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"Long Ago."
It's a broken link in tie ohain of thought.
It's a feeling with pain and pleasure
wrought,
And bitter experience, eagerly sought,
This magical "long tigo,"
It'd filled with many a tale of love.
And mourping-lhcarts, like a lonely dove
And leatas ot prayer were wafted above,
in the days of that '-long ago."
A ehain and a ring of fret ed gol,
Oiv,en ero the pulses or love were cold,
Are trea'.ured still though we're grown old,
Since tho magical "long ago."
And thas we shall ever nore eares
The days, till olasped to our Savlor'n breast,
We'll fetidly cling, till we are at rest,
To that ingical 'long ago."
LUCKY AT LAST.
Some years ago I know a lapidary
who gained a considerable fortune by
a great misfortune. An excellent.
workman, honest as the day,
day, Montin had but one fault ; he
was too fond of good wine, which
caused him to neglect his work
sometimes for days together, to the
great dissatisfaction of his employer,
who in. all other respeots valued and
esteemed him highly, both for his
akill and probity.
Onc day Montin received from his
masitor a diamond of tho finest water
to cut and polisb, with ttrict recon
mendations to keep sober until the
wurk was finished.
"L rely on your activily," said the
jewolleron giving him the stone.
"I must have it without fail on the
15Lh instant ; and. if . you disappoint
mu this time, is will be the last you
yil havofron we."
MJ'ont p prminfsed exactitude, asked
as was usui'l with him, part of his pay
in advance, and set himself courageout.
ly to woik. Under his skillful hand
the diamond soon began to show forth
its beauty ; in a few hourn it would
have been funished, when unfortunate
ly for Montin's resolutions, a friend
called on him, an old comrade who
had been long absent from Pari4, whut
could they do but take a glassi togeth
er I Arrived at the cabaret, tho timte
p:ss.d qsickly away, and Mo!itin
thought no more of his utifniihed
work'.
D)uring the morning his employer
came to see how the polishing of the
diamond proceeded. The cuecerge
assured him that. Mont in had oni> intnt
g.ne <-ti, tnd woot.i uot fail to return
directly, as hp had fur swtm time
been wonkinig steadil3 and unteinit
tingly. Only half su t.ifit.d, th' jowel
lor Muont i.way, to return i: te'o hwure,
anld to find Montin still abseut. Cull
vinced he was at,the ttvern, the mns.,
ter charged one of his men to seek
him, and induce him to return to his
work. This was done, and Montin,
grumbling between his teeth, quitrted
his comrade and asscended to his work
shop ; but his heaid was sno longer
clear, nor his-hand steady. To add to
his trouble, the diamnond became un
fixed ; he seized it hastily to replace
it ; his trembling fingers tijve.t4 jerk
-and, by a. strange ;fatdaty the pro.
coots atone fle:w sout the window I
Sobei-ed in a'wniont by this terrible
aecident, Mentin continued gating out
the easement. sa if petrified, his pale
lips murmuring the words "l.estli lost I
losth!" a
-For more than an hour he remained
*ts~ niotlonlesa, and was only
ro'used from his lethargy by the on
trgae of his mtnant
"It it thus yotx wer'k, Mlbtin i"'ex.
olaimedh beVthunbetiitres have I datlled
for the diamond,- and yea spend your
time at 'the -ta4arn, Give me the
stone ; I must have it, finished or
'Mentin looked: widly athimn vithoint
uttering a word.
"W hat la the matter with' you 1"
asked the jeweller, "Why don't you
answer I Ihave you drunk all your
senses away T'
The I.apidary tried in vain to speak.
His tongue seemed paralysed. At
last he rose, and biding his face in
is' bands, '.tmurmured, 't1t--1I.
lost Wha
"E~xpIln yourself., ha has hap.
iened ?"
"Out of the winrdo*'
"What!I wheirt**
"Well, well, well ;t61l ale what has
odenred."
The stone fievont." - -
It wa'ew1Wttet,1rnIMl the maetter
tq becorne silent. :wt h-astonishment:,
tbhfhdsdtith or e hf ried "I
.dotl't belh6e6's *ord your story ; you
hive 561iI8%i diaidadl 'toafoi
Thit neontsation was theI cotup de
thb teet 9f hits mastc~r.; uni' t wss not
irii, of rait todpa
ymut i phnoj .i~er t#9 I ra. ei
hiiu, and at last succeeded in render
Ing him more calmn.
