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JOH5 H. SEALS. Editor and Proprietor. Wilt. B. SEALS. Proprietor and C or. Editor. MRK. NARY E. BRYAX. (*) Associate Editor ATLANTA. GEORGIA. MAY 24. 1 TO THE LADIES. To each lady who will send ns one new subscriber we will send either a solid sil ver thimble, or one of our beautiful fruit riCTURES. For 2 subscribers wo m ill send a gilt edge Volume of poems by an> standard author. Subscription only $2.50. SEE HERF. It is now admitted by everybody that there is no such a paper anywhere as the Sunny South. It is head and shoulders above them all. Bnt. it requires a great deal of moner to run it and we request every one of its friends to work a little in its be half. Every one can send us a few subscri bers and we are offering liberal premiums for them. See premiums and club rates on the 8th page. The times are not so hard as the people think and nothing is so easy to pay for as a geo A paper. It is unfortunate that every citizen of the South cannot and will not appreciate the importance of sus taining home papers. Go right to work nnd send us a few names. fhp Progress of Fashion.—Our front page illustration shows the changes in ladies' fashions from 1668 to 1875. It forms an amueing study when we note the variety of curious shapes Dame Fash ion has taken during her progress through two cen turies, and even when we compare those phases that have existed in our time. We can scarcely realize that so recently as 18«0 women wore those enormous crinolines which made them look like walking balloons, and caused them to take up four times the room they were justly entitled to. And those who can look back only so far ss 1832-37, open their eyes in astonishment when reminded that the grotesque head-gear, represented in the engraving, was deemed very becoming at that period. Ladies of rank, in all ages, have dressed richly and expen sively—much more so in some of the past ages than at present. Many of the old court-dresses of England and France were marvels of elaborate workmanship and artistic display, composed of material so rare and costly as to be only in the reach of the wealthiest. The fashion of 1875 was only the beginning of what It'is to-day. In other words, the style of dress now worn by our ladies of fashion is merely that of 1875 ■carried to an extreme. Perhaps the time is only a few years distant when we will look back at the fashions of 1879 with expressions of holy horror, and pronounce them the most ridiculous of all the past modes of dress. But we will not anticipate! One cannot help admiring the neatness and simplicity of the styles of 1S04—especially of the evening dress, which was not only graceful, bnt convenient to the wearer, being short in the skirt to allow the limbs free play. The walking-dressj or i<su also arranged with an eye to con venience in this respect, though it was by no means a graceful cos tume as viewed from an 1878 standpoint. What wiil be the next revolution in ladles’ fash ions, only the future can tell. The Macon Library.— * t the last meeting of the Directors of the Library, a resolution was adop ted that as the income of the Library, t hough suffi cient to meet the ordinary expenses, was not large enough to afford much of a margin for the purchase of new books, and as fairs and similar enter prises devolved much expense and trouble on a few to meet the increasing demand for new literature, and that a voluntary subscription list be opened at the Library to create a fund to be used in the pur chase of such books, and all members are invited to subscribe to the fund. Ail moneys so collected will be devoted to the purchase of the current lit erature of the day. The books so bought will be at the disposal of the whole membership of the Libra ry. The list has been opened at the Library and a number of names have already been appended. We are pleased to know that this Library is in a flourishing condition, and with such a librarian as Charley Herbst, we do not see how it could be oth erwise. He is not only one of the most efficient of ficers that ever had such an institution in charge, but is one of the most worthy and noble-hearted gentleman in all the land. Let Oar Congressmen Answer.