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MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1870. ’’pofitiN & ROBERTS, Lessee Editors & Proprietor*. - g|. OXtBKB Editor * tral , $ 2,i)l) per aanam, la Advance. , SG _Persqaare of tenlines, each iB . 00. Merchants and others forall l a *tantsover $ 25, twenty-five per cent. off. LEGAL AI>V*RXISItMi „ ■ -Citationsf or letters of ad miration ,g l i arilian8 ^ i P ,&,c 00 u^/tead notice 2 00 H ° cHtiontorletters of dism’n from adm'n 5 00 . P? ; cation for letters of dUmn of guard’n 3 50 i\ition for leave to sell Land — 5 00 * P {L t o Debtors and Creditors 3 00 ? 0 f Land, per squart of tea lines.... 5 00 of personal, per sq., ten days... 1 50 5 * jj-jlfiach levy of ten lines, or less.. 2 50 ifJsge sales of ten lines or less...... 5 00 t . Collector's sales, per sq. (2 months) 5 00 , ,' j-Foreclosure of mortgage and Oth- , r monthly’s, per square 1 00 ; trty notices, thirty days 3 00 ^Trbntes of Respect, Kesolutions by Societies, nv-iia'ies.&c*.exceeding six lines,to be charged ,, transient advertising. 'ry ialesof Land, by Administrators, Execu- t.rfjr Guardians, are required by law.to be held In thn first Tuesday in the month, between the ? arJ often in the forenoon and three in the af- q 'oc atths Court-house iu the county in which ‘h. property is situated. Sotic* of these sales must be given in a public gazette 40 days previous to the day of sale. Voticefor the sale of personal property mustbe given inlike manner 10 days previous to sale day. * Notices to debtors and creditors of an estate B ast also bo published 40 days. Notice that application will be made to the Ciirtsf Ordinary for leave to sell land, must be -abiished for two months. Citutuns for letters of Administration, Guar- dianahip. Ac.,must be published^ffdays—for dis- inion from Administration, monthly six months, B ,t jismissiontrom guardianship, 40 days. Sa!«« for foreclosure of Mortgages must be nablished monthly for four months—for establish ing Ion papers, for the full spaceof three months— {.‘compelling titles from Executors or Adminis- tors,where bond has been given by the de- (ued.ths full space of three months. Charge, |l 00 per square of ten lines for each insertion. Publications will always be continued accord u? o those, the legal requirements; unless* oth erwise ordered. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. »Q CHANQE or CAES BB twbbk savaottah, au OUSTA AND UONTOOK BET, ALABAMA- TRANSPORTATION OFFICE, CET. R. R. ) Savannah, August 14,1868. J 0 N AND AFTER SUNDAY, 16th lust., Pas X senger Trams on the Georgia Central R. R will run as follows : UP DAY TRAIN. leave Savannah 8:00 A M Maeon ARRIVE. Attgrusta ...... x> u Milledgeville Eatonton . 8:58 P M 11 00 P M Connecting with trains that leaves Augusta DOWN DAY TRAIN. Macon 7-fto Savannah Aucrusta __ .. __ r.qo i> Connecting with train that leaves Augusta CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT’S OFFICE, ATLANTIC * GULF.R. R. COMPANY, Savannah, January 7,1870. O N AND AFTER SUNDAY, the 9th instant, Puienger Trains on this Road will run as ° ° WS NIGHT EPXPRESS TRAIN. Leav« Savannah every day at...... -4.30 P li Arrive at Jesup junction. M & B J KR at — — 7.t5U r m Arrive at Live Oak every day 2.20 A M Arrive at Jacksonville every day 7.02 A M Arrive at Tallahassee every day 7.0/ A M Arrive at Quincy every day 9.15 A M Arrive at Bainbridge Mondays ex- cepted...... ...... -6.15 A. M Leave Bainbridge. Sundays excepted.9.30 P M Leave Quincy every day 6.2o P M LeaT* Tallahassee every day... 8.25 r M Leave Jacksonville every day 8.31IP M Leave Live Oak every day --.-1.28 A M Leave Jesup every day.--- ‘"'fn? u Arrive at Savannah everyday 10.50 A M MACON A, BRUNSWICK ACCOMMODATION TRAIN. Leave Savannah, Sundays except- ed.at -T 210 PM Arrive at Jesups Sundays except- • ed at ... «*00 I* M Arrive at Brunswick daily at-..- .... -8.20 P M Leave Macon daily at —8-30 A M Leave Jesnp daily at...... 6.00 P M Arrive at Savannah daily at 9.30 P M On 8unday this Train will leave Savannah at 7.15 A. M., connecting with Trains for Macon & Brunswick, and connecting with trains from Ma con and Brunswick will arrive at Savannah at 9.30 PM, DAY TRAIN. Leave Savannah, Sundays except- ed at V 5 A M Arrive at Jesups, Sundays except- 10 4o A M Arrive at Live Oak, Sundays ex- cepted at .......