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THE ANDEKSON INTELLIGENCER, IS ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY, AT ONE DOLLAR A YEAB, 1ST ADVANCE. Jgg~ If delayed six months, SI.50 ; nnd $2.00 at the end of the year. HOYT & HUMPHREYS, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. Advertisements inserted at moderate rates; liberal deductions mado to those who will advertise by the year. A French Will Story. Xl Is she dead, then ?" " Yes, madanie." replied a little gentle? man in a brown coat and short breeches ?And her will V "Is going to be opened here immediate? ly by her solicitor." Shall we inherit anything?" "It must be supposed go; we have claims." " TTJ^jfiJtliis miserably dressed person age who intrudes herself here ?" " 0, she," replied the little man, snccr ingly, " she won't have much in the will; she is sister to the deceased." "What! that Anne, who wedded in 1812, a man of nothing?an officer?" " Precisely so." "She must have no small amount of impudence to present herself here, before a respectable family/' "The more so, as sister Egrie. of noble birth, had never forgiven her fbf that mis? alliance/' Anne moved at this time across the room in which the family of the deceased were assembled. She was pale : her eyes were filled with tears, and her face was furrowed by cave with precocious wrin? kles. " What do you conic hero for?" said Madame de Yilleboys, with great haugh? tiness, who a moment before had been in? terrogating the little man who inherited with her. . "Madame," the poor lady replied, with humility, "I do not come here to claim's part of wfiat docs not belong to nie, I came solely to sec M. Ddbois, my sister's .solicitor, to inquire if she spoke of me at her last hour." " "What, do you think people busy them? selves about .you?" arrogantly observed Madame <i6 Yilleboys; the disgrace of a great house?you, who wedded a man of nothing, a soldier of Bonaparte ?" " Madame, my husband, a!thou;rb a child of the people, was a brave soldier, and, what is belter, an honest man," ob? served Anne. At this moment a venerable personage, the notary Dubois. made his appearance. "Cease," he said, "to reproach Anne with a union which her sister has forgiv? en her. Anne loved a generous, brave and good man who had no other crime to reproach himself wich than poverty and the obscurity of his name. Nevertheless had ho lived, if his family had known him as I know him?I, his old friend?Anne would now be happy and respected." " But why is this woman here ?" said the notary, gravely; "I myself requested her to be here." M. Dubois then proceeded to open the will. " I being sound in mind and heart, Eg rie de Demefrcmeg, retired as a boarder in the Convent of the Sisters of the Sa? cred Heart of Jesus, dictate the following wishes as the expression of my formal do sire and principal clause of my testa ment. " After my decease, thci-c will be found two hundred thousand francs in money at my notary's, besides jewelry, clothes, and furniture, as also a chateau worth two-hundred thousand francs. " In the convent, where I have been re Biding will be found my book, Heurcs de la Yiergc, a holy volume, which remains as it was when I took it with me at the ^ time of emigration. 1 "desire thai these three objects be divided into three lots. " The first lot, the two hundred thou? sand francs in mono}-. "The second lot, the chateau, furniture and jcAvcls. " The third and last lot, my book, Hen res de la Yiergc. "I have pardoned my sister Anne the grief she has caused us, and I would have comforted her sorrows, if I had known sooner of her return to France. I com? promise her in my will. " Madame de Yilleboys, my much be? loved cousin, shall have the first choice. "Anne will take the remaining lot. "Ah, ah," said Yatry. "sister Egrie was a very good onq^ that is rather clev? er on her part." ? "Anne will then only have the prayer book," exclaimed Madame do Yilleboys, laughing aloud. The notary interrupted her jocularity. Madame," said he, which of those lots do you choose ?" " The two hundred thousand francs in money." "Have you quite made r.p your mind?" " Perfectly so." The man of the law, addressing him? self to the good feelings of the lady, said: " Madame, you arc