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NORTH AND SOUTH. Exchange of Sentiments Be tween tlie two Sections. Erroneous Impressions Corrected. letters solicited. We open here a department for inter-com munication between the two sections of our great country, which have so long been in astonishing ignorance of each other. The thoughts, feelings, motives and actions of each have been misunderstood and wofully misrepre sented. This department is intended to circu- Western men were invited to visit the South last year, they were received everywhere with court esv. At the Kimball House, Atlanta, Georgia, a recep tion was held for them, where many ladies were present. One young lady asksd one of the guests how he liked the country ! did he think Atlanta a prettv'city ? “Oh ! I have seen it before, madam,” replied this courteous gentleman; “ 1 was here with Gen eral Sherman.” Do you think such an answer as that would en courage kind feeling? Tell your friend to come on. His treatment, depends upon his own conduct, and I shall answer for it that, giving courtesy, he will find every courtesy in return; and as for danger—that is all bosh 1 G. Travels in Europe. The Railw ay up the A lps. Feu dal Ruins, Austria, etc. DOMESTIC. and the Mur. was the next station at which the train halted. It is overlooked by the Castle of Landskron. and still contains habitable houses in i good preservation, which were erected in the four_ f arm Gtfrdeil, aild HOllSCllOhl teenth century. Leaving Bruk, after a pause ot • ' short duration, we proceeded along the course of [ JiattCFS. the Mur at the base of precipitous hill-sides to the j station FrohDleiten, near to which, on one side, is Col. Herbert Fielder, of Randolph county, who is the Castle of Pfannborg, and upon t le ot er so c an exce ll e nt and successful gardener tells us that Notes by the Hon. James Wil- j of the valley the old fortress chateau of Kapen- he has quite discarded the fashion of cutting up J stein. After leaving this station, the valley of the hig den d . walks and bordered r ■. r iboro ic nnlv sum- . , ° . ... liams, United States Minister to Turkey Under President Buchanan from 1858 to 1861. From Oliio. [CONTINUED.] Editor “ Sunny South,” — In the “Frozen In 1861, Minister Williams delivered up his cre- North ” I have been trying to pave the way for ! dentials to Mr. Lincoln and returned to his home your beautiful “sunny paper. All who have , ; n Nashville, Tenn., and raised a company for the late correct sentiments among them, and to rec- seen it pronounce it splendid. The people have I tify the many erroneous impressions which ex- had access to so much literature that has compli- y | Mur contracts in width until there is only s| >® beds and cultivating with the spade and hoe alone, cient space between the projecting C1 s °J ® This might have worked well in other days, when passage of the river; but the engineer has found la b ore rs were plenty, but the plan the Colonel meaDS to overcome this o stac e exc«i\a ing fl n ds far more convenient is to plant the vegeta- from the precipitous sides ot the overhanging rock Weg in straight rows and cultivate with the plow, ; a space wide enough tor the rails. Lpon this curved having a walk at either end of the garden. This I excavation the train passes un era >aue roo, saves hibor as >ell as space, and the vegetables supported on one side by the perpendicular wall, : can be ite ag thoroughly cultivated * and uuon the other by immense stone piers with | . .. .mu upon i . J . . .— I Cheap and Simple Sugar Boiling ist in both sections. Decemmber 10. Mi Dear G.,—May I remind you of your prom ise made last summer, during our pleasant meet ing at the Centennial, to answer any questions 1 might ask in good faith, putting aside, as much as possible, all party feeling, and promising not to take offense where none is meant ? I remind you of your promise because it has been forcibly brought before me within the last few days. A friend of mine is preparing to go South, and while we were standing in a store t making some pur chases, the proprietor overheard our conversation, and exclaimed: “ Going South ! Are you not afraid ?” “ Afraid of what?” I asked. “ Why, didn’t you know the South is in a fright ful state? They are so excited about the election, no Northern man’s life is safe.” “ You do not mean to say there is any danger?” my friend exclaimed. “ Indeed there is. Look at the riots in Charles ton, near Augusta and New Orleans, and in Flor ida, where harmless citizens were shot down in the streets. Every day some Northern man is