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BAIN IN THE HEART.
"Into nuoh lifu sorno rain must 11111."
If this ware all—oh I If this wars all,
'Mtt into (Milk life sumo ruin most NI,
Them wore Minter sobs in the poet's rhyme,
There wore fewer wreolcs on the shore of limo
Hilt tempests of woo puss over the soul—
Minns winds of anguish we cannot control,
And shook lifter wo ore called to boar,
Till the lips are white with the hearVidompalr
The slums of time with wreaks nro Strewn,
I Into the oar Miles over it ?noun—
Wrooks of hopes that lel Nall 111 Woo,
Wrecks of love, sluicing silently.
Many are hid from the human eye,
filly Owl knowotti how (loop they lie;
Only C./ Oli heard when arose the cry,
"help too to boar—ohl help me to die,"
"Into each life some rain mast fall"
If tills wore all—slit if this were al l'
Yet there's a refuge from storm and blast,
Mort Petri—we'll roach It at last,
lie strong, Ito strong, to my heart I ory,
Tho pearl In the wounded shell (loth Ile ;
Days of sunshine are given to all,
Tho'"lnto each life seine rata must fall I"
THE SONG THEY NINO IN MICHIGAN
A HICRIGNADE TO JOHN DROWN {YELLEN
Wrorn the Detroit Union.]
Not a drum wan heard, nor a funeral note,
Ax hie cornet, to oblivion we hurried,
Not, a groan escaped from a Radical throat
Wheu negro Hulfrage was burled.
We hulled him deep in Michigan soil,
Ho deep that, they ne'er will uncover him,
Unions some Radicals boring for oil,
By the dearly-loved scent, should discover
MN collie wan made of a ballot-hog,
With white men's ballots we bound him,
And he looked like a baboon taking bin rent,
With Post au,' firibun, around him.
Few and eborl were UlO speeches we mode,
- And we sung not n doleful ditty,
But his body and spirit together we laid,
Just, out of the white inun'm city,
And am we were haxtlly tramping back,
"I' wan Held if tbo—l don't, take
iinietly ideepin that graves° deep,
Till the trumpet of Gabriel shell wake Mut
gtiotlinittono.
A French Courtship and Wedding
HOW lime "I.lLpe Arrangement . ' Is
The following account of the French
etiquette of courtship and marriage 18
taken iron' the Juno 11010ber of Bel
gra aria:
We will suppose that M. Horace De•
launny has seen Mademoiselle Rosalie
Dubois, or that she hue been spoken of
to hint, and that on inquiry ns to her
position, etc., he finds she is a person
whom he would like Lo marry. He le
bound to observe a rigorous compliance
with Inexorable rules, the violation of
any ono of which would be probably the
ruin of all his hopes. Etiquette has
nothing to say about the affections, but
simply, like u treatise ou strategics and
tactics, lays down certain methods of
proceeding, without considering the
cause of action.'
The first step which M. Delaunay or
his parents must take for hire is to ask
a mutual friend to inquire of the family
of the young lady if his offer of marriage
will be agreeable. It is absolutely con•
trary to all good breeding for M. De
launay to do this himself . ; and If he is
refused, good breeding requires him to
make no sign of disappointment, but
to remain With the family prceisoncnt
sur iii PiC pied ; just on the same foot
ing as before. I twill be comprehended
that all allusion to the refusal would be
of the worst tastes ; "du plus manuals
gma."
But suppose M. Delaunay has no
common friend; in this case he must
address himself to the cure of the parish
of the family, if they are Catholics—to
the pastern., i f they are Protestants—to
the rabbi, If they are Jewish—and
solicit one of these to make the inquiry.
If he prefers it, he may go to the
family lawyer; and, indeed, if the lady
Is an elderly person or widow, this is the
only admitted way of arranging this
preliminary. But in any case he must
get a suitable introduction to cure, pas
lcur, rabbi or notary.
lithe reply be favorable, M. Delaunay
asks for permission to visit the family,
or ho asks to be introduced, If he has
not been so already.
The lirst visit must take place with
out the presence of the young lady,and
all antra of property, settlement, &c.,
are then to be discussed. The family
are supposed already to be informed of
all details about the position of M. De
launay by his intermediary; theparente
or guardians are now supposed to put
further questions to the young man, and
to declare whether the replies are satis
factory or not, and to communicate on
their side all details about the young
lady's fortune and expectations. The
young man is invited to visit them on a
future day, and the day and hour of the
visit are fixed. if the replies of M. De
launay are not found satisfactory, the
young lady's representatives require
time for reflection, and they separate
on the most cordial terms possible, and
the suitor is required by good breeding
not to make any further advances un
less he is recalled.
0 THE FIRST VISIT.
However,,suppose M. Detautly has sat
isfied the exigencies of father, mother,
guardian, notary, &c., and the hour of
the first visit is arranged in which he
is to see the object of his marriage in
tentions for the first time as a suitor.—
The visit must naturally be arranged to
take place when no other visitors are
expected. Good taste requires toilettes
on both sides to be carefully proper, al
though any display—unc toilette lapa
ge,nse—k of the worst taste; the young
lady especially must be simple but
neatly attired. Mademoiselle Dubois
having already been informed of the
proposal, site between her parents, and
no allusion whatever is made to the
subject of M. Delauney's visit during
the first interview. It is, in fact, a sim
ple visitof reconnoissance; the enemies
are placed in presence of end examine
each other, talking about the most in
different things in the world.. If, how
ever, either on the occasion of
the first visit or of the second, M. De•
hump.) , is not satisfied with the expla
nations given him, or the appearance
of Mademoisselle Dubois, he can still
retreat conveniently by writing to say
that a little journey, which he Is
obliged to take, will deprive him for 1
some time of the pleasure he anticipa-
Led in being able to continue his visits,
etc. If on the contrary, lie desires to
go on with the negotiation, lie must
make a formal demand, by his father,
mother or other relative or friend, to
be admitted into tile family 'tinder the
title of pretendu.
If the request is accepted, M. Delaunay
ought immediately to write a note to the
parents to ask when it will be agreeable
for them to receive his visits of acknow
ledgment and thanks ; and when this
Interview takes place, Mademoiselle
Dubois, having been duly informed of
the present condition of the proceed
ings, will, after the propercompliments
have passed on both sides, be sent for ;
and he young man is presented to her
as heetfture husband.
From this time M. Delaunay is re
ceived in the house of the family on in-.
limate but not on familiar terms, with
respect to which there is a wide die.
Unction. M. Delaunay is required, for
example, always to come with a toilette
suitable for a visit of ceremony, and the
young lady on her side too must olffferve
a similar carefulness. M. Delaunay is
expected, of course, to pay frequent
visits to the house, but always iii'dere
moutons form ; and he should announce
his intention of coming by sending in
the morning a bouquet to his betrothed
whom, indeed, he will never see alone
until the marriage is finally celebrated
before the maire and in the church; for
marriage contracts are such slippery
affairs, that M. .Delaunay and Mad
emolselle Dubois may have gone
through all these forms to no purpose.
If M. Delau,nay should wish to retire at
any moment, he can do so by writing
the little billet and announcing le
peal voyage; and the family of the
young lady could cover her re
treat by any equally simple device;
and to prevent all unpleasant con
sequences, .and all chance of malev
olent tittle•tattle,the whole affairshould
be kept a strict secret on both sides till
the marriage contract is finally signed.
And, moreover, the young people will
never either speak to or of each-other
by their unadorned Christian -names;
• .they must address each other and speak
: Of each other always as Monsieur Horace
„ L ; Ali 4 if d emoiselle Rosalie: But when
~ ,;i6Ri;nontract'ls
.signed, and the marriage
~formallY announced, the rigors of ea
. • quotes may. relax in some measure to
wards the young couple; but as respects
the family, ,it increases, for the father
VOLUME 69
and mother of the fiancee are now re
tilling), fernier kur maison, to shut up
their house—that is to say, not to receive
at home any-but members of the fami
ly; and Mademoiselle Rosalie will care
fully avoid, and would not indeed be
permitted to make, appearance dans k
monde; that is, either In society or any
public place of-amusement.
BRINING , TUFO CONTRACT,
Supposing that all things have gono
on without difficulty up to this point,
the next stop Is the signing pf the mar.
rings contract, or settlement as wo
should term it. The contract must no
cessarlly have boon duly arranged, and
its provisions all settled and the deed
drawn up, when the parties betake
themselves to the notary who has pre
pared the document. In the case of
very wealthy families, and in the pro
vinces, the notary comes to the houseof
fiancee, in which case etiquette requires
that he should be invited to dine. It Is,
as with us, esteemed an honor to have
the document witnessed by a prince of
the blood or a great State dignitary. All
expenses of the proceedings are to be
paid by the future husband. The nota
ry reads the document; M. Delaunay
rises, makes a bow to his fiancee as
though to ask her consent„ takes the
pen, signs the deed, and then passes the
pen to Mademoiselle Rosalie. The
young lady sighs In turn, and passes the
pen to the mother of her intended, whq
passes it on to the mother of the bride.
and so on through the members of the
family present, who sign for the most
part in the order of their age.
It is on tills day that M. Delaunay is
expected to send the presents known as
the corbeille demarriaye. The value of
the presents should amount to about ten
per cent of the dot of the lady. They
consist generally of shawls, jewels, lace,
furs, gloves, fang, books, and a purse
containing a certain number of gold
pieces of money, which should be new.
