Wfiticater Nutt PUBLISHED EVEBY WIMPS:IMAX By H. G. SMITH it CO H. G. SMITH TEEMS—Two Dollars per ann.nm, payable all oases in advance. THE LANCASTER DAME INTELLIGENCES 1e published every evening, Sunday excepted, at $5 per Annum in advance. OFFISF- - SORTHWANT CORNER OF CENTRIC SQUARE. g °dry. • A DREAM. Back again, darling? 0, day of delight! how I have longed f,r you morning and night! Watched for you, pined for you, all the days through, Craving no boon and no blessing but. you; Prayed for you, plead for you, sought you in vain, Striving torever to and you again; Counting all anguish as nsugut If I might Clasp you again na I clasped you last night! Oh! I have sorrowed and suffered so much - Since I last answered .your lips' loving touch; Through the night watches, In daylight's broad beams, Anguished by visions and tortured by dreams— Dreams t.o replete with b. wild erin. pain, Still it is throbbing in heart and in brain— Oh ! for I dreamed—keep me close to your bide, Darling, oh I darling—l dreamed you had died! Dreamed that I stood by your pillow, and heard From your pale 11„slove'a halt-muttered word; And by the ligh of the May morning skier' Watched your face whiten, and saw your dear eyes Gazing far into the Wonderful Land— Felt your fond ringer.; grow cold in my hand ; "Darling," you wh upered ; "My darling !" you mid Faintly, so faintly, and then you were dead! Oh the dark hours when I knelt by your grave, Calling upon you to love and t., save; Pleading in vain for a sign or a word, Only to tell me you listened and heard; Only tosay you remembered and knew How all my soul was in anguish for you ; Hitler despairing the tears that I shed— Darling, oh ! darling, because you were dead, Yet, in the midst of the darkness and pain, Darling, I knew I should lind you again! Know as the roses knew, under the /mow, How the next suminer would set theta aglow ho I did always, the dreary days through, Keep my heart single and sacred to you, As on the I eitUtlful dig• we were wed, Darling, oh! darling, although you had fled. Oh! the great Joy Of awaking, to know I did hut dream all that torturing woe! Oh! the delight that m; 'marching can trace Nothing of cold II CF. or change in your face! Still la your forehead unlurrowed and fair, None of the light Is lost out of your hair; NOIIO of the Plum from your dear eyes is lied; Darling, oh! how could I dream you were dead Now you are liere,.you will always remain, Never, oh! never 1,1 leave me again! How It has vanished, the anguish of years! Vanished—nay, these are not sorrowtul tears ; Happiness only my cneek has impearied, There Iy no grievleg for me in the world; Dark clouds may threaten, but I have no fear Darling, oil ! darling, because you are hers ! `,liradlantattri. Description of the Notabilities of the !British Parliament. The London correspondentof the New York Times gives the following descrip tion of the notabilities of the British Parliament. He says: Owing to the absurdly small size of the House, very few strangers can be ac commodated with seats, and consequent ly there are more policemen and door keepers round about the entrances than you are accustomed to see at Washing ton. On the night of an interesting de bate, it is rather difficult to obtain ad mission, for the simple reason that there are about tell times as many people anxious to get in as the House will hold. I should advise, however, any Ameri• can who happens to be here during the session, to write to a member of either House whom he may happen to know, or, If he is not acquainted with any, to send a note to the Speaker a day or two beforehand. Tile strangers' gallery is et best a very uncomfortable place, and the seats for members themselves are not so good as the seats for visitors in the House at Washington. They are talking of building a new House of Commons altogether, 3 nil using the present one as a lobby. Something will have to be done to rectify Barry's pre posterous blunder. The present lobby of the House is a sort of hall in front of the doors. Here members' constituents wait to speak to them, or the curiouS stand to watch fur the well-known men of the day. Last night, if the reader bad been standing with me close to the door, he would have noticed a number of gentlemen straggling in, with healthy-looking faces, high collars with a 11 ee kerc h ief tied around them, and the general look of country squires. They are for the most part the "country party" who obey the clever Mr. Disraeli. All kinds of men pass by, until the throng dimin ishes and the strangers begin to send their cards in to their acquaintances. As we begin to think of moving away, there enters a gentleman buttoned up in a frock coat, with a face full of lines and seams, and a heavy, almost sad look in the eyes, a yellow complexion, and thin curlsjust showing beneath his hat. He walks with one hand behind his back, his eyes bent upon the ground, a stoop in his shoulders, and generally with the appearance of a rather dissipated man —except for the intensely thoughtful and intellectual look which dignifies the countenance. This is the Chancellor of the Exche quer, the great Mr. Disraeli himself, who is now going to defend the policy of the Government, and who does,not know how severely it may be assailed. For see, just at his back stands a portly and burly man, with whiskers and hair turning gray, but a pleasant, cheery look in his face. He lays his great fat hand on a friend's shoulder, and they crack jokes and "c,haff" each other in high glee. This Is Mr. John Bright, and it may be that he has come down to-night to "punish " the Government, and notably to scarify yonder worn and abstracted gentleman who is entering the House. Worn, did I say? Yes; and if you recall that man's history you will not wonder at the lines in his face. Think of the terrible fight that man has waged against the world for • more than thirty years! Never, proba bly, iu the history of politics, has public man been assailed so universally, so bitterly, so incessantly as Mr. Dis raeli, who is disappearing through that door. What a dauntless spirit he car ries beneath that apparently drooping form! We may believe anything we please of his principles, but his genius and his courage—his unconquerable courage, his almost heroic resolu tion, we, none of us, can refuse to admire. He looks old and even feeble, (for a private sorrow has of late bowed him down,) but touch him in a vulnerable point and the brighest fire will leap forth ; the tongue will talk scorpions, happy phrases and epithets will flow like water, and lie will make his most relentless detractors cheer him till they are hoarse—the sole influence of his elequence. Think of the years that man has walked over this spot where we are now standingidefeated, abused, slandered, defamed, and to all appearance with the great game of life completely lost ; yet always wearing the same impassive, inscrutable look which we observed just -now, always patient, and never for a moment cowed. He felt, it may be, that this day would come, and, behold! it has. This old Jewish looking man (I use the words because they exactly describe his appearance) is now Her Majesty's Chancellor of the Exchequer, the leader of the House of Commons, and altogether I am inclined to think the foremost man in all Her Majesty's dominions. And now there comes along one who would have been the foremost man if he could have kept his temper and ruled his tongue as skillfully as the sallow gentleman justgone. He, too, is deeply !, marked in the face with thought or un xiety, his hair and whiskers are gray, he looks old, he is dressed in black, and carries a thick blue book under his arm —the Abyssinian blue-book published byGovernment. This. is Mr. Gladstone, Disraeli's most formidable antagonist, 1 but still no match for that splen did master of repartee and, fence. Is he going to make a speech :to-night? Probably. Look, now, at this white headed gentleman whoapproaches with heavy white eyebrows and the peering look of a near-sighted man. This is Hon. Robert Lowe, whose speeches against the Reform Bill are among the ablest ever made in Parliament. It is he who has advised the present rulers to "educate their masters." Theshrewd and well conditioned gentleman in the black frock coat near Mr. Lowe is Lord Stanley, and—l must stop. If I detain the reader thus at thedoor of the House we shall never cross the threshold, and I shall have missed my object in visit ing the Palace to-night. Enter, then, the small chamber in which the Commons of England are seated together on eibowless benches, like people in the " parquette H of one of your theatres. They: are jammed pretty close, and if any :rine wants to make a memorandum he naust write it on his knee, and if he waft s to Init.his hat down he must thrust it utuief the seat. Why cannot each member' have &chair, like members of Congress?' We will say nothing about:We. , desk, be.; cause theliouse meets Anithe evening, and intinibere7WOltrdlnorwant to do the baslneis of the dayat their desks: But prOper reotn to sit dowin is nottoo much tc., crowded as the benches are, (rt# • - gatt;001o $/tttetti*-/nktt. A. J. STEINMAN VOLUME 69 they will not hold many more than half , the members. The Speaker sits in an old-fashioned tall chair, with a green shade projecting from it, as if to protect him from a sunstroke. Probably the gaslight hurts his eyes; at any rate, this shade renders his countenance almost invisible from the gallery. To his right hand sit the Ministerial Party, to his left the Opposition. On the front bench of the one are the Cabinet, on the cor responding bench of the other may be seen Mr. Gladstone and some of the chiefs of Opposition. Below this set of benches is another set, with a passage between called the " gangway." The gentlemen who sit' below the gangway are supposed to be independent of party —and there may be seetilfir. Lowe, Mr. Bright, Mr. Berr.al Osborne and many others Daniel Webster and Jenny Lind Jenny Lind gave a concert at Wash ington during the session of Congress, and as a mark of her respect, and with a view to the eclat, sent polite invita tions to the President, Mr. Fillmore, the members of the Cabinet, Mr. Clay, and many other distinguished members