IJ THE ELK ADVOCATE, I " A LOCAt AND GENERAL 1TEW8PAPEH, n Ilalos of' Atl vei-tisiuyr. Adm'rsand Exeeuto'-'g Notices, each b tunes S 2 'iff Auditor' Notices, each . 2 M Transient advertising, per square of iu lines or less, s times or less in For each subsequent insertion " Professional cards, 1 year o ih gtaf.VU subscriptions to be rmid in ad Special notices, per line 1 Obituary and Mm riage Notices, each 1 t" vance. Orders for Job Work respectfully MllH'lflMl. l early Advertising, one square JO I M Yearly Advertising, two squares 15 Yeai'y Adver'ing three squares SNl t Yearly Advertising, J column 2"l" Yearly Advertising, J column .""i " Yearly Advertising, 1 column ti'j -t Advertisements displayed more than l)uOfllcc on Main Street, in the second ul.iru ..r f. o Is l'ubHshed Every Thursday. 5S?f fti ' jrfffi' IS Al ffiY rf ( Address JOHN G. HALL, EDITOR & I'ROPUIETOH . SELECT STORY. JOHN GL HALL, Editor. J. F. MOORE, Publisher. TEIMtS 1 50 Fer War in Advance. HIIfG1iil JPJEJtVfVl., .f !, 19 Is, 186G. I'OtlVTK 6 .VlVTJJICft 9. ordinarily will be charged for at the rate (pir coiumn;ol VU o A CHECK FOB A CAEPET. " And how about the carpet." Pretty little Mrs. Mary Lane spoke eoaxingly, with her hands clasped on Iter husband's arm. He looked down at her a moment before ho answered Hhe had teen ms wuo ior live years, but her face was as sunny and os girlish as when he first wooed her. Her blue eyes had scarcely shed a tear in all those vears, except the. lazy, luxurious tears such happy little souls weep over the ideal woes ol story-book heroines Her monthly rose in the French window was not pinker than her checks her scarlet geranium was not brighter or redder than her lips and the pel cana. ry chirping above the blossoms was uo payer or merrycr than the littlo bird like woman who waited for John Lane's answer. He smiled as he looked at her. tttid brushed back her soft, brown hair with an unconscious tenderness. " Yes, about the caipct, Annie. If 1 tho't we needed it, I would tret it, of course. But we use the drawing room so little. The carpet that is on it now is almost as bright as it was the day we chose it, and you know how pretty we both thought it then. The girlish young wife pouted her dainty lip " Well, John, but it has been down five years, and it is only nice because I've taken such nice care of it. If I'd been careless and let it get spoiled, vuu'd have got another without gruni. Llitig, you know you would. It's too bad, if I've got to sec things round for. ever, just because I'm careful of them. Pon't you get tired of seeing the same things always, John. 'Not easily, so long as they arc the same fresh and bright as ever. I am not tired ot you, yet ! She laughed, and her pink checks flushed a little. " 15ut I'm not a carpet. Ours is only a Brussels, you know, and I did so want a M ilton, like Mrs. Mayne's. " So Mrs. Mayne is the serpent in our Eden ? Well, Annie, give me till night to think ot it," aud he bent toward her fur his good bye. Alter he had gone, she went into the drawing-room, nnd took a survey of her possessions. The enrpet was that soft, many-shaded moss-like green, on which everything looks so well. She confes. sed to.hcrself that it had a more refined air than Mrs. Mayue's large-figured Wilton, which held your gaze like the eve ot the ancient mariner, from the moment vou entered the room. But then, she thought, she needn't buy a great guady thing ; and a uton was rcallv so much more in keeping with her rosewood and brocatcllc. Then she bean dustin-' some of her books and - -o w ornaments. While she stood there she heard the bell ring, and a short parley at the door, a child's voice, apparently asking for food, and the cook's answer that to.day thorn was nothins to spare. A sound in the voung sad voice, a sort of uncou ulaining hopelessness, struck her, and she stepped down stairs just as Bridget was about to shut ttie door. " Come back a moment, littlo girl," she said, in those gentle tones that John Lane liked bo well to hear. The child turned, an eager light com ing into her face for a moment, and then going out. Mrs. Lane was acting on impulse. She almost always did: it was a good thing, therefore, that most of her impulses were sweet and gentle and true " Are you hungiy ?" she asked, pity ltislv. " It doesn't matter so much about nte ma'am. I could bear to be hungry, but I do not know what to do for my mother. I have tried to find a place to work, but no one will take me. They say a child ten years old is more plague than profit Mother had to work so hard to keep us. and low she has been sick a while, and she can't work, and so we have eaten up everything. So I came out to see anybody would give me something for mother, and I've asked at every house in the street, and everywhere they said just the game, and that they had noth ing to-day. "Where do you live is it far?" Mrs. Lane asked. " Only a few steps, ma'am