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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MAKCH10, 1870.
A majority of share s of the old Thomaston
Bank, in Maine, is owned by women, and their
vote elected the wholo board of directors at a
recent election.
A man in Paris has been sentenced to two
months' imprisonment for dead-heading Iris
way into a theater by claiming to b* a re
porter.
Another flying machine has been invented
in Belgium. Let this land of work go on. It
will ultimately reach the result at which those
who hare unbounded faith in the practicability
of terial navigation are earnestly aiming.
The fate of the Cincinnati Railroad trill in
the Kentucky Legislature has not been deter
mined. Vic chances arc against the bill for
the present in the Senate, though tho argu
ment is all in its Civor.
The iast'phase of editorial m. «1. stly is seen in
Mr. J. E. Biysnt’s Iasi Mfieorgia I; i ■ j * n
wham tho first oraicle in the editorial cohxmn
is headed lira"Hon. J. E. Bryant, before
.... i.uyr.i limit*-* 1 ," A,-.
The Univststiy of the Pacific has a Miss
Janes for one of its professors. This Lady is
■aid to be entitled to her position by reason of
a brilliant intellect and acquirements which
are attained bat by few men. In such a cose
“ woman's righto " are irrepressible.
A wealthy Northern company has purchased
a tract of land at Sandy Point, opposite the
Norfolk (Vo.) Navy Yard, and intend erecting
upon it extsnaiva mills for the manufacture
of yellow pine lumber for the Northern mar
kets
William Blakatter, who was shot by his
wife, at Litchfield, Minn., a few days since,
died Thursday evening lost Mrs. Bteketter
is under arrest, and will ham an examination
on Wednesday. The ease Booms to bo one of
cold and deliberate murder.
Tlie Georgia Muddle.
The New York Tribune wants Georgia ad
mitted promptly upon the basis of Amnesty
and Suffrage. This is just whst the Republi
cans of Georgia want, and just what Bryantites
oppose.
The classical and high school teachers of
Massachusetts am debating for a plan by which
the pronunciation of Greek may be smei
so that one universal system may bo adopted.
At present every college has Its own style of
pronunciation, each differing torn the others.
Somebody without reverence for our institu
tions of learning suggests that a very striking
and largely patronised style of pronunciation
of the Greek may be obtained from the Fe
nians.
One of the life insurance companies, in Hart
ford, has in its office an arithmometer, a cal
culating machine, recently obtained in Eu
rope, and the only one in use in this country.
It is comparatively small, about twenty inches
in length, and looks, when closed, like a Ger
man music-box. The wheels, gearings and
dials are of steel turd brass, and it is so con
trived as to perform the operations of addi
tion, subtraction, multiplication and division,
with a spead unattainable by mental process
and an accuracy absolute though mechanical.
Tho Irish population of San Franciaoo pro
pose getting np a monster petition to the gov
ernment of the United States, with reference
to the cruel treatment of the Irish political
prisoners now confined in English prisons,
which was lately made public by the English
and Irish press, ashing the government to ap
point a commissioner to visit .tho different
prisons and seoorlaln tho real facts relative to
their treatment The petition will be for
warded to Senator Casoerly for presentation to
the President
Appointment of Comma Taker*.
We are authorized to state that applicants
for appointments to take the census of the
several counties, will be required to make and
file their application, made in their own band
writing, stating how long they have resided in
the county for which they moke application,
their present and previous occupations, wheth
er they can take the oath required by law for
aU officers of the United States, (the iron-dad
oath,) and such other foeto as may enable the
Marshal to form a judgment of the applicant's
fitness for the census service.
Wo fear there is much misapprehen
sion abroad in tho community aa to
tho value of these appointments. There
is only a fair compensation provided for
tho work if fully and faithfully performed.
And this, we understand, will be rigidly re
quired by the Marshal before any payments
are made. In all eases, it will bo neeea
for the census taker to perform the work re
quired personally, and in no eaas can the
position be sub-let, or the servioe be perform
ed by a substitute. Active work will not i
mence before the first of June next.
Applications addressed to Msj. William H.
Smyth, United States Marshal, can be filed
with his deputy, in this city, Mr. Chamber-
lain.
Gold and Greenback!.
From the Sew York Commercial md Financial Cliron
do, February 26th. ]
_ It is one of tlio anomalies of the firmnrial
situation that our merchants cannot forecast
the future premium on gold, and at a critical
>eriod like the present gold ranges in the mar
ket some fifty per cent below where it stood
five months ago. Hence the question is anx
iously hoard on all sides, will tho price go
lower, or will there be a reaction to a higher
point? The most conflicting arguments are
used on the opposing sides of the controversy.
Into these contests we do not need just now
to enter. It will better serve the present pur
pose to point out some things on which both
parties are agreed.
And, in tho first place it is on all sides con
ceded that there is a normal premium for gold
over greenbacks, if we could only discover it,
and that this normal or absolute prico is tho
point to which the market prico of gold will
always tend. So soon as any disturbing forces
are removed, which cause temporary aberra
tions, this equilibrium will strive to rc-esiab-
Rah itself; and gold will rise or fall to its proper
level.
Secondly, it is agreed that tho ratio between
greenbacks and gold is governed by the lesser
or greater amount of depreciation of out paper
currency. And as depreciation means re-
dundeucy, it follows that the range of tho gold
premium is higher onr lower according as the
volume of tho currency is augmented, and
other things being equal, the price of gold
.riw sfidfslleaniiisiliug as the current of the
circulating matey is greater or less than is de
manded for the legitimate wants of business
on a specie basis.
Thirdly, it is notorious that the volume of
the currency has received no decrease of sach
a serious nature since September last as to
force a foil in gold of fifty, or even thirty or
‘ rent, per cent.
Fourthly, tho nausea of the foil in gold
being outside of the changes in the volume of
the currency, and tho greenback circulation
remaining now what it was when gold sold at
twenty or thirty per cent above its present
level, it follows then that gold was much
above its moral level, or else that gold is now
much below that level.
It is at tiris stoge of the aroumsut that the
opposing parties separate. The bears think
goUistoohighstfll and that it taodabyita
own weight to seek a lower paint The bulla, on
the other band, declare that temporary causes
have put the premium down, that the Secretary
of the Treasury has helped these depressing
causes by forcing gold down on the market
whan the iroikntrsetrssfly glutted with it, said
when there is for the present no ready outlet
These vexed questions are so eagerly drscusred
as to throw an atmosphere of uncertainty over
the whole subject, and are already rendering
all parties leas dogmatic and Ism positive.
We rate .Ted a few weeks a go to aorne foots
which may perhaps, aid in solving the gold
am. Theta foots regard the increased
ly of the precHma metals, and the effects
at increase in raising the nominal level
of prices. Without going into a tedious de
tail, it is enough to my that, although prior to
1848 the avenge annual yield of the precious
metals hod, for three hundred years, been no
more than twenty-one minions, the amount
since 1848 had been ten times as much, or
over two hundred millions. Now a large part
of this gold crop of the world is absorbed by
the aria, but still it is fair to assume that ten
times as much coin has been minted during
the last twenty years.
