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[For The Sunny South.) OXL.Y A MOM EAT. BY NETTIE POWER HOUSTON. There was a moment in my life That cannot come again; But tho’ I would not call it back, ’Tis worth long years of pain. There is a chapter in my life Made up of winter eves. And there this golden moment wreathed In dark banana leaves. Some trifliug thing each passing day Can call it to my mind: The perfume of a violet,— Some straying waif I find,— Some whispered praise from earnest lips, That would my spirit move; A shadow steals across my path,— There is no room for love. The past with me a miser is. And cruel is his hold; But chief among my hoarded gems, One moment set in gold. A proud, Napoleonic face Before my fancy looms,— A pair of dark eyes seek for me Among the violet blooms. He sees my white dress thro’ the leaves, And then he draws more near; My violets from my fingers slip— My heart I almost hear. ’Tis something to have nobly loved, Tho* you should love in vain; I know he loved me, and the thought Is worth whole years of pain. OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY. DISTINGUISHED GEORGIANS. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF HONORABLE JOHN H. JAMES. John H. James was born in Henry county, Georgia, on the fourteenth day of July, 1830. His father, David James, a native of North Car olina, emigrated to this State about fifty years ago, and married the beautiful and accomplished Miss Sarah Sanders, of Franklin county. This estimable lady has passed from earth, hut her husband survives at a green old age, full of men tal and physical vigor—a sturdy, respected and independent farmer, at the old homestead in Henry county. The childhood of John H. James was unmarked by any features of particular interest to the pub lic. As a member of a respectable and indus trious family, devoted to rural pursuits, he bore his part in the labors of the farm with uncom plaining and cheerful spirit. Dutiful to his par ents, careful of their happiness, affectionate and just to his brother and sisters, he illustrated, in early years, the embryo of the splendid Christ ian character which makes him appreciated and honored by the good and noble of the State. He was never known to murmur at the circumstances of his early life, nor in Summer’s heat or Win ter’s cold to desert his post of duty. Through many a melting day he has followed the plow or handled the hoe, as a barefooted hoy, and in many a wintry blast labored cheerfully for the bread of the family. After the crops were laid by, he was permitted to enjoy the meagre advantages of the neighbor hood schools, in which he obtained, by close application, a limited knowledge of the rudi ments of an English education. For about three months he attended a hoarding-school at the village of Jonesboro, after which he entered the great University of Nature, in which he has gath ered a fund of practical knowledge that consti tutes him one of the best-informed men of this country. The facility with which he measures character, circumstances and things, is wonder ful-enabling him, with unerring precision, to reach conclusions. At the age of twenty he hade adieu to the old home, endeared to him by many fond memories,, and located at Atlanta. There was a vital prompt ing energy within him that required more active and exciting scenes and employment than were furnished by life in the country. However dear were the pursuits and associations of his child hood and youth, he yielded to the stern bidding of his nature and sought the city, not for idle enjoyment, hut for the performance of manly duty. A situation was promptly secured at ten dollars per month. Soon it was advanced to twelve dollars and fifty cents; and as his capacity and fidelity were discovered, and his experience increased, his salary was enlarged, reaching, in due season, one hundred dollars per month. At that period this was regarded as .first-class com pensation, and none but first-class clerks could command so much. For five years he continued in the relationship of an employee, and enjoyed the fullest confidence of his employers. In 1855, having saved from his earnings two thousand three hundred dollars, which he deemed sufficient to justify business on his own account, he decided to engage in that of an auctioneer. Rightly judging that change from 1 point- to point was necessary to the lite and profit of that pursuit, he determined to conduct it as an itinerant. For years he was punctual in attendance at those places in the Southern States best suited to the success of his plans. In five years he had accumulated property val ued at' twenty thousand dollars, and demon strated to himself the wisdom of reliance upon his own mental suggestions, which have proven unerring guides to fortune. In 1860. feeling that his possessions were am ple, and influenced by a true and ardent affec- I tion, he sought and gained the heart and hand of Miss Susan C. Leonard, daughter of A. K. Leonard, Esq., of Talbot county, to whom he was married during that year. Blessed with a wife of proverbial gentleness and beauty of character, he felt that an era had dawned upon him replete with the promises of happiness, and that his changed condition required a change of pursuit. Accordingly, with fortune enlarged, he located permanently in Atlanta, engaging in the business of banking. Success rewarded his