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Cashier. Wm, Shirley:s m Monuments A2TD TOMB STONES, aU of the BEST ITALIAN MARBLE. Also, I hare the latest Styles of Designs, All work aa cheep as can be done elaewhere. Manufactory on West Main atreet, near the Inatl. mca28-lr C. A. & W. H. FARRIS, CO JVC II And HARNESS MAKERS, Crner S nit'.i M in auJ Dp it streets, COLVMIUA, TEN'S. Oct 17, 1ST3. 0. L. Reynolds, PORTRAIT PAINTER, COI.rMBIV, TENS. Portraits thrown up t. life size from pLoiozrap'u O .1 .rniti refitted and cleaned. Nri tio-K.,-miiiK new l.l.k. Garden str.-et, i r!y opiionit. tiie Presbyterian churoti. ivt. 3, is;a. , W. C. Sheppard, SURGEON DENTIST, COLUMBIA, TEN X. Office Fleming" new block, Oardeu early opivwite the Preehrterian church. Btrett, Ikeep c Mintantly on hand a full at.x-k of to.itb, a new, oai aud lotion f.ir the mouth and gmus ; llrecommended by the United States deutal asuo .atton. C.iH and nee me. J. A.. IENGrLTi!, Paler in all.kinds of CHOICE FMIILT GROCERIES, PRY OOt DS, BOOTS, CIGARS, SHOES, TOBACCO, LIQUORS, and COUNTRY PRODUCT. Corner South Main street and Engle Avenue. All goods delivered.' Oct. 17, 1S73. i An exchange says : Compare the publisher of a newspaper, who has to go all around the country to collect his pay, to a farmer who sells his wheat on credit, and not more than a bushel to any p.'rson. If any farmer will try the experiment of distributing the proceeds of his labor over two or three counties, with au additional one or two or three distant states, for one year, we will guarantee that he will never, after that year's experience, ask a publisher to supply him with a paper a year or two without the pay for it." By HORSLEY BEOS. & ARKANSAS POKER. llew Fosf.tr Attn were Beatesi by- Five The followinir incident ig related of Scipio Choteaa, a half breed Creek In dian and negro : He was asked if he was the man who had fonr aces beaten. He answered : " tea eah : I's de man." " Will you have any objection to tell ing it ? " " I s afeard it will prtt me into trouble : but if de judge is willing," appealing to tho foreman, I will tell it.' The judge consented, when Seipio said : " Yoa see. I lives on do cattle trail from Texas throueh de Creek country to Kansas, and I was in de road onedav, and I meets a pentleman ah. ad of a bio- drove of cattle. He say, ' Old man, do yon live in dia country ? ' I says, ' lea, sab. " He 6ays, ' It's a mighty poor coun try. How do you make a livin ? i says, "Kan, tis putty good coun- tiy : we has plenty of meat and bread. and I makes a good livin a ' " He says. Old man. do you ever play keerds ? ' "I says, ' les, sah ; I doe?, sometimes. " tie says, ' would you have any ob jection to play a little draw ?' "I says, 'No, sah.' "So we gets off our horses along side de road, and sat down, and I pulls out 'e keerds. Well, in a short time I beats de gentlem n out of sixty-two dollars and a half, and I fought I had him ; so I puts up a hand n him for I is, do I say it myself, a mighty smart htnd at keerds and I know'd he would hab tree jacks and I would hab tree aces, and in de draw I know'd he would git de oder jack, and I would git de oder ace. So he raises a bit, and I raises on back, till at last I put np all de money I had winned from de gentle mau and all de change I had, and I know d I had him. Well, in de draw de gent got de oder jack and I got de oder ace. De gent wanted to bet, but I claimed a sight for de money, and told him I had an inwincible hand dat could not be beat." " He says, ' Old man, dem is right good britches you is got on ; how much did dey cost ? " I says, Yes, sah ; dey cost me ten dollars.' " He says, I'll put up ten dollars agin dem.' " I says, 'Berry well, sah, but I tells you I got a inwincible hand.' " Lie puis np de money, and 1 holds np my legs and he pulls off de britches and lays dem down. ' Tsow, sab, I says, I told you I had a inwincible hand what can't be beat. I's got fo' aces.' " De sent says, ' Ol t man, did you ever hear of five jacks beatin fo aces ? I says, I's heard it, sah, but I's never seed it ; and if you conwince me of it, de money's yourn.' "Uerry well, he says, latins? dos-n one keerd, 'ain't dat de jacks ob clubs?" '.' les, sah, says I, 'dat am de lack ob clubs.' He lays down another ket rd. 'Ain't dat de j ck ob upadcs ! ' " 'Yes, sal), I says.' daram de lackob spades.' " lie laid down another : Am t dat de jack ob diamords ? "'les, sab, dat is de lack ob dia monds.' "Di'ii he rnus his hand in his bosom. and pulls out a great loDg pistol and points it at me and ea??, 'Ain't dat jack 'haul'?' " I says, les, nan. 'Ain t dat fave jacks? Anddontdat win de money ?' " And I says, ' Yes, sah, dat fo Jack Haul, and dat is five jacks, and five jacks beats an inwincible hand.' " So he puts de money in his pocket and ties my britches on 'hind ot his saddle and tells mo to scatter and I did. " Yoa see, it sarved me rijjht, for I fought do man was a green Missonrian when I put rp de hand on him, but he was an Atkausaw chap, and I finds dem mighty sharp, judge. ' The last question up for debate in the law school of one of our colleges was : " Do live stock become landed property when turned into fields?" 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The most economical and conscientious will now and then rejoice at the destruction or iojnryof the most beautiful fabrics.it they have seemed to give any factitious importance to the body they covered. The neat kids, the shiny boots, the fine broadcloth, never give their wearer so keen a pleasure as they afford to his homespun and hard-worked neighbor when any contingency compelling him to put forth his strength in some meni al occupation, splits the kids, muddies the boot,aud rumples the broadcloth, I snpose it is on this principle that all th?se good, sensible, practical people who consider poetry the natural loafer of literature, seize every oppor tunity to put it to some homelv use, and seem to delight in seeinp: it har nessed down to a plain, healthy moral. or maae to express a ereocrraphical or meteorological fact. The despiser of lennyson, and ignorerof Whittier, in variably resorts to "Thirty days hath September, April, June aud Novemcer," when he wishes to verify his dates. He ;ooks forth from his window, and dis cerns the signs of the t ky with a mut tered " Evening red and morning gray Takes the tiaveler on hii way." ne even regulates his household econ omy with such questionable synopsis os A stitcn in time Saves nine." His children are taught their first les sons of thrift in the couplets " See a l in and let it lav. And you'll Lave bad luck all day; See a piu and pick it np. And all the day you'll have good luck. As often as there is a funeral