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GOOD BOOTS AW SHOES
AT
FRED HAIG’S.
This unrivalled Medicine io warranto 1 no! to con
tain n ring!* particle of Mercury, or any injurious
mineral &u balance, but ia
PVRS17
For FOlifV YEARS it nos proved ^r»*at value
in all disease; ot th* Liver, Ho web anl Kiduoy**.
Thousands of the -^ood nud iu ail parta of lli*»
country vouch for it* wonderful and peculiar power in
f>urif*:iig the Blood, afi’duhiiin^ the lotyiu Liver and
Bowel?, arid imparting new Li to and Vi#«»r to tiie
whole system. SIMMONS’ LIV’Eli UEGULATOll
is acknowledged to have no equal n.< a
LIVES*. XtEQDIG’i&a.
It contaia" four medical elements, m-ver united in
tho same happy proportion in any other preparation,
vix: a gentle Cathartic, a wonderful T unc, an unax
ceptionnblo Alterative and a certain Cerreclive of all
impurities of tho body. Such a signal success has at
tended its use, that it is no .r regarded nu the
c. H WRIGHT & SONj
‘Sing Saby.”
‘ .-•* . * »■.
OFFER FOR SALE
Ui*\ >• aiMMJL
AW* JxOW RATES
5,000 yards Bsavy Bagging.
5 Tons of Arrow Vies.
15,000 lbs. of Flour, ail grades.!
10,000 lbs.
ton Sides.
1,000 lbs. Leaf Lard*
SU4AK AM COFFEE.
One Car Load Liverpool Salt to arrive
A LARGE LOT OF HOLLOW WARE.
Hunt it Robinson Axes.
SEED ItYE AND BAltLEY.
Great Unfailing- Specific
for Livnr Complaint and the painful oifcpringr thereof,
rit: DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, Jaundice,
Bilious attacks, SICK HEADACHE Colic, Depres
sion of Spin's, S'JUlt STOMACH, Heart Burn, &c.
i&exulV.e t,ii^ Liver a:il prevent
C&XLhS AND
Simmons’ Liver Eleg-alator
Is manufactured ouly by
J. 5*. ZEir.!\ & CO.,
MACON, GA., an 1 PHILADELPHIA.
Price $1 00 par package ; sent by mail, posiage paid
$1 25. Prepared ready fer use iu b tiles, *1 50.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
R^Bnwase of all Counterfeits aud Imitations.
Sept 17, 1872. 3 Sm
To Arrive at Miller’s,
Tho largest Stock Engihdi double Guns ever offered
in the city.
Millodgeville, Ga., Nov. 26th. 1K72. li>2t.
Choice O-oshen Batter in 3 1-3 lbs.
packages.
1,000 lbs. Canvassed Hams.
Sfaup AND SS9LASSBS.
Soaps and Candies.
All as good as the beet and as ohcap as tho cheap
est.
C. n. WRIGHT A SON.
Milledgovillo, Sept 17, 1872.
8 tf
NOTICE.
S TRAYED from my placo nonr No. 13, Central
Railroad ou Suuiaj la?t, ONK DAKK HAY
HOUSE M LTjE, between tho a** of five and six y«*»ra
with a white ring around orre of hU front feet. Any
one giving roc any in formation of him, or taking him up
will ha liberal! v rewarded. Addre-a me at Touuille No.
13,Central Railroad, Georgia.
Novemher‘23d, 1873. 18 *t. A. 8. BARNES.
JAMES G. IIA!LIE &. BROTHER,
205 02road Street, Augusta, Ga.,
Respectfully ask your attention to a full lino of tho following goods, which will be sold as low as iu any
othor House ■
CAKPET DEPARTMENT. CURTAIN DEPAKTMENT.
