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/./ rai sothy sooth Sketches of Southern Literature. BT JtJDGE ABCHEB COCKE. No 17. cured in the annals of the republic, and ve will require wise, brave and virtuous men to guide the ship of state. If Stephens is alive,his influ ence will be felt, if be has passed away his ex ample and his precepts will not be forgotten. This work wap published in 1878 by J. B. Lip- pincott, in a style equal to the highest art of the trade. SENSATIONS . LIFE OF ALEXANDER H. STEPHEN'S. This is a work which will live in American literature, not only on account of the merit it deserves in the various departments in which it excels, its biographic, narrative and philo sophic features, but on acoount of the interest ing and in some respects lovely character of Al exander H. Stephens. A poor boy, honest, industrious, with a talent and an energy of spirit rising superior to bodi ly infirmities and breaking at sunder the bands of comparative poverty; btcomiDg a learned and successful lawyer, entering the field of politics, but becoming a statesman, are elements which not only attract the cultivated and good 01 man kind, but serve as models for all who aspire to honest and virtuous success; and to crown the enchantment ot such a life, a pious, domestic home faculty which has made him the ol jtct of love to those to whom he was allied by kindred or blood, certainly presents a character for his tory,and of which history may be proud. Among the interesting features of this work which literature and love alike may cherish, is the pleasant and tasteful manner in which the writers of this biography have placed the home letters and dressea the domestic scenery of the subject of this work. To the young men of the present age this work is commended, as an encouragement to labor under the disadvantageous circumstances of poverty and disease. The life it portrays is a stimu'actto hard work; an incentive to success along the pathway of virtue and Christian piety. It is the life size picture of the statesman,around which are hung the beautiful sunlight photo graphs of domestic life in its simple purity, but utmost refinement. To the public men of this age the life of Ste phens, as presented by bis biographer, should be even exhibited, as showing how a man can face the storm of political life, free from the wiles and trickery of the politician—the creature ot the current—and plaming his feet on the firm foundation of truth and justice, became a states man, whose honesty and wisdom are proved by the admiration, of the wise and virtuous, and whose popularity is secured not by the mere voice of the multitude, but by the sucoess of wise measures and the tist of severe trial and experience. Mr. Stephens wss but expressing the feelings of a statesman characterized by pure and eleva ted principles, when in Feb. 1858 he said: ‘To mix daily with men who nave no patriot ism and no object but their own little selfish ends, is disgusting to me.’ (Life cf Stephens, page 330. Hew well he describes the politician, whose great effort so often appears to be a mere strug gle for some personal end. That Mr. Stephens' political and constitution al views of many public measures are liable to logical objections we will not deny. We are not criticising his publio opinion s, but noticing the manner in which they have been treated in the work of his biographer, which we think in all rtspeots fair, just and able. Mr. Stephens’ high and honored character and position as a statesman, free from the in fluence of the partizan, and with a patriotism limited only by the boundaries of the nation, was strikingly manifested on bis retirement from the House of Representatives, ‘in the offer of a public dinner tendered by members of both houses cf Congress, without distinction of par ty, headed by the Vice President (in his capac ity of President of the Senate) and by the speak er of the House, as a testimonial of personal esteem.’ Mr. Stephens’ views on secersion and his council during the late war are well and clear- ‘Hid God ever make a heart that would net ly presented in his biography. Before Georgia I respond for good if the rightchord was touched, seceded he said: | «pf any 0 f you laok wisdom let him learn of ■My judgement, es is well known, is against j God.’ the policy of immediate secession for any exist- Shower8 of divine graoe a re descending in all ing causes. It cannot receive the sanction of 6 8 my vote; but if the judgement of a majority of! ° f our country. this* convention, embodying, as it does, thesov-1 . ^ of meetings for prayer and exhort*- ereignty of Georgia, be agamst mine; if the me-! I* 011 bave been held during the past two weeks jonty of the delegation in this convention shall, the First Presbyterian Church, conducted by by their votes,dissolve the compact of the union, the Rev. Messrs Bachman, whose labors Lave which has connected her so long with her con- been greatly blessed in bringing sinners to see federate states, and to which I have been so ar- that without God they must be eternally lost, dently attached, and Lave made such tffortsto! We have before us some excellent Expository continue and to perpetuate upon the principles 1 Rotes on the International Lessons, prepared by on which it was founded, I shall bow in sub-1 Rev. Dr. Cunningham, assisted by Dr. O. I. mission to that decision. ’(Vide Biography I Hammers, and issned by the Southern Metho- Sunday tornadoes are getting wonderfully common. A terrible one struck the town of Lockport, Texas, on the 27th, and demolished forty houses, including churches, court house and Masonic Hall. Many persons were badly injured and one child killed outright. A fearful massacre occurred last week at Bel fast, Maine. A crazy man named Powell mur dered an entire family, consisting of John Mc Farland, a farmer, his wife and granddaughter. The insane fury shot McFarland and beat out the brains of the others. He then attacked an other family, when he was shot and killed. A young lady of Baltimore recently jilted her lover, and he retaliated by writing her amorous letters on postal cards. She did not invoke the ’aw, but going to a church which he frequented, awaited the dismissal of the congregation, Sun day night, when she drew a jaw hide and laid it on so hot ana heavy that his rapid locomotion was at once brought into requisition to save him from further punishment. Awful domestic tbagedy.— Monsieur Fillette, a b&i ker’s clerk, lived in handsome apartments in the Quartier Breda in Paris. His pretty young wife was a teacher of music, and one of her pupils was a young man of twenty-five, clerk at the prefecture of the Seine. The husband had been beard to remonstrate with his wife about the too frequent lessons given to this pu pil. Recently it was nctioed that the doors of the Fillette apartments were not opened, and as nothing had been seen of the man or his wife for some days, the police broke into the front room. There lay Monsieur and Madame dead on the floor, the lady half undressed, and a six barrelled revolver lying beside the corpse of the man. Farther search discovered in the ad joining bedroom the body of the 3 oung clerk of the prefecture of the Seine. He had been shot through tt e heart. The sight of the three dead bodies told the whole story. A STABTUNG INCIDENT-MAN KILLED IN BED BY ameteoblite.—Near Newtown, Fountain conDty Indiana, lived a farmer L< onidas Grcver. He is a widower and his newly-married daughter and her husband were the only other inmates of his home. The young couple went out to spend the evening one day last week—when they re turned, the honse was quiet, it was past the el der gentleman's bed time, and nothing nnnsual apparent Next morning, when breakfast was ready, the daughter called her father; and re- cieving no answer, the door was broken open, when a startling sight presented itself. The man lay on his shattered bed, a horribly mutilated corpse with the sunlight streaming on him through a ragged hole in the ceiliDg, and roof of the house directly above the bed and in a line with the bleeding breast of the man, which was torn clean through as though by an immense cannon ball. The hole extended down through the bedding, through the floor, and through the ground beneath to the depth of five feet. On digging down that depth,the cause of the strange calamityf was apparent. A mete oric stone weighing v^enty pounds and stained with blood was unearthed. It had fallen with awful impetus,and the victim who was no doubt asleep at the time, must have been instantly killed. Hard Times Sure Enough. Rich, Fare and Racy, THE CHURCH. Doings and Sayings in the Re ligious World. For the especial benefit of the gentlemen of the bar we publish the following without further comment: High Point, N. C., Messrs. John Smith a Co.