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A 5 f\ 7 s U in 2' 8 j .-, r, 7 8 . .-II 12 )Z 1 1 15 l?i 17 1) 1" il 12 13 1 1 18 = -',3 19 20 21 22 28 21 10 17 js 10 20 21 22 '?' w25 28 '27 2.SJ20 80 81 28 2! if.-,!2G 27 2 ! 21) . 1! 2! 3l 4 0 8 7 --- I 2 8 4 ?5j 8 % S 0 10 11 12 ::t 11 7 S Hi 1U4 1 12 18_ 2= If, let 17 IS ill 20 21 1 1 15 jr, 17 1* 10 2u~ '22 28 2-1 20 2(5 27 28 21 2:: 24 25 2(1 27? 20 50 ....!....).... .... ? 28.2'J 80;8l!.j.;. STATF OFFICERS. The following \a a lis'l of tbo Slate ?..?Oi r r.s elected t" reive i'orthe next two years : Governor?FraukIiii J. Moses, Jr. Liciitciiant-Govcrnor?R i e h o rd II (?leavc!1, colored. Attorney-General?Samuel \Y. .Melton. Secretary of State?Henry V.. llayne, colored. Statt Treasurer?Francis L. C'ardozo colorwl. Goinj?lrollcr-(ieueral?SoInmo n Ij. H?ge. Superintendent of I'd u cat ion?Justus Jillson. Adjutant General?Henry AY. Purvis colored. Member of Congress at large?R. II. Cain. Representative from First Congression al District?Joseph II. Rainey. Representative from Second Congres sional District?Alonzo J. Rnnsier. Representative fiom Third Cong res sional District?R. R. J Olliott. Representative from Fourth Congres sional District?Alex. S. Wallace. Solicitor for the first Judicial Circuits: Charles \Y. Rotts. COUNTY OFFICERS. Senator?James L. Jamison. Representatives?Samuel L. Duncan* John Dix, Henry Riley, J.Felder Meyers, Abraham Dannclly. Coroner?John L. Humbert. Sherifi?Edward I. Cain. Clerk of Court?George. Boliver. Probate Judge?Augustus B. Knowl Ion. School Commiesioucr?Francis R. Mc F.inlay. County Commissioners?John Rcbert ?od, Edmund T. R. Bn^bke, Alexander POETRY. Discontent. BX CEXIA THAXTEft. There is no day bo dnrk But through tho murk some ray of hope may steal Home, blese-cd touch from Heaven that two might feel. If we but chose to mark. We shut tiie portals ntuf, And turn the key aad let no sunshine in. Yet the wont despair that comn through sin (Jod'a light shall reach at last. We slight our daily joy, Make much of our vexation?, thickly set Our pith with thorns of discontent, -n?l frtt At onr fine gold's alloy. Till bounteous Heaven migl t frown At such ingratitude, and, turning, lay On our impatience burdens that would weigh Onr aching shoulder? down. We shed too many lcjrS( And High too sore, and yeild ns up to woe, As if (Jod had not planned the way we go And counted out our years. - ? ? an ? The Rights cf Woman. The rights of woman, what r.rc they ? The right to labor, love and pray ; The right to weep with those that weep, The right to wake when others olecp. Tha right to dry thu falling tear ! The right to quell the rising fear; The right to smooth the brow of care. And .whisper comfort to despair. The light to watch the parting breath, To s'oothe and cheer the bed of death'; The right when earthly hope* all full, To point to that within the veil. The right th?* wanderer to reclaim ; And win the lo't Horn path* ?f ?hhiue; The right to comfort a id !?> \ lease Th* widow and the fatherless. Therljdit the ones to guide In simple faith to him that died, With earnest love and gemtlu praise To hlca* and cheer lb rough youthful days. ' I'be right the inte'dnet to Iraiu, And guide die ?:oul n> imbJc aim' Teach u Io rise above ?urth's toys, / :i i wing flight to heavenly joys The right to live for those we lore, The li^ln In die lhat Iht? to prove* Th: right to brighten earthly homo* With plea?ant smiles a::d gentle ton?>s. Are llies.^ thy rights? Then use them well, Thy silent inHtientos nona ntn :cM ; if iheso are thine, why ask for more'.' Thon hx>t enough to unswer fc?r. i*, Ruined Family. A f?AI> TALK OF UOllKSTIC SHAME ANI> sonnow. To the year 1*3'8, Eduard H. Stokes, a sHceesliil cloth merchant of New York, and nearly connected with conic of the most prominent representatives of the wealth and beneficence of that city, re tired from business with a competency. Fight years previously ho had married a Hiss Styles,. n daughter of a lending Philadclphiau, aud seeking a home of easo and elegance, Mr. Stokes choso Philadelphia as his future residence. Thar* his eldest son was born in 