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a Novel by Khoda BrouRhton.
NANCY: NOVEL. By RuoDA BnoucuroS, Author oi
"Good-Bye, Sweetheart" etc. New YORK: D. Ap-
plcton Co.
This is. in tho first half Of it, altogether the
raciest book ne have read in n long while. It
has much OF the spicy flavor Of Miss Alcott'a
''Litt]e Women" andrecalls that charming story
by numerous points Of resemblance. Miss
B1oughton does not prosper we'll in the concep-
tion Of a plot, and her characters are apt to be
inconsistent, but she has An extraordinary fac
ultv for sustaining colloquy; and, as there is
nothing in all tho world more fascinating than q
crisp witty conversation, abe keeps her readers
perpetualiy amused by the exercise Of this talent.
Sho manages clima1es, too, cleverly; and near
" every chapter winds up with smart, sharp
elimination, that is delightfully."- exhilarating.
We said heI characters were apt to bo incongru-
GUS but, for all that she continues to throw .
spell Of interest about them that is particularly
tautalizng it SO folls and ret succeeds in trick
ing our common sonse. In most of her boobH,
the attraction centres in wayward young wom-
an with acknowledgements qualities, yet
With vigorous and piquant originality that re-
comedies us to her mott outrageous absurdities.
She is the chief figure piece in the present work.
and il decidedly the most engaging compound Of
graces and imperfections that hlss Broughton
has yet produced. ,,, .
Nancy is her name,-Miss Broughto on does not
dub her heroiues with lish-sounding titles,-
and sho tells her own story in simple, nncou-
scious way, without reserve OF anectation. She
is lust 19 st the point where she begins. aaa the
Third IN tho family Of six robust, boisterous
children. who revel healthily in the very joy OF
living. Their home is an English country man
sion Their father ia q domestic tyrant, with
meanness injecting bis austerity which makes
him oiious to his entire family. For the most
part, tho children keep out OF his way, combining
themselves to their school-room, amusing and
cherial1ing each other in loving communion OF
childish pursuits and pastlmes.
suddenly there comes to visit their father IN
old friend from India, Sir Roger Tempest, rich,
benign. and handsome bachelor. He first meets
the children-for children they are despite the
advancing youth Of tue eldest--at PRAYERS, tha
one occasion in the day when the whole house,
hold is assembled for the sake OF discipline and
ceremonial When the worship is over
.We all 20 up to father (writea Naacy). and cold1y
and atifIly Kiss him. whilo waiting to receive
our parents chill salute, steal second ganea s: oas
guest Yea ho IL old certainly. Despite the youth Of
6ls eyes, despite the upEghtn:se The utter freedom
from supezhaous deah-fron the ugly, shaky Gulk1-
nsss aS egatn biz tall aud salvazt o1axe, asA ~ u
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s'Ihe Last Pic" by Alice Chadbourno; Hans
Ryitzar's Breakfast" (translation Of German
Fo1ks, (uBstratsd2; ,.J.cS-n:tle, pnRt
Riddlc-Box" Gllustrated).
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Mary somerTille." By G. G. Smith Tho
Stretching Club" by the Rev. 4. St. John Tyr-
whit; "Abnse Of Tax-Exemption. by J. P.
Quincy; The Sailors Law" BY H. q. McFar-
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getting TO rub o:1t the lnbel5 on thelf yellow
sides, Springfield and Hartford, or "North-
ampton and Greenfield
In the fall, the froat having scared the rank
gr1sa, and the 1ndiAn-summ snu having dried
1t to crisp, the kindling spark was sure to be
sent from some quarter, tho fro swept over the
whole swampy range, and the old settlers Gu
1oyed the aight of the memorable
''pRA1R1E ON FIRE."
got up in the best style.
