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1®wM$ Jutflligmcfr. ATLAHTA, GEORGIA, Wednesday, October I8 f I860. Good News.—In the Augusta Const it utionalist of Thursday morning we notice tlie following telegraphic dispatch: Washington, Oct. 11.—Messrs. Alexander H. Stephens, of Ga., Geo. A. Trenholm, of S. C., Judge Campbell, of Ala., and Ex-Gov. Clark, of Miss., having applied to the President for pardon, he has ordered that they be released from close custody on heir trespective paroles to appear at such time and place as the President may desig nate to answer any charges he may direct to be preferred against them, and that they remain in tlieir respective States until further orders. The pardons of the members of the South Carolina Convention have been signed by the President and forwarded to Gov. Perry for dis tribution. The release Jrom their prison-houses of the gentlemen referred to above, by President Jonsson, is another evidence of magnanimity on his part which cannot fail to make a deep and favorable impression upon the whole South. Especially in the case of Mr. Stephens will it be hailed as an evidence of the President’s gen erous clemency by every true-hearted Georgian. Long may Andrew Johnson live to realize—in the confidence and affection of the people of Georgia, and of the whole South—what his gen erous clemency to them, and to Georgia’s favor ite eon, demands! And long may Alexander II. Stephens live to aid in the great work of Civil Restoration, when he shall lie freed from all political shackles, which, we-trust, will soon lie the case with him, and io uphold and sustain him, who, in the darkest hour of the over whelmed South, said to the fanatical of her vic tors, “ thus far shall thou go, but no farther.” Atlanta and Chattanooga Varieties.— We notice in the New York Clipper that Mad. Virginia Smith, of Cincinnati, offers theatrical ‘‘situations for five months,” commencing on the 25tli instant, for the cities of Atlanta and Chat tanooga, to professionals, ladies and gentlemen. The Madame with her corps will receive a hearty welcome in this city of ‘'varieties.” In connection with t lie foregoing our attention was called on yesterday to huge and attractive circus posters on the walls of one of our finan cial institutions, late in ruins, but now converted into another attractive institution, where deposits arc frequently made during the day and night by imbibers of liquid distilments. The boys and girls have begun already to save their quarters, •while the “niggers'’ crowd about the posters, gazing at the bills. One of the latter said to us on yesterday, “Massa, do you tink dat ’oman can trow her foot so high a9 dat?” pointing at the picture. ‘‘By golly, if she can, she beat natur.” We made no reply, but thought, like the “nigger,” if she could, “nature designed it not.” -«• *■ Official vote of Cass county for Delegates to the Convention: J. R. Parrott, 540 J. R. Wikle, 449 N. Howard, 402 C. W. Howard, 388 H. F. Price, 343 R. II. Cannon, 333 H. P. Farrow, 127 A Glance Forward —Taking “ a glance for ward " the New York “ Bound Table ” says: The inference is inevitable that many years cannot elapse without some fundamental changes in the structure of our Government. There is no danger that in our day, at least, we shall be ruled by a king or an emperor. Our habits of thought and our national prejudices will prevent so vital a change as this. We will alwavs have elections and freedom of speech and of debate; but the element of force which has been tacitly recognized as inherent in the general government will, of necessitv, crystalize into institutions wholly different from those which the American jieople held so dear previous to the late war.— Startling as this speculation may appear, is it not warranted by the occurrences of the past few years V Don’t.—Please, dear ladies of Augusta, sweet ladies, the fame of whose beauty and whose grace lias gone abroad in all these parts, please don’t disfigure yourselves and violate every rule of aesthetics so far as to wear this last hideous de vice in the shape of a head covering, this abom ination of desolation of a hat—the name whereof we know not, hut the material of which is straw, and the form after the manner of a musliroon, running up into a sort of rounded peak and run ning down in the similaritude of an inverted dish. Don’t do it, please. The foregoing appeal to the ladies of Augusta, is made by the Constitutionalist of that city. We present it 10 the ladies of Atlanta, and trust that it will have some influence in keeping from their heads the “ inverted dish” so awfully ugly to gaze upon. Don’t ladies, please don’t, wear so poor an apology for a bonnet! Restoration of Property.—In obedience to inst ructions from General Howard, under date ol the 3d instant, Colonel Eaton, Assistant Com missioner of Frecdmeu, for the District of Wash ington, is making preparations to restore to the original owners a huge amount of property, situ- atod in Alexandria, and counties adjacent thereto. Home of this property which is held by the bu reau, was libeled for confiscation, but the pro ceedings were stopped by order of the President, and the restoration ordered. While the memories of the past will survive long, still it is the duty of our people, and espe cially those of them upon whom gifts are be stowed, beyond, in an intellectual sense, the masses whom they must instruct and will lead to look well to the future; to glance, not too of ten back, and then only to profit by experience but to glance forward; to foresee, if possible the destiny of their people, of their government, and provide for that destiny. There Ls, indeed no danger that the American Republic will ever be ruled by a king or an emperor. The princi ples of democracy are too deeply engraved upon the hearts of the American people, take them as a whole, to permit the indulgence of any such idea on the part of any who might otherwise en tertain, it. There can live no king, no emperor to reign over this democratic land; the people would never stand it. The popular voice must rule, and constitutional law must control. Glancing forward then, it should be the first care of all who are either called upon to legislate for the people or who assume to instruct, or to speak for them never to yield the constitutional rights of the people, and ever to maintain the principles upon which the “Union” will soon be restored. The conflicts of the past are settled; what was sub mitted to the sword’s arbitrament, has been de termined by the sword. The South was van quished and she has yielded; yielded with the honest intention of accepting what has been die tated unto her. It will now become her duty, or through the magnanimity of the man of iron nerve and honest purpose who stands at the helm of the Ship of State, it will soon become her du ty, as a member of the “Union,” to see to it that the government in its foncard movements shall not be one of usurpation and wrong, but one faithful to the constitution and to those princi ples engrafted upon and in it. The prophecy of the journal from which we quote, that it, “the general government, will, of necessity, crystalize into institutions wholly different from those which the American people held so dear previous to the late war,” is “startling” indeed to us. We trust it may not prove true. So far as the South is concerned, we believe what we now write will prove to be her position in the “Union”—a steady maintenance 'of the constitution of the United States, and a stem opposition to any effort at crystalizing the States of the “Union” into any form fit only for king, or emperor, to preside over. If the democratic North will only do its duty in warding off all such attempts, the South will be her ally, and successfully the forward of the American Republic will be one’ of prosperity and peace—one that will place it in the scale of nations far beyond any in the new or in the old world. “Flora Temple’s” Time Beat.