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% . f .. .. . j. ' * ?: ? ? , -l,. J '. '." : *- r*\ ' ?> ; ... :^1 i i-, > '* ~ ik %y:z' J. warns.?u_l.??xi VOLUME XIV. ' <Jt. F. TOWNES, ' EDITOR. J. G- BAlLIY, Yro'r. and Assooiate Editor. ApVkrtihbvksts Inserted at the rates of one-dnllar per tqn'are of twolre Minion line* (this wort type) or le*f Tor the ft rot insertion, fifty cent* each for the scooud ami third insertion*, and twenty-fire cents for subsequent insertions. Yearly contract* will be rondo. All adrertisetnents must have the numher of insertions marked on them, or they will bo inserted till prdercd out, and charged for.* Unless Ordered otherwise, Advertisements will Inrnriahly be "displayed." QbHunsy notices, and all roattera innring to to the benefit of any one, are regarded as Advertisement*. The Death of Magdalen. BY W. L. enoKM.iKan. Huggttied by a Patungt in if As Romanet of Merry Mount. Slis. went, forth in the darkness and the r ti 11 xv. To eee.W her traitorous lover; The earth" was all a ghastly glare below ; The olotuls were drear above her. Chill were the winds that struck her fragile form, Bntah, her heart was burning! 8ho heeded not the fnry of tbe storm ; She thought not of returning. To her whose soul was wrapt in love's eclipse, , Thatgloom was not appalliu?; With grattful touch, on her hot cheeks and lips The ley (likes were falling. 80, like a lonely spirit, she wandered on, The tempest howling round her. Till all the fer?r.of her eoul had gone. And a kind numbness bound her. Far. far into the forest she bad sped, All desolate; though undaunted; I.iks ghost nnhleet, now had the dark thoughts fled. mat nnn ner spirit nauntca. . On the enld earth tank down that lady fair, And with a last endeavor, For friend and foe abe breathed a gentle prayer, "" -V ' Then fell aaleep forever. > Ca'mly ?he elept there in the wintry night, ' Life's fitful f-ver over," With a soft winding rheet of purest white The buey snow flukre wove her. Tne pine tre'a bent with sorrow o'er their r gue?t, ^ Whom.gricf to oft had wounded, And solemnly, above her place of rest, The wind's Md dirges sounded. Condition of the Sonth. Letter from Qorernor Perry, of South Carolina ?the Terrible Pnralyhtiott of the PeopleMow the South Coeit the Country a Hundred Millionl, {netrod of Adding a Hundred Millione to it Reeonrree. The Baltimore Sun, of Motaday larf, says: * ' The following letter, addressed by Ka 0 overnor Perry, of South Carolina, to Captain O. N. Butler, of that fftate, lint now residing in this city, gives a graphio and deplorable picture of .the present condition and future prospects of the great Southern section of our roentry t. GnptvTii.i.a, 8. C., January 1?, IMS. . O. Jt. Hitler, Ktq. : 4 Mr Daan Frisdd: In your letter to my sen you say that the Northern people are not mn ui ma inn connmon oi ins (southern States, and that you wieh me to write something, on this subject for public ition. I am willing, as I always bava been. to do anything in my power to anlighten the Northern mind as to the frightful and. appalling condition of * the South. Hut it does reem to mo that I can say vary, little not already known, through the gl public press, to the whoto reading eommunity. / It ia well known to tha world that ten o( the ifouihern Stales hare been stripped of every vestige of Republican liberty, and placed, by wicked and nneonetttuthmal legislation of a Radical Congress, under a military despotism, lor partisan purposes. It is equally wall kanirq that negro conrentione bare been ordered in all those States, for the purpose of establishing in tl^em negro supremacy. In order to acootnpMsh this, a very large portion of the uaest Intelligent, virtuous and patriotic of the white raeo bare byen disfranchised, and are hereafter to ha goreraod by their former *./ alavos and unprincipled adventurers from the North t These facts are well known, and the'r consequences every Intelligent mind may well - . autielpate. K 4 Whon *1 ft very we* ah<dUh?