Curtain Materials,
Cornices and liuuds,
English Velvet Carpets,
English Brussels Carpels,
Three Ply and Ingrain Carpets,
Venetian Caipets,
Cheap Carpets,
Floor Oil Cloths,
Table Oil Cloths,
Stair Carpets and Rods,
Mattings, Druggets and Door Mat*.
Lace Curtains,
.Muslin Curtains,
Window Shades, all sizos,
Hair Cloths, all widths,
Wall Papers
and Borders,
Beautiful Chromos.
MROCBI
YDEPARTMENT
Choice Family
Grooeries,
received .weekly,
Dufficld Hams, *
English Crackers,
Dyspeptics’ Food,
Baskets of all kinds. Wood Ware,
Broom* and Brusboa,
Plantation Supplies-
Caipets, Oil Cloths and Curtains made and laid at short notice.
Sept. 24.1872. 9 6m.
His scepter is a rattle,
His throne is mother's arms i
Fie reigns • tiny tyrant.
In all hit dimpled charms !
Yet round bis royal preseuca
Oar loving hearts entwine;
Dictator of the cradle.
Aad king by right divine !
Whatever be bis mandates,
No courtier* Jsre reb-1 ;
Ilis mother is chief of the household,
Prime minister as well!
In yon perambulator.
His downy car of state,
Exacting, rosy monarch.
What triumphs on him wait I
In purple or.se and spionder,
Long, long ho seeks to reign ;
All hints of nose disjointed
He smites at with disdaiu
Alas that royal greatners
Should ever be disowned ;
Here comes a tiny stranger—
King baby is dethroned.
ROOK NOTICE.
O.unSiSi'a.
BY IJDK MKRttVKTUBU.
“And ev»ry woe a tear can claim
Except an erring sister’s Shame.”—Byron.
GEOUCaiA MILLS !
T HE UDdernitfned eonfin-
UAS to carry on the
BOOT AND SHOE busi
ness, in all it? branches, at
the same old eland, embra
cing a larger variety than
heretofore.
Gentlemen will find every class of finish in Boots
aad Shoes, warranted. Also a good supply of
Ladies, I&isscs aud Children’s Shoes
of all qualities and prices.
Understand, that none but fir-t class goods aro offer
ed, aud having paid cash, great inducements aro of
fered.
Gentlemen’s work made to order and Repairing of
all kinds neatly dune as all old customers will testify.
FRED HAUG.
Milledgeville, Oct 8, 1872 11 3m
W. H. nALL.
MEDIOAIj
I. L. IURRI3.
CARD.
D OCTORS HALL a- HARRIS have associated
themselves for the Practice of Medicine.
Office the one formerly occupied by Judge I. L.
Harris as a Law Office.
mr Calls may be left at their office day or night.
Milledgeville, Aug 20, 1872. 4 3m
FLOUR TO
TRADE.
IdP’We are now prepared to supply the trade with our celebrated brands of
Wileys XXXX, Pearl Dust, Hyacintke and Amber,
In any quantity. Wc innko tho BEST FLOUR In tho market,
And our PRICE LIST will compare favorably with those of nny first-class Western Mills. 0” We keep al
ways on baud liltAN and 8IIOHTS of a Superior t^ualUy. Your orders will receive prompt attention.
ISIIASIS & FLANDERS,
DKI COW HIDES WASTED!
TTIGHEST CASH PRICES
PAID FOR DRY
COW HIDES al, the
Family Grocery of
T. A. CAR AKER.
Milledgeville, Oct. 28,1872. 14 3m
PARKER tfc COLLINS,
BSILIglDZ) GEVULSi GA.,
W ILL make yon a good Side-Spring Buggy
for 3135| En«l Spring for $1451—
with the talc improvement* at from $150
to $175.
N>> “slop” work done at any price- Repairing exe
cuted promptly and substantially.
Good wagons always ou hand and for salo low.
TERMS CASH.
June 5th. 1872. 46 7ra
SToirsss,
Txisr
Hardware, fyc.