in his fani ily, he searches the hymn-book for a rhyme to be placed on the tombstone ; and, if the event calls out a few origi nal stanzas from some local muse, the copy is preseived forever in the family scrap-book. It is but a fewyears since one of these geniuses, who periodically burst upon the public schools with a scheme of learning, so sugared and honeyed that the children cry for it, turned " Peter Parley's geography " into verse, and set thousands of classes to singinp-, m con cert, complete list of bays, rivers.capes and capitals. He was followed by one wLo developed the same idea in the realm of philosophy, and whose crown ing triumph was the couplet by which bo taught the order of the colors of the rainbow : "On memory's tablet these plial1 live. While we can spell the word It-O-Y-G-B-I-V Bat more troublesome to remember than dates, facts, and geographical sta tistics, yet more mortifying to forget, are the requirements of etiquette. The completest victory of those who lash solid facts to baovant poetry, that the whole may float peacefully in the mem ory, has been achieved by a genius who reduces the whole science to plain rules and puts every rule in rhyme. Lnn dor's couplet "That is foolish who supposes Those docH are ill that have hot noses" was one of the accidental touches which so often precede a great discovery. The riper genius grasps the principle, and ives it a complete application. Thus we n ad : ' "Ih jii v if vc n have a cold. But worse if ihe sua fajt be told liy every kiud of uncouth sound, Annoying every one around ; So lot the secret be eoufined To your own handkerchief and mind." Here is an essenti.il principle of po liteness so wedded to sweet verse that eVv'n a child cannot misunderstand cr forget it : "In company your teeth to pick. Would make refined beholders sick." The world-wide discussion on the proper use of the kn'fe and fork is all summed up and settled by this sugges tive passage : ' If you should, in a moment rash, Itever.-'e their use. perhaps you'd gash A mouth already far too wide. And t-hock all who might s: e beside. Bread, nuts, and fruit, dear sir, or madam, Eat in the mode of Eve and Adam." Veiily, poetry good for something, after all ! but, like a willful child, one must know l;ow to manage it. any size or s or pattern go or send to T. H. JONES 4 CO., Nashville, Tenn. T. H. J0NTE3 & CO., Nashville, Tenn. T. H. JONES & CO., Nashville, Tenn. Seed - wheat Cleaners, go to T. H. JON Ed A CO., Nashville, Tenn. T. H. J0NE3 & CO., Nashville, Tenn. T. H. JONES & CO., Nashville, Tenn. T. H. JONES & CO.. Nashville, Tenn. T. H. JONES A CO., Nashville, Ternx. Seeds, at lowest market prices, go to T. H. JONES A CO., Nashville. Tenn. Donblo Sbovel Plows, Walking- Cultivators, Reapers and Mowers, llorse Powers, II a, r Tedders, Well Fixtures, Kefr! g-era tors, Feed Mill, vnnrus, t ; t M II II T t Mil COLUMBIA, ALONE. Three stalwart sons old Sweyn, tbe Saxon, had ; Brave, hardy lada for battle, or the chane ; And thongb, like peasant, barbarously clad. Each wore the nameless noble In his face ; Our o'er another rose their beads in tier, 8:eps for their father's honorable years. One night in a tamn sat they ronnd the fire, In tbe rude cabin bountiful of home ; Mild by the rev"rence due from child to sire, B ild in the manhood trato mast'ry eome ; Working their tasks o'er hnhtsmen' forest gear, LooB'niDg the bow and sharpening the spear. Lost in his thoughts, o'.d Sweyn, the Saxon, stood, lining in silence 'ga'nst tbe chinmey-etone ; Staring nnoonscious at the blazing wood. 8teeped in the mood of mind he oft had known as an old tree whose stoniest Branches shake. Scares from their vigor slgu of life will take. AlUol, the bearded, with his bow had done, Aiirea, tne Limbie, laid ms spear asm?, Edric. tbe fairest, tiring of bis fnn, Left the old bound to slumber on his hide ; Yot was their sire like one whose features seem Shaded by sleep, and all their light a dream. Bold in the favor of the oldest born, Athol. for both his yo-.tuger brothers, spoke: " Father, the fox in prowling in tbe corn. And hear the night-owl hooting from tbe oak ; L?t ns to couch." Bat 8weyn had raised his head, ana tans, unwilling wnat Dai pasra, ne f sia : " See, from my breast, I draw this chain of gold'" ruir in tne nretlgbt royally It so one, " Tbia for his honor that shall best unfold " . Who, of all creatures, is the most alone ; Take him from palace, mouast'ry, or cot. Loving unloved, forgetting or forgot. . Then Athol spoke, with thoughtful tone and look " Un is the loneliest most alone of all, Who, in a skiff to the mid-seas forsook, Finds not an echo, even, to his call ; If echo lived, not all alone were he; But there's no echo on the solemn sea !" And Alfred next : " But lonelier, brother, far, The wretch that flies a just avenging rod ; To him all scenes are wates. a foe the etsr. All earth he's lost, yet knows no brav'o, no God ; in"-.!, nmcij uc, who, ujaHiug man uib loo, Unto man's maker dareth not to go !" Thus spoke the lads, with wit b?yond their years ; And yet the old man held his beard and sighed, As one who gains the form his wiHUiag wears, But misses still a something most denied; Upon his youngest eager looks he turned. And Edric'd cheek with grace ingenuous burned. " I think, my father" and his tone were low ' That lonelier yet. and most alone, is ho Scarce taught, though crowds are leading, where io ko, And one face missing can no other see; Though all the Norman's court around him moves, II is alone apart from her he loves." A hush fell on them. Then with loving air And all the touching romance cf the old. The hoary father kissed young Edric's hair, And o'er his shoulders threw the chain of gold ; Then fell upon his darling's neck and cried. I hive been lonely since thy mother died !" UP THE CUMBERLAND. The fairest face that I ever beheld I saw one night at a German turnfest. I had ceased dancing a round-dance one of those gallops that, to be thoroughly and heartily appreciated, has to be danced under the branches, upon a warm summer night to good music, with excellent partner and utter abandon. Breathless, overheated, and vigorous ly appl.viDg my fan, I leaned back against the rude pine railing surrouud ing the dancing-platform, while my partner hastened to one of the many refreshment tables thickly dispersed throughout thebriliiantly-lighted grove in order to procure some cooling bev erage. " Well, what have you decided to do ?" asked a man close beside me. and in a very indifferent tone. "Nothing. What on I do? All is lost," answered a woman, in a quiet, even voice. On hearing the strange words, I turned to behold the speakers. I saw a large, handsome woman, seated upon he pine railing, in