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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1870)
THE WEEKLY COHBTITTJTIOHALIBT WEDNESDAY MORNING. DEO. 28.1870 A Mass Meeting of the Catholics of Augusta to Sympathize With the Pope. THE ACTION OP THE CATHOLICS OP AU GUSTA, GA., IN REFERENCE TO THE SPO LIATION OP THE SOVEREIGN PONTIFF, POrE PIUS IX, BY VICTOR EMMANUEL, KING OF SARDINIA. On Sunday, 10th inst., the Right Rev. Bishop Perslco, of Savannah, Ga., address ed the congregation of St. Patrick’s, in this city, on the temporal power of the Pope, and called on the members of the congregation to meet that evening, in the old church, for the purpose of protesting against the occupation of Rome by the King of Italy. At 7 o’clock on Sunday evening the male members of the congregation assembled in large numbers at the old church, during which the Right Rev. Bishop Perslco, the Very Rev. Wm. Hamilton and the Rev. James O’Hara were conducted to seats on a platform prepared for them. On taking the Chair, the Bishop explain ed the object of the meeting, when, on mo tion, A. C. DeCottes, Esq., was requested to act as Secretary. A committee of twenty-two,representing the congregation, were appointed to draw up a protest, setting forth their condemna tion of the usurpation of the Papal States by Victor Emmanuel. After the committee retired P. F. Dunn, Esq., and Patrick Walsh, Esq., address ed the meeting in a forcible manner. The committee, through their Secretary, requested that time would be given until the following Sunday, after High Mass, when the committee would report; which was granted. The Very Rev. Wm. Hamilton, V. G., who was installed Pastor of the congregation on that day (left vacant by the death of the venerable Father Duggan) was called on by the members of his flock to come for ward and address the meeting. In doing so he was enthusiastically received, when the Very Rev. Fa'her thanked them for their very kind reception, stating that he was proud to be their Pastor, and honored by being a Catholic Priest. Yet at that particular occasion he would not address them as Pastor or Priest, but as an Irish man who remembered the great charity of our Holy Father, Pope Pius the Ninth, during the years of famine and desolation which Ireland had to pass through. He could not forget how our noble Pontiff came forward with his offering from the scanty means left at his disposal to assist our native land.. That, not having means sufficient to gratify his intense charity, he had the sacred vessels of the church melted to relieve starving Ireland. He claimed for Ireland and the Irish the right above all nations in the world to guard and de fend the Holy Father and the patrimony of St. Peter. Persecution had singled them out and made them handmaids in adversity. In their sufferings they were alike, as it was for their faith they were persecuted. The Very Rev. Father concluded by say ing that there were thousands of Irishmen in this country who were ready to sacrifice their lifes in the defense ol the Holy Father if the time ever came when it would be re quired, as welL as their brave and noble countrymen who distinguished themselves at the battle of Mentana. Never in the history of the Catholic Church, in this city, did an address awaken such a hearty en thusiasm as that which fell from the lips of the eloquent Father on this occasion. On Sunday last the meeting was organ ized by calling Mr. James Gargan to take the Chair, and Mr. J. D. Kavanagh to act as Secretary, when the fo'lowing protest was read by the Secretary and adopted unanimously: A PROTEST. We, the Catholics of Augusta, Georgia, humbly conscious of the paucity of our numbers as compared with the many mil lions of our brethren throughout the world, yet mindful that the still small voice can he heard in heaven and on earth as well as the shout of many nations, do hereby sol emnly unite with every Catholic and with every man of good will throughout the world, for the purposeof protesting against the invasion of the States of the Church by the King of Sardinia and the Florentine Government. We protest against the spoliation of our Holv Father, the Pope, because we believe him'to be the Vicar of Christ upon earth, and teacher of infallible truth. We prote.