JOSEPH STALEY
Has just received a iei •*
COOKING STOVES,
of the best manufactures, which ho will sell
Cheap fer Cash.
Now is your time to get one us these stoves are ad-
vaueing iu price.
November 5th, 1872.
MAOOliar, GA.
The Oldest Furniture House in the State.
PLATT BROTHERS,
2/2 and 2/h 2*220A/D S2HUB2,
AUGUSTA, GEO XL GI A,
Keep constantly on hand the latest styles of
Of every variety manufactured, from the the lowest to the highest grades.
AND
Library Suits Complete, or in Single Pieces,
At Price* which cannot fail to suit tho purchaser.
Nov. 12,1873. 16 6m.
ox?,
He also has an assortment of
FAAXaiZffG ZXUPLBfflffHXffTS
Consisting of Hoe*, Spading Forks, Garden Rakes,
Gtti ao Strower?, &c*
Also, Axob, Churns, Well-Buckets, 6cc.
r r
Next to Lanier House, Macon, Ga.
DEALER in
A general assortment of
TZVWA&S, Cheap for Cash.
GUNS AND PISTOLS.
A full assortment of
fPPPFF-AAPF
Also, Hardware, Cutlery, and a variety of good*
M> tedious to mention.
Call aud examine.
MilladgeTille, Nov 19,1872. 17 3m
R. E. McREYNOLDS,
his office over Cnraker’* Store
. CttW tSS .yhere ^win^kegrteat pleura
la waiting upon all who may favm- himi with their tod
patronage, ami will guarantee sat.sfaction in all opera-
tien*. o
Sept 17,1872. B jm '
FOR SALE
rpHE RESIDENCE of the late Isaac
A
— Newell, Sr., in thorough repair, two
acres of ground attached, with Stables, Out-Houses
Ac., 4ro. The most desirable Residence in the cl
FINE FURNITURE, CHAIRS, MATRESSES, BEDHEADS,
and SPRING BEDS.
PARLOR SUITES, lu Plush Hair, Cloth and Reps. BED-ROOM SUITES 11 * rest »anoty, Marble and
rood To,,(, • CARPETS.
A FINE assortment of Brussels, Tapeslries, 3 ply, 2 ply, Wool WiuJow Shades’*Wall Pv
Druggets. Nottingham Lace Curtains. Lambraqums, made to oriv &t oxeoe< ji B g|y low priees.
per, Oil Clcthe, (table aad floor) Matting, etc., etc.
All tho a bo
x invention known for preserving the dead. Also,
FISK'S Patent Metallic Burial Cases and Caekets, [ hc Lelegaatly finished and band.omest ia the market.
SELF-SEALING Metaho Case.- and Caskets (two patqy # i Bnt> c*ar and common woods. AU at greatly
Ceflinsand Caskets in Rosewood,Mahogany,Hlag( a , M ,£ a f allgoods in my line,
reduced prices. CALL AND SBE. I keep afu.la 15 3m.
November 5th, 1872.
• IUO mum ucatiutm- t . 1
the most convenient, both as to loca.ton and,
tic comfni-r Will be sold cheap. Those wr
■eatic comfort. Will be sold cheap, i noee w,
to boy will please call on the subscriber, wr
taka pleasure in showing them the^ r ^[ u ’jJTgyfijn’
MlUa tlio, G . Oct.28th, 1872, ’
m zj. JP. TAYjLOn,
c#r /®ttoi Avenue aisi €b«try Stnet,
MACGX, GA.
*47
pydNITUKE, CAKPETIMS,
Rags, Oil Cloths^ Window Shades, ete*
^ }>J* .4 .!1V
^etalic Burial Cases and Caskets, Fine
PLAIN WOOD COFFlkfc AN^C^^E*^
and
jy*Ordere by Telegraph promptly attended to.
Macon, Ga, Dap 10,1873.