of both Houses of Congress. It hap pened that on that day several members of the Cabinet and Senate were dining with Mr. Bodisco, the Russian Minister. His good dinner and choice wines had kept the party so late, that the concert was nearly over when Webster, Clay, Crittenden and others came in ; whether from the hurry in which they came, or from the heat of the room, their faces were a little flushed, and they all looked somewhat flurried. After the applause with which these gentlemen had been received had sub sided, and silence once more restored, the second part of the concert was opened by Jenny Lind, with "Hail Columbia." -This took place during the height of the debate and excitement of the sla very question, and the compromise -re solutions of Mr. Clay ; and this patriotic air, as a Fart of the programme, was considered peculiarly appropriate at a concert, where the head of the Govern ment, and a large number of both branches of the legislative department, were present. At the close of the first verse, Webster's patriotism boiled over ; he could stand it no longer; and rising like Olympian Jove, he added his deep, sonorous bass voice to the chorus; and I venture to say, that never in the whole course of her career, did she ever hear or receive one-half of the applause as that, with which her song and Web ster's chorus was greeted. Mrs. Webster, who sat immediately behind him, kept tugging at his coat tail to make him sit down or stop sing ing, but it was of no earthly use—and at the close of each verse, Webster joined in, and it was hard to say whether Jenny Lind, Webster, or the audience were the most delighted. I have seen Rubini, Lablaehe, and the two Crisis, on the stage at one time, but such a happy conjunction in the national air of "I - Tail Columbia," as Jenny Lind's tenor and Daniel Webster's bass, we shall never see or hear again. At the close of theair,Mr. Webster rose with his hat in his hand, and made her such a bow as Chesterfield would have deemed a fortune for his son, and which eclipsed D'Orsay's best. Jenny Lind, blushing at the distinguished Lonor, courtesied to the floor; the audience ap plauded to the very echo; Webster, de termined not to be outdone in polite ness, bowed again ; Miss Lind reca,ur tesied, the house reapplauded, and This was repeated nine times, or "Pm a. villian else." I have seen Niagara and Taglioni, Mars and Malibran ; I have walked through the ruins at Paestum and the Colliseum by • moonlight; crossed the Menai Bridge and the Thames Tunnel, but never while memory lasts will this scene fade away. Being something of a wag, and deem log this too good to be lost, the next day it was currently reported that Barnum bad engaged Mr. Clay and Mr. Webster to accompany Miss Llud and himself as far as Richmond, and assist her at her concert, For some days nothing but Miss Lind's concert, and the report about Clay and Webster, was talked of about the capitol. A few days after this I was sitting in the Congessioual post office, when a member came in, with whom I had al- ways been on friendly terms; and to my unusual very cordial ' Good morning,' the gentleman, with lips closely com pressed, pale as his shirt, and clipping his words very shortly, replied in a sort of staccato style, "Good morning, sir. Can I have a word with S , ou in private?" Heaven defend me from a challenge, thougLt I. Still, never dreatning how I could have incurred the gentleman's displeasure, I. replied very politely, "With pleasure." After leading me some distance through the crooked pas sages of the Capitol, he stopped short and looking me full in the face, and seemingly as anxious fora fightas a bull terrier, he began ; "Understand, sir, that a most insult . ing report has been very extensively circulated in this city about two of the most distinguished men of my party, and I have heard from more than one source that you are the author. My ob ject, .sir, is to know whether you are the author, and if so, whether you hold yourself responsible." Being still in the dark, and utterly unable to compre hend the drift of his remark, Lreplied " Sir, I do not know what you are talk ing about; you will be pleased Ito speak somewhat more intelligibly." "Well, sir," said he, his choler rising at my coolness, " I have learned from the most unquestionable authority, that you have said that Barnum had engaged Mr. Clay and Mr. Webster to accotnpauy s and as sist Jenny Lind at her concerts in Rich mond." I never was so equally divided between an inclination to laugh outright and to get vexed; and hesitating a moment whether I should abuse him for his stupidity, or laugh in his face, it occur• red to me that if he could swallow so much, his credulity was capacious enough to digest much more. So com pressing my lips, and trying to look as tierce as possible, I said in the same staccato tone of voice in which he had spoken, "Yes, sir, I am responsible for that report, and I reckon I have seen the contract." My young opponent's jaws fell, and speaking in his usual natural drawl, he bowed politely, and evidently with feelings of great disap pointment at not being able to get a light, "I beg your pardon, sir, I was not aware that you had seen the contract." I do not know whether he ever told any one, or whether his friend's let him into the secret of my disposition as a wag, but certain it was, for some time, whenever he saw me on the one side of Pennsylvania avenue, he always had some business on the other. I told the joke to Mr. Webster, at his own house, before the nomination of the Whig party was made, and ventured to suggest to him that when he was elected President, he ought to confer some office on the man who was willing to fight for him and the honor of his party. He assured me that, if elected, the claims of this gentleman should not be forgotten.—Colemporcirll, ill Soulh ern Society. Reminiscences of a United States Senator. Some thirty years ago I was in trade with Judge Li-, in a pleasant vil lage of Vermont, in the town of S There are two villages in the town that are denominated " Upper Hollow and • Lower Hollow." A short distance above the Lower Hollow lived a man by the name of Orlando Bundy, a blacksmith..by trade. He was in the habit of using liquor pretty freely, especially about election time. About that time there was an exciting election for representatives to Legislature, that had just come off; and all was anxious to hear the result. Mr. Bundy happened to be in the store as Judge H-7-- was reading the returns from the different town. Among the rest was that of a town on the west side of the Green Mountains, th at had elected a Mr. S. Foot for representative. "Is it possible that they have elected ,him a representative?" said Mr, Bundy. "I knew him like a book. He was a poor boy and used to live at my, father's: His father died when he was young, and his mother being poor,'he was put out to live with different farmers to earn a living. When he lived with my father he was so:poor that he was not able to bura pair of shoes. My father being a well-to-do farmer was able to keep me in shoes. It irritated the boy to think he had no shoes. One day my father sent us to' cut Canada thistles in the field. Thad shoes to protect my feet, but poor F. was barefoot, and the thistles pricked his feet, and I bothered him. and laughed pt him for not having shoes.— ; He got excited by my jeers and the sting of, the thistle, and straightening up, shook his little fist at me, and said : Orlando Bundy, I shall see the day that I shall be able to wear shoes.' And so it -proved. He did wear shoes. He acquired an education—a inofe,sion —and his shoes trod the legislative halls of Vermont. His shoes pressed the floor of Congress and the Senate Chamber, and many a time have been In the place designated for the Vice President. They were the shoes of Hon. Solomon Foot, United States Seri ' ator from Vermont A Chapter on Pearls BY AN EXPERIENCED JEWELER Pearls are obtained from a bivalve known as the pearl oyster, found at great depths in the Indian seas. These oysters are of great size, measuring from nine to ten inches in diameter, and known to naturalists as the Maleagrina Margaritifera. The larger pearls are usually found in the beard of the fish, the smaller In the flesh. The deeper the water, according to the experience of the divers, the large the pearls. Pearls are composed of a series of con centric layers, of a thin gelatinous mem brane, alternating with layers of carbo nate of lime, (specific gravity 2.68,) and are supposed to be concretions formed by a disease peculiar to this spe6ies of oyster. Besides those known as oriental, there is a class commonly called Scotch pearls, procured from a particular variety of mussel found in scotch rivers, and in other rivers of Europe, as the Moldava in Bohemia, the Conway, in Whales, etc. The Tay, near Perth, according to Mr. Pennant, produced at one time a great number, the value of which was ' reckoned at severallhundredsa year; but the supply is now very limited, and the pearls themselves of little value. Some, however,of a good size and fine lustre are ; occasionally picked up here and there. Suetonius asserts, and it will be new to many, that Julius Caesar, a great ad mirer of pearls, was induced to invade Britain, in order to secure the valuable pearls found there. According to Pliny and Tacitus, he brought back to Rome a buckler covered with British pearls, which he dedicated to Venus Genetrix, and caused it to be hung up in her tem- ' pie. Besides the pearls got in the oyster, there are often excrescences upon the mother-of-pearl shell, somewhat of the nature of the pearl itself, and which often assume very irregular and gro tesque shapes; they are called baroques, and, when large and due, bring high prices. One of the moot singular of the baroques represents a Chinese, with crossed legs, and another has the ap pearance of a bearded doe ; this term is also applied to a fiat or ill-shaped pearl, if of considerable size. When pearl shells are smooth and regular in shape, there is less chance of finding pearls inside, but, when deformed or distorted, they are almost sure to yield some. The richly variegated substan.e so well known as mother-of-pearl, (French, nacre,) " dyed