a careles?, almost wanton position. Ono white hand rested ll - V t 1 m i . upon me tmouiaer ot tier male com panion, who ftood in such closa prox imity THat lie almost rested upon her, while the other tenderly, thoughtlessly, threaded the hairs of his head. The face, as I said before, was the fa lest that I ever beheld one of those rare faces that the most favored of us be hold but once in a lifetime ; one of tt-ose fair, full faces, with clear, well-opened eyes, and skin not only delicately fair dm neauny, witnout epecK or flaw ; the remaining features perfect, with a slight Teutonic dash over all. The almost white hair was rolled becomingly back from the brow. " Do ! What can I do f I have been doing all my life ; and what has come to me ? A broken heart. I have been scheming, planning, through long years, casting aside all hope of heaven for a grot of earthly happiness ; and what has come tome? bitter disappointment. To-night I sit in the midst of broken plans, blighted hopes, and lost faiths. And you you qnietly tell me to think of the future. You are cruel ; but I deserve it all I deserve it all ! I should have been wiser. I never should have forsaken all that was gool for a love out of which nought but evil could come. Do ! What can I do ?" With a wild gesture, the woman raised her interlaced hands, and pressed them to her cheek. For a moment she sat with reverted face ; then, slipping from the railinar. she elided r'tosa thn platform, and descended the stairway. I knew by the expression of her face that the grand old love had surced back into her heart, carrying before it, like straws before ihe wind, wounded pride, vanity, anger, hatred, indignation. She would not part with him thus. Through out the long coming years, lovely and aim iiui ot sorrow, una must remember him in a better light. There mush h some kind partinor word or lock to think of in the bitter dav and rlflrkqnmA nio-lir. She hastened after him for n mimit then sho stood still. Following. T watched her eagerly. A few feet in front oi her I saw her lost lover cross her path. Ilis wife hung upon his arm. They were in company with several jovial friends. They laughed and talked in a loud voice. They did not strek her. She peered after them, with straininc, hungeringVyes, till they were lost to her. She turned like a whirl wind, and, as she shot past me, and dis appea ed among the trees, her face was like the face of the dead. ii. It was a oft, warm evening. An ex ceedingly fine mist fell from the heav ens. There was every indication of a night coming on full of drizzle, dark ness and desolation. Nevertheless, we few passengers of tho little dispatch boat, the " Hazel Dell." were gathered together upon the deck, watching the great fleet of steamers and iron clads coming gracefully aronud the curves of the Cumberland river. The boats were lashed four abreast. We wf re passing a dangerous point. It would never do, through carelessness, to lose onr wealth of ammunition the ammunition destined to still many a brave heart, and so, p rhaps, bring ns victory victory and success. The mist came down. The burnished accoutrements of the thousands of troops and the bayonets attached to the thou sands of gnns, stacked in rows, and ready for the eager hand to grasp at a moment's warning, struggled in Vain to flash and gleam in the light of the de parting day. Still the mist came down. Several times we made an attempt at light conversation. Each attempt proved a failure. Wit had taken nnto itself wing and flown away. More over, it absolutely refused to be lured back. Instinctively we shrank from dis cussing topics cf war. We were pass ing a dangerous point. We were not f?ura of r n hour. We were dumb. We sat in silence. We strove to amuse ourselves by watching the fleet, and ad miring the great, tattered fragments of dark mistletoe swaying from the naked arms of the noble trees, scarred by the lightning of war, reft of beauty and sreng h by shots from a hundred guns, and left to perish, forsaken and alone. Every now and then we beheld a group of negroes upon the embankment. Poor thinps ! having heard the shrill shriek of the whistles, they had hastened flown to the river's edge to see the fleet pass by. Poor tilings ! worn to skin "and ST. v. Li: , i f I ; TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1874. bone, starving, and with only a few tat ters wherewith to cover their naked ness showing through the mist - more like shadows of the departed than liv ing human beings. Ah, the misery of war I They who understand the most understand it the least. A strong man is shot, even unto death, and there is a great moan. Hearts are wrung, hopes crushed, and loves blighted. Still there is something left sjmpathy, home, food. The women and children living in the midst of war have none of these. They lose their all, and there is no moan. They shiver, they starve ; they die a living death day after day, and night after night They know, the meaning of' war, and none others. They can translate without flaw. Everything" tended toward a depres sion of spirits, even tne pale-faced cabin-boy whom we had on board, a poor lad, evidently a prey to bait from the days of his infancy. The day's work was done. He had come upon the deck to rest a little. He stood with legs c. ossed, and arms placed upon the rail ing. He looked murrJly down upon the murky wave. I do not think he was guilty of dreaming of battle-fields, strewn with gory slain : but he certainly hammed one of the saddest airs ever invented by mortal man. It went to oar hearts. It thrilled our nerves. It drove ns frantic. With one accord we could have taken him by the heels and gently tilted him into the depths of the river. We refrained, however. Per haps a fancy that the hitherto refresh ing waters of tne Cumberland would never again tas'e so sweet, repressed our murderous feelings. Tnen, there was that nun, who never, since her em barkation upon the " Hazel Dell," had visibly crossed the threshold of her state-room, pacing the farther deck like a caged lioness. There was something in the .noble physique and manner of the woman that struck me as familiar, as she walked to and fro, in the mist, with hands locked firmly at her back, and bowed head ; and once when, in a moment of self- forge tfulness, she passed so close to ns that the end of her robe almost touched, us, on catphing sight of the nether part of her face, I felt almost confident that I had seen the woman at some past period, where, or when, I could not re call. That at such time and at such place, however, she acted not in the ca pacity of a nun, I felt morally "certain. Every movement of the woman proved itself antagonistic to the cloth : the locked hands