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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1874.
VOL. XVI.—NO. 1
|U» New Orleans Picayun*.]
The following exquisitely beautiful
JMM appeared originally in the Picay-
*m It hat boon republished throughout
thin country, and has been filched at
by unprincipled persona desirous
Ding the credit dua to the gifted
The note whioh follows is by the
r of the London “Phrochial Critic
Ketropolitan Press. ” It is a tribute,
■ i just than generous, to a writer
■so genius New Orleans has so much
to ne proud:
CBKBfi.
it asbley tow* send (xAnxrrA.)
re If I should die,
ou should hiss my eyelids when I lie
I, deaf and dumoto all the world eon*
foldedorbs would op*n at thy breath,
from Its esile in the Isles of Death,
would coma gladly baoh along my reins.
lore If I were dead,
r ou upon my lifeless heart should tread
knowing what the poor clod chaaoed to
_ jknand sudden pulis beneath the touok
lm it ever loved in life so much,
id throb againmrem, tender, true to thee.
telle ve, If on my grave,
Idden in woody deope, or by tho wave,
roar eyes should drop sous warm tears of
regret,
From every salty seed of your dear grief
gome fair jswee t blouse m would leap Into loaf
To prove death could not make my love for*
Bet.
L believe, if I should fade
ito those mystic realms where light Is made,
And you should long one# more my face to
1 forth upon the kills of night,
l!
•lieve my faith in thee,
/ODg as my life, so nobly placed to be,
[ would ai soon expect to see the inn
tilths a dead king from hi* begin sublime,
s glory striokon (tom tbo throoe or Time,
‘ i thee unwjrth the worship thou hast won.
Jlltve who has not loved
ah half the treasure of hit life unproved,
alkeone who, with tho grapo within his
Steps all lie crimson juloe impress*),
Agnail its lucetons sweetness ioft nn<nessed,
Out trom his oareteis and unheeding olasp.
I believe love, pure and true,
Is to the soul a tweet, Immortal daw,
That gams life’s petals In its hours of dusk ,*
The waiting angels set and recognize
The rioh orown-tewel, hove, of Paradise,
When life fulls trom us like a withered husk.
IN OTHER LUNDS.
CHEAT IRISH FAMINE.
ai the Atman or “dueoak m'intosh, ”
“LOUIS MACON,” “THOBXTON," SIC.
Written for the Eat.ir.r-t».
[oopibioht housed. J
omaftee xxi.
THE (MTEEVIEW.
Captain Oore was ill at eaaa, though he
considered himself a man of anoh unques
tioned breeding that be ooold not imag
ine it possible to lose aelt-poaaaaaion in
|be presence of a rnstio girl. Still that
qneetion, “What ia your wish, air?” star
tled him, and npset hia memory of the
well-set phrases he had planned to deliver
himself of. At hazard he replied to Kath
leen’s question:
“My presence is easily acoonntad for,
hot as a wish, however, Miss Kathleen,
bnt a necessity.”
Kathleen looked at him and nodded her
head, as if to intimate that she was listen
ing,
ti “I have been thinking about leaving
’here, and have given instruetlona to my
•toward as to how he shall aot. My health
Jus been growing worse, end I feel that
death would soon terminate my unhappi-
hess were I to remain hare.”
■ “I am sorry for your sickness, air; bnt
He time I have long dreaded has oome,
and our minds are so taken np with the
ears of the living that an atarvin’, that
we give hot little attention to the dying
end the dead. Surely, eir, you are not
dying from the famine. Yon have never
known what hunger is, though yon may
look down from you* horse as yoa ride
through the streets of Loughres and see
the mother foldin’ to her fleahlesa breast
ths famishin’ little one, aa if her lean arma
ware a shield sgaicst death and aufferin."
“Yes, Min Kathleen, its very hard, but
there is a hunger more painful than that
of food—s hunger that sats into tha heart,
•ad only one object in the world will aat-
its cravings. For more than one year
( have felt this hanger; for long months
It has been inaressing, till night and day
H dlls my whole mind and drives me near
to diatraotion.”
“Captain Oore is rioh; sorely there is
,, nothing in this ruined island, at this time,
whioh your gold eannot bay ?”
s “There is, Mias Kathlsen; and oould I
buy the objeot I moat oovet, I would be
•rilling to lose all my wealth and feel rich
|B the possession of the only boon in tha
World that could make me happy.”
' Captain Oore looked at Kathleen, who
•at with her eyee cast on the door. He
Wes in hopes she would aid him to en ex
planation by asking him what this objeot
Wee, but with a woman’s tset she divined
’.what he would esy, and having made np
her mind os to her own oourae, she re
solved to give him no opportunity for
hearing, unless forced by a question di
tto!, the exact status Captain Cora bad in
her esteem.
“I must epotk on, Miss Kathleen. In
desperation I have sought this interview,
•ad I am determined before I leave to
know what my fntnre will be. It depends
altogether on yon.”
“On me!” said Kathleen, looking np in
surprise. n
“Yes, on you, Kathleen Brchin.”
“I cannot see how I, tha poor invalid
daughter of a poor peasant, unable to
feed his family or pay hia rent, can in any
way adeot the happineaa of the lord of
the manor, whose estates are the largest
in the land, and whose wealth ia only limi
ted by the capacity of his tenants to psy ?”
“Your words out me to the heart, Kath
leen Brehan.”
r his ohair oioaar, and
tea hia
ad and rooted my love with a stronger
grip. I have tried to remain away, for I
know how the tongas of scandal might be
busy were I to come here often, even
when distracted with anxiety daring your
long and dangerous illness. I have
thought over all the difference between
yonr station and mine, and I have deeided
to offer yon all, and not to ask for yonr
love till you see I am worthy of It—”
He tried to taka her hand bnt ahe
drew it quietly book, and then with the
look of an angel in her beautiful pale
face, ahe rose end said with a oalm dig
nity that Oore bad never aeon equalled
iiffthe palaces of the great:
‘Captain Gore, yon honor me by yonr
ertion of love, and yonr desire to make
me yonr wife. I do not doubt but
yon meon this, and flattered though I am,
I feel it would be en injostioe to yon and
to myself did I hesitate one moment to
give an answer. I do not know the great
world of wsalth and fashion in whioh yon
live, and yonr love tor me would not ont-
live my ignomnoa of it. Yon would ruin
yourself and at last hate the objeot that
separated yon from yonr former easo-
otates.”
