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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1870)
®l )t tUcchlu Constitutionalist. BY STOOETON & CO. OUR TERMS. The following are the rates of Subscription: Daily, one year $lO 00 Wuni, one year 's3 00 [From the Toronto Leader. Gas! Gas man ! Gas man ! v Think yon I’m an ass, mac, Patting in yonr pocket All the money that I make ? What are you about, sir ? 1 can do without, sir, Better gas than- money, Or I’m making a mistake ! Every man you meet, sir, In the public street, sir, Damns you up and down, And says the swindle is too clear ; People want to know, sir, | What your books can show, sir, I Clearer than your gas bills Make the thing appear. Fraud or swindle, surely. Somewhere lurks securely; " Somewhere, in your business. There’s a nigger in the fence ! f Come! give us satisfaction ! Or some potent public action Soon will show that fraud and gammon Makes you rich at our expense ! Gas man 1 Gas man ! Are you made of brass, man— Heart and brain and conscience, An as brazen as your pipes ? Let us hope another metal, Soon your little bill will settle, And your voice be clear and manifest, In little leaden types. Ah! then your lying meters, Those never falling cheaters, Will lie in vain, to save you From a flood of public scorn ; A general indignation, Will make you rue the day, man, That ever you were born ! Gas man ! Gas man 1 It will come to pass, man, If you don’t repent, And cease to plunder honest men ; That down where Satan revels,* With his twenty million devils You’ll furnish endless light, and get No money back again 1 Adieu, Mignonne, Ma Belie. BY ROBERT LYTTON. Adieu, Mignonne, ma belle—when you are gone Vague thoughts of you will wander, search ing love Thro’ this dim heart; thro’this dim room, Mig nonne, Vague fragrance from your hair and dress will move. How will you think of this poor heart to-mor row, This poor fond heart with all its joy in you ? Which you were fain to lean on, once, in sor row, Though now you bid it such a light adieu. You’ll sing, perchance—“ I pass a night of dreams Once, in an old Inn’s old worm-eaten bed, Passing on life’s highway. How strange it seems, .!*• That nevermore I there shall lean my head I” Adieu, Mignonne, adieu, Mignonne, ma belle! Ah, little witch, our greeting was so gay, Onr love so painless, who’d have thought “Fare well ” Could ever be so sad a word to say ? * I leave a thousand fond farewells with yon; Some for your red, wet lips which were so sweet, Some for your darling eyes, so dear, so blue, Some for yonr wicked, wanton little feet: But for your little heart, not yet awake— What can I leave your little heart, Mignonne ! It seems so fast asleep, I lear to break The poor thing’s slumber. Let it still sleep on! We have seldom met with a more beautifully pathetic little poem than the following. There are many hearts that will enjoy Us music and comprehend its meaning: He Leads Us On. He leads us on By paths we did not know. Upward he leads ns, thongh onr steps he slow, Thongh olt we faint and falter by the way, Thongh storms and darkness oft obscure the day, Yet, when the clouds are gone, We know He leads u^on. He leads ns on Through all the nnqniet years; Past all our dreamland hopes, and doubts, and fears, He guides our steps. Through all the tangled maze Ot sin, of sorrow, and o’erclouded days, We know His will is done ; And still He leads us on. And He at last, After the weary strife, After the restless fever we call life— After the dreariness, the aching pain— The wayward straggles, which have proved in vain— Alter our toils are past— Will give us rest at last. Rest. The following lines were found uDder the pillow of a soldier who was lying dead in a hospital near Fort Royal, South Carolina : I lay me down to sleep With little thought or care Whether my waking find me Here or there. A bowing, bewildered head, That only asks to rest, Unquestioning, upon A loving breast. My good right band forgets Its cunning now— To make the weary march I knffW not bow. I am not eager, bold. Nor strong; all that Is past; I am ready not bo do At last, at last. My bsif-day’s work Is done, And this is all my part f 1 give S patient G'>d My patient heart, And grasp His t-wra* r still, Though all It# blue ha din, Th’arf stripes, i ia less than star#, U- d Mbit him. Fried Frenchman. A DINNER WITH THE KING OP THE CANNI BAL ISLANDS. [Mark Twain in the Buffalo Express. “Now, as regards those missionaries,” continued the