with rainbow tints," and beautifully opalescent, is the shell of the oyster formed by the calcareus exuviie • of the fish. • It has " the brightness or the morning, or the glowing tints of the evening sky ;" in other words, the color of the prism softened, retained, and made permanent. The finest nacreous shells are those of Manilla, which are very large and brilliant, with yellow edges. Those from Singapore are larger, but of a dead white. The decline in the value of pearls in Europe, which commenced in the sev euteenth century, may be partly at tributed to the more attractive brilliancy of the diamond, after the method of cutting and polishing it was fully un derstood, and partly to the successful imitation of the pearl Itself; close as this resemblance may be, a person ac customed to look at pearls will easily diScover the best imitations by their glassy vitreous look, so different from the orient of the true pearl. Minerals have the advantage of pearls in being indestructible and unaltered by time, whereas pearls, in process of time, moulder into dust. In opening the tomb in which the daughters of Stilicho had been buried, with the whole of their or naments, for 1,118 years, it was found that all the riches contained in it were in good condition, with the exception of the pearls, which were so soft as to , crumble between the finger and thumb. Pearls kept in dry magnesia are said never to lose their color or lustre if ex cluded from air or moisture. The pearl was in equal favor with the Romans, •Egyptians, Hebrews and other Eastern nations. The story of the large pearl, worth £80,729, dissolved, or more likely pounded, and swallowed by Cleopatra, is too well known to need repetition ; but it is, perhaps, not so well known that pearls were the principal ingre dients in the rove philters of these days, and it is more than likely that this pearl was sacrificed to make a charm of great potency, in order to win back the re gards of Antony. A match to this para gon pearl, belonging also to Cleopatra, afterward fell into the hands of Agrip pa, the favorite of Augustus, who car ried It to Rome, and had it halved, to make aqoair of ear-rings, which he pre sented tO adorn the statue of Venus, in the Pantheon, and which, for size and beauty, were the admiration of all who beheld them. Royal Sporting. Royal sporting is generally a humbug. Majesty steps from the palace to the well-kept preserves, and there empties ounce after ounce of shot into unsus pecting pheasants and rabbits too fat and innocent to jump, until the royal shoulders are black and blue and the keepers' legs are peppered full with the murderous pellets intended for the stupid birds they were kicking into a "rise." But the young Duke of Edin burgh, who has his own ideas, and sen sible ones, too, of sport, has enjoyed a sensation which few of his royal kins men know. Disdaining the partridges of European parks, he has bagged no smaller game than an elephaut of Southern Africa. The story is a long one, but can be told briefly. He cut the loyal demonstrations of the Cape people as short as courtesy allow ed, and set out for the forest where scouts had tracked an old bull elephant of lit size for the royal bullet. He rode, stalked, camped in the ruin; rose at daybreak, and, in short, went through all the experiences of a plebian hunter for a day or two, without success. But one morning early, as the camp was moving to a spot favorable for break fasting, one of the scouts appear ed, galloping from the woods, with a huge elephant in pursuit. The boy shrieked for help as the creature gained upon him, and coming up wile the Duke's party, took refuge behind them. On came the elephant, ears and tail erect, with an entirely different as pest from that of a scared rabbit. The Duke took his heavy gun, waited until the game was within less than twenty yards, and then delivered two shots into the animal's head, The elephant turn ed, shook his head,. and as the rest of the party fired, fell dead. Of course, all protested that the Duke's shots had dope the business, complimenttathim upon his coolness and sure aim, lifted him upon the carcase,and chE - ered him. Royalty then took off its coat and skin ned the trophy, after measuring and finding it to be ten feet high, twenty feet in length and seventeen in girth., Currency During the first year of the war, when change was scarce and some large firms were issuing currency of their own, a farmer went to a store in a neighboring town and bought some goods, and gave to the merchant a five dollar bill, of which he wanted seventy-five.cents back. The merchant counted•out the amount and handed it over to the farmer. ...Ue looked at it a moment and Inquired; "What's this?" "It's my currency," said the'merchaht. "Well, tain't good for nothing where I live," said the 'farmer. " Very well," re plied, the merchant, "keep it till you get a dollar's worth and bring it to my store and I will give you a dol lar bill for it." The farmer pocketed the change and departed. A few weeks afterward he went into the same store and bought goods to the amount of one dollar, and after paying over the identi cal seventy-five cents he took out a handful of pumpkin seeds and counted out. , twenty-five of them, and passed them over to the merchant. " Why,” says the merchant, "what's this?" "Wall," says the farmer, "this is my currency and when you get a dollar's 'Worth bring.it out to my place and I will give you a dollar bill for it LANCASTER PA. WEDNESI)AY MORNING JANUARY 8 1868 - Vanderbilt Gossip. , i HoW•Luids Napoleon Lives—llls Tastes, The New York correspondent of the I Tables, Temper and Habits. .Hartford Press, Mr. Jpdd of the Com- ICor. of the Boston Commercial Bunettn:: mercfal, writes the following about ' Tullis own palace Napoleon is one of Commodore Vanderbilt: the easiest, simplest and least ceremo- Now that Commodore Vanderbilt has ; nious of men. He never fails, indeed, obtained control of the New York Cen- . of a certain dignity which forbids undue tral road It is the general impression in familiarity from the highest prlnces of ' railroad circles that the stock will ad- ' the blood ; yet his social - manners are ',vance to a higher figure. lam inform- 1 unrestrained, and his private habits are ed by one who knows that he personally , not hampered by an obsolete system of owns seven million dollars of the stock. i court ceremonial. Nobody who has ; His whole property is valued in round seen him will doubt that, in contrast numbers at thirty-one millions. He is 1 with his uncle, he is a good liver. The now importing, at the cost of one hun- Ibest of French and German wines are dred and sixty dollars per ton, steel rails . daily served on his table, and you may for the Hudson River road, and expects , be sure the viands are of the best, and to have the entire track relaid with I are prepared with the French culinary in a year's time. For some time the ' art. Napoleon 1., per contra, was noted 1 great ambition of the Commodore has ; far his remarkable abstemiousness. ' been to own or Control a through line of . The Emperor spends most of the year railroad from New York to Chicago. 1 in his several rural chateaux ; and the He has now taken a long step toward . reason of this is that he has for a long the attainment of his object. time made it his first care to preserve One great secret of the Commodore's . his health. He rises early, when out of ; success in life has been his nerve. At 1 town, taking a single cup of coffee, times, when his speculations have been the French fashion, immediately after in against him, he has held on until mat- ; dressing. He then walks for an inter tern have come round to him. The fol- 1 val in the private gardens of the chat. lowing story is told as an illustration of i eau where he is staying, usually accom this nerve. He is very fond of card- Panted by his little son—with whom he playing. On one occasion, while tray- converses earnestly all the time—and I eling down the Mississippi River, he . 1 some gentleman of was surrounded by one of the gang of by i household. favorite In the course of the mor h n is gamblers which, in ante-war times, in-' in ghe !Inds time to receive officials and 1 fested the Father of Waters, and in-' ministers on affairs Of state , and often vited to play "poker." He accepted the ' reads an hour before breakfast. If his request. It was the game of these pro. I , health is less strong than usual, he has fessional gamblers, when they had got d hold of a victim, to keep "going himaily morning consultations with his better," until the large some at stake physicians. The royal breakfast takesplace a little after noon, and is simple would frighten him from "calling,"and thus insure them the "pool." Th and wholesome —fruit always being one ey tried It on the Commodore. of the articles of food. The Emperor I First one would bet a few thousand, not seldom takesashort napafter break and others would see that slim and go fast; and theafternoon is taken up with affairs, riding, several thousand better. Finally the p caublic sionally a shooting e walking, and oc- xpedition. amount in the pool increased to a sum far in excess of the ready funds which The greater part of his official duties are concluded in the morning. In the he could demand. The Commodore, Cabinet Council te Emeror is said to however, had no intention of being be unusually silent, rathe p r eliciting Lie " bluffed" off. He saw their game. Calling a negro, he asked him if he would opinions of others than giving his own ; while the Empress Eugenie, who is al ask the captain down. The captain appeared, when the following conversa ways present, gives her opinions earn tion ensued : estly and openly, and argues as freely Commodore—Captain, can you tell as do the ministers themselves. Na me who owns this boat? poleon, having heard the sentiment of Captain—l do, sir. his ministers briefly states his own de ic sion, and gives directions for the car Commodore—What do you call it ; ry ng ou ofthe ... . i t policy decidedon. The worth? .. , . Captain—l can not tell, exactly, but .. , counsellor who has most influence with I should saye—Wi thirtyll you take that sum ; thousand dollars. him is undoubtedly Rouher, Minister Commodor : of State, and this aristocratic and anti for it? I revolutionary statesman is nearly al- Captain—Yes. I ways in accord with the Empress, who Commodore—Very well. lam Corn takes the side of the Jesuitical priest modore Vanderbilt of New York. party. But tl.O fact remains that the I n Yhe Emperor id - riably decides for him "Vawriting a check for the sum, added, j „,,,,. in the end; and if any of his min dollars. It will be honored at our first Here is my check for thirty thousand I °`" ! raters don't like it, they are at liberty to . stopping place." rruetpitrue.resiblisetwresehnaEveugoefisteiensbnederillesrera e ls, Having done this the Commodore turned round to the table and said to and this was the case when he went into the Italian war in 1859; but there the gamblers, "I see the last amount ' is every reason to believe that her and go it better to th e extent of this boat." . Majesty is well satisfied with his recent The gang was not prepared for this conduct toward the Garibaldians. coup d'etat. They were not able to The Emperor takes the keenest "see " the Commodore's " rise," and he inter consequently coolly swept oft the con , est in the education of his little sou, the rents of the "pool." We reckon no . Prince Imperial. He very often pres- Mississippi gambler ever attempted to . ants him to those who he receives, and with evident pride; and especially does "bluff" Commodore Vanderbilt after he do this when a deputation of citizens that. : appears before him for any purpose. 