall be paid Comptroller of the Currency, for instance, one- accordmg to date; the oldest first, and not otn- ^ ^ effiploy J wonld be qnUe snf . Section 2 repeals conflicting laws. Approved ficient to perform the labor. This is no specu- October 7th, 18G8.” lation on my part. I know whereof I affirm.” This is the law as it stands on the statute of course she does, for she is right there watch- book, and if blame is to be attached to any party, then our long-liced Legislature must bear it. Quid am. And here is another fea- ing them all the time, ture of the case: 44 Every woman employed should be subjected to the same examination''as men, and personal beauty or laxity of morals ought not to be a re commendation, as is too often the case. The ex amining board shonld be women. In order to Tbc Doomed Race. HOW THE NEGROES ARE GETTING ALONG IN KEN TUCKY. Froti tu*. Lerm.iton, K.i., Ga-cttc .., prevent corruption in all bureaus where women Fegroes never were more orderly and well-be- employed, there should be female auditors, haved than they are now. Some may, and 1^/“ P n tLtance in my mind where ono mali- doubtless do. steal, but they do it so slyly that c j ons ^. omnn . c ] er t can sed the removal of some they are not readily come np nth. The great five or sjx faithfnl sinjply because theyre- majonty seem to be sick of the freedom tte fnsed to 1 Ad money to her husband (?), a worth- Yankees have thrift upon them, fo they lesg b ] acbguardi w ho neverpaid his debts. I am the care and comforts of the old home. A large j^ppy s t a t e that the auditor who made these P e ^ centage of them, after trying many places reruova i 3 jj^ j us t resigned and gone to the and different employers, have returned to their Wocf t . J b former masters, and seem well satisfied to go back. In some places there is considerable suf fering among them, and especially is this this the case where the Ku Klux or Regulators have been operators. These mysterious knights of the _ road have West.’ But she reserves the worst charge for the last. It is as follows: “Congress or the President ought to afford us some protection, if they allow us to hold offices. TFe ought not to be insulted bg having the para- visited some negroes who were believed to be tnours and mistresses of members of Congress great thieves, and have punished them so forced upon us and be obliged to tolerate their severely as to put a stop to stealing entirely, and society day by day. Let Sir. Boutwell clean out as many depend upon this altogether for a live- the riff raff and pollution of his department, lihood they are reduced to great straits. In Let him appoint moral and competent women; Jessamine and a part of Woodford out of tho then let us be paid according to our merits, reach of the plunderers from this city a man s Such is the earnest prayer of every honest wo- smoke-house is as safe as if it was guarded by a man-clerk. Hannah Tyler.’ file of soldiers. Negro men find employment, And so it seems members of Congress consti- and at good wages, but tho women have a hard the 44 outside influences V which prevent simply for their board. No wonder that in- of “mistresses, “paramours, $tc., of theirs, fanticide is so common among them; and this is Xhe imbecile Sumner ought to at once investi- often practiced and nevercomestotiieknowledge „ ata tbe gr ave charges of Hannah Tyler. They ol *F° authorities. Th 0 „™frpn^Thfrp are scandalous in the extreme. children is a matter of frequent remarx There “ 0 does not appear to be one where formerly there were a dozen. An accurate census of tho Excursions to the South.—In January last State would show a fearful falling off in this the officers of the Southern railways agreed in class of the population. The race is doomed, convention to reduce the rates of travel on their and in fifty vears a negro will be as unusual a r0 ads to all persons seeking places to settle on sight as an' Indian now is. No race of people jjj the South, to two cents a mile, and to actual ever suffered at tho hands of their enemies as se tlers the rate is reduced to one cent per mde. the negro has from his pretended friends—the The hotels, on each of tho Southern roads, have abolitionists. These meddlesome extermina- agreed to charge only two thirds the usual prices tionists have spread vice and poverty and crime to such persons—the entire arrangement being where contentment and plenty formerly prevail- greatly to the comfort and advantage of indiyid- ed The negroes are not to blame, nor do think- uals who desire to make a personal inspection ing men censure them, for they are the victims of the Southern States, and observe for them- and are deserving of commiseration. It re- selves the nature of society gs if, now exists mures a large charity on the. part of former there, the actual character of the land^ the slaveholders to repair in any measure the great prospects for profitable investment and the m- iniurv done to the negro by the abolitionists. ducements really presenting to persons from injury aone 10 1410 “ *s m J other parts 0 f the country to become residents. , . _ . 