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&i(inc WceWg fnn. rt'BLISHED ■very saturd^l K| JOHNSw i c - : : Pnopßirroßa. m^Trrmt oi Subscription. ‘ „ -62,00 ■ ° ve ] Z'" ■r., r r.SU Months.- ■ ropy. Thn-C Months- i7vahia.«-v in Advance. i-t.om our pill Em. ( ,f Mon<Uy Bth mst. Wiumsmc district CONFERENCE. ■ Kill] proceedings of Each Day. hj thf Special Reporter of the Sex.] yjIIST DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. rORKNOOX aRRSIOX. Hr. Seventh Annual Hesaion of the Bainbridge ('..r.ffrenre met at 10 a. m. to-day, April ■ {t»hop Pierce, presiding. Byn ro'itioa of Pro. Lester, Rev. J. F. Mixon B Secretary, and J. W. Pierce Assistant H;.- vi opened with reading scriptures, sing- B tivl prayer by Pishop Pierce. of delegates from the several pastoral being called, the following responded : Bl*robn.lge —Rev. Walter Knox, Pastor, J. P. Bkn»n. 11. J. Crawford alternate for J. C. Rev. R. B. Lester, P. E., Joseph Rev. Win. Peck, Pastor, Win. Km.try Stringer, E. Merritt and I). I>. Hall. Rev. Wm. lane, Pastor, Dr. Wyatt Haue. Miller, Rev. John M. Potter. llev. J. F. Ainsworth, Pastor, J. W. Buro Rot. P. C. Harris, I’astor, Geo. W. Tboi. Odum, Thos. Ballard, Thos. Brown, 0. lUwLs. Rev. R. A. Ilowren, Pastor, Hun ■ MrKinnoD. and John McKinnon. ltev. J. It. Maulden, Pastor, S. Pen- Kev. J. F. Mixon, Pastor, Rev. Win ■ffii, C. J. Munnerlyn, Rev. S. S. Dixon, ■fcnity--lWv. (J. ('. Thompson. S. 11. Dickin- W'. Funderbuck, J. C. Patterson. Mission —Rev. Willis M. Russell. motion. Conference adopted for the hours 9a. m. and 2 p.m. Adjournment 11 >5 the afternoon to be governed by cirouni ■ h ur of 11 having arrived, the meeting ad t>> hear the interesting introductory ser hy Uev. Walter Knox. AFTERNOON SESSION. inference met at 11 p. m., opening exercises by Rev. IVni. Peck. ■‘"me brief remarks were made by Bishop Pierce, as to the object of District Confcren- W niatle of the list of appointments, and ■ representatives present answered to their names. ■The reports of the different pastors and dele- Be« were made, and when the entire list was gone ■eugh with. Conference adjourned with theben ■rtiou by the Bishop. In the evening at 8 o'clock, interesting sermon was preached by the who without doubt is one of the ablest iq the l. nited States. [ SECOND DAY—FRIDAY, STH. forenoon session. met at the appointed hour, Bishop ■rrc. in the chair. The opening exercises were hy llev. Samuel Anthony. Minutes and adopted. pastor at Fort Gaines, and BJ- (orley. at Alliany, were reported present* V Ulf following delegates from Decatur: Thos. ■Jrter.Joa Averitt. Uev. I. A. Towers, and Wm. •’a alternate for Thos. M. Allen. ■ Colquitt—l>r. B. J. Heard. * lT °—l’etor \ anlandigham, alternate for Wm. ■ ’owTerville—lsaac Jordan. ■pomuville-R, H. Ilardiway. 1 c *he ahsence of Rev. C. R. Jewett, who was at home on account of ill health, Thom \ * v represented in the call of charges by B " Dardiway and Jos. Smith. B ‘ Dieree made a few remarks, calling the B” u >n l he Conference to the fact that there !vm sports of some having charges, to B PTi>und for mission any operations B 'hcbeiuids of the District, and invoking attention and assistance of the Conference in and getting in immediate operation meas- B ‘. ' r applying such destitute places with the ‘Rg of the gospel. |\\ r " tor nox introduced the following : Btm'*nT Vv from various parts of the '‘Strict, show that there is much land possessed in neighborhoods where the ever Bit t^lt °f tlod is n °f preached ; FP ’ 48 a Strict Conference we • ri’Cvinuiend the ministers contigous to Btk , t ' cc^P l eJ sections, as much as in them lies, Br*ch »r t ~t he brethren, to seek to ■ brethren present, Revs. Sam i Antho | ' Duncan, G. C. Flark, J. B. McGhee, L. t " hOUr ° f U ° ck>ok havin 8 arrived, Confer- BT Tp . J ' UrtK>l to hcar a sermon by that venera ,n *™oe of the Lord Rev. Dr. ■ 1 i«ee. Hi gwietii 'MiM YOL- YL AFTERNOON SESSION. Opening exercises conducted by Ret. S. S.