—Several of our exchanges make the following statement: “The bay gelding Dexter, whose feat of trot ting a mile in 2:18 1-5 is the best on record, is the property of George Allay, of New York, who purchased liim for a mere song two years ago. Flora Temple’!? Kalamazoo time—2:19J—has, heretofore, been the best Dexter had a fine day and a splendid track for his feat. The best time he ever made in a race before was 2:24.” It seems that Dr. Mudd, in his attempt to es cape, not only got into the fuel-bunkers of the steamer Thomas Scott, but was covered by a stratum of coal, with only a small aperture for breathing. Had it not been that one of the offi cers searching the ship thrust his sword into the coal-pile in such alarming proximity to the Doc tor’s face that he cried out, his stratagem would probably have been successful. The cholera is now fully declared on the eastern coast of Spain, and is raging with con siderable violence. Advices of the 16th ultimo, from Barcelona, state that the epidemic in that city i9 increasing. Business of all kinds is sus pended, and half the population have left. It is still true, however, that the disease has not ap peared, during its present visit, at any point re mote from the Mediterranean basin. The New York Tribune says that Governor Brownlow would make a pretty mess of Tennes see : “He would disfranchise all the small rebels, hang all the leaders and banish all the negroes. This would leave about four thousand men to do all the voting aud hold all the offices. Brown- low would be sure of re-election for the next ten years.” A FIRE OCCURRED at Philadelphia on the 8th instant, destroying the United States bonded warehouse ou Dickerson street wharf, containing 40,000 barrels of coal oil, belonging to various parties. Loss $96.000; insurance about $50,000, mostly in New \ ork and New England Compa- ines. The Asiatic Cholera.—The appearance of Asiatic cholera at Southampton, England, is an nounced in the London Times. This announce ment has created some excitement in New York, and the press there is urging that sanitary pre parations be made at once by the health cornmis sioners, and city councils, to meet the invader when he comes. Only two cases had occurred at Southampton upon the sailing of the steamer that had arrived last at New York. Of the dis ease itself, the London Times says: ‘At the moment when we were congratulating ourselves, with every appearence of reason, that the outbreak of cholera in the Mediterranean pretended no immediate danger to ourselves, we are wakned by a paragraph in our impression of this morning agaiust being too hasty in presum ing upon immunity from this mysterious plague. Two cases of decided Asiatic cholera are said to have occurred at Southampton, at least one of them having been fatal in thirty-six hours, after exhibiting all the symptoms of the most virulent l’onn of the disease. The two cases are said to have occurred in different parts of the town, and it is to be supposed, therefore, that they were un connected with each other. The two sufferers would appear to have been inhabitants of the town, so that the case cannot be explained away by supposing that the disease had been contracted in the Mediterranean, and had only developed itself after the arrival of its victims on English ground. If the two cases have occurred as reported, they ■must be considered as an appearance of cholera among us, and it is possible they may prove to be the first two drops of a storm.'' The following good one is told upon “Massa Greeley” by the New York Herald: “The late letter of Massa Greeley to his col ored brethren of North Carolina has inspired the recipients with great respect for him. A resolu tion thanking the young colored men who had edited papers in the cause of universal freedom was lately passed by the North Carolina Negro Convention now in session at Raleigh, when a question arose as to whether or not it applied to ‘Brother Greeley.’ A leather-colored character explained that ‘Massa Greeley was not a colored man,’ when an individual, black as the ace of spades, remarked ‘dat he always supposed Brud- der Greeley to be a full-blooded nigger, but dat if he wasn’t den he deserved to be.’ ” We received a notice on Saturday night, after this journal had “gone to press,” from Capt. R, T. Coverdale, A. Q. M., announcing that the sale of Government Property, advertised to take place on the 15th instant was withdrawn, and to insert the same on Sunday and Monday mom ing. As we issue no paper on Monday, and as our Sunday issue had been published before the receipt of said official notice, we make this ex planation of the non-appearance of the notice in our advertising columns. The Cincinnati Commercial says that Gen eral Grant has returned to Washington, and is sues an important order, making new disposi tions of the Regulars, and preparing for the dis charge of the bulk of the colored troops. Only enough of the latter will be retained in service to garrison the sea-coast forts south of Fortress Monroe. Our Washington special says that the anny will be reduced at once to 75,000 men, and in a short time to 50,000. By General Orders from the Headquarters of the military district of Middle Tennessee, the sentence of death has been pronounced in the case of Champ Ferguson. The sentence will be carried into effect on the 20th day of October, 1865, at Nashville. It is stated that an agent in Texas, appointed for the purpose, has purchased thirty thousand acres of land in that State, for the establishment of a colony of Poles. The tract is situated near the town of Palestine. General Thos. Francis Meagher arrived at Salt Lake City, in Utah, on the 16th of Sept., on his waj to his new home in Montena. He was serenaded by the Mormons. A gentleman from Santa Fe, in St. Louis, re ports the arrival of Juarez at that place, supposed to be en route to the States. The report is doubt ful. Col. Charles is elected a delegate to Con gress from New Mexico, over Col. Pesea by 1,500 majority—so say our New York exchanges. Rev. L. D. Huston, the martyr, has returned to Newport, and preached yesterday, the 8th in stant, in the Taylor street church. The papers in the case of Champ Ferguson, which were forwarded to Washington for ap proval, were returned to Nashville on Monday, the 9th instant The sentence was read to the prisoner in his cell by CoL Shaffer, the comman dant of the post, and was received by him with out a movement in the muscles of his face. He is sentenced to be hanged on the 20th instant— So says a Northern exchange. The President, on the 13th instant, after an interview with Gen. Thomas, issued a proclama tion revoking martial law in Kentucky. It is taken for granted that Gen. Palmer will be retained in command. Returns from Virginia indicate the election of several Union Congressmen, including one from the Richmond district In the Alexandria district an ineligible candidate is probably elected. Not Despondent.