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imdjjtrn JsX. ILLEDGEVILLEr Tueidaj, February 14, 18 7 1; WHITELEY’S ADMISSION. A dispatch from Washington brings the intelligence that Whiteley, defeated Had, in the second District, armed with credentials from Bollock has been sworn into Congress. This is only another of the upright honorable, aets of which “our” Governor is guilty. Tift, Demos craf, was fairly elected, but Bullock re fused to give him his credentials, while Whiteley was passed without difficulty. Col. Tift will of course contest this fraudulent seating,-sand if thero is any show for justice and reason, Whiteley will be kicked out of doors. The election in Paris was to have taken place on the 8th ultimo. At last accounts the bitterness of faction seemed to threaten a riot, as to whether Gambctta and the Government will con' sent to the election as Favre and the German authorities prescribe, has not been decided. We confess that our sympathies are with France. We loved her in her glory, we love her in her shame, but we dare not hope that she will be able to drive the invader from her soil. rather than the knights of Gibraltar ] but that he is the mam spoke bv The Battle not to the strong. The Atlanta Constitution, the chams pion of right, the David of the Demo cracy against the Goliah of Radicalism, is arrayed against twenty-three Demo cratic papers so called, and tbo whole Radical press on the Proclamation ques tion. The Constitution shows plainly the inconsistency of professing to be Democratic, and at the same time help ing Bullock squander the State funds by opening tbeir columns to his advertise ments. Some of them cannot see it exactly in this light, and consequently the war of words about to ensue. Some papers, heretofore strongly con demning Bullock, have been quietod by a goodly dose of Proc., and the Comti fution is left almost entirely alone to fight the battle of right. “Go on'* we say. gallant Coustitu/ton; strike your Hercu lean blows at the highway robber, Bul lock, and his followers; and may your circulation be tripled and quadrupled, to that evary one may aee the exposure of the villainy that ia practiced in high places. The Atlanta Sun still cherishing malice against us for publishing its meanness, villainy and rascality, resorts to personal abuse of ns ins-cad of fairly answering our statements. As far as the removing of the capital is concerned, we did not advance any new ideas with reference to it. The opin ion of many eminent men is that the capital will be removed, and for the very reasons that we gave before, the learn ed (?) Editor of the Sun to the contiary notwithstanding. The Sun need not trouble himself a- bout our abilities either as a financier or embassador; we can manage our own affairs without the aid of scoundrels and lhieves; and that is more than the Sun can truthfully say of itself. When in a discussion of any kind, one of the parties leaves the topic of discus sion and begins personal vituperation, it is a clearevidence that he acknowledges himself beaten, and turns from argu ment to abuse, to conceal his mortifica tion at defeat. The Sun is in league with a band of thieves and scoundrels, and ‘‘birds of a feather flock together.” It is useless to argue with those who are hardened in crime, as well as lowering to the respec tability of those who engage in the dis cussi n with such. The Sun is beneath the notice of a journ al that desires to maintain its influence and respectability; therefore we will no longer disgrace our columns by mention ing its name; neither do it e wish the time honored name ef “Recorder” to be pollu ted by being taken in the mouth of the Sun. If this little scalawag sheet, is not more respectful to its betters in future, it may meet with something similar to that which its twin brother the Era has several times enjoyed publicly on the streets of Atlanta at the hands of certain gentlemen. A short time siuce one T. R. Mills ad dressed a communication to Gov. Bui lock declining the position of District attorney. His reasons were that the Judge under whom he was to serve was a disgrace to the judiciary of the State. Gov. Bullock in his reply states that Mills applied for the position of Dis trict Attorney through this very Judge, whose appointment he considers a stigma upon Bullock and an outrage upon the people of Georgia. We confess that Bullock places the gentleman in an un enviable fix. Bullock goes farther; and attempts to vindicate his action in ap pointing this imbecile, yellow nigger to the position of Judge. He asserts that he is a man of “fair education, excellent moral character, and far more than or dinary natural ability,” a