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Cftronicfe anb £mtxnel.
WEDNESDAY: JULY 8, 1874.
BETTER LUCK ANOTHER TEAR.
BY GILMORE SIMMS.
Onever sink’ neeth Fortune's frown.
But breve her with a shout of cheer.
Anß f out her fairly—face her down—
Sbe'e only stern to those who fear !
Here’s “better lack another year'’’
Another year !'
Aye. better luck another year!
We'll have her smile inste >d of wile—
A thon-aml smiles for every tear,
With home made glad and goodly cheer,
A id better luck auo her year—
Another year!
The dan.sel Fortune still denies
The [ile- hat vet delights her ear;
"Tis blit oil', manhood that she tries.
She's cov to those who doubt and fear;
She'll grant the sail another year—
Another year!
Here’s “better luck another year I”
She now denies the golden prize ;
But spite of frown and scorn and sneer.
Be Ann. and we will win and wear.
With home made glad and goodly cheer,
In better lock another year—
Another year! another year
[FOE . UK SUNDAY CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.]
TIME.
by n. brum clabk.
We measure time by seconds, hours and years,
Add age to age, till century appears.
Arrango employments for the night and day,
Thir for the youth and that for him that’s gray.
How e'er our errors and our faults incline.
There’s no mistake in the measurement of
time.
And what is time ? Philosophy is still.
Science assert; Art answer if you will;
History declare, if to you is given,
To know the history of earth and Heaven,
liot hear l.amar, ‘ To every Christian son.
Time is in truth, eternity begun!”
And that is true in purely human sense,
And human senseis all we have to know
Os truths and tacts of allwise Providence.
Time is eternity—eternity is time,
There is ns Difference but the human line,
The short probation souls possess below.
Time’s either that or this long silver thread,
Home aged dame let fall npon my head,
I scarce know when nor how, but sunny youth
Beluctant fled. and doubt dissolved in truth.
The noon of life is passed, the eve’s decline,
Around my head its sil .er glories twine.
I pluck them not. riio' lower Hints the sun,
And slowly falls the darkness on the earth,
bweet memories teach that when my race is
run ’.
Beyond its end there is a glorious birth.
O, rapturous infancy ! Thicken ye hairs of
grey,
Ripen the soul for Heaven’s endless day.
Augusta, Ga.
THE TWO LOVERH.
BY GEORGE ELIOT.
Two lovers by a moss-growing spring :
They leaned soft cheeks together there,
Mingled the dark and sunny hair,
And heard the wooing thrushes sing.
O budding time !
O love's blest prime!
Two wedded from the portals step:
The bells made happy carolings,
The air was soft as fanning wings,
White petals on the pathway Hlept.
O pure -eyod bride!
O tender pride!
Two faces o’er a cradle bent;
Two hands above the head were locked,
These pressed each other while they rocked,
Those watched a life that love had sent.
O solemn hour!
O hidden power!
Two parents by the evening fire :
The red light fell upon their knees
On heads tli it rose by slow degrees
Like buds upon the lily spire.
O patient life!
O teudor strife!
The two still sat togetlior there.
The rod light shown about their knees ;
Hilt all the hea ls by slow degrees
Had gone and left that lonely pair.
O voyage fart!
O vanished past!
The red light shone upon the flour
And made tho space between them wide ;
They drew their chairs up side by Hide,
Their pilo cheeks joined, and said, “Ones
more!
O memories!
O pas that is!
SUNDAY MORNING.
THOUGHTS DURING SERVICE. •
Too early, of course ! How provoking!
J iolil Ma just how it would ho.
J might as well have on a wrapper.
For there’s not a soul hero yet to see.
There ! Hue Delaplaine’s pew is empty,
I declare if it isn’t too bad!
I know my suit cost more than lior’H did,
And I wanted to see her look mad.
I do think that sexton’s too stupid—
He’s put some olho in our pow—
And the girl’s dress just kills mine completely;
Now what am I going to do ?
The psalter, and S ,o isn’t here yet!
t don't caie, I think it's a sin
For pooplo to get late to service,
.fust to nuke a groat show coming in.
Perhaps she is sick, ami can't got here —
Hho said sh'd a headache last night.
How mad who'll be aftor lier fussing !
I declare it would servo her lust right.
Oh. you've got here at. last, my dear, have you?
Well. I don’t think you need bo so proud
Os that bounot, it' Virot did make it,
It’s horrid fast-1 joking and loud.
What a dross ! —for a girl in her Houses
To go on the street in light blue !
And those coat-sleovos—they wore them last
Summer —
Don’t doubt, though, that Hho thinks thoy'ro
new.
Mrs. Oray’H polonaise was imported—
Ho dreadful! a minister’s wife.
And thinking so much about fashion !
A pretty example of life !
Tile altar’s dressed sweetly—l wonder
Who sent thos > white flowers lor the font!
Some girl who’s gone on (lie assistant —
Don't doubt if was Bessie Lament.
Just look at her now, little humbug!—
Ho devout l suppose she don’t know
That she's bending her head too far over
An 1 tho end of her switches all show.
What a sight Mrs. "Ward is this morning !
That wntuun will kill me someday,
Willi her horrible lilacs and crimsons,
Why will these old thing* dress so gay ?
And there’s Jenny Welles with Fred Tracy—
She's engaged to him now -horrid tiling !
Dear me ! I’d keep on my gloves sometimes,
If I did have a solitaire ring !
How can this girl next to me act so —
The way that she turns round and stares,
And then tnakos remarks about people ;
Sh’d better be saying her prayers.
Oh, dear, what a dreadful long sermon !
He must love to hoar himself talk !
And it's after twelve now how provoking !
I wanted to have a nieo walk.
Through at last. Well, it isn’t so dreadful
After all. for we don’t dine till ono ;
llow can people "ay church is poky !
So wicked !—l think it's real fun.
- ( Vo. .1. Baker, Jr., Scribner's for July.
CLOUD-I'ICTURES,
Here, in those mellow grasses, tlio whole morn,
1 love to rest; yonder, the ripening com
Rustles its greenery ; and his blithesome horn
Windcth the merry Wind, with fervent throat.
And out-puUed cheeks as he doth lightly tloat
Down a fair picture, in hall remote
Os ancient Genoa!* At calm length I lie,
Fronting the broad, blue spaces of the sky.
Covered with cloud-groups, softly journeying
by:
And hundred shapes, fantastic, beauteous,
strange.
The* take, as e'er these airy waves they range
At the wind's will, from marvelous change to
change:
Castles with guarded roof, and turret tall.
Great, sloping arch war. ami majestic wall.
Sapped by the breezes to their noiseless fall 1
Pagodas vague! above whose towersoutstream i
Banners that wave with motions of a dream, j
Rising, or drooping in the noontide gleam ;
Gray lines of Orient pilgrims:—a gaunt band
On fami lied cvrnels o'er the desert sand.
I'loddmg towards their Prophet's Holy Land: j
MUI-ocean. and a shoal of whales at play.
Lifting their monstrous frontlets to the day.
Thro' rainbow arches of sun-smitten spray ;
Followed by splintered icebergs, vast and lone.
Set in swift currents of some arctic zone.
Like fragments of a Titan's world o'erthrown ;
Next, measureless breadths of barren, treeless
moor.
Whose vaporous verge faces down a glimmer
ing shore.
Routs' which the foam capped billows toss and ;
roar!
Calms of bright water—like a fairy's wiles.
Wo >ing. with ripply cadence aud soft smiles, |
The goldeu shore slopes of Hesperiau Isles ;
Their inland plains rife with a rare increase
Os plumed grain ! aud many a snowy tleeee
Shiniug athwart the dew-lit hills of peace ;
Wrecks of gigantic cities—to the tnue
Os some wise air-god built! —o'er which the
Noon
Seems shuddering ; caverns, such as the wan ,
lloon.
Shows in herdesolate bosom ; thou, a crowd i
Os awed and reverent faces, palely bowed I
O'er a dead queen, laid in her ashy shroud— j
A queen of eld, her pallid brow impearled
By gems barbaric ! —her strange beautv furled \
lii mystic cerements of the antique world.
Weird pictures, fauev-geudered ! —one by one. !
Twixt dazzling sheen, and vagrant shadows (
dun.
These transient visions vanish in the sun.
1 close mine eyes—still stretched at languid j
ease-
While, like a dreaming Dryad, the low breeze
Sighs thro' the lush, long leafage of the ttees : .
Sighs—as in rhythmic murmuriugs of a strain j
Whose sweetness, blent of yearning joy and
pain,
Veils the hushed spirit as a sunset rain.
Falling in scarce-heard mnsib from afar,
Girds the slow waning elopes of lxlll and scaur.
Twixt the last sun-flush, and the earliest star 1
•In one of the old Genoese palaces there is a
picture by an early Italian painter- name un
known—in which the Wind is personified as a
lusty bov. winged like a cherub, and blowing a
big * born with an appearance of blended
strength and g.ee most happdy rendered.
. From the Abtinr for June.
In Fulton Superior Court, on 30th
nit., Dr. C. C. Harrington, charged with
robbery, was found guilty.
THE LOUISIANA USURPATION,
How General Grant "Enforced the
Lawß,"
[Extract from the Speech of Hon. L. Q. C.
Lamar.]
