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GALLAHEH’S IMPENDENT, PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT QUIT M A IV, O -V . J. C. GALLAHER. fKItAIS OK SVHSCIUPTIOX I TWO DOLLARS rter A union in Advarn c. TIIE QUARREL. They hnng, heavy plumes of purple, over (be little gateway in that bright nf ternoon -the Ist of Juno. A charitable breeze swept one scented. bunch of bloom a bit aside, just out of the reach of n lit tie brown hand that lmd a moment ago ruthlessly stripper! off half its blossoms. But the owner of the hand had already turned about, with a toss of her black curls and a flirt of lior pink calico dross, that scared the butterflies, and before the branch swung back slio was hastening up the trim garden path, ami flinging 1 uick a sharp speech over her shoulder at n tall, sunburned young follow who, with a vexed light in his eyes, stood in tho gateway Watching her. '•Oh, it don’t matter what l think ! In deed, I don't think at all. You may take whom you like to tho next May dunce you won’t tuke me /” It wnssuch a pretty shoulder over which these words were cast, and thorc was such a rosy flush of anger on the round cheek half veiled in curls, that it is no wonder John Armitage took two or three steps in pursuit of the speaker; but ho stopped, drew himself up with sudden pride, and said one reproachful word. “Nanoy!” The one addressed wavered a little in her retreat, then resumed it with in creased eelerity. “Will you stop and listen fo me ?" the young man queried, his rising indignation aootswhat mudifyiug his tone of appeal. “No 1” and the pink calico swept the myrtles on either side of the walk fa;,to yet. “Very well,” wns'thc angry response, as he who had pleaded turned towai 1 the gate. “But mark my words: yen'll la sorry for this bob ire these bushes here brushing the low sprays sharply a idc “arc out of bloom 1 Now good-by.” Nancy, peeping from behind a curtain after his retreating figure, cried, i' lh .j the soliloquy will toll why. ■“Well, it’s all over between ns now, any way. It’s his fault, too. IL’d no busi ness to take any one < lac to tho .M.y-daneo when I couldn’t go. I shouldn’t wonder if he's gone down to Hand) AndersonV now. They’ll be engaged next thing, and sholl crow over me finely. Jin'll try to make mo jealous” here Naney had a spasm of crying. “Bee if I won’t make him jealous first 1” JTJie way she would do it. appar ent the next afternoon, wlu , dressed it a jaunty bin; suit that off w-fi t j creamy complexion, da). curls, end t it chocks, sin started for tho vMl.i jo* Tli xlaiuty blue silk parasol wu i lov< red a lit tie as slio came to tho pretention-, block ol buildings opposite the hotel, up..n one of which hung the sign, “Dr. Mile. Gray. Office hours from 8 to 10 a. m., from’d u> Cp. u." But tlie face of the 1 > ll i 1 ■ iii. w Blank. sudf tho offioo curtains low r with an impatient exclamation under her breath, Nancy went onto the p> t La , where, getting no letter, she turned dis contentedly toward nom , Tho Pates forbad- >v. Ido '-ad >tne Cimiplishod a quart if. dr anee b ore the tight roll of v.Lee. >...!.’ • Him her head and start pore. ; ...bly. In a mouicni mono yonng Dr. Gray, wh ■ e natty top buggy was tho envy of all the men, and whose fascinating smite had won the hearts of all the women, had drawn up his horse at her side, and leaped to tho ground, arid had asked, eagerly, “Miss Evans, may I havo the pleasure of driving you home ?” The color brightened hi Nancy's cheeks, tho light in her eyes, an :ho a • nted with a charming smile; and in arr >:t they were slowly bowling along the road, and the blue ribbons wore blown against tlr doctor’s broadcloth. Dr. Oray was yonng, handt- -a. not. d--- fioient iu brains, with p- t money enough to prevent him from t ting ' •fn cally earnest iu hi profession, and . , much in love with the evu,:' bit of womaiihood by bis side. As for N> nay, she was a little afraid of the gray eyes that could be quizzical ns w-U as a.;un* : g, and of tho audio tliiii eomotimos c-rrltd the corners of tho black mmi-.rUo. But- Naney was minus a lover just Iff, the doctor was a “catch, ’’ - ..1 *•.> m augbed ami chattered ns the liay horse trotted along. The farm-house came in sight too soon, and the doctor stopped midway in a speech to inquire, “Won’t you take a longer ride? It’s Such a beautiful aft* moon!” Niuioy demurred, us in duty bound. “I—don’t know. I guess it must be— ’most tea-time.” Tlie doctor laughed, and held his wat ch before her. It was precisely four. “Oh, well, then—” began Nancy, some what confused. “But aren’t these your offioo hours ?” “Confound my office hours !” com mented the doctor t<f liimsel;. Aloud he said, “I’m sometimes obliged to break through my hours. I’m going no wto see a—a patient on the outskirts of tho town.” So they drove on. Tho “patient” could hardly havo been in a critical state. Tho doctor, leaning back in the carriage, lot tho lines lie loose ly on the horse’s back ns they paced slowly through shady wood road; smelling of pines, white the warm breeze fluttered light curls across Nancy’s arch black eyes, and tho blue silk parasol had to be held up to keep the sun from her rose bud or a taco. The doctor had : lurking 1, M r <!:.