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COVI> - OTON. O»r>»o‘*‘
_ HAB REDUCED 1118 PRICES, so
i a ii who have been so unfortu
iiale as to lose their natural Teeth
UX ™Seir Places supplied by Art, at very
see ha»* Fi |] e ,{ a t reasonable prices,
ii»*H co s faithfully executed, Office north side
| » B J work i
Ls S-iuare.- 1 1111
nRS DEARINC & PRINGLE
r?vn associated themselves in the Prac-
H AVIN ? MEDICINE and SURGERY, offer
tlC< “ fl'ssional services to the citizens of
ktheii’ p ro,eß . Tney have opened an offi. eon
Fy,*ton coU'> y- the § qua;e (next door to S
[the East sia are prepared to attend to
R„swaU>“ =t >/ Th have algo a carefully
ass."’ . ,
i gest Medicines,
V • f y ir personal attention to Com-
for Physicians and
E‘ h *7.i attention given Us Chronic Diseases
r^** 1 ■ ht Dr Psabiso will be found at his
[ At ,p r Prisot.b at his rooms imme
hf!?*r the Store of G. H. Sanders & Bbo.
L.yll 26tf _
p fwould respectfully inform the
citizens of Newton, and adjoining
that I have opened a
SADDLE and HARNESS SHOP
Esrthsid* public square in COVINGTON
,„ , prepared to make to order. Harness
Tfiihlies* *c , or Repair the same at short notico
»nd in the beet style. g BROWN
47 ts
j. C. MORRIS,
Attorney at !Law,
CONYERS, GA.
“ ~~J~A MES M. LEVY,
Watchmaker & Jeweler,
East side of the Square,
OTOH GEORGIA,
. i le is prepared to Repair Watches, Clocks
!od Jewelry in the best stylo. Particular atten
i,n given to repairing Watches injured by in
i»mpetent workmen. All work warranted.
"JolTepu y. t ins le y,
Watchmaker & Jeweler
[■ fully prepared to Repair Watches, Clock,
411 Jewelry, in the best Style, at short notice.
HI Work Done at Old Prices, and Warranted.
2d door below the Court House.—6tf
JOHN s" CARROLL,
©ENT I ST
COVINGTON, OEORGIA.
Teeth Filled, or New ones Inserted,ln
7ftfWtlie best Style, and on Reasonable Terms
Jffice Rear of R. King’s Store.—l ltf
ipHOTOG R A P H S !
U HAVE JUST RECEIVED a Fresh Suppy
:lf 1 of Chemicals, and am now prepared to exe
| uee work in my line in a supciior manner.
Call soon if you would have a superior 1 ic
ture at my old stand, rear of Post Office build
i.g—2otf J. W. IRA W FORD, Artist.
IaOERSON & HUNTER
constantly receiving
ifresh and Seasonable Goods!
| All of which they propose to sell at the
|IOWEBT cash price ,
Ars als« closing eut several lines of Goods
I—At and Below Cost! —
AGENTS FOR
Agricultural Implements,
Clover and Grass Seeds,
And several of the best
■ TANDARD FERTILIZER
lan. 14, —46tf
y manufacture
Superior Cos t t|o n Yarns,
No. 6to 11 A Dob, No. 400 to 700.
Mattresses
All sizes »nd qualities to suit orders.
® ® t t 1 XX s,
Os Waste or Good Cotton.
*°OL CARDING.
Vh* quality of the Rolls unsurpassed.
PlO tr R and MEAL.
T f ',' DRIST MILE cannot be surpassed iu
Fl nr» < ? ua, lit.y, nor the quantity of MEAL or
Bonßtn ~t urn<“ d. A supply of Meal or Flour
in I, , ” on hand. Flour of all grades to suit
in taste and p r i ce .
I,ei, h'c Extra, Extra Family, Family,
torti.l n< l Fine. Graham Flour and Grits
ilso k J RHORTS »nd BRAN, for Stock Feed,
*he patronage of the public is re
11 y asked. Satisfaction guaranteed.
. ' A splendid slock of
»nhL C ?? ds and Groceries
for nil i or Ba^e Cheap for Cash or barter
&U kinds of Country Produce.
St E. STEADMAN, Prop’r.
Newton Cos., Ga., Feb. 19, 1869.—1S
Bichard’s Himself Again.”
