A Journal for the People. Devoted to the Interests of Humanity. Indepsndent in Politics and Religion. Alive to all Live Issues, and Thoroughly Radical in Opposing and Exposing the Wrong of the Masses. TERMS, IN ADVANCE: One year ?3 00 ..175 - 1 00 six monins- Three months.. Correspondents wrltingover assumed signa tures must make known their names to the Editor, or no attention will be given to theii communications. ADVERTISEMENTS Inserted on Reasonable Terms. voivcnaEE vi. POBTLAND, OBEGON, FKIDAT, APRIL S7, 1877. NUMBER 33. UBS. A. J. DUXIWAY. tditor and Proprietor. OFFIOE-Coe. Frost fc Washington Streets Free Speech, Fees Press, Free People. EDNA AND JOHN: A Romance or Idaho Flat. Br Mrs. A.J. DUXIWAY, AUTHOR OF "JUDITH REID," "ELLEN MffD," "AMIE AXD HENRY LEE," "THE HAPPY HOME," "ONE WOMAN'S SPHERE, "MADGE MORRISON," ETC, ETC, ETC Entered, according to Act of Congress, In the year 1876, by Mrs. A. J. Duniway, In the office ol the Librarian of Congress at Washington City. Woman's degraded, helpless position Is the weak point of our Institutions to-day a dis turbing force everywhere, severing family ties, filling our asylums with the deat, the dumb, the blind, our prisons with criminals, our cit ies with drunkenness and prostitution, our homes with disease and death. National Cen tennial Equal Rights Protest. CHAPTER XIX. Ten days of weary marching over the sandy sage plalus, swimming across the rapid streams, and climbing precipitous acclivities, and John Smith and Jim Young, "bankers," had reached Lewis ton and settled themselves at "busi ness." Critical reader, we will spare you. Should we undertake to initiate you into the mysteries of any of the tricks of the sporting fraternity, we should fail, for we could give uo detail from personal knowledge, and some of you would be sure to detect the counterfeit. Again, did we know exactly what these men were doing, and precisely how they did it, we should not sully these pages with a repetition, for no good would come of it so long as women are not law-makers. It your neighbor gets the stnall-poz, you, as a physician, do not shake his infected garments in the air and under the nostrils of your friends; so, when alluring crimes of any kind are com mitted, unless by publishing the facts you are enabled to warn others to keep away from the scene of dauger, you should not scatter the details broadcast, lest bysodoing you make the contagion general. Suffice it to say that for six or seven months, during the entire cold season after their departure from Idaho Plat, the two adventurers eked out a precarious existence as professional gamblers. Nobody knew that John Smith had a wife and children, and, in truth, nobody cared. "Why, indeed, should the public mind be interested in such a subject? Were not women supported and protected by men ? And wasn't that enough to con tent the entire sisterhood with their di vinely appointed sphere? Then, too, do not many women who happen to be fortunately situated in spite of the laws and usages that cousign many others to lives of poverty and uncongenial toil others who, but for such laws and usages, could rise to comfortable cir cumstances themselves do not mauy independent or wealthy women forge the chains of the oppressed through their own selfishness ? There is little guessing what the out come with our adventurers might have been had not a vigilance committee ap peared upon the scene and checked the gambling laws for a season. John Smith was not sufficiently adept in Jow cunning to evade the rigor of border vigilance. Besides, his "luck" had turned, and he was hungry and penniless. "I'd go back to my wife if I v you," counseled his friend. "But she will not receive me," swered John. "The dickens she won't!" exclaimed the other, angrily. "I'd like to know how she'd help herself! All you've got to do is to go there and stay, ami if she kicks up a muss, you can give her a taste o' jaw bone!" "What'll you do if I go back ?" asked John, as he began to comprehend his advantage over Edna in the new light in which his associate had placed it. "I don't know," was the hesitating answer. "If Sue LaSelle were only my wife I'd be perfectly independent. But, bless you, man, as it is the law would protect her in turning me out o' doors." "Then why the mischief didn't you marry her in the first place? You don't catch me letting the law get such power over me that a woman I keep can turn me out if I've a mid to stay." With Edna and Sue the winter had been tolerably successful, as far as busi ness went. The children throve and grew, and Edna's health gradually im proved, until, with