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About Gallaher's independent. (Quitman, Ga.) 1874-1875 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1874)
GALLAHER’S INDEPENDENT, PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT QUITMAN, O .V. , by J. C. GALLAHER. tkhmh or scbuchiption > TWO DOLLA RS per Annum in A drone* OUR KATE'S WEDDING. BY a. VK B. When Herman Gross came home from Germany, where he bud completed his studies, and the new sign with “H. Grow, M. D.,” was hung out on the window shat ter, all the young girts iu town went wild ■over his advent, “Such eyes ! Such a fig ure t Such a manner 1” they cried, while the old girls said litUe, bat many grew suddenly indisposed, and needed medical attendance 1 Later, when both young and old discovered to their keen disappoint ment, how little the new-couier cared for | flirtation, in its geaem* sense, they became the more eager for his attention; for the ■unattainable is preeaxis fc mankind, und maddening hs gilts'! Things eteod in this manner, the girls ■all "pidtrng caps” (and each other’s ears) Iforfliß “Herr Doctor,” and he calmly, coolly and composedly lookiug on at the toumameut of “Caps aud Belles, , when, \ just after Christmas times, it was an nounced by the doctor's sister that “Her-1 mm was to marry hate Hiller iu the spring, aud take her to Europe on a wed- I ding tear 3” A tidal wave of wonder swept over the ■community at this startling ! piece of news. “Where could he ! How j did she! Why did he !” were the breath less questions t hat surged far and near. And when the plain, true answer came fol lowing back on the ebb of the disturbing tide, tliat it all happened through the machinations of a little blind boy, Love ibj name, the young girls determined to Jurat up this same enfant terrible, while the old girls sickened again hut needed no medical assistance this time. Some of the married people even “talked, aud said his marrying was “extravagant,’ and a transatlantic tour “insane 1” But Her man Gross was neither the Ol *e nor the other, and when lie asked for oar Kate, he proved to the mother that be was not only in a position to marry and take ft wife to Europe, but to take eare of her excellently well while there, and ever after; aud (hid ing that she could not demur on that •score, the mother promised him our Kate’s hand, for he already held her heart. It was finally settled for the early Rum mer, as Hernnru was to accompany a com mittee of physicians who were going abroad concerning some scientific subject, , at that time, and so after the soft April j :ftbower hud kissed the frost-bitten ground, j wild the warm May sunshine had coaxed ! out the blossoms, June eunie with all her sweet summer airs, aud fiow'ers, and lusci ous fruits, and it was then we had “Our hfte’a Wedding.” Every one declared .afterward that it Was the very loveliest ot weddings. We girls had agreed, long j ago, when we had dreamed of the possible future—as all girls have a habit of doing j —H w t when the “time” came no on. : ■should do a thing toward it but’ourselves. ’ Therefore, five pair of hands did a great j steal of work in a short.space of time. I'ui weeks there was a rattling of machines and • zme-rrytougues; for days there was wonder- Jfui beatings aud stirring going ou down iin the kitchen, and finally a general re .freshing, reflutiug, anti re-ribboning, of •curtains and drapery, and “the day nr-j rived. Early that morning, after we had arranged the parlors, each one declared ' that ‘‘it couldn't look prettier 1 i\ itel'- ever a flower could be, a cluster bloomed. We took off the piuuo cover, und in the centre, and on each four corners we placed shells, and filled their great white scal loped mouth with blossoms, which wen all reflected back from its polished surface, as from the bosom of some woodland lake. On every bracket a bouquet breathed out incense for the bride, of rose and lily-sy ringa, and jessamii e, and it was a very bower of Eden. The minutes seemed to fly away that, morning (“on the wings of love,” Fan de clared) and it soon grew time to hurry to the mother’s room, where we were to dress our bride. We all helped at the ‘ ‘grande toilette," Nell brushed and curled and coiled the soft brown hair; Fan lanced the little white boots; Lue looked up the long white drapery with lilies of the valley and orange buds. Someone knocked at the door at last, saying that “Herman and minister were waiting.”' Then, as Nell hurried to place on the Veil and wreath, Kate put out her hands, crying, “No, the mother,” and turning to where she sat watching us with dim eyes, Kate knelt at her feet, and in half broken sentences asked pardon for her child-hood's willful fun Its ami follies, now failing into the post, and dimmed already by the glorious light of wife and mother hood dawning in the distant future ! The mother fastened on bet bridal-wreath, and asked a blessing. Then we all kissed one another, and went down. Wo Lad no groomsmen. Only we girls stood; Kate said it should be so, and Her man assented. The parlors were filled, and tlis rooms seemed to swim in a deli cious sea of pretty flowers and faces,as we entered. The doors were wide open; and Dick, the canary, who hung out in the ball, sang loudly all through tlie ceremony. ■When the minister asked, “Who giveth this woman to be this man's wife ?” Gyp. our little tau terrier, started up somewhere, .and gave out one little shrill bark. Fan's white shoulders at this began to shake, but uncle Perry stepping forward and an swering quickly, and Doctor Cheevea’s going immediately on, there was a check to the little ripple of smiles that thratened to break out into wavelets of nervous laughter. When it was all through, and