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THE TWO PICTURES.
Everything Lovelj. '
An old farm-house with meadows wide,
And sweet with clover on each side;
A bright-eyed boyjwho looks Horn oat
tte door, with woodbine wreathed shoot,
.And wishes his one thought ail day:
“ Ohl If I could hut fly . way
From this dull spot, t'ua world to see,
How happy, happy, happy,
Haw happy I ahonld be.”
K» One to Love He.
Amid the eity’a constant din,
A man who around the world has been,
Who, ’mid the tumult and the throng,
la thinking, thinking all day long:
“ Oh I could I only trace once more
The field-pa:h to the farm-house doer,
The old green meadow oonld I ace,
How happy, happy, happy,
How happy should 1 be.”
DER HADBY DIMES OF OLT.
I am dinking, sadly dinting, of der habby dimes vent
by,
Ven togedder ve did vander, my darling you a d I;
Of der many ieedle bleasures ve did saw ven ve vas
Of der nice*dings you did.doid me and dershwaad songs
yon did anng. “
Yea, indeed, dem dimes vas ahblendid—dem dimes
dot’a bassed avuy—
TT.J j L 1 -.. - J . ,.
Und dough dot’s since a long dims bow, dot scorns like
yesterday j
Und dough ve’m seberaded, nnd dere’e eilfer mongsd
dergolt, V ■ 71
My lofe vas shdrong like efer—yea, der same like *d vaa
of olt.
yon und me
Yed of I leefa done&nd years I never can’d forged
How^bewdiffel und bure you vaa, bow goot you vaa und
Und kiiui nnd efetyding like dot, mit eyes so sofd and
Tin, my darling, dot vaa long go, und ve am oit und
Hnd ma^r friends dot knowd us den, dem all hafe
Baased avay und iafd us lor dot brighd und hsbby shore,
Vera some day ve viU jine dem to been barded nefer-
more.
_ OOFTY GOOFT.
Kt&umnovxus, Ocdempcr, IB and75.
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA.
Action of the Trustees in Regard to the
Students’ Board.
Editor Constitutionalist : The Trus
tees of the University of Georgia greatly dis
tinguished themselves in their action regula
ting the rate of board to be paid by the stu
dents. They have demonstrated that, though
men of broad views and capable of grappling
with knotty questions of statecraft and phi
losophy, they do not “ despisa the day of
small things.” Being painfully impressed
with the belief that parents and guardians
are incompetent to attend to their own busi
ness, and incapable of determining the
amount and character of the expenditures
a^l^' Tff? 'FrUS^me “fefa h sVy"
ometo their rescue, and gratuitously offered
the patrons of the University the benefit of
their superior wisdom in such matters. In
pursuance of this philanthropic and highly
praiseworthy object, they have adopted "a
resolution requiring each student, under pen
alty of expulsion, to pledge himself not to
pay over tiventy dollars per month for board
and lodging. This liberal allowance, I be
lieve, includes the item of fuel and lights.
It will be seen that though solicitous that the
parents’ money shall not be squandered m
the reckless gratification of luxurious tastes,
the stipend is sufficiently large to satisfy any
young man of modernte appetite and of rea
sonable demands in the line of creature com
forts. Birds on toast two or three times a
day and champagne for dinner, are by no
means essential to the digestim of the clas
sical student; nor are beds of eider down
at all necessary to his repose after a wrestle
with Homer or Euclid. Many a youth has
lighted his pathway to learning and fame
by the flickering rays of a tallow dip or
{ >ino knot. Why, then, indulge in the use-
ess extravagance of gas or kerosine?
I am credibly informed that the Trustees
have waived their right to limit the young
men to specific prices for dyeing their mous
taches, blacking their hoots, purchasing
“goobers,” etc. For their generosity in
granting them unrestrained iherty in these
expenditures, the students are no doubt
duly grateful.
But, Mr. Editor, retrenchment is the or
der of the day, and if parents in their blind
folly permit their sons at college to enjoy
some of the comforts they were accustomed
to at home, it is well tliat the authorities of
our University should take the matter in
hand and sternly insist on reform I
One of the famous ‘‘Blue Laws” of Con
necticut prohibited a man from indulging
in the luxury of kissing his wife on Sun
day. This is universally admitted to have
been a most wise and salutary statute.
