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Over an verbaii The book through the meaiow flows, The wbeel goes,' One1iNgbha net 8riC, T Toaxdn4 lnot in van; Andr " iIng usonce-or.twirce, Maditff we try again. The pa.ti.Us 'oice been trod Is never so rough to the feet; And e n wt once have._learned lsne abrotepet. Though Wl eaTn-i.y ftrl, And ith,e1eart o its-dtpth be d:iven WitW ifd finietf, we need thern all To render us meet for Iraveu. fo #I1Ie=Org nitI A LI OF TH-B -RH1-NeF C -- "Kind hear are more than coronPtsI A pie 4ih than Norman blood." Xears ago, at a grand old cathe dral, overlooking the Rhine, there appeared a mysterious organist. The great composer' who had dayed the' orgati o long had sud .dengdjed, and everybody, from the king to the peasant, was won dering who could be found: to fill his place7*ben3 ane -bright Sab - bath iE5r n1s the sexton en *ter 4 . eArch, he saw a stran ger sg~ at the crape-shrouded orjgi~ ,ewyas a -tall, gaeu * man, with a pale !it strikingly .handsome face, great, black, melsn' e boereyes,an*4hair 'like the re vegj;wing for gloss and -color sweiptgin dark waves over his' ihqj1ig He did not seem to4 noairhe "'sexton, but .went on plagg ad. such music as he dro afram the. instrument no * og"iiiie can describe. The asdaihd ner declareid that thedgr seemed.to have grow n *human-that it-wailed and clam ore'as-if a tortured bhuian heart wah1isobbing through it.s pipe5., Wherr the music at length ceased, tbnE, hastened to the stran ger ana4~aid, 'Pray, who are you Sir?7 ~q task my, name,' he re pl h.~ave heard that you are. innes an orgarrist, and I1 have eoiW'ibere on trial.' of tibe suiro to get the place,' e4l ed t1/e sexton. 'Why, you - 8 .shim that's dead and gone, a,.no ; you overrate me,' rc anNWithe stranger1 with * sad -smile;Atken,. a if disinclined to con',s~ifon, he turned from old Hansg-began to play again. ARd no~w the music changed from a sorowful strain -to a grand old p andfhl,mys.terious organist, * -" ~npward full of grace, Y~4e,tilt-fromt a happy place 'i$;lry smote himi in his face." and his co'nntenance seemed not -nulike that of St. Michael, as por trayed byA Giido. 1BosV in the harmonies which swelled around- him, he sat with ehis%r-seeing' eye fixed on the didiaesky, a glimpse of which he catigh t through the open window, wher, there was a stir about the came sweeping in. Among them might be seen a young girl with a wealth of golden hair, eyes lik< the violet's hue, and lips like wild cherries. This was the -PrincesE Elizabeth, and ell eyes were turned to her, as sh'e seated herself in the velvet-cushioned pew appropriate< to the court. The mysterious or ganist fixed his eyes upon her and went on playing. No sooner had the music readhed * her ears that she started , as if a ghost had crossed he'r path. The blood faded from her cheek, her lips quivered and her whole frame grew tremu lous. At last her eyes met those of the'organist, in a long, yearn. ing look, and the melody lost its joyous notes and once more wailed and sighed, and clamored. - 'By my fiith,'- whispered the king to. his daughter, 'this organ ist has a master hand. Hark ye he shall play at your wedding!' The pale lips of the princess parted, bit she could not speak she was dumb with grief. Like one in a painful dream, she saw the pale man at the organ, and heard the meidy whieh filled th< vast edifice. Aye, full well she knew who, he was and why the in. trumen t seemed breathing ou1 the agony, bf a tortured heart. When the service was over, and the royal party had left the cathe. dral, he stole away as mysterious ly as he came. He was not .seen again by th-.sexton till the ves per hour, and then appeared in the.organ-loft and commenced his task. While he played, a veiled figure glided in and keelt near a side shi4ne. -There she remained tii the worshippers dispersed when the sexton touched .her on the shoulder and said : 'Madam,0 everybody has gone but you and me, and,I wish tc close the doors.' 'I am not ready to go yet, was the 'reply ; -'leave me-leave me!' The sexto.n- drew back into a shadv riche and watciied and lis tened. The mysterious organist still kept his post, but his head wa.Wowed upon this instrument idbhe could see the lone devotee. At length she rose from the aisle, anid 'moving to t he, organ loft. paused beside t.he musician. 'Bertram,' she murmured. Quick ^as thought the organisi raised hi head. There, with tbc light of a himp, suspended to th< arch above, tElling full upon her stood the princess who badgrac the royal p'ew that-day. The~courl dress of velvet, wiah its soft ermim trimmings, the tiara, the neck lace.; the bracelets, hed been ex changed fpr a gray serge robe an< a long thiek veil, which. was nov pushed back from the fair girlisl face. 