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VOLUME IUD*3
MILLEDGE VILLE, GEORGIA, JULY 2, 1873.
NUMBER 49.
— 'the
Union & lUcoriitr,
XS rl-BLISHED WEEKLY
IX MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.,
BY
Boughtox, Barnes & Moore,
At $2 in Advance, or $3 at end of the year.
S. N. BOUGHTON, Editor.
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THIS OFFICE.
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TCHURCH-
jiiditvs in each month, at 11
o’clock, a m. O. M. Cone,
I) E BUTLER, Castor.
JIETHODIST CIIURCH.
Honrs of service on Sunday : 11 o'clock, a in, and
P »>
Suuilny School 1 uYlork p. in. Teachers meeting 3
. m— \V. E Frankland. Superintendent.
Piayermeeting every Wednesday at 7 o’clock, p m
Rev. A J JARRELL, Pastor.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Services every Sabbath at 11 o'clock, a in and
P m.
Sabbath School at 3 p m. T. T. Windsor, Supt.
Prayer meeting every Friday at 1 o’clock, p m.
Rev. G. T. GOETCH1US, Pastor.
Bodges.
ate Chamber at tlie
evening at 7 o'clock.
E P Lane, Sec v.
TEMPERANCE.
Ic I'OLiincil No. 1, meets in the Sen-
State House on every- Friday
C P CliAWFOKD, W P.
MASONIC.
Benevolent I.o.lgr No 3 F A M , meets 1st and
3d Saturday nights ot eaeli month at Masonic Hall.
inuv ii iiaiv a nn ur;
G I) Cast, Sec'
IRBY II HOWARD, W M
Trni|ile Chnplrr meets the second and fourth
Saturday nights in each mouth.
O 11 Cask, Sco’y. S G WHITE, II P
*1 illcdgeviMe l.o.'ge of Ferferlion A.-, 5
A.'. S.. R.-. meets every Monday night.
„ „, sam e g white, t p g m
G 11 Cask, Exc Grand Sec’y.
Boarding H«ut«
O N account of the destruction of the Miiledgeville
Hotel by tire I have opened my iiousefor the ac-
couimodation ot Boarders—transient and regular.
M. E. EDWARDS.
Miiledgeville, Nov 23, 1872. 18 tf
R E. M c R E YN OLDS,
l>l3Jsn
iTIST,
C AN be found at bis oflioe over Caraker’s Store
at all times, where tie will take great pleasure iu
waiting upon all who may favor him with their kind
patronage, aud will guarantee satisfaction in all opera
tions.
March 18,1873. 34 3m.
Wynn’s Improved Open Throat
Curved Rib
COTTON GITS.
To the IMtinu-r* of Baldwin
and Adjoining t onnti«*» :
J AM now ready to Make and Repair Cotton Gin. 4 * on
short notice, at Midway, two miles south of Mil
Jedgeville. All work done warranted to perform well
or no pay.
The improved Curved Breast $4 per saw. The old
style Breast $3 50 p^rsaw.
Repairing done on reasonable terms. Any work de
livered in Miiledgeville, or at the Miiledgeville De
pots, will be attended to free of any charge to and
from my shop. I desire the early attention of my pat
rons to one particular: Give me time by sendiug in
in your oidersor work, at once, as it is impossible fo
one man to serve a dozen at the same time. As I re
quire no pay until the woik is approved of, give me
lime. |j^~Add ess me at Miiledgeville.
A. F. WYNN.
P.8. An experience of 25 years and my terms, are
sufficient recommendations; however, it references
are desired thay will be cheerfully furuiehed.
April 18, 18<3. 39 3tn
ONE, TWO, THREE.
I know a shady bower,
A sweet secluded nook,
Where many a bright-eyed flower
Bends down to kiss the brook.
P atl1 lies down a hollow,
Where rippling waters iun;
I hope no one will follow,
For there’s only room for one.
But if a bonnie maiden
(Whose name I dare not tel:)
Should, with wild flowers laden.
Draw near my bosky dell,
I, in a voice carissing
Would leil, and tell her true
That with a little pressing
There might be room tor two.
I’d crown her with wild roses,
I’d throne her on the green,
And whilst she there reposes, ’
IM kneel before my queen.
Should any one peiceive us,
In tliis we’d both agree—
We'd tell them to believe us
There was not room for three.
Discoveries at Golgotha.—Lon
don, June IS.—Correspondence from
Jerusalem states that the geological
plate just completed by the Oriental
Topographical Corps, now engaged in
making a survey and sketches ol Bible
lands, shows the exposed and skull
shaped line of the upper strata of the
hill outside Damascus gate, and near
the north wall of Jerusalem, is strong
ly suggestive ot Golgatha, the place
of the skull. This supports the theo
ry of this hill being Calvary. The
corps has arranged by means of a tele
graph from Joppa to Jerusalem for
accurate barometric notification.