gavo no sign of ten derness ; the compressed, handsome month no sign of commisera ion or pity. The last shade of daylight was with drawn. The darkness became intense. The smoke and steam, issuing from an hundred chimney-stacks, overbnrdened by the density of the fog, fell about us in a smutty, sluggish shower. To say the least, our situation was trying; yea, even though we had reached a pass in life where personal appearance and love were at a discount. Still, we remained upon tha deck, watching the fleet trail ing its monstrous, palpitating propor tions around the curves of the river. The fires, glowing lurid and fitful through the darkness : the myralds of red, white and bine lights, lifted high above the boats, shining amid the fog like the eyes of demons, and the vol umes of eparks, surging from the stacks, rendering the scene frightful in the ex treme. On'y the plash of the wheels gave us to rt-alize that we s ill remained this side of hades. The night wore on. We sat riveted, spell-bound, speechless. Instinctively we felt that words were wholly inade quate to express our appreciation of the scene. We were brought to our senses by a scream from tho nun, who still con tinued, uninterruptedly, to walk the deck. " We are run into !" we heard her ex claim; and the next instant there was a rushing in our ears, followed immedi ately by a loud crash. "'What is it ? What is the matter ?" we eagerly asked of the nun, who had come close to ns. "Nothing," she replied, in a calm tone of voice, having regained her com posure; "nothing only a detached boat, brushing too close to ns in the dark, has torn the trellis-work off the side of the little 'Hazel Dell.' Noth ing serious, I know." We felt exceedingly relieved ; but tbe spell of enchantment was broken. Finding ourselves alone our gentlemen friends having forsaken ns at the first cry of danger ; indped, this does some times happen in America w e descended the dark trap, and picked our way to the cabin, dripping as we went, over the few " boys in blue " who lay sleep ing peacefully on their army blankets, in the storage-room, in the midst of tabs and pails. The poor fellows were returning from a leave of absence, on account of sickness. God help them! They seemed fitter subjects, with their emaciated forms and haggard faces, for the grave than for a field of battle ! I think we had slept about an hour and a half, when we were awakened by the shrieking of a whistle. Our blood ran cold. I knew all the signals, but, in my confusion, could not make out whether I had heard two long and one short, or two broad and one short. We were not kept long in doubt. Boat after boat took up the signal of danger. In an instant we were seething in an abyss of confusion and wild tnrmoil. The very air seemed rent with the shrieking of whistles. It seemed that all the demons of the infernal region, escaped, were holding high carnival in the air about us. At the first eonnd of danger the boats steamed np, and darted forward into line with lightning rapidity; and, what with the shrieking of whistles, inter- min&ling with the shouts of officers, the cu'ses of men, the clang of musketry, and the trampling of horses preparing for landing, our situation was truly ap palling ; and when tho boom of a can non minded with the uproar, I felt that our days upon the land were numbered. That we never more should gaze upon the verdant pastures, or look upon a bit of bright blue sky, we felt morally cer tain. There was a mysterious noise in the cabin. Having succeeded in partly dressiog myself, I cautiously pushed open my state-room door, and peered out. The cabin was deserted by Ihe men. At the side of the table stood the nun, arrayed as she- had been in the evening. She was evidently prepared for battle. She held in her hand a coarse leather belt, from which were suspended ten or twelve flasks, while, with her beautiful white fingers, she endeavored to pick open the obstinate buckle. She muttered to herself, but I could not see the expression of her bowed fac. I watched her intently. After a few seconds, as if attracted by my fixed gaze, she looked np and saw me. Glad y would I have withdrawn into my rt om ; but before I had time to do so she spoke. "Come here, please, and be kind enough to help me a moment." Her voice was cool and collected. It shamed me. Half my terror and trembling fled. I obeyed. On reaching her, she gave me the belt. " There," she said, " I have succeeded at last in opening that buckle, and if vou will fasten it securely about my waist, I shall be obliged." - The belt was heavy with a burden, and my hands were shaking from fright ; but I fastened the buckle seenrely. " You are a trifle afraid ? she asked, looking down upon my trembling hands with a quiet smile, "Yes, I am afraid," I answered bravely. " I think it is enough to daunt the stoutest heart. Aen't yon afraid?" " Why, yes, a littm : but war is my glory. From a battle and a battle-field I expect to gain my happiness upon earth, my peaca in heaven I There was a depth to the words be yond 'my ken. It was intended to be such. I draw back from the woman. At that moment there came the boom of a second gun. A sharp cry of pain escaped my lips. The life-blood surged back from my white face to my heart. ihe nun. too, gave a little nervons start. " Come 1 " she exclaimed, and fitting a heavy roll of white cloth from the ta ble, and catching me by the shoulder, she pushed forward ; " let us get out of here, or it is all lost all 1 - With a frantic gesture, up went tho beautiful white baud ; and the glorious eyes, although 1 could not see them, 1 felt to be full of imploring. Again I knew her words were fall of meaning ; but as she dragged me through the dark storage-way, 1 could not stand on cere mony. I rather clang to her, than drew back. On reaching the deck, we found the promise oi imo evening iuiniiea. xno rain came down in a fine drizzle. The decks were wet and slippery. Standing unmolested upon the deck. we could not but notice the alacrity and orderly manner with which the tactics of war were conducted. Boat after boat darted like an arrow toward the shore. The troops were landed in haste, but without confusion. They formed into line as orderly as upon dress-pa rade. The next instant we saw the shadowy column ascending the hill-side a the double quick, and disappearing over its brow. A moment after, a "vild yell of tri umph arose from behind the hill, and we knew that out soldiers had come up on the foe, lurking among na ure's bat tlements. The cry was taken up by the soldiers scaling the river side, and caught, too, by the men still on the decks of the boats. The noise was sim ply appalling. " Isn't this perfectly horrible !" I whispered, and at the same time slipped my hand into that or the nun. " Horrible ? I think it is splendid ! She pressed my fingers till I could have screamed with pain. "11 1 weie a man, I could fisrht to-night ! I would crv, 'Down with the rebels !' and strike even unto death with every blow !" Ihe woman was beside herself. " For God's sake, keep still!" I cried " Look, they have set another boat on fire !" "Great God, so they have ! What are our men tbinking about ! Are we never coins' to set foot upon earth again?" Even as she spoke, the " Hazel Dell grated closo to the shore. in The early morning came. The ram still continued to fall, sullen and slow. It dripped from the branches mourn fully, pitifully. A cold chill perva ded the atmosphere. we were now on shore. 