AK EMBER PICTURE how Waage are the freaks of tumor, The lemma of life we forget. While a trifle, a trick of color, To the wooderiel web is •el— r L A chance had brought us gather ; Our talk wsw of in shore course, We were nothing. one to the o But a short half-hour's resource. Set by some mordant And deapiLe the sratr Of time or diataned or tri Insists on its right to Fancy, and tear able, 0 there We awoke of French acting and arrant And their ehey natural way— Of the weather. (rrt it woe reining As we dr.ye home (non the ploy. We debated the fielded nothing,. Men take much paint to dneo The thunder... mind - . of L., , Were event the while fur u.. Arrived at her door, we left her With a droopingly hurried nd And our wheel]. Iwo nt crunching the gravel Of the nak•darkencd no caw.. A. wo drove away through the almilow, The candle rho held in the deer, From rein-vernirked treu-trunk to treo-trunk Fleshed reinter, tool fliahrol 461 more— Plumbed fainter end wholly faded ' Before we hall peered the wood . But the light 01 the fare behind it Went with me and etayed for good •r• The vision titer.. moment, And hardly marl oil at the time It comes unhidden to haunt me, Like a acme of ballad rhyme. llad she beauty ? Well not what they eall so You may tel a tialmeand an fair, And yet there'. her !ace in any memory, With no special right to be there. As I nit some Lunen In the twilight, rkpd call back to Ma In the eon In Old laces and hopes and (anal.. Long burled, good rest to their souls. Her fitee shines out of the embers. I see her holding the light. And hear the crunch of the gravel And the sweep of the rain th•t night 'Tin • face that can never grow nliler, That can never part with its gleam ; ;Tie a gracious possession forever, Our s tuisat In it all iput a dream' —Atbsfitir 31.rAly FACTS AND FIGURES We have conversed with planter, from all parts of the Cotton States, and literal' concur In thie, that they cannot raise cotton at the present price, and pay the tax, and that they will not attempt it another year Now we are very fully im preued with the belief that the Government cannot do without the produataof the South, and it becomes the port of enlightened Statesmanship to restore the agriculture of the South to something like its former con dition. The rice of 1860 amounted to 187,- 140,171 lb.. Seergia and Carolina alone furnished two•thirde the export rice of the world That exportetrade to entirely de greyed, and rice from Ch'ib hire actually been sold in Charleston Harbor The cot ton of 1860 amounted to 5,196,944 bales. II has fallen to 2,019,271 bales in 1866, and is destined to a'greater decline, and it may be to extinction. The Rutter crop of 1860 was 302,205 bor.,' beads Last year, it was 80,000 and Ire year It will be less The tobaeoo crop of 18110 war 429,86.1,761 lb.. It has had a similar, thought not so great, • deoline. 7 — Pitch, tar and turpentine, cypress 'Mingles, live oak tittiber,...liemp, Ilex, wheat, and generally all Southern products have been fearfully reduced The great Weat has al most totally lust is Southern market for corn, mules, horses, hogs, S:o Thousands in the rich producing region of the United Staten have been kept from actual want by the generous charity of the manufacturing or non-producing seution of our vast coun try. How long can the United States afford to have its producers term.' into paupers? In no period of her history line the South showed greater energy than durilig the last two disastrous years Without money, without credit, without permanent labor, end under the depression of unfriendly leg islation, she bus repaired her amste places, built up her burnt towns find villages, re stored her torn up red.roade, ci cried once more her eahoole and soil ao es to furnish three-fourths of the °sports of the country Th ie agricultural labor ham been c irric,l on where leaves lied been cut exposing to in undations, where fences had been burnt, • implements of husbandry destroyed, and horses and molts so scarce that men and frees women have pulled the plough by hand Is there not enough hero to excite the ad miration of the most malignant ph ilenthro plot 'I le there not enough here to euggett the thought that the South, with friendly legislation and a generous helping hand, would soon afford once more it market for the West, and impart confidence to the credit of the Goverummt 'rho products of the South even now constitute almost the sole exports of the country, and therefore almost•the sole Lope of establishing the cur rency el/00 a sure basis! Northern - men, who have attempted the cultivation of Southern farms, have generally made mis erable failures The Southern people, of course, understand the culture of their own staples and the management of their own system of labor better than the rest of the world elan,. Hence, enlightened self-inter est shouldprompt the North a r i d W es t t o give a wise encouragement to Southern planters by • fair and equal legislation, im posing upon them no heavier burdens than they themselves are willing to bear.