These presents should be put either in
an elegant box, or in a worktable des
tined to form part of the funiture of the
young couple. The corbeille should Sr.
rive on the morning of the signing of
the contract, accompanied with a hand
some bouquet of flowers ; and the
corbeille, together with the trouaecau of
the fiancee, which by this time should
be prepared, is exhibited in her room,
tastefully arranged with flowers, for
friends to admire. If there isa ball that
evening, as Is customary, at the house
of thefluncec, the young ladyshould be
in white. She opens the ball with her
intended, and in the second quadrille
she belongs de droll to the notary who
In olden times had the right of kissing
her ou the cheek. Everybody who
signs the marriage deed is expected to
make a present to the young lady.
As for the actual marriage ' it is well
known this is performed in two cere
monies—one at the mairie, the other at
the church. Both at the mairie and at
the church marriages are performed on
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays in
every week ; at the mairie from nine In
the morning to five in the evening; at
the church from six in the morning till
one In the afternoon. The marriage at
the mairie is of a strictly civil charac
ter, and is often performed on the same
day as the other, but sometimes one or
two days beforehand. It must however,
precede the other, though strict Catho
lics look on it as a merelegal formality,
and as no marriage at all in a proper
sense. The mairie can, if he pleases to
honor persons of importance, perform
the marriage in his drawing room ; but
all the doors in the house must be open
down to the street, so that all the world
may enter if they please. The mairie
marriage must be preceded by the
proper legal formalities—evidence of
publication of bans, consent of pa
rents (if such is required by the law)—
and can only be celebrated three days
after notification has been published at
the mairie. When the bride has signed
her name at the mairie, she passes the
pen to her husband, who receives it and
says, iferci , madame. The lady is thus
styled " madame " for the first time In
her life by her future husband. The
publication of the bans for the marriage
in the church takes place much the
same as with us. On the morning of
the marriage the bridegroom and his
family come to call for the bride and
her family. The bridegroom then pre
sents the bouquet de noces, which must
be entirely white, to his fiancee. Car
riages hired by the bridegroom, who
defrays all the expenses of the day with
the exception of those at the house of
the bride, are sent to fetch the witnesses
of the marriage and the members of the
two families who are invited to be pres
ent, to the house of the bride. The
bridegroom, besides the bouquet, brings
the wedding ring and the piece de
mariage, a piece of money, of gold or
silver, according to the condition of the
parties; if of the former it is placed like
a medal in a morocco case. Among the
peasants a piece of copper coin fulfills
the function of the piece do 2nariage,
which must receive the priest's bene
diction during the ceremony.
As soon as the whole party is assem
bled they start for the mairie. The
bride is in the first carriage to the right,
with her mother on the back seat, with
her father or his representative in front
of her. In the second carriage is the
bridegroom, on the back seat likewise;
but his mother—or her representative,
if he has none—takes the right, and his
father sits on the front seat. The wit
nesses of the marriage and the other
members of the family follow. Arrived
at the church, the father of the bride
leads her to the altar, and the bride
groom follows with his mother. Then
the mother of the bride should follow in
procession with the father of the bride
groom. The nearest relatives and most
intimate friends of the two families also
approach the altar. The rest of those
invited sit in the body of the church on
chairs prepared!or them. The family
of the bridegroom and the bridegroom
take — the — Tight, the bride and her
family take the left of the altar. During
the service a gietc is made in the church,
which is perfo ed by the younger sis
ters of the brld and bridegroom, if they
5 .,i3
have any, one n each side. In the ab
sence of youriger sisters the nearest
younger female relatives supply the de
ficiency. j
, _ _ .
,VIE CEREMONY.
During the ceremony, when the priest
addresses to the young couple the ques
tion, "Conscntezvous a pendrc pour
epoux ?" &c., each of them before reply
ing turns to the side of the father and
mother, makes them a bow or courtesy
and then each replies, not in a loud
voice, but ami voix. After the offerto
ry of the mass the young couple arise,
and each takes a wax taper, which is
placed before them, and they go to the
altar and place the money which they
offer as alms in the hand of the priest.
And after the " Pater" is said, a pall is
held over the heads of the bride and
bridedroom by the youngest boys—the
nearest relatives of each family. When
the marriage -mass is over the young
pair go to the sacristy, and there receive
the congratulations of their friends.—
The order, however, of going there is
just the reverse of what it was on enter
ing the church. Thus, the father of the
bridegroom now leads the bride, and
the mother of the bride now takes the
arm of the bridegroom. Those invited
to the wedding follow after and make
their compliments to the newly mar
ried couple and to both families. There
is a general presentation by the bride
groom of his friends to his bride, and
the mother of the bride introduces her
friends to the bridegroom.
It is contrary to all French usage to
invite company to the marriage of a
widow, or even to any I lady above
thirty, which ought to take place early
in the morning, without display; and
the toilette of the bride in such cases
should not be white.
THE HONEYMOON
It is not generally the custom now in!.
France to take a journey after the mar
riage ; on the contrary, the wedding
party often spend the day together, go
for a drive in the Bois de Boulogne, and
have a dinner and ball in the evening.
At the dinner the bride and bridegroom
should be placed opposite to each other,
the bride having to her right the father
of her husband, her owamother sitting
to the right of the bridegroom ; and the
bride is to be the first served at the
table. At the conclusion of the dinner
a toast is proposed for the young mar
ried couple. One of the temoina of the
bride proposes the health of the bride,
and one of the temoinB of the bride
groom proposes the health of the
bridegroom. Oratory is required to be
brief, and the fathers of the bride and
groom return thank for their respective
children ; but, above all, no singing: is
expected amond decent people ; there.
fore, if an Englishman finds himself at
such a festival, he must not propose to
sing the " R'oger Bonhemmel , of Bar
anger.
The guests who have been invited to
dine are expected before leaving to,givo
an Invitation to the young people for a
dinner or a soiree and such a return is
called the rendu eke nom, and they are
allowed a whole month for the giving of
It, at which, naturally, the best places
and all the honor is given to the new
couple, No one, of course, must appear
at a marriage In mournlntr; even a
widow, if en grand dealt, must appear
at the marriage otherdaughter in white
and gray. In the best society, however,
the festivity of dinner and ball takes
place on the day of the signing of the
marriage contract; and it Is to be ob.
served that a protestant minister may
be invited to the wedding, but a Cath
olic priest never.
At tho ball the bride opens the dance
with the guest to whom she wishes to
pay the greatest attention, and the
bridegroom does the same thing. The
newly married pair dance in front of
each other in the first quadrille, et
the second they dance together. After
this the bride hair the privilege of in
viting whom she pleases for the rqiit of
the evening. The bride and groom re
tire as quietly as possible, the latter
some time after the former, and every
body does his best not to observe their
departure.
The lettree de faire part of the mar
riage are to be sent withinlifteen days,
and the persons who receive them are
expected lo pay a marriage visit within
a month.
ABYSSINIA
Civil War and Widespread Desolation
Correepondence of New York Herald
TEC/MS.B RIVER,
Province of Wadela, Abyssinla,}
THE TE RETURN HOME, April 30, '6B.
The days of the great Theodorus and
his reign of terror are at an end, but
confusion and dire anarchy are substi
tuted instead. Whatever good results
the English have reaped from their ex
pedition to this most unhappy country,
moat disastrous does it prove to the na
tions of Ethiopia. All seem gathered
together to war upon each other. Every
house is divided against itself. Princes
hitherto silent from compulsion have
raised their standards ofrebel lion against
their acknowledged and legitimate sov
ereigns. Vast armies, collected from
the most remote parts of this vast em
pire, rally around the lately imprisoned
chiefs and march against the invincible
Gobazye and his barbarous legions. The
King of Shoo is in a quandary. Kassai,
of Tigre, is perplexed, and Walkaft, of
Woclo Gallas, is obliged to lower her
lofty crest to her " fair " rival, Musterat.
Gobazye and his übiquitous General
Dajiriz Mushesha only one short week
ago were in the full zenith of their
power, having overrun all the country
from the Donakil to Gender, when,
lo a new actor appeared on the stage
in the person of a late captive chief,
named All Furrus, who appears to be
an object of terror and dislike, or sus
picion, to the victorious Mushesha, who
pursued him as far as the Zedjon Gallo
country, determined to capture him or
die in the attempt. When driven to
bay All Furrus, finding himself sur•
rounded by his former subj Nits of the
Zedjon Galla, pleads for protection,
which is instantly granted by those who
have not forgotten former favors, and
with a bold front, almost despairing of
success, he turns on his heel and faces
his dreaded enemy, Mushesha.
Four days ago the battle took place
and victory declared for All Furrus. At
first sight of their bold captain of for
mer days the men of Wadela, who
formed the army of Mushesha, deserted
him, and reversing their spears charged
at full gallop upon the ranks of Dujoz
A,ll, laughing and shouting with joy,
saying, "Hold on, bold Dujog ; we are
friendsandcountrymen ofyourprovince
of Wadela. As the horse returns to his
manger, the dog to his master's kennel,
or the soldier to his general, so we have
come to serve our loved master and
friend, Ali Furrus." With shouts of
defiance they returned upon Mushesha's
dismayed army, who, having not re
covered from the shock of surprise
which this wholesale desertion created,
were easily defeated and their General
made prisoner. What Gobazye will do
when ne hears these amnions tidings
it is almost impossible to state, but he
will doubtless commit some cruel ex
travagance, as it is said upon good au
thority that he is a close imitator of
Theodorus. As the late Negus has im
prisoned all the legitimate chiefs of
Abyssinia to prevent endless ware, Gob
azye and Kassai exhibited but poor
wisdom when they aided the English
in their invasion of his country; for
now that the King is dead and all the
princes and chiefs released, their own
thrones are thus rendered insecure.
