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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN, FOB THE WEEK ENDING MARCH 20, 1872.
THE ATLANTA SUN.
FROM THE DAILY EDITION OF
Wednesday, March 20th, 1872.
Ifefaced and Mutilated Note* and Cur
rency.
The Treasury Department -will redeem
all its Currency when defaced, mutilated,
or in any way unfit for circulation, at
their full face value; likewise all Legal-
Tender notes issued prior to 1869; pro
vided,
1. Each note must equal or exceed
in one piece, by face measurement, three-
fifths of its original proportions; and be
in such condition that its genuineness
can be clearly ascertained.
2. Fractional currency must be sent in
sums of $5 and upwards, and Legal-
Tender notes in sums of $50 and upwards.
3. Fractional currency must be assorted
into the different issues; each issue by de
nominations, and inclosed in paper straps
at least one inch wide, securely pinned;
each strap, if the size of the remittance
will admit, must contain one hundred
notes of the same denomination; and on
each strap must be written with ink the
number of pieces and denomination in
closed, and the name of the owner. The
entire remittance must be securely done
np in one package; and upon the wrapper
its date, the amonnt inclosed, and the
name of the owner written with ink,
4. Fragments of Legal Tender notes and
Fractional currency, constituting less
than half the original proportions, will
be redeemed for the full face by the
Treasurer of the United States, and by no
other officer, only when accompanied by
affidavit, that the missing portions have
been totally destroyed. The affidavit
must state the cause and manner of the
mutilation, and the character of the af
fiant must be certified to by a public offi
•cer. Fragments, each less than one-
half, but together purporting to consti
tute more than one-half of a note, will
be redeemed only when it shall appear,
either from the fragments themselves or
by affidavit made in conformity to the
above, that they are actually parts of the
original note; otherwise, fragments less
than three-fourths of notes will be re
deemed for but half the fall face value.
Half notes that have been punched will
in no case be redeemed.
TRANSMISSION TO TREASURER.
1. Direct all remittances intended for
redemption to “ Treasurer of the United
States, Washington, D. C.” Letters or
packages so addressed are delivered by
mail, postage free; but are invariably at
the risk of the owners. All communica
tions in regard to lost packages, must be
addressed to the Second Assistant Post
master General. Begistered letters
(recommended), must be paid by the
party remitting.
2. Packages by express should be put
in wrappers of stout paper or cloth, tied
with strong twine, secured with careful
sealing, and plainly marked on the out
side with the amount and naturo of the
contents, the full name and post-office ad
dress, including the State, of the consignor,
and the fact that they arc forwarded un
der the Government contract with Ad
ams Express Company, thus:
; $—. Mutilated Currency for redemp-;
tion, under contract with Adams ".
Express Company. ;
Treasurer of the United States, :
"Washington, D. C. ;
From ;
This Government contract covers the
lines of the following express companies:
Adams, American Merchants’ Union,
Central, Earl, Eastern, Hamden, Hope,
Howard, National, New Jersey, South
ern, United States, and United States
and Canada.
3. A letter of advice, written on not
less than half a sheet of commercial note
paper, stating the names and full post-
office address of the owner, the amonnt
of the remittance, and the manner in
which returns shall be made, must bepul
inside the package, and a duplicate letter
should be sent by mail to the Treasurer
on the day that the remittance is for
warded. . Parties remitting currency for
redemption, and especially officers of
the Departmenr, are requested to make
their remittances as large as practicable,
and when possible to remit in sums of
$1,000, or an even multiple thereof. Be*
mittances of fifty dollars and upwards
may be composed in part of Fractional
Currency and in part of Legal-Tender
notes.
RETURNS—HOW MADE.
Notes of all other National Banks,
whether mutilated or not, are redeemable
only by the banks which issued them.