1 --.........-• There is apparently a strong affection ; Fashionable Dinner Party In Abyssinia. ' • between the father and son ; and they , A great deal of skepticism has been en- treat each other with great familiarity, tertained in regard to , the mode of sup- even before others. The Emperor often plying brinde, or raw meat, to the guests looks tired and careworn, but never so of the fashionable parties at Gondar, sad and gloomy as Wheu his little son is' the capital of Abyssinia. When the suffering from oneof those attacks which j company have taken their seats at the have c t late been so frequent. He is not ; table, a cow or bull is brought to the overfond of society, and seems to prefer door, and his feet strongly tied; after' to be either alone, or with one or two which the cooks proceed to select the intimate friends most of the time, yet most delicate morsels. Before killing on the occasion of a grand ball at the the animal all the flesh on the buttocks Tuileries he acts the host with unsur• I The Eider Booth. is cut off in solid square pieces, without , passed dignity and grace. Few of my readers, says Olive Logan, bones or much effusion of blood. Two The Empress, on toe contrary, though or three servants are then employed, ' past forty, is still gay, extravagantly • are ignorant of the fact that the elder Booth, whose like we shall never see who, as fast as they can procure brinde, fond of dress and show, and always lay it upon cakes of tell' placed like anxious to be surrounded by a brilliant • again, was often intoxicated while play dishes down the table, without cloth or social circle. She has gathered about , ing. Strangely enough, his artistic powers were as strong when he was in anything else beneath them. By this I her, as ladies of her household, some of time all the guests ha iv ve knives h in t—eir j the most beautiful, accomplished, and that state as when he was quite sober. , Many aver that his sober Richard was hands, aud the men prefer the large ' well read dames of the capital; and , a tame an d crooked ones, which, in the time of war, , spends egret deal of time with them. puerile thing compared to the noisy Gloster of perhaps a hundred they put to all seas of uses. The cona- ' She ,also has for companionship the , cups. It seems, however, scarcely pally are so ranged that one gentleman 1 members of the Murat-Bonaparte fam • sits between twoladies; and the former, ily, some of whom—for instance, the necessary to add that when in this state with his long knife, begins by cutting Duke and Duchess de Mouchy and the his brain was no clearer than that of another luau when intoxicated; and .a thin piece, which would be thought a , Princes Achille and Joachim Murat— though he managed to give his grand goodsteak iu England, whilethe motion • are just such gay, fashionable people as I o wa s ,' w i t h of the fibres is yet perfectly distinct. ' she likes to be with. Another marked • force than when he was sober, he effect perhaps even greater In Abyssinia uo man of any fashion 1 contrast between the Emperor and Ern- I nappy ruined the play for all the oilier feeds himself, or touches his own meat, I press is that while tne latter is a very performers, and in the main fur the The women take the flesh and cut it pious and enthusiastic religionist, Na- audience. lengthwise like strings, about the thick- , poleou manifests little or no interest in When I was a little girl, Booth was uess of one's little finger, then cross- • religious matters. Sunday is one of his once playing, in conjunction with my wise into square pieces, somewhat I hardest working days; and though Eu- . sister in Memphis, and she sent me one smaller than dice. This they lay upon , genie never fails to be present in the night, to deliver some message to lain on a portion of the teff bread, strongly : Tuileries chapel at the morning matins, the stage. The curtain had not yet powdered with bleak pepper,or cayenne : her spouse is scarcely ever to be seen risen, but I found Mr. Booth standing and fossil salt, and then wrap it up like ' there. at the back of the stage, inside the tomb a cartridge. In the meantime, the gen- • of the Capulets, for the nonce unoccu tleman, having put up his knife, with each hand resting upon his neighbor's The Crown Jewels or Russia. ! pied by any defunct member of that 't each usurious house. I approached timidly knee, his. body stooping, his head low , A correspondent of the Cleveland and delivered my message, whereupon, and forward and mouth open very like I herald, writing from St. Petersburgh,l starting up with the graceful spring of and idiot, turns to the one whose cart- Russia, gives the . following description a tiger disturbed, he hissed out: ridge is first ready, who stuffs the whole .of the Royal valuables, in the Emper- „ Avannt and quit my sight! Let the earth of it. between his jaws at the imminent or's Winter Palace: hide the risk of choking him. This is a mark of In a room surrounded by guards are blood le cold; T b bastlos peculation Tn t l' those grandeur. The greater the man would • deposited the Crown Jewels. The Im- Thou .‘ , ,lllch thee doA glare withal!" seem to be, the larger la the piece which penal Sceptre of Russia is surmounted any one who has seen Booth, and re he takes into his mouth, the more noise by the great Orloff diamond, the rival members the terrible intensity of his Lie makes in chewing it, the more polite of the Koh-i-noor. It once formed the the wonderful crescendo which does he prove himself. None but beg- . eye of an idol in a temple in voice,Serring ie placed on the word gla.a arc in this gars and thieves, say they, eat small ham, in India. The famous Count Or will not be surprised to learn pieces and in silence. Having die- ' loff purchased It and presented it to his patched this morsel, which he does very Imperial mistress, Catharine. A little that a weak, sickly, little girl as I was expeditiously, his neighbor on the other way from one of its edges it exhibits a should have toppled straight over in a, dead swoon, at bearing it so unexpect hand holds forth a second pellet, which flaw, but in other respects it is said to : he devours in the same way, and so on • be the largest of all the Crown diamonds ; oddly and unjustly addressed to herself, 7 till he is satisfied. I of Europe, weighing 191 carats, while' tin the semi-darkness of the Capulet b. It is needless to say that the He never drinks till he has finished I the Koh-I-floor weighs but 186. The • om eating; and before he begins, in grab- price of the Orloff' great tragedian was intoxicated. On diamond was 450,000 , this occasion, after I had been discover tude to the fair ones who have fed him, silver rubies. The Imperial Crown in ile makes up two small rolls of the same , this room is a wonder of art and ed and a temporary couch had been ex for me in my sister's kind and form, each of the ladies opens I cost. It looks like the dome-formed ! temporized dress her mouth at once, while with his own ; patriarchical mitres you see in pictures. • ing-room, I remembered hearing such hand he supplies a portion to both at the • ,It carries on its summit a Cross formed peals on peals of applause for hie acting same moment. Then commence the lof five beautiful diamonds supported by that I lay there in an agonized fear that potations, which, we are assured, are 1 a large uncut, but polished spinet ruby he would add further to my distress by not regulated with much regard to so- • Several other great diamonds, in a foci- playing so well that the audience would briety or decorum. All this time the ated arch rising from pie front and back, tear thehousedown in their enthusiasm. unfortunate victim at the door is bleed- ! :of the crown, support the ruby and its ! The next time I saw B Both he was ing, but bleeding little; for so skillful' cross, and on either side of this central playing' with Miss Davenport (Mrs. Lauder). The piece was " The Apos are the butchers, that while they corn- I arch a hoop of thirty or hely perfect tate," and on this occasion I formed one pletely strip the bones of the flesh, I pearls. The domed spaces around are of the addience. The reader who is they avoid the parts which are filled with leaf work, and ornaments of familiar with this play will remember traversed by the great arteries. At last silver,covered with diamonds, all under where Alvarez gives Florindo to Be they fall upon the thighs likewise ; and i laid by purple velvet. On the band that mega, who receiving her with applause, soon after, the animal perished from the I surrounds the brow of the Emperor are exclaims, " Who now shall part us ?" loss of *blood, becomes so tough that the I about thirty great diamonds. The orb, ~ -NA this moment on strode the terrible unfeeling wretches who feed on the re- in front, is surmounted by a large sap- AL and roared the one word "I !" mainder can scarcely separate the mus- I phire of a slight greenish blue color, clods with their teeth. In the description with a large diamond of an elongated Booth was intoxicated again ! And I . now given we have purposely omitted form The Cornet of the Empress i s nis whole bearing so reminded me of some features which, it is not improba- the most beautiful mass of diamonds I the previous occasion when he had ble, have been a little too highly colored, I have ever seen brought together in given me a fright from which I had not if not even somewhat inaccurately the form of a single ornament. Four 1 yet recovered, that, forgetting decorum • drawn. But there is no reason to doubt' of the largest of these stones are of per- and everything else, I started up from the general correctness of the delinea- i feet beauty. Around this coronet are my seat and rushed pell-mell out of the tion, notexcepting the grossest and most I over a hundred diamonds, some of them theatre. , repulsive particulars.