statement which is partly invalidated, by a letter which Bullock appends to his own. Bullock cau not wipe out the stain of this infamous deed. It is but anoth er in the long catalogue of injuries, which he has inflicted upou the people of Georgia. What a Government! He is a disgrace to civilization. Those Proclamatins Why do some of our Democratic breth ren direct such a continued fire at the Atlanta Constitution? The only reason we can assign is this: the Atlanta Con stitulion is opposed to Bullock's extrav agance on the way of pi oclamations, and condems those democratic papers who accept the printing of them. We think we see a decided change in the tone of certain Democratic (?) Journals in our State. Some, not long since, dropping, venom, and now distill ing honey. Some not long since, loud in their denunciations of the slightest inaccuracy, now maintain an unbroken silence while Bullock robs the State and divides the spoils with them. If a contemporary should see fit to speak of such conduct in such terms, as if de 6erves, they set up a howl about the courtesies, and proprieties of Journal ism, and declare that you are prostitu ting the profession. Now our convic tion is, that language cannot be too strong, if it bo employed to expose cor rnption, and we shall never scruple to use harsh words if the necessities of the case demand it. The money these papers receive for proclamation j rioting, if it has the ef- foct to trammel them, (and it evidently docs,) is as much a bribe, as if it "had been given them specifically to refrain from abusing Bullock. We adtiseour brethren to think upon this matter. TIIE WAR AND ARMISTICE. The Prussians it seems, do not strong ]y anticipate that their terms of peace will be accepted by the Bordeaux Gov ernment. Consequently they have made a new levy of 300,000 land wehr and propose to overt-un the whole of France, and subjugate her by a “savage and relentless campaign.” The resources of France are about exhausted, and further resistance is fol ly. The army of DeChanzy is disor ganized. Bourbaki’a commnnd, shiver ing and starving is hemmed in by the narrow mountain gorges of Switzerland. Fridherbe has not recovered from the defeat he suffered at St. Quintine. Paris has fallen with 300,000 soldiers, and an immense amount of war material. Gambetta, the sublimated enthusiast, may be insane enough to counsel further resistance, and France may yet contin ue the struggle, but it can only end in her further defeat and humiliation. BL'LLOCK A?iD THE LEASE. The editor of the Chronicle ij S'.nti- ncl offered a day or two since that he had the highest authority for stating that Bullock had an interest in the lease of tbe State Road. If this be true the whole transaction is a legal nullity, and Bul lock will be held up to everlasting shame. The Atlanta Constitution, how ever, is of the i pinion that the report is nothing more than idle gossip, without any foundati^i in truth whatever. It i6 to-bo he hoped so. From Hancock. (fOMMUXlOATtO ) Trtlolnljam and the Knlghli of Jtrielio. In all ages, in all civilizations and in all countries mankind has been prone to follow too much the devices and de sires of their own wicked hearts,—and appetites given them for the purest, no blest and grandest purposes, they have debauched until oft times they be come only thirsty and craving lasts. In nothing perhaps has this truth been more painfully exemplified, since the time of the first settlers in this wick ed world to the present hour, than in the passion for strong drink. Unlike the Beasts of the field, man cares not t<> nse without abuse the kindly offerings of our mother earth, but gorge himseff he must—get drunk he will. Happily this dark side of our common nature is relieved and illuminated by the unsel fish and self-sacrificing efforts of many good Samaiitans, who have labored and are laboring to redeem the drunk ard and bankrupt the liquor shops. From time to time in our history these efforts of old Father Mathews’ diseiples have appeared as it were, spasmodical ly—becoming now so successful and popular that a “drinkist” must needs go into a dark closet, lest he be seeu of men, and be arrained before a stern and overpowering public sentiment:— and yet again they appear to be whip ped out, “horse, foot and dragoons” by kiug alcohol and his hosts, and they retire in disorder to reorganize their forces, and after years perhaps of pa tient waiting, renew the fight under new names and better auspices. Among the most modern of these noble reform ers must be ranked " The Knights of Jer* icho.” Why tbe Knights of “Jericho” or Kamschatka does not clearly ap pear, at least to the uninitiated; nor is it pertinent. Suffice