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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, JULY 4, 1875
ALL THK WORLD,
All tbr* world is full of babies,
Sobbing, sighing, everywhere;
Looking out with eyes of terror,
Bc.itiiig at the empty aif.
Do they see tho Strife before them
That they sol,and tremble so?
Oh, fb<‘. helpless, frightened babies—
titi 11 they come and still they go.
All the world is full of children,
J.aughing over little Joys,
Kirhiug over little troubles,
Fingers bruised and broken toys;
Wishing to bo older, larger,
Weeping at some fancied wo?,
Ob, the happy, hapless children,
Still they oorno and still they go.
All the world is full of lovers,
Walking slowly, whispering sweet,
Dreaming dreams, and building castles.
That must crumble at their feet;
Breaking vows, and burning letters,
Smiling, lest the world shall know,
Oli, the foolish, trusting lovers—
Still they como and still they go.
All tho world is full of peoplo,
linrrying, rushing, pushing by,
Bearing burdens, carrying crosses,
Passing onward, with a sigh,
Some there are with smiling faces,
But witli heavy hearts below,
Ob, tho sad-eyed, burdened people,
How they come, and how they go.
A! i t he earth is full of corpses;
Du.-.t and bones laid there to rest;
This the end that babes and children,
hovers, people, fiioWt host,
AM tiieir fears and all their cros.es,
All tli'dr sorrows, wearing so,
Oil, the silent, happy corpses,
bleeping soundly, lying low.
[Translated from the French.]
OK,
A JOURNEY TO THE NORTH POLE.
I1Y JULES VERNE.
CHAPTER XXIV.
A COURSE Of 1‘OLAR COSMOGRAPHY.
It. need hardly be stated that to scat
themselves at Iho breakfast table it was
necessary that they should take seats ou
the ground.
“Well,” said Clawbonny, “who would
not give all tho tables aud all the dining
looms in the world for the privilege of
dining in 8!> dog. of) min. 15 sec. of north
latitude!”
Tho thoughts of each one were recall
ed in fact to the actual situation; their
minds were a prey to that dominant idea
jf tho North Pole. Bangers braved in
order to roach it, porils to conquer before
they can return from it, were forgotten
in this unprecedented success. That
which neither the ancients Dor iho wod-
rus, which neither Europeans, Aineri-
uns or Asiatics had so far boon able to
lerform had just been accomplished.
The Doctor was attentively listened to
>y his companions while he narrated Jail
hat his science and his inexhaustible
memory could furnish him apropos of
ho situation iu which they were.
If was with a veritable enthusiasm that
to proposed to drink, first of all, a toast
to the Captain.
“To John Hatteras!” he said.
“To John Hatteras!” repeated his com-
.unions with a single voice.
“To tho North Pole!” replied tho Cap-
t in with a strange accent—strange for
l lis being, hitherto so cold, so self con-
l .mod, and now a prey to a powerful ex-
i dement.
Tho cups met and tho toasts were fol-
wod by warm clasps of the hand.
“This then,” said the Doctor, “is the
>st important geographical event of our
och! Who would have said that this
icovery would precede that of the
art of Africa or of Australia! Truly,
iktteras, you have surpassed the Sturts
ill tho Livingstones, the Bartons and
the Barths! Honor to you!”
‘You are light, Doctor,” replied Alta-
nn.nt. “It would seem that owing to the
acuities of the enterprise, the North
I> t ,le should be the last part of the earth
i.o discovered. A government, at any
: ,.d, by the sacrifice of men and money,
. aid inevitably have acquired knowledge
f (he heart of Africa; but here nothing
legs certain than success, and obstacles
osolntely insurmountable might pre
sent themselves.”
“Insurmountable!” cried Hatteras ve
hemently. “There are no insurmounta-
: f obstacles! There are wills more or
determined—that is all!
At las f ,” said Johnson, “we are here,
' ..eh is good. But, now, Mr. Cawbon-
1 : --ill you tell me what special feature
1 Polo possesses?”
This feature, my bravo Johnson, that
h only port of the globe which
d_ no t move, while all the other parts
tur; with an extreme rapidity.”
‘ J 11 do not perceive," replied John
son. • ‘that wo are moro immovable here
than ut Liverpool!”
“Nor do you feel tho movement either
here or at Liverpool; the reason is that
in these two cases you yourself partici
pate iu this movement or in this repose!
But tho fact is not less certain. The
earth has a rotary motion which is per
formed iu twenty-four hours, and this
movement is supposed to operate on an
axis, the extremities of which are at the
North Pole aud the South Pole. Well,
ve are at one of the extremities of this
■ ocessarily inmovable axis.”
“Thus,” said Bell, “while our fellow
uutrymen are turning rapidly, we re-
win in repose?”
“Nearly so, for we are not exactly at
'■« Pole!”
