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The Beaufort gy Republican. AN 1XDEPEXDEXT FAMILY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTEE TO POLITICS, LITERATURE, GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. OUR MOTTO IS-TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR. VOL. III. NO. 5. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1872. I - - - -J J ? I ppv" T?,m Tol* A fFair I fltcrfcta In Alvlara I TH* T.TnXna frnw Altar#. Flirt# and FlinCi&L Leo, There'* a little joyous-hearted girl, to see whom * is a blessing, That lives a square or two from us, upon our 1 quiet street; s Her merry face is bright beyond the painter's r sweet expressing, And trippingly as dactyls move hor tiny, twinkling feet. She soems as if she had never known a childish ( care, } ( Aud the soft October sunshine is tangled in her hair. . i Above the din of noisy girls I catch hor radiant i laughter, f Beneath the dusky lindens on the long, long i summer days, i And see her foremost in the romp, with dozens running after? t The first beam glancing through a cloud chased by a troop of rnvs. 1 Tis but a poor similitude?the bravest would not do? For music, perfume, starlight, all se m com- monplace for Lou! A* mmmm/v vt-liAvt n-iik miTlV linnl'fl T mftpf 1 Al llil/l lUU^j iiUVUj nnu imumj r/w?wj ? w? 4 her on the way to \ Ilt r school, I often wonder what they teach a ray littlo friend; The lessons she herself might teach are wiser t far than Plato? g Simplicity and truth, the means to c rapass wisest end; s But much I wish the privilege as tutor I might c claim ^ To ask her softly aimez-vous? and hear her answer faime. s And sometimes when at church I see her t happy, trustful features, g A tender, wayward thought will come between me aud the psalm, I That liko to such a little child must all we 1 erring creatures v In simple-minded fuitli appear, with passions t hushed and calm, ( Before the Eternal Truth shall break uppn our v sight so dim? For such an one the Savior saw, aud bade come v unto Him! I A QUAKER DETECTIVE. f 11 We were five passengers in all?two i ladies cn the back seat, and a middle aged gentleman and a qu^ker ou the raid- s die, and myself in the front. a * The two ladies might have been mother ** * and daughter, aunt and niece, governess 0 and charge, or might have sustained any t y other relationship which made it proper for two ladies to travel together unattend- ? ?i. The middle-aged gentleman was sprighly p and talkative, lie soon struck up an a acquaintance with the ladies, towards 0 whom in his zeal to do he rather overdid the agreeable ? bowing, and smiling and ^ chatting over his shoulder in a way pain- p fully suggestive at this time of life, of a ii " crick" in the hack. He was evidently a gay lothario. j. The Quaker wore the uniform ol his t sect, and confined his speech, as many a parliraentarian would save his credit by c doing, to simply "yeas" and "nays." As for myself, I make it an invariable h rule of the road to be merely a looker on and listener. e Towards evening I was aroused from one of those reveries iuto which a youug p man, without beiDg a poet or a lover, will X? f 11 V? A. X* someumes iuw. ut uu aurupi query irom " the talkative gentleman : 14 Are you armed, sir ?" e " I am not," I answered, astonished, no p doubt, visibly at the question. 44 I am sorrv to hear it." lie replied ; ^ ' 44 for before reaching our next stopping n place it will be several hours in the night, v, and we must pass over a portion of the p road on which more than one robbery is p reported to have been committed." ei The ladies turned pale, but the stranger ]j did his best to re-assure them. t< 44 Not that I think there is the slightest fi danger at present," he resumed, 44 only ir wJien one is responsible for the safety of the ladies, you know such a thing as a n pistol in reach would add materially to w one's confidence," 0 44 Your principles, my friend," address- ^ ing the Quaker, 44 I presume, are as much w opposed to carrying as using carnal j weapons ?" ?r 44 Yes," was the response. " llave the villains murdered any of g( their victims?" the elderly lady nervously inquired. jrj Or have they contented themselves ir with?with plundering them ?" added the G younger iu a timorous voice. ' 44 Decidedly the latter," the amiable gentleman hastened to give assurance ; 44 and we are none of us prepared to offer Jr resistance in case of attack, so nothing worse than robbery can possibly befall ? us* r \ Then, after blaming his thoughtlessness ^ in having unnecessarily introduced a disagreeable subject, the gentleman quite excelled himself in efforts to raise the a 'spirits of the company, and had succeeded f* so well by the time night had