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SPIRIT OF THE l*RESS.
Tlie LiGrnuge Reporter wants the Rail
road from Kingston to Columbus, built to
touch at LaGrange. He urges the. South
ern people to ioiport as little as possible,
and to export as much as they can.
The Chronicle & Sentinel, the Sumter
Republican, the Constitution, the Nash
ville Banner, and the Charleston Conner,
have lately enlarged.
Success to them all.
fhc Raton Telegraph wants Mercer and
Oalethorpe Colleges moved to Macon, and
suieests that the city offer especial in-
iuteuients to that end. It is teeming
with notv attractions for the Fair.
The Tennessee papers seem to be well
satisfied with the electious of officers in
House aud Seuate. The Nashville Banner
gives a sketch of all the members.
The Macon Telegraph thinks that the
prospects iu Georgia are worse than they
acre ever during the war. If left to hei
own resources, onc-hMf of her people would
starve. I’crsimmons, chincopius and ches-
nuts!
The Chronicle it Sentinel pou^s a broad
side or so into the Macon Telegraph on the
' State Fair” question.
Athens Watchman urges the establish
ment ot dairies in North Georgia. A good
suggestion, which we heartily endorse.
EDITORIAL UKEV1TIB3.
i't.e road from Athens to Clayton will be
'nuilt pretty certain.
A monument is being erected in Savan
nah to the late Bishop Elliott.
South Sea Islands challenge Oxford and
Harvard to a boat race.
Tennessee Press Convention assembling
in Nashville.
The colored conservative meeting in Sa
vannah, was a success.
A negro woman murdered at Decatnr.
Miss Harriet Grosvenor, of Chicago, has
been admitted to the bar with her hus
band—tlie musquito bar probably. —At.
ehe must be Bar’d then,
ulalii ns, Doctor.
Our eongrat-
Fnnny.
the patrouizing air with which certain
Bohemian fiedge'.ings speak of respectable
journals as the ‘-provincial press.” These
little whipper snappers, with a circulation of
trom three hundred to a thousand, pnt such-
didoes as cannot fail to atnnse those who are
uot posted.
fhe above, lrom the Athens Watchman,
allude* to a notice of that paper, made by
u - 'n a late letter.
While we are conscious that the Watch
man has unwarrantably departed from its
T ! Ual staid demeanor, to make this sprightj
sarcasm, still we most willingly disclaim
say iuteation to disparage that paper.
l>e used the term “provincial press,’ be-
-d’tse we believed it to bo a term applied to
those of ns who edit Weeklies and Tii-
'■ ceklies, in distinction from the editors of
4 *•- dailies of our larger cities.
V e have always had great confidence in
■•'i M atchnian, and shall continue to have,
1 6531 ' 113 f|uerelous garrdity which thus
T' out >a its old age, becomes a chronic
weakness.
u will beg, that if ever the Watchman
■- 1 * occasion to allude to us again, that it
- 1 employ a more courteous is no tmore ap-
A‘prime term thau “Whipper Snapper,”
,. n ^ or the sake of abstract truth we ask
! u ' v ^ on it remarks upon the circulation
' I mirier, that it employ figures very
‘•'‘dvrably above a thousand.
Pj^nt been taken out in ths
called° thf miUCa fo r work ' a g up a new fibre
- s i, L C0B0 ° n vine, and a large factory
-:.rec l n O bl r utd a r’ 0rtl,Ut P " rp0Se - The fi ‘
, U3 = d % matting, stuffing for bed
- auu other purposes.
bHnd preacher ’
Virginia.
Gov. Walker’s Message.—The mes
sage of Gen. Walker as reported by the
Press Association, we deem too lengthy
insertion, hence shall condense it, retain:
of coarse the cardinal points.
He desires the 15th Amendment adopt
ed. He says that the principle of the
amendment, vis equal rights to all men-
has been accepted by a large majority, and
that the faith of the people demands that
amendment be accepted; and also he ar
gues that self protection and the interest ol
the State demand its adoption. He consid
ers the Senators election a necessary requisite
to representation, and advices the election of
moderate men.
He congratulates the State upon her
progress towards restoration, and predicts a
future as glorious as her past has been.
A very Conservative message!
For the Csartor. hli Jlj' •
“Tlie Fifteenth Amendment,”
It is not less the duty of every citizen to
appreciate the political issues of. the day.
amply because no vital contest of this bal
lot is imminent. Nothing is more deceptive
than that occasional calm in the political
atmosphere which the American may some
times witness. If there is peipitual action
any where in the Universe, it is to be found
n the heart-working and the brain-schem
ing ofthe Politician aud Demagogne. When
honest men are in their beds the energy < J
these gentlemen is none the less dntiring.
none the less terrible. Hike the omnivor
ons docks ofthe poultry yard, when genteel
fowls have gone to roost, they still quack
and gobble over nocturnal garbage.
Let us see what these commendable
characters are about to do with oor-coun-
try and onr liberties.
In this land of free negroes, John Chi-
naman, Radical lies, ana Harriet Stowe
slanders, we may suppose that political in.
consistsncy is one of the cardinal virtue?
Formerly when a Statesman was elected on
any platform, or even when he gave ex
pression to his opinion, his adherence there
to Was consideied indubitable. This re-
mmk applies to quasi statesman we arc
>roud to say bat alas ! how fallen are the
: eaders of latter days!
Why then shall we follow their Coun
cils.
Let Josh Hill with his gig-antic stupidi
ty prate about the glorious Union, let Mil-
ler with hi elegant nicety of policy lec-nre
gently on expediency, but let us not heed
them.
