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hare been
Review, Balti-
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the State
► action of the
they may
to the <£b
They will not
of the
for it under
; it is, in fact,
and necessity,
and this
ear
Te have seen no wiser
by any of our co-
. is easy enottgh to make
tweda?
leal. The Examiner,
as we can judge, takes about
le view of the matter as we do,
the public
down upon this
1 in fact, by the leading men
s State. Ajfeexpect to hold our
~ reconstruction íb
' is"effected, jrniTit is placed once
the ünieísL Then our course
guided by ijie circumstances of
of its people may
One of the great en-
thEs is an educa-
teachers inCol-
scbools, who are to inculcate
and peculiar notions in
minds of their confiding
can not
to enter Northern Col-
and schools, possession must be
institutions in the South,
work be accomplished here,
¡y," says the writer, "they have
hands on the University of South
Carolina and it has given up the ghost.
They have swept the University of
North Carolina of its Professors, and
an Internal Revenue Collector presides'
over two or three Tillage lads and calls
in-vain for former students to áccept
dishonored diplomas. The Universities
of Georgia and Mississippi 3till stand
and flouish, and Virginia has an army
of students in her University and her
Colleges."
The question arises, shall this plan
of rnental conquest be allowed to pro-
ceed without a struggle to prevent it ?
Are we willing to have the noble prin-
ciples of onr lathers, their high sense
of honor, truth and justice, gradually
undermined and rooted of the heads,
hearts and manners of the rising gen-
eration? Shall the, loss of political
power be followed by the loss of every
tiling, which once gave its peculiar
beauty and charm to Southern society?
We trust not. To prevent this, our
Southern Colleges and schools must be
patronized and kept up in a flourishing
condition. We do not wish to be mis-
understood in this matter. We do not
wish that our institutions of learning
should be matte the instruments of en-
couraging any hostile feeling to the
Union or the people of any section
of it—to excite any undue prejudice
or to create improper local sentiment
—far from it. We would have them
h a broad and liberal philanthropy,
unmixed with any conceited dogmas oí
bigotry and fanaticism. We would
have them inculcate a noble charity
and an enlarged patriotism, which
shall embrace within its loving folds
whole united country. This
W*::.. v
our
CoLL-jtBVs, August 1, 1869.
in
amount of
late freshet are grossly
The town of Columbus
has sustained comparatively no dam-
age. Two-thirds of the place was nev-
er reached by the water; upon the
- m other third the only injury to property
was in the destruction of gardens and
The so-called meeting of citi-
for belp was -ill-advised-
called I am credibly informed that the num-
ber present was just six ! This mass
resuming to speak for the
this county, passed resolu-
tions of á doleful character calling
loudly for aid. These resolutions (so-
called,) were published in the Galves-
ton News, and as a consequence the
liberal minded citizens of that place,
withamaL
forwarded large supplies of provisions
and medicines here for distribution
among the needy. The arrival of these
provisions has bad an unfortunate and
demoralizing effect upon the freedmen.
Those, whose crops were destroyed,
could easily have obtained employ-
ment. As high as a dollar and a dol-
lar and a quarter have been offered to
no effect, until within the last two
days. The farmers on the uplands,]
whose crops sustained no damage, and
who are making an abundant ana hea^
crop, desire more laborers. But wi
a few exceptions the efforts to obtain
hired help have failed. Because, why
should Sambo eat bread by the sweat
of his brow, when the rations are «ant
here in abundance for " the needy and
suffering ?" It is also stated that the
County Court of this County has made
application to the Government authori
ties for 5000 rations, and that Major
Wickoff, the efficient and popular Com-
mander of tha Post here had forwarded
the application with his approval. This
is not true. On the contrary, Major
W. forwarded the application disap-
proved, and General Reynolds has re-
fused to allow the same, for the very
plain reason that the County does not
need any such help in the first place,
and to bring so large an amount of pub-
lic provender to be fed out to lazy peo-
ple would be destructive of our indus-
trial interests. The Major's refusal to
approve this begging application meets
very general approbation. The "trooly
toil would like to be fed at the public
crib. Bat old Colorado is not yet a
beggar.
