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At Home with the Trappiata A. eorrenpondent of the London Soho writes from the Abbey of Westmalle, Dear Antwerp, under date of July 31st: “Nothing is more amusing than the English traveler abroad grimly determined -to t» mediaeval. Filled with infusion of'Murray,'and whistling an air from ‘Genevieve de Brabant,’ he steps gaily on the quay at Antwerp, half expecting that night to snp with Egmont and the Duke of Alva. What happens ? Do we not know who have traveled? Fortiers, vigilante drivers, hotel-keepers, all conspire against him. Worst of all, the natives flaunt his nationali ty so annoyingly in his fsee. He saunters into a cafe, demands a 'Rock,' as he fancies in the purest Parisian. The rude waiter says at once, nnd with scarcely a glance. Yes, Sir, twopence ha'penny, please !' He cannot be media-val if he would. Even the old ‘milor’ fiction is a thing of tbe past, and wa most be content to he what we are—nineteenth-cen tury Englishmen and the lawful quarry of To those whom thin thought offends, who would seek to preserve their illusions. I would say, “Flea the city.” Stand not upon tbe order of your going, but go at once to the Abbey of La Trappe, at Westmalle, in the heart of the Cam pine, a poor, hungry heath- land, very unlike that Roman Campsgna its name recalls. A diligence rumbles daily across this moorland to Hoogstraaten, near to the Dutch frontier. Whence it starts I never knew, having been content to wait for it at a roadside inu about a mile beyoDd the ram parts. Here, inspired by 4 wit beer,’ at six cen times a glass, I have striven to talk “vlaamsch —this is the way the ignorant native spells Flemish. My efforts were unsuccessful, I may add. and I joyed when the diligence ap peared, and mounting by the driver’s side, rattled along at a furious hand gallop of nearly seven miles an hour, over a road paved as well as the Strand, Lut with grass grow ing np through every fissure, until at last, having passed the twenty-first kilometre stone, I see a ‘Herberg’ in the distance, and after moch English and French and more ges ticulation, made the driver understand I want to descend. And now, how shall I reach the abbey ? I know it is near, but I know no more, nor, in deed, appear likely to, for tbe peasants shake their heads, and ‘can no Fransh.’ By a lucky inspiration I utter the words ‘La Trappe. ’ In stantly a dozen fingers points to a paved road directly opposite the inD, and to a long, low building. As I approach it, the building seems to grow and assumes fine proportions, as well it may, being the only Trappist Abbey in Belgians. After ringing and waiting in the hot pud, the door is opened presently by a quaint, old, humpbacked, white-bearded porter, spectacles on nose, and pouch on side; Keys rattle at his girdle, and he wears the rough working garb of the Oorder. Through the door way protrudes his clean-shaven head, brown as a berry with tbe sun, and his mouth speaks vlaamsch. I ink admittance in French. A bilingual colloquy ensues, satis factory to neither. At last an old white-robed lather appears and welcomes me, taking my portmanteau perforce, and leading to the par lor. How long can I stay?—a week ? I hint that I can ill spare a day. The old man looks sorry—presses, however, no further, but offers to show me a room. I follow him up a stair case, and along a great guest’s corridor, whence open off cells inscribed with the names of the various saints. I am to lodge at the extreme end with St. Hilary. A key is given me, opening every door in tne nouse. There is but one other visitor here, a French cure, “nn compatriot,” as my guide kindly says. Tbe ftbought flatters ne’s vanity, so I am silent. Should 1 like to as sist at vespers, now going on? Why onot The father leads the way to the gallery of the chapel set apart for strangers. We pass a font of holy water. He takes some, crosses himself, and offers it to me. At the door he pauses; he cannot accompany me; he is busied down below. The Abbey is comparatively modern. Here, as elsewhere, is the flagrant lack of artistic taste characteristic of much of modern Roman Catholicism. The bare star ing walls, tbe tawdry ornaments on the side altars, and the dauby pictures above them, how ill they harmonize with the grand Gre gorian chant that swells up from below. Per haps the most jarring sight of all is the fat dapper cure, au unmistakable materialist and hankerer alter the flesh-pots ot Egypt, who smiles a greasy welcome to me. That man is to be avoided. Surely he is twin