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1 Cjje (ga^ife, PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY J. T. MsCARTY, Editor. SUBSCRIPTION: Oil Yju.* $2 00 Six Month , , 1 00 In Advance- Augusta 'Business Cads. "W. B. VAIL, WITH KEAN & CASSELS, Wholesale and retail dealers in Ftrcign and Domestic Dry Goods tot Broad at., lot stand of H. F. Russel ft Cos. AUGUSTA, GA. J. MURPHY & CO. Wholesale and retail dealers in English While Granite k C. €• Ware At.3o, loml-China, French China, Glassware, &c. No. 244 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA. T. MARKWALTER, MARBLE WORKS, BROAD STREET, Near Lower Market, AUGUSTA, GA. THE AUGUSTA Gilding, Looking-glass,Picture Frame FACTORY. Old Picture Frames Regilt to look Equal to Lew. Old Paintings Carefully Cleaned, Lined and Varnished. M. J. BROWNE, Agent, 346 Broad st., Augusta, Ga. E. 11. ROGERS, Importer and dealer in • RIM, GODS PISTOLS And Pocket Cutlery, Am m mition of all Kinds, 846 BBOAD BTREET, AUGUSTA, GA. REPAIRING EXECUTED PROMPTLY Albertan §u£ Ca Has received a STOCK OF FURNITURE aad is onstantly adding thereto, which he will LOWEST CASH PRICES UPHOLSTERING AND REPAIRING and all work in his line done in a neat and workmanlike manner. Satisfaction guarantied. Orders filled for Sash, Doors and Blinds. My22-ly LIGHT CARRIAGES & BUGGIES. J. F. ixiLD, (Carriage ®|ahufact’r ELBERTON, GEORGIA. BEST WORKMEN I REST WORK! LOWEST PRICES! ‘Good Baggies, warranted, - $125 to $l6O Common Baggies - SIOO. REPAIRING AND BLACKSMITHING. Work done in this line in the very best style. The Best Harness My 22-1 v _____ T. M. SWIFT. MACK ARNOLD SWIFT & ARNOLD, (Successors to T. M. Swift,) dealers in DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, CROCKERY, BOOTS AND SHOES, HARDWARE, Ac., Public Square, ELBERTOIV GA H. K. GAIRDNER, ELBERTON, GA.-, DEALER IN HI lODIS. GIICIIIES. HARDWARE, CROCKERY, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS Notions, &c- ELBERTON FEMALE THE exercises of this institute will be resum ed on Monday, January 27th, 1873. Spring term, six months. Tuition, $2.50, $3.50, and $5 per month, according to class— payable half m advance.. Mrs. Hkster will continue in charge of the Musical Department. Board in the best families can be obtained at from $lO to sls per month. For further information address the Principal, 11. P. SIMS. THE GAZETTE. §, gmaitl at (greats, fatlepeiitlrut ga All Shings—grrstd ©xclusirrht to the gafmsts of the Commuuitit. New Series. Above the Arctic Circle. Dr. Isaac J. Hays delivered the second of his course of lectures descriptive of his re searches and adventures in search of the open polar sea before a large audience in New York recently. The glaciers and ice bergs of Greenland were vividly described. All the interior of Greenland, the lecturer said, is ODe vast field of ice, which gradual ly and imperceptibly moves downward to wards the sea, the centre moving somewhat more rapidly than the sides, and by the fractures thus created, giving to the ice those fantastic shapes which from time im memorial have been at once the marvel and admiration of explorers. When the glacier reaches the sea, it passes on as before over the inclined plain beneath the surface, until so much of it is immersed that it is no long er able to resist the buoyancy of the water, and breaking from glacier, with a roar that can be heard for miles, the iceberg rises to the surface and floats away, sometimes as far as the coast of Newfoundland, while the glacier continues its ceaseless movement downward to form new icebergs from age to age. The masses of ice thus detached of course vary in size, but in all of them there is seven times as much ice under water as appears above the surface. From the deck of his vessel Dr. Hayes once counted as many as 500, some as large as the hall in which he stood, others as large as Trinity Church, still others as large as the city ot New York, and yet others twelve times as large as New York. One in especial rose 317 feet above the surface, and he comput ed its weight to have been not less than twenty-seven billions of tons. With regard to the miduight sun, Dr. H. related an incident, which, had he not actu ally witnessed it himself, might possibly have been received with incredulity by his audience. As he traveled northward the days gradually lengthened, until darkness ceased altogether, and the sun was never out of sight. The passengcis on board the ship were much incommoded, and were obliged to create artificial darkness by drawing cur tains all around them when they desired to