—The Savan- nan News says: ‘‘Some of the State papers are finding a good deal of fault because Hon. W. O. Tug gle received $10,000 as a fee for collecting from the general government the 872,000 due to the State. We are Inclined to view such criticism as rather captious. To collect the sum required, a great deal of time, expense and unremitting exertion, and it was necessary that some agent of Georgia should go to Washington and devote himself assiduously to the recovery of the mcney and nothing else. It is stated that Mr. Tuggle agreed t° do this on consider ation that if he were successful he was to receive fifteen per cent, of the amount, if not successful he was to receive nothing. This can hardly be con sidered an extravagant agreement, under the cir cumstances, and Mr. Tuggle not only should have his fee, but he deserv, a credit for securing the set tlement of a claim of many years standing, and which, but for his industrious research and indefat igable efforts, would never have been discovered or presented to the United States government for pay ment.” There Is certainly a mystery about this whole thing which should be explained. We have In Congress ten men elected by the people of Georgia to represent their Interests at the seat o'govern ment, and yet when the State really has some In terest to be represented It has to call in the services of some outsider and pay him a very large fee. These ten men receive annually over $52,000, and weshouldlike to know what benefit the State re ceives In turn for this immense outlay. To say that these Congressmen are kept busy on Impor tant matters is a mistake; and what could be of more Importance than the collecting of claims actually due the State. If the making of a few po litical speeches is worth all this money we cannot see It. Indeed we are wholly unable to see how or wherein these speeches, however good In thought and matter, are worth anything at all to the State or to anv one else. Ben Hill’s recent speech of four hours duration cost the United States $20,000 in money, aad has it benefltted any portion of the country ? We cannot see it. But, to reiterate, why cannot these ten men lect these claims In favor of the State? Some odd thousand dollars have recently teen pah Georgia to outsiders for collecting claims and our Congressmen cannot and do not perform i duties we cannot understand. The Wav to Be Happy.—Happiness is alt to be found, If we will only condescend to pic up, seed by seed. As none of its ingredients sR be thought too minute to be gathered and add< your store, so none should be deemed too insig cant for distribution toothers. Occasions for ferring great benefits do not often occur, and w they do, it may not be in your power to bet them; but the little services and gratification w every'currentday placeslwithin the means of humblest member of society, will constitute I all throw onr share in the common stock, no in siderable aggregate of human enjoyment and tual good will. Does Her Own Work.— Does she ? What of j it? Is it a disgrace to tier? Is she les3 a true wo man, less worthy of respect than she who sits In silk and satin, aud is vain of fingers which never ! labor? We heard this sneer a few days ago,and the tone in which it was uttered betokened a nar row, selfish, ignoble mind, better fitted for any place than a country whose institutions rest on honorable labor as one of the chief corner-stones. It evinced a false idea of the true basis of society, of true womanhood, of genuine nobility. It showed the detestable spirit of caste, of rank, which a cer tain class are trying to es ablish; a caste whose sole foundation is money, and so the meanest kind of rauk known to civilization. Mind, manners, morals, all that enter into a good character, are of no account with those social snobs; position in their stilted ranks is bought with gold, and each additional dollar is another round in the ladder by which elevation is gained. In matter of fact, is it more dishonorable for the tradesman's wife to do her own work than for the tradesman to do his? For her to look after her house than for liim to look after his s:ore? Or is a woman fit for nothing only to be “pleased with a rattle, or tickled with a straw?” It seems to be the height of ambition in some circles to be, or pro fess to be, not only r “above work,” but even Igno rant of how wo. k Is to be done; and if the table Is poorly spread, or if the housekeeper is at sixes and sevens, the servaut receives maledictions without stiut, but the lady takes none of the responsibility upon herself. She look into the kitchen! She know how bread should be made or steak broiled ! She know when the flour is out or the sugar la! Absurd! Help may be bad enough, but what in terest can the girl in the kitchen feel in the house hold economy, if the lady in the parlor has none! If mistress neglects all domestic duties, will maid be thoroughly'conscientious? Will the husband’s business go on well if he neglects it? And why- should that of the wife prosper uuder her lack of responsibility ? Self Government.