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A PAIB OF TIGHT BOOTS. Mr. James Caswell's wife had been dead six weeks, and Mr. Caswell had worn a weed on his hat, and kept hi3 eyes, whenever the dear departed was mentioned, with the most exem? plary propriety. At the end of six weeks he considered that He Had done bis doty by the first Mrs. Caswell, and felt himself at liberty to be looking around for the second lady of the same name. He needed a housekeeper, and his five little children needed the care of a mother. He had fixed bis eyes on the widow Biggins, and all things considered, perhaps he could not have made a better choice. She was about his age?forty-two; she was good-looking, had about three thousand dollars worth of prop? erty, aud had just been Jilted by Jeremiah Jenkins. And a woman who has been jilted is generally all ready to heal her heart with another specimen of the same faithless sex. Mr. Caswell broke the ice by sending the widow a squash. He raised a large quantity of squashes, and the bugs devoured all the widow's vines. Mrs. Biggins responded by sending him a mince pie with her compliments. And the next Snnday night, Mr. Caswell called to tell her how fond he was of mince pies, and how nice be thought her's was. After this, the ac? quaintance progressed rapidly. Mr. Caswell bought a new baggy, and ordered a new pair of boots. "Make 'era to fit close, Mr. Laster," said he, to the busy little shoemaker. "Seems to me I ought to wear eights instead of nines." "Can't do it, sir!" said the little man.? "You've got a bunion as big as an onion on your right great toe, and your heel is the long? est I ever seed, except on a gentleman of color." The boots were finished, and sent home on Saturday night, and on Sunday Mr. Caswell had engaged to drive the widow over to church in the new buggy, and with the new boots on. Early Sunday morning he began his prepa? ration. He put on the thinnest pair of stock? ings he had, and made a trial of the boots.. But they refused to go on. They were neat and handsome and genteel, but they would not begin to. make the acquaintance of Mr. Cas? well's understandings. He tugged, and pull? ed, and sweat, and swore, but all to no pur? pose. The time for starting for church drew nigh. He called in his two hired men?stalwart brothers?named John and Sam Steele. They took hold with a will?one hold of one strap, and the other hold of the other, while Mr. Caswell planted himself firmly in his chair. And the result was over went Mr. Caswell, chair, Sam, John, and all, into the floor, break? ing the dinner pot to flinders, and nearly kuocking the life out of old Rover, who was sunning himself just behind his master on the hearth. Caswell got up and rubbed his ringing head with vinegar. "Confound it!" said he, "I didn't think it would be such a tight squeeze. Try it again, boys! I'll sit in the window this time, and see if yon can pull one side of the house over!" It was a long pull, and a pull all together, but it was all in vain. < "It's no use," said Sam, wiping the sweat from his forehead, "your stocking will have to come oft," 80 the stockings were removed, and, by dint of a great deal of preseverance, the boots were got on to the feet intended for them. The horse was already harnessed to the new buggy, and donning his Sunday beaver, Mr. Caswell limped out, and climbed into the car? riage. The boots hurt awfully, but his feet looked like pictures in them, he said to himself, contemplating them with admiration, and he had heard the widow admire small feet a great many times. He soon had her by his side?radiant in a new pink bonuet and a green shawl, and they bowled right merrily over the hard track to the church. The pain in Mr. Caswell's feet had subsided from the acute into a dull, sleepy ache?he seemed to feel cut off from his bones down? hut what does a man care for feet and legs who is in love, when it* the presence of the beloved object? The conversation was sweetly interesting? h?? had managed to squeeze the widow's hand nnder the robe, and she had blushed and gig? gled just as he remembered the first Mrs. Cas? well did when he was courting her. The church was reached all too quickly. The services had not yet commenced, and the people were standing about under the trees in knots of half a dozen, talking of the weather and the crops. Widow Biggins was smilingly triumphant. Caswell's was the finest turn-out in town, and she knew her new bonnet was becoming, and realized that she was killing half her female friends with envy. No wonder the woman was happy. Caswell threw down the lines and sprang lightly to the ground. But, alas! he had for? gotten his feet, which by this time were as good as dead from the terrible compression they had undergone, and when be struch it was on his head instead of on his feet. His new beaver was smashed in, and in falling off, it brought with it the "scratch" he had -paid five dollars for