— ”90 £ JJ Arrive at Macon duly at.... 7.50 P M Leave Live Oak, Sundays except ed at...... ...... 6.00 AM Leave Jesups, Sundays except- ed it - 2rl6rM Arrive at Savaunah .Sundays ex- cepted at 5.35 P M CP" Paeeengers for Macon take 7.15 A M train from Savannah, leaving daily. . Passengers for Brunswick take 2.10 P M. tram frem Savannah. ' • ' Paesengerg leaving M&cou at 8.30 A M connect at Jesup with express train for Florida and W est cm Division, and with train for Savannah, arriv ing at 9.30 P M. Passenger* from Brunswick connect at Jesup,with train for Savannah, arriving at ».3o P M except on Sundays, when it arrives at 9 30 P. M at Jesup with Express Train for Savannah, arriving at 16 50 A M. Connect at Macon with Train for Atlanta, leav - at 9.00 P M. *0UTH GEORGIA &, FLORIDA B. R. TRAIM. Leave Thomisville Tuesdays, Thursdays and Wdays at A M Arrive at Pelham, Tuesdays Thursdays and Sai- nrdavsat 9-55 A M Leave Pelham, Tuesdays, Thursdays andBatur dsyaat .. 345 PM frrrir. at Thom'as’ville', Tuesdays, Thursdays anti fcitardryg ,.*,**r “ 7 H. 8. HAINES, General Superintendent UP NIGHT TRAIN Savannah 7:20 P M Macon 6:55 A M A «Rusta 8:13 A M Connecting with trains that leaves Augusta 9:33 p M DOWN NIGHT TRAIN. Macon 6:25 P M Savannah 5:10 A II Augusta 9 ; i3 ± Milledgeville...... 4:30 P M Eatonton 2:40 P M Connecting with train that leaves Augusta 9;53 p M A M Trains from Savannah and Augusta, a P M Train from Macon connect with Miliedg ville Train at Gordon daily, Sundays excepted. P M.. Train from Savannah connects with thro mail train on South Caroline Rtilroad, an( j p. u train from Savannah and Augusta with trains on South-Western and Muscogee Railroads. WM. ROGERS, Act’g Master of Transportation. February 1, 1870 5 tf Lk i. GUILMAKTIN. JOHN FLANNERY. L. Jr GUILMARTIN & CO. Cotton Factors, AND ilercliants, ah, Georgia- FOR PHOSPHATE OF 533 o >avz General uommissio Bay Street ag: BRADIEY’S SU and' Jewell’s Mills Yai BAGGING, ROPE Usual Facility August 30,187( nd IR HAN s Extended omestics, &c.. &c. TIES, ALWAYS _ Customers. 35 6m. NOTICE. Atlantic & di^F Railroad Co., Savannxhj December 15,1869. O N AND AFTER THIS DATE, BY AGREE MENT, the rate of Freight between Savan- nan and Macon, by the-Atiantic and Gulf and Ma con and Brunswick Railroads, will be as follows First class per pound.... $2 30 Second class per 100 pounds.... 1 40 Third class per 100 pounds 1 00 Fourth class ner l (JO pounds ........... 80 Fifth class per 100 pounds.; 70 Sixth class per 100 pounds.... 50 Seventh class per 100 pounds.... .... .... 45 Eighth class per 100 pounds.............. 35 Ninth class per 100 pounds...... 30 _ Cotton per 100 pounds 50 Salt per sack 30 Guano per 100 pounds... 15 Freight received for all Stations on Macon and Western Railroad, Atlanta and points beyond. H. S. HAINES, General Superintendent. February 1, 1879 5 tf Schedule of the Georgia Railroad. SUPERINTENDENT’S OFFICE, ) Georgia Railroad Company, > Augusta, Ga., December 23, ’69. j O N AND AFTER SUNDAY, 26th inst.. the Passenger Trains on the Georgia Railroad willrun as follows: DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Augusta at.............. .7.00 A M. “ Atlanta at 5.00 AM. Arrive at August at — ... ..3.45 PM. “ at Atlanta ...........5.30 PM. NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Augusta at...... 10.00 P M. “ Atlanta at... ......5,45PM. Arrive at Augusta..... 3.45 A M. * Atlanta 8.00 A.M. S. K. JOHN80N, Superintendent. January, 18 1870 3 tf Jantnary 1 1870 CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. 