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8 INTERESTING LETTERS From Richmond, St. Lonis, Mason vi He (My.,) The Far Wert, and Hempstead (Texas.) The Capital of the Old Dominion Under its Varying Light* and Shadows — Bustling Thoroughfares—Shady Streets-St. John’s Church. A stranger visiting Richmond conld not bnt be impressed with the contrast in appearance between the different portions of the city. In many respects, this Richmond on the “Jeems” is a flourishing mart; at the same time, it re minds ns of Horace’s “ rns in nrbe.” If yon go with ns down into the business streets—along Main and Cary, and the cross streets between— yon will find all the activity and commercial life, the din and commotion incident to large eities. Ponderous wagons, freighted with all kinds of merchandise, jolting over the bonldered high ways; men hurrying to and fro, intent upon the business of the day, and capacious bnildings dedicated lo trade and traffic hedging ns in. shov ti at we are in the midst of a populous and >y centre. come with us into the residence portion D,, «*«ity, and observe what a contrast. We i, stand first on Fifth street and look up x ranklin—elegantly paved, wide and well-shaded Franklin street, is the boulevard of Richmond. Here the beaux and belles drive and promenade; and here, all along, from our point of observa tion to the Park, the bon ion dwell. The surface of the street is slightly undulating—just enough so to break the monotony and please the eye. The houses on Franklin, whilst not constructed of marble or brown stone, being for the most part built of brick and stuccoed, are large and handsome, having around them an air of ele gance and refinement not often found in the great cities of the West or North. We will stroll along this boulevard to Third street. At the corner stands the Club House, which is a source of huge enjoyment to the members who have the leisure to sit on the portico and watch the pretty girls as they pass. The Club is patron ized by some of the best men here—those who are commonly styled the “ upper ten ”—but it is looked upon with horror bv the ministerial profession as being an institution calculated to encourage vice in the form of card-playing, drinking and loafing—albeit, a reading-room and library constitute an important feature of the establishment. Farther westward, we find between Adams and .Jefferson streets the most imposing square in Richmond, which consists of the residences of Mr. James R Pace, Colonel Clement R. Barksdale, and Mr. Walter K. Mas- ton, all three tobacco men. Mr. Pace’s mansion is not quite completed, but when it is, it will be probably the costliest one in Virginia. It will reqnire upwards of ?100.000 to pay for it. After all, it is not fashionable Franklin, with its stately edifices and its aristocratic society, that most delights us. Come stroll a few squares to the less pretentious streets. Ah ! now we stand on the corner of Fourth and Clay, looking up and down. With our eyes turned to the West, we can see Clay street until it vanishes in n big sylvan grove a mile hence. It is a bowery vista, ayd reminds us of a village scene. We cannot imagine a view more picturesque. Leigh street, its next neighbor, is equally attractive. Yesterday, as Sabbath bells chimed the hour of prayer, and old Sol cast his genial rays alike upon the evil and the good, we wended our way to Church Hill (formerly Richmond Hill'l which is the oldest part of tho city. Cot off from tho rest of Richmond by a deep valley, it seems a town to itself. Here stands, in a graveyard. St. John’s Church, a venerable relic of colonial times, and one of the most celebrated and his toric places in the Old Dominion. Neither his tory nor tradition give us an exact account of its age, but it was evidently the first church erected in Richmond. The date on one of the tomb stones is 1751. Under the roof of St. John’s met the second convention (1775) which forms so important a chapter in the history of the American Revolution. Pevton Randolph. Rich ard Henry Lee. George Wythe. Thomas Jeffer son, George Washington and Patrick Henry were present on the occasion: and it was nnder the roof of the old church that Henry uttered the memorable words,—“Give me liberty or give me death.” The church as it is seen to-day. although added to, is as simple and unpretending in its architecture, we snppose, as it was a hundred years ago. It is a white, weather-boarded struc ture, with wings at the end and a tower in front, surmounted by a tasteful spire and gilded cross. Yesterday we passed the venerated place just before service, and saw groups of men and boys standing around on the green grass