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fliifciftg? Sffeettf fun. PUBLISHED ,1,,i i . EVERY SATURDAY- *r "f'lj '' 'yf'MlL JOHNSTON & 00. : ; fttomwio, Terms ot Subscription. ~ „ 5 One (*>P7- one Y «* r »*Y f' % ***’*[ One Copy. S« Months,. v- ...}M One Copy. Three Months,. - * •» = ~ L ~ ' 1 : _' Invariably is Adtahce. ar® THE CHILDREN AT HOME? tjch day when the glow of sunset Ka-les in the Western sky, # *' ' n d the wee ones, tired of playing, Go tripping lightly by, I steal away from my husband, Asleep in his easy chair. And watch from the open doorway Their faces fresh ana fairf Alone in the dear ogd homestead That once wa. full# % wU^ith 'girlish tfugßTer, Echoing boyish strife. U'e two ate waiting together; And oft, as the shadows come, . With tremulous roioe he ohlls me, It is night! are the children home • Y<* love,” I answer him gently, *• They're all home long ago And I sing, in my quivering treble, A song so soft and low, Till the old man drops to slumber, With his head upon his hand, And I tell to myself the number At home in a better land. Horne, where never a sorrow Shall dim their eyee with tear*! Where the amile of God is on them Through all the summer years! 1 know!—yet my arms are empty TTiat fondly folded seven, And the mother heart within me Is almost starved for Heaven. Sometimes in the dusk of evening, I only Bhut my eye*, And the children arp all about me, A vision from the skies ; Tire babes whose dimpled fingera Ix*t the way to my breast, And the beautiful ones, the angels, Passed to the world of the blest. With never a cloud upon them, 1 see their radiant brows; Afy boys that I gave to freedom The red sword sealed their vows l In a tangled Southern forest, Twin brothers, bold and brave, They fell; and the flag they died for. Thank God! floats o’er their grave. A breath, and the vision is lifted Away on the wings of light, And again we two are together, AH alone in the night. They tell me his mind is failing, lint 1 suiile at idle fears; lie is only back with the children. In the dear and peaceful years. Ami still as the summer sunset Fade* away in the We£>‘t, 1 ~ * \»d the «-ee n»es tilwGf W Go trooping home to rest, My husband calls from his corner. •* Say. love, have the children come . And 1 answer, with eyes uplifted, •• Yes. dear, they're all at home! BOUND TO WIN, n\ FRANCKS llffiNSnAW BADEN. - Clara.” Her head vu in sadness bent, and so lost in thought she van, that neither the approaching footstep nor the pleasant voice was heard. A mo ment more and a gentle touch fell on her shoulder, and she raised her eyes to the handsome, noble looking man standing over her. " What troubles you, my child?” he asked, gat ing lovingly into her eyes. •• Why do yon think I am troubled ?*’ she asked, trying to smile. -ltrcauv, my child, I just a few moments ago met Albert Morrill. He was looking very misera ble. 1 come in here, and find you looking much the same. So 1 know there is trouble between you." j, ■ “ «, dear sir, there is—trouble that can never grow l«s,! think. Albert has gone away ill much sorrow and I grieve that it must be so,” said Clara, in i low. tremulous voice. •• lie loves you truly, I believe, my child, and I have thought you not indifferent toward him; in* deed hail hoped to 6ee you united. .He is most worthy, surelv. Tell me why you have sent him off- For a few moments the young girl remained si. lent. Then, glancing up into his eyes, with a wav ering look in her own, she asked : “ Ih> you uot think, when a girl marries, if there u any difference in their ages, the husband should T e that advantage ?” There was a merry twinkle in the gentleman’s f . T e then, as he answered : ' That depends entirely on the character of both, as far as 1 am interested, I prefer the advan on the wife's side." tiara looked astonished but said gravely ! "1 do uot. That is why I shall never many -Albert. lam older than he by quite five years, **»d $o I have told him.” “ Clara, this very decision proves how yonng in experience and child-like you are. Albert is older wxi wiser by ten years, if not in days, weeks and ownths. in constitution and experience. Have you DeVtr seen men prematurely old, and women who *** ev,i r young ? Thus I am sure it will be with )ou. if you are like your mother.” t lara shook her head, and the gentleman asked: bat think you of your mother and me? — Are we not very happy ? '*h, yes. But you are so much older than numma. She being so young and beautiful, there no fear of your love ever