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THE POWER OF LOVE. (Front “ The Maid of San Domingo"—A Dramatic Poem.) BY CHARLES W. HUBNEB. Guttave.— It seems I im the only one awake— There's no one here; but yet the hour is early— So I must fain content me till they come. I could not rest or sleep; a sweeter draught Than e’en the god of letheian sleep can tender. In his star-wreathed chalice, slaked the thirst, The fever frenzy of my love-charmed soul. Spirit of love, how wondrous is thy power! Guiding congenial hearts through golden days, With sweeter music than the seraphs sing. Love can outstrip the farthest flight of faucy; Earth has no boundary that it cannot leap; It feareth not the battle's lurid gloom; It looks uudazed at fortune's glaring sun, J*or dreads the foul embraces of despair. Yea, every heart that feels its charmful touch Gains fruitful knowledge of immortal things. Oh! Toiu, Toin! our congenial hearts Blended their spirit-harmony ere yet Our mortal eyes had met; o’er the sea-waves. Stretching in vast and restless desolation. Came to our ears the melody of love— Soul calling upon soul! [For The Sunny South.] LETTER FROM CANADA. harmony. Against the distant south stretches a long zone of pure, cold, deep blue, on which the snow lies like ermine. We shall not forget the dining-room to which our gentle little French host ushered us the rainy evening of our arrival. White and cherry curtains screened the windows, pictures enliv ened the walls wreathed with vines and sprays; between each window and on each of the dozen snowy little tables was a lamp. Each table was furnished with a set of castors, a goblet of gay flowers,—dahlias, asters, poppies, monks-hood, etc., and a pretty array of glass—namely: a vase for spoons, a pitcher of milk, and several orna mental little cups or pitchers of cream. Nor j shall we forget the fowl, hot through and through and tender to an ideal degree—the flaky potato and the raspberries and cream that formed the : staple of that first repast. Day by day do we subsist on speckled trout, fresh herring, smelts (a most delightful, appetizing little fish, whose anatomy is admirably arranged, with no mur derous stray bones to choke you off untimely, and of which one easily eats a half dozen at a meal), excellent poultry, partridges, lamb-chops, • mutton-pie (we don’t wonder now Mr. Sartoris got one as soon as the boat touched the British shore), omelettes, dry toast (of course!) raspber ries, and plenty of real cream. Continually too do we float our powerful minds in a cup of tea, i the national drink, like Mr. Wenus and Mr. Wegg. In the castors is placed a carte. We did not expect to find anything so modish among 1 these hills. It reads: “ Seaside Bill-of-Fare. The Lome House and Cottages, Murray Bay, by Chamard A Co. Break- a man was killed, who was going to see his—his belle. It was night, and the third day from then he was to be married. The sleigh turned over, and the next morning they found him lying there, with his head split in two, and his horse and traine standing by. ” “And did his belle marrv any one else, Lon- : ise?” Louise cannot tell; she knows she wore black for him two years. We eame upon this cross in one of our ram bles. It stands at the side of a terrible, stony hill; it is smaller than its fellows, and was once bordered wilh a band of gilt, now almost faded t away. So here he who had youth, and love and hope for his comrades suddenly quitted them and | went through. “The strait aud dreadful pass of Death.” I With a sigh we read the inscription: “Tci est mod accidenteUement Pirre Routieb, le. i 27 Decembre, 1838, de. 24 amt.” by the heavy rain, it had to be postponed. Georgia must possess talent, when one of her children, a former slave of my uncle’s, is now receiving eighty' dollars a month teaching in the schools. On learning that the schools were filled with colored teachers and pupils, many parents of white children tooktbem away. The fourteenth was a sad memorial day to some. GENERAL NEWS. Chicago is erecting ten thousand dwellings this year. The fund for an equestrian statue of General Lee at Richmond now amounts to $20,000. The number of cattle shipped or driven from The graves of the poor martyrs were Texas this year is over 112,000 so far. Over 10,- decked with fresh flowers, but I doubt if any | 000 will be wintered on the Wachita. but the immediate mourners heeded their fall - { A committ ee will be appointed to go to Wash- political martyrs so soon are forgotten, and they | in ton and urgent l y appeal to Congress to assist ixsTbSt 4rs.