under the solemn shadow of the trees, and Sunday-school children playing among the tombs. The con gregation is large, we are told, and have an ex cellent preacher, the Rev. Alexander Weddell. Opposite Richmond is Manchester (a city of about 5,000 souls), with its greatand flourishing cotton mills. Dalbymlle. Richmond, Va., May 1, 1876. Grand Duchess,” etc. The week holds in re serve, too, several other special attractions, among them a lecture by Professor Living, of Chicago; a concert, at which the eminent young pianist, Julia Rive, will appear; a “reading” by Mrs. Felt, a St. Louisian; one or two farewell bon boloin concerts, etc. But the theatrical and concert season in St. Lonis is fast drawing to a close, and ere long the summer quiet will settle down and children of leisure flit to summer re sorts or the Centennnial. And now, after this resume of theatrical gos sip, we suppose, dear readers, you are ready for a change; but we really must defer until an other letter a variation of our theme, and we will conclude the present one with tender, re- gregretful recailings of the old actor who has has just passed from the stage of life, BASNET WILLIAMS. He is said to have been always kind to the poor, to have given many benefits in aid of charitable institutions, and he has left a goodly fortune to attest the success of his labors. So, with kindly thought of a worthy actor who has passed “to where, beyond these voices, there is peace,” we will close. M. J. W. St. Louis, April, 30, 1876. Letter from Davies County, Kjr. This county, which lies on the Ohio and Green rivers, in what is known as the “ Green River Country ” of Kentucky, is noted for her rich corn and tobacco fields, the hospitality of the people, the forests of excellent timber, the good housekeepers among the women, the mammoth whisky and brandy distilleries, free “fighting,” and last, but not least, her devotion to the “Lost Cause.” Owensboro, the county seat, is a city of 10,000 inhabitants, with splendid graded schools, nu merous churches, several manufactories—among soothing influences for human trials, more quiet retreats for contemplative minds, more real in centive for humane action, than in this vast arena, where new joys spring up at every turn of the beholder? Countless herds roam at will over the thou sand hills and valleys, with seldom the sight of a human intruder to startle them from their wonted haunts in many portions of the State, and the forest boughs still bend with the weight of wild game that fill them at all seasons, while the rivers dance wantonly over their millions ot finny inhabitants. Sweet land of our adoption! beautiful land of the flower and the vine ! Would that the pen of the poet were mine, that I might sing of thy rare possessions, till half a world should be charmed hither to participate in and enjoy thy wondrous munificence. Lottie C. Efnob. Hempstead, Texas, April, 1876. [Tor The Sunny South.] SCANDAL. It is a sad thought—but unfortunately as true as sad—that even the very best of us roll a bit of scandal like a sweet morsel under our tongues. How deliciously infectious it is ! How delight fully diffusive ! How exquisitely it adapts itself * ii a.. : ~r3j»ite varieties of human existence ! > so pure, so noble as to be ex- to all the in Who is so w _ alted beyond! the reach of its slimy, poisonous tongue? Die? it not make its debut in the Gar den of Eden? Was it not in the very midst of the glory, the beauty, the perfection, the unsul lied purityof Paradi.se itself that this hissing spawn of perdition—this worthy offspring of its infernal progenitor, in most fitting guise—first made its appearance, and with devilish insinu- the most important of which are: French’s Hub j ation traduced the character of the immaculate and Spoke Factory, Delker’s Furniture Manu-! Jehovah ? And did not our mother Eve listen factory, Troutman and Rarick’s Plow and Wagon and repeat to her husband ? ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Factory, a planing mill, numerous saw and grist mills, aDd tobacco stemmeries by the score. There are over ticenty-Jive tobacco merchants, which of itself, is proof positive of the great business capacities of the place—its favorable location as a mart of trade—and that, “ There’s millions in it.” Year before last we were subjected to a dreary and desolating drought of ninety-five consecu- Mark how this infernal leaven leaveneth the whole lump ! No sooner bad detection followed crime than we find the husband casting asper- ions on the wife, and the wife defaming the ser pent. And thus impregnated with the seeds of this horrible distemper, our first parents came forth out of the gates of