a few days before to conceal the bald spot on the top of his cranium. His fall frightened the horse?she set up her head and tail, and with a frantic snort set off at a rousing pace down the road with the widow screaming and clinging to the seat of the bug? gy The sight of his former flame in distress, was too much for the tender heart of Jeremiah Jenkins, who was standing by. He unhitched old Dobbin, and springing into the wagon set out in hot pursuit. This conduct maddened Caswell?he forgot the pain in his feet, and springing up he cave | a great stamp which no shoemakers thread could abide, tin; stitches gave way, the leather parted, and Caswell's feet protruded at right angles like the heads of two estranged tur? tles. Down the road tbey all went at a slashing pace?first the widow in the new buggy, then Jeremiah in the old red wagon, then Caswell on a clean gallop with his long hair streaming behind, and then about a score of young men and boys, forgetting that it was Sunday, and that the minister saw them, in their eagerness to join the race. The widow bad climbed over the seat of the buggy, and was evidently intending to jump out behind. Jeremiah was urging on Dobbin, and screaming to her to hold on, aud Caswell, when his blown state would permit, was swear? ing like a trooper. Faster and faster went Caswell's horse, when suddenly one wheel struck a stump?the buggy was annihilated, and the widow bounced out on a bed of bushes. Dobbin thought it was about time for him to distinguish himself in some way, so he turned suddenly out of the road, leaped a low fence, cleared himself from the harness, and went to feeding. Jeremiah ran to the widow, lifted her up, said a few soft words to her, with which we have no business, and she hid her face in his shirt front, and snivelled. And when a little later, Caswell met the in? teresting couple, they were both riding togeth? er ou old Dobbin, the widow with Jeremiah's arm around her, and her pink bonnet badly smashed, reclining on his shoulder. It was all up with poor Caswell. He realized it instantly. A woman will forgive a man rend-1 ily enough for being a sinner, but for cutting a ridiculous figure?never! Caswell tried to make his peace with her, but was very coldly told that he need not trou- I ble himself to called on her, her time was very?j much taken up. A month afterward she was married to Jere? miah Jenkins, and on that day Caswell burnt his tight boots with a grim sort of satisfaction that showed one plainly enough how the iron had entered his soul. The Schiller Disaster. AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF THE SC1L.LY ISLANDS. Ferhsps the most dangerous part of the coast of England is the cluster of isles, a hundred and forty in number, off Land's End, Cornwall, and known as the Scilly Isles. Only six of them are large enough to be habitable. All the rest are mereoutcroppingsof granite rocks, some of which rise conspicuously above the surface of the sea, whilst the sharpe and rug? ged crests of others are only visible at low tide. Of these, the worst the mariner has to encoun? ter is the scattered group that has been known for more than two centuries by the singular title of "The Bishop and his Clerks." ' The dread of being wrecked on these treacherous rocks is so great to seamen approaching or leaving the coast of Cornwall, that in stormy weather they give a wide berth, and when logs prevail they stand off until the weather clears. Yet from mismanagement, or recklessness, or from the too great confidence of skilled mari? ners in their ability to navigate the channels between the islets, disasters are of frequent occurrence. There are light-houses on the islands, one at St. Agnes, and another on the rock known as the Bishop, the peril of striking either that fantastic mass or the multitude of low-lying rocks (his clerks) scattered about for a space of several miles, being the greatest of any. It was on these rocks that in 1707 three English ships-of-war, forming part of the Med? iterranean squadron of Sir Cloudesley Shovel, struck in the night and went to pieces, with a loss of two thousand lives, including that of the Admiral. His body was subsequently thrown on the sandy beach of St. Mary's Is? land, but so disfigured that it was only identi? fied by the emeral ring that the Admiral was accustomed to wear. The other six ships nar? rowly escaped the same fate. The loss of this brave Admiral, who had risen from the posi? tion of cabin boy to the chief command of the English Navy, and of so many hardy seamen, was mourned all over England, and from the magnitude of the disaster is one of the saddest incidents in her naval annals.