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Tlae Greorgia, "Weekly Telegraph.. THE TELEGRAPH. MACON, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1869. Methodist Swudny School Celebration Tho editors of the Telegraph acknowledge . a kind invitation to participate in tho festivities, ■ and will try at least to be represented there. All signs indicate now (Monday evening) that onr friends will have bright skies, and we hope everything will pass off pleasantly and happily as parents, teachers and children can desire. Virginia Politics. The Virginia Conservatives held a Convention in Richmond, last week, to decide upon a course of action in reference to the reconstruction of the State under tho bill lately adopted by Con gress. The Convention was largely attended by many prominent men, and the whole ques tion was very earnestly discussed. Tho first day’s meeting disclosed a wide discrepancy of opinion, but on the following day tho Conven tion pretty generally harmonized on a prop osition (in substantial effect) to support tho Gubernatorial nominee of the Conservative Re publicans, (Walker of Norfolk,) against Wells, and his phalanx of nlta-rads, nineteen-twentieths of whom are said to bo negroes. They will also vote for the Constitution with the expurga tions which are to be submitted to them nndcr the bill. The Dispatch says that, with proper effort, they can carry the State. The election will be ordered by Gen. Canby, some time in July next A Locomotive Congress. There are said to be nine or ten travelling committees of Congress who have a roving com mission to pursue their investigations all over the United States and even into the British, Spanish and Russian possessions, till next win ter's session. In tho United States they will travel as dead-heads, and yet be entitled to charge milage. Their hotel bills and incident als, pay of witnesses, attendants, etc., will alto gether swell np a bill which it is snpposed will be unfavorable to the early liquidation of the na tional debt, but that the committees will have a good timo generally no one doubts. Tbc Sew Census and Apportionment. In the redistribution of Congressmen after the census next year, tho Bast will lose and the West will gain a groat number of representa tives. After 1870 the West, if united, will con trol the legislation of the country, and control the national conventions for nominating Presi dential candidates. The West is equitably en titled to this superior weight now, bnt it cannot receive the benefit of its wonderful growth since 1860 until tho ten years are fully np, when, by a sudden stride or leap, it will make a great ad vance in political infinence. The Bloomers out Again. — The National Dress Reform Association has jnst got through • with a convention in Washington city. Mrs. Dr. Mary Walker presided, and a great many of the female medical faculty made speeches show ing tho terrible physiological, hygienic and ana tomical resnlts of the present female costume. Rom, tobacco and pork were destroying tho vigor of the men, and fashion was doing as much for tho women. The result is a frightful proportion of still-born, rickety, malformed and weakly children. Mrs. Dr. Walker pitched heavily into Grant, denied that he had refased to receive her in abbreviated skirts, and said she had never called upon him, bnt had attended Mrs. Grant’s receptions. When a Man May he Adjudged Drunk.— Tho Central Georgian says that at the recent session of tho Wilkinson Superior Court, Judge Robinson defined what it required to be under the infinence of liqnor, so that parties might make no mistake. Said he : ‘‘It is not neces sary that a man should be wallowing in a ditch, or bumping his head against your posts, that yon-may know him to be drank, bnt whenever <he Begins to tell the same thing over twice, 'ihen he’s drunk!” The Judge is a Solomon. Memory is tho test of mental self-possession— the touchstone of lunacy os well as of drunkenness. The great poet says —“Bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, Which madness would but gambol at." Pluck.—Near Russellville, in Monroe county, (says tho Rural Southerner,) resides a man named Harvall, who lost a leg on a Virginia bat tle field in tho late war. A few days since we wore riding past his farm in company with a friend. “Look,” 6aid my companion, “he is a man, isn’t he?” Mr. Harvall was ploughing—opening cotton ridges—and stepped as cheerfully, if not as easily, with his wooden leg, as thongh it was a natural limb. “Isn’t he a man?” Aye, his heroism has lived beyond the battle field: and if the little boys who planted the seed for him, while he ploughed, were his sons, they have as much right to be proud of him as when he bared his besom in his country’s battles. \ Mona Mexican Tebbitobt.—Is is said that a proposition has been received in Washington from Mexico to cede, for three million dollars, tho States of Sonora and Sinaloa on the extremo part of tho Gulf of California, and the proposi tion comes in tho form of aprotocol for a treaty. It has -been negotiated principally by Senor Romero, the Secretary of the Treasury of Mexico, and former Mexican Minister to Wash ington, and is made with the view of filling the coffers of the depleted Mexican Treasury. As We Supposed.—Tho representatives of the British government at Washington deny the stories that England intends to recognize tho Cuban insurgents, and say they were got np in the interests of filibusterism and to disturb international harmony. -Southern Baptist Contention.—The Savan nah Republican, of Sunday, announces the presence in that city of several delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention, which meets next Thursday in Macon. Dr. Fuller, of Baltimore, was expected to preach in Savannah Sunday evening. 31jbile and Giuaed Baileoad.—Tho Colum bus Sun says tho Mobile and Girard Railroad carries more passengers and freight, except cot ton, from Columbus, than all the other roads put together. It also brings more trade to the city than all the rest By next fall trains will bo ran to Troy. Sharp.