Paradise. Is it then to be counted as something marvelously wonderful that we, their lineal descendants, should bear tive days; hence, made no tobacco and not a full I the evidences of being tainted with the same crop of corn, and last year the lightnings flashed, | disease? thunders rolled, and the waters descended in torrents, for an equal space of time—almost— and “drowned out” thousands of acres of our crops. In consequence of these dispensations The popular idea of senndal is that it confines its haunts to old ladies’ tea-drinkings, young ladies’ calls, small villages and Plymouth Church. While it is not to be denied that it of Providence, we are at a low ebb. financially; j finds a most congenial atmosphere in all these but just wait till we can make another crop, j localities, a very cursory observation will con- and we promise you many subscribers for your | vince any one that it will grow equally well in beautiful and excellent Sunny South, which our j other and lesa notable places. It is a great mis- people will delight to support, not only for its i take to suppose that it is confined to the gentler intrinsic merit, but because it is a Southern en- j sex. Any one can be convinced who will listen terprise, inaugurated by Southern men, than j with a view of testing this matter to the conver- whom none like better to honor than does our “Little South Carolina,” as it was called during “the war.” Owensboro is the home of United States Sen ator Thos. C. McCreery. Masonville, Ky., April 16, 1866. sation of any two men. Take the first two you see talking together, or select those yon deem least likely to prove the truth of this assertion, and—provided they speak at all of a third per son—nine times out of ten, and oftener ten times out of ten, you will find more or less scandal exuding out of their conversation. In fact, it is so universal that, like the air we breathe; its presence is not noticed unless it comes in such unusual volumes that it forces itself on the attention. Wo often hear scandal and repeat scandal without beiDg conscions of it. v It not only forms a staple of conversation , r — , in it also hoblfc a prominent- posi- nationality nnder "the sun—English, Scotch, j tiow-^Sl all tue profession?! and avocations of Irish, French, Spanish, Russian, Prussian, ; mankind. Strike it out of a politician’s speech, Scandinavian, Swiss, Italian, Chinese, Japan- : and the remainder would remind one of the play' — besides emigrants from every part of the j of “Hamlet” without the presence of the mei- The Par West. Thirteen days of travel in these times of rapid locomotion brings a Virginian to this land of the Far West, nnd to a society and scenery quite different from that he has been accustomed to see. Society here, in this busy and handsome Plow-Bot, Greenesboro.—You are too young yet. Stick to your plow. A Subscriber, Greenesboro.—Send your proper name, and I will see what can be done. Subscriber, Spalding county.—Certainly ; send it along and do the best you can about the balance. Minnie C., Buford.—Your criticism upon Mrs. Wilson’s books is a very just one, and coincides with our own. Pearl and Shirley, Edgefield.—It is not right for a school-girl to receive notes from boys. A school-girl should not engage herself. Earnest Enquirer.—You ask twelve questions in one note. Too many. Ask any one or two, and we will answer them if we can. “Injured.”—If he personated any one in this column, be did very wrong, and we should not have published it had we known the facts. Florence, Ala.—The times are too hard now to add to our heavy current expenses. We should be delighted to assist the “poor woman” youallude to. A Subscriber, Millen.—It is always preferable for the man to be a little older than the woman, but if she should be the elder, it is not sufficient ground for breaking the match. L. H., Baldwin Co.—Miss Melville wrote for the letters soon after the appearance of the second no tice, and they were forwarded to her. There were some four or half dozen, however, and you might secure one of the places. Broken Heart, S. C.—If she is to be married soon to another, she is no longer “ your darling;” but if you feel inclined to give her a present when she marries, we would suggest a sack of flour and a few sugar-cured liams. T. W. M., Pittsylvania, Va.—If you stand in the same relation lo her that the other two young men do, then she did not treat you right in refusing, upon the ground of her own youth, to acoompany you, after she had received them as escorts. Railroader, Union Point, Ga.