set in that w all had quite forgotten or only remember- ir ed their fears to laugh at them. Our genial companion fairly talked n himself hoarse. Perceiving which he to?k 0 from his pocket a box of newly "invented ii cough candy," and after passing it to the n ladies, he helped himself to the balance and tossed the paper out of the window. n He was in the midst of a high encomium s of the new nostrum, more than half the tl efficacy of which he insisted depended on ^ its being taken by suction, when a shrill -u whistle was heard, and almost immediately tin? coach stopped while two faces, hideously blackened, presented them- is selves, one at each window. n 14 Sorry to trouble you," said the man on the rialit, acknowledging with a bow, two lady-like screams from the back seat, n but 4 business is business,' and ours will P soon be over if things go on smoothly." c 44 Of course, gentlemen, you will spare, >; as far as may be consistent with your disagreeable duty, the feelings of these ladies," appealed the polite passenger in his blandest manner. p vr-.. *' Ob, certainly ! they shall first be e attended to, and shall not be reouired to leave their seats, unless their conduct 0 renders it necessary. a i;And now ladies," continued the rob- \ her, the barrel of his pistol glittering in E the light of the coach lamp, u b6 so good as to pass your purses, watches, and such 8 other trinket* as may be accessible with- i1 out much trouble.*' ' < The ladies came down handsomely, an vere no further molested. One by one the rest got out. The mid lie-aged gentleman's turn came first. H lubmitted, with a winning grace, and ws obbed liked a very Chesterfield. My own affairs, like the sum I lost, ar icarcelv worth mentioning. The Quaker's turn came next. II piietly handed over his pocketbook an vatch, and when asked if ho had an )ther valuables, said "Xay." A Quaker's word b good, even amon hieves; so after a hasty "good night" th obber thrust his pistol into his pocke tnd, with his two companions, one c vhoin had the reins of the leaders, w.-i ibout starting. "Stop!" exclaimed the Qual. in one more of command than of reqi t. "Stop! What fori" returned the othei n evident surprise. " For at least two reasons," was the rc >lv, emphasized with a conple of Derrin ;e"r's cocked and presented. " Help!" shouted the robber. " Stop!" the Qnaker exclaimed. "An f any one of your sinful compauions ad ranee a step to thy relief, the spirit wr urely move me to blow thy brains out. The robber at the opposite window an he one at the leaders' head thought it ;ood time to leave. " Now, get in friend," said the Quakei till covering his man, "and take th uiddle seat, but first deliver up thy pis ol." The other hesitated. "Thee had better not delay, I feel th pirit move in my forefinger." The robber did as he was directed, an he Quaker took his place by his side ;iving the new comer the middle seat. The driver, who was frightened out" c lis wits, now set forward at a rapid rate ?he lively gentleman soon recovered hi ivacity. lie was especially facetious 01 he Quaker's prowess. "You're a run Quaker, you are. Why, you don't quak rorth a cent." "I'm not a Shaking Quaker, if that' rhat thee means." " Of the ' Hickory,' or ratuer the ' Oh lickorv's stripe,' I should say," retorte* he lively man. But the Quaker relapsinj ato his usual monosyllables the conversa ion flagged. Sooner than we expected the coacl toyped where we were to have suppe nd a change of horses. We had deferre* redistribution of our effects until w hould reach the place, as the dim ligli f the coach lamp would have renders he process somewhat difficult. It was now necessary, however, that i hould be attended to at once, as ou ovial companion had previously an ounced his intention of leaving us at tha >oint. He proposed a postponement unti fter supper, which he offered to go am rder. "Nay," urged the Quaker, with an ap roach to abruptness, and laying his ham n the other's arm, " business befor leasure, and for business there is no tim ke the present." " Will thee be good enough to searcl he prisoner ?" ho said to the men, stil eeping his hand, in a friendly way, upoi lie passenger's arm. 1 did so, but not one of the stolen arti les could be found. " He must have got rid of them in th oacb," the gay gentleman suggested, am inmediately offered to go in search._ "Stop!" thundered the Quaker, tight ning his grasp. The man turned pale and struggled t elease his arm. In an instant one of th )erringers was levelied at his heart. " Stir a hand or foot and you are a dea< ian!' The Quaker must have been awtull, xcited so completely t* forget both th inguage and principles of his persuasion Placing the other pistol in my ham nth directions to tire at either