THE CAPITAL QUESTION.
Opinions of the Press.
Works of Lord Macaulay.
A complete and uniform edition of
the works of this great author has
just been brought out by the great
publishers Hurd & Haughton, 13 As-
tor Place, New York. The whole 16
vols. are afforded for the small sum of
$14.
Mr. Houghton of this firm is an Ala
bamian, and shared the calamities of
the “War between the States” with
our unfortunate Southland. The firm
of which he is a member is now one
of the largest and best of New York’s
great publishing houses. We con
gratulate him on his success, and com
mend him to Southern patronage. The
publication list of their house em
braces an immense number of Law
books, and miscellaneous works in ev
ery department of literature and sci
ence.
Helix Brake Attachment.
We are pleased to see that our es
timable contemporary, William Hand
Browne, editor of the Southern Masa-
The Latest Geological Wonders—
She Tale College Expeditions.
Whatever may be the prospect in
regard to the future, for our own
country or for the world, it cannot be
denied that there is progress, and a
great increase of light, in the matter
of the earlier history of the planet we
inhabit. Since the unearthing of the
skeleton of the first mastodon ever
found in America—an object which
was exhibited forty odd years ago. to
wondering thousands, in Beale’s old
Museum in Philadelphia—to the later
discoveries, in France, of animal and
human remains of remote geological
epochs, nothing more interesting has
been found, within the entire domain
of fossiliferous revelations, than the
skeleton of a man which was lately
unearthed near Mentone, in the north
western corner ot Italy, and but a
few miles from the present shore of
the Mediterranean sea. This skele
ton, discovered iu the course of some
excavations in certain caves among
the rocky hills of that border land on
the frontiers of Italy and France, is
assigned to a geological epoch loo re-
ine, is also a successful mechanical mote (or any realizing comprehension
Tlie Athena Watchman says:
“Without the least feeling against Atlanta, hut on
the contrary, with the kindest regard for her citizens
and an honest pride in her most remarkable career,
we behevethat the qaestion of the location of the cap
ital should he submitted to the people lairlyJSmi
squarely, as a uaked issue. It cannot he pretended
tliHt tliis was done under the Constitution of 1808. Let
it be fairly submitted now, and if a majority of the
people are in favor of Atlanta, let it be permanently
located there ; but if. in view ofour impoverished con
dition and other considerations, they prefer .Milled,
ville, let it be restored by all means
All the talk about the old capitol building, Execu
tive mansion, dtc., being inadequate to the wants of
the State, is the sheerest humbug. Very few of tie
States have buildings equal to that old capitol. It wa
admirably adapted to the purpose for which it was
intended. It may need some repairs. This may also
be true with regard to other public buildings. With
these repairs, they would answer all practical purpo
ses for a quarter ot a century to come—by which time
our people would be able to incur the expense of
erecting new ones, if deemed desirable. We are cer
tainly in no condition now to undertake a task requi
ring such heavy expenditures
North and South Carolina, and Tennessee, it is tiue,
have fiuer eapitols than our time-honored edifice at
Miiledgeville, but they cost from one and a half to
three million dollars each, and we believe those at
Nashville nnd Columbia are still unfinished. Are our
people ready now to commence such an undertaking.’
The Rome Courier says:
“Now and then we scent upon the newspaper breezi
a whiff of excitement and discontent among the peo
ple relative to the location of the State Capitol. The
people of Georgiu have so long ami so lovingly re
garded Milledgevi le us the true heart ot the State
that the violence which tore it away and fixed it in
a puddle of fraud in Atlanta, can never be thought
kindly of and acquiesced iu by them.
Though not claiming to be part of the “balance of
the press of Atlanta and her suburbs,’’ we do not hes
itate to give our voice for the restoration of the Cap
ital to Miiledgeville, its proper and only legitimate
site. The Capital buildings are already there, sell the
buildings iu Atlanta, and apply the money to the ex
peuseof the restoration ”
The Temperance Watchman, of Griffin, says:
“We say let the Capital go back to Miiledgeville by
all means. It will complete our political regeneration.
Let us wipe out all vestage of Bullock's frauds upon
our people.”
The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel says there are
but two ways by which the Capitol can be removed
from Atlanta back to Miiledgeville. One isbyatwo
thirds vote of two successive egislatures, the other by
a Constitutional Convention- It says that if the ques
tion is ever submitted to square vote of the people the
—;ii R e carried.