—You should hood,” wishes correspondents. Lillis and Lula Linton, Mountville, Ga., wish to hear from Paul Aubrey, Willie Gray, J. A. Montague, and others. Elsie Manning, Maude Stanley and Leslie Gray, o Dyersburg, Tennessee, wish correspondents : Elsie wishes to hear from Jack Spratt. Willie B. Rivers, box 7j. Athens, Tenn., wishes a youne lady cor respondent from the South. Clarence Clifford, box . ’ an “ Herman Wilbur, box 60. Uniontown. Ky., in good standing, full of fun. romance and poetry, wish correspondents from Georgia. Alabama and Tennessee. W,lli e Hamilton, Knoxville. Tenn., wishes to correspond with Willie Leighton, of Thomson, Ga. J. W. Pearl and C. E. Earl, of Eu- faula, Ala., between eighteen and twenty years of age, wish correspondents. Walter A. White, Salem, Va black eyes and hair, wishes correspondents. Estelle V and Della L. f Atlanta, wish correspond ents—prefer widowers; will not describe them selves, lest they exaggerate and might deceive: their object is matrimony, and they do not feel backward in addressing men, as this is Leap-Year. Harry Cecil, Senoia, Ga., wishes to correspond with a few young ladies of romantic fancies, between six teen and eighteen ; must not wear spectacles. Guy Templeton, Bainbridge, Ga., wishes correspondents under twenty. J. W. C. and J. M. II.. of Wil- hamshoro, N. C., wish Georgia correspondents; red-headed and illiterate people need not. write. Cadets Arthur Leigh and Jack Montressor, Captain and First Lieutenant of Bethel Military Academy, Va., wish correspondents ; Arthur prefers blondes and Jack brunettes. Susie Denkan, Newnan, Ga., wishes to hear from Willie Gray, Eufanla, Ala. Emmie Emmerson, Claud Clifton, and Lillie Bel mont, of Thomson, Ga., with brown, black and blue eyes and loDg golden hair, wish correspond ents. ^ Lone Wolf, hox 20, Weatherford, Texas, but a native Georgian, wishes a Georgia correspondent. Lone Pilgrim, lock-box 18. Gainesville, Ga., wants a partner in a well-established professional busi ng’ 8 (using one of the “Seven Wonders of the World”); none but ladies between the ages of seventeen and twenty-seven need apnly; capital no objection : a knowledge of the business not es sential ; brown hair, brown eyes, fair features and by all means endeavor to make it up. She sim- I medium size preferable, though he will not bn par- ply misconstrued your attentions to the visiting i ticular about such small matters. Ethel Tlnvmond, young lady, and an explanation would set the ! sixteen years of age and called pretty by the matter all right. There is a great deal of jeal- boys, wishes a few gentleman correspondents ; she ousy in the female heart. j has a “little cash” and a few brains (to get), Clea, Atlanta, says: ‘‘A friend claims that the j faN of fun and good natured. She hails from tragedian E. R. Dalton has not been South in | Macon, Ga. Ona Seyton, of Thomson. Ga., aged twelvo years. Did he not fill an engagement in Atlanta at DcGive’s about six years ago ? Please tell us also where he is, if living, and oblige one of your first subscribers.” . . . He filled an en gagement here some six or eight years since. Do not know of his whereabouts now. C. II. T., Kingston, says: “ Will you please in form me through your columns what are the ‘Seven Wonders of the World ?’ ” . . . The wonderful works usually alluded te as the “ Seven Wonders of the World ” are the Pyramids of Egypt, the Mausoleum of Artemisia, the Temple of Diana at Ephesus, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Statue of Jupiter Olympus by Phidias, and the Palace of Cyrus cemented with gold. J. K. M., Chattanooga, asks: “ Is it deviating from ths rules of etiquette for a young man to ask a correspondence with a young lady with whom he \ mutual improvement twenty-three, red hair and eyes, wishes to corres pond with a gentleman between the age of twenty- eight and thirty: he must be tall and handsome, with light hair, blue eyes and fair complexion. Maurice Montague, Anchorage, Ky., care Central Lunatic Asylum, wishes any number of lady cor respondents, with a view to fun and mutual im provement. AH letters answered promptly and stamps furnished for reply. Charles Pinckney, Atlanta, aged twenty, wishes a few lady corres pondents; has the “ cash,” and thinks he can in terest. them. .T. Broughnes, A. M., Ruckner’s Station, Va., wishes to correspond with pome maiden or widow aged from twenty-nine to forty- nine, five to six feet high, seventy-five to one hun dred and ninety-nine pounds : well educated and not objecting to teach, unless rich. W. Branham, Atlanta, young and handsome, wishes to corres pond with a number of young ladies for fun and ese United States. When there is such a mixed population as wo have here, we cannot expect to find everything working as harmoniously as in the