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The fo isms are taken'^i ES'Kill^feHED IN1843. THE* COURIER has a large and steady clreu- ntioif in Cherokee Georgia, and Is the beatau- rertising medium in this section. ML DWINEIX, Proprietor. | Wednesday Morning, Feb. 6, 1878 Chronicle & Constitutionalist: TheBal- (timore Sun rightly justifies the trial of I the Returning Board rogues on the broad ground that a 8tate must protect [its bpnor. The California Legislature has passed a law making incendiary language a fel- J ouy. This has been done to meet the | cases of the communistic leaders who are trying to stir up an outbreak in San Francuco. j: Justice Clifford, of the Supreme Court, attended the President’s state dinner, a few evenings ago—the first time he has recognized the President either [ i formally or socially since the inaugura- ! lion. When the St. Alphonsus Church at . Wheeling, West Virginia, took fire the I other day, a wedding was in progress. £ The witnesses ran from the church, but ’ the couple told the priest to go on, and, il imid smoke and falling debris the cere mony was completed. 1 Dr. Chapin, the distinguished Univer- salist, says he has labored not so much to get people ont of hell as to get hell out of people. “It is infinitely better,” ffi says the Doctor, “to spend one’s en- ■ deavors in a struggle for right living than in a search for the details of future punishment." American palace cars are now to be found the world over. When King Oscar opened a railroad ic Norway last October, he travelled in a carriage built by Jackson & Sharp, of Wilming ton, Delaware, on the model of one ex hibited at Philadelphia, which was bought by the Emperor of Brazil. Macon Telegraph and Messenger U. S. Bonds declined three-quarters of one per cent, in London on the 29th ultimore in consequence of the passage of the silver resolution. Ah, that is bad ; but the evil is measurable. It can be conceived; and the bondholders still live, and the bonds will get over it. Blessed bonds, we wish you well. In spite of the long obituaries in the New York papers, may you live for ever. A letter has been received in Wash ington within a few days, from a friend cf Gen. Grant, who has been with the General lately, and who reports that he entirely approves of President Hayes’ Southern policy, and thinks it was both judicious and necessary, and has no doubt of. its complete success. There appears to be a good deal of anxiety at the North, and in fact throughout the country, as to the ice crop. Up to the present time there has been no ice of any consequence made except in Maine and further \North; New York has not begun, as the ice is still too thin. At the West the pork-packers are casting about to see where the ice for the next sum mer’s packing is to come from ; the brewers are also anxious, the old stocks left over being small throughout the country. It appears then likely that there will be an ice famine, unless we have soon some steady freezing weather i at the North and West. •V Constantinople, January 2, letter gives an interesting account of the dis turbed condition of that city, the ap prehensions of a revolution, and the new departure of the Turkish women. The participation of Turkish women in the care of the wounded is one of the strange things that has come to pass in this war. For the first time in the his tory of the country they have aban doned their habits of seclusion, shaken off their prejudices againBt association with Giaours, and are rendering good service as nurses, cooks and attendants in the hospitals. The English volun teer lady nurses and the French Sisters of Charity praise their willing disposi tion and natural intelligence. So, even in Turkey there seems to be the begin ning of a new era for women. We agree with the St. Louis Republi can that if the Bland bill is amended so as to charge seignorage in the free coinage of silver bullion, gold ought to be placed on the same category. Under our mint system no charge whatever was made for the coinage of gold or silver prior to the act of February 21, 1S53, which provided for a seignorage charge of one-half of one percentum. When the so-called demonetizing act of April 1,1873, was passed, the seig norage charge for gold dollars was re duced to one-fifth of one percentum and finally abolished altogether by the second section of the act of January 14, 1S75, commonly known as the resump tion act. Now, if the seignorage charge is revived, it should be revived for gold as well as silver. Hon. John Young Brown publishes a letter defending and vindicating him self from charges made by the New York Sun in the matter of the electoral commission. The Courier Journal says: The evidence in vindication of Mr. Young is cumulative and overwhelm ing, both as to the charge with refer ence to his claim for pay as a member of the Fortieth Congress and as to a “bargain” with the Republicans during the struggle over the Electoral Count bill, and aB to all other attacks of the Sun. The refutation is completed by the letters of Messrs. Hale, Foster, Black, Blackburn, and other Republicans and Democrats. Such a vindication was not needed in Kentucky, where Mr. Brown is so well known, but those jour nals which have been giving currency to the Sun’s gross misrepresentations should be honorable enough to at least state the points in the evidence adduced by Mr. Brown, and upset the Bee which Wtro originally started on their travels from Dana’s office. DB. FELTON’S VIEWS. In copying an extract from a letter written by Dr. Felton to a friend, pub lished in the Express last week, the Rome Courier attempts to ridicule the sentiments and earnestness of purpose expressed thereia. Said Dr. Felton, “the fight between the money power and the people, grows hotter every day,” and that, “God being my helper, I intend to speak, vote and work for the masses against an oligarchy of gold monopolies and all the rest.” We would suggest to the Courier that nine tenths oi its readers and of ( the people of this district respond from the bottom of their hearts to all such sentiments uttered by whom they may' be; and it may rest assured that such utterances from Dr. Felton has won many friends among those who have heretofore opposed him.