everybody had shaken Hermen’s poor hand, and kissed our Kate, and called her “Mrs. Gross,” and seen her dimples come out to laugh at the strauge new name, Fan came rushing up with Gyp struggling in Tier armes, and said to Herman, “There, thank him, brother in-law, for you wife !” We all had our laugh quite out then, and ■Gyp was “engaged” for several weddings ahead. We were rewarded for rmr “heatings and stirrings” and aching wrists, when every body said our table was “so beautiful. ” The cakes were all wreathed and gar landed with flowers, the jellies one could “see through,” aud aH were as delicious to the palate as they were to the eye. When the “wedding cake” was cut, and Kate helped each girl, and Herman each young gentleman to a slice, the girls all began to crumble their pieces up quite mysteriously which curious way of dispos ing of bride's cake was fully explained to the gentlemen later, when Fan cried out joyously, “Oh, look ! it’s me ! and, sure enough, she had the ring! A hearty laugh followed her evident delight over the|pros pect of being the next bride, add it was considered a joke, with three elder sisters, and ton times three more marriageable girts in the room! We hoard the carriage VOL. I. rattling outside, and Herman began to consult his watch after the usual impatient manner of bridegrooms—is it because on such occasions they are of only secondary consideration, aud want to hurry away from the scene ? All the girls went np with Kate, to help her change her white dress for the pretty traveling suit of dove color, and though we sisters laughed and chattered with the rest, we felt a numb pain at our hearts when we remembered the “How long before we should be together again and the “Never more” that was already soun ding through the vacant olmmber of our girl digvs ! When all were dressed and ready, 'Kate looked all through the old rooms where we had slept aud risen together all our lives, and with a trem bling voice he said, half smiling, “Good bye, sweet home; Good bye, girlhood; Good bye!’’ The trunks were on the carriage; kisses were given; good wishes uttered; some prayers went up to Heaven for the happy uew life started; aud soon they rode away. Nora threw the slipper after the carriage, crying, “und sure an, we will kape the mate for Miss Fan !” Then the guests all departed, and we were alone again. \Ve looked at one another with tearful eyes, and then the mother smiled a little sadly, saying, “It is but right, so ldid; so will her dangters do some day !” And though we all never would leave the dear, mother, she shook her head and looked iineredulous. A Shadow of the Future. The political prospect just now is very perplexing, aud the outlook, to the ordi nary navigator, is far from pleasent. Hugh, ill-defined electrical masses are gathering like clouds we often see in the n est aud south whence come the cyclone and the hurricane, aud no one can say when it will burst. Actual, old-fashioned organizations with such a trembling weather gunge had better tend down their light spars, batten their hatchets aud make everything very snug. Drop ping nautical illustration, it is clear that we are oil the edge of a great crisis. At Gen. Graut’s second inauguratory, nay, even as recently as the beginning of the present Congress, who would have suid that there was any clmnc-e, on a question of economy, ot the formation of anew party quite as sectional as ever existed in the days of slavery aud abolition ? Doctrine is the parent of all intolerance, and there is no philosophical reason why economy should not have its fanaticism as well as religion and philanthropy. We see many signs of initiate intolerance. No one will question our fidelity, aud we think the fidelity ol tins community to the principles oi com mon honesty and good laith as to the paper currency and the public debt. !\ e ave K)>nken # very decisively on the suh j et; hut w, are ! y no menus clear that a is the part of good policy just yet for our more Northern and Eastern friends to use quite so strong language of personal den unci: ion as they have begun to do on this subject. We regret as much as they do that any of our Southern Democratic friends in Congress should be infected by the heresy of inflation. Hut we are not prepared to denounce as “traitors” and “cowards” such men as Gordon and Goldt.iwuite and Alerrimon und Norwood. One smiles indeed at "coward” as applied to John B. Gordon. But let this pass. We can perfectly understand, in the desolate ami desperate condition of the reconstructed South, that these gentlemen may honestly err. We credit them with better motives than Morton and Logan, to say nothing of Butler. UnjuC’y to denounce Southern Democratic statesmen lor mere error of judgment is to cut the feeble strands which bind them to Democ racy. Be all this as it may, the new com l)i nation a of a “cheap money party" and a “hard money party” are looming up. That the former is doomed to ruin by the operation of rules, just as certain as those which govern the planets, we religiously believe. But we dread, and do not presume to measure its transient and mis chievous vitality. There is no difficulty in its local extent, and, we fear, its early triumphs. Look at it for a moment geographically. The party that holds to hard money and honesty as to public credit would be limited to New England, New York, Delaware and Maryland, and possibly, under its new administration, Virginia. All the rest in the great Wes tern sweep, with two exceptions round from North Carolina to Oregon and back again to the Ohio, would be one great surging mass of inflationists. California and Nevada would be as powerless to resist as the former was beyond its limits jto arrest the flood of paper in the war. | Pennsylvania and New Jersey, now slaves i to the railroad ring, would join the dread army. Who can doubt the temporary [ result ? That the compact capital and iuteligence of the Atlantic seaboard com- I munities would struggle herd against such , combinations we do not doubt. But the issue, the pestilent result, is so for within the range of possibility that we may be pardoned for contemplating that possibility with alarm.