1000 Agents Wanted !-Having
Books' T ' resume d my business of publishing
n,,. ’. I Agents to sell by subscription
Souiif Uft hje Publications in every part of the
niaim A Rood chance for intelligent
* Dn i . L -°'diers. For agency and Territory,
■ 2ltf ° E NEB HUT,
I Social Circle, Ga,
lT old Nectar Whisky,
■New li.» n eTel- . B °ld in Covington, goto the
|d Dorße^’g. OOIn, * D aßeme, R under Corley
|T F Rl < m T ,- an L any Fineold Brandy, Whiskey
■the X'’J , w ! ne - or “»ny other man,” go to
lik Dorsett’s ><,n ’ “* Caße,nent under Corley
THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE.
, n ~ . O. S. PROPHITT,
Covington Georgia.
Will still continne his business, where he intends
keeping ou hand a good supply of
Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye Studs,
Together with a Lot of
Botanic Medicines,
IX' centrated Preparations, Fluid Extracts, Ac.
He is also putting up his
Liver Medicines,
FEMALE TONIC, ANODYNE PAIN KILL IT
Termlftige, Antl-BlliouN Pills,
and irany other preparations,
yy Will give prompt attention to all orders.
PARTICULAR NOTICE.
Hereafter NO MEDICINE WILL BE DELTV
ERED. or SERVICE RENDERED, except for
ash
You nee not call unless you are prepared to
PAY CASH, for I will not Keep Books.
Oct. 11.1867. O. S. PROPHITT.
gflntTf a a a * t
I have Just Received direct, from New York,
a Variety of the Latert, and u.cst Fashionable
Styles of Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s
DRESS GOODS,
Hats, Boots, Shoes, &c. f
ALSO
Millinery C oods.
BONNETS Trimmed to order by Mrs. Living
ston, and Mrs. Womack.
T. J. SHEPHERD.
North side of Square, Covington.—iDi.f.
EMPIRE DRY 603 38 S RE,
PEBB EI, S & STERN!,
Wholesale Deilers in
Dry Goods, Clothing, Hats, Shoes,
Gknt’B Furnishing Goods, Notions, Sic.
No. 1, Whitehall Street, (in Markham’s Empire
Block, dm22 ATLANTA, GA.
M. C. & J . F. KISER,
Have Just received th«ir La ge Stock of
Spring and Summer Goods,
Consisting of Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots and
Shoes, Not.ioos, &■;.
(Old stand of Tal'ey, Brown, J Co.,}
6m5 Whitehall street, Atlanta, Ga.
c?. H. &, A . V/ . FORCE,
Wholesale Dealers in
Boots t 4? Sltoos,
Whitehall street, Atlanta, Ga
flnr Gooils are purchased direct from
Eastern Manufacturers. We will
sell them to Countrv Merchants at N. Y. prices—
Freight added. —1y42
Hotels.
PLANTERS HOTEL,
Augusta, Georgia.
This well known first class ll*t«d is now re
opened for the accommodation of ihc traveling
public, with the assurance that those who may
have occasion to visit Augusta, will be made
comfortable. As this Hotel is now complete in
every Department., the Proprietor hopes, that by
strict and personal attention, to merit a share of
public patronage.
JOHN A. GOLDSTEIV, I’ro’p,
United States Hotel.
ATLANTA GEORGIA
WHITAKER & SASSEEN, Proprietors.
Within One Hundred Yards of the General Passen
ger Depot, corner Alabama and Prior streets,
AMERICAN HOTE L,
Alabama street,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Nearest house to the Passenger Depot.
WHITE & WHITLOCK, Pro ictors.
Having re-leased and renovated le above
Hotel, we are prepared to entertain nests in a
most satisfactory manner. Chary i fair and
moderate. Our efforts will be to .ease.
Baggage carried to and from Depot .ree of charge
REDUCED!
AUGUSTA HOTEL.
THIS7FIKBT CLASS HOTEL is situated on
Broad Street, Central to the business por
tion of the City, asd convenient to the Tele
graph and Express Offices. The House is large
and commodious, and has been renovated and
newly painted from garret to eellar, and the
bedding nearly all new since the war. The
rooms are large and airy ; clean beds, and the
fare as good as the country affords, and atten
tive and*polite servants.