Mustevat has claimed Magdala and
taken possession of that fortress, with
all her force, amounting to about twelve
thousand wild Gallo horsemen. Two
other chiefs who have been released
have fled to Gojam and Damot, with the
hope of establishing a claim to some
portion of the now dismembered em
pire. Menelek's brother has betaken
himself secretly to Shoa, with the evi
dent intent of sowing discord among
his relative's subjects and raise an army
to establish his claim to the throne ; and
thus the condition of Abyssinia is even
worse than it was when Theodorus rav
aged the whole country. It has relapsed
into its former state,composed of numer
ous petty provinces, continually at war
one with another.
There is no claimant at present in
Abyssinia for the the Imperial Crown
who professes descent from Solomon—
by Queen of Sheba—though there will
be doubtless before long. Menelek,
King of Shoa, according to the priests
and sages of Abyssinia, is the only one
living who has a right to the imperial
sceptre, as he traces his pedigree to that
dusky and frail queen who went to Je
rusalem "to learn the wisdom of Solo
mon." It would appear that the wisest
man that ever lived, not content with
his "seven hundred wives, princesses,
and three hundred concubiness," be
came enamored of Sheba's sovereign,
and to show how much he was flattered
by the visit of so great a queen gave
unto her all that her heart could desire,
even " whatsoever she asked" ; " so she
turned and went to her own country,
she and her servants" ; and the Abys
sinians look with great respect upon
Menelek new, considering him as the
only living lineal descendant of Solo
mon by the Queen of Sheba. But Mene
lek, though brave as a lion in battle,
prefers his own country of Shoe to the
troublesome sceptre of royalty over all
Abyssinia.
It requires no great foresight and pen
etration to perceive the approaching
fate of their country and its ill-assorted
peoples. The late head, though a
tyrant, was acknowledged to be the
only one fitted to govern. Could he
have restrained his maniac passion and'
compelled himself to epdeavor to gain
the good will of the people thirty thou
sand Englishmen could not have con
quered him. The condition of Abys
sinia now presents a strong claim to the
sympathy of the Christian world. The
Galls and Mussulman tribes are be
coming more powerful, and there is rea
son to fear that the very name of Christ
may be lost among the Abyssinians.
The odorus being dead, the whole coun
try may be said with truth `!to be going
to the dogs."
On the retirement of the English the
whole country will be left a prey to the
designs of Egypt. It will be no wonder
should we hear that the Paella of Egypt
has undertaken an expedition to the
country. Where there is no unity
among the chiefs it will be an easy
matter for the Egyptians to establish
their power in this country. A good
road has been made by the English, and
it has been shown by them that it is
possible, with patience and a vast ex
penditure of money, to undertake an
'expedition to its most remote parts.
A great many interesting facts have
been vithered from the late captives.
Concerning Theodorus, he was a most
ardent Christian, and knew the Scrip
tures better than the' Pariahs and Mol
lucks, or even the Abmmm. Whatever
he undertook he endeavored to uphold
by a quotation from Holy Writ. The
massacre of the native prisoners which
took place two days before the battle of
Fallah was supported by copious ex
tracts. Before the execution took place
he called his favorite chiefs together
into the palace and informed them that
the Feringhees were coming, and pos
sibly they might be besiSged, and there
fore.it was incumbent upon him to pro
:vide for the welfare of his brave soldiers.
There were several prisoners in Magda
la; incorrigibly bad ones—who had
mocked at him and refused wise coun
LANCASTER PA. WEDNESDAY MORNING JULY 1 1868
eels; would it note be better to put away
those who eat .the bread of Idleness,
eating the sustenance of the garrison,
thereby destroying what chance they
had of maintaining a siege for anyleugth
of time? The chide thus apostr_o_phized
agreed unanimously that the riegashl
should do what seemed good in his own
eyes. His words were wisdom. Satisfied
that ho had gained the will of his prin•
ciple men he ordered that they should be
brought before the imprisoned Faring
hes' quarters with their chains on. After
the chiefs loft him to do his bidding he
dressed himself in his state robes and
donned the imperial crown preparatory
to visiting the Europeans. Raving
done so he rode on his white mule down
to Salingine where he found the
Europeans and native captives drawn
up in two parallel lines, surrounded by
his soldiers armed to the teeth. With
proudest mien he rode up to where the
prisoners stood with dreadful anxiety
manifest in each countenance. Two
chiefs hastened to lay hold of the stir
rups as he prepared to dismount, and a
deep silence reigned around—"suoh a
silence," to use the captive's words, "as
to mak the beating of our hearts audi •
ble. My heart was in my throat, al
most causing strangulation; my pulse
beat at railway speed ; I felt my knees
tremble and the awful suspense and
uncertainty were worse than the shock
ing reality I witnessed afterwards."
After dismounting the King walked
.ackwards up and down the line eyeing
us sternly, and a sort of barbaric ma
jesty pervaded every motion, Seeming
ly satisfied with his inspection bestrode
quickly and nervously to the centre of
the line, and impatiently throwing his
silken toga over his left shcitider and
pushing his crown from his brow back
ward, probably so as to have a clearer
view of his victim,
he hissed through
his closed teeth to the native captives,
saying, "Behold I am going to slay
you,
because I called you and you re
fused ; I stretched out my hand im
ploringly to you, and you regarded me
not ; you set at nought all my counsel,
and would none of my reproof. Now I
will laugh at your calamity; ha, ha! I
will mock as your fear comes; when
your fear comes as destruction and your
destruction comes as a whirlwind ;
when distress and anguish comes upon
you." Then turning to his soldiers he
ordered them to separate those whom he
named, and after ninety men, women
and boys had been separated from the
rest, cocking his pistols, he shouted out,
"Now who shall I destroy first?" (No
answer.) " What," said he sarcastical
ly, "are there none of these princes and
warriors of Ethiopia desirous of dying
by the hand of Theodorus, have you all
turned women when the hour of death
is nigh?"
"Hold" shouted Ras Ingerta, a Gallo
chief ; "I and my fellows are In your
power now; but, Kassel, why did you
lie to me ; why, oh why was I such an
ass as to listen to your subtle words;
why did I come and put my head In the
lion's Jaws? Oh for one minute neck.
to neck with you, Kassal ! I would
show you how a Galin warrior meets
his enemy. Give me aspear and a horse
and meet me fairly and equally here only
for two minutes; I would kill you and
curse you. You dare not, prisoner as I
am, with chains on my limbs. I would
fight you if you dared to meet me."
"No," returned Theodorus, with in
creasing warmth in his countenance,
"you tried to betray me to my enemies;
spy and traitor, you shall be fr...,d for the
jackal to-night. On the hsads of all
those who have compassed me about the
mischief of their own lips shall curse
them. Lit them be cast into the fire;
into the deep pit, that they rise not up
again." "Strip these fellows," said he,
"and let them behold each other's
shame, and give me their exact num
ber." Their rage were torn from them,
and each man, woman and boy stood
before him naked. The number of
those whom he had ordered for execu
tion was three hundred and eight---two
hundred and seventy-five men, five wo
men and twenty-eight boys.
He then said, ' Spear the Galla dog!
Ingerta, spear him, I say," and Rae
Ourary Eurlc, ever ready to obey The
odorus, levelled a spear and flung it at
his breast. "Thou halt done well,"
said the King, as he saw the weapon
had gone deep into his bosom; but Ras
Ingerta plucked it out of the wound and
flung it contemptuously at Theodorus'
feet. "Another one," shouts Theodorus,
"spear him again," and six chiefs
im
mediately sank their weapons Into his
body.
The wounded chief stood up bravely,
and drew them all out one after another,
the blood spurting from his wounds in
crimson streams, when he fell down
and died.
Impatient at the slow progress of the
execution, the King shot ten dead with
his own hand, and, throwing his revol
ver away, he drew hiusword, and leap
ed towards the tremtiling prisoners.—
Eyeing them a moment, he seemed to
choose one for whom he entertained a
perfect hatred, for he said to one, " Ah,
your hour has come. I am going to
drink your blood," and, raising his
sword, he cut his head off at one blow,
and then drew it again across his ab
domen .
Theodorus' face and clothes were cov
ered with blood and, like a tiger who
had tasted blood, this seemed to increase
his fury. He foamed at the lips and his
eyes became bloodshot. After stabbing
and cutting about fifty with his own
hand he rested, and ordered that his
chiefs should try their hands. Many
of them had personal hatreds against
the captives, and they, proceeded with
an astonishing alacrity with the awful
task of massacre. Whenever he wit
nessed dexterous blows he applauded,
but when he saw cuts given that but
maimed the poor wretches the King
would spring up and demonstrate what
an easy matter it was to send head clean
off the shoulders by choosing a strong,
sturdy prisoner and decapitating him
with his own hand.
