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|Rur ©rlraus ilqmbtau. OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE UNITED STATES OFFICIAL JOURNAL 6F NEW ORLEANS | Pur tLe Sunday Republican. | WOMAN. WKK kSCIYABIF FArj-T AS ' • OSSTANOT. . would nut Dave a woman ail perfection, Her little faults I view without alarm; She « uoue the less deservisg of affection. And each small error hath its special charm. She • irresistible when moat capricious, Quite interesting when inclined to fret, And absolutely to all men delicious— When in society a gay coquette. I like to see her at her victims glancing, With eyes that triumph in her own sweet power; I like to sec her in a ball room dancing, Where mirth and music gild the rosy boor; in d when she cuts one lover for another^, Making some ftUow wild, acotkor glad. The eestacy 1 feel I scarce can an other, Though, on my conscience, it doth secai too bad. I love her vanity in finely dressing. With an absurdity that's scarce denied; Lacing her corset in a way distressing, Making herself a martyr to her pride. Squeezing her waist into ethena'. slightness. Although I'd much prefer a larger span As best rewarding amorous politeness When she is clasp'd by that dull creature—man f love her foreign sirs and native graces. When in mixed company she seeks to shine, At vulgar wretches" making up s'.y faces And smiling graciously at dandies tine. She is the most enchanting of all jilters, With ankles cased in silken stockings fair. Displaying them by careless tbng of' t iters, Driving all hearts to regions of despa.r. I'm rather fond of that entrancing fashion. The low-neck dress, when things are smooth and white, i'ro voking admiration and sumc passion. And thrilling souls with rapturous delight, lier anna ablaze with many a precious jewel— Plump, naked arms that we so long to fill— She may be most tyrannical ami cruel, But we forgive her, and mast worship stiff. You laugh at her ridiculous bead dresses— A flattened nondescript, with ribbous bright— Yet he who gazes inwardly oonfesses There's fascination in the pretty sight. Ton st ernly view the buglet of the misses, And ail the nonsense whiih her soul exalts. While yon eotild eat her np with frantic kisses And take her as she is. with all her faults. She is the object of sarcastic mention To half- brained writers and to envious apes. Because she ll not accept thairduli attention. Tli erefore they raise the cry of ' sour grapea" Her favor drives them all to mad distraction, Her frown doth send them muttering away, They preach their calumnies for satisfaction. And imitating donkeys loudly bray. Let moralists condemn—to na is given Appreciation of a woman's grace— When we approach her we are nearer heaven Than we ean e'er attain in earthly place We don't affect celestial aspirations ; Woman, with all her errors, rupture brings; Moat exquisite of all mundane creations An angel here below—without the wings. There was a lady with a dark blue eye. And voice with mnsie In its every tone, Who often heard a sentimental sigh. For she wai deeolate, and sad. and lone. 1 ve breathed my sympathy into her ear Chasing the sorrows from her so iff s dark elms' feta, A cd o'er her woes dropp'd many a scalding tear. And even paying for her beer and oysters. They told this maiden I had stores of gold, That I, in short, possessed abundant cash . I laughed to think how badly she was "cold." For I could scarcely raise my daily bash." But she. believing in my fable! wealth, Set all her wits to work for ' roping in ." And a te more pickles than was good for health. Just to reduce her ile«h and make her thin. And she was all attention to my wishes. Plying a snortive tain s jocund par!. Just dropping in and washing np the dishes— And shedding sunshine in my pensive heart; Once, in defiance of her parent's frown. She sent a beauteous present unto me— A meersl aum pipe, iu color a rich brown, Made from the white foam of the sparkling sea. She never ventured, like the rest, to tease me, If or at my eccentricities would smile; She always dressed especially to please me. Showing her person in the modern style: Loose in her costume, like the belles of France. Above the waist small coverinc sufficing, And cultivated many an ardent glance To make herself deliciously enticing. he'd murmur, "Darling when we get united We'll pass our honeymoon away from home: We il visit Italy, and be delighted With the antiquities of classic Borne " 1 fondly asked; "Oh! whore shall cc me the money? Whereat she fondly pulled my (dyed) moustache, end saving, playfully, 1 was too fanny, F; oke of my ample store of solid cash. On summer beaches we have oflc-n sported, In winter, "warming." we have passed oar time: We've sat up all the livelong night and courted. Tiff Sol at inom the rosy east d;d climb. Our love d,d long survive the wind and weather. We thought our fond affection ne'er could die; Onr lipa in rapture closely glued together, Andawcetest pleasure freighting every sigh. Bat purity distil foffice*, enr communion; So pasaion octet land virtue's kits; W«« waited for our matrimonial union To consecrateour great and mutual bliss. The maiden still persisted in believing Tliat she'd become a very wealthv bride In wedding me—as I was not deceiving 1 nursed her error, aud so "let it sliae." One day the maid received communication That I was poor as Job's most ancient fowl; That filled lier with the greatest consternation, She sought my lodgings with a furious howL I quick continued the story ; she departed— 1 don t regret this lady s loss, nor fret For her like a pour fellow broken hearted; I have no faith in "woman s love vou bet. FLORENCE. MABELS STORY. [From the Argosy. 1 AYe lived far away in the country in a rustic district. My father was postmaster of the little place, and kept a few groceries for sale. But. l,e had enough to do to maintain his family scantily, and clothe them decent ly. I was sixteen, and housekeeper; niv mother was dead, and I was the eldest of us fottr children. The rest being younger, I strove to do my best for them. My one great trouble then was mv clothes. Other young girls ot our station that I asso ciated with, dressed better than I could, and it grieved me. Vanily begins earlier than that in the female heart. I had made up and remade every article of my mother's wardrobe for the children or for me, had worked up every shred to the best advan tage; and now all was gone, and I did need a new dress for the eouiing winter. I made my shoes last as long again as other girls did, lor I knew my father needed every Sixpence lie could earn,and 1 dreaded want ing anything. Not thaT he was cross, but he often sighed, and looked so pained aud sorrowful when I asked for money, that I tried to Jo with as little as possible. But here it was the last of October: mv 1 dresses, poor enough at all times looked very thin and paltry how. vnV Ue ivf tnr ; la - v . nt ' tenioou 'l shall never for get. It is what I am going to tell of Mv work was a" done, the children at play