• VOL. IT. j Nancy was rustic and ignorant, but ah! 1 slio was so pretty ! How far they rode in (his lazy way.whel j lyropt in c- a-.versa!ion,is not known. How • far they would have ridden is uncertain, if j Nancy had not sent a mischievous glance 1 ; straight into the gray eyes, mid inqnired, “Why, where din's that patient of yours j live ?” The doctor laughed frankly, coloring nevertheless. . “I aooyou understand the ‘ways Hint me 1 dark and the tricks that, are vain’ pretty well, Miss Nancy. And now 1 don’t dare , to tell you wliat 1 was going to before you 1 spoke." “What was it ?’’ queried Nnuoy, ruri j ous and eonsen u i. ! “It was,” said tho doctor, bonding bl own face closer to (ho curl-shaded one at j ■ his side, “that I wish I had the right to keep you with me always. Miss Nancy, will you look at me will you let me ?’’ It was well that tho doctor did not guess why, amidst Nancy’s bright blushes, her ; lip quivered and her eves filled with tear ; 1 She had made up her mind to accept the : doctor, lmt in this decisive moment the thought of John Armitage sent a pang, , cruel iu intensity, through her heart. Then came tho memory of (heir yester day's quarrel, and Nancy faltered, with a j struggling smile, “1-1 don’t know." Bbe did know when, in the late twilight, she and tho doctor walk'd together into 1 the dusky sitting-room at home, where tier father was dozing and her mother knitting, , to ask their consent and their blessing “Dear me!” said the coral farmer, rub bing hr eyea. “Twb r-eeh pieces of new in oue day’s eill ’ns hereabouts. I lieertl! on’y an hour settee that Johnnie Armitage is n-goiu' to Texas to kinder fa, m on his I own account. I-sorter thought, I---', that i ho an’ Nancy fancied each other, but here i she's wantin’ to marry another man. It's cui’iis!” Nancy had taken her hand front the doc j tor’s arm mid had sat down in th -v, iadow. j t-ilm heard, mistily, comments and eon I grntulatkms; she answered questions, i laughed at jokes. Mho wall's'll down to i tlie gate with tho doctor when be left, and > stood there under the lilicer;, hi.: arm I about her, replying to his tender talk; but. ; when be was gone, leaving a farewell kiss jon Iter lips, she mailed up stairs and threwiioiia If on the bed in n perfect ag ! ony of sobbing that slio could hardly si i : lie in tiio pillow. The story o' ■ ‘i ■* v.‘ *< is hack -1 ",qj ’. Buck happenings too com l u. >n. N-piejf czlio and wnt like the \ glio: ! i.: 'V, but the v.' : village w:; i gosa.pii’g over her cm • , i,i at, and her nvidonceti of troe'- . a aribed to the i 1 “qupemexs o’’ g: •' ju t oiVy.ged.” t : tie tired Mrs. A• and! a ran ov. r uevo-s lota ' one afternoon to . .! tiio fdv. .-, . that | John was gel. ft l‘U : hi ,:, and she mm! I lie would manage to get over and bid ! them good by, f.ad or" breane.-' be>* pa: son was g-fire; a.w-ry, -ad v,- j cool and sharp to Naney, evidently .suspecting that j she waa the ear. . '. IVrhaps light uature-i suffer moat over whelm i gly. Oft in in those beautiful 1 June day.; ■.% ad ;d< '-a h -one sha.i --i owy, grassy plaa , vit-i sr.--b.-iun . him ■ oi-iii!*; -ibovc, vvofdd won.!- : i:; a dim, childish way if she should not “die when ; Johii went,” Only one hope was left: | John was coming to say good-by. <>h, if I she couhl only let him know how it really j waa ! Bui how could she? and she would look down despairingly at the iililo gold circlet on her finger. ■ Bnndcy afteino >n John finally c.unc. Mc.hcy, sitting in the path th the doe tor, caught a of the \ T-!,i ov,n . figure at the gali'->!--. til -’aes ag.dn. 1 For a moment the r ..oci vdctlcd are, ct, ; and sho wrd .fitly white: I he:: die : i mechanically; :’.ying U-.c ;no mn ,t bid I Mr. Armitage good-by, :ivt L..-n out to :ho doorway, where Jehu waz/re lie ; her paronto, and w-.-rding olt t , !i. N< wfonud : land with a 1-.• i> “Yea,” ho w ; r ilvin r-.u Nancy camo *• ‘ * , up, “they ;y the -u i a p-. U_. good i is.m e.. out there ffu a young leJUiv, v.iih liealth 1 and ciu-.r-y. How and , ... do, iliso Nancy 7: -and J’vo always been cute • i-i 11; ; sol I to try it.'” Nfmry stood p tho roue vinca in 1 pieces while for half an hour the others: | talked ei'ops, ]>olifcics, mid prospects. 81 ic : ouhi tot lmv. spoken for her life, though ! the longt and to speak ac a condemned crira j inationgs to ask mercy. IS<>t once did | John turn Ills obstinate auburn head to J look at or spied: to her, and at last ho rose ! to go. 110 irjternipted himself, while do* ' tailing prviio.d;u’s .'dioiifc g ,/rog i ’i'.ds, to ! say “good-by,” b.-: j ;;d toriohr i iior - liand. If lie ha l looked ut hor, tho mis ; (Table pathetic look of appeal on her ehild ; isli face would havo gone straight to his . ] heart: but ho did iiofc dare to luok, and ; turning away abruptly, walked down luo j garden path with the garrulous old farmer hobbling by hh side. Nancy had just. ' time to escape her inoiher’s eye by rua : mug up the stair. 