—Carteraville Express. Yes, and Dr. Felton knew there was an overwhelming naojority of the peo ple of his district already thinking as he spoke before he spoke. That is the funny part of the matter. Dr. Felton can inveigh against the “wreckers” and “oligarchy of gold monopolies,” after such men as the Editor of the Carteraville Express have enlightened tt e people, and educated the public mind to a sense of what is right Long ago the editor of the Carters- ville Express, and while he was editing the Rome Courier, advanced the same ideas in his decent and forcible style, when they were not so popular as they are now, or at least when there was not so much said an the subject; but now when there i3 scarcely a dissenting voice in his district, and the election is near at hand, we cannot help laughing at the idea of Dr. Felton, all at once getting so vehement, and taking and publishing a “modified” oath that he is not only all right now, but intends to continue all right on the money question. The Express misinterprets the spirit of our notice of Dr. Felton’s views. We did not attempt to ridicule the Doctor's sentiments, for those sentiments, when moderately expressed, are our own, and it is far from our nature to tiy to ridicule the earnestness of a venerable and forceful clergyman. It was only the time of the happening of his ear nestness that put U3 in a sort of jolly good humor. BABYLANU FOB JANUARY. A fine double number, full of tiny Christmas stories and lovely Christmas pictures, all in big print, on thick pa per, just the magazine to teach babies to read. It is only fifty cents a year. D. Lothrop & Co., publishers, Boston, Mass. One of our exchanges says: “If D. Lothrop & Co., of Boston, publishers of Babyland, could have seen the joy the November number car ried to the ‘little man’ who has the privilege of ‘taking’ the copy that comes to this office, they would doubt less have felt that their magazine for juvenile readers is the publication of all publications for little eyes and ears. It is an ‘institution’ in families where there are small children.” EUROPEAN NEWS. The supplementary supply bill was not pressed to a vote in the Hoase of Uomons on Friday night, but final' afc- tion was adjourned to Saturday night A Brussels dispatch from Constantino ple announces the signing of the armis tice. That at least concludes the war, as a war between Russia and Turkey simply; but the elements of discord seem to increase. A bad complication is the universal outbreak against Turkey in her Greek provinces, which refuse to submit to Turkish domination any longer. * The prospect of an agreement of the powers upon the terms of peace does not brighten, and the anticipations of peace at St Petersburg seem to be dim. In short, iris possible that Great Britain is going to embark in a war against geogra phy and civilization in defence of “Brit ish Interests;’’ but we hope for better things. We are indebted to the publishers, Messrs. A. S. Barnes & Co., New York, for the January-February number of the International Review, a literary and po litical magazine of great merit. Among the contents of this number are the fol lowing : Thiers, a sonnet, by John Greenlraf Whittier. Elements of national wealth, by David A. Wells. The second harvest at Olympia, by Ernst Curtius, of Berlin. First impressions of Athens, by Ed ward A. Freeman, D. C. L. Sumner’s place in history, by Maj. Ben. Perly Poore. Money and its laws, by Prof. W. G. Sumner. Imperial Federalism in Germany, by Baron Von Holtzendorff, of Munich. Modem Love, by Dr. Samuel Osgood. The Count of the Electoral Vote, by Alexander II. Stephens. Art in Europe, by Philip Gilbert Hamerton. And reviews of recent American, English, French and German books. Publishsd bi-monthly at 85 per an num. The story of the arrest of Ander son, Kenner and Cassanave, members of the Louisiana Returning Board, as told by the New Orleans Picayune of the 27th ult, is full of interest. It seems that they sought protection in the Custom House, but Attorney General Devens telegraphed from Washington forbidding the Custom House officers to harbor them. Then, after arrest, they went before Judge Billings, who was holding the U. S. Circuit Court, expecting him to release them, as was the eastern in the earlier and happier days of the car pet-bagger, bat he refused to have any thing to do with them. So they failed there, and likewise before a U. S. Com missioner, and had to give up . and go into the lock up. Wells made his escape before arnst, and is thought to be in Washington City. They are all charged with forgery in altering the election re turns of last year. The sensational nows from TSe^BP leans appears to have produced a deal Washington, Feb. 1,1878. It would appear absurd and altogeth er ridiculous for the distinguished gen tlemen who formed .he Louisiana Com- , . . . o ,. mission of last March to pay the slight- man who went. to aee attention to the “ranting*’ of the of nervousness among the “visiting Re publican statesmen” wbotook part in the Presidential count. Dispatches from Louisiana state that nearly ery will be indicted lor participation in the Wells forgeries Secretary Sherman and Minister Stoughton—what Jere Black left of him—are specially men tioned. It is said the evidence against them comes of a document, signed by them, assuring D. A. Webbrfj a super visor of elections in East Feliciana par- . iah, UTHUflMt, ri'At 51'WS turning Board. Is supervisor of Went Feliciana, of protection and recognition in case they performed what was re quired -of them. The task required of them was to falsify- the returns and make false affidavits in regard to in timidation at' .he polls. What a sweet- scented affair that Louisiana business will be when properly stirred I — * • ; An interesting decision has just been rendered by the United