three streets off Well, then, 1 Ji go nome with you and see vour mother. Come into the house, while I pot on my bonnet, and Bridget will give vou some bread au butter and cold meat. Mrs. Lane's sweet young face was full of pity, as sho hurriedly packed a basket with bread and tea and sugar for the sick mother. Then she ran up stairs and tied on her pretty summer hat, and down again while the hungry girl was finishing her breakfast. " Come little girl," she said, " what is your name : " Ellen Stanton ; but my father al. ways called me Nelly, and so does mother." " And is your father dead V " Oh, yes ! that's the way our trouble b cgan. Father died, and mother wasn't used to hard work and she had to work so hard to keep the baby and me." Mrs. Lane asked no more questions, just then. She was thinking more seri ously than 6he hod ever thought in her life, remembering how she had been born to ease and luxury, shielded all her days from care how her deepest discontent had been when some other fersou's carpet was handsomer, or their ndian phawl had a deeper border. And now she was going where hunger aud sorrow were tenants. Had she been living all this timo for herself J She questioned, with a sudden pang of ter ror and self-reproach, whether ever in her life 6he had done really one unsel fish act whether, if the great harvest day were come she would htive one sheaf to show to the master. She had given oi her abundance now and then,' of course, when charitable subscriptions had been presented to her ; but she had thought it a bore and a burden, not a privilege. Of her own accord, what srood had she ever done what man, woman or child was there to rise up and call her blessed. " Here we are, ma'am," said the little child, breaking the silence. It was a two-story, wooden house be fore which they had stopped. They weut up stairs, and the little girl open ed a door. Mother," she said, " a lady has come home with me to see you a kind lady, who has given me my breakfast and brought you yours." Mrs. Lane stood a moment on the threshold of the room, and took in such a picture as in her young happy life she had never seen bctore. me apaitment was almost baro of furniture no carpet was on the floor there was only the bed, the chairs and a table. But every, thing was as neat as hands could make it ; against the wall, at the foot of the bed, hung a framed photograph the portrait ot a man with kind, honest eyes, the features ot which the child Ellen's were almost a copy. " I have come, Mrs. Lane said, with the sweet grace which had made her a welcome guest in far different scenes, "to see if I could arrange something for your comfort : but, first of all, you must 7 . . l. tl l have some toast and tea, and giving icr littlo guide some money, she scut her out to procure fuel, and sat down herself, in the meantime, beside the ben where the sick woman lay, with her baby asleep upon her am. The wan, pale face upon the pillows was not bcautitul Aunie Lane could not be sentimental or romantic about this wo man could by no means idcalizo her into a heroine. Yet there was some thing good and true in her expression, and when she turned to place the baby more comfortably, a light glow ot moth. er-love illumined her features until they were better than pretty. Mrs. Lane was not long in learning her history. She had been used all her days to self-dependence. Bcfoie she was mar ried she had worked a sewing machine in a shoo, and she understood the busi ness thoroughly. But when James Stanton married her she had given it up, Ho was a good mechanic, a carpenter, his wages kept them comlortably. 1 hey had not laid up much, however, for dur. ing the eleven years ot their marriage three children beside the two she had left now, had come and gone poor. feeble little things that cost a great deal for doctors and medicine. Ihen just before the last baby came, a scaffoldin had given way where her husband was at work he had lallcn lroiu the tourtb story of a house and had been brought home to her dead. She had sold almost all her furniture, and got along by that means until she was able to be about, and then she had left baby with Ellen, and gone out today's work of washing and cleaning. It was labor for which she was not strong enough, but it was the only occupation she could get, and after a while "she had taken a severe cold, and grown so ill that she could not go out at all. They had eaten up every thing they had ; and this morning, for the first time, she had sent Ellen out to try to get something somewhere to keep them alive until she could work i ...... . i , aain. " And it must nave Deen uoa ma'am, that sent her to you," she con eluded. Mrs. Lane, helpless, pretty littlo thin, scarcely knew what to say. Her heart beat with tumultuous throbs of pity-her eyes were full of tears; in all her sunny hie she had never been brought in con tact with actual, gaunt misery and