Now, if the Puritan legislators could with
propriety assume control of the domestic
conscience, why should not the Trustees of
the University require the students to live
on “bacon and greens” and sleep on shuck
matrasses if they will -4? True, it is not
ascertained that the University Solons all
conQno.themselves to tlie necessaries of lite,
but ihe youth ot the land should be taught
self-denial, and no reasonable parent will
object to the method by-which the lesson
is inculcated by the learned Board of
Trustees. Old Franklin
There is a law of our State University
J riiich says no student attending the College
hall pay more than twenty dollars a month
for beard and lodging. Such a law is cer
tainly an interference with private rights
which should not bo submitted to. It is a
mistaken policy that will work injury to
our grand old State institution. As a friend
of the University, we regret to know that
such oppressive regulations are allowed to
prevail.—Rome Courier. ■'
Don’t Want i3 HKivxiL-Sun-
day afternoon a little girl of some twelve
summers and about t‘<e same number of
winters, was sitting before the fire watch
ing the red hot coals with a sort Of medita
tive expression on her face. Maybe it was
the hot fire which she was contemplating,
that canting her to think of that place, the
antipodal of heaven, made her afterward to
think of th* Eternal Paradis* Anyhow,
turning Hf hsr oompauion, she said : ,
“ Mamie, I declare I sometimes feel, as if
I couldn’t bear to go, to haavem’*
“Why, laf what maxes you feel that
;u v; i \ .v & < A* V
. yon know that m heaven every-
»dy ring* and Mr. M»i -(her music teach-
I’ve aot such a poor
l sen*
THE GREAT REVIVALISTS. the practical educatioh of women.
■OODT AND SANKEY.
Moody* Preaching and" Sankej’s Singing—
Their Farewell to Brooklyn.
[Extract* from the New York Sun.j
DEVELOPMENT OF THE REVELATIONS.
Mr. Moody has an idea, he ays, that af
ter Christ-had been in Heaven thirty or forty
years, and Paul had written his epistle, that
God caught John on the Isle af Patmos and
told him to write at his dictation. After
John was about ceasing his labor, God
thought that he might finish by stating “that
whoever was baptiad might enter the king
dom of heaven. “But,” said John, “there
will be milliousof souls that can’t be baptis
ed.” “Well,” said God, “write it that
whoever will worship me shall be saved. - ”
“Many souls will not get a chance to wqra
you," said John. “THen Write; ‘Whosoever
will, let him take the water freely,’” said
God, and such were his instructions. The
entire doctrine of election for sinners Mr.
Moody said was contained in that last state
ment, and be has no sympathy with persons
who use the excuse of not being elected..
It is a mystery to him why people cannot
act with as much reason in spiritual as tem
poral matters, and he closed his talk on
election with a burst of enthusiasm, inviting
the audience to partake of the water of life,
somewhat as Hawthorne’s Town Pump in
vited the rustic population to drink: “Here
’tis free;” “walk up and drink ;” “nothing
to pay;” “twill d» you good;” “here, all of
you, drink;” “take it to night;” “there’s
plenty for every one.”
WEDDING INVITATIONS.
Towards the close of the service he began
to warm up to his work, and leaning out over
the railing of the pulpit box, with his hand
waving nervously to and fro in the air,shout
ed: - - . . - --
“If I broke up all the excuses in the world
Satan would invent new ones, They are all
refuges of lies. Let Death shake his finger
in your faces to-night, and where would
your excuses be ? Your seul won’t get fat
on excuses, and the kingdom will be farther
away the more of them you invent. Make
this thing a personal matter. Suppose now,”
continued the speaker, taking a pencil and
paper from his pocket, “this document was
drawn up for you to sign. I will read it:
“While in the Rink, November 16, 1875,
I received an invitation from the servants of
tl.e Master to be present at the marriage sup
per of his Sou in Heaven. I beg to be ex
cused. (Signed) M., or N.
“Now how many of you would sign this?
Not a solitary one ofyou. You dare not.
Now suppose this letter should he banded
around for your signatures:
“While iu the Rink, November 16, 1875,
I received a pressing invitation from the
servants of the Master to be present at the
wedding supper of his Son. By the grace of
God I will be there-
(Signed) . M., or N.
“You would all sign it, I think. And
yet^joq.willgq opkof here to-night laughing
•» wnal voii have heard. Inraj
to God you may accept tne invitation mn-
cerely to night.”
NONE TOO WICKED.
The next excuse which Mr. Moody has
met with iu salvation employment is the cry
°f “I’m too bad.” He considered that the
flimsiest excuse ever invented bj any person
of sense, and he mildly inquired of those
presenting that pretext how they were going
to become better. There was no reply, and
while the audience was waiting to be told, a
gray-headed enthusiast on the front row au
dibly echoed Mr. Moody’s question.
