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Ac., por aquart — — 4 00 IS • riff dales,per square 2M si Collector's Sales, per equere (Do oreclo.ore Mortiia«e. per square, each time 100 sc motion Notices (in adeaace) j 00 ale SO ' ' ' fmirar 1 SDl't, per square, each time 100 ■MPa i ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, M 1 Business and Professional Cards. COBB, ERWIN & COBB, attorneys at law, ATHENS, GA. Office in tlie Denpreo Building. IF B. LITTLE, Attorney at £aw, CARSESVILLE, GA. J. S. DORTCH, Attorney at JO aw, CABN ESV1LLE, GA. A. G. AleCVRRY, ,itton.re r jt e jit, 11ABTWELL, GEORGIA. riu, jive strict personal attention to all business en titled to tus care. _ Apq. 4—4U—ly. it M. Jackson. L. W. Thomas. JACKSON & THOMAS, Attorneys at Law. Athens, Georgia. A. LocaasM. John Mills doi. 1.0CBBANE d- MILLEDGE, Attorneys at Lawi Atlanta, Georgia. Office No. 2,s Pryor street, opp. Kimball Hoote. June S, 187S. SI—tm. JOHN IF. OWEN, Attorney at Law* TOCOOA CUT, OA. Will practice in all the eountiee of the Western Cir- sit, Hart and Madiaon of the Northern Circuit. Will hu »i*cial attcnlon to all claims entraatad to his care. [octSJsrly. P. G. THOMPSON, Attorney at Law, cisl attention paid to criminal practice. For refer- i apply to Ex. Gov. T. H. Watte and Hon. David ptou, Montgomery Ala. Office over Barry'a Store, Feb. 8—tC ffloptou. Athens, Ga. JOHN T. OSBORN, Attorney at Law. ELBERTON, GA. Cl practice in the counties of the Northern Circuit, he'd. Krankliu and Ilabenliam ot the Western ireuit; will give apecial attentiou to all claim, entrust- i to Lie cate. Jan, 10, 1874—ly. FRANK HARRALSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CLEVELAND, GA. til practice in the counties of White, Union, ■ Lum- Toms, and Fanning, and the Supreme Court at eta. Will give special attention to all claims en- und to hie caie. Aug. 111875—tl—tf. E. SCHAEFER, COTTOX BUYER, TOCOOA CITT, OA. I H'nlieat Cash Price pud for Cotton. Agent for Win - ”-i and Press. octgQwti. E. A. WILLIAMSON, PRACTICAL tatciimaker and jeweller, .King’s Drugstore, BroadBtreet, Athens,Ga. >rkdoQ«ina tnperior minntr and warranted to F« "Btuifaetion. J*n- S—tf. MISS C. POTTS, 1 ashionable Dressmaker l n ( ° W UnlTenl, 7 Rank.) \Broad Street, ... Athens. “A r **P*ctfhlly inform the Ladies and her Mends ,Bd Tictaity, that (he it now pre- 1 to do Dkm making in the Neatest and moat fashionable styles. k«r einenenct in tht basinets, aht feels sure of 1 wMtetwa. May 14, WS-M-tf. [General HI BN. »T EAST 0. OcaiXT. God of tonderett love and pity, Thou whoa® power alon® can aavs, Bend Thine ear to cror entreaty, Bead ca now the help ws crave; Bleaaed Jeans, _ Mighty Saviour, Thou an all the hope we have. Bound ua Seija are whits to harvest, 1 Waiting but the brtak of dawn, And the reapers pali nt lub-ir; Bid ths night, dear Lord, begun t; Let Thy Spirit, Now ucocf-nuiiig. Usher in a joyous morn. Sinful sonls arc longing for Tlicc, For Thy gentle, healing skill; Only Thy sweet, precious preaenco Aching voids like theirs oui All; Loving Master, Thon art able Every wave of grief to still. Bid ths homes that bless oar nation Now Thy gospel’s grace receive ; Have in Tuj most holy keeping All who on Tliy name believe; In Thy mercy, Lord, revive ns, That we better lire, may live. Thon Thine everlasting gloty . Dost to countless world* display; We i e being® of a moment, Fading as a leaf away: Great Jehovah, Strong Redeemer, Be our comforter and stay. TWINS. ; .... RELATIVE POWERS OP NATURE ASD NURTURE. May Thy free salvation know; Everywhere, All toes subduing, Lord, command Thy won to grow. Gxoeoxtowx, D. C., Nov. 8th. [From the New York Observer.] THE LAUGHING PHILOSOPHER. I know a funny little boy, The happiest ever born: llis (ace is like a beam of joy, Although his clothes are torn. 1 saw him tnmbln on his nose, And waited for a groan; Bat how he laughed ! Do yon suppose He attack his funny bone I There’s sunshine in each word he speaks; His laugh is something grand; Its ripples overran bis cheeks, Like waves on snowy sand. He langbs the moment he awekes, And till the day is done; The school-room for s joke lie takes, Ilia lessons are but lun. No matter how the day may go, You cannot make hi cry; He’s worth s dozen hoys 1 know, Who pont and mope and sigh. He’s plump and round—he once was slim; 1 have not told yon half; I soon expect to hear of him Exploding in a laugh! [From the Saturday Evening Gazette.] WRITTIER’N AUTOGRAPH. A young lady reqneated the poet Whittier for hie autograph, one way last week. He responded by return A. A. WINN, —With— 1R00VER, STUBBS & C0-, Cotton Kactors, —And— Commission Merchants, Savannah, Ga. May 80-tf. UVERY AND iALE STABLE ftmaget, Buggies and Horses for Hire. TERMS reasonable. ^WRTOHEAD’ Washington, Wilks, Co., Ga. LVth MEDICAL notice. ^^tolicitatioa of m»ny of my former patrons, practice of Medicine »? '‘^Ms sL W rn.?5 r •WWW attention to the dia- w Children, and the Chronic Diseases WM. KINO, M. D d- GARDNER, and General Jobbers, ’fi'' To oad!S'2* i, ' , «rvieaato the dtiaene of Athens ’"'repel rferiy. Location, two doom east of ^retrictt u?!’ opposite Mr. L J. Lumpkin’s wr budding solicited. March Sd. 1876—ly. T. A. SALE [wgntoJ»® glv.