te the or .hard, I combed out my long brown hair, put on my best cotton Irock, selected /r UCn of ,,wn making, and pinned it around my neck with an old breastpin, the only bit of jewelry I had ever owned. With me I think it was ,n stmet to dress well. Not line; only neat, Ihen, taking out my last winter's best frock, I sat down by the window to see w hat I could do at renovating it. It was a light blue merino—very light indeed now— And I knew it was too short for me, as I was still growing, and was very shabby' But by turning and putting in a wide hand of,trimming which I had. I thought it might be made to answer; so I set to work with a wili. The work was vexing. I was trying to do what scarcely could be done; and as I sat sewing and contriving. I felt fit to cry over our poverty. Just then the dog on the shop-sill set up a loud barking, and I looked to see what it was at. A man was coming in at the gate with a pack on his back; a traveling peddler, I anew. He smiled arid came in, although I said I did cot want anything, and the children, seeing him, came running iu too. "I can not afford to buy; indeed I can not," I kept saying. But the man only kept on smiling, and opened bis pack on the parlor floor. Aud it was too great a treat to me to see the things to make great oppo sition. The first lhat came out was just the very tiling I had most louged for—a beautiful liue French merino of a dark crimson color. I had once seen a dress of this kind, bat none bad ever been offered for sale in onr little place that could equal this in shade or texture. The peddler looked at me with his keen black eyes as I knelt down to feel the prize I had no ho|*e of winning. "The la.ly will buy," he said: but I shook my head, and crossing my hands behind me, stood up res olutely, trying hard not to long for the much-desired piece of goods. 'Not buy!" he exclaimed in a broken language of some sort, I could not teil whether German or French: ami he looked so astonished, even pitiful, that I felt sorry at once, aud confessed that I had no money, and could not purchase. "But the beautiful young lady have some old silver, old jewelry, old silk dresses— just good as money 1" said he. I laughed at the" idea, but he only opened another package to display to the boys some dumb watches with very gay chains, aud handing them each one, he took out a small doll for my little sister, and told them to run away now, "till sister bought her dress." I motioned to the boys to stay near the door-step, and then taking up the much coveted uress-piece, I again examined it. Satan was tempting me. or some vexatious spirit that does duty for him, aud never had I been so sorely beset. How could I let it go. yet bow pay for it ? * The black eyes never left my face, but the fellow was respectful, odly bowing lower as he said. "You think it good 1" Oh, yes !'' I replied, "too good for ine." Not so." lie said. " It suits you much, and you shall have cheap.'' "I tell you 1 have no money." "No matter, I trust. You give uie some thing to keep for you, and I come again," he said. "But I have nothing," I insisted. Still he only seemed more eager: said something of j hard times, of having to stay at the tavern, and expenses over Sunday, of Iteing "very tire"—and I with the weriuo in my hand all the while. Suddenly he stepped close to me pointing to the poor brooch I wore. I could give him that, he said; that is. lend it to him in trust until lie came again. Did I think much of it, he asked. 1 laughed as I undid it. I did not think much about ir. but it was all the jewelry I possessed iu the world. I showed him rnr name on the back, "Mabel." But it was worn nearly illegible now. •Nearly quite." said he. turning it about in hisliHuds. "It is very poor." And tliis was true: the poor thin gold, if it was gold, was ail dinted aud mashed rtat, the original pin gone, and a needle tied in by the eye with a thread served to fasten One large stone was set in the centre as large as a pea, surrounded by nine smaller ones, but one of those was lost out long ago. and I had often tried to find a piece of white glass to fit the small cavity, hut had failed, i'iie stone* were all glass as I believed. Some of the girls of the village would ask me why 1 wore the old fashioned thing, and then I would show them the dim "Mabel" on the back, and tell them I had been named after the came there. Some one had given my mother the pin for me when I was born; and she saiit I should hear the same name. The peddlar kept it in his hand, and I noticed that his fingers trem bled. "I ll bring it back to you iu three months' time." said he; "'twon't be o' no good to me. but I II take it on trust. Or, if you can pay soauer, I shall he about the neighbor hood ail next week, and shall sleep each night at the inn." Be you very sure I did not hesitate very long : the temptation was too great: so, thrusting the old pin carelessly into Lis breast pocket. he tied up his bundles, and with ow bows left the house. I cmild scarcely believe in mv good luck. I spread out my new frock on the bed. aud held it before me to try the effect. And then 1 began to repent. My father. I knew, would not give me one cross look : but still 1 did hate to tell him of the twelve shillings 1 owed the peddler. 1 would be so saving for the next three months that he would lose nothing by my bargain, for I'd scrape it together myself. When 1 (licked up the linen band to put it round my neck. I did not know how to fasten it at first without that familiar old I*iu: then I recollected how often the girls bad told me that a bow ot ribbon would j look so much prettier. So, looking up a I small piece of black velvet. I formed a j baw. and felt more than satisfied. ! My lather did not get home to tea or to supper. I put the children to bed after ■ their slid of bread and treacle aud a good washing. At ten o'clock a note came, saying some business had detained my father; that I had better close the house and retire. This was nothing very unusual, as his business matters often kept him late. I was quite a staid little woman in manage ment. and did as I was bid. My father would come in with his latch key. On Si.uday morning at breakfast the children Showed him their watches aud doll. I said nothing; about the dress, for it struck mo he was looking anxious. "Where's your breastpin, Mabel?" he asked, as the children ran out before the door after breakfast. Th« lireastpin ! I was frightened at once, lie had never asked after it or noticed i: before. He must have heard of what I d done and was angry. -Father, I have not got it!" I exclaimed once, ready to cry. "Not got it! What do you mean, child ! Y'ou surely wore it yesterday ?" "Yes, sir," I replied, "and it's all safe. I was just going to tell you about it when you frightened me." "Well. I don't wish to frighten you. my dear; 1 had no thought of such a thing. Calm yourself, Mabel, while I tell you of a letter I received yesterday, and then you can get the piu at your leisure. You can get it!'' | "I can get