1 !. Bbe lid :.:ot f.e.it; but I Clod forbid that girls should often know j such misery as she suffered then ! W lieu | sho at last joined.tlie doctor, as iu duty j bound, the stunned look in her face was i pitiful. Sho “was not well,” sho said, in i answer to tins alarmed queries. ft was Nancy who proposed that they should go to church Unit evening. In tho corner of tho high old pew, with her veil | hiding her face, sho coil id at least be : .piiei, and i;:lioiir more of effort would : luive beci, insupportable. Mr Arnutago QUITMAN, CIA., SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1874. was alone in her pow, and cried silently all through the service. Nancy's heart so went out to tin'poor woman .(lmt, when they nu t in the aisle, she pressed her hand impulsively. saving in a quick whin per, “Mrs. Armitage, I’m sorry for you!” “1 don't want any of yem-sorrow 1” was the sharp response. "Jt’n line to talk; blit you amt l know well enough who’s tho ) cause of all. One word from you would atop it now if you were ‘sorry’ enough I” l'oor Nancy 1 Tho clock was on Uio stroke of eleven that night when her lover finally took his leave, and she was free to pace the moon lit fitting room from i lid to end with sot lips and wide, glittering j eyea. .She did not cry. She felt an if she j wore going crazy, and in lief desperation ■ •!.. ,i;>i not care if alio did. Hour after hour passed, mid still she paced there, till her rigid face showed whitely iu the first faint gray of morning. “Oh, ico/M he go? eoidd lie go ? would nothing happen to : stopkim? Scarcely knowing what she I was doing, Naney slipped through the door, and halloas, trailing her dainty blue skirts through Iho dewy grass, ran across lots to the Arm it ages. ’ it was all still and dark and dewy. She heard the village clock .strike three as she paused on the outskirts of tho old-fash ion ad (lower garden behind tho houso, mid shrunk behind a hedge of blossomy lilacs, whose potent odor sickened her. ller mind was iti a whirl. Slio did not know why sho was there, or what she should do. She was in deadly fear lest 1 someone should discover her, yet sho could ant go away. For half an hour alio crouched there shiver!ugly, never taking: her eyes off John’s window, but starting every time the curtain blew. Suddenly a I : top on the garden path starthxl her so violently that she scarcely could suppress asc i am. hr \,a : probably some of the ; work peop’e oh, if they should sec her ! | A lire!y peep through the bushes showed her that it was worse than that; it was j ,!ohn hiii,self, s!ruling straight toward tin - gap in the stodge, and wearing n most un prupitious face. Nancy, in blind terror of discovery, crawled on her hands and knees close under the lilacs, lie laid passed, he was almost by, when a bird that Nancy had di.,;,url)i.-d Hew out with loud chirp in‘gi. One end of the loosened bine sash had caught on a stiff bough, rind the color j arrested hi.s eye. Two ntrides brought him to the spot, amt he stood with folded arms looking down r.t her a moment be fore liis amazement found v. ut iu the ex clamation, “Nancy !” Ha had never ."ecu such utter abandon and rgtuiy of shame as (hut with which l.ho poor little maiden hid her face and cow-' red in the wet grass, with the cry, “tfii, shall l do? Don’t speak to me,! (io away !” and burst into a storm ;.f tear.;. For answers he gat-le red the little wet, figure in his arms, smoothed the tumbled curl:;, tried to warm the icy hands, and did not dare to qu, ..: :o,i, while lie soothed her in his teoderest w ay, “Take mo homo,” said Nancy, as soon ns she found strength to speak at all. •■I shall do no such thing,’' was the de cided answer, as John’s disengaged hand lifted her taco no Unit iio could see. if, “till you toll me why you came. Nancy, ! couldn’t help hoping; a 1 itiio when l saw you here. Don't make me give it up 1 i thought ray pride would support me through any thing, but I'm afraid it won’t,” be. ended sadiv. “I'm so glad it won’t” breath' and Nancy, ill tones of heart-felt relief. “But some body ’ll aoe us. '1 aiu: me home, John, and 1 II tell you till about it. How different seemed the way home, i with John at her side. But Naney was in ino hurry to “tell all about it.” Klio only j laid, iicrviou.-Jy, holding ,John's hand in ! Ijolli her.-;, “IToinise n:- you won’t go away !” | “Alt, lmt I want another promise first.” j Nancy looked back at Urn plumy Judge Ia hose : in.Jter tiny k ft, nod sad, with t half smile, “You see the lilacs aren’t out f of bloom yd, John; and f am sorry, as you Said J ’d bo 1” “And the doctor ?” auks tho erilnsd reader. Ail, Naney is no model o'. (du b. , i tian maidenhood. Mho is only a faulty young girl, erring and loving nd suffer-! Lug. playing her pari in one of the tinge dies than are played every where iu the springs ami a.itum is, in tho tiino of snow drifts as well as in'the time of lilacs. CL liiOSfiUW OF THE MILE. A man who vvesj condemned to solitary confinement forlifoina prison, relieved the todioaruiess of tide years !,v aseertaiuing the following facto: The Bible contains !l letto'S, 7d’,b!)2 word,:;, M,J7f verses, 1,18!) eliaptc-i's, and (iC books. The word “and” occurs 40,277 times, tiro word “Lord” occurs J,SSO lime:-;, the word “Itrv . croud” occur.j but once, which is in the Dili verso of tire 111th Bsulm. The middle; verse is the BUi verso of the 118th I’salin. Tho 21st Vi-.