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THE gray SOUTH Sketches of Southern Literature. THE PAST AND PRESENT. NO- 13. Southern Writers and Authors. By JUDGE WILLIAM ARCHER COCKE, of Florida. Author of the Constitutional History of the United States and Common and Civil Law in the United States. Lira and Campaigns or Liect. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, (Stonewall Jackson) by Pkof. * R. L. Dabney, D. D. Robert L. Dabney, one of the professors at the Union Theological Seminary, Virginia, is a distinguished and learned theologian, and min ister of the gospel of the Presbyterian church. It was the privilege of the distinguished au thor to enjoy for years the friendship and con fidence of Gen. Jackson, and to serve next his person,as chief of his staff during the memorable campaigns of the valley and the Chickahominy, in 1662, which gave him a personal knowledge of the great events on which the structure of his brilliant, and well deserved military fame was first reared. The responsible work of writing the life of Stonewall Jackson was entrusted to the author by the widow end family of the Gen eral, supported by the urgency of his successor in command, Lieut. Gen. Ewell, of his venera ble and beloved pastor, W. S. White, and of many other friends, in and out of the army. Tile author had access to the correspondence of Gen. Jackson with his family, his pastor, and his meet prominent friends in public life, to gether with copies of all the im r ortunt official papers on file in the AVar Department of the late Confederate government. In the details of the military campaigns, and battles fought by Gen. Jackson the author has been Etudiously careful and pains-taking, hav ing in his possession the fullest illustrations pf the battle fields, sad theatre of war wheie the General acted, from the topographical depart ment of the government and from careful per sonal inspection. The diagrams, eleven in number, with the minute descriptions of the position of the dif ferent parts ot the army, the maneuvers on the battle field, the various items of the camp, and the march, present from the standpoint of the author conclusive evidence of accuracy, aB well among his varied and extensive learning, ac- CcmplitLments and talent, a military capacity which qualified him to write the life and cam paigns of Gen. Thomas J. Jackson; illumined as they were, by a continuous blaze of glory, Jrcrn an early period of his military career to the clay w hen in the language of his last words he said in fhriBti^n fortitude and resignation, •Let us pass the fiver. and rest under the shade of tie trees.' them,’ said he, 'that I have now fifteen thousand men, I should have forty thousand, and with them I would invade the north.’ When this message was delivered to General Lee, he repli ed: ‘But he must help me to drive the people away from Richmond first.’ Dr. Dabney’s history of the Richmond cam paign is a masterly effort, combining the high est qualities of the historian and the biographer, and in narrating the services performed by General Jackson, gives an interesting detailed history of the campaign with many allusions to other distinguished officers and the part they performed. General Jackson displayed perhaps as high a talent for military diplomacy and skill in the conduct and arrangement of measures as he manifested on all occasions as a commandant in actual field service. After the brilliant success of the Richmond campaign in which he was so conspiciou8 an actor, he said it was manifest by every sign that McClellan’s was a thoroughly beaten army. He foresaw the danger of repeat ing the error of Manassas or Jamestown. He was anxious to leave the lower James, and desir ed, and advised that he be returned to his former field of action. The advice of Jackson was laid before tbe President, and the campaign in the West soon took the direction he bad indicated. The remaining chapters are full of thecontin- ous services of General Jackson from the battle of Cedar Run, the second battle of Manassas, the campaign in Maryland, the engagement around Fredricksburg, the famous battle of Chanoellors- ville, and finally his death and burial. These great military movements, anti the re markable display of .military talent, and success which everywhere crowned the labor of General Jackson are well related by the distinguished author, and his work forms a series of essays on the character and events of tbe memorable pe riod. and