it that they are true Knights, panoplied from crown to toe in the armor of good intentions, and waging a relentless crusade against vice aud error—lager beer aud mean whiskey. All honor and a hearty God speed to these true philanthropists un der whatever name they advance to tbe rescue; for surely never before were tbeir knightly services more needed than now in the cause of human suffer ing. There was a time when any one of our portly progenitors could safely hide away under his vest each day at dinner* from two to four bottles of old Sherry, Port or Madeira, washed down may be f with a pint of “Otard”—then sweetly slumber and in tbe morning feel like silk velvet; there was not a single head ache in a hogshead of these spiritual comforts of the olden time. But alas! these innocent gifts of a benificent I ruviJence have passed away from among the children of men, and there is left only the blessed memory thereof, caus ing tho mouth in vain to water, and tbe eyes to weep over their departure. And in their stead what have we? Let the unhappy consumers of modern “tangle foot,” of “pine top,” of “sheet lighting,” of “bust head,” of ‘'Benzine’’ and of “Dutch swill” pause in their mad caree r and answer this momentous question. But let us return to our “knights"— these valiant sons of Jericho sworn to do or die against this bydra-headed Gorgon. What fact can prove more welcome to their pride or more gratify ing to an appreciating public, than the astonishing success.achieved by a chap ter of their order, recently organized in oar community. Starting some two months since with only a corporal’s guard of |tried veterans, tbeir rol-call is now answered to by scores of reform ed and resolute conscripts—young men in tbe hot flueb of youth, who have been snatched like “brands from the burning.” Middle aged men just beginning to ap preciate that their stomachs may not be lined with zinc, and coppor fastened, and many an old hard case, iu whom the grocery men appeared to enjoy a prescriptive right of possession, have looked arms with their regenerated brothers, aud shoulder to shoulder, cold sober, arc marching on to new vic tories. For still is tbeir work not all ac complished in cur midst,—yet are left a few tough “old sots” who grimly smile defiance. These must likewise be cared for and taken in out of the wet; bat how? Ah! there is the rub. The usual argu ments of rhetoric and example oft times fail sadly in their oases; they can not be captnred by an open assault in frout—they must be flanked. If it was allowed a humble subaltern to soggest strategy to knights so chivalrous, we would in this connection venture to rs call to their minds the old adage abon* preaching to a dead male, and to assert our conviction that thero is but little utility in plastering an “old brick” with soft sawder. If you hold up to his gaze the horrors of strong driuk and elo quently dilate upon the taste of well water, he will quietly tell you in reply that he has experienoed all aboat the first and is afraid to commence exper iraenting with the latter. The best plan, perhaps, is to lie in wait and some morning early catch him after he has been somewLat “lop-eared’ all night. Succeeding in this, at once baptise bis “parched brow” with cold water, pouring a little of the same, jast a little, down his blazing throat, and then before be shall have recovered from the novel aud delicioushappiness caused by this treatment, march him np to your great Mogul and he will swear to anything; aye and stick to it too so long as he sticks to you. If unhappily he should fall from grace and desert his colors, follow him ap with the same tac tics,—biing him back to the fold, and in good time you will have weaned him from his temptations, even as a babe weaned from toe strong a taste for fresh milk. O. For the Recorder. AN IMPENDING EVIL. Whatever may he thought of the negro’s status, either as office-hold er, juror, voter, soldier or common laborer—it is very plain, from his present qualifications, that in the latter capacity alone, can he or will he be of any material benefit to so ciety for many long years to come. Indeed, as a laborer petted, humored and deferred to (?) as he is, simply lor the sake of his vote, it is ques tionable if his usefulness is not work ing a greater harm than would re sult ivere he out of the country altogeth er ; unless he could be induced to contribute to its real necessities, by steadiness at work and conforming to a unifonn tariff of wages. A' present, he is but antagonizing the Railroads and Agricultural depart ments of the whole South—lessen ing the products of the latter, in a ratio, that mus' be felt in every oth er branch of our