IP tai
Iu reading this earnest little hook it is impossi
ble to suppress a torr of sympathy with the author
iu her commiseration for tho suffering and the un
fortunate of her own sex.
We have locked in vaiu to the “Woman’s
Rights movement'' for seme alleviation of this
ivii. Intellectual progress, without a correspon
ding moral improvement will lead us to a condi
tion differing but little from prislina heathenism.
There will be a refinement ot vice, but the moral
status will be even lower ; for undoubtedly de
veloped reason aggravates moral guilt. Unless
ihoreforp, the “march of mind’’ be united with ap
proximating moral progress we shall find our
selves in a second “roign of re-son’’ like that
which disgraced the history of the first French Em
pire, and which is now shadowed forth in many
of the Woman's Rights doctrines.
Those reflections persuade us that this most
perplexing obliquity of sociology aud tho moral
universe, can be rectified only by degrees, by the
fireside edneation of children, and in the eleva
tion of man. Somefbne has written, “when we
say we educate a man, all is said, but when we
educate a woman we oducate ageneration.’* This
is the root of tho matter. Let mothers teach their
young sons and daughters, among other harsh
and wholesome truths a knowledge of self- Let
them teach them to respect themselves, and each
other, and make them feel the beauty of charity
in daily practise ; thus, ranch will be done to pro
tect innocence, aud thereby, to prevent guilt.
The author appeals to all for aid in her good
work. Assistance can be rendered her in many
ways, in silent unostentatious charity ; and we
are persuaded it will not be withhold from any
promptings of a false aud haughty spirit after
reading her little book, so full of sweet humility.
It is published by Boyle and Chapman, Memphis,
Tenn.
M. F.T.
Thk Cukdit Mokilif.r InvestioatiojU—The
special committee, of which Judge Roland is
chairman, appointed on Monday by the House to
investigate the Credit Mobilier charges, organised
Friday morning and adjourned until next Thurs
day, when tho investigation will be commenced.
Mr. McComb having been summoned to appear
before tho cominitteu then. The sessions of the
committee will not be public
The Credit Moeimeh Scandal to be Hush
ed Up.—The Newport Tribune says: “It is too
early to make any predictions about the probable
result of tho investigation into the Credit Mob
ilier business. But the prospects now are that
the first difficulty will be found in tho production
of the principal witness, Colonel H. S. McComb.
That this gentleman would prefer to have the
money which he claims from Oakes Ames than
the name of purging Congress of its corrupt mem
bers, is a plain proposition. So it is.now reported
that Mr. Oakes Ames will compromiss with Mc-
Coinb, and tbns the whole affair will be qnashed.
This would be a very convenient way of bridging
over the difficulty, which is most severe in Ames’
caso ; but it remains to be seen if McComb would
be willing to peijnre himself. If be were, it if
possible that ex Seuator Bayard aud others eonld
throw some light on this transaction.’’
Lobby Influence in Congress'—
A Washington letter in the New York
Tribune says : A good deal of the hue
and cry raised against the Liberal
Chairman of Committees in the House
originates with the lobby. The ob
ject is to get rid of tho Chairman of
the Claims Committee, who has stead
fastly opposed the allowance of hun
dreds of dead and doubtful claims* He
is known to be perfectly incorruptible
and he is so determined in his resis
tance to the multitude of ingenious
and swindling schemes to get money
from the Treasury with which his
Committee is beeieged, that the per
sons concerned in these jobs have a
special grudge against him, and hope
to gratify their desire for revenge as
well as advance their interests by
bringing about bis displacement. The
Claims Committee never had a more
vigilant and upright Chairman than
Governor Blair, and thero are many
strange Administration men in the
it, and who have urged him to retain
his position.
The Druggist’s Advantage.—The
business of a druggist is a very pecul
iar one. He is absolute master of the
situation. In the matter of dry goods,
the customer can feel the goods, aud,
if he has half sense, can tell some
thing of their value. In the matter
of groceries, the customer can smell,
taste, and handle, and has his defense.