'Oh !'Elizabeth, Elizabeth!' ex claimed the organist, and he sun!i at hei:ifeet 'and gazed wistfull: into her troubled eyes. 'Why are you here, Bertram asked the princess. . . - 'I came to bid you farewell ; an as I-dared not 'venture into th place, I gained access to the ea thedral by bribing the beli-ringei and having taken the vacant sea -f the dead organist, to let m; music breathe out the adieu could not trust my lips to utter A low moan was the only an swer, and he continued: 'You are to be married on th morrow ?' 'Yes,' sobbed she, 'Oh ! Bertrait what a trial it will be to stand a yonder altar, and take upon m the vows which will doom me t a living death!' 'Think of me rejoined the oi ganist. 'Your royal father ha requested me to play at the wed ding, and I have promised to b there. If I were your equal, could be the bridegroom instea of the organist; bu t apoor mus cian must give you up.' 'It is like rending soul and hod, asunder to part with you,'- sai th girl -Tn.n ight I may tel! ro !this-tell you how I love you, but in d few hours it' will be a sin ! KGo, go, and God bless you l' She waved him from her as if she would banish him while yet she had the power to do so, and be, how was it with him ? He rose to leave her, then came back, held her to his heart in a long em brace, and then, with a half-smoth ered farewell, left her. The next morning dawned in cloudless splendor, and at an early hour the cathedral was thrown open and the sexton began to pre pare for the wedding. Flame colored flowers nodded by the wayside - flame-colored le a y e s came rushing down from the trees, and lay in light heaps upon the ground ; and the:ripe wheat waved like a golden sea, and berries dropped in red and purple clusters over the rocks along the Rhine. At length the palace gates were opened, and the royal party ap peared, escorting the Princess Elizabeth to the cathedral, where the marriage was to be solemn. ized. It was a brave pageant ; far brighter than the untwined foliage and blossoms were the tu's of plumes which floated from stately heads, and the festal robes that streamed down over the housing of the superb steeds. But the princess, mounted on a snow white palfrey, and clad in snow white velvet, looked pale and sad ; and when, on nearing the church, she heard a gush of organ-nusie, which, though jubilant in sound, struck on her ear like a funeral knell, she trembled and would have fadlen to the earth hattfnot a page supported her. A few nin utes afterwards she entered the cathedral. There, with his reti i nue, stood the royail bride-groom, whom she had never before seen. But bei 0iance roved from him to the organ loft, where she had ex pected to see the mysterious or ganist. He was gone, ard she was &'get to return the grace ful bow to the king, to whom she had been Ktrothed from moti-ves of policy. Mechanically -she knelt at his side on the altar stone; me chaniiir listened to the' service and made the responses. Then her- husband drew her to him in convulsive embrace, and whis 'Eizbeh,my queen, my wife, Trembling in every limb, she obeyed. Why did that smile bring a glow on her cheek? Ah! though thme king wore the royal purple,.and many a jeweled order Sglittered on his breast, he seemed the humble person who had been i employed -to teach organ music, rand had taught her lore of love. * 'Elizabeth.' murmured the mon - arch, 'Bertram Hoffman,,the mys - terious organist, and King .Oscar are one. Forgive my stratagem. rI wisLed to marry you, but I would not drag you to the altar 'an unwilling bride. Your father .was in tfie secret.' I'While tears of joy rained from a her blue eyes, the new-made queen - returned her husband's fond kiss, and for once two hearts were t made happy by a royal marriage. A very excitable gentleman sat near a very phlegmatic one at one 'of the concerts of the famous Clara Schumann, in Leipsick. Excita ble gentleman almost beside him self in his rapture, and is "fidget ted" to the extremity of endurance tby the phlegmatic individual, who Ihears piece after piece cold as an icicle. Excitable Gent, (who after a splendid performance of a piece by -Chopin, can endure it no longer) "I say, sir, do you not like her Phlegmatic Gent-"Why, yes, I -like it very well." Excitable Gent---"Why t h e rdeuce, then,sir,don'tyouapplaud?' rPhlegmatic Gent-"I-? A p a plnind?9 Oh. T am her husband." The Gorilla. HIs PHYSIQUE AS COMPARED WITH THAT OF MAN--INTERESTING FACTS. A lecture