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I . ■Ry=»W*ag«-''- .-.rtKrmmt JL E. CALHOUN, Editor and Proprietor. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 21, 1873. VOL. XV-NO. 302. cd to bo in the olden time, ml there an ouil! I ir ho ehouitl hapiiiii, at hint, to propone, lays, “You forge t!”und turns on her to •*. [Scribner's for January, lUisjACON! A NTORY OF THE tEEKS AN1) SEMINOLES, nr the U=?LY DAYS OF GEORGIA. |thk author op “dunoan m’intobh.” Itteii for (he Snndny Enquirer. | COPY RIOIIT SECURED. J CHAPTER VIII. OVERTAKEN. Down tho stream, men !” shouted when, nt the head of his corn- ions, ho stood for nu instant watching ^distracted dogs, that, thrown oft’ the , bayed and barked in a circle about p aoe where Miriam hud been sleep- kith her servant. Vait till tho dogs git the trail again,” l ono of his companions, pou fool, the course of the crik is tho There is a nigger woman with her, |he has sense enough to know that,” ed Wilson as, waving his torch, ho I in the direction he had designated, jpro was some trouble in calling off ;R, that now redoubled their bay- ad wont about toariug up the ground, frn their canine hearts they were as- | tho fugitives whom they had tracked had sunk to the centre of tho u end his men were fatigued. Jhad had no rest tho previous night, |ill day on foot thoy had followed tho feeing hounds on tho trail that marked Miriam had taken, nnd then had swept about that fatal circle only hie book to the starting point, ex- id aud maddened. Now feeling ns- f that ho was close on his victims, i felt a now strength in his heavy and his exatnplo stimulated his jurato followers, lie did not follow tho stream, as did the fugitives. ) douo so ho would have made bot- Pj(%|||nio T for tho bed of the creek wns rutivoly open, while tho hanks woro *itli projecting roots, loose bouldors 1 overhanging vines. Still tho race | unequal, with all the odds in favor of trong nnd despond o oh was Pnlsy, her j£ogth hud a limit, even if she ran un- hmbored lint carryiug in her arms 8 half unconsciouH Miriam was a drag t would break tho strength of a giant, ( which could not last, despite her en- r and tho intense love that seemed to | strength to her arms aud wings to her Patsy, you cannot stand this. Let me t or run. Our chance for escape will Ibettor,” said Miriam, as she felt tho |k arms straining tighter and more ately about her tho more the feet I ter bearer became stumbling and un- ain. No, honey ! Dress de Lor, I ain’t a to gin out yit. Dey’s farder an’ off! Don't heah dem dogs no king comfort from her own words, r made another splendid exhibition r strength, and increased her speed jttgh the increasing obstacles and over |eniug waters. But it was a sprurt port duration. Gradually the speed pod, the hold on the trembling girl jened, and tho heavy, panting breath moro labored. Miriam insisted (liking, and Patsy, feeling that to al- r mistress to run through the stream I bo fatal, staggered to the bank and l her on firm ground. jjTe must not give up, Patsy! Hero, band! Wo can escape them yet.” grasped the hand of her ser- and, guided by the murmur of the aud the glimmer of the stars ■pHtgh overhanging branches, thoy kept ftb. same course. pOfl£j|nd ou, impossible, in their terrible 'ftoxiety, to know how long or how far, Ibonah [ every step was marked by tho tracks of bleeding feet, nnd each thorny , as if marking the course they had i,' hold a fragment of their torn fee. ;ain nearer nnd moro distinct catno aying of tho houuds, though even [oml-loviug animals seemed to be ex- ig in the tromendous pursuit, i heard them now without a tremor, bausied nature briugH a deadening \ the senses, nnd dampens all the gs ; ho that calamities that would at ono blow if they came unlier- , are borne without nn increase of iug when anticipated, or when the foxed feelings can no longer respond. Isy’s strength wns purely physical, being exhausted, she now impeded, t than aided, tho heroic girl by her | ami finally the effort at escape for Patsy fell forward with a » men on tho battle field full ed through tho heart. > is a desperation begot of high in momenta of great danger and [ necessity. It is tbe desperation of i Attack against overwhelming odds, roio resistance with only tho gliui- >f success. This was the feeling eld tho Old Guard in tho valley at ^rloo, refusing to sutrender to the squadrons that charged them on sido, and the same resolve that bed tho division of Piokett on tho ^al centre at Gettysburg. This daring shown when masses move to- ►ther, aud strike os if with ono arm, |od by oue heart. But there is a cour- p—cull it desperation, if you wilt— »r than that displayed by mon who > when they hold w eapous in their '. ’Tin tho grand < ourago of a con ked man, uuablo to .csist, and power- L to ward off' the fatal biow, aud, knowing this, he tarns, and, with heroic fire in his eye, baros his breast to receive the stroke, and falls with tho old battle cry on his lips. There was now no hope in tho