“I’ll tell you, my friends, said Mr. Moodr,
slinking his head and forefinger simultaneous
ly with the pronunciation of each word,
“you can’t get rid of sin without God. Be
cause you are bad he invites you to come.
All you’ve got to do is to prove yourself a
sinner to him and he wiJJ receive vou, if
you will let him. You don’t want to* dress
up in new robes before confessing. Go just
as you are, imaged in sin. There was once
an artist who wished to paint a picture of the
return of the prodigal son, and he tried to
nbtnin some model for the character of the
prodigal. In walking through the street he
met a beggar, the very image of his imagina
ry prodigal, and he entered into conversation
with and engaged him to call at the artist’s
studio on the following week. On the day
appointed the beggar came to the studio.
As he entered the artist bowed and inquired
the object of his visit. ‘Why, you met me
on the street one day lost week a id asked
me to call at your studio,’said the man. ’You
are mistaken,’said the artist. ‘I never saw
yon before in my life. I made an appoint
ment with a beggar to meet me here to-day.’
*1 am he,’ replied the man ; ‘and as I was
coming to such a fine place, I thought Fd fix
up a little.’ Of course the artist could not
ora him.” . *
Mr. Moody then came forward and stated
that to him the present was a very solemn
meeting, for perhaps they would never meet
again in this world, and he asked all Chris
tians to ptay that the Lord would help him
to make the way plain. He read from
the eleventh chapter of the Acts, and then
proceeded to state that he did not intend to
preach a sermon so much as to point out the
way to be raved. In the first place they
would have to heaved ail at once. Every
conversion recorded in the Scriptures was
instantaneous. There was none other known.
When Noah entered the ark he stepped in
in a moment and ont in a moment. Men,
in order to be saved, must step out of them
selves and into Christ. He cited several
illustrations to show that the gift of God came
at once and that those possessing it would be
raved. The moment a man got the gift of
God he was as sure of heaven as if be were
walking over the crystal pavement of para
dise.
Letter from Den Cartes to King Alfonso.
“The attitude of President Grant is a
prelude to war between Spain and the Uni
ted States if yon do not recognize the inde
pendence of Cuba. The revolution which
yon represent is responsible for this parri
cidal rebellion. Haa X reigned, it would
not have oocnrred, at least, not gained
strength. Now, however, the integrity of
the country, is at stake, and al) her children
are brand to defend it. Should war break
ont, I offer yon a trace as long as the con
test 1m s, . ont maintain my nghta to the
crown, as I retain the conviction that I shall
one day wear it. I cannot send-my loyal
volunteers to Cuba, but I will defend these
and the Cantabrian coast, and
send ont privateers, manned by the in
domitable popn’ation of that coast, which
wifi pursue the merchant ships of out ene
mies, and perhaps chase them into their
own harbors. If you accept the trace, let
ns appoint representatives to settle the con
ditions. If yon refuse, the world will bo
The NoblUty of Labor—Pejndlce Against
• Yforasn-Work. 9
[Extract* from aloWw-toAthnM OuH*lHBm, by g.
Flintirh )
This lady, after an indorsement of the
“ Industrial School” system of Mrs. Maria
J- Westmoreland, remarks:
The .most hard-working women I know,
arc the wealthy women of Europe—women
of noble birth, whose lathers and husbands
count their money by thousands a week.
The superintendents of the various de
partments of the institute of which I have
spoken are ladies who give their services
gratuitously.
Se.eral hospitals in the city of Dublin
have nurses ana superintendents who serve
night and day without a penny of remune
ration—women of tie* iiimilies and good
fortunes, who havg V gone ► through a hard
course of training for the purpose.
But why should I seek any further than
our own southern Land tor instances?
I have seen, during and aft r r the war,
women who had been surrounded by all
the luxury of Southern wealth—cooking,
washing—aye, scouring, with the patien.e,
cheerfulness and heroism—. I can use
no stronger simile—of “true born ladies.”
But, oil, what a difference there would
have been f these ladies had had the prac
tical education which would have enabled
them to have done some hing more remu
nerative as well.
We then not only ask for working wo
men leave to toil and fair remuneration for
their labor, but we ask the courtesy and
respect which is their due.
There is a terrible prejudice in the South
against women’s work. When a woman
steps out of the usual groove, she loses cast.
The public never stop to ask her reasons—
it may be to support helpless parents, chil
dren, herself in decency, or to further some
noble object—she isfrowned upon, ridiculed,
snubbed and neglected; very often foully
scandalized. And what is more to the
point, she can get nothing to do, or if she
does, is miserably paid, often for work for
which men are paid double the sum before
her eyes.
