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?' }f rj • $ %i >„ JOURNAL and MESSENGER. THE FAMILY JOURNAL—NEWS—POLITICS- LITERATURE—AGHICULTUBE—DOMESTIC NEWS, Etc PRICE $2.00 PER ANNUM. GEORGIA TEL APS BUILDING STABLISilEDjlS26. MACON, FRIDAY. APRIL 28, 1882. •' VOLUME LVX-NO 15 . A XEGRO I.OVE-SOXG. Track in de pair wliar rabbit bln play'n', (Hey, my Lily! go down <lc road!) Han* roe down my wallcln'-canc, . (1U roy Lily! go down dc roail 1) Hey, roy Lily, de cow done lowed, (Go down aeroad—go down de rood!) Hit's wet on de gram wbar de dew bln po'd, (Hi, my Lily! go down de road!) lane, road!) InMi^rain, (Hi, my Lily! go down dc road'!) llcy, roy Lily I de chicken done crowed, (Go down de road—go down de road!) 8un gone down en moon done showed, (My Lily! myUly! go down de road!) SOCIETY IN WAR TIME. what women of PROMI NENCE DID IX RICHMOND IX THE FIRST YEAR OF THE WAR. Wan' me down my walkln’-eane, (Hey, roy " — ' uaj mij j nidown de road!) Big owl holler: Jfo uso stay'n! (Ill, my Lily! go down de road! tote de little gal loud, ,Go down de road—go down de rood!) Kaze too big a turn make nigger leg bowed, (My Lily 1 my Lily! go down de road!) Han’ me down my walkln'-cane. (fio down de road—go down de road!) En tome fMs ait so'at deg aint never grout J, 4ly! my 1" (My Lily! my Lily! go down dc road!) One man los* w'at 'n'er man gain. (He; You g (Hey, —Jott Chandler Harris ("Uncle Sevens”) in •'The Centura.’' TWEXTY-OXE KXIFE WOVXBS. The Frightful Death Mary Lennon nt the Ilfinda*of her Husband. JVVw Fork Sun. The people who llvo In the tenement 405 East Tenth street, were awakened by tho shrieks of little Joe Lennon at 1 o’clock yesterday morning. A minute la ter and the voice of his mother cried “Murder 1” and repeated the cry again and again. Mrs. Lennon was a tailoress, working at Wo. 49 Mott street. Her Sewing for Soldiers—First Shocks. of Battle—Confederate Court. Mist Matoaea Gray in Philadelphia Timet It was certainty a cause for congratula tion that from the first to the last tho war bad its humorous side, and that the Southern people, even m tho midst of their greatest trials,were never too crushed in spirit to appreciate the reflex view of their mistortnnes. From our very neces sities the mest absurd dilemmas and exi gencies arose which would have been an nihilating mortifications had we not had the presence of mind to treat them as cap ital jokes. I religiously believe that this and this only enabled some of us to en dure to the end, and in looking back now to the vicissitudes of the struggle, I grate fully confess to the fact that 1 never know ingly neglected a single opportunity for amusement of which the situation ad mitted. My initial mortification came early in the action, and made a deep im pression on my youthful mind. It was in the lecture room of St. Paul’s church, when, without a misgiving as to my pow ers, I volunteered to sew on trousers. The sewing machines were all busv; numbers were sowing by hand, and, following their example, i, too, kept busy, and filially presented my trousers to the directress (as I thought nearly finished) for further instructions. She looked at them rather gravely for a second, turned them round with a furtive smile, and then to my hor ror held them up to general view. A about of merriment lollowed. I had drunken husband, thirty-five years of care f u i|y sewed the front of one leg to the age, bad gone away last Thursday, loc»-q 0 f t jj e 0 m er * u j go joined the parts |ng most discordaut unity. But for the di- ing with the rear flats. To leave the room by this door Mrs. Lennon had to clamber over her head. Lennon is a tailor, and together they once built up a fine business in East Broadway, employ- me a score oi people and making money rapidly, but he took to drink and lost his business. She left him once in a while. Once she had him arrested for assault and battery. Sot long ago he stabbed her in the hand. For the last five years she had supported herself. On Monday afternoon, when she came back thiough her neighbor’s flat aud clambered over her bed into her own rooms, bringing Joe, who bad been at her sister’s two doors below, she found her husband, John Lennon, awaiting her, She prepared a supper for herself and he ate it. In the eveuing she visited her sis ter awhile, then went home again and sewed on a new suit for her little boy. Her husband, who was entlrelv sober, had but little to say to her. Wb^he did say showed that he was ill-humored. At 11 o'clock she put aside her sewing and only partly undressing, lay down across the foot or the bed. Her husband went to bed after taking ofT only bis coat, waist coat and shoes. He got up several times during the night,and she lay and watched him. At 1 o’clock in the morning he arose and put on bis waistcoat and col ''“You are going out early again,” she Slid* “Mind your own business," he re plied. “This is too early for work,” she con tinued. lie went to the faucet and drew aglass- ful of water, which he drank. “If you don’t do better,” she said, “I’ll tell the landlord and be will put you out.” “Is that so P ” he asked. “Yes,” she replied. Ho sprang at her from tho further side the room. He dragged her from the d to the floor and then across it. He beld au oicn knife in bis right hand. “I have*told you that I would cut you to pieces,” he said, “now I’ll do it.” Again and again he struck her in tho breast, the stomach, and the legs. She gained her feet and ran toward the ball door, lie struck her down and stabbed her with his Ireshly-sharpened, long- bladed jackkuife as fast as he could move bis arm. length sho got the door open. She hall, ran along it and reached the lurtber end, screaming ’ As she ran, she flung her- the door, and pounded It with “Let me in,” she cried. “For let me in I ” who slept in the room within Je heard no sound all night long. Lennon had paused a minute when she broke from him, but when he heard her clamoring at the next door he followed, caught her hair with one hand and cut her throat. He cut it in front, then on the lef. side and then on the back. She fell iu a heap on the floor, and Policeman John Colvin, who bad been from doer to door tracing the cries of murder that he had beard a block away, leaped up the stairs, aud seeing Mary Lennon’s body and the shadow of a man running from it jumped over it and confrouted him. “1 meant to kill her,” said the husband a slight, mild-looklng man ot medium height, with a pale face, black mous tache and sparte beard, talking quietly and acting coolly. “If you want the knife I cut her with you’ll have to get it yourself. It’s in this pocket. I cut my thumb shutting it up, and I can’t get it out without hurting my thumb.” A neighbor held a light in tho hallway, and the woman, lying as though she were dead, caught sight of the people. “Ob, thank God,” she cried, “there’s a police man.” Her sister, Mrs. Patrick O’Leary, came in, and tho suffering woman knew her. She told Mrs. O’Leary to look be tween the mattresses in her room and to take tho money she would find there aud that if I die,” she said, to bury me.” At Bellevue Hospital the doctors found that she had been cut In twenty-one places, and there was scarcely a cut among them all that would not alone have caused death. Coroner Brady was summoned, and she told him what has beeu narrated above. Dr. G. C. Bull, who was attending her, had to shako her and wake her up every now and