King, reflectively, scratching his head with the fork which I had present ed him, and which he had already learned to use a good deal, though not always in a strictly legitimate way, “as regards those missionaries, I will say that their landing here was unexpected, but I hastened to give them every protection. And I gave them fall privilege to teach. They were the first whites that some of my people had seen, and of course these simple natives had a natural curiosity to experiment upon them! I could not reasonably deny them this little gratification, though I counselled them to practice as little cruelty upon the strangers as was compatible with a fair de sire for information and the necessity for wholesome amusement. They removed Johnson’s ears, and that was a thing I re gretted seriously, until it was explained to me that a great chief’s little sick child de sired them to play with—and if you could have seen how much more contented and restful the poor young thing was after it acquired them you would have felt how blessed a thing it is to be able to contribute to the happiness of even a little child.” “ It was the impulse of a generous heart —it was a spirit of liberality as rare as it is beautiful. And how did Johnson like it?” . “ Oh, Johnson said it was the will of God. It was like Johnson to say that. But the missionaries were right well treat ed on the whole. The natives tried various interesting experiments upon them, such as scorching them, and scalping them, and all that ffJrt of thing, and 1 killed one of them myself; not in malice, but because I had a curious caprice to see how he would go with onions. He was a failure. Old and tough. Undone, my wahine said—a shade too venerable, I said. Give me pun gency and tenderness for a combination. Onions and infancy is my idea of comfort. You people don’t know how to cook. No, as I was saving, the Kanakas experimented a good deal on the missionaries in the in terest of science, and the experiments were generally fatal, though I urged them not to waste the missionaries, for we conld not know when we would have another lot. But among those that survived was Wil liams, and it was he that wrote home those damaging reports to your country, in which he spoke of the'treatment of his brethren in a peevish, fault-finding spirit, 111-becoming his sacred calling. I suppose yonr people believed every word of it, and just jumped to the conclusion that we were a base, in hospitable race. Never explained about Johnson’s ears, perhaps? never told why I killed that other fellow ? confound roe, it does seem to me that some people take pleasure in misrepresenting things, and bringing obloquy upon their fellow crea tures. Bometimes I feel as if I had rather be dead and at rest. The world seems so shameless in its judgments, and one’s life is so embittered by the malicious criticisms 'of those whose hearts are not in sympathy With him.” “ It wo* pitiful in that Williams after all you had done for his party.” . “I should say so ! But never mind, let’s be cheerful, any Way. How are you making out? Let me help you to a fried plantain. Take some more of the pup? Noi Try some of the human being ? By George, this fellow is done to a charm. You’ll like him. He was a Frenchman —splendid chap— young and hale, and hearty—beautiful to look upon. Do you prefer white meat or dark? Let me help you to some of the breast ? Ah, me, I have known this young ster for thirteen years—fished with him, swam with him, sailed with him, gave a couple of my sisters and four aunts to him. I loved him. He was always good. He is good now.” Taking up a fragment of his late brother ia-iaw, the King took a bite, and then gazed long and pensively upon the remainder, till by-aud-by the muscles of his mouth began to twitch with emotion, and presently two or three great tears swelled from his eyes and coursed down his cheeks. Then, in a choking voice, he murmured : “ Alas, they have fried him!” I laid down the breast-bone of deceased, and bnrst into tears also. Such is the sympathetic power of grief. It was noth ing whether they fried him or boiled him ; it was nothing to me how this poor foreigner was cooked; I was only eating him out of vain curiosity, and not because I loved him, not because I respected him, not because I wished to curry favor with his relatives. Yet I wept. “ They have fried him!” said the King. “ Alas, poor Gaultier. However, let us cheer up; let ns be content. But I will have my cook for breakfast, and I will fry