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VOL. XIX. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1877. NO. 302 THE LEAP OF KOIHIIAV BED. i> \V. LONGFELLOW IN THE AKV ATLANTIC MONTHLY. Mounted on Kyrat sirongand fleet. His chestnut steed with four white feet lUiuslinn Bep, called Kurroglou, Smi of tin* road and bandit chief, seeking refuge and relie, Up tin* in on main pathway flew. to agree to anything, provided he could have a merry life here on earth. Such was Kyrat’s matchless speed Never yet could any steed Reach t lie dust-cloud in his course; than maiden. more than wife’ Mon Mon* than gold and next to life, Roushan, the robber, loved his horse. In the land that lies beyond" Kriznom and Trobizond Garden-girt his fortress stood; Plundered khan or caravan Journeying north from Koordistan, Gave him wealth and wine and Seven hundred and fourscore Men-at-arms his livery wore, - Mid ids bidding night and day; Now through regions all unknown Ife was wandering, lost alone, Seeking without guide his way. Suddenly the pathway ends. Sheer the precipice descends, Ix)ud tlie torrent roars unseen; Thirty feet from side to side Yawns the chasm; on air must ride He who crosses-this ravine. Following close in ills pursuit, At the precipice's foot Keylian, the Arab ofOriah, Halted with ills hundred men. Shouting upward from the glen, “La al Allah! Allah-la!” Gentiy Kousliun B<*g caressed Kyrat’s forehead, neck and breast Kissed him upon botli his eves; Sang to him in his wild way As upon tlie topmost spray Sings a bird before it flies. “Oh my Kyrat, O my stood, id slender as a reed. Round and Carry me this danger through! Katin housings shall he thine. Shoes of gold. O Kyrat mine! O thou soul of Kurroglou! “Soft thy skin as silken skein, Soft as woman's hair thy inane, Tender are thine eyes and true; All thy hoofs like ivory shine, Polished bright. O life of mine, I.esp, and rescue Kuriogiou!” Kyrat then, the strong and fleet. Drew together his four white feet, Paused a moment on the verge. Measured with his eye the space. And into the air’s embrace Leaped as leaps the ocean.surge. As tlie surge o'er silt and sand Hears a swimmer safe to land, Kyrat safe his rider bore; Rattling down the deep abyss, Fragments of tlie precipice' Rolled like pebbles on ashore. Roushan's tasseld cap of red Trembled not upon his bead; Careless sat he and upright; lie Neither hand nor bridle shook. Nor his head he turned to look. As lie galloped out of sight. Flash of harness in the air, Seen n moment like the glare Of a sword drawn from its sheath! Thus tlie phantom horseman passed; on “ '' And the shadow that he east Leaped Ihe cataract underneath. Reylian, tlie Arab, held his breath, While this vision of life and death Pressed above him. “Allah hu!" Cried he; ’in all Koordlstan Rreathes there not so brave a man As tliis robber Kurroglou!’’ THE THREE WISHES. ABBAXGFO FROM THF. GF.MMAX. (Jeorge was a .stupid follow; so stu pid that Ins father, when dying, will ed all his possessions to his younger son, Hans, who, lie trusted", knew enough not to make nine into one, or ten into naught, as George would surely have done. Shortly after his father’s death, as George had noi a penny, nor was likely to have one unless he earned it—something lie was not at all willing to do—he went to borrow or beg one from his rielier brother; but tliis affectionate relative very kindly told him to “go to the Devil,” when ho heard his request. Thereupon George immediately ran to the schoolmaster, who was, he thought, most .it to tell him how to follow his brother’s advice, lie 1 icing the most learned man in the village. But the schoolmaster thought very naturally that George wished some thing more substantial than good ad vice; so, first looking around carefully to see that no one was near, lie, too, said, “goto the Devil,” and shut the door in his guest’s face. Poor George was puzzled as to the manner of finding the person he was sent to, hut he resolved to go out into the world, where perhaps he might meet him. However, lie first went to say “good-bye” to Elsie, the belle of the village, with whom he had been in love since he wore petticoats. Strange to say, she repeated the ad vice already given him, in a most em phatic manner, with u shrug of her pretty plump shoulders. Just at this time the Devil had cer tainly broken loose, for it was during the "thirty-years war; but though there were to be seen footprints every where, it was difficult to catch him }n propria personae. In order to have good food ami drink George enlisted, and among his comrades our friend heard many stories of his majesty, though when his ardent desire to make his personal acquaintance, m ss known, the soldiers fled in terror. One night, however, he sat around a watch fire with someof them, endeav oring to keep awake and warm, by exciting stories of witches and won ders and such pleasant things. At length one, more venturesome than the rest, offered to sell himself to Beelzebub for a sack of gold. “And so would I, if I only knew where to find him,” said "George, eagerly. “To find him? That’s easy enough,” laughed old Walloonet. “Will you try?” “I should like nothing better,” re plied our hero, but liis comrades cross ed themselves. When they hail all gone to sleep ex cept George "and himself, Walloonet asked if he was serious in his desire to make acquaintance with the Devil. “Certainly,” replied George. “I was advised to do so by all my friends, and have only not doiie it before be cause I could not find him.” “Well, I can teach you quickly enough, but you mustpromise me one hundred dollars if I do,” George declared his willingness to do so, but his inability also, for he had spent all his pay", and plunder had been scarce in the few days pre ceding. “Stupid head!”growled Walloonet. “I don’t mean now, but when you have ended your contract