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VOL. 2. THE POLITICAL SITUATION. FLORIDA CERTAINLY DEMOCRATIC. Tilden V Election Assured . i- .. .1 -..■■■ii..... 188 Votes Without South Car olina or Louisiana. HAMPTON ELECTED IN SOUTH CAROLINA. THE PRESIDENTIAL VOTE . CLOSE. SOUTH CABOMM. HAMPTON ELECTED. VERT CLOSE FOR THE ELECTORS. Charleston, Nov. 10.— By the la test corrected official returns, Hamp ton’s majority is 1,481 .The full re turns indicate that Tilden has fallen much more behind Hampton’s vote than has been supposed. In ten out of thirty-two counties, Tilden major ity. is 453 less than Hampton’s. Au equal retio of loss in the remaining twenty-two counties would leave Til den less than one hundred majority in the State. FLORIDA. Jacksonville, Nov. 11.—-The dis tant counties in this State are still to be officially heard from in regard to election results. Up to this time they can only be estimated, as there are no facilities for telegraphic com munication with them. New York, Nov. 11.—A dispatch was received at the Democratic head quarters to-day from Lake City, Florida, stating that eighteen coun ties gave a Democratic majority of 5,573, and that nine counties gave a Republican majority of 6,867. The remaining nine counties to be heard from gave a Democratic majority in 1874 of 1,906. Louisville, Nov. 11.— The chair man of the Democratic State Execu tive Committee at Monticello, Flori da, says the most careful estimates on the figures of 1874, in counties not heard from, and the returns actually in, show a Democratic majority sure ly.' The counties not yet heard from are all Democratic, and will give large gains. The majority cannot fall short of 1,200. HEWITT’S REDDEST ACCEPTED. l>lat of Good and Fair Men wlio are Going to iiew Orleani. New York, November 11.—The fol lowing gentlemen have telegraphed their intention to start immediately for New Orleans in response to the call of 'the National Democratic Committee: 'Hon. Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois, ex-U. S. Senator; Hon. J. M. Palmer, of ex-Gov. A. Curtin, of Pa.; Gov. Hamilton, of Maryland; Doolittle, of Wisconsin, ex-Senator; ex-Lieut-Gov. Baugh, of Illinois; Judge J. B. Stallo, of Ohio; Hon. Oswald Ottendorff, of New York; Hon. Henry Watterson, of Kentucky; Hon. Theo. F. Randolph, of N. J.; Hon. G. B. Smith, of Wis consin; Gov. C. Carroll, of Mary land; ex-Gov. Bigler, of Pa.; Hon’. G. V, Fox; Hon. Samuel J. Randall, of Pa.; Prof. Sumner, of Yale Col lege; Hon. H. D. McHenry, of Ky. The Weather To-day. Washintton, Nov. 11.— For South Atlantic States, warmer, southwest winds, falling barometer, and clear weather will prevail. Florida certainly democratic Authentic Returns. r t THE QUESTION SETTLED. Special Dispatch.] Lake City, Nov. 11, Dr. m.—The First Congressional District, com posed of 22 counties, gives 5,140 Dem ocratic votes, and 4,501 Republican votes—Democratic majority 579. The Second Congressional District gives 3,254 Democratic votes, and 2,391 Re publican votes—Democratic major ity 863. Total Democratic majority in the State 1,442. This report is based upon official returns from 34 counties, and au es timate on the vote of 1874 on 5 coun ties, which no doubt will give in creased Democratic majorities. GONE TO NEW ORLEINI. Washington, Nov. 11.—Gov. Ran dolph passed to-day, en route for New Orleans. Boston, Nov. 11.—The Traveler says Charles Francis Adams has started South. i ■ - ■ ■■ " Tlie President’s selections. Washington, Nov. 11.—Fresident Grant returned to Washington this afternoon. He has requested the following prominent gentlemen to proceed to New Orleans, to inspect the counting of votes in Louisiana: Hon. Win. M. Evarts, Judge E. W. Slaughton, Gen. John A. Dix, and G< j n. Joseph H. Va Allen, of New York; Senator Sherman and Stanley Matthews, of Ohio; Hon. Courtiandt Parker, of New Jersey; Senator Ed munds, of Vermont; Gen. Ben. Har rison, of Indiana; Senator Logan, of Illinois; Hon. Wm. D. Kelley and Hon. Jno. Schoonbery. of Pennsyl vania; and Hon. John A. Kasson, of lowa. These and a few others have been invited. Nearly all of them have been heard from and have accept ed. THt HERALD PRAISES GRANT’S ORDER. New York, Nov. 11.-Tho Herald says of Grant’s order: “He uses words which are most honorable to him, and which express the thoughts of all patriots. Gen. Grant has done many wise acts, but this is the wisest act of his life. It will do much to reassure the public of both sides, and the nation will thank him for his timely and patriotic words.” North Carollta’i Majority. Washington, November 11.