“No, no, Kathleen, aooiety dare not
treat coldly my wife, for I would raise
her to my social level. The diamond unno
ticed may glisten by the brook, bnt when
found it shines en the brew of a queen
above the throne end in front of the
otown. Yon will be more beantifnl then
all of them. Yonr voice more musical,
and the stamp of nature’s nobility will
give you a grace and dignity that no
hereditary aoronat ooold bring.”
Captain Gore wee becoming eloquent,
and might have oontinned for some time
bnt Kathleen, who bad seen through the
open door a crowd of famishing peasants
passing, slopped him by aeying,
“You have not heard all my objections.'
“Then do not give them all now for
God's sake; wait and think over what
I have said.”
“No, Captain Gore, it ie better that all
ehonld be understood now, better that
whatever of pain there may be to
each of ua be endured bravely and at
once. Between na there ie not only the
barrier* of society, bnt my ebnrch pre
sents on impassable gulf to me. Love,
however, might crocs it as it has often
done, but I have no love to give. My
heart is already pledged.”
“Pledged!”
“Yes, to the church. I have resolved
to take the veil, but fbet I will stay by
the dying poor ti'l God removes the
plague and famine from my nnhappy
island. Yon offer me earthly plenty as
yonr bride, but ae the bride of the church
there ie Moored to me a orown more glo
rious, more enduring and more certain
than that worn by the queen whom yon
serve.”
“Donot speak in this way; wait and
see yonr father and mother. Let me
help yon in yonr good work. Bemember
yon can save me or rnin me. My fat* is
In yonr handa.”
And BO Mying Captain Gore walked out
and rode away.
CH1PTXE XXII.
A ■TBAMQK V1I1TOX.
■ hevs loved
. triad to *
'lit the very offort
msaer
At Captain Gore rode back to town, ha
looked like anything bat a happy man,
and “hia feelings did not belie hia loots,”
as Snllivan; who rods some distance be
hind, would have remarked. Gore was
humiliated; be bed failed in every effort
to win the love of Kathleen Brehen, end
hia failures but intensified the passion
that now occupied all bis thoughts. He
took no thought of the future; possession
was bis only obje t, end eompared lo this
his wealth end position seemed light mat
ters. When he offered marriage he meant
it, but the offer would not have been made
could he have won her ae he had Mike
Delaney's sister.
He passed the rift where Mike bad met
him that memorable night, mauy months
before, and for the moment be forgot
Kathleen Breban, as with a flushed face
he recalled the indignity to whioh the out
law had subjected him. It was generally
believed that Mike Delaney was dead, but
the Captain did not credit it, else why did
he offer so large a reward for the head of
the outlaw as tue only confirmation of the
naws. He felt that hia own tenure of life
was uncertain so long aa Delaney lived
outside the control of law. Indeed, he
wonld have sought a transfer from Longh-
rea long before, as a proper precaution,
bnt bis love for Kathleen Breban was
stronger than his fear of Mike Delaney.
Dan Gaspin was dead; of that he felt cer
tain, and now he thought a sufficient time
hsd elapsed for Kathleen to bnry her use
less love.
The Captain’s horse showed evidence of
fear as he neared the narrow pass, and
looking ahead, the Captain aaw an old man
with white hair end beard sitting on a
rock and apparently lost in thought, for
hia head was buried in his long, muscular
hands. The horse trembled, and refused
to pasB.
“Hello there! get away; don't yon see
you are scaring my horM?" called out the
Captain.
The old man looked slowly up, and
without the customary bow which the
Irish peasantry give to their superiors, be
aloud np with the aid of a long orooked
stick and walked past the Captain and up
the lake. *
Why did Captain Gore's hsart rise in
his throat, and the landscape swim before
him, as the old man hobbled by ? He
oould not explain it himself, and after he
had galloped home and sought medical
aid from Doctor Grant, the Doctor pre
scribed brandy as usual, and assnred his
patient that it was “overwrought nervous
exoitement that needed stimulants for the
stomach and rest for the body end
mind.”
The Captain took the medicine and
laid down, bnt the remedy did not work.
Kathleen Brehen's answer wee ringing
ever in his ears, and though bis eyes
were closed be saw the old man ever near
him, and the steel grey aye* with the
fiery ipwim of hat* were staring into
55 Mokofl. the old man who
***■*• MMMkhkwm etiealtj, aeered
np the lake in the direction of Larry Bre
hen’* oottage. He glanoed back once to
be assured that Captain Gore and his ser
vant were oat of eight, and then the bent
form became erect, and the tall man with
long strides, indicative of youth and
strength, hurried on without the aid of
the cane.
Nearing the hoUBe the man suddenly
became old and infirm again, and he
opened the gate with a trembling hand
and Kathleen, who had been sitting ab
sorbed in thought at the window ever
since the Captain left, saw the old man
approach with a tottering step.
This was no unusual sight to her during
every hoar of the day. For months she
bad seen old men and women coming to
beg for food. She had aeen them dying
after ahe had relieved their wants, though
the power to aid them had decreased day
by day. At that.vory instant her hsart
smoto her, for ahe felt the time had
oome when she must refuse the aid ahe
would die to give. For the first time she
saw famine a resident of her own home,
and the cries of brothers and state's and
the worn look of her father; and
mother told her the dreaded suffering had
begun. Dan Gaspin’e father and mother
were with them, but it beeame evident
they were living under the Bbadow of
that death they did not dread.
Kathleen went to the door and reached
out her band to help the old man in.
“God bleaa all here,” was the old man’s
salutation.
“God bless yon kindly,” was the reply
to this nsnal salutation. Kathleen contin
uing, “My poor, old friend I’m afeardye
come to a poor place for aid; there is not
a bit nor a sup in the house, an’ if ye lis
ten ye can hear the children cryin’ with
in.”
The old man shook her hand, though he
did not avail himself of her aseietanoe as
he entered the room with a long etride.