with "the Devil.” To this George acceded, and the old soldier gave him all tlie proper in structions. The following midnight found George where the four cross roads meet; magical roots were in his hand, a charmed circle had been made around him with humanbpnes, which sprinkled plentifully the fields about. After George h"ad fearlessly uttered the necessary invocation a number of times, he felt some one pull bis ear, and turning around lie saw a hunter by his side, but with horns, tail and cloven feet, which he took no pains to bide. George touched his cap politely and ^id, “Good evening, Mr. Satan!” "It’s you, is it, George? Well, what do you wish ?” said his majesty, smil- in gjy. tune y°u to make my for- , was the re ady answer. ...»" I shall not have to waste w QTdI on you, I foresee. But , J0 - Vou understand the terms which I .iequire?” \ tJeorgfc4 9gujr€ ^ him of his readiness “Well, I will allow you twenty-five years of merriment and pleasure, hut then you are mine.” “All right,” said George. “And now, what am I to give you in exchange for your soul ?” George thought a moment or two, but the only thing of which he could think, was the asking for three wish es, which he did. The Devil laughed aloud at this. “What! that old story is not dead yet? But it’s all right: conic and sign the contract.” He took a sheet of paper from his breast-pocket, the only clean thing about him, showed George how to draw blood from his finger tip to sign it with; then placed his own signature upon it wit i a pencil of sulphur and phosphorus, tied the roll carefully with a long worm, put it in his coat pocket, and said with pleased grim aces: “Now wish quickly; I have much work to do.” “First, I wish for a great bag of gold, and a wheelbarrow to earrv it on.” The Devil nodded, and quick as a flash a wheelbarrow with a bag of shining gold stood besides the delight ed George. “Secondly, I wish Elsie would love me enough to wish to marry me.” The Devil nodded again with half closed eyes, made a waving motion in the air with his hand, and said: “That will he all right, and now your third wish.” But George’s thought had gone as far as possible in one day, so he said lie M ould like to talk the matter over M’ith Elsie and find out what she would like. “Very well. You have enough to torment you for the present: a wife and money,” said the Devil. “Fare well, and be happy.” So saying, he vanished. George seized tlie wheelbarroM- with a gay heart, paid Walloonet the sum promised, and trundled off' to- M ard his native village. By dawn, to his surprise, he sumt Elsie running and springing to meet him. How de lighted he M r as. They hastened to the nearest church, were made one in a trice, and the then proceeded home ward. I cannot picture Elsie’s surprise M’lien she heard of the contents of the great sack. No matter Iiom* often she rubbed her eyes or how widely she opened them, their still shone the bright gold—a solid reality; not a dream. She felt a little frightened when she heard that her husband had only twenty-five years in which to enjoy the honey of life, but by degrees she became accustomed to the idea, and concluded, M'ith him, that it was bet ter to live a quarter of a century in dulce jubilo, than drag along double that term in misery and discontent. “We will buy a good farm with a new house,” she said, “and twenty head of cattle. And you must wish the enemy M ould never come in our neighborhood, and that you only had black hair instead of your stiff' yellow hair, and a smooth, rosy face, instead your pock-pitted one, and a long blue coat with bright silver buttons.” George nodded his head contented ly, though a little doubtfully. * “Then I must have something for myself. So I wish that I may always be young and pretty as now, and have the nicest dresses in the whole coun try.” George nodded again with a pleased face. “Then we M ill need more money; and we must have a closet no thief can enter.” “And a great cask of Nuremburg beer that Mill last forever,” added George phlegmatically. “And an invisible servant to do all cooking ami housework while I am asleep,” said Elsie. “And a soft arm-chair which will carry me all over the house,” added George, quite lost in delightful antici pation of his prospective luxury. “And a pair of gold shoebuckles for me !” “Roast pork anti cherry cake forme every day!” “And a—oh, dear!” said Elsie, sud denly checked in her enthusiasm George looked at her questioning- iy. “Ah! M-e have M'isheil for so much already, and yet there is still so much mo need. How can all that lie got M'ith one wish?” “I’ll see to that,” said George, com posedly. “The Devil must keep his M-ord, and I’ll call him to-night and talk the matter over.” But George did not need to M'ait for midnight and a magic circle, for Satan is never far from the souls he OM'ns. Indeed during this conversation he had been listening behind the bushes M’liieh bordered the roadside, and noM' nodded and winked to George to come to him. “I have heard your whole conversa tion,” he said, laughing till poison ran like tears over his red lace. “But the five hundred things yon have wished for cannot be got at once. So choose which you M'ant most, make your third M'ish and lets end the affair.” Nom- in the M'hole world there M’a3 not a more cool, collected person than George, so he M'as not the least distil riv ed by Satan’s jokes or ridicule. “Come hurry up,” added the Devil. “Do you suppose I have time to both er M'ith you for an hour?” “You see that since I cannot have all I have M’islied for out of this third M'ish—” “Well!” “Then,” said George, scratching his head, thoughtfully, “then I M'ish that I had three more wishes.” Our hero said this as simply and quietly as if it M as the most natural thing in tlie world, and in truth so it appeared to him. It M as like the egg of Columbus—a perfectly simple