sleep. The dumb animals on board were in a pitiful state of consternation; the dogs howled unceasingly, and evinced a desire to bay the sun. But the most remarkable ef fect was created upon an old rooster, the the last of tlieir stock of fowl, whose life had been spared in consideration of his age and consequent toughness. This venerable bud, day after, watched the heavens, but found no opportunity of heralding the ap proach of day with his wonted crow. His mind at last gave way, and one morning, in full view of the astounded voyagers, the un happy bird flew upon the rail tf the ship, stretched his ncek toward the sun, and giv ing the merest apology for a crow, sprang into the ocean and was seeu no more. In 1859 Dr. Hayes' first expedition sailed northward, and breaking through the ice in Baffin’s Bay, penetrated as far as latitude 75, this up to that time being the furthest point ever attained by explorers. On the icebergs which he encountered polar bears were very numerous. These animals, he said, are far from being the ferocious monsters which voyagers are so tond of depicting. They are, in fact, very timid creatures. As an instance of their cowardice, he related an account of his suddenly meeting one in the middle of an arctic night, that is to say, broad daylight. Without a moment’s hesi tation the doctor turned and ran, never stopping until his bre th was utterly ex hausted j he then looked behind him to see, as he said, how long a lease of life remained for him, and to his unspeakable relief saw the bear was running also, but in the opp> site direction. Avery perilous adventure through which he passed during this voyage was listened to with breathless attention. The ship was ly ing in a large natural bay or harbor, close to a glacier; one day a terrific roaring star tled every one on board. An immense ice berg had parted from the glacier, and risen to the surface so near the ship that the first of a succession ot waves which it created carried the vessel, dragging her anchor, en tirely across the bay, leaving her within a few feet of the rocks on the opposite side. The wave recoiling threw over the deck a volume of water that swept before it every thing not made fast, and forced the crew to hold on for their lives. Two of the finest glaciers the lecturer saw he christened after Prof. Tyndall, in compliment to that great scientist for bis Al pine researches. Among the interesting fea tures of his leeture was the exhibition of some exqusite photographs ot Arcticscencs reflected upon a curtain on the stage. One of these was a gigantic rock on the coast of Greenland, which was in all respects sim ilar to that on which the ill-fated Atlantic ELBERTON, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23,1873 had struck, and it was a matter of surprise to Dr. Hayes, in view of the "nature of the coast, that so many of the Atlantic’s passen gers were saved. Melville bay was the high est point reached in this expedition. In con cluding his lecture Dr. E ayes said that this trip might be made by any gentleman during the summer months in bis yacht. Noble sport could be fouod in shooting polar bears, and the trip would be no more dangerous than crossing the Atlantic. At the first blush it might seem that sailing these tre mendous glaciers and icebergs was perilous navigation, but Tt should be borne in mbd that at the proper season darkness never hides them, and hence danger from this source need scarcely be apprehended. For the Gazette.] READY. Mr. Editor: I have ofttimes heard of little souls, but never kntw their diminu tiveness uutil 1 discovered the manifesta tions of one in your incorporation, which is so microscopic (if I have not erred in my mathematical calculations) it would find as wide expanse of water to swim across in a mosquito’s bladder as a wiggle-tail would in the great specific ocean. Do not ask uie who possesses the gem, but put on your glasses and look for yourself. Should you fail to make the discovery, just lend me thy ear and I will whisper the initials of the one who has ihe dear little thing. Ii is better that thou shouldst receive an insult fiom thy brother than for thee to give one unto him. But thou shouldst be slow to do either. Let good sense govern thee in all such matters. Never strive to pull down thy superiors, but ever strive to pull up thy inferiors, and my word for it thou wilt be raised higher^ Before thou shouldst oppress the oppress ed, theu hadst better in poverty languish and die, lor the bed of ease bought by thy brother’s rest is not a couch ou which thou canst dream