- Sweet. The question sprung by the resolution of Rev. Walter Knox in the forenoon session, was brought up and discussed at some length by Judge Allen, Rev. W. M. Ilays and G. C. Clark. All concurring in the opinion that the destitution con templated is not so great as is supposed, and that such is the geography of the country where this destitution is supposed to exist, and such the scarcity and scattered condition of the population, it would be inadvisable if not entirely impracticable, to establish any regular separate charge in these places ; but that preachers upon contigous works might and ought—when they can without neglect of their regular work—to preach and establish churches in these places. After some discussion by Brothers Ilowren and Ainsworth, the resolu tion was put to vote and passed. The resolution introduced by Rev. Walter Knox and passed, Resolved, That this District Confer ence Vecoramend the brethren and friends of Fish Pond church, Camilla Circuit, do unite and build a house of worship on near McElveen ville. Upon a question arising as to the propriety of multiplying church organizations, Dr. Pierce made and few pertinent and forcible remarks in the nega tive. Upon motion of Bro. Knox,the election of Dele gates to the Annual Conference was made first in order of business for to-morrow morning. Conference then adjourned with benediction. THIRD DAY-SATURDAY, 6TH. Conference met pursuant to adjournment. R. B. Lester, P. E., in the chair. Opening ser vices conducted by Rev. Wm. Martin, of South Carolina Conference. Minutes of yesterday's ses sion read and adopted. The business in order being the election of dele gates to Annual Conference, upon motion the fol lowing committee was appointed to make nomina tion : Dr. B. J. Heard, Joseph Smith and S. Dickin son. Bishop Pierce took the chair. The following resolution introduced by C. J. Munnerlyn, was unanimously passed : Whereas, In the estimation of this Confer ence the publication of the introductory sermon delivered to this body by Rev. Walter Knox, would be conducive to the interests of the church, therefore be it, Resolved, That Bro. Knox be requested to fur nish a copy of it to the Southern Christian Advo cate for publication. Election for delegates to Annual Conference was held with the following result: Delegates elect, Rev. M. C. Smith, C. J. Mun nerlyn, R. Jones, AY. H. Graham, Alternates, Rev. Jordan McCullers, Geo. Wight, Judge Allen and J. S. Moorman. Rev. Mr. Martin, of the South Carolina Con ference, was introduced and made a few remarks. R. M. Tydings, of the Florida Conference, was in troduced, Rev. J. B. McGhee, President Andrew Female College, was introduced and addressed the Conference in regard to the interests of that insti tution. Conference adjourned to hear a sermon from Rev. S. Anthony, Agent Orphan’*,.Home, South Georgia Conference. FOURTH DAY—SUNDAY, 7TH. There was no business transacted to-day. At 9 o’clock Love Feast was held, and at 11 o’clock, Rev. Dr. Lovick Pierce entered the pulpit and preached one of the best sermons to which we ever had the good fortune to listen. Dr. Pierce is the oldest man we ever saw in the pulpit, being eighty odd, and for upwards of sixty years has he been a faithful soldier in the array of the Lord. In the evening, Bishop Geo. F. Pierce occupied the pulpit. The house was literally crowded from pulpit to door, and even in the gallery there was not a spare seat, in fact never have we seen such a crowd assembled at divine services in the city of Bainbridge. Such a sermon as was preached on this occasion, is listened to not often, and the plain and forcible manner in which the great Bishop dealt his strokes against sin had a telling effect, and in the closing services when the Rev. S. An thony exhorted mourners to the alter, crowds flocked there and considerable interest and feeling was manifested. The regular quarterly meeting commences to day, Rev. R. B. Lester, P. E., presiding. The ser vices in the church will be protracted, and as many of the visiting preachers are to remain, quite an interesting revival may be successfully hoped for. Our Extra. AVe present to our patrons this afternoon an Extra edition of the Sun. In it will be found very much interesting matter, both reading and advertisements, besides a full account of the Bain bridge District Conference. Some of the adver tisements in this evening’s edition were crowded out of our regular issue Saturday, but that shall be no loss to our patrons as this sheet goes to all our regular subscribers and exchanges. Ministers who desire a copy of this Extra, will be cheerfully supplied with the same on applica ; tion at this office. AYe will be glad to see any of the visiting preachers who may see fit to honor us with a call. As Insane Clergyman.