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As one of yoa, I propose to view it briefly in its threefold aept-ct; its moral, social and legal. In the first place, wo esy that the whole question resolves itself into one touching the validity and obligation of contract*, the debtor, or non-executor of tbe contract being the party seeking relief from what he believes to be unjoat. Wherein consists his moral obligation to his neighbor?his creditor? in relation to this contract! It consists in his promite. What is that promise! It is, that the law remaining the same concerning the ex. iatenee of his property, and his property condition unaltered except as to such changes aa were contemplated by the existing law, be will falfill his agreement withhis creditor. It is a self-evident proposition, thai had the property and lava of the country remained as they were before the war, or only such chntig.s in properly had occurred aa were contemj.luted by the law existing at the time the contract was made, the debtor would have been morally bound to fulfill his contract to the let ter, but now the properly?condition of the contractor is radically changed in a way never contemplated by the law of the contract. His promise was not absolute, but conditional, in the sonse that no alteration should occur which was not contemplated by the parties on the law of the contract; hence, when a cause intervenes to alter the property oondition of tbc debtor. winch ho was Dot instrumental in bringing about, and which was not. contemplated by the parties, nor by any existing law, it wholly absolves him from any moral responsibility iu not complying with the term* of the contract To force it upon him would be to compel Itim to aceept and cxecute terms to which he nerer Agreed. Tho executed consideration an lite part of the creditor fixes no greater responsibility ou the debtor, because that executed con eideration was simply the ba^if> of the debtor's promise. The truth of this position is evidenced by Uie farther fact that the debtor is actually unable to fulfill his contract, rendered so by this changed condition of affairs, wbieh frees him from any moral responsibility in the milter?nor would either the debtor or creditor ever nave entered into nucb contraet had tliey lino wd thia state of affairs.* We know the ^raihema is burled against us, by tlioar holding tbe opposite opinion, that it is dishonorable to abate one jot from the letter of the contract under any circumstanced, but it is the dishonor which attaches to the crew, who refuse to adhere to the ainkiog ship when tbe last vestige of hope is gone. The dishonor which ensues when a man refuses longer to be held epellbound by tbe magic power of an iJea?a mere abstraction. The charge of dishonor implies guilt in the condaet of the debtor Have we not shown that lie is released from his responsibility f Whence, then, his guiltf If the above posi'.ioa be erroneous, then is every obligation given in Confederate times C^UBtljr UiUUIl'g Ml III O lULirBt ell6Dli | . ?.} ?V ry note of five hundred dollars for the purchase of an ox, or of four thousand dollars for the purchase of an ordinary horse, is valid to Che full amount specified, because it is founded upon the same mora! basts?a promise to pay ; but that promise, like the former, was a conditional promise, that no changes should oocur except suob as were contemplated by the par* tie* or the law of the contract No creditor thinks of interpreting these contracts literally, and receiving Confederate foods in satisfaction of hia debt Equal violence aa was done in regard to contracts made bsfore the war, has been done in regard to Confederate contracts; And the trath of the argument ia impliedly admitted in the business tranas ctions of the entire country in relntion to Confederate contracts. On the social view of this question, we need not dw?U, for we dare say that every man is thoroughly informed of it* effect* upon the public. - He mm it la the stifled, orippled, decreased _ energies of the people?in the transfers of property?inthe dissolution of estate*?in the sae? rifiee of homes, and, not least, iu the injadi eious and