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[For The Sunny South.] RUI N'D OF YEARS. BY ALICE SLOAN. Come in to your supper, my husband. I have toaeted your bread good and brown,— Have set out our very best dish#s and put on my very best gown. We must have a right merry evening. “ What is all this about?” you say; Why, you cannot forget, dear John—we’ve been married fifty years to-day. Yes, fifty years, my good husband, we've walked this life side by side, And ne’er a regret for a moment I’ve had since the day I became your bride. You have always been good and true, John, and I’ve tried to value your worth, And have striven to make our home, dear John, a bright little heaven on earth. I can almost see you now, John, as I did on our bridal day, Dressed in your home-spun suit of blue, with buttons bright and gay— The low-cut shoes, the ruffled shirt, the breast-pin large and bright; And yours was the finest form, I thought, in the old-fash ioned reel that night. I was very proud of you then, dear John, but am fonder of you now,— You know ’tis said that always pride sits on a youug wife's brow; But I cau truly say to-night, in the sincerity of truth, That I found you more than I dared to hope in my wildest dreams of youth. Pass your cup—let me fill it again; and John, what have you to say ? I've a real surprise,—have guarded it well fifty years, for to-day: ’Twas a long, long journey before us, but I've treasured this bottle of wine, And thought we could drink it together fifty years from then—just at nine; For at nine fc you know, we were married, and see! ’tis almost that time; Come, till up your glass! let me drink to your health, and you cau drink, love, to mine! Our sous and our daughters are married, and children they have not a few; I sent them all home, John, this evening, because I wished no guest but you. Oh, tis sweet to talk of the past and our ever untiring love, But I never forget that all blessings proceed from the mansion of heaven above. We’ve passed already, dearest John, a life of three-score years and ten; And I sit here now beside you, as happy now as when They bound my brow with roses and decked me in bridal gear; But Christ will call us home soon, our heavenly robes to wear. W’e’ve kept our lamps “trimmed and burning'' this many and many a year, And I think it has helped us the better our wearisome load to bear; And I know we are aged and worn, dear John, but fortune has kindly given A comfort of earthly goods, as we journey on to heaven. [For The Sunny South.] BIRTH AND DEATH OF WORLDS. A MGHT WATCH l PO\ THE MOISTAIXS. BY MARY E. BRYAN. a ‘fluid haze of light,’ instinct with burning heat, drenched with ‘ flerv showers of sulphuric and muriatic acid. ’ And even after the germ of life had stirred within the seething mass: after of new worlds that should in their turn ‘ drop off the wrinkled stalk of Time.’” “And I had called the stars eternal. I had loved to contemplate their calm changelessness. It quieted the feverish unrest of my soul: but CURRENT NEWS ITEMS. the fire-loving ganoid ‘had had birth, and been now- followed bv a succession of myriads of gigantic ' be * tlie stars still calm jou. fitful fever of t,, ... . , ,, , , , . * , ‘ . , , discontent. Miriam, bv the lesson they teach ot The night deepened: over the gray peak of beings whose very types have now vanished inex0 rable destiny -of the immutable liws which Mora rose the gibbous moon, and the stars mul tiplied in the unclouded heavens. There was The “tied-backs” go out with the summer. A rifle team is organizing at Columbus, Ga. The paper mills at Carrollton are to be sold again. The death of Garibaldi’s wife has been an nounced. A needle has been found in the heart of a from the world; even after these numberless they must obey in their immensity, as we in our forms of life had been evolved, what inconceiv- littleness. But I contemplate the stars in a more not a sound of life to break the profound still- able ages elapsed before the higher types of ex- ch eer lul mood, as I am Speranza. the Spirit of waterme on. . ... , . . . , , 0 r Hope. It there is immeasurable death and decay A revival of religion is going on in Fort \ al- ness of the mountams-not a touch of every-day istence appeared !