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G£OMI * ‘ JOHN H. SEALS, SERIES, VOLUME 111. OTHE GEOKGIA'O TE M P EItA NO E CRUISA DE R. “* Published every Thursday in the year, except two TCuMS: Two Dollars per year, lit advance. JOHN 11. SK.VLB, Solk Prupriktor. , LIONEL L. VKAZKY, Kkitdu I.iieraiiy Dcpartmcnt. MRS M. K. BRYAN, Kimtkkss. JOHN A. REYNOLDS, I’ubusiiku. Clubs of Ten Names, by sending the Cash, will receive the paper at .... slso^copy. Clubs of Five Names, at • • - - - 180 “ Any person sending us Five new subscribers, inclo sing the money, shall receive an extra copy one year free of cost. ADVERTISING DIRECTORY: Bates of Advertising: b square, (twelve lines or less,) first insertion, $1 00 “ Each continuance, . 50 Professional or Business Cards, not exceeding six lines, per year, V? Announcing Candidates for Office, and ”” Standing Advertisements: not marked with the number of insertions, will be continued until forbid, and charged accordingly. , , . Druggists and others, may contract for advertising by the year on reasonable terms. Legal Advertisements: Sale of Land or Negroes, by Administrators, Ex ecutors and Guardians, per square, 5 00 Sale of Personal Property, by Administrators, Ex ecutors and Guardians, per square, 3 25 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 25 Notice for Leave to Sell, 4 00 Citation for Letters of Administration, 2 75 Citation for Letters of Dismission from Adm’n, 500 Citation for Letters of Dismission from Guard’p, 325 Legal Requirements: Sales of Land and Negroes by Administrators, Exec utors or Guardians, are required, by law, to be held on ihe First Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court-house door of the county in which the property is situate. Notices of these sales must be given in a pub lie Gazette, forty days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of Personal Property must be given at least ten days previous to the day of sale. Notices to Debtors and Creditors of an estate, must be published Jorty /lays. Notice that application will be made to the Court oi Ordinary, for leave tosell Land or Negroes, must be pub lished weekly for two months. Citations for Letters of Administration, must be pub fished thirty days —for Dismission from Administration monthly, six months—{or Dismission from Guardianship, forty days. Rules for Foreclosure of Mortgage must be published monthly, for four months— lor compelling titles from Ex ecutors or Administrators, where a bond has been issued • by the deceased, the full space of three months. ijisr Publications'will always be continued-according to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise or dered. o/jie Qs/oifisy J- C&ncdeiy, KING & LEWIS, Attorneys at Law, Greenes boro, Ga. The undersigned, having associated themselves together in the practice of law, wifi attend to all business intrusted to their care, with that prompt ness and efficiency which long experience, united with industry, can secure. Offices at Greenesbortf and five miles west of White Plains, Greene county, Ga. v. f. king. July 1, 1858. m. w. lewis. WHIT G. JOHNSON, Attorney at Law, Augusta, Ga. will promptly attend to all business intrusted to his professional management in Richmond and the adjoining counties. Office on Mclntosh street, three doors below Constitutionalist office. Reference —Thos. Ri R, Cobb, Athens, Ga. June 14 ly DOGER L. WHIGIIAM, L ouisville, Jef ■LV ferson county, Georgia, will give prompt attention to any business intrusted to his care, in the following counties : Jefferson, Burke, Richmond, Columbia, War ren, Washington, Emanuel, Montgomery, Tatnall and Striven. April 26, 1856 ts LEONARD T. DOTAL, Attorney at Law, McDonough, Henry county, Ga. will practice Law in the following counties: Henry, Spaulding, Butts, Newton, Fayette, Fulton, DeKalb, Pike and Monroe. Feb 2-4 Dll. SANDERS, Attorney at Law, Albany, • Ga. will practise in the counties of Dougherty, Sumter, Lee, Randolph, Calhoun, Early, Baker, Deca tur and Worth. Jan 1 ly HT. PERKINS, Attorney at Law,Greenes * boro, Ga. will practice in the counties of Greene, Morgan, Putnam, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Hancock, Wilkes and Warren. Feb ly ,'PIVILLIP B. ROBINSON, Attorney at J-v - Law, Greenesboro, Ga. will practice in the coun ties of Greene Morgan, Putnam, Oglethorpe, Taliafer ro, Hancock. Wilkes and Warren. July 5, ’56-1 v TAMES BROWN, Attorney at Law, Fancy Hill, Murray Cos. Ga. April 30, 1857. 