— The Democratic majority in North Caro lina will probably range from 11,000 to 13,000. No cnange in the Congres sional delegation. The Xew York Pres* on the Result. Washington, Nov. 11. —The New York Herald still considers the re sult doubtful. The partisan papers continue equally confident in assert ing the triumph of their respective parties. INDIANA. Indianapolis, Nov, 11.— Tilden’s majority in the State is 5.424. Morton on the Situation. San Francisco, Nov. 11.— Senator Morton states to-day that he will not return to the East until the conclu sion of the investigation of the Chi nese question, in which he is engag ed here. He endorses the wisdom of the proposition to obtain the pres ence of prominent and trusted men of both parties to assist in allaying the present excited feeling in the ■ South, but expresses the belief that ; no serious complications will ensue ! although the situation calls for pru, ! dent action. Xot Pardoned* Washington, November 11.— McKee and Avery have not yet been par -1 doned. Secretary Chandler returns from ' New York to-night. COLUMBUS, GA., SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 12, 1876. Tweed Heard From. Havana, Nov. 11. A French steamer from St. Thomas has arriv ed, bringing advices to the 6th inst. On the sth, the U. S. Frigate Frank lin, Commander Franklin, arrived at St. Thomas from Vigo, with Wm. M. Tweed on board. New York Hank Statement. New York, Nov. 11— Bank state ment: Loans decreased one million; specie increased one-eigth million ; legal tenders decreased 2J millions; deposits decreased 3j millions; reve nue decreased lj million. A SPEECH IIV THE CZAR. Russia’s policy. London, Nov. 11.—A dispatch to Reuter’s Telegram Company from St. Petersburg says the Galois pub lishes aspeech delivered by the Czar in Moscow yesterday, in reply to an address of citizens. The Czar said, during his entire reign his energies have been directed to maintain right and justices for the Eastern Christ ians; unfortunately his pacific efforts have been in vain. A conference of the powers is now about to meet at Constantinople. Russia would main tain her demands non-acquiesoenoe would compel Russia to take arms, In tiiat event he reckonod on the sup port of the subjects. The speech was received with enthusiastic cheers. The Wrong Procelon. Atlanta ( Ga .,) Sunday Herald.— As Old Si was standing at the W hitehall crossing, a darky with a striped shirt on approached him: “Bow is you going to vote?" he asked Old SI. “I se gwine ter po polls an’ hail’ my tick et ter de je igc.” “I mean who is you gwine to vote for?” “Lixikie. heah, you! i’se a law-’bidin’ nigger!" “So is I, sail 1” •‘l)en de law sez who I votes fer Is my bizniss solely, indevidgully and con’se quencially!” “Well, ef yerdon't vote de’Publican tick it we’s gwyno to spot yer! Now, yer bet ter min’ de train dat yer gits on!” “Nebber you min' bout de train dat I gits on. You look out dat hit don’t cum 'long an’ ketch up wid you walkin' on de cross ties. ’Bout de time dat you spots Old Si, oo kuriner ’ll bo ’ranging ter cum down on a hand-kyur ter driv a stob on despot whar de Bymmycrat injine bisted yer inter kingdom cum. As the striped shirt moved on Old Si muttered: "I reoon dat dese “Publican niggers tink doy is struck de per sesshun when ed grazes do old man?” The Atlanta Times says; Felton, Ind., has defeated Dabney, nominee, by 1,500 vote3 in the 7th District. A Xfw Substitute for JLeather. The last issue of Scribner’s Month ly contaius an interesting sketch of a new riroduet designed as a substitute for leather. This new product is named by the writer as “vegetable leather;” but why the name “leath er” should be applied to it, consider ing that the definition of the word is “the skin of an animal dressed and prepared for use,” is a question, as the new invention is composed en tirely of vegetable matter. Passing the question of title, however, we present, as a matter of interest, an ’account of the material and process used in manufacturing the so-called vegetable leather: The materials are cotton, or cotton waste or dust, coeoanut fibre and other textile by products and fucus crispus, a marine moss abundant on the New England coast. The waste is first carded into sheets of wadding