recently delivered in New York by Dr. Lemercier on "The Gorilla,"- contained an ela borate and interesting comparison of the gorilla with man. Though not quite so tall as the average man, the gorilla is far more powerful than Heenan, hav ing, according to Du Chaillu, the strength of eight able-bodied men. Only two of these creatures have been dissected in Europe, one by Professor Duvernoy, and the other by Dr. Auzon. No live gorilla has been brou'ht to Europe or America.. The differences between man and the g rilla are very strik irg. The latte cannot stand up right. owing tb the structure of his spinal column ; his arms are longer, and his legs are shorter than those of the human -species in waiking he 6ommonly uses- the backs of his hatrds, placing them flat upon the ground ; he has tlir teen pairs of ribs and the female fourteen whe-re+s man has but ten he has several inuscles w hieh are not found in man ; he has bagpipes under his arms, connecting - with his windpipe and glottis, and by compressing these with 'his arms he can make alnoise more terrible than the uproar of a thousand ragmen, and which can bo heard. according to the .testimony of M.. Dii Chailin, at .a-distance of three miles and m4Fe His hand is greatly infarior to- the human hand, and, besides, therd exists a multitude of minor differences in other organs. But what places man far above the gorilla is the va-t superiority of the' human .brain and head. The gorilla has a better dev;:ioped heal than the lion, and when you,;; his cranium has a great resemblance to that of a child. But afterward. though there is an immense growt. lof the bone, thcre is no expansion of the cavity of the skull, and conse quently none of the brain. The lecturer en'ressed hi mselif at con siderable length on this point, and in such a manner as to make it evidlent that he was no believer in the hypothesis of Darwin. All animals have been made to meet the wants of t.heir material life, and are wonderfully contrived for those purposes. The goilia has been made a savage inhabitant of theC forest, andl is adapted for rap. idly ascending trees. His chest and muscles'are marvellous, and if the animal had had the wisdom and cunning of man, the African race would long since have been swept away from their native soil. Inl connection with the gorilla's chest, Dr. Lemercier said that the strength .of any animal- what ever is according to the develop ment of the chest, and took occa sion once more to impress upon the audience the benefit which result ed to children from strenghtening their lungs by gymnastic exerci Ses. PEW WH4,sPERING.-Accordi ng to the Kansas City Jouirnal, the ladies of that town converse in the following style during church service: Mary Ellen (anxiously)-Betsy Jane, isn't my chignon coming off? Betsy Jane (pettishly)-No ? Can't you move a little further ? You arc creasing my lace flounces. Mary Ellen (moving a little) Don't you think Susan Brown looks dreadful homely. What big feet she waddles into her pews ? Betsy Jane-Was there cv--, Oh ! there's Charlie! Isn't he a perfect Adlonis ? IHow I do wish he would look our way. Mary Ellen (smiling sweetly) Ah ! I see him. HIe's looking to wards us. Betsy Jane (angrily)-IIe isn't looking at you, so you needn't act like a fool. The nminister's going . Helen Western. This actress. who died in W:tsh ington a few days ago, will have many tears'shed for her by those' whom she has helped in their troubles, as she went on her queer career in life. She had natural gifts, some cultivation and an im posing appearance. She made a mark in a certain line of the sen 'sational drama. Poor womanr! She was literally dying as it now seems, where she played here a week or so ago. A more pitiful sight than was that of her then struggles with evident decay sure ly never have been witnessed by the public eye. She should have been in her bed, with physicians' care (which she had) and a nurse by her side, when she preferred to brave danger and criticism and nisapprehension by remaining at work till the end came ! Her life and death are a sad story. We hiive no busin'ss with the private lives of actors. It is their art alone which we have the right to consider. But now and then comes a fate to point a moral and to warn the.younger members of that profession against indulging too far the wild tug of the very best emotions and sentiments of which our natures are possessed. Lola Montes and the Menket,. for example, were not by any means bad women. Like all the rest of the world, good and bad were mingled in them. But they were ''out of joint"-unweeded