1830, and, named Edward Stiles, after a ma ternal relative. Tho lad was a boy of unusual beauty and promise, a quick, active mind, a generous and loving dis position, thesa traits being remembered well after a lapse of years hr those who know him at that timo. Two daughters and two sons were born in the' period be tween 1810 and 1850. The family is recalled as being rarely endowed with all that seemed needed to insure the happi ness of a household. The homo was one of wealth and luxury, the culture of the [ best. Edward was educated at the university ' and took high rank as ? scholar. Ho went to Kew York at the ngo of seven teen to enter into the store of Sarausl Perry, on South Water stieot, an exten sive cheese dealer. Perry failed three years later, and young Stokes made a j new partnership with a junior of the col* I lapsed house, and they, as Stokes <fc Bud opened ti ?****?. tter* on Ts?ev street. They had excellent'success, thoir fbreign shipping tr?dc being very largo, calling Stokes to visit Europe several times within the next few seasons.' About this timo th? senior Stokes was induced; to removo to New York, where he mafe his office with his' a?n, through n?'t brigi-^ nally intending to become entangled in business." Such was.the result, however, and not only was the father, but other and prominent relatives gradually but heavily involved in tho extended ven tures of Stokes & Budlong. The failure of tho firm followed; and father and son were throtfn into bankruptcy. ' With the wreck of his fortunes young Stokes embarked next in tho cxlerpriae of establishing an oil refinery at Hun ters Point. Three hundred thousand dollars were expended in tho works, which Were to be of tho best cla is, when the company fell into difficulties, and nt this juncture the baleful light of Jim Fish's countenance comes into the story. Jim was in full tide of his operations with Eric. Ho held the advantage (wo wish it were less employed by even more scrupulous railway ninuagcrV* than lie,) supplied by his corporation, in transpor tation and control of market, as tho Eric Vios the great thoroughfare to the oil re gions. A compact was struck. Fisk en tered tho refinery company, reinforced it?c npital, and with a change of name and heavy "draw*backs'.' on the Erie frrcght lulls the Hunter's Point refinery sailed strongly into successful oompeti tir.n. Stokes was secretary as well as partner. At one timo his profits from the refinery gave him one thousaud dollars per week. In 1804 Stokes married the daughter of J. W. South wick,a prominent furni ture dealer in New York, one of tha oldest in his lino in that city. A shou time since one ot our oldest residents" showed ?< a set of furniture, a wedding outfit brought to Chicago in 1830, bought of Mr. So?thwick, who is now a man of immense wealth, and still in active bnsi ucss in u great Broadway establishment. The wedding of Stokes with Miss South wick seemed to lack nothing that wealth, position and social surroundings could j bring to insure happiness. They made their sumptutuj home in the Hot-anil' 1 louse, ami moved among tha most bril liant life of the metropolis. The next scene in the drama brings the infamous woman Mansfield into the plot. Solomon described her many cen turies ugo, and we fear Solomon knew what bo wns writing about. But his ]>ointiiig lias never been surpassed, and if somebody could have slipped into Stokes's this little pen-portrait,: made two thousand years ago, of Joshcphine Mans field and her infamous sister?, it might hate spared the community tho fruit-i of the new ncquantancc. Hero are some of the wise man's colorings of his subject: ?'She lieth in wait ns for n prey, und increaseth life trangressions among men. Her feet go down to death : her steps take hold on bell. Her house inclincth into death, and her paths into the dead. Nono that go unto her return again. He goolh after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter. Sho hath east down many wounded, yea many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. The. dead arc there Her guests ar? in the depths of hell." And just precisely that