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Volume LIU. MILLEDG-EVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1872. Number. 27. THE loutluvw jilccovdc v. B Y r..’A. HABBISON, & OEMS- as, $2.00 Per Annum in Advance REAL FACTS £\t)) 0icc£torn. CITY GOVERNMENT. jlavor— Samuel Walker, jjoapi Of Aldermen—F B Mapp, E Trice, 1A Caraker, Jacob Caraker, J U McComb, lieary Temple. . • Clerk and Treasurer—Peter Fair. Marshal—.1 B Fair. Policeman—T Tuttle. Deptny Marshal and Street Overseer—Peter jfr-ston—F Beeland. Ci;y Surveyor—0 T Bayne. City Auctioneer—S J Kidd. Finance Committee—T A Caraker, Temples. 5! ipp- Street Committee—J Caraker, Trice, Me- i.uin'1. Laud Committee—McComb, J trice. Cemetery Committee—Tempi Caraker, Mapp, T A laraker. Board u onts 1st and 3d Wednesda nightsy a each month. FIFTY PER CENT LESS THAN THE GOODS CAN BE IMPORTED, And Just What Every Lady Wants- W, COUNTY OFFICERS. :re M R Beil, Ordinary, ofliee in Masonic Hall. i* L Fair, Cler ;onie Hall. Obadiah Arnold, f. c Hall. 0 P Bonner, Deputy country. Josias Marshall, Rec’r I’ost Ofliee. L X Callaway, Tax Collector, Sup’r Court, office in Ma riff, office in the Mason Sheriff, lives in the Tax Returns—at offiee at bis H Temples, County Treasury,office at liis tore. Isaac Cushing, Coroner, res on Wilksonjst, John Gentry, Constable, res on Wayne st near the Factory. MA SOX 1C Benevolent Lodge, No. 3, F A M, meets tXt and second Saturday nights of each month at Masonic Hall- j C SHEA, W, M, li D Case,secretary. Temple Chapter meets the second and ti'urth Saturday nights in each month. S U WHITE, II # P # G D Case, secretary. Miiledgeville Lodge of Perfection, A A S E mei-ts every Monday night,. SAMUEL G WHITE. S* IV G* M* Geo D Case,Exc Grand ifc’ec’y. n the every I. O. G. T. Miiledgeville Lodge, No 115, meets Senate Chamber at the State House on Friday evening at 7 o’clock. C P Crawford, W C T II P Lane, SCCrctury. C"1J Water Templars meet at the Slate House every Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Cli t’RCII DIRECTORY. BAPTIST CHURCH. Service 1 st and 3d Sundays in each month, at 1! o'clock a m and? p m. Sabbath school at 9.1 o’clock a m. S N Bougliteu.supt. Rev D E Butler, Pastor. METHODIST CHURCH Hours of service on Sunday: 11 o’ clock, a m. and 7 pm. Sunday school 3 o’clock p m—W E Frank- land, superintendent. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 7 p r.i. Rev A J Jarrell, Pastor. PRESBYTERIAN C1IURCH Services every Sabbath (except the second in each month) at II a m and 7 p m. Sabbath school at li 1-2 a in T T W indsor superintendent. Prayer meeting every Friday at 4 o’clock P in. Rev C Yv Lane, Pastor. The Episcopal Church has no Tastor at present r.g powerful invigorating gfSgSi These jnttoiA > ro 1 jsuivtly n.v;uusJ.L in. Ls-mh They purify the system, and will cuio Remittent aim THE,e PROPER® .LL'SKTWh) '.DYSPEF PLAINT LADDER ' ARECOOBTORTOE'WENTADDRGANIZATION. THEY WILL RESTORE-YOUTHFUL VIGOR 1«RECU . Intermittent Fevers, and are a preventive of Chills and Fever. All yield to their powerful efficacy. to the wasted frame, and correct all 4 m aBaaaJK AVill save days of suffering to the sick, and n3iEl?si%S^teE3g<.>iiMa The grand Panacea for ail the ills of life. m Tie Mart BfTTERSi E have this day received by overland Express, a Job Lot ot S3,475 Yards REAL FRENCH EDGINGS AND IlsTSEPtTIlSrO-S I In JACONETS, NAINSOOK, and SWISS which will he offerod in pieces of 6, 9 or more yards and sold for CASH at the most amaz ingly low and tempting prices. We wish the public to he assured that when we advertise BAROAINS We have enough cf them to last more than one day, and wish every lady in Louisville and surrounding country, when they visit Augusta, to examine these goods for themselves. MULLARKY BROS. Aprtl20 3m. CHICAGO. O NE hundred and forty Anns have testified to the preservation of their Books, Papers and Valuables in the terrible CHICAGO FIRES. eln’sP areinsHrt Champion FIRE ■— Fa warded the Prize Medals at the Wordl’ Air in London. At the Exhibition Universelle in Paris, and The World’s Fair in New York. Also, winner of the wager of o.ooo Francs PRACTICE. PHYSICIANS THERE, PRESCRIBE IT IN r ™ COlY r GERSltiTIn Young or Old, Married^ *or Single, these Bitters are uu-N ^equalled and have often been tin means of saving life. T R Y_0 NE 6 6 T T I.Ei MILLER, BISPELL & BURRUM, Whole sale Agents, and Wholesale Grocers and Cora- Mission Merchants. 