of the tw< len that made a suspicious movement, h rent to work on the Lothario, from whos ocket, in less time than it takes to tell it roduced every item of the missing prop rty to the utter amazement of tjie tw< idies, who had begun in no measure* irms to remonstrate against the shame ll treatment the gentleman was receiv >gThe Quaker, I need scarcely add, wa o Quaker at all, but a shrewd detective -ho had been set on the track ot a ban< f desperadoes, of whom our iniddle-ago< iend?who didn't look so middle-age< rhen his wig was olF?was the chief he robbery had been adroitly planned he leader of the gang had taken passage 1 the coach, and after learning, as In lpppsed, our defenceless condition, hac iven the signal to his companions bj irowing out the scrap of paper already lentioned. After the unexpected captun t the first robber, it was attempted t< ive the booty by secretly passing it t< le accomplice, stdl believed to be udsu : ected, who counted on being able t lake off at the next stopping place. The result was that both, for a sea jor did the State some service." A Remarkable River.?The Platte, i remarkable river. Oil our wa irough Nebraska says a corresp onden' e followed it for nearly three liuadre iile9, Ho wing there nearly <*ftst, an ow, having crossed the first rang t the Rocky Mountains, we fi nd it agai *1 * t)1/xir?n linn/lti f\c m5lr 1 me xjaramie i uuuui cua ui earer its source, here flo wing near] orth, whence, atter a Ion g distance, i wings around, passes through a gap i lie Black Hills, and raakf its way eas! -ard and southeastward t hrough Wyom lg and into the western ] iartot Nebraski rhere it is joined by the South Fork, an i thenceforward the main Platte Hive lentioned above. So'ine idea of the si* f the territory we Ijave in this regio lay be formed by the fact that tli 'latte and its tributaries drain a region < ountry larger tna a all New Englani lew York and Per.usylvania. Madness.?W) jen George the Secon roposed givin g the command of tl xpedition agai nst Quebec to Wolf, grei bjections wer e raised by the ministr; nd the Duke of Newcastle, in particula egged His J/ajesty to consider that tl: nan was act nally mad. Mad, is he, ;&id the Kvng, "well if he be I wish h nadnesswas epidemic, and that evei )fficer in jay army was seized with it, (1 1110 U1MTU1VU iWVUir, I In early life, says a correspondent of the New York Sun, Samuel J. May was ci l5 settled over a small parish in Brooklyn, si Conn., and rode in a one-horte chaise le e about the country. Having piepared h for a day's vjourney for an exchange, he t( j was advised by a neighbor not to go fc y alone, as foot pads infested the road he t< was to take. He heeded not the advice, w ^ and, when a tew miles out of the village, ^ !t he saw a man jump over a low fence, h >f out of a thick wood. When he overtook L ? the man he stopped and said cheerily? a "Good morning, my friend; I have an t empty sent?will you not share it with s r, me?" p They had a long ride, and a long talk, t Mr. May gave his passenger a great deal I of good moral advice by the way. As L they neared the point of Mr. Mays des- o d filiation, he said? c Jj *'1 am a minister, and shall preach in j, the next village to-morrow; if you would \ d like to hear me, I am sure the friends ( a who are expecting me will entertain E you." s ' The man declined the invitation with a e apparent confusion, and when they alighted from the vehicle, said he would i e like to speak to Mr. May a few moments, l j J Grasping his hand, and looking him y , squarely in the face he said? y "I must not part without confessing that when I sprang into the road, I in- E tended to blow your braips out, steal y a your horse anil carriage, watch and coat, t a and escape." e "Oh, yes," said Mr. May, pleasantly; v "I know that. I was warned against t foot-pads on the road this morning, and J felt sure you were armed when I asked E 1 you to ride with me." , j ? "You are a noble, brave Christian p man," said the robber, with great feel- t I ing. "Your counsel to-day has sunk j r deep into my heart, and I hereby promise j tl you solemnly I will henceforth lead a t e temperate and blameless life." (j I The promise was kept. There had been a corresj)ondence between them for I t more than thirty years when Mr. May p r told us the story. No one but their p * Maker knew their secret. The repent- s jj ant man prospered, and, if he is living, ^ d will but add one more to the thousands i; who weep for his benefactor. a " Jackson and Miller / e . e The brave Colonel Miller was asked at c the bloody battle near Niagara Falls, if I jj he could take a certain battery. "I'll I n try," was his answer, and the exploit a was soon accomplished. He was collec- c i- tor of the port of Salem, Massachusetts, ( when Andrew Jackson became President, t C 1 ^ Some politicians in whom the General I reposed confidence, wished him removed i and one of their men appointed in his c place. He was represented to Jackson I ? as incompetent and a political opponent. 