the return of picas ant weather, she had great hope of re suming her public labors to better their -worldly prospects still further. "Only let us keep our heads above water till the weather gets warm," she -would say to her companion. "We'll renew our eutertalnments then, and -we'll soon have money enough to enable you to go after your child." "Alas, Edna, you little beed what you are saying! Kecollect, I am, in' the eyes of men, an awful sinner. In the eyes of God and in my own estimation I am far from being what I ought to be, but I know I'm as worthy to possess my baby as Hal is, and certainly as her mother I have a far better right to her than be has." "Well, my dear, there is uo kind of use in our talkingaboutrififc. Webave no rights that men are bound to re spect." -jjuc, juio&, x nave Known many women" who have been so petted and shielded in comfortable homes that they have never seemed to know a care. My mother lives like that. You know my father is a just man. And I am sure my mother never felt any keen sorrow till I ran away and left her desolate. Ah, me! I thought I was abusad in my father's home! ' My brothers were thoughtless and selfish, and sometimes teased me dreadfully. They never cared whether I had company, when I wanted to go anywhere, or not, and, being a girl, I could uot go alone." "Why couldn't your father accom pany you?" "Oh, he never seemed to want to go anywhere unless mother went along, and she couldn't go much because she always had a baby. It was fearfully lonesome for me at home after my boarding school days were over." "And so it was for me," said Edua, with a bitter laugh. "And yet, when we got married to escape the home du ties, didn't we jump from the frying pan into the fire, though ?" "What a pity girls cannot be made to see the evil consequences of these rash acts before it becomes irretrievably too late," replied her friend, sadly. "The trouble is," said Edua, "their advisers, or the only ones, at least, to whom they will listen, are girls as silly as themselves and suitors who are thor oughly selfish. These last are backed aud urged to take legal ad vantage of the verdancy, inexperience, and affections of girls by 'smart Alecks' arouud town who couldn't pay for a darkio's break fast, who are barely out of pinafores into pantaloons, and who think it a cap ital joke on the 'old woman' to get somebody who is wholly unable to care for the daughter, who has always been shielded and protected in her mother's home, to spirit away the child according to law and leave her to repent ever af terwards." "Girls ought to know better !" cried Sue, with a shrug of impatience. "The laws of the land ought to be bet ter, aud the law-makers ought to know better than to recognize as valid any marriage which contains a flaw, whether that flaw be in law or ethics," added Edna, with a spiteful stamp of her tired foot. "Who is responsible for law, I won der?" said Sue, following the interro gation with a far-away look over the adjacent mountain-tops. "Men alone are responsible," was the sad reply. "If women helped to make the laws there are a thousand ways in which both men and women could make them better." "Well, there's no kind of use in our onger theorizing here," said Sue. "We must begin to lay our plans for a sum mer campaign. If we could give a cou ple of entertainments we could get a thousand dollars ahead, and then we might get away from Idaho Flat." And where would we go, pray ?" asked Edna, quickly. "Back home!" was the sad reply. "Back to poverty on my side and to disgrace on yours, you'd better say, my dear." Poor Sue burst into tears. For the nonce this fact had failed to intrude, and now Edua had forgotten to let it leep. "Beg pardon, my poor darling; I did not mean to wound you," said Edua, soothingly. "No harm is done," replied her friend. "You spoke truly. Strange that I did uot remember. But what would you advise me to do, and what course do you intend to pursue?" I don't see that we can do better than to remain in Idaho Flat. We are well acquainted here. The mines hold out reasonably well. Improvements are goiug on atound us coustantly, aud we can soou hire quite commodious rooms on the other side of the gulch. We can work together and grow up with the town if we will. I cannot go back to my mother, much as I long to do so, for, though I know she is waiting anxiously to receive me, she is left a widowed, penniless pensioner upou the bounty of my eldest brother, and her hands are tied. I am determined to build mysell a home, and surround it with every comfort, and bring, my mother out to live with