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THREE dollars per annum in advance. ATHENS, GA. APRIL 26, 1872. JJoutlicm.fjaimer. rl'Ul.lMIKD WKKKLT, BY S. A. ATKINSON, AT THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, STRICTLY IS ADVASCK. Office, lircvl ■it., overJ. II. Huggins. IUTKS OF ADVEBTISUifl. »d ,«rtlwmrnts will he inwrU-d *t One Dollar and Fiftv Cehie per S,uare of 12 lines, for the first, and Sarentr-ft *e Cents for earh subsequent insertion, tor any time under one month. For a longer period libera! contracts will he made. Miscellaneous. wf WOOD, DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF P V RN1TURE. LpURNITURE REPAIRED, UP- ! -L holstered and varnished, nlso a large variety of wood coffins and Fisk’s Potent Metalie Ilurial Cases always on hand. Wardrooms on Clayton St., next to Episcopal Church. Sep9 6m. WILLIAM WOOD. Miscellaneous. VOL. XU.—NO. 44—NEW SERIES VOL, 5. NO. 27 Business Directory. i ,m vit conn. a. s. EnwiN. howelL conn conn, ERWIN & COBB. A TTORNEYSAT LAW, Aihcus, Georgia. Office in the Deuprec building. Slxty-Fire First 1‘rire Medals Awarded 1 THE CHEAT Southern Piano MANUFACTORY. K. P. LUMPKIN HENRY JACKSON. Lumpkin & Jackson, A TTORNEYS AT LAW, will practice in the Superior t'ourt of Clark county, the Supreme Court of the State, and the United State* Court for the Northern District of Georgia. feb. !*lf SAMUEL P. THURMOND, A ttorne y a t e a w, Athens, Ga. Office on Broad street, over Barry %% Son’* Store. Will give special attention to easss in Bankruptcy. Also, to the collection of ail claims entrusted to his care. J. 4. A J. ALEXANDER, TNEALERS IX HARDWARE, VJ Iron Steel, Nail 1 *, Carriage Material, Mining mplements, Ac., Whitehallst., Atlanta. M.VAN ESTES, ,\ TTOllNEY AT LAW, _-A- lloiner, liauka Coudiv, Ua. JAY 0. GAILEY, JNVJTES ATTENTION TO IIIS NEW FALL STOCK WM. KNABE & CO., MANUFACTURERS OF tiRAWP)W(|iARE AND IPRIRIIT Piano Fortes. Rnltimore, Mnrylnud. rpHESE INSTRUMENTS have been l»efore the public for nearly thirty years and upon th**ir excellence alone attained an’unpur- ehaitdpre-eminence, which pronounces them un equalled. in TOKO, TOUCH, WORKMANS akd duhabiwtt. »*, All our Sruare Pianos have our new im proved DVKKSTRi no scale and the terratfe Treble. «i«L. We would cal! npecial attention to our late Patented improvements in BRA Ml FUNDS. and SQIAKE LRtMl. f„u nd in no other Piano, which bring the Piano nearer perfection than lias yet Ih-oii attained. EVERY 1*1 AMI FYLLY WARRANTED FOR 5 YEARS HA. We art by special arrangement enabled to furnish PARLOR ORGANS and MKLODEONS of the most celebrated makers, wholesale and retail, at l.oirest Factory Prices. Illustrated i’atalogues and Price Lists furnished on application t* H M. K NARK A TO., Balt. Md. Or „..y regular established agencies. novlOf.m The Best Hat Trap Out! ACENTS WANTED. TTMVE TO TEN DOLLARS a day _U can lie made by selling Veronee’s Patent Rat Traps. Read the following certificates from well- known and reliable persons who have tried them : This is to certify that I hare tried one of C. B, Verennee’s patant rat traps, and caught fourteen rats in one night; and I feel safe in recommending it to my friends and the public generally as a per fect success. C. B. VAIL. Newton House* Athens Ga. March l4tb, 1872. This is to certify that I have tried one of Mr. Veronee’s patent rat traps, and find it superior to any I have ever seen, having caught eleven rats the first night, and many others at other tinus since* A. fc. CLlNARD, Clerk. Athens, Ga., March 14tli, 1872. This is to certify that I have tried one of Mr. Veronee’s patent rat traps, and find it superior to any 1 have ever seen, having caught fourteen in two nights, and many more at other times since. JOHN SEYMOUR. Athens, Ga., March 14th. 1872. This is to certify that I have used one of Mr. C. B. Veronee’s patent rat traps|at the Athens Facto ry, nnd find it one of the best ever used, having caught over one hundred* rats in the said trap, in a very short time. C. A. SHURLEY. Price $2 50. Liberal discount to agents. For further information address mar 22 C. B. VERONEE, Athens, Ga. CH1MXEYS A XI) PURE KEROSENE f all and examine his sin *ept 15-tf. 01 E. k betore purchasing. SHARP & FLOYD, Successors to George Sharp, Jr., Jewellers \\ Silver sstxiihs? A tlantn, Ga, '"K OFFER a largo variety J. C. BARBIE. Dealer in Groceries *V Provisions, College Avenue, Athens, Ga. r riIE BEST SUGAR, COFFEE, JL Lard, Soda, Flour, Meal, Pickles, Oysters, Nuts, Orange*, Apples, 1 rarkers, Cheese, A*e., al ways on hand. Abo fresh country Butter, Eggs. Potatoes, Ac. * jan 1 Ini PIANOS AND ORGANS! ON MONTHLY 1XSTALMKXTS OF TEN TO TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS. Ilnllet. Davis & bo. and Stein war & Sons, r PWO LEADING PIANOS of the L world’. the oldest Factories. and taken mere NSUW SOOS$. W ILD MEN AND WILD BEASTS. By Lt. Col. Gordon Cummlng. Illustrated. 