“Are ye alone Kathleen Brehan ?" asked
the old man in a whisper.
“Why do yon aak ?”
“Because it wouldn’t be sate for ms to
be found here by a thrator.”
“Then who are ye?"
“First, am I safe?”
“There’s no ona here but me father’*
family, and DauGaspiu’s fat her aud moth
er," said Kathleen, eyeing the man before
her.
“Thin I’m safe," and so saying the
beard and hair were removed and Mike
Delaney, in the full vigor of hia magnifi
cent manhood, stood before her.
KathlMn oould not repress an exolama-
tion of enrprise as crossing her forehead
devoutly, she ssked, “Mike Delaney, in the
name of the Vargin, where did ye come
from ?’’
“Don’t be frightened Kathleen. I came
from the rocks in the say.”
“An’ why did ye come into danger,
Mike?”
“There’s no danger to me here, Kath
leen, an’ its hard to find a place where I
oould be safe. I wouldn’t have come,
though, if I hadn’t news that would do
yer heart good—news that will bring joy
to every men, woman, and child in this
house. ”
“Then let me bring them all in, an’ let
ns share it together, for God knows its
but little comfort, an’ little hope of com
fort, we have now.”
The household was assembled, and the
expressions of surprise, joy and alarm, at
eseing Mike were varied.
“These ore days of miracles, bnt the
grave that now swallows so many is said
never to give back one to life.”
“Throe for yon Mike,” said old Mrs.
Gaspin, as she thought of the son long
mourned dead.
“I came to bring you good news, but it
won’t do to tell it at wonst, for eudden joy,
they say, kills like sadden grief.”
Kathleen looked paler than ever, and
now aat with clasped hands looking earn
estly at the man before her, hut dreading
to ask the question that trembled on her
lips. Mike continued:
“I was in Galway yesterday, an’ I aaw a
ship there that came over from America,
loaded with provisions for the sufferin’.
It wee the same ship that had sailed away
nine months ago, an’ the same captain. I
ipoke to him, an’ he told me that friends
in Amerioa bad sent money an’ food to
Kathleen Brehan’s family, an’ to Dan Gas
pin’a father and mother.”
Friends I Sure we have no friends in
America!” exclaimed old Mrs. Gaspin.
“Nor I ayther,” said Larry Brehan.
“Ye mane ye bare none that ye know
of, but if I was to name the man that Bint
it, ye’d say at once the grave couldn't give
np ita dead, nor the cowld lake return to
life him that has bean looked on as dead,
Kathleen rose, and laying her hand on
Mike’s shoulder, she said, “Spake Mike,
we all know what you would say; spake,
an' tell ns that Dan Gaspin ia livin'.”
“He is, an’ here ia the proof of it.”
To describe the scene that followed
would be impossible. Mrs. Gaapin threw
her arms about Mike, and the men poized
his hands and wet them with tears, but
Kathleen went to her little room and,
throwing herself on her knees, she poured
out her heart in thanks to God.
Mike Delaney bad a letter written by
Dan himself, and Mating that he had in
trusted to the American Captain money
and food, which ho had earned and ob
tained through kind friends beyond the
water. The letter waa addressed to Kath
leen, and it gave a brief account of hia
escape that fearful night, and of h's
reaching Galway, where he made himself
known to the Captain, who eared for him
and hid him away till the ship sailed.
“I will go to Galway at onoe,” said
Kathleen, rising as if she would at once
carry out her resolve,
“It is too late in the d iv Kathleen, wait
an' let us make merry over the good uewrs.
Bee what I have here. ”
Mike opened a bundle, which he had
carried in his large red handkerchief, and
disclosed to their famished eyes a number
of parcels containing broad, meat and
groceries, and Kathleen, with no misgiv
ings as to where they came from, at once
Mt about aiding her mother in preparing
the first hearty meal that had been cooked
under Larry B re ban's roof for months.
sleep, bnt in the short doses the old men
wonld riM np before him, end be oonld
see the diegntae dropping off, and Mike
Delaney standing before him, and always
pointing to a grave.
“Sullivan! Sullivan!Here, yon laay
dog.”
Sullivan, who had been talking outside
to Denny Kealy, hastened to hie master’s
tide.
“Tell Dr. Grant I want him at onoe,
end send for Mr. Balaton.”
“I will, yer honor and Sullivan, with
a show of haate that was always greater
than hia actual movements, harried sway
to obey the order.
The Doctor end Lieutenant soon pat in
an appearance.
“Do you believe in dreamt Grant, asked
the Captain, the moment the Doctor en
tered.
“I can’t say I do, though I ha no doubt
that they curne true at timet.”
“I am going to teat the truth of one in
person. Feel my pulse. I am strong
snongh to ride, I think.”
The Dootor mentally began to entertain
doubts of his patient's sanity, bnt com
plying with hia request, he announced the
pulse as “irregular and feverish."
“But will it hurt me to ride?”
“It depends upon how far ye go,” said
the oautious Scotchman. “An’ then, be
side, Captain, it's about dark, and I can
na’ see the good of yer tidin' to-night.”
“I can see good ia it. I know where
Mike Delsney, the outlaw, is at this mo
ment.
“Na don’t ya do, Captain. We all
know he’s in his grave.”
The Captain leaped from the bed, end
with a terrible oath he shouted, “In h's
grave ? No, Mike Delaney is strong and
well, and at this moment is in Larty
Brehan’s cottage across the lake! Bal
aton, order oat tha company at once; Sul
livan, saddle another horoe 1 Don’t wait
you idiot, but away! this is onr last
chance.”
The Captain might be insane, but he
was evidently in earnest. His friends
decided lo hnmor him, and his servant
bad to obey. In a short time the berraok
wm a scone of commotion, and armed
men hastened oat to the square, and in
answer to tha long role took their plooea
in line.
Gore donned hie uniform and hastened
down, while Balaton pnt the line in mo
tion, end at a double quick the troops
started for the designated place, while a
body of mounted men were sent ahead
with all speed to surround the boose.
Douuy Keeley heard tho Captain's
words, and at onoe sought out old Batty
to whom he explained the whole matter.
“Do you think Mike is there, Dinny ?"
“Faith, I don’t know,bat he might be.”
