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Volume LIU MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1872. Number. 14. THE ^outhcvu §UmiU*. BY R/A. HAEBISON, & OEMS. Terms, $2.00 Per Annum in Advance vCitn Qiccctorn. CITY GOVERNMENT. Mayor—Samuel Walker. Hoard ol AlJeruten—F B Mapp, E Trice, T A Caraker, Jacob Caraker, J H McComb, Henry Temple. Clerk and Treasurer—Peter Fair. Marshal—I 15 Fair. Policeman—T Tuttle. Deputy Marshal and Street Overseer—Peter Ferrell. Sexton—F Bceland. City Surveyor—0 T Bayne. City Auctioneer—S J Kidd. Fin ine© Committee—T A Caraker, Temples. Mapp. Street Committee—J Caraker, Trice, Me- ('on'.!) Laud Committee—MeComb, J Caraker, Trice. . Cemetery Committee—Tempies, Mapp, T A Caraker. Hoard meets 1st and 3d Wednesday nights in each month. COUNTY OFFICERS, judge M R Bell, Ordinary, office in Masonic llall." . PL Fair, Clerk Sup’r Court, office in Ma* sonic Hall. OhaJiah Arnold, Sheriff, office in the Mason ic Hall. 0 P Bonner, Deputy Sheriff, lives in the country. Josias Marshall, Rec’r Tax Returns—at Post Office. L N Callaway, Tax Collector, office at his H Temples, County Treasury,office at his store. Isaac Cushing, Coroner, re£ on Wilksonst, John Gentry, Constable, res on Wayne st, lcar the Factory. MASONIC Benevolent Lodge, No. 3, F A M, meets lirst and second Saturday nights of each month at Masonic Hall- J C SHEA, W. M. G D Case, secretary. Temple Chapter meets the second and fourth Saturday nights in each month. S G WHITE, H # P„ G D Case, secretary. MillodgeviFe Lodge of Perfection, A A S R meets every Monday night. SAMUEL G WHITE, S* P* G # U, Geo D Case,Exc Grand £ec’y % I. O. G. T. Milledgevillc Lodge, No 115, meets in the Seti,ate Chamber at the State House on every Friday evening at 7 o’clock, C P Crawford, W C T E P Lane, secretary. Cold Water Templars meet at the State House. every Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock. CIS! RCI1 DIRECTORY. BAPTIST CHURCH. Service 1 st and 3d Sundays in each month, at 11 o'clock a m and7 p m. Sabbath .-cliool at 9.1 o’clock am. S N Boughten.supt. Rev D E Butler, Pastor. METHODIST CHURCH Hours of service on Sunday: 11 o’ clock, a m, and 7 p m. Sunday school 3 o’clock p m—W E Frank- land, superintendent. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 7 p in. * Rev A J Jarrell, Pastor. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Services every Sabbath (except the second in each month) at 11 am and 7 pm. Sabbath school at 9 1-2 a m T T Windsor superintendent. Prayer meeting every Friday at 4 o’clock p m. Rev C W Lane, Pastor. The Episcopal Church has no Pastor at present,. THE GREAT BLOOD P UR IFIER Possessing powerful invigorating PROPERTIES&A PLEASANT DRINK These Bitters nro positivelyinvaluabla m ALLSK1 TOSEASES& ERUPTIONS They purify the Bystem, and will curt \ Remittent and Intermittent Fever*, NERVOU-9'tHSEASES.LIVER COMPLAIN 1 Notice. T HE undersigned respectfully informs the citizens that they are prepared to furnish Timber, any amount and size, at their Lum ber Yard in Milledgeville, at low rates. Call on our Agent, Mr. C. B. Mundy. for terms and prices decl9-tf N. & A. C ARM ANNE Y. NATURE’S inn imuffli and arc a preventive of Chilli and Fever, Ail yield to their powerful efficacy. i Are an antidote to change of Water and Diet. 4 to the wasted frame, and correct all . 4 Will save days of suffering to the sick, and 1 'CURES NEVER MELL PEOPLE The grand Panacea for all the ills of life. ^i 1 11 aw Tie StaatoiXX”^ ktt ;;s s ‘-4 m " DIS3A3TIn Young or Old, ■ Single, these Bitters are 1 r equalled and have often been means of saving life. TRY.ONE BOTTLE. MILLER, BISSELL &, BURRUM, Whole •ale Agents, and Wholesale Grocers and Com mission Merchants, 177 Broad Street, AU GUSTA, GA. Cotton Food. A FERTILIZER specially for COTTON. AY Send for circular before purchasing. Buy it. Try it, and you will never regret it. ‘ A. F. SKINNRR, Agent Milledgeville. F. W. Sims, General Agents, janl G-3m r Savannah, G«. Free from the Poisonous and Health-destroying Drugs us ed in other* Hair Prepara tions. No SUGAR OF LEAD—No LITHARGE-No NITRATE OF SILVER, and is entirely Transparent and clear as crystal, it will not •oil the finest fabric—perfectly SAFE, CLEAN and EFFICIEN T—desiderainms LONG 80UGHT FOR AN D FOUND AT LAST! It restores aud prevents the