7 SIBLEY & BOGGS, —WHOLESALE and retail dealers in— Choice Family Groceries, Cigars, &c. 276 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia. Feb 18, 1858 11 , ML SPo BVOnr ..Warehouse & Commission Merchant, • ATJCrI tsta, ga. arf/CONTINUES the business in all its branches, in his large and commodi -OUB Eire-Proof Warehouse, on Jackson street, near the Globe Hotel. Orders for Goods, &c. promptly and carefully filled. The usual cash facilities afforded customers. July 22 Gin- El & ffiSESMs Warehouse & Commission Merchants, _At:m T TA, (tA. —■ entered into a co-part- KL ❖ J-lship for the purpose of carrying on the Storage and Commission Business in all of its branches, respectfully solicit con signments of Cotton and other produce; also orders for Bagging, Rope and family supplies. Their strict, per sonal attention will be given to the business. All the facilities due from factors to patrons shall be granted with a liberal hand. B • ISAAC T. HEARD, 4 WM. C. DERRY. July 22d, 1858. maai&Towiw WILL continue the WAREHOUSE and COM MISSION BUSINESS at their old stand on Jackson street. Will devote their personal attention to the Storage and sale of Cotton, Bacon, Grain, Ac. Liberal cash advances made when required; and all orders for Family Supplies, Bagging, Rope, &c. filled at the lowest market price. JOHN C. REES. [Aug 12] SAM’I. D. LINTON. POULLAIM, JENNINGS & CO. GROCERS AND COTTON FACTORS, .. j Opposite the Globe Hotel* Augusta, Georgia. /CONTINUE, as heretofore, in connection with their Grocery Business, to attend to the sale ol : COTTON and other produce. They will be prepared in the Brick Fireproof Ware- j house, now in process of erection in the front of their atore, at the intersection of Jackson and Reynold streets, to receive on storage all consignments made them. Liberal cash advances made pn Produce in store, when requested. ANTOINE PQTJLLAIN, THOMAS J. JENNINGS, iMig 19—6 m ISAIAH PURSE. ” djf a WAREHOUSE AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, & AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. fpHE undersigned, thankful for the liberal pa tronaga extended to him for a series of years, would infornt his friends and the public that he will continue at his same well known Brick Warehouse on Campbell street near Bones, Brown & Co’s. Hardware House, where by strict personal attention to all business en trusted to his ertre, he hopes he will receive a share of the public patronage. .C_- „ ,• Cash Advances, Bagging, Rope and Family Supplies, will be forwarded to customers as heretofore, when de sire<i. [Augusta, Ga. Aug 19-6ra W ANTED by a young lady, a graduate of _ * a Southern College, a situation as TEACHER in a Primary and Preparatory School, or to teach H air Braiding, Oil, Pastille and Grecian Painting* ferences given if desired. Address L. G. S.,_VYhite Plains, Greene county, Ga. [Aug 26 It A Classical Teacher Wanted take charge of PIN E GROVE ACADEMY , A near Double Wells, Warren county. Apply to either of the undersigned. A WILLIAM U. BARKSDALE, MANN AM JONES, . EDWIN BAKER, JOHN 11. lII’BERT, JOHN HEATH, Aug 26 M. 11. HUBERT. An Earnest Appeal. Vs EC ESS IT Y compels me to make an earnest J.N appeal to those who are indebted to me for 1856 and ’57, for help. I need money to carry on my busi ness, and a small sum from each one whose account, is past due, would make me cosy. Shall I appeal in vain ‘! July 8 W. B. SEALS. AND LOVERS OF GOOD THINGS, FRESH AND PURE, lUST give ‘ Old Mac’ a call- he’s always ready to supply the wants of those who may favor him with their patronage. What’ll you have? A saucer of Cream, A Lemonade, Oranges & Bananas, Peacans & Peanuts, Candies and Cakes, Stews, Fries, Bakes, Col’rado&Ch’roofs, ’Backer & Havanas, Tnsunorsliade, ‘Old Mac’s’ th’ team that can furnish just what you may love! at short notice. Call, examine and eat. He may still be found at his old place. Greenesboro, June 10, 1858 D. McDONALD. CUBES GUARANTEED! CANCERS AND SCItOFtTIiA CUBED. ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN CASES CURED LAST YEAR, 1857. PAMPHLETS containing testimonials c t the highest character, as to his success, will be forwar ded to any that may wish them. Those wishing to test the efficacy of 1)R. CLOPTON’S WONDERFUL REMEDIES, must, give a correct description of the disease, its appearance in its incipient stage, progress, present condition, location, (See. A three cent postage stamp must accompany all com snunications. Address J. A. CLOPTON, M. D. July 15, 1858 ly Hunts! lie, Ala. Bowdon Collegiate Institution. BOWDON, CARROLL COUNTY, GA. THE Fall Term will open on Second Wednes day of August, 1858. Thorough instruction given in the various English branches, in Latin, Greek and French. Particular at tention paid to Pure Mathematics, to Surveying and Civil Engineering. A Military Company will be organ ized as soon as the term opens. CHAS. A. McDANIEL, A. M. Professor An. Languages, Nat. Phil. <fcc. JOHN M. RICHARDSON, B. S. Military Instructor, Prof. Mathematics, &c. July 22-fit i Selling Off at Cost! The subscriber, with a view to closing liis busi ness, is now offering his entire stock of mer chandise at cost. Any one in want of a bargain, ei ther in Dry Goods, D:ess Goods, Ready-made Cloth ing, Hats Caps, Boots, Shoes, Drugs, Medicines, Crock ery, Hollow and Willow Wares, &e., &c., will do well to call and examine my Stock, before purchasing. Penfield, Aug. 5 WM. B. SEALS. 