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^XJMEXXIY- ROME, GA., FRIDAY MO] fe. HEX'"’ every fbioay. WEEKLY. , $3 00 1 75 1 00 0 e TtE3FOR TRI-'^EKLJ. ^ " " 2 j.-'llonths-- // 1 ' rfrt M^Dtba.-—---- adV ANCE. co P7 wiU h.hr, [SVJ , ljb i of F ive orI . r ,;is- . l advertisements. L ' " , by A J, c : t i 5 trator., E«ctor. . f J^aud uy to be held c r„ required by law t month, between the '“ r jr‘°Tue>daji'a.«»^ B “^““J in the ,.ure of ““ ;j e Court Hons, in the county in jtltr n»m, * situated, whichsales must begvren.n manner through a public must •(Ojhf? ^^isssa«S s^SSteess?’- published monthly for f ce of threo sblishinB 1»«‘ P»P«"* „, m 1 Eiecutors_or ‘“, hs _for compelling titles by ijininistmtore. where 0 ( three months. •„,leees.‘cJ, for the full P P‘“ nt inued accord- Pnb “r s t"he W ^al'Tetuiremeats, unless oth- **■1,1 ordered, at the flowing rir= RATES. sberitTs Sales P« Si^?* ^%,h„iS;;tion:r:'.»» C i tot ,- 0 ’’!forle e .tersol Guardianship.. * 00 SSrX'i-*" fordismissiondrom^ ## aumimsiom from ^ ## Guardianship,. • "’/"“ ... S 00 ;** 5 oo n: &‘W 4 o2 Foreelosuro £Morlgaz.. P« ' adrance) 10 0 e fi y fa! sales, per levy, 5 00 advertising his f sATORI>AY^0 1 ^ ,Nt; ’ October^ 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-