11 rt;/ rrv further thin 8ch6lD6 to tll8 fullest eXjteilt TireWorld puts this fine point on the Fif- are issued from the great teenth Amendment: ... , - cwbAm mail route at 229 Broadway, where all “When the lately emancipated negro^ave^.of pattern mart ronre a^ ^ gggggf by one of the South voted f°r Grant,andby lb tbe jading promoters of the excellent scheme, lave it, why this proposed amendment to give it to them ?—and u they did not, then Grant was elected by illegal votes. ” In New York fashion has just decreed that brides shall reside one year with their parents. the cultivation of cotton and sugar i the most profitable of any staple culture, oiy a small tithe of what could and ought to bekone is ac complished. Ia a condition of slavery this void luld easily be understood. The white labor coul not, and would not be allowed to, enter into clnpetition with the black, and of the black ther} pas not a sufficiency. This made the cost of lalir always high, and if the cotton States had Dt held a monopoly of their production they puld not have afforded the cost- of their labr; or, in other words, had they been obliged to nter into competition with the North in the prodetion of the same article—say com, for instace—they would have become instantly bankrdt. This may seem a singular theory when pt forward in behalf of free against slave laba but it is easily demonstrated. To do this, wiwill take the year 1860, and count the cost ofhe negro laborer, as he then stood, to the pmter. A first-class field hand could not be btight then for less than §1400, if the planter ejected to get such a workman as the Northeraeicould go into die labor market and choose at di times. The interest on this money was ten pr cent., for at- no less rate could money ever je pro cured, even on mortgage of the most (finable estates, in the South. This would b| §140. This man must be clothed, and not leu than §20 per annum would do it. He must be in sured for two-thirds of his value, §20 more. There are doctors’ bills, small items, bhakage, loss, etc., which we are safe in put tin; down at §10 per annum. In this we make i> calcu lation for food; for the risk the plantr takes on §460.67, one-third of his value, nq yet on the fact that there was never yet got t? much labor, by twenty per cent., from slavcjis from Now, let us see, at this same time, ihat the Northern fanner could do. He could fiijl daily, providing he was anywhere near the citi&, good thews and sinews, offering at his door, for the sum of §10 per month and keep. He, there fore, paid for his man only the sum of §20 per annum; took no risks on him, and gotfwenty per cent, more labor for his money. This is as the case stood then, and it ii little altered now. The black man has too latily un dergone his great change to undersand aid real ize it in tho aggregate. He is like a xewly- fledged merchant with a stock of goods in his bands which have suddenly risen in valvp—in toxicated with his supposed wealth, nui not feeling over-anxious to sell because his necessi ties do not compel. The black man has been brought up in a rigid school of economy, and can hvo on little. He has known what it was to work when he did uwixtat to. hr there any thing strange, therefore, m tne facF tnai ho should not want to work unless he feels that ne cessity demands it ? The Southern laborer is at this moment much better able to stand out for high price for his Labor than the Northern farm-hand. This fact should teach the white laborer that there must be an eligible field open for him, and induce him to grasp it. The day has gone by when the white mechanic or laborer at tie South was despised alike by his own color and the black, and the time has come when he can not only obtain enhanced wages, but respect. The South wants him, and his coming is a question to them of life and death. Looking at this matter in this thoroughly practical light, we cannot help wondering that there is not some coalition between tho. em ployers at the South and those