it, father: or rather vou can. But I hope you will not blame me. What have you heard about it ?" "Well, my dear, listen. We have never attached any value to that old pin, only ) I ! j I a that to that a good, kind woman gave it to your mother to keep for you, and so we did keep it because of that. She was a stranger to us, poor lady, and was in distress, and your mother was kind to her. But she left the place soon after you was born, and we never lteaid more bf her. Y'esterdav, how ever, I got a letter from a long distance, ashing about that very pin, and even to the Mabel" U tbe * )aclt ^ is ver T valuable, ,1 " a r t was bating ten strokes where it should have beat but one. „ "I* 10 P. in have set uo store by is of great value, Mabel. Tbe centre diamond alone is worth what to us poor people would be a fortune. And it is all vours. mv dear; you can convert the diamonds into money and be at ease for life. YVliat with the overpowering surprise and what with fear of my fathef's Sr i fainted When I came to myself on the sola in the parlor, the children were there duel it WJki too late to go to cliurcli I felt J be wildered and trem bled yet, but'listened attentively to my father as he read the ini portant letter from Lord in. Then I spran" up wildly. * " "Oh. lather, father, go down to the Black Horse," I exclaimed, "lhe peddler is there and he has my pin." My father's first thought was that the good fortune had turned my brain. I ex plained all to him. He was very kind never scolded me; but. as to finding the pin and the peddler, he knew more ot the world thtin his foolish child, and was not so hope However, he thought it best to go, and for me to go with him. So in a few mo ments we were walking dowu}to Uie Black The landlord was sitting alone in his front porch, smoking quietly. He Horse, his fr looked surprised when we walked' up the uy b We steps, but very politely invited us into the parlor, explaining that his women folks had gone to church. "Is there a peddler staying with you, Mr. Ford 1" began my father. "A peealer!—no," exclaimed the land lord, as if the question vexed him. "I have not seen a peddler for three weeks, and the one that was here then did not pay his bill." I must have turned very pale at this, and felt faint again, llr. Ford wanted me to take a cordial. My father turned it otf, saying I was tired. Then he said that I had made a little bargain with a peddler the day before, and that we wished to settle with him. "Got cheated, I warrant," said the bluff old landlord; "but no such man came to this house yesterday. I do recollect now that Joe. my ostler, said he saw a fellow with a big black box or bundle come up from the bank of the creek just after the stage passed, but I didn't pay any attention to him." My father gave up all hope at once, hut I could not believe my fortune was gone. He tried to comfort me. saying I was just as well off as before, and had a new dress into the bargain. How I hated the thought of beautiful merino. ell, it is of no nse to prolong my story, or tell you of all the efforts made to catch the adroit thief. He was no peddler, but a clerk in that very law office from which the letter was sent telling us of the dia monds. He managed to delay the letter to my father for a post or two, hastened away himself, and obtained my diamond pin. We never found him; we never heard of him. He must have got otf somewhere over the sea with his prize. My poor, toiling father, always gentle, did not reproach me: hut even to' this dav the remembrance lies heavily on my mind; for wbat might I not have done for him and the dear children with all my money 1 And the lady who had given me the nin did not know until she was dying the value it was of; and that caused the stir. Ah me! it was one of those chances in life that per haps we all miss on occasion; "the tide in the affairs of men that, taken at the tiood. leads on to fortune." And about my crim son dress ? For a long while, shabby though I was, I could not look at it or let it be made up. Bnt time soothes troubles. Aud I must ear that it made a charming gown: and one wfio was an artist saw me in it ami made me his wife. So, perhaps, it all happened for the best. But I am sure I hope that wicked ped dler—who made believe to sjieak like a for eigner the better to take me iu—came to be hanged! Confederate Reunion. [Prom the St. Louis Repubiu and Lexington. Mo., October 10.—The con federate reunion to-day was a grand sue cess. A most bountiful preparation had been made for thousands more than were on the ground. Over five thousand persons were present, and more than two thousand of them confederate soldiers. Eloquent, conservative, conciliatory and patriotic ad dresses were delivered by Colonel G. 8. Kathbnra. General John 8. Marmadnke. General William Shields, Colonel Hiram Bledsoe. Captain Farris and Captain Kn lisly. Eighty head of cattle, sheep and hogs were barbecued. In addition, hun dreds of baskets of delicacies were supplied by the ladies, and a magnificent dinner was spread by them over the fair grounds. The barliecae pits, presided over by William Benton, were three hundred feet in length, and the cooking could not be surpassed. The whole dinner was made up by the vol untary contributions of the citizens of La fayette county. Among the distinguished gentlemen present were Generals J. S. Mar inaduke and William Shields, of St. Louis. General Bradshaw and Colonel Gates, of St. Joseph, Colonel Thompson, of Platte county, and Colonel McCarty, of Clay county. Among the members of the press present were Major Edwards, of the Kan sas City Time*. Mr. Child, of the Richmond Conservator. Mr. Southern, of the Indepen dence Sentinel, X. J. Colman. of the St. Louis Rural World. Mr. Kennedy, of the Springfield Leader, Major George B. Clark, ot the Potosi Journal. Captain Williams, of the Carroltou Record, and many others. | I i I I ; it The Quebec (Canadal. Chronicle of the twenty second says: "It would appear there is truth in the.story recently set aiioat to the effect that Vanderbilt. Jav Cooke & Co., and other leading capitalist and rail road kings in New Y'ork, offered the Domin ion government to build our Pacific railway on certain conditions, including, of course, evtensive grants of land. The Ottawa Ministers did not see tit to accept it, or take any important steps in the matter till the meeting of the federal parliament. .Mean time it Is reported that a Canadian firm, at the Lead of which is Sir Hugh Allan, con template undertaking the work, and mak ing proposals to government. The survey ors are out on the plains, and moving to ward the Rocky Mountains, and probably their reports as' to the nature of the country and the best route for a railway will be made up by the next session. Then an in- I telligent estimate of its cost can be formed, i and we doubt not capitalists either here, in I the United States, or in England can he 1 found to undertake the great work." A company of Y'ankees. in June last, sent the brig Nelllie Gay, from Providence, fitted