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URDAY MORNING, JANUARY 23. 1869.
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poetry.
[From Peters' tilee Uive.J
If We Knew.
If we know when walking thoughtless,
Thro' the noisy crowded way,
That somo pearl of wondrous whiteness,
(Mose beside our pathway lay ;
We would pause when now we hasten,
We would often look around,
Lost our thoughtfeet should trample,
Sutne rare jewel in the ground.
If we knew when genius struggled.
Thro* the weary nights and days,
Sighing for some word of comfort,
Little word of hope" and praise ;
Booglw of balm uu? leaves of laurel.
We would place within their hands,
Lit tie deeds with pleasant meanings,
Hungry Itonrts van un-lcrataud.
Closely press" ro-?fy "<JodT>ye,
*~ "Vhieh among the lip* that kiss us,
l'ir.-t -hnuld neath the daises lie \p
We would throwour arms around them,
' ,. , |^fff|Affon then thro our tears,
Tender words of love eternal.
If we knew. alas! and do we
Ever earo or aeek to know.
Whether herbs or bitter roses,
In our neighbor's garden grow
Better far along life's pathway.
Keep this golden rule in view,.
??You should always care for others.
As yeu'd have them care for you."
TvTr1T?lTs7
A Letter from (Sen. LoiigstreeL
The Atlanta A>*c Era publishes the follow
ing letter from (Jcueral Janics Lougstreet:
Lykcubuuq, Va., Nov.,24. \
J/y Dwr Many of our Southern tuen
scorn to have lost, sight of the fundamental^
doctrine?the interest of the people?in thein
zeal to maintain their ideas of consistency
which consults in adhering to old truth*
whether they work for weal or woe. 1 regret
that I am not better prepared to meet yout
wishes for information in regard to the future
policy of our new President. Although 1
have had the pleasure of several iuterviewi
with hin within the bat few years, I have no
sought to learn his appreciation of petition
questions of the present or of the future,
regaid his past course and decided characte
as the surest guarantee of his futuro course
The floating idea that has attached itself 4
the minds of the many that he may yet provtf
**? fee a Democrat, is like many other specula
tions that gain circulation aud credence, but
only serve to deceive those who are credulo*0
?enough to indulge them. II w? roeall to
mind the events of the last years, we shall
remember that Qevorai Graut's position at one
time was suoh as to insure his nomination for
President by the party that h% might choose
us most in accord with his views of public
policy; and subsequent events indicate that
his personal popularity is such as to have
turned the balance in his favor. It scents to
me unreasonable, therefore, to expect to find
him, at this late day, seeking allinuce with the
old party* His antecedents clearly murk him
as a national man, and of such he given assu
rance of his adhesion to the party whose basis
is the Union, and that the influence of his ad
ministration will be applied to it* complete and
prosperous restoration. A fair-minded people
must know, however, that no individual, un
aided, can accomplish this great purpose. He
must mncds have the assistance of the North,
of the South, of the East and of the West.
Having assurance of co-operation from other
parts of the country, he only wants thai of the
South to complete the combination which will
Fire Miles Above the Earth.
*. One dull ?sy ! August, just after noon, a
b?Honn rose in . a air at the foot of Cloet
Hills, on the' Western edge of the central
pluiu of England. It us inflated with the
lightest of gases which chemical skill could
with tremendous velocity. Four miles above
earth a pigeon was let loose; it dropped down
through the air as if it had been a stone. The
? air was too thin to cnablo it to fly. It was as |
b irk laden to tho dock were to pass from
the heavy waters of the sea into an inland
unsaline lako; the bark would sink at once in
the thinner water. Up, up, still higher! What'
a silence profound ! Tho heights of the sky
were as still as tho deepest depths of the oceaui
where, as was found during the search for the
lost Atlantic cable, the fine mud lies as un
stirred from year to yoar as the dust which
imperceptibly gathers on the furniture of a
deserted house. No sound, no lift, only the
bright sun-shine falling through a sky which
it could not warm.
Up?five miles abovo the earth'- ?higher
than tho inaccessible summit of Chimbornxo
or Dawangiri. Despite the sun-jhino, every
thing freezes. The air grows too thin to sup
port life, even for a few minut/cs. Two men
only arc in that adveuturous balloon?the one
steering tho air-ship, the other watching the
scientific instruments, and recording them
with a rapidity bread of long practice. Sud
denly, as the latter looks at his instruments,
hit sight grows dim, lie takes a lean- to help
his Bi^ht, auJ ' marks from the failing
barometer tba . *y aTo tcbting rapidly A
tek of broody lies within a foot of him; he
ed to reach it, but his arm refused to obey
will. He tries to call on his comrade, who
|ui gone' up into the ring nbovo; a whisper in
1at deep silence would suffice?but no sound
mcs from'his lips?he is voiceless. The
sersman comes down into the car; bo sees
3 comrade in a swoon, and feels his own
inscs failing him.