81 50. Japan in Our Dav. Bayard Taylor. Illustrated. 1 50. Wonder*of Vegetation, liy Prof. Scheie de Vere. Illustrated* Si 50. The Land of Desolation. By Dr. Isaac T. Hayes, illustrated. 81 50. Helen Kthinger, or Not Exactly Right. Si 50. Heir of Kedcliff—uew edition. 2 vols. 82 50. The Daisy chain— 4 ‘ “ “ 2 50. Beecheroft " “ §1 25. The Two Guardians—new edition. SI 25. Chamber’s Miscellany—complete. 8 vols. green cloth. 510. Ouida’s Novels—cloth. $2 each. Mayne Reid s Novels—cloth. Si 50 each. Marian liarland’s novels. Si 50 each. For »ale at Bl KKL’S BOOKSTORE. FINE WATCHES, CLOCKS JEWELRY, SILVER WARE, SPECTACLES, FANCY GOODS, FINE BRONZES. AND STATUARY. WE HAVE A FULL COUPS OF Yf atclimakers, jewelled Jngraver? .llanufact lire many Fine Goods in our own shop. aud are prepared l., Fll.l. AN V OltlIKU' tor K 1-, nr »,.rk promptly. ft*. All g*MMl*engraved free of charge. We make a sj*erialty or PREMIUMS FOR FAIRS I and are prepared to give any inf ruiation on aj*- plication. We guarantee the L A RG EST A SS() RT E M N T. THE FINEST GOODS, THE LOWEST PRICES, ANDTIIE BEST WORK. ('all and see us. SH ARP & FLOYD, ]\ltift half Street, Atlanta. Mar 25-1 y Send your Old Furniture to WOOD’S REPAIR SHOP, Next to the Episcopal Church, nod have it mav Prim MADE GOOD AS SEW. Emmerson and Southern Cem Pianos, superior in finish, style and tone, to any in the >..uth**rn market' for the prices- from three hundred to trie hundred dollars. The if I Winning*r, Bnrdett anti Boston Organ Co'* ]>* autiful and Elegant Organ-*. • Parlor*, Churehes, and Sabbath S«-ln*ol-»—rang- in price?, from Fiftv to One Thousand Dollars. II. C. BARROW, Ag’t, It 13-sm AUGUSTA. HA. be: SARSAPARILLA.. A Substitute for Mercurial Preparations, Cantor Oil, lihubarb, Senna, <£r. r PIIE PUREST AND BEST J- remedy known for disease* of the Liver, Fe male Complaints, or for any disease in which a medicine •» necessary, to keep the l»owels free and healthy, or to purify theLW>d. It acts more nat urally on the liver than Calomel or Blue Pills, and answers a better pur|M>se. It is the Great Spring Medicine. Prepared by J. Dennis, M. D., Augus ta, Ga. Sold by Dr. King, Athens. GLOBE HOTEL S. IF. Corner of Broad and Jackson-st.*., AUGUSTA, GA. ■I.tCKHOIV A JULIAN, Proprietors. i call the attention of the trnv- othis well known hotel, which in -i.i'cd, and placed on a foot- n the South. No expense will it a first class house in every attention paid to the coinf- \\TV. beg leave \ > cling publii •ml to ed to i , and i guests ian 25-6uibt K. S. ENGLAND & CO., BE NOW RECEIVING TIIEIU A NEW FALL by one STOCK! Selected with care l»y one of the fir York, Ut which they invite the attention of their customers and the public. They have a good assort ment of STAPLE&FANGf DRYGOGOS 4a IIOCKKIIIH, FKOVHIOY^ II A KIIU AKK. 4 K<M Ki:it V, II A I M. f '.IPN, HOOTM, MIIOKr, kuA m slmri, everything in the way of fmil'l and Plantation Supplies, «h- HIGHEST PRICK AV ill *ior«> per month. »* 25 Cents a Hale Improved Stock tor Sale, Acclimatnl anil Adapted to the Southern Climate. Cattle—Brahmin* and their Grade*. rpiIEY A RE MURRA IN-PROOF, rapid growers. Many of the rows excel a* milkers, and the oxen are superior to those of any other breed fora hot climate. litg<— Black Essex. This breed of Hogs has within a few years been greatly improved. They are free from mange, can be fattened at any age, and are admirably adapted for crossing on, and improving the white breeds, and the common st«ick of the country. Prince Albert and. Black Berkshires. They arc very active and thrifty, growing to a larger si/.e than the Kssex. Sheep—Spanish Merinos. They are free from rot and snutib s, are very easy keepers, and when crossed make a very rapid and marked improvement on the native flocks, increas ing the quantify and quality of the wool. Cashmere Angora (touts. In many localities they have proved to be very ditahle. Wlien crossed w ith the native goat*, they giv ing an ini bii'hes, j id sta il, hut requi No W I'hej tin* pure breed is in demand at from pound descriptive catalogue furnished on KM HARD PETERS, Atlanta Ga. W. SUMMERS, Scott Farm, Bedford County, Tenn., 1IKEF.DKR OF Thoroughbred Short-horned Durham Cattle, BERKSHIRE HUGS AND COLTSTOD SHEEP. AM BREEDING ENTIRELY n premium animals My herds have pro- greater number of premium animals than < r herds in Tennessee; nave n»*ver (ailed nimns at every fair, l*oth in Tennessee •ky, at which they have been exhibited PAMS AM ORGANS. E SPLENDID IIALLETT, V J DAVIS Si GO’S Square Grand Piano—an ele gant instrument—warranted in every particular— may be bought on easy terms—payable monthly. It was used at Mrs. Gates' entertainments. Pianos and Organs at various prices, sold, pay- abb* monthly, and terms made easy. Every in strument u a/ranted. Call at BURKE’S BOOKSTORE. Just Received, \ LARGE SUPPLY of Lech- Xl ford’s, Farina, Lubin’s and other ossa •'' he XE\V DRUG STORE. tot, 1:3-21 Fireside Miscellany, IaiTerYTorts. 