“There, the sojers are startin’, and I
can hear tho horses ahead. Dinny, oonld
ye get a horse oat of the Captain’s sta
ble?”
T oonld thry.”
‘Then thry, an' away with ye like the
wiud and give thewarnin.'
Deuny repaired to the stable, and has
tily threw a bridle ou the first home be
mot, aud then, without a saddle, he led
him quietly out, aud mounting, he took
a longer route to avoid tho soldiers, and
sped away like the wind, o’er the hill,
across ditches aud hedges, he dashed,
then down to the smooth road by the
lake. He did not hoar the horses to
front, bnt aped away to the left. He eaw
spectre horsemen calling him to halt, but
he refused. Then came the rattle of
arms, and Denny and hia horse felt
bleeding to the earth.
[to bb continued. J
The Nose.
This prominent organ, although
a leading feature, yet fow of ua
care to ba led by it, exoept in the direc
tion of a good dinner. This need not
prevent ua from panning it as a subject,
showing wherein the importance of the
organ is not duly estimated.
As a feature of the face it, more than
any other, changes its character, although
not so capable of expression as the eyes
and mouth. Its ideal beauty varies with
different races. The Afrioana of Bierra
Leone prize the fiat nose, and the Egyp
tian dotes on the veritable, pare and un
adulterated pug. The Taitar races, hav
ing very email nosee, consider them the
very highest type of beauty. The most
beautiful woman in all Tartary was con
siderod so because tha had only two
boles where the noM ought to have been.
There seems to be no nniversil standard
of nasal beinty. The Homans adored
the aquiline, the Greek the straight Hue;
the latter, coming nearest our idea of the
beautiful, is accepted ss the stand ird in
thia latitude.
But there are other uses for the nose
beyond its element of beauty or the re
verse. The sense of smell is popularly
supposed to be the only service it is called
upon to perform, at least we should judge
so from tha number of open mouths we
meet sailing along the streets. One of
the main objects of the nostrils is for
respiratory purposes. 'There is very little
doubt that air passing through the nos
trils is refined, purified and eliminated of
all injurious gases, infection end dust be
fore being permitted access to the lungs.
It Is very easy to sea how habitual respi
ration through the month is not only un
natural, but productive of disease. More
especially at night we Bhould accustom
oorsulves to Bleep with the mouth dosed.
All tho energies of the system are then at
reel, and its power of resistance at the
lowest ebb. If the month be open the
enemy is allowed to enter, and we may
be aura he faatenatupen the most delicate
part of onr organization.
In a recent lecture by Prof. Tyndall he
demonstrates folly the danger of sleeping
with the month open, a practice unknown
to the lower animals. He says: “If r
were to endeavor to bequeath the most
important motto which human language
can convey, it should be those words:
Shut Youa Mouth.
“In the transactions of life this might
have its beneficial results, as tha moat
friendly cautionary advice, or be received
as the groKM-st of iusults; but where I
would print nud engrave it—in every nur
sery and ou eveiy bed post in the uni
verse—its meaning would not be mista
ken, end, if obeyed, its importance
would soon be realized.”
Written for tho SusMT Isaunn-Sm).
EIGHT AED HOMING SCENE*.
Tho na la down. The sight wonld soon (kw
derk
And mantle eerth with bleckaeie. Bee yon eperk
duet gleemlag out, enn*etrack, la bonsdleae epece,
feint now, lint (rowing brighter. Boon In ptuco
Otheri will come, nud more end more, nntll
Twinkling, (olden worlde the houveno ebnll III;
When night nppenre erreyed In ehudy fold
Of crepe thin, over white, end wrought with gold.
It In midnight. The bonra ere pneelng on.
The enn helf-wny hldoo 'twltt eve nnd down.
Behold, overheed, hove crept, In hoevoni high,
The otoro we firet dlocerned in th' eeotern ekjr.
And down from mtdwey height* or henvene' dome
Are elowly lotting others, on* by on*;
Still etudded with lights nr* th’ eostero ikies;
Ae In the Weet they link in th' Knit they rise.
The meon will toon be np. Then* etnoks of light,
Ben-like, Hied up between with softer white,
Are elfonl* of her own. 8hc upwerd ends,
And now, the nearer tun let down their voile,
So di Itoote, light'Wovnn, end so thin,
One tblnho of Mr, with silvery my* filled in.
0 lovely Night I thy metchleei self adorn,
Until thou fiedeet in the ruddy morn.
All nature seems asleep, bnt, nt this hoar.
Her works proceed, with wondroce skill nnd
power.
The night Mr cooler grows, is posse* through,
Its mission to perform, the cooling dew;
Increasing now on loaf, nnd flower, end grue,
In countless drops will form, ere night shall pees
When naefnloeee nnd beauty see combine;
The sprinkled drops,Ilk* millions diamonds shine.
Now, breeke tile day. fllorle* to gloria* call.
Scene fellows scene, es enrtMne rise and fell.
B-jeweled night retiree with etetely treed,
Atop the dewn sits In Ita roey bed;
fresh s* e Joyoes child lie Dice Is seen
A peeping oat, th* day nnd night, between
The eun approaches with hie fiery fkce,
And dewn, retreating, falls In day’s embrace.
The cock betimes nnnounoed, with luity notes.
Ills coming. Hundreds, now, of trilling thronte
Greet him w ith ewe-test song. While to th* eye
llow dilTrent do Ml things appear I Th* Iky
la blue, and in lie upper depth! nfer
One acercely aces the moon, nnd not n star.
Barth appear* in dree* of brilliant light.
With figure* nil distinct nnd color* bright.
Then king of day 1 Whet light 'll* thine to give I
What power 1* thlaol Without tboe, whet could
live r
Thy pieeeuce gives the d,y; thy nhaeoee, night;
The scute blue thoa makeat with thy white,
And col. r* ell In picture! greet end amMl—
The reae, landscape, end mini ow on the wMI.
Thou art inbllmo, thy works aublimoly do,
Whether to bold e world, or paint e hut I
Thou God of Uenven I Maker of night and day 1
Creator of Ml thing* I In Thine own way
InecrutabU, Thou wilte*t nnd 'tl* done.
The firmament, the moon, the earth, tho ana.