— Baltimore Gazette. A Race of Men Who have not yet Learned to Talk On the Island of Borneo has been found a certain race of wild creatnres, of which kindred varietes have been discovered in the Philippine Island, Terradel Fuege. and in South America. They walk usually, almost erect on two legs, and that atitude measure about four feet in height. They construct no habitations, form no families scarcely associate together, sleep in caves, feed on snakes and vermin, on ants’ eggs, and on each other. They can not be tamed or forced to any labor, and are hunted aud shot among the trees like the great gorilla, of which they arc a stunted copy. When captured alive one finds with surprise that their uncountable jabbering sounds are like articulate lan guage. They turn up a human face to gaze at their captors, and females show instincts of modesty. In fine, these wretched beings are men and women.— Siam Advertiser. Selfishness. —lt issaid selfishness has no soul; that it is a heart stone encased in iron. Though the spirit of selfishness aims to grasp all, there is, in reality noth ing so self-sacrificing. It robs its own grave; mortgages its own bones, and sells its own soul. The man who is all for him self, is no better to himself than a suicide. He perils all the future for the present grat ification; he borrows pleasure at an exor bitant rate of usury, and pays by immola tion of himself, body and soul.. QUITMAN, GA., SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1874. [From the New York Tribune.] A FEMALE STRATEGIST. Mlm Anna Ellen Carroll** Claim to Hav ing llroken the Power of the Con federacy In the Southwe.t. This year, hh for several years past. Miss Anna Ellen Oarroll cornea before Congress with her claim for compensation for ser vices rendered during the civil war. For a while tins claim was laughed at on general principles, because Miss Carroll was a wo man. Afterwards it was frowned upon, as disrespectful in its essence to some of our great captains. But it gathered strength and consistency all the while, until at last it obtained the suffrages of many Congressmen and the favorable re port of a committee. It is by no means impossible that it may yet bo recognized by considerable parties in both houses, aud even that Miss Carroll may some day obtain the compensation sho asks. Her claim is certainly au extraordinary one. She asserts and assumes to prove that she originated and suggested to the Govern uieut the plan for opening the Mississippi aud breaking the rebel power in the Southwest, which was finally adopted and carried out. She claims to have made out a detailed plan of the campaign in which our armies ascended the Tennessee river to the decisive position which they occupied on the Memphis and Charleston railroad. She claims further to have writ ten an important series of papers on the rebellion, for which the War Department promised her u compensation which she lias not received. The latter claim is not so serious, and will scarcely hold, but the proofs she brings to sustain hej assertions in relation to the Tennessee campuigu are of a cliaraoter which it is almost equally difficult to admit or to deny. The Hon. Thomas A. Scott, Assistant Secretary of War, certifies to tin-justice of the claim iu the most positive and unqual ified terms. His statement is worth giv ing in his own words: Prtn.ADEi.rmA, June 24,1870. On or about the 30tli of November, 1861, M iss Carroll, as stated in her memorial, called on me, as Assistant Secretary of War, aud suggested the propriety of aban doning the expedition which was then preparing to descend the Mississippi river, and to adopt instead the Tennessee river, aud handed to me the plan of campaign, as appended to her memorial, which plan I submitted to the Secretary of War, and its general ideas were adopted. On my return from the Southwest in 1862, 1 in formed Miss Carroll, as she states in her memorial, that through the adoption of this plan the country had been saved mil lions, and that it entitled lier to the kind consideration of Congress. Thomas A. Soorr. Col. Scott repeats this unreserved decla ration in two or three different forms. The Hon. B. F. Wade isequally emphatic. He says that President Lincoln and Mr. Stanton both informed him that the credit of the Tennessee campaign was due to Miss Carroll. The Hon. O. H. Browning, Senator from Illinois, gives the same ev idence with equal distinctness. Chief Jus tice Evans, of the Supreme Court of Texas, goes farther into details, giving the case of the memorialist far more fully and strongly than she presents it herself. The venera ble Elisha Whittlesey joins in the same representations. Such legal authorities as lteverdy Johnson and Truman Smith say that the evidence is complete in Iter favor. Finally, the Military Committee of the Senate in XLlst Congress, after maturely weighing the case, reported through their chairman, Senator Howard, of Michigan, that Miss Carroll had established her claim. The case thus supported is one of the most remarkable ones which have ever come before the National Legislature. The decision is of importance to more than the memorialist. If it is in her favor, the country will, of course, give her ungrudg ingly the compensation she deserves, al though others have already