A lady once said to me, “ I will r.ot teach
my daughters to work, so that their hus
bands may be compelled to work for them.”
The said daughters pass their time in utter
idleness, except when engaged in using
their sewing machines, making the flounces
and furbelows which render them targets
for the shafts of the brainless writers on
“ tied-backs” and “ striped stockings.”
Such women are taught to angle for rich
husbands, to sell themselves in met to that
which is nothing le s than legal prostitution.
Is it strange we often hear of miserable
marriages; that marriage has become, in
many cases, a mere matter of attorneyship;
that our court- are scandalized by separation
suits; our legal code disgraced by its di
vorce laws? That we hear of men who
look upon women as a burden, unless she
brings them. money, and that when the
money is gone, she is made to fed herself a
harden? Grammarians teu us new e*
pressions arise in a language from their ne
cessity—has it become a necessity to say
when you hear of your friend’s marriage
not “ who is she ?” but “ how much ?”
I believ 2 these to be exceptional cases.
Our gentlemen, in “the chivalry” of their
hearts, would willingly bear all*the weary
burden and thus shelter their wires—but is
this just ? It is certainly not always possi
ble, and in that case, would it not be well
for her not only to soothe nnd encourage
but to he able to practically aid him and
share his burden ?
A girl need not be afraid to marry the
man she loves, however poor, when she
knows she can help in their mutual support.
A woman need _ not only marry for a home
—a mean motive surely —when she feels
herself to he fully capable of self-support.
Women of Georgia, yon have shown
yourselves able to bear misfortune; then
also show that you can overcome prejudice,
and recognize the true nobility of labor.
Let us be true to each other, and by our
sympathy and support aid every woman
who tries to use the talent God has given
her in whatsov. r mode she may select or
necessity force her. Let us always trust
she has some good motive, and respecting
the work in the woman, aid the woman in
the work.
Revival at Doctor Harrison’s Church, Atlanta,
[Remark* of Judge James Jackson, Correspondent
Constitutionalist.]
One who hears the Judge speak in
church, and who did not know him, would
write him down as a first-class camp meeting
preacher, and the verdict would not miss
the mark any great distance. There is a
clearness of thought and a pathos of voice
in his church talks that go right to the
heart of the hearer, and convince him the
unction from above is resting upon the
mind and heart of the speaker. The greater
part of the Judge’s address was in reference
to the religious experience of Gen. Howell
Cobb. The General’s father was a man of
not d piety, as were all hi* children, except
Howell The lamented T. R. R. Cobb was
no leas noted for his eminent piety than for
his high legal attainments.
In his last sickness, and just before his
death, the General’s father called all the
family around his bed, and said to each:
“Meet me in heaven.”
These words,” said General Cobb to
Judge Jackson, soon after the war dosed,
“ have followed me through all the chang
ing scenes of my life, but I want to confess
to you what I’ve never acknowledged be
fore to any one—not even to the wife
of my bosom. I would like to believe
and live as did my Cither, and I would
like to die as he died, but I cannot compre
hend or believe that the Great God ofthe
Universe, the Master of Heaven, tho Sun,
Moon and Stare, could have become a lit
tle child, a boy and a man.” After some
farther conversation, they separated for the
night.
The next day. Judge Jackson met the-
Hon. W. Hope Hull, now of your city, and
told him of Genera! Cobb’s views, and
asked him if he oonld suggest any book
which would likely afford ooDelusive proof
of Christ's divinity. Mr. HaB sdllMinnr
the very book, and he named the History
of Christ.
Tins book was placed in Gen. Cobb’s
hands, and by him carefully read; so soon
as he had finished its study, yes, he studied
it, he went to his office, (Judge Jackson
was then a law partner of the General’s)
and said to Judge Jackson, “I do believe
that Christ is God, the Saviour of sinners,
and my Saviour, and if there is any church
that mil receive a man so unworthy as l
am, I wifi join it at once. Soon after this
• “'ffv if ill Ik 'm —* :
conversation, he made appl cation and
received into the Baptist Church, in Maood,
by Rev. K. W. Warren, now pester of the
First Baptist Church of Atlantic
REMINISCENCES OF A CLOWN.
A TALK WITH GEO. L. FOX.
The OM Clows’* Recollection of His Lon*
Stage Career.
His voice was strong, and whhn he arose
to open the door for his little daughter his
step wasfirm.
“ Do you think the bismuth you use in
painting your face detrimental?”