8*oth-Westxrn Railroad Company, •{ Office, Macon, Ga., Jan. 15th, 1870. > Eufaula day Passenger and Mail Train.. L#ave Macon Arrive f' “ Leave 7 -29 A - JJ* ^ight Freight 4 Accommodation Traiiu Leave Macon 8-25 P M Arrive at Eufaula .........12190 A M Leave Eufanla 7:18 P M Arrive at Macon 9:10 A M Coljtmbns Mail Train* W, M#con 7:25 A M Arrive at Colnmbus.1-22 A M Leave CcJambu* 12:25 P M Arrive at Wcon i* 6;05 P M Columbus Night Freight SfAc'om'n Trw.n Leave Mecon ; 7:40 P M Arrive at Columbus 5:05 A M Leave Columbus 7:00 P M Arrive at Macon 4:43 A II, P Albany Train” connects at Smithville with anA r U * Trains and Arrive at Albany at 3:11 P M ^Leaves Albany at 9:35 A M—Regular Mail Accommodation Train connncta three times a _ Pert Gaines Train,” connects at Cuthbert- Lear* p art o ainea ^ 7:05 A M and Arrive at r#r t Gaines 3:40 P M. J“mmodatioa Train connects twice a week, * 1 ueidays aad Thursdays. Pek- W. 8 BBANTLY, A,ud febrnary 1,1170 5 tt , Schedule Macon & nswicK R. R Januart, 7th, 1870 R egular thro* passenger trains will commence running on this Road on Sunday, the 9th inst., as follows : Leave Macon at — — ............9.15 A M. Arrive at Brunswick at 10.20 P M. Arrive at Savannah at—... •••• .10.00 P M. Leave Brunswick 4.30 A. M. Arrive at Macon.... 6.15 A. M. trains to hawkinsville. Leave Macon * 3.00 P M. Arrive at Hawkinsville 6.30 A M. Leave Hawkinsville 7.00 A M. Arrive at Macon 10.25 A M. This train runs daily Sundays excepted. RETURNING: Leave Brunswick at 8.00 A M. Leave Savannah at.......... - ....7.15 A M. Arrive at Macon at...... - * - -7-50 P M. Trains make direct connections at Jesap, both ways, with trains for Bainbridge, Thotnas- the crossing of the Atlantic and Gulf Road, ville, and all points on that Road, as welljas with those for Jacksonville, Tallahassee, and all sta tions on the Florida Roads. Fare to Savannah and Brunswick 9 8 00 Fare to Jacksonville J2 00 Fare to Tallahassee 17 OO Fare to Bainbridge w Fare to New York, Philadelphia or Baltimore, by steamers **** 27 00 Under recent arrangements made with the At lantic <&. Gulf Road, freights to and from Savan nah and New York have increased dispatch. The Southern Express Company will operate on this line to Brunswick, points in Southern Geor gia and in Florida, commencing on Monday, the 10th instant. B0 BERT SCHMIDT. Master transportation. January 18,1670 ® ** T. W. WHITE, jlttatiie£-CLt-*£aw. ) MILLEDGEVILLE, GA Will practice in this and the adioining counties. ST Applications for Homestead Exemptions under the new law, and other busiuess before the Court of Ordinary, will receive proper attention. October 13.1868 41 tf W ANTED—A Northern man—friendly to the South, and a believer in the old Jefferso nian idea of government—a College graduate, de sires a situation as Teacher in State. Satisfactory references furnished if destrea. Address, stating terms, ‘iLLAShtUO, Publishers’ Box No. 7, Daytob, Ohio, or.Becaorder Office. ., 19.1*9 a v SPECIALITIES. JULES JURGENSEN, JULES EMERY, ED WARD PE^RREGAUX, and the Largest Stock jof DIAMONDS in the J State of Gl 'l'gia. G-EOJ SHARP, Jr., LIVE JIWELEi, DEALER IN Diamonds, Pearls, Rubies, Emerals, Fine Watch es. all Gold Jewelry, Sterling Silver Ware, Fancy Goods, Gold, Sil ver and Steel Spectacles, And every other article usually kept in a first- class Jewelry Store. Watches and Jewelry Carefullf Repaired and Warranted. WHITEHALL ST., ATLANTA, GA. Sept. 13\1870, 37 MAR Agrl Next Broad Stree W. JOHNSON’S ltural Store- radfield’s Drug Store. - y^llanta, Ga. A Revenge. Grace Clifford dropped a rose from her dress, and Arteveld picked it up. “May I keep this She smiled assent. “Are you going to dance to-night ?” “With you,” she answered, smiling. “It is a wallz they are playing,” with a quick gla.ice into her beautiful eyes. “Well, let us waltz.” A flush rose to Arteveld’s cheek, an-1 he trembled as he took her lightly upon his arm. Was she his, then ?