— There is a clergy man in Quincy, 111., Rev Sidney Corbett by name, whose salary has been reduced one hundred dollars at his own request This looks to us like a clear cast of justifiable insanity. A Western w oman, aged 26. has been sued for seducing a boy of 16 The parents of the unhappy youth brought the suit and claimed SI,OOO damages, but as the lady offered to repair the wrong by marrying the seduced one, they were nonsuited. The Lcen’s Troupe. This Pantomime and Comedy Company gave a performance in our city, on Friday night of this week. Without assumig the role of a critique, we will say a few words relative to the merits andde merits of the troupe. The first piece, “Addles Troubles,” was very well rendered indeed. The quick and various changes made by the piquant Mrs. Hubbard kept the entire audience ever on the <pii vive as to what was next, while the good rendition of the cross old man’s part by Mr. Meagher, served to keep the auditory in a continuous roar of laughter. Mr. S. H. Hubbard, who took the - part of the highly sentimentalized Cuffee—wringing in a first-rafe banjo solo, by the way—is an actor of considerable merit, and why he should be playing low comedy to forty dollar houses is something beyond our divination. We have seen Sam in years gone by tread the boards of a legitimate theatre, when, as the sentimental Romeo, the accomplished Sir Thomas Clifford, the dashing Claude Melnotte or blood-thirsty Richard, and many other leading characters of the standard drama and tragedy, he always won his way to the name of favorite, which makes it the more strange that he should now class himself with such a troupe as the one with which he now travels. Os course he did his parts well, as he never fails to sustain his cast, but Sam old boy, we would rather see you where you would have a better field for operations. The songs, dances, comicalities, &c., introduced in the olio were very good, some of them excellent. The pantomime of Humpty Dumpty—if our opinion amounts to much—was the most misera ble thing we ever saw put on the stage. The way in which the Leons perform it, we can’t see for the life of us, anything in the entire piece to laugh at, not a single trick is introduced, nothing funny said or done, and if it was not for the splendid band of Italian musicians in the ochestra, one could go to sleep over it. REMEMBER THY MOTHER. t ■ Lead thy mother tenderly. Down life’s steep decline; Once her arm was thy support, Now she leans on thine. See upon her loving face. Those deep lines of care; Think—it was her toil for thee Left that record there. Ne’er forget her tireless watch Kept by day and night, Taking from her step the grace, From her eye the light. Cherish well her faithful heart, AYhich through weary years, Echoed with its sympathy All thy smiles and tears. Thank God for thy mother’s love, Guard the priceless boon : For the bitter parting hour Cometh all to soon. A\ T hen thy grateful tenderness Looses power to save, Earth will hold no dearear spot. Than thy mother’s grave ? Wioy7 BY MARY HARTWELL. I can see that day.. AYhite cumuli were heaped over the wood tops, but the middle sky was blue and clear. Though I was dozing on a saloon step, this day of beauty got even through my wavering sight. Perhaps I sat there an hour, perhaps an age, in which the blinks I got were the recurring days. It suddenly occurred to me that such a long continuance of fine weather ought to be enjoyed more actively. I mumbled a number of jokes on nature as I staggered abroad. After a tiresome journey I came upon an alley and a group of boys traveling through a game of marbles on their knees, like penitents stumping to Jerusalem. And in their midst was Billy. Billy was a noble looking boy. I paused and tried to get in position to look at him. I felt a maudlin pride in Billy. He had Nora’s blue eyes. (Blessed Nora! She was gone where she couldn’t be cursed any more ; poor little broken-hearted thing.) As Billy photographed himself in my eyes, his bright hair blowing, his lusty fingers gouging a pit for the centre marble, the contrast between what he and I were