It is true that commercial transactions have
also multiplcd for which s much larger supply
of circulating money would be required. But
on the other hand mere has been s displace
ment of coin by paper to an immense extent,
even in British India, and much more in
France and in this country. In view of these
facto the question is raised whether ws ought
not to expect that this vast increase in the vol
ume of the specie currency would produce
some depreciation in its relative value. After
the disoovrry of America, in 1498, gold declin
ed in value; why should not the new discovery
of Australian and Californian gold mines
since 1848 produce a similar perturbation of
values? Such is in brief the argument, and
the only reply seems to be that, if it he true,
it is brought about for us in a way no human
sagacity could foresee; and if we should arrive
at specie payments by any such way as is here
suggested, we shall add another to the numer
ous illustration^ of Mr. Madison's words to
Miss Martineau that Providence seemed to
have set the American people to do many
things which hod always heretofore been
held impossible.
Southern Railroad Convention,
There was a Convention of railroad officials,
representing roads between New Orleans and
Now York, held Thursday at Bamum'a Hotel,
Baltimore. The meeting was organized by
the election of Hon. C. F. Collier, President of
tho Petersburg and lVeldon road. President,
and tho following Secretaries: J. B. Gentry,
general ticket agent of the Richmond and Pe
tersburg and Potomac Railroad; W. J, Walk
er, general agent Wilmington and Weldon and
Wilmington and Uanehestar roads; E. G.
Ohio, general superintendent Seaboard and
Roanoke road.
The following gentlemen were in attendance
F. W. Rankin, Secretary New Jersey Road; J.
Warren Gore, general ticket agent Camden
and Amboy Road; George A Dadman, general
ticket agent, Philadelphia. Wilmington, and
Baltimore Hoad; Peter V. Daniel, Jr., Presi
dent, and J. B. Gentry, general ticket agent,
Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac
Road; Charles Ellis, President Petersburg
Road; C.-F. Collier, President, and J. C.
Spriggs, Assistant ~ " '
_3“Hon. K. R. Bridges, PresidentWilming
ton and Weldon, and Wilmington and Man
chester Roads; Colonel 8. F. Fremont, En
gineer and Superintendent Wilmington and
Weldon Hoad; General William McBea, Gen
eral Superintendent Wilmington and Weldon
Road; W. J. Walker, general passenger agent
Wilmington and Weldon, and Wilmington and
Manchester Roads; Beverly D. Hazel, gen
eral agent South Carotins and Georgia
Road: C. D. Owens, general agent Atlantic
and Gulf, Pensacola and Georgia, and Macon
and Brunswick roads; J. M. Broadns, General
Ticket Agent; J. B. Yates, General Passenger
Agent; and J. F. Moffett, agent Orange,
Alexandria and Manamoa road; M. Rogers,
General Superintendent Central Georgia Rail
road and Banking Company; Dr. J. w. Haw
kins, President; and A. B. Andrews, General
Superintendent Raleigh and Gaston road; R.
McAndrews, North Carolina road; Colonel
William Johnson, President Charlotte. Co
lombia. and Augusts road; Thomas Dodo-
mead. General Superintendent Richmond and
Danville road; A F. Bavernal, President
Northeastern road; J. F. Netherlands, General
Ticket Agent Chesapeake and Ohio toad;
John M. Robinson, Presidsnt Seaboard and
Roanoke road and Baltimore Steam Packet
Company; and E. G. Ohio, General Superin
tendent Seaboard and Roanoke road.
FASHIONS.
and
Jfew Color*—New Style a in Bonnet
Round Hats*
The importers of millinery goods have this
week opened their spring importations of
French jiftttern bonnet* and hat*, Ac., and the
trade is quite brisk, all tho fashionable modules
being on the qui t ire to obtain tho prettiest
styles, each in advance of all others. The
French bonnets are very small, with crowns
and narrow capes, and when seen off the head
it is difficult to imagine how they are to be
worn; bnt they can oe arranged upon the top
of the head, with the cape resting on the high
chignon.
ooroys,
It is too early in the season to decide what
oIots will be most worn, and which one will
be the favorite. AU the fashionable colors
w hich wero worn last season are stUl in vogue.
Two new colors have been brought out in mU-
Unery: tho one caUed capoul, a very light
shade of yellowish green; the other is a blend
ing of the two colors pink anil tea-rose; bnt
whether they wiU win favor or not remains to
be soon.
Bonnets are very small, with little crowns and
narrow capes: One in this style is of lilac-
colored crape, with an upright pieco era '
the front and stooping backward, with
Sags of white lace resting npon it on the
The cape is stiff, with a fall of white lace;
strings ore of crape, edged with lace; at one
side is a cluster of small white flowers droop
ing toward the back, and there is a Anting of
crape crossing the front
One of pink crape, made in the same shape,
has a bunch of ribbon bows, with streamers at
the side, and drooping flowers covering the
crown. The strings are of pink ribbon, and
there ore puffings of crape in frank
A white talle is a novotty, being dottod with
block beads, made over a somewhat fonchon
shape with a pointed front, and edged with a
ng of tho same. Falling over the hair, at
the back, is a pointed pieoj^of crape, orna
mented withflutings, and a Tine of lilac flow
ers crosses the back.
A pretty one, for spring wear, is of purple
crape and silk, with the center of the crown
covered with bows, which are duped by a
pearl slide. The strings are of ribbon mid
crape; puffing across the top, on which rests a
vine of purple flowers extending down one
aide, and a duster of flowers droops over the
front
One of white talle hu a fluting of the same,
with a vine of white flowers running through
the centre of it, and npon the centre is a
btrnch of green leaves, and the crown is fin
ished with a bow and ends of gros
bon. Tho strings are of taUe and i
talle being looped at one side with long ends.
A green crape hu purple flowers an the in
side of the front and upon the crown, with
strings of craps snd white lace. A white lace
bonnet is tastefully trimmed with purple gauze
and hu a bow of ribbons on the centre of the
crown, with a cluster of pansies, cowslips and
ivy leaves on one side, and a Tine trailing
down the strings, which are of ribbon *n<.
The Cadet Inveitigatlon—More Expul
sion,.
A Washington dispatch of the 28th of Feb
ruary says:
The Military Committee held a long
yesterday, and took important action on some
of the cases before them. It was decided to
report a resolution of expulsion in the case of
the Hon. John T. Doweeae, member from the
Fourth District of North Carolina.
Tho facta in this cose, os developed by the
oommittee, ore that he sold his naval cadet
ship to a Washington boy for *500, the boy
testifying to the fact before the committee,
and stating that he paid Deweeae that amount
of money. Mr. Deweeae or his friends at
tempted to evade the responsibility, since the
question came np in the House, by retaining
the money, but the evidence wu so strong
and oonslosiTe that the oommittee have decid
ed to close the cue. The resolution, with the
testimony, will be presented by Gen. Logan
to-morrow, and an effort will be made to pro
cure a vote without debate or delay. It is not
unlikely that Deweese will admit the tactics of
Whittemore, and resign in order to escape ex-
pulsion. In WMttemore’s ease, De weese war
one of thorn who did not vote on either side.
The eases of Golloday of Kentucky, and But
ler of Tennessee, are still before the commit
tee. There is much conflicting testimony in
each ease, bnt the belief is general that reso
lutions of expulsion will be presented during
the present week.