* Other terrible wrecks have occurred there even of late years ?the most notable being that of the steamer Thames, when 61 persons were swallowed up by the remorseless sea, and of the Douro, with all on board. We have now to record the loss of the steamship Schiller on her voyage from New York to Hamburg, via Cherbourg. The Schiller, one of the finest Clyde-built vessels, was complete in ail her appointments. She wa3 built with other steamships of the same class, for the German Trans-Atlantic Steam Navigation Company, but the business, prov? ing unprofitable, the line was consolidated a short time since with that of the Hamburg American Packet Company. The Schiller left New York on her fatal voyage twelve days ago, carrying one hundred and iorty-five cabin, aud one hundred and twenty steerage passen? gers. Including the officers and crew the total number of souls on board was three hundred and eighty-nine. Of these, up to the present time only, forty-three are known to have been saved. From the accounts of the terrible ca? tastrophe which have reached us thus far, it appears that she struck the rocks, apparently of the group known as the "Bishop and his Clerks," at 10 o'clock on Friday night in the midst of a dense fog; and it is a remarkable circumstance connected with her fate, and with the confidence of those who went so hopefully on board of her to revisit the Fatherland?for the great bulk of the passengers were Ameri? canized Germans?that her commander, Capt. Thomas, was regarded as one of the best offi? cers in the service of the company/ It would be idle to moralize over an event that has brought profound grief to many German fami? lies in this country and great sorrow to kins? men and friends who were waiting to welcome the victims. Nor is it worth while to specu? late on the cause of the catastrophe, but we feel more than ever the propriety and the sol omn beauty of that prayer in the Protestant Episcopal Church service "for those who go down to the 6ea in ships."?Baltimore Gazette. Exportation of the Negro?The Radical New Depart ure. We noticed a week or two since in these columns a pamphlet published by Mr. Alexan? der Murray, of Griffin, Georgia?a Federal office-holder and a supporter of Gen. Grant? in which the writer contended that a separa? tion of the races would be of advantage to the whites, aud pledged himself to advocate Grant's election for a third term provided he would favor the exportation of the negro race from the United States. Mr. Murray enforced his ex? portation policy with arguments and facts of a character that showed he was terribly in ear? nest in bis desire to get rid of the negro, whose presence here is, according to his view, oper? ating as a practical bar to white immigra? tion South, thus depriving the whole Union of the wealth which would result from a full and economical cultivation of cotton, tobacco, rice and sugar cane. In support of his theory he also adduced some startling mortuary statistics, showing by the death per cent, that the negro race was rapidly approaching extinction, which could only be prevented by removing him from contact with the superior white race. The views of Mr. Murray, which were first received by the Radical press at the North with denunciations, appear now to have attrac? ted attention and sympathy in an unexpected quarter. A Washington correspondent of the St. Louis Globe announces that schemes are on foot at Washington looking to the coloniza? tion of the negro, on the ground that he has not sufficient ambition in his present stand? ing in the country to distinguish himself, and will suffer extinction if he remains" here. Leading men, it is said, are privately confer? ring together as to the best means whereby this object can be accomplished, and coloniza? tion societies are to be organized to assist Sara bo to emigrate to "San Domingo, Cuba, and other Southern countries." The correspondent says: "The aid of President Grant is counted up? on in this humanitarian undertaking, not be? cause of any promises or expressions lately made, but for the reason that he has stated to certain individuals that his chief purpose in urging the purchase of San Domingo was to enable this government to throw the island open to negro immigration from the United States. This movement has now assumed shape, and is expected to meet with hearty endorsement and salutary success." Commenting on the statement of the Gloo- 'a correspondent, the Mobile Reguter says: "We may therefore conclude that the Republicans, having exhausted their efforts to build up a party in the Southern States by arraying the negroes against the whites, are now casting about to see whether they cannot rt Lrieve Lin ir lost fortunes by arraying the whites against the negroes. It is very probable thai President Grant may lend himself to this new scheme, just as he lout himself to the recognition of Coke, in Texas, and Baxter, in Arkansas, un? der the plan of Mosby, Stephenson & Co. He can lose nothing, and may probably gain some? thing by advocating any scheme presented to him. It is sail to reflect that only ten years ago the negro was declared to be "the ward of ths nation," and now the unnatural guardian is considering the propriety of banishing the ward to his native Africa or the isles of the sea. Truly, Ii< publics are ungrateful. It re? mains for the white people of the South to protect the negro from this new scheme, which, under the pretence of saving him from extinc? tion, will subject him to the benign patronage of the humanitarians whose monuments exist all over the South in the shape of empty j Freedmen's Banks."