happened which the son of David predicted ; from the house of the harlot the path turned downward. A quarrol between Fisk and Stokes followed. It was carried into affairs of business. Fisk refused to allow the Hunter's Point concern to mnko a dividend, and thus cut orT Stokes's sup plies. The disgracefull relations with Mansfield became more shamclc63, and the father-in-law, Southwick, Rent bis daughter and her child to Europe early in 1871, to remove her from the scene of the scandal. Stokes, enraged at Fisk, used his position as secretary to collect thirty thousand dollars from Devoe, an oil morchant, which sum he held openly and defiautly as bis oharo of the profits Fisk caused his arrest on a criminal eh arge. Stokes turner! ta V? wt.ilthy w ;?^ ? ?- ~ Relatives,' No one of I them would bail him, and ho was forced to make terras ind submit, aud refund the money. His relations to Fisk were bittor and out of the intensity of the evil passions, and .criminalities of his' position with .Mans grew tb'urder. Turn to Solomon I again*,'and tkdre is no mystery in the ^hain' of consciences. - It -it. said, that the game Steamer thst took out.ter Europe tho murder of Fisk by Stokes carried a divorce .procured by her family fbr his wife, who fctill remains abroad. Tho story of family grief and reverses is net all told; Tho sonoir Stokes, after thirty years of retirement and enjoyment of a luxuriant home, is bankrupt aud homclsss in .his old age. One of the daughters died two weeks after marriage. The second daughter, tho wife of a Mr. "Sutton, attached herself so strongly to the fortunes of her brother, that her hus band discarded her; and sho is in rofugc with her aged and pchnilosjj pa'ronts. The second son, a young man of great promise, died two months ago of grief and shaino at the family reverses, and the whole tale of tho innocent and suffering yictims by this complication of crime and shame is not to befully told without in cluding some of the best ktfown and es tccmeed of New York families. If young men in our communities could only ride on express trains to the devil and take no one with them, thero would 'be less to be said, since, aside from these considerations, it is every man's individ ual right tc barter away his life and for tunes and saercd honor at his own price. Satan buys a great many of theso poor fellows very cheap,- and at short option, for seller. But every car is part of si family train. Tb'3 shock and crush* of shame and disgrace inttVt fall on innocent J&? Well as guilty. In behalf of the fathers ?u'd mothers ami sisters of tlie communi ty, let general \vnrning 1)2 made of th? case of Edward Stokes. V\*liere has ro ranncc woven anything so sad? Where in modern communities, have been given more abrupt and startling variations of light and shade, from the brightest poinl of promise and assured happiness to the depths of darkness and misery, than those on which the curtain fulls? MARK TW II K WOLk. IT AN OLD STORY AND PASSK3 IT OFF OV JOHN BULL. [From Hood's Annual.] The only merit that I claim for the following narrative is that it is a true etory. Ithas amoral at the end of it, but I claim nothing on that, as it is mere ly thrown in to currv favor With tho re ligious element :' After I had reported a couple of year* on the Virginia City (Nevada) Daily Enterprise, they promoted me to be editor in-chief?and I lasted just a week, b} the watch*. But I made an uncommonly lively newspaper while I did last, and when I retired Iliad a duel on my hnn-.s and three hoise-whippings promised me. The latter I made ntf attempt to collect; however, this history concerns only tho former. It was the old "flush times" of the silver excitement, when tho popula tion was wonderfully wild and mixed; everybody wont armed to the teeth, and all insults had to bo atoned for with the. best article of blood your system could furnish. lu tho courao of my editing I made trouble with a Mr. Lord, editor of the rival papor. He flew up about some littlo trifle or other that I had said about hiin. I do not remember now what it was. I suppose I called him a thief, or a boy-snateher, or