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ATLANTA, GA., FEBRUARY SO,1872.
The WeeUr Cenatltatlen.
This journal, one of the largest in the
Boothem States, Is Increasing in drcnUtion
more rapidly then at any former period of its
history. Daring the past week one or mor»
cl aba were received daily, adding Some tw<
hundred new subscribers to oar book*. Thh
is an average of about thirty per day. Tb.
friends of Tux Dailt Cossimmos most
bestir them selves, as it is getting jealons of
the Weekly, and is determined not to be ex
ceeded by it in circulation.
A Csrfsaa U*>< Hahherg.
The Augusta Chronicle relates that Mr.
IV. W. Houghton bad hi* store In Augusta
robbed on Saturday night Among other
articles eighteen hundred dollars in gold wss
stolen. Mr. Haoghton had adopted the fol
lowing carious method of taking care of bis
gold:
“For fear of accidents, we snppoi", for
those were tjdrlish times, the coin was
placed in a tin box in layers, and between
each layer was plsced cotton, wired down,
in this way the box contained a solid mass,
which made no noise when shaken. The box
was then placed in a mould of sand and melt
ed lead poured around it, until an apparent! r
solid block of metal was formed. This bloc t
was kept in the store and used to cat wads
on, and for other purposes. This precious
block was in the store on the night of the
robbery and the burglars took it, either know
ing its value, or carrying it off to sell as old
metal." a m
Tfca CartersTf lie and Va> Wert Rail*
ready alias tbe cherekee Hallread
Governor Smith’s proclamation will lie
found in our advertising columns, revoking
a-ting Cover:.or Conley’a appointment of
Colonel Daniel 8. Printup.the agent of Henry
Clews & Co., aa Receiver of the Cherokee
Railroad. His reasons for his coarse are sim
ply unanswerable. We do not see how be
could have done otherwise. It is undenied
that tbe $173,000 of bonds were issued be
fore tbe road was entitled to a bond under
the law. Clews, tbe holder of the bonds,
knew this, because he was Treasurer of tbe
company. The illegality is undoubted. And
not even the plea of Innocent purchaser with
out notice can be used.
Under these facts, what was Governor
Smith to do? Recognize an illegality and a
fraud? That certainly would be unlawful.
He coaid only enforce the law. This he bis
done. The parties hare the courts to go to
for establishing their legal claims.
* We most emphatically endorse and com
mend the action of Governor Smith.
The Orphans* Bowie.
We call tbe a'tcnU-.u of our readers to the
interesting article of Jesse Boring, in regard
to the Orphans' Home. He makes a strong
appeal for assistance in this noble charily.
His account of the institution will .be read
with deep Interest. We commend liu ap
peal.
We can best, perhaps, stimulate our people
to aid this project by referring to wbat the
Southern %ity of Baltimore has done for such
charities.
Baltimore has a Christian Aid Society, a
Conyers, February 15,1872.
Editors Constitution: Many of the most in
Idligent people in this county feel deeply in
teres led in the matter of “Tbe Great Western
Canal,” and would be pleased to have infor
mation on the following particulars:
1. Is It proposed to propel the boats by
steam any part or all the distance ?
2. How much depth of water will here-
quiredt
8. From the Junction of the Yellow river,
South river and Akovy. which form the
Ocmulgee, down to Macon, which is perhaps
fifty miles by the river, there Is average depth
of from seven to twelve feet water; and from
Macon to tbe coast, a dislsnce of some three
hundred to three hundred and fifty miles,
water sufficient to ran boats stall seasons ol
the year; why not at least run this portion
bj steam?
The undertaking, considered In all its bear
ings. is certainly one of vast importance, not
ontv to Georgia bat to all the adjoining
Mutes. Rockdale county alone can span
granite of first quality sufficient to build i
wall equal to tbe Chinese wall around half of
our coast border, etc.
Very respectfully,
8. W. Bryant.
- We will state that tne question of u-ing
steam on the canal is not yet settled. W<
will h >wcver take occasion to correct a wide
spread error relative to the nse of steam upon
canals. The great anxiety manifested by tbe
Erie Canal to use steam growl out of the
fact that the time between the harvesting of
the crop in the Western Slates and the do
sing of the canal (by ice) it so short that it is
Impossible to mow that crop by the present
means before tbe canal is frozen op. This
Is the secret, and it Is not, as many suppose,
doe to the present mode of propelling canal
boats.'
Too dimensions of the cans! will be tbe
same of those of the New York Erie Canal,
70 feet wide and six deep. Iu capacity, how
ever, will be doable that of the Erie, because
it will never be closed by ice.
Tbe engineers are now surveying the
Ocmulgee river, and their report will de
termine tbe fact whether any portion of that
river, above Macon, can be made available
for steam navigation. Our people may, how
ever, rest assured that nothing will be left
undone to insure the success of this great en
terprise and to give them all the benefits of
cheap transportation.
The Atlantic ait Gull Beat.
The seventeenth annual meeting of tbe
stockholders of this road was held on Wed
nesdsy, representing 31,993 shares. Presi
dent Screven reported the gross earnings of
the company for the year 1871, exclusive of
smonnts not yet adjusted with contracting
companies, bnt which belong to the earnings
of the year, amount to $1,914,387118, derived
as follows:
Ttom Freight. $ 79I.M0 69
•* PlNt|S. 317,50b O
** InddonUl Sources 14 1*170
Female Orphan Asylum, "a’Blind Asylum
an Indigent Sick Society, and hosts of other
charitable institutions. The Sick Society
visited and relieved nineteen thousand four
hundred and sixty-four sick persons. Tbe
Aid Society taught hundreds of young girls
tbe means of getting s living. A number of
institutions furnish employment to toot
women and children. The amount of good
done in that city by the charitable can hardly
be estimated.
Let Atlanta be behind none in her liberality.
Tbe claim of the poor Confederate orphan is
one of irresistable power.
Atlanta and Her Calumniators
It has become very much fashionable lately
for many papers to abase Atlanta ronudly.
Tbe head and front cf her offending seems
to be that the Capitol was remove-1 here.
And yet so true were the people of Atlanta
to honor, that they voted against tbe Radical
Constitution, sugar-coated as it was, wiiii this
uery bribe of the Capitol removal. This
tingle fact outweighs a volume of calumny.
We do not write this to enter intoa defeats
of Atlanta. Like other cities, the baa good
and bad citizens. Her people will compare
favorably with the people of any Southern
city. And when writers go so far as to say
that the atmosphere of the place is too cor
rupt for honest legislation, it is a eisnder
upon the Legislature as undeserved os it
silly. God help us as a State if we cannot
elect a General Assembly that will be pure
and honest anywhere.
We have not thought it necessity to reply
to tbe cheap denunciation of our city. She
needs no defense. In every trial she has
stood true to right and the States’ interest.
We see that the Griffin Daily News has
taken np the cndgcls against this blind abuse
of this place. And it bandies tbe sul ject
well that we reproduce its article as an unan-
swenbie off-set to tbe calumny it condemnr.
Wc have, for a long time, noticed tbe in
vidious slurs thrown at this city, which if
truly the pride of the State. Wc have never
seen any necessity foi such a course, for of
all places in the Suite, Atlanta is our fa
vorite. True there is an immense amount of
corruption, which has berg more prominent,
than that of any other city, because it is the
scat of Government, and i-c-causc everybody
knows everything about it; but this over
balanced by iu wonderful enterprise, the en
ergy, and thrift of iu citizens, the magnifi
cence of its undertakings, the elegance of her
buddings, and the cleverness of her people.
Seven years ago it was one solid ruin, a mass
of cinders and charcoal; to-day it is tbe finest
city in the State, rivalled by none in scarcely
a single respect. It lias risen Phoenix like
from its ashes, and is one of the finest exam
ples of Georgia’s determination to maintain
her well-earned reputation of “tlio Empire
State of the South.”
When iu limits were one vast camp of
Yankee soldiery, when the ballot box was
manipulated by scoundrels, iu polls counted
at tbe point of the bayonet, in tbe hinds of
a rabble, whose every impulse was for the
degradation of our people, Atlanta was the
only city in the State of any considerable
size, that gave our glorious standard bearer,
a majority of tbe votes cast This record she
has fullv sustained in every subsequent elec
tion, and to her we look for lead in every
important more on the political chcsa-ltoard.
A great deal has been said about the re
moval of the Capi'ol of the State to that
point, wc are and have all the time b- en op
posed to the manner in which it was s- cured
for that city, but outside of that, wc are wil
ling, yea proud of Tbe fact that Atlanta is our
seat of government. Tbe removal of it from
Atlanta will more lbon add enough to
taxes of the State, than forty such public
buildings as those belonging to tbe Slate at
Mllledgeville are worth. It is foremost in
eveiytbing that looks to. the developing of
our noble old Commonwealth and wit shall
ever rejoice at iu prosperity in any manner
or form, and would be glad to see the day
dawn when iu limits might be extended until
it was separated from our own beautiful little
dty by an invisible dry line;
Act us have no more of unpleasant reflec
tions in reference to that city. The large
majority of her rilizcns are honed people, and
the unearthing of the monstrous railroad
frauds now going on there are alike credit
able to the high character of its citizens and
their determination to parnish those who
have defrauded and 'robbed the State with
impunity under the unlimited license printed
them by Radical usurpation, and the an
bridled authority given them by eorrnpt
officials.”
ouie ffAsiiiNt- o i utttrti.
amnesty—Came o. Ocfent—Pnrctiaee
af Arms by France-XSssr with Cat*
and, *.tc.
