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A. IYI, C. RUSSELL, Editor and Proprietor. VOLUME II c UJtJI /: Y 7 /'.I RAGRAPHS. 'J'he wave of conservatism which him s wept over Europe appears to be receding, .'fhe Prussian elections have given the liberals a plurality in the new chamber '•>! deputies, while the conservatives are lelt in a hopeless minority. 'I he ltev. .1. E. Rankin, of Washing ton, l>. (\, estimates that from 1,200 to I ~>OO members have been added to the churches ol that city, as the result of the preaching of the Rev. E. I’. Ham mond. Otiaulek 11. Morrison. of Ouachita parish, Louisiana, and for many years a leading members of the bar, died at r'elhi, of pnwumonia, on the 18th of Oc tober. He was speaker of 1 the last house of representatives before the state se ceded, and during the war was colonel of the Thirty-first Louisiana regiment. Maksh.u, Bazaine is living in Spain lie is penniless, andhis wife'sfortune was swallowed up in payment of the casts of his presedition. The French govern ment exacted the last cent, and the offi cers even seized his pantaloons and sold them. That is too bud ; ini „ then so long as Dr. Mary Walker wears her pantaloons iso peace, we are not disposed to regard iibe-rty extinct in this world. France that the breach betweenjthe’or thodox and liberal parties in the Reform ed church in France cannot be healed. The disruption of the church, it is now stated, is inevitable. A meeting of del egates of the orthodox section was held a khort time ago at Yigan, at which the plan of reconciliation was rejected cn account of the construction placed upon il by the liberal party. The genera synod is to be convoked. A max in Solano county, Cal., beat bis wife so unmercifully that she died within a week. When the carriages and hearse passed through the streets of Knoxville, he was shaking dice in a sa loon. Someone remarked that it was his wife’s funeral, and he went to the door, lifted his hat and hurrahed. This greeting seemed to shock the sensitive public sentiment of the town. The brute was discovered next morning lying in the shallow water of the creek,’(with one or two bowlders on ton of him. The American bible society has mod ified the administration of its home de* partment by a considerable reduction in the number of state agents. In New England there is now only one district superintendent; in New York the num her of agents has been reduced from five to one ; on the first of the present month seven other agents, chiefly in the western and southern states, were retired. The society lias paid in past years for its agencies from $70,000 to $75,000. Under the new system the expenses for this item will be $8(>,000. #' A rather novel way of opening court occurred not long since in one of i/ouisiana parishes. It seems thidMpre is a regulation that requires the naypnal flag to be displayed whenever the court is in session; and on this occasion the sheriff had loaned the “ flag” to a “ colored club,” and it was not returned in season to be hoisted at the opening of the court. The judge got excited and was about to proclaim that no business could be done that day, when a happy thought struck one of the “ old mem bers of the bar,” who suggested that if the court should sing the “ Star Spangled llanner ” and the bar should join in the chorus, sufficient proof of the loyalty of the court and bar would be in evidence to warrant proceeding with the business ol the court, which was accordingly done, and the occurrence duly entered on the minutes. Not lone ago the khedive of Egypt flew into a rage and dismissed several judges ofhis new court of appeals be ta lse they affirmed several judgments against his private Daira estate, and s’vere he would not permit execution. The j udges stated that they had proceeded in accordance with the laws, but Ismail declined to come under the laws o( his realm, arid the matter was referred to the European powers, who have sustained the khedive’s judges. The Daira estate is encumbered to the extent of $60,000,000 or $70,000,000. Among the judges of the khedive’s court a.f appeals is Den. George S. Batchellor of Saratogo Springs, N. Y., who was ap. pointed last year for a term of live years. As an American jurist Gen. Batchellor will find serious difficulties in the way of convincing the khedive, who has preferences