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FHK MEMPHIS STJZSTDAY APPEAL-APRIL QO, 1873.
MEMPHIS APPEAL
M-SU.1V SOUSISG, APKIL 20, 1873
inr.ni.LEM or thr ii-rBSi
UMI THE KOI SDATIOBI OF flUB-
ATION.
The little cloud which the farmers of
the west created a few weeks since It
about to overshadow the nation. In
.very section of the Union it is spread
ing in deepening, darkening masses
and the monopolies which have so long
made the farmers mere hewers of wood
and drawers of water are awed by the
vivid lightnings and the muttering
thunders of an aroused and indignant
jeople. The farmers of the south have
caught the contageou, and they too are
combining for mutual protection. The
(ires which burn so brightly in the west
em State have !-eu kindle! in the
south, and in a short time granges will
lie organized in every southern county.
The south and west are neighbors nat
ural allies; and, burying the hatred- en
gendered by war and political strifes,
they will for the future stand together
upon a common platform, in defense
of their material interests. The
merchant should understand the
laws of trade aud hnauee: the mechauie
should be well versed la all the mechan
ical improvements of the age, and en
deavor further to iesseu tbe.labors of
man by his own contributions of inven
tion and skill: the artist should become
so far perfected as to add still further to
the joy and admiration of mankind by
new aud startling exhibitions of his
genius, in life-like delineations of his
pencil and chisel, and the farmer should
show no less knowledge and skill in the
all-important pursuit which he follows.
He has, heretofore, understood ail that
is necessary to produce fields of waving
wheat and abundant corn, aud he i.
uow laboring to learn how to prevent
his hard earnings from going into
the dishonest pockets of the mo
nopolists. That the farmers will
-ed in this struggle for their rights
no one familiar with their power will
doubt. All other professions, trades and
avocations have combined for mutual
lieuetit aud self-protection, and it has
ieeu a matter of surprise that the farm
ers have so long slumbered on their
rights, kept dormant the overwhelming
-,wtr they possess. But they are now
aroused, and to show what they are ca
1 aMe of doing, we have only to refer to
: -tires and facts concerning the larm
p:Kluct.-. The census of 1S70 reports the
number of acres of laud in farms in the
l -.iitcd States at 1SS,921,0!9; the uum
ier of acres in woodland 15K31 U, 177; the
number of acres of other unimproved
land .i9.5Uo,7oo. The area included uu
der these three heads constitutes that
which is inclosed and embraced in
farms. Less than one-half the inclosed
aivy is under cultivation, and the whole
idosed area is less than one-tenth the
national territory. The yield of the
, in. i pal grain ci ops iu bushels in lt7o
i a- a- follows:
v heat
. iwiriey aud buckwheat.
a corn...
1.3S7JW.1S3
The following is a statement of some of
the other farm products, the cotton crop
i.ot leing included :
, brans and eas bus
') and maple KUgar..
Mcsmud -rup
iagir
. ulieep and entile
i eowi
do
gallons
do
hogsheads
number
i .Hf.lt.
sau
6".f:'t-.
Milk.
Vafae oi aUnjniered animals BMS.aan.-Cfc j
aluenf orchard aud garden produrls .'XA,tS'
uar i- the only article iu this list of
u imestic product-whose yield is insul
n. ieut to supply our own demand. The
e-timated cash value of farms iu the
st.it-- ;s nine billion two huu-
ired and sixty-two million eight -hundred
and three thousand eight hundred
aud sixty-one dollars, and the estimated
value of farm produeU.stoek aud imple
ments for the year was four billion three
hundred and nine million six hundred
aud ninety-three thousand and forty
four dollais. These figures show the
iiowcrof the farming interest. So
that they are combined, their voice will ; cneJ4j. roaUs in domains wrested from u
are the test of a city's
growth in greatness. Whenever a
city prospers it press is ioteut, and
each organ of opinion extends its In
fluence ami thus enlarges the area of a
Ma . , 1 J
city's trade. Miow us ine oounos ui
Memphis uewspaper circulation and we
will define with perfect accuracy the
limit of Memphis commerce. Advertise
ments and editorials iu Memphis news
papers attract more trade and popula
tion than all the drummers ever sent
abroad by all the merchants ever con
gregated within a city's confines. The
: riime of the Memphis press, and
we do not speak of the A I'i'itAi. alone,
demonstrates the success of Memphis
irmlespoople, :.r,.! ai-"rt" that
the commercial power of Mem-phi-
is constantly and rapidly strength
ened. There- was never such anx
iety matiifesteo by cities and townsof
'In- interior to sos-nre direct railroad con
i .oil with Memphis. It was deemed
enough, not many years ago, by Boli
var, aud Jackson, and Holly Springs,
and Oxford that they had secured direct
roads to Louisville. St Louis ami other
distant centers of trade. Then Mem
phis was despised. In fact, we deemed
ourselves ruined by lateral roads, built
to destroy this city and aggrandize other
and remoter centers of trade. These
roads, as shown by reeeut incidents,
will ultimately serve us more effectively
than even we ourselves have imagined.
They enrich the country they penetrate,
and when we have built transverse
liue. Memphis tecomes the sole
beneficiary of Lhat mhtakeu en
terprise, which eariched ( for us
districts of country developed rather by
the spirit of rivalry than by the
spirit of wise commercial adventure.
Ail these lateral roads, which we have
regarded so ruinous, become the choicest
adjuvants of our progressive good for
tune. The Cairo ami Fulton, like
the line to Fort Smith, becomes the Iest
feeder of the Memphis and Little Rock
road, and yet the Cairo and Fulton road
was to desolate, the birds of evil omen
said, the richest fields from which Mem
phis has gathered wealth. Heavy
freights from Texas will hardly be
borne three hundred miles by rail ts St.
Louis, when within one hundred aud
thirty miles of Memphis, on the Missis
sippi, whence such freight may have a
choice of routes, land or water, to the sea.
Oxford, Mississippi, like Holly Springs,
on the very road that was built in ab
surd hostility to Memphis now seeks,
and wiselv. direct connection with
Memphis. Memphis obtains coal,
bacon, flour and all heavy freights by
water routes; Oxford and Holly Springs,
by rail. There is a wide margin for
profit- in differences in the cost of trans
portation, and thus the interior towns
everywhere in the vicinity of Memphis
are drawn to us by an irresistible force,
aud Use lateral roads, the Mobile and
Ohio, Mississippi Ceutral and Cairo and
Fulton, which we have been accus
tomed to pronounce detrimental to this
city, are most ttencficeut. They have
enriched wide districts sd near us that
we can lorce traae in luis
direction, and such is now the power of
Memphis, and such its wealth, and such
our resources, and such th? perfection of
our railroad system that every lateral
road built must inure to our own advan
tage. We need only build cheap narrow-gauge
roads to Oxford, to Holly
Springs, to Jackson, and Brownsville,
aud Jaeksonport to concentrate in this
city, by cheap freight charges defined
by cheap roads, all the wealth created
by the great roads that were built to
destroy Memphis. Were nature's laws
controlling the course of trade different,
Memphis would have died at the hands
of her stupid masters; but Memphis,
as we have seen, is indestructible,
immortal. The very agencies insti
tuted and employed to effect our
overthrow and humiliation minister to
our aggrandizement. St. Louis, dis
covering and confessing the fact, pro
poses at last to a! audon the purpose of
destroying, and would trade directly
by a direct road with Memphis. Never
was there au incident in our history so
nattering to our i.o .-. this final a
sent of St. Louis to the construction of a
direct highway between Memphis and
St. Louis. It was .-een.wheu we have re
acquired supremacy by means of short,
MREBTV IS TIIE HI RCHRS.