WiinnidTos, February 13.1872.
The defeat of .the amnesty bill in tbe
Senate on Friday last was unexpected by
both friend and foe. The adoption of Mr.
Sumner’s civil rights amendment was a fore
gone conclusion, bnt it was regarded as
equally certain IhsSJlbe measure thus bur-
dated would be sent to the House, there to
meet the fate it was destined to encounter
elsewhere and earlier. There need now be
no hope for amnesty this session. Mr. Sum
ner is obdurate, and will persist in bringing
np his amendment whenever an amnesty bill
comes before the Senate. He has a double
motive in pursuing this course. He wants to
hold the position of the champion of the
colored race, and he desires to defeat amnesty
as a means of injuring Grant It is evidently
wan TO THE KNIFE
between these two, and Stunner occupies the
vantage thus far. Be does not content him
seif with standing on the defensive, but is
openly and boldly aggressive. Yesterday be
introduced a resolution calling for an inves
tigation intolbe purchase from the War De
partment of arms and ammunition by France
-hiring her war with Rossis, sn inviting sub
ject for investigation, and one that, properly
followed out, is likely to convict this govern
ment of a serious breach of neutrality. Mr.
-umner proposes to call np tbe resolution to
day and the Senate cannot refuse the investi
gation, which Mr. Sumner insists shall be
held with open doors, so that white-w ashing
or concealment will be impossible.
Mr. Sumner has already done much to
ward alienating the negro vote from Grant,
Total .....*1,044.687 99
As compared with the earnings of the pre
vious year, the earnings for 1871 show an
increase of $12,690 97. The expenses were
$794,339.
The latter part of 1871 was bad for bnsi-
naas, the receipts of cotton falling off 38,273
bales over the same time of the year before.
This road is an unfinished enterprise, the
extension to Pensacola or Mobile being the
original purpose, which will be carried out,
The success of the road is altogether flatter
ing, its prospects bright, and its influence
potential and valuable in thwarting the vast
railway consolidation scheme that it grasping
at our Southern railroads. The advantages
of this route are thus stated by CoL Screven
“Assuming New York as the objective
poinuhe route via Mobile, Montgomery, At
lanta, and the Richmond Air-Line, will be
about two hundred miles shorter than the
route by the extension of the Atlantic and
Gulf Railroad via tbe Coast Roads, while tbe
latter route beyond Savannah may be in ad
vene control. Savannah most, therefore, de
pend on her advantages by sea to Northern
and foreign porta, in conjunction with ha
possessing a short rail route between New
Orleans, Mobile and the Atlantic; Compu
ting the distance between New Orleans and
New York, by what is known aa the Rich-
tuood Air-Line, at 1,363 miles, the distance
from New Orleans to Savannah would be
614 miles, and the freight mileage from Savan
nah to New York by sea would be 200 miles,
making a total of 8i4 miles against 1,363, and
■ difference of 449 miles in favor of tbe rati
and water route via Savannah The time
made on the latter would be nearly the same
as on the forma route in the transportation
of freights, while the difference of cost must
go to tne advantage of the latter in the ratio
of the difference of freight mileage, or nearly
as 8 is to 11”
He urge* action looking to the extension,
and resolutions were passed to this effect.
The proposition of Mr. Morris Ketchnm to
lease the road, was acted on by resolution in
viting a specific offa from Mr. Ketch am.
The following directors were elected:
John Screven, R D. Arnold, Wm. Duncan,
John Stoddard. Hiram Roberts, Chales
Green, W. H. Wfltberga, J. L. VQIalogna,
A V Sloan, Edward Lovell, R. EL Harda
way, A. T. McIntyre, W. J. Young. C.J.
Munnerlyn, W. O. Flemming.
The road is stocked as follows: 19 pa-sen-
ger cars. 3 smoking and baggage care; 3 mail
and express can, 219 box can (including S3
used for conductors, express and baggage
cars.) 101 platform can (including 18 in road
service), U stock cars, 4 can in road service,
860 cars in all.
Three mail and express, three smoking
and baggage, fifty-five box, and twenty-five
platform cars; also, one wrecking and one
pile-driver ca have been built this yea.
Two passenger can are now nnda construc
tion.
There is no better managed road in the
8tat* than this road. President Screven and
Superintendent Haynes are two of the most
efficient and successful railroad men in the
whole country.
On motion of Gen. Young, the Co&inittce
on the Judiciary were directed to reporta
bill, at os early a day as possible, for the re
moval of the political disabilities of all per
sons who Lave applied for such relief. Of
tbit measure, the Patriot says:
“One of the bat things that the House did
to day, was to pass, by more than two-thirds
vote. Mr. Young’s resolution directing the
Committee on the Judiciary to report a bill
to relieve from tbeir political disabilities all
persons wbo have made application for such
relief. The Committee can hardly fail to
obey this mandatory resolution; but the only
fear is that in the present humor ofAhe Re
publicans or the Senate body wifi not con
sent to any amnesty measure. The Bouse
seems ready to pass one at any time.”
Tomer Havre.
OUR HARM OKAS LETTER.
Abaatthe Tilp—ln«14eat* anil Scenes
-The Crane Bake Alexis and a
Good Bleat *Deat lllaa—OarCerrei
pond.at Take* a'Drink with Him
In a Hera—The Opera--Col. nan
New Orleans, La., Feb. 13th, 1872.
Editor* Constitution: What ia more de
lightful than traveling with a railroad excur
sion party? of cultivated and refined people
and pretty girls? Igls a continuous socia
ble, and if to that you add the variety of
scenery of mountains and valleys, hills and
lakes and ocean viras, and the admirable
ticket agent, Beverlf.Wrenn, and his lovely
wife, to take car*-of the whole party
with beaming htfpitality; then, then.
Sunday Scnooi. Teachers’ Institute.
The topic for discussion last night was; The
importance of class-teaching of «U grades,
and how to make it most efficient.
Tbe first speaker was Rev. H. C. Hnrnady,
who interreated the congregation in one of
his usually earnest and happy efforts.
Dr. Randolph would have three depart
ments in every Sunday school The infant,
intermediate, and adult, and he would not
rest satisfied until all were fulL
He then gave, at some length, detailcl and
very practical suggestions as to the best
methods of teaching in the several depart
ments. Dr. Randolph is evidently a thorough
master of tbe Sunday, school in all of the
details of its several departments.
He was followed by Rev. Mr. Fish, who
urged that teachers should tne their pupils,
and should be very careful to set them at all
times proper examples. He made other very
practical remarks interspersed with very ap
posite and at times amusing incidents.
Mr. Fish is one of the most entertaining
and instructive Sunday School talkers we
have ever heard. At the close of Mr. Fish’s
remarks. Dr. Spalding made a few appropri
ate remarks, and offered the followin' reso
lution, which was unanimously anil veiy
heartily adopted:
Resolved, That the thanks of this audience
are hereby tendered to oar brethren, Rev. Dr.
Randolph and Rev. L. B. Fish, for their la
bors in this brief Institute, with tic assur
ance of our affectionate regards for their con
tinued usefulness in their service of our
Lord Jesus.
Rev. E. W. Warren desired, as one of the
pastors, to join in the cordial thanks of these
brethern.
Dr. Randolph made an appropriate ac-
knowldgment, and at the earnest request of
the audience, gave a deeply interesting sketch
of Ms recent visit to the Sea of Gallilce.
The audience remained until half-past ten,
deeply interested.
Scandal for ladles.
Some married people alwaya go to bed
quarrelling—yet they never fall out.
An srdent believer in leap year down in
Connecticut visits ha beloved every Sunday
night, and goes home in the wee sms’ hours.
Glasha, an aeronaut, says that the voice
of a woman can be heard in a balloon when
at the height of two miles, while that of a
man cannot be heard when higha than a
mile. *
A new York papa has nominated Powers’
“ Greek Slave” for the Presidency, because
she has three of the qualifications—a marble
brow, a finely chiseled nose, and a silent
tongue.
Opelika, Ala., has creat'd a new sensation
by the new leap-yea mode of eating philo-
penas in that place as reported by the editor
of the Locomotive The young ladv takes
the almond between ha teeth and the young
man bites it off
South Carolina Sews Items.
De Castro, the magician, is in Cbuleston
Sumter is to have a new hall and market.
The Peak Family Swiss Bell Ringers are
in Columbia.
The Kingston Star says that the bog chol
era is prevailing in that neighborhood.
One tract of land in Marion county worth
$800 brooght but $15 a Sheriff’s sale on the
7th instant.
Mr. A. S Johnson, of the firm of Johnson,
Crews & Co., has been elected a director of
the Bank of Charleston.
George S. Cameron has been re-elected
President of the Sooth Carolina Loan and
Trust Company of Charleston.
Eighty thousand dollars have been sub
scribed In the dty of Greenville for the pur
pose of organizing a National Bank.
For the first time in the hittoiy of South
Carolina, that State has a divorce law. The
cause for granting divorce most be very seri
ous and very dearly proved.
The Colombia Union publishes, with fa
vorable comments, a letter nominating ex-
Governor James L. Ore. as the Republican
candidate for Vice-President of the United
States.
and now threatens the President with the
loss of tbe German dement, by proving that
the administration lent aid to France, during
the late wu with Prussia, not warranted by
the neutrality laws This, with the influence
of Senator Schurz, must ensure the defection
of the greata portion of the German vote,
while the Know-Nothing prejudices which
have manifested themselves on ihe Radical
side in both Houses most certainly serve the
ust ring of the ’party. Indeed, it looks os
f nothing but
A WAR WITH ENGLAND
can save Grant. A declaration of hostilities
would rally tbe Irish to a man, and insure to
the present occupant a lease of the White
House for four yearn more. For this reason
the President may not hesitate' to pjiiuge tlie
conntry into a war, for which it is wholly
unprepared. That he has such intentions
would appeal- evident from the following
telegram sent hence by the agent of tbe
American Press Association.