Cbauoes. —Two Dollars per day.
Single Meals 76 Cents.
I hope to merit a liberal share of patronage
from the traveling public.
Give me a trial and judge for yourselves
S. M. JONES, Prop’r.
OR. TUTT’S SARSAPARILLA AND QUEENS
DELIGHT. The great Blood Purifier.
DR. TUTT’S EXPECTORANT, A certain cure
for Coughs, Colds, Ac.
DR. TUTT’S IMPROVED nAIR DTE. The
best Dye in use.
DR. TUTT’S VEGETABLE LIVER PILL
For Liver Complaint, Dlepepsia, Ac.
These valuable Preparations arc for sale in
Covington, by PACE, WOOD A ROGERS
In Conyers, by DR. J, A. STEWART
In Jonesboro, by GEORGE MANSFIELD
In Thomson by A. I>. HILL.
WM. BOLLMAN, Dealer in Watches, Clocks,
Fine Jewelry, Gold Pens, Spectacles, &r ,
Whitehall street, second door above M. Lvneh’«
Co's book store, Atlanta. Ga. Repairing done
in good stvie aud warrrauted.—6. I.
COVIKGTOK, GA., APRIL 30, 1860.
The Welcome Home.
Wo may travel all over the world,
Av, as far us the billows may roil,
B hero they northward or southward are hurled
Against iee-tioldn that girdle the pole:
W e may wander wherever we list,
We insy journey earth's confines all o’er,
But the joy which we cannot resist,
Is the grasp of the hand at the door,
for at length when our holiday’s past,
And we gladly return o’er the foam,
The one joy that’s not least although lust,
Is the hand-grip that welcomes us home.
There’s a something electric, that thrills
In the touch of the hands that we know,
W hich nor ahsenca— the longest—e’er kills,
Nor distance—where’er we may go.
It spsaks from the heart to the heart
From earth’s farthest—its uttermost shore;
We remember, though oceans apart,
The warm grasp of the hand at the door.
For wherever our fortunes are cast
’Neath the heaven’s cerulean dome,
The one joy that we look for at last
Is the hand grip that welcomes us home.
In the silence of African wilds
Wiien sleep closes the traveler’s eyes
In a slumber, us soft as a child’s,
The dear visions of home w ill arise.
But of all the best dreams of delight
That around him kind fancy can pour,
Far the happiest fiction of night
Is the grasp of the band at the door.
In the wilderness lonely and vast—
Ay, wherever on earth we may roam,
The loved dream that deserts us the last
Is the hand-grip that welcomes us bonne.
But we need no long absence to show—
Ah, we need no wide dis'ance to teach
That the dearest of all things below
Ik the home-love in waiting for each—
Is the home that he cannot forget!
For his heart is not sound at the core,
Whose breast has not leapt when it met
The warm grasp of tho hand at the door.
Heat and cold we endured, storm and blast,
Waves we forded, and mountains we
clomb,
Are forgotton completely at last
In the hand-grip that welcomes us home.
Though for long or for little wo part—
Tried affection all count is above,
For you can’t plumb the depths of a heart,
You can't measure the leagues of a love.
Birth and beauty, and riches are nought
For birth, beauty, and riches in store
Never—never a welcome have bought
Like the grasp of the hand at the door.
Ah, how dear when our holiday’s past,
When we gladly return o’er the foam,
The one joy that's not least although last
The warm hand-grin <k"i weleomos us
I,.ime.
“Giv the Devil Uiz Due.”
This is good advice. I don’t kno who was
the author ov it. if I did I would go for re
warding him, either with a sett ov plated ware,
or a prize in tho art union. No man kould
give better advice, or consolashun ; he ought
tow have a 2 story monument, when he dize,
with an cpitafT on it, founded on sack ; ho
ought tew have at least fifteen hundred little
children named after him each year; he ought
to lio missed in our memory like a pleasant
drerne, that afterwards turned out to be true,
lie ought tew hav hiz fotograff taken by overy
mi skilite in the land ; he ought to be sett tew
musick, and be sung in conneekshun with the
docksolager ; lie ought to be stereotyped, so
that an edition co’d constantly be worked oph
to meet the pressing demand.
li Giv the Devil his due.” Yung man this
advise was got fur yu. If yu owe the devil
anything, pay him off at once, and then dis
charge him, and don’t hire him never agin at
any prise. That’s what the author ment. Be
honest, pay even the devil, if you owe him, but
don’t owe him agin. If the proprietor of this
most worthy proverb, “Giv the Devil his due,”
still lives, altho i haint had the pleasure ov an
introdueshion tew him, if he ever wants enny
thing, even good advice, he kan git it in awl it*
native purity and innersense, bi dropping a
line to hie everlasting well-wiser,
Josh Billings.
