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Shooting the Rapids. 1 Nor So Bad a Bargact Amu Aru-Two ° * small, rocky Islands in the Behring sea, says : the London Globe, will soon have paid back WBI.CK or THE steamee BENAUD is the la- to the United States Treasury the whole sum cise rapids with 150 passengees on eipenaed for the purchase of Alaska. When EOABD—HOW THIT iscaped—ex- !** e ceS9ion of this territory was granted by f , v r ,« 0 , ytv Bnssia people smiled at the bargain made by toetion OF THE canoe MEN. t he Americans. It was asserted that Yankee shrewdness had deserted Mr. Seward in the From tlie'Montrenl Gazette, May H. ; matter. He knew better, and did not buy The steamer L. Renand left Cornwall on with his eyes shut St Paul’s and St George’s Monday morninsr, at 5 o’clock, to make her Islands, belonging to the Aleutian chain, have usual trip to Moutreal, touching at Beaubar* since been leased to tLe Alaska Commercial ncis and other points. She had on board j Company for seal fishing, at a yearly rental of from 125 to 150 passengers, and when she $55,000. A tax of nearly three dollars on each fur seal skin taken and shipped from the island is also imposed. As one hundred thousand skins are exported yearly now to San Francisco and New York, a fruitful source of revenue is obtained from these two barren rocks. This territorial enterprise of the United States is therefore a great success, and will probably he’p to develop the idea so rapidly growing in America, that colonial pos sessions are useful from many national points neared the famed Lacine Rapids the decks were crowded in anticipated excitement of the “shooting. 1 ' The vessel was staunch, the captain an experienced waterman, acquainted with the St. Lawrence, and the pilot trustworthy. When the travel ers entered into the bubbling channel and lis tened to the roar of the breakers, they expe rienced no misgivings of danger. Bat sud denly, as the steamer veered the Cheval . Rouge, an ominous crack was heard, then a view, thump, accompanied by a violent rocking, ; , and, immediately after, a tremendous cr*sb, I . f Cluca £ 0 , 18 . ftb £ ut embrace an opportu- 6* if the black hull were lent in twain. n,t f> aflorded b 3\ tLe completion of a new The terror on board waa then intense, as »ilro«d passenger depot, to incite her friends the appearances seemed to betoken instant 6 « e th « ne * city. The event will occur the destruction to all the pasueneer*. It was soon fi f rs £ week in Juoe. The new depot, capable discovered that the vessel “had struck on a i folding an audience of 40,000 persons, - - - . - i will be decorated and seated for the occasion, ami the irrepressible Gilmore will give jubilee concert®. The festival will conclude with a grand ball at the Pacific Hotel. As the re shoal of the north side, about twenty or thirty yards above the pitch of the rapids. The water at once rushed up, aad within three minutes the fires were quenched. The blow pipe broke and the steam escaped in hissing constructed city possesses new hotels capable, it is said, of accommodating 100,000 persons, columns. An elderly gentleman from Beau- “V^ 01 accommodating persons, fiamois was scalded on the neck and face, and i tbe ^‘ ca g° aus «P ect lo have a lar 8 0 1D « ni np to the half of his forehead the skin peeled 01 vls,tors - | | f off completely. His is a sad plight, and the j A CM sheriff, who had a jury locked Physicians fear thatif he has breathed any of llp the other evening, and was getting hnn- the steam .ntoh.s lungs, the result may be ; ^ recallfd to * ind that A mng > hath laial. Lis daughter, a child of ffve ei s1 ^ charms to soothe the savage breast,’’ and en- yea.s of