1 mi ? 1 1,1c remnval and t xuere seeiuvru uauoc iui mo (1 the name of the other man was sent to 8 the Senate. Colonel Benton asked to I 7 have the nomination laid over, for he c e was certain that the President had been 1 j misled. He called upon Jackson, and o asked, "Do you know who is the collec* e tor of the port of Salem, sir, whom you e e are about to remove?" "No," replied d '' the President; "1 can't think of his b 0 name ; but I know he is an incompetent o 1 man, and a New England Hartford Con- f " vention Federalist,for G and II t told me so." "Sir," said Benton, "the t incumbent is General Miller a brave ^ soldier on the Niagara frontier." The u 1 President, excited with emotion, said, t b "Not the General Miller who said "I'll t ? try," when asked if he could take that I bajttery at Bridgewater!" "The same," v e responded Benton. Jackson pulled a b * Dell violently and when the servant ap- c } peared, he said, "Tell Colonel Donelson r '. I want him, quick. Donelson," said the v j President,as soon as he entered, "I want I > the name of the fellow nominated for f b collector at Salem withdrawn instantly, c ? These politicians are the most remorse- 1 less scoundrels alive. Write a letter to s i, General Miller, and tell him he shall hold the office as long as Andrew Jack1 son lives. Stay?I'll write it myself; 1 w the assurance will be more gratifying * v from a brother soldier." That promise ' I was faithfully kept. * d 8 d His Watch.?It came to the knowle edge of Frederick the Great, King of u Prussia, that a corporal of his body>s regiment, a fine young fellow, wore a c y watch-chain suspended from a leaden it ball, merely from a wish to appear con- ? n sequential. Frederick, wishing to be ? t- convinced of the matter, accosted the corporal one day on the parade. "Cor? poral," said he, "you must have been a j prudent fellow to have saved a watch ,r out of your pay." "I flatter myself 1 ,q that I am brave, sir," replied the man; ,n "the watch is of little consequence." ie The King hiking out a watch set with diamonds, said, My watch points at j ^ five. How much is yours?" Shame and f confusion first appeared in the corporal's | face: at length, he drew out his bullet, j and answered with a firm voice: "My f watch, sir, shows me neither five nor six, . xt but it tells mo that I ought to be ready, ( p,. at every hour, to die for your Majesty." ] r' the King replied: "In order that you ie may daily see one of those hours at ? which you aro to die for me, take this g wntch." 7 Chicken pie festivals are the last rural , amusement That Laura Fair business in San Franisco is not settled yet it seems. Laura ch iot and killed Crittenden, and after a A1 mgthy trial was turned loose to make a avocintlie well. Her first move was fn ) commence suit against her mother all >r S1G,000 loaned her ; the second was of > dodge tjie late Crittenden's son who ia' as following her with a pistol, evident- wi r intending to serve her as she had va o-ved his father. Laura's mother lost al! iei case and had to pay over the money, m< nd there in open court, Mrs. Lane, br he mother, took laudanum, creating a m ensation. Physicians and stomach- ar lumps vre sent for and in a short time 0r he mothe: was out of danger. When 8j( jaura came *o the court-room and found an ler mother recovering from the effects ar f the poison, tte following very pleasant tb onversation too* place : wi 4< Well ! mothej,'' Laura exclaimed at n a passionate tote. 44 Wliat's this ? a J ood gracious! do y?u want to bring js Qore disgraco 011 us ! Haven't we made w ensation enough that you should go ,ud do this ?" (0 u TT?oV> I nln'1,1 " nvoliiimp] fVio mnfliAr mi X1UOU VUt*v?i ? ? ^ ? .4Vj # Xi n a low, feeble voice, " I've nothing to ^ ive?for !?I?wanted?to ? <*e !