-.o of the 7fh ciiapter of Ezra ; contains all tire letters or the alphabet ex cept the letter J. The finest chapter to ! read is tho 2<!th chapter of the Acts of the i Apostles. Tho 19th chapter of 11. Kings j and the U7th chapter of Isaiah are alike. ; The longest verse is the 9th verse of the Bth chapter of Esther. Tho shortest verse • is the doth verse of the 11 th chapter of j St. Joint. The Bth, loth 21st and hist j Verses of the tl)7Ui iV.dtn me id ike. All I the verses of the llllHh l’salm end alike. ; Tli.-re no ..,nde a iu,.lit,., of over a.; ) lhdires. HE ECU Eli’S IDEA OF RELIGION. It appears that Henry Ward Booeher has n happy joyous dispositjon, and thinks a mail's religion is like the silver lining to the clouds, lie says: “Religion, fls presented to the World has gone through many moods. There have been periods and there are still sections where religion is still presented in Its as cetic form, and preached us il' the nlinv pain the more isrtuc, tho more self denial the bet ter the man is, This ascetic school has dmii iged (,'liristianity exceedingly. “Religion is like a tune; it may bo ployed slowly in a dull way, or rapidly with a sparkling effect. The popular religion is, on the whole, dolorous. It is very much :i commercial transaction. We pay n cor Into amount of sorrow fieri' for tho sake of having a very large dividend of joy hero after. Now there are hours for solemnity and hours for sobriety; lull to elmr.ieterize religion by solenmfly is ns if a man should characterize nature by tho night instead of tho day. “I would give a few dollars extra to the servant that sings at her work, nml so sometimes captains like to pay n man on shipboard a little extra I localise be can fid die, and the crew are happier and work better for a little occasional fun at night. But how much better if all could fiddle ! “I would not have men come into this church with questioning whether before they come how far they will have to eon form to church usage, whether they w ill havi to stop going to the opera, or playing cftrdu at home or dancing. I want to come here to be joyful and happy, to find in religion the delight that Iu longs to it. THE CAT. The cat is railed a domestic miimile -Iml 1 never have bill able lew toil where b >r. You kant trust, one puny more than yen knn a ease of the gout. There is only one mortal tiling that you knn tni. t a eat with, and cum out even, and that is a bar of hard soap. They are as meek ns Me: i but us full of deviltry as Judrr 1 -carati, They will harvest il dozen of young chicken:; for you, and then steal into the sitting room as ‘ fitly ns an undertaker, and lay tin mreli down oil fie vug at your feet, full-of injiuvd inner sice, and chid, ona, and dream of their childhood days. Ail I here iz, about, a eat that i/, domest ik, that I kno uv, is tt at you kant loozo otic. 1 11 !l lirr'iS i-,,a- .. ;; flu-y are a,, L-tl£t to loozc ii”, a bad ro)>ntfti-h>ii iz. You may uend om |o.it ov Hie Btate.dime up ill a meal ling anil m eked "to (). D.,”and the next morning yen "ill find him or her (according tew :hi the cam.' spot aloii/r ido ov the kitchen stove, ready to be stopped on. Cat:; have , ot two good eai i for meiody and off.-n make 11 1 .- "igllt almo..plu re me lodious with their - v it- mm ik. But the most woaderfsl tliiii:; .• Old a. eat that has been diseoveivd yt is tin ir fear of death. i'll kant indium our, by ajiy ordinary means, to secept ov death they actually : kei.i in die. s',hi may bill i \ u hav a mind to, and they will begin, life anew in a few juim-ito, vvitli n line llatieiieg p,-; lelduu. Do; > I love, tli.-y r uy their krideti chills iu (to ir faces, and kant hide them, blit tho bulk of a cut's n-putaaluui lays buried in Iboir Rtuiuuk, ok unknown tow themsolfs nz lew i-nny Is sidy else. There is only ono thing about a cat that f. like, and that iz, they are very cheap u lililo money, well invested, will go a grate way in eats. tails are very plenty in this world just now. I eon tiled eighteen from my board ing ho;: winder one moonlight night last summer, and it vwn’t p fust rate night for i-alu licit lu r. J- -h ISTC tigs. A GUEVT CHANGE. A great change is evidently passiugovi r Bio North. In adv sating that no dis ' i-r:i the graves of Felt rai or (.'onh derate uldiei'H, us Hie nmm. I custom new in, the if., toil •!,' f.ftbm- pay iif high compliment to Hi leaver;, of tho iJen who fought for the Boath, raid evt-n g- .ao far as (•> ad mit that “they fought fora principle which they he ld deal’, nod for which they were willing to ra. rifi.ee their lives.” [t do !: i t!,a! tho animosities excited by tlie war should liow ceaso, mid e.illa upon tli" bl:i'j and tho gray, to “unite in paying common honors t i tlie heroic dead of both armies.” The Bo: ton (flohtt, in language moro oomplini' atai'y to the fiout.li, says; “>t. i-, c-iiise of the bravery shown by our Loiithera brcllireu in the war that our victories have such lustre, mid it would be as unjust to deny the sincerity of thegreat j body of our opponents as to impugn their coiu'uge. Tiiey fought for ivhat they be- j lieved lo bo the right. * A * The peo-1 pla of this country, North or South, caul not afford to keep up tho spirit of nntagon- j is.ui or distrust which invidious distinc- j lions in the decorations of tho graves