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VOLUME XIV.
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EDITOR.
J. G- BAlLIY, Yro'r. and Assooiate Editor.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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."
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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
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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"