older States, where the majority of the people have been horn and raised and educated together. There arisps from this mixed state of society, discord and rivalries of persons and customs. It will take*a long while to harmonize the different conflict ing ingredients — to crystalize the social ele ment, and render it perfectly pleasant. But that better time is coming. Noble men and women are here in the field at work, clearing away the thorns and thistles and noxious weeds from the heart, as well as felling the forests and building cities and making roads and farms. belter from St. Lonis. [This letter, from our highly-esteemed Rt. Lonis correspondent, reached us a little too late for our last issue.—Editor.] Dear Sunny South,—Just now, we aro “filled to the brim” with enthusiasm for the fair young artiste, MISS MARY ANDERSON, who is creating so grand a furore in the world dramatic. It does seem indeed that the mantle of Cushman has descended upon her, and watching her wonderfnl personations, one in- stin.Jively recalls the queens of English trag edy—Mrs. Pritchard, Peg "Woffington, Fannie Kemble. Mrs. Siddons, nnd others of their day and period. And this young girl—for it does seem she is still in the flush of youth—does give us this soul of vitality in her acting. Lnst night we went with the throng, rushed in with the crowd to see her in “meg merrilles.” “We,” astute authority that we are, think that Scott’s beautiful story, “ Guy Mannering,” loses much in the dramatization. We miss the beauty of Scott’s scenes, so brightly and be- witchingly painted by Sir Walter’s pen, and the quaint uncouthness of the “uncanny ” Scotch accent, which is music to our ears though, nnd which only one of the characters, Dandle Din- mount, is made to sustain. But the gaunt, gray, shriveled, “crooning” hag of the Highlands, Queen of the Gypsies, stood before us, and I almost held my breath in amaze to think of the temerity and strength of this young woman in essaying this, one of the most "difficult of roles. But wonder and amaze were soon lost in high appreciation of thesuccess, nnd I am glad to-day to lay my tribute of unqualified praise at her feet. Her week’s engagement here has been a perfect ovation, and on the night of her benefit, St. Louisians testified somewhat of their regard in the shape of a handsome gold chain and locket Bet with jewels. Miss Anderson is somewhat above medium in height, and is of rather slender physique, with clear-cut, mobile features, nnd possessed of eyes of most wonderful witchery, and a voice that reminds us of the running undertone in aria ac companiments. She goes from here to Cincin nati, thence to Baltimore and Washington, and after, to a quiet season of rest and study in her Kentucky home. Last week we had the “ RICHINGO-BERNARn ” English opera troupe, and this week we are to have opera bouffe, with Julia Matthews as the central attraction in “Giroffle-Giroffla,” ancholy Dane. Put an embargo on the lawyer and.ho would be as dumb as the goddess of jus tice is represented to be blind. The healers of souls and the healers of bodies—let us hope un consciously—often mix it with their admoni tions and their remedies. The press, too—es pecially the daily press—makes it a specialty, and their writers serve np to be read by onr wives and daughters sickening details of the most disgusting occurrences, while their print ers call attention by glaring headlines to sub jects that neither writer or printer would dare to refer to ha the presence of purity. Scandal is not only an hereditary disease, but it Reems to be an incurable one also. It gains strength and power as the world increases in We think this grand valley will one day rival j age and population. Civilization, which is sup- anv other section of onr great republic. _ j posed to improve and refine mankind, only fur- One of the greatest difficulties we meet with j pishes new means for the propagation of scan- here is the general want of confidence, which j dal. The church, which appears to be specially indeed is a wide-spread epidemic. The rule is j adapted to hold its ravages in check, has actu- to regard every person a rascal until he has proven himself, by much and unvarying evi dence, to be a good man. Even then he will hear watching. And I don’t wonder at this at all. How people have fleeced and been fleeced in some quarters has been “astonishing to the natives.” The country has been overrun with ally been made the theatre of its greatest con quests. The strong arm of the law has been in voked, but the result has invariably been not only to increase the one scandal, but to create numberless other and smaller scandals also. Chivalry has