“ No, sir”—fae pronounced it “ No shar,”
in that fanny stage way of his. “My phy
sician rays it is perfectly harmless. You
know it’s ppt on oyer the chalk to keep it
from cracking and peeling off, and don’t
touch the skin. All clowns use it, and uoce
of them are the worse for it, that I know
. “You have been on the stage a good
many years, Mr. Fox?”
“ I wfls almost boffi on the stage. My
mother was an assistant in the Tremont
Theatre, and in 1830, when I was five years
old, I made my first appearance as one of
the children in a benefit of Charles Kean.
What was the play ? Oh, * The Chil ren of
the Alps.’ Not lung after that I played the
Duke of York in ‘ Richard III.,’ when Mr.
Booth, the elder, played Richard. And then
I played Metamora’s child for Forrest. Those
are the actors I started with,”
The old man’s eyes lighted up with the
recollection of his earlier days, and his mem
ory seemed perfect in regard to the details
and iucidents of his professional career.
“ I played with Mr. and Mrs. Barrymore
and they taught me to dance. That’s what
makes me so graceful,” said he, laughing.
“ You’ve seen me on the stage, havo’t you ?
Well, then you know how graceful I am.
Let me see, I think I came to New York iu
1850, aud appeared in the ‘ Demon of the
Desert.’ 1 also appeared in ‘ Valentine and
Orson’—Orson was the wild man, you know.
You’ve read the story ? Oh, no, there was
nothing funny about it—regular melodrama.
It was in 1861, after I had returned from
the war. that I took the old Bowery Theatre.
You didn’t know I was iu .the war? Well,
I was. I enlisted at the first call for three
months’ volunteers, and was a lieutenant in
the Eighth Regiment of this city. We were
in the first battle of Bull Ruu. When I
was in the Bowery I played in the * Spitfire,’
—a very funny piece.”
Mr. Fox gave a running synopsis of the
piece, illustrating his own part with charac-.
teristic gestures and facial expression.
“ Did you ever see me in the burlesques ?”
he asked, evidently glad to find a listener ea«
ger to have him tell of his old triumphs.
“ They took very well, aud people said they
were good. I remember, Forrest came to see
me burlesque his Richelieu. Well, he sat all
through, and at the clora he came to me and
said—yon know what a voice Forrest had—
he said in his big voice: ‘ By gracious,
George, that was good—very good 1’ Edwin
Booth came to see my Hamlet—the bur
lesque, you understand, lie brought his
wife, and when I came on reading a newspa
per, Mrs. Booth tamed to her husband,
‘Are vou L«*. or is that you on Hie
stage? Why, I was made up just like him.
There was some talk of my playing Hamlet
here this fall, when Booth was at the Fifth
Avenue- If Rossi had come, then probably
Fd have brought out the burlesque. Then
there’d be three great Hamlets, you see—
Booth at the Fifth Avenue, Rossi at the
Lyceum, and Fox at Booth’s; but as Rossi
didn’t come, it would look too much like
making fun of Booth to put on the burlesque,
and so they kept me at ‘ Humpty Dumptv.’
Ijbrought out ‘ Humpty Dumyty’ in the seas
son of 1867-8, at the Olympic Theatre,
and it’s drawing yet. I see they are adver
tising * Led Astray’ as in the second year.
Well,‘Humpty Dmnpty’is in the seventh
year.”
Mr. Fox evidently lives in his profession,
wished to talk of nothing else, and seemed
confident that time would restore him his
old powers.—N. Y. Sun.
Letter from an Ex-Confederate Officer In the
' Egyptian Army.
We have be<:n favored by a distinguished
gentleman of this city with the following ex
tracts from a letter received by him from a
distinguished ex-Gonfederate officer in the
Egyptian army. They Will be found highly
interesting: -J - i>(
Cairo (Egypt), Sept. 27, 1875.
My Dear M.—The Citadel is one of the
grandest buildings I have ever seen. It is a
mixture of mosque, palace, quarters, and
fortification, and will hold about 10,000
men. >j> * 1 '
The Prime Minister of War, one of the
Khedivefa sons, has his office in it—as have
the heads of the various bureaus.
Our offices are magnificent in arched ceil
ings, frescoes and divans, and Brussels car
pets, but especially in their large size and
quaint beauty. You ask me about the troops.
There is a large encampment not far off, Dnt
I have seen only one Or 1 two
regiments of infantry
about the city. They are about twen
ty-five hundred strong, Of four battalions
each, and active, hardy, soldterly-Iooktng fel
lows, who march as if they could knock off
their thirty miles a day on bread and beans
and not feel it. If well led and handled
they would be tough customers to encounter.