desti tution. At last a thought occurred to hor. and rIia litiprpd it. aifirlv If you only had a Bewing machine now, you could take work home when you get better, ceuldn't jou, and sup port yourselt and the children so very nicely X me woman sighed a deep, uncon scious sigh of heartfelt longing. "Yes. ma'am. I could. Vint vnn L-nnw that that's an impossibility it I can never get one. 1 11 be only too thauklul if cin get well enough to go out again by the day. If I don't, I don't know what will become of the children. "But God knows," whispered Mrs. Lane, softly. " He pities us, you know, as a father pities his children." Then came Ellen with coal and kind, lings, and the subject was not alluded to again. When their five o'clock dinner was over, that afternoon, John Lane went gaily into the sitting room with his wife. He had a pleasant surprise tor her, and ho laid it in her lap, in the shape of a check for two hundred dollar?. "There humming-bird," ho said, lightly, " there's for your carpet. Busi ness has prospered this year, and what is it good for but to mako home pleasant, and wife happy V She turned her face and touched her lips silently to the kind hand resting on her shoulder. Perhaps John wasdisap. pointed that she expressed her pleasure so quietly. He had a merry exulta tion, her delighted chat about colors and patterns. Her new mood surpri. sed him. He sat down beside her gravely, and waited for her to speak. She told him the story of her day, leaving out nothing. He could see how deeply she had been moved, by the color which came and went on her checks, the tears which gathered unhee ded in her eyes. When she was all through, she said hesitatingly "John we are happy, aren t we . " Yes, dear." " And we owe something, don't we to those who arc less so ? Think, John, f I had lost you as she lost her husband ! And if I had not only lost you, but had, afterwards, no way to live ?" fehe paused, as if for encouragement, but she received none. John Lane was begiuning to get a glimpse of a new phase iu his little wife's character, and he meant she should bring out her own ideas unaided. She began to fear that she could not interest him. fahe went on timidly enough, but very earnestly. " A tiartot two hundred dollars. John. would buy that woman the necessaries which would make her comfortable, and she would soon be well again, for her disease is only the result of exposure and over-work. Then the rest ot it would buy her a sewing machine and she could get along nicely with that. she wouldn t need any more help. fctill Mr. Lane was silent, and she drew a little nearer to him, and began smoothing his big fingers with her own little ones. " I know, John, dear," she said coax- ingly, " that two hundred dollars would be too much to ask you for iu any one charity but I have so set my heart on really and substantially helping this poor bereft woman. Our drawing- room carpet really looks very nicely you know you thought it would do this morning, and it, just this once, I might have two hundred dollars to do this good deed with, and keep the old car pet down, it would make me so happy, Just think, John, that poor widow, and those little children would Bay your name every day in their prayers, and they would be made comibrtablo for life. May I, John ? " John Lane bent down and kissed the tender, eager face. I'm afraid his eyes were too dim just then to Bee all its brightness. "Are you sure, dear, that you would be satisbed with the old carpet f "Uuite sure, John, it shall last as long as the Mriltou would. Oh, John, never did any good in my life. Let me do this little now !" "Ami1, you shall." " I hat great, wanly heart was too full just then for many word-), but by the hrm clasp which held her so tender ly, Annie Lane knew that her husband was not displeased. she carried out all her plans. By August Mrs. btauton was well again and the sewing machine stood at the window of her comfortably furnished room. To her the face of Annie Lane seemed like the face of an angel God's messenger she has indeed been to the widow and the fatherless. I think there is oao woman whose heart will never be moved to envy by irilton carpets or wide-bordered shawls, since she has tasted the luxury of doing good John Lane loved her well when she was his gay, laughing child wife : but he loved her now with a holier, deeper tenderness that reaches through time and takes hold on eternity. JttayA man stopping his paper, wrote to the editor : " I think tolkes ottcnt spend their munny fur paper, my daddy dident and evrybody says he wus the most intellygentest man in the kuntry and hed the smartest family of bois that everdugged tutors. A lady who was very sick, was recently cured by using the following prescription : A new bonnet, a cash mere shawl, aud a new pair of gaiter boots. loyArtetnus Hard s success in a town in Wisconsin was not satisfactory. His agent took 82 87 at