'jTliere had hot a wil) t a mult at the dead hour of night. The morning light saw it still. Only the dripping of the ram, the moan of a wounded soldier, the occasional lootiaii ot a mend in search of a missing comrade, the twit ter of birds, frightened from their nests. There ha-1 been jrreat tumult at the dead of night. Still, only a skirmish had taken place. Only a small band of lawless men had made au attacK upon tho fleet. They had been driven back from the river, for a mile or two, into the woods, where, overpowered by num bers, they had scattered and dispersed. Our soldiers, vie orious, had returned to the boats, that is, with the exception of a few left to gather together the wounded and the dead. The nun and I, having followed in tho wake of the troops, were doing our utmost to alle viate the anguish of the sufferers. "List!" said my companion, "I thought I heard a moan." She bent forward and inclined her ear to the ground. After a pause i tcame to us again. "Which way?" she cried, in a pene trating voice. The moan was repeated. Her expe rienced ear instantly detected the direc tion from which the sound camo. " Come J" said she, straightening herself and stepping bravely through the tall, wet grass, her black robes, heavy with the rain, rustling as they trailed behind her. We found a dying officer under a bush. He was shot through the breast. From his situation and from the black trail of blood, we knew that he had painfuHy crawled out of the way of farther danger, and had lain down un der the hazel tree to die. He was al most gone. He lay partly upoD his side, with his head thrown back. His eyes weie fixed, and the blood-stained hand, pressed upon the wound, was etifleuing. Kneeling beside him, and shoving her strong hand between the massive shoulders and the ground, my compan ion raised the dying soldier a little, and pressed the mouth of a half empty flask to his lips. Our suply of liquor was almost gone. During tho past two hours we had suc o rcd many a man, who therwise would have perished. For some reason of her own, my com panion would not listen to any soldier accompanying us in our dismal work. For reasons of her own, she wished to perform her deeds of mercy in darkness. For reasons of her own she wished to gain her happiness upon earth, her peace in heaven, in a mysterious way. Holding up the dying man, she gen tly raised the flisk. that a few drops might fall upon the swollen lips. Too late ! The blood spurted from the wound afresh, a groan escaped the blackened lips, and the soldier was dead. Ltying him down, she closed the glatsy eyes with her beautiful white hands the lands that I had seen, in that weary, early morning, bandige many a cruel wound, stem the red cur rents of life flowing swiftly away, wipe the death-damp from the browj of men scarcely alive, and carefully cover the faces of the dead those beautiful hands that I had seen perform acts that would surely bring peace in heaven thoso hands that I had seen do that, too, which made me shudder ! Yea, they had- raised a horrible doubt in n y breast ! They had aroused my suspicions. I was alert. I watched them eagerly, now. After closing tenderly the eyes, the white hands quietly slipped into the pockets of the dead man. There was no other way of obtaining a clew to his identity no other way, perhaps, of ap prising the people ar. home of his death. Overlooked by comrades, he might fall to dust under the hazel-bush while dear ones in distant lands watched waited, hoped, and longed in vain for his coming through weary years ! "Ah ! was that another moan I heard?" she cried. For a moment I was thrown off my guard. I peered eagerly around ; then, rememlering, I quickly turned. I saw the nun hurriedly conceal the soldier's purse amid the folds of her sable robes with one hand, while in the other the held a limp, wet letter. " This letter is all I can find," she said, indiffer ntly, and at the same time arcse from the ground ; " but his name ia upon it, aud I shall keep it, aud so, perhaps, be able to write to his friends in the course of a day or two. Let me have a rag." r - - - . " ., I gave her a small patch out of my diminished roll. SShe spread it over the poor white face. " Poor fellow 1" she sighed, "I hope the soldiers will find him, and give him a decent burial I Then she clasped her hands together and muttered a prayer. Heaven Knows ! she may have been sincere; but my faith in the woman was prone. " Come I" I exclaimed, impatiently, "let as be doing, or else we shall surely freeze. I had been pressed into service against my will, and when I had become thor oughly drenched with rain, when my Dare hands had Decomenumo wuncoiu, and my feet tired with tramping, I am afraid that I proved to be not the most desirable companion. ' You are very tired, said the nun, kindly ; "but we must not give way; we must keep on till wo reach the snot where the confederates broko and fled. " ' For what ?"' I asked, in a sarcastic tone. She understood, and kept ei lence. We trod on together, without a word, till we came to where a man lay stiff in death. He rested npon one side, his back to ns, his face invisible. Still, on beholdint? him mv brave companion drew back, with deep breathing. Sho raised her hand swiftly to her head, then, rushing forward, 6he fell upon her knees beside him, took him firmly by the shoulders and turned him upon his back. Ona look at tho face was suf ficient ; with a wild cry she drew back. The expres'ion upon her face terrified me. Instantly she was upon her feet; in a trice soe disappeared from my be wildered gaze into the depths of the forest. Many years have pone by since the going out of the lights at the Germm Turnfest. Many yea;s have gone bv since the last strain of music had died away upon the heavy summer night air. And yet, standing alone with tho dead man at my feet, that early morning, upon the banks of the Cumberland, the cold rain saturating my garments, and the cold