—Mr. W. D. Porter, of Charleston, in his letter accepting the nomina tion of Lieutenant-Governor of South Carolina, speaks of the labor question in this sensible fash ion : I do not despond for the future. The qualities our people have heretofore displayed will carry them through the difficulties that surround them. The entire disorganization of their system of la bor puts them to a great disadvantage, but they have compensations in their soil and climate': and the young men of the State, inured to hard ships in the field, are earnestly seeking work in any shape and in every direction. This spirit, with patience, will inaugurate a new career of industry, which, under the favor of heaven, may yet result in unmeasured blessings to our people [communicated.] Augusta, Ga., Oct. 12th, 1865. Editor Intellige ncer : The drought which has been reported as raging with a severity destructive to the ripening crops North and East, seems to be making a tour South ward, and in consequence, our river Las lieen for several days too low for even boats of the light est draught. Our fair city is almost obscured from morning until night in a maze of dust, and its denizens are taking by the inhaling- process liberal instalments of the “ peck of dirt” which is said to be allotted to all. In consequence of the low river our merchants are not in receipt of the heavy purchases made for this market, and the active trade of the last month has run down first arrivals until the market is quite bare of many leading articles. This is especially true of hardware, iron, bacon, lard, and butter, which articles are ruling high. Bacon 33 to 35, lard 40 and butter 50 to 60 cents. The heavy advance in cotton in Northern and foreign markets has induced holders to raise their figures several cents, and buyers have not yet en tered the market at the advanced rates. I can not, therefore, give quotations. The establish ment of several leading banking houses here is giving our buyers good facilities, and will be likely to maintain the favorable repute our city has long enjoyed as a cotton market The morn ing papers to-day announce the card of Branch & Sons, a reputable Virginia firm, who have opened an office in the Georgia Railroad Bank, and who propose to make liberal advances on cotton and tobacco. Gold went up on yesterday to 152, and sellers usually demanded 155. Good judges are of the opinion that the tendency will continue upward until Congress meets, and the questions of repu diation and the readmission of the seceded States are disposed of. The repudiation party will be noisy and quite formidable; and under tlieir in fluence it would not be strange if gold advanced to a figure beyond any reached during the war. But the government which has achieved so much through the prowess of its arms and the sagacity of its financial policy, will scarely tarnish its escutcheon with the blot of repudiation. So let nobody be alarmed by the temporary advance gold. Greenbacks will be the national currency and will in a few months approximate very closely to a gold standard. Our people are felicitating themselves on the appointment of Gen. Davis Tillson as Assistant Commissioner of the Freedmen’s Beaureau this District. Our city was visited two days ago by a de structive fire, in which a greater portion of the Augusta Machine Works were destroyed. The property of the 159th New York Regiment, who were quartered in the building, was consumed and one of their number perished in the flames, pet bear which they had brought from Louisiana, was also consumed. The men, who were the next day to be mustered out ot service, lost all their personal effects, including, also, guns, and the regimental property. The origin of the fire is unknown. Lt. Col. Waltermire, who com manded the regiment, evinces tlie deepest sym paty for the loss sustained by his men, which shared by our citizens generally, between whom and the 159th the kindest relations have existed. Col. Molineaux was in command of the regiment until breveted for gallantry, and during their stay here, and in Madison, where they have been recently quartered, they have preserved order and evinced a spirit of civility and kindness which A titles them to respect. Col. Waltermire is so much pleased with his stay in Georgia that I am informed that lie has made arrangements engage in planting in Floyd county. He is cultivated and agreeable gentleman, and well understands the character of the negro. The election for the Convention passed off qui etly, and though only a few hundred votes were polled, our citizens are generally well satisfied with the delegation from old Richmond. And well they may be. Jenkins, Walker and Kin, are nam§s honored by all familiar with the polit ical or judicial history of the State. The names of members elect, as far as reported, indicate that the Convention will be composed of sterlin, material. I observe a number whose names are widely known as editors. Among these are M. Barnes, Esq., who edited the Chronicle & Sen tinel with signal ability during the secession cam paign ; John H. Christy, of the Athens Watch man—a self-made man, and an excellent editor George W. Adair, the energetic, practical and witty coadjutor of Smith in the old Southern Confederacy of your city, and Judge Whitaker of the Intelligencer, whose good taste would per haps render compliment in these columns dis tasteful, but whose record, both as lawyer, and public officer, speaks for itself There may be others of the “fourth estate” whose names have not observed. In this connection allow a typo, of some expe rience to congratulate you on the appearance of your paper. It is the handsomest daily in the State. Its columns indicate able management and a surprising amount of enterprise in your business circles, which must soon restore the Gate City to her former high rank among the cities of the South. Appropos of the Convention, I observe the name of S. J. Saffold, Esq., announced in your columns as a candidate for Secretary of that body. It is my good fortune to know Capt. Saf fold well, and I am sure a more thoroughly com petent and worthy man could not be selected. He is a brother of T. P. Saffold, Esq., member elect from Morgan county and a man of talent and promise. The white labor question is attracting a good deal of attention in this part of the State. The negroes do'not yet realize that freedom carries with it £ny of the old obligations to labor which rest on all who “eat bread,” and farmers and many of those who employ domestics are look ing to immigration for relief from the perplexi ties and uncertainly now attending the supply of labor. I observe that Messrs. Atkinson and She- cut, Employment Agents here, propose to send one of their firm North to make contracts for la borers and domestic servants, male and female. Any of your readers wishing to secure farm la bor, mechanics or house servants would do well to confer with them. Augusta. From tha Federal Union. “Can you tell me how many seconds there are in a minute, and how many minutes in an hour?” Mrs. Marsh asked her little son Harold. Harold was seated on a stool at his mother’s feet -. he considered a little while, but he could not remember. “I think you are old enough to learn some thing about the divisions of time,” said his moth er ; “so I will tell you wliat they are, and you must repeat them idler me. “Sixty seconds make one minute. “Sixty minutes, one hour. Twenty-four hours, one day (which means Messrs. Editors : When aman gets his neigh bor’s com, or meat, or flour, or cloth, or other commodity ’on a credit, and gives his note for payment a£t future day, and afterwards pats his property out of his hands, or is guilty of other fraudulent practice, or takes advantage of a tech nicality of law to avoid the payment of this just debt, we say, and say truly, that he is not honest, and in our transactions we will avoid him, and refuse toi^b him for anything, or if we do credit himjwe will add enough to the price of, - the article sold, to justify us in naming the risk of “f™ night) losing the debt by some dishonest trick of his. I ' _ yen days, one week. A State is a whole people, or large number of persons united in one body politic, for the pro tection and defense of the rights of all In other words, it is a large number of persons acting in a