"It. is a mott unfortunate accident,
no doubt," said he, "but it is not irre
parai to."
"You do not, then, believe that I
sold your diamond for drink ?" said
Montin, eagerly.
"No, no, Montin, you must forget
what I said in tno first moment of
anger, and let us try to find a remedy
for. the misfortune. -The diamond
was worth ?200 ; you must endeavor to
Iepay we the half of that sum out of
your wages, whiob, when you work
Iegularly, amount, to 23 or X4 a week.
Wit4g industry and sobriety you will
soon got out of debt."
"From this time [ will work steadi
ly," s:aid hIptiNU, with tears in his
eyes. "You shall see, sir, that
though I have been a drunkard I am
not a thief."
"I believe you," replied the jewcl
ler. I have every confidence in you ;
you are a good workman ; I will fur.
nish you with plenty of wprk,.and in a
few years you will be i ht again.
Well I will that suit yu I -
"0 yes, air ! ,.ly t, i ine once
more, that you do not thiak 1 sold the
diamond."
"I repeat, on my honor, that I only
said so ia the first moment of anger.
I am convinced you are an honest man
-in faeo I prove it by trusting you
with more work.
"Yes, sir, that is true, and I prom
ise you I will not (isapipoint you. I
will repair myjault ; the lesson has
baen severe, but it will not be without
its fiuits."
Moutin kept his word-he rose
caily, and woiked indefatigably; the
lost stone was replaced by another,
wlhih was polished as if by enchant.
imient. Faithful to his promise, he
went no more to the tavern, and be
came a model of steadiness and indus
try. At the end of the year he bad 11
paid a conAidorable port of his debt. c
Sixteen nonths passed thus, when one c
fine uorning in May, having finished
his work, he placed himself at the
windowand watched the boats pass
ing and repassing on the river, which fi
Ilowed close to tho walls of the house. r
Suddenly, his eye was attracted by i
soimothinig bright glittering on the i
extrene edge of an old chimney. 'I
What was this surprise to discover a
his half-polished diamond I Itseem- &
ed as if a breath would precipitate it I
into the water beneath ; and yet there p
it had been for so many months sus- d
pended beiween heaven an earth 1 11
At this sight his etnotion became i
almost as groat as whenl he had seen e
it disappear out of the window; he I
dared not remove his eyes, fearing to t
lose sight of the almost recovered r
treasures.1
"i is-it is my diamond, which has t
C,t lme sO maauy toars," said lie ;"but f
how shall I reach it I If it were to v
fall ! But no, I will talie every pre. r
caution ; not too fast !-let me consider (
well !'I
At this inoment hi euiployer en- a
tered the room.
"0, sir," cried Montin, "it is I
there !"
"What " said the jeweller.
"My diamond, or rather yours.
Alt, do not touch it, we shall lose it
forever.".
"It is true ; it is certainly the dia
mond that has so tormented us tbut
the difficulty is how to get at. Wailt
a muomenct, I know bow to do it." So
saying, be left' the room, buat quickly
returned, bearing in hi~a band a net
prepared for catchiig ibutterfl ies.
With its ai<{, and that of a long stick
he proceeded carefully to try and get
the preciotus stone-Montini, hardly
daring to breathe, watching all his a
moveomer~te with the greatest anxiety. I
At laat his efforts were crowne4 whith
sucecas and. heo criod, "I1erm it is,
Monatin I I congratulate you~ op its
recovery. I am now your, debtor. to
the amount of nearly 'a kundred,
pounds. What dIo you intend to do ,
with the amount ?
'reave it in your hands, sir, if
yon ,will be kind enough to keep it for'
''Most ,wllingly ; I will pay you
the intere~st, a~nd if you con'inaue to add
to it., you will soon have .a.e little
su19," repliead thejewe
TI'his was theo bpganntaL.. t Montin's
fortune. tin 1a few years hei became a
parttier with his master, wh~ose
diaughter he married, and bae Is now
one of the principal jewellers in I
Paris
TPo peoppe not! up In 'the.,.mysterles
of thte uaamA ni hm hailto new,.A
by the Ilunierdui profesrionni UJubs, i
hereabouts, the interest felt by a largy
part 'oah-le pilie in the eoh teste ao
progres ears a beurd 'It is realty<
rema'rk'bfiho* many ifope 'are ab 1
sorbed in this pastime. Whenever
a'th'atdh geine, by any eracked Clubs
ts played in this vicinitf,an .udIee
of from.5. 6q to i!,000 atoal 6e.