age, had both kiMett legsgaffing * eonple of Italian harpists, he su- the right cheek very severely scalded. Twoor ffoae^Uiwn, it the j ntioor, and instructed , e fh^wnm ’ I th ' m to •«*»• They played for UD hour, 1 ^ iha but the tuneful lyre failed to soothi the jurv- The positron being crit^l in the extreme, mtn nJ th J malD e d all j bt w j,i,out Capt Hankins manned a boat, and taking lour at , rwi 0D a J „ rdic ._ of the passengers with him rowed over to Isle- D ° aux-Heron, the nearest point of land within . ~ V T~ easy distance. A second boat, commanded . a man in Qainjy, Illinois, ha 4 * been sent to by Mr. John S. Tanguay, of St. Ai.icet, J ad for fifty days for cruelly beating his little nnd Mr Wra \lt>l?n/> u merohotif r.f P..ar. ■ t)Oy, who 13 a cnPP»6. HOTELS. and Mr. Wn. McPee, a merchant of B?at> harnois, followed to the Island with ten pas sengers. The pilot took out a third boat with fifteen ladies and gentlemen. When once upon the inland it was found impossible, owing to the rapidity of the current, to return with the boats to the wreck, so the Captain dispatched two men to the Laprairie side in quest of canoes, the only craft, available for j rrRA'TO.EBS, tor»!i<u<mdf«mme.irin find thi. one the purpose. With the usual peiverse greed ■_ of the best hotels m the South. Porters at all of human nature, which preys oa mifortane, j trains who will taka care of baggage. Terms Ihe canoe men haggled for the price cf their p - B - WOODARD, services, asking as much as (2 a head for ' : every person rescued from the imperil, d SPOTSWOOD HOTEL, Madison House. MADISON, GEORGIA. MACON, GEORGIA, steamer. Of course, there was no time to ; bargain, and the terms were accepted. The canoes then shot with the foaming waters. THOMAS H. HARRIS, - - Proprietor With marvelous bravery, consummate pru- Soarcl £>3 p er Da _ deuce, and indefatigable perseverence, the 0p . P ^ OTcer p epot .Tn.t Only On. Minnas Walk handy canoiiers succeeded in taking off boat — alter boat, to the Isle-aux-Heron. All night NATIONAL HOTEL long the dreary ferrying went on under the favoring light of the moon. The island con- ; Former! j Tibbs H.'U6e,j XDalton., G-eorpiA, K. I*. O’NEILL & JNO. BARCLAY. Proprietors. feb5-U tain3 only one house, but that was thrown open by the kindly bo->t and hostess, and the i ladies at least bad a shelter from the black- j ness and damp of the night. Early yesterday morning a pioneer boat was launched by Mr. TaEgniy and Mr. L> roeque, of Valley field, accompanied by Miss j Larocqae and Miss L. H. Masson, of Coteau : Landing, who floated the river for about j three-quarters of an hour and landed at the second mile-post along the Lachine Road. Two boats followed, and io this way the whole j of the passengera^were brought to the main-! march 25-pL land. Thence the ladies were brought to the city in carriages, and many of the gentlemen j trudged on foot The passengers with whom we have con-; versed on the casualty regard their escape as ' little short of miraculous. If the vessel had 8tj^v twenty feet further in the channel, wstf there were full twenty fathoms of water, they would all inevitably have perished in the rush of the rapids. The cause of the accident will, of course, be fully investigated, but we are inloftued that it lies in the fact that the boat took a sheer, in spite of the Captain and pilot. The conduct of the Captain is bitterly complained of by the passengers. Though his motive was doubtless good, it seems clear that he should not have been the first to leave this house, his vessel, but should have remained to en- Trains stop here for d courage the frightened passengers, maintain ed order, and watch the s-ifetyof those intrusted j —-j to Lis care. The baggage of the passengers ■ will all be saved, as well as much of the cargo. The vessel itself is a total wreck. She is five ! or six years old, and is worth about $25,000. j She belongs to the company of which Hon. | NEWTON HOUSE. MBS. JANET HAUDROP, COai-TEB OF MAIN AST) SPRING STRELTS. SPARTA, GEORGIA. TERMS: CRAWFORDVILLE HOTEL, Kept by D. A. WILLIAMS, DAY BOARD $2 00 MEALS 50 WEEK 10 00 MONTH 20 00 febl8-dtf ^ H A M R O C K II O U S E . WESr POINT. GEORGIA. Hotel situated left PAT. GIBBONS, Proprietor LIVINGSTON HOTEL, NORTHEAST CORNER SQUARE, LA FAYETTE _ L. Renaud and C. S. Rodier, Jr., Esq., are | MRS. M. MARBLE, - - Proprietress, the chief directors. The work of sal vage will | Board by the Day, Week proceed without delay. Messrs. A. Buntin & Co. had about $5,000 worth of paper cn board. PLANTERS HOTEL Gainesville. Georgia, wise perish in a year, and the roads demand W. D. OLDS, — — PROPRIETOR. dec25-* Railroad Ties and the Timber Supply. Where it will end nobody knows. Year by ! year we cut down our no longer no measured 1 forest®, and strip the land of its woody wealth. Some one with a weakness for figures tells us | ihat there are 350,000,000 railroad ties laid j down in the country. To do this we cleared something like 750.000 acres of woodland. Thirty millions of these ties decay or other- the wood of 150,000acres more. This is only one item in our vast lumber interest. The rolling stock on the roads eats up 550,000 acres more each year, to say nothing of our houses, ships, furniture, and fires. These fig- nres are not particularly lively reading, but it is best to contemplate them, and briefly consider their meaning. Acute writers upon our lumber supply fix its local exhaustion within a score of years. Be this as it may, the fact cannot be disputed that the end is in sight. We do not mention this in the light of a needless alarm, bat that we may be wise in time. Economy has been considered a w eak ness in this country. The time is at hand when economy of our material wealth should be made a virtue instead of a by-word. Let our scientists show us how to save our wood, ; and our geologists and machinis's show us our j stores of iron and their application o our in- < det trial arts. The time will come when we j a prlo must change from wood to iron, and it were wise in cs to early learn the wav. LIVERY STABLE COyreCTED WITH THE HOU8E. "A GOOD HOTEL.’ The uuuniiJtBGue t > of ail who stop at UNIVERSITY HOTEL, ATHENS, GEORGIA, LV R. H. LAMPKIN. I | 1 J • Q f** |W, B. HOPJS. ' JOHN W. ES1GH. WH. ltcflLCS Fitzgibbon, Curtis & Co., hope, leigh & co. SHOP ON BROAD STREET, NEAR ALABAMA, MANUFACTURERS OF CARRIA8ES AND WAGONS OF ALL KINDS. 'SS, REPAIRING NEATLY EXECUTED. -®Sj All Work Guaranteed to Give Satisfaction. GREENE & ROSSICNOL. Successors to W. H. TUTT, WBoloaalo Dealers ixx Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Perfumery, AND DRUGGISTS’ SUNDRIES, PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, GLASS, ETC. No. 2Q-1, Broad St., Augusta, G-eorgia. AGENTS FOR W1L H. TUTT’S STANDARD PREPARATIONS. (SUCCESSORS TO YABNELL, LEIGH & CO.) Commission Merchants, FOOT CF MARKET STREET. CHATTAN006A, TENN. •9-PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO ORDERS, AND CASH ADVANCES ON CONSIGNMENTS. *S* Special Reference—To Bonks of Chattanooga. uiayS-eodJm BOOT, SHOE, AND HAT STORE: O. C. CARROLL, WHOLESALE DEALER IN LIQUORS, Agent for the Nashville, St. Louis, Chicago and Atlanta ALE &c LAGER BEHEOR,. Also, for the celebrated “Russell ” and “Old Wickliffe” Whiskies. No. 9- South Pryor Street, Atlanta, Ga. april 20-d3m PETER LYNCH, 92 WHITEHALL STREET, ATLANTA, GA., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCER, Ami