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TUB GEORGIA ENT EMFR I8 K.
Vol. VI.
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leave Charleston at 8.20 a.
Augusta at 7.40 a. m„ and arrive at Columbia
, ...anceting with trains going North
notice.
,r ii.ofC that are indebted to me for TVnfes
i anrvici a, must come np and settle on
.ILTihc first dav ot November next. I am
tnonev hv that time. I dnnt want
heed to rath. wjs(f * nffl eient. Set
veuw. j c. ANDERSON, M. D.
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'holographs. Photographs.
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here in want of
rfOTOGRAPHS,
FERROTYPES,
OR AMBROTYPES,
... n t | lP latest Improvements known in the
rt a mlaUheUove.-t living priees.
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ve special attention to taking Large Size Photo-
Parh'cnlar attention given to Copying from old
mhrotvpes, Daguerreotypes, *e.
Sin. W. fit V VVl’ OR D, Artist,
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' TV. s». ATRIA’SOS. Jr.,
TTORNEY AT LAW, AHD SOLICITOR ILL EQUITY.
Conyers, Georgia.
ViOMTattention given to all business entrusted
to ilia rare, in (lie Courts of the Flint Circuit,
nd in the Counties nd.i*-ining Rockdale.
Office over E. B. Rosser’s Store— 4(>!f.
*. Mfl AIXA,
[TTORNEY A T T. A W,
(nffiue at Rail Road Hotel,)
CONYERS GEORGIA.
tl’Jl.h IVi.ui-e in Rockdale and adjoining
'* eonr.tien 43tf
.1. %, KING,
[TTORNEY A T L A W
CONYB'I', GEORG I \.
(Office Thorn’s Hotel )
ii'ill Practice in Rockdale and adjoining Counties,
ROBERT WHITITELP,
attorney at la tv,
CONYERS, GEORGIA.
(Office at Rail Road Hotel.)
Ilf lid, give prompt attention 'to all business
VV entrusted to his care. —42tf
tv. T. ('MAI. R. 4V. H. NfU..
O Y i) I !, & W E i■,
MXGH’rSTS AT &AW,
THOMSON - . GEORGIA.
rffri.T. Pri'dice in the Angnsta, Middle and
VV Northern Cirenits, and in the ( iiited states
Distrii t Courts.—[Sfi.Sin
JOIT!f s OARROLT,.
n p PI T I ST
OOVIXOTON’ rsKORGTA.
Te. tli Fdle 1, »v Now ones Inserted.in
die host B»vle,and or. ReasoTmldeTerms
slice Pp stairs. Tiiaht Hand Rack Room Mur
rfrll'n Brick Building. R (
R, M. rvSRSTT,
SADDLE v\r> ;fV'tNMBB .41 VICER,
Dfipt't street, near Fro lan l’s Simp, Coving'on
Tiavii g just 0| en a ‘Mion '« '''’
. Bui'di'ig on Depot street
1 will k.-ep on hand a good supply
of Saddles and Harness. \'oH
if all kinds made tooider. Repairing of all kinds
lone promptly, mtl best -tylv, an 1o- reason
fit'e term«. All wort win rant**d. — lylo
DP. E. H. YANCEY,
eclectic physician,
HPFI.NnEgv his Professional services to 1 lie oit
I iz ns if Newton mid adjoining Counties.—
lie is prepared to treat all di eases pecudar to
fins country—both Acute mid Chronic. Partic
ular attention given to Chronic Diseases, an !
*J' diseases peculiar to F. males. Office next
I °°or to S. \, stip’iugs, Covington, Ga.—H’tf
KENTUCKY
livery and Salo Stables!
Covington, Georgia.
The Rndergiffned having purchased the above
named from Mr. K. I>. LEE, will continue
tne laisineft as heretofore, at the old stand.
I will keep on hand a good supply of Stock,
w sale and hire.
HORSES and BUGGIES 1 inferior to none in the
Country, will be kept for the accommodation of <
my customers.
A Persons from a distance wishing to go into the
j °J>ntry, ran rely upon carcfful drivers.
I tlorßes Boarded hy tlic month, or single feed
F ,f A. 4. MORRIS.
*• A-BEm.i.. j. h. spears. w. h.potteb.