brother to the Autwept touts. Vespers finished, I got into the corridor, and, soon getting rid of the cure, shut my self up with St. Hilary, not to read the Med itations, nor the Directions for the Proper Hearing of Maas, which the good old father unobserved brought from the library, but rather to sit at the open window, and look out over the clean sunny garden, and harken to the swallows twittering afar off, any one of which might have been tbe bird that sang to Monk Felix of the heavenly city and the marvelous boauty thereof. My eyes wander over bean-rows, regular and unbroken as the lives ot the monks who planted them. Fur ther on is some waste land in course of re claiming, ite loose, dry sand showing plainly how great the labor, how untiring the energy that caused this desert to bloom as it does.'’ Oldest Mills in Atlanta! Long Established, Always Running and Never Failing, Reliable STANDARD FLOUR. JAMES E. BUTLER, Proprietor of Butler’s City Mills Comer Bartow Street and W. & A. Railroad. t Grinds Annually 300,000 Bushels Wheat! & HOLDERS. WHOLESALE Boots and Shoes, Republic Block, (Opposite Kimball House,) Atlanta, sepl4tf Georgia. 0. H. JONES & CO., LIVHHY AND SALE STABLES. DEALERS IN HORSES & MULES -T- McDaniel, GKEO. W. PAhitGTT & BRO, COTTON WAREHOUSE & COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Cor. Pryor A Hunter^., sep2-lm _ ATLANTA, i,„ -ajeCrTow ties. A Cargo just arriving via Port Royal, South Carolina. We will eupply the trade on reasonable terms. STEPHENS <fc FLYNN. aug31-lm AMERICAS COTTON TIE. 100 Tons Arrow lies; 1,000 bushels Seed Rye. for sale by aug31-lm STEPHENS & FLYNN. IBLO TIES. WE are sole Agents in Atlanta for the ‘AMERICAN COTTON TIE” Company, and are prepared to supply dealers with the famed Arrow Tie. Send in your orders. * STEPHENS & FLYNN. aag31-lm Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company of California, CASH CAPITAL $.*100,000 OO CASH ASSETS OO JONES &BEATIE. aug27-tf JNO. C. WHITNER, Agent, 38 Broad Street, Atlanta, Go. Butler’s ‘Pride of Dixie’ Is conceded to be the FINEST FLOUR ever made in this section. It is from the very best and most carefully selected White Wheat—no other. The attention of the Trade is most respectfully invited to the productions of his Mills—warranted every way to be as good as the best. Give him a call, or send orders to Atlanta Live Stock Yards FOR THE KEEPING ANDfSALE OF Sheep, Hoars and Cattle. tieue -vxF^oiisri^. FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE CO. Liabilities $ 11,314 75 Assets 353,413 79 Net Assets 342,099 04 Losses Paid Since Organization 1,500.000 00 Forty-one years in existence. Bates as low as in any other Good Company. A.11 Iiossea will bo I*r onxptly Paid. Ten Thoussud Dollars sre deposited with Hou. W. L. Goldsmith, Comptroller General of the State of Geor- _ , tt . _ . ... I pia, for security of the policy in tnls State. Largest House in its Line in Atlanta. ; w - L - tWAKCM - \ »«*■ willis ' jr - J. GADSDEN KING, Agent, — Broad street. ATLANTA, GA. ARLINGTON Also, Agent for the London and Lancashire Fir*-—Capital: 000,1)00. State Agent, Cotton States Life Insurance Company, Macon, Ga.—Assets: $542,2ul 28. Deposited with Comptroller General, of Georgia, $100,000. ang28-2m J. E. BUTLER, sep!4 CITY BREWERY! FECHTER, MERCER A CO., Atlanta, Ga. Tobacco Factory. sepl4tf PIEDI LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Of Richmond, Va. AGENCY OFFICE: No. 2 Capitol Building, i ATLANTA, GA. C. E. Jenkins, Agent. ! ROUTE TO AND FROM NEW YORK. Southern men, do you know that the South i are sending nearly Twenty Millions of Dol-! lars annually, in cash, to Northern and New England Life Insurance Companies, thereby building up palatial insurance palaces all over the North with your money? These Twenty Millions of Dollars, retained in the South, in the bauds of a strong Southern Life Insur ance Company, would do much towards build ing up our own financially crippled cities. In fact, these Northern life companies are drain ing us of that pecuniary life-blood, we so sadly need to rebuild our waste places, and regain our financial prosperity. The people ! of the South are accustomed to look for rapid j financial growth, shrewd mauagement, and an j accnmulation of moneyed corporations, to Tin Great Southern Freipt Passenger Via Savannah., Georgia. _ YORK, in connection with the CENTRAL RAILROAD OF GEORGIA, EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY. Make aa quick time and have superior accommodations to anv Steamships on tbe Southern coast* THROUGH