lar' a head,'oao bp ass tblod. ~Th'er#<
e:'a $sa es bn'the pritnpip4l stree in
di kre put up, ah4 ,erowls I
, aours wetehi5 the recordifng
of" e aasee ihe innin(' 0s atfar
oluctuatiounof Cotton. ,
We ore indeh-d to NMevsrs. Parker,
Ward & Co.. of Memphia, for a copy
of a chart issued by them, showing the
fitctuations in cotton prices, in that
market, between September of last year
Ind Lte current month. The changes
are not Dnly most romarkable, but ilso
iinguiarlv erratie, and htirnish a con I
pleteex plan.it ion of the loi'Ses sutstainied
bv plaime who held on it thiir cotutnit
,1 1te hope of'getting a est er pricn; of
tIh (actors who0. made large aILvIanices
upon that staple, anid' of the( hyers who
peculated it it.. The cliirt. that.
n the 2d of Septemher, 1869-that is
) say just about a year ago-the mar
ket price of cotton was thirty-three
(-nts a poiund. Ont that day a dclp'ine
wt m, and Proceeded so rapidly that, sat
hi cilose( of the satne mouth. the ptice
lad fallen to twenty-four and a quarter
:entts. During tho month of October
ho price remninmed steady. But. on the
I th of November, it stood t wenmy
iree cents-a decline of ten cents in
ixty days. At thisi point a slight reac
ion net m, and, by the close of Jann
ry the price had risen to twenty-lotir
md a half cents- being a quarter of a,
entt higher thant at. t he close of October. i
Nith the opening of Fehruary com.
nenced a steady and conintions decline I
muil, otn the 10th of March, the ptive I
iad fallen to ineteen and a half ceiis.i
k week later it was back to twenty.
wo cenlt, and stood at that for I
aitigle week ; declined the following i
ve-k t) twenity'one and a haif, but
'ose again, a week later, to twenty- <
wo cents. A'ter another series of i
luctnation-varying from a quarter of
cent to a cent-the price on the 2d
f Jutte was within a quarter of that
lie 31st of March. vis: twenty-ono and
half cents. Thet, commenced still
nother period of steady, and, with the i
xception ofotne week, continuous de. 1
hle, until, otn the 21st of July, the pricoe
ad gone dowi tQ seventeen and a hulf t
ents. It rose a week inter to ninteen i
ents, and dropped off again on the 31st I
f August, to eighteen and a ialfcents.
CHoi.EnA APPRoAcHING.-The w
al news of the approach of chole- I
a reminds t.s of an old, insidious and
nconquerable 'enemy. In Havana, it
;spreading with frightful rapidity.
'here wore fifty three deat Is in one dity
nd eighty on another. The victims
re take-n from all classes-eqnally.
t the shipping in the harbor, its rava.
es have beet very great, and letters
read lest the epidemic make stach
ead way as to fill the cit.y with mourn.
ne, a id take ite Population off in I
onntless numbers. In France, we
War of the cholera among the German
roops. In Soithenasern Russia, it is
apidly extending. The Journal de St.
?etersburg, of the I ith inst., announces
wenty cases and ten deaths from the
pidemic at Rostow, and nine cases
id ;our detths at Kertclt. The appear. I
mco of the disease is also aitnoinced at.
)dessa, in a communication dated the
4th inst. Tihe latest. newa from Tag
mirog states that from the 25th of
rune to the 280; o*I July, 118 cases of
Ie malady occurred in Mint town, seven.
y-five of which ended fatally.
itNGULAn OiGIN OF Finv.--The
salem Register says that a lady in that
.ity lost aoitt a dozen .yards of velvet.
w'hichi took fire from thte rays of the attn
mtesing throtugh a globe in which an
.rtmnsn was floattog in water. Bit
or thme timely discovery of the fire the
tonse might htave been burned.
We remietmber a catse of' that kind
vhiech ocitrred years ago. A globe
:ontaining a pair of gold ish was left on
he table in die parlor near a front,
v'indow,1 snd while the family wvere
ut breakf'ast smoke was eimelt, and all
tands started to see wvhat the mhatter
eas. On going into the parlor where
htero had bteen no fire, they found t.
h-'nsely filled wvith smoke, atnd a large
tolo hurnt through the carpet and Qoor.