BEALL, SPEARS, & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS,
WAREHOUSE AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
Continue their business at their old Stand, Ihe
commodious Fire-Proof Warehouse, No.ti, Camp-
Mi street. OlUee and Sales ll.mm, 177 Reynolds
" treet , Augusta, Ga.
All tindness entrusted to them will have striet
Personal attention. < )rders for Bagging, Universal
l .°“’ nr Rape and Faniilv Supplies promptly tilled,
tntnmlssi.ms for selling Cotton \% percent,
t-toeral (’ash advances made on Produce in
Store.—Mm U
f RAMKLI?- 5 , READ & CO.,
c O TT O N F A CTO 11 B
Ollicc and Warehouse, IC. 1 Reynolds street,
.Augusta, Georgia..
mi’r 1 advance* on consignment*. Com
oiiriu.r ’a, her cent, for selling Cotton. We give
an r i J’*i , utiou t u all bu-iueas entrusted to
The Selma Times says: A friend Ims
handed us the following fragment, which bears
the appearance of having rested in an old
pocket book since its publication, about Au
gust, 1862, savo for the repeated perusals, un
der which it has been worn out. Wo do not
know from what paper it was cut, hut. from
the editorial note from which it is headed, it is
possible that our friends of the Montgomery
Advertiser and Mail can reproduce it. It cun
never appear more opportunely than now :
Clnnton’s Charge at Boonvillc,
[The following lines from the Richmond
Whig should bo laid away for safe keeping.
They would be read with pleasure by Ala
bamians a hundred years hence, as they refer
to the First Alabama Cavalry, James 11.
Clanton, of Montgomery, Colonel.—Editor
Mail.]
‘Who’ll drive the foe from yonder glen, and
clear that everglade?
They’re driving back my gallant men beneath
its gloomy shade.’
‘l’ll charge the bristling ambuscade? was
shouted from tho rear.
‘l’ll clear the hloodly everglade;’ tho voice
rang loiEl ahd clear ;
He turned upon his comrades his glance so
prou 1 and high,
‘Alabama, to the rescue I Alabamians, door
die!’
‘Make way for Clanton,’ was the shout
throughout the whole brigade,
‘He’ll drive the lurking foeman out and scour
the hidden glade.’
On either side, like ocean's spray, when rolled
upon the strand,
The impatient cavalry gave way to pass the
gallant band.
Adow n the narrow way they pressed, with firm
and measured tread,
To where onr ill-starred brothers rest among
the silent dead.
‘Remember, Alabama’s sons, your noble flag
and name 1
Charge for her queenly beauty now, charge
for her love and fame !'
As suminer clouds efface tho sun, and break
his golden beam,
As rolling masses, dark and dun, presage the
lightning’s gleam.
So did that firm and thundering mass, with
fleet arid headlong dash,
Rush down the ambuscaded pass, athwart the
optioning flash—
Our gallant Colonel in the yan, with sabre
gleaming high:
‘Now close your ranks, stand man »o man, and
raise your battle cry !’
Five hundred gnus gleam in tho sun, five
hundred sabres bare.
Five hundred voic s joining siiout burst thro’
the startled air;
And as the lightning cleaves the sky*. then
strikes the sturdy oak,
So did that thrilling battle cry precede the
deadly stroke;
For Alabama’s homo and hearth, her sacred
flag unfurled.
We’d strike the invader to the earth, and
crush him from the world.
Remember Mitchell's bloody hand, our Hunts
ville’s drooping crest,
‘The tyrant’s stain upon! our land, his heel
upon our breast!’
They bur.it with shouts upon that glade,’midst
hell’s own fearful elfish.
Whilst from within that gloomy shade, gleam
ed forth that battle flash.
** *******
The S.il do Kay, the great Salt Lake of
is an immenso bed of salt about five
miles in circumference, which is believed to be
inexhaustible, as the process of production is
constantly g»ing on. The salt is formed nat
urally, and only has to bo shovelled and placed
in carts and taken away to be ready for mar
ket. For table use it should be washed and
ground. The present income derived from this
great natural salt manufactory is reported
tube only §20.000 annually; but it is said
that the Mexican Government formerly col
lected a revenue of §400.000 in taxes on the
product of the lake. If this be true, why is it
salt, from England is one of our largest im
ports ?