There can be no doubt that the liberty
characteristic of the age is beginning to
be felt in the churches. It is almost im
possible to take up a paper devoted to
the purposes of any of the various forms
of religion, Christian or Jew, without
finding therein the evidences of a grow
ing desire for liberty on the part of the
clergy, the absence of which
had hitherto been conspicuous.
The Jews are breaking away from
the old forms aud now unmeaning cere
monies, the more advanced of them
- king affiliation and exchanging pul
pits with the Unitarians. In the Ro
niau Catholic church there is the "old
Catholic movement" of Bavaria, and
others too numerous to enumerate, and
in the Anglician Catholic the extreme
movements representing the evangel
ical and Uie ritualistic. In the Baptist,
Presbyterian and Methodist, and their
offshoots, there is no positive move
ment of magnitude noticeable, as
none is deemed necessary, since
they claim to represent the ex
treme of Protestant opinion, the right
of private judgment and individual lib
erty. But in the three old liturgical
creed, limited by custom and hound by
the exactions of canon law, two of them
governed by a hierarchy more or less
supreme within their limit there is, it
is said, room for some contention for
liberty, as there is iu all religious bodiss
for the growth of liberalism. The latest
outcropping of this agitation for lib
erty to which our notice has been
invited is just now engaging the
attention of the ministry, of all shades,
i'i ,. Episcopal church of the
United States, and takes the form
of a desire for entire independence on
the part of that class of any interference
with the priestly function by the laity.
It i- held by correspondents of the
Church Journal that vestrys, usually
made up of pew-holders, and not, as in
the dissenting churches, of communing
members, as should be the case, and the
otlur organizations deemed a necessary
part of church machinery, are but tyran
ni.iug bodies, whose acts aud doings
savor more of the money-changing dis
position and social-prominence spirit of
the world than of that which, relying on
the Lord, does not take heed concerning
the morrow; and that, as a consequence,
the minister finds himself necessitated,
by his daily bread to yield to their su
preme mastery rather than confine him
self to the ways best calculated to make
his church as a light set on a hill light
ing a way to all meu. And what is true
of Kpiscopal lay co-ojierators, it is al
leged, is equally so of the stewards aud
deacons of other churches, who rule
with arbitrary sway, leaving men of
brain, talent and sometimes genius for
the gospel tssk uo alternative but to sink
into the position of clerical drudges(
bereft of all spirit for their work, and
many of them of all love for a pursuit to
which they at first attached themselves
from the most disinterested motives. A
w : r in the New York Church Journal
calls these governors in the Lord's vine
yard "lay popes," and seriously ques
tions whether they are not an iufinitely
worse " institution " than the good
hither whose life is fast ebbing
away in his prison-palace at Rome.
In the church of Rome the orders
c me down from the pope through all
the grades of the ministry, until they
reach the executant who, soldier of the
-, bows -uomissivety, and
betakes himself to his appointed task,
without question or murmur. To this
he pledged himseif when entering upon
the profession which demands all that
iie is of a man in intellectual force and j
bodily vigor. Not so with the Protest- j
ant minister. He hugs to himself the j
notion of an extended liberty, to be en
joyed alike by priest, bishop or deacon;
that he has uo master but Christ, and
no father but He who is in heaven. He
acknowledges the necessity for and
submits to canon laws, every one of
them, he says, squared by the Bible
to which he consecrates himself a free
inquirer, but he has no pope, is his own
hfchop; but entered upon the work of
his ministry the sceue changes; there
rises, self-martialed, before him not one,
ut livehuudred masters and mistresses,
sisters aud brethren, in as various moral
array as the orders of the Roman church
which they deride aud scout, all eager
Such a man, though thoroughly
grounded in the theory and technique
of bis calling, is always a student, 1
always increasing his stock of knowl
edge and preparing hinisell to keep pace
with an advancing world. To these, and
we have many such, a public library is
a great blessing, bringing, as it should,
within their reach the text-books of
all the sciences, tire eneylopedhvs and
hand-books, essential aids to all .scholar
ship and attainment. If our citizens
who have at heart the solid and endur
ing welfare of the community could
only realize this could only be brought
to know as those do who have given the
matter attention, they would hasten to
answer the call of the Mercantile Li
brary Association for memberships that
will enable that enterprising body not
only to collect at once a handsome
library of books, but to put up a build
ing that will be an ornament to
the city, and answer their noble pur
poses for many years to come. To do
so, only seventy-five thousand dollars is
necessary, and this may be had from five
hundred life members at one hundred
dollars each, making fifty thousand dol
lars for a building; and five hundred
ten-year members, at fifty dollars each,
making twenty-five thousand dollars
for books. Small as these subscriptions
are by comparison with the benefits to
be derived by the community from the
permanent establishment of a library in
a fire-proof building, we hope the com
mittees now out soliciting them will tmd
theirs an easy task, and that along with
tbeother projected buildings to I carried
up this summer we may be able to num
ber the Mercantile Library Association
building. It is a shame and a disgrace
to us that we have beenso long without a
public library,and now that one has been
established on a firm basis we trust it
will not want for an enduring support?
What wealthy lot-owner will make a
free gift to the association of a suitable
lot?
NAMES OF COISTIES IS TEW-
RESMH.
The illustrious Dominican, Father
Burke, who made so favorable impres
sion upon all classes iu the United
States during his recent visit, was the
recipient of great honors at the hands of
his own people at Maur, Ireland, re
cently. A banquet was given him by
the faculty and students of St. Tarlath's
college, at which the venerable Arch
bishop McHall was present, and at
which the greater orator signalized
himself again as one of the leading men
of the times. We chronicle the fact as
indicating as high an appreciation in
Ireland of the witty, genial gentleman,
unsurpassed orator and good priest, .as
in the United States, where he will al
ways be held in the highest esteem.
People from all partsof thecountry are
examining the lead mines of Arkansas,
shown to be richer in silver and in lead
than the famous Emma mines, in which
it is said, a capital stock of thirty mil
lions pays twenty per cent dividend.
For the Sunday Appeal.
iMr
BY Ll'CIS.
You have come at last, Adlne, steeled eac h
noise and strung each nerve,
Bid a calm smile settle down on the sweet
lip's rosy curve.
I'ut a cold 1 ok in jour eyes thnt was never
there before
When thev looked straight in my own till
the lashes long would lower.
You have come ai last, Adlne, to the altar s
frigid rails, .