Wholesale Liquor Dealer, and Denier in GLASSWARE, CROCKERY, PROVISIONS, COUNTRY PRODUCE, &C. Gibson’s Fine Whiskies made a specialty in the Liquor line. Just receiving now a Large lot of Seed Irish Potatoes, l.andreth's Carden Seeds, Onion Sets, Gardenin Tools, &c. Terms CASH. JUST OPENED AT *73 Wlaitoliall Street, BARRETT, COKER & W E beg to announce to the citizen* of Atlanta, th»t we have opened, at the location above named, an exclu aively BOOT, STIPE and HAT STORE. We pr3p«8 ke eping FIRST-CLASS GOODS, which we shall sell &a LOW as any house in the city. Give us a rll-lm BARRETT, COKER k CO. CO., KEEP YOl’R VEGETABLES, MILK, &e., (00L. Eire perfect satisfaction. Ten pounds of ice will run you a day, aad give you plenty for your table GOOCH'S PATENT ICE CREAM FREEZER will make more and better Cream, from the same amount, than any ether Freezers known. It is takin place of the other Freezers in the market. Has taken Premiums at all the State Fairs. A splendid assortment of BIRD CAGES of every description. Finefct stock of SLATE MANTLES evet brought South. Manufacturer of and wholesa'e dealer in STOVES, GRATES, TIN WARE, AND HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, 81 WHITEHALL STREET, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. _*ii~ Splendid Stock of Wood-Ware at wholesale always on hand. apl20-SunATn-3t Xj. 33. XiAKTOPOIlD. Great Labor-Saving Machine. UNITES STATES BRANCH OF THE LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION ! o W E PUBLISH THE FOLLOWING EXTRACT FROM THE STATEMENT OF THE AMERICAN MAN agers of this Company: •‘The London Assurance Corporation of London was incorporated by Royal charter n the year 1720, with a subscribed capital of $4,482,750 (gold), of which $2,241,375 (gold) has been paid in cash. The funds of the Company on the 1st January, 1872, were $13,234,420, in geld.” The Agency of this Corporation was assigned to us on the 8th April last. We commend it to the solid busi- nee s men and property holders of Atlanta. WALKER Sc BOYD, Agents, No. 2. Wall street, Kimball House. COMPANIES REPRESENTED BY US : LONDON A8SURANCE CORPORATION, LIVERPOOL AND LONDON AND GLOBE, THE HOME, OF OHIO, NEW YORK LIFE, - »p25-eod-lGd $13,234,420 gold 20.000. 000 gold 800,000 22.000. 000 W. M. PENDLETON <& CO., Whitehall Street. i RE RECEIVING AND OPENING DAILY A FINE ASSORTMENT OF ■LEY S UNRIVALLED SHAFT PLOUGH. o Saves tlii fforl of Two Moo oni Two Horses. O Clears a Cotton or Com Row at One Round. PRICE ONLY $24 WITH THREE PLOW POINTS. T HIS PLOUGH has had a fair trial in this section, and Iisb proven that i? is just the labor-saving machine that our people want. It has the endorsement ot the beet pfar.ters who have seen it, and the LOW PRICE places it in the reach of everybody. Blank Books, Writing Paper. Wrapping Paper, Slates, Chalk Crayons, Bill Files, Letter kilen, Iuvoice Files, EnvelopF, Pencils, Ink, Steel I’e cUMucilage, Cl Dominoes, Playing Cards, ^ Back O&mrncn Boards, Copying Books, O Copying Presses, Z Copying Ink, 13:11 Heads, _ Letter Heads Printers’ Cards, KTEWTON HOUSE, Athens, Georgia. clerk the last six years, takes pleasure in announcing to the traveling public and citizens cf Athens and sur rounding country, that he is prepared to accommo date all who may favor him with their patronage. Persons wishing to spend the summer months in this delightful ci*y, will be accommodated at very rea sonable rites. A. D. CL1NARD. april8-2mo Proprietor. Gold Pens, > Flat Papers, AND EVERYTHING USUALLY KEPT IN A FIRST-CLASS STATIONERY HOUSE. As we make a specialty of Stationery of course we are prepared to sell as cheap as any house South, and guarantee to do so. Orders for