of their soldiers, would naturally excite. If j we arc to have u genuine Union—oue of: hearts as well as hands—wo must eulti-1 vato the amenities and perpetuate tho los-1 •son of the devotion illustrated on both j sides of tho great contest, ns tho best i utoaus of insuring the devotion to those groat principles of constitutional liberty j which were there enforced." Tho Baltimore Ocaet/ti adds to this:! “Now let (feiierul Butler return those i spoons. ” . - ♦. • The Czar has anew Bible. During bis stay in Loudon lie was waited upon by | tho Archa'litthoj s of Canterbury mid York at Buckingham l'nlace, whore the ifiriiiiuta ! presented to him a Bible in Russ, traiw- j lated iindci the aii’-pitccs ol the British utul r’.aei;;:i l.fifie B' .iefy. Luan otuuli-y , Wua pit aelit at liic inter viLw. - rVrul the Coiirißi'-liuirnii!.] HERMANV, ENGLAND AND FRA NCE. j The questions add rosed by Earl Russell | to Earl Derby some time since? and upon | which we then remarked, have created : mere stir tliiin was expected. The official National Zeitung of Berlin, and the semi i official Kolniselic Zeitung of Cologne, the ' Jon nml lies Debats, La t’atrio and In | Temps of Friinee, tlie Wmideivr and None Froie l'resse of Vienna, liostdes the great er number of lesser organs and provincial sheets, have till made t Is- quest ion raised the subject of leading editorials. The general tone seem to be that there is nothing just now to disturb the peace of Europe, but the elaborate reasons which ail think proper to give to assure them selves and their leaders betray a strong iiiider-ouiTCMt of sppiohcnsion. It often happens that what we dread most wo la tier to persuade ourselves is the most mi likely of all things to happen. The fact of France's humiliation is not mere palpable than her desire for revenge. The feeling and its expression are new less ohtrusiv and less demonstrative than imme diately after the war,but none the loss real. France knows that she forfeited the influ ence to which, by wealth and gcograph ieal position ami population, she is igiti tled until she lignin asserts herself as a great military power. This is ns well known in Uernmny an iu France. Prince Bismsrk is said to have expressed his as tonishment at the recuperative power of France, nml his regret, that no did not ex act double Iho idemnity. Be this as it may, Germany feels that she has net sue ! eeeded iu permanently disabling her he ; reditary foe, that she has only crippled her, and that for a short time. The fur : rows drawn upon tho lmek ol Franco by tee German plowshare, though deep, are tilling up. Her wounds are healing, and ; tlie sears which remain only suggest, what, she once was. and what sho may yet. be i rotno. It in useless to tell the Fivneliuinti ! that Germany did no more to France - than Bimaparte did to Prussia after the I fatal field of Jena. To men whose tradi- I ditionn point to French interference in German affairs from the days of Francis I. to Napoleon 1 i!. the idea of disim ni Ivrineiit by the Teuton is the most galling ' eoiH'eivnblo. Tim vast efforts made to in I crease the army of France, to build new | fortifications and repair old ones, to con- I struct anew line of defense ns a point j d’sppui for recovery of the old ones, to i east- rami'm am! provide her soldiers with la more deadly weapon than either tl.e ! elm- report or the needle-gun, and to do all : this sih ntlv, steadily, uninterruptedly, are Hie form of expression which the domi nant idea takes. The speech of ('"lint von Aft til ke on the army will show plainly enough that Germany understands the | drift, of aenliineiit in Franco and is deter : mined, if not to checkmate, at least; to ! prepare for the inevitable. The reported | conversation of I Tin Bismark with Vie i tor Emanuel may be altogether apocryphal : pi-ob.ibp i iuif is mme t-b.e less signi! li. .ini. whether true or not. We remember | fhai a favorite th-viee of the late Emperor ! Napoleon was the publication of a tenta. | five brne/ittu • now and again to feel tin | public pulse of France and of Europe. ! if the results accorded with the Imperial views, il was allowed to pass unchallenged; :f ollu iwi-". il was qiiiiveiiiently disa vowed. The end sought way. invariably 'accomplished an expression of public "pinion through ihe metropolitan and pi" . iueial press. Whether authentic or not. ’lie - I’is.murk has gotten tlie opinion ol It tin- ,-ivai owers on the n-cession of 1 Nice .uni Savoy to Italy. European "pin i on the subject ofa German Italian alliance ' ha ; spoken in no indistinct tones, and the Brims; i: non in a. condition to pronounce , "Nieeaudiitvoy” 1 - likely to be a winning ! card. Tho official G, set to of the German ! (iovi rmneiil is iuolined to think Hint-tie | intei p,-nation of Earl Russell wan neither i irievels.at lull inopportune. While it falls I in with the generally expressed conviction ; I hat there is no cause for immediate up ! prelien.