Tram tho 2fation-]
The School auction ns It W.
The Chicago Tribune calls attention to one
possible, and, indeed, we may say, not at all
improbable result of the decision of the Su
preme Cotut of Cincinnati on the "Bible in
soboola" question, which liu been too gener
ally overlooked and that is, that the ground
taken by the majority of the Cotut most sug
gest to the Catholics not only the expediency,
bat the propriety, of using the schools to in
culcate their views of troth wherever they
happen to be in a majority. AU that
Judge Storer, for instance, claims for Bible-
re&ding as an agency in influencing conduct
and character, Catholics claim for religious
instruction imparted Ira a priest; and for at
tendance at the sacrifice of the mam they
claim for more. Now, if it be right for a
Protestant majority to sow the seeds of re-
Rgious troth u they understand it in the minds
of the children of the State, whether parents
like it or not, tchy should not a Catholic majority,
toy to Balt imore, or Jiao Orleanr, or Xetc York,
itSere there is one, in like manner do their dot/, as
they understand it, by having the schools opened
by religious essreisu of their men; nay, seen
have the schools taught by priests or nuns t
There is only one answer to this question, and
it is an answer which, in a country where there
is no state church, is simply ridiculous, and
that it is, "My troth is the true troth, while
your troth is no troth at alL" We do not re
gret the Cincinnati decision, however, u we
are satisfied the more tho matter is discussed,
the more clearly wiU Protestants perceive the
dangers of the path on which they are enter
ing in keeping up this discussion at all. Cath
olics could hardly do better in defense of their
attempts to get separate endowments for their
schools here and elsewhere, than print and cir
culate Judge Storer's opinion.
The gorgeous Golloday, of Kentucky, hu
resigned h» seat in the United States House
of Representatives. Some inquiries concern
ing cadetships touched his sensibilities, and
he shpok oil the dost of his feet. A few days
ago, when some of his Democratic friends re
flected on his maimer of debate, he defied
them "physically, morally, socially and intel
lectually." Now, a small pecuniary matter
has floored him. We are sorry to lose Golta-
day. It is a pity that these little things should
tie digged up, like villainous saltpetre from
the Dowels of the earth, to lay a tall fellow
low. Wo have to my to Logan, oonld not one
suffice the demands of virtue ? Most all these
pretty chickens and their pretty dams be
swooped np for simply taming an honest pen.
ny in their country's service.—Cincinnati Go-
Division
The old and somewhat tiresome project of
dividing Texas wu introduced in the Senate
on the 25th, by Mr. Howard, of Michigan, in
th^shape of a bill establishing the territories
of Jefferson and Matagorda. The assent of
the State to her own dismemberment it is pro
posed to coerce by making her restoration to
the Union conditioned upon her acceptance of
the bill.
White chip is again introduced, bnt it is
doubtful if it becomes more at n favorite than
last year, moot ladies preferring the
like fabric* tor summer wear. A chip bonnet
hu a raised front, with puffs and
bine ribbon on the centre, a
talle inside, with a cluster of
sics and poppies, with fine leaves and moss on
the side. The strings are of ribbon, with a
girdle of gauze looped around them and fast
ened with a bine bow.
A novelty is of white tails dotted with white
chalk beads, having the center of the crown in
pnfia, with four loops at ribbon, two tamed
each way, and the top covered with sprays of
small white flowers and leaves, with a vino of
fern and mom trailing over a foU of talk, at
the back.
bound hats.
Round hats are not attractive in shape.
They have high sugar-loaf crowns, the brims
turning np slightly in front Some of them
have the crowns pointed, which can be
crushed if desired; bnt this will not make
them any pretttier.—A'. Y. Post, 26/A
A'Perssnsl Sensation—James Gordon Bo:
nett's Marriage. •
Mr. Maverick, in his life of Henry J. Bay.
mond, reproduces the following, which ap
peared in the leading column of the Herald on
the 1st day of Jane, 1840, under a flaming cap
tion:
A GUSHING VICTIMIZER.
FASHIONS FOR MARCH.
Regular Moning Look—A Charming j Gayetlee of the Season—Grand Toilettes
g Lady Does a Fashionable Board- and Where they Como From—Seasonable
lng House.
But a short tune ago, on one of those lovely '
dnYM v. iii.-It h.tv ,1 the present winter, :i
young lady in a rich and elegant- dress, and
with gems flashing from her-eara snd fingers,
arrived in tiiht i city. -jvaftV a sqft and
l lensivo grace and a cost of thought npou hoc
: ace, but to one versed in physiognomy thero
wu to be Been hidden* benoatli aU this a deep
and artful cunning. She bad aildzwa appear
ance of being tho representative of much
wealth. She came here, u she Btatod, to await
tho arrival of an aunt, who was shortly ex
pected, and who was coining on ptppoee to
make some Urge inveotmenta in .real estate, in
which she wu to be interested in connection
with her brother who was to accompany the
sunk
She wanted to engage rooms in a private and
foshionable boarding house, and for that pur-
xwe mado the round of the most aristocratic
loasea of this character until she finally se
lected one npon Fourth streek By way of
recommendation to her landlady she mado the
above statement regarding her visits to this
city, and also exhibited several lettera purport
ing to be from influential families of the high
est standing in St Louis. This appeared to
satisfy the unsuspicious landlady, and she at
once assigned the young lady to the best room
in the house, which had all tho conveniences
essentially necessary for even tho most tender
plant of the artistic shook
The yoang lady, who was exceedingly fasci
nating, conld not help attract the young
men of the house—dapper clerks, salesmen in
wholesale houses, book keepers, and such as
usually seek genteel society m houses of this
character. She soon became acquaint 1 with
all, and of course, with her accomplishments' i'
a great favorite in the house.
She had, in addition to her varied nccum-
plishments, a beautiful contralto voice; and
"warbled at eventide" oo sweetly her wild-
wood notes that there was no resisting her.
One of tho enraptured young mm declared
that she sung with the sweetness ol the morn
ing lark. She wu a perfect Circe in hot
fascinating manners, and her brilliant con*
versntion, piquant airs, and
soon made captive every heart
The landlady was delighted at the happy
state of affaire. The young men, instead of
spending their evening hours abroad, found-
too much enjoyment in her society to venture
ouk Music, and dance, and cards, alterna
ted, and so the time passed along most eu-
trancingly.
All the men were in love with her, and one,
a late partner in a wholesale house, was on
the point of making e declaration to her,-when
the sunshine which had so brilliantly enter*#
the bouse with the handsome young lady nil
at Once became darkened, and he wu lifted
from his air-castles down to terra firma with a
most lugubrious countenance.
It was on the morning of a dark sn&dtamal
day when the boarders arose and ucertaiued
that their money and valuables had Ink
wings unto themselves and
Gone where the woodbine twineth.
Even the landlady wept over the loss of
splendid diamond-mounted gold watch.
But the dashing and prevposscssii:. beauty
that had made so much music in the house,
whst of her ? She certainly must have suffer
ed in common with the other*. The landlasfl
desiring to ascertain the fact, flew to her room,
and knocking at the door, received no answer
Again she knocked, and again no response.