130.000 BRICKS WANTED. PROPOSALS will be received until Ist September, by the undersigned, for the delivery to them, in Penfield, of 130,000 bricks, on or before the 15th ofNo vember next. Good clay can be had within a quarter of a mile of the place of delivery. H. H. TUCKER, J. E. WILLET, W. B. SEALS, Penfield, Green Cos. Ga. N. M. CRAWFORD. Aug. 12, 1858 RICH HBROIDHRII. w. have just received a very large assortment French Worked Collars, SWISS ANT) JACONET BANDS, SWISS & JACONET TRIMMINGS, SWISS & JACONET FLOUNCINGS, PL’N ftENBR’D LINEN COLLARS, Lartfc as’>meat pi'a A cml. L. C. lldkfs, Rich Ch’ly LACE VElLS,ncw'styles. —also — Rich Silk and Lace Mantillas, LINEN DUSTERS ; rich Organdie Muslins, Low priced LAWNS; white BRILLIANTS, Plain and checked NAINSOOKS, “ “ JACONETS, “ “ CAMBRICS, “ “ MULLS. These goods having been recently bought at a great reduction on the market price, will be sold correspond ingly low ; and a portion of them having been bought of the manufacturer about 50 per cent, less than they could have been bought at any auction sale, they will be sold lower than the same quality of goods have ever been offered at in this city. Our stock is otherwise well assorted, and offers rare inducements in the way of LOW PRICES. All of which wc will Le pleased to exhibit atourONEPRICE STORE. Aug 12 BROOM &, NORRELL. Dr. W. L. M. HARRIS, to tho good citizens of Pen lf i field and vicinity, for the liberal confidence an “ encouragement given him, respectfully contin ues a tender of his professional services to them. Dr. R. J. Massey, his former partner in the practice, will, with pleasure, attend any call, at any time, that may be made while Dr. 11. is professionally engaged and cannot be obtained. March It 1858 PENFIELD AND GREENESBORO fJ ACKS or any desired accommo vfFfßlr LL nation, waiting the arrival of each train. Passengers for Penficld, Scull Shoals, Dr. Dur ham’s, Walkiusville, Watson’s Springs or any other point, will be carried thither safely and promptly. Passengers from any of these points desiring to meet any of the trains, can find like accommodation. Prices moderate. Good horses and conveyances, with or without dri ver. CASH will be required. I have Horseß and Buggies for hire at my stable in Penfield. H. NEESON, Jr. July 15, 1858 THE fifth of COE Sc LATIMER is this day dis solved by mutual consent. H. A. COE, Greenesboro, May Ist, 1858 J. S. LA IIMLR. The practice will be continued by Is ‘Sk Q s $ | who will visit I Oxford, | ■ 9 Penfield, | ‘White Plains, j Mount Zion, Warren i on, Elherton, DuniHsville Fort Lamar, of which due notice will be given inthe Crusader and Gazette. Permanent office in /. CUNNINGHAMS \BLOCK, GREENESBORO. May 13, 1858 tjanl TH F. ADOPTED ORGAN OF AI L THE TEMPERANCE OfWJAFTIZATIONS IN THK STACK. PENFIELD, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1858. BY MRS. M. E. BRYAN. THE4UIET HOME. “W HAT dear, quiet little things Mrs. 1 >ird’s VV children are!” said a lady to her friend. “I called to see Mrs. Bird to-day, and found her in the nursery with her two hoys and two girls, about the ages of mine. It would have done your heart good to see how sweetly they behaved. Perfect little gentlemen and ladies they were. 1 felt really discouraged. Mine! why they are wild asses’ colts in comparison.” “ There’s a great difference in children,” re plied the friend. “ I know some little boys and girls that Mrs. Bird would not find so easily sub dued.” “ I could hardly credit my own eyes; but, as they say, seeing is believing,” resumed the first speaker. “ For more than half an hour I sat and talked with Mrs. Bird, in the nursery, without once being disturbed by noise or any of the un pleasant interruptions incident to the presence of children.” “ What were they doing?” asked the other, in some surprise. “ That was most remarkable of all. Mrs. Bird has four children. Willy is the oldest—Just in his tenth year. Meeta is seven, Agnes five, and the baby, as they call Andrew, nearly four. Just the ages for thoughtless, mischief-making, trou blesome, noisy romps. But they were as still as mice in a cheese. She had them all doing some thing. Willy she had taught various kinds of netting and ornamental needle-work. It was a wonderful resource for the child, she said, keep ing his thoughts and lingers busy, and both out