—In the midst of events that seem to bespeak predestination, man still feels that he is free. The planets wheel through the heavens; the earth revolves on : .s axis, and performs its vast annua! circuit; the seasons come and go; the clouds riseand vanish; the rain, hail and snow descend; and in all this, man lias no voice. There is a system of government above, beyond asd around him, declaring a sovereignty which takes no counsel of him. But still in the midst of all this, man possesses a consciousness of fred,,m. The met aphysician may i e confounded with the seeming in consistency ot an omnipotence, ruling over all things, yet granting tree agency to the subjects of its power. But common sense does not puzzle it self with an at Lem at to <1 scover the precise point at which these seeming principles of opposition.may clash or coalesce. It contents itself with the obvi ous fact that God is a sovereign, who has yet created beings, and given them their freedom, prescribing boundaries to their powers and capacities, indeed, but withiu these limits permitting them toact their own volition. Man then is free; he has the power to seek happi ness in his own way. He enters upon existence and sets forward in the road of life. But as he pass es along, a thousand tempters beset him. Pleasure comes to beckon him away, offering him pleasant flowers,and unfolding beautiful prospects in the distance. Wealth seeks to make him her votary by- disclosing her magic power over men and things. Ambition woos him with dreams o‘glory. Indo lence essays to soften and seduce him to her influ ence. Love, envy, malice* revenge, jealousy, and other busy- spirits assail him with various arts.— And man is free to yield to those temptations ifhe will. God lias surrendered him to his own discre tion, making him responsible however, for the use and the abuse of the liberty bestowed upom him. If a man mon >'48 a liigtespirited horse. IH»i«( portant that lie should be able to control him, oth erwise be may be dashed to pieces. If an engineer undertakes to conduct a locomotive, it is necessary that he should be able to guide or check the pant ing engine at his pleasure, else hie own life, aud the lives of otlieis may be sacrificed. But it is still more indispensable that an individual, who is in trusted with the care of himself, should be able to govern himself. This might seem a very easy task; but it is one of the most difficult that we are called upon to per form. History shows us that some of our greatest men have failed in it. Alexander could conquer the legions of Persia, but tie could not conquer his passions. Caesar triumphed in a hundred battles, but he fell a victim to the desire of being a king.— Bonaparte vanquished nearly- the whole of Europe, but he could not vanquish liis own ambition. And in humbler life, nearer home in our own every day affairs, most of us are often drawn aside from the path of duty and discretion, because we cannot resist some temptations or overcome some preju_ dice. If we consider that self-government requires two things; first, whenever we are tempted to deviate from the path of rectitude, or to act imprudently, or whenever we are tempted to neglect any duty, that we should possess and exercise the power to check ourselves in the one case, and to compel our selves to the required action in the other, we shall see that it is the great regulator of conduct, the very- balance-wheel of life. Without it, a person is almost sure to miss happiness; however great may be his gifts, however high his fortune; with it the humblest individual may command not merely- the world’s wealth, but the world’s respect; and, wbat is better, peace of mind, and the consciousness of Heaven’s approbation. If parents would not trust a child upon the back of a wild horse without bit or bridle, let them not permit him to go forth into the world unskilled in self-government. If a child is passionate, teach him, by gentle and patient means to curb his tem per. If he is greedy, cultivate liberality In him. If he Is sulky, charm him out of It, by encouraging frank good humor. If he is indolent, accustom him to exercise, and train him so as to perform onerous duties with alacrity. If pride comes in to muke his obedience reluctant, subdue him either by counsel or discipline. In short, give your children the habit of overcoming their besetting sins. Let them feel that they can overcome temptation. Let them acquire from experience, that confidence in them selves, which gives security to the practiced horse man. even on the back of a high-strung steed, and they will triumph over the difficulties and dangers which beset them in the path of life. A Punctuation Puzzle.—The following arti cle forcibly illustrates the necesity of punctuation. It can be read in two ways, making a very bad man or a very good man, the result depending on the manner in which it is punctuated. It is well worthy the study of teachers and pupils: He is an old and experienced man in vice and wickedness he is never found opposing the works of iniquity he takes delight in the downfall of his neighbors he never rejoices in the prosperity of any of his fellow creatures he is always ready to assist in destroying the peace of society he takes no pleas.- ure in serving the Lprd he is uncommonly diligent in sowing discord among his friends and acquaint ances he takes no pride in laboring to promote the cause of Christianity he has not teen negligent in endeavoring to stigmatize all public teachers he makes no exertions to subdue his evil passions he strives hard to build up satan’s kingdom he lends no aid to the support of the Gospel among the heathen he contributes largely to the evil adversary he pays no attention to good advice he gives great heed to the devil he will never go to heaven he must go where he will receive the just recompense of reward. A Reniij-liable Woman.—Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, who was (Juried on Saturday at Philadelphia at the ageof ninety-one years, and who is best known to lpndreds of thousands of ladies by her fifty years' Connection with the Lady’s Book, was a remarkably generous woman. She was the main instrumeritln raising the $.50,000 whicli completed the Bunk-i Hill Monument. The Bnnker Ilil* Monument Cad stood in an uncompleted state for want of filths, an eyr-sore to the people of the “Hub” ami b all New England, something like the unfinished Tashingtoo Monument at Washington City in the present day. Mrs. Bale, through her magazine, proposed that the women of New Eng land shoult undertake to raise the above sum to finish the work. People smiled at the idea at first, looking upoa it as nothing more than visio-ary. It turned out an entire success, however, for entire ly through Mrs. Hale's efforts, an association of women was formed, under whose auspices the greatest fair that had ever been known in this country was held in Boston, and all the money wanted was raised and the monument not long afterward completed. Fanny EUsler contributing the sum needed to cap the structure. Mrs. Hale's part in the monument matter is quoted by her friends as illustrating the energy of purpose and str -Jig will vhich she appears to have carried with her into everything she undertook. She had won derful persexvrance. This is shown in her connec tion with tin origination of the universal Thanks giving day. The observance of such a day was for merly at the option of the respective States, no day in particular being set apart for It. Mrs. Hale al ways contended that Thanksgiving Day should be a national aflairand that the last day In November should be adopted as the most fitting. For thirty- years she had urged this in various publications. At length, aft^rjrersonal correspondence with the governors of all the States prior to the civil war and afterward with President Lincoln and his suc cessors, her object was accomplished. It is under stood that her memoirs, reminiscences, letters and selected writings will be soon prepared lor publi cation in a book, Dr. Talmage acquitted.—' r he Philadelphia Times says: Mr. Talmage. who has been on trial for some time past, before an ecclesiastical court in Brooklyn, for certain eccentricities cf ritual in dulged In at bis Tabernacle, as well as for conduct generally unbecoming a clergyman and a gentle man, has been acquitted by a handsome majority, liis ministerial brethren being apparently of tlie opinion that his prosecnt.on was only an attempt at persecution in which his opponents were in fluenced more by jealousy of Talmage’s success than by a desire to suppress irreverence in the preaching of theTWord and in the conduct of divine service according lo the Congregational rite. Mr. Prescott, of St. Clement’s, on the other hand, has not yet been tried, but he lias been condemned in quite emphatic style by the diocesan convention of the Episcopal Church in this city- for the mode of worship and of preaching practiced by him. The Episcopalian method ol dealing with an ecclesias tical offender has the merit of saving much of the consumption of time and of printer’s ink involved in the Congregational method, and perhaps is equally effective, though upon this point there seems to he some doubt in the mind of the conven tion, since it is now proposed to enact a law for Mr. Prescott to break, so that he can then be tried. Tills is a desirable thing to do, for it was probably the absence of a canon to cover tlie case in the Congregational body that compelled Mr. Talmage’s acquittal by a efmrt that is not supposed to have approved of thel doctrine, discipline or worship of the Brooklyn TJtermvle, Evil SpeakinflL—Many a man despises another, with whom he^jctmUhad any dealing*, ° r *>y "-horn in* scarcely evwNs^olfe. Some person has whis pered a slande J in his ear. He believes the ill re port and thus shuns and despises his neighbor. A slander stops not here. This man has intimate friends to whom he opens his heart, and who catch his feelings and also become prejudiced against one, who perhaps may he one of the test men in the community. “Behold how great a fire a little spark kindleth,” says the apostle. A man who breathes a word against another, is little aware of the great injury he produces. He cannot recall that word if he would. It has gone forth and is repeated and believed by scores. Men are not care ful when they speak, and the slander is added to, until the character of one, comparatively pure, is made black and offensive in the extreme. Stop man! Do not speak at random. Utter no false hood, no matter what may be