in sweet repose. If thou hast not truth in thy tongue, in dustry in thy museks, nor charity in thy heart, thou hadst better take strychnine ana stop thy breed, for, my word for it, the world can do better without thee and thy offspring than it can with thee and them. Examine thyself, my friend, and see if thou shouldst take a dose. Mac., which way wilt thou ride on the iron horse —up or down? When will we hear the whistle? Will Gabriel blow it for us ? All is not gold that glitters, nor is all flesh that sticks out behind ; for when that something fell tho other day, and ceased to rebound and quiver like a thing of life, I looked, and behold, that lady's bump was gone. As she walked from it, curiosity at tracted me to it, and before I could decide whether it was a canary cage or rat trap, a boy snatched it up and exclaimed, “This is sis’s beau-trap,” Heavens! how scared I was; for if the thing had clasped me with its iron bands I might have been a prisoner for life. I was always too fruid of snakes to go where the weeds shake. I will not be so venturesome again. A RAID ON MEXICO. An article in the Advertiser of Saturday morning, which alluded to the warlike prep arations going on near New Orleans, has en abled us to lay before our readers some fur ther and interesting information. On yesterday afternoon we received a visit from a gentleman of our city whose atten tion had been attracted by the article re ferred to, and who gave us the following items: On Friday morning last he had an inter view with a gentleman—late an officer of one of the United States volunteer corps — who had just arrived from New Orleans. Before leaving that city he stated that he had been approached and offered a command in an expedition then being organized to move on Mexico. He was told that the advanced guard was to be composed of five thousand men, com posed of Texans and others, and was to be commanded by James Longstreet, late of the Confederate army, now of the Kellogg militia. He was further informed that the United States Government knew of and sympathized with the movement, and would aid it in every way possible. He was also told that enlistments for tli6 purpose were oeing made in Mobile and other points in the Southwest, and expressed some surprise that nothing had been done in Savaßnah. Our informant is a gentleman of intelli gence and reliability, and his statement is doubtless correct in every particular. If there is such a movement on foot, it must be made public in a short time, and it is nol unlikely but that the fitting out of monitors at New Orleans, and the presence of military men of high position in that vi cinity, may have more significance than has been attached to these facts. Grant may desire to relieve h-is embarrassment at home by gobbling up Mexico. If so he has start ed in a bungling way. Texans, some of them, area pretty rough and reckless set of fellows, but they are proud and plucky. While they might be delighted at the pros pect of using their navy sixes andbowies on Mexican greasers, they would hardly eonsent to be led by James Longstreet, brigadier of the Kelldgg-Pinchback ragamuffins. Gen. Scott, it is said, marched to the “halls of the Montezumas” with six thous and muskets, but that is no reason why James Longstreet, of the custom house hummed could repeat the feat. There may be something in this thing. We allfiMf*Grant the largest margin for blun dering obstinacy and stupidity, but wo can that even he would hope to capture Mexico with Janies Longstreet, Field Marshal of the Louisiana nigger zou aves.—[Savannah Advertiser. PROPORTION OF CREAM. Few persons are aware, probably, of tire extent to which the percentage of cream is influenced by the conditions of the cow. It is a curious fact that any excitement to which the animal is subj acted causes a very large loss of cream ou the milk. At the Barre meeting of the Massachusetts State Board, Dr, Sturtevant of South Farming ham, said “Under the same feed, and under the sumo circumstances, the same cow’gfcve, one day, nine and a half per cent of cream aud another day eighteen per cent, of cream.” Thereupon, Mr. Lewis, an old ex perienced dairyman said : “I can tell a bigger story than that. 1 have taken a good deal of pains to test the value of my milk that I have worked into cheese. I have graduated glasses for the.purpose ; and l have found a cow whose uniform percent age of cream was eighteen per cent, reduced to six in twelve hours —not from any change of food, but from a little excitement. You gentlemen who make butter, be careful to adopt my advice and always treat your cow kindly and gently; never get her excited, because every ounce of excitement will take from her milk one per cent, of cream. I have known a cow abused by a furious, bru tal mijkr-r. and the percentage of her cream went down one-half. It is astonishing what an effect excitement has on the percentage of cream in the milk that a cow produces.