rich; and Anne has nothing. Could you not leave this and take the book of prayers, which the ec? centricity of the decased has placed on a par with the other lot ?" " You must be joking. M. Dubois*, ex? claimed Madame dc Yilleboys; " you must really be dull not to sec the inten? tion of sister Egrie in all this. Our hon? ored cousin foresaw fall well that her book of prayers would fall to tho lot of Anne, who had the last choice. " And what do you conclude from that?' inquired the notary. " I conclude that she intended to inti? mate to her sister that repentance and prayer rrerc tire on\v help that she had to expect in this world. As she finished these words. Madame de Y. made a definite selection of the ready money for her share. M. Yatry, as may be easily imagined, selected the chateau, furniture and jewels as his lot. "Monsieur Yatry," said M. Dubois to that gentleman, "even suppose it had been the intention of the deceased to pun? ish her sister, it would be noble on your part, miliionarie as yvii arc. to give at least a portion of your share to Anne, who is in want of it." " Thanks for your kind advice, dear sir,' replied Yatry, the mansion is situated on the very confines of my woods, and suits admirably all the more so that it is ready furnished. As to the jewels of sister Egrie, they are reminiscences which one ought never to part with." "Since il is so," said the notary, "ray poor Madame Anne, hero is the prayer bock which remains to you. Anne, attended by her son. a handsome boy with blue eyes, took her sister's old prayer book, and making her son kiss it after her, she sai l: " Hector, kiss tins book, which belong? ed to your poor aunt, who is dead, but who would have loved you well, bad she known you. When you have learned to read you will pray to Heaven to make you wise and trood as your father was. and happier than your unfortunate moth? er." The eyes of those who were present were filled with tears, notwithstanding their efforts to preserve an appearance of indifference. " Oh mamma." he said, ;- what pretty pictures." " Indeed," said tho mother, happy in the gladness of her buy. " Yes. The good virgin in a red dress, holding the infant Jesus in her arms.? But why, mamma, has silk paper been put upon the pictures?"' "So they might not be injured, my dear." " But mamma, why are there ten silk papers to each engraving?" The mother looked, and uttering a sud? den shriek, she fell into the arms of M. Dubois, the notary, who, addressing those present, said : " Leave her alone, it won't be much,; people don't die of these shocks. As for you, little one." addressing Hector, " give me that prayer book; you will tear the engravings." The inheritors withdrew making vari? ous conjectures as to the cause of Anne's sudden illness, and the interest the nota? ry look in her. A month afterwards they met Anne and her son exceedingly well, yet not extravagantly dressed, tak? ing an airing in a barouche. This led them to make inquiries, and they ascer? tained that Madame Anne had recently purchased a hotel for one hundred and eighty thousand francs, and that she was giving her son a lirst-rate education. The news came like a thunderbolt upon them. Maaame de Yilleboys and M. Yatry has? tened to call upon the notary for expla? nations. The good Dubois was writing at his desk. '? Perhaps we are disturbing you," said the arrogant old lady. " No matter I was just in the act of settling a purchase in the State funds for Madame Anne." '? What!" exclaimed Yatry, " after pur? chasing house and equipage has she still money to invest ?" " Undoubtedly so." " But where did the money come from? " Where, did you not see t" " When ?" " When she shrieked out at seeing what the prayer book contained which, she in? herited." " Wo observed nothing." " Oh, I thought you saw it," said the sarcastic notary. ,; The prayer book con i tinued sixty engravings, and eachengrav ing was covered by ten notes of a thous? and francs each." " Good heavens !" exclaimed Yatry, thunder-struck. " If I had only known it," shouted Ma? dame dc Yilleboys. " You had the choice," added the nota? ry, " and I myself urged you to take the prayer book, but you refused." " But who could have expected to find a fortune in a breviary." The two baffled