of uniform thickness, and then laid on polished zinc plates, kept at a high temperature, and treated with a decoction of the fucus till thorough ly saturated. The sheets quickly be come dry, and in a few minutes may be lifted from the plates and passed between hot polished rolls adjusted to give any desired thickness to the finished leather. The rolls are under heavy pressure and completely felt the materials into strong, tenacious and flexible sheets. The sheets are next coated with boiled linseed oil and dried in the open air or in a dry room. When dry they are coated with vegetable wax and run through hot fluted rolls, and are finished by a flnal passage between polished rolls. The leather may then be bronzed, silvered, varnished or other wise treated like ordinary leather. To produce a white leather, clean cotton is used, and the whitest pieces of the dried moss and bleached lin seed oil. An Exposed Contingency. i Mr. Ferry to Assume the Responsibility of t'uuiitlsf the Ebeturul Vote. From the X Y Graphic't interview with Mr llalitead, Editor Cincinnati Commercial. R—l noticed you said in your Coop er union address that you feared, in case New York did notgo Republican, there would boa disputed Presiden tial election. Just what did you have in your mind? Mr. H.— I havo been impressed from the first the “solid south” was a reality; that every electoral vote, including those of South Carolina, of thooid Southern Confederacy, would be given for the Demoeratlo candi date. In that case, counting Indiana as a doubtful Stnte, the Republicans must have the vote of New York to make sure of a majority in the elec toral college. If New York should happen to go Democratic, the proba bility is that there would be tv dispo sition on the part of the Republicans to throw out the votes of those South ern States which were carried for Tilden by the intimidation of the blacks. I have heard the suggestion made that it would be moral perjury in Vice President Ferry and President Grant if they should conseut to allow the electoral votes of States to bo cast for the restoration of the Southern Confederacy, when they knew that a majority of the people of those States had been disfranchised, and when they had in their hands the legal proof of that fact. There is already a difference of opinion between the Senate and the House on this ques tion. The point in dispute is as to the existence of the twenty-second joint-rule. Republican senators are careful to say that that joint-rule is no longer in existence. The Confed erate brigadiers of the House, and their followers, will hold that it is in existence, and, perhaps act upon it. Now, if the Presidential election should turn upon the votes of, say, Mississippi, South Carolina, Florida, or Louisiana, it would be impossible to avoid a desperate dispute between the two legislative houses of the Gov ern rnent. The way is already prepared by the declarations of Republican sena tors, for Mr. Ferry, acting Vice Presi dent,'to assume the entire responsibil ity of counting the electoral votes. The House will not, of course, consent to this. Tne next thing is the position of President Grant. Grant is com mander-in-chief of the army and navy of tho United States. The very practical question would arise wheth er he would sustain Mr. Ferry in the Senate. I imagine that the weight of reference is that he would. Perhaps he would do it by proclamation. That is what in the Spanish-American repub lics are called pronunciamentos. The situation will be exceedingly difficult, if not hazardous. Trouble would come upon us in a more dangerous shape than it did sixteen years ago. That is what I meant by the risk that the country ruus of being American ized. The vote of New York for the Republican ticket would carry the country wide of that danger, and be fore tho next presidential election there might be statesmanship availa ble to provide against such an ex treme hazard in tho vote. I have nothing official or semi-official to base this form of apprehension upon. The evidence is chiefly atmospheric. There is a sort of Mexican miasma in the political air. DOMESTIC TRADE. [From the New York Bulletin, oth.] As in the city markets, here, busi ness of all kinds is more or less in terfered with by the political excite ment, so the same feeling is reflected more or less at the various trade cen tres throughout the country. Iu a day or two, however, all