P'ho flre burstedl in a flame wihien the
loor was openied.. The cause was ap:
tr'nt-the unclouded sun had cast
iis rays tharomugh the globe of water,
;ivintg it the ell'ect of a btirning lens) or
tinn glatss. In a fe w niutnttes more thme
touse wvould have be'en all atblaze.
rhe unconcioius lit le fishes, l'owever,
vera as cool as a cucumber all the time,
-Lawrence Eagle. i
Conic Pon rdtcsA w.-A correstpond.
mut of the Selentiflo A merican recoin
nends turpentinte as a certain cure for'
ockja w. Hf~e sya
"Ljet any one who has an attack of
ockjaw t ake a small quantity of turren.
ine, warmc m and potir it on the wotund
'A mnter whern the wound is omr what
te nattture, and relief will' follow tu less
han one mninth. Not hitig better can
e applied to a severe cut. or bruise theii
oeld turpethie 6; It *ill gen certain re
ief almaat instanatly.: Turpentine ,Is
itse a sovereign remedy for crotlp
saturAte a piece flannel with it and
>lace the flannel on the throat and chesa
ItRd in a very 6etere CR50 thriee to llve
Irops maty be tak.ke .iin ardif. llviig
family should htavie a, ottle Qn hahua
Thisrenhedf is sikp e, and gan b6
' Tot.-he emWnMAanat$ qf Tttl,
rho has ju~st epulscd thp- 1Ejutians;
D-li -, ioh . s~ay m' o 0 s rrepdrr till
n~i G ,lii def~ I A 6i thom'li
The Press of the 8outh.
We do not think tihe services or the0
generatlintegrity of ti(- press of 11he
Sunt h is uat. preiiiated by the people,
who are, however, ignorant of the
temptations which mant newspape-rs
have put from iheist and igiorant of the
extent of I he lossers which bich newspa.
pers i.iAvi gst e med o ocount. of ivir
fidelity to Ihe people of tle Soi'uh.
In this Statu andu in Heone otherp,
military governors, or corrtpi officials
atiing undIer cover of inhiitous lavs,
have m111ade lovalty to <iny, opposition
to Lite extravagance and eorrtpuimis of
lo1ls and th ieves in office, a crime to be
pmished ; and they have ptimished this
arie by forcing a portion,.of the legiti.
rnate p:iroirge of newspapet-r guilty of
it imto other chatnnels iniadi-quate to
he service, thus robbing lytih the par. I
ies in interest in all the intters enitira.
ed patronage and the newspapers al.o
In this State, it would not be dii
uit to name civil olficers who have
iold themselves to a party Ihey abhor
11d1 parted with their self-respect forev.
!r for lesa than the advertisi.ig patronage
vhich the local ne w.pa pert- have spurn
- as the prico of their thir-achery to
aiCO people and name atd kindred.
The public appreciate the fidelity and
he usefulness of the, pressrbut do not
mnow that the newspaporseare faithiul at a
ost which nikes to many of their con.
luctors all the difference bot ween allilt
ince and poverty ; and, therefore, this t
tress of the South is not sipported as it
hould be, and in consequence of in
ieqa I e stupport is far less pi .verful than c
t might be.
Re-ally, we think the Solt'hern peo.
>ln owe a great. deal to theirie wspapers,
ind that tht-y are paymg the debt grud I
ngly and litle at a time.
On this subj--ct, however, we have 1
aid niore than wo intend, the object
vith which we commenced writing being
imbly to introduce lie following trib.
tie to the Sot.thern press from the com
nonwealth's report of the address deI
ivered at Marion last week by MAnj.
r. G. 1farris, the Democratic candidate
or congress in th Fourth District.
"If there be one class of citizens who
lave felt more than anothh the cruel
ippreasson of our relentLievtftl vindiii
ive enemies, it is compoms-d of th
-ditors of ouir public journ-ls. When
he Southern Star weit down at A ppo
nattox, shrouded within ihe folds of the
loutheri battle-fliag they, together with
ill others, lost their souree of revenue.
)ppressed, down-trodden.'but not crnsh
d, the% roie to the full meatomm of dii v
ti that dark hour, grasped with frmer
told the pen of trwib and patriotism,
nd from that moment until the preseni
ime have never for an instant ceseed to
Lsail the onomies oIlour common liberties
n their stroneholds, exposing their out
ages, denouncing their craft, and strip.
ling the mask from their cunning
reacheries. The press of the South
tas been the e: gine-the battering rant
-by means of which the duangeon walls
hiat were intended for our per.