The Savannah Republican says:
“The Miiledgeville Union and Recorder has opened
its columns for a full and tree discussion (as to tlie re
moval) of the Capital question. The people, it says,
demand the return of tlie Capital back to Milledge-
ville, as the best and certainly the most proper place
for legislation. Put us down as iu favor of Milledge-
ville.
The SavanDah Morning News say? :
“The Miiledgeville Union has a well-considered ar
ticle on the Capital question. We slionld like to see
this matter settled. If the able legislators who are
sent to Atlanta would eat fewer gooher3 and attend to
their business, we would soon see whether Miiledge
ville or Atlanta is the Capital.”
The Albany Central City says :
“We have no sort of doubt that, let the question of
removal of the Capitol back to Miiledgeville, come be-
fore the people in whatever shape it may, and what
ever be the probably cost involved, their voice wil.
be for Removal’ by a large majority. It is true, At
lanta is rich, and mouey will be made to do all it can,
in tlitse corrupt times to prevent removal; whiie Mil-
ledgevilie is poor, and the people also poor, and not
one dollar will be spent in promoting removal; not
withstanding, the fact is so glaring that the interest of
the State demand it, we cannot but believe that patri
otism will triumph and the removal of the Capital back
to its rightful seat authorized by a decided vote. We
are for Miiledgeville! 1 ’
Carriage Shop.
G EO. A. GARDNER announces to the public that
lie has opened a shop opposite the shop formerly
occupied by li. E. Gardner, where he will oarry on
the business of manufacturing and repairing any and
all kinds of vehicles. Particular attention will be
paid to the
Doing' Up of Carriages* Retrimming*
Ac., Ac.
Satisfaction will be given both in materials, durability
and in prices. „ .
Miiledgeville, Ga., Jan 12,1873 . 2a ly
LIVINGSTON HOUSE,
NEWTON, GVA.
W, w. LIVINGSTON, Proprietor.
ty Comfort able Room.**, irood fare and low rates.
May 26,1873.
WAGON SHOP.
H Al 1NG moved from Gardner's old stand to the
corner Shop next to Brooks St Ellison’s Store,
°n Hancock -treel, I am prepared to fill any and all
ordeis in uiv line.
Wagons and Bnggies made at short
notice.
All kinds of Kcpniring nrnlly ncroled.
* use nothing but tlie best ot material and will war
raut work. An examination ot my work is invited.
I am also manufacturing the celebrated *4»erd
low K, r j amoa Sherlock, Agent.
"ring in your orders and 1 will till them at short no-
M. A. COLLINS.
Miiledgeville, Jau 28, 1873. 28 ly
JEWELL’S MILLS.
Postoflice, Mayfield, Ga.
M ANUFACTURE Sheetings, Shirtiug3*Osne.burge,
Yarns, Jean? and Kerseys. At our store and
warehouse we keep constantly on hand nnd for sale
Ragging and Ties, Gioceries, Dry Goods, Hate, Hard
ware, Tinware, Boots aud Shoes, Medicine, Crockery,
wlassware, aud all other articles needed for plantation
or family use. Please give ns a call. Wool, Cotton,
w «eat, Corn aud other produce wauted in exchange
or good* or caali.
Sept. 24, 1872. D A JEWEL g i y [jacent counties is very promising
If any portion of the people favor Atlanta na the
neat ot government, we might reasonably look for
them iu tlie counties north of Atlanta, but a prominent
and reliable gentleman living in that section writes ua
as foiiowa;
If the question of removal was submitted to the
voters of north Georgia I know two-thirds, at least,
would vo*e tor it to go back to Miiledgeville. I know
what I aay to be so, for I have talked with them upon
the subject If the vote is ever taken you will find
what I say to be so ”
Ceniparison brlweru the Cost of the 9tnle
Gsvrrnment at miiledgeville nnd Atlanta.
1867 AT MILLEDGEVILLE. 1 1869 AT ATLANTA.
For lights, - $50 • 0 For lights - $1,157 62
For fuel, - * 360 00 For fuel. - 1,5*86 40
For stationery, 282 51 For stationery, 5 382 49
Incidental expenses iIncidental expen’s
Executive Dep’t, 248 80: Ex. Dep’t., 11,454 00
Advertising in news* Adv’tisiiig in pa-
papers by Gov., 2,339 84) pens by Gov., 27,191 59
$3,281 15
$16,768 10
Reasons why the Capital should be
Restored to Miiledgeville.
1st Because Miiledgeville is in the center of the
^*(L Tlie faith, of the Slate was pledged that Mil-
ledgeville should be the permanent Seat ol Govern
ment. _ ...
3d. The Convention to lorm a new Constitution
was called by the Military tomeet at Atlanta instead
of the Capital of the State—the proper place.