-t against the invasion of his temporal possessions, because, as lovers of -justice and enemies of robbery, we hold that the act of King Victor Emmanuel is in defensible both in law and morals, and is also a scandal to social order, seeing that no earthly ruler holds his domain by titles stronger, more ancient or better secured than Pius IX. We protest against the spoliation of our Holy Father, the Pope, because an insult to him is an insult to God, whose Vicar he is, and, therefore, to the whole Catholic W We protest against the sacrilegious inva sion of Rome, because it imperils the inde pendence of the Sovereign Pontiff. s o ne cessary to the well being of the Church, and subjects the Holy Father to the caprice of hostile Powers, whose deeds are rather those of darkness than of light. Wc protest against the act of the King of Sardinia, and the Florentine Govern ment, because, as a virtual prisoner, the Pope is barred from that perfect intercourse with the Bishops, Priests and Laity of the Catholic Church (so beautifully expressed by some of our brethren in the North) as “all hi-tory bears witness to the fact that in proportion as this facility of intercourse has existed, the true faith has been pre served in its purity and integrity, and the maxims ot the Gospel of Jesus Christ up held in the face of a hostile world. And since the invasion of Rome has been undertaken and accomplished at a time when a General Council was being held therein, under the Presidency of the bu prerac Pontiff, wc protest against the vio lence that has interrupted its deliberations, and we hold the Florentine Government jtsponslble for the outrage offered to the assembled Bishops of the universe, and for the Injury done to tho faithful, by depriv ing them, for an indefinite time, of the blesaiug* the Council was calculated to C °For the sake of honor and Justice, In the interest* of religion and good order, and for the perpetuation of righteous freedom) throughout the world, we call upon all the good and true everywhere to unite with us i lu P c atlon t * ie £ re4t crime com-! mitted by the Piedmontese King against laws of nations, just as we appeal to all Catholics to protest against it as a sac-! nlege as well as a robbery. In expressing our sorrow and sympathy to the Holy Father, we promise to pray uu ceasingly for his welfare and deliverance, and patiently abide the rescue which God will surely send at last. We promise, too, I to aid him in all lawful ways, and as our faith directs, trusting implicitly in that Almighty Hand which never fails to pun ish, in the proper season, the violence, the outrages, and the desecrations of the brutal arm of flesh. James R. Randall, Char’n. Wm. Mulherin, Edw’d Gallahek, Joseph D. Kavanagh, Charles Spaeth, Jno. F. Armstrong, August Dorr, James Heney, A. G. Hall, James W. Turley, Austin Mullabky, M. D. O’Connor, Rob’t H. May, M. O’Dowd, Jas. A. Gray, J. W. Bessman, I. P. Girardey, A. C. DeCottes, Geo. 8. Hookey, Jas. Gargan, Edward O’Donnell. Patrick Walsh, Secretary. On motion of the Hon. R. 11. May, the protest and the proceedings of the meeting were ordered to be published in the city papers and request the JNew York Free man's Journal and the Catholic Mirror , of Baltimore, to copy same, and that the origi nal copy of the protest be forwarded to Bishop Persico, to be transmitted by him to our Holy Father, the Pope. James Gargan, J. D. Kavanagh, Chairman. Secretary. Augusta, Ga., Dec. ISth, 1870. The Death of Mrs. Slidell—lnterest ing Reminiscence.— -The cable announces the death of Mrs. John Slidell, at Brighton, England. Whatever may be thought of her husband’s political course, or of her own political seutiments, all who knew this elegant and accomplished lady will sincerely regret her death. Mrs. Slidell was born in New Orleans, of French parents, and was as thoroughly French in her education and manners as though she had been born and raised in Paris. The Philadelphia Day, in announcing her death, remarks: She was much younger than her husband, appearing more like his daughter than his wife, and was affianced to him, according to French usage, without being even inti mately acquainted with him, and married him when she was very young, the third time she had ever seen him. But she was a true wife and mother, and her household was characterized not only by elegance and refinement, but by every mark of domestic happiness and peace. Mr. Slidell’s house in Washington—called by some the “ second white house”—was the centre and focus of the most refined society of the capital, during Mr. Buchanan’s administration, and guests were welcomed with a hearti ness and treated with a hospitality unusual in what is called fashionable society. The family was a most agreeable one, the two daughters, Mathilde and Rose, who were then aged, respectively, about fourteen and sixteen, and