177 BroaH Street, AU GUST A, GA. C. IT. Wright & Son. Agents Miiledgeville, Ga. Campbell &. English, Agents Macon, Ga. VINEGAR BITTERS Awarded at the Paris Exhibition to the Best Safe in the World!! Herring's New Patent Champion Bankers’ Safes! Patent high and low steel-welded, combined with Patent Franklinite. Proof against the blow-pipe, as well as the drill. With patent hinged tongue and groved door and patent rubber-packed flange. Proof against wedges, nitro glycerine and gunpowder. Maufactured only by HERRING, FARREL *L SIIER MAN, 251 and 252 Broadway, cor. Murray ^FARREL. EERR NG & CO., Philadelphia. HERRING &‘CO.. Chicago. HERRING, FARREL & SHERMAN,New Orleans. __ , ^ WRIGHT, SCIIMIDT & CO„ Agents, At lanta, Ga. . _ JOHNS. WRIGHT, Agent, Augusta.Ga. PURSE & THOMAS, Age; ts, Savannah, Ga. r may 7 tf. f.Wunrn Prorri.tor. E. K. McDonald * Co., nroirgi.tianl wen. Ag’ts, San Fraaciaeo. CaL, and 32 and 3 4 Commerce St, N.Y. MILLIONS Bear Testimony to their Wonderful Curative Effects. They are not a vile Fnncy Drink, made of Poor Bom, Whiskey, Proof Spirits nnd Refuse Li on ors doctored, spiced and sweetened to please the taste, called “Tonics,” “Appetizers,” “Restorers,” Sic., that lead the tippler on to drunkenness and ruin, but are a true Medicine,made from the Native Roots and Herbs’of Cali fornia, free from all Alcoholic Stimulnnts. They are the GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER and A LIFE GIVING PRINCIPLE, a perfect Reno vator and Invigorator of the System, carrying off all iwisonous matter and restoring the blood to a healthy con dition. No person can take these Bitters according ,to directions and remain long unwell,provided their bones are! not destroyed by mineral poison or other means, and the vital organs wasted beyond the point of repair. They are a Gentle Purgative as well as "a Tonic, possessing, also, the peculiar merit of acting as a powerful agent in relieving Congestion or Inflammation of the Liver, and all the Visceral Organs. FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS, in yonng!or old, married or single, at the dawn of womanhood or at the turn of life, these Tonic Bitters have no equal. For Inflammatory and Chronic Rhcnma- tism and Gout, Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Bil ious, Remittent and Intermittent JFevers, Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys and Hlndder, these Bitters have been most successful. Such Diseases are caused by Vitiated Blood, which is generally produced by derangement of the Di gestive Organs. DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION, Headache, l’ain in the bhoulc.ers.Coughs, Tightness of the Chest, Dizziness, Sour Eructations of the Stomach, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpitation of the Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in the regions of the kidneys, and a hundred other painful symptoms, are the offsprings of Dyspepsia. They invigorate the Stomach and stimulate the torpid Liver and Bowels, which render them of unequalled effi cacy in cleansing the blood of all impurities, and impart ing new life and vigor to the whole system. FOR SKIN DISEASES, Eruptions. Tetter. Sail Rbepm, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Boils, Car buncles, Ring-Worms, Scald Head, Sore Eyes, Erysipelas, Itch.Scurfs, Discolorations of the Skin, Humors and Dig. eases of the Skin, of whatevernanic or nature, are literally dug up and carried out of the system in a short time by the use oi these Bitters. One bottle in snch cases will convince the most incredulous of their curative effects. Cleanse the Vitiated Blood whenever you find its im purities bursting through the skin in Pimples, Erup tions or Sores; cleanse it when you And it obstructed and sluggish in the veins: cleanse it when it is foul, and your feelings will tell you when. Keep the blood pure, and the health of the system will follow. Pin, Tape, find other Worms, lurking in the system of so many thousands, are