of this city, New York, and Boston, who are interested in giving the new and unskilled labor arriving from Eu rope the best direction. The West is having her fair chance, and can have it even though a large percentage of emigration was diverted from her, and we do not know that a more patriotic ° r practical move could be made at the present time than for the mayors of the Northern cities to open communications with those of the South ern, and see if some system could not he or ganized to give the South what she, wants and what we have a superabundance of. A Dolelnl Account from the West Coast of Africa. We grieve to learn that our man and brother on the west coast of Africa is getting along very poorly. The land of King Jumbo Btunbo, Da homey & Co., finding no market now for prison ers of war, have gone to eating them. We take the following from Lippincott’s magazine, a trnlee loil publication. The writer of the article headed 44 Our Globe in 1869” stuns up the ad vances mude during 1866, in whatever contrib utes to the civilization of the world. Africa is about the only land reported to be stationery. It shows no marks of progress. We quote the dis couraging record: “The west coast of Africa presents no new discoveries. The suppression of the slave trade seems to have had a baneful influence on that unfortunate land, for tho wars continue, but the captives are now more generally eaten than sold. European sailors and merchants are often forced to witness horrible scenes of cannibalism; and tho enmity of the natives against foreigners, in cluding missionaries, has only been increased by the loss of former profits.” The Cincinnati Enquirer has a few ques tions to submit to Sumner : Can’t tho Fifteenth Amendment be stretched so os to take in Africa ? The franchise has a virtue, or else the Fifteenth Amendment is one of the greatest of modem crimes, that over comes nature, and lifts the possessor of it to an elevated plane of thought, feeling and action. If Sumner is at a loss how to proceed in' the premises, possibly General Foirpst’s experience may help him out of Ins dilemma. It will be remembered that over ten years ago—previous to 1860—a vessel called the ’Wanderer brought a cargo of slaves to the neighborhood of the United States! General Forrest, in a late con versation, is reported to have said: “I had an interest in the Wanderer, and we bronght over four hundred; only six per cent died. They were very fond of grasshoppers and bugs, bet I finally succeeded in teaching them to eat cooked meat, and they were as good niggers as I ever had;” and the General might have added that they are now prepared for the franchise, and to occupy with distinction seats in the State Legislatures 'and in the Halls'. of Congress. Wonderful transformation produced . by the “sum of all villainies,”—the “great crime of the age.”— 4 ‘accursed slavery”—among an en lightened and Christian people. .The negroes were turned from fondness for eating grasshop pers, bugs and savory pieces of human flesh, to relishing cooked beef and bacon, and thence they progressed into the intellectual and moral qualities of citizens and statesmen. So, Mr. Sumner, if the mountain can’t go to Mahomet, can’t Mahomet go to.the mountain —if the fifteenth Amendment can't go to Africa, can’t Africa come to' tlie fifteenth amendment, and be blessed by and through it ? Think of it good Sumner; grasshoppers, bugs and human flesh for food by the man and brother? At a party, while a young lady was playing with a peculiar brilliancy of touch, a bystander bachelor exclaimed, “I’d-give;the world for those fingers.”- “Perhaps you might get the whole hand by asking,” said the young lady’s observant mamma. It was said to a belle in the habit of wearing low-necked dresses, who carried off a matrimo nial prize, in the shape of a rich old widower, that “she won the race by a neck,” Spring and Summer Fashions. P 'Z\ n L% a? f£ boU f l ? d T W?iat t7ie XewBon- Zt Ahn J lke 7 Su t 8 A tU l V r °™-Crimline From the Hero York Times.] °J 8 P r i n S fashions is no longer » one day; It now spreads itself over b°?