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WEEKIIF NEW VOLUME IV. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. APRIL 28, 1870. NUMBER 6 Hon. Alpooria Bradley, Laving visited Washington in thc interests of the Bryant Democracy, has learned that iwliiidodii like * 'Republics are ungrateful.” '• j, • He is said now to be in Washington, without "risible means of support,” and has written urgent appeals to Dr. Angier and Hon. Dnnlap Scott for immediate relief. Has the Bryant Belief and Missionary Fnml given out? Come, gentlemen, Wt leave yoor colleague in distress, but sen! him funds aud let him return to your bosons and affec tions ! The Georgia. legislature* The Legislature met yesterjky at 12 v., nc- cording to adjournment on l^onday last; and, after some discussion aa U the time they should adjourn over, adjonrled until Monday next, at 12 M. This was in order to Allow time for the Honae to take action updi the Senate’s sub stitute for the Georgia bit What wfll be the actio* of the House on this issue, is of eonrse a nutter of conjecture, con- etruing which the r«der can make his own speculations. 1 In ease the House should concur, and the Pomeroy .nbutitute *k-W<l l«oomo the Uw, the Legislature, liing still ProvWoual, ran proceed to no geiy'ral Imsiness further thau it may be enabled under the act of Congress. # Uollmlay *nd tl»c Drmorrntlr Press*. The Cad* investigation in Congress, result ed in the “xpulsion of one man (Whittemore) for corruption; and iu the resignation of an other ruu (Golloday) to forestall bis disgrace and <rpul*iou. Tte first named, was a Republican; the last ft jbmoernt. On the first, the Democratic press comment roely; and assume that, because Whittemore traded in Cadetships, and was therefore ex- IKilled for corruption, all Republican# are guilty of the same practice! On the last, the Democratic press maintain a denth-like si lence; thereby tacitly assuming that, because Golloday did a smart thing in resigning in order prevent the just penalties of his crime, all Democrats would lie justifiable in doing tbe Mamo thing! Another Mbit'i West! The leaders of the same party that discover ed Governor Bulbick to be "without visible means of support,” and who telegraphed the miinchansen story about the Georgia National Bank having honored his individual draft with funds belonging to the Western aud Atlantic Railroad, have found another mare’s nest. They assert (they are Buncombe at assertion!) that Georgra Bonds or the Bonds of the Bruns wick and Alliany Railroad, or something of the kind (they seem not to know exactly what,) have 1>een corruptly used to defeat the Bing ham Amendment These astute champions of antiquated theo ries, and representatives of a defeated political faction seem to be sorely pressed, just at this time, for some tangible issue whereby thoy may “me the State!” TUc Pomcrojr Amendment, As originally introduced, is already familiar to the readers of tho Exa. Subsequently, and before the vote wo# taken on Tuesday,there were some alterations, principally in dates, as will be seen by extracts elsewhere published from the Congressional Globe of the 15tl» and lfitb instant The remarks of Mr. Pomeroy himself, and the extracts from the debate, had on the days named, may enable the reader to form his own conclusion us to the scope and meaning of the Substitute ns passed. Two important adjuncts to the Pomeroy substitute, it seems, were adopted after its pas sage -the first, offered by Mr. Drake, making municipalities responsible iu damages for in- juriea to persons and proj**rty within tlieir limits, and not suppressed l»y them; the sec ond, by Mr. Tomerey, repealing certain laws so as to jiermit tbe organization and calling into service of the State Militia, during the ex istence of the present Provisional Government. New Sect. A new religions sect has ariseu iu .Boston, the meml»crs of which call themselves "Bible Christians.” They think they have an insight as to the meaning of the Bible that has been giveu to none liefore them, and from this they have learned the mistake that has lieen made in the observance of tlie Lord's day. A con verted Methodist minister preaches to them. He and they hold that he is a prophet of the latter days, and thoy point to a verse in Main- chi in which his coming is foretold. The Lord has them in special care, as they beliove, aud they need take no thought for to-morrow as The whole Christian History and Re all tic*. The romance of war owes its fascinations to distance of time or space. "If the date is re cent or the scene of a bloody conflict is near by, war ceases to charm the imagination by "its pomp and glorious circumstance.” The actors in great historic scenes, by our personal acquaintance with them, depreciate and loose in our esteem, much of the practical heroism that so delights when we study the characters of men of ancient times. Not only is oar admiration for a great and good man often diminished by clone contact or familiarity, but our horror for the bad man diminishes from the same cause. If we know, personally, the felon that nnder circumstances indicative of great atrocity on his part, has slain Lis follow-man; or if we have visited the spot where a dastardly murder was committed, the horrid nature of the crime is sometlnng ameliorated in by sympathy for the homicide or his family p or by the realization of the fact that we can safely stand upon the spot where the crime was committed. Since the late bloody civil war, the people both North and South, have less desire to seek a refutation at the cannon’s mouth than ever heretofore in the history of the country. The bttle unpleasantness, which nnder the Fabian policy of George Washington, resulted in the independence of the thirteen colonies, served for two generations to excite the martial spirit of our people to a point of poetic,exaggeration. Now, few men, who have been in the smoke of battle and witnessed the devastating trampl of mighty armies, are " spoiling for a fight.” Peace, glorious peace! in tho imagination of alj sensible men, is clothed with a wreath more glorious tliau the laurels that hind tbe brow of the military hero. What change may come over the spirit of the people two generations hence, if the staid and sober associations, and the blessings of continued Peace shall satiate and tire with their monotony, it is now difficult to fore tell. The historic muse will have been busy dur ing this interim, iu painting the scenes of blood, and exaggerating the picture by group ing heroic and the self-sacrificing instances, in such a manner as to leave far in the back ground the ghastly horrors of the wonnds that war inflicts as often upon the innocent and nnoffending, as upon the guilty aggressor. The McCanleys and Prescotts and MdUeys that will succeed us, will rummage among the records of our time. Patting their pens to work, they will, in enphonions sentences, ar ranged to charm the imagination, draw moral pictures of the men we have seen, and the bat tles we have witnessed, that will bear little re- Hemblance to the originals or to horrid reali ties. What now seems to ns common-place, may thus lx* made to appear to our great grand children romantic aud faei unting: thus exci ting them to make pilgrimages to the tombs of the heroes of our day, and to visit the locali ties of their exploit#. How much the inconveniences of travel, and slow transmission of intelligence from one sec tion of the country may liave had to do in heightening in onr imaginations the romance of the battle of New Orleans; or how much the old song of the Hunters of Kentucky may have contribntftd to educate us into a belief in our invincible prowess, who can tell ? So it was by history