States Supreme Court relative, to the rights of colored per. sous to the same privileges with whites upon public conveyances. Josephine De Cuir, a colored woman of property, wa3 refused admission to the upper cabin on a Mississippi river steamboat, on the ground that it wa3 reserved for whites. She sued the owner of the boat in the Louisiana courts, and was awarded S1.000 damages, but the Uni ted States Supreme Court reverses th< decision. The court rules that the laws do not forbid that steamers shall have separate cabins and dining rooms for whites and negroes, that equality does not mean identity, and that steam boat owners have a right to keep apart persons who would be disagreeable to eich other. Augusta Chronicle and Constitution alist: In the-official report of thebattle of Antietam Gen. McClellan statesthat the Federal forces of all arms,' which took a part in that engagement number ed 87,000. Col. Taylor says that the entire Confederate force is this battle wae 35.355. A the battle of Gettysburg, according to the telegram pent by Gen Hooker to Gen. Halleck on the 27th of June, the Federal army numbered 105.000, exclusive of officers; or about 112,000 all told. Col. Taylor puts the Confederate array then present at 62.- 000, everything included. In the last desperate struggle, which ended in tfce surrender of Lee, the difference between the combatants was still greater; Gen. Grant’s army outnumberingthat of his opponent at least three to one, During twelve years Albert Meyn, of Boston, paid the premiums on 825,000 of life insurance. This burden was the cause of his bankruptcy ; but he strug gled hard and made the payments, be lieving that by doing so he was secur ing his family against poverty after his death. Within two years one after an other of the companies in whicn be jvas insured have gone to pieces, and when he died, several years ago, all his poli cies were worthless. His wife and chil dren are penniless. The insignificant DominionofCana- da has spent thirty million and intends to put twenty million more in the same work in making a water route to the sea that is frozen up at least half the year; while the great United States gov ernment is appalled at the demand that as much "money shall be expen ded on a water-way which will be nav igable every day in the year. The Kentucky Senate has repealed the test oath required of every member that he has not used money to secure his election. The ground ot the oppo nents of the oath was that, besides a bribery, it forbade the legitimate use of campaign funds, such as printing tickets and posters and hiring halls. One of the saddest things cennected with the war in the East is the fact that the warlike Greeks did not perfect their arrangements to take a hand un til the trouble wa9 ever. A special war of some sort, should now be got ten up for the fierce Greeks whojare exhib iting a pressure of about one hundred and sixty pounds to the square inch. GEOKI.IA GLIMPSES. Emory College has 225 students. Real estate is looking up in Savan nah. A large number of Northern people are spending the winter in Thomasville. The telephone is said to be in opera tion between Darien, Jesup and Bruns wick. The ground was all Covered with snow about Atlanta and for some dis tance this side yesterday morning. The North Georgia Agricultural As sociation has appointed Col L. N Tram mell, H. C. Hamilton and John Black to attend the session of the State Agri cultural Society, which convenes in Americas on the 12th of February. There are said to be, in Dodge coun ty, 10,000 head of sheep, yielding on an average 32,500 pounds yearly. The turpentine farms are also spreading throughout that section of the State. Mr.-Childs, President of the North eastern Railroad, has stated it to be the intention of the directors to extend the road to Rabun Gap, it being aleady graded three or four miles beyond the Air Line. An immense amount of grain has been planted in Southwest Georgia, and with favorable seasons the harvest will be an abundant one in this favored section of our State. The emigration, west from Southwest Georgia this season falls far below the average of former years, an indication that the people are beginning to appre ciate the value of a country as good as any the sun shines on, says the Albany News. _ • It doesn’t aeexn exactly right that a man should be obliged to walkthrough life on two bow-tegs just because he in dulged in the innocent diversion of sucking his toes in babyhood. Wasliinjrton UorrSSSndence. (in their estimation) “insignificant Bill Chandler,” still a good many here af fect to believe; that not one of them, would feel slighted or overlooked if assured that he (Chandler) had recon- .-,, V e means they found so effica- ardl islature, and to bold up to public scru tiny the equities of a derision by which Packard’s election was held invalid while that of Mr. Hayes admitted of no question though his alleged majority was less by nearly 1,000 than Mr Packard’s. ButjMr. Chandler seemB to contemplate no snoh withdrawal from a controversy that appears to yield him such a degree of satisfaction; and Maj Burke’s irrelevant reply to the categor ical interogatories of Mr. Chandler, has strengthened rather than weakened the belief that there was a good deal of plotting and counter-plotting at the time of the electoral count Many of Tilden’s nominal friends in the South preferring Mr. Hayes manacled and muzzled rather than their own candi date under obligations to the proverbi ally tricky New York politicians. Ev ery telegram from New Orleans rela tive to the progress of the trial of the Louisiana Returning Board is awaited with great interest certainly, not un mixed with anxiety and many misgiv ings, perhaps, by some in high places. Ws have only the first, perhaps., ex aggerated reports from the wrecked steamei, “Metropolis,” on the North Carolina coast near the theater of the Huron disaster. She sailfed from Phila delphia Saturday for Brazil, with about two buudred and fifty people on board, principally laborers