lavish expenditures of oaeh on hand, by some who rsgard their liabilities as beyond redemption, and so galling is this burthen upon all classes that hundreds of persons who hsve tenfold more due than they owe, would unhesitatingly surrender their elsims in ezohange for their liabilities. Is wot this an anorqtlous-state of affairsf We lire met with the Mge criticism ''he's K debtor, or he wouldn't spealc thus." Lot th? llAti maik <n? ' , T* ?vi vitviuDoii^o* j| liioy OB T1Q U * debtor, and wlio U not 1 The proportion of debtors to crsditors is u a hundred to one; but ' the sritio ts's cinktor, *pd h* eantiot see ?1m than bit own interest. "He *e?lf? to' pat tlx whole quwtlon si rest by the soothing die turn that the debtor will not be dUturb*d-r?t1rjr* t enough be given hlrt^Wthe g?D?rosity end ni?gj>^oin){ty of thar creditor would not pom'iblj ftllpw hb? to press the poor nofortqoste*. Oo the contrary, What'did ih? loth ofBeptember lest, fcno*4*s retom dey, revest) The Jfeperptity.pf the oroditpr wS4 exh*u*ted^opg^eat pp forbfesraqee VM let loose, end .tb* debtor 0?er'wfydA?d *itli. * flood, of *Mu.: Did*e I not then witDtM his p<-neroHjtyf Rely Upob - thft^rrfitprforHqdn'penoeJ ^#?l|r?l|r apon ' th??dd*r*notM ?twfcd. W? do notm CQtodifMt il}?v* public rpind. ir? WritUfl conviction of Onr-JntJgj .*; S\& .* VC^V ^ *iy*-*vvag', v'*fc X' .f y.:; <? .* ' " ::vi 1 * "?.. - % V ^ . ' . -t ifcfiVfiiBrf ft'iirifibk THE FUTURE OF SOUTHER* LABOB. I We take tbe following irotn au article in the N?w Orleans Picayune: "We cannot fail to see that all oilier people, nituated as we are, have failed to re| ceive prompt aid to their industry, either | from emancipated slaves or from immediate immigration of laborers from other regions. The West India Islands afford ample illustration of thi9. It is true, that in the Island of Barbadoes, tbe negro works hard and well; but there he is encompassed by water, and the population is dense. Tbe better off of bis own class, well as tbe white man, insists upon bis supporting himself by his labor or means, and this he must do, or compulsion is used to induce it, a rule which is applied to black and while alike; but here, iu this open country, and with institutions so excessively free as ours, this ia impossible. This wo say irrespective of civil right# acts and constitutional enactments intended to dignify and protect laziness. A!! the orders of Banks and Butler, which were infinitely more severe than the labor laws enacted by Southern legislatures since the war, could not get 6teady, uniform and saving work out uf the uegro, nor can anv reliance be placed on his contracts for future labor. As it has been found iu Jamacia, Trinidad, Briti-h Guiana and eUe I uilidru nou? Ktt -1-1 I- t-- - A" . Ui.c, uj JVTUI 111(1 <>ll| 1IHUII Ol WOtli will wear away from the older ones, and the younger will never acquire it, unless a new system of employment be devised. It this we wislj to speak now. Tlie whole system of labor in the past lias been one of life, or, at lenst, yearlyemploy of i lie laborer. We have i.?-ver { I an ted our corn and cotton as tbe Western aud Northern farmer has bis corn and wheat, by laborers employed from month to mouth, week to week, or by tho day. We have never thought it practicable so to 1 _ t/" ' " - uo. x ec ineir crops, including nil infinitude of things which we hardly think of, require, to the space cultivated, at least as much labor as does ours, and they get along exceedingly well, though there are more proprietors of Lite soil iu proportion to our population with tliern than with ua. The ohjectiou made to lliiu course among ua is, that large plantations cannot be thus cultivated; yet there are farms in the West of over 20,000 acres in actual cultivation and tillage, where labor saving machinery supplies additional arms to two hundred men, who, from time to time, are thero employed. Yet, if it ihould prove true that large plantations could uot be so cultivated, chu the labor be otherwise aecurcd to cultivate them? Mucb the bolter plan would seem to bo to plant less land at lees risk of entire failuie or great pecuniary loss, and thus be secure of some gain, if it