4th. The people did not expect or desire that tlie
question of removal should enter into the new Consti
tution. It was sprung by the people of Atlanta after
the meeting of the convention, aud delegates in their
midst who didn’t have mouey to pay their beaid com
pelled to pass upou it.
5th A large proportion of the tax payers tailed to
participate in the election for delegates—lollowii g the
non-action policy of Mr. Hill. -
tith The Constitution was adopted ns a vhole under
Military duress—when the part jemoviug the Capital
would have been rejected could it have been voted
UP 7th *1416^expense of legislation iu Atlanta lias been
enormous-hugely exceeding the expenditures* Mil-
ledgeville. In fact legislation m Atlauta has well mgh
Tth 6 " The ^location and construction of the Opera j ^ ou |(j make llim One of
House ia unsuitable for a Capitol-located m the cen
ter ot the moat noiayof cities and so constructed that
members cannot hear what is going on. Being sur_
rounded, by .business^bouses Uiere isgtoat danger*
IUUUUCU OT UUOJUX.OO " i,
destruction by fire of the public records
tbia building ia thought to be insecure and liable to
fall and crush tlie assembled wisdom of the State.
>Jth. The buildings at Sliiledgeville were built tor
State purposes, and are suitable and ample.
JOth, It the Capital remains in Atlauta a new State
House will be necessary; aud legislation will alwaya
be controlled iu the interest of Atlanta by the wealth
and influence of powerful local rings.
lUli. The people have a right to say where their
Capital shall be located aud desire to vote upon it as
a separate question.
inventor. He anti Wm. M. Pegram (l
nephew of Commodore Pegram of the
Confederate “Nashville”) are Patent
ees of the Helix Brake Attachment suit
ed to arrest most suddenly, even on
descending grades, street cars, and lo
comotive trairs on railways. V\ ith a
Helix Brake, a railway train whose
“air-brake” might be out of order (of
ten the case) can be arrested in an
amazingly short space. Instances are
known where fatal accidents to life
and property have been prevented
already by the newly invented Helix.
We congratulate Mr. Browne, andean
only add that we wish no brakes, ‘He
lix’or‘Air,’ or any other kind, may I
be put in action on the forward move- |
merit ot his excellent “ Southern Mag
azine.”
Advices from Washington indicate
unusual activity among leading Radi
cal politicians in relation to the third
term project. If we are to credit the
“ knowing ones,” every act and meas
ure of the administration are to be
made subsidiary to this end. The first
attempt will he an effort to obtain con
trol ot all existing channels by which
information is disseminated, and the
telegraphic service will therefore he
first attacked. At the next session of
Congress a bill will be introduced for
placing all telegraph lines either di
rectly or indirecily under government
control. A new educational system is
also in contemplation, by which a
large army of administration agents
will be scattered throughout the coun
try, and it is even predicted that when
the time arrives the press itself will be
subjected to many restrictions. This
is the usual course pursued when per
sonal ambition aims at the overthrow
of popular sovereignty, and vve sup
pose our own experience will be in
accordance with historic precedent.
Butler for Governor of Massa
chusetts.—Grant Favors His Aspira
tions.—The Baltimore’ Sun’s Washing
ton correspondent writes as follows
under the Joovc ncoa u .
Mr. George P. Sanger, appointed
by the President as United .States At
torney for Massachusetts, is an old and
respectable counsellor ofBoston. For
twenty years he has edited the stand
ard edition of the laws of the United
States, published by Little, Brown &
Co. • It is understood that his ap
pointment is due to the influence of
General Butler and Senator Boutwell.
He had also been personally recom
mended by the Congressional delega
tion from Massachusetts, but after an
announcementfrom him that he favor
ed Butler for Governor, several of
them endeavored to persuade the Pres
ident not to make the appointment.
It is held from this circumstance that
the influence of the administration is
to be thrown in the interest of Gener
al Butler.
If Butler should succeed in getting
the regular nomination, it is believed
from the expressions of leading men
of the State oppossed to him that
there will be a bolt, and another Re
publican ticket put in the field. The
Boston Journal and the Boston Ad
vertiser, the leading Republican pa
pers of the city, will also, it is positive
ly stated, refuse to support him. Gen
eral Butler, with his accustomed con
fidence and assurance, snaps his fingers
and says that he is bound to win; that
he can lose 50,000 votes of the regu
lar party strength and still be elec
ted.
McMahon.—The Paris correspon
dent of the London News describes
President McMahon as a man of milita
ry appearance, his carriage erect, but
he walks stiffly in consequence of the
hip-wound he inet with at Sedan. His
blue eyes, which are set close togeth
er, express quickness of observation,
but neither keen penetratiou nor in
tellectual power. The physiognomy
is Irish, but without a gleam of Irish
mirth or humor, the countenance be
ing sorrowful.” The same writer adds
that “McMahon has not the faintest
perception of the ludicrous, and that
his imagination is easily led away by
the pomps and shows of life. His
mind* has a certaiu epic tendency
which, if allied to intellectual power,
the greatest
men of the century. But unfortunately
his will and intellect are both fee
ble.”