I have before me the Home document
referred to by the majority report. The
official dispatches contained in that re
port show that the Executive Depart
ment of the Federal Government, by its
own hand, in a time of profound peace,
hurled oat of existence the civil govern
ment of Louisiana—l mean the War
moth government which itself had
recognized as legal and constitutional,
and created another in its stead. We
have often heard it said that all the
President did in Louisiana has been to
enforce the decisions of the Courts. Sir,
these dispatches show, on the contrary,
that the entire plan for establishing
Kellogg’s government by the military
power was in advance communicated to
the Federal authorities at Washington
from the very first step to its final con
sumption, in every detail, and that this
plau received their full sanction and
promised co-operation. Strong as this
statement seems, you will be satisfied
that it is simply just if you will briefly
examine with me the record in this docu
ment. On the 27th of November, 1872,
W. P. Kellogg writes to Attorney-Gen
eral Williams, in which he recites cer
tain measures of Governor Warmoth,
whose purpose it is to have "the result
of the recent election declared in favor
of the Republican party,” letting fall,
however, the remark : "The details of
his action in this particular you are
probably familiar with; if not, some of
our members of Congress who have just
left for Washington will post you fully.”
Then, referring to his application for
an injunction against Warmoth (of
which the Attorney-General had been
informed eight days before), lie unfolds
tiie first step in his scheme of having
himself and the other candidates who
were rejected by the people of Louisiana
installed in the offices of that State :
“ I enclose herewith a copy of the bill
marked E. This application is being
now elaborately argued before the Court,
and I atn of the opinion that the Court
will maintain its jurisdiction.”
Now, sir, here is the whole case —the
measures of Warmoth, the bill of Kel
logg to thwart him, and Durell’s antici
pated action—all laid before the At
torney-General of tho United States.
Jsut what, sir, is the next step in the
scheme? He informs the Attorney-
General that “ the Supreme Court is
known tg sympathize v)ith us and tias
incidentally passed upon the legality of
our returning hoard."
Again lie says ;
"Our returning board being held as
tho legal returning board and as in
nowise affected by the promulgation of
the recent election bill, may make the
returns required* by law, which will
show the Republican State ticket elect
ed, and a Republican majority in the
Legislature.” _
But he proceeds to disclose the third
step in this monstrous scheme of perfidy:
"I ought to meution that the Supreme
Court will next Monday pass upon the
ease of Bovee, ejected owr a year from
tiie office of Secretary of State by Gov.
Warmoth, without any legal ri«ht or
showing. They will reinstate him in
the office. * * * Under the State
election law the returns of the canvass
ing board come to the Secretary of
State, and he makes a return of the
members elected to the Legislature to
the Secretary of the Senate and the
Clerk of the*House, who are both Re
publicans. You will at once appreciate
the full effect of this point.”
But, sir, all these steps accomplished,
one more yet is indispensable to con
summate the scheme of placing himself
and liis confederates in possession of the
government of Louisiana. That final
step he does not hesitate to propose.
Here it is, sir, with the reason for making
it prefaced :
“I say to you frankly that this field is
extremely distasteful to she, and I would
be glad to get rid of the whole matter,
but I feel bound, in the position in
winch I find myself, to do all I can to
avert a condition of things such as will
inevitably follow the accession of the
Democratic party to power iu this State.
1 therefore respectfully suggest that
General Emory, who, I think, appre
ciates this necessity and sympa luzes
with the Republican party, be instruct
ed to comply with any requisition that
the United States Courts may make up
on him in support of its mandates and
to support the peace.”
Sir, what is the response which comes
from ’ the law officer of the President’s
Cabinet to this disgraceful disclosure and
this infamous proposal for his aid and
co-operation in carrying it out ? I give
it without a word of comment :
“Department or Justice, )
December 3, 1872. 1
A'. 11. Packard, Esq., United States
Marshal, New Orleans, La.:
You are to enforce the decrees and
mandates of the United States Courts,
no matter by whom resisted, and Gene
ral Emory xvill furnish you with all ne
cessary troops for that purpose.
Geo. H. Williams,
Attorney-General.”
Sir, at once the plot began to be car
ried out, without the omission of a de
tail, in the precise order in which they
are given beforehand to the Attorney -
General of tho United States. I)itrell
did maintain his jurisdiction. The Su
preme Court did "decide our returning
hoard to be the legal returning board.’
" Our returning hoard" did so count
the returns, and that, too, without hav
ing a single one before them, as to show
tiie Republican ticket elected and a Re
publican majority in tho Legislature.—
The Supreme Court did decide in favor
of Bovee, and reinstated him as Secre
tary of State. Bovee did make a return
of the members elected to tiie Republi
can Secretary of the Senate and the Re- j
publicau Clerk of the House. Durell j
ditl issue the anticipated mandate, and ,
that mandate xvas executed by the !
United States troops under General ,
Emory. Hear the result:
New Orleans, December G, 1872.
President Grant :
Marshal Packard too possession of
State House this morning at an early
hour with military posse, iu obedience to
a mandate of Circuit Court, to prevent
illegal assemblage of persons under
guise of authority of Warmoth s return
ing board in violation of injunction of
Circuit Court. Decree of Court just
rendered declares \\ armoth s returning
board illegal, and orders the returns of
the election to be forthwith placed be
fore the legal board This board will j
probably soon declare the result of the I
election of officers of State and Legisla- j
ture, “which will meet in State House
with protection of Court. lhe decree
was sweeping in®its provisions, and if
enforced will save the Republican ma
jority and give Louisiana a Republican
Legislature and State and
check Warmoth in his usurpations.”
James F. Casey.
New Orleans, La., Dec. 9, 1872.
Hon. George 11. Williams, Attorney- 1
General :
Seuate, by vote of 17 to 5, have re- |
solved into high court of impeachment.
Senator Harris elected President of the j
Senate, Lieutenant-Governor Piuchback 1
j being noiv Governor.
S. B. Packard,
United States Marshal.
Have I not made good tho statement
that the legal and constitutional govern
ment of Louisiana was destroyed by the
Federal Executive by military force?
There was not a member of that lawless j
cabal who was not an officer of the Fed
eral Government. Aud, sir, is it not
mauifest that these criminals would
never have dared to do what they did
but for the assurance given them of aid
and co-operation from Washington ?
Would that besotted Judge have dared
to debase his Court as ho did if the At
torney-Geueral, knowing beforehand
what * he would do, had not instructed
Gen. Emory to sustain his acts and en
force his mandates ? But, sir, that gov
ernment thus set up and put in opera
tion had no power to sustain itself. On
the verv tirst day of its existence it ap
pealed to the President f for military pro
tection. It was a lifeless thing, incap
able of movement, except when gal
vauized into action by the military
! power which created it. Here is the ap
-1 New Orleans, December?, 1572.
President Grant :
Having taken the oath of office, and
being in possession of the gubernatorial
office, it devolves upon me to urge the
necessity of a favorable consideration of
the request of the General Assembly as ;
conveyed in the concurrent resolution ot
this day telegraphed to yon, requesting
the protection of the United States Gov
ernment. Be pleased to send the neces
sary orders to General Emory. This
' seems to me a necessary measure of pre-
I caution, although all is quiet here.
P. B. S. PINCBBACK,
j Lieutenant-Governor, Acting Governor
of Louisiana.
What do they want protection against
: —violence? Not at all, for be expressly
I declares “all is quiet here;" and on the
next day he telegraphs “I do not regard
any outbreak imminent.” What is it,
i then, that causes these conspirators, in
j the very moment of their success, to
i tremble and to send eight dispatches in
one day urging the President to recog
nize them aud to send the military of
the United States to protect them? You
will find the cause in the following dis
patch. It seems that the ghost of the
murdhred legal government will not
down at their bidding :
New Orleans, December 11, 1872.
Hon. Geo. H. Williams, Attorney-Gen
eral, Washington, D. V.:
The Warmoth Legislature are now in
session at the City Hall, in defiance of
the restraining order of the Conrt.
S. B. Pacrabd,
United States Marshal.
But what possible danger can possibly
arise from the mere meeting of a body
of men divested of all official authority,
if "no outbreak is imminent ?” The
true danger is revealed in this dispatch,
sent on the same day:
New Orleans, December 11, 1872.
President Grant:
Parties interested in the success of
the Democratic party, particularly the
New Orleans Times, are making des
perate efforts to array the people against
us. Old citizens are dragooned into an
opposition they do not feel, and pres
sure is hourly growing; our members
are poor and adversaries are rich, and
offers are made that are difficult for j
them to withstand. There is danger
that they will break our quorum. The
delay in placing troops at disposal of
Governor Piuchback, in accordance with
joint resolution of Monday, is dishearten
ing our friends and cheering our ene- \
mies. If requisition of Legislature is :
complied with all difficulty will be dissi- !
pated, the party saved, and everything
go on smoothly. If this is done, the
tide will be turned at once in our favor.
The real underlying sentiment is with
us if it can but be encouraged. Gov- j
ernor Pinchback is acting with great
discretion, as is the Legislature, and t
they will so continue.