He saw at once that life and death hung up
i a few moments. He seised, or tried to
ice, the valve, in order to open it and let
it the gas. His hands are purple with intense
dd?they are paralysed, they will not rcs
[>nd to his will. He seised the valve with
is teeth, it opened a little?once, twice, thrice,
he baiiuon began to descend. Then the
Evooned marksman returned to consciousness,
nd saw tho steersman standing before him.
le looked at his instrument j bat now the
arometer was rising rapidly; the balloon was
ecending. Brandy was used.*They had been
ligher above the earth than mortal man or
ny living thing had ever been before. One
uinute more of inaction?of compulsory inac
ion?on the part of the steersman, whoso
enses were failing him, and ' e air-ship, with
ts intensely rarefied gas, would have been
loating unattended, with two corpses, in the
ride realms of space.
?-' i I
Bloody Tragedy at Moncomsst, Tr.x-1
c
ks?Four Men Killed.?The Gulveqtou
[\Yirs, of the 3d instant, says :
We learn from a gentleman who resides ?
ew miles from the town of Montgomery, in
[this State, that a bloody tragedy occurred in
that place last week. Four men were killed,
ud the town for a while presented the appear
Anee of a bat tic-Hold on a small scale. The
[circumstances, ah near an wo could gather them
prom a hasty conversation, are as follows : A
desperado, whose name wc did not learn, re- J
{cently appeared in Montgomery, and in a ?bort
kirne made ?bimseIf odious to the citizens by
his quarrelsome disposition. He gathered/
around him. however, several frieuds, who, it
proved, lost the'?r lives in eudeavortug to stand
byjtiu) in his difficulties.^ Tim desperado ggjl
\> tsusjicetvu Ol pasalug^ WUm'crteit TxioUey,
and of having been a horse thief.
Ou the day of the tragedy he rode his horse
into the store of Messrs. Smith & Peal, and on
being ordered out, he drew his pistol, but bc
fire he could fire it. he wua fired upon by Mr.
Smith or Peal with a double-barrel shot-gun.
Although badly wounded, he ran out into the
street, and by some fatality met a party of citi
aeus who were huuting him for the purpose of
arresting him for passing counterfeit money.
He ran in auothcr direction, when some one in
the party fired upon him and he fell. A Mr
Oliver and two brothers named McGrew (who.
it seems, were in the habit of associating with
the desperado) ran up to his rcscno, with p?*
tola drawn, when they were firod upon by the
crowd, and all three killed.
A FiaiiT witu Knives and Pistols in
a Ball-Boom.?The La Cro?ie (Wisconsin;
Democrat says:
A moat terrible affray occurred down at Bad
Axe City, 12 miles below here, on Christmas
eve. There was a ball given at the hotel in
that small river town, nod many persons were
present. A we'l-known desperado by the
name of John Oliver was there. There were
also in attendance at the party three brothers
by the name of Denuioon, who had at aomc
previous time crossed the path of Oliver, and
on whom he had sworn vengeance. Those in
the ball-room had heard it hinted that if Oli
ver got another drink or two there would
probably be a collision.
About half-past 10, Oliver commenced
swearing and talkiug very loudly, and imme
diately drew a large Bowie-knife. Denuison
saw him coming, and in attempting to ward
off the blow received it through the arm, just
above tho elbow. The other brothers seeing
this, went to their brother's assistance, when
Oliver stabbed at one of them, outting an ugly
wound in his side, and immediately clinehed
the remainiug ouo, and had his knife raised to
give the fatal blow, when one of the wounded
brothers pulled out a revolver and shot Oliver
through the bead, ami be fell to tho floor and
expired.
Little excitement existed and no arrests will
probably be made, for tho universal verdict
seems to be (of the villagers) that Oliver got
what he wanted and needed most.