him, and see how he likes it. There is nothing like a sharp example to teach a man, my friend. But don’t be idle, sir; take some more of the fried Frenchman, I ought to be ashamed to offer you such a dish, but you see how lam situated. He ought to have been baked—this fellow ought. We always bake a Frenchman; we never think of frying him. Bat I wish you had known this fellow—so kind, so gentle, so loving; and yon see yonrself how tender he is. Bat that Williams busi ness ; I wish yoa would straighten that op for me when yon go back to America. If yonr pleople conld only know the facts in the case, they would not blame me. It is a little hard, alter I have spent all these years in building up a good name, to have it all knocked in the head by this shabby adventurer. Now, what he called a 1 hid eous revel,’ and a ‘ feast of devils,’ and all sorts of vile and wicked names, was noth ing in the world, I give you my sacred hon or, but a simple barbecue—seventeen old crippled natives, oo account under the sun, just an expense to the community, and I fricassed'them to give a little treat to some visiting town chiefs (aldermen you call them in yonr country) who were here for a day or two from the Fejee Island. ‘Feast of devils,’ Indeed—made of dried and skin ny old rapscallions that the island is a j thousand times totter off without, and I am sure It was honorable io us to be hos pitable to those strangers. Though be-1 tween yon and me It was an awful swindle ‘ on them—though, oh, don't m*»nt lon It I— | more cholera morbus and Indigestion and . general sufferi ug among those chiefs, pew never saw tin; like of it in your life. Now, Twain, you see how much truth liters wss' lu Wllflsnis’ •istemsut*—all that row about do*blog Vou can sat tins thing AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 23, 1870. —simply just explain the facts, and any thing I can do for you I’ll do It—you can depend on me. Send me a copy of your weekly. I can’t read it, but a little litera ture can’t hurt a man anyhow. Caesar’s ghost!” “Oh, heaven! what is the matter, your gracious majesty ?” “Oh, misery! oh, murder! oh, despera tion!” “Oh, what is it, your imperial majesty, I beseech you ?” He had sprang to his feet, and his fixed eyes were staring wildly at the fried meat before him. “Oh, my brain reels! This hair a Frenchmen's hair? There must be some mistake. A horrid suspicion bursts upon me! Ah, what is this I see ?—this thing— this accusing mark! A strawberry on the left arm !—it is my long-lost brother!" Alas! it was even so. It was his long lost brother—what was left of him. Poor fellow! he was only fit to be shoveled into a basket and given to the poor, now. The King fell to the floor insensible. He grew worse and worse, and the next day his re moval to the country was ordered. J&tny sympathizing relatives and friends fol lowed the palanquin, and did what they could to alleviate the sufferings of their unhappy sovereign. It turned out afterward that the sweet heart of the Frenchman had made a sur reptitious exchange of marketing in the King’s kitchen before daylight on that fatal day. She had bought the king’s brother from a wandering tribe that be longed in the great wilderness at the other end of the island. She bought him pur posely to make that exchange, though of course she did not know he was. The girl and the Frenchman escaped from the island that very night, and were happily married, or drowned, I dqp’t know which. I would liked to have tasted that Frenchman. [From Hall’s Journal of Health. Taking Cold. HOW TO DO IT—AND HOW IT MAT BE AVOIDED. Not by tumbling into the river and drag ging home wet as a drowned rat; not by being pitched into the mud, or spilled out, into the anow in sleighing time ; not by walking for hours, over shoe-top in mud ; not by soaking in the rain without an umbrella ; not by scrubbing the floor until the unnameable sticks to yon like a wet rag ; not by hoeing potatoes until you are a lather of sweat; these are not the things which give people colds ; and yet they are all the time saying how they “ caught cold by exposure. The time for taking cold is after your exercise; the place is in you own house, or office or counting-house. It is not the act of exercise which gives the cold, bat the getting cool too quick after exercising. 