Jas. F. Casey, Collector. I
Well may this Federal Collector char-1
as “our quorum” this misera- j
ble contri\'ance that needs the presence
of United States troops to prevent its 1
dissolution from sheer imbecility and ■
poverty. But, sir, the legal government
of Louisiana, though disseized of its
capital and deprived of its insignia of
political authority, still asserts its ex
istence and its right. In the name of i
justice to an outraged people it lifts its
voice in imploring invocation to the
President at least to give their cause a
fair hearing through the Governor of
their choice and a committee of a hun
dred of their best citizens. Here is the
response they receive:
Department of Justice, Dec. 13,1872.
Jfon. John Mt:Emery, New Orleans, La.:
Your %’isit with a hundred citizens will
lie unavailing so far as the President is
concerned. His decision is made and
will not be changed, and the sooner it is
acquiesced in the sooner good order and
peace will be restored.
Geo. H. Williams,
Attorney-General.
Sir, can anything be more imperial in
its tone than this? The President’s de
cision is made and will not bo changed.
He does not want to hear from the peo
ple. Let them acquiesce in his decision.
But, sir, they came in spite of tiiis im
perial ukase. An investigation in Con
gress began. The conspirators shrunk
from the threatened exposure ; they be
gan to talk of a compromise with the
government they had subverted—a com
promise which promised at least peace
and tranquility to the State. But, sir,
the idea was discountenanced. The fol
lowing private dispatch was sent, and
afterward got into the papers :
Washington, February 26, 1873.
T. W. De Klyne, Deputy United States
Marshal :
Tell Kellogg to keep his shirt on. Ills
talk of a compromise only irritates au
thorities. Tho only compromise is for
members elected to go in and take their
seats in the Legislature, and that ex
cludes all contest. The McEnery gov
ernment must be broken up as soou as
Congress adjourns. S. B. Packard.
This command xvas obeyed to the let
ter. All thought of compromise was
abandoned. After Congress adjourned
“the McEnery government was broken
up” and dispersed by a brigade of Me
tropolitan police, backed by the United
States troops.
GEORGE ELIOT.
An Interesting Sketch of the Great
Novelist—Gossip About lier Life,
Literary Effects and Successes—
Something of Her Mental Trials and
Social Peculiarities.
Compared to her great fame, says a
London correspondes of tho Chicago
Times, George Eliot’s antecedents and
personality are probably less familiar
than those of any living literateur of
either sex. Although she had been
writing for some years, ar.d writing ex
cellently, she really obtained her in
troduction to the literary world, at
least her full recognition, through her
strong and original, but’ painful, story
of “ Adam Bede.” Very reserved and
shy, she rarely makes any illusion to
her past life ;“is indeed so modest and
free from egotism, that even her few
intimates are not admitted to her con
fidence. She is reported to be averse to
biographers and biographical sketches,
which may partially account for the
dark background of tho picture of
Avliicli she is the single figure. I have
been told, though I do not vouch for
the statement, that she Avas born in
Warwickshire, not far from Stratford
on-Avon ; that she is the sole daughter
and child of a clergyman of much learn
ing, who took unwearied pains with her
education, giving her as thorough an
intellectual training as if she had been a
boy. When she was fourteen she could
read the Or ek and Latin authors ; had
mastered the difficulties of French and
Italian, and three years later had learn
ed German and Spanish. Her reading
has been prodigious ; the is asserted to
be an excellent substitute for an ency
clopaedia. She has never cared much
for society ; but she has been so ex
tremely fond of study that she has been
ordered again and again by her physi
cians to limit her labor lest she should
undermine her health.
Unlike most literary women, she is re
ported to have a vigorous constitution;
to take a good deal of out door exer
cise; to have a hearty appetite, and to
enjoy external nature almost as much
jas riches of the mind. The only way
J she accomplishes so much is by the
j adoption of a rigorous system. She
J goes to bed early; rises early; reads or
I writes, or both, from seven to eight
i hours daily, spending two or three out
of doors. She has few ailments of any
kind, and when she has them she takes
excellent care of herself, so keeping her
physical robustness unimpaired.
HER LITERARY CAREER.
Prior to her first novel, she xvas a fre
quent contributor to the London week
lies and magazines, and did certain re
views for the quarterlies, nobody except
the editors being aware that she xvas a
woman. Her pen name, George Eliot,
she adopted purposely, with a viexv to
hide her sex, when she first began to
| write, and she has retained it ever since.
Those who remember her writing twen
ty years ago, say it xvas remarkable then
for vigor of thought, conciseness of ex
pression and a certain solidity rarely
found in feminine composition, or for
matter of that, in masculine composition ;
either. One thing noticeable is, thanks
to her severe education, that she nex'er
indulged in the luxury of bombast or
I prepared a line of MS. for x\*icli she
| was not paid. Iu her twentieth year she i
I had earned enough to go to the conti
| nent, where she perfected herself in the
four foreign tougues, and gained a
j thorough acquaintance with the manners
i and customs of the French, Germans,
; Italians aud Spanish. She remained for
j two years in Florence, devouring the
! libraries there, and getting surcharged
I with the atmosphere aud spirit, past and
present, of the charming old city. The j
j product of this sojourn aud research xve
have in "Rornola” —the most artistic \
j and, on the xvhole, the most interesting
; of her extraordinary novels.
LOVE UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
* A good w’hile ago she became ac
quainted with George Henry Lewes,
author of the “ History of Philosophy,”
“ Life of Goethe,” and various other i
works. Though lie is not the kind of
man, artistically considered, with whom
a romantic woman would be likely to
fall in love, he impressed her very fa
vorably, and the impression was recip
rocal. * He is a fluent, picturesque, bril
liant talker, a deep-dyed skeptic, a ripe
scholar, a genuine egotist. They were
so much attracted to one another that
they spent much time together, each
finding in the other what he or she par
ticularly liked. Theirs was not a wild,
fantastic passion, but a real intellectual
appreciation of aud regard for sterling
character. He was anxious to wed her,
and she was quite willing to accept him.
One serious obstacle to matrimony,
however, was that he bad a wife, that, is,
he bad her legally, without having or
wanting her otherwise. The trouble was
this : Mrs. Lewes, who had proved not
t at all a harmonious partner, was not
content to live in a state of armed neu
trality with her liege; but took occasion
jto run away with another man. Lewes,
who is a philosopher, made no effort to
1 s et her back, and never would have
done so had she not r turned voluntarily,
and with such contrition and so appa
rent distress that he generously forgave
her, and felt more affection for her than
he usd ever done before. Therefore he
took her back, in the language of the
, law, he condoned her offense. For a
| little while they lived peacefully, almost
happilv; but slle not being the sort of
i person to relish humdrum domesticity,
once more eloped with another man, and
had the kindness, on that occasion, to
be permanent in her absence. Having
j condoned her offense, her husband could
not, according to English law (I believe
' it is the same in the United States) pro
[ care a divorce; and oonsequently could
not marry again during his wife s con
tinuance on this planet.
BRAVING PUBLIC OPINION.
Such was the condition when Lewes
met Miss Evans. He told her frankly
bow matters stood, and asked her to be
his in everything save by the technicali
ty of'a ridiculous law. She was sensi
ble, broad, philosophic like himself, and
found within her own soul no objection
to such spiritual union. Nevertheless,
they resolved to be neither rash nor im
prudent. They summoned a council of
their wisest friends, laid the subject be
fore them, and agreed to abide faithfully
by their decision. After due reflection,
the decision was that they should obey
their oxvn instincts, and not permit an
empty technicality to obstruct their
happiness. You kuow how superlatively
conventional this country is touching
the relation of the sexes. They don’t
care so much, over here, what a man or
woman does, provided they conceal any
imprudence of which they may be guilty
from the public eye. “Be free aud
fast,” England says, “if you be so in
clined; but do not permit yourself to be
found out. Above all, never brave pub
lic opinion! It is easier and wiser to
sin in secret than to be innocent and
appear indiscreet.” .
The two philosophers were fully
aware of the affrout they offered to
British conventionality and custom; yet
they did not hesitate to folloxv where
their inclination, sympathy and sober
judgment led. They accepted one an
other, and nature sanctioned the accep
tance. A number of their acquaintances,
as they had anticipated, fell away from
them; but every one of their friends re
mained steadfast; fully approved of
their act. Miss Evans was known amd
invariably known as Mrs. Lewes, and
enjoyed the esteem of all who visited
her. Haxung slight regard for miscel
laneous or fashionable society, her in
dependent marriage made small differ
ence in her life. Kecently the fugitive
Mrs. Lewes had the involuntary benex-o
lence to slip from this whirling ball in
to infinite space, where, it is to be
hoped, she will discover husbands who
will be glad to have her elope as often
as she is in the mood. Then, the other
long-deferred legal ceremony took place
out of respect to tho prejudices of so
ciety, and tiie majesty of the laxx-.'
G orge Henry Lewes is now in his
fifty-seventh year; George Eliot iu her
forty-fifth year. They enjoy a serene,
intellectual, satisfactory life; having
some of the most interesting and
thoughtful people in London at their
house; compensating for the paucity of
visitors by their quality. The pair,
who seemed to have grown fonder and
fonder as the years passed, are consid
ered models of mutual faith, loyalty and
affection.
TIIE NOVELIST’S APPEARANCE.
Mrs. Lewes has been called extremely
homely, usually by persons who have
never seen her. It cannot be doubted
that she is plain as respects complexion
and features; though she is signally one
oi’the women xvho put such a witchery on
the eye as to make her appear other
than she is. She oxves this to her ani
mation and eloquence of speech.