There is the highest official authority for
the statement that the administration is a
unit in favor of preserving the status of the
American case os presented to the Geneva
tribunal, and that there will be no backdown
in any shape.”
THE TREATY.
There has licen no change as yet respect
ing the questions at issue between the two
countries. The explanation I gave a week
ago folly cover the grounds, and are sus
tained by the best authorities here and else
where. It is still very clear that England
will not permit these. claims for conse
quential damages to be considered, and
that she is right in protesting as she
has done A careful reading of the treaty,
the protocols, aud the speeches in the Eng
lish Parliament at the time the treaty was
adopted, shows that these claims arc not ad
mirable, and have been presented in viola
tion of tie understanding had with the
British members of the Joint'High Commis
sion’. Their presentation may be considered
a sharp trick, bnt it is not good diplomacy,
and is likely to recoil like a boomerang upon
the heads of the administration.
“ one result
of the present misnnderst-nding between tbe
two countries,” says the Sunday Herald of
this city, “has been to develop a very mark
ed opposition to the Treaty in all quarters.
Its adoption was generally commended at the
time, and Grant considered it the trump card
of his administration. It was to strengthen
liis position, and render his nomination and
election sure. Now, it is pretty evident that
whatever may be the ending of this business,
whether the Treaty be abrogated or the
irliiTntion proceeded with, it will prove
a losing game to Grant. That war
will arise from the present combinations
few anticipate, though many would doubt
less hail a declaration of hostilities with
pleasure. “It would revive our shipping in
terests without the aid o! Congress,” was re
marked the other day; and to it would, hut
at what cost t > otb r interests? A war with
England would doubtless ensure to Grant
four years mote in the While House, and foi
this reason-alone he may not hesitate to bring
it about.”
FORNEY KICKS OVER THE TRACES.
The heaviest blow Grant has sustained of
late is the defection of John W. Toney,
who, on Saturday list, resigned the eollec-
torship of Philadelphia, with which his tem
porary allegiance liad bren bought. The
name of Forney is not a fairy one, and it is
surprising that this renegade* nolitieim and
0 gt.n’zer of Kit.dun Cl.bin- U sV uld have
any influen c whatever. Yet he has potent
away in Pennsylvania, and his defection is
considered here as certain to result in the
loss of that State to Grant. The resignation
was.mode known under peculiar circum
stances. There wns a Press dinner at Welch’s
Saturday evening, to which both Forney and
tho President were invited. Grant had,
however, previously accepted an invita
tion to dine with Senator Sherman,
and stated be would meet the press gang
later, say 10 o'clock. Forney having placed
his resignation in the hand of a friend, came
to the banquet, occupying a seat near your
correspondent. When the wine began to
circulate, he communicated the news of his
resignation to the correspondent of fiis own
paper, the Press, who sat behind him, and
this gentleman hastily scribbled the fact on
a card and passed it down to me. Nut long
after Forney retired, that he might not meet
the President, whose vacant chair was di
rectly opposite, leaving the company, with
the two exceptions mentioned, in ignorance
of his withdrawal, from official life. Some
time lata, tbe Associated Press got hold of
the letter of resignation, a copy of w* * *
peered in the Sunday Herald of the
ing morning, and created a decided sensation
in political circles. It is interpreted every
where as meaning war on Grant
THE PRESS DINNER.
Having referred to the press dinner above
1 may be pardoned for saying a few words
c mcerning what lias been pronounced the
most successful affair of the kind which has
ever taken place in Washington. The ban
quet took place at Weicher’s, the celebrated
caterer of Washington, whose establishment,
in all its appointments, is a marvel of rich
ness and elegance. Covers were laid for
fifty-one, and in taking their seats tho guests
of the evening were sandwiched between the
gentlemen of the press. The following gen
tlemen were present as guests:
The President of the United States, invited
bvDeB. R Kcim; Vice President Colfax; J.
G. Blaine, Speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives; Senator Cameron, Senator An
thony, Senator Schurz, Senator-elect Ser
geant, Hon. James Brooks, Hon. James A.
Garfield, Hon. S. S. fox, General Horace
Porta, secretary to the President; Governor
McCormick, Colonel J. W. Forney, Murat
Halstead, Cincinnati Commercial; Governor
H. D. Cooke, Alexander Shepherd, Colonel
W. M. Grosvcnor, and Sir. F. A. Easman,
Postmaster of Chicago.
Below will be found a list of the members
of the Press who were present:
George W. Adams, New York World, pres
ident; C. S. Noyes, Evening Star, vice presi
dent; J. MacFarland, Philadelphia Press, J.
H. Riley, Alta Californian; F. A. Richard
son, Baltimore Associated Press; R. J. Hin
ton, New York Evening Mail; S. H. Kauff-
mann, Evening Star; D. R. McKee, New
York Associated Press; Don Piatt. Capital;
A. Devine, New York Associated Pres;; D.
F. Murphy, Globe; Cliff Worden, Baltimore
Gazette; E B. Wright, Chicago Post; I. N.
Burr ill, Sunday Herald; W. B. Shaw, Boston
Transcript; Cbas. A PUsbuiy, Atlanta Con-
rrrrCTT JN; George aTownsend, Chicago Tri
bune; J. J. McElhone, Globe; J. B. Siiilson,
New York World; W. P. Copeland, New
York Journal of Commerce; Henry Hayes,
New York Associated Press; O. K- Harris,
Boston Journal; J. P. Foley, Republican; D.
C. Forney, .Sunday Chronicle; H. J. Jiams-
ddl. New York Tribune, Myron Fox. Daily
Chronicle; Louis Bagger, Daily Patriot;
Thomas Nast, Harper's Weekly.
The President did not arrive until, nearly
10 o’clock, and his first move was character
istic—he lighted a cigar. The dinner being
then ova and coffee and liquors circulating
he, however, simply followed the example
of many others around the festive board.
The bill of fare bore the inscription: “The
pen is mightier than the sword,” and refer-
mg to this. Governor Cooke toasted the Presi
dent in connection with the sword. In re
ply Grant said he had laid down the sword
on entering civil life, and that his motto now
was, “Let us have peace.” He spoke with
out hesitation and in good taste, it being re
marked by many that they had never
seen the President appear to bettaadvantage.
The correspondents, by prearrangement, gen-
erally refrained from speech-making; bnt
somo excellent addresses were delivered by
their guests, and it was nearly midnight when
the party broke up.
CONGRESSIONAL JOTTINGS.
Under tbe call of States in the House yes
terday, Mr. Bigby introduced a bill to amend
the army appropriation act for 1873, and to
extend the powers and duties of Commis
sioner of Claims; also, a bill for an appropri
ation for a public building at Atlanta.
Tho first was referred to the Committee on
Claims, and the second to the Committee on
Public Buildings and Grounds.
mayor John H. James makes
Speech and Creates a Battling of
tbe Dry Bonee-He Speaks for
James and not for tbe mayer—In
teresting Proceedings.
The following extract from the proceed
ings of the South Carolina Railroad Conven
tion on Tuesday, in Charleston, will show
what the situation is with regard to the
ise:
No fnrtha business being presented, Mr.
DeLeon moved an adjournment until noon
on Wednesday, which' was withdrawn at the
instance of Mr. R. W. Cnbbedge, who offer-
ed the following preamble and resolution:
Whereas, It is reported that an offer has
been made of a lease of the South Carolina
Railroad for a term of years at the rate of
four pa cent pa annum; and,
Whereas, The stoekhqlders grp desirous of
getting some return for their investment; be
it therefore
Resolved, Thatif anofferof five per cent,
or more is made for the lease of ourrosd,the
President and directors are haeby author
ized to call a meeting of the stockholders for
the purpose of considering any such offa, by
giving sixty days’ notice m the city papers;
all stock held thirty days prior to said meet
ing shall be entitled to vete, and stockhold
ers passed to and from the meeting as usual.
A member rising to second the resolution,
said: “I am a stockholder, and I will tell yon
who I am. My name is John H. James, of
Atlanta, Ga., banker. I run James’ bank.
I have eighteen hundred shares in the South
Carolina Railroad, and have no interest in
any other road, except in a street railway in
Atlanta, j am JJayor of Atlanta, but 1 am
not here as Mayor, but to look afta the in
terests of John R. James. I want a divi
dend on my stock. The President and Di
rectors had done well to put tho road in so
good n fix, but if a leas:, paying si* or seven
per cent could be got fortiie road, it would be
a big thing. The lease could be protected by
the Directors in this city, and it would pay
the stockholders something. And how
could Charleston be damaged? With
proper board of directors, it is impossible for
the Georgia Central road to hedge in Charles
ton or iDjttre her. It is an important matter
to the city; and if the Georgia Central offa
s re or seven per cent on a lease, they ought
to have tbe road. It is said they now con
trol one-third of the South Carolina Railroad
stock. It is worth but forty, and a lease guar
anteed by the Central Railroad would put the
Stock at 80—a gain to tbe stockholders of two
and a half million dollars. I have seen the
sensation pieces in the papers, but these are
for the stockholders alone. One of the di-
rectora of thu Georgia Central Road (Mr.