me." "Then what will Jdo?" "Live with us, of course ! What else should you do ?" "And never see my baby?" "Poor girl ! I know it's hard," said EeuaJ feelingly. "But I do not see how we are to make things any better. When you get plenty of money you can do as you please, you kuow." A few weeks later and the two women were ensconced in their new and com parativley commodious quarters, which were furnished after the prevailing fron tier fashion for eating-houses, with long tables in a largo dining-room, a mam moth stove at each end, and a few dozen roughly-made stools as seats. The bed room furniture overhead was of the same primitive pattern, and the bed ding of gray blankets represented equally primitive civilization. A stout and stupid Mongolian was placed in the kitchen as cook, auother as scullion, and Edna soon found herself with growing income and was proportion ately independent. "How lucky that first public benefit was for me," she exclaimed to Mr. Han del during one of his regular pastoral visits, after that gentleman had par taken or a hearty meal. "But, my dear Mrs. Smith," was the deeply-intonated rejoinder, "if you bad not given those entertainments, he would not have had the means to leave you, and would not have been tempted to do so. It is a grave responsibility for a woman to step out of her sphere and take upon herself the responsibilities that rightfully belong to man !" "And how is a woman to help it, pray, wheu the man ignores his responsibility aud leaves her to bear the burdens out side the home, as well as within, or starve?" "She should trust in the Lord, madam, who has never seen the righteous for saken or his seed begging for bread." "But John is not overly righteous, as you are well aware, and I fail to com prehend the manner of getting bread for his 'seed,' uuless somebody else earns it, for he wcu't." "This is very unwomanly, my dear madam, very much so indeed. I some times fear that you are growing skepti cal." "I am not growing but grown skepti cal concerning many old notions that I once thought infallible, Mr. Handel. I kuow that if I should fold my hands and pray for food till doomsday I should fail to get it except I was ready and willing to use these hands to earn it. I want a little less cant and a little more righteousness and common sense in my religion." "You are bitter, Mrs. Smith." "Never was sweeter in my life, sir. I revere the Infinite Presence more than I can tell you. I revel often in the realm of the Unseen, and am led by ways that I know not. But that does not convince me that all my prayerful importunities can alter the eternal fiat of Omnipotence." "Well, we needn't argue that ques tion, Mrs. Smith, as it is quite plain we never should agree. A woman's first duty is to her husband, always." "But suppose he deserts her?" "Then, madam, pardom me, but I cannot help thinkiug it is mainly her own fault. Let women live at the feet of Jesus, as they ought, and their bus- bauds will uever desert them." "Then you consider me wholly to blame about the misconduct of John?" 'I do, madam. If you had curbed your ambition and been content with your lot, John would have done passa bly well, I think." "You remind me," said Edna, wiping the suspicious moisture from her eyes as she spoke iu a voice husky from wounded feeling, "of a man who was born blind. Much effort had been made to teach him the difference between the various primal colors. Finally bis tu tor asked him to explain bis idea of scarlet, and he said it resembled a cart wheel. Now, sir, with all becoming deference to your superior piety, allow me to tell you candidly that you kuow as much, practically speaking, about the necessities that drove me into a sphere you call unwomanly for the maiuteuance of my family as the blind man, who bad never seen colors, could kuow of the difference between color and diameter. Heaven knows it's hard enough to bear a woman's trials when she is encouraged in her endeavors to gain a livelihood by the intelligent and better meaning classes of men. But wheu, added to her sensitive nature, her pain and weariness and anxiety aud toil, we bear her reproached and ma lignad by her best friends for doing the only things left her to do, we may well wonder what the world is coming to.'