Tragic Shooting Affair near Chatta
nooga.?A tragic affair occurred on Salt
Creek, forty miles below hero, a few days
since, the particulars of whioh are as follows:
It seems that Mr. Bonne, a school teacher, at
tempted to whip a boy named Hutchison, who
resisted and left school. A day or two after
ward" young Hutchinson, accompanied by his
brother and a man named Smith, visited the
school-house for the avowed purpose of chas
tising Beane, und not fiading him thore, they
proceeded to his raidsacs Bsa&e saw vI;cr>
bagel
coining, and j^tfctpu ting the errand,'7 arreed
himnelf, as also did Mr, Moore, who happened
to he at his house. On their arrival Hatching
sou said they intended giving Beane a thrash
ing. Moore rorooi!5?ratcd, when Smith drew i
a pistol and shot him dead. This was a signal
fur alt to produce pistols. Benno shot and in
itantly killed Cyrus Hutchiuscn, brother oi
the school-boy. He had scarcely fired, when
Sms??, who had tilled Moa***??red anctb-r (
at Beane|$fen hill bot faUn^o
wwi; uiiuuie nia. dumu nwttt tureea j
on Smith and lodged 3 balls to his body, inflict
ing wounds which resulted mortally in a few
-KH*?ites. Twenty minntes after the affair com
menced, Moore, Gyros Hutchinson and Smith
lay dead on the ground within a few feet of
each other. Hutehiuson's brother was. tho
ooly person who escaped unhurt.?Kentucky
fx.
A hi vi no HtADI.Ras Child.?The De
posit (X. Y.) Courier is responsible for the
following marvelous story:
In the vicinity of Spoon river in Illinois, is
a jcftild that Was born and has lived five years
without a head. Mrs. -, the mother, w
the widow of a soldier, formerly living in
Marshall county, who enlisted in the 65th or
Scotch regiment and was killed at the battle
ol Lexington, Missouri. She was standing
b'v-idc her husband during an engagetseni,
when a cannon ball carried his head complete
ly away. *?is body falling into her arms and
covering her with Hoed. The shock affected
her greatly. When'her child won born there
w¬ the semblance of a head about it. The
limbs are perfectly developed, and the should
ers where the head and neek should be are
smoothly rou tided off.
But the utast surprising thing of all is that
the face in situated in the breast. Of course
there ben !- no neck, the power of turning its
b.e.id is wanting, except as the whole b.?dy is
inoved ; but this difficulty is overcome by the
singular faculty ft possesses of turning its
eyes iu their sockets, enabling it to see quite
as Weft oa u.?hcr fide an those nure perfectly
frVrwd. The upper portion of its body is
Recife itre-pui6>m??^..^ freu? tSo
downward is blood red. This strange creature,
now an active b?y of five years old, as if to
compensate for his deformity, poswesses the
most clear and bird like tones ever listened to,
singing with singular correctness everything it
may hear, and its voice at this early age ac
complishes two octaves easily
Tin; lMiACTK Ai. Beauties oy Mormon
POLYGAMY.?A Gentile woman in Utah lately
gave a correspondent of the Ciucinnati Com
merciul this little, but telling sketch of the
practical workings of the Mormon system :
"Now, there's Eph. Roberts, over there,"
pointing to a stone house near the mountain?
"he brought a real young, delicate wife from
New York, uow going on sixteen years ago, and
she workedhard, I tell yon ; why, I've known
her to do all her own work, when Kph. had
three hands and tho threshing machine at his
house, and sometimes she worked out in the
field, bound wheat and raked hay, which you
know is awful ou a delicate New York woman;
'taint as if she'd been raised to it, like wo folks
?and after all, just last year Eph. wcut and
married another woman, a real young one, not
over twenty, and dou't you think, this spring
she knocked Maria?that's his wife?down
with the churn-dasher and scaldoJ her. Eph
stood by and just said; 'Go in, Luce; kill
her if you cuu.' It ail started about a churn,
too. Both wuuted to use it at once. Maria
had it, and her butter was a slow a-comin, and
they got mud, aud Luce struck her, and then
snatched the kettle right off the stove and
poured hot water on her feet, so she fell down
when she tried to run out. Aud what was the
result finally '! Well, Maria left him, of
course?she hud to, or be killed. It's very
nice, though, for the men. I had a dosen
chauees to marry old Mormons; but law ! I
wouldn't give that for all of 'em. Why, just
turn things arouud and let a woman have two
or three men, and see how they'd like that.
There wouldn't be no murderin' done in these
parts?oh, no ! And I reckon a woman has as
fine feelings us a man. I tell you, if my hus
band ever joins 'em, or tries to get another
wife, that day I'll huut another Genti'c. Bet
your Hfc on that."