'For example, yon walk very fast to get to the railway station, or to the ferry, or to catch the omnibus, or to make time for an appoint ment; your mind being ahead of you, your body makes an extra effort to keep up with it, and when you get to the desired spot, you raise yonr hat and find yonrself in a perspiration; yon take a seat, feeling quite comfortable as to temperature; you begin to talk with a friend, or if a New Yorker, to read a newspaper, and before yon are aware of it, yon experience a sensation of chilliness, and the thing is done; yon look around to see where the cold comes from, and find an open window near, or a door, or that yon have taken a seat at the for ward part of the car, and it moving against the wind, a strong draft is made through the crevices. After all kind of exercise, do not stand a moment at a street corner for any body or any thing; nor at an open door or window. Whenever yon have been exercising in any whatever, Winter or Summer, go home at once, or to some sheltered place, and, how ever warm the room may seem to be, do not at once pull off yonr hat and cloak, bnt wait awhile—some five minutes or more, and lay aside one thing at a time; thus acting, a cold is impossible. Notice a moment: when yon return from a brisk walk and yon enter a warm room, raise vonr hat and yonr forehead will be moist, let the bat remain for a few moments and feel the forehead again, and it will be dry. showing that the room is actually cooler than yonr body, and that with out-door clothing on yon have really cooled off fall soon enough. Many of the severest colds I have ever known men to take were the result of sitting down to a warm meal in a cool room after a long walk, or being en gaged in writing, have let the fire go oat, and their first admonition of it was that creeping chlllness which is the ordinary forerunner of a severe cold. Persons have often lost their lives by writing or reading in a room where there was no fire, although the weather outside was rather comforta ble. Sleeping in rooms long unnsed has destroyed the life of many a visitor and friend. Our splendid parlors and our nice “ spare rooms ” help to enrich many a doc tor. [From lb* Radical. On Catching Colds. Dr. Symes Thompson. Professor of Medi cine at Gresham College, London, has re cently delivered a “ Gresham Lecture ”on catching colds. The following extracts will be of interest to our readers: The prevention of colds is to be accom plished bv keeping the skin in a healthy and vigorous state, so that it may at once resume its proper and normal condition when chills hare been suddenly applied to it; then the internal congestions are avoid ed or removed simultaneously with the ex ternal contraction and stagnation. The habitual use of cold bathing In the early morning ia one very powerful means to this end; It t rid ns the vessels of the skin to rise vigorously Into renewed action after the application of a chill. The relaxing influence of over-heated apartment* should be avoided, because that saps the power of vigorous reaction; but. fa cold weather, the utmost care should be taken to bare the entire skin efficiently protected byj warm clothing The power* of the system la periods prims to the production of eotde, j sad iiyst especially when the temperature ] of the eslcrusJ air is toiw«*-o HU *od 40 d* 1 grm« ni Kshrenbeltt’s best scale (for that, U the condition In which the dsuffer Is j fouud to tie most certainly incurred j should ■ Is most carefully w.ijUlssl by the judirt ment or excess. When once internal con gestion has been set up, and the cold has been “ caught,” the thing to be done is im mediately to bri ug back vigorous circulation and exhalation in th» skiu. The Turkish bath is one of the most convenient and cer tain of ail contrivances for iusuring this ob ject ; in its absence the vapor bath or hot air bath may be employed. The action of the bath is to be reinforced by the administra tion of stimulants, first and foremost amongst which stands concentrated food. There is one expedient both for preventing and curing “ colds," which was not allud ed to upon this occasion (says a writer in natnre), but which is, nevertheless, as pow erful as any of the measures which were described, and it may sometimes be drawn upon in circumstances when those plans cannot be adopted, in consequence of the sufferer being compelled by the exigencies of life to continue to meet exposure to chilling influences. This Is abstinence from drink, and liquid food of any kind, until the internal congestion is removed. The remedial action through the skin docs its work by drawlngaway the superabundance of the circulating fluid from the