this will have subsided, and things will once more be back in their ordinary chan nels. At the West, the marketing of the hog product for the moment attracts no attention. The pork to be packed during the four months of tho winter season it is estimated will be worth $65,000,000 or $75,000,000, ac cording to the prices which prevail. The movement necessarily will have more or less influence on the money market. The Chicago Tribune says : “The country has obtained about “as much in the way of advan ces as it is entitled to, and the con sequence is now that a smaller amount of country paper is being discounted. The movement of cur rency to the wheat regions has been narrowed down to small amounts, and during tho present warm weather tho orders from tho hog country are restricted.” As to gen eral trade, the same journal, in an other article, reports a fair business with the interior, and that after the elections jobbers antipate a libetal order demand for reassortments. Cleveland Leader: “Trade active; new corn coming in.” Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 2: “Business as brisk as can bo expected during the present bail weather.” The Pittburg Commercial of Friday speaks Of a moderate trade there, while the St. Louis Globe-Democrat says: Ev ery branch of trade evinces a healthy success and expansion. There is an active movement of goods to tho country, and tho city offers throughout its thoroughfares and business houses a cheerful and vigor ous condition of trade.” The St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer, of the 2d inst., speaks of business in that quarter as only fair in most departments of the wholesale trade, while in some branches there are complaints of un expected dullness. The grocery trade is the most active of any. Col lections. however, were unexpectedly good, in most instances. A report from Memphis says there was a large trade there last week. The general feeling among business men in that quarter, as expressed and shown by their preparations, is that the fall and winter tia ie will be large in the aggregate, alt hough individ ual purchasers are not buying as lib erally as last year. The Kansas City (Mo.) Times, of Thursday, says In some lines of trade the leading merchants report a very active week’s business, while in other sorts there has been a little lull. The Gulf ports report the leading branches fairly active. According to the Gal veston News of October 28th, a free distribution of merchandise to the interior is still in progress, notwith standing tho lateness of the season. At New Orleans there is no further apprehensions of yellow fever, and consequently there is a brisker , movement among resident traders. The city is beginning to fill up with strangers, who go there to spends portion of the winter in a mild cli mate, and that aids business. The Prices Current of Wednesday last says: “The general movement has “shown increased animation, most “branches of tho wholesale trade do “ing a more active business.” • ■ .."■'■.■■l... KAFFIH WFIIUIKIiN. BY LADY BAHKEB. I have seen two Kaffir weddings lately, and, oddly enough, by the merest chance they took place within a day or two of each other. The two extremes of circumstances, the rudest barbarism and culminating smart ness of civilization, seemed to jostle each other before my very eyes as tniugs do in a dream. And they went backward, too, to make it more per plexing, for it was tho civilized wed ding I saw first—the wedding of peo ple whose mothers had been bought for so many cows, and wiiose mar riage rites had . probably been cele brated with a stick, for our Kullir bridegroom does uot understand shy ness, and speedily ends the romance of courtship by a few cuffs. Well, then, I chanced to go into town one of these ttuo bright winter mornings, (which would bo perfect if it were not for the dust,) and I saw a crowd round the porch of tho principal church. “What is going on?” I ask ed, naturally, and heard in broken English, dashed with Dutch and Kaf fir, that there was an “uutyado,” (excuse phonetic spelling,) or “bruit log,” or “wedding. Hardly had I gathered the meaning of all these words—the English being by far the most difficult to recognize, for they put u click in it—than the bridal par ty came out of tho church, formed themselves into an orderly proces sion, aud commenced to walk up the exceedingly dusty street two and two. They were