Her eyes of steel-gray hue have a deal
of light in them, aud are so variable
that they appear not only deep blue and
black, but yellow, and even greene, as
they reflect her inner mood. She has
been described as cat-eyed, and improp
erly enough, for the eyes of a cat is al
ways cold, while hers frequently burn,
yea, blaze, She i3 not graceful, nor in
any strict sense, elegant. Nevertheless,
she is spoken of as charming, and she
surely does charm those admitted to her
intellectual circle.
MENTAL TRAITS.
She is quite mosdy; being retired
some times for xvlidle days, and at others
flowing and flashing xvith radiant talk on
nearly every topic. She has no favorite
theme; for she is thoroughly versed iu
science, philosophy, literature and art.
With the Greek and Latin classics she
is entirely familiar, and to her learned
associates she often quotes in the origi
nal Plato, JEschylus, Pindar, Virgil,
Lucretius and Horace. Erudite as she
is, she is reputed to be exempt from
pedantry; to draxv upon her store of
knowledge only when the occasion is fit.
Notwithstanding great intellectual pride
aud supreme satisfaction in her con
sciousness of creative power, xvhich mere
self-understanding must compel, she
seems to be free from literary vanity.
She is generally unwilling either to talk
herself, or to have others talk to her,
about her books. With her intimates
alone, she makes reference to them, and
then in a coldly critical aud analytic
manner; viewing them externally, as if
they had emanated from somebody else.
Os course she has her opinions and pre
judices respecting her own performances.
Strangely, though perlia; s naturally,
she rates iter poetry above lier prose ;
conscientiously beliex'es that she reach
es lier highest level in the former, and
that the only reason it is not so popular
as the latter is that the public is not at
tuned to lofty flights of imagination or
subtile effusions of beauty. The “Span
ish Gipsy” she holds to be her best
xvork. She xvas painfully disappointed
at its reception—not because it xvas not
greatly praised, but because it xvas gene
rally pronounced inferior to her novels.
Above everything else she aspires to be,
or rather to be recognized—for her faith
in herself is absolute—as a great poet,
one of the very fexv poets that xvill not
and cannot perish. She feels deeply,
and deplores the fact, that she is re
garded well nigh exclusively as a writer
of prose. This, in sooth, is tho canker
in the rose of her literary satisfaction.
“ MIDDLEMAKCH ”
She justly thinks her ablest novel. She
spent more than twice as much time on
it as upon any other, and wished it to
be ranked as the best of her stories. The
enthusiastic reception which it has re
ceived from the most fastidious critics
delights her; makes grateful, as she
puts it, the memory of work so sincerely
artistic as to render it religious. Few
MSS. have ever brought a higher price
than that of “Middlemarch.” Her pub
lisher paid her for it £B,OOO ($-10,000);
£4,000 on making the contract, and the
balance on delivery of the copy. The
house that purchased the novel is said
to have cleared to date £5,000 by the
transaction.
LIBERAL COMPENSATION.
Mrs. Lewes cannot complain of a lack
of liberal compensation. For the
“Spanish Gipsy” she had £I,OOO ($15,-
000) outright, and its publishers have,
as yet, failed to clear themselves by its
sale. For her recent volume of poems,
the principal one of which is the “Le
gend of Jubal,” she is to receive a royal
ty equivalent, I think, to about 20 per
cent, on the trade rate. Her tirst vol
ume, “Scenes of Clerical Life, and Silas
Marner,” brought her, I understand,
but £100; she having disposed of it ab
solutely for that amount. Little known
then, the sale was slow; but since, it has
been active, and the publishers have
made a very large profit. “Adam
Bede,” her second book, yielded her
£1,000; “The Mill on the Floss,” her
next, £1,500; “Romola,” her next, £3,-
000; “Felix Holt,” £1,400. Then follow
ed the “Spanish Gipsy,” and “Middle
march.” Thus the proceeds from her
works foot up £IB,OOO, which is equal
with you, counting the premium on ex
change, to SIOO,OOO, United States cur
rency. I have been told that “George
Eliot” has been engaged for seven or
eight months on anew novel, the scene
laid in England, partially in London,
and that her publishers have offered her
£IO,OOO for it. How long before the
work will be finished is uncertain,
though, probablv, not before the end of
1875.
Her husband, who has the credit of
being a good business man, attends to
all her financial affairs; she rarely see
ing her publishers iu such capacity, or
appearing personally in any commercial
transaction. He is so considerate of
her literary feelings, and she is so sen
sitive to adverse criticism, that he goes
carefully through all the reviews and
newspapers, and keeps out of her sight
any notices of her books and poems that
are really severe. He tells her their
substance; but thinks that the perusal
of them needlessly excites her nerves
and depresses her spirits.
MANNER OF WRITING.
George Eliot’s mode of composition,
spontaneous as she is in expression, is
supremely painstaking. She always en
deavors to do her best, and is never
satisfied when she feels that she has not
done it. Sometimes, she writes pages
upon pages; goes over them carefully,
corrects, prunes, polishes, and then, de
stroying every line of the laborious
composition, sets herself resolutely to
doing the whole work again. At other
times, she writes for an entire day,
hardly making an erasure, and lets her
copy ’ stand as her happiest expression
tihe believes in felicitous moods; and
vet~she toils at her MSS., on an average,
fully six hours a day. One day, she
may do three or four thousand words;
another, she will not do four hundred.
But much or little, she is satisfied with
her achievement, convinced that it is
the best possible under the the circum
stances. She says that frequently the
things that costs her the most effort at
tract the least attention, and that the
converse of this is equally true.
CRITICAL OPINION.
Her great fame is steadily growing.
Manv of the ablest critics in both the
Old and New World rank her not only
as the first of living novelists, but the
first of all novelists. Her works require
a certain amount of culture, not a little
insight, and keen artistic sense of thor
ough appreciation. A score of the best
British minds pat her on a higher pedes
tra than that which Balzac, Fielding,
Dickens or Thackeray occupies. They
think her greatest reputation is still to
come; that her wonderful knowledge
of human nature, her capacity for analy
sis, her exhaustless range of expression,
place her not far from the one over
j shadowing genius of all nations, and all
time, and entitle her, alone among wo
men, to be considered and consecratexl
as Shakspeare’s intellectual daughter.
ARMSTRONG’S LESSON.
A Miner’s Having Backed
Against Three-card Monte.
[Overland for June.]
In the early days of California—the
olden days of 'gold, or the golden days
of old, as you please—in a certain
miners’ camp, on the Yuba river, there
lived a queer genius named Armstrong.
He was an honest miner, not differing
materially xvith his fellows, excepting
that he had a curious habit of lalkiug to
hunself. For the simple reason that he
departed from common custom in this
one particular, he of course voted
crazy by the other miners. To call all
persons “crazy” who do not follow the
customs of the majority is a constant
habit with men. But, day after day,
Armstrong worked away with his pick
and shovel, caring nothing for the re
marks of his neighbors, and seeming to
wish for no other partner in his toils or
rest save the invisible personage whom
he always addressed in the second sin
gular and with whom he xvas almost con
stantly in close and earnest conversation.
The drift of his talk, while at work,
would be as follows :
“Rather tough work, Armstrong—rich
dirt though—grub a dollar a pound —no
time to waste—pitch in sir—hanged if I
don’t wish I xvas in the States. This
mining’s mighty hard work. Nonsense,
Armstrong; what a fool you are to be
talking that way, with three ounces a
day right under your feet, and nothing
to do but just dig it out.”
His conversation would be duly punc
tuated with strokes of the pick and lifts
of the loaded shovel. And so the days
would pass along, and Armstrong worked
and slept, ana talked xvith his invisible j
partner. Well, it happened, in due
coarse of time, that the class of human
vampires commonly called gamblers j
made their appearance at the camp j
where Armstrong worked. As he was
not above following the example of his
fellows, lie paid the new-comers a visit.
It is the same old story. After watch
ing the game awhile, he concluded it
was the simplest thing in the world.—
So he tried his lack, and won—sloo ’
Now any new experience would set Arm
strong to thinking and talking to him
self worse than ever. It xvas so this
time. “Now, Armstrong,” he said, as
lie hesitated about going to xvork next
morning, “that is the easiest hundred
dollars you ever made in your life.—
What’s the use of your going into a hole
in the ground to dig for three ounces a
day ? The fact is, Armstrong, you are
sharp. You were not made for this kind
of xvork. Suppose you just throw away
your piek and shovel, leave the mines,
buy a suit of store clothes, dress up
like a bora gentleman, and go at some
business that suits your talent,”
Armstrong was not long in putting
these thoughts and sayings into action.
He left the diggings and inx - ested in fine
clothes. He looked like another man,
but he was still the same Armstrong,
nevertheless. He xvas not long in find
ing an opportunity to try anew profes
sion. Walking forth in his fresh outfit,
he had just concluded a long talk xvith
himself about his bright prospects,
xvlien he halted in front of a large tent
with a sign on it, “Miner’s Rest.” Arm
strong xvent in. It did not seem to him
that he remained very long, but it xvas
long enough to xvork a wonderful revolu
tion in liis feelings. When he came out
he xvas a changed man—that is to say,
he was a “changeless” man. He was
thunderstruck, amazed, bewilddred. He
had lost Ins money, lost his new pros
pect, lost liis self-conceit—lost every
thing but his new clothes and low
habit of talking to himself. It is use
less to say that lie xvas mad. Arm
strong xvas very mad. But there was no
one to be mad at but Armstrong him
self, so self number two xvas in for a
rough lecture.
