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    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 ?
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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.