driven from the country by anonymous letters or open threats, and now l’resident Grant has had to send down troops to protect loyal citizens who had ap pealed to him for protection.” You may well imagine this was not pleasant news to hear; so in the evening we mentioned the subject to several friends and asked their opin ions. One said that the bitterest possible feeling is felt South against all Northerners; that in a great many places neither their lives nor their prop erty is sate; that a Northern man South was ostra cised, never admitted into society, treated with suspicion and sneered at, even if not personally insulted; no opportunity was ever lost to make in vidious remarks concerning the North, the gov ernment, and all Northerners; they say that every “Yankee” is a carpet-bagger, and ought to he kicked out of the country—a Black Republican and a nigger-lover; that every child is taught, as a necessary part of his education, to hate Yankees, My friend was warned that if going on business he would risk ruin, for that every possible diffi culty would be thrown in his way, every advant age taken; and if he should break, as he certainly would, there would only be a laugh, “served the d d Yankee right.” Not very encouraging all this to my friend, par ticularly when I remembered tba.t a cousin of my arches between, from whence we may look out upon I tlil,A1 “ D simple sugar^Boiling and Feeiv the wild scene below. This viaduct, if it. may be cooking Apparatus.—Mr. Bromley, of Macon, so called is a kind of semi-tunnel, closed upon ! has J ust recel . ved a patent for a remarkably simple In 1866, he applied for a pardon, but Presi- one side but open upon the other. am inexpensive apparatus for making syrup and i tl . . . . . i • A ftnr nouetrur Ppcrcruil CPlphnitGll fbl* ltS 1111116** Sllgtir, Of COOKlOg tOOU IOT Stock. It Consists of II mented the South (oner the left shoulder), ^ the j dent Andrew Johnson was slow in giving it to him. wafo^ss^ the Mur, and : water-tight tank made of two-inch oak planks, in appearance of your sunny sheet is hailed with After he had taken passage on a steamer for Eu- j ° a “ , Gostin „ f nm0U s for its successful ! the form of a parallogram. In one end of this a npliirnt TIippp nro fVinco *-,oro wlin npvnr thrmrrKt l » . « ■% . ■ IIIC U1U Etiau- »» . K-n k,.■«- k : nnn -> n .l . a /» delight. There are those here who never thought the African a wingless angel; and when many who did go to to pay their quadruple taxes, they say | that the colored population South, with such a cli- j mate, rich and cheap lands, ought to make a liv- ! ing—poor white people in many other countries do not have one half so good a chance. I once ; was young, now I am old, and have lived North: but nearly all my life has been in the South, and 1 would say to all the young men and women, that no people in the world ever made money so easily and spent it so freely as the Southern peo- I pie- Then the money-tide flowed from South to North, but with industry, intelligence and soori- j ety that tide may be made to flow from North to South, and this generation may see who killed the goose that laid the golden egg. 0. Kirtland, Ohio, January 18. rope, his pardon was handed to him, but it. was res i s t ance to the repeated sieges of the Turks, ap- ; fire box is inserted, made of sheet, copper, from then too late. He left his native land and returned pears in view. At Judendorf, the last station be- ‘| le rear which a five-inch flue projects through 1. Europe, ,«d in ,ho lit,!, cii, of Gnu,, in An,- fc-e arriving nl Grn„ ,he hill, rnpi.il, reel, *•«<■£»< « . . , ., , ; upon the right and the left, and we emerge from wiin a smoKe stacK oi common stovepipe. Ihe tna, while apparently in perfect health, and sur- £ lab in f h of mountains i nto the beautiful val- ‘°P of t,le ta nk is covered with a convex cover of rounded by his happy family, he suddenly died, j j e ~ f rom the m idst of which rises the beautiful s " eet copper, which plays on hinges, and from the leaving a devoted wife and loving children. His 1 capital of Styria, crowned by the solitary hill of center which a cap projects connected with a the Schlossberg, around the base of which it condensing appartus, if desired, to convert the escaping steam into alcohol. With this simple and All (He Way Front Nevada—A Ride on tlie Desert- Thirty years ago, when I was a little scliool-boy, there was no greater treat for me than to get Olney’s atlas, look over the maps, and wonder at the queer-looking animals with which it was sprinkled—some of them uncanny-looking crea tures. the