been munifi cently paid in money atiil glory for the work she claims to have done. Taking Off the Shoes. In Syria the people never take off their caps or turbans when entering a house or visiting a friend, but they always leave their shoes at the door. The reason is that the floors are covered with clean mats and rugs, and in the Moslem houses the men kneel on the rugs to pray, and press their foreheads to the floor, so that it would not be decent or respectful to wa k in with dirty shoes and soil the sijjady on which they kneel to pray. They have no footmat or scrapers, and it is much cheaper and simpler to leave the shoes, dirt and all, at the door. It is very curious to go to Syrian school houses and see the piles of boots and shoes at the door. There are new, bright red shoes, and old tattered ones, and kob kobs and black shoes, and sometimes yel low shoes. The kob-kobs are wooden clogs, made to raise the feet out of the mud and water, having a little strap over the toe to keep it on the foot. You will often see little boys and girls running down the steps and paved streets on these dangerous kob-kobs. Sometimes they slip aud then down they go on their noses, and the kob-kobs fly off and go rattling over the stones, and little AH or Yusef, or whatever his name is begins to shout, “Yu Imme ! Yalmme !” “Oh, my mother!” and cries just like little children in other couu tries. But the funiest part is to see the boys j when they come out of school and try to , find their shoes. There will be fifty boys, , and of course a hundred shoes, all mixed together in one pile. When the school is out the boys make a rush for the door. Then comes the tug of war. A dozen boys are standing aud shuffling on the pile of shoes, looking down, kicking away the other shoes, running their toes into their own, stumbling over the kob-kobs, and then making a dash to get out of the crowd. I Sometimes shins will be kicked, and hair; pulled, and tar booshes thrown off, and a great screaming follow, which will only cease when the teacher comes with “Asa, or a stick, and quells the riot. That pile of shoes will have to answer for a good many school-boy tights and bruised noses and hard feelings in Syria. You will won der how they can tell their own shoes. So do I. And the boys often wear off each other’s shoes by mistake or on purpose, and then you will see Selim running with one shoe on and one of Ibrahim’s in his hand shouting and cursing Ibrahim’s father and grandfather until he gets back bis lost property. The ll 'vm'in of die . Arabs, [From the Atlanta Countitution.] HON. BENJAMIN H. HILL. Ilia Reply to Mr. Dtrphrm Atlanta, Ga., April 21, 1874. Editors Constitution: On my return from Twiggs Court, 1 find the letter from Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, dated April 11th, and being number 1 of a promised series, purporting to review the address delivered by me before the Southern Historical Society. With the bad temper and worse language of this letter, 1 do not now pro pose to deal; nor will I allow myself to imitate either, except to fix upon the gentle man his own epithets. Mr. Stephens tenders a direot issue of veracity upon facts, and leaving for the present all other questions involved, I advance promptly and accept that issue. If l have been guilty of the charge which he makes of stating what I did not know and could not know, then I deserve all the denunciation which this enraged gentle man has employed, and shall confess that I ought not to be believed in any matter whatever. On the other hand, il Mr. Ste phens has stated positively and repeatedly what is false, and wliut he was bound to know was false, then he is shown to be utterly unworthy of credit—liis Dock of foul epithets must return home to roost singing their wild “carmagnole,” and whether his falsehoods originate in an imbecility or an evil nature, I will, in charity, leave for him aud his friends to determine. He quotes from the address as follows: “The full history of the Hampton Roads Commission and Conference, haß never been written. I will not give that history now. Much has been said aud published on the subject which is not true. I know why each member of that commission, ou our part, was selected. 1 received from Air. Davis’ ow n lips, a full account of the conversation between him and tho com missioners, before their departure from Richmond.” This paragraph is correctly quoted by Air. Stephens except iu one particular. In the address, as printed, there is a com ma after the words “conversation.” This sentence of the paragraph is twice quoted by Air. Stephens—tlie last time it is italicised, mid both times tlie comma is omit ted. I was allowing that Mr. Davis gave the commissioners no written instructions, but held a conversation with them before atid preparatory to tlieir departure from Richmond. He gave me an account of that conversation afterwards, but whether before or after the departure of the com missioners was wholly immaterial, tuid was not stated. Hut to give force to the charge of untruth which was to follow, Mr. Stephens thought it important to make mo cay the account of the conversa tion was given to me before tlieir depart ure, and why should a comma stand in the way of this boasted paragon of truth and accuracy ? However men may differ as to the mints of otlior achievements by this wonderful mail, it must be conceded by friends and foes alike for all time, that he did certainly effectually, and most gal lantly demolish the comma and it is not on reci rl that either Barerc or Munchau sen ever performed that feat! But, after all, this demolition will prove to have been very unnecessary. It was | preparatory to his main charge, and this I main charge 1 will