egotists withdrew, their hearts swollen with passionate ei*. Madame Anne is still in Paris. If you pass by the Rae Lafitte, on a summer evening 3-011 will sec a charming picture on the first floor, illuminated by the pale reflection of wax lights. A lady who has joined the two fair hands of her son, a fair child of six years of age. in prayer before an old book of llcures dc la Yiergc, and for which a cross in gold lias been mjulfi, -" Fray for me, child," said the mother, ''And for who else?" inquired the child. " For your father, who perished with? out being able to love .von." " Must I pray to the saint, my patron ?" '? Yes, my little friend; but do not forget n saint who watches us from heaven, and who smiles upon us from above the clouds." ?: What is the name of that saint mam? ma, dear?" The mother, then watering the child's head with her tears, answered: ?? Her name is?sister Egrie." Amusing Love Affair. The London correspondent of the Xcw Orleans Delta relates the following: A good sell is related of a wealthy banker here, who is very good natured. but is inclined to be a trifle fast in his views of life, lie had a favorite clerk, a young man. about twenty-one, remark? ably handsome, modest, and highly intel? lectual. For these qualities, he was liked by every one. and tho.banker did not es? cape the general feeling of good will. The banker, on Sunday afternoon, when no one was expected, wonld occasionally ask the young man to visit his family at his suburban villa, as the corversaiion of the young man was so correct and clev? er, it could not but be of advantage to his children. This was a mistake evidently, but it was a good-natured error, and we can only wish, all of us, that there were more committed. I have not men? tioned that there was a beautiful daugh? ter, of nineteen summers; but that may always be understood. There were of course no attentions on the part of the 3*oung man, other than extremely deli? cate, reserved and proper. Thc?youth, in.spite of two or three day's invitation to the bankers seat to breath fresh air and clear his lungs of London smoke, was evidently very ill. and though he declared himself well and robust, the banker shook his head. ?? 1 cannot make out what is the mat? ter with my clerk.' said the banker to a confrere, who was in his back office with him, alter tho youth had just brought in some papers. " Well, you arc rather green, I should say for a man of 3'our time of life and ex? perience,' said the banker number two. - Don't 3-ou know what's the matter.? He's in love.' " In love .' He is modesty and proprio, ty itself.' " I tell you it ii a fact, and with a rich old fellow's daughter, who wonld no more think of having him for a son-in-law than }-ou would.' ?i Oh, the haughty old fool! My clerk is as good as his daughter, and be hanged to him. Thank you for the hint.' Soon as the banker number two had disappeared, the clerk was called in. "So, sir, you are in love, and pining away for the object of 3'our affection? that's 3-011 r secret, is it ? Why did 3-011 not tell me before sir?' The 3'outh was si Ion 1. " Well, my lxy, I j?it\- 3-ou; but I will give 3-011 a piece of advice. If the daugh? ter is fair, she is worth running a risk for. Look here, there are ?500 and two months' leave of abscense. Run away with the girl. Bah! don't look so stupid 1 did the same before you, and it has not hurt me." T! e clerk fell upon his knees and was upon the point of making a clear breast of it, when the old man rose and left pre? cipitately, to avoid a scene. The young man considered and acted, and the conse? quence was that the next di\y week there was no daughter at the dinner table of the banker at the country house. The houso was in consternation, and the search made for her in all directions. A note, however, was found on her dress? ing-table, conveying the customary prayer for forgiveness, and a note, enclosed from the young clerk, stating that, believing the banker meant to give him a hint with regard to his daughter, and was not able to give his public consent, owing to ap? pearances, he had acted ou his own sug? gestion, and tlrat ere his "father-in-law had received the letter, ho (the ?clerk) would be his son-in-law. Correspondence of the Guardian. New Orleans, La., April 11,1861. Dear Guardian: Perhaps some of your numerous readers would like to hear how affairs move on in tho Crescent city, now the metropolis of our country; if so, you can inform them that wo received, with the utmost, coolness imaginable, without being at all frightened, the dispatches purporting to bo by telegraph, stating that sever, of Uncle Abe's men of war were.waiting outside of the Charleston bv?TT:rjr^',^2^^ their respects to Gen. BDau'egartL"""??.