*' and ^ ritli this she fell into a violent fit of su peeping. w "Well," said Mrs. Fair?her i^ger m iow rising to the highest pitch?"U?n m rhy didn't yon take enough of the stuff o finish you, and make one job of it ?" At this speech the ladies in the room Cf rere horror-strickeD, and one or two of ^ hem hastily left the room. . n " Oh, Laura, don't be angry," muraured the womau, " but why, did you Lrag me into the court, and why did you >ut that dear little child on the stand o swear against its grandmother ? Oh, r, jaura you arc killing me#?you ore killng me. I want to die ! (turning to he attendants), why didn't you let me sj lie?" 0 "Look here," replied Mrs. Fair, in ^ ler wild, passionate way ; " if you are ;oing to die here before all these peo)le, I want you to swear that my child ^ poke the truth on that stand. You mow she did, and yet you and your t awyers tried to make her out a liar !" ^ " Well, she's out of danger, ain't she?" >sked Mrs. Fair of the doctor. The t. loctor said he hoped so. " Well, I t lon'tsee that I can do any good; so ^ .'11 go," she said. And alter a iew more . feasant little passages between mother ^ mil daughter, the latter vanished and e lid not again appear on the scene. . )nce during the evening she sent down o the hotel to see how her mother was, p >ut that was all. Mrs. Lane kept on t mproving, and soon she was out of all Q Sanger. There were some doubts ex>ressed by many as to whether Mrs. , liane had really taken poison. It was ^ bought she had merely got up the scene n is a means of getting her daughter to ler in the hope of effecting a recon- ^ iliation. In the way of sensation Laura j ?air and family are hard to beat. His Convictions.?Xapolean had earnest ideas of life, to say the least. "Do you ^ Iread the war as endangering my life ?" ^ te asked. It was thus that in the times t if conspiracy, attempts were made to righten me about Georges. lie was said o be every where upon my track : that he wretched being was to fire at me. Veil! suppose he had. He would at the a itmost have killed iny aid de-camp. But v o kill me was impossible. Had I at that E ime accomplished the decrees ot fate ? ^ feel myself impelled toward a goal, of vhich I am ignorant. The moment I ^ lave reached it, as soou as I am no longer ^ f service, au atom then will suffice to put ? e down. But till then all human efforts v *? i ' nil avail noiuiug agumsi iuc. ?? uunci am in Paris, or with the army, is there- * ore quite indifferent. When my hour 13 :oiaes, a fever, or a fall from my horse in ? mnting, will kill me as effectually as i bullet. Our days are numbered." f Forest Fires.?We learn from an fJ Snglish periodical that Professor Lap- 8 mm, of the United States Telegraph u service, has published a report on the 8 orcst fires last year. He believes that a ill our praiiies were originally wooded, 8 md that they have been cleared wholly s ry fire, which, he says, destroys every. a hiug on and in them except the roots >' )f the buffalo grass. Hince this is so, it e 'oliows that the land is perfectly well J1 idapted for timber growth. If trees f ire planted and protected they will * lourisb. We mav add that Hie Kansas 0 Pacific Railroad Company has elevated r his theory to practice by setting out ^ housands of saplings along its line, c. ,vherc they have thriven well. The same 1 dieory has also been presented by Judge 1 2atan and other American writers. 1 Together.? After the action near 1 Breslaw, in Silesia, between the Prus- s dans and the Austriaus, which preceded i the battle of Lissa, and before the two irmies met in this latter contest, a French joldier in Frederick's service, who had 1 just deserted, was stopped, and conduct- i sd to the king. ' 'Why did you leave i meV" said Frederick. "Because," an- \ swered the toldier, "your affairs are t too desperate." "Wellreplied the king, \ "go back to your colors. We shall have ] another battle soon; and if I lose it, i come and find me out, and you and I < will desert together." ] A writer in the Gentleman's Magazine ats pleasantly about what ho saw in tgieis : Any of the streets ascending the hill )m the Place de Charires?which may most bo considered as the extreme limit the European town?will lead immed" tely to the Mahomedan quarter. Here ill be found obscure and frequently mlted narrow thoroughfares, resembling leys, bordered by houses, where the onotony of the hire plaster walls is only oken at wide intervals by small caseents crossed with iron bars, and low ched doorways. There are no gardens vendure, and hardly a foot of even :kly looking vine or fig tree dying aidst the rubbish of its crossways ; there e mosques so surrounded by buildings at they can hardly be seen, vapor baths hither people go mysteriously, the men _1A i.1. i.1. - J i.! T uigm, tug woiucij m tug uay uuie. iu word, the Mahomedan quarter of Algiers a compact and confused mass of masonry, here almost every vestige of life is dden, and where it seems as if it were rbiddeu that gayety should be beard, be doors of the houses are never opened it half way, and they then close again r their own weight. Everything looks spicious about these curious buildings, bich are admirably adapted for their asters' love of secresy. The small caseents looking on to the street are barred, id every kind of precaution is taken ;aiu*st cuiiosity from without and iudisetion from within. Inside these bare, smal-looking walls