for absolutism, of the necessity of submitting BUENA VISTA. MARION 00.. GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING. NOV. 10, 1870. THE OLD (OVPLh. It stands in a sunny meadow, The house so mossy and brown, With its cumbrous old stone chimney, And the gray roof 4 slopiug down, kj vfr The trees fold their green arms around it, The trees, a century old ; And the winds go chanting through them, And the sunbeams drop their gold. TheoowsMps spring in the marshe*, And the roses bloom on the hill ; And beside the brook In Che pasture* The herds go feeding at will. The children have gone and left them ; They sit in the sua alone ; And the old wife’s ears are falling,* And she harks to the well known tone That won her heart in her girlhood, That has soothed her in many a rare, And praises her now for the brightness Her old face used to wear. Hhe thinks aguin of lie’* bridal-- How, dressed in her robe of white, She stood by her gay young lover Jn the morning’s rosy light. Oli! the morning is rosy as ever, But the rose from In r uheek has flea, And the sunshine still is golden, But It falls on a silvered head. And th* girlhood dreams, once vanished, Come back in the winter time, Till her feeble pulses tremble With the thrill of spring-time prime. And looking forth from the window, Bhe thinks how the trees have grown Since, clad in her bridal whiteness, She crossed the old door ston**. Though dimmed her eye's brigiit azure, And dimmed her hair's young gold, The lore in her girlhood plighted Has never grown dim or old. They sat in their place in sunshine, Till the day was almost (lone; And, then, at its close, an angel Stoic over the threshold stone. Ho folded their hands together— He touched their eyelids with balm : And their last breath floated upward, Like the close of a solemn psalm. Like a hridal pair they traversed The unseen mystic road That leads to the beautiful city, “ Whose builder and maker is God.” M . I XNJEJIS I T Til /; EX EOS I TIOX The manners and opinions of the visit ors to the exhibition furnish a good deal of interest in themselves. The occupants of rolling-chairs are unmistakably the object of a slight scorn to those on foot, akin to the surperciliousness of early risers. And, notwithstanding hundreds of daily instances to the contrary, the pedestrians are evidently persuaded that everybody in a chair is the victim of some strange maiming or malady, about which they cannot conceal their curiosi ty. The interest taken in any purchase by the bystanders is so intense as to be painful to the purchaser. A ring forms immediately around the latter and the vender, which increases momentarily until the transaction is over, all hang ing speechless on the dialogue between the two. AVhen this is carried on in a for eign language the audience looks discom fited and displeased, as if balked of its rights. A ladyacquaintancetoldmethat justasherpurcha.se was concluded and| the article replaced in the ease, so that it 1 become indistinguishable among its fel lows, a stranger of her own sex arrived on the scene, and seeing that it was too late, dogged her until they reached a se cluded spot in one of the less frequented departments. Then she aceussed her in a low voice : “You bought something just now.” “Yes.” “What was it?” But this inquisitiveness is generally sympathetic. I witnessed the sale of an Indian shawl, at which the buyer was anxious to see it folded and tried on. A couple of good-na tured young Englishmen, evidently nov ices in playing shopmen, were helplessly pulling it hither and thither, when a very nice looking, middle-aged woman, with an ardent gaze, stepped up from the circle, took it from their hands, gave it in a trice the proper twist, and then, turning about, deftly threw it over her shoulders, and stood thereon exhibition until every body concerned or not concerned was satisfied Aißiat sort of readiness to ob lige characteristic of our country foltiflbut, both abroad and at home, it renders us liable to be imposed upon by fcpßgners, which is to be observed at the exhibition in the conduct of the at tendants. A friend who has been at more than one of the European exhibitions, recognized in several of the departments j men whom he had seen at Paris or Vien na, where they had been civility itself. Under the influence of our good-natured democracy, they have become extremely impertinent. On the other hand, the misconduct of one’s own country people has a more pungent power of an noyance than any other; and to see them handling articles the most easily broken or soiled, with a total disregard of the placards, where one would suppose to the commonest consideration placards would he superfluous. 