A Virginia paper gives the following account
of a man in that State, who seems to have had
a mania for ‘sheep-stealing i’ ‘About sixteen
years ago, Jack Cross, a white man living in
the lower part of Loudoun, was arrested, tried
and convicted of stealing twenty-one sheep,
and sentenced to the penitentiary for five years.
After serving out his time, he returned to that
county, and ♦as shortly thereafter arrested and
covieted of stealing another lot of sheep—we
do not know how many—and again returned
to the penitentiary for ten years. Released a
second time from his imprisonment, he re
turned to Loudoun a few months ago, and on
Monday was lodged in the jail of that county,
charged with having recently stolen twenty
one sheep from Mr. 1?. G. Carter. The old
man is not far from sixty years of age.’
A man in Jersey City who had stolen a kiss
from a school girl was lined hy the magistrate,
horse whipped hv a big brother, and scratched
bald headed by bis own wife. And it was not
much of a kiss after all.
The town of Caseyville, twelve miles from
Salt Lake, Utah Territory, contains seventy*
three husbands, who have in the aggregate
three hundred and forty-seven wives and five
hundred and twenty-two children.
Henry N. Smith, who owns Goldsmith
Maid, has *200.000 worth of trotting horses
in his stub'os.
COV INGTON, GEORGIA, October 20, 1871.
A Beit nil ini Sentiment.
Life hears us on like a mighty river. Our
boat at first glides down tho narrow channel
through the playful murmuring of the little
brook and tho winding of the grassy borders.
The trees shed their blossoms over our young
heads: the flowers on the bank seem to offer
themselves to our young hands, wo are happy
in hope, and grasp eagerly at tho beauties
around us ; hut the stream hurries on, and
still our hands are empty. Our courso in
youth and manhood .is along a wider and
deeper flood, arid amid objects more striking
and magnificent. We are animat, and at the
moving picture of enjoyment and industry
passing around us—nrc excited at some short
lived disappointment. We may be ship
wrecked—wo cannot be delayed; whether
rough or smooth, the river hastens to its
home, till tlm roar of tho ocean is in our oars,
and the tossing of the waves is beneath our
feet, and the land lessens from our eyes, and
tlie floods are lifted up around us, and we
take onr leave of earth and its inhabitants,
until of farther voyage there is no witness save
Infinite and Eternal.
The Way to Succeed.
Fortune, success, fame, position, are never
gained but by piously, determinedly, bravely
striking, growing, living in a thing till it is
fairly accomplished. In short, you must carry
a thing through if you want to be anybody
or any tiling. No matter if it does cost you
the pleasure, tho society, the thousand people
gratifications of life. No matter for these.—
Stick to the thing and carry it through. Be
lieve you were made for the matter, arid that
no one elsecan doit. Put forth your whole
energies. Be awake, electrify yourself, and
go forth to the task. Only once learn to carry
a thing through in all its completeness and
proportion, and you will become a hero. You
will think hotter of yourself; others will think
better of you. The world in its very heart
admires the -tern, determined doer. It sees
in him its best sight, its brightest object, its
richest treasure. Drive righ* along, then, in
whatever vni undertake. Consider yourself
amply sufficient for the deed. You tl be suc
cessful.
Heavy Proposition.
An editor in New Hampshire grows indig
nant over the corruption and rascalities of
those in high places who have fleeced the peo
ple and makes this swinging proposal:
Hang the scoundrels. There ought to be n
law passed by the Legislature of this and
every other State, and by Congress, too, mak
ing it a CAi'ITAL crime for any man, high or
low in official position, either iu State or
nation, to steal the public money. There
should he laws that will filing every official
thief or defaulter in this country. We care
nnt to what party he belongs, if he steals the
public money raised by any form of lawful tax
ation. he isn’t fit to live, but ought to die for
the public good.
We have no doubt that more than half of all
the public debt of this country has been caused
hv ra-cals who st de the money. They ought
t > he killed.
Recreation.
When a man is hungry let him eat; when
thirst v, drink ; when sleepy, sleep; when stiff
with sitting him run, and tnce or jump:
when overworked and j tded let him recreate
[liaise! f.