—The three Radical Congressmen doc tod in Connecticut a few days since, accord ing to the Richmond Dispatch, were actually ad mitted to seats in the extra session of Congress Before the official canvass of the vote and, of course, withont certificates. We had very heavy rains and blow last Saturday night, which may have proved injnrons to the wheat crop. How Absolute Govcrumehts are Made. The sensation produced by the publication of the “Imperialist” can hardly be due to any en lightened apprehension of its success in concil iating the popular mind to such a change. The whole argument for an empire is, in fact, based upon premises which must be fatal to it, as a scheme of popular election. The Empire is urged because the people are turbulent, wilful, impatient of tho restraints of law—of the accum ulations of capital and the exactions of the na tional creditors. They are, therefore, asked to substitute for their own will that of an impera- tor—who shall compel them to do what they are impatient of doing and likely hereafter to refuse altogether to do. A people so intolerant of civil distinctions os to sanction a war upon Nature herself in tho at tempt to obliterate and trample into dust “the distinction on account of color,” are approach ed with the proposition to found their whole government upon civil distinctions, and to erect upon the plain of “universal freedom and eqnality ” a grand political pyramid of which tho toiling masses shall form tho base—the “ mudsills”—and the grand autocrat the cope- stone, while between them, in successive courses, rising higher and higher, shall be a legion of different orders of privileged classes, each higher than the course below, and tieing and cementing the vast fabric together by tho co hesion of personal and class interest, until all concentrate in the grand monarch at tho top, as the embodiment of all authority, power and emolument. This bare statement of the case makes it clear enough that with the great mass of the people an advocate of imperialism must be odious.— Pnblio creditors and capitalists,and the few who count upon taking an exceptional benefit from such a revolution, such as place-holders, nobili ty and court satellites—might listen with pleas ure to tho discourse of an imperial organ ; but to the people who are asked to surrender their civil rights and privileges in order to arm a master with the grand aggregate of power, the proposition most appear equally unwelcome and absnrd. The French Empire, it is true, claims to have been bom of the people; but, in troth, it was established by violence. It is alleged a plebe- scite endorsed it; bnt that vote was simply a tribute to the popularity of the Bonapartes and to the traditional glory of France under that dynasty and it was cast by a people who had formed no attachment to republican freedom, nnd saw no glory or respectability in a government of that character. The cases are radically diverse and antagonistic. All American glory is republican, •and all onr shame, discord, disorder and licen tiousness consist in abandoning the plain track of Constitutional self-government marked out by onr fathers of hallowed name and memory. The process by which Americans will (if ever) see their grand legacy of personal, individual power and influence in the common government wrested from them in order to be consolidated into the hands of a dictator or emperor, must necessarily be one of violence. A sovereign people will not relinquish power any more will ingly than a sovereign monarch. True, anarchy may come in the fierce conflict of those powers, and then a minority might be willing to barter them away for peace and protection. Bnt still there must be violence to compel universal as sent. Any scheme to bring about such a revolution through the polls and by “moral suasion” would be too absurd to mislead intelligent men. Strong governments are the spoils and plunder of the people, and they mast bo collected and com posed by force. Snch is the universal verdict of history. The theoretical imperialists of to-day proba bly represent a growing class of intelligent men,holding heavy pecuniary stakes in the pub lic order, who are deeply alive to the fact that the country is drifting very fast down the stream of demoralization, corruption and rnin, and they see in a debased suffrage no anchor to arrest her course. These men may persuade themselves that they can save confusion, blood shed and loss of property by sliding naturally and tranquilly into monarchy,bnt it is sheer de lusion. It is a moral and political impossibility. The peace of an autocracy in America will come after a prologue of disorder, anarchy and bloodshed. The cheapest,shortest and best road to peace is a return to the Constitution, and wo must return or drink the cup of misery and rnin. Some people thinkthecountrycangooninthis way, from bad to worse, forever, and they raise crops and live in peace, and let the politicians fight it out among themselves. If that could be done, we should care nothing about politics. All the most of us ask or expect is liberty to live in peace and earn onr subsistence. Bnt if affairs do not mend, this liberty must soon cease and the whole continent be involved in disorder and vio lence. Years before the war, many honest peo ple thought they could live out their days upon their farms and snap their fingers at tho politi cians. Bnt before they knew it, the politicians had them in battle array and they conld not help themselves. Jnst so now; the people are shrugging their shoulders in contempt at the floods of corrup tion, venality, wickedness, lawlessness and folly with which the politicians are submerging the country, not knowing that the result must inev itably be universal anarchy and rnin unless the work of demoralization is arrested. The Yan kee imperialists think they can arrest it through an autocrat—an absolutist—a dictator; bnt the dictator is on the other side of the gulf of revolu tion/ We want to stop the mischief before we get to the gulf, and the only chance is a return to the Constitution. It is a donbtfol chance, we know, but it is the only one. BY TELEGRAPH, Run-bridge, Ccthbkbt and Columbus RauJ- boad.—The Bainbridge Sun says: At the election on Tuesday last for ratification or no ratification, of the resolntion passed bv Council investing the thirty-six thousand dol lars of the AUantio and Gulf Railroad stock owned by the Corporation, in the Bainbridge, Guthbert and Colnmbns Railroad Company— the resolution was passed by an overwhelming majority, only three votes being cast against ratification. Mas. Funt Downing, formerly of Florida, has been appointed a General Soliciting Agent for the Piedmont Life Insurance Company, in North Carolina. Proposed Reunion of the Eighth Georgia Regiment.—It has been proposed that the sur vivors of tho “oldEighth Georgia” regiment have a social reunion on the 21st next Jnly, at some central locality. What say the Atlanta Grays, the Macon Guards, the Oglethorpe Light Infantry, and the other companies. The com panies from Floyd are in favor of it.—Borne Courier. Speaking without authority, we have no hesi tation in expressing the opinion that the large and honorable remnant of that historical regi ment that is to be found on the coast, will most joyfully co-operate with their former comrades- in-arms to get np tho proposed reunion. It would be a most pleasant affair, and the memo ries of the regiment are too glorious not to be preserved by a permanent association and fre quent reunions. So says the Savannah Republican — and, speaking in the same way, the Macon Telegraph feels qnite sure the reunion would be exceed ingly satisfactory to that portion of the regi ment located in this vicinity. The Savannah, Skidaway and Seaboard Rail road is to be pushed through withont delay. If we understand the scheme it will transfer the freighting business of Savannah down to Tybee severe and stop all drayage of through freight.