effort to bafllo pursuit. The heavy, blistered, bleeding foot refused to obey tho'still resolute will. Her servant wob dead or helples, the dogs were nearing every second, and, knowing this, ©very particle of fear and dread left brave Miriam's heart, nnd she turned to moet her pursuers with a grander courage than if able to strike n blow in her own de fence. Ou came the dogs—so close that she could hear their rapid panting—and as they neared their baying became louder nnd moro exultant. Tbe hurried feet and stumbling steps of men close bohind them, who now begnn to shout in blas phemous words their proans of victory. Then up came the dogs, and dashed about Miriam Troup in a cirole, as she stood nbovo the prostrate form of her servant, nor dared to come nearer. Miriam had not long to wait, for llordick Wilson, ragged, red, and exhausted, soon appeared with a fresh lit torch in his hand, and, like fhe dogs, he seemed nt first afraid to approach tho heroic girl, whoso burning blue eyes seemed to hold all the animals at bay. CHAPTER IX. ORCJANIZINU. Louis Macon wqr completely over whelmed by the insano conduct of Mr. Troup. It was undeserved, and his in sinuations wore uncalled for and cruel; hut, ns young Macon considered all the circumstances, his feelings softened to ward tho old man whoso life ho had saved at so mnch risk, nnd who had been his enemy long beforo Louis was old enough to love the beautiful Miriam. Indeed, tho hato of Mr. Troup had its origin long before Louis wns born, and before his father had married the woman who pre ferred him to Henry Troup. Tho old man was not responsible now. Ilis mind wns orazed by the culmination of his troubles, nnd the appearance of Louis Mucon at tho very acme of his an guish led him to associate the young man with the cause of his suffering. Louis knew it woyld be folly, in Mr. Troup’s present sorrow, to follow him up aud roiterute his pledges of regard and tender of services and sympathy, and had he entertained any thought of so doing the servants, who knew their master well would have urged against it. “Mauss Louis, we ain’t got no head now; jist say what wo’s got to do, an’ we’ll do it,” said a strapping young black man, whoso bleediug head showed he had boon in a position to use tho long l'ifie which he held in his right hand to some advantage. “How many armed^servants are there here ?” asked Louis. “Wo’s all alimed, Mauss. Ole Mauss Troup got us guns foah wo left de Savan nah, kaso he thought we’d have trouble wilh tbe Indians,” answered the black ginut who had just tondered his services. “How many men has Mr. Troup on the placo ?” “Mor’n fifty, Mauss Louis.” “And you are all willing to fight for him ?” “Yes, Mauss, if so please do Lor. We s willin’, all of us, to die for him.” “Then you must bo willing,” said Louis earnestly, “to die with me, for I am go ing to follow up this scoundrel Wilson, and fmd Miss Miriam. One-half of you will be enough to remain back to take caro of Mr. Troup and tho place. If you act as I think you will, under my direc tions, we will return with victory before the grass has grown an inch higher.” The words of Louis were applauded ou every hand, and now the difficulty was to select, for all tho mon, nnd even some of the women, who boasted of their Ama zonian qualities, were anxious to follow him. Ho selected, with Batty's assist ance, twenty young, stalwart fellows, who, under bis leadership and example, would light to the death, and then order ing them to take what provisions thoy could conveniently carry, he mado them divido tho ammunition with those who were to remain behind to guaid their master, and ho was ready to move. Just as ho was about to start ngain Mr. Troup appoared, supported by a servant, for ho was too weak to walk alone, and seeing that a number of his pooplo were about to follow Louis Mucon away, ho worked himself into a towering rage, and forbade his people to leave the place. “I am acting for your best interests. I wnut to roscue or bring your daughter back. You will yet see I am right, and while I respect your feelings, I cannot now permit your passiou to interfere wilh my ideas of what is necessary. These pooplo must follow mo to save yourself 1 and your daughtor." j A murmur that Mr. Troup could not I mistake ran through the dusky crowd to ! whom Louis pointed, and the old man, ' hearing it, fell ou Lis knees, saying, I “Even tho servants whom I have fos- torod are turning against their master! I Let me die.” I “No, ole Mauss," said tho young giant j before referred to; “we ain’t a gwine agin’ you, but we’s a gwine to fine young | Miss, what yoh loves, nn' we'll bring her I bock, an die, if so need be, for you." j The old man waved his hund, and then, I covering bis face, fell to the ground. Louis gave some hurried instructions j to ft white-headed old man, who had long acted as an overseer aud confidential ser vant for Mr. Troup, and then, calling Batty to his aide, be was about to lead in the direction whioh Wilson and