Our uplands are teeming with abun-
dant harvests and our prairies covered
with fat beeves. If immigrants want
to come here let them not hesitate
Corn and meat will be abundant. Our
lands are rich and cheap.
The Railroad Bridge sustained no in-
jury. The damage to the trestle work
in the Colorado bottom has been repair-
ed, and the trains are making uninter-
rupted connection with Galveston.
THE NEXT LEGISLATURE :S
is an exceedingly important body, and
the Conservatives ought by all means
£$ secure it. If the Davis faction
should get a majority, the evils to be
entailed upon Texas are incalculable.
some of our best men are
One other-of my League friends
: n the guard house, a short time alter
the election, and Beat for some of the
League lawyers to get him out. " The
lawyers would not go near him, I
he could not raise fifteen dollars. The
man finally sent to his old master, Isa-
ac Donovan,
out a word. *
Why is it that wages are now reduc- based upon his views of State policy.
is
itltiy.
Burke's Weekly.
Te have received Burke's Weekly
oys and girls, done up in monthly
July. With much other in-
matter, it contains the open-
of Big-
the Texas Ranger and
■ our friend John Duval, Esq.,
of our most agreeable and pleasant the truth before the war or since.
This truthful story is related
style so simple and clear as to
i it particularly Attractive to the
, While the old nd gray-headed,
wit h equal
ad-
ir to the
r -in Tex-
It has been for years the object with
certain men at the North to ciy up the
character of Northern colleges and
schools and cry down all tbese institu
tions at the South. These were repre-
sented as shallow and unsatisfactory,
while those were pictured as the repos-
itories &nd disseminators of all earthly
and heavenly wisdom. This never was
Our
universities, colleges and Bchools, were
the compeers and, in many instances,
the superiors of Northern eulogy and
boasting. Our professors and teachers
were as learned and able, .with less
bigotry and better manners. Every-
thing taught at the North, worth know-
ing, could be gained at the South with-
out the loss of money to one section
and gain to aaother, to say nothing of
ce from parental oversight
so- necessary to the young,
er was, for years before the
valid excuse for sending onr
to the North to be educated,
is no excuse now. The uni-
Yirginia and Mississippi
by Harvard and Yale,
boarding schools for boyB
finishing seminaries for
at the North, are by no
to similar schools at
It is all a mistake to sup-
foney here will command
in ail the branches of
for both sexes as
fin, bat aot more
Usually the more of
Of the other.
him out with- We cannot see it in that light. Our
Davis is mainly
of i
whole coi
sistabl;
the capital this
be sorely
felt. How the Senate Finance Com-
mittee can get along without old Bob
Guinn, of Cherokee, or the Judiciary
Committee dispense with the accomp-
lished Shelley, of Travis, it is difficult
to imagine. And in the House, the
loss of such men as Giddings and Mer-
riman, and Smith and Rives, andTrow-
ell and Burford, and some two dozen
others that might be named, will be
severely felt. Stell, of Gonzales, I
am glad to see, is out. He was an
excellent member—ought to be elected.
Will not the people bring out Randolph,
of Walker, Knox, of Bexar, Bonner,
of Cherokee, Kent, of Jefferson, Evans,
of Tarrant, Phelps, of Victoria, Whit-
ten, of Fayette, Thurmond, of Goliad,
Upton, King, Kyle, Harmon, and a
large number of other true and tried
Conservatives ? I say again that, with
the large white majority in the State,
the Legislature can be secured if the
effort is made. Unless it is secured,
the evü that we are now striving to
ward off will come upon us in another
shape. í Cuo
llfte —
11 THE NEGRO IN POLITICS.
Abstract of the Speech of Clai-
borne Stores, Colored Democrat.
South remain where they are.
money necessary for education
d here, and not go to enrich
of those who still
Dicing and calling us barbarians
of the cold bleak North here
i than there is for sending
i children there. If the youj
í of New England were eduefct
not die of con-
auty
tmld climate, the came and
and said/
i Gulf, and reach a nobler de-
of body and mind, totter
■MMjMfe|B and moth-
Republic.
Ours at least
3B, and
cm with
whenever or
r meet them. And
nothing of
Fromthe Mobile Register.]