then to get her to talk, so rapidly was she sink ing. “If you’ll come again to-morrow,’ she said to the coroner, “I’ll tell you all about it; I’ll be better then.” She died at 10:15. “Well, she got no more than she de served,” said her husband, adding: “I am only sorry for the little boy. I’ve noticed lately how very kind aud good sho bos been to me. She could not do enough for Beefsteak and onions and nice strong lea, and everything nice she could gel for me. She always spoke so kindly, too, yet I know that ali the while she was tryiug to kill me with slow poison.” Because he referred so often to her ef forts to poison him, the police think his defense may be insanity. He was com mitted without bail. “The man will not be banged,” said Coroner Brady. “I have had just as bad cases, and somehow they don’t hang the culprits.” ■** An Arkansas Phenomenon. Rheumatism, disordered blood, general debility and many chronfo diseases pro nounced incurable, are often oared by Brown’s Iron Bitters. lw reciress I should doubtless have laced them down, put ou the buttons by inspir ation aud sent them oil to camp, when, alas 1 the poor fellows to whom they fell must evidently have marched two ways at once in order to wear them, for as they hung iu mid air the legs seemed positively to step out iu opposite directions, aud I think if the wearer had gone persistently forward, oae leg of those trousers would have stayed behind anyhow. THE VIHsT CALL TO ARMS The first movement of the military in Virginia, moraeutous os it then appeared, was the most absurd fiasco of the war. It was on a memorable Sabbath, April 21, ’01, that the alarm bell at tho capitol sounded at midday its first call to arms, The churches were crowded, the com munion aboutjto be administered, when the dead sounus smote upon the ear. In an instant all was confusiou, congregation rose eu masse aud fled into the streets, delicate women shrieked and fainted, children were knocked down and ruu over, while oue aud all in breathless ex citement demanded au explanation. It was promptly given. “Dispatches had been received by the Governor of Vir ginia, Mr. John Lecluer, that the United Slates war ship l’awuee was moving up the river to shell the city.” Hundreds of soldiers—iufautry, of course, we liaa little else then—were marched down to Dockets to meet this terrifying vanguard of the United States navy. Two long bronze guns were dragged down Main street, one of which broke down and was abandoned in front of the post-oflice, aud every man aud boy iu Kichmond, clergy and all, armed indiscriminately with pistols, shot guns, staves, rifles, iu short, every weapon of defeuse that could be carried from a pop-gun to au old fiiut-lock musket, fled afoot to the expectant seat of war. WHAT THE JJOJi-COMBATAMTS MD, Lull to themselves the women aud chil dren next took up their line of march and flocked by thousands to the brow of Church Hill, immediately overlooking the river, in which position they must have inevitably have received the full benefitof the bombardment had there been oue. The diy was iu a tumult aud the wildest confusion prevailed until twilight, when t was ascertained that the alarm was wholly uutounded. The Pawnee did at some time during her operations iu Vir ginia waters ascend the James river to a point some fifty or sixty miles below that city, and the telegram sent from Nor folk was said to have referred to the Eliz abeth river, iu which the l’awuee did make its appearance. The retreat the vaiiiant army from the battle-field, “bloodless os yet,” was very droll, and those whose patriotic eyes bad actually descried the dread man-of-war, and had beeu able through their glasses to delect bis movements were naturally a little “touchy.” Neither Burnside, McClellan nor Grant, with their “grand armies,” ever occasioned so great a panic iu the Confederate capital, aud I can but note here the excitability of inexperience aud the stolid confidence of ’02, ’03 and ’04, when the people of Kichmond, refusing to admit the possibility ol danger, would lie down at night aud rest without a qualm while the enemy thundered at our very doors, ucar enough to be distinctly audi ble. THE GALA OATS OF THE WAB. These were the gala days ol the war, aud “May, the month of roses,” came never crowued with richer beauty, or wit nessed gayer scenes than iu the capital. The camps of instruction were crowded with soldiers. The cadets from the Vir ginia Military Institute rendered good service as drill masters. The Maryland boys begau to gather into companies in Richmond aud to form the Maryland line. South Carolina sent her braves,Louisiana her magnificent artillery, superbly equipped. From the Lone Star State oame her raugers, and as the different banners floated in the air at the head of their spoudid colurns they were cheered pay it upon her life insurance policy. “So tc the echo. In all of this Mars aud Cu- that if I die,” she said, “there’ll be money pid clasped bauds, aud mauy a “bud of love” was lbeu first blown, which, ere it proved a “beauteous flower,” was twined In the funeral wreath. In a diary kept at the time by au official in- the War De partment I find this entry: May 10.—The ladies are sewing every where and are lull of ardor. Love affairs are plentiful, but the ladies are postpon ing all engagements uutil their lovers have fought the Yankees. Their influ ence is very great; every day they go in crowds to the fair grounds, where the First South Carolina Volunteers are* en camped, showering upon them their smiles and every delicacy which the city can afford. They wiun them and dine them, and they deserve it, for \hey aro just from the takiug of Sumter, and have won historic distinction. I was presented to several very distinguished young ineu, all of them privates, aud was told by their captain that many of them were worth from one hundred thousand to half a mil lion. These are the men that the Tribune thought would ail of them would waut to captains; but that is only one of the hal lucinations under which the North is now laboring. THE ARRIVAL OF MB. DAVIS. On the 20th of May the government was removed to Richmond, and a few days after that there was an immense popular furore over tho arrival of the President. The Presidential Mansion, at the corner of Twelfth, and Clay (now a public school house;, had not been then procured, and the President and his faru- Spottswood Hotel. An immense con course of people assembled at the depot, and tbroDged the streets leading to the hotel. On the way numbers ol bouquets were thrown or banded into the carriage. One thrown by a prettly little child fell just short of its distance. The President stopped the carriage, got out and picked it up, amid tremendous shouts and ac clamations. That night there was a serenade and Mr. Davis spoke briefly from the window of tho hotel. He was at that time a very striking man in appearance, tall, lithe and graceful, straight as an In dian, dignified and reposed in manner, but without hauteur. His address on this occasion was extremely brief, scarely more than an acknowledgment for the en thusiastic welcome and a word of encour agement, but the President was a beauti ful speaker, the address was full of spirit, aud was received with the wildest enthu siasm. Senator Wigiall, of Texas, Gen. Henry A. Wise and others addresfed the crowd, and the evening was tar spent be fore tho city was quiet. MRS. DAVIS AND HER