^^ ^_ Everything here is being placed on a regular war footing. .Go v. Moore went down to-day to inspect the forts, which will soon bo so strongly garrisoned and fortified as to render it impossible for any force to enter the Mississippi river. Our distinguished fellow-citizen and sol? dier Col. A. H. Gladden is rapidly raising a regiment of infantry, of which he takes command, under the commission of the Southern Confederacy. Several compa? nies have already loft this place for Pen sacola, among whom the Zouaves are very conspicuous. Theg are tho most fantastic, fierce, dare-devil looking set of men in in their tout ensemble, that ever shouldered a muske. in this country, and they will doubless astonish the natives wherever the}- make their appearance, and most likely will astonish some foreigners, if they arc called into the field of battle. They arc the exact counterpart of the Zouaves of France, and mostly composed of French Creoles. Tho officccrs givo their com? mands in that language. On ti e 17th instant the proposals for tho five million loan will bo received, and it is thought that it will be cargcrly ta? ken even at a premium by the capitalists here, such confidence is there in the in? vestment. Business of all kinds begins to bo less active as the summer draws on, war grows more certain. J)uring the two weeks past wo have had the usual spring racing carnival, and there has been, considering the "hard times,' a most excellent display of slock and interest. The seasons of the opera and theatres will close in a few* days, and the pall which .summer usually spreads over this bustling city will be rendered two fold more dismal by the absence of so many of her sous engaged in the defence of their country. BETA. A Beautiful Extract.?The following is from a lecture delivered some fifteen years ago. by Rev. John X. Maffil; " Phoenix, fabled bird of antiquity, when it felt the chill advances of age. built its own funeral urn. and fired its pyre by means which Nature's instinct taught it. All plumage, and its form of beauty, became ashes; but ever would rise the young?beautiful from the urn of death ami chambers of decay would the fledg? ling come, with its eyes turned toward the sun, and essaying its dark velvet wings, sprinkled with gold and fringed with silver, on the balm}-air, raising a little higher, until at length, in the full confidence of flight, it gives a cry of joy, and soon becomes a glittering speck in the deep bosom of aerial ocean. Lovely voyager of earth, hound on its heaven? ward journey to the sun ! So rises the spirit from the ruins of the body, the funeral urn which its Maker built, and death frees. So towers away to its home, in the pure elements of spir? itual ty, tho intellect Phoenix, to dip its proud wings in the fountain of everlasting liss. So shall dear, precious humanity, sur? vive from the ashes of a burning world. So beautiful shall the unchanged soar within the disc of Eternity's great lumi? nary with undazzled eye and unscorched wings?the Phoenix of immortality-taken to its rainbow home and cradled on the beating bosom of Eternal Love." Major Ben McCulloch's movements have crcatcS a good deal of speculation and some alarm. His purpose was a business instead of a political one, but the story has been started that he had a band of 5000 men to seize this city. These Black Re? publicans arc a wretched set of poltroons, and have no idea of fighting themselves. Their plan is to pay Irishmen and Ger? mans to do it for them at so much per day. They do not care how many of Mm arc killed or maimed.?Cor. Char. Mercury. Hatzi.?The Mobile Averiiser, alluding tc the reported seizeure of San Domingo bySpain, says: "And France is to get back her Hayti andavenge the manes of her slaughtered chillren