Tou are right, Doctor!” said Hatteras
grave tone and shaking his head,
■ly-five seconds remain before we
have reached the precise point!”
ant is a small matter;” replied Alta-
ln: “and wo can consider ourselves as
vable.”
y’replied the Doctor, “while the
a ut s of every part of the equator
C!0V; t the rate of 3G7 leagues an hour.”
‘Aii t^t, too, without being any
tinned!” exclaimed Bell.
J,lt ' so,*” replied the Doctor.
11,11 resumed Johnson, “indepond-
this rotary movement, is not the
oar : O'.lowed with another movement,
•fotpid tjjQ KUD ?“
“Yes, a movement of translation
which it perfoms in one year.”
‘Ts it more rapid than the other?” ask
ed Boll.
“Infinitely more rapid and I should say
that, although wo are at tho Pole, it car
ries ns along as it does all the other
inhabitants of the globe. Thus, then,
our pretended immovability is only a chi
mera, immovable as regards the
other parts of the globe, yes, but not as
regards the sun.”
“Good,” said Bell with a comical ac
cent of regret. “And I thought myself
so quiet. I must give up that illusion.
Decidedly one cannot have a moment’s
repose in this world.”
“As you say, Bell,” replied Johnson;
“and will you inform us, Mr. Clawbonny,
what is the rapidity of this movement of
translation?”
“It is considerable,” replied the Doctor.
“The earth revolves around the sun sev
enty-seven times faster than a twenty-
four pounder cannon ball travels, which,
however, makes ninety-five fathoms per
second. Its speed of translation is there
fore, seven leagues and six-tenths per
second; you see, that is quite another
thing than tho movement of the portions
near tho equator.”
“Diable/” exclaimed Bell, “it is hard
to believe you, Mr. Clawbonny. Moro
than seven leagues per second, and that,
too, when it-would have been so easy to
remain immovable if God bad so willod
it!”
“Indeed!” exclaimed Altamont. “Do
you think so, Bel!? Then there would be
no more day, no more night, no more
spring, autumn, summer or winter!”
“Without taking into consideration a
result simply dreadful!” remarked tho
Doctor.
“And what result is that” asked John
son.
“It is that wc would fall into the sun!”
“Pali,into the sun!” repeated Bell, sur
prised.
“Undoubtedly. If this movement of
translation should cease, tho earth would
be precipitated on tho sun iu sixty-four
days and a half.”
“Afall of sixty-four days!” exclaimed
Johnson.
“Neither moro nor less,” replied the
Doctor, “for it would havo to traverso a
distanco of 38,000,000 leagues.”
“What then is tho weight of the terres
trial globe?" asked Altamont.
“It is five thousand eight hundred and
eighty-one quadrillion tons.
“Good!” cried Johnson, those are num
bers that convey no meaning to the ear!
They ceaso to be comprehensible!”
“And now, my worthy Johnson, I will
givo you tw r o standards of comparison
which will linger in your mind: do not.
forget that it would require seventy-five
moons to make up tho weight of the
earth and 350 worlds to equal the weight
of tho sun.”
“All this is crushing!” cried Altamont.
“Crushing is the word,” replied tho
Doctor.
“But I return to tho Pole, for never
has a cosmographical lesson on this part
of tho earth boon more opportune—al
ways supposing that it does not fatigne
you?”
“Go on, Doctor, go on!” exclaimed
Altamont.
“I have told you," resumed the Doctor,
who had as much pleasure iu instructing
his companions as tho latter could have
iu being instructed, “I havo told you
that tho Pole is an immovable point in its
relation to the other parts of the earth.
Well, this is not altogether true:”
“How!” exclaimed Bell. “Must you
take back something that you have said?”
“YTs, Boll. The Pole does not always
occupy exactly tho same place; formerly,
the Polar Star w-as more distant from the
celestial Pole than it now is. Our Pole
is, therefore, endowed with a certain
movement. It describes a circle in about
twenty-six thousand years. This arises
from ih9 precision of tho equinoxes, of
which I shall speak to you presently.”
“But,” said Altamont, “might it not
be that tho Pole will one day displace it
self still more?”
“Ah! my dear Altamont,” replied the
Doctor, “you touch me there ou a great
question which the savants discussed for a
long time after a certain singular discov
ery had been made.”
“What was that discovery?”
“It was this: In 1771 tho remains of a
rhinoceros were discovered on the border
of the frozen sea, and in 171k) those
of an elephant wore found on the coast
of Siberia. How was it that theso quad
rupeds of the warm countries should be
found iu those latitudes? From these
circumstances strange stones got abroad
among the geologists who were not as
learned ns was later a Frenchman, M.
Ellie de Beamnont, who demonstrated
that these animals had dwelt in latitudes
already raised, and that the torrents aud
rivers had simply carried their bodies to
the localities where they were found. But
as this explanation had not yet been giv
en at the time, guess what the imagina
tion tho savants invented? ’
The savants are capable of everything,”
said Altamont iaughiDg.
“Yes, of everything, in order to ex
plain an event. Wei!, they supposed that
the Pole of the earth %vas formerly at tho
equator, and tho equator at tho Pole.”