of mischief. She showed me a handsome anti macassar, in crochet, which he had just finished. I’m sure that I couldn’t have done it better, i could not help looking upon the delicately formed, sweet-faced boy, as he sat earnestly eh gaged at his work—he was embroidering a pair of slippers in Berlin wool for his father—and contrasting him with my Tom, a great, rude, coarse boy, with dirty, rough hands, that are al ways in better condition for grasping a wheel barrow than plying a needle. And the compari son, I can assure you, was not made without a sigh.” “ Did the boy look happy ?” inquired the friend. “ Perfectly so. He wanted no amusement be sides his books and his needle-work. You couldn’t drive him into the street,” his mother said. “ Dear little fellow ! What a comfort to have such a child!” “ Isn’t it? It really did me good to look into his sweet, pure face, so girlish and delicate.” “ I should like to understand Mrs. Bird’s sys tem, for there must be art in the case. All chil dren are born romps.” “‘1 begin early,’ she said to me, ‘and repress all rudeness and disorder. It is the mind that governs in children ns well as in men. You must give this the right dii*ection. Mere noise-making I never permitted. Boys, it is said, grasp a ham mer and pound instinctively. I think, in most cases, they pound because a hammer is given to them. Try them with the sweet face and fragile form of a baby doll, and you will rarely see an inclination to pound. I commenced with the doll, not the hammer; and you see the result. Willy as gentle as a girl. He never throws the house into disorder—never makes discor dant noises—never quarrels with or teases liis younger brother or sisters. So with the rest. I began right, you sec; and upon a right beginning everything depeds. My husband is a home-lov ing, order-loving, quiet-loving man ; and I make it my business to see that home is all he desires. “ How much I enjoy my home—it is so quiet—so orderly !” During the first year of our marriage Mr. Bird often said this. I had seen other homes, j I was familiar with the way in which young cliil-; drew were permitted to destroy all comfort in a household by their noise and disorder; and I made up my mind to have things different, if children came to our home. And they are dif ferent, as you can see. And the children them selves arc much happier. I keep them busy at something from morning till night—busy enough not to think of eating all the while. This gor mandizing among children is dreadful! It makes mere gluttons of them—developing the animal, and repressing the intellectual. It is this raven ous eating that renders them coarse, rude, and cruel, like wild beasts.’ ” “ 1 believe Mrs. Bird is more than half right,” was remarked upon this. “ I have often said that children were permitted to eat over-much. Mine would stuff themselves like Christmas turkeys, from morning till night, if not restricted.” “Employment, such as Mrs. Bird provides for her children, is certainly the best corrector for this habit of eating.” “How did she get along with baby Andrew— the little four-year-old you mentioned ? YV as he as orderly and silent as the rest?” “ lie was poring over a picture spelling-book for most of the time that I was there, and after ward occupied himself with stringing heads. I declare it was all a wonder to me. Such a charm ing family of children I never saw elsewhere. What a change there would be for the better it all mothers understood and practised on Mrs- Bird’s system J” “ Better for heaven, it may be,” said the friend, a little equivocally. “ For heaven ? I don’t just see your mean ing.” “Such children arc most too good to live.” “Oh!” “ Mrs. Bird’s quiet home may he very pleasant, and her system of government very beautiful — but there is danger.” “Os what?” “ That her children will not live.” “Why? Because they are too good for this earth, as you have just intimated ?” “ I am not sure that they are really any better in beart than some less orderly and more boister ous children. What I mean is, that Mrs. Bird’s system depresses the animal forces, leaving the bodies of her children more liable to disease, and less able to resist an attack when it comes.” “They are less exposed than other children.” “Perhaps so. But, for my part, on reflection, I would rather take the chances of a less orderly system of home management—-mine, for instance, a little modified—noisy, and like a bedlam, as the house often is.” It was on the. evening cf this very day that Mr, Bird said to his wife, as if the subject were sud denly forced upon his observation *. “ I don’t think our children have strong con stitutions. Willy’s face is too delicate for the face of a boy, and his body too slender. I ob serve, also, that hi; shoulders arc depressed. Hark!” Both listened for a few moments. “ I don’t just like that cough,” said Mr. Bird. “ A little cold,” remarked liis wife. “Wills got liis feet wet to-day.” “ 1 never saw- children with such indifferent appetites,” said Mr. Bird: “ they don’t eat j enough to keep pigeons alive.” “ Most children “eat too much,” was the reply ; “and more children are made sick from over feeding than abstemiousness.” “ But there is a golden mean,” said Mr. Bird. “To reach which has been my study. Do not i fear. The children eat quite as much as js good for them.” “There it is again ! 