Designated Depositaries of the United
States shall immediately redeem Legal-
Tender notes under $50, and Fractional
currency less than $5; unless a person
shall habitually present less than these
amounts; then the above sums may be
required, when it is optional whether to
pay the owner at once, or give a receipt
conditioned for such payment when the
proceeds of the parcel shall have been
received from the Treasurer of the United
States.
CAR.TERSVILLE AND VAN WERT
RAILROAD COMPANY.
A TEMPORARY* RECEIVER APPOINTED—HEN
RY CLEWS* INJUNCTION CASE POSTPONED.
This important case has been passed to
the next term of the United States District
Court The parties were not ready to enter
upon the merits of the case. In the mean
time, to preserve the property as it now
stands, Mr. David W. EL Peacock was se
lected by both sides as Beceiver.
Voluminous answers have been filed
by Messrs. John W. Wofford, Abda John
son, and Mark A. Cooper—a startling
chapter in these latter-day \ revelations.
The following order was issued yester
day by the United States District Court.:
Hekev Clews & Co.,
vs.
) Rule for Discovery, Re-
\ lief, and Injunction,
Jons W. Wofford, et. aL ) and a Receiver.
This cause came on to be heard on the
application for Injunction and for the
appointment of a Beceiver; and there
upon upon consideration thereof, it was
ordered, adjudged and decreed, as fol
lows, to-wit:
1st. That the Injunction be issued as
prayed for in the Bill.
2d. That a Beceiver be appointed to
receive, take possession of, hold and pre
serve till the further order of this Court,
all the property, real and personal, de
scribed in the Bill; and that David W.
K. Peacock be and is hereby appointed
such Beceiver, with full power and au
thority to exercise all the rights and per
form all the duties usually incident to
such appointment in the Courts of
Equity.
3d. Nothing in this Order is to be con
strued as restraining the stockholders in
the Cherokee Bailroad Company from
holding their annual meeting and elect
ing their officers, according to the terms
of their charter. Be it so.
John Ebskine,
United States Judge.
In open Court, March 19, 1872.
Consented to by complainants, O. A.
Lochrane. Also by defendants, who ap
peared when the cause came before the
Court. L. E. Bleckley Attorney for
John W. Wofford, Abda Johnson and
Mark A. Cooper.
MILTON COUNTY.
SYNOPSIS OF A LAW PASSED AT THE LAST
SESSION TO CREATE A BOARD OF COMMIS
SIONERS OF ROADS AND REVENUE.
The Board is composed of eight per
sons, one to be elected from each Militia
District. The first to be appointed by
the Grand Jury, and a record of appoint
ment, entered on the minutes by the
Clerk of Superior Court. A certificate
issued by the Clerk shall be sufficient for
them to enter on their duties. The first
appointment shall be at March term,
1872, Superior Court. Board holds till
regular election of county officers,
1873. The Commissioners then are
to be elected by the legal voters
in each Militia District (annually).
A majority of Board can fill any vacancy,
subject to ratification of next Grand
jury. “To be elligible, the person so
appointed must have been a resident of
the county one year, and must take oath
prescribed for all civil officers.” “The
Commissioners shall be the legal advisors
of the Ordinary of Milton county, in all
matters relating to levying taxes ior coun
ty purposes, public buildings, roads and
bridges', and in all county matters. ” The
commissioners appointed and eleeted
shall be exempt from jury, road and mi
litia duty, and shall not be entitled to
any other compensations. This law shall
not be so construed as to deprive the
Ordinary of any fees now allowed him by
law.
[Communicated.]
Bowilou--IntercstIng Items of News.
Will be made either by check, in new
currency, or by express, as owner may
prefer.
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS.
1. Bemittances from parties who do
not give their full names and postoffice
addresses, will be retained till these are
furnished, accompanied by satisfactory
proof of property. In ca*e of the loss
or destruction of checks, the Treasurer
will stop payment on the original, and
upon giving a bond of indemnity, a dupli
cate will bo issued.
2. Spurious United States and Nation
al Bank notes if presented will be
stamped with the word “ Counterfeit."
