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MI Jay it haunts me, a sorrowful guest, ! binding my eyes to thv beauty and light, - EIIUG my dreams with a lively unrest, Over my head it hovers each night. This is the shadow whose lingering trace Memory will keep through the fast gliding years, j Two waxen hands, and a wee patient face, S-.CU for the last through a rain mist of tears. in the green valley, he sleepetli to-day Pure little gem in his babyhood blest, E.nth is at best such a wearisome way Happy the heart which goes early to rest. OH ! this strong mother-love, why was it given V j bp from my soul comes the passionate cry, Say shall we learn in His beautiful heaven W hy our lost darlings were given to die. - _ I Silk, A LEGEND OF PEOVENOE. 1 am yet a king !" exclaimed Francis the : I .•!, vaulting' into his saddle after the [ . - istrous battle ol Pavia had consigned j in to a year's captivity, whose last month j , i more gall than honey, through his mar- j , yc with the Dowager (jueen of Portugal ! - ■ to his imperial and imperious cap'or I i : ales the Fifth. From the Iser to the j , .in- whispers had crept forth that he re -Ito France a crestfallen man, who, I chafing his proud spirit in bondage, no means of breaking his chains, but i v accepting a bride for whom he had { small regard. However this may have been, he rode i:gh Provence, where his subjects re • I him with every demonstration of joy, ! iitgli as he approached their grey old i ' w::s lie thought their giant gates looked j wn upon him with derision. He was ! w nl to rally, and set spurs to his steed, i ,:.i! leave his retinue far behind ; but on I cession the townsmen, who had time- j apprisal of iiis route, met him outside | ir walls, and lie could no less than rein ] and bow from his stirrups, which he j itcously did, to the admiratiou of all j ' beheld him ; for he who could wrestle J wit: Henry the Eighth, and throw him in j ;-ty falls, was no more deficient in grace | ••an in strength. They besought him to ] :i'T their tilt-yard with his presence, w'nere, in iestivity of mimic fight, they j night celebrate his enfranchisement from I liie prison in Madrid. "By our faith good liegemen !" quoth j ii:s Majesty, "we have had such hard knocks •n the battle-field, that we are none in love j i the shadows of the tourney." Aud he ; Wived his hand byway of adieu, when his j -!*(' started at an old Castellan whose \ ■•air was silver white, aud byside whom I stood liis daughter, incomparably fair. Never had Francis seen beauty so rare, : : so modest withal. She bore a massy j Stiver, on which lay a bunch of rusty keys, j •I with downcast looks she said : My Lord will please accept the keys of 0 brave old town," and she held them to-1 id him v ith such gracefulness, that in i.xteeu last Candlemas," rejoined the j win aid, who looked a perfect woman, ; iniocent and yet so heroic, as she ven- j A to raise her head, that the King for- : - - his disasters of war in suddenly in- j v n d love ; aud while he indulged in a is ure he could ill conceal, between their ; iheir keys fell to the ground. This i - H'e him a pretext to alight ; and snrrend- i g the bridle to a courtier, lie graciously j ■ ivi d her father, and between him and j walked in the town. y this time the sun was on the wane, ! Peter, who was governor, besought Majesty to sojourn for the night, and ! would soon have fifty prime cooks to 1 are the royal feast. • this Francis, who nothing more de "i than an invitation, consented; and K-compaiiied Ellen home to her father's ■ •><.•, and where, some time after, a band trained violars arrived to commemorate songs the happy visit. •'■ an entertained the King with artless r; 1 interspersed with sense, that her i I'll -t over her suitor became complete. 1 when placed by her side at dinner, he - i veiision and pastry, and beakers of i for though so many other ladies " ! 'i flie honor of his presence, to none ' Lis attentions so refinedly pointed as ' daughter of the venerable host.— ? ; l i s some envied her the distinction, of h she appeared unconscious—and some • in. envyers were surprised to see her from the hall, observing, as she pass- T this: was a feint to draw '.he King • ■ -h eply in her toils. ■' a merely said she had arrung mcnts make lor tiie morrow. And why not fur to-night, cousin ?"ask lC who, when the wine bowls -•passed more than once, had followed ■ ri ->m the table, and discovered her re^d- E. O. GOODRICH, Publisher. VOLUME XXVII. ing in a little oratory alone. " And why not to-night, fair Ellen ?" reiterated he, suasively withdrawing the book from her hand. She did not reply, while he tossed over the illuminated leaves, where pictured saints seemed to frown upon him chidingly. The silence evidently disconcerted him, but he evaded his chagrin in smiles. " We come, charming cousin, to breathe unalterable fidelity in thy ear," said he. "What's a charmed portal, my lord?" said she interrupting him, and drawing back. " We swear by thy mild blue eyes that none whom Francis ever loved shall be so beloved as Ellen," said he. " My Lord," said she, " I've heard of holy books bursting their clasps when perjured mouths come nigh. Beware of robbing my poor eyes of modesty, their own clasping seal. Towards me, I warn you, practise neither falsehood nor inconstancy." " By our knighthood, we shall