And nil thing* appertaining, grand, nmbllme,
And beautiful, are bnt cieataroe of Thine.
Almighty God t If these Thyielt declare.
Whet more art Thou I A* eun* lo duet compete.
K. W. M,
Marianna, Fla., Jane 2d. 1874.
A Longfkllew Ameedat*.
A writer describing n visit to Longfellow
gays: Among the paintings, the one I
observed most keenly was the one by that
poet of the pen, pencil end obiael, Thom
as Bnobanan Head, engraving! of whioh
s few years sgo, were as profuse as fall
ing loaves after the first autumnal frost,
and even now are fonnd on many walla.
This picture is tha one known as “Leng-,
fellow's Children,” a fault in the artist e
drawing, it will be remembered, giving
riae to the belief that one of the poet’*
children was bom without arma, Aa an
instance of the tenacity with which a be
lief (I had almost said anpeiatition) of
thiB kind dings to people somewhat big-
otod in adhering to already formed opin
ions, Mr. Longfellow related an inci
dent of comparatively recent occurrence,
quit* aa am using as it was annoying.
His brother poet and moat intimate
friend, James Bnseell Lowell, was in a
Mount Auburn horse ear, and on the op
posite seat sat a party of women, one of
whom, a sort of shattering magpie, act
ing the part of a chaperon, said, as th*
car approached the old Graigie Mansion:
“This is where Longfellow lives—the po
et, yoa know. Funny such nioe people
should have such queer notion* about
some things. I should have thought he’d
have wanted to build a new house. But
I suppose it's true that poets all have a
erazy spot somewhere in their heads.”
Then, after a pause, daring whioh oome
immaterial remark was mode by one of
her auditors, she oontinned: “What a
pity that one of h<s children, a pretty
girl otherwise, they say, was bom with
out arms I" Mr. Lowell thought there
was a good opportunity to atop, in on*
oirole at least, the oarrent of so absurd a
story, and said in the most gentlemanly
manner, “I beg yonr pardon, madame,
hut I am on intimate friend of Mr. Long
fellow’s family, and I can assure yoa that
there is no truth in the story about hia
child.” “I beg your pardon, air,” the
lady retorted, au the clannishness of her
strata of development transforming her
into a human porcupine, “I beg your
pardon, air, bnt I have it from a lady who
had it from Mr, Longfellow himself,"
Then a keif-satisfied arrangement of
drapery and a triumphant adjustment of
her bonnet warned Mr. Lowell that the
ground was dangerous, and he discreetly
said no more.”
cbaftzb xxm.
•UBPICION.
Captain Gore grew more and more un
easy. He teased on kix bed and tried to
—Kate Field, in her letters about Spain,
gives us the following moral reflection a*
the result of her study of Bpenieb human
nature: It it a great mistake to think that
goodpaopla an the gaoet light-hearted and
contented. Hut ere bothered by ooa-
eclenee end worried ehoatuverls sting eel-
vstion. This world is bum enjoyed by
airy Mantra olever enough to aeoepe de
tection.
Carlyle an Capitol on* Laker.
We have seen nolbing more to the
point than the following from Carlyle,the
aged:
“Two things are pretty sare to me.
The first is that capital and labor never
c»n or will agree together till they both
first of all deoide on doing their work
faithfully throughout, and -ike man of
eonscienoe and honor, whose higbeet aim
ia to behave like faithful cit zeua of this
universe, end obey the eternal command-
ment of the Almighty God who made
them. The seoona thing is that sadder
object even that of the coal atrike,
or any conceivable strike, is the feet that,
loosely speaking, we may say ail England
has deoiaed that the profitable*! way is to
do ita work ill, alimify, swiftly and men-
daeioualy. Wbst a contrast between now
and aay only one hundred years ego! At
the latter date, or still more oonspioaooe-
ly for ages kafor* it,all England awoke to
ita work with an Invocation to the Etern
al Maker to bless them in their day’s la
bor, and help them to do it well. Now
all England, shop-keepers, workmen, alt
manner of competing laborers awaken as
if it were an unspoken Imt heartfelt
prayer to Beelzebub, “O help us, tbon
great Lord of shoddy, adulteration, and
malfeasance, to do our work with th*
maximum of liimnesa, swiftness, profit,
and mendacity, for the Devil's sake.
Amen!”
—A young man in on* of the Penobscot
river town* in Maine, recently supposing
himself to be on bis death bed, quietly
arranged bis earthly affairs so far as be
OUR WESTERN LETTER.
A Visit ta ths Beaervallona—The
ranees Indian* Twenty
Mile* Oner the Prarle
land! sf Ne
braska.
For th* Enguibeb-Sub.)
Columbus, Neb., June 20,1874.
I had almost given np ths notion of
dropping a Una to the press of Georgia,
■o well have I thought ths papers from
different pert* of the State to be repre
sented b; tourists on this trip. It seems
that every on* ont of two from onr party
hold* the qaiU in readiness to dash off
every remarkable incident or oooident
happening ta we go along, bnt if yon will
grant aa* a short indulgence I am willing
to place myself in th* same category with
those gnehing, rushing travelers in tha
West, and domoatie literati. One youth
actually has stood th* bind-most platform
of th* eon enquiring from any and every
one, “What piece is this ?"
I have not learned what the avowed ob-
jaat of thia young man is nfalsas he is
studying experimentally Physical Gsog-
H* started this peoalisr ventilla-
tion of his ouriosity soon after leaving
Atlanta, and haa kept it np energetically
ainoe. H* writes the names of these
plooea in a little book whioh he carries
next to hit heart. Bums of us propose
presenting him with a Bailroad Map, to
save him farther trouble and annoyance.
Mr. G. Guaby Jordan has represented
your paper >o ably that I feel little is loft
to be said after hia eihsustiug and tlror-
ongh pen ha* traversed the paper, bilt I
want to speak of a little cironmstance
which be can’t afford very well tu indiet,
aa none of ns lik* to tell a powerful good
joke ou oarsslvee.
We reached this place on the Seth inst,
end that evening, with Mr. Bam. A.