A Lovui in the Closet.?A short time
since a very enterprising young morohaut, who
is tho happy poweasor of a wife as beautiful
as heart could desire, had occasion to visit
Mobile, lie was gone but a week, and retur
ned sooner than was expected. Beaching
homo at an hour when the gray of the morn
ing was mingling with the shades of night, he
of course found the family all in bod. Pro
ceeding directly to hi* wife's apartment, be
rapped for admission, at the same time announ
cing wh* he was. At the mention at hie namo
he thought he detected a saseabeitd exclama
tion of surprise, a?d fctoen sou.e one got nur
ridrr from the bed and sought ref?g? i*i a
closet, adjoining his bed-room. Ali tliifl be
heard distinctly, as ho waited in^he *?^t
with the demon of jealousy tagging away at
htti heart. There was some one. in his wife's
room, there could be no doufJTbf thatj and
that **6me one had sought refuge in the closet
was equally clea?; #Wbo efdfceould it be than
a lover 7 Mad with jealonay, furious and
?ndiguaat, he could scarcely wait for the door
to he opened before be banted into tbe room
and neede for the closet. His wire SaterQred
aad be^gefl thkt be wWdn't open the door
concealing this duMtrber of domestic peace.
He- dashed her aside furiously, but she clung
to the taint of his coat. The strain made up
on those useful appendages at last compelled
them to give way, and ^ he angry benedict
threw wide open the door of the closet, and,
lol instead of the cunning libertine, his as
tonished eyes rested on one of the prettiest
girls imaginable. She was passing the night
with, bis wife, and trying to avoid meet:ag
him in dishabille, brought about a rather em
barrassing denouement. The gentleman, how
ever, it may be as well to state, prosecuted his
searches no farther, sad, instead, made ? hasty
ratreat.?Acic Orleans Picayune.
Wuy General Grant Kerfs Aloof
from Andy Johnson.?It is a matter of
surprise to many that General Grant refuses
to hold any inter#oojae 'with President John
son, and in their forgetfulness of not long past
events attribute it (with expressions cf sur
prise) to* political reasons. But any sucb
thought does General Grant injustice. He
is doubtless as free from tho folly of permit
ting political differences to interfere with social
courtesies as any of us, who find it quite pos
sible to cat an oyster, smoke a cigar, or drink
? cap. uf tea with a pwiwcai opponent. Gene
ral Grant's antipathy to Johnson has a better
foundation thau this. It dates back to the
Stauten :;::brcg!;o, when Johnson ?nuaiaulini
ly accused Gen. Grant of falsehood in his in
terpretation of some of the phases of that
difficulty. This touched the sensitive soldier
upon a tender spot. A million men might, as
they did, declare him in their opinion unfit
tor tinr^rrcsfihnicy,- ?^lu,ut^i*n?M$i&?t
temper or changing the cordiality of his friend
ly salute. Hut to be accused of falsehood was
a different matter. Coming frem the Presi
dent he cunld not meet the Insult in a soldier
ly way, and so wns obliged to treat it as an
offence to be punished by gentlemanly con
tempt. This is why General Grant keeps
aloof from Andy Johnson.?Albany Etcning
Jonmal.
Drop that Paper.?Yes, drop it. Too
niggardly and mean to subscribe and pay for
your county paper, which is steadily laboring
for the promotion of the welfare of society?
for your welfare?you have been sponging on
j*?ur neighbors ever sinco it was established.
You are always eagor to read it, and frequent
ly, before it reaches tho hands of its honorable
owuer, it is crumpled and torn by your filching
fingers. Drop it ! Never pio'. it up and read
it again, unless you can do so with the proud
consciousness that you have the right?a right
secured in a legitimate way. If you are too
poor to aid in sustaining it, let us knew, aud
we will send you tbe paper gratuitously. But
it is downright meanness in you, when yew are
as able as your neighbor, to send your chil
dren through the snow and sleet, and rai?> to
borrow it.?Alton Reveille.
The Palindrome.?The paliudromc is a
line that reads aiiko backward and forward.
One of the best is Adam's first introduction of
himself to Eve :
"Madam, I'm Adam !"
Another is the story that Napoleon, when
at St. Helena, being asked by an Englishman
if he could have sacked London, replied :
? Able was I ere I saw Elba."
The latter is the best palindrome, probably
in the language. (
11^??RIJ?8T~
Put Him Through.
Not long since a brace of lovers from the in
terior entered an up town photograph saloon,
and wanted their pictures taken. The lady
gave precedence to her swain who, she said,
"had to be tack fust and real natural."