.etual imprisonment have been leveled
with the dist. It is doetrytl the
aiwarks of oppression, and. if well sis
;ained, will soon fece oir common ene.
ities to an unconditionil surrender I
,her-fore rppeal to the people in behalf
Af tle press. I entreat them to feed,
:lothe and educate the families of our
1ewvspaper mier., for these have snifered
mtore atnd sacrificed more than all ot hers,
l'heir self-sacriflicinig spirit. hats rarely
seent equalled in the history of mankmnd.
When a word could htave made their
ortunes, t heuy scorned to speak it, be.
"'use it involved the sutrrentder of vonr
rber'ies and the loss o: their own peer
cBs bor',r. The resnilt wnq that a riuth
ese and unprincipl-d legislaituire, atsinug
n violatioit of the rightsu of i I.e people
tiid in contempt. of their inte-resuts,
obbed thuem of the public printing
and buried it mt tinrerard and uancared
or newspaspers a hundred nuiles away.
rhe Sotthe-rn Editors are thiu watchmen
tn the ramparts of fiiberty, ever ready
ao sound 'theo alartm at. the approach of
langer, or to etncoturage the people in
hie hour of peace Atid prosperity. U..
told thaetr hands, fellow-citizens, and
tee to it that the-y fail not for want of
ronr earnest atid sympathetic support."
--Selma ( Al.) Argue.
A R anUJKK FOR SttcnInAN, BUJTTLRR,
El(FERRMAN, AND)OTitEnt YANKEI. OENEC
w. s.-TIwo Prussian re.gimnents having
~ommnitted exces~s in the little French
.owtns of l'aulkenberg and Remnilly,
nehi as pillaging houses and destroying
~ropetty, Cotit Bismnarck has ordered
hnames of the two regiments, and
hose of thetr offiers, to be published in
ill German 'papers. The Glermanspt
save reimbursed the French inhabitants
re far as wras in their power. A rigor
stus vlamination has been instituted by
Bismareir, and the regiments sent to
th rear, being stripped of their banners
ad all emblemns of honor. T'he gunilty
regimuents were the~ Second Hes
D~armtstadIt 1nfantry and the Twelfth
Prussian Line.
"A great many business apen say
dia& they cannot alford to take part in
elIities. Whop they hrave read Geon.
Joener' aergse of Mr. Ohapmbeala si'
ahyst oratiob, they will bg pwordj ig.
lnad orgyee with u" n2at 110 one
save any;l an fford .ua1 to takei an .
Plcturcm of th ButtlPleicld,
Mr. Russell, in bis letters to thi
London Times desotiptive of the bat
tie-field of Sedan, "as:
The troopers, billiantly led, went
right on wirds (ii u cloud of dust> but
when they wore within a couple of
huidred yards of the Prussians ont
simultaneous volley burst out of the
bio.:k trunt aud flank, which envol.
oped ill in smoke. They uOre steady
soldiers who pulled tigger there.
Dowi came horse und man ; the array
wits utterly ruined. There was left
in front of that deadly infantry but a
heap of white and giny horses----a
terrace of dend and dying dismounted
men, and fI) ing troopers, who tumbled
at every instant. More total d'ssipa
tion of a bright pngoantry could not
be I There wan nuother such acetic
vet to cone. I could scarce keep the
leid-glasa to my eyes as the secotid
ud last body of cavalry--which was
sornposed of light-horse also-eaiue
.hundering up out of the hollow.
I'hey wore not so bold as the men on
,he white horsev, who, fell, nait'y of
hem, at the very line of the bayonetn.
l'he ho-sus of these swerved as they
V0me0 upon the gi ounid covered with
aroasses, and their line was broken,
yut tho squadrou leaders rode straight.
.o death.