Gentlemen :—I am nota speaker, be-
cause I am not a man of education, but
I am a Southern man, and I have the
interests of my people at heart, and I
desire to talk to them, and I will com-
mence by telling them an anecdote.
(We omit the anecdote to abbreviate.
* ,) The Indian once owned this
ife'iniff i" ptM." hg.and
white
to-day ? See him on the streets, ás
ed for you and your wives to eight and
ten dollars per month ? It is because
the Radical villains have got the taxes
so high on the white people already
that they cannot pay any more.
I am sorry to say that some of my
race have not as much sense in this
thing as a brute. The simplest man ic
the lunatic asylum has more sense tlrm
a four-footed brute, and yet if a dog or
a horse comes to your dooV, and you
feed him, he will come back, and if you
keep feeding him he will keep coming
back. But not so with some of the
colored people in this thing
They get their bread from the whi
people of the South, and have been
getting it from them all their lives, and
yet they are quittingtheir doors to tun
after carpet-baggers, who are honeying
them only to rob and to starve them. .
I was raised with thé white men of
this country—the gentlemen of the
South. Me and my young master used
to fight when we were boys. The big -division c
ones used to whip me, and I would '"' " 44
whip the little ones, and old master
wouid whip us all, and he never know-
ed any difference when we needed
whipping; and these were the men who
wouldn't know any difference if we
would behave ourselves, and not be led
astray by these lying dogs who come
here and say, "Brother, I left my wife
and children to fight for your freedom
I slept in ditches for you; I double-
quicked forty miles before day, and ate
raw corn for you; now come and help
me." It is a lie. Those that are here
that did fight, and they are very few,
went in for the bounty, and they came
down here for the bounty, and they are
hugging tee darkey for the bounty and
nothing else, and you, my colored
brothers, may see It too late to do you
any good.
For the little while that I run with
the carpet-baggers, I took up with the
most respectable looking one in the
city—a preacher called Brother Branch.
Brother Branch taught school in the
city, and would preach in the Baptist
church in the morning, in the Metho-
dist in the afternoon, and anywhere
that he could get crowd enough to take
up a collection from in the evening.
I generally went with him because I
felt sorry for him—he was so meek and
so mighty good. The sisters would
always crowd around him and ask,
"Brother, how is my child learning at
school ?" His answer would be( "
darling little Mary will go on in the
First Reader next week," when little
Mary had never been on); of her A, B,
c's. mÉám
Brother Branch always wore bij:
holes in his shoes and clothes, and
would tell how poor he was, and we
took up collections for him two or three
times a Sunday until we got his pock-
ets full, and soon after we had made
one or two big collections which went
into Brother Branch's hands, that
,ftom|.bEaju5h was dry; he. roí , some-other
way, and nobody has seen him since,
And this is what the last one of them
are going to do as soon as they get
something to go on. And where will
you be, my colored friends, after
you have done all the damage to the
white race of this land which you can
do ? Will it not be too late for you to
ask favor of them then ? They need
your help now; they will not need it
after awhile, and now is the time to
help them. ■-
Some poor folks talk tome about be-
ing ashamed óf a colored Democrat.—
I am ashamed of a carpet-bagger or a
scalawag thief. And if I were rammed
in a cannon to be blown out, my last,
iroudest word would be Democrat; for
know Democracy to mean right for
me, and right and salvation for my
people.
In conclusion, I will repeat you a
little piece of rhyme I fixed up in my
head while eating dinner, and it will
show you what radicalism means, for
you all know something about it:
1 am the man^S^Claiborn^átores.
The Radical party is neVer at rest,
For here so little they dopoesess.
They pick onr pockets—rob oar parse,
Ana leave as always ten times worse.
some time ago;
glad you know.
. heypat their jaba;
woke in. Cuba.
Let then the children and the money comes from his pine bark shanty to sell
light wood at ten cents a load for his
bread. This is what your are coming
to if you follow the miserable teach-
ings of Radicalism. ¿ I
I came near going the way of the In
dian over a year ago. ; | At that time I
was working on Dauphin street railroad
and getting ninety dollars a month in
their shops. It was a fat place for me.