—Macon Telegraph. It happens, though, that onr.Macon brother does not “understand the scheme.” The road referred to does not ran in the direction of Ty bee, which is dne east from the city, bnt dna south on the main land to Skidaway Island, and thence to Green Island, at which point it may connect with the Florida boats, bnt none other. —Savannah Republican. Information accepted. Our Savannah broth er will hardly fail to comprehend the necessity of some scheme to flank that bluff. Fine Wheat.—Capt Sargent ban one acre and a half of land on the town lot sown in the cele brated Tappahannock wheat, which is now jnst heading, and promising a yield of at least sixty bushels. A view of it is really refreshing. (Neuman (,0a.) Herald. From Washington. Washington, May 3. — Boutwell has issued twelve stringent rules, among them are rules prohi biting visiting, drinking and smoking during busi ness hours. Eli Washburne sailed for France on Saturday. W. T. Blow, of St Louis, lias been regularly commissioned Minister to Brazil. Commissioner Delana has been notified of his dis mission for sustaining Webster’s assessments. It will be contested in the Courts by Bankers and Brokers. The Dyer court martial, now in secret session, is preparing evidence, the counsel having waived argument. Nelson,the new Minister to Mexico, will soon pro ceed to Havana, where a Federal war vessel will convey him to Vera Cruz. There is no troth in the newspaper statements that the Mexican government proposes to sell So nora to the United States. Gen. Bosecranz’s dispatches will receive no an swer from the State Department, as Nelson’s early presence will render answers unnecessary. Tho wild statements regarding Gen. Lee’s visit re quire the reassertion that the visit was very brief- not ten minutes—and the conversation was confined to matters of personal courtesy. Chase will hold Court successively in Richmond, Raleigh and Charleston. Consul General Plumb sails for Havana on Thurs day. His instructions include a caution against pre cipitating a quarrel with the Spanish authorities. Supervisors appointed: P. K. Berry, North Caro lina and South Carolina, vice Bennett; S. J. Conk- liD, for Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas, vice Creecy. Washington, May 2.—Cob A P. Wiley, an emi nent lawyer, died at the Ellett House to-day. Minister Motley leaves on the 19th. Hia instruc tions are very brief. He is to go to England and await events. Grant was in no hurry abont the mat ter, but Sunmer strongly urged Motley’s presence at the Court of St. James. From Atlanta—The Firemen’s Parade. Special to the Macon Telegraph.] Atlanta, May 3.—The Fire Parade started at 11 o’clock a. m., and marched around town. There were eleven companies in lino and the streets wero thronged to excess. There wero four from Augus ta; one from Charleston, one from Rome, one from Macon, and four from Atlanta. The tournament commenced at 1 o’clock v. n. The fiist Company, Tallulah No. 3, of Atlanta, throw 221 feet; Defiance No. 5. of Macon, 209 feet; Augusta, No. 5, 215; steamer Pillmore, No. 4, 229 feet 4 inches; steamer Vigilant, of Augusta, 222 feet 9 inches; Mechanics, of Atlanta, 24G feet 5-10 of an inch; Clinch No. 2, of Augusta, 231 feet 8 inches; Palmetto, of Charleston, 279. The lost Steamer beat No. 1, of Atlanta, 8 feet. There was a considerable dispute as to the victory. No. l’s hose burst twice. Everything is now quiet. The Rainbow, of Rome, plays to-morrow, as night pat- a stop to her. It is expected to baTe No. 1 and Palmetto challenge and try to-morrow. The Printers’ Union elected Mr. John J. Rogers delegate Saturday night, to represent them at the meeting of the National Typographical Union to be held in Albany, New York, June next. The negro company from Macon wae not allowed to appear; Mayor Hulsey gave orders to that effect. This saved considerable trouble. The grand dinner is just commencing. More after a while. Mac. From Virginia. Richmond, May 3 Chief Justice Chase arrived this afternoon and opened tho United States Circuit Court, assisted by Judge Underwood. Judge Chase brieflly charged the grand jury. The jury was com posed entirely of whites, and the iron-clad oath being dispensed with, many old citizens appeared in tho ju ry for the first time since tho dose of the war. The case of Cicsar Griffin, involving the legality of Un derwood's decision setting aside the action of the State Courts whose officers are ineligible under the fourteenth amendment, was called, and will be ar gued to-morrow. The Seventeenth U. S. Infantry arrived here to night. General Hews. Boston, May 3.—James Hunnewell, a leading merchant of fifty years, and identified with the Sandwich Island and California trade, died to-day, aged 70 years. Omaha, May 3.— The Central Pacific Railroad reached its terminus at Promotory Point, on Satur day. Tho union of tho Pacific has been delayed by heavy rock cutting and drudging. It is donbtfol if tho roads meet before tho 10th of May. New York, May 3.—Butler pleads for Young, and Oakley Hall for Dana, in tho approaching libel suit. Mobile, May 3.—Tho incessant rains for the past ten days have overflowed a largo portion of the crops, doing great destruction. All lowland and creek bottom will have to bo replanted. There is a great scarcity of seed. New Yobk, May 2.—Tho Sunday papers all con tain special reports of Lee’s visit to Grant. They state that when Gen. Lee was announced, Grant dismissed a number of visitors, including Congress men, telling them he had an engagement with Lee, and must be excused. Then followed an interview of an hour's duration, strictly private between tho two. The first meeting since they parted April 9th, 1805, at Appomattox. Disturbance in West Tennessee. Memphis, May 3.—It is reported that a fight was progressing last night at Brownsville, Tennessee. Two negroes and one white men were killed at last accounts. ■_ Foreign News. St. Petersburg, May 3.—Tho recall of Storekel, the American Minister, is officially announced. Cork, May 3.—A mass meeting on Saturday, endorsed the Mayor’s recent speech. The res- resolntion’ expressed confidence in and sympathy for tho Mayor. Reminiscences of a Methodist Pioneer.