under contract for work ou a new railroad enterprise in that country. The government took active steps for the relief of the sur vivors and to rescue the bodies of the dead, on receipt of the first intelligence of the disaster. Francis Murphy, temperance re former, has njw been here nearly week. ' His meetings are well atten ded, but he has hardly had as warm a reception, or been able to boast as many signers of the pledge, as other places. . The truth seems to be that, frightened by the unprecedented excesses of the Christmas season, the people of Washington took reform un der their own control, and had pretty thoroughly worked the field before Murphy’s arrival. Knox. Silver in Congress. As a part of the history of the times we publish the Bland bill and the Matthews resolution ns they were intro duced in Congress. THE BLAND BILL : An act to authorize the free coinage of the silver dollar, and to restore its legal tender character. Beit enacted by the Senate and house of Represetatives of the United States of America in Congress assem bled. That there shall be coined at the several mim M TTnWzj Krataa sil ver dollars of the weight of four hun- dred and twelve and a half grains troy or standard silver as provided in the act of January eighteen, eighteeu hun dred and thirty-seven, on which shall be the devices and superscriptions pro vided by said act: which coins, togeth er with all silver dollars heretofore, coined by the United States of like weight and nominal value, for all debts and dues, public and private, except where otherwise provided by contract; and tbe owner of silver bullion may deposit the same at any United States coin ige mint or assay office, to be coined into such dollar for his benefit, upon the same terms and conditions as gold bullion is deposited for coinage nnder existing laws. Sec. 2 All acts and parte of sets in consistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. THE MATTHEWS RESOLUTION. Resolved by the Senate, (the House of Representatives concurring Unrein,) That all the bonds of the United States issued or authorized to be issued under said acts of Congress hereinbefore .reci ted are payable, principal and interest, at the option of the guvernmentof the United States, in silver dollars of the coinage of the United States, caitain- ing 4121 grains each of standard silver, and that to restore to its coinagt such silver coins as a legal tender id payment of said bonds, principal and inteiest, is not in violation of public faith nor in derogation of rights of the public cred itor. This resolution was passed in the Senate by a vote of 43 to 22, and in the House by a vote of 189 to 79. Is Coffee Wholesome! I know it is palatable, as very few people dislike it; bat many eschew it on account of its deleterious effects. Its odor preparing is delicious, far more so than the actual drinking of it. I am os fond of it as any one, but have not taken a cup in. twenty-five years. It is more productive of bile, especial ly to people of sedentary habits, than any other thing that can be drank or eaten. Indeed, the most noted physi cians protest against its use beyond a single cup at breakfast, in which pro portion it can be taken with safety. But where it is profusely indulged in, it is as injurious to health as an alco holic stimulant. If one pound of col- fee should be used as so to last a family of ten persons for a week, I see it stated, no hurtful result would ensue. But here it should stop. I shoqld think however that by persons accus tomed to severe out-door exercise or labor of any kind it' could, to a large extent be taken with safety. Children should never touch it, or tea either, except the lattei'be very weak. The old-fasboned way of making coffee is undoubtedly the beet, which is to bay the coffee in the grain, scorch it until it is a light brown, grind it as U is wanted. The water should be boil ing when poured over the coffee, the pot of course closed, tightly and then give it another buiT for a minute or two, and it will soon be sufficiently dear to use. It was at tbe battle df Edge Hilt that Sir Jacob Ashley made his remarkable prayer: “Oh, Lord I thou knowest bow busy I must be this day; if I forget Thee, do not Thou forget me. March on, boys.” Cruelty to Convicts. Fur Tory Herald- Trenton, N. J. f Jan. 27,1378, It is rumored here on good authority that the Legislature will be called upon to investigate charges against the State Prison officials for alleged inhuman treatment of convicts. Dr. Thomas J. Corson, of this city, sent a communi cation to the last Mercer county Grand Jury setting forth that convicts are pun ched in-a cruel and unnecessarily se vere manner, but ou account of the ret icence of the prison officers it was im possible to ascertain- the facte until the fld/orJ^lwlMsAav flr.;W. W H Phillips, the prison physician informed j-_ TORTURES INFLICTED. These are, as he said :— 1st. “The boot heel gag” (a veiy pain ful instrument). 2nd. “The paddle” (an instrument used to beat persons on the bare flesh, inflicting intense suffering)- 3d. “The stretcher” (which is equal to the rack of olden times. The man’s feet are fastened to the floor; he is handcuffed, and by a rope drawn np to the ceiling as tightly a-i possibly. From five to twenty minutes of this would make any one weaken). 4th. Alcohol is poured on the prison- erVback and set on fire. In one case a man was twice burned in succession so that the hair on his body crackled, and be was twice put in the stretcher. 