gardens, undis-iplincd, rudderless, tost here and there by impulse, never an chored for a moment after their voyage began oh the stormy sea of wretched human life. Men and women whose 'lots are cast in pleasant places and whose souls are strangers to the fierce pas sions that fairly rage in the breasts of such unfortunates, can never comprehend the tempest driven lives of such people. Well. indeed, did poor Burns say that few know what's resisted. All of folly or sin that is committed livcs in letters of brass. Poor Helen Western! If we cannot praise, we will not blame her. She has her credit side with the awful Judg? of all. Our debts may not be her debts, but which of us does not (read the great account, when the Book shall be opened ? [Kational Ini cllgencer'. WAS-rE oF VALoR.-TheC R'ich mfond Whig tells the story of two young gentlemen, one of P. iladlel phia and the other of Prinet''n, who being sm~itten with the same belle, worth half a million, took it into their heads, that each was the barrier to the other. The first cause of war still exerting its potency, they determiied to kill each other out of the way ; and. for that p)urpese, by agreemen t, met with six-shoot ers. The second's having placed them and Riven the word, t hey~ fired so inuch at random that the seconds wvere in much great er danger than they were. Ilaving discharged their six barrels, and the seonds being unwilling to re-loaid and take the risk:szagain, the combatants fell irto each other's arms. and then agre ed to go stringht together to see I heir fair. Thie young lady re:2eived them: with a char minig smn Ie. con gratulattinrg them on the l:appy issue of their duel, which, she added with a tone of soft reproach, was a folly the more incomprehen sible, as she had never had the least idiea of taking either for a husba nd. A t the same time she introduced another young gentleman, all smies,towhom she said she was engage<l-and she begged the two sons of Mars to attend t he nuptials an Xmas day.- Wilmington Star. From statistics published in the New York papers it appears that there are nearly 13,000 opium eat ers in that metropolis, many of whom ae 1n<dies r<si<ling in "up Important to Cotton Planters T -The Cotton Worm. EDITors MACON TELEGRAPI:-- ti I notice in your daily of the 19th u of December, an article taken from B the Selma (Ala.) Times and' Mes- ft $enger, upon this all important o subject to farmers, and you invite discussion upon it. o The writer states that he saw o: the egg and worm of the cotton- p Ply found in the cotton stalk, &c. - From the history of insects, I can tl find no facts confirming his state- B ments, and I dare say the writer ci is totally in error as to their mode o of propagation. t< The fly lays the egg in summer, g )n the tender parts of the cotton e< plant, the worm is speedily o hatched out. growing rapidly and B to forming the cocoon, in which e: state the larv exist all winter. ti It, however, may go through the o process several times during the h summer. In the spring it cuts %s ;ut of its self-made prison, and of oes forth as before. Insects that oi :eposit their egg in the pith of fi talks have a caudal appendage o' with which they pierce the stalk w and lay:their eggs. The various al species of locust, the Hessian fly, d are examples. The miller that does the mis- d chief in our cotton fields have no p such appendage, nor do they ever is vary in their natural course, we a suppose: first, the fly which de- v posits .the egg; then the worm; h next the cocoon ; an.d, lastly, the n fly again. If the writer in ques-- S tion only reflects that a coconn fi cannot be contained within the s small compass of a cotton stalk, ii he will see the fallacy of his as- ti se tions. h There are hundreds of other in- ii sects .that prey upon the cotton ej plant, some of which, no doubt, tl deposit their eggs in the stalk a and make that their winter quar- a ters. If the writer will ad- t< vocate cleanliness generally on a I farm. in my humble - judgment, o he will contribute somewhat S to abate the trouble; for in old d fences, hedges, under old 'logs, I brusih piles, are to be found count- s less numbers of.those oblong pods in question, air-tight, and perfeet ly proteecd from winter blasts. Some species of larvo are propa- ni gated in the soil oi- in the roots of a decayed trees-the eommon .sting b worm. for instance-but the cot- a to worm never', save by accident, t; I suppose.0 I am anxious, Messrs. Editors, n that the worm question shall l-e 0 solved, and hope some- close ob- n server will illuminate the subject ; a fr in finding out the habits anid S various changes of our greatest p post (always save one--United h States Congress,) we may find] a r correct remedy jn) getting~ rid of s them. FA RMER ' o Putnain County, Ga., Dec. 23. u: A lady was readIing to her five years old boy the story of a little boy whose Iathier was taken ill ' ard died, after which the youing-c ster set himself dilligently to work0 to assist in supp)orting him self' andS his mother. When she had fin ished the story, she said.