thought, but one which would never have occurred to any one less stupid than George. When Beelzebub heard the M'ish lie started a moment as if almost discon certed. He felt almost as as if he had gone on the ice for the first time to skate, a little tottering and cold, for he foresaM' at a glance to what such a M'ish might lead. But he trusted to George’s stupidity not to see it also, so he replied in a*matter-of-fact tone: “Very good. Go on, I am in a hur ry.” “I M’ant a fine farm, with twenty com's and a handsome house.” The Devil waved his hand of phos phorus through the air and suddenly the roof of a stately house arose above tlie bushes and the loM’ing of com's Bounded melodiously in George’s ear. “Next I M'ant a great cask of Nu remburg beer that M-ill never give out.” Again Satan’s hand made signs hither and thither. “Done! now thirdly and lastly!” he said, a little uneasy. “Thirdly, I want”—Geopge paus ed. “Make an end—I’ve no time to spare,” growled Beelzebub. “Thiraly, I wish—I M’ish—I had three wishes more.” “Thunder!” shouted the Devil. “Goon!” Now came the various M'ishes for Elsie and himself, forcontinued youth of the one, and moving ann-chair for the other, but he recollected the roast- pork for himself, and the golden shoe buckles for Elsie, in time to say: “Thirdly, I M’ish for three" more M’ishes!” By this time George had begun to think it M’ould be better, perhaps, to reserve some of his M'ishes for the twenty-five years of his life, so lie laughingly said lie M ould keep his last M'ish for the next day. To this Satan M'as obliged to agree, Mulling or not; so, green M’ith rage, and howling M’ith fury, he ran aM’ay. But George, with curly black hair, and blue coat M’ith enormous silver buttons, walked proudly into his new house M'ith Elsie on his" arm, the pret tiest woman with the prettiest dresses to be seen in the entire neighborhood; with everything ready to their liand, and nothing to do but enjoy them selves and fancy M’hat they" needed next. At midnight George M’eut to the cross-roads again, for he and Elsie had thought of a host of needful things. The Devil came when called spitting fire and flame, from fury, and George M’ished again. He wished to be the richest peasant in the country, that his fields should yield harvest without planting; that if the enemy came his property should be invisible; and then that there might be peace, for fear that the sound of the cannon should disturb his afternoon nap. But after a time these wishes greM' tame and he began to amuse himself at Satan’s expense. Once he wished that his majesty should dunce a min ute before him, which lie did, though yellow M'ith wrath. Then again, that he should stand on one foot for ail hour and listen to hymns! So time passed away, twenty-four years, eleven months twenty-nine days—the last month of George’s pro bation had only thirty days—and now his final hour nad come. Long be fore, he had M'islied that he and his Elsie should be good, true people, and this, too, had come to pass. So he waited M’ithout anxiety for the coming hour. At eleven o’clock ho sat in his arm chair, placidly smoking his meer schaum, M’hen Satan appeared before him M'ithout waiting for a call. “Eleven o’clock!” hissed the tor mented Devil. “One hour and you are mine; then I’ll pay you for the tM'enty-fi ve years that are gone. Nom' what do you want?” “Three M'ishes more,” said George, M’ith composure. “Well!” “First, play a game of cards M’ith me and stake the tip of your tail on it.” “Have you nothing better to think of in your last hour than jokes?” in quired Satan, sullenlv. “No!” . “Then M’e’ll play,” taking a pack of cards from his pocket. “Secondly, I wish for all the trumps!” The Devil groaned aloud. They played, he lost, and George pocketed the bit of tail M’ith visible pleasure, M'hile Satan grit his teeth with pain In a few seconds it M’ould strike tMelve. Beelzebub’s red face grew bright, liis eyes rolled M'ith anticipa tion, and he leaned eagerly forward “One more M’ish,” said George quietly. “Out M’ith it,” croaked the Devil. Tlie clock began to strike. One!—tM’o! “Thirdly, I M’ish—” said George thoughtfully. Three!—four! “I M’ish—” Five!—six! “What?” howled Satan. Seven!—eight!—nine! “That our contract should be null and void!” exclaimed George trium phantly. - . A clap of thunder shook the house, the Devil vanished in a flash of light ning, and the clock struck loudly: Ten!—eleven!—twelve. Tlie thunder had aM’akened Elsie and she rushed into the room to fine. George standing before his chair laughing till his sides ached. “What is the matter? Have you lost your senses?” she demanded." “No, hut come to bed, or I shall laugh myself dead.” BURNING VIRGINIA HOMES. Mitfor General Hauler and HI a Feder al*—Willing Tool* to Destroy Happy Home*—Eloquent But Withering Let ter of Hr*. Lee. TWA IX AT THE WBITTMKM XF.M. Since this adventure, the Devil has been very shy about making bargains M’ith people noted for stupidity. WIIOSF BOG .** Justice Godney Essays King Solomon Again and now with Happy Results. From the New York Am.] The trial of adogcasebetM’een Silas S. Lewis and James S. Conlin served to croM’d the Eighth District Court room all day the other day. Among the witnesses examined were Colonel Bruce, of the Turf, Field and Farm, Major Farwell, and many other gen tlemen interested in hunting, M’ho M’ere visitors at the shooting gallery of the defendant. The testimony M’as very conflicting. The plaintiff stated that the dog was a gift to him, and that he had strayed from the house and had been led off by a dis trict telegraph boy. The boy testified that he had found the dog near the plaintifFs house, and that the de fendant had taken him aM’ay from him. This the defendant did not de ny, but he averred that the dog had strayed from him, and that he was merely getting back his own property. The