be not of fortune. The chief end to bo secut k1 by short terms of labor is, that this course will tend to make the laborer more honest in work. If he does not do the work he is hired to do, he will be discharged nnd another hir1 ed in his stead. He wiil come up</n tbe : land, not as a tenant, with an idea that it ia his home, whether he work or not, but with tbe knowledge that he must work or leave. Paid for hi? labor by the day, week or month, as be may be employed, hia term ended, he must go elsewhere, unless be give satisfaction. He has himself the #ame right to leave, if not pleased, and no sullen,.unwilling labor, diversified, perhaps, by chopping off the orop, or stealing it from the ground, wilt render bia prolonged stay an injury rather than a benefit. The truth is, the effort to adapt free labor to the old plantatiou system makes the employer the alave- of the employee, and tbo longer the former regards it as a nece* eity, the more dependent bo becomes. But if we so diminish our farms, or rather bo subdivide and thus inoreABi them that there are on the land more intelligent men, able to use improved implements, in proportion a tlir. Kvo?/ttk ? ' "Vl % vw vuy 1/1 onuiu ill vmiwv miuil, IJJHU DOW^ HI1U if w? thus do away largely with the pres eot demand for agricultural labor, yet keep up its product, we eball soon be able to increase our plantations in size, and labor will seek them/ instead of the plantation, h? now- seeking labor. T$a.?Mr.-M. Jonea, of ^Libarty county, Ga., haa written for the Cultivator a communication on the cuMureot te? in th$ South. "The editor of the Cultivator say?; ?Our correepondsni.hai'fur^ifhed, '? sample of tb? tea prepared by him. In appearance, fragrance and flairprjt precisely resemble*, a fin* ariiple of "Chinese Blaofc Tee. Jl win i>i?u<ouuuo. you jjruuMua tea o? nneiy tjuvo reij th jw; w lib -4* ft* Mr. Jboefc ?tate* reqiiiretj ih the pidcemt ft le tbe oi^it profi&bfe fcrop weenn gwfr; e'r "pah* ww iUeiied, wiiMi teni p raised w? r-V V. * ' - ** '*^1?! i'" '" '* 7;:/ " FARM WORK FOR NOVEMBER. Cotton, at present prices is worthy of extra Attention. The crop should be entirely picked this month, ns it is the Inst in which we cau look for fine weather for *av ing the crop?bud weather retardiig the work and injuring the staple; and the ginning, haloing, &c., must reccive special caro. Complaints nre justly mido by buyers against cotton being this year imperfectly baled?much of the cotton being left partially expoecd. At the present prices of cotton and bagging, in selling his cotton, the nlanter nmrx thnn irnln hnolr ihn of the covering. If it w?*ro not bo, the buyer would nol be justified in paying a full price for cotton 60 exposed lo injury, as much that is brought to market. Let the bales then, be fully covered. Prepare for the crop next year?planting only our best land in the best manner, and using the best and most prolific seed. But, in trying to make a cotton crop, do not neglect other importaut things on the plantation. The com crop is so deficient that it will take but little time to finish gathering. This work may be completed iu weather not suitable for oottou picking, but should not bo long delayed, or it will probably be gathered without your assistance. Put up your bread corn in the slipshuck to avoid weevil. Sweet Potatoes. wllifll Ilia Info rainc greatly benefitted, w ill, in most cases, be dug ami bunked before tbh number roaches our readers. If not, in localities whenthe vines are not already killed, ihoy may be cut and aecurod for etoi-k. We liave fctven binti for paving, iu previous nuraoi'in of I be Cultivator. Small Grain, such as Whoat, live, Bar ley, Winter Oats, (fee., should bo sown without, delay. Ami live and Wheat may fiiil be sown in manured land lor feedinir ^reen in the early spring. The crop will be biter and inferior to that howii curlier, but it mid will pay where forage is scarce. It i6 useless to sow wheat unlets the ground is well manured, deeply plowed, finely pill Vpn7<ul un/1 in nil ~ : * ^ * ??, nuu| in ?