Let every man give himsnif to some useful
and honorable Work—a work that taxes his
best facilities. Then lot this man keep his
mind and body as ho should his tool or capi
tal, in good working order— sometimes by
fasting, sometimes by ‘popular amusements;’
at other times by unpopular sobrieties. Lot
a man recreate himself as often and as per
fectly as ho can ; fora busy man will wear
out soon enough at tho best.
But be it always remembered that pleasure
followed for pleasure's sake wears out men
sooner than ordinary work. Such pleasures,
unearned by work, are called dissipations be
cause they dissipate, scatter, squander and
waste one’s strength and manhood.
Wh-at Maker tiie Man ?—M ha* is it that
makes a man ? Can you tell ? AVo can tell
you what does not. Good clothes 60 not;
learning does not. You must have something
else to make a man of. We have seen a good
description of a man, which reads thus.
A beautiful soul, a loving mind,
Full of affection for its kind ;
A holpor of the human race,
A soul of beauty and of grace;
That truly speaks of God within,.
And never makes a league with sin.
This is the kind of a man worth something
in the world. We want a great many more
such men than we have now. Will you not
strive to he such a man ?
All through the South at this time hundreds,
yea, thousands, of respectable citizens aro
dragged from their homes and taken hundreds
of miles to the State capital, there to answer
before United States Courts and packed juries
of carpet-baggers and negroes on trumped up
charges of private and political malevolence
against them by the adherents of the party in
power. Our Southern exchanges are full o!
incidents illustrating the brutality of the pro
ceedings. Since the days of Judge Jeffrey,
nothing like this in atrocity has been witness
ed, —l’ineinnati Enquirer.
Bridgeport boys construct an effigy, set it
up against the door, pull the bell and run-
The domestic answers the call, and is lngli -
ened into hysterics, when the man falls down
anti is dragged around the corner.
A Missouri newspaper claims that the hogs
of that State arc so fat that in order to find out
where their heads are it is necessary to moke
them squeal, and then judge by the sound.
A Thrilling Situation.
Tho Detroit Free Press of the 29th ult. de
scribes an adventure by n German named Hen
ry Osstor, of Nankin township, who was hunt
ing n missing cow, and got mired in a piece
of marshy ground. The narrative continues:
To his right abiut ten feet away, \va- a knoll
of solid ground, on which grew a thornapplo
tree, one of the limbs extending almost over
the man's head, and about lour feet beyond
the reach of his arms. Thinking that if ho
could get possession of his gun he might secure
tho limb, O-stor took off his suspenders, tied
them together and made a noose on one end,
and after careful and tedious work lassoAl the
rifle and dragged it. to him. This was after ho
had hoen in the mire nearly two hours, and
quite a while after dark. lie was induced to
believe that he had not sunk any for tho last
halt hour, but the extra weight of tho gun as
ho held it up, sunk him nearly to his hips in a
moment, and lie quickly laid it down.
Little tufts of; rass, growing up from spots
of solid ground n >t much larger than his hand,
were all around tin man, but the moment he
took hold of one of them it would pull away,
having no real support. Osster had n pipe,
with him, and ho got this from his coat and
twisted off the German silver ring around the
stein. Tho ring he broke between his teeth,
bent it up like a hook, and then fastened it to
his suspenders, determined to make art effort
to reach the limb. Time after timo he made
the throw, but the hook failed to catch, or
slipped off, or bent out straight, and at ten
o’clock at night the victim was up to his hips,
and slowly settling. Placing his coat and vest
on either side, ho pushed them down with his
hands, and in this way kept his body front
settling as fast as it otherwise would, lie
ceased trying to shout, knowing that he could
not expect help before another day.
As Oxstcr did not return at dark, Stark
feared that he might have shot himself or met
with some other accident, and walked a mile
or so in the direction from which the man was
expected, and stopped within half a mile from
where he was sinking down to death. Return
ing homo, ho agreed to make a further search
in the morning, and when the timo came got
a neighbor to go with him. They took a di
recrion quite distant from where Osster was to
bo found, and, to be brief, searched the woods
until nearly noon, and then determined to go
to tho hamlet and see if Osster had been there,
Tn coming out of the woods they passed within
forty rods of Osster, and were nearly half a
mile when one of them fired a shot at a squir
rel on a fence. All night long Osster bad
been slowly sinking, and when the sun marked
noon ho was up to his shoulders in the tnire.