.' "Edna," cried Mrs. LaSelle, as she burst into the room with blanched countenance and fluttering heart, "I do believe I see John Smith 1" I shouldn't wonder," said Edna, compressing her Hps tightly for an in stant and then relapsing them into a ghastly smile, "for I dreamed of virmin last night, and I felt sure I was going to see trouble." John was as ragged and dirty as a Digger Indian. Since his food and money had disappeared he bad been compelled to depeud during his journey from Lewiston npon such provender as be could steal, which was very little, owing to the scarcity of settlements in the mountainous region over which his route lay. "I don't believe you're half as glad to see me as you ought to be," be said, dropping upou a stool and surveying his surroundings impudently. "Where have you spent the winter?" was Edna's reply, in a tone several de grees below the freezing point. "That's my business, Mrs. Smith ! It's enough for you to know that I'm deuced hungry and am ready to go for aging for grub." Edna bustled about and rearranged one end of one of the long dining table, trembling in every limb as she did so, "Where's the cubst" be exclaimed, authoritatively. Edna made no answer, aud he re' peated the question in a louder key. "Sue has gone out with them, if you mean the children when you speak of cubs," said Edna, quietly. "You know you insulted her by your rudeness when you were here last, and she has gone out to avoid you. She was here a few minutes ago." "And do you keep that disreputable womau in the house yet?" asked John, fastening his watery blue eyes upon her with an air of stern rebuke. "Sue is not a disreputable but a re formed woman, Mr. Smith. When did you cease to associate with her compan ion in guilt? And has he ever showed symptoms of reform?" "A man's business is his own affair, madam! I associate with whom I please." "There is one person with whom you will associate no more, Jobu Smith, and that person is Edna Rutherford, your former wife!" John raved aud swore furiously for a' while and then begged like a child to be forgiven and reinstated. "This comes of women imbibing in dependent notions," said Mr. Handel, solemnly. "No woman would have thought of takiug such a stand as this when I was a boy. I knew a dear mother in Israel in my childhood who endured privation, suffering, and even stripes from a drunken husband for tbe Lord's sake. But, bless you, she was none of your strong-minded sort." 'And I knewslaves in my childhood," retorted Edna, "who endured toll with out recompense and stripes without stint, without a thought but that they must endure. Their children ran away and otherwise resisted the injustice, though, and so will the daughters of your model, if they should marry badly." "Aud so you intend to turn your law ful husband out o' doors, do you?" asked John Smith, doggedly. "I have no husband !" was the decided reply. "We'll see about that!" cried John, with an air of extreme importance, as he posted off to see a lawyer aud Edua hurriedly resumed her work. To be continued. ADVICE IN REGARD TO THE EYES. The mure you avoid glaring and glanc ing lights in the rooms you habitually sit in, tue belter, Therefore altiiougn the following advice is certain to meet with no atteutiou from the great major ity it is our laughably paiuful duty to recommend ladies to nave as few mir rors aud other looking-glasses, gilt picture-frames aud mouidiugs, bright-col ored curtains aud highly-polished furni ture, in their drawing-rooms as possible; aud what they must have should be so placed as not to allow bright lights to ue thrown upou tuem. iiiguiy-coioreu curtaius are additionally injurious when the windows are opeu, so mat tue vari ous brilliant aud dazzliug colors are flung about the room by tue iucomiug breeze. A very urigut carpet is an in jurious thing, and, wheu combined . i i : i . i . . t ... J : I : j Willi a nriKutiy-jJaiuieu uemug, uiiiu- uess. These tilings may ue a merry me for the eyes, but. thoy are a short oue. A rich-patterned, sober-toned carpet, and a soft sky-gcey or stone-colored ceiling, are my own private fancy. The almost invariable whitewash of the British ceiling would be a constant in jury but for the grave fact that the Brit ish isles are not overuurueueu witu suu lieht. But whether reading, writiug, or working in any other way, it should always be doue with an oblique light, aud never with a horizoutal light. Erasers Magazine. Woman Suffrage. A bill has been reported in the Connecticut Legislature giving a woman who pays taxes and owns over $300 worth of property tbe same right to vote as any tramp who sleeps uuder the hedges and robs the hen-roost lor a living, aud wears the same shirt tbirty-six mouths. There is something indescribably graud and im pressing in the mighty development of this aue of progress aud civilization. Burlington Hawkeye. It is well the time is coming when error cannot always rule, neither cau falsehood