Moses Taylor) ia worth thirty millions of
dollars, and, if he gets his back np, can buy
up the whole South Carolina Railroad, and
every other road ho wants to. if, then, while
vou have the road, you can make a lease of
it for six or seven per cent, it is more than
we can get any other way—that or nothing.
You can gnard the lease so that it will work
no injury to Chailcslon. It is one of the
issues ofjthe day. Meet it like men. I have
no more to say.”
General Tyler here rose, and inquired of
President Magrath if any offer had officially
been made to lease the South Carolina Road.
The President stated that no such offer had
been made.
General Tyler then moved to lay the pre
amble and resolution offered by Mr. Cub-
bedge on the table.
The vote was taken, and tlie preamble and
re4olu!inn was laid on the table, with two
dissenting votes—those of the mover and the
seconder.
On Wednesday the Convention met again.
Lengthy speeches were made. Resolutions
were patsed calling on the people to resist
tkojattempt at a lease, and urging co-operalinn
between the Carolina and Georgia Railroads
to thwart the efforts of Northern railway
combinations to obtain control of Southern
roads. The Charleston papers pitched into
Mayor James. Mr. James stood bi3 ground
steadily, and made the following additional
speech Wednesday:
Mr. John H. James, of Atlanta, rose and
said: The ncople of Charleston have miscon
strued wliat I said. I came here in the inter
est of no railroad. Atlanta is not opposed
Charleston. She gives the Charleston route
more business than she gives Savannah or
Macon. But railroads ought to pay. They
ought to pay dividends. I don’t know Mr.
Moses Taylor—never saw him. I repeated
wbat was told me. I bought stock in the
South Carolina Railroad because it can be
made to pay. I saw there was fight up, and
James could make something out of it You
said you were going to defend yourselves
against the Ring I y baying np the slock. I
warned you yesterday you would te bought
out Did you do it? Why, this morning
how much stotk was offered along the
streets ? I wa3 offered four hundred shares.
Now, if you want to keep the road why don’t
you buy that stock? What I buy I keep till
I can get a profit Then the man wbo bids
highest takes the stock. I am for making
money, and only spoke for James.
What manufacturers Da far a City.
Lewiston, andAubutn, Maine, are now
practically one city, separated only by the
Androscoggin river, with U the source of
their combined prospalty. The two cities
are now more than ever intimately connected
by a fine and permanent bridge, 600 feet in
length, completed December, 1871, at a cost
of about $5,000, with two spacious sidewalks
and a broad driveway paved with the Nichol
son pavement The common interests and
essential unity of the two cities, render of
import the following combined statistics,
which apply to Jannaiy, 1872:
Combined population, Lewiston aad A n-
8,060
S3 000
14,490
*1,000,000
Combined manufacturing capital, Lewis
ton and Auburn
Corporate capital employed In manufac
turing ........... „.............. *6,050,000
*2,950,000
indeed, echo will
what?"
But, alas, r
;wer my question—
is unmixed—the girls
OF ALEXIS
and a grand duclt^y, and perhaps, an em
pire beneath their sway. They remembered
Jerome and the Baltimore belle, and dreamed
on and on; and farfibt to kno w that it was
simply the unsubstantial vision, tlie aity
nothing, the
CASTLE IN TOE AIR,
of West’s Voyage of Life, to which they
would give the local habitation and name of
ALEXIS.
If they but cease their dreaming and re
flect, they will know that
FRINCK FRED GRANT
is abetter medium!for attaining the purple.
Let me pasa over the
INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL
more pleasurable lu tbe occurrence than in
the relation, andepennit me to announce.
LKtTER Fit031 AUGUSTA.
TU* Weather-leap-Halt road .Wal
ters—South Carolina Railroad
Lens*—Public School.
^ Augusta, GlTFebniary 16,1873.
n . Editort Constitution: Once upon a time, in
* certain,town in this State,"a trio of college
iys called on a couple of young ladies.
The boys were novices, and did not boast of
confidence in their conversational powers.
After sitting silent awhile, one of the youths
bethought him to break the ice thuswise:
Very nice weather we’ve had lately."
“Yea,”joined in his classmate, “we are
having lovely weather” Then there was a
great silence for the space of ten minutes,
when one of the young ladies, with a merry
twinkle in'.her eye: “Well, gentlemen, are
yon out of soap?”
That query loosed the fetters.
Now, 1 remark that wc have been experi
encing unusually severe weather for the last
month or so. It is seldom we sec such a con-
tiuuosiy cold spell, Butlamnotoutofsoap,
apropos of which useful article let me say
that Augusta had had in operation for some
time a manufactory which turns out soap
equal to tho best from Northern establish
ments.
PREPARING FOR VISITORS.
Our teaShcrs are actively engaged prepar
ing for the approaching meeting of the Geor
gia Teachers’ Association, to be held in this
city on the first Tuesday in May next The
determination is that as far as in our teachers
liclli, the occasion shall be -one of the most
enjoyable the members of the association
have ever experienced.
We shall doubtless have delegates in attend
ance from South Carolina and Alabama.
RAILROAD HATTERS.
There were assembled, after the most critical
selection by the fastidious Krewe, the intel
lect and fashion and wealth and beauty of
the occasion.
The first and second tiers presented the
most gorgeously lovely right of humanity I
ever beheld. It was, in the language of a
brilliant Atlanta belle, - supergorgeotis." Not
a gentleman was allowed in those tiers. They
separated from their ladies at the bend of the
stairway, leaving them in charge of the Com
mittee of Reception. So the fits! and second
auditoriums present a perfect blaze of dia
monds and respleud-nt evening toilets. You
must know that the ladies go in full
EVENING DRESS
here to the Opera and Theatre, and you will
not think I am drawing on my fancy in in
vesting the scene with so much georgeous-
ncss when Isay that there was not a vacant
seat or place for mortal man in the audito
riums that held twelve hundred of the fairest
women on God’s green earth.
ALEXIS,
who seems to turn np often to my observa
tions, entered about 10 o’clock, and a few
miutes before the Krewe. A Russian hymn
greeted him as he sate himself beneath the
entwined Union and Russian flags on the
purple seats of the orchestra prosceuium box
on the left. He did not use his lorgnette on
any one of the audience except the beautiful
Mtss Vance, of Memphis, of bis party, who,
with the other ladies, sat in the proscenium
box of the second tier on tlie right
More anon. Sidney.
Number uf females employed ia manufac
turing In both cities
Number or males do
Combined annual labor pay roll, both
cities..... $3,000,000
Annual manufacturing disbursements of
all kind-, Lewi«ton and Aubnra $3,634,000
Annual rains of maanfactnres of both
chiet $14,071,000
Tout improved water power, both cities 8,666 h p.
Water power in two cities now used.... 4,866 h. p.
Improved water power in two cities not
employed. 3,SC« h. p.
Tomi improved and unimproved water
* *•»- 15178 h. p.
Bys
urlng v
* dues
10,310 b.p.
two cities can bo carried to ,.T .777.77 18.000 h.p.
umber steam horses power u«ed in L.
and A. (not inclading heating)
Coat per day of 526 steam h. p.
■" 'ay of 526 water hones power (ie-
to cost in L. and a.) about..
Cost per day of 526 water bones p
cordin? to cost in I*, and A.) al _
Annual difference on 536 h. p. In favor of
water power
Rental per day of the 8,666 Impro-ed
water powen of L. and A^ if all were
about...........<*T«..............
Cost of fine number austm power* (Cor-
lies’ estimate) per day, about..
nnn-.l difference in " "—*—
on number lmpro
L. and A_ about
Actual yearly rental on cost 014.966 water
h. p. now need in L. and A, about
Actual yearly coat of the lame camber
*119
*7
$34*914
Actual animal saying in tbe maanfaetorea
of L-and A., bj nee of water iaetead of
eteam power.
*125
*2,000
*29,626
*511,000
*219,374
The Brunswick ail Albany Ball.
reel
We find in the Brunswick Appeal the re
port of John D. Humph, Masta in Chancery,
about the Brunswick and Albany Rai'road.
This is the substance of the report:
Number of claims filed, 494; aggre
gate amount of claims filed, *3,383,225 18;
amount of claims adjudged satisfactorily es
tablished, $423,369 28; amount of liens and
other claims in execution, with costs,
charged, included, $107,277 10; amount of
lien and other claims in execution adjudged
satisfactorily established, with legal costa
tibtished, $98,381 34j amount of labor liens,
other than liens, judgments, etc, adjudged le
gally and justly due, $13,141 39; amount of
lien and other claims in execution, with cost
as charged, and other labor claims as pre
sented, $122,849 47; amount of approred
liens and other claims in exapntion with esti
mated legal costs, with otha labor claims,
approred, $111^22 73.
JWIt is estimated that there are In Eng
land and Wales two thousand seven hundred
and forty Congregational ehurekes.
with a flourish ana a bow, that we i re in the
CRESCENT CITY
that sleeps in antique beauty upon the west
ern hank of the grandly rolling Mississippi
En passant, I will remark that the road
from Mobile to 3£ew Orleans is smooth and
pleasant, and the most inspiring emotions are
excited as we skirt the Gulf and glide over
the inlets and sounds; and though wc missed
the full-orbed sunset on the Gulf by reason
of the western doud banks, yet tbe artistic
efforts of West and Guido aud Raphael are
but feeble in comparison with these pictur
ings in the sky from tbe band of tbe
HARTER ARTIST.
But again I say, we are in Now Orleans
and so are many thousand others from various
parts of the Union. How many I will not
say, but a vast number; 75,0UO? 59,000?
30,000 ? 25,000 ? I don’t know. I give it up.