the door and Artcmus took tho measles inside. POLITICAL. From the Round Table. A ntERCH VIEW 07 TEE NEGRO. Among the most valuable, if not tho most attractive, periodicals published in Paris is the ' Annates des Voyages, de la Geographic, de 1'Histoire, et de rArcheologie." Established in 1808, it is approaching the sixtieth year of its existence. Its editor, M. Malte- Brun, bears a name which is widely and honorably associated with geographical studies and researches, aud not a few of the French savans are, from time to time, found among the contributors to its pages. In the January number of this periodical we observe an article by Count Adolphe de Circourt, which is not without a special interest for Amer. ican readers at the present moment. It is a critical analysis of Burton's mission to the King of Dahomey. Mr. Burton is well known to us all as ono of the most intrepid explorers as well as one of the most popular writers of the day. lie was sent by Lord llussell a few years ago to attempt to induce the King of Dahomey to abolish the horrid cus tom of human sacrifices, which has so long prevailed among those barbarous negroes. In giving an account of this mission, Mi. Burton could not fail to express himself fully and strongly in regard to the African race, its moral and intellectual traits, and its capacities for self-government and . self-develop- mcnt. His conclusion seems to have been that the negro was little better than a beast of burden, prepared by na ture for doing the work of races more elevated in the scale ot creation. M. de Circourt, in his brief but excellent arti cle, resists this conclusion, claims for the negro the essentiul elements of hu manity, and demands from others a re spect tor his fundamental rights. At the same time, however, ho is not less cmphatio in opposing the idea that the negro is fitted for taking part in govern ing a tree country, or for enjoying and exercising those privileges and preroga tives which have heretofoie belonged exclusively to the white race in our land. The views of so distinguished and able a writer are worthy ot being con sidercd by ail who take an interest in tho subject. M. de Circourt is well known to not a few of our scholars and statesmen as a person of great intelli gence and accomplishments. In the variety and accuracy ot his information he bus few equals among modern French writers. Uis contributions to the mag azincs both of France and of the conti ncnt arc frequent and elaborate, and em brace a wide range ot subjects, moral, political, literary and historical. We are sure that our readers will thank us for giving them the following transla tion oi that part ot M. de Circourt s ar ticle which relates to the vexed ques tion which now agitates our country. It is certainly far better entitled to at tention than tbrn the flippant utteranc es of his juvenile compatriot, whose " Eight Months iu tho United States " has lurnisbed occasion lor so many un worthy personalities : " The population ol Dahomey, in res pect to language, is a family by itself, quite distinct from the Akreens and the Acnantis, who are its neighbors on the west ; from the Haoussanis, who are on its north : and lrom the Ibbooes and Egbos, who press upon its eastern side The physical type of this race and its intellectual constitution class it most decidedly among the pure, woolly.haired negroes, with all the peculiarities in the shape of the head which distinguish the Atrican. Now, what is the place ot this race in nature and especially in humanity ' Mr. Burton has not shrunk from attempting the solution of this problem, lie devotes to it the most piquant and one of the most inter esting chapters of his work. We shall not, however, adopt his conclusions, notwithstanding the evident advantage he derives from an actual knowledge of ibe country which he describes, and from his rare perspicuity in discerning .u- v p.k v,;m. mo Kuamwiay, mo pu.a.wuo u.v,u be visits. Evidently, to his eyes, the negro is only an instrument ot labor, de signed by nature to lighten the burden of existence to races more elevated in the sct.le of existence. We think, on the contrary, that the essential traits of humanity are found in the negro in a manner to exact from our race a respect for the fundamental rights of these At. rican populations. That which essen' tially constitutes the man is less exterior form than instinct, less instinct than in telligence, less intelligence than morali ty. Now morality reposes in the con science. That of the negro can bo awa kened, and when the image of truth is presented to it it makes a powerful ef- lartta embrace it-a certain si-n that it fort to embrace it a certain sign that it participates in the divine oiigin of hu manity. it is true that in the state in which we find these DODulations still left to their own unaided resources this morality lies dormant, or shows itself Derverted by abominable