defendant’s witnesses who testi fied to his own ownership were many, but some M*ere not sure that it Mas the same dog in the court room. The dog being alloM'ed to roam at will in the court room, very wisely selected an open windoM', and put his nose out of it. The plaintiff testified that the dog M as well trained, and M’ould perform a number of tricks. “I tried last M’eek,” the Justice said at length, ‘To play King Solomon and let the dog help me reach a deci sion, and I failed; I will try another experiment. Suppose tlie" litigants make the dog perform.” An impromptu circus M’as here opened in the court room. The plain tiff, taking his whip, made a hood through M’hich the dog bounded and rebounded; then through the plain- tifFs arms held open. The dog lay doM’n, stood up, fetched the whip, and “down charged” at the M’ord. “Nom - let the defendant tty him.” The defendant’s son advanced, and the dog retreated under the plaintifFs chair. The defendant tried to coax him out, but as he advanced the dog barked at him and the court took the papers. SO BLACK M LACKS TO XUS. k. jjfi’iMnKi'SlSfrA'ii r-tet. A Colored Attorney BtflnH Permis sion to Practice to Maryland. Baltimore, Md., December 20.— The application of Charles Taylor, a colors citizen of Maryland, for per mission to practice in the Court of Appeals of the State was refused to day at Annapolis. Chief Justice Bartol delivered the unanimous opin ion of the Court. This is the first time the question has been judicially decided upon in Maryland, and it excites general Interest The right of such admission was claimed under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Judge Bartol in his opinion cited the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States in tne Slaughterhouse cases (16 WaL 36), and also of Brad* mel vs* th«,State^in 16 WaL ISO, ■ Gen. Imboden in Philiadelphin Times.] THE COMPLAINT OP MRS. LEE. Martindale’s written order fromHun ter also embraced another Virginia home. He burned it, too. The story is told by the gifted mistress of that household in the folloM’ing letter, M’hich M’as delivered to Hunter, have been furnished a copy with per mission to publish it. This letter M’ill live in history for its eloquence and sublime invective: Shepherdstom’n, Va., i July 20, 1804. f General Hunter: Yesterday your underling, Captain Martindale, of the First New York Cavalry, executed your infamous order and burned my house. You have the satisfaction ere this of receiving from him the infor mation that your orders M’ere fulfilled to the letter; the dwelling and every outbuilding, seven in number, M’ith their contents being burned, I, there fore, a helpless woman whom you have cruelly wronged, address you, a Major General of the United States Army, and demand why this M-as done? What was my offence? My husband was absent—an exile. He had never been a politician or in any way engaged in the struggle now go ing on, his age preventing. This fact your chief-of-staff, David Strother, could have told you. The house was built by my father, a Revolutionary soldier, who served the M’hole seven years for your independence. There was I born; there the sacred dead re- E ose. It M’as my house and my ome, and there has your niece {Miss Griffith,) M’ho lias tarried among us all this horrid M’ar up to the present moment, met with all kindness and hospitality at my hands. Was it for this that you turned me, my young daughter and little son out upon the world without a shelter? Or was it because my husband is the grandson of the Revolutionary patriot and “reb el,” Richard Henry Lee, and the near kinsman of the noblest of Christian warriors, the greatest of Generals, Robert E. Lee? Heaven’s blessings be upon his head forever! You and your government have failed to con quer, subdue or match him; and dis appointed, rage and malice find vent on the helpless and inoffensive. Hyena-like you have torn my heart to pieces! for ail hallowed memories clustered around that homestead; and demon-like you have done it M’ithout even the pretext of revenge, for I never saM’ or harmed you. Your office is not to lead like a brave man and soldier your men to fight in the the ranks of war, but your work has been to separate yourself from all danger, and M’ith your incendiary band steal unaM’are upon helpless women and children, to insult and destroy’. Two fair homes did you yesterday ruthlessly lay in ashes, giving not a moment’s warning to the startled inmates of your wicked purpose; turning mothers and chil dren out of doors, your very name exerated by your own men for the cruel M’ork you gave them to do. In the case of A. R. Boteler, both father and mother were far aM’ay’, Any heart but that of Captain Mar tindale (and yours) would have been touched by that little circle, compris ing a M’iuoM’ed daughter just risen from her bed of illness, her three lit tie fatherless babes—the eldest not five years old—and her heroic sister. I repeat, any man M ould have been touched at that sight. But, Captain Martindale! one might as well hope to find mercy and feeling in the heart of a M’olf bent on his prey’ of young lambs, as to search for such qualities in his bosom. You have chosen well your agent for such deeds, and doubtless Mill promote him! A colonel of the Federal army has stated that you deprived forty of your officers of their commands" because they refused to caary out y’our malig nant mischief. All honor to their names for this at least! They are men—they r have human hearts and blush for such a commander! I ask M'ho that does not M’isli infa my and disgrace attached to him for ever M’ould serve under you ? Your name M ill stand on history’s page as the Hunter of M’eak women and in nocent children; the Hunter to de stroy defenseless villages and refined and’beautiful homes—to torture afresh the agonized hearts of widows; the Hunter of Africa’s