corporate capacity as one person. That which is dishonest in one person, or ten, or one hundred, is equally dishonest in one whole number who compose the State. If then, it is dishonest and disreputable in one person to take advastage of a legal technicalitv to avoid the payment of a just debt, it is equally dishonest and disreputable in the whole people of a State to do the same unworthy deed. The man who will do it is not worthy of confidence orecredit, but is disgraced, and justly so. The peopk of a State who will do it, while many of them may be hone9t, are, as a people, disgraced, unworthy of credit in future, and de serve the scorn and rebuke of all honest men and communities, till they undo the foul deed, and re sume and pay tlie honest debt for which they get value received. I regret that these remarks are applicable, if tlie reports in the papers are correct, to the hith erto proud State of Alabama. During the late war in which her people engaged with remarka ble unanimity, and her sons distinguished them selves on so many hard fought fields, by their intrepid valor, it was an honor anywhere for a From the Boliver (Mo.) Sentinel, of the 6th. Shocking Tragedy—A Sheriff and His Aid Killed. The Grand Jury of the county of Cedar, hav ing found an indictment for murder against two men, named Stow and Earnest, a capias was laced in the hands of Captain John Paynter, heriff of the county, to arrest them. The Sher iff having summoned six men to assist him in making the arrest, proceeded about twelve miles from Stackton, on the Oseola road, where they came to the house in which Stow was. The Sheriff and two of his assistants entered the house, and found Stow in bed; he then went to the foot of the bed, and laying his hands on Stow, said: “I am the Sheriff of Cedar County; you are my prisoner.” At that instant Stow fired, the ball entering Captain Paynter’s heart, killing instantly. Lieutenant Harvel, one of the men summoned to assist Paynter, was standing at his back, when Stow fired a second time, killing Harvel. Sir. Noble, another of the aids who was in the room at the time, fired three times at Stow, but without effect A party of men, supposed to be friends of Stow, were seen approaching the house, which had been guarded outside by the remainder of the aids; but owing to the excitement occasioned by the killing of the Sheriff and Lieut Harvel, Stow made his escape, about an hour afterward, the bouse containing some two or three doorways. “Four weeks, one month. “Twelve months, one year. “In the year there are three hundred and six ty-five days. “And one hundred years make a century. “It will be some time before I remember all that” said Harold. “Perhaps you can learn it quicker in verse, said his mother; and she took a paper from her work-basket and read as follows Sixty seconds make a minute. Sixty times the clock ticks it; Sixty minutes make an hour. To stay its flight we have no power; Twenty-four hours one day and night, Some hours of darkness some of light; Seven days there are in every week, To keep the seventh day holy seek; In every month the weeks are fonr. And some have two or three days more ; And twelve months make up the whole year. Spend well each one God grants you here.” Harold thought he could remember the verse much better than prose; he repeated the first four lines several times after his mother, and found he knew them quite well. “That will do for this morning,” said Mrs, Marsh. “If you remember these lines to-mor row I will teach you some more. Now tell me the days of the week.” Harold repeated, “Monday, Tuesday, Wednes day, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.” “You know, mv dear Harold, why we keep the seventh day (Sunday) holy ?” “Yes, mamma, ‘In six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the the greatest hardships for want of comfortable I Lord blessed tlie seventh day and hallowed.’ ” clothing, or wholesome food. In this condition | “Quite right, Harold: and be sure if the day of of things, the Stage of Alabama, stepped forward, I rest is truly valued, and rightly used, it will as a corpora tr iWfty or whole people, and said I bring a blessing to body aud soul. You may go these suffering ferives and children of soldiers to pnty now, aud we will talk about the time shall have bread;, and these, our gallant sons in | again some other day.” the field, shall have clothing, and we wifi pledge the whole wesfeh of the State that those who I “ Proceed With Thy Elephant.” furnish these necessaries, and the money needed In Columbiana county resides an old fellow re- to pay the other expenses of the State, shall have I nowned for his belligerent disposition, who it repaid to them. This whole people, whose generally known as Friend Shavcy. Bom and faith had always been sacred, offered their bonds bred a Quaker, be was long since read out of in the market tor such things as they needed, 1 meeting on account of liis quarrelsome propensi ty 1 *-** the solemn pledge, under the broad seal of I ties, but he still pertinaciously clings to the plain the totate, that the bonds should be redeemed.— j clothes and plain language of his early days, pos- Trusting to the good faith _ of a people whose I gibly as a protection against the wrath which he honor had never been tarnished, persons who I j s continually provoking by his over-bearing and had the ability advanced the money, and took irritating demeanor. He has always the crassest the bonds or notes of the Slate. How humilia- I flog in the neighborhood, the most troublesome, ting it will always be in future, to a proud spir- 1 - - ited honest citizen of Alabama, to tell the balance. The Convention of that State lately solemnly de termined, upon a mere legal technicality, to repu diate the debt, and ordained that it shall never be paid. A State cannot be sued without her consent, and compelled by law to pay her just debts, as a private individual can be. The Con- man to say, I am an Alabamian. Even in the Northern States, the announcement would have extorted respect But while these brave men were fighting and making so many sacrifices in defense of the «0use espoused by their State, their families at home were suffering for the necessa ries of life, and they were many times enduring breechy steers, &c., and is continually in hot water with some of liis neighbors in consequence of the depredations committed by his unruly live stock. A few weeks since Yan Amburg’s Menag erie, traveling through Columbiana, was obliged to pass his residence. A little before daylight, Nash, the keeper of the elephant Tippoo Saib. „ ., . , , as he was passing over the road with his ele- vention ot Alabama knew that fact, and relying phant, discovered this pseudo Quaker seated upon no doubt upon that legal technicality, did the I a fence by the roadside, watching a bull which disgraceful deed. I he had turned out upon tlie road, and which was I am unacquainted with the members of that I pawing, bellowing and throwing up a tremen- Convention, butj will venture the assertion that dous dust generally. In fact, from the fury of two-thirds of them never exposed their dear lives I the animals demonstrations, one would have m battle in the late contest, while their fellow- readily taken him for one of the identical breed citizens, most of whom had but little property that butted the locomotive off the bridge at stake, were fighting the battles. These gen- « Take that bull out of the way,” shouted Nash tlemen, who, no doubt belong to the richer class, as he approached. were at home ^peculating or making money, “ Proceed with thy elephant,” was the reply, much of which is probably invested in land and “ If you don’t take that bull away he will get other good property. If the honest