Hair from be coming Gray, imparts a soft, glossy appear ance, removes Da. druff, is cool and refreshing to the head, checks the Hair from falling off, and restores it to a great extent when prema turely lost, prevents Headaches, cutes all hu mors, cutaneous erupt ions, and unnatural Heat. AS A DRESSING FOR THE HAIR IT IS THE BEST -ARTICLE IW THE MARKET. DR. G. SMITH, Patentee, Groton Junction, Mass., Prepared only by PROCTOR BROTH ERS, Gloucester, Mass. The Genuine is put up in a pauncl bottle, made expreseiy for it with the name of the article blown in the glass. Ask your Druggist for Nature’s Hair restora live, and take uo other. For sale in Milledgeville "by L. W. HUNT &.CO. In Sparta, by A. II. BIRDSONG &. CO. p July 2 ly- u Feb28 ’71 3y. GUANO! P URE PERUVIAN, OF DIRECT IMPOR TATION, at GOVERNMENT PRICES 2.240 POUNDS to the Ton. Send for pam phlets to R.G. LAY, Ageut for Consignees in IT. S. feb23 2m r Savannah, Ga. From the Standard and Express. INCIDENTS OF THE WAS. From an Unpublished Manuscript. BY A LADY OF BARTOW COUNTY, GA. One cool morning in October, 1864, 1 was sitting by the fire read ing, when 1 heard horse feet rapidly approaching. I ran quickly to the door, and here they came riding in like a hurricane—a troop of Yankees —all over the yard, snatching up things-here and there wherever they could find them. I had some bed clothes out sunning. They carried them all ofT, and quick as they hail come they were off again. 1 vainly hoped that it was all over, and that no more would come, but soon after dinner they began to pass, and such devastation and destruction it was heart sickening to see. They had killed all of our hogs in the Spring but a few sows and pigs—these had, by our kindly care and good man agement, grown astonishingly, and we had hoped to have some pork for the approaching winter; but, alas for our hopes ! they were destined to disappointment. This time they must all go. They had left me but six hens, but I had raised from them a nice brood of young fowls. YYe had gathered in fodder and oats and all the corn they had left, and had made several barrels of sorghnm, and had Saved all the wheat we could, and for fear they should burn Barrett and Milner’s mill, had had our flour barreled up and slowed away. T felt now an inward deter mination not to sit passively by and see everything destroyed as they had done in the Spring, but to make ev ery effort in my power to preserve what I could. So as soon as they began to pass I went out to see if 1 could intercept Gen. Kilpatrick, and obtain a guard while his command was passing. I made inquiry after inquiry as a squad would pass, until I almost despaired, when suddenly Charlie came running out to tell me that the house was full ol Yankees, that had come up the back way. I bad ta ken the precaution to fasten up the house on the back side, and thought I would watch on the front; hut I was completely frustrated. I found they had broken in the back doors and windows and were destroying everything as fast as they could. Just at my room door I met one of them with a large kuife, which he el was jj[ g# had brought from the kitchen, in his hand. I stepped up to him hastily, and wrenched it from his hand. In his astonishment he loosed his grasp, I suppose, before be hardly knew what he was doing. “JJow,” laid I, “I will fight every one of you if you do not get out, and that quickly, and away as fast as you can.” I fell completely exas perated, and determined to drive them out, regardless of consequen ces. Going into the oiher room I found a right young boy, almost, kneeling over a large trunk that it had been their pleasure to prv into in their raids, and which contained nothing but my children’s nicest clothing, none of which they had worn for months. There they were all scattered around him, and in one hand he held a number of volumes of Abbott’s Histories that my bus- band had given Jimmy as a reward of merit at school, several years ago. 1 drew back my Unite and gave him a heavy blow on his left arm, and ordered him to get up and leave.— Qu ick as lightning lie sprang up, and pointing his gun directly at me swore be would shoot me. I defied him to do it, and tolil him, “so every rogue out to be served.” He soon quieted down, and they all began to leave. Just then I looked and saw a ne gro riding by with my last pair of turkeys, one hanging on each side of his saddle. I was almost furious.