I never could fiboas well Facts were ever
more pleasing to mo than speculations. I
only know that all the hotels from the grand
rivals, St. Charles and SL Louis, to tho in
significant private lodging houses are full to
overflowing. Tbe most
DISAGREEABLE FACT
that greeted my arrival was the fact of Sun
day night. Theaters, I was informed,
are in full blast and in utter disregard of tbe
Sabbath.
The next most disagreeable fact was an
occurrence of tiffi next day—Monday. I had
stared to tlie popular brokerage nnu com-
miss on house of Wood, Ketchani & Go ,No.
32 <'arnmlvli.t jlrcet, when a sndden tumult
arrested my attention. I turned and 8aw
driving rapidly, in Ihe direction of tho bt.
Chatlcs a halt dozen carriages, with out
riders in livery^ I iitstant y surmised that 1
was
2 ALEXIS,
and in the jocular vernacular of Watson, I
inquired, wbat A lex is? The streets and
sidewalks were lined with a rapidly
increasing and running crowd of the
base plebeian rabbel, who were shout
ing for and adoring an overgrown Rus
sian booby, because, forsooth, he was a
SCION OF ROYALTY.
I had often-endeavored to picture inmy
mind, when following the tracings of the
historian and dramatist, tbe appearance of
the rabble of Rome and Paris when they
gathered in tumultuous throngs in cdulalioc
of a real or fictitious hero; but 1 never thought
America would furnish me a practical and
living illustration of iL
Alexis Romanoff was born in 1850 and is n
little more than twenty-one years of age
His royal blood is traceable forone thousand
years, to the.foundation of the Russian Em
pire, about 860, A- D„ I believe, He is the
third son of Ihe Czar Nicholas, and his eld
est brother has a son who is heir presumptive
to the throne. So Alexis, chances for the
purple are slim.
It is said however that he kilted a buffalo,
yet when I tear it gravely announced I can
not help frSjfctclaiining,
/” arcan anch things bo
And rot ororcotne as lire a -nmmer cloud,
Without our special wonder!”
The municipal government lias appropri
ated $1,500,1 believe, for bis expenses here,
and it is positive robbery. I confess that
Hercules slew the Kumidian lion and Alexis
the American buffalo; yet it is robbery,
nevertheless, because these city officers are
not tbe city’s agents, but the creatures and
appointees*of Gov. Warmoutb. Base rob
bery ; and Louisiana groans in despair over
her oppressions and slavery—State and mu
nicipal. They are all ready, even now, to
welcome Federal despotism instead.
I went to the French Opera last night
(Monday) and heard
IL TROVATORE.
This is a permanent institution here and is
a very great attraction The leading tenor
gets $3,'J00 per month fffr the six month’:
season. The actors were brought from Pari:
last October under an engagement for tbe
season. The building is a very fine one, on
Bourbon street. It lias its refreshment sa
loons, promenade saloons and courts to which
the audience may retire between acts. It has
numerous private boxes on the first, second
and third floors, and altogether is quite equal
to the opera bouses of some of the most re
nowned centres of fashion.
ALEXIS SAT
in the grand box on tbe left of tbe dress cir
cle on the second floor. His box was fur
nished in purple. He came in late. The
orchestra played a Russian hymn as be en
tered ; be stood a moment aud bowed ac
knowledgment, and tbe audience cheered.
For the benefit of your Georgia fashionables,
I will tell you
HOW HE WAS DRESSED.
A full suit of black cloth, spike-tail coat and
black vest, with two buttons to show his linen.
Wbite kid gloves and white silk cravat com
plete the description.
I directed my opera glass at him, at long
range, and pronounce him—if hero at all—
an animal, and not an intellectual hero. Full
round, well-fed looking face, whose distin
guished feature, as it attempted to play undet
the delineations of the drama, was a sort ol
comical good humor.
At first he paid no attention to the leading
female actor, who was making desperate ef
forts to catch his attention. Afterwards,
however, ho a; plauded a little with his hands,
seemingly at the promptings of his suite who
surrounded him.
His hands were very large, and when he
applauded with them, they looked like the
paws of a Polar bear. Indeed he reminded
me in his proportions, very much of that
animal, and in his appearance of a
sheep.
When I say that he had the sandy com
plexion and hair of his countrymen, and
wore side whiskers, and was a little awkward,
I will say to him:
“ Fore thee well, and if forever, etc.”
To-day is Hardi Gras, and I will tell you
ail about that to-morrow. In this connection
I will ssy that I cannot say how much I am
indebted to you for your kind letter to Col.
Duncan, the English editor of the Bcc. His
kind attentions have been invaluable to me.
He is doing much for Georgia and Georgians,
as I will take occasion to show in my next
More anon. Sidney.
Son til Carolina Itewi Items.
The State works at Greenville are to be sold
on the 6th of March next
General W. K. Easly will deliver a eulogy
on the character ana services of the lalc-
General Robert K. Lee on the 22d inst., in
Greenville.
The Laurenceville Herald says that the
work of obtaining investment in bonds to
aid in the rebuilding of the Laurens Railroad
progresses slowly, but it trusts surely. The
amount invested up to this time reaches
$44,300.
Os to Wasuihoton.—Gen. Wade Hamp
ton and Gen. Bader left for Washington yes
terday morning. It is said that the object of
their v'sit ia to denounce the vile calumny of
Edmunds, of Vermont, who, in a recent
speech in the Senate, charged that they and
General Kerthaw were leaders of the Ku-
Klux Klan in South Carolina. General Ker
shaw, we are informed, will join Generals
Hampton and Butler at Washington.—Colum
bia (8. C.) Ptucnix, 1614.
GT Tne Bowling Green Democrat, Ky.,
says that Butler is hardly surpassed by any
other county in the Stale in point of mineral
wealth. Co mnencing about two miles below
Morgantown, there is almost a solid ram of
coalbeds, extending to .the very month of
Green river. They are as rich as any coal
mines .in Pennsylvania, and the article of
coal is as good as can be found in the United
States.
Candles.—San Francisco is the largest
candle market in the United States. Thecon-
sumption during the year 1871 is estimated
by the Commercial Herald of that city, at
over 260,000 boxes—the bulk of which were
used in the mines: The San Francisco fac
tories made 68,720 boxes daring the year.
The remainder were received from Philadel
phia aad New York.
Two ineffectual efforts to get up a public
meeting to consider Aususta’s interest in the
Griffin and Monticello Railroad have failed
because of providential causes.
Considerable interest L felt in tbe reported
proposed lease of tlie South Carolina Rail
road by the Georgia Central Naturally
enough, tlie people of Charleston arc bitterly
opposed to any such arrangement being en
tered into. Charleston has a,'great deal to
contend against; she camot afford to give
her consent to any measure likely to injure
her trade.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Richmond county lias taken a step for
ward. The Grand Jury, at the January
term of tlie Superior Court, recommended
thu levying of $30,000 for school purposes
—an increase of last year’s recommendation
of $16,000.
The opinion of the worthy State School
Commissioner came with a crash, if wc under
stand it. Docs he mean that, inasmuch as our
grand jury, which met “ immediately afterthe
passage of the law,” failed to make appoint
ment of a Board, (not being officially advised
as to the pass -ge of the amended law,) our
schools are to close, and that we are without
a Board of Education? Does not tbe Board
elected in 1871 continue in office until their
successors have been elected and qualified ?
At the next session of the General Assem
bly, this county will apply for tho passage
of a local school law. Our schools are
flourishing, and despite of embarrassments
which arose out of the indcfinitcncss of the
tax levying section in the original law.
Miqnonne.
Our mtardt ergs I eftcr.
New Orleans, La., Feb, 14,1872.
Editors ConstitutionTbe timid and tender
St. Valentine was entirely forgotten here
yesterday, in the magnificence of the
pagaeutry and royalty of Ea Ctvnivalvs
and King Comas. Mardi Gras in New Or
leans is truly a day “fat” with fun and jolli
ty, and merriment and wild abandon.
The two Kings rule over the same territory
and on the same day. In the time of the Ro
man bi-consulate, each consul ruled on al
ternate days. On Mardi Gras, however.
Hex Carnimlus rales in day light from 8
o'clock P. 5i., till sunset, and King Comus
the uiglit “from and after sunset.”
I will not trouble you with a
.mSTORY OF HARDI DBAS,
nor its origin and customs in otber coun
tries.
1 do not want it. Who would live in the
post ? let it die, I will live in the enchant
ing present and glorious future, and will only
tell you of this carnival day
AS I FOUND IT
in its bewildering medley of fun and frolic
and forgetfulness alike uf the past and fu
ture. To the antiquarian and the learned
belong its history and its past—to tlie popu
lace, in relaxation, to health, to our trip and
to me belongs
ITS PRESENT.
King Csrnival, on Monday, issued his
rcynl edict No. XII prescribing the duties
of his vsrious subjcctswbo were to act a part
in the dramal
At 13 o’clock the almost JJay-day sun
shine fell cheerily upon the gay maskers.
One after another the masked faces and gro
tesque drosses rapidly appeared on the grand
tlirouglifarc. Canal street, and wended their
way to-wards the magnificent bronze statue
of Henry Clay. Here a Knight Errant with
lance in rest, and there a sable Adonis and
Venus, and everywhere, in every sort of garb
grotesque and ridiculous and distorted figures
of men, women and children, of various
race9 and nationalities. French, Spanish,
Creole, Chinese, Negro, Irish, American and
nondescript.