poor sons and daughters, to lure them on to ruin and death of soul and body; the Hunter M’ith the relentless heart of a wild beast, the face of a fiend and the form of a man. Oh, Earth, be- Hia First and Only Attempt to Travel Hune-ne — on His Horn De rlnne-fhe Extraor dinary Guests an Old Miner Had. The Boston Advertiser gives the following report of the remarks of Mr. Samuel L. Clemens at the ban quet given in honor of Mr. John G. Whittier in that city on Monday evening Mr. Chairman—This is an occasion peculiarly’ meet for the digging up of pleasant remembrances concerning literary folk; therefore, I M’ill drop lightly into history myself. Standin here on the shore of the Atlantic and contemplating certain of its biggest literary hi Homs, I am reminded of thing M’hich happened to me fifteen years ago, when I had just succeeded in stirring up a little Nevadian liter ary ocean-puddle myself, whose spume flakes were beginning to blow thinly Californiaward. I started an inspection tramp through the South ern mines of California. I was cal- Iom’ and conceited, and I resolved to try the virtue of my nom deplume. very’ soon had an opportunity, knocked at a miner’s lonely log-cabin in the foot-hills of the Sierras just at nightfall. It M’as snoM’ing at the time. A jaded, melancholly -man of 50, barefooted, opened to me. When he heard my nom de plume he looked more dejected than before. He let Emerson hold the monster! Can I say, “God forgive you?” No prayer can be offered for you! Were it possible for human lips to raise your name heav- enM'ard, angels would thrust the foul thing back again and demons claim their own. The curses of thousands, the scorn of the manly and upright, and the hatred of the true and hon orable will follow you and yours through all time, and brand your name infamy ! infamy ! Again I demand M’hy have you burned my house ? AnsM’er as you must answer before the Searcher of all hearts; M’hy have you added tliis cruel, M-icked deed * to your many crimes ? Henrietta E. Lee. I have only recited the more promi nent incidents of Hunter’s brief ca reer in the Valley of Virginia. The United States Government could not stand it, his army could not stand it, as many or his prominent officers .vet living tell hoM’ keenly’ they felt the stigma such acts—beyond their con trol-brought on them. Shortly’ after th.e date of Mrs. Lee’s letter he M’as removed, to the honor of the service, and General Sheridan M’as his suc cessor—of his career, perhaps, anon! If the people of Chambersburg M’ill carefully’ read this record of wanton destruction of private property, this ‘o’er true tale” of cruel M’rong in flicted on the helpless, they M ill un derstand why r , M’hen goadetl to mad ness, remuneration M’as demanded at their hands by General Early’, and upon its refusal retaliation M’as in flicted" on the nearest community that could be reached, and it M’as their misfortune to be that community. Contrast Lee in Pennsylvania in 1863 and Hunter in Virginia in 1864, and judge them both as history will. . pretty reluctantly, I thought and after the customary bacon and beans, black coffee and a hot whiskey, I took a pipe. This sorrowful man had not said three words up to this time. Nom’ he spoke up and said in the voice of one who is secretly’ suf fering : “You’re the fourth—I’m a go ing to move.” “The fourth what?” said I. “The fourth literary’ man that’s been here in*tM r enty-four hours I’m a going to move.” “You don’t tell me!” said I. “Who M’ere the others?” “Mr. Longfellow, Mr, Emerson and Mr. Oliver Wendell Holmes—dad fetch the lot!” You can easily believe I M’as inter ested. I supplicated—three hot M’his- keys did the rest—and finally the melancholly’ miner began. Said he “They came here just at dark yes terday evening, and I let them in, of course. Said they’ M’ere going to Yo Semite. They M’ere a rough lot—but that’s nothing — everybody looks rough that travels afoot." Mr. Emer son M as a seedy little bit of a chap— red-headed. Mr. Holmes M’as as fat as a balloon—he M’eighed as rnueh as 300, and had double chins all the way doM’n to his stomach. Mr. Longfellow M’as built like a prize fighter. His head M as eropped and bristly—like as if he had a M’ig made of hair brushes. His nose lay straight doM’ii his face, like a finger with the end joint tilted up. They had been drinking—1 could see that. And M'hat queer talk they’ used ! Mr. Holmes inspected this cabin, then he took me by tin button-hole, and says he— “Through the deep caves of thought, I hear a voice that, sings: Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul ! “Say’s I, ‘I can’t afford it, Mr. Holmes, and, moreover, I don’t M’ant to.' Blamed if I liked it pretty well, either, coming from a stranger, that M’ay T . HoM’ever, I started to get out my" bacon and beans, M’hen Mr. Emer son came and looked on a M’hile, and then he takes me aside by the button hole and say’s: “ ‘Give me agates for my meat, Give me canthnrides to eat; From air and ocean bring me foods, • From all zones and latitudes.’ “Says I, ‘Mr. Emerson, if you’ll ex cuse me, this ain’t no hotel.’ You see it sort of riled me; I M'asn’t used to the M’ays of littery SM’ells. But I M’ent on a SM’eating over my’ work, and next comes Mr. Longfellow and button-holes me, and interrupts me. Say’s he: “ ‘Honor be to Mudjikeewis! * You shall hear how Pau-Puk-Keewis—’ “But I broke in, and says I, ‘Beg ging your pardon, Mr. Longfellow’, if you’ll be so kind as to hold yquryaM’p for about five minutes and let me get this grub ready’, you’ll do me proud. Well, sir, after they’d filled up I set out the jug. Mr. Holmes looks at it, and tljpn fires up all of a sudden and yells, “ ‘Flash out a stream of blood-red wine! For I would drink to other days.’ “By George, I was getting kind of worked up. I don’t deny it, I was getting kind of worked up. I turns to Mr. Holmes, and says I, ‘Looky here, my fat friend, I’m a-running this shanty, and if the Court knows herself, you’ll take whiskey straight, or you’ll go dry.’ Them’s the very words I said to him. Now I didn’t M’ant to sass such famous littery peo ple, but you see they kind of forced me. There ain’t nothing on-reason able ’bout me; I don’t mind a passel of guests a-treadingon my tail three or four times, but M’hen itcomes to stand ing on it,it’s different, and if the Court knows herself, you’ll take whiskey straight, or you’ll go dry’. Well, be- tM’een drinks, they'd swell around the cabin and strike attitudds and spout. Says Mr. LongfelloM’: “ ‘This is the forest primeval. “►Says Mr. Emerson: “ ‘Here once tire embattled farmers stood, And tired the shot heard round the world.' The military’ eritics are ranking Osman Pasha’s defense of Plevna with Hassan’sdefense of Rustchuk in 1810 and Fenwick Williams’ de fense of Kara in 1854. This is gross injustice. Osman’s operations dis played real military genius, his emer gence from Windin, bold march on and seizure of Plevna right on the flank of a half million of men and successful mantenanceof his position, required the highest military’ quali ties, far beyond the mere bull-dog tenacity displayed in the berate de fense of Rustehul^and Kan. • ' ► ■ • - •- ••• : ' J “Says I: ‘O, blackguard the prem ises as much as you want to—it don’t cost y’ou a cent.’ Well, they’ went on drinking, and pretty soon they got out a greasy olu deck and went to playing cut-throat euchre at ten cents a corner—on trust. I began to notice some pretty suspicious things. Mr. Emerson dealt, looked at his hand, shook his head, says: “ ‘I am the doubter and the doubt—’ and calmly bunched the hands, and M’ent to shuffling for a neM’ lay-out. ►Says he: “‘‘They reckon ill who leave me out! They know not well the subtle ways I keep. I pass, and deal again “Hang’d if he did’nt go ahead and doit, too! 'Oh, he \vas a cool one. Well, in about a minute, things M-ere running pretty tight, but of a sudden I see by’ Mr. Emerson’s eye that lie judged he had ’em. He Had already corraled tM T o tricks, and each of the others one. So noM’ he kind of fits a little in his chair, and says: “ ‘I tire of globes and aces !— Too long the game is played!" and down he fetched a right boM er. Mr. Longfellow smiles as sM’eet as a pie, and says: “‘Thanks, thanks to thee.my worthy friend For the lesson thou has taughtt” —and donny cats, if he didn’t doM’n M’ith another right bower! Well, sir, up jumps Holmes, a M’ar-whooping, as usual, and says: “God help them if the tempest swings The pine against the palm!’’ —and I wish I may go to grass if he didn’t sM'oop doM’n with another right bou’er. Emerson claps his hand on his bowie, Longfellow claps his on his revolver, and I went under a bunk. There was going to be trouble; but that monstrous Holmes rose up, wob- bling his double chins, and says he: ‘Order, gentlemen; the first man that draws, Pll lay down on him and smother him!’ All quiet on the Poto mac, you betyoui “They were pretty how-eome-you-so now, and they begun to blow. Emer son says: ‘Trie bulliest thing I ever wrote was ‘Barbara Frietchie.’ Says Longfellow: ‘It don’t begin with my 'Biglow Papem.’ Says Holmes: ‘My ‘Thanatopsls’ lays oyer ’em both.’ They mighty near ehded in a fight. Then they wished they had some more company, and Mr. pointed at me and says: “ ‘Is yonder squalid peasant all That this proud nursery could breed?’ “He M’as a whetting his boM’ie on his boot—so I let it pass. Well, sir, next they took it into their heads that they M’ould like some music; so they made me sing ‘When Johnny Comes Marching Home’ till I dropped at thirteen minutes past four in the morning. That’s M’hat I’ve been through, my friend. When I M’oke at 7 they M ere leaving, thank good ness, and Mr. LongfelloM* had my only boots on, and his oM’n under his arm. Says I, ‘Hold on there, Evan geline, M’hat are you going to do M’ith them?’ He says; Going to make tracks M'ith ’em*; because— ‘Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime; And departing, leave behind us Footprints in the sands of Time.’ “As I said, Mr. TM’ain, you are the fourth in 24 hours—and I’m going to move—I ain’t suited to a literary at mosphere.” I said to the miner : “Why, my dear sir, these M’ere not the gracious singers to whom M’e and the M’orld pay homage; these are imposters.” The miner investigated me with a calm eye for a while, then he said: Ah! imposters, M’ere they?—are you?” I did not pursue the subject, and since then I havn’t traveled on my nom de plume enough to hurt. Such was tlie reminiscence I M'as moved to contrib ute, Mr. Chairman. In my enthusi asm I may have exaggerated the details a little, but you will easily forgive me that fault "since I believe it is the first time I have ever deflect ed from the perpendicular on an oc- tnis. casion like Turkey’s Military System. Correspondence of the Chicago Times.] London, November 29.—Several accounts have been printed of the new Turkish military system M’hich were interesting, and might have been valuable if any tu T o of them agreed ; but none of them agreed. In a recent steamboat trip I met a young Turkish officer on his way to Con stantinople M’ho gave me a straight forward, intelligible statement of tlie system which, I venture to think, may be M’orth reproducing for the pe rusal of the readers of the Times, es- jecially in vieM’ of the fact that the ast reserves have been called out, a proceeding M'hicli is expected to result i n an accession of tu'o hundred and seventy-five thousand men to the Sul tan’s armies. For military purposes, every prov ince of the empire is noM* constituted military district,-subdivided into military circles, according to popula tion, the Turkish name of the circle being merkiss. A census is taken of all male Mahommedans over