Tho the smile is on your lip, all the cheek s
warm c lor pales ;
White, dead white, from head to feet-to the
little slippered feel
You have come, have dared to come, In your
bridal robes complete ;
Matters it that 'tis not 1 who is standing by
That
iXY
afar and watch you, watch yon
bride ?
in, fair Adlne, how I scoff at tills
oe potential in future electiot s. For th
.;rst time in the history of the country.
tanner propose to make tin n.-ci-. direct a magnificent nad toward Kan
1 -It la elections. They arc entitled to t M City, and draw to Memphis the
1,-spect, for the farmer, the honest tillei agricultural wealth of Kausss,
of the soil, c
..vilization. Farming, in all ages, an. I
among all nations, has invariably pre-
l.i 1 in. Mol.itt Artfi Ohio All I Mis or iroverumeutal supremacy, all con-
Oeutrul roads, how easily we may then ! tending for church control, all deter
mined u:oii c&uturiux the parson. He
. eded all other kinds or labor
been the great power that has
wrought out civilization. No nation
nor people have ever existed
upon the face of the earth, that became
. lltivators of the soil, aud remained un
, ivilized. No nation or people ever i
i-ted without the cultivation of the soil
hut the savage. Until man gives up the
wild woods and fixes himself perma
nently in some place and seeks a living
from the earth, he is a roaming barba
rian. Some degree of civilization may
exist without commerce or without man
ufactories, but none without agrii ul-
,!,-. Where this begins other arts fol
low. The tiller of the soil w, then, the
founder of human civilisation, and in
stead of !ing fleeced, rolbea and gov
erned by monopolies, he should exercist
for his own protection the lever and ful
crum which he holds in his bauds. capable
of moving the world. The fanner is en
gaged iu the most honorable avocation
of life. It is also one of the most use
ful. Haviug shown that it is the fouu
dattoa of i i vilization, it follows that the
. i iizsl world could not exist without
it. Without the farmer, men could U
neither fed nor clothed; citiesand towns
would Ijecome depopulated. The busy
hum ot industry In our factories would
-a.se. Commerce would be destroyed,
a ud we should become a nation of sav-
- This class, so numerous, so useful,
- i honorable aud indispensable, have
heretofore been content to pay taxes,
ouild churches, and educate their child
ren, to see the offices filled by worths - -demagogues.
But the railroad monoo
lies have been the last feather upon
i heir backs. They are combined iu sol
id phalanx to. resist wrong aud oppres-,-ion.
The worm will sting the foot ibat
iramplas it in the dust, and iu similar
desperation the fanners of the wMt
ouutry have turned upon the heels that
nave ground them in the dust. We are
with them in this righteons contest,
tint, last, all the time.
the honest tillei j agricultural wealth of Kausw, Mis
the foundation o wllri allci f the territories. We reneat it
that those incidents of fortune which
we have deemed unmixed evils, be
come the choicest blessings to Memphis.
We are forced by lateral roads to build
short, cheap
lateral roads.
looks about him bewildered, confesses a
dilemma wholly unexpected, aud that
there is like to be illustrated
again the old fable of -Ksop.
The man who supposed himself free In
the church, wakes up from a pleasant
delusion to find himself a slave to
roads to intersect these cliques, in attentiou to whose behests
Our cheap roads to Holly j the time he was to give to preaching to
Spriugs, and to Oxford, and to Bolivar I the poor is frittered away, and presently
and Jacksou. and Brownsville reduce
freight charges to a minimum, and the
cotton trade will lt forced into Mem
phis. As everything now gravitates
toward New York, cheap roads will re
verse the operation of the law of trade,
and the great through lines must take
no freight, or bring it at the cheaj
est uarrow-gauge rates into Memphis.
Let us, therefore, build the cheap roads
adapted to the condition aud resources
of sparsely populated States, compiling
the broad gauge rea ls to upbuild rather
than destroy this city. Colonel Dono
van hardly will have finished the road
to Raleigh wheu he will be required to
build others like it, and, within eighteen
months, if we do not mistake the signs
of the times, each of the little roads of
which we have spoken will be com
pleted. Paying a profit as they will,
aud costing hardly more than a perfect
turnpike, they will do more for the
country and for the city than any
wealth-produciug agency devised by the
progressive intelligence of this wonder
ful age.
EIIHI'G (.HI t lis
aiu ilia or
Despite the excessive cold, the ice
1 lockade, the disease of horses, the more
terrible disease of man the small-pox
all striding over the laud in each other's
i'ooUteps, during the past six months,
and each uttering Milan decrees with
poisonous breath, and imposing emtar
troes ujtou commerce despite these in
eideut of ill-fortune, Memphis prospers.
The growth of the city is solid, substan
tial, steady and enduriug. There has
!eeu no Hidden outburst of unnatural,
Ithy lirotrtj-siveuese. I'ronertv
have not been unnaturally or
illy inflated, as we have seen iu
former years; but there has been a sure
advance in wealth and imputation, and
every branch of industry grows in
s length and e.aiids the volume
I its pruductiveuesa. Newspajsi
If there is one man in this community
who deserves to be thought better of
than his fellows, that man is he whose
name heads this article. With one
accord we all acknowledge that the
great need of this place is railroad con
nections to the west something to put
us iu position to offer tradeinducements
to lhat empire over the river. Whilst
others (Uked of these things, and (oid
of our wants and preached of th good
to come of the western roads, Green
law, the mau of deeds, acted! He
boldly struck out for the west, and
threw his indomitable will a nr. energy,
bis private fortune, upon which he could
have retired in ease and idleness, and
his brains and experience into the scale.
For awhile the contest seemed, to some,
doubtful; others, of approved skill aud
energy, had failed in the attempt to
overcome the obstructions which nature
offered to the building a road through
the great Mississippi swarup. For our
selves, we never felt a feai, for we knew
our man; from the first we knew he
weuld succeed, and how well has he
met our expectations. The road has
been built aud raised above the chance
of overflow; it is being daily put in
better and better condition, until
a noble ambition gone, he sinks to the
merest common-place sermonuer and
companion for the ladies who
find, through church-work, a fixed place
in "society," for which many
of the dear sex are willing al
most to break their necks. Against
this clique-tyrauuy the ministry are
begiuniug to lift their voices earnestly
and to demand the liberty wherewith
the gntqiel had originally made them
free. With such noble examples of liberty-loving
ministers as Beecher, Hep
worth, Tyng aud the gentleman who so
successfully ministers at the high church
altar of St. Albans, New York, and the
general example of the Catholic church,
they long for the freedom that will en
able them first to declare for free jews,
and theu enter upon the work of the
miuistry as the Master himself in
tended, preaching, the gospel to all
who shall obey the call as those
who hunger and thirst after righteous
ness. We know of no reform more es
sential to the increase of believers than
this liberty of Uie minister, so long lost,
except it le the liberalism that will ena
ble all, both priest and people, to real
ize that, called by whatever name, they
arc of the great household of faith, in
time to be gathered together in the
church not made with hands, eternal in
the heaveus. To be free, within the
limits of law, to order the services as
church custom prescrilies, and to be a
father to the little ones and an elder
brother, a counsellor and friend to all,
aud not the mere puppet of this or that
clique of his congregation, is the proper
sphere and duty of the minister, no mat
ter what his church, and unless he
enjoys the fullest freedom to do as seems
best to him in his almost sacred calling,
it will be impossible for him to work
with the energy or power that, when
properly exerted, as iu Beecher's case,
bears fruit a thousand-fold, persoual and
to the congregation.
And the priest who prays Uod's blessing on
your white, unclouded brow.
You are human, woman fair, tho' you look so i
,ni ri f U,hlt.
I have seen your cold eyes iit with a passion's
Hunting light.
I have seen your still lips tremble In an ecsta
sy or bliss, , ,
Thirsuus, famishing In silence proud, for an
anlramed kiss,
Love-words lurking on lueir carmine, lighting
all the little face,
Which could not move mystoiid heart with
all iu w inning grace.
