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PROFESSIONAL CAPOS. THOS. IV. TEASLY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HARTWELL, GA. Will practice in Superior Courts of Hart, El bert, Oglethorpe and Madison. Prompt atten tion to collection of claims. ly- It. 11. JONES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BLBSRTGN, GA. Special attention to the collection of claims, [ly “ jT n. WORLEYr ATTORNEY AT L AW, ELBERTOS, GA. WILL PRACTICE IN THE COURTS OF the Northern Circuit and Franklin county jn*ay“Special attention given to collections. J. S. BARNETT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELBSRTGH, GA. JOHN T. OSBORN, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, ELBEKTON, GA. WILL PRACTICE IN SUPERIOR COURTS and .Supreme Court. Prompt attention to the collection of claims. nevl7,ly A. E- HUNTER, M. D. PRACTICING PHYSICIAN Office over the Drug Store, ELBEKTON, GEORGIA. WILL ATTEND PROMPTLY TO ALL cases. [Ang22,6m ELBEKTON BUSINESS CARDS. LIGHT CARRIASES & BUGGiES, ,T. F. ATJLD Carriage ufact’r ELBERTON, GEORGIA. WITH GOOD WORKMEN! LOWEST PRICES! 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And other articles usually kept in a first-class Provision Store, which will be sold Cheap for CASH and Cash Only. F. W. JACOBY, HOUSES S3l PM fEP Glazier and Grai ler, ELBERTON, GA. Orders Solicited. Satisfaction Guarantees BBT f Ofcft HilBM AT HOME. HEARD & CAMPBELL RESPECTFULLY announce their new SAW MILD in thorough working order, and so licit the patronage of the public with full con fidence of their ability to give satisfaction. The mill i3 located in easy distance of Elberton and to all in its vicinity who desire lumber a great saving in hauling can be made. Every effort will be made to accommodate the patrons of the mill. OEND 25c. to G F. ROWELL & 00., New York Ofor Pamphlet of 100 pages, containing lists of 3,000 newspapers and estimates showing cost of advertising. ly THE GAZETTE. ISTew Series. THE LOST KEY. “My dear Phillip, have you seen my porte monnaie 7” Mr. Walter’s brow contracted slightly at the words, and he drew away the hand which had been caressing his wife’s pretty hair. “Is that porte-monnaie lost again 7” “Now Phillip,” said the little woman, with a word of pretty penitence in the lengthened monosyllable, “don’t scold ! Upon my word, it’s the first time I've mislaid it this whole morn- ing.” “It’s too provoking, Jane.” said the husband, pushing back the books on the table before him with a movement denoting intense irritation. “Will you never break yourse.f of this careless habit, my love ?” Jane was silent, looking down like a naughty child who had been chidden. “You don’t know what an annoyance these heedless habits are to a methodical man like myself, dear,” he added, in a gentler tone, as the coral lip began to tremble and the eye to suffuse. “Do try to be more thoughtful, for my sake * Here is your lost treasure,” he added, quietly drawing a tiny case of pearl and gold from his pocket. “I found it lying on the stairs, and thcnghtitja most excellent opportunity for giving my careless little wife a lesson.” Jane clapped her hands at the sight of the re stored treasure, and danced out of the room in girlish glee. “A perfect child,” murmured the husband, looking after her with a smile and a sigh blend ing unconsciously into one another. “Well, if T don’t make haste I shall be too late for that engagement in the city. Let me see—the notes are in my iron safe, I believe. Nothing like locking up things aud keeping the keys yourself. If Jane only followed my example—” Mr. Walter paused abruptly, seeking in his various pockets, with nervous haste, for some thing which seemed not to be forthcoming. “Very strange,” muttered he, biting his hp. “I always put it in that waistcoat pocket. Pos sibly I may have laid it on the table amongst those papers.” The aforesaid paper rustled hither and thither, like animated snow flakes, as Mr. Walter hurri edly sought amongst their confused masses, but it was all in vain. “I can’t have lost it 1” he exclaimed, in dire perplexity. “And every one of those notes are locked up in the safe, with no earthly chance of ever getting at them 1 But lam certain the key can’t be lost I I never lose anything I It won’t do to wait many minutes; I’ll Just put on a clean shirt and run down town. Hang the key 1” Air. Walter hastened up to his dressing room to complete the details of his toilet, ere he left the house ; but his trials were not yet destined to terminate. He was a methodical man, there fore bis wardrobe was carefully locked ; he al ways kept things in one place, therefore the keys were snugly reposing in one corner of the inaccessible iron safe. He rushed frantically back to the library, hop ing faintly that the key might be on the mantle piece, where he had not yet searched. No, it was not there; but a treacherous ink-stand was, the contents whereof, by one unlucky sweep of the elbow, descend in an ebon cataiact over lvis shirt-front—the shirt-front upon which alone he had depended ! “Well, here is a catastrophe !” he murmured, gloomily stanching the ink flow with his pocket handkerchief. “However, I can button my coat for the present. Let me see—there is that money I promised to pay Smithson to-day, and novr—” lie stopped short); a cold dew of dismay break ing on his forehead—the money-drawer was a fixture of the wretched iron safe! Penniless and shirtless, what more desperate state of affairs could his worst enemy desire for him ? There was a lower deep yet, however— would he not be characterless, likewise, if his wife should, by an3 r inopportune chance, discov er that he, the model of rule and order, had lost his key ! So thought Mr. Walter, as he went off to a day of perplexities and mortifications in the ciiy. “If ever I tease Jane again about losing things,” he muttered inwardly, as he entered the room on returning home, “I hope to be drowned with a hundred-weight of keys about mj - neck ! It's certainly a judgment upon me!” He unbuttoned his coat as he spoke, forgetful of the ink-stains of the morning. Jane uttered a faint scream, and shrank back, exclaiming, “My dear Philip, what is the matter with your shirt?” “The matter! Oh!” said he, coloring and laughing. “I remetnbei now—l spilt a little ink over it this morning. Ii don’t signif3’ much.” “Do let me get you out another, m3’ dear !” “No, no,” said he, eagerly detaining her; “it isn't at all worth while. Do sit down, my love, and be easy.” But Jane started away to carry her baby up to the nursery. Just as she reached the door, something jingled softly in the pocket of her little silk apron—she stopped in the passage. “Oh ! the way, Philip, here is tke key to 3'our iron safe. I found it on the dining-room table this afternoon ; and,” she added, with an arch sparkle in her roguish eyes, “I thought it would be an excellent opportunity for giving my husband a lesson ?” She laid the ke3’ in his hand, and ran out of \ the room as he recoiled involuntary from the | som.d of his own pedantic words. As he con templated the gleaming words cf the little steel mischief maker in mingled delight and mortifi cation, the echo of Jane’s merry laughter on the stairs reached his ear like a chime of silver bells. He laughed too—he couldn’t help it! Mrs. Jane Walter was a discreet little female. She never alluded to the subject of the keys again, and her husband was never after known to reproach her for carelessness. A LARGE HEARTED^VIEW OF THE IN DIAN. take the same view of the North American Indian that most people do,” said Professor Bangs, in a discussion down at the grocery store in a suburban, town the other night. “Now some think that the red man dis pla3 T s a want of good taste in declining to wash himself, but I don’t. What is dirt ? It is simp ly—matter—the same kind of matter that exists everywhere. The earth is made of dirt; the things we eat are dirt, and the3 r grow in the dirt; and when we die and are buried we return again to the dirt from which we are made. Science says that all dirt is clean. The savage Indian knows this; his original mind grasps this idea ; he had his eagle eye on science, and he had no soap. Dirt is warm. A layer one sixteenth of an inch thick on a man is said by Professor Huxley to be as comfortable as a fifty dollar suit of clothes. Why, then, should the child of the forest undress himself once a week ESTABLISHED 1860. EGBERTOY, GA., JAN’Y 17,1877. by scraping this off, and expose himself to the rude blasts of the winter ? He has too much sense. His head is too level to let him take a square wash more than once in every two hun dred years, and even then he don’t rub hard. “And then in regard to his practice of eating dogs ; why shouldn't a man eat a dog ? A dog sometimes eats a man, and turn about is fair play. A well-digested dog stowed away on the inside of a Choctaw squaw does more to advance civilization ana the Christian religion than a dog that barks all night in a back yard, and makes people get up out of bed aud swear, don't it? And nothing is more nutritious than dog. Professor Huxley says that one pound of a dog’s hind leg nourishes the vital forces more than a wagon load of bread and corned beef. It con** tains naore phosphorus and carbon When dogs are alive they agree with men, and there is no reason why they shouldn’t when they are deadl This nation will enter upon a glorious destiny’ when it stops raising corn and potatoes, and devotes itself more to growing crops of puppies. “Now many ignorant people consider scalping inhuman. I don’t. I look upon it as one of the most beneficent processes ever introduced for the amelioration of the sufferings of the humatr* race. What is hair? It is an execiesence. If it grows it costs a man a great deal of money and trouble to keep it cut. If it falls out the man becomes bald and the flies bother him. What does the Indian do in this emergency ? With characteristic sagacity he lifts out the whole scalp and ends the annoyance and expense. And then look at the saving from other sources. j Professor Huxley estimates that two thousand pounds of the food that a man eats in a year’ goes