The way to got over this endless Slough Of
Despond, which made many 3 hanrt feel more
dcspcndent than esor Pilgrim felt Ohese hearts
Of the new settlers who had left the green hills
OF New England for the green pralries Of Illinois,
tired Of lifelong tug upon the hills, tired now
With their first tug With mud ),-the way TO get
over safely was an UNUSUAL precedent: Follo1n
N no mans track. Strike out boldly for your
SELF alone. II 9ou can possibly 6nd 3 spsce nm
tEodden, where no wheel~tracks mark the way,
where no foot has broken down the
tough grass, or ruthleesly crushed the praitle-
flower, then venture boldly, drive on with faith
aud confidence, try foot and wheel; the toagh
800, closely knitted, it is, by tho strong roots
Of the grass, ssiU safely bear you up But 80
beaten paths are deceptive. For, once broken
Through, this sea OF mud will prove bottomless.
Your wagon will 60 down to tho axles, and you
*1A soon see the Way strewn with such "recks.
Or signs where fearful contest has been waged
Nth the enguldng fluid.
WE'RE yEnY PECULIAR
70 contrast With roads in any other section.
lhey grew WIDER and wider the more they we're
travelled. There was no safety in folloTing an"
o1ner wagfater's example. Thus tho way IN
HON the green fields where farmers delighted
70 Dwell, on the Fox River, was aa It Ap-
preached Chicago suggestive in breadth, II not
n length, Of the broad way that leads to destruc-
ton.
In those days there wero in the City Of CHI
60. Planted by the side Of the unpayed and Nh.
fianked streets, yet lined by sidewalks msde OF
p,ne plaaks running lengthwise. such notable
paces "a these: The first fremont House, On the
soiofthwest corner Of Lake snd Dearborn Btreeta;
ne Ohio House, On LaSaEe, north Of Lake the
;H:a, MeW York House, on Randolph street, west OF
nels the Saganosh {the Indian name OF
celebrated Chief, Billy CadwelD, on the corner
81 Lake and Market {site Of the Lincoln Wig
Ta1n) md the
eeme"here else Qet those tell who rememher)-
~ aao the Interior OF any ono Of these was much
" uAe the interior OF any other one, except that
see fremont had little more this arlstocratic
h ~; because it was three stories high. These Ill
nsd what we1e called
HAR-HpoNB.
p rooms in which everybody ataid and every
''a7 Gid what they pleased, d,-foz those days vera
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no #ould ASK no neip OF tutor6- D91ore tno
afternoon had wauad the victory was accomplish
ed. He had translated fifteen lines, and COM
mittcd to memory the originals. Then. he tells
us, he strolled ont under the classic Gins, and,
looking up at tho collcgc-valks, indulsed in !
half-dehant emotion Of Independence.
He kept seven languages under way this winter,
and At tho end OF the soasoa folt Il reluctance to
drop them and 20 back to manual labor. lie
engaged in school-keeping, but his health failed
under the confinement, and no accepted a
position as commercial! traveller. just before
the financial crash OF 1857, lie invested the whole
OF his gains in small mercantile enterprise,
and in tho general panic and ruin he lost every
thing. Upon this he resor:ed to his trade once
more, locating in Worcester, where he had &C
cess to the library Of tho Antiquarian Society,
which Was rich in books in foreign languages. He
renewed Lis .tudy with the oil zeet translated
1celandic sagas and Syriac epiatles. and finally
wrote letter in Celto-Breton to tho Royal
Antiquarian Society Of France, which e1icted tho
feat. All the languages OF Europe and several
OF Asia wero by this time mastered Several
gentlemen Of Boston, hearing Of lis extraor-
dinary acquisitions, invited him to accept tho
advantages Of Harvard st their expense but he
gratefully declined, manfully choosing 10 hew
out his own destiny.
In 1S41 he was urged to appear upon the ros-
trun, and accordingly prepared lecture, in
which be attempted to prove the falsity OF the
doctrine, Nascitur, non IT, sustaining his areu-
tucHt b1 tuE eFlueNce VI MS Own case. 1uc lee
turo was delivered sixty times in the couree IT
the season, after which tue lecturer laid of his
broadc!oth, tied on his leather apron. and began
pounding tho anvil-chorus sSain in Worccster.