aud tradition the people of this country were educated to a point of military ambition, that' in 1860 they rushed into a con flict of arms, ^without (ou either side) an ade quate or intelligent regard for consequences. The great mass of them have now arrived at a sober realization of the horrors of war; and the most noble, heroic and self-sacrificing of them, are determined that there shall be peace! The inexperienced aud the rash may work their imaginations np to fever heat; they nmy allow passion* to lead them to make silly threats: but sober thinking men have placed a proper estimate upon the horrors of grira-vis- aged war, and they will have none of it It will take a longer time for the muses of his tory and poetry to override the sober judgment of our iposterity by unnatural exaggeration of this imagination, thau it did to unsettle the common-sense of ourselves and our lathers. For there is reality in the tramp of tho iron horse that goes snorting and screaming over hill and vale. There is reality in the swift wings of the iron steamer that bids defiance to old (#c«*an. There is reality in the click of the magnetic telegraph that belts the earth. These afford work for the mind and work for the lnxly. They instill into the soul that charity that will suffer long before it can b8 provoked to bloodshed. The material interests of men are becoming wore bound together by the influence of these great powers. The Moral Sense of mankind is becoming educated to a higher appreciation of tho Golden Rule. The diffusion of knowl edge is more extensive and general. Men way calculated to work a change in any man’s religious belief, particularly if it had an atheistical tendency, aud it is abundantly evi dent that some such change was wrought. On his leaving Springfield for Washington he said. "I feel I cannot succeed without the same Divine aid which sustained him, (Washington) and in the same Almighty Being I place my re liance for support, and I hope you my friends, will all pray that I may receive that Divine assistance.” In his first inaugural address he speaks of "the Almighty Ruler of Nations,” and says that: Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who ha3 never yet for saken this favored land, are still competent to ndjust, iu the best way, all onr present difficulties. We cauuot pretend to give all tho extracts that have come nnder onr notice testifying to his sincere, even fervent belief, in an over ruling Providence, but a few more of the most striking mast suffice. After tho fall of Vicksburg he publicly thanked Almighty God for the event. On the 15th of July, in his proclamation appointing a day of thanksgiving and prayer, ho iuvites the people "to render the homage due to the Divine Majesty,” and "invoke the influence of His holy Spirit” Another proclamation, issued on the third of October, breathes a spirit of tender piety that could only have come from a heart surcharged with its spirit "I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go,” he once remarked; and on another occasion spoke of how presumptuous he would bo if he thonght he could discltargo his duties without the aid and enlightenment of God. But the event which, of all others, drew Mr. Lincoln closer to his God, was the death of his little sou Willie. It was a heavy trial when we consider the terrible burden resting on his shoulders as the head of the Republic. To a Lvly who condoled with him on the morn ing of the funeral, he said, "I will try to go to God with my sorrows.” A few days after wards the same lady asked him if he could trust God. He replied, "I think I can, and I will try; I wish I had that child-like faith yon speak of, aud I trust He will give it to ino.’ Only a few months before he died, the Chris tian Commission waited ou him. In reply to a complimentary address from Air. George II. Stuart, he proceeded in the simplest way to’ say that all gratitude was due to the Great Giv er of Good. Mr. Stuart asked him if lie bad any objection to a player being offered then and there. Quietly, cordially, gratefully lie assented, and Bishop James uttered in the East Boom a brief aud fervent pelitiou. Ou another occasion he said that if it were not for his firm belief iu an overruling Providence, it would l>e difficult for him to keep his reason But as we have said, we could fill much more than onr allotted space with, this sub ject. We think, however, that sufficient has been said to prove our position correct, that whatever may have l>een Mr. Lincoln’s views once, in the Litter years of his life he was an humble, sincere, prayerful Christian. the McFarland trial The View of sl Northern Democra The Citizen and Round Table, of New ’ in its issue of the 9th instant, contain, folowing under its editorial head: All good citizens and peaceable inemlx society will join with us iu the sincere that McFarland will be hanged. It is tim< a stop was put to the assassination by ir husbands of their wives* lovers. Were i practice to become universal, Broadway wo resound hourly to the soft note of the ]>isi and women would indeed have to complain a deprivation of their natural rights. Im proper public sentiment be established in t place of the ahsurd dogma that a wicked v man can disgrace her marital companion,'' a divorce will usurp the place of murder, u law be substituted for violence. Hang, mi derous husbands, and they will seek couso lions for their troubles in the courts: all them to go free, aud no man will be safe fit assassination if he is attractive to a lig winded woman, or supposed to be so. Tb< is already getting to be a very loose mod? proceeding on the part of the husband wt his better half has fallen into the same hat aud unjustifiable as it is to shoot a man whfc he is guilty, it is doubly inexcnasable when 1 is innocent. Jealousy is not a reasoning p;i sion, aud although the implicated party inti instance nmy have lieen criminal, in otl cases tho evidence of such a fact has not 1: equally clear. *1 The blood-thirstiness indicated iu the alio*^ astonishes the denizens of this part of tl. 1 country. A state of society to which the peo ple of this section are strangers, ^acknowl edged and avowed in the sentences: "It is time that a stop was put to the assassination. 3 by irate husbands of their wives’ lovers. Were this practice to become universal, Broadway would resound hourly to the soft note of the pistol, aud women would have to complain of |T rvganl* worldly matters. world is soon to join tlimn, and tlii* year, Urey , .. ... . . say. will hardly pus before that result is made | so .dentrfied in my manifest Holding these views, a teacher in one of the public schools—said to be a most T*#, • The Bryant Organ denies that Angier tele graphed to Wushinghtou that Governor Bul lock’s draft upon the Georgia National Bank was honored by the payment *** iug to the State Road. Tho Organ says it has ‘looked into” this matter, and finds that An gier did scud the following telegram: Within the List five weeks, Bullock has drawn twenty thousand dollars on the Georgia National Bank, of which John Rice is Presi dent, where tho State Road deposits are kept The.se drafts are drawn payable to the order of Sykes, Chadwick A.Co., endorsed by them to Riggs A Co. All of these men are in Wash ington.” Now what was Mr. Angler's nhjrct iu send in; such a dispatch, just iq*m the eve of the vot* upon tho Bingham Amendment? Was it to cast discredit iqxm the Governor, ami also upon Mr. Rice ? That it was intended as an imputation upon the personal character of the parties named, no sane man doubts. Per haps a further explanation may relieve Air. Angier of this construction; hut us the matter now stands it does him very little credit The people want