A faint suspicion began to creep into her mind,
and as the suspicion grew, the more nervous
New You, February, 1870.
The woather for the past two months hu
been so much that of a prolonged fell, or a
precocious spring, that wo hardly know for
what to prepare next Theoretically, it will be
time very soon to throw off onr heavy cloaks,
and furs; practically, we have had sinco De
cember, no occasion for them.
TVise people predict a rough March, a cold
April, and a chilled and toarfnl May, to pay
for all this sunshine and fair weather in tho
two "hardest” months of the year, but I am
vory much in hopes thst it is only the Gulf
stream trying to mske amends for its stormy
vagaries during the two recent summers, and
that we may escape without a winter of any
conseqnonee, this season, altogether.
GATZXXZS Or THE BZASOX.
The Prince brought a littlo flurry of festivity
and there have been many large bails, at which
the toilettes were magnificent, bnt socially
there hu been much less gayety than formerly.
The troth is, there are so many more ways
of spending money than formerly, that people
are growing niggardly of hospitality. The
hows and wherefores of ours, absorb nino-
tenths of the women; business and. polities,
the men.
Tho modem styles of dress for women are
beautiful; there is no denying that, but they
are last becoming a nuisance to these who
have anything to do bat study them. A plain,
simple dress of rich silk or satin, which would
formerly have been elegant enough for tbe
most fastidious lady, is put quite out of sight
by the numerous end bewildering features of
Liberate bell-room or dinner toilette.
There is not only the dress but the over
skirt and the pannier, and the sash, and the
drapery about tho shoulders; and the wonder
ful chignon and the trained underskirts,
tucked and ruffled, and the ornaments and the
antique sleeves and boddices, and, added to
ali, tails and flounces of most rare and dainty
lace.
Where docs it all come from Heaven knows,
but such toilettes are universal at every boll
id large entertainment, and, in addition to
mi, there ore such trifles as gloves, shoes, a
irriage, bouquet, supper, and sometimes ten-
doll.,r tickets to be provided for,
is cosy to think, at a distance, that one
be independent, and wear the plain dress
without the accessories, but it is extremely diffi
cult to fight itjout on that line Yon are with
. bnt not of them; yon feel a century be-
the oge;you wish you had stayed at home,
and determine frantically to get a new dress, a
new over-skirt, a new sash, a large pannier
and an enormous chignon before yon venture
out again.
It is all the worse because the modem “Jen
kins ” makes dreadful record of everything ev
erybody has ou. Imagine such an ordeal for
tho economical lady who has only one or two
jrrinilc toilettes. She absolutely dreads to go
, for fear of seeing herself pat down
again f, >r tlio same “green silk and lace over
dress.'’ She conld almost kiss Jenkins for
making a mistake on one occasion and calling
it "lavender.”
social, urn is new took.
This is undergoing a complete revolution in
conseqnonee of the change in the habits and
mniiner of living. Only the rich can afford to
inhabit houses and receive their friends in
them. The larger number, in the absence of
the sensible French system of "flats," either
board or take boarders to make an addition to
she became and the fonder she knocked, until ‘he income or help pay the rent This crushes
finally she was satisfied there was no living
person in the room. A step-ladder was then
the foot that the fascinating maiden had fled,
and with her had disappeared all her tranks.
The solution of the robbery was too palpa-
pable; bnt it had been each a chef cToeuvre, so
skillfully devised, and so adroitly carried out,
and was such a complete exhibition of their
verdancy, that they concluded, rather than
run the battery of fun that would inevitably
be fired at them in being so completely done
for by one they had foamed to love, that it was
agreed to preserve a solemn silence on the
subject.
The young man who had so gushingly com
pared her notes to those of the morainglark was
now more convinced than ever of the truth of
his assertion—for her mischievous freak of ap
propriating tbe property of others ore* morn
ing lark struck him very semdUy, ms he was
minus his timepiece and sundry bulk bills with
which he had expected to liquidate a claim
ont individual freedom, restricts hospitality
and renders living more gregarious, but much
less friendly and social
We can have no improvement until women
change the fashion of their dress, remodel
their housekeeping and pnt it npon a civilized
American, instead of a raw Hibernian, footing.
XVXDKNCZS OT SPAINO.
The stores are fresh and bright with the
usual variety of spring materials; the most of
them clearly resusitated, however, from last
year, and offering little in novelty or beanty.
As exceptions, however, must be mentioned,
some lovely satins, in light shades, , Nile-
green, pale salmon, peach-blossom and the
like, picked ont with the needle, and by hand,
in the most beautiful shaded velvet designs.
Tbe time and patience required for such work
make it seem almost incredible that it conld
ever have been performed in this way.
There is also a new style of chambery gauze,
striped with satin (narrow stripes) npon which
Small velvet flowers are raised in the same
that morning. v»v
tlwry w made to keep ttte afltlTT Those dresses, both ««Hti and chambery
“I am going to bo married in a few days,
tho weather is no beautiful; times are getting
so good; the prospects of political and moral
reform so auspicious, that I .cannot resist the
divine instinct of honest nature any longer;
so I am going to bo married to one of the most
splendid women in intellect, in heart, in soul,
in property, in person, in manners, that I have
yet seen in the course of my interesting pil
grimage through human life.
* * * “I cannot stop in my career. Iam
to fulfil that awful destiny which the Almighty
Father has written against my name, in the
broad letters of life, against the wall of Heaven.
I must give the world a pattern of happy wed
ded life, with all the chaiitiee that spring from
a nuptial love. In e few day* I shall be mar
ried according to the most holy rites of the
Christian Church to one of the most remark-
accomplished, and beautiful young
women of tbe age. I sought and found a for
tune—a very large fortune. She hu no Ston-
ington shares of Manhattan stock, but in pu
rity and uprightness she is Wurth half a mil
lion in pure coin. Can any swindling bank
show u much? In goood sense and elegance
another half million; m soul, mind, and beauty,
millions—equal to to the whole specie of all
the rotten banks in the world. Happily,
the patronage of the public to tho Herald is
nearly *25 000 per annum, almost equal to a
President's salary. Bat property in the world's
goods was never my object. Fame, public
good, usefulness in my day and generation; the
religious associations of female excellence; the
of true industry; three have been my
_ night sad my desires by day.
'In the new and holy condition into which
I am about to enter with the same reverential
feelings as I would heaven itself I anticipate
some signal changes in my feelings, in my
views, in my purposes, in my pursuits. What
they may bo I know not—time alone can tell.
My ardent desires have been through life to
reach the highest order of human excellence
by the shortest possible cut Association,
night snd day, in sickness and in health, in
war and in peace, with a woman of this high
est order or excellence, most produce some
curious results in my heart and feelings, and
these results the future will develop in the col
umns of the Herald.
'Meantime I return my heartfelt thanks for
the enthusiastic patronage of the public, both
of Europe’ snd America. Tbe holy state of
matrimony will only increase my desire to be
still more naefoL God Almighty bfoas you alL
"Jajcxs Goeldon Bennett.”
In the postscript of this announcement
Bennett gives notion that he shall have no time
to waste npon the editors who attacked him
“until after marriage snd the honey-moon."