who were as unpretending and modest as though they were not the highly educated and admired daughters of a mil lionaire, contributing greatly to its attrac tions. Mrs. Slidell was a lady of rare social ac complishments, and was most entertaining in conversation. Her faculty for making her guests feel at home and happy in her house and presence was remarkable, and enabled her, petite as she was, to outshine her rival, political as well as social, the more magnificent Mrs. Douglas, who, though an exceedingly well-bred lady, and well schooled in the art of entertaining, lacked the sparkle and genuine bon homme of the vivacious and thoroughly accom plished little French woman. Do what Mrs. Douglas would, Mrs. Slidell would draw the cite of Washington and the coun try to the second white house,” and both these ladies, by the way, aspired to the mistresship of the first white house. Now, however, Mrs. Douglas has become Mrs. Williams, the wife of an army officer, and Mrs. Slidell has passed away from earth, leaving a host of admiring friends in both hemispheres to mourn her early death, for she was in the prime of life and woman hood. Her sister, Mrs. Beauregard, died during the war. Metallic Fractional Currency.— The Director of the Mint, in his report, renews his recommendation of a year ago, in favor of the coinage of silver tokens, of the de nomination of ten, twenty-five and fifty cents, equal in purity, but inferior in weight, to the standard, exchangeable for United States notes and fractional currency, and a legal tender for sums of five or ten dollars. So far as reducing the standard is concerned, he says that our present coins arc not what they should be, in weight or value. In suggesting that upon the re sumption of specie payment these tokens could be called in and recoined to standard, he declares that would be no objection, as the recoining of silver, when long used as a circulating medium, is a necessity, as it becomes deteriorated in value and defaced by abrasion when in constant use. He places the value of these tokens at J 6.4 cents for half dollars, 18.2 for quarters and 7.28 for dimes, and thinks this reaction will counteract any tendency to hoard or export them. It is further suggested that by coining these tokens the silver of Den ver, in Colorado, will be used, and the Government could pay the miners such a price as would prevent the export of our silver product to China or Europe. The position taken by the Director seems to be a correct one; at any rate, the people will be pleased with any scheme to rid them of the nuisance of the nasty, dirty, counterfeit “ scrip.” The State Road. —The Atlanta tontti tuiion says It was rumored In that city on Tuesday evening that the State Road had been leased to Chief Justice Brown, and that Campbell Wallace was to be the Su perintendent, and J. D. Peek, Master o Transportation. The rumor Is too soon, but the “ wish Is father to tho thought." War on Halt Monopoly.—The import ers of salt have sent a memorial to the Ways and Means Committee, giving a statement of the per centage of duty on the same to the invoice cost of a few car goes imported during the present year. They say that they “ present a liberal ave rage sample of the present duty on salt at 18 cents per one hundred pounds in bulk and 24 cents per one hundred pounds in sacks. The freight will average 15 shil lings per ton, or 195 per cent, of cost. This protects the Onondaga Salt Company, who are about the only parties benefltted by the present really exorbitant rates, about 375 per cent, of the value ot the ar ticles prepared by them for sale. The very high rate of duty not only affects the im porter, but affects all American manufac turers of salt, who are ground into ob scurity by the impositions of the favored and wealthy Onondaga monopoly, and the consumer, who meets all the expense of a monopoly striving to absorb the entire salt trade of the country. The burden Is too heavy to bear in times of peace and pros perity. We, therefore, earnestly, on behalf of the millions to be benefltted thereby, call for a reduction of the tariff on import ed salt to the following rates, viz: salt in bulk, six cents per 100 lbs.; In sacks, nine cents per 100 lbs. The King of Italy Delays his Triumph al Entry into Rome. —A correspondent writing from Florence says that the King’s Ministers had appointed December Ist as the day upon which the grand entry was to have been, and the Italian journals had published the entire programme of the order of the great procession. But when the KiDg learned that he