Lioring and Reynolds were here last week.
Lorlngtoid me he has a battery of Krupp
S ms, six pieces, that nothing in America of
urope could touch. It is horsed with the
Norman stallions, all grays, fat and sleek;
and stalled in an old marble palace. It
would do your heart good to see some of the
Arabian horses here. They are, you know,
all entire, and have the appearance and long,
swin^agwrik ef our thoroughbreds, Lexing-
They are too small for me, hut are the very
perfection for a light-weight. I suppose on
account of there being few sidewalks, none
at all in the Arab quarters, and the conse
quent bad condition of the street* every lady
here rides chiefly on donkeys, but ascending
with means, to the carriage.
The streets are always dusty and disagree
able under foot and, therefore, you never see
a lady walking about, shopping or visiting,
as they do with us. Ladies keep themselves
at home all day, and in the evening both
sexes who can afford it
DRIVE OUT FOB AN HOUR
oo one or the other of the celebrated roads.
The Viceroy is a wise, progressive ruler, and
is gradually beautifying bis capital by cut
ting through and laying out broad, new
streets. Of course there is a large popula
tion of Italians, French and Greeks here,
and, just where I am to five, it looks like a
quarter of Paris.
I suppose this will fi d you all assembled
again in your comfortable home after yonr
summer wanderings.
America look* venr far off; but is dear to
us over bar* if it is Yankee land.—Rich
mond Whig ‘ \ V. .-
A GREAT PROJECT. f- J
Proposed Railroad-Aeross-tbe Continent of
K-rsov.AlHea.vi i \ o
^to^RC^Hon. to J. J. Robert*, President, Libena.f
Sir: For some ten years I have had un
der consideration the practicability an AJ*
rican Continental Railroad, to begin at Li
beria and, traversing the entire continent on
about the shine parallel, to terminate near
the mouth ot the Red Sea, lengt h about 4,000
miles;, I have read in the Congressional
Library about a score of African travels,
many of them descriptive of the country be
tween the Sahara 1 Desert and the equator;
and, contrary to the general opinion, the
country is described as good, well watered,
and in many parts inhabited by u'dense pop
ulation, quite for advanced in agriculture;
manufactures and general'iivflizatioa, large
portions being as well cultivated as the best
parts of Europe or America.' Frbm this:
travels I learned that, taking a strip of coun
try four or six hundred miles wide, or frotfe
tw> to three hundred miles on each side of a
line of railroad on the route named, a dis
tance not too far forcommunication by teams
or pack animals, and extending across the
continent, the population on such vast terri
tory could not be less than from 20,000,000
to 30,000,000 of people. This is a popula
tion greater than in the Uuited States on the
same area now traversed by several great
lines of railways. Certainly such a country,
even in its present condition, would sustain
a single line, but when developed by emigra
tion and civilization from this country it
would pay largely. i
For the last three or four years I have
contemplated applying to Congress tor an
act incorporating a company to build the
road, and os the circumstances in favor of
its success have grown rapidly in that time,
I had determined to present such an act at
the next session. This determination has
been strengthened by the publication in tho
National Republican of this city of a letter
from Air. Robert Arthington, of Leeds,
England, a gentlemen known in Africa,
addressed to Mr. William Coppinger, Secre
tary of the American Colonization Society,
offering $2,500 to a fund for a preliminary
survey of a railroad to penetrate the interior
of the continent. That letter with-the favor
able editorial comments thereon is inclosed.
My contemplated project’ has also been
strengthened by the intelligent efforts of the
Khedive of Egypt, who is rapidly penetrat
ing the eastern part of the country through
which the road is to pass, and is building a
railrod up the Nile. A railroad has also
been commenced from Natal, in South Afri
ca, to the diamond and gold fields of the in
terior; so that the idea of Airican railroads
is not new, and iseven now being inaugurated
with prospects of success. —
WHATOTHER PEOPLE SAY.
4tl*t\U. \> >t t V V,.
CLIPPINGS FROM “ALL THE
'^Uairt't pt>t ! » cent to-day, ,f Is probably
one ofthe oldest lies on recoicL
A woman wha^weighs seven hundroftand
fifty pounds is winftnqg jo,Chicago.
The name “ domestio magazines” is given
tp.yrivq^ Vjftp^lqw; up their husbaipl&.
An Irish.doctor lately sent nis.hill to a
lady as follows: “ To curing your husband
till he died.”
'“Turiithat ar crank, Jake, and put on
more dohhht*;?’ is tho. way an Arkansas
pteraman request* the devil to ‘.‘color up.”