All officers of the Treasury Depart
ment will receive any damaged money en
titled to full-face redemption in payment
of all currency dues to the United States.
Notes of National Bank Depositories
which have failed or gone into liquida
tion will be redeemed for retirement, on
the same terms as Legal Tender notes of
issues prior to 1869.
The first intermediate examination of
the College closed Wednesday evening,
13th, with a histrionic entertainment by
the students.
Bev. J. T. Murray, of Baltimore, edi-
tor of the Methodist Protestant, will preach
the Commencement Sermon on the 7th
of July next.
The Association of Alumni will remove
the remains of CoL Charles A. McDaniel,
founder of the college, from Harrods
burg, Ky., to Bowdon for re-interment
with appropriate ceremonies, on Wednes
day, 10th of July.
In behalf of the Association, the Pres
ident tenders grateful acknowledgements
to ex-Governor Joseph E. Brown, Presi
dent of the Western and Atlantic Bail-
road; to J. W. Thomas, President of the
Nashville and Chattanooga Bailroad; also
to L. P. Grant, General Superintendent
of the Atlanta and West Point Bailroad :
for free passes for the remains and one
attendant over their respective railroads,
Also to the Honorable Andrew J. Berry,
Mayor of Newnan, for the pledge for
himself and his patriotic people, to re
ceive the remains, and escort them to
Bowdon in a style befitting the high
character of the fallen hero. To one
and all a thousand thanks 1
The Directors of the Savannah, Grif
fin and North Alabama Bailroad, at their
meeting in Newnan. March 7tb, passed
an order to let out the Boad to Bowdon
as soon as the stockholders of that place
shonld pay to the Treasurer twenty thou
sand dollars, as the amended resolution
will show.
The arrangements of the citizens to
raise the required sum, have been com
pleted, and the amount will be paid in a
few days. Bowdon already begins to feel
railroadish.
Newnan, Ga., March 7,1872.
[extract.]
Resolved, That the President and Di
rectors of the Savannah, Griffin and
North Alabama Bailroad Company hereby
obligate and bind themselves to locate
the road from Carrolton to Bowdon, and
let out contracts of said section of the
road by the first of June next; or so soon
as the subscribers for stock at Bowdon
and vicinity pay into the Treasury of the
company the sum of twenty thousand
Important Suits Against State Boad
Defaulters.- — Yesterday attachments
were issued against the property of the
following named persons, which will be
executed this morning, and suits com
menced, returnable to tbo next term of
the Superior .Court, in this county, viz
The Scofield Bolling Mill Company
also against Lewis Scofield, W. D. Cook
and A. L. Harris, individually, in con
nection with the State Boad transactions
with the mill for the sum of $56,000.
Foster Blodgett in the sum of $50,000
—leaving out enough other items against
him to be covered by the full amount of
his official bonds as Superintendent of
the Boad, which is $20,000. This bond
is signed by H. I. Kimball, John Bice,
H. O. Hoyt, L. Scofield and Y. A. Gas-
kill as securities. It is considered good.
N. P. Hotchkiss in the sum of $15,-
000—leaving out enough items to re
quire the full amount of his bond to
iver. The bond is considered good,
Y. A. Gaskilljfor the sum of $15,000,
John Bice for $30,000. This is against
him as proprietor of the New Era, and
the evidence going to show that the New
Era was bought and run with the money
of the State.
A. L. Harris in the sum of $8,000.
James Mullins in the sum of $ .
The Sale of Arms.