was to be lodged, while in Rome, in the Quirinal, he decidedly rejected the arrangement. He dreads, it is said, the anger of the Pope, and will use every excuse to put off his entry Into Rome. It is also stated in this letter that a foreign ambassador In Florence said that, from some remarks his Majesty had made to him (luring an audience, he felt sure that the King would hall gladly any foreign In tervention which would prevent his taking possession of the Holy City. [From the Richmond Dispatch. The Theatre. We seldom undertake to criticise the modern drama. It Is hardly worthy of criticism. The local paragraphs concern ing it are mainly reports of what is going on at the Theatre—after the manner of the man who announces in front of the stage what is next in the changing views before the audience. The representations o; the stage are but little better than changing views of a very indifferent sort. Very little, if any, dramatic merit is offered to the public. Managers say the meritorious drama doesn’t pay—that “ legs” do a great deal better. This is quite complimentary to the “ heads” of the people. It may be said, however, that if the people demand “ legs,” the supply is quite equal to the de mand. There never was such abundance upon the stage before—and such legs! Granting that “ legs” have been the rage, is it not time that the appetite for them was sated? A taste for that line of per formance which oversteps the bounds of proper—not prudish—modesty Is soon dis gusted, because it is never satisfied: for, as Shakspeare says, “increase in appetite grows by what it feeds on.” So that natu rally lustful tastes which can stomach such legs as are paraded on the stage must in time be nauseated and tired of them.— Wearied with them, as Macbeth was with the reports which displeased him, the de votee of this sort of exhibition must after a time be inclined to cry out, “ bring me no more” legs. But the recitation which is the never failing concomitant of the exhibition of legs is almost always without merit, unless very dull and overstrained wit and vulgarity may be considered meritorious. We may refer to the compound of stupidity and non sense, folly and extravagance, gotten up by some manufacturer of stage trash, and pre sented by what are called “British Blondes” in this city during the present week, as a fair sample of much that has been brought upon the American stage in late years.— Why the performers were called “ British Blondes” vve do not understand. The comedian—and a very good one in many respects—of the company must be an Englishman, as his h’s and o’s plainly told us. But as plainly did the pMiuuciation of most of the ladies tell that if they were blondes they were by no means “ British Blondes.” But that is a matter of no con sequence; no country will set up a stout claim to the fair owners of the legs. We say that these exhibitions are hardly amenable to criticism. That is true. The representations, considered as burlesques, are without point or pith. Indeed, the spectator can see nothing of dramatic merit in the performances,, and is forced to the conclusion that the scenes arc merely fixed up for the legs. There was certainly no strain upon the intellect of the author.— The legs were quite equal to his wit, and vice versa! It seemed to us monstrous that full grown men and women should be employed in such foolery, such vulgar buffoonery, with its songs and clog dances to suit! Sometimes an extravaganza, with a little slang, performed by little players like the Chapmans when they first appeared, is tol erable. The antics and innocent airs of children are hardly ever displayed ungrace fully, and never disgust one. But change the picture. Behold a stout woman, whose physique shows her generous liviDg, stand ing upon supporters quite equal to the task imposed upon them, and ready to burst the flesh-colored hose that encases them, gira ting and pirouetting, and agitating, and shaking herself until the flesh cutshakes the limbs—squinting and leering and dart ing knowing looks at critical passages in the recitation—making grotesque attitudes and comical leaps devoid of grace—and generally doing those things which are neither womanly nor manly, nor comely— aod what can you say of her? That she plays a part that ought not to be played and ought not to be admired—one, we trust that will soon be dismissed from the stage because the public have grown weary of it. These representations arc a crusade against modesty, and the performers al ways have reinforcements In the audience, or rather among the