like of which, 1 am afraid never came out of the ark. On the map of the United States, towards the setting sun, was a large space, lying between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, marked, “ Unexplored Region,” a great blank dotted to signify “ Desert,” with the queer looking beasts scattered over it to show that it was uninhabited. And when the teacher (good old soul) would look over her specs and tell us about the great arid waste, lying thousands of miles away under a burning sun, treeless and waterless, infested by dangerous beasts and poison ous reptiles, my little heart would quake with terror at the bare imagination of such a scene. Never did I dream that I should be stranded on that great desert, or that 1 should reside for years where the gentle coyote aDd the nimble “Jack rabbit” skip gayly over the sage-brush plain. But such is fate. 1 wandered many a weary mile over ocean and plain; by lumbering stage-coach across the Sier ras; again and again recrossed those mighty mountains, and at last settled down in a fair and fertile valley in the State of Nevada. For seven remains now lie in the little Protestant ctmetery in Gratz. These notes, furnished us hy his amiable and accomplished widow in the original MSS., are ex ceedingly interesting, and we invite the atteniion of the reading world to them. He was often sent as Minister Extraordinary to Palestine to settle diffi culties between the Turks, missionaries and Chris tians, and of course visited many sacred places, and had opportunities for seeing hundreds of things which only crowned heads usually see. We are delighted at the privilege of presenting his notes to our readers. clings. . . . ,, _ , The distance from Vienna to Gratz is one hun- j inexpensive apparatus Mr. Bromley says he re- dred and twenty-five miles, and the time occupied duced }&> acr / s ° f sugar-cane to syrup, with the about nine hours by ordinary train—although by j expenditure of one and a half cords of wood, when the “ express,” which runs twice a week, the jour- j about,six cords to eighty acres hau formerly been ney is performed in two-thirds of that time. This j uaed - was the fifth occasion upon which I had passed j Egos in Plenty During Winter.—Eggs are over the same route between the imperial capital j scarce and high in price this winter. “It is too and the chief city of Styria, and each time with ! cold for hens to lay” is the universal explanation, increased interest and satisfaction, as the varied j but a smart Yankee poultry-raiser who lives in re aspects in which the striking features of the j gions where the thermometer goes below zero in scenery presented themselves became more famil- j winter tells us he has had his fowls to lay plenti- iar to my eye. Once I traversed it in midwinter, j fully all this cold weather, and to be as noisy, ne at the close of a six-days’ blast of the terrible j live and “eackly” as if it, were April. He tells us “ Bora,” which occasionally in winter sweeps up j the secret of his success in this wise. “I give them from the Adriatic, carrying destruction in its path, j plenty of egg-making food and don’t send them to ! The trains during this period had ceased to run, j snow-drift, for their water. The old Castle Klamm, a memorial of the eiev- ; and tbe enGre telegraphic line was levelled with ! For the morning feed I give a warm mash of two- enth centurj, which overlooks a station bearing its | tbe g round After its fury had been exhausted thirds shorts and one third Indian meal, into which name, is one of the ninety-nine Feudal estates, j and tbe wrecks cleared away, the trains resumed has been stirred cayenne pepper at the rate of one -which common fame assigns as the patrimony ol | ,h e ir trips. The valleys and the mountains were teaspoonful to twelve fowls, and salt in about the Prince Leichtenstein. Perched upon the summit | ever y wbe re covered with snow, and I can never j same proportion. ol a bare rock, its rugged stone sides might have i f orge t the spectacle of arctic grandeur and deso- ! This is the only soft they get, the feeding boxes laughe.. a siege to scorn, before the fetal invention j j a t; on which everywhere presented itself. Certain ! being supplied with oats, wheat and buckwheat; of those barbarous instruments of civilization, jt j s that, although I have a somewhat roving turn, 1 and the remainder of the day and at night I give and like to look at grand sights, and am willing j them as much Indian corn whole as they will eat upon occasion to travel far in search of them, 1 j up clean. have had no inclination