air penetrating my fle h, that wondrous night, with all its abandon and revelry, with its strange comming liner of refinement and grossness, sweet est strains of heavenly music, aud bit ter beer, rose vividly before me. Again I behell-4he splendid woman. whom I had seen goadod on to Jesper ation and violence, by the heartless taunts of,, a .faithless lover, disappear amonar the trees witu a lace iuii or aarony. Atrain I saw her as I saw he that dreary morning, in a far distant land. All was clear to me now. I knew the dead man, too, who lay at my feet uncared for knew him too well, could net stoop even to close his eyes I understood the woman now. She had bartered her soul, for what? for eyes that would never look upon the glitter of her eold For a heart that would never yearn for her in her splendor. I never saw her agaiu. I have olten wondered whether she went down into the lowest depths of vice, or whether all happiness upon earth being denied her, she continued to labor in gcod faith for her place in heaven. The Society Man. A correspondent of Hearth and Home draws this little picture of a "society man in dimculti s : I had a curious encounter the other ni2ht. It was a madman in Mrs. Brim low's elegant gentleman's dressing-room "farst floor "front for gentlemen as the dusky door-keeping automaton down stairs had just informed me. Just in side the above-indicated door I encoun tered a man I know it was a man you can always tell them at a party, They wear very thin, narrow boots very tight pants ; very low vests ; very startling locliets; very spiky dress coals very distinguished ties under very ex emplarv collars ; very waxy mustaches and part their hair very near the mid die very. Indeed your average party man is a sort of a mild supeilative all the wav through inside and out. But if I had entertained any doubts at all concerning his masculinity, they would have been dispelled by the muttered oaths that came struggling from under his mustache and through his com pressed lips. It certainly was a man, I knew him by his cloths and his swear, And he was mad. I said so, and I stick to it. His face was red, and his brow contracted, his step impatient, and he bore all the appearance of ono who is trying to keep his feelings under con trol,and that, too, with very indifferent success, ne was evidently ttruggling with something, and at last 1 compre bended the situation ; he was trying to squeeze his hands which usually ac commodated nines into a pair of white kida that were only eights and a Lair. Certainly a very trifling all air to get mad at : but lust try it yourself once, Ashe said to me: "There's my lady waiting impatiently in tho next room for me to take her down sta'rs J and here I am yet, sweating and swearing over these confounded gloves. ee I've just got one on I" and he held up a rather cloudy white, which looked as though the seams were trying to meet each other throuih the poor mans hand, making tho parts where they weren't appear like miniature canvas bellying before the wind "and now here this other one won't come. By George ! I wish goats would eat their own kids so that whew I there the old thing goes! Confound it!' And, sure enough, an enormous rent revealed a great deal of red hand between two sections of ratht r rumph d-looking kid. He looked like a man whose light had gone out a man who was sent for and couldn't come who thought he would and then wished he hadn't and just as he was getting up an e9pepcial male diction appropriate to the occasion, Black John appears with a grin and a jerk: "Please, sah! Miss Grimsby wants to know if you are expecting to go down to the parlors this evening?" And so there was nothing else to be done, and the poor fellow descen led, with an incensed lndy, a torn glove, a harrowed spirit all because his kills were half a size to small. The True Woman. "The true woman," says a la'e writer, " needs to be songht. She does not parade herself as thow goods. S1k is. not fashionable. Generally she is not rich. If you gain her love, your two thousand are a million. She'll not ask yoa for a carriage or a first-class house. She'll wear simple dresses, and turn them when necessary. She'll keep everything neat and nice in your sky parlor, end give you such a welcome when yon come home that you'll think yonr parlor higher than ever. She'll entertain your friends on a dollar, and astonish you with the new thought, how very little happinesa depends on money. Now do not say any more, ' I can't afford to marry.' Go, find the true woman, and you can afford it Throw away that cigar, burn np that switch cane, be sensible yourself, and seek yonr wife in a sensible way." A Hcge Aebolite. A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune says that an enormous aerolite recently fell in the vicinity of Farmersville, Livingston county, Missouri. Tho shock of i's impact with the ground is stated to have been like a l earthquake, and tbe mol ten mass is described as fully twenty feet high above the soil, and some twenty-five feet in diameter. It pre sents the nsnal appearance of such bod ies, being a black, shining mass of me teoric iron. Its size is unprecedented. A genius is popularly said to be one who can do everything except make a living. VOL.' XIX., NO. 35. Cars for Daughters. I Would you show yourself really good to your daughter! ? Then bo generous to them in a truer sense than that of heaping trinkets on their necks. Train them for independence first, and then labor to give it to them. Let them, as soon as ever they are grown up, have some little money, or means of makiDg money, to be thtir own, and teach them how to deal with it, without needing, every moment, 6omcbody to help them. Calculate what you give them or will bequeath to them, not, a3 is usually done, on the 'chances of their ranking a rich marriage, but on the probability of their remaining single and according to the sale of living to which you have accustomed them. Suppress their luxuries now if need be, but do not leave them with scarcely bare necessa ries hereafter, in striking contrast to their present home. Above all, lit lp them to help themselves. Fit them to be able to add to their own means rather thai to be forever pinching Jand econo mizing till t eir minda are narrowed and their hearts are' sick. Oive them all the culture you can to every pt wer which they may posses. II they ithouid marry after alL they will be tho happier and the better for it. If they should re main amoDcr the million of the unmur ried, they will bless you in your grave, and say of you what cannot bo said of many a doating parent by his surviving child : " Mv father cured that I should be happv, after his death as will as wh'le I was his