A smoking Bishop dined with Admiral
Farragut once upon a time, and after the dee
sort tendered a bunch of Havanas to the sailor
with the invitation, “Have a cigar, Admiral?”
“No, Bishop, said the Admiral, with a quizzi
cal glance ; .“I don’t smoke—l swear a little
sometimes.”
ma
It is almost incredible that in the Massachu
setts Legislature, a few days ago, an amend
ment to the liquor bill was offered, providing
that any clergyman furnishing fermented
wine nt a sacramental communion table shall
be deemed guilty of keeping a public bar !
The Boston Herald reports this fact.
Tho rats in Dubuque, lowa, have raised an
important internal revenue question. Some
two hundred dollars worth of stamps wore pas
ted one day upon whisky barrels in Rhotn
berg’s distillery warehouse. The rats having
a taste for the paste wherewith the stamps were
stuck on, ate them off, slick and clean. Rhom
berg won’t pay for any more stamps, tho rats
won’t confess judgment, and tho whisky can’t
be sold without the insignia. An opinion ou
rats is wanted from revenue headquarters.
Prentice says ho tries to be impartial, but
for all that, ho is unable to look nt the negroes
except on tho dark side.
A modern French writer savs: “A physi
cian prescribing to a sick man, always re
minds me of a child snuffing a candle , it is
ten (o one but lie suuffs it out.
A Man in a Peddler’s Pack.
A short time ago, just at dark, a peddler
carrying a large pack appeared at the door of
a wealthy farmer, in tho town of Green Gar
den, in this county, and requested the privilege
of remaining over night. The farmer being
nwnv from home, he was informed by the hired
man that he could not stay. He then request
ed the privilege of leaving his pack until morn
ing, as he was very tired, and could not carry
it further that night. This was granted, and
the pack deposited in one corner of the sitting
room. During the evening some of the females
of the household had occasion to move it, and
taking hold of it discovered that there was
something suspicious about the contents. Tha
hired inan was called, and upon taking hold of
it discover that it contained a man. lie quick
ly stepped into an adjoining room, and return
ing with a revolver, motioned the family to
stand aside, and at once proceeded to fire three
shots into it. A piercing shriek issued from
it, and on ripping off tho outside covering, a
man with a large buwie knife and revolver
clinched in his hands, was found weltering in
his blood. Two of the shots had proved fatal.
Tho neighbors wore alarmed, but no traces of
the peddler who had left the pack could be
found. Thus by a mere accident, doubtless,
n shocking case of robbery, and porhape mur
der, was prevented.—(Joliet, 111., Signal.
Tying a Knot.
A young fellow was taking a sleigh ride
with a pretty girl, when he met a Methodist
minister, who was somewhat celebrated for
tying matrimonial knots on short notice. He
stopped him and asked hurriedly :
“Can you tie a knot for me ?”
‘Yes,’ said Brother 8., ‘I guese so; when
de you want it done ?’
‘Well, right away,’ was the reply; ‘is it
lawful, though, here in the highway ?’
‘Oh, yes, this is as good a place as any— safe
as in the church itself.’
‘Well, then, I want a knot tied in my horse's
tail to keep it out of the snow 1’ shouted the
wieked wag as lie drove rapidly away, fearing
that the minister in his wrath should fall from
grace.
That minister, tio doubt soliloquised thus :
Now, as lain a minister of the Gospel, of
course, 1 don’t “cuss,” but if I were a cussin'
man, and had that d —d rascal by the throat,
I'd teach him that I know how to do other
things besides tying knots in horses’ tails.—
Exchange.
Oil mid Cotton.