— It was only the previous day that he had heard her say : “I will never wallz but with the man I am to marry.” They circled to the smooth measure as if they were swimming upon a sea of sound, and Arteveld knew nothing, saw nothing, but the beautiful face against his breast. The strains died away. He drew her into the conservatory. A great oleander blossomed pink above their heads as he whispered : “Grace, that waltz—what does it mean!” “That I love to waltz,” she answer ed, shaking her shimmering fan in his earnest face. “Pray don’t keep me hear, there is a draft, and ” “Grace, one moment.” Please don’t talk to me lo-night. I am not in the mood lor it. 1 want lo hear Madame Bonpland sing, and to speak to my cousin Maude, and then F IVE Barrels Onl Wheat and Sets, Barley, Oats, Rye, Seeds, lied White, and Crimson Clover, and lftcerne Norway Oats, Tur nip Seeds, Flower SeEd, 100 Tons Guano for Wheat. The best GramL Drill, Keller’s Patent, Dixie Cotton Press, GriAold Gin Ingham or Cal ifornia Smutter. Agricuaural Implements, En gines, &c. Send for pricAlist. Agent for Har den &, Cole’s Nurseries, (Ahoon’s Seed Sowers and Horseford’s Bread Prej»atiou. Oct. 41870 \ 40 3m Planters’ WJ^house, KTo. 2 Warrer^Bloc*** AUGUSTA, <»A. T ully tender Friends son in the SINE8S, BL1C for HE UNDERSIGNED respei tlieir thanks to the many Planters who supported them during the past WAREHOUSE and COMMISSION and again offer our services to the patronage at 1^ per cent. Commissions^)! - selling cotton—the same price charged last seakou—and hope by strict personal attention to business and instructions to merit a liberal support. “CASH advances made on Cotton in store, and orders, for BAGGING. TIES. &c.. and FAMILY SUP PLIES carefully filled and selected by one of our firm in person. W. H. HOWARD & SON. Sspt. 20 1870, 36 3m. M. P. STOVALL, Ootton "Wareh.om.se AND General Commission Merchant. Jackson St., Avgusta, Ga. C ONTINUES to give bis personal attention to the STORAGE and SALE of COTTON and OTHER PRODUCE. Orders for PLANTATION and FAMILY SUP PLIES carefully filled. LIBERAL CASH ADVANCES MADE on Consignments when desired. Milledgeville, Oct. 4. 1870 40 3m. WILBERF0RCE DANIEL, COTTON FACTOR, AGENT. Ootton’Food. G-\xa.Ti0 7 Ho. 3 WARREN CLOCK, Opposite Globe Hotel- Augusta, Ga. All business entrusted to him ? ill have strict lersonal attention. Orders for Bagging, Ties or [tope and Family Supplies promptly filled. COMMISSION li PER CENT. REFERENCES. Judge John P, King, Pres’t Ga. Railroad, Wm. E. Jackson, Pres’t National Bank of Augusta and Aagusta Factory; J. T. Gardiner. Esq.. Pres't Dickson Fertilizer Company: H. F. Russell, Esq., ex-Mayor City of Augusta ; Antoine Poul lain. Esq., Director Ga. R. R.. Augusta ; Col. L. M. Hill, Director Ga. R. R., Wilkes County. Sept. 20 1870. 38 3m. 1870. 1870. WILLIAM & J. CARAKER, DEALERS IN FUBIIfUBi SUCH as painted, grained, and Walnut BED-ROOM SETS. Will till bills of Pine and Oak Lum ber. All kinds of ROCKING CHAIRS, SITTING CHAIRS, COUNTER STOOLS and DESK STOOLS. SIDE BOARDS and WARD ROBES of any description and best quality—fine WAL NUT BOOK CASES—WALNUT or OAK exten sion table—any kind of MARBLE TOP or table without marble. BED STEADS of all size and kinds always on hand Children’s CRIBS and BEDS, Walnut and Gam—also, small rockers for Children and Misses—also on hand a lot of finest TIN SAFES. We are prepared to furnish at all tiroes, sash, blinds, doors of all size and window slides and fixtures. B»81AL OASES. We are prepared to furnish at all times, any style of burial cases both METALIC and WOOD- Always on hand the best style of wagons, from one to six horse, and are prepared to renovate old Baggies and Wagons at short notice. Also, a fine ot of Children’s Carriages which we will sell cheap or CASH. All kinds of Boggy and Wagon material kept leonstantly on hand; such as spokes, rims, hubs, ■haft and Buggy tonges ; and can furnish Buggy and Wagon Harness at all times. We will repair all kinds of old furniture and rebottom cane seat hairs neatly and with dispatch. MUlodgoyilloJaly 19th, 1870. 29 ly “And then.” “1 shall go home. This is the fourth pariv I have been lo this week, and I piomised guardy I would not slay late. There is the piano, and Madame go ing to sing. Pray come !” He gave her his arm silenced and disappointed. They found their way through the crowd to the singers,where Grace listened and he —did nut. “Who is that tragical-looking fellow with cousin Grace?” whispered Maud Gifford, to her escort, Professor Stein. “I do not know.” “What a dark face he has !” “A dangerous face,” murmured the Professor. “I fancy Miss Grace is playing with edged tools.” Arteveld got word with Grace again when she