-“'s:ir‘f e N“: ‘"F b ■i'-«»A.i.vAtb.ai„Lppiv.ue y . Orleans had only retained the position she gained Messrs. Carpenter & Sheldon have arranged that day, instead of giving it up, all would have been well with her now: i/ui salt'' Most solemn and beautiful requiem services : were held in the Cathedral, our finest amateur Murray Bay is a favorite summer resort of the Montreal people—less notably of the Quebecers. .. - - - Its bracing, dry air is a tonic for teething chil- ! f a! jt> ^ unc ^*’ ~ *° “ lnner > *>! t ea » dren and weak folk; its salt water in hot or cold i Wines, etc. baths drives away rheumatism, dropsy, etc. It is strictly a summer resort, and summer in this latitude means July and August. At the end of August there is a steady flight homeward, At first, our quarrel with the house is that the meals tread so fast on one another’s heels. By and by, living in the open air, walking miles up and down hill, galloping along in caleches, chiefly because the schools commence the first i ant ^ shaken in charettes (hay-carts), we cease to of September, and the few loiterers who remain ; fimi fault, and feel thankful tor this sagacious until the middle of September are pluming their arrangement. wings and making ready to follow. The little! The people with one accord speak French, handful left is pleasant and cheery, and assuredly O ur host, who was not born on the sou, lias contributes to our entertainment; but there is grafted English on his native tongue and uses it enough of inalienable interest in ilie place to ab- with ease, but no one follows his example. Our sorb us when it is dispersed. 1 maids know barely enough English to get Rumor had told us Murray’ Bay was wild and : along with, nor even so much always. “ Ac corn- healthful—she had not whispered how beautiful. ! prends pus” is a favorite phrase, frequently heard From our window is as fine a landscape as heart i n the salle a manger, but the Englishman, with could wish. The mountains and their spires the happy obtuseness which never knows when come down to the very edge of the blue bay; the it is beaten, persists in uttering sounds he thinks soft white cloud of morning floats along the deep resemble Jrench. and the title inclines a heedful blue and green tops and trails down the steeps, a vail now snow, now silver. The sun is contin ually practicing his “wild, wizard work” upon them; now they are vestured in gold and dark blue, now in purple and green. Now the great, steadfast hills stand in sombre livery, and in their encircling arms, high and far away, beams ear, and between them they tinker up a vehicle of communication. Many years ago, a Scotch regiment disbanded here, and the Highlanders took to themselves wives of the daughters of the land; but the women wouldn’t learn English (or Scotch), and the children too clave to the mother-tongue; one tract ^witli sunshine; it smiles beneath the consequently, one sees McNicliolls, Harveys, verv eve of heaven, and brings to mind.— Warrens and Blackburns sputtering patois, gri- very eye of heaven, and brings to mind, •• There is a fold whence none can stray. And pastures ever green. Where sultry sun or stormy day. Or night is never seen. “Far up the everlasting hills In God’s own light it lies: His smile its vast dimension tills With joy that never dies.” Anon the hues all change, —the hills’ broad surface is deep blue; in strange, vivid contrast, puttering patois, gri macing, conning rosaries, and falling before 1 shrines with any Villeneuve, Gamier, or La Breque of them all. But they lack sadly the . thrift which belongs equally to French and ; Scotch. It is easy living in summer. The lively, black-eyed boy, the wrinkled old woman in white stuft cap, alike shoulder their rod and go to the river for their dinner. The influx of visitors gives employment to laundresses (O women, my a square of pale green is set in their midst, for sisters, washing is twenty-five cents a dozen !) all the world like the inlaid marble in one of Mr. Ruskin’s beloved old Venetian churches. The clear moonshine, like silver seven times refined, bathes the hills at night, and sometimes over their summits are seen already the Northern lights; two or three spears of yet keener silver thrust themselves, paling and gleaming, against the white sky. -4-V Murray Bay is divided into three quarters,— Pointe-a-Pic, where are the pier, the hotels and most of the cottages; Murray Bay, quite a little village in itself, with its half dozen shops, its substantial church, and its slowly-building con vent; and to the northeast, Capa-1’Aigle, only a cluster of summer cottages, whose mountain view is much retrenched, but whose water view is wide, and whose chief advantage is that the The calecliees congregate in front