out with machinery for submarine exrdora tions. to search for treasure supposed to have been lost on the San Pedro lie Alcantara, ship of war. which sank off' the coast of Venezuela, half a century ago. Arrange ments have been made with the Venezuelan government for a satisfactory division of spoils in ease the object of tbe'expeditiou is successful, and late advices state that the wreck has been found lying in ten fathoms of water. Ail three decks are broken down, and with their guns in a contused mass in the lower hold, leaving the ship's sides still standing. Large quantities of copper fastenings, brass trimmings and lead have been raised from the wreck, bat the explorers, on the second of September, had not found the kegs of dollars and doub loons, which form the objective point of their search, although they were sanguine of soon reaching them. When through with the wreck, our enterprising fellow-countrymen propose to test the riches of some 'large beds of pearl oysters near by, which lie in from live to twenty fathoms of water, and are beyond the reach of native divers. | ihildren, that God is The pastor of one of our churches was catechising the pupils of his Sabbath school, aud remarked: "Remember, dear everywhere." Tlie words had hardly escaped his lips, when a roguish little iellow rose up and said to the pastor: "Please, sir. did vou sav that God was everywhere l " "Yes, my son, everywhere." "Is he in my pocket?" "Yes. he is in your pocket." "Well, I guess I've got vou there." was the triumphant retort; "'cause I ain't gut any pocket." A girl called to apply for a place in Bos ton. The lady of the house asked for her reference. "I have lived five years at my last place." said the girl; "if you want to know any more about me ask Father Haw ley." The lady was favorably impressed with a girl who had lived five years with out changing her place, but she concluded to call on Father Hawley. "Do you know a girl named So-and-so?" "Yes." "She lived five years at her last place ?" "Yes." Ali correct so far, but as the lady turned to go l ather Hawley inquired. "Do you know where her last place was ?" "No, she did not mention that." "It waa in the State prison!" A man at Lawrencebarg. Pennsylvania, recently put up a nice new house, in which ne inserted an imposing stone chimnev. A few mornings after tbe piate was occupied l rain had fallen, he found a !? ^ ls roof and two wagon loads stnrwf!^ on bis hearthstone, lime """" Foot t K 6 i Ba t V St ' Louis Ga =eUe: Everybody knows that Bay St. Louis is a aiH?!^AP la £ e ' but il does not follow that Sii^ta Tn^hoi7 aterfaU8 ° a tWr heads, ?Yes, creeks in their skirts, or that tneyau wear high-tied shoes. True some of them have a notion in their h«^i. on,i WO ocMwoftily awiauZtS ,*««. ' NO NAME. BY (THKL ITJril. "loo shall we call our baby, wife ? 'rio queer wee mortal thing. Witt battling hand and restless foot, Anl ear like midge's wing. We'Ugire her chrism sweet and small, A vord that s soft aad low. A somd to hear term lips of love, As lavs of earth life go. Fans' or Bose, or Daisy, dear? Hekn, or Grace, or Fay ? weffe called Jier " Baby" long enough, 'Ti. near her christ'ning day. 1 ou 1'iu't care, do you. baby, dear ' Yoi'l gabble, cry and crow, it w. should call you Polly Ann, If ft but speak it low. But ly and by, my woman child, ,F* tones you love to bear. You: name shall be a fairy boat. Tobear sweet love notes near. Audio it shall tie soft and sweet, No grate as sounds go by; * 0 . *i"t*et. 1 can't decide to-day— Iff find one by aud by. Ice old, like a waxen thing, fit quiet sleeper lies. Witl hands nufolded on its breast, Aii soul gone home to Paradise. its wall life lived, its slieaf of tears, Bamii in a bundle small. It fodeil thus its waxen hands Atsoine Almighty call. Onrist ning ear no accents caught. Ncnauie like earth-born word;. Butitill methiuks an angelcalled ' Bk'oy," and baby heard. FKm DEATH TO LIFE. A Stiry as He Tald it Himself. He was a tall, one-eyed man, wearin" a hroad-briinned hat aud a red dannel shirt. He sat on he railing of the bridge, whittling and talkiig *0 three or four others, stand ing near br. Yes, sir said he}. I was dead once. It was the srangest thing you ever saw in your liie. You don't believe it. ha! Well. I ioa't wonder much. 1 don't sup pose any nan ever went through such an awfnl siegi. and I can't exnect anybody to look at it is I do. Y'ou see it happened like this: It vaj that winter we lumbered on Whitcoml Creek, six or eight years ago. It came off. We went at work about a mile from the shanty—Jim Robinson aud me— an«l had sadied into the piae like all pos sessed. The boys were hauling pretty lively, fot .t was early in Jancarv and sleighing vis good. Jim was at wort on a big tree about twenty rods from where I WiH*. Pretty s>cn after he yelled to me, Lis tree toppled over and fell. It was as handsome a piece of pr.e timber as yon ever saw. and I watched ll as it fell. Crash it went, right into the Innche* of an old gmb oak, and hnng fast there. I never saw a fellow mad der than Jiu was. He tried every possible way to loostn the pine, Lnt couldn't get it off. Finally we made up onr minds to go for the oak ree. and in aboat ten minutes we bad it c;t through so it trembled like a .leaf with etery stroke of the ax, he cutting on one sideind I on the other. When it was almost through, as I was the biggest and best chopper. says J^> Jim: "Let me faish her, Get out of the way, and I Till Lave her through in half' a minute." I had bam chopping a minute or two. | when Jim let loose a scream that would have made » Injun's blood run cold. Ijust I Lad time to look up aad see that (dne tree i tumbling don. when I dropped my ax and I run. I coiidn't have got far when some I thing seemaito hit my eyes, and then every ; thing was dirk. I suppose I was dead. Maybe y*u don't believe me, boys, but that's all . can make out of it. All at once the ligit, the looks of the snow on the ground, evavthiug was shut out from my sight. Thee was a kind of a uncertain, dreamy kinl of a feeling, just as a fellow has when te's asleep. I knew something awful had happened, bat I couldn't stir myself Lam or foot. It seemed as though it was night and that I was covered up by something that pressed heavy upon me*. Still there vasn't any particular pain, and and for a I eng time I couldn't think where I was. Hiw long I stayed there I can't tell. I supiose it wasn't long; when I felt somebody lull my arm, and I heard Jim ; Robinson s;y: "0 Lord ! Poor fellow !" I knew hi was there and I could feel him touch me, aid yet I couldn't speak or open my eves. Ie thought I was dead. Then I wondered i' ail dead folks could know and think thing as I did. I tried to move my hands: I tred to breathe; I tried to scream. But I coultn't do anything. Jim left me: and the nest thing 'i remember of, I was pulled oat from under the tree and hauled to the shaity ou one of the sleds. Y'ou may bet thee was considerable excitement among the boys when I was taken into camp. I could