show is utterly false | whether the comma be in or out, und j whether the word “before” refers to the | conversation, or the “account” of it. So j tlio comma is a small matter and 1 let it pass. I After making liis preparations Mr. Stephens proceeds to his main charge in Barere’s favorite style, thus: "The shameless impudence and reck lessness of this statement could not possibly have been exceeded by Barere. * # *■ ].t is utterly impossible that Mr. I Hill could have known what he says he ] knew or received from Mr. Davis what he j says he received from him. Mr. Hill was : not in Richmond during the time the sub ject of the commission, or the appoint { ment of commissioners was under consid -1 elation by Air. Davis. He had left that | city before the conference or commission i ers had been determined upon by Air. ! Davis. * * * . * j * * Mr. Hill, at this time, was in Geor i gia, and did not return to Richmond be | fore the general surrender. With what amazing effrontery, then, does he now af firm as an historical truth that he knew' “why each member of the commission, on our part, was selected, and that “he re ceived from Mr. Davis’ own lips a full ac count of the conversation between himself and the commissioners, before their de parture from Richmond. Well, if Mr. Stephens has told the truth I plead guilty of the most amazing effrontery. I will ask no mercy, and accept no pardon. When I delivered the address I did not know Mr. Davis had left for Europe. I expected he would see, at least, ah account of the address in a few days. And if, in a public speech on such an occasion, aud on such a subject, I have made false state ments of fact—and especially have repre sented myself as having had a conservation with Mr. Davis, which I did not have, which I could not have had, and when he was in Richmond, and I was in Georgia, then, in the language of one of his silly anonymous echoes in this city, “Mr. Stephens has floored his antagonist” and I will confess that “I am a liar and the truth is not in me.” But if Mr. Stphens has not told the truth, what then? Who, then, shall wear the epi thets “shamelessness,” “impudence,” “ef frontery,” “shameless- facedness,” etc., etc.; who, then, has exceeded Barere and Munchausen combined V If he has told the truth, I accept infamy. If he has told a falsehood he must take the same penalty, will not a truth-loving people say this is fair, equal aud just V Now, I stand before the public responsible, on pain of infamy, to make good the following statement of facts: I was not in Kichmod during oil the time | “the subject of the commission and the ! appointment of the commissioners was un- S der consideration by Mr. Davis,” but Mr. Stephens knew I was there, saw me almost ; daily, talked with me, knew the interest I ! took in the commission, and could not \ have forgotten these facts unless he has ; become imbecile indeed. I was at the I man’s room aud told him that I should in sist on his appointmeut, on the Peace ! Commission. It was at my earnest instance that Mr. | Davis consented to his appointment, and this Was all done before Mr. Hunter noti tied him of Mr. Davis’ desire to see him at 12 o’clock M. on the 27th of January. Stilt further, I had promised to go to I Georgia on a special mission and at Mr. ■ Davis’s special request. For this very I mission Mr. Davis deemed it important j that I should know all about the progress, prospect and results of the commission. The commissioners-left Richmond on Sunday, the 29th of January. I remained in Richmond, before leaving for Georgia, to ascertain if our commissioners would bo received by the other side, aud at what place, and to confer with whom. On Fri day morning, the 3d of February, Mr. Davis received dispatches making known that our commissioners were going to Hampton Hoads, and not Washington, and that Messrs. Lincoln and Seward would meet them. I spent much of the morning of Friday the fid with Mr. Davis, and received from his own lips all I have stated in the address, and much more pre paratory to leaving for Georgia. And then, with the assurance from Mr. Davis that he would himself send me a telegram to Macon announcing the result of the conference, I took leave of him and came to Georgia, and received the promised telegram on my arrive! at Macon. The conference, in fact, took place on the 3d, and 1 heard the result through the press before getting to Macon. Air. Stephens lias made more boastful pretensions to accuracy than any public man in my knowledge. His flatterers are all tutored like parrots to repeat these pretensions. He is, in truth, tho most artfully inaccu rate and unfair man I over met or heard in discussion. Ou this particular issue of veracity which he has chosen to make on me, and to repeat with a real “carmagnole” of epithets, 1 raise the black flag, and will neither give nor take quarter. If tho public incline to think I press Mr. Ste phens too heavily, my reason is that there is a purpose, scope and malice in the issue of veracity made upon me which the public do not suspect, but which I fully under stand. It has also a public significance which time will develop. Ml'. Stephens consents to lead offitia fierce “carmagnole” and a troop of according anonymous scrib blers reinforced by certain editors, are to take up the reckless refrain. The same conspirators lave engaged in the same work on several occasions during the last three years. The pretences that there are unkind allusions in the address to mem bers of the Georgia delegation in Congress as “negroes, knaves or imbeciles,’' are too ludicrous to need notice. In that delegation are some of my most personal friends, aud 1 do not believe that there is one among them, besides Air. Stephens, who