When we come to the drug business,
however, the customer enters the
store with a bit of paper Ogured over
with hieroglyphics which ho knows
nothing whatever about; the awfully
majestic prescription clerk receives it
with a mysterious air- retires as mys
teriously behind a mysterious screen,
and, from hidden mysterious bottles,
concocts a fluid or a powder, puts it in
a bottle, hermetically seals it, and,
emerging, demands seventy-five cents,
orajdoll^r from the mystified custo
mer who knows not whether the stuff
is pdisonocs or harmless. It is none
oi his business. The money is paid—
what else can the man do—and he re
tires, impresssed with the majesty of
the drug trade.—Cincinnati lO
Trade List.
In Pesth, a few days since, a youth
of sixteen recited at an exhibition the
Lord’s
guages,
prayer in twenty-two lan-
About $50,000 worth of property
•old in Cuthbert on the 3d met.
For the Usloa A. lUocrJer.
Commodore SMEanry, and his Crc-
oyrapUes.
BY W. G. MACADOO.
That wundreus old author and ad
venturer “ Captaiuo Ioiin Smith ” of
Powhatan and Pocahontas memory, in
his‘Generali Historic of the Bermudas,
now called the Summer lies’, well re
marks, ‘As Geography without His
tory scemeth a oarfcasse without mo
tion, so History without Geography
wandcrefch as a vagraat without a ccr-
taiue habitation.”
One of the ablest minds in the South
is now giving to tho South this need
ful requisite of Geography. We al
lude to the illustrious Com. M. F.
Maury whose series of Gcogrnjthics
comprise a portion of the University
SERIES of School Books.
This “University Series” is publish
ed by the “University Company” of
which Georgia’s distinguished son, Gen.
John B. Gordon, is one of the Vice
Presidents and Gen. Buckner, late of
the Confederate Army, is the other.
Tho leadiug object of this Univer
sity Series of school books is to supply
to tho young the required mental food
in their school existence without the
poisonous infection of sectiounlism that
taint* ail the school books now man
ufactured from tho braius of Northern
authors. The University series does
not essay to'perpetrate tho correlative
monstrous wrong,I However nearly that
might be justifiable under the circum
stances, viz : That of fostering Southern
sectionalism. It simply lifts itself into
a purer and higher atmosphere where
school books rightfully belong. It
shuns the whole mad vortex of section
alism : the Scylla ou the one hand and
the Charybdison the other. Our fore
fathers a few generations ago had the
privilege of studying such school books,
such having theu been prepared by the
English and Yankee thinkiag appara
tus before that cranky power was set
all awry in the mad crusade against
tho “peculiar institution” of our un
fortunate South-land. We fear some
future generation must be reached be
fore that crankiness can subside to
common sense, or common justice.—
But let us not distress ourselves; for
we have, thank God! accomplished
and competent authors who can pre
pare all the school books we need, and
at least one. good Publishing Company
who will publish them.
We have before us the three Ge-
graphical works of Prof. Maury,
adapted to the successive wants of the
young aud expanding mind. We do
not hesitate, after careful examination
of these books, to say that they are
superior in merit to any other books of
geography now in use. They were
prepared by a mind which has no
equal among living men in that depart
ment of physical science, and with
the cherished design of making them
superior to all other school books of
Geography; a mind, we may add,
abundantly competent to effect its
purposes in this, or any other realm
of Physical science it may chooso to
explore.
We hope the Boards of common
school education and higher Institu
tions also, will carefully examine this
remarkable series of books before
adopting any other; because if they
will so examine them, they will never
adopt any other.