spectators, who never fail to applaud to the echo a double-enten dre, however broad and coarse. This ex cites as much satisfaction with the rein forcers as docs a decisive blow struck In the P. R. amongst the partisans of the man who struck It. It Is au abuse ot the ob jects of stage representation thus to make it the means of corrupting taste ami out raging modesty. We do uot mean this altogether of tba so-called “ British BlondM." The stage haa been extensively abused by the modern nonsensical bur lesque, gotten up not to enlighten or refine society, bnt to arouse the lower passions, and to make money by doing so. Let us hope that the public hare had enough of “ legs.” [From the New York World. Parisian Crimes and Prussian Chastise ment. The Iribune complacently looks forward to the bombardment of the capital of France, with all the nameless horrors at tendant upon pouring a rain of shot and shell into a city of two million inhabitants, as a divine lesson to “lew and insolent Paris.” On the principle, we suppose, which set Jonathan wild to suppressing thievery in London, the inculcation of this divine lesson has been confided to the con tinent King William of Prussia and to the eminently meek and lowly Count Bis marck! It is really disgraceful to American jour nalism that such an outburst of sanguinary cant as this should deform the columns of a New York newspaper. That Paris, as the centre of all that is most brilliant, most agreeable and most animated in modem civilization, has drawn to itself mnch of the vagrant vice as well as much of the vagrant virtue of the world is undoubtedly true. Those quarters of Paris with which foreign visitors are most familiar epitomize, not the luxury and the taste alone, but the license and the ostenta tion of mankind. On their broad boule vards, within their bright hotels, the wealth and the greed, the wisdom and the folly of both continents hold their rendez vous. If lewdness and insolence deform the glittering scene, it is not Paris only, nor Paris chiefly, which lends these disen chantments to the view. On the contrary, it is so true as to be almost a common place with intelligent travelers that in the most extravagant and the most wonton circles of Parisian life one sees all nations represented excepting France. It has been with the Paris of the Second Empire as with the Rome of the First. The leadership of its virtues, its charities, its industry has been mainly Parisian. For the leadership of its orgies and its revelry a hundred tribes of men have contended.— The boyard from the banks of the Danube and the planter from the banks of the Mis sissippi have combined to jostle the gay students of Beranger off the boulevards, and to demoralize the daughters of the poet’s Lisette into the odious female type which London worships caracoling with Anonyma through Rotten Row, and New York applauds gleaming In harness of gold and diamonds behind the flying quadruped al quartettes of some financial Massachu setts Cagliostro on the sands of Long Branch. When the pious King of Prussia and his unaspiring Premier direct their evangel izing bombs upon the devoted city of the Seine, how are they to see to it that their rain of vengeance shall not scathe and scorch, as God’s rain of mercy falls to bathe and bless, the just and the unjust alike? Will some Prussian angel, stooping from on high, divert the avenging bomb to the German Duke Charles of Brunswick’s gor geous hotel in the Champs Elysees, which else might shatter into ruins the Parisian Mme. de la Riboisiere’s magnificent hospi tal, the noblest monument of sympathy with human suffering which any civilized city shows to-day ? Or by what supernal skill shall the artillerists of Kaiser William spare the monument of Parisian Cavaignac to smite the tomb of English Lord Henry Seymour? Doubtless Paris has been full of French folly and of French corruption. But it is curiously significant that in all those phases of Parisian life to which the Tribune modestly and humanely attributes the impending annihilation of the great city and its myriads, foreigners have been the. easy princes alike of its sins and of its shames. We have named (he two men, one an Englishman of noble birth, the other the head of the oldest sover eign house of Germany—who in our time have been recognized as the most conspicuous of Parisian debauchees. With these, and with the late Marquis of Hertford, no Frenchman since the times of the old regime has ventured to vie. If we rise still higher or sink still lower to the sex by which Miss Anthony would have us hope