1 wish 1 could have felt Certain that the person who rapped and shook every article in the Chinese annex was not a fellow countryman. Unfortu nately, there could he no doubt of the nationality, of a pair, male and female, like the first sinneis, who having broken : down the protecting rope, were spreading themselves in their dusty clothes on the Gobelin sofas in the French department. Atlantic Monthly, A I )emocrfiti<‘ Kamily Newspaper. CAUSE OP PANICS. ‘ { Mr. J. I). Hayes, of Detroit, read’a paper on the subject of “Panics” be fore the American bankers’ association at Philadelphia. Panics, he said, are not generally the products of the every day, fair, honorable, prudent business of the country. They are the offspring of abuses of credit, of sudden calamity, of widespread shrinkage of values, or of the exposure of some huge combination of speculators to force values. Generally speaking, panics and maniacs are very closely allied to each other. If not born twins, they seldom fail to meet in a fiuan icial crisis. Panics may he classified into individual, local and general. Public or general panics are of slow growth. They contain under the cover of conceal ment the elements of widespread abuses among a large class of commercial and financial men, each of them seeking to | make money out of the same transac | tions, consuming the substance at both j ends until they meet in the middle and find but little or nothing left. When tlie actual situation is realized each dupe makes haste to get out whole, and the discovery is made that hundreds and thousands have been sailing in the same boat, which is fast sinking out of sight, leaving the commercial community float ing about upon the great sea of uncer tainty and doubt. Business moves slowly and cautiously for a long time to avoid the same kind of disaster, while in fact [it may unconsciously be running into [ other dangers in the opposite direction as bad if not worse. Mr. Hayes said that it was a settled principle that unproductive capital must reduce the owners of it to the necessity of living without it, and introduced the following table to show the amount of unproductive representation of capital in the United States, counting only the great losses: Chicago fire in 1871. about $175,00,000 Boston fire in 1872, about G5,00f),000 Railroad stock paving no divi dends 1 1,800,000,000 Railroad bonds in default,about 700,000,000 Vessel property paying nothing, about 000,000,000 Manufacturing establishments, about 500,000,000 Total, about $3,840,000,000 The speaker closed with a reference to the influence which the bankers’ associ ation can exert to avert panics. “Power to let” should be the signboard to every place where productive labor can he used, and “money to let” should ho the mo of every bank and capitalist who isy satisfied that it will be properly reproduce wealth and to givejjl to the AEFAIRS IN A UsTm H is evident that condition must hirbbyfl Russia, even N <l,O vW artite alliance. cabinet coin;' il. :: 0H down i he i-lrru; finance stfl lulling so ftu-H to a large extent TS sarv. Whatever ‘H JgBH|HH| done alter an tigrccijH ie-many according at (••-inferences, whiGujl ! riI artite n!!intjg| that 1 u-t Ha a ,ffiH ho !< r: i>ev f.*lag may !..S§§ !>a< irufl M-c.-yai do v. ijl I .vie p . "n : -z for' m •-.!>. '• N %i H '• civiii::,." ,t 'n • : ri:m i.i.iv :' : I' in the Sclavic population to the new Sclavic state, BY Turkey, if such a state is formed, under Russian auspices. THE WEALTH or HEW SOUTH W A LES. From the Hay Standard. There will be shown in New South Wales this year, 1876, upwards of 25,- 000,000 sheep, yielding approximately above 125,000,000 pounds of wool, equal in value, at I=. per pound, to £6,250,000 sterling. Six and a half millions sterling every year is a good nest egg even for a wealthy dependency of Great Britain. The cost of shearing this vast lot of sheep, at 20s. per 100, about the average price, would be £125,000. The cost of transmitting the wool to the