BEARINO. During the speaking Mrs. Davis was seen near the parlor window, when she was vociferously and persistently cheered until she advanced to the window, and acknowledged the compliment by bowing to tho immense concourse assembled to welcome her. No Presidential mansion in America was ever graced by a more brilliant woman than Mrs. Davis. She was of commanding height, with dark eyes, hair and complexion, aud with strongly matked and expressive mouth. It was a tine face, indicative of intellect, energy and strength of character, yet beautifully softened by the gentle ex pression of her dark, earnest eyes. Her manners were kind, graceful and affable, her conversational powers brilliant, and her receptions were characterized by a dignity very properly belonging to the drawing-room receptions of* tho Chief Magistrate of a republic. Her talent and accomplishments as a member of society was never displayed to greater advan tage than on the evening of February 22, 1803, that dark, rainy day on which Mr. Davis delivered in the Capitol Square the inaugural address of the permanent gov ernmental Richmond. It was a dark day indeed for us all. Roanoke Island had just been captured, Donelsou had fallen, and the President was doubtless depressed, but at the reception beld at the mansiou that evening his despondency was pain fully manifest in the uuusual gravity of his manner, while Mrs. Davis was never more brilliant or in braver spirits. TUB FIRST SHOCKS OF RATTLE. Not yet had we experienced the shock of contending armies, but we felt that, it was soon to come and were sonl-sick with apprehension. On the 10th- of Juno the first fight occurred at Bethel. The loss in infantry was one man, a gallant North Carolinian, Henry L. Wyatt, who was the first Confederate jail led on a baltlc- <«eld. Ou the 11th of July, in Western Virginia, the first Confederate officer of rank was Gen. Garnett, of Essex, Va. His body was brought to Richmond en route to his home, aud our hearts were hushed into a dread repose as we listened to the mourufnl music and ths muffied drum of this first Confederate funeral. On the 18th and 21st of July we received our first national baptism in blood on the fields of Bull Ruu and Manassas. The excitement in Richmond during the after noon of that memorable July 21 was not only intense, but serious. The dispatches were ot a most conflicting nature, and as twilight deepened into night the War De partment was thronged with eager and anxious inquirers. At length Mr. Benja min returned from the Spottswood Hotel and announced that Mrs. Davis had re ceived a telegram from the President de claring a victory. The telegram was promptly given to the press, and for the inomeut, as was natural, joy ruled the hour, but the demonstration was quiet; no bonfires were kindled, no bells rung, no cannon fired. The only national rec ognition of the event was the passago of a resolution by the Provisional Congress, recommending a thanksgiving service in the churches on the following Sabbath. By daybreak on the morning of the 22d the ladies of Richmond, in conjunc tion with the authorities, were preparing for the deail and wounded, and there was work for all. At that time wo had liter ally no hospital accommodations, but in stantly every house was thrown open aud every woman was ready and willing to nurse. Then and there was begun iu its magnitude that labor of love in the Southern hospitals in which it wa3 per mitted to the women of Richmond to dis play an earnestness and a self-sacrificing zeal than which no clime, or cause or country ever gave a grander exponent or displayed a more heroic love. The peo ple ot the North, in the midst of every comfort and appliance for the sick aud wounded, and with a rich government be hind them, cau never approximate to a knowledge of what this service iu the Southern hospitals required. If the sick and wounded in the Northern, hospitals suffered for want of care there is no ex cuse for it, but in the South how different was the picture. All that we could do from tho very start was wholly inadequate to the peed, and many is the noble hero who, stretched on his pallet of straw in Richmond, has breathed bis life away in agony tor the lack of human means to save it. Never can I forget the miseries of the summer of 1862, after a winter so mild as to afford no cropof ice. The suf fering consequent upon this terrible need can scarcely be depicted. It has its living witnesses iu the sufferers who survived, and iu the women and surgeons who be held it, but it is a picture which no pen nsr tongue could portray and which has not more than au ideal counterpart on the grand cauvass which Gustave Dore has made immortal with bis frozen sea of the “Inferno.” The next popular furore in social circles was knitting. Everybody had then old- fashioned needles and was knitting sol diers’s socks. The autumn was very gay and the first Christmas of the war was not without its good cheer. Previous to the war it was not the custom iu the South for ladies to hold receptions on New year’s Day. It was an uudispnted holiday for the servants, and the period of any change to be made in the domestic arrangements for the coming year; but it bad always beeu customary for the Gov- ernorof Virginia to hold a reception on that day, and Governor Letcher enter tained as usual on the 1st of January, 1802. There was no champagne, thanks to the blockade, but the giant punch bowl, redolent of roasted apples, betrayed the aristocratic toddy, and many of the participants were for the time being ob livious of their woes. THREE DAYS GIRT WITH ICE TIME HEREOD’&JESCAPE FROM A XORTH AT LAX TIC FLOE. WALL STREET’S INVALIDS. Drifting Into Peril In i snow Storm—Saved hr • Halk- bend—Steaming l.lOO Miles with 11 Feet or Water In the Held. Neto York Sun. The Danish steamship Hermod, Cap tain Hein, is at Pier 40, East River, with her forehold full of water. In the star board bow is a bole two feet Wide by four feet long, broken by Ice 1,100 miles from New York. Sbe left Havre ou March 30, and on Saturday afternoon, April 8, run into a northeast snow storm m latitude 40 de grees 80 minutes, longitude 40 degrees 60 minutes. “About 3 o’clock in the day,” said Chief Officer Lassen, yesterday, “we discovered on tho starboard side a field of ice, tbe limits of which to tho northward we could not discern. But, indeed, we could only see a little way from the vessel then, tbe snow was so thick. To keep away from tho ice, tbe vessel was headed southward aud we weut cautiously. At 7 o’clock in the evening the snow lightened up, and we saw that we bad been en trapped into a seemingly boundless field of floating ice. We tried our best to force a way out, but made little or no progress, and as darkness settled down upon us, bad to stop our engines aud wait for daylight. Fortunately, we bad got into an open space of considerable size, but wo did not know at what mo ment a movement of the ice might set in that would crush the Hermod like an egg shell. “There was no apparent change in our condition at daylight on Easter Sunday, except that it was not snowing. At noon we were in latitude 45 degrees 20 minutes, longitude about 48. Very soon ’.after noon the wind arose to a gale from the northeast, and the ice under the Influence of a heavy swell, got In motion. Much of the ice was very heavy, but here ana there were apparently thin places and narrow open