evidence, not snake like insinu ation. This dis]mtcli is an implied imputation npou the officers of the Ruik, and the Treas urer of the State Road, as well as upon Gov ernor Bullock. And the Organ closes its no tice of the affair with this dubious expression: The expenses of the Executive in Washing ton have not l>een light, evidently. He re turns no property iu Georgia. Who foots the bills? The innocent manner iu which Air. Angier thus "puts his foot into it,” and the verdant Htylc of the Organ’s indorsement of the blun der, is refreshing. THE POMEKOY AMENDMENT !t iiiTOiucj a Substitute for tbe Original Bill fur tlic Admission of Georgia. .... DISCUSSION OVEK IT. In the United States Senate on the 15th Air. I'oifieroy said: Mr. POAIEROY. It is in order now, I take it, to submit an amendment ns a substitute for tho proviso known as tho Bingham amend ment, and also for the bilL I am aware, how ever, that the amendment which I urn going t.. i -ifer is not strictly in order as a substitute fur the Bingham amendment, but it is ns a substitute for the whole bill, and I want the sense of the Senate on that question. I liardly know how to vote ou any of these amendments until I know the sense of the Senate on the angle proposition to continue Georgia with its present Legislature under the reconstruction laws of Congress. That is the real point Hint I want the sense of the Senate upon. Without saying anything about the law of the case, for that has been discussed by others, knowing the condition of Georgia, knowing its people, knowing the di- yiriems and tho irregularities there, I think it is ^better that they have a new election this fall finder the reconstruction acts with a good military commander, under the supervision of Congress, and come here at the next session under anew organization so far as the Legis ire is concerned, and then, if it is found to regular, how easy will be tho question of lission. ' ' here is no way of making this questii leorgia clear, in my opinion, by admitting aem in their present state. I do not think, if re compel! an election there this fall, uuder ln» constitution, with this Suite government, .tat wo can hojio for any {ieace, or order, or a 3* election. I do not believe that; but I do believe that if we can have an election in Georgia, under tho law of Congress, with onr nilitary commander controlling, with the forces of the United States to preserve order, ad to protect the ballot-box—not to control way men shall, vote—that is not what I the deprivation of their natural rights. ^ | K aean _j lU ^ gj vo every one a fair expression Is it possible that adultery is so common in.|bf his sentiments at the polls, we can liave an Gotham as these sentences indicate; oris it j Election iu Georgia that will be creditable to n jealous V ~ C! *~* ’ .— *—*-_* <-« true that the men of New York are so jealous hearted as to be no rashly inclined, if AIcFar- laud and other sufferers of his ilk are acquitted by juries of the oonutry ? Will they thereby bo emboldened to commit murder every day and hour of tho year ? To a resident outside of the great commer cial Metropolis of this country, the views of tlic Citizen and Round Table appear anouml- ; and they are unaccountable except upon the supposition that its editors are in some way, or ou some considerations, partizaus of the Richardson side of the great trial now almost absorbing the entire attention of the people of. this country! The tmth is, the AIcFarland trial is opeuing the way to an insight into the corruptions aud corruptable nature of society in our large cities, which Is strongly directing public at tention to great principles that lie at the very foundation of civilized society. The prestige of a great metropolitan den ter, the tyranny of fashion ami the reticence and privacy which a crowded city affords, cannot, in presence of the activity of the press, and the moral sense of the virtuous, longer conceal corruptions of so-called good society iu many of our large cities, nor evade the just condemnation that awaits corrupt practices at, the hands of the good and true everywhere. Alarriage is the basis of Christian civilization. The adulterer is the criminal that would, and dares to break through aud steal the treasures Unit make the family state valuable. Omnipotence has pronounced judgment against the Adulterer and the Adulteress. first organization and in the ex- , . . _ ... „ 1 tert.uii nu-ml*or**s well also as in its organ- wShhsjUs? Jhe State and satisfactory to Congress. 1 I do not think it is a hardship for us to de clare now, as we have a right to do, that their present government shall be considered pro visional still longer until they have had a fair Election this fall. It will not delay them, be- OULse it is only a question as between April atni November, and the object to be attained i* to create, if possible, harmony and union among the Union people of Georgia; aud I do believe that if they can have another election, well protected and carried on regularly, as it can be done now under the laws of Congress, they will find harmony among themselves at the ballot box, and it will promote lmrmouy in tic State. It is a peace offering to Georgia. Bat if you send them down there with their Legislature as now organized with the power ifTperpetuato itself, or if you legislate part of them out of office, and compel an election this fiul, you send down there an apple of discord, tc*i*©, quarreled over, that will cause division -v ig our own friends, and you send down a context there which may lead* even to blood shed. I do not think wo ought to do it Let everything be held in abeyance for a few mt uths, until they can have an election. I understand that our„own friends, if I may be allowed to speak of our party friends, have no hesitancy, if they can have protection, to hav ing an election this fall What they fear is an election without protection, an election not under tho laws of Congress, but under the lawVof the State of Georgia, which a great por- t i.)ii of the people of the State dispute. I want an rlec ion under the laws of Congress. I do qjjjjffLink it is a measure of hardship, but of ri ^uLhip to the loyal people of Georgia. I fhslc ihe Secretary to read my amendment. TUi following is the Amendment hero re- ferfl£rto as it was originally offered, und as app^ rod in tba special dispatches at the lime: . rcas great irregularities have been nractieed in fit tiiuation of the Legislature in .Mtiuuvble, practical, and nenaiblc lady, at m»T- «ml year, of service in her profession -has re signed because of conscientioox scrapie* as to teaching on Saturday. This new sect sppoars in this particular to tread on the heels of Ju daism. Do They Knilor.. It I And now, since the •• Democracy " have re corded their votes in favor of remanding Georgia to Military Bole, shall we hear any more of their doleful mouotony about pies” and ail that? Will the Democracy of Georgia make issue with their ftiends in Con gress; or will they go back npon their own record and applaud the action? There is, we learn, much division of senti ment the “ faithful, ” in this latitude, respecting the action of the Senate on Tues day. Many of the adherents of the Bryant- Scott-Candler-Bmdlry faction have been nub enough to «press their unqualified condem- • nation of the Pomeroy Amendment Others of Ihe faction profess satisfaction with it un der the supposition that •• it is not what Bul lock wanted." . - . Jt wonld he difficult, we imagine, to find ony two doxeu of them in accord npon this or any other proposition. They ore hopelessly divided among themaslvsa, not only in the Northern States, bnt in Georgia as well. A* •“Brick” Pomeroy says, “when a political party