effectually destroyed and removed. Says a distinguished physiologist, there is scarcely an individual upon the face of the earth hose body 1b exempt from the presence of worms. II is not upon the healthy elements of the body^t^s* w.orzas. frAVr 'orreii these living monsters of disease. Jio System of Medicine, no vermifuges, no anthelmintics, will free the system from worms like these Bitters. I. WALKER, Proprietor. R. H. MCDONALD A- CO- De-ggists and Gen. Agents, San Francisco, California, and 32 and 34 Commerce Street, New York. -c-rSOLD BY ALL UllUUUlsxa is® ncaituc. Another “All Quiet-” Recent discussion as to the author ship of the famous song, “AIL Quiet on the Poioraac,” seems to have in spired another poem of equal or greater merit, which is copied from the Richmond Dispatch: All quiet along’the Potomac to-night, No sound save the voice of the river, Which ever seems wailing a sorrowful dirge For hopes that have perished forever. And still as I listen, those low mournful notes Are by fancy all framed into story; And I hear a lament for those heroes and braves Whose names are enshrouded in glory; Who once trod these shores in the pride of their might, And swore that the foeman should never Pollute, by his presence, our beautiful South, And our flag should float proudly forever ! But those forms are now still, and o’er their low graves . The loved ones are silently weeping, While the “stars up above, with their glitter ing eyes, Still keep guard where those heroes are sleep ing.” There’s another voice in the dark river’s flow. Tho’ so low I must bend as I listen, And the ripples meanwhile seem a shower of tears, As iu the bright moonlight they glisten. It speaks of a nation whose hopeiare all fled, Whose glory’s forever departed, Whose garlands of fame are withered and dead. Whose people are now brokenhearted. It whispers of laurels all faded and tore— Of banners all gory and tattered— Of armies that proudly defended onrown, But whose hosts are now vanquished and scattered! Hark ! another sweet voice—’tis the gentle night wind, Through the forest leaves'softly ’tis sighing; But it speaks to the heart of glories uudimn- ed, Of blight hopes forever undying. For it says, “Anchor net to this perishing earth” The chains which as soon may be riven, Hut remember, while mourning the sorrows of life. There is happiness, freedom, in Heaven ! Those heroes now tread tho shores of that stream Which flows through the city of God, Their brows are encircled with heavenly light, Tlioir garments washed white in Christ’s blood. NATURE’S weapons All quiet along the Potomac to-night, No sound save the rush of the river, And the beautiful voice of the gentle night wma, As the forest leaves tremble and quiver. Free from the Poisonous and Health-destroying Drugs us ed in others Hair prepara tions. No SUGAR OF LEAD—No LITHARGE-No NITRATE OF SILVER, and is entirely Transparent and clear as crystal, it will not soil the finest fabric—perfectly SAFE, CLEAN and EFFICIEN T—desideralums LON G SOUGHT FOR AND FOUND AT LAST ! It restores and prevents the Hair from be coming Gray, imparls a soft, glossy appear ance, removes Uai»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, cuies all hu mors, cutaneous eruptions, and unnatural Heat. ASA DRESSING FOR TIIE HAIR IT IS THE BEST ARTICLE LV THE MARKET. DR. G. SMITH, Patentee, Groton Junction, Mass., Prepared only by PROCTOR BROTH ERS, Gloucester, Mass. The Genuine is put up in a pannel bottle, made expressiy for it with the name of the article blown in the glass. Ask your Druggist for Nature’s Ilair restora tive, and take no other. For sale in Miiledgeville by L. W. HUNT &co. In Sparta, by A. H. BIRDSONG & CO. p July 2 lv- K Feh2S ’71 Sy. Railroad Time Table- Macon and Brunswick Railroad. ARRIVE 5 2r> p nr 6 50 a m 9 25 p m 700 pm 7 45 a m Macon.. LEAVE 8 20 a m 7 45 p iu Brunswick.. 