HVre you proud iu those past days when you
huug upon my grin,
And pleased me in the pleasing way that lov
ing women charm?
Are you proud, U falling soul ! Knowing thai
yoar love I anew.
And knowing it could pass it by, aud live
unlettered thro'.
WU1 you teU him Him, who stands 'u your
very Inmost life.
That he h? taken to bis heart no wife-love
with his wile.
Handed, erring, fair Adine! w id you walk
adown the lane,
in the evenings of the future, wheu the
spring suns glow ing wane?
Will you walk beside him then, without
thin king of the day,
When you looked into my eyes words that
w omen dare not say :
-When von ang those songaunto me till ) our
voice dropped down in tears,
And yon whispered: on will leave me never
in the future years"
Will von tll him of thetlower that you placed
within my hand.
The ptersure and those sublie words thit
women can command?
How it wearied me this loving that I never
could return.
I sickened of her when 1 learntd what she
would from me earn.
We men are made urwoo our w lves, we love
to struggle hard
To bring tntn our bosoms that which seemed
forever baried
The further orTthe precious prize tue mort-
we strive to gain.
As draw ing down a star from heaven would
fire each sluggish vein,
How you stabbed me with your eyes when we
met in every crowd,
Wheu my jesting was the gayest, my laughtei
long ami loud;
Your fingers nerveless touched my own when
meeting in the dance.
You moved beside rau marble-white like
figures in a trance.
O be iutiiul, O changed Adine! There's some
thing in my li!e
That riseain a tumult that strikes a deadly
stri Te.
There is a something beats my heart wiLh
baid convulsive strokes;
Agalu I seem to stand with you under liiose
Among the shadows and the light I seem to
see your look
That ilke a mighty wind come down and my
whole being stiook.
Adtne! What nave I done? O Christ, to look
upon vou thus,
Aud know that au the future years can bring
uo tie to ua
Nor smile, nor tear, nor word of iniue enter
Into voux life,
As sold as death in closest life, being another's
wile.
You are avenged, fair t-pirit, look an outcast
and alone.
There is no hope, there is no life In ahieh 1
may atone.
For by that vow just spoken, love, our lives
must Lie apart,
And I can never hope iu life to hold you to
O w
I human heart, that knows too
Ol K I'l HLlI LIHKAKY.
Herbert Hpeucer, in his study of so
ciology now running through the pages
of the bjuiar Sci net. Monthly, says
the greatest evil of the age is half-preparedness.
And he is right. If one will
give a moment's thought to the uudue
number of failures that burden every
profession and trace them to their cause
e he will Hud that in nine cases out of ten
feel that we can safely t&y mat the , they are the result ol half-prepareduess.
great work is done. And now we say iXK)k for the successful law-
to our people, honor the mau who has I y-, physician, merchaut, mechanic,
done this; build him a monument for or contractor, and you will find a man
Ihe future, ami for the preseut give him j who was thoroughly prepared for
your moral supis.rt and encouragement, his work by graded studies aud experi-
I el it not be said that we have unr dt- I ences, each necessary to the conditions
lolly stoned our benefactor. ! which make the master in any calling.
That looks upon the utter world as emptiness
and dross.
Never to wake within her heart a single
thought of me,
And as her days go Sy in peace, mine void
eternally.
Never to rouse that look again in her deep.
tender eyes.
That wear a lifelong hunger where the dead
passion lies.
Father ! As I have sinned and bowed in grief
her lovely head.
U let me while 1 live und breathe now surfer
in her stead.
Let wifehood's duties lull to peace the heart's
first flatter wild.
And angels wings envelop her, spotless arid
uudefleld.
And let the wordless, wide remorse my heart
must ever feel,
Be closed In lasting silence, sad beneuth
Death's solemn seal. 1
DO AH KEAK KIUHT AS YOU tA'
liKI)lCATb TO THK XKCUaNK.
The world stretches out before you.
A field fo
And though
And often
Be fearless (
Push forw
Good fori u 11
If you do i
id
kin
at o'er you.
o'ertake you
llke a man
sake you,
you can.
ilemember, the will to do rightly,
If used, will the evil confound ;
Live dally by conaclenoe, that nightly
Your sleep may be peaceful and sound,
Let honesty shape every plan,
And life will of Paradise savor,
If you do as near right as you can.
Though foes darkest scandal may speed,
And strive with the shrewdest of fact
To inj ure your fame, never heed.
But 1 ustfy and honestly act ;
And ask of thi Kuler of Heaven
To save your fair name as a man,
And all that you ask will be given,
If Von do as near right as you con.
ALL'S WELL.
The day is ended.
Hy weary spirit
Futher, forgive m
Thin little 1
! With loving kiudi
And cool in rest
Thy pardon be the
Ho shall m
to sleep,
In Thine ;
k, aud keep
bed
:eel :
sli-
At peace with all The wor d, dear lxrd, and
TU-e,
No fears my soul's unwavering lultri csu
shake.
Ail's well ; Whichever side the grave foi in.
The morning sun may break. s
A correpondentof the Marshall i Tens.)
Gazette, writes that paper on the names
of the counties of the State, and adds
the following to out current history:
"It may be of some interest and histori
cal value to your readers and all Ten
nesscans, to know the names of the
different counties of Tennessee after
whom or for what reason each of them
have been named. In doing so, I will
state lhat during my leisure hours whilst
a member of the legislature, I had ac
cess to Ihe State library, and for my
own information, examined the legis
lative records of North Carolina, our
mother ritate, from 1769 to the year in
which she ceded to the United States,
all of her territory now embraced in our
State; also the acts and journals of Ten
nessee from that time on, and Haywood's
and Uamsay's history of Tennessee, and
Wheeler's history ef North Carolina.
From these mainly have i obtained
(though not entirely) the knowledge in
dicaitd by the heading of this commu
nication. Iwill commence with East
Tennessee, the oldest settled part of the
Stole, and with Washington county,
the oldest county in our State, organized
hv the legislature of North Carolina,
and which, at the time, embraced all of
the territory now Known as our ntate,
but then, that part of North Carolina
west of the mountains."
Washington county is the prolific
mother of all the other counties of Ten
nessee, and extended from the moun
tains to the Mississippi river, en the
west; from the Virginia, Kentucky,
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi lines,
on the north and south. It was named
after George Washington, the "Father
of his country." It is a significant fact,
that it was tiie first county ever organ
ized and ett!-d in the United States,
west of the Alleghany mountains. Born
during the revolution of 1776, or shortly
afterward, how fit and appropriate to
c til it alter Washington, "first in peace,
first iu war, first fn the hearts of his
countrymen,'' particularly our ances
torial legislators of North Carolina,
i-rom the loins of this original county,
ninety-one counties have since been
born and named.
Anderson county was named afier Mr.
Anderson, a United States member of
congress from Tennessee. He was in
the United States senate, and belonged
to a wealthy, distinguished family of
that came in Tennessee, ur. w. J.
Anderson aud Joseph Anderson, of this
county, are relations of his.
Bledsoe county was named after Col
onel Bledsoe, an old settler and surveyor
in Tennessee and Kentucky.
Blount county, named after Governor
William Blount, of this State. He was
governor during the war of 1812.
Bradley county, named afier Colonel
Bradley, "an old settler and prominent
citizen'cf Tennessee.