'fhejr ate iaughihg in the meadow. They are smiling in the dell; Upon the woody hill-tops The blue-eyed beauties dwell: And unto those that love them A pleasant tale they tall. They speak of sunny weather, Of birds and babbling brooks, Of walks within the forest glens And rest within its nooks, And many a dreamy fancy Recorded not in books. From fallen leaves and withered They mischievously peep, And laugh at later flokers, Unwakened from their sleep, While tenderly they guard them, And loving vigil keep. In modest maiden beauty Some blush along the way, While others fleck the meadows, Or by the fountains stray. In white or blue habiliments To greet the April day. They seem at frolic ever, Now hiding from my sight, And then together clustering As if iu half affright, Yet conscious of their holiday. And happy in the light. No other coming flowers To me as dear a* they, Of those that bloom in April, Or in the geutle May ; I would that thus to comfort me They evermore would stay! For talcs of vanished childhood To ine they sweetly sing, ^ And to the fading memory They recollections bring Of home and loving faces— A precious offering. Unpluckcd I leave them growing Full thick about my feet; I cannot call them townward From out their fair retreat ; No retuge has the city For anything so sweet. The story that they tell me Of pleasure and content. Of hope and trusting confidence However faith is bent— This lessou I can bear away— To teach it they were sent. —From The Aldine for April. Speak Kindly. A SKETCH WITH A MORAL. Summey & Newton, HUOAD ST., ATHENS, CA. " IRON. PLOW STEEL, STEEL, HOES. NAILS, PLOWS, MILL SAWS, COTTON GINS, And General Hardware and Cutlery, at Wholesale and Retail. SCMMEY Jk SEWTOS <tlicnr, Ga., April 14th. tf So. 6 Broad St. GUANO. "DURE PERUVIAN, of direct im- portation, at Government prices. 2,24l> pounds to the ton It. G. LAY, Agent for Consignees in IT. S. Jan. Kim, Savannah, Ga. u »take pi I have* on 1 BULLS and < rhrated bulls Sb>m Ardrie, and Rod K« 1st. The*e bulls w BERKSHIR 1 at THOROUGHBRED of all aces, bred from my rel- rall Jackson, by imp. Duke of rerthe2d, by Red Rover the igh from 2,500 to 3,000 lb*. and imported stock, bred from my noted premium hoars, Dick John son and Boh Lee. Mv premium boar* and sows will weigh from 500 to 800 lbs. My COTSWOLB S1IEEP are pure, mv premium buck weighing 350 lbs., and sheared last year lbs. My stock is second to none for size,color, licamv and style in the United Mates, having made all mv "elections in buying and breeding for this rare combination. Order* solicited and satisfaction guaranteed. Address me at Wart race, Bedford Co.. Tenn. W. W. SUMMERS. P. Bl'RESIDE, DKAI.KK IN .L, AN 1 >UKT11’^ J UST RECEIVED, R f„n Slini(lv tJ t.f fresh Seed at the 'll) i,hi NEW DRUG STORE, Finest Kerosene Lanins TO BE FOUND IN ATHENS 1 O : .V DRU l Five Gross ’(>!> Hats, Caps, Straw Goods, Silk, Guanaco, ZeneUa, Aquepella, and Srotrli Gingham Umbrellas, DRIVING CLOVES, ETC., So. ‘222 Broad Street, August a, Ga. o-t G-3in S. C DOBBS, I AEALEIt IN DRY GOODS, 1 J UIlOCEn/ES, PRODUCE, HARDWARE, BEAD Y-MADE CLOTHISG, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, \ And in *hort. an assorted stock of family nnd • plantation merchandise. The hignesf market price I •* * i-jt.1 i .i (-••uuirv produce. | T« Housekeepers. j ,U 1‘FCI’IVED, a largeassort- V KOI IV, HORSE AND CAT-1 .®52rEP<sra n.i: ItnVUEItS f..r sul,- »i S-ropri.i .i- pri ffBA! the. 1 NEW DRUGSTORE. feh 23-21 's Bellows, Anvils, j,iSc. I WSS ts - 8tock an(1 w»fch 31 CHILbs, NICK EllSON A CO. L] A VE YOUR PRINTING Hone »t rne Anthem Banner .Teh Office. low prices. All j which wt- are otlerin stoves sold by u* WARRANTED IN EVERY PARTICULAR. SHMMUUt NEWTON. Carriage, Buggy jT Wagon S-O: j&X, O 1 LLi 12 Y£a s A LARGE and well selected assort- -L- -k- ment, for »ale bv chilbs, Nickerson & co. PENDLETON’S Guano Compound. TpOR SALE BY BEALL, SPEARS & CO., Augusta, Ga. SAULSBURY, RESPESS & CO., Macon, Ga. ANDERSON & WELLS, Atlanta, Ga. P. II. BEIIN & CO., Savannah, Ga. Ok. E. M. PENDLETON, Sparta, Ga. Pamphlets containing many testimonials, with practical hints on cotton culture, and the applica tion of fertilizers*, may be obtained from any of the above agents. jan.l VILUERFORUK DANIEL. A. WELLBORN HILL. DANIEL & HILL, / TOTTON FACTORS, Agents Cot- V J ion Komi <*uano. No. 3 Warren ltlm-k, oppo- te Globe Hotel, Augusta, C» All business riilru-tr'l to them will have strict sonal attention. Ofilers for Bagging, Ties and ,* tilled. Cs amily Supplies promptly Commission 1 1 i'iit. Rkfbresces.