starts down hill, everything greased to facilitate its rapid descent!" Mr. Disraeli*# N«vr Novel. After many stormy v year* of political life, Disraeli turn* aside for awhile to the fountain of romance which refreshed him io hi# youth No doubt "Lothnire” will he a politico-philo sophical novel, crammed with worldly witulom and epigram# —perhaps with hit# at public character*. But aa a novel, it will afford one more proof of the activity of Mr. Disraeli imagination. The world abuse* him, and calls him "trickster” and "adveutnrer,” but he lives his own life apart, and conquers that tendency to despondency which must often have besieged him by the aid of his wonderful ■imagination. with each other by the realities of Uieir condi tion, that they will be forced sooner, or later, into an unity of aim that must lie, when re alized, a bond of perennial Peace. Iirsbsm Lincoln and HU Religious Views. It is not at all remarkable that at this sea- sou, the anniversary of the assassination of Air. Lincoln, his name, his sayings, doings and opinions should occupy the attention of the American public. This disposition has broken out at this time in the discussion of Mr. Lincoln’s religious opinion^ Without expressing any judgment upon the good taste or charity of the discus sion, we deem it of sufficient public interest to say a word on the subject. The most important document in this con nection is a letter written by the Hon. W. H. Herndon, Mr. Lincoln’s former partner, which appeared in The Index. Mr. Herndon main tains that Mr. Lincoln was by education a skeptic, and states that in 1835 he wrote a small work on "Infidelity,” which he intended to publish, but it was destroyed by Mr. Sam uel Hill, for whom Mr. Lincoln was then working. In 1837 Mr. Lincoln was one of a society of "free thinkers,” and boldly avowed himself an infidel. In 1848, while mnning for Congress against the Rev. Peter Cart wright, he was accused of being an infidel, if not ku Atheist; he never denied the charge— wonld not—"would die first” Air. Herndon afinis up his opinions in these words. From what I know of Air. Lincoln, and from what I have heard and verily believe, I can say: first, that he did not believe in a special creation, his idea being that all creation was an evolution nnder law; secondly, he did not believe that the Bible was a special revelation from God, as the Christian world contends; thirdly, he did not believe in miracles, as un derstood by the Christian world; fourthly, he believed in universal inspiration and miracles under law; fifthly, he did not believe that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of God, as the Christian world contends; sixthly, he believed that all things, both matter aud mind, were governed by laws, universal, absolute and eternal. Now admitting the truth of all this, it simply brings us down to the time when Mr. Lincoln was elected to the Presidency, the most im portant event in his life, and one in every Woman's KlgHts in England. When a Countess of Beauchamp, with a lievy of high-born ladies about her, appears on Woman’s Right#’ platform, tho cause may be said to be iu a promising condition ; and uot alone for women iu general, bnt for that same British aristocracy itself. nobly- born and wealthy women will learn to sym pathize with their less-favored and humbler sinters, and instead of living the wearisome and worthless lives of women of fashion, they will have objects in life and cultured aud pop ular ambitious to occupy Uieir leisure. In deed, they would still bo the * glasses of fash ion ;’ but the fashion would have its good aud praiseworthy features, and the better half of the world wonld have the chief benefit of if fiat of the Creator. The question that divides the opinions of men, is not wlmt shall be the penalty of Adul tery, bnt who shall execute it? If society in New York is so corrupt, aud Adultery so common that the hand of the ex ecutioner must lie employed every day and even* hour of the day, then let it be, say the humble residents of the provincial district#! If the executioner hike* life without warrant of law, or take# life without proof of the Adul tery, then let him die. lint to entertain a jury called upon to try such cases a# McFarland's, for five long weeks with quasi proof of insan ity, is simply ridiculous. The fact of adultery, according to the Di vine Command, is justification enough for slaying the adulterer. The legislative power of the country ought to so decree. Fast women and lecherous men must be estopped their insidious plot* and damnable practices that undermine the very foundations of ciety. These assertions are only the honest expres sion of the convictions of true men and wo men everywhere; (and even in New \ork, they ought to be so held,) the partisan utterances of the Citizen and Hound TaUe to the contrary notwithstanding. Such utterances as those quoted above, justi fying the enemies of society, are in keeping with the animus of the same paper that pleads the cause of the revenue defaulter, Bailey, who has lied from justice ! stive# of tbe United States of America in Coi llstrimoujwintl thi- Pulpit. The following is put forth as a verbatim ex tract from a recceut sermon by that clerical apologist of Fourierism, the Rev. O. B. Froth- ingham, of New York: "The laws of matrimony should be so re modeled that the husband aud wife could not be jealous of one another—so that the bond should not be merely a legal one, bnt that a condition of marriage should be a permission to each to act as he or she thonght praper, and at tho dictates of the feelings and affections.” Who is Airs. Frothingham ? Coldnel J. E. Bryant was in tho city yester day from Washington.—Aurjnsta Chron iefe. * Before this same "Colonel” Bryant of Geor gia renegaded from the Republican party the paper quoted above denounced him as "Bry ant, the infamous scalawag.” Since his ciation with the rebel Democracy of Georgia, however, not content with hugging him to their bosoms, they must needs promote him to the full rank of "Colonel” Democrats are fond of -quoting from -the Washington letters of Don Piatt, the able and independent correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial. In a recent letter Piatt defined tho Democyacy as "the organized ignorance of the country.” The unterrifiod will please take notice that the journalist has been ungrate ful for their many well-meaning favors, and that he has no desire to train in such company i at log- Fart a»»tl Fancy. The woman# right* champions gerheads. Church sneak thieve# have made their ap pearance. in Cincinnati. Alelviu Foster has challenged Joseph Dion a match game of billiards for $1,000. Yallandigham again aspires to Congress, and will run against General Schenck. A contemporary thinks AIcFarland will bo acquitted ou HtheSta the acts of Congress of March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and March twenty-three, eighteen htfhired and sixty-seven, aud ot July nineteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-seveu. until the admission of slid State, by law, to representation in Cougress; andfor this purpose the State of Georgia shall consti tute the Third Military District. tacnoN 2. And be it further enacted, That in ae- lanee with the provisions of, and under the powers legislation provided in, said acts, au election shall Itebeld iu said State on the first Tuesday of Septem ber eighteen hundred and seveuty. for all the mem- ben of tbe General Assembly of said State provided fo- in the Constitution of said State, adopted by its Cipvention on the eleventh day of March, ••ipiteen hundred and sixty-eight. And said G4u-ral Assembly so elected shall assemble, at the cajitol of said State, on the