A young and beautiful woman of high
rank, perceiving that her time was
coming rapidly, ran up to where Theo
dorus leaned upon his dripping sword
and, throwing herself at his feet, en
treated in piteous tones that he would
spare her life. "No!" thundered Theo
dorus, "you came to my camp twice as
a spy. Once I spared you because one
of my chiefs asked that you might be
his wife. Now, by the Saviour of the
world, you shall sleep below the cliff of
Magdala to-night." So saying, while
she yet bent with her face to the ground,
with his whole might he delivered a
blow which almost severed her in two.
Horrible as it may seem, a child gushed
out of the womb, and several of the
European women sickened and fainted
at the sight.
A boy prince, son of one of the rebel
lious Governors who was still at large,
was next killed by a sweeping blow,
which took his head and left arm off.
In about an hour and a half from the
commencement of the wholesale execu
tion the massacre was completed, and
as fast as each one had been slain the
body was carried to the edge of the cliff
and thrown down a height of fifty feet
or more. At the bottom of the cliff
were several great rocks scattered here
and there, and these were covered with
brains and blood. A ghastly heap of
corrupting flesh was all that was left of
308• human souls, who but shortly be
fore had been the friends in captivity
of the Europeans. The human sham
bles contained pools of blood and gore
in several places nearly a foot deep.
Theodorus having mastered his pas
sion as the work of death was ended,
turned to the European captives, and
in a most urbane manner informed
them that he would do the same to them
if the English General did not listen to
reason. Even his dear friend Rassam
should die by his hand unless peace
could be made. Theodorus would most
certainly have carried his threat into
execution if English diplomacy had not
been too much for him. Rassam, when
the King's envoy arrived with the
news that a battle had been fought be
tween the English and their people,
requested that he might see the King.
Theodorus gladly consented, hoping
that he could see his way through the
deep gloom which surrounded. him.
When - Rassam was admited before him
Theodorus got up and embraced him,
entreating him to say what had best be
done. The wily envoy replied, "You
are an illustrious potentate; may you
live forever." The English want noth •
ing but the Europeans. When they
have got them they will go away. He
scouted the idea that Napier wanted
him, and argued against the inconsist
eSpy of such a belief. In this manner
and by such constant assurances Theo
dorm took his crown and his life with
out the ample revenge he intended to
have taken. •
From the day of the battle of Fallah
to the time of his death Theoddrus had
not tasted a morsel of food, but had en
deavored to forget his misery and imbe.
ollity in letting the English prisoners
go by drinking ted and arraohi. This
abstinence from food accounts for the
emptiness of the stomach and entacla
ted appearance of the body which it
presented when we found him dead
near the entrance gate, Thafurbar.
We have now been six days ou the
return march and will reach the seacoast
on or about the 20th of May.
Tho Arkansas Representatives,
Protest of the Dimmeratle Members of
the Moose or Mepreseutatlves Against
their Admission.
WASUINOTON, June 24.—The following Is
the protest wplob Mr. Brooks proposed to
offer In the House to-day against the admis
sion of the Representatives of the State of
Arkansas :
The recognized presence of three persons
on the floor of this House from the State of
Arkansas, sent here by military form act
ing under a Brigadier General of the army,
but nevertheless claiming to be members
of this Congress, and to share with us, the
Representatives from the free States, in the
imposition of taxes and customs and other
laws upon our people, makes Itnur imper
ative duty, in this the first case, to remon
etrate most solemnly and to protest as
solemnly against this perilous and destruc
tive innovation upon the principles and
practices of our hitherto constitutional self
government. The so-called reconstruction
acts which created the military govern
ment in Arkansas and like governments
in other Southern States to share with us
in the legislative power of the Northern
and Western free people, we have every
reason to believe, have been held to be
unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
of the United Stateri, the public, de
claration of which fact was avoided only
by the extraordinary and strange device of
this Congress in snatching jurisdiction from
thaCourt in the MeArdle case, when such
a public decision was about to be made. Of
the three great branches of the Govern
ment, it seems, then, that after the Execu
tive vetoed these acts as unconstitutional,
the judiciary adjudicated them to be so,
while a Congress, the creation of but twen
ty-seven of the thirty-seven States of the
Union, overrides these equal and co-ordi
nate branches of that Government, first by
voting down the vetoes, next by nullifying
the judgment of the Court, in an era of
profound peace, when not an armed man
rises against the Government from the Po
tomac to the Rio Grande, there, In ten
States, our American historical way of
creating the organic law has been utterly
subverted by the bayonet. Ever since
the Declaration of Independence—with
scarcely an exception--and even' amid
the battles of the Revolution, conven
tions have been convoked through, and
Constitutions created by, the electors ofthe
States, the only authorized depositories of
the sovereign power of every State, without
extorter dictation, as under the existing
Federal Constitution. The hardest and
harshest teat oath required from 1776 to the
leace of 1783 was an abjuration oath of al
egiance to George the Third, while some of
the so-called bayonet-made Constitutions
from ths South propose absurd and cruel
tests—absurd, as in Arkansas, where is in
terwoven in the organic law a more party
test between the Radical Reconstructionists
and the Democratic Conservatives, such as
would exclude from voting, if living there,
the thousands and tens of thousands and
hundreds of thousands of Democrats In the
free States, (article 8, section 4); or cruel, as
in Alabama, where no white man can vote
who will not forever forswear his own race
and color and perjure himself by swearing,
In defiance ofthe law of God, that the negro
is his equal, and forever to be his equal, at
the ballot-box, in the jury-box with the
cartouch box, in the school, in the col
lege in house and home and by the
fireside—in short, in every way, every
where—(article 7, section 4.) I , Tow, in
these and the other Southern States,
in the midst of war, President Lin•
coin In his proclamation of December 8, 1863,
offered amnesty and pardon to rebels then
in arms if they would lay down their arms
and take an oath of fidelity, while now not
a Union man in Arkansas or Alabama can
vote unless in the first place he swears alle
giance to the majesty of this Congress, and
in the next swears off his Americanism and
Africanizes himself. Hitherto, Constitu
tions with us have been the outgrowth of
popular life, springing from the exhuber
ance of our enterprise and energy in the
settlement of the forests or prairies of our
country ; but here before us now aro nine
constitutions with one if not three, more to
come from Texas, which have all been im
posed upon the people by five military sa
traps or Pentangle in a manner never be
fore known under our law, but burrowed
at best from imperial Roman civilization,
or from the worst precedents of the French
revolution. France is then recorded to
have had five constitutions in three years ;
so frequently made and so frequently
changed that they were ironically classed
by the French people with the periodical
literature of the day. Louisiana, a colony of
that France, has had four constittntions
in four years, and a constitution there
has now become parodical literature, as in
France in the agonies and throes of the
great revolution. Laws were statute laws,
which can never be created by constitutions,
are appended, more or less, teen these con
stitutions ; and these bayonet-created, one
branch governments, with no Executive,
no Senate, no House of Representatives no
Judiciary, have ordained irrepealable, ir
reversible laws in the very organism of the
State—such as cannot thus be created by
the Executive, the Senate and the House of
Representatives of legitimate government,
when acting in unison and all combined.
All this has been done without regard to
preceding constitututions or precedents, or
to the common law of the States, or the law
of nations. The military, which under
legitimate institutions can only be need in
times of peace to conserve or preserve the
State, have here been used to destroy States.
The General of the army, who represents
the sword, and only the sword of the Re
public, has been exalted by acts of Congress
above the constitutional Commander-in-
Chief of the army and navy, in order to
execute those military decrees, and as the
surer way to throw out every vestige left of
constitutional law or liberty, the same Gen
eral of the army, in' order to prolong or
perpetuate his military domination, North
and West, as well as South, has been select
ed in party convention at Chicago to head
the electoral vote for the Presidency in ten
of our States, which are as much under his
feet as Turkey is under the Sultan, or Po- '
land under the Czar of Russia. But, as if
only to add insult to the injury of this mili
tary outrage upon the popular Government
in these ton States either by act of Congress
or by these Congress-soldier-made State
Constitutions, at least 250,000 whites have
been disfranchised, while 750,000 negroes,
inexperienced in all law making, and more
ignorant than our children, have been en
fianchised In their stead, and have thus
been created absolute masters and sover
eigns over the whole white population of
the South.
Because of all this, and in opposition to
all this, wo, Representatives of the people
from the free States, in behalf of our con
stituents, and of thousands and of tens of
thousands of others who would be here
represented if the popular power without
could now constitutionally act here, with
in, earnestly and solemnly protest against
this violence upon our constitution and
upon our people, and do hereby counsel
and advise all friends of popular govern
ment to submit to this force and fraud only
until at the ballot box, operating through
the elections, this great wrong can be put
right. There is no law in the land over the
constitutional law; there is no government
but constitutional government; and hence
all bayonet made, all Congress-imposed
constitutions are of no weight, authority, or
sanction, save that enforced by arms, an
element of power unknown to Americans
in peace, and never required but as it acts
in and under the supreme civil law, the
Constitution, and the statutes enacted in
pursuance thereof.
We protest, then, in behalf of the free
people of the North and West, against the
right of this military oligarchy, established
in Arkansas or elsewhere in the now re
enslaved States of the South, to impose
upon us, through Congress, taxes, customs
or other laws to maintain this oligarchy or
its Freedmen's Bureaus.
