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()t I KK ANNUM v r oTs7 p ROPHITTi f R ’ Covington Georgia. I un in Ms celebrated L" WII .y sussicihes, ■** ' Consisting of his— ■„,rn medicine, ■ aolyne pain kill ir, I anti-bilious PILLS, I AfUTE TILLS, dysentery cordial, FEMALE TONIC, and PURIFYING pills, J will attend to all business in fchsreto sor ®’ meg to his office. K» line, .. f „ r patients when consulted, ■ Will rr e 6 nV that come to his office at any I , attention given to all Oroers. B Upnt Remedies of DK. TROPITTTT, ■Tho e* ce " ' i„,jon—their well known power wthe diseases peculiar to our South- KemoTing “ lre#dy established for them reputation in Georgia and the ad ■ 'anftes As the majority of persons hv ■ising s,9 i® ’ i are predisposed to disease of Kin the f t °ig granted by alt intelligent physi ■« Liveb 1 ,- 0 f painß and aches of our ■*D»that organic <ir functional derange ■°,»f*that important organ. K ,t#ft PHOTHITT’S L Itrer Medicine Vr ,etlvat the root of the evil. It cures tikes directly » niue caBOS out of ten, is at L Liver, w Coughs, Dyspepsia, Colic, Ku'Xhe Rheumatism, Constipation, Men- Lt! Suctions, etc,, so common among our | I* I Ver Medicine. u ' „i a »» of almost anv other 1 repara r that acts upon the Liver It is a Fluid Extract—ready for use at U.formnf night<ft|ld canb e carried to FT'vivin America, winter or summer, ns it tu lo< ith«r sour'nor frUe at any temperature L .".human being can occupy with safety, h . to,, strong for children, or too weak r lt ,, 9n °ttoo stro g no troU ble about r,To^to unstop the Bottle and drink it Iking it, on > ft has gained a bwo'p " loc.lilj 111...1..4 U P «R»te south of Maine, and is alike appll- ESS3K. "fa,. u.« *.,4 V" ,t| n *!V P 'riel nor'h' it'a oov it. PARTICULAR NOTICE. l.rcafter NO MEDICINE WILL I?E DELIV ■rED. or SERVICE RENDERED, except for ■lii need not call unless you are prepared to HAT C.vSfl, fori will not Keep Books, jlun. 11, 1889. <»• s - TROB! I ' ITT. I M OOUE & MARSH, JOBBERS OF ■RY GOODS, NOTIONS, HOSIERY, Boots, Shoes, Hats, &c., ecatur and Pryor streets, ATLANTA, GA. FTERft trial of THREE YEARS, we are L fully convinced that, the Dry Goods JOR- V(i business can be successfully conducted in ;lanta, and accordingly have prepared for the holesale Trade exclusively, by the erection of large, commodious, and splendid STORE DUSE, specially adapted to ti at business, and lich in architectural attraction and conve ence, will compare favoiablv with the best tablisliments of Northern Cities. We are now engaged in getting up Stock for e Fall Trade, and by the Ist of September will able to oiler to Merchants the largest and best •ortment of Dry Goods in its Various Lines, ANCY NOTIONS, White Goons, HOSIERY, BOOTS, SHOES AND HATS, at lias ever been presented to the Trade in the uth. All our purchases being made for SADY CASH, of AGENTS and MANUFAC IRERS, enable us to offer every advantage at the Northern Wholesale Dealer can afford, e therefore confidently appeal to Merchants to amine our Stock and prices before visiting her markets. All we ask is a trial. MOOItE <1 MARSH. N. R.—We are sole agents for the sale of )NCORD JEANS and Cassimeres —verysupe- >r in Georgia; also *kte for Trion Factory. Keep a large supply n«t#ntly on hand, of Graniteville Shirting, eeting and Drilling, and Rock Island Jeans and Cassimeres—all at manufacturers’ prices. 2m43 M. AM. r MANUFACTURE u p!e ri o r Cotton Yarn s> No. 6to 12. it Doz, No. 400 to 700. tATTR R 8 8 KS A}l sixes and qualities to suit orders. 3 a t t in S, Os Waste or Good Cotton Pool carding. Tho quality of the RoHs.^unsurpassed. §L OUR and MEAL. ■NIIE GRIST MILL cannot be surpassed in ■- the quality, nor the quantity of MEAL or ■LOUR turned. A supply of .deal or Flour ■instantly on hand. Flour of all grades to suit ■ taste and price. B fancy, Double Extra, Extra Family, FnmMy Buperfine, and Fine. Graham Floor and Grit ■ order. SHORTS andlluAN, for Stock Feed B Bn kept. The patronage of the public is re ■ectfully asked. Satisfaction guaranteed. I 4 splendid stock of t* r y Goods and Groceries 1 hand and for sale Cheap for Cash or barter ir all kinds of Country Produce. E. STEADMAN, Frop’r. Sr*\ujitM, Norton Co.,Ga., Feblß 19, THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE. J. C. MORRIS, Attorney at Law, CONYERS, GA. J. W. MURRELL, D B N T I S TANARUS, Office —Ujf glairs in Muhuei.l’s Quick oTonr, Covington, Oeobui*., Being prepared with the latest im- j„ Dental Material, Guarantees Satisfaction in each branch of Operative and Mechanical Dentistry. tw If desired will visit Patients at their homes in this and adjoining Counties, All orders left at Hie Covington Hotel, or at Hie residence of Mr. G. W. H. Muriif.i.l, Oxford, Ga., will receive immediate attention.