efforts until the war of the States was instituted. This circumstance, which disturbed the finan cial condition of so many citizens, fell with heavy force upon the fortune of Mr. James, leav ing liim only a small portion of his acquisitions with which, after the smoke of the conflict had passed, to resume his selected pursuit. About four thousand dollars in cash, and real estate of perhaps twice this amount in value, constituted all that was left him by the tedious and terrible strife. Undaunted and with a cheerful spirit, he reopened his hank, and has since steadily prosecuted business with unvarying success. Grasping results through a power of perception well-nigh prophetic, his conclusions have proved uncrrin' r . He has acquired tortune alter toi- tune until he now ranks as one of the wealth iest men in the State —owning as much (or more) real estate in Atlanta as any other citizen, and wielding a banking capital equal to every necessitv of his business position. Mr James enjoys the confidence of all who know him. His capacity and integrity chal lenge the criticism of the world. No one can , truly charge him with a single act either of illib- jeralitv or dishonor, and none will doubt the power of his intellect who judge it through the provides for every want. Towards his employ- process of erection, and consequently unpro- “Let history witness for it then. What does medium of his achievements—the only reliable ees he maintains a respectful, polite and kind ductive. When these amounts are summed np it say ?” test. deportment, never assuming that chilling aus- and subtracted from the apparent profit—twelve “ That the makers and marrers of the destinies During the panic of 1873, when many of the teritv so common with those who wield capital thousand dollars—it will be reduced to an in- of nations, the rulers of the world and its rulers, wealthiest bankers were compelled to suspend - in the control of labor. To society he always considerable amount, if not altogether absorbed, have ever been beautiful women.” some going into bankruptcy—a heavy pressure ' adds a charm by his genial good nature. These facts and figures are capable of easy proof, “Merely ‘beautiful women?’ There is a was brought to bear upon the establishment of He is a man of great liberality, furnishing a and certainly vindicate Mr. James effectually beauty—to me the only true beauty—which is Mr. James, by the unexpected demands of depos- striking exception to the maxim that human na- against this charge. As soon as it was sold he the physical expression of every mental and itors. At this juncture he closed his bank until ture becomes miserly in the ratio of its accnmu- built another fully as handsome which cost moral grace. This. I grant you. is the master- lie could marshal assets, when a number of the latinns. The evidences of his generosity are about the same, which clearly shows that he piece of creation; and when the world finds this wealthy men of Atlanta, voluntarily and through seen on every hand. At his individual expense built the first one for his own use. The more rare gem. it gives it a golden setting in history the press, proposed to assume, in his behalf, two commodious and handsome church edifices serious allegation that he absconded from the or song—a priceless heir-loom. But who are they liabilities varying from five to fifty thousand have been built in Atlanta, and to the comple- Confederacy during her struggle for indepen- whose merely physical charms have made them dollars each. Such a manifestation of faith is tion of another he contributed the sum of three dence was put in circulation. This was re- immortal ?” seldom met with in the history of hankers or thousand five hundred dollars. Both of the garded by the opponents of his political advance- “What say you to these names,—Helen, Cleo- banking institutions; and this was an expres- churches which he had erected are regularly ment as a fatal shot -one that would cause him patra.Anne Boleyn. Mary Stuart?” sion of confidence unmistakably sincere, since supplied with pastors and services each Sabbath, to hide his face in shame from his countrymen: “This,—Helen was a ehild of the gods and Though he has been a devotedly pious member one that would class him among the enemies of worthy of her race and lineage. Mark the au- of the Baptist denomination since his eighteenth Georgia, convincing all that he was untrue, and dacity with which she planned and the address year, and though now attached to the Second therefore unsafe to her interests. Mr. James with which she accomplished, in Ilium, cominu- it was based upon the ad vance of large sums of actual capital for immediate use. These shrewd men had measured not only the integrity, but the ability of Mr. Janies, and this act was the highest commendation that could have been Baptist Church of Atlanta, he is possessed of was apprised of the zeal with which this slander nications with the besieging Greeks, their joint nothing like bigotry, hut giv»s to all churches was circulated, and also that thousands of honest stratagem and the reconciliation with Menelaus. and all races, whether Jew or Gentile, Catholic people believed the report. He gave no direct Mark, too, with what dignity and regal grace the denial, calmly awaiting the period of his choice ancient poets delight to invest her, as later she to employ the proof at his command for his