While writing ont q new lecture for the ensuing
season, his thoughts were attracted to the grand
plan. of uniting the nations OF the earth in the
bonds OF brotherhoo1. HIS heart became en-
listed in the subject. He suspended his studies,
aud entered into IN active career in i.s promu1-
CATION: Ho started weekly paper devoted to
Antt-SlaVery. Peace, Temperance, ETC., and set
into circulation through the newspapers Of the
Union series OF short articles advocating Pe.ce
urder the title Of ''The Olive-Leaf Mission
The qualities which agnslized his success in ths
Of languages wero now devoted with
. similar assidnity to the Advancement Of philAn-
thropic enterprises.
For the next twenty Year,. A1. Burritt spent
much Of bis time in Europe, laboring in tho
cause OF Peace. He was active in the establish
ment Of The League Of Universal Brother !
hood" and in bringing about international |
peace~assemblies in Frankfort, Brussels, Lon
don, Para, etc. "The Olive-Leaf aIisaion" WIS
put in operation on the Continent, the papers |
beng translated into sevon different Languages. !
In one Of the n.a1vala pasasd in America during
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A Blow Intended for the Negro.

The bill requiring an ability to read and
write in the English language as a qualtica-
ton for Juror, was drawn for the qualification
Of race prejudice, and in the spirit of the
know nothingism of few years ago. 1t is
blow aimed as well at the freedmen of the
South, as at the German, Frenchman, and
Irishman, at the North. This bill has
passed the House Of Representatives, and
was reported to the House by Hon. Clarkson
n. Potter, Democrat of New York 1t is
believed that Mr.. Potter will be the candi-
date for Governor Of the state that cannot
be carried by the Democratic party, save by
the votes Of the very class he would deny
the right to sit on juries. We are some
what astonished at the passage of such a
bill by Republican House of Representa-
tives. The colored people at the South, are
by this, placed at the mercy oflhose who hate
them. That there is no necessity for such a
change as contemplated by the bill, the evil
dence of gentlemen competent to judge
clearly shows. With the protection afforded
by the right to sit on juries, the colored
people of the South are educating themselves
with reasonable rapidly. Take away that
right and an obstacle is placed in the way of
their advancement. In another column will
be found letter taken from the Washington
Chronicle, aud written by G. II. Garland,
upon the subject of the reading, and writing
qualification for juries.
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VIM. III. StOWell.

We publish elsewhere communication
from a gentleman living in the Fourth Cen
gressional District of Virginia. We can,
and do, endorse as true what our correspond
ent says of Mr.. Stowell. We fully believe
that every cOlored voter will feel it to be a
high duty to continue in the highest repre-
sentative body in our nation, the men who
have exerted themselves in efforts to make
citizenship all that it should be. Mr.. Stow
ell is one Of the men who are battling for
equality before the law. He fairly repre-
sents his constituents on this vital measure.
Unlike Messrs. Smith and Sener, or Senator
Lewis, he remembers that black men are
citizens, and are to be governed by the same
laws as are white citizens. The enemies of
the Civil-Rights Bill advocate different laws,
one for the white race and another for the
black race. A superior school for the white
race, prescribed one for the negro white
mans trial to be conducted by his peers, a
negro's by those who hold him guilty be-
cause he is black fine car or state room
for cultivated, refined lady if she is white,
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One of our exchanges very hunanely sug-
gests to the Congressional committee APP
pointed to investigate the condition and
prospects of republicanSm in Arkansas, and
the amount Of safety to life, liberty, and
property that exists since the government
has been turned over to the rebels, that they
will do well to travel securely guarded and
not carry much money about /; for, according
to late accounts, whether Arkansas has a
republican form of government" or not,
she has very little real government; and
robbery aud murder are very frequent.
Crime naturally follows on the heels Of civil
war, and the laws cannot well be enforced
where the authorities are quarrcling as to
who shall hold the Offices. If Baxter has
common sense, his first effort will be to en-
force the laws against criminals, letting
questions Of treason and politics take care of
themselves until he has secured peace, order,
and security for life and property in the state.
The trouble with Baxter, however, is not
want Of common sense, but of common
honesty. In the first place, he turned traitor
to the party which elected him Governor,
and now he has turned traitor to the state
and its best interests. His offset is to create
reign of terror that will efectually silence
all opposition to his authority.
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j. e. Napier Esq.