—ly37. H. T. HEN R V, DENTIST, COVINGTON. GEORGIA. has REDUCED HIS PRICES, so that all who have been so unfortu- nate as to lose their n ttural Teetli can have their places supplied by Art, at very small cost. Teeth Filled at reasonable prices, and work faithfully executed, Office uorth side of Square. —1 22tf JOHN S. CARROLL, dentist OOVINGTON, GEORGIA. Teeth Filled, or New ones Tneerled.in the best Style, and on Reasonable Terms Office Rear of R. King’s Store.—l ltf W. B. RIVERS, r> K N T Is T , (Office near the Depot.) CIONTINUES the practice of his profession upon 1 Terms that cannot fail to gives atisfactiou to all who employ him. Covington, June 25th 1869. 4.32.tf. JOSEPH Y. TINSLEY, Watchmaker & Jeweler Is fully prepared to Repair Watches, Clock end Jewelry, in the best Style, at short notice. All Work Done at Old Prices, and Warranted. 2d door below the Court House —6tf PHOTOGRAPHS! . HAVE JUST RECEIVED a Fresh Supply 1 of Chemicals, and am now prepared to exe cute work in my line in a supeiior manner. Call soon if you would have a superior Pic ture. at my old stand, rear of Post Office build ing—2otf J. M T . CRAWFORD, Artist. I would respectfully inform the citizens of Newton, and adjoining yf counties, that I have opened a SADDLE and HARNEY SHOP On north side public square in COVINGTON where I am prepared to make to ord -r. Harness Saddles, <tc , or Repair the same at short notice, and in tlie best style. 17 ts JAMES B. I l.OWlf • FISK’S METALLIC BUHIAt CASES AND CAS KET 8, "or sale by THOMPSON A HUTCIIINS. 2y2q ‘ Covington (»a. Hotels. PL A n:t ers hotel, Augusta, Georgia. This well known first class Hefei 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 Hot es, that hv strict and personal attention, to merit a share of public patronage. , JOHN A. GOLDSTEIN, Pro’p. United States HoteL ATLANTA GEORGIA WTITTAKER & SASSEEN, Proprietors. Within One Hundred Yards of the General Tasscn ger Depot, corner Alabama and Prior streets, AHi E IK IC AN HOTEL, Alabama street, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Nearest house to the Passenger Depot. WHITE & WHITLOCK, Pi e letors. Having re-leased and renovated ie above Hotel, we are prepared to entertain uests in a most satisfactory manner. Charg J fair and moderate. Our efforts will be to .ease. Baggage carried to and from Depot .rce of charge a caud. THE undersigned, having purchased she. cn lire interest of f*. M. Jones in the A UGLS>- TA HOTEL, respectfully solicit a share of pat* ronage from the traveling public generally.-- We propose to keep a First Glass Horse, and use every effort to satisfy and please all that, give us a call. Both of us have been connected w ith the Hotel for thirteen years. The Rooms of the Hotel are large and airy and furnished equal to any in the city. We call the particular attention of tie old patrons of the House to the change. We desire to see and welcome them. The BAR furnished with the best Liquors and Cioars DAN’L G. MURPHY, b PATRICK MAY. T. MARKWALTER, ■A&BLE WORKS Broad Street, Atgusta, Ga. MARBLE MONUMENTS, T o'jn b Stones, Marble Mantles, and Furniture Marble OF,*EYERY DESCRIPTION, From the Plainest £o the most. Elaborate, design and furnished to order at short notice. l!tt£T All work for the country -oretully boxed decl4-3-5-ly. Newton County Script Wanted. a KY person having any of the above named A Feript to dispose of, will consult their own interest by calling °“ bowkEß & HARRIS. "take notice. A LI cf those persons who have been buying \ Goods from me “on a few days’time,’ will ■*, come forward and PAY UP, as 1 am corn [l.'l e 1 to raise Money. 