vin- dispenses to wandering heroes the rites of hos- dication. pitality in her royal home at Argos, a very queen The facts are these: For a short period he was to the end. And Cleopatra? She is'subtle in the military service, hut upon the tender of Greek genius and versatility incarnate; the wit- his personal aid as bearer of dispatches to for- tiest, boldest spirit of her' day, fitted to cope eign powers, he was granted a release from the with Rome’s best and greatest. She read human army and furnished a passport beyond our lines, nature as the musician reads music, and fin- Embarking at Wilmington, North Carolina, on a gered at ease the chords of the heart, drawing blockade-runner, he reached Nassau in safety, thence whatever tones she would. Her resources and remained there most of the time until the of mood and conversation were varied and ex haustless; she herself was always fresh, always a delightful, many-sided revelation. Anne Boleyn, educated and accomplished in every grace the French court could supply, was a thoughtful and brave woman, the friend of Erasmus, and the protectress of the English Revolution. Mary Stuart had genius. Before the storm broke over sential that profound secresy should be main- her and while the sunny skies of France yet tained. When he advertised in the New York sheltered her, no sweeter poetess nor truer mu- llerald, it was over an assumed name. Perhaps sician improvised to her lute for the charmed those who were his beneficiaries have innocently few who may be found even in court circles by believed or circulated this unjust charge. If so, the touchstone of genius. they should, when informed of the actual facts, 1 “Think you, Kate, that the world held no be equally active and zealous in doing justice to ! women whose mere physique was not comparable a persecuted patriot. to theirs? That if the fine spirit that animated The passport of Mr. James was granted by j and invested every feature with grace and pas- Hon. J. P. Benjamin, Secretary of State of the sion and lustre had been withdrawn that the Confederate States, and was doubtless allowed ! cold body could have found no rival?” on the hypothesis that the applicant could and The girl asked this with kindling eyes and would render more efficient service beyond our flushing cheeks, while her voice took a clear, lines than as a private in the ranks. It is absurd melodious, flute-like ring, to say that Mr. Benjamin, in 1863, when able- “Pauline, sister of the fi close of the war. He visited and spent a short time in Canada, and while there devoted himself, at great personal cost, to the object of relieving Southern soldiers who languished in Northern prisons. Many received the benefits of his lib erality and knew not to whom they were in debted. To make his plans effective, it was es- Riclimond, this the twelfth of October, 1863. [Signed,] J. P. Benjamin, Secretary of State This act of Mr. Benjamin was approved by Hon. James A. Seddon, Secretary of War, as will appear by reference to an original letter from that officer now in possession of Mr. James. This . passport was not granted in blindness, and if the The financial storm passed, leaving many a or Protestant, home or foreign-born, white or p ers0 n to whom it was issued is subject to pub- noble wreck as the consequence of its fury, but black. Thousands of minor charities have re- censure> those who granted it must also be the establishment of Mr. James survived its lieved the necessities of the poor, and if the - - — - - - first Napoleon, was a bodied soldiers were in so much demand, would , living model of the artist’s ideal, yet what did have allowed his departure on any other account. Lest sSme may dispute the correctness of this statement and persist in urging the false and prejudicial charge, we are permitted to publish the following copy of the passport, and to refer to Mr. James for the examination of the original: CONFEDERATE STATES OF AmEBICA. To all whom these Presents shall Come—Greeting: I, the undersigned Secretary of State of the Confeder ate States of America, hereby request all whom it may concern to permit safely to pass, J. H. James, accompa nied by his wife, a citizen of the Confederate States oi America, and in case of need to give him all lawful aid and she, with all the added oportunities of rank and power, in history or in society ? Her name will he lost in oblivion long ere its waves close over those of her earlier rivals, Mesdames Sallien, Se- vigne, Maintenon, Recamier, or further on still, Aspasia and Cornelia. Pallas Athena sits higher on Olympus than Aphrodite, Kate, not alone as regis-bearer and thunder-wielder in the councils of the gods, but as the azure-eyed, white-armed goddess of power, who well-nigh wins away from Aphrodite’s self the golden award of beauty.” “Ah! when ‘Greek meets Greek,’ I withdraw Plot 60110 Given umler my baud a Ud the impression of the j £ r0 . m tke field >” cried Kate - retreating but still [Seal.] seal of the Department of State, at the City of I flying her colors. “I am not familiar with those threatenings and came out even strengthened in the face of the dangers which seemed to impend. Unwilling in such a period to force collections from his many debtors — feeling that such a course would result in great inconvenience and perhaps serious injury to them — he placed promptly on the market a large amount of