-Gents: Replying to yonrs of the 18th instant, I have to say that for the prospect of Laving claims placed in my hands to collect iu this vicinity, and nothing more, I do not feel willing to report the ‘stand ing’ of the party mentioned, or of any one else. I do not wish to be misunderstood as saying that I do not want paying business, but I do know that a lawyer would starve as quick on commissions and fees on collections as he would on corn-cob soup in January. I have haa some experience in collecting since the war, cr rather in trying to collect. I have offered to comprom ise claims by taking old clothes, frozen cab bage, cirous tickets, patent medicine, whet stones, powder horns, old flour barrels, gourds, coon skins, jay birds, owls, or almost anything, and yet I have a number of those old claims on hand unsettled. If I were to depend on collect ing claims for ray iiving, my bean broth would get so thin tbftt it w6uM rattle in me like pot liquor in a floor dog. I don't like to shoot at long taw, but if yen are inclined to pay any thing certain for the desired reports, I‘m your man; say ten dollars cash, then I‘in in, or, if money is scarce, I would take shoes, large Nos., say 10s, 11s and 12s, to the amount of ten dol lars at wholesale prices. It‘s hard times here—the niggers aDd the democrats have pulled and worried each other till this country smells like cheese. How in the world would you collect money out of a people who plow little speckled bulls on hill sides? If you were to see a nigger plowing his garden with a sow, you would not wonder why I don't want claims to collect in this vicinity. Your sincere friend, J. R- Bulia. Fun. page 382.) ihb above extract from a speech deliver ed by Mr. Stephens Jan. 16, 1868, before the Georgia Secession Convention, is a full and dear, prac tical and philosophic expression of the charac ter of the union under its constitution. Every wo.d seems to be carefully used to express the power of the constitution over the union, and the duty of the people under it. The sentence embraot s a volume of philosophic truth based on history. Mr. Stephens was elected to the Provisional Government at Montgomery, much against his wish, but finally concluded to go, provided the j convention would pass two resolutions which he offered, touching the mode of organization of the Provisional Government and the subsequent formation of a peimantnt government ‘upon the principles and basis of the constitution of the United StateB.’ When resolutions were passed with great unanimity and Mr. Stephens felt it to be, as his biographer remarked, ‘his duty to do all that he could to preserve and perpetuate the principles of our Federal Union.’ The bi ographer cites the remark in quotation, proba bly from Mr. Stephens. Mr. Stephens became Vice President of the Southern Ccnfedeiacy, and here we leave him with the remark that his talent and character are well defended and protected by his distin guished biographers. The work ot the authors of this biography is highly judicious and tasteful, the composition, in style and substance is elegant and accurate. The remarks and observations drawn from the letters and speeches, as they are arranged in the work, are appropriate, just and true,at:d appear in every sense applicable alike to the tone and character of the man whose life is written, as to the history and philosophy of the various sub jects to which they relate. Why write a man’s life while he is living ? A monument is designed to show a people's love and admiration for one whose days are ended, and 10 prevent, if possible, the noble deeds of the person from being forgotten. The written life of a great man is designed to keep his life before us after death. The habit of writing the life of a person be fore death is generally not to be approved. Dr. Johnson is reported to have said that ‘He would take the life of any one before he would permit him to take bis.’ It is well he did not kill Boswell. The writers of Mr. Stephens’ life will permit us to say it is to be hoped that he may live long enough snd do and say enough to enable them to wiite another life, or to add another volume to the yet unfinished life ol the distinguished statesman. We feel confident that it will be in all rr speots as interesting and instructive as the present one. In all probability, we are enter- j ing upon a period to be as active and aB proli- . flo in important history as any that has yet 00- by dist Publishing House, Nashville, Tenr. As the sun never wearies but continues his rounds from day to day, forever, so do not be weary in well doing, and as the sud, after the daily course is run, is robed in glory by his great Author, so you shall retire from this ter restrial, moral firmament wrapped iu the divine glory, as an emblem of the glory to be thereafter revealed in you. The King of Siam has richly endowed a col lege for the education of the children of his court and of the princes, and called upon Rev. S. G. M’FarUnd, a missionary, to manage it. It is to be a Christian college. An English paper tells of a new sect called ‘The Hallenjah, or Salvation Army.’ Detach ments of this ‘army’ are operating in Blyth and Bedlington. The ‘army’ is under the general ship of Rev. W. Booth, and consists of lady preachers. Rev. James Davis, the efficient Secretary of the British Evangelical Alliance, has been com pelled by serious illness to resign his post, The Cathedral at Bristol, England, is lighted by the electrophote. Life is swept with cyclones of sin. In these gales many souls go down. It means some thing to have certain deliverance from every possible blast of sin that may sweep through the world. From the following remarks on our Savior’s birth, those struggling with poverty may be en couraged to make greater efforts: ‘Christ com ing in the form of a little child is a strong les son in afvor of filial love. As a little child He was subject to His father and mother, and thus he teaches us that there can be no Christianity without filial obedience and love. His coming thus had hallowed childhood, and now, with each new child born into a family is a rivulet of new virtues drops into the hearts of parents. Christ came in the form of a little child to show that His kingdom is a spiritual kingdom, and to teach us that lowliness of birth is no barrier to the unfolding of a useful life. All his surround ings were lowly, yet He grew in favor with God and man in a despised neighborhood, and thus the hidden lite of Jesus was made manifest His lowly birth also showed us the condescend ing love of God. ThiB world was wicked and perishing in its sins, when Christ came down through darkness and throngh suffering and want that you, my friends, might be lifted to a throne. Whiskey is about the only enemy man has suc ceeded in really loving. It is when a woman tries to whistle that the great glory of her mouth is seen without being heard. The latest slang phrase is: ‘O, you're too new; the dust sticks to you. May an attractive young lady—one who draws men after her—be called Pull mar? John writes to ask, ‘if there is a bird, besides the ostrich big enough fora man to ride?’ We would ask John if he ever saw a man on a lark. Every man is a miserable sinner in church, but out of church it is unsafe to say much about it, ex cept to a small man. When a man begins to take off his coat and vest at you it is a sign that he is resorting 'to the court of peels. When the contribution box comes round, if you don't give a cent you should nod, and nodding is assent. We have just paid a dol’ar and a half to have our boots repaired, and are now more than ever disin dined to believe in the immortality of the sole. The cornet .is ^ mm.jug popular as an instru ment of diurehjfc. jsic. pome wicked wag Aeslres to know if tiiiSiStnnisiug the L'ord in a horn*. There are ten slides of red this season in wo man’s toggery and 347 shades of blue about the hus band and father, who foots the drygoods and mil linery bills. A lady named Mary Magui-ah Had trouble in lighting her fl-ah; The wood being green She used kerosene— She has gone where the fuel is dry-all- They bounced him literally and figuratively.start ing him down two flights of stairs, and fie mur mured resignedly: ‘Well, p'raps it's just as well I was going down any way.’ A youug lady said to her lover: ‘Charlie, how far is it round the world ?’ ‘About twenty inches, my darling,’replied he, as his arm encircled her waist. She was all the world to him. , ‘The way it is,’ said little Johnnie, describing a raffle at a church fair,‘you see somethin' and you give a half dollar for a chance to win it; another fellow always gets it, and they never oiler you jour money back. Wishing to pay his friend a compliment, a gen tleman remarked: ‘I hear you have a very indus trious wife.’ ‘Yes,’ replied the friend with a mel ancholy smile, ‘she’s never idle; she’s always find ing something for me to do.’ New Parlor Maid—‘Here’s a letter ma’am, if you please!’ New mistress—Pray. Mary, are you not accustomed to see letters handed on a tray? New parlor maid—‘Yes ma’am, but I didn’t know you were.’ A witty young lady was once told by a gentleman friend of her acquaintance that ‘he must have been born with a silver spoon in his mouth.’ She look ed at him carefully, and, upon realizing the size of his mouth, replied: -I don’t doubt it; but it must have been a soup ladle.’ The ioliowiug unique epistle was picked up in the street at Schuylerville: ‘Dear Bill: The reason I didn’t laff when you laft at me in the post-otfis yis- terday was becaws I hev a bile on mv face, and kant laff. If I laff she’ll burst. Bit 1 luv yu, Bill, bile or ntf'oile. laff’ or no laff. Yure luving Kate, till death. ■ — ANSWERS TO CORRESPON DENTS. Mr. W. C. Jones, who five years ago gave the Church of England Missionary Society £290,000 as a capital fund for the support of native evange lists in certain miasious, has now given a further sum of £35,000, to be employed for the extension of evangelistic work by the native Church of India. To the “Lacy” who wishes to exchange somevol- umes of English and ancient classics lor modern hooks, new or second-hand, W. K. Mobley, of Dal las, Paulding Co., Ga., makes a request that she send him a list of the books she wishes to dispose of. Corinne of Knoxville asks: ‘Are j*ou going tobave another story b>' Henri Greville? I liked Dosia very much. And by the waj', isn’t Henri Greville a Russian lady?’ We are now having another story of this popular author translated for the Sunny South byan accom plished youug lady of Atlanta. It will be far more interesting than Dosia. Henri Greville is not Rus sian, though she pictures Russian life so cleverly. She is a born Parisian, and her stories of French so ciety are better than those in which she depicts the manners ot Russia. In a recent preface to her last novel, ‘Pbilomene's Marriages,’ she protests against the current belief in the immorality of French soci ety, and says that iu la belle France even more than in most other countries, can there be found “the pure joys of the Art side, women loyal and lov ing, devoted husbauds, the contentment of duty ac complished and the ineffable tendtrness of family life.’ Anabelle says: ‘lam going to take that step in the dark—marriage—and I want to look pretty in the last hour of my girlhood. Tell me what to wear for a bridal dress. Brides are dressing ad libitum now. Garnen,brown, blue and buff and all the soberer new shades being often worn in silk, velvet and cashmere. But you want to ‘look pretty’—and white toour thinking, is prettiest. Wear white cashmere entraine, Anabelle, with vest and revers of white satin, a flowing veil oftulleanda wreath of tiemuJouslilliesof the val- leyl Paul A—, Augusta, Ga., inquires: ‘What has be- come of Annie Dickenson ? I thought, she was to take to the platform again and lecture through the states.. She is lecturing once more. She delivered her new lecture, *The Stage,’ in New York lately, and in a week or two the Fifth Avenue Theatre will bring out her new play of Aurelian, in which she and the fine actor, McCullough, take the leading parts. ‘Juan,‘Savannah, oa., writes; ‘lam tired of the stereotyped custom of giving an engagement ring. I want to preseut my affianced with some other pledge. What would be suitable? But if it must be the ring, what style would be best?’ If you want a more novel gaged' amour than the ring, why not have a bracelet made with a lock and a gold key, which you may keep after having locked the hoop of gold on the fair lady's arm. Such pledges do sometimes take the place of the ring. A solitaire pearl is now a favorite style for an engage ment ring and it is less expensive than a diamond. Sapphires,amethysts and rubies are fouDd in en gagement rings; every stone except the unlucky emerald—Green, you know, is forsaken. •Reader says: ‘I am intimately friendly with a number of girls in the town where I live— have known them all my life. They call me by my giv en name, should 1 do the same by them ? I wisii to write one of them a lei ter, how should I address ber and how close my letter?’ No matter if the girls do call you by your first name without any “handle,” I would not address them so familiarly. I should always put the pre fix, and they will be sure to like it lor the respect it implies, while it may gentiy rebuke theirown care lessness or ill-breeding in neglecting this little point of nice manners. Many girls will insist upon being addressed by their first names without the prefix of miss, but it is thoughtless or Indelicate in them to do so. Only the closest friendship or the relation of engaged lovers, warrants a young man iu taking such a privilege. If you are an intimate friend of the young lady, a letter addressing tier “My dear Miss Kate, or Mary” would be a proper be ginning, and the ordinary “Very truly, yours,” or “Faithfully yours” would do as a winding up. But when you write, hunt up your dictionary, Verb uni sap.