1 shall sell Goods for THi; MONEY ONLY hereafter. JjTNone need apply unless they come with theCASH. „ S. N. STALLINGS August 3, 1869, —2m38 COVINGTON GA., OCT, I, 1809. Ntuneless. There is no Leart hut hath its inner Anguish} There is no eye but hath with tenrs been wet; Them is no voice but hath bien heard to lan guisli O’er hours of darkness it can ne’er forget. There is no cheek, however bright its roses, But perished buds beneath its hues are hid ; No eye that in its dewy light reposes, But broken star-beams tremble ’neath its lid. There is no lip, howe’er with laughter ringing, However light and gay its words nmy he, But it hath trembled at some dark upspring ing Or stern affliction and deep misery. We all are brothers in this land of dreaming, Yet hand meets hand, and eye to eye re plies; Nor deem we that beneath a brow all beaming The flower of life in broken beauty lies. Oh! blessed light that gilds our night of sor row ; Oh ! balm of Gilead for our healing found : We know that peace will come with the to morrow, And that afflictions spring not from the ground, | Boston Advertiser, The Brave at Home, The maid who binds Her warrior's sash With smile that well her pain dissembles, Tho while beneath her drooping lash One starry tear-drop hangs and trembles, Though Heaven alone records tho tear, And Fame shall never know her story, Her heart lias shod a drop as dear As e’er bedewed the field of glory ! The wife who girds her husband’s sword, 'Mid little ones who weep or wonder. And bravely speaks the cheering word, What though her heart be rent asunder, Doomed nightly in her dreams to hear The bolts of death around him rattle, Hath shed as sacred blood as o’er Was poured upon the field of battle 1 The mother who conceals her grid While to her breast her son she presses, Then breathes a few brave words and brief, Kissing the patriot brow she blesses, Wi'h no one but her secret God To know the pain that weighs upon her, Sheds holy blood as e’er the sod Received on Freedom’s field of honor I Hoiv to be Miserable. —Think about self, about what you want, 'what you like, what respects people ought to pay, what people think of vou ; and then to yourself nothing will be pure. You will soil everything you touch ; you will make misery for yourself out of everything; you will be as wretched as you choose on earth or in heaven cither, 1 say ; for that, proud, greedy, selfish, self-seeking spirit would turn heaven into hell. It did turn heaven into hell, for the great devil himself. It was by pride, seeking his own glory—that lie fell from heaven to hell. lie was not con tent to give up his own will and do God’s will like the other angels. He would he a master himself, and rejoice in his own glory; and so when lie wanted to make a private heaven of his own, lie found he had made a hell. And why ? Because bis heart was not pure, clean, honest, simple, and unselfish. Answer not(a word when unjustly accused, and you are the conqueror. The Lever tells an anecdote of one the sub stantial men of New Haven, who had been chosen to the deacon's office, in one of the Con gregational churches in that city about the time that Augur’s Jeptha, now in the Yale art gallery, was the subject of general conversa tion. Two members of the church were dis cussing thenow appointment, and one of them remaiked that ho feared Deacon B. didn’t “know the scripter” enough for a deacon.— “Why” said he, “I’ll prove it.” The two, weighed down almost by the gravity of the matter in hand, proceeded to the store of the the worthy deacon, and asked him if he could tell who was this Jeptha and his daughter that everybody was talking about. The good deacon suspended work for a few minutes to take n good think, and after pondering the question for a little while, slowly t answered : “Jeptha—let me see- yes—Jeptha—why, he was —of course—yes, Jeptha—be was one of Napoleon’s Marshals.” A practical farmer writes: Id my observa tions for twenty years in the practical' appli cation of manure, I am convinced that what is ordinarily termed mulching, or the application of thoroughly decomposed barn yard manure to ttie surface is the most economical use cf this class of fertilizers- From this experience I am convinced that one cord of manure ap plied on wheat land at the time of sowing, or on ground intended for corn in the latoautumn or