your feelings towards another. Evil speaking is a sin of which hundreds are guilty, who are not sensible of the injury they are producing. They imagine that language dies, when it falls from their lips. Not so; it lives, and is ever active for good or for evil. Be careful then when you speak and how you speak. Misrepresent nobody. It is a good rule to observe—if you can not speak well of another, do not speak ill. A lit tle care will save a deal of trouble and prevent these animosities and hatreds this side of the grave. Will you 6peak evil of another ? Will you slander? Will you lie? If so we never desire your acquaint ance. We are sure if there is a God, he will present his coldest frown to those who backbite, and de fame and labor to cover with infamy a name that is above reproacn. Economy in a Family.—There is nothing which goes so far towards placing young people be yond the reach of poverty, as economy in the man agement of their domestic affairs. It matters not whether a man furnish little or much for his family, if there is a leakage in his kitchen or in the parlor, it runs away he knows not how, and that demon Waste, cries more, like the horse-leech’s daughter, until he that has provided has no more to give. It is the husband’s duty to bring into the house, and it is the duty of the wife to see that nothing goes wrongfully out of it. A man gets a wife to look after his affairs, and to assist him in his journey through life—to educate his children for a proper station in life, and not to dissipate his property. The husband’s interest should be the wife’s care, and her greatest ambition should carry her no far ther than his welfare or happiness, together with that of her children. This ahoul 1 be her chief aim She may do as much at home towards making a fortune as he can do in the work-shop or the counting-room. It is not the money earned that makes a man wealthy, it is what he saves from his earnings. A good and prudent husband makes a deposite of the fruits of his labor with his best friend; and if the friend be not true to him, what has he to hope ? If he dare not place confidence in the companion of his bosom, where is he to place it ? A wife acts not for herself only, but she is the agent of the man she loves, and she is bound to act for his good, and not for her own gratification. Her husband’s good is the end to which she should aim—his approbation is her re ward. Self-gratification in dress, or indulgence in appetite, or more company than his purse can well entertain, are equally pernicious; the first adds vanity to extravagance—the second fastens a doc tor’s bill to a long butcher’s account—and the latter brings intemperance, the first of all evils, in its train. OUR NEW DRESS. The Best and Handsomest Paper in the World. ITS PAST AND FUTURE. PRICE REDI CED. A Profusion of Thanks and et ceteras. Now give it up. You can’t deny that The Sunny South is now the handsomest paper in America, if not in all the world. And is it not also the best.? Examine it and judge for yourself. Such a variety of reading matter was never before embraced in one paper. Examine each page separately and care fully. ' The Tide of Nesfrn Em migration. Philadelphia Times. The tide of negro immigration into Kansas lias begun to ebb. A party of fiftv left St. Louis on the way hack to their old homes Tuesday evening, having seen all thoy wanted of the promised Northern Paradise. The relief committee have been furnished with money from the South to pav the exjiense-s of all who want to return, Grill thp nnisTicpt is ytv.vl that the exodus will soon be Important DnesUons. [N. Y. World.] It is commonly supposed that there are thousands of destitute and unemployed working-men iu New lork who are anxious to get work at any wages which will support them. The steamship companies, it seems, would be giad to>find some hundreds of this presumed multitude. They have failed, although they required only unskilled labor and have offered at least the means of daily subsistence in return for it. How much of the apparent and undeniable destitution in this city is a real consequence of a real lack of employment, therefore, and how much proceeds from the habit of promiscious alms-giving without inquiry and from, the growth of a positively vagrant pauper class in this country, are ques tions worth looking fnto. This is the beginning of the FIFTH VOLUME, but the paper is very nearly five years of age al ready. The first number was issued on the 29th of October, 1S74, but for the first year it was published only once in two weeks. The lawyers, doctors, wiseacres and knowing ones, generally-, said it could not live, That a literary paper had never lived in the South and eoukl not live, for there was not cul ture enough among our people. Six months of life was the longest time we could hear of any knowing one giving it. But still it lives, neveriheless. True it has teen a severe struggle, for, beginning as it did, without money, credit