“Now, Armstrong, you are a nice
specimen—you fool—you bilk—you
dead-beat—you inf— ” Well, I need
not repeat all the hard things lie said.
Like King Richard, lie “he found with
in himself no pity for himself.” But
mere words were not sufficient. It was
a time for action. But Armstrong never
once thought of shooting, drowning,
hanging, or any other form of suicide.
He was altogether too original as xvell
as too sensible for that'. Yet he was re
solved upon something real and practi
cal in the xvay of reformatory punish
ment. He felt the need of a self im
posed decree of bankruptcy that should
render the present failure as complete
as possible, and prevent a similar course
in the future.
So the broken firm of “Armstrong &
Self” went forth in meditation long and
deep. Some of his thoughts were almost
too deep for utterance. But finally he
stood by tho dusty road along which the
great freighting xvagons were hauling
supplies to the mining camp up the Sac
ramento. Ono of these xvagons, drawn
by six yoke of oxen, was just passing.
Snap, snap, snap, in slow, irregular suc
cession, came the keen, stinging reports
of the long Missouri ox whip. “G’lang !
g’lang! wo-liaw !” shouted the tall,
dust-begrimmed driver, as he swung his
whip and cast a sidelong glance at the
bioken firm, wondering “What in thun
der all them store clothes was a doin’
thar.” Now, xvlien Armstrong saxv the
long column of white dust rising behind
that xvagon he was taken xvith an idea.
So he shouted to the driver, to kuow if
he might be allowed to walk in the road
behind the wagon. “Get in and ride,”
said the driver. “No,” said Armstrong;
“I wish to xvalk.” “Then walk, you
crazy fool,” xvas the accommodating re
sponse, as the driver swung his whip.
Then came the tug of war. Greek never
met Greek more fiercely than did the
txvo contending spirits composing tho
firm of Armstrong & Self at that particu
lar moment. “Now. Armstrong,” said
the imperious head of the firm, .“You
get right into the middle of that road,
sir, aud walk iu that dust, behind that
wagon,” “What, with these clothes on ?
Why, it is fifteen miles, and dusty all
the way.” “No matter, sir ; take the
road. You squander your money at
three card monte ; I’ll teach you a les
son.”
“G’lang ! g’lang !” drawled the driver,
as he looked over his shoulder with a
curious mingling of pity, contempt or
wonder on his dusty face. More and
more spitefully snapped the swinging
whip as the slow-paced oxen toiled mile
after mile under the heat of a Septem
ber sun. And there, in the road,
trudged Armstrong behind the wagon;
slowly, wearily, thoughtfully, but not
silently. He was a man who always
spoke his thoughts. “This serves you
right, Armstrong. Any man who will
fool his money away at three-card
monte deserves to walk in the dust.”
‘lt will spoil these clothes.” “Well,
don’t you deserve it ?” “The dust fills
my eyes.” “Yes; but any man who
gambles all his ‘dust’ away at three-card
monte deserves to have dust in his eyes
—aud alkah dust at that.” “The dust
chokes me.” “All right, any man who
will buck at monte deserves to be
choked. Keep the road, sir—the mid
dle of the road—close up to the wagon.
Do j’ou think you will ever buck at
monte again, Armstrong ?” And so the
poor culprit, self-arrested, self-con
demned, coughed and sneezed, and
choked, and walked, and talked, mile
after mile, hour after hour, while the
great wagon groaned and creaked, the
driver bawled and swung liis whip, the
patient oxen gave their shoulders to the
yoke, and the golden sun of September
sunk wearily toward the west. The
shadows of evening were beginning to
fall when the wagon halted at the place
called Packers’ Boost,, on the Yuba.
“Here we rest,” sighed Armstrong
just above his breath, as he looked at
the stream. “No you don’t,” answered
the head of the firm. “You buck your
money away at monte and talk about
rest! Now, Armstrong, go right down
the bank, sir, into that river.” As the
command was peremptory, and a spirit
of obedience was thought the saftest,
Armstrong obeyed without parley; and
down he went, over head and ears, store
clothes and all, into the cold mountain
stream. It was a long time that he re
mained in the water and under the
water. He would come to the surface
every little while to talk, yon under
stand. It was impossible for Armstrong
to forbear talking : “Ob, yes,” be
would say as he came up and snuffled the
water from his nose, “ yon’ll buck your
money away at three card monte, will
you? How do you like water cure?” His
words were, of course, duly punctuated
by irregular plunges and catches of the
breath. It so happened that the man
who kept the shanty hotel at the Pack
ers’ Boost had a woman for a wife, She,
being a kind-hearted creature, besought
her lord to go down and “help the poor
man out of the water.” “ Pshaw !”
said the ox-driver, “he ain’t a crazy
man; he’s a fool. He walked behind my
wagon and talked to himself all the way
from Scrabbletown. ”
Thereupon arose a lengthy discussion
about the difference between a crazy
man and a fool. But after a while the
landlord and the ox-driver went down to
the bank and agreed to go Armstrong’s
security against bucking at monte in the
future if he would come out of the
water. So lie came out and went up to
the house. “Will you have a cup of tea
or coffee ?” said the woman, kindly.
“Yes, madam,” said Armstrong, “I will
I take both.” “He is crazy, sure as can
! be,” said the woman. But she brought
the two caps, as ordered. “Miik and
sugar?” she inquired, kindly, as be
fore. “No, madam, mustard and red
pepper,” answered Armstrong. “I do
believe he is a fool,” said the woman, as
she went for the pepper and mustard.
Armstrong, with deliberate coolness,
put a spoonful of red pepper into the
tea and a spoonful of mustard into the
coffee. Then he poured the two to
gether into a tin cup. Then the old
conflict raged again, and high above the
din of rattling tin cups and pewter
spoons sounded the stern command,
“Armstrong, drink it, sir—drink it
down.” A momentary hesitation and a
few desperate gulps, and it was down.
“Oh, yes,” said our hero, as his throat
burned and the tears ran from his eyes,
“you buck your money away at three
card monte, do you ?”
Now, the Thomsonian dose above de
scribed very nearly ended the battle
with poor Armstrong. He was silent
for quite a time, and everybody else was
silent. After awile the landlord ven
tered to suggest that a bed could be pro
vided if it was desired. “No,” said Arm
strong, “I’ll sleep on the floor. You
see, stranger,” said he, eyeing the land
lord with a peculiar expression, “this
fool has been squandering gold dust at
monte —three-card monte—and does not
deserve to sleep in a bed.” So Arm
strong ended the day’s battle by going
to bed on the floor. Then came the
dreams. He first dreamed that he was
sleeping with his feet on the North Pole
and his head in the tropics, while all the
miners of Yuba were grouud-slnicing in
his stomach Next, he dreamed that he
had swallowed Mount Shasta for supper,
and that the old mountain had suddenly
become an active volcano, and was
vomiting acres and acres of hot lava.
Then the scenes shifted, and he seem
ed to have found his final abode in a
a place of vile smells and fierce
flames, politely called the antipodes
of Heaven. And while he writhed
and groaned in sleepless agony a fork
tailed fiend, with his thumb at his nose,
was saying to him in a mocking voice :
“You buck your money away at tliree
carde monte, do you—hey ?" lint even
this troubled sleep had an end at last,
and Armstrong arose. When ho looked
at himself in the broken looking glass
that hung on the wall he thought liis face
bore traces of wisdom that had never
been there before. So be said : “ I
think you have learned a lesson, Arm
strong. You can go back to your min
ing now, sir, and have montealone.”
Time showed that lie was right. His
lesson wai well learned. The miners
looked a little curious when he reap
peared at the camp, and still called him
crazy. But he had learned a lesson
many of them never learned, poor fel
lows. They continued their old ways,
making money fast and spending it
foolishly—even giving it to monte deal
ers. But the Amstroug firm was never
broken in that way but once. After
that whenever he saw one of the peculiar
signs, “Robbers Roost,” “Fleecers’
DeD,” or “Fools’ Last Chance,” Arm
strong would shake liis head with a
knowing air, and say to himself as lie
passed along : “O, yes, Armstrong,
you’ve been there ; you know all about
that ; you don’t buck your money away
at three-card monte—not much.
STEPHENS’ S UNHAY SCHOOL
SPEECH.
To the Editors of the Chronicle and
Sentinel:
I have read this address with intense
interest; but some of its positions meet
my decided dissent. There is nothing
truer than the a lage: that “great men
are not always wise, and when learned
men do err, they err most egregiously.”
“ To err is human ;
To forgive Divine,”
’True, S. had thought upon the theme
“intensely and profoundly,” neverthe
less if lie lias fallen into error, it is not
surprising, as God only is infallab'e.
He says in his speech: “The Bible
teaches the great truth” that God created
“man” in his own “image and likeness
as to the trinity of his composition.”