— You will he astonished if you will make the test, and make it carefully. I have known a cow, excited from natural causes, to drop in her percentage of cream in her milk from fourteen to six per cent, in twelve hours. So I would again lepeat, whoever abuses his cow knocks out of" bis milk a large percent age of the cream.” It will readily be seen how important it is t o keep the cow quiet and from fright and ail excitement. The worry by dogs, the hurrying ana halloing of boys, when driving the cows home from the pasture, the kicking and pounding of an angry milker, or any similar cause of excitement, will be sure to reduce the quality of milk to the extent of several per cent, of cream. This fact is too well attested by many careful and experi enced dairymen to admit of a doubt, and the first object of concern with a butter dairyman, especially, should be to sec that his cows are treated with the utmost gentle ness all the time. The boys who drive the cows home will make a note of this, and when the spring comes and cows go cut, just mark what we say. — Massachusetts Ploughman. “How’s Tricks?” —There is a doctor in this city who has a speaking tube leading from the main entrance of his building to his office, wbieh is up just a few flights.— For several days past a smart young wag named Swartz has amused himself by call iug for the doctor through the pipe, ar.d then profanely ordering him to set out on an excursion to Tartarus. For some time this fun was taken in good part, until the fine humor ot the joke no longer became ap parent. Accordingly, one afternoon, the disciple of Esculapius provided himself with a tea-kettle of water, heated to about 210 degrees Fahrenheit, and waited alongside the pipe. Pretty soon the old, familiar sound came up through the pipe— “ Say, Doc., h w’s tricks ?” “Tricks is better uow; I guess he’ll get well ” responded the doctor, reaching out after the tea kettle. “What’s been the matter with him ?” “He got burnt.” “How “I’ll tell you in a minute.” “Oh, you go to ” The doctor had finished his last sentence and then let a quart of scalding water down the pipe. Swartz had his mouth over it, and when the water struck it he was some what surprised. Water was apt to surprise him, but hot water was an unexpected nov elty. The man above poured ia the water tor a minute and then looked out the window. The smart young man was getting along on the sidewalk at a pretty lively gait, having evidently just got up from a sitting posture. He was trying to yell “police,” but couldn’t articulate with much success. About half an hour afterward he found himself able to speak, and inquired, “Did that boiler explo sion hurt anybody ?” [San Francisco Chronicle. Vol I—No. 52. HOW A BOSTON REPORTER LOST HIS SITU ATION. It is said that in a moment of temporary insanity a boston city editor assigned a horse racing, base-ball and aquatic reporter to re port, in half a column, the Sunday services at the church of a sensational preacher. This is the report he published, and for which he wait discharged. “The house met at 10.30 a. m. Prayer by the chaplain*. The first race was between the chaplain and tho singers, it being a pretty even match the two first heats; but the singers got the best of the last three heats, and cumo in on the amen two full lengths ahead, winning the last three heats and the race. Time 5 04. Petitions were then presented for forgiveness aud other matters, and notice was given of special as signments during the coming week for va rious objects. The 6iugcrs then sailed up to the judges stand, aud after getting into po sition sailed away on the course with all canvass set and a spanking breeze from the organ, which drove them along in fine style. The top-rigged yacht flying the blue pen nant was well ahead at the stake, aud came home ahead of all the fleet. The speaker then took the floor aud announced his in tention to ask that the resolution of censure that had been heaped upon Annanias should be rescinded, and proceeded to read the rec ords of the case, from which it appeal’s that Annanias had sold his house aud had not given all the price to the church. The speak er then went on to say that no reasen ap peared on the records for Annanias to give any, and much less all, of his piopcrty to to the churih, and tUat hequestiooed if any of those before him would do any more than Annanias had in the same place. He then went on to that Anuanias had obeyed his wife in the matter, and expressed the belief that few of those before him could say as much for themselves. After further arguments of a similar character he moved that the character ot Annanias be and the same is hereby declared A1 by the members of the house.” The Heroine of the Atlantic—An American Girl.