places, practicable for a few minutes at a tins, and then closing, or opening out in new directions. Very slowly wo kept on, poking our way grad ually toward where we hoped to find a southern edge to the field. At some time, we could not tell when, tbe vessel got a shock or a pinch that started one of her plates, and at 4 o’clock that afternoon we found water m the forehold. The leak gained on the pumps, and by 7 o’clock In the evening it was up to the ’tween decks. The vessel settled so much by the head that her screw began to bo useless, and fearing that the pressure ol the water would burst through the main bulkhead, we set to work lightening her forward by heaving out cargo. At the same time, we did everything that was in our power to brace and; stiffen the bulkhead. We knew that if that main bulkhead should give way the vessel would very quickly sink, and with the faint hope of saving some lives in that contingency, the small boats were made ready. All this* w&3 done at night. It was a night oi darkness and constant terror,but not a man showed feir or fatigue. There never were braver or bitter sailors than our Scandinavian boys. “By 0 o’clock on the morning of the 10th wo had heaved overboard about 150 tons of cargo, mostly beans, yellow ochre, and something in casks, I don’t kuow what. We had no time to make any selection. If we had, those five big cases of sponges that we have hauled out since our arrival here would have left us that Monday morning, I think. Tho gale had in creased, and we seemed to be surrounded by icebergs that looked 1,000 feet long and from 500 to 60C feet high. I don’t say that they were that high, but I am willing to swear they looked all of that to us. Thanks to our work that night the steamer got her head up somewhat, and we could use our screw in making au ef- fortto reach some open water that we saw in the southwest. Again aud again we were foiled by ice closing in before us, and once by our propeller becoming in some way injured by the ice. At day light we could, not Irom the mast head make out any end to the ice field in any direction. It seemed to sur round and overtop us hopelessly. On tho ice we saw hundreds ol seals. When we got into a little open space of water, we lowered a couple of boats and spread the foretrysail over the leak, but it broke several times and was finally washed away. Then we got an awning of heavy canvass spread over it, and that stayed until it was torn to shreds. Meanwmle we kept on striving to make our way southward out ol the ice, and by noon on the 11th succeeded in doing so. We were then in latitude 44 degrees,longitude 49 degrees 20 minutes, say about 1,100 miles from New York, with eleven feet of water iu our forehold and a leak in our bow that was too much lor onr pumps. The distance to Halifax was much less, but the vessel in her crippled condition rolled too heavily in a cross sea for us to attempt that voyage. So the captain de cided tostiffeu ths main bulkhead as much more as possible and make tor New York For four days we had severe westerly gales. Then, fortunalely for us, tho weather became fine. The large fields of ice seemed to end in platitude 44 degrees 10 seconds.” Why Imr SmM sad Omntr Started •addMly Da Manh mt Health. Mr. Jay Gould’s ruling passion It not for legislative investigations, and hie heart goes out in such earnest sympathy to bis dear friends Westbrook and Ward that, unable to look calmly upon their sorrow, he has suddenly betaken himself to the far Sontfa, or the far West, there being two stories on the subject. And with Mr. Jay Gout4 has flown Mr. Jay Gonld’s next best friend, Mr. Washington E. Con nor. Bat Connor, less tender hesrteJ, perhaps, than Mr. Jay Gould, has satisfied bis sympathetic nature with a trip to the tea snore at Atlantic City. The average Wall street msn has laughed heartily at the expense of Gould and bis partner within the past week or so. When Mr. Gould and his man Morosini, two or three weeks ago, loaded down the desk in Mr. Gould’s private office with $53,000,000 of alleged securities for exhibition, Mr. Gould was in most vigorous health. Bo also was Connor. When Yanderbilt was billed to appear in the market as fellow unto Gould there was a strength in Gould and Connor which would have driven an athlete mad with envy, and as the market pegged up the scale day alter day Gould and Connor grew livelier and livelier. But of a sudden prices went all to smash, aud the pretty promises which Gould and his partners had made to their army of “friends” fell into Incongruous heaps of worthlessness. Men who had pinned Im plicit faith in Gould-Yanderbilt points be gan to swear with a healthy vehemence; the beats clawed the market to pieces, and on all sides was heard weeping, walling and gnashing of teeth. But this was not all that was beard. The announcement was promptly forthcoming that Mr. Wash ington E. Connor had suddenly fallen side. Just what was the matter with Washington nobody seemed to know precisely. One of his office people said ft was a “cold;” tbe same youth tbe next day was confident it was “worse than a cold—something very, very bad.” Mr. Morosini looked austere, and, with a sorrowful shake of the head, said that Mr. Connor bad been overcome by bard work—work against the wicked bears, work in the interest of the dear investing public. So that Connor escaped the racy interviews which some enter prising members of the stock exchange had carefully prepared for rapid utter ance. But the street failed to fully ap preciate tbe “racket” until next day. As the market slipped further down the scale it was announced that Mr. Gould also had been stricken and was receiving no calls except from his physicians. The brokers realized then that an occasional sick bed was a mighty good thing for a Wall street operator. The “physicians” who were admitted to the Gould mansion were men who knew more of Western Union and Pacific, market “rigging,” and price “washing” than they knew or pulse or pills or potions, aud Wallstreet was duly notified that Mr. Gould was the liveliest sick man in exis tence; and auti-Gould.folks were threat ened with all sorts of prospective punish ment. The tumble in prices, cried the Gould clacquers, came all through the sudden and. serious illness of Mr/Gould and Mr. Connor, sickness having obliged them for the time to stop short in their upholding ot the market. But the great men were almost ready to come forward, and the entertaining story was whispered iu office hallways that Mr. Gould had em phatically declared that before the mid dle of May prices would go away up be yond any point which had been touched In the “pegging” lime of thirty days or so ORIGIN AXD HISTORY ago. lie Sever Told HU Wile Cnlll Mr. B. L. Holt, who lives near Quitman, sent to M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, La., abont three weeks since in a letter a dollar biU. lie was advised by mail that his tick et had drawn $15,000 in the March draw ing of The Louisiana State Lottery, and ho drew his money by express. He was carefol to say nothing aboat it to his wife nntil he foand oat bo was a lucky man. This is the sixth time he has invested, and once before came within four or five num bers of the capital. Holt’s haul is a good one.