Though they he our Seuatos Elect let us
not allow them to lead us to our ruin.
While we would be glad to hear their
thunders in the National Council let us
not allow that desire to lead us astray.
Then though they advise us strongly to do
o, we ask in all candor why should we
accept the Fifteenth Amendment? Dcesonr
condition demand it? What are the press
ing exergencies of onr case ? Docs politi
cal expediency ever and forever demand
that we surrender everything of honor’and
truth of sentiment and principle? From
the day of Pinckney and Randolph, South
era men have contended against the prin
ciples and the policy of which this Fifteenth
Amendment is the Commendation. It is
hard that the disgraceful conditions are of-
fered us, bnt it is doubly hard, humiliating,
that men reared arnoDg us, elected b$ u ,
essentially of us, that they should urge our
people to accept, and confirm them. Such
conduct on the part of our typical me ,
tends more to give us the abject feelings ot
real degradation than all the victories of our
enemies, than all the impootence of
friends.
The Fifteenth Amendment has been
the ultimate object of the Radical Party
since its organizati* a. They are nnable to
attain it without -he assistance and the
votes of Southern men. They pnrsue like
the mongrel bullies and cowards they arc.
the middle coarse; they offer us represents
tion, aud they threaten us with military
rule. In other words they tell ns, “agrec-
to the Fifteenth Amendment and we will,
give yon what we will be compelled to sur
render in a few months.
“Refuse if yon dare” we will inflict on,
you a penalty you already suffer.” This is
cogent aigument, this is vigorous reason
ing, bnt we imagine no rational man will
be deceived by a promise to give what can
not be with held and by a threat we to day
appreciate with but little discomfort to oar-
selves. There can by no policy conceiva
ble so maniacal and utterly self destroying as
that which leads us to adopt the Fifteenth
Amendment. The extension of suffrage to
serfs and villeins, the enfranchisement of
heathens and idolaters, the base trncklir g
to Yankee demagogies and pigging togetl*
er of onr leaders with Yankee swine, the ut
ter prostration of political principle, will do
more to ruin onr country, to destroy our
liberties, to degrade our families, than all
the evils our enemies can engender, than
all the corruption they can breed and we
intend no disparagement to their prowess
in these respects. The Fifteenth Amend
ment is the insurance policy for all of this
evil, and we have purchased with our blood
the right to pay the premiums, and we pay
them by the mortgage, nay, by the sale and
barter of every principle which should cn
noble onr private and public existence. Our
only hope is in its rejection. God only knows
how we will escape the terrible and desper
ate crisis. When the student of Georgia
history shall turn the record of the pres
ent time he will refuse to believe. He will
conclude our calamities imaginary, or else
that oae, or perhaps two of our Governor’s
were honorable and capable. He will re
fuse to credit that a nation could recover
and stagger to its feet when its masters of
ceremonies, hob-nobbed with a Butler and
aBoutwell; when its Senators urged the
people to their rain; when a Rufus B. Bul
lock was the Executive; and, a Joseph E.
Brown, was the chief Deity who presided
over the administration of mock justice and
{aw Cadsidicbs.
Mr. Winston makes the number, of peo
ple on the earth, in the year 1843, before
'm flood, 549,755 millions. Burnet has
olm prepared a table on the basis that
Adam and Eve might have left at the end
ofthe first oentury teo married conples, and
from these he shows that there would be
more people in fifteen hundred years than
earth wouldhold,allotting the proportion to
continue. The table runs as folio ivs: 1,
century, 10; 11. century, 40$ III century,
and so on, which in sixteen hundred years
gives ns the nice little population of 10,
737,481,340, which, minus thosesaved in
the ark, were all swept iqto a watery grave
by the Noachio deluge.
The Lynchburg News learns that plan
ters haye generally commenced cutting their
tobacco, and that the quantity iKmuch be
ter than they were led to anticipate fro
tin injury .done by the protracted drouth-
Mrs. Lincoln is writing * bopk Her
memoirs.
For the Rome Coursir
Memphis Branch Railroad Extension.
Mr. Ed.—A recent trip along the line
of the Railroad survey from Rome to De
catur, Ala., provokes a brief mention of
such facts and incidents as may he of in
terest to one. citizens. Beginning at Rome
the engineers made bnt one line to Mr.
Ellison’s, three miles distant from the city.
From that point two lines have been ran,
one known as the river line, and the other
by Robinson Gap. These lines converge
together at a point three miles beyond the
State line.
Both routes are entirely pr-cticable, and
each has some special advantages over the
other. Nearly all the owners of lands along
both lines have voluntarily offered to the
Company a free right of way through their
farms. From the State line to Bine Pond,
tho route is almost a sight line, and varies
bnt little from running due west. At Bine
Pand the survey passes beyond the wagon
road, ascending the Lookout Mountain, un
til it reaches the very heel of the spnr that
stretches towards the river, and thereby
see ares a more gradual, thongh longer grade
of ascent.
The engineering corps found no diffi
culty in reaching the table land on the
mountain at a grade of 65 feet to the mile.
Upon this table land the road has been
sarveyed for nine miles-—the whole ronte
nearly level. ’ This brought them to the
western brink of the mountain, from which
point the view of the valley and mountains
teyond is exceedingly grand and beautiful.
Col. Pennington and his corps were here
encamped, and for many days have been
rambling over cliffs aud across deep ravines
and gorges, to find a way of descent more
plansable than a “jump off”. That side of
the mountain is not only higher than this
but the valley beyond is lower than Bine
Pond by perhaps 100 feet.