— -A Hallifax letter, in reference to the Atlantic disaster, says: “One of the romantic incidents of this terri ble calamity has been the discovery that one of the men, a common sailor, and one whose life was sacrificed in efforts to save others, was a young woman of about twenty or twenty-five years of age. was not known until the body was washod ashore, and tho rude clothing removed pre paratory for burial. She had served as a common sailor for three voyages, and was a favorite shipmate with all. * She is described as having fewer of the vices incident to a sailor’s life than is usual, but she was, nev ertheless, as jolly an old tar as any them. One of the survivors of tho crew, in speak ing of her, remarked : ‘I didu’t know Bill was a woman. lie used to take his liquor as regular as any of us, and was always beg ging and stealing tobacco. He was a good fellow though, and I am sorry he was a wo man.’ The most singular part of the whole story is that tho woman was an American, and was about the only one of that national ity belonging to the crew. Who she was and where she was lrorn, and her motive for leading such a strange life ot hardship, nev er was and never will be fully known.” A Frisky Old Pair. —A remarkable wedding took place at Tolletson, Indiana, a day or two ago, the happy couple having passed a collective age of one hundred and fifty-eight years. The bride, Eliza Steiuecke by name, was, until the event, a resident of Chicago, and had passed her eighty-sixth year. The bridegroom appeared as a strip ling of seventy-two years. Eliza was mar ried in the present century at the age ot six teen, and has dangled a great-great-grand child on her knees. But time has laid a light hand upon her, aud she is yet as spry and frisky as many a woman of forty. At the wedding she tripped the light fan tastic with her new consort to the liveliest galop, and many a miss of eighteen watched her agile motions with feelings of positive envy. There was a large attendance at the wedding, including deputations from all the neighboring villages. One of the presents was a gallon mug filled with beer. The bride took the first swig, and then all the women present followed her example.— When it came to the men there was noth ing leit. The bridegroom filled an old-fashioned long-stemmed pipe, took the initial whiff, and then all the men took a long pull and a strong pell, each in turn. The festivities were continued until an early hour in the morning. The couple possess a joint capital of 84,000, and will build themselves a nest for the coming birds.—[Chicago Times. A Girl Scalped by Machinery. —On last Wednesday Julia Dunleavy, a girl aged twelve years, employed in the Danbury (Conn.) shirt factory, dropped a spool of thread beaeath her bench, and reached doitn to pick it up. Her hair, which hung loosely down her back according to the pre vailing fashion, caught on a setscrew to the shaft which runs the machinery, and imme diately commenced to coil up. The shalt was making one hundred and twenty revo lutions to the minute at the time. An effort was made to stop the machinery, but was not successful, and had it net been for the presence ot mind ot another girl (Lizzie Brown) the neck ot the unfortunate girl would have been broken. Miss Brown caught the head of the victim, and held it while the shaft mercilessly coiled up the hair and tore it, with a good share of the scalp, from the head ot the screaming girl. Cljc <§a idU, Cash Rates of Advertising. tyr. 6 mos. 3 mos. 1 mo.jl time' 1 column, $l6O S9O S6O $35! s2s' £ “ 80 60 40 23 15 5 inches, 50 35 25 12 6 3 “ 35 2 tr 15 7 4 Z 25[ 15 IO 5 3 I inch 1 time, $1.50. The Ludicrous in Patents. —Speak- ing of combinations, he must have come from Missouri or Kansas who asked for a patent for a combination of cauuon and plow. For this purpose he filed three applications, making the elongated handles hollow, so as to form two cannon. These were to be kept loaded till the guerrilus were after him ; the guerrillas shot down, and the far mer to go on his way