1 don’t like that cough at all.” And Mr. Bird arose and went up to the room where the children were sleeping. Willy’s i cheeks were slightly flushed—liis skin was dry, j and above the natural heat—and his respiration j just enough obstructed to make it audible. His j father stood for some moments looking down i upon his sleeping boy. “There’s nothing the matter with him.” Even as Mrs. Bird said this Willy coughed again, and as lie coughed he raised his hand to his throat and moaned as if in suffering. “Willy! Willy, dear.” “ I wouldn’t disturb him,” said Mrs. Bird. The father’s voice had penetrated his half- ; awakened sense, and, opening his eyes, he looked i up with a wondering glance. “ Are you sick, Willy ?” The boy coughed again, and more convulsively, pressing liis hand on his chest. “ Does it hurt you to cough ?” “ Yes.” “ Where ?” “ It hurts me right here,” his hand remaining where he had placed it a moment before. The panting of the child showed that there was constriction of the lungs. “ I’m going for the doctor” —Mr. Bird spoke aside to his wife. “I hardly think it necessary,” objected the mother. “It is only. some slight disturbance from cold, and will pass away. This sudden wa king has quickened his heart-beat.” Usually Mr. Bird deferred to his wife in all matters relating to the children, though his judg ment did not always coincide with her discipline. But he was too well satisfied that Willy required a physician now to hesitate a moment on the mother’s objection. So he went away in haste. The physician was far from treating the case indifferently. Ilis practised eye recognised the symptoms of an acute pneumonia, and his treat ment wa3 such as to fill the hearts of the parents with sudden fear. “If the boy had any constitution —” It was on the fifth day, and the physician was replying to an anxious inquiry made by tho distressed mother, all of whose fears were excited. “If the. hoy ha<l any constitution, I could speak all the encouragement your heart desires. But he is a hot-house plant. All the vital forces are but feebly reactive.” “His health has always been good, doctor,” in terposed Mrs. Bird. “ He has never before had any serious sickness; but he lacks physical stamina, for all that.” The doctor’s words sent a shuddering chill to the mother’s heart; while a faint conviction of error dawned upon her mind. Too surely were the physician’s fears realized. At the end of ten anxious days it was apparent to every one that Willy’s hours upon tlih earth were numbered. The disease, preying upon a body which had been denied pure air and invig orating sunshine, found scarcely anything to op pose its destructive advances. There was no power of resistance in that delicate frame. Without even a struggle for life the contest en ded. In less than a week after the death of Willy there came another summons for the doctor. He found the sorrowing parents, in alarm again. Little Andrew, “ the baby,” was sick. Sore throat—fever—stupor. “He hasn’t been out anywhere,” said Mrs. Bird, “ for two weeks.” Her meaning was, that having remained shut up in the house during that period, it was impossible for him to have contracted any contagious disease. “ It would have been far better if you had sent him out every day.” The doctor’s words were more an utterance of his own though©; than a remark to Mrs. Bird. Dear little Andrew ! He was a slender, matured, beautiful child, who attracted every eye. His pale, spiritual face almost shadowed by bis broad forehead, gave promise of an intellectual man hood—if manhood could ever be reached. But that was the question which forced itself upon every one but his unwise parents, who, in secur ing a quiet household, were providing for the deeper quiet of death and desolation. Delicate, orderly, loving, beautiful children grew up in the stimulating atmosphere of their home, but without strength for the life-battle. Andrew, “ the baby,” was carried out by the mourners in less than a week from the time when the doctor sat down by the bed on which he lay, and placed his fingers on the quick, wiry pulse that sent a warning of death id his heart. “ Our