wandering from her. bile you—l think, if she had sought the world o' or. she could not have found one of whom she •* so proud, or could be so happy with,” answered looking on her step-father with pride and fondness in her glance. Thank you. my child. Now let me tell you, ? onr mother came into this world just seven years | gained an entrance here; but it would be absurd for me to say she was seven years @itE Sm vol; vl older, would it not!” “ Oh, ye*, indeed ,it #©uld. I had no idea of this. But Mis a very { “By no means, my dear. There are many Buch ; and many causes why it should be. The consti tution, disposition, exposure*, business cares and such, may make men old beyond their years. Ah, I see what you are about to say. Yes, certainly, Women have their manifold cares. Some of them sink under them. Others, like your q- ‘with'such elasticity of spirits,'good health, and everything else that makes women most charming, neverjgrow t>fd. “ Now I want to tqR you a Many years ago, to a far Western Stated came a youhg lady as governess in one of the best families there. Her pupils being only three little girls, their father proposed, so as to make this teacher's duties more interesting, as well as remunerative, to permit some of the neighboring children to share the ad vantages secured for his own. Among them came a boy of thirteen. name—well, no matter about that; we will call him IlArry When Har ry Vfather brought him to the jwmng teacher, he said: “ • Ha is not advanced'Jwell for his age. and is not very apt. He has had a poor chance for ob taining instruction. &But I hope he will not give you much trouble.’ “ 4 Indeed, I’m sure he will not. He has a good head, and if not apt at his books, neither is he apt to do anything that is not good and right, I think,’ answered the young lady, in a sweet, encouraging tone. “Harry had seen, at his entering the school-: room, how beautiful she was; but from the in-1 atant those kind, sweet words reached his ear, his fate was decided. A love came into his heart that would never grow less—love to be the one love of his life. Daily with her, it grew greater, stronger. How could it be otherwise ? She was the most beautiful' woman he had ever seen; the most intel-1 lectual and refined, and in every way the best he had ever known. Aye, even the mother that he dearly loved became second in his heart then. He studied because it pleased his loved teacher. At! first it was very difficult for him to acquire his tasks ; but he was [working for her, and soon it grew easier. For her he would grow great, he de termined ; for her, he would be good. He truly worshipped her. Not an hour would he tos-- <"** | her society, that he could possibly, i” 1 ® | of recreation, w r hen the others werep ta^l^b’ go out and enjoy the sunshine,’ he’woffld plead to remain with her. And when at last she grew to know how much more pleasure it gave him to be be with her, she did not bid him go. To be with j her, was the sunshine to him ; aye, it was heaven. How he dreaded when the time for going home came ! The hours until seeing her the next morn ing seemed ages. Every possible excuse he seized to see her on Saturdays ; and Sundays, at church, he would sit where he could watch her all the | time. Occasionally when she would come to visit his home, he would hover about her, watching j every chance to offer some little attention ; fruits, flowers, the best, were always carried to her. « The boys, and girls jtoo, would call him the teacher’s shadow.’ • . “ Once he heard some one say 4 he feared Mr. Archer would not keep the teacher long. Then for the first time came the thought of separation. He believed when that came he must surely die. Just a year she had been his teacher, when the hour of trial came. Thinking it be3t, the news, which they knew would grieve so much the chil dren’s hearts, was kept from them until the last possible hour. When she came to bid him good bye, he could not speak, but only cling to her hand, as if to hold her back. She saw how he Buffered. Taking from her pocket a daguerreotype cate, she put it in his hand, saying: . “‘Here, Harry, is my picture. Now you can still see me every day. Say good-bye, and let me go.’ «* ghe bent over and kissed him, and hastened away. Harry fled to the woods, remained all day and at night his father found him, and carried him home, where his sister teased, and tried to laugh him ‘ back to his senses,’ as she said. A few days after, he heard from Mrs: Archer that their dear teacher had gone home to be married. A little while longer, and he was shown her wedding cards “ And now, Clara, dear, we must leave the poor, almost heart-broken boy, and follow his loved teacher. She had married one to whom she had been engaged ever since she was scarcely more than a child. A few months only of happiness was hers. Easily influenced, her husband yielded to temptation. The wine cup could not be resist ed. Bad men called themselves his friends, and lured him on. His once abundant means were lost at the gaming table. His health soon failed. Four years after, she who had been a happy, hope ful bride was widowed and almost penniless. A little was saved from the wreck -only sufficient, with the amount she obtained by teaching music, to secure for her and her three-year old little girl a comfortable, but very humble home. “ Time passed on. The beautiful widow was universally admired. Suitors she would have had —many, if she could have been drawn from her se clusion. But she rejected all advances from a few who, more persistent than others, obtained an in troduction. In the society of a few old friends and her child, she was content. « When ten years a widow, the war broke out. — In her far Northern home, she watched, with the deepest interest, the career of many of the young men from her own town. The papers were filled with accounts of the gallant and daring deeds of **ny brave men. For the next three years she had work enough to do, making comfortable doth ’ ing for the absent ones. BAINBRIDGR APRIL 27th 1872 “ One day while thus engaged, she was surprised .by her little daughter coming up the card of her pastor, accompanied by another bearing the name of General , a name so well known to her—to everybody then—a nanu- the press never seemed tired of using, and in a very pleasant way, too. He could not complain. Whjf her pastor should bring him to call on her thf wiclow could not imagine, but at length came to. the ponclusion ftfeati the kmd^minister,' Tain wing how much she had done for the soldiers, brought, to thank her perhaps, one of their leaders. And so she was well pleased. But the second day after, the General called again, alone, and the next eve ning' following and ere a week had passed he seemed as quite an old friend. But what was he coming for ? And the widow for a moment thought, possibly her child —her little fifteen year old Clara. Oh, I had not intended—” “ Oh, do you not think I have discovered who that General is ?” said Clara, laughing, and catch ing his hand fondly in her own. 44 You do not know yet who he was,” answered her step-father. 44 Well, on with my story. No, that grave, mid dle-aged man could never think of such a child.— Well, she soon knew for what he came, and I think the knowledge was not unwelcome. She had grown to like a little her soldier lover. But j when he told her of his love, and asked her his wife, she said : “‘This is so very sudden? You have known me scarcely more than a week— ’ 44 4 Pardon me,’ he said, stopping her. 4 1 have i known you for many years, and loved you as long. Only you have I ever loved. Look at me 1 Try if you cannot recall me.’ “ She shook her head. “ 4 Nor my name ?’ “ 4 Indeed I cannot. I know your name, because it is known to fame—only so,’ she answered. “ 4 Only think of it. All these long years, that you have thought you were unloved,’ he contin ued, 4 1 have been loving you so truly, so devoted ly, that never, for a moment, has any other woman moved my heart. And never, during all this time, have you thought of me,’ he said, with a touch of sorrow in his tone. 4 You have been the star that has guided me; you the talisman that kept me from evil; you the goal for which I have striven- you have made me. All I have I place at yofei. Oh, what else could have cheered your dear image, when suffering in the nogpnflf —jSgV ' -3-.XLU, fields in&ve been nerved to greater exertion, be cause! was fighting for your country as well as mine—fighting under and for the flag you loved. Daily I have gazed on this’ —he drew from his bosom an old fashioned, time-worn daguerreotype, and placed it in her hand— 4 and renewed my vow to be worthy of your love —aye, and win it too.” “‘Where did you get this? Who gave it to you,’ she asked, in great surprise. “ 4 You gave it to me—aye, and kissed me at the time.’ “‘You! Oh, what can you mean?’ she ex claimed. 44 4 Do you not remember your pupil —your boy adorer ?’ “ 4 No, no! ’tis not possible. Little Harry you! the country's pride! Can it be ?’ she cried, put ting out her hand then, as ii to welcome him. He clasped it, drew her toward him, looked eagei ly into her eye*. Ah. she saw in his the love and devotion of years; for she drew not away, nor | urned away her face, when he said : 44 4 And now may I, who. for your sake have never pressed my lips to woman’s, save mother and sisters—may I kiss you? “ She smiled. He knew he had won her at last. Clasping her to his breast, he pressed his lips to hers, and said: _ n I gpeak to me ! Say one little word of love, for which I have waited, worked land prayed so long.’ 4< Well, dear, she said enough to make him very happy. And so I won.” 44 But when you knew she was married, did you not despair then ?” Clara asked. “ For a little while only. But I worked on.— After I heard of her widowhood, I had greater faith then ; I never doubted more, I knew such entire devotion, such love as mine, must meet Heaven’s approval, and be crowned with success at last. Now you see why I think so favorable of Albert's love,” answered the General. “Ah, but your life was tried and proven. Sure ly never did man love so well. Albert’s is not long lived, and might grow cold ; and—” « Xo, no, my child. If tried, lam sure it would prove just as true. For you, my little Clara, are enough like your mother in loveliness, to hold very firm your husband's love. Now I must plead, and your heart pleads with me, for Albert! And I | must insist, and so I am sure will he, that if you S did reach this world a few years in advance of him, you cannot call yourself older. It’s ridicu j lous, perfectly. lam going out now. May I make i that poor, miserable fellow happy, by sending him back again ?” Sne smiled, and although she neither whispered Yea or Nay, he knew that all would be well. — And in his own great happiness he had helped to make them happy also. Though we have “ trouble enough at home,” we can shed a sympathetic tear for poor Louisiana when we hear that the vandals now in power there, boast that Warmouth has more patronage than Grant, to wit: 200 offices paying SIO,OOO a [year each, and 50 tax collectors at $12,000 yer an ! num . A bovine Irishman once said: “It would ! have been money in my pocket if I had never been | tom ’’—and we think that the Louisiana tax-pay i er will soon have occasion to say, “ I would have ‘ been better off to-day if I had never owned a cent. FOB THE RIGHT—JUSTICE TO ALL . Dolly Wardens. ; Dfol’y Vardens are slowly advancing in. public favor, and we may expect to see thenv sooir ujxm ! the public street. , l'h<3?e intended for .this pur pose are-generally of black grounds, gaily broeadqd with flowers. The most beautiful Dolly Vardens*, however, are French patterns, which come in pale grounds, with garlands of the most delicately tinted flowers. _ As the ladies seem te S&se quaint and ij<}wy Pustmnes '/take to wa t*r, it raay be accept^ 5 * “ aw vs©rhrat women do not always dress to please er sex, hut rath-, er to outvie each other in splendor of toilet, for the gentlemen have almost unanimously condemned the Dolly Vardens! ' ; • But to pass from *ttflS coquettish polonaise to the Dolly Varden hat! There is a spectacle to make yog open youteyes, my oountrymen! Os course you will execrate it, denounce it, but, that will make no difference, for the Dolly Vardeii will be worn, and you will end in falling in - love, with its wearer! For this daintish flower of spring is a most coquettish affair, especially adap ted to a sweet, girlish face. Its broad brim, caught up at the side or at the back; its clusters of great roses or nodding plumes, its airy scarf or graceful ribbons, all have a piquant air which cannot fail to lend a charm to its wearer. It is now decidedly en regie that if a hat be not black, its color, or the color of its trimmings, must correspond with the costume. A black hat. either of lace or light straw, is per haps more serviceable than any other, fer by the simple change of a ribbon or flower it may be made to correspond with any toilette Some silk hats are made to match the custutoe, or made of black silk and bordered with the prin cipal color in the dress.