-ages that have left their hie- in yon der universe, there is also limitless life ley, Georgia. nature to give relief to the awful, the lonely roglyphic footsteps stamped in the fossiliferous and birth. One of the greatest of modern as- *p be Virginia tobacco crop was damaged by the grandeur of the scene,—the immense amphi- rocks for geology to interpret. Think of these tronomers has said that if only one out of every ra j ns 0 f August. theatre girdled by grotesque peaks, like a guard vast periods of time ‘ wasted.’ according to our {he^numbTr^f^nhabite^ orbs' Is* '^Mill- The rice crop of Louisiana is turning out a of petrified Titans with shivered spears: the ! limited conceptions, and then look forward to ions of them are progressing toward a life-pro- 1 R an dsome yield. black chasids that yawned around me: the huge the years to come—to those cycles that lie folded ducing stage. Come nearer, Miriam. You have Counterfeiters are at work in Rome, Ga., and masses of scarred and splintered rock that showed in the womb of futurity, during which this ^ontemplated Mars the dying planet, and Luna in Atlanta as w ell. ' n The army worm has invaded the cotton-fields the dead satellite. Come nearer now and behold a young world not yet ready for life in its lowest manifestations—Jupiter, the Prince of Planets, yet wrapped in the fiery clouds that vail its birth- throes." She had looked like a Pythoness prophesying doom while she spoke of the decay and death of worlds: now her fine eye kindled, and the light of serene, immortal hope sat upon her brow. (CONCLUDED IN NEXT NUMBER.) [For The Sunny South.] LETTER FROM_LOUISVILLE. Louisville — Its Fine Residences and Busi ness Houses — Public Institutions — Cave Hill — Election » — Summer Recreations — Belles, Etc. From all parts of the nation voices speak to us through the columns of The Sunny South, but I think no pen has told its readers of the charms of our city, of the beauty of our belles, the chivalry of our beaux, of the graces of oni on the Coosa river. Excavations for the Custom House in Atlanta have been commenced. One firm in Atlanta, Georgia, paid out last year $(550,000 for wheat. The yellow fever has entirely abated at Fort Barancas and Key West. An attempt was made recently to bum the court-house at Forsyth, Ga. The recent rains in Middle Georgia have won derfully improved the crops. Judge A. R. Wright, of Rome, Georgia, bap tized thirteen persons last week. The bonded debt of Columbus, Ga., is $75.25 for every man, woman and child. Uncle Billy Daniel, of Greene county, has a dog that goes after the cows alone. At the sale of the late Dr. John S. Hill, Troup county, Ga., mules sold for $5 each. The Democracy of Mississippi are making mothers and the wisdom of our fathers. Ours ! herculean efforts to carry the next election, is the incomparable “Falls City,” whose varied One thousand bar-rooms have been closed in and unique architecture is noted through the Brooklyn, New York, during the past year. land. How refreshing is this variety in private residences as compared with the monotonous ! brown-stone front and glaring white window- | blinds of the Northern cities ! In no city of this continent that I have visited are the dwellings so unlike, yet all conspicuous for beautiful structure and for home-like adornments, each being surrounded by its own well-kept lawn, reaching in many instances to the dignity of a j park. Said a Northern lady to me a few days 1 since: “Of course vour city is beautiful, for vou The negro Radicals in Vicksburg are throw ing the “white trash” Radicals overboard. The attempt at making a Lamar-Banks party is not receiving much journalistic enthusiasm. The Atlanta and Columbus Air-Line meeting will take place on the fifth instant, at Greenville. The crops in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin were seriously damaged by a severe frost on the 23d ult. , - - „ . . , . The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore have squares and squares ot handsome stone-tront • , , , < ? l“ =!,.m finict, oaf Jr, Rallroa( l used, m one day, 162 cars to transport peaches. houses, each peculiar in style and finish, set in the midst of a field laid out in flower-beds and graveled walks.” But Louisville has fewer public attractions than other cities of its* size. The most notable is the great bridge ,over the Ohio river, contain ing the longest ^pan in the list of pier bridges. The Public Library, with its fifty thousand vol umes and pleasant reading rooms; its paintings and statuary; its scientifically arranged and sys tematically kept museum—entertaining, instruc tive and free to all—is the institution of which Kentuckians are