debt of Ala-1 hurt,” continued Nash, approaching, while the bama is paid, the property of those who grew bull redoubled his belligerent demonstrations, nch during the war must be taxed for that pur- “ Don’t trouble thyself about the bull, but pro pose. For every man of sense knows that the C eed with the elephant,” retorted Friend Shavey, poor pay but a small fraction of the tax. It is rubbing liis hands with delight at the prospect of paid mainly by the rich, who are often the least an approaching scrimmage, the old fellow having patriotic, and the least willing to pay. What I great confidence in the invincibility of his bull will the honest, brave soldiers of Alabama say which was really the terror of the whole country of this shameful act ? The answer is easy. A around. brave man is generally honest, and an honest Tippoo Saib came along with his uncouth man is willing to pay a just debt, as soon as he shambling gait; the bull lowered his head and is able, If the question were submitted to a made a charge directly upon the elephant. Old vote of the gallant soldiers of Alabama to-mor- Tippoo, without even pausing in his march gave row, I doubt notfihey would say, by overwhelm- his cow-catcher a sweep, catching the bull on the mg odds, the debt shall be paid. The honor of I aide, crushing in his ribs with liis enormous tusks, the btate shall not be tarnished. It was in fact I and then raised him about thirty feet in the air contracted for the benefit, in a great measure of I the bull striking upon his head as he came down themselves and their families, while they were breaking liis neck and killing him instantly hazarding their fives for their State, and they “ I’m afraid your bull has bent his neck a lit- would not allowtihe rich speculators who own tie,” shouted Nash, as he passed on the property to >*>id payment by repudiation. “Bent the devil,” cried old Shavey, with Who, in futurCwill credit the State of Ala- troubled look at his defunct bull; “ thy elephant bama ? Who, within the next half century, with is too heavy for my beast, but thee will not make open, unjust repudiation upon her record, will 1 so much out of the operation as thee supposes give lifty cents in the dollar for any bond she I was going to take my family to thy show but may issue ? Capitalists will naturally say, a peo- I’ll see thee and thy show blowed to blazes before pie who have once repudiated, are not to be I go one step, and be d—d—pleasethe “please” trusted, till they have again assumed and paid the being added as Shavey took a second look at the debt. She will lose more in her financial trans-1 proportions of the stalw'art elephant keeper. actions in half a century by want of credit, than the whole amount she has repudiated. How dif ferent the course of South Carolina, whose peo ple, whatever may have been their political er rors, have always kept public faith as sacred as virgin purity. Her Convention has met, acted, and adjourned, and we hear not a word about repudiation. In future when South Carolina Arabian Laughing Plant.—In Palgrave’s “Central and Eastern Arabia,” some particulars are given in regard to a curious narcotic plant. Its seeds, in which the active principle seems chiefly to reside, w hen pounded and administer ed in a small dose, produce effects much like Jwnws'mouey'at'iive'or’slx per’cent, Ata I 'JT.ZlOH,!,? *£5T P ^’ S D ‘V will have to pay ten, if indeed she can borrow at I f h ’ i J , V'n a'tP’ and 'performs a all. Even Mississippi, which once repudiated, ’ i * h ™ r «f gr l cat basset afar better example. The Convention a to 1 the 1 by- there left the question of the public debt to the hv? ° n a ? vakl11 ? 11413 lost Legislature; and I am informed, it is said by ^ leading men there, that they intend to pay it, no __ i • . , J P ut a P mcll 0 f this matter what it costs, as they have suffered Enough ShSSl ZLT? » nsus P e . ct “S already by repudiation. 3 ° fw d ^ a n P °l^? COnl , m , J ° ke ’ “ 01 ' 13113aid It is reported that the Convention of Alabama cycr ^ OWf ; d & ser !°™ COI f e 0 ue «- attempts to shield itself behind the pretext that j T] „ thnr^pUi, mi ® b 1 P e f ll ®P s he the Government of the United States requires , two mdiviaii- that the debt be repudiated. It is a sufficient re- hon i 1 ®' ply, to say the State debt is a matter with which fe T l. 1 , 16 that Government has not, and cannot have any- J enoiI . h \ t , , ,,«<> P °t> au = babl6 still we see it announced that the President ap- I „i_, t t . ^I° r ’-M nd P innale ^> ' Vllb proves foe action of both these conventions. ^ ^ 9lde ; ^ Stalk ? President Johnson is a man of too much sound j, he U ° WerS are / e11 ^’ a . nd practical sense and statesmanship, and with all, a ' th numerous, the fruit is a too good a State rights man, to interfere in any , , Wlth ^eemsh pacldmg, m which such matter, or to make any such requirement.of bl , aCk seeds ’. m SLZe any State. He will leave that, ashe has the I and muck . llke * rencl1 beans 5 tbeir uestion of negro suflrage, to the respective tates, where it properly belongs. It may be pleaded, as an excuse for the bad faith of Alabama, that she had issued part of her | bonds, and treasury notes, when the currency was depreciated, and that she did not receive sweetish, but with a peculiar opiate flavor; the smell heavy and almost sickly. Slavery in Cura —A meeting of wealthy slave-owners, capitalists and well-known mer- , , chants, Creoles and Europeans, was held at the gold value for them. If so, this may have been I boi!8 ° °( Mr. O. Farrill, to take into considera- a just reason for settling them down to gold value, f ^ ou various projects for the abolition of slavery, but none for repudiating them entirely. I am I *"' ok Montaos suggested-a plan based on the pur- not prepared to sav that this scaling process may I ® base o1 their freedom by the labor of the slaves, not be just The rtile in that case would be for It w ? s also proposed to effect a loan of $180,000- the State to pay infold, as mnch as she got in [ 111 or<ler to indemnify the proprietors at the gold value, for the ifotes or bonds when issued j I rale $600 for each emancipated slave, what since have been their market value, wheth- I Sorin, on behalf of a number of planters er above or below, that being immaterial to her. I owning among them one hundred thousand If she got one hundred cents in the dollar in I s .ves, advocated the policy of immediate einan- gold value, let her pay that; if seventv-five or I cl P all °o and the conversion of the slaves into titty cents, let her pay that. This would be hon- j P _ ala rion^apprentices bound to labor ten years est and equitable, but repudiation is neither equitable, honest nor honorable, but a disgrace and a reproach to any people guilty of it Georgia. for their old masters, and to receive wages dar ing that period at the rate of $4 a month. At the end of the ten years the emancipados would have the option of changing their places of labor, or renewing their former contracts. The number of slaves in Havana is estimated at 378,000. The Cuban planters are well aware that it is impossible to resolve so difficult a- problem with- Novel Place of Amusement.—Here is an anecdote extracted from the London Telegraph's account of the building of the new bridge at Blackfriars, and worth qaoting: At the building of Westminister Bridge diving I out the consent and co-operation of themetropo- bells were used, but a difficulty arose of a very I fis; hence they will send to Madrid a eomruis- unexpected kind. The men in the bells, com-1 sion of eminent men, headed by Mr. Durand, fortably out of sight of their employers, found I Rector of the University of Cuba, and deputed themselves under no compulsion to work. One I to lay before the Queen a memorial, dated the would not think at first the bottom of the great 128th July last, and bearing over twelve thousand London sewer was a pleasant place, for the liquid I signatures.