We protest against going into the now
proposed copartnership of military dicta
tors and negroes in the administration of
this Government. We demand in the name
of the fathers of the Constitution and for
the sake of posterity, not itszeconstruction.
but the restoration of that - sacred instru•
merit which has been to us all a pillar of
fire from 1787 on to its present overthrow;
and in all solemnity before God and man,
under a full sense of the responsibility of
all we utter, we do hereby affix our names
to this protest against the admission of these
three persons claiming to be members of
Congress from Arkansas.
James Brooks, W. ?dungen,
James B. Beck, Stephen Taber,
P. Van Trump, Asa P. Grover,
Chas. A. Eldridge, L. S. Trimble,
Samuel J. Randall, Geo. M. Adams,
A. J. Gloesbrenner, J. W. Humphrey,
S. Archer, Fernando Wood,
J. A. Nicholson, J. L. Getz,
John Morissey, T. Stone, *
Thos. L. Jones, M. C. Kerr,
W. E. Niblack John Fox,
Julius Hotchkiss, James A. Johnson,
Wm. H. Barnum, T. V. L. Pruyn,
John W. Chanler, W. E. Robinson,
S. B. Axtell, B. M. Boyer,
S. S. Marshall, Geo. W. Woodward,
W. S. Holman, C. E. Phelps,
C. W. P. Haight, A. G. Burr,
Chas. Sitgreaves, D. M. Van Auken,
Lewis M. Rosa, J. B. McCormick,
H. McCullough, Dames Barnes,
J. P. Knott,: Jas. M. Cavanaugh,
_ _.. iiieJ. S. Golladay. :.
Tao NatioOld on Couvoution—illo•
oory of Um Pant Platioual COUVIIMO
Ilona
Up to 1832 the Presidential candidates of
the people were not selected by national
conventions of the respective parties. On
the contrary, they were nominated in a
tams of Congreumen at Wu ington. The
first Ave Presidents were, w their Vice
?ti l
Presidents, chosen in this ner t
In 1824 the Congreasions caucus system
received its death blow. In that year there
wore four candidates botbre the people for
President—namely, Andrew Jackson, J. Q.
Adams W. H. Crawford and Henry Clay.
Adams; Jackson's and Clay's friends to
Congress declined to have anything to do
with the mums. The result was that six
ty-one members attended out of two hun
dred and sixty. They nominated Alr.Craw
ford In =adenine with old usages and
precedents. But the nomination,
_of course,
carried no weight with it, and Mr. Craw.
ford was the third In the race. The:election
went to the house, where John 11. Adams
was chosen. .At the next election
.Jackson
was taken up in different State contnlions
and was elected over Mr. Admits, who had
the same endorsement. In 1832, at the end
of Andrew Jackson's first term, the first
national conventions were called. The
democratic met at Baltimore, renominated
Andrew Jackson by acclamation and Mar
tin Van Buren for Vice President. GoVer
nor,Robert Lucas, of Ohio was the Presi
dent of this convention. The so-called na
tional republicans held a convention and
selected Henry Clay for President, and inc.
Sargent for Vice President. They met we
believe, in Philadelphia. Jackson and Van-
Buren were elected. In 1835, the democrats
held their second National Convention at
Baltimore, and by acclamation nominated
Martin Van Buren for President, and after
a sharp contest, selected Colonel R. M.
Johnson, of Kentucky, for Vice President,
over Wm. C. Rives, of Virginia. The lat
h:ea Metals were very indign..nt, and Vir
ginia in the election, voted for Van Buren,
but rejected Johnson, giving her electoral
vote to Governor Smith. This caused a tie.
Johnson had just half of the electoral votes.
There being no choice, Johnson was elected
by tha Senate—the only instance in our his
tory of a Vice President so being chosen.—
The Whig Convention met in New York
and selected General W. H. Harrison for
President and Francis Granger, of New
York for Vice President. The Massachus
setts whigs did not attend the Convention,
and gave their votes for Mr. Daniel Webster,
In the election, instead Of General Harrison
The Georgia and Tennessee whige also
stood aloof, and voted for John BelL Van
Buren was elected.
In December 1859, the Whig Convention
met at Harrisburg, Pa. For the first time
in any convention there was a struggle for
the Presidential nomination between the
friends of Henry Clay, General Harrison
and General Scott. Harrison was chosen
on tho third ballot, and John Tyler, of, Ir
ginia for Vice President. The Democr lo
~
National Convention met at Baltimore, r
nominated Mr, Van Buren for Preside .
No Vice President was nominated, and t e
Slates were left to vote for whom they
pleased for Vice President. Tho friends of
Van Buren however, generally voted for
Colonel Johnson. Harrison and Tyler were
elected.
In 1844 both parties held their national
conventions at Baltimore. The whigs nom•
fruited Clay and Frelingbuyeen, and the
democrats after a long struggle selected
James K. Polk, of Tennessee, and Silas
Wright, of New York,. The latter declined
and George M. Dallas, of Pennsylvania
wee selected in his stead. Polk and Dallas
were elected.
In 1848 the Democratic National Convon
tion met atßaltimore and nominated Gen'l
Case and Butler for President and Vl,e
President. The Whigs held their conven
tion at Philadelphia and selected General
Taylor for President and Millard Filmore,
of New York for Vice President. They were
elected.
In 1852 the Whigs met at Baltimore and
nominated General Scott for President and
W. A. Graham, of North Carolina for Vice
President. At the same place the democrats
nominated Franklin Pierce for President
and W. R. Ring for Vice President. The
latter were elected.
In 1856 the Democratic Conventiod came
to Cincinnati and nominated James Bu
chanan and John C. Breckinridge. The re
publicans hold their Convention in Phila
delphia, and nominated Fremont and Day
ton. Another section of the opposition held
their National Convention and nominated
Filmore and Donelson. Buchanan and
and Breckinridge were elected. In 1860 the
republicans convened at Chicago and nom
inated Lincoln and Hamlin. The demo.
crats met at Charleston, S.C., where a split
occurred, and the conventions adjourned. to
Baltimore. Douglas and Fitzpatrick of
Alabama, were nominated by one branch
and Breckinridge and Lane by the other.
Fitzpatrick declined to run, and H. V.
Johnson, of Georgia, was selected. Bell
and Everett were also run by the national
Union men. Lincoln and Hamlin were
elected.
In 18111 democrats met at Chicago and
the republicans at Baltimore. The latter
nominated Lincoln and Johnson, and the
democrats McClelland and Pendleton. The
former were elected. We have thus brought
the history down to the present time, show
ing the change from the Congressional cau
cus the National convention, and the cir
cumstances that led to its occurrence.
Forrest A■ a 'Delegate—The Rebel Cav
airy General's Views Respecting the
Democratic National Convention.
(From the Louisville JournaL]
"I didn't want to go to the National Dem
ocratic Convention," said Forrest. " In fact,
it did not cross my mind until it was urged
on me by some of the most prominent citi
zens and politicians in Tennessee. I thought
at the start that it would be imprudent to
sand me; but they argued differently, and
when I at last gave my consent, I aid not
feel at liberty to retire and leave my friends
to hold the bag. Two or three times, in the
State Convention, while they were debating
the question, I had half a mind to draw out,
and failed to do so because I consider that
when a man has put himself in the bands
of others he has no right to bo run off by
false delicacy." ,
"You mean to go-of course?"
"To be sure I do. It won't be more cur
ious, I reckon, to see me in a Democratic
Convention - than it was to see Joe Brown
in a Radical Convention,"
" But he's recanted all his sine, and you
haven't; in other words, he goes with the
ruling power, and you don't."
"There is a good deal of mistake about
that," he answered. "The Radicals like
Joe Brown because he is a Radical. I sup
pose the same rule would apply to me with
the Democrats. Why, Sir, the warmest re
ception I've bad since the war was from
Gen. Sherman. I'm not afraid of the Dem
°credo soldiers or the• Republican soldiers.
I like Gen. Hancock, and I don't believe
there is a brave or reasonable Union soldier
who dislikes or doubts me as a man. I went
into tho war because my vote had been un•
able to preserve the peace. I took a through
ticket, of course, and I fought and lost as
much as any one else; certainly as much
as I could. Now the war's over, and I'm
under oath to keep my parole. Suppose I
consider myself an outlaw, and refuse to
take part in what's going on, does that help
me keep my oath? Won't folks that are
disposed to be ill-natured say I'm sullen
and dangerous, and only waiting a chance
to break out in a fresh place? That's what
they have said. Now I give the country a
sort of hostage, in addition to my parole,
when I join an active, organized body of
Union men in the North, and I proclaim
when I go to New York that I am at least
as well reconstructed as Joe Brown, who
was an original secessionist."
"Are you committed to any candidate ?"
"None whatever except as the Nashville
Convention committed me. I guess the
delegation will have no trouble deciding
who it will go for. We don't want to dic
tate to the party. What we do want is the
best man. it aint because we hate Grant
that we are anxious to beat his ticket. It's
because the Radicals won't give us a chance
if they keep in power. Look at Tennessee.
That's Radicalism, and that's why I'm a
Democrat."
"But have you no choice among the var
ious Democratic aspirants?
" I can answer that question better at
New York."
" You are certainly prudent."
"And so I ought to be."