^- f0UrWeeks ’ From tbo BttdJe of March, the milliners commence, some announcing an a merely sending circular to apprise their customers of the arrival of expenenc3 1 ?o 1 ^e , 'unVavb¥Sblh' < tB 'iifE(er o tad .in hibition or the wearing of new bonnets. The designs for the season may now, how ever, be considered pretty generally determined, and the changes are inainly in design and arrangement of trimming, not in the shape or resources material The noticeable features are the high colors, the variety of color not only allowed, but or dained, and the extravagant amount of trim ming, put alike upon bonnets, dresses and what ever can be made to serve as an excuse for it. Ribbon has been revived, and is used to an extent of bows and streamers that shows utter regardlessness of cost. With the ribbon there is lace and flowers, sometimes in sprays of two or three different kinds and colors, not'to speak of feather aigrettes, stuck sometimes on the front and sometimes on tho back, in an apparent bewilderment, which is quite justified by the difficulty of putting so great a quantity and so large a variety on so very limited a space as the bonnet of the period affords. Dresses are no better, except that less variety in color is allowed upon a single costume. The quantity of material used upon some of the short dresses is enormous—double and triple flounces, very full, with frills, puffs, bows and fringes piled upon them, in heavy silk or pop lin—horse or steam power is required to cany- such a dress; no one woman’s strength would J>e equal to it. Why we still submit to be guided entirely by foreign whims and caprices in onr mode of dress is a mystery, the solution of which seems to lie in habit, and the relief it is to feel that everything is done for us, without the trouble of thinking. BONNETS AS WE FIND THEM. There is little difference in size or shape this season, and that little does not tend to enlarge ment On the contrary, the frame, or founda tion is smaller than ever, and the material and trimming of which the bonnet is composed ar ranged to give height but not breadth, or even length, unless we consider the length of the rib bon tails and streamers to determine the length of the bonnet. So far as character, individuality, and even beauty are concerned, round hats of this year certainly take the lead. Most of them are be coming and stylish, and some of them are very novel. One is a high hat with a somewhat oval crown and a narrow rolling brim which descends low upon the forehead. Another is a toquet, turned ? [p coquettishly on the two sides, depressed in rent, but straight at the back. The “Mussard” is a round hat trimmed with a Roman scarf, a wreatli of leaves and an aig rette. The bonnets are divided into the round pouf and Fanchon shapes, the latter elevated in front by a diadem wreath, or some other arrange ment of trimming, and often disguised by some effort of the milliners to produce novelty in such a way as to render it difficult to tell for what they'were originally intended. The “Nautilus” is one of these mysteries. It consists of a little Fanchon shape, upon which two wide hands of fancy straw are arranged to form comets at the sidesrand small wings at the back. The point of the Fanchon is depressed in front, and ornamented with a bow of English grass-green ribbon, from which a band passes down through the centre and forms a cordon consisting of bows and streamers at the back. The straw is lined with green silks,and the com ets are filled on one side with a bow of ribben, on the other with pink-tinted roses. It was exhibited at Stewart's and two sedate, somewhat provincial-looking ladies coming along habited in black, one of them gravely asked the attendant who held it in his hand: “"What is it, Sir?” 44 The price ?” he interrogated. “No,” said tho lady, severely, “the ‘thing’ itself.” She looked at first astonished, and then horri fied, at being told it was a bonnet. The “ Hermia” is a coquettish little shep herdess hat of straw, invented by a Parisian miliner last winte for evening wear, and which had a great success in the saloons of Paris among ladies of the highest rank. It has no fastenings, and was evidently never intended for tho street, the streamers being attached to the left side, and serving merely for ornament, not at all for use. The styles of Mmme Natalie Tilman are dis tinguished as usual by the most admirable good taste, rather than by eccentricity. A small Fanchon of black lace is trimmed with ribbon, striped in cords of black and gold, and with small satin tulips striped to match. A diadem bonnet is composed of puffings of steel-colored crape, alternating with narrow quil lings of steel-colored satin. The ornaments consisted of glittering wheat, and leaves in the same color. A small bonnet of white chip was made very striking by a trimming of real black lace, small red poppies, and a double bandeau of black wheat, with a fold of red velvet through the centre. Tho ribbon used was black, with a