or resources, and just when the money panic of the country was setting in, and in the face of all that doubt and unbelief in the public mind, it has required the test efforts of our lives to make it a success. The labor, solicitude Since the Days of Oalhonn. [Correspondence Cleveland Leader.] Hill’s speech was startling, and inimical to the peace of the government, as it advanced the idea of state sov- eignty with more audacity, cunning, extremism, ability ami eloquence than any that has been spoken since the days of Calhoun. Not since the Republican party has gone into power has it been so ably attacked as this after noon. With a refinement of sophistry he advanced jioiiit after point against its management of national affairs since its first appearance as a party that had never been put forth before, and finally took the position that in the war in which tlie country was being forced lie would be found fighting under the flag of the union. He explained this statement by charging that if the president vetoed this hill and the army interference hill he would be doing so to continue the Republican party in power by degrading ami strangling the States to death, and with out the States tlie union would be destroyed—a thing against which lie was now ready to fight to the hitter end. When lie drew near the close, and spoke of the critical situation of affairs, his earnestness and gravity were impressive beyond description, and the solemn faces of everybody around told the depth of the convic tion he had wrought—that the issues of the extra session might drag the country to war. and financial cares have borne heavily upon us, but we have struggled bravely ou, and thousands of noble hearted Southerners have cheered us with kind words and subscriptions, while a good Provi dence has seemed ever near, to sustain us in mo ments of despair. We now feel as though we had safely passed through the wilderness, and with re turning prosperity to our people, the paper presents itself to each and all of them with a new and smil ing face, and begs to be token in as a permanent member of the household. Will any one refuse ? Can any refuse ? One thing which now cheers us is the fact that all those who said the paper could not live, and some in whose heart’s lurked a secret and envious desire that it might not, are now becoming its warm friends and wishing it a long life. Since it did not, and would not, nor will not die, they new say bravo! good! long life to the brave and glorious enterprise. We take t'em by the hand. To the brethren of the press everywhere we feel THE UNKNOWN DEAD OF THE SOUTH. Visit of Two Vi ririnian* to Aeeept the 8110,000 Monument lor the Stonewall Brigade. It was a quiet carriage party that drove away from the Girard House yesterday morning, out through Laurel Hill to Pelahunty’s marble tombstone works, opposite the point where “Old Mortality” guards the gate of the cemetery. The guests of tlie party were two Virginia gentleman. William It. Denny, president of the Winches ter Paper Mill Company, one of the largest stockholders of which is the present Governor of Virginia, Holliday, and John J. Williams, a leading member of the bar of Winchester, of that State. The hosts of these two gen tlemen were ex-Mayor Vaux, Thomas May Pierce, Tlios. E. Gaskill, Public Building Commissioner, and Mr. Delahunty. The purpose of the visit of these Virginians was to approve of the completion of Mr. Delahuiitv’s contract for the 810,000 monument to be raised in Win chester on the 0th of next month over the graves of the “Unknown Dead,” gathered at the Stonewall Cemetery in that town. Mr. Jlelaliunty competed with New York, I Baltimoreand Philadelphia, and carried off tlie prize. His work was approved with enthusiasm by the Vir ginia gentlemen yesterday, and the Philadelphians were proud of the treasure in art which the old Philadelphia sculptor of monuments had turned out for the "unknown and unrecorded dead” that lie in tlie valley of Virginia. deeply indebted for the sympathy- and interest which they have ever manifested toward the pa per, and in the future we shall endeavor to show- a higher appreciation of their efforts to aid us. Let all the friends of the paper everywhere now congratulate it on its new dress, and show it to a]l the neighbors and induce them to send for it with out delay-. The price is now reduced to 62.50 a y-ear; $1.25 for six months; 61.00 for four months, and 75 cents for three months. Let all labor now just a little in its behalf, and we shall rejoice and be exceeding glad. Our hearts are filled with grati tude to all its old friends who have stood by- it so long, and we wish each a long and happy life. Two Gotham Husbands. * vfhur >f* The Melancholy Experience of Messrs. Jones and Brown. Boston Gazette New York Letter. New York is full of scandals. If the things that happen here among society people happened among members of the theatrical profession we would hear more of them. People