twenty-third day of No- venber, eighteen hundred and seventy, and organize, preparatory to the admission of the State to represen tation in Congress; and the powers and functions ol th« membejs of the existing Ceneral Assembly shall ce^e and determine on the said twenty-third day No ember, eighteen hundred aud seventy.” Mr. POAIEROY r . I desire to modify my auendment so far as those dates are concern ed I propose to strike out in the fourth line of the second section tho word* ‘ ‘first Tues- djK* of September” and insert "15th day of No- viiiber.” I find that November Is tho best nbnth in which to have an election in the Stite of Georgia as well as in tlic South. The cops are then gathered, the people have more lesure, and you will get a better and larger eLction l»y having it iu November rather than September. Then, after "1808,” in line eight, Ipropose to insert the word* "at which elec- ton all persona who by said constitution are cectors shall be entitled to vote.” I make the dialificatiou for voting the same as in their State Constitution. Then, in the tenth line, I jropose to strike out the words "23d day o November” aud to insert "13th day of Decern- ler.” I also make the same modification iu the thirteenth and fifteenth lines. Under the tinendment as thus modified the election will le iu November, the Legislature will meet in De- ember. and tbe terms of the present members <f the Legislature will expire at the meeting if the Legislature in December. Then the legislature will be a new* Legislature, the Gov- imor continuing. On the lGth, the presiding officer announced lat the pending question was on the motion f the Senator from Nevada, to strike out the lingham Amendment Tho Senator from Kansas (Air. Pomeroy) moved to amend that nuytmma nernruna «ui o. ^eudment b y striking out the proviso uud the grotfud of “justifiable \ nseMu(; thc followicy; Congress to do; and my deliberate conviction is, that they should again require the question to be passed on by the people of Georgia un der full and ample protection, and that should be done under the established and w ell-defined legislation of Congress, and should be done this very autumn, as I have provided, ou the 16th of November, because if you admit thc State, the question is not closed then. A ques tion will then arise whether the Legislature shall be prolonged or not; then the contest will come np between three or four aspirants for seats here, and the whole matter will be gone over again. ' I think tins is best, iu view of the complica tions of the cose and iu view of the irregulari ties we have seen. I will not say that there have lieen crimes committed; I will not say that the people have intentionally done wrong, but there are great irregularities, so great that I think tho people of Georgia should pass upon this matter again. I have consulted iu this regard several Senators from the South, my friend from North Carolina, [Mr. Pool] and others, in whose judgment I have great confidence, and they concur in the opinion that it is better to recommit this question again to the people of Georgia. I do not intend to argue it; I only say that that is my judgment, and I want a vote of tho Senate on the sub ject Mr. SUAINER. I should like to ask my friend if he has any objection to a direct vote on the proposition of the Senator from Neva da. It seems to me that naturally and logi cally that stauds iu order first Let ns vote upon^it It is to strike out. what is known familiarly os tho Bingham amendment If that is not stricken out then the proposition of the Senator from Kansas will be perfectly in order as a substitute. If it is stricken out, theu it will bo also in order as an amendment. Air. POAIEROY. It Is in order now. Air. SUAINER. I know it is in order; bnt the question is whether it wonld not be better in the disposition of this snbject to vote first on what is known as the Bingham amendment. Mr. POAIEROY. I submit to the Senator from Massachusetts that in thAt amendment l* the question whether the Legislature shall be prolonged or not In this amendment which I submit Is the question whether we are to have the old Legislature at all. I submit to the Senator from Alossachusetts that the ques tion l* to decide whether we will liave that Legislature at all, whether we will admit the State under it Afterward the question will come whether we shall prolong it Bnt that a subsebuont question; the first question is on the admission. Air. SUMNER. It seems to me the first question is ou the Bingham amendment That is logically first in order; aud if that is voted on and kept in, the way will then be clear for action on the proposition of the Senator; if the Bingham amendment is voted out, the way will aLso be clear for the Senator to make his proposition. I think we had better vote on thc Bingham amendment alone and without any substitute. Mr. SHERAIAN. Air. President, my own opinion is that now, after the long debate on the Georgia bill, we ought to decide thc pre liminary question, which, in my judgment, is the proposition now made by the Senator from Kansas. The preliminary question is whether, or not we shall admit Georgia. If that is de termined in the affirmative, then will come up as subsequent questions the terms and con ditions and qualifications of admission. I have made up my mind, I confess with a good deal of hesitation, with more doubt than I have had about anything connected with the whole fabric of reconstruction, that Georgia is not in a fit condition to be represented in Con gress and to l>e armed with the full powers of a State government I do not believe that the present Legislature lias been so elected and is so organized that it ought to be intrusted with the powers of h State government in Georgia. I am in hopes that our Republican friends here—I speak of them without any desire to moke this a party question—will concur iu the proposition made by the Senator from Kansas which will continue the present Legislature in power until November next as a provisional Legislature and provide then for a new election ana a new organization. We can then admit can contend that to this time there has been a - , NASBY PAPERS. From the Tolclo Bhule.] Tlic Fifteenth Amendment—The Dcmoc. racy or tlie Sixth Ward Meet in the Back Room of the “Harp uv Erin S’loon” to Con«ldrr What to do in the Matter of the Negro Vote—They Come to a Decision. Hasp uv Esin S’loon. 6th Wabd, \ Noo Youk, April 2, 1870. ) The proclamation uv the President an- nouncin the ratification uv the Fifteenth Amendment perdoosed a profound sensasheu in this Ward. It wuz told to our people by a reporter uv a daily paper at 11 o’clock this morning, and it got pretty well around among us by 3 this afternoon, wich wuz tollably rapid, considerin that intelligence in this Ward lias to be con veyed orally. In the afternoon it wuz resolved that a meeting be held in the evenin to con sult es to what ackshen thc Democriay shood hike iu the matter, wich wuz akkordingly ao done. I hed the back room lit up, the barrels mooved into a side place under the strongest kinds uv locks, and the bar closed and dropped in inournin in token uv the hoomilioshen wich I felt had fallen onto the people in consekence ifv this outrage. I hung crape onto the door; I put crape around the portraits uv J&xson, Chief Justis Chase, Bookhannon, and Fer- uandy Wood, and likewise around the bottles and over tho red-headed barrel, wich gave the establishment a highly funereal aud mournful lfcok wich wuz entirely satisfactory. . In the evenin the Democracy assembled, and more enraged gatherin I never saw. They wuzn’t jist clear ez to wat the President hed done; in feed, the most uv em wuz labrin under thc impreshun that the enfranchise