On the last day of onr sojourn in the
camp, Col. P. had nearly completed his de
scending reconoisance, and prononneed it
entirely practicable at the usual maximum
grade of 65 feet. The steps, or benches
in the mountain side have made this the
more easy route, and the only difficulty has
been in sliding from one to the other. Of
coarse this descent ooald not be made with-
out deflecting from the western coarse of
the survey, bat not more than two and
half miles are lost fay the deflection. A reg
nlar curvature for abont four miles brings
them to the mountain’s base, a short dis
tance above Collinsville. This is fortunate
and seems almost providentially designed,
for Collinsville Gap is the only place
where onr road can cross the range of
mountains lying between Little Wills and
Big Wills Valley. This Gap is really a
gap—indeed, it is a notch out down fall to
the level ofthe valleys on either side, and
seems to have been cat for a Railroad pur
pose. This Gap conducts the line of road
through Big Wills Valley to the foot of
Sand Mountain, a point easy of ascent, and
no difficulty is apprehended from that point
to Decatnr. Sand Monntain, it will be ob
served, is a range that runs at rightsaugles
to Lookout Mountain, so that when once as
cended, the crest or table land will be kept
coni innally to its Western terminus at De
catur.
Little Wills Valley is a narrow plain ly
ing ' etween the mountains. I do not
think it averages more than a mile in
width, not counting the slopes that have
been cleared on the monntain sides. It is
well watered, and the crops on the ground
indicate a fair fertility. This valley ex
tends lrom near Gadsden to Valley Head, a
distance of 60 miles, and the Wills
Valley Boad runs, or is to run its entire
length. It is already completed as far as
Collinsville, and is being rapidly poshed
forward. The officers in charge are won
derfully popular with the people. They
have given the right of way and gronnds
for depots.
Last spring when the farmers were scarce
of labor Mr. Stanton stopped his work and
sent his 800 laborers to the harvest fields,
for several days, and wonld’nt receive no
compensation. He instructs his agents to
see to it that the waste earth excavated is
hot scattered everywhere, bnt is so disposed
of as to allow the farmer to cultivate nearly
all of the right of way. Where the wagon
roads cross his track he grades them for
some distance. He is building neat brick
depots all along the line. Such a coarse
has been pursued by the Company to make
friends instead of enemies. The order and
discipline in his laborer’s camp is admira
ble, apdjthe arrangement of his tents, and
the cleanliness of everything around indi
cates that a “General” is at the head of af
fairs.
Big Wills Valley is much wider than the
first. The lands are not of the richest class,
but are quite fertile and easily cultivated.—
Comfortable farm houses abound every
where. The people have an abundance of
the comforts and necessaries of life. Until
now they have been hemmed in and could
mly export their produce at great cost over
Lookout Maintain to Borne, or down to
Gadsden. Mr. Williams, late a Roman
citizen, who has been merchandising at Van
Boren, 1} miles from Collinsville, informed
us there was over thirty thousand bushels
of wheat near him in that valley, unsold.—
Mr. Williams has recently built a store at
Coliiosrille, aud is removing his stock to
this point. He speaks well of the charac
ter and energy of the people with whom he
has been deal mg for a year past.
In going from Collinsville by rail to Chat
tanooga, we met with Col Nesblt, late of
Macon, Georgia. He and his sons have pur
chased a farm in Dade county, near the State
lige, apd thirty miles from Chattanooga.—
In referring fo cup project of extending the
Memphis Branch Rail Road, he ^iij thaf
even from his home in Dado county it would
fee teg njiles nearer to Atlanta by Rome
than by Chattanooga. This fact will indi.
cate the wide range of territory that cut
Road will embrace—without this Road, all
the products of both valleys are inevitably
gone from ns—with the Road, Rome wil
regain all that she has lost—and more.
I wil not omit to make mention of the
valuable mineral resources that onr Road
will develops. We isive brought with ng
specimens of Bituminous coal that are equal
to any in the world. This coal is in large
deposits on Lookout Monntain and much of
it is iu beds near the line of our Road.—
We saw wagons loaded with it going from
the monntain to the valley. Mr..
Brinlee(tbat Daniel- Boone, ol Lookout-
Mountain,)assured us that this coal;bed
has beenosed in the neighboring shops for
thirty years past, and that it was very abun
dant. No efforts have been made to mine
for it except in the rough simple Wrfy tSM
poor men could employ..
coal bed and found that all was
some proper machinery to.
of the coal beds. We know that iron 'ort'
abounds everywhere in onr mountains. It
is now being worked with charcoal, but in a
few brief years this must cease for the wood
within a paying dislanoe will be all con
sumed. Then we will have to abandon the
farther development of onr iron interests,'
or open np these immense coal fields for onr
ODDS AND ENDS.
Hawkinsvillc, .Ga., is receiving machin-
ery for a cotton factory.
: The tailoresscs of Boston are. organbzing:
for a strike.;V^.'•
-“Miss Julia,allow one to closej those,fajinds;
the glare of the sun must be very oppress
ive.”
th “You are very.kind sir, buit I. prefer to
have a little son than no heir at alt” the
. A Maryland- convict has fallen ■ heir to lAjjA’ Kt'
•'S80,000j*and can’t geteut'tojspend&i ln
Maxim tor the lazy—No fanner-tan plow : 4y.-'
a field by turning it over in .his miud.
Gen. Cary,- of Ohio, formerly a.
can, is now stumping that State, in
terests of Democracy. :_u
By an Irishman—“Why is a storm wl
t's clearing np like a castigation!” , “Surf,
.ad isn’t it a bating.”
If you would, look sppuce in ycur^old age,
do not pine in your youth.