seaport for exportation might be set • down at about the same figure. Without going into minute details, if we estimate the value of the wool clip of New South Wales for 1876, at £250,000, and set, down twenty-five per cent, of that as expenses incurred by the wool grown from the time the sheep enters the wool shed to be shorn (this is the estimated cost in the working of a wool station) un til the net proceeds are in the wool grower's bank, there will he disbursed £1,552,500. This sum would go in shear ing, carriage to port and to London, commission, brokerage, etc. Every year our wool is increasing in quantity and rising in quality, so that by the closo of 1880, four years hence, New South Wales ought to have at least .‘(0,000,000 of sheep, which, with horned cattle and horses, ought approximately to represent in money value upwards of £50,000,000 sterling. TIIOCSSEAC EOH A MAOHIOAN ISKIDE. From the Boston Sunday Courier. Madame Pierrot is just now finishing the trousseau for a Michigan bride, a daughter of an ex-governor, and is also making dresses for the bride’s mother and the bridesmaids, and it is really a rare treat just to look at such artistical ly elegant garments. The bride hasseven teen dresses, blissful soul, and they each have equal attractions, so if one should try to describe the prettiest, she could not possibly make up her mind which it should he. The bridal dress of heavy white silk is embroidered with leaves of white jet, " which look like frost work, and is exquisitively dec orated with fi inges of orange blossoms. A lovely dress of light blue brocade and silk is made with a polonaise, which is draped with a charming grace, and trimmed with rich Valenciennes lace, plaitings of a silk and satin of the same shade. The underskirt is trimmed in a novel manner, hands of lappels of al ternate silk and satin, edged with two styles of fringe, falling over a knife plaited flounce of silk. Very large flow ers are used for decoration. An elegant wrapper of white crepe delaine is made simply in, the Gahrielle style, and trim med with torehion lace, which is wrought by hand with cardinal silk. The street costumes are simply extremely elegant, and the reception dresses are supurb. Among the outside garments is a very handsome mantle of black cloth, trim med with heavy jet braid. Jet is said to be in great favor once more, and indeed, the streets of Paris have never ceased to sparkle -with it, though we have been considering it decidedly passee here. The opera cloak of a heavy white silk mailed faconne, is made in the mantle Kyle, with two large square pockets on Rather side, and trimmed with a border of needlework in lovely shaded tints and iKsuperb fringe. The under garments ■av takes one’s breath away with ad- Hion. they are so rich and dainty— silken hose being embroidered in match each costume. ON HER Sll-I PE. Hlumilton Hooper, writing from Bilic New York World, tells how Eugenie’sclaimto beauty ■tab'.islied. Asa young girl, at the Hof Madrid, she wore the flowing I y fashionable at that time, and 5 was unfavorable to the display of H quisite figure. One day she fell Hlake and was taken out insensible. ■,;,cn wet dress clung to her, and her Hjation for faultlessness of form was Hfter questioned. The same writer H‘ To her great credit be il said she became empress of the Hbh, though she presided over one of foost dissolute courts of modern Eu w/ t the breath of slander never dared (Lil her. Her married life was far Em being happy. Like a true Span- M, she was passionately jealous of her ■usbaud, who certainly gave her ample xause.” ■1 <tUEKR RELIGIOUS SECT. Baltimore American. A religious sect, which for some time haffbeen in existence in Siberia, is mak ing many proselytes in the government ofTamboff Russia. In most respects the people are orthodox Greeks in this belief, but they have adopted some ideas which are decidedly revolutionary in character. Their leading doctrine is that all must marry on becoming of ago. Added to this are two other doctrines which lead us to suspect that the body originated with women, and lias developed under their influence. Their doctrines are that the husband must be subordinate to the wife, recognizing her as the head of the family; and that he must at least once in a week confess his sins to' this household ruler. . .Oil of cinnamon