—London paper. lof large size. In the collection there On several occasions I saw Edwin are ale e.t . a! oth, Booth, a tall, slender boy, who seemed --.....-..-- .. : A Uniform International Coinage. The idea of an international system of coinage is doubtless very good, but, like many other theories of philoso phers, it is utterly impracticable to be carried out. Supposing an international system settled. Excise officers would affirm that there Th ere 277 cubic inches .to the gallon. Consumers would insist upon a very different story. A similar difficulty occurs with reference to the idea of a European coinage. Take a crown ounce, as , people call it, to be a standard. It weighs exactly a flye-shil ling silver piece. What other country enjoys the same medium in genuine metal for trade? Or take the French metal system, under which this would not be acknowledged. All theo riv favor the decimal idea; nearly all experience is opposed to it. Our own coinage, weights and measure rules, ir regular as, to suggest a paradox, they are in many of their relations with their half-sovereign, their crown and half crown, their sixpence, halfpenny and farthing, the gallon, pintand gill, their hundredweight, yard and chain, their rejection of decimal law without the ac ceptance of anything else, ought to shame us. Conceding all this, ought we to concede that the authors of the proposals for an4rumediat4 in tern ation al system of coin g weights and measures, have made ouMn adgquate case ,2 As. suredly not. If they reform i' ' ever to be effected, it Mut be b slovi and cautious degrees. he . ntage of nations constitutes , often . their history. But how important, a er all,. is this problem which is now to an xiously discussed. This enormous ab-; breviation in the processlof arithmetic would necessitates fundatnental change in the language, so to speak, of mercan tile calculations, upset all the processes and records of commerce and commit us to a reform, of which, perhaps, we neither understand the beginning, nor could prop hesy the end—if any end were credible with such a jumble of interest to be reconciled, and contradictions to be.put out of sight i rl,ondon Herald. er specimens of jew DIME elry. One is a necklace, composed of twenty-two single vast diamonds, from which fifteen huge pendants are sup ported, each stone worth an Argosy. The plume of Suwarrow, an aigrette, made entirely of diamonds, presented by the weak to the strong—the Sultan of Turkey to the conquering Russian General—and a long crystal diamond, with Persian characters engraved on it with a small groove cut around its end, to give attachment, probably to some other previous mounting, several strings of truly imperial pearls, an order of St. Andrew, with five pink diamonds, and two large Siberian beryls, of aqua-ma rines, one of the greenish and one of the more blue tint, mounted in diamonds. A Horrible Cannibal Story. A horrible tragedy is reported from the Island' of Fiji, South Seas. The Rev. Thomas Baker, with an assistant missionary and six native teachers, went to visit some inland tribes, and he and his party were brutally murdered by one the tribes, who are described as the most confirmed cannibals. The writer says : "In this town (Long town) there lives a notorious cannibal, with whom a hada little&inversation. He pointed me to aplicjof human bones in the fork o fan orange tree under which we were sitting, and assured me that he had eaten the men of which each bone there was a representative, and that he had kept these bones as a memento of his cannibalism. Many other things did this inhuman wretch make known to the, and his countenance, and more than ordinary worn teeth, only helped 'to convince me that he had literally been alone-crusher! To have listened to this;man's statements, and told, too, in the presence of those who could have contradicted theta if false, would have removed forever from theminds of some the idea that Fijians are not lovers of human flesh. This vile cannibal con firmed that, as for eating, nothing was comparable to human flesh, not even fowls or pork.' A. Sensation In fligti Life—Marriage of! Ex-Senator Fitzpatrick at Alabama on a Belle to a "Gay Gamboller." Reconstruction. ST. Louts, December 17. i OAK GROVE, Elmore 00., Dec. 24, IS67. The circles of the bon ton are agitated. ; Maj. H. C. Semple, Montgomery, Ala.: St. Louis•Belgravia and Fifth avenue- • DEAR. SIR: Your letter of thud inst. die-don are disturbed to their very cen- I has daughters has gone and done it. ter. This very day one of society's : just been received. It Is a matter of surprise to me to hear that I am represent fairestWhy, married a gambler—a dealer in ; tion framed by the recent Convention at Done what, pray? ed as favoringthß adoption of the Constitu ao ery I have at no time said or a faro bank ; disgraced herself, her kin, I andou dome nO injustice insupposing that I d l o ta n n e t- an al ything that could be so opristrued, and the circle she has moved in. There j such a report of my opinions Is a misrep dwells on Chouteau avenue a financier ! resentation. No man can be more decided and capitalist who has been long known ; in his opposition to the ratification of that and respected in the, money circles of I instrument than I have been and am now. the city. Though commencing at the I I can scarcely conceive a greater calamity bottom round of fortune's ladder, yet, Con by industry and honesty, he has at last to our people than the adoption of this Con reached a position of wealth and com- stun 1 vthoetea ti ge o en ti od . rt2a l i t ye gives aLI the former slaves over him a magnificent residence in the fash- j who has held offic t e he kes a th rs at ia petency. A few years since he built i san d s o f w hi te men. right Eve w r a y y white man State aon d the talesrom rightt, thou him au t n o_ ionable part of the city. oath to support the Constitution of He raised up about his family altar a the United States, and in any way fine family of children. He gave them • aided the South in the unfortunate every advantage of education ; even em. 1 conflict between the two sections, is put ployed governesses, that they might under the ban and deprived of the elective attain a greater proficiency than others franchise. I was opposed to secession, as having less wealthy parents. The You know. I was believing p h e a lin h it o ed ri States tes to brightest face about his hearth was his ; remain ' youngest daughter. He doted on her, I the a re after th g e State did secede,g I : lett that body d returned home. I am he loved her better than all the rest. j disfranchised by his Constitution now sub- He enjoyed no lomfort or luxury unless I muted for the approval of the people. I she shared it with him. Where he I have remained at home a quiet, peaceable went, she went. Father and daughter, citizen ever since I left the Senate, but I can tuey seemed inseparable. She was 1 T v.- t i e o a tes re t. 2 o l a y tt e , a , vote neither for nor against the Constitution, buoyant and bright beyond heryears, in though all the slaves I formerly owned, her way. The eyes of her indulgent n os l o t id i arti o al ro lo i n l 'edZ lE T c zte is parent saw only an exuberance of spirit odious. All persons, s br.for e e the y y can vote, and overflow of vivacity ; but other i must take an oath to support the Constitu you ng ladies called her wild ; gay young tion and laws of the United States and the gentlemen sought her society, and some Constitution and laws of the State of Ala said she was a wee bit imprudent. At barna. Vv'tio is so wise as to know all the any rate, she was quite a queen in 1 laws of the United States and this State so ;as to observe his oath? This test-oath fur , and one of the gayest and most brilliant ; char provides that before any one can vote of the many fair ladies who frequent he must also swear that he accepts the civil ' and political equality of all men, and agrees house in the city, her gentlemen friends she • :race, the monthly balls of a popular club not to attempt to deprive any peison or per- T o some sons on account of color, or previous of condition, of any political or civil right, ; was known to make queer remarks, such 1 privilege, or immunity enjoyed by any I as, "Well, one of these days, I'll do ' bother class of men. The Constitution or ! something." General Assembly might declare the civil Yesterday morning she did. Appear- or political equality of all men, but to re ing in her father's library, she said : quire a voter to swear that he accepts it and I ' I virtually that he will never attempt to alter "Father, I want to get married." I it, before he can vote, is a species of legisla " What!" said the astonished site. tic% ti unknown to this country, It is true " I ant going to get married." , that it is further provided in the Constitu The paternal only gasped. tion "hat the General Assembly shall " Yes, sir, lam going to get married have power to remove the disability of cer at once, and if you and mother wish to tab classes now disqualified from voting," go to the