<! in the Fouth era SUtee. if the people lied been let alone in their 8tnte legislation end r??t..red to {|m| Union, *11 would have been well. They vwald "* |oon here recovered from their eshaurted end k ' eriiihe<l condition, end been once utore e hap..." py end pvoiperona people. They would hare added hundred* of million* annually to the ?' wealth of the republic tnateed of corting it, aa they now do, a hundred million* erery year, tkrengh tba freedmon'a bureau and * standing " army. Bat the unjo.t, unconstitutional and 1 * suicidal legislation of Congreee he* paralyied L ^^^Kna foreveT, f fear. The negro i* no longer that industrious, useful, , and eivU laborer which be oeee Val, but an idle drono and pert to eoalety. Isrtfotad with liU no# and saar> ? relioua poiJOcjtl importance, h? has abandon. ad hi# firmer Industrious hahlta mad spend* hi. time In attending imhMr meetihg* and lo/ftldpagce^gatherings by day a*td by night Tbo whole rem i??m Miipomid to .jnit .thai; wcab^wa*. aeaort co tl? Urn. and (villages, WbtfW they mpy oka oat aa Idld ?d wsetched exists*** ia pilfering and begging. . '.! - ' V % J* N. .. ^ - ... '??* ' . , VV- V -:v. . ~ T* V " ' ^ j i *-. ' vCT? j> .. . , \ REl^LH !. . I'.. U?J - . ~ :.T7. ' .V ?> --S!?WlL'Lii? ,'?H I i !+ k Tho c(insc.|iii iioi"i nrv thnt our Hold* nnd plantations nro uncultivated, the country pauperised, nt tho point of starvation, nnd Ailed with evrry grade of erimo. Not n dny parses over our heads thnt we do not henr of (one theft, hnuao burning, robberry, rape or mnrder. I will motion one or two instances out of thousands which might be enumerated.? "Five negro men, Inat week, In Darlington Die* trict, went, nrmed with gum, to n country store, rubbed tho etorc, killed the clerk, shot n. woman in tho bouse, end want to tho dwelling of tho ownor. nod killed him. A ehort limo since a parcel of nogmes placed obstructions on the South Carolina Kailroad, which threw off n train of cars in tho night time. Again, at nnotlier point on the antno mad, a parcel of negroes fired into ,the train, and came eery near killing sovortil passengers. I.ast fall, at Pickens Court, soren nr eight negroes wero convicted of murder, and seventeen or elgh teen others sont to tho penitentiary Highway robbery, an offeneo which waa scarcely ever heard of in South Carolina fur years past, has becutno a very common Crimo in tho neighborhood of towns and villages. Theft and burglary are of constant occurrence. In the country it is almost impossible to raise bogs, sheep nnd cattle. A gentleman told mo the other day that he had lost the last ono oj hi* sbccp, forty in number, all stolen by tho ncgrccs. Another gentleman, who bad beon Governor of the State, informed mo that be had eighty.tiro hogs to kill last fall, and that they wero all stolon by tho nodosa oxco-Jt* even. The support of so many prisoners and con. victs in our jails and penitentiary is becoming alarming. We shali not long bo nblo to feed them ; nor will tho prisons oootain tbi-m. The country is so much impoverished that it is i difficult for the negroes to get employ merit, if they really wished to do so. Tho failure of the cotton crop throughout tho United Stated with the government tax and low price of tho staple, has rendered it impossible for the pi m. tere to continue their business the present year. The difficulty, too, iu getting the negroes to work during the past yuar has discouraged and disgusted u groat many. A very largo cotton crop was planted lost spring, and a groat effort wus rnado by tho planters to retrieve their fortunes oDd give employment to the negroes, but universal failure aud bankruptcy haVe ensued. I um hot able to state tho fuliiug off of the cotton crop this year, hut the rice crop Ims fallen from one bundruif and thirty or forty thousand tierces to twelve thousand tierces. The present year every ono alii have to devote his attention to the raising of a provision crop, lie will not require lo many laborers* and would not be able to feed thorn if ho did* The negroes have nothing to live oa the present year, and are unablo to make crops by themselves. They will have to steal orstnrvc. This greatly discourages- farming, iu the Southern States at this time. If you make a good crop of provisions, you have no security that it ?ill not be etolcn or barnt up by the negroes. In regard