I was growing rich and happy, my wife
and children were happy, for we were
do in the air-tigíK +*y g by a good sum every month. I
' ' of the was working with my old owners and
friends, and some of these Radicals
their arms about my neck
rother, come with me to
the League; it is the
place to help you."
so, but I went; I
In a few daj
the road, who paid
a month, came to-; I
are'fe
for you, the
am sorry to sav
totbaljgU
men Imet
the President of
me ninety dollars
and said, "Clay,
rénr people and
HIH rs stuff their
and ruin us with taxation. If
you go and vote -with these people,
you must leave this shop." I stated
fact in the League the night before
and three hundred men
"Go and vote, and we will
up lor you; this is what the
iggg®
MtfÍ:
-- '
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i #®'
Ufe
papera Ultimate
State ticket is not
, that it would
It made the crew qaite
Thev sung their
w They fell anleep
South Carolina is no doubt the most
thoroughly cursed at this time of all the
Staes of the Union, though many an-
other State undoubtedly considers this
miserable distinction as belonging to
itself. The negroes are a large major-
ity of the voters in South Carolina,
they bMM ^fjmij^^ fftary
ctMli
, and all the o
the highest to the lowest are Biieu
with scoundrels, whose vocation it is
to insult, to exasperate, to oppress, to
swindle, to rob the people And the
State. Hitherto the official miscreants,
appreciating the importance of pru-
dence, have for the most part acted in
harmony, playing in to each other's
hands, and all preying upon the State as
the common victim; but at last, as we
learn from the Augusta Chronicle,
they are quarreling among themselves,
a fierce war raging between the Nor-
thern carpet-baggers and the native
scalawags. It is earnestly hoped that
hostilities will end only in the exter-
mination of both, for it were better
that the affairs of the State should be
carried on by negroes than by triple
government of negroes, carpet-baggers,
and scalawags, no matter kt what pro-
portions mixed up. Give the whole
control to the negroes, and let them,
for want of other jugHlars to cut, cut
their own and each othe^gf; Relief
will* come to the white citizens of
Soutii Carolina, but they must wait
for it. Their State will perhaps be
one of the last to be redeemed, but
her redemption is sure. The indica-
tions of it are unmistakable; and one
of the srongest is the war of the atro-
cious cárpet-baggers and the horrid
that in the late
Davis vfev<
api
'/which would re-
bankruptcy
In fact, General Davis'
in the Convention irre-
us to the coaclusioa
that he has no just conception of State
policy.
The recent change ia our condition,
e violent-overthrow Of our labor sys-
in, the impoverished condition of the
country, thé spirit oí discontent of the
ople, the heart-burnings and party
rancour, and sectional hate still linger-
ing in the minds of some, all call lor
the exercis& 'of forbearance, prudence
and statesmanship of a high order. No
man %yhose-mind js so narrow and so
subjtH^ ttr-^rqudiee as Davis' course
demonstrates him to be, is fit for Gov-
ernor at-this critical juncture of time.
Dawi^fasSgred, in the convention, the
State at a most unpro-
pitious time, aii^ he was the leader of
that portion of Jhe Convention which
favored and persistently labored to se-
cure the adoption of a provision in the
Constitution disfranchising his own
race, and another declaring all the
laws, official acts, and Judicial deci-
sions in the State since 1861, void.
This of itself is enough to condem him
forever in our estimation. But this is
not his worst fault; he wished to call
out the State militia, and to station
them in the different counties to keep
the people in complete subjection to
his narrow contracted, selfish and pre*
scriptive policy. For the benefit of
those who have intimated an inclina-
tion to support Davis, we desire to re-
fer to a few plain facte which are as
well authenticated as Holy writ.
The State of Arkansas, in extent of
territory, is about equal to the 5th and
7 th Judicial Districts of this State
During the war her territory was over-
run by both armies, and was the seat
of a most devastating guerilla warfare.