^1^ «»ar 81 frtoaWa Terms. Very Low For SlogePB. M. CrSce.^Claytoo, ft*** b tsician. s " Yie “ - him ho *"^.5*’ time." WHY. I did not love him. Long ago Instead of yea, I gave him no. I did not love him; bat to day 1 read his marriage notice. Pray, Why was I sad, when never yet Has my heart known the least regret Over that whispered no I And why, Keadiug the notice, did I sigh f No analyst can guess the cause— A woman’s reason laughs at laws. 6ure, I am glad to know tho wound I gave is healed, that he haa found Love’s blessedness and pence; and j et A woman never can forget The man who once has loved her; and To-day 1 soem to ace him stand, With every glance a route caress. Still pleading for the longed for yes. His early love for me is dead— Another lives in that love's stead ; And if he loves her well, aa men Should love their chosen one., why, then, He must be glad that long ago, Instead of yes, I gave him no. Perhaps that ia the reason why 1 read the notice with a sigh. Idiosyncrasies of Duplicated Humanity, Mr. Francis Galt on has in the November number of Eraser s very interesting article entitled the “ History of Twins, as a Cri terion of the Relative Powers of N tore and Nurture.’’ The materials on which the article were based were oblained by sendin j circulai s containing thirteen groups of questions to twins or persons intimately acquainted with twins. Mr. Gallon dttttin guishcs three classes, those strongly alike, moderately alike and extremely dissimilar, adding that when the twins are of different sexes they are never closely alike. In eighty, reported cases of similarity, thirty-five entering very tiilly into detail, there were « few where not a single point of difference cotihl .be s]>ecifi<'d. fa the re mainder, the hatband e*WI|WBW t ways identical, and the height, weight and strength, general'y very nearly so. The manner and address are usually very simi lar; the intonation when speaking, com monly the same, though it frequently hap pens that the twins sing in different keys Similarity is very rare in the handwriting. Mr. Galton cites many mistakes made by ne r relatives. Notwithstanding the tying of distinguishing ribbons to them, one is often fed, physicked or whipped by mis take for the other. In rne case, a doubt remains whether the children were not changed in their hath; in another, an ar tist engaged to paint the portraits of twins, had to lay aside his u ork, and when he re sumed it, could not say to which child the respective likenesses belonged. In many instances, tutors could not distin guish between their pupils. One twin sis ter would take two music lessons on the same day to give the other a holiday. Two twins were fond of playing tricks, and com plaints were frequently " made; but the boys would never own which was tlie guilty one, and the complainants were nevet certain which of the two he was. One head master used to say he would never flog the innocent for the guilty, and an other used to flog both. One twin brother visited another at col ege, and the porter refused to let him out, because he did not know which was entitled to depart. Other brothers constantly changed partners at balls without discovery. Children are usually quick in distinguishing between their parent and his or her twin; bqt Mr. Galton found two eases to the contrary. He knows four or five instances of doubt during an engagement of marriage. Thus: “A. married first, but beth twins met the lady together for the first time, and fell in love with her there and then. A. managed to see her home and gain her aff-ctions, though B. went sometimes emitting in his place, and neither the lady nor her ; arents could tell which was which.” One lady remarks that kissing her twin sister was like kissing a part of herself—as her hand— and not like kissing another person The author suggests an experiment—to try hour far dogs could distinguish .between twins by scent. Of strange mistakes lie- tween twins in middle life, two cases arc cited—one where an officer returned from India after four years’ absence was ad- ■ " condition of tiieir lives change of conditions. most variations? ft *—i mi O J-il-oiiivU mil i>»oio|. ,«*-«ji,ii' r. .to Vi ini*! . .’jHTBsifftn -i .w ah* ““ “ aft ,t..i cbb-jC!. U ulT M limit•!