to the political condition of the 8ontbern States I atn in deep despair, and have no hope except iu a returning sense "f iiMtim on tliA narl sif tliA Xnrlhom npdiiIp ? The idea of placing the government of these State* in the hand* of ncgroc* I* prcposte* rously absurd. Kono of them liavo property and not one in Ave hundred can read or write. In tho recent election fur members of a Convention inany of the ncgroc* had forgotten their names, and scarcely one in a hundred could tell after the election f?r whom ho voted. They were controlled blindly hy the loyal leagues. The tickets wcro printed in Charleston, with a likeness of President Lincoln on them. Thcru ncvor has been before such a wide field opened for tho demagogues and unprincipled aspirant* to office. Tho negro is the most credulous being in tho world, and most easily imposed on by vilo wretches who are disposed to pander to his Ignorance and passion. Emissaries from the North, white and black, have conic hero and prejudiced hitu against the white race. He has been told that untes* he voted the Radical ticket lie would he placed hack in slavery, and that if he voted that ticket he would have land* and mule* given hint. In some instances tho negroca actually brought with thcta brldios to t&ko their mules home with. By military oritur in South Carolina nogrocs are t6 sit on juries. In some of the Districts of this 8tate the negro population i* so much larger than the white that they will eotnpueo almost the entire juries. How it will bo poe.Ikl. |A ^J^aUUSa^. U.iiaa .ItL L. 1 _ eium IV HMininiiirr jupuro, wsm *ucn juries, iu complicated care*, la mora than I can tall* I am equally at a loss to know bow the olfo-a# of the Btato arc to be filled. The " iron clad oath" exclude* from office ell who are cotnpo. tent and worthy. Tbia difficulty eat foreeren by Uaoeral Hicklce, and be requeMed of Con(raaa the removal of the o-tb. (Icn'l. Meade baa reeoBlly ?ugge?tod the name thing la Qeorgis. It will be InipoMibla for the negroes and the worthltaa wbitet to fill tome o( tboae efloea, or give the aeenrity required by Law. Property of ail kind*, and especially real aetata, baa depreciated In value onc-batf or two-thirde during tbe pant yoar. No one I* litpoted to parobaae anything, and foreign capital baa been drivon oat or deferred from coming here for investment. Property told by tbe BberiiT bringa nothing. The marthaf Of thl? Plate told me tbe other day that ha aold a plantation, wall Improved, eoataining two tbonaatid acres, ha Horry District, at pub. He auetlon to tbe hlgheet bidder, for five dotlara. Mule* I rongbt only five dollara apieceA great many peraon* are moving from tbe lower country, Where (bare are ao many tiegroev, and that* aeetlen of the Ktate it deatluad io became a wilderness. Tbe earn* thing must occur in many portion* of MiftWaippI and ntbet Plateau A geaikatea Juat setorned from Mlsstalppi tails dtf that lands, which rented thai year for fourteen dollar# per so rc, wera "'* " Jj ?X. - ?' 'V. * ' * * ' ' * I/} v -/*, * ' +%} * . "J %*V'V/" "'.v - - ^.... . " - t A *' :->. - 'X ' > :x of pc m UP - JL|CTWBBpi?iasig*-iw GRj^NVILEE. .SOUTH on offcAcil at two dollars pur acre, and no otto would fAVo them. Unless tbero it a reaction at tba North, and hotter legislation for the goutbern Stater, they will ho an incubus to the U,pion, utterly Acs* tractive of |bo whole republic. The preeen military foico will bavo to ho kept up to main tain peace between the two races, and thure i* no certainty of tbeir ability to do this long.? I bnvo fur some timo thought that when the negro government went into operation it would be impweaihle to preserve the peace of tho country. A war of roces must ensuo, nnd it will be tho most terrific war of extermination that ever desolatod tho face of tlwi earth in any age or country. I am, with great rcspoct and esteem, yours, truly, Ac., B. F. PERRY. Tha Huntsvillo and Montgomery Conservative Meetings. A largo and imposing Conservative meeting was he'd in Ifuntaville, Alabama, on tho 10th Instant, to organize the pcoplo to defoat the ratification of tho negro constitution. *Nc mode of defeating it, was rcounucndcd by tho