All of this, however, may be considered
as a remote interest to the people of Rome.
There is an interest however, that is imme
diate and direct—it is the secur ng to Rome
the trade of those valleys and the travel and
freights from the great West, i Nothing is
more evident than that both trade and
travel seek the shortest lines, and it has
bee- made manifest by actual measurement
that by the proposed line of Railroad, At
lanta, Augusta, Gimtleston and Savannah,
are 77 miles nearer Memphis thau by Chat
tanooga. Indeed, it is nearer from Rome
to Nashville and Louisville by this ronte
than by any other, and of course, is nearer
to all points below us oo our river or on the
line of the Selma Railroad.
I have made brief mention of these mat
ters Mr. Editor, as information to our citi
zens, and if DOssible to arouse them to the
necessity of the great work before ns.
In a second letter X. will add other facts
and incidents of interest to your readers.
C. H. S.
facing hqgf _
Andrew Johnson’s wife is not expected
to live through the winter.
- Therejare^wo, thousand professional thiev
es ip Chicago*, besides- the uuprofession-
«1.
-Fiench .babies are;now pat to sleep in
bran instead of. bedclothes.
The ntimbei of contributing membpra of
e order of Odd ^Fellows in Georgia "is
the
1500.
The foreign Importations at the port of
New York during the week are about four
millions; and nbnlfi a marked falling off
compared. with the average ofthe month,
or for six weeks past.
In Indiana the Republican majority tor
"“'*-'-(jjm.ftfaj 0 rity on joint
_ffi6tnre was 30. Gor
ier Baker N55“blected by 961 majort-
Tho Richmond Enquirer feays it is
true- that “alFs' : weEthat'ends ■ well,'
proved by Bout-well, Creswell, and-the
nasty of Wells in Virginia.
It is believed/; far Washington that' Ten
__ssee wfll rciroke its action qrrthb four
teenth ameodtqent { and 'that Tekas'wRI not
ratity the fifteenth.
A child on bang, shown the pictare of
-Daniel in the -Lion's Den,” was affected
to tears. “Don’t - grieve, Pet,” said the
inother; “he was not devoured.” . “I’m not
crying for that,^ was the reply; “but do you
see" that liUle liou in the corner, mamma?
Well, ilm afraid he wont get.afay, for Dan
iel is-ecsznall Kb won’t go around.”
Will retire from the lecture
field at the'efose o‘ the coming season, and
devote himself thenceforth to literature. He
begins his farewell course'at Cincinnati
abputthe beginning of November.
* !'/ ' - ’ U i y (ji _ ',7
•Off. Lc-t vicoiiGI gnGi :!' , ■ A wellofmmeral water'of striitige prot-
B« to. make »• little money go a-great 'gagi faWbeen dpened in’ithe town of St.
ORIGINAL ANECDOTE,
No. a.
- Mr. ED.r^Did you ever hear “Lean Jim
my” Jones make a stump speech ? If y u a ^ aln .
never did yon have been in bad luck. I
heard him on one occasion, and shall never
forget it, and now that his eloquent tongue
is silent in the grave, I never expect to hear
his like again.
In 1855, or 1856, I heard him ~ address a
vast multitude cf his fellow citizens of Ten-
nessec, in the days of Know Notbingism.—
□e was opposed to the K. N’s., aud I there
tore opposed him—nevertheless I enjoyed
his speecn hugely
You know they proposed to take gotd
men out of all the parties, ami form a new
and pure party, and to restore the country
to its original purity.
He said, “I admit that all parties are
corrupt, bat this Know Nothing party is
more corrupt than any other.” And said
he wonld illustrate this idea with an anec
dote, bnt it was so old he did not like to tell
it. The crowd shouted, “give us the anec
dote,” He said “you have all heard it”—
“No matter, tell it,” shouted hundreds of
voices. : -r t.-.
They may have heard it before, but I
never did, and have never heard it since,
and never saw it in print, and as I consider
it too good to be lost, I give it to yon :
There was a little Frenchman on a visit
to one of the Northwestern States. He
told an American, who was a great hunter,
that he would like to take a. hunt with
him. They agreed to go out the next
day.
The American gave the Frenchman
three guns to take with him, with this ex
planation, “Here is a double-barreled shot
gnn, loaded with small shot, this is for
qnaiL” The Frenchman said he under
stood that. “This is a long range rifle for
prairie wolves, as they are very wild.”—
Then, handing him a musket, loaded with,
slugs, said, “this is for the buffalo.” With
these instructions, they started out through
an open prairie. In sight of each other,
and yet n considerable distance apart.
They had not gone bnt a little way, when
a tremendous big boll buffalo came bqlgtng
by the Frenchman, and. Erenchman-like,
he banged away at him with his quail gun.
This stung the buffalo, but did no other
hirm than to arouse his ire, soke ma?e for
the Frenchman, and Frenc' man-like, ho
dropped his guns, and, as Sut Loviogood
says “went «o swappin laigs” over 1 the
prairie. Away went the Frenchman, and
away went the enranged buffalo after him.