Campbell county, named after Colonel
Campbell , one of the commanders of the
American troops in the battle of King's
Moun'ain in September, 1780, and the
father of Ex-( iovernor William B. Camp
bell, of Tennessee.
Jefferson county, was nominated af
ter the author of the declaration of in
dependence, miuister to France, gov
ernor oi Virginia, secretary of state,
Vice-President, President and philoso
pher, and founder of the Democratic
party tinder the constitution. His in
augural address is the best state paper
of the kind, ever addressed to the Amer
ican people, all glory, honor, prosperity,
peace aud happiness, whenever the peo
ple go back to the simple economical
idea" of Jefferson, aud quit the "rings,"
"monopolies.'' "corporations," etc., of
this day, that now so heavily corrupt the
approaches to office of distinction.
Thomas Jefferson is the writer's model
of a statesman under the constitution of
the United States History already
gives Jefferson an upper place in this
country.?-
Knox county, named after General
Knox, of the "revolutionary war. He
vva chief ofartillery under Washington,
and his first secretary of war, after he
became President.
McMitin county, named after a former
governor of Tcuuessee.
Johnson county, named after Andrew
Johnson, member and senator in con
gress, Vice-President and President, and
also Governor of Tennessee; one of the
most remarkable men of this age.
Marion county, named after General
Francis Marion of the revolutionary
wariu South Carolina.
Meigs county, named after Governor
ami Judge Meigs of Ohio and the family
of that name and kin that settled aliout
the same time in Tennessee.
Monroe county, named after James
Monroe of Virginia, the fifth President
of the United States, from March 4.
1817, to March 4, 1825.
Morgan county, named after General
Morgan of Virginia, a famous and dis
tinguished officer of tbe revolutionary
war. He and his riflemen mainly con
tributed to the defeat of Burgoyue at
Saratoga iu September and October,
1777, which event turned the hinge of
American independence. General Mor
gan commanded the American troops at
the memorable battle ef the Cowpens in
South Carolina, January KI9L, in which
he defeated the British force, command
ed by Colonel Tarleton. This Wattle
turned the tide of events in the south
ern r-tates against rne rsriusn army.
His successful retreat (with eight hun
dred prisoners! after the battle of the
Cowpens, through North Carolina and
across Dan river into Virginia, persued
by a superior and veteran British army
commanded by Lord Coruwallis. This
was the most memorable campaign, re
treat au'd pursuit, during the revolution
ary war, aud settled the fate of the Brit
ish cause in the south.
Hamblen countv, formed by act of
legislature in 187l named after Heze
kiah Hamblen, an old surveyor and re
spected citizen of Hawkins county. His
grandson Hon. William ureene, mem
ber of the legislature of 1869-70, named
the new county. Morristown is the
county seat. Ex-Governor Senter re
sides in this county.
Polk countv, named iu honor of James
Knox Polk, of Tennessee, the tenth
President of the United States (from
March 4, 1845, to March 4, 1849). Before
that time he had beeu aclerK and mem
ber of the Tennessee legislature, mem
ber of congress, sneaker twice of the
house of representatives, and from Oc
tober 1839, to October 1841, governor of
Tennessee. James K. folk was a great,
good, honest, faithful remarkable man.
We will never see his like again iu our
national councils.
Dickson county, named after Wm.
Dickson, an old settler, member of the
legislature and speaker of the senate.
Fentress county, named after James
Fentress, a prominent citizen and public
man in Middle Tennessee.
Franklin county, named after Ben
jamiu Franklin, the American printer,
patriot, pbilosoper and statesman.
OP : l ouiitv, named after Mr. Giles,
of Virginia, a distinguished Democratic
member of congress during the adminis
trations of Jefferson aud Madison.
Grund- county, named after Felix
Grundy, of Tennessee, distinguished as
a lawyer, representative and senator in
cougrc.-s aud United States attorney-
general. .
Humphreys county, named after
Oolonel Humphreys, of Tennessee, the
father of Judge West H. Humphreys.
Hickman connty, named otter a Mr.
John Hickman, a surveyor, who was
killed by the Indians near the Fiuey
river and a village now called Vernon, in
said county.
Jackson county, named after Andrew
Jackson, of Tennessee, one of the most
distinguished and remarkable meu or
this or any other country or age. As a
farmer,.lawyer, judge, soldier, legislator,
president, of even will, incorruptible
aud self-reliant, be stood first iu his
generation He lived at the Hermitage,
eleven miles from Nashville, and died
there iu June, 1845.
Lawrence county, named after Com
modore Lawrence, of the American
navy, who was killed on board the
Chesapeake ship-of-war. in a naval en
gagement with a British vessel in 1845.
"Don't give up the ship" were his last
words. The Chesapeake was captured.
Hardin county, named after tbe
Hardin family, oL Kentucky and Ten
nessee. Colonel Beu Hardin was a
noted mau, and long represented Ken
tucky in congress.
Marshall couuty, named after the
second chief justice oi tbe supreme court
of the United Slates, and most distin
guished of all the American judiciary.
He held the office longer than any other
jadge of the supreme court from 1810
to his death in 1883. John Jay, John
Marshall, Roger B. Taney, Salmon P.
Chase, have been in that high affh-e.
Jay from 1789 to 1801; Marshall from
1801 to 1833; Taney from 1833 to 18b3;
Chase front i8tkf to the present time.
Maury couuty, named after the Maury
family of Virginia and Williamson
county, I'enuessee. Lieutenant Maury, of
the navy, aud author of many v.duaolc
works on the sea, currents, winds,
climate, etc., was a member ol this
family.
Macon couuty, named after Nathaniel
Macon, of North Carolina, the American
Cato and CiBcinnatua. He was thirty
years a member of congress, and refused
the Vice-Presidency. It was through
his influence in congress in iy mat
Tennessee was admitted as a State in
the Union. He never went In debt,
went no one's security, nor would he
allow any one to become his. "Pay as
yon go" was bis motto aud practice.
During the vacations of congress, he
worked on his farm with ins slaves.
.tHERH I AT TIIE CO.VU.lE.VrAL,
I M f Y E KM IT I EN.
LivkRWVstrm.
PKEP.tKATIOX FOK LIFE.
From Appieton's J
As late as flftee:
no country in cot
irs ago !her; wa
ntal Europe, ex-
and, at the public univer- j
h the professors were ai-
lOW
tioi
An
-tn
A PEEP AT THE ED COFFEE
HOL MES OF EOS DOM.
From the Richmond iVa.) Whlg.l
A late numler of the London Hews
notices the final closing up of "Gang
way's," one of the historic houses of
London, which was established as a
"coffee-house" more than two hundred
years ago. It was much frequented by
persons of quality, wealth and distinc
tion. When tea was introduced into
England, it was kept for sale at Gang
way's, where it was also sold in the in
fusion "made according to the direc
tions of the much-knowing merchants
and travelers into .those eastern coun
tries" so ran the advertisement. Gar
ra way's has been used during its long
period of existence for many purposes
as a place of sale, exchange, auction and
lottery. Here, especially, were the
headquarters of the South Sea bubble.