fine Persian-pattern brocaded in colors, and edged on either side with narrow black thread lace, pat on full. A very distinguished little bonnet was of whito chip, with a square crown of black thread lace, a square bow of spring grass green ribbon on the front, and a boquet of small black and redpopies, geranium leaves and grass, arranged as an aigrette. A “Dubarry” hat of whito chip had two love ly blue ostrich feathers laid flat against the crown, and a cordon of white roses down the center. A pretty round hat, of Italian straw, was trimmed with Sultan red velvet and a long, smooth pelican feather. Another round hat was trimmed with velvet, and ivy leaves in the new shade of rich Etrns- can brown. The ornament was a small boquet of pink roses, with natural leaves and buds.- In this connection we may mention that ladies can find at Mme. Tihnan’s yeiw choice new pat terns for dresses, in white French fonrlard, gaze de chambery, cliallis, hair-line silks, and crepe de chine, styles not to be found in any or dinary dry goods house. Pouf bonnets of black lace are in great vogue this season, trimmed with fern leaves, wild flowers, or sprigs of half-blown roses. We never remember to have seen so great a variety of the most beautiful artificial flowers, or such strict fidelity to the truth of nature in their copy ing- . The strings are still ornamental rather than use ful. They are very, long, often trimmed upon the ends with frills, or Huttings of satin or lace, or crossed, and fastened with a square bow. Veils are still round, and some of them are fancifully embroidered in straw-colored silk, or a mixture of colors; but this is not in very good taste. There is a new veil of Spanish lace which falls at the back, and can be drawn for ward upon the shoulders; but it forms drapery for the neck rather than protection for the face. ' " - 8 CITS AND COSTUMES. The revolution in fashion is so complete that it has established a new line of business upon a very extensive scale. All the houses that for merly aiade and imported cloaks, now make and import “suits” and oostnmes. Suits are the plain dresses in one color for the street.' Costumes admit of great variety, of rich material and combination of color, and are worn for dinner dress and occasions of oere- iFoiigh not properly or gracefully, in the draw ing-room. lady-like suits we have seen are tortfa o d - 0f 1K)I ^ e6 ’ P^Fa, or crepe de c7dne, S ades of S™!’! einamon brown ^F®y are trimmed with ruffles, box r plaited or gathered, with puffings laid in folds 1 ^' 151 ' 8148 ’ an j edged Wltk narrow satin Mds or pipings, and with licit knotted'fringe. Ihe dress skirt is generally trimmed with raf- ^PP e . r skm and Fasque, or cape, with fringe. In place of fringe, the edge of the up- P e ^P art ° f *Fe dress is sometimes^ scolloped out and bound, with every good effect. in the ^uantity'm a KiK r ne^^ffy1ri/ a iSe < p 1 < i'i > l? the flounces, boutfant upper skirt, audits finish ing of basque, and bows; moreover, the common purse is hardly equal to such a drain upon its resources; so that black silk suits, ranging all the way from S100 to §400, are necessarily con fined to persons of enlarged comprehension and expansive pocket-books. The most elegant Easter toilettes for married ladies, consist of rich black lace bonnets, trimmed with satin flowers and striped satin ribbon edged with black lace, and a 44 Roman” necktie. For young ladies, Mme. Demorest makes charming suits of fine line-striped silk, in delicate neutral shades, trimmed with ruffles, pinked out, and with square hows and ends pinked out to match. She also displays elegant suits of changeable silks, trimmed with ruffles and quilled puffings, bound upon the edge with a sober contrasting color, and finished with rich mottled fringe. These styles are accompanied, when desired, by bonnets or hats made by her own milliners, to harmonize with theimin every particular. mony. Suits are made short, sufficiently so to dear the ground and afford ease and comfort in walk ing. Costumes are generally made with a train, though there are short costumes which are worn in the street by young girls, sod sometimes, LADIES AND CHILDREN S OUTFITS. Wo have often alluded to the necessity which existed for establishments where ladies’ and children’s ready-made clothing could be obtained in great variety, and at comparatively moderate price. Mr. A. T. Stewart is now using a part of the immense space at his disposal in Ins new building to supply that lack. The exhibition at the opening last Thursday not only comprised suits and costumes for ladies, but a great variety or suits, costumes and dress es for children, and underclothing of every kind and grade for both ladies and children.