born to be, and what we were, struck me like a bullet. I had tried to reform. Oh, yes. And every failure was a link in my chain. I was utterly given over to the snakes and the furies. Now here was Bill, walking in my vagrant steps ; a vicious Arab under a beautiful Caucasian guise. “ Say, Bill,” begged one of the tribe, casting a covetous eye on his industrious jaws, “ let me chaw your wax awhile.” Bill, with graceful generosity and contempt of gain, tossed it over, saying : “ There ; you can take it and keep it; I don’t want it no more.” AYhile I stood in drunken dolor against the fence, the group whirled up suddenly into a maeL strom. The centre toward which they were all sucked, was a steadfast rock with churning fists and a yellow top. “Bill!’' I shouted in fury, “come here, you young scoundrel!” Hearing my voice over the broil, he dashed through the boys and came, crying, bloody and ruffled. “ AYhat are you fighting about ?” I asked, stand ing in tremulous judgment over him. •* I can’t tell you, father,” he answered bravely. AYhat! Even the boy despised and dared me! I lihed my hand, and felt that I could kill him. “ Take that, then—and that, you little wretch, I'll show you how to be a bully, and turn against your own father.” My muscular hand brought a frightful blood gush out of his bruised face. I thoughthe should feel that his father was a solid man in 000 ree- foe the Right— justice to ale BAINBRIDGB GA-, APRIL 13th 1812 I pect, if the rest of my body was a maas of moist ! wretchedness. The boy, the boy. I groan when I remember it. " Oh, don't, father,” he begged, wringing his little dirty hands, “ Qh, father, please don’t strike me, and I’ll tell you all about it. The ;boys said you was a drunken old bloat. And fig fight any body that calls you that, father; I wifi if you kill me for it." I sat prone dowtSn the ground. That was the* hardest blow I ever had. “ Get up, father,” said Billy, casting a bloody and warlike glance behind him, “ and I’ll help you along.” I took hold of him, but a weakness not bom of rum, kept me at his cracked, stubby, little feet. There was no one in the world who cared whether I rose or went on down but him. He cared. I put my arms around the boy and cried against him. No more drunkeh glazing repent ance for me. Every tear was hard as a pearl with resolution. The good Christ appeared that in stant in his love and long suffering, through the boy, as plainly as he appeared to dying Sir LaUn fal through the leper. When on earth, He was always going about picking up the abominable, and since He has left the earth, He sends for them by messengers they cannot help knowing. Men should respect in me that spark which the boy respected. I would show him what a grand and overmastering thing is that soul which the God of glory values. “ Don’t cry, father,” requested Billy, while he ceased not to paint bloody sunrise on his face.— Better than a sunrise' was that little face to me.— His eyes looked bluer and more heaven-like than the sky. “ Do you love your father ?” I asked, holding to him like a woman. “ Yes sir, I’ll lick anybody that calls you names,” the bright, tender firmaments in his face gushing with another shower. A horizontal hail of mud and pebbles hit us while he was speaking. Billy .Teared up like a charger snuffing the battle afar off. But I made him retreat from the enemy’s lines. AYhen the boy and I were laid at night in a low tavern which was our only home, I asked with my face turned from him : “ Billy, will you help your father to try once more ?” Upon which he bound ed up and pumped my arm with all the vigor and familiarity that the street had put in him. “ Yes-sir-ee! I will that, you bet,” vowed Billy. Avery few minntes after he subsided, I heard his soft breath going in and out the doors of his lips in regular cadences. AYhile he slept and start ed up to fight his skirmishes over, I flogged my weak brain to work, and planned and planned and planned. AYhen I look back at that wretch in soiled tav ern sheets, glaring into darkness with watery eyes, my legs tremble under me, though they have gone stoutly these many years. It was such a very straight path up from that place, and I came so near falling, time after time. The next day I got work on the railroad. From the gutter I could