distinguished character to whom they refer not only interesting and instructive, but rarely surpassed in biographical.or military his tory. The highest praise is not more than simple justice to tbe life and character and services of Lieut. Gen. Jackson, as a commander and as a pure, stainless, devoted Christian; nor do we in commending the history of this man, by the distinguished author, say more than is deserved when we unhesitatingly pronounce it equal, as a biography, to any work in American litera ture, and surpassed by none in accuracy and purity of style, and true eloquence of language and feeling. In a public and private sense, the most im portant, the most beautiful feature in the life, character and service of Jackson, was the thor ough manner in which the hero, the patriot, the man subjected every feeling, every action, every purpose to Christian duty. In representing the Christian character and true piety of Gen. Jackson, the Rev. author has exhibited not only an eloquence pathetic and thrilling, but performed a duty and accom plished a service to his countrymen unsurpass ed by #ny living author. This is not extravagant language, nor used without due consideration. Let the reader pause and ask himself the question: can we es timate the true value of the life and influence in a national sense, of the virtue and usefulness of the services c f a distinguished Christian pub lic servant, marked by piety and a constant de- pjpp to serve his country by serving his God, the manifestation able distinction might learn therefrom lessons of wisdom and true greatness, and those in high office might feel renewed couarage in making duty to God and lore of country a common Christian effort. How true has this pious and learned divine,in speaking of Jackson’s exalted virtue and usefulness as a man said: ‘Thus God teaches how good, how strong a thing His fear is, He makes all men see and acknowledge, that in this man, Christianity was the source of those virtues which they so rapturously ap plauded; that it wag the fear ot trod which made him so fearless of all else; that it was the love of God which aaimated his energies; that it was the singleness of his aims which caused his whole body to be fall of light, so that the unerring decisions of his judgment suggested to the true thinking the belief of his actual in spiration; that the lofty chivalry of his nature was but the reflex of the spirit of Christ.’ The distinguished author of the life of Jack- son is at this time a professor in the Union The ological Seminary, Virginia. He has written an eminent work designed for his classes, which we will notice in another department of these sketches. He is also connected with the South ern Presbyterian Review, and occasionally illu mines its pages with his learning, his eloquence and his wisdom, while the southern pulpit is graced and adorned by his learning, his elo quence and true Christian piety. Pope Leo XIIL How He Looks and Talks in Contrast With Hus IX. The Men. The Rome corresponlent of the Boston Pilot, P.fij. Connellan, gives the following graphic de scription of Pope Leo XIII, as he appeared du ring the audience of tLe Irish College, May 2: At a quarter to one the door leading to the Pon tifical apartments was opened, and shortly af ter eight noble guards^j^th high helmets, blue , kEd drawn swords, entered Those beautiful words should be, as they gre immortalized with the life of the Christian hero, ^ for they are embalmed In history in the follow- j apd fo make public service ing elcquence of the distinguished author of pig o\ big {mg fiefige Of religious duty, life wb-en he go pathetically inquires: ! The Christian principle is under all circum- ’VPc big gout wandering back in dreams to | stances th,e vital element of a nation. Un '!• it@ tLe liver of his beloved valley, the Shtnandpahj j J;f 8 depends, Plid the virtue and sufferings of (the liver of t pal kilt g Wait-re,) whose verdant the people. The example and usefulness of a meads aLd giovts Le had ledeemed from the invader, aLd across whose floods Le had so of ten wen hi6 laseage through the trials of battle? Or wa6 Le reaching foiwaid eciosb the river of death, to the golden streets of the Celestial City PXd the trees whose leaves are lor the healing of the nations ?’ ' B$w beautifully, truly and impressively elc- qutnt does our author continue: ‘It was to these that God was bringing him through his last battle and victory, and under their blades he walls with the blessed compa ny of tbe redeemed.' The work embraces a minute biography ot Gen. Jackson from boyhood to the grave; his early yeais, Cadetship at West Point, his career in the previous war ; his lile at Lexington which gave an instructive chapter in relation to hi6 domestic habits, and Christian virtues. The chapter on Secession presents Jackson as a Statee-Eight Democrat ot “the most strailest sect.’ This chapter contains a clear and strang- ly expiessed vitw of the right of Secession. It is well written, and fair in its feelings, yet it presents only the partial working of the consti tution in the Lands of a sectional majority, composed of a people intensely selfish, and striving as will every section not only lor sec tional advancement under the administration pf the government, but for political ascendency from a sectional standpoint. Dr. Dabney makes the common blunder ot endeavoring to justify Secession upon constitutional rights, ignoring the political bearing of the constitution which has failed in its'phiiosophic, efforts to restrain a sectional majority even in its selfishness or illiberality, if not unfairness. Secession is an improper and impolitic phrase for the right of revolution. Secession is under all circumstan ces if it succeeds, the death knell of the union, as well as the overthrow of the constitution, while its successful suppression is the develop ment of the inherent principles of national gov ernment which proves the constitutional pathway from republicanism to monarchy. When revolution is necessary let it be resort ed tc— the lamiliar phrase, “FigLting in the Union” if carried out at iLe point of the Lay- onets will preserve the Union, and we may say the constitution longer and better, than Seces sion, which is but tearing out the very heart of the constitution and breaking down the fabric of the Union. We do not criticize Dr. Dabney’s recital of the causes which led to Secession. He relates them with power and truth. We only Eay they were causes ol war, lor which we justly fought, but under a mistaken apprehension of the safest way to obtain justice, and maintain the constntion and the Union, which was to fight in the Union. But as the termination of the war blasted the effort at Secession, let the Christian patriot from every Bection feel and trust that happily in the United States Government nothing is irremedi able peacefully and regularly if we work honest ly and fairly; although it may require a change in the constitution itself. From the first campaign in the valley of Vir ginia; the winter campaign in the valley in 18G1; the ctrapaigns in 16G2; the battle of Kernston; the chapter on McDowell; the entire operations atound Winchester, the object of that campaign; the battle at Port Public; the Confederate posi tion at Cross Keys w ith all the details connected with these events, the entire narrative is so clearly, and accurately stated, that every intelli gent reader can, and will appreciate the talent of tbe author for writing military history, and the full justice done the celebrated character whose history he was writing. We approach fields of greater action as we tjace the Richmond campaigns, so fullcf interest in every respect and known as perhaps the most renowned and memorable of the great events of the war. After the victory of Winchester, General Jack son requested the Hon. A. R. Boteler to repre sent to the authorities near Richmond, his desire for reinforcements, with a view of carry. :ing the war toward the Federal Capital. ‘Tell Christian statesman, a Christian soldier high in command, has never been sufficiently estimated by the body-politic. The genius aod the pub lic services of our distinguished men are valued too much on account of those arts which build up the material splendor of the, natiqL 1 ,. without looking to’the etronger and more lasting bul warks cf moral and intellectual purity based on the culture of true Christian principles, •Few' generals have waged war with such un varying success as General Jackson. It has been truly remarked of him that he was never routed in battle; that he was Dever successfully surprised by bis enemies; that he never had a train, or any ciganized portion cf Lis army cap tured by them.’ Thus writes his biographer. We might enlarge this sketch by ahudiDg to the many pleasant incidents related by the au thor showing how he was beloved and admired by tne highest, end most distinguished, as well as the humblest. Robert E. Lee wrote to him and said: ‘Could I have directed events, I should have chosen lor the good of the country to have been disabled in your stead.’ And a little child of five years old, exclaimed: ‘Oh, I wish God would let me die lor him, lor if 1 did,’ addressing her mother, ‘you would cry for me, but if he dies ail the people in the country will ory.’ It was the pure Christian character cf the great man; for Christian virtue is the essential, and only lasting element of greatness in w hat the world call ‘great men,’ that has made Jack- son the man he was, and gathered around him the fame he bears, and will bear to distant ages. His biographer says with his accustomed elo quence and philosophic truth; ‘ How is it that this m&C, of all others least accustomed to exercise his own fancy, or ad dress that of others, has stimulated the imagi nation, not only of his own countrymen, bui of the civilized world, above all the sons of genius among us ? How has he, the most unromantic of great men, become the hero of a living ro mance, the ideal of an inflamed fancy, even ba- foie his life has been invested with tne mystery of distance ? How did that calm eye kindle the fire of so passionate a love und admiration in the heart of his people? He was brave; but not the only brave. He revealed transcendent mil itary talent; but the diadem of his country glowed with a galaxy of such talent. He was successful, but it had more than one captain whose banner never stooped before an enemy. T he solution is chiefly to be found in the sin gleness, purity, nnd elevation of his aims. Ev ery one who observed him was as thoroughly convinced of his unselfish devotion to duty, as of his courage. It was no more evident that his was a soul of perfect courage, than that no thought of personal advancement, of ambition or applause even for one instant divided the homage of his heart with his great cause, aud that ‘all the euds he aimed at were his country s, his God’s and truth.’ The corrupt men, whose own patriotism was merely the mark of ambi tion or greedy avarice, and who had been accus tomed to mock at disinterested virtue in their sacred hearts, as an empty dream, when they saw the life of Jackson had as heart-faith a con viction of his ingenuous devotion, as the no blest spirits who delighted to form their souls by the mirror of his example. In the presence of his sincerity, the basest were as thoroughly silenced and convinced as the good. The con fidence of his countrymen was, therefore the testimony of the common conscience to the beauty of holiness. It recognized the truth, tnat the strength of Jackson wus m his exalted integrity of soul. It was the confession of our natures, that the virtue of the sacred Scriptures is true greatness; grander than knowledge, tal ent, courage, :philosophy or success. May it not be concluded then, that this was God’s chief lesson in this life and death! He would teach the beauty aud power of true Christianity as an element of national life.’ The pages from which we are quoting, are so true, so beautiful, so eloquent, that we would take pleasure in presenting them entire in this sketch, that the young men, striving for honor- coats and gold belts, the hall, and immediately following them came the Sovereign Pontiff in white soutane, and white silk colotte, or little skull cap, accompa nied by Mgr. Macchi, and another chamberlain who carried the Pontiff's wide-rimmed red hat and scarlet cloak. His pace was very rapid, as he walked from the doorof the hall to the throne; his step was quick aud short.—Hs is thin, even to meagerness, and tall. The fingers of his hands are almost lleshless, and the whole figure, and the outlines of the face, ascetic to a degree. —He is in appearance not unlike what Cardinal Manning was a few years ago, when his activity was greater than it is to-day. A9 he sits listen ing to the lengthy address read to him by Car dinal Cullen, his right hand, tremulous with nervousness, is employed in buttoning his sou tane, and his fingers shake, aud one might say fumble, from very nervousness, around the but tons. As tbe address continues he looks from tbe Cardinal to the crowd assembled before him, and hack again to the Cardinal, in a quick, ner vous way. A few minutes of stillness succeed, during which he grasps the arms of the throne tightly with his nervous hands, as though to keep himself still. Then his knees begin to tremble as with a nervous force over which he hoS no control. A lilfTe cTiiiij, fat and chubby, breaks in on the Cardinal's reading with what might be regarded as a remonstrating cry,' aud the Pontiff turns to’Jlgr. Macchi and smilingly addresses him, as if commuting on the inter ruption. The Curdi.ua! has nJ length-concluded: Mgr. Kirby presents thw gifia- £1.000 sterling, £800 being contributed from the Diocese of Lis- xnore, through the Bishop, Dr. Conaty, and the remainder contributed here.