his des- ' perate followers had taken, when Batty stopped him. “Well, B<*tty, what is it now?” “Mauss Louis, Phil (poiutiug to tho 1 black giant) says as how they're got two hounds on de place,” Baid Batty. “Who has the houuea?” “Ole Mauss Troup.” “What if he has, Batty ?" “Ony din, Mans? Louis. We can't track dem c' aps at night widout de dogs. “Let me see them, Phil.” Phil was only gone a few moments, when he returned with a couple of thorough-brod blood houuds, heavy- cbestud, rod-eyed, white-fanged fellows, that at the prospect of a chase already be gan to snuff tho ground and bay, as if supplicating to be roloased, that they might follow a trail that smelled of blood. “Good ; wo will take them along. But keep them fast; they would leave us away behind in the woods at night,” said Louis, as he mado an attempt to pot the head of one of the fiorce-lookiug brutes. “Dey don’t tako soon to folks what dey don’t know; bud dem dorgs mor’n loves Miss Miriam,” said Phil, apologizing for tho reception they gave Louis. “I am glad they do. Yonder is the course Wilson look. Get tho dogs on the trail, and let us away.” Phil held one dog and Batty the other, and in a few seconds the animals had caught tho scent, and, with their holders, were over tho fence. “Keep olose together, boys,” said Louis, as in tho advance of his black companions he followed tho dogs through the dark forest, whoso interlaced branches woro jealous of even tho light of tho stars. On during tho night till high noou, and they halted under a tree near a babbling stream, ami then they started on the groat circle which those in advance had taken. chapter x. THE DENPEKADOEg’ COUNCIL. “Miriam Miss Troup, I’m your friend and your father’s friend,” said llerdick Wilson, touching his fur cap as with slow, cautious stops, as if he were nearing danger, ho approached whore Miriam stood. “What wnut you boro, sir?” she de manded in tho authoritative tone of a princess questioning an intrusive slave. “I want to take you to your home.'’ “To my home ?” “Yes-, to your homo and your father.” “A coward is never afraid to lie. Her- dick Wilson has ever been afraid to speak tho truth. Ypn tako mo to my home, when you know it has been reduced to ashos by the torches of your robber fol lowers ! You take me to my father, when, if ho be living, it is despite the blow struck by a coword against an old man !” Tho baud, with blazing torches, now gathered about her in a circle, nnd there was something in tho pure, heroic pres ence of the girl that cowed and rcstraiuod them. “Let u* guide you hack, and you will fiud your mistake, and learn I am not so bad,” whined Wilson. “Of course yon are good and brave! The man who stiikes down nn old man, fires his house, aud then pursues his daughter with blood hounds, must bo an angel, in your opinion; but, Herdick Wilson, thoy are not the angels whoso acts are approved by tho All-seeing God !" As Miriam spoke Patsy recovered from her swoon, and, rising to her knees, she looked about in fear aud wonder at Wil son’s desperadoes, nnd then up ut tho marble-like face of the girl, who seemed, in tho weird light, like a guardian spirit protecting tho life below her. “Oh, Miss Miriam, don't stop to talk to dem bad men ! Lot’s get homo,” said Patsy, pleadingly. This wns a voice nnd a person to whom i ho stepped a bolder tone i block devil, or Wilson could respond littlo closer and said, ii than he had yet assumed “Hold your tongue, yc I will kill yon!" “I don't lteer if you does, artor ye’re gone hunted us down like deer. Go on an’ kill.” “Hush, Palsy,' whispered Miriam, who saw tho words of her servant only irri tated aud gave conrogo to Wilson, who was now so olose that two hurried steps would bring him within reach of his vic tims. Wilson seemed debating with himself for a few seconds, for not a word was spoken, and tho dogs lay panting ou tho ground. Suddenly ho stepped forward, saying, “Miss Troup, I will save you in spite of yourself. Your fright has made you orazed.” Ho reached out his hand as if ho would grasp tho white arm that seemed within his reach, but like a tlnsh tho arm was raised, and Miriam, without moving an inch from where sho stood, drew from tho tattered folds of hor dross o long, glittering knife, that for tho moment crossed beforo the eyes of llordick Wil son liko a blue flume, nnd with a cry of dread ho sprang back. “They uro both she fiends," exclaimed Black Ned, who had his arm in a sling and who had joined Wilson a few minutes beforo the party started in pursuit of Miriam. “What are wo to do?” asked Wilsob, who half eursod himself for not getting Miriam in his possession, as ho might have dono, lmd he exercised moro pru- deuce, beforo sho could have left thognr- deu. “I know one thing you can’t do,” said Black Ned. “Whut’s that ?’’ “You can't tako that gnl alive while she’s got that knife about her.” “I don't want you to tell nio what I can’t do,"growled Wilson. “Then I’ll tell ye what yo kin do." “Well ?’’ “Start n tiro right hoab, whur wo kin watch ’em, an’ wait till dey play out.” Herdick Wilson stroked liis rod heard, and, turning, said, with u preliminary oath of exultation, “I think you’re right, Nod." Fires woro soon started in a ciroloabout Miriam and her servant, both of whom now sat ou tho grouud in wonder at this new phase. “Dey’ro a goin’ to wait till wo'ro too starved an’ sleepy to stop dar takin’ us,'' Slid l’aisy. “I will stay awake till 1 die, Patsy, if need bo.” “No, no, Miss Miriam ! Heah, lean on mo an’ sleep. I’m stronger now, an’ if dey comes neah us I'll wako you up. Trus’ me, young Miss. Yo know I’d dio for ye, if so need be.” Miriam could not affecticnutu croat;ir< solved not to sleep, sli again*t tho black shouldc. I the offer of tho “Thom couple’s a goin' to snooze purty soon. Jist wait nu’ seo if I niu’t right,” said Black Ned, ns, nursing his arm, he cast a glance at tho spot whore Miriam sat. “I’m thinkin’, Ned, you mado a bad job of that Louis Macon affair,” said Wilson, his eye rested on Nod's bandaged arm. “Ho catno neah rankin’ a bud job of ); but I b’liove wo killed him. I’d al most swar I saw 'em both fall,” “Then why didn’t you wait to make sure of your work ?" “Wait, an’ mo wounded, an' all tho fel lers dead or ruuned off, an’ Macon an’ his man jist covered wid pistols! I don’t want any of that kind of waitin’." “I’ll hot Macon’s living ; and if so, wo will hoar from him beforo twenty-four hours go past,” said Wilson. “Ye don't suppose he'd bo fool enough to attack us, wid ony hisself an’ dat nig ger ?’’ “I do. Ho is n good woodsman, and the best shot in Georgia. Ho could shoot you or mo from bohind u tree, and escape before we could find him.” As Wilson spoko he glanced around at the trees, that towered likosp6otres in the fitful flashing of tho fires, and Black Ned, hugging closer his arm, cowered below Wilson, as if ho had said to himself, “Wa’al, if anybody's goin' ter ho hit first, I don’t want it ter bo me.” CHAPTER XI. AN ALARM. Louis Macon, confident that ho was on tho right trail, did not rest long at tho roots of tho groat tree. The very fact that Miriam had beon there bo lately nerved him, and ho decided to givo the mon ho was in pursuit of no time for rest. With his black followers ho started .soruo distance ou tho great cirole, when Botty, who had remained behind, came running after him, and called out, “Stop, Mauss Louis ; dat ain't do way dey’s gone, shush." “How do you know ?” “Ruse l'so found out. Coiuo buck, Muuss Louis, an’ soo if I ain’t right.” Louis hud a groat deal of faith iu the shrowdness of his sorvant, aud leaving tho mon in position, ho followed Batty back to tho slroum ; but, while they saw tho tracks of Patsy there, and tho im prints of Miriam’s littlo feet, Louis saw thoy hud turned back and woro on tho very trail tho anxious dogs wero follow ing. Why Kpouk of that long, terrible march, nor pnint tho despondency of Louis aud his pooplo whou, far into tho night, they returned to tho very point of starting ? 13ut this dospondauoy soon gavo place to joy, for thoy discovered that tho party thoy had boon in pursuit of had boon there during their nbsouco, and that now the trail led unmistakably down tho stream. This fact gavo all fresh courage, nnd, preparing torches to light iu case of ne cessity, they started ahead with ronewod ardor. Thoy wont on to the poiut where Miriam and Patsy had turned from tho river into tho woods, and hero Phil stopped tho dogs aud said, “Mauss Louis, I tinks we’re a giltiu’ purty close ou ’em.” “Very well, Phil; let us hurry on and strike them beforo they are awuro of it.” “Yes, Mauss Louis; bud I tinks we’d better fix do dogs fust." “How do you moan ?" “Why, muzzle dem, sab." “You are right, Phil. I should have thought of this before, but wo have no muzzles! ” “Yes, Mauss Louis. I looked ahond an saw as how wo uiout want ’em, so J brought ’em along." And so saying, Phil producod from a pocket in his baggy pants n pair of muzzles, which lie pro ceeded to put on tho dogs, evidently against tho wish of tho animals, if their wishos woro to he judged by tho prelimi nary growls and continued resistance. “Now, Batty, you nnd I must keop ahead of tho dogs, for wh*»n wo come up with tho party wo will liud Miss Miriam n prisoner, if it is possiblo that sho should havo held out so long.” “Dat am rite spriseu to mo, Mauss Louis, foah wo’ro all pretty tiahod.” Giving instructions to tho mon to keep cool, and when tho time etiuo to make every shot toll, and keep in u body, the march hognn again. They wero not so close us they expect ed, for some miles wore passed over be fore thoy saw in the dim distance a tire, and at this discovery, Louis lmd difficulty in restraining his followers from cheering. “Wo must crawl up carefully. Keop the dogs back, and when wo tiro bo care ful that you take aim at the white mon ; if wo got thorn out of the way, wo can dash in and the Indians will break and run at once.” “Mauss Louis dat aiu my ’pinion, said Phil unslinging his long rifle