wedding, youmust get ready." . but where will you find a power to "Pray, who are you going to marry, relieve any one who takes this oath? my daughter," said the father. Once taken, the obligation remains fixed " Mr. So and so," she replied. during his lifetime on the man who " I do not know any such person. incurs it. Such legislation I regard as What does he do? What is his business, at war with the civilization of the age in pray ?" , ; which we live. lam as willing as any are to see the colored population educated, and " A gambler, sir! He deals in a faro- this, I believe, Is the common sentiment 01 bank !" said the loved daughter. , our people; but how will the system pro " My God!" was all the agonized pa- . posed work in practice? Do you believe, it rent could utter. His knees trembled, I the parents and guardians of the children and he sank into a chair. ! of the two races were willing they should What could lie do? Some, now that be sent to the same school, that they could • the affair is over, say be should have loe .o k kept and in t t it i t , tli c t on to s g ti e t t u b l e i r on in no loa r r o m v m . ? called the gentleman into his house, pre- 1 a is mode for separate schools. Why ir did not ' settled a Derringer at his head, and said, j the Conventiouprovide separate schools, " You marry my daughter? you, a gam- and let each be taught separately? I have bier? No, sir—never. I'll give you lived all my life with a mixed pool'. twenty-four hours to leave town, or - you Janne, the slaves and whites of the are a dead man. lam rich, respected, South, and my deliberate conviction is ' and you are nobody. So, choose quick !" 1 you might as well try to mix oil and water to But the parent did no such thing. He' without chemical agents, as to attempt temporized ; he thought ; he decided to teach the children of the two races together. In th o e h tr t c i o o r o tion r - of l the r S e t d a o t w in . t t h h e o c w ol h o i r t e e d s I go ; and, accordingly, to one of the most fashionable Catholic churches in the population virtualgy ea b t et - Tx p eluded, and in' °thereat:- I city the parties hied away ; and before dons, where the whites are in the majority, I D ightfall the story of the gay ganiibolier, the same result will befall the blacks, pro h a e t e r e s who won au heiress and lady of the during disorder and deadly feuds between first fatuities, was the chit-chat of every • the two races. Without giving in detail my boudoir, and the delicate morsel of gos- I nbj,ctions to the ratification of the Coosa ' sip that every lady of ton insisted on 1 tution—for they are too numerous to men- telling over the cozy tea table to her I tion in this letter—l will say that the effect lord. Every one exclaims, "How shock- ' of many of its provisions. sto elevate the I black by degrading the white race. The ing!" and the father is said to be well- , • ••. . 1 Constitution is notonly proscriptive in many nigh heart-broken. , or it, provisions, but it places ton great ex __-.... ...... . , t-nt the property of the country at the mercy ' of the non-property holders—a lamentable condition for any people. It Is said by some that it was made up to keep down rebellion. Whirl hare the people of the South to corn MCIICC or carry on rebellion will,' Our slave are all set free; our fields barely cultivated under the new system oh labor, and many of them grown up in briars and weeds since emancipation, and almost everything in a state of dilapidation and decay. The cry for bread which comes up from almost every hill and valley in the State has scarce. ly ceased ringing in our , ears, and it was only hushed by the liberal donations from the benevolent of the North and \Vest. No people of the Old World, in any of their long and desolating wars ever longed for peace more than we do. We want peace, but not degradation; we wish to be felt free to act for ourselves, and free from the intermeddling of those who do not live among us, but come here to foment discoro and speculate upon our troubles. Let the people vote down this Constitution, and adopt another more in accordance with the genius of our institutions, and all will be well. Ilavinggoneintothe retftementof private life, and feeling no desire for public posi tion, or notoriety, it is far from agreeable for me to appear in a newspaper; but if you think this expression of my opinions can avail anything towari preventing the adoption of this Constitution, a senseof duty constrains me to assent to its publication. Very respectfully, your friend and obe dient servant. all eyes, standing behimitheecenes, in tently watching his, father's perform ances, and I remember wondering if the little boy's father ever frightened him as he had frightened me. Thunderbolts as Remedies An English writer argues that severs physical maladies can be cured by light! ning. The doctrine that "likes cure likes " holds good, he asserts, in the case of maladies to which the destructive ele ment gives birth ; whether the fright, or some proper action of the electric fluid works the cure, it is hard to say, but the fact is incontestible. Several cases are reported where individuals, paralyzed from their youth, have recov ered complete use of their limbs by lightning strokes in after years. A country clergyman, in Kent, was paralyzed by apoplexy in 1761, and'otruck by lightning the year after, when all truces of the para;y sis left him. A man who had lost the use of •both arms was guarding some animals in a field ; lightning fell upon him, and when he came to his senses he founii . that he could use both arms and hands.: These are but a few of many recorded instances. A variety of ailments besides paralysis have been cured dr ameliorated by the same agency, even blindness ; for one Gardley, some time an actor at the Surrey Theatre, who had been for many years blind of one eye, had his sight restored by a lightning flash. A man named John Redman, confined In jail, at Madison, ind., was shot and killed by Sheriff Shannon Monday night. The Sheriff went into the jail to lock the prison era in their cells. On entering and locking the door he was seized •b Redman. The Sheriff called out for help, and another prisoner came up, but instead of rendering assistance, took the key from the Sheriff and attempted to unlock the door. The Sheriff warned Redman a second time to let go of him, or he would shoot him,iand not being obeyed, and seeing that the other prisoners were about to escape, he drew a revolver and shot Redman through the Mart, instantly killing hint. BENJ. FITZPATRICK Modern Berm Slngular Family In 12=M:111 On the principal street in West Zones ; villa, in the very centre of business, stands a one-story house,s we believe the oldest house in the village, which looks precisely as it did thirty years ago, not having re ceived a dollar's worth of repairs during that time. The shingles upon its steep sloping roof have been worn to slats, and the two chimneys which are built upon the outside, in the old style, look as though they would not much longer retain their perpen dicular. The front door, leading to the street, is kept closed and bolted; the win • dovv, with an iron bar across, has not been opened, and neither friend, neighbor, or stranger, • has been admitted inside the house for many, many years: Thirty years ago the family consisted of father, mother, three sons and a daughter, a lively, intelligent girt, then in her teens. The old folks and daughter were members of the ! First Baptist church of this city, and were I highly esteemed. About this time the , , ' father died, the mother living until about ; 15 years ago, when she died, leaving a little property, It is supposed of about $1,200 or I $1,500. Some time elapsed, when the at tention of the neighbors was directed to the lonely condition of the house; but two of the brothers being seen about the pro mixes, and that only occasionally, and no communication whatever being held : with the outside world, either by the elder brother or the girl. Strange reports circulated upon the streeta,. and ugly rumors of the cause of tins isolation from the world were heard, strongly prejudicial to the inmates. on the .2d, ot March, 18013, a writ of habeas corpus was sued out before Judge Mason, Probate Judge, at the instance of Jacob Lyda slid other citizens, stating that the girl was kept imprisoned by the three brothers without legal authority; the Rev. Mr. Carnahan, then officiating as pastor of the First Bap tist Church, taking quite a prominent part in the proceedings. The allegation of the imprisonment and harsh treatment, how ever, were not sustained, and there being no particulars of the examination on record in the Probate Court, we are unable to give' anything more than the result, which was, that the sister voluntarily returned to the house in charge of her brothers. Since ; then she has not been seen. The elder , brother, it is thought, leaves the house occasionally late at night, but returns be fore daylight. How they live is a mystery. A loaf of bread is occasionally bought of a passing bread wagon, and a jug of molasses, I once in a great while, is purchased from a ' neighboring store. No person is ever seen to enter the house, and strangers or others knockingat the door are refused admittance. The only evidence that there is a living being within the solitary inclosure is the I smoke coming out from the chimney. The nearest neighbors ore the most puzzled, and none pretend to account for the singular behavior of this strange family. We have not given the names for fear of causing MI necessary pain to the parties, and only give pUblicity to the extraordinary facts here stated r in view of having the mystery ex• plained. That any woman in these days should be thus excluded from the world, shut out from all society for 15 years, is passing strange, and whether her solitary life be voluntary or involuntary, common humanity demands an immediate investi gation of this extraordinary case. Death of is Well-known Virginian Gen. Kenton Harper, who founded and for thirteen years conducted the Staunton (Va.) Spectator, died on Christmas night, aged 66 years. During his life he held va rious responsible offices, including that of Mayor of