superstitions. It is ouite certain that of themselves theso negro societies, when they emerge f rom a state of brutal anarchy, have not power to establish anything better than the grossest despotism. Nothing indi. catcs that in the course of ages, if these races remain isolated, they could suc ceed in any sort of self development. All their civilization must come from with. out, and be the gift of races more favor ed of Heaven. But these other races have hitherto abused this superiority by a conduct towards the Africans so cruel and perfidious as to involve themselves in a fearful responsibility : and we in our day are witnessing the first ven geance which Providence in its inflexi ble justice is wreaking upon this con. duct. Let us hasten to turn aside this just retribution by doing all in Our pow. er to enlighten the minds nnd rolieve the social condition of the blacks. This duty fulfilled (and our own security will demand that it should be thorough, ly doneV it would be to fall wantoniy in to an illusion refuted by all the vcrifii. cations of science to attribute to the ne gro race an intellectual power, foice of invention, or a capacity of development equal or even analogous to our own race, or even others less well endowed, as the Mongols, the Dravidas, and the Malays, have received from Providence. The teachings of our race are indispen. sable in order to render fruitlul in the negroes the csseutial elements of hu manity which they possess. Their civ ilization is nothing, and can be nothing but a reflection of ours ; it becomes less and less imperfect exactly as it ap proaches ncarei to an absolute copy and as every vestige of their primitive insti. tutions is obliterated, it seems, indeed, extremely doubtful whether in a society AXfthisivnlv nprrrn thn pvntin nlnnf nf civilization could preserve itself from - o . I a rapid degeneration ' neration unless it were con. stantly sustained and refreshed by contact with European elements. The negro soon comes to a stop in his intel lectual development, and retrogrades with fearful facility if the course of his studies is interrupted. He oscillates, as it were instinct, between a careless an nroThv nnd a Hnannt'cm nrmnA until ilia -.UJ,..U.U ... vv inns rvhnrh int nrornnnHtrna nFvh x i the first is the regulation and enforce- - . SI - I mentof labor. In tocietut where the .. i... .;,;. .. t(CV I Vtl. ro H L o iy OlHtf tvum i ;. i..,i,,n.,, r.f rioht'lo that race which alone can main- tain and advance civilization, io re- verso this providential order would be the work of a fanaticism which the memory of recent and even still existing iniquities renders but too easily intelli. giblc, and which, as its final result, can produce only the most lamentable con sequences, especially for tho negro race itselt. From the TUVa Age. CALIFORNIA AND THE MONBOE DOCTBHTE. The permanent occupationn of Mexi co by the French, or even a French protectorate over that country, has al. ways met a determined opposition in California. The people of that State do not relish the idea of having a monarchy established on their borders, from which agents can easily be sent to disturb their peace and tranquility. hen the Spanish authority over all the country lying between what is now the northern line of New Mexico and the southern frontier of Mexico proper, was abolish ed, it was dedicated to republicanism To be sure the Mexicans passed lrom one revolution to another, but they were aU struggles towards the great idea ot a popular form of government. One frag ment separated entirely lrom the main body, aud by a revolution enected a State organization. This State soon gravitated towards .the Confederated States of this republic, and Texas be came a portion of the American Union From that period until the trench troons were landed upon the sou ol Mexico, the idea ot a more liberal and enlightened system of political lule steadily increased, and the opposition to French usurpation now maniiested in Mexico is a convincing proot ot the de votion of the people to a separate at.d . r-.r r d,st,nct nationality But French bayonets have broken down the old Mexican republic and established a monarchy io that country, upon the throne ot which sits Man. milian, one of the Hapsburgs, a family celebrated for ultra despotic tendencies. This state of things is sought to be made permanent by French military power, and against this attempt the Legislature of California has remonstrated by the following resolution recently adopted by that body by an almost unanimous vote : lieiolved, That the ocenpancy of Mexico by any European power, or the permanent establishment of a monarchy in Uat couu y. being dangerous to our peace ana should not be consenUd to by the beinir dangerous to our peace and government of the United States under any circumstances whatever; and it is the opiu- ioo of this Legislature that our national coverninent should