valu- condeinned. The Confederacy not only required soldiers to fight her battles, but agents to assist outside of her limits, and many were employed in the latter capacity. We know some of these, and they rank to-day as high in the affections of their countrymen as the heroes who breasted the storm of actual battle. Why then seek to make Mr. James a sacrifice on this account? During the war he was the owner of one-half interest in the paper which bore the significant as editors at different intervals, Mr. William Smith, Mr. Roberts of Nashville, known as “John Happy,” Mr. Cardoza, of Charleston, and last, but not by any means least, Mr. Watterson, now worth of men should he measured by their gifts to the needy, that of Mr. James would appear pre-eminent. His donations to churches since the war sum up more than fifteen thousand dol lars, an amount considerably in excess of the entire capital with which he resumed business. The fact that he gives in the prime of life, able city property, which he brought to actual while in the vigor of health, distinguishes him sale at public outcry. Thus he w r as not only from most of those who have bestowed charities enabled to extend extraordinary favors to his and benefits. It is the general custom to cling patrons, but to make such additions to his hank- closely to the sordid dust until robbed by death ing capital as would prepare him, in all events, ' of the power of enjoyment, and then to bequeath for the calls of panic-stricken depositors. a portion to charity and the church. Mr. James has wrought out for himself, in an Though temperate in all his habits, he has incredibly short time, the reputation of an ac- never joined a temperance society. His advice, „„„ „ ^ complished and far-seeing financier. He entered however, to all now is to guard themselves with ■ Louisville Courier-Journal. the arena of commerce when but a plow-boy, jealous care against the insidious indulgence in ; qq ie writings of Mr. James correspond in style and has handled the great financial problems of strong drink. . I to that of his conversation and public speeches, his day with the facility and success of a master. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity ana Th are concise) unembellished, to the point, Even when fresh from the farm and the field, lives in obedience to its injunctions of purity j c } ear an( [ forcible. A recent article, originally his conclusions and his actions were marked by i and charity. To give some idea of his appre- , polished in the baity Constitution, on the sub- accuracy, and the history of his acquisitions j elation by the denomination to which he is at- , ject of the usury and homestead laws, is regarded show few errors of judgment in the many details j taehed, it may be said that he is prominent m j as t]ae a bl es t financial review that has emanated constituting his business decisions. Men born ! almost all of its important enterprises, being a f rom anv 0 f the leading men of Georgia. It has in the lap of wealth, educated to the highest ' trustee of Mercer University; trustee and treas- been reproduced in many papers both North and degree in literary and commercial schools, hav- urer ot the Georgia Baptist Orphans Home; be- South and its arguments and theories have at- ing long experience in banking under the most mg, also, with the help of his good wile, super- advantageous circumstances, esteem it a privi- intendent of that institution. He has given to lege to advise with John H. James. ■ the “ Home ” more than any other man, and his His fortune has been made, not by niggardly | wife more than any other lady. He has for a savings, hut heroic investments. Relying upon number of years been president of the Atlanta his own comprehendm and judgment, he has Bible Society; also, of Fulton County Sabbath amassed largely by venturing where others School Society, both of which are composed of feared to go. As an illustration, he realized over members of the various orthodox denominations. ancient dames as you are, Carrie. Meet me on modern ground. How is it in life to-day ?” “Answer yourself, Kate. Are we of to-day coarser in onr generation than were those old heathens in theirs? Is the divine light of beauty that invests humanity merely the silken sheen of the mask, or is it the shining through the vail of the glory within when we descend from the mount of communion with Deity ? Who are the beautiful, I do not say pretty, women you know here in the college and in society without ? Then say who exert most influence through character for good.” “For shame, Carrie !” cried Kate, mockingly; “you know very well that yon are the Athena of the little Pantheon behind us. You are most intellectual ” “And most beautiful! Look !” said Grace, in a low voice, laying her hand on Kate’s arm. Kate looked up, and the persiflage died out of title of The Southern Confederacy. During his ] ie r face and manner in view of the soft enthusi- propnetorship ofthat journal, he had employed asm that sllffuse(l the girl - s face wit h rose that shone from her eloquent eyes and that touched with new grace and dignity her form and every feature. She was “most beautiful.” [For The Sunny South.] American Titles. BY ARNOT. arguments tracted the favorable notice of the greatest finan ciers and statesmen of the republic. The views of Mr. James on a number of im portant State questions show that he is