applied to all yarieties of large and small fruits, is worth three cords plowed or dug un der to the depth of eight inches, A prominent physician of Portage county, Ohio, relates a case within his knowledge where a boy, now some fifteen years old, has used tobacco since the age of five mouths old ; being a nervous and fretful child, a plug of tobacco was placed in his mouth, and produced a soothing effect. The remedy was often used during infancy and through the teething pe riod, and bofore the child could talk plainly it was a confirmed chcwer. “What church do you aiteud, Mrs. Parting ton? - ’ “Oh, any paradox church where the Gospel is dispensed with. ’ “Lc«f by Leaf the Boses Full.” We do not mean to be sentimental, as the above heading would indicate. But wo rise to protest against the following article which we find in a late number of tho New York Times: It has long been suspected, if not positively know n, that ihe picturesque story of Sir Isaac Newton having been led to the discovery of the law of gravitation by the fall of an apple, was as baseless as many of the other fine traditions of genius. We fear it will now have to he finally consigned to the limbo of slaught tcred fictions. A remarkable manuscript of Newton has come to light, in which he him self gives an account to a friend of tho origin of his great discovery, and not a word occurs to show that the fall of an apple had anything to do with it. In bidding a kir.dly farewell to, this venerable marvel who will refuso a tear to its memory ? Ever since w 6 arrived at man’s estato, some officious scribbler has been knocking out of our head the lessons crammed into it by appli ance of birch and other instrumentalities.— Sad!/we have learned that things taught as truths, sacred almost as the teachings of Holy Writ, were nothing but a pack of lies. We worshiped as a boy, a revolutionary hero. He turned out to be a British spy. A Yankee history taught our youthful mind that we whipped the British at Bunker Hill. We sub sequently learned, that notwithstanding the monument, there was no fight at Bunker s Hill, and in the fights near by on Breed’s nil!, we were outrageously thrashed and routed by the Britishers. For twonty years we were ready and anxious to make affidavit that Gen. Jackson fought the battle of New Orleans behind cotton bags. We saw pictures of the bags in a Geography and painted them skv blue Alas !it turned out that there was not a bale of cotton on the ground, and we began to doubt if there was such a place as as New Orleans or such a man as Gen. Jack son. An ancient school-marm taught us that General Washington was the greatest and purest of men. A l r ankco biographer has in sulted us by publishing that be was a proud, stupid aristocrat,, who was in the habit of cursing like a sailor. We still hang on to a few traditions, and wo warn all trespassers against foraging on them. We believe that a tea kettle gave the idea to the inventor of steam ; that Franklin developed electricity with a kite and a key ; and that George MTash ington did cut the cherry tree, and did not tell a lie nbout it. p. S.—AYe do not believe that this is tho “best Government the world ever saw.” —Col, Sun. Mrs. R. E. Lee. A letter from tho Rockbridge Baths to the New Orleans Times, gives a very pleasing sketeli of the estimable wife of Gen. Lee, which we copy below : The baths here are famous for rheumatism and scrofulous diseases. There nrc many per sons who profess to he greatly relieved by them. Among them I found hero Mrs. Gen. Robert E. Lee, whom I had not seen for thirty years. I had known her when a boy, as the belle of Arlington, the daughter of George Washington Parke Cnstis, who was an adop ted child of George Washington, but no blood relation. Then she was an elegant and attrac tive young lady, of great affability of manners and personal charms. Alas 1 I found her greatly changed by time, and still more by disease. Tho charm of her manners still con tinues, hut her body has been terribly afflicted by rheumetisin, which has made her such a cripple that, for some years past, almost from the commencement of the late war, her only locomotion is effected in a chair with wheels, which is moved about by servants. In spite of this