*ii icoj/ccia |uu IIIIU H iirarratv; coalition, Twenty (20) bushels por acre ought to be made, where Ibo conditions are reasonably favorable; and there is liuld profit on a leas yield than this. Rye and oala will do on inferior soils, but where inauuiu*are available, Lbe appli, uatiou will pay. Try a little clover sued j among your wheat, on tho best noil, as an experiment, and we doubt not you will be gratified at the result. One gallon to the acre is the quantity reqnied. The plantation stock should now receive attention. Provide good khelters, and it will be far less expensive to bring them through the winter in good plight, and the manure can all be saved in the beat condi? tiori* Log shelter#, well chinkoi), and covered with split boards, will generally save their cost tbe first year, if one wishes to make stock comfortable ia the cheapest manner. Ilogs should have been fattened ready for p'nughter tbe first really cold spell. It is more troublesome to cut up neatly, but meat takes rait better if well rubbed in while warm, nod it is then spread, and allowed to cool before packing in salt. Thin hint may be of advantave to readers in the warmer portions "of onr parish." Meat ia safer if packed in tiglit tubs in salt as J usual, and then let a strong brine ba pour? eel over the mass. "We use but little saltpetre. Begin now to start a big pile of manure. Every thing that once formed a part of an animal or vetetuble, if it is capable of decomposition, will make food for plants.? Ashes, leaves, bones, offal from slaughtered animals, swamp muck, decayed chip*, vegetable refuse, house slops, soap aude, should be applied to enriching our soils. Plant Orchards, of all the finest Ap pie?, Fears, Peaches, Fig9, die. dtc.; and Vineyardi, of such hardy Grapes as will not rot or mildew. 'We bstfe tbe fineat' climate in the world for Fruit and - Wine; and the time is spproaabiog when aII our "poor" hillsides, unlit for either Corn or Cotton, will be covered *1tb juorit profitable Vineyarda and Orchards* Why, reader, if the people of Europe eould pnly be made sensible of tbe advantages offered by the States of the South, for the growth of th6 Grape And- Wine making, our no^ neglected "?>ld fields* would go~up two ot three hundred p*r cent Jer oihrke^valfte at once. Let tbepr&wtyt owdam'6f- lb*r toil - ba wise, and ?vaU thorn i?lres of' *11 tbair wouroos, An^ let oo oile say tbtft we ate over eotbuabut(c iti ti?{s xbaUerjvor.tbat if. fy> Aany.peopl? go Tfito -FruIt growing and Wine tnajdbgj tbe btuiQMa will be over? ajoi ^po.; Of ibia lb?ro i? not tbe alight^t danger, Tl.ie demand for fin? ' vr v.. *. , -. .. -*?* *;. * , -> 1 ' ? .' ~. ; '.*T j/Vu! - . ' *' ;: ? .? ^ V--V- - BAHAWA8 IN BRAZIL. A correspondent of tbo St. Louis Republican writes from Brazil the following interesting facts concerning tbo growth of the banana in thut country : "The moat wouderful production of thin and all tropical countrios, in toy estimation, is the banana and its congener, the plantain. We ltave balf dozen varieties ?each with ppculiar flavor and qualities Some grow only eight or ten feet high, others twenty. The stalk* are from six to twelve inches thick, but almost as soft and Riicculcnt as celery. Each of them boars one bunch of bananas, and one only, when I ii '8 cui down with a (stroke ol the 'eapada' to secure tlie fruit nud lo givo place to other stalks; and thus they grow and ripen perpetually all the year round. A great traveler has calculated that the plantain on one acre of ground, will produce as much food a? one hundred and thirty-three acres of wheat or forty-four acres of potatoes. The huits constitute the principal reliance of the poor, and is a luxury lo all* It is pood raw, roasted, baked, and indeed in every form, and equally relished by all domestic fowls and animals; many devour fruit, leaves, stalks aDd all, with the greatest avidity. Tlio banana, requires but a single planting for a lifetime?putting in the ground a single sprout or shoot from the banana J patches, at a distance of twenty or thirty | fee', (rom each other, and on ground that iB alvays calculated to Bimre for that nur pose, beoau-e it in iropos-oble to extirpate the root. The one stalk gives mote? springing out from the sides in the ground perpetually?and in a few