—The Pontiff rises suddenly to his feet, and—rare event—ad dresses a discourse to the Cardinal. His voice is very' impressive, and hc^jays seems to i/o' iilc ia', rw-1 fi g In Lio heart. You would say that he was thinking aloud. His tone is somewhat nasal, but clear and ringing; not robust 9Ed round, like that of Pius IX., but tliriliing anu penetrating, very like to Cardinal Manning’s, except that it is stronger, His ac-. cent is not at all Roman; and although he was educated here, he Las from his long residence in Perugia, and much intercourse with the Pe rugians, acquired the accent of Perugia. His sentences are generally long, and you are forced to admire how happily he keeps the master- thought that runs through what he says con stantly in view. ******* The people now gather closer around the throne. The presentation of each one to his Holiness now begins, the ladies being, of course, pre sented first. The little chubby child who in terrupted the address is brought before the pon tiff, at whom he stares with a half-frighted, half-wondering look in his large blue eyes. The Holy Father afl'jffionately places his hands upon the child's head, and after blessing him in the most gracious rnauuer, the little fellow is carried away as surprised and dazed-looking as ever. Here is Father Mullooly. of Saint Clem ents, just before me, and when the Pope hears his name he most kindly says. ‘We are most happy to see Father Mullooly, of St. Clements, of whom we have heard so many praises aud en comiums.’ Hero it was that I was best enabled to see his euuhlehahce. A noble head, erowned with snow-white hair, a high, wide forehead, not smooth and shining, but rough with bumps which would delight the heart of a phrenologist; eyebrows bushy aud overhanging, deep^et, kindly aud keenly intelligent eyes; a large, very large nose, tuin and white; a wide mouth, which lends itself most readily to a very attractive smile, deep, straight lines bounding it, and a good, clear, pointed e!.:n, with well-defined, firm jaw, constitute the principal features that you become aware of in looking at the counte nance, expressive in the highest degree, of Leo XIII. As you approach him, and kiss the em broidered cross upon his slipper, and the ring, almost slipping from his bony finger, a kindly interest lights up his eyes as fie hears who you are, what your occupation is, and how long you have been in Rome. * * * Unlike Pius IX in person he is no less unlike him in many oth er respects. Pius IX. was an orator by nature, and was probably tne most naturally eloquent speaker of bis day; Leo XllL is more of a writ er and less of an orator; appea‘8 Has to the emotions and more to the intellect. Pius IX. was distinguished for his thorough good nature and genuine kind-heartedness; Leo XllL is re markable for his kindly and courteous man ners, his gracious speech, and the affectionate interest he takes in those with whom he comes in contact. Hon. A. H. Stephens arrived at Augusta, Ga., Friday night, and was met by a large crowd, and a salute of thirteen guns was fired. William Hawkins, aged 20, has been lodged in the jail of Culppeper county, Va., charged with having murdered Willie Turner, aged 13 years, on Tuesday last, in that country. Prof. John L. Buchanan, of Emory and Hen ry college, Va., has been elected to a chair in Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, with a sal ary of 2.500 and residence, and has accepted the position. Col. Geo. Proctor Kane, Mayor of Baltimore City, died, after a prolonged illness and great suffering, at half past three o'clock on last Sun day morning. The Portsmouth Times says: Saturday loth inst., Mr. Owens who Killed bis son a few days ago, acoompanied by Chief of Police, George W. H. Watts, and several friends, visited the grave of his son in Portlock’s Cemetery, soon after the body had been interred. The sight there pre sented was a most heart-rending one to behold, the wretched father exclaiming: ‘Ob! my son! I have killed you, but God knows I did not in tend it. I did not know what I was doing.’ Gen. L.B. Horrigan, a Northern man and a Federal soldier, has been nominated for criminal judge by the Democrats of Memphis Tenn. Ben Pittman, the phonographer at the trial, agrees with Manager Ford in believing that Mrs. Surratt had no knowledge of the plot to assas sinate Lincoln. He also tells the interesting fact that just after the assassination, Stanton or dered every letter that passed through the Wash ington postoffice addressed to Canada to be open ed, in the vun hope of funding the supposed Southern instigators of a plot which was con ceived in Washington on the day of its execu tion. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in his sermon on Sunday week, read the late William Cullen Bry ant s 'Thanatopsis, ’ which he said was among the best specimens of exalted and beautiful hea thenism—‘the sweetest pagan song that ever was sung.’ He then read one of Watt’s hymns, begining: ‘Unveil thy bosom, faithful tomb,’ which be said was a beautiful Christian chant, remarking at the same time that ‘Watts is a far better man than Bryant.’ Rev. L. K. Willie, who died at Oxfjrd last week, left his entire property to the widows and orphans of deceased Methodist ministers of the North Carolina Conference. John Yeung, who is working the mica mine of G. D. Ray, on Rowland’s Creek, three miles southeast of Burnsville, took out, with one oth All The World Over. The bark Azor, from Charleston, April 21, with colored emigrants for Liberia, and which arrived at Sierra Leon May lit, reached Morviaa on the 3rd. inst. At Pittstou, Pa., Monday of last week, eighteen persons were poisoned by drinking tbe milk of a cow whose udder had been bitten by a snake. Two will probably die. Mr. Walter Frazer, of Augusta, Ga., a gentle man of 40 years, went on board the flat at Sand Bar Ferry on Thursday morning at 5 o’clock, and when in the deepest part of the Savannah jumped overboard aud was drowned. The dwelling house of Mrs. StearnB, a widow lady, near Charlotte, was burned to the ground, and with it her little 5 year old grandchild! It seems that all the children (three or fourj were sleeping in the house alone. The eldest, quite young herself, awoke and found thehonse wrapt in flames. She succeeded in getting the other children, out, and was in the act of rush ing madly into the flames to rescue the little boy, when she was prevented by some laborers who arrived at that moment. ‘A person who was present aud witnessed tbe scene says that on Thursday last, when Gen. Joe Johnston was upon the floor of the United States Senate by invitation of a Senator, the scene in that grave body was almost like a levee—Sena tors from all parts of the United States came up to be introduced to him and to shake his hand. Not once in a geneeation is such a scene wit nessed—Business was almost suspended. This circumstance shows the influence Gen, Johnston will have in Congress.’ A few days ago one of the convicts on the canal made his escape from the guards, and se creted himself in a barn, taking off all of his penitentiary riggings. He remained quiet till the landlord spied him in this condition; who ob discovering him, wished to know what his business was. He promptly replied: ‘The con victs got hold of me, and left me without a rag.’ The farmer sent at once for au old suit of clothing, and something for him to eat. Of course he has not been heard of since.—Lexing- ton Gazette. * There died recently in Hartford a somewhat eccentric person, whose public services though valuable, never met with recognition until now. He was a man about fifty years of age and of some means, but somewhat deranged in intellect, who was every day seen upon our streets, walking with downcast eyes, engaged in carefully remov ing from the sidewalks all those stray pieces of orange-peel and banana-skin that are really so dangerous and occasion so giuch profanity. It is said to be a fact that in early life his lady-love A Little Fun. A correspondent of the Charleston Kews, re cently writing from Columbia, S. C. , mentions that Mr. W. E. Doge, of New York, paid not long since $15, 000 for the famous ‘Preston Mansion.’ Only three or four years ago it was sold to F. J. Moses for $45, 000, and evi;n this sum was considered a low price at that time. The bricks alone that surround the grounds would, it is said, bring more money, if sold at present prices, than the amount paid for the whole property. Triokett, the famous Australian sculler, has lost two fingers while handling u cask of liquor. It is usually the casque that loses two or mree fingers while being handled. Hon. William Archer Cocke will, it is said, be put forward as a candidate for the United States Senate, rice S. B. Conover, when the Legislature meets. , er hand, sevAity-five pounds ot splendid mica | 5roke her leg b slipping on a piece of orange in six days. 1 he James Gibbons mine on South . pee l, and eTrintl / ally died from the effects of The oe rner in Taney county, is also yielding fine acc i den t. This it was that affected the mind of mlca ’ j our hero and led to his unselfish occupation for The Shenandoah Valley says: ‘There is a man j the rest of his life, liviug near here who has a very convenient name; you can read or spell it backward or forward, and it is the same—ASA RENNER. Can anoth er instance of this kind be found ?’ Yes, Han nah Adams, of New Jersey, whoa faw months ago married Adam Hannah. Her name is now Hannah Hannah. A colored youth, John C. Whitaker, will graduate from West Point, thi% summer. He is from South Carolina, and stands forty-fifth in a class of sixty-six. Gen. Hampton at Ninety-six earnestly advis 1 os the Democracy to send their best men to the legislature this year. Soch advice was proper, and we hope it will be heeded. Edgefield nnti j Abbeville have done well in nominating ex-Gov- ; ernor Bonham and Gen. McGowan, and'set the .other countries an excellent example. Uie Women. Madame Bonaparte, of Baltimore, who is about ninety-six years old, is in the enj/yment ot fair health, having recently recovered Irom a severe attack of illness. Two young ladies* inembers of the Eioou'ion class of Mis* (Sarah M. Rice, of Baltimore, have won the prizes for the two best e«eays on Shak- speare or his plays, offered by the tShakspeare (So ciety of Loudon. Plymouth church congregation, Brooklyn, N. Y., settled the Beecher-Tilton scandle to lis own satisfaction Sunday night by formally excommu nicating Mrs. Tilton.. The members then had a general handshaking and congratulation among themselves. A female coat, er rather a woman’s coat fori can't exactly prove its sex, is all the rage, and the stylo is the pigeon tailed, shad bellied, or business cut, with tight sleeves, aud the whole thing covered with buttons. A white vest and standing collar sets off the style. The breeches have but one leg us yet, except Dr. Mary Walk er’s; she has two legs to her pants, but a right tight pin-back is as near it as others can come. And nless the dear creatures, every one that wears a coat has a frock (that's what my mother used to call it) so short that it doesn’t touch the ground by two and hall or three inches. The Stage. Never try to whistle a diamond back when it is out of ear-ring. Everybody seems to think himself a moral half bushel to measure the world's fralities, If you hear your neighbor slam a pillow against his bedroom wall you may be sure that the mosquito got away The girls are graduating. Young man, if you are not on the alert some other fellow wiil seize a prize worth more to you than a mine iu Colo rado; Mr. Barnum claims to be the greatest show man on earth, and he cannot stand on Lis head ! unless he gets up against a wall. An, Oil Citizen whose last summer’s suit was "* T'aiued by a Clothes cleaner, says tne fellow is one of the few, the immortal names that were not born to dys, A noted agriculturist writes to his paper: ‘For the last five years I have not lost a cucumber or melon.’ It is very evident this noble man lives miles and miles from femaie seminaries and camp meetings. The deifinition of Webster of a bonnet as ‘a covering for the female head,’ ought to be re modelled into ‘a covering for the vision ot' the man in the back seat of the theatre. An Eastern editor sadly remaks, in noticing the death of King George of Hanover. 'Another one of us gone.’ The words are called for. King George was stone blind, and we have ire- I quently seen the E :stern editor in that condi- j non, too. When you see a young fellow who a year ago | used to step up and order lager for the crowd | with the utmost sangfroid, patiently trundling 1 a baby carriage along tne street on Sunday after- ' noon, and loosing chop-fallen in his lust season’s I hat, don’t it speak volumes tor the reforming in- j fluence of woman’s society ? ! In a communication in the New York Sun, Mary Ellen Chase says: ‘Women outnumber men three to one in heaven, and in the same proportion men outnumber women in hell - ’ Mary shouldn’t thus expose the secrets of the other world. She