Almost every house in the State was
burned to ashes, and every farm an
plantation was utterly destroyed. He
people had to take shelter in Kansas
or Texas, and at the surrender the peo-
ple found themselves entirely pennt-
Most unfortunately for the State,
Powell Clayton, an extreme radie
entertaining views similar to those
General Davis, was elected Governor
of the State. Ab initio, as we call it
here, was adopted with all its enormi-
ties, and hosts of loyal black militia
were stationed in different parts of thé
State. Cities and villages were burn-
ed, men were murdered, and women
outraged. The people gathered a har-
vest of woes, such as no people, either
in peace or war, ever suffered. A large
State debt Vas incurred, and taxation
unparalleled was saddled upon a sor-
row-stricken and penniless people.
That our readers may form s
concgp^joa of the beauties of
Radical rule in that State, and may
have some data from which to see what
is in store for them in the event of
Davis' election, we make the following
extract from the Little Rock Liberal, a
Republican paper of that State : 1
The amount of taxes likely to bé
collected from the people, for the yeara
1868-9, for State purposes alone, can-
not fall short of $2,000,000, and may
exceed that amount." We also learn
from the Helena Shield that the taxep
collected from the people of Phillips
county, in that State, will amount to
near $100,000. When we add to these
enormous sums, the city, road, school
and county tax, we can form some con-
ception of the fruits of ultra radical
rule. But hear what Major Peck, edi-
tor of the Little Rock Liberal says is
to become of this money, and then say,
ye tax-payers of Texas, if you would
prefer an extreme radical for Governor,
to Gen. Hamilton :
"If the Government in all its depart-
ments was in the bands of honest men,
the excess of taxation over the legiti-
mate expenses of the Government, fot
this and the next year, would be at
least one million of dollars I But we
haven't the slightest idea that there
will be any balance at all. It will sfi
be consumed in some way or other.
We believe it to be a part of the sys-
tematic scheme of spoliation content-
plated by the radical wing to make
way with that entire amount of two
millions of dollars for their own per-
sonal benefit—one-half according to
the form of law, and the other half b;
straight out robbery.—Kaufman
Aa English View of the Frcncl
Situation.
[From the Loados Star, July 17.J
The message of the Emperor of the
French, studiously vague and ambign-
eus as" it is, can be regarded only as
the commencement fit a vast political
change in the government of France,
or as the first step towards a long and
uncertain conflict between authority
and opinion.It cannot be disputed
that the theory of personal government
has many and powerful supporters. It
is stroug with the adherents ol the
perial dynasty. It has on its side
much of the property and some con-
siderable portion of the intelligence of
France, and above all, it is the creed
of the great official and military hier-
archies which constitute so large and
all-pervading a power in French soci-
ety. * * * In the first place, per-
sonal government, or the dictatorship,
has lasted for twenty yrars. Now, iñ
countries where political freedom is
most highly developed, it is perfectly
possible for a dictator to exercise, with
the consent of the people, unlimited
power for a short time, in order to deal
with a great ptfciic dinner. In sudó?
cases, when the crisis is past, extra-
ordinary powers can at once be laid
aside, and the return to constitutional
forms may be effected without incon-
venience and without changing the
habits or effacing the traditions of a
law abiding people. It is otherwise
* Stese
TWILIGHT.
i
MMMSliS
BT"*lC5<K53Sm."
of day is ending
And a mystic cham are t J"
With the
aif day-dream?
Osce these gentle shades of i
S^eosed but for nsy sorrows j
•Sow I lift ray Seirtto Heaven,
T.-ie pure radjesuf the Forgiven,
f And -aeh holypuice is found.
What & Uessed time for musing,
We in holy reveries sink ;
And no strite our hearts are using,
But the star-iight is infr " ~
In our souls the hitas i
Every little star in beaming
Helps ta drive away
g|§|ppthegriefe, I*une'er JL. .
And I taucy they are seeming,
While I watch the glorious gleaming,
like tlie joys that may be yet.
Garibaldi will visit England this sum-
mer.. '
Baron Lemme and bride are at Nia-
witli a system of absolute government gara Falls.
'is for.'*' Í did go and vote, scalawags.—Courier Journal.
next day I was walked out of
two weeks my family
[ was for cear twelve
f, out-
a piece of
jweremy
to them, and
and did not have
if some of the
not come sad ta-
ftamd
The Radical organ here is trying to
rrify us about the exaction of the
test oath, and with the farther idea that
seats of the members who cannot
take ~
Hpfe have this to say in rei
have it in a most direct manner
J'i =-:
ífü
'
that has extended over nearly one
generation of mankind. Twenty years
of disuse have done much to destroy
the influence and authority of parlia-
mentary government in France. The
same power which silenced the legis-
lature fettered the press and abolished
the right of public meeting. A gen-
eration, therefore, has grown up with
no political experience or education.