ment uv the nigger wuz the work uv the Dim- ocratic Legislachcr at Albany, and ther wuz indicashens uv determinashen to go thro some uv the houses of the Dimocratic mem bers in this city, but I stopt em by tellin em the starte uv it. I osoomed the chair uv course, and hed, in oddlshen, to do the dooties uv sekretary, being the only one then in the meetin who cood write. Teddy McGinnis remarked that he felt a. hoomilioshen which wuz actooally beyond ex- preshen. The dirty nager was now his ckaL The only difference between em hed ben re moved by this infamus law. Does any one suppose that he’d iver consint to vote all day beside niggers? Niver! He called upon the Democracy to jine him in a croosade agin em. "Follow me,” sed Teddy, "and in Noo Yor- rick, at least, wc won’t be bothered with nagur suffrage, bo gomv” Pat AIcLaughlin held similar views. Sooner than vote beside nagurs he’d reliquish the biznis uv voting altogether, and go to sawin wood. Itepcetin is a good enuff biznis, and the small conthract wich he hed ez a reward therefor wuz betther, but he coodent stand na gurs, nor woodcut His voice wuz for killin uv em. The others made similar speeches, when Sandy McGuire offered a resolooshen that the offerin uv a vote by a nagur be considered ez a declar&shun uv war agin the Democracy uv Noo York, and that they theu be immegitiy exterminated. Sandy wuz for for no half-way measures. He remembered the glorious Jooly days in 1863, when the Democracy uv Noo York ossertid itself! He hed assisted in de- stroyin the nagur orphan asylnm; with this good rite hand he hed beat ont the brains uv two nagurs, to say nothin uv the wimin and children, which he didn't consider worth countin. He longed to get at them agiu. The meeting bein all so yoonanimus in their feelin, I wrote the follerin resolooshens: "Resolved, That the Dimocrisy nv Noo Y’ork, considerin and beleevin the nigger to be a beast, a burlesk on lioomanity, and incapa ble uv dischorgin any uv the dooties uv citi zenship, do hereby protest agin his bein given the ballot on a ekality with white men. "Resolved, That the Dimocrisy uv Noo Y’ork, ruther than submit to this degredaxhen, pledges itself to the exterminaahen nv the ac- cussid race.” The resolooshens waz adoptid without a dis seutin voice, and the enthoosiastic McGuire, brandlshin his shillala, rushed out and attackt a couple of niggei* which was passin, aud aped onto ein vigr^iitflv said Ktate provided for in the constitution of said State adopted by it* convention on the 11th of March, 18G8; at which election all persons who by said constitution sanity. \ That the existing government in the State of Georgia S*u Frisco no longer depends on AlnO. “Ve“ for its ice supply; its ice now cornea from the Congress of March 2,1867, and March 23. 1867, and of J {July 19, 1867, until tho admission of said State, by law, Sierras. to representation in Congress; and for this purpose , r ii x: * the State of Georgia shall constitute the third military Victoria has been unsuccessfully negotiat-. di#trict ine to mam- one of her dnngldera to a Prince 1 And be it further enacted That in accordance iug mm i j um, o with the provisions of and under the powers and limi- of Orange. uti°ns providedjn said acts, an election shall be held Some j’ouug men of Defianco have former an association for the prevention of tho use o tobacco. The St Louis Agricultural and Mechanic^ Association intend making $100,000 worth oj improvements on their fair ground this year. Garibaldi say* the Pope and the Sultan arj the chief enemies of mankind, and must 1j annihilated. 1 Base ball ha* commenced. On Alondif lost the Bed Stocking* beat the "First Nincj’ of Cincinnati, by 34 to 5. The parents of a little girl, who was killj by a fire engine, have sued the city of Sa Francisco for $125,000. The three things America detest* most c<J- dially just now are said to bo rattlesnakes, te income tax and Captain Eyre. They make three Yankee clock* every mi- nte in Bristol, Connecticut; and the smalir the clock the fiercer tho "tick.” The proclamation making American sdlir a legal tender at 20 per cent discount, in Cu ada, took effect on Friday last. A twenty-one pound trout, two feet and nie inches long, has lieen caught in Lake Wini- pisiogee. j Notwithstanding tho declared insanityof Lady Mordaunt, Lord Pensanz still declies to proceed with the suit of Sir Charles A&r- daunt for a divorce. • said State on the 13th of December, 1870, and organize preparatory to the admission of the State to represen tation in Congress; and the powers and functions of the members of tbe existing General Assembly shall cease and determine on the said 13th day of December, 1870. Air. POAIEROY. I have submitted this amendment for the sake of getting a vote, to ascertain the deliberate judgment of the Senate whether they propose to admit Georgia with it* present Constitution or not, because this ques tion of whether we shall prolong this Legisla ture, or whether any amendment shall be made to the bill as it passed the House, in that re spect cannot properly be consideecd until we settle the question whether or not we ore to admit the State; and a vote on this amend ment of mine I think will settle that question. My deliberate judgment is that there have been such irregularities in Georgia, so that there ore several claimants for seats in this Senate from that State under the various or ganizations, that it is better for the people of Georgia and for the cause of the. country that this question be agnin recommitted to the peo ple of Georgia under the existing laws of Con gress, and have full and ample protection to all the citizens there during this next election, to occur, as I propose, on the 15th day of No vember. I am strengthened in this conviction by con sultation with members from that section of the country. I have no hostile or hard words to pronounce against this Legislature, or against the Governor, or against anybody. It — — is a question with me what is best, what ought greatness.—Punchinello. fair election in the process of reconstruction iu thc . State of Georgia. The state ments made yesterday by the Senator from In diana (Air. Alorton) show clearly that even the present Legislature, although we might for po litical reasons be willing to trust them with the power of the government, have not been elected iu such a mode and mauuer, and are not composed of such material as entitle them, under the reconstruction acts, to the powers of a State government. I can, therefore, with a clear conscience, vote for the proposition of the Senator from Kansas, and let the matter of the admission of Georgia go over until the next session of Congress. What advantage shall we have in this ? Ii there is not a fair election next fall, we then have the power still further to exclude Georgia. We control, in a maimer, the election there — not the result of the election, but the mode of holding it, so that we can secure a fair elec tion. After further discussion, it was agreed to bring the issue to a vote on Tuesday, the 19th, aud the result of that vote is now known to the readers of the Eka. ^ Ilow On** Woman Should Meet Another. There are certain polite fashions, with which every woman who aspires to the highest style ought to l>e familiar. There is this, in regard to meetiug a stranger of your own sex. Unless the individual is unmistakably a per son of "position,” there is a form of elegant scrutiny, a looking-over process, if I may so speak, which it is of the utmost importance to go through with. Begin at the hat aud de scend, with more or less deliberation, analy sing as you go, scarf, gloves, boots, Ac., never omitting furs, or laces, as the season may be — these last