attempted to wash it out in blood, and fonnd itself competent only to render the bilks of every profession, from the minister of I stain indelible. Opposition of every kind only the gospel down to the lowest profession in life; and a “burned child dreads the fire.” It will require years of honest toil and endeavor to re store confidence. We want good teachers and preachers and governors—not men broken down in other communities and rejected by other peo ple, but good, strong, honest men, to mould the public mind and lead off in the work. And we have them right here among us; it only remains for us to call them into the service. Our winter has not been cold, but very rainy. It has been raining almost daily for about six months. The amount of rainfall is almost in credible. The number of rainy days for Novem- tends to cause it to grow and flourish; it withers only when treated with indifference and neglect. He would justly be regarded as a great benefac tor who would provide an adequate remedy for this horrible disease. He would well deserve all the encomiums that could be poured upon him. Bnt be would find he had undertaken most difilcult task. Everybody would applaud him; everybody would encourage him, but ev eryhody would put obstacles in the path of his success. Unfortunately, the world is not fitted either hv birth or education to aid in such a glorious enterprise. For granted, that looking on it witk\he light of sixty centuries concen- ber was twenty-one; total rainfall for the same j trated npjbn its hideous deformity, we recognize month, 15.77 inches. December,—rainy days, twenty-fonr; total rainfall, 13.91 inches. The rainfall has not been as great during any month since, but the number of cloudy and rainy days has been as great. It is raining now. "We long for summer. The long, dreary, mon otonous winter has cast a gloom over mind and body. But when spring comes, we will have the finest climate in the world. I can write about it best when it comes. We do not mean to rob Philadelphia of any of her glory, but we are making preparations for a grand celebration on the coming Centen nial Fourth of July. Some of the most eloquent speakers have already been engaged. It will take place here. Vidl Portland, Oregon, April 16, 1876. From Hempstead, Texas. Here, in grand old Texas, we drink in glori ous draughts from Nature’s distillery,—from deep, silent woods, fresh green trees, fragrant* shrubs, varied flowers, sighing houghs, whis pering leaves, cooling showers, clear-running streams, light-falling dews, balmy air, mellow sunlignt, blue-tinted skies, sweet-singing birds, and from a thousand other sources that go to enhance the joys of a Texas spring. There is no country on the globe where Nature has dis played her regal bounties with more profusion than on the broad bosom of onr own fair plains and the wide-spreading prairies of this Queen of the South. She has here located her gardens and filled them with Flora’s most choice pro ductions. Here she has planted the sweet- scented ratama, the beautiful acacia, the sheeny magnolia, the tender locust, the sensitive mi mosa, and an hundred other trees, and loaded their branches with fragrant blossoms— fit homes for the feathered tribes that build their nests amid the crowded foliage and sing their sweet matins to the balm) winds from the sea. What a home for the human family! What- climate is so calculated to expand the human The | soul with gratitude ? Where can one find more the fact that it is a disease. Granted, further, that recognizing the fact that it is a disease, we concede that a remedy is needed and a cure de sirable. Wliat then ? We denounce it as send ing forth the poisonous exhalations of the deadly npas tree, that brings ruin and death upon all that come beneath its shade, but—we inhale it as though it was the sweetest perfume of Araby the Blest. We compare it to the roaring of the lion seeking its prey, or to the snarling of the fierce, restless, untamable hyena ready to tear and destroy everything that comes within its reach, but we listen to its rasping tones like our ears were charmed by the sublimest strains of the most enchanting music. We hate and loathe and fear a serpent; yet, a serpent possesses a certain mysterious influence by means of which, under certain conditions, all these emotions are stifled, and men are charmed into admiration until the fatal blow is struck and the victim re alizes too late that he has been charmed into de struction. So it is with scandal. Everybody hates and detests and fears scandal; and yet, like its great originator, it possesses powers of fascination that enable it to draw the whole hu man family within the