of the hotels in their big top boots, blouses, and little black caps, and chatter and suck their short pipes all day long, living on the fruit of yesterday’s pat ronage or the hope of to-morrow’s. Nor are their expectations vain. Murray Bay is rich in beau tiful drives. The rates are moderation itself. Ta Fraser’s Falls and back (la chute Frazeer our driver calls it), distance twelve miles, you pay fifty cents each (a caleche holds two people). The drive to Les Troux, of eighteen or twenty miles/ costs yon seventy-five cents apiece. A carriage and pair imposes an additional charge of twenty-five cents upon each occupant. But when winter comes, the tourists are gone, the bay is frozen over, the fish are hibernating at the bottom of the river, and the snow-drifts water is quite warm for bathing, it being exceed- j are up to the telegraph poles. Bring forth your ingly cold elsewhere. It gets its ambitious name stores, O butterflies ! What are they? A few of Eagle Cape, we are told, from the white eagles pigs soon eaten, a little flour soon baked to black, that here haunt the rocks in the bay. We see sour bread in the big earthern ovens we see them often,—pretty white birds sitting in peace- along the roadside, a scanty stock of wood which ful congress in the sun. If they be other than the improvident hand flings boldly into the fire cranes or gulls, we are greatly deceived. instead of cutting and splitting them, and thus The country is wildly picturesque,—hills in- 1 piecing out the warmth through the winter. I numerable, covered with golden rod and purple j And then? Days and weeks of cold and hunger, ' asters, and wee, white, yellow-centred immortelles, pain and stupor, the lamp of life flickering fee- Here are the steep, stony mountains of our bly until the late spring feeds it again,—some- ’ childhood’s ideal, their flanks naked rock, trees ; times, alas! going out; instances of starvation waving on their crests, their glens carpeted with are not infrequent in this region, countless varied mosses in lovely and ever-chang- I “What do the people do with themselves all ing mosaic. Here the earth is unquiet; its erup- the winter?” we ask Louise, a daughter of the tive character is plainly shown by the mounds house, a little twelve-year-old maid, with liquid that dot its surface thickly like lumps of suet in a plum pudding. Five or six years ago, Mile. C. tells ns, the sleeping giant stirred; down came the chimneys in the country around, the earth opened, and there was a chasm strait, black, terrible, that could never be fathomed. Even since we have been here the bosom of the region has heaved, gently and slowly, but quite enough for us, blue eyes, and deep-pink cheeks, and black hair. “Oh ! the men sit around the stoves and talk to their families,” she answers. “They have their cattle to take care of,” puts in another. “They must be housed all winter, and feeding them and caring for them takes up a good part of their short day.” This last informant tells us he saw an old man I Is it ever warm here?” we asked an habitue of j gathering the winter forage of his beast—namely: the place in summer. “Oh ! yes; the thermometer has been up to 7G this year.” We can believe it never goes higher. After a sultry week of travel, we plunge into December. a supply of nettles. He objected that a horse’s throat and stomach cannot endure prickles; but the master imperturbably confronted him with the experience of years. There is a story that a native horse, munching straw, had oats set be- On examination, we find we are expected to sleep fore him, which he would not touch, not recog- under a thick counterpane and blanket, whereat nizing the grain as an esculent, we smile at our ignorance, and the smile ex- Whatever they eat, these little horses do not pands when Marie spreads an additional blan- want pluck or endurance. They are a study as i ket warm claret in color, at the foot of the bed; 1 they gallop up one side of the abrupt hill and 1 long before luorning it is about our ears. clamber down the other like flies on the wall. The nights aud mornings are unfailingly cold, The caleches are equally a study—odd enough but the hours between breakfast and five o’clock to have been cut out of a pumpkin by Cinderel- are delightful. AVe walk and walk, and climb la’s fairy god-motlier. We see a new’ one now up hill and run downliilF, and accomplish miles and then, and hail it with delight as a token unknowing, and come home by the spongy, sea- that not in our day will the species die out. weed-strewn beach, with the pungent salt smells Queer things we see in our swift, windy drives j tiii“lin«' in our nostrils, fresh and