industries, It is which the Railroad managers be come of themselves the unintention al instigators to the unreasonable and damaging effect, which is al ready of sufficient magnitude to ex cite alarm for the future well-being of the entire field of Southern Agri culture. Nor do we wish it to be as sumed, that we charge any wilful or premeditated action, on the part of the Roads, to bring about such a collision—the bare reflection that it would be suicidal to their own pros perity, stifles even the possibility of any truth for that assumption. Nev ertheless the antagonism exists—or probably it may be said to have commenced only recently, and only from force of circumstances—but it is all the same in its untoward and crippling influences, upon the vital prosperity of farmers and planters. What is the condition of our farming prospects to-day, compared with what it was a few years ago? La bor, negro labor especially, is ten times more difficult to be got, and if secured at all, the disadvantages are double those which incommoded the planting interests just after the war — then negroes, it is true, were wild and defiant, under the belief that the Radicals at Washington, would sup port them in comparative idleness, only to get their voles, and furnish each man with forty acres and a mule to make the bargain good ! Probably, they are convinced by this time, what such slang was used for. Hut, on the other hand, what cause or causes, have produced the accumulation of trouble—nay, acui al failure, to farmers in procuring labor, that is now being felt? We say emphatically, it is from the in creased demand which Railroad Conductors and Railroad Superin tendents, have within the last few months, made upon the rightful la bor that is due to the plantations and farms; and 2dly, from the higher wages which they are enabled to pay without corresponding loss to their nett profits; and 3dly, the temptations to the negroes to be up on Roads, rather than work in the hack country and away from the conveniences of association with cit ies and mixed populations! The farmer who desires^G, 12 or 15 hands, has no chance toengage lliem against the prices paid by Railroads, who can easily advance upon what the farmer can afford to offer, and just as easily refund the extra amount bv increasing ireight charges! We ad mit, to a certain extent, that this is all fair-play and legitimate, but it will, if not remedied, prostrate much of the Agricultural facilities to the benefit of Railroad monopolies; and so far from there being a clash between these two arms of our sectional pros perity, there should exist the closest and most implicit confidence and co-operation in each others objects. We believe, too, that Farmers and Planters are willing to have such an alliance, and must think it passing strange if from mistake, misconcep tion or inadvertency, the Officers, Contractors or Superintendents of Railroads allow a counter-feeling to govern their course. Further, company, as it were, with white la borers and train-hands, and hired or bought negroes to supply their plac es—which, we thought, was a mis taken step—politically, socially and financially—nor did we reckon amiss ! It lost us a power that we now feel and regret, but are helpless to re place. We trust, however, no simi lar scheme may be attempted that will operate to drive off or keep away the white immigrants who, other wise, it is believed will seek a home amongst us. But, to bring the matter down to the compass of a few words, we feel certain that when Railroads—and they are almost as thick as planta tions and we admit, quite as depend ent—deem it to their interest’lo sub tract from the plantations and farms and our numerous necessities, the labor of the negro instead of giving the same employment to a white mac.—we say not only to them, but to all others who have interests in what the farm and plantation pro duce?, “you arc paying dear for your whistle, and are virtually muz zling the ox that treads out the corn.” It is respectfully suggested to the delegates from Baldwin county to confer with their brother delegates from other counties in the approach ing Slate Agricultural Convention, to be held in Macon on lhe22d inst., and obtain, if possible, some action that will bring about a suitable mod ification Ibr these threatening and clouded aspeects of our farm and home circles. IMPARTIAL. 5,490 Newspaper Offices. The following table shows the number of different offices from which newspapers are issued in the United States and Dominion of Canada. From some of these as many as half her published beii g in the vicinity of7.000. State. Number. State. Number. Alabama,] 74 Ohio, - 376 Arkansas, 44 Oregon, 22 California, 144 Pennsylvania, 513 Connecticut, 59 Rkode Island, 20 Delaware. 