children have no constitutions,” said Mr. Bird, sadly, as he gazed with dim eyes upon the ’ two delicate blossoms that 1 emained to shed their fragrance in his (juiet home. “They have always been healthy,” answered the mother, in mournful tones. “The doctor says that we should give them more fresh air, and a great, deal of out-door ex ercise.” “Jane takes them out walking every day; hut I don’t see that it does them any good. Agnes always comes home tired and fretlul: anti Meeta took cold to-day. Neither of them are as wel 01 as happy after theso walks as when they lcmainec in the house.” No wonder they were tired and fretful, or showed symptoms of cold, .after these ai y at ion sln the. open air. Holding each a hand of their attendant, they would walk slowly as nuns, and orderly as charity children m a procession. There were no hop, skip and jutnb no impu v start or merry romp-but a strict observance of the last maternal injunction, “Now walk a ong like good, quiet children. Weariness, after such attempted recreations in the open air, was an inevitable result; weari ness, and something worse. ‘ The outside air was different from the air of their houses. It was colder and more humid. To meet this, and de rive a benefit instead of sustaining an injury, there must be a quicker circulation and increased | bodily warmth. Mere addition of clothing would not accomplish the desired object. There must be quicker movements of the body—vigorous ex ercise—producing increased vital action.—liar gcr's Hfuga~ie. Daily these half-dead-and-alive walks were con tinued, and daily the children came back from them wearied and spiritless, and sometimes with hot hands and feverish breath. The mother insisted upon it that these daily walks were not good for children. Mr. Bird, in doubt, called upon their doctor, and submitted the question anew. “Dive them plenty of fresh air and out-of-door exercise!” was his repeated and very emphatic injunction. “If yon wish to raise your children, let them have a chance to acquire strength.” And so tlie daily goings out were continued, whether the air was dry or damp, warm or chill ing. lfit was warm, tho children came back wearied; if damp, with symptoms of cold; and al ways in some way showing a loss of, instead of an increased, vitpl activity. They were too well trained, at five and seven, to commit the indis cretion of a romp in the street, and romping in the quiet house the/ called their home was a thing never known or heard of hy either of the little patterns of propriety. As to vocal efforts, they rarely went beyond a low, humming “ Ilush a-by-baby,” sung to a waxen-faced doll. No wild, screaming laughter ever desecrated the temple like stillness of Mrs. Bird’s dwelling, unless from the lungs of some badly-trained, visiting child, upon whose strange doings her own little ones gazed in half stupid wonder. Narrow chests and weak lungs were the natural consequence. As Willy had died, so died—ere the summer’s greenness had faded from the new-made graves of the first departed—Meeta, next to him in years. Only Agnes was left to the stricken parents now. She was pure, and white, and delicate as a lily. That Meeta had been injured by the daily walks in the open air they were fully convinced: and, notwithstanding the repeated remonstrances of the family physician, they refused to let the fresh breathings of heaven in upon their child. One day—it was a sunny visitant in the early spring-time, ere the violet opens its blue eyes among the fresh-shooting grass —Agnes strayed from the nursery, and, going beyond the watch ful eyes of her mother, gained an open chamber window, and, climbing on a chair, locked out upon the budding trees and the emerald carpet which Nature had spread over the small plat of open ground that lay in front of the dwelling. The window looked to the south, and the air came pressing in from that quarter, bathing the child’s brow with a refreshing coolness. She laid her slender arms upon the window-sill, and, rest ing her face upon her arms, looked out, half dreamily, and with a quiet sense of pleasure. When her mother found her half an hour after ward she was asleep. A robust child might have suffered from some temporary derangement of tlie system, conse quent on checked perspiration; but to one of Agues’ feeble constitution, exposure like this must always be followed with serious consequences. When Mrs. Bird caught Agnes in her arms a wild fear throbbed in her heart. Alas! it was no idle fear. She soon detected symptoms too well un derstood, and sent in haste for the doctor. “Some slight derangement,” he said, evasively, to the eager questionings of the mother. But his tones were a death-knell. Very, very quiet now is