overcharg ed part. But this desirable result is even more certainly insured if the general bulk of the circulating fluid, or blood, Is dimin ished by withholding supplies of the more liquid, or watery, ingredient; which may be done where the digestive power Is unim paired, without in any way diminishing the richer or more immediately nourishing por tion. The instant the general balk of the circulating blood is diminished, the excess contained in the congested and overcharged membranes is withdrawn, and the cold Is relieved. Somewhat severe thirst sets In ; but, cnrionsly enough, simultaneously with the occurrence to this thirst, the congested internal membranes grow moist, and exhale gently and naturally in conseqnence of the relief of the overcharged vessels. All that is then necessary is to keep the supply of drink down to the point which enables some measure of thirst to be maintained, and during its maintenance there is not the slightest chance of the recurrence of the cold. [From the New York Poet The Pneumatic Railway. ~ The Pneumatic Railway Tunnel is stead ily pushing its subterranean way, and ex tends. at present, from the comer of Broad way and Warren street to a point half-way between Murray and Barclay streets. A view of it disappoints the spectator most agreeably. It is painted white, and bril liantly lighted with gas. Throughout its length it is of brick, and circular in form, and 8 feet in diameter. At the upper end, the vault is quite spacious. Light is ob tained by means of glass inserted in the sidewalk above. An attractive finish is given to the walls by a wainscoting of oak and lEfltant in stripes. A railway runs upon the floor of the tube, which ts 81 stet from the surface of the street. It is used for conveying the earth toward the entrance as the tunnel proceeds. Upon this road stands a long passenger car, which is used for this purpose. It can be fitted with seats, if necessary, for experimental trips. A visit to the tunnel convinces the specta tor of the feasibility of the enterprise, and gives a feeling of safety from any danger by the caving in of the e#gth. The mode of excavation is ingenious and novel. In the office of the company, in the base ment of Devlin’s building, is a gigantic iron cylinder for the working of the fen which is to propel the car. The upper half only of this cylinder Is visible above the floor. Adjoining the office is the engine room, where stands a boiler and an engine of 85-horse power. The tnnnel Is gradual ly lengthening, at the rate of four feet a day, bnt, from the circumscribed space, only two men are able to shovel the earth that fells through the action of the rams. At this rate progress would be necessarily slow, and many years might elapse before the work conld be finished through the length of New York Island. The plan of the company, however, is to sink shafts and carry on operations at nnmerons points along the line. The rapid completion of the undertaking will, therefore, be more a question of capital than of time. The public will soon be admitted to view the tnnnel and ride in the car. There is bpt little donbt on the part of the company that abundant foods wilt be obtainable when the practical working of the tnnnel has been demonstrated. The design, on the completion of the tnnnel. Is to ran the car at the rate of one mile in n minute.— This cannot be done at present- The dis tance is too short for quick stoppages. The charter of the company at present permits only the carriage of freight; bnt as passengers can be transported with equal facility, there is no donbt that it will be amended for that purpose. (From the New York World. Pea-Nut Protection. That eminent North Carolinian Senator, Mr. Abbott, or New Hampshire, has ad dicted himself to learning the wants of his constituency, and be has accordingly signalized himself by presenting to Con gress tbe resolutions of the Legislature of the State of his recent adoption in favor of a “ tariff upon pea-nuts.” There is no donbt that tbe protection of that convivial tuber which ia the object of the fond solicitnde of Senator Abbott is as legitimate an object of legislation as any upon which tbe majority of Congress is wont to occupy itself. It may at least be trusted to secure tbe ardent advocacy of H- G. That philosopher objects to tbe besetting tobacco and tbe maddening “ ram.” He looks not upon the wine when It is red. in the cop, nor yet upon tbe whisky when it ia yellow in the tumbler. But no man can subsist