Staunton, President of the Valley Bank, Visitor of the State Institutions, and Representative In the Legislature of Vir ginia. During President _.Fillmore's ad ministration he was a governthent agent in the Indian Territory, and subsequently a 'confidential agent of the Interior Depart ment at Washington. Thedeceased served gallantly in the Mexican war, and on the secession of Virginia he espoused the South em side. On the breaking out of the late WWI war he took command of the Virginia intlitia, who Onddenly took possession of Harper's Ferry. He afterwards participa ted in the battle of Manassas and other des perate entingementa. NUMBER 1 Terrible condition of the Southwestern Comities of Vies-into. LUNSNI3ORO C. H., Va., Dec. 2 7,1867. Coming directly from the scenes of the re cent outrage:rand murders in several coun ties of North Carolina, I find the Christmas holidays in this whole section to be fraught with consternation, terror and widespread alarm. With but few exceptions the dole gates elect to the Convention from the en tire southwestern portion of the State are either ex Freedmen's Bureau agents, radi cal political emissaries, or negroes who, un der radical tutelage, were elected by the negro majorities that prevail in most of the counties that comprise the great tobacco re gion of Virginia. Here reconstruction has been carried out uee , irding to the proper de finition of that ohw curious term ; the wealthiest port,on of the State is plunge.. in misery and waist, negro supremacy (ter ror) is established, and pillage, house-burn ing and murder is the order of the day.— Christmas came, uud long and eagerly had the freedmen looked forward to It. It was to be their salvation; at this propitious tines their dearest hopes were to be realized; promises made in solemn earnest, in the league rooms and on the clump, were to Is, fulfilled ; their former white masters were to be turned out of their ancestral homes, and, in short, this was the long looked fot time that every African would become the proud possessor of forty acres, two mules and a sum in greenbacks not less than tel. dollars. The votescast solidly against the] employers had another object than mei, " .oyalty"—the freedmen wet e to get farm, at Christmas. They were in future to be come not only voters, but rulers and pro perty holders, and the lucky candidates wbo advocated such n.easnrem went to the Convention. But now Christmas has come. and yet no farms. The great loan Tann Stevens, who, it was soil , was to wine so the way front Washington invested with full power to divide and distribute land, among them, has not made Ids appearance, and neither acres, mules nor greenbacks came in the shape of life long promisee Christmas presents. The holidays pass.— indeed for months the par negroes had been deluded Into keeping holiday by pro mises of farms, and still no Grand ,logic or other great radical comes to give these homes and homesteads, and desperatiol, followed exhausted patience. Though io idleness, the negroes had lived by pinup and theft, yet they found at Christmas the were without even the commonest neves series of life, not to speak of the little luxuries and enjoyments to which they had been used in time of shivery. This was too bad, and negro endurance could not stand it. Bread they must have, and meat too. The lands here, say the Africans, rightfulo belong to us, and what we want and must have we will take. This was only a reason able conclusion for a people devoid of ordi nary intelligence, deluded as they were b . N the, false promises and hopeless expects, lions held out to theta, to come to. What the result is cam be seen throughout this whole country and heard or at every step. Within the past three days I have witnesses; the smoking ruins of several burns and out houses; mutinated carcases 01 cattle, shot by the infuriated and starving freedmen. can be seen in the fields, along the high ways. Speak to a farmer or planter, stud he unfolds you a tale of woo, the substanc. of which is theft and incend istrisin b . ) negroes and a mortal ti.rror of being Inur dered at night. "lied I," said on. "no wife or helpless children I would not fear so much; but apprehension on their account makes rue trent bl with terror." Everywhere I meet negroes prowling about with rifles, shotguns ano muskets, and the great numlier of thee, arms that evidently belong to the govern ment amazes me. llowthey obtained them or procured them is a mystery I cannot fathom, except, indeed, the leagues and se cret societies provided them, and this Is the general supposition. A reigu of terror ex ists here among the whites upon the tarm question, knowing, as they do, the negroes expect these farms, and now failing to re ceive them have hecOrlie desperate and are almost resolved to become possessors m them by any means in their power. Arm arena lacking, and a thorough milder) organization exists among them, with [hell regularly commissioned officers, equip moots, and probably all the paraphernalia necessary to inaugurate a war of races Want, dire poverty, great suffering and need of shelter will goad the unfortu nate African to the assertion ()Stile" rights" dust have been promised him. Once let this be commenced—and it is now inevitable, for nu power can prevent It, not even th. military—the Radical Congress that inau gurated it will he powerless, and horrors akin to those of Brutish India, attrocities that will shock eiviliZA maukind, an , scenes probably unequalled in the history of the world will et.sue, not only in the South, but in our whole country. 'Pots Is now almost a foregone conclusion with every thinking Mali in the communat3 here, and the people living remote from military posts are terror stricken. As further evidence of this few negroes can be induced to hire for the corning year, They still wait for farms, and live by pil lage, and resistance to pillage brings with it the penalty of the flames sit midnight. Some of the reprobate delegates have en deavored to pacify their forty acre and two mule constituents since their return durftni the holidays with the assurance that Con gress would fix them all right next mouth, but with little success, and these scoundrels may be among the first to become the vie tints of their own incend,ary teachings. ,The prospect here for the coming year is truly heartrending. As yet no crops worth speaking about are In the ground ; labor there is none; planters are not only dis heartened, but terrified. Ruin, bloodshed and a war of races stare everybody in the face, and this, it seems, cannot be averted. The Dead of Dan The close of another year reminds us that our country has been called upon to regret the loss by death of many eminent citizens. The Boston Journal gives a long list of the dead. Wo note the following : Ex-cove: nor Andrew, of Massachusetts; ex-Governor Hunt, of New York; Bon. Geo. Evans, of Maine; ex-Governor Jos. A. Gilmore, Rev. David Dudley Field, Rear Admiral Ringgold, Coinmodore Paulding, Mr. Wright, United States Minister to Ber lin; Hon. Albert Smith, of Maine; Chiel Justice Wayne, of the United States Su preme Court; Gen. Thos. F. Meagher, ex. Governor John A. King, of New York ; ex President Day, of Yale College; Senator McDougall, Professor Charles Ring, Ella Howe, the inventor of the sewing machine; ex-Chancellor Walworth, of Now York; Rear Admiral Stoat, Geo. Griffin, Admiral Palmer arid Professor Chester Dewey. The literary world has been called to mourn the departure of those whose names in this country were esteemed by thous ands. N. P. Willis, who died at Id lewild ; Byron Forcythe Wilson died ere he hue reached the maturity of his poetic powers, though he left many sweet songs; Thomas Bultinch, the author of the Age of Chivalry, etc.; Fitz Greene Bullock, the poet, ono Catherine Maria Sedgwick. Among the artists and those known by their talents we may recall Jacques Burk hardt, the life long friend of Prof. Agassiz; W. 11. Furness, the artist; Sallie St. Clair, the actress, Paul Julien, W. F. Brough, Ira Aldridge, Nantier-Didice and Avouia Jones. Among the writers and journalists who have gone are James F. Oil., of the New York anti Now Orleans press; Charles F. Brown, Artetnus Ny.rd,") the writer and lecturer, and George Wilkins Kendall, of the New Orleans Picayunr. The scientific world has been called upon to part with several of its Most brlllll,ll Ines, whose attainments made them the benefactors of the whole human race, their various dcpartimints. Professor A. D. Bache, Superintendent of the Untied States Coast Survey, Professor Faraday, 01 Eng land, the eminent chemist, and Earl Rose, the astronomer. A Windfall for Somebody A somewhat rare and novel incident re cently occurred in the lower end of Para dise township, York county. In that lo cality resided a family or deaf rind dumb, consisting or one ;nun and two women, brother and sisters, nained Anders or An derson. They had a brother in Richmond, Virginia, now dead, who was very wealthy. The brother procured a farm for his deal and dumb relatives, some distance below Berlin, In Paradise township, and employ ed a Mr. Gist, In take care of them. They were very industrious and stingy, saving every cent. A short time ago the last sur vivor of them died, and save was made of their effects. Among these was an old chest, which was purchased by a Mr. Jacobs. a neighbor. Upon removing the chest, sus picion was excited that there was some thing unusual in the appearance and weight of it, and upon examination it was dis covered that it had a "false" or two bot toms, between which were secreted several small bugs of gold and a large amount of bank notes on the York County Bank, In the aggregate amounting to a large sum, probably from five to ten thousand dollars. It is stated that snit has been instituted by the heirs to recover the money. The Angela Dbutster.—Flndlnus of the Coroner's Jury. BUFFALO, Dec. 31.