-ion, it regald the, interpellation in i directed especially to tho treaty relations jof England, with Franco and Germany ; villi regnal to J,cl,(iuni. The only active i iuteilern ecu of Englimd dining the last war was to renew the treaty with there two powerw iu regard to the neutrality of the little f-itste. The absorption of Bel • i uni by i-itln-.r Uie one ortho other would result in such a matoiial im remont that tho tiallanee of (lower would be seriously affected. France is now, with the exception of the channel, oonteiiuiims with Jhiglund all nking her southern coast. Tho addi - tion of Belgium would ciiahlc France con sidcrably to overlap England. Germany is uov, separated from her by a considera ble fivieh of coast line, but Belgium once absorbed, Holland would soon lose In-r isolation by absorption also, and Ger many would thou march with England on iho southeast. IJnglnnd is bound by treaty us well as by interest to stand by these two little States assures their imu trality in war and their in.h jH-tiileiico in til,:" of pi . ee. What Earl Rusanli wanted to know, though coucimd in a somewhat disguised diplomatic phraseology, was, “Does England, as represented by the present Conservative (lovernment, intend to preserve tho integrity of Belgium ?” Foreign policy was Gladstono’s weak point. Lord Granville had a dash of Fulincrstoiiiunislii, but it was restrained and cheeked and diluted by tho influence of John Bright and the Manchester school whenever disposed to assert itself. Lind Earl Granville been allowed to slmpe the foreign policy of England, instead of transmitting the decision of tko Collective (’:tbinot the Central Asian question and iho abrogation of the restrictions imposed on Russia by the treaty of Faria would have found a different solution. The Gladstone ministry was satisfied with economizing as much as possible ou the. army and navy in order to reduce the iu come tax a penny on tho pound and im port sugar duty free, carrying the policy of non-interference as far us possible - oven to the extent of asserting that Eng land was an Asiatic power and must not interfere iu European affairs. Tho Glad stone ministry went out of office none too soon for English foreign policy. The Tories arc accredited with a dosiro to maintain the traditions of tho foreign office before the rise of tho "Manchester school.” To asertain how for the Eng lish people were justified in believing this was the real object of Lord Bus oil’s mo tion. The old lines of access to Germany are blocked up to Franco. Metz and Stras bourg mid Tliionvillo are no lougr oil French soil. Sho does not touch the Rhine iu any part of its course. The next I | time Franco invades Germany it must he | through Belgium. This is, as things stand, not only the most ncfiessiblo, hut j tin' only accessible way. A political mo ; live is added to strategical reasons. Tho j French are still more covetous of Belgium Hum of tho loft bank of the upper Rhine, amt King Leopold is convinced Hint the ! iuU'fitinu of Napoleon ill. to appropriate it was not only matured, but Hint the proclamation was already printed. We j know how much he had its acquisition at heart, how much he negotiated with Bis limrok about- it., and how he was at length made the dupe of licit, astute diplomatist. When England in 1870 wits urged to throw ■ her influence against the disturbance of Hie peiu'o of Europe, fettered by her peace policy, she oolild not rise to tho occasion. Tho Kohiiseho Zeitung asserts that, the conviction is general on tho continent that in all human probability the least great ] war would have boon prevented if England bad cast her full weight into the scale at ]I he right, moment. Alter the lvnnnoia ! lion ot the candidacy of Prince Leopold j of Hohoiizollern, all that she could lie per siuidcd to do was to declare that she j would protect the neutrality of Belgium, i But il a declaration of this sort was of j much consequence then it is of infinitely j more consequence now. Then it meant | that she would prevent absorption, and l guarantee tile little kingdom immunity j from being made the theater of war. Now j it means that site will resist, an attack ! upon Germany by France by forcibly re sisting on effort on the part of France to mareli through Belgium to Germany. Il means also that she will not interpret her treaty obligations in regard to l.nxein li I'g as the cabinet of Mr. Gladstone did. The recent declaration of Earl Derby t hat England will uphold her treaties with | Belgium amt Luxemburg- is tjius of the j greatest, importance and means much j more than lit first, sight it, seems to do. j This is Hie interpretation of the German I press, and we are inclined to believe it. is ! right.- ■* • * [l'VonHJir IHuimm (Texas) Mews. J ! RETURNED FROM INDIAN CAPTIV ITY. A "(aiding Talc lij a !">) On tlie evening of the 28lh „f yp lv arrived in Sherman, Texas, u hid about fit teen years old, who, from hi.s general itp peal'll nee and starved look, gave indica tions of having suffered terribly from hunger and cruelty. This boy's conduct and general forlorn, starved look attracted the attention uf several gentlemen who were sitting in front of the .Southern Hotel, and one of them interrogated him in relation to who he was, where from.etc. The boy at once tol.l his story, which was reduced to writing, and is as follows: THE BOY’S STOIIY. Li lh" spring, two years ago, mv father and mother, (maiden name Miss Johnson,) with her children, six sons, myselt iu eluded, named'and aged us follows: John Met'affo'i, aged 22: Frank 21 ; Chur J ley, aged Iff; Biiumel nml \Yillium (twins) ! aged Iff. and myself, aged Iff, with my 1 sister Maud, aged 22, and Sarah, aged 17, started from Aikadelphin, ('Drive county, .Arkansas (my father was a keclboat ow ner at, Arkudejphin, and was in comfortable eiieuinstaiiees when lie started,) with two wagons, one, a three-horse team and the i other a two horse team, with household ! I limit iuv, clothing' and provisions, to emi ! grate to Texas. \i e Raveled by wagon to’.'oe.'