.; It. is said there are more lies told in tho
sentence, “ I am glad to see you,” than in
any other six words ip the English language.
HacnncnVe i il$e host hearted people in
the vmrid. VThfey never see a man making
his way hoink at night without asking him
to, ride.
Commissioner Janes thus condenses-wis-
dom: Purchase no ammonia; adopt green
soiling; make our own compounds; buy
tio “ complete manure.”
After a man finds that he has been wind
ing an eight day clock every night for fif
teen years, he has a perfect right to kick
the cat all over the house.
We havo long since forgiven the North
for licking us, but the North has never
quite forgiven us for being so infernally
hard to lick.— Vicksburg Monitor.
While Grant is trying to stir up another
war in order to he re-clected, let the people
remember that they are already paying
tliirty million dollars a year in pensions, j
“ What brought you to prison, my col
ored friend ?’* said a vi-iting clergyman to
a negro. “Two constables, sab.” “Yes;
but I mean had drinkmg anything to do
with it?” ‘.‘Ye8,8ah; deywasbof of ’em
drunk.”
Cotton Kills South.
The Scientific American gives four reasons
why capitalists should invest in cotton mills
at the South, to-wit: • • >
1. Labor is cheaper at the South than at
th6 North.
2. In consequence of a milder climate,
the necessary expense of living is less than
in New England, as is also that of heating
factory buildings, etc.
3. Coal is abundant in the Snath, and
cheap water privileges can be obtained in
every direction.
3. The purchase of the raw material di
rect from the producers saves the profits of
numerous middlemen and long transporta
tion.
_ Tho Southern factory, continues the Scien~
tific American, should buy cotton in the seed,
gin and then spin it without packing into
Bales. Some of the advantages of such a
system would be—
1. The yarn would he stronger. Baled
cotton cannot he prepared for carding with
out heating, and thus weakening the fibre
to a greater or less extent.'
2. There would be less waste. Frequent
ly much cotton is discolored and otherwise
injured by foreign substances that have
been packed with 'it. At the North and
in Europe it takes from 108 to 115 pounds nrer -
of cotton to make 100 pounds cf yarn ; and
although the waste is not so great at the
South, it is •evertheless considerable.
3. The cotton seed would be pressed at
the same establishment, and the oil and'oil
cake soldi
4. ThPinterest on gins and gin-liosnes
which now are idle the greater part of the
year, would be saved to planters.
5. T*- e raising of cotton on small farms
would be encouraged. The plantation sys
tem is not adapted to free labor, and it is
steadily breaking up, but until cotton can
be honestly sold in seed, few small farms
will be opened in the cotton section, for the
reason that a man cannot afford to buy and
operate a gin, if he only plants a few acres
of cotton. Better cotton and Inore per acre
will he nhtninerl nn small farms than On
Au old stulor, passing through a grave
yard, saw on one of the tombstones, “ I still
live.” It was too much for Jack, and shift
ing his quid, he ejaculated: “Well, I’ve
heard it said that there arc cases in which
a man may lie, but if I was dead, I’d own it.”
Railway Humor.—Scene, Coatbridge
Station. Late train. Two ladies at car
riage window (age an unknown quantity).
Ladies—“ Porter! Porter! Our lamp has
gone out.” Stately Guard (looking down
ou them)—“ Foolish virgins!”
One passing through Arkansas doesn’t
see half as many revolvers as ho would
have noticed two or three years ago. It
isn’t particularly because everybody is try
ing to he real good, but more because they
have found out that a good shot-gun is
more to be depended upon.
Casimer Sauer, an insane man, arrested
in Hoboken, on last Saturday, had in his
pocket a paper purporting to be his will,
bequeathing his body to the Emperor of
Germany; his soul to the President of tho
United States, his- dog to the Governor ot
lot
will be obtained on
large ones
The Synod of Georgia.
At the meeting ofthe Synod of Georgia,
at Cuthbert, there were in attendance sev-
enteon minwfora from tho Atlanta Proobj-
tery, eighte n from the Augusta Presby-
tery, eighteen from the Cherokee Presby
tery, sixteen from the Florida Presbytery,
thirteen from the Savannah Presbytery,
and eight from the Macon Presbytery—a
total of ninety. Rev. J. H. Martin, of Ats
lanta, is Moderator, and Rev. A. W. Clisby,
of Macon, a d James Stacy, of Newnan,
clerks Th next meeting will be held in
Aumista, on Wednesday befo. e the third
Sabbath in November, 1876. Revs. John
Jones and C. W. Lane were appointed a
committee to prepare a suitable resolution
relative to the life and services of Rev. J.