would protend that such allusions ap plied. or were intended to him. Every statement of fact in the address is true, and I will return to the subject on its merits hereafter. But for the present J address myself to this issue of veracity in the most positive form iu which it lias been made, and 1 meet the icredited leader of the slanderous tribe at the very threshold, und charge back upon him the guilt of falsehood in fact, lie so vauntingly prefers against me, and insist that I ho issue thus made shall tolerate no solution but proof, retraction or infnni/. Bi:kj. H. Hill. Doubt and Faith Contrasted. Doubt disintegrates, disperses, repels. Faith attracts and knits together. It acts as a kind of center of gravitation in the planetary system of things ideal, controll ing the most erratic orbits; .standing to the intellect in much the same overmastering relation that (Iressidn’s love stood to all her other feelings, when she declares— “My love Tb as the very center of the earth Drawing ail things to it.” Faith is the tonic of the poetical scale, the key-note to which the most widly dis cursive imagination must return in the end before the ear can rest satisfied. Hence J wo have absolutely no poetry in which doubt is anything like the centrul’or tlomi- J nautinterests; while we have, as in the Hebrew poetry, as gorgeous palaces as im agination ever sanctified, whose material is supplied, and whose genius is inspired from faith alone. When doubt is made use of at all in poe try, as in that highest quotable example, the Book of Job, it is introduced more as a foil to faith—the intense shadow of an in tenser light—a wrestler brought into the arena only to be overthrown by his migh tier opponent. Doubt can command no prolonged sympathy, and consequently can find no permanent footing in any of ! the higher places of poetry. Faith, on the contrary, seems to clothe itself with poetry without effort; attracts all poetry to it as a seemingly natural consequence;interwinds and interweaves its life with it, until—to use the strong Shakespearian phrase—the two have “grown together, ” and their par ting would be “a tortured body.” They are the dermis and the epidermis of the ideal anatomy, and their severance means mutilation. Poetry can find no more than a partial and passing attraction in anything that is doubtful; she is, at best,but a stranger and a pilgrim in the de batable land. Her final election and abi ding home is faith. She clings to faith as a child to a mother, and will not, be shaken off’, as plainly as if she had declared, once for all, thy God shall be my God, and thy people my people. Death of a Miimbek of the Lee Fami ly.—The venerable Mrs. Ann M. l’itz hugh died at her residence in Alexandria on Friday night last, in the sixty-seventh year of her age. She was a Miss dolds borongh, daughter of Governor Golds borough, of Maryland, and a family long distinguished in that State. Her husband was William H. Fitzhugb, of Bavensworth, Fairfax county, Va., a gentleman of fine promise and rare accomplishments, but who died young. George W. Parke Custis married his sister, anil thus came the con nection of the Lee and Fitzhugb fannies. Mrs. Fitzhugb has been in delicate health for some time. She never had any child ren, und has distributed much of her im mense estate among the Lee family. She held much property of her own, and much more for life under her husband’s will. A claim for $375,000 damages to the Ruvens worth estate is pending before tliu claims commission. The offer by Ply moth Church to Mr. Beecher of a six months’vacation, with un interrupted salary and the expenses of a .European tour paid, has been declined by him. He says that so long an absence would be irksome to him and unjust to those who have paid high prices for pews. He will not go to England, and will take only his usual vacation of three months on his farm next summer. Why is blind-man’s-buff like sympathy Because it is fellow feeling for a fellow . creature. NO. 52. * [From the Aufpots -Goni-UtutiolialUt.l Drifting. That large bodies of recent Republicans l are drifting uway from tbe infamies of i their parti organization is unquestionable. It is equally patent that the revolt is more pronounced among those persons who were abolitionists. The New York 7Vt bune doubt leas speaks the sentiment of thisclns% atijpiu a recent editorial of more than its accustomed vigor, the Republican party is arraigned before the American people as recreant to trust', and there fore worthy of being extirpated or replaced by better elements. From being a party of mprality and principle, it is shown that the lkidiful organization liks become corrupt in' morals, g\ided sohly by the greed of gain, and, instead bfiljnntaiiiing its position ns the reliever of so-called.op-' preasion, it is now tli vilest deapotiaimpu God’s green earth. The Tribune doe* not see that the principles it formerly advoca ted were themselves calculated to breed untold mischief, however honestly enter tained. It does not see that the revolu fiotiary theories of Sumner, Garrison and Phillips depended for success upon civil strif , and that the men of the sword ul ways replace the doctrinaires, just as Bona parte replaced the Jacobins. Because slavery was something foreign to New England that pestilent section substituted its consicence for the conscience of the South, and educated a generation of men, in the pulpit, the Sunday school, the literary iusitutes, among poets and roman cers, as well as the daily press, to hate the South und force her to risk her cause iu an arbitrament of blood. With the destruc tion of the South the reign of the doetpinai res eoased and tho domionation of the military and the camp-followers