be forever triumphant. Dis like it as the fogies may, tbe time has come when everybody must be exam ined. There is nothing that can escape the closest scrutiny, however old, sa cred, or firmly rooted it may be; though its foundations lie deep in the rubbish of ages, there are those who will dig and discover whether it rests on sand or rock; though its head reach the clouds, there are daring spirits who will mount as the eagle aud examine its top-stone. It is well that this scrutinizing spirit should be abroad. It is time that every door was opened, not excepting the church door, and Beason invited to walk iu. Colfax (Cal.) Enterprise. A Cash Transaction. A gentleman living on Dutlield street the other day hired a boy to walk home beside him and carry a bundle, having first agreed to pay the lad fifteen cents. Beaching tbe house, the man found be had no smaller change than a quarter, aud be said : "If you will call at my office at two o'clock, I'll have the change." "But it was to be cash down," pro tested tue uoy. "So it was; but I haven't tbe change, you see. You'll have to call at my office." "I'll call," growled tbe boy, as be turned away, "but I know just how it will worK. When 1 KnocK on the door, across-eyed clerk will yank it open, ask me what I want, and when I tell him he will yell out, 'That man went into bankruptcy last September, and now you git!' That's the way they alius play it on me, sir, an' I'd lather lose tbe n I teen cents than to call the clerk a dodo and have to dodge coal-scuttles all the way down stairs." The gentleman walked with him to the nearest grocery aud made change. There have been many crises in tbe silk trade ot Lyons which have caused as much or more distress than the pres ent one. Iu 1749, 30,000 hands were thrown out of work, and the municipal ity wasobliged todistribute bread gratis to tiieamountoi three muiiousot francs; in 1754 a fresh suspension of occupation necessitated a similar measure of relief: in 1778, of 14,000 looms, 5,441 were un employed; iu 1779, the stagnation of trade further increased the number of workmen unoccupied, and the king, to relieve the distress, ordered a quantity of stufls from tbe Lyons manufacturers, and forbade any oue to appear before him not dressed in brocaded silk: in 1787, iu consequence of the high price of the raw material, tne manufacturers were compelled to cease working tbe looms, aud 50,000 persons were left without the means oi subsistence. (Jom mercial crises were also experienced in IBIS, isol, and in lmz. OUE "WASHINGTON LETTEE. To the Editor op the New Northwest : For tbe first time for many months there id a brief period of political calm. The settlement of the South Carolina troubles in such a way as to quiet the anxieties and soothe tbe passions tbat have long been excited, has inclined the public mind to the belief tbat tbe Lou isiana case will be settled in the same way. In tbe meantime all hope for tbe best from tbe commission, and are at least content to trust that the letter of instructions from Mr. Hayes, backed up as it has been by the almost parallel case of South Carolina, will lead to sat isfactory results. Thus the most exas perating issue between the two political parties is for the moment withdrawn from the attention of the wearied news reader, aud tbe great leaders have given us a rest. Usually the political tempest assails the country for a few months once every four years, the interval be ing occupied by peaceful interests, na tional iudustries, with an occasional spurt of party enthusiasm. But the contest has raged now for over a year, so much so, that a foreiguer would im agine that politics formed the central pivot upou which revolved the whole civil, social, commercial and domestic circles in this country hinged. There fore, after the long strain of battle the people have passed through, we, the correspondent and rehearsers of such events, need not, less than the citizens at large, give our journalistic stylus a brief political repose. It has been said tbat the system aud theory of American citizenship is a vast mutual admiratiou society. Yet this time our adulation comes from abroad, and it is creditable, indeed, to our countrymen to review the history of the past year and its tem perate results. During the fierce heats of last summer came the couveutions and the loug, warlike session of Con gress; then came the bayoueting of cer tain of the Southern States; then the rapture of the strife in the campaign; then the death-grapple of the election, the short period of uncertainty, the con flicting returning boards, the electoral- count