since, if I ever had be- So much for the grain feed; to this I add daily fore, to hazard life or limb by attempting to climb : at the rate of one small cabbage to every fifteen the inaccessible sides of Mont Blanc to reach a chillier locality or to behold a more wintry spec tacle. Adventurous men and women, and espe cial iy those of our race and language, travel the world over and encounter dangers innumerable in powder and cannon. Once an impregnable strong hold, it is now but a picturesque ruin. From thence to the summit tunnel, at the sta tion called Semmering, the admiration of the trav eler is divided between the rugged grandeur of nature’s handiwork and the magnificent achieve ments of science and human labor, which have made it possible to traverse these seemingly inac cessible heights, and to cross these deep mountain , . *- . , „ . _ | WUI1U UVCI <1 LI ll CULUlUllCl UtlUECia 111II ULXiCl ilUlC 111 gorges with as much ease and comfort as though ! search of grand scen ery, but unless it is the dan- we were driving over the gently undulating sur face of an American prairie. First after leaving this station comes the Klamm tunnel, which is followed in rapid succession by a series of lofty viaducts, perched upon double rows of columns; from which the little streams, wind ing far below in their tortuous beds, seem but as years we have dwelt here in the shadow of the silver threads . Passing over these at a dimin mountains, where all the year round we can see ighed rate of speed and through a serie s of tun snow, eternal snow, never melting from those ne]g iercj the Weinzetterland hills, which are own (a Kentuckian by birth, but married to canons that indent the mountain sides. Very ) connecte d by vaulted arches as a protection against Ohio man. who has an office under government|,enticiDg those white masses look on a hot summer , he avalanches 0 f snow and earth and stone which South) tells me that her life is simply ostracism. | day; but just now the prospect is rather bieak, jn win(er break looge from the hights above) we Not a lady has called to see her, except the wives of her husbanu’s assistants; not the slightest courtesy has been extended to either her husband or herself: yet she is a charming woman, very handsome, gay, and fitted to adorn any society. Her husband is a Republican, but he says he has been employed to attend to official duties, and not to talk politics, and he never alludes to the sub ject except when pressed upon him. “ That is just what they will do,” said one of our party; “ they will talk politics, force the sub ject, and then branch out in the most violent man ner. A Republican in their eyes must be a Black Republican—one of the vile hordes of invaders, one of the bloodthirsty tyrants who try with sheer bayonets to rule the country.” “ When I was traveling South,” said one of the party, a gray-haired old man, “ I got on a train which was nearly empty, nod quietly took my seat. I did not speak, but I soon saw from the gibes and laughter of some young men, plainly pointed at me, that they knew me for a Yankee. In a short time a great, coarse-looking negro came into the car and stood hesitating for a seat, when the conductor, after whispering with the young men, came swaggering up, and while his fingers played with a pistol in his belt, he ordered the negro to take his seat hy me. Of course this was meant as a gratuitous insult.” So, my dear G., with much more to the same effect, are you surprised that my friend is afraid to continue his journey? Will you tell me the truth of these reports. Y'ours, etc.. W. December 18. My Dear W\,— It gives me pleasure to answer you candidly. First we will consider the sources of the tales which have frightened your friend. As for those of ilie proprietor of the store, they are newspaper dispatches aid inflammatory editorials written for the purpose of exciting the feelings of the various sections for political purposes. W here there is truth, it is greatly exaggerated, and then these exaggerations are bolstered up by outrageous inventions. In all political contests, in all coun tries, there are more or less scenes of violence; and here, you must remember, there are two dis turbing elements—negroes and their instigators; men the vilest of the vile, who excite the passions of the black man, and taking advantage of his habit of dependence and credulity, use him as a tool. These men are the carj etbaggers, the in cendiaries who try to keep up the excitement and ill-feeling of which you speak, hut which, after all, is confined to only a small part of the people. As