“Bah!”
“Just as I say, and seriously, too. Now
had it been so, as the earth is llattened
at the Polo more than five leagues, the
sens carried to the new equator by the
centrifugal force, would have covered
mountains twice as high as the Hima
layas. All the countries which lie in the
direction of the Polar ciricle, Sweden,
Norway, Russia, Siberia, Greenland, Now
Britain would have been covered with
water five leagues in depth, while the
equatorial regions thrown to the Pole
would havo formed plateaus raised to tho
height of five leagues! ”
“What a change!” exclaimed Johnson.
“Oh, that did not all frighten the sa
vants. ”
»
“And how- did they explain this over
throw?” asked Altamont.
“By tho shock of a comet coming in
contact with the earth. The cometis the
l Deus ex macldna,’ whenever science is
embarrassed in matters of cosmography
it calls a comet to its aid. It is the most
complaisant star that I know of, and at
the slightest signal from an astronomer
it disarranges itself in order that every
thing else might be arranged! ”
“Then,” said Johnson, “according to
your views, Mr. Clawbonny, this turning
of things upside down is impossible?”
“Impossible?”
“And if it should happen?”
“If it should happen the equator
would be frozen in twenty-four hours.”
“Good!” exclaimed Bell. “If it should
occur just at this moment, people might
say that we had not been to the Pole!”
“Reassure yourself, Bell. To revert
to the immovability of the terrestrial axis.
Its result is this: if w-e should be at this
place during the winter we would see the
stars describe a perfect circle around us.
As to the sun,on March 23, the day of the
spring equinox, it would seem to us (I
do not take the refraction into account)—
it would seem to us as if cut exactly in
two by the horizon aud would rise gradu
ally while forming very elongated curves;
but here, there is this remarkable fact
that from the moment of its appearance
it no longer sets but remains visible for
six months. Then its disk again touches
the horizon on September 22, the day of
the autumn equinox, aud from the time
that it sets, it is seen.no more during the
whole winter.”
“You spoke jast now of the flattening
of the oarth at the poles,” said Johnson.
“Please explain that to me, Mr. Claw
bonny.”
“Well, tho earth having been in a fluid
stale iu the first days of the world, you
understand that therefore its movement
of rotation must have urgod a portion of
its moveable mass to the equator, where
the coutrifugal forco made itself more
strongly felt. Had the earth been im
movable, it would havo remained a per
fect sphere; but in consequence of the
phenomenon which I have just described
to you, it presents a somewhat elliptic
shape, and tho parts at the Pole are near
er to the centre than tho parts at the
equator by about live and a third
leagues.”
“So,” said Johnson, “if our Captain
desired to lead us to the centre of the
earth ho would havo five leagues less to
inako to rcac-h it?”
“Just as you say, my friond.”
“Well, Captain, that is so much gained
on tho road to tho centre! This is an
opportunity by which we should profit—”
Hatteras made no reply. Evidently be
was not following the conversation, or
else he was listening without understand
ing what was said.
“Faith!” replied the Doctor, “accord
ing to certain savants this would bo the
occasion to attempt this expedition.”
“Ah, indeed!” cried Johnson.
“But let me finish, replied the Doctor,
“and I will speak about that presently. I
wish to teach you, first, how the flatten
ing of the poles is the cause of the pre
cession of the equinoxes, that is to say,
why each year the spring equinox comes
a day earlier than it would if the earth
was perfectly round. This is caused sim
ply by tho fact that the attraction of the
sun operates in a different way on the
bulging part of the globe situated at the
equator, which then experiencees a retro
grade movement. Subsequently it is this
that displaces this Pole slightly, as I told
you just now. But, independently of
this effect, the flattening Bhould have a
more curious and personal effect, whioh
we would perceive if we were gifted with
a mathematical sensibility.”
“What do you mean?” asked Bell.
“I mean that we are heavier here than
we would bo at Liverpool.”
“Heavier?”
“Yes! we, our dogs, our guns, our in
struments!”
“Is it possible?”
“Certainly, and for two reasons. The
first is, that we are nearer to the centre
of the globe, which, consequently, draws
us to it with greater force. This attrac
tive force, you must understand, is noth
ing but weight. The second is that the
rotary force, which does not exist at the
Pole, being very marked at the equator,
the objects there have a tendency to dis
engage themselves from the earth; they
are, therefore, less heavy.”
“How!” said Johson; “seriously, wo
are not of the same weight everywhere?”
“No, Johnson; following the law of
Newton, bodies attract to themselves in
direct ratio to their bulk and in inverse
ratio to the square of the distances. Here
I weigh more because I am nearer the
centre of attraction, and on another plan
et, I would weigh still more according to
the bulk cf that planet?”
“What!” cried Bell. “In the moon?”—
“In the moon, my weight, which is two
hundred pounds at Liverpool, would be
not more than thirty-two! ”
“And in the sun?”
“Oh, in the sun I would weigh more
than five thousand pounds!”