— The prices are not low, but they are less exor bitant than have been charged heretofore for ladies’ and children’s ready-made clothing; and if kept within these bounds, or still further re duced to meet the popular wants, will create an enormous demand. Water-proof suits, made and trimmed, can be obtained here for §25, and skirts ready-made, with or without material for waist and sacque, for §7. MORNING DRESSES. New and pretty spring morning dresses are made in white all-wool delaine, checked with blue, purple, green, violet or mauve. The waist and sleeves are plain, the skirt gored front and sides, but left full at tho back, and the tops of the sleeves, pockets and other parts of the chess, more or less according to fancy, trimmed with ruchings of silk in the color of the check. The belt is made of the material, piped on either side with silk tbe color of mebings. Morning wrappers of French print are gored as they were last season, and finished with a dee flounce. White morning dresses will be extremely fash ionable as the season advances. They are made principally of Victoria lawn, and consist of a long skirt, and Watteau overdress. They are trimmed with fluted frills, puffings and inser tions. Very elegant ones have outskirts, and short sacs, or basques, which are open entirely down the the back, are edged with a wide Valencien nes lace, and united together by square bows of violet or grass-green ribbon, which are attached at intervals to the pointed or scolloped edges of the lace. OVER-DRESSES. These are universal, in fact they are an inte gral and necessary part of tho costume proper. Some are made short over long dresses, are looped up at the sides or at the back and orna mented with bows of ribbon or lace. A blue satin over-dress, worn recently over a white organde muslin, was beutifully trimmed with ruchings and rich fringe. The skirt was caught up fiigh at the back, and the boddice was rounded down very low in front. The sleeves were of the coat shape, with a puffing over the elbow, and were finished with a fall of wide white lace at the wrists. A new style of Watteau over-dress has a plain waist, which is trimmed with rich lace to form a Pompadour. The fullness laid over in a large double-box-plait, commences at the waist in stead of the neck, and the skirt being looped up high, renders it very bouffant and stylish. There are no sleeves to this over-dress, except those of the dress worn beneath, and which is only visible as an apron. The trained over-dresses are the most dis tinguished, and are specially adapted for dinner dress. Black and a bright rich green are a fashionable combination—the green forming the front of tho dress, the upper part of the T waist, and the sleeves. A cap of the black or a puff placed midway between the top of the sleeve and the elbow, Is supposad to add to the general effect. Lace and fringe are often used in combina tion to trim these over-dresses, the fringe fall ing low, the lace laying flat on the upper edge. The late style of crinoline worn with short, as well as trained dresses, has tapes crossed, instead of springs in front They are moder ate in size, almost imperceptible, but sufficient to give a slight expansion to the fullness at the back of the dress, and prevent the unpleasant clinging of the skirts to the ancles. The rumor that crinoline was abandoned is very wide of the mark. In Paris it is worn larger than last year. HEAD-DRESSES. The small bonnets, and the quantity of hair worn, at home as well as upon the promenade, have rendered elaborate head-dresses unneces sary, and nothing, therefore, is worn, as orna ment upon the hair save a ribbon, a flower, or upon the more ceremonious occasions, a wreath or cordon of flowers. The old-fashioned head dresses, those elaborate creations of velvet and ribbon and lace, which formerly supplied any want of natural ornament, have now entirely disappeared, and will hardly revivo during the present century. Fancy combs, also, have ceased to have afash- ionable existence; the only styles tolerated are the broad-band tortoise-shell, which fit to the front of the head, over the braided coronet? of hair. These are considered distinguished, and unlikely to become common, because they are plain, though costly, and only attractive to per sons of cultivated testes. _ Chignons are immense in size, but much light er than formerly, because