13 South Carolina, 54 Dist. ef Columbia, 19 Tennessee, 80 Florida, » to Texas, 93 Georgia, 97 Vermont, 42 Illinois, 42G Virginia, 94 Indiana, 241 West Virginia, 51 Iowa, 217 Wisconsin, 174 Kansas, - «6 Arizona, 1 Kentucky, •- yf Colorado, Louisiana, 76 Dakota. Maine, <0 Idaho, Maryland, 9t Montana, 50 Massachusetts, 234 New Mexico, Michigan, 180 Utah, Minnesota, ri9 Washingtan, Mississippi, 67 Wyeming, Missonri, 228 New Brunswick, 22 Nebraska, 34 , Nova Scotia, *7 Nevada, 11 Ontario, 173 New Hampshire, 46 Qtiebee, 59 New Jersey, K 14 British Celumbia, 2 New York, 478 , New Foundland, 12 North Carolina, 58 Prince Ed. Island, 7 Total, ,,490 Proclamation of King William on As suming (he Imperial Purple. Trie following proclamation was forwarded to the Prussian Diet by King William, from his headquar ters, at Versailles, on the occasion ol the acceptance of the rank, honor and dignity of the Emperor ol Ger many : “We, William, by God’s grace, King of Prussia, hereby announce that the German Princes ami free towns having addressed to us a unanimous call to renew and under take, with the re-establishment of the German Empire, the dignity of Emperor, which now for sixty years has been in abeyance, and the re quisite provisions having been in serted in the Constitution of the German Confederation, we regard it as a duly we owe to the entire Fa therland fo comply with this cull of whether or not we are right in ourf^e German princes and free towns, views, as herein given, is it not prac lioable, and would it not be better and mutually favor the several in terests involved, to have a fair and settled tariff of wages established and agreed to, thai will be just to employers as well as to employees— to the Farmers as well as to the Railroad Companies—to the white as well as to black laborers? Unless such an understanding and arrange- ment is made and carried out faith fully, we feel assured that great damage and wrong must result to the main staffs of the larger majority of our people, and inevitably re bound upon the heads of every trade and calling in the country. We confess we are excited and alarmed at the failures which Farm ers have experienced, in obtaining negroes to work upon their farms, unless at rates little less than sup- plying them with the land, houses, teams, plantation utensils, provis ions, and a third if not the half, of every thingthat is made in the year— and even these rates are not cared for apparently, as they urge the al ternative that, “any how, they rather work for the Railroad, where they gits every thing as they wants.” We have said, too, that the requisitions of the Roads for employees, are up on the rightful labor due to the wheat, corn and cotton fields—which is no less true, than that it claims prompt consideration. We have not lorgnt- and to accept the dignity of Empe ror. Accordingly, we and our suc cessors to the crown of Prussia henceforth shall use the imperial ti tle in all the relations and affairs of the German Empire, and we hope to God that it may he vouchsafed to the German nation to lead the Fa therland on to a blessed future, un der the auspices of its ancient splen dor. “We undertake the imperial dig nity, conscious of the duty to pro tect with German loyally the rights of the Empire and its members^ to preserve peace, to maintain the in dependence of Germany, and to strengthen the power of the people. We accept it in the hope that it will be granted to the German people to enjoy, in lasting peace, the reward ol its arduous aud heroic struggles, within boundaries that will give to the Fatherland that security against renewed French attacks which it has lacked for centuries. May God grant to us and our successors to the im perial crown that we may be the de fenders of k the German Empire at all times, not in martial conquests, but in works of peace in the sphere of national prosperity, freedom and civilization.” Ancient and Modem Divisions of Time. It is not generally known that, a little more than a century ago. New- Year’s was celebrated on the 25lh of March throughout the Biitish do minions, including America. The following enactments, adopt ed by Parliament, entitled “An Act regulating’the Commencement of the Year, and for correcting the Calen dar in use,” were passed in the twenty-fourth year ot the reign of George II. : “Preamble. — Whereas, the legal supputation of the year of our Lord —according to which the year be- ginneth on the 2-5th day of March— hath been found by experience to be attended with divers inconvenien ces,’ etc. “Enactments.