endowed with the elements of statesmanship, which may It must be true that people have an innate love of titles. In republican America there are more titled folks than in royal England. True, in the latter they are titled by right, while in the former they are as numerously titled, but how, I am unable to say. A man in the United States who is not a general is a colonel. It is an appellation of more general use than that of esquire, and means less, if anything means less. A gentleman whom we designate as Colonel So- and-so is not necessarily a military hero; he ac he brought into requisition for the good of quires that distinction by owning bottom land; his country. . i by moving for the appointment of a committee twenty thousand dollars from the purchase of a In this we have proof that he is esteemed by uied^to^ieToSSdite&SM^iaSor 1 ^ a lot of bonds of a suspended bank. These seen- Christians of other churches who have measured at fhe next electTon Thev believe that hT more sllk , hat: b 7 bem 8 dele f te *» a convention, rities were freely advertised in the papers of the his virtues and honored him. than any otherperson is adapted to that vosi- T fi com “J ssloI1 , er > ™ rd «£ of a sev ‘ State, and by distributing handbills. Their In 1871, Mr. James was called unanimously to ‘o n a t a period when our fin meia con lition de- e f^ fave voters; by being the owner of a livery- chardcter and the time of sole were brought to the Mayoralty of Atlanta, having first been nom- „™ds extraordinary wisdom and abilityfor its stab l’ come r r -.f tkree ™ cks and a the notice of bankers generally, but they foiled , mated by a popular vote of the Democratic citi- ““essfol manaaemen H an army must be 2°! b ° rSe ' Th -f d ° T • ^ f H r ° ftds t0 f to comprehend the situation, 'and suffered Mr. zens over three gentlemen of highest standing ZTKfcSf“ctoJy, we would'sefoct oS ! ^SSSSS^^^SST * er80nS ° James to purchase them for a little o\ er three socially and polrticallj. This indicates his greatest military chief; and if the financial ques-' The bottle-washer of an anothecarv’s shon is hundred dollars. Dealing in stocks and bonds strength with the Democracy of the city and his tions of the State need to be solved to advantage, ! a doctor- the vendor of noil parrots fice do"s is an important feature in his banking business, gu^at personal popularity. This is the only common sense demands that our greatest finan- l n q discordant tunes on a dilapidated hand-or- and though regarded hazardous, has brought office lie ever held It was not sought, but ac- cier should be called to the helm. No man who ““ “rthe^attornev’s scrivener fo him only an unbroken succession of financial cepted because tendered by his constituents in rightly judges can doubt that Mr. James towers triumphs. He scans the question, decides, acts a manner so complimentary. A high apprecia- f ar a hove all other men in Georgia in this partic- and succeeds. tion of his administrative ability and his integ- u ], u . His friends and admirers believe his ad- No one has displayed so much enterprise, good nty prompted their choice As proof that his ministration would so adjust and regulate the judgment or refined taste in the improvement administration Mas accepted and approved, he finances of the State as to liberate the people, of Atlanta. The most valuable, beautiful and was strongly urged to allow his re-election. - - - - - - - • imposing structures are due to his designs. His This he declined. His public service was char- ----- -- acterized by a desire to advance the common in bank block, extending on Whitehall from Ala bama street towards the railroad crossing, the Executive Mansion and his private residence on Peachtree street are ornaments to the city and terests of the city and by the strictest honesty. In 1872, his name was suggested in connec tion with the gubernatorial election office. monuments to his liberal enterprise and refined Many citizens of foresight and influence desired taste. The latter is a costly and magnificent to see him in position for the exercise of his model of architecture. Though, as stated, his great financial mind in redeeming the State from sales of city property in 1873 were considerable, her financial embarrassments and perplexity, he still retains a large amount of great value, They saw in him the hope of Georgia, and. gan is a professor; the attorney’s scrivener is captain, and so on up to the highest and down to the lowest. Some people do not remember that every one is not an upstart and pretender. A gentleman - - . of taste and sense does not like to be addressed in a great degree, from the burden ot taxes un- as co ] OI1 g] who never held a military position, der which they have toiled since the war; and and if he ever did, one of lower grade. The av- this opinion lies at the base of their anxiety tor e rage man of the world never learns that a gen- his election. tleman of culture shrinks from nominal or real [For The Sunny South.] honors to which he has no claim. There should 1 be a fitness and harmony in all things. Good I taste, good sense and good breeding dictate this, i If a gentleman is a physician, it’s not out of place to address him as doctor; if he holds or A group of girls were gathered on the long I has held a military office, it s not out of place to BEAUTY? BY HOUSTONIA. bringing him good annual profits by way of therefore