This is the great foundation upon which
S. has reared tue mist of liis superstruc
ture. Now, if a man build upon a sandy
foundation his house will not stand; and
conclusions drawn from incori'ect prem
ises cannot bear the test of logic any
more than the foundation from which
they issue. God said : “Let us make
mail in our image after our likeness”—
and S. contends that this “likeness” lias
reference mainly to the trinity of God’s
composition. The Bible teaches clearly
the doctrine of a triune God; but where
does it teach the doctrine of a triune
nature in man ? Where ? Where ? Or
that the Creator was even thinking about
“trinity” when he said: “Let us make
man, &c. ” “Trinity” in reference to
Deity was necessary in order to perfect
the scheme of redemption; but so far as
man is concerned, no such necessity,ex
ists, as he occupies entirely a different
position. But man was made in the
“image and likeness” of liis Creator;
that is, to some extent, and in some re
spects; for the resemblance was analogi
cal, not plenary; if man had been made
fully in all respects in the “likeness” of
liis Creator, wliat difference would there
be between man and God? What
would prevent the former from crea
ting worlds and revolving planets ? But if
man was made iu the “image and like
ness” of his Maker only in some things
—what were these some things'? Do
they include “trinity,” as S. asserts,
without even a supposition. Let inspired
Paul answer the question. He says this
“image” or likeness means being made
like unto God in reference to “righteous
ness,” “true holiness,” and “knowl
edge.” “Hence, man wa3 wise in mind,
holy in heart, and righteous in actions.”
Thus we see he was made in the likeness
of Deity in a moral and intellectual
point of view; but not after God’s triune
nature.
Batagain saysS.: “Man was composed
not only of body,” “mind or thinking
principle, with which the inferior ani
mals were endowed; but in addition to
these the great Creator breathed into
him” an “immortal soul.” Is it true
that, man and the inferior animals pos
sess minds alike, differing only in de
grees of development ? Is it true that
the noble mind of man, capable of such
grand achievement, is rooted in the
same soil—“dust”—as the mind of a
hog ? Is not the proposition much more
rational and scriptural, that the intellect
of man is linked to and rooted in his
immortal soul ? The inferior animals
are endowed with instincts that are al
most perfect, and that require no educa
tion. llow much improvement has the
been made in the construction of waxen
cells and the gathering of honey since
the deluge ? llow much training does
the young spider need before it can
weave as perfect a web as its mother ?
Does not the young chick in two days
after it has leaped from its shell prison
know as much about liawkology as its
father, who has grown’grey in watching
the manoeuvres of “blue tails ?” Can
the most thorough education learn a
man what the inferior animals know as
soon as they are born ? Yet we are cooly
told by Mr. S. that man and the inferior
animals are “endowed” with the same
kind of “mind or thinking principle !”
Again, he repeats : “Man is a trinity
composed of body, mind, and spirit or
soul. These three elements of his na
ture, though united in harmonious ac
tion, are yet separate and distinct.” The
italics are mine. This “harmonious ac
tion” cannot be found in a Christian.
His converted soul and unconverted
body wage a continual war against each
other ; the one fighting under the ban
ner of King Immanuel, the other under
the flag of Satan. Neither do I believe
that the mind and soul are “separate
and distinct.” The mind derives all its
power from the soul, and is its servant.
The term “mind” is only a word to ex
press the powers and capacities of the
human soul, without which the hitter
would be idiotic. Dr. Noah Webster
strikes the truth in the case squarely
when he says, “soul is that part of
man that enables him to think and rea
son.” So does Paul in his candid con
fession, “with the mind I myself serve
the law of God, but with the flesh the
law of sin.” S. in his theory gives to
man three distinct? elements : “ body,
mind and soul,” and assigns to each a
separate and distinct domain, &c. Now
this is a pretty theory with which to
combat “materialism” or “rationalism;”
but unfortunately S., in warring against
I this dangerous doctrine, has planted his
i artillery, in part, upon untenable premi
ses ; when there was no real necessity
for it. Rationalism gives to man no
j soul that deserves- the name. S. 's theory
, gives to him a soul that is mindless ! Is
! there a solitary case upon record, in
i which a man having lost his intellect
still retained the mind of the soul in its
| cognizable manifestations ? Man pos-
I sesses not a “triune,” but a dual nature,
' to-wit : body and soul. Mind is not an
element in the sense in which S. uses
' the term ; but rather a quality, au abili
ty, a capacity belonging to the superior
immortal, spiritual substance called
i soul, which qualifies it for good or evil,
and upon which its responsibility stands.
S. blames the rationalist for laying
Ia heavier burden upon the shoulders of
I reason than it can bear; but when he
! undertakes to divide man into three
j “distinct elements,” and to draw aline
jof demarcation between “mind and
soul,” he saddles upon himself a burden
about as ponderous as the rationalistic.
The truth of the whole matter is, the
j soul needs mental faculties as much as
! it does moral ones; and consequently,
the Creator h?S wis«iy given it both. —
| They mutually act and react upon each
other; and in some cases are so vitally
blended that like the Siamese Twins,
the destruction of one would proye the
j death of the other. It is the will of
Deity to ohain the soul to this globe for
: a brief period; and one of its duties is
to keep its prison house in good order;
it should also acquire general knowl
edge that is not strictly within tbe pur
lieu of morals—hence, it needs mental
faculties; and as it will eventually stand
before the judgment bar of God, and be
judged upon moral grounds for all
eternity, it needs also moral faculties.
Finally, when the soul shall have
reached “the sweet fields of Eden,” j
in order that it may serve and worship
God aright, and survey, investigate and
nnderstand the wonderful works of God,
&e., throughout His vast universe, it will
still need both mental and moral facul
ties. My conclusion then is, that the
mind in both its mental and moral as
pects belongs to and is rooted in the
soul. There are other points in this
speech that I should like to notice, but
physical inability forbids.
Hannibal.
Stcllaville, Jefferson Cos., On.
Something Gorgeous" in Bridal Cos
tume. — The dress worn by Airs. M. F.
Winslow, on the occasion of her marriage
to Dr. R. C. M. Page, in Westport, Con
necticut, a week or so ago, is thus de
scribed: The robe of finely corded lilac
colored silk was imported from Paris.
The front is corded in horizontal puff,
extending to near the bottom, and nearly
meeting the trimming. The latter is of
royal purple velvet, pressed, lined and
; tinted au natural into a feuillage of oak
! leaves, surmounted at frequent intervals
by real acorns and acorn cups. This pass
es from the left shoulder down the bust
to the waist, thence down the skirt, and
down and np iu recurring points to the
right side, where it rises to the waist,
which it circles, thence over the bust
and right shoulder, meeting on the left
shoulder, where it is gathered in a bou
quet overhung by a broad feather match
ing the dress in color. At the bottom
front of the skirt, extending across below
the feuillage, is a deep fringe of royal
purple velvet, with double drops loosely
spun and twisted. The waist is of the
dress material,low neck and short slefeves,
each terminating in point lace. The
train is separate from the skirt, which it
meets at the waist and right side under
cover of the feuillage, wnile at the left
side the margin is caught ami raised in
a fold, shielded by a span’s width of
velvet extending from tho waist to the
bottom of the skirt. Over the shoulders
was worn a broad scarf of point lace,
caught in front by a diamond pin. The
head-dress was a tasteful combinaton of
acorn leaves, real acorn and acorn cups,
with point lace, the former matching
with the feuilling, and the latter with the
scarf. The bride wore in veil. Diamonds
depended in rings from tho ears, and
were employed for hair ornaments, while
a splendid diamond bracelet encircled
the left wrist. The handkerchief was of
point lace.
An average wheat crop lias been made
in Monroe county. Cotton and corn are
promising.
BY a peculiar combination of tlio Hay Ap
ple or Mandrake with other valuable ex
tracts, these Pills are admitted by many emi
nent physicians to be the most thorough
substitute for mercurials yet discovered. Be
iug prepared from tho juices of plants and
roots, which grow in our forests, are especially
adapted to the system of our people.
For purifying tho blood, removing bilious
obstructions, and cleansing tue entire system
they have no superior. They produce no nau
sea or griping, and do not injure delicate per
sons or even children; yet are sufficiently
active and searching to purge out obstructions
in vigorous and robust constitutions.
Price, 25c. a box. Sold by all Druggists.
Dlt. TUTT’S HAIR DYE is warranted not
to contain any ingredient iu tho slightest de
gree injurious to tho Hair or Health. It has
been analyzed by the beat Chemists in Europe
and America and its harmlessness certified to.
Price, sl. Sold everywhere.
Scrofula. Eruptive Diseases of the Shin, St.
Anthony’s Fire. Erysipelas, Blotches. Tumors,
Boils, Tetter, and Salt ltheum, Scald Head.
Kingworm. Dheumatism, Bain and Enlarge
ment of the Bones, Female Weakness. Steril
ity, Leuc-orrhcea or Whites. Womb Diseases.
Dropsy. White Swellings, Syphilis, Kidney and
Liver Complaint, Mercurial Taint, and Biles,
all proceed from impure blood.
DR TUTT’S SARSAPARILLA
Is tlie most powerful Blood Purifier known to
medical science. It enters into the circulation
and eradicates every morbific agent; renovates
the system; produces a beautiful complexion
and causes the body to gain flesh and increase
in weight.
KEEP THE BLOOD HEALTHY
And all will be well. To do so, nothing has
ever been offered that can compaie with thin
valuable vegetable extract. Brice. $1 a bottle.