The gentlemanly and talented agent of the
Revenue Department. Mr.. j. G. Napier,
was compelled to leave a hotel by a gallant
and daring crowd of southern chivalry, a
few days ago because, he is a gentleman and
might pass for a colored man. 1t is true,
Mr.. Napier claims to have, African blood in
his veins. 1t is also true, that he is an educa-
ted gentleman, cultivated and refined. We
wonder whether Senator BrOwnlow or Sena-
tor Cooper can g i've good reason, for driving
Mr.. Napier, from hotel.
The following from the Nashville Banner is
the story of civilization in Tennessee:
Napier, colored, the recently appointed
agent in the Revenue Department. seems to
be making up an interesting history of HIM
self in these times of civil rights agitation.
He had hardly received his commission, and
reported to the Supervisors office before he
went to Memphis. Preferring to go to that city
in sleeping coach he entered one at the
Chattanooga depot. When a short distance
out on the road he was invited into the car
set apart for the exclusive use of men. As
the excitement in regard to the bill, now
pending in Congress, had just spread all over
the land, this was considered as an attempt
on the part of Napier to break down old Gus
toms, and to force at once the privileges
contemplated in that measure. But very lit
tie was said Of it at the time, he having
yielded readily to the request. He thought
it hard that government official could not
occupy berth in one Of Pullman's palaces.
Napier and a white man in the revenue SER
vice named Lott went to Chattanooga Sun
day. The former registered at the Reid
Horse, and there ate his dinner with the white
guests. lie moreover called for a rOom and
it was granted him. He was so nearly white,
in fact, that the clerk failed to detect, at first
sight, that his features portrayed the fact that
he was a. linel.. descendant of Ham. But SO
the clerk found out, and finding it out, told
Napier that he could not remain under the
root OF that caravansary. Those who had
eaten dinner in the same room with Napier,
on discovering that the blood of the negro
coursed through his veins. became highly
cnraged. and then indignant.
This little affair was soon the talk of the
town, some using some rather emphatic lam
guage regarding the intrusion.
Napier and Lott subsequently, took the S
p. NJ. train for MurfreesbOro.
On arriving at Rutherford's county site
they registered at the Willard House as hail
my from Washington, and went to bed. Not
long after, some one, in looking over the re-
gster, discovered Napier's name, and at once
informed the clerk that he had negro in the
house, at which information the clerk was
greatly astonished. This fact soon being
noised about, delegation of ten men went
to the rooms occupied by Napier and Lott,
led them out and down to the depot and told
them to run toward Nashville. Both
walked dOwd to Lavergne, where, procuring
buggy, they came into the city Yesterday
near noon,
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Hon, p. h. s. PiNchback.

Rarely has scene been witnessed in the
House of Representatives more remarkable
and striking for its novelty, than was that
presented on Monday last, when the gentle.
man named above appeared on its floor, and
was permitted to speak for himself. Mr..
Pinchback's position, as our readers know,
is singular in that he comes here from
Louisiana, legally accredited both to the
Senate and to the House of Representa-
tives, having been first elected by the peo-
pie of his State as large,
and subsequently, elected by the Legisla-
ture Of his State to a seat in the United
States Senate. His case illustrates the old
saw that between two stools one is apt to
fall to the ground. For neither the House
nor the Senate has thus far admitted his
claims though in our judgment he is clearly
entitled to seat in the latter body, and
that nothing but the gravest partiality and
Inconsistency deprives him of his place.
The speech Of Mr.. Pinchback, Oh Monday,
was deeply tinged with a sense of injustice
and the indignity Of his double exclusion
from the places to which he had been
elected. 1t was in some respects humor-
Gus, argumentative aud pointed, but it was
delivered much less as an appeal than a
defiance, and it may be fairly questioned
whether that style was most wisely chosen
for the occasion, and yet we were compelled
10 admire the free, manly and Independent
bearing of Mr.. Pinchback as he described
his devotion and services to the Republican
party, the sacrifices made in its behalf and
the sternness with which he applied the
brand of inconsistency to those who, while
upholding the kellogg government of Lou
isiana, make an exception against him.