Echols end bis eooompliahed lady and
others, w* took a ride over the table lands
of th* prairiei. Th* soil here ia surely the
richest in th* world for the prodaetiun of
eorn, wheat, oats, Ae. The prosperity
of thee* people and the fertility and pro-
dnotivsnesa of these toils loom* up terri
bly against th* poverty of onr own poo-
pl* nnd tbe destitution of oar lands.
While taking onr ride e novel performance
onme to our view—s jaekrubbit was
alerted near onr carriage by a large point
er dog. He gave (wo or three leaps and
then was off with the dog in hot pursuit.
The rabbit jumped along very much ui»-
eoncerned at hia oaniue umjesty until he
got off about 100 paces, when he Btarted
off like a telegraphic me h ig« aud left the
poor dog all alone in (be distance. We
don't know where he went 10, Imt if he
keepe up his liek it wou t take him long
to moke the oirenit around the world.
They call them out here “uarrow-gauge
donkey*.” Mr. G. Gunby Jordan baa e
flne gun along. Ou yesterday we went to
visit the Pawnee Indians, some twenty
miles above. We poised through
a large settlement of prairie dogs. We
anticipated capturing ell that abowol
themselves above the ground by the
unerring aim of Mr. Jordan’a flue gun.
He had plenty of ohancea. The impu
dent little rascals would perch themselves
by the eidee of their holes aud bark
away. Mr. Jordan would raise his gnu,
take aim and Are, and then bis would be
victim aimply dropped down, uti-
seatbed nnd nnaoared. This shooting
waa kept up to some forty shot*, but we
did not eapture n single prairie dog.
Some one suggested tint Mr. Jordan had
better praetioe on the side of the next
bouse he oame to. He says he hilled sev
eral, but the others would rush out aud
dreg their deed companion iato the hole.
Mr. Jordan remembers to hive read this
characteristic of the prairie dog, whan he
was a little boy end studied natural 1th-
tory. Now, Mr. Jordan ia a mighty smurt
fellow, and the beat companion und bed
fellow you or any of you ever saw; but
there ere two things he oau’t do, to witff-
eetob a jackass rabbit in a* foot race, or
kUi a prairie dog.
Our visit to the Pawnee Indian settle-
ment was tbe greatest novelty wo have
experienced. They ere about 1,200 or
1,600 strong. The children, when they
get old enough to go to school, are sent
to the Quaker Hchool there established,
about oue mile from the villages. The
school has about eighty ia atteudauce.
They learn drawing and writing very rap
idly, but when it oome* to the acquisition
of knowledge through reasoning faculties
they eve very muoh found wanting. The
Indian haa a good memory and quick
perceptions, but oan not master muoh
in the rudiments of learning usido
from what is learnt through these
faculties. Most of them have very low
foreheads, but well-shaped noses and
magnificent eyes. One old chief ia the
oantour of his face reminded one of the
real Greoian face. Wo talked to one of
their chief fighters. He was a splendid
representative man. He was about thirty
years old, weighed about 106 pounds, and
had tbe finest eyee I ever saw in a man's
head. He aat in his chair in the
wigwam with a divinity sublime.
He verily looked like a prince of
the forest. Io the wigwams we sew many
Indian ratios, tbeir modes of domestic
life, and the squaws with tbeir one 1 Tittle
end two little laguna;” tome of them
not more then a few dsya old. Indian
mothers have the strongest affection for
their young.
Most of tbe Pawnee warriors were off
after tbe Sioux, a warlike neighboring
tribe, who came down upon them the day
before we were there, and captured mauy
of their ponies. Tbe Pawnees are des
perate fighting Indians. The Sioux and
they have been at war for tho last two or
three hundred years. The Sioux are the
Indians whioh slaughtered so many white
This provision was made to protect
them from tbe Sioox, who killed many of
their best men lest season. Thia iea
great country, end I think the country for
young men. The people are civil and tbe
laws ore rigidly enforoed. In this (Platte)
county there never has been a criminal
tried for any greater crime then a misde
meanor.
Our nest interview will be with Brig-
ham Yonng, end with the Mrs. Youngs.
Just think of aay one going to a country
where a man haa from ton to forty wives,
and onr young men down in Goorgia
afraid to get one! More anon.
Yonra, Ao. 0. J. 8.
RCIKHTirioXfrMt
Rural Carolinian.]
Trap-door Spideb—1 he nest of the
trap-door spider, described in our May
number, found by Dr* Anderson in his
neighborhood (Stateburg, 8, 0.,), end for
warded to us by that gentleman, oame in
S ued condition. The neat is, perhaps, a
ttle deeper than the one forwarded by
Mr. Wever last year, but in other respects
is the same. One peculiarity, however,
was noted, that the lid or trap-door was so
completely grown over or covered with
iuorn, that tne entranoe oould not be easi
ly detected unless it waa found partially
open, which seems to be the case about
half the time. In case of intrusion, how
ever, it is dropped and held firmly by the
spider within.
Corn Insects.—Wo have received two
communications _Vom G. W. J., Lancas
ter, 8. C., each containing insects, packed
in soil, which was as dry as powder—in
sects aud plants ditto—we should have
written onr correspondent if he bad given
liis name, fo. 1 the* insecU are, douulkm,
the 4 ‘bud worms” we have been looking
for a year or two. but ia their dried-up
state (and young lawn at the Bame time,)
it was with difficulty tbrt we oould deoide
the order to which they belonged. Will
Mr. J. please send larva, either In alcohol,
or, if he wishes to send plant and all,
pack iu damp moss or wet cotton; then
if uot ioo long in the mail bags the insects
come nlive, or at least in • condition to
name.
Our friends should s'ways send their
names, and if toey do not wish them to
come out in p. ini, we w*U certainly only
give their initia’s. As far as it relates to
onr department Pl least, we wish to be
come acquainted a Uli ou correspondents.
The only th* we have to oomplain of is
that the: e are so few of them*
How to Bend Insects in Alcohol.—
When it is desirable to send insects in
phials of liquid tb ougb the mails, with
safety, it can be done in the following
simple manner:
1 ako a bit t he else of your phial, or
larger, and with this bo e into a block of
pine or any light wood, with the grain, to
Lie required depth, thee, split or plane off
all superilous wood, making a square bloex,
into whioh slip your phial, closing the end
by means of a cork. This will resist all
liability to breakage from the postman's
stamp, and bring the insects in a safe con
dition. It is only a modification of the
wooden match bos, though more suitable
for «mall packages. Ths letter wrapped
arouud the phial will serve as packing.