the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bird. There is no wild disorder of children there, but a stillness that makes the heart ache. Mrs. Bird resolved, in the beginning, to have a quiet, orderly home, and she has done her work well. YELLOW DRESSES—HOW THEY CAME TO BE FASH IONABLE. M. Audibert, in his charming book called “ In discretions and Confidences,” tells the following story, exemplifying the power possessed by Mad emoiselle Mars, the famous French actress, of imposing her own tastes on the fashionable world of Paris. The brilliant Celemene was playing at Lyons. The day after her first api earance she was not a little surprised to see arrive, in the morning, at her hotel, one of the first manufacturers of the city. “Mademoiselle,” said he, “ this is the ob ject of my visit, will you pardon me for it? You can make my fortune.” “I, sir, I should be glad to do it, but in what way ?” “ Please to accept this piece of stuff.” And he displayed upon the table a rich yellow velvet. Mademoiselle Mars thought herself in the presence of an insane man. “ Good heavens!” said she, in an excited tone, “ what do you wish mo to make of this yellow velvet ?” “ A dress, Madamoiselle, when you have ap peared in it, everybody will want one like it, and so my fortune will be made.” “ But, sir, nobody his ever worn a yellow dress.” “That is it: I want to make it fashionable. Do not, I pray you, refuse me this favor.” “ No, sir, I will not refuse,” said Madamoiselle Mars. And she went to her secretary for her purse. “ Madamoiselle will spare me the insult ot pay ing. In making my fortune I shall be largely recompensed. Only Madamoiselle will have the goodness to give the address ot my manufactory, which, moreover, is in good credit,” Madamoiselle promised everything. On her return to Paris, talking to her dressmaker, she said: “ I must show you a piece of rich velvet 1 have brought from Lyons. It lias been given me for a dress.” “ Madame can wear anything.” A few days after, the “Unexpected Wager” was to follow “ Nicomede” by Talma, Madam oiselle Mars went early to her room and dressed herself in the yellow velvet. The toilet was over. Nicomede was nearly finished, when looking at’ herself in all ways in her glass, Madamoiselle Mars cried out: “It is impossible for me to go on the stage in this dress; Caroline, send for the manager, and let the Unexpected Wager be changed for something else—some piece in which Ido not appear.” ‘* • ‘ These words caused a great excitement, and soon spread through the theatre. Talma offered to go and examine this toilet which was putting the world into a revolution. “ See,” said Madam oiselle Mars to him, “see how ridiculous lam. Do I not look like a canary bird?” “ Ridiculous, my dear friend; say rather ravishing. Your toilet is in the best taste ; it suits admirably your face, your black hair; yellow is becoming to a bru nette. Appear as you are; you never looked handsomer.” Mars was decided by the opinion of the great artist, and went upon the stage. A flattering murmur received her. All the ladies’ glasses were turned to her, the house resounded with ap EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. VOL. XXIV. NUMBER 34 plause, and everywhere circulated the words: “What a delicious toilet!” The next day all Paris was talking of Madam oiselle Mars’ yellow dress. Before eight days passed, there was not a saloon without similar ones, 1 >ress-makers were overrun with work, and from that moment yellow has taken its place among the colors used for dresses. Some years after, when Madamoiselle Mars re turned to Lyons, the manufacturer, whose for tune she had really made, gave her a splendid fete at tho pretty country house he had purchased on the borders of the Saone, with the products of bis yellow velvet, of which the sale had been pro digious. NOT AN UNCOMMON CASE. A traveller from Virginia, as bis blooded horse, plethoric saddle-bags and haughty insovdance in dicated, stopped at a comfortable wayside inn In Kentucky, one night many years ago. The land lord was a jovial, whole-souled fellow, as land lords were in those days, and gave the stranger the best entertainments his table and bar would afford, as well as his own merry company to make him glad. Early in the morning the stranger was up and looking around, when he espied a rich bed of mint in the garden. lie straightway sought Boniface, and indignant at what he sup posed his inhospitality in setting plain whiskey before him, when the means of brewing nectar •was so easy of access, he dragged him forth to the spot, and pointing with his finger at the mint, he exclaimed: “ I say, landlord, will you be good enough to say what that is?” “ A bed of mint,” said the somewhat astonished landlord. “And will you