The taverns, cofTee-heuses and clubs of
London have for several centuries form
ed a prominent feature in all pictures of
English social life and literature. Many
of those eld places have disappeared iu
the progress of time and the march of
improvement. The readers of early
English literature are almost as familiar
with these resorts of the scholars, wits
and men of fashion of the day, as were
those who frequented them. They were
not only places of pleasure, but of intel
lectual interchange, where all the inter
esting questions of the day were discuss
ed and where ideas, information aud
learning were lavishly poured out, as
wine, ale and the other drinks of the
period, were as lavishly poured in. There
is no doubt that the free and unrestrain
ed society that was opened to all the
world in a coffee-house, regulated only
by laws of politeness, aud by respect for
the usages and ebaracrer of the house,
served as an aihnirable educator for
many a young fellow fresh from the
university of the country, eager to pa
rade his knowledge and his wit in Lon
don. In the city, if his lines were east
in mercantile places, he would find the
grave and sober citizens, known to be
worth their plum, ready to look with
favor on youthful merit, provided only
there were due respect for station, civic
honors and success. In Fleet street, if
he would air his wit at the Rainbow,
there were plenty of young barristers
reaily to teach him the humility due to
inexperience. Aud if he were to present
him at Will's, there was the genius Utci
itself to keep silent, if not the actual
oresence of elorious John himself, of
Addison or of Pope. The coffee-house, in
fact, was a school of manners a cheap
school, too. You paid your penny for
admission, vour twopence for a cup of
coftee, and you were free of the place.
Yqu might call, if you pleased, to spend
another penny for a pipe of tobacw, and
you had your light, tire and society
thrown lii for nothing. The reign of
the coffee-house, however, was destined
to be short. Clubs had beeu established
before the restoration for political pur
poses; such was Milton's "Rota" club,
where forms of government were dis
cussed; such, too, were the "Calfs
Head," the "Sealed Knot," the "Kit
Cat," aud fifty small coteries of men
who held the same opinions. It was not
by them that the corlee-house was kill
ed, so much as by the natural growth of
London. Men found the public room
too crowded; they wanted to meet to
gether in their own sets mm gene : and
they began to form societies whose only
reason for existence was that they
brought together a ca-cle of private
friends. After this, the formation of
clubs, with every conceivable bond of
union, followed as a natural develop
ment. We know how Addison ridicules
the multiplication of clubs, with his
Widows' club, bis Ugly club, his Fringe
glove club, bis She Romp club, and the
rest. We have read of Swift and his
Brothers' club; of the King of clubs; the
Hell-fire club; and the recently defunct
bublime Society of .Beefsteaks, iso uu
rinjz the eighteenth century, while the
coffee-houses decayed, the clubs increas
ed and prospered. In the latter years,
for instance, of George III, there was no
town without its select circle, no trades
man without his club, to which be
might repair, business over, to smoke
his pipe and talk politics. The coffee
houses have gone on declining till they
have become the cheapest of restau
rants, the most dubious of hostelries,
while the old-fashioned club has died
out altogether, or at best leads a preca
rious and ignoble existence. In its last
form it was represented by Mr. Swivel
ler's society of glorious apollos; but even
the harmonic meeting has been killed
by the music-ball; and the tavern room,
though it may still be convivial, ts no
longer melodious. Steady citizens spend
their evenings with their wives and
families, the house gaining, it is to be
hoped, something of what the social life
has lost. It is not all gain. The even
ing discussion upon politics aud passing
events could not but have been a power
ful agent iu the formation of some vir
tues useful to the civic and municipal
life. It, perhaps, in some degrees con
tributed to form clearness and precision
of opinion, with the power of express
ion. It fostered a healthy ambition of
distinction. It helped to make a mau
self-reliant, and taught him, by compar
ison and intercourse with others, to rate
hitnself at his true worth.
HAW AHA. SEA BEACH SCEXE.
From the Overland Monthly.
"To the beach by all means!" cried I
and to the beach we hastened, where
indeed, we found a heap of cast-off
raiment, and a hundred foot-prints iu
the sand. What would Robinson Cru
soe have said to that. I wonder? Across
the level water heads, hands, and shoul
ders, and sometimes half-bodies, were
floating about, like the amphibia. We
were at once greeted with a shout of
welcome, which came faintly to us
above the roar of the surf, as it broke
heavilv on the reef, a half mile out
from shore. It was drawing to the hour
when tbe fishers came to land, aud we
had not long to wait before, one alter
another, they came out of the sea like so
many mermen and mermaids. They
were refreshingly Innocent of etiquette,
at least of our translation of it; and,
with a freedom that was amusing as
well as a little embarrassing, I was de
liberately fingered, fondled, and fussed
with by every dusky soul in turn. "At
last," thought I, "fate has led me be
yond the pale of civilization; for this
begins to look like the genuine article."
With uncommon slowness, the mei-
maids donned more or less of their ap
pare!, a few preferring to carry tneir
robes over their arms, for the air was
delicious, and robes of sea-weed are ac
counted full dress in that delectable lat
itude. Down on the sand the mermen
heaped their scalv spoils lish of all
shapes and sizes, fish of every color;
some of them throwing somersaults in
the sand, like young athletes; some of
them making wry laces, in tneir last
agony; some of them lying still and
clammy, with big round eyes like
smoked-pearl vest buttons set in the
middle, of their cheeks all of them
smelling fish-like, and none of them
looking very tempting. Small boys laid
hold on small try, tut tneir heads on.
and held their silver-coated morsels be
t ween their teeth, like animated sticks
of candy. There was a b ridayish am
Lent-like atmosphere hovering over the
snot, and 1 turned away to watch some
lutbs who were riding surf-boards not
"far distant agile, narrow-hipped youths,
with tremendous biceps and proud, im
pudent heads set on broad shoulders,
like young gods. These were the flower
and chivaly of the Mena blood, and
they swam like young porpoises, every
one oi them.
The West Point (Mississippi! Citizen
relates that a number of newspapers are
agitating for a change of the name of
Colfax county tbe region in which
West Point is situated. Tbe Citizen is
in favor of tbe change because it does
uot like "the word Colfax;" others be
cause they do not like the thing Colfax.
The sound is disagreeable, and no better
the sense. It savors of tbe credit mood
ier and lies. Mississippi had no business
in the first place to have a Colfax coun
ty; having one, its business should
be to get rid of it as soon a possible. If
the county must be nanied after a niair,
name it after someone who has finished
his career without having beeu exposed
as a thief, a liar, and a hypocrite.
liepreaentative Crebs, of Illinois, haa
returned to the treasury h!8 extra pay.
Orebs says : "As I jersistently oppod
the passage of tbe bill for au Increase of
pay, I cannot o.inselentUiiHly -i.. cpi tbe
money."
an history
n openly
governments of m
States. In the ye
a professor at the i
was imprisoued. h
dinand II, for . .i
students. In an hi
George Waahinirti
disc
order of King Fer
g declared to the
rical lecture, that
was a great man.
and that his example was worthy of
imitation. About the same time Dr.
Carl Retslag, a private tutor at the ier-
nian university of Rostock, lud to ex
piate with two weeks' imprisonment the
heinous ollense of having substituted,
without previous announcement, a lec
ture on the rise and development of
American institutions in place of one
on tiie mstory or insignincant mile
Denmark. That Mic-helet was removed
from the professorship, and, moreover,
malignantly persecuted, umier tne -tec-ond
empire, for the pointed inferences
which he drew from the history of the
American War of Independence, at his
lecture at the university of France:
aud that the doors of the Sorbonne were
closed against Edward Lahoulaye for
his intention to explain the constitution
of the United States, are well-known
facts. Even the present Emperor Wil
liam, when king of Prussia, in 1864, re
fused to sanction tbe establishment of a
chair of American history at the uni
versity of Berlin, a course of anion
which was faithfully and promptly imi
tated by his imperial brother, Fra
Joseph of Austria, s far as the univer
sities ot frague and leuna were con
cerned. What a marked and general
change there has been since that lime!