eager to do it in these caleches. Horses, cows, turkeys hob- ove'r a»ain. And sleep ? Oh, nodes ambrosianae ! bled with uncouth wooden yokes and bars, their Are we the same weary creatures who heard the j head and legs brought in irksome juxtaposition, small hours in the hot nights a fortnight ago? ; to prevent their crossing the low fences. The It was something added to our experience to plaster-ovens roaring on Saturday for the week’s be here during the equinoctial gale. We who bread, with little perforated iron doors, and a have dwelt m°the midland country sang as a smoke-blackened shed over them, on four rick- pleasant jin-de of words rather than a prayer: j ety posts. The houses all window-glass, even “Guard the sailors tossing including half the door sometimes, frequently On the deep blue sea;” j with no curtains, or with frivolous little lace or but we have learned its import. It was taught j paper shams, giving an impression that the peo ns in the dav and two nights of storm. Dawn, j pie live a dreary, out-of-door life, very different noontide, twilight alike gray, floods of raindriv- ; from the snug little English cottages in Upper imr over the face of the earth, the sea leaping on | Canada. Gir s m the fields in broad straw hats, tbe rocks at the back of the house, a white and I with reaping-hooks in their hands, cutting hay, furious maniac, and “in the dead, unhappy wheat and oats. The world is turned upside night’’the mighty cry of the wind waking us, j down here-they gather our June products in to oather up as it went the wail of sail- seeming to gather up as ors’ wives and children all over the world. The struggle ceased in the night; the morning of the eighteenth of September dawned clear and still. We went to the window to greet the quiet earth, and oh ! what did we see? The mountains were gleaming with snow ! AV e saw them thus for the first time in our lives-we have seen little else in the five days since. Oh, triends . woul^ that we could show you the delights Natures careless, royal hand has dropped on these hills . How distinctly the picture is impressed on our It commences with a tall green summit to the north, where the snow has melted in patches, and which has exactly the appearance ot a peak of polished green marble streaked aud spotted with white. More to the east, the mountam- are covered with silver, and green, pur- and blue shadows blend with it in lovely wheat and oats, down here—they September. White cats by the dozen, sitting de mure in the doorway, or disporting in the yards. Tall, black crosses in little inclosures along the highway. “What is the meaning of those crosses, Louise ?” “ Well, the one near the church is to com memorate a three day’s mission a Jesuit father held here, and that'one on the Cap-a-1’Aigle road is where one goes to pray at evening. Others are for the earth; the priest comes and the peo ple follow in procession with candles, and they kneel down and pray God to give them a good harvest. One marks the spot where a lady fell out of a caleche and was killed (it was a long time ago; you need have no fear now), and when the caleche men get there they say, 1 This is the place where the lady was killed;’ then all the ladies jump out of the caleche and walk, and so the horse gets rest. Another shows where [For The Sunny South.] LETTER FROM NEW ORLEANS. Washington Artillery' Entertainment—The Public School Question—The Martyrs' Day —Grand Tournament—Fashions, etc. “Such a crowd has not been seen in any the atre in New Orleans since the days of Jenny I Lind,” was remarked by an old citizen at the en tertainment given by the Washington Artillery at the Varieties on the 2d. Long before the overture commenced, there was not standing room to be obtained —scarcely breathing space — for the densely packed crowd. The hundreds who had to turn back from the doors would have been willing to be packed even more tightly, just to see once more the soldiers in gray, and harken to the bugle-call of one portion of Stonewall Jackson’s brigade. The coming Centennial has awakened in many : minds an anxious desire to be present and wit ness the wonders that are expected to be seen in : Philadelphia next year —among others, the Wash ington Artillery, that brigade from New Orleans who did honored service on Virginia’s battle fields, under Lee, wished to be-J»resent in a body at the one-liundredth celebration of a successful rebellion, resolved to give an entertainment to raise the necessary funds. Our city is brimful of native talent, always at the command of those who need it, and with its aid the affair passed oft with sufficient eclat to satisfy the most exacting. But on