an ediot, or something I liko that. I was obliged to make the I paper readable, and 1 could not fail in my duty to a whole community of sub scribers merely to save the exaggerated sensitiveness of an individual. Mr. Lord was offended, and replied vigorously in his paper. Vigorously means a groat deal when it refers to a personal editorial in a frontier newspaper. Dueling was all the fashion among the upper classes in that country, and very few gcntlemon would throw away an opportunity of fifhting.'one. To kill a person in a duel caused a man to bo even more looked up to than to kill two men in the ordinary way. Well, out :there, if you. abused a man, and that man did not like it, you had to call him out and kill him; other wise you would be disgraced. So I chal lenged 'Mr. Lord,''and' I did hope he would not ace<iptj but I ?know perfectly well that he did not want to fight, and ho I challenged him in the most violent and implacable manner.. And then I sat down and suffered and suffered till the answer came. All our boys--~tho edi tors?were in the office, "helping" mo in the dismal business,' and discussing the code with a lot of ?g'ea ruffians who had had experience in such things, and alto gether there was a loving interest taken in the matter, which made me unspeak ably uncomfortable. Tho answer came? Mr. Lord declined. Our boys were furi ous, aud so was 1?on the surface. I Bent him another challenge, and an other, and another; and the more he did hot want to fight, the bloodthirstier I be came. Eutat lust tho man's tone changed. He appeared to be waking up. It was becoming apparent that he was going to fight me, after all. I ought to have known bow it would be?he was a man who could be depended upon. Our boys were ex ultant. I was not, though I tried to be. It war no'.V limn to go out nnd prac tice, tt was the custom there to fight duels with navy six-shooters at fifteen paces-load and empty till the game for the furmiralwas secured. We went to a little ravine just outside of* town, and bortowed a barn-door for a target-bor rowed it from a gentleman who was ab sent-and we stood this burn-door up aud stood a rail on end against tbe middle of it, to represent Lord, and put a squash on top of the rail to represent his head. He was a very' tall, lean 'creature, the poo rod sort of malernil for a duel-noth ing for but a line shot couhi "fetch" him and even their he might r'pTt bullet. Exaggeration aside, the r?il was, of eonse a little too thiu to represent! his body accurately, but ibe sqtiash was all rWhi; if there ;v;is any intellectual difTreucc between the squash and his head, it w-'.a in favor of the squash. Well, 1 practiced nnd practiced at tbe barn door, and could not hit it? ami I practiced at the rail, and could not hit that? and ! tried bard for the squash, and could not hit the squash 1 would have been entirely disheartened, but that occasionally I crippled ope of the'boys and that eucouraged roe to hope. At last we began to henr pistol-shots noar by, in tbe next ravine. Wo knew what that ment. The other party were out practicing, loo. Then I was in the last degree of distressed; for, of course those people would hero our shots, and they would send spies over the riilge. nnd the spies would find my barn door without a wound or a scratch, und that would oimply bo the end of me?for of course that other mn.n would immediate ly become as bloodthirsty as I was- Just at this moraiut, a little bird, no larger than a sparrow, flew by, and lit on a bosh about thirty puces away ; and my little second Steve GillSs, Who was a matcciess marksman with a pistol? much betlcr than I was?snatched out bis revolver and shot the bird's hferYd off Wo nil rau to pick Up the gsr*rro, ami ?urc enough, just ta that moment, some of the other dullest? came reconnoitcring over ihc liftle ridge. They ran to our group to fee what the matter was; and when they saw tbe bird, Lord's second said : '?That was a splendetl shot. How far off was it?" Steve said, with sonic indifference . "Oh na great distance. About thirty paces" "Thirty paces! Heavens alive, who did it?" "My man?Twain." "The