will have all the women striv ing to go where there are the most men. —The Grand Duke’s Theatre, in New York, managed by street gamins, has closed its doors, The season was a uisaatrous one, the proprie tors losing about eleven dollars. — John E. Owens is planning a tour of the world, to occupy two years and to close his pro fessional life. A dramatic and literary association has been formed in Yorkville S. C. comprieing the lead ing amuteur talent of the town, wish Col. A. Coward, president: Mr. W. R. Jones, first di rector; Mrs. Clara D. McLean, second director; Miss Hannah E. Grist, third director; and W. P. Good, Esq., secretary and treasurer. The Atlanta Dramatic Association are deter mined that Lajomurr shall be put on the stage in the most careiul and finished manner. Great pains has been taken with the cast, and some’ new and really fine talent enlisted, it would be a rather bold undertaking for average amateurs to play Imgomar, but tne Atlanta Association will make it a success. The play happens to be peculiarly suited to the scope of the mem bers who take leading roles. The principal theatres throughout the coun try are either closed for the season or occupied tor light, inexpensive entertainments. John McCuuough is going yachting with Boucicault. Lawrence Barrett is very ill of nervous prostra tion, and has been delirious. Joseph Jefferson has been playing the Tutor in the indelicate farce,‘Baby,’ in !San Francisco. Hensy Irving is to play Vanderdeckeu, in tbe Flying Duchiuan,’ in London. The Cnatelet Theatre, Baris, now uses the electee light exclusively. Next season will commence John Gilbert’s fifty-first year on the stage. Raymond and Florence will, jf open ings can be obtained, present ‘Col. Sellers’ and tbe ‘Mighty Dollar’ in London this summer. Fanny Davenport and Manager Field, of the Boston Museum, may have a lawsuit over ‘ Oli via,’ the dramatization of the ‘Vicar of Wake field,’ which has proved successful in Loudon, as both claim to have bought the play fdr Arner ica. Sothern will return to the United Statea- at the close of his shortened season inLoudou. Tne number of stock companies iu this country will be fewer than ever next winter, and most of the theatres will depend on traveling com binations. The Crown Princess of Pussia and Eugenie. To-day the whole royal and imperial party are out at Windsor. I met them as they drove through Hyde Bark to the railway station in that brilliant way always used by theQieen— an open barouche, drawn by four superb horses, ridden by postillions in scarlet livery and at tended by a detachment of mounted soldiery, as well as by a number of gentlemen in civilian's dress on horseback. Tne cortege is a splendid one, comprising not only the Queen's ba rouche and that immediately following, in which the maids of honor are seated, but various other royal carriages, containing the immediate house hold of her Majesty, and finally a sumptuous looking van, in which the royal baggage is trans ported. Just previous to the departure of these royal ladies trom Buckingham Balace, the Em press Eugenie called on them, attended by the Duke de Bassan and the Countess Clary’, the two principal members of the little court in exile at Chiselnurxt. The Empress has been in town a great deal lately, and it is said she is iu negoti ation for the purchase of a magqifiaent town house, where, when she enters it,, she will emerge from seclusion as a widow and a deposed sove reign, and receive the great world of sooiety again iu a manner befiitiing her station. It is my fortune often to to see the Empress, as I have before mentioned in these letters. This summer she is looking exceedingly well. The pensive beauty of her face still remains in spite of the furrows which care ln^t drawn there. Her figure, once so perfect, has lost its youthful slender ness, and is now decidedly inclined to embonpoint. Tne principal objection that can be made to her style is that she evidently objects to grow ing old gracefully, and resorts to those adven titious aids to the toilet iu the shape ol the In- dia-ink pencil, and the liquid-white bottle, and tbe yellow hair bleacher, which, by the great mass of right-thinking people, are considered subterfuges more fit to be used by the cocutle than by the grawle dame. It must have cost Eugqnie a pang to do homage to the Crown Prin cess, the wife of Prince Fritz aud daughter-in- law of the German monarch, who was made an Empror by the very war which unmade her Empress.