—N. O. Bee. which flows in the Thames, and is courtesy I -* ► ; called water, is so thick that in a bell a few feet j Sentiments of Gen. Lee.—The Index, of Pe- below the surface it is as dark as night, though I tersburg, publishes the subjoined extract from a men have been down in sixty feet of sea-water I private letter to one of its editors from Gen. Lee, and worked by daylight. But the divers at West- I prefacing it with the remark that “ These words minister did not mind the gloom. of wise counsel from the best beloved man in Lighting up their candles, they used, instead I these Southern States, are-common property, and of working, to play cards and read newspapers. I they receive conclusive force from the noble ex- They took down beer, and even tried smoking ample he has set of faith in his own views and during these sub aqueous debauches, but the efr I obedience to his own convictions of duty. As The World. 3Y ELIZA COOK. Talk who will of the world as a desert of thrall; Yet—yet there is bloom on the waste; Though the chalice of life has Its acid and gall, There are honey-drops too in the taste. We murmur and droop ahonld the sorrow-cloud stay, And note all the shades of our lot; But the rich scintillations that brighten our way, Are bask’d in, enjoyed and forgot. Those who look on mortality’s ocean and aright, Will not moan o’er each billow that rolls. But dwell on the glories, the beauties, the might. As much as the shipwrecks and shoals. How thankless is he who remembers alone All the bitter, the drear, and the dark; Though the raven may scare with its .woe-boding tone. Do we ne’er bear the soug of the lark f We may utter farewell when ’tis torture to part, But in meeting the dear one again Hare we never ^rejoiced with that wildness of heart Which outbalances ages of pain r Though the eye may be dimmed with its grief drop awhile. And the whitened lip sigh forth its fear, Tet pensive indeed is that face where the smile Is not oftener seen than the tear. There are times when the storm-gusts do rattle around, There are spots where the poison shrub grows, Yet are there’uot hours when nought else can be found. But the south wind, the sunshine aud rose ? O haplessly rare is that portion -that's ours, Aud strange is th*jiath that we take. If there spring not beside ns a few precious flowers, To soften the thorn and the brake. The wail of regret, the rude clashing of strife, The soul's harmony often may mar; But I think we mnst own in the discords of life, ’Tis ourselves that oft waken the jar. Earth is not all FAm, yet it is not all gloom, And the voice of the grateful will tell, That He, who allotted Pain, Death and the Tomb, Gave Hope, Health, and the Bridal as well ! Should Fate do its worst, and my spirit oppress'd O'er its own shattered happiness pine. Let me witness the joy in another’s glad breast, And some pleasure must kindle in mine. , Then say not the world is a desert of thrall; There is bloom, there is hope on the waste: Though the chalice of life has its acid and’gall, There are honey-drops too in the taste. Correct Transcript of the Sentence of Death Pronounced Against Jesus Christ. [Translated from the Cablishe Zeitnng.J The following is a copy of tlie most memora ble judicial sentence which has ever been pro nounced in the annals of the world—namely, that of death against the Savior, with the remarks which the journal LeDroit has collected, and the knowledge of which must be interesting in the highest degree to every Christian. Until now we were not aware that it had been made public in the German papers. It is word for word as fol lows : Sentence pronounced by Pontius Pilate, late intendant on the Province of Lower Galilee, that Jesus of Nazareth shall suffer death by the cross. In the sevent eenth year of the reign of the Em peror Tiberius, and on the 25tli day of the month of March, in the most holy city of Jerusalem, du ring the pontificate of Annanias aud Caiaphas. Pontius Pilate, intendant on the Province of Lower Gallilee, sitting in judgment in the Presi dential seat of the prietor sentences Jesus of Naz areth to death, on the cross, between two robbers, as the numerous and notorious testimonies of the people prove— 1. Jesus is a misleader. 2. He has excited the people to sedition. 3. He is an enemy to the law’s. 4. He calls himself the Son of God. 5. He calls himself false the King of Israel, 6. He went into the Temple follow’ea by a mul titude carrying palms in their hands. Orders the first centurion Quirilus Cornelius to bring him to the place of execution. Forbids all persons, rich or poor, to prevent the execution of Jesus. The witnesses who have signed the execution of Jesus are— 1. Daniel Robani, Pharisee. 2. John Zorababel. 3. Raphael Roboni. 4. Capet. Jesus is to be taken out of Jerusalem through the gate of Toumes. This sentence was engraved on a plate of brass, in tlie Hebrew’ language, and on its sides are the following words : “A similar plate has been sent to each tribe. ” Andrew Johnson. A new book haajust been issued from the publishing house of Little, Brown & Co., entitled “The Speeches of Andrew. Johnson, President of the United States, with a Biographical Intro duction by Frank Morse.” We condense the following facts.—Columbus Sun. Andrew Johnson was born on tlie 29th day of December, 1808, at Raleigli, N. C. In his fifth year his father was drow ned, while successfully endeavoring to save the Editor of tlie Raleigh Gazette. Left a destitute orphan, he was, at tlie age of ten years, apprenticed to a tailor in liis native town. In liis few leisure hours he learned, by bis own unaided efforts, to read and spell. In 1824, he went-to Laurens Court House, S. C., where he worked as a journeyman tailor till May, 1826, when he returned to Raleigh. In Septem ber of the same year, he removed to Eastern Tennessee, and soon after liis settlement there, married a woman whose attainments and devo tion have contributed much to liis success in fife. She read to him as he plied the needle, aud ut night instructed him in writing and arithmetic. Self-reliance and energy were early developed in his character, while the method of his education sharpened and improved ids reasoning facultii s. He conceived and nourished the idea that tlie government is by the people and for the people, and beginning to put this idea in a practical shape, jn °liis town aroused the people to assert their right to representation in the two councils. The result was, that in 1828 the young tailor was chosen Alderman; and in two years after, Mayor; and, in 1834, w’as successful in liis efforts to se cure a new Constitution for Tennessee, by which important rights w r ere guaranteed to the mass of the people, the freedom of the press established, and other liberal measures adopted. This was the real commencement, of liis public life. From the year 1835, in which he w’as elected a member of the House of Representatives of the State, till 1843, he filled various offices of trust and influ ence in the State. In 1843, he was elected to tlie natioual legislature, and for ten years repre sented his State in Congress. In tlie ensuing years lie was Governor of Tennessee, and in 1857 was elected to the Senate of tlie United States, which position he held until the spring of 1862, when he was appointed Military Governor ot Tennessee. Of his subsequent election as Vice- President, and tbe circumstances which raised liim to the first place in tlie land, it is needless to speak. Bom of the people, thrown upon his ow r n resources, stimulated by a w orthy desire not only to advance himself, but to benefit the class from which he sprung, he has steadily risen, proving himself equal to every position in w hich he has been placed, and modestly but firmly dis charging the duties of his numerous and difficult posts. No better illustration of tlie working of American institutions, and their amazing advan tages to those w ho are willing to improve' them, can be furnished, than the record of such a lift. An Incident at the White House.