?Savannah News. Politeness. Politeness, that ia a due and proper regard for the feelings, wishes and pleasures of other people, is the thing, that perhaps, of all others, renders life the easiest and the pleasantest; it is the oil that enables all the wheels of the complex machinery of social life to work satis? factorily. What a pity it is, then, that it should be disregarded as it so frequently is in domestic life, the place whore, of all others, its softening influence is the most required. The constant intercourse of home life causes unsuit? able tempers and dispositions ;.o jar each other in a manner hardly possible in general society ?how unwise, then, it is to relinquish the one quality which acts as a species of buffer between antagonistic temperaments. Besides, it is a cardinal mistake to regard politeness as a spe j cies of "company manner," to. be assumed or relinquished simultaneously with our best clothes; it is, properly considered, a most val? uable quality, involving self-control, some unselfishness, and a certain regard for the feel? ings of others. We wish we could regard it as by any means a common virtue in the home circ le, but it is very far indeed from being so; neither men or women are blameless in this re? spect, but owing to their gentler aud softer na? tures, women are less frequeut offenders than the lords of creation. Still, they frequentlyal low themselves a license in saying unpleasant things to their own imme diate belongings, that they would never take in the hearing of a stranger. They argue "it is hard if you can't say what you think, to your own husband, or sister, or other relative." Granted?but the same thing if necessary, may be said in differ? ent ways?why not select the one which will neither wound the feelings nor rouse the tem? per of the listener ? Many of the bitterest and most irreparable disagreements in married life have arisen, not from any want of absolute af? fection, but from a carelessness on one side or the other, frequently in both, as to the manner in which subjects on which there may be a dif? ference of opinion, are remarked upon. It is almost impossible that two people can, even though they be husband and wife, think alike on every subject, and the probabilities are that on many their opinions will be widely different. Why, however, should they not be as politely tolerant of each other's views in private as con? ventionality would force them to be in public? Why should the wife's expression of opinion be received with, "Mary, don't be a fool," or the husband's with, "Really, John, you are quite too silly." We have already said that the men are the worst offenders, perhaps because they care less for, and consequently think less of, the small courtesies of life than do women. Still this reflection hardly consoles a woman when she finds her husband punctilious in helping every other woman over the raised style when he leaves her to climb a five-barred gate unas? sisted ; nor is she free from a certain feeling of mortification when she finds he considers it too much trouble to dress fordinner with her alone, or to vouchsafe an answer to a question, should he have the newspaper in his hand.?Scottish American. The Industry of the South. In remarking upon Senator Morton's mali? cious libel on the Southern people, the Mobile Register makes a handsome defence of this section by an array of facts and figures incon? trovertible : This very portion of the Southwest which Senator Morton defames with the old stereo? typed abuse of ante-bellum days, says the Reg? ister, has exported to Europe and brought into the United States more gold than all the agri? cultural products of all the Union beside. We insert the following statement of the value of articles exported in 1874: Wheat and flour.$130,788,553 Indian corn and meal. 26,299,350 Bacon aud hams. 36,340,784 Lard. 19,308,919 Pork.:. 5,808,712 Total.