— They had only left me one hen in the Spring, and she was setting at the time was the reason why they did not get her. My sister had only given me a mate for it, ami there they went. I went out and made an effort with my knife. I failed.— The blow only fell on his horse.— Just then a soldier, looking as onii> nary as any of the others, and riding a small black horse, came up and asked me what I was doing with that knife. Said 1, “I am defending my prop erty, sir f nobody else will do it lor me, or give me any assistance.”— The next squad that passed or came tip I enquired again for Gen. Kd- pattick. “Why,” said one of them, “he has just passed. He was riding a small black horse, and 1 saw him talking with you just as I came up.” Tims vanished all my hope of hav ing a guard for he had already passed out of sight. So 1 must siiil endure more. Upon my expressing my regret at missing him, one of the men said to me, “Oh, you need not grieve about it. Kilpatrick would not have given you a guard. He is just as mean as any of his men. He winks at their meanness and encour ages them in it.” I found that they had stripped my beds almost entirely. I hardly thought they had left me covering enough for my little ones during the winter months that were fast ap preaching. A neighbor came in just as we thought they were all gone.— While we were talking, an officer returned with several men. He or dered some of them to procure for age and the others to kill some hogs. Unfortunately for us, it was just about the time that Ben fed them in the evening and they had all come up, and there they were shooting and killing. I tried to remonstrate with them. I said to the officer : You have taken nearly every thing we have ; your army destroyed all they thought we had in the spring, and now please let our hogs alone, forifyou lake them we will be ob liged to suffer.” “Well,” said he, “you ought not to have encouraged the war spirit.— Where is your husband, Madam ?” “Ir. the rebel army, sir,” I replied. “Well,” said he, “you must lake the consequences. By the way, madam,” said he, “you had better go in whije these men are shooting at the hogs ; you might gel shot.” I turned indignantly towards him and said, “if I should, sir, I am at home, which is more than you or your men are; but which you had better be,” and turned off. As I came in, my neighbor said to me, “Here is a gourd I found just now.” Only said I, “Where I put it.”— Then I told him how, after I had struck the Yankee with the knife, a j soldier stepped up to me and said, “It is a shame, madam, for a set of j men'to serve a woman as they are serving you.” Said I, “Well, sir, whose bucket is that you have on your arm ?” “I bought it back here from a la dy, ma’ain,” he replied. “I hardly think so, sir,” I replied ; “let me see.” I drew it from him, and on the top of it was a towel with my name on it. “Whose towel is this?” I asked. “Why,” said he “1 did not know that was in there.” “But,” said I, “here is my gourd ; how came this in here !’ He stammered out something as I drew it, but still persisted the buck- The next day I asked one of the servants about the buck et. She said it was hers, aud the Yankee had gone with it before she missed it. Just then a soldier came rushing in tlie back way with a small tub in h s h nil. Said he, “Ttke th 8 f ready passed through left tne euiire- !y unfilled for the task. 1 had f.iled in every effort, the day before, to take care of, or to preserve atmhihg from them, so 1 determined to keep my room and let them do their worst, which certainly could not he more than what they had air ady dour. 1 ordered the servants to leave my room and the whole house in contu sion, aud not to arrai.gt? anything at all, and had breakfast brought into my room. Just as the servant came in with a plate of nice hot rolls, a Yankee made his way in with her, an I look ing wistfully at them said “he want ed some bread.” 