and peer ing ahead, as if ho had serious intentions of trying its range flora tho spot where ho stood. “You say our dogs know Miss Miriam, und her sorvunt ?" asked Louis. “Dom dogs!” exclaimed Phil in atone of amazement,intended to convey the idea that while there might bo doubt of the fi delity of other dogs, and their attachment for Miss Miriam, tho dogs in question wero too far above tho suspicion of infi delity to bo thought of for a moment; nevertheless Louis intimated that tho muzzled hounds wore the dogs he had ref- ferunco to. “Why. bros.s yeb, mauss Louis, dom dogs would oat mo nr you if wo laid a fin ger ou ’em." Of course Phil n.c"' t if an angered finger w ere put on I ho lady in question. “All right, Phil, Lave them ready, und at the proper moment I will toil you to unmuzzle and loose them." Phil stooped and whispered to the dogs very earnestly to tho effect that there was now a splendid opportunity for tho dogs, by tho proper fulfillment of the work bo as dogs could that they would endeavor to do their duty. ***** Herdick Wilson was about to sink to sleep, ns many of his companions had dono, whou ho was startled to his foot by an Indian’ who, in alarm, catno dashing I ronthlossly into camp. “Well, what’s wrong ?” demanded Wil- “They are hero, within gun-shot!" “Who?" “Tho canoe man,nnd a hundred blacks.” Before Wilson could call his men the oehoas ware startled by blazing rifles, and two blood-hounds, with hanging tongues. How towards the desperado. [to he continued. | THE DESTINY OF THE EARTH. Tho Hartford Times says: Professor Wincbell, of tho University of Syrncuso, in his interesting lectures, tolls us what Roiouco touches in regard to tho final destiny of tho world, llo say a that tho glnoiors of (ho north and south polar regions nro to close together and wrap tho earth in ovorhsling ice; and finally tho oarth is to plunge into tho sun. But tho liino for that consummation is not yet. It will require ono million of years, or perhaps a thousand millions of years, to accomplish the result. No umt- tor, so far as thisgonorntion is concerned, whether tho work is finished in ono mil lion or a thousand million yonrs. Wo viow tho ond only in tho dim distauco. Profossor Wineholl says that science enables us to look hack upon the slroam of events and sen planets and systems springing into existence, and tho phe nomena that havo accompanied thoir birth. From this point wo can look for ward and draw deductions from tlm dis tant future. Wo may soo tho ultimate end and issue of material things, in every rain storm wo soo tho turbid waters rushing on to tho sea from brook and river. Tho oarth is washed from the hill sides and homo to tho sea. In Palostino wo soo tho hills denuded and the valleys stripped of their soil. Tho limealono is 1 >fi Imre. At tho head wntors of the Colorado river, on this continent, lhero is nn ole vatoil plutonu, laid bare by tho action of tho waters. It soeuis that tho grout gla cier, during the glacial period, that stretched from Massachusetts Bay t«> the Kooky Mountains, moving from north to south, grinding up the surface rocks ami forming a now subsoil, did not touch that plateau, which presents u stjono of deso lation. Its bare rooks and dorp enuoiM attest tho groat work of (lie tains iu washing its soil down to tho river. It has been tho work of thousands of yoars, nnd tho whole continent, would have pro sentod a similar appearance to day had not tho great glacier done its work with such amazing power. Tho amouut of soil washed by Up Mi sissippi river every year into the Gulf <>1 Mexico is sufficient to malm a deposit ono milo Jong, ono rnilo wide, and !U)H feoi deep. The same result is found in tho Nile, tho Gauges, nnd the groat Amazon— earth's largest river—indeed, in every rivor. This process of taking the soil from tho land and washing ii to tho sen is constantly going on, and the result must he, in time, that llto earth will he laid hare and unfit for tho habitation of man. Tho mountains of llio earth are steadily sinking. The Alleghunios havo boon cut down from 15,Out) to 0,000 foot. In the past century it is known thut tho Andes havo docroased in altitudo. So that thoso who are here, a million or moro years bonce will havo no soil, und they must perish, unless the sou is up turned and changes placos with the dry land, giving to ourtli tho soil that it swal- lowod iu past ages. And then another flood and another ark will form a purl of tho history of the world. But hero an other difficulty arises to ooufrout earth's living creatures. By radiation this planet is losing its heat, it is cooling off, and by the time tho soil is washed to the bosom of the sea it will bo so old here that no ono can live—not oven a soul. As tho internal fires become dim, there will not bo hoot enough to evaporate tho raiu that sinks into the earth, aud solid it back to tho clouds. Tho moisture will sink deeper and deeper, till it. is finally all absorbed, and the clouds, if thore are any, will run