affliction she is a most agreeable and cheerful old lady, receives every one with a smile and converses upon ail subjects with great intelligence, vivacity and good humor. There is nothing of the langour, querulous ness or discontent of the invalid in her manner or conversation. Her time is occupied in so cial converse, sewing, writing and playing with her grandchild, a jolly little fellow, the son of Gen. W. 11. F. Lee. She is full of energy and industry, and employs herself most zealously to a late hour of the night sewing for herself and one of her daughters, out of sjme calico sent as a present from the Phoenix Cotton Mills, in Georgia. Mrs, Lee, though contented with her situation and deeply grateful for the many tokens of love and admiration which have been lavished upon her husband and herself, very naturally sighs for her old home, at Arling ton, from which she has been so ruthlessly and barbarously banished. She expects to close her life amid the scenes of the happy days of her childhood and girlhood. Even this most cherished desire, however, she will cheerfully sacrifice to her dignity and pride, and will never consent to receive back her es states if tendered with any conditions, or as a charitable and merciful condescension and favor by the Government which so cruelly de vastated and appropriated property bequeath ed by her patriotic father, and never legally acquired by the authority which now retains it. Arlington must cease to be a Federal cemetery when the family of Robert E. Lee rc-occuppy it. The daughter-in-law of Mrs. Lee is hero with her, the wife of Gen. W. 11. F. Lee, one of the most elegant and beautiful ladies I have seen in Virginia. She was a Miss Bolling, of Petersburg, of the old Poca hontas stock, always famous for beauty and high spirit. Her commanding and elegant figure, her bright and beaming face, an air of mingled dignity, grace and gentleness, would I mako her in the largest assembly the cynosure I of all eyes, the observed of all observers. General Albert Sidney Johnson. He was a very largo and massive figure, and finely proportioned. He measured six feet two inches in height, and had flesh to give him perfect symmetry. His face was large, broad and high, and beamed with a look of striking benignity. His features wore hand somely molded. Ho was very straight and carried himself with grace and lofty and sim ple dignity. He dressed neatly but in full Confederate gray General’s uniform, that suit ed him admirably. His appe irance iddicated in a marked degree, power, decision, serenity, thought benevolence. Wo thought him then at first flush, and think now in the hallowing memory of his manhood, made sacrod by the consecration of his thrilling and heroic death for the Southern cause, that he was one of tho sweetest and raoft august men wo ever met. — His character was entrancing in its nobility. There was something in his manner that em boldened confidence, and whon wo got through, nothing could exceed the fatherly manner with which ho replied, encouraging, instructing and assuring us of his kindness. He proffered to help us with his counsel, or otherwise ; invi ted us to call on him at any time, and giving us the necessary orders, we left. It was that gentle politeness that won every body who approached him, and endeared him to his people. Often afterward, we met him at his headquarters, and sometimes in the field, and he always was the same affable, considerate fatherly gentleman, inspiring the gravest reverence, winning the fondest regard, and exciting the highest admiration. But we must hasten on to our interview with him. It was at Corinth, Mississippi, a few days be fore the bloody battle of Shiloh. We had some important business, and rode to his headquarters. He met us with his usual cor* diality, but stated that in consequence of pressing matters he would be unable to give us his personal attention, and must, for once, refer us to bis Adjutant General, but that we must not foel slighted, and he would also be glad to see us hero afterward with the same freedom. The consideration of his manner and re marks amid the engrossing occupation of pre paring that great movement at Shiloh, upon which he depended so much to retrieve the disasters of Donaldson