Job Printing of every description solicited, guaranteeing work to be a* good and prices as low as any bouse South. W. M. PENDLETON & CO. april5-dly 68 Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Ga. 7aB~ Read the following certificates from planters at liftme and at a distance : Srxi-DiSfi County, Ga., April 15, 1873. The undersigned have seen the “ Brinley Shalt Plow ” at work far two days, bedding lor cotton, working in corn and cotton, and have worked it ourselves, and we express our entire satisfaction with it in every way. It makes an elegant bed at every trip, and thoroughly pulverizes the land at the same time. After bed ding, we plowed down the bed on the water furrow—the place for guano, reversing the bed and covering the guano at the same time. In corn planted in six feet rows, one round cleared the row, and left the land in splen did order, which would have required five furrows with a single plow, thus saving over one-half the labor, and doing the work equally as well, if not better. Cotton rows from three to three aud a half feet, were cleared at one furrow, which would have required two furrows with any other plow. As a cultivator it surpasses any thing wc ever saw, and for bedding lands after being broken, it cannot be surpassed, as it does the work of three men and mufcs. We cheerfully give it our fullest endorsement and recommendation, as the greatest la bor-saving agricultural implement that has ever been on our farms, or in this country. The draft of the plough is as light as a Dixon Sweep on a single stock—a medium mule carrying it with ease. H. M. GRAY, S. F. GRAY, H. A. BROOKS, J. T. GRAY- J. M. BROWN, The “ Brinley Plough” is adapted splendidly for bedding cotton or corn land, and for the cultivation of field crops. I have made many ploughs, aud understand what ploughs 6hon'd do, and unhesitatingly say that the •« Shaft Plow ” will do all that ia claimed for it as s cultivator, saving the labor of two men and mules. J AS. M. BARFIELD. GniFris, Ga., April 8,1873. Mb. A. M. SPEKiHTS—Dear Sir: We witnessed the working of your” BRIN LEY’S SHAFT PLOW,” on the land of S. B. Burr, this day, and do not hesitate to say that it is good for all claimed for it. It broke and bed ded cotton land as well, if not better, than one horse and hand could do, making a complete bed at one haul. It is equal to three hands and three mules, and is easily worked by one mule or one horse. We consider it a great labor-saver, 2nd unhesitatingly recommend it, and will use it curselves as soon as they can be procured. S. E. BURR. RUF. JOHNSON. DR. J. H. COXNALLF. W. F. Roberts, of Grahamvllle. 8. C.. says: •• No ether Tnill or Shaft Plough ia anywhere by the side of Brinley’e. My Foreman has tried it, and says that Brinley's is worth a dozjn of any other. The negroes are delighted with it.” W. G. Gibbs, Columbia, S. C., 6*ys: “ TLe Shaft Plough lias been worked with perfect success and satisfac tion. I am delighted with it.” W. A. Walters, Simpsonville, Ky., says: •• Works admirably—cleans out a row of corn at one sweep—easily managed—runs as steadily as a breaking plough—will do twice the work of a double shovel and do it better.” A. C. Jackson, Greensboro, Ga., says: “ I find your Shaft Plow the perf-clion of coverers for corn and cot ton.” J. H. Nichols, Nacooche, Ga., pays: “The Brinley Shaft Plow, for the purpose for which it is designed, ex cels anything I have seen used.” One of his Lauds says; “I would as soon plough with this plough as to play." R. H. George, Simpsonville Ky., says: “ Excels anything I have ever seen—puts the ground in fine condi tion—can be used from the time the corn is up uut 1 it is full grown—more easily handled than any other plow.” State, County aud Farm Lights for sale by A. M. SPEIGHTS, Griffin, Ga. •prlO atf National Life The United States of America, GOULD, BARTON & CO. COMMISSION MERCHANTS. Wholesale Dealers in FLOUR. GRAIN, MEATS ai General Proto. CORN. We are row prep&red to supply merchants with CORN in any quantity at LOWEST MARKET OA.. ap27-d • Board.