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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 [