545 a m Jacksonville, Fla—7 00am Savannah 7 00 pm 645 p m 10 30 a m BROWN’S HOTEL, Opposite Depot, MACON GA. W. F. BROWN & CO., prop’rs (Successors to E. E. Brown'A Son J ) W F. Drown. Geo. C. Brown Oliver, Douglass & Co. 42 THIRD STREET, MACON GA. SOLE AGENTS OF THE Steward and Great Benefactor COOKING STOVE, Cotton Plant Improved 1ROX WITCH. And various other patterns of Cooking Stoves, all guaranteed. POCKET AND TABLE CUTLERY, Knob and Pad Locks, Schovil and Shovel pattern Hoes Wood and Willow Ware, Steam Pipe and Fittings, Wholesale Manufacturer of TIN WARE. Full line of House Furnishing Goods. OLIVER, DOUGLASS & Co-, apri!9rptf. (Macon & Hawkinsville (i 45 a m Macon 3 05 pm Central Railroad. LEAVE ARRIVE Macon. 8 00am 451pm 6 20 p m 5 15am Savannah 7 15am 615pm 7 00 p m 5 30 a m Train from Gordon to Miiledgeville and Ea- tonton connects with down night train from Macon and up day train from.Savatmah. Southwestern Railroad. Eufaula... 4 35 p m 8 50 p m 5 00 a m .. 7 45 am 458pm 5 10pm 1000 a m Railroad. LEAVE ARRIVE .. 5 25 a m 6 12 p m 8 15pm 4 10am 11 00 a m 8 05 p m 4 45 a m Una Railroad. LEAVE ARRIVE 7 40 a m 3 30 p m 6 00 p m 5 40am 3U*am 4 25 p m 3 30 p m 7 06 a m Western and Atlantic Railroad. LEAVE ARRIVE ... 10 30 pm 142 a m 6 00 a m 1 32 p in 2 45 p in 10 00 a m - .. K20»rn 616 am Ckattanoo 0 a. 530am pi 21m Augusta -- Charleston Atlanta..— From the Savannah R publican. Hon. B. H. Hill -Justice to our Pub lic Men. However it may be suppressed for a time by passion, prejudice, jealousy, or ignorance, there is an ultimate sense of justice inlhe hearts of the people that will eventually assert itself and rebuke tht wrong doer. In the case of the gentleman whose name head3 this article, it has been tardy, but it will be none the less sure in its coming. The man* ner in which this distinguished citi zen of Georgia has been treated by a portion ot the press and a few ot the leaders of the people—the reck less aspersions ot his motives and character—the misrepresentations of his acts and opinions—the fierce and exterminating fury with which it has been sought to destroy his in fluence and keep him down—such an exhibition, we say, of malice, in justice, uncharitableness, and lack of State pride, is anything but cred itable to either our heads or hearts as a people. Georgia should foster and cherish all her great men. Their intellects, their achievements, their triumphs go to make up her own glory as a State. It is not the part ot a mother to reject and decry even an erring son. To turn her back upon one whose genius has illustrat ed her name, and is a star in her crown, is both unnatural and cruel. It is time this war upon Mr. Hill had ceased. It is both unjust and senseless. A tew great men, whom we honor with the rest, and who have collided intellectually with him in the past, perhaps to their own disadvantage, have no right to per petuate their own prejudices, much less to infuse them into the minds of trusting followers. There should be some end of strife. There is such a thing as forgiveness, even of injuries, and it is a god-like attri bute. And there is no better lime to commence the work of harmony than now. We are in the midst of a storm, fierce and fearful. Geor gians are all in the same ship, and we have reached a point of common danger where all should be harmo ny with the crew. There is, too, perhaps, less to divide us than at any previous epoch of our history, and never before could we, with so little sacrifice, burj the dead past and come together as a band of brothers. As regards the political career of Mr. Hill, all should now be satisfied. Time has vindicated it. He oppos- ed|secession, and the whole world is now convinced that it was a ter rible mistake. The South plunged into war without his agency and against his remonstrance, he nobly laid aside his individual opinions and stood by her, among the firmest of her sons, until her flag went down and darkness closed in over her tra gic career. Her people subdued, prostrate and heartless under a mil itary despotism, with bayonets brist ling at every door, and Federal prisons gaping wide for all who dared dispute the conqueror’s will — where was he then! Of all the pub • lie men of our Slate—we make no exception—he was the only one that had the courage and the patriotism to press through the threatening hosts of the despot, denounce their outrages and wrongs to their very teeth, and proclaim to his prostrate countrymen that they had rights and must use and defend them. And if our people have Yisen fnm their •tale of hopelessness and despair, if they have been re inspired with a love of liberty and the energy to pre serve it, they are this day, more than to any other living man, indebt ed to Benjamin H. Hill. We stale but facts, fresh in the memory of all, and all will testify to their truth. At a still later day, after fruitless struggles at the ballot-box with the unequal numbers and the fierce ha tred and prejudice of the North, Mr. Hill counselled with leading Demo crats of that section who had breast ed the storm in our behalf, and agreed upon the only resort that could possibly reatore the Demo cratic party to power, and put an end to Radical usurpation and op pression. Upon proclamation of the result to the Southern people, it was denounced as a “new departure,” and Mr. Hill summarily read out of the Democratic party and into the ranks of the enemy. A howl went up from his enemies in every part of the State, and there was no word in the vocabulary of invective too bit ter to be hurled 4 against him. Yet, firm in the truth, he quailed not, but stood manfully by his doctrine. And what is the result to-day ? The very policy so denounced is embodied, letter and spirit, in the Cincinnati platform, and is now accepted as and honorable, and the only hope ol reform, by the Democratic party in every State of the Union! And in three days from this time it will receive the unanimous endorse- dsecrc oi *** to ® — — ■embled ! Is not this a complete vin dication of Mr. Hill? Does it not show that instead of deserting his party and section, he only looked further ahead than the men who de cried him, and eighteen months ago stood on a platform which they have matched up to and occupy to-day ? Never did man more signally tri umph. All may not approve every plank in that plaltorm—neither did he, for he accepted it under the ne cessities of the case as essential to victory and the best to be had, as does the whole South to-day. If Mr. Hill is for Greeley, he but re-echoes the sentiment of every leading Dem ocrat in the land, with a few isolated exceptions, from Maine to Texas. In view of all these facts, we say it is time to make friends with Mr. Hill. The politicians should ceaie to persecute him and poison the minds of the people against him with out a cause. In the coming strug gle, which is for no lets a prize than liberty and the life of the Republic, we shall need his great intellect, his brave heart, and clarion voice. Then let all animosities and jealousies cease, and Georgians, as one united brotherhood, fight shoulder to shoul der in the great battle for deliver ance and liberty. And now, just one word to our brethren of the press. We have groat pnwpr for j?ood and evil in our hands, and a corresponding respon sibility for its proper use. To vin dicate the right, to condem the wrong, and to do strict justioe to all, are among the highest obligations of the profession. Peace, and not war, should be our aim. The editor’s sanctum is sacred to truth, and pas sion and prejudice should find no admission there. We scorn injus tice and unfairness in others—let us keep'our own skirts clear of the stain. We denounce the law of hale that perverts the popular sense of the North—let us not follow their bad example by the unnatural in auguration of it at home. But the other day, when the most outspoken friend of Mr. Greeley—the Augusta Constitutionalist—claimed for Messrs. Toombs and Stephens the rights of brotherhood and the respect of all Georgians for their great endow ments and sincerity of purpose, we rejoiced to see that nearly every lead ing press of the State,though differing from them in opinion, gave a hearty response to the sentiment. Let it be so toward all, Mr. Hill with the rest. The press will do itself honor and lay a graceful offering upon the altar of Georgia, the elements of whose fame are the records of her sons. tFrom the Savannah News, B. E HILL. Our neighbor of the Republican seems to be very anxious to see Mr. B. H. Hill reinstated in his old place in the affections of the people, and to this end a column and more in its issue of yesterday is devoted to a defence of the political course of that gentleman. We can appreciate the magnanimity