and massive doors, Ambling the gates of citadels, are the wo great mysteries of the country ? amclj, the personal fortune of its inhabimts, an< its women, of neither of which mch is kiown. Money hardly circulates, t is only seen passing from the band [ an Arab to an Arab hand, and is only sed to purchase the ordiuery daily necesties of lite, and jjwelry. The women go ut but seldom. Iu public tbey areinvarialy closely veiled, a,d the baths, which re their usual places tf resort, are inviolble. Passing along tbse lonely alleys, eside these silent dwelings, one hears oises which are almost in^rccptible to be human cur, and whispers vhich might c mistaken for sighs. At tinhg jt is the 3uud of a voice coming through an apcrure in the wall, or decending fr->m the errace on the roof of the house ; at tthers t is the whimpering ofa child complaining i a strange tongue, whose lisp ming^d nth sobs has no signification for a foreig> ar ; at others again it is the strain of an istrument, whose unique note, slowly larking the measure of an unheard song, eems to accompany a dream. It is thus hat the captive consoles herself, dreaming f a liberty which she Las never had, and rhich she cannot understand. Theie is an irab proverb which says : " When a soman has seen the guest, she cares no aore for her husband," and upon this irecept the whole system of conjugal life uiong Muhomedans is based. Their louses, whether they be agreeable or not o those by whom they arc inhabited, rhether their interiors be luxurious er oor, are prisons. They are like iron safes, if which the avaricious masters have the :cys, and within which they lock up all heir secrets, so that no one may know vhat they possess. The Mustang.?The Signal, published t Ventura, Cal., thus enumerates the aluable points of this horse : The austang or native Californian horse, ike the Indian, will soon be num>ered among the things of the past. Yith all his defects, he has qualities and ?oiuts of rare value, and that should be (reserved. He can thrive and subsist there the American or Euglish blood i i -i _ n ? __ i t? rouici starve, is iieet uuu sure iuuicu uo he mule, while his power of endurance mder saddle are unequaled. He is small if stature, but as symmetrical as the Arabian; wild by nature, and often icious, but always spirited, and, with iroper training and kind treatment, fre[uently exhibits all the affectionate senibilities of the best breeds. It is no incomuion feat for him to carry a ;ood rider one hundred miles in a day, ud it is claimed that many of them can ;o much further iu that time. We have pecimens that at the age of sixteen were s gay and fiery as the best blooded five ear olds, and that would kill the most uduring of them on a short or long ourney. As saddle horses they are preerred by all who know them best, as hey are also for all light work. It has Iways seemed to us passing strange that to attempt ha3 ever yet been made in California to pre?erve the admirable [ualities of this ancient stock of horses n their purity. To permit them to iglobly perish, as now seems likely, would >c as singular as unfortunate. . "Whoever indertakes and succeeds in bringing nm up to a higher perfection, or preiervest hi% present merits, will earn a iame and a fortune. Now and Then'. ? WTien Benjamin Franklin, in bis capacity of colonial postnaster-general, proposed the startling nnovation of a weekly stage-coach betwecn Boston and Philadelphia, a coach to start from each end of the line, he was thought to be in advance of his times. Now, however, even our village gossips are disappointed if their morning paper does not contain full telegraphic advices from all parts of the world. An English paper says the roads in A sace especially from Metz to Nancy, the? last few days hare been each as io reca the great popular emigrations of olde times. Conveyances of all sorts loade with furniture and intermingled with p< destrians followed each other withoi interruption. The greater portion, presse by the fatal date, and lacking the meai of transport, hare only taken part of ihe belongings with them, while not a fe' have been only able ta bear away as rauc as the whe^barrow could contain whic they trundled befoie them. A still large number have left their hearths and home with some clothes hung on the end of stick, the wife carrying the youngest < the children and the rest trudging on tx hind. In Metz there are only seventeen r< cruits remaining all unfit for service; an at Obernai, in Alsace, a town of 6,000 ir habitants, there arc only three, of whoi one alone is qualified for service. A lett< from Mulhouse in the Cuurrur du Ba Rhin says: "The work of option went o till a late hour last night, and to-morro there will probably be