—Judge John r. Kino, President Georgia Kail Itoad, President National Bank of Au gusta nnd Augusta Factory. J. T. Gabdiner, Ksij., President IMekson Kertilircr Company, Pres ident Merchants A Planters National Bank, Augus ta. Col. L. M. Him., Director Ga. K. R., Wilkes (Ounty. Savings Bank of Augusta. National Bank ot Newnan, Ga. W. W. SmrsnN, Esq., Sparta Ga. FREE! FKKEJJ FKEE!!! SINGLE COPIES OF ROLMAN’S RURAL WORLD, A WEEKLY Agricultural Journal / \ that has been published twenty-three years in St. ia>uis, having the Largest Circulation and the heat Corps of contributors of any agricultural paper published in the valley of the Mississippi, wiil he sent free to all applicants. Send foracopv. erm.—S3 per annum. Address Norman J. Coi gn, Publisher, f Li u!St., Mo dee 291t TEACHER OF MUSIC. / \FFICE corner of Lumpkin and V / Clayton streets, near the Epispocal Church. Pnnils living out of town can take their lessons and practice at the office. Pianos, Organs & Sheet Music for sale, on the most reasonable terms. All liistru- inents of the liest makers and rally warranted.— Persona desiring to purchase can have an instru ment placed in their house, which, if not satisfac tory niter fair trial, can be returned or exchanged. OJT pianos and Organs sold on Monthly 1 ay- ments, and old iostraiponU taken in pari pay ment, if in good condition. |oct 37-tt TOB PRINTING neatly and quickly (J executed st th* Itaner Office. Ill our daily intercourse with those we love—in our family relations as husbanrfa and wives, parents and chil dren, brothers and sisters—a constant watchfulness ought to be maintained over our words and actions, in order to avoid unnecessary pain. How fre quently does it occur, that a word un kindly spoken to those who once loved, but who have since been removed from us by the hand of death, will haunt our memory long afterwards, like an avenging, demon, causing us poignant and vain regrets! Years af ter the circumstance has passed out of our own minds aud the minds of the friend we may have grieved or wrong ed, if some sudden calamity befalls him or some unexpected summons calls him away from earth, and removes him from the scope of ability to make redress, will the awakened memory of the unkind act or word cloud the mel ancholy reflections of our waking hours, and even haunt our dreams.— But the most bitter and poignant re flections arise, when we have parted in unkindness from some one connected with us by the tenderness ties; and then no opportunity occurs to effect a reconciliation, the person we have in jured is removed from us suddenly by death. Then comes the period of vain regrets and unavailing self-reproach.— What would we give for a moment of time to ask and obtain one word of forgiveness from that loved one we have wronged ? but, alas! too late! The experience of an acquaintance, related by himself net long ago, illus trates most forcibly the above position. He had been living, he said, away from home for several months, and was on a visit of a week or two, at his fa ther’s house. The father was a man of the most uncompromising integrity, and cherished strong, though honest prejudice against all light or transient amusements. He had never allowed his children, while under his control, to attend dancing parties or shows, or to mingle in the sjiorts which most men regard as unobjectionable, or at least not altogether to be condemned. The consequence was, that the children, as is usual under similar circumstances, were fond of indulging iu the inter dicted pleasures, and were apt, when an opportunity did occur, to carry them too far. They felt that their father was prompted by a sincere con viction of, and a desire to discharge the duties of a parent who feels the weight of his responsibility to God ; but they felt also that lie was unneces sarily stringent in his interpretation of what he considered right nr wrong.