The Columbus Enquirer says : “ The an
nouncement that the late destructive fire at
Madison was probably caused by combustion
produced by tho contact of cotton material
with oil, ought to admonish the public of the
danger ur sueii a contact. Mr. A. D. Brown,
whose mechanical experience and observation
are valuable, informs us that if cotton is satur
ated with boiled oil and afterwards exposed to
the sunshine, it will ignite in fifteen minutes ;
and, that its ignition, when left in the shade
after such a saturation, though a slower pro
cess, is hardly less certain. Ho has known
several instances of combustion produced by
the saturation of raw cotton and cotton goods
in oil, both whea afterwards thrown out into
the sunshine and when left in a iiouse. No
doubt there are other light substances nearly
as liable as cotton to take fire after contact
with oil. Tho terrible disaster at Madison
should put all persons on their guard against
accidents from the same cause.”
Can One Rail be Made to Peace an Acre ?
Two hundred and ten feet each way make
an acre of land. Now, suppose we take ten
mils to a panel of fsnee, and each panel en
close ten feet. To fence the aero there must
be four sides of twenty-one pannele, or 840
rails to the acre.
Now, if we double the length of the field and
take in two acree we shall have two sides of
420 feet each, and two sides of the original
width—2lo feet, and will need 1260 rails to
fence the two aoros.
If, then, we double the width of the field we
■hall have four aide* of 420 feet each, and with
1680 rails will take in four acres of land. Pro
ceeding in this manner to double the siae of
the enclosure, we find that 2520 rails will en
olose eight acres, and 3360 rails will inclose 16
acres. The first single acre roquired 840 rails.
Two acres required only 630 rail* per acre ;
four acres required 420 rails per acre ; and
when we reach a 16 acre field we require only
210 rails to the acre. Two hundred and fifty
six acres would require but about 105 rails per
acre. Now proceeding in this ratio, how large
must the field bo which will require but one
one rail to each acre enolosed 7
‘You should never let the young men kiss
you,’ said a venerable uncle to his pretty
neice. ‘I know it unole,’ she returned, peni
teutlv, ‘and yet I try to cultivate a spirit of
forgiveness, seeing that when on# has boon
kissed, there’s no undoing it.’
Nkuralcia. —An exchange says. One of
onr lady readers, informs us that pure lard,
thoroughly rubbed in on the part* affected will
surely give rolief in the worst stages of neu
ralgia. This is a very simple prescription,
and should be tested by thoso troubled with
this complaint,
Bntler says ‘he never takes thiags back.’
This mnst be very dsscouraging to the good
people of New Orleans who lost so many silver
spoons.
Mrs. Partington wants to know if this
“Southern Bolt,” the papers talk, about is anv
kin to ‘Ben Bolt,’ that used to spark ‘Sweet
Alice.’
Views of Senator Sprague.
From a long account of an interview with
Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, which apt
pears in the New York Herald, we make the
following extraet i
“ People say, Governor, that they do not
comprehend exactly what you are driving at.
Nome insinuate that you are bidding for the
Presidency ; others, that you want to cut loose
from your party; and still more state, in
downright terms, that you are crazy.”
“ Hold on 1” exclaimed the Governor ; “ let
me answer the last charge. Yes —l am crazy
—crazy, aa every reformer has been since the
beginning f( the world. Because I refuse to
follow in the ruts of that set calling itself the
Senate of tha United Statee, the cry is raised
at once, ‘Oh I Sprague ie crazy.* I will let
them know before long exactly how crazy I
am. lam not bidding for the Presidency
either. If it were offered to me to-morrow, I
should only take it on conditions of being a*
liberty to kick out of the White House every
office seeker that dare come into it. Not a
man should he appointed under me to office
because he was this man’s friend or that man's
supporter. I would have an incorruptible
board of examiners for every office under the
government, and no man should be appointed
unless he showed the proper capacity to fill it.