■*» J'GODV CHOSEN <PEQPt£P*d v»i«cr. .f41 (f.Ii rti.reE larity being.fiBJJldusto tion of many small innn many small intlaences, casq is it largely, much less wholly, to that cause. In' hot a single “ there a word about the growing ity being due to the action of the will of one or both of the twins wj triumphed over natural tendency Mr. Galton last exatniries where there was a great dissii first, to ascertain how far an nurture in childhood and youth t assimilate them. Ail these cases i lutely accordant. Their evidence is effect that nature prevails‘enormously nurture when the differences of.rjfttit what , is commonly^ tb be found ns of 'tfiq same eank of society and in the same country, for where in twins a strong dissimilarity, m taates and hab.te | ^ peculiar talents of the race, has been noted in early childhood, it has never been lessen d or removed by identity of association, influence or education. • C^ The S UM Canal—Mr. Disraeli. [From the Baltimore Guxitte.] Nothing more startling has happened in Europe of la! e than the radical change of policy avowed by the Briti h Government in regard to international, but more parties nlarly to continental, .affairs. The Glad* stone poliey of non-intervention has been abandoned by Mr. Disraeli. It wa9 a poli cy of humiliations. It sacrificed the honor and dignity <>f tlie nation on more than one occasion, and notably in permitting the dis memberment of Denmark, after protesting against it, and allowing Russia to repudi ate the Treaty of Paris in its most essen tial features—the prohibition of naval sta tions on the shores of the Black Sea, and of Russian war ships on its waters. All through the Italian, the Prnsso-Austrian and Franco-German wars England re mained passive, profiting commercially by the needs of the belligerents, hut isolating herself from continental poli ics. She saw Austria weakened ; the little Kingdom of Prussia expanded by t e absorption of all the pretty German principalities into an Empire; France, torn and rent, and stripped of two of her finest provinces; and all her sympathy was expended in of fering her good offices with tlie Conqueror, when his victim lay' prostrate at his feet, bleeding from innumerable wounds. She saw Bussia steadily pushing her legions in t’-e direction of India, taking possession of Khiva, Bokhara, and Khokand, and only halting before the frontier of Afghanistan, the one barrier now remaining between what is, for all practical purposes, Russian territory, and British India All these things she has seen, and has contented herself with writing diplomatic notes, and receiving diplomatic replies, and with fee ble protests that have bcecn answered courteously, hut treated as if they had nev er been made 8oifie cotMOit ttdtt dmUxmAemf. inhhijt ■BiHukpi mtm fcalj ftfh n—W aad published ia a Fnaeb papJt’MNMftlM the Jeff*.,, AUhoitabiltf Israelites hud such ^important place in. tnwhbliowmwi^ad i rfavt .rttluawiMf» - ,a—.-.nr. ( ' 8e?cr© oi the EpiieopelUiis. r. .x, , ' XT Im iM gotd-ane on the jSpiaooptf uijij S1- which, so far as the writer is aware, has ... j.. sever yet appeared in print, and therefore he contributes it for the benefit of the Drawer. Away out West in State, in the val ley of the Mississippi, at a time not very rem«U, when men were more intent on than in securing an zealous missionary of the persuasion afore- , 8hafc : the censud'of 1 'the Whole race fiHaihnrttelh fiMMti at ■ '> ; In France; *he»lilMr»«kHt»ttfl6 drehtte of the stdptd raid tbe Jdwi which pmiwda-qn some Countries, and where one would think there was a wide there are only forty-six thousand Jews. In all America, apparently a still more favorable country, there are only one hundred and twenty thousand Israelites. On the other hand, in wretched, unprosperous and down trodden Poland, the Jews are to be found in greatest number, one out of every seven ot the inhabitants being a Hebrew. One can understand that there should be few Jews in Spain, but it is surprising that they should be almost as rare in Belgium. In Sweden there are comparatively few Jews; but they abound in Hamburg, Austria and Rou- mania, in the projiortion of one to every twenty-four inhabitants. Iu Hamburg and Austria there is abundant employment for their talents, hut in Roumania there cannot be any great scope for their commercial and financial instincts. Ireland is always boast ed of as being the only couutry in the world in which the Jews were never persecuted— and, indeed, whether at home or abroad, the Irish always mauifest a certain respect for the Israelites—hut Ireland has hardly had the opportunity of persecuting the race, for even at the present day there are not three hundred Jews in the whole country. Nor way stands lowest after Ireland on the list, there only being twenty-five Jews in that country. An interesting addition to these statistics (if it were possible to secure it) would be the amount of wealth in the hands of the less than five millions of Jews that abide upon, if they do not inherit the earth. Consider ing the enormous wealth possessed by only a few well-known individuals of the race, such a return would doubtless show a high average per head. -OLD * fUE “ORTHODOX” PREACHER. : < W ,1W zealous missionary of the persuasion afore- PWfiiPf'jaaid fourfd himself in a community whose views were no less manifold and [Rory than was to bo expected from y person* Representing every phase of denom ——. Jjjjj.j Finding out the three or mnnicants belonging to his church. the'ttSsifonanr gave notice of an “Episeo- pal service 1 * frii 1 that evening in the school- hoiffyttndikaaimHy ■ia**ifrd everybody to attend. Of course to the large majority of the inhabitants this was