years covering the intervening sniices, till the whole surface becomes ? forect of fruit and foliage, with sctirue room to pass through the cool over hanging arches. A banana or a banana patch is a beautiful sight, with the stalks and their produce in all stages of perfection the btoad leaves waving i?j the Drecze and lanumg in me lazy rep.?se, while ihe bodies of llie treos bond under their lucious burdens, and would often break down with the weight, except from neighboring support. There are a hundred or two of bananas on a bunch, like grapes, nud the bunches are generally as tuueh as a stout man can carry. They 6hould always bo cut as soon as the fruit is matured?but while the 6kio is yet green?and hung up in the ehade to turn yellow, which improves the flavor. It takes about a year for stalk and fruit to mature from the first planting, but then tliero is never any more trouble with the crop, scarcoly any hoeing or weeding, no culture only 'slay and eat.' Certainly it ia the greatest boon ever bes towed on the indolent tropics. A Dative, swirging in hie hammock, with a bunch of ripe bananas hanging on one aide, and a smouldering fire on the other, by which be may light bis little cigar without getting up, is a most perfect picture of contentment, THE STOLEN GOODS FROK AELINQTOlf, A New York paper contain* a telegraph stating that the President has ordered the delivery of the household effects left at Arlington Mansion, or rather the fragments remaining of them, to be delivered to the person authorised by General Lee to re coive them. The paper remarks: "That onco magnificent mansion has been shipped of its pictures, library, furniture. and heir-looms of almost priceless value, since they once belonjjed to Washington himself. A few of these things wete rescued and placed in the Pataut Offioe in Washington, where they were displayed and placarded as 'T?ken from Arlington in 1862;' but the great bulk of the stolen articles have been taken* none but tlia tkiuvan Vii/tMt Ti ' vhv vuawwo ?wwn nui^Of* XI J9 {S UQUUUH! disgrace that these theives Dot only wore tlie uniform of our army, but many of them were adorned with the insignia of officers of high grAde. An examination of the remains of the Arlington relic shows that nearly everything of vain* had been stolen. Family portraits were taken from their frames and carried away, and boxes containing private papers and letters were broken open, and the contents stolen of J J T? 1- ! - - > nopiioyeu. jib ww BO every wn??e , tO '.U)6 South; and, to-day, the booses of y&luntee* office ra^ and of cbapUios especially, jn almost every New England and Northern Oity and villinge, aPe filled with etolen ; plate, pioUuee, books, jatfenwparip^ apjpartl, *ud, In fiwt^ evfirytbiDg {jro?n a pWnojta proudly displayed n# ; 4r?W;&wM- or . ^opfisca^ jproperly. i ? he* tb^ip ^y^Uao^ar^^ortfe tjUSM in thlur. nw nova than SUSIAt* " . ; - ' li * ' W v ; A Confusion of ToNocna.?A correRpondentof the London Times advocating the necessity of improving on the English mode of pronouncing Latin, give3 curious illustrations of the difficulties encountered by tho present Hystom when English learned men are in the company of learned loreignersr 'In Greeco,' he pays, 'I whs in a society of ten educated persons, members of niuo different nations?Gormen, French, Italian, Greek (modern), and English, were the languages in constant use all the evening, but this produced confusion ; and at I tint Latin, of wbieh all knew mote or less, was hi tempted as a common medium, but proved a complete failure from the dif ferent ways of pronouncing it ; and I must say that our? is the most extraordinary? quite different to all the other?, and utterly unintelligible. A Russian officer in tba Gieek service, who had foiuierly been in hia own navy, waB very anxious to ge* some information upon nautical matters from my English friend, who bad been m our navy. The difficulty wa* to b'?ld int< r course. The Hu-r,lan spoke n ithing bu> hia own language and modern Greek. My friend spoke uuthing'out En^lis' ,with a liltit* smattering of Italian. Latin was tried, but proved to be quite out of the question. The Russian tlien