$218,545,418 The value of the cotton exported from the United States in 1874 was $211,223,580?or only $7,321,836 less than the value of grain products exported. Besides the cotton grown amid the* "desolation and destitution" which seemed to the Morton vision "to stalk over the land," the South furnished for export in 1874, tobacco to the value of $32,968,528. The total value of all the exports of the United States was $569,552,470, of which sum the South fur? nished in cotton and tobacco alone the sum of $244,000,000. Adding to these the exports of Virginia and Maryland wheat, Missouri and Tennessite corn, Kentucky bacon, and Texas hides, we iltid that the South, with one-fourth of the population of the Union, furnishes more than half of its exports. All this has been done with a hostile Congress disturbing labor, and threatening society, aud overturning gov? ernment with the bayonet.' All this has been :iocomplished in spite the Mortons and the Sutlers. If our houses are not air-tight, it is because we do not need air-tight houses. If our country homes are not adorned, it is be? cause Morton's bummers have robbed them. If our plantations are poorly cultivated, it is a significant fact that the Northern men who have engaged in planting at the South succeed r.o better than our owu people. If our church? es have no steeples, the piety of the pastors and the worship of the congregations are purer than that at Brooklyn, if school houses do not appear* all along the railroads it is either because it is not safe to keep school near a rail? road track or because the carpet-baggers have stolen the school fund. It is rather late for Senator Morton to revamp these ante-diluvian slanders. During the war the Southern people showed that they were meu ; and since thewar they have shown a recuperative power, an in? domitable industry and a grand dignity which should command admiration, rather than sneers, from even a Morton. The Blue and the Gray?Gen. Bartlctt's manly speech at Lexington is still bringing forth good fruit. The latest expression of ap? proval is in the form of a long letter from the ex-Confederate Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. Alter de? claring his hearty commendation of all that Gen. Bartlett said, Gen. Lee coutinuea : "Just such soldierly sentiments, generously felt and expressed, will do more in a brief space of time toward restoring good feeling, fraternity and fellowship between the two sections of a com? mon country than all the reconstruction elo? quence of political partisans delivered during these past 10 years. Your words in reference to Federal soldiers are equally applicable to the Confederate soldiers, for they toe 'have a preju? dice in favor of peace,' and I fully agree with you that 'between the soldiers of the two great sections of our great country fraternal relations were established long ago,' and we feel that if such a felicitous companionship of sentiment could have found a resting-place in the hearts of other classes of people, the rehabilitation of the South would long since have been assured. Its speedy redemption from poverty and deso? lation would have followed, and once more, as in years ago, the iNorth would have had the ac? tive co-operation of the South in working out a glorious destiny for the Republic. Therefore, when we hear such utterances fall from the lips of one who so bravely bore himself as a Feder? al soldier, wc begin to look forward with new hope and confidence to the day when the Amer? ican flag which now floats over the blue and gray, shall in truth be emblazened with the emblem, 'Peace on earth, good will to men.'" ? Several passengers on the lower Mississip? pi were attracted by the alligators basking in the sunshine. "Are they amphibious, cap? tain?" asked a looker on. "Amphibious, thunder I" answered the enthusiastic officer, "they'll eat a hog in a minute." ? Dr. Franklin says : "Pride is as cruel a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you havo bought ono lino thing, you must buy ten more that your appearance may be ail of a piece. It is easier to suppress the ] first desire thau to satisfy all that follow it." ' Judge Kelley And The South. To quiet all misgivings on the subject of hi recent confession, Judge Kelley once more ap? pears in print. He admits that personal con? tact with the people of the South had com? pletely modified his views, and virtually de? clares that the laws of Congress; since 1865, which he had helped to frame, compelled a condition of affairs here which would have caused trouble and outbreaks anywhere. He says: If it be true that "an idle man's brain is the devil's workshop," we must expect turbulence among millions of men who live in constrained idleness, because there is no market for their labor. No measure of force will reduce such a community to order. It will always be liable to have its passions inflamed by trivial causes, aud should not, on such occasions, be harshly dealt with. Hence my regret at having voted for the force bill. What is required to regenerate the South is subsoil ploughs, phosphates, agricultural im? plements generally, a large increase of horses, mules and horned cattle, a steadily increasing supply of steam engines r.nd machinery, ana such manufacturing machinery as can be moved by water power. These, with a comparatively small amount of cash capital and a few earnest men to teach their use and value, would in a few years make the South bloom like a garden, and develop a population as loyal as that of any Northern State during the war. The