Hearing the shot, he put forth all his vocal
strength into one grand shout, followed by
another, and his voice v.as heard and recog
nized, Even after his frionds got wilh'm a
few fret of him he had to shout to guide them,
11s his head was below tho grass. It is need
less to say that they instantly set about the
work of rescuing him. Logs and brush were
piled into the swamp until they could reaedi
him. Finding that they could not pull him
out by the arms, the mire was scooped away
from his body, and he was literally pried out
by a lover inserted under his feet.
To Be Remembered. —Three things to lovo
—courage, gentleness and affection.
Three tilings to admire—intellectual power,
dignity anh gracefulness.
Three things to hate—•oruelty, arrogance,
nnd ingratitude.
Three things to delight in—beauty, frank
ness, and .freedom.
Three things to wish for—health, friends,
and a cheerful spirit.
Three things to like—cordiality,good humor,
aad mirthfulnes’s.
Three things to avoid—idleness, loquacity,
and flipping jesting.
Three things to cultivate—good books, good
friends and good humor.
Three things to contend for- honor, country,
and friends.
Three tilings to govern—temper, tongue,
and conduct.
Three things to think about—life, death, and
eternity.
A Good Woman. —A good woman never
grows old. Years may go over her head, fcift
if benevolence and virtue dwell in hot' heart,
she is as cheerful as when the spring of life
first opened to her view. When we look upon
a good woman, we never think of her ago—
she looks ns charming ns when the rose of
youth first bloomed upon her cheek. That
rose Ims not faded vet; it will never fade. In
her neighborhood she is the friend and bene
factor. iiwhe nhureh the devout worshipper
and exemplary Christian. Who does not love
and respect the woman who has passed her
days in acts of kindness and mercy—who lias
been the friend of man and God—whose whole
life Ims been a scene of kindness and love, a
devotion of love and religion? Wo repeat,
such a woman cannot grow old. She will al
ways bo fresh and buoyant in spirits, and ac
tive in bumble deeds of mercy and benevolence.
If the young lady desires to retain the bloom
and beauty of youth, let her not yield to the
sway of fashion and folly; let her love truth
and virtue ; and to the close of life she will
retain those feelings which now make life ap
pear a garden of sweets ever fresh and ever
new.
They thought a Chicago alderman was drunk
the other day, because lie mistook a load of
hay for a street car.
A horse whose pedigree is eight generations
long without any base admixture, is considered
thorough bread.
[From the Hartford Times.
The v - v orM’s “(.rent Fires.’*
The conflagration of Chicago prompts peo
ple to ask what other great fires have equalled
this. One precedent, frequently cited, is rho
‘great fire in New Y'ork,' which occurred on
the night of December 16, 1835.. That was
a terrible fire ; the intense cod, which, by
freezing the hydrants and the hose, incapaci
tated tho old hand labor engines, and resulted
in the disastrous spread of the dimes. The
fire swept tho compactor business part of the
city, embracing all the First Ward east of
Broadway, below Wall street, destroying about
650 buildings, mostly business structures and
warehouses filled with costly merchandise.—
The city is in debt to-day, if we mistake not.
nearly half a million dollars for liabilities con
tracted by the city authorities in ordering the
destruction of buildings by blowing them up
with gunpowder on that terrible night of De
cember 10, 1,835. The total loss was 818,000,-
000, which was practically equal to $30,000.-
000 in these times. Many insurance compa
nies failed. ‘ Tho great New Y r oik fire of July,
1845, in a portion us the same tract caused a
loss of $5,000,000. •*
The conflagration of Moscow, October 19th,
20th, 21-t and 22J, 1812, by order of tho Gov
ernor, Count Ro'taptschin, not only succeeded
in its o! ject of driving cut Napoleon and his
army, to perish by piecemeal their dreadful
forced march out of Russia and its early win
ter storms of that memorable year, but also
burned dowu, it is sail, nearly or quits throe
quarters of thefeity, Moscow at that time was
a highly picturesque city, ns large as Chicago
in 1871; but it did not contain nearly so many
valuable buildings—and though tho conflagra
tion may have destroyed several thousand dif
ferent buildings, their number was fur loss
than that which Chicago has now lost, and not
ooc-terith as valuable,
Constantinople has had several enormous
conflagrations during the past and present cen
tury, but none equal to this of Chicago.