The New York Tribune has this to say
about a matter which has stirred up a
most unusual and undignified strife in
the Federal Senate:
We may count the main charges of
Senator Sumner’s resolution concerning
sales of arms to the French as now fully
established. The testimony of General
Dyer, supplementing that of the Secre
tary of War, as it does, establishes and
makes clear any part of this case which
was before left in donbt. But it seems
that General Dyer, returning from the
West, after a brief absence, found him
self besieged by would-be purchasers of
arms; that he sold$1,281,763 worth with
in forty-eight hours; that a part of these
arms were sold to the French agent after
he had been discovered as such; that the
whole construction of international law
was left to a subordinate of
the War Department; and that the
Ordnance Bureau was so anxious to
sell our military stores that the reserve
supplies of the country were reduced be
yond precedent. No sane person could
suppose that sales of arms amounting to
over a million dollars’ worth per day,
were made during the fall of 1870 for the
ordinary purposes of trade, as a hundred
condemned .army wagons might have
been sold. Yet, this whole grave busi
ness, involving delicate poiuts of inter
national law, as well as the disarmament
of the Bepublic, was coolly turned over
to the Ordnance Bureau to be referred to
a subordinate who might choose his buy
ers and fix his own terms. Is it not time
to stop this ? Are the carelessly mana
ged Executive Depat tments of the Gov
ernment to be the sole governing arm of
the nation ? These questions are more
important, just now, than the accounta
bility of the officer who sold the arms.
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Facts for tlie Single.
A French philosopher has lately
brought to light some curious social sta
tistics compiled from the records of
eleven years in France, Belgium and
Holland, relative to the longevity of
married and single men, which furnish
fresh proofs of the danger of living sin-
BOND RING OPERATIONS.
Important Financial Measures Passed
bytlie Legislature of South Carolina.
Columbia, S. C., March 13.-—The followit.g Impor
tant measures are approved and have become law:
First—An act declaring all bonds and stocks of the
State included in the Treasurer’s statement of Octo
ber 31,1871, to be legal and valid. It provides for a
permanent tax to be levied annually sufficient to pay
the interest on the State debt until the principal
thereof is paid; also for registration of aU securities
of the State at the Commercial Warehouse Company
of New York City, or at the Carolina National Bank
of Columbia; no interest to be paid on any bond un
til so registered.
Second—An act authorizing and requiring an im
mediate settlement and payment of the accounts of
the commercial agent of the State in New York city.
Third—An act to enforce payment of $1,100,000 of
unpaid and overdue taxes before the first Monday in
June next, under the penalty of peremptory sale of
delinquents’ property to the highest bidder, the
State giving warranty of titles to purchaser.
Third—A joint resolution proposing an amend
ment to the Constitution, providing that there shall
be hereafter no increase of the State debt, for any
purpose, without the sanction of a two-thirds vote
°f the people; and that said amendment shall he
submitted to the voters of the State for ratification
at next general election. This law has been enacted
mainly at the instance of Financial Agent Kimpton,
who has been at Columbia several weeks urging
their adoption.
The Plundering Bond Bing are trying
to hedge in and fortify themselves in
their South Carolina ventures—having
learned a lesson by their Georgia expe
riences. They have seen that the tables
of the money changers are overturned
and publio indignation scourges the
thieving rascals, naked through the land,
whenever the, people get the Government
into their own hands. They played a
deep game—a heavy hand—in Georgia.
They thought themselves secure, and did
not know the power and efficiency of the
people, to undo their swindles when the
reins of power shonld come into their
hands; hence they pursued their wicked
work leisurely, systematically and without
the exercise of any other caution than to
hide from view at the time, the villainies
they were exacting.
When the Democracy came into pow
er, representing the people and their true
interests, it required only a pin-scratch
to burst the bloated bubble. The first
touch felled their edifice to the ground.
The first blast of honest breath extin
guished the light of all their glory, an.d
turned their bright visions into the
gloom of shame and despair.
South Carolina is yet in the hands of
the spoiler. His power is still supreme,
and he is still protected by the bayonets
of the oppressor. Before this sceptre
passes away the spoilmen have made an
effort to profit by their disastrous experi
ence in Georgia, and have gone through
the farce of enacting laws to fasten their
frauds permanently and irrevocably upon
the oppressed, impoverished and down
trodden people of that State.