the day of the performance its object was changed, and it was announced that, the proceeds were to be given to the sufferers from the storm in Texas. The farce of the “ Two Buzzards” was the first on the programme, given by the pick of the am ateur clubs. It kept the dense audience in a constant laugh, until its happy end. “ The Wounded Soldier,” by Mr. Fred Thayer and his two comrades, was almost beyond criticism. Mr. Thayer, although only an amateur, is not new to the stage, and none but an adept could render such a piece with his success. Marks Raiser, the young violinist, who has been educated in Europe by New Orleans, and is now under engagement with Strakosh, played a solo on the violin. He is yet but a youth, modest and unassuming in his manners. The audience testified their appreciation by the stillness which prevailed while he was.playing, and the applause which brought him before the curtain a second time. Many, though, preferred the sweet, soft tones of the flute, as brought forth by Alons. Livian (from the opera). His variations of “Home, .Sweet Home,” were touching and beau tiful enough to make one wish they could last forever. . But th- nightdemand the Washington Artillery; and when, in answer to the call for all the members of that battalion to assemble at the custom-house entrance of the theatre and report for duty, a deep silence fell on the audience, as the remnant of that gallant band rose from various parts of the house and proceeded to respond to the summons. How- thoughts of mothers and wives reverted to the battle-grounds far away where their loved ones were sleeping, deaf to the trumpet-calls which assembled their comrades once more! Many eyes were filled with tears as they beheld the survivors of husbands, fathers and sons gathered on tne mimic camp-ground before them. There were the soldiers in gray, in the midst of the usual din belonging to camp life; then, in re sponse to a demand for something cheering, they all began their old war song of “ Upidee,” With heart and soul they sang it, shouted it, as if to make amends for the long years which had elapsed since they joined voices in that stirring chorus. The orchestra accompanied them, its inspiriting music keeping time to the wild notes of the soldiers. Their enthusiam was shared by the audience, who rapturously encored them. One of the members came forward, in the old gray uniform, musket and canteen beside him, and sang • ‘ Stonewall Jackson’s Way. ” His com rades behind the scenes slowly, sadly joined in the chorus; then with what a shout, they gave “l’ay off" Ashby’s Score!” The last scene displayed the camp asleep- moonlight shedding her soft rays on the tired men, while a vision appearecLJo the dreamers. The Confederate flag was slowly furled by an in visible hand, then disappeared forever; while, on a crimson platform, as if to represent a field drenched in blood, were seen two soldiers —one in blue, bordered with gold, the other in gray, mellowed with gold; muskets lie neglected at their feet, while the deadly foes clasp hands in am it}- and forgiveness. The Goddess of Liberty then descends, and crowning both soldiers with laurel, enfolds them in the American flag. The applause which greeted this scene was not so hearty as that given to the preceding; perhaps the sight caused some bitterness instead of pleasure. Though the cyclone passed us harmlessly, while doing such terrible havoc with our neigh boring State, the negro school board has created much greater havoc, attempting to sweep away social distinctions, tearing down long-standing customs, and consigning to distress and suffer ing numbers who had no other means of sup port. Finchback says the whites have agreed that the colored men are their equals, and he wants them to prove it b' - accepting negro teach ers in their schools and negro scholars, to mix on terms of equality with white children; con sequently, an importation of darkeys from the North and elsewhere were installed on the open ing of the schools, and former faithful white teachers summarily dismissed. One lady said she knew n hing of her dismissal until Sunday, the day bt. <re the opening, she received a note telling her she need not lvptir to her former post. As she had an invalid mother dependent on her exertions, the loss of her position was severely felt. Her case is a fair sample of many of the rest. Others had no information of their removal at the school-house. In the high schools there is nothing but confusion. The entire sen ior class of boys rose and left the building when the negro, Edmunds, took possession. Among the girls, the newly appointed teachers, when applied to by the pupils