please tell me what is the use of it?” “ Well, don’t exactly know, ’cept the old wo man dries it sometimes with the other “ yarbs.” The Virginian almost turned pale at the enor mity of his assertion. “And do you mean to tell me that you don’t know what a mint julep is?” “Not ’cept it’s something like sage tea, stran ger.” “ Sage tea ! Go right along to the house, get a bucket of ice, loaf sugar and your best liquor.” The landlord obeyed, and the stranger soon made his appearance with a handful of fragrant, dewy mint, and then they brewed, and drank, and brewed and drank again ; breakfast was over, and the granger's horse was brought out only to be ordered back. Through the livelong day they brewed and drank ; one or two neighbors dropped in, who were partakers, and late in the night were their orgies kept up; ere they made it bed time, the landlord and his Virginia guest, who had initiated him into the pleasant mysteries of mint julep, were sworn brothers, and when the latter departed the next morning, Boniface ex acted a pledge that he would stop on his return and stay as long as he pleased, free of cost. The stranger’s business, however, detained him longer than he expected, and it was the next summer before he come back. Hiding up late in the evening, he gave his horse to an old negro who was at the gate, and at the same time in quired : “ Well, Ham, how is your master?” “ Yonder him come,” said the negro, pointing to a youth who was approaching. “ I mean your old master, fool!” “Old massa! him done dead dis three months.” “ Dead! What was the matter with him ? He was in fine health when 1 left him.” “ Yes, but you see, Massa Stranger, one of dem Virginny gemmens come ’long here last year, and show’d him how to eat green# in his liquor: he like it so well, he done suck it till it kill him,” said the old darky, shaking his head. The stranger passed a less jovial night than on his previous visit, and was off by daybreak next morning. lie quieted his conscience, however, in the end, with the reflection that “ good things are sometimes misused.” A_CAT AN HEIRESS. One of the most exquisite musicians, in her time, was Madamoiselle Dupuy, of the French Opera. Her playing on the harp was the wonder of Paris. She was convinced that she owed her artistic excellence to her favorite eat! And of this strange intimacy between a charming woman and her quadruped favorite, Moncriff, her biogra pher, gives the following interesting particulars: “Os course the lovely musician’s practising, at home, was assiduous and constant. But as soon as she sat down and began to prelude upon the instrument, she noticed that her cat assumed an attitude of intense attention. At the point ot the instrument’s arriving at any passage of pecu liar beauty, the excited grimalkin went into a feline ecstacy, and so well measured \vas this sen sibility, according to the excellence of the play ing and the pathos of the composition, that Mad amoiselle Dupuy washable to judge of tho quality of the music by the manifest emotions of her cat! Hhc became a devout Passeite, in fact, believing that the nervous creature was an exact prophet, foretelling preci ely how music would affect an audience. And she was grateful accordingly to the friend to whom she thought she owed mainly her artistic success. In her last illness, at the approach of death,, M’lle. Dupuy sent for the notary, to make her will. She had accumulated a fortune by her pro fession ; and the first clause of her testament was th & giving of her town, home and her country house to her cal! She added to this annuity sufficient for the comfortable support ol the lour-legged metv sician during its natural liie; and to make sure that this, her last will and testament, should be respected, she gave several legacies to friends on the express condition that they should see to the fulfillment of her wishes. 11 was also a condition that they should severally take turns, during the week in going to see and keep company with the orphan puss!” Moncriff adds that the relatives of M’lle. Dupuy disputed the validity of the will, and a lawsuit was the consequence—Grimalkin vs. Dupuys. But the eat gained the cause, and lived out her days with genteel alternation between her elegant town house and her charming country house. The particulars of the final catastrophe are not given. _ The crowds were coming out of Burton’s theatre at the close of the prayer-meeting, when one of the by-standers observed that it looked like a benefit, there had been so full a house. “ You are right,” said another; “it is a benefit lor the soul. All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women actors—acting for eternity.” There’s a good thought there: half Shakspeare, and all true.