All the swindling, fraudulent bonds
issued by the peculating, carpet-bag,
bayonet Government up to October 31,
is declared by the so-called Legislature,
(the readv instrument in effecting all the
plunders,) to be “legal and valid 1 ”
A“permanentonerous, oppressive tax,
which is nothing less than legalized rob
bery, is levied to pay the interest, and
the principal also, of these ’fraudulent
bonds.
Then to still further secure their
wicked claims, the holders of the bonds
are required to “register” them in a cer
tain solemn form, so as to give them the
appearance of having gone through a
process that stamps them with the appear
ance of regularity and legality.
Then their Commercial Agent in New
York (the “Henry Clews” of that State) is
to be paid for his rascality immediately.
Then the unlawful and unconstitutional
taxes heretofore levied by the thuggish
villains, and which it is. impossible for the
people ever to pay, must be collected un
der peremptory sale of the people’s pro
perty, before the first of June.
Then to put on the appsarance of pro
tecting the people hereafter from further
planderings, they propose that the State
debt shall not hereafter he increased
without the sanction of a two-tliirds vote
of the people. O yes, only let them
keep what they have already stolen; only
let their hands remain, as they are al
ready, up to the elbows in the peoples’
pockets, and they promise no further en
croachments !. The gracious thieves!
kindly disposed, magnanimous, cbivalric,
robbers and thugs ! Their magnanimity
—their generosity is touching ! It is
enough to- melt the heart of a stone!
Why do not the people of that State,
with one accord, fall down and worship
the beast and give thanks, and then rise
up and call him blessed forevermore ?
This is the fruit of Badicalism—the
products of Grant seeds—the realization
on a small scale of what the leaders of the
party aim to accomplish everywhere, and
what they will accomplish if they are not
Amnesty Trifling.
A little incident in the House of Bep-
resentatives, yesterday, illustrated the
absurdity of trifling with Amnesty, as
Congress is now doing. It has been
agreed that c the members shall pass up to
the Clerk’s desk the names of reV els
whom they wished restored to the right
of citizenship, to be passed upon with
out the lists being read. But this was
with the understanding that none of the
class specially excepted by Act of Con
gress should’be so favored by any mem
ber. In the list of candidates, the name
of ex-Gov. "Vance, of North Carolina,
was discovered, and, as he is one of the
“proscribed” rebels, a hubbub was
created. There is something pitiful in
the fact that this sharp cutting of corners
and dodging about is necessary in order
rightly to divide the mcely shaded classes
of rebels. All this would be avoided by
a single statesman-like act—Universal
Amnesty.—N. Y. Tribune.
gle. It appears that married menbe-
dollars, and secure persons to contract I tween the ages of twenty-five and thirty
for the grading at the same prices now
being paid by the company, and who
will receive in payment for their work
one-third in cash, and the remaining two-
thirds in the stock of the company.
A true extract from the minutes.
. Milo S. Freeman,
Secretary S. G. and N. A. B. B.
A new and popular custom has been
introduced into Western church fairs. It
is for any man, who feels like it, to sit in
the middle of the room and pay ten
cents for every kiss given him by the la
dies. Large sums are said to be realized
in this manner for charitable purposes.
West End is improving. A number
of new residences have just been com
pleted; and others are in process of con
struction.
Bertrand Zachry the Great Fur
Dealer.—Mr. Zachry has something to
say in this morning’s issue of The Sun.
Bead it.
Mechanical Schools.
Massachusetts is about to establish as a
branch of its educational system, schools
for the instruction of the working-classes
in the mechanical trades. The idea is an
advanced one and comes from Europe.
It has been mooted for some time in this
country, but the State which leads in
isms and intelligence, is the first to adopt
it. All the arguments which apply in
favor of intellectual training are forcible
in advocacy of this system. One of the
defects of our society is that we educate
the head too much and the hand too lit
tle; that our schools are hot-beds for
producing-intellectual giants and laboring
pigmies. To improvo our products, and
put them upon a par with those of Eu
rope, we must improve our workingmen
by special education. In strength, dura
bility, and usefulness our fabrics, young
as the nation and its industries, compare
favorably with those of other countries,
but in beauty and design, finish in exe
cution, and features of art, the contrast
is against us.