be true to thee, girl, till our heart hath no throb for any living creature." "Will you love me till my hair be gray?' " Enchantress ! we shall love thee, wert thou a withered crone from which hideous ness itself might recoil," cried he so affec tionately that she paused. " And for what am I so vastly inestima ble ?" said she, h sitatingly. "It cannot be my tresses, —a lew clips of the shears, and farewell my pride in ringlets to the winds. It may not be my brow, for care shall furrow it, and blanch my cheek,which now seems bloomingly. Care, 100, shall more peak my chin, and charms, if I have any, be most perishable." " Lady, we love thee more for thy good sense than for thy beauty," said he ; and in stepping closer towards her his spur struck the door, which closed with a spring, lie rubbed his hands together, and express ed delight at an incident which created in her a considerable trepidation, that soon subsided into a calm. " I was childish enough to be alarmed ; but I have nothing to fear from a true knight. His most Christian Majesty would not oppress the meanest of his subjects, or betray confidence where he is an honored guest," observed she, drawing a chair be fore her, and leaning in an easy posture ov er its tall, carved back. " Not for a diadem would he harm thee, dearest," said he. " Yet by our sword we would sooner forfeit every acre of old Na varre, and leave Italy the brightest jewel in our rival's crown, than to forego thy love. Thou must be ours and the enrap tured monarch disengaged her from the bulwark, and embraced her ere she could extricate herself from his arms. " Hist! heard you no noise ?" breathed she softly, and she held her finger towards the door. He heard none, nor had she ; and she twined her small fingers round her wrist. "In two hours hence it shall be midnight. Meet me here when the town clocks chime. Pray, my Liege, till then retire," said she, and she opened the door. " Dost niock us, Ellen ? Say, wilt thou keep thy promise ?" " Assuredly my Lord does not doubt me when I say, yes ? Y'es, I shall meet your Majesty. See, the revellers from the hall seek you as one lost. Join them, and re member the appointed hour." Francis retired abashed, when with gen tle force he had been expelled from the ora tory ; and Ellen quietly returned her devo tions for the night. Tranquilly she arose, and her manner be trayed neither excitement nor emotion, though from repeated efforts she made to trim the chamber lamp, and furtive glances she cast often at a mirror, dull must one be who could not distingusli that she was ill at ease. She paced round the apartment, which was small and meanly furnished, its only ornament being a few pictures in em broidery on Scripture subjects. In one cor ner were suspended loose sheets of vellum, parts of a missal for festival purposes, and in another seemed a perch to have been erected, upon which was perched a iiawk, but so in tiie shade that it was difficult to determine whether it was part of the ravel led tapestry or a real bird. At length she sat on a low stool and en compassed her knees between her hands, rocking to aud fro as if engaged in unrav elling some painful train of reflections.— " If inward beauty can be nowise retained except by outward injury, better the body know scath than that the soul be defiled," said she, reviewing herself in the giotes que mirror, with a pensive expression which soon cleared into cheerfulness. " Now, vanity aside," continued she, "Nell, did you ever think you were so pretty as to make conquest of a king ? Never, Nell, never ! Nell must be lovely to have accom plished that. La, what a toy shop of charms are temptingly piled in yonder glass," and she shook the oil so that wavy light fell on the mirror. " Blue eyes and black hair are peculiarities not often found together. Y'et here I have them in Mile sian perfection, albeit the average spirit of my eyes is half merriment, half choly. And cheeks are here, that though they may not shame the rose they never knew the blush of counterfeit. Teeth, like wise, which, though passing white, any elephant hunter would at one glance dis cover were no ivory ; and no lips which a truer wooer than my Lord Francis told El len were gushing ripe, any wild bird would know at first pecking were not worth sweet strawberries. Well, and as 1 was thinking, it's a pity all this toyshop should be in an hour or two as sad to look on a sepulchre." She called her maid, and hade her bring a chafing-dish, heaped xvith live charcoal and sulphur in bar, which done the maid retired, and Ellen sat once more alone.— Suspending the basin of a spirit lamp over the dish, she dropped in the sulphur, and as it fused, a yellow flame flickered up, and cast a dull halo around the chamber. She shook out her hair from the golden pins that bound it, and it fell luxuriantly to the floor, before she combed it with the great est care, as ii she intended to brush it again. Re-dressing, her tresses never had more ; for with seiss rs she clipped round and round til! her head was riegress bare, but not half so picturesque fop it had no curls ! Smearing her forehead and cl.i •-k with oil, the sulphuric vapor arose in poisonous influence as she leaned over the fatal dish. Her eyelashes were the first sacrifice to the fume ; and her pained eyeballs rolled in their sockets as if they were driven in ward by gusts of lire. The fairness of her forehead became a dark, olive hue, and as j suiniug a charred blackness, the skin burst over the quivering veins. Her cheeks soon were bereaved of all blush and beauty, and j her lips, if they had any similitude of fruit j partook less of the rowan th n the sloe.