5th. “Tbe douche” which consists of □ ring water from hose ou tbe naked ies of prisoners. This creates moat agonizing pain, and is apt to pro duce insanity. • ’ ■' CHARGES HADE. The communication concludes: I charge G-rshom Mott, keeper; Dr. VV. W. L. Phillips, physician of the prison; and their associate officers, with having inflicted cruel and inhu man punishment upon the prisoners, and to prove the truth of this charge I respectfully request that you would summon before tire Grand Jmy the fol lowing named persons as witnesses:— Felix McGuire, Anthony Perry, Mur phy, now deputy keeper of the prison Henry Vegte, formerly deputy keeper Drs. John \V. Ward and Charles P. Bretton, of the Lunatic Asylum near Trenton. I hold myselt in readiness to appear in person before the Grand Jnry whenever summoned to do so. The communication was addressed to Joseph H. Bruere, foreman of the Jnry, who made known its contents to parties interested and did not present it to the Jury until Dr. Corson made per emptory demand for him to do so. No action was taken upon it. Dr. Corson and his associates, Drs. Ribble and Warmar, intend having the matter brought before the Legislature. There is also a difficulty between Keeper Mott and Coroner Bodine about the death of convicts of which the lat ter has not been notified, as he claims according to law he should be, which will also receive attention. Other charges of inhumanity are also rumor- ed. ‘ ; Barnum’s Latest Imposture- Ssrannah New*. The announcement of the discovery of tbe petrified remains of some colloe sal giant near Pueblo, Col., a few months ago has attracted more or less attention and elicited general comment from the newspapers. It was assumed by some that it most be the remains of one of the Toltee or Aztec races, who inhabited that country many centuries ago and then entirely disappeared, but, as we supposed it would, it turns out to be another “Cardiff Giant,” and the parturition of that humbug was accom plished by a Dot le3s distinguished per son than that experienced showman and eminent statesman, Hon. Phineas T.’Wnum, Mayor of Bridgeport, Con. The wnoie .. * f ,u att “ 1 ^ te ’d im position is told no fully aua - - U ^1^1 v in a communication to the New York Tribune from Eikland, Pa., that tbe ex posure is calculated to arouse suspicion that tbe revelation itself is but another adroit advertising dodge. According to the communication, Mr. Baroum contracted for the manufacture of the Colorado stone man with George . Hull, tbe inventor of the Cardiff Giant. It was made at Eikland, a little mountain town in the northern part of Pennsyl vania, near the New York State line. Baroum first had the figure brought to his home at Bridgeport for inspection, and then taken to Colorado and planted near his sheep ranche, where it was not unnaturally, discovered by his agent, \V A Conant, according to a carefuly ar ranged plan, daring an opportune visit of Mr. Barnum on a temperance lec turing tour to that State. An adroit deception was practiced in regard to the results of tbe scientific ‘eat which it was claimed was made. Ground stone, ground bones, clay, plaster, blood eggs and other materials were used in forming the image, which was then baked for weeks in n kiln. Hull had intended for a long time to deceive the public with this pretended petrifaction and bad spent much time and sev eral thousand dollars in experiments when Baranm came to his aid and sup plied the necessary capital for him to complete the work. The Death of a Gypsy Queen- From ths Dayton journal. 1 ast night on the midnight train from Cincinnati, the corpse of Mrs. Matilda Stanley arrived from Vicksburg. She died there very suddenly from the ef fects of a cancer that has been troub ling her for a long time. Her son, Le ri Stanley, accompanied the corpse, having it in charge since leaving Vicks- burg. Mib. Stanley was known as tbe Queen of the Gypsies, and her authori ty as such was recognized by all the tribes in the United Statss and Canada. Her family are very wealthy, and own i great deal of real esst&te in and about )ayton. They came here first about treaty years ago. and, liking the neigh- brhood, settled down, purchasing land rid adding to their possessions from yar to year. The Stanley trite, which zmains with the family, nnmbers ser ial hundred. In the snmmer they my in Dayton, but in the winter emi- (late back to the Sooth, always travel- bp in wagons. For some years past hr son, Levi Stanley, has assumed gen- J tl management of affairs of the tribe, d be has become knuwn as King of t|e Gypsies, bat bis mother retained te actual control. He is a powerful, file-looking man of about thirty-five, {■educated, bat shrewd and intelligent, ad pleasing in his manners. The body o hie mother has been embalmed, and it o be placed in a tomb until next Jhe, when the Gypsies from all “parts o the country will assemble, and it a 1 be buried after the easterns of this p aliar people. l dentist tried his first operation w 4 gas on a robust colored woman. A er she had used up all the gas in the ■oi se, Bne wheeled in tip chair and si ited: “HiBrry np, boss, and bring o^utother bag of that sweetened wind.” compositor in our office never sets udn ‘union there is strength’, without — — it read, ‘in onion there is Eli Sees Beecher. - Frun the Inter Oeenn [ Oil City, Pa., January 13, 1878.— This morning as I got into the Erie cars, after a lecture in Hornellsville, I met my old friend Henry Ward Beecher. Mr. Beecher looked rough and rudoy. His face blushed rosy with health.; and his eyes glittered in "a way indicating any thing but a torpid liver. After til king a few moments, I turned to the great preacher and asked him this question: “ What is this new doctrine yoa are ad vocating about no everlasting hell for the wicked and depraved 7 Why did yon an nounce your belief in no perpetual bell, Mf Bpw*"*- - “Well,” replied Mr. Beecher, “I had particular reasons for doing ft,' but I don’t want to give them.” “Don’t you want newspaper men to know them 7” I asked. “Yes,” said Mr. Beecher 1 “I do want newspaper men to know my reason for declaring no everlasting hell for the wicked and depraved, but I don’t care about the churches knowing them.” “Well, why did yon come ont against everlasting punishment—tell me, won’t you?” I said coaxingly. “Yes, Eli, I will tell you my reason for doing so, but don’t let it go any farther. “Yon know,” continued Mr. Beecher, “that you journalists have been abusing me a good deal lately 7” “Yes.” “Especially Mr. Dana, of the Son 7” “Yes, I notice Mr. Dana devotes a col umn