Pabis Gukkn.— Am July and August will
bring out the ootiou worms, it will be well
for planters to be making Airangements
for tho use of Paris Gieen when the worms
first appear. Remember the proportions
lire 1 pound of green to 26 or UO pounds
of flour, but pure green must be used.
Hy using the above you will uot be in-
fringing ou anybody's patent. “Patrons"
might mub together aud buy pare Paris
Green in Quantity at gieatly reduced rates.
It generally retail* at 40 cents per pouud.
A word to the wi-se, Ac.
Machine fob Absoetino Potatoes.—
This machine consists of long rollers, a
hopper, assorting board and grading
chutes, so oombined and arranged, that
the potatoes being shoveled into the hop
per ut one eud and caused to juu along
tue assorting hoard and the rollers, the
small*! potatoes will escape between tbe
roller and uHsurting board, while the larg
er one* will be discharged at the end.
The distance between the roller or rollers
and tbe assorting board increases from
(he herd towaid the tail, and the potatoes
escape through tbe spoce, varying iu size
in tho sanio measure, so that they can be
separated into two or more grades by
suitable petitions in receptacles below.
The assorting board ia adjustable toward
and from tbe roller, so as to change the
grade ut will.
Vikqinia Cane Felt.—An article of
origiuul manufacture, called caue fibre
felt, is made by a Virginia Company. It
is tbe only felt made from cane in the
world. It is used os a lining under (in,
sla’e und shingle roofs, snd for deafening
floors; it ulso forms a cheap carpet lining
and is a substitute for plaster; in faot
serves any use for which felt oan be em
ployed in buildings. It is a non-conduc
tor of heat und cold, and impervious to
wider or moisture. This felt is plain or
resin sized, the latter as well as the form
er beiug inodorous. It is cbesp, durable
and free from objections which charac
terize other felts.
Industries Make Gbeat Cities.—The
growth of oitiee is dne to the number
und vurieties of their industries, and it is
to this cause that Northern and Western
cities owe their great populations. It
would be well that Southern cities should
profit by this faot and become centres of
manufactures. Philadelphia, for instance,
has 11,000 manufactories which turn out
$400,000,000 manufactured goods per
unnam, and a population of three quar
ters of a million, living in 120,000 houses
of which 40,000 are the residences of
working people.
Manufactusino in Georgia.— Manu
facturers are making rapid progress in
Georgia. Thirty-four cotton aud woolen
mills uro now working in that Slate, and
they are Baid to bo models in all respects,
us well as in the perfection of their ma
chinery aud their immense water power
a* in the admirable manner in which
they are managed. They are also said to
be owned almost exolnaively by Southern
men and worked by Southern eapital.
Ramie Cultubb.—It ia stated that the
fibre of the ramie is in great demand for
England, and that if proper meobinery
could be procured to atrip it from the
plant it would soon rival in importance
the trude in cotton. Ths Direct Trade
Company of England will pnrohase mil
lions of pounds of the fibre at muoh
higher prices than would be paid for cot
ton.
DOMESTIC MEClfPJM.
Orange Tart.—Squeeze two esaafM
and boil tho rind tender; add half et«S>
spoonful of sugar; the juice anff|M^ of
the fruit, and one ounce of b«tt#r beetsa
to a panto. Line a shallow dish with IQjkt
puff crust, and lay tho paste oi oraagsia
it.
Common Fruit Cake.—One freuad sf
flour, one pound of raisins, nns
currants, one half pound of eitsos. qee
cup of sugar, one of molasses, mm Of Ni
ter, one of milk, three eggs, a taa^HbiHl
of saleratus, and spice to taste* ‘
Charlotte Ruhsb. —Li ne tha. bathmi
and sides of a plain mould «ilhuMfUl*
cuits (sponge), which vuu trim for tflm
purpose ; beat to a froth one plat of dou
ble cream, sweetened to taste with
dered lump sugar; add ona ouaaec
finest isinglass dissolved in *4
milk, and r liqueur glass of
Pour this mixture iuto the moody fill it
on ice for a couple of hours, thentafAffiri
and serve.
Apple Bread.-We*gh one pond of
fresh, juicy applos; peel, oore nd Mew
them iuto a puip, being cartful to W*'a
porcelain kettle or a stono jar planed ft-
*ide a kettle of boiling water j mix the'
pulp with two pounds of the heat Sour;
put in the same quantity of veaaft yw
would U8o for common breed, aM *a-
muoh water as will make it a
dough; pot it imo a p.n and fkMttia•
warm plane to riae, aud let It NnuriB fit
twelve hunts at leant. Form it tat* MN>
er long Blnipod loavaa, and b*k*iaaqHtk
oven.
Snowflake Cake.—Taka a haKfi^if
Imtler, two cupa of white angax.iawGpfk
of flour, one cup of sweet milk, tfcMEMMS
one teahpooiKul ot cream of tartal, Nfia
one-half of that quantity of lalaratNfi.
Stir luuter and angar together, add A*
hem mi yolks of eggs, and half th* float
with the oroam of tartar in it; tan lit
Hourly all the milk, dissolve th* lfil*f«|ifl
in what is left aud add it. Beat th* white*
of the eggs aud mix in; stir ia tb* I*.
maioder of tho flour. Bake in J*ity-*ak*
lina. Grate the meat of two frairik eoaaa-
nuts after paring off the outer Atef .fild
to them one oup of sugar ond thabMfiM
whites of two eggs. Spread bfitNW th*
oukos, whioh should have b**n b*M ta
three pans. Heap tbo coooonntTficyhJfk
ou th* top of the nppermo*t o*k* tfik
aoatter sugared almonds among it.