for your account of the ostracism of the j Northern people; large nun hers live in every j Southern city. Their reception depends upon j themselves. Of course, if they give expression | to sentiments adverse to the South they must ex- ! pect rebuff; but this is seldom the case. There j are some ruffians everywhere, a disgrace to our | cou yet still sublime and attractive. But supposie it a summer day, and that, mounted on a wiry raus- ■ tang, we take a ride over mountain and through 1 other short tunnel, over two immense viaducts va ley. Here .you can gather a snow-ball, and sustaineJ by doublV rows of columns-the last a little farther on you can pick wild cherries, or crossi the Ratte djinne-and others of less mag nitude, the train reaches Semmering, the highest point attained, and }t a greater elevation than any other railroad in the world. Semmering is two thousand nine hundred feet above the level of the sea, and about fifteen hun dred and twenty feet above Gloggnitz, the vil lage from whence the ascent commences. On leav ing this station, we dive at once into a tunnel about five thousand feet in length, and emerge again into sunlight upon our now abruptly-descending way piluck a nosegay of delicate wild flowers. In the val ley spread out before us like a map, there are plains of greenest verdure, wild meadows, where earlier the rich grasses stood waist high, now close- shaven by the mowing machine. See the fields of ripening grain from our lofty perch, and the header and wagons running to and from the stacks, seeming mere toys, and the men at work are insects at play; creeks of crystal water flash in the sun as they run from the mountains to the river that, miles away, seems but a crooked silver thread. If it is in July, we will see the whole valley intersected with shining threads, quivering in the sunlight; for then the farmers are irrigating their crops; every ranch has its ditch, the water of which is as clear as crystal, divided amoDg hundreds of smaller ditches. After the grain is done growing, the water is turned back in the creeks, to he used no more until next irrigating season - If we go down and visit one of those cosy farm-houses in the valley, we will find a neat cottage, white-washed without and within, veget ables growing all around, vines running over the door, flowers blossoming in the windows, and within, books and periodicals on the table—among them, our bright friend from far away, The Sunny South. From the window we see the strawberry patch, which last June glowed like a great emer ald set with rubies; and yonder are the orchards weighted with blushing honors. Truly, no “ des ert about this ! and yet, a few years ago this i erated rate a i ong t be valley of the Murz, upon the very ranch was a part of the sage-brush plain: marg j n 0 f ) be stream, to the old castle of Kapfen- and for miles around us are vast plains only want- j berg; which crowns the summit of a high and bare ing the patient hand of industry and the genial ; eon j ca j rock. Near this ancient fortress is the influence of water to blossom like the rose. ; cba t, eau 0 f Count Stubenberg, the owner of the Wandering Daviess. 1 ger itself which lures them, they cannot in a voy age around the world behold more that is grand, unique and interesting in as many days as in the hours required for the journey from Vienna to the Styrian capital. If they choose to diversify the spectacles and the incidents and to prolong the enjoyment, they need only make the railway their base, and from each station make lateral excur sions, on foot or otherwise, as their inclination might be, to the numerous villages and ancient castles and old abbeys which everywhere abound. They would make the acquaintance of a population , _ . . , , . , „ . . who, although isolated from the world, and who ich Breitenstein, the last .station before arriving h wever hearJ a word of tho ; language 0 f Shakspeare and Milton, and have only the most r.w* „„ c va ^ ue n0 |i 0ns0 f t be vliereabouts of America, and even of England, are nevertheless, in all that con cerns themselves, intelligent, and to strangers po lite and hospitable. But the outside world cannot complain that the peasantry of Austria are not fa miliar with the geography and the political insti tutions of other countries ; for inexplicable igno rance, coupled with unfounded prejudices, seem to exist even amongst the most enlightened nations in regard to Austria. The Empire over which Francis Joseph exercises his mild sway is, as it were, a sealed book, of the contents of which but little is known abroad, save