to nourish his hair. Remove that hair and you save that much food. It I had my way I would have every baby scalped when it isjvaccin ated, as a measure of political economy. That . would be statesmanship. I have a notion to organize a political party on the basis of baby scalping, aud go on the stump to advocate it. if people had any sense I might run into the Pres dency as a baby-scalper. “And as for the matter of the Indians wearing ' rings through their noses I don’t see why people*, complain of that. Look at the advantage it gives a man when he wants to hold on to any thing. If a hurricane strikes an Indian, all he. does is to hook his nose to a tree, and there he is, fast and sound. And it gives him something to rest his pipe on when he smokes, while, in the case of a man with a pug, the ring helps to jam his proboscis down, and to make ita Roman nose. But I look at him from a sanitary point of view. The Indian suffers from catarrh. Now what will cure that disease? Metal in the nose in which electricity can be collected. Professor Huxley says that the electricity in a metal ring two inches in diameter will cure more catarrh; than all the medicine between here and Kansas.! The child of nature, with wonderful instinct,; has perceived this, and he teaches us a lrssou. When we, with our higher civilization, begin to throw away finger rings and ear rings to wear rings iu ou nose we will be a hardier race. lam going to direct the attention of Con gress to the matter. “Then, take the objections that are urged to the Indians practice of driving a stake through a man and building a bonfire on bis stomach. What is their idea ? They want to hold that man down. If they sit on him they will obstruct the view of him. They put a stake through him, and there he is secured b>’ simple means, and if it i3 driven carefully it ma3’ do him good. Professor Huxley sa3 r s that he once knew one man who was cured of yellow jaundice by fall ing on a pale-fence and having a sharp-pointed paling run into him. And the bonfire may be equally healthy. When a man’s stomach is out of order you put a mustard plaster on it. Why? To wHrm it. The red man has the same idea. He takes a few faggots, lights them and applies them to the abdomen. It is a certain cure. Prufessor Huxley—” “Oh, dry up about Professor Huxley!” ex claimed Meigs, the storekeeper,at this juncture. [Puildelphia Bulletin. LOUISIANA. A New Orleans special to the Herald, dated January 4tb, says the republicans are enrolling militia daily, and General Longstreet, who arrived yesterday, will be in command. An executive order has been issued on the state treasury to pay no more money ont of the intei’est, school and general funds, the present funds being held subject to order for de fedeive purposes. No forcible opposi tion will be made to prevent Nicholls’ inauguration, bnt all the State offices are strongly guarded by the police, and will be defended from any attempt to take possession. The senate committee heard the testi mony of Lieut Geo. Arch, of the 3d in fantry, in relation to the election in East Baton Rouge, whose general testimony was to the effect that it was not fair and favorable He saw no disturbances on the day of the election. On that day Deputy United States Marshal McAl pine complained that he bad been exclu ded from the polls by the Baton Rouge police. On investigation it was found that McAlpine had not informed them of his official position until after he had been excluded. Both republican bouses have passed a bill reorganizing the militia, and appro priating $200,000 for the purpose aud making military organizations outside of the militia illegal. The bill is now be fore Packard. Courier-Journal: ‘When a New Al bany girl hangs up her stocking en Christmas eve, she forgets that old Kris Kringle doesen’t carry more than you could haul in a two horse wagon. Why, if he was to see a New Albany girl’s stocking, after she had worn it once or twice, hanging to a mantel-piece, he would crawl up out of the chimney without all he went clown with, and con gratulate himself that the girl didn’t wake up and ask him to stay there two or three hours filling it up. Besides, if old Kris was to undertake to fill ’em up, the poor little ones would stand a slim chance to get anything; for three good, healthy New Albany girls’ stockings would consume his stock, and it won’t do to give the empty sack to the little ones. Oh, no.” An editor offered to make his “devil” a Christmas present of his printing of fice ; but the boy declined it, with the remark that he had rather work for two dollars a week than to run in debt S9OO a year. A HUSBAND'S 00NPESSI0N. I neTer undertook but once to set at naugbt the authority of my wife. You know her way —cool, quiet, but determ ined as ever grew. Just after we were married, and all was going on nice and cozy, she got me into the habit of doing all the churning. She never asked me to do it. you know, but then she—why it was done just in this way. She fin ished breakfast one morning, slipping away from the table, she filled the churn with