On tho 8th of June, 1840, the marriage was
announced at the head of the editorial col
umns of the Herald as follows;
“MAMUED,
On Saturday afternoon tho 6th instant, by
the Rev. Dr. Power, at St Peter’s Catholic
church, in Barclay street, James Gordon Ben
nett, proprietor and editor of the New York
Herald, to Henrietta Agnes Craan. What
may be the effect of tins event on the grand
newspaper contest now waging in New York
time alone can show."
•Hit me, hit me, hit me, " he, her
“Here, Henry, do yon want to shoot?" "Yes,
sir—no—yes, I do.” “Get behind me—let
the gun rest on my shoulder—now take aim—
come, poll the trigger or he'll he oft”
I shot np one eye in a manner that carried
the other with it. I opened both. The tears
came. Tho squirrel seemed six or seven
squirrels whirling around in the air. I took
atm, but it would not stay aimed. Somehow,
I saw the sky, the stone wall, a great mullen
stalk, the squirrel, and twenty other things,
all in a jig. Bang went the
-» — - -- -
ree-reo" went the squirrel as he dived down,
laucrhincr. into & hole.
Well, I’ve seen many a minister do the
same thing with a sermon, and feel aa satis
fied as I did. To be sure, I had not hit any
thing, bnt I made a splendid noise.
secret, but it finally leaked ont, and coming to
the ear of onr reporter, we concluded to make
mention of it in hopes that it might prove a
warning to landladies with overweeing confi
dence and young men with sasceptibe hearts.
Of course the reader will at once perceive
that the irresistible young lady had an outside
confederate operating with her.—Cincinnati
Times.
Beecher*# First Shot.
From # 8Ur P»per tn the Christian Union.)
Did you know that the first time that I ever
fired a gun It was at a “chippy,” and that I
did not hit him? Hy father it was, that let
me trot behind him, a seven or eight-year-old,
while he hunted through the fields. How my
nerves screwed up when he took aim, and
what a crash in my over-sensitive ear was the
report! It wm always painful, and always
an irresistible fascination. And so, one day,
returning home, ont ran a bold chips* ont
and conned along the wall with trailing tail,
then mounting a stone, tail <vm»V up, ho said: is a mecanical absurdity that opposes the plain-
Cateriraultng.
A writer in Chambers’ Journal not long ago
gave a happy explanation of the mysterious
term “caterwauling.” Suppose, he says, you
very much desired to visit a friend, a female
friend, a lovely creature to whom you were
paying your addresses; only an immense wall
—which yon could not blow down like the
Clarkenwell wall, because you had not the Fe
nian carelessness of results—intervened be
tween you and the beloved object Well,. that
is exactly the case with these poor maligned
pussies. “Come over the wanr” (feline for
wall, just as it is Scotch for worse,) “the
waur, the wanr,” cries the imprisoned puss.
“ Why don’t you come over the waur? ”
“ Spikes, spikes, spikes,” cries Tom, explain
ing the nature of the obstruction, whereas we
call it “swearing.”
We may add mat when the obstacle is hap
pily overcome, and Tom and Pussy meet at
last at their favorite trysting-place, the lover
begins to adjure his beloved in such strains of
energetic, irrepressible love that his voice is
apt to rise above the subdued tone of a well
bred gentleman, and there is not yet an out
to what we contemptuously call caterwaul
ing. Be it modesty, be it fear, the twe
lovers remain at some distance from
each other, watching every gesture, oreiy
turn of the tail, and looking at each other
with the greenest of eyes. At last they lift np
their voices and sing a duo which lasts for
hours. After they have told each other all
they must know before entering npon wed
lock, they crawl and creep most cautiously
toward each other; but no sooner does Tom
come near his flame than she runs and races
and skips and vaults to excite the envy of the
beat gymnasts. He follows, and being the
stronger and swifter, overtakes her soon; bnt
alas! his reward is nothing but blows and
fierce scratches, and thus they keep up the
dangerous and yet delightful game of hide and
seek. When poor Tom comes home his nose
is bleeding, his ears are torn, his fur
helved, and his whole aspect ispiteous in
extreme. Bnt such is man! Ho is happy
spite of his ill-treatment, and tho fierce
quette is perfectly sure die will see him
turn ere long to receive his reward. But
must not judge hastily, and fancy that
caterwauling is poor Pussy’s only vocal pc
formance. So far from it, cars voices m
very peculiar, and so unusually flexible that
many notes approach the tones of the human
voice—mysterious sounds which made the cat
an object of superstitions veneration in olden
times.—Prof. Scheie De Vere, in Harpers
Magazine for March.
Inune Experiment! on Perpetual Motion,
From the Do# Moines State Register. J
A Polk county mechanic has in process of
construction a machine which he believes will
embody perpetual motion. Upon it he has ex
pended time and labor sufficient to have cleared
a section of prairie and capped it with hand
some dwelling and bam improvements. The
Knoxville Voter states that one of its sub
scribers has been exhausting brain force in the
same direction. This experimentalist has oc
cupied no less than twenty-five years in per
fecting his idea, which is yet incomplete.
Twenty years ago, when this problem was the
scientific puzzle of the age, it was effectually
decided. In simple truth, the theory can
never be reduced to practice. There can be
no motion perpetually continued without the
application of motive force. Perpetual motio
eat principle of natural philosophy the resis
tance of friction. The nearest approach to the
idea is a clock, worked by galvanic action. In
the opposite side of the pendulum are located
magnetic poles which are alternately attracted
and repelled by a small battery. This clock
will tick uninterruptedly, while tho current is
supplied. Batin three months the batteries
require replenishing. The best course onr
mechanic and his Knoxville cousin can adopt,
is to allow nature to fulfill the execution of its
laws without opposition. Tinkering with the
obstinate despot will be ineffectual. She will
have her way anyhow.
The next session of tho General Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church South is
appointed to begin in Memphis on Sunday,
May 1st.
against the modem spirit of innovation, which
considers nothing sacred; and to some extent
they are right; It is pretty evident that tho
ancient customs and traditions arc not disrc-
regarded from any greater] lovo of truth or
honesty of simplicity than was possessed by
our ancestors, but because our modem rail
road existence rides right over old landmarks,
and, under tho name of utility and progress,
crashes oat the flowers of sentiment and affec
tion that formerly grew and flourished by tho
wayside. Sentiment! bah! Tho world has
been nauseated with an affectation of it;
naturally thoy fly now to tho other extremo,
and will nono of it
BQ>QiO GEAR.
In anticipation of weather and roads that
will admit of horseback riding, ladies are be
ginning to inquire concerning the latest in
Hats and habits.
The style for habits is a small, close-fitting
basque, buttoned nearly to the throat, and
finished either as a postillions or with smell
lappels, as a coat Long, plain, gored skirt,
laid in a double, large bow pleat at the back,
and caught np at the sides over a gray cash
mere petticoat, braided with black. The
sleeres are closely shaped to the arm, tho linen
cuffs fastened with large malachite buttons,
the dog-skin gloves, completed by a small caff
which springs ont slightly over the wrist, and
fastened with a patent tirette.