for assistance in their studies, acknowledge their ignorance of the branches that should be taught there, and say they did not apply for their positions, but were placed there by the board. This board is com posed of a mixture of white and colored negroes, who seem to be using their best efforts to raise a war of races. A meeting of the citizens was to have been held on Saturday evening, in Lafayette square, to express their indignation at the action of the board, and adopt some measures for remedying it, but owing to the streets being entirely flooded with Hon. A. H. Stephens to deliver two lectures at Chicago, 111., embodying his views on na tional affairs. A sharp shock of an earthquake was felt in singers assisting. A large meeting assembled at San Francisco on last Thursday evening about j A. Patrick’s Hall, where were given addresses G o’clock. The shook was felt elsewhere in Cali- from various prominent parties. The feature of fornia, but no damage is reported, the evening was the address of Dr. Burns on Queen Victoria’s youngest son, Prince Leopold, : “ The AA hite League ot Louisiana. has joined the temperance movement, having | The Grand Knightly Tournament, given by , accepted the presidency of the Oxford branch of the firemen, was a most amusing piocession. the Church of England Temperance Society The members of the different fire companies Russia has ( . omlllim ded the Polish proprietors were all monnte 1 on mules and dressed in bur- of several provinceg to sell their faris to Rus- liesque style -some in red flannel sauts with sian tenants at prices fixed by the government, golden helmets on their heads instead of the This completes the impoverishment of the Polish usual broad hats; others were clothed in com- ; nob j[j ty plete armor. All of them had their faces more or less disguised either by painting or mask. _ Sixty-seven journals are now published in They handled their lances in mock-heroic style, K°“ e ’ ' vhlch onl y are religious. Before and if occasionally they were dropped, the own- only two were published -the> 0 tseroatore ers were ordered to the rear. Some live bears an <J Ornate, which were exceedingly pious, and monkeys in wagons added interest to the bu t no * ver y newsy. cortege, and prevented the crowd from getting too close to the doughty knights. They marched through the principal streets with bands of mu sic and flying banners, on which were embroid ered the various devices of the warriors —some were knights of all right, others of all wrong; The Memphis Cotton Exchange has offered a premium of a thousand dollars for the beat bale of cotton of the present crop grown in the coun try tributary to Memphis, for exhibition at the Philadelphia centennial. A novel spectacle is now witnessed in Missis- others ol the gab, etc. They then repaired to , sippi. Ames ordered a company of militia to the fair gromds, where they tilted for prizes, turn in their arms. The result is, the negroes The poor in lies made some odd maneuvres; it have taken to the woods, and Ames has a lot of was hard for them to understand why they 1 should not go backward as well as forward. The city is beginning to [Hit on a brisk appear ance, n ^withstanding the storms which Prof. Tice says are to continue for six years. Fall toil- ! ettes arc coming out, delighting the eyes of ' those who are waiting to see what is going to be worn. Subdued colors are much in vogue. A iretty suit on the promenade canal was of the U. S. soldiers hunting them. The Swedish steamer L. J. Biger, running be tween Lubeck and Copenhagen, was burned in the Baltic. Twenty-four passengers and eleven of the crew perished. The steamer was a small one, and was built in 1853 at Gittenburgh. The United States steam sr Swatira will soon sail for Para, Brazil, to bring to this country two materials of large gray plaid and the plain several Confederates who left this country soon to match —the underskirt, overskirt and jacket trimmed in plaited rutiles of the plain; the sleeves of the latter are trimmed in plaid. The jacket has the effect of a polonaise in front, coming below the overskirt, and forming a full after the collapse of the Confederacy. They will be landed free of charge at Port Royal, S. C. The Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, Ten nessee, was successfully inaugurated on the 4th inst. Addresses were delivered by Governor cuirass basque at the back. On the sleeves and Porter and other prominent citizens, and the down the front were large bows; the collar deep public demonstrations were on a grand scale. in the back, and plaited ruffling all round it; the sash long in full loops; a black straw hat, with plaid bow in front, and two long black and white plumes completed a very stylish toilette. One of our belle demoiselles looked very lovely the other night at the theatre on the occa sion when “ No Thoroughfare ’’ was given by the Dramatics. She dresses with much taste, but General Rutherford B. Hayes, the Republican candidate for governor of Ohio, has been elected. He is a lawyer by profession. He entered the army as a major of the Twenty-third Ohio regi ment, and at the close of the war was a brigadier general, with the brevet rank of major general. Meat lias advanced rapidly within the past few simply. She is a blonde of the purest type; ?