feel that I was dead. My heart didn't heat. I couldn't more. But I could hear,an 1 had a kind of a misty no tion about everything that was going on about me. Some of he boys, alter feeling of my forred. waned to send for a doctor. "It's no tie, hoys," said the boss, "the poor fellov's gone. His neck was broke. The most re can do for him is to take him home to he fslks. Well, tier laid me out on one of the sleighs, anl after fixing me up in as decent a way as a Corpse could he in a lumber camp, one of the teamsters started with me for Oshkob. At first f didn't realize just how bad the situation vas. When it begun to leak into my head liat I was really dead, and was going to b( buried in the ground, and shut ont forever from the light of the sun, it frightened me. The long ride to Oskosh passed likt those things that happen in a dream. Vi c got here and I was taken to my brotha-s house. He felt terrilile bad when I was brought home. I hadn't any idea that bethought as much of me as he did, poor Mow. I could hear him err and | j j j 1 talk, aud sail I hadn't the power to move a muscle. Ivas put in a coffin and finally it came out tail I was to be taken to Water town to It buried. My old mother lived there you tnov. O. bovs, I hope none of you may e'er feel the horrors that I felt, when I kiew that I was boxed up in a coffin and would soon be buried. Seven years liavt gone by since then, but I never think of it without a chill. I could feel them putting on the lid of the coffin, ind then I knew I was fastened up. From tlat time until the cover of the coffin wai raised again, I haven't any recollectioi of what happened, only that I waS contiwally in motion. Though I couldn't ojen nty eyes, I sorter felt that it was dark, »nd I was going somewhere. All of a suddei I felt that some one was turn ing the soews of the coffin lid, and after a while the «over was taken off. My poormother screamed as though her heart was .iroke. I couldn't stir, and yet I could feel :h$ warm drops from her 'eyes upon my fice. I would ?ather die a thousand times over than go tlrongh the horrible suffering of that affairagain. There I was, dead and going to be buried, and yet so near alive that I kn;w what was going on. Bovs, yon may t»lk. but there is nobody in this world that thinks as much of you as your mother, Tou can imagine my feelings—no, you can't have the least notion of how I felt when she vas taking on so over me. After a while I could feel that my mother had stopped crying. Then I thought she must hare tainted. I never was much in the praying line, hut if ever any one made a stroug try to call on God for assistance. I did then. I could feel my mother's soit hand on my head. "Georgq.' said she to^ my brother, "his forred don't teel very cold. How strange it is!" Then George's hand was pa? on my for red, and I could feel him place Lis hand on mv breast. They seemed to think I might not be dead.' Pretty soon a neighbor came in, and there was a good deal of talking that I couldn't understand. Then I was lifted out of the coffin and placed in a bed. I was rubbed all over with a coarse towal. Still I couldn't stir or ope n my eyes. They gave up all hopes aud left me. Then my mother came to five me one last look, I could feel her near me just as she ■. , , , , - me just as she uoed to be when I Was a boy, and her hand | anrotted my hair in the old way, that I seemed to take me baek to tbe time when I wasn't so bad a* I am now. I tried with all the fone I could to speak. I made one stroug effort to louse myself, and finally broke the spell and looked np. My mother fainted, bnt help soon came, and after taking some medicine and doctor's stuff, I was able to think freely and breathe again. la a little while I was well again, except an ugly scar on the baek of my neck. The doctors said I had a narrow escape. My spinal cord, they said, Lad been struck by a branch of the tree, and I was as good as dead. It was more than a miracle that I waa ever brought to. Thay had a good deal to say aboat paralyzing my nervous system, and stopping my circulation, and all that, but at any rate I got well. I didn't chop any more that winter. a It in to a I ! her otl ! Why Da the Alan Propose * A young lady, in a communication to the San Francisco Chronicle, makes indignant complaint of the unreasonableness of men in asking women to marry. She says: I am pestered with offers. Now, I like men; 1 like gentlemen's society better than that of my own sex. I like tnem because their association is to me pleasing and profit able. I want information and knowledge of the world, and ali the wisdom I can ac quire, and all this I can batter derive from personal association, and masculine associ ation at that, than from all the books or the women in the world. Not that I'm going to pat myself up as a thorough bluestocking, angular, shrunken, sharp featured, with ered. spectacled and strong minded. My blood circulates prettv lively, and I am not averse to the feel ot a coat sleeve or the sweep of a mustache to 011 up the pauses in the conversation. But moderation, judg ment aud prudence in ail thiDgs, say I. Because champagne is exhilarating that is 110 reason why any sbonld drink themselves into any sort of a'gutter. Now,'I never offered to marry a man. I never had the presumption to say to a gen tleman: "If you will be my exclusive com panion for life, I will support you; I will be a mother to your children. As to congenial ity, why, I'vo only seen you in company dress, but you please me in that, and I'll take it for granted that in all their intri cacies and complications our natures will come into perfect sympathy and consan guinity with each other." But men will make such propositions after a six weeks' acquaintance, when in reality thev know no more of the woman whom they ask to marry them than they do of the main in tbe moon. There are men who will propose marriage to us, whose business would keep them two thirds of the time in the wilds of the conti nent. They seem to imagine that the honor of their name and alliance would be a sufficient compensation for a life spent two-thirds in the condition ot grass-widowdood, or of one entirely subject to the privations ot the back woods. There are others, confirmed invalids, who. because we are pieasiug to them, elect us to the station of tneir nurses for life. Others are poor as poverty, yet not for a mome.nt do they hesitate to offer us shares in their like poverty. 80 they tio. None of these gentlemen in the matter of'associa tion are unpleasing. All are possessed of j qualities which render association with ! them agreeable. But tbe law of to-day | seems to be that the moment a single lady j sees in a man something to admire, and al i lows him to become aware of such adutira j tion, that moment his lordship must imagine j that she Is head over heels in love with him. | It is then that he either demands or im portunes a return of his passion: it is then that lie becomes furiously jealous of aii her other male associates,'whom she may have known and esteemed for years: and. to be sure, if she doesn't comply with his demand or importunity—if she doesn't teign an affection which she may not feel—his lordship goes into spasms either of despair or rage. He threatens either suicide or revenge. (Mr. Editor. I've got a trunk full of just such desperate let ters, and I'm half inclined to publish one occasionally, without signature, of course, just in order that some of their lordships, who daily carry their heads very high on Montgomery street, mar see how their in sanity looks in print.) 