— Peter Cartwright, who is serving his fiftieth year as a presiding elder in the Methodist Episcopal Church, writes to tho Central Chris tian Advocate from Pleasant Plains, Illinois: “I think it quite prolmblo that the good Lord will give me my discharge from labor as my jubilee before our Conference at Lincoln, and, if so, it is my desire that this Conference re* member my aged wife—her age is eighty next August, 18th day. Wo were married the 18th, 1803. She has, therefore, been the wife of a traveling preacher sixty-one years tho ISth of next August. We have lived together sixty-one years. Sho has borne np under all tho hard ships, privations and poverty of a traveling preacher for nearly sixty-one years. Lot the old pioneers of tho early days of Methodism say what sufferings tho wife of a traveling preacher must have gone through in that timo, for al though I have been a regular traveling preacher sixty-five years next fall, I never received my disciplinary allowance for snpport from the church but three years of that long traveling life; and yet, thank God, I would rather have the comforts I have enjoyed a3 a poor, suffering, traveling Methodist preacher than to be Presi dent of the United States. A Cube fob Paralysis.—We lately met a gen tlemen who, although he walked with apparent ease, said ho had been almost a hopeless para lytic, but had been substantially cured by the use of an air-pnmp. The theory of the cure, and the application of the instrument were ns follows: Paralysis is produced by the failure of some of the organs of life to perform their functions; they need recuperating. He-ap plied a cap or receiver to the surface of the part affected, and by means of the pnmp he removed the pressure of the external atmo sphere. There was then a rush of air internal ly, os mnoh as the clogged condition of the sys tem would admit, towards the vacuum pro duced by the pnmp. The blood was carried along by the air, and by mere mechanical force made to circulate in the affocted limb, which thus recovered its vigor and activity.— Worcest er Palladium. Canadians Firing Up.—Referring to Hr. Stunner's elaboration of the fact that British policy protracted and greatly increased the cost of the war, the Montreal Gazette says: “It is now rather late in the day to cry and whine about it, especially when the reparation so arrogantly insisted upon will probably have to be purchased, if England only possesses a portion of her former spirit, at a cost of life and treasure far greater than that poured out in the last American war.” Marrying for a Family. A few years ago there came to a little country town of England a lady whom we shall call Miss Jennings. This was not her name, indeed, but her story is a true one, and that is the only matter of interest in this case. She came to take possession of a little house and of a hun dred a year, both of which she had inherited through the death of an nncle whom she had never seen, and who had never done her a kind ness. She tried to mourn for him and she conld not. She also tried in her consciousness to be gratefnl to him, bnt she soon found out that her gratitude to the deceased was all for his dying just as she was worn out with labor. Miss Jennings was too honeBt to make believe that she was grieving; she was too good to re joice ; so she put on black clothes, took a little maid servant to wait upon her and keep her company, and settled down in her own house for the first time in her life. There is an age when selfishness is a delicious feeling, whatever moralists may say. Miss Jen- ning had been tossed about in London till home had lost it meaning for her. And now she had her own home, and she could live and die in it. For years she had gone out early and come in late, and now she conld sit within the whole day long if it so pleased her. Instead of the three plants in flower-pots, which the first frost always killed, Miss Jennings had her own garden. And to make her happiness complete, Miss Jennings conld now indulge in what had been the day dream of her latter years—a painted glass win dow. It is all very well to deride these simple longings, bnt you see they often come when others depart. Miss Jennings had had brighter dreams once—dreams of husband, home and children, and when these withered away before tho chill breath of old Father Time, she took refuge in harmless fancies. Of these the paint ed glass window was the last, and Miss Jennings was a proud and happy woman when it was put np in the landing, and gold and ruby and sap phire hues fell on her staircase carpet. “I shall always think of my poor nncle when I look at the window,” thought Miss Jennings in tho Vannth of her gratitude to ihe dead. And so she did think of the old gentleman, faithfully, if not tenderly, and thus the little landing win dow got to be a sort of memorial window, and perhaps it was as true and religious in its way as many of its more ambitions brethren, display ing their dim gorgeousness in solemn old cathe drals. This pleasant, selfish little life had lasted through the summer time, and winter was be ginning with a new series of delights, under the shape of cozy‘evenings by the fireside, a bright lamp on the table, and a three-volume novel in the fat, white hands of plump Miss Jennings, who leaned back in the most comfortable of arm-chairs to read it, when next-door neighbors stepped in and blotted out the fair picture. On a dreary, snowy evening, when the wind, blow ing so gustily withont, made the comfort within doubly pleasant, Miss Jennings, who was gently nodding over a love scene, was roused by the intimations conveyed by her little maid, that Mr. Brown, the poor gentleman next door, whoso wife was so ill, asked to speak to her. Mr. Brown’s errand was a sad one ; his dying wife wanted to see Miss Jennings, whom she had never spoken to, and for whom she had conceived a sick woman’s fancy. Such wishes are not to be resisted; Miss Jennings at once put by her novel, rose and followed Mr. Brown to the next house. She never forgot the scene that awaited her there—a disordered household; seven woe-begone children; amostbegone-look- ing husband, and a dying woman, whose eyes burned like fire in her wasted face. At once she seized Miss Jenning’s hand, and held it fast. J ‘Iknew yon would come,” she whispered; “I knew you would. I am going to die. You know, we are strangers here; my poor husband is a clerk at tho bank, you know, and my poor children are all going to ruin. I know you will take care of them when I am gone; yon are good —I know you will.” “My goodness!” cried Miss Jennings, looking around her in dismay. Bnt the sick lady did not mind her, She kept on saying “I know you will” as if it were the burden of a song; and still uttering those words she died as ten struck that night. The fire was not out when Miss Jennings came home; the lamp still burned brightly; the open novel still lay on the table ; tho chair seemed to await its mistress, but Miss Jennings sighed drearily as she sunk into it.