Radical Reform.
The New York Tribune says: “We
are sorry to be obliged to take from Col
lector Arthur the credit which lie re
ceived yesterday for appearing finally to
dispose of Let& Stocking. His order
relating to the disposal of goods under
General Order was well calculated to de
ceive; and a careful investigation now
discloses the fact that the old “Bing” is
not brokeD, scarcely disturbed. The
parade of firms authorized to receive
goods under General Order, turns out to
be a screen for tbe notorious firm of Leet
& Stocking, who are by no means dis
posed of their much-coveted “plums.”
The same old hands are to do the steal
ing, only disguised by different colored
gloves. That is a fair sample of the re
forms “in the Badical.party.
Revolutionary Medal.
A Correspondent writing us from Sum
ter, S. C., under date of the 14th inst.,
informs us that a gentleman of that town
had recently found among the burnt rub
bish of Columbia, a large silver medal,
a fac simile of the gold one presented
by Congress to General Gates, in
commemoration of the surrender of
Burgoyne on the 17th October, 1777,
and described in Bretta’s History
of the war of independence. Some years
after the revolution, General Gates re
moved to New York, and the above me
mento may possibly belong to a soldier
of General Sherman’s army. Colonel J.
D. Blanding, of Sumter, to whose safe
keeping the medal has been entrusted by
tbe finder, will be pleased to transfer it
to tbe owner on proof of ownership.
The interested party can communicate
with him.—Charleston Courier'.
The Danbury (Con.) News says: A
young lady in a neighboring town has
taken up dentistry for a living. All the
gentlemen patronise her. When she
puts her arm around the neck of a pa
tient, and caresses his jaw for the offend
ing member, tiie sensation is about as
nice as they make ’em. One young man
has become infatuated with her. Conse
quently he hasn’t a tooth in his head.
She has pulled every blessed one of
them; and made him two new sets and
pulled them. She is now at work on
his father’s saw. He holds the saw.
Excerpts of Fun and Humor,
*©“A Witty Parson.—-A Scotch
clergyman, by the name of Watty Morri
son, was a man of great laughter and hu
mor. On one occasion a young officer
scoffed at the idea that it required so
much time and study to write a sermon
as ministers pretend, and offered a bet
that he would preach half an hour on
any passage in the Old Testament, with
out the slightest preparation. Mr. Mor
rison took the bet, and gave for a text:
“ And tho ass opened his mouth and he spake.”
The parson won the wager, the officer
being rather disinclined to employ his
eloquence upon that text. ~ 5
EQf' A gentleman lying on his death
bed called his coachman, who had been
an old servant, and said:
“Ah, Tom, I am" going a long and
ruggid journey, worse than ever y OU
drove me.”
Ob, dear sir,” replied the fellow he
having been an indifferent master), “never
let that discourage you, for its all down
hill” a
&ST' Baising the Price of Board.—At
tbe time of General Taylor’s inaugura
tion, a long, tall, hungry, ungainly fel
low, whose hands hung as low as his
knees when he stood up straight, made
his appearance at Coleman’s and took
lodgings. He sat pretty near the end of
the table every day at dinner and ate in
ordinately. Soup, fish, flesh, fowl
desert—his enormously long arms kept
sweeping round like the arms of a huge
wind-mill, gathering in everything that
fell within the area of a circle they des
cribed.
His voracity and beastly gluttony so
disgusted the other boarders that about
a dozen of them went to Coleman and
told him he must get rid of the fellow,or
they would positively quit the house.
Coleman reflected awhile, and finally
thought he had hit upon a plan. So he
took the fellow aside, and told him that,
owing to the unusual crowd of people in
the city, and the plethora of every hotel
and boarding house, provision had be
come scarce and high, and he found that
he was losing money, and should bo com
pelled to raise the price of board from
two dollars and a half to three dollars a
day.