I would disregard party altogether, and put
only the best men in the nation in places of
trust; but as I know such a condition of things
can never be attained, the Presidency is no*
my ambition. Neither am I about to cut loose
from my party and attach myself to the Dem
ocratic. Both as parties are rotten ; but I in
tend to build up anew party, in which politios
will have little to do. My party will have for
its one grand principle the reform of our finan
ces, th# rendering of money cheap, the reduc
tion of taxation, the elevation of the working
classes, the protection of labor, the' improve
ment of our cotton, agricultural, commercial,
and manufacturing interests—m short, the
making of this country really great, strong and
prosperous. All your talk about the nigger,
nigger suffrage, States’ rights, women’s rights,
rebels, and so forth, is only fit for these old
grannies in Congress. Where is our shipping
at this moment? Whoof those men pestering
our ears all the time about reconstruction,
rsbels, niggers, nnd so forth, has ever lifted
his voice in favor of the broken down com
merce that was onec our pride and glory ? I
tell you, sir, these men would drive this coun
try headlong to the devil in their greed for
power. This country to-day is intrinsically
weaker than any other on the face of the globe,
not excepting Mexico. Now, let me explain ;
but first let me enlighten you upon the purpose
of the speech, the opening one of the late se
ries I made in the Senate. It was necessary
I should draw the attention of the poople to
fVm/fi*Aßa tn invifcA £r****ifa»t* * ,,u
speech I made upon the finances and the bill
offered in eonnection therewith. I began by
skirmishing, my objective point being the
Treasury—the great national curse. My scheme
was no hurriedly considered affair. For three
years I have devoted my mind exclusively to
this subject, and you will find, if I am mad,
tlaro was some method in my madness, after
all. You saw how that first speech awakened
a thrill of interest throughout tho nation.—
There is some of the evidence, (pointing to tho
bundle of letters.) Now, if I had made my
proposition alone, without any preparation of
the public mind, it might have gone the way
of all like propositions. I hold that the Treas
ury is the root of our present evils. Forty
millions of dollars, ws will say, are received
there this month. The money comes out of
the pockets of the people. One man whose
taxos are large, has perhaps to borrow the
money at a high rate of interest to pay his in
debtedness to the Government. The money
goes into the Treasury, and lies there hoarded
up for a month or six weeks without producing
a particls of benefit to the Government or the
people. Twenty millions of that amount, we
will say, are paid out by tho Government, and
twenty millions remain. The msrket in New
York, where the capital of the country is cen
tralized, is daolareid scarce. When money is
scarce those who have th* least put their stock*
on the market at a low rate to induce purchas
ers, and procure capital to carry on their busi
ness. There is always in New York a class of
speculators who buy up all such stock and wait
for the favorable time—next month, we will
say —when the Treasury, in plact of twenty
millions, pays out sixty millions. When money
becomes abundant, and those stocks are rushed
in upon the market, and tho gamblers make
their harvest. You see there is no equilibrium
here. Our money market is all tho time fluc
tuating, influenced by the vast, overgrown cor
poration, tho National Treasury. Then, again,
all kinds of stocks are affected in this way. I
can go into the market in New York any day
in my business, and by the process that obtains
there smash by my superior force of capital
the small doalers that venture competition
with m*. Tbs whole country is affected by
this. Money is entirely too dear. The cotton
planters at the South pay almost twenty-five,
per cent, for the oapital to work their planta
tions. England is the chief market for cotton
but she is every year extending her purcha
ses in India and Egypt, and finally, by manip
ulating the markets, Bhe will damage our
cotton interests at the South irretrievably.—
Agricultural interests suffer in the same man
ner from this dearness of money. England
will, after a while, buy less of our agricultural
staples. Capital is too dear, the cost of trans
portation too high, the taxes too many and
too crushing for our farmers. Same w«y with
the manufacturing interests.
Twenty years ago our firm in Rhode Island
was one among twenty little ones; now we
i have the whole field to ourielves; but then
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we crushed out the others and are now enga
ged fighting the big fellows, until finally New
England will have nothing but a small aggre*.
gation of enormous monopolies, wielding a?
power dangerous to tho State and to the lib*
erties and liappinsss of tho people. But think
of all that money that goes into the Treasury
being committed to tho charge of a boy, for
merly a secretary of mino. whereas in Europe
tho most rcspons'ble men n the community
are invariably selected for the duty of receiv
ing and looking after the public fund*. The
Treasury, above all things should he jealously
guarded, and all its iconics and expenditures
scrutinized with cxcoedirig care.
The Empire.