— Seven children! how would that poor ner vous Mr. Brown, who was out all day, and did hot know a soul in the place, how would he manage ? Miss Jennings had not the least in tention of accepting the dead lady’s legacy, bnt still how would he manage, you know? He managed tolerably well, thanks to Miss Jen nings. Yon see there was more tenderness than the painted-glass window could absorb. At first she only went in to direct Mr. Brown’s one ser vant “until he should get some one;” bnt that some one never came, for many excellent rea sons Miss Jennings gave up that illusion, and said to herself that she must “give a look to poor Mr. Brown’s children every now and then; ” this, too, was another illusion. Miss Jennings fonnd that children will not be looked at now and then, but require constant gazing. And so she looked at them so assiduously that the circulating library indignantly sent in for the second volume, and would rather decline Miss Jennings’ subscription than have books kept so long, if you please. Indeed, there was Miss Jennings’ angry rejoinder; they were welcome to the second volume, stupid trash! sho remem bered qnite well she was falling asleep over it when poor Mr. Brown came in, and she had something else to do now, thank heaven! So she had—good Mias Jennings; she had seven children to mind and a house to take care of. Mr. Brown, a poor nervous man, in a state of chronic depression, thanked her much, and was apt to become overpowered with gratitude at times, but he did nothing to relieve her burden. “Poor fellow,” thought Miss Jennings, os she now and then gave him a wistful look, “he is as helpless as a baby, yon know.” And so he was, so much so that, spite Miss Jennings’ vigilance, many matters would, and did go wrong. The evils at length became so serious and so crying, that Miss Jennings ventured on remonstrance. Ur. Brown groaned and knocked his head dis tractedly against the parlor mantel-piece, but said it could not be helped. They must all go to ruin, he and the children; it was very sad, bnt it must be so. “My goodness!” ex claimed Miss Jennings, “ho was not to say that!” But Mr. Brown would say that Miss Jennings was very kind, bnt of epurse she conld not be in two places at once—in' her own house and his; his dear wife had told him to marry again, by all means, bnt the poor dear soul had forgotton to say who would take a clerk of fifty-two with a moderate salary and seven children, all under fifteen! And Mr. Brown closed his eyes in silent desperation at the case, and said no more. Miss Jennings looked around her, much moved. Spite of all she had done and was doing, the parlor looked very comfortless, and the house, Miss Jen nings knew, was like the parlor. 'Winter had long been over; the spring and the summer which had followedit had waned; another winter was begin ning. She had given np every little enjoymentof her lonely life to this family. She hadscoldedthe servant—she had mended the younger children’s clothes—she had tanght the elder ones—they aR loved her dearly, and Mr. Brown was very grate fnl ; and still, either becauso his means wero in sufficient, or because his position was one of too great difficulty, there was some dreary truth in his gloomy assertion that they were all going to rnin. She gently touched his arm, and looking at him with tears in her eyes, and a little blush on her faded cheek, she said:. “Mr. Brown, I am fifty-one. I have a hun dred a year, and tho house I live in is my own. I love your children and they love me—will you marry me?” At first he stared and could not believe his ears—then a burst of tears expressed his joy; and need it be said that he accepted Miss Jen nings' proposal? Need it be said, too, what a world of good occurred to him and to his chil dren thereby? And good Miss Jennings, like the man in onr first instance, but with far better reasons, never repented. For among the resnlts of next-door neighborships maybe numbered the matrimonial every now and then.—Julia Kazannah. , Negro Outrage. New Haven, Conn., April 28.—A girl named Reilly, thirteen years old, living in Orange, four miles from this city, -while passing along the road, near Allentown, between- this city and Orange, last evening,' was assaulted by a negro, who dragged her to a woods and violated her person. Search for the villain was made. He was traced to this city, and efforts are being made to secure his arrest. The Wlft of LaAyette. In the bloody days of the French revolu tion, Marecbale, de Noaillee, the Duchesse d’Ayen, and tbeYicountesse de Noailles were executed on the same day. A priest of the Oratory, the Abbe Carrichon, was the con fessor of tho Duchesse d’Ayen and her daugh ter. One day that he was exhorting his pen itents to prepare for death, he said to them: “ If you go to the guillotine, and if God gives me strength, I will accompany you there.” They took him at bis word, and cried out with vivacity, “Will you promise us?” “ Yes,” he answered, “ and in order that you may recognize me, I shall have on a bluecoat and red vest.” The day when the three victims monnted the fatal cart, the Abbe Carrichon, disguised as he lmd promised, threatened with certain death if he was discovered, mingled in the crowd and ioHowcd them on foot up to the scaffold. He had trouble at first to make liimself recognized, in spite of all his efforts to put himself in view; but, a storm having broken out, the people disjjersed, and the priest remained alone. “Jlme. de Noailles perceived me, and, smiling, seemed to say to me. ‘Ah ! there you are at last. Ah! how sad we are. We looked for you a long time. Mamma, there he is.’ Mine. d’Ayen revived. All my irresolution ceased. I felt in myself an extraordinary courage. Bathed in sweat and rain, I continued to walk near them. The storm was at its highest point, the wind more impetuous. The ladies in the first cart were very much troubled by it; particularly the Marecliale de Noailles; her large cap was thrown back, lettiDg her gray hair be seen; she tottered on her miserable seat, which had no support, her hands tied behind her back. We arrived at the open place where the Farbourg Saint Antoine be gins. I went before—1 examined it, and I said to myself, this is the best place to give what they wish so mnch to receive. The cart was going slower. I turned towards them; I made a sign to Mme. de Noailles, which she understood perfectly. “Mamma, 31. Carrichon is going to give us the absolution.” Immediately they bowed their heads with an air of repentance, of con trition, of emotion, of hope, and piety. I raised my hand, and with my head covered, pronounced the formula of absolution and the words which followed it very distinctly, and with a perternatural attention. They joined it better than ever. I shall never for get that charming picture. From that mo ment the storm went down, the rain dimin ished, and seemed to have existed only for the success of that which was so much de sired on ?>oth sides. I blessed God; they did also.” What a picture, in fact! The good priest calls it charming, and such a word in such a moment is sublime. The details of the late execution are related with the same eloquent simplicity. “The ilarechale de Noailles as cended on the altar of sacrifice. The top of her dress had to be folded in, that her neck might be uncovered. I was impatient to go 8 way, and yet I wished to drink the cup to the dregs and to keep my word, since God gave me the strength to contain myself in the midst of so many emotions. Six ladies passed. 