being particularly suggestive, to borrow a term somewhat iu vogue for grander uses. It is not at all uncommon, as the work proceeds, to throw into the expression of the countenance a delicate shade of that contempt hich it is often so eminently proper to feel. If it Is pretty soon evident that the person is a “nobody,” the inspection may close abruptly, though much talent may be shown in the ex tension of the process, even iu cases of this kind. In concluding the interesting ceremo ny, most people satisfy their consciences with a severe letting alone, a quiet ignoring. But I have known ladies of most decided "style,” who would go so far as to make overt demon strations, withdrawing the skirts from the possibility of contamination, Ac. But nothing of this kind should be ventured on, except by a woman whose social claims are beyond question. In a person of ordinary pretensions, anything of this kind would be reckoned vulgar, as you well know. I may add that, if the inspector is under the pleasing necessity of using an eye-glass, thc embarrass ment of the victim is considerably increased, aud the general effect admirably lightened. — This operation Is a fine thing for coolness. — Of course one pities the individual thus put to torture. But it will not do to let feeling run away with one. Naturalists to the contrary, I shall always believe that insects are incom moded, when thrust through with pins or the like. But of what account their sufferings, when considered in relative to the progress of science ! I should not, perhaps, fail to men tion that one is liable to blunder, some times, and that it is very awkward—in the case of certain odd persons, whom it Is fashionable to notice—authors, artists and thc like, and some others, rich as Jews, yet, strangely and stupidly enough, dressing like beggars. But the danger of such mistake cannot, of course, be permitted to interfere with the course of well-established social laws. There are people, I am aware—either weak or iU- taught, they must be—who pronounce the style of behavior which I am advocating, indicative of a coarse, hard nature, or at best criminal thoughtlessness. They are forever quoting to you, "The mind is the measure of the man,” and simular antique sayings from Pope or some other dry old fellow. It is really most absurd, in this day of light and progress. It is pro voking, too. What, I ask, would become of the world, if such foolish creatures should have their say? The acts which they condemn ought to be looked on as public benefactions, each doing its part in fixing the boundaries which separate the elite from tho vulgar. Were it not for self-sacrificing efforts of this kind, how soon might we find ourselves in a state of social disorder, absolutely irretrievable. and it did not take place till the mill was set agoing. For the same reason, the manager of some vast iron works, who slept close to them, amid tiie incessant din of hammers, forges and furnaces, would awake if there was any cessation of the noise during the night To carry illustrations still further, it has been no ticed that a person who falls asleep near a church, the bell of which was ringing, nmy hear tho souud during the whole of his slum ber, and be, nevertheless, aroused my its sud den cessation. Here the sleep must have been imperfect otherwise he would have been in sensible to the sound.. The noise of the bell was no stimulus; it was its cessation which, by breaking the monotony, became ao, and caused the sleeper to awake.—Macnish. GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. SENATE. Wednesday, April 20, 1870. The Senate met pursuant to adjournment at 12 m. to-day, and was called to order by the Hon. B. CONLEY, President Prayer was offered by the Rev. Wesley Prettyinan. The roll was called by J. G. W. Mills, Ev, Secretary, and the journal of the procedin- day read by Mr. Bishop. . Mr. DUNNING moved to adjourn the Senate until Monday next, at 12 u. Mr. CANDLER moved to adjourn sine die. The CHAIR ruled the motion out of order, unless it were a joint resolution. Mr. CANDLER said it was a joint resolu tion. Mr. BROCK supported the motion of Mr. Duuning; but said if ou Monday next, they were not in a condition to go to work he should be much inclined to support Air. Candler’# amendment, as he was tired of coming to At lanta to do nothing. A discussion ensued, taken part in by Air. NUNNALLY, Mr. CANDLER, Air. BROCK, Mr. HOLCOMBE, and Air. FAIN. On motion of Mr. BROCK, Air. Candler’s amendment was lost Tho original motion was carried and, Tbe PRESIDENT declared the Senate ad journed until 12 m., Alonday next. HOUSE. The House met pursuant to adjournment and was called to order by the. Speaker at 12 o’clock, noon. Proceedings were opened with prayer by the Rev. Mr. Fuller. On motion of Air. S. A. DARNELL, the calling of tho roll was dispensed with. After the minutes of Monday had been read, Mr. BETHUNE, of Talbot, moved to ad- ourn until Monday, the 25th instant Mr. O'NEAL, of Lowndes, offered a substi tute to adjourn until July 1st, and supported his motion by a speech of some leugth. Mr. SCOTT, of Floyd, offered a motion to adjourn sine die, and was about to make some remarks, when Thc SPEAKER declared that the motion was not debatable. Air. SCOTT then withdrew his motion, and made a lengthy speech against adjourning till any particular day, and in concluding his re marks again moved to adjourn sine die. . Air. LEE, of Newton, offered n substitute for thc whole, but not being in order, it could not be entertained. A vote was then called, and thc yeas and nays taken—Yeas 48, nays 68. Air. COSTIN, of Talbot, moved to lay the resolution of Air. O’Neal, of Lowndes on tbe table. The yeas and nays having been called, the vote was: Yea# 67 and nays 45. The resolu tion was accordingly tabled. On motion of Air. DARNELL, of Pickens, the use of the Hail was tendered to the Work ingmen# Association for Saturday night next, when Air. Jonathan Norcross is to deliver u. lecture iu the interest of the carpenters and joiners. On motion, the resolution as offered by Air. Bethune, of Talbot, adjourning the House un til 12 o’clock, u., on Alonday, tho 25th iu.st.ant, was carried. Tho House then adjourned, A MEMPHIS ROMANCE. The meetin wnz about to break up, wen Tim O’Grady, a man uv Femandy Wood’s, come rushin’ in. He had heered nv the meetin and come imejitly to see about it. I told him in broth wat Lad bin done. "Thunder!” he ro- markt to me in a whisper, "this won’t do. Y'ou eggrejis old ass, the niggers hev a vote and will vote now in spite uv us. We must git em, for without em, with all the rebels disfranchis ed, wat kin we do in the Southern States? Call tlie meetiug to order agin.” I didn’t like the tone uv his alloosiou to i but I called the meetin to order onct more. O’Grady remarked to ’em that there lied bin a misunderstanding He felt ashoored that the Dimocrisy uv Noo York, alluz the friend# nv the oppressed and down-trodden, wood now generously extend a helpin hand to our colored brethren just elevated to fyli citizenship. The Dimocrisy hed not assisted in their elevashen, but they hed no feelin agin our brethren uv col or. When onr colored brethren come to analyze the matter they wood love the Dimocrisy the more for not doin uv it He wood move the substitooshen uv the follerin resolooshen for the one wich hed been unadvisedly passed: "Resolved, That the Dimocrisy uv Noo Y’ork bail with a feelin nv pleasure wicli we hev no words to express, the elevashen uv our colored fellow-citizens to full citizenship, and that we pledge ourselves to protect ’em in thc enjoy ment uv ther newly-found rites.” The meetin didn’t want to pass it Tbe feelin agin em wuz too deep sot to be rooted out in a mint but O’Grady was determined. O wat a mini! wuz that! Wuz the niggers to be killed by us, or wuz they to be taken to onr buzzums. Their fate hung tremblin iu thc balance ! Finally it wuz put to vote aud tlie niggers wuz Bafe.