C. Stiles, D. D. . . •
A case from the Atlanta Presbytery,
where the Presbterian minister was regu
larly dismissed to unite with the Methodist
Church, wm discussed. After foil consid
eration, it was ruled that the proceedings
were irregular, and the Presbytery should
have simply given the petitioner a certificate
of good moral and religious standing, with
out endorsing his ecclesiastical status,
Another interesting case came np from
the Augusta Presbytery, being the election
of Elder J. A- Billnps as Moderator of that
body. Exceptions were taken to this no
tion of the Presbytery, and synod was
called upon to deride upon Sts legality.
After due consideration it was affirmed
that, although elders and ministers are alike
Presbyters, and entitled to equal rights and
privileges On the floor of any church judi
ciary, vet the book of discipline and long
usage have determined thiz the teaching
elder only is competent td preside over
their deliberations. This action of the
Angnsta Presbytery, therefore, was judged
to be irregular amt out of order.
The Oglethorpe College matter excited
protracted debate. The entire matter was
finally referred to the decision of the Board
New Jersey, and his clothes to his wife.
Moody preached in a Unitarian church
in Norfolk, Mass., several years ago, rflid
his theme was the atoning blood of Christ.
After the service, the pastor said to Lira :
“ Christ’s blood has no more to do with
us than the blood of a chicken,” and the
shocked evangelist has not since preached
in a Unitarian church.
Brief colloquy in Texas between a tourist
and a native r “ My friend, why is it every
body in this country thinks it necessary to
carry one or two revolvers?” “Well,
stranger,” said the Texan, “you moaght
travel around here a good long time'and
not want a weapon, but when you do want
a pistol in this country, yon want it like
During a dense fog, a Mississippi steam
boat took a landing. A traveler, anxious
to go ahead, came to the unperturbed man
ager of the wheel and asked why they
stopped. “Too much fog; can’t see the
river.” “ But you can see the stars over
head.” “ Yes,” replied the urbane pilot,
“but until the biler busts we’ain’t'com’
that way.” The passenger went to bed.
A little five-year old friend, who was al
ways allowed to choose the prettiest kitten
for his pet and playmate, before tho other
nursiings were drowned, was taken to his
mother’s sick room the other day to see
two tiny new twin babies. He looked re
flectively from one to the other for a tnin-
ute or two, then poking his chubby finger
into the. cheek of the plumpest baby, he
said, decidedly, “ save this one.”
“ A Mr. Smith went'into business «rith a
German. After being in busines*' 101 ’about
four years, they broke. A nd meeting
the German asked him b»w it was?
“You see, my friend Schmidt and I go
into one business. He had' five thousand
dollars and I had experience which I put
against his money. Vel, we go in one,
two, four years, and we close up, when I
had de five thousand dollars and my friend
Schmidt had do experience.” v > t
Barnum told the following in his lecture
in Chicago: In his museum, a gentleman
and his daughter stood gating at the
Siamese twins. The showman arid they
were the most remarkable phenomenon in
the known world, were horn in Siam, etc.
“ Brothers, I suppose ?” remarked the gen
tleman, interrogatively, still looking with
wonder at the tied-nps. “ Yes, sir, brothers;
ness of Providence in finking two natural
brothers together, instead of two strangers.
Untrue to Himself.—He is a second
hand clothier, and holds forth in South St.
Joseph. It was about the hour of ten year
terday morning when he reeled info an ad
joining establishment, fell into a chair,
weaved his hands into the tangled locks of
his grey hair, and rocking back and forth,
moaned ont:
“ Oh! dear, oh! dear,-1 ish ruined.”
“Vat is der matter, Jacob?” asked his
sympathizing brother in the trade; bending
over him. • .-.••• • »UT
“Yon remember dat cost vot I paid six
“ Just now 'a man from the country Coined
in’ and asks merbem much for dak 1 1 1 teHa
him dree dollar ] land woUld ydu believe
it, Mosea, he puts bis right hand .into hi*
pocket and. pays de full price without a
word—” Here he lowered his voice to the
lowest whisper—“ so lelp me gradMi,
Moses, I believe. he’d paid me,ft*e dollar,
just the 8ame.Vr, ..... , f ,.7p r .
"acob, how lyou vas swindle yoererif.”
at. vas Vot makes mo hate mfeeself
so much as never vas.” ; t
And the old man limped back into bis
owp establishment, and doubled all his
1W-
’ call.—SV. Joseph Gmette,
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