went to her carriage. “l’ray let me speak with you to morrow.” “Yes, come.” She drew up the carriage window. The wheel ground sharpley against the curbstone in turning. Arteveld watched the vehicle out of sight. He went to the Magnolias the next day—the splendid Gifford place on the outskirts of the citv. Had he been more world wise, he might have known that the heiress of the Magnolias would never marry the penniless North ern artist who had come South to paint the scenes of her nativity. But he was young, filled with ambition, and in love. He did not feel poor. The servant showed him into a little pink-and-goid room. He remembered afterward how an oriole in the win dow piped in its cage. Grace came in quietly. She might have been a Greek statue, for any warmth of manner she showed. A chill came over Arteveld’® ardor as he look ed at her. She wore a robe of while cashmere, buttoned from throat to feel with sprays of pink cord. A litile golden comb held the waves of dark hair from her cool face. “Did you wish to see me or my guardian, Mr. Aiteveld ?” she asked “You, Grace. You promised me last night ” She raised her delicate brows. “What ?” “An interview. Indeed, Grace, you must know whai I have to say !” “Mr. Arteveld, I cannot imagine !” “That I love you, then. You can not have been so blind as not to know it. Grace, do not-coquet with me ! Belle of three seasons that she was, she paled under the earnestness of his eye-. “I am very sorry,” she began, faint ly shaking her beautiful head. “I have so many gentlemen friends, I did not imagine that you thought ” “That I was the favored one ? — Grace you gave me a red rose last niglu.” “T forget.” “You waltzed with me.” “Do not let us quarrel,” she falter ed. For a moment he looked at her with eyes she could not meet. A pallor came over her shallow beauty. She stirred uneasily ; but be caught her by the slender wrist and held her as if in a vice. “Girl !” he said, “I wish you had broken my heart, but you have only blackened it ! I never shall love an other woman ! I have learned this lesson too well. But you shall pay for the ruin you have wrought—mark my words! In your heart’s coin you shall pay for it!” A fear fell upon her. She shrank from him. A thousand avenues of re venge occured to her, and a blindness of terror swept over her. .But when she raised her head he was gone. Mrs. Stein returned from Paris. As the carriage rolled from the pier, she begged her husband to let down the windows, that she might see the old, familiar streets of her native city—it was Professor Stein who had married Grace Gifford ! Though she had been a wife twenty years, her face was beautiful yet.— Mother-love had softened and strength ened its harmonious proportions. “I am so impatient to see Lily !” she said. “To think it is a year since I saw my darlings blue eyes !” Her husband smiled. Just then the carriage was stopped by a crush of vehicles ahead. “Grace who is that dark man look ing at you from the crowd ?” asked the Professor suddenly. She turned and met the baneful eyes upon her, “It is Arteveld, the artist. Do you not remember him ?” she answered.— He used to come to guardian’s house when I was a girl—indeed, fell in love with me, and was quite violent when 1 refused him. J was afraid of him for years ; but it was very silly. How could he hurt me ?” complacently. The carriage moved on. It stopped before the palatial city mansion at last. The servant who ad mitted the smiling woman stood dumb with astonishment. “Where is Lily ? Where is my daughter?” cried Mrs. Stein. She ran up the broad stair. A slen der, black coffin stood in the elegant upper room. She stopped, blanched, gasping “God help you Mrs. Stein ; but it’s dear Lily !” sobbed the faithful housekeeper. “Will you hear the whole story ?” The mother sank down in a despair which the good woman mistook for res ignation. “She was never strong you know, frail and tender as a flower; and when you were gone I fancied she pined. I knew nothing was so precious as her health, and I set myself lo work to cheer her. “ ‘Come, Miss Lily,’ said I,‘we will go to the great artists and have a pic lure of you, just at sixteen, painted for your mamma as a surprise against she gets back.’ “The fancy pleased her, and day by day we went to Mr. Arteveld’s studio. He was a handsome, pleasannt gentle man, who said he used to know you quite well ; and, on that account, he came often to the house to read and chat with Miss Lily. “Perhaps I was to blame, Madame ; but I thought no harm—he was so much older than the child. His company seemed to brighten her, and so I was glad he came. “He brought her songs and flowers, and, meanwhile the picture went on, lovely as her dear self. At last when 1 saw she dressed to please Mr. Arle- veld, and seemed happy only in his smiles, my heart began to warn me. “I cautioned Lily, but she seemed to take no heed. I was cool lo Mr. Ar teveld, but lie did not notice. At last I made up my mind to speak with him —to tell him that Miss Lily was left in my care, and I was not sure you would sanction so intimate a friend tor her, thus pntting the matter to his honor. “Lily had told me he was to come that night; but he came very early, and the servant admitted him to the parlor, where Lily was before I knew. The first I suspected his having ar rived was, that 1 heard his voice. “I came quick through the music room, and there I stopped ; for Mr. Arteveld was talking fierce and loud, and Lily was sobbing. I opened the door, and he rushed from the room.— Lily got tip, took two steps toward me and fell fainting to the floor. “When she came too, she was full of wild crying, and told me what he had said. It seems he won herlocon- tess her innocent heart, and then told her he hated her for her mother’s sake. Perhaps you know what that means more than I do, Madame. But the child had got her death blow. She wept away her strength, and the fever burned out her life. She was so Irai! she could not bear much, you see.” The miserable mother staggered to the coffin, and bent her agonized gaze upon the ineek young face, set round with myrtle and rosebuds. “This, then.” she sobbed, “is Arta- veld : s revenue From the Chicago Evening Post. TREATISE ON TREATING. THE UNTAMED AMERICAN’S SOCIAL HABITS. No American custom causes more genuine surprise and amusement a- mong traveling foreigners d ,an which is known in our saloons as treat ing, consisting in the entertainment of two or more with refreshments for which one volunteers to pay. It is a pure Americanism ; and all over the republic it is as common as in Europe it is unknown. There is probably no minute ot any day in the year when two or three hundred citizens of Chica go are not guzzling something stronger the contents usually taken into the stomach. If two old friends meet, tbe regular thing to say first is, “Let drink to old times,” and the resident must invariable “treat” the stranger. If a man be well acquainted, it is con sidered the generous and princely thing to seize upon all his acquaintan ces as often as possible, lake them to a saloon, and give them a complicated stand up driuk at the bar. If there is anything absurder than this habit, we are unable to put our finger on it. Men do not always “treat” one another to car-tickets be cause they happen to meet on the same seat. We never saw a man lake out his pocket-book on encountering an acquaintance and say “Ah, George ! Delighted lo see you ! Do take a lew postage stamps ! Pis my treat. ” Do men have a mania for paying each oth er’s board-bills ! And is drinking to gether more “social” than eating to gether, or sleeping together ? A trav eler may go all over the continents of Europe, of A-ia and Africa without seeing a man, except a Yankee,offer to “treat,” and the Frenchmen ara quite social enough, but, when they turn in to a cafe to sip their wine and bran died coffee together,each man pays for nis own. When two Germans, long separated, meet, they will turn into an adjacent beer-cellar, sit down, and drink lager and eat pretzels and chat, but when they part again each man settles his own score independently.