1bknew I could have no more cooked that day, and indeed 1 was surprised to see the cook had served this up so nicely, so I told him that “I had none to give him, that that was cooked fir my little children, and l would not deprive them of it so long as I could help it.” He turned off quietly and left, greatly to my surprise. I now noticed that no more of them came in, although I could hear them passing continually. After break fast Charlie came in and said all of our milk cows had cotne back home. They had not guarded them suffi ciently, and the faithful creatures had broken away from them, and now were at home, and Mary, the milkwoman, was milking them. I felt so thankful lor this, for it seemed that a kind Providence was watching over us still. 1 knew it we could but retain our milk cows we would not suffer. We had sent off several milk cows to lower Georgia, with our other stock and servants, hut then an army rolled between, and it might be months, or years ev en, before we could, if ever, get them igain. We had only kept the oldest and gentlest ones, aud now they had fully proved their fidelity. About nine o’clock my neighbor came in to see how we had been getting along. “You have not been out all this morning, have you ?” asked he. 1 told him, “no, I had concluded to remain in my room all day, hoping madam, and go up stairs and gel me a feed of corn for my horse.” I really do not think I ever fell so indignant in my life. ] drew back scornfully, giving h ; m a withering look. ‘Indeed, sir. T said I, do the women feed horses in your country ?’ I never saw any one so badly cut down. He soon recovered himself, and said, “My father has negroes aud 1 have been used to them feed ing my horse when at home.’ ‘Well then,’ said 1, ‘you ought to have staid there, for your father’s niggers to have kept on feeding it hut I doubt very much whether you ever saw one before you came south or not.” Ben was standing near and as he walked off he said, “The impudent dogs ! I love io hear y*oh take them down.’ /Vs one rode off with a patch-woik quilt, I turned to another good look ing, youthful soldier and said, ‘Please ride on after, and over-take that man, and bring me back my quilt.’ He rode off hurriedly', and, greatly j to my surprise returned soon with it. The servants then began to come in one by one, and tell me what they had taken and carried oft. My lea set of china that was a bridal gift from a friend years ago, and that heretofore had escaped them, served for Kilpatrick’s table, and was car ried off with them. And our milk cows were all driven off’ before I knew anything of it. Several times be fore tliev had allenfpted to drive them off; but they would get away from them. Once before when they camped near us, they had killed up the young calves ; and now I feared the cows were really gone, and I knew my sick baby would suffer.— They all left about dark, and I fell relieved that they had gone, and hoped to spend a quiet night, hut which I did not. H.ive hope though clouJs euviron now, Aiul gladness hides her face with seoru. Put thou the shadow from thy brow, No night but hath its morn. Night came on, and we had had supper, and my little ones “their evening prayers had said,” and were now sleeping sweetly in their “little beds,” all bu’. my sick baby. I had two of the servant women to come in, and lea ring lest the Yankees might return, knowing that they werecamp- ing not far oft', we had carefully fas tened all of the doors and windows, and were sitting around the fire w ith only a dim light; when suddenly we heard a noise, then the raiding of rails, and I knew they had re turned and were throwiivg up a pick et fort. Oh ! how I dreaded it! for now I knew that they would remain | for many days, or it might be weeks, near us, and I would be exposed t • their taunts and insults. It was not long before 1 heard voi ces directly under my window, and a subdued voice begged to he let in. I motioned to the servants to be per fectly quiet. They begged and pleaded and threatened, but all in vain, no one stirred or answered. After finding that we did not or would not hear them, they retired as noiselessly as they had come, greatly to our relief. Pretty soon afterwards others catne to the door and ordered it opened. I did not say anything for a long while, hut finally unable long er to resist their importunities, I asked them what they wanted. They replied, “Meat and bread, and they would have it.” I knew by their manner that they were afraid to commit an outbreak, so I let them curse and threaten until they were tired down; then they left of their own accord, as I said