pet and his toy." Mexican Manners. A writer in the City of Mexico Bays : I doubt if any capital in the world con tains so many handsome women and wealthy gentle man, or has so many poor, hideous-lookiDg people. Like ali Span ish towns, tho rich are very rich, and the poor very poor. The 'wealthy are handsomely, tastefully, and fatih enably attired; while those of the miditle classes affect the chivalrous drees of old Castilo cloth jackets with metallic buttons, gaudy sashes, sombreros with embroidered bands, and gold and sil ver clasps down the outer seams of the pantaloons. The women promeuado with no head-dress, their faces protec ted from the sun by parasols, which they coquettishly carry. Fiom ton to twelve in the morning the streets ore thronged and the shops crowded uutil four or five o'clock in tho afternoon, after which hour few ladies are to be seen on the thoroughfares nntil lato in the evening. Then the parks, plazas, and p omenades wear an animated ap pearance. Ladies are to bo seen float ing about gracefully, followed by their servauts: and caballeros. ia full drss. swords, boots, nnd spurs, ride slowly around mounted upon superb horses, whose heads and loins are nearly cov ered with elegant trappings. About Dreams. If you dream that a black cat with white feet and seven yellow rings around his tail, is sitting on the mee ting house steeple, it is a sign that you w ill marry within a yeur, if single, and that your wife, if you are marneo, contem plates eloping with the hired man. If you dream that you see a white cat sitting on a coffin, aud t white heirso is galloping around in a circle, aud a white fl.ig is waving in the air, there will bo sickness in the family probably your wife; and you will do more gallopiu-i around and waving before she is well than you ever thought of. If a married woman dreams of fol lowing a blue hor.e down hill, and she com s to a spring of muddy wuter, and sees a snake in it, some onu is going to make her Jeel bad. The widow Skin ner will probibly start a story that the dreamer needn't fctiek her nose tip over other folks, as her father was onco con victed of stealing saw logs. To dream of seeing a crowd of angels, and lictring blissim music, ami oi pluckicg golden apples from silver trees, is a sign that your mother-in- aw is coming to visit yoa, and all the an gels and golden apples you see after she gets there, can be put in your left eye. Plaster as a Manure. There seems to be little doubt but that plaster, or as it is called by chem- ists, suipnate oi lime, is on khup sous an efficient and cheap manure; while on other sjils it eeems to be of little or no value, as no difference can be di'teeted in the crops following its asc. Now ia order to tell the soil on which it will pay to use it is tho question that wo shall have to decide for ourselves, for I am not aware that any man can te-11 by looking at the soil, where it will pay to use it, or where it will no. pay. I hero fore, if wo would know for a certainty, it is best to try small quantities em dif ferent parts of the field, either by sow- irg on grass lands as a top elressing, or by using as a mauure for held crops in different ways, and tho answer that you may get will likely be a tine one. After vou have found where it will pay, then use it liberally, and it may be wedl to say here that if tho crops are all consumed upon tho farm, there need be no fears of ruining your farm by usiug plaster in a judicions manner. The Tcmato. Joseph Ilarrod. formerly of Portland, Maine, now of New York state, claims to have introduced ti e tomato into America. Tl o spot where he made his fir.-t tomato hills is now covered by spacious stores, and is opposite the new nmrblo postoftice in Portland. Tho story runs thus : In 181G Mr. Hr rod had a store in Portland, with house nd garden attached. In June, a friend, who was a ship owuer, gave him some tomato ("golden" or " lovo " apple) tseeds, which were brought in a vessel rom Cuba. They were planted in the expectation of seeing a nice flowering plant. Ihree years afterward lie sent some seeds to his father nnd others in Haverhill, Mass. Two years later till, m . 1 r 1 I . 'iT 11 ll . ll one oi iheso menus, nueriu iiueit, wrote him, saying that the teimitto was pood for a sulad, if cut up and dressed ike a cucumber. Always Green. Vegetation in New Zealand i ever greeu. Forest, wild shruooeries m u.all bush, grass plains areaiiKe dom ed with verdure winter and snmmtr, autumn and spring, anil the effect, of such a climato with such a vegetation are these ; that the operation of reclaim ing and cultivating laud can be carried on most equally well at all seasons of the year that when the firrit condi tions of snccessfnl cultivation are com plied with, all the English grain, root and fruit crops are fine in quality and yield that comparatively little winter provision is necessary for stock, and that all the domestio animals multi- ly fast, are free from many of the Euro pean diseases, mature early, and present to the eye of the connoisseur that cle , sleek, glossy appearance of coat and kin seldom seen except among s ock at home. It is related of the late Senator Wig'all that on the cedlapse of the con- ,3 at-li i 1 43 o i rta & i rt cr i m Ttf muiaf. iTil 11 to make his way into Mexico, in the- as sumed chai actor of an nltra union man, e was informed by a federal soldier, who was on board the ferry boat, of the intense satisfaction he would experience if he could fall in with and hang to the topmost limb of the tallest tree the Tetas arch traitor. " Yes, I too would be pulling at one end of tho rope," ve hemently remarked Wigfall. The Congregatiemalist explains what it means by "lightning-bug piety", bright while it lasts, but cold and f soon out. TAOT AND TAKOY. 