1 ask again: Why may not a lady enjoy congenial masculine association, based on propriety, whieh might prove mutually profitable, without being continually pestered to marry ' ** Marry .' marry ! marry ! " That's man s eternal cry. "Marry and settle down." Settle down into a house—"two-story back." perhaps—settle | down into a kitchen, a eook-stove, a wash j tub. a cradle! aud so keep settling, set j thing, settling into a wearr, worn, faded woman—on whom the male importuner. j after five or ten years of his exclusive 1 companionship, may look and congratulate himself on having accomplished a Success ful min. Y'ou men are deluded on this subject of matrimony. You meet a woman attractive to yon. and forthwith you con clude that tlie be-all and end-all of her ex istence here is a place in your own private cage, where she is to sing for your own ex clusive benefit. Y'ou conclude because she is outwardly pleasant in your company that all is serene and quiet within. Y'oii have yet to learn that the best specimens of womanhood among yon are fast cutting loose from this old-fashioned idea that mar riage is the sole end and aim of her life. a This report of a homicide we copy from tbe Richland Ileaeon: It becomes our painful duty, as the faith ful chronicler of events, to record one of those sad tragedies whieh throw communities into a fever of excitement occasionally. It is hard even for a perfectly disinterested party, as we are. to detail the circumstances of events without any appearance of pre judice or favor. Hence we will state the case as brieliy as possible from the evidence. It seems that the most intimate rela tions—almost brotherly lore—between two former partners, Messrs. Hanna Cc Nettles, at Girard, terminated in bitter hatred, as is often the case, occasioned by some mis understanding in connection with their business, probably, of whieh we know nothing and care to know nothing, which culminated in the death of Mr. Hanna last Tuesday morning, from gun or pistol shot wounds. He received three shots, but the fatal one entered his cheek, and ranging downwards, broke his neck, and is sank to have been tired bv James L. Spencer, a young man who lias always heretofore borne a good character and is of a good family. Three parties. Joe II. Nettles, William Oliver and James L. Spencer, were accused of the homicide, promptly arrested, and, after a preliminary examination before Hon. W. S. McIntosh, jiarish judge, the two for mer were admitted to bail in the amonnt of 52000 each, and Mr. Spencer committed without the privilege of bail. Such are the facts of the case as it now stands. Ail three are in jail vet. though Messrs. Nettles and Oliver will probablv make bonds to-day. I A correspondent of the London Times says: "Mrs. Siddons was a lady's maid. I believe, to the Duchess of Ancaster, a re lation of the Greatheads. She was at Guv's Chff when young Greathead broke his le<* He was a remarkably clever bov, and the duchess maid, for bis amusement durin" tbe t^lious hours ol his recovery, used to read Shakspeare to him. The boy was de lighted, ane insisted upon Siddons goin<r ",° w " Xo . 11)6 drawing room to read before the duchess and the party staving at the house. Her grace remonstrated. She had no idea of her maid being so prominently forward; but the boy would not be refused. He was funons at tbe denial, and, with more zeal, perhaps, than discretion, he re torted upon his noble relatives in these words: 'Mv lady duchess, Siddons is one of God Almighty s nobles, and that is more than year grace can say for yourself.' " The theory of physical deterioration in Massachusetts is illustrated in an address just delivered before the Farmers' Club at Princeton, by Dr. Nathan Allen. He says that m 1840, when the popnlation of that town was 1347, "the number of children be tween the ages of five and fifteen was twice tae n °5J.'®er in 1870, when the popnlation wa ® For the last ten years one-sev enth of all the births in this town have been m families of foreigners, though the population, of this kind does not exceed 00 in number. Whatever may be the bear ing of this fact politically, it certainly does not furnish a very good economical argu | ment in support of the Know-Nothim* I tatriae. pp ^ow-tfothmg luaest Wtrti by a Jid#> Salt Lake, October 6. —Judge McKean has just adjourned the grand jury till No vember 13. There is- nothing doing, and so his honor made the following remarks: "Gentlemen of the grand jury—Y'ou have presented to the cowt some very important indictments, most of which are not yet made known to the public. Ton are all business men, and most of you are largely engaged in business enterprises. Yon have rightly comprehended your duties. The man is an idiot who does not kaow that the business interests of all human interests largely depend upon the enforcement of the laws, and the man is a knare who knows this and yet opposes the enforcement of the laws. The time is now at hand when even idiots will perceive and knaves confess that yon, gentlemen, are among the best prompters of the highest interest of this Territory and of society. Your names and what you have done wul be mentioned with gratitude by the good and wise in years to come. "You ask permission to adjourn for a time. Y'on shall have it. Tbe court must reipain in session for some weeks yet, bnt von may adjourn to Monday, the thirteenth ot No vember next. Come back at that time, gentlemen, and there will be more work for you to do. Y'ou have the thanks of the court for what you have already done." The semi annual conference ot the Church of Jesus Christ commenced this forenoon. The attendance is not as large as usual. The different elders have spoken, all to the glorification of the Mormon church, bnt generally the language aud sentiment is quite moderate. One of the apostles remarked signifioantly that he was willing, and so were the great bulk of the latter day saints, to obey every good and constitutional law enacted by the government of our country. \V : *.h laws, however, which were designed to infringe on his or their rights as freemen, he could not sav quite so much. It is expected Brig ham Young, if able, will speak on Sandav. It is rumored authoritatively, that George Q. Cannon, editor of the Xetrg~ and one of the a| ostles. will be arrested to-morrow on charge of lewd and lascivious cohabitation Skip That. [From the Gtaml Army Journal.