no more to them. 1 scarcely closed my eyes in sleep all through that long, dreary night. My baby had been sick all through the long summer months, and many a lime I had expected him to die and have no one to bury him but serv ants. I never saw the Yankees daunted, or seem to have any spark of humanity, but once. One day 1 was sitting by the little bed watch ing Harry, who was just five years old. He lay tossing in delirium with a burning fever, and on rny lap lay my baby, more dead than alive. I heatd a noise in the hack yard, and I knew the Yankees were coming up through the back way. 1 heard Ben’s voice in expostula tion. “1 tell you to keep out of there; her children are dying now, and you have no business in there.” On they came. I sal perfectly still, not caring for them then. There were three of them. They stalked right up io me before they hailed, and then stopped, motionless with sur prise. They gazed first at me, then at the sick children ; neither one of spoke. They turned abruptly, ti.at “l diil not care a straw tor lliei buggy, that it was n*»t theirs to give.” “Oh, yes,” said one of them, “they had bought ami brought it from Ten nessee, and that if l would only send some one along with them, they would semi tne a gm>d, geutlc mul« in the bargain.” I did not semi though, and surt enough, in alioul two weeks, the owner of the buggy, not living more than fitteen miles distant, came for it. One of them came in to borrow an oven. I asked him if he yvould be sure to return it. “Oh. yes ma’am,” -mid 1 e, “l will l>e suie to bring it btek as soon -is I get through my cooking.” I sect him to the cook for it. She followed him out w.lh it, very unwilling that lie should t ike it off'. “I know th in,” said she, “th y have been in ami cartied off neuly eVerv thing. Ho came to me fir.-t, and 1 would not lei him have it, and now you have loatnd it to him, and I never will see it again.” I told her in* had promised me faithfully he would bring it back. “You will see,” she said; but sure enough he did not bring it back. The evening before, I looked out and saw them leading off “old Crock et,” our faithful A I buggy horse. As many as six limes befote, they had started off'with him, and as ma iy ix tin**s 1 had been at my post, us and left the house without a word They were awed once. Morning came at last, and with it Lhe trials and troubles that awaited us- I had determined the evening before to go to Kilpatrick^ head quarters, and intercede tor our milk cows, hut the excitement 1 had al by this means not to sec any more Yankees.” “Well,” said he,“l have just been to the picket fort, and had a conver sation with the officer, and he ha noticed that you have not been out to-day, and he requested me to come in and say to you, that he has sta tioned a guard in your yar I, and that as long as he is here on duty you shall be protected, and to fear nothing.” I was amused,” continued he, “while I was conversing with him. A soldier came up from their head quarters, and said to him that Ger.. Kilpatrick had sent him over for some milk cows ; that all th**y had taken the evening before had broken away from them, and they had none, and they knew not where to find any.” He said the officer cursed him. and told him with an oath to go back to Gen. Kilpatrick and tell him he could not get any here, and turning to him, said he, “I went, sir, into the army to fight it out, and no* to steal it out, as these men are doing, and as long as I rernaiu in this place, they shall not drive off a cow nor do any more stealing; that as for forage and such things, I cannot prevent their taking that, but that otherwise they shall have nothing.” I regretted that I never learned his name; he was a Kentuckian- His kindness came when it was most needed, and it was the most gratu itous piece of kindness I ever re ceived from a Yankee soldier. He shielded me for a time from the taunts and insults of a low-bred set of men, and I shall always feel grateful to him for it. I went out after a while, and found a soldier standing at the back door with a musket on his shoulder. I drew back involuutaiily. He saw it, and hastily said: “I am only a guard, madam; the captain has ordered tne to keep the men away. Do not be alarmed or uneasy, you will not he troubled any more by them while I am here to protect