and Nashville, prove how thorough a gentleman he was. and how kindly was his heart. He bid us good morn ing with a friendly grasp of the hand—we Dever spoke to him again. That mighty strug gle at Shiloh came on. We saw him once in the dread carnage, flashing across the field, the incarnation of the splendid warrior. He al ways rode large and magnificent horses. His favorite steed was a grey. And when he was mounted upon tho noble animal he was the beau ideal of a general. His firm, graceful seat in the saddle, his majestic proportions, his noble countenance, the radiant bearing of knightly chivalry that marked every movement and feature, all leave a proud remembrance of gallant and striking manhood, for those to dwell upon who knew and loved him. He was killed about twelve o’clock in the first day’s fight. When the historian sits to write what will be the fair chronicles of the turbulent war of those times, he will lovingly dwell upon no character more shining, illustrious and exalted —upon no hero more luminous for chivalry, patriotism, genius and sublime manhood, than Albert Sidney Johnson. A True Bill. Someone has drawn a very correct bill of indictment against the Radical party. It is one that can be sustained by facts and figures. In this bill of indictment the Radical leaders stand charged with— Calling themselves Unionists, they have consummated and maintained disunion. Affecting economy, they have given us the costliest Government on earth. Prating of virtue, they made it the most corrupt. Clamoring for equal rights, they have pro. scribed more people than any monarchy in Christendom. Invoking freedom, they established and maintained the darkest despotism in eleven States. Professing toleration, they proclaim accep tance of their creed the alternative of ostra cism and disfranchisement. Howling about purifying the Government they have made dishonesty nnd office holding identical. Preaching principle, they subsist by passion and prejudice. Deploring caste, they elevate blacks nbove the whites in two thirds of the country. Magnifying loyalty, they trample out every worthy principle of our system. Claiming statesmanship, their officials aro either conspirators or thieves. Lauding independence, they are the servilo slaves of party caucus. Pretending to invite criticism, they stifle freedom of debate in Congress by partisan rule, and drown it elsewhere in blood. Insisting upon peace, they prolong the old strife to stir up anew one. They have made anarchy and cali it peace. Pretentions without sincerity, is their pro gramme, to be carried out with tyranny. Their creed is hypocrisy, their is cant, their practice is theft, and their end is despotism. Sale of Relics.— Various relics have just been sold at auction in Newport, Rhode Is land ; among them a chair that belonged to Cotton Mather, a clock two hundred attd thirty years old, and various pieces of furni ture that date back to a period before the revolutionary war. An iron hammer that “came over in the Mayflower” was also dis j»osed of. m. 4 NO. 46 A Sai Tale. Tho World publishes the following from a lady, and scorns to vouch for tho truth of its statement : That Mrs. Sickles was lovely in person, simple and childlike in. character, all admit.— Were she tho degraded creature he. has led the whole world to believe, her sensibilities would not have remained so acute “that she died in less than two years of a broken heart.” She was weak and cowardly, I admit. Alas I those defects would have made her sacred in the eyes of a manly man, and he would hare done his utmost to shield her from evil. Lot me depict the few last hours in tlia life of this injured woman. .Stung, it may ho, by an irrepressible foel* ing of remorse, he pretends in the eyes of the world to have restored her to favor. I will rwf discuss the propriety of this kind of Klopstocfc sentiment. I speak of the fact. .She was placed in a handsome house, with the ordinary appliances of wealth. Os the secret history of tho two at this time nothing need be said. She was ruined in character, broken in health, utterly lost to the world M only a woman can he lost—left without hope without society and without sympathy, except from the few who were related to her, and who loved and pitied her. She had long in* tervals of nervous prostration, when she would lie for hours like a dying person. She sat day after day, head leaning upon her wasted hand, and even listless, seeing and caring for little in a world whoso sunshine to her had beon so darkly eclipsed. She sighed faintly, but said little or nothing. She was a sad wreck. She knew she was dying, and ex* pressed no thought or interest in anything but her absent daughter. One day she turned suddenly to a young friend and asked : “Do you think me a guilty woman?