The American saw the danger the French
man was ia, bat was not near enough to
render him any assistance. Theie was no
obstacle in visw where the Frenchman
could seek protection—not a tree, or stamp
or rock, or anything of the kind. The
American thought that death was only a
question of time with his polite friend —
That as soon as the buffalo overtook him,
that would be the last of the poor little fal
low. Just as the enraged beast over
took him, the Frenchman darted .down in
to a hole in the ground. The buffalo stood
at the mouth ofthe hole pawing the dirt,
and boring his horns in the ground. The
American felt greatly relieved, fur he knew
his friend wassafe then. So he began to
approach so as to get in gnn shot,, when, to
his ntter surprise, he saw the Frenchman
coming out of the hole, urawfaog, between
the buffalo’s, legs. Away went tbAFrench
man again. The buffalo whirled ■ around,
and went in hot pnrsqit of. him- When,
abont to bo overtakes the second time, tlie
American shot and killed the buffalo, atid
going up to the panting Frenchman, 'who
was as pair as a corpse, said—
“What in the thunder did you come dot
of that hole for, you migh* have 4 remaint'd
there 6 months, and that buffalo could'not
have reached you."
As soon as the Ff-fiishman could com
mand breath, ha replied—
“By tam, dar Tas von bear in.^dat . LdIc
SO large as two buffaloes.”
. f Hag, ..
way—send a post office order for 91 to Alas--
ka.
A New York editor pnts his marriages—
by mistake of coarse—under the ; head of
‘suicides”, , ^ j, ,
Gov. Walker, qf Yirginia,*who is only
hirtv seven years old, is the youngest Gov
jruor the State ever had.
San Francisco Radicals now say that dos
ng the stores on election day lost then.
1.000 votes'.
New York State milks 106,000 cows t<
supply 345 cheese factories.
A church exclusively for deaf mute ser
vice is to be built in Berlin.
. Chicago is to have a diamond wedding—
i white velvet dress, 8100,000 wdrth of jew
Is aud a tour to'Europe are the circum-
.tancea of interest:
City finances of Atlanta for quarter en$
ins Oct. 1st, 883 I 777,70.* (
842,197,24.
Bard nominates Grant for next Presi
dent.
A tremendous cathedral is being built in
New York, capable of holding 19,000 peo
ple.
Major Halsey of Atlanta refuses to ran
ain. Wm. Ezzard ' is suggested as his
successor. Salary raised to 2,500 a yea«
It is rumored that the Government was
implicated ia the gold speculations afloat
Friday week.
The Tennessee Legislature, which is to
meet to-day, will, it is said, refuse to rari
ty the Fifteenth Amendment.
‘The Chicago' Post says the reason why
Freglinghnysen declined’ <tho Chinese mis
sion was because he was not' on good teima
with his uncle, Old Hyson whh }rvi
there. - ’
Grant’s majority in Nebraska was 4,200,
and Governor Butler’s 2,491. hhe Legis
lature was stroDgly Republican. This year,
judging by all the indications, the results
will be quite different.
Scandals of the Stowe sort are rife; and
now up turns a chap out west who chums
to be a sou of Anna Dickinsm by her first
wife.
The Mobile papers say that business in
that city was unprecedentedly brisk last
week.
Jefferson Davis sailed for New York, in
the steamer City of Baltimore last Satur
day.
Boston has only sixty-seven teen to five
hundred, and sixty-five women afflfiqg hei
jteuchera. Td4 7;i >v jhmmoI ' ,l *"
‘ - At A. Tk Stewrtiq _
twenty.(2;000tehawl>:faaT4.beai^dff this
season, and one worth $5,700. r 2i
The Newnon Herald says William C.
Leigh; a young man reading in Wahoo, has.
picked out' two tons of cotton up to the
present time,' 305 lbs. of which he picked
n oue day—the 23d inetant. •'
. Mr. . Delano decides that wholesale drag,
gists selling less than halfapintof spirits
or more than five gallons of alcohol, shall
pay a retail taxi-
Dates from St., Thomas to .the 18th nl'
imo state that three shocks of earthquake
had occurred,, and business ;was suspended
by the frightened people. No lives wen-
lqst. mtUiqsu .. -
Mr. Rbbcrt Bfillsr of Reading, Pa., has*
on his premises a curiosityraifely met with—
i duck having the fe^t of a chicken-—the
feet being without'webs, -atid' the‘head
“raced with bombs: The other part of the
fuwl ia jike an qtdinary dnek: ' X*
Tho revenue officers, assisted by United
States cavalry, are very vigilant in Virgin
ia. Thirteen illicit stills have., recently
been seized and destroyed and, twelve men
arrested. The revenue from the distillation
of apple brandy alone; In Virginia, it is he
tiered, will reach 83,300,000 (at fifty ddjffs
tax per gallon) this year, against $8»
last year, when the tax was two 1
lara.
An exchange says that a new variety ol
cotton,-grown from seed obtained in Caliiur-' nri
nia, has been raised khts-year m Mississippi.
and Alabama! It is said to prudaob- twi> ---
and ‘one-half to three -bales per acre, -' add
parte and Wade Hampton havb. received
tickets of admission- - • ' ' ';
A merchant id a Northern city pat an
advertisement in an evening paper, headsd
‘‘Boy Wanted.” The next mcrqiog he
found a band box on his door step; with this
inscription-—“How Will-this One answer?”.-
On opening it, he fbnnd a nice, fat, chubby
looking specimen' ofthe article he wanted,
warmly done-qpiq flannel. -iVI ^ ;j
Fire insnranpe in Japan 1s t
effective. No paid-up capital!
The “company” consists ofthe
who issues oce general policy, which he
calls an edict. The'chief condition of the
policy is, that every-person whose hou*e
catches fire shall have his head cut off. The
los=es have been very light.
“My dear,, did you say or did ye q not say
what I said yon said—because Mi s: Gran-.
said: N ow.tf you Ho say that you. did not
i sa X^m«$S><3;yon.' 1 .smd^wh^ TWI:
HVt- laiij ' ! - -TF
ftsin
Jumbled Miscellany.