mischief he did! Can ho do that ofion?" "Well?yes. He can do it about? well?about four times out of five." I knew the little rasenl was lyng, but I never said anything. I never told him so. no was not of a disposition to invite confidence of that kind, so I let the mat ter rest. But it was a comfort to see hose psople look cick, and see thur under jaws drop, when Stevo made these statements. They went off and got Lord add took him home; and when we got home,* half an hour later, there waa a note saying that Mr. Lord peremptorily declined to fight I It was a narrow escape. We found out afterwards that Lord Kit his mark thirteen shots' If he had put those thir tecu bulets through me, it would have narrowed my spere of u>$fulness a good de?l?w??ld havo itell lilgh cloned it, in fact. Trite, they could have put pegs in the holes, and used me for a hat-racrk; but what is a hat-rack to a man whv feels he has intellectual powers? I would scorn such a position. , , I liavo written this true incident of my personal history for 6'ho purpose, and ono purpose only?to warn tho youth ot the " day against the pernicious practice of duelling, and to plead with them to war against it. If the remarks and sugges tions I am making can be of any service to Sunday-school teachers, ondjnewspa papers interested in tne moral peogreea of society, they are at libety to uso them, and I shall even lie graicrul to bave them widely disseminated, so that they may do as much good os possible. I was young anp foolish tib'en I callengcd that gckitcfriftti; and 1 thought it was very line and very gpana to bo a dtclliet and stacd upon the "field of honor." Btit I am older, and more experienced n'ttw; and I am inflexibly opposed to the dreadf?l custom. I am glad, indeed, to be abla to lift up my voice against it. I think it? is a bad. immoral thing. I think it is every man's .duty to.do everything ho can to discourage duelling. 1 always do' now; I discourage it upon every occa sion. If a man were to challengo me now? now that I can iully> aiu^rpciate ehe in irnMf'fa that >raettco--i--would' go'ft' that man and take him by the hand, and lead hirrr to a rr?>??t, retired roonf?and kill him. Hints from tho Postmaster. When you call at the office for your mail, and the postmaster hands it out, ask him if that is all. If you ask for mail and he tclW yo? therois none, tell him there ought to be, then go home and tend the vest of tho family around to ask aj different times through the day. Don't bring your mail to the otfico un til the mail closes, then cun?c the post master for not opening the mail-bag and putting your letter in. when you want a stamp on your let ter, tell the postmaster to put it on; if he don't like it, lick lunV. In caso you put it on yourself, soak it in your mouth long enough to' remove the mucilago; ft will then stick, until)* h la dry. Be sure to ask the pos'mwstcf tcVcrVkl it you fcr stamps; if he hiist any accom modation about him he will do it. If you have a box, stand and drum ou it until the postmaster hauds out your mail; it makes him feel good especially if he is waiting on soincbutry fb?e. Is Kitsspfc, am'on'O Pn\'3iciAxa PrxV i i.j-;i>oEjS ??The Court of Oycr and Ter nlhfer was crowded with spectators this morning to hear the summing up of Dis trict Attorney Winchester Britton in tho case of Dr. Lucius B. Irbdi, charged with conspiring with Mrs. Anderson to poison her husband. Thoro wero a num ber of ladies present. Mr. Britton re ferred to tho abuse 01 the counsel for de endant of tho witnesses Charles Forrest ami others of the Cobnrn family. The defence might snocr at tho testimony of tho prosecution. It had been testified to'by several witnesses that on tho occa sions when they passod each other they would kiss. The counsel might attempt to snocr at this testimony, but let tho jury take it home to themselves. When a physician is called in to attend thoir families thoy trust him, as they had a right to do. What would thoy think to hear that the doctor had kissed their wives? Was that a necoa**ry, part of i their duties? Was that a mode of ?u rainistcring medicine ??N. Y. Express.'