*yb. It ia not due to scarcity but to the specu- hair of the palest gold; face of the fairest. She I the f ? a P ,tal ' f StS - f wore a rich black silk; over it a white-lace sleeve- the North and AVest. At the same time cotton is less jacket, composed of insertion and lace; full 8°“ 8 V ?° U Vl them far 1 m l ? r * are v °°™Pdlei blue ribbon bows, with long ends on either b,l - v raeat whlch the > r coukl better have raised shoulder; her black straw hat had no trimming, a lom *- only caught back in front with a bunch of an- Ph e Pekin Gazette publishes an edict referring tuinn flowers. An exquisite toilette of ecru to the murder of Air. Margary, declaring the and white lace attracted much attention one j right ot foreigners to travel in the interior, and sunshiny day lately on the canal, until the wind, requiring the Chinese officials to take cognizance blowing aside the vail, betrayed one of the saf- j °t treaties. Alessrs. Grosver and Baker will pro- fron-bned enfranchised—then, of course, it was ceed to Yuman overland. Mr. AVadehas arrived fron-lined enfranchised—then, of course, it was detectable. The*windows of .Olympe and So phie are still empty. It is too early for these fashionable modistes to display the “ latest Paris ian styles.” Flora Belle. [For The Sunny South.] LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN. BY AXONYMA. j at Shahghai. y The report of the Memphis Cotton Exchange for Septemper, shows that storms, wet and cold weather, rust, blight and rot damaged the crop I about ten per cent, at the beginning of the pick- | ing season. The gathering of the crop is re- ; tar Jed by sickness in Tennessee, and by political ■ troubles in Mississippi. A most shocking and revolting affair was wit nessed a few days ago in Vicksburg, Miss. Two men, whose chief aim in life seems to be to kill time and whisky, shot three negroes. The citi zens closed their places of business and held a public meeting to express their unqualified dis approbation and reprobation of the atrocity. A professor of music at Trieste has succeeded We hope we will not be considered a misan thrope if we aver, that of happiness or misery in this life of ours, there is a preponderance of the latter. The infant in long clothes is not a stranger to grief; youth is acquainted with an guish as keen as it is brief; middle age with calm endurance suffers continually; and old age, looking back on all the years agone, contem- 1 in the difficult task of teaching a nu uber of deaf plates a waste of woes only relieved by an occa- •. mutes to sing. A public exhibition was given sional oasis of green memory. in Paris some time ago by the deaf mutes, at Since, then, sorrow is the birth-right and her- which they not only sang in perfect time, but itage of man, should it not be the study of the presented the pitch, which was conveyed to old to shield the impressible young from emo- them by the teacher in some mysterious way. tions that will sadden the bright spirits? Es- A ial New York t of the treasury pecially does this responsibility rest upon the seized J on 0ctober 18 $;[->,000 worth of lace, silk writers ot books, and the editors of magazines , d velvet trimmings, jet goods, beads, loose and papers for children. AVith a majority ol d et which w k ’ J rece b tl ]’ orted fro ® these a studied effort is made to excite the emo- | n laml> but undervalued in invoices presented tional nature ol the sympathetic young, and et- & custom officers . The capture of the orb'i- tect is often the reverse ot salutary—giving them 1 ~ better than it really is. AVe were led to these reflections to-day by a scene that occurred under our observation. A little daughter of nine summers, of tine and leci is oneu iue reversem ^uuu^-gmug na [ invoices led to the discovery of this attempt dreary views ot life and discouraging aspects ot tQ defamd the reve nue. * 1 human nature, which to an innocent child is One of the provisions of the new constitution proposed for North Carolina is the following : No person who