The corn crop in Liberty and ad-
The farmers of Illinois are going to
have a Fourth of July of their own
this year. They have decided to set
apart the day for n free discussion of
the evils which oppress them—read
ing, in the place of Mr. Jefferson’s doc
ument, a new Declaration of Indepen
dence which their Executive Commit
tee has just issued.
of the periods of time which have ac
tually elapsed- since tlie individual
who owned this bony frame walked
the earth and lived his rude and vio
lent life. These geological periods
cannot be named by assigning to them
any particular number of years They
may have been more remote than even
the geologists believe. It is not only
aguinst all our accustomed teachings,
hut seemingly opposed to nature’s law
of the destruction of such substances,
even when they remain buried at any
depth in land or water, to suppose
that any such things as hones could
he preserved for a million years. Yet
the evidences adduced by the geolo
gists go far fo substantiate the asser
tion some such staggering period of
time lias actually elapsed since the
skeletons of fossil men, which have
been found in different countries in
Europe and other parts of the world
once walked the earth in the flesh.
Whether this skeleton of Mentone
lived a million, half a million, or a mil
lion and a half years ago, does not
much matter, now, except for the
bearing this point may have on the
question of the antiquity of the hu
man race. In that view, the conun
drum assumes something more than a
curious aspect. The proofs of human
existence at a time as vastly remote as
the period of this Mentone skeleton
are said to have been lately found in
certain excavations in Turkey. These
early inhabitants of the world breath
ed tlie same vital air, were warmed by
the life-giving beams of the same sun,
and gazed, no doubt (perhaps with
less appreciative eyes) upon the same
panorama of earth and sky, green
shore and blue sea, that their far des
cendants enjoy to-day. In turning
their eyes to the sky at night, they
saw stars now invisible, and whose
glory has for ages been extinguished
for the children of earth. But these
primal men probably concerned them
selves little about stars or sun, in their
brute struggle for existence. They
were unclothed dwellers in caves, lit
tle more than brutes among brutes,
aim iuu 8 u., .... . ...
their implements of stone, the wild
beasts By whom they were surrounded
and on whose carcasses they depended
for subsistence. Concerning these
beasts, and those which immediately
preceded them in the geological or
der, there is a good deal ot recent
and very interesting information.
Professor O. C. Marsh, the indefati
gable palaeontologist of Yale College,
whose enthusiastic and persevering
geological explorations of the far west
in search of ancient animal remains
have yielded such a plentiful harvest
os to have fairly transferred the glory
and pre-eminence of achievement in
that branch of science from Europe
to America, has just departed from
New Haven on another scientific ex
pedition to the great plains and basins
on either side of the Rocky Mountains.
This is the fourth principal one of
these expeditions—the last one having
been made in the summer of 1871;
though there was a later attempt last
fall, which proved comparatively a
failure, owing to early and extreme
cold. Prof Marsh goes thoroughly
equipped, being accompanied by men
who are competent and specially fitted
to aid him in his one main object—
namely, success in making original
discoveries in the science of fossil re
mains. The expenses, which are
large, are borne by private contribut
ors. An interesting letter to the New
York Tribune gives to that paper,
with accompanying pictorial illustra
tions, a whole page of the results of
these expeditions.
The results thus obtained, it ap
pears, already far surpass all similar
discoveries in Europe for the last
quarter of a century. The Yale mu
seum has been enriched not only by a
great number of fossil vertebrates of
the creaceous and tertiary formations,
but by upwards of 5200 species new to
science. It will thus be seen that
America opens a richer field than Eu
rope for scientific researches of this
character.