eseorted by a crowd of well-wishers, and a still greater crowd of spectators more or less de risive, I regret to state. But noth ing upset tho gravity and de corum of tho bride and bride groom, who walked first, with a perfectly happy and well-satisfied expression of face. Uniforms were strictly excluded, and the groom and his male friends prided themselves on having discard ed all their miscellaneous red coats for the day, and on being attired in suits of ready-made tweed, in which they looked queerer than words can say. Boots also had they on their feet, to their huge discomfort, and while soft felt hats stuck more or less rakishly on their elaborately combed-out woolly pates. The gen eral effect of the gentlemen. I am sorry to sav, was that of the Christy minstrels; ’but the ladies made up for everything. I wish you could have seen the perfect ease and grace of the bride, as she “paced” along with her flowing white skirts trailing behind her in the dust, and her iaee veil thrown over a wreath of orange blossoms and iianging to the ground. It was difficult to believe that probably not long ago she had worn a sack, or a fold of coarse salempore, as sole clothing. She managed her draperies, all snowy white,and made in the latest fashion, as if she had been used to long gowns all her life, and carried her head as though it had never known red clay or a basket of mealies. I could not see her features but her face and throat and bare arms were all as blaok as jet, and shone out in strong relief from among her muslin frills and furbelows. There were yards of satin ribbon among these same frills, and plenty of artificial flowers; but it was all white, shoes and all. lam afraid she had “dis remembered” her stockings. The principal couple were closely followed by half-a-dozen sable dam sOs, “gowned in pure white,” and made wonderful with many bows of blue ribbon. Each maiden was es corted by a groomsman, the rear guard of guests trailing off into col ored cottons and patched suits. Ev erybody looked immensely pleased with him and herself, and I gradu a’ly lost sight of them iu the uufuil ing cloud of dust which rises on the slightest provocation at this time of year. I assuie you it was a great event, the first smart wedding in Mar itzburg among the Kaffirs and I only hope the legal part is all right, that the bridegroom won’t be freeto bring hotne|another wife some fine day to vex the soul of this smart lady. Kaffir mar riage laws are in a curious state, and present one of the greatest difficulties in the process of grafting civilized hubits on t he customs of utter barba rism. In spite of the imposing ap pearance of bride and bridegroom, in spite of the good sign all this aping of our ways really is, in spite of a hundred considerations of that na ture which ought to have weighed with me, but Idid not, I fear I took far more interest in a real Kaffir mar riage, a portion of whose preliminary proceedings I saw two days after this gala procession in white muslin and gray tweed. I was working in the veranda after breakfast—for you must know that it is so cold indoors that we all spend the middle part of the day basking, like lizzards, in the delicious warmth of sunny air outaide-when I heard a distant but loud noise beyond the sod fence between us and a track leading over the hills, in whose hollows many a Kaffr kraal nestles snugly. I knew it must be something unusual, fori saw all our own Kaffirs come run ning out in a btato of great excite ment, calling to each other to make haste. G , too. left the funeral obsequies of a cat-murdered pigeon, in which he was busily employed and scampered off to the gate, shouting to me to come and seo. Wo I -who am the idlest mortal in the world, and dearly love an excuse for leaving whatever rational employment lam engaged upon—snatched up the baby, who was supremely happy digging in tho dust in the sunshine, called Maria in case there might be any thing to explain, and ran off to the gate also. But there was nothing to be seen, not even du.