contest, the mussing of troops in Washington, the scepter of civil war aud the coup'detat, the electoral com mission, the filibustering, tbe couut, the inauguration, the wraugle over the Cabinet, aud tbe Southern policy, with its doubts and hopes and fears all these followed each other with swift steps, and sometimes overlapped, giving two or more causes for fierce excitement at the same time. Now, nearly all of them have passed away, aud our citi zens, perhaps above all others, may venture to hope that we are at last en tering upon a period of political calm and industrial activity. It is satisfac tory, indeed, to note that through the whole of theforegoiug excitement tbe American citizen never lost his self- control, and thus avoided precipitating, by over rash acts, tbe nation into au other sanguiuary conflict. Afterall, tbe war taught the people some good lessons. By it tbe fire-eaters were extinguished, while the goeen grass on the sodden graves of our manly soldier dead cried out with widow's weeds aud orphan's toil earned couches against the ech oes of the cannon, the tortures and ruin of homes, and the hard-breathed mut ter ings of civil strife. THE EXTRA SESSION. As the army appropriation was not passed, no lawful expedient for main taining the army seems possible. Mr. Hayes, appreciating well the danger of going outside of strict law in this mat ter, refuses to adopt any other than tbe regular method. It is possible that this lull will be of short duration. Iu this case the old wounds aud sores may have occasion to bleed afresh. Should the settlement iu Louisiana be like tbat of South Carolina, all trouble will be ended, as the proviso against tbe use of tbe troop3 in the South, upou which the House insisted, and which caused the failure of tbe passage of the bill in the Senate, will uo Iouger be needed. After the Speaker is chosen, the sup plies voted for the army, the civil ser vice sundry bill amended, and tbe few new appointments confirmed by tbe Senate, there will be little or no work left for the extra session, as it is scarcely probable tbat Congress will care to leg islate upon any of the several hundred untouched bills introduced during the last sessiou, or that they will trouble themselves duriug tbe hot weather to consider conscientiously the vast fields of "unfinished business" surrounding them. HAMPTON'S RECEPTION. All the South Carolinians that are able to get away, though but a small proportion of white men are represented among the office-holders from that State, are hastening to witness the evac uation of Columbia and the wild rejoic ings consequent upon.Gov. Hampton's return. Sinister hints are thrown out by tbe disconsolate ousted politicians, but amid tbe popular elation but little atteutiou is paid to their muttering. Even Senator Patterson, the most pro nounced opponent of the Hampton re gime, has madehis peace with the victo rious Governor, and promised to bury tbe tomahawk of war. Apart from his extreme views in politics, Johnny Pat terson, as be is familiarly called, is a whole-souled, genial man, and through the session of Congress borrows much interest from, tbe ladies, being fre quently followed around by one of the brightest, prettiest, red curly-haired, eight-year-old specimen of an embryo solon in Washington. Johnny J. Pat terson, Jr., and John Young Brown, Jr., divide the interest as beausand gal lants at the favorite parties in their small world. EX-SECRETARY ROBESON Is kept busy explaining tbe reason of the apparent deficiency in the books of the Navy Department. Careful anal ysis of bis statements will probably prove them correct. SECRETARY SHERMAN Has grasped the financial bull by the tail aud it threatens to bear him further from the resumption of specie tbau was previously anticipated. Secretary Schurz has, after profound study, evolved a very plain aud seemingly practical system of civil service reform which will not have the effect of mak ing any radical change, but will chiefly affect the admission of new employes in his Department. All the clerks are on their best behavior, as good conduct, both private aud official, is now in general demand, while supe rior writers aud arithmeticians plume themselves upon their knowledge of business and rate their tenure of office chauces accordingly. The Ottmau $47, 000 Treasury steal is still on the tapis and will soon be concluded. The round of Easter receptions has not thoroughly commenced, although the programme for concerts and evening entertainments this week has beeu full to repletiou. Tbe telephone concert announced for last night, of which I