.!i \\ afliiiigtou, Hempstead efmnty, Ark.; and by way of Fulton; thence through McKinney county, Texas. When within live miles east of .laeksboro. Jack j county, Texas, 1 was walking nlieml of the ; wag-ms. win u i called to father: “Look at ill- Indians! Here they come!" .My father jumped from l,ln wag.oi, and soid:""Right hero will I die. ” My father and sister Sarah both had two ! six shooters each, and they fought, des jpenitvly. My lather killed four Indians and wound.-,! several others. My sister j Sarah wounded seven Indians. All were soon killed of my family. : They wen all -enlped, tho wagon cut to | pieces and burned up, 'the horses stoieu. and all the provisions, appan I, plunder, "to., destroyed. At the commencement of the tiring.i xviik cut off from the train, and held up my hands and : am mi, red. The Indians tied me to Hie back of a horse, and m Ibis way I was forced to lav for lour days, until they reached their ( ituiii in tho Wichita Mountains. 1 was then taken Horn the burse and bound with a log chain l" a plum tree, in front of tin j chief’s camp. 1 was kept tied to this free I for one year; was fed generally with r.u. I meat, and was at times forced to eat the j parts of entrails ot the beef and lioises I that were killed, and was elioiu and iiuiil I | did cat. Alter the arrest of Haulaula and Big ; Tree, I was released from the chain, ami ■ was allowed to wander around the camps, closely watched. J stole a live dollar gold piece from,the pocket, book of the chief, and bribed one of his squaws, with that money to got me an old hat,* shirt and pants, and made my escape that night. J have uxv'.ed all the way from the Wichita Mountains; been one week and a half on the road; have not had anything to cut until this evening for four days. The Oamanohes have five thousand war riors with I.li'-ui, and have made treaties with other tribes iu this settlement. Where Iw. infiu: vl they had about fifteen hun dred families. J ,M: W: la,i am McDaniel. His general appearance, his familiarity with the habits and conduct of the ( a munches, his knowledge of- their language, etc., would satisfy any one that his story is correct. He was cross-questioned by numerous parties, and all pronounced his story truo. He is now in Bheruiau, Texas. - 1 ■ Out West a girl backed out, of her mar riage engagement, when the minister got to the house. The bridegroom wasn’t of the brokenhearted kifftl He turned to tho assemble ladies and said: “If there's ary mither gal lu re that’ll occupy this viicunl situation. I’m her'a. (Jp jumped the sister of the lady who had declined to be a bride: “Count me in. Proceed, old text singular, with tho pefonnance, t ain’t afraid.” And the ceremony was performed to the delight of the groom and company. A young widow advertises in a Cincin nati paper that slio has an income of throe thousand dollars a year, and will marry any man, young or old, who prosesses the same means, arid can produce a certificate of good character. 11 ♦ • •►— -• •*— Tho negroes of Kansas City have “Re solved, That negro minstrel shows tend to itfigrudc our race. ” [Form thn Now York Tim.f. ] BREVET PARENTS | A Umnnntiti Adoption and Vn Willie a Die” iaverf. Nearly twenty years ago Mr. E, H. 1 Gibbs nml wife, of Brooklyn, adopted art ! their own a little girl, then lmt,six mold) r I old, who was reared and educated by them its their own child, and until within a year or two so regarded herself, and with very few exceptions was so regarded l.y all to whom the parties were known. This” child was the daughter of Peter J. Him mona and Cordelia Potter, who, at the time of the ehilds birth and adoption,, were living together under a mere civil eeutrnet of marriage, lmt who subw-queut I. were niairied liy a clergyman. Iu 1808 tlie mother of Peter J. died, leaving in ; trust t(i mu executor for Peter and a brother ’ named William, her only children, pfop i orly valued at, #42,IKK). Since then the , brother Peter died, and the executor of Ihe trust fund,- in coining to make w filial j accounting boforo the surrogate', (earned that this young girl waft living, and to [ save him future responsibility lie would i have to make her a party to tho final set I leim-nt of his trust. Searching Out Where | she lived he had her served at t.ho hotiao' of her adopted father under tho name of ! Selma Canfield Simmons, alias Gibbs. In' j astonishment the young lady showed the letter to her supposed father, ami asked him what it meant. Anxious not to break the eliarrfi which had so long surrounded the relations of tho young lady to him j self and wife, and preferring rather to sac rifire any money there wits in tho case, Mr. Gihl is told her it amounted to