—Marycille, Mo., Democrat, March 23. As a valuable remedy for indigestion, consumption, dyspepsia, weakness, fever, ague, etc., wo can recommend Golden s Liebig’s Liquid Extract of Bsef and Tonio A youko New Orleans artist, who has just entered Julian’s school of painting m Paris, semis home the following account of his initiation by the mob of jolly artists: “Alter a thousand impertinent remarks about tbe noveau they ali set to singing. Guo, with mauy salutations and ceremo nies, placed an easel where I could not see the model, and invited mo to set to work; asked my age, whether I was mar ried, etc., aud retired. Then another stepped up, bowing, and informed me it was customary for the noveau to pay for a punch. I agreed to do so. Then another stepped up aud begged the honor ot or dering it lor me, stating that 25 francs would be sufficient. 1 objected to paying so much, when he agreed to order one for 15. Meantime a vote was had to decide whether I should sing, and it was decided that I should not. Tbe hot punch came, and everyone was served. One mounted a stool and led tiie studio song: “A la sante du noveau.” They made a thun dering noise aud became very jolly and sociable with me—all touching glasses and wishing kind wishes. This was my initiation to the noisiest, nastiest set of grown-up boys, middle-aged aud white- haired boys that I ever met. They are very good-natured, full of nilrtn and wit, but of such a nasty sort as only Paris can create. Their mouths are never shut; they never say a serious thing or utter a refined sentiment. They are simply shockfog. Lately an American girl had tbe courage and nerve to enter the school for men. She drew from nude male and female models,and bore all the vulgarity and smoke of these Frenchmen, aud was soon lar ahead ol them with her brush. An auburn-haired English girl entered into this crowded room. She worked hard and appearea to hear noth ing.” Blit coincident with these pleasant bull prohecies, and just as the street was ready to welcome Gould and Connor back to No. SO Broadway, there came from Alba, ny the report that Mr. Gould’s jndical friends, Westbrook and Ward, were to be officially investigated, and that the Man hattan scandal’s true Inwardness given to the public. The regained strength of the big bulls suddenly departed once more, and Mr. Connor was sicker and Mr. Gould was sicker than they had ever thought of being in time past. And when it was made known that the investigation com mittee was Invested with power “to send for porsons and papers,” it became evident to thej Gould-Connor “physicians” that in the dark, noxious atmosphere of the metropolis neither of the great men could ever hope to regain his strength. Where fore Wall street is now notified that Mr. Gould has either started toward the sun ny South or the health-producing West, and Mr. Connor is to breathe tho bracing air ot Jersey marshes. How long Mr. Connor is to remain away, how long Mr. Gould is to remain away, are matters of which neither Iriends nor foes of cither great man know anything. In the interests of the sufferers it has been suggested by philanthropic gentlemen in Wall street that this health-destroying investigation commltteo hasten to an ad journment. A St. Louis special says: Jay Gould, wife and daughter, In compa ny with A. L. Hopkins, first vice presi dent of tho Wabash road, andH. F. Clark, superintendent of the Illinois division of the same line, arrived at the Southern hotel to-day, direct from New York. Their coming was unexpected at the house, the dispatch notifying the hotel of their intended visit and requesting apart ments not being received until a few hours before their appearand*. The par ty at once retired to tboir rooms, where they remained until dinner. That was followed by Mr. Gould and his family ta kiug a carriage for a drive to the princi pal points of Interest, returning between five and six o’clock. It is the first time Mrs. and Miss Gould could have been West, and they were desirous of having a full view of tho city. In tho evening, after tea in the ordinary with Mr. H. S. Hayes, senior vics- president of tho Gould system, Mr. Hop kins, and Mr. Clark, Mr. Gould gave an hour to the reception of several friends and acquaintances, during which time be was approached and questioned as to his route and business. “This is a pleasure trip only, and you will have to excuse me,” was his reply. “I left New York to get away from business and to have a lit tle pleasure trip over the road to show my family what ttere is to be seen. I am not even talking business with any of the officers of the road. Wo shall probably leave in tbe morning.” From Mr. Hayes it was learned that Mr. Gould bad not given tbe slightest ex pression as to his route or tho length of the time he intended to be away. The on ly thing Mr. Hayes said he had heard was that the party would continue their Jour ney to-morrow morning. As Mr. Gould bad said, ho seemed to do on a pleasure trip solely, and, so far his conversation was concerned, had no thought except of enjoyment. That Husband of Xlae. Is three times the man’ he was before he fly were temporarily provided for at the, rally, Inviaerator) in pint'bottles. Ask for Col- began using “Wells’ Health Henewor.’’ f 1. den's, lake no other. Of druggists gen- Druggists. Depot—Lamar, Rankin & lin den’s, lake no Beware ot Hnbstltnlw. The pubiio should bear in mind that im itations or substitute), ot a standard medi cine are offered., not toe any benefit to health, but to sell something that has been bought cheap; and not daring to criminate themselves by exact copies, their object is to get as near to it ns is necessary to de ceive. The remedy to detect frauds is in your own hands. Buy no Simmons Liver Regulator unless encased iu a whito wrap per having a large red Z in the centre and the signature of J. H. Zeilin & Co. on the side. Of lira Flats of Ike awiiMni federaey. Written for the Telegraph and Messenger. On the fourth of last month, twenty-one years had elapsed since the first flag of the Confederacy—the “etars and bars," was adopted by the Provisional Congress at Montgomery, and seventeen years the present month, have passed siuoe the laet Confederate flag and the battle flag were folded forever. Since the origin of these proud historic ensigns .a new generation, fully grown, has appeared upon the land where they onoe so triumphantly floated. At the request ot many young friends the writer hat promised to publish the history of these flags. The Congress of the seven States that first seceded assets bled in Montgomery, Ala., on the 4th of February, 1861, and formed a new constitution under the name of the Confederate States of America. After the election of a President and Vice President and the performance of many other acts, numer ous designs of a flag were made .y many persons—mostly the ladies—from several of the States and sent to tbe Congress for adoption. Congress appointed a commit tee, with the Hon. William Porcher Miles as chairman, to seleot a design for a flag. On tbe 4th of March the committee agreed upou the design, had the flag made, and at abont hair-past three o’clock p. m. of that day, when Mr. Lincoln had just concluded his first inaugural st Washington City, tbe “stars and bars”—the first flag of tbe Con federate States—was hoisted over the oipi- tol of Alabama, where the Congress of the young Republio was in session, and receiv ed an artillery salute of seven rounds. The writer was present on the ococsion. and he now reproducer a published record of the events from