—On Thursday last, an unusual and quite romantic incident occurred at the White House among the squad of pardon-seekers there. The suppliants were waiting around as your correspondent D. D. described a few days ugo, and among others were two persons, a closely-veiled young lady and a gentleman somew hat bronzed, (a rebel sol- <lier once, quite likely,) with a heavy beard and a careful dress. They had not paid any atten tion to each other during the hour or two they had been so near, and w ould not have done so for all coming time had it not been for the usher. He came with a document, and in a sharp tone called out the name subscribed on its envelope. It w as a prominent one once in Georgia, and w as familiar to most of the ears upon which its tones fell. The gentleman, w’ith an air of pleasure, stepped forward to take it, when the lady, w ith a little scream, pressed forw’ard and clasped him tightlj in her arms. He at first seemed surprised at such an unwonted proceeding, but when she several times excitedly asked, “Don’t you know’ Jessie?” “Don’t you know’ Jessie?” “You can’t have forgotten me in such a short time,” and removed her veil to show a fresh, piquant, pretty face. Recognition was instant, and with the one word “sister,” he was quite as demon strative as she had been before. “ Why, Jessie, what are you doing here ?” he asked. “ I am here for father; he is very, very sick,” she said, with a little elision of the “r,” and a sob. “ But he wants to die, if he has to die, a citizen of the Union again.” The young man seemed affected, but in the . It was discovered in the year new found joy of meeting a sister long lost, the 1289, in the city of Acquilla, in the Kingdom of I cloud that time did not darken his heart. A few Naples, by a search for the Roman antiquities by moments after she also received the grant of her the commissaries in the French army of Italy, application. Up to the time of the French campaign in South- it seems that the young man went out early em Italy, it w’as preserved in the sacristy of the in the war as major of a Confederate regiment.- Cartnusians, near Naples, where it was kept in a He was taken prisoner in a skirmish just after box of ebony. Since then the relic has been kept | Bull Run, and spent two years in a Northern in the chapel of Castrty. The French transla tion wes made literally by members of the Com mission of Arts. Denon had a fac simile of the plate engraved, which w’as bought by Lord How ard, on the sale of his cabinet, for 2890 franes. There seems to be no historical doubt as to the question of authenticity. The reasons of the sentence correspond exactly w ith those of the Gospel. Louisiana Intelligence. Tiie Recent Storm on the Gulf Coast.— I Full Particulars.—The Vermillionville (LaFay- ette Parish) Advertiser, of the 30th ult., has the following: We saw a gentleman from the Cheniere who prison. Returning to service, the cause of the “Confederacy” needed all the men for support it could obtain and lie w^s forced to stay in the ranks. Letters he had sent home failed to reach, and he, despairing of finding his family after the march of Sherman over the State, came North to see after a friend. This good work done he returned to Washington to look after his pardon. All this time his family gave him up as dead,and, saving his sister, who met him so strangely,think so yet.—Phila. Press. A young Englishman, whilst at Naples, was introduced at an assembly of one of the first la dies by a Neapolitan gentleman. While he was there, his snuff box was stolen from him. The informed us that during the storm which swept I nexl cla y> being at another house, he saw a per- the Gulf coast on the 13th inst., the buildings at I lakln S snutt out of his box. He ran to liis Calcasieu Pass were all destroyed except one, I , en<k " There,” said he “ that man in blue, and all the people were drowned except one man, | ' vltb S olcl embroidery, is taking snuff out of the who saved himself by getting on top of a house. I J* 0 * that was stolen from me yesterday. Do you There were twenty-four lives lost. At Sabine kn °w him ? Is he not a sharper?” “Take town everything was sw r ept aw a y, and the resi-1 care >” sal(1 llj e other, “ that man is of the first dents to the number of sixty-one were drowned. I c l ualb y-” “ I cl ° not care lor his quality,” said The water rose tw’enty feet above the surface of tbe Englishman, “ I must have my snuff box the ground at Calcasieu Pass. The people of the 5 ru £° and . ask liim fo r it.” “ Pray,” said Grand Cheniere were not injured on the Island, I 1118 friend, “ be quiet and leave it to me to get but we understand one man lost six hundred back y our box.” Upon this assurance the Eng- Lead of cattle. Generally every thing animate I fj^man went away, after inviting liis friend to and inanimate were swept away. Texas also I c ‘^ ne t ^ ie next day. He accordingly suffered immense losses tlirougliout the country came > an(1 83 lle entered, “ there,” said he, “ I lying between the Sabine and the Brazos, and I |??7 e brought you your snuff box,” “Well, how we are told that the lower portion of Galveston did you obtain it ?” “ Why,” said the Neapolitan city was under water. nobleman, “ I did not wish to make any noise The Baton Rouge Gazette states that Brigadier about 5t > therefore I picked his pocket of it.” General Fonda is to remain in command of that _ ♦ post until further orders, and that no one more I Life Compared to a Clock.—Our brains are acceptable could be in command. seventy year clocks. The angel of life winds The Baton Rouge Advocate learns from relia-1 them up once for all, then closes the cases and authority that the election of parochial offi-1 Sj. ves the key into the hand of resurrection. ! will not be delayed beyond the time of the 1 '} c ' tac * tic-tac! go the wheels of thought; our legal delay necessary from the date of the paS - Wl11 cann °t stop them; they cannot stop them- sage of a resolution to that effect by the coming 3617153 i slee P cannot still them; madness only Legislature. I makes them go faster; death alone can break in- The Advocate says the dengue is veiy preva- 10 tlie case ) ancl seizing the ever swinging pentiu- lent in that vicinity. I lanl which we call the heart, silence at last the Gen. J. G. Prat, of St. Landry, is a candidate I cllc king of the terrible escapement we have car- for Congressman in the Fourth Congressional I rlecl 80 lon S beneath our aching foreheads. If District. ° I we could only get at them as w r e lie on our pil- Another Car Disturbance.—A disturbance ra d T* the d £ ad beats o/thought after which looked at one time decidedly squally, took Jhe over Hr^i^r^n^w/fi 18 ^’, t j' rou S‘ l place yesterday on Rampart street, opposite Con- wwTf 1 W d • nobod ^ b P ck go Square. A crowded car—not a star—was wwPrPiqPiP t >Llr - P im ° n » J** 11 tbe string passing alon 0 * when a colored soldier named Fn- I ^ bolds those weights. \\ hat a passion gene Julian,° of the Twenty-sixth W S C L I p°. mes sometimes for silence and rest, that iiimneil in and aeted in a . • lo . ’ I 11113 dreadful mechanism, unwinding tlie endless SS!5i if “ad teea pSdbedre“. % every one at first supposed to be a revolver, but | halfday 1 ?