— As a consequence, they did not hesi tate, when circumstances favored it, to evade hi- mandates upon the subject, aud even when they dared lo set them at defiance, ff I shall never forgot,” said the nar rator, “ nor cease to regret the inci dents of my last visit home during my father’s life. There was to be a ball at a neighboring tavern, by no means a reputable place, and it was to come off the evening before I was to- return to my employment in a distant town. Feeling myself emancipated from pa ternal control (for I had just reached my majority), and priding mvself upon the idea that I was now master of my own actions, I signified my intention to be present. My father, as usual, forbade my attendance. I answered him i|| angar, stating, that his author ity over me was henerforth ended; that he had treated me like a boy, aud I had submitted like a boy until now ; but since I had reached the age at which the law permitted me to think and act for myself, I was determined to u jtart my rights. I even went so far, and wa3 so unjust to my father, as to intimate that a desire existed on his part to tyrannize over us, from a iove of paternal authority. He was a man of strong and natural irritability of feelings, hut his motives were always of the purest kind ; and my conscience smote me as I uttered the sentiment which my pride would not permit me to recall. “ An angry blush passed over his countenance at such an unusual recep tion of his commands, but he checked himself instantaneously and answered with unusal mildness. “ Charles, I may have erred in many points touch ing the government of my children, but I have endeavored to do my duty as a parent and a man. The time may come when you will be sorry for what you have uttered to-day!” “ And that time did come more speedily than he anticipated. They were prophetic words, ami even at this late day, they haunt me in my dreams. I went to the ball, but I did not enjoy myself; I was jovial, and full of glee ; my associates thought me iu un usual good spirits, but it was all feign ed and hollow-hearted as a sepulchre. “ Charles, the time may come when you will he sorry for what you have uttered to-day !” rung in my ears. “It was near morning when the party broke up, and I returned home, jaded in spirit, exhausted in physical energy, and worn down with excite ment. I went to bed and fell into n troubled sleep which lasted until near noon. Wheti I arose a dizziness and pain iu the head incapacitated me from mental exertion ; still I half re solved, ere I left home in the afternoon, to confess my fault to my father. I met him at the dinner table, but no allusion was made by either of us to the incident of the previous day; and when we arose from the table it was near the hour at which it was neces sary for me to take the coach. I fol lowed my father into our little parlor whither he had gone, as if desirous of affording me an opportunity to speak with him alone ; but I was ashamed to confess that I was wrong, ami merely said I must bid him good bye, as the coach was coming. “ Have you nothing more to say, Charles ?” he inquired ; “No,” I answered, aud we parted. I took the coach for the scene of my la- liors, displeased and angry with my self but not penitent; and for a week succeeding was industriously employed in my vocation, having allowed the unpleasant circumstance to pass out of my mind, when an express came re quiring my immediate presence at home, for it was stated that my father, in a state of perfect and florid health, had been stricken down by an apoplec tic fit. “ Although still alive when the messenger left, he was insensible, and was not expected to survive. Then, indeed, I felt the full force of the omi nous prediction, “ the time may come when you will be sorry for what you have uttered to-day.” I hastened home full of anxiety ami grief, only to find my father at the point of death. He never gave a token of recognition of my presence, and resigned his spirit into the hands of God amid the grief of a sorrowing household, of whom mine was infinitely the most bitter. Once, indeed, before my arrival, he rallied sufficiently to inquire if I had come, and on being answered in the negative relapsed into a state of inseu- siblity, and never spoke again. As I stood beside his bed, and gazed upon the lifeless features of one of. the liest of fathers, whose every command it was my duty to have obeyed (and which, as a general thing, I did obey), the thought of the last act ofdisobcdi- euce aud unkindness tortured me like an avenging fiend; and I felt as if a word of forgiveness from those cold lips would have been received more joyfully than a welcome admission to the bliss of heaven.” Alaska Customs. 