through the medium The Stewart Will Case. hens, or if the cabbages are large and the green outer leaves are still on, the proportion should be a cabbage for each twenty-five fowls. We have in each of my poultry-houses a rick placed similar to the ordinary sheep rick, in which we keep a liberal supply of rowen hay, and there is always an abundance of ground bones and bro ken oyster shells scattered about for the hens to peck at. All the refuse we have goes to the hens, and often we buy two or three sheops’ pluck, which are run through a meet chopper and then fed to the fowls. The time necessary to do all this work is at the outside an hour through the day, and there is no one who is so driven by work that he cannot devote to them the same length of time. For drink we give our fowls pure, slightly warm water in clean vessels, and twice a week we give them in their drink a tablespoonful of Douglas mixture to each quart of water. * The Macon Messenger advises farmers not to be too smart this year. It is the early worm that gets caught by the bird. The frost has left theSj^round, and it is possible gardeners may be tempted to put in a few seeds; but it is only the middle of a hard winter, and we anticipate as much cold weather yet as we have already had. This season we shall not ventuie even on pease and potatoes until about the first week in February. Gardening at the Georgia Lunatic Astlum. —They are good gardeners who cultivate the ground of tlie Georgia Lunatic Asylum. Mr. Humphries reports the market value of the vegeta bles raised to be $9,414.50. In his list there are 34.000 heads of cabbage at ten cents each; 540 bushels of onions at $1.25 per bushel, 246 bushels tomatoes at $1 each, 512 bushels of Irish potatoes, 812 bushels of squashes, 808 dozen cucumbers, 390 bushels beets, 300 bushels okra, 340 bushels snap beans, 168 bushels butter beans, 184 hnshels of green beas, 13,000 heads of eollards, 450 bush els of turnips, 182 bushels of carrots, besides as paragus, radishes, lettuce, etc., in great profusion. In addition, on the farm proper, managed by Mr. John T. Farrel, 50 loads of clover hay were housed, 3.000 lbs. sheaf oats, two loads of millet hay, 6,000 lbs - of fodder, 80 bushels of wheat, 655 bushels of corn, 62 bushels of sweet potatoes. Live Within Your Means.—We don’t like stinginess. We don’t like ecomomy.when it comes down to rags and starvation. We have no sympa thy with the notion that that the poor man should hitch himself to a post aud stand still, while the rest of the world moves forward. It is no man’s duty to deny himself every amusement, every lux ury, every recreation, every comfort that he may get rich. It is no man’s duty to make an iceberg of himself, to shut his eyes and ears to the suffer ings of his fellows, and to deny himself the enjoy ment that results from generous actions, mere ly that he may hoard wealth for his heirs to quar rel about. But there is an enconomy which is especially commendable in the rnan who stiuggles with poverty—an economy which is consistent with happiness, and which must be practiced if the poor man would secure independence. It is almost every man’s privilege and it becomes the old castle, was seized with the popular frenzy, I “_ W “* ° f . the . 1 t0 .within his means; not up to, but into the ancient principality of Styria, which has of misre p res entation and slander, to which its long since been merged into the Austrian Empire, government and pe ople have been subjected more and which is quite as loyal to the imperial house of Hapsburg as any other portion of the Emperor’s extended and diversified dominions. Soon the train reaches Murzzurschlag, upon the river, or rather the mourn ain torrent, Murz, which,although situated at an elevation of eight huudred feet above Gloggnitz at the foot of the mountain upon the north, is regarded as the base upon the Styrian j side. The distance between these two stations tra- j versed by the railway is twenty-five miles, and the i time occupied by the “ slow train ” upon which I j had taken passage about two hours and a half, j By express, the time is reduced to less than two hours; but here, if nowhere else, the traveler I would abstain from grumbling, even though he j should be thrown upon a train moving at half this I rate of speed. From Murzzurschlag we descended at an accel- unsparingly than those of any other nation in Christendom. “ I would be ashamed to admit,” said an intelli gent Americau who descended with me from the train at Gratz, having been two years traveling in Europe, “ yes, I would blush to avow to any one