FREIGHT carried at ae LOW RATES aa any other route. All claim* for losa, damage or overcharge settled promptly. PASSAGE FROM ATLANTA TO NEW YORK, $27 50, MEALS AND STATE ROOMS INCLUDED. Of General Mahone’s Opinion . . Caesarism, General Mabone, the great railroad man, beiDg asked how the South would feel if the President were to become Caesar Grant, je- plied: “ Why, sir, the people of the .South have nothing to do with the matter, and I think it would be presumption in them to have anything either to do or say in the pre mises. We are regarded and treated as con quered provinces. For myself, I look upon the Southern States in that light, and I don't think they should have any concern as to what form the government of the country assumes. It can make but very little dif ference to them, situated politically as they i are now. We fought for oar independence and were defeated. We can’t and dou’i rx- 'Extractive matter—dextrine, sugar, hop, resin, pect from the United States government all j xl ^V o rt^ni7by"l\U;‘.!!":!.'V.'.1! we fought for. e stood by our State govern- ! w»ier.... ss.oiull mentn, and if Virginia seceded again. I wonldj PROPRIBT it It. S. MANUFACTURERS OF THE Best Lager Beer In tlio Soutn, And proved superior to any made elsewhere and brought here. S. H. HOLLAND & CO. june!4-d3m $45.00. MEALS AND STATE ROOMS INCLUDED, information furnished by application to the undersigned. CEORCE A. M’CLESKEY, Traveling Agent, Steamship Co.'s Office. No. 4 Kimball House. MANUFACTURERS. Xo. 285 Marietta Street, Atlanta. - - - Georgia. this city, of some Lager Beers made in Cincin nati, induced us at once to execute * purpose, deter mined on some months ago, to submit a sample of our Atlanta-made Beer to tbe same competent chemist tor analysis, the result of which, with the correspondence, we give below: Atlanta, Ga., July 2, 1873. Prof. W. J. Land, Analytical Chemist, City: Dear Sir:—Herewith we have the pleasure of submit ting, for yonr professional examination, a sample of our every-day manufacture of Lager Beer, with the request that you subject the same to a clos^ and rigid chemical analysis, and report the result to us at your earliest convenience. Respectfully, FECHTER & MERCER. EXCURSION TICKETS tluir more thrifty Northern friends; but the | rp Q y ew Y01*K 1111(1 lU‘t Ill'll. GOO(l tO 1st October. ! PIEDMONT AND ARLINGTON i LIFE INSURANCE COMFY Of Riclimond, Va., ! has demonstrated that Southern talent, prop- j ( erly directed, can equal any upon the globe, j ! This Company has been moving onward and I I tipward, and now ranks second to none on this continent. Its progross is great; its cau- j fion fully evidenced; its expenses only about I • one-half of companies of like age; its pros- { pects fine. It has passed the rigid inspection I of the Northern Insurance Department; it therefore offers all the security and permanen cy that any life company cau offer, and as such is entitled to preference over any other com pany doing business in onr midst. Remember the PIEDMONT and ARLING TON LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY of Richmond, Va. sep!4tf IRON WAREHOUSE w E HAVE ON HAND NEW CARRIAGE REPOSITORY. ATLANTA, CEORCIA. Atlanta, Ga., July 10, 1873. Mean*. Fechter k Mercer, Atlanta, Ga.: Gentlemen:—The sample of Atlanta “City Brewery” Lager Bear received from you proves, npou a thor ough chemical examination, to be quite tree trom all injurious substances, as drugs, etc. Pure Hop Resin is the only bitter principle fouud in the article, ami tbe analysis below, ahowiug per centage of the chief proximate constituents, would recommend the bever age to cousumera of beer. I am, very trulr, yours. WM. J LAND. Analytical chemist. stand by my State and fight, the war over again. We should have nothing whatever t» do with national politic* or national atf.irs. ‘•There is where we made the mistake in the last Presidential campaign, and that is why Greeley was defeated. There was a big split then in the Republican party of tbe North, which, if it had been taken advantage of ju diciously, might have defeated Grant and elected Greeley ; but as soon as the Southern States held conventions and indorsed Greeley, then the people of the North looked upon him as our candidate, and bis doom was sealed. Had we ot the South said nothing, but stayed at home and attended to oar business, and then gone to the polls and voted, Greeley would have been elected. We ought to have nothing to say in regard to national politics. What we want to entablish is our pecuniary and material independence, control