— | She eudeavored to allay the pain by avert ! ing her head from the vapor ; but the eva i sion only increased her agony, for her neck, upon which drops of the sulphur crystal ized, became acutely sensitive to the weight jof a string of pearls. One by one she re | moved them from tiie smarting flesh ; but | the cla.-p behind had sunk so deep that its j withdrawal gave her torture intensely se vere. With iucouceivaule effort she preserved herself from insensibility, and with copious draughts of v.atcr allayed the burning fe ver in her throat. Her voice lost its sweet ness, and she expressed her grief in such harshness and monotony that she started from her seat as the clock struck twelve. As peal after peal swept dismally along she tottered to the door, which she opened, and groping her way along the walls, for her eyes were dim, searched for hood and bells, which she shook. The perch in the corner rocked backwards und forward, as the hawk on it Happed its wings and scream ed so loudly at the sounds of its favorite emblems of chase, that the chamber rang. The King, who had been walking in the corridor, approached, bearing in one hand a small chamber lamp, and in the other a scabbardless sword. Ellen mustered strength to speak, for obscurely he saw that something was amiss, and he inquired the cause. " I will tell you my Lord, most willing ly," said she, and the screaming hawk pounced at divers shadows as if they were its prey. Alas ! there was now no occa sion to cast down her eyes, for little of their luster remained. " My Lord, had I hearkened to your suit, my father's welcome had been paid with wrong, and your Majesty's chivalry been more eclipsed than my charms could bright en. Happily a brief pain has preserved honor." " 0 infatuated,, but noble-minded girl, what hast thou done ?" exclaimed he,'cast ing down the lamp aud sword, and cover ing his face with his hands. " Why didst thou not intimate thy heroic resolve, and the possession of worlds would not have made us ruin that loveliness which king doms cannot repair." " You would have called it maid-sick martyrdom, or coquetry run mad, or epi thets equally fantastical," said she, press ing her hand to her bosom. " Stay, there is yet hope. The injury thou has inflicted is not irreparable," cried he, rushing to arouse the household, when she beckoned him back. " I pray your majesty be calm," said she; " the worst is past." "O, heavens, how heartless! we seem to be the cause of all this wreck. 0, El len, can'st thou forgive thy destroyer ?" . " Indeed I can: far better be thus than be a tarnished thing cast away, for maids to loath and men to scorn me. Now the worst they can say of me is, that I spoiled myself of a questionable good to escape an evil." " And what will they say of me, Ellen ?' "That the good King Francis, once up on a time, meeting a poor, plain girl in an obscure town, was so blinded with strange love, that she saw no way to restore him to sight than to lose her own." " Gracious aud all mysterious God !" ex claimed he, appalled, " thou dost not say thou art blind ?" "In sooth, ucli is thy fear. Give me your hand, and I'll determine whether there is water in the well-spring of the brain," said she, with touching tenderness ; and she shed a tear, which he kissed away, as she endeavored to examine his palm. " Ellen, Ellen, say thou canst sec, and make me happy I" exclaimed the agonized monarch, falling on his knees, and resting his head heavily against her breast. " All's dark, my liege." " All, Ellen ?" "Yes, my liege." "0, say not s ! Say that there's yet a little light." " Aud so there is, Lord Francis ; a little light that misled me into—" " Love, Ellen ?" " 'Tis so, Lord Francis." " For whom, Ellen ? Thou trernblest.— I know all." " Then if you do why do you ask ? why do you ask, Lord Francis ?" " Ellen, thou lovest him who would have been thy base undoer." " 'Tis so, my lord." ■' 0, torture worst of all ; and Ellen's blind !" and her tears fell plenteously on his upturned face, while he continued to ejaculate, " And she is blind ! 0, who will love her now, when she is blind ?" " Won't you my sweet Lord Francis, love me as though I were a dear sister, long since dead ?" " Dearest sister, I will," said he, " kiss ing her hands fervently, " Sister Ellen, I will : and never till now knew Francis love so pure, so lasting." "Eh ! yon keen crucible hath burned away all drossiness," said she moving her hand over the chaffing dish. " 'Tis with life as with this short episode of an hour. Nothing in the way of virtue was ever ac complished without pain. To horse, Lord Francis, and whenever you pray, remember Ellen Inglevere." " And must we part thus, more dearly loved and doubly fair ?" " And must we part thus, more dearly loved and doubly fair ?" " Yes, and rejoice that no guilty blush crimson my cheek, nor criminal throb up braid my heart for beatiug," replied she, as the hawk uttered such a series of piercing screams, that first her attendant, and then others, and finally retainers and