not go directly back to the bar, since drunkenness is one of the vices which is not tolerated in lawyers. It was hard to shovel dirt in the hot sun. I sat down half fainting. A good-natured Patrick came slyly with a bottle, and bade me “ whisht at it,” which I put forth the will to do—like a wild beast—when Billy swooped down from a passing freight and squared himself before that Irishman, while the very tat ters at his elbow bristled with wrath. « Look here, now !” threatened he, sending the bottle far over a track, “if you get my father to drinkin’ again, I’ll kick you.” It would have been so very hard for the boy to fulfil the threat with his baby legs, on Patrick’s high breeches, that my Irishman took jolly com passion on him, and roared a vow neyermore to put his slimy temptation to my face. After I had delved awhile, Billy had anew suit, a set of books and school privileges. Then a situ ation as copyist was opened to me. The boy and I fell into the habit of striking hands and going to church on a Sunday. Oh, I tell you, it makes a man’s heart swell like a green bulb to have an honest hand coming seeking his. Finally I got into practice. Sometimes the thirst came on me and I stormed up and down in my office, and twisted out little locks of hair, as if the curse hung to the roots of that. Once I lock ed the door and threw out the key and was a pris oner till my associate came. Passing a saloon one evil time, the clinking of glasses and the breath of mine enemy penetrated my senses. That saloon-door sucked me just half way in, when I was shocked through my coat-skirts and quite knocked into the streets. “Here, father,” pleaded Billy, charging me with a second jerk, “come £ut of this—come out of this, we're a-going to make men of ourselves father.” “Yes, men. Billy,” I subscribed. So I didn’t run into that side track because I had such a faithful tender. Coming up socially, often does much for a man morally. Cases multiplied, and I seemed to grow with my trust. The boy and I had smart lodgings in town. He rose in school. I was so proud of him. I’ve heard how women love their children with close peculiar devotion. I think I must have lov ed him with a mothers love. There’s no other way of expressing how near the boy is to me. AYhen he came from school and met me on the streets, he was often carrying the sachel of a smooth-haired, dark-eyed girl, to whom he would pyr'laim as he loyally touched his cap : “That's my father !” with such a proud accent that the blood leaped in my veins. Oh, my good fellow, it’s A glorious day fee yon when your child is proud of you. We live altogether now ; Billy, his dark-haired Nora, the little rowdies and I, in a home with no end of verandas and vines. The respectable han dle of Judge is set to my name, but Billy’s chil dren, who give the echo to his former street train ing, stand in no more awe of it than they do of the venerable Roman handle to my countenance. We tumble like wild colts in the grass. But they have no idea that * x “~ - raster ever lay in. alower ttaxL ~ \ __l Blessed be enduring love. I think often I may be in my dotage, for quiet matron Nora often looks up from her baby in Surprise at my walking the veranda and maunder ing in a sort of ecstacy : * “The boy 1 The boy 1” , ■ [From the New York Sun.] Carpet Baggcry. Washington, March 22. It is curious to note the number of carpet-baggers in Congress at the present time, the term “carpet-bagger” being meant to designate all the Senators and Representatives from the South who are really from the North, inasmuch as they neVer went South until the close of the war. Alabama has one carpet-bag Senator and one carpet-bag Representative. Spencer of tlie?Senate, was bom in New York, and was a citizen of lowa or Nebraska when he entered the army in 186 2 He went to Alabama at the close of the war. Buckley of the House was also born in New York { entered the Union Army from Wisconsin, and was not mustered out until 1866, when he.immedi ately went into Alabama and Politics. Both the Arkansas Senators and one of her Re presentatives are carpet-baggers. Senator Rice, born in New York, entered the army from Minne sota, and did not settle in Arkansas until 1864. Senator gClay sprang from Pennsylvania, and alighted in Arkansas from the saddle at