— No mad of settee doubts! that the agr lout tete of the Booth- bulk up the great 011ie' the North and m•pe the whole United ;States risk and prosperous. No one at all etionversaet with statialles doubts that upon weleuseltating the South depends the poly Laps of maintalning the credit of the goy,. ammo! at home and abroad The rich bond-holders, the merchant prawn's, the farmers, and mechanics—all of and troaditlotie are interested in Southern pros perity. The party that devises unjust and unequal legislation for that section will surely be pushed is the wall. Self-interest will in the long run gel the better of hate and prejudice However willing the loyal North may be to see the rebellious South punished. the loyal North is not willing to see ruin brogit- to her own border to PO: complieh that obTai. We think that the clay Is notdistantwhen the American people ll see that they &repaying loodeer for their whimile of negro equably. If we estimate the bale of cotton at one hundred dollars, the payment last year in the reduced pro ;Wallin of cotton amounted to three hundred Anti Aventeen millions, seven hundred and ty-four thousand, three hundred dol ls@ ! (1131T,774,800.) Assuming that the Wee upon all other products of the South Is equal to that upon sou" we paid last year 5685.548,800 for this ebony whistle. "ow long will the people, he willing to sustain this mettelitif A 'aloe has reached our little backwoods village on this Sib ()Weber morning, coming from Penneylvania and Ohio, "this is the lent year of folly I" So may it be Is our Adgust number, we ventured to Nugget' to our colored brethren that they should put on probation for a Ape" their new lovers, who had once been negro-tra ders or fire-uteri. As elf eltviee was ‘ 'oelv•d in such • kind tippreetative -- --- • "Ile . • . 1 • nal . '- .' 1 •L' I 10' O l jL !1 V . II j e ni l otra it i!. . ~, # # "STATE ILIGUTS AND rEDEB.A.r. UNION." VOL.XII spirit, we venture to drop them another hint. Id the first transports of requited love when the youthful pair are exchanging vows, and for the first tiele having a lender exchange of confidential confessions, is utual (so say the novel writers) for the en amored couple to ask one another, •'when dud yet' first begin to love me!" It is de-. lightfill for them to trace back in their own experience the first awakening of the soft' emotion, and each desires to know when the other first felt the kindli4 l4 of the gentle flame. The lady, especially, le inclined lo learn the precise day, yea the precise mo rueise when her dear 'wain heaved the first sigh for her. And if she be al.all jealously inclined, she will not rest satisfied until she has found out all the motiviti, causes and attendant circumstances, which brought about the first sigh Was It the charming style of her dress Was it the sweetness of her smile' Was it her singing or dan cing, Was it some noble sentiment she ut tered, or some sparkling w I All these interrogatories and many more (we get our information from the story books) are pressed upon her hirer, and he has to telt Mk precise moment when Cupid's arrow rook him, anddesaribe the precise feather which winged the arrow. our suggestion to our colored brother is that he should imitate the prudence, as well as the tenderness, of the jealous lover.— When the old negro-trader and old seces sionist comes filling and cooing around you gratify him with a kiss of tenderness, bu t at the lame time. ask him, "when did you first her etriove me 1 * Was it. before or 'lifter the battle of Gettysburg} Was it be fore or after the passage of the Sherman bill? What was it made you love me ? Was your heart won by the shape of my nose, the quality of my hair ob the style of my foot 7 Were you subdued, however, not by my personal grease, but by the charms of my eon eeeee lion and the noble ness of my soul 7" All these question Vars important and we hope they will be duly propounded. The negro has a right to know at what precis* moment the tender passion first seised the old negro-trader, and what particular grime or person or character first excited the soft emotion Since we have become a loyal winter, we feel an irreeleble inclination to explain our &lining by a "little anecdote." after the manner of the,"late lamented." We remember that in o ir youthful days, (a long time ago,) agentleman whose subsequent history the world has resound ed) mune to us and said, ^I don't know how it is, but I onoe thought the features of Miss were harsh, now they seem to me all sweetness As the lady in due season became his wife, we presume be found out the cause of change of opinion Uid little Cupid have something to do with it? So It seemed to us The President of the first negro Conven tion, which met at Raleigh, had told Gen Howard a short ,Mme before, that the ne• groan were encorrigible thieves and liars, and that there was no good thing in them What caqsed his sudden change of vl6wa ? Had tho mischievous God with his bow and arrows anything to do with It If so, at what time was the shaft shot? Hew deep did it penetrate Let each fond lover be asked the question "when did you first love me , " "How much do you love me?" For fear that all may not be equally can did, we wJlsivo the answer of the frankest •r the crowd of adorers I began to love you just after the passage of the Sherman bill. My love is equal to (he silent of my property, and the measure thereof is my fear of confiscation!"—Land We Love. ANOTHER DIAD DUCK.—Drake, the noto rious lawyer of St Louis, who now mis represents Missouri in the United Stales Senate, has killed himself in the estimation °Lail honorable men, us one of the future Judges of Prorideut Johnson, in the event 9(.6 impesahment. hewing publicly so preseed himself In favor of the worst that could be done to the president, In advance. Thus we have another senatorial "dead duck." It is strange that men as smart as Drake thinks he is, should adopt seek a low estimate of tliejudgment and