convention; but a vigorous conlbrmity "to such programme of action," as tho State Exo1 cutivo Committee should determine on at Montgomery. At Montgomery a lnrge meeting of citizens from tho whole State took placo on the Ifith, and passed the following resolution : I* 1. " lirtolvrd, That we recommend to the people of Alabama, who aro opposed to the constitution, prepared by the convention lately in session at Montgomery, to abstain from voting nt all at the election to bo held on tho 4th and 4th of February next, either upon tho question of ratifying or rejecting that constitution, or lor candidates fur oQicc* under it." We presume, thercforo, that run-voting will bo tho policy adopted throughout tho Stnta of Alabama to defent tho negro constitution.? This is wise. It is painful to know, that if this policy hnd been pursued, and alt too white population who wcro authorized to vote, had rcgistcrad their names, no conventions would have assembled in three-fourths of tlio Southern States. Even, of the registered voters' who did vote, it is proved from tho published returns, that tho convention would have been defeated, if tlioso who vutcd against a convention, bad not voted at all. So uiueh is this pulley dreaded by the Jacobins in 'Congress, that we sou that a hill has been introduced into tho Senate, to alter the existing Reconstruction laws, ao ns to make a majority of the actual voters, ami not a m.-yority of tho registered voters, sufficient for tho ratification of ineso constitutions. Tho dufrat of these constitutions m a matter of great importance, and will savo us rotn immense tronhlo, annoyance and confusion. But whether these constitutions are defoatod or not at the poils held for their ratificationis in our judgment a secondary rnntter. Toe organization of tho white race, which these meetings propose, is the great primary benefit tbey will obtain. Tho white race of the South hare not aorfght such organization. It has heen forced npon tlicin, by the organization of the bluck race, under tho drill ami teaching* of Northern Radicals, and a few Southern renegades. The success of negro supremacy, can only last, wo confidently bcliove, until the next elections at the North shall give the people the opportunity of condemning and overthrowing it. It is, therefore, in its worst aspect, only temporary. But the orgahizntion of the negroes against the white race, is an affair of deep-rooted continuance. To meet it, and neutralize its evils, the white race must also be organized. Tho ponco of society?the enforcement of a government of luws?the existence of the South, as a white man's country, requires thst the white race should ho prepared to hold it and perpetuate it, with its civilisation and free in stitutions, t?. their posterity. If this course had been pursued, wc would have escnpcd the ovila hanging over us. If it is now pursued, it inny yet aveft thetn, and it cannot avert it can most assuredly rectify and defeat thcin at no distant day. The project of ruling 6,000., 000 of tho wliilo race, by 3,000,000 of uegroes, is aitnply absurd. The white race has only to organise and unite against such a flagitious policy, and, in all probability, it will melt away before theso organisations. Hut il forced to protect themselves aud their race against negro rule?-what expedient for protection is so potent, as a thorough understanding and nnion, l.y associations in eflieien', oporation, throughout all tho localities of the South. Tho Union leagues, as they aro sailed, are admirable precedents (excepting in their mean secrecy) to direct our organisations. ? There is one feature of these great Alabama meetings, most significant of good, which those who aro urging on negro supremacy in the South, wo think, ought not to disregard.? They are every where headed by what tens called, I 'mium sits. Houlbern men, who opposed .tho rcrir- -eomo who touzht strains! the South im tk* It*'.