—Evening Mail Fashion Gossip. First Use of Paper Money in America. —The first American colonists used pelting and wam pum as substitutes for coin. In 1640, the Coun cil in New Netherland petitioned to raise the value of money in their colony iu order to prevent its exportation. Afterwards, Gov. Stuyvesant tried to introduce a specie currency and to establish a mint at New Amsterdam, New England already had her mint. Massachusetts was the first of the colonies to use caper money. In 1690, it issued bills to the amount of seven thousand pounds to pay the sol diers in the expedition against the French in Can ada. Twelve years after Carolina issued paper money to pay her soldiers. Three or four years after a paper money act was passed in the Island of Barbadoes. A little after, in 1703, Connecti cut and New York passed enactments creating bills of credit. The new state of the currency at this time in New York was thought to arise from the fact that most of the foreign trade of the country cam** through Boston wad other New England pc ' drawing thither money and produce. In I£-ClosK j difftppice af-qdwrter '""S’lie"present legal rate of interest in New (? per cent.,) was established in 178$.—The Guar dian. “•Who’s Ahead !”—A gentleman asks the girls the following pointed questions : “ Could you love a tnan who wore false nair on his head, when he had enough of his own ? Who painted his face and improved his form as you improved (? ) yours ? Who pinched his feet witli small shoes, his hands with small gloves, his waste with corsets; and then, as if he had not already deformed himself enough, tied a huge bustle to’ his back, and thrust tiny mountains of wire into his bosom ?” In reply to which A lady responds : “ Could you love a girl who defiled her mouth with tobacco and loaded the ail- with fumes of cigars? Who staggered home several times a week the Worse for liquor? Who indulged in fast horses, bet high at races, and swaggered around the streets with question able companions?” “Which picture wears the most alluring colors?” We also see it reported that-Mrs. Van Cott says if she had all the money ever paid for liquor she could buy every foot of land in the world. Yery likely. And if she had i t.hejnoney paid by women for back hair she could •buy every drop of liquor in the world. Was Morgan Killed ? Thousands believe that Morgan was not killed for exposing the secrets of Masonry, others believe that he did not expose secrets, and thousand believe that he was killed. The whole proceeding was shrouded in mystery. He it is said, was confined in a Canandaigua jail for stealing a shirt, and subsequently taken out and put in a sleigh, and by relays was hurried towards Canada, The body of a man was found in a lake; he had his throat cut. Mrs. Morgan was sent for. She hunted for a private mark on the body by which she could distinguish him.— She did not find the mark, and declared it was not the body of her husband. Mr. H, was a lawyer, and engaged in the abduction of Morgan, and told a friend, in presence of a son, then about twelve years of age. that Morgan was not killed, but put on board of a British man of-vrar. That son is now in this city, from whom we learn the following particulars: In 1818 Mr. M.,. says he went to *Hobar town, in Yan Dieman’s Land, there he met an old friend who asked him about Morgan. He tbld hin what he knew about him, anu the man laughing, said: “Morganis living here; I will introduce you to him.” —They went to the office of the Hobartown Adver tiser and there found him. After some conversation and comparing recollections of the region of country in New York where it was supposed Morgan was killed, he re lated the particulars of his capture, and stated that he was put on board of a British man of-war and kept there for four years, when he was landed on Yan Diemans Land, and had been there ever since. He asked him why he did not go back.— Morgan re plied, “I cannot, if I would, I cannot get a permit, and if I could go back I would either be killed or be denounced as an im poster,” He was in good circumstances and part owner of the Advertiser, oan Francisco Examiner, March 23. Fine Churches. We take occasion to say there is, in our i opinion, no unjustifiable mania in America for building fine; costly churches. It is not confined to the members of Wesley Chapel, but to the members of all the churches in this city, and every other city in -America, Each wealthy congregation to Others ixPbufiuin*? worship, when only decency, comfort, con venience and durability should be aimed at.