“Great heaven!” exclaimed Bell. “Why
you would need an engine to lift your
legs from the ground! ”
“Probably!” replied the Doctor, ^laugh
ing at Bell s amazement. “But hero the
difference is not appreciable, and on
making an equal effort with tho muscles
of the calf of the leg Bell could jump
as high here as on the quays of the Mer-
sy!”
“Yes! but in tho sun?” repeated Bell,
who was still in a state of wonderment.
“My friend!” said the Doctor to him,
tho consequence of all this is that wo are
well situated where we are, and that it is
useless to seek elsewhere!”
“You said just now,” remarked Alta
mont, “that this would be, perhaps, the
time to attempt an excursion to the cen
tre of the earth! Has such a journey
ever been thought of?
“Yes, and this ends what I have to tell
£ ’ #
you relative to the Pole. There is no
point in the world which has given rise
to so many chimeras and hypotheses! The
ancients, who were very ignorant in cos
mography, placed there the Garden of
Hesperides. In the Middle ages it was
believed that the earth was supported on
pivots placed at the poles on which it
turned; but when the comets were Been
moving freely in the circumpolar regions
this means of support had to be aban
doned. Later came a French astronomer,
Baily by name, who maintained that the
lost people of whom Plato speaks, the
Atlantides, lived on this very spot. Final
ly, in our days, it has been stated that at
the poles existed an immense opening
whence issued tho light of the Aurora
Borealis, and by which one might pene
trate into the interior of the globe; then,
too, the existence of two planets, Pluto
and Proserpine, m the hollow sphere was
believed in and also a luminous atmos
phere made luminous by the strong pres
sure which it experienced.
“All this has been said?” asked Alta
mont.
“Yes, and very seriously written down.
Captain Symmes, one of our fellow-
countrymen, proposed to Humphrey Da
vy, Humboldt and Arago to attempt the
voyage! But these savants refused.”
“And they did well!”
“I believe so. However that may be,
you see, my friends, that free range has
been given to the imagination on the
subject of the Pole, and that sooner or
later we must come back to the simple
truth.”
‘‘Anyhow, we shall see,” said Johnson,
who did not abandon his idea. “Then,
let ns wait until to-morrow for excur
sions,” said the Doctor, smiling to see
the old sailor unconvinced, and if there
be any special aperture by which to
reach the centre of the earth we shall go
there togethor.”
[to be continued.]
—“Thieving in tho outskirts” is the
latest for picking ladies pockets.
—“Tongue tnssols”is another name for
the spelling bee.
—Mark Twain says chambermaids al
ways put the match-box somewhere else.
—Mrs. Smith says she celebrates her
wooden wedding every day. She mar
ried a stick, and that’s how it is.
—Mrs. Gubhins says her husband is
liko a tallow candle; he always smokes
when he goes out.
—“Bah,” said John Henry’s hopeful to
a small boy who wantod to whip him;
“you couldn’t lick a postage stomp.”
—Punch says of “Lohengrin” that, al
though thoro is a king in the opera, there
is no heir apparent.
—The Detroit Free Frcss says that St.
Louis girls carry cinnamon m their pock
ets to give young men who have a right
to kiss them.”
—The editor of the Buffalo Express
likes women in the presont fashion first-
rate, as far as he can see. So he says.
—It is said there are only three women
in Indiana who can make a good enp of
coffee, and those three don’t have any to
make.
—Lucy Stone says it’s wicked to wear
corsets, as Eve didn’t have any. Eve
didn’t have any clothes.
—The Cardiff giant is to be sold to a
San Francisco Chinaman for an idol,
though he has been idle for a long time.
—“We don’t advertise religion,” said-
a minister to Carlyle. “What do you
ring your bells for, then?” was the reply.
—The Reverendess Olympia Brown is
lame, and the boys of Bridgeport call her
“Oh-limpy,” and don t know they are
making a pun.
—A lady lawyer is established as con
sulting counsel in London, but her clients
begin to complain that their secrets some
how seem to leak out.
—A Boston editor blushes for the igno
rance of three young girls of that city,
who tried to get their horse’s head down
so that it could drink by unbuckling the
crupper.
—A fair petitioner for divorce in Ken
tucky is thirteen years old, and the
ground of her petition is that her hus
band abandoned her more than a year
ago.
—Oar matter-of-fact contributor ob
serves that the difference between an
ambitious man and a mercenary one, is
that the former wants credit and the lat
ter only wants cash.
—An artificial yellow rose worn on the
left side is reportod the fashion on Lou
isville night caps just now. There are
only seven women in the town, though,
who wear nightcaps.
—A writer on dress: “Short and
podgy women should not wear belts.”
Now what is the use of advice like that?
What woman ever admitted that she was
“short and podgy?”
—“O, ma!” exclaimed a bright little
Boston girl to her mother, as she saw
Gen. Butler pass by with his division on
Thursday, “There’s our Parian marble
match-safe on horseback.”