* war { and oven Nofthcrir wlm bar* ronie among u( tint*>k* war, u niteWith the rest ot (hp white population, in npp^b|f Congressional Reconstruction with its nem* rule. Three men mistook Oio people of tht&North, under Rxlicil control. Thoy respowed the Constitution of the United States; ird believed thet thr Radicals respected it slso.? They loved the Union?bat it ?m the Union trnremitted to tbem by tboir fathers?a Union established (in the Word* of the Constitution^ " to eeeere the blessing* of liberty te ourselves and oar posterity." They Snd oat now whnt an enormous error they committed, in the coatee* nrbieh has placed the Sooth under the North. They are foremost now among the Southern white race, in their abhorenee of Radieal rule j and in their efforts to eeve the South from negro domination. They ate suffering, as we am under a common military de* pet Una. They see civil it* lion itself threatened with sutincibn* and the whela Southern ' J \*> . ,Vv '"*,*' o | rwi , yjPUT^J^tt LUL.mj"II. -O Lii L_j CAROLINA. FKURUARY . yrr**, .? ?r.? , country, with African mongroHaatlnu. Civ!1 order everywhere In loosening IU band*, ami the violence of barbarism claiming ascendancy in the land. They turn to tbelr brethren of tko wliito race, and feck fellowship in * common destiny. The -Southern white race wcro never so united as tbey are now, since they entered, subdued from from savage nature and possessed the Southern States.? Tho Union into which they are now being forced will tell upon the affair* of mankind' a hundred year benee. VTo wish the movers in theso meetings God spood in their patriotio and manly efforts to rescue their State. [Chnrlmtnit Courier. Radical Mendacity. There Is a no'icealde feature in the newspaper* and manufacturers of public opinion at ftte North to which we have alluded heretofore. We mean the persistent misreprcsenletton ami exaggeration of occurrences transpiring In the Southern States since the wnr closed. The Radical party lias been Stimulated with the idea that the "rebellious spirit" i? yet mad* manifest* and every crime or disorder ha* been seized upon by editors and e?rre*|Kuidcnts to ereate the imprewdon that hatred and malignant feelings hold n?condoucy in the minds of our people. Rineo the South lis* Keen under military government, authorised by the Recount ruction Acta of Congress, the Radical papa ? have only now and then manifested this disposition to paint, in glowing colors, tit* horrible state of affairs and the assumed dialovnlty of the late Confederate*. lint their sinking fortunes demand a return to the ' wallowing in the mire" of fills- hood and tnisrepr-senlation. lleoee. we have lately observed Forney's Chronicle descanting ht length npon a u rebel outrage" in Alabama, lion. Richard Pueteed, IT. S. District Judge, was assauhed in Mobile a few week* since by one Martin, Die. trice Attorney of the same Court, Judge n...i...i - I 1 ...... ?l ?11 i r . his devotion to the Union, and Ilie Chronicle vents its spleen, in ttnmcnsur-d terms upon 1'ie wind* Southern people. The trmh is B?cortaincd, and we find that the assailant is one of that class known us the ' mean whites " of the Sooth, who hm perjured himself hy accepting office under the prcent Government- The difficulty arose because of an indictment against that individual for his moral turpitude. Itut Forney instantly rec->gn ix- s him ns one of those teirihle rrLt-ls, who imitate Ilsnquo's ghost, ami will not down at the bidding of loyal inns' era This is one instance, and we give another. General Duller, of spoon notoriety, visited Richmond tho other Aiiy, on a mission to the l?yal-negroseuhtwuK Convention U'.w in session in that city, and whi'o there received a challeng0 from one rten. White. As Duller lm* done in ovcry instance where personal bravery is required, he packed np and left for Washington, leaving his enemy to wonder at tho cool impudence with which he responded to the message. Without waiting to learn tho antecedents of Gon. White, who is n member of the Convcut??n, mid doubtless having in mind tlio famous Virginia guerrilla of that nmue, the Now York Tribune incontinently dooms the whole raco of rehcldom for this startling ortrago. % Fortunately for the Radical pnrty, his man. White, explains his reasons for Ilto course pursued in tho challenge sent to Butler, or elso Congross might ere now have been engaged in a new sehemo of reconstruction. Instead of boing