I will not dwell on the topic, but
tsk your readers to be content with
.he a-surance that no human eye ever
ested on such revolting objects as
vere presented by the bat-tle-field
Lround Sedan, Let them fancy mass
ii of eoiored rags glued together
vith blood und brains, and piied in
,o strange shapes by fragments of
)ones. Then conijcive tmen's bodies
rithout heads, legs without bodies,
laps of h'umniu entrails attached to
ed tnd blue cloth, and diseint,owelled
:orpies in uniform ; bod ies lying about
n all attitudes, with skulls shAttered,
aeos blown off, h1ps smashed, bones,
lesh, aLnd gay olothing all pounded
ogether as if brayed in a mortar, ex
ending for miles,.uot very thioi in
kny one place, but recurring perpetu
Mly for weary hours, and then they
-annot, with the most vivid imagina
ion, oine up to the siekening reality
wfthat butchery. No nightmare could
e so frightful. Several times I cam
n spota where there were two horses
ying dead together in harness, killed
)y the sano fragment. Several times
[saw four, five, and six men, four,
ive, and six horses, all killed by the
uplosion-of one projectile, and in one
lace Ihere lay no- less than eight
lerench soldiers, who must have been
truck down by the bursting of a shell
>ver a company, foi they lay all round
u a circle, with their feel inwards,
)aoh shattered in the head or chest
)y a piece of shell, and no other dead
>eing within it hundi ed yards of them.
Tn WAR AND EHMOnATION.-SOmre
I, d emigrants arrived at this pr
luring last week, which would give a
otr,- of considerably over 200,000
1er annum. These figures show that
,he war hasnot by any means put an
mid to emigration. Thousands of
hose in humble circumstances con
inue to embark for "the home of the
)rave and the land of the free," in
)rdoe- to better their worldly pros.
ets. It is futhermuore highly proba.
Ae that this war will stimulate a new
tiass of emigration hither. We refer
o the Frenob, whose possessilonst are
iow being (despoiled or devoured .by
be. "invaders ;" who see the savings
f years destroyed in a few honra, and
rho, like our Southern countrymen
luring the rebellion, are being redudm
id almost to penury. There is no
loubt that very nmany of these suffer
~rs will seek the New World to rcs
ore their lost fortunes, where it can
)O done muoh easier and quicker than
n Frane, and they will receive a
nest cordial recept.ion here. A. little,
wr considqrable, Giallia element, is
ieeded to mingle with the Teutonic
ted Celtic matsses who migrate in such
large numbers to the United Rtate.
[t is niot at all improbable that F~rench
nen will soon become as commnn
tmong us as Irish and German now
ire,-New York commercial.
The Columbus (Ohio) Demncrat
p)ays the Now York World the fellow.
ing decided left hasnd complinent:
.'The people of the South shonit
be anadhe fully acquainted with thie
sharaeter and antecedents of the
World newspaper: until that shall be
jone, the power of that journal will
3ontinue one of the greatest .dangeri
ht thraon the lbassnny sud lifo 01
sur party organitiationa. It, 1. well
known by every one eOnrveii-dit 'with
the politics of New York, that the
sditor of the World, Mant~n Mgrbl,
was Un original Black,Rtepobliesn, and
that he was an earnest and vindictive
advocata of every promninept apd p,
pressive w'ar oneaurq 6f the Linedle
Administration."
The World catches it from the
Democeratio press Easty Weetk ,North
and Sotith, It seems it be gener 1L5
looke~ ujxa as d blaei , qhe in the
The 'I0est InterestU of Colored People,"
VIEWS 01' A COLOiED) PREACHIIn.
We find it the IHarriqonburg (Cata.
houla Parish, Louisiaua) New Era,
the following letter fromu T. 0. Ban.
noun minister of colored churches on
the Little and Black rivers, which
should be read by every colored per
son throughouit the length and breadth
of the land:
ACKLANo PLt.ANTATiON, 3I.AeC 11v
Pit, L A , August 15, 1870.-Eoi-ront
NEW NaA v-My atteution has ieon
placed as a niember of the parish ex
coutivo committee of the Republica1sn
par y, held, etc. I beg leave to state,
through the columns of your paper,
that this has been done without my
knowledge or conseit, and further,
that my convictions lead me to act,
poli~tially, in coiior, with nuy old
neighbors and friends, ot' this vicinity,
who have generally extended, cheer
fully, to the colored people of the
paih, ull the political rights and
privilege's due in their changed rela
tions, uiand give them liberal wagos
aid support for themselves avid fanii.
Iics. In my opinion, the best inter
ests of the colored people require
themt to stand by tad sustain those
with whom they have been, and they
know to be honest, true and faitih'l
to their promises with their race.
There egists a mutual devenvdance,
which is fast producing a state cf mu
taa;l confidence, kiidnes iiand good
feeling, whi,,hi I tru-t and believe will
soon be firnily established.