—When first I met thee—in the dark
alone—aud heard, entranced, thy voice’s
dulcet tone, my heart was pierced with
love’s delicious pain; but when I saw thee
I was well again.
—A Minneesota Sheriff carried a bullet
in his head for ten years, and when they
removed it, the other day, he became
foolish. They are looking for some one
to shoot him again.
—A Kansas woman offers to bet $50
that her husband can “cuss” a bnshel
of grasshoppers out of the country while
the people of Missouri are fasting and
praying a pint out of a ten acre wheat
field.
From ths Chrstian Tudex and Baptist.
JOHN OF BARNEVELD.
HIS TRIAL AND EXECUTION.
Just previous to the commence
ment of that fearful “blood bath,”
known as the “Thirty Years’ War,”
lived and died John of Barneveld, Advo
cate of Holland, and Prime Minister of
the “States General,” or Netherland Re
public.
The life and public services of this
remarkable man, as well as the straggles
and successes of the Commonwealth,
which Barneveld so faithfully served, will
ever be an instrnctive study to the curi
ous searcher after republican antiqui
ties.
Says his learned historian, Mr. Motley:
“That statesman’s name, but for the
dark and tragic scenes with which it was
ultimately associated, might after the
lapse of two centuries and a half, have
faded into comparative oblivion, bo im
personal and shadowy his presence would
have seemed upon the great European
theatre, where he was so long a chiof ac
tor, and where his efforts and achieve
ments were foremost among those pro
ductive of long, enduring, and wide
spread results.”
John of Barneveld, Advocate and Seal
Keeper of the little Province of Holland,
during forty years of as troubled and
fertile an epoch as any in human history,
was second to none of his contemporary
statesmen. The ever-teeming brain, tho
restless, almost omnipresent hand, the
fertile pen, tho eloquent and ready
tongue, were seen, heard and obeyed
by the great European public, by the
monarchs, statesmen and warriors of the
time, at many critical moments of histo
ry; but it was not John of Barneveld
that spoke to the world. “Those high
and puissant Lords, my Masters the
States General,” personified tho young
but already majestic Republic. Digni
fied, draped and concealed by that over
shadowing title, the informing and mas
ter spirit performed its never ending
task.
“Born in Amersfoort in 1547, of the
ancient and knightly house of Oldeu-
Barneveld,” though inheriting small pos
sessions, he early became a diligent and
profound student. After attending the
Universities of Holland, France, Italy
and Germany, he took the foremost stand
among the learned men of Holland, and
beoarne, also, a trusted counsellor of
William the Silent. After the as assina-
tion of the heroic William, John of Barn
eveld became Advocate of Holland, and
Prime Minister of the Netherland Re
public.
Under the semi-royal and impressive
cognomen of “my Lords the States Gen
eral,” the Republic took high rank among
the nations of Europe. Barneveld was
was a true diplomat, and, under his skill
ful guidance, the envoys of “the Statos
General” were recognized at the highest
courts of Europe. For forty years this
ingenious patriot and lofty statesman
served his country. Independence was
secured, education was fostered, and the
influence of the Netherland Iiepubiic
was felt in all civilized countries.
After Barneveld had grown old in tho
service of the Republic, a strange revo
lution, which political economists to this
day cannot comprehend, disturbed and
distracted the Republic. Maurice of
Nassau, the most distinguished soldier of
his time, and son of William the Silent,
had long chafed under the rnle of the
plain and unpretending Republican, Ad
vocate Barneveld. With royal blood
permeating every vein, and the reputa
tion of an illustrious ancestry resting on
his martial shoulders, it is not surprising
that the dashing yonng soldier, Maurice
of Nassau, should look through different
glasses than the now venerable Barne
veld.
It is impossible to mention all the
strange scenes which occurred in that
memorable twelve years’ truce which
preceded the Thirty Years’ War. The
trace was bronght about by John of
Barneveld, and was considered a recog
nition, by Spain, of the complete inde
pendence of the rebellious Netherlands.
In the year 1618, and daring this truce,
Maurice of Nassau united himself with
the enemies of Barneveld, and suddenly
became master of the country. The aged
and respected lawgiver of Holland was
suddenly hurled from his place, and the
fierce young prince, thirsting for war and
glory, stepped recklessly into his shoes.
The trusted counsellor of the father was
now forced into bitter opposition to the
son. The warmest friend of the house of
Nassau, was now treated as its bitterest
enemy. But tne worst had not come.
Without describing the fierce commo
tions that befell the Republic, we hasten
on to the most unnatural tragedy that
ever darkened the pages of Republican
history. John of Barneveld was arrested
and pat into solitary confinement.
Strange and unheard of charges were
now preferred against him, the most
damning of which was a secret league
with Spain, and treason to the Republic
he had founded.
On the 7ih or March his trial began.