something entirely novel—indeed, the passage of a circus through the village, or the actual halt of a i the following: 11 Our lives are albums, written through With good or 111, with fiilse or true; And as the blessed angels turn The pages of oar yean, the good \ govina, joined to tlie restiveness of the populations of Bosnia, Montenegro, and Servia, has brought the Turkish question dressed l.v his father: “I thought vou 1 ,n " re lo . tl, . u , 'r: ,nt ': ? ve , r fii ” ce ! he were in London ;” another where an a^ed Cn, ' K ' an "/V 1 been slowh’ dawnmg mother had nervonslv expected the return1"" l ' u ‘ " ,wh ™ ,,,d ,1,at ,h . e erf,,rt t0 -»? Ve o! her son from India, his ship being over- Tu, k "- V trom the “""oacliments of her due. and when he entm-d, said to him, The Whisky Ring. [From ths Southern Home, Charlotte, N. C-] The fact that nine-tenths of those con nected with the Revenue become rich, has long excited suspicion. The developments at St. Louis show that the most enormous frauds against the Government have been pr diced by bribing the loyal officials. It is as well known as any met can lie, t' at Arid now the' insufrecliSn fiFThe'HftfifiriftP nl^ky ^f«d Andy Johnson * ■ from impeachment. The recent exposure mints to the White House, to Grant’s mistaking him for the brother who lived with her: “ No, no; it’s a bad joke; you know how anxious I am.” As a curious feature, Mr Galton notes he apparent inter- neighbors was, at best, a costly business, and it was coupled with the ltvquently- reourring doubt as to whether, alter all, Turkey was worth saving. Baukrnpt now, with disaffection spreading even among I ® li her M‘.sVetn subjects, and chronic with the charaT r o^.rcss.on and Christian, the dSubt is gradually changing In seven of the thirty-five cam of close i ^ similarity, both twins suffered from some X P“" ® ‘ 1 ^*’ t “ rl ” E ''; special ailment or had some exceptional ye- ffii.HjHKtfJll J , P lon ^ y .’ irother, Orville; to his boot-black, General Balicock, to his most intimate and cherished friends The whole R.-vonne system is a sham and a shame.:] It g vijs a living to thousands of whisky smellers too lazy to ork, and that is - bout all. These loyalists ill get soldiers or detectives and go on a raid in the country, will nose up some racoon branch until they come across a pic ayune distillery. This they will heroically destroy, then come back to town and write off a flaming accoiuit_to Washington of ashamed of yourself, ani God grantt And bli pages' read i lot the ill with tears!' WONDERFUL MEMORIES with smile®, Test of the Corsican Law (Modest. [From Scribner’s Monthly.] Pliny says that Cyrus had a memory so prodigous that he could name every officer and soldier in his armies, and that Lucius Scipio new every Roman citizen by name when that city contained more than *200,- 000 capable of bear ng arms. Seneca speaks of a friend, Pontius Latro, who could re peat verbatim all the speeches lie had he rd declaimed by the Roman orators. It is stud that Joseph Scalliger committed to memory, both the Iliad and the Odyssy in twenty-one days. Sir William Hamilton tells us of a strong young Corsican of good family who had gone to Padua to study civil law, in which he soon dislinguis ed himself “ He was a frequent visitor at the house and gardens of Muretus, who, having heard that he possessed a remarkable art or fiumlty of memory, though incredulons in regard to reports, took occasion to request from him a sp cimcn of his power. lie at once agreed; and having adjourned wi h a considerable party of distinguished auditors into a saloon, Muretus began to dictate words—Larin, Greek, barbarous, significant and non-sigi iticant, disjointed and cou- nroted, until he wearied himself, the young man who wrote them down and the audi ence present. We were all, he says, mar velously tired. The Corsican alone was the oue of the whole company alert and fresh, and oontinually desired Muretus fur more words, who declared he would be more than satisfied if he could repeat the half of what ne had taken down, and at length he ceased. Tlie young man, with his gaze fixed upon the ground, stood silent for a brief season, and then, stud Mnretns, * Vidi facinns mirfficissimnm.’ Having b<> gun to speak, he absolutely repeated the whole words, in the same order in which they had been delivered, without the slight est neritation ; then commencing from the lost, he repeated them backward till he came to the first. Then, again, so that he spoke the first, the third, .he fifth, and so on; did this in any order that was asked, and all without the slightest error. Hav ing subsequently become familiarly ac quainted with bira. I have had other and frequent experience of his power. He as sured me (and he had nothing of the boaster in him), that he could rotate, in the manner I have mentioned, to the amount of 86,000 words. And, what is more won derful, they all so adhere to the mind that after ayeafa interval, ho oonld repeat them without trouble. I know from having tried he conld do so after considerable culiarity. Two