dry. Tho surface of the oarth will dry up and crack upon. It will produce 110 vegetation, and nobody can live boro. This, says the Professor, is no fancy sketch. The moon has already passed through thoso stages, having for merly been under tho same conditions tin. d :r which wo now exist.; it has been through all tho phases that have marked tho physical conditions of the earth, and tho earth will finally arrive at the same condition iu which tho m mu now exists. Both moon aud oarth w -re once juntas tho sun now is, masses of ineadcscont matter. Bo of other planets. Our smaller neighbor, Mars, has probably already passed the habitable stage. Jupiter is so large that it lifti not yd cooled off to a degree sufficient to make it habitable by human beings. It is cooling oft, how over, nnd so is the sun. Tin. time will coiuo, long ages bonne, when tho sun will be so cool that lids earth will ho covered by solid ice. Soiouco do a not lix that time. if may bn one million, nr limit Rinds of millions of years. No imillcr how long I ha lime. The fact is no loss fixed that tho time will coiue. Ami whom nro we, or tho earth itself, to land ? '[ he fore them, to redeem any misdeeds thoy 1, though sbo re- might; have boon guilty of iu tho past,and loaned hack j that iu addition to establishing thoir ca- with a sense nine reputations ou a basis unusaailablo of relief. I by calumny, they would ho rewarded all This act did not escape llordick Wil- | their livos with an abundance of moat. Bin, or his wliito desperadoes aud painted | The dogs robbed thoir damp noses against Indian allies. i the hlaok hands, aud intimated as plainly Prof. ideil fluid “thinner than thought ' It 1., n toii d fluid, and offers certain resistance to bodies passing through it. lienee, we find that tho comets, in thoir revolutions around the sun, reach tho same point at which they were iu tho preceding revolt! Lion, each time a little sooner, and (noli time a littlo nearer tho sun. The ether resists, to a c rtnin extent, dm eontiifugal force which keeps the body revolving, hut does not interfere with the centripetal which draws it toward tho sun. In process of lime t he centripetal f- will overcome tho centrifugal force, and gradually draw tho revolving bodios, spiral, toward the sun, and lin i’ly they will ho precipitated into the solar mass Earth and all tho planets me subject to tf.is law, and all will finally ho drawn into the tun. So science, as interpreted by Wincbell. tcache", us Hint tho theory that the earth is to end is truo, though the suit is to bo accomplished, like ov other result iu nature, by established natural laws. Iu the meantimo tho soas may ohnngo thoir hods, and their waters may oovoi tho dry land, as thoy have done, possibly, many times iu tho past. Glaciers spread ing over a continent may again grind tho hare rocks to powdor and level tho un tains. Tho cycle of past revolutions may continuo—how long ! Nevermind \nd shall there he improvement in the. 1 that cornu after those tint are engulfed and swept off ? Prohuhly; unless tf is no progross iu tho works of the Cre ator ? Mastodon Remains.—The last number of tho American Journal of Science re cord.; tho discovery of a large part of tho skeleton of u mastodon near lllipolis, Il linois. Ono of tho tusks proved to bo I nearly ten feet iu longth, and t\v< nfy-nii 0 I inches iu circumfereuoe three loot from the lower ond. All tho bones wore in a lair state of preservation, and of a dark, spongy and, porous appoaranro. It is ■ probable that tire specimens will bo added to tho collections of fossils now being gathered together by Profossor Worthen for the State cabinet. AN IDYL. [TrmiflHtMl from UioUurmnn.] Ettlingen is lictwumi ihrUrulie nuil Hastadl, an hour’s walking as vou po to Kelil. The flowers grow thorn without thinking about it, and sow their own Rood, it is, thoreforo, a simple tl ing l.» he a gardener, and Bottiua's father, tho florist, attended entirely to his pipe, leav ing the oan.B of business to his appren tice, whoso name was Naturo. Dottinn, aa been mo the daughler of a gardener, was a kind of rose. Wilhelm, thobaker’s young man, would have thrown himself into the furnace for her. But there came along Fritz, tho dyer, who had been in France, and who woro gloves. Kho con tinued a while to promenade with Wil helm under I lie chestnut trees which sur round tho fortifications of Ettlingen, but ono night she suddenly withdrew her hand: “You had bolter find a nicer girl than l nut; I do not foci that I could make you happy.” Wilhelm disappeared from tho country. Ilis departure, which was the talk of Ettlingen, caused Bettinn moro remorse than regret. Fornix months sheshul horsolf up; tlioit hearing nothing of hor lover, sho reappeared shyly on tho promenade, divested of rings,'ear-drops and ornaments. Tho bountiful Fritz, in his loveliest gloves, intercepted hor I10- nonth ill- tlu.itnuts, and, armed with hor father'.; consent, proposed himself for her “Not yet," sho unaweved ; “wait till