prevent any European power front interfering with the affairs of Mexico, ana mat u is me imperative uuij of the government to prevent the establish meut of a monarchy in that country ogainst the wl"hes pf the people tucrcoJ. Ths preamble to this resolution set forth, in the language of President Monroe, that the attempt oi foreign powers to extend their peculiar system to any portion of this hemisphere, i dangerous to the peace and safety of this republic, and hence all such at tempts should be opposed promptly and firmly. . This is the broad ground ci which the authorities of California stand, when urging upon the general govcrnmcut tho duty and necessity ot preventing the establishment of a nion. archy in Mexico against the wishes of the people. They contend that if tho Monroe doctrine was just, and right, and necessary, when it was first promul. gated, it is doubly so at this time, when the very state of things against which it was pointed has taken place. A foreign power has forced its peculiar system upon tho people of a portion of this hemisphere without their consent. and now it is asked that the policy upon which we havo so long insisted shall bo made effective. But California has another reason to oppose French supremacy in Mexico. Napoleon has for years speculated upon the best manner ot opening communica tion between the two oceans through tho Central American States. When a prisoner in the Fortress ol Ham this dream haunted him, and he wrote a treatise upon the subject. At a subsc. qucnt period an agent of the rrench government interfered and prevented a ... . . . i i trausit line trom being cstaDiisncu wnicn would have been controlled by Ameri can influence. As the canal across tho Isthmus of Suez is intended to, control the trade of Europe in that direction, so is a line of communication from the At lantic to the Pacific ocean meant to r c t- . : , operate in iavor oi rreucu luicirau. iu is hemisphere. With Maximilian on I.. . n r 1 1.- u An.l the throne of Mexico, and French and Austrian troops quartered in all parts of the empire, the smaller States on tho 1SIUIUU3 WHi ' into adopting any policy which Napo leon may suggest or desire. Under such circumstances any communication opened between the oceans will be cn. i . lirClV Unaer rrUUCU ruiu uuu iuuuvuvd. They will regulate the trade, and all 1 . Til 1... I tl, B lnnK discrimination win uu iu mm This will make trench supremacy on . - tho Pacific complete, and hence the do termined opposition manifested by Cali- forniatothe Napoleonic movement in Mexico. Separated as California U from the balance of the Union, she must depend upon this transit route for aid and assistance in case of war with a foreign nation, and with that avenue shut up or governed by a European pow. er her situation would be most pern, ous. With ull these facts to stir the peo. pie of California to action, no wonder their Legislature insists upon a practi cal application of the Monroe doctrine. They neither wish in time of peace to be troubled with the machinations of secret agents of a despotic power stir, ring up discontent among the half civilized inhabitants of some portions of the Stato, nor in case of a war to be cut off from all communication with the Atlantio States by a stoppage of the Isthmus route. These are grave con siderations and demand serious attention from the national authorities. Napo leon talks in a diplomatic manner about a withdrawal of French troops from Mexico, but they still remain; and m the meantime his agents are operating in all tho Central American States, and thus he is obtaiuing a hold on the Isth. The use to be made of French . . i : J power and supremacy in mtiiw u- further south, is what ha3 alarmed tho dwellers on the Pacific coast, aud henco the earnest appeal to the general gov ernment coutained in the resolution adopted by the Legislature of Calilor. nia. ls-A punctual man is rarely a poor man, and never a iuau ui uuuuw ful credit. His small accounts are ftc. qucntly settled, and he never meets with difficulty in raising money to pay iaij;a demands. Small debts neglected ruin credit and when a man has lost that be will find himself at the bottom ot a hill he cannot ascend. ISJ-George N. Sanders, of rebel no toriety, and accused ot being an acues. " .. ..c : ,.., t- sory to the assassiuauou oi i lomutuu Lincoln, has been arresteu in uouuuu fur debt. He seems to have waiweu iuto the good graces of his frieuds to the extent of about 850,000. Sn,,thnrn(r are buving nice res idences in the fashionable parts of Bos. ton. Over twenty first-class houses there have lately been purcuaseu ,,.i,nrnfii-s. who say they made for- tunes during the war and have coma North to invest it. Th Maine Democratic convention, which metin Portland on Friday, nomi nated Mr. Kelly of VoWca county tor Governor. -Subscrihe for tie Advocate.
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