most proud. Our merchants and citizens generally seem to have received a new impetus during the last few years, and now, notwithstanding the lack of The waters of the Mississippi river have fallen, greatly to the relief of the Arkansas and Missis sippi planters. A negro man was badly beaten in Atlanta, by a crowd of colored roughs, for working at eighty- five cents a day. The Sultan of Turkey has sent his oldest son to Crete with a squadron to prevent the threat ened insurrection. Wm. B. Duncan, of the firm of Duncan, Sher man *& Co., has published a card, in which he offers to pay 331 per cent. An embryo negro insurrection was squelched money and depressed state of trade, block after near Macon, Miss., on the 23d ult., by killing j | block of costly and imposing business houses are j seven or eight of their number, ghastly and skeleton-like in the moonlight. The globe of ours, with its inherent heat burned in course of erection. Our Main and Fourth The body of Grimwood, the Chicago reporter place seemed the charnel house of some dead out, its life-giving forces exhausted, shall roll a ®* reet ® ™ U . soon - feel as nar T 0 T as Broadway, who went'up with Prof. Donaldson, has been Tt *= ww 1 . . , . , & . - ,. ... , New York, in consequence of the high houses l found on the beach of Lake Michigan. uoild. It was eerie. As I felt the silence and darkened orb around a fading sun, with not one on both sides . The most magnificent of these . _ f f „... - * m the mystery of the thousand stars that gazed at breathing thing upon its frozen surface ! is the Courier-Journal building, six stories above | j} arnwe n C H to Elko a village on the South me from their thrones in infinite space, I shud- “Observation reveals to us that the life-pro- ground, ot the famous Baltimore brick, faced Carolina Railroad distance eight miles. dered and longed to call to Speranza, w-ho sat on ducing period of any creation is infinitely small jt^jjfTje, 1 when completed^ as ii ami some a tn y ; Georgia will soon be independent of China for We present an excellent likeness of the late the rock above me, as motionless as though the in proportion to its other stages of existence, and block in our country. Above the entrance-door ! ner lea, since several have demonstrated the fact General Francis P. Blair, Jr., who died on the stars she contemplated had, Gorgon-like, stared we may logically infer with Helmholtz, that the to the counting-room will be a statue in marble j °f R s adaptability to our soil and climate. Tybee Island is soon to have a $15,000 hotel, to be made a charming resort by a stock com- OUH PORTRAIT GALLERY. GENERAL FRANCIS P. BLAIR. 8tli of July, at his residence in St. Louis. In her into stone. But presently she laid down the duration of life on our earth is ‘but the minutest * b e S‘f ted Prentice, to whom the South—aye, many respects, he was a remarkable man, and telescope with which she had been sweeping the ripple in the infinite ocean of time.’ ” * * be ^ bcde C * V * lze WOr °" eS S ° mUC ’ made for himself a national reputation, both as sky, and signed for me to approach her. “Do not be startled, Miriam,—the end is not a soldier and statesman. “See!” she exclaimed. “It is the last night yet. These philosophers measure their tims- He was born in Lexington, Ivy., on the 19th of June, and the planet Mars is at its highest intervals in the face of the vast eternities lying of February. 1821, and graduated at Princeton College, in his 20th year. Selecting the law as a profession, he located in the growing city of St. Louis, and devoted himself earnestly to his practice, and achieved marked success, until the beginning of the Mexican war, when he joined bri 8 bt band tbat circle around tbe sun: il seems the command of Capt. Kearney, in New Mexico, more frau 8 bt witb tbe warmtb ’ tbe life and en ‘ splendor of brightness and color.” “So— “You give the first watch of the night To the red planet Mars?’ The ruddy star! It is my favorite of all the behind and before them, and in whose measure less immensity such points of time as ages and centuries fade into nothingness. Though sci- and served till 1847. During that year he re turned to St. Louis and resumed his profession. In 1818, lie identified himself with the Free Soil party, and actively opposed the extension of slavery into the territories. He defeated Thomas H. Benton for the Missouri Legislature on this issue, in 1854, and was elected to Con- ergy of our own sphere. ” “Y'ou are mistaken,” said Speranza, with her far-away look. “There is no life in Mars, unless it be a low order of existence. Life has been extinguished; there is no longer heat or elec tricity to support it. The planet is in its deca dence—its chill old age. Cold and death have In all ages and among all peoples, the resting- place of loved ones has been the spot that love has labored to beautify and adorn. Cave Hill, where rest many of our honored dead, is deemed the most beautiful public attraction of our city. Many costly monuments are there, much fine work from the sculptor’s hand delights the eye, floral gifts and decorations are in profusion. , j , , Nature has been lavish to the ground, while a ence has demonstrated that the eartn has long strictly _ enforced rule requires the Superinten- ! since passed her prime, and is gradually verg- d ent to keep all the lots mown and clean alike, j ing toward the coldness and decay of her old and the walks cleared of grass and rubbish, age, yet man has not attained his highest Intel- caus ' n 8 the whole surface of the cemetery to pre- lectual development, and ages of time and heights rie, George D. Prentice, Amelia YVelby, and pany. A tram-way will do the transporting. Peaches have been successfully packed and shipped to England and Ireland from Atlanta and West Point, Georgia. They were packed in ice. The fastest time ever made by a railway train was on the New York Central. The Herald’s lightning train ran seventy miles in sixty min utes. Kate Fields says that Lady Franklin never had either a photograph or portrait taken; conse quently, all the so-called pictures of her are frauds. Suits have been brought in the United States of progress lie before him yet, ere the black cur- throng of others covered with glory or crowned District Court, New York, against Mr. Drews gress in 1857. When the war between the States sebsed d b>r *' be ’ r P re y* commenced, he entered the field against the “How can you tell that this is so ?” South, as Colonel of the First Regiment of Mis- “Modern astronomy teaches from analogy- souri Volunteers, and went through the entire from close comparative observations, and specu- war. On the 24th July, 1865, he bade his sol diers farewell. He was with Sherman in his march to the sea, and no doubt witnessed the destruction of Atlanta and Columbia. For these P assed her l lr * Iue things the Southern people can never cherish his memory with much gratitude. But it is true that, after the cessation of hostilities, he took a bold and fearless stand for the South, and so far won the regards of the Southern people, that they united upon him for the second place in the nation ; and the oppressed Southern heart exulted at the seemingly bright prospects at one time of electing the Seymour and Blair ticket. He died a lingering death. The whole science of the healing art was brought to bear upon his lations based on known facts in the history of the universe. Reasoning from analogy, what I have said is true. We know that our earth has that her inherent heat is slowly dying out, her terrestial forces becoming weaker; and we know that Mars is older than our earth.” “ Older?” “ Y'es. Being a planet exterior to ours, it must have begun to form much much sooner; and being greatly smaller than the earth, it must have reached its maturity far earlier, and begun to decay, according to the laws that govern all created things. As its bulk is so much smaller, with the poet's wreath, sleep here. Our elections are over. Governor McCreary will soon occupy the gubernatorial mansion, and General Basil Duke will be commonwealth’s at torney for this judicial district. Should he be as able a prosecutor at the bar as he was skillful tactician on the field, woe to the offender who is brought before him. Now is the season when Louisville, like most of her sisters, has gone to the springs, the sea side or the mountains; yet many are rusticating in rural retreats near home. Shoddyism has taken such complete possession of fashionable resorts, that aristocracy has almost decided to change the programme; so this year many have gone to farm places near by, where genuine country living is sure to be found. “ What . economy this is!” you say? Truly so, at first bhe pointed to the moon that now rode high thought, for instead' of the numerous dinner and in the heavens. ; promenade and evening dresses needed for the “Yonder,” she said, “vou have an example watering-place