Cube fob a Felon —As soon 0* diseov-
erod, take some spirits of tnra*atia*ia*
oup, dip the finger iu it, and )hMh*M
the baud near a hot fire till dry; tbea flfj
it in again, and repeat for fifteen liilafik^
or till the pain ceases. Th* nest dofi
with a sharp knife, paro off th* thick Ala,
and yon will find something Ilk* a heart,
oornb filled with dear water; oug ti*
calls and ths felon is gone. If thtfoka
ia too far gone for turpentine, aU of orig
anum, treated in the same way, wfll ear*.
If too far advanced for either t* eon, ths
felon wilt still be henefltted, a* it wifl h*
less painful. Never draw it.
llEMEOT FOB COENS.— Mr. BOM, IMN
chant of San Diego, California, annoanaw
that llit'HO oroutors of ao much torment Ml
die world, can easily and surely baearafl
by upplyitfl' a good coat of gam arable
muciluge every evening on going,to bad.
He bad them for nearly forty yean, arid
tried nearly all the com r»M<M*in*X-
istonoe, until he tried the abovo, whioh
roucii'y cured him in a few weeks,
‘KKN.MNUV.
7“ «'•* ‘ h ?°“ to “ i * h * d Wii weeping (uDiliu , u tha Northern part of Minneso-
frienda by th* choice of an auotionaer to . , _ „ ' . ,
oondaot the fnnaral aervioea. “There’* « 862 - G*n*. Pop. *nd Sibley were
Mr. damn to Bangor,” ho aaid; aantool by tho Government with ton
"ho * an aaay. flart tnikm, tnd I aUera ihonaaM mm and killed large aaariwr*
£Mot woo hE & 2!^ Pawn*** will not b* allowed to go an Ikrtr
want to talk toiriy funrtaL” baffalokart* after thia a»*«on.
—The ftdlowiug ia Josh Billings' defini
tion of au editor : “An editor ix a male
being wl-nso liizaea. iz to navigate a nuze
paper, lie writes editorials, grind* ont
poetry, inserts detlia and waddings, aorta
out maneehripa, keep* a waste baaket,
blows np tbe devil, steal* matter, files
other people's battle., sella biz paper for
a dollar aud fifty cents a year, takes white
beans and apple sou far p*y when he oan
get it, raise* a large family, work* nine
teen hours out uv every twenty-four,
koows no Bunday, get* damned bravery.
boddv, and on** in a while wblpl
baddy, live* poor, din* rtiddlr -
ssstnsauvi
but fro* ehMowy pnflf In th*
V French trumpeter lately
Belfort with all the bag and baggifi
Id carry. Safely arrivad or ttWlst
ry, he took position on a rook, twtt-
• tnoe towards France and bMpHr-
pnt his trumpet to his month, and
pi..., * l tho old melody of Bertrand'* F***-
—The Duchess of Edinburgh is not it
ull good b oking ; vet h1*u u .ti * right to
beauty by itihtnrauoe, foi u-' gn ndfn»h«r
.Siol.o uB, and her giundu other, bit wifi,
vveru snid to bu, iu tbeir tiny, the band*
(oiliest s vorcig h m all u ope. R ida
pity they g ve tiioir ^lautl-iiaugh-er R*tft*
of tlioir personal ohuru’8.
—A. woman is to have th# boftpr of far-
n.hhing tbe design for Dr. LiviftfMoM’ft
dHtue. Tho foreigu exchange* yiport
that about $4,00U huv<* been StiblordMp to
the laud raiding iu Edinburgh foraxHatw
of tho late Dr. Liviugstouo. The d**ig&
acc< pled for tho stutue is that of Mr*. HUl,
s wter of Sir Noel Futon. . ‘ : '
— 1 ho American Oriental Topqgrapbioal
(Jorj h, now in ibe Holy Lund, nave reach
ed Jeiusuiem, after making very mUcco-h-
ful totploratioDH in tbe vicinity < ^ JLrmat
Sinai. They report, as if very ruui.trkable
fact, that they were detained Uo Uuys by
u heavy snow storm about >!u«|gt Sinai,
lhe expedition will leave .suou t^i Bazhan
aud Moab.
—One of the mowt curious questions
which has come up fur legal settlement
oi late is that involved in tneoas*of Mii.
Jeauuette G. Anderson, of New York, who,
while living wi'h a third husband, 0. L.
Anderson, is receiving $3,672 62 alimony
from two former husbauds. Judge Dan-
els decided on Friday last that matrisga
does not deprive u divorced wife of har
alimony after it has be< n ordered by A
court. The question will be carried to
the Court of Appeals.
Tub Deepest Well in the World.-vAt
about twenty miles from Berlin ia aitnipd
the vdiago of Hperenberg, noted for Mm
deepest well that bus ever been mpk.
Owing to tho presence of gyprav in file
locality, which is at a moderate distance
from (he cupitul, it occurred to the gov*
erumeut authorities of tho minefcto *hf
tain a supply of rock-hall. With tlfein *Ad
ia view, the siukiug of a shaft or well
16 feet in diameter was commzBOid zoom
five years ago, and at u depth Of 280 fket
tho salt was reached. The boring wax
continued to tho further depth ol 060
feet, tho diameter of (he bora baton ft*
duced to about 13 inchts. Tha operations
were subsequently prosecuted by the aM
steam, until a depth of 4,194 ftzt-W**
attuiuod. At this point the boring wtf
discontinued, the borer being aril! in M*
salt deposits, which thus exhibits ID
enormous thickness of 3,907 feet.
The “Great Clock or Etkbsitx.”—A
Washington lecturer .“ays that the ****}£
orbit has been widening out for 99,0W
years past, and will contiuue to doae ft*
20,IM>0 years to come. It Will thea bzp*
to contract, and will continue to do *0 Iff
6Q.000 years. The eccentricity of
rr has been steadily increasing tofjdf
last 100,000 years, but has nearly
its limit. In about 6,000 yoax* it
gin to diminish and will continue to****,
for more than 100,000 years. Ik****"*
of the planets must go on
this manner as long as the law* "J** 1 ?
remain unchanged, formingwk*t*
writer has called “great olooka w
ty, which beat agos us ouis beat-
—Len. G. Faxon, of tiro 1-^-,
tuc/cian, comes out in a **-
tho oa!l from “Many Voters to
candidate for coroner. Ha •*!*■
experience of several year*
precincts of Cairo render »*••-
■ n.lno nf n infill. '