2fce Ladies and Their Decorationa. A little five year-old was being in structed in morals by his grandmohter. Th® old lady told him that all such terms as “ by golly,” “ by jingo,” “ by thunder,” etc., were only little oaths, and but little better than other pro fanities, Iu fact, she said, he could tell a profaue oath by the prefix “ by.” All such were oaths. “ Well, then, grand-mother,” said the little hopeful, “ is ‘ by telegraph,” which I see in the newspapers, swearing ?” “ No," said the old lady, “ that’s only lying.” The follow ing is extracted from the letter of a Sitka (Alaska) correspond ent: The village contains forty or fifty houses. The population consists of one thousand Indians and two thous and dogs. Of the dogs, all but one are of the same sharp-eared, wolfish type seen among the Indians of the plains. The exception was a bandy legged, lop-eared cur of civilized breed, the only one among the two thousand that showed a lack of civilty by bark ing at our heels. The houses much more resemble the semi-subterranean abodes of the Laplanders and Esqui maux than the wigwams of American Indians. Like the oak described by the American poet, they extended as far into the earth as above it. Some of them are from twenty to thirty feet square, aud built of very wide clear planks, many of them more than four feet across, worked out by these rude people. We entered several. Creeping through apertures, both square and round, not more than three feet in diameter, we descended fights of steps into the large, single room. In the center of each a fire was built on the ground, and in the center of each roof a hole, out of which passed a small portion of the sruoke, the most of it re maining for the benefit of the salmon hanging over our heads, and to make sore eyes for the inmates. The whole inside is floored, except the fire-place in the middle. On both sides are the sleeping-places, covered with skins and blankets, separated by low parti tions. In the rear, and on shelves below the dormitories, were stored po tatoes and dried salmon, in small bales, covered with matting. Their largest potatoes are the size of a hulled wal nut. The ladies beautify their complex ions with soot and red paint, and still further enhance their charms by wear ing a bone through the upper lip, the size of which is increased from year to year until, in some of the old ones, it attains a width of two inches. An In dian lady thus adorned, with her coarse, black uncombed locks hanging in matted profusion around her beauti ful pig eyes and lop ears, is only re sistible ty those whose affections are thoroughly preoccupied. The delights of courtship must he doubled by the pleasant aroma of salmon which per vades the premisies and, as I have heard, their persons. Among them the crow and the raven are held sacred, and fly around their abodes undisturbed. They live main ly on fish, and have a monopoly of the trapping. There is but one white trapper in the country, and he is at Cook’s inlet, six hundred miles west northwest. He came down to Sitka once to go to Kodisk. Learning that no vessel.would sail for a month, and growing tired of the place, he said lie would take “ a little walk.” He start ed with his rifle and a pocket full of salt, and traversed alone that moun tain wilderness for three weeks. He had no covering at night but the skins of freshly-slaughtered animals, lie returned in good condition, and in an swer to questions, boasted that he had lived better than his questioners. How the Average Young Girl Attacks the Piano. The Poet of the Breakfast Table gives this vivid description of the man ner in which a girl of the period makes ready to play and plays the grand piano: It was a young woman with as many white muslin flounces round her as the planet Saturn has rings, that did it.— She gave the music stool a twirl or two, and fluffed down on to it like a whirl of soap suds in a hand basin. Then she pushed up her cuffs, as if she was going to fight for the champion’s belt. Then she worked her hands and wrists, to limber ’em I suppose, and spread out her fingers till they looked as though they would pretty much cover the key-board from the growling end to the squeaky one. Then those two hands of her’s made a jump at the keys as if they were a comple of tigers com ing down on a flock of black and white sheep, and the piano a great howl as its tail had been trod on. Dead stop —so still you could hear your hair growing. Then another jump, and another howl, as if the piano had two i tails and you had trod on both of ’em at once, and a grand clatter and scramble and string of jumps, up and down, back and forward, one hand over the other, like a stampede of rats and mice more than like anything I call mice. steel Why Will Not Georgia Act I The area of Georgia and Illinois is nearly the same—the first being the largest. Georgia is one of the origin al Thirteen, and included in the first enumeration, in 1790; Illinois was first included in 1810, and was not ad mitted into the Union until 1818.