without relaxa tion, and “no man,” aa Dr. Johnson has jostly remarked, “fas a hypocrite In bis pleasures.” H. G. has managed to retain In bU diet and in bla dress the sweet sim plicities of youth. His pastoral smile snd eke bis boundless boots smack of the haunt* of bis childhood, and weekly in tbe T. Unust be babbles of tbe green fields of CbapPsquA, It most be that tbe yearning* of the child for “ taffy ” and for pea-nut* j agitate also the a’Women of tbe man His i ! essays on political economy are racy of tbe ‘ [ peg-out, sad bis diatribes upon capital j punishment smack of the homely sweeto*** of tbe “taffy” wherein ft Is composudad With treacle. AruslUs Is the meat ' wbereos our lire < U-y bath M that be I* j grown so grunt, To “diversify American Industry ”1 *y probtbKiog »be Importation accordance with his theories as an econo mist, bnt in sweet conformity to his prac tice as a man. Although the peanut mo nopolists would extort vast sums from him and the other consumers of the indigenous pea-nut, the industry of the industrious miners of pea-nnts would be protected and the importers of the base foreign article would dwindle, peak and pine. Nevertheless the tariff upon pea-nnts, thongh it might thus make the judicious laugh, would frill surely make the unthink ing grieve. The gayety of the gallery would be eclipsed and the glory of the rural circus be departed. The South Carolinian clay-eater would mourn for his “ pindar,” and refuse to be comforted because it was not. The Georgian cracker would go heavi ly for his “ goober,” as one that moorneth for his mother. No more the whizzing shell of the ground-nut, hulled by the gods of the gallery, would sting the noses of the occupants ot the parquette. The abodes of negro minstrelsy would become a cheer less void. The Bowery Theatre would be converted into a silent wilderness. In be half of the great masses, we implore Con gress to keep np the cheap amusements of the nation, and refnse to convert the famil iar pea-nut of poverty into the rare indul gence of the rich. Face Powder and How to Use It.— The lady correspondent of the Chicago Journal says: The use of ftice powder has been the source or infinite ridicule to fossil bachelors, and of deprecation and horror on the part of respectable old ladles and prim young ones. Now, lam its unyielding champion. I would as readily think of surreptitiously using my tooth brush as of being ashamed of my powder box. It ia not the use of a thing, bnt the abase of it, that igjures. When I see young Indies with faces incapa ble of smile or dimple, as thickly white washed as the side of my room, with dabs of red on each cheek bone, and the ears and neck, from comparison, showing sallow and dark, I involuntarily tarn aside to drop the briny tear, first for my sex, then for my theory. Every lady knows, that after bathing, or in Bummer time, the face leapt to look oily. Now, why I should go about with a forehead like a bottle, and a nose like a placid Bummer lake, quite re flective, when by the wise application of a little harmless powder I can improve my appearance is a conundrum beyond my solving. If any can answer it, let them enlighten me forthwith. Not loug since a crusty bachelor discovered a bit of powder in my left eyebrow. His soul was stirred within him, and the torrent of de* nnneiation unsealed. What did I do! Blnsh? Not a glimmer. I went and got my box, I explained Us nse, I waxed eloquent, and my burning thoughts, clothed in breath ing WOrtls.so convinced that human being that I was enabled to iUostrate my theory practically, amt witn summed triumph, pow* dered ray listeuer’A face, and won from him the remark that “It was all right—a nice thing.” Let me tell yon—although half of yon might teach me, I suppose—how to Kt powder on. After bathing the face, fore drying, apply a little glycerine, with or without dilution of rose water; then take a flannel cloth and rub the face per fectly dry. Then with a bit of cotton or puff, throw the powder on, without friction. After which let matters rest as they are until you have entirely completed yonr toilet. When all Is done, and “bright as the snn, fair as the moon," etc., you stand before yonr ttrlng glass, prepared for such harmless slaughter as is the “right"' of our sex, take a soft linen rag and remove all traces of powder, going Into a strong light, and investigating* every eye-brow and dimple. (If past the day of dimples, examine closely the wrinkles.) After this operation, conscientiously performed, If yon are not satisfied with yonrself. Just give np to destiny, and look to inward adornment. Let rouge alone. The best store to buy carmine tints at is Nature’s. Take brisk walks, drink milk, and ignore tea and coffee, gravies, spices, snd candies; and if yon don’t have cheeks and lips like hill-side strawberries, call me a prevari cator. A Tbdsty Old Blade.