on the degraded descendants of the nsurrcctionists. by giving them mas? ters?owners, probably?and making themuscful to themselves and the.world. We von der if under such renewed regime the loirs of the expelled or slaughtered Frenci planters in Hayti can put in their claims, for theso would, if sustained, sup? ply owners to the negroes who have been experiencing but a stolen liberty. France recognized the independence of Hayti in 1S25, but does tlik> vinic-proj^ri-t-jr-HliiA. to lands, slaves, and the descendants of slaves ? This would bo a likely pretext j for making the blacks bondsmen, and HaytL is worth nought to Franco unless Tfrcy-nre." -o The Zouaves of Kcw Orleans, now at Pcnsacola, arc thus noticed in the Delta $ Saturday: lucre was'a grcaT CrwwiL^cstcrday on Lafayette .Square to witness thc^revl?^r of the Second Company of Zouaves on the cvQ of their departure forPensaeola. The company mustered over one hundred, and with their close shaven heads, their exact Zouave uniform, their brace of veritable vivandieresinfront, and their stern deter? mined, rough aspect bore a striking re? semblance to the original, the invincible heroes of Algiers and the Crimea. They arc no holiday soldiers, but regular dare devil fire-eaters, who will have no need for gun-powder and bails when they can get at the enemy with their sword bayo? nets. The)'arc just the fellows to charge the deadly breach which Buagg's colum biad will^make in the walls of Fort Pick ens, when the ball is opened. Juleps arc in season, and so is the story of the broad-backed Kentuckian who went down to new New Orleans for the first lime. Whiskey, brandy, and plain drinks ho knew, but as to the compound and flavored he was a know-nothing. Reposing on one of the seals of the bar? room of the St. Charles, he observed a crowd of fashionables drinking mintju , leps. " Boy." said ho t; bring mc a glass of that beverage." The liquor was brought to him, and when he had eonsunvd the cooling draught he called the boy again. " B03*, what was my last remark ?" "Why you ordered a julep." "That's right, don't forget it; keep on bringing 'cm!" -<&. The Coffin of Henry VIII.?In exca? vating for the temporary grave of the Duchess of Kent, a small opening was made into the vault which contains the collins of Henry VTII, and one of his queens, Lady Jano Scymorc; also -the coffiins of Charles I. and an infant child of Qecn Anne. The coffin, and even the crimsons on which are placed tho cor? onets, were in a tolerable state of preser? vation, and the spear hole injjic coffin of Henry VIII, said to have been made by one of tho soldiers of Oliver Cromwell, was clearly discernible. ? -^ Suicide of Stephen Van Rensselab Jr.?Mr Stephen Van Rensselar, a well known citizen of New York, committed suicide on Monday night, in tho drinking saloon No. 478 Broadway, in that city, kept by Elizabeth Hoyt. He went into the ajjovc saloon, and calling all persons present up to the bar, invited them to drink with him. When his liquor was set before him, he took from his pocket a phial containing laudanum, and poured a quantity of the poison into his glass. He then said to his friends, "this is my last drink," and immediately swallowed the contents of the tumbler. A physician was speedily procured, and every remedy was applied to remove the drug from his stomach, but without success, as he expi? red about one o'clock. The deceased was at one time considered one of the wcalth thicst men in the State, owning an im? mense tract of land in tho vicinity of Al? bany, in addition to his other property. He was the titular decendant of the Alba? ny Patroons of that name, but his disso? lute habits for a few years past have brought disgrace upon the entire family. -4? Jones was riding and saw a board nail? ed up on a post in the yard of a farm? house, with a sign painted on it, "This Farm for Sail." Always ready for a lit? tle pleasantly, and seeing a woman in checked sunbonnet picking up an apron ftil of chips at the wood-pile in front of the house, he stopped and asked her, very politely when the farm was to sail? Siie went on with her work, but replied to his question instantly, "Just as soon as the man comes along who can raise She wind !" -4??.