3I’me d’Ayen was the tenth. How pleased she seemed to me to die before her daughter. When she ascended the scaffold, the executioner took off her cap. As it was fastened by a pin which be bad not taken out, the hair was pulled violently, which caused her some paip, which showed itself in her features. The mother disappeared, her worthy and tender daughter took her place. What emotion I felt in seeing this young lady all in white, seeming much younger than she was, like a gentle little lamb going to be slaughtered! I felt as if I was present at the martyrdom of one of those young virgins or holy women such as they are represented to us. What happened to the mother happened clsotober; the same forgetfulness of the pin, the same sigh of pain, and at once the same calm, the same death. What an abundance of Vermillion blood flowed from head and the neck! How happy sbe is! I cried to myself, when her body was thrown into that fright ful coffin.” The daughter, grand-daughter and sister of these three innocent victims, Adrienne de Simon Short's Son Samuel. children and grand-children. A comparison j tbp t w«f 1Ue -^ f i and8 i ? « he bl - eak bt , a , teS of l 8hrewd Simon Short sewed shoes. 8ev th0se 0f Georgia, would seem enteen summers, speeding storms, spreading todemoD8tra tc the beneficial results | sunshine, successively saw Simon’s smafi { wt hf™ 0D Dp ° f n land Jholder. • shabby shop still standing staunch, “at ■. .• Lf , triea . DS favor the wholesale intro- Simon’s self same squaking sign still swinn wUl !°. ut rf S ard ,. t0 ipg, .silently specifying: “Simon 8bo« ‘Married couples resemble a pair of shears,” says Sydney Smith, “so joined that they can not’be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.” Edwin Booth, it is said, has sold the Salt Fond Mountain, in Giles county, Ya., contain ing 12,000 acres, to a company of Tennesseeans, for $100,000. They intend to found a watering place there. Noailles, JIadame Lafayette, was born in ’perfect order. Not one ^unpleasant circum— 1759. Her daughter tells us that slie was in 1 “* hejr childhood very much troubled by doubts on religion. The agitation commenced at the age of twelve and lasted several years. Although she experienced a great trouble from her uncertainties, she voluntarily de ferred her first communication until the mo ment they had ceased, which was already an astonishing trait of character in a child of this age. She married when only fourteen and a bal£ 3L de Lafayette was himself only six teen. She was almost in her eighteenth year when her husband departed tor America. She endured with courage this unexpected separation; her ardent love for her husband was exactly what made her strength. The resolution of 31. de Lafayette, which some very much applauded, was blamed exceed ingly by others; the Dnc d’Ayen in particu lar did not dissemble his anger. The young wife did without hesitating what she was to do all her life—she took the part of her hus band against her own family, and swallowed her tears. Lafayette returned with gratitude this passionate devotion ; what infght have divided united them mo r e closely. Opposing Immigration. From the Southern Banner.] We regret to notice, in a late number of that excellent agricultural journal, the South ern Cultivator, an article from David Dick son, Esq., in which he throws the weight of bis great influence against the growing incli nation of planters to sell a portion of their surplus lands to immigrants. 3Ir. Dickson says we have the goose (the land) and the golden egg (cotton), and he asks if we will give them over to foreign capital and foreign labor, or retain them for our children and grandchildren. If cotton were the only egg in the fanner’s nest, there would possibly "be some wisdom in tho prudent suggestions of 3Ir. DicksoD. But when we reflect that there are millions of acres of tho richest lands in the world ly ing in virgin solitude, and millions of other acres, partially tilled before “ freedom came about,” now relapsing into the native cane- brake or the unsightly sedge-field; when we observe that, jear by year, the eggs in pur basket (our cotton production) are falling off for wnut of labor, it does not look like sound economy to “keep all these lauds for our children and grand-children.” With our diminishing labor force it will absorb a great portion of our income to pay the taxes on the idle domain which he pro poses shall be kept for those who are to come after us. While the evils of a crowded population are apparent to all, it is equally manifest that a sparse population is a serious obstacle in the development o! the arts, to the diffusion of knowledge and to the higher develop ments of civilization. With a sparse popula tion, such as exists in most of the rural parts of the’South, and of a great portion of the new States of the west, it is found impracti cable to provide schools for the rising gen eration ; churches maintain bnt a feeble, flickering existence ; roads and bridges and all public improvements are neglected, and the whole country—though rich in native re sources—wears a thriftless and half tilled as pect. The chief evil connected with, or re sulting from slavery was its tendency to mo nopolize lands. This was apparent in .many districts of Middle Georgia,where one planter to-day owns estates which thirty or forty years ago were owned and cultivated by sev eral persons. Former occupants, for one cause and another, retired before the thrifty and intelligent planter, and sought the cheap er lands of the West. ,, . Bing no longer able to control labor, the large land owners usually find large estates burdensome and unproductive. That they sbonld be reluctant to part with them is natural. It is an, honorable sentiment to cherish the broad acres which have been banded down from sire to son, or bought by the sweat of honest toil. But when this do main is idle, and actually depreciating in value from neglect, as thousands of farms are to-day, all over the South, it does seem like folly to talk about keeping them for our their character. But we would see the policy of the country shaped to meet the new situa tion. Nine out of ten —wo might say nine teen out of twenty—of our large planters find great difficulty in obtaining free labor,as well as in managing it successfully. We believe they will find the labor of the class of white immigrants who can be hired by the month, also very objectionable. The true policy ap pears to be, to secure such as will make good tenants or become purchasers of a portion of our idle lands. The greedy idea that a small cotton crop is peculiarly profitable to thoso who make it, should not he suffered to dwarf the develop ment of all other farming interests.