or two to yon every day,” I said. “Well, I announced the idea that there was no everlasting hell for the wicked, just to please yon journalists— to throw a little sop to you, yon know, to keep you good natnred.” And then Mr. Beecher shut up both eyes and laughed all to himself. A little white afterward, in a more se rious mood, Mr. Beecher informed me that he was building a hew 830,000 house on his farm, he says, “where I can spend my old age in peace and quiet ness.” “I reduced my own salary,'’ said Mr. Beecher, “from 820,000 to 815,000 be cause I think 815,000 is enough to me, these times. It is all I earn, know I lectnre a good deal, and I feel that my church ought not to .pay me as much a3 they would if I devoted my whole time to her interests.” Talking about lectures, Mr. Beecher said that he used to lecture in 1850.for S15 and 820 per night “And ODce,” he said, “I went from Lawrencebnrg, Ind., where I was preaching, clear to Boston, and delivered a lecture before the Mechanic’s Institute for 825 and ex penses.” Time has changed things some, for last night, at Titusville, the receipts at Mr. Beecher’s lecture were 8600. Eli Perkins. Largest Steer ever Baised. Somerset (Fa.) Democrat.) Mr. Samuel Barclay, a well known stock raiser of Somerset township, has the satisfaction of knowing he has raised probably the largest steer ever raised in the United States, and one ont of which his different owners cleared over seven thousand dollars. Toe animal in ques tion was of a mixed breed—about five eights Short Horn, one-fourth Native, and one eighth Ayershire stock, and was sold by Mr. Barclay to Peter Phillippi, when four years old, for 8102.59. Mr. Phillippi sold him to Tobias Seitz, who fed him several years and kept him on exhibition one year, dnrteg which time he realized bis owner 81,678. Mr. Seitz sold him to Wm. Hummersick, of Car lisle, Pennsylvania, in February, 1876 for $1,450. Mr. Hummersick took him to the Centennial and at the close sold him to a Jersey butcher on private terms. Mr. Hummersick, when be pur chased the animal, invested in him all the mpney he could raise, 84,500; by placing him on exhibition at the Centen nial, and by sate, be realized money enough to buy a farm for 87,000 cash. .tear at the time of his removal to Philadelphia weighed 4,9C0 pounds, bnt lost considerable in weight before the close of the Centennial, on account of hard o'age. The hide weighed 500 pounds when be was slaughtered. He was said to have been tbe largest steer ever raised in the country. Drank on the Sapreme Bench The Washington Post of Thursday says: “A sad spectaele was presented to the audience in attendance upon the session of the District General Court at the City Hall on yesterday, it being no more nor less than a Judge of the said Supreme Court in a state of in toxication. While occnpyiDg his seat upon the bench in the general terms this Judge has frequently been guilty of flagrant abuses ot his important trust, and it is now high time for him either to resign or break the flowing bowl. The sight of a Supreme Court Judge swaying in his chair in a mandlin state, sentencing a sneak-thief to eight years in the penitentiary, white a fiend found guilty of rape is let off with a month, is hardly calculated to inspire vast res pect in the mind of the average behol der.” Married, at Virginia, Nev., on the 4th inst., by the Rev. Father McGrath, Ah Wan, esq, and Miss Nan Ying. The following was the ceremony: “Ah Wan, yon likee this one piece woman much good ?’ “You bet I” “Nan Ying, you like this one piece man way np good?” “Me like this piece.” “Ah Wan, you never catchee no more woman but this one piece d’ye moind that?” “No more catchee.” “Nan Ying, you catchee no more man bat Ah Wan, d’ye un- dersthand that?” “All lightee.” “Then, in in the name of the Almighty, I callee you all samee one piece meat.” The groom paid 8600 for the bride to the company that had imported her, and when he learned that if he had married her tbe law would have given him possession of her without paying a cent a gloom was cost over the com munity. 1 The Baigning Sovereign The People of Massachusetts show a great deal of silly sensitiveness about a few ugly facts in their State’s history, to which the refined taste of the cul tured Maine Senator has called public attention. True, it isn’t pleasant to have the public sins and short-comings of one’s ancestors paraded on grave State questions; bnt, in this instance, there was such discretion shown in the selection of the faults and follies dis played, that the blue Bay State blood lias slight provocation for a vehement and prolonged howl. Had the belliger ent Blaine gone back to the Colonial period, to the selling of Indians and Quakers into slavery, the hanging of witches and heretics—had he cited a few of the hundred “acts for the -pun ishment of heresy” in that great ‘“cen tre- of religions liberty”—there might have been some excuse for a slight show of temper, not to say a pronounc ed and altogether abnormal vertebral exaltation. Opposition to the war of 1812 was a mere peccadillo compared with the darker deeds of the fathers of that proud old Commonwealth. John Holmes, of Rush county, Ind., fed ninety hogs of his own raising that averaged five hundred and ^fourteen pounds gross. , ' •Hie Segal caste. Pill Mall Gazette,] There are at present moment 36 reign ing soverigns in Christendom, from the Queen of England, to whom 257,000,000 of human beings owe allegiance, to the Prince of Monaco, whom 5,741 subjects acknowledge as tbeir liege lurd. Oi these princes, ten are nominally Ro man Catholics, namely the Emperors cl Austria and Brazil, the Kings of Italy Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Bavaria, Sax ony, tbe prince of Lichtenstein and Monaco. At least three of these mon archs, however, are very far from being ' Pope, tbe King of Italy actually lying under sen tence of excummauicaiioA'; while the King of Saxony, himself a Catholic, rales over a population almost exclusm- ly Protestant. The old maxim of. German