It must have been the vilest mock trial
that ever imperiled the life of a public
man. “Nearly seven months Advocate
Barneveld had lain in prison, and no
charges bn >ught against him; a gross vio
lation of law, for the ancient charters of
Holland provided that, unless charges
were made within six weeks, that the
prisoner should go free.” The arrest of
Barneveld was, itself, a piece of ruffian
ism. A great officer of State, sacred
from arrest, he was trapped at a confer
ence, and forcibly imprisoned by the
minions of Maurice. “It was a packed
tribunal,” says Motley, “that tried him.”
Twenty-four Commissioners who were to
be jndges of law and fact, were chosen to
preside. Some of them were outspoken
and bitter enemies of Barneveld, and
knew nothing of the law.
“Before Buch a court,” writes Mr.
Motloy, “the foremost citizen of Neth
erlands, the first living statesman of Eu
rope, was brought day by day for nearly
three months, eomiug down stairs from
the mean and desolate room, where he
was confined, to the comfortable apart
ment below, which had been fitted up for
the commission. ” There was no bill of
indictment, no arraignment, no counsel.
There were no witnesses and no argu
ments. Barneveld was served with no
articles of impeachment. He asked for
a list, in writing, of the charges against
him, that he might ponder his answer.
The demand was refused. He was for
bidden the nse of paper and ink, or any
writing materials. His papers and books
were all taken from him. He was allow
ed to consult neither with an advocate,
nor even with a single friend. Alone
in his chamber of bondage, he was to
meditate on his defense. Out of his
memory and brain, and from these alone,
he was to supply himself with the array
of historical facte, stretching over a long
er period than tho lifetime of many of
his judges, and with the proper legal and
historical arguments upon the facts for
the justification of his cause. That mem
ory and brain were capacious and power
ful enough for the task. But little was
known of this great secret State trial.
The judges, by solemn oath, bound them
selves never to disclose what might tran
spire during the trial. Tradition relates
that tho Advocate made a long and pow
erful defense; the most learned man in
Holland, as he was, save Grotius, could
not do otherwise. The twenty-four igno
rant and biased judges were but as
children in the presence of Barneveld.
“Moved occasionally from his austere
simplicity, the majestic old man rose to a
strain of indignant eloquence, which might
have shaken the hall of a vast assembly,
and found echo in the hearts of a thou
sand hearers, as he denounced their petty
insults or ignoble insinuations; glaring,
like a caged lion, at his tormentors, who
had often shrunk before him, when
free, and now attempted to drown his
voice by contradictions, interruptions,
threats and unmeaning howls.”
On the 13th of May, 1613, John of
Barneveld was condemned to death. His
brutal judges meant to do nothing else.
His sentence produced universal aston
ishment and gloom over Europe. The
eloquent envoy from France to the
Hague never wearied in his impassioned
appeals for justice to the Advocate. But
Holland was in tho hands of the com
mune, and tho age and forty years ser
vice of Barneveld did not mollify theft
sudden dosiro for his blood. “I am
ready to die,” wrote the Advocate to his
family, “but cannot comprehend why I
must die. I wish from my heart, through
my doath and my blood, all disunion and
discoid in this land may C6ase.”
On a bright and beautiful morning in
May, 1619, John of Barneveld, seventy-
two years of ago, tho foremost of states
men, the great conservator of the peace
of Europe, the companion of Grotius,tho
counsellor of tho house of Nassau, the
beloved friend of Henry of Navarre, was
beheaded at the Hague, and, with his
lofty soul, it seems the glory of the Neth
erlands departed forever.
J. R. K.
Atlanta, June, 1875.
—Mr. T. Walesby died recently at Ool-
lingtree, Northampton. His knowledge
of music and bells was considerable, and
his enthusiasm on the subject great.
—To extract rust from steel immerse
the article to be cleaned in a solution of
half ounce cyanide of potassium to a
wine-glassful of water until the dirt and
rnst disappear. Then clean by means of
a tooth brush with a paste composed of
cyanide of potassium, castile soap,
whitening and water.
—The best pine wood evaporates five
pounds of water per pound wood con
sumed in a steam boiler furnace. One
cord of wood can be consumed per hour
on sixty square feet of grate. One
pound of carbon burnt to carbonic acid
requires the oxygen of 153 cubic feet of
atmospheric air.
The “Natub-Theeapie” or Grape-
Cure.—Meran, in the Tyrol, has become
famous as the headqurters of what is
known as the Natur-therapie, or grape-
cure, and the medical journals contain
long accounts of the mode of life and
dietary habit there pursued for various
ailments. It appears that invalids suf
fering from chest affections—bronchitis
or consumption in its pretubercnler
stage—are the chief subjects of this
grape treatment. Less than three pounds
of grapes a day is not enough for effica
cy. The patient begins with one or two
pounds per diem, dividing the quantity
into three portions—one taken an hour
before breakfast, the next before dinner,
which comes off between 12 and 1 o’clock
and the last in the afternoon or evening.