—That throughout his majesty’s dominions in Europe, Asia, Africa, anil America, the said supputation, according to which the year of our Lord beginneth on the 25th day of March, shall not be made use of from and after the last day of December, 1751; and that the first day of January next following the said last day of December shall be reckoned, taken, deemed, and accounted, to be the first day ot our Lord, 1754, and so on from time to time. The first day of January in every year which shall happen in time to come shall be deemed and reckoned the first day of the year,” etc. The act further corrects the cal- dar thus: “And that the natural day next immediately following the 2d day ol September shall be called and ac counted to be the I4ih day of Sep tember, omitting for that lime only the eleven intermediate nominal days of the common calendar.” We believe that in the State of Rhode Island to this day all farm and other leases date from the day of the ancient New Year, namely, ihe 25th of March. The ane’ent divisions of the day differed widely from the customs of our own lime. The Chaldeans, Svrians, Persians and Indians, began ihe day at sun rise, and divided the day and night into four part?. This division of the day itro quarters was in use long be fore the division into hours. The Chinese, who begin their day at midnight, and reckon to the mid night following, divide the interval into twelve hours, each equal to two of ours, and known by a name and part-cular figure. In Egypt the day was divided into unequal hours. The clock, in vented by Ctesibius of Alexandria, b. c. 250, was so contrived as to leglbcn or shorten the hours by the flowing of water. The Greeks divided the natural day into twelve hours—a practice derived from the Babylonians. The Romans called the lime be tween the rising anil the setting sun the natural day; and the time in the twenty-four hours the civil day. They began and ended their civil day at midnight, and look ibis prac tice from their ancient laws, and customs, and riles of religion, in use long before they had any idea of the divisions into hours. The first sun-dial seen at Rome was brought from Catania, in Sicily, in the first Punic War, as part of the spoils of that city; and, after this period, they divided the day into twenty-four hours. An officers, called accensus, at one time proclaim ed the hours, and at the bench of justice announced every three hours ihe time of day. In the Turkish empire time is reckoned by certain portions of the natural day, resembling the ‘^watch- es” of the ancient Jews and Ro mans. Public clocks not being in use, these divisions of time are pro claimed from ihe minarets. not meant by this, that lie is doing „ of his mere individual agency, I lcn linie when Railroads purled A Nashville lady went ir.to spasms when the sherifl' read her husband's petition for divoice to her. She is inexperienced, and ought to take a few lessons of some Chicago women. They don’t spasm much over such trifles. A reader writes that lie takes no stock in the “new woman’s club.” He says the “old woman’s club” is enough for him, and frequently too much. The Mysteries of the Femin ine Toilet.—The other day I heaid of an incident which shows that even men of society do not un derstand ail the mysteries of the teminine toilet. A gentleman, who devotes a large part ol his lime to the society of the ladies, and who believes himself a connoiseur in all that pertains to them, was much annoyed by observing that a fair friend of his, favorably known for her style ot elegant dressing, would insist when the weather would al low it, upon wearing an old shawl devoid of any claims to beauty or good taste. The gallant endured this for a long while. He walked up Broad way and Fith Avenue, aud rode in the Park with his friend, and often looked at the odious shawl in a way that he thought would convince her of Us unfitness lor so elegant a wo man as herself. She did not lake the hint, how ever, but continued to display it on every possible occasion. He lost patience at last, and said to her one day: ‘ May I be permitted to inquiry why you will wear that miserable old shawl all the lime? it ruins your dress. \ou look so exquisite ly dainty otherwise that I can not comprehend why you will deform yourself with such a faded rag as that. It has nothing in the world to recommend it; and I believe if you were to throw it off’ in the street nobody would pick it up.” The bright eyes opened with sur prise, and a strange expression fell across the pretty lace. “You are jesting are y 0u lady asked. “You do noirealk- he like my shawl, do you?” " Jl3 ' “I never was more serious in life. I thoroughly detests this ^ wbieb-you call a shawl.” llln 8 “Well, then I’ll