In France, Laitouiaye's lectures on the
United States are among the most pop
ular of those delivered at the Sorbonne:
ami the catalogue of leisures ntthe uni
versity of France for 187", contains, be
sides, no fewer than four announcements
from other professors, who propose to
instruct the rising generation of their
country on American subjects, all of
them having a directly republican ten
dency. The same is true of the lyceums,
where a decree, signed by President
Thiers on the twelfth of August, 1872,
has made tuitiou in the history of the
United States obligatory, so that hence
forth no young Frenchman can obtain
a pubiic office under his government
without having a quired some knowl
edge of our history and our institutions.
Still more marked is the change in Ger
many. Among the numerous univer
sities of tne Fatherland there is now uot
one without a so-called American pro
fessorship, that is to say, without acnair
on American history and politics. Mom
of the larger German universities have
three of our professors and tutors lectur
ing on these subjects, and what is really
significant, among the first appoint
ments, made by the Emperor William
for the professorships at the new (Jer
man university of Strasbourg, after the
close of the recent war with France,
was that of Dr. Carl Von Hoist, long a
resident of New York, who, iu his com
mission, was instructed "to lecture on
the history, the constitution and litera
ture of the United States." It deserves
to be mentioned that, among the usual
piize questions proposed in 1873 by the
philosophical faculties of tbe German
universities, there are no fewer than
nine liearing on the history and the po
litical and financial condition of our
country. Comparatively less has been
done in this respect in Austria aud Hun
gary. Still the catalogue of lectures for
1873 at the university of Vienna con
tains, under the head of the philosoph
ical faculty, the following announce
ment: "Doctor and Privat-Docent Geb
hardi will lecture at the Aula twice a
week, or oftener, on the history of the
United States, with especial regard to
the lives and eharaeter of the leading
American statesmen since the revolu
tion of 1776." What would the gloomy
and narrow-minled Emperor Francis
II have done in case a professor at an
Austrian university should have ven
tured to make such an announcement;
or what he and Metternich have said
had the academy of science at Pesth of
fered, during his reign, as it did a few
months ago, a prize of one thousand
florins for the best essay "On the Rapid
Development of the United States," and
its causes? Even at the universities of
Sloscow and St. Petersburg lectures on
America are no longer prohibited, and
little Athens boasts of a university pro
fessor lecturing exclusively on HhglMi
and American history. Little has been
done in this respect in Italy. Never
theless, there are lectures by native pro
fessors on American history at Padua,
Bologna, Rome and Naples.
GISTAVE OOBE AT WOBK.
On entering, one day. Dore's studio, I
found him over the fourth plate of his
"Neophyte," the three, already far ad
vanced, haviug been put away because
in some of tbe work they did uot satisfy
his fastidious conscientiousness. He
glanced up at me from his copper, and
said quietly answering my look of sur
prise, "I have the patience of the ox you
see as I have often told you." Yes, it
Is the patience of the ox, forever fed by
an imagination of the most fertile power
and the most extraordinary impulsive
ness; an imagination that has been
directed bv study in the company o,'
Dante and'Milton, and by the inspira
tion of the bible; that has reveled in the
joyeusetes of Rabelais and the "Coutes
Drolatiques; " that has caught warmth
from Don Quixote and from travels in
his glowing land; and that has traveled
with the Wandering Jew and lived in
fable and legend, in history aud poesy,
through more than twenty years of
working. The unthinking world and
the careless critic look upon the marvel
ous accumulation of the poet's dreams
and fancies, which he lias cast upon
paper or wrought in color, as evidence
of the rleetness of his haud, and not ol
his valiant, patient spirit, thai dwells
lu art forever through all its waking
hours. The page to which Dore has
given a week's thought, and upon which
he was working wnen the critic was in
bed, is described as another example of
the rapidity and therefore the .areJess
uess with which the artist tosses off a
poem,or embodies a legend. A carica
turist has had the audacity to draw the
illustrator of Dante witii pencils iu both
bands and between the toes ol Ix-Ui
feet ignorant of the neceity under
whteh a fervid aud incessantly i-rcutive
imagination, like Gustava Dore' s, exists.
I repeat, Dora can not get out oi his art.
He is almost incapable of relaxition.
While you sit at the table with h.m. you
note the sudden pauses in the conversa
tion, hi which his eye.- wander from the
company to his land of dreams. On the
iUstant "he is away from you, and his
fhee wears au expression of dreamy s:ui
aess, at which a stranger will start, but
that is familiar to bis friends, who
humor him bacs. to them with aiaugh.
His Rabelais, his "Coutes Drolatiques,"
and his Don Quixote proclaim that he
has humor. It is of a grim kind often,
but it is boisterous, free, and sometimes
fine and delicate, as his admirers can
testify who remember his albums and
his contributions to the Journal pour
Eire. Rabelais aud Dun Quixote I
should instance as the fields in which
the artist has delighted most, as Dante
and the bible are the stores on which
the highen force in him has U?eu lav
ishly expended never in haste, as 1 am
able to testify. Before the pencil ap
proached either of these Ishors tne
artist's mind had traveled again and
again over the pages; his lmagiuatiOU
had dW'-H' upon every line, he had talk
ed aud .bought about his theme in his
walks mid am ' : ,' his lu.tutate.
Patinetl and inc-.-i.'iMy the work com
ing in in.id the w k next to be done
is inve !:gated, paneled out, put to
gether, a .d pulled to pieces. There is
hot the ieastsigu oi nasto, but there is
labor without intermission, whico, to
the sluggish worker, produces a quantity
that proves baste. I have known many
artists, many men of letters, many
scientific men, and many wonder-workers
in the material world, hut in none of
them have I seen that capacity or coa
tlnuou effort, aud that impossibility of
letting clear of tho toil of groduction.
which Dore possesses. He will u
escape the charge of haste, becaus
will never slackeu to the average h
of production. I lis entire heart ant
ing lie within the walls of his'studio
is a place of prodigious propott
Every trowel full of it. has come o
turns to account every ray ot
pours through bit windows,
dent of Gustave Dora must u
his thoroughness aod veheuu
a tall-piece to an appendix.
Th
T
Ub
An
Ther -pea It oi nanny i
h;ifn,t n'l habbUnir brooks.
From the Philadelphia Lediri ,-r..
icy
I In books,
withered
,rs
etr!tp,
iuril th-tn
tgll keep.
White o
Or by
In whlt-
l heanfy
1l ti- -v r ,
To greet the April d.-.
iirM.
No other eoni
To me are !
Ot home and iovlntr far.-
A precious offering.
t'npliielcwl I leave them srowins
Kull thirk about my l'et:
I eannot call them forward
From oat their fair retreat;
No refuse has the eitv
For auyfh.ny s, ,-.v-,-'.
However I
Thl leswon 1
ar-
v were ni
The AUliur.
imOlU E OF DIFFER!. 1' (Ol .V
TRIES.
From lien
Austral
been san
Jews
h and Bar.'
ians Divorces have
tinned in Australia.