onr State governments, manage our domestic affairs as far as they will allow us, live peaceably aud orderly as good citizens under tbe govern ment, rendering unto C:csar tbe things which Cmut exacts as his. and quietly await the de velopment of events.” Specific gravity of the Beer, 1.0158. The above analysis, made from a sample taken from the same Links lrom which we daily fill casks for city consumption and for shipment, conclusively establishes the great superiority of our Lager Beers over that nude in Cincinnati, in that it contaius a so much larger per ceutuge of nutritious elements— dextrine (starch), sugar, albumen, and pure hop resin. As no sngar is used in the manu facture, the sacchariue matter contained in our Lager Beer is only that derived from the vtgetable ingredients employed. We confidently place our Th»t aged and respectable old woman isn't CITY BREWERY LAGER BEER piecing bed quilts or knitting stockings an; more, bat has gone to eutting tan-bark, averages five cords per ds;. and they say she can drink from a two gallon jug without ceughiag.— Detroit Free Press. Notice to eweh and entry person in the United States who will send bis or her name to tbe proprietor of Jackson's 'Magic Balaam shall receive a bottle of Jackson’s Magic Bal- sou), free of charge, by paying tbe express on it. Jackson’s Magic Balsam will cure the head- ! a cbe in less time than you can talk ubout it. I in open and square competition with any other manufacture, nnsured that, as a bever age containing a considerably larger per cent- age of nutritive nnd tonic properties, in pro portion to weight or volume, than any other offered in the South, it commends itself to all consumers as the most healthful. Hr Order* and continuance of furors solicited. m FECHTER, MERCER A CO. *«ptl4 Four Thousand Boxes Of Tobacco, All manufactured of the best VIRGINIA LEAF TOBACCO, Consisting of all grades of plug and twist, among which are the following brands; S. H. HOLLAND'S REST, G. N. HALL'S-A No. 1, S. H. HOLLAND'S CABLE TWIST, S. H. HOLLAND'S EMPIRE TWIST, OH ROUGH AND READY, and EMMA TWIST. They give steady employment to one hun dred hands. Their capacity is THREE THOUSANDS POUNDS PER DAY. We have been manufacturing Tobacco here for the jMist five years, and are very much en couraged by our success. We have a good climate for the manufactur ing of good Tobacco, and having had forty years experience in the business, we can with confidence, guarantee satisfaction to all buyers. Tbaiikiug the public for past favors, and | soliciting n continuance cf your patronage, We ore, very tteupectfuUy, OF TECE Scofield Rolling Mill Co., ZtsTO. ATLANTA, GEORGIA. 28 ZeiE^CHTF^IElIE] ST. BAR IRON of all kinds, Warranted equal to any made, wholesale and retail, at 4Jc. rates. Call and examine the stock and get a Price List. augSl-dAwtf WOODRUFF & JOHNSON Have established a Repository at Mark W. Johnsons Agricultural Building, corner of Alabama and Forsyth streets, where they are now receiving a fresh stock of Carriages, Buggies and Wag ons from some of the best manu factories in America, and made] especially to their order for this market. The Woodruff Buggy, which is justly celebrated for its great DURABILITY and light draught, will be one of the spe cialties of this Repertory. It is the intention of this firm to supply GOOD, WARRANTED WORK tit, the lowest possible price, making it an inducement for parties living at a distance from Atlanta to come here to purchase, or send their orders. Any style of Carriage or Buggy made to special order tit short notice. W.W. WOODRUFF. MARKW. JOHNSON. aug23-dlm eplJtf S. II. HOLLAND A CO. XOO.OOO POUNDS DRIED FRUIT. M. WELLHOGSE. National Life The United States of America, Washington, D. O. Cash Capital $1,000,000! FULL PAID. Cash Assets $2,563,911.63. BRANCH OFFICE, Philadelphia, where the business of the Company i* transacted. OFFICERS: E. A. ROLLINS Preoidenv JAY COOKE Chairman finance and Executive Committee. H. D. COOKE, (Washington) Vice-President EMMEUSON W. PEET, Vice-President and Actuary JOHN M. BUTLER Secretary FRANCIS GURNEY SMITH, M. D Medical Director WM. E. CHANDLER, (Washington,) Attorney. E. A. BOLLJK8. JAY COOKE. OLARKNOE H. CLARK, UKOKOKF. TYLER. WM. G. MOHEHEAD, JOHN W. ELLIS. DIR C T O R S: HENRY D. COOKE, i. HINCKLEY CLARK, WM. K. CHANDLER. JOHN D. DUPREES. EDWARD DODGE. H. C. FAHNESTOCK. BENJAMIN D. LAY of Atlanta, Goioml Atilt for Boom Agent, wanted In every Town nod County in the State. Addreee— COL. B. D. LAY, aen.nl Agent, at Sntloul Ho*-l. Atlanta, Georg .