Tho moot fashionable material just now is
‘satin-cloth," bnt melton cloth is also very
much worn, and is more serviceable, especially
for country use; very little trimming is al
lowed. The most distinguished habits are
olive, green, or marine bine, in color, and they
are simply and plainly bound, sailor-fashion,
with thick black silk galloon, well pressed
down; buttons are small, and either black or
covered with the material*
The ladies' “high beaver” is decidedly tits
vogue in hats. The crown is not very high,
however, and the narrow brim is bent most be
comingly. A gauze veil is always twisted
around it, the ends floating at the back. There
ia a variety of styles in felt, but they sink into
insignificance before the more stately presence
of the beaver.
White pique and linen suits promise to be
more in vogue than ever this season. The
former are trimmed with white Mairealles
braid and “Hamburg” ruffling, tbe latter with
unbleached Irish gaipnre ana black velvet.
A very good method to save trouble ia to
mount black velvet upon stiff net, in round
square loops and bows, so that they can be
transferred readily from one dress to another,
or taken off, for convenience of washing.
Hamburg ruffling consists of bonds in hand
some and durable German isnlarsflrey, which
lost almost as Ion" aa pique, and is not expen
sive. It trims children's gored pious suite ad
mirably, and ia nsed largely for ladies' suite
and dresses also:
Gabriellee for little children, boys and girls,
in linen and pique, are universal. They are a
prominent feature of all the famishing estab
lishments.
Flat, single (Heatings, popularly called “kilt"
pleating, has taken the place of raffles to some
extent m the making np of alpaeas, mohairs,
and spring woolen fabric*. The pleating is
sometimes put on the lower skirt to the depth
of half a yard, and the upper skirt cut out in
large leaves, also covered with pleats above it
Bnt this style, though effective because it is
novel, is not desirable. It mokes the suit too
heavy for comfort, takes a great deal of mate
rial, and supplies unlimited comers for the
accumulation of dost It will do for those
who have many changes, bnt not for the little
woman who wants her suit tor every occasion.
Plain, high silk dresses ore made very dressy
by overskirts of white organdie muslin, to
which bretclles are added. Well cut and trim
med with three ruffles they can bo bought for
*15 ready-made, made at home they coat SC,
muslin of finer quality than those reiidy-made,
and some left over. A full sash and ahonl
dor-knote the color of the dress complete the
toilette.
The combination of block and white is more
distigue than ever. It is almost the only con
trast that is permitted, the finest toilettes show
ing a remarkable uniformity, or only the
difference of certain shades of the same color.
The present white muslin dresses and over
skirts are trimmed with ruffles edged with black
velvet and Valenciennes lace, and tho richest
black silk toilettes obtain a new and striking
effect from over-skirts of white crape or white
satin, bordered with rich crimped fringe and
single nlaitings of the same material laid flat
npon the trimmed skirts.
With the present style of dress, a black or
white lace shawl is so useful as to bo almost
gauze, were made in Lyons for a house in thte
city, and cannot be duplicated even in Paris. I
There is only one drees pattern of each color
and design. The price of tbe satin is $150,1
and the drees of chambery gauze $65, which
is moderate, considering their beauty and
rarity.
Pure mohairs and alpacas are about os ser
viceable as any fabrics for early spring suits;
but there is a growing tendency in favor of the
line cashmere cloths which sro so much worn
abroad. Some of the prettiest of the new
spring sails are made with a silk skirt, walk
ing length, and cashmere over-skirt snd man-
det or sailor jacket The skirt is trimm ed
with ruffles or single pleating headed with vel
vet; the over-skirt and mantelet with fringe of
tho same shade headed by aroea-cat band of
the silk, piped on the edge. The mantelet is I
confined, back and front with a silk sash,
short, wide snd bunchy, generally consisting
of a square bow, three wide pendant loops,
two ends. The new “satin" cloth is a twilled
fabric, which looks something like cashmcro:
it is firmer, however, has more body, and is a
trifle more costly, bnt not more so than very
fine cashmere.
’Cashmoro and satin oloth aro newer and
softejff and altogether more distinguished than
tho Htirgos and crepe Eugenios, which, how
ever, aro still employed for snite by persons
who ailmiro stiffer and more wiry fabrics. The
tendency, however, is to soft and flexible ma-
te rials —to those textures which form drapery
rather than stand .out in hard and unyiolding
DUCli 11—.
Prices in standard good.* liavo not declined
:<! all jinco last season. For a few weeks du
ring the* period of taking stock, as it is called,
sonic articles and some styles, undesirable to
carry over till another season, might have been
bought lower, but the opening of spring busi
ness has brought them up to recent figures.
It is of much less importance to bay goods
cheap, however, than to buy them of best
quality, and it is a matter of congratulation
tuffittome fabrics have achieved a name and
reputation which serves both to identify them
.un i a» a guarantee of their excellence. The
Buffalo 1 rand of alpaca is one of these, snd
the new beaver brand of pare black mohair is an
other. This last has a finish equal to silk, and
is warranto'l to retain its color.
Ladies Bhould bo very careful to lenm tho
trad* mark and distinctive appearance of cer
tain kinds of goods, ns they are so exceedingly
liable otherwise to bo cheated by ignorant or
unscrupulous dealers. Tho other day a lady
at tbe Vest Bent tho writer a f*ample of a
French poplin, which sho had purchased for
' ’Irish" poplin. Tho difference in the cost of
French and Irish poplin in Now York is $1 25
per yard. Tho lady had paid half a dollar less
per yard than tho regular price of Irish poplin,
which is i'2 75, and thonghtshe had got a bar
gain. Sho had simply been cheated to tho
tune of 75 cent* p. r yard on her goods.
A noth* r Jady sentasomple of imitation lace,
which she had purchased for Honitonat*3
per yard. Had she known the feet that there
is no longer nny such thing as Honiton lace in
the market—that it is not manufactured ex
cepting as an excellent imitation—she would
probably have saved her money.
GBIEV UPON THE PBOHENADE.
The change that has taken place with regard
to mourning is quite remarkable. Much less
attention is paid to it than formerly, and of
those vho appear to adhere to the old tradi
tions very many simply prepares black suit
for tbe street and consult their convenience at
home.
This growing tendency to disregard on old
andfosg cherished custom is due pertly no
doubt to the sensible, practical spirit of the
age, bit it has been greatly aided by the mod
ern fiudion which has introduced block toi
lettes os ordinai7 occasions. There ia nothing
distinctive now about a mourning dress except
the crape. Such a thing as a “widow’s” cap is
never s«en, and even the long vails have had
to succtmb to the exigencies of a bonnet too
small to hold them. Young widows wear their
hair without ornament, and elderly ladies
adopt a small fonchon or Marie Antoinette cap
composed of white tisse with lappets and
rosettes of tho material as a coiffure.
The numerous walking suits of black al
paca, cashmere, serge, silk, and other fabrics
have left nothing to mourners bat the lime-
honored bombazine, which has been super
seded by other and more desirable materials,
and is not now in demand by persons in
mourning or out of it.
There are some poisons, however, who
would prefer to abate nothing of the severity
with v&ich women formerly made outward
show of their grief. They still make them-
iS’.ves as wretched as possible under thick
Icrape snd dull armure, and inveigh bitterly
THE FRANKING ABUSE.