they are made hollow and over light frames, instead of in a solid mass. Mohair ana other abominations have fallen into disuse, and real hair is employed, which, though most costly in the beginning, io found to be cheaper in reality, as it can be turned to the va ried purposes of fashion, and does not rapidly deteriorate in qnality. Curls have revived, and over the puffed chig non, which is placed high upon the head, are al lowed to fall in a caseade of ringlets. A heavy braid encircles the head, like a coronet, and forces the front hair into a very small space over the forehead. The excessive demand which has grown, and increased constantly during the past fire years, has doubled and trebled the price of hair, and enlarged the business of hairdressing to five times its fanner proportions. Ten years ago only persons unfortunate enough to have lost their own, wore hair that was falsa, and the secret was more jealously guarded than repairs effected by the dentist. Now, almost every wo man wears more or less bought hair, in addition to her own, and boasts of the perfect “match” she obtains, as she used to boast of the color and length of her natural tresses. Powder has bean trying for some tune to ob tain a yi powder kinds powder at last succeeded. Blonde powder are the commonest And also the prettiest, but gray thh fashionable rage. VOL. ILHI.-NO, 20. 1 Gray powder was introduced as an aocomna- 10 tbeanti< l ne styhw of draas, and withe, 25 Fompadour costume it looks *x- cC^e„I ^ilF the not-uncommon sense f fitness or unfitness found even in “society," comm ° n -plaee girls and women, in tho most common-place dresses, will mount their nf r ^ y i, t8rlataaes plain poplins with masses f* ipfrpowder, until they look like the ^ « ^otealbakensman m a parlor charade, rath cantury tL ° iugh ‘ born F^ties of the sixteenth *** ^ however, at ebest Ifiaid very well fora period when «ft{fctaJ^.TOrfi_xmkn 0Wn> and <ssnoip the beauty of cleanliness as superior to that which poets have written, or painters traced. AVhy will not fashion mongers create something for the future instead of forever reviving the dead past ? CUFFS AND COLLARS. The straight linen cuff is still worn, and with it a round collar an inch and a quarter in depth, frequently edged with Vallenciennes. Sleeves are made closer at the wrist, and cuffs are there fore made smaller; late styles are cut small, and stitched in three or four rows with fine cords at both ends, so that when one end is dirty the other can be turned to the wrist The round linen collais aro pretty enough so long as they are made small: but ent deep, or in the spikes projecting upon the shoulder, which were introduced last spring, they are very ugly and unbecoming. : Striped cuffs and collars are very much worn with morning dresses, and even upon the prom enade, but they are not at all suited to occasions of ceremony, nor even visits. The pointed lace collars which have been so long worn, can now be obtained at half price, lace being compelled to follow the lead of the more democratic linen. < RIBBON TIES. Narrow neckties with embroidered ends have given place to broad knots of ribbon, striped in tho gayest colors, and fringed out upon the ends. “Roman” neckties they are called, and tho ribbon is used not only for neckties, but for sashes with white and black dresses, and as scarf trimmings upon black round hats, which thus adorned are known as La Ferichole. About Water-Spouts at Sea. An article in Harper’s Magazine says: The first indication of the formation of a water-spout observed by tho seamen on board their ship consists of the gradual concentration and settling down of a mass of dark and heavy clonds over the sea, accompanied by great agi tation of the water immediately beneath it. The mass of water soon begins to show a tendency to rise in a tumultuous heap toward the cloud, which in its turn evinces a tendency to descend to meet it. Both the rising wave and the de scending cloud move together over the sea, whirling, as they go, in a sort of waltz as fan tastic as it is fearful and sublime. At length the ascending apex of the water and the descending apex of tho cloud meet and join, the united mass drifting before the wind in the form of a vast spiral column, in which water and cloud are undistinguishably blended. - The connection of electricity with <the phe nomenon is indicated by the fact that at the moment when the upper and lower formations meet, a flash of lightning is often seen to dart from one to the other, showing that the water and the cloud