a " rebel," so-called, ho was nil officer of tbo Federal army, and served under flen. Butler, and it was (or some real or imaginary indignity bestowed upon him by that valient and valorous Ueneral tbat the challenge originated. Here arc fair examples of tbo malicious lying and studied calumny of tiic U.tdical press. Tbo truth is never known either, for men who descend so low will not display generosity to their own apparent disadvantage. Thousands of readers are kept in ignornnco of tbo facts, ' aud an exposure of their conduct only reaches the patrons of such papers as aro friendly t? tho South. The uninformed masses aro thus , deluded, and the Radical party perpetuates its power. It is a significant fact, bowevor, that tho old atwry of " rebel outrages" is being repeated, and demonstrates the necessities to which that parly has agaiu been driven, in order to deceive their followers. This is only ono amongst numerous signs that light is -bruakiug !?Amitrton RiCArTintL Sicntimbst.?'The beautiful ew. trad below ia from Ihe pen of Geo. S. fill Hard : "I cn.ifeaa t lint increasing yennt bring with them nn inercosiug reepect for ruon who do not succeed in life, na these word* are commonly used. Heaven i? an)J to tie a pine-- for who have not sueneeded on earth, and it ia eure that c#!earial grace doea not thrive and lilooin in tha hot blaso of worhlly prosperity. Ill aucceaa Himrtimii ?ria?a from a supa-abundance of qualities In tliemeelvea good ? Iroui a con* science too sensitive, a taata loo fastidious, a aelf-forgettulnraa too rumnnlie, a modesty too retiring. 1 will not ao far aa to aay, with a living poet 'the world know* noth lug of ita greeted men,' hut there are forme of greatness, at lea t excellent e, which die and leave no eign ; there are martyr* that miaa the palm hut not the stake; heroea wiiht.nl the laurel, aad conqueror* without the triumph. A tmnuaY man, eojourutng at the water aide, called at the eireulating library for " Goldsmith e Greece." The Ud in attend* aaee replied: ' W# do not keep it; you will bud it at the jowder'a, next d->or." s ? . .. * EVENTS 12* 18G8. Tke Oldest Kan in America. The Detroit Po?i give* the following nccount of a man who live* in that city, aged 114 year*: In a low aahia at lha upper end of a nnriow alley branching off from Fourth street east, between Hastings aad Antolna str?*t?, there dwells a poor negro, known among his kindred as "Old Father Robinson." It is customary to apply the appet lalion "old'' to those who have passed then- sixtieth year, but in ease of Robinsorv] lite adjective require* an additional ona to I qualify it, fur being now in his 114 year, ho is not only very old, but he is, douhtle^ host entitled to the oft repeated phrase, ' the oldest inhabitant." Nor is his remarkable longevity the sole feature of this aged negro Unlike many, his faeultlae have been retained unimpaired I Up to tills week his vis on was umliinmed and his hearing unusually aeuta, bnt daring I lis Inst few days lie has failed rapidly until in Ilia own explosive langungs ''llie clock is almost run down." Robinson was born in August, 1761, ou the plantation of Col. I)u Chielle, in East Maryland. Through the wsr of the Revolution. Robinson followed the fortunes of his master, serving him iu the capacity Of I tody guard. It was interesting to sit and listen to this old man a few months* ago before the film of death had obscured his mental vision, and hear him tell of the exploits of the Revolutionary soldiers, and describe ths terrible battle scenes through which he had pass-d. A saber cut ou the tup of li'.s head and the loss of a forefinger are the mementoes of his valor. With especial pleasure he would relate how the British army surrendered at Yorktown, and would depict (lie scenes when the proud Lord Cornwallis delivered np his (word to Gon. Washington. In the battle of New Orleans, fought on January 8, 1615, when General Jackson overthrew the British Imat under Paek*n> hum, Robinson also partioipated iu the same capacity as in the Rcvol*ationary war. A o-'titurv is a long period to look back upon, yet Robinson cowld describe the events of his youth with cleurness and vigor, which