revellers, rushed into or surrounded the room, where they discovered the sovereign surnamed ".The Restorer of Learning, and the Great,' deprived of forethought and firmness of mind. The most skillful leeches the town or court could afford were summoned ; but their aid was only of partial avail. Facial beauty had forever bade farewell to her whose self-control was worthy the best days of chivalry. Eye-brightness had not, however, departed ; and in the gray mists of the morn she saw her royal lover depart never more to return. In after life he was wont to say that throughout his glorious career of war and peace he had met only two human beings REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER. TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, L'A., JULY 12, 1866. eminently great—one the famous Bayard, the poor captain of a few lances, the chev alier sans reproche, from whose sword King Francis sought and received knighthood, as earth's greatest honor, and the other the humble and lovely Ellen, who had taught him that love without purity is dishonor, aud charms without virtue is shame. A DESPERATE STRUGGLE. Several years ago, when the south of Ireland was, as it has ever been within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, in a dis turbed state, a gentleman, advanced in years, lived in a retired country house. He was a bachelor, and whether trusting to bis supposed popularity, or imagining that the general alarm among the gentry was groundless, he continued in his lonely man sion long after his neighbors had quitted theirs for a residence in town. He had been indisposed for several days, and, on the night he was attacked, had taken his supper in his bed-room, which was on the ground floor, and inside a parlor with which it communicated. The servants went to bed ; the house was shut up for the night, and the tea-tray, with its ap purtenances, by a providential oversight, were forgotten in the old man's chamber. Some hours after he had retired to bed he was alarmed at hearing a window lifted in the outer apartment; his chamber door was ajar, and the moon shone brilliantly through the open casement, rendering ob jects in the parlor distinct and perceptible to any person in the inner room. Present ly a man leaped in through the window, and three others followed him in quick suc- The old gentleman sprang from his bed, but unfortunately there were no arms in the apartment ; recollecting, how ever, the forgotten supper tray, he provid ed himself with a case-knile, and resolute ly took his stand behind the open door. He had one advantage over his murderers,they were in the full moonlight, and ho shroud ed in impenetrable darkness. A momentary hesitation took place among the party, who seemed undecided as to which of them should enter, for, ac quainted with the locality of the house, they knew well where the devoted victim slept. At last one of the villians cautious ly approached, stood a moment in the door way, hesiitated advanced a step,not a whis per was heard, a breathless silence reigned around, and the apartment before him was dark as the grave itself. "Go on, blast ye ! What the deuce are ye afeerd of?" said the rough voice of an associate behind ; he took a second step, and the old man's knife was buried in his heart! No second thrust was requisite, for, with a deep groan, the robber sank dead upon the floor. The obscurity of the chamber, the sud den destruction caused by the deadly thrust, prevented the ruffians in the outer room from knowing the fate of their com panion. A second presented himself, cross ed the threshold, stumbled against his dead associate, and received the old man's knife in his bosom. The wound, though mortal, was not so fatal as the other, and the ruffi an had time to ejaculate that he was a dead man ! Instantly several shots were fired, but the old gentleman's position sheltered him from the bullets. A third assassin advan ced, leveled a long fowling piece through the doorway, and actually rested the bar rel against the old man's body. The di rection, however, was a slanting one, and with admirable self-possession he remained steady till the murderer drew the trigger, and the ball passed him without injury ; but the flash from the gun unfortunately disclosed the place of his ambush. Then commenced a desperate struggle—the rob ber, a powerful and athletic ruffian, closed and seized his victim around the body— there was no equality between the comba tants with regard to strength, and although the old man struck often and furiously with the knife, the blows were ineffectual, and he was thrown heavily upon the floor with the murderer above him. Even then, at that moment, his presence of mind saved this heroic gentleman. He found that the blade of the knife had turned, and he contrived to straighten it upon the floor. The rufli an's hands were already on his throat— the pressure became suffocating—a few moments more and the contest must have ended ; but an accidental movement of his body exposed the murder's side the old man struck with his remaining strength a deadly blow—the robber's grasp relaxed— and with a yell of mortal agony, lie fell lifeless acros his exhaust d antagonist. Horror-stuck by the death-shriek of their comrades, the banditti wanted courage to enter that gloomy chamber which had been already fatal to so many. They poured au irregular volley in, and leaping through the open window, ran off, leaving their lifeless companions behind. Lights and assistants came presently— the chamber was a pool of gore, and the old man, nearly in a state of insensibility, was covered with the blood, and encom passed by the breathless bodies of his in tended murderers. He recovered, however, to enjoy for years his well-won reputation, and to receive from the Irish viceroy the honor of knighthood, which never was con ferred upon a braver man. CIIII.DREN BITING FINGER NAII.S.