Universal suffrage is the basis of the
political system, and in the absence of
public discussion the voters, untutored
and unorganized, are either the slaves
of public functionaries or the dupes of
wild and irresponsible agitators. The
domestic policy of the Emperor has
tendered to foster the belief among the
peasants and artisans that in their
wants they may look to their govern-
ment, and that it is the duty of the
government to assist them and provide
them with employment. At long inter-
vals the voters have exercised their
rights in the election of deputies, but
the whole administration of public
buisines3 has been in the hands of func-
tionaries responsible to no one but the
heads of their respective departments
It is difficult to conceive a more hope-
leas task than to communicate to this
untrained multitude the sense of politi-
cal independence and the habits of
political life. Nor is it only with the
constituent body that are to be found
great obstacles to parliamentary gov-
ernment. If the voters are untrained,
their leaders are no less so. Their ap-
prenticeship has yet to be undergone.
Even in the time of Louis Phillipe the
Chamber, rich as it was in men of very
high ability, was ever singularly want-
ing in the tact aud moderation which
are essentiaLtoJhecoraln r.t r>f hnai n caa
apular assemblies. The bitter
rivalries of the chiefs Of different sec-
tions made it almost impossible to con-
struct a harmonious Cabinet, or to keep
together a parliamentary majority.
There was none of that feeling* which
is the tradition of our House of Com-
mons, and which is so valuable in prac-
tice that whatever may be the state of
parties the government of the country
must be carried on. It necessarily fol-
lowed that the Chamber became dis-
credited in the country. Individual
deputies preserved but a slender con-
nection with their constituents, and,
when once at Paris, cared but little for
the opinion of the departments. The
Chamber, in its collective capacity;
took no heed of what we call the opin-
ion out of doors. The result was that
when it fell it was scarcely more re-
gretted than Louis Phillipe. Such are
some of the dangers that await the
introduction of constitutional govern
ment in France, but it is hardly to be
believed that the French alone of the
nations of Western Europe will prove
themselves unequal to the task of self-
government. fiW
lililí^' j i
Judge Li D. Evans of Texas, has .
nt ' WnnhinjT^nj'uiTiTi 'ill hi nil TTi
íérisit is the removal
tor
charges of defection from the Repub
c-an party against Haynes, he is su
pected of<complicity in the well kno'
blockade running ring at thfe port.
In vieW of the present spljt in
Republican party, and the evident
that General Grant; like the manr
two sweet-hearts, could be happy
either "were 'tother dear
away," we cannot undertake to
what constitutes the Republican _
whether the Ben Butterites and* J;
bins, or those who think that there
been war and hanging enough.
Haynes belongs to the latter
This.is the first we have heard
his blockade running. However,
do aot desire to interfere in
quarrels. By the way, a coi
sets up the Democracy of L. D
a little too steep. Although fo;
a Democrat, the J
Knew-Nothing, and
in the Ü. S. Congress
Reagan on that issue
when Know-Nothin
The Judge is a kmc
fiber of the eclectic school] aad
oshes around like the loose men ia a
~ Civilian.
" Filthy Lucre.77
And from those pare realms ot
Where such blessed rest ia
A soft whisper seems to:
"Dream no mure of tees once riven,
They'll be linked again in Heaven,
Truly, you havertoneJ and Btriven,
But God will rapay yon all."
veu,
"No, sah ;
baker, sah. My name is
sah; ray m udder, sah,
'jewel,' sah. De:
called me Gracchus wa
Gracchus called her
said the <
Personal Items.
be very
Bismarck has not spoken to his Min-
ister of War for two years.
Wm. B. AStor has uo intention of
completing the Washington Monument
at his own expense. X
Boucicault is writing a new play for
the London Adelpbi.
Sardou is writing a new drama "Les
Tricoleuses." r
Miss Madeline Henriques is on her
way to this country.