-t, only a sound of monotonous singing and loud grunting coming nearer and nearer, and by and by the muffled tread of bare, hurrying feet, shuffling through the powdered earth of the track. The announcement that leading Demo crats were on their way to New Orleans to investigate the situation, published in the morning papers, lias had a very en couraging effect on our people, who are very anxious to know what the North and West propose to do in case Kellogg and Packard attempt to swindle us out of the State, as they did in 1872. — N. O. Demo crat, 10th. VT. F. TICKER, Dentist, Randolph street, (opposite Strapper ■) Colombo >al 1/] Georgia. LORD BYRON’S LOVE. The Story ni Told by Mary ('lmworth’s Mcrvunt. ■ From LippingcoWs Magazine for Nov'r. Nottingham, —— I have been wonder fully entertained to-day by the story of old .1 Mary Chaworth’s servant, ‘head man at Annesly Park,’ . I should much like to know if anyone else has been so fortunate as to hear the loquacious old man’s account of Byron and his early love. When one hears a story like this from the lips of a servant, it is surely worth while to consider whether, after all, great reputations are not apt to suffer from the ill-will of hirelings, and may not be too readily.branded by the world, as prompt to condemn our failures as to'applaud our attainments. Lord Byron suffers nothing from J ’s confession, but Mistress Chaworth was surely unfoitu nate in her confidentdependence on a ser vant's faithfulness. That was a funny sum-total of J 's when I asked him his opinion of Byron’s character: ‘Oh, his lordship were a fool. He didna knaw—grass from—grass. An’ he never give me naught. But many's the pun’ note Mr. Musters gie me for a chance tospeakwi' Mary Chaworth.’ So! and who knows if, but for the trick the old man confessed, Lord Byron would not have married one whose affectionate dispo sition and self-immolation for the object of her devotion might have saved to the world a pure and elevated poet, unsullied by the mire of wanton despair, and to Mary Cha worth a heart that loved her for herself? John Muster's triumph was cheaply pur chased. I will record it as old J rela ted it. ‘Ay, I remember well when his lordship wud come riding like mad into Annesly Park, and his two great dogs flying along wi’ him. ‘My word,’ old Mrs. Clark would say, ‘lf there doesn’t come his lordship, and those nasty brutes are with him to spoil my nice white counterpane!’ You see the brutes always sleept outside o’ the covers on his lordship's bed. ‘One fine day, when I was lying the cloth for dinner, Miss Mary sat in the great hall wi’ her back to the lawn, an’ 6he didn't see his lordship coming.’ ‘How was she dressed?’ ‘Oh. she was dressed in a white silk gown, very low on the shoulders, an’ a high belt un der her arms, like. An’ it were very long behind, an' so you could see her wee small feet in tidy slippers in front. ‘Well, the great hall windows opened on the lawn, an’ his lordship were quick enough to spy Miss Mary sittin’ there. An' he came soft like through the room, and before she knew it, he leanid over her and kissed her beautiful white shoulder. ‘Oh, dear! will I ever forget how she flared? She sprang to her feet, an’ wi’ a voice chokit wi’ rage, she sai l, ‘My lord, what doeß this mean? You never have so much as touched the hem of my garment, an’ you never shall!' Then it were awful to see the fire in her eyes; she were the picture of her grandfather, who were killed in aduel wi' his lordship’s grand father across that very table. But she needna been so mad, for his lordship were a nice man enough but for his nub foot. Poor fool! she didna know Musters were only af ter her money, an’ his lordship loved her for herself. Mr. Musters were a handsome man too, and he always gied me a pun’ note; once he gied me fi’ pun’ note, hut I never told him I saw a five on it when I got home. I hleped him to get rid o’ his lordship, an’ I fixed all the meetin’s wi’ his man. You see, I was head man at Annesly Hall, an' when the young heiress rode out, it was my, place to ride after her, au’ Mr. Musters’ man would ride after him, ail’ we’d always go the same road.’ ‘But how did you manage about I-ord By ron?’ ‘Oh, he were like his mother—afraid of the bogles!’ ‘Bogles! ind pray what are they?’ ‘Oh, the people out o’ the kilkyard, that couldna rest alter the duels an’ that.' ‘Oh, yes; well, go on, please.’ ‘An it were lor that his lordship always kept one o’ the men waiting half the night next to his bedroom till he read himself to sleep. Well, one night it were my turn to wait, an’ I watted till it were near morning, an’ at last l couldna keep awake any longer, an’ I just out aud said, ‘I think, your lord ship, it’s time for reasonable folk to have done wi’ crack reading an’ go to sleep.’ ‘Fellowl’ he shouted, like one stark mad, ‘fellow! do youknow to whom you are speak ing?’ ‘Ay, your lordship, that I do; but I’m aleared o’ naught—neither lord, duke, earl, nor king—for the matter o’ that!’ ■I doubled I'd lose my place, but Mrs. Clark begged his lordship's forgiveness for me, and 1 wasna dismissed. But 1 made up my mind his Lordship shouldna sleep more nor one night at Annesly Hall. ‘Mrs. Clark,’ I said, ‘you'd rather the brutes would not spoil your white coun terpane?' .Ay, J ,’ she said, ‘but I dare not offend his Lordship.’ ‘Well, I didna say aught, but I just went about it, and this is how I did it. The great bed in his Lordship's room had heavy cur tains, an’ they were hung on brass ring? that run on brass bars, an’ they made a deal o’ noise an’ rattlin’ when they were drawed. I found a big ball o' pack thread, an’l run one end through all the rings on one side, and th’ other through all the rings on th’other side; and when I carried the two ends down the post and along the floor I cut a clean slice off the bottom o’ the bed-room door, so the thread would be sure to pull easy-like; an’ I put the rug over the thread, an’ then I couldd't ha’ told myself aught was wrong. •After me tellin’ his lordship a piece o' my mind about hi crack reading, they took the next man to me to wait on him for that night, an’ 1 thought it would be morning be fore he ever would have done, he was so in tolerable lo g. But at last 1 heard the door of his lordship's room open, an’ soon as every thing was quiet, I peeped throughbhe crack and made sure the master and the brutes were alt sleepin’. Then I pulled the thread It was an awful shriekin’ the ring made over the brass bars, an' in a second, crack! went a pistol, an’ the dogs howled, an' his lord ship called, ‘Help! help! thieves! thieves!’ ‘I ran to my bed fast as my legs would carry me, an’ in a minute all the doors in the house flew open, an’ candies were flarin' an women screamin', an’ all the men poundin on his lordship's door ari’ callin’ ‘Open the door, my lord. There be five o' us here, an' we’ll soon make sure o’ the rascals!’ ‘Some one came an' tried to waken me; but vou knaw I had my breeches on, an’ ii I’.d got out o’ bed they'd known I was at the bottom o’ the mischief. ‘Go ’long to the great room an’ I’ll come.’ I 6aid at last, yawnin’, an’then milkin’ as ii I had just hauled on my clothes, I joined the men at the door, an’ alter his lordship was convinced we couldn't burst the door in he opened it, and such a rushin’ of men an’ dogs was never seen afore. Lookin'up the chimney and under the bed, I were really frightened at the danger 1 were in o’ bein’ found out, an’ sbakin' all over when I said, •There be naught here, your lordship—nei ther thieves nor murderers—an’ I doubt it was the bogles from the kirkyard yonder.’ 'My word! no one slept any more in the hall that night, an’ it was the last t’me his lordship ever went to bed at Annesly Park.’ 'But you are sorry now, and , for the trick you played, since Miss Chaworth might have married him if she had known Lord Byron better, and had not been decieved by Mr. Musters?' ‘Ay, that I be, an’ it often gied agin my conscience when I waited till all the folk would be asleep in the hall, an' then I’d bring Miss. Chaworth down to meet Mus ters in the dining-hall, an’ leave ’em a bit to chat an’ that; an’ when I’d knock some times he wouldn’t go, an’ I’d have to tell him he must, for the folk would soon be stirring in the hall. And oh. the picnics we had in the groves! I'd send out the hampers by the men to the blacksmith’s, an’ they never knowed what was in them. And Mus ter’s man would get them, and lay the cloth on the sod, an' such long merry talks they’d have while we strolled away a bit; an’ then they’d go off together while we’d lunth a bit. The very last time we were feasting in the groves Muster’* mart said, ‘So many bottles are strawn around, an’ these be nice ones, J ; one for you an’ one for me; an’ we put ’em in our great-coats; and there they are; you can have 'em both if you want them. Ah, little did the poor young thing know what was cornin’! The day she was ot age she married Mr Musters, and a month from that she paid £ 100,000 to the money lenders, that were only waitin' all the time for his promise to pay them when he mar ried the heiress. And oh, she was the most unhappy woman alive w'hen he openly trea ted her bad-like! and all he wished of her was