—Per $2.00 ; per week, f C.0C. Lunacy in Scotland. An official etateocent, recently published, shows that there are in Scotland nearly 8,000 lunatics in asylums, private dwellings and sundry institutions—considerably more than half this number being frmales—while in ad dition it is estimated that there are nearly 2,000 unreported, the mass of whom are little removed from x>anperism. The numl er of insane actually known to the official authori ties has increased in three years about thirty per cent. Eighty per cent, of the inmates of lunatic establishments are paupers, the re mainder being private patients, and hence the inference is drawn that “insanity is essen tially a disease affecting the less affluent claeses.” Moreovir, it is anticipated that the number of insane poor will go on steadily in creasing until the sanitary education of the masses has made some progress. The average annua! number of pauper lunatics “produced” throughout Scotland during the last thirteen years has been about 38 for every 100,000 of the population. Comparing the statistics of English and Scotch asylums, it appears that the mortality in the former averages one-fifth higher than the latter; but Scotch lunatics, it seems, are either naturally more prone to sui cide, or have greater facilities at their com mand for terminating their confinement in this way, the number of such coses of self-de struction being much greater in Scotland than in England. It is said there are twenty persons in Geor gia under sentence of death, all to be executed within the next sixty days. NATH) NAL HOTEL. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Wasmnston, D. O. ‘ESTABLISHED IH 1854.) J. E. OWENS, Proprietor, | Late of J’icilaocnt aiidl Grange Hotel, LyncLburg, Va. BAG3AS3 CARRIED TO AMD FROM THE DiPCT j FREE OF CHARGE. i HO WARD HOUSE BROAD STREET, | JTearly Oyi' llle ilontaojnrry ami KnfeuU R. It, Depot EUFAULA, ALABAMA. j BJARD—Per lay 5 2 j tfja m The Best House in town. sprit fy W. J. HOWAgPJfqp-r. ; Paris MloeryEstaMisliieot No. 35 Whitehall Street, j NOW CONDUCTED BY MISS M. B. McDOWELL Has just received s fine assortment of MILLINERY GOODS! OF LATEST STYLES, Jand will continue to receive weekly all the varieties , and novelties in her line of business. Ladies are ie- I spectfnlly invited to call before purchasing elsewhe re. I sp27-tf ! Cash Capital $1,000,000 ! | FULL PAID. Cash Assets $2,563,911.63.! BRANCH OFFICE, Philadelphia, where the business of the Company is irdora.-ied. 0)FICEPS: E. A. ROLLINS, rresiacut. JAY COOKE, Chairman Fiuance ami Executive Committee. H D. COOKE. (Washington) Vice-FrcsiJen*. EMMEttSOX W. L’EET, Vice-President and Actuary. JOHN M. BUTLER, » Secretary. FRANCIS GURNEY SMITH, II. U., Xlrdical Director \YM. E. CHANDLER, (Washington,) Attorney. Wholesale Confectioner, s f _L' jBj _a. im: Candy and Cracker Manufactory, AXD DEALER IX E. A. ROLLINS, JAY COOKE. CLABXXCE II. CLARK, GEORGE F. TYLER, WM. G. MORCHEAP, JOHN W. ELLIS, DIRECTORS: HENRY D. COOKE, J. HINCKLEY CLARK, WM. E. CHANDLER, JOHN P. DUPREES, EDWARD DODGE. II. C. FAHNESTOCK. BENJAMIN B. LAY, of Atlanta, General Apit for Georgia. Agents watUed in every Town and County in the State. Addns COL. B. D. LAY, mav 13-d- tf. Fruits, Nuts and Preserves. — ALSO- Toys, Willow Ware, Ac., Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Georgia-