are in opposite electrical condi tions at the moment before they unite. Be- . sides this, there are some experiments which may be made with electricity artificially excited, in which effects are produced which seem in a considerable degree analogous to those witness ed in this phenomenon—sufficiently so to im-. crease the probability that the agency of elec tricity is in some way involved, though it is not known in precisely what manner- or to what ex tent. Not the least singular of the things to be ob served in respect to waterspouts is the mode adopted by seamen for breaking and dispersing, them, which is by shooting them, as it were, by guns or cannon. If the seamen find that the whirling column is drifting away from'them, or moving in such a direction as- not to cross the track of the ship, they leave it usually to finish its dance as it pleases. But if they find it com ing toward them, they train all the guns upon it that they can muster,'under the idea that either the impact of the shot or the concnssion of the sound will break the charm, and make it burst and disappear like a touched bubble. Day of the Crnciflxlon. Speaking of the last Good- Friday the New Orleans Picayune observes It derives, if possible, an additonal solemnity this year from the fact that it is not only the commemorative day fixed by the rubrics of the churches, but by the computations of chronolo- gistsisthe actual aniversary. The festival of Easter and the fast of Good Friday are what are called moveable days, determined by their approximation to the vernal equinox and vary, from time to time, with the ‘ age of the vernal full moon. This year Good Friday falls on the 26th day of March, and r Easter Sunday on the 26th day of March; and the latest and now ac cepted calculation of archaeologists and as tronomers is, that the crucifixion took place at Jerusalem on Friday the twenty-sixth day of March, and the rising from the dead on'tha 8th day of March, in the year 28 of. the common, era, corresponding to the year, 4741 of the Jn- lian period. It is, therefore, not merely a sym bolical or commemorative celebration, in,which. Christians take snch profound interest to-day, but an actual anniversary. The same authorities plnoa the birth, of the Saviour in the 4707th year of the Julian period. The current year is the 6562d of that period, and as the reckoning is of years current, and not of years elapsed, we are In the 1876th' year from the birth of Christ, instead of the- 1869th year, as is commonly written. The Island op Febnando Po.—Tho Spaniard is a cruel, vindictive and bigoted creature. The political prisoners of Cuba are being sent to this miserable Island—the prisoners, of war in all cases are shot. At a late Cuban meeting in New York Mr. Paul B. Du Chaillu made a speech in which he gave the following description of this Island: We have heard the cry from Cuba of widows and orphans. War and revolution is raging in Cuba, and poor people are- suffering from the barbarities inflicted upon them by these tyrants. He was in the country to which the Spanish au thorities are exiling the revolutionists, and his flesh shuddered when he read that these men were sent to Fernando Po. He conld stand a great deal of American climate, bnt that of Fer nando Po on the west coast of Africa is the most insufferable. It rains there all the time, and is extremely hot, and, from the decayed vegetation that sends forth poisonous exhala tions, it is the most unhealthy spot in the world. The English first had it, but the Spaniards about ten years ago claimed it, and the English conceded it to them because of its unhealthi- is. It is. to. be hoped that the revolution will succeed, so that the poor Cubans will be prompt ly rescued from their exile. He protested against the outrage of sending political prison ers to Fernanda Po. It is an outrage against which every man ought to protest, especially every citizen of this great repuplic—for, after all, Cuba is part of our oauntry.^ She is at our own doors. Cubans are Americans born on, this continent. He sincerely hoped, therefore,, that all were united and actuated with the same, feeling of sympathy for Cuba, and all actuated with the same desire to give her material arid physical aid. (Cheers.) He would, therefore, call for three cheera for the freedom and inde pendence of Cuba.” Got. Wells Disdtarged. Richmond, March 27.—Gen. Stoneman to day issued an order removing Gov. Wells and a«Ripning the duties of the offioe oh himself. Mayor Burge*, of Petersburg, was also re moved from office.