Of seventy, women who went to Oregon
from Massachusetts, 'two years ago, sixty-
nine are'married.
Louis,' Michigan. 17 Ttifc- water is highly
charged with!, electiitity, and has been
found effectual in - the cure of rheumatism
But thd sgningest is that it leaves asedi
ment upon, and burnishes, melal in snch a
manner as to make it resemble gold, and
this rabstanee is pronounced to be “oloridc
of gold.”
“"Professional habit seems entirely to
change the character of many men.fqr the
time being;, and your model of benevolence
and forbearance at faomeis“often'severe and
harsh in his business dealing^ abroad. Prob
ably,the tiger is placable in his den, perhaps
uxorious; and,’ doubtie-s, the laughing hy
ena, though morose and sardonic, while fora
ging for carrion, is jelly in the midst offals
family.
Tho signature to a valuable document in
lexhndm,' ’ 'Val,' was' written with purple
ink, ahd, to the dismay of the possessor, it
hag-faded entirely away. A paper in that
city accordingly condemns the use of pnrple
ink for .legal documents, bnt suggests that
it .would be highly appropriate for love-
letters. The suggestion may be appreciated
ra Chicago.
L. H. Everitt, of Louisiana', gave an ex
periment yesterday at .the Fulton ferry-
house, Brooklyn, on a new style of tele
graph. apparatus, professing to transmit,
sound through wire and dispense with elec-,
triclty. The doctor discards the old theo
ry of sound' being earned by the vibration
-if air, and holds that it can be transmit-
ted in particles like sparks of lightning.
. vyhen the doctor folly establishes his prin
ciple it [will cause a wonderful revolution in
the cost of telezra'phic despatches.—New
Tor£EemW, 22d.
Daniel Webster was a philosopher long
before he dreamed of being a statesman.
At the age of twenty he wrote thus to his
brother Ezekiel “I have now by me two
cents in lawful Federal cnrrency; next week
I , will send tbem^if they be alfathey will bay
yoa perhaps a pipe yon can smoke; smoking
inspires wisdom; wisdom is.allied to forti-
tude; from fortitude it is but one step to stoi-
oismjand stoicism never pants for this world’s
goods; so perhaps my two cents, by this
process, may - pnt you quite at ease abont
cash.” To snch of ns as hare but a single
jur, pockets, these words are vali
able. T&ey would be at least, if a nicklc
would , buy a pipe. and ,the tobacco to fill
it.
Mr. Beecher never swears. In all his
life a profane expression has never passed
his lips. Bat ifne were to take it into hie
head totiylit once, .he wonld make even
that disgusting habit seem ^beautifnl—he
.wonld handle' it .as it was never bandied
beforehand If there' was a wholesome moral
lesson hidden away init anywhere, he wonld
ferret it out and use it with tremendous ef
fect. Panoplied with his grand endow
ment*—his judgment,, his discriminating
taste, his felicity of expression—bis graceful
fancy—if; Mr- Beecher had a mind to swear,
he would throw into it an amount of poetry,'
add pathoe, 'ahd ' splendid imagery, -and
moving earnestness, and resistless energy,
topped offahd.elfahaixed withagorgeous pyr
otechnic conflagration of filagree ;i ahd fancy
(wearing, that wonld astonish and delight
the hearer and forever after quiver thrbngh
his bewildered memory an.-exqu : site confti-
(ion of rainbows and music, and thander
and lightning. -A man of a high order of ;
intellect and appreciation could ait aud lis'
ten to Mr. Beecher swear.for a week with-
out getting tired.—Mark Twain.
■*.. mv&m 7i sai
German, named Linder,
a .remarkable piece of mechanism
It consists of a complicated clockwork, en
closed in a miniature castle. A watchman
walks around the tower, completing his cir
cle once in fifteen, miqutes. Once in fif-
teq minutes a porter opens a gate in the cas-
gaiteafter him.. At^lo’cloek, the mam en-
Vi trance of the castle opens, and. a number or
figures appear under the arch, and remain,
while a music box plays several aira. Fig
ures also ’’appear now and then at the win
dows. Oh the top Afrthq.castle is a ball,one
‘aide gilded ’arid the otber black. The gilded
side turns- from behind a screen with the.
matures three weekseorlpr than ordidaty; moon.’inditatingthe changes of that plaoet
cottoa - e: from the first quarter to the full.
George Washington has just been sent to T
the Virginia State Prison. Thomas Jeffer
son, Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun, <nreulation of the newspapers of the city,
were already' there; and Napoleon *Bina- NAttoke front fhe Daily Star, which we are
Star 42,075. The Sun, we observe, is not
shining in the list. It is claimed by the
publisher.that their circulation last Satur
day was over 80,0 OQ. Can such thing?
be ?
Highly Important —The Angusa
Constitutionalist of the 3d publishes the
following dispatch from its special N. Y
correspondent; “There are indications of
a strong combination to advance the price
of cotton. Spinners and exporters are Ln
buyers. Cotton goods doing bcl'cr ” ■'
Hints to totos.
If you dance well, dance but seldom
If you dance ill, never dance at aU.
If you sing well, make no puerile «r-
cuscs.
- If you sing indifferently, hesitate not a
moment when you are asked, for a few per
sons are competent judges of singing, but
every one is sensible of a desire to pienee.
; If in a conversation you think a' person
wrong, rather hint a difference of opinion
than ofLr a contradiction. . -
It is Always in your power-to make -a
friend by smiles; what folly to make - ene
mies by. frortns. ‘.‘Never dolt.” ‘
When you have an opportunity to.praise,
do it with all your heart.