that induces our neigh bor to lake up the cudgels for a pol itician who, in a casual sort of way, has demonstrated his ability to de fend himself as far as he cared to be defended, and whose many shining virtues do not include an excess of modesty ; but we cannot appreciate a defence that meets only a few of the objections urged against Mr. Hill. It is well known that Mr. Hill’s ‘new departure’ movement was not the cause of his great unpopularity in Georgia—although his advocacy of that policy was a little surprising to those who had read his ‘Notes on the Situation,’ and who had listened to his eloquent efforts on the stump in 1S68. His fierce campaign a- gainst the reconstruction measures and bayonet rule is well remember ed. For eloquent invective, bitter denunciation and fiery argument, it stands unprecedented in our politi cal history ; and the wind that Mr. Hill then sowed culminated in the whirlwind that swept him out of the affections of the people in 1S70. The charges against Mr. Hill which he has never answered— which he has never attempted to an swer—are these : In 1S6S he advis ed the social ostracism of scalawags and carpet-baggers, and advised Southern women who were so un fortunate as to have scalawags for husbands to fly from the disgiace of their embraces at once. He advised children to ostracise their fathers, and so on, and so forth. In 1S70 he was wining and dining with Bullock and with other Radicals who had plundered our people and slandered the good name of Georgia. In a speech iu Forsyth, in 1863, Mr. Hill, in response to a query from one of his audience, *what about Joe Brown ?"* raised his hands i.-i y nnf ] upon the floor, and subsequently, in the course of the same speech, he said that Brown’s name should never pass his o f t> r o ,' IflJt i o'A i Ah’?, i le r has never wavered for one moment in his persistent scalawagism. The editor of the Philadelphia Press, who is behind the scenes and ought to know, says that the name ot Cameron is the synonim of cor ruption. And yet this man Came ron is a copartner of Mr. Hill. These are the points that Mr. Hill’s de fenders should touch upon. If he desires the people of Georgia to look upon him with the respect and con fidence which were on«e his due, he should make these things clear. Thus far, however, neither he nor his friends have made a satisfactory defense. Mr. Hill is the intellectual peer of any in this land, but in his present position he is playing the role sim ply of a most eloquent demagogue, a most brilliant sophist. Some bright sunshiny day, let us hope, Mr. Hill will descend into the pool of repent ance and wash himself clear of the stains that now rest upon hi^oliti* cal garments, and shake himself free of those unhappy connections that are now a reproach to his good name. We clip the following paragraph horn the Cincinnati Enquirer of the 3rd instant: A young New York journalist is about to formally introduce canoe trave ing to the United States, and to undertake a voyage that will ex ceed anything hereiofore attempted by canoeists. The Dolly Varden canoe was built, to order, in May, 1S72, by Waters, Balch & Co., of 1 ro\, N. Y., for Julius Chambers, o! New York city. She is of 1-10 tons burden ; weight of boat, *6 pounds; rigging, 10 1-4; baggage, 16 3 4; and galley, 4£ pounds. U eight of crew 128£ pounds. The hull is of paper, with cedar deck. •She is rigged to carry a sprit-sail, jib and mizzen, and fitted with am ple accommodations for cooking and sleeping on board. The Dolly Var den is the pioneer cruising canoe in nmerica. fcslie left New York on May 21st, and St. Paul on the 29th, for Lake Itasca, where she will de scend the Mississippi to New Or leans. Aiming High.