jnriau “Cnjus domino eju-i rel’gio,” has long wanted a touuoa,.. i. ii, ucl. Of the re maining 26 princes, two belong to the Greek church, thongu the Czar and the King of the Helenes belong to different branches of ite The other 24-are - Pro testant 16 bring Lutherans, four (includ ing the German Emperor) belonging to the “Evangelica.”confeseioD, three to the “Reformed” Church, and one being the “supreme head on earth” of the Church of England. But the vast majority of. Qqeen Victoria’s subjects (139,000.000) are neither Protestants nor Catholics, bnt Hindoos, while the Mohammedans, 40 - 000,000 in number, are themselves more numerous than the Protestants of all de nominations in the Empire. The oldest reigning sovereign 's Wil liam, German Emperor and King of Prussia, who completed his eightieth year on the 22d of March, 1877; the youngest is Alphonzo XII, of Spain who was twenty last birthday (28th of Nov ember, 1877). Iuthis’ list we do not count the Pope, because his holiness can scarcely be considered any longer as a sovereign, and in any case does not be long to the royal cast or coosinhood of reigning families. The average age of the sovereigns now reigning is 481 years. It may be added that five out of the thirty- six to-wit; tbe Kings of Spain and Bava ria, the Duke_of Brunswick, and the Princes of Scbwaraburg-Rudolsiadt and Lichensteiu—are bachelors, though all happily provided with heirs presumptive The titles borne by the illustrious per sonages are many and various. Five have in modern times assumed the impe rial style, the oldest of existing imperial titles being that of the Czar, whose prede cessor, Peter the Great, dubbed himself Emperor in 1792, and was soon after generally acknowledged as such. The Emperors of Austria, as euch, date from 1806; the title of Emperor of Brazil from 1822. Tbe King of Prussia, baa been styled “German Emperor” since 1871; and tbe Queen of England has been proclaimed Empress of India. Tbe title of Dom Pedro II, by tbe way, which is that of "‘Constitutional Emperor and Perpetual Protector of Brazil,” is worth something as one of the rare in stances in modern times in which the lan guage of heralily has made an effort to be in accordance with fact. So the two Na poleons styled themselves emperors by the will of the people as well as by tbe grace of God, and tbe first Napoleon even took at one time the curious designa tion of “Emperor by tbe constitution of tbe republic.” The old Kings of Frauce bad several cen'uries before designated themselves “Kings by the grace of God and the will of the nobles.” Tbe sovereigns not being emperors are eleven in number, eeven dating their ti ties from the present century. It is diffi cult to say which of these kingly titles in existence is tbe oldest Those of Den mark and Norway seem to ran each other closely. On the other band our own sovereigns, though in diplomatic docu ments they bear a title which ODly dates from 1801, are cal'ed by the people they gurern and by tixc ro* «f tiio wwiiJ kings ot qneens of England, a title dating from 828, when it was first assumed by Egbert Down to the reign of Hen ry II, however, the sovereign seems to have been mere commonly called the King of tbe English Harold II was “King of the English and Lord of the Island of Britain.” Four of tbe sovereigns above mention ed bear titles originally bestowed by the Pope, the Emperor Franceis Joseph beirg “Atmospheric” King of Hungary, what ever tbat may mean, Alphonso XII, tbe “Catholic” King, and the King of Por tugal “the Most Faithful” King. Tbe Queen’s title of “Defender of tbe Faith” was conferred on Henry VII for an in different theological treatise agatest “one Martinus Elutheros,” who was offi cially proclaimed by the privy conncil te have “erred sore.” Those princes who are not emperors and kings are “princes,” “dukes” or “grand dukes.” A majority of them will probably have ceased .o exist as sovereigns before very- long. Indeed, he rial.n f some of the German priocee ro bi -e^ar-ted as inde pendent sovereign- i- somewhat doubtful. The various conventions concluded by Prussia with the various States which form the empire have been coarsely termed treaties between a dog and its fleas.” fek. Too- Clock Reading (Fa.) Eagle In Mengtd’s building JOt*. ^ bitten in all probability the Z W ' exllf * J deriul clock in the world tf ,0st Wct >- by Stephen D. Et.gie, a yeare of age and was about re® * yeara in perfecting the clock l paid Engle five .housand dollars Eugte never saw the Stntsbnrg In tact he has never traveled more tK two hundred miles from home at^ ume. Tow clock stands eleven fef, high. At its base it is about four iZ wide and at the top about two It;. about three feet deep in the base erLl The Strashurg clock is thirty f... high, yet its tneehamsnr is not so into £te, nor has it as many figures as Z Hazleton ctock. The Stnaburg clock’! figures are about three feet hath the American clock about niue inch!. Three minutes before tbe hour a bm organ inside the clock pla J8 an anther It has five tunes. Bells ire then run* and the hour is i-truck; double doon in an alcove opeu and a figure 0 f j ™ appears. Doub.e doors to the left then open, and the Apostles appear slowlv one by one, in procession. As they ire pear and pass Jesus they tun. toward! him, Jesus bows; the Apostle turn! again ard proceeds through the double doors in an*alcove on the right Ai Peter approaches, Sawn looks out oft window above and tempts him. Fits times the devil appears, and when Pe ter passes,' denying Christ, Ut e cock flaps its wings and crows.. When Judas appears Satan cornea down front hi» window and follows Judas out in the procession, and then goes buck up to bis place to watch Juda.