The New York Freeman’s Journal does ooV
deny the probability of an empire in the Unit-*
ed Statee, so-called, bat scouts tho idea now
broaehed that its establishment will be of the
“ rose water, gilt-edged, kid gloved” style. Onr
the contrary, our sagacious cotemporary pre
dicts that it can only eventuate out of much
blood shed, that the coming man will bo other
than Grant, Sherman, or Sheridan. This is
the programme :
It will he the clutching of one armed fao
tionist at the throat of another, doluging the
land in blood beyond anything known here be
fore, till, exhausted and beggared, the people
will accept any coarso victor ia a lust battle
that will give them a breathing time 1
Bad aa tho prospect appears, the Journal
deems it of importance that the impending fat©
should be resisted promptly.
Every word said nnd heard for the right;
every man inspired with new courage; every
voice aroused from the present moral torpor in
regard to public matters, will have its effect
hereafter, in the promotion of good, or in the
mitigation of evil. Life is, itself, a combat.
Tho anion of living forces, combating for the
right, has wonderful effect. That is why we
are never ashamed to ask more and more of
our friends in the way of helping us in our
work. This voice—which fs Jours and ours
combined—is hoard. The more it is extended
the more it is heeded. We have not lostcour*
age. The power of error Is great, but the
might of truth is greater.
There haa been commenced, in New York,
tho publication of a paster caJlcJ tho “ Impe
rialist,” the ostensible object of which was o
advocate the establishment of the empire. Os
it the Now York Expros.says, “that a Federal
officer is deeply interested in the publication,”
though it does not mention hia name. But
the Newark Daily Journal, of the 20th inet.,
makes the astounding statement that the “ Im
perialist” is edited under the auspice and at
cost of the Honorable Secretary of the Navy,
Mr. Adoph Borie 1" and alleges that Grant
himself has been distributing copies to his
r.10r,.!* i
Artitiria! Stone.
Making stone is a business in Si. Louts.—
There is a concern there which makes out of
common sand, a mantle equ.il to one of white
marble, and sells it for about ten dollars. The
sand in a few hours is converted into rock pres
cisely similar to the strata and ledges beneath
the earth, that have required ages of aqueous
and igneous action to form them. The pro
cess is strictly scientific and chemical. The
materials used are common brown or white
sand, soda, flint, ohlorine and calcium. The
flint, which is the cementing agent, is melted
by being subjected to heat in connection with
soda. Flint, in its chemical constitution, is an
acid, and like all other acids, readily combines
with an alkali. Combined wPh soda, the flint
(silicia) forms a silicate of sods—a thick,
viscid, transparent substance, very much like
glue.
If*it is too thin when first made, it is redu
ced by evaporation in pans till it reaches the
proper consistency. It is then mixed with
sand in a mill, from which the mixture come
forth a good deal like wet brown sugar. The
substance is called ‘pug.’ It is very plastic,
and works ns easily in the hand ns wet clay
or putty. Each moulder has a quantity of
the ‘pug’ placed in a box on the end of hie
work bench, from which he takes handfuls a»*
he requires it to press into the mould. It mat
ters not whether the mould is a rosette, a dia
mond.a flower, or a leaf ornament, a keystone,
a vase, a pedestal, or the section of a mantel
piece, he moulds anything and everything with
equal ease, beauty, and accuracy ; and when
the form is taken from the mould, the product
is a plastic ornament, more perfect and beau
tiful than a carver could execute in a week of
of constant and patient labor.—N. Y. Sun.
The suffering editor of a country newspa
per thus takes leave of his readers:
The sheriff ie waiting for us in the next
room, so wo have no time to be pathetic. Major
Nab’om says we are wanted, and must go.—-
Delinquent suscribers, you have much to an»
swer for. Heaven may forgive you, but I
never can. Farewell.
Brooks, of the llouso in the Arkansas Legis
lature, rominds us, in his efforts to get some
thing “fat,” of the Arkansians in Kentucky
during the war. At the hospitable table of a
kiud laJy who was giving the ‘boys’ u break
fast, be hud eaten about twenty of her deli
cious biscuits, when the hostess said to hiss
gently, ‘you seem fond of Uisou'.ts.’ Yes, said
he reaching for another, “I likes urn us well
as anybody you ovor saw—and gits 'inn as
seldom.”—Little Reek (Ark.) Gazette.
Mr Dobbs says he has 0110 of the most obe
dient boys in the world. Ho tells him to do
as he pleases, and he it without murmur
ing. ' ___
How to get at the real complexion of ladies
—take a little soap and water.