— O. Holm™* 1 b ° nC bnCl ble cere which afterwards turned out to be a merchaum pipe in a case. The difference, however, was not 1 q.„ E Tnwi , a „„ ti.„ i. i discovered until there had been a complete evacua-1 nn ft, | EL ' Tbe Tower of Babel, - F I on which late accounts announce that a cross was the driver, Jas. Murphy, was half frightened to [ death. feet upon the breathing was not agreeable, and I be never ordered any man to go where he feared they took to chewing instead. By giving a ran- j to go himself, so he never advises any course that dom signal every now and then to the men di- I hels not fully prepared to follow. We feel that recting the movements of the bell from above, I we give expression to a wish as wide as the they could convey the impression that they were I Union, in hoping that he may five long enough working, and their little amusements were unin- to see his cheerful prophecy abundantly accom- terrupted for some time, till at last they were I phshed in the full restoration of our land in every | found out. Diving dresses and helmets were part, to even more than her former prosperity ana Capt Paynter was an active business man, and i then introduced, and the use of bells was given freedom: ” was much esteemed by his fellow citizens. He [ up with very beneficial results. I “ It should be the object of all to avoid con- formerly belonged to the 6th Missouri Cavalry j —^ ^ J troversy, to allay passion, give free scope to Volunteers. j Concernig Doors.—When you go into your I reason and every kindly feeling. By doing this, • [ neighbors premises, be sure to leave the doors as and encouraging our citizens to engage in the du- “Ma,” said a little boy, “has aunty got bees in j you find them. If you find a door shut, you I ties of life with all their heart and mind, with a her mouth ?” “No, my dear, whv do you ask ?” i may reasonably suppose your friend wanted to determination not to be turned aside by thoughts “'Cause Captain Jones caught hold of her, and said have it shut, and therefore yon have no right to I of the past or fears of the future, our country he was going to take honey from her lips; and ! leave it open; and if yon find it open, no matter will not only be restored in material prosperity, she said, “Well make haste!” j how cold the weather is, do you leave it open, I but will be advanced in science, in virtue, and in Sherman and Grant were both at a "rand ■ ^ or 1113 but reasonable to conclude that it was relitoon. banquet given to the English capitalists in St ' frtt open for some good purpose. And the same “Wishing you every success lam most truly jjoute 6 ’ t advice is good for all places, whether they be yours, ^ “ R. E. Lee.” t M /vvn . .. .... ! houses, stores, factories, offices, or whatever they ——— Lewl Gass has^ycmjlLOOO to the $1(50,000 inay t, e Remember the rule; it has no excep- A gentleman, walking with two ladies, stepped tion. Leave the doors as you find them. If the on a hogshead hoop, that flewup and struck him owner of the door don’t know how he wants it, in the fac*. “Good gracious!” said he, “which how do you know fiaw he wants it? I of yon dropped that?” soldier’s monument at Detroit New Yotk city days as taxes this Year $18- 325,936 15. i^l only two of the eight stories formerly erected. Special Officer Boullosa happened to be near I are ’L’ b °. We J7’ Tl, ble & T a the spot, and at once collared thesoldieF, whore-1 ^f cb , sld f of the quadrangular sisted desperately, and was urged to further vio-1 w^t UreS f tw ,?- y artl3 111 length, ancl lence by a colored woman, who followed tlie of-1 ^ ucb 13 com P° 3e d are of the licerand his prisoner along the street. Boullosa Pfy 86111 wrote clay, with a veiy slight brownish however, at last got his prisoner locked up in the’ i. nt ’ wb icli in the sun assume a wonderfully rich Treme Station, and then arrested the woman. I 9Ca [ C6 jy b * beirn, t a tccl by tlie painter. The The case will come up before the Provost Court I , ck8 > before being baked, were covered with to-day.—N. O. True Delta. characters, traced most surety with the hand in a The Louisiana delegation, which called upon I c ear regular style. r l he bitumen which the President the other day, was composed of I fHH? 1 » ™[ l cern . en t was derived from a fountain Miles Taylor and Judge Lee. They represent I « 1,cb exists near the Tower, and which Gov. Welis, and desire to have the present State j ft° ws h such abundance that ft soon torni3 a Government constitution thrust aside, and his I w ® ultl mvade the neighboring river present Excellency appointed Provisional'Gov-1 fti, n . * be n ^. n " es from time to time set lire to ernor. I the stream of bitumen, and then wait quietly Another party, representing Senator Hahn and j ® ames should cease for want of aliment, his friends, have also had several interviews with j uaugani. the Resident. They ask that the election,which A Brave Girl.—The St. Malo (France) jour- has already been called, be allowed to go on, al- nab, reC ord a courageous act by a yonng lady of legmg that the State Government is as legitimate that town, M’lle, U P , who w^a the mJans as that of Virginia, Arkansas and Tennessee; of saving the life of a lad/the sonofM Hamon that a new convention would make a worse con- one of the editors of the Progress. It appeare stitution, and that Wells has already quite as that young Hamon, when bathinc on the beach much power as it is safe to put in Ins hands. I «v.f .n.:. ,i .il They further ask if any provisional Govern- j or is to be appointed that Robert C. Wickliffe be the man. The party is headed by Hon. A. P. Dostie.— Washington Dispatch. got out of his depth, and was being carried out to sea by the retiring wave, when the young lady heard his cries for help and swam to his assis tance. She managed to keep his head above water for some time, until the youth in his terror The continual rain, day and night at a season clung to her and rendered her'perfectly helplSs the vear when we almost We -W I They then botfa ?ank together ** At th ^ t moment two of the bathing men arrived in a boat, ac companied by a foreigner, who immediately dived and brought up the two young persons in a state of insensibility. They were, however, soon revived by the use of the usual means, and have since perfectly recovered. There is a young man in the lunatic asylum at Flatbush, N. Y., who was made insane by the July riots in New York city in 1863, when he was compelled by the mob to join their ranks.— Although the boy’s mental powers appear to be entirety destroyed, his physical development since his confinement in the asylum is realty astonish ing. From a slight and delicate youth he has become a giant, at least in stature, aud now stands near seven feet in hight. “My dear,” said a gentleman to a young lady whom he hoped to marry, “do you intend to make a fool of me V” “No,” replied the lady, “Nature has paved me the trouble.” of the year when we almost invariably have dry and delightful weather, is destroying both cotton and com, and to add to our calamities, the worm is making its appearance again. Our people are heartily discouraged, and many are talking se riously of selling out at any sacrifice and emi grating to some other land.—Terrebonne Civic Ghuard. A Quid for Negrophilism.—We are reliably informed, says the Columbus, (Miss.) Index, thar one of the wells on the “ barrack ” grounds, that is used by the freedmen and women, having be come unfit to drink from by reason of a strange scent and nauseating taste; it was ordered to be cleaned out, when the bodies of fifteen negro in fants were found in the well! This comes too direct to admit of any doubt; there is no “grape vine” about it. THq conductors of the Philadelphia street cars are accused of “knocking down” over $100,000.