the world may one day be ruled, we find the same truth hold. It was from a Lais of American origin that the younger Dumas drew that picture of insolent and shameless vice lapped in royal luxury which lights up so luridly his most famous study of modern depravity. The repre sentative of the most famous house of Protestant Europe It was who opened to this adventuress of the New World the doors of the most splendid hotel in Paris, and sent her blazing through the J3ois de Boulogne with equipages not surpassed in the Imperial mews. The “ meaner beau ties of the night ” circling about this back ward turning star of empire have notori ously been recruited of late years from London and New York, from Berlin and Vienna, rather than from Paris or from France. With the first bugle-blast of the Uhlans before Paris all these fled from her, leaving, as the Tribune’s moralists would have us believe, the homes and the happiness of hundreds of thousands of quiet, honest human beings to be sacrificed in vicarious expiation of their offenses against high Heaven! Even in its fashion and its frivolity Paris has been rather the representative of the whole world’s weak ways than a teacher and preacher of her own special folly. At the balls of the Tnileries, at the con certs of Compiegne, many daughters of Columbia herself have out-danced and ont sung, ont-dressed and, shall we say, ont flirted, the most enterprising belles of the Napoleonic court. The laws of female costume have been dictated to Paris by a Spanish Empress of Scotch extraction, and by an Austrian Princess of Hungarian blood ; and the de crees of these high powers have taken form in the shaping brain of an English man milliner. Why bombard Paris lor the sins, the ignorances, the follies, or the crimes of these and such as these? The “lewdness and insolence ” of Paris are capital only as Paris Itself is capital. To transfer to Ber lin or to London, were the transfer possi ble, all tne charms, all the artistic power all the intellectual culture which makes Paris capital, would be to transfer thither with the best the worst things also of a great world-centre. If the combination of these worst things with these best be in deed worthy of purging by fire, from what depths of Russian or of Asiatic might as yet unstirred shall the avenging thunders of the future leap ? t-jraS}™ ■.“"mjssdxx in raarayasa. l " •" * .. *° B *•" Cocoa OK Cold, Trothu" »rc offered wiih the fullest confidence (In their efficacy. Thev •rood been thorough l v tested, and maintain the good reputation they have J ustly acq ulred. A, yjmjiiu!’* *• tw * ostain m< Attempted Outrage in Screven. Pabamore Hill, Ga., ) No. 7)4 Central R. R, Dec. 16, 1870.} Editor Savannah Republican: I write hurriedly to inform you of an outrageous attempt to murder Mr. James Parker and family last night. While all was merry a short distance at the marriage feast, five persons attempted to break into the house at 10 o’clock at night. His two sons, one living with him and the other near by, had just left for Savannah. Soon after they left, the assailants made the first attempt, but Mr. Parker, having two double barrelled shot guns and a repeater, repulsed them; soon after, they returned, but were again repulsed. At 2 o’clock, a. m., they returned the third time, but this time were driven away, one of them scream ing as if severely injured, and the party re turned no more. At daylight, as the Colo nel’s servant returned from the railroad, on going to the bouse for the stable keys, he found young Thomas Oliver lying under the piazza, and on examination, he was found to have received the benefit of eleven buckshot. No doubt, the parties knowing his son was absent, had chosen the occa sion to murder, rob and plunder. When will such things cease from our land ? Crvis. Georgia Sugar. —Mr. A. J. Rabn, of Springfield, Effingham county, has sent ns a sample of his own manufacture, which we wish eyery planter in Southern Georgia and Florida could see. It is of a beautiful bright color, thoroughly crystalized, and as fine an article of coffee sugar as one would desire to have on his table. Why, when such sugar can be produced In Geor gia at a very reasonable cost, one pound of it should ever be imported into the State, is a strange problem in commerce. As one acre in cane will produce in value three times as much as an acre in cotton, long or short staple, why is it that our planters do not devote more of their attention to the production of sugar ? But a moment’s re flection will be necessary to convince them that there will be wisdom in the change. [£atxmn<tA Republican. A Tramp Through the Sewers of New York.