but an American how ignorant I was of Austria before 1 ventured, though hesitatingly, to leave the beaten track of American tourists and risk my liberty in what I supposed was this despotic land. I believed that at every town 1 would be rudely interrogated by insolent officials, but, except upon crossing the frontier, I never have seen one. As to the officers of the customs, they are uniformly considerate in the examination of baggage, besides being models of courtesy and politeness, who un fortunately find imitators in no other country through which I have traveled. I believed that the people were oppressed, miserable, and every where ripe for rebellion. I found them to all ap pearance free, happy, contented and loyal, as much so as the subjects of any other government upon ml . . . earth. I believed the Emperor a despot, and I | estate This is one ot the most ancient of the old | found him a monarch of limited powers-a father ! noble families of Styria, and they still preserve ; rather than R ru ler of his people. 1 thought that ! historical reminiscences of the part they acted in , the aristocracy a]on e possessed defined legal rights, tl , A T ° th e crusaders The coat-of-arms of anJ j find that while , he y have no exclusive priv- The contestant? of the will of the late A. i. fetew- the Stubenber^ familv includes a lady s tresses I *1 .1 j -i . i , ■ n „ ^ i. • , idimiv iuuuucs a 3 iresaea. , jWpg the noble and the peasant are governed by art have been reinforced by two claimants living i originated m a cause altogether characteristic t } 1P samp i aw * . in ,i are su hi e ct to the same nenal- in the County of Antrim, Ireland—William Begley ; 0 f the superstitious a^e in which all Christendom f • ; 7 r. t , ‘ ^ , ,f T , . ’ - . o . , superstitious age iu wuitu uu oiiiisicuuum ties for their infringement. If there are any peo- and Mary Branagh. Both claimants declare that j united to wrest the holy sepulchre from the hands j „i„ f„„„ ,l„„ a„„„ they were first cousins of Mr. Stewart, and pro- j 0 f t be infidels. A Count of Stubenberg, lord of J duce maDy affidavits to sustain their claim. Mr. Begiey’s affidavit, among other matters, sets forth j an d prepared to set out upon his perilous enter that his mother was A. T Stewart s aunt, and died prise. His Countess was celebrated for the extra ordinary beauty of her long, flowing hair; but in order to propitiate the Virgin in faver of her lord, she caused her fair locks to be shorn from her head, and weaving them into a wreath, she gave during Mr. Stewart’s visit to Belfast, Mr. Stewart defraying all the funeral expenses. The letters accomparying the affidavits vouch for the respecta bility of the contestants and their relationship to Mr. Stewart. It is probable that the Irish cousins J them to her husband when he was about to depart, will join cause with Mr. Baily and other claimants I ( 0 b e perpetuallv worn by him as a charm and a in this country in endeavoring to have the plea set j talisman, which the Virgin, in answer to her up that Mr. Stewart left no will (denying the val- j prayers and as a reward for her devotion, had idity of the instrument offered in the Surrogate's ] promissd her should be a complete protection Office,) and ask tor a partition of the real estate J against the swords of tne Saracens. It would ered them in my travels through tbe world.” My own experience fully corroborated the com mendations of the speaker, but without instituting disparaging comparisons. So I said to him : “Surely you have not turned monarchist ?” Not at all,” he replied. “ A republic always i for our own country. It is adapted to the wants and genius of our people. But the same political institutions are not suited to the necessities or in clinations of all peoples, any more than one coat to all backs. But those who believe that either lib erty or oppression are peculiar attributes of any .Urn ». per- . »«"»• »»«. T». ^ ^ Or.™-. » «.« . »»r. ™I *" hapi will irritate and V™™**™ i »o relatives, and ,he new contestants claim that, if them the opportunity they seek to make insulting l hey , heir blood relationship beyond speeches and get up a story But 1 generally find the old rule work: when a knowi£ rn man marrits a S° uthern wife he comes and vib.