rejoicing. Another asked for a patent tor the inven tion-ot the generation ot steam by boring a hole into the ground till he reached the wa ters that arc boiled by the internal fires of earth. He set forth, among the advantages ot his plao, that there would be no danger of explosions, all ot which statements are ira doubtedly true It must have been a relative of this fast gentleman, and one eqv.ally well acquainted with the laws that govern the hidden heart of this planet, who applied for a patent for boring the earth for artesian wells for pur poses of irrigation. He gravely set forth that he made the discovery that quicksilver was heavier than the common earth. Ho therefore proposed to start a hole, and to empty into- it a little mercury. By the laws of nature that mercury would be sure to work its way downward till it struck water, and the water would then be sure to work its way upward till it struck air. A Tribute to the Marriage Tie,— On this subjeet, the Daily Graphic of Sat urday has the following ; “Never was a higher tribute paid to the marriage state than was given by the mar ried mcir who were passengers on the wreck ed Atlantic. The record of their fate is ex tremely touching. With few exceptions, they all perished, refusing to desert their wives aud little ones. Wives begged their husbands to seek flight from tho sinking quarter-deck, but they never stirred. Hand clasped in hand, husbands, wile and child went down together. In the supreme mo ment of life, wife and husband forget all past bickerings, and lost fear of death in the companionship of each other. They recked uot of the opinions of the world, while the waves swept over them and tho horror of sudden destruction was imminent, but were simply true to their instincts. One such fact will outweigh volumes of argument in favor of free love and easy divorce ” —— Bue* t® wom a calico dress without trim mings, it it be paid for, than lo owe the shop keeper for the moat elegant silk, out and trimmed in the most elegant manner. Better to live in a log cabin all your own than a brown stone mansion belonging to someLody eko. Better to walk forever than to run into debt for a horse and carriage. Better to sit by the pine table, for which you paid three dollars ten years ago, than send home an extension black walnut top arid promise to pay for it next week. Better to to use the old canc-seated chairs and faded two-ply carpet, than tremble at the bills sent home from the upholsterers for the most elegant parlor set ever made. Better to meet your business acquaintance with a free, “don’t owe you a cent” smile, than to dodge around the corner to escape a dun. Better to pay the street organ grinacr two cents for music, if you must have it, than owe for a grand piano. Better to gaze upon bare walls than pic tures unpaid for. Better to eat thin soup from earthenware, if you owe your butcher nothing, than to dine off lamb and beef, and know that it does not belong to you. Mr. Charles C. Jones will publish this month “The Antiquities of the Southern Indians, Particularly of the Georgia Tribes.” “Mr. Jones,” wo are told, “is now of New York, but was formerly of Savannah, whore as President of the Historical Society o 4 Georgia, he achieved a solid reputation.” His work will be very interesting to the South. It is devoted “to a consideration of the monuments, relics aud ancient customs of the aboriginal population now occupying that portion ot the United States at present embraced within the geographical limits of Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Ten nessee.” It will be illustrated with thirty one plates from the original pictures ia tho author’s collection, which have never yet been used, and by numerous wood cuts. [Baltimore Gazette. Everlasting Fence Posts. —I discov ered many years ago that wood could be made to last longer than iron in the ground, but thought the process so simple and inex pensive that it was not worlh’wliile making any stir about it. I would as soon have poplar, basswood or quaking ash as any oth er kind ot timber for fence posts. I have taken out basswood posts after having set seven years that were as sound when taken up as when they were first put in tfco ground Time and weather seemed to have no effect on them. The posts can be pre pared for less than two cents a piece. I'op the benefit of others, I will give the recipe ; Take boiled linse*.d oil and stir in it pulver ized charooal to the consistency of paint.— Put a ooat of this on the timber, and there is not a man that will live to see it rot,-- Cor. Western Rural.