—A party of gentlemen have made a night tramp through the passages of the New York sewers, entering on Four teenth street on the North river, and leav ing it by the Canal street sewer on the East river. The adventurous party barely escaped arrest while attempting to enter at other places, it being supposed by the police that they were “upto no good.” A whole night was spent in the sewers, and the sen sations arc described as fearful. Noxious vapors, foul mud and fungus weeds were everywhere encountered. They were once attacked by a school of ra's as “ large as terrier dogs,” and the party used their pis tols with good effect in dispersing them, but filled the sewer they were then In with sulphurous vapors that nearly suffocated them. Before they got out most of the party had fainted, while all were made sick at the stomach. A few minutes longer they, declared, would have rendered them insen sible. The Difference. —A negro having com plained to Forney’s Press that he had been excluded from a Philadelphia theatre, that paper, which would have pronounced the exclusion a great outrage if it had been made in a Southern State, consoles the darkey as follows: “At all events, it is not a very material issue for our colored friend. He had far better be qualifying himself for the use and enjoyment of his new franchise by some other means than going to theatres. No race or class ever yet raised itself in such a way. If the colored people of Philadelphia were kept out of every circus, saloon, or theatre in the city they would probably be ell the better for it. The white folks who aducate themselves In places ot public amusemeut, whether it be the ‘free-and easy’ or the opera, are not the class for our new citizens to emulate or copy after.” Death of a Well-Known Hotel Pro prietor.—We sincerely regret to announce the death, yesterday morning, of Wm. A. Wright, Esq , the genial and gentlemanly proprietor of the Nickerson House, in this city. Mr. Wright has been in delicate health for several years, but was seldom confined to his bed for any length of time. On Wednesday night last, he was attacked with paralysis of the left side, and gradually grew weaker, until he expired, about II o’clock yesterday. Mr. Wright was an earnest, energetic man, a kind friend, and a good citizen. He was proprietor of the American Hotel, Richmond, Va., for many years, and had been a resident of Columbia tor about eight years. He was a native of Philadelphia, and had nearly completed his fifty-fourth year—Christmas day being the date of bis birth. Ills remains will be car ried to Richmond, Va., to-day, for inter ment.— Columbia, (S. C.) Phoenix, 20 th. A Bear Slaughters an Alligator.— The Palatka (Fla.) Herald gives the follow ing account of a contest between a bear and alligator, which came off near that place: A colored man was fishing close by the scene of action at the time. When he heard the roar and bellow of both animals he was disposed to oast away his fishing tackle and run, but finding that the noise of the conflict came no nearer, he cautious ly crept through the jangle and there wit nessed the combat. Bruin and his antago nist were in water about eighteen inches deep—the fight was long and severe, and it was terrible, the man said, to sec how they lacerated and tore each other. The bear, resorting to his peculiar tactics, would en fold the alligator in bis huge arms, and over and over they rolled in the water, until at last the bear came off tho victor, leaving his enemy dead. Another Tobacco Regulation.— A de cision of the internal revenue bureau re quires a cigar manufacturer to post up in a conspicuous place within his manufac tory the certificate obtained from his col lector, setting forth the number of cigar makers tor which his bond has been given. All cigars must be packed and stamped be fore being removed from the manufactory to the store where they are sold under a special tax except as dealer, whether the removal is from a part of the building where they were made to another part ol the same building; bnt other than the manufactory or place where they were made, they must be returned to the assessor as removed for consumption or sale. r Debthuctive Fiue in Jacksonville.