money! money! Never will I forget the day his lordship's funeral was cornin’ to the inn at Nottingham. My poor Mistress came into the town an up to the very door before she knowed whose luneral it was. She was so stricken with trouble an’ illness that the folk thought even then she were some'at daft. An’ two years more was as she could manage. She died from the mad house. The czar and the sultan. Boston Advertiser.l Paris, Oct. 15. * * * A popular legend in Serbia, whose origin is very much like that of the “Arabian Nights,” has a strange actuality in the present moment, and runs thus: The Czar of Moscow sent to the Sultan Mouiesit presents of greut magnificence: A table of massive gold; upon this table a golden mos que ; encircling the mosque a serpent of gold, and in the serpent’s mouth a diamond of purest water. Sabres, enriched with precious stones, for the crown prince. A cradle of gold, supported by golden falcons, for the Suliana. How could such courtesy be returned? . . ~ “O, glorious Sultan Mouiesit! said the hodjus, “consult the Chris tian patriarch; he knows what will best, please the Czar of Moscow.” “Speak,” said the Sultan ; and the Christian patriarch replied; “Send the crosier of Sava Nemantitch (founder of the Serbian dynasty,) the crown of the Emperor Constantine, the sacerdotal vestments of Saint lovati and the standard of Lazar, with his cross. All this has but little value to you, O Sultan Mouiesit!” The Sultan listened, smiled and sent, back ttie messenger of the Czar charged with the—to him—worthless objects, and divan boasted of being quit at such little cost, but a certain pasha remarked to him, “Why not likewise have sent the keys Stam boul?” This brought a flash of comprehen sion to Sultan Mouiesit’s mind. He sent forth orders to overtake and bring back the messenger, but alas I too late. The Russians, anticipating second thought, took another road, and tho Turks never recovered what had been so lightly lost. But one means of vengeunee remained to the enraged Sultan. He ordered the Christian patriarch to bo decapitated, and this was promptly done, allow ing as a great favor the old man’s last prayer, to die upon a hill-top, his face turned toward the Black Sea and his eyes toward Moscow. And thus it came to puss that the Czar received from Mouiesit the standard of Lazar, with his cross, the sacer dotal vestments of St. lovan, the crown of Emperor Constantine and and the crosier of Sava Nemantitch. A report of the departure of the la test colony of negroes from this coun try to Liberia says: “They wore homespun clolhes and appeared to be a hardy, healthy set or people, rang ing in color from lamp-black to ma hogany. They seemed to be rather glad at leaving this land of liberty and equal rights, and no doubt their minds pictured a future of glowing and perennial happiness on Afric’s sunny strand. Bishop Haven was in fine spirits. He spoke enthusiastic ally or the destiny of the colored race —of the day when, in educated num bers, they would return to their natal soil and redeem a great, continent from sterility and barbarism. He dwelt fondly on the prospect he hoped to see arise—gnat fleets leav ing the ports of America laden with intelligent and Christian negroes, carrying the torch of civilization and religion into the hauDts or supersti tion, vice and heathenism.” To the Public. Having received our new stock, we would respectfully invite our customers and the pdllie in general, to call and ex amino the same. Every artilcle has been selected with great care, as to style, and will be found equal to any offered for sale in New York, or elsewhere. The prices of watches, jewelry and silver-wure has been reduced considerable here lately, and as we buy only for cash, we can oHer , our goods at the lowest protualije p:ice. Therefore If you want good goods at low prices you will lind what you want at WirricH & Kinseii’s octß 3m Jewelry Store. Buiethlnir Xlcf. Genuino'English Plum Pudding import ed, Canton Ginger Preserves. For sale by J. H. Hamilton. nov2 tf ' ■ • U. AVKRETT. FAMILY GROCER—AT OLD POST-OFFICE CORNER. Has on consignment— -500 doz Eggs at 20e ; large lot Fresh Apples—by barrel or at retail; Northern Cabbage; Cheese and Butter, and gener ally assorted Family Groceries. All down low for cash. Ilinck 811 k nml Cashmeres. If you are in need of such goods look at my stock before buying. otes-eodtf J. Albert Kikven. NO. 208