the close of the war; and Edwards, the carpet-bag member of the House, who lived in lowa several years pre ceding the war, alighted the same way. Both the Florida Senators are carpet-baggers. Osburn, a native of New Jersey, entered Florida in 1865 as Assistant Commissioner of the Freed man’s Bureau, and Gilbert was formerly a New York merchant. The Louisiana Senators are likewise carpet-bag gers, though AYest elected a year ago, was bom in New Orleans. He left his native place at an early age, and was next heard of in Pennsylvania. He was in San Francisco when the war broke out. and, at its close, settled temporarily in Texas and then in New Orleans. Kellogg, the other Sena tor, is a Vermonter, who possibly never Saw Louis iana until after the war, when he was appointed Collector of New Orleans. Louisiana has four Representatives (the fifth has died since his elec tion,) all of whom without exception, stayed away from that State until the close of the war. Syphelr, a native of Pennsylvania, went to Louisiana in 1866; Sheldon, of New York, went there in 1865, Darrall, of Pennsylvania, went there the same ; and Morey of Massachuseets in 1866. Mississippi has oue pretty carpet-bag Senator with a pretty name—Adelbert Ames. He was from Maine before he came from Mississippi, “settled” as provisional Governor, 1868. Besides the Senator Mississippi has three carpet-bag Re presentatives, viz : McKee, of Illinois ; Perce; of Michigan; and Barry, of Kentucky. All these gentlemen became Mississippians after the war. Sawyer, Senator from South Carolina, went there in 1859, but retired to the North during the rebellion, at the close of which he was appoint ed Collector of Internal Revenue for the Second District of South Carolina—the beginning of his political career. Elliott, the carpet-bag Represen tative, was bom in Boston, and is first heard of in South Carolina as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1868. Texas has a carpet-bag Representative in the person of William T. Clark, who was a stranger to the State until 1866, when he went intq business at Galveston. Os A T irginia’s Representatives three—Platt, Por ter, and Stowell—are carpet-baggers, Platt is a Vermonter, Porter a New Yorker, and Stowell a New Englander. All went to during or at the close of the war. So it seems the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisian, Mississippi, Sonth Carolina, Texas, and Virginia, which are entitled in the ag gregate to sixteen Senators and thirty-six Repre. sentatives, have in. fact but seven Senators and twentwo-Represntative3—the rest are all carpet baggers from the North. Again it appears that the States of New York, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesotta. Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Vermont, Massachusetts, Maine Illi nois and Michigan, which are entitled as a whole to twenty-two Senators and 105 Representatives, really have thirty-one Senators and 120 Represen tatives here in Congress. How is this ? It may be set down as tolerably certain that whether the average carpet-bag Congressman rep resents the community which he deserted or the commnity upon which he foisted himself, he does repreent with continual devotion the interests of himself and his “friends.. The following speech was made by the winner of a prize in a foot race: ’’Gentle men, I have worfthis cup by the use of my legs: I trust I may never lose the use of my legs by the use of this cup.” The following advertisement was in a New York paper recently: "Wanted, by a boy, a situation in an eating-house, He is used to the business.” firiutaidge IfoeMg £im. Advertisements On the iriodt Reasonable Terms. All advartls* meats are due after the first insertion, and when not spiecified as to the number of times to be Insetted, will bo pub lished until ordered out, and ho charged arc wdingly. JOB WORK Os every description neat ly and promptly executed. W» guarantee entire satisfaction in this line of our business. Patronage solid lad from all quarters. Send ub your ord*y», NC 43. I A Model Yoiig Lady* Not long sinee an honest, hard-working , old fanner, not a thousand miles from Tal botton, was driving his worn out and jaded horse through a certain street, and he saw, just .n front of him, a bevy of young ad.ea, numbering