—A cor respondent of the Country Gentleman writes : A circumstance has come to my knowledge, in regard to children biting their nails, which I feel in duty bound to make more generally knowu, if possible. Something over a year ago, there died in our neighborhood a bright little girl of seven years—and no one, not even the physicians, could tell what caused her death ; but sometime after, a case came to their knowledge of a child's dying under similar circumstances, on which a post mortem examination was had, and it xvas found that she had bit oft'her linger nails and swallowed them, and they were found sticking in her stomach, which was ulcer ated wherever they stuck. In the case in this neighborhood, the parents had known of her biting her nails, but thought noth ing of it until the other case was told them. They now suppose that was the cause of her death, and these parents, being in school one day, and seeing my little girl of seven years looking pale, and having the nose bleed in school, just as theirs did, they came directly and told us what they had learned. My wife questioned my little girl to know if she bit her nails, and she I said that she did. AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE DEVIL-FISH- In Victor lingo's last romance, there is a graphic description of a combat between the hero of the novel and the devil-fish.— The hero is crab-hunting among the Chan nel Islands : "Above the water level, and within reach of his hand, he observed the horizon tal fissure in the granite. Probably the crab was there. lie thrust in his fist as far as possible, and began to grope in the dark hole. Suddenly he felt himself seized by the arm. The sensation was one of in describable horror. Something thin, tough, flat, ice-cold, glutinous, and living, had twined itself around his arm in the dark, it was mounting to his breast, pressing like a ligature and boring like a gimlet. In less than a second, the strange coil had mastered his wrist and elbow, and touched his shoulder ; the end was burrowing un der his arm-pit. " Gilliatt threw himself backward, but could hardly move ; he seemed to be nailed fast, lie took the knife from between his teeth, in his left hand, and with the lever age of his arm against the rock, made a desperate effort to release the other arm. He only moved the ligature a little, : nd it grew tighter. It was pliable as leather, firm as steel, cold as nigat. " A second tongue-like thong, narrow and pointed, emi-rg d from the crevice of the rock. It lie..- d his naked chest, and suddenly stretching out indefinitely, stuck to his skin and entirely surrounded his whole body. At the same time, all his muscles were contracted with pain like nothing else in the world, as if innumera ble lips, glued to his flesh, were trying to drink his blood. " A third feeler fixes on his ribs ; a fourth on his stomach ; a fifth embraces his neck. Then the assailant's body appears. " Suddenly came up from the bottom of the hole a broad, round, flat, viscid mass, the hub of which the five feelers were the spokes ; on the other side of it might be seen the beginning of three more feelers, concealed by the rock. In the midst of this glutinous mass, were two yes looking at Gilliatt, and he knew it was the devil fish." After which, the reader is kept in sus pense a whole chapter by a description of this "live cupping-glass," which drinks men's blood with iis four hundred suckers. " Such was the being in whose power Gilliatt found himself. He had put his arm into its hole, the devil-fish had caught him. and was holding him as a spider holds a fly. He stood in water up to his waist, iiis feet clinging to the round, slippery peb bles, his right arm tightly imprisoned in the cuiis of the devil-fish, and his b >dy al most hi den by the crossfolds of this hor rid envelope. \\ ith five arms it stuck to him, with three to the rock. " You cannot pull yourself loose from the devil-fish. Gilliatt had but one resource, his knife ! There is no cutting the feelers; their material cannot be separated by steel; besides, it sticks so close that a gash in the feeler would pierce your own skin. It is only vulnerable in the head. " Gilliatt he d his knife firmly. The pres sure of the two hundred and fifty suckers increased He and the monster looked at each other. Suddenly the creature loosen ed his sixth feeler from the rock, and dart ing at (iilliatt, tried to seize his left arm. At the same time it advanced its head. " l>,-.t (Jiiliatt avoided the feeler, and just as tiie devil-fish was on the point <>f biting his breast, his armed hand came ttovvu up on it. There was a convulsive struggle like the meeting of two thunder clouds.