A Statement from tlic Postmaster General.
Vashixoton, Feb. 23.
Tbo Fostmastcr General to-day transmitted
to the Senate a communication is reply to a
resolution of that body requesting information
relative to the blank petitions, etc., recently
sent from that Department asking tho aboli
tion of the franking privilege, and in regard to
the transportation of free mini matter. He
states that the number of blank petitions sent
out was 75,000, and the number of aecompa-
aying circulars was 23.000. Th>* total cost of
both circulars and petitions was *499 66,
which was defrayed by the office of tho Con
gressional Printer. No part of the expense
was charged against sot fund appropriate! for
iht saw thrftnUDM Dt|MB#k ,‘At!
petitions and circulars wore prepared under
ho direction of tho Fostmaster General in ac
cordance with the views expressed by the Pres
ident in his late message, and in response to
what was believed to be a very general wish of
the people that the franking privilege should
be abolished. No attempt was made on the
part of the Department to inflaence the views
of Postmasters respecting abolition of tho
privilege. They were simply requested to
give citizens who were in &Tor of the measure
and opportunity to so express themselves.
The Po6tmnster-General states that tho re
turns of the transportation of free mail matter
are yet too incomplete to furnish tho data
called for in the resolution. He submits, how
ever, a statement hosed upon such returns as
have been received, embracing most of the
principal cities. These returns are imperfect
n many respects, but exhibit tho following re
sults reported from 454 postoffices for the
month of January: Number of free lettera
sent 666,901; postage thereon at the regular
rates, $117,399 73; weight of free printed
matter sent, 346,194 pounds; postage thereon
at regular rates, $42,334 96. The Postmaster-
General says that, considering this exhibit, it
is safe to estimate that if foil returns had been
received from all the offices for tho month of
January the aggregate amount would liavo
exceeded $200,000, or at the rate of *2,400,000
per annum.
In response to the request to communicate
to the Senate the facts on which the (file-1
gations of fraud and abase in the exereise of
the franking privilege were founded, in the
petitions sent out by the Department, the
[Postmaster-General says:
It is impossible to give precise information
npon that point, owing to the fact that franked
matter is always sealed, and the lew dose not
authorize the the breaking of a seal for tho
purpose of examination; but even tbe compar
atively small amount of free matter now re
turned to tbe Dead Letter Office discloses many
of abuse where books, papers, and
circulars not printed by order of Congress,
and even btrainees and social circulars, have
been transmitted muter cover of a frank. If
the facts of each particular ease oonld be as
certained, remedies conld be applied, and it
would only be necessary to reform the frank
ing privilege. Tho system itself most be de
nounced because it invites to fraud, with a
promise of impunity; and hence I repeat what
I have already said, in the language of an
other, there is no middle ground between no
franking and boundless franking. Although
unable to give facts in detail, it is yet notori
ous that the frauds which have been perpe
trated under cover of the franking privilege
have been enormous. Beside the cases men
tioned above, which are constantly occurring,
I hope I may be permitted, without offense,
to state that in times of excited political cam
paigns, the various parties do not hesitate to
employ it to transmit whatever of printed mat
ter They may wish to disseminate. This prac
tice has grown into a bod custom which can
only he abolished by repealing the privilege
under which it finds shelter.
The recent agitation for the repeal of the
privilege has resulted in a largo increase in the
sale of stamp* and stamped envelopes for the
month of January, 1870, over the same month
in 1869. This gain amounts to *311,332 SO.
He then reiterated views in favor of the imme
diate and total repeal of tho franking privilege.
In his judgment no system can be devised con
sistent with tho rights snd interests of tho
people that con tolerate its longer continuance.
The Postmaster-General then contrasts tho
postal revenue of Great Britain at the two-oent
rate, and without the franking privilege, with
the three-eent rate of the United States with
the franking privilege, showing a much huger
relative revenue is derived by the former Gov-i
eminent. He elpses as follows:
“I believe sincerely that the time has come
to attempt such reform as will make our postal
A Dcath-Bcrl Marring*,-.
From th* Lebanon (0.) Star, Feb. 34.]
Tho reader may recollect that some time
age. wo noticed the fact that Mr. Edward H.
Smith, a printerwho had been at workin Leb
anon, and had gone to his home in New York,
sick, not expected to live. On Friday last he
died with the’diseaso which had fastened upon
him, comsumptiou.
IVhilo here ho had made the acquaintance
of, and was to bo married to, Miss Mary Cran
dall, a young lady of this place, daughter of
our fellow-citizen, George CrandaiL A short
time ago he requested her to come to him,and,
with true woman’s devotion, she obeyed the
summons to the bed of death, and went to him
at his residence in Jamestown, New York.
Last Friday, at his urgent solicitation, they
were married, and, a few hours after the cere
mony, he died, leaving her a bride of but a
few hours.
Fashion*. New Lawgiver,
The Peris correspondent of an English jour
nal gives hope that the reign of hideonsness
has well nigh come to an end, and tho fashion
of woman’s dress is to be simpler hereafter.
Madame Olliver's high-bodied white muslin
bail dress has made a mark in the world of'
fashion. Simplicity and short skirts ore much I
more prevalent than they were last winter. It
was at first supposed, when Madame Olliver
went to the Tuilleries dressed a toilette de pre
miere communion, that she was suffering from
a sore throat, bnt it would now appear that
the new Prime Minister wished his wife to pay
the price of lody-like manners and an inter
esting face in making her way at court, and to
be independent of the asaistance of Hr.
Worth.
Me. I* may te .urn an no ovsr-sMrrt tT*** ”, imd people. !
ing dreas, or loop* high upon ^
allowed to continue. Hence, I most earnestly
renew my recommendations for its repeal
Doubtless, a measure of so much importance
may be safely committed to on enlightened and
patriotic Congress.
to an evening
shoulders and caoght down at the back with
the sash, as a fichu trimiqne. It can be ar
ranged gracefully over a plain dress for the
house, or stylishly over a pretty one for the
street Fortunately, also, the fine Hanna fabric,
effective as it is, is inexpensive enough for a
limited purse, and suffers no injury from any
amount of crushing.
All sorts of vagaries are exhibited in colors
worn with light dresses. Some ore shaped
like a yoke, square bock and front Some are
deeply pointed Spanish style, bnt nearly all
are immensely large. The open square and V
shaped bodies are generally outlined with a
ruff, or more becomingly tn mined with retch
ings, and finished with a raffle of Valenciennes
lace inside.
Linen enffs and colters for everyday wear
were too cheap and durable to suit the dealers
in those commodities, so they have ordained
linen edged with the imitation of Valenciennos
lace, which cost twice as much, test half as
long, and is not half as lady-tike.
Wo advise ladies to stick to the plain linen.
Jexnx Jons.
In a recent number of the Knoxville Whig
we find this card from Senator Brownlow:
I 'am in favor of setting aside the present
State Government of Tennessee, and the do
ings of the State Convention and the present
legislature, and of the appointment of a mili
tary Governor backed np by national troops,
who will put a stop to the wholsale murder of
white aud colored Unionists throughout the
State.