will cause the dis appearance of warts, however hard,large or dense iliey may be. The application gives rise to neither pain nor suppura tion. I removed thirty off my hands with five cents worth of the oil. HOW IIE M l nitJEII THEM. Judge Knox of Virginia was awaken ed from a sound sleep about one o’clock thismoringby a furious ringing at his door-bell. His honor, in no very good humor, thrust his head out of the window. Standing on the sidewalk were three men and a young woman. “ What d’ye want?” asked the judge. “ Want to get married,” answered a tremulous male voice. “ Well I’m so-and-so, if this ain’t a pretty time o’ night to roust a man out of bed for a job of that kind.” Something dropped on the sidewalk and his honor cried out, “ What’s that?” “Ten dollars,” answered one of the men. “ Here’s the cuss of being a public man,” sighed the judge. “1 s’pose you’ll have to come up whether or no. The door ain’t locked. Siide up. Frist door to the right.” The party went up. : His honor was sitting up in bed, and I said he hoped the lady would excuse his costume, and the lady said “cern’- ly.” “ All right, then. .You two fellers that ain’t goin’ to he slaughtered Htand back, and you two come forud. Yes, license all correct. Lady twenty-five; name Spikington. Gent twenty-one named Muffly, do you take this woman to be your wedded wife ?” “Oh, yes, sir!” grasped the young man, his face crimson and his knees trembling. The two friends behind ex changed grins. “ Well, that’s all right. Belinda Spik ingtou, do you take this man to bs your wedded husband?” “ Oern’ly,” answered the lady. “ Well, that’s all right, but before 1 j go any furder I’d be obliged to you, Mr. j Muffly, for a chaw of tobacco.” Mr. Muffly not being addicted to the filthy habit, one of his friends supplied his honor with a mouthful of the weed. “ Eureka ain’t my brand,” the judge remarked affably, as he fixed the pillow more comfortably behind his back and began working his jaws. “ Solace is much better. However Mr. Muffly and Miss Spinkington, do me the favor to jine your hands. So. Now, I declare you man and wife by virtue of the authority vested in me by the laws of the state of Nevada. The job’s done.” “ 'What’s the fee?” asked one of his friends, a tall man with a grave face, stepping forward. “ That,” remarked his honor, with be coming humility, “is usually left to the generosity of the groom.” “ Flow’s that for style ?” inquired the tall man, handing the judge three trade dollars. “ Thank’ee,” said the judge. “ Good night, gents; a long life and a happy one to you, madam. I hope you fellers will find that ten when you go down stairs again. 1 think it would break your hearts to lose it.”— Virginia Enterprise. A POPULAR ERROR. It is a popular error to suppose that milk is frequently adulterated with sheep brains, starch, chain, or pipe clay, whereas its adulteration simply resolves itself into the addition of water and the abstraction of cream. As’ even pure milk varies from twenty to thirty per cent, in commercial value, it is difficult lor the analyst to determine how much water has been added or cream abstracted. Furthermore, during the sale of a can in a store, the best milk goes from the top iu an hour or two, so that what remains may become so poor as to be unable to stand a test. The solid matter in milk varies from nine to sixteen per cent.; that containing from ten to twelve is generally good and wholesome. Fat is the constituent of milk that varies most, say from two to four per cent Goats’ milk is richer in solid matter than cows’ milk, containing so much as fourteen per cent. HOW TO GET RICH. Nothing is more easy than to grow rich. It is only to trust nobody, to be friend none, to get everything and save all you get; to stint ourselves and every body bilonging to us ; to be the friend of no man, and to have no man for our friend ; to heap interest upon interest, cent upon cent; to be mean, miserable, and despised, for some twenty or thirty years, and riches will come as sure as disease and disappointment. And when pretty near enough wealth is collected by a disregard of all the charities of the hu man heart, at the expense of every en joyment, save that of swallowing in filthy meanness, death comes to finish the work —the body is buried in a hole, the heirs dance over it, and the spirit goes—where ? TERMS, $2 00 Per Annum. NUMBER 7. il I 'MORO l/S sout ns. .. Sunny and solid Mrs. South, of De troit, weighs two hundred pounds. It is a wise thing never t j answer an anonymous letter until you have found out who wrote it. . There is a big profit in salvation. It is free, hut Talmage wants SIO,OOO a year to go to Chicago and peddle it. out. .. A young man in Jersey City was urged to marry, but iie replied: “I don’t see it. My father was a single man and he always got along well enough. . .Airs. Coggin, of Massachusetts, aged | one hundred years, who could carry one I hundred pounds of meal two miles, has just gone to meet her sturdy grand paren ts. .. If you intend to <Jo a mean thing) put if off till to-morrow. — Gen. 11. Childs. Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.— Thomas Jef ferson. . .An Indianapolis debating’society has ! just decided that the execution of Charlt® I. was unjustifiable. The prospects of the Stuart family are beginning to look up. .. Brigham appeared in court and when the .judge ordered the sheriff to sell $4,000 worth of his property fo pay the alimony of his nineteenth wife, the old man sighed “O, my Ann Eliza, you are pulverizing me awfully fine.” . .The trosseau lor Miss May, who is to marry James Gordon Benett, has ar rived from Europe, where it was col lected at an expense of .SIO,OOO, accord ing to the"gossips. It is said to be the most beautiful and elaborate ever pre- I pared for an American lady. ..The most deliberately unchristain j thing we have ever noticed in a newspa per was that of a man who advertises in a country paper that three days’ drinks saved will buy a man a suit of clothes at his store. Now, are we not toqdttktn see that the inside of the platter ismrst looked after before we go to looking after theout side. — Ex. .. Says the Danbury News : “This is not only an exciting, hut a very interest ing, political campaign. Women as well as men have a duty to (perform to their country, and they should not shrink from it. They cannot vote or appear in processions, but they can cut the wood and bring up the coal, and thus leave the men more time to talk up matters.” EX TEST OF Tim < 0.1 L TRAHE. The quantity of coal sent from the Schuylkill region for the week ending October 21st was, by rail, 124,736 tons, and by canal, 30,143 tons —total, 155,169 tons, against 158,454 tons for the same week of last year. Decrease, 3,285 tons. The quantity sent for the year was 3,- 459,784 tons, ngaiust 3,614,021 tons for the corresponding period of last year. Decrease, 154,237 lona. The quantity sent from all the regions for the wee I? was: Anthracite, 593,850 tons; bitu minous, "10,880 tons; total, 674,730 ton-, against 592,910 tons anthracite and 89.- 961 tons bituminous —total, 682,871 tons —for the same week of last yes'. Increase of anthracite, 940 tons; decrease of bituminous, 9,081 tons. The quan tity sent from all the regions for the year was: Anthracite, 14,429,299 ton-; bituminous, 2,903,086 tons; total, 1< ■ 332,385 tons, against 16,324,440 tons an thracite and 3,204,690 tons bituminous; total, 19,629,139 tons for the correspond ing period of last year. Decrease of an thracite, 1.894,141 tons; decrease of hi uminous, 301,613 tons; total decrease, 2,106,754 tons. A REMARKABLE FROG STOUT. A remarkable incident occurred at n Canada saw-mill in Acton while a pine log was being sawed up into lumber The outside slab and one board had been cut off, and while the workmen were turning over the log they were surprised to see a large toad poke his head out of a hole in which lie was imbedded, and where he had .barely escaped being cut up by the saw. How the stranger got there was a mystery, as he was com pletely incased in the wood, with no po sible means of ingress or egress. As the log was the fourth or fifth from the butt of the tree, his position must have been at least fifty or sixty feet from the ground, and he had no doubt grown up with it from infancy, bei probabl hundreds of 3/ears old. The animal was quite fiat, and nearly as la#|e as a man's hand. He was perfectly blind, but when taken from his bed he made use of his limbs to crawl away. The tree was per fectly sound with the exception of a de cayed spot of about a foot in length below the hollow place in which he was im bedded. How did he get there, and what did lie live on?