sisters had the defect of not being able to come down stairs quickly, which was not born with them but came on at the age of twenty. Another pair of twins have a slight congenital flexure of one of the joints of the little finger; it was inherited from a grandmother, but neither parents, brothers nor sisters show the least trace of it In another ease, one was bom ruptured, and the other became so at six i*- > \ , , ’.j 2 defiance to all who sought to dislodge it twenty-three Jere aUackcd In W** condition.rfBn-lmy-Xid vio’usly Inevitable would hot be worth the cost of a war. *. The traditional policy of Russia ever since the days of Peter the great lias pointed to the occupation of Constantino ple as the permanent capital of the Musco vite Empire. . Tlie power that holds Constantinople commands the' Mediterranean Sea, and, once fortified on the Bosphorus, could bid and the. same tooth had to be extracted .in each case, r \ * s,(r,i j • There are curious and close correspond ences mentioned in the falling-off of the hair. Two cases are mentioned of death from the same disease; iu one, a brother died of Bright’s disease, and the survivor died of the same complaint seven months after .vards. In nine out of the thirty-five cases, it appears that both twins are apt to sicken at the same time. There are also cited the recorded instances of pathological resemblance in twin brothers afflicted with iisthma and rlienmalic opthalmia (Trous seau’s ** Clinique Medicale,” quote in Dar win’s “Variation under Domestication”), and in two insa’ e brothers (Dr. Moreau’s PsvchoJogie Morbide”). In the latter ase, both brothers considered themselves subject to persecution by tlie same enemies w o adopted the same means, and even when confined in separate asylums they would, at irregular intervals of time b: t usually on tlie same day, rouse themselves fi otn their prostration, make the same ooni- ■laiiit of detention and desire liberation dr. Galton sent the facts in this case to the ironiinent physic ans to the insane England, asking if they had ever witnessed anything similar, and received in reply three noteworthy instances, though none as ex; ct in their parallelism. Another cus riou French cose of ins nity iu twins Is described by Bauntt in the “ Annales Medico- Psvchologiques,” 4th series, vol. 1, 1863, P 31&i In eleven out of tliirty-five instances, similarity in the association of ideas is noted. They make Die same remarks on the same occasion, begin singing the same song at the same moment, and so on; or one will commence a sentence and the other finish it In one case, one twin, who happened t-> be at a town in Sootland, bought a set of champagne glasses which caugh hie at tention, as a surprise £<r his brother, while at the same time that brother, being in England, bought a similar set of precisely tlie same pattern as a surprise for him. In sixteen of thirty-five cases, the tastes and deposition* are de*eril>ed as closely similar; in the remaining nineteen, they were much alike, but subject to certain named differences, which were always those of intensity or energy. From all these facta, Ur. Gallo i deduces the conclusion that the raseaMa:ee be tween twins is not superficial, but extreme ly intimate. The twins were,.in the cascf summarized, reared exactly alike up to their I early manhood and womanhood; then the to arm her Christian sublets, impoverished and harrass'-d both within and without— the contingency of a fresh war and another “ rectification of frontiers” has to be stead ily kept in view. It is evident frqin the cable reports that England is taking-time by the forelock and nfeparing for the change. Two things she las to do: She has to protect her I .dian empire and to neutralize as far as possible the control which a strong power seated at Constantinople would have over the com merce of the Medi er. anean. The step she has tiken to accomplish displays both sagacity and boldness She has bought the Suez Canal and thus commands the nearest water route to India By tftis'act she has riven notice that if the Sultan loses his told of European Turkey, she intends to assert a protectorate over Egypt and con trol the route of India. The importance of the purchase—looked at in V political aspect—cannot easily be overestimated. Any one who will look on a map at the configuration of the Mediter ranean will see at a glance it had originally hut one outlet—that by the Struts of Gt bndtar. The second outlet, made recently t is by Suez Canal. By the holding noth outlets, no belligerent could pass from the Mediterranean into the Atlantic, or from the Red Sea into the Indian Oowui, with out being challenged by tbe British works of Gibraltar on tbe one side and by those at Perim on the other. Mr. Di-raeli has moreover, publicly de clared that in the settlemesit of lids Tur kish question, England proposes to take a part. His dosing declaration on tho sub. Ject is strong and forcible He told his countrymen —it was at tie Lord Mayor’s banquet—and through tbe journals the Government of the Continent, that “the interaa: of the three Powo«8 y be m/imi dire t in this question than those of Great Britian, but they are not more .