put his question in Greek to his Greek neighbor, ?vho passed them on in his own language to me; I then trans lated tbum into English, and passed them on to my friend. The answers wont back to the Ruasiau in the siimo way through the <lil?'orer.t neigbbois. What sort of information ho got at the end upon nautical fiiatleiB, which none of us understood except my naval friend and himRelf, I don't pretend to say ; but tho story* will, I trust, illustrate the necessity ol a common medium of communication, which Latin, with a uniform, or nearly uniform prouun cintion might ho, between educated persons of different nations." Lifb too Short fott SriUFE.?Charles Dickens relates tho following of Douglas Jen old : 'Of his generosity I had a proof within these two or ihroo year*, which i' saddens mo to think of now. There had been eslrHnpeit, ?nt between u*?not on any per* sonal subject, nnd not involving angry words?and a good many months had |>b?sed without my seeing hint in the streets, wheo it fell out that wo dined, ench with his own separate party, in the Stranger's Room of the Club. Our chairs were al most back lo back, and I took mine after be was seated and at dinner (I am sorry to r?nkmbt'r), and did not look that way. Before we bad sat long, he openly wheeled bis.chair around, stretched out both hands, and said aloud, with a bright and loving face, and I can see as I write to you : 'Let us bo friends again. A life is not long enough for this.'' Jerrold was not a christain, but bis conduct in thin case was worthy of a christian character. On a dying bed how insigniBcant will appear many things about which we contnnd in bitterneM and wrath I Life is too short, its inevitable sorrows are so many, its responsibilities so vast and eoieimn, there is, indeed, no time to apare in abusing and maligning one another'. Let not the 6on go down on your wrath. Never close your eyes to sleep with your heart atigiy towards your brother And fel low sufferer. See bim and be reconciled if you can. If you cannot pee him, write to him. If he is a true man and a christian, he will listen. If he is not yoa will have done right, and your soul will be bright with the duasbine of Heaven. See to it Youbhew.?Important af fairs must be attended to in. person.. "If you want your business done," pays the proverb, "go and (Jo it; if you don't want it done, send some one else." An indolent gentleman bad a freehold estate producing about five -hundred a year. Becomioa .in yolved in debt, be sold half of tbe eetate, and left; the remainder to an industrious farmer for twenty years. About the end of the t6rm tbe farmer called to pay hit .rent, and asked the owuer if ho ifofild.toll the farm. "Will you buy it P aaked the owner, surprised. "Yep, if we can agree about the price." /That is exceedingly strange," observod the gentleman?"bow happen* U'tbat, while Ipouldvnot 1ir? up-, on twice aa much land, for which I paid do *W> paying me two bundr&d doHars a-ynftr lit your farm, and are alH^ui afef year* to purchase it; <** ~<UM UU1 frrr' .t.-nrftf tirv. jjihh > "rr f"* Hid , ivM ?hjo,y ?d > fo.Pr Weddino Tkoussbac op tub Futurb Empiikbb of Russia..?I aiust now ?ee if I can make your readers understand tbo glories of the trousseau of the Princess Dagmar. I do not understand them mvRelf, but that its 110 reason for not describing them. One Madame Boyer, a milliner, took me to the top of a high place, and behold what I saw 1 Tlio first glory developed?the presentation drsfs of the princess, after the mar* riagu?is composed of a train of rose pink velvet, trimmed with a deep border of magnificent lace, of a mo-t beriul.ful flo al design and cobweb like texture. Bouquets ol tbe aame were appliques to the train at equal distances. Tlio petticoat of the richest roso 6fttin, trimmed with the sumo lovely lace at. the train. . There wna also the princess' pillow, the covering formed entirely of the the riehost -r ? .1?1... 1.:? t;uijsiiiu 1UUMJ ltlllVU'9 Ul II UUt)l UIOllJ II?