—Athens Banner. The Illinois Press In Montgomery. There was an immense meeting convened in the Theatre at 12 o’clock, on yesterday, to offer a welcome to the visiting members of the Illinois Press Assocation. The city’s guests arrived about 3 o’clock on Thursday morning, and were cordially received by Mr. Glasscock, the 3Iayor, at the depot, and were also informally addressed by General J. H. Clanton. After this reception they wero consigned with their wives, daughters and accompanying* friends, to hospitable quarters at tbe Exchange Hotel, and the European House. At noon yesterday a procession was formed at the Exchange Hotel consisting of the mem bers of the Press Association, the 3Iayor and other corporation officers, Gov. Smith, Gen. Miller and others of the State and county offi cers, Gov. Patton, Gen. Clanton, Judge Bibb, Judge Goldtbwaite, Judge Chilton, tbe edi tors of tbe city newspapers and many citi zens. Preceded by a band of music, tho pro cession moved toward the Theatre, and on reaching that building, tbe persons in it were directed to the scats assigned to them in tbe programme of the proceedings. In a few moments the Theatre was densely crowded with more than a thousand persons, the par quet being filled with gentlemen, and the boxes with ladies attended by their escorts. The large audience was orderly, respectful and exceedingly attentive, from tbe opening to the closing of the scene of the ceremonies. As the first step in the proceedings the Jlayor introduced Judge Chilton to the as semblage who bad been selected to deliver the welcome address on the part of the city and the citizens generally. He spoke for three quarters of an hour—made many sensi ble remarks—and in the course of his address was often interrupted by loud cheers. After he had concluded his eloquent speech, 3Ir. E. H. Griggs, editor of the Rockland Regis ter, and President of the Association, respond ed in a speech excellent both in style and substance. He was frequently applauded by the hearers. At tbe close of his remarks, he introduced Mr. J. H. Oberly of the Cairo Bulletin. This gentleman absorbed tbe at tention of the audience (particularly after he hinted that be was a Democrat) while des canting upon the material and industrial resources of our great State, anddnculcating Peace under the zEgis of Law. When 3Ir. Oberly retired amidst the plaud its of the assemblage, Mayor Glasscock in troduced Mr. Robert Tyler of tbe Advertiser who made an address of welcome in behalf of the Press of the city. How 3Ir. Tyler ac quitted himself of this duty, other people must determine. Next Mr. Morgan, of the Illinois Teacher (Cairo), made a very elo quent speech on the subject of the advantages of education, highly complimenting the Mo bile schools, and declaring himselfthe warm friend of the South. 3Ir. Murtfeldt, the edi tor of an Agricultural Journal, the Rural World, made a few practical observations on the value of fertilizers in farming, and other kindred topics to which all listened with in terest. This speech conclude tbe ceremonies of the occasion,when on motion to adjourn the vast assemblage dispersed in good humor and in stances occurred to mar the re-union between the men of the West and of the South. 3Iay the entente cordial between them be more strongly drawn every day.—Mont. Advertiser. A Remarkable Revelation—Tbe Peace Negotiations of 1864. A letter in a recent number of the Wheel ing Reporter, from Roanoke county, Va., makes the following remarkable revelation: While in Marion, Smith county, a few days ago, I had the pleasure of several lengthy chats with Hon. Fayette McMullin. 3Ir. 31c- 3Iullin says that since the war he was one day in the President’s house in Washington, conversing with Hon. F. Blair, Sr. 3Ir. Blair told him that soon after 3IcMullin’s “peace, resolutions” had been introduced into the Confederate Congress, Mr. Lincoln, being extremely anxious to bring about a peace honorable alike to both sections of the country, and foreseeing, and wishing to avoid, the political consequences of tbe military subjugation of the South, sent him (Mr. Blair) to Richmond to confer with 3Ir. Davis and learn what arrange ment of tbe difficulties could be made. He was passed through the lines of the contending armies and conducted to Mr. Davis’ house in Richmond. After a long conversation with Mr. Davis and other prom inent gentlemen for whom Mr. Davis sent, and fbr whom Mr. Blair inquired, 3Ir. Davis said that he had no proposition to make.— Mr. Blair then proposed that General Lee’s army be marched into Mexico against the French; that General Grant would follow and support the movement; that the united armies would drive out3Iasimilian, and then the Southern States should name their own terms of reconstruction, everything short of independence being guaranteed. At Mr. Davis’ request this proposition was made in writing and after some consultation and re flection, was signed and accepted by him.— 31 r. Blair returned to Washington, and Mr. Lincoln was highly delighted with the suc cess of tbe negotiation. It was in the hope of consummating this arrangement that 31 r. Lincoln and Mr. Sew ard met the “Peace Commissioners,” Hons. Stephens, Hunter and Campbell, at Fortress 3Ionroe; but there, to 3Ir. Lincoln’s chagrin, the committee declared that they had been instructed. by Mr. Davis to insist upon the independence of the South, and would listen to no other proposal. And thus tbe -whole affair came to “ most lame and impotent con clusion.” > Such is the substance of the account re lated to Governor McMnllin by 3Ir. Blair. Mr. Mo3Iullin says that he asked and obtain ed 3tr. Blair’s permission to make tbe state ment public, but he had refrained from giv ing it publicity pending Mr. Davis’ trial, fearing lest it might in some way prejudice his case. JIiscegenation. — The Charleston News, of yesterday, says: “Lieutenant George P. Wood, of Boston, Mass., was married on tbe 25th ultimo, at Beaufort, by the Rev. Arthur Waddell, a colored preacher, to Susan Ulmer, a colered girl. Wood, we understand, is lrom a respectable family, and held a com mission in a M&ssaohnsetts regiment, known as the Bay State Cadets, during the late war. His general appearance is that of a gentleman. The evening after their marri age Wood and Susan promenaded Bay street in company with another colored girl, and on Monday morning took their departure for St. Helena Island, where Wood lias a store on one of tbe plantations of his uncle, Mr. George Frost, a well known importer of silks in Boston, Mass. Susan is a native of Beau fort, and was owned before and daring tbe war by a planter on the coast.” Skijatos Sphagdk has an Organ.—It may interest newspaper men to know that Senator Sprsgue has an organ of his own. It is re ported in well-informed circles that he is now the principal, if not tbe sole owner of the National Intelligenoer, having within the last few weeks paid a mortgage on that establish ment to the amount of $48,000.