I wear my flowers again. ' In Germany, as iu Switzerland and Italy, natural llowuis aro indispensahlo to a young gill’s toilet. To appear at nu as sembly without a blooming tuft at the corsage or in tho hair is to indicate that tho family is in mourning, the mother sick, or tho lover conscripted. Tho dancoH which animated tho others made her cad. Sho loft tho hall and wan dered on tho hill-side. Tlioro, honoath the hedge of a sunken road, sho recog nized her heautoous J''iifz. Poor Fritz! fusing himself the ploasuro of ighl not, partake for temporizing that to-day, diinro which I10 1 her. Ah, Itettii in the oyos of every ono, they shall d together, and he shall ho recognized as her eerlobter. Slio looks hastily around for lloweis. The hill is hare, tho road is •.tony- an enclosure at tho loft otVers some promise, and Bulliun outtis. It was a cemetery. Animated with hor new resolve, she thought littlo of tho profanation, and crowned herself with lloweis from tho nearest gravo. L11 an hour tho villagers from Etlliugon saw hor leaning on Fritz’s shoulder in tho waltz. I’lint night the shade of Willultn stood at her bed-head: “You havo acceptod tho flow ors growing on my gravo and nour ished from my hoart. I am onco moro your rrrUlrr." Next day Fritz coiuo, Vadi.uit, with a silver engagement ring, which ho was to exchange f or that on Boltina’s linger, re turned by Wilhelm at his departure. But I ho ring was gone. At night Wilhelm re appeared, and showed tho ring on his linger. Nome time passed, and Beilina lost a good part of her bounty, disIraeTod as slm was between the laughing Fritz in tlm daytime and the pule Wilhelm nt night. Sho win a a-nsililo girl, however, and persuaded herself, with J'rilz's as sistance, that tho vision was created by a disordered fancy. Hut she caused in quiry to bo mado about tho grave in tho c( motory. Tho answer camo: “Under the first stone in tho lino at tho light of the gate lies tho body of William lluuss- bnch, of Ettlingen, where ho followed the trade of baker.” Then she know that sho had robbed her lover s gravo to adorn herself for 0 now cerlobter. After this tho ghost of Wil helm began to invade tho promenades witli Fritz, and slm walked evening after evening honoath tho chestnuts between hor two lovers. Tho gardonor's daughtor never looked fairer than on her wedding day. Armed with hor resolution, and filled with love for Fritz, she presented horRolf at tho altar. Tho priest hognn to recito tho sacramental words, when ho cniuo to a pause at tho sight of Dottinn, palo and wild-oyod, shivering convulsively in her bridal draperies. Wilhelm was again nt her side, kneel ing on tho right, as Fiitz on the left, llo wan in tho bridegroom's habit, and ho of fered a bouquet «d graveyard flowors — the while immortelle and I ho forgot-uio- imt. When Fritz rose and put tho ling " :i hor linger sho felt tho icy hand draw tlm tokou oil' and replace it by another. At this, overcome with terror, nnd making u wild gent uro of rejection both to right and left, sho ran shrieking out of tho church. MIIMillt ITIvtIS. THU I ’ll AIRIKs. —M It. S. Elliott, Indm.tiial Agent of tho Kansas Pacific Railway, has Loon expor nmnting upon tho cultivation upon tho plains of various seeds, without accompa nying irrigation, tho principal trials Lav ing boon made at. three stations along the railroad tho first, Wif.on. being !/:::• miles wosf of the Stale line, and I'd above the son level the second, Ri bs, .iML' miles west, and of :;,t>Iti font ele vation; and the third, pond Crock, 122 miles west, and Ii, !7f. feet iu altitudo Trials wero mado, iu those experiments, Of winter grains, as wheal, barley and rye: of spring grains, as wheat and oats; 01 various grasses ; of tree Hoods, such as oilanthUH, chostuut, pci ion, elm, ole.; and of various fruit frees. The conclusions arrived at from these investigations woro, that lucerne and other valuable forage plants, winter nnd spring grains, and trees, may bo grown on tbo plains from Rood without irrigation, us far west as tho l"0lh iiiondnui, and perhaps oven fur- tin r ; also, that trees may ho grown from sec Is, cuttings and young plants, for tim- b. r or for fruit, iu all parts of the plains l». tw« 1, the Platte and the Ark ..as riv- 01-; and, finally, that tlm growth of liv ing storm shi< Ids along the line of tho Kansas Pacific: Bail way, and of timber for tho uses of tho road, is only a matter of ottucl and time. (in 'jjon.- A roninikahlo feature attendant upon Iholalo French Genia n war is said to Imvo consisted in tho destruction of vegetation in the vicinity of the groat b.itilo fiohD, this being not simply tho re sult of mechanical injuries, but of some m ro potent agency, nnd, according to one writer, the result of tho enormous mass of powder burned during tho bat tles. As soon bs the powdor is exploded sulphuric acid is distributed through the atmosphere, and driven forward by tho winds until it fs carried by rains down into I ho soil, w haro it destroys vegeta tion, tho effect being quite similar to that of tho same gases as thrown out of manu facturing establishments. As, diuiogthe war, many thousand tons of powder w oro burned, ii would ho quite easy to under stand that an immoriHO number of oublo foot of sulphuric acid must havo beon thrown oil into the utmosphoro. Imitation <t Human Haim. - -In nn arti- o’o upon the trade in hii'tian hair, *i: 1 u- thor slates that a patent has ivcentJ.v !.