-, app-artug on both sides. As the procession has passed, Jadas and the three M»rys dig- appear and the door are dosed. . The_ scene can be repeated seven times in. an hour if nrceesary, and the natural motion of the clock produces it four times per hour, whereas the Straaburg procession is made but once a day, at 12 oY-lock. B- low the pisn* is the main dial, ate.ut thirteen tucaej in diameter. To its'right is a figure cf Time with an honr-glus- Above, itia a window, at which appear figures rep resent! ig youth, manhood ai-d old age. To the ieti of the dial is a skeleton rep resenting Death. When the boor-band approaches the first quarter, Time re verses his hour glass and strikes one oc a bell with his scythe, when another bell inside responds; then Chilhood ap pears instantly. When the hour batuf approaches the second quarter or halt hour, there are heard the strokes of two bells. Then Youth appears and the or gan plays a hymn. After this Time strikes two and reverses his hour-glue, when two bells respond ineide. One minute after this a chime of belle is heard, when a folding-door opens in tbe upper porch and one at the right of the court, when the Saviour comes walking out. Then the Apostles ap pear io procession. The clock also tells of the moon’a changes, the tides, the seasons, day, and days of the month and year, and tbe signs of the zodiac; and on the top a soldier in armor is constantly on guard, walking back and forward*. As the hours advance. Manhood, Old Age and Death take part in the panorama. Muscogee County, Ga., ' 1 January 21,1878. j Editors Courier : From the sighing pine forests of this beloved and once prosperous old country, a few liaes for the readers of the Courier may be of some interest. A reflecting mind can scarcely keep np a brave and cheerlul spirit, even by “whistling,” as one looks ont npon the sad wrecks of the once happy and prosperous homes of the old-time planters. While tbe manufac- tring interests of the city of Columbus are hopefully looking up. a- d real pro gress is certainly moving onward to wards a brighter and a better day, half of the private dwellings in both city and country sadly need capital to build them up again. There is some pros perity in tpoti in this section of cur good old State, and the time will come when all this region will be a very land of Eden, bnt at present there are SO many idlers (and thfe is the class ou: of which thieves are made) that stray hoga and calves, and even penned animals, are “appreciated” by this floating class of gentry, (?) that many boneet citizen* are so much discouraged they have ceased struggling ageinei foie in tbw line of husbandry, nod tii-coirequ-noe is, they go in debt to ;be merchant, whose source of supply i - in me-West, for their bacon, lar-i and ,’iutter. that it keeps this imporiatu «-l-»— of what should be producers r - ar teles named, poor and in deb, -I the time. But there is a bright- r sun to 'his ugly picture. a> u it i eed- oi.)y- t-ioe orii.g An Open Letter—It Speaks for Itself it out m -.- h- - -t luii; gulden colors IV i , tern amt t>i-u* to r <-n come a fixed tact, - > will, then iu.migro :- this fine region <>’ - of thefionei v n-ril-. - r- ing heard over heet pine fores'- vie O! ll.e lie. til- mono «til i Wake 'll- echo-- • rat Rock port. Mass. . p- 1877. Mr. Editor- H < t •> paperreporrs.n' ;t>- - of catarrh. 1 are I know atioo- “snuff’ nrui - . (mere dollar .uibb* • if the- ooui.t ill the p«p.-r- ' with omit • ■ camecun “ashe~.~ ' Wouldn't i-.m WOUM si ff , snuff until I u for such io-:d;. i worse, and no one c.. • t u I suffered or what a un-.: .ro beii g I was. My head actn-d <>v. r my ey-- that I was confined co x<y bed for many successive days, suffering tbe most in tense pain, which at one time lasted continuously for 168 hours. All sense of smell and taste gone, sight and hear ing impaired, body shrunken and weak ened, nervous system shattered, and constitution broken, and l was hawk ing and spitting Beven-eightbs of the time. I prayed for death to relieve me of my suffering. A favorable notice in your paper of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh reme dy induced me to purchase a package and use it with Dr. Pierce’s Nasal Douche, which applies the remedy by hydrostatic pressure, the only way com- ] tetible with common sense. Well, Mr. Editor, it did not cure me in three- fourths of a second, nor in one hour or month, but in less than eight minutes I was relieved, and in three months entirely cured, and haye remained so for qver sixteen months. While tee Catarrh Remedy, I used Dr. Pierce? Golden Medical Discovery to purify my blood and strengthen my stomach I also kept my liver active and bowels by the use of his Pleasant Por- fative Pellets. If my experience will induce other sufferers to seek the same means of relief, this letter will have answered its purpose. Yonrs truly, S, D, Remick, , :i , u\ t ne- r : e-rt.itl.li ;i ur it<:t>a:i , .tut iuptnui Ur WlK<i to ut .uiteaol Hr rv ■., ttir goumi i au<! the - r, is low hill- curly shtu ii I’rxt io .. . ,.|.r i-c-UU- kmdr »l ur •• py • |i ) • • a i.i**a - ir Itic Irtf ms rumnwr - ,;:c region ..! htui ci-m- r- III tasyW!- b < ay of tto - r- ni Coltlffl- !.v ; 1:.- r» T. F. J- Length of w hales. Mr. Scoreabv, a v< ry high aulborilj on this subject declares that the cun 1 ® 1 ? 1 wham seldom exce.<ls seventy fe t . u j length, and is mine f requently under a*' ty. Out of three hundred and tweD J t two whales, which he assisted P craon r;, in oapturing, nut une exceeded eixiy-^P feet, and the largest of which he SB the reported measurement tobeautton came up to only sixty-seven feet f specimens of the rorqual or razor-w whale have been observed of one n« dred and five feet in length. One these was found floating lifeless to P* . Straits, and tbe skeletou of the other seen in Columbia river, and m*>*» and all, when alive, have measured, hundred and twelve feet. Other *1^ mens have measured a huadrtfl,. many others from eigh'y to nine j One cast on shore at North Be^ Scotland and preserv.d by Vt. ^ wae eighty-three feet in instances seem to establish we ^ and extreme length- of these hjwjjjg. mate. But, with considerable m earlier account, BaronTmv'eL^ g inent naturalist,says «l°utlj: no doubt that whales have tar certain epochs and ward of three hundred Wt * hundred yards in length. .<Ts rte 1 *r*»