At tlic.»::mc time a surging crowd of look
ers-on filled Canal street—its sidewalks,
slrectwulks. balconies, temporary scaffold
ings, galleries, and cvcrv conceivable stand
ing place—for a half mile or more. So with
St. Charles, Royal, Carondelet, Comp, Char
tres and oilier transverse streets in the vicini
ty of the Clay statue. This statue was the
point of assemblage and departure of tbe
Pageant of Rex Carnivnlers, and here the
crowd was most dense.
Tlie business houses, in compliance with
tlie royal edict XII, were nearly all closed at
12 o'clock h., and many of the haadsomest
buildings' were decorated with lamps, flags,
flowers and festoons.
At 3 P. M., tlie Pageant commenced its
march with streaming banners and gay and
odd music. I cannot take up your space
with a minute detail of the composition of
tbe Pageantry'. Everything imaginable was
caricatured by the three or four thousand
masqueraders; and as they moved along the
various Mri-eis, under th« oommandof the
King of tbe Carnival, amindst Ihe hum of
ihrnean is, the mu-ienf every kind, the noise
of cannons, the slmuli, of laughter, the glitter
of bright bamieis and gay flowers in the
bappv sunshine, tlie si out spell of forgetful
happiness overcame one like an autumn day.
At 4| o'clock, the Pageant reached the City
Hall on LaFayetie Fquarc, and bowing to
royally in thcsibqic ■ f ihe Grand Duke
ALEXIS.
Tlie devoteesof fun give him a serenade—
in fun of course; and then the reign of the
day, King of Mardi Gras, ended, and the
fashionable world remembered to dine at
their usual hours of five or six p. H.
As the grand King Sol (to whom KingCar-
nival was a pigmy) sank to rest, the reign of
King Cornua commenced. I was fa
vored witq. tickets to the Mayor’s levee at 7
o’clock, but had another engagement on hand
and did not go. The fact is, however, I might
have gone there to grasp twenty-two years
of descended royalty by the hand and sec
wherein a Grand Duke of despotic Russia
differed from our free born American noble
men; but I had another engagement, and be
sides I felt that Warmouth, and Mayor Flan
ders, his appointee, were something after the
style of Bullock and his mystic crewe, and
worse, and I shrank from the leprosy of the
touch.
The procession of the Mistic Krewe of
Comus and the tableaux and ball of the
Krewe succeeding at the Varieties Theatre
were the chief events of the “fat Tuesday’ -
night
No one seems to know who compose the
Mistick Krewe, cor what their origin, nor
what their purpose. My own observation,
which was slight however, leads me to the
opinion that it is an adjunct to the Varieties
Theatre, as I am informed that the most of
tbe stockholders were connected with the
Krewe.
This year the procession started about 9
o’clock P. H. The Krewe, under the title of
the Dreams of Homer, represented all the
characters of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and
“Batrachomyamachia,” or the mock heroic
poem of the Battle of the Frogs and Mice
and the Hymns.
The exactness of minute detail in the rep
resentation of these characters was very
gratifying to tbe scholarly; mind and will
lend to those, who saw it, a new interest in
the re-perasal of tbe original, or of Pope’s
unrivaled translation. The groupings told
again tbe whole story of those grand epics,
and was a fine example of the mvltum in
parto of pantomimic illustrations.
The costumes cost a vast amount, and were
made to order in Paris.
I went at 8 to the theatre to secure seats
for some ladies, and then by favor of the
door-keeper I took a marked ticket and
slipped out to see the procession about 9J
o’clock. After seeing the Krewe on its
march, I hurried back to the theatre to get
in before them, as after they entered the
doors were to he dosed. All the streets
along which the procession marched were
illuminated beautifully, and the crowds were
even more dense than under the reign of Rex
Camivalus.. The balconies of the Clnb
Houses were lined with the elite. The Chal-
mette, Pickwick, and other dabs, organized
fur social purposes, seemed to be in mutual
esteem with Comus, and the Krewe may,
therefore, be set down as highly respectable.
Bat the
CREME DS LA CREME
of the whole Pageantry was the culminating
tableaux and ball at the Varieties Theater.
Orpban,' Home ot (be North corgi*
Conference of tho Jlethndlst ltpta-
copat Chnrch South.
Editors Constitution : Will you permit me
to present, through your widely circulated
and excellent paper, a brief account of what
has already been done, and proposed to te
done, by the North Georgia Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and
other Christian denominations, for the desti
tute especially tlie destitute Confederate oi
phans of Georgia ?
Two years since, at a session of the North
Georgia Conference, the subject having been
to rorne extent discussed through the columns
of the “Southern Christian Advocate,” it was
determined to build what wa9 denominated
“ An Orphans' Home,” at some eligible point
within the territory of said conference, to
which as many destitute orphan children as
could be cared for properly should be taken,
and at which they should be educated, trained
to business, and in every re-pect lie brought
up in the best families in the coun
try. It is their Home, and in it they
are to be fed, clothed, lodged, etc., and pre
pared for usefulness to themselves and
country instead of being paupers or worse.
To effect these objects the bouse is placed
under the charge of a superintendent and
Matron, who perforin tlio duties of father
and mother toward Ibis f: nlilv of orphans.
Such sulimlinales also as are necessary, such
as teachers, house keepers, etc., are furnished.
To carry out this plan of Christian benevo-
’ence, the confer-m e appointed a Board of
Trustee*, consisting uf six laymen and six
miuhtirs, members of conference selected
because of tbeir qu tiifications for such
trust. At the same time an agent was ap
pointed to canvass the country for the pur,
pose of collecting means to build and sustain
the Home.
In May, 1870, at the General Conference—
the only legislative body of the church—held
in Memphis Tenncssto, the system of the
North Georgia Conference was adopted and
made the law of the entire denomination.
In April last, a little over twelve months
from the inception of the thought, wc conse
crated and opened the Orphans’ Home, about
one mile from Norcress, on the beautiful
tract of land of about 700 acres, on which
were good buildings, with rooms sufficient to
admit twenty-five or thirty cbildn n. This
valuable body of land was bought and dona
ted for an Orphans' Home by a few gener
ous gentlemen In and near Noreross.
The Home was quickly crowded to over
flowing. We now have nearly forty or
phans there, and since wc were filled up, we
have been obliged to turn away move than
one hundred and fifty others, equally destitute
and deterring. We cannot take them for
want of room, ami we cannot build for want
of money. We have the land and can raise
tlie me, ns to feed ami care for another Home
of fifty or more additional child en, but having
hn<l some forty persons for ilie past year on
our hands (the ch ltlrt'D, officers and subor
dinates,) we arc unable to^gse the means now
ill band to build.
It would grieve you, Messrs. Editors, amf
your thousands of readers, to hear widowed
Confederate mothers in their tearful appeals
in behalf of their homeless and destitute
children. They would soften the hardest
heart, and relax tbe purse strings of the most
sordid miser.
Tbe children at the “Home,” under Hie ad
ministration of the Superintendent, and with
a little hired help, made a good crop the past
year, considering the unfavorable season for
agriculture. They made about fi-e hundred
bushels corn, three or four tons of hay and
fodder, two hales cood cotton, tmd an abund
ance of potatoes and vegetables. We expect
to make quite a clever crop the present year,
besides putting some of the boys to trades,
such as shoe and boot malting, printing, etc.
It is our purpose to make them all farmers
or mechanics, as they may develop aptitudes.
The girls also(wc receive-both sexes) are be
ing trained in all tbe duties of housewifery,
besides, as soon as possible, they also will be
educated in those branches of business to
which the sex is adapted, and by which they
will become independent.
They are all educated at the Home, by
teachers appointed by tbe Trustees. They
are trained socially and religiously, attend
family prayers, Sunday school, and preach
ing, uniformly, when in health.
Allow me to say that, in my visits to the
Home, I have always found myself in the
midst of one of the happiest of families
which it has ever been my privilege to sec.
They arc happy—happy “at Home,”
But our happiness is mingled with sorrow.
While these thirty or forty children, who,
never knew before, what that never to be ap
preciated word “home,” means, there are
hundreds, yea, thousands of others, for whom,
there is no home, and to whom the happy
Christmas never comes, and whom Santa
Claus never visits.
If the people, Georgians, will help us, we
will provide for them also.
I have requested, through the Southtrn
Christian Advocate, tho contribution of
$K0 esch from twenty persons, which
will enable us to open a second home in
April next. How small the sunt! How
vast the good which will result! Will not
more than twenty of your readers give us,
each this amount? Let usiecail tbe days,
when in tho excitement of war, the orators,
on tbe platform, and thousands of otlie-s,
urged our noble, honest men to leave wives
and children, and home*, for the scene and
sufferings of battles and hospitals, in defense
of our beloved South, promising them that
if they should fall in battle, or die in has-
pitnl, their “families should never want.”
But where now are they who thus promised ?
It is but justice to state that tlie board of
trustees, to whose government the Orphan’s
Home is committed. Is constituted of such
gentlemen as CoL George Lester, Col. H P.
Bell, Judge Thomas M. Meriwether, Rev. W.
II Potter, Rev. W. R. Branham, Rev. W. F.
Cook, etc., in whose hands such an interest
is safe.
This, too, is an enterprise sustaining a pe
culiar relation to Atlanta. It was conceived
and had its birth here. Will Atlanta not,
according to its accustomed liberality, sus
tain it ?
Messrs. Lester and Thomson, of this city,
or tlie writer, Lock Box 232, Atlanta, will
gladly receive and acknowledge through
Tu< Constiyuyion any contributions from
five to a thousand dollars or more, which the
friends of tbe homeless orphans may see
proper to give.