info rm y 0u lhal this is a camel’s hair shawl- , though I think it in very bad tkteS speak o prices, it cost W 0Q# “ Stewarts ami is of the finest br„J to this country.” a 11 The young man was astounded- but taste was correct. ’ The following faith” by a victim of a Sea ship: In case any ol my fried, should require a restorative during t u year, I beg to ofTer a substitute t 0ra sea-trip. 1 have “thought ihe thin, out,” in moments of dire agony, and in subsequent hours of blissful re pose on terra flrma. The advanta' ges of my substitute are numerous it is comparatively inexpensive; involves no care of luomirre- ii be enjoyed on one s own premises- and, instead of employing a ship’s! crew, four muscular friends can put a patient through the entire course. First: lasten to your extremitiei a system of cog-wheels, to be set in rapid motion by the mainspring G e , cond-hand will do) of a steeple-dock This will simulate the shudder of the machinery. Mix two pounds of powdered ipecaccuanha and three and a quarter pounds of tartrate of antimony and potash, and take a teacupful of the mixture every five minutes, alternating with ihe - same quantity of tincture of lobelia. This will simulate the sea-nausea. Close the doors and windows of your apartment; kindle a fire, and boil a two-gallon pot of train-oil, leaving the cover off the pot. This will ;i m , ulate the balmy sea-odors. Then get four muscular Christians to toss you in a blanket until you come out f your hoots, thruugh the legitimate effect of the internal exhibitions a- foresaid. You may then safely tell your anxious friends that you have been “to sea,” and have enjoyed the trip immensely; for you will have passed through all the experiences of bounding billows. Seizt the op portunity, and see the enjoyment to be realized in the proper season “at sea.” Lost Arts. In regard to colors we are far be hind the ancients. * None of the col ors in the Egyptian paintings of thousands of years ago are in the least faded, except the green. The Tyrian purple of the entombed city of Pompeii is as fresh to-day as it was three thousand years ago. Some ot the stucco, painted ages before the Christian era, broken up and mixed, reverted to its original lus tre. And yet we pity the ignorance of the dark-skinned children of the ancient Egypt. The colors upon the walls of Nero’s festal vault are as fresh as if painted yesterday. So in the cheek of the Egyptian prince who was contemporaneous with Sol omon, and Cleopatra, at whose feet Caesar laid the riches of his empire. And in regard to metals. The edges of the statues of the obelisks of Egypt, and of the ancient walls ol Rome are as sharp as if but hewn yesterday'. And the stones still re main so closely fitted that their seams, laid with mortar, cannot be penetrat ed with the edge of a pen-knife. And their surfaces are exceedingly hard, so hard th at w hen the French artists engraved two lines upon the obelisk brought from Egypt, they destroyed, in the tedious task, many of the best tools which can be manufactured. And yet these ancient monuments are traced all over with inscriptions placed upon them in olden time. This, with other facts of a striking character, prove that they were * ar more skillful in metals than we are. Quite recently it is recorded that when an American vessel was on the shores of Africa, a son ot that benighted region made from an iron hoop a knile superior to any on board the vessel, anti another made a sworn of Damascus excellence from a piece of iron. . Fiction is very old ; Scott had his counterpart two thousand years ago- A story is told of a warrior who had no time to wait for the' proper torg ing of his weapon, but seized it re hot, and found to his surprise tna the cool air had tempered his rro n _ The which into an excellent steel weapon tempering of steel, therefore, was new to us a century since, rva^ old two thousand years ago. Ventilation is deemed a very 110 ern art. But this is not the tact, ^ apertures, unquestionably wade *• the purpose of ventilation, are f 01 ^ 1 in the pyramid tombs ot Egypt- thousands of years ago the barbaro = pagans went so far as to veul1 V their tombs, while we yet scaru. know how to ventilate our houses. [Cabinet M“ ker ’ Among the most important di» c °' eries of the German Arctic pedilion was a new land, a . thirty-six nautical miles e a 't ^ Spitzbergen, and situated ^ the seventy*sevenlh degree o ‘ tude. This territory is larger Spitzbergen, and presents a - wild and rugged appearance, W 8 filled with almost perpend mountains and cliffs. A clairvoyant doctor, of Hard°J^ proclaims his superiority by a j Using that he “foretell the p as present,” as well as the iuluie-