wardrobe, the same number of ,. , .... . . , , ,, . cambrics and muslins, with two-thirds as many of such a condition ot planetary death, in the yards in each? buckskin gloves and garden hat state of our companion orb. The moon’s near- j a re required. “What a difference in the price ness to the earth makes her surface a*page of the of board !” Wait; our country friends are not past that the telescopic eye can easily read. We slow to seize a chance of refilling their purses. J , ... .. . , Recognizing the actual love of Americans to be find written upon it, m unmistakable characters, bnmbugge d, and the fact that they will pay a the finis of life and action. Being so much high price for a poor article rather than a small tain of death shall fall upon the world’s drama of human life, and ‘ The Last Man ’ shall stand, perchance as in the prophetic vision of the poet, and watch the “Ships slow drifting with their dead To shores where all is dumb.’ Y'ou remember that terrific picture,— “ The sun’s eye had a sickly glare, The earth with age was wan; The skeletons of ages were Around that lonely man.’ ” “I cannot conceive that the earth—the bright, beautiful, joy-breathing earth—can become such a wreck—such a ghastly and lifeless ruin.” it must have parted with its inferior quantity of smaller than the earth, it has traveled far more . sum for a good one, they have ranged rates ac- Hudson river steamers for overcrowding their steamers. It is curious to know that sewing machines sell in the United States at from $60 to $90; yet they ship them to Europe and sell them at from $28 to $38. A money panic in San Francisco, on the 27th ult., was caused by the failure of a prominent banking house. The president of the concern suicided thereafter. The Georgia Railroad, under the efficient man agement of that prince of railroad officials, Col. S. K. Johnson, is building sleeping cars as fine as any of Pullman’s. A colossal statue of Herman, who was a Prince of Cherusel, a German tribe, and was born B.C. 16, was unvailed before a multitude, including the princes of Germany. Since the Grand Army of the Republic at Rockford raised such a howl about President Jeff Davis’ expected visit, he has been flooded with invitations to speak. The Colored Convention that met in Richmond last week did nothing beyond passing a series of resolutions denunciatory of something. The most severe were preferred against the Federal administration. Commodore James G. Goodenough, command- p w Hiaanlnfinn steadily am.roaclied The inherent beat mncb more rapidly than our earth rap i d l v through the different stages of existence, cordin " 1 - y , and no "' aristocracy, democracy and ing the British squadron in Australian waters, case, but dissolution steadily approacneu. , , The telesenne has shown ns that its _ . . . * , .. , snobocracy eat at the same table, promenade on died on the 20th, from being shot with poisoned transfusion of blood was practiced with tempo- ’ P . . ‘ ‘ ‘ and 1S no " ln tbe dreary era ol decrepitude— tbe sam e farm-house porch, fish in the same arrows in an attack made on his flag-ship by the rarv success, but on the evening of the 8th of atmosphere is rarer, and that it is more meagrely oceanless, atmosphereless, lifeless; with no rain- puddle, and pay equal prices for the privilege. natives of Carlisle Bay. supplied with water, which is a conservator of fall or dew-fall, no moving clouds and no drift- , 0ur belles, of course, have all left town. Miss The wou i d . be insurrectionists in the lower temperature. All these circumstances tend to j n g snow to hide its horrible surface, scarred ^ T ’ . wb .?, is deservedly the queen of p Or ti 0 n of Georgia have been captured without prove that Mars is older in time, and far older and torn by the convulsive death-throes of storm of‘the'sum m°erat Long°Kranch and part mVash- ‘eceiv^the fuU^measu^of' th^law^whde The in condition, than this planet we inhabit—that and earthquake. Behold it yonder! a corpse of ington. People wonder that young ladies with * its forces are probably too worn-out to support a world—a ghost that, like the ignis fatwts spectre a bost of suitors remain so long belles. That the higher forms of life.’ upon a grave, still holds a torch to light up “A worn-out world! Mhat a melancholy scenes of life with which it can no longer as similate !” “The moon the ghost of a dead world —the whited sepulchre of extinct life !