The foundation of the late great
sectional War, ending with the deso
lation of our beloved South, was laid
in the poisoning of the Northern
school-books. If our educators in
Georgia Bhali adopt the copious and
defamatory flood of these books pour
ed out continually on the South, but
one or two generations of our own off
spring here in Georgia, will have be
come the embodiment of “ public
opinion” until the martyred kin
dred will be held odious for their
wickedness as participators in the
‘Great Rebellion”! We would not
perpetuate or prolong one atom of
that natural bitterness now felt against
the North. No: let it all die, and
fraternal feelings be restored. Such
is the philosophy of the “University
Series.”
Let us develope our own system of
Education by our own talent ; and by
noble and notable results, let m set an
example to our erring “countrymen”
of Yankeo-land. Whether that exam-
ole shall he copied or no*, we at least
OWP in nurtrltv* thu Huty of vinflinirin^
our position, past and present, against
the calumnies of our enemies, and of
stimulating tho development of our
own resources both material and im
material to their utmost capacity.—
We need to hold up to our offspring in
their plastic school days great aud no
ble models of thought and action ;—
and we are surely, not wishing our
Northern neighbors any harm when
we desire to show them, in this way,
that we do not neod to depend on
them for methods or matter to be
used in the instruction of the young
We shall in this maimer guard against
misrepresentation on the part of these
Northern authors, or the lack of a just
representation ; against false stand
ards of right and iusidious invasions of
wrong ; against improper models for
our childreu ; against an active fester
ing civilization which is working the
ruin of the authors at home, and is
now forced on some localities of the
South at the point of the bayonet.—
The time will come, if we do this,
when the good and the wise, even in
the North, will thank us for thus pre
serving the sacred ark of that conser
vatism which shall, in the corruptions
and calamities of the future, save them
as well as ourselves. Whatever of
good shall be permitted to survive the
threatened wreck of religion, of
morals, of order and of good govern
ment in America, must owe its exis
tence mainly to the sou gd hearts and
wise heads of the Southern people.
Mr. W. A. Slaymaker, corner of Ma
rietta and Peachtree itpeeta ia Atlanta,
is tho General Agent in this State for
the University Scries of School Books.
i’ookmc a RiNruirn.
H.w a Tcxsnwe (Hfl Crrmo.S n Srasaltas.
I heard of a young lady up iu Middle
TenueRsee who, as the river men say,
has taken another chute. Tho story
told about her did my soul good, and
for the comfort of other hall-starved
dyspeptics like myself, whose tardy
sustentation is effected by menus of
fried chicken, soggy biscuits, greasy
hash ami sole-leather fritters, I’ll re
late it. For years past, as a mere
matter of form—something handed
down from remote antiquity — the offi
cers of the county fair held in the
neighborhood where this lady lived
had been in tho habit of offering a
premium to the lady (unmarried) cook
ing the best dinner. It was n dead
letter. Nobody had contested for tiie
premium within the memory of tho
oldest inhabitant.
This year, however, the young lady
of whom I am speaking determined to
compete for tho prize. Her name—
I wish I could immortalize it—was
Kate Jnnaway The fair men set up a
stove for her, stretched a canvass to
shield her from tho sun, and about i l
o’clock of the last day she went to
work. The matter had been talked
about throughout the neighborhood,
and curiosity was on tip toe- A crowd
gathered around where the stove
set up early in the morning, and kept,
increasing, but when Miss Kate her
self a buxom, handsome young girl of
nineteen, daughter of fhe ox-Mayor of
the town, appeared on the ground and
putting on a wiiito apron and rolling
up her sleeves, commenced operations,
all other attractions were nothing —
Every one was eager to sec so novel a
sight. There was a tree near by
which soon became black with spec
tators who had climbed up to get a
better view. Tho branches were fi
nally so burdened, that one after an
other broke, precipitating those on
them to the ground, until only one
man was left in the tree. He sat on a
lofty fork and rivited his eyes on tho
scene below. No amount of persua
sion by those beneath, envious of his
better view, could induce him to come
down ; even a bribe of S10 failed.—
He said he was bound to see or die.