— Cor. Balti more Svr, Smifbiield’s sole surviving shoe maker. Shoes sewed, soled superfinely.” Simon’s sprv sedulous spouse, Sally Short, sewed shirts stitched sheet, stufied sofas. Simon’s sii stout, sturdy sons—Seth, Samuel, Stephens Saul, Shadrach, Silas—sold sundries. Sobe- Seth sold sugar, starch, spice; simple S&® sold saddles, stirrups, screws; sagacious Ste phen sold silks, satins, shawls; skeptical Saul sold silver salvers, silver spoons; selfish Shadrach sold shoe strings, soap, 8 aws skates; slack Silas sold Sally Short’s stuffed sofas. Some seven summers since Simon’s second son, Samuel, saw Sophia Sophronia Sprigs somewhere. Sweet, sensible, smart Sophia Sophronia Spriggs. Sam soon showed strange symptoms. Sam seldom stayed, storing, sell. iDg saddles. Sam sighed sorrowfully, sought Sophia Sophronia’s society, sang several ser enades slyly. Simon stormed, scolded se verely; said Sam seemed so silly, singint- such shameful, senseless songs. ' “ Strange Sam should slight such splendid summer sales!” said Simon. “Strutti,-,.. spendthrift 1 shatter-brained simpleton!” ° “ Softly, softly, sire,” said Sally; “ Sam’s smitten. Sam's spied some sweetheart.” “Sentimental schoool-boy !” suddenly snarled Simon. “Smitten! Stop such stuff p Simon sent Sally’s snuff-box spinning, seized Sally’s scizzors, smashed Sally’s spectacles, scattering several spools. “Sneaking scoun drel ! Sam’s shocking silliness shall sur cease !” Scowling Simon stopped speaking starting swiftly shopwarrl. Sally sighed sad ly. Summoning Sam she spoke sweet sym pathy. “Sam,” said she, “sire seems singularly snappy, so, sonny, stop strolling streets, stop smoking segars, spending specie supcifluous- ly, stop sprucing so, stop singing serenades, stop short! Sell saddles, sell saddles sensi bly ; see Sophia Sophronia Spriggs soon, she’s sprightly; she’s stable, so solicit, sue, 60- cure Sophia speedily, Sam.” “ So soon l so soon t” said Sam, standing stock still. “So soon! surely,” said Sally; smiling ; “’specially since sire shows such spirits.” “So Sam, somewhat sacred, sauntered slowly, shaking stupendously. Sam solilo quises ; “Sophia Sophronia* Short, Samuel Short’s spouse—sounds splendid. Suppose she should say—Sho! she shan’t she shan’t!” Soon Sam spied Sophia starching shirts, singing softly. Seeing Sam, she stopped starchfng; saluted Sam. smilingly. Sam stammered shockingly. “Spl-spl-splendid summer season, Sophia" “Somewhat sultry,” suggested Sophia. “Sar-sartin, Sophia,” said Sam. (Silence seventeen seconds ) “ Selling saddles still, Sam ?” “Sar-sar-sartin,” said Sam, starting sud denly. “Season's somewhat sudorific,” said Sam, steadily staunching streaming sweat, shaking sensibly. “Sartin,” said Sophia, smiling significant ly. “Sip some sweet sherbet, Sam.” (Si lence sixty seconds.) “Sire shot sixty sheldrakes, Saturday,” said Sophia. “Sixty ? sho 1” said Sam. (Siience seven ty-seven seconds.) “See sister Susan’s sunflowers,” said Sophie, sociably scattering such still silence. Sophia’s sprightly saucines3 stimulated Sam strangely; so Sam suddenly spoke sen timentally : “ Sophia, Susan’s sunflowers seem saying, ‘Samuel Short, Sophia Sophro nia Spriggs stroll serenely, seek some seques tered spot, some sylvan shade. Sparkling springs shall sing soul-soothing strains; sweet songsters shall silence secret sighings; .super- angelic sylphs shall—•’ ” Sophia shrieked; so Sam stopped. “Sophia, said Sam solemnly. “Sam,” said Sophia. “Sophia, stop smiling. Sam Short’s sin cere. Sam’s seeking some sweet spouse, Sophia.” Sophia stood silent. “Speak ! Sophia, speak 1 such saspeuse speculates sorrow.”- “Seek sire, Sam, seek sire.” So Sam sought sire Spriggs. Sire Spriggs said, “sartin.” A Wicked Prank. Singular Scene at a Hew Orleans Wedding —Appearance of a Strange Lady—A Wise Father and a Smart Boy. From the Be to Orleans Picayunet Wednesday night quite a fashionable wed ding was celebrated in the Fourth District. The bride wa9 pretty, as all newly married ladies are. and the groom was the glass of fashion, and the mould of form. A number of invited guests lent grace to the occasion, and hearty congratulations testified the good wishes of many friends for the happiness of the newly wedded pair. But the hours waned rapidly, and the time for retiring came at last. The bride was led by laugh ing bridesmaids up to her chamber door. But imagine their surprise when it was opened by a lady richly and elegantly clad in a traveling suit, and evidently waiting for an interview. “I be" pardon, madam; you appear as tonished,” said the strange lady. . “I must confessl did not expect to see any one here,” replied the oride. “No, madam; I came in very privately, and wished an interview, subject to no interrup tion.” It did not occur to the bride to inquire by whom sbe had been introduced, or by what means she bad gained access to her apart ment. “It is very strange, ma’am, and I c»* imagine why you wish to speak to me!” “The reason is simple. The man you ha« just married has imposed upon you. I JS Uis wife.” “Oh! impossible—you ravel” andtheir dy sank into a chair* almost fainting. $ course tbe bridesmaids screamed. Such 1 succession ofshrieks one has rarely heard. B speedily brought the family to the door terror-stricken faces, and with them & bridegroom, all asking with trembling lip' “What in the world is the matter?” “Oh! Edward,” cried the bride, person says she’s your wife.” “3Iywife!” shouted the astonished b !S ' band; “why she’s insane.” . j Is it possible, sir, that having perpetrite* this great wickedness, you will have the hs-y dibood to deny that I am your lawfully 1 *" ded wife?” she asked, looking the sorely tro®‘ bled Edward full in the eye. “Why, confonnd you, woman ! I never a you before in my life!” exclaimed the w to3 ' ished man. The lady regarded him very much ss minister would a man given over t# depravity. , j “Oh 1 Edward, Fm afraid it’s true! loved you so 1” sobbed the young wif«i “ # could you have treated me so ?” i “I tell you I haven’t got any wife but y°“ | this woman is an imposter.” ., The strange lady uttered alowniocl 1 * laugh. The scene was getting interesting ‘ the last degree. The ladies were all and the father of the bride looking stern indignant. He had been for some tic* | tently regarding the strange lady, whe***", i denly his eye lighted up and an am*^ smile played on his lips. He took a * . forward, and laying his band on the show 110 | of the stranger said: j “Come, John, this is very cleverly p>*J '. but it’s time it was over,” and impulse of bis arm the stranger was P nsc ' I into tbe hall. . it I “John—who—what ?” all exclaimed ODee. . 11 It was tbe bride’s younger broth**' wicked boy, who had played a Da °lu. prank, with the aid of his sister’s tram 11 ** I suit and her cast chignon and curls. It is scarcely necessary to remark that *•* mony was very speedily restored. Tn young man Olay who was k2V>5 b J^J explosion of the St Elmo, near Mobil®**, son of J. Withers day, editor oftheHtcrf^ Democrat. His turns wns dement 0. r [