Erlanger has been decorated bv the
King of Holland.
Gladstone has written a book on the
" Gods and Men of the Heroic Age."
Blacque Bey, the Turkish Minister,
is at White Sulphur Springs. He stands
six feet two inches, and is much given
to whist.
Tennyson's new poem, on the "Quest
of the Holy Grail," is annóunced in
London.
Victor Emanuel, it is said, contem-
plates a visit to Vienna to see han daugh-
ter, the Queen of Portugal, who is now
at Baden. %'V':; ; "*
Gustave Dore and Theophile Gautier
are to accompany the Empre¿« of the
French to Egypt.
It has been rumored in Paris that M.
Julien Carrier, lately of the Bateman
French Opera troupe, has been killed
by a fall ia Bordeaux.
Attorney General Hoar elegantly
writes of the Fenians who invaded
Canada some years ago as " thieves
and robbers."
els" (with
"Ah!
"black diamonds, I suppose.
from tho Leb" 1 ~ *
Mr. Johnson
, vNeeder, pah ; I %as
"of de very fusteit families in
yah" (a little indignant). _ V
And what do you wtfat with me,
sir ?"
Why," was the reply of
respectable looking African, "de
is jes' dis: Dis yei gal Cynthia
I'se her husband. I says,
fondly over the top of what'nose he
had) dat I belongs to Rose, de odder
°;al dar. We'greed to come TOyou to
ecide de question." W
"This is a singular proceeding,
Crackers."
Gracchus, sah—not Crackers; I
told yer that afore," interrupted the
postulant.
Of course, certainly; go on Mr.
Gracchus."
At this point the woman Cynthia,
losing all patience, thrust a crumpled
marriage certificate under the íac¿ of
the Justice, with a request for its imme-
diate and critical examination. It was
a certificate of the marriage of Grac-
chus Johnson to Cynthia Brown.
Gracchus admitted that the certificate
was genuine, but claimed—and proved
—that Cynthia was a-thief, that h« had
married her in good faith, and that she
had just come from a two years' incar-
ceration in the county prison. la the
mean time he had wedded Rose. A iter
listening to the facts of the case Jus-
Mrs. Dr. Mary Walker thinkg that
the death Rrf-sident'fi
er e .
11#
tice Kerr looked very grave.
"This is a serious busines
*. ■ ■ y -
IX : - - . - 'i
usiness, Crack-
ers.'
"Not Crackers, sah, Gracchus,"' was
No more appropriate name than this
can be used to designate the dirty rags
which s¿re now misnamed " currency,"
" legal tender," &c. Even the boot-
blacks in the street wipe their fingers
after handling it. But since we are
not likely to have any better currency
as long as the Radicals rule the land
we are heartily glad that we are to
have a new clean lot of fractional cur-
rency. We have had several changes
in ten cent, twenty-five and fifty cent
¿now we are told still ano-
paper
A \ ~
j is dispensed with,'
printed in red being
The ten Éant note, in-
stead of being ornamented
as now, by thu head
has the bust of a woman, supposed to
be the Goddess of Liberty, The fifteen
cent notes will have on their face the
figure on the dome of the capitel. Fes-
senden's head will be taken off the
ve - cent notes, and that of
n substituted, General Spin-
ner's bust will be taken off the fifty
cent notes and be replaced by that of
the Late Lamented. AH the issues
for circulation
ugust.—Boies and
i^asi
Í of political |
-yea¡_
men vill .
Francisco +~
uiare was judgment on
giving hor an office.
The Queen of Portugal's name is en-
tered on the register at Baden as the
Duchess de Guateres. She is in very
bad health mentally and physically.
A relic of the days of Frederick the
Great is gone, namely, Mme. Tamtuiti,
who was the vocal teacher of the beau-
tiful Queen Louisa, and who recently
died at Potsdam in her 100th year.
Professor Franz Apt, the popular
German song composer, has been invi-
ted to become conductor of the great
national ssBngerfest to be held in Cin-
cinnati next year.
Admiral Charles Stewart, "Old Iron-
sides," is ninety-one years of age. His
general health is good and mind vigor-
ous, but he has what is supposed to be
a cancer on the tongue.