Sold by all Druggists. Office 48 Oortlandt st.
New York. novllfeb3mli26-tuthßa&w
■which docs not dry up a cough and leave tho causo
behind, but loosens it, cleanses tho lungs and allays
irritation, thus removing tho causo of tho complaint
CONSUMPTION CAN 15E CURED
by a timely resort to this standard remedy, ns is
proved by hundreds of testimonials it has received.
Tho (fen nine is signed ‘*7. Butts ” on tho wrapper,
SETH W. FOWLS <fc SONS, Proprietors, Bos
ton, Mass. Sold by dealers generally.
X>l *. ROeERS’
MeialWm Syren
A P.TIAVE man may suffer pain, wlmn in
ul. iheted upon himself, heroi ally ; but he
CANNOT SEE HIS CHILD SUFFER.
There is no other malady, incident to child
hood, that is accompanied w.tli more indes
cribable wretchedness to the little sufferers
than that
PRODUCED BY WORMS;
And when the parent fully comprehends the
situation ho will not delay a moment in secur
ing the prompt and efficient remedies to
insure tho expulsion of tho intruders. This
Remedy may be found in
Dr. Rogers’ Vegetable Worm Syrup.
Please bear in mind that Rogers’ Worm Sy
rup is the reliable preparation.
Rogers’ Worm Syrup is a palatable prepara
tion.
Rogers’ Worm Syrup is liked by children.
Rogers’ Worm Syrup positively destroys
worms.
Rogers' Worm Syrup leaves no had effects.
Rogers' Worm Syrup is highly recommended
bv physicians, and is unquestionably the REST
WORM MEDICINE IN THE WORLD.
Price. 25 cents. For sale bv all I mggisls.
JOHN F. HENRY. CURRAN & CO.,
Proprietors, 8 and !) Collego Place,
jvl-wlm Now York.
Why JNot Stop the Fire
AND
SAVE YOUR PROPERTY ?
A PARTNER of good standing, with £.'1,000
capital, wanted to take interest with me
in having patened anew and novel method by
which city, town and farm properly may he
rendered secure against fire. So simple and
cheap, no gin owner can or will do without it
All the ends that could he desired in a Fire
Extinguisher are answered in the most desir
able and satisfactory manner in this invention.
No one need apply who cannot give good
reference. For particulars, address
J. W. D. KCKLES,
jul-w2 Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos , Ga.
The Universal Pet 1
The People’s Machine.
Everybody's Eriend.
THE HOME SHUTTLE.
•
rpiiE public is positively assured that this
popular, cheap and greatly improved
Family Hewing Machine is fully equal to any
m use for all domestic and light manufactur
ing purposes, nor is it inferior to any (as may
be inferred by some minds Von account of its
low price. It makes precisely tiie same stitch
as the expensive Machines, and does every
variety of work done bv any in market, or no
sale, and is warranted for live yeais to every
purchaser. Buy it. and evade tho enormous
commission paid to canvassers for selling the
high juice Machines which alone will more
than pay for the HOME SHUTTLE out and
and out* Cal) and examine, and try it before
buying any other make, and be convinced that
it is "a good article at a reasonable price.”
Sold for cash, or on installments. Cash
Prices, §25, §37, §42 and §75. Sent to any
address on receipt of price, or by Express, C.
O. D. Kcfer. by permission, to Mrs. Dr Is D.
Ford. Augusta, Ga.: Mrs. Dr. Virn. Pettigrew,
Langley, H. C. Illustrated Circulars and sam
ples of work sent free on application. Agents,
wnh smail capital, wanted.
A. B. CLARKE, Gen'l Agent,
jur,2l-wtf 148 Broad st.. Augusta. Oa.
TO SAVE ONE DOLLAR'
PARENTS SHOULD BUY
Silver Tipped Shoes
febU-wtga
IV ow A<lvcrtl*em«iitii.
200 Pianos and Organs,
NEW aud Second-Hand, of first-clasH makers, will
be sold at Lower Prices for cash, or on install
ments, or for rent, in city or country, during this
montli, by HORACE WATEUS & SON, No. 481 Broad
way, than ever before offered iu New York. Spe
cialty : Pianos and Organs to let until the rent money |
pays the price of tlie instrument. Illustrated Cata
logues mailed. A large discount to Ministers, Church
es, £cfco >ls, Lodges, etc. je27—4\v
Forewarned, Forearmed.
TO be forearme 1 now when you arc threatened
with all the ailments caused by debilitating
Spring and Summer weather is to make free use of
.T TJ It U 11 K 13 A,
Which will make ihe Liver active, assist Digestion,
Purify the blood, strengthen the Uterine and Urinary
organs, invigorate the System, anti make you enjoy
life as yon ought. Price, $t a bottle.
je27-4w JOHN' Q. KELLOGG, Agent, New York.
-I* ng A PAY GUARANTEED using our
%£L MWELL AUGER & DRILL! n good
Us territory. Endorsed by Governor.
of IOWA, ARKANSAS & DAKOTA
Cataloguo freo. W. 311.23, St. Louis, Mo.
je27—4w
LIVINGSTOSE IS DEAD.
For 30 years millions have intently watched his
perilous yet heroic struggles, and grand achieve
ments, and now eagerly desire tin* COMPLETE
LIFE HISTCKY of this world-renowned Hero ami
Benefactor, which unfolds also the curiosities and
wealth oi a wild and w uderfu country. It is just
ready. 2,000 Agents wanted quickly. One agent sold
184, another 106one week. For particulars, address
HuBBAUD BROS., either Philadelphia, Boston, or
Cincinnati, Ohio. je*J7—4w
AGENTS WAN t ED CEN TENNIAL
GAZETTEER uxn’LVW,
No book has e\er been published of such universal
interest to the American people. It appeals to no
particular class alone, but to all classes ; to men
and women of all professions, creeds, occupations
and political opinions—to Farm rs, Lawyers, Busi
ness Men, Mechanics, Physicians, Politicians, Teach
ers, Students, Manufacturers, Salesmen, men of
learning and men who can only read, to old and
young. All want it as a book -f constant reference,
and to preseeib'e for their children and children's
children as the only complete and reliable work,
showing the gigant c r. suits of THE FIRST ONE
HUNDRED YEARS OF THE GREATEST REPUB
LIC THE WORLD EVER SAW. It is not a luxury
but a necessity to every well-iutormed American
citizen. Agents make SIOO to S3OO per month. Send
for circular. ZIEGLER & McOURDY, Phil., Pa.
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DrSlp^
Dr, Sharp’s Specific cures Dyspepsia, Liver Com
plaint. Const pation. Vomiting of Foot!, Sour Stom
ach, Water Brush, Heartburn, Low Spirits, &c. In
thirty-five years never lading t» cure tho most ob
stinate eases. Sold by GIIEENE A ROKSIGNOL, Au
gusta, Ga., and Druggists generally. Depot 145
Eighth st., N. V. Uiivulars mailed mi atmli.-a'
For
COUGHS, COLDS, HOARSENESS,
A\l) ALL THROAT DISEASES,
Use
WELLS’ CARBOLIC TABLETS,
PUT UP ONLY IN BLUB BOXES.
A TRIED AND SURE REMEDY.
Sold by Druggists. 4w
Don’t Buy Until Yon Have Care-’
fully Examined Our New
AND LOW£RESERVOIR
r'i y'' | 15 V' ' Y N
As wo have 12 GOOD REASONS why they will
do your work.
qqiuk nml Easy,
;in<l Cluiiii,
They arc cheapest to buy,
They arc best to use.
They bake even y and quickly,
Their operation in perfect.
They have always a good draft,
They are made of the best material,
They roast perfectly.
They require but liitie fuel,
They are very low priced.
They are easily managed,
'I hey are suited to all localities,
Every Stove guaranteed to give
Satisfaction.
SOLI) BY
BECAUSE
Excelsior Manufacturing; Cos.,
ST. LOUIS, MO.,
AND BY
D. L. FULLERTON,
jnD-iutliAsSlweowtjalO AUGUSTA, GA.
\J i- *,v' ! •-!«
~..£ ' ;
OiFfffiEßPfflSE
The ouly Reliable Gift Distribution in the Country !
$50,000 00
IN VALUABLE GIFTS 1
TO liE DISTRIBUTED IN
JL.. I>. SIN E’ N
108th REGULAR MONTHLY
GIFT EITEEPBISE!
To bo Drawn Monday, August 10th, 1874.
One Grand Capital : Prize, $5,000
in Gold !
Two Prizes, §I,OOO J
Two Prizes, §SOO >• GREENBACKS.
Five Prizes, §IOO each in )
One Family Carriages and Matched Horses,
with Silver-mounted Harness, worth §1,500.
One Horse and Buggy, with Silver-mounted
Harness, worth §6OO. ' One Fine-toned Rose
wood Piano, worth §550. Five # Family Sowing
Machines, worth §IOO each. 700 Gold and
Silver Lever Hunting Watches (in all), worth
from §2O to §3OO each. Gold Chains, Silver
ware, Jewelry, Ac , Ac.
Number of Gifts, 6,000. Tickets limited to
50,000.
Agents wanted to sell Tickets, to whom lib
eral premiums will be paid.
Single Pickets, §1; Six Tickets, §5; Twelve
Tickets. §10; Twenty-live Tickets. §2O.