} After the capture of Mobile by Farragut's lieet the Secretary of tbe Navv* wrote a let ter of thanks to the admiral; He was in the cabin wben tbe dispatch came on board, and as his sight was not good he handed the letter to hU private secretary to read. The secretary read: "Sir—The department has heard with great pleasure of the captore of Mobile by the fleet under your command, and I take occasion to thank you in the name of the government of which you are so noble a servant. Your name, sir, will go down to posterity among"—"Stop, stop, sir! Stop all that flourish of trumpets. Skip ail that, sir, and let ns know wbat they want ns to do next," said the noble old fellow. Italy as a Earattae Nation* The commerce ot Italy is increasing rap idly since the reunion of her dismembered states. The number of vessels owned by the country in 1SG0 was If,000, with an ag gregate tonnage of 650.000 tons. In 18tS the nnrnher had increased to 17,500. and the tonnage to 853.000, a growth of 230,000 tons. The average tonnage of vessels built is in creasing. The valne of the vessels launched before the unification of Italy was scarcely ten million.^ sterling annually, while now, including Venetia, it is twenty-seven mil lions. This increase of ship valuation in eight years speaks well for the commercial prosperity of the country. For the consolation of planters and others who are disposed to think that their successes and prosperity* fall below the average of other industrial classes in the community, we will state that the follow ing facts, derived from Captain J. E. Scott, assistant assessor at Homer: The annual assessment returns of this (the fourth) division, comprising the parishes ol Claiborne, Jackson, Bienville and L nion, will be small compared with that of previous years. For these s mal l returns there are two reasons: first, a large number of the United States taxes were re moved during the past year: second, owing to the losses of the merchants and planters on cotton, the incomes of the last year ex ceeding $2000 were few and far between. In faet, in the whole four parishes but four income returns (that is, returns from those who gained in clear money over $2000) were made. The number of merchants in the four parishes are eleven in Homer, three in Lis bon, three in Arizona, three in Shiloh, four in Vienna, two in Scottsville, two in Haynesville. one in Tulip, one in Colvnitt, one in Gordon, one in Athens, one in Sum merfield, and about fifty others in the entire division. None of these, so far as we are informed, made any transaction in cotton without sustaining from $20t>0 to $10,00) loss. A great tuaay planters appear disposed to imagine that merchants are getting rich hand over fist, when sometimes, in realitv, the contrary is the case. It costs in the ab sence of any railroad three and a half cents a pound to transport cotton from here to New Orleans. Consequently, when a mer chant buys cotton at two cents below tbe New Orleans market, as they are nowdoin * m Homer, the result is that thev most still lose as a money investment. Th'e particular a J avantB S8 to them is that in so doing is that they receive immediate payment for debts which are due them. Except for the reason thus given, and for the purpose of tacuitatiug trade, we doubt whether anv merchant ever dreams of purchasing cotton at prices now paid with the hopes of makin^ a profit. What, however, mail© their losses so heavy for the last year, was the sudden fall I in its value after it was bought, and the fact that it brought less nionsv in New Or leans than had ke-n paid for it in Homer.— Claiborne Adeocute. [From the New York Time*.] General Butler has just received a letter from some colored citizens of New Orleans m which they thank him for his deeds in their behalf in the past, and earnestly ex press the hope that lie mav be elected Gov ernor ot Massachusetts, 'they sav : "Y'our name. sir. is treasured among us. Ve knew Y'ou thus national fiag sovereii von in times that tried men to the utmost, lou entered our city when it was pent with a thousand cruel spleens that menaced vou on every side, aud with but a barren wel come at the best from our few loval white residents. Disorder evervwhere prevailed lour hand mastered it. An unhappy man dared rend down the national Hag; in its descent he found a fatal at the other end of the rope. Three miscreants in the guise of Federal soldiers entered and robbed houses m our midst; they were shot, avenged, and at once, the and the national uniform as sovereign promises of peace and protection to all. 1 on asked the black man to stand by vou and maintain his inch of Union soil. You enabled him to assert himself, to earn his title to that soil, and to call the men of the North m yonr command his brethren. And you have done much for him 6ince bv zealously assisting to engraft his civil guarantees upon the same national charter that assures the defenses of the white citi zens." • • T ! ie ,t otal "uml** of Germans residing in the United States is 1,690,533. distributed as follows: Alabama, 2482: Arkansas 1 vsa. California, 29,701; Connecticut 12jhhf;' Delfe ware. 1142: Flonda, 597; Georgia 2761 ,.^3,758; _ Indiana, 78,000; Iowa! vaaa, New Hampshire, 436; New Jersey, 54,000; New Y'ork. 316,902- North Carolina, 904; Ohio, 182.897: Oregon 187V Pennsylvania, 160,146; Rhode Island 1201 houth Carolina. 2751: Carolina, 2751; Tennessee Texas, 23,985; Vermont. To! " 4539; Wisconsta^l62'. S; te j 1 n ; J.°2Z r :^ Dakota, T, 1 p t . age m . California will exceed brandv °. f ga,lon8 ' exclusive of " a "dy- T° tlie lover of fruit this is of all ^ a , s ?" a the most attractive for visiting the Golden State. It is worth a journey across the continent just to look at some of the fi rei t—that is the very acme of delightsome tail ere stiaa Svrswfswt Becisiros. [From the St. Loxis Republican.} Among the recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court given in Wallace's reports is that in the ease of Ludlow vs. Aanise j, on appeal from the United States Circuit Ccarf for the eastern district of Zenaessee. The facts, briefly stated, are: That while Ramsey was voluntarily absent from his Louie in Knox county, Tennessee, serving in the confederate cause, 14 piece of property was sold and bid in by Vail for *5100 under decree to pay a note for $3.:2 held by Cynthia 8. White against Ramsey Ludlow purchased it from Vail, and Ram sey, on his return, sued Ludlow for posses sion of the property, alleging that when the suit was brought against him on his note he was absent, and n it in a condition to defend it. It appeared further that after his return from the confederate armv he was pardoned by the Pres dent, and in his snit against Ludlow this pardon was pro duced. The district court granted him the relief asked and set aside the sale, on the ground that the attachment issued at the suit of White was insufficleut "for want of suf ficient affidavit;" that the chancery court of the State in which suit was brought ao qnired no jurisdiction; that, the proceedings there were "null and \oid;" and that as they