Meanwhile the dinner preparations
went oc apace. The savory smell of
the cooking food seemed to intoxicate
the crowd which pressed nearer. It
took all the police force on the grounds
to keep order. The time arrived for
the trotting match, announced as the
sport of tho day, but tho ampitheatre
was empty. The judges (with the ex
ception of one crabbed old widower),
the timers, all were missing and so
nothing could be done. At half past
two the dinner was announced ready,
and thejudges, happy men,seated them
selves at the table—the crowd regard
ing them with ill-disguised envy. A
roast beef, delicately done, was put
steaming hot upon the table ; then
followed corn pudding whose delicate
aroma fell upon the olfactories of the
excited crowd like “breezes from Ara-
by the blest.” A profusion of vegeta
bles, cooked to perfection, followed
next. Thejudges ate and ate, prais
ing the flavor of the the food and the
skill of tho cook at every mouthful.—
But when, at last, a dessert of piping
hot apple dumplings made its appear
ance, the forbearance of the crowd
was at an end. They broke through
the ropes into the ring with one ac
cord, and the dumplings disappeared
in a trice.
One old fellow, proprietor of a store
and owner of a big saw-mill, proposed
to the young lady on the spot, but he
was quickly collared and led off the
grounds by two younger aspirants,
who made common cause against the
aged suitor, saw-mill and all. The
young lady was the centre of attrac
tion in the town after the cooking
teat She received twenty-five offers
of marriage the first week, aud her
fame spread through all the country
round.
An old bachelor fellow down in
Grundy county, with a farm so big
that it took him all day to ride around
it, and cattle on a hundred hills, heard
of her and made a pilgrimage all
the way to that town to learn the
truth. He got the girl, too, although
some of the young men of the place
sued out a writ of habeas corpus to pre
vent her being carried oat of the coun
ty. They were too late.
This is, I am aware, a rather sad
ending for so good a story* but devo
tion to the truth compels me to give
nothing but the simple, unvarnished
reality.
She ought to have married that fel
low who sat op there in the crotch of
the tree, so long and at such fearful
discomfort. He wanted her, and he
was a poor, bilious, dyspeptic, whom
her splendid cooking would soon have
restored to usefulness aud society, but
he was poor. Ah !
Treasure-Trove.—A valuable relic
has just been discovered at English.
Plymouth. The Sappers of the Roy
al Engineers weie engaged in con
structing a new battery near Prince
Edward’s Fort, when one of them dis
covered three feet below the surface,
a mass of gold three pounds iu weight.
It is shaped, we are told, and traced
as if it had formed part of a sceptre.—
'i’he Colonel has taken possession of
the treasure, which proved to be re;,
markabiy tine gold, and will send it to
the Queen. In Great Britain treas
ure-trove of right belongs, to the crown
though, of course, the finders take a
fair share of the spoil*
i—
An Irish coroner, ia remarking on
the great mortality of ■ certain win
ter, went on to observe that: “There
are a great many people dying this
year who never died before.”
SMt*7*p«r Failure.—Why ibcn art; so Mu-
My «f Them, *
Wo do not enjoy tho pleasure of
(Mfeonal acquaintance with Gen Geo.
