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Citation of Administration or Ooardlanahip ... 1400 Application lor niamlaaloo Administrator or Guardian 5 00 Application Car Learn to Soil Lands —— 4 00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors 5 00 halesof Land, Ac., per square 600 hates 01 MSS, ««•» per o UU Balsa Perishable Property, to days, per aq 1 60 Betray Notices. 10 days S 00 Bhsriffdalas.psraqnaro 2 50 Tax Coll actors Bales, per square— 6 00 Foreclosure Mortgage, per square, each time 100 Eiemptioo Notices (in adrance) 2 00 Kule Nlsl'i, per oquare. each time 100 Business and Professional Cards. COBB, ERWIN & COBB, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ATHENS, G4. Office in the Denprce Bnililing. IF. R. LITTLE, Attorney al Za?r, CARNESVILLE, GA. J. S. DORTCH, Attorney al Zaw, CARNESVILLE, QA. A. O. MeCURRY, ATTORjrm ** l j iv, HARTWELL, qKOBGIA. Wil l, give strict penonal attention to all business en- trustcdjo his care. Aug. 4—(0—ly. Aka M. Jackson. L. W. Thomas. JACKSON A THOMAS, Attorneys at Law. Athena, Georgia. O. A. I.OCUXSXX. John Millxiioi. L0CHRANE & MILLEDGE, Attorneys at Law. Atlanta, Georgia. Office No. S’, 1‘ryor street, opp. Kimball Honac. Jane S, 1878. 1 SI—«m. JOHN W. OWEN, Attorney at Law. TOCOOA CITY, OA. Will practice Id all tlia counties of the Weitern Cir cuit, Hart and Hadiaon of the Northern Circuit. Will give special attenion to all claims entrusted to his care. octSOwljr. 1 -J c W. ii l lAM.ro t/AV, Attorney at Law, Special attention paid to criminal practice. For refer ence apply to Ex. GoV. T. H. Watts and Hon. David ciopton, Montgomery Ala. Office over Barry’s Store, Feb. S- * Athens, Ga. JOHN T. OSBORN, Attorney at Law. ELBEBTON, GA. Willpnctioe in the counties of the Northern Circuit, Banka, Franklin and Haber*ham ot the Western Circuit j will give special attention to all claims entrust ed to his care. Jan. 10,1874—ly. FRANK HARRALSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CLEVELAND, GA. Will practice in the coontiaa of White, Union, Lum- i>km, Towna, and Fanning, usd the Supreme Co pkut, Towni. jmd Fanning, and the Supreme Court at Atlanta. WtU give apodal attention to all elaima en- d gated to hie care, An*. 111875—41—tf. E. SCHAEFER, COTTON BUYER, •Up IHfhaat Cash Price paid for Cotton. Agent for Win up’s Gina and Praaa. oetSOwti. * a will#hqo& v r u PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER, At Dr. King’* Drug Stars, Broad 8traet,' Athens, Ga. m * ,0 P® ri ® r manner and warranted to girt miiiwaon, *' * 1 ’ r *— • Jan. J—tf. MISS C. FOTTS, Fashionable Dressmaker (Ovhr Cnlvaraity Bank.) ' Broad Street, - - - Athens. Would raapmstfWly inform the Ladles and her fHonda fashionable styles. . -h her experianc I"h>g aathlhBtion. With her exnarianea in the basinets, she feels acre of IfriflR. U.m ld 1«* CO *<• May 14, lt7fr-18-tf. A. A. WINN, -1 •' ' —With— -v, - .■ / • GROOVER, STUBBS & CO., Cotton, factors, General Commission Merchants, Savannah, Ga. *Kin«, Ties, Rope and other (applies famished. rf°* «*»h advanosa mads on contigztmenta foi •ale or shipment to Liverpool or Northern girts. ^ livery and sale.stable Carriages, "ff rffr FRre. TERMS REASONABLE. 5 WHITEHEAD, Washington, Wilke, Co., Ga. MEDICAL N01ICE. ray (inner patrons, I Practice of Medicine Zt^itSSSS^tUSS^tStSi JaoaU, U75-M-iy. WM. KINO, M. D *LACK & GARDNER, eSS 1618 and Jobliew, I ff 4 »erTicoa to the eitixens of Athens I J^ EptioojanS. co '>!'tjy. Location, two door* east of — __ Msrafa u. nrt-iy. T. A. bale: a n *k mm rat*. 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, s ir Ukl l