cream, and set it just where I couldn’t help seeing what she wanted. So I took hold regularly enough and churned until the butter came. She didn't thank me, but looked so nice and sweet about it, that I felt well paid. Well, when the next churning day came ’along, she did the same thing, and 1 fol lowed suit and fetched the butter. Again, rfnd it was done just so, and I was regu larly in for it every time. Not a word was said, you know, of course. Well, by and by this became rather irksome. I want ed she should just ask me, but she nev er did, and I couldn’t say anything about it, so on we went. At last I made are solve that I would not churn another Itime unless she asked me. Churning day came, and when my breakfast—she always got nice breakfasts—when that was swallowed there stood the churn. I got up, and standing a few minute-! ‘just to give her a chance, put on my hat and walked out doors. I stopped in the yard to give her a chance to call me, but not a word said she, and so with palpi .tating heart I moved on. I went down town, up town, all over town, and mj r ’foot was as rc-stless as Noah’s dove—l felt as if I had done a wrong—l didn't exactly know how—but there was an in describable sensation of guilt resting tip ,on me all the forenoon. It seemed as if dinner time would never come, and as for goingHaome one minute before din ner, I would as soon cut my ears off. So I went fretting and moping about until dinner time. Home I went, feel ing much as a criminal must when a ju ry is having in their hands his destinj'— life or death—l could not make up my mind how she would meet me, but some sort of a storm I expected. Will you believe it ? she never greeted me with a sweeter smile—never had a better din ner for me than’on that day ; but there was the churn just where I left it! Not a word was passed. I felt cut, and eve ry mouthful of that dinner seemed as if it would choke me. She did not pay any regard to it, however, but went on as if nothing had happened. Before din ner was over I had again resolved, and shoving back my ebair I marched up to the churn and went at it in the old way. Splash, drip, rattle—L kept it up. As if in spite, the butter was never so long in coming. I supposed the cream standing so long had got warm, so I re doubled my efforts. Obstinate matter —the afternoon wore away while I was churning. I paused at last, from real exhaustion, when she spoke for the first time: “Come, Tom, my dear, you have rattled that buttermilk long enough, if it’s only for fun you are doing it.” I knew how it was in a flash. She had brought the butter in the forenoon, and left the chum standing with the butter milk in for me to exercise with. I never set up for household matters after this. RON. JEREMIAH S*BLAOK ON THE PO LITICAL TROUBLES. Baltimore Gazette: On being asked what were his views on the political eit ation, Judge Black said that he had no doubt as to the final result; that if the senators and representatives of the peo ple were firm in their determination to resist the contemplated fraud on the part of the republican conspirators their de signs could not be accomplished. He said that it had been reported that Mor ton had said the democracy had no spunk. He thought that he would find himself mistaken. He thought anyway the democracy had the best of the posi tion. If the republicans decided not to go behind the returns then Tilden was elected, and if they decided otherwise Tilden was still elected, and if the elec tion went to the house he would be suc cesssul. He was satisfied that in the face of the facts the conspiracy to count in Hayes could not succeed. He was in faver of every resistance and confident that all would come right in the end. He thought a military despotism was preferable to a rotten republic control ed by such men as had for so long mis governed the country. They seemed to govern cn the principle of the might of men instead of the rights of men, and it was the duty of every patriot to resist their nefarious desings. It had been the inten ion of Judge Black and his companions :o proceed to Washington at once, but the heavy snow storm detained them. It is stated as the opinion of Hon. Alexander H. Stephens that the action of the supreme court will throw out the electoral vote of Florida. He construes the decision to mean that no legal col lege met in that State on the day ap pointed by law, and hence no electoral vote was legally cast. He does not tbink that congress can now count the vote of either the Tilden or Hayes electors,‘or order anew election. A memorial to Congress, like the one sent from New York and Philadelphia, in regard to the count of the electoral vote, is receiving the signatures of the leading men of Boston. Vol. V-No. 38. PAY THE PREACHER, The year is nearly over. For fifty-two Sundays our people have had opened to them without charge three neatly fur nished halls, and twice each day a man of education, gift and piety has devoted j himseif to their instruction. They have devoted all the davs of tho week visit | ing the sick, the troubled and the poor las well