His manner might have been more winning
and less aggressive, but it was evident that
he was smarting under sense of wrong,
and like a brave man as he is, he found 1t
hard to repress his manly indignation. He
was not there, he said, to beg for his seat,
when he said: I" If denied my rights here,
will go back to my people in Louisiana,
confident of triumphant reelection" We
think now, as we have thought all along,
that the Republican party in Congress have
made decided mistake, both upon grounds
equitable and political, in the course pursued
to this champion of the rights of his People
in Louisiana. The idea of putting down a
man of Pinchback's ability and determine
ton, backed up as he is by the Republican
vote of his State, will be found, as it ought
to be found, delusive. The country may
keep Gov. Pinchback out Of the House and
Senate at present, but we warn them that
they have not heard the last of this man.
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Mr.. Summers BeneVOlencc.

A Mrs. Warner, writing from this city to
the New York Independent, relates story
which colOred man told her while riding in
the street cars here, which pleasantly illus
trates Mr.. Summers quiet and transformations
benevoence, and proves that he practiced
what he preached in regard to the colored
race. She says they struck up an impromptu
acquaintance that during their conversa-
ton he told her that Mr.. Sumner privately
paid his bills at school to let him lea rn to be
a lawyer, and also heard him recite every
Sunday in the Greek Testament, to enable
him to learn how TO teach a Sunday-school
class
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blood shed in the struggle that followed the
war in the work of reconstruction. The
outrages we are compelled to endure to-day
are committed under the shadow of law, but
they are outrages nevertheless, and we know
that our race is right in seeking redress Of
grievances. We naturally look to the Re-
publican party for that redress. Does the
tone Of the leading organ of the Republican
party in its cry of halt indicate the design Of
that party to refuse justice to the negro?
Or does the cold shoulder Of the party,
which is given to journals advocating civil
rights, indicate disposition on the part OF
the party to abandon the negro to the tender
mercy of his enemies? We earnestly hope
that the Republican party will be true to its
leading principles. We support the Repub-
lican party solely because we believe it to be
the party Of justice, and the enemy of OPP
preston. We have supported it because we
believed that it would not forget its profess
sions. The united vote of the cOlOred race
has been given to the Republican party be-
cause of its professions, vote that was of no
inconsiderable Importance in maintaining the
party in power. The negro believes IN the
Republican party, and we do not desire to
have his confidence shaken.
The failure of the judiciary Committee OF
the House to bring forward the Civil Rights
Bill, which does not require two-thirds
vote to get it before that body, Is exciting a
suspicion among colorcd men that there is a
disposition on the part of party leaders to let
the Civil Rights measure die. Why not
bring forward the bill now before the Judi
cary Committee? That bill may be amended
by inserting the Senate bill. Such action
would at least show that the charges OF
trickery being resorted to against the bill
have no foundation in fact. Let us hear from
the Judiciary Committee.
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The following letter speaks for itself, and
it will, no doubt, have its full effect. The
colored people have an eye to their interests
and it, well that Congressman and the Re-
publican party should know it,,
WASHINGTON, d. c., June &, 1874.
Rec. ID. P0yne:
DEAR BROTHER: 1t is with more than Or
binary interest that we are, and have been
watching the action of Congress, and especi-
ally the Representatives who owe their cleo
ton principally to the votes of our people,
upon those measures which relates to our
rights and accord to us the Justice which the
Civil-Righls Bill is intended to confer, and
we desire to call your attention to the fact
that Mr.. Sener who was elected by our peo-
pie, seems to be indifferent to our interest,"
and his sympathy and votes are against the
bill, and as the time approaches when the
Republican party will choose delegates to a
convention which will select a candidate for
Congress, to be voted for in the coming No
vember election, we deem it our and your
duty to warn the people against his renomi-
nation and election, and all persons who ia
vor his denomination.
VIM. j. WALKER,
Pastor of the Shiloah Baptist church, Wash
ington, ID. &.
VIM. II. LEE,
Pastor of the Sixth Baptist church, South
Washington, ID. G.
WM. b. JEFFERSON,
In behalf Of the cause Of humanity, pastor
of the Third Baptist church, Washing
ton, ID. c.
JOHN III. BROOKS,
Pastor of the Fifth Baptist church, ID. c.
VIM. GIBBONS,
Pastor of Zion Baptist church