in? terests of Northern capitalists require them to supply these potent agents at the earliest prac? ticable day. Are not these views consistent with the re? ports you have seen of my recent expressions ? But these agents have not been supplied. On the contrary, the financial policy of the gov? ernment, in the hands of either party, has ren? dered their acquisition impossible. It was about the date above referred to that Mr. McCulloch aunounced the resolution of An? drew Johnson's administration to contract the currency sufficiently to enable us to resume specie payments. This policy received the ap? probation of his Democratic followers, togeth? er with that of the Republican papers of New York, New England and other money centres. In brief, it became the policy of the country, and has been persisted in by Congress till the Treasury is threatened with bankruptcy, and the militia of Philadelphis is encamped in our coal regions to enforce order at the poiut of the bayonet. If this policy is still persisted in we shall go from bad to worse, as England did when, by the act of 1819, Parliament fixed the day four years in advance when specie pay? ments should be resumed, until we too shall have our Peterboro and Bristol riots, to sup? press which troops will be required to fire up? on the suffering people. This unwise legisla? tion has pressed witu peculiar severity upon the poverty-stricken, desolated South, and has begotten widespread discontent, as it is now do? ing throughout the North ; and this has been the refrain of all my recent conversations. All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? No matter what the prices of umbrellas may be, they always go up in rainy weather. ? Eliiioro, Vt., has neither lawyer, doctor, town debt, nor newspaper, but has money in its treasury. ? "Debt is the worst kind of poverty." Ex? cept the poverty which prevents a man from getting into debt. ? The St. Louis Globe thinks that Norway, where the days are three months long, is the best place to start a daily paper. ? Why is a newspaper like a tooth brush ? Because every one should have one of hi3 own, and not be borrowing his neighbors. ? It would be a great convenience if far? mers generally would have their names pain? ted upon the gates in front of their residences. Strangers ofteu have much difficulty in finding persons of whom they are in search, which would be obviated by this course. Besides, a nice gate, with the name of the occupant, adds greatly to the appearance of a place, and looks as though the inmates were not isolated from the outside world. ? The Lynchburg (Va.) Evening Star says : On Wednesday last two children of Mr. Sam? uel Clay, who resides in Carapbelle county, about seven miles from this city, missed bi3 two children?Etta, aged seven, and Charley, aged about ten years. The most searching in? vestigation failed to elicit anything as to their whereabouts, and the latest tidings we have been able to obtain shed no ray of light upon this singular case. ? When you are given a word to spell, go through it at one jump. Don't go feeling along as if you were on thin ice or down you will go sure. Tackle it in thi3 style: I-n In, with an In, d-i di, with a di, with an Indi, a-n an, with an an, with an In, with an Indi, with an Indian, a-p ap, with an ap, with an ap, with an In, with an Indi, with an Indian, with an Indianap, o, with an o, with an In, with an Indi, with an Indian, with an Indianap, with an Inpianapo, l-i-s Iis, with an In, with an Indi, with an Indian, with an Indianap, with an Indianapo, with an Indianapolis. ? Mr. Henry Watterson, of the Louisville Courier-Journal, does not seem inclined to rush into a third party movement just at present. He says: "On the whole, Murat Halstead's scheme of a third party movement, looking to nominate Charles Frances Adams for President, and by getting him early in the field to force the regular Republicans to take him, just as the Democrats were forced to take Greeley, does not strike us. That scheme cannot be executed twice and on different political sects. It failed badly in '72, and it will fail worse in '76. Still, there is much true inwardness in it, and true inwardness is a good thing." ? A thrilling incident occurred recently at the copper mine near Villa Rica. Several mi? ners were engaged in clearing out a deep shaft by blasting. One of the men had placed a lighted time-fuse in the blast hole, and was being drawn out of the shaft by a windlass, when the running gear suddenly got out of or? der and refused to perform its office. There the man was suspended for several terrible mo? ments. His life hung upon a thread, and an? ther minute's delay would have ended his exis? tence ; but with great presence of mind, he leaped to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of twenty feet, snatched the burning fuse from its position, and thus escaped a catastrophe. He had been literally within one