«■■«>'< taken out for converting goat • hair into hair ftr ladios' uno, and that the experi ment is so successful as to render it al most Impossible to distinguish the real article from the imitation. This will ho good nows not only to tho dealers in hair, who might apprehend the exhaustion of thoir source f supply, hut also to tho ladi »who nd upon art to oompen- salo tho dofirii m ien of naturo. 1 ho same article states that in 18(18 over 22,000 pounds of hair w« re imported into Great Britain, representing tho clips of about l .,ooo women. Much of this is obtained from tho largo communities of sister hoods scattered throughout Franco and Belgium. INSURANCE. ATLANTA DEPARTMENT OFFICERS: Cen. JNO. B. CORDON, President. Cen. A. H. COLQUITT, Vice President. J. A. MORRIS, Secretary. J. H. MILLER, Sup’t Agencies. Assets Nearly $2,500,000.00! Ratio of Assets to Liabilities 146.39-100 to $100. Has just established a Branch at Columbus, Ga., and op»n#d au efliot at tho 1 'GEORGIA HOME” BUILDING. The oitizeus of Columbus and adjoining country ar« urgently rtquMttd to tx- amino tho claims of this Pioneer Company to their patronage and sappert. Investments mado and lossoa adjusted at home. COLUMBUS GA. BRANCH. OFFICERS 1 W. L, SALISBURY, Pres’t. G. GUNBY JORDAN, Vice Pres't. L. SPENCER, Secretary. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE i M. J. UKAWirOUL), O. W. DU.t.lNUIlAM, W. I.. IIJ.AUK, ALFRED I. YOUNG, C. A. REDD, W. R. DROWN, PETER PIKER. H. G. RIIUPHV, K. M. MULFOID, MEDICAL BOARD) G. J. GRIMES, M. I)., D. W. JOHNSON, II. t>. U. N. MILLED, Gen’l Agent and Manager. ■HT Policies iu Northern Companies can he transferred without lose or additieael outlay. Full particulars given by inquiry nt the office. Keep Capital at Home. Cirooil Solicitors Wanted. LAMBERT SPENCER, Resident Agent. CLOTHINC. OF ML HOLYLIN, m\\ & CO., BALTIMORE CLOTHING HOUSE, SELLINC OFF I RAILROADS. Change of Schedule. o Office Momle k Qiraad Eailroap, \ Columbus, a*., Dec t, 1*7*. ( N AND AFTKK DEC. 3D, WIDffltDAl, Arrive at Trot, I.kavi Trot, 4:6© a. m. ARRIVE AT COLUMBUE, 10:93 A. M. Ticket OOtce at Broad street Shed will be epeEael Leave Troy i Suturdaye Arrive at Columbue, dec3 eod3t Tueedaye, TburuU.ve aud • 4:00 4. M W.L. CLARK, ai» t. Western Railroad of Alabama. 532 HOURS : T0 NEW YORK Now York tnd Now Orlouu Mail Um. REGARDLESS of COST! J | aving a large STOCK OF GOODS mi hand, and the seaHOU Iu ing nearly over, we have concluded to dispose of them AT A SACRIFICE ntlliiT than ••m rv them »vcr. \VK WII.I. TIIKHEKOItK SUM. OU* ENTIRE STOCK MEN'S & BOYS’ CLOTHING Regardless'of Cost, WHK M MK.VN's Lower than the Lowest i,i if you wi-.h to secure HOFFLIN, rich A CO., IlitUiiiiorc I'lutliliig lionet-. 88 BROAD STREET. TRAINS LBAYRCOLUMIUJ* DAILY 10-.4B A For Atlanta, Arrlvo at Atlanta For Montgomery, »:4ft p. ■. 1:00 p. a. * 30 9. m. Arrive at Moutg'y, IMO r. M A. M. FOR NEW YORK, DAILY, (Time 63 home end 4e mi Baled.) LKAVK COLUMBUS *J:4* a. m. ARRIVE er Opelika 13:37 i>. ai., at AiUuta 6:M m., at Washington 7.20 a. a., N«*» Turk 4:21 a- •>-. via Philadelphia aud Baltlaiere. Sleeping tare Ran llirM«h fr«Ra Opelika la l.jackkarg. TRAINS AKK1VK AT COLUMBUS DAILY From Atlanta, *1# f. m. From Montgomery at 3:6« a. m , &3d r. R. The 5:00 p. in. Weetern Mail Iraia r«a> dally, ■'•iiinecting with traina tor New Orleaae, Mebit. Louisville, Ky , and St. Louie, at HentfOMery, aid Vlcl urg a K aery e leaping rough from Opelika to New Or- New York Eipreee train raae Tho 9::»o I-. M. ders not run Sunday. N« delay ■ tpeliku hy any traiu. Tlukoti for eale at Union l’aaeenger Depot CIIAS. P. BALL, General Sep t It. A. BACON, Agent. [aovgl tf “iF^isno” IIOliH NOT CHUUK THE SAM: OF HOOD’S EUREKA LITER MEDICINE. n > - [oetlQ dim NOTICE ’ hour of lli« day. JAMKS LYNAll, City Sea Ion. Thomas II- Aosnn. Charles B. Austin. AUSTIN it ELLIS. General Oommiision Uerohente, ■avannab, l irn.l, m.k. UI.HCU o. Clio. .. «lk« »rj. W duce, for sale here or ahlpmeat te ear Meade n New York. Boatoa or LiterpoeI. Refer in Colombue to Meaera. Rpylag m ■aaserd. oovtiB tf T. M. JONES. WITH Groover, Stubbs k Co. Cotton Factor* fcrekuti, w k Wanted. will give men and woeeea BillKtJA THAT WILL PAT from It to $* day. can be pureued in your own aelgkbe: hood; it i* a rare chance for thoae oat of employ mentor having leleure time; girle aedboyelie- iriKTBA- aug'id tf 2*2 Waekiiigtoa e».. Beetea. Mae*. N J BUSSEY, HUNT ro* American Cotton Tie Co. I LI. APPROVED pattmn* or mr*o»|U. A COTTON tin*. '■ •llo«Ml»rtairal«. * Si N iv JORNAN. „ k,i,,nMiwiw'