1 , All right, old bow, m be there, -ld ta AUbam boy when sentenced to be hanged. I am no herald to i pediVreea: it uftlo th me to knew tht.ir virtneti. MrJ bydnry. A lady asked a veteran whioh oarried the mizimum distance. Tl, old chap answered, " Tlio Miui mum." -When the waiter rmnael Hnic r some very old olieese it theliotvl tl.l, the other day, he responded : "Not mite." In Naples a barber will share, en t ' hair, comb, brush, black tx-cta, sikI y'wa you a cigar and call it mare for ti cents. New York Commercial : "Curious ly enough, it was at Wapga-Wgra that the Tiehborne tale was first Mt in mo tion." M. Normand. the architect ef tho new Vendome coliAnn iu Paris. oronn'Mn to have tho monument ready oil tho lt of Jane. A man writes Ic an editor for SI. "because he is so infernally abort." and he get in reply the Learthwx re sponse, Do as l do, stand up on a chair. A Kentucky paper aiHjlogizrs for having ppoken of tho " red-headed, malignant mute who dixpenseN tho county money," by snying that it wrote " liig-hearted, valiant soul. "What ia heaven's lest gift man?" asked a young lady Sind.iy night, smiling sweetly on a ideai.iiit looking clerk. " A Lo s," replio tl.o young man, with great prucetcc. It is proposed to prevent tho nii- sanco to railroad travelers urising fioia thfl smoke and fine at-hes from the loco motiro, by attaehiug a pipe to tl a smoke stack to carry the euioko to ti e end of the truiu. Said Lord John Kufhi-U to Hume, nt a social dinner : " What do you consider the ol jeet of lepiblation ?" " Tho pieaf- est good to the r rentest luiuIm r. "What do vou consider the greatest number?" oontiuuod his hrd.hip. " Number oi.o, my lord," was the com moner's prompt re-ply. The following ntroeious pnrngnij'h appears in an cxelntnce: " Jiorothy Williams, of Wyoniinrr, Marted to walk three miles to church the othe r Smiduv aud thry found tier torn iuto alxmt liliy pieces, the reeult oi meeting a bear whoso moral churned r was at a low state." Tt nnvson hat ben engaged on mi odo of welcome to tin duchess eif IMiu buig. From the iritnuscript which lie sent ns to revise, wo havo t-iken tl.o liberty of e'rasing tl.o thiid stnnvii, which was as follows : Tho liinls and brex, a nl wind cweil tier", To pran-e thee, fha'l council r. Willi vcii.Ts iKirti fri'tn tn ru teti Mariax 1 1) Mauar !" A fino equestrian painting, nine by seven feet, repD-i-riiting tho luM meetini; between Gcus. 1!. L. Jjeo nr.d Stein-wall Jackson, on the day before tho lint lie of C. sncellojsville, painted l y E. B. . Julio, of New Orleans, is ou eihibiiieii at Kichnioml. Jt ia vn'ued nt fin.doo, and will be preM nted to tho Lee Memo rial Chapel, at Lexington. " Yon so, grand ninmniii, we p rfni- ate an spelt ure in thoiipi-t nnd it i'-r-reepouding iijwrturo in the base, iuiiI by ani'lvine tlio egg to ti e lip', and foicibiy inhaling tin- I r ath, the slu II is entirt ly discharged eif its contents." "Bless my soul," cried tho edd Inly, "what wonderful improvement they they do make 1 Now, in my younger days, we jiiHt made; a 1 ole in each end and sucked." An exchange tells in that a school boy's toothache generally riumi ite -H at 8 a. m., reaches its lightest altitudo at a quarter to 9, when (lie pain H in tense to an extraordinary tb gne ; com niencea to subside at nnd after that disappears with a celerity that mio-t let very comfortable to the mi!T n r. If at night that boy hai-n't got four quarts of walnuts spread out to dry, i stairs, it in because there is no place up nt.iirs to do it. The numWr wf officers of foreicn birth in our regular army is 'ill. Of the-so Ire-land claims t! e majority over any, ninety-n'x; Germany lank next, forty-five; while England hos ten hi-s than the latter figure. Of those who have risen from the ranks, one hundred and eight aro Americans; forty-four Irish, and twenty-three ii-mians. Thus is the majority of moiilorious enlir-ted "regulars" of Americ n birth, condary to the generally-received opinion. North Adams hs s tailor long known for his keen, pu: gent wit. Not long since a well-known eh rgjnian call ed at his shop with a pairof pantaloons, and asked him if they eotild bo repaired. Tlio knight eu the shears unn died tl hedd them np in the mt artistic inn li ner, curefully ex; mined them, and re ined : "les, yes; the kinm nr ino est part of theiii." The rev rened r tlemiu saw the joke, finded blandly, and gracefully bowed himself out. Moving the Stove. A reuder who is recently married write us asking which end of a stove is the lightest. A stove i-e very deceiving. and one has to In come well acquainted with a new one to find it po'uts ef ad vantage. Onr friend should net bo too hasty in taking hold of a stove. A slovo that is to be moved should bo visited in the still watches tf the night In fine, and can fully examined by the light of a good lamp. The very end wo thought the lightest m iy prove the heaviest (in fact is extremely likely toi, or it iirif bo that t' e lightest emt it th nioct dif ficult toilet hold of and hsng on to. It is a very distressing undertaking to car ry a half ton tf stove by yonr linger nails, with a cold blooded man e n ily holding tho oth r i d, un I a nervoim woman, with a dust pau in one Land and a broeon in tho other, bringing i.p tho rear and gett n the lu-ooni betwt en your leg. Iu going up i.fair it is best to bo at tho lower end i f the stove. Going backward up a siairway with it stove in your hands ni iin sa delien-y of perception which very few p'o essess, slid which can oi ly come utter year of conscirnl ions pr'e' i-. It ton are below, you havo the iidva- lage of mii-sieg much that itiut be gainful to a sensitive nature. Tho pot,l ion you aro iu bring your fa"e oreMy -los to tho top of the stove, and im no one can l" expected to seo what is going till vleti thus situated, yon are relieved froi.i all n sponsibility nnd thoiit'ht in the nut ter, with nothing to do but to push valiantly ahead m.d think i f Haven. Then bIkivo yon in the e.omaii whom you do not sec, with hi 1 two inehe apart, his 'jc protruding, snd hi tongue lolling on In chin. Aid it i well you elon't see him, for it in an aw ful sight. But the chief advantage i'i being be low is that, iu c ise eif the s'ev falling, you will bo cancht, lienea'h it. and instantly kill. d. Nothing sl.ort of yonr death will ever compensate for tho scratched paint, soiled carpet, and torn 'il-eloth. And no man in ihk-m-lb -sumi with his hearing uniinpuiied won 11 want to t-nrvivo the catastrophe. lun- bury JS'cwit. Isrtherma' h mt. These line, as their name ind'oites, aro line of equal te-iii-Kiraturc, snd vaty greatly from tho lines reprse-ntiii ; tl- latitude of different localities. It would naturally bj supposed that localitii s sit uated at the rame dibiunro north i-r south of the equator would lo ef tho same average temperature throughout the year, but an examination of a mp on which isothermal lines ro n pre sented will show a remark el-Io vsriatioii. Take tho isothermal line of foity d grot of animal temperature. It runs through tho southern part e.f the Gulf ed St. Lawrence, thence south f lei Ii n I and through the center ol Scandinavia. It is as warm on the western coast of Europe a it i on tho eastern ev imt of the United States, f.00 or NX) miles fmther south. Gram will ripen iu these latitudes in thi ratio. A iiuilar statement is true of the west portion i f the Unitevl States. Take tho paiulhl of fifty degrees of equal annual te u per- ature it runs by Albany, the sontli shore of Lake Erie, through Noithern Illinois, then northward to North rn Oregon and away to I'uget'a Hi nnd, hundreds of mile further north limit it is on the eastern side.