*’ and without waiting for an answer, she went on, “I wish to speak now while I can. I was so shocked and terrified at that horrible time that I did not know what I said. But lam not guilty of any sin. Mr. Sickles was very violent—l was afraid of him—he brought me a paper, which he said I must sign—he said ho should bn hung if I did not sign iL I never read one line of that paper ? I didn’t see one word written in it. I put my name where he told me, nnd to save his hfe.’ r She was sinking rapidly, and was carried to her bed from a long fainting turn. As she opened her eyes, reviving slowly, they fell upon the face of Daniel E. Sickles painted and framed, hanging before her. Lifting her pale hand, she said : “Take it away.” Those about her remonstrated ; hut the seev ond and third time she murmured, “Take it away.” The picture was removed. “Now place my daughter's face there,” she said with a sad smile. This was done, and she gazed with a longing wistful look upon the young face, and sighed heavily. The poor weary eyes closed, and she was gone to Him unto whom are open the secrets of the heart. One Wiio Knows. Sir Johv Fr avert v.—A correspondent writes to the San Francisco Bulletin from San Buenaventur that a document has been found on the beach at that nlace on the 3d of Aug. r very badly mutilated. On the document was found a request for the finder to forward it to the Secretary of Admiralty at London, or the British Consul at the nearest port, the request being printed in six commercial languages on the margin. Every vacant portion was filled with writing relating to Sir John Franklin and his party. The document was evidently cast in the water in latitude 69 degrees, 37 minutes, 42 seconds, and longitude 98 degrees, 11 minutes, 5 sec onds. It gives an account of the desertion from the ships Erebus and Terror. The party numbering 105 at the time of the desertion’, under the Command of F. R. M. Crozier. They had succeeded in reaching the above latitude, where they had found relics of the late Sir John Ross. The document states that the party half wintered at Beechy Island in 1846 and 1847, and that Sir John Franklin had died on the 11th of June, 1847. It contains many interest* ing incidents connected with the expedi tion. The Test Oath in Missouri. It will be remembered that several clergy men of different denominations in Missouri' were Inst year arrested and imprisoned for re fusing to take the test oath exacted by the new constitution of that State. The St. Louis Re publican of Wednesday, thus refers to one of the “rebellious” ministers: “Rev. J. A. Cummings, the Catholic priest who had tho distinguished honor of being the first minister of the gospol to be cast into prison for refusing to take and subscribe to the infamous test oath of our new constitution - , was present at the laying of the corner stone of the Catholic Cathedral at St. Joseph, on the 12th inst. Father Cummings has acquired a world wide fame for his firm refusal to ac knowledge the spiritual authority of a tem poral government to grant him permission to preach the gospel, instead of that of his Di vine Master. From the prison walls of Pike county jail to an honored place in the volume of history may be a long step, but Father " Cummings has had the high honor of making it. He will live in story when his persecutors shall have been forgotten for years.” Arrival or Tea at Chicago. —The first con** signment of tea from China, overland, arrived nt Chicago, via the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific route. It was shipped froln San Fran cisco by Sing-Man and Choy-Chew. Its arri val was celebrated with music and public ™> - rade through the principal streets.