— The following table shows their rela tive increase in population since: 1810. I860. 1870. 2.V2, S3 1,057,286 1,184,109 ' 2,539,891 several gentlemen well known nil over the State—many of them all over the Union—have proposed to contribute from their private purses towards pay ing the expenses of such Commission ers, and invited others, limiting the number so low as one hundred, to- unite with them. They designated the gentleman they had selected ; and we feel confident that every other citizen to whom he is known approved the 12,282 1,711,951 2,539,391 '' e,cction - Certain it is, no one is Thus it will be observed with what more accomplished, patriotic or zeal- rapidity Illinois has increased, lt „d j 0Utf - or more dev , otmi t0 a11 the that she has so far outstripped Georgia j interests of the State and this section .- as to more than double her iu popula- - 01,1 ' >e fi 00111 ! * n a " this Southern laud, tion. Yet Georgia has the distinguish- Wh >’ tlle, ‘ wi " not Geor £ ia ~ ed honor of being the only one of the j A,lanta (««•) Southern States cm brawl in theori-l Durability of Woods. ginal Thirteen which has maintained j her grace in the scale of population. ! Tho Builder says r 1790. Georgia, 82,548 Illinois Now there is a reason for this, and it is to be found mainly in her enter prise in building railways, and in her efforts to promote settlement by immi grants. As to natural advantages, climate, soil, and adaptation to all in dustries aud production, as a whole, we think it may be safely asserted that a’-J .'‘^rly every variety of pine were Georgia in the superior. As to diver- Experinient have been lately made by driving sticks of different woods, eaeb two feet long and one and one ball’ inch square, into the ground, only one halt inch projecting outward, lt was found that in five years nil those made of oak, elm, ash, fir, soft mahogany. sity, we believe there can be no dispute. Like efforts on the part of Georgia, would have secured like results; there can he little question as to that. It may be said that Illinois had a public domain, which was offered to actual settlers at low rates, nnd that she appropriated liberally towards building her railways. This is true. But Georgia had a public domain down to the time of the land lottery in 1827—more than seventeen years after the first enumeration in which Illinois was included. During that period there was no difference; but, subse quently, Illinois lias had an important advantage in this respect. It unques tionably enables her to vigorously and successfully push her railway enter prises, which have been valuable aux iliaries in behalf of immigration to that 1 and other Northwestern States. \ totally rotten. Larch, hard pine, and teak wood were decayed on the outside only ; while acacia, with the exception of being also slightly attacked on the exterior, was otherwise sound. Hard Mahogany and cedar of Lebanon were in tolerably good condition, but only Virginia cedar was found as good as when put in the ground. This is of some importance to builders, showing what woods should he avoided and what others used by preference in under ground work. Penalty For Adulterating Milk. A late number of the Irish Farmer’s Gairite, states that the authorities of Dublin, finding that imposing a fine does not stop the practice of adulterat ing milk, have resorted to the expe dient of advertising in the morning pa pers at the expense of the guilty par ties, the names of those convicted of the violation of the statute in relation It then gives To Cut Glass.—Any hard tool (says the Boston Journal of Chem istry') will cut glass when kept freely wet • with camphor dissolved in tur pentine, The ragged edges of glass vessels may be thus easily smoothed by a flat file. Yet the great and marked difference j is unquestionably to be found in the I t0 adulteration, it then gives a copy- fact that Illinois,' from the beginning, of a dis P la > ed advertisement which made strenuous efforts to induce immi- “** forth that-“ At the Northern gration, while Georgia made none, and P° licc court - 0,1 8aUlrda / tl,e 17,h (what is lamentably worse) appears j Februar >’’ 1872 ‘ James Kelley, dairy- disinclined to make anv now, although j man » 72 ^ountjoy ‘“feet, was fined nearly all the other States, South as| two P° und - for scllin S n,i,k adultor - well 'as Northwest and West, have j ated with 20 per cent, of water, and it earnestly begun the work. In a late ! 1>eln K his second ^"victmn for a snm- Florida paper we read : I ,ar offensc > tho P u!,]irati(m ot ‘ tI,is ad ’ , ! vertisement was ordered by tho magi.