Hamburg, in May 1842, suffered by a con
flagration lasting four days, and which burned
down 61 streets and 1.747 houses.
Portland, Maine, and Troy, N l - ., to say
nothing of the city of Paris, have suffered
heavily from fires, but not so severely as New
York,
The greatest of all fires, prior to this of
Chicago, was the historical conflagration in
London, which occurred in Milton’s time, and
which is now distinctively known as tho ‘Great
Fire.’ That, however, nccurre 1 at an age
(1666) when London, crooked and poorly built,
contained no such valuable structures as hun
dreds on hundreds of those which have just
been converted to ashes in the heart of Chica
go. It, however, lasted from September 3 to
September 10, and destroyed between 13,000
and 14.000 dwelling houses, 87 churches, 6
chapels, 4 bridges, 3 city ga’es, the Exchange,
the Custom House, old Newgate, Guild Ilall,
and other public structures.
This awful c iriflagrati: nos Chicago, lasting
practicably two days and two nights, has
burned down 12.000 buildings—several thou
sand being elegant and costly—and destroyed
property amounting in value to (probably)
*100.000.000.
Nettling like it has occurred in any part of
the world—so far as destruction merely Gy firo
is concerned.
A Pretty Speech.
The following pretty speech was roccntly
mede by a bridegroom :
To-day I shake hands with the past. I live
henceforth in future joys. An unknown door
is opened, and I enter an abode of boantitude.
lam confident of the future. The shadow of
the present shall fall upon it even when my
bride and I have grown old and invest it witli
sunset glories. I may not deserve the good*
I have won. It gives itself, and if not given,
no wealth, genuine beauty, or wit, no gold on
earth or gem of hoaven is rich enough to'pur
chaso it. Living time, iny bride, my heart
shall keep the old memories like the sea shell
its wanted melody. Love’s music steals on
us like dawning light which over the heavens
spreads, invests the world with' beamy and
glory. The road that led on through the un
known future was dark and dreary; Imt ce
lestial splendor now lights up the gloom ; and
the fair bride her spirited self, a Peri at the
gates of Paradise, invite me onward to a
life of purest pleasure and duties of bene
flccnce,
The descent into the hitherto unexplored
pit in the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky, was
made on Friday, 28th ult., by A. D. Bibbitt, a
telegraph operator from Michigan, lie found
bottom at a distance of 198 feet from the main
avenue. The descent was witnessed by 200
gue-ts of the hotel, who welcomed the daring
young ndventirror back with hearty cheers and
congratulations. The rope with which he was
lowered into the pit was dangerously cut in
several pianos hy the rocks which it had pass
ed.
Avery intelligent Virginia mule, being
hemmed in on a railroad track by an approach
ing train, jumped into a cattlo gttftrd, crouched
down until the cars had passed, and then
jumped out and walked off as if nothing had
happened.
One of the leading lladieals who attended
the Grant breakfast at Titusville, remarked in
a louder tone than he was aware of, that ‘Grant
was a cussed fool.’ The President heard it,
but not being used to speaking in public,
failed to respond.—Detroit Free Press.
M. Thiers has had bis sa’ary increased to
§120.000 a year, together with $32,000 for
contingencies,
No. 50.
Tlie Horning of Moscow, y
An old French soldier now in this country
having been interviewed, tells this story of
Moscow, of which ho was an eye witness:—
The army of Bonaparte entered that
tho 14th of September, 1812. Tho weathgj.
was there, at that sea-on, colder than a New
England mid-winter, and the soldiers suffered
bitterly, many of them having absolutely
frozen. Worn with long marches and hard
fighting, they had looked Hopefully forward to
a period of rest, within the walla of Moscow, -7*
But they had hardly possessed themselves qC
the city when it was found to bo in flames. At.
first the French supposed that intoxicated men,
in their own ranks were responsible for this
disaster; but soon fiendish-looking monsters,,
covered with rags, and fnrions women were
seen among the burning buildings, some with
torches in thmr hands trying to increase tho
conflagration.