— - Gilliatt plunged th • point of his knife into the flat, tough mass, and making a circle around the two eyes with a whirling move ment, lik • the curl of a whip, wrenched oil' the head as a dentist wrenches uut a tooth. " The combat was over. The four hun dred suckers let go their hold of man and rock together, and the whole creature col lapsed and fell like a bundle ol uld linen." FUN, FAUTS AND FACETIAE, IT is reported from Home that the Pope's bull lias got the Rinderpest. HE who can weather the storm need not storm at the weather. A MAN may have a great deal of manner and 110 manners. PUNCH'S caution to young ladies—A silk dress should not be sat-in. A FINE coat may cover a fool, but never conceals one. DISCRETION in speech is greater and bet ter than eloquence. THANKS.—A cobbleronce returned thanks through the newspapers to the fire department for saving his stock, ibis caused great laughter, till a person observed that his stock was his nwL " THEY say 'cotton is declining,'" ex claimed an old lady, as she removed her spectacles and laid down her paper. "I thought so," she continued, "for the last thread I used was very feeble." " 1 AM glad tins coffee don't owe me any thing," said a book-keeper to his wife the other morning at breakfast. "Why so?" was the ques tion. "Because I don't believe it would ever set tle." A CHURCH in Baltimore has its motto up on the outer walls, "To the poor the gospel is preached." One morning these words were found painted under it- "Not here though." A CHILD is never happy from having his own way. Decide for him, and ho has but one thing to do ; put him to please himself, and he is satisfied with nothing. MANY a husband and father, who would kill a fellow-man for lacerating the feelings of his family, lacerates them more himself than all the world besides. IT is observed that the most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having nothing to commend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man envies the merit of an other that has any of his own. CURRAN was asked one day what an Irish gentleman, just arrived in England, could mean by perpetually putting out bis tongue. " I sup pose," said Cnrran. " he is trying to catch the Enj link accent." PRIDE is as cruel a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When yon have bought one fine thing you must buy ten more that youV appearance may be of a piece. It is easier to sup press the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. A DRUNKARD, upon hearing that the earth was round, said that accounted for his rolling about so much. A " BREVET husband " is the tittle now given to men who are not married, but ought to be] per Annum, in Advance. AFFAIRS IN THE SOUTH. IN a report to the Chamber of' Commerce, which was read and ordered to be printed, Thomas W. Conway, late Assistant Com missioner of the Freedmen's Bureau in Louisiana,says the feeling he has found pre vailing in the North toward the South among merchants and business men is al most universally one of kindness and fra ternal interest. The willingness to aid planters either by loans of money, advances in crops, or by purchase of lands, is gener al. The agricultural year began with a readiness on the part of the North to lend as much money as the Southern planters needed to bring back their former prosperi ty. The substantial men whom he met think it possible to end present uncertainty, and that, united with the largest mercy to the rebels of the South, there ought to be the largest justice to her loyalists. THE FEELING OF THE PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH TO WARD THE NORTH. lii writing upon this subject, Mr. Conway says : It will be easily understood, from the spirit and temper of the business men of the North, how much good the South might derive from the exercise of a similar disposition. There was no impediment thrown in the way of investing Northern capital in Southern tillage and traffic so far as the men capable at the North of making such investments were concerned. They were ready and anxious. But unfortunate ly for the South (whose planters by every mail, and by means of large numbers of agents sent for the purpose, were calling lor hfclpj, her temper of hatred for the Northern people had not abated sufficiently, nor was there a sufficient restoration of peace and order within her borders to justi fy Northern men in the belief that they could live and safely transact business in any section of the South. While many good men were there to be found ready to welcome citizens of any portion of the Un ion among them, yet the mob element so far preponderated, and the spirit of reck c-ssness and lawlessness was so generally manifested, that every wheel was blocked. But few (out of large uumbers) settled iu the South. I presume I may safely calcu late that under my own influence and exer tions, tareo millions of dollars were taken by respectable men into various Southern Slates, from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, with a view to its being there invested in purchases of land, in loans or advances to planters, and in other ways. To my cer tain knowledge, most of the holders of these funds have returned v ith the conviction that Northern men of unmistakable loyalty are not safe excepting where Union bayo nets secure them protection. I know of some instances wherein men were threatened with murder if they did not quit tiie Southern neighborhood within a certain ! ngtliof