on the stage are so well known that they can do nothing that is not made in public. Theatrical scandals are rolled over the mouth like a sweet morsel, but in society- they are hushed up or whispered about with bated breath. I heard a story the other day that has made a stir in certain fashionable circles. It seems that two friends were talking confidences at their club the other night, when one, whom I shall for conven ience call Jones, told the other, whom I shall call Brown, that his wife needed looking after. “Now don't get angry, Brown, old boy, but they do talk abouL your wife and say that she goes out" with a set of fast men.” “Impossible!” said Brown. “I know where my wife is every- night; she could not go with fast men without iny- finding her out.” “Well, I only tell you to warn you,” said Jones, and as he and Brown were such cronies the latter did not take it amiss. “I am going to Philadelphia to-morrow, and if y-ou tear anything let me know by telegraph,” said Brown, laughingly. He went to Philadelphia, and the morning after he arrived received a telegram from Jones: “Come home; there's a theater party on hand for to-night that you will not approve.” So Brown came back, and at nine o’clock or so strolled into a certain theater with Jones. The two friends turned up their coat- collars and stood up against the rear wall. They raked the house with their eyes, and lo ! there, in a proscenium box, sat Mrs. Brown in evening dress, with the man of all men in New York whom Brown despised the most leaning familiarly over the back of her chair. By her side sat anothor man, one tearing a very unsavory name among gentlemen. He was talking to some one in a corner of the box, who could not be seen by the audience. Brown’s feelings may- be tetter imagined than described. He w ould have gone and dragged his w-ife forcibly out of the box if Jones had not held him back. Jones soothed him as test he might, inwardly thank ing his stars that Mrs. Jones was not like vMrs. Brown. After the play was ended, the two friends stood outside the theater door and saw the party from the box come out. There were two ladies, well muffled up with scarfs and such like disguises. Such women generally go in pairs, thought Jones, and pittied poor Brown from the bottom of his heart. The order was given to the driver, “as usual,” and the coach dashed off. Jones and Brown jumped into a coupe and told the driver to follow the coach, and when it stopped to stop a good dis tance behind. Up town dashed the two vehicles, and brought up in front of Brown’s door ; the party went in, and giving them time to get settled Brown and Jones let themselves in w-ith a night-key. The front door unfortunately made a noise in closing, and when the two friends walked into the dining room, where preparations were made for a cham pagne supper, they saw the end of two coat-tails disappearing through the back windows, and two e ile, frightened women staring at them ; one was rs. Brown, and the other—Mrs, Jones. Confederate Survivors' Association. Inquiries from various parts of the country make it proper to state that any Confederate soldier, wherever he may be, is entitled to membership in the Confederate Survivors’ Association which has its headquarters in this city. The organization is not at all local in its nature or connections; on the contrary, it has members on its roll who now live throughout Georgia and Carolina and other States, even in New York and New Jersey and in Europe. The Association is spreading rapidly;and its mem bers are active and energetic in promoting its in terests. The number on the rolls is now verging on to 300, with new applications coming in daily. Papers throughout the country will please give this notice a place, stating that all any old soldier has to do is to send his name to ‘Mr. Berry Benson, Secretary C. S. A., Augusta, Ga-, and a blank ap plication will be forwarded to him promptly. The expense is light—50 cents initation fee, and do a quarter for regular dues. Newspapers please KEARNEY'S VICTORY. Ills Proclamation on the Success of the New Constitution of California. [New York Herald] We have carried the election in the interest of the peo ple against the combined forces of the Democratic and Republican thieves who coalesced with corporation swindlers, bank robbers, land sharks, stock manipula tors. short card players, abortionists, shoulder hitters, whiskey bummers, bludgeon murderers, religious hypo crites, worshippers of the deril and the golden can.