° !ive ‘ when a gou,hern man . marr, 5 s a while tbn g' rl be brings her South to live, lour heart wb husband, holding an official situation, had unc. a manner, confine her to official society; ness, hnen she shows herself agreeable and friendly, first will meet with courtesy and kindness in re- owim. Official people do not stay long enough in ► 'tme place usually to get acquainted. So far as 1 business men are concerned, the greater number of dry goods merchants here are Northern meD: many public positions on railroads and otherwise, are held hy them: and men of energy and capital are always well received. ight reply to your stories with interest, hut give you only one in return. lYhen the question, the will should he set aside. The case of Bailey and others, on the appeal from the Sur- thus to sacrifice her vanity upon the altar of her wb j] e tbe citizens of a republic may be subjected love; and it is not surprising that she, at least, : t0 the most cruel despotism.” I would not doubt the proprietary influence of such ,1 An ax j om the truth of which experience past a sacrifice. Whatever may have been the cause. and presen t fully establishes, though you must be- .... . , ,, „ . the safety of the Count was assured, and he fought ware 0 f repeating this conversation when you once regate s decision is pending in the Court of Ap- i gallantly against the enemies of the Cross, and in more gla J upon % our nat ive soil.” I replied, in peals, and will not be reached for several months, due time returned safely to his devoted Countess, biddin „ hira fare weli as we separated at the exit- — covered with glory. There are few heraldic de- doQr oP the station house. Florence the Comedian, was recently compli- vices which perpetuate the memory of so heroic a | mentrd in St. Louis with a sumptuous breakfast, sacrifice. But the rapidly-moving train and the (.O BE CONTINUED.) within them. Wealth dops not make the man, we admit, and should never be taken into account in I our judgment of men ; hut competence should al- 1 ways be secured when it can be, by the practice I of economy and self-denial to only a tolerable ex- 1 tent. It should be secured, not so much for others to look upon, or to raise us in the estimation of i others, as to secure us the consciousness of inde pendence, and the constant satisfaction which is I derived from its acquirement and possession. Financially, the farmer is the safest man in the country. Of 1,112 bankrupts last year, Massachusetts, only fourteen were farmers, community numbers full half population. The people must live, and | while the use of luxuries may be diminished by j hard times, there will always be a call for the pro duce of the farm. Farming has of course felt the j general depression in business. But we are in a • transition state, from inflation and extravagance to a condition of simple living and economical ex- , pendlture, and a state of transition is always fluc- ! tuating and uncertain. The California hop crop this year promises to pay better than almost any other department of agriculture. The San Francisco Bulletin” says there have been more hops raised this season than any previous year in the history of the state. One Sunday was the day selecied. and plates were pro- changing p»anorama left little time for the eyes to A new opperetta by Lecocq, entitled “ Kosiki,” vided at the Linden Hotel for thirty guests. The rest upon the dismantled walls of the old castle, I has made a success in Paris, by a very ingenious mpnue was a a model, and printed upon tinted or the thoughts to wander back to the days long, , but unscrupulous trick. The managers caused a satin with an excellent portrait of Florence upon ions past, when countesses and wives sacrificed report to be spread abroad that the piece was ^ — them. Fresh lobsters upon shells, smelt, fried a their charms out of devotion to their lords. Other shockingly indecent. All Paris forthwith exclaim- ; acre of hops after the second year’s planting pro le Ravigote, broiled mountain trout, canvas-back | scenes and other old ruins, crowning other craggy ed, “ Monstrous!” and flocked to see how mon- j duces in suitable soils about 2,000 pounds "to the ducks, and escalop of pheasants, piqua a la Peri- cliffs, before many minutes had elapsed, claimed strous. The story was that the hero undressed acre. The present price ranges from 24 to 28 gueux, were among the delicacies. j all my attention. tha heroine on the stage. The truth was that I cents per pound. But this is an unusually good There are 3,647 public libraries in the United The populous and flourishing town of Bruk, ro- f the toilet refered to consisted simply in removing season for price, and the expense of cultivation is States, with 12,276,964 volumes. { mantically situated at the confluence of the Murz j a loose outer jacket and untying the lady’s hair, j above that of ordinary articles of agriculture. betinct print