minute of death. ? At the Lexington and Concord centennial celebrations, the selectmen of the two towns took measures to prohibit the sale of any in? toxicating liquors there during the day. An indignant toper has published a remonstrance against such a prohibition in future celebra? tions of a similar kind, and fortifies his argu? ment by citing a military order, dated^ July 4, 1779, in which Gen. Washington said : "To? day being the anniversary of independence, you will be pleased to have it taken notice of by discharging thirteen pieces of cannon p,t one o'clock. I wish ws had it in our power to ? distribute a portion of rum to the soldiers to exhilarato their spirits upou the occasion, but, unfortunatelv, our stock is too scanty to per? mit." ? The marriacre of Miss Ida Greeley, eldest daughter of the late Horace Greeley, to Col. Nicholas Smith, of Covington, Ky., who served throughout the war in the Confederate army, took place on Saturday morning, at the residence of the bride's aunt, Mrs. John F. Cleveland, in New York. The services were I solemnized according to the Roman Catholic ' form?that being the faith of the bride's moth? er?by the Rev. Father Farrell. The spacious parlors were crowded with invited guests. Misses Greeley and Cleveland acted as brides? maids, while Whitclaw Reid was ono of the groomsmen. There was no display of bridal presnls. except rich and exquisite lloral gifts. After the ceremony the bridal party and a num? ber of guests took carriages to proceed to the steamer Abyssinia for Europe on their wed? ding tour. The Views of General Gary. A reporter of tbe Edgefield Advertiser has in? terviewed General M. W. Gary on the political situation, and published the result of the con? versation. Gen. Gary thinks the prospect flat? tering for the Democracy, and that without a mistake on the part of the leaders, a Democrat? ic President will be elected. He thinks, and rightly, that the Democrats are able to whip the fight with a man of their own party. He favours the nomination of such a man as Gov? ernor Allen, or Senator Eaton, or Senator Thurman, though he confesses that his prefer? ence is for Thurman. He does not believe the nomination of a Southern man feasible, and thinks the South should act as a unit in this matter in order to insure success in the North? ern and Western States. He believes that the Greeley movement "debauched the South po? litically, and did much harm." He says of the fears professed to be entertained at the North concerning a Democratic triumph : "There is no foundation for the fears of Northern people, that the election of a Demo? cratic President would jeopardize tbe rights of the colored race. Time will prove that the Democrats of the South are the best friends the colored race will ever have on this earth. Their future prosperity depeads upon the suc? cess of the Democratic party, which is the true friend of freedom and civil liberty. I am not apprehensi ve of a conflict of races in the South ; the time for such a conflict if it ever existed, in my judgment, has passed. The influence of tbe carpet-bagger and scalawag is evidently on the wane. They have been the chief stimulus to such a conflict." He thus defines the 'issues of the struggle: "I think there are only two parties in the Uni? ted States, the party of centralization and the party of local self-government. The logical re? sult of centralization would be an Empire, and the final effect of States Eights or local self government is to perpetuate a free and consti? tutional Republic. The recent successes are the evidence of the return of the people to the principles of the true Democracy, which must govern this Government so long as it remains a Republic. It is the sober second thought of those who have discovered that centralization, or the administration of the government by such men as Grant, must eventuate in an Em? pire." ? Warrenton (N. C.) Gazette: Mr. Curran, who had charge of Mr. Thomas Flemming's mill, near Gardner's Church, took his hammer and went down under the large water wheel to wedge up some of the machinery. This was while the mill was grinding. Soon after his disappearance the mill stopped, and an inves? tigation revealed the horrid spectacle of Mr. Curran's mutilated body ground to pulp in the wheels. His clothing was doubtless caught in the cogs, and he was found with a knife in his hand, evidently having used it to liberate him? self from his perilous position. He was heard to call his wife, brft the unhappy lady could not reach him until life was extinct. Mr. Cur? ran was about 35 years old, and leaves a wife and several children. ? A man in Baltimore called on a grave digger one day to have his wife's grave sodded. He was an extremely penurious man, and hig? gled a long time over the price of the sodding. Suddenly he became mute, while his eyes were fixed upon a neighboring tombstone. 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