-Now. Tommy, if' pa were to die, wouldn't you wor'k to help mamma !' 'Why, ma,' said the little fellow, ~ not relishing the idea of work 'what for? Ain't we got a good C house to live in, and everything ~ so nice ?'e :Oh, yes, my child,' said the mo ther'; 'but we can't eat the houset you know.'t 'Well, ain't we got plenty oft things in the pantry !' said the a young hopeful.' 'Certainly, my dlear,'rieplied the mother; 'but they will not last A lon-and what t hen ?' 'Nll ma,' saidl the little incor- I rigible, 'ain't there enough to last I till you can get another husband?' " Ma gave it upl. Wisconsin, or as it is more prop- d erly and more beautifully spelled, e Ooisonsin, means "Gathering of n thn Waters." 11 he Demise of the Mercur7 - The Columbia correspondent of1 ie New York Times-who -4.6. n(derstood to be Mr. James W.gp4 t avidson-writes to-that paperiLb llows, in regard to the sispei,hil the Charleston Mercury:'x~ 'P One of the most significA g the times, and in the;m:aoqp, the most hopeful, is in the oii.g msion of the Charleston MeieU" -for many years the esponetW4fA e extremistsin South Caro" , y extremists I mean those.polit,.. ans who persist in applying--th.. )solete standards of a'dead pdaF" > the questions of a new and-pt' ressive present ; those who , 7 )nservatism to its viciousextrem . stagnant* dogmatism t ourbons whom no experieteei Ln teach. For many yeajWwT venty or more, I believe-th " 'gan of a now past reim; .; . ald sway in this State, an ielded a large influence throag it the South. Durit wAS*1 ill survived, was still stain 6,hting though it al*ya iyAy . 'er some past issue. Sinee tie ar it raised the'same strd;d id waved it pereistently, but lwit. minishing power, for its ae as dying out gradually, and- ' iy was dying out. -New thownhSt )ssessed our people,- and e#** sues arose ; but this Nestor rite-penult geseratioa still kt - ith enthusiasm of traditions th&" ad well-nigh passed fno tf' emories of to-day-ts 4yiq& ir John stiil "babbled of g""en elds." The signideanee of tisv lspension ot the Merery. i rht s cause lies in the t'oriben", on in which.itsparty newis. , opefulness of the occarrewe-m* r the assurance that this diiet Fete conservatism means Ha to,, e incoming party of pregfie nd action. Our Sonthen -pe$" ee going to work-are throwlt the dogs the theories of them ourbons who have ruled tbH: pinion for so many yearw *itk ich an iron hand.' Theiernmj bp,. anger in this new tendeney but 3 am recording facts, not d - tratin g truths. A WonderfulYVolcaffd - The Lon~don News saysi "!I is ot merely that Mount Etna kok gain broken forth into erupiian,t ut that the new out-burst -is obst' ' eterized by a violence and.intenffC 7 indicative of the wideesteat { f' the region of disWftbance b0r eath the crater. For ri'ne hours' n the night of'Decemb'r -9;'te iountain was voruiting Asns nd lara to a prodigious height. :.ones ain I burning iatter were r'ojected from the erftter, and. as igh did some of these projectle 3aeb that the sand- and smwtHey tones fell over Acei Reale and'ev'en ver Messino, or to a distanee of - p wards -of forty miles from'~ one The lava is now flowing in v'ery direct ion from the crates nd dev41st.ating the surrounding. runtry. Aftei' the second get utburst, the eruption: beet mewhat less active; but tt.' be mountain is far frombin. kely so)d1 to sink to- rest, is evi. - enced by the fact that deafening" etona~tions still continue to b4 eatrd. If any further evidenee -ere wanting of the magnifeecea fthe seale on which Etna is noiw r~upting, it would be found in the Lot that the news we hav oe eived conmes from Valetta, which upwards of one hnndred and wventy from Etna. WeAr. taid lat croi"ds assembled at V'alet, > fitness the grand sjeetel'. fi'orded by the burning mountain?~" THE TRIAL OF JEFERSON DAVIs. .ceording to the New York Post, is p)robable that soon after* the inited States Supreme Court. ieets aganin in Januar3. a motioni 'ill be made to advance the case f JEFFERsoN DAVIS on -the docket order that it may be heard uring the present term of the rurt. Unless such a motion is ade. the case will not be reached Sit regnilr ordernnder twa ye6mt