always rendered thein interesting to Ins auditors. In his humble cabin many ot our respect.iblo and wealthy cltixens have frequently assembled to minister to hi* feeble wants, in return for which he would repent the story of his life, and relate Incidents of the several crises through which the nation ha* passed from its struggling infiincy to its present grand proportions. As the reward of his faithful services, Robinson wsa manumitted some forty years sgo, lie has l?een married several limes, hut his child)en nnd hia wises were separated from him. Ilis present wife, with whom lie lias hem living over twenty years, is' fifty-nine y*?rs old, he being nearly double her age. When over eighty years of ag? lie wss still a robust tnnn, ?i* feet In height, und quite erect. Such is the result of a temper* ate sad moral life. At an early period he became connected with the Wesley an Methodists. of which Church lie is still a member. Christian men. white and ldack, frequently stand beside his e.oneh, and the iinpreednn I?ft- upon I hem all is I hat Robinson lias buil I liis hope <>n a euro foundation ? * ? Sexator rtooi.itti.a'a Si-krcit.?Washingtm correspondents speak of Senator Doolit tie's lata speech on Reconstruction as one or the most remarkable events of tho session.? The vast crowd in the galleries, and the silent attention of Senators on the floor of the House, reminded old visitors at the cnpitol of tho afternoon when Douglas, also tho champion of the great principles helu in his tune hy a minority of Auicricau citizen*. cotnmauded and won tho sympathies of all men ot very political faith who could crowd iuto the Senate chutnbet and listen. So uuitnnoarha ' bio were many of tbo argument* employed by 1 tbo Senator, and so pointedly put forward wore the more decisive statements of fact, that Radical Senators often moved uneasily iu their scats, and applause in the galleries could hardly be suppressed. At linos the sponkvr, ' whose voice and frame and dignity of manner were more facinating than they had ever bofore been, startled the whole Senate into manifest admiration, and even when bo uttered his moat stinging accusations and sarcasm a against the party and the men who are trying to Imitato Sainton by rating the pillars of constitutional government, his hearing was too maaly and his accent too froe from anything more personally offensive than the honest indignation of a patriot t? cause a single Senator to protest. The Radicals who ono year ago, wheu the star of Kadionlism was in the ascendant, would Kara heon confident enough of their power to quit tho chamber and pay no attention to whatever Senator Poolittie or any other Conservative might say in it, exhibited a trepidation and dtooraiisation which thry have not shown to such an extent at any time during the pa?t memorable fortnight. Ftunvnaiiii* ?When I eee ienvoa drop from their trees in the beginning of alliums, jnet #??eh, think I, is the lilendebip of the world. While the sap of maintenance lasts, iny friends swarm in abundance, but, in the winter of my need, they leave me finked.? lie ie a happy man that hath a true friend at hie need ; hut he ie more trnly happy that hath no need of hie friends. Noah built his ark with gopher wood, but how far ha had.to ( for wood to i ml 1 w itk, the Sctfptufea do not Igfttrwt i ^1 ' ; v r fiS V- 1 rise. 4 w ~ .V . \ -<>* "/> I K " ' * ' * ,,A NO. 38. Leap Tear Privilege*. Coiry O'Lanua, of the Brooklyn KagU, po?t? up the 1a<liea on their leap year jurlrl. leges and the perils thereupon attsudaab? Corrjr ta'.ks like a judislous guardian of sweet sixteen: It is lesp year. Of which fWot I wish to remind the ladles. There Is a division of opinion as to Ike right of a woman to vote, but there eao bo ao question as to her right to husband.?If she ran gel one. Now ie her time. But I would advise young ladies not to be rash. Although it ie leap year, you had be tie* look before yon leap. Boeause if you get s hoebead sad he don't suit yen, you cant change hint for a batter one, at least without going to Ckl* sago. Titers are several considerations to Jbo observed in the o-leetion of a hueband. I^toks are a matter of