as seeing after the welfare of j those better to do. They have said no word about pay. They have expected I nothing more than enough to provide : them with necessary things Your wife and children, have enjoyed and benefited by their ministrations. They have done 1 nil they could to protect your property. Have you paid them ? You have given you say $lO, sls, $25 for such ser vice as this, and you have paid five times as much for the useless luxuries of life, i The churches you say ought to pay I them. Well, are not you, even though not a member, connected with|the church, does not your wife, your son and daughter attend these services! You are a member iu good standing and have paid your part, you say, but all these parts don’t pay the preacher : and if not what does pay him. Is it possible that you let the poorest men in thejchurch pay the whole balance? Can you pay ten, or twenty dollars more easily than he can pay two or three hundred ? Suppose you decided to do without the Gospel? You certainly don’t want what you are not willing to pay for, and for six months your sons have no where else to go than the grog shops, your daughters in a Christian land without Christian privileges—what then? Oh, pay the preacher! He has earned his pay: he needs it, and if you don’t God will collect it out of you some day. [Lagrange Reporter. EATING- Phibbs, an excessively fastidious man, went into an oyster saloon, and ordered “half a dozen raw on a plate.” Ho no ticed just as he had dowred his number one, that a corpulent duchman stood be side him sorrowfully surveying a single oyster on the plate before him. The mo ment that Phibbs swallowed his first, the expression beclouded the Dutchman’s face changed from sorrow to joy. “Ah 1 mein Gott, you scliwallow him wDuiuT Hi i" says Meinneer. “Of course,” says Phibbs. “And you can schwallow him whole, too ?■” pointing to the lone oyster that lay on his plate. “Certainly I can,” says Phibbs, and suiting the action to the word, the oys ter was on his fork, and m a moment “schwallowed.” “Oil, mein Gott, dot is wery wonder ful, wery wonderful! I never did see. I have try to schwallow him two or dhree times—every time I spit him back.” Phibbs has been quite unwell ever since. Bothering Customs Officers.— M Vivier, the Frenchman who has made it the business of his life to worry the cus tom house inspectors of all European countries, has returned to France. His wont formerly was to pack a huge trunk full of trouser straps, such as are worn with gaiters, using hydraulic pressure if it were necessary to cram five bushels into a three bushel space ; then to lure the inspector to open it as a suspicious package, when naturally the contents were overset, and the whole force of the custom house was occupied for hours in putting them back. A powerful Jack-in the-box was another device of his that was very successful Ex-Senator Buckalew, of Pennsylvania, in a recently published letter, takes the ground that the electoral college of Lou isiana was an unlawful body and its votes void, because the returning board, which, in fact, appointed it, was itself an unlaw ful body and plainly exceeded any juris diction which could be claimed for it un der the laws of the State. That the action of the board was also fraudulent in purpose and in fact, and, therefore,'in valid, Mr. Buckalew argues, appears reasonably certain from the evidence. Said a sweet little miss, of an en quiring turn of mind, “Ma! do people have wings ?” “No, my daughter! not in this world.” “But angels have them f” “Yes, my dear! angels have them.” “Then I know aunty has them, for when the minister called the other day, I heard him say, when they parted in the hall, ‘Kiss me, you sweet angel?” * Governor Tilden, it is understood, is about to take up his residence in Wash ington. This, it is said, is in accordance with a recommendation to that effect by Democratic senators and representa tiVes. The fact that he has made no ar rangements to resume his law business at his office in New York city is con sidered significant. “What do you know about the prison er?” asked the Judge of a colored witness “I don’t know nothin’ ’bout him, Judge, only lie’s bigoted!” “Bigoted!” asked the Judge: “whatdo you mean by bigoted !” “Why, Judge,” explained the witness, “he knows too much for one niggali, and not nuff for two !” - Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. BJSH HILt. From the Cincinnati Enquirer.]’ Benjamin H. Hill* of Atlanta, Georgia* is a candidate for a seat in the Senate at the United States. He is a man of fair abilities,- a lawyer somewhat loosely coed structed, a politician of cnormotls ambi tion and plentiful lack of common sense. He has been elected to the fourty-fourth Congress to fill a vacancy, and was elected as a Democrat, though he is a renegade Republican. During tho late civil war he was a Confederate—at homo* Last winter the question of amnesty was before the House for consideration. Mr* Blaine* with the splendid tact of a polit ical master* flung Jeff Davis, Anderson ville and nil the most hideous of the hor rors of the late Civil war upon the .Dem ocratic House of Representatives, in the desperate attempt to provoke a reply. Ben Hill, with unequivocal zeal, in order to enlarge his borders and strengthen his stakes for tho Senatorship, rushed to the front. He made hie speech—for the Senatorship. No single speech, no ona political act within the year, drove so many votes away from the Democratic party as that address—made not for tl e party, but for Hill. The slimy self-seek er, feeling the need of “hedging,” jump ed from his radical Republican position 100 far. There were scores of brave ! men members of that house, men who I had risked their lives in misguided devo j tion to what they believed to be the de i sire of “their people," whose lips did not open, who writhed under the utterances of hie trimming Georgian which thoy would have choked had it been possible. Jilaine made his point, not through tho wisdom of an ex-Confederate soldier, but through the selfish zeal of an ambi tious, time-serving politician. The Dem ocratic party was made responsible for bis utterances, and thousands of men who had been almost or altogether per suaded to vote for a change in tho poll - ical administration of affairs said, no matter how unjustly, that it was ev’ti- “t --'•i* vet time to intrust power to the atic party. If, after this, th i' , j-ats of Georgia should give Ben liiii a United States Senatorship as a reward for the injury ho has inflicted upon the national Democratic party they would be putting weapons in the hands of our enemies, Ben Hill has done nothing worthy of recompense at the hands of the Democratic party. If any party, the Republican party is under ob ligations to him aud should reward him. And the Democratic party in no State can afford in this hour to place a pre mium upon such a man as Ben Hill, Even though they may be misunder . stood and misrepresented, the Demo cratic. party, with the dawn once more of its day, should avoid the appearance of evil. If the legislature of Georgia would render a service to the national Democracy it will return someone to tho United States Senate whose name is not Bonj. H. Hill. SETTLING THE PRESIDESTIAL QUES TION OVF.R OHAMPAONF..; Thero are still'persons, says the Wash ington Union, who put faith in the suc cess of the returning board conspiracy, and who believe that the president of the senate may and will resolve himself into a returning board of one and count Mr. Hayes into the presidency. That part of the programme carried out the rest will be easy of accomplishment, say the few, though enthusiastic, followers of Grant, Chandler & Cos. Mr. Hayea, they say, will arrive here Sunday morn ing, March 4, und proceed directly to the white house, whero Grant will ac cord him a gracious reception. Chief Justice Waite will be there to adminis ter the oath, and then Mr. Grant will turn over the keys to become the guest of President Hayes, and lunch will be served and a few bottles of wine will be broken over the peaceful capture of the executive offico. Grant will remain at the white house for several days to bring up the bayonets aud the artillery in case they should be required, and Monday morning President Hayes will send the names of his cabinet to the senate, which is to meet iu extra session. It will hardly be credited that thero are persons credulous enough to believe in the presidency being appropriated in this way, in defiance of law and the will of the people ; but there are those who discuss this as not among the probabili ties, but the certainties. Bnt before the ebampage lunch is served congress will have something to say and do with re gard to the presidency, and thero is re newed confidence that a sense of justice, of moderation, and of obedience to law will guide its action. Senator Edmunds is quoted as saying, with regard to the election of a presi dent by the house, that it is clear to him the constitution does not warrant this unless there is not the least shadow of a doubt of a failure to elect by the people, us may happen when three candi dates are in the field. A gentleman who has just returned here from a visit to the interior of Mas sachusetts, where ho met and conversed only with republicans, says that to his surprise he found the election of Mr. Tilden was universally conceded, and that any attempt to inaugurate Hayes by fraud or force is deprecated in the strongest possible terms. ohangeiThis vote 7 A case once occured in our own his tory when a Presidential elector chang ed his vote after being elected, and voted against his party in electoral col lege. When James Munroe was runing for a second term, at the election in November, 1820, his electors wore chosen in every State, and in the electoral col lege in Febuary, 1821, Mr. Plummer, of New Hampshire, cast his vote for John Quincy Adams, to the surprise of every body. It is said that his motive for this was that he did not wish to have the vote unanimous for any President after Washington. ♦ ♦ A brilliant geological student, being asked the composition of limestone, an swered, “Lime and stone.”