time, and others in which parties were treated by the people with such contempt as to fill them with disgust and cause them to make a rapid return to regions where they could feel that to be a loyal American citizen, instead of attract ing indignation, was something to be proud of. There would seem to he no general re turn of the Southern people to loyalty or devotion to the Federal Government. The people evince a strong hatred of Northern men, and of the government, even when by so doing their farms are left to grow up in weeds, and themselves must bear hardships of the worst kind. I met men in Louisiana a nd A! thaina a short time since, who rath er titan 11 their lands to Nort!tern men, or work them by means of money borrowed in the North, would see them lie waste. A few have told me that befote they would hire their former slaves as free laborers, they would starve. This spirit is not gen eral, but the spirit of hatred toward North ern men is almost universal. Northern money is welcome enough, but rather than have Northern men as its managers and investors among them, 1 am quite settled in the conviction that these Southerners would rather utterly forego the funds, it matters not what sufferings such conduct might entail upon themselves and their region. Emigrants from the North, instead of be ing welcomed, have been driven away ; and most of those who have returned will not again attempt to invest their capital in that direction. Some of those who went South, and who have as yet remained, write me that as soon as they have gathered this year's crop, they will return to the North. They complain that the civil offices are nearly all filled by men who are disloy al, and that law is administered with a bias of partiality for Southern as against North ern men. This representation 1 know to he corr ct so far as my own observation has gone. Throughout Louisiana there is sim ply one rule observed in the tilling of civil offices. It is that none but rebels shall be in office, and many of the Federal appoin tees to offices have in a great measure as sisted in the adoption of this principle in stead of meeting it with united, avowed, and unfaltering opposition and condemna tion. What is true of Louisiana is true of the entire South, so far as my information enables me to judge, and nearly four years nnd-a-half spent mainly among the people of the Gulf States might be supposed to qualify me to form something which should approach a correct judgment in the case. Tn the third place, allow me to allude to the subject of LABOR AND THE FREEDMEN. The Southern people have, many of them, been looking to and laboring for the exter mination of the black race from this coun try. This 1 say knowing whereof I affirm. Gov. Wells of Louisiana told me not long ago that he hoped very soon to see the blacks gradually driven from the country ; and that he believed them doomed to dis appear from among us, aud that, too, at a very early day. This statement Gov. Wells has repeated to others several times. Ex-Gov. Sharkey t>f Mississippi told me the same thing a short time ago in Washington, and has repeated the statement, under oath, before the Committee on lieeoustruetion, as has already appeared in the public journals. A conviction like this cannot serve any good purpose. It is mischievous in itself; it tends to mischief; and men are mis chievous who disseminate it. From this view springs had treatment of the blacks. The idea that the freedmen ought to be driven out, associates itself with the belief that they will be ; and then arises the idea that it is not wrong to hasten the period of their extermination, by the inlliction of as much cruelty as possible : and so the freed men are treated harshly, unmercifully, un justly. The public mind is not informed of the one-hundredth part of the wrongs en dured by the patient freedmen. Were these wrongs known to good men of every creed or party, as they ought to be, a storm of indignant vengeance would fall upon the authorities that allow them, or attempt to cover them ; and the department of the government created for the especial pro tection of these freedmen, would be streng thened for good, instead of being strangled to gratify those who, in the South, nurse this haughty hatred, and practice these sav age outrages. So long as the owners of laud in the South strive to exterminate the freedmen, so long must labor be uncertain and irreg ular in its activities, unproductive and un reliable as to its results. lam convinced that, as things now are in the South, the products of that section will be found to decrease, while the lands remain in the hands of Southern men, because of the wrongs they inflict upon the labor they em ploy, and these wrongs will diminish or ut terly cease .only in the ratio that new men, more just to their laborers, enter the coun try to settle aud till it. It is as certain as that day follows the ni ht, that peace and prosperity will come to the South only in the train of, and by the operation of just laws assuring equality before the law to the rights of all classes, and banishing the present reign of lawlessness and savagery. The Freedmen's Bureau, under the com mendable administration of Maj.