In olden times the Jews had a
never
important l
!isteuel ov
while others
and pleasini
hood ts an m
peculiar rela
fears, joys t
failures. If
tractive hel
respect, and
tempt. Mi;
preparation
dignity. Tl
parents, wh
of the fact
pet and Ion
tn a few ve
them- only a
t, neither very
Testing, to be
rhat is beyond,
cans of pre-parri '
o risible life. Both
tbey affirm, and
and
at
discretionary power of divorcing their
wives.
Japan If a wife be dissati-Sc-d, she
can ubtain a divorce by paying a certain
sum.
Thibetans Divorces are seldom al
lowed, unless with the consent of both
parties neither of whom can afterward
remarry.
Moors If a wife does not become the
mother of a Ixjy, she may be divorced
and she can marry again.
Abyssiuians No form of marriage is
necessary. The connection may be dis
solved and renewed as often as the pur
ties think proper.
Hilierians If a man lx? dissatisfied
with the most trifiinsr act of hia wife, he
tears the cap or veil from her head and
this constitutes a divorce.
South Sea Islands The connection
hardly deserves the name of marriagm
as it dissolved whenever the husband
desires a charge.
Siamese The first wife may be di
vorced, but not sold as the others may
be. She may then claim the first, third
ami fifth child, and the alternate ohil
dren are yielded to the husband.
Arctic Regions When a man desires
a divorce, he leaves the house in anger
ind dow not return for several days.
The wife understands the hint, packs
her clothes and leaves.
Druse and Turkomans Among these
people, if a wife asks her husband's per
mission to go out,and he3ays go.witi.oul
idding, but come back again, she is
divorced. Though both parties desire it,
they cannot live together without being
remarried.
loehin Chinese If the parties choose
to separate they break a pair of chop
sticks or coin in the presence of witness
es, by which union is dissolved. The
husband must restore to the wife the
property belonging to her prior to mar
riage. American Indians Among some
tribes the pieces of stick given to the
witness of the marriage are burnt as a
-ign of divorce. Usually new connec
tions are formed without the ones being
dissolved. A man never divorces his
wife if she has borne him sons.
Tartars The husband may put away
his partner and seek another whenever
it pleases him, and his wife may do the
same. If she is ill-treated, she com
plains to the magistrate, who, attended
by some of the principal people, accom
panies her to tbe house and pronounces
a formal divorce.
Chinese Divorces are allowed in
cases of criminality, mutual dislike, in
compatibility of temper or too much lo
quacity on the part of the wife. The
husband eannot sell his wife until she
leaves him and becomes a slave to him
by actiou of law for desertion. A son is
bound to divorce his wife ff she dis
pleases his parents.
Corean The husband can divorce his
wife at pleasure and leave her the cuarire
of maintaining their children. If she
mvi'H unfaithful he can put her to
death.
Circassians Two kinds of divorces are
granted iu Circassia, one totai, the other
provisional. Where the first is allowed
they can immediately marry again;
where the second exisU, the couples
agree to separate for a year, and if, at
the expiration of that time, the husband
does not send for his wife, her relations
may compel him to a total divorce.
Grecians A settlement was usually
given to a wife at marriage for her sup
port in case of a divorce. The wife's
portion ww then restored to her. and
the husband required to pay monthly in
terest for its use during the time he de
tained it from her. equally the men
could put their wives away on slight oc
casions. Even the fear of having too
large a family suiliced. Divorces scarce
ly occur in modern Greece.
" Hindoos Either party, for a
cause, may leave tbeother and
again. Where a man cabs his wife
"mother," it is considered indelicate to
live with her again. Among one tribe,
the "Garos," if the wife be unfaitnfui
tbe husband cannot obtain a divorce
unless he gives her all the property tmd
the children. A woman, on the con
trary, may leave when she pleases, and
marry another man, ami convey to him
tho entire property of her former hus
band. Romans In olden times a man mtgnt
divorce bis wife if she were tn rWtnfrrt,
if she iiunterfeitcd hi private '"'y
or drank wine without his knowledge.
rive hundred and twenty-one years
elapsed without oue divorce. After
ward a law was passed allowing either
ex to make the application. Di vorces
then became frequent ou the slightest
pretext. Senaca says that some women
no longer reckoned the years by the cou
suls but by the number of their hus
bands. St. Jerome speaks of a man
who buried twenty wives, and a woman
ui.o buried twenty-two husbamls.
The Eniiieror Augustus endeavored to
restrain this license by penalties.
BKlUUA.nl Olt.
Frem ih-- Turf, Field imd Farm-1
Brigbam Young has passed three
score years and ton, but he does not ap
pear to have lost his cunning. He has
buiit up a little empire in Utah, and has
grown enormously wea
its la)
right! -S
The pi
requi'ri
M growth
i shall be
mane i
be tauv
Kini as
?e. to an
He -ii
ex amp
under
mu n
median
a certa.
should
brothers, prepare for ax
honorahie occupations, wl
der them inuepeudent am
bers of society? Let such
be as suitable and congen:
but let no one of anv airt
and in the
olficial
ambition aun discontent, teaching re
verence for virtue, deference to g,
respect for law aud order, and strict in
tegrity, wouiii be the best safeguard we
con! ) ever have ? r : : u happiness,
jnd national prusperily. Much of the
difficulty which parents ami tea. -meet
with iu their labors, results from
the want of connection between their
instructions and the practical objects of
life. There is nothing so munral to the
young as the looking forward to mature
and active life, and the culture whicu
recognizes this law of nature and oattds
upon it a knowledge of the athaattwaa
in store far the future, aod a wisdom
to discern how justly and nobly to
occupy tnem, will best arouse the at
tention and interest of the young, while
preparing the way for their future use
tulness. GEORGE W. CTIIEJDS.
Lhroni'
ular men.
i eloquent
was 1
tion
more
i: "No charity at
ain ; no object of pi
slight
to the
etv.
rybody, ht
pat tuachj
that
he s
raiin
comi
ot live mi
be openin
spa--a to uo more l
Ledger under the m
Chillis; to the pal act
the ground, over foui
dollars, in which he
it, and to his dvea
times to niuety-dve
day. But there is
must not be omit!
anecdotes. I mean
pendence of the pap
and to general eorru
hesitate. It strikes
o trenchant as
wheu be took
twenty and twe
wheu tie stirred
his trusts of a business
ns at the bead of the
and it is said that be
once more into the
Lie southern part of
rom the Mexican bor
; coon try of the Aztecs,
ich, the running water
he climate delicious,
net, it is hinted, wl 1
ind build a new taber-
I his Puo'jc Ledger, as
j his private talk, that
arteet to support Orai
there are mm an 1 1
feel that tnere is at
Philadelphia who k
not to wivnt any mo:
ford t tell Grant toe
ing accused of a Ion
er : get that tbe Mormon
m ' the heart of the wilder
ie-1 tablished works of in
It. rloinir became the ad vt
JltBaale wilt are poorly paid in
oaoatof the countries of Europe. (..
Sand is the only au'hor of France, wi -bas
become wealthy, and Victor Hugo
U be the amy male writer who
eopyrtg vnna Teu-
iland, has .eaiized wei!
of school books. Fr.juer..
of Denmark, haw been
bv fat a
throuxh manv edi-
lilie Elvitare-Carien and M-
ftophia Scwatz, of Swadwa, have
in ten yearn, ur ad the
eceives large
of Ho
Ml iiserit
.I'i . ed
1 expand.