shall deny the being of God, or the divine authority of the Old or New Testa- sensitive organization, was reading in another me ^’ or abak hold religious principles incom- room a recently published book. She alarmed i patible with the freedom or safety of the State, us by running into our room, weeping bitterly, 1 shall be capable ot holding any office or place ot and throwing her arms about us, sobbed out, trustor profit in the civil department within this “This book is too sad. I want to read more, but ^tate. I cannot.” She would not be comforted, and ; The latest improvement in the way of tele- after awhile, her imagination being actively ex- graphy was recently exhibited at the office of ercised, she again sobbed out, “ I’m so lonesome j the Dominion Telegraph Company, at Bradford, to-day, and I don’t feel well; my limbs ache, j Ont. It consists of an apparatus by which musical sounds can be transmitted over tele graphic wires, and every note and word be as dis tinctly heard at the end of the wires as at the place where the music originates. ’ It is held that a concert given in San Francisco can be and my head hurts me too.” Finally she was composed, with face-bathing, caresses and a gentle reprimand, and was put to bed. In the midst of the weeping of the little girl, our at tention was called to a wee baby sister just seven months old, who, in sympathy was hiding her j heard in Atlanta plainly, head on her nurse’s shoulder, and with quiver ing lips was sobbing out her woes. This was too much. Tears started to our own eyes, and we inwardly declared that our precious darling, eager as she is for knowledge, should learn from the great teacher, nature, and not suffer, out of time, on account of the sentimentalism of the writers of the day. The city of Alobile had in circulation a large amount of city scrip, or promises to pay by that city, which circulate very generally in every de partment. The United States revenue authori ties undertook to collect ten per cent, penalty of Mobile for circulating this money, and certain penalties and damages besides. Col. J. Little | Smith went to AVasliin'tou to investigate the [For The Suuiiy South.] SHARPNESS. George Franks is Deputy Sheriff of county, Georgia. He has some obsolete ideas, such as, that a process put in his hands must be executed without fear, favor or affection. To have him after one with a justice’s court execu tion in his pocket, or to read a patent office report, are alternatives from which it is well to pray the good Lord to be delivered. Before George got to the dignity of Deputy Sheriff, he was Constable. AVhile he was Con stable, it became his duty to arrest , charged with the offense of assault and battery. He left the prisoner several days at his house before carrying him to jail. On being asked how he kept him so long—from two to three days and nights, with no one to aid him in the watch—he said : “ In the day I made him hoe cotton with me; at night I took him into a room adjoining my wife’s bed-room, stripped all his clothes off him, carried them into my room and put them under my head, and sent him to bed. I knew he would never run away ua <ed for no higher offense than assault and battery.” Say that is not an original plan of holding prisoners. Abnot. AVateb does not remain on the mountain or vengeance in the great mind. matter, and Air. Pratt, tne Commissioner of In ternal Revenue, decided that the Alobile scrip was not subject to the ten per cent. tax. The sale of Jay Cooke’s personal effects, at his magnificent country resilience, the other day, was the last act in a very brilliant drama, which, contrary to the usual custom of dramas, ended unhappily. The grand career of the ex-banker, his munificence in providing for himself and his friends, as well as the unhappy denouement in which he violated the confidence of the thou sands who trusted him, all conspire, however, to render this last scene one of poetic justice, which could not be spared without marring the effect of the whole play. At a banquet in honor of Thiers at An.\"ton, on the Gironne, October 18th, Thiers said the Republic must be maintained. He did not think the Radicals as black and perverse as they were believed to be. If they gained power, they would pursue a different course from what their opponents suppose. He desired the re moval of all functionaries who do not respect the Republic. This he thought necessary to render elections representative. He denied that the Republic would isolate France. She may count upon the sympathy of Europe. Tne European policy in future will be peace and non intervention. He advocated the liberal and. modern system of education.