Circulars containing a full list of prizes, a de
scription of tho manner of drawing, and other
information in reference to the Distribution,
will be sent to any one ordering them. All
letters must be addressed to main office,
L. D. SINE,
Box 80. Cincinnati. Ohio.
101 W. Fiftli Street. |e2B-d&wtOaUg3
IMPKOVIiO
SB-lo -AcCtually Saved.
GEOIGIA COTTON PRESS,
PATENTED MARCH, 1874, BY
PENDLETON & BOARDMAN,
ArottsTA, Ga.
THE satisfaction this PRESS has given in
the past, tho great improvements made
on it, ana the faot of its being from forty to
fiftydollars cheaper than any other good Press,
should induce planters and others to send for
one of our new Circulars before purchasing.
Wo also manufacture Irons for Water Power
Presses and Screw Presses. Address.
PENDLETON A BOARDMAN,
Foundry and Machine Works,
ju7-snweAwe4m Koliock St., Augusta, Ga.
FOR SALE.
JVtLANTA and WEST POINT RAILROAD
STOCK.
Port Royal Railroad Stock.
Atlantic and Gnlf Railroad Preferred Stock.
Georgia State Bonds. 8 per cent., due 1878.
Montgomery and West Point first Mortgage
past due Coupons.
Gold, Silver and Uncurrent Money bought
and sold. BRANCH, SONS A CO.,
jos-tf Jackson street, comer Reynolds.
New Advertl#ement^.
EST'D. ” 7853.
DOOLEY’S
ytgfmpowom
kIESTAND NRD BAKINGPOWOER*
15 THE BEST AND CHEAPEST
PREPARATION EVER
OFFERED FOR MAKING
BREAD
DOOLEY’S YEAST POWDER
Ts perfectly Pure and Wholesome,
DOOLEY'S YEAST POWDER
Is put up in Full Weight Cans.
DOOLEY'S YEAST POWDER
Makes Elegant Biscuits and Rolls.
DOOLEY'S YEAST POWDER
Makes Delicious Muffins, Griddlo Cakes, Corn
Bread, Ac-
DOOLEY'S YEAST PO Wl)Ell
Makes all kinds of Dumplings, Pot Pics, (lakes
and Pastry, nice, light and healthy.
DOOLEY’S YEAST POWDER
Is tho Best, because perfectly pure.
DOOLEY'S YEAST PO WDER
Is the Cheapest, because full weight.
DOOLEY'S YEAST POWDER
Is guaranteed to givo satisfaction,
110 sure to ask for
DOOLEY’S YEAST POWDER
and do not ho put off with any other kind.
DOOLEYS YEAST POWJfER
Is put up iii Tin Cans of various sizes, suitable
for Families, Boarding Houses, Hotels,
Restaurants and River. I.ako and
Ocean Vessels on short or
long voyages.
The Market is flooded with Cheap, Inferior
Baking and Yeast Powder of light or short
weigh. DOOLEY'S YEAST POWDER is war
ranto 1 full strength and full weight.
Sold at wholesale and retail, generally
throughout tlio United States, by dealers in
Groceries and Family Supplies.
DOOIEYScBROTHER
Q 9/s!EW ST NEIN YORK,
apl-dAxvD
$5,000,000
ENDOWMENT SCHEME!
1111 11 IMI LIST CON4EUT
IN AID OF TIIE
Piic Lit) w of Kentncky.
JULY 31, 1874.
In announcing tho Fifth and last of tho se
ries of Gift Concerts given for tho benefit of
the Public Library of Kentuoky. tlio Trustees
and Mauagor refer with pride and pleasure to
tho four which have been already given: Tho
lirst. December 1(5. 1871; tho second, Decem
ber 2, 1872; tho third, July 8, 1871) ; and the
fourth, March illst. 1874.
Under their charter, granted by a special act
of tho Kentucky Legistature, March 10, 1871,
the Trustees nro authorized to givo ONE
MORI!, and ONLY ONE MORI! Gift Con
cert. With the money arising from this Fifth
and LAST Conoevt, tho Library, Museum, and
other departments are to he enlarged and en
dowed with a fixed and certain annual income.
Such an endowment fund is desired as will no
curo beyond poradvonturo not only tho main
tenance of this magnificent establishment hut
its constant growth.
THE FIFTH GIFT CONCERT
for tho purposes mentioned, and which is posi
tively and uiiequivooaffy announced as Till!
LAST WHICH WILL EVER HE GIVEN UNDER
Tills CHARTi- R AND BY THE PRESENT
MANAGEMENT.
Will come off in tho Public Library llall, at
Louisville, Ky.,
Friday, .Inly 31, 1874.
At Ibis final Concert everything will bo upon
a scale corresponding with its increased im
portance. The music will ho rendered by an
orchestra consisting of ouo hundred perform
ers selected for their fame in different lands,
and tho unprecedented sum of
tjjt!3,500,000
divided into twenty thousand gifts, will bo dis
tributed among the ticket holders.
LIST OF GIFTS.
ONE GRAND CASH GIFT $250,000
ONE GRAND CASH GIFT 100,000
ONE GRAND CASH GIFT 75.000
ONE GRAND CASH GIFT 50,000
ONE GRAND OAfIH GIFT M,MO
5 CASH GIFTS $20,000 each 100,0(10
It) CASH GIFTS 14,000'each 140,000
15 CASH GIFTS 10,000 each... . 150,000
20 CASH GIFTS 5,000 each 1(10,000
25 CASH GIFTS 4,01)0 oaeli 10(1,000
Oil CASH GIFTS 0.000 each 00,000
50 CASH GIFTS 2.000 each 100.000
100 CASH GIFTS 1.000 each 100,000
240 CASH GIITA 500 each.. .. 120,000
600 CASH GIFTS 10(1 each 50,1)00
19,000 CASH GIF4S 50 each 050,000
GRAND TOTAL, 20,000 GIFTS, ALL
CASH $2,600,00$
PRICK OF TICKETS.
Whole TioketH $ 50 00
llalvoß 25 00 *
Tenth, or oaeli coupon 5 00
II Whole Tickets for 500 00
22’, Tickets for 1.000 00
Tickets are now ready for sale, and orders
accompanied by cash w ill lie promptly filled.
Liberal commissions will bo allowed to satis
factory agents.
Circulars containing full particulars furnish
ed on application.
TIIO. K. BUAMLETTK,
Agent iiud Malinger.
Public Library Building, Louisville, Ky.
may] 9-dtuft fr& w id
NOTICE!
The State of South Carolina, Rich
land County—ln the Court of Com
mon Pleas.
The State ex relatione tho Attorney General vs.
j tho Greenville and Columbia Railroad Com-
I pany ; James S. Gibbes and others vs. tho
Greenville and Columbia Railroad Company.
TIIU time for registration and proof of
claims against the said Company having
i boon extended bv order of Judge Carpenter,
Fifth Circuit, South Carolina, to September 1,
j 1874, notice is hereby given to all and singular
j the creditors of the said Greenville andColum
! Ilia Railroad Company, who have not already
i proved tboir claims before tho referee under
; tho order in tho above stated cases, pa-aed
j Juno 18,1872, to present and prove before tbe
j undersigned referee, at his oflico in Columbia,
S. (!., o.i or before tho first day of RKPTEM-
I BEB, 1874, all bonds, certificates of indebted
| ness, coupons and judgments which they may
i hold against said Company.
JOHN S. GREEN,
junl9-d6Aw4 Referee.
JAMES LEE FEUS
IMPROVED DOUBLE
Turbine Water Wheel.
POOLE & 111 VT, Baltimore,’
Manufacturers for the South and South
west.
Nearly 7.000 now in use. working under heads
varying from 2 to 240 feet! 21 sizes,
from 5) to ‘JO inches.
The most powerful Wheel in the Market,
And most economical in nso of water.
Large ILLUSTRATED Pamphlet sent post free.,
MANUFACTURERS, A I,SO, OF
Portable and Stationary Steam Engines and
Boilers, Babcock & Wilcox Patent TnbuJous
Boilers. Ebaugh's Crusher for Minerals, Saw
and Grist Mills. Flouring Mill Machinery, Ma
chinery for While Lead Works and Oil Mills,
Shafting l’ullevs and Hangers.
SEND FOR CIRCULARS.
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KLNGTS CUKE
FOB
Chicken Cholera I
I S THE ONLY SPECIFIC YET DIBCOV
| EKED FOB THE DISEASE.
| It has been used for two years as preventive
i and cure with almost COMPLETE success.
For sale by Merchants and Druggists gen
i ex-ally. Prepared by
. Du. WM. ICING,
ap7-dl<fcwfim Athens, Ga.
NOTICE IN BANKRUPTCY.
SOUTHERN in STRICT OF GEOR
GIA.
THE undersigned hereby gives notice of liis
appointment as Assignee of William M.
| Herrington, of Lawtonvilks, Burke county,
Georgia, within said district, who has been
j adjudged a Bankrupt, upon his own petition,
by the District Court of slid district.
JNO. H. PERKINS. Assignee.
ju!2-w3* Lawtonville, Georgia.
GUAY’S FEIIRY
Printing Ink Works*.
13laCK AND COLORED INKS.
ROBINSON A PRATT,
714 Hansom Ht., Philadelphia.
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