began. The military did not seize, at first, the reins of power; the people, under the lead of Sumner and the ideaologists, surrend ered the liberties of the country to the Man-on Horseback. That sploiiciid paper, the National Mail, of Philadelphia, shows most clearly how the infamies consequent upon the war were continued as part of the programme when armed conflict ceased. Ii says: The rebels must be kept in subjection. This was the cry. The Southern States, prostrate aud helpless, were still likely to renew the contest, and imhuman cruelty and oppression must he resorted to “U ip them under.” Such has been tbe policy of the Republican party from the tlrst. The tree has borne its natural fruit. The stream was corrupt at its fountain head. Whenever an individual or party assumes to violate established law to carry out pet ideas, revolution and not reform is the object. And, once the law departed from, it ceases to command the respect of its subject. The Tribune need not therefore, be surprised, after having sown the wind, that it reaps the whirlwind, nor believe that tbe party of moral ideas has fallen sudden! v from grace. ' • J - - p ' It is a good sign that many nten are be ginning to see that they were in error, and that, Senator Tipton so epigrauimatieally expressed it, “in saving the Union the States have been lost.” A pretty Union to save—a heaven without sun or stars, only the black elouils and fiery meteors made up of unsubstantial gas. No honest man can compare the Union before the war and since without hanging his head in shame at the damaging contrast. Sumner & Go., for the sake of a malignant and insane hobby, precipitated chaos, and now where is honesty in private and public life, where is happiness in any quarter, and, we are almost tempted to ask, where is the purity of religion ? That the present con dition of things can endure much longer we do not believe. Either a peaceful solu tion will be found at the ballot box, or else, as Sumner himself predicted, there must come, at the North itself another revolu tion to help regain the liberties lost iD the first crusade. Alirabeau found it com paratively easy'to start the ball of revolu tion; but he could not stop it when he wished. Bo with Stunner and Greeley, the twins of disaster to the American Be public. What an end did they have ? How were they punished for their sins. What madness and misery to both at the very last. No wonder the New York Tribune stands aghast at its own work, when the crazy theorists are remanded to the back-ground and all the spoils are i reaped by the campfollowers, the bum j mers, the renegades of all parties, and the j “sashed and girded sphinx.” The Tribune !is made at the loss of booty, the more so j because the military lions it employed to capture tlie prey have determined to retain the mastery of it and devour at leisure, while the jackal theorists whine at a safe distance and wait hungrily for a nibble at the bones. A Touching Incident. —A recent letter from the chaplain of the Auburn prison re lates the following affecting incident: “There died in thisprison, during the past week, a young man of good parts, member of a highly respectable family in another land, and who became involved m the meshes of the law through moral irresolu tion rather than innate depravity. His thoughts, which had wandered much du ring the latter days, on the last oue of all centered upon his home, and he imagined that the most eager wish of his heart in this extremity had been realized, and that his loving mother soothed his dying bed. A few moments before bis soul took flight, he raised himself slightly, and extending his attenuated arm, drew down close to his lips the shadow conjured from his own af fections, while with a look of ineffable con teut glorifying his pallid features, his last breath was surrendered (as he thought) to the parent who bore him.” A correspondent writes from Rome: j The excavations at the Coliseum are still j continued, but a stream of water which | has been found there seriously interrupts ! the labors of the workmen. The Roman [ Catholics are still indignant at the recent; ; profanation of the Coliseum in the removal of the Via Crucis. They held a triduo or three days’ prayer of reparation at the \ Church of the Minerva, and another in that jof St. Andrea della Valle. Opposite the | organ in the latter church, in an improvis j eil altar, surrounded by a dozen wax lights, was the crucifix which was formerly under the arch lending to the Laterun. Not withstanding the invitation of the Cardi i uni Vicar, the number of the faithful was | small, and a great contrast to the throng j which assisted at the triduo three years ago. Four armed and masked men over powered and gagged the jailer at Ohelikn, Alabama, on Tuesday morning, and libeva -1 ted a man named Frank Moone” charged i with runnier in Tallapoosa county. ■ • —i —..... ... MISCELLANEOUS Why are cashmere shawls like deaf peo ple V Because you can't make them here. Counter Irritants nenple who eT-’-'in* the whole of the stock and buy nothing. New York wants bettor light for Heu Gate at night. Lucifer mutches would be appropriate. “Molly,” said a farmer to his dairymaid. us ahe was atiuui to commence cuceso making, “you’ll never bo able to proceed if you don't see your whey clear,” A negro hoy was driving a mule, whentha animal stopped and reused to .hurt'w “Feel grand Ido yon? I s’pose you forgit your faddor wag a jackass!” A Duubury lady of lately acquired wealth, who visited Dr. Myers. Friday, to be vuc cinated, said she wanted, the highest-pnoed xcub —un Alderney, she believed. A jury in Han Diego, California, the other day brought in a verdict of not guilty, with a request to the defendant to rcstoro the sheep. A law court in lowa lias fined u funner twenty dollars because ho made his sou turn a grind stoues sixteen consecutive hours, for going home with au old maid from singing school. Sir George Rose's doctor once gravely assured him that he would live to.be a hun dredevhereupon the baronet promptly rm markqdvV’l’hen I suppose my coffin may be ealleil a “century box."’ Speaking of birthdays at the club, the other night, Nogg, a very talkative mem ber, said lie was bom in Mnreh. “That’s the reason, perhaps,” said Jogg’ “that you are such a blowerl” One of the young ladies at the Elgin watch factory, it is said, is at work upon a patent watch; which will have bunds so made and adjusted as to seize the wearer by the coat collar every evening about ton o’clock, und wulk him off'home. A little Aberdeen boy, who had been taught that time ia money, appeared at tho bank the other day, and remarked that he had an hour given him, and he would like to spend a quarter of an hour and would take the change for tho other three quarters. A eotemporary says: “A young lady in l Lancaster, Pa., broke her urtp the other day while turning a somersault." Young ladies are geneally clumsy at such things, aud we have often warned them never to attempt such performances until they have learned how. A correspondent of the Winchester News says one of the most important acts so far pi® - by tho Virginia Legislature is “am a'/ ir the prtection of deer in Frederick county,” und adds: “Gen. Washington Wiled the last deer in Frederick a little over a hundred years ago." A well known lord was attached to *• certain princess some time before he ven tured to propose. This became known to ller royal mother, ami she invited him to dinner. During desert she handed him a very tine pear, with the simple words, “Marie Louise.” He took the hint. For sixty successive years Windham county, Connecticut, has sent an anti- Demoeratic Senator to the Legislature of that State. At the licit election she elected a Democrat, indicating the utter disgust of the people at the comption and misrule of her “powers that bo” at Washington.. At a party once the conversation turned,, as it naturally does among voung folks, on marriage, the next convenient subject besides the weather when every other fails. One of the belles, addressing a beau (quite unconsciously, as she explained) said: “If I were you, I would have married long, ago.” The epitaphs of Dacotah papers arc not pathetic. Jim Barret had been shoveling snow, and he enught a bad cold, which turned into a fever. The fever settled l Jim’s mundane affairs, and a local paper says most affectingly in his obituary; “He won’t have to shovel snow in the country, he bus gone to !” “Where’s that twelfth juror?” ex claimed an Idaho judge, on the court’*- resuming business after a recess, scowling as he spoke at the eleven jurors in the box, one of whom rose and said. “Please,, judge it’s Ike Simmons as is gone. He had to go on private business; but he’s left his vuddiek with me 1” Mr. Peter Harvey, of Boston, lias pre sented to the Alassachusetts Historical So ciety the Washington medals, eleven in number, among them is the Boston medal, iHsuod in honor of the evacuation of that city, and a Franklin medal. They were owned by Washington, and.subsequently by Daniel Webster. A lady who offers to furnish “some storys” to a Michigan paper, says in a postscript: —“N. b i can send you some poems to, sum real protty verses if you. desire that i writ myself, for i can writ poems as well as storys” The editor is mean enough to decline on tho ground of poverty superinduced by the panic. At a recent reception given by the Lieu tenant Governor of South Carolina, among the delicacies of the season, some ice-cream in a rather liquid condition was passed around, upon tasting which one of flip. ne*ly-elected State Senators, to whom, ice-cream was as great a rarity as his polit ieal office w as a novelty, exclaimed’ “Golly, chile, dis am de coldest soup I ever ate!" A Sign on Broadway resdß. “Potatoes, for sail hole sale and retail.” One on the city market reads, “Hickri-nuts for sail.” An intelligent old bore, who invades our sanctum occasionally to get the news in advance, rend the above in manuscript, anil said be did not see any joke in it, except that the fellow hud spelt "nuts” with one t. A clergyman at Clarinda, Ohio, was away from home when the crusade began. He returned in the evening, and saw his. wife standing at the bar of a saloon sing ing ns loud us she could yell. He sup posed she was drunk, and entering the. the saloon, the tears rolling down his face, lie said: “Come home, wife, yon have ruined me—druuk--drunk—drunk.” Mr. Story, of the Chicago Times, is a vigilant journalist. An evening newspaper reporter receutly called to learn the truth |of a rumor that he had killed Dr. John son, with whom he has had a better con troversy, and received in reply: “Young man, do you think I’m d—u fool enough to do aucli a thing In time for the evening : papers to get tho news first ?” A little urchin seven oreiglityenrs old, in school where a Miss Bloilget was teacher, composed the follwing and wrote it pc his slate at prayer time, to the great amusement of the boys: “A littlemouse ran upstairs to hear Miss Blodgett say her prayers.” The teacher discovered {lie rhyme, and called out the culprit. For punishment, she gave him his choice tp fliuko another rhyme iq live minutes or be whipped- ho, after ; thinking and scratching his head till hia time was moat up, and the teacher was lift i ing the cane in a threatening manner, at | the last moment lie exclaimed: “Here T stand before Miss Blodget; she’s going tp I strike, and I'm going to dodge it’”