Whatever of influence I have shall be exert
ed in this direction. That Congress will do
this I have no sort of a doubt If Governor
Senter is the man I take him to be, he will call
npon the President for troops to suppress these
masked assassins who are acting lor worse
than they ever did at any time when I called
ont the State militia to suppress them. And
before this matter is done with, I can say to
the party which has fradulently usurped the
Government of the State, that they will be sick
of their refusal to adopt the XVth Amend
ment—of their wicked legislation—of their de
struction of the able and patriotic judiciary of _
the State, and of the various enactments in- will have something to say, always assuming
tended to disfranchise the colored man.
Those who suppose that by my advocacy of
universal suffrage and the gradual process of
restoring rebels to the ballot box, I am willing
to see the loyal people of Tennessee
turned over to the rebel party, bound bond and
foot, to be persecuted and murdered, are mis
taken in their man. W. G. Boowneow.
BRIGHAM YOUNG.
From th. Belt Lake Telegreph—Brigham Young'
ergma.)
Personally we entertain no dread thoughts
of either “serious disturbance" or “openwar."
Past experience has taught na the lesson that
there is a “Providence in the affairs of men,
and with that aasnranse we eon listen to a
good deal of bombast Serenely, come from
whom it may. To the war expectation now
bo prevalent in the East, there can only be
disappointment, and Gen. Sbhffer is os likely
to be aa proper a Governor, as for as that
concerned, as any other man. There can be
no war with Utah on any pretext whatever.
Some of as may be silly enough to say ugly
and provoking things, and dreamy enough to
anticipate all sorts -of magnificent results;
bat there is a heap of hard aenae oat here in
the Rocky Mountains among both men and
women, and the talk of war anywhere is to
day regarded as mere balderdash. We have
no personal acquaintance with Gen. Shaffer,
and, therefore, con disinterestedly tender him
the advice to pay no attention to the folks
down East on the war question, bat to come
ont here when he ia ready, mind his own
buainesa, and he will get along well enough.
His wisdom and discretion,” “ignorance or
obstinacy," should he have either of those
commodities even in superabundance, will
make not. a whit of difference to affaire
ont here; still we should tike him with the
former rather than with the tetter. Still be it
either way, progress and development are
written on the scroll of Utah. We have neither
time nor inclination for war, and we won’t
have it; it don't pay.
Should our citizens be attackod—be they
poor or rich, high or in low estate—whatever
we can we shall defend them with the truth.
It is pretty generally supposed that the govern
ment designs testing the question of polygamy
st no distant doy. In this case tho Telegraph
"West Point Graduates.
A few facta in regard to West Point are in
teresting. When the war broke ont, of the
living graduates of the academy, 67 per cent
were from the free States, and 33 from the
slave States. Of these 78 per cent, remained
loyal, and 22 joined-the rebellion. Of the
whole number of army officers when the re
bellion commenced, 74 per cent, remained
loyal, and 26 joined the rebellion. Of the
graduates, 76 per cent remained loyal, and
24 per cent joined the rebels, while of those
appointed from civil life to the army, 70 per
cent remained loyal and 30 per cent were
disloyal
Of the parents of the West Point cadets 83
per cent were in moderate circumstances, and
6 j in affluence, 7 per ’ cent were in reduced
and 1 j in indigent circumstances. The con
dition of 24 was unknown. The social and
professional status of their parents was as fol
lows: percent
Farmer, mail pteaten 34 X
Master mechanic, and skilled workmen 7
Wboleeate and retail merchant. J3.V
Hotel and Lodging house keepers 1
Clergymen 3
Lawyers and lodges IS
Physicians and Sargaoos. 4
IiaUtellTn and Executive officers of the Na
tional, State, and Territorial Governments... i
Army and Navy officers 9
Miscellaneous and no occupations 30
The Decline In Gold,
The decline in gold during the past few days
has caused the habitues of Wall Street a good
deal of uneasiness. They no donbt perceive
that resumption of specie payments is not far
distant Consequently gold will cease to be a
medium of speculation. The executive com
mittee of the New York Gold Exchange havo
had under consideration tho advisability of
adding stocks and other collaterals to their
daily “calL” A report on the subject will
be handed in at an early day. The committee
received instructions to that effect some time
ago.—-Yrio York Commercial Advertiser.
the position that what is constitutional shonlc
bo obeyed. ' Wo will not however anticipate
in this or anything else, but hold ourselves in
readiness to defend whatever we believe to be
right,
In relation to the Cnllom hill, now pending
in Congress, the Telegraph says.
The test news from Washington is vi
con raging to the friends of this anti-;
miebiti. It is said that the bill ia sure to pass
the House, and thongh it may be retarded in
the Senate, still everything is very hopefaL
We have no ides that Mr. Cullom has much
to do with tho hill, as it has its birth and per-
fectionment in this city. Ho will, however,
have a testing notoriety in that connection.
We know not a single Gentile in thte city who
does not say that he is not opposed to that bill
aa it is, bnt while they may be apposed to po
lygamy itself, they cannot go the whole length
have' There is enough of folly and rmteige in
the Cnllom bill to defeat its purposes.
A Roman correspondent writes:
Some weeks since I sent on account of the
arrest of a false bishop, who was incarcerated
st Fort St Angelo for his nnanthorized as
sumption of episcopal vestments, in order to
be present at the secret deliberations of the
Council.
His personality has at test been discovered;
he was not, os at first supposed, a spy dis
patched by Signor. Viscounti Venosto, the
Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, bnt simply
the correspondent of a French newspaper,
which has been for the past month very pro
lific in ecclesiastical indiscretion.
How he procured his disguise is still a mys
tery, for the arrest of his tailor has turned ont
to be a myth; bnt at the Cafe do Borne they
say he bought the credentials from the confi
dential and incorrnptiblo security of an Orien
tal prelate, who was prevented by ill health
from appearing at the evangelical rendezvous.
At all events, while the police was investigat
ing his case, the prisoner disappeared, aud
gossips assert that the doors of his dungeon
were opened by one of the keys which were
bequeathed to Pius IX by St Peter; in plain
language, the Pope sent him his passports and
gavo him an escort of gendarmes to the fron
tier.
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/V EOEOIA, HARAMON OOtUHT.-WliereM. Wm.
lx F. Waldrop, sdmiafatrator of the «Uta of June*
M. Waldrop, represents to the Court in hla petition
duly Sled and entered oa record, that he has fully ad-
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This is, therefore, to cite all persons concerned. Un-
red snd creditors, to show cause. If say t‘
said administrator should not be <*
Assignee’s Sale of Beal Estate.
Tuesday, the 5th day of April, within i
gal hours of ftale. free from all incumbrances, aa that
tract or parcel of land situated, lying and bsing in the
county of Liberty, State aforesaid, and in the Fifteenth
District of said county, containing 540 acres, more or
less, and known as the McIntosh plantation, snd lying
on the a A. and G. Railroad, at No. 3 Station, with tho
exception of «0 acres, which have been set aside for
bankrupt, together with one-half acre at said'station.
Sold as tha property of Robert Q.*Cas»ds. bankrupt,
for the benefit of his creditors. Terms cash.
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on the first Monday in January next. This 4th d#y of
October. 1889. JAlIEfl WHITE;
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