Gottschalk is making lots of money
in Brazil. The Emperor always goes
te his concerts and gives the pianist
private interviews.
The Marquis of Westminster has
sent £1,000 to the British Colonial
Emigration fund. This will enable the
committee tó dispatch to Canada from
two hundred to two hundred and fifty
emigrants before the end of the present
month. Nearly three thousand per-
sons have been assisted to emigrate
through the agency of this fund.
Berlin savans, who have examined
the so-called posthumous papers of
Alexander Von Humboldt, pronounce
them worthless and unfit for publica-
tion.
Dr. Beck, the non-committal witness
in the Craig-Sprague breach-of-promise
Case, has dropped into literature in a
4fries^y;
J ~ otress| Fsany Janaus-
an absence of a few months. It
she will make New York the
her residence, and will study
teachers, with a view5 to performingG¡n
English as soon as she is prepared.
She will not appear on the stag# until
she has acquired our language well
enough for this purpose.
Mr. Goldwin Smith, who at one time
actually packed his carpet-ba Twith an
intention to withdraw from this un-
grateful conntry. is now writing more
letters which indícate an intention to
remain.
the impatient remark of the puzzled
object of so much female affectic a.
Well, Gracchus, your case is cer-
tainly a hard one, but you know what
the Good Book says: 'Whom the Lord
hath joined let no man put asunder.-' "
"Well, sah, den why didn't de wo-
man behabe civil ? Whar's de use o'
stealin'-—whir's de use T"
"Certainly, there's no use in steal-
ing, Mr. Gracchus," replied the Alder-
man. "It is violatory of one of the
cardinal points of the decalogue. But
you know that the obligations of aaat-
faxorito rimony are very sacred. Don't you
him for not remember the charge made to you ia
the coursef of the ceremony, by the
magistrate who performed it V
"I do, sah; it was jes' free dollars,"
"I don't mean that, sir; I mean the
counsel that he gave you."
"He didn't give me any .counsel,
sah."
"That's strange."
"Yes, sah; de only counsel I got
was from de constable.*'
"And what did he say ?"
Why, I only had two 'dollars and a
and he tole me if I didn't bring
other half dollar in de mornin' he'd
burst my head."
You're dismissed on your own re-
nizance," said themagistrate, * 'until
Thursday next, at three o'clock. At
that time a decision will be rendered."
The trio then departed as they came.
SSf*
M&
mm
ABoy Lifted by a
Escape.
A young lad at Lake Station, Miss.,
had a very large and beautiful kite pre-
sented to him, about six feet by four in
size, which be attempted to raise just
as the wind was increasing and a storm
was threatening. The wind drew the
kite so heavily as IpÉíiag the boy along
also. To prevent losing the íávorite
he wodud the cord round his body. At
last the gust bore kite and boy along
in the rapid air currents. The boy
seemed to be abont 100 feet above the
earth and the kite five times that dis-
tance. At last the young kite flyer
caught in the top of a tree, and was
suspended seventy-five feet above the
ground. A flood of rain came on,
slackening the line, abating the wind
and allowing the little sufferer to be
rescued. He was found to i
scious and so
-it
evening s
a great deal of
an abundance of
" is now carried
and the bustles
and- larger than last
, when a caricaturist made a
woman's outline take the shape of a
dromedary. But this is not the most
noticeable feature of the fashionable
" ; shoes with heels that necessa-
the wearer forward enable
her hips unnaturally be-.
Uj the artistitiHHH
> wear
ia
stomach, strained
head and a ten-pound
the places
*
(are
gigiIP
f¿iv ,:m
I ■' -
mm
PlfSi
Ole Bull comes hither next fall, but
not to fiddle. He proposes to travel
with some manufacturer of his impro-
ved pianos.
one to think of i
or wears any
He consorts with |
■TSLS
to having 1
Still
An intelligent physician of Amelia
county, whom we met yesterday in this
city, informs us that a negro man,
named Gustavus Cox, living near Chula
Station, on the Danville road, said to
him the other day : "Mas'
jes bin to Richmond, they ain't
voting thar yet." "Oh, yes," said
Doctor, "the election was over
time ago. They are not voting '
is, Master," said the
in his i
in a jolly 4
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