Some curious and interesting expe
riences as well as specimens were ob
tained. The Professor’s parties have
been harrassed by the warlike Sioux,
annoyed by thousands of rattlesnakes,
nearly starved and reduced to eating
their own mules, and frozen in tem
peratures 15 degs. below zero, and
melted in worse than Red Sea heats of
110 to 120 degs. above. But they
have found skulls of elephants that
were armed, in life, with three pairs
of horns, to say nothing of enormous
downward-growing tushes; remains
ot peculiar monkeys that rejoice the
Professor as affordiog a testimony in
support of Darwin ; the skeletons of
pterodactyls, or great flying bats, that
could easily have seized and carried off
a sheep; the proofs of reptiles tha
were not reptiles, hut stood erect and
aud walked on two legs, and were (if
teen or twenty feet high—the sam
creature that made the supposed mam
moth “bird-tracks” at Portland, Con
necticut; the remains of alligators
snakes, and other things of that sort,
bigger than the largest specimens
now living; freshwater turtles of
huge size; horses, no bigger than fox
es, and having toes ; birds armed vvitl
teeth; ruminating hogs; and a great
variety of other specimens of queer
creatures which, were they alive to
day and in Barnum’s possession, would
double the size and quadruple the in
terest of the great showman’s collec
tion-
The most prolific region in these
discoveries is a great plain near Fort
Bridger, in Wyoming, which plain, al
though it is 7,000 feet above the ocean
ocean level, is found by Prof. Marsh to
be the basin of a vast ancient lake. His
party traced this antediluvian basin for
a distanceof 300 miles north and south,
and 200 miles east and west. It has
been filled up with deposits which
washed down, during the storms of
ages, from the Rocky mountains on the
east and the Wasatch range on the
west. Remnants of mountain walls
are abundant in the shape of isolated
“buttes,” the remains of soft sand
stone and light-colored clay elevations
which have been washed away, du
ring thousands of years, and carried
oft" in such rivers as the Colorado. In
these “ buttes” and in other parts of
the ancient basin the Professor finds a
host ol interesting fossils. It was a
tropical lake. “ The whole lake with
its teeming population,” says the Pro
fessor, “ must have been wonderfully
like some of the great lagoons of the
tropical regions of America at the
present day. Some of the hones
which slowly sank into its oozy bot
tom were washed down from the
neighboring hills, as was the deposit
which gradually filled it to the verti
cal depth of nearly a mile.”
Think of a great fresh-water lake,
like Lake Superior, filled up by such
deposits to a mile in depth! The
profound lake becomes a plain. It
shows the mighty magnitude of the
w T ork of rain, and other elements, when
this work is seen in its accomplished
effects of half a million or a million
years. And it is one, and only oue, of
the uncounted proofs that the entire
face of the globe has undergone
mighty changes, such as few people
have conceived of. Once, it is now
known, this whole valley of the Con
necticut, as well as this entire section
of country, was covered by drifting
ice, to a depth or height, of nearly a
mile above the present surface of this
valley. The so-called giant “ bird-
tracks” on the Portland sand-stones
belong to an age of the opposite char
acter—a time when this, too, was a re
gion of tropical heat, like that which
existed once in Europe and in all parts
of this country ; notably in the Rocky
Mountain region, where Professor
Marsh finds his fossil elephants, and
whence now come our coldest winter
storms.—Hartford Times.
Wealth Producing Agencies.
The Scientific American, in glancing
at the extraordinary development of
public wealth in all civilized countries
during modern times, is of opinion
that among the forces affecting the
productive power of the wrorld and the
gains therefrom, the great mechanical
inventions of the age stand first. “This
view of productive capacity, and its
results,” says our contemporary, “is
the best argument against that con
servative class of people who some
times raise their voices against useful
inventions under pretext that such im
provements often take the bread out
ol the mouth of the workmen, who are
unable to compete with hand labor
against machine labor. Experience
has proved that all such feurs are to
tally groundless, and in every case
have the machines which increased
production been a blessing in the end
giving more labor and higher wages to
those using them than they could ob
tain by their unimproved methods and
much smaller productive capacities
So since the art of printing has super
seded manual copying there are proba
bly a thousand printers for every man
uscript writer of the olden times;
when at a recent period the sewing
machine superseded a great many of
the most tedious duties of the seam
stress, the prophecy that its use would
impoverish a large class of women who
made their living by sewing was not
fulfilled. On the contrary, the sewing
machine has been a benefit all round;
and so it must be with every invention
which enlarges the total amount of the
valuable products of labor, and there
fore contributes its share to the in
crease of the world’s wealth.
The theory of our contemporary
that scientific inventions are among
the greatest contributors to the pro
duction of wealth is well founded, and
it might have added that the gigantic
growth of these inventions, has, in
turn, been lurgelv due to the collossal
development of wealth, of which there
are abundant evidences on all sides.
The rapid reparation of the immense
wastes and losses during our civil war,
and the case with which the French
have paid their enormous war indemni
ty to Germany, are conspicuous evi
dences of the growth of public wealth.
England has gained more in opulence
during the last two decades than in any
previous half century in her history.
The growth of German wealth in re
cent years is without parallel in the
previous history of the country; Russia
is devoloping her resources in a way
never known there before; Italy is
seized with the modern idea, while
Belgium, Holland and the other coun
tries are accumulating riches in con
stantly increasing volume. The United
States have actual realized wealth not
less than that of either England or
France; to sav nothing of natural re
sources in reserve; and even such dis
astrous calamities as those of Chicago
and Boston do not seem to have any
permanent hurtful effect. Looking,
then, at these leading countries of the
globe, we have before us a spectacle
of such wealth as could hardly be
A Fairy Spot.