^ were also displayed, of llie richest ami most fstirv?like description ; iudend, so fine that you eoulu lim Jly see thein v.ithout a inagili 1*3 ing gluss. I ulbo saw the gold laco, embossed with pearls, for the trimming of a dross for the Empress of Russia; but it was not decided whether the dress should be made of white K$tiu or turquoise blue velvet.? Having seen the effect of this benutiful trimming on each of t'na materials above mentioned, I should decide in favor of the white satin, had 1 a voice in the matter. There wns also a dresa fov ber Majesty tbe Queon of Wurte.tnburg, unite of a simpl* kmJ, and for looming wear. It was composed of n rich blue silk, trimmed wiih vel vet of a deeper 6bade, and was, indued what I think slang people iu your country would call a 'howler.' By-the by, I forgot to tell you that the robe of the princess cost 'only ?200.' The ladies with whom I had thu happiness to he were in fits of delight at the 'cheapness.' 'Cheap as possible/ saia Mrs. X. 'Mais e'eat une vraio occasion,' cried out Madame de Z. But somehow I noticed that the husbands gradually got near the door, and looked a't their wntches an if they had important engagements elsewhere.? Paris cor. London Telegraph. "W ht Peotlr oo to Church.?The motives which induce different people to go to Church on Sunday, or any other day nre rery diverse, and in any particular case raiiier difficult to determine. To the words of a poetic correspondent, Rome go to spend ?n hour of idle time, some to hA' : the now organ, and R^rp? to criticise the preacher. Some go to show their new bonnets, tome to see their friends, some to flirt. 'Some go to goftuip with their neighbors, and some hq a respite from their labors. Some go from an inward sense of dnty, and. Dome frcr? an outward sense of beauty. Some go to Cburob because they're made to, and some go there because they're afraid to [do otherwise, we suppose.] Some go, to sing, some go to sleep, some TJ..? -f .1. p^vr nv ^d?? nuu vviuq ?v t? uub vi ill j this mixed and thronging crowd, joining in the responses, loud, how many of them ou Sahh&th day go there to bear, to heed, and pray ?' Echo answers?'How many F A GOOD ONE. While Gon. Viele wm the military governor of Norfolk, Mr. Lincoln iaaued hia fatuous proclamation which protected slavery in Lhose portions of the Soqth which had been redoeed under the Federal rule, but proclaimed freedom to all the slaves within tho lines of the "so-called." , A gentleman of Norfolk eonnty, a Mr . well knowu as poasoesing ahead of the longest . kind, thinking that (lie affaire of the South were gottiiig from had to worst*, and tbst the only chiuyco of obtaining anything for fiis slaves wte to aend tHetn over Iho boraar.man*?y tb? aMtdUncA of ogrtatn parties, to transport llicm into "Confederacy." ThVfact cam* to Gun. Viol V'cars, and h? imm"diat?ly had Sir.-*-?* imnianed tobeacl-. qiufters. \ v * * " i Our Norfolk oonnty friend p^petred ia life ' ?wfol pre?en?e'of tlte Qenaral with that roacl1 est amorauoA of whiuU h? knows eo well how. f. . i uiunM ou tlte pr.'perocei?ior>a.; Be looked etra|ghV-in the aye and said "Sir 1 1 arn Mr, " The GonorAl atevnly replied : | "Sir, I era inform6d thai yoo have cent yoor . ?l?v?i into iha rebal- iiuaa,, ia If trttvf Our [ friend frornfJeep Craak rcioiaed i '"Yea; iir, i. aud i .haVir a rwwwnc/6r>A<toiu?*r-i?mo?t phi). aBthrppw on*. itrjfoo. "Too mixi; > ' tor#-Jo u, afrv * Vlzgihitd >iv>- ha* Tv>etV *U(<Ayir oppam* u jlastsry. tdiar^tliougliti jt wnjeg to k?4R.myhe^o^irtj^rvituteuv Ifbrfalk oouu , ty.ln, whieh >Wndliio3"Lherr cotorielliedrtar1 bp*y, b?; ' tfin MSli?Ali?miMnlJ HatTD'^H? tn r,t^rt'A Ikom. ' ^ ^ j?? ^ ^ ggggeacgg , ,1 "ii i ii in him at jbgg Jusa Billings on tub MuLb-?Th?i ^PtB mulo in haf hoss, and baf Jackass, and SHI then kuma to a full stop, natur diskoveriog fl ? hor toiatake. Tba weigh more,. akordin to HS their left, than any other kreotur, except a iHjffi cowcuraher. Ttia kant hear eny quioker, nor further than tho kuan, yut th?