— A Leavenworth (Kansas) corresponuent writes tbe follow ing romance in real life: “A day. or two ago, was announced the marriage of an old man of eighty-three years to a woman nearly as old. They had met and loved when they were yonng, bnt both had become engaged to other parties before the meeting. They couldn’t honorably ‘back ont’ of their existing en gagement, and so, vowing a love that should only end in death, they fulfilled their contracts by getting married. In time, death came and left him a widower and her a widow. Many years elapsed, and no scrap of intelligence did they re ceive of each other; bnt last Fall, while the old man was ou bis way East to eat Thanksgiving tnrkey with a daughter, he accidentally got on the track of bis old flame, and possessed of an ample accumu lation of greenbacks, be followed her over most of the New England States, and then to Buffalo, New York, where be came up with her. It didn’t take long to settle the preliminaries, and it was agreed that she should come to this city to visit a son, while he went on to his Thanksgiving din ner, then to his home near La Crosse, Wis consin, from which place be has to come on here and have the nuptial knot tied. The agreement was faithfully carried out, the venerably old eonple, after many years of divergence, now being one.” Resdi/t of Refusing a Kiss. —The Cin cinnati Gazette relates that a merchant of that city, who bad been two weeke mar ried, bad occasion to go to St. Loots on bwrfoese. lie informed his wife, who put op her mouth, and naked Mm to kiss her good-bye. As he intended returning to the hoose before taking tbe cars, he playfully ref need, saying that he bad not time to wait. Unfortunately, he conld not go home again, and left without bidding Ms wife good bye. After an absence of two weeks lie returned, and hastened to hie domicil, expecting n hearty welcome from tbe purt- I net ot bis joy*. But what was bis amaze ment to find the house deserted, the furnl - tore sold, and hie wife absent ou a visit to j her relatione. And what was hla horror, soon after to learn Hint she had sued for a dfvoro*. An interview followed, mutual explanations were made, and a rewmcllla 1 Hon wea effected, the sole eeuee iff the j young wife's singular proceeding being P«i'/u-y, end the ref sen I of her hueuaud to j kiss tor good by* . VOL. 29. NO. 12 Words of Soberness. — Moore's Rural Ifew Yorker repents of its article of January 16th, headed “ Shall We Go South ?” and in a recent number indulges in the follow ing sound and sensible remarks: Nor do we forget that the Southern peo ple, as a whole, are doing nobly, industrial ly, despite the disadvantages under which they labor. We do not forget that the war left them “without capital.without efficient labor, and without banking facili ties.” We do not forget what the wreck of war is, nor how disheartening most have beeu the look-out for thepeopleof the South when the war ended. We know, and have not asserted to the contrary, that there are very many men in the South who are actively and successfully engaged In its industrial redemption. There are many noble young men who are entering into this work of regeneration with great vigor, and Wttn a right dis cernment of the needs of the country.— Yonng Echols, editor of the Rural South erner, at Atlanta, is a worthy example of what the young men of the South may do, and of what many of them, we hope, are doing. And such yonng men as Echols should be honored and encouraged. As we said In onr former article, the young men of the North, with practical knowledge and skill, and a will to work and identify theipselvcs with the Industrial develop ment of the South, cannot find. In our opinion, a more inviting field within the Repnblic. Bat Bach men should go ttaefe to work—not to speculate ; not to enter the political nor the professional field. . j The South has too many politicians sod professional men now. She needs workers —men who will co-operate with the best men of the South to develope her resources, build up manufactories, regenerate her soils by skillful culture, and utilize her natural