“Don’t,” said the fellow; “ don’t do it.
I shall die if you do. It nearly kills me
now’to eat two dollars and a half’s
worth, and if you raise the price to three
dollars, I shall die in two days. Don’t
do it, if you please !”
BSB" A young lady from the rural dis
tricts went to Des Moines to see an ele
phant. In the street car the conductor
said to her: “Miss your fair.” “Well, if
lam,” she replied, “I don’t want any
more of your impertinence.”
A person having an ass to go by
train from North Shields, sent it to the
goods station for Newcastle. The por
ters were placing it in a van, when a fop
asked them what they charged for taking
the animal.
“Ninepence, sir,” was the reply.
“Anrd pray, my good fellow, what do
you charge for a donkey?” inquired the
fop.
“Sir,” rejoined the porter, “you know
what you paid for your ticket.”
A Dutchman, in describing a pair
of horses he had lost, said: “Day vas
fery much alike, specially tho off one.
Von lookt so much like poth, I could not
tell tother from which; when I went after
one I always catched the oder, and I
whipped the one most dead because de
oder kicked at me.”
B©*. “I am going to tbe post office,
Bob, shall I inquire for you?” “Well,
yes, if you want to; but I don’t think
you’ll find me there.
Boy,” said a clergyman,
“don’t you know that it is wicked to
catch fish on Sunday?” “But I hain’t
sinned much yet,” said the boy, without
turning his eyes from the float; “hain’t
had a bite.”
Attempted Suicide.—The Edgefield,
S. C., Advertiser', of the 14th instant,
says:
We regret exceedingly to hear that Mr.
Gtorge Martin cut his throat, at the
Poor House, on yesterday. He is not
yet dead—we write on Wednesday morn
ing—but his medical attendant seems to
have no idea that he can survive. Mr.
Martin is an .old citizen, and has seen
better days. His living at the Poor
House has been comfortable, and his
treatment kind. But he Says he is tired
of life.
driven from power by the people at the
baUot-boxJ
The principal banking-house in Pairis
have recently added to their establish
ments sitting-rooms for ladies.
years are far more apt to live than un
married men, the ratio of deaths being
in their favor, as four to ten and a half
in every thousand persons. Here is
powerful argument for early marriages if
the law of self-preservation becomes
their advocate; but a little further devel
opment of the records shows that at the
same age widowers die at the rate of twen
ty-two in evecy thousand, being twice as
perishable as their unmarried brethren.
When the age advances to between
thirty and thirty-five years the case is
reversed. Married men die at the rate of
eleven and single men only five in every
thousand, the latter nearly recovering
the ground lost in the previous semi-
decadel Unfortunate widowers, howev
er, are still at a disadvantage, dying at
the rate of nineteen in every thousand.
These figures open a wide fie!d for draw
ing inferences and moral lessons. Evi
dently dangers hedge about the life of
man, but the chief and most apparent
warning conveyed by the facts of the case
is the necessity of a man’s carefully pre
serving the life of a wife, if he has one,
since her loss increases by about fourfold
the imminence of an end to his own
career.
A lad crawled into a sugar hogs
head,' and his first exclamation was, “Ob,
fer a thousand tongues!”
Walt Whitman is a bachelor, but Jives
in a very simple way. He has been a
clerk in the departments at Washington
several years, but Secretary Harlan re
moved him on the ground that a man
who wrote “Leaves of Grass,” must be
immoral. On which profound principle
of reasoning Swinburne shonld be sent
to prison, and Bobert Browning to a
mad house.
Abuses.
The State of New York, it seems, has
some law which authorizes its public of
ficers to send letters and other mail mat
ter through the post office free of post
age; that is, the post master at Albany is
authorized by law to place postage
stamps upon all matter sent out by the
Legislature, Governor, etc—the same be
ing paid for out of the State Treasury.