folds of its deadly em brace. We hear. We dissent. But, alas! we repeat. Repeat, not exactly what we heard, but with iv trifle more color—with some sliuht em bellishment; with—to us—an imperceptible ad dition, but still somewhat enlarged. And our listener gives it forth, again enlarged and im proved. And thus an atom insensibly grows into a hillock, and the hillock swells into a hill, and the hill expands into a mountain that falls on and overthrows and crushes earth’s dearest treasure—>a spotless reputation. , “ Mai it please your honor.” said a lawyer^ addressing one of the New York judges,* “I brought the prisoner from jail on a habeas cor pus.” “Well,*’ said a fellow, in an undertone, who stood in the rear of the court, “ these fel lows will say anything. I saw the man get out of a cab at the court-room door.” has no acquaintance ?—I mean through a private letter.” . . . There would he no special violation rtf any etiquette in making such a request, if made in proper terms, and it would be a matter for her to decide. If she should refuse upon the ground that she was not acquainted with you, it would be a good and sufficient reason, and you could not reply to ij. Blue Eyes and Brown Eyes, Pond Springs, write: “ We are very timid little misses, but hav. ing learned of the privileges granted us this year, summoned up courage to ask a gentleman to escort us to a cantota, but he had the audacity to refuse. Alas I the days of chivalry are no more. Will you or some of the gallant young gentlemen who cor respond with your delightful paper tell ua what punishment to inflict ? Must we tnr him, feather him, and then burn him ? Please advise us, and our best wishes will ever be yours.” . . . Have him shot instanter. But perhaps he can-tote-her to the cantata if she applies alone, but when Brown Eyes and Blue Eyes both call on him at the same time, it is too much. Peri'i.exity, Talladega, Ala., says : “ My father was an actor, and a noted one. Both father and mother are dead, and I am living with my aunt. I have a talent for the stage, and am anxious to go, but my aunt nnd others are bitterly opposed to such a step. I am just eighteen, and you know you ought to begin early. Must I run off? Can you tell me where most troupes originate, and where I could study or be taught for it? I am confident that I can make an actor, having suc ceeded so well in amateur companies, and having been praised in papers more than any others of my company.” . . . Most companies originate in New York and break down in the South and Northwest. If you wish to steer clear of police clutches and vagrants’ cells, take your aunt’s ad- advice. Distressed Jok, McLemore’s Cove, says: “ I called on a young lady the other night. We sat near the door, beneath a shelf on which was a churn of milk. I became so engrossed that I un consciously reached my hand to the shelf, when, ‘ miserabile dictu !’ down came the churn with a crash, emptying its contents on myself and the fair one, ruining her Sunday calico and new gai ters. I rushed from the house in dismay. Now, is it necessary to apologize for my unceremonious leave ? And should I replace the churn ?” ... Such an awkward calf as you seem to be should not be allowed to leave his mother till he can get along without milk. An apology would not help the calico nor mend the churn. You should re pair all damages, but should not call again till you ate better u-eaned. Earnest Enquirer, Barnesville, asks: “Would it be a breach of etiquette for a young gentleman to write a note to a certain young lady friend, so liciting her company to a concert, or any other place, when she has another young lady friend visiting her—the young gentleman being a veiyr intimate friend of both ? Or, vice versa, would it be any slight to the young lady visitor (she being perfectly at home during her visit) for this home young lady to accompany this young gent to said concert ? I should think it would be very annoy ing to answer questions of so little import, but, however nonsensical they may appear, it is very convenient to your many readers to know that they have an authority whose opinions are not to be doubted on any subject; and all who read your valuable paper become very much iuterested in your earnest efforts thus to inform the public.” It would be proper to take the visiting young lady, but not the home one. The former is the guest of the latter, and entitled to the preference in such matters; and the home young lady is not only willing to give way to her friend, but, if truly po lite, will insist upon her male friends showing her special attention during her visit. 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