>r enr* are big enough for snow shots. You katfc fljH trust, them with enoy one whose life aint> JB55 worth ennv more than the antes. The on 'ly tu keep them into a paster,, is tu-. '^Enj turn them intu a iDeddor jiuering, and1 let them ininn out. Th.i ?r? roAt1w (n? ISSUES i ? ? ?"j ^ -ansa ju t H8 soon as thoy will du tu abuse. Tha JHSj liaint g t any friends*, and will live on huch-*- flM el berry bush, ,vilh an occasional chau<;? Ht /Canada thisselu. Tim are a modern in-.. jHgra vonshun. I dout tbink the $ible deludes lo them at all. Tha sell for more money than cpny other domeatik nniraile. Yoi* kant tell thoir age by looking into theic mouth, enny more tbon yuould a Mexican ' ^B| pony's. Tha n?vt-r hav no disease tllntl JB9 good club wont heal. If tba ever die tha - ^|Sb must kum rite tu life again, for I never Bh heard nobody say "ded mule." Tha a*a .SBjE like sum men very corrupt at harUt y ive known theui tu be good mules for six, flra rr.oiill)9, just to get a chance to kick some? body. 1 Dover owned one, and never 'NRgfl mean to, unlest there is a United Slates 'jHm law paHsed requiring it. Tho only reason BBfiC why th.i aro pashunt, is bckauao thi* ate a.diamed oi thcmaeUas. I have Been eddiw kated mules iu a eirkus. Tba kould kick .h| I and bite treraenjis. I would nob sa wbai [ am forccd tu say agin the mule, if hi* Jgl birth want an outrage, and man want ta ?H blumo for it. Enny man who is willing tu drive a mule, ough't tu be exempt by law from running for thn legislator. Tha are the strongest creatures on the earth,?aad 9H heaviest, according tu their sizej 1 herd tell uv one who fell oph from the two'path, BIS ou tho Eri kannawl, and sunk as soon as b? |B touched bottom, but he kept rite on (owing Matt the boat tu tbe next stafhun, breathing kGh through his ears, which stuck oat nr lho wBtor, about 2 feet 6 inches; 1 did qot mo this did, but au auctioneer told mo or -fln it, nod I never knew an auctioneer tu-lio 8H unless it was absolutely convenient. Mj Beautiful.?Tho finest thing BUbop Qeber ever wrote was this inimitable pas? fl| age : "It cannot be the earth is man's on? ly abiding place. It cannot ba that our _Ju9 life iv a bubble cast up by the ocean of eier- flS nity to float a moment upon its waves, and SB glorious aspriations, which leap,like angle* Hfl from the temple of our hearts, art for 6T?r flH wandering unsatisfied! Why is it , thai 9R| the rainbow and cloud come over na with IqCna a beauty that is not of earth, and then pain fljgj off to leBve us to muse on their lovelinesa? Why is it that the stars which bold their festival arouod the midnight throne,' am H set above tha grasp of our limited faculties; H -for evor mocking pa with their unapproach- a? able glory ? And finally, why ie it that bright forms of human beauty are preaea- 9R ted to our view and taken from us; leaving 9 the thousand streams pf o?r ageotio&a to '< flow back in an Alpine torrent upon .ottv hearts j We are bora for a higher deetinj 99 than that of earth. There is a realm-*-* f|j|| where the rainbow never, fades; wheTe tb? flBjt tars will be spread out before Ub Uke ^tbe ' Islands that alumber on* the ocean* *pd ' where *be beautiful? beings which pass be-> * -9$ i.. r.r.- ?i??;i? r~~ --? ?_ - -^Ki >ui? uo hoc lunuvnoy viii nmjr ivr vygr ID 9Mh our prasftncd." 9 An Awkward Imfehiax Shot.?A. for-; 9EI eigo paper publishes the following aoaodoUi H concerning the Emperor of Austria while out shooting"His Majesty ? always ' attended by a Captain of the'Guard*, w^oaa 9| duly it is to observe the'effeot of each shot .Sg and announce it. The Emperor, for in- jfi Blanco, etrikes a partridge; 'Partridge P Mi -ories the Captain, Next time it ir a book Buck f *bouta the Captain. On? day the fjB Emperor fired, mifised thegftpoe, fttid Wouu' 3 ded one of the genttamqn <?f his Buittt. The latter, op heingstruo*, utt*r#L. ap'.es^ 9R olamatioo; 'Hfc Highness theD<ike oit HaokenWg!' anffounoed th* u B| without, the b1 [^hteat tihango of feature o* ' S t T; ?-*V; . MBS Pomnrw "MoXuob, November parol? gr^t?d jeff. ? biw tbe privilege of tho g/oaiBa ft.tW'Foirtrri H -during lie diy.-h? Wa exU4*4* lk*ttgV* .K evir bln', /infl thwgtalrfrf?p*>tt Tooth* In H Carton U?ll At-Dight IpaJMctioM 10 Ibto ?f- H f?ck have brtn ?4at fro? YYtohhjgtoa to Gsn- ?B Jr*1 JJurtOB, command an t ttf tfca FerM*Mt?D? ? ,b&:?Oprfaco?^it of anyt^k^?i?|A^Mi . XI : Pfvftfg m #ay^t la'gaflyi^'jn MfidMfor.'i " , j^al lWtila ?ia' ^1?aa#i; all tb?;r46f^'**?? SB him both d?y and btgbi