—The coroner's inquest into thecause of the late railroad disaster at Angola, after eleven days' investigation, WKS concluded this evening. The jury was composed of some of the most intelligent business men of the city. A thorough and searching investigation was made, and forty-two witnesses were examined. The result of their Inquiries is, that the accident was caused by a bent axle of the Cleveland and Toledo car 21—the car that was burned, causing the wheel on that truck to drop into the swing rail, thus throwing the wheels off that truck and subsequently the whole car off the track. .Also that there were forty persons in all killed thereby. The jury also recommend the adoption and enforcement of a more thorough system of gauging Wheels of can so as to preventan imperfect axle or wheels being made in !Ware, RATE el^ ADVERT! 1110. BIMINI:BB A DVERTISICX EFTS, 112 a year per square Of len lino; 1! per year for each ad.. eutional square. • Rao, EIITATZ & rzra, 10 oemts a line for tbt first, mad Scents or each satafixioent In aerthri. G IC24I44I4 \ADVERTISING 7 cents a li ne for the an 4 coots for ouch sub oqnont Insor, Lion. SPECIAL Nance Inserted In Local Column 15 cents Per lion. SPECIAL NOTICN preoeding marriages and deaths, ID cents tpr 'ter flnt insertion, • and 6 cents Mr evarg ephaeguent Insertion. LEGAL AND 011. Noricum._ Executors otices.."F 250 Administrators , notes 260 Assignees' 450 Atiditors' nottcee 2.00 Other "Notices, they or less, three times News item, The total exports of cent oil from the port of Philadelphia sineelhe lot January, iSt7, amount to . ...X1,...W2,008 gallons. A man in in jail In Ohio for breaking into a faro bank. Steubenville, Ohio, had three separate prize tights on Christmas day. 11.1 by and Dickens have invested $lO,OOO in five-twenties. Prussia teaches seven languages in hor primary schools, The profits or tho Paris Exposition sim mer down to stioti,ooo. L. R. Collield, United States Consul at Fnn t't , China, died at his phht October :Sib, 1567. Jon. B. Bough hos al:111011liecti thatat the rose of this seasbu, ho would retire from the lecture field. The First Nutforml Rank of Bay City', NI ichlgun, has failed, with deposiLs amount ing to $75,000. By the annexation of St. Thomas wo would gain the swevt boon or having Sabin Anna for a citizen. Greenbrier county, Va., has found marble Inal In every respect, it IF said, to Purina , Serray.•zut marblo. Wm Buchanan, 61 Malta township, Ohio, feed 80, 11114 Jut been married to Rebecca ilauson, a widow of 35. Tho University of Pekin, Chinn, has ex twined 14,00 U etudents at ono time, and 1,000 is tilt, average number. A brother of Major General IL Ileck, It Is eared, perished by tho hurtling of tho •teuun•r Rnieigh. A (laughter of Breasnut, the actor, has narriLal a Russian nobleman, and the Czar toiled upon thu wedding. “ Drop negro sulrrage or you can't elect :ront.” said McCulloch to a Republican re. contly. arm of the five young fools in Berlin, Prm.sin, who lately tried to puts seven days cud seven nights without eating, have died. Ball, Black ‘h Co., the great Jewelers of New York, have ',N00,000 worthordhanonds tad $lOO,OOO worth of corals. General Canby has directed the North rurolina Convention to meet at Raleigh on the 11th inst. RIE.I,IIng, builder of the Niagara suspen .ion bridge, has retired to farming We In lowa. his little gardou contains 23,000 acres. Robert Trenton, the clerk who rnn awny Irmo Dorchester, Mans., last week with 310,1kat anti a frail woman, has been urrewt oil in Chttrlesron, S C. Brevet Major General T. W. Sherman, It Is IlTlllollaCed, will succeed 001101111 Meade continued at the Department of tho East, the headquarters of which aro at Pluladel phia. on the occasion of an eclipse, a colored individual In Norfolk, Virginia, beenmo 4rently elated. " Bred.. de said he, logger's time hab come at last—and now we gwine to hob a black sun." it is reported that Thomas R. Wittemore, Treasurer of the town of ipencer, Mass., hags bl,Oll guilty of a defalcation to t h e amount of twenty thousand dollars. Whit temore has been missing about a week. The terni of °faro of Governor Piorpont, of Virginia, expired on the Ist inst.; but as ~o provision has been made in llw way of ha continues to hold tho posi tion. A gunrd in CilH rge of Cho goods saved from the wreck of the ateamer Frances at New tniet, N. C., woe attacked by negroes recently, and a portion of the goods was carried ofr. It is now stated that the funds in the hands tho Shutt Treasurer of tioorgia were re moved some time ago to New 1 ork, to pre vent the surrender or Mem to the State Convention in H0.1`4101:1 at Atlanta. A tearful ox plosion of a powder magazine took plane nt Wyclt ung, a Chinese city op osito flan kow, on the 20111 Inst., attended with great loss of life and property. The Viceroy's palace was blown iutu the - - • Mr. E. S. Chesbrough, the engineer who had charm, of the great lake tunnel at 'Mango, has just received a Christmas present from twat city of $ll,OOO in water oan booths, Coal of on excellent quality has recently )een found in Trumbull county, inenlng yu exbininve bold not nerethire •uppoaod to be within the houndameaef tho General Le Gendre, United States Consul at Amoy, has made a treaty with the pirate savages on the •oath coast of Formosa, un ler which shipwrecked seamen are to be protected. Thaddeus Stevens has completed the pro: partition or a speech in favor of the Alaska appropriation, which will be delivered next week. Ile Is very anxious to sustain Mr. rieward's land speculations. Major Chambers McK ibbin, who ban been acting as Inspector General, although not on General Meade's staff, applied for permission to accompany him to ids new command, and General Grant promptly gave his consent. I f`he negroes in Washington celebrated lie Emancipation anniversary by it large meeting in the Presbyterian church on Fif teenth Street. Speeches were made by Sen ati r Pomeroy, General ilow.ird, General Butler and Professor Wilson. Mitts Emma Hunt, a young lady resident 01 Emporia, Kaosam, will be a candidate for one of the clerkships of the Kansas Howie of Representatives, at the next session. She is stud to be a good scholar, excellent with the pen, and everyis'ay qualified for the position. The Columbus (Georgia) Enquirer says the trial of the negro conspirator and revo lutionist, George Shorter, at Union Springs, Alabama, resulted in bin conviction, and sentenced to jail for six mouths. On the trial the material facts, heretofore publish ed, about his organization of a negro gov ernmeutin Bullock county, were produced. The Louisiana Convention has adopted several articles of too now Constitution. 'They abolish slavery, and declare the privilege', of free speech, the press, and this his bens corpus. The second article adopted on Saturday, was reconsidered, and a pro vision setting allegiance to the United States above that duo the States, was agreed to instead. Mr. Charles Dickens has an effectual mode of dealing with the numerous appli cations for his autograph. The process is somewhat summary. Applicants receive a printed answer saying. "To comply with your modest request would not be reasona bly possible." To envelop, direct and mall these curt replies the services of three secretaries are constantly required. When Richard Pierce, printer, of Boston, worked off upon his hand pre.", on the 25th of !September, IGOO, the first newspaper ever published in America, the General Court tOok the sheet into custody, held solemn debate over the daring disturber of the public quiet, aid voted that It "contained reflections of a very high nature," end its publication was contrary to law. It was not allowed to appear again. Rev. Robert J. Breck mridge, Radical, has addressed a letter to President .Johnson, asking a pardon for General John C. Breek in ridge, late Vico President of the Confect .,racy, who is now in Pans in why reduced .•ircuutstnnces. He urges that General reckin ridge was mistaken In his political views, but that his nigh character as a wan entitles Lim to Executive clemency. Statistics on tile In the Treasury D•port rnent show that the cost or maintaining the detective force or land to prevent smug gling amounted to about $2O NO during the last fiscal year, and the estimated value of the goods seized by them fur violation Of the revenue laws oaring the canto period amounted to $1,268,000, besides between $200,000 and $300,000 assessed upon offenders as tines uud peuul ties. We are likely to have some rich bigamy cases in Alabama, growing out of the:a:dun of the so-called convention, which has re cently met under the auspices of General Pope, in that State. That convention, dur ing its session, granted many divorces be tween man and wife, with an alacrity and nonchalance which seemed to regard the marriage Institution as a mere pleasant pastltne, to be dissolved whenever its novel ty wore off, and either party had become wearied of the responsibilities which ita high and sacred character Imposes. A cunning trick was performed in New ark, N. J on Friday last. A man pretond ing to be drunk slipped and fell against a store window, breaking a large pane of glass. He declared he had no money to pay tor the damage, when bo was searched by the proprietor, and a hundred dollar bill found in his This was immediately changed, $l2 being retained for damages, and $BB banded to the inebriate, who stag gered off and was soon lost sight of. The $lOO bill was subsequently sent IP the bank for deposit, when it was discovered to be counterfeit. An Immense Tree A correspondent oftbe New York Ledger, in San Francisco, who has been up among the big trees of Calveres county, Coliterate, sends us an account of one of them, which was lately felled. He says: "The height of this tree was three hundred and two feet. Across the stump. five feet from the ground, it measured twenty-five feet in diameter without the bark, and twenty-eight feet with it. It was elgtity-six feet in circumference at the stump. It took five men seventeen days and a half to bore itolithe stump With, pump augers, and two days and Q..halftnore to drive and wedge it up with the butts of trees to make it lose its centre ofgravity and fall to the earth. Its trunk was so straight, audits branches so symmetrical that it stood without a shake, even in a high wind, after it had been completely served by the ampere. Thirty-two couple danced a sett On the stump, and there was room enoughlor the spectator* and mnelelams perfecily notizd War OK% •
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