hoped to render you a description, has beeu postponed till Mouday next wheu, it is to be hoped, Washlugtonian scientists will receive tbe benefit of the performance. Another wholesale discharge of Treasury female clerks will occur, aud 230 of the poorest uufortunates will then be thrown out upon their own resources again. They deserve pity. Felix. Washington, D. C, April 0, 1877. Words of Wisdom. The followimr. clipped from au exebauge, will bear reauiug anu a cureiui consideration: Better to wear a calico dress without trimming, if it be paid for, than to owe the shop-Keeper lor the most eletrant silk, cut and trimmed iu the most be witching manner. Better to live in a log-cabin all your own than a browu-stoue mansion be longing to somebody else. Better walk forever than run into debt for a horse aud carriage. Better to sit by tue pine table for which you paid three dollars teu vears ago thau seud home a new extension black waluut top, aud promise to pay next week. Better to use old caue-seated chairs aud faded two-ply carpet than tremble at the bills sent home from the uphol sterer's for the most elegaut parlor set ever made. Better to meet your business acauaint- auce with a free "don't owe you a ceut" smile thau to dodge around the corner to escape a dun. Better to pay the street organ-grinder two cents for music, if you must have it, than owe for a graud piano. Better to eat thin soup from earthen ware, if you owe your butcher nothing, thau to diue oft" lamb aud roast IihhI" aud kuow that it does nut belong to you. These fellow mortals, every oue, must be accepted as they are; you cau neither straighten their noses, nor brighteu their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people amouir whom your life is passed that it is useful you suouiu tolerate, pity, anu love; it is these more or less ugly, stupid, incon sistent people, whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire, tor whom you should cherish all possi ble hopes, all possible patience. And I would uot, eveu if I had the choice, be the clever novelist who would create a world so much better than this in which we get up in tbe morning to do our daily work, that you would be likely to turu a harder, colder eye on the dusty streets and the common green fields, ou the real breathing men and women, who cau be chilled by your indifference or Injured by your prejudice; who can be cheered aud helped onward by your fei low-feeling, your forbearance, your out- spoKeu urave justice. Ueorge Eliot. Queen Victoria's elegant graudson, Priuce William of Prussia, has recentlv received the highest honor in her power to bestow upon a foreign prince, in be ing made Knight of the Garter. Three members of the German imperial fain Ily father, son, and graudson now bear this august decoration. Besides tbe Crown Priuce of Germany and his son, two other foreign princes who are not reigning sovereigns have received the Order of the Garter Prince Louis of Hesse aud Priuce Christian of Schles-wig-HoIstein. The Order of the Garter consists of the English sovereign aud iweuiy-iive Kuignts, witn the addition of princes of the royal family. Special statutes are passed for the admission of loreigu sovereigns or princes. A major ity of reigning sovereigns now wear ims uecoruuou. "I should thiuk, your Honor," said an attorney in judge U's court-roou the other morning, as he picked up th water-pitcher which sets on the edge o the judicial dias, "I should thiuk, you Houor. that vou'd tret snmphnilu f, build a fence around this lmrs nili'hpr or else put your spittoon over on the other side." "What's the matter, sir?" inquired tue v;ourt. "Matter! Whv th nnfaliln nf tbe Ditcher is covered with tnh nppn liifpp ii "It's a matter of indifference to m sir." e, "Matter of indifference, your Honor? Why, it is filthy!" "I don't care, sir; the court never drinks water." Then the attorney sat down and looked indignant. Don Piatt has declared that "duelling ought to be revived." GLIMPSES OF SOUTHERN TBAVEL. Our expectations were fully realized concerning our journey from Charleston to Savannah, for truly it was tbe hard est day's travel we have had, as we had to ride from eight in the morning until four in the evening in a wretchedly old, discarded Southern car. But oh, such warm, balmy air greeted ns that it rested even such tired travelers as we were then, and made this beautiful Southern city, the only one in which in childhood I had wandered, as lovely as in memory I had pictured it. Little parks intersecting nearly all tbe streets, trees covered with foliage, aud flowers blooming iu every garden aud