had no other effect than to throw a "clond" upon Ramsey's title, tlie removal of it the court regarded'as ground for jurisdic tion and relief. Ludlow brought the case before the' Supreme Court, and that court decided in his favor for the reasons s'ated below: It is averred by Ramsey in his bill in the present suit that at the time when the at tachment was made out, and when the pub lication was made in the newspajier at Knoxville, notifying him to appear and de fend the original suit, or that judgment would be taken pro con/esso against hint, he was in no situation to see or know of such publication, and he makes variuns al legations in confirmation of that statement, that he was in the country hold by the con federate troops, etc. On these allegations the question arises, why was the complainant in the country held by confederate troops ! Why conhi he not return to Knoxville ? Why could be not have communication with that place? It was his place of residence. He says that he left Knoxville a short time before the federal troops arrived. Why did he leave ? Was he forct d to leave, or was his return forbidden ? Could he not have returned at any moment by submitting to the authori ties of the United Stales ? Was not kia ab sence a voluntary one ? The order of pub lication was made at the January rules. 1864. President Lincoln's proclamation ot amnesty was issued on the eighth of Decem ber previous, offering pardon and amnestv to all persons who would take the oath of allegiance. .Then what obstacle existed to prevent the complainant's return? The cause* alleged were certainly insufficient. ^TLe case differs from that of Dean vs. Nelson, decided at the present term. In that case Nelson and his wife were driven out of Memphis by a military order, and were not permitted to return, and the pro ceedings to foreclose their property took place (faring their enforced absence.' The other defendant, Mav, was only nominally interested, and had always been within the confederate lines. But if, as in this ca-e. a party voluntarily leaves nis country or his residence for the purpose of engaging in hostilities against the iormer. he can not be permitted to com;.lain of legal proceedings regularly prosecuted against him as an ab sentee. on the ground of his inability to re turn or hold communication with tlie place where the proceedings are conducted. That would be carrying tbe privilege of contra tom valentem to an unreasonable extent. We think it can not be set up in this case. A clergyman relates, in the Sationa Baptist, the following comical incident: A parrot belonging to some friends of mine was generally taken out of the room when the family assembled for prayers, for fear he might take it into his head to join irrec - erently in the responses. One evening, however, his presence happened to be un noticed, and he was entirely forgotten. For seme time he maintained a decorous silence, but at length, instead of "Amen," out he c ame with "Cheer, boys, cheer." On tl i the butler was directed to remove him. and hiid got as far as the door with him, when the bird, perhaps thinking that he had com mitted himselt, aud had better apoligize, called ont. -'Sorry I spoke." The over powering effect on the company mav be more easily imagined than described. Y ire President Colfax contributes to last week's Independent a letter which is worthy of his reputation as one of the manliest and most sensible of our public men. After re citing the record of the Republican party, he points out clearly the measures that it must take up and carry through, in ordec to -show by its acts that it is the partv of genuine, practical reform." These are: Re trenchment—bringing the expenses down to two hundred aud sixty millions per year; the cessation of subsidies and land grants: amnesty, with a few possible exceptions: civil service reform, and a modification of the tax laws by a reduction of from sixtv to eighty millions. Mr. Colfax is no trim mer. but he is a shrewd observer of public opinion, and his advocacy of these progres sive measures is offered' not less on the ground that they are wise in themselves than that the people demand them. The Chinese are now studving navigation with all their might and main. At the various imperial arsenals throughout the empire native pupils have lately been in structed in this branch of knowledge: and for the first time in the history of China one of her sons has successfully'passed his examination of competency as second mate. It is also cow proposed to establish a svs tem of examinations at tbe different gov ernment school of western learning, in or der that f hose who most distinguish them selves may be seut to Europe to complete their education. The "heathen Chinee." tuat ignoble term which has been applied to the race for so long, ought to lie given up. ior. leaving out navigation, Cliina possess^ some of the most learned men in the world. A Washington special to the St. Louis Republican says: Eight prisoners, sentenced to the peniten tiary under the Ku-Klux act in North Caro lina, have just passed through here on their way to the Albany penitentiarv, where prisoners convicted in the United States courts are confined. Most of them were pUin-lookmg termers. One, however. Rob ert Shotwell, w as a handsome-looking fel low, well educated, and has been for some time editing a paper. They were under guard of a squad of regular soldiers from tne Fourth regular artillery, and the pro cession looked like an incident of the late war. The Iberville says: It is our melancholy duty to announce the death of Mr. Joseph M. Grass, of New Or leans, which sad event occurred at the resi dence of his son. Adolphe Grass, Esq., in rlacquemine. at half-past one o'clock Wed nesday morning. Mr. Grass was a well known and highly esteemed citizen, and al though he had passed the allotted three score years and ten of patriarchal age, his loss is no less a severe blow to the commun ity than to his immediate family and friends. tender onr sincere condolence to the afflicted relatives of the deceased. This, from the Richland Beacon, is cheer ful : The weather remains very pleasant and favorable for cotton picking. Wc are grati fied to be able to state that the crop has been damaged very little by the worm: therefore, there wid be a two-thirds crop made in this parish, for which it is to be hoped our planters will receive a good price. The corn crop is better on Bomf river than in any other section we have seen, and some ot the farms have yielded a fall crop. Other portions of the parish have good ordinary crops. The season has been an unhealthy one for fickle young ladies. Those who have read the papers have probably noticed the fact that within a month at least five unstable damsels have been murdered or horribly mangled by loving swains, with whom they have seen proper to tritle. lhe business of matrimony is no w a practical realiBr. It now "yonr hand or your life," and uie lady who says "yea" to the first offer snght to aadcntwid the nek she ie rumiuft