Experience teaches us to be sn-epi.
oious of the promiten of those inado
by. we don't know whom, or when or
where to find,
Respectfully, yours, etc.,
'IINOMRON 0. BANNON.
Tiva Bvr IT or TrE SKASON.
The following rich paragraph, which
bears the e idev.co (f pnuivess, is
traveli ng with the press
"AN AsioR IloU eF..- Jou .-A short
time ago Mr. A. M. Powell, of New
York city, wrote to C. A. Stetson'a
proprietors of the Abtor House in
that city, asking if acoommodations
could bie 'ound - in that well knowu
hotel for 'H1on. G. T. Ruby (colored
State Seneft or from alrvsi-ITnn, vT.,l I
and wife. The Stetson's Sons reply
that at this season of the year their
house ia filled with permanent board
era, but they express a willingless to
aid the 'iew elemenit of our p .lmad
machinery in receiv 1.. hm vi i V ry
polish to accure is at leuesL hil, ial
equality with the struggling C nucasiat
and therefore suggest the entertain
ment of the honorable Senator at Mr.
Powell's private resideneo, pledging
the payment of the cost thereof when
the charge a are properly mado out
and audited by a committee."
And will Powell take this "liuby"
to his bosom ? If he does not, what
will "Ruby" think of him I The
Astor people have "bottled up" Pow
ell, and the chief value of the "joke"
is that it bottles up the whole flock of
hypocritical philanthropists who are
always endeavorIng to shove their
proteges on other people.
A SNAKC IN Ba.-The Salem
Press says:. A few evening since one
of our respeted Winston dames bad
ooeasion to enter bor lbed room, and
uponlooingtowards the bed she was
eiewih sudden terror: for there,
upon the counterpane, lay a huge
snake comfortably coiled, and enjoy
ing an afternoon nap as only a niakto
nan. Rushing from the reoma, she
called loudly to her apouse, who at
once seised a broom handle, with a
viariety of other war like implements,
anid tnado for the bod. A few well.
directed strokes "did" for the snake
who seemed to take it as passively as
if he was ander a dose of hirs. WV ins
low's soothing syrup. A nearer in
spection, and lo I his snakoship turned
out to be nothaing more or less thou
one of the long braids or coils of hair
which ladies now use to twist back of
their beads, and come the .Greeinrt
style. It belonged to the ladry her
self, and it is veritably believed thait
soamp of a busbanad put it whoe it
was found, although "desponent saith
nlo."
IAmidst the din arid clamor of the war
ina Europio is hoard the growl of the
great' Russian bear. The 'tarick' of
the Frenoh en gle, the cry of the'
double-headed bird of Prussia, and
the roar of the British lion, sink into
omrnrati1ve innignificance, drowned,
a'id rendered nearly iznau'diho by the
aforeeaid growh. Widt doks thd flow
sian bear tioan by gettngswp fromn hi.
haunches at this da&y I. -Hie is after
the Turkeytbassrd, apd the ebaneas,
are that withi a stroke of his giant
jlaw he will orush 'thes foul b.ird, and'
thMv effectually end the rule sof the
8alten 'over Christian aktilonalities.
The esnancipation of the .Ohfrstians of
aer $urope ma be lJooke$for at
an early'a.--N Y mrcsql,
A-oouantrymbo walkingth:e streets
of F',V:York, found hit progres'dst1p.
naadhey aalpa Larriada utfE.I
Al lirillhous 0litrlig.
C01. J. MoroSo, of the Charleston
Courier, and campaign correspondenti
of that journal, in one of his lettels
from Marion says :
"It is true that Scott, in uttor vio
'!ee of everything like canUnon do.
conecy or I xecutRiv imi partiality, has
appointed his own oreat tires to manipua
lato the ballot boxes. In the history
of Republies thero cuannot ho found a
Morie opent-facod attempt onl tho part
of an adini istration to cheat t-ho peo
ple out ot their God.givei rights of
suifrage; and a more palipable outrago
was never perputrated, even by the
infamous uing in Columbia. With
throo-fourtits of the managers of o'.co
l ion throughout tho sta o c1andidatos
for otlico it Scott.'s ticket, and all of
them ollice-holders or creatures of
Scott, it would seem that there ro'
mained not a singic ra- of hope for
the honeett Ieln ii the State. But I
believe that even this; iifatmous and
shattiless resort will inot. *Et'ot the ob;
jeet intended to ho effected, If our
people are true to tle fpirit wihicl
anmimted out r ftirefathers, ie will hare
a fair cIection adi afei' count. T heso
tools will ntot dairo trample upon the
rig hts of i,liIo freem ('en, an( talimpler
Sith the lailot boxe.n if outr pioplo
the thlim hat ithey will not permit
it. Let crfnuni' e.s be qf ;!.ted inl
tlae vita iois preclets and i )n % t o
guard the a t110f boxer . thev .