the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser of March 5,1861: mo or THE CONFEDERATE STATES. “The fourth day of March was an event ful day in the provisional capital of the Confederate States of America, as well as in Washington. At half-past three p. m., on yesterday, the flag of the Confederate States of America was flung ont to tbe bieeze from the staff on tbo capitol. and as its proud folds gradually uucl raed, it seem ed to wave defiance to the Northern wind that came rushing down from the Pc^smao laden with threats of abolition coercion. A large concourse of spectators had assem bled on capitol hill, andthe number wonld doubtless have been trjpRbd had it been pos sible to have given earlier announce ment of the ceremony. Miss L.O. T. Tyler, one of the fair descendants of the Old Do minion, and a grand-daughter Ot tho ven erable ex-President of the United States, had been selected to perform the principal jart upon this occasion. When the time md arived for raising the burner, Miss Tyler steadily and with heart throbbing with patriotio emotion, elevated the flag to the summit of the staff, cannon thun dered forth a salute, the vast assemblage rent the air with shouts of welcome, and the people of the South had for the first time a view of tbe Southern flag. Ere there was tijpe to take one hasty glance at the national ensign, the eyes were upturned to gaze at what would perhaps at any time have attracted unusual attention, but on this occasion seemed really a Providential omen. Scarcely had the first report from the salats died away, when a large and beautifully defined circle of blue vapor rose slowly over the assemblage of Southern spirits there assembled to vow allegiance to the Southern binner, rested for many seconds on a level with the flag of the Con federate Stales, then gradually asoended until lost to the gaze ot the multitude. It was a most beautiful and auspicious omen, those who look with an eye ot faith to the glorious future of onr confederacy, could not but believe that the same God that vouchsafed to the Christian Emperor the cross in the heavens as a promise of vic tory, had this day given to a young nation striving for liberty a divine augury of hope and national durability. “The fla r of tho Confederate States was the work of the committee appointed by Congrees, none of the designs sent by indi viduals as models having been thought suitable. It consists of three bars of red and white. The upper red, middle white, lower red. The lower bar extends the who'e width of the flag, and just above it, next to the staff on the npper left band corner of the flag, is a blue union with the seven stars in a circle. The design is sim ple, easily recognized and sufficiently dis tinct from the old Gridiron. Long may it wave over n free, prosperous and united P ^)rUhe 5th of March the following repo, t was made in Congress: Mb. Miles, of 8. G.—In consequence of having omitted to attend to the matter on yesterday, I beg leave to submit tbe follow. 1J “Tho committee appointed to select a proper flag for the Confederate States of America, beg leave to report: “That they have given this subject duo consideration, and carefully inspected all the designs and models submitted to thsm. The number of these h«s beeu immense, but they all may be dividod into two great cissies. First, Those which copy and pre serve the principal features of the United States flag, with slight and unimportant modifications. Secondly, Those which are very elaborate, complicated or fantastical. Tho obj'e -tion to the first class is that none of them at any considerable distanoe, could readily be distinguished from the ono which they imitate. What attachment may be felt, from association for “the etars and stripes*” (au attachment which your com mittee may be permitted to say they do not all share,) it is manifest that in inaugnr it- ing a new government, we cannot retain the flag of the government from which we have withdrawn, with any propriety, or without enoounterfog very obvious practi cal difficult es. There is bo propriety <a retaining the ensign of a government which, in the opinion of tbe States compos ing this Confederacy, had become so op pressive and injurious to their interests as to require their separation from it. It Is idle to talk of “keeping” the flag of the United States when we have voluntarily seceded from them. It Is anperflaoui to dwell upon the practical difficulties whieh wou’d now from the fact of two distinct and probably hostilo governments, both employing the same or very similar flags. It would be a political and military sole cism. It wonld produee endless confusion andmistakes. It wonld lead to perpetual disputes. As to “the glories of the old flag,” we must bear in mind that the bat tles of the revolution, about which our fondest and proudest memories cluster, were not bonght beneath its folds. And, although, in more recent times—in ths war of 1812, aud in the war with Mexico—the South did win her fair share of glory, and shed her lull measure of blood under Rs guidance and in its defence, we think the impartial page of history will preserve and commemorate the fact, more imperishably than a ipere piece of striped banting, when the colonies achieved their independence of the “mother conntry ’ (which up to the last they fondly called her,) they did not desire to retain the British flag or anything at all similar to it. Yet under that flag, they had been planted, and nurtured, ana fostered. Under that flag they had fought in their infancy for their very existence gainst more than one determined foe. Jnder it they hnd repelled and driven baolc the relentless savage, and carried it farther and further into the decreasing wilderness as the standard of civilization and religion* Under it the youthful Washington won his spurs in tho memorable and unfortunate expedition of Braddock, and Americans helped to plant it on the heights of Abra ham where the immortal Wolfe fell covered with glory in the arms of victory. But onr forefathers when they aepr sated themselves from Great Britain—a separation not on account of their hatred of the English ooa- stitntions aro of English institutions, bat in consequence of thet yrannical and uncon stitutional rule of Lord North’s adminis tration, and because then destiny beckoned them on to independent expansion and achievement—cast no lingering, regretful looks behind. They are proud of their race and lineage, proad of their heritage in the glories and genias, and language of old England, but they were influenced by tbe spirit of tbe motto of the great Hampden, “Veetigia nulla retronum.” They were determined to build up a new ivower among the nations of the world. They therefore did not attempt “to keep the old flag.” We think it good to Imitate them in this comparatively little matter, as well as to emulate them in greater and more important ones. “The committee in examining the repre sentations of tbe flags of all ocmntriee found that Liberia and tbe Sandwich Is lands hedaflaas so similar to that of the United jMtee,that it seemed to them an additiofm if not in itself a conclusive re i- son, why we should not “keep,” oopy, or imitate it. They felt no inclinations to bor row at seoond hsnd what bad been prefer red and appropriated by a free negro com munity and araoe of savages. It moit be admitted, however, that something was conceded by the committee to whsteoemid so strong and