•nnsnlerable, an t those to whom the conduct of affairs is tercets, and thvae British interests they are read red to guard and maintain. 1 * yon ha knotty, but it's nice,* 1 said (be. their famous exploit. The next thing is to go to the Whisky Ring and draw their for hiding ep their frauds' It appeare evidence Under bath, in the Si. LMiibutib, that the Whisky Rrirtg'paid the Supervisor and other loyal officials 88,5Q0 every week, as hush money. One week, however, when backs, the Ring paid them $75^0^0. >F ftalso appeared in evidence, that through the sale of “ crooked 'whisky, 1 ’ that is, whisky un stamped, large atm* were raised by the . SaJical party folr eiectioneering pui _ : low tquch ofi ta fbu d its-way down here at the rebeftt election,- we cannot say; nor yet,‘whether Boutwell raised in the same way the $260,000 spent in North Carolina to beat Mr. Greeley. But it shows a horri ble state of morals 'tek the Government to connive at frauds against itself in order to raise a corruption fond to defeat the Demo cratic party, ' We have nerer beKeved that the people were debauched by these corruption funds. They were used to buy up speakers and editors. Tho Whisky Ring at St. Louis had their ofgan to puff them, praise them, and to conceal their frauds from tbe wcrld. They also had power to corrupt judges and juries, and had alt that power which money and {latronage always brings. Theyals had a potent mend at the White House to inform them of any contemplated raids upon their strong-holds. A telegram in cipher was produced in Court, ana traced to General Babcock, Grant’s right hand minstrel troupe, could not have created a profounder sensation—and so at an early hour they commenced gathering in knots of two or three, discuss'ng “as to what kind of a dum’d thing it was a goin’ to be.” Prominent among the female portion of tho throng was an aged sister, who enlight ened the others by stating it was a reg’lar sarmi t they were a-goin’ to have, and no confounded nigger tumblin’. But the •sarmint” was to be after the “ ’Piscopal” fashion, of which she had beam tell when a girl, but had neverseen; and as it wassome- thing bad, she believed, she was there to nterrupt him if he didn’t preach orthodox. Seating herself on the front bench, she eyed the preacher closely, and just before he commenced the service, and while ar ranging his robes, she beckoned him to her, and informed him that she was there to in terrupt him if he didn’t preach orthodox. “Well, madam,” he replied, “you won’t interrupt me if I do preach orthodox ?” “Oh no! that I won’t,” she earnestly ex claimed; “but if you don’t, though, I’ll in terrupt and expose you for sure!” Now to make the exercises go off with some degree of Episcopal decorum the con gregation was liberally supplied with pray er-books, and the few communicants were instructed to circulate amonj* the people, ‘find the places” for the uninitiated, and lead in the responses. Then rose the minister, and with the prodigal’s resolve, “I will arise and go to my father,” etc, commenced the service, and won the old lady’s heart, for it was her favorite passage, read and prayed over often because of a wayward boy. Next in order was the “exhortation,” in which she heard nothing objectionable; and then came the confession of sins. Right behind her one of the communicants aforesaid united his voice with the minister’s, and had gotten far as “We have eired and stray ed from Thy ways like lost*’sheep,” etc., when the old lady turned, and in an audible whisper saidy “ Hush 1 hush 1 that’s all right.; let the inan have a chance to.apcalcl” Lowering his voice, he kept comparatively quiet until the creed was reached, and here he thought, “ In the credo I must set an example, and confess Christ before men in the magnificent yet simple * I believe ’ of all the Christ an centuries.” . By this time the self-appointed conserva tor of orthodoxy was in no mood to be trifled with, and so, while her hand firmly grasped her umbrella, she said, in tones sternly emphatic, “ Look a-hyar, you dum’d cuss! didn’t I tell you that was all right? an’ hyar you have been a-chatterin’ every blessed minit since. Now you ought to be irid I don’t But while the great cities and the little cities have been manufacturing crooked whisky, with the counivance of the Gover • raent, every mountain gorge and every racoon branch haa been raided over by de« tectivea with money in their pockets pud by the city Rings to secure their silence The small disliueni are sent to the peni tentiary. The big distillers, when caught, forfeit theirbpadamod g° clear. But”**- money to bribe supervisors and detect these big distillers are hardly ever caught, uid when caught, they have ft chanco with judge and jtiiy. I; ; wan you to jaw any more to-night. That's orthodox enough for any body!’’ The minister took in the situation, and >eing a practical man, “ pitched in,” and gave them a red-hot extempore discourse, which the old lady, before she was aware, had indorsed with a whole series of honest amens.'J r At the conclusion she folt bound toapolo- ^ < ?- nrij ? g l , he service, and so, seizing both his hands, she thanked him for lus Gospel sermon in language as unique as her manner was heartyf * Yod See, mister, we warnft sure of yonjj we, ; only had beam tell of you ’Pisi’opals afore, an* we were kind of skeer- ed like ; Wt it’s all right now, an’ I want to tell you that I had nothing to do with those rowdife* back there who interrupted the service: Now we’ve had Locus preach ers here, an’ we’ve had Circus preachers here, but we’ve never had any of you ’FUCopu* preachers afore; an* you do ireach orthodox, an’ you cut come back lere any time you want to, an’ preach all night if you choose—if you do wear your shirt outside your breeches.”—Harpers' Monthly Magazine. Death or Ctmnt THOA Wlr. BMMl. WoJ&foinA* : gajiawto Ommno tice of the death of Captain Thomas Was. Brent, s distinguished, naval officer, who was in command of tho xanrSavanhah dup ing the war, and upon the occupation of this city by the Federal forces, blew her up at Screven’s ferry. The Gazette says: The death of the old an honored citizen, whose name is given aboye, surprised few, bi& paine i all, who knew him. A suffer ing invalid for years, he endured his ’.rials with exemplary fortitude, which indicated . Stolen Georgia Bonds. ■ [St. Louis Corretpondane® Atlanta Herald.] The citizens from Georgia in this city are considerably exercised over a report put in circulation since our arrival in regard to $100,000 of lust State bonds, of which the public generally haa not heard of yet. We get it here from good authority, and there is doubtless something in it. It runs thus: Years ago, probably thirty or forty (those who recollect the time can tell about*it,) the State either took stock or indorsed for the Central Railroad Bank to the amount of $100,000 eight per cent bonds. By some arrangement or enactment of some law these 8 per cent, bonds were ordered to be by the same amount of 7 per cent. Bonds. The holders of the original 8 per cents re fused to* man to exchange them for the new ooea, and eventually, at their maturity,4he 8 per cents were paid. Tbe 7 percents were all duly signed, marked and sealed, and laid away id a package in the treasury at Mil* iedgeville. This was during the administra tion at Governor H. V. Johnson. When Sfiarman's army marched through Georgia, tbia package of what was sipposed to be worthless paper was abstracted, with other plunder, from the State capitol. Recently Trammer Jones has been paying the oot * on bonds Sent from Cincinnati, Ohio. * At last Isa refused the-payment of a certain coupon which had been sent him, and wrote *w\ i[. 'iiuisilffiwn ni i mUnl W> THE NEW APiWlli»i1<fflL ’ ' A Brest WprqvemeJton the Old Tenement* House System. " [From Hew York World.] "’#>*■ The number of apartment-hottsea or “flats” in the city has been materially.ip- creased during the past summer, and should prices of labor.. And, malarial rule as low next year, &e .imprpyeqmt to up-town real estate will be afrnoet entirely in the way of flats, at least where speculative building is done. Below are given descrip tions of such buildings. t . . v _. ... A “MODEL FLAT.” ' - * f J Mr. S. D. Hatch, architect, has iust cora- E leted planB for an apartment-house, which e claims wiH be a model. ’At fire-proof construction has .beep aimed at, in heavy brick wtils extending from top to. Lotions of tM ftractnre. Instead or'the usual iron H girders for beams, railroad iron will be used, the ordinary T rail placed at intervals of two feet. The stretches between thtt various walls being shoi^not over eighteen or twenty feet in the longest, no difficulty has been found in the use of this style of beamB; flat brick arches or artificial clay fillings will be used between the rails. The rails are also used ns girders, being laid snugly together, side by tide, from pier to pier, and tne floor rail laid upon them. There will be six stories above the base® ment, the first floor being on the street level. On each floor there are five com plete flats, very much broken in arrage- ment as regards the whole, though each group of apartments is well concentrated. Tbe main entrance will be in the centre of the Broadway side, and a long hpll will be carried nearly to the rear of the building, a corridor being carried over tho court in the centre of tho block to the main stair® case Here the passenger elevator is placed. The conrt has several arms acting as light- shafts, and in these are situated threoof the five sets of servants’ staircases provided. These service stairs in each case start from the basement and pass up to the floor on each story opening into the kitchen or ser vants’ corriders. In two of the tiers of apartments the servants’ sta rcases are car ried up between brick bulkhead walls, with stone step. In the basement all the heavy work of the establishment will be carried on, and here the janitor will be provided with quarters, having also an office near the entrance on the main floor. Five dumb waiters will start from this stage and rise like the servant stairs to the successive flats above. The whole really amounts Jo five columns, of six flats each under one roofj and having the connecting link of one prin cipal staircase. The outer walls are two feet thick and the inner court walls twenty, inchea Each set of apartments, covering an average area of8.00Q square feet, is pro vided with a parlor, dining-room, a ldtcnen, ‘ four chambers, a servant’s chamber, bath room, trunk rooms and closets in plenty.