you, and I will keep them all straight.” So they did not trouble anything in the house and yard that day. If they wanted anything they would come and ask politely for it. We had a little one-horse wagon fixed up before they had ever come in, thinking to have something to haul our wood and do our milling in. The first day they ever passed through, they maliciously ( hopped one wheel to pieces. We had man aged to find an old buggy wheel that fitted it, and l felt secure of having some way to get wood for the win ter. But Charlie came in to tell me they were fixing up now to carry it off, and again 1 summoned courage to go out and prevent them. I told them they could not have it, but they said it was just the idea, that they needed it very much, and that if I would let them take it they would leave in its place a good, strong bug gy, that I could have. I told them and saved him. I started out to I fie gale, and Ben im»t me. Siys h*\ “Let them have him this time; only this morning 1 found he had the "landers, and he will be sure to die; 0 . ..... and if we ke^p him he will give it to ‘Cripple,’ and we will lose him too.” C»ockel and Cripple had serv ed us faithfully all the summer; had finished up the work on the farm ; and now, (hough “my heart strings round him clung.” yet I let him go this lime. Thev were exp cling, momentarily, a fight with the scouts. They could see them half a mile up the road, continually crossing or standing in it. My little boys would run in, and out to the picket fort, and once or twice the captain sent me word that I had belter keep them in, as they knew not what moment • hey ini-ftit have a skirmish. That evening a relief was sent; another officer was placed in command. I could soon see a great change. The men began to prowl around, and things began to assume a threaten ing aspect. 1 sent over and asked for a guard. The messenger return ed, unfortunately, with the answer, “that all the men were on duly, and there was no one to stand guard.” This was imprudently delivered in the hearing of some of the men, and it went from one to another that there was no guard, and they soon began to tear up things. A young soldier, seeing how things were, came to me, and told me he feared 1 would have some trouble if I did not have a guard. 1 told him the message I had received. He said all the men he knew were on duty, but himself, and that he would go and see the officer about it. After awhile he returned, and told me he would stand guard for me, which he did faithful y, as long as they re mained. We had a great deal ol green to bacco, which had just been cut down, and was not yet cured. They had 1 destroyed all the dry, and they now began on the green, and they all had sore mouths from it, and were con tinually running in and out for some thing to cure their mouths. On Sunday they all began to leave, and though only here two days, it seenjed like so many months. On Saturday a squad of them went up into Polk couuly, and burned the residence of Capt. Malt. Ware, after first robbing and then plundering it of what they wanted and could take away. The Gold of Ohpir. Despite the remonstianee of the proprieties, the Divine declaration is inevitable, that the last shall be first. Ever and anon the great good comes out of Nazareth : in the Valley ol Shadows upspringeth the Light. This inquisitive age even now sel dom halls at such queer riddles as Samson’s; but ‘reckons’or‘guesses’ that honey may be found in a lion’s mouth. In the Cycle of Centuries, Africa is re appearing, in proof of what has been will he; heralded with her classic music of Mttnnon, guarded by herSphynx, and commemorated in her Pyramids. The awful ruins of Carnac and the wonders of the remott regions of the Nile, have for \ears attracted and deeply impress ed the most celebrated travelers. The hieroglyphics of Egypt are now bein® deciphered to read as the sub limes! records of history. A clergy man of New York recently resigned a long pastorate to engross himself in these distant and solitary researehl cs, whose popularity was so grea- that his parish voted him a parting present of about $150,000. To a sordid world such ‘saqrificea’ are m»- tco un a dt* ; hut ‘fie dint humbled) niuiaelf shall be exalted.’ Lately, astonishing and alluring developments have been made in o itlieru Africa; including, says the New York Herald, ‘Ruins, Mon uments, and Archtelogical Wonders of Salomon’s time’—none other than the famous Land of Opbir, which furnished the gorgeous and astound ing wealth and ornamentation ot the Tt tuple at Jerusalem. The an nouncement of vast gold and dia mond fields strikes the chords for a full chorus of the missionary hj’mn, as to where “Attic's sunny fountains Roil down their golden sands.” Excitement heightens as the mon ey-brooding English extend their Capt* Colonies over the Orange Riv- »r amt T rails van L republics—from quartz to alluvial gold fields, from diamond beds to the Ophir mines of King Solomon. In the fourteenth century the Por tuguese (whose land must yet take its illustrious appearance by the wheel of fortune) had opulent do minions in Sotaln, the centre of pres ent attraction. Their substance long since became as a shadow ; but they left rehearsed the tbnner Arab tra ditions of still more remote Pliceni- cian gio y in this clime. Not until Prussia came to the front in discovery as in military prowess, were the slorie- veiified of its grand ruins and singular wealth. The Berlin Society sent Carl Maueh to report on its resources aud prime- mal structures. This is the first step in the march of its archaeologi cal investigation. The location is in latitude 20deg. 14 min. South, and longitude 31 deg. 48 min. East, agieeing fully with Don Santos, the Portuguese writer. At Zimbaya the ruins are magnifi cent, ami are held sacred by the na tives, who all believe that whiles once lived in this region, and stow utensils ot civilization. They culti vate rice and corn and possess ex pensive herds. Is this the land of Ophir ?—where Solomon, the wisest, three thousand years ago, obtained the gorgeous fillings of his most renowned Tem ple.' The Biblical time of a three years’ voyage corroborates; also that Phoenician ships were used, whose Southern cruises are indis putable. The Arabs, succeeding the decline of Phoenicia, are known to have continued throughout the Mid dle Ages, a trade from the Persian Gulf as far south as Sofala. The Portugese four hundred years ago, according to Carl Manch, found there vast gold mines “worked from time immemorial, and near them ruins of structures which, according to native traditions, were built by Queen Saba. Lopez, the historian, records that the natives pride them selves on possessing hooks of great antiquity, which testified to the Ophir cruises of Solomon.” Was not this the Queen of Sheba, whose distinguished visit to Solos rnon is recorded in Biblical lore? The ruins themselves surely can speak no deceptive story.. These aie unmistakably Phoenician. Dr. Petermann, of Gotha, says, that “the fact of all of them, without excep tion, being of hewn granite, put to gether without mortar, testifies to a high antiquity ; aud the drawings of the ornatnenls sent in by Mauch, prove that they do not originate from the Portuguese nor from the Arabs, but very likely from Phoenicians, the Solomonic Ophir cruisers.” The nature of the case substan tiates other reasons for this impor tant conclusion. Since the mind of man runneth not to the contrary, Africa has had the reputation of be ing auriferous. \ T oyages from Sol omon’s ports on the Red Sea, aloog the eastern coast of Africa, were within the means of the navigation ot that age, in which Phoenicia ex celled ; following the coast was the most likely mode, and hence about Sofala was the propable destination. The gold and jewels of the Jewish Temple were of the finest, and the blazing diamonds of Cape Colony throw all others in the shade; its “much fine gold” could only equal that of Ophir, while all admit that the ivory of Africa beats all but the Jews.—Sun. An exchange, describing a fash ionable parly, speaks of a gallant who whispered to a lady and “took her apart.* If is not a very difficult feat to lake a lady apart these times, but then there is very little left of her afterwards. A Missouri editor has his own way of saying things. He acknowledges that his paper for this week is prin cipally * a local and advertising sheet; but look out for next week’s. It will fie one of the gayest, sharpest and fiercest papers that ever went forth from an American news rag gery.’ One way of giving a man a chance of rising in the world—-knock him down.