—A correspondent says he is most pleased with the Advocate, because “its aims are high.” Yes! We do aim to incul cate that the business of farming is not only not inferior to none; but tiiat it is beyond question superior to all. Lawyers, Doctors, Ministers and Merchants have so long decried the baseness of the farmer that they might place themselves on the top round of the social ladder that they have really begun to think that their ’ scholastic qualification is superior to the good hard sense which the farm er digsout of the ground with hit corn and potatoes. And what is even worse; the farmers themselves have submitted to the mc.nualions and acquiesced in the conviction,un til they are in doubt as to whether they are entitled to any credit for feeding the world, and clothing the world, and for furnishing the best scholars, the best lawyers, the best preachers, the best merchants from the pure invigorating, moral atmos phere of the farm house. And while we “aim high” we F r °P nc “ fo P r *»sent ran reasoning in a practical common sense, matter of fact style so that he who runs may read. _ Of all the hotels in the world the very oddest is a lonely one in Cali fornia, on the road between San Jose and Santa Cruz. Imagine ten immense trees standing a few feet apart and hollow inside; these are the hotel, neat, breezy, and roman tic. The largest tree is sixty-five feet around, and contains a sitting- room and that bureau of Bacchus wherefrom is dispensed the thing that biteth and stingeth. All about this tree is a garden of flowers and evergreens. The drawing room is a bower made of redwood, ever greens and madrona branches. For bed-chambers there are nine great hollow trees, white-washed or pa pered, and having doors cut to fit tlie shape of the holes. Literature finds a place in a leaning stump, dubbed “the library.” If it were not for that same haunt of Bachus, it is certain that the guests ot this forest establishment would feel like nothing so much as dryads. Gen. Jubal Early on Office Seeking. Gen Jubal A. Early has written a letter declining the use of his name for Congress in the Lynchburg Va. district. He says: “If ever there was a time when truth in the words of the poet who has said ‘the post ot nonor is a private station,’ that time is now, and it is none the less so be cause of the trials attending that sta tion in our impoverished land, while office, especially under the United States, is generally attended with large emoluments. The great bane of our country at this time is the wild hunt after office, and 1 shall certainly not add to that evil by my personal example.” The New York Tribune has an elaborate artiele showing the death rate in seventeen leading cities of America and Europe, in 1870. in New York it was 23.8 to the 1,000; Philadelphia, 22.72; Brooklyn, 24; St. Louis, 21.3; Chicago, 24.5; Bal timore, 25.65; Boston, 24.33; Cin cinnati, 18.39; New Orleans, 27.53; San Francisco, 21.57; Montreal, 31.5; London, 24; Bombay, 19.2; Vibnna, 29.8; Liverpool 311; Man chester, 27.S; Edinburg, 26.3. Ac cording to this statement Bombay is the healthiest city of the lot, and Cincinnati next. Montreal is the sickliest. New Orleans was heal thier than New York in 1870, The average mortality of all is about 24.92. Alaska.—Secretary Seward’* Arctic speculation is going to turn out well, after all. Alaska, in addi tion to its fur$ and fisheries, is dis closing great mineral wealth. Gold and silver quartz have been discov ered on Indian river, which runs through the suberb of Sitka, and gentlemen who have had some ex perience in mining, believe the coun try to be ricn in me picviuu? mctali. Amber has also been found there. Indians from the interior who visit Sitka frequently bring specimens of amber, but they are entire ly ignorant of its value, They also have ornaments of gold and silver which they have manufactured in their rude fashion from the native minerals. Large quantities of ivo ry have been found in Alaska. A trader says that millions of pounds of it can be picked up on the shores of the lakes ot the Aleutian peninsu la. Most wonderful of all, it is said that the climate is growing warmer since the country has been annexed to the United Slates.—Exchange. To relieve from the terrible effects of running a nail in the foot of a per son or horse, lake peach leaves, bruise them, apply to the wound, confine with a bandage and the cure is as if by magic. Renew the application twice a day, if necessary; but one application usually does the work. This has cured both man and beast in a few hours when they were ap parently on the point of having the lock-jaw. This recipe, remembered and practiced, will save many val uable lives.