The grapes are eaten sub Jove frigido,
and alter two or three days the quantity
is increased by half a pound, until it
reaches three or four pour.ds. This
amount often suffices the patient, who
finds, as a rule, that ho gains in weight
and in strength also. Chronic liver com
plaints, especially when due to excesses
in wine drinking, are, it is said, notably
relieved by this means, the potash salts
in the fruit, supplying the element which
the wine loses in the process of manufac
ture. Hepatic dropsy has been known to
mitigate in this way. One special point
mentioned in favor of the “cure” is this,
that no exclusive diet in particular is pro
scribed—imJoed, the grapes themselves
become so satisfying that indulgence in
other food is hardly necessary. Large
numbers of German, Russian, and Italian
invalids visit Meran.
UN f-'
BRANCH OFFICE OF THE HOWE MACHINE CO., )
sue, Georgia, South Carolina. Alarama& Mississippi, v
Nasuville, Tknn., Juno 10th, 1375.)
For the States op Tennessi
To the Editors of the Enquirer-Sun, Columbus, Georgia :
Dear Sir: Our attention haring: been called to an advertisement of one of our competitors.
In which our sales for 1874 :»ro “estimated” at 35,000, wo take pleasure In authorising the state
ment that wo are officially informed from the principal office of the Company at New York that
tho sales of THE HOW E MACHINES were 103,130 for 1874.
Respectfully,
THE KQWE MACHINE COMPANY,
deoil
CEO. H. OWEN, Manager.
Hotel.
CENTRAL HOTEL,
140 and 143 Broad St., Columbus, (ia.
Mrs. S. E. Wolduidue,
ap21 Proprietress.
Lawyers.
LIONEL C. LEVY, JR.,
Attorney and t’eiiuselior ai Law.
Commissioner of Deeds N. Y. and o'her States.
Offlcoover Georgia Home Insurance Co.
Special attention given to collections,
decs
A. A. DOZIER,
Attorney and Counsellor s*t S.riv,
Practices iu State and Federal Courts in Georgia
and Alabama.
Office 126 liroiul bt., Columbus, 0a. ja6
Mahk II. liLANDForui. Lotus F. Garrard.
BLASDFOKD & GARRARD,
Attorneys and Counsellors at S-nvr.
Office No. t ; 7 Broad street, over Wittich & ti ni
sei's Jewelry Store.
Will practice in tho State ami Federal C; '-its.
s-U>4
L. X. DOWNING,
Attorney and Solicitor.
U. S. Com’r and Register iu Bankruptcy. O
llovdO| ov,-r Brooks’ Drug Store, Columbus, ,
K. J. MORES,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law ,
Georgia Home Insurance Company building, s
oct7 lyj end story.
Watchmakers.
C. II. LEIjUIN,
Watchmaker,
134 Broad street, Columbus, <?.•*.
Watches ami Clocks repaired in tho i ' m:
nor and warranted. jal
Tin and Coppersmiths.
Vi 71 FEE,
Worker in Tm, Siiieet Iron, Copp
Orders from abroad promptly attended to.
1a7 No. 174. Broad Sir.-.
Dentists.
w. F. XMUIKS,
Dentist,
Opposite Strapper’s building, Ramin/, h
Special attention given to the insert!'.!. • Arti
ficial Teeth, as well as to Operative Dcntircvy
iohdJ ,I»w
COLUMBUS DENTAL ROOMS,
W. T. Fool, Frop’r,
Georgia Homo Building, Columbus Georgia.
ootl3
Tailors.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
Seasonable Spring Goods.
Durable, fine - fitting, low - priced
Dress and Walking Boots for
Ladies, Misses and Children.
children and Infants’ Ankle Ties and
Slippers,
In all desirable colors.
Gentlemen’s Fine Shoes—stylish, du
rable, comfortable.
A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT.
Substantial Work for Plantation Wear,
AND A
Full Stock of all ths desirablo styles attrac
tive to all classes of buyers.
WELLS & CURTIS,
No. 73 Broad St. f
novl4 tf Sign of the Big Boot.
REAL ESTATE ACENTS.
JOHN BLACKMAR,
Next to Freer, lllges & (Jo., St. Clair Street
Columbus, Ua.
Real Estate, Brokerage and In
surance Agent.
REFER, BY PERMISSION,
To Merchants’ aud Mechanics’ Bank, of this city
jan28 tf
GROCERIES.
HENRY SELLMAN.
Cutting, Cleaning ami Kcpalrins
Bono in tlio host stylo.
aprZ-H Corner Crawford and Trout
Piano Tuning, &c.
E. W. BEAU,
Repairor and Tuner of Pianoes, Or.- trr. a:
Accordcona. Sign Painting also done.
Oitiers may bo bo left at J. W. Peaso & Norm
Book Store it'vh
Cun and Locksmiths,
PlliLIP E1FLES,
Gun and Lockswith, Crawford street, next tc
Johnson’s corner, Columbus, Ga. pr’
WILLIAM SCHOiiEE,
Gun and Locksmith and dealer in Gunning M&.
tcriai3. East of Struppc-r’a Confectionary
Jalfi ^
Fresh Meats.
J. W. PATRICK,
Stalls No. 16 and 18, Market Rouge,
Fresh Meats of every kind, and best quality,
jnll always ou hand.