— The Savannah Ifem Icarus that a very dis astrous fire occurred In Jacksonville, Flori da, last Monday night. Twenty-eight houses were destroyed, among them the office of tho Union, the new Masonic Hall, and the telegraph office. The fire la said to have occurred In the host portion of the city, and If reporta are true, the loee eus talued la Unmeaae. [For tba OoMUlatloaaltet. The Emigrant. i. Wc ha' left our braes behind, dear lad. Oar gude, auld hamely braes; We ba’ launched upo’ a foreign sea— We’ve set in strangesonic ways ; But, Robbie, ’twill be joy enow To ken na sea’s atween Our blessed memory an the spot We left our ain sherteen. ii. We ha’ left tby gude auld mitber, lad, Tho’ sad we were to part; But we left her for remembrance sake The best half o’ our heart; An if afar frae hame an her My spirit should fly ass; To her, my last fond legacy, Take back the itfcer half. m. We ha’ left the dear bairn at her breast— The winsome, weesome ehiel; Methinks, dear lad, her tiny hands Upo’ my heart I feel; This briny drsp la na aae salt— Tby pnir, auld feyther sheds, May God above grant that it fa’ In bieesin’s on tbeir beads, rr. We ha’ left the heath an a’ behind— The bnrn an whimplin’ brook; Perchance we too ha’ ta’en, dear lad. At a’ onr last fond look; But still, we ha’ them i’ onr breasts, Dear lad, fa' well I ken; An we can hape we’in onr hearts We’ll see them a’ agen. ▼. We ha’ left onr dear, auld Feyther land, It sank aneath the sea Just when the sun ass i’ the West Took leave o’ thee an me; Bnt still, dear lad, that snn, they say, Is everywhere the same; So when it risetb we may ken It is our sun at hame. The Aged Stranger. AN INCIDENT OP THE WAR. BY BRET HAHTB. “ I was with Grant ’’—the stronger said ; Said the farmer: “ Say no more, But rest thee here at my cottage porch, For thy feet are weary and sore.” “ 1 was with Grant ’’—the stranger said; Said the farmer : " Nay, no more— I prithee sit at my frugal hoard, ad eat of my bumble store. “ How fares my boy—my soldier boy, Os the old Ninth Army Corps? I warrant he bore him gallantly In the smoke and the battle’s roar !” “ I knew him not,” said the agedman, “And, as 1 remarked before, I was with Grant “Nay, nay, I know,” Said the farmer, “ Say no more ; “ He fell in battle I see, alas I Thou’dst smooth these tidings o’er— Nay, spesk the troth, whatever it be, Though it rend my bosom’s core. “ How fell he—with his lace to the foe, Upholding the flag he bore ? O ! sey not that my bov disgraced The uniform that he wore!” “ I cannot tell,” said the aged man, “ And shonld have remarked, before, That I was with Grant-In Illinois— -Bome three years before the war.” Then the farmer spake him never a word, But beat with his fist (nil sore That aged man, who had worked for Grant Some three years before the war. [From the London Fun. A Simple Ballad. FOR MUSIC. She stood beside her cottage door The sun was sinking low, Said I, “ Tho wide, wide ocean o’er To-morrow I must go.” She pressed my hand, she heaved a sigh She turned her head away; Bhe murmured, " Leave me now. fori Feel all I cannot say.” I went across the ocean wide, I toiled in foreign climes ; My thoughts across the heaving tide, They flew how many times ? At length, when twenty years had sped. Across the weary foam 1 passed once more, and quickly fled To see the dear old home. But she had wedded Uncle Joe, That kept the Black Bull Inn ; I dropped in there incognito, And had a three of gin. I did not weep or cry alack, Or anything that way; For a widow rich, aome two years back I’d married at Bombay. Let Me Spank Him for His Mother. Let me spank him for his mother, He is such a naughty boy; He the baby tried to smother. And he’s broken Fanny’s toy. Os the doll I gave to Ellen, He has melted off the nose. And there really is no telling To wbat length his mischief goes. Last night he put a cracker ’Neath bis Aunt Jemima’s chair, And he told me inch s whopper, When I asked how it came there. Then when poor old Mrs. Toodles Was just starting off by rail, He tied her two fat poodles Fast together by the tail. It really Is quite shocking How one’s nerves he really jars; How be puta plus in one’s stockings, And cayenne in one’s cigars. You may guess that many another Boyish trick he’s daily at, So l’il spank him for bis mother, Asa tiresome little brat. (Punch. What Pride Swallows. Horses, donkeys, dogs and cats. Think of eating; mice and rats ! Bo In Paris people do, By valn-glory brought thereto. Frenchmen may by choice eat frogs— Eat, for hnngcr, cats and dogs ; Horse and donkey, may deem nice, But can’t relish rati and mice. Fancy bow-wow, fancy mew, J n your curry or your stew ; Or salmi you could bespeak By the name ot bubble-and-iqueak f O the plea*urea of a siege, Gome of warrlog lor “ prestiire I" Never to devouring rat Let h be red seed by that.