guard their sac red ho0. .: ; ne v
iig sghat of them ; dying :f need !o
in thecauaso atnd lot themn see thel
C-utIn-insist u pon its beintg done as
the electiota is over, and in publio. If
we are sufliciently in earnost to do
this, the mrena to whom Scott las
given control of the ballot boxes will
never daro to tramplo with the votes."
About Mtrryilig too Y01111g.
Mrs. Elivabibot hStanton says: "Girla
do not roaclh their iaturity until
twenty-five, yet at ixteen they are
wives and mothers- adi over the land,
robbed of all the rlights arid freed6ml
of rhildhie a i piarriage, cripplod hi
growth and developnet, the vital
aorcem needed tb build itp a vigorous
antll healt1h' v- p.,thood are sapped
and perverted from their legitimatte
ohnantonls in the niaturo offlico of repro
duction. When tho body is overtax.
od, tho mind loses its tono and set.
ties down iln a gloomy discontent that
enfeclles fihe wholo moral being.the
feeleo mother brings forth fooblo sonp,
the sad mother those with morbid ap.
petites. The constant demand of
stimultits among men is the result of
morbid conditions of their mothers.
Healthy, happy, vigorous Votmlathood
would do more for the cansn of ten
perance than any prohibitory or li.
cense laws possibly otin. When wo
man, by tli observanco of the laws of
life anrd ietalth, is restored to .hier nor
tma1l condition, mat ornity will not bo
a period of weakums, but of added
power. With that high preparation
of body and soul to which I have ro
forred, mon and women of sound mind
ail body, drawn togother by true sen
t imtionts of affection, might calculato
with certainty oat a happy home, with
htealthy chIildroet gathoring round
their firesido. To this end let girl
hood be sacredly devoted toedIoation,
to montal, moaral atnd physitcal growth,
to an high preparation for persontal
indoependentoo and ambition as boy
hood is to-day."
Clarence Percy Mortiner is a nice
natne. Atny nnmber of youtng ladies
would like to fall in love with a man
who owaned that namno. Claretne-in
itelf, or Percy, or Mlortimeru' woutld
be the forttune of anay youth (no mat
ter how little ktnown to fame) in the
neighiborhtood of a feiale hoat dioga
schtool. If we could represenat a imod.
ern romance by nine p;oints, Clarenco
Percy Mortimeor would make three of
thorn, How shoekitng, therefore, is it,
how~ destruotivc, to the tall-brig'ht girl.
ish lfa'ies that t he me re mat,ion of
sucoh a tai iatsfires, to know tid
the (Clarenace Percy *Mortimner we
refer to is not a hero or a troubiador;
but tan Illinois horse thief.-N. Y.
Ciommecrcia/.
Doeacon Moses Upton, a lunatic,
couinetid ina the ,Taunaton, Massaohau
sotti, [jasano Ataylumtt, imiaaginod: that
thae phby~..mtn had cuat his stomach
out, andi thorofor, lhe refusedl to par
take of food. ie livd' about two
[weeks, when he died fr: i absolute
startvatiou. IIlis attene'.ntts t, ii '1 to
forca food down~ hi. d- ront, b, he
I artt!y ek'sed his teeth andi frustrated
their oft'.rts, saying thast it' would bet
injurious for a ratt without a atomiach
to eat anything.
ONLY M E.-A m~oltjer hgjd tW chtik -
dlron ; baotht girls-Th'le elder a fair child,
the younger as, h~aiy and mother's pot.
nTe elder wats neglected, .while s&we4(t,"
the, pot ntamei oaf Ihp. youtngar, reI
cetived every attentiona Qtat. lomeconI$;
heatow. Onte day, taftet; a~ sverejIlt qa
the mnothigr wse jiuing it the. parl~ir,,)
she heard a cildish, step on ShQ stirIs
and her tinghts. wero.mnstantly with
hthe favorite. . '14
-.a ~s thatsyen, Sweet 7" sht-iqireitoi