noth ing, that ho would attend to it. Finding the executor and his roll nor I, lie told then) he wanted none of the >Siinnionff ('Sfeffo, that rather than have tlie eighteen years’ impressions of his adopted child dispelled, he would forego all. It was found, how ever, that this could not he done with safety to the rights and interests of tho li usti-os, and that, a suit by the latter must commenced to determine the yonng lady’s interest in the estate. Accordingly a suit was commenced in tho .Supreme Court, iff this city, and came off for'trial Vestefdny, before Judge Van Brunt artd a jury. The suit is defended by tho only surviving brother of flics gill’s father, who claims flint there heingim marriage of her parents by a clergyman at tho lime of birth, if at mu line, she is not entitled to claim ns her father’s heir. Ono of the witnesses off I In- stand yesterday, testified positively to a marriage by Rev. Mr. Johnson,of Brook lyn, having taken place. A nnticnblo fea i lure of the ease, also, is the remarkablo j resuiiihlaiKse which tho yonng lady hoars, not only to her own, hut to Lor adopted I mother also. —. • . ! A (. OMI’L/All: NT TO SENA TOR AOfr WOOD. i The St. Louis Times pays the following ! high, but eminently merited compliment j to Senator Norwood a fid Ida kite’ speech ! against the social cqualitf atrOfnination: None the less keenly ra-teastie, none tho | less merciless in its irony, mine tho less j skillful in its analysis, nono the less pow- I erful in its logic and overwhelming in its grouping of laW, precedent, historical rd ; '.earoh and acute human' observation is the I speech which tho whole Senate'listened to lin awe, surprise and dcl'igfcl, slid which was afterwards the fa Ik of Washington I City tor a week. The Month but few to j plead her cause at tho National Capitol, lmt surely this last measure 'lie Civd : Rights Bill, as it is called -the (Tying be quest of a man who fras done more to des troy the Union, Corrupt patriotism, alld make AiAerienus Jon the and despise the very name of a Republic than nil the Fir ritauK and all the eumichs,4|B all the Imr ren women tied ever came ouTnf Massachu setts eomhimled will not bo forced upon the country under the keen spuF’of paiti san necessity. But whether the Civil Rights Bill (lasses or does not pass, the country owes a debt of gratitude to .Sena tor Norwood for a speech which will do probably its much to stem the tide of fa- I uatieisinstill running high at Washington, as any that could possibly bo made after month's of preparation,study-and finish, ft exhausts the subject. It is keen and mer ciless, but j lie ulcer was a dreadful one, and flu- knife had to go to the hilt. SCRAPS. “('nine where my love lies dreaming,” ' says an up country swain, “and see how she looks with the (faint off.” A man who has traveled through New ; .lorsey says ho saw some land there so poor that you couldn't raise a disturbance I on it. V. WpstoVn editin' says that fresh water has lusted strong of sinners over since tho deluge, and that’s, hie, why lie players bis. The Interior, Ky, Jimnutl. hits an editor of giant intellect. At least he says ho has u eabb.ig. head four feet iu oiiciunfcrem’.o in liis offioo. Writing a >keto!i of his life, an Iriatuann, :-.ys lh and ho i arlv ran away from his father 11,I I, i in:.,-.- ho discovered that ho was only his : undo. An ol.solving man has discovered a niini | lardy between a. young ladies’ seminary ! ami i aigai’house, as both refine what it already sweet. ‘ 0 ! why should the spirit of mortal lie ::,.l ?” exclaims tho Milwaukee Sentinel, "when New Dr) ~.m molasses sells at four teen cento, (n r quart, and buckwheat is thrown at a m ui iu fifty pound packages. ” A f.-w yen s since, t the cerebration of il national unuiveraity in New York, a is*u** d.ll, who was present being called 'ast, offered the following: “Hero is health to poverty; it sticks to ar man when all Li.-, friends alt sort him.” Two dm lists having exchanged shots without effect, one of the seconds inter l'erod, and proposed that the parties should shako hands. To this tho other second obje< t as unnecessary; “for,” said ho, "their hands have been .shaking this half hour.” A well-known preacher, being scon iu the streets of New York in a Shakor grab vn.s asked by a friend, “What in the world sent you into that community ?" The re ply was, "Throe good meals a day and plenty of warm clothing arc not to bo sneezed at. ” A German tow nor who had tarried late at a wine-supper, found his wife waiting liia return in a high state of nervousness. Maid she: "Hero I’ve been waiting and rocking iu Hie chair iili my head spins round like a top. ” “Jess so, wife, where' Fvo been.” responded ho, "It’s in the ul niti jthn e /” “And have you no other sons ?” naked a curious lady of a bronzed old sen captain. “Ob. yes. tnadame. J bad one that lived in tho' Mouth Moa Islands for nearly a dozen years.” “Really, wits ho lirtd there, and what waa his taste, tiio sea or the land?” “No, madamo, tie wasn't broad, he was meat, leastways tlie niggers ate him; and, as for his taste, the chief said lie tasted of terbneker.” Tlie lady walked to another part of the ship, and the captain smiled anil took a fresh “quid,” NO. 7.