entreated him to allow his name placed flight of stairs leading into the college building, j gfy e him the title which indicates that position, rent. Every room in his spacious bank block, before the nominating convention ofthat year. Among them, and resting luxuriously in the 1 Dm doubt upon any ot these points, Mister embracing basements and attics, is occupied. This he declined to do, and apprehending'that arms of the fairest, was a child of five years, will never be out ot place. Here is situated his banking business, the ma- his position might not be fully understood, and whose artless prattle was their present enter- T ofc more. Hett.er taste will eliinery of which moves with a quiet precision that this might interfere with the desired unan- tainment. and absence of all ostentation, which seem to be imity ofthat body, he published a letter in “You are so pretty—so pretty !” he said, with copied from the equanimity and deportment of which he declared that he would, under no cir- charming candor, touching softly the rosy cheek the proprietor. 'With him its front portico is a cumstances, be a candidate at that time. bent over him, and gazing into her merry, dark favorite point. There he may be seen almost The suggestion of his name for Governor eyes with an expression that emphasized lift every morning, greeting the passers-by with his brought out a number of jealous and unjust words. “I had rather be pretty than anything.” i senger from a warmer clime, and forms another genial face, or engaged in pleasant conversation comments, designed to prejudice his standing “Rather be pretty than good and intelligent?” j link to bind us to the noble State that gave it with those who pause in the' sunshine of his with the people. It was alleged that he had re- she asked, blushing with pleasure. __ _ birth. Though in its infancy, it is an infant Let’s discriminate more. Better taste will grow upon us, and with it, better standing be fore the world. We welcome the advent of The Sunny South with hearty good will. It is to ns a bright mes- presence. No one would imagine that Mr. alized a large fortune from the Treasury of Geor- James has an unpleasant care upon his heart, or gia by the sale of his magnificent residence for a disturbing thought in his brain. His eye an Executive Mansion. The facts and figures beams with a lustre that burns steadily, and his show that the report of his profits were exagger- countenanee is serene as a cloudless morn of the ations. The original cost of the land, buildinj spring. Free from all affectation, ready at every moment to communicate with others, showing no selfish reticence for the sake of gaining ad vantage, practical, far-seeing, sensible and good, Oh ! yes; if you are pretty you needn’t be Hercules, and is already one among the best good. Yon can make every one love you.” j publications North or South. Its biographical “Do you hear that, Carrie?” called saucily sketches are germs of future history—a history, out from the lowest step a bright little brunette, as it were, in embryo. Its romances are over- with the air of one throwing down the gauntlet, flowing with originality and purity of thought, and furniture conveyed to the State amounted “Jamie says beauty is better than genius, intel- and cannot foil to please and interest even the to seventy-three thousand dollars. For these he ligence, goodness— everything !” most recherche and exacting. These, with many received one hundred thousand dollars in de- The girl addressed sat above the others and other articles in prose anil poetry, make up a u preciated bonds, which, by extraordinary shrewd- apart. Her slender figure rested against a col- periodical both instructive and attractive. May no wonder that his presence is an attraction ness, he managed to dispose of to Henry Clews umn of the porch, her eyes were fixed dreamily the future of The Sunny South be ever as bright which causes many of the passing throng to & Co. for eighty-five thousand dollars. This on the west where the sun was sinking into a and buoyant as its young life promises—Courier, halt before him. left him only the apparent profit of twelve thou- sea of flame. Virginia. To say that Mr. James is a noble character is sand dollars. The land cost Mr. James ten “Well, what does it signify,” she answered only the language of true description. At home, thousand dollars. Upon this for three or four quietly, “if Jamie is wrong?” in society or in the counting-house he illustrates years, while unproductive, he paid State, county “Nay, what it does signify is that Jamie is this truth. His family consists of his wife, a and city taxes. Add to this the interest on its right!” retorted the other with emphasis, little girl about ten and a son about nine years cost,—ten thousand dollars; then to this add least that is the world s judgment—against you. of age. No happier home adorns the State. Af- the interest for one year on the cost of the build- “How declared?” fection presides over it and with generous care ing. it having been about that length of time in “In society, in polite literature, in history.” At Ben Butler, in a letter to Robert Harlan, of Cincinnati, says the Civil Rights bill does not give any right to a colored man to go into a drinking saloon -without leave of the proprietor, and that keeping a barber-shop is a private busi ness, in which the hill does not interfere.