—the moon that July, he began to sink rapidly, and expired at midnight. , [For The Sunny South Hnn. J. W. H. Underwood. This gentleman is Judge of the Rome Judi cial Circuit. He says a great many good things. Some time ago, a divorce case was being tried thought! A world of graves, —a world into before him in which a negro woman was plain- wbose on ce warm, life-teeming bosom deadly tiff She alledged cruel treatment as the ground , . . , ... ., , , . for'separation. The husband defended, and for Cold has sets his fangs, and around it coiled his that purpose employed a good lawyer. She made icy folds, till the out a clear case of beating. The Judge, whose “stiffening breakers, wild and white, heart is tender and easily touched, had on a Gird dumb and barren shores" large crop of indignation. After the evidence closed and argument was But why, since it can no longer sustain life, does had, the Judge charged the jury the law of the the planet still exist? Why does it continue to case, when the defendant s counsel arose and wbee j bs lifeless mass in the accustomed path- of suns and systems of suns—nav, galaxies of reauested the Court to charge the jury “that a i . , , husband and wife could not conspire together ^ round tbe sun? systems-that have obeyed, or are now obeying, and get a divorce: and if they believed, from “I cannot answer you. Science is dumb regard- Nature’s inexorable law of decay and death? matter is easily solved. Is it not more gratify ing to rule over a multitude than a single heart? Yliss Mamie and Alice C are in St. Paul, Minnesota, where, I learn, they are making havoc with the hearts of Northern beaux. This is only to be expected from the lovely dignity and beautv of Yliss Ylamie and the witching co poor dupes will be dealt with more leniently. At San Yliguel, Salvador, a bloody riot, grow ing out of religious fanaticism, is reported. Gen erals Espinosa and Castro were killed, the former cut to pieces. Numerous lives were lost. The damage to property is estimated at $1,000,000. “Passports to heaven,” signed by the Catholic bishops, were found on the dead rioters. lovers swear by and poets sing! How ruthlessly quetry and sparkling wit of Yliss Alice. Miss p ro f. Riley, State Entomologist of Missouri, Nettie B and the Ylisses W are playfully recently read a paper before the American Asso- your science tears the silver vail from Ylokanna, and makes us shudder at the deformity revealed. ” “What is one dead world, or a thousand, com pared to the countless millions of extinct orbs, baffling old Neptune at Cape Ylay. Yliss Hattie N is sustaining her reputation as beauty and flirt at Crab Orchard. But rumor says that she will go no more as Yliss N , for ere another season returns she will become the wife of a real live English lord The wedding will be one of the sensations of the winter. Next month our Exposition opens. Then will ciation for the advancement of Science, Detroit, Ylichigan, on the locust as food for man. When fried or roasted, all agreed that the messes were “admirable,” their flavor being described as “nutty.” The Russians smoke and dry them. The Digger Indians of the Pacific consider the locust a fine dish. the evidence, that the wife had* in any way con- j ng t be -wherefore of the tremendous secrets of Yonder illuminated path, the ‘milkv wav.’ that be a gathering of loveliness and beauty, of wit A bottle was found near Porte Hope, Mich., tributed bv her conduct to the cause set up, so * * ’ — - ~ «•- —*“ * 1 • - A A iL r,L t, 1 ,1 b n .1 ‘ I-l vT as* to' procure a divorce, that they should find —diverse. The • why is the key of the mys- stretches broadly through space, what is it but the sfgned by DoiaidTn^'OveXS^chlg^'ai for the defendant.” The Judge said: “Yes, gen- "hich God alone holds. To our finite un- dust ot dead worlds . ^ay, it is reasonably infer- that would waken envy in the heart of an Apollo, eight o clock on the eve of starting, about three - . • * e U J A 4.' — , A „ _« i-. n .HR tV -rt-r% c- /\n« attti Asm im'lh hio niwAli'nr. (TU 111 1 1- 1 1 — J J flinncon A f oaf Vl 1 rrVl QT1 (1 aKrirtf f i rfu milflC GrtlTI hickory then vou find for the defendant.” The less cycles of time during which the earth was ages before had blossomed with life and perished ljury found for’the plaintiff. Arnot. unfit for life,—when it wheeled through space by slow decay, leaving in their nebula the seeds Louisville, Ky. , August 23. will surely land in the lake. A fearful st The writing is well preserved.