Far south, in the Indian Ocean, in
the midst of almost eternal surf and
spray, rises what is appropriately
termed Danger Island. Of all the
lonely spots on the globe whose exis
tence has been ascertained this is prob
ably the most lonely. Once only since
the creation has it been known to he
visited by man. The sea for many
hundred miles rolls and flashes over a
shallow bottom, till, arriving at a cer
tain degree of latitude, the floor of rock
abruptly terminates, and the ocean be
comes in a moment of unfathomable
depth. On the very edge of this
abyss stands Danger Island, which the
least touch of an earthquake, or an un
usual stroke of hurricane, may some
day topple over into the bottomless
gulf. From this persuasion, possibly,
man has never attempted to erect his
dwellings upon it; there it stands, in
the midst of the surge, over canopied by
the bluest of blue skies, surrounded by
a boundless expanse of waves, gener
ally shining and beautiful, hut as lit
tle specked by sails as if they girdled
an uninhabited planet. Yet, though
no gale is astir, the billows incessant
ly fret and foam against the cliffs of
Danger Island, which on all sides de
scend sheer into the deep, so as to ap
pear from a distance perfectly inacces
sible.
A surveying ship, traversing the
ocean in all directions for scientific
purposes, once approached this wild
rock. The weather was calm and
lovely; the waves, usually so restless,
being afforded by the wind no pretext
for climbing and roaring about the
cliffs, lay still and smooth, as i r to en
trap the unwary mariner. Taking ad
vantage of the occasion, a few daring
youug officers ordered a boat to be
lowered, and pushing off with many a
sturdy rower from the ship’s side, soon
drew near the perpendicular precipices
of Danger Island, Nature has per
haps nowhere in all her domains pro
duced so strange and fairy a spot. As
the men rested on their oars, and look
ed up, they beheld trees of dense and
beautiful foliage throwing out their
arms over the cliffs on all sides, while
birds of the most variegated and bril
liant plumage seemed to hang like
clustering flowers on the houghs.
Having never been disturbed by man,
they were ignorant that this approach
boded them mischief, so that if they
now and then quitted their perches,
and spread out their dazzling wings,
it was only in frdlic and sport. After
rowing to a considerable distance
along the foot of the precipices, the
gentlemen discovered a small Assure,
through which they felt confident they
could climb to the summit; and the
boat being pushed quite close to the
rocks, two or three of the most daring
landed, and after no slight toil and
peril, reached the top. The prospect
which then presented itself was truly
extraordinary. Rendered green as an
emerald by the agency of hidden
springs, the whole surface of the islet
was thickly strewn with eggs of innu
merable oceanic birds, which, rising
from the task of incubation, formed a
dreamed of in earlier ages of the canopy of fluttering wings overhead.
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The correspondent of a Western
paper says: St. Patrick’s Cathedral
on Fifth avenue and Fifty-first and
Fifty-second streets, and extending
back to Madison avenue, will be the
finest church structure not alone in
New York, but in the western world.
Begun in 185S by Archbishop Hughes,
all work on it was suspended from the
outbreak of the war to the beginning of
1S64; then it was resumed, and the
grand building, occupying an entire
city block, is now about half finished.
Enormous granite blocks constitute its
foundations. On these rises the grace
ful yet grand superstructure of the
cathedral, which is constructed all of
fine marble. With its rich decora
tions, its rose windows, its lines of
foliated tracery, its clustering Gothic
pinnacles, its wealthy ornament, and.
most of all, its lofty twin spires, pierc- notlon that our railway movement has
ing the sky at a height above every- 1 exce ssive, and it is now confident-
thing else in New York, it closely re- jy maintained that the railway is an
sembles the world famous cathedral at inherent and essential agent of our
Cologne. ; American civilization, and that as we
It will be the largest, the costliest, I h aV e thus far led the world in this
and the most beautiful church in the ' system, so we are destined to carry the
railroad to an extent hitherto altogeth-
world’s history.
The influence of the leading produc
tive forces, moreover, is destined to be
in the past. Now mechanical inven
tions and new application of mechani
cal principles were never before multi
plying with so much rapidity, and it
is not improbable that those we shall
have hereafter may eclipse those we
now have. There is one great wealth
producing element of which our con
temporary makes no mention. We al
lude to the railroad system. Hitherto
there has been a vague distrust of the
movement, on account of the preva
lence of a belief that the business was
being overdone, and that more rail
ways were being built than could be
made profitable. This, however, has
been disproved by a comparison of our
railway returns with those of England,
the result being that our lines show a
larger average net profit than the Eng
lish lines. This has put to rest the
United States—its total cost exceeding
$2,000,000. Everything in its con
struction is paid for before it is used.