This privilege has been most shamefully
abused by the present Badical Legisla
ture. Becentlv there has been an inves
tigation. The following extract from the
result will explain the matter sufficiently:
Tennis G. Ylscher, clerk of the Post-Office, testified
to stamping documents and bnndleB from the Legis
lature, and hadthna used nearly $7,000 -worth of
stamps in 1871, under instructions from Deputy
Postmaster McMurdy; he stamped everything pur
porting to come from the Capitol or members; he
had stamped packages coming irom the Delevan
House; on one occasion he had stamped a large
number of The Sunday Morning Press, brought in a
wagon from the Capitol; also, Evening Journal alma
nacs by the wagon-load; he had also stamped pack
ages of dirty linen and dirty stockings; he thought
dirty clothes went to Staten Island, Richmnd
oomiiy.
A number of passengers on a Northern
railroad who, in deference to the feelings
of the single lady present, refrained from
indulging their smoking propensities,
felt that their courtesies were unappre
ciated. when the gentle dame drew a well-
worn meerschaum from her pocket, and
with nimble fingers; proceeded to fill it
with the strongest Virginia leaf.
A Cincinnati woman lately bailed her
husband out of the station house—where
too much indulgence in the flowing bowl
had sent him—with the proceeds of her
hair, which was unusually long and beau
tiful. He, on his part, grieved so much
at his faithful wife’s surrendering her
chief beauty for his sake, that he pro
cured a divorce, and is expected to marry
another woman at an early day.
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A youth who applied for a marriage
license in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the
other day, was reminded by the clerk of
two previous applications, and said:—
“Yes, but tbe other two girls didn’t know
I wanted to get married until I showed
them the document—this one does.” He
got the paper.
Bishop Pierce will dedicate a Metho
dist Church in Camilla on the 3d prox
imo.
GEORGIA MATTERS.
"Warrenton—floral fair—22d May.
Macon soda fountains have commenced
business. Whe-e-e-w!
Columbus has been refreshed with 48
hours of steady rain.
About forty Georgians and Alabamians-
left Borne on Monday for Texas.
The Atlanta Presbytery will assemble:
in Forsyth on the 11th of April.
Macon is eating asparagus and snuffing,
the fragrance of the pea-bloom.
Monroe county has lost one of its
oldest settlers—Traff Jordan, colored,
aged 80. ^
Forsyth ladies are arranging for a
musical entertainment, to take place on
the 29th.
Forsyth is ratiocinating over a rodent
that is “white as the driven snow,” as
the Advertiser says.
To its varied* ungrammaticisms the
Griffin Middle Georgian now adds equally
bad orthography. It spells it lilly.
The people of Jones county meet in.
Clinton next Tuesday to build the Ma
con, Knoxville and Cincinnati Bailroad.
Several Macon youths left the cover of
their roof-trees a lew days ago, for Teps
on foot. A few day’s march satisfied
them and all have returned very mnflji
out of spirits and cash.
Augusta thieves enter sleeping rooms
at night and take money from pants
pockets and never once awaken the
sleepers.
A white Augusta woman named Mary
Bobinson, benzined on Monday, and
jumped into the canal to drown herself.
An inhuman policeman rescued her, and
laid her up to dry in the calaboose,
Some 75 laborers have commenced
tearing down the walls of the Palace
Mills in Columbus, preparatory to r e '
building. Col. Mott hardly pave
bricks time to get cold.
tbe
— The Chattanooga Herald says:
ties direct from Atlanta state that The
Sun is on its last legs.” Parties direct
from Chattanooga state that the Herald
has never been on any legs at all.—At
lanta Sun. .
"We learn that it is still tbe wish of tbe
Atlanta public that The SuNsliould no
stop to snarl and snap, butgo on with i
dying,—Chattanooga Herald.
It is the wish of the Chattanooga pec
pie that the Herald should continue to
“snarl and snap,” as that is the way
Bard’s papers usually do their dying-