— On the 12th instant, a small colony, ' . , , , . , , . trate who heard the case. If notices with seven covered wagons and a car-i, , . , . , , , . „ like this were published in this city for riage, passed through, Monticello, en i . . , . c. ™ • ' similar offenses, the cnrporatian news- route for Dade county, in south F lori- ,, , , , _ paper would soon run up a huge lull da. I hev came from Georgia. „ , . . . , . _ , . , . for advertising in the course of a year. So that it seems, while making no i efforts to induce immigrants to eome to and settle in Georgia, the old citi zens are removing. It will Vie remcm- Legal Suasion a Failure. The attempt to stop the consumption bored that in our last issue we quoted of liquor by statutory prohibition of a more significant item than this from sale has not thus far produced the re- Texas paper. Again, we clip the suits expected. Indeed, it has long following from an Alabama exchange : been apparent that the total abstinence “ A large company of Swedish im- people, in leveling all their artillery migrants have just landed at Tuscum- against the dealers, and leaving con- bia, Alabama, with a view to locate in snmers unscathed, were working at the that region.” wrong end of their self-appointed Alabama, Tennessee and Florida "’J 10 experiment just begun in have each had a partial or complete Wisconsin, therefore, will be watched geological survey of the State, and w ' dl considerable interest fhe Leg- published by State authority, volumes ''stature of that State has passed a law setting forth their great advantages.— making drunkenness a crime, to he Georgia hesitates, delays, or opposes, punished by imprisonment for two From the San Diego Union, of Fell- months, and until the cost of prosr-cu- ruary 29, we learn that— | tion are paid, and imposing oilur ... , a.. . grave liabilities niton the offender.— “Messrs. Bmnov and Stewart, the * English capitalists—who, with Mr. Peter Donahue, of San Francisco, and Gov. John G. Downey, of Los Ange los, have been passing over the line of The proceedings under the law are to he of a summary character, and wit nesses of the crime of inebriety are clothed with extraordinary powers.— the San Diego and Los Angelos Rail- lfdrinkin - doe f not # l leedil - v 1,cc,,nie road—arrived in Old Town on Thurs- an u " fa8hionab,c amusement in Wis- , • , „ . , 1 consul, with this stringent statute and dav evening, and came over vesterdav , * . * ..." ' the old laws against venders in full morning on the up steamer Wo e are informed that Messrs. Binnev, 1 force ’ il n,a - v ,Mi ' iafe, - v asPl,med t,,at Stewart and Donahue have made an le S al enactments are not alone suffi- offer of £500,000 to Don Juan For-) cieut to Induce that result, ster for the three Santa Margarita j ranches, with a view of dividing up: the lands and placing them in market upon the San Diego and Los Angelos Railroad. If thi? be so, and the prop osition is accepted, San Diego county will take an immense step forward in material prosperity. The placing of these magnificent lands on the market, and their settlement aud cultivation, will in a few years add millions to the wealth of the country. Should this be done, the building of the railroad to Los Angelos and San Bernardino would be pushed forward to very speedy completion.” These are but three out of innumer able items of similar import published in the papers. All around us the great work is going on, even to the drawing people from our State, while we do nothing either to retain them or to fill their places. We need the speedy completion of our railroad en terprises, a geological survey of the State, and a Commissioner of the right stam if abroad to set forth the superior advantages of Georgia and direct at tention to them.. The State neglecting the matter, About Peaches.—In the valuable rieultuaal correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette, among other tilings, it is stated, upon experiment, that the lives of peach trees can be much pro longed by thinning out the fruit; also, that this thinning operation is neces sary to bring forward first class fruit, whic which will more than make the diff’cronce in yield. If a peach tree is allowed to overbear it never recovers, no matter how much pains may be taken with it afterwards. These things are worthy the atten tion of farmers and gardeners. By adding a little carbolic acid to common paste made of flour, it maybe kept in good condition until it drys up. The acid will prevent it from becom ing sour or rancid. This s.mple receipt will save considerable inconvenience in cases where lnjt a small amount of paste is wanted, and it is only occa sionally used. The wheat exop throughout 'the country, if we may judge from the newepaper reports, is large and un usually promising.