There is a good deal of misconception
about Forrest's life before the war. I have
seen it stated in one place that he was a
negro trader and in another that he was a
gambler. Neither is true. Before the war
he stood as well as any man in West Ten
nessee or North Mississippi. His father was
a Middle Tennessee blacksmith of irre
proachable character, and though the ad
vantages of Bedford were extremely limited,
he always held his head up, and had made
by successful speculation when the war
broke out at least half a million of dollars.
All.this he lost. As for his moral character,
it never was suspected. He has been through
life a sober, hardworking, keen-trading
man, devoted to his home and respected by
every one. He le not now a rich but a poor
man. He lost all he had by the war. But
his energy is matchless, and there is little
doubt that he will rebuild his ruined for
tunes. In his own household be is a very
devoted husband and father. I don't think
he has any ambition to figure as a politician.
His present attitude as leader of the Ten
nessee delegation—which he, trill undoubt
edly be at New York—is an aodldent. The
people desired him to go as ad illustration,
perhaps as a test, of the question of. exclu
sion or non-exclusion of re
_presentative
Confederates from affairs. / venture to
I predict that his appearance iu the Delta).
'natio Convention will be hailed as a good
omen, and that he will make a speech be
fore that body which will serve as an ex
cellent Democratic campaign document. I
am rather inclined to think. that his prefer
ence is for Hanoock; but I have no right,
to say, for he is not communicative on the'
subject. If he is for Hatmock; it is on the
idea that one good soldier should be the.
friend of another good soldier, though they
fought on opposing sides.
The Gnat If musk IPsirede la MUM&
pit&
PHILADELPHIA, Juno 24.
The laying of the oorner stone of the now
Mallenlo Temple In this oily to-day drew
together a vied crowd of the fraternity from
all parts of the oonnUy. Baguio wee al.
most entirely suspended, and the parade
was very large and imposing. The weather
was not uncomfortably warm but a rain of
en hour or so during the prooeulon gave
some Inconyenlenoo to the partiolpants.
The streets were tilled by a vast crowd oe
copying ovary available plaoo for observe.
lion,
Many dist' riguishod - Maiums were present,
among others,_ Grand Muter Cannon, of
New Jersey ; John Guts", Grand Master
of Maryland I R. D. Holmes, Past Grand
Master of New York ; Winslow Lewis,
Past Grand Master of Maaaachnutts ; B.
C. CoMnberry, Grand Master of Michigan ;
Wm, W. Haiku, Past Grand Muter of
Indiana; and B. B. French, Past Grand
Master of the District of Columbia.
The procession comprised twenty divis
ions, It passed along a line of atreets liter
ally waving with banners, gleaming with
exquisite decorations, -beautiful in the as
sembled multitude - of Philadelphia's fash
ion.
The line of parade was in motion at 8 o'-
clock. It moved dowtuChestnut to Seventh
up Seventh to Arch, out Arch to Broad, up
Broad to Columbia avenue., then counter
march down Broad on the west side to Arch
street, and there halted.,
The corner-stone was laid with the full
ceremonies of the craft! In tho aperture
of the stone was placed a Turkey morocco
box containing a complete solid silver set
of Masonic jewels, presented by Messrs.
Horstmann Bros. Co„ of this city, as fol.
lows: Trowel with the following engraved
thereon : "To the Grand Lodge of -Penn
sylvania, A, Y. M., by Horstmann Bros.
k Co., makers, A. L., 5888." On the out
side of the case, in an indentation of the
lid, the following inscription in gold letters
appears: '•To the Grand Lodge ofPennsyl
yank:, A. Y. M., by Horstmann Bros. &Co,
makers, A. L., 5868. This is covered with
a glass plate. The box is lined with blue
silk-velvet.
The wine used on this occasion was bot
tled in the year 1703, and has never been
opened. Tne gavel used is made of marble
capped with gold. It is the one used by
George Washington in laying the corner.
stone of the Capitol at Washington, and is
now the property of Potomac Lodge, of
Georgetown, D. b.
The ceremonies were commenced with
prayer by Grand Chaplain Rev. John Cham
bers. The choir sang a beautiful ode writ
ten for the occasion, and Hon. Richard
Vans, Grand Master, ordered his subordi•
nate to test the stone, which being found
true, he proceeded to lay it according to
Masonic rites.
After further singing the Grand Master
proceeded to deliver an oration of remark
able research and elegance of composition,
in which he reviewed the history of the
order and explained its vast importance to
mankind.
The banquet at the Academy of Music
this evening was by far the most magnifl•
cent and complete affair, ever witnessed in
this country. Tan hundred and sixty ma
sons were seated at the tables, about two
thousand ladies adorned the prthicenium
boxes, parquette, circle, Weeny and upper
tiers, and they were served with refresh
ments. The music was furnished by two
grand orchestras and a select number of
vocal artistes, including Mr. A. R. Taylor.,
the distinguished American basso. Grand
Master Vaux presided, supported by Depu
ty Grand Master Robt. A. Lamberton and
the other officers of the Grand Lodge. The
invited guests came next to the grand offi
cers. Speeches were made to all the regu
lar toasts. Lodges visiting the city to at
tend the parade were sumptuously enter
tained at the various hotels.
The delegation from Lancaster city was
large, over one hundred and fifty men be
ing in line of the procession.
The new Temple is to cost a million of
dollars, and will be one of the moat mag
nificent structures of the kind in the world.
A 'Young Lady Drown/ Herself on Her
Wedding Wight.
[From the Memphis Bulletin.l
Miss Grapper, who was a young lady of
prepossessing appearance, was about nine
teen years of age, and was engaged to bo
H
married to Mr. eckle, a well-known citi
zen of Memphis, and the day of marriage
had been fixed and the preparations com
menced. On the night of Monday, Miss
Grapper attended a party at the house of
Mr. Goepel, accompanied by her intended
husband, and it was observed that she was
the gayest of the gay. It was the anniver
sary of her birthday, and she received the
congratulations of her numerous friends
with a countenance beaming with smiles.
She danced, and sang, and jokes, and
talked, and none were more joyful than this
young lady, and she did not leave this fes
tive gathering till nearly 4 o'clock yester.
day morning. While all gazed on the fea
tures of this beautiful girl, none for a mo
ment imagined that, before the rising sun
had made one more revolution, tho bright,
gay, and handsome girl would be cold
in death, and her body floating south
ward with the current of the Missis
sippi. She left her unole'e about 5 o'clock
yesterday evening, dressed as if for a prom
enade, and walked in the direction of Fort
Pickering. When she got' down to the edge
of the bluff she entered a grocery kept by a
man named Shelby, and procured a pencil
and paper, with which !to write a note.
This note she addressed to her uncle, and,
calling a little colored boy, she gave him M
cents, and directed him Co leave the note at
her uncle's house, next, the Green Tree
Hotel. The boy went on Ihis errand, and
the girl walked down again to the bluff,
stood gazing into the placid river flowing at
her feet for a few minutes, and was ob
served to'lay down her parasolon tho bank,
and, taking off her bat and silk cape, she
looked around her for an instant, and then
plunged into the river. Her movements
bad been watched from a distance by
several persons, but none of them
appeared to have the slightest idea that the
young lady was about to commit suicide.
The moment, however, she made the fatal
plunge, all rushed forward, but ebe had
sunk beneath the waters, and no trace of
the body; could be observed. Boats were
immediately procured and persons pro.
ceeded to grapple for the body, but up to
dark it bad not been found. In the mean
time the letter addressed to her uncle had
boen received at his house, and on being
opened it told a sad, sad tale. It was to the
following effect :
Dena Una.): : 1 am tired of life, and am now
upon the brink of the river, where I am about
to put an end to my life. This will be the last
letter I will ever write to yog. Ido wish that
you all will be happy. Give my love to all, and
now a last good-by—farewell,
Your loving niece
Antos Dickinson on Den Grant
The gentle Anna is one of tho ablest and
most popular orators In the pay of the Radi
cal party. She has done good service for
the party in times past. Just now she ap
pears to be stumping it In bohalf of those
Radicals who do not favor the nomination
of Geo. Grant. Anna spoke at Elmira, N.
Y., and took occasion to hit the man who
does not talk some severe blows. She
warned and threatened in her loving way.
She said :
The Radical party cannot live upon the
memory of its good deeds.
Your works in the past wont save you.
You Radicals shirk the unpopular neces•
sity of putting the black race forward.
You want to cover up the negro with
Grant.
Unless you give the Northern negro the
ballot you won't get the support of the ne
gro South.
.. _
It is not sufficient that Grant was a sol
dier. McClellan was a soldier—Fitz John
Porter was a soldier. It is not sufficient to
write against any man's name—soldier.
By nominating Grant you show your
selves cowards and poltroons.
Grant is no standard-bearer when princi
ples are to be fought for.
You want Grant without a platform for
the sake of expediency and winning the
next election.
I would't have a personal quarrel with
General Grant. I darn to say what a great
many are thinking.
I don't want Grant for President.
"Speech is silver, silence is golden;"
Grant's silence is leaden.
IMMM=MI
You can't hurrah for Grant and win on
that Issue.
Shame, shame on those Republicans who
say: "I believe the black Wan should vote
in Louisiana, but under no circumstances
here In Elmira."
Disintegration stares the Radicals in the
face because they are ashamed to come out
boldly and openly for negro suffrage.
Don't hide your principles, if you have
got any behind the smoke of one man's
cigar.