„ When you are forced to. blame, do it
with, i-elnctancc.
If you are envious of another woman,
never slow-it bnt by allowing her‘every
good quality and perfection, except thoee
•which she really possesses.
If you wish to jet the world know yon
are in love with a. particular man, treat
him with formality, aad eicry one else
.with case and freedom. Be.
,J If you are disposed to be pettish or inso- : —’
lent, it is better to exereise your ill-humor
on your dog, cat or servant, than on your
friend.
If you would preserve beauty rise early.
If you would preserve esteem, be gentle.
If you would obtain power, be conde-
Haa
The First ] ^
lacks 810,000 of completion.
The political canvass ia Ohio is
ing “red hot.”
The importation of Chinese women
the increase. \
Nashville bids fair to become quite not
ed for its broom amnafactnrts.
The grape crop in Tenneesee this year
hrge and of excellent quality.
Senator Wilson is going to Texas to
help organize the Radicals there.
Hendricks is proving a big eatff-iia
Democratic stumper in Ohio. -rt: : l .d-
Gov. Senter, of Tennessee is 38 yean
old.
November and December arc called by
the Boston Post the “emben” ofthe dying
year.
The City Council of
ing in Ham
A poor fellow in Austin, M ......
fiaeil thirteen dollars recently for sqaeesiag
a woman’s band.
Women as Jurors.
This is one of tiiq phases of the petticoat
iffrage question now being agitatM. Oaee
with the ballot, the duties of sitting upon
juries will .be “imposed, upon”, the, ladies.
.Now it is a notorious fact that men are far
more lenient and merciful to female crimi
nals than women are. towards each other
outside of the court-room. If they will
Uot spare a weak or frail one now, what
will they:do when clothed with-the rights
of jurors ? Imagine a young and pretty
women, who has ‘‘stooped to folly,” brought
before a jury in which several irascible and
elderly spinsters hold the balance of power,
is it difficult to say what the verdict would
be? Would tho prisoner’s beauty, or tears,
or repentance touch them? verily, no.
tiff in a suit for breach of promise , against
a handsome, rich yonng swell, would she
win her suit- ? Truly, no. Could the la
dies on the jury find: it in their hearts to
given verdict against “such a nice young
man ?” Bless you, no. Thus it is evident
that with crinoline in tne jury box neither
wonld get justice..
A horticultural school for women
be opened in Boston as soon as the
ry- funds can be obtained.
The velocipede rink in Memphis has
been remodeled to answer the more prac
tical pnrpose.of a cotton shed.
Tho State Treasurer of South Carolina
will realize about 81,000,000 for State tax- j
er. • _
Humboldt ouce said that Bayard Taylor
had traveled more and seen l«a ’ than any
man he had ever heard of.
- Two million sixteen thousand pins a day
are made by the New England Pin Com
pany at Winstead, Conn
The wile of Eli Peck, of Knlamasoe, haa
eloped with a colored man. He says be
has got rid of aPeck of trouble thereby.
At the State Fair in Ohio -hst Month.
79,00IT tickets were sold.' If onr Fair does
as well we shall eertatnly'be satisfied.
Asphalt urn pavements are to Re
duced into Angosta, Ga., as aa. experi
ment.
lexas has.eighty newspapers and iixty ‘
thousand registered white voters, or
paper to every 750 men.
The North'Carolina Lunatic Asylum is I
at present overcrowded, and applications I
for admission are refused.
Internal Revenue.—We find in the
Macon Journal ^-Messenger, a careful syn-
p) e r r m creation. The edition u veiy large, and
“Every person, firm, company or cotpo- no man shoaId be withottt * “PJ-
ration, engaged in any trade, business or A pumpkinvine one hundred aad fort;
profession, on which a special tax is impos- feet long is running around Now
ed by law, shall register with the Assistant shire.
Assessorofthe assessment districts and di- Th» net i
vision—first, his or their name or style; Nashrille, on the 5th inat Nrariy eve
and m case of a firm or comnanv. the names : - o. .
and in case ofa firmer company, the names
rf the several.persons constituting snch firm
or company and - their- places of residence;
and second, the trade tnsines3. or profes
sion, and the place where such trade, bus
iness or profession is to be carried -on.
Any one who ehal 1 exercise or carry on
any trade, business or profession, or doany
act hereinafter mentioned, for the exercis
ing, carrying on or doing of which a special
tax is .m posed by law, without first regis
tering with the Assistant Assessor of the
proper division, shall for snch offence,
lesides. being j liable to the payment
of the tax, be subject to a penality of fifty
per centum, and imprisonment, for a term
not exceeding two years, or a fine not ex
ceeding two years, or a fine not exceed
ing five hnndred dollars, or both, and such
fine shall be distributed between' the Uni
ted States and the informer.
Returns of Rankers, broken; corporation,
breweries, dealers, dear makers, etc., quar
terly returns of manufacturers, ect, mutt
be made to the Asssitant Assessor,on or be
fore the 20th of each month. In default of
the proper return, the Assistant Assessor
te the same upon the best infor
mation he can obtain,' and add penalties
for neglect.
The last number ofthe Mountain Home
announces the retirement of'our old friend
Ool. J. F. Shanklin, from the editorial
management of that spirited and spicy jour
nal, ..Dr. B. A. Moraely, jr., assumes . con
trol, and will wield the quill in future! He
carries to' its columns an untiring eheigy —
a necessary element of success.