P Jem's, of the Nashville Union ami
Aiiriuicau, but tiie following extract
from his recent address before tiie Tenn
essee Press Association so emphatical
ly stamps him ns a ‘love! headed” man
that we wish wo did. He says:
“We do toe much work without
compensation’. We pny too much mon
ey without any return whatever. We
establish an eleemosynary institution
at our own expanse. We keep a char
ity school on our owu hook. , W e con
duct business as if wo owe everything
to the public, and the public are not
indebted to us a farthing. We are
preyed upon by the sharpers and inno
cents alike. We advertise gratuitous
ly every week, when wc should have
the money for it. The gcner.il public
are entirely ignorant—probably wo
ourselves arc not fully aware of the
extent to which newspapers aro bur
dened by this insidious drain upon
their resources. It insinuates itself ia
every conceivable form. It does
it through reporters, through agents,
thro’.i S h correspondents, through edi
tors, through business managers,
through proprietors, and generally too,
with as much disadvantage to the pub
lic as to the press. There is no*t a bus
iness, from the dispenser of ginger
cakes and cider to the largest manufac
tory, which will not advertise with you
gratis—which will if you listen to it,
endeavor to convince you that it is your
duty to tho pahiie to do so. There is not
an aspirant for public station; and when
1 contemplate the numbers of these, I
experience an overwhelming sense of
commingled amazement and disgust
—from constable to the Senate of tho
Union, who does not consoientionsly
believe it to be the imperative duty of
tho press, daily and weekly to speak,
with a pen of telescopic power, of his
microscopic doservings. Even that
army of strollers, which infest tho
country asd the people as a sort of
visitation of Providence for our iniqui
ties, from tho street corner seller of
prize candy or magic oil to tho opera
tic impressario, will expect you to
write an indefinite number of editori
als on a three-square advertisement
inserted for five days, changeable daily,
without change! We are required to
write up, urge up, and put through
every enterprise, great or small, that
■earns te have a possible connection
with tha pablic. But we never hear of
stock or of dividend. The church, tho
state, commerce, industry, art, inven
tion and humbug alike seem to regard
the press as their servitors, and to bo
run and sustained for their advantage.
There is a lino of demarkation, in all
these things, between publio demand,
public utility, newspaper duty and in
dividual gain. That line should be de
fined aud held, as it in reality is, the
Dead Line. Not a letter, nor a space,
nor a figure, not a comma nor a period
—nothing of all the innumerable par
ticles that enter into the form and
structure of a daily or weekly news
paper—is there that *its picking up
and putting down does not cost cash
money. Not a revolution of the press,
not a square inch of paper, that does
not cost something in cash. This
should bo understood by the public.
If it is not its oorrelative should bo
praactised by the press. I do not
mean that the press should abandon
its position of being the foremost char
itable institution in the world. It
should bold to that, for its munificent
iiberalty, after purging itself of uinc-
tenths of the daily swindles practiced
upon it, will exceed that of any other
business.
To get rid of this stupendous fraud
of gratuitous advertising, this cancer,
canker—call it anything, provided you
select an epithet that will characterize
it strongly enough—I can prescribe
no other rule than this: Put volunta
rily aud without charge any and every
thing into your paper which you deem
advantageous to it in being beneficial
to the public. All else, exclude, be
ing of advantage t© those who wish to
make money upon your capital and
euterprise. Hold your ppaco at its
value. Fix your rates at a fair price
for your circulation, aDd adhere to
them. Fair dealing will accomplish
more than foul, at all times and every
where.
Immigration—“The Cry is Still
They Comb.”—The statistics of Im
migration, as published in the New
York papers show that the stream has
swollen with a flood, which pours with
ever increasing volume into New York
from Liverpool. From these state
ments we learn that during the quar
ter ending September 30, the emigra
tion from Liverpool was enormously
increased over that of the preceding
quarter. Ninety-nine ships left that
port for tho United States during
the three months, carrying 36,491
steerage passengers, and nearly 6,000
in the cabins; seventeen ships left for
Canada, carrying 5,607 emigrants; one
left for Victoria and two for South
America, all carrying an aggregate of
50,SS5. Of these 18,279 were Eng
lish, and only 5,104 Irish. The re
mainder were Swedes, Danes and Ger
mans, who had come from Scandina
vian aud German countries by way of
Hull, in preference to shipping from
Laltic ports by the German lines of
steamers.
Add to these the immigrants by oth
er lines to other portB, and it will be
seen that this ever increasing tide
might easily divert a small quantity of
its fertilizing waters southward, were
the proper steps taken to secure it.
We hope, and believe, that Gover
nor Smith in his message will give
some practical suggestions on this all-
important subject.
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