wealth.. We have no word to say to discourage men with such motives from migrating to the South. And that such men may succeed notably there, we have evidence enough. The True brothers, from Western New York, are examples of what the young men of the North may do there. They are the sort of “ carpet-baggers” the South needs, and the class her best and wisest men will welcome. —* ■ mrn .How Mr. Webster Recognized and Prepared fob Death. —Mr. Webster, however, had been watching his own case with singular power of attention, and had been measuring what remained to him of vital force. He hod concluded this to be his last day; and, os there was present no other ear hut that of his faithful physlctan to be pained by the expression of his thought, ho said, with an even voice anti perfect calmness, “ Doctor, ybu have car ried me through the night; I think you will get me through to-day. I shall die to night.” Dr. Jeffries, much moved, said, after a pan**, << YouW right, air” Mr. Webster then went on: “I wish you, there fore, to send an express to Boston for some younger person to be with yqu. I shall die to night. You are exhausted, and must be relieved. Who shall it he ?” Dr. Jef fries suggested Dr. J, Mason mrren. Mr. Webster answered Instaiitly, “ Let Mm'be sent for.” Dr. Jeffries theri left the room to write a note to Dr. Warren, and on jre turuiog, he TpUpd that Mr- Webster Aid given complete directions ho>v the note should be sent, who should be the messen ger; what horse should lie used, what road taken, and where a fresh horse Coul<jf be procured; and how the messenger was to do his errand on reaching the city. He seemed to go on as a person making prepa ration for an event that was to happen to soqie one else; so complete was his control over himself, and his sufficiency for the needs of the occasion, that no one about him felt it necessary, In such matters, to do anything but to follow and execute hlsf di rections.— Life of Webster by Geo. T. Curtis. Labor and Wages in Germany Among the valuable information recently placed in the hands pt Mr. E. Yonng, chjef clerk of the Bureau of Statistics, is a lengthy report relative to tbe rates of labor and cost of subsistence in Germany. The regular wages of the workingmen average firom 16.8 to 24 cents In gold per diem.— Those of icmaies from 8.4 to 14.4, represent ing the higher rates of the first class work ing men. Daring the Winter the time ave rages eight hoars, and the whges of the men from 10 to 14.8, and of tbe females, 7.2 cents per day. A man wl;h a family of three has to furnish sll9 08 for subsistence; but even when assisted by his wife is only enabled to earn SB2 14 per month, tearing a deficiency in the income of SB6 96. A Negro Major General.— Pnello, the commanding officer of the Spanish forces, with whom General Jordan was engaged in the last battle in'Cuba, Is a fall blooded negro, born and raised in Bt. Domingo. He now holds the high commission of ma jor general in the Spanish army, and ts the third ranking officer on duty in Cuba. In appearance he is a strong, muscular man, six feet high, broad shonldered, and coal black. General Puello’s Staff is composed entirely of white officers, representing some of the prondest blood of Spain. Should Deßodas and Vaimas da through tbe chances of war both be killed, removed, or disabled, Puello, by virtue of his rank, would take command of the Island ofOuba. An Ofinion of “A. J.”—A Washington correspondent, who does not regard Andrew Johnson as an “Invariable success as President,” thinks he Is amenable to the criticism of a Virginian, a little the worse for apple-juice, whom he once met and con versed with on the subject. “ What do you think of Andy f ’ says the correspondent to him. This was in ’66 or ’67. “ Well," said be, “ he does tbe rlgbt(hlc)est (hlcjeet thing in the wrong(hlc)est (hie) time of any d—a man I ever saw.” “ Look here, boy,” said a nervous old gentleman to an urchin who wss munch ing sugar candy at a lecture, “ rou are an noying me very much." “ No, I ain’t," re plied the urchin," I’m a-gnawing this eugar I c * n(, J r> ” | h Good.— I The Resolution, the Woman’s I Righto paper, claim* that the eiifranobiM menl ot women I* completely wound uuder the Fifteenth Amend meat, which says the right to vote shall not to dueled on account of previous condition ot servl* tude.” A wording to the eminent French physi cian, Or Levy, the average duration of life among the Jew* Is 67 years, Mfllli# MM| H |i |# mil If M