Before closing, I am happy to be able to
state that the Baptist Church in Georgia, and
the South Georgia Conference of our Church,
have adopted effective measures for tbe early
erection of similar institutions. Tbe Bap
tists have, as I am informed, recently opened
a Home. The South Georgia Conference
will open a Home this spring.
The Sonth Carolina Conference of the
Methodist E. Church South, is also founding,
and will build, a large institution of the same
character during the present year.
I am satisfied that this plan, and this only,
can adequately provide for the destitute or
phans of the conntry.
The State cannot, never will do it, and the
few noble, large-hearted inditiduale who rise
and care for a few orphans, however noble
their efforts, fall, and most fall, almost infin
itely short of the demands of the case.
Asking pardon for having said so much, (I
could not say less,) I am your obedient ser
vant, Jesse Boring,
Agent Orphans’ Home, North Georgia Con
ference.
Atlanta, Ga.
Will editors friendly to the enterprise copy
this communication?
ff* An industrious European haa succeed
ed in catching the signature of three distin
guished men. First he got that of Guizot,
who wrote: “In my long life I have learned
two principles: To forgive much, and never
foigel” To this M. Thiers added, “A little
forgetfulness does not hart the sincerity of
tbe pardon.” Then Prince Bismarck im
proved the sentiment by writing: “I have
learned to foiget much, and to have much
forgiven me.”
Georgia News Items.
Tbe Calhoun Times wishes to kuow if lint
place shall continue churebleai.
Larkin Lewis, a colored man. one hundred
and ten yea told, died in Griffin a few days
t^o.—Middle Georgian.
Mr. Joseph Y. Tinsley, of Covington, was
found dead in his bed on Tuesday last
Georgia Enterprise.
Griffin young men pull oat their hair be
cause valentines arc not received; and old
men with young wivos, dress up in fen ale
apparel and visit around.—Griffin Star.
TheCsitersville brass band is now in full
blast, and is ready to toot, whenever there ia
a call for music. Mr. Milton C. Jackson, a
useful citizeuof CarteravUle,died on Wednes
day last.—Standard and Express.
The wifeof Mr. W. H. Gilbert, and daugh
ter of Hon. D. A. Vason, died in Albany oh
tbe 8th instant. Mr. Thomas A. Barrow, nf
Decatur county, was married on the 8th in
stant to Miss Jennie P. Turner, of Camilla.
Central City.
Tho twenty-four hours’ Thomas’ orchesin:
were in Columbus, they consumed forty k.
of lager. Mr. Charles Carpenter, an o
fisherman, waa fatally injured in the Ks; -
and Phcnix manufactory sampling rooms on
the 14th instant—Columbus Sun.
A few nights ago the store of Mcs
Echols & Wilson, Augusta, was entered I •
ourglara, and money, medals, etc., carried l
to the amount of some three hundred do,!..
Tbe work of enlarging the Augusta ca. :
will commence March 1st—Chronicle <■ 1
Sentinel
Three petitions are circulating for .a in .
route from Rome through Texas Valley.
Floyd county, and crossing the mountain t
Adam Malony's.in Chattooga county, them <
by Melville, on to Alpine, to Winston on tin-
Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad.—Chut
tooga Advertiser.
Fatber Charles Prendergast and Mr. E. ->
Kennedy will represent the temperance or
ganizations of Savannah in the Grand Na-
lional Temperance Convention, to be lieto --
Baltimore on the 22d instant. Hon. Iverson
L. Harris of Milledgevillc presided at tne
meetingof the stockholders of tbe Atlanta
and .Gulf Railroad, which was held in 8a
vannab on the 14th.—Savannah Xacs.
F. T, Snead, (colored) mail agent on t«.i
Macon and Augusta road was arrested .
14th instant, by a United States post-olu
official, upon a charge (as stated by Snead) of
some irregularities iu his financial affairs. Mr.
II. L. Jewett has been elected Prcsidcm ol
the Mutual Loan Association of Macon. . ,
negro woman—jr.uc Blake—was found - i
the night of the I4th instant, near the Soutl
western Railroad, about the two mile po t,
with her throat cut from car to car.—Tele
graph and Messenger.
Daitou needs a park. The citizens of Dil
lon, in a meeting on Saturday last, bought
three thousand dollars worth of bond9 for
building tlie Female College. Judge Foote
and Captain Story, of New Orleans, have
f ,urcliased the Murray county Talc Quarry,
rom Messrs. Walker & Morris, of Dalton,
for tho sum of *7,00.1. The Methodists ot
Dalton have received their new church bell
Mrs. Mangle Gordon has been elected Pre-si
dent of the Dalton Mite Society.—Earth
Georgia Cititen,
Suwanco depot, station, is to have a first
Class hotel.—Guin nett Herald.
Dr. Battey, of Rome, lost a little daughter
on Thursday last—Commercial.
Mr. J. V. Davis has been appointed assist
ant postmaster atNewnon.—Aeuman Hom'd
Miss Virginia Arnett, of Columbus, and
Mr. Fred Sloes, of Allien*, Alabama, were
married on the 15tb.—Columbus Sun.
A little son of Wiley Jones, of LaGrange,
was accidentally shot by a little son of S. W.
Swanson while out bird hunting a few days
ago.
Fourteen English emigrants arrived ie
Madison on Thursday last. Madison cnj< vr<‘
a masquerade ball and skating carnival at
gtiigious gcimrimcut.
BT OTPtT WTU>fc
Ktct Slid cttr ihe world bom romd,
Bt-arlnr hit harde** and cr ;
Ev«*r and er r the year* roll om.
With their tide uf torrow* and losses.
Ever ami ever the book of life
’ ear* upon Its pftge*
The wear*, errary Uy of the heart
Song through ail the acre.
Ercr and ever with oat at-etched hands
We gra*p for air Wen m*tnw:
Et. r and ever the billow* of time
When the face-looks bat with kiuuncss.
Ever and ever the shadows fall
* r the Kolden ao«««;
Ev.ragleiu. ..—
Lighten* 4 nr care* aad ettwam.
Kv.t i ud ever the morning dawns
«»n hopes that are breath* d io
Ever and ever the nttfit bring*
It* tide of bitter —*
the rink on Wednesday Inst. Tbe costume-
and masked individuals numbered seventj-
flve.—Appeal and Advertiser.
Mr. William Ch&fin, of Wilkes county, it*
dead. Messrs. C. A. Alexander, T. T. tinnier
and J. T. Wingfield are the delegates to the
Suite Agricultural Convenlion from WiKi ’
Mrs. Martha Corbin, wife of ibe mess’mr-
of tbe Southern Express Company fn»i
Washington to Barnet, died on Thursday last.
Washingt&n Gazette.
The loss of Mr. W. W. Haughton, by 11
burglary of his premises on hist Sutler.in
night, was much heavier than was nl fir
supposed. Besides the guns, pistols, kni\i
and other articles of value stolen from h
store, Mr. II. also lost about eighteen liundrc
dollars in gold.—Chronic'e and Sentinel.
Col. John Screven and Donald Macdonn)
have been unanimously re-elected Pierith j
and Treasurer of the Atlantic and Gulf K
road. In a tight in Savannah on Wedncv .:
last between Emma Megs and 4fatie D.iv,
son, Jane had one finger cut off by a knii --
the bands of Emma. George W. Snit j's
was arrested on Wednesday last at ■
Screven House in Savannah. cb:.rg<d wu
the embezzlement of $ 0,000 belonging i
the “Florida Internal Fund.*’—Savannah A.»
zertiscr.
Political Item*.
Secretary Boutwell asked for a bounty r.f
|G per ton'on the Cape Cod fishing smaVl
Radical politicians in Washington cooce e
New Hampshire and Connecticut to ti e
Democrats.
The President is reported as regarding t! e
aspbet of political affairs with great unr.«
ness.
The first State election that occurs in 1872
is in New Hampshire. She votes for Gov
ernor and Legislature outlie second Tuesday
iu March.
The standing of Mr. Ilubbard, the Deni -
cratic nominee for Governor of Connection',
is such that no attempt has been made to t
sail him for any act of his whole life.
The Republican Congressional Committee
intend to send several speakers to New
Hampshire this week, including Senator Wii
son, and others in Congress.
It is stated that General Sickles will Ic
sent to Albany to heal tbe difficulties Ij.
tween the two wings of the Republican party
of New York.
The North Carolinn press refer to the com
ing State Convention at Greensboro, as ol
the highest importance to the destinies of the
Commonweal!!..
Itural Items.
The number of sheep in Scotland in 1871
has been estimated at 6,700,(10.
In theU.iited States are made 75,000,000
pounds ot butter and 3D0,00.i,00j pounds of
cheese.
Land under irrigation in Spain sells for
$500 per acre, while land lying alongside of
it will scarcely bring fifty dollars per acre.
A farmer in Winslow, Maine, raised 28
bushels of wheat on three-quarters of at.
acre, and sold it for $70, for seed, aud tin
straw for $17.
Kincaird, Johnson, Menard & Co., Illin.-i-,
recently shipped to Chicago 14 oxen, getter
ally 5 years old, the average weight of the 14
being 2,750 pounds each. One weighed 2.99i
pounds.
A shipment of American short-horns it
England is exported by Mr. Alexander, ol
Woodbxrn, Kentucky, who sold to an Eng
lish gentleman two Durham heifers—the ■ id
est two years old—for $13,000.
Orcndorf Brothers, of Mciean county,
Illinois, recently had, at Chicago, a lot <
eighty one hogs, fed by one of them, ti-
average live weight of which was 513 |kmio>!
and a lot of sixty, fed bv the other I rot it-
the average weight of which was 5 )9 pound
They were Poland China hogs, and wet
seventeen months old.
rtrunai.