still more scekin to make up for lost time at the last hour. The town of Metz, if the statistics pul lished are at all trustworthy, must be al solutelv depopulated. No fewer tha 18,000 are alleged to have left during tb last fortnight reducing the population < the town to 10,000, exclusive of the25,0C German troops who keep watch and war over them. Even in Havre, which do< not seem a very lively place to have an large number of Alsatians and Lorrainer the number who have chosen the Frenc nationality reaches 1,400. These facts ai evidently making an impression upon tl Germans by revealing to them the difficu ties of the task they have undertake: The North German Gazette, putting tl best lace on the matter, says : " The coi dition of the Elsass Lothringen now wi be the loundation of its further develop ment, the seed of its future prosperity, But when it adds that "Germany se< without regret those longjjtrains of exili who in the last days have turned the backs on the Empire and set their fac< towards France, whither their intercs and sympathies lead them," the assertic is belied by its own words. It consol itself with a glimpse of the far off futur when "the grand-children of those wl to-day still contemplate with sorrow tl change in their national life will sometin gratefully bless the day of the Verseill prelimi?aries and this very 1st of Octob on which they hive been delivered fro I toreign rule and from foreign agitation In the meantime, we are told Gcrmar dock not expect sympathy* with the ne relation* from the inhabitants; but tl G ovcrn<n en tr may claim their conBdenc which wJl increase from year to year urn at last "lr*m generation to generation lo and trust w41 grow more and more." I this, howevei is only visible ?to t eye of faith and not te'tliat of sight. A other German paper the Strasbourg Gaze professes that it nerer expected.the assii ilation of Elsiss-Lothringen with t German mother eountry would be insta taneous, that a. population of l,500,0i should in a year o* two lay aside t characteristics that hare been stamped it by education and traiaing, by thou3ai fold j>ersonal associations, and by livii historical memories." It rtlies, howev< upon a section of the population that h never lost its German sentiments, whi forms the nucleus of a German party, v nunferous, indeed, but exemplifying t best elements of our national party. Nc erthelcss, the Strasbourg Gazette acknov edges that the majority still remains in passive or even hostile attitude to Gern ny, a fact which neither causes it surpr nor alarm, since from the outset it look for nothing else. The Germans, it is e dent, are not, at all events, dcccivi themselves?as in like circumstances t French would probably do?regarding t immense difficulties of the task lying \ fore thera. M. Aboct and IIls "Littli Ones." M. About, iu oue of his letters, writt during his captivity in Strasburg, afl the recent fall of the city, describes t occasional visits of his friends and re tires, of his children's visit, he write "Our two eldest daughters'came o day with their mother, and God kno with what impatience I awaited th< arrival. But their presence, after a only saddened u$. These two childre ordinarily so lively, seemed quite stuf fied at the sight of the prison bars. T youngest sat herself on my knee, 1 her head in my bosom, and remain thus for nearly an hour without prattlir only replying in monsyllables to qu< AA UAH nn/1 onlnl rr AAAimi UUUS put IAJ uci) uuu ovivij vvvu|/t in keeping back her tears. The eldi who is seven years old, kept going u coming between the parlor and t entrance, looking alternately at t keeper in his chamber, the sentinel the court, and the bolt of a neighbori eel), and pulling mechanically at i strings of her little hat. I was almi ashamed to cause such pretty birds be imprisoned in so shameful a caj and I abridged their visit as much possible, feeling quite a relief wher was alone again.*1 Jane Howard of Dubuque, wants $4,( because John Collins said she would c ry off a stove if it wasn't too hot and 1 heavy. People should be careful h they convene about stoves. \ J ^ Three card inonte men are plundering >e the negroes of Florida. 11 The pubic school managers of Omaha n allow no Bible exercises. It is said of a vindictive mule that his foot is aftiinst every man. The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage not their birth. The Montreal servant girls have struck 18 for higher wages. The cooks want $12 ir per month. * Strauss has horrified the Vieunese by h bringing hack with him from Boston jj the vice of tobacco-clawing. ,r A Woman in Jersey County, 111., | challenges auy man in the county to a )3 plowing match with her for $100 a side. . A young English school girl was lat ly whipped with a birch rod on her naked person for receiving a love letter !