— So in Italy. The Italians are prover bially merry and proverbially gener ous, but every man pays for his own wine, macaroni and cigars. They never go into each other’s pocket books in the sacred name of friendshipr— They would as soonjhink of transfer ring to each other their washerwoman’s bill. The preposterous fashion of “treat ing” is responsible for the terrible drunkenness in America. There would be as little need ot temperance societies and as little work for the Good Templars as there is in Germa ny, France, and Italy, if this pernicious and insiduous habit was abolished. It is, take it all, the most ridiculous, the most unreasonable, and the most pes tilent custom that ever laid its tyran nical hand on civilized human beings. espondence of the Journal of Commerce. The Exreulioa of Senor Ayesteran—Ills Last Doors. Havana, September 30,1870. I have only a few words to say of the Senor Don Louis Ayesteran, the Cuban hero. At the first note ot war ht left the gayest circle of this city, gave up his home, wealth, position, and the most devoted friendship, to discharge his duty as his mind and heart dictated. He was among the very first in the field with his musket, and in the ranks fought in many battles until his indom itable bravery and intelligence won for him the high appreciation of his com panions. and the entire confidence of his superioi. He was selected as cap- lain over a parly of the most deter mined patriots, where he displayed his [lower ot combination and tact with the little material at his command, keep ing a powerful enemy iu abeyance with the idea that ihey were in the presence ol a larger lorce, His command, was never seen until fell, and that so often that his attacks were reported ag of va rious detachments from the same col umn, concealed in tbe passes or moun tains. The consequence his ability so constantly displayed,and the pressing necessity for more supplies of aims and munition, induced bun lo accept the call to a more important as well as a more dangerous position by the au thorities of the revolution. In the dis charge of these duties, relying entirely upon his own energy and management, and of necessity subject to no superior, he made lour successful expeditions to and from Cuba, not losing a man or any portion of the four cargoes. On the fill!) trip he took a hurried run to New York to visit his widowed mn f her and only sister, as if to say good-bye -- J -- -v- « Blessing! hunger he the hour had arri , .. - — fell from the hero* lips ; he made a sol dier's toilet; brie! a« if going upon a pleasant journey home. He ascended the platform with manly dignity ; not a dry eye amoong his guards; no sounds, save from Spanish Hpt, “save him.” It was tou late. He calmly turned his face towards his happy home of twenty-three years, almost un der his eyes, in thecerro, and thesceue was over. Not the quiver of a fibre in his whole frame. A cloud rests ov«r all good hearts in Havana, without any political exception. He will be allowed tbe rights of burial, I suppose. lieleit aid Isdtri Isgeiaity Id the present day men devote them selves lo the working out of practical problems—that is,of invention tbattend to increase the general comfort of man kind. In the early days of mechanical invention the flying pigeon of Archytas of Tarentum would have attracted more attention than a cotton gin ; while to-day, the unlimited faith that we have in the mechanical ability of our aitisans robs such mechanical curiosities of halt their interst. Some of the results ot the inventive efforts of these old me chanicians were certainly very wonder ful, and if now in existence would form fine subject for study. Thus Regio montanus made a flying eagle and an iron fly which, after making the tour ot the room, returned to its master. Alberius Magnus, in the thirteenth century, spent thirty years in construc- ing a human figure, which advanced to the door when any one knocked, opened it and saluted the visitor. In the water clock, presented to Charle magne, by Haroun-al-Raschild, twelve doors in the dial opend respectively at the hour which each represented ; they continued open till noon, when twelve knights issued out on horseback, para ded round the dial, and then returning, shut themselves in again. Camus, who so ably investigated many subjects in theoretical mechanics, constructed an ingenious toy for Louis XIV, con sisting of a carrige drown by two horse* es, containing a little figure of a lady, with a coachman and attendants. The coachman smacked bis whip the horses moved naturally, and when tbe car riage arrived opposil to the king’s seat, it stopped; the page stepped down and opened the door, and the lady alighted and presented a petition to Louis.