-CoL Shanklin, we’ hear, goes to a new
field in journalism, and will be the editor
of a now paper to be called the Borne Duly,
the first nnmbcr of whidh will be issued
from the flourishing litdy city in the course
ofa week or ten days by the Messrs. Mose-
ly and himself! We wish him success be
yond his most sanguine expectations.—Tal
adega Watchtoveer.
The Idle Man.—The idle man is an an
noyance—a nuisance. He is an intruder
in the busy thoroughfare of every day
life. He stands in our path and we must
posh him contemptuously slide. Heisnj
advantage to any-one. ' He annoys busy
men. • He makes them unhappy. He'
cipher.in society. He may Lave an
cOrne to support him in idleness, or he may
sponge on his good natur'ed friends. Bat
in either case he is despised.
, Young men form habits of industry; do
something in this busy, wide awake world.
Move abgnt forjthe benefit of mankind, if
not for yourself/ 'Do not be idle: God’s
law is that by the sweat of our brow we
shall earn our bread. This is a good one,
and tfao bread is sweet. Do not be idle.—
The following figures in regard to ^ precious to bo squandered
lirpulation ofthe .newspapers of the city, ° * - - _ -
gltd-to see isjon the high road to prosper
ity. Last Saturday tho qirculation of the
Herald was 64.000; Tribune 29,874; Times
‘'“.000; World 12,900; Post 8.750; News
.000;' Mail 4,500; Express 7,350; Com
mercial 6,000; Press 2500; Telegram 5,000;
£"•&*■****% UnionK209;Daily m^Tm^S^SSSiSk
A Heayx OpxRATioN.We learn that
Treasurer Angier yesterday refused to nay
an executive warrant drawn by the Gover
nor for 81,532 - 20 for 2,552 copies of the
Rules of Practice adopted by the Conven
tion of the Superior Court Judges. “There
were 3.000 copies published at a cost—all
exclaimed an Irishman, who was present,
"whatyafiager he;must have.’'
A Large Ring.—At a recent lecture
ProfpMor ka4'«?
ring six thousand miles broad. “Bejabers!” The coin in tbe National Treasury is said
nrPFPr.f! Ka Ka naorltr Ann linnJvn/1 AnJ -1
were'retained by the publisher, to be sold
at 81 per copy. The State was charged
sixty cents per copy for 1,552 copies, a
profit of over 81,400.—Atlanta Constitu
tion.
A Poultice tor Felons.—Take cas-
tilesoap, and scrape a large or small quan
tity, according to the amount wanted, and
simmer iu new milk till it forms a paste or
cream; cool and apply. You will find this
one of the best poultices for felons, or any
kind of swelling that needs poulticing, and
far superior to bread and leilk. Trv it, ye
afflicted, *
’ Mir 1
to be nearly one hundred
lions. Currency six and half
mil-
newspaper in tbe State was represented.
Tho city ticket of - „ _
the Radicals is compose: of equal nn
of Democrats and Republicans, and will I
certainly elected.
Aunt Bylcs dosn’t believe the moon
inhabited! “It isn’t at all likely,”
says, “that tbe Supreme Being would have
people so. near him ”
Agriculturalists in California are tu
ing their attention to the raising of opium!
The poppy plant it Is found will
there almost without cultivation. '
Water runs over Niagara Falls at' thi
rate 1,500,000,000' feet every- minute, giv-j
ing-a water power sufficient to perform ali ;
the manmfrjafaor in the State of New York/
The United States produced fwnhty-fivd
million dol'ara worth of cheese, and a hunjj
dred millions worth of butter lutt year.
A tailor in Broadway has a bill, in
window like this: “Wanted several this!
coat makers.” This Is a fine challenge
spare tailors.
Jenny Lind is ootdone at bee Then i
a man in Myrtle street who'has a earn
bird with sneh a delightful voice that
sweetens his tea with it
Spanish ex-priest, who left dm church
order to get married to a beautiful French
baletgirL
A bright woman in Indiana was Mr
Blake in the morning, Mim Gibbu at he
and Mrs. Coon In the afternoon. The
gal facilities of that State are wcnderfuL
About' thirty yonng women and „.
Nashville, Tennessee, have been indn
to abandon a life of rice and enter a
which the good people of that city
nomdeiL. 'Tf/_"
A lady recently in speaking of her 1
band, who had failed in the poultry
ness, said that he had been heavily
ed in mercantile speculations fa "
and had been very unfortunate.
Not long ago a captain of volnntews '
publicly presented with a handsome sw
He began his reply that: “Ludiee
The negroes of Lexington, Ky,
about publishing newspaper. It will
edited by negroes, and will be under
auspices of the Grand Army of the
public.
Tbe South Pacific Railroad is not
ished to Lebanon, Missonri. For thi
fort-night the track-layers have been
at work, laying rails at tbe rate
miles per day.
Since Sir. Bontwell has been Secrete
the Treasury, he has purchased, in —
York city, about $20,500,000 in bonds..
a premium of twenty-two per cent, on '
amount he has paid the men from wboo
made the purchaser $3,400,000 more t
was due them. Is not Mr, Bontwell jnst tl
man for bondholders and money-k
Xho New Hampshire State Fair ii
cheater is a triumph. Among tha
features in the procession was a
eleven yokes of oxen from B<
drawing a handsomely decorated rural c
tage on wheels.
A gentleman who visited the
Fair, said he paid a dollar a night
privilege of sleeping on the bureau-
drawers being occupied by the ehik
which belonged to the lady in the
attic.
Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Stewart ate i
extensive preparations for opening L
new fifteen hundred thousand dollar I
dence on Fifth avenue. They will ex
on the occasion a table sarrite risolid I
lined with gold and costing about <
thousand dollars-