eighteen years of age in each of these circles and on the basis of this census each circle is required to furnish so many battalions, troops and batteries of in fantry, cavalry and artillery. The headquarters of the circle are gener ally situated in one of tlie principal cities, and here the staff permanently reside, the affairs of the circle being administered by a President and a committee of merkiss officers! *1X10 Presidents of the circles and a princi pal officer appointed by the Porte con stitute a district committee to admin ister the military affairs of the district at large. A11 the regiments raised are designated by the district to which they belong. "The battalions are numbered and subdivided in the man ner shown further on. Each province or district, of M’hich there are seven, is expected to pro- auce a complete army corps, ready for detive service in the field, supplied M’ith guns, horses, rifles,ammunition, commissariat, telegraph and hospital service, and all material of war. For this purpose the district committee requisitions the Seraskier of Constan tinople for M'hatever money and stores they require. All pay to sol diers, pensions; and local expend! tures for each army corps, therefore, are distributed on the spot. All stores for arms, etc., for each merkiss are kept at the merkiss headquarters; and the headquarters of the district or province is the central distributive point, the seat of arsenals, factories, etc., etc. Drawing men for the army is by Jot, on much the same principle as the conscription in France. So many men, being such and such a proportion of the estimated popula tion, may be drawn for the Nizam, or regular army, every year. The men so drawn are first liable to serve in the regular army for the term of four ears. In this position they see con stant service in all parts of the empire to which they may be sent, for the full term of four years, the expiration of which they receive their discharge out of the Nizam, and become soldiers of the etagot; that is to say they are entitled to one year’s rest at home, unless a national emergency requires their being recaUed into the ranks. At the expiration of the etagot term they become liable for sendee only in case of M’ar, and are attached to" the army corps of the district as the Sirifi Evril,or first ban of the Redif. In due course they are permanently trans ferred to the battalions of the circle to M'hich they belong, and in this ban they remain four years. They come up yearly, for thirty days’ drill, to receive pay, and to maintain their organization, but have no officers or permanent staff, the duties of which are performed by the permanent staff of the circle, consisting of officers of the Nizam. These, out of their om’ii number, have to provide officers for the Reilifs during the training period. By,the most extraordinary and fatal oversight, the possibility of M ar and the consequent necessity of officering the Redifs appear to have been wholly forgotten, and M’hen M r ar did come all these fine, hardy men had to go into tion M’ith one officer to about every hundred soldiers, and that offieer generally a supernumerary non-com missioned officer of the Nizam. Here is the first, the great, the disastrous defect of the Turkish military system. At the end of their term in the first ban, the Redifs are transferred to the Sinfi Sanni, second ban of Redifs, in M’hich they serve a second term of four years; and after that they go into the 8infi Salis or third ban, "for a third term of four years. During the M’hole of this time they present them selves at merkiss headquarters once every year to join battalions for year ly training. The training is of the most desultory description, consisting principally of loafing around till the limited permanent staff can get funds to pay them or summon up enough energy to attend to them. One day is like another; the days and M'eeks slip by, and finally the Redifs depart for their homes, none the better but considerably the M’orse for their an nual meeting. Of course there are exceptions to the rule, M'hen the merkiss happens to be presided over by an energetic, conscientious general officer; and in such a rare event the men M’ill receive proper instruction, be carefully looked after, and be dis missed to their homes, feeling well pleased with theif outing; but even my informant, Turk as he was, ad mitted with a sigh that such officers are few. The President of the mer~ kiss Councils, by-the-by, has the rank The three terms of Redif being com pleted, the actual sendee expires, but they are still liable for a term of six teen years, to be called into the ranks of the regular army in the event of M’ar. On expiration of the sixteen years they are finally dis posed of"bv being transferred for five years to tlie Mustahfiz, in M’hich they are liable to be called out in the event of all the other military forces having been exhausted. By this time the young conscript of ei^teen has become a man of fifty-seven, and the Sultan has no further need of him except to make him pay taxes. The Turkish -regiment consists of four battallions on a peace footing, and tM'enty bat tallions in its full establishment, namely, four battallions of Nizam, four battallions of the Sinfi Evril or first ban of Redif, four battallions of Sinfi Sanni or second ban of Redifs, four battalions of Sinfi SaHs or third ban of Redifs, and four battalions of Mustahfiz. The seventeen-year ser vice men may be regarded as re-en- forcements to the Nizam in time of M’ar. The Nizam battallions are called the first, second and third tabors, and Tallin. The Redif and Mustahfiz battalions are designated by the district they belong to, and numbered. There are no commissioned officers below the rank ol Bin-boshi (major) who are chefs de bataillon. All bat talions are divided into right and left wings, each