filling the air with such fragrauce that truly it seemed like "fairy land." Just within the city limits is a large and very beau tiful park, and with its magnificent old trees, exquisite fountains, and superb bushes beuding beneath their weight of pink and white japouicas, is truly a lovely place in which to "while away many au hour." Friday we drove to Bonaventure, the cemetery, and the glorious old oaks, covered with hanging moss, is really a strange and wonderful sight. This moss, so wierd, so curious, is said to be entirely au air piaut, no connecting link being found that attaches it to tbe tree from which it bangs. The broad avenues were lined each side with im mense trees, aud the branches meeting above formed overhead a perfect arch way, through which we drove. The place is left almost in its natural rough ness, but a little speut upon It of north ern gold, and its beauties would be en hanced an huudred-fold. "The Hermitage," the name of what was once a slave plantation, has a long aveuue leadiug to the house, bordered with oaks, forming, as they do iu the cemetery, a perfect arch, and the pend ant moas festooning the brauches, hangs so low as to bo easily plucked from the carriage wiudows. O'ersbadowed by the euormous trees were tbe small quar ters ouce occupied by the negroes, but uow disappearing beneath the touch of "decay's etlaciug fingers." They are little, square buildings, built of brick, flat-roofed, aud containing apparently but one room, ouce painted white, aud with chimneys built on the outside. The planter's house had been very very handsome, ouly one story, but built in such a style as to make It quite imposing. We were politely shown through the house, preseuted with some flowers, aud had most kindly answered our mauy questions concerning the days wheu "slavery held dominion o'er the laud." Flockiug to this city is a Western party of some five hundred persons; some with the intent of "spying out tbe laud," and by the sudden arrival of so mauy strangers tbe hotels are crowded to overflowing. Still the cooking Is uoue the worse from such au increase of hungry mortals; it was as bad as could be before. Not a thing upon the table reminded us that we wero in the "suuny South." 'Tis a dreary Suuday; all our lovely weather has disappeared. Such a change has come over the scene that we feel as if iu our dreams we had been transported back to our barreu winter from which we had fled. A storm, such as has not been felt here iu the month of Decem ber, is dashing iu all its fury over this beautiful city. Great fires are burning in all of our rooms, and bales of cotton have been iu great requisition, for every crack aud crevice has to be stuffed, for the wiud seems determined to penetrate each nook aud corner. When out breastiug the storm, heavy ulsters and seal-ski u sacques can hardly keep away the cold. We are very anxious to journey on, and expect within a few days to be ou our way to Florida, where we fervently hope to have a little more than a glimpse of warm weather. The Excessive Use of Medicine. It would be utterly impossible to tell how many constitutions have been im paired, how mauy digestions ruined, how many complexious spoiled, and how mauy purses emptied, through medicine. What is that you say? that a stitch iu time saves nine, and that the right medicine, quickly takeu, averts dauger? Very likely. We quite be lieve that. But iu ninety-nine cases out of a buudred, where is the dauger? aud what is the emergency of the case? Medicine is often the precurser of after misery; and the poorconstitution has to pay dearly for its medicinal fillip. The wiser philosopher of the present day is gradually delivering us from these po tent perils. Nature has a self-righting power within her; there is a kind of vis medicatrixiu tbe physical frame. Treat the body kiudly; letas much pure aira3 possible get to the lungs, and as much fresh water as possible be applied to the flesh, and as much healthy exercise as duty permits be given to the muscles, aud early rising as circumstances allow be afforded for the recruitment of tbe brain, and theu medicine will be a very avoidable affair. This was Robert Stephenson's remark to the man who used to bother him about perpetual motion : "If you will take yourself up by tbe waistband or your breeches and carry yourself round the room, I will consider the matter." People who advertise only once in three mouths forget that most folks cau't remember aujthiug longer than about seven days. A baby, says a French writer, Is an augel whose wings decrease as its legs increase. Be not apt to relate news.