The towers at the corners will be three
hundred and twenty-eight feet high.
The church itself, built in pure white
marble, the most beautiful of all ma
terial for such a structure, will present
a i most graceful and harmonious map
ping of outlines, aud a world of col
umns, capitals, and ornamented trace
ry. Across the front gable, over the
entrance, there will extend a row of
niches with statues of saints and mar
tyrs seven and a half feet high. Above
this will he a large rose or circular
window, twenty-six feet in diameter—
“a splendid blossom of Gothic tracery,
with one hundred shafts of marble ra
diating from the centre and holding tri
angular pieces of painted glass.” Io-
wardsthe construction of this grandest
and most beautiful of American church
edifices all the Catholic churches in
New York contribute. It will proba
bly be finished four years hence, or in
seventeen years of actual working
time, allowing for the suspension dur
ing the greater part of the war. Simi
lar churches in Europe were hundreds
of years in building.
A telegram from New Orleans says
that it is not Gen. Beauregard who
signed the recent address in New Or
leans to the people of Louisiana for a
re-union of all elements favorable to
the welfare of the State and the rights'
of the colored people, but a Republi
can politician of the same name, who
is oo relatioo to the former.
er unknown, so that it shall supersede
most of the common roads, stimulate
agriculture, mining, manufactures and
travel, and develop new phases of ad
vancement and social culture.
In the future, there will doubtless
he vast progress in the utilization of
the sciences, and in their adaptability
to the various necessities, and the
growth of wealth promises to be far
beyond anything ever yet known in
the world’s history —N. Y. Shipping
List.
The eggs were of all colors—white,
light, chocolate, and cerulean blue,
dotted with brown or crimson or tur-
bills protruded from the shells; and
the mothers, though scared away for
a moment by the unusual apparition
of men, soon alighted near the young,
being, in Bpite of the name of their
home, thoroughly unacquainted with
danger. It might almost be said that
the whole surface of the isle formed but
one nest, divided into several compart
ments, where the naturalist, if he
could live on eggs, might study the
appearance, habits, and character of
half the winged dwellers on the deep.
“VVb Can’t Lie Out ok It.—The
Milwaukee (Wisconsin) News of June
15th says:
“It won’t do,” was the cheerful de
claration of a loud talking, active Re
publican at Elkhorn, to the venerable
Senator Samuel Pratt, who had come
up there the other day to attend the
old settlers’ festival/ “It won’t do, I
tell you, Uncle Sam,” said the speaker,
“to try to lie out of Grant s being
drunk at Geneva. We all saw him
drunk. Half the country saw him
drunk. If it had been a small crowd
of only 260 or 300 people, we could
have brassed it out aud lied it down,
Uncle Sam. But there were thousands
there who saw him, drunk—so drunk
that he couldn’t walk straight—so
drunk that he had to be helped into
the cars. There were too many of
’em saw it, Uncle Sam; we can’t lie
out of it.” Such talk in a crowd is
not calculated to help the President
along iu the good opinion of the Wal
worth county people who heard it.
A Card.
The Atlanta Constitution of the 24th
ult., contains the following card :
The readers of The Constitution will
he informed elsewhere in its issue of
to-day of an arrangement by which
the Atlanta Daily and Weekly Sun
has become merged in, and consolida
ted with, The Constitution and by which
the undersigned has become connect
ed with this old and leading Demo
cratic journal in the South, as corres
ponding editor. His connection, how
ever, will relate only to the political
department of this paper, and only to
the extent of presenting his views, on
all political questions to the public us
often as be thinks proper over his own
initials, as he has heretofore done in
the Sun. This arrangement is very
agreeable to the undersigned, and we
trust that it will be agreeable also to
the readers of The Constitution, and
that it will, by the joint efforts thus
extended, strengthen and advance those
great essentia! principles of the Dem
ocracy for the maintanence of which
The Constitution was established; and
for which it b*ecame so distinguished
in the darkest hours of the party,
through which our noble old State
passed in the showers of reconstruc-
"ion.
In the discussion of questions our
object will be the harmony and unity
of the Democracy of the Uuited States,
on whose principles alone depend the
preservation and continuation of con
stitutional liberty on this continent.
Alexander H. Stephens.
Labor troubles are on the increase
in England. Miners,agricultural hands,
building operatives and other mechan
ics demand more wages, and are pre
pared to enforce that demand by
strikes. The result of this state of af
fairs is exhibited in the decline of la
bor and production in many of the
districts of England.
Crops in Stewart county are look*
ing unusually well.