- from a young man. d A Londoner was recently sentenced to four months imprisonment with hard labor for burning out a cat's eyes and knocking its teeth down its tbroat. g_ Mrs. Elizabeth Hill, of Geneva, N. Y. died recently from congestion of the n stomach, produced by a piece of cloth w four inches square which she had swal,g lowed. ,*> There is a man in Colpmbus so fond of money that it is said, after paying a man a bill, he walks down home with him so as to be near the money as long as n possible. ie In retaliation for an elopement among )( the Maoris at Tafanaki the relatives of 10 the injured wife of the gar Lothario have "looted" twelve horses, five head of cat" tie and burned down eleven dwelling ?s places (wharves). J Rise with the sun if you would keep ^ the commandments. The sleep you get ,jj before midnight goes to virtue; after sunrise to vice, "It is wise," says Aris"e totle, "to be up before daybreak, for ie such habit contributes to health, wealth 1. and wisdom." Q. ie A Gentle Rebuke.?" The Rev. Mr. a- Martin of Bellington, Maine, a man of 11 decided talent and worth, was also somes' what noted for his eccentricity and humor, which occasionally showed themes selves in his public ministrations. In as the time of the great land speculations ir in Maine, several of his parishioners and es church-members were carried away with ts the mauia of buying lumber tracts. Mr. >n Martin resisted this speculating spirit, ps and more than once rebuked it in his e, prayer-meeting, he noticed that several 10 of his prominent meu were absent, and ae he knew at once they were going to ae Bangor to attend a great land sale. Afes ter a hymn had been sung, he said : cr 'Brother Allen, will you lead us in m prayer?' . "Some one sp?ke up and ." said, 'He is gone to Bangor.' ''Jlr. iy Martin, not disconcerted in the least, w called out, 'Deacon Barber, will you ie lead us in prayer ?' ' He has gone to e, Bangor," another answered. *' Again til the pastor asked, " ' 'Squire Clark, will you pray ?' ' The 'Squire has gone to Lll Bangor," said some'one ; and Mr.Martin be being now satisfied, looked around upn on the little assembly as if the same rette ply would probably be given to every n> similar request, and very quietly said, be 4 The choir will sing Banuor, and then n- we will dismiss the meeting !'" 00 he Benton and his Family.?In a speech on of Tom Benton, delivered some time nd ago, we find the following extract ng " What is a seat in Congress to me ? I ?f) have sat thirty years in the highest as branch iu Congress ; have made a name ch to which I can add nothing, uud I ot should only be anxious to save what has be been gained. I have domestic relations ;r- sorely lacerated in these times ; a wife vl- whom I uever neglected, aud who needs i a my attention now more than ever ; chilli. dren, some separated from me by exile panso of oceans and continents, and ed others, by the slender bounds which sepvi arate time from eternity. I touch the ng age which the Psalmist assigus as the he limit of manly life, aud must be thoughthe less indeed if I do not think of somexj thing beyond the flitting ind shadowy pursuits of this life, of all of which I have seen the vanity. " What of my occupation ? Ask the undertaker, that en good Mr. Lynch, whose face, present on er so many mournful occasions, has become 'Je pleasant to me. He knows what occupies my thoughts and my cares: gathering s the bones of the dead?a mother, a sisDe ter, two sons, a grandchild ; planting the cypress over assembled graves, and Mr marking the spot where I and those who are most dear to me are soon to be laid!" a, >e- The Canadian IIorse Distemper. ? u*. The Toronto Globe says the disease that no [id has been so widely spread among horses ed in this district appears to have run its ig, coarse, and now shows considerable abaters ment. I)r. Smith informs us that this is ed the case in the p:incipal stables in the er, city. The disease now appears to be nd extending eastward. There have been he very few fatal cases, and of thesa it may he be said they were the result of a want of in ordinery care of the animal, or, what is ng less excusable, a resort to quack nostrums he and practice. These are entirely useless ast in a disorder like the present, whicn must to ran its courts, and requires simply atten?e, tion and ordinary treatment during the as continuance of the ferer. 1 I Episcopalian Cathedral.?The Episcopalians of New York are contemplating )0O the erection of a grand cathedra! in that tr- city, at the suggestion of Bishop Sotter. too It is intended that it shall surpass in ow size and beauty any church edifice in this country.