-m Honor and obey thy father and mother. respondent of the Letf?v^o>tb. RercddT charges that the election o^s^ane^and Pomeroy was obtiained by frautittUr?'-. andr dishonorable practices. *3lwo such men as Lane and Pomeroy could have been sent to the United States Senate from no other, community than Eknsas, unless we except Botany Bay orV^he Penitentiary,' if all they say of thep^?^ true/ -The Leavenworth Herald tells#3 follows, what its opinion of his pal is: " The announcement we are aboutfc mako IS n<H 'T'-^rrr^ r?? j\>T^an^fVi^ .o v.T><vmerOV?the of weak ff?omachsV^Epmeroy?tlie p? to represent ll^tate of T de. wo attribute this\^clJ *? X&od for*/ pravity of our P^ofc6/ dfoT by^Q Shall we say it so be ace?jL-^.B ruitf combination of forces ? ^?IftkvTti th? C true, but leaves us only to m^H}B tent of iniquity. " Of one. only we are confide^^H the worst man ever sent to t^at f9 rDech-CtceVt'J by^our State. an<i ^ ^j|H I only represents thosvr^^^ ^jy^S The thief, with ail his~ill-got!!!^|jjj(| tlio robber of widows and orphans-r-the impostor and imbecile, has been sent by a Kansas Legislature to sit in the hall%6li Congress with honorable men. ilay God's righteous indignation bo averted, and may the world forbear regarding us in the light 0f a denVf thieves!" ?: Toe Southern Loa* a Begging.?-It is positively ascertained by the Govern? ment that the fifteen million loan author? ized by the Confederated States cannot bo taken. The offers are less than two mil? lions, including the amoun-: offeree.1 by thej^> cnthusiasts who happened to ha5 dollars wherewith to gratify their for secession." The above is from the Washington cor? respondence of the Times publishcayeg. terday. Wo aro enabled to pronouCo it utterly untrue, and to stato, also ^ official authority, that, up to the 29th \ March last, bids for the loan to the amount, of over fifteen millions of dollars had been received at the Treasuary Depart Montgomery.?JS'ew York ' Titat Fox.?The New York Tribune says : " Capt. Fox, who was lately sent to Fort Sumter by the President to commu nicato with Major Anderson, now com? mands one of the vessels sent to tho relief of the fort. He is peculiarly familiar with the waters of Charleston harbor, having been formcly attached to the Coast Survey. The impression prevails at Char? leston that his recent visit there was mere? ly to make arrangements with Major An? derson for a plan of relief, which is very likely to have been tho case.'"' -o Gen Webb a Prophet.?The Courier and Enquirer, which breathes^at-^rcscirtr^ only blood and thunder against the South, said twenty-five years ago, that, if tho Union wero broken up by the spread of Abolitionism? '; Our exports and our imports would be rcdut-od nine-tenths ; nine-tenths of our shipping would be rotting at our. wharves; nine-tenths of our population, now sup? ported by commerce and the wealth it produces and the industry it rliffuses, would be driven to agricultural pursuits; the staple articles of Northern agriculture command but small prices abroad, and they would find but few customers at home; grass would grow in the streets of our cities and villages, and a general scene of poverty and desolation would follow our present unexampled prosperity and generally diffused wealth." " Facts arc stubborn things," said a law? yer to a female witness on examination. The lady replied?"Yes, sir-ce; and so? . are women ; and if you get anything out of mo, just let me know it." " You'l be committed for contempt." " Yery well, I'll suffer justly, for I feel the utmost contempt for-every lawyer present. Minnie was one day talking to her lit? tle class in Sunday shool about Goc?s great love to men. Wishing to jmpress" it upon their minds, and to know wheth? er they understood her, she asked: "Now-' children, who loves all men V The ques* tion was hardly asked, before a little girl, not four years old, answered quickly:? " All women!" "Ah, Mr. Simpkins, wo have not chairs enough for our company," said a gar wife to her frugal husband. " Plenty of chairs, Mrs. Simpkins, but too much company.'* t ???+ A Darned Subject.?A female rwriter says: "Nothing looks worse on a lady than darned stockings." Allow us to observe that stockings which need darning look much worse than darnad ones?darned if they don't!