- The kitchen will receive careful attention in the construction of the whole. It is In? tended to have it serve also as a private laundry; stationary wash-tubs being pro vided. Behind the cooking range is a ,tall. So narrow bnck chamber, built the width of the chimney case. Irf 'this will befitted up slides with racks for hanging wet linen, constituting a drying closet y the beat fkSoin the flues, it v. judged, will be suffittentiy. s rong m this confined ?ppoe to make », powerful.drying agency.' . The kitchen floor will bo finitiied in tile hud bn cement, and 1 the sides also will be carried up in like manner as a wainscoting. This, will make the whole water-proof, and careless scul lery-maids may spill ad libitum without deluging their neighbors‘below. Tho floor of the living rooms it iiintended to liyin marquetry or ornamental wood work. The halls will be flbored-witb ofifihhard frood, as vOI’dnffisstaircases. In the dining-room a'device, riot frequent »if the better class of private htmses, is in troduced—a wall safe. This is »double closet, fire-proof and comparatively tiilef- proof. The outer compartment is open to the ierfrsfft for tho dtorageoftaMe silver; 11 tho inner compartment is under the excln- sivo control Of the matter of thehonto. The estpnor is in Phflfdelphfr hritiu ,, with Ohio stone used for lintel‘and sill courses. Black brick stripes are used pro- fosely, while the spaces between the win dows are in many parts filled up with panes of colored tile in fancifol designs. < 3V — rr*- — \ * ,,*■ ■ Fihst Impressions in a Balloon.—The impressions of a first aacensjon were very, striking. It is like the earth falling away from the balloon. There is no vertigo; but the earth sinks, becomes flattened in ap* pearanco and finally concave. The position of the balloon seemed to be between jtwo concavities. The prismatic effects pro® dneed by refraction arc very beautifol: fairy scenes present themselves, and the mind becomes aroused .to the glorious privi- _ it enjoy*. To look down through the broken clouds was to witness a tight sur* ig in beauty the magio eaves de scribed in the “Arabian Nights Enter tainments.” The profound, solemn, and awfol stillness which prevailed above tie clouds was also remarkable. Even while moving at the rate of a mile per minuteL the aeronant seemed so ntterly becalmed that a suspended cobweb. moving with the balloon would not be agitated- In speak® ing of echo and ozone in the donds, ’Prof. Wise said the reverberations of sonrid among clouds Were tremendous; and in explaining the echo which exists among them, he told a story of a conversation which he had with nimselfi instead of a person upon the earth, as he at first sup posed. • -ft- * We have, in tins declaration, something 1° *h® ®ud the traits of character that had akin to the bold utterances the earlie? h5 “‘? e *5 d Wm useful and respected during statesmen, and, aa marking and a hfe °f *ventful experience* Die frags of - Mg. the different Vice-Consulates; and various at mice Jnai signal ensigns about the tity and. harbor affirirs, itiftat this lime of peculiar signifi- were yesterday lowered to half-mast wV • Capt. Brent’s d. ath was Aqnoutced. samel tribute Is accorded to-day, aad the My fkce is rugged, butTm wealthy; will funeral services at St. Michael’s chnreh have me ?" mid he. ‘?Yes, indeed; it’s suited, I suppose, in an overhauling of the old records,, with the above result. How many of the coupons of these bondA have been paid it is impossible to tell. Bat it is retailed here airaong Georgians aha fact. A seedy noRnpetioo—!The florist. Calling thx Roll w Heaven.—An incident ia related by a chaplain who was in the army daring one of our hard fdnght battles. The hospitals had been filling up fast as the wounded men were brought to the rear.. Atfkmg them was a‘young than mortally wounded and unable to speaffi&ilil f n:. was midnight, and many a loved one from our homes lay sleeting on the battle field— jS^ 8 3^toem 0W8 WaldDg to the man to send hitafrw’liitf#Sand for[ertsdafafr^c-rol” ***** ^ the foes of it that it was illegal and the issue “Nothing? said H “they are calling fraudulent, m words to tljat effect, thereby tbe *oH fo^iven, and I was^nswe^g’g a cancelling its yaitw. tne owner my name.” •' =>-*» ituted suit for damages, which re- He tnrned his head arid wfis gonor-gote washed white wfith the bloOd Of the lunb.vndt Reader, in the great roll call of eternity, ab ^*®rs of Christ, the great captain of our *1