—Atlanta, Sun. . «, : We are not ar little surprised to read the above., That any money spent in the ser vice of God and to the glory of His caqse should be pronounced to be illy spent is a strange opinion to be advanced in this day. We hear no protest agsinst fine houses ’or splendid public buildings. Such enterpris es are considered as marks of public pro gress. But that a costly church devoted to God’s worship should be erected by a prosperous community should evoke harsh crticism, and that a noble rivalry existing: between the various doing honor Jo religion should be denounced as an ’’unjustifiable mania,” are facts that we hardly looked for from any sensible and intelligent source.— Constitution. A correspondent of the Griffin Georgian comments as follows : For a “sensible and intelligent” editor like the one of the Constitution, to attempt to bolster up the vanity of “church people,’ * and sustain his position no better than he has done in the above is a * ‘fact hardly looked for.” Let the editor of the Constitution read the Bible and be will find few, in any» precepts requiring that money should be spent in such a manner. Those who would use money “in the service of God,” should feed the hungry, comfort the fatherless* clothe the naked, preach the Gospel to every creature. If the good peoble of Atlanta as well *- V'oes would spend money .forks of'a notea- o d’s cause,” let them visit oierican public anltvQ nrw-j nmviih> tlt<»w ■■■"**• tglibh poet, but oifs l6 poor for such objects houses in which the poor, r. ~ j carpets and rented pews, and nigx. " .iied are debarred from worshipping, is doing more to extin guish a pure religion than all the debauched dens of devils in the universe. J. Georgia Legislative Expenses. Mr. Voorhees, in his late speech in the House of Representatives, has the following upon Legislative expenses in this State. Sir, I hold in my hand the official statis tics on which I make this charge. The reports of the comptroller general of Georgia show that for eight years, commencing with 1855, and ending with 1862, there was ex pended for the pay of members, and officers of all legislatures during the entire period the sum of $866,385 53. This is the record of the administration under the manage ment of her own citizens. During the two years’ existence of the Republican Legisla ture ejected in 1868, the report of compt- rolled general shows that there was emen ded for the pay of its members and officers the startling sum of $979,055, only a frac tion less than $1,000,000, One Legislature is thus discovered to have cost $112,668 47 more than the Legislature of eight pre vious years in the single matter of its own expenses. There had been no increase in the number 0f members. On the contrary, there are fewer now than under the former apportionment. * ■. In earlier times the clerk hire of the Legislature of that State did not average over SIO,OOO per annum. That item alone reached the sum of. $125,000 for the one Legislature whose conduct I am discussing; more than equal to the expenditures on that account af any ten years of the previous history of Georgia. Her General Assem bly consists Os 175 representatives and 44 Senators, making 219, taking both branches together. The record disclose 104 clerks in°the employ of this body while the Repub lican party bad the ascendency there. One clerk for every two legislators is a specta cle which I commend to the consideration of the American tax payer and voter, every where. Who can. doubt that such a body was organized for the purpose of robbery and extortion ? Some ingenious youngsters in Milwaukee have organized a telegraph company, and have in operation a line of ten blocks, or four miles, the wire costing $1 50 per square. It was designed for practice and pleasure, and when the weather is unpleasant the boys converse, and play checkers and chess without leaving their homes. "While indulging in this pastime they can be really acquiring a profession that may be of service to them in after life. In this con nection, we have often wondered why it had never been proposed to introduce pho nography in our schools. A knowledge of it is easly acquired, and the time necessary for practice would hardly be missed from the hours of study* The advantages of phonography to every educated person are palpable. t -■* Hurt i hiMm or*ill w Advertisements On the most Reasonable Terms. All advertk rnenta are due after the first insertion, aad when not specified as to the number *1 times to be inserted, will be puth fished until ordered out, and be charged accordingly. t JOB WORK Os every description neat ly and promptly executed. Wa : guarantee entire satisfaction in this line of our business. Patronage solicited from all quartets. Send us your order*. NO 45, FLANNEL POISON. A story sickening in its details comes to us from