He brushed up his hair, gave his neck-tic a
twist or two, kt<ked his girl if his eotlor was
O. K., and placed himself in tbe operators
chair, where be assumed the physiognomical
characteristics of a poor mortal in the dentist's
hands, and about to part with one of his teeth.
"Now look purty," begged the lady, easting
one of her languishing faces.,
The picture was taken. When produced' it
reminded the girl, as she expressed it, "just
how Josh looked when be got over the mea
sles" ; and as this was net en are in hex lover's
history partiauhxrtT worthy of commemoration
sue iMewet? tr*?* "fee en^nVi m y$*yn "
little success. At lost, growing impatient ami
desperate, j&e renolved to tr? an experiment,
which she considered infallible, and exclaim
ed :
"I don't kcer if there is folks 'round."
She enjoined the operator to stand ready nt
the camera. She then set in her fellow's lap,
and, throwing her arms around his neck, man
aged to east a shower of flaxen ringlets as a
screen between the artists and the proceedings,
which were betrayed by sounds which re
vealed what was taking place. When the
billing and cooing had lasted long enough
to produce the desired effect, the cun
ning girl leaped from Josh's lap, clapped her *
hands, and cried to the astonished artist:
"Now you've got him?put him through."
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe admits it. In
telling "How we kept Thanksgiving at Old
Town, n. the Times of 1780," she says:
I One after another began joining the daneer
I which, commencing first with the chiklfc?
and young people crept gradually, upward*
among the elders.
As it was, grandmother stood with net'
pleased face radiant with satisfaction, as the
wave of joyousness crept higher around her.
till the elders, who stood keeping time with '
their heads and feet, began to tell each other
how they had danced with their sweethearts
in the good old days gono by. Aud the elder
women began to blush and bridle, and to boast
of steps that they could take in their youth,
and into the dauce they went.
"Well, well!" quo Lu my grandmother,
"they are all at.it 89 hearty, I dou't see why I
shouldn't try it myself!" and into the Vir
ginia reel she went, amid screams of laughter
from all the younger members of the popula
tion.
she ajrrivea7ire0uoa^ffi
the set. "Didn't Mr. Despondency, and Miss
Muchafraid, and Mr. Readytohalt all dance in
the Pilgrim's Progress i"
Items
The Senate in executive scssiou has cow
fir mod the nomination of Mr. C. J. Stoibrand
as Superintendent of the Penitentiary, and
Mr. Reuben Tomlinson as State Auditor of
South Carolina.
A gentleman of Pia infield, N. J., seventy
four years of age, is now cutting a third set of
teeth. Tho dentists are not called in to help
the work forward.
A Boston Gentleman, a few days ago, dined
with a club, aud invited its members to dine
with him, on Tuesday. At the time appoint
ed they assembled at his house?not to a din
ner party, but to attend hi* funeral.
The next Senate of the United States, from
indications presented by recent elections of
new members, and tho complexion of the '
Stakt Legislatures yet to make elections, will
stand, politically, just as the present one does.
Bets ore already being made about the
rCn^th of (Jener-1 Graut':-, inaugural message.
It is said that it will be the shortest ever de
livered.
General Graut authorizes thestatemont that
the articles written by an "Occasional Corres
pondent" of the New York World, aud pus
porting to relate con venations or furniafroyw
ions of his in regard to public matters and*
public men, are utterly without foundation.
At Plymouth, Mais., there is a oat which,
in tho summer time, will go t o a biovk, plunge
in aud seise trout swimming along, which she
will bring into the house alive and lay on tho
floor, purring srotnid bhem, aud r ^parent ly
claiming praise for her piscatory feats.
In a '-kerosene murder" in New York, on
Saturday, by which a girl was killed, the coro
ner's jury rendered a verdict of "oulpublu eon'
duct" on the part of thjse who manufactured
aud sold the kerosene.
Mrs. Elisa Garth, of New York, aged
seventy-four, has sued Kiohard llowell, of
Flanders, New Jersy, aged seventy -seven, Tut
$5,000, and got it, for tufting with her virgin
affections and marrying another girl.
A Capo Cod yankec has been peddling sca'
ed tin tubes full of corn meal as "a clarificr of
kerosene oil."
A Christmas goose, sent by n kract friend to*
two prisoners in a Canada jail, was staffed with
files and steel aaws.
The 8priigfield Republican says it would
like to see some of the "splendid miKtavy
talent of the 8o?fh" back in tho ar?y
Teievtt lately stole the carpet from a church
ana* CiacionaUJ, and when it wan newly car
peted brought back the old one and toon the