earnest a desire to retain at least a suggestion of tbe old “Stars and Stripes.” So much for the mass of models and designs, more or lew copied them, or assimilated to the United States flag. “With reference to tbe seoond clans of de signs—those of an elaborate and compli cated character—(but many of then shov ing considerable artistic skill and taste)— the committee will merely remark that, however prstty they ma^ be, when made of a fair lady’s up by the canning fingers la silk, satin nod embroidery, they are not appropriate as flags. A flag shoal i be simple, readily made, and, above all, capable of being made up in painting. It sbonld be different from tbe flag of any othar country, place or people. It shonld be readily distinguishable at a distance. The colors should be wall contrasted and durable. And, lastly, and not the least important point, it shonld be effective and handsome. “ihe committee humbly think that the flag which they submit oombines these requisites. It is very essy to make. It is entirely different from any national flag. The three oolors of which it i» composed- red, white and bluo—are tbe true republi can colors. In heraldry they are emblem atic of the three great virtues of valor, purity and truth. Naval men assure ns i bat it can be reoognized and distingnished at a great .distance- The oolors contrast admirab'y and are lasting. In effect and appearance it must speak for itself. “Your committee, therefore, recommend that the flag of the Confederate States of America shall oonsist of a red field with a white space extending horizontally through the centre, and equal in width to one-third the width or the flag. The red spaoes above and below to be of tho same width as the white. The union bine extending down through the white space and stop ping at the lower red space. In the centre of tbe union a circle of white etars cor responding in number with the States in the Confederacy. If adopted, long may it wave over a brave, a free and a virtuous people. May the career of the Confedera cy, whose dnty it will then be to sapport and defend it, be suoh as to endear it to onr children's children, as the flag of a loved, because a just aud benign, govern ment, and the cherished symbol of its valor, purity aneftruth. Respectfully aub- mitted. Wx. Bonanza Miles, Chairman. “Mb. Warn ees, of S. C.—I move that the whole of the report from the committee on the flag be entered upon the journals as having been presented on yesterday. “It was so ordered.” This flag was afterwards sent to General Beauregard at Charleston, with orders to be hoisted over the ramparts of Sumter in the event of the fall of that fort; but dur ing tbe excitement on the redaction of Fort Sumter tho Montgomery flag was mislaid. The Charleston Mercury ot April 14th, in its detailed description of the bombard ment and fall of the fort, contains the fol lowing paragraph: “The flag of the Confederate States and tho Palmetto wore raised on Fort Sumter simultaneously—the former by Col. Jones, chief of Gen. Boanregard’s staff, and CoL Fergoson. The flag of the Confederate States was manufactured in this city. It was the intention to have made use of the flag that was fln*t hoisted on the capitol, at Montgomery, but unfortunately it had been mislaid. The flag-staffs were about fifteen feet high, and were lashed to two of the big guns by Commodore Hart- s tone.” The first battle in which the standard of the Confederate States appeared was an nnpreeadented victory, ana in a response to a telegram from Washington city in quiring the sentiment in Montgomery, Ala., Jonce Hooper, the hu norous author, so'id editor and efficient clerk of Congress, telegraphed the curt answer: “Sumter is ours, and 'nobody hart.’ With mortar, paixhan and petard, we tender Old Abe onr beau regarde.” The writer has preserved thsso incidents in relation to the original stars and bars that they may appear on history's page. He has been unable to find any record of them in any published volume. He acknowl edges his indebtedness to Nathan M. Hodgkins, major of the Seoond Georgia Battalion at Macon, and a veteran himself in the Confederate army in Virginia, for the use of his neatly bound volumes of the Southern Historical Society Papers, pub lished by the Rev. J. William Jones, D. D., secretary. Richmond, Ya., for much of the information wrhich, in a condensed man ner, is now given, -together with material obtained from other reliable sources, of tho changes made in the flag and the oi of the “battle flag.” The battle flag wasoonceived on the field of battle and proudly borne on every field from Manassas to Texas. “It was not the flag of the Confederacy, but simply the banner—the battle flag or the Confederate soldier. As such it should not share in tbe condemnation which onr cause received, or snffer from its downfalL Thewhole world can unite in a chorus of praise to the gal lantry of the men who followed where their banner led.” It was the consequence of the difficulty, in tbe first battle of Manassas, of distinguishing tbe Federal oolors from onr own—the sitgilari^j, «rt a distanoa, of tho uniform and oolors carried by the Oppos ing armies and the olouds of dost made it almost impossible to decide. A column was seen at a distance by Generals Beaure gard aid Johnston, bnt ss the air was still they could not tell from the developing ool ors whether the oclumn was that of troops to reinforce the Rebels or Federate. Dar ing their anxiety a puff of wind spread tbo colors to the breeze and then was reoog nized as the Confederate flag—the stars and bars! The'mysterious column was Ear ly’s brigade, ooming from the right to the help of Beauregard. Gr iers were soon changed andrin an hour afterwards not an enemy was seen sooth of Bull Bun. It was here that Gen. Beauregard determined that the Confederate soldi jr must have a flag that would never again endanger his caose on the field of battle, and soon after the battle he consulted with Col. Wm. Porcher Miles, who had served on his staff daring the day, and proposed a flag with blue field, red bars crossed and gold stars. Col. Miles thought the arrangement con trary to the laws ot heraldry and proposed that the ground should be red, the bars blue and the stars white. The change was ap proved by both Beauregard and Johnston, and all of the officers at headquarters. The flag was submitted to the war De partment and approved. The case is sim ilar to that of St. Andrews. The first three battle-dags received were made from ladies’ dresses by the Misses Carey, of Baltimore and Alexandria, and presented respectively to Generals Joe Johnston Beauregard and Van Dorn. The stars and bars continued to be used over arsenals, all other pubiio bnildings and on vessels, until the flag was aban doned by Congress It was found_ that it too greatly, especially when drooping, as similated the stars and stripes, and par ticularly on a calm day at sea. On May 1st, 18(55, Congress adopted the following la That the flag of the Confederate States shall be as follows: The field to be white, the length the doubis width of tbe nag, with the Union (now used as the battle flag) to ba a square of two-thirds the wulth of the flag, having the ground red; thereon a broad saltier of bine bordered with white, and emblazoned with white mullets or five-pointed stais, corresponding in number to that of tho Confederate States. The model of this new flag, which