taste?eras, eonsplexian end color of vrhlskers may be left to Individual tart*. Tltvy are of Irne consequence than dirpo* I aition and pecuniary recourses. | Particularly the resources. I I wouldn't advise any young woman to j m trry a man who would rxpcot her to sapI port tliem. It Is mti f- ir thing on the old gen I lemon, who has been looking forward to tha tukVrugs of his daughter as a happy releoae It otn milliners' bills. Never disappoint your parents. Young ladles need not Inquire too particularly whether the man of their choice belongs to a lodge which meets four nights a week. She will find that out after they are married. Husbands, like other domestic animals, when caught young can eometimss be trained to do a good many useful things.? They have even been known to get up Is the morning and light the Are when the girl has gone sway. There are some professions not advisable to in .a i ry into. Such as editors, for they never get rich. Or reporters, who are never h< me nijhta. ur politicians who are never satbfled wilh one wife, but are always getting wadded to their country, and like most biga* mists abuse both their wives. But as the great object is to get a husband, and as the supply is limited, It may not do to be too particular. Tna humiliating defeats which for sou* time have been suffered by the French Government in its foreign policy begin to tell on its position at home. Its prestige is on the wans, and thousands of its stannehest adherents begin to waver in tboir allegiance. A fow weeks ago, two ultra-conservative electee ral districts ehoee, for the first time, members ot the Opposition. The Army bill proposed by the Government censed a dangerous stampede among its followers in the legislative body? no less than eighty-one, or about one-third, of the entiro Government party voting against the bill. Now, even the Prefects, the docile uioulh-pioces of tb? Government, master courage to tell their master that the new bill is cxtromcly unpopular, and le received by the people with umnistnkable marks ot disfhvorIn a similar situation, the Emperor of Austria deemed it beet to throw himself into the arms of the Liberal party. Louie Napoleon prefers to try a different course, and ineyhjl of conciliating the Progressive party by ral reforms, to tighten the reine of the Govern-non t. The euforuemont of tbo anti-liherg|^V law, which forbids newspapers to give of jfrfr proroodlugs of tho legislative body any Ww w* thau the official report, is a great step Wlward to a dcepotio policy. It cannot be expected thai ?m?K - ? ? - ~ - -,. |.-.UTO Will gaiD 10 any new frtonds; and m the finance* of the Kiupire, according even to the report of the Minister of Finance, are also in a wretchod condition, aud a new heavy loan has become a necessity, (ho prospects of the Empire for the new year are anything bat bright. [Pkumir. Dkitii.?"We liase uev?T read anything more beautiful than the following from the p.-n of Geo. D. PrentUc; . " There ie hot a breath of air and a beat of the heart betwixt this world and the next. And in the brief Interval of painfa' and awful suspense, while we feel that dealhJn present with as, that we are powerUjKfifc.l he all powerful. anJ the feint j.ulsSHKn here is but a prolule of endlene life hereafter, wo feel in the midet of the Stunning auUrn <y about to befal ill, that I be enrth bus n?> compensating go oJto mitigate the severity of onr !<??. But there {4 1 no grief without some benitio. nl provision I to ro'tcn its i?.te<if?ncss. When the gooa I 1 - in . me mttniirjr of their good deeds, like ?' moonbeams on the etormv sea, lights !?; ji-ir darkened hearts and lends to the taituehiliiif gloom a beauty mi mi4. no awO'l, that we wonl.l not if wa could dispel the darkness i hat environ! it. a? ? Wbo* to Di*trc*t.?Trietrust those who love you estremoly upon a very, slight aoipiaintanoe, and without any visible mason.-? Ite upon your guard, too, against those who confess, a* their weaknesses, all the cardinal virtue*. A oo?i? sort? f a man w as rec- nflv aeled lo subscribe to a chandelier f? r a church ? "Now "said Its," what's the n?e bt a vhsn de'.Urt After you get'.t you can't get any ore to play wit"