Mr. John Dunn, “the temperance v
horse,” of New York, is dead.
Mrs. President Grant lias ordered I er re
ceptions discontinued during the Lcnlei
season.
The report that Anna Dickinson will scon
make her debut on the stage in tragedy is
again circulated.
Gen. Kilpatrick has accepted an offer of
$3,l<k) in gold to go to California for tw- iv.
lectures daring the month of Slay.
CoL Johnson, son of Hon. Revc-rdv John
son, who is now United Sutes Marshal foi
tbe district of South Carolina, has been in
formed that his resignation will be accepted
by the President
Louis Kossnth has been cured of the gout
at the grotto of Monsnmanus, in Luscany.
He says the atmosphere of that cavern will
cure all the ills that rheumatic flesh is
heir to.
New* Condensed.
Keno has been abolished in Memphis.
Jamaica’s sugar crob promises finely this
year.
^Pennsylvania produced 6,755,057 barrels of
Boston has a prohibitory law, and 1,121
bar rooms.
Chicago is bonding a hotel, to be called
the Pacific, and to cost a million dolLara.
A paper manufactory has been started in
Louisiana, with a capital of $60,000.
A bill has been introduced in the Tennes
see Legislature for the bridging of the Mis
sissippi at Memphis.
iy Letyourthoughube fit and auitable
for the subject Every day have higher
thoughts of God, lower thoughts of self
kinder Droughts of your brethren, and more
hopeful thoughU all around you.
t.Vwe i'Oft Evening Poet.
Religions News Items.
The Rev. Mr. Newnan, of Washington,
-els two dollars a minute for praying at the
-enate.—Horton Post.
Dr. B. Man y. Pre*ident of the College at
4-itrgelowu, Kentucky, is dangerously ill,
caused by neuralgia of tbe bead.
Rev. Dr. De wes announces that the mis-
-nary debt ot tlie Southern Methodist
Church is nil paid, principal and interest
It is stated that in the city of lierlin, out
of a population of nearly a million, only
about twelve thousand people attend church.
A gentlein.-m in the Exit, lias sent a $50
note to the wifeof every Presbyterian mission
in’ west of the Mississippi, whose address
he could obtain.
Seventy of the church edifices in New
York City are Episcopalian, fifty-five Pres
byterian, forty Methodist.-, and thirty-two
Roman Catholic. 9
Rev. Daniel Williams, who gathered a
church at Foster, R -le Island fifty years
ago. is still paator, in active service, though
eighty-one years of ago.
It is thought that the indications fore
shadow another such religious awakening in
tlie Atlantic cities as was realised in tho
winter of 1857-53.
The Rev. Peter Cartwright has been
stricken with paralysis, and liis death ia im
minent. He is 87 years of age, and has been
in the ministry 68 years.
There are about one thousand Young Men’s
Christian Associations in the United States
and British Provinces, w itlt a memltership of
one hundred and fifty thousand.
The largest salaries given to clergymen iu
New York, are paid to lira. Porter and Dix.
who get $12,000 per annum each. D-. Cha
pin gets $5,000 aud Mr. Montgomery $-0,000.
Bishop Foley, of Chicago, announces his
intention to commence, early io the spring, to
rebuild the Cutbolic Churches destroyed by
the fire, lie will also rebuild the Bishop's
palace at once.
Rev. Hugh Miller Thompson, who has re
cently been calltal to Christ Chinch,on Fifth
avenue. New York, at a salary of $10,000,
was formerly a tabe waiter at a boarding home
in Cleveland.
Henry Ward Beecher says that his people,
luring the past year, contributed more than
t wo hundred and fifty thousand dollars for
charitable and religious purposes at homo
and abroad.
St. Paul’s (Episcopa.) Church, at the cor
ner of Broadway and Fulton streets, is the
oldest church edifice in tbe city ot New
York. It was dedicated on the 3Ulh of Oc-
uber. 1770.
Dr. Atkinson, of Oregon, says that Con
gregational Churches, in tiiat State, are few
■nd far between, often 500 mile* apart, and
in Washingt- n Territory there are only cler
gymen oi this t’en .tarnation.
Eigh ecn copies or tlie first rdition of tho
Bible ever priiite.l are in existence. Tltev
were printed in Meta la-tween tlie rears 14W
and 1443. Mr. James Lennox, of New York,
•wns one of tbe copies, baring pim-hased it.
Tlie French liberal pres condemn the in
to!-ranee of tlie Swiss government in the
'tatiishment of those of its citizens wbo
eli-toso to embark in tlie profc-M-nt of mtm-
bership of any religious orders. The petu-
spite :tmi mediaeval bigots of the Federal
•'nuneil lias even excltnted the I'r-iliuc Sis
ters of Mercy.
In view of the enthusiastic rtception of
•lie soil of flic Russian t zar, the following
specimen of the latter’s love of litany is re
t reshing: Tit-- Russian government baa for
bidden preaching in Polish in the synagogues
-t llussia-Poiand, and intends to require the
priests to offer their prayers in the Russian
language instead of Hebrew.
The correspondent of a religious Journal,
now in Spain,says “that Ilia 'Bible wagon
had iust rctum-d from a tour in the eouu-ry,
luring which some thousand copita of the
Scriptures had bgcn sold, besides many given
away. At. a great annual provincial fail-
more than eigiit thousand copies of tlie Scrip
tures were sent abroad among the |s-.|-h-. Ia
is believed that near n half million copies of
the Bible, or portions of it, have hoot put in
circulation in Spain duriutr the p st t-rco
years.”
Dr. Chalmers beautifully says: “T
lilllo that I have seen in the world, si
known of the history of mniikiud. teach
me to look upon tlieir error* ta sorrow, u
•u anger. When 1 take the history of o
poor heart that has siur-ed ami suffered, ai
represent to myself the struggles and lent
uti-ns it passed through—the brief pulsatl
Of joy: tits tears of regret: the feeblent
of purpose; the scorn of the worltl that b
little charity; the desolation of tlie sou
ranctuaty, and threatening voices witbii
health gone; happiness gone—I would f*
leave tue erring soul of fellow-man wi
Him front whose hands it came.”
f3* The field is too wide, the harvest too
great, tlie world too broad, and humanity too
precious, cither for delays, for jealousies, or
for strifes. Indeed litis human life is all too
short to allow tlie indulgence of vain regrets.
And wltcu the sense of weakness, or of guilt
and sin, overbears tlie weary head and heart,
I can but remember the trusting ami triumph
ant joy of the Apostle.—John A. Andrew.
I5T It i- not truth which makes man
worthy, l-ul the striving af'er truth. If God
In his right baud held cvcrv truth, and in b'»
left the one inward impulse after truth, al
though with tlie condition that - should err
forever, and bade me clioo6c, I would humbly
incline to his left ban ! saying, O. Father,
ptve me that; pure truth is for thee alone.
lotting.
ZA Ol-l age is not one of the beauties of
creation, but it is one of the harmonies. Tho
law of contrasts is one of the laws of beau
' v. Under the cont-ilioi s of our climate,
-Itailow gives light its worth; sternness en
hances mil-iness; solemnity, splendor. Vary
ing proportions of size support and subserve
oue mother.—Madame Stcaehine.
I low to Ruin a Sox.—1 Let him bsvebts
own way. 2. Allow him free use of bis
money. 8. Suffer him In roam where ho
pic-tecs on the Sabbath. 4. Give Itiin full «c-
■ ■ «h to wicked companions. 5 Call h-m to
no account of bis evenings, ti. Futnisl him
with no at-l- d t-mntovmi-nt.
S3T Think of “living I” Thy life, wert
t - -it the."prir-fulrat of all the sonsof earth.’’
tram idle dream lint a solemn reality. It is
t s-'.vn; it i- all thou hast to front eternity
fit. Work, then, likeaslur,t-Bh-oting,vet
unresting.—Carlyle.
-)Df~ M::daait* Le Yert is said hy a North
er- writer to have a more extensive eire le of
- equaimartces and professional ptople titan
; n y other lady iu the world. Iter accomplish
ments being only equalled t-v her tact and
- m abili^r as a queen of society.
tSsfA New England advertiser w*nta “a
-v-man who fears ihe Lord, and weighs two-
-itudrcd pounds.” The experience of most
m il is that a woman who weighs two hun-
:n d pounds rarely fears the Lurd—or any
body else!—Ledger.
It is easy iu tire world to live after tho
wo id s opinion ; it is easy io solitu 'c to live
after your own; hut the great man is be who.
m llje midst of tbe crowd, keem with per-
re«t sweetness the independence*of solitude.
Emerson.
t5~l never yet heard a man or woman
orach abused, that I waa not inclined to think
the better of them; and to transfer any aua-
pic on or dislike to the person wbo appeared
to take delight in pointing out the defects of
a fellow-creature.—Jane Porter.
"sSfHow fast time flies when you are work
ing against it; how slowly when you are
wotking to fill it up! What a difference be
tween trying to get your work done before
yourdinner hoar, and trying to fill
hour before dinner with work.
up your
SB The American Home Missionary So
ciety sustained sixty ml-sionarica in Kansas
last year, twenty-one more than in the year
p rending,
CkJ The New Testament revisers have got
to Die second chapter of Luke, and hone to-
fiuish their work in six years.
£3P Rev. Dr. Muhlenberg recommends
Episcopalians to abstain from the use of wino
aud all stimulating drinks during Lent
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