The Great Fire in Mniqinetto Mich
The FlainDsater says: Smoldering heaps
of ashes are all that remain of the business
houses of our once thriving young city.
Not one place of business was left on
Front-et.—all were destroyed—ma with
their thousands of dollars worth of oods.
Between 30 and 40 families have bee ren
dered homeless. The railroad comp ny's
carpenter, pattern, machine, and bl ck
smith shops, foundery, gas house. en ins
house, tank bonze, and Aesistaxit Supe in
tendent's office were destroyed, t oga er
with the machinery. Our estimate of is
company's loss is between ;woo nd
1\
$400,000, but $200,000 is the loss report to
us by 'one who should know. The Superior
dock, warehouse, storehouses, everything
around and about it, met the fate of the
railroad dock. We do not think $lOO,OOO
will replace the loss. On Lakeet, from
Superior to Peek's saw Mill, nothing was
spared by the flames; the railroad dock,
elevater,-mirehouses, and offices were de •
stroyed-,burned to the water's edge. One
bithdredend twenty-five thousand dollars
will nbt. replace the loss. Some of the losses,
al gilieDpue, without doubt, too high, while
othera again re too loww by thousands of
'dollars. We 'are positive that the real lon
*ill not fall abort of f 1,506,000.
NUMBER 26
TIM Allred Baltimore Plot to Assail.
oats Preattens Litman—O. Clear Matte
meal Prom Col (Moro* P Mane.
(Form the Baltimore Sun, June 21. j
The stories revamped recently In a con
,tat between two aids of Meetly° polloo
(Pinkerton, of Chicago, and Kennedy, of
New York), as to which of thorn is on
' titled to the honors for the "dotootloni , of
the alleged conspiracy to auassinato Mr.
Linoolo the then President eloot, by par
ties In Baltimore on his expected passage
through this olty to be inaugurated, in the
' month of February, 1801, line called forth n
publication from C'olonel Goorgap Keno,
ibrmcrly Marshal of Polloo 01 ABM city.—
Colonel ICano deals ()specially with Pink
orton's narrative, purporting to give facts
discovered by him (Pinkerton) in which
narration Mr. ICarte's name wan introduced
In a manner to convey the Impression that
the alleged contemplated atrocious purpose
was known to him and bad his approval.
Mr. Kano says :
The first dell'arte information of the day
and hour of Mr. Lincoln's expected arrival
in Baltimore on that occasion was received
by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany a few days in advance of his coming.
Ills route was to be, according to that in•
formation. from Harrisburg to Baltimore,
over the Northern Central Railroad, arriv•
hag at this place about 121 o'clock and de
parting over the Baltimore and Ohio. Wash
ington branch, at 8 P. M. the someday. As
soon as this information was received the
master of transportation of the latter road,
Mrs Wm. Prescott Smith, addressed inn
note informing mo of the fact, asking that I
would suggest some mode of entertaining
Mr. Lincoln during his brief stay, In the
absence of any respectable number of his
own partisans in Baltimore to do him honor,
(there were, I think, only about ono thou
sand republican votes cast for Mr. Lincoln
in Baltimore, and they, lu most part were
of the very scum of the city and of t he old
"club" organization, though thero were
some few exceptions, candidates fur office
and fanatics on the negro question) and to
avoid having the impression go abroad that
our city had been wanting In respect for the
President elect of the nation.
Immediately on the receipt of that note I
called on General John S. Gittings ~the then
president of the Northern Central Railroad,
and communicated to him the information
I had received. My reason for selecting
General fittings was the fact, of which I
was aware, that there were some kind of
business relations between him and Sena
tor Cameron (who was talked of es likely
to become a Cabinet officer), growing out of
the latter's being largely interested in the
ownership of the road of which Mr. Gittings
was the president. I discussed with General
Gittings the character of the individuals
who would likely press themselves upon
and to the annoyance of Mr, Lincoln, and
that I thought something should be done In
his behalf, to all of which that gentleman
fully agreed. I then suggested that, as ho
was known at home and abroad as a lead
ing member of the democratic party of
Marylund and not a candidate for favor at
the hands of the new administration, and
having a commodious mansion, eligibly
situated near the Washington Monument,
I thought it would be a fit and graceful
thing for him to meet Mr. Lincoln at the
Maryland line and invite him and his
family to become his guests during their
stay in Baltimore. To these suggestions
the General also yielded approval.
It was them agreed upon and arranged
that he should go up on his road the day
before Mr. Lincoln was expected over It,
and meet and welcome him at the Mary
land line, and as the train reached the
crossing on Charles street, north of the
monument, it was to be stopped at that
point, where I was to be in readiness with
carriages to receive the general and his
guests, and convey them to Mount Vernon
place. The intended debarkation on North
Charles street was under no apprehension
or suspicion of intended violence or insult
to Mr. Lincoln it carried to the depot, but
because the route along Charles street, pass
ing the monument and through Mount
Vernon place, afforded a view of the most
beautiful part of Baltimore, and would re
lieve the visitors of the necessary annoy
ance from DOM and confusion incident to
a railroad depot; and even greater than
those, the annoyance of being brought into
contact with the element Which would 'Join
waiting to advertise themselves for offce.
These arrangements were so far consum
mated as that General Gittings wont to the
Maryland lino to meet Mr. Lincoln, and
failing to find him received Mr. Lincoln's
family and conveyed them to his home,
where they rernained.during their stay in
Baltimore as his guests, and I had carriages
in readiness to carry out my part of the ar
rangements, when the news reached Balti-•
more that Mr. Lincoln was in Washington.
With these statements and explanations,
the truth of which, I imagine, neither Ken
nedy nor Pinkerton will call in question—
er& even if they do the parties to the ar
rangements to whom I have referred still
live—l feel quite certain that no intelligent
and honest mind will continue to credit the
oft repeated glanders upon Baltimoreans of
having contemplated a deed of such savage
atrocity as that alleged to have been threat
ened by these detective policemen. That
Mrs. Lincoln was not imposed upon by the
invention of such people was abundantly
shown in the fact that before starting from
Baltimore for Washington she sent a re
quest that I would call and afford her an
opportunity of making her acknowledg
ments for the interest I had shown in the
arrangements which had been made; but
sudden and severe indisposition prevented
me from doing so. As effectually as her
husband may for the time have been duped
by those people and led to a course which
was subsequently a matter of deep regret
to himself and his friends, I had the very
beet reason to know that he was very soon
undeceived and that I could have enjoyed
the most substantial evidence of his confi
dence and favor after he became the Presi
dent bad I felt inclined to embrace it.
Yours, very respectfully,
DANVILLE, Vs. GEO. P. KANE
The Crop■
Along the seaboard, and through the East
generally, last week was sunshiny and
warm, and considerable planting was done.
Still, owing to the many previous rains,
much ground was so wet that planting was
impossible, and the attempt was abandoned.
Corn and potato fields already planted
are so foul that great work and patience are
required, but the farmers are vigorously
pushing through. Much trouble has arisen
from the rotting of the seed of potatoes ;
perhaps this was never so extensive and
general before. The fruit crop of the Now
England States and of New Jersey Is likely
to be better than last year; still it is not up
to an average, owing to blasting winds, to
cold rains, and want of sunlight. On Long
Island fruit Is reported n failure. Delaware
and the Maryland shore will have a short
crop.
Through the Middle States, east of the
Alleghenies, and down to the North Caro •
lina line, all kinds of productions, and
wheat In particular, aro represented at a
full average. On the thin soils of the unit
States, and around to Louisiana, corn and
gardens have suffered for want of rain, and
accounts are gloomy; but cotton stands
drouth better, and It is estimated that there
will be half of such a crop as was common
before the " unpleasantness." On low lands
and fresh fields all vegetation is thriving,
though, in places, the army and bud•worm
and caterpillar aro committing some rav
ages. From Tennessee and Arkansas the
accounts are favorable, and the wheat al
ready cut Is of lino quality, though net ex
traordinary for quantity. The freedmen
are working well, and it Is frequently stated
that they do not come from the fields till
dark.
Southern Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and
Kentucky report nothing new, and this in
the Southwest is often good news. In the
great cornbelt running through Southern
lowa and Northern Missouri, Central Illi
nois, Indiana, and Ohio, not more than
three-fourths of the land which the farmers
expected to devote to corn could be planted,
owing to the wet weather; still, as great an
area as common may have been put in, for
the reason that large fleldsof raw and "W
-ont " prairie have been broken and planted.
Last week there were heavy rains In Ohio,
doing considerable damage. On the whole,
the wheat crop through this region is good
—we might say better than common. In
the Wabash Valley it Is more promising
than for fifteen years past. In more north
ern sections, including lowa, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Northern Illinois, and Michi
gan, the farmer was less delayed by April
rains, and as a consequence all kinds of
grain and farm productions are in great
forwardness and are highly promising.—
Along the southern border of this region
the potato or Colorado bugjs in vast num
bers, and there aro grave ap - diehonsions for
the safety of the potato crop. From no ono
State do we have such encouraging accounts
as from Miehigarn There are no complaints
with regard to.any crop except corn, which
is rather backward, while the small grains
are represented as bettetthan for ten years.
Of potatoes the amotintpliffited la enormous.
The farmers seem excited ;with the expec
tation of large profits, Arid with gned reason ;
and It is represented that if the yield is an
average one they will halm a surplus suffi
cient for many States. Sheep must be
mostly sheared, but owing to low prices of
wool the business is somewhat depressed.