— They employed every hireling scribbler, bought up nine-tenths of the papers of the State, spent millions of money, and were routed, horse, foot and dragoon*, oil the day of election, by moral men and virtuous women. I am asked what will be the effect of yesterday's elec tion? In answer, I will say that capital will be better protected, but will be taxed for such protection. Look at the present state of affairs. An English capitalist comes to our State, refuses to become a citizen, damns our flag and laws, loans his money to farmers at the rate of one and a-half to two per cent, a month, lives in a hotel, is protected by the police, firemen and court*: vet he pays no taxes for such protection. This is sipping ''-■ft® .v"olDrDl thq people.' Interest must be reduced to tha rate that it is loaned in England, France etc. New industries will be prosecuted. The people will beconta prosperous, labor will be emancipated and the unthink ing majority, as we are styled, will do it. The Chinese must go, the "bread and water.” Beecher must go, the screaming Talmage must go. the lecherous bondholders must go; Sherman, Shylock, Scyndicate it Co. must go. as neither can exist under the new order of things, and intelligence based upon virtue, honesty and common sense will introduce principles that must survive and rule the world. Dennis Kearney. •cents • copy. HARK GRAY INSANE. Booth's Assailant Pronounced Mad from Incipient Epilepsy. Chicago, May 11.—The case of the voting man, Mark Gray, who some timeagoshot at Edwin Booth, was called Saturday in the Criminal Court, and the experts who had examined the prisoner as to his mental condition testified as to the opinion arrived at as the result of the examination. I)r. Henrotin said that there was a certain class of insane people—periodically insane—who would at times reflect. When thev felt that their insane spells were approaching they would request their friends to lock them up. That Gray was thus afflicted he thought was demonstrated by liis wish to be alone at times. Then again it was stated that Grav’s sister was subject to epileptic spasms. He believed that Gray was insane, and would soon become an epileptic. Dr. Brow er said that he thought the man insane. The condition of the prisoner certainly showed that. His perfect in difference to all that occurred during the examination pointed to that fact. Dr. Lyman also thought the man insane; Gray, lie thought, enjoyed the investigation. There was not the slightest effort on his part to feign insanity, as proved by hisadding up figures. That inci dent alone he thought would indicate insanity. Gener ally speaking, an insane man would deny his insanitv while a sane man would acknowledge insanity, where there was "method in his madness.” Another’ indica tion of Gray’s insanity was his high opinion of his sanity and his low opinion of Booth’s acting. The evidence having been heard the State’s attorney moved that the Court 1 toclnre Gray to be insane which was done, and consequently the voting man will not bo tried, but be sent to the Elgin Asylum. Last night Gray was called upoii to see what he had to say. He was not very talkative, but was of the opin ion that he would be very soon released from imprison ment. lie proposed to go on the stage this fall at 8t Louis. He said that he would make his debut in ‘-Ham let,” and after gaining fame he insists that he will return to Keokuk and there wed “Katie,” the girl whose name has figured 111 connection with liis since his foolhardv attempt on the life of Mr Booth. When asked if "Katie” was willing, he said that he had not as yet suggested the matter to her, but that would be all right Ttere wM no danger in regard to that part of the programme. , t The Snltan's Gift to Grant. interview His Majesty charged Mumir Bey, the maste? of ceremonies, to present the General with an Arab horse from the imperial stables. Accordingly a Sumter were led out, and one chosen and set aside for hte but owing to some misunderstanding the gift horee wtis not sent, andIt e Vandal,a sailed without him Reeentv the question having been revived, the steed n ouos-t on was hunted up among 570 horses which comthe araa&SSHSwsys-a ably sail direct to New Haven ’Fhev > aro 1 w prob [ on deck, provided withcanvastelts Vswffig inln rough weather, and treated like saloon passmirere So that the end SHhefrttutg Passage win find them both sound in wind and the finite 6 n a da PP. led gray of fair size, and having all well-2?^esfe™ - th v 6 Arabian Mood-Lmall iet ’ . tless ears > wide pink nostrils, and large soft eyes, waving mane, and long tail reaching aim os? to the Found, and> skin of such delieac^ thafthe sftoke of a jf dy i* "hipis sufficient to draw blood. The other stal- white^aro^isT^^ 116 ; 8 4 'black^witha wnue swr °n ms foroheiid and white hind feet when Ses 1 'hire tWJS b ' S fo f rehe “ d ‘he large, black Their rait is ,^L» vf e ‘f 10 n of a Bedouin woman’*. gssurss , X‘ W “ ££ mo 0 u n t e h th Le a t d o 0 ne Sil f k ,l; S en °^h aeharceora these Arabs in the mad rush of dwife^teed f ♦5“ r t der and that instant the hones are of The f!r£ “ ‘o 0 ^ gh turned to stone. These & nntvfl? 6 .race, the purest Arabian hederivesfrom the aSS 5“? , Calr °)- which cognomen although foalS a h t tl? 6 T 48 bou g h t at Cairo, well as saddle horses ilfeft blo^d'and genttl KeTare S?tarill , te d have nrdoubHh^ our great General will be highly pleased with the Sultan’s