Pennsylvania. It is moro of these fanciful horrors of Eastern fable than a reality of our own time and nmwtrj lit ap pears, that in 1871, Griffith Rhees, of Hew lett’s Creek, Pennsylvania, upon the market a peculiar brand o|,.jr ( ed flapnel, "the prodttCT 6? a cuftitotofl fungus growth, and this, with its coloring matter was high ly poisonous In January* 1871, an infant of Rhees, less than a yearold, wife threat ened with croup and he'pfit n strip of this flannel about its throat. ~Fev*Eh- a crimson eruption. Rhees conferred With his foreman, told him of jthe condition of his child, and called his attention to. an arti cle in a Louisville Medical joqrnal re ferring to anew disease styled “Mycelloidal JDermestitis” said to be a peculiar eruption, with, great irritation of the skin, complicated with cerebrai symp toms, and terminating variously. It wftt said be bs oaused by wearing red flanneL Rhees professed not to believe it, but ‘ re marked whether true or false it would riiin his business, as, when this statement became widely circulated people would decline to purchase flannels of any descriptibfl. He wae terribly affected when his forman informed him that the strip of flanel on his child’s neck was his own fabric. . * To his horror his foreman produced a long column of newspapaper clippings enu merating cases of sickess and frpm wearing red flannel, ominously remarking that npne of them were older than 1689? adding '‘its the fungus that does it, I’ve watched these things some time and I know its our .{flan nel.” Rhees directed his foreman to tele graph to his factors to stop selling his fa brics peremptorily, at no matter whet cost. The order was sent too late. A,response to the telegram informed Rhees the fabrics had been sold to another on advantageous terms, that thfiX ; had been t6' oe made up in uniforms fen .Herrera’s army. Thereupon Rhees’ doctor entered “saying your child is dead go and Comfort your wife,” “I am going to make reparation to her and to all,” said Rhees, walking out of his office, and two days thereafter his body was found in the deepest of the mill-dams. The merchants who had bought the flannels and lost customers thereby, entered suit against Rhees* estate, and the case will come to trial as soon as the messengers who have been despatched for witnesses from Glen. Herrara’s army shall have returned. The St. Augustine (Fla.) Press, has tho following curious And interesting item: “We witnessed a novel, interesting and beautiful sight a few days ago, at the farm of Mrs. Hildreth, situated on the Nbrih river, about two. miles above the city. Mrs. Hildreth, in the course Os a few months has sucoeed ed in taming the wild birds that fly about the place. While we were in the house, Mrs. H. went put to the door And called to the birds, which were then, in the middle of the day, in the adjoining forest. In a few moments, a dozen or more blue-birds and mocking-birds cameflyir^garound her. She s.ben came into the house and handed each of our party a raisin, which we were requested to hold out in our fingers/ We remained still for a few minutes, when the birds hopped in at the door, flew tipon our hands, A&d picked the raisins from pur fingers.—We were astonished, and could not help wondering the mope, when we were informed that none of these had been but were thug tamed by the gentleness and art of this lady, What a foot-hold Americans are gaining among the long dormant and exclusive orientasL Gen. Horace Capron, our former Commissioner of Agriculture, now holds a simular position under the Mikado of Japan. He writes that he is comfortably domiciled in one of the palaces of the. Mikado. His furniture is partly American and partly Eoropean, with enough of the Oriental to make the combination picturesque. He has the retinue of a prince—a Carriage and pair, saddle horse for each member of his party, servants ad libitum, guards, hostlers, mounetd escort when riding, with runners on foot to clear the track. . Doubtless his salary is in keeping with the magnificence of his appointments. Husbands and wives who seldom exchange a tirind (word, need have hb fear of be trayng too much devotion, nor keep back any little tendency to tenderness which may still linger in the their hearts, like the last faint gildings of the sun over the Wes tern lulls, ill the early Cherish tenderness, and if the twilight *of love ap proaches, toy to recall the full, bright day ; for after twilight, comes the deep dark night, and there is no light.— Elm Ortov,