* By one majority tfio reso- lushen wuz passed. At that minit a groau was heard outside. “What is that?” asked O’Grady. “Some nagurs I jist now bate r remarks Mc- Guire. - ‘Beatin niggers!" sed O Grady; “Good Lord, bring em in.” . And he rushed out nud brought m the two unfortunates. They were badly banged np about the face, and breast, and stnmick, and legs, bnt O’Grady was ekal to the emergency. He washed their wonnds and revived em with whisky and hound up ther sores, and filially sot em on their feet. “McGuire;” sed he, when he hed the work finished, “McGuire embrace em.” McGuire hed his shillala iu his hand. Never did I see a man so torn with contending emo- shens. Nateral instinks impelled him to drop that shillala ou their hod ez usual, but politi- kle considerashuus restrained him. _ Twict un der O'Grady’s eye he lowered it until at last he dropt it and fell sobbing with emoshen onto their buzzums. ..... , I took the crape off the door, bottles and picters, nnd immejitly illoominated in honor of the event, aud the next mornin I pat np a placard at my door, “ No distinckshen at this bar on account uv color._ Ekul rites! ” The ward committee is takin prompt and vigerous ackshen to secoor this vote. They hev adoptid the same means they yoose to con trol ther other vote. They hev already startid ten s’loous, run by colored men, to winch they give all the profits, and are arrangin for ten more. There will be a nigger or two put onto the police to wunst. The force will be in creased ennff to make room for these new ones, ez we daren’t discharge any nv the Irish. Tm goin for em also. Those wich I kin git to drink my likker will vote my ticket. It w fetch em sore. Petholeuv V. Nxsby, (wich wnz Postmaster. Mayne Keid is announced as having a lec ture on Byron. At this rate we shall soon have Byron’s memory embalmed in Stowe-Beid Sleep xml Habit. Sleep is much modified by habit Thus an old artilleryman often enjoys tranquil repose while the cannon ore thundering around him; an engineer has been known to fall asleep within a boiler, while his fellows were heating it out on the inside with their ponderous ham mers, aud the repose of a miller is in no wise incommoded by the noise of his mill. Sound ceases to he a stimulus to such men, and what would have proved au inexpressible annoyance to others is by them altogether unheeded. It is common for carriers to sleep on horseback, and coachmen on their coaches. Daring the battle of tho Nile some boys were so exhausted that they fell asleep on deck amid tho deafen ing thunder of that dreadful engagement Nay, silence itself may become a stimulus, while sound ceases to be so. Thus, a miller being very ill, his mill was stopped that he might not be disturbed by its noise; but this, so far from inducing sleep; prevented it altogether; lI lielilml th- Foatlighlx. From the New York World.] A* the_antkority for the following story is a clergyman of this city, no les# noted for liis eloquence as a theological moralist than for his manifold literary attainments, it maybe accepted as something without alloy of either exaggerated factor sensational fiction: Sonic years ago a minister of the gospel, who some times undertook the arduous duties of a vol unteer city missionary, discovered, in the fam ily of a poor laborer, in one of the most mis erable tenement houses of New York, two youthful sisters, whose appearance aud natural abilities wore, apparently,- much above their squalid lot iu life. By bis agency they were placed in a school, their home rendered more comfortable, and their desire for a future of better sur roundings made practicable to them. All went well until the period of schooling was over, when the elder und more interesting of tin- two, in an hour of blind, girlish folly, became the wife of a young mau greatly her inferior in intelligence and general worth. To her the story now belongs, and the romance, of her life began with the mad act by which she threw away every opportunity to ripen her existence into a better reality. Love’s first fitful lover being over, she became aware of her great mistake, and after a brief, inharmonious perience of matrimony, withdrew from L-: mismatched husband and disappeared from the city. Her family and their good friend, tho clergyman, were in great distress there at, fearing that the unhappy young wife had been driven to some desperate resource; but at tbe end of some weeks, there came to tho minister a letter from the mis sing one. After confiding to him the story of her intolerable matrimonial sorrows, and'declaring that she had renounced her un fit husband forever, the writer confessed that she had become au actress in a theater of Memphis, Tennessee, under on assumed name. In this uew capacity she was gaining much success, and begged her old friend to keep her secret and act as her agent in a friendly watch over the huslmnd she could no longer live, with. She promised to send money from time to time, which the clergyman was to ap ply, as from himself, to such aid as the hus band might absolutely require; but begged that no effort should be made to persuade her back to the life never to be. hers again. Con vinced that all such persuasion must bo use less, the recipient of the extraordinary letter sadly yielded to the inevitable and wrote to the actress that he would act .as she desired. Consequently, while the detached wife led the life of a player iu Tennessee, she was still able to keep an eye, through her friend, upon her husband in New Y’ork, aud see that he did uot fall into abject want One day, a few weeks ago, a letter from the clergyman told her that the man whom she vowed to love, honor aud obey was lying sick of relapsing fever, in a wretched garret, to which he had retreated . On the day after the arrival of this news she abruptly closed her engagement at the South ern Theater, aud disappeared from Memphis. Two days thereafter, a nice benignant old lady appeared in the New Y’ork tenement honae iu which lay the fever patient, distributing tracts and inquiring for sick persons to visit— The people of the lower floor told her about the dying man iu the gar ret, and, with basket on her arm, she weufc up to see him. There he was, tossing and deliri ous in a burning fever, with naught to smooth his pathway to the grave, or cool its scorching air. She filled his room with comforts, em ployed a physician and a nurse, and made daily visit# to the place thereafter. No one knew who she was, uor where she came from ; but the rough men of the rookery raised their shabby hat* to her, and the slatternly women blessed her when she passed. Nothing could save the sick man ; ho grew worse, ana in his delirium often called for his wife. Just before death, the old lady disappeared from his bed side, and in her place sat a young lady richly dressed. The sufferer was too far gone to re cognize her, but she was his wife. In the dis guise of the old woman she had relieved his last wants, and in the end she gave him Chris tian burial The last act of her married life being finished, the dramatized woman reveal ed herself to her sister and their friend the clergyman, bnt only to say good-bye before returning to the South. Her last words as she started for Memphis were: " I hope I shall no die iu a theater, as poor President Lincoln did.” It was a presentiment On the very night of her re-appearance os an actress, she fell violently ill in the theater, and before morning dawned had gone to join her husband in another world.