-Gen. How ard, is the only source of protection enjoy ed by the Freedmen, and were this means withdrawn, it is my belief that the condi tion of the Southern people, black and white, would be rnauy fold worse than it is. If good men, acting upon the principle that it is always best to do right, but uplift a united voice to the National government, demanding such legislation as will end this reign of gloom and iniquity at the South, which now shame and disgrace us, we may confidently expect such a stream of nation al prosperity as we have never before had. And no class have the interest, or have tin light to act with more energy in this mat ter, than the merchants, traders and man ufacturers of our country. Cotton will nev er come from the South in such quantities as our condition needs until the labor that produces it has as much justice and pro tection as the capital that supplies that la bor. THE COTTON CROP OF THIS YEAR. This, so far as the best information which I have been able to gather from Northern and Southern men extends, will range nigh the sum of 2,500,000 bales. Had Northern men been allowed to enter the South, ami to live there in peace, there would have been another million of bales added to this estimate. As it is, enterprise has been paralyzed, and industry has waited the re turn of order and security. The causes for this small crop, as represented by many government officers, and by loyal citizens resident in the South, are the overflow of some sections by breaks in the levees, the worthlessness of the cotton seed in others, and the want of means with which to em ploy laborers. OPINION'S OF BRITISn CAPITALISTS. After giving in these terms the result of his investigations in this country, Mr Con way devotes some space to the views of British capitalists. He says they have de termined to wait until the capitalists of the North invest money in the South before they will attempt to invest theirs. They regard the people of the South as unsettled, unhappy, and hostile to the national au thority ; the lawlessness and disorder to be found there makes life and property in secure, and the treatment of the freedmen such as to render the laboring class discon tented and dissatisfied. They also affirm that under the weight of oppressive local laws, ostensibly against vagrants, but real ly oppressing the freemen, and the exer cise of a violent prejudice on the part of former masters, the newly enfranchised bondmen might move in large numbers aud by sudden migration to other sections <>• the country in quest aud hope <>f better treatment, and that for these reasons tin labor of the South would be so uncertain that all investments entangled in it migli' be lost rapidly and utterly. The report closes with the following par agraph : " I now believe all efforts tend ing iu the direction marked out by the res olution of the Chamber, and by various companies of Northern men, are, under the present mood of the Southern mind, likeh to be wasted upon a people who hate the North, the Union, and the freedmen, almost as intensely as they did when the rebellion was in its full career. I may here state that I have consulted several of the presi dents of compauies organized for the pur pose of encouraging and assisting South ern planters and farmers, aud chat they in form me that the infatuation and exaspera tion of the Southern people, their persist ent hatred of Northern men, and their in justice to the freedmen have, as a class in their judgment, also rendered efforts com paratively fruitless and nugatory, until tin mind of the South shall h ve reached a more settled and kindly state, or the chap ter of events have, in God's wise and good providence, evolved new aud more promis ing conditions for the classes that toil and the classes that rule throughout the South ern portion of our common country." A LADY applied to Reynolds, the philan thropist, in behalf of an orphan. After In had given very liberally, she said : "When he is old enough, I will teach him to name and thank his benefactor." "Stop, "said the good man, "thou art mistaken ; we do not thank the clouds for rain. Teach him to look higher, and thank him who givetli the clouds aud the rain." A " warm meal " in New Mexico consists of two crackers dipped in peppersance. Simple, but not calculated to become popular. A NOSEGAY is easily obtained. Four brandy toddies a day will soon put you in the w ay of one that will astonish all your frieuds. ON a fence in Berkshire is painted in glaring capitals : " Use Dr. Prior's Cough bal sam and just below : " buy your gravestones in Pittafield." AN old lady being asked to subscribe for a newspaper, declined, on the ground that when she wanted news she manufactured it. MRS. PARTINGTON asks, very indignantly, if the bills before Congress are uot counterfeit, why there should be so much difficulty in passing them ? PLATO being told that he had many ene mies who spoke ill of him. said : "It is no matter ; I will live so that none shall believe them." Hearing that an intimate friend of his had spo ken detractingly of him, he said : "I am sure lie would not do it, if he had not some reason for it." WHEN Auaximander was told that the very boys laughed at his singing : "Ay," said lie. "then 1 must sing better." A fool in high station is like a man in a balloon : everybody appears little to him, and he appears little to everybody. MEMORY tempers prosperity, mitigates ad versity, controls youth and deiigats old age. NUMBER 7.