—etc. Dusenberry Pops the Question, (A sketch from “ The Confederate Scout, or the Days of Tap Price" by Dr. U m. & Fahy) (copy righted) 24 f A April. 1876, Ao. 4950 0.) DB. WM. E. FAHY. The Colonel had left the room—worn out by the pers'stent Dusenberry. He (Dusenberry) sat directly in front of the huge log fire, and by his side was the buxom Texana, a sn ail our lay doubled up in a half circle at her feet, and the fair girl busily employed peeling pumpkins ter the pies intended for the approaching Christ mas merry-makings. Dusenberry sighed, heavily—so did Texana. He hitched his chair a little closer and said “ Christmas is a nice time—aint it?” “ Yon bet ! ’ a long pause. “liayther cold weather, Christmas times, aint it ?” ‘ Sorter ?’ Dusenburry twisted his thumbs aud looked straight into the fire—‘Got enny feather beds? - he said, abstractedly, ‘Sum.’ She replied, flinging a pumpkin rind into the fire. ‘Feather beds is nice fur married folks, beant they?’ ‘Dunno—never tried’—another long pause. Dusenberry punched the logs with his No. 12 ‘tanyards’—‘’Spozen I ax yer a question,’ remarked he. ‘Spczen!’ replied Texana. ‘Why air you like a ittle fawn?’ ‘Danno!’ she said, treading on Ponto’s tail, who yelped furiously. ‘Ease you )ir a little deer!’ he said, when the pup had nniehbd his bowls. „ ■Shawl’ said TexaLa. They both relapsed into meditative silence. ‘What air yer good fur?’ said he, softly stroke- ing Ponto’s head. •What’s who good fur?’ She asked. ‘Ponto?’ ‘Possums!’ She replied. There was complete silence for about twenty minutes broken only by the Sargeant releiving the sentries outside.] Dusenberry fidgeted in bis chair and Texana cut her thumb with the pumpkin parer. ‘Poor thumb!’ Said Dusenberry, wrapping his handkerchief around it. Another long silence. Love was evidenly lost in a labrynth thought. ‘Chicken pie air good,’ at length, aid our hero. •So air aigs,’ replied Texana.’ ‘How many roosters hev you ?‘ Said Dusen berry. ‘Nigh on to fifty.* She replied. By this time Dusenbirry had hitched his chair so close to Texana that Ponto had to move from his cczy position between them. ‘Kin yer quilt ?‘ he asked. ‘High Daddy!’ She replied. ‘Qailts is right good for m&rriedjifolks in winter, * he said. ‘You bet!‘ she replied. ‘Air you got enuy?‘ he asked. ‘Some. ‘ ‘Long enough for a feller of my size?* an swered h 1 ‘Reckon/ ‘A long silence. Dusenberry slowly raised his hand 10 the level of Texana‘s head and began toying with the bright yellow ribbon that bound up her luxuriant black hair. At length the pause was broken, ‘Spozen I tell yer another riddle/ said he. ‘Spozen/ said she. •Why air you like latses candj? ‘Dunno. ‘ Kase yer so sweet/ Tixana tidgeetd in her chair and ‘Duse looked like a man who has accidently swallowed a jack knife while picking bis teeth. ;Do yer luv sassinger,; he solemnly inquired. ‘I do thaUJ she said, smacking her lips. By this time Dusenberry had untied the knot in the ribbon that bound TVxana's hair, and it fell over her face and neck in w&vey showers of ebon treeses. Let me bind it up ag'n,‘ be said. ‘Don't keet!‘ sfce answered, bunting for the ribbon, which, after much fumbling aDd searching ‘Duse* found in her lap, closely clasped between her knees. The rearranging of tfle Lair occupied a considerable length of time. The solemn silence was broken only by the heavy breathiDg and sighs of the worthy pair. Ac length it was accomplished, and Dusenberry resume! his seat. But the two chairs by this time were so close together it would have been difficult to insert the thin blade of a knife between them. More sighing -some coughing and clearing of throats when Dusenberry ^suddenly remarked: ‘Got a mind to bite yer.* Why hev yer got a mind to bite mt?J * Katze yer won't hev me/ ‘Raise yer aint axed me!‘ ‘Well now I axes yer!‘ •Then now ;‘I has yer. * There was & report like a small pistol shot— as two lips mot togotherin the consummation of love— and immediately after the sharp ringing report of a rifle, followed by yells a”d stentorian calls from the Colonel for the Sargeant of the guard !* A Dangerous Torpor.—Torpor or inactivity of it kidney* it seriously da goro»s to those organs, since the is the precidest of diseases which destroy tneir substance and endanger life. 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