— Hundreds of such inventions are recor ded in the old works on mechanics, but we do not remember to have met with a single one that had been produced within tbe last half century. The cause of this is not that our modern inventors are deficient in mechanical ability, but that is general they appyl their talents in a more useful direc tion. than water at somebody else's expense. The casual meeting of two men who have ever exchanged a word together is a signal for both instantly lo ex claim, “Come—let’s have something ! ! * and for both to dive down into the nearest subterranean cavity below the sidew’alk. The one who spoke first, usually insists upon “paying the shot” —the work “shot” being a metaphori cal reference to tbe deadly character ot From exposure, fatigue and was overcome and cuptured on his fifth return. He a prisoner six days, but his naw e concealed, that his friends, including al1 w,1 ° k,,ew him, of either party, had no chance to make an effort to save him, which Spanish chivalrv would have aided in, in com pliment to his distinguished bravery 3, Jt i unselfish soldier slop, had there been any opportunity for a hearing.— He arrived on Friday, 23d, at ll| o’ clock, was tried the same evening, and sentenced to die the next morning at 7 o’clock. In the course of his exam ination he was asked questions which compelled him to reply, “of myself 1 have nothing to conceal; of others I have nothing to say; I am alone.” Ayesteran told his guard that he^wish- ed to leave something to his mother.— The reply was, “No, you have nothing lo leave; all things belong to the gov ernment, (the nation; I suppose.) But, “mv watch and chain—may I not give that to my mother?” “No, it is tbe gov- ment’s.” His guard ga ve him pen, ink and paper, and he was allowed to write a letter to his mother, which was sent lo the Governor of the city, ar.d it may possibly be delivered. After this last duty performed, he lay down on bi* cot, and in a moment was asleep w *th the calmness of a child, and compo sure of the Ciitian. From hti slumber he was aroused by the information that Cruelties Practiced in the War.—Hon. A. Seymour, an English member of Parliament, has written a letter ad dressed to the Prnssian Governor ot Sedan, protesting against the cruelly exhibited toward the helpless prisoners in the towns of Glaire and Iges. Mr. Seymour is a member ot the Interna tional Society for Help to the Woun ded in War, and his t roberated by Colonel ish efficer of high rep lowing is an extract “We assert that tl number of prisoners dying of hunger, and per, dime, which tbe ceive apiece, does r each individual. T means of buying brea from fifly centimes to small bit, which they ants, who buy it for t That the soldiers are piece ot the carcass which float down the hie. That there is n the smallest qu-mlily there is an absolute bu/ancc, which estal which is full of soldi) dying. “One last statemen that there are the sot cent girls debauchee crying for retribution, ce. At Glaire and heard of cases. Nea an eye-witness told corpse of a peasant 1 men, propped up where they had l»eei with what may or nc vere but so called ne their executioners ht lo tbe wall and place of their mouths, ma horrible by such bidr On the part ot the « leged that mauy of tl th2 French armies a Turcos, have been gu crimes iowards Prut For the sake of hums hope that these allege ded; but unhappily, above mentionoed, tf by proofs which can aside. By annihilating ihi nihilate tbe mind- _ J out passions has will pie of action, nor mo When we fancy wa er, it is only in mac new prejudices have taken the piac old ones. Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and al last we cannot break it.