was a very large and elegant one, was mace un- Clerk of the Boom of Representatives, and w«s intended to be unfurled from the roof of the capitol at Richmond, on Mon day, the 11th of Mar; bnt it bad a more honorable, though lamentable, ferries to perform. The remains of Stonewall Jackson, who expired on that mourn ful Sunday, tbe 10th of Mar, were taken to Richmond on the lltb, ana before they were fully prepared for the tomb, Presi dent Davis directed CoL Lamar to send the new flag as the gift of tbe country to be the winding sheet of the filostrioua dead. While the government shrouded the oorp»e with the flag of her country, the women vhronded the coffin with crxotioa and baptized them with their tears. The third and last flag of the Confeder acy, not in rinding Um> battle flag, was de signed by Major Arthur L. Rogers, while disabled for active dnty, in February 1865, and was adopted by an act of Coagrees, to-wit: That the flag of the Confederate States shall be as follows: the width two- thirds of its length, with the Union (now as the battle flag,) to be in width three-fifths of the width of the flag, and so proportioned as to leave the length of the field on tbe side of the Union twice the width of the field below it; to have tho ground red, and a broad blue saltier there on, bordered with white and emblazoned with mullets or five-pointed stars, ms. a;K>uding iu number to that of the Confed erate State#: the field to be white, exoept the outer half from tbe. Union to be a red bar extending the width of the flag.” • The objections to the second flag were that it was not properly proportioned; that it contlined too much whits and, when drooping, was liable to be taken for a flag of truce. It was claimed for the laet flag that “it gives correctness of proportion, distinctness and character, renders it fit for practical use and presents a beautiful standard, which, under no circcmsianoee, can be mistaken for a flag of truoe, or for tbe flag of any other nation on earth. It relieves the flsg < t its pale faced appear ance and makes it look more martial. This, the last flag of the Confederacy, bad bnt two months existence, os it was adopted by Congress in February, and it, with the war-worn battle flag, was folded from the world, exoept in song and story, in the following month of April. J.E.B. How He Come to Kill HU Wife. Hartford Conrant. It is not often that a more remarkable story Is heard in a coiut-roxn than was told last week by Lawyer C. J. Lansing, oi Eureka Nevada, on trial for killing his wife. When he took the witness stand the grief on hu face hushed the bar and spectators into a pitying silence. He began by saying that he had consented to say what he would have to say about the dead only upon tbe urgent requirement of bis counsel,and for the sake of bis daugh ter. Then ho gave the juty tbe history of . his married iifo. Ever since 1864 it had been, he said, wretched in all ways. His wife took to liquor. She was a powerful womin—fully his equal In strength. When drank she was violent, ferocious. SUt! repeatedly attacKed him, threatening to kill him, and as be believed at tbe tune meaning to carry out her threat. Sbe threw stones at his head, poured boiling water on bim, and tried on several occa sions to stab him with the carving knife, once at least drawing blood. She followed bim into court,making such a disturbance that the police had to removaherby force. She bum Into bis office and beat him over tbe bead with a rawhide until tbe blood streamed down his face. She beat bis little daughter with at iron poker. “I felt like luittog loose all bolds,” be said, “aud I drank heavily, too.” Once or twice he decided to leave her; once he bought poison, and was on tbe point of swallowing It when he thought of bis daughter aud threw it away. Last year mattere grew worse, until a night came when be did not dare to sleep under the same roofwitb her, and called In a neighbor. They tied her wrists and ankles with silk handkerchiefs. “Fit kill you for this, sure,” she screamed. At daylight she promised to behave and tbey unbound her. At her request he sent out for two bottles of champagne for her to “sober upon.” He wandered about all day, shunning bis acquaintances, trying to straighten himself up. “I could not be still in “any place,” he said. “I could neither stand up nor sit down—had to walk all the time.” At dusk he went hone. The Chinaman had finished hit work and gone for the night. His wile came through the kitchen aud went down cellar, as he supposed to get whisky; “she often hid a bottle down there.” On her coming up he spoke ol going down town. “Yon —,” she screamed, “I’m fixed for { ou, and* you shan’t leave this honheJP’ "4 11 ■'f [e tried the door; it was locked. He turned aroand, bis wife wav right in front of him, her hand pressed to her hip. “I’ll kill you. I’ll kill you,” she cried. In a frenzy of utter nervousness and terror he caught up something—it was a kit than chair—aud struck her. He s»w her lying at his feet. Then he found hifoaelf out in the street—ha b» no recollection of how he cot there—looking up a', the dark, windows oi his neighbor’s house and aa« riding not to wake film Up. Then all is j„ a [ tl j a hit mind until a later hour, when he was standing in front of thesheritt aud uttering the words: “I have killed my wife.” The Jury were out twenty minutes, and when they came in their verdict was “Not guilty.” COLOXIZZXG AFRICA. A Church VeellMC ’.to Forward tbo Needing pf Colored Mess to 14-^ lipid. The meeting held in the Brick Chureh In Fifth avenue last night topromolethe opening of Africa to commerce, civiliza tion and Christianity, was opened by tbe singing of Bishop Heberts missionary byrnu*. From Greenland's icy mountains, From India’s coral strand. Where Afric's sunny fountains Boll down their golden sands. William E. Dodge, who presided, said that they had met solely in tho interests of the American Colonization Society, which has been in existence for over fitly years. Tbe fatal climate of Africa had practically closed the conntry to the whiteman, but now many colored men are showing a disposition to educate themselves, and the Colonization Society finds foritself a bow work In providing means tu send colored missionaries there. _ . The Rev. Dr. R. S. Storrs, or Brook lyn, said that it was putting a slight upon the colored people or the United States to assume that they were t ,er to share with the whites civil and religious liberty, but ho understood that now half a million colored people were eager to cross the At lantic to labor among their ancestors, if only the means can bo supplied. Tho greatness of ths field has only been ap preciated within the past few years. Be sides a large country and a numerous population, there are inexhaustible min eral resources. It is a country which the commerce of the world is to take hold of and develop within the next half cen tury. The question Is, Shall Christianity go with commerce and get permanent lodgement there ? The Rev. Thomas G. Aadiaon, of Washington, said that the hour had now come tor new effort in Africa. Where hundreds of dollars have beeu given, thousands arc now asked for. The so ciety had established in Liberia a free republican government, and it was re- I ported to be flourishing, aud promising large results. It was said also that it was easy there not only to secure a living, but I to accumulate wealth. .zWH'' ■HB