wing consisting of four companies of one hundred men max imum and sixty men minimum strength, besides non-commissioned officers. The wings are commanded by wing leaders, named Kol-agassiz who are appointed from the military schools. All below the Kol-agassiz, beginning with Yuz-baslii (captain) are non-commissioned officers. Pro motion is made from the ranks to the position of Yuz-bashi, but beyond that all positions are filled by tlie sons of the nobles and persons of wealth and influence. ' In addition to the regular army there is an Imperial guard, National guard, Civil guard, volunteers and gens d’armes, consisting of Turks, ex empt from service, as Nizams and Redifs, foreigners taking service M’ith the Porte, and Christian subjects of the Sultan who prefer service to pay ing tlie price of exemption, which is fifty pounds Turkish. The M’hole of these auxiliary forces will number about 300,000 men, available for field operations, of whom quite 200,000 must have been already used up in the field, according to my informant’s estimate. This exhausts the list of sources from' M hich men 'can be drawn, ex cept the wild tribes, Egypt, Arabia Mesopotamia, Kurdistan and other countries tributary to the Sultan, which are not part of the regular military system, or not yet fully or- 'ganized, and which can not he relied on for effective aid unless the stand ard of the Prophet be unfurled, M'hen a religious frenzy might possibly bring some hundreds of thousands of devoted men into the Turkish mili tary centers, some of whom M’ith in finite trouble and at great cost might be turned into useful soldiers, but most of M’hom M ould merely serve to harrass and ruin the country itself, as the Kurds have been doing in Arme nia; too eoM’ardly to fight, too lazy to M’ork, but prompt to massacre, violate and pillage the peaceful inhabitants and mutilate the dead and dying, Turkish and Russian alike, on the field of battle; fiends and beasts of prey for whom the Sultan has pro vided a daily feast since the Russians entered Armenia, a feast made up chiefly of his own people and their property. 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In Plymouth Church, on Sunday morning last, Beecher’s text Mas the ninth verse of the first chapter of Ephesians, and the theme of his dis course M’as the background of myste ry’ M’hich surrounds, or rather ob scures, all attempts to teach or under stand tlie attributes and nature of God. It is not an easy thing, said Beecher, for an honest, conscientious man to know just M’hat to preach and M'hat not to preach. His own head had often reeled, and his mind had been greatly troubled, when he re flected upon his responsibility in this matter. It was no easy matter to re move the rotten timbers and replace them with sound ones, and not stop the voyage of the ship. It was said that Adam was created perfect; also that Adam sinned, and that in conse quence of that sin the whole human race fell. The human race had ex isted on the earth for thousands and thousands of years, and had gone on propagating and multiplying, until all the waves of the ocean which had rolled iii upon the shore during those centuries did not contain drops enough, nor the sands of the sea par ticles enough, nor all the figures of the arithmetic numbers enough, to compute the preface, to say nothing of the body, of the great history of the human race. The numbers of the human race were actually beyond computation, and for thousands and thousands of years they had been born into the world, had lived, and struggled, and finaUy died, and gone —^where? “If you tell me that they have all gone to heaven, my ansu-er will be that such a sM’eeping of mud into heaven M’ould defile its purity, and I cannot accept that. If you tell me that they have gone to hell, then I swear by tlie Lord Jesus Christ, M’hom I have sworn to worship forever, that you will make an infidel of me. The doctrine that God has been for thousands of years peopling this earth with human’beings, during a period three-fourths of M'hich M as not illuminated by an altar or a church, and in places where a vast population of those people are yet without that light, is to transform the Almighty into a monster more hide ous than Satan himself, and I sM-ear by all that is sacred that I M ill never M'orship Satan, though he should ap pear dressed in royal robes and seated on the throne of Jehovah. Men may say, ‘You mUI not go to heaven.’ A heaven presided over by such a de mon as that, M’ho has been peopling this Morld with millions of human beings, and then sMeeping them off into hell, not like dead flies, but M’ith out taking the trouble even to kill them, and gloating and laughing over their eternal misery, is not such a heaven as I wan’t to go to. The doc trine is too horrible. I cannot believe it and I won’t. They say the saints in heaven are so happy that they do not mind the torments of the damned in hell; but what sort of saints must they be M’ho could he happy M’hile looking doM’n upon the horrors of the bottomless pit ? They don’t mind— they’re safe—they’re happy! What would the mother think of the six- teen-year-old daughter who, M’hen her infant was lying dead in the house, should coroe dancing and singiug into the parlor, and exclaim, ‘Qh! I’m so happy mother! I don’t eare for the dead naby in the coffin!’ Would she not be shocked ? And so with this doctrine; and by the blood of Christ I denounce it"; by the wounds in his hands and his side, I of Ferik, equal to an American lieu- abhor and denounce it as the moat abhor it; by his groans and agony, I ‘dei " tenant general, and is called reiss. I hideous nightmare of theology.” ly adapted for daily use.’ DR. FOBDTCE 1 ~ BARKER. New York—“Requires less, is less disagreeable and unpleasant than any other.” DR. LEWIS A. SAYRE. 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