—N. Y. Tribune.
Rum and Nerroes.
Mr. Sumner wants a bill passed to re
lieve from tax certain cargoes of rum now
waiting shipment Irons Boston and Salem
to Africa. The association of Ideas may be
whimsical, but this recalls tho old time
when the good people of New England did
a thriving bush:tees bartering ram for slaves.
The skippers of Boston and Salem 110
longer bring 'back slaves l bat they still
and a good market for rum. We do not
wish to introde,
_but it does seem to ns a M
little odd that r. Sumner, the leader of
the party of moral !dead, and Senator Wil
son (the head of the Massachusetts tetotal.
era) should be so anxious to obtain facili
ties for the exportation of so much to
Africa. ' Is this love for the negro, or a nice
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News Items.
Now York has two thousand pollomen.
Thoro aro (button authors engaged each
on a lifoot Grant.
Dubuque, lowa, claims the oldest Free
Mason. He is 101
Tho Chinos° Embassy aro to vlalt Boston
after the 4th of July.
A throo inllllonaro In Chimp was worth
Just WO, 15 years ago.
The crop In Georgia aro bogluulug to
!tuner for want of rain.
01'000 Illuclonts In Oborlln Collpgo, Ohio,
30 ore ■nlct to bo nogroon.
Tho Alaska appropriation will not be
oonsldorod until Dooonabor.
Salt Lake City minim young men to
marry at 10 or pay $3OO line.
Tho ■trawborry crop la unprooodently
large In Delaware this season.
A lame amount of well executed coun
terfeit 80 cent notes are in circulation.
Recently 8,000 barrels and boxes of veg
etables were shipped from Norfolk.
Chambers, the enatnplon English oars
man, died recently of consumption, aged 37.
Diamonds to the amount of p.8:1,000,000 are
said to be owned by persons In New York.
Mr. Riese of the Cincinnati Enquirer has
written a life of George H. Pendleton.
The fruit crop In New England will be
good, despite Um cold and wet spring.
The late storms have somewhat damaged
the crops in Central Ohio.
'rho brat samples otnow wheat have been
received in San 'Francisco, and are ofexoel
lent quality,
Flour from now wheat, ground at Augus
ta, Goorgia, has boon received at Charleston
South Carolina.
Hon. Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, is pre
paring reeolleetions of his own life, to bo
published in Boston.
Ex-President Pierce Is the only living
ono of the elected Presidents of tho United
States,
The poet, Henry W. Longfellow has been
made a Doctor of Laws by tho English Uni
versity of Cambridge.
Huber Kimball, second President of the
Mormon Church, diod at Balt Lake on Mon
day.
It to said that Ethridge T. berry, Esq., of
New York city, has the best library in the
country.
Advtcos from lowa report that there is
little hope of Senator Urtmos being restored
to health,
In Connecticut thoro are ono hundred and
twelve Baptist churches, with twenty thoue
and members.
J. A. Garfield, Congressman oloat from
the Nineteenth District of Ohio, has boon
again nominated by acclamation.
Memphis is holding meetings to promote
the establishment dr a now steams - hip line
between that city and Now Orleans.
Mr. Johuson has recolvod as dispatch from
Jackson, which says that Mississippi has
Bono Democratic by a largolnajority.
Wm. 11. Meek, formerly a Confederate
moldier. Limpet Wed In Mississippi, a vic
tim to the atrocities of Fort Delaware.
,tAfrican desoont and the possession of real
astute, are necessary qualitications for vot
ing in the negro colony of Liberia.
Tho Philadelphia and Cupo May and the
Camden and Burlington county railroads,
are about to commence Issuing commuta
tion tickets.
A cargo of stool rails for the Now York
and Now Haven Railroad havo arrived
from Sheffield, England, and uro distribu
ted ready for laying down.
Mr. Longfellow, the poet, arrived in Eng
land, on Saturday week„ and is being re
ceived with great courtesy and marked at
tention.
The total number of liven lost by the col-
Heston between the steamer Morning Star
end barque Cortland, on Lake Erie, le now
reported et 27.
Work on the now Tammany Hall, Now
York is progressing, and It will be ready
the 4th of July. Tho hall Is lofty, well ven
tilated, and will seat 6,000 persons.
Despatches from Nevada announce a
considerable fall of snow in that State. At
Austin, several moth of houses were broken
by the weight of snow.
John Hopkins, of Baltimore, has be
queathed to the city one and almillion dol
lars for educational purposes, and ono
million for a hospital.
The South Carolina Democrats have ,car
lied a majority of tho districts in the recent
local elections, making extraordinary gains
over the vote on the carpet-bag constitution.
General Grant's oldest son, Frederick, a
youth of eighteen, is a cadet at West Point.
Admiral Farragut's son is also at West
Point.
The largest gold brick ever seen in Mon
tana is on exhibition in a bank In Helena.
Its weight is 1,682 ounces, and its value is
01,060.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln and her little aon
" Taddie " will sail for Europe In a short
time, for the purpose of staying with some
friends in Scotland.
During last year, 14,400 immigrants
passed through Milwaukee for Minnesota
and Northern lowa, while 11,200 remained
to settle in Wisconsin.
Walter Arnold, the young clerk In the
office of the State Auditor of Rhode Island,
who robbed the State Treasury of some $lO,-
000, has been pardoned.
Fine and seasonable rains have fallen in
different parts of Alabama in the last few
days, coming Just in time to save the corn
crop, wnich was nearly burned up.
A boat containing eight men upset at the
mouth of the Saco river, Maine, on Satur
day afternoon, and five of them, all French
men, were drownded. All of them leave
families,
General Blkdle, commanding at Jackson,
Miss., has taken possession of Governor
Humphreys' office, and Humphreys has fit
ted up another office, claiming to bo still
Governor of Mississippi.
, The shipwright who . t i ase a ttr o g d o . o . f h f
plerow
i3aelgourr whale r n ep th . o ro
that be cindf, tin:ugh she
is forty-two years old, not a rotten timber
In her.
A man in Kentucky W 8.9 lately Indicted
for manslaughter, and sentenced to the
penitentiary for ton years, for causing the
death of a neighbor by causing a horse to
kick him.
The wheat harvest commenced invarious
sections of Virginia last week, and the
yield promises to be vary heavy. Some
parcels of new wheat have already boon
received at Richmond.
Petroleum is now found vary abundant.
ly in Italy, and, as obtained there, differs
from the Pennsylvania oil in the almost
entire absence of gasoline, and In many
cases of naphtha, as also being free from
any offensive odor.
Commodore Vanderbilt is worth $60,000-
000, and has shown much Interest In his
relatives, particularly young men, and has
put many of them, in moderate or poor
circumstances, on the high road to wealth
and prosperity.
Few people know what an empire Texan
le. It would make twenty-five Now Hemp
shires, or more than five New Yorke, or
nearly six Pennaylvardaa. It is nearly
throe times us largoirts the Island of Great
Britain ; and nearly half as largo again as
Prance.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, now real
dent in Florida, thus rakes up her testimo
ny: "The southern people aro no more In
clined to resist the laws or foster the spirit
of rebellion than Vermont is. They only
desire peace and tho restoration of the
Union."
Major Jeff. L. Wofford, a Confederate of
ficer, who was General Dick Taylors chief
of Artillery is the radical candidate for
Congress in the Holly Springs (Miss.) dis
trict, while Captain Charles A. Townsend,
who was a Federal officer, formerly from
Wisconsin, is the democratic candidate In
the same district.
The public debt, notwithstanding wo
have no war on hand, and the taxes griev
ous and burdensome, 114 going up. The
Monthly statement for the month of May
shows the debt to be 82,013,753,560 38; in
crease, 82,042,234 00. For the tax payers we
take it, this is not the most delightful con
templation.
A. new stamp for whiskey barrels, show
ing that the tux has been paid, has been
approved by the Committee on Ways and
Means. The stamp is composed of two
pieces of paper, so that it cannot be taken
from the barrel without mutilation. The
series of such stamps is seven in number,
with figures denoting the number of gal
lons, which are easily and conveniently
checked, in connection with coupons.
Governor Bullock, of Georgia, is from
New York ; Gov. Clayton, of Arkansas is
from Pennsylvania; Gov. Reed, of Florida
is from Wisconsin; Gov. Warmouth, of
Louisiana, is from Illinois ; Gov. Scott, of
South Carolina, Is from Pennsylvania and
Ohio. All carpet-baggers. The Governor
(B. B. Eggleston,) proposed for Mississippi
Is from Ohio; Gov. Welles. to be voted for
in Virginia, is from Michigan.
A Wife Poisoned by Her Husband so as
to get Her Life insurance stoney.
Charles Tacker, alias Mason, was lately
tried at negro, New York, and sentenced
to be hung In August next for poisoning
his wife. About a year ago he procured a
policy in the Connecticut Mutual Life In
surance Company, the policy being for
$5 000 and covering the lives of himself and
wife, the survivor to have the money in
ease of the death of either party. Mrs.
Mason was then in good health. Soon
after the policy was obtained they removed
to Lockport, and ebo died there in Septem
ber, a ft er a short and violent illness, Ma
son's :0 admit when be went to collo:RUH, m
income excited suspicion, and the body of
his wife was disinterred and !band to con
tain-poison. Hence his trial and convic
tion.