three, taking a quiet Evening stroll, and gaily chatting. They wore rigged out in a]J their &ne*y and really appeared beautiful §> this old his bread by the sweat of his brovC fife drove on slowly, and just as he passed them, by some accident, his horse was trippod* and he, wagon, horse and all were turned over into tho street. Two of the young ladies turned up their pretty little nos 64 and fled with a few hysteric little screams, while the other, who was the finest dressed and by far the best looking one, ran, with a countenance picturing pity, and assisted the old gentleman to get his horse up, help ed to hitch him to the Wagon, gathered up the things that had fallen out, and sent tho farmer and mechanic on his way rejoicing. We say from our heait, God b’ess this young lady, and may a silent amen go up from the heart of every one who reads this. The old gentleman did not learn the lady’s name, but, suffice it to say, she’s a resident of Talbotton, &nd a treasure worth digging after. If we were old enough to think of serious matters, we’d follow such a woman to the end of the world. She’ll moke a good wife, so, marrying men, take notice and look her out. And, now, young ladies a word to you:-*-* When you meet a poor, hard-working me chanic don’t turn up your nose at him, but treat him kindly and return his salutation*,• although he may have the marks of labor' on his clothing, and never, no matter what his position may be, laugh at a man when a misfortune overtakes him, but act tin* part of this noble young lady and you’ll never lose by it. —Talbotton Standard An Awful Mystery, One cold night about New Year's, a erf of fire was raised in Mqunt Bethel, a littli town about seven miles from Plainfield* over the Springfield Mountains, in Somer set county, N. J. A building over a hundred years old was in flanies. It Was occupied by a german farmer named Beust. He rushed from the burning building, suppo sing that his family were safe. He missed one of his daughters, and ran back in the house to save hes, He had eatfght her in his arms and Was making his Way to the door, when the floor gave way and both were burned to death Since then the ruins of the house have been removed. The mansion was built in the old fashion ed style, with huge fireplaces in two of the rooms, the chimneys sloping towards each other, and joining before reaching the roof* Walled in the cavity between the two fire places a human skeleton in perfect preser vation was discovered. An old flint-lock musket stood at its side, and two rusty knives lay at its feet. The musket is of the old Biitish pattern. It is supposed that the remains are those of a Tory soldier who met his death at the hands of the colonists during the revolution. The oldest inhabit-' ants are unable to explain this horrible mystery. The remains of the father and daughter were also found in the ruins.—* Weekly Examiner . Helm bold* New York, March 18. —American circles in Paris were exciting towards the end of February by the following bit of scandal! Avery well known citizen of New York, famous for the fortune he has made by the sale of patent medicines, was in Palis with his wife. They had been there some time. He is entirely addicted to gambling. His trip abroad is said to have been under taken chiefly to break him of his vice, which is making serious inroads on his fortune. He returned to his room in Paris morning about two o’clock. His wife wa* not in their lodging, but he knew where she was to be found. So he went to the house of a Mrs. 8., and found that lady, his wife and two men, busilly engaged in playing cards. The New Yorker flew into a tower ing rage, andupbraded his wife in the most intemperate language. Early next morning the outraged wife obtained certifi cates of two or three French physicians, who had never seen her husband, vouching that he was insane, and should be placed in a lunatic asylum. Armed with these she went to Mr. Washburne, and through this intervention made the police arrest her husband and lodge him in a mad-house. Meanwhile Mr. Washburne grew uneasy at the thought of the responsibility he had assumed, and the next day sent au American doctor to see his incarcerated countryman. This doctor at once dis covered that his countryman wm vane, and be was liberated,