S. T. COOK,
Fresh Meats of All Kinds,
sep6 Stalls Nos. 15 and 17.
Barber Shops.
ED. TERRY, Barber,
Crawford St., under RankiD House, Columbus, Ga.
dec! 8
Builders and Architects.
J. G. CHALMERS,
House Carpenter and Builder.
Jobbing done at short notice.
Plans and specifications furnished, for all stylos
of buildings
Broad Street, next to G. V-.'. Brown’.,
jaO Columbus, Ga.
Cotton Factories.
COLUMBUS MANUFACTURING CO.,
Manufacturers of
Sheetings, Shirtings, and Sewing d
Knitting Thread.
Cards Wool and Grinds Wheat* nd Ccrn-
^TliW MAGNOLIA HAMS,
Fulton Market Beof,
Dried Beef Tongues,
Sugars and Colfocs,
New Orloans Syrups,
Florida Syrup by the barrel ordoe. p’r gal.
Honey by tho barrel at $1 per gallon,
Fine Liquors of all kinds.
Burton’s Malthop Toniquo, tho Finest Ale
made—highly endorsed by all who use it—
at •■JS.SO per dozen.
McEwan’s Ale, $3.h'5 perylozen.
Wc arc dally receiving!ail varieties of Fine
Groceries, aud guarantee all we sell.
-SafAll purchases delivered.
H. F, ABELL & 00.,
jol3 tf [ieb 14]
Doctors.
DR. S. 15. UW.
Office corner Broad and Randolph streets, Burros
building. /
Residence oa Forsyth, three doors below St. Clair,
jal.
OPELIKA DIRECTORY.
Doctors.
DK. JAS. T. WAKNOCK,
* Surgeon !«id Physician.
Office at Slaughters Drug Store, Railroad street.
idVfTJ??W!f
Hotels.
ADAMS HOUSE.
When you go to Op-ilika, be sure to stop at the
Adams House, opposite Passeuger Depot.
dec23
HIDES.
. HIRSCH
HAS 11EMOVED TO
HIS OLD STAND
ON
Crawford Street,
Near Alabama Warehouse,
Where ho will coutinuo to PAY tho
HIGHEST PRICES for
Rags, Hides, Furs and Wax,
augl3 janYO dlv
Office in rear of Wittioli A Kinael’s, 51 m
jalS It. n. CL ILTON, Pro
Iph Ht.
MUSCOGEE MANUFACTURING « <>.
Mar ufacturera of
SHEETINGS SHIiiTINQS,
YARN, ROPE,
COLUMBUS, GA.
(}. P. SWIFT, President.
W. A. SWIFT, Secretary TronR!ir«r. orl.G 1y.
HERRING’S
Patent Champion Safes,
ESTABLISHED MORE THAN A THIRD
.OF AOENTURY,
REDUCED IN PRICE.
ALSO TWO HUNDRED SECOND-HAND
SAFES FOR SALK AT VERY
LOW PRICES.
, HERRING & CO.,
j 350 and 353 BROADWAY, New York
j 56 ami 60 SL DSILR Y ST., KoHtou-
febiz deod3m
W. V/. SHARPE & CO.,
Publishers* Agents
Ko. 25 Park llow, Now York,
Are authorized to Contract for Ad
vertising *in onr paper.
my 14 tf
Painters.
YVM. SNOW, «JK., Vi CO.,
House and Sign Painters,
Old Oglethorpe corner, (just north of pc-
Columbus, Georgia.
Will contract for Houh.* au.i Sign P
rcatiormbio prices, and imnnutlmt 8:il
infer i.* *<7rn. Hr
Livery and Saie Staiues,
KOlil ’sT THOMPSON,
Livery, Sale «•.id Exehttnge Stables,
Oolstuckp-. 'mu i? Randolph t n.,
«*ct30 r .’umbi-s. C:i
LAWYERS.
HINES BOZIEK,
Attorney at I mw,
HAMILTON, GA.,
TXTILL praetico iu tho Cliattaiin'ochen C .cnit
VY or any wlierv olsti. All kind o! c'.le.tiops
Pl’SHSD. “Pay me or run away.” uovll tf
Restanrani ani Billiard Saloon
Rankin House.
I pVERYTHlNG connected with this estab-
IA lishment has been refitted and renovated.
1 he BAR is provided with the Choicest Liquors
and Cigars.
The Billiard Table*
A re new and elegant. The undersigned has
charge. Mr John W. Jones remains in tho
establishment at all times, ready to serve cus
tomers. A. F, CLEMENTS.
jel8 tf
fiCARRIAliES!
WAGONS, PLOWS,
AND
Agricultural Implements Generally.
I HAVE locate.' my Shops on Wynn’s Hill,
near the city of Columbus, and am prepared
with a good stock oi DRY LUMBER to at
tend to all w rk in my lino at tho very low
cst cash prices.
Repairing Attended to Promptly,
W. M. AMOS.
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