Many a hand severed from the arm by i
French saber fell to the ground still grasping
the flaming torch. These frantic victims had
been released from prison walls on purposo to_
do this desperate work. Thousands and thou-.
Ronds of wounded Uusdans were in the hos
pitals, whoso fato was too horrible to content
jdate. Nor was the foundling hospital spared,
A great portion of the town was of wood, and.
contained large quantities of brandy, oil, and (
other combustible mate rail. All the pumps
had been destroyed by tho cunning Russians,,
and the exertion of the French wore, almost,
useless. Everywhere there was a suffocating
odor of sulphur and bitumon. For mere than
two days tbo fire raged remorselessly, envelop
ing cot nnd palace, and devouring all the,
splendid pomp which nobility had gathored
around it.
Tho coldest and fiercest of winds were blow-,
ing, nnd the soldiers wero burned by (showers
of falling coals and cinders, from which there,
was no e-cape. Jewels and coins were gathered
by the handful; and grimy men wrapped them-,
solves in rich cashmere shawls, and the softest
and costliest of Siberian fu r s, which the Rus
sians, in their huniod departure had left be
hind. Solid silver plates were rescuod, from,
which the hungry men ate ‘half broiled and,
bloody steaks of horso-flesh, or else a species
of black dough.’
Taking Things Without Asking.
When I was a bov. I was plaving out *n the
street one winter's day, catching rid«R on.
sleighs, and it was great fun. Boys would
rather catch rides any dav than go oqt regu
larly anil nroperlv to take a drive. As I was
catching on to one sleigh and to another, some*
times having a nice rime, and ofttimes getting,
a cut from a hig blank whip, T at last fastened,
like a barnacle to the side of a countryman’s
cutter.
An old gentleman Rat alone on the seat, and
he looked at me rather bcnignanfly, as I
thought, nnd neither said anything to me,
swung his old whip over me, as t ventured to
climb upon the side of his cutter. Another,
benignant look from the countrymen, but not
a word. Emboldened bv his supposed good-,
ness, T ventured to tumblo into the cutter at\d
take a seat under the warm buffalo robe beside
him, nnd then ho spoke. The colloquy was as
follows :
Young man, do you like to ride ?
Yes.
It’s a nretty nieo cutter, isn’t it?
Yes, sir, it is, nnd a nice horse drawing it.
Did I ask you to get in ?
No, sir.
Well, then, why did you get in ?
Well, sir, I—T thought you looked so good
and kind, and that you would havo no objec-
tion.
And so, young man, because you thought.
I wa° goofl and kind, you took advantage of
tlint kindness, and took a favor without ask
ing for it ?
Yes, sir.
Is that rule worth having?
Yes, sir.
Well, now, young man, I want to tell you
two things. You should never take a mean,
advantage of the kindness of others; and
what is worth having,is worth at least asking
for. Now as you tumbled into this sleigh
without asking me. I shall tumble you out
into that snow-drift without asking you.
An 1 out I went, like a shot off a shovel,
and ho didn’t make much fuss about it either..
I picked myself tip in a slightly bewildered
s‘afe,' but I never firgot that lesson.
B« Contested.—Bui wer says that poverty
is only an idea in nine cases out of ten. Some
men with SIO,OOO a year suffer more for want
of menus than others will with SSOO. The
reason is the richer man has his artificial wants-
Ilis income is §IO,OOO a year, and ho suffers
enough by being dunned for unpaid debts to
kill a sensitive man. A man who earns adol
!ar a day and does not go into debt is the hap
pier of the two. Very few people who have
nevor been rich will believe this, but it is true -
There aro thousands and thousands with prinoe*
ly incomes who never know a minute’s peace,
because they live beyond their means. There
is really more happiness among the working
men in the world than among those who are
called rich.
How to Get Rtd or Stumps.—The following
is reeeommended by one who has tried it, as the
‘speediest, safest and surest way to get rid of
any and all kinds:’
If you have many acres of clear stumps, get
one barrel of black machine oil; then take an
inch'and-n-quarter auger and bore four holes
in the largest stumps, letting the auger stand
toward you at an angle of forty-five degrees,—
Bore eight inches deep. Then fill the hole
three-fourths full of oil. and plug up tight. f
Poor, also one-third of a pint on top, ?n the
ceutro of a foot circle, uud let it spread well.— - '